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Hour 2 - Allegheny Aaron · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Dingo. It's our num ber to our number two and
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  Speaker 1: one of the great offseason storylines has come to an
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  Speaker 1: end today as Aaron Rodgers taking his talents to Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 1: What's the temperature around Aaron Rodgers as he finally goes
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  Speaker 1: to the Steelers? Our critics being too harsh on Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers as he goes to the land of the Insurer?
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  Speaker 1: Or is the scrutiny justified? And Aaron Rodgers is the
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  Speaker 1: Power Hour of Aaron Rodgers? With how does this relationship
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  Speaker 1: go between Rogers and Mike Tomlin. We'll cover it all.
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  Speaker 1: It's the Aaron Rodgers Power Hour, the hour you did
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  Speaker 1: not ask for, but you're going to get and you're
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  Speaker 1: going to listen to it right now. It's our number two.
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  Speaker 1: Call him alleghany Aaron welmeme. In the beginny of another
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  Speaker 1: nightmare is now over. Dateline, Western Pennsylvania. After months and
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  Speaker 1: months of a very public courtship between Aaron Rodgers and
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  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin, we now have a endpoint. No more will
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  Speaker 1: he or won't he speculation. We assume that you've heard
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  Speaker 1: by now, unless you've been living by a rock down
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  Speaker 1: by the river. Maybe not. But Aaron Rogers has decided
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  Speaker 1: he will take his talents to Mike Tomlin and the
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers, letting Tomlin know that he intends to join
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  Speaker 1: the team for the twenty twenty five season. And the
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  Speaker 1: Steelers had put a full court press, a full court
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  Speaker 1: press on the now ex jet, but the ex jet
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  Speaker 1: has landed at a new airport in Pittsburgh, so that move.
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  Speaker 1: According to the Pittsburgh football team, all that is required
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  Speaker 1: is a physical. Now, you know the way this works.
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  Speaker 1: If the team wants you to play for the team,
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  Speaker 1: they will find a doctor to pass you, or they'll
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  Speaker 1: just give the old wink and a nod to the
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  Speaker 1: doctor who is employed by the team. And so it's
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  Speaker 1: very difficult to not pass a physical if the team
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  Speaker 1: wants you to pass physical. Right, yeah, exactly. So at
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  Speaker 1: age forty one, air and Rogers is going to be
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  Speaker 1: hanging out at the confluence. What a beautiful city, Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: is the mononga HeLa, the Alleghany rivers there, they get together,
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  Speaker 1: they have a baby, and that's called the Ohio River.
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  Speaker 1: And man, is that neat really cool? If you've never
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  Speaker 1: been there. I was there of years ago. I got
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  Speaker 1: to get back. I've not been to Pittsburgh in a minute,
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  Speaker 1: so let us discuss the question what is the temperature
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  Speaker 1: around air? And Rogers finally going to the Steelers, So
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  Speaker 1: what is the temperature in the room. So I've we've
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  Speaker 1: got foreigner screenplay and quirky, and we will combine all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together and we are going to throw
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  Speaker 1: some fries on top of our sandwich as we hydrate
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  Speaker 1: and kind of get get her blood going a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: So again we got foreigner screenplay and quirky. Number. I said, number,
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  Speaker 1: the average body temperature is ninety eight point six degrees.
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  Speaker 1: Now you knew that, right, fahrenheit ninety eight point six.
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  Speaker 1: You learned that when you were younger. So I checked
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  Speaker 1: the thermometer in the room. The thermometer in the room,
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  Speaker 1: we took we took a look at it. What does
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  Speaker 1: the thermometer in the room say when Aaron Rodgers is involved?
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  Speaker 1: It is always a high grade fever. Keep an eye
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  Speaker 1: on it. You may have to go to the emergency room.
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  Speaker 1: Why is that Aaron Rodgers is a firebrand with a
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  Speaker 1: capital F firebrand. I get a kick out of Rogers.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have as big an issue as some of
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  Speaker 1: you do. I get these long manifesto emails every once
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  Speaker 1: in a while from someone, and they often start I
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  Speaker 1: used to like Aaron Rodgers when he played for the Packers,
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  Speaker 1: and now I can't support him anymore, Okay, And they
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  Speaker 1: have like the Packer logos. They're avvy, they're avatar, right.
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  Speaker 1: But the soundtrack, the soundtrack of Aaron Rodgers is from
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  Speaker 1: the band Foreigner. It's Agent Provocateur. That's Aaron. Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 1: is an agent provocateur. He's also a foreigner in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 1: He's an outsider. He's a mercenary. He provokes a reaction,
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  Speaker 1: he ignites rage, and that's good for what I do.
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  Speaker 1: Some people get the heb gbs. It's good good for
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  Speaker 1: talk radio. People are ignited into rage and about everything. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give an example. So one of the stories, the
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  Speaker 1: working hypothesis on Rogers and why he waited until the
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  Speaker 1: first week in June to sign. One of the popular
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  Speaker 1: opinions by popular people is that Rogers was annoyed at
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  Speaker 1: the way the media attacked him for going to see
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  Speaker 1: the Pyramids in Greece and skipping out on the jets
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  Speaker 1: and some practices in the off season. So he determines like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna wait and I'm gonna enjoy my off season.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sign. Therefore, no one can goof on
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  Speaker 1: me for not signing. And so he waited to take
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  Speaker 1: his talents to Alleghany County and he wanted to enjoy
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  Speaker 1: traveling around and hanging out with his buddy Joe Rogan
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  Speaker 1: and all the podcast the dopes that he does, and
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  Speaker 1: so he thought, hey, i'll avoid criticism. You can't rip
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  Speaker 1: me if I don't sign. I'm not under nfl umbrella.
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  Speaker 1: I can do whatever I want. Yeah. Oh, there's a
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  Speaker 1: blast in the past. But here's the he didn't miss
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  Speaker 1: any OTAs. So of course Rogers decides that's what I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna do. I'm not gonna sign. I'm gonna wait until
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  Speaker 1: the last minute. I'm gonna sign a contract. And the
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  Speaker 1: Steelers were perfectly okay with this. They rubber stamp it.
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  Speaker 1: They gave the okay and Rogers has been getting roasted
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  Speaker 1: like a pig at a traditional Hawaiian luau. He's selfish
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  Speaker 1: as an egomaniac. Oh my god. Yeah, I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: this much. Rogers will be motivated. You're getting a motivated
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  Speaker 1: player to prove that he can still play. To motivate
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  Speaker 1: it also mainly to prove that it wasn't It wasn't him,
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  Speaker 1: It was the Jets. He's not the reason that his
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  Speaker 1: career is in a ditch on the side of the road.
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  Speaker 1: It was the Jets, and they have a mandatory mini
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  Speaker 1: camp coming up next week. So Rogers decided, all right,
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  Speaker 1: this is as long as I can wait. I can't
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  Speaker 1: wait no more. I gotta do it now. The question becomes,
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  Speaker 1: even if you're motivated, is the car running on empty?
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  Speaker 1: Is there any gas left in the tank? Is there?
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  Speaker 1: Rogers has not looked like an elite NFL quarterback since
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  Speaker 1: prior to COVID, and I would argue a couple years
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  Speaker 1: prior to that because even his last year at lombeau
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  Speaker 1: Field he was not doing the Lambeau leap very often.
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  Speaker 1: It was not a good season for Rogers if you
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  Speaker 1: actually watch the games. Now, if you look at the
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  Speaker 1: Pro Football Reference page and you're a low information fan,
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  Speaker 1: you just read the box score. Oh, it was the
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  Speaker 1: same hold on Rodgers. No, it wasn't right. That's one
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  Speaker 1: of the reasons the Packers were not too worried about
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  Speaker 1: letting Rogers go. They saw a declining player and that
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  Speaker 1: continued with the Jets and he got hurt and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. So you know, he can go there and
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  Speaker 1: eat the go back to Wisconsin and eat the cheese skirts.
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  Speaker 1: But Pittsburgh fans now they will boo you. They're gonna
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  Speaker 1: boo your ass, is what they're going to do into
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  Speaker 1: the next week. When you start floating those little screen
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  Speaker 1: passes and instead of completing them and getting the first down,
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  Speaker 1: you throw it over the head or it bounce it.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna hear about it now. Page two. Are the
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  Speaker 1: critics of the quarterback? Are the critics being too harsh
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  Speaker 1: on Aaron Rodgers or is this scrutiny justified? Rogers been
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  Speaker 1: around for a while and it's mentioned the temperatures at
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  Speaker 1: a fever pitch for Aaron Rodgers. But is this justified
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  Speaker 1: or is this just a bit too much? So I
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  Speaker 1: would argue this is the nature of the beast, nature
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  Speaker 1: of the beast. When you are high profile, and also
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  Speaker 1: when you go around acting like Socrates with a spiral,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to get scrutiny. It's in the recipe for
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  Speaker 1: the cake. It's baked into the cake. There and Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: is a legacy franchise, it's appropriate because this is a
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  Speaker 1: legacy saving situation for Rogers. I've already read the advanced screenplay.
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  Speaker 1: I have a copy of it. When you do overnight
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  Speaker 1: talk radio, it's one of the perks that you get.
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  Speaker 1: So I've read the screenplay. It's like a Hollywood script.
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  Speaker 1: It's Aaron Rodgers trying to rewrite the narrative yet again.
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  Speaker 1: It's the old Cinderella Rise, Fall, Rise again. And there
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  Speaker 1: is a dimension. There is a dimension in the multiverse
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  Speaker 1: where Aaron Rodgers goes out there and teta he gets
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  Speaker 1: it done. He won in Green Bay, he fizzled in Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: He then rises again in Pittsburgh. Now there is an
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  Speaker 1: alternative reality also, and the alternative reality is that Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers has nothing left. That Aaron Rodgers is dun skies.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing there. The tank is on empty. And Rogers
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  Speaker 1: ends up meditating on Mount Washington in Pittsburgh and gets
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  Speaker 1: abducted by UFOs while meditating on Mount Washington and has
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  Speaker 1: never heard from again. And the next time Rodgers has
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  Speaker 1: talked about is over with our buddy George Norri on
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  Speaker 1: coast to coast, And that's where that's where it is,
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  Speaker 1: all right now, final point, So how does this relationship
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  Speaker 1: between Mike Tomlin and Aaron Rodgers work out in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm fascinated by this because these are two gigantic,
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  Speaker 1: egoed human beings, and we love Mike Tomlin. Mike Tomlin
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  Speaker 1: has been so good, so good for what we do.
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  Speaker 1: At least two or three times during the NFL season,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin will say some hokey thing like our windshield
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  Speaker 1: is bigger than our rear view mirror, and then we'll
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  Speaker 1: do ten minutes on Mike Tomlin some something, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he says, I want volunteers, not hostages. There's all these
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  Speaker 1: Tomlin tomlinisms that are out there, and I'm fundamentally against comfort.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember some of these things off the top,
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  Speaker 1: off the top of my head. But it's great, you know,
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  Speaker 1: trying to get my mojo back. I mean, it's endless,
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  Speaker 1: it's endless, all these little lines, and so we get
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  Speaker 1: to see that dynamic and it's it's gonna get off
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  Speaker 1: to a fine So I think there's a honeymoon period.
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  Speaker 1: Rogers is gonna show up. He's gonna have his church
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  Speaker 1: clothes on, He's gonna say all the right things, He'll kiss.
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  Speaker 1: I'll probably kiss a baby wrapped in a terrible towel
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  Speaker 1: to show everyone that he loves Pittsburgh. The real moment
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  Speaker 1: where this gets interesting is like week four or five,
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  Speaker 1: when the rubber meets the road. Can't wait, yeah, Rogers.
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  Speaker 1: At that point, Aaron will be visiting the Speak Easy
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  Speaker 1: over in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and he'll be at a at
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  Speaker 1: a bar, the speakeasy bar there with Fry Daddy, and
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  Speaker 1: he'll be drinking shots of ayahuasca. And he'll be bemoaning
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  Speaker 1: to Fry Daddy in Harrisburg, blaming the offensive line for
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  Speaker 1: the misalignment of the energy. And he needs some more
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  Speaker 1: essential oils to turn things around. And that's just the
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  Speaker 1: way it is. But I'm ready for that. I'm ready.
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  Speaker 1: I'm good to go. This is his handpicked for Mike Tomlin,
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  Speaker 1: his handpicked quarterback. Be careful what you ask for. They've
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  Speaker 1: had a very quirky bromance. Mike Tomlin is one of
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  Speaker 1: the few coaches that can command enough riespect, enough respect
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  Speaker 1: to manage all the personality quirks that come with the
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  Speaker 1: all inclusive Aaron Rodgers experience. Now, this only works if
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  Speaker 1: Rogers has something left and buys it.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's gonna buy it emotionally. I believe he'll
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  Speaker 1: buy it. Physically, that's the question. He's in his forties.
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  Speaker 1: Usually you start sucking as an athlete at that time,
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  Speaker 1: and there have been exceptions to that, but for the
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  Speaker 1: most part, they just they don't happen often, and Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: has been stuck in this transitional cycle at quarterback ever
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  Speaker 1: since Ben Roethlisberger walked away after the twenty twenty one season.
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  Speaker 1: Rogers will be the fifth different week number one quarterback
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  Speaker 1: in as many seasons, so five years in a row,
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  Speaker 1: new quarterback, and despite that, Pittsburgh has reached the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: four times in the last five seasons, only to be
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  Speaker 1: vaporized in the postseason in lopsided losses. Uncompetitive, like they
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  Speaker 1: don't even belong, Like they're just a tomato can that
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  Speaker 1: somehow accidentally got to the playoffs. Now other than Rogers,
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  Speaker 1: other than Rogers, they've got Mason Rudolph. They took a
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  Speaker 1: late round flyer, not a Daton flyer, but they took
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  Speaker 1: a late round flyer on Ohio State quarterback Will Howard.
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  Speaker 1: So Will Howard is the other option in the quarterback Room,
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  Speaker 1: sports radio. So act accordingly. We began this hour with
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, and back to it we go a little hot.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers talk as he joins the Pittsburg Steelers. Oh yay,
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  Speaker 1: oh yay, oh yay, oh yay. All right, very nice,
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Wright, since says he thinks Tom Brady, Tiger Woods,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Jordan, Gretzky, and o'tani the greatest players to ever
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  Speaker 1: play their sport, all within the last couple of decades.
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  Speaker 1: He says, in fifty years, will all their names stand.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see how they don't. Well, do not be
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  Speaker 1: a prisoner of the moment. Now, yeah, in our lifetime,
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  Speaker 1: we'll all be dead by the time someone else comes
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  Speaker 1: along better. And it depends how old you are, but
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  Speaker 1: there's always someone better, right, And remember when when Jordan's
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  Speaker 1: started going bonkers, there were people saying, well, he's good,
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  Speaker 1: but he's not as good as Elginlor believe it or not,
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  Speaker 1: Elgind Baylor. There was a guy that worked here, Dave Stone,
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  Speaker 1: Rest in peace, Dave Stone. He was a huge Elgin
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  Speaker 1: in your generation that's great, Always someone in your generation
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  Speaker 1: that's great, and you have to figure out whether they're
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  Speaker 1: an all time great. You say championships, unbreakable records, Well,
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  Speaker 1: up all time career great numbers. We'll see, we'll find out.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: That's why we watched the games. That's why we watched
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: the games. All right, Let's see what do we have here,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Jim and the Hughes says A plus on the mal monologue.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I get the feeling the Steelers signed Air and Rogers
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: so they can tank next season and somehow beat out
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: the Colts for the right to draft Arch Manning. Now
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: there's a hot internet conspiracy we'll get to later in
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: the show that now that Jim Irsey has died, the
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Colts are deciding they want to drive a tank. They
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: want to go full tanky mctank. That's what they want,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: one hundred percent. All right, we have the fun fact
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: of the hour, the fun fact as provided by Alf
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: the Alien Opiner, The big fun Fact Fun Fact fun fact. So,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Kevin Yuculus, the Greek god of walks in Major League
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Baseball four thousand, four hundred forty four played appearances, and
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: when he had a three to zero pitch, he swung
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: zero times. Four thousand, four hundred and forty four played
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: appearances where he had a chance to swing at a
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: three to zero pitch and he did not swing at
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: that three tozero pitch. That seems rather outrageous. That's like
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: a crazy, crazy statistic, right, That's just completely bonkers, is
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: what it is. Shannon. He says, man fraud should be
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: the bring the Expos back to baseball, and then shut
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: his idiotic mouth. A random non sequitor yet again from
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Shane in des Moines, ranting and raving. Very nice. Let's
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: go to the phones and let's who do we have here?
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Page Paige dan Oh. By the way, Mike writes and
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: says he's upset with the I was I was quoting
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: the other guy's take. That was not my take, he
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: I was just quoting his take. I was shadow quoting
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: the guy's take. And now this guy, Mike's upset with
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: me because I quoted the other take. And and he's like, well,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I like that take, and he's complaining. And his complain
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: is he says Bonds and Lebron are two the two
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: greatest players of their sport. Well, no, Michael Jordan is
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: light years ahead of Lebron. I think anybody knows Ball
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: knows that, and Barry bonds. Listen, he's the greatest steroid
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: hitter of all time. No debate. You know, you know
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: you can. All those guys were on steroids when he
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: was playing, for the most part, and he was. He
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: was at the very very top, the very top of
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: the mountain. I say, some calls, and who do we
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: have about this guy hasn't called in a long time.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: There's a couple of names out here that have not
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: called in a long time. Let's go to Jerome in Charleston.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: I wonder what happened to Jerome and Charleston. He vanished
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: from the show. Hello, Jerome and Charleston, bring it home, Jerome.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Hey, I'm just taking my time trying to figure out
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: what I'm gonna talk about. I have to get my
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: thoughts together. But what a funnish to what is Oh
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: my goodness, oh my, it's not about the skill band.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: That's about the will. They will themselves to Game one win,
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: and now game two. I can't wait to see what happens. Oh,
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: I cannot wait because that place was silent. Boy, you
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: gotta hear a beddrop. I can't wait to see what
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: happens in game two. I can't wait. I just I
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: don't know what I'm gonna do for the next couple
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: of days with my shelf.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Man, I know what you get. What you're gonna, You're gonna,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: You're gonna, You're gonna eat, You're gonna sleep, You're gonna
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: go to the bathroom. You're gonna watch television and listen
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: to radio. That's what you're going to do.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: You're gonna do no, no, no, no, no no, maybe
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: not no.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: You're not. You just gonna sit there? Are you gonna
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: sit there and stare at the wall? Is what you're
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: gonna do. Listen and as as much as you want
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: a wax poetic. And the Pacers won the game, and
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: that's great, And they made some shots. In order for
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: that to happen. Oklahoma City had to get into the
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: fetal position and start sucking their thumb to close the game.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: In the final nine minutes and forty something seconds, they
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: shot twenty five percent. Like, that's hard to Indiana is
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: not a good defensive team. That's hard to do. They
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: were missing easy shots.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and the Zebras were trying to hand. They were
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: trying to hand the game to Oklahoma City. Okay, a
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: couple of those calls with that doors Bert with the
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: rule of Berta Chalfi, No, that's a damn foul back
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: and you know I knocked them over while he was
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: trying to get them ball. That's a damn foul. Okay.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: I don't give a damn what people say. Look, whenever
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: I talk about officiating, there's a guy you never says
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: that's what's wrong with people like me? What's wrong with
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: this turnkey? No? I see it a lot of rules, Okay,
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: I believe in the rules. It's a foul. That's a problem.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: I don't care if it's on the Moon. I don't
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: care if what's on Mars. It's a foul. Call it, okay, yeah,
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: oh yeah, you.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Now you you actually mentioned something that I had on
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: my big board. I haven't gotten to it yet. You
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: mentioned Rick or Doris Burke. Right, So Rick Carlyle, Well,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: she's in trouble because he's not good at her job,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: and so there's rumors that're gonna get rid of her.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: She's not very popular, she's not a great you know,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: he's pretty dull as a broadcaster. And so Rick Carlyle
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: like a knight in shining armor, came out and said,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: it's very sad to see these reports leaked about how
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Doris Burke is in in danger as a broadcaster. Why
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: is that she's a woman like that male bro Mark
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Jackson was hearing he was going to lose his job
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: in the finals. But that's allowed. This is I don't
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: I don't get it, like you know, It's like, this
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: is when you're a high level broadcaster or a public
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: figure and you're not good at your job, or even
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: if you are good at your job, these things are
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: that's part of the deal. It goes with the territory.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: So why is it Why is it sad to see
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: that means she's at the top, the pinnacle of broadcasting.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: People think she's terrible and they want to replace her,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: and it sounds like ESPN is considering doing it.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: You know my problem with women broadcasters. They try to
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: come off not to die all the time. Okay, start
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: with my problems with them.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: All right, I didn't I didn't ask you, I didn't ask.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: You got more than I do. Okay, that's what my
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: problem with women?
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: How much? How much? How much testosterone do you have? Jerome?
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Do you have a a lot of Not much? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Are you saying some of these broad these women broadcasters
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: may have more testosterone than you. Is that what you're saying?
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: They try to come off like a guy, you know,
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: like I know more about you guys, dude.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Well, and that's a that is a let me piggyback
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: off that take. That's a good take. Let me piggy
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: tiggyback off that because what I look for and who
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: am I you know, but I'm watching I want entertainment.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Charles Barkley knows a crap ton about the NBA, but
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: you never get that from watching Barkley because Barkley is entertaining.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: He's a showman, and that's what it's about. It's not
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: about your basketball knowledge or your ex's and o's. Nobody cares, Okay,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: It's a making someone smile at the end of the day.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: They've worked all day whatever at making them happy and making.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: And he lost twenty five million dollars gamblers. I'm not
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: listening to him, okay.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well that you do, you, Jerome. I'll listen to
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: him and I'll enjoy my life because he's entertaining, and
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: you listen to whoever you want to listen to. And
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: you'll be bored out of your mind. But they didn't
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: have a gambling problem, and they you know, they were
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: in shape and all that stuff, and you'll be happy. Okay.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: By the way, Olden Polony, he's overrated too, Okay, thank you.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Overrated. I don't think he's overrated. Nobody. No one said
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: he's great, Olden Polonies. Okay, no one said he's great.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: He's he was a journeyman NBA player who's got the
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: gift a gap. That's why he's doing this job. Okay,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I get out here anyway. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: As we worked our way through the overnight hours. In
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: another blast from the past, the Tuna in Laguna, Hello,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Tuna in Laguna, Welcome Big Ben.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: First off, Olden Polonese was not over redy. He's one
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: of the greatest average rated random basketball players of all time.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: And he was he not traded for Scottie Pippen. Wasn't
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: he part of the draft question somewhere?
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: But all I'm saying is I said at the bar,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: good sir, and I took bets all day on everyone who.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Is just plus ken. Are you kidding me?
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: We're in the finals here and Everyone's like, I'm taking
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: okayc minus ten.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: I was like, are you kidding me? This is like
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: two JV.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Teams playing basketball. You're gonna give me ten points. I'm
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: gonna take the fucking paper, all right, right, I know,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: I know, I'm gonna take the Pacers money line. I'm
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: gonna take him hot.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna take him easy, and you get plus six hundred.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: And you can.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Still get them right now plus three hundred.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: It's still easy money. How was this hold on?
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: That's not that's not overreacting. Oklahoma's gonna have their moments
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: in this series. I did think that line was a
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: little ridiculous. The amount of propaganda for Oklahoma City. There
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: are so many national basketball broadcasters and media people that
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: have Oklahoma City knee pads. One knee pad says okay, see,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the other says thunder. I mean, my god, I mean,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: come up for a breath. What are you doing? I mean,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: guess what what come?
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: You don't think this is Pacers and six easy? Clean?
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but easy. I'd like to see Indiana win.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: I like the way they play. It's fun.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: I agree with you, couple agree with me.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: I agree with you.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Ninety nine percent of the time. But this you come on, what.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Do you disagree? I said, I don't want to see
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Indiana win. You can't disagree. I just don't think it's
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: gonna be easy. I don't think I believe it's gonna
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: be You think it's gonna be easy. They were down
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: ninety nine point nine percent of the game. They only
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: had to lead with point three seconds left. That was
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: not easy.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm not saying easy.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying clean.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: You said the E word. You said easy, You said it.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: I meant l clean clean.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's a I think is a sea clean.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: I think you've mean with a sea there. All right,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I gotta go. Uh you misspell You're so drunk you
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: don't even know. You definitely were the bar. That's tune
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: in Laguna. Like, I'm gonna go out get hammered for
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: three hours during an NBA game and then I'm gonna
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: call Mallor at night. I'm gonna I'm gonna ran to Mallor.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: That's my night. What a perfect night, that is my God?
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: All right, it is the Ben Mahler shaw Well, changing
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the socks, changing the laundry. It's going to happen supposedly. Oh,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: it's not gonna happen for several years. But the Chicago
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: White Sox, the Chicago White Sox, there is celebration on
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: the South side of Chicago's the reign of Jerry Reinsdorf
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: will slowly come to an end and agonizingly pathetic ending
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: here as they have signed papers to begin the process
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: of selling the team that they are gonna move Vaughn Reinsdorf,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: who's you know he's got He's kind of looking at
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: real estate behind the pearly gates at this point, and
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: they sent out a news release saying that the White
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Sox Jerry Reinstorf and someone named Justin Ishbia, who yes,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: is the brother of the owner of the Suns. How's
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: that working out? And yeah, so he will be the
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: new White Sox own. I guess this guy's a Chicago guy.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I read a little bit about him. He worked for
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: a business. How about that two brothers both make so
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: much money they can buy professional sports franchises. I think
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Justin Ishbia, Yeah, he's uh, he's a owner of this.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: He owns part of the Sons in the Mercury's brother,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Matt Ishbia is the primary owner. So there you go. Mark,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: you excited? You're a White Sox fan, Marked, are you
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: excited about this? Does this get you you know, warm
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: and fuzzy? Uh, just a warm not fuzzy, not fuzzy
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: yet you want to see what they actually do right,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: because you know who cares is consistently win games. Please
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: like try to win rather than whatever they're doing right now,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: better effort like catch the ball, throw the ball, making out. Yeah, yeah,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: those are all things. Sure. The White Sox have had
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: two World Series in one hundred and six years? Two two?
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: How many of those years were spent rebuilding.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: That?
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: How about to go ninety years of that was rebuilding
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: and had that work out? Time Now for the Insta
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: trivia and we'll get to Mallard of the third degree.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: But here's the insta trivia. Ok sees Jalen Williams became
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: the first player to be an All Star All NBA,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: on All NBA Team, All Defensive Team selection, and play
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: in the NBA Finals, all of that in the same
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: season in his third year or earlier. Since blank there's
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: a lot of variables. There's a lot of variables to that.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: But Oklahoma Cities Jalen Williams becoming the first player to
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: be an All Star, All NBA Team Guy, All Defensive
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Team selection and play in the NBA Finals in the
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: same season in his third year or earlier. Since blank.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: That is the Insta trivia the answer. We'll get to it,
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  Speaker 1: videos on the YouTube. Back to it we go. Time
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: now for the payoff on the Insta Trivia, and then
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: we're gonna have Mallor to the third degree o cases.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Jalen Williams one of the guys that vanished at the
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: end of that game, as Oklahoma City wrote the vomit comment,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: losing at home blowing a fifteen point fourth quarter lead.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: What an embarrassment. But anyway, Jayalen Williams, he did become
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: the first player to be an NBA All Star, All
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: NBA Guy, All Defensive Team selection and play in the
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: NBA Finals in the same season in his third year
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: or earlier. Since blank. Now, there's a lot of variables
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: on that. There's a lot of variables on that. So
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: that is the question. What is the answer alf the alien?
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Opiner says, it's Mario Mario. I didn't stutter Mario and
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Luigi's last name is Mario. Oh, I did not know that.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: So it is Mario and Mario and Mario Luigi Mario.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Mary lou Renton from courtesy Flusher ferg Dog says the
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  Speaker 1: goat guaranteed the last the test of time. Ben Maler,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: you're buttering my biscuits the Wonder Twins from Donkey Sausage.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: That's his answer. Tony Coo, coach from EKE in Roseville, Minnesota.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: There's a good photo there. Hey, Buddy Stevie meat Balls
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: is with it. I love Stevie meat Balls. They going
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: to that big blind convention in Cleveland, he says. Walter
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Abercrombie is the way to go. Who else do we
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: have page down can't read that the inflatable Molly Ringwald
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: of Oregon from Ribman No clue guessed by Justin in Cincinnati.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota says it's got to be
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Draymond Green kicking a guy in the nuts or stopping
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: a guy in the chest. Monte Ellis from Shane in
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Des Moines, Elgin Baylor guests by Robin Minnesota. I see
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: what you did there. Slim Tim who's on the cheesehead
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: schedule there he's a proud chief, he said. He's going
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: with Cliff Levingston, NBA legend from back in the day,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant just by Sean in Portland. Who else do
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: we have? Hank Finkel from bp MJ by Johnny Q.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: It's Randy who is not in Norman, Oklahoma from Trucker Joe,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: the Great Randy in Norman, Oklahoma. That's so upset because
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: of pro bouncy Ball, which was in a copy it
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: was in some copy and he got upset and he
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: stopped stopped calling the show. All right, let's see the
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: correct answer again. Okay, So he's Jalen Williams, the first
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: player to be an All Star, All NBA Team Guy,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: All Defensive Team selection play in the NBA Finals same
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: season in his third year or earlier. Since blank. The
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: answer Bill Walton is the answer from the Portland Trailblazers,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: the big redhead former Clipper Bill Walton. Rest in peace, Bill?
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: How about that?
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: To the third degree? This is when Big Ben gets grilled.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Cool? Reggie Bush is on the warpath again.
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: In a recent interview, he said that the NFL Players
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: Association needs to make playing surfaces a top priority, and
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: it's negotiations with owners. He said a lot of leg
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: injuries are tied back to the surface plate on and
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: that grass should be the only one used in the NFL. Ben,
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: do you think the NFLPA will ever make this a priority?
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Well, they can make it a priority, but unless they're
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: going to spend the money to build stadiums where some
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: of these theim you can't even have grass because they're
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: indoor only facilities. It's impossible. I know in Arizona, whether
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: it's warm, they can take the turf, they have it
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: en rollers, they take it outside the stadium. Well, what
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: are you supposed to do in the Superdome in New Orleans,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: for example, and in several other stadiums where you're in
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: cold weather, you can't do it. So even if you
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: make it a priority, you're you're screwed. There's no way
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: to get it done because of the environments where the
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: teams play in the stadiums. So it's a nice thought,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: but it's not gonna happen next.
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: The Phoenix Suns still planning to trade Kevin Durant this offseason,
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: and a recent report from Shams says that there will
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: be a quote robust market for Durant, with up to
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: six teams interested. Ben, are you surprised that there's still
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: that much demand for Durant?
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: No, because he still box office. Most of these people
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: watch these games, they don't really pay that close attention.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: They see Durant. He's a big name, they know who
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: he is. He's a Hall of Famer, He's had a
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: decorated career. And the fact that he might suck or
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: you know how he sucks, he's just not as good.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: He's a diminishing asset. People don't care. So you get him,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: You create some buzz, you sell a few tickets, and
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: everyone's happy, and you know, it doesn't really help you
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: as much as he would five years ago. But that's
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: fine next so tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Notwithstanding, there are some NBA analysts out there that believe
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: the Thunder are set up for a decade long run
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: of championship contention, Ben, do you think the window is
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: that large for Okissy?
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: No? No, no, no, no, It's ridiculous the I read
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: those same stories here, shoulder massage, neck massage, wet kisses
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: for the Thunder. My god, I have not seen that
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: kind of ball washing since I was watching something else
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: back in the day. It's insane. How do we do, Koop?
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: You pass this edition?
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: There?
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: It is he that was the old Hawk tour right there,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: that a hot tour.