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Big Ben talks about Arizona Cardinals QB Kyler Murray getting placed on Injured Reserve, Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa saying that he doesn't feel like he is playing for his job as the Dolphins starter, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and more!

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Air Arizona. A small wink wink nod nod, small follow
up to a previous Mallar monologue. In an episode recently

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of this show, we discussed the demotion of the Little
Fella at quarterback in the Valley of the Sun. Well,
the plot thickens in the Land of the Cacti. If
you have not heard the latest on this, maybe not.
We have learned that the Cardinals, after demoting their forty
plus million dollars a year bust at quarterback. They have

(02:54):
now decided to place the little fella, Kyler Murray Alligator
Arms Murray on injured reserve. They're claiming he has a
foot injury. Oh my god. That means he will now
miss a minimum a minimum of four more games. So
that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss

(03:17):
the question Cardinals quarterback he's now a backup because he's
been demoted Kyler Murray quarterback, Kyler Murray going on injured
reserve with a foot injury. Is there more to this story?
All right? So I've got church Lamps plus and Johnny
Cash and we will combine all of these things together

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and we are going to make a delicious, cheesy, extra
cheesy case of da is what we're gonna make. So
a this story, I love it. It's perfect for what
I do because there's a lot of people who are
pinocchiout in the story. There's a lot of line going on.
This already stinks like weak old chili. Okay, it really does.

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Even Stevie Meatballs and Andrew and Bakersfield can see what's happening.
And they're both blind, but they can see what's happening.
This isn't about the foot. It was never about the foot.
It's about getting alligator arms Murray the hell away from
the locker room. The talksin that is Kyler Murray without

(04:28):
saying the quiet part out loud. All right, So here's
the head coach of the Cardinals, Jonathan Gannon, giving his thoughts.
And listen to this bull crap from the Cardinals coach
right now. What he's gonna concentrate on is getting healthy
enough to play. He needs to get healthy. I'm certain

(04:49):
to get back to playing football. A liar liar pants
on fire, liar liar pants on fer oh Man. So,
if you haven't been following, why would you? The Cardinals
are one of the worst teams in the NFL. They
have almost no fans. Shout out to our friends listening
in the greater Phoenix area and all over Arizona. But
that said, if you haven't been following the Daily Soul Popper,
let me give you a rundown. I'll give you the

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table read on the script here the last couple of weeks. So,
first of all, when Kyler got hurt, it was his
day to day. Then it was Kyler's questionable. Then it was, well,
Jacoby Brissett gonna start, but Kyler might play. He's really
really close, He's really really close. Then it was well,
don't worry, Kyler's still our starter. He's still our QB

(05:32):
number one. And then after watching Jacoby Brissett move the
offense with some efficiency, all of a sudden, it was well,
Jacoby's our starter, but Kyler will be back soon. And
now boom goes the dynamite injured reserve. Four weeks of
can koon little vacation, and it's the NFL's breakup playbook.

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It's not you, Kyler, It's us. It's not you, It's us.
You can practically hear the classic Neil Sadeka song breaking
Up is Hard to Do playing in the background. There
is some incriminating evidence against the Cardinals and Kyler Murray.
That would be a clip of Kyler practicing last week

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where he looked fine, running and galloping all over the field. No,
they benched alligator arms Murray. They benched him so hard.
How hard was it? They mentioned him so hard they
had to invent out of thin air this horrific foot injury.
Did he trip over his PlayStation late at night? I
don't know is that what we're supposed to believe here,

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So I'm guessing the doctors as we go into the
twilight's onwer here, the doctors are prescribing a grueling rehab,
and I really think thoughts and prayers for Kyler Murray
the rehab. And again this is sources not close to
the situation, but the rehab for Kyler will involve a
lot of dose who of call of duty, a lot

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of that seven to ten hours a day, aggressive game playing,
a lot of thumb rehab, a lot of you know,
holding the joystick headset, parapete very important, very very important.
Got to have that headset, got to hear right when
you're playing the game. Maybe a little online rage management,
just a little bit, just a little bit. So the

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PR spin, having done this job for more than a
couple of days, the PR spin is always the same.
It's we just need to give him more time to heal.
That's it. You can't question that you'd be the bad guy.
You can't say anything is wrong with that. Yeah, right,
how about more time for call of duty and a

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trip to church? Right, as the church lady used to
say on that famous SNL S get back in the day. Well,
isn't that convene yet, isn't that CONVENI that Kyler gets
demoted and all of a sudden his foot injury flares
up without practicing. Yeah, in reserve, very convenient. I are
into the injury tent. Gives the Cardinals the old naked bootleg.

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It buys the front office some time. You don't have
to explain why you paid Kyler Murray a lottery payout,
a bonanza, a jackpot, forty three million dollars a year,
and he got beat out by a scrub journeyman stiff
named Jacoby Brissett. And now you say, well, he's hurt.

(08:29):
He's hurt. You can't question the medicine. Yeah, okay, And
by January it'll be well out of an abundance of caution. Actually,
more like mid December, out of an abundance of caution.
We're gonna shut the little fellow down for the season.
You can't question that either. Don't question that they come March,

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he'll quietly be regifted like a holiday fruitcake. There's some
desperate team that still believes that they can find the
pixie dust and get the little munchkin running around again.
All right now, page two. So to Jersey we Go
a follow up follow up to a story we also
talked about in a previous episode. So as speculation arose

(09:12):
that running back Breese Hall was not not a happy camper,
he did not want to remain with the Jets. Trade
deadline was earlier this week, and he's claiming now he's
gonna set the records straight, or at least he did
set the record straight. So Breeshall told an assembled gaggle
of Gang Green reporters Gang Green reporters that he never, ever, ever,

(09:39):
formally requested a trade from the Jets. Didn't do it,
did not happen. All those Mallard monologues where we talked
about Breese Hall demanding a trade that was all made up.
It was all bull crap. Clearly, However, he did play.
Breeshall played coy when asked whether or not he actually
wanted to be traded or not. So he did play

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a little bit quoite the question for the esteem panel,
you got running back Brisall saying that he never formally
requested a trade from the Jets at the deadline. However,
he did refuse to say if he wanted one. Can
you deck code this one. So we're gonna wrestle with
this one. We're gonna we're gonna decode it. Uh. And

(10:23):
here's what my much thought. So so Bristol's out here.
What he's doing is lawyering his way through the media
like a guy caught with all the receipts on his phone.
I never formally requested one, so place now I'm gonna
use my vintage about this, Sunny Bay. It's a vintage
Star Trek Klingon translator ring. And these are very very

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hard to get. I got one on eBay a couple
of years ago. It's a Star Trek Klingon translator ring.
Shout out to Captain Kirk, enemy of the show, so
Breesehall wanted out. However, the paperwork got lost in the
fax machine. How do you like them apples? Yeah, that's
the ticket, right, No, No, Hall's doing the day. It's

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the give me liberty or give me death speech, except
it's please give me my homes or give me death. Well,
looks like he'll be hanging out with the Grim Reaper.
He thought he was getting a ticket to Kansas City,
home of the Ben Maler chicken fingers and a pretty
good football team. At Arrowhead and instead he ended up

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back in Florham Park, aka the football version of the
never ending DMV line that does not move. So now
Breese Hall is moonlighting. He's got a little side hustle.
He's working at Lamps Plus and he's not gonna sell
you a chandelier or a floor lamp. His specialty is
gas lighting. So if you need some gas lighting, he's

(11:48):
your guy. And yeah, no, I never wanted to leave.
I never want to leave. Hey, numb nuts, you had
a hashtag hashtag three twenty, which is his uniform number.
You were basically standing outside the facility waving a flare
gun and about to fire it in the sky. So
standard dysfunction with the Jets, and you've got Quinn Williams.

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You juxtapose Breese Hall, who was sending out these not
so subtle messages, and then you've got Breeze Hall meanwhile,
or Quinton Williams meanwhile, and who ended up in Dallas,
who did want a trade, who asked for a trade,
but we didn't find out about it until after he
was traded. He kept it in the house, kept his
mouth shut, didn't go to the social media, didn't do
any of that, which is the wise move in case

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you don't actually get traded. Like Breese Hall in the meanwhile,
who was subtweeting the organization and playing the victim card
from the bottom of the deck. He wanted to be traded,
He needed to be traded. He desperately tried to get traded.
It didn't happen, It didn't have it. So now he's
doing the Dingleberry two step. You deny, you deflect, and

(12:54):
you diffuse the triple D. Instead of getting handoffs and
little screen passes from Patrick Mahomes, he's stuck in the
boondocks of the NFL, Breeese Hall trudgling through the metropolis
of misery that is the New York Jets. All right, now,
speaking of Jets and former Jets, the last word, we

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circle around the audio device. We go to Indianapolis where
it got real saucy. It got real saucy. So Sauce
Gardner put on the horseshoe for the first time, coming
off a concussion. He did not play in the Jets
last game. Sauce was a full participant, we are told.

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In his first practice there is a clip of him
dropping what would have been what was it drill. I
wouldn't say it's an interception, but he dropped a ball
that a game could have would have should have been
an interception. So there was that. Now it is said
to be a case where he is still not guaranteed
to play this weekend. He hasn't been medically cleared. The

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culture going to Berlin because we need that. Who doesn't
need football in Germany? I mean, my god, they're dying
for it over there. They love that anyway. So a
sauce Gardener not guaranteed to play in Berlin. He must
meet with a bunch of doctors and clearly concussion protocol. Now,
some more rewarts I love this out of an abundance

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of caution, believe the cult should be cautious and they
should not put the player around there until he's fully
ready to go. It would be a huge mistake, a
huge mistake to rush sauce Gardener. So question should the
Colts go slow and study slow in study with sauce

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Gardener or feed him to the falcons that is the
opponent in Bertin. So nothing says medical caution like flying
halfway across the world. If you will to play a
international gimmick game, These games are mix that people don't

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really want them there. The NFL just wants their money.
They're trying to indoctrinate future generations of fans. But just
give sauce. Here's what you do. You put them on
the plane, you have him take a nap, You get
over there and you get him a broadwurst and some schnitzel.
He'll be fine. Is this in study hall? This is

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the NFL and all that stuff. You don't trade multiple
first round draft picks for a defensive back. And you're
heading into week ten, so you have a limited amount
of inventory left on the shelf, and you're like, all right,
why don't we just leave him back in the hotel
in Berlin. He can do some hot yoga and stay
in the day spot while the team gets ready to
play Michael Pennix Junior and the Falcons. Well, that'll make sense.

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That's a good idea. No, who said that. Nobody would
say that. Not at all, not a good idea. So
you go all in, like the lap of luxury. You
go all in, you push your chips in. This is
the forever player. You're shut down defensive back. We'll see
if it works out. And so this is a results
based business. And Shane Steichen, the head coach there in Indy,
he knows Jim Mersey's daughter who's running the show because

(16:08):
Jim Mersey is dead, is probably singing Johnny Cash and
June Carter's do it. Time's a wasting, all right, times
a wasting, And Indy did not make this transaction to
allow Sauce Gardner to hang out in a laboratory somewhere
and just kind of chill out until you're one hundred percent.

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They went out for better or worse. Time will tell
whether or not this is going to be an amazing
dealer or not. I like the fact that they went
for it. The only problem is the cults are now
stuck with Indiana Jones at quarterback Daniel Jones, and that's
a bad nightmare anyway. So you bought the JP Morgan stock.
You bought the JP Morgan stock, not some penny pump

(16:54):
and dump crypto scam. So you play him, you don't
have to pay. The Jets already worked out the contract,
So the advice from me would be just hit the
drive through, grab a couple of corn dogs, some chili
cheese fries at Wiener Schnitzel, they must have that in Germany.
Here that's the only German food I eat. And then
throw the sauce. Throw the sauce right on top there,

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and that's it, and you're good to go. And who
says no? I don't see anybody saying no.

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have called the show, but nobody quite as famous from
Miami as the aforementioned Billy aka weed Man Hippie. So
we go there where Tua tongue of by Loa is

(20:34):
hanging on by his fingernails. His performance has been lacking.
The Dolphins are dismal to and seven to and seven
the Miami Dolphins, and that has reignited debate about the
future of Tua with the Dolphins. So if you haven't

(20:55):
been following the latest on this, perhaps not. Both Tua
tongue of by lawa and and Dolphin coach Mike McDaniel
attempting to dispel the displeased fans of the Dolphins the
notion that the quarterback is in jeopardy of losing losing

(21:16):
the grip on the QB one status, that he's somehow
in jeopardy now. To address that this week, he said, quote,
I wouldn't say I'm playing to keep my job. Tongue
of a. Lois said, I think I'm playing to help
our team win every time. I think that's the objective
of every quarterback that's playing close quote Okay, so that's

(21:40):
a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question.
To a tongue of Bai, Lois says he's not not
playing to keep his Dolphin's job. Do you believe him?
Does anyone in the room believe him? I am looking
around the room here, I'm looking around and I don't
see anyone in the room here with their hands raised.

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So I've got merry, go round, criminal mastermind and tofu,
and we will combine all of these things together, and
we're gonna get a telescope and we're gonna stare at
the beaver moon. So you don't need a telescope to
stare at the beaver moon. It's right there in front
of you, that big beaver moon right there. So number

(22:22):
wa okay, So answer the question Tua saying that he
is not again, he is not playing to keep the
Dolphins job. You believe him? That would be two letters
N plus oh no, no new. In fact, that is
exactly what a guy would say when he is playing

(22:46):
to keep his job, is it not? Oh, I'm not
playing to keep my job. Want to bet on that
Tua has been throwing like his arm has been buffering
in real time. You know, it's just not quite right.
It's kind of buffering. You're like, what are you doing here?
And it's the spin season. They don't get winter in
South Florida, but it's spin season spin season there. Every

(23:10):
time the numbers go down, down, down, they do the
downward dog. They go south. These cats in Miami they
talk about, you just try to help the team win.
That's all we want to do. We just want to
try to get better. To unscramble this for those that
do not have the trained ear that some of us
do have. If you look at this from an objective standpoint, right,

(23:34):
every time the performance goes down to unscramble it, what
they're saying is I can read the room and it's
not good. So instead, I'm just going to go to
sportscliche dot com, which, oh, by the way, we've contributed
some cliches over the years of sportscliche dot com. So
if you take the malar jumbo jet and put it

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in this sky from thirty thousand feet up and you
look down, you know what this is. It's the Merry
Go Round. The Merry Go Round, The Merry Go Round,
the Merry Go Round. So we are setting ourselves up
for an epic, silly season of reject quarterbacks. If you
enjoy the quarterback shuffle, we are set up pretty pretty

(24:15):
nicely for that, the QB Merry Go Round. So two
us headed towards that, the quarterback carousel. You're starting to
look ahead. We're past the midway point of the NFL season.
Who is going to be in the transfer portal? So
I'm on my big board. Not a list, not a
list to terry in England, not a list on my

(24:36):
big board at this point, right now today, here are
the quarterbacks most likely, most likely that can be yours
if the price is right. So I've got Kyler, Murray,
Alligator Arms, Murray CJ. Stroud. Oh you can't say that, Okay,
ask mister irrigation about that, even I even the terrible

(24:56):
things he sucks. So Murray CJ. Stroud, Trevor Lawrence is
the third quarterback there and Tua Tongue Bai lois number four.
Now if you want number five, number five, If you
want number five, that would be Brock Purty. Oh you
you just signed the condrag. Oh my god. Yeah, I'm

(25:19):
just putting out that the Niners offense hasn't been all
that much worse when Brock Purty hasn't played. That been great,
But they haven't been that much worse. And so it's like, went,
why'd you pay brock party? And if he doesn't come
back and play at a high level, you look at
that in the offseason you say, Okay, can we a
find a sucker to take this dead weight off our hands?

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And b if we do find a sucker who were
going to play at quarterback, do we take one of
these other rejecks. So there's a lot of moving parts
to that. Now back to the Dolphins, right, So for now,
the Dolphins suck and Tua has already got the money,
money man money, one hundred and sixty seven million guaranteed
for a guy that can't play. It's wild, right, I mean,

(26:03):
is there any other business in America other than Wall Street?
I know my business. They don't. They stopped giving raises
years ago, but just in general, like one hundred and
sixty seven million guaranteed, my god, and he never developed.
And the only thing he's developed, I guess is hemorrhoids.
If he sits on the bench for a while to
he's cashing those checks. They backed up a fleet, a

(26:26):
convoy of Brinks trucks, and now they've got a quarterback who,
when he's on top of his game, is a mid
tier quarterback at best. They have a lame dunk, lame
lame duck coach, a guy that you're doing a podcast
about coffee and whatnot. The GM was given a long
walk off a short pier. So the GM's going so

(26:47):
it's no longer fins up. It's fins flop. It's fins flop.
Now as a rule of thumb. When a quarterback has
to tell you that he's not playing to keep his job,
that is a dead dear, What dead dear? What it is?
He's hearing footsteps? And how could you not? How could
you not hear footsteps? If you're to a tongue of

(27:08):
by Lord? Now turning the page, we head to the
peach state of Georgia. We go to Georgia. Trade deadline
of course gone, and they're doing a lot of analyzing
under the microscope of what happened and what didn't happen.
And one of the great failures, one of the great
debacles of the NFL this year, is in Atlanta. I

(27:29):
know Tommy in Atlanta loves this unless he does it.
Tommy used to call well, he used to send messages
in on social media. But then he drives a truck
and they put cameras in the truck so he can't
interact with the show. You can listen, but he can't
interact anyway. Atlanta failed to unload their veteran quarterback, which
everyone assumed the only reason you would bring this guy

(27:49):
back is to trade him, and you didn't do it,
and now you're stuck with him. So the question, how
would you describe Kirk cousins time with the Atlanta Falcons,
which is still going on. The Falcons heading to Germany
to Berlin this weekend to play a game against the Colts.
As America outsources, football bad football Cults aren't bad this year,

(28:13):
but Atlanta's pretty mediocre, all right. So here's the deal.
So after citing Kirk Cousins, they already had their quarterback,
and then they drafted Michael Penick junior after they agreed
to deal with Kirk Cousins, So that made him. That
made Initially Cousins was the starter, and then eventually, obviously

(28:34):
not long after that mid season last year, Michael penneckx
junior took over. Now, Cousins is basically an expensive house plant,
is what. He make sure to water the house plan
every now and again. So the booby prize, the booby
prize in the money pit, Kirk Cousins. You know what
this guy is. They should teach classes someday. They will

(28:56):
teach classes about how to how to pull a fast
one on the people in professional sports. Kirk Cousins is
a criminal mastermind. What are you talking about? He's just
a harmless football player he's a criminal mastermind. He doesn't
wear a hoodie, he doesn't wear a ski mask, he
doesn't have a handgun, he doesn't have a knife, doesn't

(29:19):
have any kind of bloody knuckles or any of that.
And when this is all done, he is likely walking
away at the end of the year with ninety million,
ninety million bucks. And how many starts did the Atlanta
Falcons get. Assuming Cousins doesn't play anymore this year, Pennix
Junior will be back, and he has returned last week.

(29:40):
He'll continue on. So that would be ninety million dollars
for fifteen starts. Now, using malor math, very important, this
Mallard math. Using malar math, that works out the six
million dollars per start. That's assuming he doesn't start another game.
So over a full seventeen game season, we're talking about
one hundred million dollars. That is some serious pork barrel spending,

(30:08):
is what that is, right, that's right out of Capitol Hill.
That's that's DC politics, pork barrel spending. And imagine Arthur Blank.
Now I know he didn't start Home Depot by himself,
but he was one of the early people on Home Depot.
He and a partner. So if Arthur Blank ran home
depot the way he runs his football team, the Atlanta Falcons,

(30:28):
every man, woman and child when they need a two
by four would be going to lows. They wouldn't be
going to home depot because there would be no home depot.
Atlanta essentially said, hey, why don't we pay this guy
as our franchise quarterback and then we're not going to
use him as that. Don't get me wrong, we like him,
but we're gonna have him as our emotional support veteran quarterback. Yeah.

(30:50):
That's that's great. That's how's that going good? Yes? All right?
Brought in a very expensive insurance policy who initially was
not their insurance policy, and then and then started hobbling
around on the field, and before you know it, he
became the insurance policy. All right. Now, final point to
La La Land we go high speed sports wire the

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La Rams announced. The Rams announced this week that they
signed kicker Harrison MeVis to their practice squad. And this
move comes after Joshua Carty cost the Rams a game
by his incompetent slow kick against the Eagles that was
blocked and returned for a touchdown. One of the all
time bad beats gambling on NFL football so bad you

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thought Scary Terry might have been playing in the game.
I kidd because I care anyway. So the Rams have
some special teams issues. They play with forty nine ers
this weekend, always a great NFC West rival. We you
and those teams get together and you look at it.
We know Sean McVay is evaluating outside options. So the

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question is, why would I bring this up? Number one?
Number two? Why should you care? Why should anybody care
about the Rams signing kicker Harrison MeVis to the practice squad.
So I'm gonna tell you why. All right, I'm gonna
tell you why, because this is not your average tofu
eating kicker. This is someone we can get behind. This

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guy's built like a full back. He's the next great
Fat Hope. He's the next great Fat Hope. Harrison MeVis.
He's known as the Thicker Kicker. Now you know that's good.
You know that's a good name, The Thicker Kicker. He's
five eleven, he's listed at two forty, looks fatter than
that and appears if you look at him, he's built

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more like a center on an offensive line, not lining
up for fifty yard field goals or fifty five yard
field goals. So he's basically the buffet line version of
Brandon Aubrey the Cowboys with that booming leg Brandon Aubrey. Well,
he's like that, except he's just fat and he can
actually kick. Some of the numbers are pretty good. Has
had a real opportunity in the NFL. He's been on

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some practice squads and whatnot. He had a cult following
at Missou at Missouri there he's been bouncing around the
Carolina Panthers, the New York Jets, so those aren't really
NFL teams, the UFLS Birmingham Stallions. I would argue the
Stallions are closer to an NFL team than the Jets
at this point. Anyway, The point is get to the point, please.

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So the point is this guy MIVS Harrison Mebs is
now in LA and he's eating at the team facility,
trying to take Joshua Cardy's job away, and I'm here
for it. Kickers are not real football players, so why
not just change it up. The guy's not getting the
job done. The Rams kicker. Some of these dopey power rankings,

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which I don't pay much attention to one of you idiots.
I forget, I forget. I think it was Mike it
it might have been somebody else by this guy. Mike
sends me a lot of stuff, so it might have
been him. I think it was him. Anyway, did you
see Fox Sports come at the rams number one atop
the power ranking? And then I wrote back, whoopie damn

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do one word, and which is more than I usually.
I don't usually right back to anybody. I'm very bad
about that bad I don't usually write back, but I
wrote back, WHOOPI dam do one word because that's my
feeling of that. Whoopye damn do. I say, let the
thicker kicker eat. Let him eat all the delicious meats
and cheeses and all the fruits in the world. Let

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him do it. He can ram it all day, he
can ram it all night at the buffet. I say,
no problem, as long as you kick it through the uprights.
That's it. This guy, because he's fat, the great fat
Hope the thicker kicker talking about Harrison MeVis. This guy's
a sideshow. If he nails a couple of kicks, gets
an opportunity and nails a couple of kicks. It's a

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just add water situation. Just add water and he becomes
an instant folk hero. I catch its. It's like a glitch.
We talked earlier on the Overnight Show about alligator arms,
Kyler Murray the little fella. When you look at Kyler
bur and I've seen him play in person, I think

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twice obviously on TV a lot. When you watch him,
it looks like your TV's broke. It looks like your
TV's broke. It's like, well, why is one of the players.
Is that an avatar? That's not a real person. They
are too small? What's going on with that? So you
have that, and then on the other side, you have

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this kicker, Harrison MeVis, who also in a different way
because he's chubby. He's the thicker kicker. He doesn't look
like a kicker because you expect kickers to be little people,
little fun sized people, but he's not.

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Speaker 1 (35:51):
Let's go, come on, hit that button. Here we are
how about that to the third degree. This is one
big event. Gets grilled right cool Ben?

Speaker 5 (36:01):
We are now in the fifth year of seventeen regular
season games, and it seems every year we talk about
someone who is on pace to break Calvin Johnson's single
season receiving record, but it never happens. This year, the
person on pace is Jackson Smith and Jigba Ben. Do
you think he gets it done?

Speaker 2 (36:15):
No?

Speaker 1 (36:15):
No, My answers always no, because you have a better
chance of winning with no. You have two chances of winning.
You have underperformance and you have injury. If one of
those two things happens, you don't break Calvin Johnson's record.
The only way you break the record is sustained domination
over the course of the season. So I'm gonna go no.
Plus you got Sam Donald. Donald's gonna have a couple

(36:37):
of stickers along the way, guarantee next.

Speaker 5 (36:40):
Retired All Star Charles Oakley made a podcast appearance this
week where he slammed Charles Barkley for being a hypocrite.
Oakley pointed out that Barkley clowns this generation for teaming up,
but Barkley did the same thing when he teamed up
with Hakeem and Scottie Pippen and Houston Ben.

Speaker 4 (36:54):
Does he have a point now?

Speaker 1 (36:55):
Those guys were washed off that's lane. Those guys were
at the end of their careers.

Speaker 5 (36:58):
Next, Turner returned to Indiana for the first time, he
got a chorus of booze. He said after the game,
it was disheartening, frustrating. You give ten years of your life,
your blood, your sweat, your tears. Yeah, good, Ben, question,
were the booze uncalled for?

Speaker 1 (37:10):
Uh? No, list is Miles Turner deserved the booze. He
went to a division rival. He deserved the booze.

Speaker 4 (37:18):
Yeah.

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Speaker 5 (37:32):
It's now time for time for Horry Honey.

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Speaker 1 (37:39):
Now, anyway, we go to ask Ben. Your questions are
answers for the rest of the hour. Over to the
coop for the reading of the questions on a pedestal.

Speaker 4 (37:50):
All right, Ben, this question is from Gunner.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
Let's be riveting. I'm sure it's a great question if
it came from Gunner.

Speaker 5 (37:58):
Well, it's a question I believe we've had in the past,
but I don't know since we've had Lorena.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Or always new people.

Speaker 4 (38:03):
That's true, that is true. The question is what is
your favorite soup?

Speaker 1 (38:09):
So I'm a traditionalist with soup. I love chicken soup.
I love mazza ball soup. As an adult, my palate
I've added like a tomato bisk I like French onion,
big French onion. I would say French onions my number
two Matza ball because I grew up with that, and
then French onion. What about you, Lorena?

Speaker 6 (38:27):
Ooh, it's so hard. I'm a soup girl. I love
soup a Tuscana. I love split pea soup.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
But my Italian do you like Italian wedding singer soup?
Do you like that? No?

Speaker 3 (38:38):
Not really?

Speaker 6 (38:39):
But one of my favorite soups is like a good
creamy mushroom soup. Corn chowder. Oh stop.

Speaker 5 (38:50):
Cool, I think I gotta go. Probably clam chowder is
my favorite all time. But French onions up there as well.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
You didn't see chatta you.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
Problem chotta chota chowder.

Speaker 6 (39:04):
I do a little good lobster bisk too.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
It's not Lops's lobsterock lapstack'. So a lot of T
shirts and those gift shops in Portland, Maine. They say lapstock.
All right, what's next? What do we have here?

Speaker 5 (39:15):
A fird dog would like to know. Hi, Fergie, what
do you put on your hot dogs? Just mustard for me,
That's what ferd dog said.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
Uh No. I when I go to Costco and I
get the Costco hot dog dollar fifty Costco hot dog
and drink, I will I will go mustard, ketchup mustard.
I'll do a little dot little dot dot dot dot
dot polka dot is what I do. So I have
both larena.

Speaker 6 (39:40):
Yeah, I get. I like a lot of flavor varieties.
So I'll actually split my hot dog in half. I'll
do mustard on one side and then on the other side,
I'll do ketchup in relish. Yeah, maybe I did across
the whole thing for.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Funion is not terrible cool.

Speaker 4 (39:56):
I had a Costco hot dog for lunch yesterday.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Planes a lot congratulations.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
What does that mean? Anyway?

Speaker 5 (40:04):
I went with ketchup and mustard like you Ben back
when Costco still did the onions.

Speaker 4 (40:09):
I did put onions on. There was I missed.

Speaker 6 (40:11):
They don't have onions anymore, they do, not know.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
Some locations do, but not really. Some locations yeah, not
here though, that's the problem. All right, what's next? We
go to the one Vancouver coop. They got everything at
the one in Vancouver. Okay, all right, I'm gonna move
to Vancouver just for the costco right across from the
NHL arena. There they have the greatest costco. What's next?
What do we have here?

Speaker 5 (40:31):
Lady Sideburns wants Lady Sideburns. I think we've had this
discussion before. I don't know if it was on this
show or a different show, but I want to know.
When using a public toilet, do you line the seat
with toilet paper or is your ass making direct content
contact with the latrine?

Speaker 1 (40:47):
Yeah? I use two of those seat covers because one's not.
I have a big ass, so I use two of them.
So I go, I'm gonna I double up on that, Lorena.

Speaker 6 (40:56):
I actually mount the toilet and.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
Squat over.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
It.

Speaker 1 (41:05):
You're very athletic, Lorraina, You're much more athletic than me.
I tried that one time. It made for a great podcast.
It also made quite the best what about you coop?
Bare ass, bare ass?

Speaker 4 (41:18):
I wipe it down first, and then I just said,
you know, you're an animal.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
You're an animal. Go to some of those truck stops
in New Jersey. You see if you do that next?

Speaker 5 (41:26):
Yeah, quickly, quick, all right, you are going to an
adult car You're invited to an adult costume party.

Speaker 4 (41:32):
Mandatory to wear costume. What are you dressing up as?

Speaker 1 (41:34):
Man? That's kind of an odd question. There's nothing better
than that. I dressed up as a cowboy. I had
to go to a party a couple of weeks ago
with there's a cowboy lorrain, A quick eys, A magical unicorn.
Cool an actor, please,