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August 12, 2024 • 37 mins

Ben Maller talks about Anthony Richardson's performance for the Colts on Sunday, Colts RB Jonathan Taylor being one of a handful of players to wear a guardian cap during the game, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, it's our num bird two, our
two ready to go. It's all football, all the time
here on the Original Recipe podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
And so here in our number two we go.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
To Indianapolis and Denver exhibition football over the weekend. How
would you sum up quarterback Anthony Richardson's performance for the
Colts as he's back from a shoulder injury. Also, Indies
star running back Jonathan Taylor was one of a handful
of players but the biggest name by far to wear
a Guardian cap during game action.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Doing it for the Colts. Your thoughts on that?

Speaker 1 (00:37):
And what is your knee jerk reaction to Bo Nicks
and a stellar performance for the Broncos in his first
time out in a practice football game. We'll talk about
that and more right now, give it up for our
number two. It was a jolt of a cult. Well, gum,

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Speaker 2 (02:18):
We'll go to Indy.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Why not.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
If I watched it, I'm gonna talk about it.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
So another storyline as we continue our in depth team coverage,
not real football but practice football. But another storyline is
about injuries, players coming back from injuries in the NFL.
Quarterbacks coming back from injuries. You've got Kirk Cousins who
was hurt in Minnesota, but now he's in Atlanta. He's
coming back. You've got other quarterbacks that are dinged up

(02:45):
little alligator arms Murray there in Arizona's Coming Back for
an example. Another one of those quarterbacks returning from a
mangled shoulder is the star of Jim Ursey's favorite NFL team.
That would be anti Any Richardson, who was a prodigy
at Florida Wink wink, nod nod of the big bad

(03:08):
Southeastern Commerce. But Anthony Richardson is back. He was in
uniform on Sunday well dress rehearsal for the Colts. They
played the Broncos. Don't know if he saw this game
or not. Maybe you were not partaking, perhaps you missed it.
But Richardson tagged as the forever quarterback, going to say
forever the next few years for the Indianapolis football team.

(03:31):
And he played, and how did he do? A rusty
Pelican or in this case, a rusty Colt there against
the Denver defense. A lot of backups were playing there.
It was a practice game debut. He attempted four passes,
completed two of them for twenty five yards.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
He also had one rushing yard.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
One that's it, and it was an unsatisfactory performance. It
was one game, few passes and all that Ria Richardson
also got away with a throw that should have would
have could have been intercepted the old wounded duck. But
let us discuss the question, how would you sum up

(04:16):
the return of Anthony Richardson his performance there for the
colster first.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Peak at Anthony Richardson back in uniform.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
So I've got Dave Chappelle error code and British singer
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make some x's and o's is
what we're going to make. So numb bur how you
jumping on numb burwa?

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Stop? Anthony Richardson look like he had no legs underneath it, right,
no legs underneath then I even sea legs. I guess
that's the way you would describe it there, wobbly mist prone.
That was how he was, and there was only a
few passes, but that was how he was supposed to look.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Last year.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
He actually looked much better than we thought he was
going to look when he played in the handful of
games before snap crackle pop popped up on the resume there.
But these exhibition games are a work out the kink situation,
and there's a lot of work to be done for
the coaching genius Shane Steichen, the offensive guru in Indianapolis,

(05:27):
the head coach there. He did not hit the ground
running Anthony Richardson fair to say, I think we can
all agree on that, and now you cannot make any
formal conclusions based on a handful of passes in the
first practice football game. But Richardson did look zonked in
limited duty. We know that, we saw it. We saw
what we saw Richardson. It's like the old one of

(05:50):
the old Dave Chappelle movies in his early days in
the nineties there half baked. He's not close to being
the finished product here. I know that was a movie
about weed, but just go with it. So it's a
quagmire for the Colts because for him to play for
Anthony Richardson, to play up to what they thought they
were getting, he has to run with wild a bandit, right,

(06:11):
He has to run all over the place. But he's
going to get hurt. So it is a quagmire for
the Colts and Richardson. If he does not stay healthy.
The backup option is jump ball.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Joe.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Joe Flacco is sitting there, thirty nine year old Joe
Flacco turned forty. If the Colts are able to play
into January, and he's the backup option there in Indianapolis.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Gardner minshewit walking through that door. He's with our Raiders.
We'll talk more about that as we go through the night.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
But now page two here, speaking of the Horseshoes, their
opponent here, we'll get to them in a minute of
the Broncos, but the Guardians of the Galaxy before we
get there. Guardians of the Galaxy, not the baseball team,
the Guardians.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
We're just a.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Couple months after the NFL said, you know what, we're
good will allow you Yahoo's to wear this, this padded
thing atop your helmet.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
It's it's wild, it's happening.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
NFL approving the players wearing in regular season games the
Guardian cap. Now we saw the first star player. Maybe
there are some other ones I missed it, but the
first one that I saw that wore it. It that someone
we've heard of is Jonathan Taylor. That's a running back,
Jonathan Taylor, and he was one of a handful of

(07:27):
players most nondescript flotsam and jessm you never heard of him,
but he's one we've heard of and he was wearing
that Guardian cap in game action. This is the the
padded thing that goes over the helmet, so you still
wear the helmet, but then you get the thing on
top of it. But now they put the they put
the little wrap around it to make it seem like
it's legit, and it's like the helmet and the whole thing.

(07:48):
So your thoughts on this becoming normal?

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Dare I say normal in the NFL? So the first
thought I have not pleasing to the eye.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
It's not as outrageous as it had been because they
put the little wrap on top of it. It's like
you get your car wrapped and that wrap to make
it look critical. It's that kind of thing, so it
doesn't look as bad. It still stands out. It's not
pleasing to the eye. That's the main takeaway there. The
NFL is using also a small sample size, and they've

(08:20):
determined that it's effective based on a small sample size.
It's all about the health and safety mandate, which is
another code for don't sue us. We don't want to
pay our lawyers, so because of liability, we're going with this.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Just believe in us.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Just like the water in Perie is safe, go swimming,
knock yourself out. We've spent a billion and a half
dollars and you're good to go. Now if you end
up in the hospital, well you know it happens. But
either way, you know, we're skeptics about how effective this.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Is going to be.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
We can confirm, though we can't confirm. It looks like
an error code, not as bad as it did look
without the shell on top of it. But it it's
like a glitch, but not a good kind of glitch
in a video game, like what was that that helmet
a little bit bigger? What's going on? Something went kurfluy
and it is impossible. And one one thing I know

(09:15):
about doing overnight radio, you have a lot of bizazz.
There's a lot of rasthmatas when you do overnight radio,
just one.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Of the cool people when you do it.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
And when you when you have that, it's very difficult,
like as a football player, to have any kind of
aura or swag when you're wearing the guardian helmet protector thing,
whatever they call it, it's very difficult. It is the
NFL's equivalent to a kick me sign, Like you know
how you tape that put a little scotch tape and

(09:44):
tape it to somebody's back. Yeah, kick me. That's essentially
what it is, right, And that's it's gonna take a
lot of time for this to become a normal situation.
And will it ever become a normal situation, because how
many players are actually going to do it because from
most guys, they don't want any part of this. Now,
when I was younger, I was a kid, there was
a guy in the Buffalo Bills named Steve Tasker who

(10:06):
had a giant, oversized helmet and there were reasons for it,
but it wasn't the guardian, didn't call it Guardian helmet
or whatever. He had that and he stood out and
everyone knew where he was in the field. He was
a great special teams player in his era, and people were.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Like, whoa, what's going on? They pointed to that guy,
all right.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Final point back to the practice action, practice game action,
not a real game, not a real game, a practice game.
Because for the Denver side of things, everyone's going gaga
for the performance of their quarterback. The guy that was
overdrafted by most accounts, the draftnicks said, what are you doing?

(10:42):
Why would you draft this guy? Why would you make
a trade. Why would you get there? So what is
your knee jerk reaction to bow Knicks old Oregon and
Alabama quarterback and his stellar performance and at practice game
against the Indianapolis defense.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
So how can you not be impressed?

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Four scoring drives bo Nicks led the Broncos on and
some initial thoughts on this it was like a British
singer shade a smooth operator. But you wonder how much
of that is just playing backups and it's the exhibition game,
and what's gonna happen when the real games begin and
we know we've been burned. We don't want to be

(11:24):
burned again.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
It's a much different animal once the real situation pops up.
So he was.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Relaxed, He was not overwhelmed. Looked to me, Maybe I'm
wrong on this, but it looked like the Broncos ran
a similar dumb down offense to what Peyton had done
last year with Russell Wilson, and to the credit of
bo Nicks, he ran that very well. How much of
that is him, how much of that is the play calling,
how much of that is the fact the Colts were

(11:50):
not fully engaged on defense, and he wouldn't perfect he
was better than Jared Stidham, who did have a tipped
in to begin that game. But it seemed to me
like one of those situations where the Broncos were just
spoon feeding high percentage throws for the most part.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
To bow Nicks, and he was able to get the
job done. So good for him. It's encouraging.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
You always have to put the disclaimer on that it's
August football and we'll see what happens in a couple
weeks when the real season begins.

Speaker 5 (12:24):
Here.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
But the vanilla wafers of the dessert cart, right, that's
the exhibition football. Not a lot of thought goes into it.
It's more of a nuisance and an inconvenience than anything.
But when someone plays well, you're like, okay again, we've
got to do the show right now. And bo Nix
would be the guy that stood out over the weekend.
He's in that handful of players. They're like, oh, that's

(12:44):
pretty good. It is the Ben Mahler Show. We'll get
to a bunch of your calls. I see you lined up.
If you'd like to be part though, there's a line
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It's Ben Maler, Mark, the full name guy who was
on the air last hour. He's still complaining. All the
guy does is complain. I then go ahead and get
a life, my guy, what's wrong with you? And he's
saying I lie about Blake Snell. I didn't lie about
Blake Snell. The guy soft. He couldn't handle it. Tampa
Bay would have won that game, would have won the

(14:56):
World Series if Blake Snell had balls. He's got no balls.
That's a fact. You can't handle it. Because you're a
Giants fan and you like the guy on your team,
you suck. And by the way, nobody wanted him at
the trade the line the Giants were.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
They were dying to trade him. All they wanted was
a decent return.

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the guys like. That guy's a loser. He's a loser,
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Shame on you. Robin Vegas has random comment where has
whoopee Pie Blair been? Yeah, I don't know. He calls

(15:35):
in sporadically. I don't know what's going on with him,
but I know we have a lot of uh. And
I actually did visit Maine briefly. I did not go
all the way up because he's like a three or
four hour drive up in Maine.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
I didn't go that far.

Speaker 6 (15:50):
Uh.

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But yeah, he's like the Native son. They love him.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Late night drug He didn't call very often anymore. Late
night drug tests is when I heard Guardian.

Speaker 5 (15:58):
Oh yeah, good, you gotta have.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
I was expecting a preview of the Twins Royals series
of who was going to take first place?

Speaker 2 (16:07):
From Cleveland. Let's go to the phones.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Blind Scott is on the how does he have a
golden ticket. He's a fraud. He doesn't have a golden Ticketts.

Speaker 7 (16:19):
What's that I've he won mallage amount of money.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
I don't remember that last week.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
I don't remember that that was I didn't nobody really
won that.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
We all lost Miami.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Danny, I'm told I have to take you because you
have a golden ticket, which I think is a counterfeit
golden ticket.

Speaker 4 (16:37):
No, no, I no, I'm the one who beat blind Scott. Actually,
but no, I want to get kind of back to
my roots when I first started calling. And it's going
to be college football, which I know you don't care about.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
But no, that's not true. We just it doesn't work
for the schedule that we're on. We're not on on Saturdays,
when most of the college football games are played.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
I know, but you personally you don't care about college football.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
But that's not true. That's I watch college football.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
I don't talk about it because because of the schedule
of the show. NFL No, you can't, because you're making
a terrible point. The NFL is more important than college football.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
It is.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Well, and you, by the way, left a college football
town to go to Miami, which is not a college
football town.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
Can I speak no ironically. No, I was going to
ask you about the NIL. I assume you support the
whole like nil paying players.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
Thing, right, Yes, they've always paid players. I'm fine with it.
I don't care. They make hand gobs and gobs of money.
Good for them, why not not my problem?

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Good for them?

Speaker 4 (17:39):
No, No, A good example. So Tennessee's nineteen year old quarterback.
I looked it up. I looked it up tonight. He
would be the seventh highest paid player on your rams.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
Like right now, okay, what's the problem with that eight
eight million dollars?

Speaker 5 (17:54):
No?

Speaker 9 (17:55):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (17:55):
That's great. But that's my whole point. Like you're saying,
college football is like not on the level of the
NFL at this.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Point, But it isn't. It's not in the zeitgeist.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
It is not. It is not not even the SEC,
not the not two conferences, the SEC and the Big Ten.

Speaker 7 (18:10):
That's not even close.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
Making eight million dollars, that's more than most.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
Yes, because your boosters are horny to win, and they
pay the quarterback.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Who's nineteen years old.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
So the Browns.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Okay, what do you want me to say?

Speaker 5 (18:26):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Just no, matter how many times you call up, it's not.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
You're not going to change the way the world that. Yeah,
the NFL is more important than college football.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
That's just the way it is.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
And it's the junior varsity to the n Not in
the South, Yes, you're in You're in the South in Miami.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
College football does not matter in Miami.

Speaker 4 (18:50):
Miami is not the South. Miami.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Miami is not that. Okay, I'm looking at the I'm
looking at the map here.

Speaker 4 (18:56):
Let's see Miami Cuba.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
Miami is Miami's Q, but is basically the South is like,
why why are you living.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
My girlfriend?

Speaker 1 (19:06):
But you always chased women forever a tough guy. You're
always following women around.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
What's up with that? Why don't the women follow you around?
How come the women don't follow you around? What's up
with that?

Speaker 4 (19:16):
Man?

Speaker 9 (19:17):
Long? The problem here?

Speaker 2 (19:19):
You kept calling up. That's why you waited a long time.
You kept calling up. You were you hanging up?

Speaker 1 (19:23):
And you call back?

Speaker 4 (19:24):
No, Coup hung up on me?

Speaker 2 (19:26):
Did you hang up on this guy? Coop Nope, says
he did not hang out.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
You're lying.

Speaker 8 (19:30):
Yeah, lie, another lie from him, just like the fat
sounds No, No, you can't tell.

Speaker 4 (19:37):
Yes, what I was gonna say. First of all, day,
but Rana needs to play the jerk yourself away drop
more often.

Speaker 10 (19:44):
The other thing I was going to say was that.

Speaker 4 (19:48):
Tennessee had sucked for a decade, but then as soon
as it was legal to play to pay players, all
of a sudden, the top ten now like every year. Okay,
so that kind a prudish.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
First of all, I'll never forget My favorite call of
yours was when you told me that John Gruden was
having a chicken was a chicken with Peyton Manning at
a restaurant in Knoxville. Right, Yes, I still remember that
phone call John grudenskause it's such a ridiculous take, Eddie.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
It was so ridiculous.

Speaker 8 (20:19):
I still remember that ridiculousness of the callers of the show.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Is my mind is filled with these idiots, their comments.

Speaker 9 (20:26):
What ten more seconds? Uh?

Speaker 6 (20:30):
One?

Speaker 5 (20:31):
Quickly, okay, quickly.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
Bruden is a little consultant with the cheese.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
He's all right, ted, tech, come on ten seconds? He hello,
Now to a man who came out in the rain,
A blind guy who in the rain showed up there
with his dog, Cramer. And because it was just like
in front of his house. So that's probably why a

(20:55):
blind Scott from the North end of Boston. Hello Blind Scott.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
Hey Ben.

Speaker 9 (21:00):
Yeah, it was great meeting you. I had all these
questions prepared if I ever met your wife, and I
had a chance to meet there, and I had questions ready.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (21:09):
It was great because you were busy talking to the
other people, so I got to ask us some of
the questions.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
That is true, you I was distracted with the other
people and you were. You were fully engaged. I like
that you wore the Dodger hat. I don't know if
you realized it, but you did have a Dodger hat.

Speaker 9 (21:23):
Yeah, because it was so wet out, I grabbed a hat.
My hair was going to get real messed up, you know.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, I was. I was saying about taking everyone inside
the bakery, but there was like a security guy out
in front, so I don't know that he wanted all
of us to go into the baker.

Speaker 8 (21:37):
Security guy in front of the bakery, you know, Yeah,
it was a security guy.

Speaker 9 (21:41):
So here's the thing. The whole mean greet was caught
on a surveillance camera. I could get the tape of it.
But we were connected. We were standing to the right.
They were kicking everybody out, but they knew we were connected,
so they didn't bother us. But we could have gone
in Bobus, but Dylan would have shook offs in there
and everything. I didn't want to bother that.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Dylan, let me tell you much.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
And yeah, ironically one of the other gentlemen that was
there was named Dylan as well. But your dog Dylan
very calm, not Kramer attack dog. Dylan just sits back, relax, mellow, mellow, Dylan,
very mellow.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
I like Dylan.

Speaker 9 (22:15):
You know what would have happened if Kramer was there.
He would have tried to eat everybody's pastreets as they
were leaving Bolvis. I was thinking that when I was
waiting for you and then Ben. You know, I did
a twenty five minute spot on the Sports Hub this
one and I mentioned you. I don't think anybody heard it.
It was at seven am on Sunday morning.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yes, it's a tough time seven am to listen.

Speaker 9 (22:34):
Yeah. I think I have a good enough demo tape
now where I could fill in on your show when
you're away.

Speaker 4 (22:39):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (22:40):
Blind Scott and Eddie could do the show it together,
that's a dynamic do it.

Speaker 9 (22:44):
Yeah, I think I think Larina and Eddie could do
it together. Loraina just grabbed a newspaper, you know, the
old sports newspaper.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
Well that's very Loraina. Do you know what a newspaper is?

Speaker 11 (22:56):
Yes, I have one that's been in front of my
garage door for about three now.

Speaker 9 (23:02):
There were radio guys that would read off the sports
page to do radio shows. It's like low level see
one thing, Nashville, Ga. He doesn't get it. I was
telling you, wife, this your national sports radio. You're going
to do national stories. You can't do some little story
from you know whatever. It makes no sense. I would saying,
that's what gets you, that's what gets you into so
much trouble. She was saying, she disagrees with you sometimes

(23:24):
I'd like to hear the disagreements. But one thing that
I'd like to say about Ben that people don't realize
about Ben is Ben is really good to his wife.
He's really good to his wife's mother too, and people
don't know that.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
I think I'm a smug all right, I got to go.
You're embarrassing me. Now he's saying nice things about me.
I was great seeing you and very nice. We'll do
it again sometimes, So thank you Scott. There's the great
blind Scott and his dog Creamer there walked down. I
got a blind guy in the rain to walk. You know,

(24:00):
been to the North End of Boston?

Speaker 2 (24:01):
It is I have not. You've been to Boston?

Speaker 9 (24:05):
I have not?

Speaker 2 (24:07):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (24:09):
The Patriots haven't played the Chargers?

Speaker 8 (24:11):
And well it's Foxboro and Boston from what I understand.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Or not suburbs that close. It's like I told you,
I told you this before. It's about missus Garcia. It's you.
She wants to go no control over anything where you go.
I have v I have veto power.

Speaker 8 (24:25):
But you know, there's a certain list of cities that
she wants to visit or doesn't want to visit it,
and Boston is not really on the list.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
That's one of a great Italian food there. I was
in Boston for something I don't know. I went to Finnway.
I loved Boston. It was awesome. The North End though,
you went to the North End, right, that's all the
Italian restaurants. I did not go to Italian restaurant. Why
would you not go to an Italian restaurant because there's
Italian food you can get outside Italy there.

Speaker 7 (24:50):
Now, Scott Scott said, it's all bs.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
That you can't even see the food, was he not?

Speaker 11 (24:56):
He it was great, but no, he was like, he's like,
you've been to Italy and this is all just like
marked up expensive.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
Everything is marked up. Yes, I got gouged. I ate
several Italian meals. He got just it's terrible.

Speaker 7 (25:13):
But I had a lobster roll in the North End
and that was fantastic.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Through the seafood and I'm not partaking the seafood. It's
just not Are they not close to the ocean, Yeah,
that's right on the earth.

Speaker 7 (25:26):
Oh then what's the problem with the seafood.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
Seafood believe in seafood, taste fishy, lorena. I don't like that.

Speaker 11 (25:32):
It was the best lobster roll I've ever had, so
much lobster, so buttery, so delicious.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
You got to go to Maine for the real thing, I.

Speaker 11 (25:41):
Must say, though, best canola I've ever had, including Italy,
was in the North End in Boston.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
Wonderful cream puff.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
There in Boston at the bakery there, wonderful of.

Speaker 5 (25:50):
Several baker Be sure to catch live editions of The
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Speaker 8 (25:57):
I see another Dodger's picture is gone down for the
year of an injury. River Ryan season is over.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
We'll never hear from this guy.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
What happened to River Ryan? Where does the River Ryan run?

Speaker 5 (26:12):
Nowhere?

Speaker 2 (26:12):
That's where?

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Nowhere?

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Yes, River Ryan? And again I do my ran. I
feel I've been filled in a lot.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Recently on the local station, which is the Dodger flash. Well, no,
not reason. I was away this past weekend. But I've
done the same rant for the last couple of months,
and I've been like with the Dodgers. Every one of
these pictures, they limit the amount of pitches, the innings,
the games, and it works and they all get hurt.

(26:41):
So why are you doing that.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
This?

Speaker 1 (26:44):
But he actually agrees with me on that. Well, he
actually agrees with me on that point. Now the rainer
for summer, she opened the door very quietly, and now
she's like tiptoeing into the main city for some reason.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
Just to read this copy on the air of the
rain would you like that.

Speaker 9 (27:01):
Sometime eventually in the next three hours.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
In the next three hours, this seems like generic copy
to me?

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Is this generic copy?

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yes, there's no name. Now okay, wins.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
Do we know who won the tires? And we don't
know who won the tires? Does anyone know who won
the tires? Didn't know? We don't know? All right?

Speaker 1 (27:19):
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with a set of four.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
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The timing reasons, We'll hold off on the fun fact
right now because we we dominate the blind listeners. We

(28:10):
have another blind listener right now chiming, and we say
hello to blind Emmett, the Seahawk fan who we've not
spoken to him sometime. Hello, blind Emmett. He blew me off.

Speaker 10 (28:21):
What's going on, Big Ben?

Speaker 1 (28:22):
How are you doing?

Speaker 2 (28:24):
I wonder what happened to you? Blind him? And we've
not talked to you in a while.

Speaker 10 (28:28):
Uh, you know, I've just kind of been doing like
my own thing. I was on vacation for a while,
visiting family and then you know, hanging out with people.
But you know, I'm back on the show. You know,
gonna got to give you my words. Ben, how's a
how's everything going for you? I mean I heard that
the stinking genius kind of ran your wallets dry.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
But yeah, you'd think if I made the effort to
drive all the way to Burlington, Vermont, which is not
close to anything, that he would buy the meal. And
he all of a sudden he got alligator arms when
the check came and he didn't want to pay for
the meal. He got those alligator arms. Little Arnie about
Ernie the alligator Arnie, that could be his new nickname,

(29:06):
Arnie the Alligator.

Speaker 10 (29:08):
Alligator Arnie the plank was in earlier. He was like, yes,
if you're not paying for my lunch, I'm not going
to drive out there.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
Yeah, no, exactly. Well, I'll never visit him again. Uh,
he didn't buy the food. It's terrible.

Speaker 10 (29:19):
You guys even go to another hot tub either. I
mean it was just a.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Bad I don't think they're allowed in Vermont. I don't
think you didn't have a hot cub in your run.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
I mean a lot of farms though, A lot of farms,
a lot of cows, a lot of that.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (29:33):
Yeah, man, I just gotta say, though, I'm I'm getting
tired of this brain. It was like the dude thinks
he's like, he's like, oh, I don't want to play
for the Browns. It's like, obviously, because you're probably one
of the best spots he could be in the NFL
right now, Like you got you got the talent around you.
I'm the forty nine ers, So I don't know what
he's doing. I think that the Niners, they're they're probably

(29:56):
gonna end up getting a deal done. But it's just like, dude,
you really like complaining, Like I'm starting to be iu
Cater even more than I already was, Like I'm starting to.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Be like the first of all, the problem is he's
on that team. The way they run that team, he's
the fourth option.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Right.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
I mean if you were saying McCaffrey's the number one option,
and then for me it's Deebo Samuel's number two, and
then Kittle when he's right, is number three. So that
would mean using malor Matt that Brandon Iyock's the number
four option.

Speaker 10 (30:26):
So it was like, Okay, you don't want to go
to Browns or the Patriots that you're the number one option,
especially in New England. I mean it's a bunch of
door downs.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Well, they suck. The Patriots are terrible. That is a
bad that's.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
A good point.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah, they don't even and they don't even. They drafted
a quarterback with the third pick in the draft and
they played him like a handful of player. They don't
even trust the guy. They were worried he was gonna
puke all over himself. They didn't want to throw him
out there to play like Bo Nicks went out there
and played a good chunk of the game because the
Broncos trust him. The Patriots don't trust their guy. And

(31:00):
he was drafted third overall.

Speaker 10 (31:02):
Yeah, I mean that's crazy. And then that you know,
the Patriots had a double down on it and draft
the quarterback in the sixth round. So you know, like, okay,
if well, if you know this Drake with Drake may
don't work out, then we got the Dollar Tree version
of our quarterback. So I don't think they try.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
All right, Well, blind Em, don't be a stranger. And
where you don't go any more vacations? All right, it's
football season's beginning. He can't go on vacation.

Speaker 10 (31:22):
Sure, it's the oh football season. It's my time to shine.
I'm trying and get my podcast started again, and got
to redo my desk.

Speaker 9 (31:30):
And then good enough.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yeah, well there you go. There's a blind Emmett podcast. Extraordinary.
So the Olympics are done, skis it's all over Team USA.
One some video of Lebron being a douche to some
kid in Paris. I don't know what that's all about,
but several of you have sent it to me. But
that's not what I'm here to talk about. Tyrese Halliburton,

(31:53):
he he had a great reaction. Now he gets an
Olympic gold medal being part of Team USA and all
that they win. And he pointed out, he says, when
you ain't do nothing on the group project and you
still get an A and that's how he described his
Olympic experience getting a gold medal. Haliburton played a total
of three games for the American squad. He played a

(32:16):
total of twenty six minutes. He had eight total points.
Eight is enough and yets gold medal and can talk
about to future generations of the Halliburton family, how the
kid from Wisconsin won a gold medal by scoring eight
more points than you and I scored combined. We're gonna

(32:37):
have Mallard of the third degree. That is straight ahead.
Time Now for the Insta trivia. Mariner cal Raley now
has the third most dingers by a primary catcher within
their first four MLB seasons. He trails only Mike Piazza,
who's the all time home run king for a catcher
in their first four years. And blank, that is the
Insta trivia the answer.

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Speaker 1 (33:32):
We'd like to alert all the affiliates we will have
new commercials recording session. Yeah, we'll have that coming up
for you, so someone look forward to. We love that
most important part of the show is the commercials. Everything
else sucks. The commercials are great. Love them, love them,
love them. Here's the insta trivia. Mariner cal Rally now

(33:53):
has the third most dingers by a primary catcher within
their first four MLB seasons, trailing Mike Piazza, Who's get
the most in the first four years as a catcher?

Speaker 2 (34:04):
And a blank?

Speaker 1 (34:05):
That is the question. What is the answer? Let's see
does anyone know the answer? We go to the Great
Unwashed Corky Miller. Guests by Jordan ron Kittle from Mister
Nice Guy? Who else do we have? Page nine? Paige
down Plexico Burus who is forty seven today from The
Late Night Drug Tester Mickey Tailton. Guest by Ike and Roseville, Minnesota,

(34:28):
Jared Sualta Lamachia from Alf the Alien. O Piner says
Jared Sothlamachia married his high school pe teacher a year
after graduating.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
How about that fun fact?

Speaker 1 (34:41):
Bobby Bonds from Sheen of des Moines, Norm Sherry from
I forty Ian Wow, John Cena, you can't see Me
from Rob in Vegas, Carlos Hernandez guest by Double Ow
Mexican and San Diego Fluttershy from the King Rory.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Who else do you have?

Speaker 1 (34:59):
Paige Dan Johnny Bench from malor prop Guy Eddie. Do
you have an answer? It's not Charles Johnson Marlon Legend
from Kyle.

Speaker 8 (35:10):
No, but it was a different guy who used to
play for the Dodgers.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
That would be.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Paul Duca Paul Laducah. Is it Paul Laduka?

Speaker 5 (35:17):
No?

Speaker 2 (35:18):
Isn't correct? Answer that he is the Great Rudy York.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
From The Nay York Yeah, from York Peppermint Patty Fan
Rudy Dorky, Yes, the York Peppermint Penny.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
Yeah. Here we go, we go?

Speaker 1 (35:32):
How about.

Speaker 5 (35:36):
This is one big gets grill.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
That's the porn version. Now, Coop, what do we have here?

Speaker 11 (35:42):
Coop three of the top rookie quarterbacks in the class
made their debut on Saturday, with Caleb Williams, Jays Daniels,
and JJ McCarthy all impressing on the field.

Speaker 7 (35:53):
Yeah, Ben, whose performance was the most encouraging.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Well, the most would be JJ McCarthy because the current
start is by default Sam Darnold in Minnesota. But bow Knicks,
I know you didn't include him because he didn't play
on Saturday, But I thought bo Nicks looked wonderful for
your Yeah, Denver Broncos and what I saw dumped down offense.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
It look good right next pass this edition?

Speaker 1 (36:17):
All right, all right, I got I could no.

Speaker 11 (36:26):
Bobby Bobby Witt Junior is having one of the best
seasons in Kansas City Royal's history.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (36:31):
Do you think he can catch Aaron Judge in the
MVP race? So cane?

Speaker 1 (36:34):
He yes? Will he know? Because of that medium machine
in the Big Apple, it's not gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Next.

Speaker 11 (36:42):
Joel Embiid everybody hated him in France because he was
supposed to play for France next year he said he
might play for Cameroon.

Speaker 7 (36:48):
Do you think he's gonna get hate in LA.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
Twenty twenty eight? Yes, if he's not wearing the home
country flag.

Speaker 7 (36:55):
Boo his ass, How did we do you passed?

Speaker 1 (36:58):
That's a Knicks. Here we go, Bo, here we go,
bow Knicks, Eddie. That's the key to winning this game, Bo,
Knicks
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