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  Speaker 1: So we gave our knightly sermon in a previous episode
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  Speaker 1: of the show, and we said, I wouldn't I wouldn't leave.
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  Speaker 1: Why would you leave? You have a good job, why
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  Speaker 1: would you leave? Our lead is obviously from the land
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  Speaker 1: of the insert the land of the insurt hours just
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  Speaker 1: hours after the humiliation situation in a seven to six game,
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  Speaker 1: early fourth quarter to get blown to bits by the
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  Speaker 1: Texans and a lot of self inflicted wounds. The winds
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  Speaker 1: of change you have blown. You can almost hear them,
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  Speaker 1: the winds of change right there. So maybe maybe the
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  Speaker 1: wind's not blowing where you are. Possibly not so. Mike
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  Speaker 1: Tomlin has quit as coach of the Steelers he's out.
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  Speaker 1: Bye bye, He's gone, ending a nineteen year run during
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  Speaker 1: which he never had a losing season, never had a
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  Speaker 1: losing season. Mike Tomlin, and before for his resignation, Tomlin
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  Speaker 1: was the longest tenured head coach of a single North
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  Speaker 1: American professional sports franchise. And now he's out. He's out,
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  Speaker 1: and he's stepped down and see you later, and he
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  Speaker 1: is not expected to coach anywhere in twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: although who knows. He wake up today and say ah ya,
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  Speaker 1: psych again, who really wants to coach any of these
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  Speaker 1: teams that have openings? Most of them blow anyway, It's
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  Speaker 1: good jumping off point. A lot to unpack as Mike
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  Speaker 1: Tomlin has exited, stage left from Pittsburgh. So the question
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  Speaker 1: I have here is we discussed the question why why
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  Speaker 1: did Mike Tomlin decide to walk away from the Steelers,
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  Speaker 1: And generally when people leave jobs, I say, well, they
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  Speaker 1: didn't leave, they were forced out, they were pushed, they
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  Speaker 1: didn't jump, they were poor pushed. On this one, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that's the case. Tomlin did the saturd leave.
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  Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I've got tabernacle George Michael's
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  Speaker 1: Sports machine for the ogs and Ron Poe Peel and
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna make some kung pow chicken is what we're gonna make.
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  Speaker 1: Delicious kind of little rice. Put that on the rice.
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  Speaker 1: Yum yum to my Tomu tomu right, not bad, not bad,
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  Speaker 1: all right. So a Mike Tomlin, he did not walk
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  Speaker 1: away in this case because of the ownership in Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: shoving him out the door. When Pete Carroll, I remember
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  Speaker 1: when Pete Carroll left the Seahawks and they spun it
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  Speaker 1: like it was a mutual decision. No, this Seahawks didn't
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  Speaker 1: want Pete Carroll anymore. It what a mutual decision. He
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  Speaker 1: just played nice. And so this is not how they
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  Speaker 1: roll in Western Pa. It's not how they roll there.
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  Speaker 1: They don't do that. And so this ownership group, So
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  Speaker 1: what happened after a minutes long Mallard deliberation of the
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  Speaker 1: available evidence, we weighed all of the evidence, and here's
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  Speaker 1: our verdict on the Mike Tomlin story. This was a
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  Speaker 1: customer driven divorce, is what. This was death by a
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  Speaker 1: thousand paper cuts, or in this case, it was the
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  Speaker 1: Tabernacle Choir of Pittsburgh, Pa. Rhythmically chanting, fire Tomlin Fire,
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  Speaker 1: Tomlin rhythmic channing, Love My rhythmic channing like Monks on
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  Speaker 1: Red Bull, rhythmically chanting. And it worked over and over
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  Speaker 1: every time things went wrong. Late in the season, fier
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  Speaker 1: toln fire just like that, like a broken jukebox. And
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  Speaker 1: there he go. It's on Polka night because I love
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  Speaker 1: the polka in Pittsburgh. And eventually, even a steel beam
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  Speaker 1: will bend, even a steel beam will bend. It does happen. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there you go. Oh come on, now, you haven't lived
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  Speaker 1: until you get some hot polka. Oh, here we go. Everybody,
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  Speaker 1: keep it up.
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  Speaker 4: It's my sailors, shut down all his friends, steel healers, Bradshaw.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, update that. So they did actually update it, like
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  Speaker 1: sixteen years or whatever, a long time ago. They did
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  Speaker 1: update it. So listen. That rhythmic chanting was the moment
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  Speaker 1: when the fuse met the flame and kaboom, kaboom. I
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  Speaker 1: thought Tom Mood would be okay with it, and he's
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  Speaker 1: got thick skin and all that, but it's like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: he decided that he didn't want to deal with and
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  Speaker 1: it's disappointing. He should have stayed that's a bad job
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  Speaker 1: by him. And he looked around and he saw he
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  Speaker 1: has options. Rich man has options. Tomlin's rich, so he's
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  Speaker 1: got options. And he's like, okay, real ones. You can
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  Speaker 1: live the Tony Romo lifestyle with your golf all week,
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  Speaker 1: do no homework for your broadcast, show up and just
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  Speaker 1: speak nonsense, and you get more money than the GDP
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  Speaker 1: of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands to do bad television
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  Speaker 1: and just speak cliches. They wanted it more, Hey, Jim,
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  Speaker 1: both teams can win the super Bowl. No crap, they're
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Dummy, anyway, Just put the headset on,
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  Speaker 1: smile and wink and there you go. Easy money man,
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  Speaker 1: easy money. Hey, even I had a TV show, How
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  Speaker 1: hard could TVP? They gave me a TV show? Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to worry about having an answer on
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  Speaker 1: fourth and one. Although Tomlin's the maestro of talk, talking
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  Speaker 1: in these big phrases and lines and metaphors and doesn't
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  Speaker 1: need to really worry about actually answering any of that.
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  Speaker 1: And now he will not have to worry about people
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  Speaker 1: throwing tomatoes from the upper balcony. That will not happen.
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  Speaker 1: And I still again, I believe it is a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: Tomlin's fifty three years old. In that profession, you're not
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  Speaker 1: that old. You're not a museum exhibit in coaching when
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  Speaker 1: you're fifty three years old. So, like the great cyborg
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  Speaker 1: of years ago, the terminator hit it to be back,
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  Speaker 1: he will be back. And everyone's like, oh, he's following
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  Speaker 1: the Sean Payton mantra. Okay, what is the Sean Paton
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  Speaker 1: well sabbatical playbook? Sabbatical playbook, that's kind of the Sean
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  Speaker 1: Payton thing. You don't write off into the sunset on
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  Speaker 1: a golf cart. He's not doing that, So that's not happening.
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  Speaker 1: And a year from now Tomlin will re enter the
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  Speaker 1: market and he'll go from an ivy league tenured professor
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  Speaker 1: to a trip across the train tracks to the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the tracks to the hard scrabble streets to
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  Speaker 1: some crap bag team like the Jets, and that'll be that, right,
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  Speaker 1: or the Saints or you know somewhere you know, you
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  Speaker 1: generally don't want to go as a coach because they
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  Speaker 1: usually stick and that's where you're gonna end up. And
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  Speaker 1: so technically the Steelers own Tomlin's rights because he didn't.
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  Speaker 1: He had a contract and he retired and didn't retire,
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  Speaker 1: he just said I'm resigning. So it's a it's a
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  Speaker 1: little complicated, but it's really not that complicated. You think
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  Speaker 1: the Steeler is going to stand in the way of
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  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin coaching, and the only argument would be, well,
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  Speaker 1: he can't coach in the division, Well, who cares? The
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  Speaker 1: Ravens aren't gonna hire him, and why would you want
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  Speaker 1: to coach the Browns of the Bengals. So you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about that. It's just a clerical situation,
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  Speaker 1: that's all. That is a clerical situation, not a choke chain.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that. And Tomlin will have the option if
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  Speaker 1: he wants to hand pick his next job, although it
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  Speaker 1: won't be a good job. Good jobs don't up on up.
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  Speaker 1: The only possibility I was saying about for Tomlin that
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  Speaker 1: would be a good job Andy Reid is he's up there.
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  Speaker 1: He Andy Reid another bad year in Kansas City, Mahomes
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  Speaker 1: coming off a major injury. You can get the back
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  Speaker 1: half of Mahomes prime. If you're Tomlin, that would be
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  Speaker 1: the job I would go for. I'd be okay. So
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  Speaker 1: the steel the Chiefs. They're gonna have a middle of
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  Speaker 1: a pack draft pick this year because they make the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: so they can improve the roster a little bit. In theory,
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  Speaker 1: then if they have another middling year next year, that's
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  Speaker 1: two middling years. Then Andy Reid gets pushed out. They
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  Speaker 1: throw him off the cliff, and then Tomlin can go
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  Speaker 1: to Kansas City and coach Mahomes and that would be
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  Speaker 1: the move I would make. And Pittsburgh, what are they
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  Speaker 1: gonna get. They're gonna get an edible arrangement of scratcher tickets.
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  Speaker 1: So I enjoy that. Enjoy that, bone appetite, bone appetite,
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  Speaker 1: all right. Now, keeping the theme of the hour, the
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  Speaker 1: Hour of Tomlin, the Hour of Tomlin here, So what
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  Speaker 1: made Mike tom Here's the question. What made Mike Tomlin
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  Speaker 1: special with the Steelers? So I'll say it about this.
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  Speaker 1: I got an angry message from Spacoli, who's a big
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  Speaker 1: Steeler fan. I can't believe Malor wanted Tomlin to stay.
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  Speaker 1: It's like he's lost his faith in me as a
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  Speaker 1: talk show host because I didn't bury Mike Tomlin after
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  Speaker 1: the Monday night game. And I look at Tomlin in
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  Speaker 1: a business with clowns as a guy. That was like
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  Speaker 1: the Starbucks or McDonald's of coaching consistency. Now I don't
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  Speaker 1: drink coffee. My wife, does you go to Starbucks? We've
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  Speaker 1: been to Starbucks all over the play It's always the same.
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  Speaker 1: You go to McDonald's anywhere, it's the big Mac. Tastes
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  Speaker 1: the same, it does. And the Steelers, if you look
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  Speaker 1: at the town, it's been almost ten years since they
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  Speaker 1: had a real legit, big time roster in Pittsburgh. And
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  Speaker 1: yet every year, year after year, Mike Tomlin his team's
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  Speaker 1: almost never embarrassed themselves during the regular season. They almost
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  Speaker 1: it's always overachieved based on the level of talent that
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  Speaker 1: they have. They rarely underachieve in the regular season. And
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  Speaker 1: you look at the flotsam and jetsum that they roll
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  Speaker 1: out a bunch of spare parts on that roster, and
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  Speaker 1: they haven't had a big time quarterback in a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Roethlisberger sucked the last couple of years he played. People
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  Speaker 1: forget about that because they remember the good times and
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  Speaker 1: they block out the car accident, the sixteen car pile
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  Speaker 1: up on the interstate was that was Roethlisberger. The last
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  Speaker 1: couple of years. They dragged his rotting carcass out there
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  Speaker 1: and played quarterback for the Pittsburgh ear So he was bad,
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  Speaker 1: and yet Tomlin was able to mold them into nine,
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  Speaker 1: ten eleven win teams year after year. To me, that's
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  Speaker 1: real coaching, that's roll up your sleeves coaching. I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: that in a business that has Mike McDaniel doing whatever
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  Speaker 1: the hell he was doing in Miami, and its like
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  Speaker 1: doing a podcast about coffee beans is something while coaching
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  Speaker 1: the Dolphin. So Tomlin, the master polisher, polished a lot
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  Speaker 1: of turds, a lot of turds in Pittsburgh, turning some
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  Speaker 1: junkyard rosters into playoff teams, and then, of course in
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  Speaker 1: January we all know the story. He's now tied with
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  Speaker 1: Marvin Lewis for playoff ineptitude. And those teams that overachieved
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  Speaker 1: during the regular season in Pittsburgh, they went up against
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  Speaker 1: elite competition in playoff games, and the Steelers it was
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  Speaker 1: like a vampire at sunrise. It doesn't go well. You
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  Speaker 1: start sizzling, and then the team starts smoking a little
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  Speaker 1: bit and you're getting cinerated. And that was the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: year after year in the playoffs, just like your favorite
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  Speaker 1: vampire movie. Or if you want a different analogy, how
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  Speaker 1: about the Jenga tower, right, the Jenga tower and it
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  Speaker 1: all collapsed, everything fell apart. Now, another question about Mike
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  Speaker 1: tom and the hour of Mike Tomlin here on the
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  Speaker 1: Ben Maler Show on Fox Sports Radio. What are we
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  Speaker 1: going to miss about Mike Tomlin during his little coaching
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  Speaker 1: sabbatical from the NFL when this one is easy. He's
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  Speaker 1: a staple Tomlin of the holiday season. Mike Tomlin was
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  Speaker 1: a mensch on the bench, a mensch on the bench,
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  Speaker 1: a walking, talking quote machine. And now he wasn't at
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  Speaker 1: the level of Jerry Jones. Jerry's in the league all
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  Speaker 1: by himself. He's in a different galaxy Jerry Jones with
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. However, Mike Tomlin, while he didn't reach
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  Speaker 1: that circus level like they have in Jerry's world, Tomlin
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  Speaker 1: did feed the George Michael sports machine week after week.
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  Speaker 1: It was great. I mean, the man Tomlin was a
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  Speaker 1: Rolex with the microphone in a coaching profession that has
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  Speaker 1: a lot of cassios these days, a lot of them. Right.
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  Speaker 1: He was smooth, shiny, debonair and always, always spitting out
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  Speaker 1: those tomlinisms, and whether it was the one he's most
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  Speaker 1: known for. The stand is the standard, which is Shakespearean
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  Speaker 1: with a whistle and a clipboard. Now some of our favorites.
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  Speaker 1: I went back through my notes because I love Tomlin
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  Speaker 1: the sound bites as a talk show us. I can't
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  Speaker 1: get enough of Tom so Tom after the Steelers would
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  Speaker 1: play a tough game, or when they would play a
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  Speaker 1: tough game and the lead up to a tough game,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me, In the lead up to a tough game,
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  Speaker 1: Tomlin would say, we don't run from challenges. We run
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  Speaker 1: two challenges, which is it's thick bull crap.
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  Speaker 2: But I liked it.
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  Speaker 1: The way he said it was very convincing, and I
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  Speaker 1: liked it. After the Steelers would have a bad loss,
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  Speaker 1: he would say something along lines we make no excuses,
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  Speaker 1: we seek no comfort. We didn't play well, we didn't
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  Speaker 1: coach well. We had that famous drop this season about
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  Speaker 1: the fans in Pittsburgh when Tomlin said, we want them
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  Speaker 1: to be fat and sassy and spoil it is our job.
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  Speaker 1: That was a great tomlinism that he said. I believe
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  Speaker 1: it was this year and his final night as coach
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  Speaker 1: of the Steelers when they got absolutely mollywopped by the
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  Speaker 1: Texans in the fourth quarter. His final night, Mike Tomlin said,
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  Speaker 1: we when you don't get it done, words are cheap.
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  Speaker 1: Either do or you don't. And with that Mike Tomlin
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  Speaker 1: channeled porky Pig and said that's all, folks, and the
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  Speaker 1: next day he quit. All right, now, last word. So
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  Speaker 1: we have a job opening, something that hasn't happened in
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  Speaker 1: a while. And the question is where do the Steelers go?
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  Speaker 1: Where does the Steelers job rank among NFL coaching gigs.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get later on on who these Steelers will likely
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  Speaker 1: go after, but right now, where does that job rank?
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  Speaker 1: Or are a gazillion job open over well over twenty
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  Speaker 1: five percent? Now the jobs in the NFL nine gigs
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  Speaker 1: opened up. So where does the Steelers job rank? Where
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  Speaker 1: does it rank on the big board? Not a list
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  Speaker 1: Terry in England. This is a big board, big board,
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  Speaker 1: Benny's big board, not a list. Where does the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: job rank among the open NFL gigs? So this is
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  Speaker 1: if you go to the hotel, this is not the
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  Speaker 1: room near the elevator sandwiched on the It's got the
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  Speaker 1: elevator on one side. The ice machine on the other
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  Speaker 1: This is not that. This is the presidential suite with
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  Speaker 1: the robe and complimentary slippers included. Yeah. Yeah, they got
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  Speaker 1: a hot tub in the room. Okay, that's what I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about here. And do they have a franchise quarterback?
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  Speaker 1: Hell no, they don't. That's the amazing part. Is the
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  Speaker 1: roster that good? No, it's not. It's like a garage sale.
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  Speaker 1: That roster a lot of hasmin's, some nobody's, non achievers.
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  Speaker 1: You got some underachievers on that team, some washed up,
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  Speaker 1: overpaid players. So it's flotsam and jetsam that they have
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  Speaker 1: on that roster. So why is this job die? No mighte?
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  Speaker 1: Why is it dynamite? Because in Pittsburgh the coach gets
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  Speaker 1: a lot of oxygen and there's no small which is
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  Speaker 1: weird because Pittsburgh had a big pollution for a long time. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: you get to breathe. There's no owner hovering like a
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  Speaker 1: helicopter parent at a little league baseball game, and the
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  Speaker 1: roonies they run that place like a ron Polpio infomercial.
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  Speaker 1: It's the ron Co coach omatic is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: In Pittsburgh. Hire a coach, you plug the thing in
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  Speaker 1: and you set the what you might call it, and
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  Speaker 1: you walk away, set it and forget it. That's what
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  Speaker 1: they do. Simplicity, simplicity. Now we'll see if that's the
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  Speaker 1: case once the Steelers hire the wrong coach and then
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  Speaker 1: start losing ten plus games a year, and we'll see
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  Speaker 1: if that pattern continues. But for now, you'd say, it's
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  Speaker 1: like going into the kitchen and what you've got the
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  Speaker 1: pressure cooker because you want something quick. And then that's
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  Speaker 1: most NFL jobs, the pressure cooker. And then in Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: you got the slow cooker. You just put all the
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  Speaker 1: stuff in there, and you said it, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I sat in the morning when you go to work,
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  Speaker 1: and then you come back and you got some slop
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  Speaker 1: that you can eat, and you can eat. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: low heat, long runway, all that stuff. Get the bag
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  Speaker 1: of groceries and there you go. So good good luck
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  Speaker 1: to the Steelers. And sounds like they did a lot
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  Speaker 1: to talk about them hiring a college coach. I think
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  Speaker 1: you got to go younger, right, you want the guy
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  Speaker 1: to you know the last ten plus years. You don't
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  Speaker 1: want to hire a guy in his sixties, so you
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  Speaker 1: gotta heire somebody. I'll be in their forties or early
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• 21:06
  Speaker 1: as the NFL playoffs continue, the teams that did the
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: old flop the flop a root floppity flop are plotting
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: what they're going to do next so they don't suck
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: next year. Now, the story here is about the Vikings
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: general manager Quacy Adolpha Mensa. That's a mouthful, but Quacy
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Adosa Mensa Adolpha Mensa. He spoke to the media about
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the plans for the Vikings offseason. He was asked if
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: he want I don't know if you heard this on now
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: he's asked if he wanted quarterback JJ McCarthy to be
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: on the team as the starter in twenty twenty six.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: If you didn't hear this, he hemmed and hawed. We
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: have the audio. Let's go to the audio tape. Take
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: it is a simple question. Listen to the Vikings general manager.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: You know, I want the Vikings to achieve our goals,
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: and I think one of those goals is to make
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: playoff runs and do different things like that. I think
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: he's the character and ability to be the person to
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: do that for our organization. If I say that in
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: twenty twenty six, that kind of binds us into a
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: certain area.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately cut off the beginning of that, which was to
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: me the most important part. But he said at the beginning,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: he paused and said, I don't know that that and
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: then he went into the line you heard. I don't
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: know why that would be edited out, but unfortunately it
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: was the most important part of the soundback was edited out.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Tremendous editing. Good work. I don't know who did that,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: but we should compliment them on their work, their outstanding.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: All right, So that is kind of screwed up everything here.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: So let me just read the quote because I guess
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: the person in the editing department decided they would do
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: shoddy work. Adolpha Mensa said, I don't know that, and
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: they paused, and then he said, I want the Vikings
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: to achieve our goals, and I think one of those
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: goals is to make playoff runs and do different things
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: like that, he said, and then he went into the
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: quote that you heard. Okay, try to stay calm. It's okay.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: It's just an overnight talk show. No one's listening. It's okay.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: I try to spend all day getting ready for this
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: freaking show. And some dopey intern comes in here. I
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: guess he's played by the company, which is even worse,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: and f's the whole thing up. That's just great. Why
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: do we even bother anyway? All right, so that is
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: can you decode the Vikings general manager? You didn't hear it,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: but he gave a pause and a vague answer. On
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy's status in twenty twenties. I'm tired. I had
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: to come in here and edit. I gotta, I gotta,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: I don't have enough time. I got to come in
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: here early and just edit the soundbites. I guess we
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: can't depend on the people that do this. They're too lazy,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: all right. So anyway, I got doctor Drew, millionaire matchmaker
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: and on the stove, and we'll combine all these things
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: together and we will make sweet and sour chicken. The
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: pace that work in the back at sour and for
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: you listening, you get sweet. So number on. All right.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: So the Vikings general manager was asked a yes no question.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: You didn't hear it, and you didn't hear the most
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: important part of the SoundBite, because there's incompetent people that
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: work here. But the Vikings GM was asked a yes
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: no question and answered it like he was trying to
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: get out of a speeding ticket. Sir, do you know
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: how fast you were going? Well, no, I have no
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: idea how fast I was going. There was a long
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: pause which you did not hear. He cleared his throat,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: then gave a forty five second sound bite. The Vikings
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: GM here. It was verbal oatmeal, verbal oatmeal. He never said,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: not one point, that's my quarterback, that's our quarterback, that's
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the Vikings quarterback. Hey never said it. Now, if you
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: love the kid, if you're a fan of the player,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: you belt that out, you go full throated endorsement. You
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: do instead, this turned into a Broadway musical with lots
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: of tap dancing, a lot of tap dancing. Now, when
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the general manager of an NFL team, and this has
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: been a pattern here this offseason, but when a general
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: manager will not say, hey, that's my guy when asked
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: about the quarterback, when he refuses to answer a simple
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: yes no question with yes, we're big fans of JJ McCarthy.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: We saw the progress, we saw him grow. Of course
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: he didn't make any progress. He didn't grow. But when
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: the general manager of the Vikings does not say those things,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: you don't need doctor drew On Loveline to come in
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: there and tell you. It's kind of like your girlfriend
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: saying we need to talk. All right, you already know
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: how that conversation is gonna end. Right, we should talk.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: We need to talk. Okay, I think I know how
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: that's gonna go. McCarthy did not fail the quiz, or
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: he didn't just fail the quiz. He did all is
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: what I'm trying to say, Belly whopper is what he did.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: He was given a screen test and he didn't pass Minnesota.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: As the GM there Adolpha Mensa said, they were like, wow,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: we're a super Bowl team and all that stuff, and
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: we are we are the way to go. It's the
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: way to go, and all that stuff, and so there
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: you go. He gave a lot of tap dance. He
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: was like a Broadway musical, a lot of tap dancing.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: And that's that's what it was. And so Minnesota thinks, hey,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: they they're just a quarterback away and that's it. And
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: McCarthy's got like a wobbley He's like a table from Ikea,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: a little wobbly there. It looks fine when you see it,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: and then when you put a glass of milk on it,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the thing spills and all that stuff. Now, page two,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: keeping the theme going as the Vikings general manager refusing
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: to endorse JJ McCarthy, which falls in line. Remember Lamar
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Jackson did not endorse John Harball. Harball got whacked, and
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: the Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurtz refused to endorse the offensive coordinator.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: He got whacked. Things that make you go hmm. All right,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: So with that being said, let's keep the theme going
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: there in Minnesota. The question you make the call if
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: you were the general manager of the Vikings, what would
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: you do at quarterback? What would you do at quarterbacks?
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: So let's fire up the Malor think tank. Why don't
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: we fire up the Malor think tank? What do you
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: say there? And then we'll do this as a public
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: service in the overnight, helping run every NFL franchise unsolicited
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: overnight talk radio advice. So this is the Millionaire Matchmaker
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: NFL edition on the Ben Malor Show. So for Minnesota,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy is sitting there and he's stuck in the
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Roach Motel. He's in the Roach Motel. Yeah, once you
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: check in there, you can't get out. It's like the
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Hotel California, but it's the Roach Motel. So what do
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: you do? What's the move? What do you do now?
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I learned this as a child from my favorite doctor.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of doctors, but my favorite doctor,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: doctor Seuss, and doctor Seuss taught me that sometimes the
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: questions are complicated and the answers are simple. I learned
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: that from my doctor, doctor Seuss. So the answer here
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: is a text chain to La La land. All right,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: that's what you do? All right? So you make the
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: call you were the Vikings general manager. What we do.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I'd start a text chain to Los Angeles and I
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: would set up for a massive trade. And here's the trade.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: The Chargers send Justin Herbert to the Twin Cities for
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy and a gift basket of Bingo cards. Bingo
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: who says no? Does anyone say no? I I'd even
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: throw in a scented candle. I would throw in a
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: scented candle and do it yourself. Juicy Lucy's. You know
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: they can get that mail order stuff where they send
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the burgers and you have to heat them up. Said,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: I do that. I would do that. That place in
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Saint Paul, it's got the really good juicy loser. I
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: would do that. Yeah, it's a win win, now, Jim Harball,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: unless he's completely that's the word I'm looking for here.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I know coaches lie, but it seemed like that was
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: genuine what he was, all those flowers that he tossed
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: at JJ McCarthy. And so, if you're Jim Harbaugh and
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: you get a chance to have your beloved Michigan Man
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: quarterback and win a championship, has there ever been a
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: coach that won a championship in college with a player
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: and then won a championship in the pros with the
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: same quarterback, like a coach quarterback combo. Has that ever happened.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's happened. I don't recall my lifetime
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: that happen. Maybe he did and I forgot about it.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: There haven't been very many college coaches that have succeeded
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: in the eni to win, and the ones that I
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: remember winning did not have their college quarterback. Jimmy Johnson,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Barry Switzer, more recently Pete Carroll. But either way, so
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: set it up right, and justin Herbert's an abject failure
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: with the Chargers, it makes sense. It makes sense. You
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: can run if you're Jim Harbaugh, that buttoned up three
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: yards in a cloud of dust offense like it's nineteen
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: eighty nine, and run that. And meanwhile Herbert escapes it.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: He goes to a cold weather city. But they play
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: in a dome in minutes. It's a beautiful building. Kind
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: of a shady neighborhood in downtown there, but it's a
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: nice building. Go there, play for the Vikings and you're indoors.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: You get to play for the alleged quarterback whisperer, Kevin
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: O'Connell the coach. You have wide receiver Justin Jefferson, who
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: that's like waiting. He's like and all you can eat buffet,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: just waiting for the Pixie. And that's all he wants
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: at buffets, the Pixian. And you got the juicy Loocy's.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: You got Minnesota nice and all that, no frostbite because
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: you're indoors and you're good to go and paint by
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: number again. Who says no to that? Listen, we are
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: solving problems. We are solving problems. My goal is every
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: day to trade Justin Herbert to a different NFL team.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: But today it's the Minnesota and that one actually makes sense.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: That's got some juice to it. I'll bet you that
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: pops up here and some of those mainstream losers that
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: work during the day will take that and they'll repurpose
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: might take. They'll repurpose might take. Our final point, we
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: now go to Jim Harbaugh's office. We stay with the theme.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: We go to the Bolts. The Chargers have decommissioned offensive
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: coordinator Greg Roman. Is he actually Roman? That's just his name,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Greg Roman. He was fired following that discombobulated debacle of
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: a performance in the playoff loss against the Patriots. Now,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: the team also revealed they whack their offensive line coach,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: someone named Mike dev and you don't know who that is,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: and you won't know who he is now because he
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: got let go. So the question is tell me the
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: message that Jim Harbaugh is sending by firing Greg Roman
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: as the Chargers offensive coordinator. So the message rather obvious.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: It ain't my fault, it's his fault. That's the message.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: It's like, hey, I'm a great coach. This guy's a stooge.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: That's what This was. Not some kind of football tragedy
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: or anything like that. It wasn't that. This was crisis management.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh acting like a classical comedian, like a David
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Copperfield and going, hey, look over there, okay, look over
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: and then you do the switcheroo over here is what
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: you do, the old switchero abercadabra presto. So Greg Roman
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: was the fall guy, a human pinata, a human pinata,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: and after that lost to New England. Here's another example.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: This is the theme of the NFL. Right now, we
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: mentioned the Viking GM earlier. Not endorsing JJ mccarthury. He
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: talked about Lamar Jackson not supporting John Harball, claiming he
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: was too emotional after the game and people bought that.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Dumb people bought that, and Jalen Hurts not endorsing the
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: offensive coordinator who was whacked. Well, Jim Harball was asked
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: whether or not he wanted Greg Roman back, and he
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: refused to endorse him. So there you go, did get way.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: I guess we're at the point now where guys don't
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: want to lie, so instead they just don't answer the question,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: which is as good as saying the guy's toast. And
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: that's it. That was the kiss of death for Greg
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Roman and dead Man coaching. Now, I am not sitting
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: here telling you that Greg Roman is in the same
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: zip code with Sean McVay, although they might live in
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: the same neighborhood because rich people live in the same
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: neighborhoods in LA so it's possible. But it's just simply
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: pointing out. All it is is pointing out the will
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: deebeast in the room wearing the powder blue charger jersey
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: out of the charger powder blue. Someone someone in the
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: league reached out to me and I actually I wanted
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: to mention this on the air, and I won't spend
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: long with You know, there are people that are I've
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: associated with over these people that listen to the show
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: that here's some of the bull crap that I throw
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: into these microphones and they react to it. So one
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: of the things I heard from someone that is associated
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: with an NFL team. I will not say what that
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: person does or I will get in trouble. But anyway,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: they pointed out that Herbert, they went back and watched
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: the tape. I have much too busy to go back
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: and watch the tape. Sounds terrible. I went back and
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: watched and they essentially said, I'm gonna use a metaphor here,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: but it's like justin Herbert. You know how when you
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: start going in the kitchen and cooking and maybe you
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: burn your hand on the stove, and now you don't
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: touch the oven because you burned your hand. You know
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: that kind of thing. So this is a PTSD situation,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: meaning that Herbert had I believe, four interceptions against the
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Texans in last year's playoffs, and according to the table,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: many people are licking the toes of Mike rabel as
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: the god's gifted defensive coaching. They were pointing out that Herbert,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: there were throws there. The problem was there were tight windows.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Great quarterbacks get paid hundreds of millions of dollars to
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: complete those passes, and justin Herbert because of what happened.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: The theory is what happened the year prior was so
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: gun shy he wouldn't make those throws. He had time
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: to throw the ball. There were makeable throws, but he
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: was so paranoid about turning the ball over and throwing
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: interceptions that he would not do it. He held the
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: ball like it was a live hand grenade and would
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: not throw it. And he took sacks, He passed up
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: throws that great quarterbacks make. He essentially played not to lose,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: and then he ended up losing anyway. That's the analysis
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: that I was given. And so if that's true, and
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: again this is one man's opinion and it was sent
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: to me. If true, then the Patriots only get half
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: credit and the Houston Texans of twenty twenty four get
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: credit the twenty twenty five playoffs. But it was the
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: end of the twenty twenty four season as Herbert had
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: all kinds of issues there, So there you go? Will
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: he be a Minnesota Viking? I traded him to the
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Bengals yesterday tomorrow? Where am I gonna trade him? Stay
• 36:17
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• 36:19
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• 36:31
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• 36:34
  Speaker 6: Running back Travis ettn shared advice for Tremor Lawrence ETN
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: whatever on Monday, saying quote, I would say the biggest
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: thing for him is to just let his nuts hang. Yes,
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: just be cocky, stop caring what people think. But do
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: you think the problem is in Trevor Lawrence's head?
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Well, first of all, I love the fact they told
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: this to a female reporter that asked the question, which
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: years ago would have gotten him banned from the NFL.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: But times, I guess have changed a little bit. Secondly, yes,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: I think they should hire big Balls Bob from Vegas,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: our listener in Vegas. Bring him in there now. The
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: problem is Trevor Lawrence sucked at a time he could
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: not suck he's screwed up in the At the end,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen played better the entire game, but especially in
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. And Lawrence wasn't terrible, but he's got
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: to play better next.
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: The Oklahoma City Thunder looked unbeatable and on their way
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  Speaker 6: to beating the record for most wins in a season,
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  Speaker 6: and now they've been playing five hundred basketball for the
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  Speaker 6: better part of a month.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Ben, have the Thunder hit a wall? Should fans
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: be worried?
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Panic, panic, No, it's I'm giving this out. They can
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: forget about breaking the all time records and all that.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: That's not going to happen. It's in the middle of
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: the NBA season, between now and then after the All
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Star break, which is in February. It's the dogge next.
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  Speaker 6: I was reported this week that Rams owner Stan Kronky
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: is in a battle with the city of Inglewood, with
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: multiple lawsuits between the two currently up in the air.
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  Speaker 1: Ben, is this a big deal for the Rams?
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: No?
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: What do you me to moving back to Saint Louis State? No,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: they're not. There were twelve billion dollars. He didn't even
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: worry about any of that. Souf, How do we do
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: you passed as they went.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: Put it on the bar.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Another win, another one, and another one and another one.
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  Speaker 7: It's of It Buys with Lorraine at nine, Clean Up Hearts,
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  Speaker 8: That's right, you heard the man.
• 38:35
  Speaker 9: It is time for love here on the Ben Mallor Show,
• 38:39
  Speaker 9: New Year, New Love, New drama.
• 38:42
  Speaker 8: What's happening in the world.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Of love in the militia? Well, actual questions by actual listeners.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Keith Oho Texto writes in from Texas. He says, Lorena,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: was there an embarrassing fashion moment in your adolescence? So
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: I want to know, I don't know if it's a love.
• 38:59
  Speaker 8: Questions, yeah, but like an embarrassing fashion.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Moment, something break Cooper or tampon costume the school that
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: was his embarrassing thing.
• 39:10
  Speaker 8: There was this one time that my pants the.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: One time at band camp but.
• 39:15
  Speaker 9: Non my pants came popping off. It was I was like, really,
• 39:19
  Speaker 9: and then your pants are ruined? For the whole rest
• 39:20
  Speaker 9: of the day.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: It was early in the day or late in the day.
• 39:22
  Speaker 8: Late in the day.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 9: And then there's also this time when I was a kid,
• 39:25
  Speaker 9: I didn't make it to the bathroom in time in
• 39:27
  Speaker 9: like third grade, and so I had to go up
• 39:28
  Speaker 9: to the office and change my whole outfit.
• 39:30
  Speaker 8: It was absolute tragedy.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it happens.
• 39:34
  Speaker 9: Oh and then another time in middle school, I thought
• 39:36
  Speaker 9: I was a fashion easta and I bought this skirt
• 39:38
  Speaker 9: from wet Seal that was way too short.
• 39:40
  Speaker 8: It didn't meet it didn't like meet the finger temples.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Did you violate the dress correct?
• 39:43
  Speaker 8: I got sent to the office.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: And I had a buddy of mine, his daughter. He
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: doesn't she dressed. He didn't dress the way he wants
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: me to dress. And so he loves when the school
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: calls him and says, your daughter needs to change it.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: He loves it. Oh yeah, because it's like he's like,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: she doesn't listen to him.
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  Speaker 9: So I know kids who go to school and close
• 40:02
  Speaker 9: and then take off those clothes when they get to school.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Dirty dirty, dirty, dirty dirty all right, BP writes in
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: on The Queen of Hearts. He says, I'm traveling soon
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: by plane and would like to join the Mile High Club.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Problem is I'll be alone. Do you do you need it?
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: He says, do you need a partner to become a member?
• 40:22
  Speaker 9: There you go, that's a really good question, and you
• 40:25
  Speaker 9: get half credit on that if you yeah. I mean
• 40:28
  Speaker 9: it's a mile high five then right, because it's just.
• 40:31
  Speaker 8: You more hand.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: I guess these days you could go like marry your hand,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: and honestly you might be.
• 40:38
  Speaker 8: Able to find someone on the plane even if you
• 40:40
  Speaker 8: go by yourself.
• 40:41
  Speaker 9: There's some kinky people out here, really, you know, kind
• 40:44
  Speaker 9: of like crazy your eye about eyebrows and look at
• 40:46
  Speaker 9: the back, be like you're part of that club.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Yet, super Market Steve writes in he says the Golden
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: ticket is not much of a prize. I like waiting
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: on hold hearing the unedited version of the show. Can
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: we invent a new ticket? When a certain all her
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: calls in the minute they start talking and Lorena dumps
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: them mm, and he says we should. He wants you
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: to dump the leprechaun. That's a supermarket Steve.
• 41:09
  Speaker 8: I try to dump him all the time, and he
• 41:10
  Speaker 8: just calls back.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: He does, Yeah, he does call back. Yeah, Shane Shanon
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Mooy says, does it bother Lorena that Monsey gets hit
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: on more on Fsruh? Is that true? I don't know.
• 41:22
  Speaker 9: Oh my gosh, I'm so jealous someone else gets sexually
• 41:24
  Speaker 9: assaulted on the airwaves.
• 41:26
  Speaker 8: More than me.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know about that, but according to Shane, he's
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: done field research.
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 41:32
  Speaker 8: I heard people want me and Monsey to do a
• 41:34
  Speaker 8: podcast together. So really we'll see if we do that.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Are you gonna Are you gonna do that?
• 41:39
  Speaker 8: Girls? And splorts?
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Girls?
• 41:41
  Speaker 8: And I don't know what it'll be called.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: I don't have no idea, all right, Mike writes in
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: on email, He says, oh but wait, just real fast.
• 41:48
  Speaker 8: You can't be jealous. There's enough love for everybody.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Mike says, there's an influencer when viral or recently for
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: marrying her high school teacher. The reason she went viral
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: is because he is nearly forty years older than her
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: and she's fighting back. I guess this is somebody in Italy.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Mike said, she's twenty two, he is sixty. Get to
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: your big jump.
• 42:13
  Speaker 8: That's a huge.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: She's been called a gold digger, So Mike wants to know, Loraina,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: do you think she's a gold.
• 42:17
  Speaker 9: Digger and he's a teacher. Definitely not a gold digger,
• 42:20
  Speaker 9: but definitely probably likes older men. Obviously, maybe that support system,
• 42:24
  Speaker 9: the daddy, maybe even the grandpa.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: Last, how much do teachers get paid in Italy? I
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: don't know.
• 42:28
  Speaker 8: That's a good question.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: You paid more money over there? We know, we don't know.
• 42:33
  Speaker 8: No, I have no idea, You have no idea. All right,
• 42:35
  Speaker 8: it's salary.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: In Queen of Hearts with Lorena here, Mike de Leprechaunt says,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: what if you made a bad first impression on someone
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: you like?
• 42:45
  Speaker 8: He said, you might as well just never talk to
• 42:47
  Speaker 8: them again.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: What if your male partner gets nervous and has distillers?
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know what that is, some kind of something
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: I don't Can you spell it for me? Distillers droop?
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know what that is.
• 43:01
  Speaker 8: I don't know what that is.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: Did you make that up? Mike?
• 43:03
  Speaker 8: Get a little soft? Is that what you're saying?
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: I don't want hello, I don't know that. I want
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: to know that. So there's no answer, right, Lorena?
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: Yes? I want to be sure to catch live editions
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone, and the password is.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: Password, you idiot, password the word Game of the Stars.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Here's Ben Maller. Let's do it. Let's welcome in archittestants
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: for password the word Game of the Stars. We have
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Larry and lost wages. Nevada is gonna be one of
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: our contestants. Hello, Larry, Welcome and all right you big
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: time mius.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: Larry.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I can barely hear you.
• 43:42
  Speaker 6: Is everything good?
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Okay? Is it gonna be? Okay? We'll let you play
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: the game. Who you want to partner up with? Larry?
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: You got me Ben, Lorena coop coop? All right, You're
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: gonna lose, and we got.
• 43:59
  Speaker 8: Chocolate secon is impressive.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Chuck in Arizona.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: Hello, Chuck, how's it going, big man?
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: Welcome in, Chuck. You want to play with me or Lorena?
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  Speaker 7: Uh, I'll go with the host.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: Let me get a big man.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'll see if the host wants is the host one? Okay?
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: The host wants to play? All right, the host is
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: going to play? Very good, let's do what I all right?
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Very nice? Uh, Larry is over here, and let's get
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: to the game. Coop. We have a list of words. Larry,
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: pick a number one to ten. Larry, later, what do
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: you say?
• 44:33
  Speaker 8: Seven?
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Seven? All right, Coop? Number seven? All right, let's go
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: with Let's go with.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: Loaf bright.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, hell it was easy, Coop, Come on, all right,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: go ahead, Chuck, it's passwords. We're gave a starts. Which
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: number you want? Uh, let's go with two, number two,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: number two? All right, let's let's go with victor, victor
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: with the V victor. Yeah, that's right, we're talking about.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: That was hard, man, that was hard. I love losers,
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: so that was hard. All right, go ahead, there, Larry,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: password picking number one to ten, but not two, not seven?
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: Number one.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Hey, that's my line. You don't steal my line, schmuck,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: what's wrong with you? All right, go ahead, let's go with.
• 45:30
  Speaker 6: Let's see I mean I could go hurry up, hurry up,
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: let's hurry up, melancholy, chaos.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: No, all right, Chuck, how about sad?
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: Uh sick?
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: No, hurry up, Coop, hurry up, sorrowful huh Yeah no, no,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: bull crap, the crap, bull crap. That is not right.
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: That is not right.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: That's that's a terrible end of the game.