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  Speaker 1: hour is from Pittsburgh. The Steelers are not bad. They're
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  Speaker 1: not good. They played bad in their last game, and
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  Speaker 1: I just love any chance I have to play audio
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  Speaker 1: for Mike Tomlin. It's just so good. So we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: take a trip to Pittsburgh, PA. Right there they fall
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  Speaker 1: out from the no show second half performance. There as
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  Speaker 1: Steelers fans were giving Mike Tomlin the business, they greeted
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  Speaker 1: him with a chorus of boo flat and raining down
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  Speaker 1: rhythmic chanting to get rid of Mike Tomlin. After that
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  Speaker 1: debacle in the second half where they just were guilty
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  Speaker 1: of truancy. It just did not show up. So Tomlin
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  Speaker 1: was asked again about all of this, the uprising, you,
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  Speaker 1: the natives not being happy with the Pittsburgh Steelers and
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  Speaker 1: everything that's going on right now. In Pittsburgh. They brought
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  Speaker 1: in Aaron Rodgers. He's not very good. You know, made
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  Speaker 1: some moves, but haven't exactly paid off. No dividends from
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  Speaker 1: those moves in the offseason right now. So Tomlin was
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  Speaker 1: asked about everyone being very restless in the steel City,
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  Speaker 1: and let's go to the audio tape.
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  Speaker 4: In general, I agree with them. From this perspective, football
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  Speaker 4: is our game. We're in a sport entertainment business. And
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  Speaker 4: so if you root for the Steelers, entertaining them is winning.
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  Speaker 4: And so when you're not winning is not entertaining. And
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  Speaker 4: if you've been in this business, you understand that, and
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  Speaker 4: so I respect it. I share frustrations. I understand what
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  Speaker 4: makes this thing go, and winning is what makes this
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  Speaker 4: thing go.
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  Speaker 1: I say the same thing as you know, people see
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  Speaker 1: here in the sports talk business. We're in the entertainment business.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're in here. Well, we're just it's the vehicle,
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  Speaker 1: the window is the sporting world. But Tomlin's such a
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  Speaker 1: great sound bite, just absolute wonderful. So it's a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping off point. You heard Tom and there we're in
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  Speaker 1: the entertainment business, the sports entertainment business. So let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question for the esteem panel, what intrigues you
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  Speaker 1: the most about Mike Tomlin agreeing with the frustrated Steeler
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  Speaker 1: fan base and the boozoo that rained down on Mike Tomlins.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got bomb Squad, iPhone twelve and Emmy and
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
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  Speaker 1: are going to have a grand old jamboree, is what
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  Speaker 1: We're going to have, Just a wonderful jamburee. So a
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  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin reminding us yet again that he is a
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  Speaker 1: smooth operator, a smooth operator. He knew the line of
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  Speaker 1: questioning was coming, all right, shaw Dave Foy, he knew
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  Speaker 1: what was coming down. And so Tomlin, he walked into
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  Speaker 1: the blast zone, the demilitarized zone there, the smooth operator
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  Speaker 1: he is, and the booze raining down he was asked
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  Speaker 1: about that, and like mortar firing down from the upper
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  Speaker 1: balcony there at the stadium formerly known as Hinz Field,
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  Speaker 1: And instead of ducking, instead of being defensive and pushing
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  Speaker 1: back and all that, no, he was able to take
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  Speaker 1: his little clippers and he clipped the red wire, not
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  Speaker 1: the blue wire, because the blue wire would have gone kerfluey.
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  Speaker 1: He clipped the red wire with his bare hands, showing
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  Speaker 1: you the ability that he's the captain of the bomb
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  Speaker 1: squad and he can't cut the blue wire because it's kerfluey.
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  Speaker 1: You got to cut the red wire. He cut the
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  Speaker 1: red wire, and he did it just before everything exploded,
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. He didn't argue, Tomin, didn't push back,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't deflect, none of that stuff. He didn't whind
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  Speaker 1: about hurt feelings and all that stuff. He basically said,
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  Speaker 1: you're mad and you're right. You're mad and you're right.
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  Speaker 1: He took the air out of the angry balloon, is
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  Speaker 1: what Mike Tomlin did. And he also used the spin
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  Speaker 1: Golly effect is what he used on this. He's been
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  Speaker 1: Gali effect here. That Tomlin has the ability to mesmerize
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  Speaker 1: and hypnotize. He could mesmerize a parking meter Mike Tomlin
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  Speaker 1: the way that he speaks. And you know, people have
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  Speaker 1: upset and the team hasn't won a playoff game at
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  Speaker 1: a long time. They don't look like they're gonna win
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  Speaker 1: a playoff game this year. If they even get to
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs, that's not a guarantee. So there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stuff going on and the people upset and they're like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but Mike, he sounds kind of like he
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  Speaker 1: knows what he's doing. Yeah, So Tomlins, Pittsburgh Steeler football team,
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  Speaker 1: the way they've played most of the season. Again, they're
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  Speaker 1: not the worst team, they're not the great. They've played
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  Speaker 1: like they've been zombie fied the Steelers here, and there's zombies,
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  Speaker 1: slow walkers, just a little off where they need to be,
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit off. The Steelers are twenty eighth
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  Speaker 1: an offense. And if you think that's not great, how
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  Speaker 1: about their defense? The defense has to be better than
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighth, No, twenty eighth in total defense this year?
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  Speaker 1: Holy Sean the hood guy Batman, what's going on? And
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  Speaker 1: so there we are. That's not balance. Who they're twenty
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  Speaker 1: eighth and twenty eighth, that's ballot No. No, that is
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  Speaker 1: symmetry of suck. Is what that is. That's not balance,
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  Speaker 1: That symmetry of suck. So I hope you enjoy that.
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  Speaker 1: A complete boone doggle. The Steelers season so far, and
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  Speaker 1: that team consistently for five, six, seven years has served
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  Speaker 1: up slow turned vanilla ice cream. They don't serve anything
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  Speaker 1: other than slow turned vanilla ice cream. And then people say, well,
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  Speaker 1: we want sprinkles we'd like to get. Well, we don't
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  Speaker 1: have any sprinkles. What we have is vanilla ice cream,
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  Speaker 1: is slow turned vanilla. I scream, but we want some fudge.
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  Speaker 1: Don't give you any fudge. We have no fudge for you.
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  Speaker 1: What about a nice waffle cone? We don't have waffle
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  Speaker 1: Can I get a waffle bawl? We don't have waffle balls.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, we don't have that. All we have is
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  Speaker 1: vanilla ice cream and you have to eat with your hands.
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  Speaker 1: That's Steeler football. That's what it is here. And Tomlin
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  Speaker 1: as the pied piper. He knows he's golden. Tomlin knows
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  Speaker 1: either he keeps the job in Pittsburgh, which is the
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  Speaker 1: most likely outcome because they don't get rid of coaches,
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  Speaker 1: and either that or he goes and gets some no
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  Speaker 1: show TV job somewhere where he can just spew nonsense
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  Speaker 1: and get paid tons of money and not doing any
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  Speaker 1: prep like Tom Brady, So you could do that. Or
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  Speaker 1: the other option is he goes and gets another coaching
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  Speaker 1: job somewhere at the NFL level. We'll get hired in
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  Speaker 1: two minutes if he is let go by the Steelers,
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  Speaker 1: which is very unlikely. But he's the pied piper, that's
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  Speaker 1: what he is. He's piping the pied piper. You put
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  Speaker 1: the parade behind Tomlin, and of course, unfortunately the parade
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  Speaker 1: behind him is dragging one leg. That's his team, which
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  Speaker 1: is not ideal, groaning, and they're selling punts a dime
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  Speaker 1: a dozen. You get twelve punts for one dime. It's
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  Speaker 1: really quite the operation they've got going there in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwha to the Warp Speed Sports Wire, not the High
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  Speaker 1: Speed Sports Wire, the Warp Speed Sports Wire where Adam
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  Speaker 1: Feeland has found a new home. Adam Feelin, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you saw this or or maybe not, maybe
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  Speaker 1: you did not keep up on this. And they're very
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  Speaker 1: concerned about washed up wide receivers where they end up
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  Speaker 1: late of the Minnesota Vikings. We have learned now that
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  Speaker 1: Adam Feelen is taking his talents too Pittsburgh. He's gonna
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  Speaker 1: join Mike Tomlin and the Steelers claimed off waivers. They
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  Speaker 1: fire you, and every other business can claim the fired employee.
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  Speaker 1: And Adam Feeling asked to be given the pink slip.
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  Speaker 1: He was given the pink slip, and so there we go,
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  Speaker 1: all right, the question what does washed up wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: Adam Feeland bring to the Petsburg Steelers. All right, so
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what he brings. Okay, after several minutes
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  Speaker 1: of contemplating on the long drive in from the north Woods,
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  Speaker 1: contemplating what Adam Feeling brings to the Steers, think of
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  Speaker 1: it in the holiday spirit. He's like a Christmas ornament,
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  Speaker 1: or in this case, a roster ornament. And what does
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  Speaker 1: that mean. That means that if you've watched football casually,
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  Speaker 1: Adam Feeling looks great hanging from the depth chart tree,
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  Speaker 1: looks really good night, sparkles under the lights at the facility,
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, that's a name I've heard of.
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  Speaker 1: This guy used to be one of the top receivers
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL with the Vikings. And he also absolutely
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  Speaker 1: does not change the direction of the team. Doesn't change
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  Speaker 1: the direction of the team. The Steelers passing offense. Let
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  Speaker 1: me spell it off for you. It's E N E
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  Speaker 1: M C A namick. There a name it. Pittsburgh is
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  Speaker 1: where wide receivers go to run the five yard curl
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  Speaker 1: and pray for sunlight. Of course, this time of the
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  Speaker 1: year you are and it's got, it's got. That offense
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  Speaker 1: has less downfield juice. Where's the juice? All right, there's
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  Speaker 1: no juice there. They've got less juice than a dead
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  Speaker 1: car battery on the side of the interstate in the
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  Speaker 1: in the blizzard back in Minnesota where Adam Fieln was. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: good luck on that. And these guys can barely complete
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  Speaker 1: a pass. Literally, if you look at the numbers, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not making this. They can barely complete a pass beyond
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  Speaker 1: ten yards, and they need a flight plan, and even
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  Speaker 1: then they don't get clearance to complete the pass over
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  Speaker 1: ten yards. So it's a big mess. So unless Adam
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  Speaker 1: Feelin can hire a special personal coach Poncetelyon Poncetelyon as
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  Speaker 1: his personal trainer. And the legend is one of the
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  Speaker 1: great legends that the waters of Florida famously the fountain
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  Speaker 1: of youth, the springs of youth. Well, how about has
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  Speaker 1: anyone checked the mononga HeLa. What if Ponstellion was wrong
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  Speaker 1: and the waters that will keep us living forever are
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  Speaker 1: in the mononga HeLa or the Allegheny. Why didn't anyone
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  Speaker 1: check that? Bad job by them? You can hire Poncetellion
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  Speaker 1: as Adam Feelin's guy, and then there you go. The
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  Speaker 1: fountain of youth will be bubbling up somewhere, and of
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  Speaker 1: course that's not likely to happen. So that means this
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  Speaker 1: is a cosmetic, a purely cosmetic move. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like going out to the desert and seeing a cactus
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  Speaker 1: and putting lipstick on the cactus. Well, it looks okay,
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  Speaker 1: but it's still a cactus. Not gonna do anything with it.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. Feeling is an iPhone twelve in a world
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  Speaker 1: of iPhone seventeen, Pro, Max, Ultra Infinity and Beyond whatever, whatever, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: whatever dumb names they come up with for these phones.
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  Speaker 1: So he's a warm body. I assume he's got a
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  Speaker 1: warm body. He's not dead, so I assume he's got
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  Speaker 1: a warm body, and he's a good seat filler. Good
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  Speaker 1: seat filler, looks good. Nostalgia you can tell, Oh, you
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  Speaker 1: remember what this guy Feeling was with the Vikings and
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  Speaker 1: he was great in twenty twenty. Remember that. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: name you recognize. So you got that name you recognize,
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  Speaker 1: and you kind of check the box and what's in
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  Speaker 1: the what's in the box you just checked the box.
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  Speaker 1: So the Steelers what they need is dinomte. They did
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  Speaker 1: not get dynamite. They did not. They picked up a
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  Speaker 1: nice scented candle. That's what they got. So if your
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  Speaker 1: dog farts, you can light the candle and you've got
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  Speaker 1: a nice scent there, and it's just great and wonderful. Now.
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  Speaker 1: On the Mallor report card for the Adam Feeling edition,
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  Speaker 1: the most important scorecard of them all, the Malor report
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  Speaker 1: Card for Adam Feeling going from Minnesota the Pittsburgh on waivers.
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  Speaker 1: Did I give it an A, A bright you go
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  Speaker 1: to be? Did I give it a C, A D
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  Speaker 1: or an F? No of that. On the Malley report card,
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  Speaker 1: I gave it a P for placebo. The placebo effect
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  Speaker 1: is what I gave it.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, last word, this is a good story. I saw
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  Speaker 1: this and it's it's continued to get better and better
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  Speaker 1: and better and better and better. So we'll go to Gotham.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of stuff going on. Giants sucked, but there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff going on around the Giants which
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  Speaker 1: is somewhat interesting. And I have a talk show to do,
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  Speaker 1: so I think this is interesting and I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: share it with you if you didn't see this. So
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  Speaker 1: the Giants have this stud rookie out of Penn State,
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  Speaker 1: Abdul Carter, who so far his elite skill is not
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  Speaker 1: showing up to team meetings and practices on time. He's
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  Speaker 1: really good at that. Like, if you want an elite
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  Speaker 1: edge rusher who is so good he can't show up
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  Speaker 1: on time to work, You've got your guy. Abdul Carter
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  Speaker 1: is really good. So he got benched. You saw the
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  Speaker 1: Money Night game. He did not play the first two
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  Speaker 1: series of that game. That is the second time Abdul
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  Speaker 1: Carter has been benched for malfeasance and truancy all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: That was against the Patriots when by the time he
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  Speaker 1: got into the game was seventeen to nothing. Yeah, game over,
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  Speaker 1: game over at that point. Anyway, get to the point please. So,
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  Speaker 1: although he was initially reported that Carter was benched for
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  Speaker 1: disciplinary reasons, there was a fake report that got some
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  Speaker 1: legs online that claimed the reason Abdull Carter was punished
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  Speaker 1: was for watching porn in a team meeting. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: a totally fake report, right. It was a parody account
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  Speaker 1: on x that spread the rumor, and the reason we're
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  Speaker 1: bringing it up is because what do you think Abdull
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  Speaker 1: Carter did the mensa the mensa for the New York Giants.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think he did? Do you think he
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  Speaker 1: ignored the story? B said no comment, which is a
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  Speaker 1: way of annoying the story. Or c sent out a
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  Speaker 1: comment trying to debunk the satire story. Ding ding ding
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  Speaker 1: ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding. Yes, so
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  Speaker 1: this numb nuts. Abdul Carter decided, I'm gonna respond to
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  Speaker 1: the obvious fake story. Let me tell you something, even
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  Speaker 1: if these guys were watching porn in a meeting, they're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna say it publicly, all right anyway, So abdul
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  Speaker 1: Carter responded and then deleted the post on social media.
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  Speaker 1: The post said stop this is his post, stop slandering
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  Speaker 1: my name real and now I'm gonna clean this up
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  Speaker 1: because we're on the radio. Lucky Tony would say the word,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm gonna clean up real poop. He said a
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  Speaker 1: different word. It starts with an S. But I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that word. You know, we're kids. We can't say
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  Speaker 1: that word. We're not a grown ups. It's not the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the night. We can't say that word. Be
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  Speaker 1: in trouble, So anyway, that's the quote, and he said,
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  Speaker 1: and if you believe that BS, you stupid, not your stupid,
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  Speaker 1: you stupid. Okay. Carter then of course did what everyone does,
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  Speaker 1: trying to delete the evidence. He deleted the post. We
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  Speaker 1: know how that works. I know about it. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: see it in real time. So question, how do you
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  Speaker 1: classify the giant's edge rusher Abdull Carter, responding passionately to
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  Speaker 1: a satire report. I report it was something busting balls
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  Speaker 1: on social media. So Carter committed the NFL's version of
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  Speaker 1: an unforced error, big thing in tennis, right, unforced error.
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  Speaker 1: This was it wasn't just a mistake, just a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: This was an Emmy Award type of performance as in
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  Speaker 1: me as in mental error by Abdulla Carter. Emmy the
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  Speaker 1: kind that you submit for consideration in the category in
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood for outstanding achievement in making a bad story worse
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  Speaker 1: the winner. Abdull Carter, congratulations. So a parody account, which
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  Speaker 1: was obviously a parody account, a cartoon character that's got
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  Speaker 1: some kind of Wi Fi hook up, and they throw
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  Speaker 1: out a fake story claiming that Abdul Carter got benched
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  Speaker 1: because he was watching porno in a team meeting, which
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  Speaker 1: is obviously bogus and total satire, not a grain of
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  Speaker 1: truth in it, not even close. And what does Abdul
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  Speaker 1: Carter do? He quote, tweets it, blast, it deletes it,
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  Speaker 1: then fires off if you believe that'd be asked to you, stupid.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations to Abdulla Carter the New York Giants. You just
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  Speaker 1: poured rocket fuel on a spark, just a little spark
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  Speaker 1: that was dying on the vine there, and you turned
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  Speaker 1: to nothing burger into a double whopper with extra cheese.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations on that. So this is what these social media overlords,
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  Speaker 1: this is what they dream of, the dumb athlete handing
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  Speaker 1: them free content. Congratulations, you've done it, amplifying nonsense and
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  Speaker 1: chi chan chi chan chi chain and doing the manipulation
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  Speaker 1: in the matrix for them. So I'm Dual Carter obviously
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  Speaker 1: a fan of Disney growing up. He loved not Mickey Mouse,
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  Speaker 1: not Goofy. He was a fan of Dumbo. Loves the
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  Speaker 1: Dumbo Absolute grab those giant ears from Dumbo and go
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  Speaker 1: around and round and round and round and the fake
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  Speaker 1: story straight into prime time. So a rookie mistake, great
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  Speaker 1: thing when you're a rookie. Anything you do so just
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  Speaker 1: a rookie mistake.
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  Speaker 1: would be one of those rare and appropriate times because
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: his airness has entered the chat. Michael Jordan getting paid
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: a little more than I got paid when I worked
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: at NBC. But Michael Jordan stopped by NBC for a
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: little camera side chat with Mike Turco. And these big
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: leather chairs, big leather chairs. Do you see any of this? No,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: you weren't. You weren't watching. You didn't watch the Knickerbockers
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: and the and the Celtics are well. Michael Jordan discussed
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: a bunch of things, including his love of the game clause,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: the legendary love of the game clause that he had
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: in his contract with the Chicago Bulls, and Jordan also
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: brought up the modern player in comparison. Let's go to
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the audio tape. Take a listen. Here's Michael Jordan the
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: love of the game.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: Other game of contract. Right, if I was driving with
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: you down the street and I see play basketball game
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: inside the road, I can go play in that basketball game,
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: and if I get hurt, my contract is still guarantee.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: I love the game so much that I would never
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: let someone take the opportunity for me to play the
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: game away from me, as opposed to now where you
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: don't have it, players probably don't play now they get
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: individual attention with their trainer. Sure, no way to go
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: out and shoot one hundred shots or one thousand shots.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: I found it to my benefit was go play basketball, man.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: That's what you did, that's what you grew up doing.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: There you go. Now, I'm the same way as Jordan.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: If I go and see somebody doing sports takes on
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: the side of a country road, I'll pull over and
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: I'll do sports takes. And I have it in my
• 23:31
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• 23:35
  Speaker 1: get into a sports debate on a dark country road
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: out in the boondocks. And they allowed me to do that,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: and I had that written in. Yeah, I had that.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: That was written into the contract. And Jonas Knox does
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: not have that. He's not allowed to do that. He
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: cannot pull over and do a hot take debate on
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: the side of it. I have that. That's me, just
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: like Michael Jordan. I'm the Jordan of my time. All right,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: So let's get into this. Let's discuss That's a good
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: jumping off point what Jordan said. So how did Michael
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Jordan's comments about today's players essentially not playing basketball enough, right,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: not loving the game, not wanting to play enough. How
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: did that hit you? So I've got Pickley, wigglely belly whopper,
• 24:11
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• 24:16
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• 24:19
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• 24:21
  Speaker 7: So number one, his airness, stepped up to the microphone,
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: step right up, step right up, fun for.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: All ages is there, has stepped up and basically told
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: today's NBA players kids yet don't play enough basketball. He
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: dropped the mic and he walked away. And you know
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: what doesn't sound wrong to me? Doesn't sound wrong to
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: me in Jordan's speak, which is not coach speak. In
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Jordan speak, the actual basketball part of basketball has become
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: for the modern player and incan convenience. It is an inconvenience,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: a nuisance to the modern player. It's an ingrown toenail,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: is what it is. And it's an ingrown toenabo toenail
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: on an oversized foot for the modern superstar. And Jordan, Now,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: was this a humble bracture. Of course it was. It
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: was better in mine day. And this is one thing
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: in my life. I remember when I started in the
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: sports radio and there were there were guys from the
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: old generation who were ripping the modern player of the
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: nineties they said, those guys are a bunch of softies,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Alan Iverson and Kobe Bryant, and that generation, the guys
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: from the eighties, and now then the guys from the
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: nineties ripped the following generations. It's it's the same thing,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, But on Jordan's point, I think he hit it.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, Jordan had the fire in the belly. Was
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: baked into his contract that he could play a pickup
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: game of basketball anywhere, anytime, even if it was on
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: a cracked blacktop next to a Pigley wiggley in Wilmington,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: North Carolina, it didn't matter. And if he blew out
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: his knee too bad, Jerry Reinsdorf, the owner at the time,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: had to pay the contract, had to cut the check,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: cut that check, cut that check to Michael George. And
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: that's how deep his obsession. His obsession ran, And so
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: he was a Jim Ratt loved basketball stuff, lived in
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: the weight room and the practice cord and occasionally the casino.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: That would happen. Now today, the new age baller, they
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: float on an inner tube down the Lazy River. They do,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: yet they have all the creature comforts. They have private chefs,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: they have personalized trainers. They have the shooting coaches, they
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: have the stretching gurus, they have sleep consultants, they have
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: a social media team, they have emotional support gardeners. For
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: some reason, I don't know why you'd need that. So
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: it's work smarter, not harder. That's the mantra there motto.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: But Jordan's message was kind of obviously, stop hiding behind
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: the amenities checklist. It's kind of weak. Go play basketball, man.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: The game has become a chore and the issue, and
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: to me this cuts down to the main problem that
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: I have with watching basketball, that the players treat it
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: like it's taking out the trash day. You know how
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: you got to take the trash out and want to
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: take he wants to take the trash out, but it's
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: what you gotta do. You know, if trash fills up,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: you don't want a bunch of vermin in your home,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: so you throw the trash out. And it shows in
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the product like it does. I have it on in
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the background. I was watching the Knick Celtics game, and
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: I saw the Warriors game after that, and at least
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: the first half, and it shows in the product where
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: you can tell as a fan the players don't really
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: seem like they want to be there. They like playing
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: grab ass with the other players and all that. They
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: don't really want to play in the regular season game.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: It doesn't mean anything other than we're getting eight million
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: dollars a game or some ridiculous thing like that. All right, now,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: more of Michael Jordan audio from NBC. So, Michael Jordan
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: was asked if the players of today's version of basketball
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: have the mindset to achieve greatness, which is a so
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: we call a low hanging fruit question. That is a
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: t ball question for Michael Jordan's Again, Jordan asked by
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Mike de Rico if the players of the modern NBA
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: have the mindset to achieve greatness. Let's go to the
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: audio tape.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: It's hard to be hungry when you have, as simple
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: as that. I mean, if you don't have, you are
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: willing to do whatever you have. So my mental approach
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: was going do my job, be the best basketball player
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: I can be, and all the chips and everything outside
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: of that. I have people that were handling that, you know,
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: but basketball courte I'm handling it right. And now it's
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: like it's a prerequisite. You know, everybody has to have
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: a logo. Everybody has to have a you know why right, Well,
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure I'm part of the reason why every
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: part of the round to get a logo.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: But brand right, brand right, Bran Jordan.
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: But the thing is is that that brand established based
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: on what I did on the basketball court. You know,
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: I didn't put the brand before I put the work.
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: You know, I put the work first, and then the
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: brand evolved based on the work.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Right there you go, all right, So that's Michael Jordan
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: on the athlete today. So the question what do you
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: take away from that Michael Jordan's comments about that today's
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: basketball players in the NBA wanting the logo right away,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: right away. So I took away the C word, not
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: that sea word coddled, That's what I took over Jordan's
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: like these guys are coddled and air Jordan nothing but
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: net on this one. I also relate to this because
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: the management. I really want to thank the company. They
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: have decided they want to keep me hungry. They don't
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: want to pay me co Hed money or Dan Patrick money,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: or they just want me to really still have that
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: fire in my belly. And I thank them for that.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: And so just keeping it real and it does mean something.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: But the way I look at this, the goat, the
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: real goat, not Lebron James, please. The goat basically said
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: that the modern basketball player wants the logo before the
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: legacy and the brand before the blood, sweat and tears,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: and coming from Michael Jordan. Who's got that cachet, right,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: the guy who's silhouette, Michael Jordan. You realize his silhouette,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: that shot of him from the slam Dunk contest extended
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: out that logo of Michael Jordan. The silhouette of Michael
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Jordan has essentially replaced the Church steeple in American sporting culture.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: It is great and it says something. But this is
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: a belly whopper. I wrote on my scorecard, belly whopper.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: A full belly makes a dull brain does. And so
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: these guys are born into and once you're determined to
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: be a prodigy, from the time you're about what ten
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: years old, Oh man, you're good to go. And it's
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: like a decade of having your ass kissed and nil
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: deals now and sneaker deals and documentary crews following your
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: journey to the NBA off court production companies all that stuff,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: and there was a point where you had to earn it.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: You had to outwork the horse. Right, That was the
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: old line, had at work the horse. Now you don't
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: have to outwork the horse. There is no horse, of course,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: of course, of course. And get all the goodies, all
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: the goodies, all the perks, right and all that, and
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: just have to make sure that you use the right
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: filter on your Instagram story and you're good to go.
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: The NBA is one giant tech incubator in sneakers, that's
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: what's And the league is drowning in the abundance of
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: caution culture, which is another issue with love of the
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: game and all that. I feel like that's the unofficial slogan.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Is anything I'm wrong on that the unofficial strogn of
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: the NBA is out of an abundance of caution? Like
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: this is the modern NBA. You stub your toe, don't
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: rub some dirt on it, miss the game? Come on,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: gotta rest back to back?
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: Come on?
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: What do we are? We we some kind of a
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: wild uh DRACONI in Neanderthal world? You can't play back?
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Do you think that a modern athlete can play back
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: to back? What is wrong with you. For the love
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: of God, we cannot expect our athletic heroes to play
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: back to back. Do you work back to back days?
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I don't work back Oh that's right, I do work
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: back to back days. Oh okay, you work, but you
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: work two days. Really you have a second job? Is
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: that right? Oh my god? Oh oh my? Uh so
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: load management National TV A big game Island game. Now
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: the algorithm says you should not play. The algorithm says
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: do not play. Okay, just chill out. Everyone is so
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: warped in this bubble rap that it got more bubble
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: rap on these basketball players than Amazon spends buying bubble
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: wrap for the packages they send out. And it's the
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: bare minimum optics is what it is. Bare minimals, Like
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: just do the bare minimum, check the contract compliance box.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: If you're an NBA star, Like you're clocking in at
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: a cubicle on a nine to five. And so Jordan's
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: telling you, He's like, listen, today's players want the logo
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: before they've earned the lore. And it is true. As
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: someone that lived in a world before Michael Jordan was
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: a superstar in the NBA, it happened coincided there was
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: a famous commercial with Spike Lee. How about Spikey. Isn't
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Spike Lee almost seventy He's still fan boying it up
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: at the Knicks games. Isn't that great? I saw him
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: on the TV? Anyway, There was a Spike Lee Michael
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Jordan commercial that kind of took that thing to the
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: next level back in the day. But Jordan's He's telling you,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: it's like, listen, these guys, this is what they want.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: This is the world we were in, which is really
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: fresh from and considering it's his business model that everyone
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: wants to mimic, right, It's the Jordan model that everyone wants.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: It's not his love of the game, it's the love
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: of the Chiching, Chiching, Chiching chi Ching. The brand extension
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: is what it is. And the product, of course, the
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: NBA product right now is as bad as it's ever
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: been in my life. A diluted like cheap Gatorade powder.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: There was a point the NBA was really bad in
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: the nineties, I remember, because they had Mike Fittello was
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: coaching the Cleveland Cadavers and pat Riley was coaching the Knickerbockers,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: and it was slowed down. It was really boring, dull basketball.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: But at least the players were playing now not so
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: much all right now, final point, speaking of that, to
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: la la land we go where Lebron James, who's looking
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: up at the goat Michael Jordan wishing he was Michael Jordan.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: So Lebron James extended his double digit scoring streak to
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: two and ninety seven games. He did this the other
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: night in a cloud of controversy. Uh yeah, So the
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Lakers were blown out by the Phoenix Suns thunder Dan
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Marley with a couple of hammer dunks there for the Sons.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: It was it was wild how good they were. And
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: my god, did they had. Mary Stottammeier had a big
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: day there, and just a really good team there for
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns. Anyway, Lebron he was playing in garbage
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: time with a bunch of backups when he reached the
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: ten point marker, and that had a lot of people
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: raising their eyebrows saying like, what are you doing, dude?
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Let it die, Let it die, Let it die, let
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: it die, let it die. All right, So question Lebron
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: James being accused of catering to his legacy stat padding.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Lebron James to get to ten points to continue that
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: streak of double digit games. Is this accusation against Lebron
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: James inbo or out of bounds? That's the question. So
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: we went to a booth review on this and expedited
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: booth review and we determined its inbounds. Inbounds now as
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: inbounds as oxygen being required for human beings to survive,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: you need oxygen, very important. You have oxygen. If you
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: don't have oxygen, you got problems. We don't even know
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: why anyone would be pretending that this is not what
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: it's being described as unless you are so far up
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Lebron's took us you can't see any sunlight. Okay, that
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: might be the case, but Lebron is an full on
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: in this game, was full on legacy maintenance mode. That's
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: what Lebron was doing. And he's out there polishing his
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: resume like he's working part time at Zales and he's
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: dealing with the jewelry. At the end of the day,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Lebron trying to get that new endorsement deal with Fredo
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: lay Now you might have heard back in the day
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: of the Frito Bandito. Well, Lebron's like, what about the
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: statistical Bendito. That's me Lebron James guys stealing hollow numbers,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: hollow numbers like he's running a smash and grab operation
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: in the box score. Now junk stats, a lot of
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: junk stats, garbage time, compost and this goes on all
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: the time, and we try to call it every time
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: we see it. We pointed out some of the great
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: examples of this are Russell Westbrook with the most bogus
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: triple double season of all time. If you go back,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: there's some videos there. Russ was doing cosplay and I
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: think it was twenty seventeen. I want to say, I
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: think that's about right. Remember him boxing out. The videos
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: were great on YouTube. He was with OKC. He was
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: literally Russell Westbrook was boxing out his own teammates to
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: get rebounds. He was boxing out his own teammates. Hey, hey,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: numb nuts, you're on the same team. And then there
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: was a there were some videos of the bigs on
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: okay see at the time who were literally trying to
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: get out of the way so Westbrook could get the
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: bogus triple double stats. It was hilarious. And the thing
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: about this is that we remember it in the moment.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: But when people go back and look at the Wikipedia
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: pages of these guys, the next group of fans, they
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: don't realize this. They're not smart enough to do the
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: research on that, nor do they have the time that
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: that's a bogus record. This is a bogus record and
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. So it's not just basketball. It goes
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: on in all the other sports as well. Remember Josh Allen,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen checked in. It was a week eighteen game.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: I believe they were playing the Patriots. The Bills were
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: playing the Patriots. He played one play, if I remember correctly,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen, so his iron Man streak would continue one play,
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Keep it alive, Keep it alive. Okay, there you go,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: the stat padding. Marching band applauds that they play the
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: music and all that. It's just absolutely great. So Lebron
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: hit the ten point mark with about seven minutes to
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: go in the game. The Lakers were down by twenty
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: five points. He got then yes, like a bad karaoke singer.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: A moment later they took him out there. Those are
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: not meaningful stats. Those are what we call vanity calories.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Those are empty carbs. That's what that is. And yet
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: when Lebron, when Lebron's long gone from playing in the NBA,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: and they look at that stat, the casuals, the low
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: information fantals, you look at that record, they're not gonna
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: remember Lebron's stat. Padded that and was playing in garbage
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: time to try to get to ten points. He really
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: has shown his age this season. Lakers have a really
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: good record, but he has shown his age. So it's
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: a Fugazi situation.
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: At least Lebron did not reach the level of the
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: single greatest, the single greatest stat padding moment in the
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: history of my career in talk radio. It happened over
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: twenty years ago, one of the great moments. I'm not
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: making this up. It sounds like I'm making this up.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: I mean so, one of Lebron's teammates, a guy named
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Ricky Davis. Ricky Davis needed one more rebound to get
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: a triple double. So what did Ricky Davis do? Time
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: is running out, Ricky Davis decided to shoot a basket
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: at his own basket of course, to miss it to
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: get the rebound. And David sir, they had a commission
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: with balls and hair on his chest at the time,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: and David Stuarts said, that's not gonna count. Sorry, we're
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: not counting that now. Adam Silver, Today's commissioner, he probably
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: would have called it creative stat expression.
• 40:26
  Speaker 8: We must let our players express themselves. And even though
• 40:29
  Speaker 8: it's just a dirty play, we're going to allow it
• 40:32
  Speaker 8: because it's creative static expression. That's Adam Silver's NBA and
• 40:36
  Speaker 8: that's the product that's not very good right now.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: It's all part of the Lebron This story is part
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: of the Lebron experience and not the good part.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 40:49
  Speaker 9: Here we are.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: That was way back in seven to the third degree.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: This is one big event.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Gets grilled cup.
• 41:00
  Speaker 10: For the first time in his thirteen year NFL career.
• 41:03
  Speaker 10: Russell Wilson was a healthy scratch. With Jameis Winston as
• 41:06
  Speaker 10: the number two quarterback, the Giants decided to make Russell
• 41:09
  Speaker 10: Wilson inactive from Monday Night Football. Ben, Do you think
• 41:11
  Speaker 10: Wilson hangs it up at the end of the year.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: No, No, He's going to go somewhere. He'll be a
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: training camp arm somewhere, and he's going to try to
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: continue his career. There's a supply chain shortage of quarterbacks there,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: so he'll someone will give him a chance to try
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: to make a team next year. He's sucked for how
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: many teams, now the Broncos, He wasn't good at the NFAC,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: at the Broncos, Steelers, and now the Giants. The writing's
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: on the wall, Coop. But I say he's going to
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: continue as you'll get one more chance next. I'm embarrassing.
• 41:42
  Speaker 10: I know Brian Schottenheimer warmed the cow warmed his Cowboys
• 41:46
  Speaker 10: players that just because we've won three games, that doesn't
• 41:49
  Speaker 10: change anything. Going on to say that the team can't
• 41:51
  Speaker 10: grow complacent as they push for a playoffs.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: No, no, Ben, do you.
• 41:54
  Speaker 10: Think the Cowboys will find themselves in the playoffs?
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Well, they look good. I don't want to be a
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: prisoner of them all. I'm still gonna go no at
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: this point. Now, I'll change my opinion this should they
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: win the Thursday Night get But I'm not convinced. Everyone's
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: getting all excited because they made some plays against Kansas City,
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: which doesn't look like a playoff team right now, and
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: the Eagles, who are having all kinds of issues so
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: you start peeling back those games and they're nice wins,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: but they don't look as nice when you look at
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: the internal stuff with the Eagles and Kansas City is
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: just not a very good team this year next.
• 42:28
  Speaker 10: Jets kicker Nick Folk insisted in an interview after the
• 42:31
  Speaker 10: Jets picked up their third win of the season that
• 42:32
  Speaker 10: the team is getting better under Aaron Glenn. He also
• 42:35
  Speaker 10: said that there's a lot of promise for the future
• 42:37
  Speaker 10: of the organization.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Ben do you think they have the right guy at
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: the helm? Well, I don't know for sure. Obviously, I
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: would say this season is a complete waste, and you
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: always sell the future. We're gonna be great. If Nick
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: Foles came out said this guy can't coach, he blows
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: we suck. We're gonna suck for years. Like course, of
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: course he's gonna say the futures. But I haven't seen
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: evidence that we're going back direction. How do we know how? Guys?
• 43:02
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• 43:05
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• 43:33
  Speaker 11: You heard the man. It's time for love here on
• 43:36
  Speaker 11: the Ben Malors Show. And you know we actually had
• 43:39
  Speaker 11: a listener asked earlier this week about Megan thee Stallion
• 43:43
  Speaker 11: and Clay Thompson with the naming of the boat. I
• 43:46
  Speaker 11: think it's amazing. You know what, they might as well
• 43:48
  Speaker 11: change as basketball nickname too, Clay the Stallion. Let's just
• 43:51
  Speaker 11: move it on.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: I love it. Oh you are right. Well, we have
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: some questions for you on the phones and on the
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: X machine. Rob says Ben. I put our foot soldiers
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: to work and the campaign still going on there. Oh
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: the stickers he's talking about, Well that's not for Loreena.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: Nate the Hammer writes in. He says, I was talking
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: to a woman and she said she just wanted to
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: be friends. I told her I have enough friends, which
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: I do, but she lost it. Was I in the wrong,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: says Nate. This is Nate the Hammer.
• 44:23
  Speaker 11: Yeah, well you were being honest with what you want
• 44:25
  Speaker 11: from her, and if you don't want her in that
• 44:27
  Speaker 11: regular position. Then carry on.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Move onboard, upboarding, onward, far out. Dave says, my lady
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: keeps telling me to take take it as a compliment
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: when she lets one rip while we're wrestling. I don't
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: know how to take it. I figured i'd ask an experts.
• 44:45
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, she's trying to say she feels comfortable.
• 44:48
  Speaker 11: But something about doing that it breaks the romance. You know,
• 44:54
  Speaker 11: what if you're wrestling and you like, you know, you
• 44:56
  Speaker 11: want to get closer, and then she rips the one,
• 44:59
  Speaker 11: You're like, oh, and I want to go in a
• 45:00
  Speaker 11: completely other room than you, you know.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: And pass out a gas mask or something, just pass out.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Eke in Roseville, Minnesota says, Hey, today's our forty ninth wedding.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: Everything about that I met congratulations, great man. I met
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: him at the meet and greet there in Minnesota says
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: I don't need any relationship advice from Lorena. He says
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: the four ls make for a long marriage. He says,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: a long marriage a love, laughter, loyalty, and listening to
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: each other. So apparently, Lorena, that's the key. The four els.
• 45:28
  Speaker 11: Love, laughter, loyalty, and listen.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: That's all you need. Let's go to the phones. Bobby
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: in Florida, Key Lime Pie, Bobby in Florida for Loraina
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: on the Queen ft bbby, Oh yeah, take them a call.
• 45:43
  Speaker 12: So based on that last message, the listening part kind
• 45:46
  Speaker 12: of feeds into my question. So you know, I'm dating
• 45:50
  Speaker 12: this girl. Everything's great, we're madly in love. And so
• 45:54
  Speaker 12: we get to the point where we're getting a little
• 45:56
  Speaker 12: intimate and come to find out when she's getting to
• 46:00
  Speaker 12: the to the top of the mountain, and it sounds
• 46:02
  Speaker 12: like somebody's beating a bag of puppies with a hammer.
• 46:07
  Speaker 9: A ball gag, a ballgager.
• 46:09
  Speaker 12: Do I get myself some here plugs?
• 46:12
  Speaker 11: You can always shove her face on a pillow too,
• 46:14
  Speaker 11: that could work.
• 46:15
  Speaker 12: Okay, might incorporate that.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: Well, that's a tremendous there.
• 46:19
  Speaker 11: At least you know you're doing a good job, right.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Apparently she can get her to the top of the mountain.
• 46:25
  Speaker 11: Then to keep her at the bottom.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: She might be dying. I'll just go to Rick in Maryland. Hello, Rick,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: Welcome Rick in morning time.
• 46:32
  Speaker 9: It sounds like he said a little intimate. But anyway,
• 46:35
  Speaker 9: look at you. I had fort Worth on my mind yesterday.
• 46:37
  Speaker 9: But look he's listening right now. If he's dealing with
• 46:42
  Speaker 9: a woman who drive for door dance and she has
• 46:46
  Speaker 9: time to see him every time doing her route, is
• 46:49
  Speaker 9: that either love or stalking? Tell him please, he's listening.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: Ooh, I don't know. It sounds like a stage four.
• 46:57
  Speaker 11: It sounds like she's like, oh I can buy again.
• 46:59
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 46:59
  Speaker 11: No, that's a little weird, but also it could be
• 47:01
  Speaker 11: a little sweet if you think about it.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: She's putting you know, it's not gonna last though, right,
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: that cannot last, that's not.
• 47:09
  Speaker 11: Maybe she keeps the little trinkets from every door that
• 47:11
  Speaker 11: she goes to.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: I thought about you on this one. I thought you
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: might like this. You want to take that seems like
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: a lot of trouble.
• 47:19
  Speaker 9: Kill Daniel is all love, man, No, don't disrespect anything
• 47:22
  Speaker 9: from yesterday.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah there, crossing guard Daniel, America's favorite crossing guard. Yes,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: thank you, all right, let's go, let's go to Uh
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: we don't have time. I was gonna put a caller on,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: but you know, this guy's long winded and he's gonna
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: rant about the tabloids and all that. So, uh, there
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: you go. The Queen of hearts. We love Love, Love
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: is in the air. Loudwhere yes it is.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
• 47:49
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• 47:54
  Speaker 2: and the password is password, you idiot, password the word
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Meller.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: Hell, we don't do shout outs, so we can't say
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: a happy birthday to the salsa czar who's in New
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: York City today listening to the show getting up early
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: here on his sixtieth birthday. Happy, happy birthday, but not
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: a shout out. That's a mention, not a shout out.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: We don't do shout outs. That's a mention. So big difference,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: big difference. Okay, let's welcome in our concessions. We have
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: Manuel in Guardina, who's gonna play in southern California, fresh
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: off the jungle. Hello, Manuel, Oh.
• 48:33
  Speaker 12: Being honored and privileged to play. I don't want to
• 48:37
  Speaker 12: give a shout out of a happy birthday to my
• 48:39
  Speaker 12: daughter Ana Lisa either, so you know we.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: Will definitely not wish your daughter and Alisa a happy birthday.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: We will not do that. Hope she understands.
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: Hope she understand.
• 48:48
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, who do you want to partner up with.
• 48:53
  Speaker 9: Ah Man, I'm gonna go with you, all.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: Right, man man, Well, we're in it to win. It
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: very good, sounds good, and we have Trent in which
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: it tall. Hello Trent, welcome, welcome, Yeah, thanks for having me.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: All right, you got that early morning voice thing going
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: on there, Trent, I got you. I have the same thing.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Who do you want to partner up? Have you got
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: Lorena or the Coop de Loop?
• 49:13
  Speaker 9: Let's go with Lorena?
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Lorena, you're very nice.
• 49:17
  Speaker 11: Well you know, I just have the best lexicon. I'm shocked.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: I don't get Well, you're picked. Now, let's see what
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: you've got. Manuel and Guardia. We have a list of words.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: Here's not a list. It's a big board, big board
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: big boarder list, not a list, big board whatever. Who
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: the kel? Heres? Go ahead? Manuel, pick a number one
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: to ten? One number one? All right, let's go with
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: how about bill Fold? Bill Fold? Yeah, there you go.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: Ten nothing, good, guys, ten nothing, Trent. Pick a number.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: Pick a number, Trent two to ten.
• 49:55
  Speaker 11: Think, Oh, okay, I'm gonna do a good job and
• 49:59
  Speaker 11: not say the word outline this week like I did
• 50:00
  Speaker 11: last time.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: Why not? Let's go with them passwords? The word Game
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: of the Stars allowed, allowed? What do you do? Which
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: were you? Number five? Okay, that's just that's just a
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: bad okay illegal?
• 50:21
  Speaker 7: Whoa's no way, there's no way.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? You gotta be joking? All right,
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: go man, Manuel, we're tied. I picking number one, two
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: to ten, but not five? You got it? Did you
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: give him that end?
• 50:39
  Speaker 12: You heard me?
• 50:41
  Speaker 9: Lucky?
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: All right? Number seven? Let's go with blah blah blah blah.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: How about uh irritating?
• 50:55
  Speaker 9: Uh obnoxious?
• 50:57
  Speaker 11: No good guess all right, go ahead, let's go with uh.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, take your time, Miranda, don't mind the clock? Obnoxious, annoying?
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: Whoa that is too? Ah right, hurry up? Picking up?
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Or Trent. I can't believe I'm winning, Trent. Go with
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: the number eight number?
• 51:22
  Speaker 10: Go ahead, Lorena quickly, Oh my gosh.
• 51:25
  Speaker 11: Travel travel?
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: What was that travel? No, let's go with holiday.
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: Holiday?
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: Hurry up? Holiday man?
• 51:34
  Speaker 12: Well holiday?
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so where was vacation? I think you cheated. I
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: think you cheated, Lorena. I think there was some cheating
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: going on. I'm going cheating