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Hour 1 - Talking the Talk · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Here we go. Welcome, It's our nu or why our
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Speaker 1: number one of the original Recipe podcast. Now here in
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Speaker 1: our number one, it's all about the Yensers. In a
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Speaker 1: post mortem on the Pittsburgh Steelers season the news here,
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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin had a lot to say. So does this
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Speaker 1: quote by Tomlin the Savior time comment close the door
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Speaker 1: to Mike Tomlin trade conversation which has been widespread over
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Speaker 1: the last couple of days. Why would Mike Tomlin fully
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Speaker 1: dismiss the trade chatter? And is it weird how Tomlin
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Speaker 1: treated or didn't do anything when George Pickens was guilty
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Speaker 1: of truancy prior to a Steelers game this year? Some
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Speaker 1: stories coming out about Pickens. We'll get to that and
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Speaker 1: a whole lot more right about now, Right about now,
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Speaker 1: as we plow forward, it's our number one, talking the talk.
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Speaker 1: I know, not a burner, not a burner, A fan
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Speaker 1: ten thousand. So before you guys start complaining, which is
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Speaker 1: really when I start talking, you start complaining, I understand
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Speaker 1: that we will have the online rundown, although not right now.
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Speaker 1: The rundown will be coming Alma Telly, but there was
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Speaker 1: the box, So we had to mess around with But anyway,
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Speaker 1: the point is the official rundown of record will be
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Speaker 1: sent shortly, so you will have that. But in the meantime,
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Speaker 1: our lead this hour from the NFL play the Hits.
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Speaker 1: We're in the middle of the NFL playoffs, so we're
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Speaker 1: going to talk about a team that's not in the
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Speaker 1: NFL playoffs anymore. That's the way that we do business here,
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Speaker 1: and we start out in Western Pence, Yeah, the land
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Speaker 1: of the insurers. Following the steelers pathetic performance their fifth
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Speaker 1: consecutive one and done trip to the playoffs in Baltimore,
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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin had his end of year eulogy, his end
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Speaker 1: of season news conference. It's always a good listen. It's
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Speaker 1: always a good listen. So I thought we'd enjoy some
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Speaker 1: of this and break it all down for you. If
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Speaker 1: you didn't hear any of what Tomlin had to say,
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Speaker 1: possibly not. Tomlin stood in front of a packed crowd
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Speaker 1: of eager, eager NFL media types. He was right there
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Speaker 1: at the podium, and he let it rip. Among the
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Speaker 1: topics discussed, Mike Tomlin mentioned that the situation the Steelers
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Speaker 1: anybo you talked about football justice, take a listen.
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Speaker 2: Certainly disappointing to be conducting this business today. But I
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Speaker 2: don't view it as misfortune, to be quite honest with you,
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Speaker 2: particularly at this level, in this business and game, there's
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Speaker 2: football justice. You get what you deserve, and so you
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Speaker 2: know we're here, and we're here for really tangible reasons.
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Speaker 3: Man.
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Speaker 2: We didn't involved in the right ways. We didn't strike
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Speaker 2: the right chords at the right time, particularly down the stretch,
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Speaker 2: and so we've been eliminated from the single elimination tournament.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so football justice. I always believed in truth, football
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Speaker 1: justice in the American way. Here's more for Mike Thomas.
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Speaker 1: No I got a kick out of this one. So
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Speaker 1: Tomlin was asked what fans should be optimistic about in Pittsburgh,
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Speaker 1: and let's just say he didn't take the bait tall
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Speaker 1: you Listen, you know, I don't.
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Speaker 2: Know that I'm ready to be overly optimistic or sell
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Speaker 2: optimism to you either.
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Speaker 3: I'm acknowledging what.
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Speaker 2: Transpired and what has to happen and what is beginning
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Speaker 2: to happen, and acknowledging the complexity and the amount of
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Speaker 2: work that's ahead of us.
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Speaker 3: Certainly feel capable, but you.
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Speaker 2: Know, definitely doesn't feel in the mood for optimism or
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Speaker 2: the selling of optimism. I don't know that that's appropriate.
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Speaker 1: All Right. See, there you go, no optimism. It's just
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Speaker 1: gonna keep going on and on and on. Now there
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Speaker 1: are groups of angry Pittsburghers who are demanding that Mike
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Speaker 1: Tomlin get out of there. Very angry Tomlin addressed the
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Speaker 1: vitriol from the base, take a.
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Speaker 2: Listen, certainly understand their frustrations, and probably more importantly than that,
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Speaker 2: I share it because that's how I'm wired.
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Speaker 3: And so.
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Speaker 2: I'm not a big time comfort seeker, and particularly in
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Speaker 2: circumstances such as this, I don't view myself as a
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Speaker 2: comfort provider because there's, you know, words a hollow. To
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Speaker 2: be quite honest with you, it's about what we do
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Speaker 2: and less about what we say. And so I've learned
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Speaker 2: to say very little when things are going good, and
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Speaker 2: I've learned to say less when they are.
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Speaker 1: So Thomas says words are hollow, I would argue that
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Speaker 1: in my job, that's all we have is words. All
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Speaker 1: we have is words. They pay the bills, they keep
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Speaker 1: the lights on. They're very important, the words. The bird
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Speaker 1: is the word, and the word is the bird, and
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Speaker 1: the bird pays the bills. All right, So now let's
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Speaker 1: get to the money quote. All of that leading into this,
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Johnson started a firestorm on on Fox the pregame
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Speaker 1: festivities there over the weekend as he tossed out the
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Speaker 1: idea of Mike Tomlin trade. Of course, that was the
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Speaker 1: Cowboys for Mike McCarthy, which is impossible because Mike McCarthy
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Speaker 1: is no longer employed in the NFL, but here's Mike Tomlin.
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Speaker 1: He was asked if he has a message to teams
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Speaker 1: that are thinking about trading for him. Take a list.
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Speaker 3: I have no message, save your time.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Mike, one more time. I'm not following up. Mike,
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Speaker 1: can you play any message for the teams that want
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Speaker 1: to trade for you?
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Speaker 3: I have no message, save your time?
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Speaker 1: Okay? All right. That's a great drop. That's a solid drop.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 1: So that last clip is what we call the money quote.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna play off that. So let us discuss the question,
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Speaker 1: does that save your time? Commentary by Mike Tomlin close
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Speaker 1: the door for Mike Tomlin trade conversation. So I've got
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Speaker 1: farmer boys, Harvard Yard, and cup of Joe. All right,
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Speaker 1: Farmer boys, Harvard Yard, cup of Joe. We'll combine all
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Speaker 1: of these things together and we're gonna make some tofu.
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Speaker 1: Not that I like tofu, but we're gonna make tofu.
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Speaker 1: All right. So a to answer the question, absolutely not.
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Speaker 1: This has not close any kind of door. If anything,
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Speaker 1: it's a revolving door. Now Tomlin's not going anywhere, But
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Speaker 1: did you expect Mike Tomlin to say anything else. Okay,
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Speaker 1: he's in the stealer facility, he's on the payroll. You
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Speaker 1: have to understand time and place. Time and place. Now,
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Speaker 1: there are parallel dimensions in play here. You've got the
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Speaker 1: public and the private. That said, even if Tomlin is
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Speaker 1: absolutely thrilled, absolutely thrilled and really doesn't want to go
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Speaker 1: anywhere else, which is likely the case, but everyone's got
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Speaker 1: a job to do. If you're insider in quotes and
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Speaker 1: in signer, and your job is to get people to
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Speaker 1: click on things. You're eating many meals at Farmer Boys,
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Speaker 1: you're doing engagement farming. And there are a few things
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Speaker 1: that get more clickety clicks than hypothetical wild trade speculation
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Speaker 1: about Mike Tomlin going to this team, that team, or
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Speaker 1: the other team. So until every single seat is filled
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Speaker 1: in the game of musical chairs, there is a chance,
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Speaker 1: I'm saying, there's a chance, there's a possibility that Mike
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Speaker 1: Tomlin ends up being repackaged. Now, page two, the optics aside,
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Speaker 1: Why why would Mike Tomlin dismiss fully dismiss trade chatter? Well,
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Speaker 1: the answer that's very elementary. He's a made man. He's
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Speaker 1: got the greatest gig in the world. No matter how
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Speaker 1: black things go in Pittsburgh, win nine or ten games
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Speaker 1: every year and they'll make the playoffs, and that's about it.
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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin at this point is sitting at a little diner,
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Speaker 1: little diner just outside Harvard Yard. He's a tenured faculty
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Speaker 1: member at this point. Now people have said that diamonds
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Speaker 1: are forever. So is this gig. Coaching the Steelers garantees
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Speaker 1: you lifetime employment unless you walk away like Bill Coward did.
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Speaker 1: If Mike Tomlin was traded to the Bears or whoever, right,
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Speaker 1: what would happen. He would get the standard three years
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Speaker 1: and then he would have to show tangible results, and
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Speaker 1: if he didn't show those results, his ass was grass.
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Speaker 1: If that doesn't happen, if they don't improve any of
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Speaker 1: those teams, he would be a talking head on television somewhere. Gonzo,
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Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about that at all. When
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Speaker 1: you're in Pittsburgh, they never get rid of you. Never
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Speaker 1: going back fifty six years. You gotta go back to
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine and Woodstock was in the air everywhere.
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Speaker 1: Since then, they've had Chuck Noll, Bill Cower and Mike
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Speaker 1: Tomlin end of list period. Hard stop, that's all. And
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Speaker 1: Tomlin just completed his eighteenth season at the Helm. Eighteen
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Speaker 1: seasons at the Helm for Mike Tomlin. Now, the argument
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Speaker 1: for Tomlins, well, he's never had a losing record. The
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Speaker 1: argument against Tomlin is they haven't won a playoff game
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Speaker 1: since Barack Obama was the president. All right, last word here.
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Speaker 1: So the Steelers wide receiver George Pickens causing some heartache
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Speaker 1: for Mike Tomlin. Pickens was reportedly lady went to a
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Speaker 1: little sideways prior to that Christmas game against the Chiefs.
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Speaker 1: Some new reporting out over the last twenty four hours
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Speaker 1: that George Pickens showed up late. He had missed the
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Speaker 1: two previous games because of a hamstring injury. Somebody snitched
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Speaker 1: on him. Tomlin requires players to get to the game
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Speaker 1: at least two hours before kickoff. You gotta get there
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Speaker 1: at least two hours before kickoff. Pickens walked through the
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Speaker 1: media entrance an hour and twenty five minutes for kickoff,
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Speaker 1: which means he probably wasn't even in uniform until about
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Speaker 1: maybe an hour forty five minutes before kickoff, and that
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Speaker 1: was after the inactive players had already been announced. He
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Speaker 1: wasn't even there and the act inactive players were announced
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Speaker 1: by the time he showed up. So when asked about
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Speaker 1: Pickens George Pickens' tardiness, Mike Tomlin claimed that he said,
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Speaker 1: I can't answer that. Definitely, he said, because it's been
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Speaker 1: been a while since the Christmas game. It's been been
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Speaker 1: a few days or whatever. So so the coach essentially
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Speaker 1: claimed he doesn't know whether or not Pickens or at
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Speaker 1: the game. Wait, is it weird? Here's the question, is
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Speaker 1: it weird how Mike Tomlin is treating what is a
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Speaker 1: pretty obvious case of truancy by George Pickens. So the
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Speaker 1: answer is no, it's actually not that weird. People seem
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Speaker 1: to be outraged by this. I'm not surprised. Tomlin has
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Speaker 1: a reputation as what Mike Tomlin's reputation. Players coach, players coach,
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Speaker 1: So when in doubt, coddle the player, rock cup, bye baby. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's that's the coaching technique. But it's not new the
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Speaker 1: idea that Tomlin somehow does things differently. He is determined
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Speaker 1: on his big board, Mike Tomlins big boy, that George
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Speaker 1: Pickens is an essential player. And this has been going
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Speaker 1: on for fifty sixty seventy eighty.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Probably since the NFL started. It's called cupa Joe coaching,
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Speaker 1: Cup of Joe coaching. And I go back again to
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Speaker 1: jim Johnson. Jimmy Johnson famously told the story he was
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Speaker 1: coaching the Cowboys and a reporter asked if he would
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Speaker 1: treat his quarterback, Troy Aikman at the time, the same
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Speaker 1: way as some third string lineman if he caught both
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Speaker 1: of them dozing off in a team meeting. And Jimmy
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Speaker 1: Johnson paused for a second contemplated the situation. He said, listen,
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Speaker 1: if I found a third string lineman sleeping in a
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Speaker 1: team meeting, I would cut him immediately. Jimmy Johnson stated, Now,
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Speaker 1: if I found my quarterback Troy Aikman sleeping in a
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Speaker 1: team meeting, I would carefully and gently wake him up,
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Speaker 1: and I would ask him if I could bring him
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Speaker 1: a cup of coffee. So that tells you that Tom
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Speaker 1: thinks that Pickens is an essential player. He hasn't played
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Speaker 1: like that consistently. He has just been spur as he
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Speaker 1: scoots down the field, occasionally making big plays and often not.
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Speaker 1: In fact, you might remember a game recently where he
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Speaker 1: had not one, not two, not three, have about four
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Speaker 1: drops if I remember correctly, an elite late season loss
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Speaker 1: for the Pittsburg Steelers. But if you believe Tomlin, you're
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Speaker 1: not going anywhere, and save your time. I'm not going anywhere.
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Speaker 1: That's it, Okay, See keep an eye on this story.
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Speaker 1: I have a feeling it's not the end of it.
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Speaker 1: And now do I think Tomlin's going somewhere? No, I
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Speaker 1: do not, unless he chooses to go somewhere, because again,
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Speaker 1: that is in professional sports, the job that you have
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Speaker 1: until you don't want it anymore and you decide to retire,
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Speaker 1: or you decide to go do bad television like Bill
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Speaker 5: Is that what you're eating?
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Speaker 6: Ben?
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Speaker 1: No, No, I'm not eating any of that. I'm fasting
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Speaker 1: through the overnight. But that og rt Puffin Loraina sent
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Speaker 1: a photo and had all those delicious foods in it.
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Speaker 5: Well, it sounds like what me and Cooper eating.
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Speaker 1: Is that what you're eating right now? Really? Yeah? All right?
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Speaker 1: Did he just take a picture that you sent or
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Speaker 1: something like that? I mean, looks like a nice spread
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Speaker 1: you had all that fat.
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Speaker 5: It's a psychic Maybe it's a co winnkeeping.
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Speaker 1: All right, that's a nice spread. Late night drug tester
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Speaker 1: writes in from Parts Unknown, says, the Steelers know that
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Speaker 1: no coach in the world can overcome that quarterback room
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Speaker 1: or the Watt family curse of the injury bug. Better
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Speaker 1: off keeping a coach who provides great soundbites. Tomlin is
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Speaker 1: definitely that Ferg Doog no message, save your time, that's right,
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Speaker 1: Fir Puffin.
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Speaker 7: Is the one that ordered us the food.
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Speaker 1: By the way, thank you are Puffin. That makes sense,
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Speaker 1: all right, very kind of art. I appreciate that I
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Speaker 1: got none of it, but thanks for thinking to me Puffin.
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Speaker 1: Appreciate that Ferg Doog right, since says from the Winter
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Speaker 1: Wonderland that is Fullerton, he says, I checked the show
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Speaker 1: Rundown instead of asking, but since it hasn't been posted
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Speaker 1: yet at the time he said this, when can we
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Speaker 1: expect your daily Australian Open monologue our five or six? Well,
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Speaker 1: I think what I'm gonna do is that we have
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Speaker 1: news guys. We have updates all night here. It's a
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Speaker 1: twenty four hour operation, so I'll let our news guys
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Speaker 1: handle the Australian Open. I'm sure we'll have the latest
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Speaker 1: updates from the Aussie Open at the top and bottom.
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Speaker 1: But just the top of the air, just the top
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Speaker 1: of the hour overnight. Stevie Meatballs right said, says, please
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Speaker 1: let the Steelers trade Tomlin so they can achieve and
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Speaker 1: learn to appreciate a new level of suck in Pittsburgh.
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Speaker 1: But we have to call it, Stevie Meatballs like suck Berg.
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Speaker 1: Is that what we have to call it. They will
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Speaker 1: suck so bad the Rooneyes will finally have to agree
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Speaker 1: to put the logo on both sides of the helmet
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Speaker 1: to make them look more like a professional team. And
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Speaker 1: that's coming from a blind guy. You see, he's a
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Speaker 1: Stevie Meeballs is one of our blind listers, and even he,
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Speaker 1: as a blind guy, is upset that the Steelers' logo
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Speaker 1: is not on both sides of the helmet. Yeah, the understand, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we don't need to give the story, right, it's it's
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Speaker 1: kind of fun. Well, I mean most people know it
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Speaker 1: by now, but maybe you don't. Oh, in nineteen sixty two,
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Speaker 1: they decided the Steelers to establish a logo and it's
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Speaker 1: the same logo, essentially, the same logo they have today.
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Speaker 1: And it was just an arbitrary decision by the equipment
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Speaker 1: manager to put it on one side of the helmet.
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Speaker 1: And that's it, and so some dude in nineteen sixty two,
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Speaker 1: probably because he was lazy and didn't want to put
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Speaker 1: the logo on both sides of the helmet, And so
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Speaker 1: here we are all these years later, and that's just
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Speaker 1: the way the Steelers do a business. That's it. You know,
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Speaker 1: we're just going to put that great story, Ben, Thank you.
21:34
Speaker 1: How the tater tots, they're.
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Speaker 8: Not tater tots. We actually got Brussels sprouts. Oh with
21:40
Speaker 8: a thi chili sauce. Oh, everyone loves Brussels spott.
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Speaker 1: No, it's incorrect, delicious.
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Speaker 5: They're so good, they're so good.
21:47
Speaker 1: We all believe. I believe vegetable lives matter. You guys
21:51
Speaker 1: are heathens killing vegetables. Those they need to live. Okay,
21:55
Speaker 1: they need vegetables need to live, and you're taking the
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Speaker 1: life of vegetables and I will not stand.
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Speaker 5: Take it again and again.
22:02
Speaker 1: Terrible.
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Speaker 8: We also got sliders, and the sliders are really good.
22:06
Speaker 8: We got a regular cheeseburger one, and then we got
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Speaker 8: a what was the one you liked?
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Speaker 1: It was a try tip with Jimmy Churry.
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Speaker 8: Oh, very very good. There's also one here that looks
22:17
Speaker 8: like a chicken dinner. So it's got fried chicken mashed
22:21
Speaker 8: potatoes Cole Slow.
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Speaker 1: You know there used to be a talk show host
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Speaker 1: here your named David Steine, I believe was his name
22:27
Speaker 1: back in the day, and his trademark catchphrase was Winter
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Speaker 1: Winter Chicken Dinner. That was his big one.
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Speaker 8: I bet he'd liked this little sandwich slader right here,
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Speaker 8: probably would, and then the other one.
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Speaker 5: More And I don't know what you.
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Speaker 1: Guys are a bunch of.
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Speaker 5: Cheese steak.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. I made garlic mashed potatoes the other
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Speaker 1: day and uh, just outstanding. I had a rip off.
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Speaker 1: One of my favorite restaurants is a place called The
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Speaker 1: Stinking Rose in San Francisco, and then they used to
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Speaker 1: have one in LA.
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Speaker 5: Didn't you talk about this yesterday?
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Speaker 1: Had gone? I talked about it off the I didn't
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Speaker 1: talk about it all. Yeah, yeah, I told you. I
23:03
Speaker 1: was bragging to you that I I love the garlic.
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Speaker 1: It's a garlic restaurant, like everything's garlic confused at this
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Speaker 1: place called the Stink and Rose. And they used to
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Speaker 1: have one in LA and it was in Beverly Hills,
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Speaker 1: but they closed because of the pandemic. They never reopened it,
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Speaker 1: which I'm bummed about. But so I was like, I
23:18
Speaker 1: kind of want some garlic mashed potatoes like that I
23:20
Speaker 1: used to get at this stink and Rose. So obviously
23:23
Speaker 1: I couldn't get to San Francisco in a minute. So
23:25
Speaker 1: I just found a rip off recipe and put it
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Speaker 1: together and it was outstanding, and.
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Speaker 8: Just you know what's great about cooking it yourself too.
23:35
Speaker 8: You can add as much garlic as you want, yeah, and.
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Speaker 1: Like pepper, and you take out the stuff you don't want,
23:41
Speaker 1: like the recipe have like nutmeg in it, and I'm.
23:43
Speaker 5: Like, I don't need nutmeg.
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Speaker 7: That's actually a nice lead into my next question here.
23:47
Speaker 7: And I'm surprised that nobody has asked this on Ask
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Speaker 7: Ben before because it's it's the perfect ask Bend question.
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Speaker 7: How much garlic do you have on hand at any
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Speaker 7: given moment?
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Speaker 2: I have.
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Speaker 1: I make sure at all times I have a five
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Speaker 1: pound tag of garlic, five pound, five pounds of garlic,
24:07
Speaker 1: and I usually you know, it lasts like you know,
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Speaker 1: a month or whatever, and then but it's five pounds.
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Speaker 7: So do you so so you buy the full cloves
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Speaker 7: like that, like you're not you're not bougie and buying
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Speaker 7: like pre well, I.
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Speaker 1: Have I have both I have, I have, I have
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Speaker 1: both kinds. You can never be that far away from garlic.
24:28
Speaker 1: It is nature's penicillin. It's just amazing. So I always
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Speaker 1: have a lot of a lot of garlic. So love it.
24:36
Speaker 1: Spaccoli writes in He's in Chapel Hill, but his love
24:39
Speaker 1: is in Pittsburgh. He loves the Steelers, he says, Mike
24:42
Speaker 1: Tomlin has a long history of, as you would put it,
24:45
Speaker 1: seeing no evil, hearing no evil, saying no evil. When
24:49
Speaker 1: it comes to player conduct, normal people like you and
24:53
Speaker 1: I would call it coaching malpractice. If you don't know
24:57
Speaker 1: what your players are up to, well, I will guarantee
25:01
Speaker 1: you Spahkohli, and you've been around the block a few times,
25:04
Speaker 1: you know that. Mike Tomlin knows exactly when George Pickens
25:07
Speaker 1: showed up. He's completely aware of the situation. But he
25:11
Speaker 1: was just running interference and went in doubt play stupid.
25:14
Speaker 1: I had a coach explain this to me years. He
25:16
Speaker 1: goes basketball coach. He's like, after the game, we would
25:19
Speaker 1: ask this coach, what what did you think of so
25:23
Speaker 1: and so who we knew had a bad game, and
25:24
Speaker 1: he knew had a bad game, and he would the
25:27
Speaker 1: coach would always differ, and most coaches do this, so
25:29
Speaker 1: I got to watch the tape. I haven't watched the
25:30
Speaker 1: tape yet because they know normally there's no follow up,
25:34
Speaker 1: and then if they do follow up and ask the
25:36
Speaker 1: coach a question the day after, say what about so
25:38
Speaker 1: and so, do you watch the tape? But yeah, I
25:39
Speaker 1: watched the tape, but we're moving on. You know, that's
25:42
Speaker 1: the default, so you never actually have to answer the question,
25:45
Speaker 1: and it's your way to.
25:46
Speaker 3: Get out of it.
25:47
Speaker 1: Supermarket Steve rides in trying to touch up my work
25:50
Speaker 1: because he's a schmuck. He says. The better coach showing
25:55
Speaker 1: star preferential treatment is the story of LT with Bill Belichick.
26:02
Speaker 1: He says, I also like Jim Mora saying that they
26:04
Speaker 1: don't practice with the second string quarterback. That was not
26:07
Speaker 1: Jim Moore, that was Tom Moore who said that Tom
26:10
Speaker 1: Moore was the offensive coordinator for the Colts, and it
26:14
Speaker 1: was I think it was a John Gruden was doing
26:17
Speaker 1: television and asked Tom Moore why the backup didn't practice
26:20
Speaker 1: and he said, because if number eighteen goes down, we're
26:23
Speaker 1: f't and we don't practice being ft as. That was
26:26
Speaker 1: the quote from Tom Moore, who, by the way, I
26:28
Speaker 1: was going to have on my podcast. He wrote a
26:30
Speaker 1: book and he blew me off at the last minute.
26:32
Speaker 1: So screw you, Tom Moore, Chip and the cues will
26:35
Speaker 1: be off. Yeah, Chip and the q's rights and says
26:37
Speaker 1: hey plus on the monologue, these Steelers don't get rid
26:40
Speaker 1: of coaches. So unless Tomlin pulls an OJ Simpson, he
26:45
Speaker 1: will be the coach as long as he wants to be.
26:50
Speaker 1: He's pretty good at this point. Does the job, likes football,
26:53
Speaker 1: shows up on time, that whole thing, that whole thing,
26:57
Speaker 1: Stevie Meatball says Ben. It was not an arbitrary to
27:00
Speaker 1: in regard to these Steelers logo. They put the logo
27:02
Speaker 1: on one side of the helmets because the owners didn't
27:04
Speaker 1: want to spend the money to put it on both sides.
27:07
Speaker 1: It was stayed. They stayed that way for mere tradition's sake. Well,
27:11
Speaker 1: a lot of things like that started because of tradition.
27:16
Speaker 1: There's like a whole bunch of examples of that in
27:19
Speaker 1: the world of sports. That's kind of how that works.
27:22
Speaker 1: Something gets started.
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Speaker 3: You're on your way.
27:24
Speaker 1: Let's go to the phones. Let's go to my former
27:26
Speaker 1: legal analyst, and he used to be in Venice, but
27:31
Speaker 1: now he's in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles. Our
27:34
Speaker 1: friend Bill, Hello Bill, Bill, I know I just said
27:43
Speaker 1: your name Bill Year. Bill. It's almost mid January here.
27:51
Speaker 1: What are we doing?
27:52
Speaker 8: I thought you say that.
27:56
Speaker 1: The cut off the cutoff on Happy New Year is
27:58
Speaker 1: about three days. Three days. That's it, three days before,
28:02
Speaker 1: three days after, that's it. No more than that, three days,
28:05
Speaker 1: six days total. Yeah.
28:08
Speaker 8: I just I just wanted to touch base and.
28:11
Speaker 1: Say hello, well, hello, have you do you have your
28:13
Speaker 1: mojo bag? What have you been up to? Bill?
28:17
Speaker 8: I got this farge.
28:19
Speaker 1: You're no longer a lawyer.
28:22
Speaker 6: I'm a doctor.
28:23
Speaker 1: Now you're a doctor. What kind of doctor are you?
28:29
Speaker 4: Brain surgery?
28:31
Speaker 1: Well sounds sounds perfect. Look at this guy.
28:39
Speaker 7: He's already practiced on himself.
28:41
Speaker 1: I know he's his own patient.
28:45
Speaker 6: I'm in treat man, I'm I'm doing brain surgery, man.
28:51
Speaker 1: Yeah.
28:52
Speaker 8: I want to ask you in regard.
28:54
Speaker 6: To the game on Monday, Yeah, or who you like,
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Speaker 6: Ohio State or the Irish.
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Speaker 1: Guys are gonna win that game and they'll won't even
29:07
Speaker 1: be close by the time. It's all okay, that's all
29:14
Speaker 1: I get isn't okay?
29:16
Speaker 3: What are you?
29:17
Speaker 1: And then?
29:18
Speaker 5: Yes?
29:18
Speaker 1: Are you a Notre Dame fan?
29:20
Speaker 3: Who do you like?
29:22
Speaker 4: I trust your I trust your choice.
29:25
Speaker 1: That's right. I'm great on radio TV. I'm not good
29:28
Speaker 1: at but radio picks something great. I have a bookie
29:32
Speaker 1: that I'm oh great. Now you're gonna Now you're gonna
29:36
Speaker 1: come chase me down, Bill, You're gonna come run and
29:38
Speaker 1: kick my ball.
29:39
Speaker 6: I give you half?
29:41
Speaker 1: Oh give me half? What is half of? Nothing? Is that?
29:51
Speaker 1: Why do you call more often? But you're so compelling.
29:53
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you every every week. I
29:55
Speaker 1: need to talk to Bill and Venice. Hey, I moved
29:59
Speaker 1: to Korea to right, I know, but to me, you're
30:02
Speaker 1: still Bill in Venice. You know even I know you're
30:04
Speaker 1: in Korea time. But you became a legend on this
30:07
Speaker 1: show when you lived in Venice and you have the
30:10
Speaker 1: sound of someone in Venice Beach and then you went
30:12
Speaker 1: to you went to the Gray Bar Hotel. How long
30:14
Speaker 1: were you in the Gray Bar Hotel? For you on
30:16
Speaker 1: a long vacation? Right, it was a couple of years.
30:18
Speaker 4: That I'm not talking about.
30:26
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about that. I'm talking Okay, Thank you, Bill?
30:31
Speaker 1: All right? Bye?
30:34
Speaker 5: Bill seems so sweet.
30:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess you didn't get my reference. That's unfortunate.
30:41
Speaker 1: Let's go to Big Daddy. From Bill the brain surgeon
30:45
Speaker 1: to Big Daddy in Memphis, who would like to talk
30:48
Speaker 1: to his constituents. Hello, big Daddy.
30:53
Speaker 6: What's going on? I would like to say hello to
30:55
Speaker 6: all my fans and all my concisions with men. You
30:58
Speaker 6: don't have to spend all that money, man, You could
30:59
Speaker 6: have went to the store and got you a package
31:01
Speaker 6: of boasted garnet master to taste.
31:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I follow this recipe, so it tasted a
31:09
Speaker 1: lot like the stuff that I remember from the restaurant.
31:12
Speaker 1: I could have done that.
31:13
Speaker 3: You're right.
31:14
Speaker 1: It would have been a little cheaper to do what
31:15
Speaker 1: you said there.
31:16
Speaker 6: Sure, Yeah, Yeah, it's been a whole lot cheaper. Yeah, man,
31:20
Speaker 6: I ain't doing working a little bit of public service announcement.
31:23
Speaker 6: Dion is not going to the Cowboys.
31:27
Speaker 1: You guarantee that. I don't know, But Jerry Jones has
31:31
Speaker 1: put himself in an interesting pickle, A little pickle here
31:34
Speaker 1: for Jerry, because there's nobody else even in the running
31:36
Speaker 1: at this point.
31:38
Speaker 3: Now.
31:38
Speaker 6: People on his Instagram he already said all he wanted
31:41
Speaker 6: to do was coach your son. You don't have time
31:44
Speaker 6: for the Once the songs get out of there, he
31:45
Speaker 6: probably won't finish that contract out and get on out
31:47
Speaker 6: of there.
31:49
Speaker 1: The kids are done now, this is it. The kids
31:51
Speaker 1: are done. Kids are going to the NFL now in Colorado.
31:53
Speaker 1: So this is his chance to go coach in the
31:55
Speaker 1: NFI deal.
31:57
Speaker 6: Yeah, so whatever that find.
31:58
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. There's a buy out. You know that
32:00
Speaker 1: these guys aren't lot. It's like ten million dollars. Jerry
32:03
Speaker 1: Jones wipes his ass and there's ten million dollars when
32:07
Speaker 1: he flushes the toilet, there's ten million dollars.
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Speaker 6: Hey man, y'all doing im file you got snow down.
32:14
Speaker 6: He's not doing that one.
32:16
Speaker 1: You're very rude that you're you're keeping all the snow
32:18
Speaker 1: there in Memphis. Big they send some snow out to California.
32:21
Speaker 1: They need some snow and so caut here. Yeah, it's
32:23
Speaker 1: still fires are still going on. People think the fires
32:25
Speaker 1: are some people think the fires are out. The fires
32:28
Speaker 1: are still going on. They're all over place, Big Daddy.
32:31
Speaker 6: They think nobody those fires, that's what they think.
32:34
Speaker 1: Well one of them, yeah, the other one appears to
32:36
Speaker 1: be electrical nature, some power leg caught on fire. But
32:41
Speaker 1: one there is supposedly video in the Palisades fire that
32:45
Speaker 1: that they think might have been arson.
32:46
Speaker 6: But yeah, get fired.
32:49
Speaker 3: He got fired.
32:50
Speaker 1: You're hitting it fired. He got laid off. You'd have
32:52
Speaker 1: to go to management. That was a management decision. You'd
32:55
Speaker 1: have to check the corporate people here. It was not right.
32:58
Speaker 6: Sometimes mansion lucky. They notified them something. They'll tell you nothing.
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Speaker 1: Well five, I mean yeah, all right, thank you, big Daddy.
33:07
Speaker 1: All right. There he goes about the great Big Daddy
33:11
Speaker 1: and checking it just absolutely wonderful. So one man's trash
33:17
Speaker 1: is another man's treasure. Dateline, Jacksonville, Florida. Is it true
33:27
Speaker 1: that failed failed NFL head coach and motivational speaker Robert Sala,
33:35
Speaker 1: late of the Jets moving on up the pecking order
33:40
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville considered a legitimate candidate, a legitimate candidate to
33:45
Speaker 1: be the head coach of the Jacksonville football team said
33:50
Speaker 1: to be real buzz. That's what real buzz sounds like.
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Speaker 1: Just like that. So that's the chatter.
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Speaker 5: That was good.
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Speaker 1: Bad's that, Lorraine?
34:07
Speaker 5: That was quality buzzing.
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Speaker 1: That was good, right, that was solid. That's listen.
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Speaker 8: You could be like a Bee in a B movie.
34:18
Speaker 1: That could also be an electric chair, right, somebody could
34:20
Speaker 1: be electrocuted. See that broke the thing of a drig broke. Now,
34:28
Speaker 1: Robert Salah was fired October eighth by the Jets. He
34:33
Speaker 1: coached fifty six games three plus seasons coach the Jets
34:38
Speaker 1: and was sixteen games under five one hundred. And not
34:44
Speaker 1: only is he a candidate for the Jacksonville job, but
34:47
Speaker 1: also the Raiders have interviewed Robert Salad and if he
34:51
Speaker 1: doesn't get a head coaching job, which is most likely
34:53
Speaker 1: the case, and the forty nine ers have chatted with
34:57
Speaker 1: him about coming back to the Bay Area getting a
34:59
Speaker 1: head coaching See. Sada is one of these guys, you know,
35:01
Speaker 1: he reminds me of in basketball. There was this guy
35:05
Speaker 1: who used to play for the Pistons back in the
35:06
Speaker 1: day named Isaiah Thomas. And Isaiah Thomas was such a
35:09
Speaker 1: sweet talker if he got you in a room, if
35:13
Speaker 1: you're like an owner, he knew how to talk the
35:15
Speaker 1: socks off these rich people. And Robert sala is such
35:18
Speaker 1: a bull crap artist. I bet you he's the same way.
35:22
Speaker 1: He's got all the gift of gab, and he knows
35:25
Speaker 1: how to sweet talk people, and if he gets into
35:28
Speaker 1: a room, I could totally see him ending up with
35:32
Speaker 1: the job again that he does not deserve after he
35:35
Speaker 1: failed as coach of the Jets. Time now for the
35:39
Speaker 1: who am I? Game? And this is where we pretend
35:42
Speaker 1: to be somebody else as we call it who am I? Game?
35:44
Speaker 1: So Vikings coach Kevin O'Connell. Who that's Kevin O'Connell. He's
35:49
Speaker 1: at coach in Minnesota. So Kevin O'Connell became the first
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Speaker 1: coach to win thirteen or more games in two regular
35:55
Speaker 1: seasons and then lose their first playoff game. Again, Kevin O'Connell,
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Speaker 1: the first coach sends me to win thirteen plus games
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Speaker 1: in two regular seasons then lose their first playoff game?
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Speaker 1: First coach? Since me? Who am I? The answer? We'll
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Speaker 1: back to big mouth Ben Well, Bill, it's not I
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Speaker 1: don't have a big mouth, Bill. I have a regular
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Speaker 1: sized mouth and I just talk talk talk talk, talk, talk,
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Speaker 1: talk talk all night, long time. Now for the who
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Speaker 1: am I? Game? A blatant attempt to get you to
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Speaker 1: listen a little bit longer. Thus we call it the
37:21
Speaker 1: who am I? Games? So Viking coach Kevin O'Connell became
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Speaker 1: the first coach since me to win thirteen plus games
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Speaker 1: in two regular seasons and then lose their first playoff
37:33
Speaker 1: game both of those times. Again, Viking head coach Kevin
37:37
Speaker 1: O'Connell on a notorious list. He became the first coach
37:43
Speaker 1: since me to win thirteen plus games in two regular
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Speaker 1: seasons and then lose the first playoff game. Who am I?
37:51
Speaker 1: That is the question? What is the answer? Christopher in
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Speaker 1: Cans City, home of the Ben Mallard Chicken fingers at
37:58
Speaker 1: the Landing in Liberty Missouri. I was just there a
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Speaker 1: few months ago. Love it. Good people there and great food,
38:05
Speaker 1: he says. Andre Agassy is the answer. Romeo Cronell or
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Speaker 1: Cornell or whatever is he mispronounced Nick? That's Nick. Who
38:16
Speaker 1: else do we have a page down? Harlan asfre from
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Speaker 1: Donkey Sausage. Let's see Greg de Hammer. Valentine from Robin Vegas.
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Speaker 1: Andy in Lionel Lakes in Minnesota says gotta be Minnesota
38:31
Speaker 1: State's own coach. Hayden Fox Mallard prop guy says, Sir
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Speaker 1: scratch Off is the is the answer. That's actually pretty good.
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Speaker 1: That's a I think he's a little chubbier and the
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Speaker 1: beard's a little bigger Mallard prop guy, But you're not
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Speaker 1: Mike Shanahan from Milkman Mike in Colorado. That's his answer.
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Speaker 1: Buzz Schneider from ferg Dog og Yard Puffin says Coop's
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Speaker 1: favorite NFL coach, Dan Mile higher Reeves is the answer.
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Speaker 1: Caitlyn Clark Caitlin Clark Stocker Angry Bill guessed by Jay Dott.
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Speaker 1: I saw that some middle aged dude got busted for
39:19
Speaker 1: stocking Caitlin Clark. Yeah, big deal, Like I was in
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Speaker 1: court and said I did it, guilty on all charges
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Speaker 1: and leat whack job alf the alien old piner going
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Speaker 1: with Bill James as the answer. Rod Marinelli from Larry
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Speaker 1: d our friend Stuck in Sacramento, says Tommy Lesorda, there
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Speaker 1: you go. Well, thank you, stuck in sacrament the y.
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Speaker 1: We'll have the unboxing tomorrow. Lorraine, do you have an answer?
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Speaker 1: Lorraine of Viking coach Kevin O'Connell became me, the first
39:49
Speaker 1: coach since me to win thirteen plus games two regular seasons,
39:52
Speaker 1: then lose in the playoff the first playoff game.
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Speaker 5: My guess is Vince Lombardi Ben.
39:58
Speaker 1: Oh, wonderful guess. No, how about Tony Dungee, Tony Dungee.
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Speaker 1: It's O'Connell, Dungeee Fisher, Jeff Fisher and Marty Schottenheimer did it?
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Speaker 3: Also?
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Speaker 1: Hi Mallor