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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for listening to the Ben Maler Show podcast.

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Speaker 1: It's me Ben. Be sure to catch us live every

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Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio going on. I hope

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Speaker 2: you're enjoying your Friday morning here. Hope Christmas Day was

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Speaker 2: fantastic for you. I can't say the same for my

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Speaker 2: connection over here. My gosh, I don't know what it is.

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Speaker 2: Don't get me started on this. I apologize militia. All

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Speaker 2: I hear from Mary Mack. Shout out to Mary Mack.

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Speaker 2: I haven't talked to Mary Mack yet or Brianna. I

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Speaker 2: think that's what I need to do. I just need

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Speaker 2: to be like, so, how is your Christmas? To talk

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Speaker 2: for ten minutes, go ahead, just tell me everything about it.

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Speaker 2: Did you have the did you have keish to have

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Speaker 2: a key line pie with jaff? What do you have

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Speaker 2: on Christmas Day? You know, just take it away. But yeah, no,

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Speaker 2: it's a man. I won't squawk about it. Listen, it's uh. Look,

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Speaker 2: you got to have a good connection wherever you are.

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Speaker 2: I have the worst luck at home, visiting home. I

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Speaker 2: got to be home. I was gone last Christmas. I

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Speaker 2: almost always make it home for Christmas Day. I didn't

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Speaker 2: make it home last year. I don't even know where

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Speaker 2: I was last year. I couldn't even tell you. It

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Speaker 2: might have been Vegas. I'm not even sure. I don't remember.

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Speaker 2: It's a blur. But I made it back this year.

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Speaker 2: But the drawback is when I'm home or like Jim Nighbors.

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Speaker 2: You ever see Jim Nighbors sing back home again in

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Speaker 2: Indiana during the Indy five hundred, where it's like back home,

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Speaker 2: my God in Indiana, like that whole thing. When I'm

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Speaker 2: back home again in Indiana, Oh man, it is the

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Speaker 2: worst luck with I just pencil in. You know, something's

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Speaker 2: wrong with your connection, man, I don't know. Can you

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Speaker 2: like you like reconnect? And it's just it's like, oh

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Speaker 2: my gosh, the nightmare man. So I apologize if it's

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Speaker 2: you know, I go from normal sounding to like, you know,

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Speaker 2: super robotic. It sucks. I'm sorry. I don't know what

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Speaker 2: I might be moving locations tonight, like on the fly,

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Speaker 2: I'm the high tail it over. I don't know what

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Speaker 2: it's like. It's a place just a few minutes away,

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Speaker 2: and for some reason the connection works. Fantastic there right here, terrible, there,

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Speaker 2: good here, awful. I don't know, I don't know. I'm sorry,

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Speaker 2: but I apologize speaking of awful because I'm gonna save.

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Speaker 2: I want to get to the biggest surprises this season

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Speaker 2: in the NFL, good or bad. We're gonna do this

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Speaker 2: it's putting together this list, and I think it's it's

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Speaker 2: doing Hey, here are my top three surprises in a

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Speaker 2: good way, like wow, the Bears really surprised as whoa broncos? Right?

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Speaker 2: Instead of doing that? What if you mix them together,

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Speaker 2: good and bad, instead of separating them, mush them together. Now, me,

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Speaker 2: when I eat, I like my food separated. I don't

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Speaker 2: like things mushed together. If anyone's like, oh, this is

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Speaker 2: I have no interest in any cast role. It could

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Speaker 2: be all things that I love, don't don't want everything

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Speaker 2: I'm mation a list together all day. But I was

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Speaker 2: tweets Big Lou out there. You know, Lou might hit

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Speaker 2: I'm not giving you a list. You know, nine out

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Speaker 2: Like he crushed the Lions' chances of winning that game.

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Speaker 2: His numbers are fantastic, but its performances like this, and

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Speaker 2: it does not happen. So I've seen Jared Goff play

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Speaker 2: Like we're not just digesting full games. Like nobody has

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Speaker 2: year in Fox Buro Kirk Herbstreet's doing the call. Kirk

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Speaker 2: produces some insane highlights from time to time. Justin Fields

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Speaker 2: And in turn, when he doesn't produce those highlights, a

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Speaker 2: it's like, man, that that's the kryptonite for Jared Goff.

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Speaker 2: When a pass rush is putting heat on him and

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Speaker 2: let me try to get something for you real fast, Okay,

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Speaker 2: cause I don't know how many times we've played the

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