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January 21, 2025 • 34 mins

Big Ben talks about Ohio State defeating Notre Dame in the CFB National Championship Game, Lions OC Ben Johnson getting hired to be the new head coach of the Chicago Bears, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Steve Perry Edition, and more!

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(01:51):
So we'll start out in Atlanta. The curtain came down
on the college football season. The good news is spring
practice starting about two weeks, but the spring games will
be there in about four weeks.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
But nonetheless, that was it.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
The college football Playoff championship game in Georgia, and you
had Ohio State heavily favored taking on Notre Dame, a
battle of blue bloods in collegian football for all the
marbles all would Notre Dame write a storybook ending to
their season. It was a confetti game. You don't get

(02:29):
many confetti games. It was a confetti game. Cake and
confetti goes to the winner of this game. And how
did it turn out? Did you watch the game? Were
you engaged in the game? I was, I said up
my fat ass and watched the game. I did you
know a coach football guy?

Speaker 3 (02:44):
I do.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
I just talked more NFL because I'm not on Saturdays.
We're on Sunday night after the NFL, so we talked
most of the NFL in the show. But I watched
college football. I checked this game out. I was watching,
and what happened. So Sean Judkins not one, not two,
but three touchdowns and the number eight seed, not that

(03:07):
that really matters, but the number eight seed in that
fugase playoff bracket. Ohio State built a mountainous lead and
then held on a second half rally, an attempt at
a rally by Notre Dame. The number seven seed on
your bracket thirty four to twenty three to the final

(03:29):
as Ohio State wins the College Football National Championship in
its run through the first ever, first ever twelve team playoff.
They'd never done this before. They'll eventually add more teams.
The buck Geys become the fifth team in the history
of college football on the ap year, which goes back

(03:51):
a long time to have won a championship without winning
their conference title. I'll keep in mind this is going
to become the new normal because you have the mega
meg a mega mega mega conferences now where they've added
extra teams. It's just really the Big ten in the
Southeastern Conference, and then everyone else is playing for third place,
and so you've got all these mega teams, and these

(04:13):
big conferencesn't, so you're gonna have teams regularly win the
championship that don't win their conference. It is Ohio State's
first championship, but over a decade. Over a decade, and
if you're like ten years old, you really don't remember
the Buck guys winning a championship. First for Ryan Day,
much more on him coming up in a minute. But

(04:33):
the better story, the better story is in the losing
locker room, and so that is where we will begin
the question for the esteem panel. What does this result?
What is this result of this game, the championship going
to Ohio State? What does it say about Marcus Freeman's
Notre Dame squad? Big dogs? They did not cover the number.

(04:55):
So if you've been on Ohio State, you won the game.
So I've got rubber checks, fires Wisher, and Charles Manson.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
That's an old killer or he didn't kill, but he
had people kill for him.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
All right, So we'll combine all these things together and
we are going to make some oxygen because the Notre
Dame defense needed some oxygen early on in this game.
So my first thought here is that Notre Dame. I
don't know if you like me watching the game, I said,
oh wait a minute, we got something here. Notre Dame
guilty of the fake out opening. And I hate the

(05:29):
fake out open. I don't even likes the fake out opening.
It's like when you'll see a movie and the opening
scene's really good and then the rest of the movie blows.
Or you go on a date and the first date's
kind of good and you like the other person and
then you see him again.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
You hate their guts. I hate that. I hate it,
and Notre Dame did that.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
They came out Riley Leonard looking like not Lamar Jackson,
Josh Allen, I don't know wh whatever running quarterback you want.
Eight team play seventy five yard drive took out almost
ten minutes a game plock. They hit the ball for
nine minutes and forty five seconds. The fighting irish la

(06:06):
la la la la la la methodically surgically going down
the field, eating up as much time, shortening the game.
Notre Dame against the buck guys, it was a picture perfect.
Leonard had nine carries on the eighteen plays. He carried
the ball nine times and then he went over to
the bench. Notre Dame's quarterback goes over to the bench

(06:29):
and he dials up the Barfa Mattic. He literally rode
the vomit comet. I'm not exaggerating. We talked about the
vomit commet all the time. He barfed on the sideline.
The guy puked on the sidelines. Inspired by that, the
Notre Dame defense, the Notre Dame defense came out there
and after that amazing start, it was all downhill from

(06:50):
that point. And then you have Marcus Freeman. And I'm
all for talking to talk. I'm in talk radio. I
talk a lot of talking, so I don't have a
problem with talking, But if you're gonna talk, you gotta
back it up.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
So Marcus Freeman, how do you caught this?

Speaker 1 (07:06):
I jotted it down on my little I say, my
little notepad, but it's on my phone. I have that
notes thing on my phone, so I typed this into
my phone. Right, And he was asked the coach at
Notre Dame what his message was to his team pregame
before they came out to the field there in Atlanta
to take on Ohio State. Marcus Freeman said that Vegas
got it half right. This is my message for the team.

(07:28):
Vegas got it half right, we're not some underdogs, he said,
But we're some dogs.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
He said what he said?

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Oh that's gone, man, that would have been all over
T shirts and all that. The problem is Marcus Freeman's
mouth wrote a check that his players weren't unable to cash,
guilty of insufficient funds. The defense bouncing the rubber check
like a basketball, bouncy bouncy bouncy a bouncy ball. There

(07:57):
a lot of dogs on that defense, a lot of
dogs with fleas. Clearly, the Irish went from up seven
to nothing, picture perfect almost ten minute drive to start
the game, to down thirty one to seven, down trying
to drink out of a fire hose, down thirty one
to seven, and the buck guys literally taking the football

(08:19):
and shoving it down their throats four straight, seventy five
plus yard drives in epic in epic pratfall.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
So what happened? Now?

Speaker 1 (08:32):
As you know, I am not a doctor. I'm also
not a weather man. I'll tell you more about that
in a minute. But I'm not a doctor, but I
can play one on the radio. I can play a
doctor on the radio. So my diagnosis. The Notre Dame
defense suffered from collectively a tight spinter. Yes, a tight
spinter is my medical diagnosis. Here the stage a little

(08:53):
bit too big, a little bit too big. By the
time they calmed down, they were in a grand canyon
looking up and they didn't have a donkey to take
them up there. They didn't have any kind of way
to get up there, to climb their way up there.
Turn out the last the parties over. You even had
to coach Marcus Freeman do do a very questionable thing

(09:16):
early in the fourth quarter. Remember Notre Dame. They had
the ball deep in Ohio state territory. They're down thirty
one to fifteen at the time, and it was fourth down.
Freeman tried a field goal. So your two touchdowns and
two point conversions away from tying the game, you tie
a field goal.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
It didn't make it. It poinked off the crossbar.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
He defended that move, which backfired spectacularly. He infened the horse.
He going to defend the move, why not? Come on?
Here's in fact, here's Marcus Freeman. Let's hear his own defense.
This is what he said about the rather questionable decision
making take a lot.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
I just thought, you know, instead of being down sixteen,
let's try to go down thirteen, and I know it's
still a two score game, but you have better probability
of getting fourteen points, and you do sixteen points. And
so if it was a shorter fourth and goal situation,
I probably would have gone for. But I just felt
fourth and nine was not a great chance for us

(10:15):
to make that, and you know, and decided to kick it,
and we didn't make it.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
The cynical part of me thinks that part of his
decision making was based on keep the alumni happy, Keep
the alumni happy. Cover the spread. Great coaches cover the spread.
Good coaches win. Great coaches cover the spread. All right, now,
page two, let's get to the heal a monster in
the room. So what does this win do now for

(10:40):
the much maligned Ohio State football coach Ryan Day, What
does this victory do? So today we all know this.
We talked about it, not that we talk too much
college football the show. We talked about it after the
Michigan game.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Briefly.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
It came up in conversation here that we call it
a toasty tushy. He had a toast tushy after that game.
And so this win is a nice fire extinguisher on
the old hot seat for now, but I know the
theme of the last twenty four hours in Washington, DC
has been partons. Everyone's getting a part in preemptive Partons
all that. So this is like a pardon, but it's

(11:15):
a temporary pardon. It's a temporary pardon until until the
Buck guys lose to the Wolverines again coming up in
late twenty twenty five, and then we can get the
laser printer and we're back to square one. But Ryan,
I also want to point this out. I know he
wears the baseball cap because he's probably bald or whatever,

(11:36):
but Ryan Day's beard reminds me of the great Billy Mays,
the infomercial maestro who died several years back. But when
you're a college football coach, you really are a salesman.
So I could see him when I'm watching him on
the sidelines. They kept showing me that thick beard, the
nice beard and all that. So I'm watching this and

(11:57):
I'm flashing back to when I used to be really
into info Mershals years ago, Billy Mays, and it was like,
I'm imagining, I'm like channeling what would Ryan Day sound
like if he was an infomercial guy if he was
Billy Mays, are you tired of the buck guys losing
big games? Do you wish that your team would win

(12:18):
a championship? Hide, Billy Mays. I mean Ryan Day here
with deep nil pockets, massive pockets with gold bullyon the fastest,
easiest way to win a championship is to buy the
trophy guaranteed order right now, operators standing by something like that?

Speaker 3 (12:41):
All right? Last word? How likely?

Speaker 1 (12:43):
How likely is Ohio State and for that matter of Noordrey,
how likely are they to be back in this situation
in twenty twenty six college football playoff championship game? So
you'd say both of them are likely to be in
the playoffs. You'd say both of them are likely. Notre

(13:04):
Dame and Ohio State are big for television. It is
a TV show. You try to get people watch TV shows.
So having teams that have fans like Ohio State Notre
Dame certainly make a lot of sense. But the problem
with college football and any kind of predictions in college
football is that it is Charles Manson, Like right now,

(13:26):
it's Helter Skelter.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
It's the wild Wild West. It really is.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
As pointed out, it's all about the Mankrel buddy of
mine who loves college football, was texting.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
Me during the game.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
We're going back and forth, and he pointed out, he said,
this is the thing that people are upset about in
college football. Is like, you got the Kansas State quarterback
Will Howard throwing a touchdown pass to the Old Miss
running back Judkins. You had the quarterback for Wake Forest
playing for a Notre Dame. You had out from FSU

(14:01):
playing for Notre Dame. It's free agency, it's paid to play,
it's advanced scouting, it's poaching players from mid majors, it's
all of that. Those are all the building blocks to
win a championship, which is which is good and bad.
You could find somebody this conceivable. You could take a
school like our old friend Eddie, right, Eddie's a Fresno

(14:25):
State guy. So you could take Fresno State and if
they had some guy or gal that went there that
had a bug up there took us to get that
team to win a championship. And they came up with
an nil deal for like one hundred million dollars. They
could buy all the good players and win a championship.
That's the setup. That's how it works.

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Speaker 3 (15:52):
So congratulations to the Ohio State University. They dotted the I.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
The Buckeyes, the champions of college football, fell behind seven nothing,
then scored the next thirty one points and they covered
the numbers.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
So they win.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
But the news for our purposes is from the coaching
carousel dateline Windy City. After Detroit was rudely excommunicated from
the NFL postseason by the Washington football team formerly known
as the Redskins. Another domino has fallen. Another domino has

(16:26):
fallen in the game of musical chairs. If you have
not heard by now because you've been living down by
the river in a van, well, big news here the
Chicago Bears. The Bears have hired hot shot, whiz kid
offensive genius, the mensa of x's and o's and a

(16:47):
fellow ben Ben Johnson. They've got their Johnson, the Chicago
Bears their new head coach. Johnson, who had been celebrated
by NFL talking promoted for a couple of years on
television as a boy wonder, and he is now the
head coach of the Bears. Past three years, he has

(17:08):
been at the helm of the offense in Motown. He
will feel the job filled. He will fill the role
of the departed. Not that he's dead Matt Eberflus, although
he is dead as far as being a head coach
in the NFL. The Bears have been around for one
hundred and five years. And this will be their nineteenth
head coach to walk into Hellas Hall and try to

(17:32):
wake up the echoes of Bears gone by, bring back
the magic of Sid Luckman and the Chicago Bears of
years ago. This is an offensive hire. The Bears normally
hired defensive coaches. So let us discuss the question. Put
a grade. Put a letter grade on Ben Johnson's hiring
as coach of your Chicago Bears. So I've got French onion, soup, Johnny, appleseed,

(17:59):
and poultry, and we will combine all of these things
together and try not to have a tamper tantrum. All right,
So as far as the report card, the malor report
card on this hire, I'm not feeling it like I
want this to work out. I like other people with
the same name that I have.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
I relate to that.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
When I was a little kid, there was really nobody
named ben I'm at the age like, well, it just
wasn't It was a dog. I've told the story. When
I was a kid, there were these movies about Benji
the dog.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
That was it.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
They were like no other Ben's. There's nothing that's a
fair amount of people. It's not a very common names
There's more people named Ben now than back then, so
I want to see from the naming standpoint, I feel
like all Ben should be united. You know Ben for Ben,
you know Ben stands for Ben. But as a talk
show host, I grade this a C on the Malor

(18:54):
report card. Ben Johnson to the Bears gets a C.
He runs a high falutant offense, which works well.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
In a dome. How's it gonna work when.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
It's cold outside at Saltier Field in December and plausibly January?

Speaker 3 (19:10):
Is that gonna work? Yeah? I don't know about that.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
He's got an incomplete resume. You always have an incomplete resume.
If you've never been a head coach and the Bears
are doing what they often do, it's a starter job.
This is someone there gambling is going to ascend. If
you look at the history of the hot shot coordinator
that gets the head coaching job, it isn't very good.
Like most of them have not won Super Bowls. You

(19:36):
look at the coaches that have been the most successful.
Andy Reid was never a coordinator, went to Philadelphia, was
a quarterback coach in Green Bay. Mike Tomlin was never
a coordinator. Pretty good code not a great com I
mean they have won the Super Bowl. Sean McVay was
never the guru, never the coordinator, but he ended up
becoming a head coach and there you go.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
So you look around, it's like, well that's the resume.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Is nice if you like the x's and o stuff.
But the Bears dub. He said he took it because
of a gut feeling. You know how many times my
gut is wrong. I don't you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
And I thought they were gonna hire Mike McCarthy, which
would have been also a Sea hire Mike McCarthy's buddies
with the GM they have the same agent.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
I assume that's where they were gonna go. So they
do not go that direction.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
Instead they pivoted to essentially Ben Johnson being the He's
like French onion soup. He's the soup of the day.
He's the flavor of the month in the NFL coaching cycle.
And he's the dime a dozen hot shot play caller
that has all the x's and o's. And again, the
vast majority of those type of coaches do not succeed.

(20:47):
And if you look at what the successful coaches are.
I think Dan Campbell is pretty good head coach, right.
How much of the Lion's success is because of Dan Campbell?
How much of it is Ben Johnson? Like the job
as the head coach. You've got to be charismatic, you've
got to be mesmerizing, you've got to be a leader
of people. I don't get that vibe. I don't know

(21:10):
Ben Johnson. Maybe he is. I haven't heard much of him.
I just know from what I've seen on TV. He
usually stands around by himself, futzing around with his play sheet,
and he's lost in thought, like he's daydreaming on the sidelines.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
I don't see a lot of players around him. Eh,
we'll see.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
This is not mister excitement over there, Ben Johnson. Now
page two. Does Ben Johnson bring the magic touch, the
Midas touch, or does he bring the Sadam touch with
him to the Motor City? Because this hire was made
for one player, even though there's a roster full of
fifty plus players on the Chicago Bears. You're kidding yourself

(21:50):
if you don't think the Bears are already trying to
salvage Caleb Williams, that they look like country Bumpkins in Chicago.
They passed over Jaden Daniels, who is in the final
four of the NFL, a win away from the Super Bowl,
and the Bears had that number one overall, and they
took a dud in Caleb Williams. And the real ones

(22:14):
that know football know that Caleb Williams as a rookie
was a hot mess. And Johnson, Ben Johnson coming in there,
and he's being promoted as like a Johnny appleseeed type
character here, and you know, watch Caleb Williams blossom the
way that Jared Goff supposedly blossom, blossomed under his tutelage

(22:35):
with the lines. But the shine is off the apple
if you're Johnny Appleseed, and you wonder how much of
that is fluff, media fluff, and how much of that
is substance. The last time there was a coordinator they
got this level of attention was Robert Salah with the
forty nine You remember Robert Salah was a defensive fordinator.
You could not watch a forty nine er game without

(22:58):
the broncasters licking the toes of Robert smok. Oh my god,
let me give him a bubble bath. Holy crap. They
were so excited. Then he got the job with the
Jets and Britt Yeah, it was. It was a comic
Coze mission. So I'm always skeptical of these things. And
as far as Jared Goff and the connection and how
much better Jared Goff was with the Lions, his numbers

(23:22):
fun fact is a maler show fun fact. In big Games,
Jared Goff did not live up to the hype. He
did not play well in big games. If you look
side by side also, I did the side by side
blind taste test. If you compare what Goff did with
Sean McVeigh and the Rams versus Ben Johnson and the Lions,

(23:44):
they're actually mirror images. It doesn't seem like that perception
is reality, and the perception is that Goff was much
better with the Detroit Lions. But Goff with the Rams
averaged seven point five yards per pass attempt. With the
Detroit Lions in his career in Detroit, he's averaged seven
point six yards per passe attempt, So he's point one

(24:07):
better with the Lions, which is in the margin of error.
That's in the margin of error. And as far as
Caleb Williams, again I'm the concern is that this Ben
Johnson guys is just a product of skullduggery, that he
doesn't have the magic place and the magic playbook. Supposedly,

(24:28):
Caleb Williams has a multitude of sins as a quarterback,
the biggest one being that he has a slow processor.
It's kind of like a Commodore computer from back in
the day, very slow America, online dial up Internet in
a high speed. To be a great quarterback, you have
that high speed Wi Fi and he's dial up, he's

(24:50):
connecting to the server and it's not really working out
so well. He was sacked Caleb Williams sixty eight times.
Now sack as a quarterback stat and a sack is
worth half a turnover, so that means just on sacks alone,
Kayla Williams turned the ball over thirty four times. If
you consider a sack half a turnover, meaning that most

(25:12):
of the time you get sacked, the drive ends that
you have to either punt the ball.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
Back or you turn it over on downs. That's it.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
And I don't know any magic play with Maybe Harry
Potter has something where that'll turn things around.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
Now, Furthermore, the.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
Worst part of going from Lions assistant coordinator offensive guru
to Chicago Bears head coach is you don't get to
play the Bears twice a year, right, you don't get
to play the Chicago Bears twice a year.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
That hurts your your accomplishments, all right?

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Now, final point with Ben Johnson off the board, heading
off to Chicago to live with Doc Mike and eat
Deep Dish pizza and talk to Eugene and all the
characters you're Fomi and everybody there in the Windy City.
With him going out of Detroit into Chicago, how are
things looking at the rest of the NFL coaching carousel

(26:08):
at this point?

Speaker 3 (26:09):
How are things looking? So?

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Imagine if you will, a poultry farm. That's right, a
poultry farm. Imagine a poultry farm. And NFL teams that
need coaches are right now running around like the headless chicken.
They're trying to figure out where. It's a mad scramble,
it's musical chairs. The Patriots already hired their coach, Mike Rabel,

(26:31):
so the Bears have Ben Johnson. So that's two spots
on the tote board that are gone. The Cowboys. It
seems like the Dion Sanders talk has calmed down. We'll
see if that picks up in the next twenty four
to forty eight hours. I know Jerry was busy with
the presidential stuff, so he didn't have time to futz
around with hiring a new coach. So Deon Sanders. Kellen

(26:53):
Moore his name is what a what a buzzkill? That
would be the guy that you got rid of because
you picked Mike McCall arthy. You're going to bring back
as the head coach. Kevin Moore.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Aaron Glenn has been mentioned for the Jets and the
Saints job. The Lions defensive quarter you talk about a
tough hire. Imagine hiring Aaron Glenn after that defense allowed
a rookie quarterback to go and up and down the field.
I mean, my god. You talk about coughing up a
fur ball.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
They did.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
They coughed up a fur ball right now. The Raiders
they wanted Ben Johnson, so now they're scrambling and Steve
Spagnolo Chiefs defensive coordinator, Pete Carroll, Cliff Kingsbury. He's been
mentioned for the Cowboys job and the Raider job. The
Saints have no idea. Mike McCarthy has been mentioned Aaron Glenn,
the Jets, Robert Salah, the former Jets coach up for

(27:45):
the Jacksonville job.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
What is going on? What in the web? What in web?

Speaker 2 (27:52):
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Speaker 3 (27:57):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go, Here we go, we go, Here we go,
Here we go, Here we go.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
This is one gets grilled.

Speaker 5 (28:12):
So Ben, it's it's been Uh, it's been a little
bit since the Kansas City Chiefs Houston Texans game.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
Yes on Saturday, Saturday afternoon.

Speaker 5 (28:22):
Yes, And there's still still a lot of people complaining
on Twitter. And there's a there's a term I've been
seeing going around Chiefs derangement syndrome. Ben, do you think
this is a real thing?

Speaker 3 (28:32):
Uh? Yes, it's been the same thing the Dodgers are experiencing.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
People upset with the Dodgers because they're spending all this money,
and people upset with the Chiefs as they win and
they're jealous that their teams.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
Don't win and all that.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
And the good thing is people watch no matter what
and don't really judge things on social media because the
only reason people go on social media is to complain,
So you should never judge anything off social media. But yeah,
people are upset. They're annoyed anytime the Chiefs are perceived
to get a call because of my homes. The fixes
in because we all, Oh, the NFL is really worried
about the Kansas City market.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
They want to fix it for the Kansas City market.

Speaker 5 (29:04):
Next. Eagles edge rusher Josh Sweat admitted after the win
on Sunday that he does not like playing in the
snow and would rather play on the terrible Brazil field.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (29:14):
Ben, do you think there will ever come a time
when all NFL teams playing domes? Uh?

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah, we'll all be dead, but yeah, eventually that'll be
the case. It's they charge a lot of money for tickets.
It's much better experience to sit indoors than sit in
Whether I know, lunatics in Buffalo and Green Bay don't
mind it, but it's a much better experience. Next.

Speaker 5 (29:32):
Over the weekend, it was reported that Steve Sarkisian turned
down two interview opportunities for NFL teams and instead signed
an extension with the Longhorns.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
Ben, does this surprise you? Yeah, I don't believe that
he was up for NFL jobs. I think that was
just tossed out to make him seem more attractive to Texas,
like he could have got an NFL job.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
Steve Sarkisi, Come on, I'm not a fan. I'm not
a fan.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
How do we go?

Speaker 3 (29:54):
You pass?

Speaker 1 (29:55):
That is a pass on the bar from Masaua.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
I ranted a sauna.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
It's up so man, it's so hot.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
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Speaker 3 (30:25):
Let's play the game right now. We welcome in our contestants.
We have let's see here. We have Art puffin Hello,
Art welcome. Who do you want to partner up with? Art?

Speaker 5 (30:37):
So good? So good?

Speaker 3 (30:39):
Yeah, okay, he's not paying attention.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Let's try Jacob Jacob in Delaware. Who do you want
to partner up with? Jacob welcome? Well, cue, all right,
you're gonna lose.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
And we have Andrew in Maine. Let me make sure
I punched the Ryan line up there Andrew, Who do
you want to partner up with? Andrew?

Speaker 2 (30:58):
I look to part with you.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
All right. We're gonna win, so that's all. That's all
we're gonna do. Hold on, hold on, sek you, let's
punch the right line up? All right? What are the categories? Quickly? Cool? Please?
All right?

Speaker 5 (31:08):
This is the Steve Perry addition of Mellers amount of money.
He turned seventy six years old today. The categories are
don't stop believing, faithfully captured by the moment, and only
the young?

Speaker 3 (31:19):
Jacob, which category would you like?

Speaker 1 (31:21):
Don't stop believing?

Speaker 3 (31:22):
All right, and Andrew, how about you?

Speaker 4 (31:26):
I'll take the ladder.

Speaker 5 (31:27):
Well, there's three of them, faith faithfully captured by the moment,
or only the young?

Speaker 3 (31:33):
Which one do you want?

Speaker 2 (31:34):
Oh? Sorry?

Speaker 3 (31:35):
Alright, alright, alright, go ahead, chep job. All right, Jacob,
forty five seconds? Don't stop believing.

Speaker 5 (31:41):
These athletes were on teams that ended long championship droughts.
First and last name, please forty five seconds. Let's begin,
all right.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
He is the King.

Speaker 5 (31:48):
He's on the Lakers, but he was on the Calves.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (31:52):
Uh. This is a wide receiver that was on the Chiefs,
but he is now on the Dolphins.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
He's probably gonna leave.

Speaker 5 (31:58):
Yes, a big poppy of the red Socks. He was
the tight end for the Eagles when they won their championship.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
He's on the Commanders now, Zach rd Yes.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (32:07):
This guy was a pitcher on the Orioles. He was
terrible with them, but then he won a World Series
with the Cubs. All right, This point guard was on
the Milwaukee Bucks. He just won a championship with the
Boston Celtics right now. No, he just won a championship
with the Celtics. His first name spelled weird. What's that?

Speaker 3 (32:30):
Yes? This picture for the All right, well, you wouldn't
gotten hundred one anyway. That was not good. I'm not
sure did you? I think you won ninety? Let's go
all right?

Speaker 2 (32:43):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (32:44):
Oh my guy? I think my guy's gone. I think
my my. That means no, Art Puffins. You want to say, Art,
you're in the other guy?

Speaker 4 (32:55):
Hung up?

Speaker 3 (32:55):
All right, here we go. Only the young. These athletes
died young. Are you ready? Art Puffin? All right? Forty
five seconds? Here we go.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
Died in a helicopter crash. Laker legend, Yes, tight end
for the Patriots.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
He killed. Somebody went to jail. What's his first name?
Oh my, alright, you're an idiot. Alright, yeah, this is
that you picked me your team. Then here's my backup.
That was my backup. Why don't you try line five
as a backup? Line five? You want to step in
line No, that's line six. Hold on line fire you there,

(33:31):
line five? You see you? All right?

Speaker 4 (33:36):
All right?

Speaker 3 (33:37):
What else?

Speaker 1 (33:38):
Iron horse for the Yankees, Iron Neck, uh safety for
the Arizona Cardinals.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
He died in the military. He was killed by friendly fire.
What's his first name?

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Celtics Celtics stars drafted Hi did a bunch of cocaine?

Speaker 3 (33:57):
Died after the NBA draft in the eighties. And oh man,
cool mics on too. I mean, it's obvious what's going on.
I mean, you had.

Speaker 5 (34:12):
Like a minute and a half in this category.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
The first guy hung up, I'm on the third doc,
I'm on the third guy.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
The first guy hung up, The second guy said the
F word, And now I have got on the poppy.
You would say, you would have said, Okay, the freaking
game is over.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
The game is over. Three people we win, Jacob, you
gotta go to take it.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
My god, that's so. So I went I went to
art puffing. He wasn't paying attention. Then I go to
that guy Andrew. I don't know, maybe a moose ran
into him in Maine. I have no idea. So then
I had to go to Poppy and I know.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
His first day. You gotta know the first and the
last time.

Speaker 4 (34:55):
That's how you.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
Play the game. That's a bad job by you.
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