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  Speaker 1: is the official rundown of record will be sent shortly,
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  Speaker 1: so you will have that. But in the meantime, our
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  Speaker 1: lead this hour from the NFL play the Hits. We're
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the NFL playoffs, so we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about a team that's not in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: playoffs anymore.
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  Speaker 3: That's the way that we do business here.
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  Speaker 1: And we start out in Western Pennsylvania, the land of
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  Speaker 1: the insurers.
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  Speaker 3: Following these Steelers.
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  Speaker 1: Pathetic performance their fifth consecutive one and done trip to
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs in Baltimore, Mike Tomlin had his end of
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  Speaker 1: year eulogy, his end of season news conference. It's always
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  Speaker 1: a good listen. It's always a good listen. So I
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  Speaker 1: thought we'd enjoy some of this and break it all
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  Speaker 1: down for you. If you didn't hear any of what
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  Speaker 1: Tomlin had to say, possibly not. Tomlin stood in front
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  Speaker 1: of a packed crowd of the egr eager NFL media types.
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  Speaker 3: He was right there at the podium, and he let
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  Speaker 3: it rip.
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  Speaker 1: Among the topics discussed, Mike Tomlin mentioned that the situation
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers any but.
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  Speaker 3: You talked about football justice. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 5: Certainly disappointing to be conducting this business today. But I
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  Speaker 5: don't view it as misfortune, to be quite honest with you,
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  Speaker 5: particularly at this level. In this business and game, there's
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  Speaker 5: football justice. You get what you deserve, and so you
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  Speaker 5: know we're here, and we're here for really tangible reasons.
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  Speaker 6: Man.
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  Speaker 5: We didn't involved in the right ways. We didn't strike
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  Speaker 5: the right chords at the right time, particularly down the stretch,
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  Speaker 5: and so we've been eliminated from the single elimination tournament.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so football justice.
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  Speaker 1: I always believed in truth, football justice in the American way.
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  Speaker 3: Here's more from Mike Tomlins. Now I got a kick
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  Speaker 3: out of this one.
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  Speaker 1: So Tomlin was asked what fansh should be optimistic about
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  Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh and let's just say he didn't take the
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  Speaker 1: bait take a list.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I don't know that I'm ready to be
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  Speaker 5: overly optimistic or sell optimism to you either. I'm just
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  Speaker 5: acknowledging what transpired and what has to happen and what
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  Speaker 5: is beginning to happen, and acknowledging the complexity and the
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  Speaker 5: amount of work that's ahead of us.
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  Speaker 6: Certainly feel capable, but you.
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  Speaker 5: Know, definitely doesn't feel in the mood for optimism or
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  Speaker 5: the selling of optimism. I don't know that that's appropriate.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: See, there you go, no optimism. It's just going to
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  Speaker 1: keep going.
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  Speaker 3: On and on and on. Now there are.
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  Speaker 1: Groups of angry Pittsburghers who are demanding that Mike Tomlin
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  Speaker 1: get out of there.
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  Speaker 3: Very angry.
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  Speaker 1: Tomlin addressed the vitriol from the base take aism.
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  Speaker 5: Certainly understand their frustrations, and probably more importantly than that,
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  Speaker 5: I share it because that's how I'm wired.
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  Speaker 6: And so.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not a big time comfort seeker, and particularly in
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  Speaker 5: circumstances such as this, I don't view myself as a
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  Speaker 5: comfort provider because there's you know, words, a hollow. To
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  Speaker 5: be quite honest with you, it's about what we do
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  Speaker 5: and less about what we say. And so I've learned
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  Speaker 5: to say very little when things are going good, and
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  Speaker 5: I've learned to say less when they are.
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  Speaker 3: So Thomas says words are hollow.
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  Speaker 1: I would argue that in my job, that's all we
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  Speaker 1: have is words. All we have is words. They pay
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  Speaker 1: the bills, they keep the lights on. They're very important,
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  Speaker 1: the words. The bird is the word, and the word
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  Speaker 1: is the bird, and the bird pays the bills. All right,
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  Speaker 1: So now let's get to the money quote. All of
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  Speaker 1: that leading into this, Jimmy Johnson started a firestorm on
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  Speaker 1: Fox the pregame festivities there over the weekend as he
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  Speaker 1: tossed out the idea of Mike Tomlin trade. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: that was to the Cowboys for Mike McCarthy, which is
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  Speaker 1: impossible because Mike McCarthy is no longer employed in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: But here's Mike Tomlin. He was asked if he has
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  Speaker 1: a message to teams that are thinking about trading for him,
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  Speaker 1: take a list.
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  Speaker 6: I have no message. Save your time.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Mike, one more time. I'm gonna follow up. Mike,
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  Speaker 1: can you play any message for the teams we want
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  Speaker 1: to trade.
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  Speaker 6: For you, I have no message save your time?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right. That's a great drop. That's a solid drop.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So that last clip is what we call the money quote.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna play off that. So let us discuss the question,
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  Speaker 1: does that save your time commentary by Mike Tomlin close
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  Speaker 1: the door for Mike Tomlin trade conversation. So I've got
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  Speaker 1: farmer boys, Harvard Yard, and cup of Joe. All right,
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  Speaker 1: Farmer boys, Harvard Yard, cup of Joe. We'll combine all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together and we're gonna make some tofu.
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  Speaker 1: Not that I like tofu, but we're gonna make tofu,
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  Speaker 1: all right. So a to answer the question, absolutely not.
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  Speaker 1: This has not close any kind of door. If anything,
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  Speaker 1: it's a revolving door. Now Tomlin's not going anywhere. But
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  Speaker 1: did you expect Mike Tomlin to say anything else? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: he's in the stealer facility, he's on the payroll. You
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  Speaker 1: have to understand time and place. Time and place. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there are parallel dimensions.
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  Speaker 3: In play here. You've got the public and the private.
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  Speaker 1: That said, even if Tomlin is absolutely thrilled, absolutely thrilled,
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  Speaker 1: and really doesn't want to go anywhere else, which is
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  Speaker 1: likely the case. But everyone's got a job to do.
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  Speaker 1: If you're insider in quotes, an insigner, and your job
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  Speaker 1: is to get people to click on things. You're eating
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  Speaker 1: many meals at Farmer Boys, you're doing engagement farming. And
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  Speaker 1: there are few things that get more clickety clicks than
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  Speaker 1: hypothetical wild trade speculation about Mike Tomlin going to this team,
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  Speaker 1: that team, or the other team. So until every single
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  Speaker 1: seat is filled in the game of musical chairs, there
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  Speaker 1: is a chance, I'm saying, there's a chance, there's a
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  Speaker 1: possibility that Mike Tomlin ends up being repackaged. Now, page two,
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  Speaker 1: the optics aside. Why why would Mike Tomlin dismiss fully
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  Speaker 1: dismiss trade chatter? Well, the answer that's very elementary. He's
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  Speaker 1: a made man. He's got the.
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  Speaker 3: Greatest gig in the world.
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  Speaker 1: No matter how black things go in Pittsburgh, win nine
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  Speaker 1: or ten games every year and they'll make the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: and that's about it.
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  Speaker 3: Mike Tomlin at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Is sitting at a little diner, a little diner just
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  Speaker 1: outside Harvard Yard.
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  Speaker 3: He's a tenured faculty member at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Now, people have said that diamonds are forever, So is
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  Speaker 1: this gig coaching the Wheelers. Garantees you lifetime employment unless
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  Speaker 1: you walk away like Bill Coward did. If Mike Tomlin
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  Speaker 1: was traded to the Bears or whoever, right, what would happen.
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  Speaker 1: He would get the standard three years and then he
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  Speaker 1: would have to show tangible results, and if he didn't
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  Speaker 1: show those results, his ass was grass. If that doesn't happen,
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  Speaker 1: if they don't improve any of those teams, he would
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  Speaker 1: be a talking head on television somewhere. Gonzo, you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about that at all. When you're in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 3: They never get rid of you. Never going back fifty
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  Speaker 3: six years.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta go back to nineteen sixty nine and Woodstock
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  Speaker 1: was in the air everywhere. Since then, they've had Chuck Noll,
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  Speaker 1: Bill Kawer and Mike Tomlin. End of list period, hard stop,
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  Speaker 1: that's all. And Tomlin just completed his eighteen eighth season
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  Speaker 1: at the Helm. Eighteen seasons at the Helm for Mike Tomlin. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the argument for Tomlin is, well, he's never had a
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  Speaker 1: losing record. The argument against Tomlin is they haven't won
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  Speaker 1: a playoff game since Barack Obama was the president. All right,
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  Speaker 1: last word here, So the Steelers wide receiver George Pickens,
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  Speaker 1: causing some heartache for Mike Tomlin. Pickens was reportedly late,
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  Speaker 1: he went a little sideways. Prior to that Christmas game
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  Speaker 1: against the Chiefs. Some new reporting out over the last
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  Speaker 1: twenty four hours that George Pickens showed up late. He
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  Speaker 1: had missed the two previous games because of a hamstring injury.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody snitched on him. Tomlin requires players to get to
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  Speaker 1: the game at least two hours before kickoff.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta get there at least two hours before kickoff.
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  Speaker 1: Pickens walk through the media entrance an hour and twenty
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  Speaker 1: five minutes for kickoff, which means he probably wasn't even
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  Speaker 1: in uniform until about maybe an hour forty five minutes
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  Speaker 1: before kickoff, and that was after the inactive players had
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  Speaker 1: already been announced. He wasn't even there and the act
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  Speaker 1: inactive players were were announced by the time he showed up.
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  Speaker 1: So when asked about Pickens George Pickens' tardiness, Mike Tomlin claimed.
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  Speaker 3: That he said, I can't answer that.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely, he said, because it's been been a while since
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  Speaker 1: the Christmas game.
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  Speaker 3: It's been been a few days or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: So so the coach essentially claimed he doesn't know whether
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  Speaker 1: or not Pickens arrived at the game.
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  Speaker 6: Lait.
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  Speaker 3: Is it weird?
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  Speaker 1: Here's the question, is it weird how Mike Tomlin is
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  Speaker 1: treating what is a pretty obvious case of truancy by
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  Speaker 1: George Pickens.
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  Speaker 3: So the answer is.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's actually not that weird. People seem to be
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  Speaker 1: outraged by this. I'm not surprised. Tomlin has a reputation
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  Speaker 1: as what Mike Tomlin's reputation. Players coach, players coach, So
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  Speaker 1: when in doubt, coddle the player, rock baby. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's the coaching technique. But it's not new, the idea
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  Speaker 1: that Tomlins somehow does things differently. He is determined on
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  Speaker 1: his big board, Mike Tomlin's big boy, that George Pickens
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  Speaker 1: is an essential player. And this has been going on
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  Speaker 1: for fifty sixty, seventy eighty. I don't know if fight
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  Speaker 1: since the NFL started. It's called Cup of Joe coaching.
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  Speaker 1: Cup of Joe coaching. And I go back again to
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Johnson. Jimmy Johnson famously told the story he was
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  Speaker 1: coaching the Cowboys and a reporter asked if he would
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  Speaker 1: treat his quarterback, Troy Aikman at the time, the same
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  Speaker 1: way as some third string lineman if he caught both
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  Speaker 1: of them dozing off in a team meeting. And Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: Johnson paused for a second contemplated the situation.
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  Speaker 3: He said, listen, if I found a.
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  Speaker 1: Third string lineman sleeping in a team meeting, I would
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  Speaker 1: cut him immediately. Jimmy Johnson state, Now, if I found
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  Speaker 1: my quarterback Troy Aikman sleeping in a team meeting, I
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  Speaker 1: would carefully and gently wake him up, and I would
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  Speaker 1: ask him if I could bring him a cup of coffee.
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  Speaker 1: So that tells you that Tomlin thinks that Pickens is
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  Speaker 1: an essential player.
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  Speaker 3: He hasn't played like that consistently.
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  Speaker 1: He has just been sporadic as he scoots down the field,
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  Speaker 1: occasionally making big plays and often not. If you might
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  Speaker 1: remember a game recently where he had not one, not two,
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  Speaker 1: not three, about four drops if I remember correctly, an
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  Speaker 1: elite late season loss for the Pittsburg Steelers. But if
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  Speaker 1: you believe Tomlin, you're not going anywhere, and save your time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going anywhere. That's it, Okay, See keep an
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  Speaker 1: eye on this story. I have a feeling it's not
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  Speaker 1: the end of it, and I do I think Tomlin's
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  Speaker 1: going somewhere. No, I do not unless he uses to
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  Speaker 1: go somewhere, because again, that is in professional sports, the
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  Speaker 1: job that you have until you don't want it anymore
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  Speaker 1: and you decide to retire, or you decide to go
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  Speaker 1: do bad television like Bill Coward did.
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  Speaker 1: That is where we continue our in depth team coverage
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  Speaker 1: of the coaching carousel.
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  Speaker 3: Round and round and round and round and round and
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  Speaker 3: round and round and round.
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  Speaker 1: It goes every year, round and round, faster and faster
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  Speaker 3: Big money, big money is stop. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Things are moving lickety split. Were someone that doesn't normally
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  Speaker 1: move that fast. That would be former former Cowboys coach
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  Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy.
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  Speaker 3: You've not been.
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  Speaker 1: Following along, maybe not, you might have missed it. So
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  Speaker 1: we've learned now that Mike McCarthy already has in interviews
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  Speaker 1: set up with Bears for later today. Now, this is
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  Speaker 1: not one of those half ass zoom interviews.
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  Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: No zoom here. No laptops, no smartphones are needed. You see,
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears are flying in Mike McCarthy for an
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  Speaker 1: in person interview at Hallis Hall and that's only their
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  Speaker 1: second in person meeting of the coaching interview process the
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  Speaker 1: head hunting season for the Chicago football team. The Bears
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  Speaker 1: are going to take Mike McCarthy out to a nice
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  Speaker 1: dinner after they have a private sit down at the
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  Speaker 1: Bears facility they're gonna have a private meal at some
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  Speaker 1: high falutin local restaurant in the back room. You know
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  Speaker 1: those restaurants that have the VIP room that you've got
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  Speaker 1: to save and you only like the really wealthy people
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  Speaker 1: get to go.
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  Speaker 3: In there and you get the specially. Yeah, that's where
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna bring Mike McCarthy.
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  Speaker 1: After he meets at Hallas Hall with the Bear. So
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  Speaker 1: let us discuss the question. Mike McCarthy is planning on
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  Speaker 1: meeting with the Bears first.
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  Speaker 3: He's not met with anyone else. Say, he's gonna meet
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  Speaker 3: with the Bears first. What does that tell us? What
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  Speaker 3: does that tell us? So I have Doctor.
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  Speaker 1: Love, Invention, Dimension and Star Trek and we will combine
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  Speaker 1: all of these things together and try not to go bokers.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna try not to go bonkers.
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  Speaker 1: So no, so what does it tell all right, the
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  Speaker 1: thing's broken? What does it tell us? Mike McCarthy planning
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  Speaker 1: to meet with the Bears first? That tells us there
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  Speaker 1: is a mutual admiration society. Okay, that's what that tells
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy is sitting in the driver's seat and as long
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  Speaker 1: as he has good table manners here, he's in solid shape.
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  Speaker 1: The Bears are rolling out the Red Carbon, a notoriously
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  Speaker 1: frugal franchise. The Chicago Bears are planning to whine and
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  Speaker 1: especially dine Mike McCarthy. So the soundtrack to this part
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  Speaker 1: of the story is a disco tune Doctor Love from
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  Speaker 1: the Girl group First Choice because McCarthy, right, McCarthy, he
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  Speaker 1: is at the very top. He his first choice is
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  Speaker 1: the Bears, and it would it be, it would appear
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  Speaker 1: to be the bears first choice? Is Mike McCarthy. Is
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  Speaker 1: that outrageous? Am I being a shock jock? I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I am a d It's rather self explanatory. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to have any inside knowledge that Mike McCarthy
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  Speaker 1: waited to get out of Dallas. The Bears did not
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  Speaker 1: hire a coach ride away. Remember New England Patriots already
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  Speaker 1: hired their coach. They knew they wanted Mike Rabel. They
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  Speaker 1: hired Mike Rabel. The Chicago Bears, it sounds like they
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  Speaker 1: want Mike McCarthy, but they had to wait. So they
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  Speaker 1: played the little game and they pretended like they were
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  Speaker 1: searching the web find a head coach. And now they've
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  Speaker 1: got their guy coming to town.
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  Speaker 3: Later toy.
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  Speaker 1: There's major cronyism in play here, but major cronyism in
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  Speaker 1: play as we have laid out in previous episodes of
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  Speaker 1: this radio program that Mike McCarthy shares the same agent
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  Speaker 1: with the Chicago Bears embattled general manager Ryan Pulls, So
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  Speaker 1: there is some nepotism in play.
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  Speaker 3: That's a big part of this.
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  Speaker 1: These talks have likely been going on behind the scenes
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  Speaker 1: for some time, and it's just a matter of getting
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  Speaker 1: together and making sure that the optics are good on this.
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  Speaker 3: Chicago has a helping hand.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: They have a helping hand because, as I said, everyone's
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: in bed with everyone else in this story, which is
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: why why Mike McCarthy had leverage with Jerry Jones. Now,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: there is a conspiracy theory that I came across here
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: recently that the intention all along was Jerry Jones did
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: not want to bring back Mike McCarthy. Mike McCarthy did
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: not want to come back, but they wanted to play
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: this game, so both sides look good, meaning Jerry didn't
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: fire McCarthy to sully Mike McCarthy's reputation. McCarthy and Jones
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: pretended like they were negotiating. They never actually talked about
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: a contract. This is the conspiracy theory, and they just
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: let the clock run out, and that way they say, well,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: we just couldn't work out a deal, and we love
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Mike and he'll go somewhere else, and Jerry doesn't look
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: bad for firing coach McCarthy doesn't look bad for getting fired.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: And you move on.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Now, that's the grand conspiracy of it all. But you
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: wonder which steakhouse. There's some fine restaurants. That's a good
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: food town Chicago. Do they go steakhouse? Do they go
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: pizzeria that deep dish Chicago pizza? And now people in
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Chicago say, the locals say, wow, we don't eat the
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: deep dish, that's for the tourists, but we eat the
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: regular pizza in Chicago.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: But where does McCarthy go. And they'll be some.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Waiter or a couple of waiters who are going to
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: have the inside skinny.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: They are going to know loose.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Lips, sink ships, and feed insiders, and they will have
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: insider knowledge later today on whether or not this is
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: a done deal. Is this a celebratory meal where they
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: go out and have a nice, expensive dinner to celebrate
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: the start.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Of a new bond, a new friendship. All right, now,
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: pitched you with Mike McCarthy headed to Chicago for a
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: meet and greet.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I was reading that the New Orleans Saints are also
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: said to be bird dogging the portly coach who's available?
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: So question do you foreshadow? Do you foreshadow a bidding
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: war for Mike McCarthy? So I'd like I'd like two
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: letters on the wheel of fortune. I'd like an N
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: and can.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: I get a know? How about no? How about no?
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: This is a trip to the invention dimension, the invention dimension.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: People writing the coattails of Mike McCarthy. It's more probable
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: than not have been busy, very busy concocting a story,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: inventing his story out of thin air. Here social media warfare,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: which is a more potent tool, easier to manipulate the
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: minds of the unwashed. Back in the old days, you
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: used to have to plant stories by paying off media people,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: bribing journalists. But now you can just get a bunch
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: of bot accounts and the right algorithm on the social
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: media and you can plant the stories all over the place.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: You don't have to pay a bunch of journalists. You
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: just spend a little bit of money on bot accounts
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: and those sock puppet accounts.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: You're on your way.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: So but you don't drive the price up for a
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: guy like Mike McCarthy's that fair to say he's not
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: the worst coach in the NFL. He's certainly not the best.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: And in the Saints they have strooge like tendencies when
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: it comes to their finances. New Orleans is more of
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: like a starter job. It's a reclamation project job. That's
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: those are the coaches they get. They get the rejects,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: that's what they get. That's who coaches the Saints and
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: the Bears also typically get some nondescript defensive coordinator or
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: some reclamation project also, which Mike McCarthy would fall into
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: the reclamation project, having already failed at two coaching jobs.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: But based on the clues I still maintain and it's
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: rather obvious here that the Bears are in the catbirds
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: seat or Mike McCarthy and he haunted haunted the Chicago
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Bears as a poultergeist while he was coaching at Lambeau
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Field for the Green Bay Packers, and now he can
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: work as an enemy combatant inside the walls of hallis
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Hall and still haunt Chicago by doing a incompetent job.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: All right, turning the page, final point, Eagles coach Nick
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Sirianni on the war path.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: What is he upset about?
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Does the Eagles get ready to play the Rams in
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: the divisional round this weekend?
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni blasting what he called quote lazy, lazy critics
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: and the criticism of disgruntled wide receiver A. J. Brown
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: AJ Brown who decided to multitask not only play in
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: an NFL playoff game, but read a nice book on
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: the sidelines, and media pundits pointing out the issue that
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: the reason Brown did that was because he was not
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: happy and he was trying to get his emotions in check.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: And so what he did was he grabbed the book
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: and made a spectacle of the situation. What is your
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: school of thought on? Nick Sirianni blasting what he calls
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: the lazy criticism of AJ Brown being disgruntled by reading
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: a book. So on this one, Nick Sirianni has his
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Star Trek deflector shields going, and he's guarding against all
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: of that space debris and those enemy attacks. AJ Brown
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: just watching that game against the Packers. AJ Brown, he
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: had the body language of a disgruntled person, and we
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: know he's a guy that needs the SPOTLA walk a
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: tight rope with a guy like AJ Brown.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: He was not getting the ball up to his standard.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: He was not on the same wavelength with his quarterback,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts. So he pulled out a book, a book
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: to calm his anxiety, if you will, And it was
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: one of those self help type books where they give
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: you positivity and all that. But this is a uniquely
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia experience and I might be missing it if I am.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Let me know.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I don't recall other teams allowing props on the sideline
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: like this, Like nobody else in the NFL is pulling
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: out a book to read on the sidelines, like it's
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: not happening. I don't recall it happening. There have been
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: guys that have eaten food on the sidelines.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: But Nick Siriani. Nick Sirianni said he.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Supports his guys in Philly doing whatever they need to do,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: whatever they need to do on the sidelines.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: They put their mind in a place where they can compete.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: So how far here's the question, how far are you
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: willing to push the envelope if Jalen Hurts.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Let's say Jalen Hurts wanted to warm up. It's kind
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: of cold in Philadelphia, and he.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Wanted to take some of that trash and start a bonfire.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: But he needs it because.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Let's be honest with you, this is how he has
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: to get his mind in the right place to compete.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: He's like pyromaniac. Jalen Hurts. He needs fire, so he
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: wanted to start a bonfire, but it would only be
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: on the bench. It wouldn't be anywhere else. It would
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: be controlled burn on the bench. Would Sirianna be okay
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: with that? What if Sequon Barkley said, I I was
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: in the band when I was in junior high school
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: and I like the tuba, so I would like to
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: play the tuba on the sidelines during the game. Is
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: the coach okay with that? If I can play the tuba?
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: No. Now we know that Nick Sirianni very competitive.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Remember when he famously played Rock Paper Scissors with NFL
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: draft hopefuls. That's allowed, right, What if they just stop
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: the game? Said time out, Eagles, and we're going to
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: have a couple of our guys go out to the
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: fifty yard line and they'll do a quick game of
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: rock paper scissors.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right. I'm just just.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Asking, like, where do you draw the line? Is there
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: a line to be drawn? But whether you have a
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: problem with what aj Browner did or not, I don't
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: kind of roll my eyes, like how can you really
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: have a big problem with it? But it is unique,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: As I said, A, it's unique, and B it's obviously
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: something that was done to make everyone look at him.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: He knows the cameras are always on in a playoff
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: game and all the singing and all the dancing and
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: look at me and all that stuff because he was
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: not happy. If he was happy, he wouldn't have needed
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: to read the book. Kind of obvious, self explanatory, I
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: would say at this particular point, be.
• 28:07
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• 28:10
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• 28:16
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• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Wop a loop.
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: Saints GM Mickey Loomis said on Monday that they haven't
• 28:27
  Speaker 8: made a decision on Derek Carr's future with the team. However,
• 28:30
  Speaker 8: he went on to say, I have a high level
• 28:32
  Speaker 8: of confidence in Derek. He's done some really good things here, Ben,
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: do you think the Saints keep him?
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: No, because they're going to hire a new coach. Why
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: would the new coach want the trash that's left behind you.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: When you buy a house from somebody, you don't take
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: all the crap that they leave in their house. You
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: get rid of it. You take it to a dump.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: And yeah, he is Derek Carr. Would make no sense
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: to bring him back a he's not good. B you're
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: going to have a new coach, Just do what the
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Broncos did, Draft some rookie corps back and play him
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: and wish for the best next quarterback.
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: Drew Aller announced that he will be returning to Penn
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: State for his senior season. Now, Ben, how much do
• 29:09
  Speaker 8: you think his poor performance at the Orange Bowl factored
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: into this decision?
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Well, first of all, it absolutely harpooned. It harpooned for
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: this year. Otherwise he would have gone to the NFL Draft.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: There are all these glorious stories about he was the
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: perfect prototypical quarterback that old school NFL people love, and
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: they were all excited about Drew Aller of Penn State
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: and this that and the other thing. And it all
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: went away when he rode the vomit comet on national television.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: All that goodwill, all that positivity went away against Notre Dame.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: And so yeah, that's why he's going back. If he
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: had played well, even if Penn State had lost, so
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: he played well, he would have gone to the NFL.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: There's more money in the NFL.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: You want to get to the NFL sooner if you're good,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: get that second contract next.
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: And prior to this season, no rookie had ever led
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: their team in a game with no punts and no
• 29:59
  Speaker 8: turnovers Jaye and Daniels has done it three times now.
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: The praise for Daniels this week has been effusive.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Uh running.
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: Former Redskins linebacker London Fletcher said that he can go
• 30:10
  Speaker 8: into Detroit and upset the Lions. Ben, are you on
• 30:12
  Speaker 8: the Daniels bandwagon?
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Well, London Fletch, let you.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I believe he is a broadcaster for the team formaonos
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: of the Redgins.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: I listened. Jaydonnam's been great. I love him and the
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Lions defense. Anything good, there's a shot, not a great shot,
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: but there is. I'm not fully on the bandwagon. I'm
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: halfway on how do we do cool? You passed? That's
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: a pass, Lorena. I got a pass, Lorena. Thank you, Lorena.
• 30:33
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• 31:02
  Speaker 10: You heard the man.
• 31:03
  Speaker 11: It's Tom for Love here on the Bed Mallory Show.
• 31:06
  Speaker 11: And I just want to point out that is such
• 31:07
  Speaker 11: a catchy tune. Coop's over here is singing it. He
• 31:10
  Speaker 11: knows all the words. Pretty impressive.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: Hum bet, I'm very impressed, very very impressed. Yes, I'm shocked.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: So these are actual questions by actual listeners. This is
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: from Inca Terror Legend Hi Studio.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: I gotta get Inca Terror back in studio one of
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: these days when he's back on the West Coast.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: He's in New York.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: He says, I just received an invitation for a wedding
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: in June in Italy. The invitation specifically says dancing required
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: but I am terrified of dancing.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: What is the quickest way to learn? Also, would you
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: like to be my plus one?
• 31:46
  Speaker 10: That sounds like a super fun time. As long as
• 31:49
  Speaker 10: I get would you go?
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: You get to go to Italy? He'll take it to
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: Italy if.
• 31:52
  Speaker 10: As long as I get to dress up? That sounds
• 31:53
  Speaker 10: like so much fun. Sounds like a good time.
• 31:55
  Speaker 11: I already plan on going to Paris. Remember, so two
• 31:57
  Speaker 11: European trips sounds like a blast. I would suggest taking
• 32:03
  Speaker 11: dance classes. And you don't even have to do it
• 32:05
  Speaker 11: in person either. You have online options these days too.
• 32:08
  Speaker 11: But the problem is you don't want to step on
• 32:10
  Speaker 11: that person's toes that you're going to be dancing with,
• 32:12
  Speaker 11: so you.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: Won't be able to see their toes.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: But here's the thing, how about this Lorena as a guy,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: it is no good male dancers, all right?
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: It did not focus on the women.
• 32:24
  Speaker 10: So you just get kind of wat your hips. No,
• 32:28
  Speaker 10: you gotta move, just.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: Waddle a little bit.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: You kind of look like you know what you're doing.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Nobody pays attention. They look at the woman. They look
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: at the woman.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Are you a dancer? I'm a dancer. I go out
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: dancing just kind of like you pretend like you know
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: what you're doing.
• 32:40
  Speaker 10: You do if you want to do it well. In
• 32:42
  Speaker 10: Italy though, think about that.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: Who cares well, there's human beings in Italy. They're human
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: beings here like better in Italy. They're better dancers in Italy.
• 32:53
  Speaker 10: Maybe maybe they move their hips better. It's the wine,
• 32:57
  Speaker 10: all right.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Og rt Puffin says he why is why is it
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: that I find it disgusting to to have a meal after?
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: I guess lady friend there, but I don't have a
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: problem with some tongue kissing.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Very odd. I cleaned that up for the radio.
• 33:15
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I can tell so he doesn't he doesn't mind
• 33:20
  Speaker 11: eating after, but he doesn't.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: He does have I think an issue with the He
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: says it's disgusting to eat after, but does not mind
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: after what you can kind of use your imagination Lorena
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: describing here. It's a very personal acts many people find enjoyable.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: Many people wash.
• 33:46
  Speaker 10: Take a minute, mouth washed, take a time out.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:51
  Speaker 10: Also, don't be don't be all weird.
• 33:52
  Speaker 11: Like that if you're if you're doing intimate acts, just
• 33:56
  Speaker 11: you know you already broke that barrier's let it go, Yeah.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Let it go. They dive in.
• 34:01
  Speaker 10: Let's say it like that.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Wow, dive in, all right, chomp shop all right. Deacon
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: writes in says, what is the weirdest thing.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Lorena that you have heard a guy being into?
• 34:14
  Speaker 11: Deacon blues, Oh yeah, it's called ABF.
• 34:21
  Speaker 10: I'll let you google that.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: Hold on, I say, let's see here.
• 34:26
  Speaker 10: Coops like google. Yeah, it was on a dating site.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: It was on his thing.
• 34:30
  Speaker 10: He was like, I need a woman who's in an
• 34:32
  Speaker 10: a BF And I was like, what is ABF?
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: And he has American breakfast at a hotel.
• 34:39
  Speaker 10: That's it for sure?
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: Hold on, okay, let me see you here.
• 34:46
  Speaker 11: Apparently a lot of muscle builders, people who like to
• 34:51
  Speaker 11: work out, they also enjoy this, but they'll buy it online.
• 34:55
  Speaker 10: But some people like it.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Straight Oh wow, oh wow?
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: What was it?
• 34:59
  Speaker 10: A Yeah, it's an abbreviation.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: I just I just message, yeah, what it is? Okay.
• 35:06
  Speaker 10: I don't know if I can say that on them.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, sure you can.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: You wanted me to say the other thing, and I
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: would want to say that you wanted me to say that, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: that was that is pretty odd you You did a
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: guy approach you about that?
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 35:18
  Speaker 11: And I was I thought about it for a second
• 35:20
  Speaker 11: you did. Yeah, And I thought about the whole business too.
• 35:23
  Speaker 11: Such good money.
• 35:25
  Speaker 10: Could you imagine, could you imagine.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: You can say, hey, I'm a I'm a woman. Hear me,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: roar make that money. A ferg dog right says, boy,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: guys will pay for anything. Man, Yeah, fer dog says.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Do you think I should make take my money out
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: of tea bills and put it all into waffles?
• 35:46
  Speaker 10: Like investing? What's a tea bill?
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: Just google it?
• 35:52
  Speaker 10: Just oh it's Oh, this is a financial question.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, do it buy and sell all right?
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: King Roy writes and says, with Valentine's Day about a
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: month away, should I place a reservation at a so
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: called fancy restaurant or just wing it and make my
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: wife a fancy dinner.
• 36:09
  Speaker 11: If you do a fancy restaurant, make sure it's one
• 36:11
  Speaker 11: that's not overly crowded, and that you're going to have
• 36:14
  Speaker 11: slow weight times and things like that. Make sure you
• 36:17
  Speaker 11: do really nice. I do like an at home cooked meal, though,
• 36:19
  Speaker 11: and then you can be more frisky. You don't have
• 36:21
  Speaker 11: to worry about driving intoxicated and enjoy your night without
• 36:24
  Speaker 11: it worries you.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: Save a couple of right into bed.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Oh look, at that lorraina right there, cut out the
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: middle part, right to the bedroom.
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  Speaker 3: Attention everyone, and the password is password, you idiot, password
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: the word Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Mellor.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Let's do a password the word Game of the Stars.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: And let's see we'll go the top two on the board.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: We say hello to Uber Rob. Hello, Uber Rob, come.
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: Thanks man, good to have you.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: You're in Are you in Colorado? Is that correct?
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: Where are you at?
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, Castle Rock, Colorado? Very good? All right, you're
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: gonna play? Yes? All right? Are you gonna play the game?
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: And who do you want to partner with? You got
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: me Lorena Kooblo? Who do you want to partner over with? Rob?
• 37:23
  Speaker 12: I'll do it with Lorena.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Okay, he's excited about that. Daniel is in Fort Wayne.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: He's America's favorite crossing guard. Daniel. You're on. Who do
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: you want to partner up with?
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: Daniel?
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 37:35
  Speaker 12: Bit, I gotta go with you, man?
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I hate to beat Lorena, but it's got
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: to happen. All right, very good?
• 37:42
  Speaker 12: Uh?
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Rob is in Colorado and Daniel Rob you were on
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: the air first. We have a list of words one
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: to ten. Please pick a number. A word is associated
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: with each number.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, Rob.
• 37:55
  Speaker 12: Seven for John Elway.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, go Fan and Coople likes. This guy's gonna
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: rig the game for you. Now, go ahead, Lorena, that's easy.
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: Come on.
• 38:06
  Speaker 10: Let's see plant.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, god, wow, I didn't hear that.
• 38:15
  Speaker 9: Say it again.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: I said plant, She said plants.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: Marijuana?
• 38:22
  Speaker 10: Yeah, technically right.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: No, it is all right, Daniel and fort Wayne a
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: nice wholesome, bossing guard.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: Let's go with how about blossom.
• 38:36
  Speaker 10: Blossom, let's get it.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go, all right, that's how you do it, Loraina.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Nine nothing good. Guys have the lead, and we get
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: to go again. Pick a number one to ten, but
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: not seven, Daniel, I'm in the lead.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Not chicking seed, no.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Birthree, alright, let's go with the oh man, uh, how
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: about pungent?
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Pungent? Oh it's a big word, hobby. Now, Lorena, you're up.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: You tie it right, okay?
• 39:22
  Speaker 12: Tart tart start tart, yes, sour, yeah, tied up?
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: All right?
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, Lorena, hurry up. Pick up Rob one, number one,
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: number one. That's easy, hurry up, don't help her out.
• 39:49
  Speaker 10: Cool, I heard you a braid.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, you're so bad at it all right,
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: go ahead, go ahead.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: Round, oh braid, hurry up, rope rope?
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: No, how about a A main M A N E
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: A main? No, oh my god, no, we're out of time.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: We're gonna end in a tie that we were looking
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: for the word hair, hair, hair, a mane of hair,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: mane of hair.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, a tie