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Ben Maller Show Best of the Week · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: And we are back at it again here. I saw
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  Speaker 1: some cockroaches walking the well, maybe as away for a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, so maybe they fix the infestation, but no,
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  Speaker 1: they have not. They have not, So you're just kind
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  Speaker 1: of like seeing an old friend. When you see a
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  Speaker 1: little cockroach scirming around on the floor, You're like, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's where I belong here. Those are Those are my
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  Speaker 1: insects right there. It's kind of cool. So our lead
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  Speaker 1: this hour is from Western Pennsylvan. It's excited to be
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  Speaker 1: back here and we're looking forward to a lot of
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  Speaker 1: fun and we'll have Mallard meet and greets during the
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  Speaker 1: course of the year in random places to be determined
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  Speaker 1: at a later date. Hopefully we'll make it. The plan
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  Speaker 1: is to make it to an Ohio meet and greet
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  Speaker 1: at some point this year. But that is all stuff
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  Speaker 1: we will talk about as we work our way through
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  Speaker 1: the overnight. We'll start out in Western Pa. It was
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  Speaker 1: the AFC North Championship game. There was the final game
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  Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty five regular season. The NFL has
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  Speaker 1: jammed two hundred and seventy two regular season games into
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty two days. This all started back
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  Speaker 1: on September fourth of last year. Way back in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. You might remember the Cowboys and the Eagles.
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  Speaker 1: They got together. It was a real spinner, a slobber knocker. Literally.
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  Speaker 1: It started with a giant loogie flying out of the
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  Speaker 1: mouth one of the Eagle players. And that's how the
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  Speaker 1: season began. And it ended with Lamar Jackson returning to
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  Speaker 1: lead the Ravens into Pittsburgh. Winner gets the playoffs, a
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  Speaker 1: wrangle against Aaron Rogers. So the winner gets the division.
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  Speaker 1: The loser goes on a nice vacation, nice tropical vacation somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: So there really are no losers, and there's either go
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  Speaker 1: on a vacation you go play a playoff game somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: So you had Mike Tarico Chris Collinsworth on NBC. They
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  Speaker 1: had the call. Now, I don't if you're watching it
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  Speaker 1: or not. Maybe you were not watching it. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what else you're watching. It was really nothing else
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  Speaker 1: to watch. We watched it, and this was a roller
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  Speaker 1: coaster of a game, a roller coaster of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers gets the headline on it. He threw the
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  Speaker 1: go ahead touchdown to Calvin Austin with fifty five seconds
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  Speaker 1: left on the clock. However, the Steelers they missed the
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  Speaker 1: extra point, giving Baltimore an opportunity, and the Steelers ended
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  Speaker 1: up getting the I don't know how you say it here,
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  Speaker 1: They ended up getting the benefit of the idiot kicker
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  Speaker 1: in this game. They squeeze past the Ravens twenty six
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  Speaker 1: twenty four. All the Ravens need was needed was a
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  Speaker 1: field goal, and they did get into field goal range
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  Speaker 1: rather quickly. A complete meltdown by the Yinzers defense as
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  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, that was MVP Lamar in the fourth quarter
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  Speaker 1: as he sliced up the Steelers took Baltimore down the field.
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  Speaker 1: They're set up what in modern NFL is a chip
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  Speaker 1: shot field goal forty four yard field goal attempt by
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Loop. Who Tyler Loop make the kick? You're in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. Missed the kick, and that's it, You're done.
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  Speaker 1: And as time expired, the kick went up and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he went to the to the right side of the
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  Speaker 1: goal post, not through the goal post. Who goofed? I've
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  Speaker 1: got to know. And so with that, these Steelers have advanced.
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  Speaker 1: They will have a home game wild Card weekend, but
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  Speaker 1: not on Saturday, not on Sunday. Instead, on Monday Night
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  Speaker 1: they will take on the Houston Texans. That'll be the
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  Speaker 1: match up there on Monday night. Have they added that?
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  Speaker 1: A couple of years ago Monday night football in the playoffs?
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  Speaker 1: So that'll be the story with thischburd Now. The better
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  Speaker 1: story though, for our purposes, is in the losing locker room.
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  Speaker 1: The Baltimore Ravens are dun Skis and the window for
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  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson to get her done. Now. He's been a
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  Speaker 1: terrible big game quarterback in his career and played really
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  Speaker 1: well down the stretch in this game. Didn't play this
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  Speaker 1: so well in the middle part of the game, but
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  Speaker 1: down the stretch played very well. At in the end
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  Speaker 1: not enough, and so Baltimore is done. Here is their
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  Speaker 1: head coach Sean Harbaugh. As we discuss, and he points
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  Speaker 1: out that even though the idiot kicker missed the kick,
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  Speaker 1: he says, apparently there were other people to blame thinke
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  Speaker 1: A Liss.
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  Speaker 3: What you saw this game is pretty much what you've
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  Speaker 3: seen all year from my heart, henifort and fight standpoint.
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  Speaker 1: I just didn't play well enough to you know, close
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  Speaker 1: it out. Now. You hear the question in the answer
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  Speaker 1: on this one, and uh, you know here John Harball
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  Speaker 1: asked about the Ravens situation. Now, it's it's pretty Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's low hanging through. It's kind of obvious what Harball
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  Speaker 1: is gonna say. But let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 2: This happens.
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  Speaker 1: You feel who use one another? Shots the guys? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I love I love the guy. Is he supposed to say? No,
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  Speaker 1: these guys suck. They're so bad. I'm so happy I
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  Speaker 1: never have to coach that team again. My god, they're horrible.
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  Speaker 1: I think Sports with Coleman, the podcast guy in Baltimore
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  Speaker 1: do a better job. Uh playing defense? Is some of
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  Speaker 1: these stiffs? What else is gonna say?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: All right, we'll hear from Lamar in a minute, but
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  Speaker 1: let's start with just the wide angle lens on the
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  Speaker 1: Ravens as they do not qualify for the playoffs. To question,
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  Speaker 1: as we discuss who do you blame? Who do you
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  Speaker 1: blame for Lamar Jackson the Ravens not qualifying the bar,
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  Speaker 1: the very minimum bar and make the playoffs. Hey, this
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  Speaker 1: is the great, all time Greats Hall of Fame quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, and they're not even in the playoffs. All right,
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  Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I've got flatulence, way back
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  Speaker 1: machine and trump card, and we will combine all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together and we're gonna present to you a
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  Speaker 1: combo meal deal. So that's the first ever combo meal
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  Speaker 1: deal that we're gonna give you here of sports. Take
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  Speaker 1: So a we are going to blame a kindergarten song
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  Speaker 1: is who we're going to blame? All right, Crank up
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  Speaker 1: the old boom box. Damn Bones a classic song, demn Bones. Right,
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  Speaker 1: the headbone is connected to the neck bone, the neck
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  Speaker 1: bones connected to the backbone. Except in Baltimore, the whole
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  Speaker 1: skeleton system, the whole skeleton there was held together by
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  Speaker 1: duck tape and some Elmer's glue and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: wishful thinking. And in the end, Lamar who played thirteen
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  Speaker 1: games this season. Now the Ravens played seventeen. Lamar played thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: and he missed chunks of the games he did play
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  Speaker 1: in for the Ravens. A bunch of those games Lamar
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  Speaker 1: played in he was playing in a dinghy, if you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying there. It was kind of like
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  Speaker 1: your phone was at twelve percent when they had Lamar
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  Speaker 1: out there twelve percent and then ended up dying at
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  Speaker 1: twelve percent. Well, of the phone's not supposed to die
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  Speaker 1: twelve percent. He should get down like five percent. You
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  Speaker 1: should have another seven percent, But it died at twelve
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  Speaker 1: percent unreliable when it actually mattered unreliable. Baltimore was six
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  Speaker 1: and seven in games started by Lamar Jackson at a
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  Speaker 1: losing record. This year. They were two and two in
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  Speaker 1: games he did not play in. He also lost to
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  Speaker 1: three non playoff teams the Ravens did this year and
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  Speaker 1: got swept by the Pittsburgh Steelers. So that's a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good way to not make the postseason, and so it
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  Speaker 1: was into non playoff team teams that did not end
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  Speaker 1: up qualifying for the postseason. There, it's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: trusting some cheap tires in a rainstorm. It's you know,
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  Speaker 1: you could get away with it. Sometimes it doesn't really
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  Speaker 1: work all that much. There so seven games with one
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  Speaker 1: or zero touchdown passes for Lamar this year, seven of
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  Speaker 1: them played thirteen. Seven of them he had no touchdown
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  Speaker 1: passes or one touchdown, So this was not for most
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  Speaker 1: of the season. This was not the ENVP version of
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  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. It was Lamar Light, caffeine free, low calorie,
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  Speaker 1: low calorie for Lamar. And so they played with their
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  Speaker 1: food all season, they being the Baltimore Ravens, and wound
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  Speaker 1: up thanks to the kicker there at the end, going
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  Speaker 1: to Detention instead instead of going to the postseason. So
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  Speaker 1: this was kind of like microwaving your leftovers and calling
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  Speaker 1: it gormet. You should at least put it in the
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  Speaker 1: air fire, don't put on a microwave. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: any thing that tastes good other than popcorn in the microwave,
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  Speaker 1: and even that, you can make it on the stove
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  Speaker 1: and it would taste better. That's just my hot food
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  Speaker 1: take that's my high. I just I don't like things
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  Speaker 1: in the microwave. I don't, sam I am, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't like them. So and now the postseason,
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  Speaker 1: Boogeyman has a right things that go bump any pump
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  Speaker 1: in the night for the Ravens, Lamar's name certainly will
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  Speaker 1: be floated through talk radio like flatulence floating through an elevator.
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  Speaker 1: And so we hear a lot about Lamar. Here's Lamar,
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  Speaker 1: here's his thoughts. He was asked about the future and no,
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  Speaker 1: here's what he had to say this off season.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of questions about your contract to selling
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  Speaker 2: cat number.
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  Speaker 1: Do you do you feel your you'll be back as
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  Speaker 1: the race for a riving season.
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  Speaker 3: He just lost a game, you know, a divisional game,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a game to put us in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not even thinking about that right now. The tavannahshun.
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  Speaker 3: Don't caught up in what just happened. You know, my
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  Speaker 3: focus went on.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like a guy that does not want to play
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  Speaker 1: for the Ravens anymore. The easy answer, the simple answer,
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  Speaker 1: is I love it here, I don't want to play
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  Speaker 1: and where else? Lamar didn't say that. Lamar said I
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  Speaker 1: haven't thought about that, which means that in my mind
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  Speaker 1: he's thought about playing somewhere else. He did want to
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  Speaker 1: He don't give a straight answer didn't give a straight answer.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like a guy that does not want to
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  Speaker 1: play for the Baltimore Ravens anymore. That's the sound of
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  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. And there's a real debate. There's a real
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  Speaker 1: debate here about Lamar and he has been a battering
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  Speaker 1: ram type of quarterback for the Ravens. And so do
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  Speaker 1: you keep riding the horse, of course, until the horse
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  Speaker 1: collapses and goes to the glue factory, or do you
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  Speaker 1: decommission as a Raven Lamar Jackson a year or two
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  Speaker 1: too soon, and you do that before the wheels fall off.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like Lamar's not real happy. I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: easy answer is I love it here. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to play where else. I haven't thought about it, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to play. Well, why would I want
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  Speaker 1: to play somewhere else? I didn't say that. Instead, he
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  Speaker 1: gave the default answer, Well, just playing a game. If
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  Speaker 1: you know you like it somewhere, don't you say you
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  Speaker 1: like it there? Am I wrong? Am I reading this wrong?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I am. It's a simple thing to
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  Speaker 1: say I love it here. Oh my god, I we
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  Speaker 1: go anywhere else? Listen. I love Fox Sports Tray every
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  Speaker 1: cockroach that drops from the ceiling. I love it the
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  Speaker 1: smell of trash when I come in on a Sunday
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  Speaker 1: night into a Monday. I love the rum of the
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  Speaker 1: trash here because I love it here. It's not like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I like you. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I mean, think about it, you know. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to do a show. I'm just trying
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  Speaker 1: to get through the monologue. I'm just trying to get
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  Speaker 1: through the bloody monologue. That's all I'm trying to come
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  Speaker 1: on now. As for John Harbaugh, the coach, he seems
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  Speaker 1: relatively safe. I don't think they're gonna get rid of him,
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  Speaker 1: he says. This is a this is a situation similar
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  Speaker 1: to Mike Tomlin, tenured professor at Harvard. You're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: get rid of John Harbaugh, not at this point. Now
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  Speaker 1: on the Pittsburgh side, the question for the esteem paddle
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  Speaker 1: are the Aarin Ragers Steelers a good team or just
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  Speaker 1: a fortunate team?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: So the answer is yes, no, maybe so with a
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  Speaker 1: lot of pepto, just extra pepto. This feels a lot
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  Speaker 1: like every other Mike Tomlin Steeler team post Ben Roethlisberger like,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't feel any but they like the names have
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  Speaker 1: changed slightly. The names are a little different for the
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  Speaker 1: Steelers Pittsburgh, they stumbled and they bumbled. It was like
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  Speaker 1: a shopping cart with a bad wheel. There's a one
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  Speaker 1: hundred shopping carts in front of the store. You pick
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  Speaker 1: the one that has the bad wheel, and then you're like,
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  Speaker 1: what do I do? Do I put it back and
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  Speaker 1: give somebody else the one with the bad wheel? Do
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  Speaker 1: I try to push it? Do I try to find
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  Speaker 1: a different cart while I'm in That's my move. Go
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  Speaker 1: to Costco, I get the one with the bad wheel,
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  Speaker 1: and I take it. And then people just they leave
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  Speaker 1: their They leave their carts around the store. So I'll
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  Speaker 1: just grab someone else's car because they don't use anymore
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  Speaker 1: this just leave it on side. That's it. But you
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  Speaker 1: look at Pittsbord, this did not look like a playoff team.
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  Speaker 1: Did not sound like a playoff team. You look at
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  Speaker 1: the way they played this particular game. They stumbled and bumbled.
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  Speaker 1: As we said there, especially late in the game Lamar
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  Speaker 1: Jackson when we just did a serenade about Lamar. In
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  Speaker 1: this situation, when you look at the play in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter, Lamar was really good, really good. He pulled
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  Speaker 1: out the butcher knife. Lamar Jackson had seventy two percent
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  Speaker 1: almost of his passing yards for the whole game in
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  Speaker 1: the final fifteen minus one hundred and seventy one of
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  Speaker 1: two thirty eight and a couple of touchdowns, error free
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  Speaker 1: football for Lamar Jackson. And it was an oil painting.
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  Speaker 1: He was a museum piece. That was Lamar the Ravens
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  Speaker 1: had gotten when he was winning regular season the MVPs.
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  Speaker 1: And it was still not enough. Why because Mike Tomlin
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  Speaker 1: went to the way back machine and it was a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful life for Mike Tomlin. Clarence the Angel had a
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  Speaker 1: terrible towel and the divine intervention. There was a full moon,
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  Speaker 1: I guess a few days back, their cosmic event, the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing there. Pitch blows an extra point and then
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore says, all right, ball, don't lie. You blew an
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  Speaker 1: extra point. So let's have our kicker do the old
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  Speaker 1: loop d loop and miss the kick face plant chip
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  Speaker 1: shot modern NFL field goal, And so that happens. Now,
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  Speaker 1: do the Steelers scare you if you are like the Texas.
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  Speaker 1: We're on in Houston. You're in Houston. Are you afraid
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  Speaker 1: of Pittsburgh? No, hell no, nobody's afraid of Pittsburgh. However,
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  Speaker 1: they are lethal at home. They have been lethal. That's
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  Speaker 1: what they have done in primetime games. They get the
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  Speaker 1: Monday night slot, the Steelers, and they're like a giant
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  Speaker 1: anaconda that doesn't look that fast until until it's too late.
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  Speaker 1: And so you got a dome team. You got a
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  Speaker 1: dome team from Houston going to frigid Pittsburgh with temperatures
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  Speaker 1: around freezing the long term forecast for a week from
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  Speaker 1: this Monday here, So the weather math looks good. With
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  Speaker 1: the malor math CJ strads not very good. Although these
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  Speaker 1: teams played in the regular season in Pittsburgh lost by
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  Speaker 1: seven thousand points, but that was the regular season and
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  Speaker 1: the playoff team. So this is a playoff team obviously,
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  Speaker 1: much different situation. You're so good team, eh, Now, fortunate
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  Speaker 1: team Pittsburgh. Absolutely fortunate team, and sometimes that's all you need.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour from the coaching carousel. And
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  Speaker 1: we have seen a bunch of coaches given the boot
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  Speaker 1: given the boot right, and they've all been pretty predictable.
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  Speaker 1: They've all been pretty predictable. Bad teams, bad owners. This
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  Speaker 1: is what they do. Well. We got a backdoor curveball
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  Speaker 1: in the coaching cycle. And if you have not heard
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  Speaker 1: by now, I assume you have where the hell you been.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a chance maybe you actually have a life
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  Speaker 1: and you don't pay attention to this stuff all day
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  Speaker 1: and you just turn it on at night. So here's
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  Speaker 1: the deal. We have learned that the Dead Poet Society
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  Speaker 1: has said aloha to John Harbaugh. The Ravens have fired
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  Speaker 1: John Harbaugh. He's out. They're franchise is winning hist head
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  Speaker 1: coach Halwy sports with Coleman Batman. Wow, that's our buddy
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  Speaker 1: in Baltimore. But in less than forty eight hours after
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  Speaker 1: a chip shot field goal was missed to the right,
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens said, we're done with you. So if the
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  Speaker 1: field goal goes in, do they keep the coach? Is
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  Speaker 1: that how this works is that we didn't realize at
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  Speaker 1: the time if that kick had been made, does Tomlin
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  Speaker 1: lose his job? Is that what that is? If they
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  Speaker 1: had tied with both coaches have lost their job, or
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  Speaker 1: where they have both kept their job. Well, the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: made the playoffs, the Ravens failed to make the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: and so after eighteen seasons, Hardball his ass is grass,
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  Speaker 1: He's out. Now eyebrows have been raised and they are
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  Speaker 1: pointed the direction of mister MVP guy Lamar Jackson, who
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  Speaker 1: intrigue all right, So that is a good jumping off point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. Is it true Lamar Jackson
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: played at least some role, some role as coach killer
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: in Baltimore for John Harball developing hot dot dot dot.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: So my thoughts, I've got teenage mutant ninja turtles markers, squeaking,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: and magnifying glass. And we will combine all of these
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: things together and we are going to make some old
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Bay seasoning, which is they put that on everything in Baltimore,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: that old Bay seasoning. Put that on the salad, not
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: that I eat salad. Because I believe all vegetables should
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: live a full life. I don't think anything should be
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: harmed by me eating them. I think you pigs that
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: eat vegetables, you don't vegetables. They need to live a
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: full life. Anyway. So to answer the question, is it
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: true that Lamar Jackson played a role as the coach
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: killer in the John Harbaugh story, I am nodding my head. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: yes yes. I listen. We are private investigators here, and
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: if you follow the bread crumbs, like every great crime drama,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: you follow the bread crumbs. Lamar Jackson didn't just stay silent.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: He didn't he What he did was he had an
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: opportunity to publicly endorse his head coach, go to bat
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: for his coach, and he said no.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: He stayed well, not necessarily signing. He did talk, He
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: just refused to answer the question. And the Ravens have
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: leaked that One of the issues here was John Horball
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: refused to whack offensive coordinator Todd Munkin, and there was
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: an issue in the ownership. So what we got. You
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: gotta get rid of this guy. I mean, this guy's
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: at DRABRONI you're gonnaet wait wait, I don't want to
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: get rid of the guy. You got to I don't
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: want to. Oh you're fired. Boom done, gon get out
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: of here. You know what that is? Abra cadabra poof presto.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: That is what. That is the key to magic. And
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I love magic. You know. I was the kid Ryan
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: went to Disneyland as a kid. I always want to
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: go to the magic Store. That's where I wanted to
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: go more than any on Main Street, USA. I want
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: to go hang out the magic shop. And I got
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: smaller and smaller. It was a kid, it was big.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Now I go in there, it's like a little side,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: little thing pocket of magic. But I recall and a
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: magician's act, whether you're a great magician or a bad magician,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: the key is the misdirection. And this is a classic
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: smoke bomb. It's a classic smoke bomb by the Ravens,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: and it's the magician waving the hand. I'm waving the
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: hand over here. And then and then on this side
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: you do the switch. You know, you do the old switcheroo. There,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: that's the that's the move, and you grab something and
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: your wallet pops up in a different place. But the
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: real evidence on this, what is the real evidence? The
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: real evidence? Was Lamar at the podium the other day.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: He was asked a soft ball question, total softball question.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Do you want John Harbaugh back as coach of the
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Ravens next season? Standard basic question for Lamar Jackson. A layup,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: an absolute layup, a foul shot, no one guarding you
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: unless it wasn't. So what did Lamar Jackson say? We've
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: got the audio. Let's go to the audio tip. Here's
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Lamar responding to a really simple question. Do you want
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: to see John?
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: You asked me about next year? Jamison, I'm so caught
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: up in what just happened tonight. I can't I can't
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: focus on that right now. I just told you, like
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: he asked me, are you stunning? I'm stunning right now,
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: and I'm still trying to process what's going on. Like,
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: I know we lost, but but you know that's all.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: So you heard a little bit of a pause there.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Lamar paused like his brain was buffering. Oh, I don't
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: want to answer that question, man, Why would you ask
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: me that? You asking me about next year? We in here,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: we just lost the game. You're talking about next year.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Now you can't see the body of elements because we're
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: doing radio. It's an audio platform. But the hands were
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: in the air, a little headshake, dead give what Yeah,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: it's not. People said, well, that's emotion, you know, just
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: lost the game and all that stuff. You know what
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: that is? Bull crap is what that is. That's avoidance
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: is what it was. Also, Lamar had an opportunity he
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: did not choose to take the opportunity to defend John Harbaugh.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: He didn't endorse him. He didn't even fake it like
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: it's a simple thing. Just fake it old, Oh that's
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: my guy, that's my coach. We ride together, ride and die.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: He didn't do any of that. Lamar hung his coach
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: out to drive by not answering the question. And so
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: you keep hearing these little nuggets out of Baltimore and
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: more and more as we workshop this together, it would
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: appear that Lamar Jackson and the coach it was like
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: teenage mutant ninja turtles. But they were not those turtles.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: They were loggerhead turtles. John Harbaugh and Lamar Jackson fighting
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: over the remote control. Who's in control here? And when
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: push came to shove ultimately ownership. They made the call
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: and they're the ones that make the decision here, right.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: But the story that was leaked, one of the stories
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: that was leaked in addition to the Todd Munkins story,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: there was another story leaked by the Ravens obviously obviously
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: was that John Harbaugh lost the locker room. Ding ding
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ning. Yeah,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: you know that's a tell you know that story was
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: not leaked by John Harbaugh. Why would John Harbaugh leak
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: the story I lost the locker room? That make no sense,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: makes him look like a buffoon. So obviously came from
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: the Ravens. And let's see, let's break this down scientific
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: So what exactly who is the Ravens locker room? That's right,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, Like, if ten guys of the Ravens despise
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: John Harbaugh, however Lamar Jackson loves him, doesn't that cross
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: out to ten people that don't like John Harbaugh as
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: the old line, there's certain percentage of people that don't
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: like it no matter what you do, and there's certain
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: people that like you, and then there's others that are undecided.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: And once the undecided voters go to the side they
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: don't like you, it's a problem. But to me, this
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: is clearly pointing at the direction of Lamar Jackson and
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Steve Bashatti, the owner. He chose the quarterback. And the
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: whole thing smells like what raw sewage is what it's
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: smell like. And Lamar never grabbed a plunger. And now
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: the Ravens like, well, we call their own plumber, rode
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: O ruter, and they're coming in here. We gotta clogged toilet.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: We're gonna unclog the toilet, is what we're gonna do.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: All right, now, turning the page, but keeping the theme
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: of the hour on this Mala monologue, there's a theme
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: to all this, there's a method to the matter. So
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: John Harbaugh has now become hot to trot. He's the
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: bell of the ball, hottest girl in the whole room.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Uh well, let's kiss coach. Everyone loves him. Oh my god.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Now the question is does he sit out? Does he
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: return to coach, Will he continue as an NFL coach?
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Does he take time off? Does this become an Andy
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Reid situation where Andy Reid had success in Philadelphia and
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: then he went somewhere else and then things really went
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: turbo time in Kansas City with Patrick Mahomes. Now the agent.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Keep him mind, the agent has an agent. Agents like politicians.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: They never say anything that's legit. But anyway, the agent's claiming,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: pumping his chest out, get the feathers up like a peacock,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: and the agent's claiming seven NFL teams within forty five minutes.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Contact the agent said, Hey, how would you like to
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: coach our team? To the agent? So, all right, question,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: through the powers of radio and audio content. Through the
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: powers of audio content, you have now been hired as
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: an NFL consultant. Congratulations, paid a lot of money, good expense,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: account no accountability, none of that stuff. So you're a consultant,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: you're a career counselor, and John Harball and his agent
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: have hired you time to give advice. So what should
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: former Ravens coach John Harbaugh's next move be? You make
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the call. So on this one, we're going to activate
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the Malor think tank. The Malor think tank is activated.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: So the white board you got to whiteboard out, and
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: you got the market. Those squeaky markers, like the markers
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: are squeaking. You got that going on a logic, slightly
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: cooked overnight talk radio logic. So Hardball is shopping for
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: his next zip code. In theory, the first rule is
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: you immediately cross off the clown cars. So you got
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: no clown cars. So that's so raiders forget. Come on,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: is there a bigger clown car than well, the Browns. Okay,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: so they're out. Browns, Raiders, Titans. I don't want to
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: do that, So they're out. And so you've got that.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: That's three different flavors of ownership quicksand so you eliminate them.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: The giants are not much better. The Giants are like
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: the Jets light The Giants at least used to be good,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: but now they're just like the Jets. But they have
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: a different logo and they've got taller buildings than the
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Browns and the Raiders and things like that. They actually
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: have the same same buildings as the Jets, and the
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: same socialist mayor they have there in New York. But
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: if I'm John Harbaugh, right, If I'm John Harball, I'm
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: narrowing it down to two spots of the available teams,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Atlanta and Miami. However, however, I told you we're workshopping this.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: If you're John Harbaugh, you gotta wait. There's a good
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: chance the Buffalo Bills lose in Jacksonville on wild Card weekend,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: that job opens up. You slide in and coach Josh Allen. Now,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: the Bengals have said that their coach is going to
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: be back. I don't know that I believe that, because
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: if you have a chance to hire John Harbaugh, why
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: wouldn't you do that? So of the available jobs, none
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: of them are all that good. If it was just
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: the available jobs, I would say, go to Atlanta, go
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: to Miami. However, you have to wait a couple of rounds.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Just you're the hot person at the bar. Everyone's trying
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: to flirt with you, buy your drinks, but you gotta wait, okay,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: because he's coming in late into the bar. Buffalo, they
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: don't they have to fire their coach if they lose
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: on wild card weekend and the Bills are in the
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: playoffs and there's normal homes, no Lamar Jackson, not that
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: he was any good in the playoffs. No Joe Burrow,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: this has got to be the year. And if they
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: don't win, if he was on wild card weekend, don't
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: the Bill's fire mcdermoy so that job opens up, and
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: then say what, you know what? The Bengals have bad owners,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: but they good quarterback, so keep an eye kind of
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: hold off all the available jobs. I'd go with Atlanta
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: mainly because of the NFC South, where you can. No
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: division has produced more teams with losing records to make
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: the playoffs in the history of the NFL than the
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: team or the NFC South teams. I should say the
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers, who suck this year. Tampa Bay's made it
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: under five hundred. So that's the division all stuck in
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: neutral or rebuilding, which is weasel terminology. Miami, that job
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: is technically not open all. I just wouldn't you want
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: to rather live in Miami. The Dolphins used to be good.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: How you can wake up the echoes of Don Shula
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: and Dan Marino and all that. Of course they don't
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: have a quarterback, but most of these.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Teams don't be sure to catch live editions of the
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Now Malor's mountain of money. Hell, do you have what
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: it takes to get to the top?
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Probably not, as sir, we say hello to John, who's
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: living in paradise? Hello John, Ben, how are you? How's paradise?
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: You know what?
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: All right? Very good? Who do you want to partner
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: up with? John? It's Mallard's amount of money? The Marlynd
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Manson addition, who do you want to partner up with?
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: How about you? Ben? All right? Very good? John? Hold
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: on a sec Lorraina picked door number one or door
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: number two? Nambo oh man, Well, Coop's very happy you
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: picked number two, and that is a Jordans in Cansa City.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Hello Jordan, Man, there's nothing going on in January football.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: You can start scouting for the you can start scouting
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: for the draft. Jordan's quickly, all right? Who you're gonna
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: play with? Coop? Alright? Alright, very good? Coop? Please all right.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: Marilyn Manson turned fifty seven on Monday. So the categories
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: are Sweet Dreams for the Beautiful People, The Dope Show
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: and Deep Six. John, you were on first, which category
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: would you.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Like deep six. All right, and Jordan, how about you.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: It's beautiful people, all right, beautiful right? John and Ben
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: you were up first? All right? These athletes all war
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: or where the number six? Are you ready? John? All right?
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Forty five seconds We're on our way. Go star with
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: the Lakers right now. He's forty years old. Yes, a
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers currently not in the playoffs. Yes.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Greatest winner of all time for the Boston Celtics of
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties. Yes, that's correct. Wide receiver currently for
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles. Number sixty. Won the Heisman at Alabama. Yes.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Nicknamed the man for the Saint Louis Cardinals back in
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties. What. Yes, MVP for the Philadelphia Phillies
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: when they won the World Series. We play with Jimmy Rollins,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: first basement African American hit a lot of home runs
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: for the Phillies. Ryan, Yeah, well I think you said
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: he didn't the last name. He just said, Bryan. You
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: got one sixty on that man. I'm glad that you
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: live in Paradise because your phone doesn't.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: Ryan Howard was who you were looking for an hour?
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: All right, Jordan, we have the beautiful people. Uh. These
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: athletes all appeared on the cover of GQ magazine. Forty
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: five seconds on the clock. Begin former quarterback for the Cowboys.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: He is currently a broadcaster. No, the younger one, he's
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: currently yes, all right. This guy was the flash for
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: the Miami Heat. Yes, this guy was a USC quarterback.
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: He played at the Cincinnati Bengals and then the Raiders Carton. Yes, yep, yep.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: This guy had the sack record until it was just
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: beaten by Miles Garrett. Nope, he has a gap tooth.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: Yes, this guy is another USC quarterback, but he sucked
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: in the NFL.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: He was with Reggie Bush.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: That was right there, but it wasn't it?
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Alright?
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: Mat right, so we have one hundred points, right, Yeah,
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: you guys got it all right? Jordan, do want Sweet
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: Dreams or the Dope Show?
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: Uh? These athletes all have sweet sounding nicknames. Forty five
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: seconds on the clock. Let's begin the Juice running back
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: for the Buffalo Bills. He killed people. Yes, his nickname
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: was Sweetness. Running back for the Bears. Yes, this guy's
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: last name is a fruit. He was on the New
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: York Mets. Yes, this guy's nickname was the honey Badger. Yes,
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: this guy was chocolate thunder all right, how about white chocolate?
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: He was on the Kings, played street ball.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Sounds like you're an agony here. Okay.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: How about a pitcher named the candy Man for the
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: Pirates in the seventies.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: No, probably not all right, you know for fitting? All right?
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: How many points are the guy? What do they got learned?
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: That's another hundred?
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: So you guys go to forty to win? Are you
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: ready there? John in Paradise? We need forty to win.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: I'm going for the kill shot right away. Are you ready?
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: All right? These athletes all have caught, all were caught
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: doping or taking pds. Yeah, here we are, forty five
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: seconds on the clock. We're on our way. A great
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: defensive player for the San Diego Chargers, nickname lights Out.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: He was the defensive rookie of the Year for the
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: San Diego Chargers. All right, slot wide receiver for the
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: white guy for the Patriots. He's a podcaster now he
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: does some television stuff like a Jewish guy wide receiver. No,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: another white guy for the Patriots. A slot receiver. Yeah,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: go ahead, all right, all right, Oh my god, oh
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: my god. All right, Julian Edelman and Sean Merriman. He
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: didn't do anything, did not do anything. There was nothing
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: done at all.