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This Tuesday. Always a big day. The third day of November is a selection day. But that was my mom's birthday. It's always the third day of November. Very important day. Very important day. Anyway, here in our number one, we start with the Monday night football game. Has Sam Darnold turned back into a pumpkin for the Seahawks? We'll talk about that. Did Jeffrey Simmons justify the Bears' blockbuster trade, giving up a couple of first-round picks in just 48 defensive snaps as he was manhandling that Seattle offensive line? And does this win count as a signature victory?
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And don't worry, we'll have many more live reads throughout the night. We look forward to that. You give us a few minutes, we will give you a live read. But our lead, don't bury the lead, my man. Don't bury the lead. We're not going to bury the lead. It's kind of obvious what the lead is. We start out just adjacent to Puget Sound and turn out the lights on the Seahawks offense. What was that? Man, that was very enjoyable. Got to tell you, some of these Monday night games, you're like, I don't know about that. This was a good one.
What was the final part, final paragraph of week eight, the storybook in the NFL? Caleb Williams driving the Bears jamboree into the Pacific Northwest. They're a little wrestling match with Sam Darnold and the Seahawks. You had the Bickersons, Troy Aikman and Joe Buck. I love how everyone's like, oh man, they look like they really hate each other. They've always looked like they hate each other. Even when they were in their heyday at Fox and their salad days, they look like they despised each other. Now you're, oh my God, they look like they don't like each other. They look the same to me.
Maybe my TV's broken, but they look exactly the same to me. My consultant, Stevie Meatballs, he said they look the same, too. So there they were on ABC calling the game. Aikman and Buck are right there. I don't know if you saw this or not. Maybe you were not watching. I don't know what the hell else you were doing, but that's your thing, not my thing. Caleb Williams came out, and you talk about shoving it down the throat of the once-proud Seahawks. They've actually changed their name now to C-Chumps is their new nickname there. Over an eight-minute drive, matriculating the ball down the field for the Chicago Bears on that opening touchdown drive. Jeffrey Simmons, the big news of last week, that transaction.
As he entered the transfer portal coming over from the Tennessee Titans, he went out and dominated defensively. The Bears curb stomped Seattle 34-17. 34-17, the final. It could have been worse in the Monday night game as Caleb Williams was more of a game manager in this one. He had 247 yards, completed 71% of his passes, did not turn the ball over. And Chicago getting not one, not two, but three. DeAndre Swift, touchdown runs, short touchdown runs. So the Bears are back at 6-2 and in that loaded division. When you look at...
Well, Minnesota's a paper Viking. They're not legit. The Lions are coming around a little bit. And you look around, there's a Green Bay. There's a lot going on there. The better story, though, is in the losing locker room. I'm old enough to remember when Seattle had a winning record. They don't have a winning record right now. They're 500. Stuck in the middle of the bell curve. The once Super Bowl champions proving more and more like that was a fraudulent Super Bowl that was fueled by a bogus two-point conversion that the NFL gave Seattle that they did not deserve. And they're playing like frauds. That is hot take validation, by the way. Hot take validation. We were correct. But Seattle just 4-4.
How embarrassing. This team was in the Super Bowl and won, and they're 4-4. That is mortification. Mortification. It is? Man, what a mess. Well, let's hear from the head coach of the Seattle football team, Mr. McDonald, who's suddenly not as great a genius as he once was, but he's putting on a happy face. Let me guess. He's going to say his team played hard, and I really like my team. We'll be okay. Let's find out. Here we go. It's pretty cut and dry. We didn't do the things on offense that we need to be able to do.
to play Seahawks football. This isn't the time for studying. Let's make sure we're all on the same page on one accord when we show up on Wednesday and let's go. We don't have time to be looking at our wounds or anything like that. It's time to move forward. So if they didn't play Seahawks football, what were they playing? Browns football? Was it Jets football? Raiders football? It wasn't Seahawks football, so what football were they playing? Does anyone know? Let me know. Send me a message.
All right, so here's the question. Let's get down to the quarterback because this is the thing nobody wants to address. Nobody has the balls to address, but we'll do it. Who cares? We're not part of the mainstream football cartel that have their little talking points memo. So as we discuss what happened in the Monday night game, the question, has Sam Darnold turned back into a pumpkin?
For the Seahawks. Has Sam Darnold turned back into a pumpkin for the Seahawks? So I've got Stevie Wonder, Thor's Hammer, and Peacock. And we will combine all of these things together. And we are going to scramble some eggs is what we're going to do. And hopefully not split the ticket. Because you hate when that happens. You want to split the ticket. So A, Sam Darnold, I'm going to push back. He's not turning into a jack-o'-lantern. Sam Darnold.
He has been a jack-o'-lantern all along. So it's not like all of a sudden he morphed into something. Somebody just kept changing the candle in the jack-o'-lantern, but he's always been the same guy. He's always been the same guy. And for some of you, the low-information fan, you drive by and you say, well, that's pretty impressive. It's like you drive by the street and you look and say, well, that's not bad. But then when you get up close, you realize, well, it's hollow and rotting, the jack-o'-lanterns, hollow and rotting.
Seattle's offense, that was like a bowl of pumpkin guts in this particular game here as they were stringy, slimy, and nobody really wanted to touch it. Just 252 yards of total offense against the Bears. And that's it. 1 of 11 on third down. 1 of 11 on third down. That is a 9% success rate. Now, I didn't play in the NFL, but I'm told that blows. That blows. But we must address Sam Darnold.
who apparently has the Trojan horse virus, if you know what I mean. And Seattle, I did the math on this, so they're 2-4 in games Sam Darnold has started and finished. They're 2-4. That's a two-game under 500 record. Meanwhile, the Seahawks have a perfect record with Drew Locke running the operation.
But you're not supposed to talk about that. Why would you bring that up? Darnold was supposed to be the main event. He'd killed all the demons, you told me, you idiots. Oh, yeah, Super Bowl champion Sam Darnold. Yes, killed all the demons, all the demons. And right now, the understudy, Drew Locke, who's not even that good. However, with the same players around him, the same coaching staff, Drew Locke has been a much better, efficient quarterback than Sam Darnold. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. It's kind of like paying to see Stevie Wonder and discovering that the Stevie Wonder tribute group...
Puts on a better show. It's like, well, that's disappointing. I need to spend thousands of dollars to watch Stevie Wonder, who's back on tour or whatever. My God. The Sam Darnold success, whatever success he's had in Seattle, it's pretty obvious, is a byproduct of Jackson Smith and Jigba. That's it. The Venn diagram is practically one circle.
And that's all. And when JSN makes plays, Sam Darnold looks like a functional NFL quarterback. We saw in the third quarter and a chunk in the fourth quarter in the game Monday night, the Bears were able to box up Jackson Smith and Jigba and Sam Darnold might as well have been wearing a Jets helmet. Might as well have been wearing a Jets helmet watching him go out there. He was lost at sea. Darnold waving his arms, screaming for Baywatch to send a time machine to bring back the 90s version of Pamela Anderson there to rescue him, get a buoy and rescue Sam Darnold. It was not good. Darnold.
Not exactly the engine, choo-choo, driving the Seattle offense. He's the fuzzy dice that's hanging around there. And Jackson Smith and Jigba is the one obviously getting it done. Now, meanwhile, on the Chicago side of things, we have a developing situation in the Windy City there as Jeffrey Simmons, in his Bears debut, played 48 defensive snaps. This was the big move Chicago made with Tennessee. And they claim they're not going FM picks, but they went FM picks. They said, we're not going FM picks, but you went FM picks.
They won FM picks. They traded two first-round picks. That's FM picks to get Jeffrey Simmons. And two first-rounders go to the Titans so they can botch those picks. And how did Simmons do? He had not one, not two, not three, not four, not five. How about six tackles, five pressures that led the Bears, two tackles for loss, one sack, one quarterback hit, one batted pass, and a partridge in a pear tree. So he had all that going on. So the question, did Jeffrey Simmons, defensive tackle Jeffrey Simmons, did Jeffrey Simmons justify the Bears' blockbuster trade, giving up all that draft capital in just 48 defensive snaps?
So this was not a debut by Jeffrey Simmons. It was more than that. This was a hostile takeover of the frazzled offensive line of the Seattle Seahawks there. So I would like to use my Latin, and I beg for you to excuse my Latin here, but this was a carpe diem situation. Seize the day. He sees the day big time. And it's been said by many wise people over the years that you never get a second chance to make a first impression. And Jeffrey Simmons.
Went out there. He showed up and showed out. It was like he was wearing a tuxedo. And he went to Spirit Halloween and he got on sale a hammer. It was Thor's hammer. And he was carrying that around in his tuxedo. The stats, impressive. And that's a defensive lineman making a grand entrance. And it's nice to see. Now, I'm not going to sit here and say we're sending him to the haberdashery to get a gold jacket. We're not doing that, obviously. However, Simmons has put the Bears' GPS set down the yellow brick road. So it's down the yellow brick road we go. And they're skipping towards the Emerald City.
which is in the hood in Inglewood and up to no good. And that'll be, of course, in early 2027 on Valentine's Day. Here's what you say about Jeffrey Simmons. Two words. As advertised. As advertised. No bait and switch. No bill of goods. Chicago ordered a wrecking ball. And they didn't get some rip-off, miniature wrecking ball off Teemu. They got a real wrecking ball. And it's nice to see. They got an actual wrecking ball. They ordered it, and that's what they got. Unlike, not that I'm bitter, that fraud Miles Garrett.
With the Rams, Simmons, it turns out, Jeffrey Simmons did not require a six-week orientation program, a medical excuse, and instructional manual. He didn't need those things. He did not. He showed up, punched the clock, and started rearranging the furniture for the Bears, who gave up a lot of goodies to get him. And we're all about that. F the draft, F them picks. Good for the Bears. That's the way to do it. That's the way to do it. You went for it. That's why you pay a premium. It's nice when this happens. Meanwhile, the last word. Let's go to the big picture now for Ben Johnson.
and the Bears as they get another win. They're bird-dogging the Vikings in the division. And among all the teams, you look at those overall standings in the NFC, and the Chicago Bears are breathing down the necks of not just the top teams in the NFC, but the entire NFL. And you look right now, Buffalo at 6-1. There's a couple of teams, Denver, Pittsburgh at 6-2 in the AFC. And then in the NFC, you've got the 49ers and the Vikings at 6-1, but the Bears at 6-2. And they're lurking.
In the shadows, like a boogeyman out there lurking around. So the question, though, for Ben Johnson's team, and specifically the quarterback, because quarterbacks are more important than people. So does this count as a, quote, signature win for Caleb Williams and Doberts? So you know I am reluctant to say signature win, and I don't usually do that. On this one, though, I'm going to say break out the Hawaiian shirts, get the Hawaiian punch, fire up the tiki torches, get that going on, go to a tiki bar, pour yourself a tropical beverage, and why not? I'm Benny Brightside on this. It's the island life for me. It's the island life for the Bears. Bears are now 2-0 against the teams that played in the Super Bowl last year, Seattle and New England, both under the bright lights, the island life, the bright lights on national.
television there. So Caleb Williams was a smooth operator. He was a smooth operator for Da Bears in the Monday night game. And he wasn't cheat code good. We've seen some cheat code stuff. He wasn't that good in that department. But it wasn't like he was playing Madden on rookie mode.
He just simply avoided butterfingering the game away, making Sam Darnold matriculate the ball down the field, which obviously is incompetent, can't do that unless he gets some help. And we saw that on display here. No turnovers, only took, I believe, one sack. Caleb Williams kept the offense moving down the field. And as a result, Chicago gets itself a peacock victory. So the Bears can strut around the barnyard and have those glorious tail feathers spread wide for the entire NFL to admire.
Absolutely. I know Lucky Tony's very happy about this. Lucky Tony's smiling. Oh, that's my bears. In fact, he might even stop watching porn online now. He's so excited, at least for a day. He's so excited about the bears there, Lucky Tony. But there they are, strutting around there. Now, of course, they still have to prove this in January, which is always the kick to the nuts. They have to show that this is legit. But we have the show to do today, as we like to say. And since we have a show to do today, this was a bedazzled, rhinestone-covered victory.
for Caleb Williams and the Bears. You can paint your nails with that kind of win for Chicago there. The reigning champions were totally zonked in the second half, really most of this game. It was a domination. Seattle scored before halftime, but before that it was a domination situation. And Seattle looked like somebody slipped some NyQuil into their Gatorade. They played like, there's a little off, just a little bit off there. So this does count. Again, Benny Brightside, signature win for the Bears to go and win there. Caleb Williams, again, he didn't paint the Mona Lisa. He did not have to paint the Mona Lisa in this game. He just stayed.
Inside the lines, just paint inside the lines, and he didn't spill the paint on the carpet, didn't get any paint on the dog or his shirt or anything like that, and so Chicago wanders away back to the Midwest, feeling pretty good about themselves. All right, it is the Bain Maller Show. You want to talk about that? Anything else regarding this? How about Seattle needs to go out and trade for a wide receiver? Sam Darnold cannot uplift the players around him. He is not that quarterback. He's not. And if you don't have great players around him, you're porked. And he is El Capitan of the Vomit Comet, Sam Darnold, and it's so dependent on Jackson Smith and Jigba.
Everyone needs a top receiver, dummy. I understand that. But there are quarterbacks who can uplift players, can elevate players. And Darnold's definitely not, from what I've seen, not that guy. 877-99 on Fox. 877-996-6369 if you'd like to be part of the live program. Also on X, at Ben Maller.
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I was getting a lot of crap from Seahawks fans about how the Rams are cooked. The Rams are done. I'm looking at the stand-ups here. It looks like Seattle and the Rams have exactly the same record. So I guess that means the Seahawks are done, too. Isn't that how that works? Kids? Yes? Okay. Thank you. Just checking. 877-996-6369 if you'd like to be part. Also on X, at Ben Maller. You buying the Bears? I don't fully trust Caleb Williams. The Bears. Big game Caleb Williams. I'm not quite there yet. I might get there. I'm capable of getting there. I'm not there.
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Now, Michael in Tulsa writes in, he says, Ben, who's the better quarterback? Sam Darnold, Kyler Murray, Daniel Jones, Brock Purdy, or that other absolute fraud, Bo Nix, according to Michael in Tulsa. All right, so Kyler Murray should be a gamer. Daniel Jones should be selling insurance. Sam Darnold remaking the Ghostbusters. I guess by default, you're going to make me say something nice about Brock Purdy.
Bad job by you, Michael. Shame on you. Baltimore Freeloader account writes and says, while I love free food and great sports talk, I do have an issue with pocket dials. Don't you find those people annoying, especially when they don't follow up with the text? What's the protocol here? Well, I find it very annoying when you call people, they don't answer your phone. They don't answer the phone. It's very odd to me that somebody would not answer the phone. Someone that claims to not sleep and is always awake, and yet they don't answer the phone. And two non-answers. One non-answer, you're like, that's okay. But two non-answers, that's...
That's a tough one. Jerry in a jar writes and he says all these mud ducks in Minnesota that we're all should have kept Sam Darnold are the same ones who would be calling for his head right now. Bunch of losers. Who's your bill? from his hearts in indiana but he's in socal says it's monday night you got a tease going to the phones at the top of the hour my man tuesday is too late football fan reaction football fan reaction all right coach cliche guy writes in says at the end of the day when the rubber meets the road you're killing it out there giving it 110 a plus on the mallard monologue well it's nice to feed me nothing but cliches i appreciate that and mr irrigation writes in from deep in the heart of texas and houston He says, hey, Maller, are you putting your money on the AFC to win the Super Bowl? I don't see a dominant team in the AFC. I'm still waiting to see the Texans' Super Bowl defense like you media guys said they had. Hey, don't include me in that. I'm not part of the mainstream media. I was reminded of that this weekend by some PR hack for the LA Rams that I'm not part of the mainstream media. So I like that. I like that we are not part of the mainstream. But there's nobody that is convincing in the AFC. You don't trust Bo Nix in Denver. That's not legit. Pittsburgh's not legit. Buffalo's defensively, they don't certainly give you a lot of confidence there. I would agree.
However, Mr. Irrigation, there's a lot of football left, and if you're getting value with the AFC in a one-game situation on any given Super Bowl Sunday, bizarre things end up happening. I'm just saying. Dred Pye writes and says, Could it be that the Seahawks are trying to find their way with a new offensive coordinator? It does seem that from time to time, with the just-right mixes of coaches and players that wins it all, Seattle's new offensive coordinator may not have the magic of their last OC. Well, if you're still trying to figure things out, it's Week 8 in the NFL. Now we're heading to Week 9.
So now we're hitting—how many more weeks? Why don't we wait until, I don't know, week 32? And then we'll see if you figure crap out by then. My God. All right, let's go to the phones. Let's see. What do we got? I'm going to move this over here. Let's say hello to Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe. Let's go to Chicago. And a man who's smiling from ear to ear right now, he can smell success down the line. Let's say hello to Tree, who's in Chicago. What's going on, Tree? Welcome. Oh, man. What a night, man. What a night. What's up, Benny? Way to start the show. Benny, before I get to talk about my beers, man, you come to Chicago to see your brother.
You get out of time, man. It'd be a pleasure to take you to one of my favorite restaurants for lunch and dinner. All right. Send me an email. I'm on a tight schedule, but if I can work it in, I'd be happy to see you guys. We were talking about doing a meet-and-greet, but we don't have a venue, so it's probably not going to happen. But let me know. Yeah, that'd be a pleasure, man. But, man, Ben, I'm turning in. My birthday is next month. A month from today, I'll be 44 years old. Oh, my God. You're a young man, 44. What are you talking about? Come on now.
I'm getting up there, man. I'm getting up there. I feel good. I feel good. I feel good. As long as you feel good, that's all that matters, dude. The age thing doesn't really matter. As long as you feel all right, you're good. You're fine. That's it. That's the goal. That's the goal. I was in diapers when we won at 85, so I don't remember that. I hear that big man was okay. So to finally have a real quarterback, man, it feels so good, man. I feel like you got a chance. I feel like you're a contender. Because I never bought into Rex Grossman. I never believed it all those years when we had him and Lovey Smith. So to have a young superstar, man, I feel good about my guys. Who's going to win tonight?
So I think we got a shot, Benny, man. I really do, man. I really do. Yeah. Coming back. The running game is legit. I love this Simmons guy. Man, I feel good. That's a good feeling, man. So I like what we had, man. I like what we had. I think we can do it, man. Should I stay healthy?
Yeah, you should feel good. I'd like to rate on your parade. You know how I operate, but there's nothing really I can point to and say that that sucked and that was bad. I tried to find negative things. I did. I tried to find some negative stuff, but I really struggled to find anything negative about the Bears' performance. That was a dominating win in pretty much every phase of the game. There's a couple things here and there, but that's nitpicking. They could have scored a touchdown in that fight. They could have won 41-17. I think so. I don't win too many. I try not to talk bad about bros. They are one percenters. I never care for Sam Darnold. He never scares me.
And that was like, oh, man, here comes Sam Darnold. You want to bring him back? I was just always confident. I care about the defense more than about what he does. You shut down him, Jigbo, man. I believe that's the blueprint. I don't understand why more teams don't do it. Well, everyone tries to do it, but they do try to do it. But it's amazing because against Kansas City, it's like Jackson Smith and Jigbo was open every play. Kansas City didn't even stop him, I think, once. It was ridiculous. All right, listen, should you be happy? Send me a message. If I have time, I'll make sure to message you and we'll hang out. All right, thank you, Tree. Okay. You're a great tree in Chicago. Let's go to Andrew, who put the Bible down, picked up the phone, and called in right now. Hello, Andrew. Welcome.
You are correct, Ben. Did you know that the Apostle Paul was of the tribe of Benjamin? No, I didn't know. Yes. So I'm a UCLA fan and a Rams fan, but you're going to love this take. How many UCLA games have you been to this year? Well, I was watching or listening to their win. How many games have you been to UCLA? I don't think I've been to any. That means you're a real UCLA fan because I've seen the Rose Bowl. No one goes to those games, so you're a true Bruin fan.
Well, I don't know if your qualifications there really apply. What are you talking about, qualifications? I just said you're a legitimate UCLA fan if you don't go to games because I've seen UCLA football games and no one goes to the games. The stadium's empty. What? I think he wants my joke button. Oh, he's doing a joke? Was there a joke in there? I don't know. Are you having a medical issue right now, Andrew? Is everything okay? I'm a doctor. What did he say? It's going to be your favorite take of the year, probably. Is this going to be as good as the Dodgers are going to win the World Series? Is that going to be your Dodgers are fine, everything's okay?
So Sam Darnold, okay. As you're discrediting him, I think it's unfair. What did I say that was incorrect? You have to include, and I was thinking it was 17-2 at Minnesota. That's not right. 15-2 before the Super Bowl championship. You can't leave that out. Okay, so that's fair. I think at the same time, I think you'll agree with me on that because we're being fair, right? You said fair. Is that correct? You want to be fair? So let's be fair. So Sam Darnold's playoff game with the Minnesota Vikings. He had nine sacks and an interception and a fumble.
Is that fair to point that out? I just think that you've got to include... I think we have to include the fact that he rode the vomit comet in a playoff game. Okay, but then if you take the comparison... I think that one playoff game, by the way, trumps all those meaningless regular season games. Then he won the Super Bowl? He averaged five yards per pass in the Super Bowl. There are running backs that have averaged more than five yards per pass in the Super Bowl. He wasn't good. They won in spite of him. I don't know how many different ways I can say it. He's not good.
Well, I think the book is still open on that. Thank you. Talk to you soon. Let's say hello to Anthony in Louisiana. Hello, Anthony. Welcome. Hey, man. How you doing? If I was any better, I'd be a Darnold, but not Sam Darnold. Sam Darnold, he a fake. Look at this. That's a hot take. That's a hot take. We got a hot take from Anthony in Louisiana. There's a hot take. Hey, cuz.
Hey, Anthony. How was your weekend? Oh, it was fantastic. I was at Grand California and Disney all weekend. How's your daughter doing? She's good. Oh, my gosh. She did a haunted thing at her high school where she got to be a clown and scare kids. It was great. She did? Yeah. Are you afraid of clowns, Anthony? Sometimes. Yeah. All right. It's good to hear from y'all.
Yeah. All right. Well, thank you. Tremendous. That was a great hot take, Anthony. I'll let her know. All right. Thank you. Hang up on yourself. Hoosier Bill says Andrew was in a car accident and it is still going. That was his phone call. Every time he calls, we call him a car accident. His nickname is Fender Bender. Hoosier Bill also says Tree got good energy and the Bears' new acquisitions are on fire. Respect to Tree in Chicago from Hoosier Bill. I'm surprised we have not heard from Lucky Tony.
It's possible he's on a bender right now. We're on X at Ben Maller. That's at Ben Maller. The Philadelphia Eagles, they suck. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. Six losses in a row. So clearly they're going to change quarterbacks, change offensive coordinators. No.
No, no, no, no, no. Head coach Nick Sirianni planning on making no changes, no drastic changes. So they are settling into Suckville, USA in Philadelphia. The Eagles, after this run of success, and they're like, no, no, no, we want to get back to our roots. The old school birds. All right, time now for the Who Am I game. This is where we pretend to be somebody else as we call it the Who Am I game. Titans quarterback Cam Ward has done something that's almost impossible to do. Cam Ward.
Who? Is the first quarterback since me to start his team's first eight games without throwing a touchdown pass in the first three quarters. Every one of Cam Ward's touchdown passes this year have been in the fourth quarter. Who? Most of them in garbage time. Again, Titans quarterback Cam Ward, the first quarterback since me to start his team's first eight games without throwing a touchdown pass in the first three quarters of any of those games. Who am I? At Ben Maller on X, if you know the answer, we'll get to that. We'll do it next. Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
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All of his touchdowns have come in the fourth quarter, most of those in garbage time. Let's see. Rod, the ambassador of Bakersfield, who's just getting off the injured list there. Good luck, Rod, with your return to health. We're pulling for you. Theo Epstein gets by Alf, the alien opiner. Who else do we have? Matthew Murdoch from Scrooge in the formerly the younger demographic. Doc Dan going with Bob Avellini as his answer. Spud Webb from Lego Chuck.
in the Tampa area, if I remember correctly. Who else? Joe Dirt from Dread Pie. That's his answer. Poppy and Mike from Shane and Mike. Look, you got a photo of them together. Poppy and Mike the Leprechaun. Side by side. Mr. Irrigation says Andrew. The UCLA fan is the answer. Who else do we have? Page down. Drunk Ghost. Lorena from Larry D. What say you, Lorena? I'm going to go with Nathan Peterman. Is it Nathan Peterman? No. It's someone named Lamar McCann of the 1954 Chicago Cardinals. It's been a minute. It's been a minute. This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human.