Speaker 1: Kabooms.
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Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere.
Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g live
Speaker 3: on tape from Radio Row Viva Las Vegas.
Speaker 4: Hello, Danny, Hey there, Ben. I just want to start
Speaker 4: by saying I'm here courtesy of Bounty.
Speaker 3: Yes, it is hilarious. The first thing I saw, I've
Speaker 3: been up all night, Danny. I did the overnight show
Speaker 3: and then drove the sunrise over the desert out in
Speaker 3: Barstow what ever. But I came into the Radio Row
Speaker 3: area and the first thing I saw was it was
Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins. And then he was followed by a posse
Speaker 3: of people with bowls.
Speaker 4: Of chicken fingers. Yeah yeah, and they're slathered in sauce
Speaker 4: and they've been coming to the main stage. Here we're
Speaker 4: at Radio Row, by the way, live in Las Vegas.
Speaker 3: Yes, Las Vegas, wages, Nevada. I will be making a
Speaker 3: donation to the economy here before I leave. I'm not
Speaker 3: here long, Danny, but I will be making a donation.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Friday is the day where the foot traffic just
Speaker 4: goes insane.
Speaker 1: Last last chance, right.
Speaker 4: This is yeah? Yeah. And so walking in seeing the
Speaker 4: big time pro athletes talking items and products, it's pretty interesting.
Speaker 4: We're going to have a couple of big time athletes
Speaker 4: this weekend today.
Speaker 1: You don't know who's going to stop by, right, You
Speaker 1: have no idea.
Speaker 4: You never know. We're kind of lying because we have
Speaker 4: a little bit of an idea. Well we have.
Speaker 3: They handed us a piece of paper here, but whether
Speaker 3: they actually show up or not.
Speaker 4: I was going to say no, I was going to
Speaker 4: say I saw the Twitter traffic last night from your
Speaker 4: live show and it reminded me. I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: that's right, Ben is on the air right now. Yes,
Speaker 4: And then how long did that drive take you together?
Speaker 3: H Well, I mean there wasn't any traffic because there
Speaker 3: were many people on the road at the I'm okay
Speaker 3: with my wife and I drove to Barstow, which is
Speaker 3: the halfway point, as you know, from La to Vegas,
Speaker 3: was the Del Taco still open?
Speaker 4: Uh? No, we were going to go to the Del Tiger.
Speaker 4: She wanted to.
Speaker 1: She actually ate. I'm on a fast, so I haven't
Speaker 1: eaten yet.
Speaker 3: But it's been crazy because we did the TV show
Speaker 3: yesterday and this is it, Danny, the last weekend of
Speaker 3: Benny Versus the Penny airing today. I know this podcast
Speaker 3: is going up late, but this is it. We did
Speaker 3: the entire season, twenty one weeks of television.
Speaker 4: When the TV show started, you and I predicted that
Speaker 4: you guys would be out on your ass by week eight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we thought probably maybe week three because the first
Speaker 3: episode took about twenty five hours to tape. It was
Speaker 3: ridiculous how long the first one took. And then it's
Speaker 3: gotten it's gotten better, but it's been great, and so
Speaker 3: we did that.
Speaker 4: We wrapped the show up.
Speaker 3: Me and Looney recorded on it on Thursday, and then
Speaker 3: you know, did the overnight show. It took a nap
Speaker 3: and here we are hanging out and I know over
Speaker 3: the weekend. I will save some of the stories to
Speaker 3: the Saturday podcast about because you've been here all week.
Speaker 4: It feels like two weeks because just to get here
Speaker 4: was insane. With a monsoon that was in La it
Speaker 4: took the staff an extra day to get into Las Vegas.
Speaker 4: We were sitting at the Bob Hope Airport, Covino Rich
Speaker 4: Hope Airport. Yeah, thank and you'll love this. Kiermo of
Speaker 4: the Jimmy Kimmel Show was sitting with us the whole time.
Speaker 4: Oh nice. Yeah, so we got to hear all these
Speaker 4: cool TV stories which you could appreciate. And we're sitting
Speaker 4: there and they just kept delaying and delaying, and all
Speaker 4: of us kept getting alerts to our phone, right, and
Speaker 4: so it was like another twenty minutes, another half hour,
Speaker 4: another hour, another hour. Finally, six hours later, they announce
Speaker 4: on the intercom the flight's just been canceled. So everybody
Speaker 4: moaning and grown in. One dude stands up. We got
Speaker 4: to tell the story Monday afternoon on Covino and Rich.
Speaker 4: This older black gentleman stands up and he starts cursing,
Speaker 4: and we're like, oh, free show. And he's just going
Speaker 4: He's like, you at least old me a fucking hotel room.
Speaker 4: And he's like but then after he would curse, he'd
Speaker 4: look around and be like, I'm so sorry, I'm sorry
Speaker 4: for I'm so sorry. And then he would you know,
Speaker 4: he was blowing his casket so even they handled it
Speaker 4: really where well there they give him something? Oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: they gave him something. Security so TSA comes and now
Speaker 4: there's a security circle around the poor guy and I'm like, man,
Speaker 4: this is horrible. So right then he looks at everybody
Speaker 4: and he's like, y'all see how they're doing me? He said,
Speaker 4: And then he says it's like I'm not even John Stalworth.
Speaker 3: Oh that's kind of a douche move though.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Hall of Fame NFL player. Yeah, but still, I
Speaker 4: mean you can't.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know who I am?
Speaker 4: You know, like, well I think we're good. Wow, So
Speaker 4: what do you mean when we're in Sherman Oak, I
Speaker 4: tell tell people I'm Ben mall the time to get
Speaker 4: free stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Man, I'm like, I don't know, don't I tried to
Speaker 3: be I try to pretend I'm not actually who I
Speaker 3: am there. But that's great. Did it so he got something?
Speaker 3: Did you get something? Did you get like you didn't
Speaker 3: need a hotel room? But you know what you need
Speaker 3: is the travel vouchers. I always and when I try
Speaker 3: with my wife and she hates this, but I love
Speaker 3: I want to get bumped from the plane because they
Speaker 3: give you, like free travel, you're good to go on that.
Speaker 4: It's not it is it's not worth it. It is absolutely wid.
Speaker 4: We have our first guest approaching the set. Ben Is
Speaker 4: that right? Yeah, he's making his way in. He's making
Speaker 4: his way in.
Speaker 1: Oh he's got a camera crew with him here.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, all right cool. Yeah, we're being told that
Speaker 4: just one more moment because the camera crew is on him.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he's walking, he's doing all like us. We
Speaker 4: have two camera crews on us. They're documenting everything we do.
Speaker 1: For yes, it's for posterity sake. They're they're recording everything wrong.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot you know.
Speaker 3: What it reminds me of was like Atlantic City the
Speaker 3: boardwalk or Santa Monica, the area there right near the
Speaker 3: with all the shops, all the guys roller skates. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's that kind of.
Speaker 4: We're gonna sit him right here, yeah all right, yeah,
Speaker 4: we could tilt it. Yeah, yeah, there you go. The
Speaker 4: tilt is the key. All right, we got his chair ready.
Speaker 4: Who's he We'll find out in just a moment.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll see he actually takes We can't promote
Speaker 3: him until he actually is here, until they sit down,
Speaker 3: we won't say their name, not like the fight club
Speaker 3: right here, Yeah, exactly exactly. They're just kind of kind
Speaker 3: of chilling. It's not like we're killing time. See and
Speaker 3: then somebody else stopped them. See that's the proper So
Speaker 3: you know what you could do right now? You've never
Speaker 3: done this.
Speaker 4: We a podcast before plug how people can see your
Speaker 4: last TV shows? Oh, that's right.
Speaker 3: I never promote my TV show but tonight Saturday and
Speaker 3: on Sunday on the NBC Sports regional cable networks Bennie
Speaker 3: Versus the Penny, and you can check that out.
Speaker 1: We're on late tonight.
Speaker 3: The Celtics are playing tonight, so we're on late in Boston,
Speaker 3: which is kind of the hub of the show there
Speaker 3: eleven thirty and midnight back to back airings there, but
Speaker 3: we're on earlier in San Francisco on NBC Sports Bay Area.
Speaker 3: We'll be on in Chicago tonight, Philadelphia, then on Saturday
Speaker 3: LA and Sunday morning SNY in New York. And there's
Speaker 3: a bunch of showings too on other channels. Those are
Speaker 3: the ones I promote because I know from the people
Speaker 3: at NBC that the show is on at certain times
Speaker 3: and whatnot. But you can catch a show the last chance.
Speaker 4: This is it.
Speaker 3: As we mentioned, we did the final show yesterday, Looney
Speaker 3: yet again had a wardrobe malfunction. He had he had
Speaker 3: to change things up, and he had he brought the
Speaker 3: wrong shirt. We've done this now, twenty one weeks of television,
Speaker 3: and he does not he has not realized, he has
Speaker 3: not realized that, Hey, wait a minute here, you can't
Speaker 3: wear certain shirts with a green screen not allowed. As
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Speaker 1: Adrian, welcome.
Speaker 3: You don't remember this, but when you were in Oklahoma
Speaker 3: after in Oklahoma game, obviously it was like a Saturday afternoon.
Speaker 3: I interviewed you in college back in the day. You
Speaker 3: don't remember, you're on the phone, but it was. It's
Speaker 3: good to talk to you again.
Speaker 4: What have you been up to you?
Speaker 1: You haven't playing a couple years, right, So what have
Speaker 1: you been What he been doing?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 5: Not too much, man, I've been coaching my boys. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and just kind of kind of landload. Man, I've been
Speaker 5: They've been keeping me busy. I got my boys in baseball, football,
Speaker 5: and track, and uh yeah, I've been keeping them, keeping
Speaker 5: them going.
Speaker 3: Did I read something the other day that your daughter's
Speaker 3: like a prodigy or something like that. You got offered
Speaker 3: a scholarship in Basketball's all right?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, my daughter should go to Providence Academy in Minnesota.
Speaker 5: And she's been on Vorcity since the seventh grade years
Speaker 5: she the eighth grader, and she's been recruited by like
Speaker 5: fifteen D one schools, and last this past Thursday, Minnesota
Speaker 5: offered her her first scholarship.
Speaker 4: So she's pretty stoked about that. Nice eighth grader, right,
Speaker 4: I was just gonna ask you, Yeah, what are your
Speaker 4: the ages of your kids? Yeah?
Speaker 6: So I got one of us in college.
Speaker 5: She goes to Hudson Tillison in Austin, And uh, so
Speaker 5: I have I have a freshman, he's fifteen. I have seventh, seventh,
Speaker 5: eighth grade. Al she's in eighth grade. I got a
Speaker 5: son in Minnesota who's in eighth grade as well. And
Speaker 5: then Adrian junior and he's seventh grader. Axel is second grade.
Speaker 5: He looks like he's in fourth grade. You look, he's
Speaker 5: tall as heck. And then Arbury Halle a new baby. Girls,
Speaker 5: Oh very cool, congrats. Yeah, she's five months. So I
Speaker 5: stayed busy with the kids.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it sounds like it. There you go. And when
Speaker 4: she's I have one and I can't keep up with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Daniel said he wants he wanted to give back program,
Speaker 3: but the give back program.
Speaker 4: So you've been hanging out? How many days you've been
Speaker 4: here in Vegas?
Speaker 6: I just got here yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you're staying.
Speaker 1: You're not staying for the game, right, nobody stays.
Speaker 4: For the game.
Speaker 5: Lay on leaving out maybe tomorrow or Sunday morning, ladies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got you. And uh now I've talked to
Speaker 3: guys over here. Some guys actually watched the Super Bowl
Speaker 3: who played, and other guys.
Speaker 4: Are like, I'm done with that. I don't care.
Speaker 1: You know, are you a guy that watches it or yeah, watch.
Speaker 6: It for sure? Normally I know a couple of guys
Speaker 6: that's that's sure playing.
Speaker 4: So oh, Trent Williams is one of your friends.
Speaker 6: That's my brother man.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it's time for him to bring another trophy
Speaker 5: back to East Texas. You know, Patrick Mahomes from from
Speaker 5: White House, Texas right to East Texas as well.
Speaker 6: So like you got to already just let's trink it.
Speaker 4: Let's trink it one here.
Speaker 3: And uh so obviously you're just giving your pick right there.
Speaker 3: You're taking the forty nine ers in the game. So
Speaker 3: at the end, I got to ask you about when
Speaker 3: you left the Vikings you you played you you must
Speaker 3: have the greatest man cave Adrian right with all the
Speaker 3: jerseys that you you were changing teams.
Speaker 1: I mean he played. He played for but seven teams.
Speaker 6: After the Vikings.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, what was that like?
Speaker 6: It was awesome?
Speaker 5: You know, like for me, Like Larry Fitz is one
Speaker 5: of my boys, right and he was that guy that
Speaker 5: wanted to play for one organization and he did that.
Speaker 6: For me, I never wanted that.
Speaker 5: I wanted to see it what it felt like to
Speaker 5: sparence different organizations and get a field, you know. So
Speaker 5: going down to New Orleans that was awesome. I got
Speaker 5: to play with Drew Brees, you know, and Cam Jordan's
Speaker 5: like some incredible players you know down in Arizona, playing
Speaker 5: with Fits and you know those guys down there.
Speaker 6: It was Palmer like.
Speaker 5: It was some great some great you know people to
Speaker 5: be around in great organizations.
Speaker 4: What do you think about the NFL being here in
Speaker 4: Vegas now? Like had the Raiders been here years earlier,
Speaker 4: do you think you would have liked to play in
Speaker 4: this city?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: For sure.
Speaker 6: You know, the weather is always good. Unfortunately it's not
Speaker 6: this weekend, but yeah, Vegas is.
Speaker 4: A is a a beautiful yeah when they do have
Speaker 4: to covered now, I would think I have preached on
Speaker 4: my radio show that like the teams in Vegas have
Speaker 4: a tremendous home field man, because the guys that.
Speaker 3: Come in here going out having a good time, right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I would think.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm like, it's hard to keep somebody in
Speaker 5: the when it's twenty four hours you.
Speaker 6: You know, you know, it's rough bight.
Speaker 5: So when the team first got down there, I was like, Oh, no,
Speaker 5: how that's going to be you know, but I guess
Speaker 5: it's like being in Miami or something, you know, the
Speaker 5: same type of feel. Just hopefully you don't got no
Speaker 5: gambling habit because this is not a place to be.
Speaker 3: Well, you'll be bankrupt if you do that, right, you won't.
Speaker 3: You won't last very long at all. As far as
Speaker 3: like the whole running back thing, like you were you
Speaker 3: know the last MVP, right is right, do you think, well,
Speaker 3: Christian McCaffrey didn't really come close this year, even though
Speaker 3: he had a great year for the forty nine. You
Speaker 3: think the way things are going, like, how many years
Speaker 3: is it going to be before somebody else who's are
Speaker 3: running back whins an MVP?
Speaker 5: You know, the way these quarterbacks are playing, it'll probably
Speaker 5: be another five six years. I think Christian McCaffrey, can
Speaker 5: you know he'll get one at some point, I think
Speaker 5: it'll be to a point where it's like undeniable, you know.
Speaker 6: But with the way these quarterbacks.
Speaker 5: Are playing, you know, they always shift towards a quarterback
Speaker 5: you know as well, So it's gonna be hard to
Speaker 5: beat these guys out.
Speaker 4: Is there one of your former teams that you pay
Speaker 4: the most attention to as far as how their season
Speaker 4: is going?
Speaker 5: Obviously Minnesota, But outside of that, I would say Detroit.
Speaker 6: Detroit in Washington.
Speaker 4: That was a fun season. You had the.
Speaker 5: Detroit in Washington just because of the love I received
Speaker 5: when I was down there, and it was just a cool,
Speaker 5: you know, good environment to be around and got some
Speaker 5: good relationships.
Speaker 3: So you play for the Lions, Like the Lions for
Speaker 3: years they never won anything, right, and then they this
Speaker 3: year getting to the NFC Championship game.
Speaker 4: What was that?
Speaker 3: As somebody that played there briefly, what was it like
Speaker 3: to watch that? Considering you knew when you play I'm
Speaker 3: sure when you play for the Lions, people told you
Speaker 3: about how terrible things have been with the team and
Speaker 3: the curse of Bobby Lane and all that other stuff.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, you know, it's a testament to the ownership,
Speaker 5: you know, she did a great job of bringing in
Speaker 5: the right people, you know, bringing in coach Campbell and
Speaker 5: you know him and uh you know him bringing in
Speaker 5: his team as well, and what they how they just
Speaker 5: kind of turn things around. But it was exciting to
Speaker 5: see to see them, you know, come from what people
Speaker 5: will say, the slums, you know, of the of the
Speaker 5: NFL world, and you know, get to that position where
Speaker 5: it was almost, you know, want to potentially be in.
Speaker 6: The super Bowl. You know, yeah, you know, so they were.
Speaker 5: I think they were a first down the way you know,
Speaker 5: you got fourth and fourth and two, you run a
Speaker 5: little four or five yard route and the ball goes
Speaker 5: right through your hands.
Speaker 6: You know that that could have that could have ended
Speaker 6: it for him.
Speaker 4: You mentioned you mentioned how you still obviously keep up
Speaker 4: with Minnesota or Boss is a huge Vikings fan. Uh.
Speaker 4: What do you think about Kirk Cousins and the price tag?
Speaker 4: If you had the check book, if that was your money,
Speaker 4: would you uh open it up to get Kirk back?
Speaker 5: I don't know, man, you know, it's hard to say,
Speaker 5: because Kirk, it's like what do you you know, Okay,
Speaker 5: who who you're going to bring in? You know, to
Speaker 5: replace him? That that would be the main thing. You know,
Speaker 5: he's consistent. But for me, my personal opinion, he hasn't
Speaker 5: really he hasn't really done it for me, you know,
Speaker 5: Like I think he has the ability to help the
Speaker 5: Bikers win a championship, but he has something has a
Speaker 5: click in his mental and mentality for him to become that,
Speaker 5: you know, that type of player that can be a
Speaker 5: Patrick mahonane, that can be a Tom Brady, you know,
Speaker 5: because he you see his.
Speaker 6: Numbers, and his numbers are awesome.
Speaker 5: You know, he's very efficient, he's but he's not taking
Speaker 5: it over the top.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 4: I'm tired of it, to be honest, all right.
Speaker 1: See that's a hot take right there from Adrian Peters.
Speaker 4: That's what we're talking about right there.
Speaker 6: And I love Kirk Cousin. Yeah, you know, I love you.
Speaker 6: But do you think player?
Speaker 3: Did you think, though, Adrian, that's certain guys. Some guys
Speaker 3: just can't in the big games. They just you played
Speaker 3: a long time when you played with guys that you know,
Speaker 3: some guys just couldn't hack it and they couldn't get
Speaker 3: it done in the big game.
Speaker 1: And other guys could, right.
Speaker 5: But you know, like I said, and I'm trying to
Speaker 5: encourage him as well. He has it in them. He
Speaker 5: just got to tap into it, you know. But you
Speaker 5: got some guys that just can't that they can't get
Speaker 5: over their hump or whatever it is mentally wise, that
Speaker 5: it doesn't allow.
Speaker 6: Them to be great when they need to be.
Speaker 1: And what do you think about a guy like you?
Speaker 3: Look at the forty nine ers in their quarterback mister irrelevant,
Speaker 3: and you were a top draft pick when you came
Speaker 3: out of Oklahoma, were starring college.
Speaker 1: He played well at Iowa State.
Speaker 3: But Brock Party, what do you think of the scouting
Speaker 3: process in the NFL? How many Brock Parties are out
Speaker 3: there that never get a chance because they weren't highly rated?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know Tom Brady was the same rate, right, Yeah, yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 6: I'm sure there's a lot out there, you know.
Speaker 5: But you know, one thing you can't measure is someone's dedication,
Speaker 5: someone's you know, har work and their mentality and what
Speaker 5: they're going to put into that situation that they are
Speaker 5: presented with. Yeah, you know, that's the one thing you
Speaker 5: can't test, you know. And I've seen great athletes at
Speaker 5: the quarterback position and other positions, other positions that were
Speaker 5: you know, first rounders, second rounder, but they kind of,
Speaker 5: you know, kind of wheeled it down and went away
Speaker 5: because they didn't have that that that mentality or that
Speaker 5: that were ethic to be great and to reach the
Speaker 5: full potential.
Speaker 4: I hear now yesterday and Ben is a huge Lakers fan.
Speaker 4: No not. I like the clip. Yeah, the Clippers to
Speaker 4: hold it against them, but I'm a huge Kobe fan.
Speaker 6: Tobe.
Speaker 4: Okay, you saw the unveiling of his statue yesterday. You
Speaker 4: get to see that he does. It's the one finger
Speaker 4: pose when he walked off the court after scoring eighty
Speaker 4: one points. If the Vikings came to you and said,
Speaker 4: we're gonna we're gonna put your statue in front of
Speaker 4: our stadium, what what pose do you think you would
Speaker 4: choose for yourself? Uh?
Speaker 6: Most likely to be.
Speaker 5: The high step, you know, Like, yeah, sure, I think
Speaker 5: it was pretty cool.
Speaker 6: Me pouring up too. That's that's like my testing. That
Speaker 6: was Yeah, that's right, give them praise, all right?
Speaker 1: That was that was your move back in the day.
Speaker 3: What about the analytics stuff, Adrian, because I this drives
Speaker 3: me nuts, like the Lions, like you gotta go for
Speaker 3: it on fourth down, don't kick the field goal?
Speaker 4: To me?
Speaker 3: If they'd made the field goal early in the second
Speaker 3: half of the game against the forty nine ers, they
Speaker 3: I think they had a much better chance of winning
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 1: As a former player, where are you at?
Speaker 3: Because this is like every team's doing it just about now,
Speaker 3: where like the the nerds have come in and they've
Speaker 3: taken over, Like, so what's your position on that one?
Speaker 6: So the guy kicked the field goal on miss right,
Speaker 6: he missed one.
Speaker 3: You know, they went forward on fourth down the Lions
Speaker 3: in the game in the second half twice in situations
Speaker 3: they could have kicked the field goal in the second half.
Speaker 5: But you watch the Lions all year, that's what they've
Speaker 5: been doing. Yeah, you know, and everybody's right right, you know,
Speaker 5: but when it's it happens and you don't make it,
Speaker 5: the Zubos like you should just kick the field goal,
Speaker 5: like you've been watching them. They've been doing it all year,
Speaker 5: they've been successful doing it. My thing is, you know,
Speaker 5: it's a ritz. But then again, you know, like they
Speaker 5: were going all out, you know, like I mentioned that
Speaker 5: one play it was fourth and two. They were about
Speaker 5: fourteen and the guy, if the guy does his job,
Speaker 5: etches the ball. It wasn't a deep ball like a
Speaker 5: five yard route. The ball literally went right through his hands.
Speaker 5: That's right, you catch that? That changes that little.
Speaker 4: Different game different.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: What I've noticed though, is like in baseball, everyone's doing
Speaker 3: analytics like that.
Speaker 4: I'm a Dodger.
Speaker 3: I like the Dodgers, and they do it, and they
Speaker 3: make the playoffs every year, and then it doesn't seem
Speaker 3: to work most of the time in the playoffs. Like
Speaker 3: it's it's like a different animal in the playoffs. Like
Speaker 3: the numbers. It's like the stats tell you what has happened, now,
Speaker 3: what's going to happen.
Speaker 5: Right, But then you got to think about it too,
Speaker 5: and I get in the playoffs it's I don't care.
Speaker 6: No one says. It's just a different.
Speaker 5: Ball game when you're out there in the playoffs because
Speaker 5: it's like either we're winning and we're going to advanced
Speaker 5: or we're going home. So you know, you just get
Speaker 5: different energy in different infort out of players when they're
Speaker 5: out there. But when it comes to those that decision making,
Speaker 5: you know, I think if he converts it on this say,
Speaker 5: he converts, he does his job and catch the ball,
Speaker 5: he converts, Oh my god, you know, this guy can'tbell
Speaker 5: just guts to you know, really put the nail in
Speaker 5: the calf and against you know, for you.
Speaker 6: And it would have been a different storyline, you know.
Speaker 5: So I know how that goes to when it doesn't
Speaker 5: work out, when it does work out, how the narrative
Speaker 5: has changed.
Speaker 4: What runner in the NFL right now? Do you really
Speaker 4: appreciate watching who impresses you Christian mccaf McCaffrey, okay.
Speaker 5: Just you know with everything he does in the past
Speaker 5: game as well. But the one thing I respect about
Speaker 5: him the most is he hit stole with force. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he's not tiptoeing through that hole. He is hitting that hole.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 4: He makes his decision and boom. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So anybody run the ball like that, I got nothing.
Speaker 5: I have nothing but respect for him and that other
Speaker 5: kid on his side on Kansas City side.
Speaker 6: What's his name, Checko pu.
Speaker 4: Checko Isaiah Pocheck. He was a late draft pick too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, he runs like he's on a mission
Speaker 5: as well.
Speaker 3: So you know, now, how with players being paid in
Speaker 3: college now legal, it's like allowed, Like you played at
Speaker 3: Oklahoma back in the day, how much you think you
Speaker 3: would make if you were playing college football right now?
Speaker 6: Man, Honestly, I would have made about four or five million.
Speaker 4: Dollars what you have over nineteen hundred yards this season.
Speaker 5: Actually, when I came out of high school, like from
Speaker 5: my junior year to my senior year, I was number
Speaker 5: one player in the country, so I would have.
Speaker 4: Been rolling in that would that would have instantly been
Speaker 4: five million dollars in nil.
Speaker 5: And then after that that uh freshman year, I would
Speaker 5: have come back to a drawing board.
Speaker 6: We need negotiate.
Speaker 1: You could have entered the portal. Right, those guys transfer portal, Adrian.
Speaker 1: They're bouncing all over them. I can't even keep track
Speaker 1: of college football. These guys play for a year, they
Speaker 1: get more money somewhere else.
Speaker 4: It's insane.
Speaker 6: That's the only thing I don't like about it. Yeah,
Speaker 6: that guys are bouncing on.
Speaker 4: Too much movement and too much What did should do? Do
Speaker 4: you think? I don't like limits though.
Speaker 3: It's tough because you don't want to limit people, but
Speaker 3: then you don't want them changing schools every year because
Speaker 3: it's like guys, if they don't get playing time.
Speaker 4: They're like, I'm gone. You know, they don't get on
Speaker 4: a plane to.
Speaker 6: You showed me the money.
Speaker 5: I like it, though, you know, I feel like players
Speaker 5: should have been paid a long time ago, you know,
Speaker 5: because they these colleges, you know, like you know, they
Speaker 5: make so much money off the likeness of these these
Speaker 5: these kids.
Speaker 1: So the boosters never took care of Adrian and Oklahoma.
Speaker 5: They never took probably buy me a bite or something.
Speaker 6: I wasn't driving Range over Bentley or Port or anything
Speaker 6: like that. Yeah, I had to work.
Speaker 3: Listen, it's great having busted your chops. I remember you
Speaker 3: had a birthday party with a camel. Yeah, we talked,
Speaker 3: how does one get a camel?
Speaker 1: I want a camel?
Speaker 4: Well, how did that happen?
Speaker 6: You know, right outside of Houston.
Speaker 5: It was like someone had like a little form where
Speaker 5: they had.
Speaker 6: Camels and all types of stuff.
Speaker 4: So it was like rod Tidwell and I.
Speaker 6: Was able to get that.
Speaker 5: That was That was my thirtieth birthday. We turned up.
Speaker 5: It was when Jamie Fox came out and and all that.
Speaker 6: It was cool.
Speaker 3: All right again, thanks, so you're here on behalf of Nirvana,
Speaker 3: super Adrian.
Speaker 4: Thank you for hanging out with man. We'll try that
Speaker 4: water out sounds.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you gotta try it out, man. It's great
Speaker 5: for you know, muscle recovery. Like I said, you got
Speaker 5: the HMB in there that helps promote uh you know,
Speaker 5: lean muscle math and helping you know we cover faster.
Speaker 4: Hell yeah, well you came right show. Look how rip
Speaker 4: both of us see fine tune radio athletes, audio athletes making.
Speaker 6: Me feel in.
Speaker 4: Man pleasure. One of the best running backs of all times.
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Speaker 1: With us the fifth Hour Live from Radio.
Speaker 4: Row in Lost Wages, Nevada. Man, I remember it was
Speaker 4: a rainy day in Oakland. Was when I was a
Speaker 4: season ticket holder for the Raiders in Oaktown and Adrian
Speaker 4: Peterson was in town. They must have given him the
Speaker 4: ball twenty two times, and every time he would get
Speaker 4: ten fifteen yard chunks. The Raiders could not stop them
Speaker 4: to save their lives. And I couldn't help but think
Speaker 4: someday Al Davis, maybe he was at the end of
Speaker 4: his life. I was like, please, ol go you love
Speaker 4: fast dudes, go sign him at least for a season
Speaker 4: at the end of his I would have loved to
Speaker 4: see him in silver and black.
Speaker 1: Well, I remember eight.
Speaker 4: I mean he was good.
Speaker 3: It was great at the Hall of Famer in the NFL,
Speaker 3: but at Oklahoma, Man, that like he's one of those guys.
Speaker 4: They said he could have.
Speaker 3: Played in the NFL when he was like nineteen or twenty,
Speaker 3: like he didn't. If he didn't have to wait, he
Speaker 3: could have gone right to the NFL. And of course,
Speaker 3: you know, who knows if that's reality.
Speaker 4: And I'm glad you brought up that nil because he
Speaker 4: probably would have made more money in school than he
Speaker 4: did his rookie contract.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, for sure at that time because the oh,
Speaker 3: I don't know's limited.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because they didn't have the cap on the rookies
Speaker 4: of the time, but they he probably would have made
Speaker 4: so much as the number one player coming out of
Speaker 4: high school, for sure. And then his college career was
Speaker 4: so amazing. He would have made a shit ton of
Speaker 4: money in college. Yeah, But they don't have that for radio.
Speaker 4: You know, we were proud of we started right. We
Speaker 4: both got into radio business. We were teenagers and we
Speaker 4: got into radio. Imagine like a lighting war. Like for
Speaker 4: Ben Gasbag, You're ranked fourteenth in the country.
Speaker 3: Coming out of The only thing I got was a
Speaker 3: The radio TV critic at the Times called me a
Speaker 3: rising star. I got no money. I didn't get any
Speaker 3: extra money for it, and he was obviously wrong. It
Speaker 3: was rose to my highest level of mediocre.
Speaker 4: I got to write up in the high school newspaper,
Speaker 4: did you Yeah, that's great. Yeah. And then the funny thing.
Speaker 3: The guy, this guy, Larry Stewart was the radio TV
Speaker 3: critic for the time at that time before the internet.
Speaker 1: Because I'm old, that was like a big deal. That
Speaker 1: was a big deal, and.
Speaker 3: So he didn't really write about us very much, but
Speaker 3: he praised me. And then like the next time he
Speaker 3: wrote about me, he called me Ben Waller. He misspelled
Speaker 3: my name, and so that kind of became a bit
Speaker 3: on the show.
Speaker 4: That's right, which one he liked better? Waller of Miller?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's the of course, the company web you
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