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Hour 2 - Tin Foil Hat · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Do you believe though there's an NFL grind conspiracy to
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Speaker 1: help Travis Kelcey and the Chiefs? They had no penalties
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Speaker 1: called against them in the game on Monday Night? Also,
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Speaker 1: how much stalk do you put in Jerry Jones' vote
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Speaker 1: of confidence for the embattled Cowboys defensive coordinator Matt Eberfluss.
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Speaker 1: And what is your reaction to Alex Bregman of the
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Speaker 1: this hour is from Cansa City, the home of the
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Speaker 1: Ben Mather Chicken figures. The Chiefs are back, baby, The
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Speaker 1: Chiefs are back after that win on Monday night against
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Speaker 1: the Lions. However, that is not the story from that
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Speaker 1: game that people are yapping about. It's still got legs.
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Speaker 1: A couple days later here after the Chiefs played a
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Speaker 1: perfect game. Let me repeat that for those of you
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Speaker 1: a little slow in the back of the room. The
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Speaker 1: Chiefs played a perfect game, zero penalties against the Detroit
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Speaker 1: football team. Coach Andy Reid was asked about his opinion
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Speaker 1: on the referees performance that do you think that Andy
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Speaker 1: a rip? The referees said they should have called seventeen
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Speaker 1: penalties against us. Be said, the referees did a great job.
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Speaker 1: Or see had no comment? What do you think he said?
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Speaker 1: Did you see what he said? Did you see his response?
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Speaker 1: You did not see his response? No you did not, Okay,
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Speaker 1: perhaps you perhaps you missed it. So Andy Reid gave
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Speaker 1: a measured response. Is the way I will describe it here.
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Speaker 1: He said, quote, I thought the officials let the guys play.
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying I agreed with everything that went on,
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Speaker 1: Reid said, but you know what that means? But I
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Speaker 1: thought they were very fair on how they did it. Okay,
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Speaker 1: So that's the that's the point there made by Andy Reid.
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Speaker 1: Andy Reid said that it was quote good for the fans. Now,
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Speaker 1: based on listener feedback that I've gotten from the State
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Speaker 1: of Michigan, they did not agree that it was good
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Speaker 1: for the fans. They did not agree with that. And
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Speaker 1: every penalty that went against the Lions impacted Kansas City's
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Speaker 1: offense and hurt the Lions offense or vice versa. So
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Speaker 1: Reid's whole point to sum it up in four words,
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Speaker 1: they let it play out, which I guess is five
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Speaker 1: because I had to they in there, but let it
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Speaker 1: play out worthy four words. So a level headed response
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Speaker 1: by Andy Reid, which of course triggered the tinfoil hot
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Speaker 1: crowd convinced convinced that the NFL is rigging games for
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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. This is a story that
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Speaker 1: pops up just about every year on the calendar, same
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Speaker 1: time about every year. And here we are, so these
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Speaker 1: fine individuals, salt of the earth, and some of you
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Speaker 1: guys have reached out to me who are in this cult,
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Speaker 1: and you have said to me, hey, listen, the refs
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Speaker 1: are in the tank with the NFL, obviously paid by
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Speaker 1: the NFL, and they're out to get anybody playing Kansas City.
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Speaker 1: They believe that the referees are apparently on speed dial
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Speaker 1: with Travis Kelcey and they text Taylor Swift between plays.
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Speaker 1: It's like, hey, Taylor, should we call holding on the
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Speaker 1: other team? Pass interference? Okay, we'll call passing difference? Why
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Speaker 1: not holding? Well, we don't want holding, we want pass interfirs. Okay,
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Speaker 1: we'll give you pass interference. Fine, there you go. Now.
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Speaker 1: Some of you have pointed out a study done. I
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Speaker 1: love that universities are doing studies on NFL teams and officials.
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Speaker 1: The University of Texas l Passo. Hello to my homeboys
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Speaker 1: working in the factory there in El Paso. You know
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Speaker 1: who you are. So anyway, UTEP did a study which
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Speaker 1: the findings this went from This ended not last season,
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Speaker 1: the year before, but in the study done by UTEP,
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Speaker 1: the findings indicate this is great that postseason officiating trends
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Speaker 1: have disproportionately benefited the Patrick Mahomes chiefs. In fact, a professor,
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Speaker 1: doctor Spencer Barnes. Never heard of him. Not my doctor,
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Speaker 1: He's not your doctor. Doctor Barnes. So, doctor Barnes said, quote.
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Speaker 1: The fact that postseason penalties consistently favored one franchise, meaning
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Speaker 1: Kansas City, while similar dynasties showed no such pattern points
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Speaker 1: to the powerful role of financial incentives, financial incentives and
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Speaker 1: shaping supposedly neutral decisions. Close quote all right, So let
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Speaker 1: us discuss the question for the esteem panel, which you
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Speaker 1: are part of. Do you believe do you believe that
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Speaker 1: there is an NFL grand conspiracy to help Travis Kelcey
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Speaker 1: and the Chiefs. So on this one, I've got Buffalo
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Speaker 1: Wild Wings, the Hair Club for Men, and Pillow, and
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Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
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Speaker 1: are going to make the greatest donut of them all,
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Speaker 1: the Apple Fritter donut, the greatest doughnut of them all. Now,
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Speaker 1: first of all, to answer the question I wish I
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Speaker 1: believe because it would be better as a talk show host,
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Speaker 1: I don't. I am not a believer. I'm agnostic on
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Speaker 1: this one. And here's why my problem and I can't
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Speaker 1: get past this. I've done too much sports talk radio.
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Speaker 1: I have done this job for many, many years. I've
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Speaker 1: been through a number of dynasties in sports and yapped
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Speaker 1: about them on the radio, and the one common denominator
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Speaker 1: through this entire journey in sportscasting has been team wins.
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Speaker 1: A lot fans complain teams getting benefit of the officials
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Speaker 1: calling in their direction. So every dynasty gets painted by
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Speaker 1: people as being run by the illumina.
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Speaker 3: Nah.
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Speaker 1: In this case it's the NFL. But same thing happens
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Speaker 1: in basketball. We don't really get dynasties anymore in baseball.
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Speaker 1: But when the Yankees were winning and there was the
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Speaker 1: belief that the Yankees got every call, I was told
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Speaker 1: by somebody that played for the Yankees that they believed
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Speaker 1: the guys on the Yankees believe at the old Yankee Stadium,
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Speaker 1: when George Steinbrenner, the old owner known as the Boss
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Speaker 1: when he was in charge there, that they truly believed
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Speaker 1: umpires were afraid of calling pitches on the border against
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Speaker 1: the Yankees because George Steinbrenner would raise Holy Hell. But
8:32
Speaker 1: again that's perception much like this we're talking about Kansas
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Speaker 1: City here. It happened also with the Patriots, and my
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Speaker 1: brothers and sisters who are Patriots fans know, when they
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Speaker 1: were winning, it was like, oh, the NFL wants Tom
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Speaker 1: Brady to win, they want Bill Belichick to win and
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Speaker 1: all that stuff. And I go back so far the
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. I remember when the Cowboys used to win
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Speaker 1: and they were like, oh, the NFL officials are in
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Speaker 1: the tank for the Cowboys because they got the big
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Speaker 1: stars in that erap. Yeah, and that was before social
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Speaker 1: media was even a thing. That was just when we
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Speaker 1: had sports talk radio and fax machines and people were
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Speaker 1: pumping up the tires on the Dallas Cowboys back in
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Speaker 1: the nineties. So it's not some secret zebra cabal that
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Speaker 1: gets together. Like the theory is, these guys all get together,
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Speaker 1: they go to Buffalo Wild Wings and then Andy Reid
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Speaker 1: is given a button and it's a direct line to
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Speaker 1: the league officiating headquarters. So when he's on his headset
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Speaker 1: and he's covering his mouth because he's got his play sheet,
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Speaker 1: he's actually talking to the league office. Can we get
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Speaker 1: a defensive holding on Team X? Can we do?
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Speaker 3: Now?
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Speaker 1: We can't? Can you give me? How about I want
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Speaker 1: an offensive holding? This team's driving against my defense. Can
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Speaker 1: I get an offensive holding? We need that? Yes, sure,
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Speaker 1: no problem, anddy whatever you need. The reality is rather simple,
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Speaker 1: and it doesn't make for great talk radio. But since
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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, which is the meat and potatoes of this
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Speaker 1: particular era, and really just the entire run with Mahomes
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Speaker 1: taking over. Since twenty eighteen, Kansas City is ranked in
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Speaker 1: the top ten in the top ten of accepted penalties,
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Speaker 1: not the bottom, the top top ten. Now, what does
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Speaker 1: that mean. That means if this is a rigged delio,
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Speaker 1: if the NFL's rigging these games for Kansas City, the
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Speaker 1: referees are doing a god awful job. They're doing a
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Speaker 1: terrible job of covering their tracks. Right, there's a terrible job.
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Speaker 1: And Kansas City last I checked, and I've been there,
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Speaker 1: and I have friends in Kansas City. I love visiting.
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Speaker 1: It's I've had a lot of fun when I've gone
10:39
Speaker 1: there a few times over the years. But when you
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Speaker 1: go to Kansas City, right, it's not Manhattan. Now, if
10:45
Speaker 1: you want Manhattan, there's a Manhattan Kansas which is you know,
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Speaker 1: good drive away. It's not the Big Apple Manhattan. And
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's not Los Angeles. It's not like
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Speaker 1: a top market. It's TV market number thirty one, TV
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Speaker 1: market number three. You don't build a villain empire in
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Speaker 1: the shadow of Wichital. You don't do it, no one
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Speaker 1: would do it. And as for the UTEP study, and
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Speaker 1: I used to love studies. I used to talk about
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Speaker 1: a lot on my podcasts I do on the weekends,
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Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour Podcast, And I learned over the years.
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Speaker 1: At some point I had an epiphany and I realized
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Speaker 1: that you have to look at who pays for the study.
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Speaker 1: You have to look at who's doing the study, because
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Speaker 1: it's often it's not on the up and up. I
11:28
Speaker 1: used to think those things were all on the up
11:30
Speaker 1: and up, everything was kosher. It's not so. But anyway,
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Speaker 1: this one, the UTEP study, I dug into it a
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Speaker 1: little bit, leaned into it. And the postseason flags they said,
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Speaker 1: lean heavily towards Kansas City during the Mahomes era. And
11:43
Speaker 1: they connect the dots and it's like there's a conspiracy.
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Speaker 1: And it's like they've got their their corkboard up and
11:50
Speaker 1: they're connecting yarn to different things and they're like, well,
11:54
Speaker 1: there you go. They get their flash light and they
11:56
Speaker 1: don't even have a flashlight. They have the light on
11:58
Speaker 1: their head. You know those lights you put on your
11:59
Speaker 1: head you're looking at crawling on your body trying to
12:02
Speaker 1: crawl through the underside of your house or something like
12:05
Speaker 1: that at two in the morning. But this is the
12:07
Speaker 1: same tired VHS tape that they dusted off when Michael
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Speaker 1: Jordan was getting whistles. Uh. And I buy that more
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Speaker 1: than this. Like the NBA and with David Stern, that
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Speaker 1: was his playbook. We got stars. We want the stars
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Speaker 1: to get calls. And a foul against Michael Jordan is
12:28
Speaker 1: not the same call against Joe blow on the bench.
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Speaker 1: It's just not.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
12:33
Speaker 1: There were hockey people when I saw Wayne Gretzky play
12:36
Speaker 1: and people said, well, Wayne Gretzky, you know when Wayne
12:38
Speaker 1: was breathing near the blue line, there was an official
12:43
Speaker 1: there skating around, uh with a with a whistle. It's
12:46
Speaker 1: not collusion, right, It's not collusion. It's success envy. That's
12:52
Speaker 1: what I call I call it success envy. And you
12:55
Speaker 1: know what they say, you know say there. The saying
12:58
Speaker 1: is that when you reach the very top of thet
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Speaker 1: you've worked your entire life in sports and you get
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Speaker 1: to the very top of the mountain, many people assume
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Speaker 1: that you got there on a ski lift. He didn't
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Speaker 1: climb the mountain. You took the easy way to the top.
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Speaker 1: Of the right now. Secondly, I am contractually obligated by
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Speaker 1: the powers of the bet to mention the Dallas Cowboys
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Speaker 1: every so often, So we'll do that right now. To
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Speaker 1: Dallas we go, where, despite the horrific defense, the struggles
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Speaker 1: of the Cowboys defense, they blow this season. Jerry Jones
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Speaker 1: remaining very confident in his embattled defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus
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Speaker 1: now during his weekly radio show, which the editing department
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Speaker 1: here Fox Sports Radio deemed not worthy of recording on.
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Speaker 1: During that Jerry Jones said, Matt Eberflus is someone quote
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Speaker 1: I want in the fox hole with me. That's a quote.
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Speaker 1: Jerry also explained that he jumped, jumped at the op
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Speaker 1: You think Jerry's ever jumped at anything maybe like a
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Speaker 1: hot blonde in like nineteen ninety, but not not recently anyway.
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Speaker 1: So during his weekly radio show, Jones said that you
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Speaker 1: know he wants you know, he's a Foxhole guy. That
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Speaker 1: was his line, and he said he jumped jumped a
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Speaker 1: higher Matt Eberflus and said he you know, this is
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Speaker 1: the guy that I wanted this offseason to run the
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Speaker 1: defense and have not changed my position after six games,
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Speaker 1: and he was pumping the tires about all the adversity
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Speaker 1: that Matt Eberflus has been through and all that bull crap.
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Speaker 1: All right, question how much stalk? How much stalk do
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Speaker 1: you put in Jerry Jones giving a vote of confidence,
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Speaker 1: the dreaded vote of confidence the Cowboys defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus.
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Speaker 1: So normally, and you know what I'm about to saying,
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Speaker 1: like normally, this is the kiss of death. You are cooked.
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Speaker 1: It is dun skis right, that's the kids kiss of death.
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Speaker 1: Like the he's our guy speech. We've all heard it.
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Speaker 1: It happened right before a piano drops on top of
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Speaker 1: your head from the third floor. Cob boom, see you later.
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Speaker 1: Now in Dallas, though it's different, My read on the
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Speaker 1: room in Dallas is a little different because Jerry's doing
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Speaker 1: what Jerry always does. He's making this about him. I
15:20
Speaker 1: do a YouTube show called Benny Versus the Penny with
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Speaker 1: a guy who also makes it all about him, So
15:27
Speaker 1: I know the all about him person. I know the
15:31
Speaker 1: all about the person. I do that show with a
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Speaker 1: little less financially well off than Jerry Jones, but nonetheless
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Speaker 1: all right, So if Jerry says I am going to
15:41
Speaker 1: give the excommunication message to Matt everfuss. I'm gonna kick
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Speaker 1: him out of the Dallas Cowboys, right, get rid of him. Well,
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Speaker 1: he's not just admitting Jerry Jones at that point. He's
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Speaker 1: not admitting that the defense stinks. It's more than that,
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Speaker 1: he's admitting I screwed up. I'm a bad GM. I
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Speaker 1: hired the wrong guy. That's on me and what I
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Speaker 1: know about Jerry Jones. This is a hair club for
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Speaker 1: men's situation. The great line from Walt Fraser, no play
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Speaker 1: for mister Gray. Jerry's not going to allow that to happen, right,
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Speaker 1: He's I'll hold on to a mistake. He's gonna hold
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Speaker 1: onto this mistake longer than a bad real estate investment,
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Speaker 1: just so he does not have to do the walk
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Speaker 1: of shame and admit now that job by me. If
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Speaker 1: Doup and the numbers don't lie, they don't. The Cowboys
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Speaker 1: are dead last, at the very bottom the sewer in
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Speaker 1: total defense. They're dead last against the past twenty eighth
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Speaker 1: against the run. They've given up thirty point seven points
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Speaker 1: per game, thirty point seven points per game they tackle.
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, watch all these Cowboy games, it looks
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Speaker 1: like they tackle like they're wearing those inflatable sumo suits,
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Speaker 1: hard to move around, a lot of plotting. It's embarrassing.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not a Cowboy fan. In fact, I enjoy
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Speaker 1: this because it's good for what I do. I enjoy
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Speaker 1: with you the Cowboys defense, even with the Micah Parsons
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Speaker 1: trade right, well, there's enough there, there'll be somewhat competitive
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Speaker 1: and all that. So and Jerry, he really wants to
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Speaker 1: show the world. Yeah, when that guy dan Quinn who's
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Speaker 1: now coaching in Washington and they've had some success. They
17:27
Speaker 1: didn't play well this week the Commanders, but they've had
17:29
Speaker 1: some success. And what no is I'm fine. I don't
17:31
Speaker 1: need dan Quinn to be my defensive Courteria. So he
17:34
Speaker 1: got the guy and so there you go, Matt Ibraflus.
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Speaker 1: And so the Cowboys build is America's team. The Dallas
17:42
Speaker 1: Cowboys America's team, And right now they're America's turnstile, is
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Speaker 1: what they are? There? Yeah, he was running right by.
17:49
Speaker 1: If you're a wide receiver, there's no resistance. If you're
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Speaker 1: a running back, congratulations, you're gonna get four yards downfield
17:56
Speaker 1: before there's any kind of contact. And Ibrafu's presiding over
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Speaker 1: a defense in Dallas that is they're getting cooked like
18:04
Speaker 1: they're chicken at Applebe's. It's bad. And it's not just
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Speaker 1: the numbers. The eye test not good either. There's no
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Speaker 1: bull rush. There's a lot of bull crap from Jerry Jones,
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Speaker 1: but there's no bull rush and the unit has about
18:18
Speaker 1: as much toughness as a pillow fight at summer camp. Right,
18:23
Speaker 1: and some teams worry about the red zone. They're like,
18:26
Speaker 1: oh man, the red zone Dallas, it's got a hole
18:29
Speaker 1: in the ozone the ozone layer there for the Cowboys,
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Speaker 1: it's not good. So Jerry giving a vote of conference.
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Speaker 1: Normally we say, well that's it, that's ebra Flus is done.
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Speaker 1: But again that this is not about the football, even
18:41
Speaker 1: though the Cowboys defense sucks, it's about saving face for
18:44
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones, and that's why the Cowboys are. That's where
18:48
Speaker 1: they are, all right, final thought to Boston, We go
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Speaker 1: to Boston, we go and forever cheating Astro Red Sox
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Speaker 1: third baseman Alex Bregman a notorious scoundrel in baseball history.
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Speaker 1: So Alex Bregman pulled the ripcord and is going to
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Speaker 1: test free agency. For the second consecutive year. The news
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Speaker 1: came out prior to the NLCS game Dodgers and Brewers.
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Speaker 1: Bregman is exercising the opt out. He's entering into the
19:20
Speaker 1: transfer portal. He opts out of what's left of a
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Speaker 1: three year, one hundred and twenty million dollar contract. He'll
19:25
Speaker 1: go to market try to get more money. The deal
19:27
Speaker 1: included an opt out this year. There's also a player
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Speaker 1: option in twenty twenty seven. So quickly, what is your
19:33
Speaker 1: reaction to Alex Bregman forever a cheating astro hitting the
19:42
Speaker 1: eject button on the Red Sox contract after one season.
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Speaker 1: So this was baked in to the contract. It was
19:51
Speaker 1: baked into the contract. And stop me if you've heard
19:55
Speaker 1: this one before. I'm pretty sure you've heard this one before.
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Speaker 1: But Scott Morris and I'm using because I know I used
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Speaker 1: the other day, but it applies here. It's a my
20:04
Speaker 1: pillow special. We said it when the contract was announced
20:07
Speaker 1: for Alex Bregman with the Red Sox. Will say it
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Speaker 1: again here that this contract was what's known in the
20:12
Speaker 1: industry as a pillow deal. That Bregman sucked at a
20:16
Speaker 1: time he couldnot suck. He was not that good at
20:18
Speaker 1: the end with the cheating a holes and so he
20:20
Speaker 1: didn't get the offer he wanted for that and some
20:23
Speaker 1: other reasons. And so the Pillow deal was a soft landing,
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Speaker 1: big money, total control by the player. It's a Scott
20:31
Speaker 1: Boras special. So Boris gave Bregman that one year window
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Speaker 1: to go to Boston, polish the apple, if you will
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Speaker 1: flip it for another massive contract, go back to the
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Speaker 1: market and see what you can get. And he wasn't
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Speaker 1: in Boston. The plant roots. Now there's a chance he
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Speaker 1: goes back if the Red Sox meet his asking price,
20:50
Speaker 1: but he doesn't care. He'll go anywhere. He's got no
20:53
Speaker 1: moral compass, He'll go anywhere. And so he was there
20:58
Speaker 1: kind of renting. You know. It's kind of place where
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Speaker 1: you rent and you leave the dishes in the sink
21:02
Speaker 1: and you just go somewhere else here. I'm done with
21:04
Speaker 1: this place. I'm out of here. And Bregman did not
21:07
Speaker 1: exactly like the World on fire. The first half. He
21:10
Speaker 1: was okay, it was actually pretty good. The first half
21:12
Speaker 1: of the baseball season, made the All Star team. The
21:16
Speaker 1: second half. Cover your eyes, Cover your eyes bad. A
21:20
Speaker 1: swan dive swan dive for Alex Bregman. After the All
21:25
Speaker 1: Star Game, his power numbers went down thirty six percent.
21:28
Speaker 1: He was a two point fifty hitter, and you're gonna
21:31
Speaker 1: pay that guy thirty five forty million dollars a year
21:33
Speaker 1: and he couldn't even hit it Finway. One of the
21:35
Speaker 1: reasons Bregman went to Boston was because everyone hits at
21:39
Speaker 1: Finway Park, right, everyone feast. It's a bandbox. And Bregman
21:44
Speaker 1: batted two forty six at Finway and hit six home
21:47
Speaker 1: runs all year. What happened to the launching pad? It
21:50
Speaker 1: wasn't a launching pad when he was up there, and
21:53
Speaker 1: so you know he's stunk at a time he can't stink.
21:55
Speaker 1: And then so if you can't thrive there, you're gonna
21:58
Speaker 1: thrive anywhere. Does he need trash cans? Does he need
22:01
Speaker 1: a buzzard? Does he have to go back to his
22:03
Speaker 1: happy place in Houston? And you mix in that's the
22:07
Speaker 1: other thing, like we know cheating as Carlos Carea was
22:12
Speaker 1: traded back to Houston, Like that's really the only spot
22:14
Speaker 1: I guess that in the Blue Jays. Toronto doesn't care.
22:16
Speaker 1: They got that cheater springer in their outfield, but Houston
22:23
Speaker 1: back to Houston for Bregman, who says, now there's a cloud.
22:28
Speaker 1: There is a cloud following him around, a black cloud.
22:31
Speaker 1: The cheating thing does not go away. And you know
22:34
Speaker 1: that's true. You know that's true. Right, tattooed with baseball cooties.
22:41
Speaker 1: He's got the cooties, yep, got them yep. And you
22:44
Speaker 1: can hear the boos still every ballpark you go to
22:47
Speaker 1: other than Houston, right, you get the booze and all
22:49
Speaker 1: that stuff. And so the villain act it doesn't age well.
22:52
Speaker 1: And that's the other problem. Bregman's not a pitcher, he's
22:56
Speaker 1: a position player, and he's going to be at the
22:59
Speaker 1: very end of his athletic prime. He turns thirty two
23:02
Speaker 1: next season. Good luck. So you're gonna pay somebody for
23:06
Speaker 1: what they have done, not what they're going to do,
23:10
Speaker 1: and you're gonna hand that guy a long term contract.
23:12
Speaker 1: And he's one of the more hateable people in the
23:14
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Speaker 1: it all right. Just Josh writes in from Cincinnati, says
25:52
Speaker 1: I'm no doctor Barnes, but I did stay in a
25:55
Speaker 1: Chevy in Pollo how comfy. Was pretty sure the refs
26:03
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26:06
Speaker 1: drew blanks for three hours because they sure as Helle
26:10
Speaker 1: weren't drawing any flags.
26:12
Speaker 4: Yummy.
26:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's one of those things, like my theory
26:16
Speaker 1: on life when it comes to this kind of stuff,
26:19
Speaker 1: like if you're an official and you're paid, your travels
26:22
Speaker 1: paid for, you have to stay at a hotel. You've
26:25
Speaker 1: got to call penalties if you if you're a doctor,
26:28
Speaker 1: you have to find something wrong with someone because you're
26:32
Speaker 1: a duck. If you go to a lawyer, do I
26:33
Speaker 1: have a case? Well, how does a lawyer get paid?
26:36
Speaker 1: You've got to of course you've got a case. How
26:39
Speaker 1: much of a case do I have, mister lawyer? How
26:41
Speaker 1: much can you afford? It's like like the way the world.
26:46
Speaker 1: But anyway, all right, let's see, Craig says, Eberflus is cooked.
26:52
Speaker 1: The Cowboys defense is terrible. Yiche yack. Yeah, they're pretty bad. Uh.
27:01
Speaker 1: Craig also says, with all this Chiefs talk, why not
27:03
Speaker 1: to go with the conspiracy. They're the reason why the
27:07
Speaker 1: overtime rule sucks. The Bills defense lost all those AFC
27:11
Speaker 1: Championship games. Sean McDermott, you're on the clock. Hot seat
27:15
Speaker 1: has burned up. That's from Craig, That's what he has
27:21
Speaker 1: to to say. Late Night Drug Tester writes in from
27:23
Speaker 1: Parts Unknown, he says, if the NFL has it rigged
27:27
Speaker 1: for Kansas City, they have a lot of work to do.
27:31
Speaker 1: If the playoffs started now, they are outside looking in.
27:34
Speaker 1: So which team should we fade for the rest of
27:39
Speaker 1: the season. I will wait for Benny versus the Penny
27:43
Speaker 1: to find out. Stay tuned. Yeah, if you look at
27:49
Speaker 1: your your standings of the NFL will resume tomorrow on
27:53
Speaker 1: Thursday with an AFC North matchup the Cincinnati Bungals and
27:59
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday night, But the Chiefs are
28:03
Speaker 1: out of the playoffs at this particular moment. However, the
28:07
Speaker 1: NFL would be out of a lot of money if
28:09
Speaker 1: they don't make the playoffs. And if you look at
28:11
Speaker 1: the very boub Jacksonville is always the obvious one. You say, well,
28:14
Speaker 1: Jacksonville's you know, they can fall out of the playoffs
28:17
Speaker 1: pretty easy because they're Jacksonville. But the Kansas City's number
28:20
Speaker 1: eight seven teams make the playoffs. And you've got a
28:25
Speaker 1: bunch of divisional games, the Chiefs with the Broncos and
28:28
Speaker 1: they play the Chargers again. So there's a lot of
28:30
Speaker 1: moving and shake. Let's go to the phones. Let's jump
28:32
Speaker 1: Alex up to the top. Here he once a yap
28:34
Speaker 1: about Jerry Jones. Alex, what's going on? You are on
28:36
Speaker 1: the Ben mal Show on Fox. Welcome.
28:39
Speaker 3: How's it going? It's my second time getting through, but
28:41
Speaker 3: I'll make it quick, okay, Jerry Jones, I'm talking to you.
28:45
Speaker 3: You pay people very fast for doing good for one year.
28:49
Speaker 3: Our linebackers have sucked for a long time as a group,
28:53
Speaker 3: one or two here or there. Our safetyes have been
28:55
Speaker 3: butt cheeks for years years. To Troy Williams, you don't like,
28:59
Speaker 3: bet don't understand, well.
29:00
Speaker 1: You look you like. Lorena questioned your term of butt cheeks.
29:04
Speaker 1: She brought. She paused when you said the term butt cheeks, Well,
29:09
Speaker 1: men generally do enjoy butt cheeks. But the smell might
29:12
Speaker 1: not be what he's He might be what he's referred to,
29:16
Speaker 1: even not the car.
29:17
Speaker 3: We want to look at, even not the car we
29:19
Speaker 3: want to see. But yeah, Garry Jones overpays people, and
29:22
Speaker 3: he does not get safeties for some reason. Our corners
29:25
Speaker 3: are you see what they do? We get one here
29:27
Speaker 3: and there. It's just frustrating. And as far as the uh,
29:32
Speaker 3: the complaints about the chief referee, referees and all that. Uh,
29:36
Speaker 3: the rich get richer. That's the way of the world.
29:39
Speaker 3: Just like to tuck roll back in the day. Hey,
29:40
Speaker 3: whoever is you know, want to beat the best, you
29:43
Speaker 3: gotta beat the best decisively.
29:44
Speaker 1: There you go, all all, thank you Alex there racuum.
29:49
Speaker 1: That's a Is that our huge call. That's a different show.
29:51
Speaker 1: That's not our huge call to day. I'm sorry. So
29:55
Speaker 1: ghost to ghosts, well, in this case ghost at the hotel.
29:59
Speaker 1: It is law been an open secret that there is
30:02
Speaker 1: a haunted hotel in Milwaukee. Okay, well we're supposed to
30:08
Speaker 1: do if sleazy Cheese actually comes through here, will do
30:10
Speaker 1: a mallor meet and greet in Milwaukee, and we can
30:13
Speaker 1: stay at the infamous hotel, the Fister Hotel. That's the Yes,
30:19
Speaker 1: that's the name of it there in Milwaukee. And I
30:21
Speaker 1: bring this up because of the story before Game two
30:24
Speaker 1: of the NLCS. Was that ti Oscar Hernandez Hernandez who
30:28
Speaker 1: hit a home run in Game two of the World Series,
30:30
Speaker 1: he had to switch hotels in Milwaukee. And why did
30:34
Speaker 1: he switch hotels? Well, he switched hotels because the belief
30:39
Speaker 1: is the hotel the Dodgers were staying at is haunted.
30:42
Speaker 1: He claimed that he does not believe in ghosts per se,
30:45
Speaker 1: but his wife, my wife does believe in ghosts. She
30:51
Speaker 1: had some concerns. So as a result, when h yes,
30:57
Speaker 1: oh this is like from the Disneyland Haunted mansie. Right, yeah,
31:01
Speaker 1: do you see somebody died like a woman died on
31:03
Speaker 1: the Haunted Mars. How lucky is she? How would that
31:07
Speaker 1: be lucky?
31:07
Speaker 6: Okay, they have been asking for their one thousandth ghosts
31:11
Speaker 6: for years. They have nine hundred and ninety nine happy haunts,
31:15
Speaker 6: and they invite people every day to be the thousands,
31:18
Speaker 6: and she finally got to be it.
31:19
Speaker 1: So they have to change all of the sounds in there.
31:23
Speaker 1: So this hotel in Milwaukee. Now years ago, in another life,
31:27
Speaker 1: I actually did stuff with the Dodgers. We were in Milwaukee.
31:30
Speaker 1: We did not stay at this hotel because there was
31:32
Speaker 1: a player on the Dodgers named Adrian Beltray who was
31:36
Speaker 1: so freaked out because they had stayed at that hotel,
31:39
Speaker 1: the Fister Hotel in Milwaukee, that he would sleep with
31:42
Speaker 1: a baseball bat in case a ghost attacked him at night.
31:45
Speaker 6: But you can't hit a ghost with a baseball bat.
31:48
Speaker 1: You might want to let him know that that.
31:49
Speaker 6: Is a false sense of security.
31:50
Speaker 1: You might want to let a baseball player right now. Yes, see,
31:52
Speaker 1: not the brightest ball anyway. He became a Hall of
31:55
Speaker 1: Famer and not because of what he did with the
31:57
Speaker 1: Dodger anyway. So we stayed at different hotel. But yeah,
31:59
Speaker 1: at the hotel, supposedly, the legend is the lights will
32:02
Speaker 1: go on and off in the rooms randomly, right, just randomly.
32:07
Speaker 1: The doors there, there's there's noises of doors opening and closing.
32:11
Speaker 1: You hear sounds of footsteps in the middle of the
32:13
Speaker 1: night when there's no one walking around. And so yeah,
32:17
Speaker 1: those some of the things that have happened there at
32:19
Speaker 1: that hotel.
32:19
Speaker 6: I'm gonna have to go look it up.
32:21
Speaker 1: Yes, it's h P F I S T E R.
32:25
Speaker 1: The Fister hotel there in Milwaukee. Apparently his tail went
32:29
Speaker 1: to it. He didn't go to another hotel. He went
32:31
Speaker 1: to an airbnb. You want to bet that's a nice airbnb.
32:35
Speaker 1: You want to bet that's like a penthouse apartment, not
32:37
Speaker 1: your random airbnb that you and I would stay in.
32:40
Speaker 1: Let's go to William in Kansas City. Hello, William, welcome.
32:45
Speaker 7: How do mister Chasey here in Kansas City? Here is
32:48
Speaker 7: like transerve em exactly too of some kind of marriage?
32:55
Speaker 1: Hold time? Can you can you move your mouth a
32:58
Speaker 1: little away from the receiver. I want to hear every
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Speaker 1: word you're saying. I feel like I can't hear everywhere.
33:02
Speaker 1: Go ahead, try that again. Go ahead.
33:03
Speaker 7: You know I see mister Kelsey on TV. Every time
33:07
Speaker 7: I see him, it's like it's the Moves of the
33:10
Speaker 7: East Saw the New Orleans.
33:12
Speaker 4: Is he on crack?
33:13
Speaker 6: You know?
33:14
Speaker 7: Something? More of something that? What is that?
33:19
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what if he played if he
33:21
Speaker 1: if he was on crack, he would have played better
33:23
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. He could have played much worse.
33:24
Speaker 1: It was more like he was on sleeping pills, so
33:26
Speaker 1: somebody drugged him. The way he played in that Super Bowl.
33:29
Speaker 7: He's made to the top of the RuPaul reject Whift.
33:35
Speaker 7: What what he is? That's like settled over Woldo here
33:41
Speaker 7: in South The stadium is over there and big things
33:45
Speaker 7: and merge off the top.
33:48
Speaker 1: So it's fair to say that you're not getting a
33:50
Speaker 1: Christmas card from Travis Kelsey's that accurate?
33:53
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, I think I'll be yeah, I'll be.
33:57
Speaker 1: Yeah. I hear you all right, And I'm sure he's
34:00
Speaker 1: worried about you as he rolls over in his thousand
34:03
Speaker 1: thread sheets and his mansion there is very concerned about you,
34:06
Speaker 1: you know, his Egyptian thread sheets. Thank you. Though you
34:10
Speaker 1: ever seen a ghost? Loreni ever been out and seen
34:12
Speaker 1: a ghost? You know, I can't say I've seen a ghost.
34:17
Speaker 1: Have you you felt like in a room with a
34:19
Speaker 1: ghost multiple times? Multiple multiple interest times. We have a
34:25
Speaker 1: guy named Joe the ghost Hunter in Ohio who goes
34:28
Speaker 1: around and like sees it. I've never seen a ghost.
34:30
Speaker 1: I did see something that I believe was a UFO
34:33
Speaker 1: at one point, but I've never seen it. I've never
34:36
Speaker 1: seen it. I was on a hike, and I saw
34:38
Speaker 1: these black orbs that I still can close my eyes
34:42
Speaker 1: and see them. This is way before.
34:43
Speaker 7: Now.
34:43
Speaker 1: Now you'd say it's just a drone, you know, but
34:45
Speaker 1: those were before. Maybe it was a test drone and
34:48
Speaker 1: they just were testing it out. But I saw this
34:49
Speaker 1: and I never seen anything quite like it. Yeah, I
34:53
Speaker 1: don't know what it was. Who knows. Maybe it's some
34:56
Speaker 1: government ops operation somewhere with some secret technology some government
35:00
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Speaker 1: here it is go back to that NLCS game too,
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers Yoshinobu Yamamoto did not allow an opponent to
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Speaker 1: bat with a runner and scoring position. Now, the last
35:18
Speaker 1: time that happened was Doc Holliday, Roy Holliday, the late
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Speaker 1: Roy Holiday twenty ten NLDS Game Number one, who he
35:27
Speaker 1: had a no hitter. Remember that was one of the
35:29
Speaker 1: moments in the last twenty five years in baseball playoffs
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Speaker 1: and no hitter for Roy Halliday, the only other pitcher
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Speaker 1: other than Yamamoto and Halliday to do so in the
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Speaker 1: past twenty years was blank again. Yoshinobu Yamamoto did not
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Speaker 1: allow an opponent to bat with a runner in scoring position,
35:48
Speaker 1: and last time it happened was Roy Halliday. The only
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Speaker 1: generation was blank. That's the Insta Trivia, the answer and
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Speaker 1: couple of minutes. The Dodgers their monster mashing here before Halloween,
37:26
Speaker 1: Yoshinobu Yamamoto dominating. He did not allow an opponent to
37:31
Speaker 1: bat with a runner in scoring position. The last time
37:35
Speaker 1: that happened was Roy Halliday for the Phillies in twenty ten.
37:38
Speaker 1: He had no hitter. The only other picture to do
37:41
Speaker 1: so in the past twenty years was blank. That is
37:44
Speaker 1: the question, what is the answer? Let's see does anyone
37:48
Speaker 1: know the answer? We go to the Great Unwashed and
37:51
Speaker 1: Eke is going with Adeo Nomo. I see what you
37:55
Speaker 1: did there, Doug Doug Fister from alf the Alien Pinter.
37:59
Speaker 1: The Fister Hotel was named after Doug Fister. Who else
38:02
Speaker 1: do it? Benito, the long Suffering cowboy fan going with
38:05
Speaker 1: aj Volton is his answer? Who else? Casper from Bobby
38:09
Speaker 1: in Florida, Sewn in Portland's going with Taylor Swift, Simon
38:13
Speaker 1: Belmont from ferg Dog, Emerald Legassi, who's sixty six today?
38:19
Speaker 1: I quote Emerald quite a bit. The great celebrity cheft
38:22
Speaker 1: Missus Drysdale's poodle Claude from Kathy and Madison. That's it.
38:27
Speaker 1: That's got to be the answer. Mickey Loulwich guessed by
38:30
Speaker 1: Rob in Minnesota. Clayton Kershaw just kidding from Robbie the
38:34
Speaker 1: Mariner fan h Warren Crommarty exposed legend from the Freeman.
38:38
Speaker 1: All right, what say you? Lorrain up?
38:40
Speaker 6: I'm going with the Invisible.
38:42
Speaker 1: Man Ben all right. Unfortunately know this guy in many
38:45
Speaker 1: ways Invisible White Sox legend John Garland in O five
38:49
Speaker 1: John Garland starting pitcher Game three of the ALCS White Sox.
38:54
Speaker 1: Here we gonna get Smeller. How about that?
38:56
Speaker 4: To the third degree is one Big Ben gets.
39:02
Speaker 1: Grill and Coo dow Lou.
39:06
Speaker 2: Bill Belichick opened his media session on Monday by saying
39:09
Speaker 2: that reports of him negotiating a buy out with North
39:11
Speaker 2: Carolina are quote categorically false.
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Speaker 1: Ben. Do you believe him?
39:16
Speaker 4: No?
39:16
Speaker 1: Of course not no, No, they just haven't worked out
39:20
Speaker 1: the details on that. It's it's an absolute mess, and
39:23
Speaker 1: Belichick doesn't have anything else lined up. Of course, you
39:25
Speaker 1: don't believe Bill Belichick, and you know it's not correct
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Speaker 1: until it's correct, and then all of a sudden Belichick
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Speaker 1: vanishes and doesn't talk about it. Next.
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Speaker 2: The Philadelphia Phillies have decided not to make manager Rob Thompson,
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Speaker 2: the escapegoat for their defeat in the NLDS, says he
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Speaker 2: will be returning to Philly in twenty twenty six. Do
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Speaker 2: you think keeping Thompson was the right move?
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Speaker 1: Yes, because he's not doing anything like all these other managers.
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Speaker 1: So it's like the Yankees, the Dodgers, they keep all
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Speaker 1: these guys around because they're just kind of figurehead guys. Next.
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Speaker 2: Russell Westbrook has yet to find a new NBA team.
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Speaker 2: When he was asked recently about the possibility of playing overseas,
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Speaker 2: He said, there has been zero discussion of out that.
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Speaker 2: But do you think Westbrook will eventually end up playing
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Speaker 2: in China or something?
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Speaker 1: No worse, He'll play for the Sacramento Kings. How do
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Speaker 1: we do you pass