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  Speaker 3: And another one bites the dust.
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  Speaker 3: I know what a great gig that is.
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  Speaker 5: Man, give me a microphone from my bed. Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 5: we'd have the best.
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  Speaker 3: Nice so probably like Buck naked right now.
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  Speaker 1: I worried about but he gets said, you know, Malard
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  Speaker 1: moved the move the laptop because there's a bunch of cameras.
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  Speaker 1: There's like four cameras here and they can't see over
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  Speaker 1: your over your laptop, so I'll move the It's not
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  Speaker 1: to my left. But I had to move it otherwise
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  Speaker 1: it would have blocked the view, and I mean, don't
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  Speaker 1: Come on please, it's Ben Mallor show on YouTube. You
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  Speaker 1: can watch the the Mallard monologues. So well, our lead
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  Speaker 1: this hour, Yeah, don't forget about Benny versus the Penny
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  Speaker 1: as well, Benny Vspenny.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So our lead this hour from the coaching carousel.
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  Speaker 1: And we have seen a bunch of coaches given the boot,
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  Speaker 1: given the boot right, and they've all been pretty predictable.
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  Speaker 1: They've all been pretty predictable. Bad teams, bad owners, this
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  Speaker 1: is what they do. Well, we got a backdoor curveball
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  Speaker 1: in the coaching cycle. And if you have not heard
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  Speaker 1: it by now, I assume you have where the hell
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  Speaker 1: you been. But there's a chance maybe you actually have
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  Speaker 1: a life and you don't pay attention to this stuff
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  Speaker 1: all day and you just turn it on at night.
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  Speaker 3: So here's the deal.
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  Speaker 1: We have learned that the Dead Poet Society has said
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  Speaker 1: aloha to John Harbaugh. The Ravens have fired John Harbaugh.
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  Speaker 1: He's out there, franchise is winning his head coach Hawy
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  Speaker 1: Sports with Coleman Batman. Wow, that's our buddy in Baltimore,
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  Speaker 1: but less than forty eight hours after a chip shot
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  Speaker 1: field goal was missed to the right, the Ravens said,
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  Speaker 1: we're done with you. So if the field goal goes in,
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  Speaker 1: do they keep the coach? Is that how this works
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  Speaker 1: is that we didn't realize at the time if that
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  Speaker 1: kick had been made, does Tomlin lose his job?
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  Speaker 3: Is that what that is?
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  Speaker 1: If they had tied with both coaches have lost their job,
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  Speaker 1: or where they have both kept their job. Well, the
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  Speaker 1: Steelers made the playoffs, the Ravens failed to make the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: and so after eighteen seasons, Harball his ass is grass.
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  Speaker 3: He's out.
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  Speaker 1: Now eyebrows have been raised and they are pointed the
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  Speaker 1: direction of mister MVP guy.
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  Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson. Ooh, intrigue.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So that is a good jumping off point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. Is it true that Lamar
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  Speaker 1: Jackson played at least some role, some role as coach
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  Speaker 1: killer in Baltimore for John Harball developing hot dot dot dot.
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  Speaker 1: So my thoughts, I've got teenage ninja turtles, markers, squeaking,
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  Speaker 1: and magnifying glass, and we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together and we are going to make some Old
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  Speaker 1: Bay seasoning, which is they put that on everything in Baltimore,
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  Speaker 1: that Old Bay season put that on the salad, not
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  Speaker 1: that I eat salad. Because I believe all vegetables should
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  Speaker 1: live a full life. I don't think anyone should be
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  Speaker 1: harmed by me eating them. I think you pigs that
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  Speaker 1: eat vegetables, you don't vegetables. They need to live a
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  Speaker 1: full life anyway. So to answer the question, is it
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  Speaker 1: true that Lamar Jackson played a role as the coach
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  Speaker 1: killer in this John Harbaugh story, I am nodding my head. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: yes yes. Listen, we are private investigators here, and if
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  Speaker 1: you follow the breadcrumbs, like every great crime drama, you
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  Speaker 1: follow the bread crumbs.
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  Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson didn't just stay silent. He didn't uh he
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  Speaker 3: What he.
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  Speaker 1: Did was he had an opportunity to publicly endorse his
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  Speaker 1: head coach, go to bat for his coach, and he
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  Speaker 1: said no. He stayed well, not necessarily signing. He did talk,
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  Speaker 1: He just refused to answer the question. And the Ravens
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  Speaker 1: have leaked that one of the issues here was John
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  Speaker 1: Horball refused to whack offensive coordinator Todd Munkin, and there
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  Speaker 1: was an issue and the ownership.
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  Speaker 3: So what we got.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta get rid of this guy. I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: guy's a DRABBRONI you're gonna get Wait, well, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to get rid of the guy you got to
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to get fired. Boom done, gun get
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  Speaker 1: out here. You know what that is? Abra cadabra poof presto.
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  Speaker 3: That is what.
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  Speaker 1: That is the key to magic. And I love magic.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I was the kid why I went to Disneyland.
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  Speaker 3: As a kid.
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  Speaker 1: I always wanted to go to the magic Store. That's
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  Speaker 1: where I wanted to go more than any on Main Street, USA.
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  Speaker 1: I want to go hang out the magic shop. And
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  Speaker 1: I got smaller and smaller. It was a kid, it
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  Speaker 1: was big.
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  Speaker 3: Now I go in there, it's like a little side thing.
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  Speaker 3: Pocket of magic.
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  Speaker 1: But I recall and a magician's act, whether you're a
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  Speaker 1: great magician or a bad magician, the key is the misdirection.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a classic smoke bomb. It's a classic
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  Speaker 1: smoke bomb by the Ravens, and it's the magician waving
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  Speaker 1: the hand.
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  Speaker 3: I'm waving the hand.
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  Speaker 1: Over here and then and then on this side you
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  Speaker 1: do the switch, you know, you do the old switchereru there,
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  Speaker 1: that's the that's the move, and you grab something and
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  Speaker 1: your wallet pops up in a different place. But the
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  Speaker 1: real evidence on this, what is the real evidence? The
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  Speaker 1: real evidence? Was Lamar at the podium the other day.
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  Speaker 1: He was asked a soft ball question, total softball question.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want John Harball back as coach of the
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  Speaker 1: Ravens next season? Dered basic question for Lamar Jackson. A layup,
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  Speaker 1: an absolute layup, a foul shot, no one guarding you
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  Speaker 1: unless it wasn't. So what did Lamar Jackson say? We've
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  Speaker 1: got the audio. Let's go to the audio tip. Here's
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  Speaker 1: Lamar responding to a really simple question.
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  Speaker 3: Do you want to see John the.
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  Speaker 6: Coach you you asked me about next year? Jamison, I'm
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  Speaker 6: so caught up in what's just happened tonight. I can't
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  Speaker 6: I can't focus on that right now. I just told you,
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  Speaker 6: like he asked me, are you stunning? I'm stunning right now.
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  Speaker 6: I'm still trying to process what's going on. Like, I
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  Speaker 6: know we lost, but but you know that's all.
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  Speaker 1: So you heard a little bit of a pause there.
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  Speaker 1: Lamar paused like his brain was buffering. Oh man, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to answer that question. Man, why would you
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  Speaker 1: ask me that? You asking me about next year? We
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  Speaker 1: in here, we just lost, he gave me talking about
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  Speaker 1: next year. Now you can't see the body of Omas
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  Speaker 1: because we're doing radio. It's an audio platform. But the
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  Speaker 1: hands were in the air, a little headshake, dead give it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not.
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  Speaker 1: People said, well, that's emotion, you know, just lost the
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  Speaker 1: game and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: You know what that is.
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  Speaker 1: Bull crap is what that is. That's avoidance is what
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  Speaker 1: it was. Also, Lamar had an opportunity he did not
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  Speaker 1: choose to take the opportunity to defend John Harbaugh.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't endorse him. He didn't even fake it like
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  Speaker 3: it's a simple thing.
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  Speaker 1: Just fake it old, Oh that's my guy, that's my coach.
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  Speaker 1: We ride together, ride and die.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't do any of that.
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  Speaker 1: Lamar hung his coach out the drive by not answering
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  Speaker 1: the question. And so you keep hearing these little nuggets
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  Speaker 1: out of Baltimore and more and more as we workshop
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  Speaker 1: this together. It would appear that Lamar Jackson and the
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  Speaker 1: coach it was like teenage mutant ninja turtles. But they
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  Speaker 1: were not those turtles. They were loggerhead turtles. John Harbaugh
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  Speaker 1: and Lamar Jackson fighting over the remote control. Who's in
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  Speaker 1: control here and when push came to shove ultimately ownership.
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  Speaker 1: They made the call and they're the ones that make
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  Speaker 1: the decision here, right. But the story that was leaked,
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  Speaker 1: one of the stories that was leaked in addition to
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  Speaker 1: the Todd Munkins story, there was another story leaked by
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens obviously obviously was that John Harbaugh lost the
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  Speaker 1: locker room.
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  Speaker 3: Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding
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  Speaker 3: ding ding ning.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a tell you know that story was not
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  Speaker 1: leaked by John Harbaugh. Why would John Harbaugh leake the
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  Speaker 1: story I lost the locker room? That made no sense,
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  Speaker 1: makes him look like a buffoon. So obviously came from
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens. And let's see, let's break this down scientific.
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  Speaker 1: So what exactly who is the Ravens locker room?
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  Speaker 3: That's right, Lamar Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: Like, if ten guys of the Ravens despise John Harbaugh,
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  Speaker 1: however Lamar Jackson loves him, doesn't that cross out to
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  Speaker 1: ten people that don't like John Harbaugh. As the old
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  Speaker 1: line is, there's certain percentage of people that don't like it,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what you do. And there's certain people that
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  Speaker 1: like you, and then there's others that are undecided. And
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  Speaker 1: once the undecided voters go to the side, they don't
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  Speaker 1: like you, it's a problem. But to me, this is
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  Speaker 1: clearly pointing at the direction of Lamar Jackson and Steve Bashatti,
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  Speaker 1: the owner. He chose the quarterback. And the whole thing
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  Speaker 1: smells like what raw sewage is what it smells like.
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  Speaker 1: And Lamar never grabbed a plunger. And now the Ravens like, well,
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  Speaker 1: we call their own plumber, rode O Ruter, and they're
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  Speaker 1: coming in here. We gotta clog toilet. We're gonna unclog
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  Speaker 1: the toilet, is what we're gonna do, all right, now,
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  Speaker 1: turning the page, but keeping the theme of the hour
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  Speaker 1: on this Mala monologue, there's a theme to all this,
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  Speaker 1: to the matter. So John Harbaugh has now become hot
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  Speaker 1: to trot. He's the bell of the ball, hottest girl in.
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  Speaker 3: The whole room. Well, let's kiss coach. Everyone loves him.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: Now the question is does he sit out, does he
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  Speaker 1: return to coach? Will he continue as an NFL coach?
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  Speaker 1: Does he take time off? Does this become an Andy
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  Speaker 1: Reid situation where Andy Reid had success in Philadelphia, and
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  Speaker 1: then he went somewhere else and then things really went
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  Speaker 1: turbo time in Kansas City with Patrick Mahomes. Now the
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  Speaker 1: agent keive him mind. The agent has an agent. Agents
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  Speaker 1: are like politicians. They never say anything that's legit. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the agent's claiming, pumping his chest out, get the feathers
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  Speaker 1: up like a peacock. And the agent's claiming seven NFL
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  Speaker 1: teams within forty five minutes. Contact the agent said, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: how would you like to coach our team?
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  Speaker 3: To the agent?
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  Speaker 1: So, all right, question, through the powers of radio and
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  Speaker 1: audio content. Through the powers of audio content, you have
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  Speaker 1: now been hired as an NFL consultant. Congratulations, paid a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money, good expense, account no accountability, none of
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. So you're a consultant. You're a career counselor,
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  Speaker 1: and John Harball and his agent have hired you time
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  Speaker 1: to give advice. So what should former Ravens coach John
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  Speaker 1: Harbaugh's next move? B you make the call. So on
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  Speaker 1: this one, we're going to activate the Malor think tank.
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  Speaker 1: The Malor think tank is activated. So the whiteboard, you
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  Speaker 1: got the whiteboard out, and you got the market. Those
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  Speaker 1: squeaky markers, like the markers are squeaking. You got that
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  Speaker 1: going on a logic, slightly cooked overnight talk radio logic.
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  Speaker 1: So Harball is shopping for his next zip code. In theory,
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  Speaker 1: the first rule is you immediately cross off the clown cars.
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  Speaker 1: So you got no clown cars. So that's so raiders forget.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, is there a bigger clown car than well,
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  Speaker 1: the Browns. Okay, so they're out. Browns, Raiders, Titans. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to do that, So they're out. And so
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  Speaker 1: you've got that. That's three different flavors of ownership quicksand
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  Speaker 1: so you eliminate them. That The Giants are not much better.
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  Speaker 1: The Giants are like the Jets light The Giants at
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  Speaker 1: least used to be good, but now they're just like
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  Speaker 1: the Jets.
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  Speaker 3: But they have a different.
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  Speaker 1: Logo, and they've got taller buildings than the Browns and
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders and things like that. They actually have the
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  Speaker 1: same same buildings as the Jets, and the same socialist
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  Speaker 1: mayor they have there in New York. But if I'm
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  Speaker 1: John Harbaugh, right, if I'm John Harball, I'm narrowing it
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  Speaker 1: down to two spots of the available teams Atlanta and Miami. However, however,
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  Speaker 1: I told you we're work shopping this. If you're John Harball,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta wait. There's a good chance the Buffalo Bills
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  Speaker 1: lose in Jacksonville on wild card weekend, that job opens up.
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  Speaker 1: You slide in and coach Josh Allen. Now, the Bengals
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  Speaker 1: have said that their coach is going to be back.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that I believe that, because if you
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  Speaker 1: have a chance to hire John Harbaugh, why wouldn't you
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  Speaker 1: do that? So of the available jobs, none of them
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  Speaker 1: are all that good. If it was just the available jobs,
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  Speaker 1: I would say, go to Atlanta, go to Miami. However,
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  Speaker 1: you have to wait a couple of rounds. Just you're
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  Speaker 1: the hot person at the bar. Everyone's trying to flirt
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  Speaker 1: with you, buy your drinks. But you gotta wait, okay,
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  Speaker 1: because he's coming in late into the bar. Buffalo they
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  Speaker 1: don't they have to fire their coach if they lose
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  Speaker 1: on wild card weekend and the Bills are in the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs and there's normal homes. No Lamar Jackson, not that
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  Speaker 1: he was any good in the playoffs. No Joe Burrow.
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  Speaker 1: This has got to be the year. And if they
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  Speaker 1: don't win if he was on a wild card weekend,
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  Speaker 1: don't that Bill's fire McDermot. So that job opens up,
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  Speaker 1: and then say what, you know what, The Bengals have
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  Speaker 1: bad owners but a good quarterback, so keep an eye
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  Speaker 1: kind of hold off all the available jobs. I'd go Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: mainly because of the NFC South, where you can. No
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  Speaker 1: division has produced more teams with losing records to make
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs in the history of the NFL than the
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  Speaker 1: team or the MC South teams. I should say, the
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  Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers, who suck this year. Tampa Bay's made it
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  Speaker 1: under five hundred. So that's the division. They're all stuck
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  Speaker 1: in neutral or rebuilding, which is weasel terminology. Miami, that
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  Speaker 1: job is technically not open. I just wouldn't want to
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  Speaker 1: rather live in Miami. The Dolphins used to be good.
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  Speaker 1: You can wake up the echoes of Don Shula and
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  Speaker 1: Dan Marino and all that. Of course they don't have
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback, but most of these teams don't. All right,
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  Speaker 1: now the sound of the Dolphin players in a meeting, now,
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  Speaker 1: all right? So the last word here? What is on
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  Speaker 1: deck in Baltimore? Based on some of the reporting here
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  Speaker 1: that's come out in the late hours of the night.
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  Speaker 1: It would appear this was not planned, that something happened
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  Speaker 1: at the very last minute. The Ravens, this was not
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  Speaker 1: well planned out. This was an improv coaching change. Improv
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  Speaker 1: coaching change. So where do the Ravens go next? It
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  Speaker 1: would appear they don't have a plan. Everyone's tossing out
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  Speaker 1: names like they're ordering off the jack in the box menu.
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  Speaker 1: You got Cliff Kingsbury over there, Brian Flores, somebody named
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  Speaker 1: Mike LeFleur who's apparently the Rams offensive coordinator, even though
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  Speaker 1: Sean McVay runs the Rams offense.
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  Speaker 3: So on a tablet, if you look at the Ravens
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  Speaker 3: job on a.
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  Speaker 1: Tablet, it looks incredible, looks incredible on a table That's
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  Speaker 1: the key phrase. On a tablet. It's a mirage job.
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  Speaker 1: It's a mirage job for the low information fan. You
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  Speaker 1: see this multi time, multi time platinum MVP, Lamar Jackson,
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  Speaker 1: who has a glitch. The thing of a jig doesn't
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  Speaker 1: work in big games. You've got Derek Henry who's older
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  Speaker 1: and started to fumble and slowed down a wee bit
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  Speaker 1: this past year at running back. Those are scary names.
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  Speaker 1: You've also got scary names on defense because they're not
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  Speaker 1: playing very well. So you look at all that you know, initially,
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  Speaker 1: well that's jackpot, but then we mentioned it tomorrow, right,
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  Speaker 1: and you hit the pause button, you take a deep breath,
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  Speaker 1: and you squint, and you pull out the Mallard magnifying
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  Speaker 1: glass and you look at that and you're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: suddenly that oasis turns into sand, Like what is that?
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: And Lamar is twenty eight.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: I would say that he's probably seven years older than that,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: based on the way that he's played and taking care
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: of himself. So therefore Lamar is like a thirty five
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: year old quarterback. He's a high mileage body, which is
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: it's like a used cars got shiny rims.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: You're like, well, that looks pretty good. That's pretty good.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: But the transmission that clunks every time you hit the
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: second gear just doesn't go anywhere. There's scratches on it,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: there's dens, the paints faded a little bit. The factory
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: warranty expired a couple of years ago, so you don't
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: want to also ignore the whispers. As we mentioned Lamar,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: how big a role did Lamar play this? Did Lamar
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: meet with the owner and say I want John Harbaugh
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: and Harbaugh got fired anyway, or is it more likely
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: that Lamar's listen players don't like Harball. He just he
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: he lost the room. I don't you know, we need
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: to change. And that's how that happened. Right by all accounts,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: John Harbaugh did what you're supposed to do with the
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: superstar quarterback. He bent over backwards to accommodate the wants
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: and the needs of Lamar Jackson, Bubble Bass, the kid
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: gloves the The most amazing story about the Ravens in
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: recent years, they've actually practiced later in the day than
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: every other NFL team because.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Lamar likes to stay up late at night. He's a
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: he's a night out.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: So most NFL teams practice early in the day and
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: get it over with, but the Ravens had to practice
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: later in the day often because Lamar just likes staying
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: up late, whether he was playing video games or going
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: to food trucks or whatever. And so they commented the
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: other factors, you got high expectations like you got to
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: you gotta win, and Lamar his problem is he can't.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: The dow hicck EAT's not good in the playoff, so
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: he's fragile, high expectations, instant pressure from those expectations. Not
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: exactly a dream job. It's like walking into Coyote Ugly
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: and ordering a cocktail. It's a toxic cocktail and it's
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: fun for five minutes and then you regret it and
• 20:54
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• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Big story in football right now on Sports Radio is
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the decommissioning of John Harbaugh. He's out after eighteen years
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: in Baltimore. The Ravens have excommunicated their coach. Where there's
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: another story on the coaching carousel that's got my attention,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: So I leave this out. We'll get back to the
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: John Harbaugh story, because there's a lot to that. But
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: we'll move now to the Music City where it would
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: take a mirror for the Titans to be good again.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: They had that a while ago, to the Music City Miracle,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: which a fraudulent play. It was a forward pass by
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Kevin Dyson and Frank Whitecheck, the late Frank Whitecheck. There
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: illegal forward pass was not called by the incompetent officials.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: But a new name has emerged. A new name has
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: emerged for the gig with the Titans. If you have
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: not been following that, why would you unless you're in Nashville,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: And even if you're in Nashville, you likely aren't paying
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: that close attention.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: So we alert.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: I hope you're racing the table, you're holding onto the table. Yeah,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: you're sitting down, you're.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Not sitting here.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Well, it's with the heavy heart. I report that the
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: former Dallas Cowboys coach Jason Garrett will interview for the
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: head coaching gig in Tennessee later this week.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Garrett, how about them Cowboys?
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: He coached the Cowboys from twenty eleven through twenty nineteen.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: He became the interiom head coach or in the twenty
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: ten season, I was barely alive. Then I took over
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: there in Dallas. A really nice regular season record. He
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: was eighty five and sixty seven and made the playoffs
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: three times and went two and three Cowboys did with
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: him as the coach. Now, Garrett has been working as
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: ambient on NBC the last few years, putting listeners to sleep.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Since twenty twenty two. You hear him talking like, oh,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: it's like hollering James. So that's a good jumping off point.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Let us discuss question for the esteem panel. Does Jason
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Garrett interviewing for the Tennessee Titans job make it tinkle?
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Does it make it tinkle? Does it?
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: All?
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: So my observation, I got Walmart boarding pass and day
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: old meat.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Loaf, and we will combine all of.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: These things together and we are going to put the
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: biscuit in the basket, is what we're going to do.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: So number number all right. So the answer question does
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: it make me tingle?
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Absolutely not. Now keep in mind I have no skin
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: in the game. Now, you got a lot of people
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: in the greater Nashville area that listen all over the
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Great State of Tennessee. They are tuned in there and
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: they're locked in on what we're doing here.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: But uh my response, does it make me tingle? No,
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: it makes me yawn.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: It makes me yawn big theatrical you know, just a
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: jaw stretching, you know, you stretch your jaw, you move
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: your arms out like you go beat your head back
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: to that kind of of yn that kind of yawn
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: when I hear this, and it's the same thing that
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: happens when Jason Garrett starts talking on NBC. He's like, Okay,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: time to take a nap. And I don't sleep much,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: but when I hear Jason Garrett or Tony Dungee, I'm like, okay,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: time to sleep. Uh So, captain of the Snooze Cruise,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Snooze Cruise. And here's the thing. There's no there's no
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: turbulence with Jason Garrett. There's no excitement with with the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: He's just a seat belt signed permanently on.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: And Garrett does seem like a nice guy. He seems
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: like in that he would be a pleasant neighbor. Like
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: if Jason Garrett was your neighbor, he'd be like, oh,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: that's good.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: He's a good neighbor. You don''t bother you. Yeah, well
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: he's not.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: He's the kind of guy that will he's out mowing
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: his law and a wave at you, you know that
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: kind of thing. I don't think he's one of these
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: annoying people that, yeah, yeah, some people sit. There's a
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: guy right near my house. He sits in his uh
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: right in front of his garage in a lawn chair.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Guy's got a big house right sits in a lot
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: and he stares at everyone in the neighborhood. And really
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: it's really annoying. It's like, dude, you have a house, Dude,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: you stay, why do you do that?
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Like, I don't understand. I don't think Garrett's like kind
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: of guy.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I think he's a guy a wave at you if
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: you if you need some Tomali's or he has Tomali's.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know you need tomal Maybe he needs some tomatoes.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: He give you tomatoes, you get those, you know, I
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: hate Jason, can have some tomatoes. I got you some tomatoes.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I'll get you some tomatoes. I'll pick them in the
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: backyard there I'll get the tomatoes. So now that being said,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: now we get to the meat. Of the matter here.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I don't believe Jason Garrett is being interviewed to be
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: the groundskeeper Willie of the Tennessee Titans. I don't think
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: the theme of the hour the Simpson. The last hour
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: was at the Simpsons. But Garrett had nine seasons, if
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: my math is correct, with the Dallas Cowboys, he had
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: rosters that were at points loaded with talent. That's what
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: you all told me, great talent. And when the lights
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: got bright, what happened? It got saucy. It was weak sauce.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: It was very weak.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Against good competition. Jason Garrett did not get it done.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: There's a musical chairs situation, as almost always, the cowboys
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: left standing with nowhere to sit. It's continued with Dak Prescott,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: and Jason Garrett did coach Dak at the beginning of
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: his time in Dallas. He had Tony Romo back in
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the day. Now, what is my evidence that Jason Garrett
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: and the Cowboys underachieved against good If you go back
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: and I went all I didn't have enough time to
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: go all the way back to the beginning, but it
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: was bad at the beginning.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: But if you go to twenty fourteen, so the last
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: was it.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Five years or so of Jason Garrett coaching the Cowboys,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: he had eighteen wins and twenty four losses, a four
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: to twenty nine record against teams that had a winning record,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: which I don't think is good. And Jason Garrett is generic.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: He's store brand coaching. It's like you wanted some cinnamon
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: toast crunch because everyone loves cinnamon toast crunch, and instead,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: instead you went down to the Walmart and you got
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the great value cinnamon crunch. But I wanted the cinnamon
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: toast crunch. Well, we don't have that. We have it's
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: not exactly the same. It's it's it's cinnamon crunch, but
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: what I need to toast, Well that we can't use
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: that because that's the name brand. So we have the
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: ripoff version, the copycat version, and so you get that.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Now it looks similar, right, it looks similar and it
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: tastes I guess fine, I don't I don't know. It's
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: not the real thing, right, There's no sugar Rush, no
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Poppety Pop, none of that stuff.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Now, Jason Garrett does have some oflsos.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I want to be fair. I don't want to be
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: a douchebag. I want to be fair. So there are
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: some positives for Jason Garrett. What are the positives?
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Jason Garrett very positive being a sock puppet right for ownership.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: He's one of the all time great sock puppets. If
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: you want a yes man, Jason Garrett is your guy,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: perfecting the ancient art. Also of the clapper. That's right,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: buddy of Jerry Jones back in the day. Clap on,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: clapbap the clapper. That's him. That's the resume right there.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Those are the positives. He's a yes man and he's
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: the clapper. Now for Titan fans, this this is not,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: of course a spark. It's unbuttered toast. And I don't
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: know anyone that really loves unbuttered toast. It's just, you know,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: it's like I don't need that. All right, to Atlanta
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: we go. We have a quarterback update. Quarterback update for
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: the atl The dirty Birds taking care of some business here.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: They got rid of their coach, their GM, their president
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: of football operations, all those guys gone somehow, despite having
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: no executives left. The Falcons announced that Kirk Cousins and
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: the team had agreed to restructure the contract, which tells
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: you that happened months ago. They just announced it this week.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: So Cousins agreed to restructure his deal in Layman's terms
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: because we didn't want to go that deep. The Falcons
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: have until March thirteenth. They're on the clock. They have
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: until March thirteenth to make a decision whether they're going
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: to keep Cousins or get rid of him. They have
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: to make that decision by March thirteenth because the reason
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: if they if they don't decide to get rid of him,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: they guarantee a bunch more money. All right. Question, where
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: is Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousin future headed?
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Where's it heat? The compass out? Is it up? Down? Right?
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Left?
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: Where are we going to the north southeast? Where is it?
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: So the future of Kirk Cousins is headed the same
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: direction as a red eye out of the Hartsfield Jackson
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Atlanta International Airport and outbound no return. You had a
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: book a different flight, no return outbound. This is armageddon,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: not to be too dramatic, armageddon with a boarding pass.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Of course, you gotta have the boarding pass. The dirty
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: birds have two pass here that fork in the road,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: all right, they can release ceremonially release Kirk Cousins, or
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: they can repaper Kirk Cousins deal. And that smells like
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: day old shrimp. So I don't know that you you
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: want that now. The only way Cousins stays in the ATA,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: there's only one way. I spent literally forty seconds thinking
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: about this. The only way he stays in the atl
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: for Tommy in Atlanta is if the Falcons hire a buddy,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: hire a friend, football nepotism, somebody that coached Cousins back
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: in the day when he was with the Red Skids
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: or the Vikings, somewhere along those lines. So other than that, no,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: see ya, goodbye, bye bye. Now Cousins took over for
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: the injured Michael Pennix Junior, the future star of Atlantic,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: except he can't play either. And Cousins looked like the
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: world's worst insurance policy, like really bad insurance expensive. They
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: don't respond very fast, very slow, and denied your claim
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: at the window, which I've learned over the year is
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: most insurance denies your claims anyway. Cousins old played, old,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: heavy footed, condemned hopeless. The tape screamed expired, expired now
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: by the numbers because we're all about the numbers. We're
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: all about the by the numbers. Cousins was the thirty
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: first ranked quarterback in the NFL, number thirty one.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: He was a hair better than Gino Smith.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: And Gino Smith blows and Cousins was just a little
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: tick better, just a little little tick better than.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: Gino Smith, who can't play.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: That's not a flex. No, that's not a flex. That's
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: a toe tag, is what that is there. And Cousins
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: a legendary carpetbagger. And he'll pack up the old U
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: haul and the station wagon and find work. And you'll go,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: whether it's the Colts, the Cardinals, back to the Vikings,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: the Dolphins at age thirty seven. But the mala verdict
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: on this, the mala verdict on this. The runway is clear.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Wheels up, wheels up, and wait until we reach our
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: cruising altitude. Now final point to Detroit we go. A
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: day after coach Dan Campbell gave himself an f for
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: his job coaching this year a failure. Of course, he
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: didn't fire himself. No, he took out the machete, the
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: butcher's knife is what he took out. The Lions have
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: fired their offensive coordinator John Morton. Hey, gone, all right,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: So question, how do you read the Lions dumping their
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: offensive guru John Morton after one season? So the Lions
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: if you followed this at all, and you don't have
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: to be a Michigander, but he just followed the NFL.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: The Lions did not just wave goodbye to John Morton.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: They offered him up like a sacrificial lamb at the altar.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Thin margins, thin margins in the NFL.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: And this was pre ordained, is what this was.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: It was written in the stars. As our friend Andrea
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: the astrology insider would say, this was written in the
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: When the numbers slide, somebody's head rolls in that business.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: And the easiest, the easiest neck to grab is one
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: of the coordinators. And Detroit went from an offense that
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: was Kobe beef and then they were day old.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Meat loaf this past season.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Now, to the uneducated, it's like, oh, it wasn't that bad.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: They fell down a little bit, but wasn't that bad?
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Now?
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Listen, day old meat loaf is edible. Some people think
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: it's better in the refrigerator. It's just not special. It's
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: it's not special.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: They lost per game.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: The lines, if my malor math is correct, five points
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: per game less from twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: and forty one and a half yards of offense per
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: game they were worse. So that's four first downs a
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: game and almost a touchdown per game worse. So in
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: that business, in that particular business, that the difference between
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: having a nice playoff game on wildcard weekend and enjoying
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: a nice glass of tapwater.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: That's what you get there.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: And so Ben Johnson, now we know, he bolted out
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: to Chicago and turned the Bears into a playoff act
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: in the Windy City, much to the joy of Yafimi
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: and our friend Tree in Chicago and the other Bears fans. Meanwhile,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Dan Campbell, good old Dan Campbell, grabbed the play sheet
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: mid seas. Remember we talked about this. Dan Campbell demoted
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: John Morton midseason, which is an unmistakable sign from the
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: heavens that the kitchen failed the inspection. I'm sorry to
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: report that you've got cockroaches in your kitchen.
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: You might want to clean that up.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: And the good news is this is a league of retreads,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: and it's like, once you get in, it's kind of
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: like my theory on the Ivy League schools like Harvard
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: and Yale and places like that. The hardest thing about
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: the Ivy League is in once you get in, it's
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: almost impossible to fail.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Right like in the NFL.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Once you get a coaching job and you get to
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: a certain level, it doesn't matter how bad you are,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: you just keep getting jobs. Talk about that more as
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: we go through the night. This guy Morton is going
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: to land on his feet. He's buddies with Sean Payton,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: for example, old coaching pals, and so why not same highway,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: different exit and Broccos will make some changes on their
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: coaching staff. But in Detroit though, focus on the Lions.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Somebody had to eat the sandwich, the blame sandwich, and
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Morton drew the short straw.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: So congratulations, enjoy the sandwich.
• 36:40
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• 36:42
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• 36:46
  Speaker 3: It's smaller, how about that? Yeah? Third degree? How about that?
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: This is one big Ben gets grilled.
• 36:54
  Speaker 8: That's it already, Cup Dial loop with Jonathan Gannon getting
• 36:59
  Speaker 8: fired by the Cardinal. Kyler Murray took to social media
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  Speaker 8: to post a little tribute. He said, my guy genuinely
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  Speaker 8: loved going to war with you. There's more appreciate who
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  Speaker 8: you are as a man and a coach.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: War path.
• 37:17
  Speaker 8: Yeah, Ben, do you think Kyler's next to go in Arizona?
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Well, Kyler was actually talking about Jonathan gan A lot
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: of people don't know this coop. They would play Call
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: of Duty all night together, so they did go to war.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: I mean that's a that's a video game reference by
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Kyler Murray.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: How great would it be? Tom Brady has no idea
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: what he's doing with the Raiders.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: If he hires Jonathan Gannon and then Kyler Murray comes in.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: Is the or Cliff Kingsburg, either one of those guys
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  Speaker 3: right with the Raiders.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good It would be shocking if Kyler
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Murray is still with the Cardinals by the time we
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  Speaker 1: get to the NFL Draft.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: It's just done with him. They didn't really want to
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: sign him.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: They gave him the video game clause to watch film,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: so they knew they didn't want him. And the Gannon thing, Yeah,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: you knew he was cooked when he grabbed the running
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: back who fumbled clutched around before crossing the goal.
• 38:07
  Speaker 8: Like next It was reported by Mike Florio this week
• 38:10
  Speaker 8: that Mike Tomlin could take a break from coaching after
• 38:12
  Speaker 8: the Steelers play their final postseason game and have Tomlin
• 38:16
  Speaker 8: head over to TV. But do you think that'll happen?
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: First of all, why would you Why would you quit
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: a job the only job in the NFL where gives
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: you lifetime employment, Like.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: Why would you do that?
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Like you just gotta quit that job, but come back
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: and coach some other team where if you have one
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: bad year like the Ravens, they get rid of you.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: That didn't make sense. Uh No, And these guys are
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: so spoiled and coddle his NFL coaches, Like, if you're
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: done coaching, just retire. But if you're going to come
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: back to coaching in a couple of years, just keep coaching.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: That Steeler job is a plumb job. They don't care.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: As long as you have a you know, a round
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: five hundred, you're in good ship.
• 38:48
  Speaker 8: Next, it was reported by Shams on Money that I've
• 38:52
  Speaker 8: heard of it. Trey Young and his agents are working
• 38:54
  Speaker 8: with the Hawks to facilitate a train of the star
• 38:57
  Speaker 8: point Guard And it doesn't seem like Atlanta will be
• 38:59
  Speaker 8: getting much in Ben do you think Young can revive
• 39:02
  Speaker 8: his career elsewhere?
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, First of all, I miss WOJ, I missed the
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: WOJ bombs. Shams's okay, he's no Woj, there's no wove
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: uh Now, So can Trey Young resuscitate his career somewhere else?
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: Absolutely? But he's a me guy, He's not a team guy.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: And there have been a bunch of stories planted about
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: the teammates hate playing with Trey Young and he's a
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: stat stuffer extraordinary there.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: He's gonna have to reinvent himself.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: But we've seen players get traded and reinvent himself, reinvent himselves.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: So is it possible when I bet on it? No,
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: but it is possible. By how did we do? You passed?
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: This edition? What Coco? I won? Dark Oh? I won?
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  Speaker 9: It's it Bozz with Little Rain and ten nine He's
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  Speaker 9: clean Up, Hearts going Ah gear Rye gear Rye, Ton
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  Speaker 5: You heard the man. It's Tom for the first Love
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: show of the New year.
• 40:11
  Speaker 10: New year, new love, new romance, new problems.
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  Speaker 5: What's going on, militia?
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: Do you think these questions will be any good today
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: or you think they're going.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: To suck your expectations.
• 40:24
  Speaker 10: I hope we're off to a good start, but after
• 40:27
  Speaker 10: the things I've seen on X this week, I don't
• 40:29
  Speaker 10: know what's going to happen.
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: All right, Well, let's get started with Shane in des Moines,
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: who writes and he says, have you ever voted for
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: someone because a celebrity voted for that person? That's from
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: that's for Lorraina. That's obviously your questions.
• 40:44
  Speaker 10: You're a bit there, No, no, you have Celebrity influence
• 40:48
  Speaker 10: is not my thing.
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: I more go off of morals.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: Morals, all right? Really is a sliding Ah? No, all right?
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: You buy products because the celebrity tells you to buy
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: the product. Now you know, I got you. Mike the
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: Leprechaun writes and he says, how could you gently nudge
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: your partner to lose weight or go to.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: The gym after overindulging during the holiday season?
• 41:17
  Speaker 10: Oh, this is a fun one, because yeah, you want
• 41:20
  Speaker 10: what's best for your partner and you want to stay
• 41:22
  Speaker 10: attracted to your partner, and you know, sometimes you can
• 41:26
  Speaker 10: see something that kind of discussed you a bit.
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: So there is a nice way to go about it.
• 41:31
  Speaker 10: But I like to do it in ways of like,
• 41:33
  Speaker 10: let's do it together, you know, because our fitness journey
• 41:36
  Speaker 10: can be together, not just you need to go to
• 41:38
  Speaker 10: the gym. You ate like a pig, you fatty. No,
• 41:41
  Speaker 10: let's go to the gym together. Let's go get fit.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: That's nice advice. But Mike, how about just say your
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: new nickname is oink oink? All right, let's say hello
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: to Rick in Maryland. You know what time it is? Hello,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Rick in Maryland, Hello time.
• 41:57
  Speaker 11: I knew you, and everybody tell me if I was wrong.
• 42:01
  Speaker 11: My son decided to bring his young lady over for
• 42:06
  Speaker 11: dinner doing the kwans A holiday, and his siblings.
• 42:09
  Speaker 12: Told him, are you sure you want to do that?
• 42:11
  Speaker 12: So I got right into it. I asked her, I
• 42:13
  Speaker 12: said can you cook? And she hesitated. I said, son,
• 42:16
  Speaker 12: the next time you buy her a gift, make sure
• 42:19
  Speaker 12: it's a cookbook.
• 42:20
  Speaker 10: That wrong, Oh you know those women in the kitchen. Though, No,
• 42:27
  Speaker 10: I think that's a funny gift as long as he
• 42:29
  Speaker 10: means it in a joking manner. But No, I think
• 42:32
  Speaker 10: cooking is very vital, good, good, useful tool to have.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Rick, what you do you do the cookbook? Did
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: you buy buy the air fryer, the or lender, the
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: foreman grill? You know, you're just the little gifts and frying.
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: Pan, coffee maker.
• 42:45
  Speaker 10: Yeah, And I told him, And then you can upgrade
• 42:48
  Speaker 10: to household appliances like a washer and dryer, vacuum.
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: A vacuum.
• 42:53
  Speaker 10: What about those feather dusters main outfit while you're at it.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: Now, now you're talking the rader. Now you're telling.
• 43:00
  Speaker 11: Roll little waist down the road, A little waist down
• 43:02
  Speaker 11: the road.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Rick, all right, your day, Rick
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: and Maryland morning time. It was a great relevant question
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: from fird Bog. He says, Hey, Loraina, do chicks find
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: six seven as hilarious as us guys do?
• 43:18
  Speaker 10: Oh my gosh, please stop. I never I don't even
• 43:21
  Speaker 10: understand where it started. I don't get it, and I
• 43:24
  Speaker 10: don't want to get it. My nephew is a little
• 43:30
  Speaker 10: little rascal, and he saw him a lot of the holidays.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: He did the six seventh thing, and you know what,
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: I decided to fight back, so I then started doing
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: the six seven. He did not think it was my
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: He thought like I was breaking some kind of boundary
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: as an adult to say six seven that was.
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: A kid thing?
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: Did you try saying eight nine? After?
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: No, I did not.
• 43:48
  Speaker 10: You should try that. You should go six seven eight nine.
• 43:50
  Speaker 10: And then also remember when it's like, why was six.
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: Afreid of seven seven eight nine? You could be stupid.
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: You don't give them a those dumb jokes.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: We love, all right, JT.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: The Wingman writes in and It's the Queen of hearts,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: he says, for the New Year, I was thinking about
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: sharing a toothbrush with my partner.
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: When is it safe in the relationship? No? Why would
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: you need to share it?
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: No, there's a lot of things you can share. I
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: don't think toothbrushes need to.
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: Do want to? They're not that expensive?
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Is big?
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: I mean you do share saliva, I understand.
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: But Big and Drinks does bood big tooth? Do they
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: have they raised the prices of toothbrushes? Have they?
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: No?
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: And I think you can go to dollar Tree and
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: get one.
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: A boy. All right, Well, dollar Tree is now seven
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: dollar Tree. I think it's gone.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, dollar fifty, Yeah, yeah, I knew the ninety nine
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: cents stories.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: I knew we're in danger when I went in there
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: and they had like a forty dollars bag. Oh my gosh.
• 44:50
  Speaker 10: Right, it's like, actually only that far corner is ninety
• 44:53
  Speaker 10: nine cents.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like, well, this place isn't gonna be right.
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: Even Dollar Tree has frozen food.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: This place, dollar this place is not long for the
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: world charging that kind of money.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: Next up is Steve said Lorena. I noticed I am
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: going gray. My wife says, it makes me look more distinguished.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: But my barber asked if I wanted to embrace the
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: silver Fox era. I'm not ready for any era that
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: involves the world fox uh and says, how do I
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: age gracefully?
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: How are you going to know how to age gracefully?
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: You're not even that old around.
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: I think you are lucky to even have a head
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: of hair?
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: Question? Is that dope?
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: Embrace it? Embrace it hair. Yeah, it's foxy.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: I like silver.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: You do like I do. You're just doing that to
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: flirt with you. I like it, and I don't believe that.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true.
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: And it's mixed in all nice like that's.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Salt and pepper, right, they call that. I think salt
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: and pepper cheap it. Okay, I keep bet she has spoken.
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• 46:02
  Speaker 2: Attention everyone, and the password is password, you idiot, password
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  Speaker 2: the word Game of the Stars.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: Here's Ben Meler, all.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: Let's do it. Password the word Game of the Stars.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: We've got Daniel in Fort Wayne, who's gonna be one
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: of our contestants.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: Hello, Daniel, Welcome.
• 46:20
  Speaker 12: Good morning, back in the saddle for.
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: Twenty twenty six, America's favorite crossing guard there in Fort Wayne.
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: Ready to go? All right, dad, Daniel? Who do you
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: want to partner up with? Quickly?
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: And I had to go with you.
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: That's right because you want to win it. You're in
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: it to win it.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: Hold on a second, and we have let's go to
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: Chris in Boston.
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: Is gonna play?
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Hello Chris, Welcome, Happy new year, Ben, it's been a while, Chris,
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Welcome on.
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: Here we go. Who do you want to partner up with? Chris?
• 46:47
  Speaker 12: Let's go cool?
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: All right, Well you're gonna lose, we'll have you as
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: a loser. Daniel, you're there. We have a list of
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: words one to ten. Daniel, you were on first, which
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: means the rule of the game, you get to pick
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: a number, number number.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: I want to.
• 47:07
  Speaker 5: Take the lead, not to concede.
• 47:11
  Speaker 12: Number three.
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: Number three, All right, let's go with it's not that easy.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: Actually, let's go with the monarchy kingdom.
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that is awesome. That was such a terrible clothes,
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: great clue.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: That was a monarchy's king All right, you're I feel
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: like there's some cheating going.
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, me and the crossing guard of cheating.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Yes, right, texted him it's a go ahead, a psychic connection.
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: With with virgin and service. Yes, go ahead, all right,
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: number two. Let's go with disguise. Yeah, that was easy.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: That was We're back ten points for each word with
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: you know, every incorrect answer, go down to nine whatever.
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: Daniel, you're up. We have two and three gone, but.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: We have one and then four to ten ten, number ten,
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: all right, let's go with.
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: Abra cadabra mag. I don't know if that's I don't
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: know if you can say that that's why? Why would
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: you not be able to say that? That's please?
• 48:22
  Speaker 11: All right?
• 48:23
  Speaker 8: All right, coop such a spoil shit, all right, go ahead,
• 48:26
  Speaker 8: it's a proper noun.
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: I'll stop just making things up. Alright, go ahead, alright,
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: all right, you gotta get this one right, Cooper, you're screwed.
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: All right, let's go for five sketch?
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I said, all right, Daniel, boy, it's actually a
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: good game.
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: What happened? These games usually suck. I pick a number,
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: but please say number one, number.
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: One, Oh boy, let's go with it's I don't think
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: we have time on actually we don't have time.
• 49:02
  Speaker 7: We're out of time.
• 49:03
  Speaker 11: Though, I don't pull me.
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: There's no bullying.
• 49:07
  Speaker 7: Got it?
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: Can't you not have gotten it? You're alive. It's I'm
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: talking over my