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Welcome in the beginning of 12 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 1: another night of the Ben Malor Show. We cuddle up 13 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 1: to the magic audio box as we are hanging out here. 14 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: We welcome you in to the beginning, as we are 15 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: in the air ev reware right on the doorstep, as 16 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: we enjoy some hog killing time. Coast to coast, border 17 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:07,960 Speaker 1: to order and beyond. 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Our lead is obviously from the land 37 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 1: of the insert the land of the insurt hours just 38 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 1: hours after the humiliation situation in a seven to six game, 39 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: early fourth quarter to get blown to bits by the 40 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 1: Texans and a lot of self inflicted wounds. The winds 41 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: of change you have blown. You can almost hear them, 42 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: the winds of change right there. So maybe maybe the 43 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: wind's not blowing where you are. Possibly not so. Mike 44 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 1: Tomlin has quit as coach of the Steelers he's out. 45 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 1: Bye bye, He's gone, ending a nineteen year run during 46 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 1: which he never had a losing season, never had a 47 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: losing season. Mike Tomlin, and before for his resignation, Tomlin 48 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: was the longest tenured head coach of a single North 49 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 1: American professional sports franchise. And now he's out. He's out, 50 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 1: and he's stepped down and see you later, and he 51 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: is not expected to coach anywhere in twenty twenty six, 52 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:25,520 Speaker 1: although who knows. He wake up today and say ah ya, 53 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: psych again, who really wants to coach any of these 54 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:33,080 Speaker 1: teams that have openings? Most of them blow anyway, It's 55 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: good jumping off point. A lot to unpack as Mike 56 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: Tomlin has exited, stage left from Pittsburgh. So the question 57 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 1: I have here is we discussed the question why why 58 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 1: did Mike Tomlin decide to walk away from the Steelers, 59 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 1: And generally when people leave jobs, I say, well, they 60 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: didn't leave, they were forced out, they were pushed, they 61 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 1: didn't jump, they were poor pushed. On this one, I 62 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: don't think that's the case. Tomlin did the saturd leave. 63 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I've got tabernacle George Michael's 64 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: Sports machine for the ogs and Ron Poe Peel and 65 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we're 66 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:20,280 Speaker 1: gonna make some kung pow chicken is what we're gonna make. 67 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: Delicious kind of little rice. Put that on the rice. 68 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: Yum yum to my Tomu tomu right, not bad, not bad, 69 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 1: all right. So a Mike Tomlin, he did not walk 70 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 1: away in this case because of the ownership in Pittsburgh 71 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 1: shoving him out the door. When Pete Carroll, I remember 72 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: when Pete Carroll left the Seahawks and they spun it 73 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:45,359 Speaker 1: like it was a mutual decision. No, this Seahawks didn't 74 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 1: want Pete Carroll anymore. It what a mutual decision. He 75 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 1: just played nice. And so this is not how they 76 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 1: roll in Western Pa. It's not how they roll there. 77 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,919 Speaker 1: They don't do that. And so this ownership group, So 78 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 1: what happened after a minutes long Mallard deliberation of the 79 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: available evidence, we weighed all of the evidence, and here's 80 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 1: our verdict on the Mike Tomlin story. This was a 81 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: customer driven divorce, is what. This was death by a 82 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: thousand paper cuts, or in this case, it was the 83 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:32,720 Speaker 1: Tabernacle Choir of Pittsburgh, Pa. Rhythmically chanting, fire Tomlin Fire, 84 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: Tomlin rhythmic channing, Love My rhythmic channing like Monks on 85 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: Red Bull, rhythmically chanting. And it worked over and over 86 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 1: every time things went wrong. Late in the season, fier 87 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: toln fire just like that, like a broken jukebox. And 88 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: there he go. It's on Polka night because I love 89 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 1: the polka in Pittsburgh. And eventually, even a steel beam 90 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 1: will bend, even a steel beam will bend. It does happen. Yeah, 91 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: there you go. Oh come on, now, you haven't lived 92 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 1: until you get some hot polka. Oh, here we go. Everybody, 93 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: keep it up. 94 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 4: It's my sailors, shut down all his friends, steel healers, Bradshaw. 95 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:33,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, update that. So they did actually update it, like 96 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 1: sixteen years or whatever, a long time ago. They did 97 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 1: update it. So listen. That rhythmic chanting was the moment 98 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 1: when the fuse met the flame and kaboom, kaboom. I 99 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:53,280 Speaker 1: thought Tom Mood would be okay with it, and he's 100 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 1: got thick skin and all that, but it's like, hey, 101 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: he decided that he didn't want to deal with and 102 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: it's disappointing. He should have stayed that's a bad job 103 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:06,359 Speaker 1: by him. And he looked around and he saw he 104 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 1: has options. Rich man has options. Tomlin's rich, so he's 105 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 1: got options. And he's like, okay, real ones. You can 106 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 1: live the Tony Romo lifestyle with your golf all week, 107 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 1: do no homework for your broadcast, show up and just 108 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 1: speak nonsense, and you get more money than the GDP 109 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 1: of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands to do bad television 110 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: and just speak cliches. They wanted it more, Hey, Jim, 111 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 1: both teams can win the super Bowl. No crap, they're 112 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:43,680 Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Dummy, anyway, Just put the headset on, 113 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 1: smile and wink and there you go. Easy money man, 114 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 1: easy money. Hey, even I had a TV show, How 115 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 1: hard could TVP? They gave me a TV show? Anyway, 116 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 1: You don't have to worry about having an answer on 117 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 1: fourth and one. Although Tomlin's the maestro of talk, talking 118 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 1: in these big phrases and lines and metaphors and doesn't 119 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 1: need to really worry about actually answering any of that. 120 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 1: And now he will not have to worry about people 121 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 1: throwing tomatoes from the upper balcony. That will not happen. 122 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: And I still again, I believe it is a mistake. 123 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: Tomlin's fifty three years old. In that profession, you're not 124 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: that old. You're not a museum exhibit in coaching when 125 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 1: you're fifty three years old. So, like the great cyborg 126 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:31,679 Speaker 1: of years ago, the terminator hit it to be back, 127 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 1: he will be back. And everyone's like, oh, he's following 128 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: the Sean Payton mantra. Okay, what is the Sean Paton 129 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 1: well sabbatical playbook? Sabbatical playbook, that's kind of the Sean 130 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 1: Payton thing. You don't write off into the sunset on 131 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 1: a golf cart. He's not doing that, So that's not happening. 132 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 1: And a year from now Tomlin will re enter the 133 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 1: market and he'll go from an ivy league tenured professor 134 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 1: to a trip across the train tracks to the other 135 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 1: side of the tracks to the hard scrabble streets to 136 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 1: some crap bag team like the Jets, and that'll be that, right, 137 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:14,479 Speaker 1: or the Saints or you know somewhere you know, you 138 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 1: generally don't want to go as a coach because they 139 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 1: usually stick and that's where you're gonna end up. And 140 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 1: so technically the Steelers own Tomlin's rights because he didn't. 141 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 1: He had a contract and he retired and didn't retire, 142 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: he just said I'm resigning. So it's a it's a 143 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 1: little complicated, but it's really not that complicated. You think 144 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: the Steeler is going to stand in the way of 145 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin coaching, and the only argument would be, well, 146 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 1: he can't coach in the division, Well, who cares? The 147 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 1: Ravens aren't gonna hire him, and why would you want 148 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:46,680 Speaker 1: to coach the Browns of the Bengals. So you don't 149 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 1: have to worry about that. It's just a clerical situation, 150 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: that's all. That is a clerical situation, not a choke chain. 151 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 1: It's not that. And Tomlin will have the option if 152 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: he wants to hand pick his next job, although it 153 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 1: won't be a good job. Good jobs don't up on up. 154 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:04,319 Speaker 1: The only possibility I was saying about for Tomlin that 155 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 1: would be a good job Andy Reid is he's up there. 156 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 1: He Andy Reid another bad year in Kansas City, Mahomes 157 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 1: coming off a major injury. You can get the back 158 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 1: half of Mahomes prime. If you're Tomlin, that would be 159 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: the job I would go for. I'd be okay. So 160 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 1: the steel the Chiefs. They're gonna have a middle of 161 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 1: a pack draft pick this year because they make the playoffs, 162 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 1: so they can improve the roster a little bit. In theory, 163 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:33,959 Speaker 1: then if they have another middling year next year, that's 164 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,559 Speaker 1: two middling years. Then Andy Reid gets pushed out. They 165 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 1: throw him off the cliff, and then Tomlin can go 166 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,080 Speaker 1: to Kansas City and coach Mahomes and that would be 167 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 1: the move I would make. And Pittsburgh, what are they 168 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:49,559 Speaker 1: gonna get. They're gonna get an edible arrangement of scratcher tickets. 169 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:54,440 Speaker 1: So I enjoy that. Enjoy that, bone appetite, bone appetite, 170 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: all right. Now, keeping the theme of the hour, the 171 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 1: Hour of Tomlin, the Hour of Tomlin here, So what 172 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: made Mike tom Here's the question. What made Mike Tomlin 173 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:08,720 Speaker 1: special with the Steelers? So I'll say it about this. 174 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 1: I got an angry message from Spacoli, who's a big 175 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,680 Speaker 1: Steeler fan. I can't believe Malor wanted Tomlin to stay. 176 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 1: It's like he's lost his faith in me as a 177 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: talk show host because I didn't bury Mike Tomlin after 178 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 1: the Monday night game. And I look at Tomlin in 179 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 1: a business with clowns as a guy. That was like 180 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:33,559 Speaker 1: the Starbucks or McDonald's of coaching consistency. Now I don't 181 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:35,960 Speaker 1: drink coffee. My wife, does you go to Starbucks? We've 182 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 1: been to Starbucks all over the play It's always the same. 183 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 1: You go to McDonald's anywhere, it's the big Mac. Tastes 184 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 1: the same, it does. And the Steelers, if you look 185 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 1: at the town, it's been almost ten years since they 186 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: had a real legit, big time roster in Pittsburgh. And 187 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 1: yet every year, year after year, Mike Tomlin his team's 188 00:11:55,880 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 1: almost never embarrassed themselves during the regular season. They almost 189 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,800 Speaker 1: it's always overachieved based on the level of talent that 190 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 1: they have. They rarely underachieve in the regular season. And 191 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: you look at the flotsam and jetsum that they roll 192 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 1: out a bunch of spare parts on that roster, and 193 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:18,199 Speaker 1: they haven't had a big time quarterback in a long time. 194 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 1: Roethlisberger sucked the last couple of years he played. People 195 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:23,080 Speaker 1: forget about that because they remember the good times and 196 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 1: they block out the car accident, the sixteen car pile 197 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 1: up on the interstate was that was Roethlisberger. The last 198 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:32,199 Speaker 1: couple of years. They dragged his rotting carcass out there 199 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 1: and played quarterback for the Pittsburgh ear So he was bad, 200 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 1: and yet Tomlin was able to mold them into nine, 201 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 1: ten eleven win teams year after year. To me, that's 202 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 1: real coaching, that's roll up your sleeves coaching. I appreciate 203 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 1: that in a business that has Mike McDaniel doing whatever 204 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: the hell he was doing in Miami, and its like 205 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:57,680 Speaker 1: doing a podcast about coffee beans is something while coaching 206 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 1: the Dolphin. So Tomlin, the master polisher, polished a lot 207 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 1: of turds, a lot of turds in Pittsburgh, turning some 208 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:10,560 Speaker 1: junkyard rosters into playoff teams, and then, of course in 209 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 1: January we all know the story. He's now tied with 210 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:18,439 Speaker 1: Marvin Lewis for playoff ineptitude. And those teams that overachieved 211 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 1: during the regular season in Pittsburgh, they went up against 212 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 1: elite competition in playoff games, and the Steelers it was 213 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: like a vampire at sunrise. It doesn't go well. You 214 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: start sizzling, and then the team starts smoking a little 215 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 1: bit and you're getting cinerated. And that was the Steelers 216 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 1: year after year in the playoffs, just like your favorite 217 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:40,840 Speaker 1: vampire movie. Or if you want a different analogy, how 218 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 1: about the Jenga tower, right, the Jenga tower and it 219 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 1: all collapsed, everything fell apart. Now, another question about Mike 220 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 1: tom and the hour of Mike Tomlin here on the 221 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:52,439 Speaker 1: Ben Maler Show on Fox Sports Radio. What are we 222 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:56,319 Speaker 1: going to miss about Mike Tomlin during his little coaching 223 00:13:56,320 --> 00:14:02,680 Speaker 1: sabbatical from the NFL when this one is easy. He's 224 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:06,199 Speaker 1: a staple Tomlin of the holiday season. Mike Tomlin was 225 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:09,679 Speaker 1: a mensch on the bench, a mensch on the bench, 226 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 1: a walking, talking quote machine. And now he wasn't at 227 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 1: the level of Jerry Jones. Jerry's in the league all 228 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 1: by himself. He's in a different galaxy Jerry Jones with 229 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. However, Mike Tomlin, while he didn't reach 230 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:29,880 Speaker 1: that circus level like they have in Jerry's world, Tomlin 231 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: did feed the George Michael sports machine week after week. 232 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 1: It was great. I mean, the man Tomlin was a 233 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 1: Rolex with the microphone in a coaching profession that has 234 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 1: a lot of cassios these days, a lot of them. Right. 235 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 1: He was smooth, shiny, debonair and always, always spitting out 236 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: those tomlinisms, and whether it was the one he's most 237 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:03,120 Speaker 1: known for. The stand is the standard, which is Shakespearean 238 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:07,160 Speaker 1: with a whistle and a clipboard. Now some of our favorites. 239 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 1: I went back through my notes because I love Tomlin 240 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 1: the sound bites as a talk show us. I can't 241 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 1: get enough of Tom so Tom after the Steelers would 242 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 1: play a tough game, or when they would play a 243 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 1: tough game and the lead up to a tough game, 244 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: excuse me, In the lead up to a tough game, 245 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 1: Tomlin would say, we don't run from challenges. We run 246 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 1: two challenges, which is it's thick bull crap. 247 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:26,760 Speaker 2: But I liked it. 248 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 1: The way he said it was very convincing, and I 249 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: liked it. After the Steelers would have a bad loss, 250 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: he would say something along lines we make no excuses, 251 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 1: we seek no comfort. We didn't play well, we didn't 252 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: coach well. We had that famous drop this season about 253 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 1: the fans in Pittsburgh when Tomlin said, we want them 254 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 1: to be fat and sassy and spoil it is our job. 255 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 1: That was a great tomlinism that he said. I believe 256 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 1: it was this year and his final night as coach 257 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 1: of the Steelers when they got absolutely mollywopped by the 258 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 1: Texans in the fourth quarter. His final night, Mike Tomlin said, 259 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 1: we when you don't get it done, words are cheap. 260 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 1: Either do or you don't. And with that Mike Tomlin 261 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 1: channeled porky Pig and said that's all, folks, and the 262 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: next day he quit. All right, now, last word. So 263 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: we have a job opening, something that hasn't happened in 264 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 1: a while. And the question is where do the Steelers go? 265 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 1: Where does the Steelers job rank among NFL coaching gigs. 266 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 1: We'll get later on on who these Steelers will likely 267 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:33,840 Speaker 1: go after, but right now, where does that job rank? 268 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: Or are a gazillion job open over well over twenty 269 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 1: five percent? Now the jobs in the NFL nine gigs 270 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 1: opened up. So where does the Steelers job rank? Where 271 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 1: does it rank on the big board? Not a list 272 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 1: Terry in England. This is a big board, big board, 273 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 1: Benny's big board, not a list. Where does the Steelers 274 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 1: job rank among the open NFL gigs? So this is 275 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 1: if you go to the hotel, this is not the 276 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:05,679 Speaker 1: room near the elevator sandwiched on the It's got the 277 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 1: elevator on one side. The ice machine on the other 278 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 1: This is not that. This is the presidential suite with 279 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: the robe and complimentary slippers included. Yeah. Yeah, they got 280 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 1: a hot tub in the room. Okay, that's what I'm 281 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:22,920 Speaker 1: talking about here. And do they have a franchise quarterback? 282 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 1: Hell no, they don't. That's the amazing part. Is the 283 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:32,200 Speaker 1: roster that good? No, it's not. It's like a garage sale. 284 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 1: That roster a lot of hasmin's, some nobody's, non achievers. 285 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:39,919 Speaker 1: You got some underachievers on that team, some washed up, 286 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 1: overpaid players. So it's flotsam and jetsam that they have 287 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 1: on that roster. So why is this job die? No mighte? 288 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 1: Why is it dynamite? Because in Pittsburgh the coach gets 289 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:58,199 Speaker 1: a lot of oxygen and there's no small which is 290 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 1: weird because Pittsburgh had a big pollution for a long time. Anyway, 291 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 1: you get to breathe. There's no owner hovering like a 292 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 1: helicopter parent at a little league baseball game, and the 293 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:15,959 Speaker 1: roonies they run that place like a ron Polpio infomercial. 294 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 1: It's the ron Co coach omatic is what it is. 295 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:24,520 Speaker 1: In Pittsburgh. Hire a coach, you plug the thing in 296 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:27,719 Speaker 1: and you set the what you might call it, and 297 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:31,719 Speaker 1: you walk away, set it and forget it. That's what 298 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 1: they do. Simplicity, simplicity. Now we'll see if that's the 299 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,119 Speaker 1: case once the Steelers hire the wrong coach and then 300 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:42,640 Speaker 1: start losing ten plus games a year, and we'll see 301 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 1: if that pattern continues. But for now, you'd say, it's 302 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:51,919 Speaker 1: like going into the kitchen and what you've got the 303 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:56,160 Speaker 1: pressure cooker because you want something quick. And then that's 304 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: most NFL jobs, the pressure cooker. And then in Pittsburgh 305 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:01,720 Speaker 1: you got the slow cooker. You just put all the 306 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 1: stuff in there, and you said it, and you know, 307 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:04,800 Speaker 1: I sat in the morning when you go to work, 308 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:06,520 Speaker 1: and then you come back and you got some slop 309 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 1: that you can eat, and you can eat. Yeah, yeah, 310 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:15,440 Speaker 1: low heat, long runway, all that stuff. Get the bag 311 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:20,120 Speaker 1: of groceries and there you go. So good good luck 312 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 1: to the Steelers. And sounds like they did a lot 313 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 1: to talk about them hiring a college coach. I think 314 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:27,280 Speaker 1: you got to go younger, right, you want the guy 315 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 1: to you know the last ten plus years. You don't 316 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: want to hire a guy in his sixties, so you 317 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:34,639 Speaker 1: gotta heire somebody. I'll be in their forties or early 318 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 1: fifties would be be the move time. Remember when I 319 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:40,639 Speaker 1: was talking to the harmon in here and he was 320 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 1: leaving and I was like, I'm at the point now. 321 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:46,040 Speaker 1: I remember coming in here. We were across the hall talking. 322 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 1: When Tomlin got hired as coach of the Steelers, were like, 323 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 1: who the F's this guy? Why'd they hire him? What 324 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 1: a boom because he didn't really have the resume of 325 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:56,639 Speaker 1: a head coach, and then he turned out to be 326 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 1: great and doesn't always work out. 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He gets whacked as coach of 345 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:54,440 Speaker 1: the Steelers. Of course, the fans whacked him. Not the 346 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 1: ownership there you believe the company line, but our lead 347 00:20:58,119 --> 00:21:02,119 Speaker 1: This hour from Minus the Land of Hollering, James and 348 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 1: Eke and Rosefield, Minnesota and other legends, other legends. So 349 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:11,439 Speaker 1: as the NFL playoffs continue, the teams that did the 350 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 1: old flop the flop a root floppity flop are plotting 351 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 1: what they're going to do next so they don't suck 352 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 1: next year. Now, the story here is about the Vikings 353 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 1: general manager Quacy Adolpha Mensa. That's a mouthful, but Quacy 354 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:34,240 Speaker 1: Adosa Mensa Adolpha Mensa. He spoke to the media about 355 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:37,120 Speaker 1: the plans for the Vikings offseason. He was asked if 356 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:38,439 Speaker 1: he want I don't know if you heard this on now 357 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: he's asked if he wanted quarterback JJ McCarthy to be 358 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,640 Speaker 1: on the team as the starter in twenty twenty six. 359 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 1: If you didn't hear this, he hemmed and hawed. We 360 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:48,439 Speaker 1: have the audio. Let's go to the audio tape. Take 361 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 1: it is a simple question. Listen to the Vikings general manager. 362 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:54,879 Speaker 5: You know, I want the Vikings to achieve our goals, 363 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,919 Speaker 5: and I think one of those goals is to make 364 00:21:57,960 --> 00:21:59,919 Speaker 5: playoff runs and do different things like that. I think 365 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 5: he's the character and ability to be the person to 366 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:04,439 Speaker 5: do that for our organization. If I say that in 367 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 5: twenty twenty six, that kind of binds us into a 368 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:07,840 Speaker 5: certain area. 369 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:12,040 Speaker 1: Unfortunately cut off the beginning of that, which was to 370 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 1: me the most important part. But he said at the beginning, 371 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 1: he paused and said, I don't know that that and 372 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:22,160 Speaker 1: then he went into the line you heard. I don't 373 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:24,639 Speaker 1: know why that would be edited out, but unfortunately it 374 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,000 Speaker 1: was the most important part of the soundback was edited out. 375 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 1: Tremendous editing. Good work. I don't know who did that, 376 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 1: but we should compliment them on their work, their outstanding. 377 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:37,720 Speaker 1: All right, So that is kind of screwed up everything here. 378 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 1: So let me just read the quote because I guess 379 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 1: the person in the editing department decided they would do 380 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:48,639 Speaker 1: shoddy work. Adolpha Mensa said, I don't know that, and 381 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,959 Speaker 1: they paused, and then he said, I want the Vikings 382 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: to achieve our goals, and I think one of those 383 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 1: goals is to make playoff runs and do different things 384 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 1: like that, he said, and then he went into the 385 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 1: quote that you heard. Okay, try to stay calm. It's okay. 386 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:08,440 Speaker 1: It's just an overnight talk show. No one's listening. It's okay. 387 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 1: I try to spend all day getting ready for this 388 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 1: freaking show. And some dopey intern comes in here. I 389 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:16,480 Speaker 1: guess he's played by the company, which is even worse, 390 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,120 Speaker 1: and f's the whole thing up. That's just great. Why 391 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 1: do we even bother anyway? All right, so that is 392 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question 393 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:31,600 Speaker 1: can you decode the Vikings general manager? You didn't hear it, 394 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: but he gave a pause and a vague answer. On 395 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy's status in twenty twenties. I'm tired. I had 396 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,320 Speaker 1: to come in here and edit. I gotta, I gotta, 397 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 1: I don't have enough time. I got to come in 398 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 1: here early and just edit the soundbites. I guess we 399 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 1: can't depend on the people that do this. They're too lazy, 400 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:52,400 Speaker 1: all right. So anyway, I got doctor Drew, millionaire matchmaker 401 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:57,160 Speaker 1: and on the stove, and we'll combine all these things 402 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: together and we will make sweet and sour chicken. The 403 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,719 Speaker 1: pace that work in the back at sour and for 404 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 1: you listening, you get sweet. So number on. All right. 405 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 1: So the Vikings general manager was asked a yes no question. 406 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 1: You didn't hear it, and you didn't hear the most 407 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,679 Speaker 1: important part of the SoundBite, because there's incompetent people that 408 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 1: work here. But the Vikings GM was asked a yes 409 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 1: no question and answered it like he was trying to 410 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 1: get out of a speeding ticket. Sir, do you know 411 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 1: how fast you were going? Well, no, I have no 412 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: idea how fast I was going. There was a long 413 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 1: pause which you did not hear. He cleared his throat, 414 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 1: then gave a forty five second sound bite. The Vikings 415 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:48,359 Speaker 1: GM here. It was verbal oatmeal, verbal oatmeal. He never said, 416 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 1: not one point, that's my quarterback, that's our quarterback, that's 417 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:57,199 Speaker 1: the Vikings quarterback. Hey never said it. Now, if you 418 00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:59,359 Speaker 1: love the kid, if you're a fan of the player, 419 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:04,679 Speaker 1: you belt that out, you go full throated endorsement. You 420 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:10,680 Speaker 1: do instead, this turned into a Broadway musical with lots 421 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 1: of tap dancing, a lot of tap dancing. Now, when 422 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:17,479 Speaker 1: the general manager of an NFL team, and this has 423 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 1: been a pattern here this offseason, but when a general 424 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: manager will not say, hey, that's my guy when asked 425 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 1: about the quarterback, when he refuses to answer a simple 426 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 1: yes no question with yes, we're big fans of JJ McCarthy. 427 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:32,880 Speaker 1: We saw the progress, we saw him grow. Of course 428 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,640 Speaker 1: he didn't make any progress. He didn't grow. But when 429 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 1: the general manager of the Vikings does not say those things, 430 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:42,080 Speaker 1: you don't need doctor drew On Loveline to come in 431 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,359 Speaker 1: there and tell you. It's kind of like your girlfriend 432 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 1: saying we need to talk. All right, you already know 433 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,720 Speaker 1: how that conversation is gonna end. Right, we should talk. 434 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 1: We need to talk. Okay, I think I know how 435 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 1: that's gonna go. McCarthy did not fail the quiz, or 436 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:01,159 Speaker 1: he didn't just fail the quiz. He did all is 437 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,560 Speaker 1: what I'm trying to say, Belly whopper is what he did. 438 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,960 Speaker 1: He was given a screen test and he didn't pass Minnesota. 439 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,120 Speaker 1: As the GM there Adolpha Mensa said, they were like, wow, 440 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 1: we're a super Bowl team and all that stuff, and 441 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 1: we are we are the way to go. It's the 442 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: way to go, and all that stuff, and so there 443 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 1: you go. He gave a lot of tap dance. He 444 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 1: was like a Broadway musical, a lot of tap dancing. 445 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 1: And that's that's what it was. And so Minnesota thinks, hey, 446 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,400 Speaker 1: they they're just a quarterback away and that's it. And 447 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:35,480 Speaker 1: McCarthy's got like a wobbley He's like a table from Ikea, 448 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,639 Speaker 1: a little wobbly there. It looks fine when you see it, 449 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,520 Speaker 1: and then when you put a glass of milk on it, 450 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,359 Speaker 1: the thing spills and all that stuff. Now, page two, 451 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:49,399 Speaker 1: keeping the theme going as the Vikings general manager refusing 452 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:53,359 Speaker 1: to endorse JJ McCarthy, which falls in line. Remember Lamar 453 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:58,439 Speaker 1: Jackson did not endorse John Harball. Harball got whacked, and 454 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 1: the Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurtz refused to endorse the offensive coordinator. 455 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 1: He got whacked. Things that make you go hmm. All right, 456 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,080 Speaker 1: So with that being said, let's keep the theme going 457 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:16,240 Speaker 1: there in Minnesota. The question you make the call if 458 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,480 Speaker 1: you were the general manager of the Vikings, what would 459 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 1: you do at quarterback? What would you do at quarterbacks? 460 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 1: So let's fire up the Malor think tank. Why don't 461 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 1: we fire up the Malor think tank? What do you 462 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,520 Speaker 1: say there? And then we'll do this as a public 463 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:39,119 Speaker 1: service in the overnight, helping run every NFL franchise unsolicited 464 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:43,200 Speaker 1: overnight talk radio advice. So this is the Millionaire Matchmaker 465 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:47,200 Speaker 1: NFL edition on the Ben Malor Show. So for Minnesota, 466 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,919 Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy is sitting there and he's stuck in the 467 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:57,199 Speaker 1: Roach Motel. He's in the Roach Motel. Yeah, once you 468 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:01,040 Speaker 1: check in there, you can't get out. It's like the 469 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,879 Speaker 1: Hotel California, but it's the Roach Motel. So what do 470 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,600 Speaker 1: you do? What's the move? What do you do now? 471 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,679 Speaker 1: I learned this as a child from my favorite doctor. 472 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,719 Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of doctors, but my favorite doctor, 473 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,359 Speaker 1: doctor Seuss, and doctor Seuss taught me that sometimes the 474 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:21,400 Speaker 1: questions are complicated and the answers are simple. I learned 475 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,480 Speaker 1: that from my doctor, doctor Seuss. So the answer here 476 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:30,119 Speaker 1: is a text chain to La La land. All right, 477 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 1: that's what you do? All right? So you make the 478 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,439 Speaker 1: call you were the Vikings general manager. What we do. 479 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 1: I'd start a text chain to Los Angeles and I 480 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 1: would set up for a massive trade. And here's the trade. 481 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 1: The Chargers send Justin Herbert to the Twin Cities for 482 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:56,000 Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy and a gift basket of Bingo cards. Bingo 483 00:28:56,360 --> 00:29:00,440 Speaker 1: who says no? Does anyone say no? I I'd even 484 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:04,280 Speaker 1: throw in a scented candle. I would throw in a 485 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:07,720 Speaker 1: scented candle and do it yourself. Juicy Lucy's. You know 486 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:09,720 Speaker 1: they can get that mail order stuff where they send 487 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 1: the burgers and you have to heat them up. Said, 488 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,480 Speaker 1: I do that. I would do that. That place in 489 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 1: Saint Paul, it's got the really good juicy loser. I 490 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 1: would do that. Yeah, it's a win win, now, Jim Harball, 491 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:25,960 Speaker 1: unless he's completely that's the word I'm looking for here. 492 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 1: I know coaches lie, but it seemed like that was 493 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 1: genuine what he was, all those flowers that he tossed 494 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 1: at JJ McCarthy. And so, if you're Jim Harbaugh and 495 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,920 Speaker 1: you get a chance to have your beloved Michigan Man 496 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,240 Speaker 1: quarterback and win a championship, has there ever been a 497 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 1: coach that won a championship in college with a player 498 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 1: and then won a championship in the pros with the 499 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 1: same quarterback, like a coach quarterback combo. Has that ever happened. 500 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 1: I don't think that's happened. I don't recall my lifetime 501 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 1: that happen. Maybe he did and I forgot about it. 502 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,000 Speaker 1: There haven't been very many college coaches that have succeeded 503 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 1: in the eni to win, and the ones that I 504 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 1: remember winning did not have their college quarterback. Jimmy Johnson, 505 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:11,239 Speaker 1: Barry Switzer, more recently Pete Carroll. But either way, so 506 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,640 Speaker 1: set it up right, and justin Herbert's an abject failure 507 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:19,320 Speaker 1: with the Chargers, it makes sense. It makes sense. You 508 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 1: can run if you're Jim Harbaugh, that buttoned up three 509 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 1: yards in a cloud of dust offense like it's nineteen 510 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:29,360 Speaker 1: eighty nine, and run that. And meanwhile Herbert escapes it. 511 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 1: He goes to a cold weather city. But they play 512 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,040 Speaker 1: in a dome in minutes. It's a beautiful building. Kind 513 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,000 Speaker 1: of a shady neighborhood in downtown there, but it's a 514 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:40,560 Speaker 1: nice building. Go there, play for the Vikings and you're indoors. 515 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 1: You get to play for the alleged quarterback whisperer, Kevin 516 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:47,480 Speaker 1: O'Connell the coach. You have wide receiver Justin Jefferson, who 517 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,480 Speaker 1: that's like waiting. He's like and all you can eat buffet, 518 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 1: just waiting for the Pixie. And that's all he wants 519 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:55,719 Speaker 1: at buffets, the Pixian. And you got the juicy Loocy's. 520 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:59,040 Speaker 1: You got Minnesota nice and all that, no frostbite because 521 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,239 Speaker 1: you're indoors and you're good to go and paint by 522 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,840 Speaker 1: number again. Who says no to that? Listen, we are 523 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:09,040 Speaker 1: solving problems. We are solving problems. My goal is every 524 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,120 Speaker 1: day to trade Justin Herbert to a different NFL team. 525 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:14,960 Speaker 1: But today it's the Minnesota and that one actually makes sense. 526 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:16,760 Speaker 1: That's got some juice to it. I'll bet you that 527 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:20,400 Speaker 1: pops up here and some of those mainstream losers that 528 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:24,400 Speaker 1: work during the day will take that and they'll repurpose 529 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,840 Speaker 1: might take. They'll repurpose might take. Our final point, we 530 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:33,640 Speaker 1: now go to Jim Harbaugh's office. We stay with the theme. 531 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,960 Speaker 1: We go to the Bolts. The Chargers have decommissioned offensive 532 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:42,120 Speaker 1: coordinator Greg Roman. Is he actually Roman? That's just his name, 533 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:50,600 Speaker 1: Greg Roman. He was fired following that discombobulated debacle of 534 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:54,880 Speaker 1: a performance in the playoff loss against the Patriots. Now, 535 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:58,240 Speaker 1: the team also revealed they whack their offensive line coach, 536 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,080 Speaker 1: someone named Mike dev and you don't know who that is, 537 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 1: and you won't know who he is now because he 538 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,760 Speaker 1: got let go. So the question is tell me the 539 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:10,480 Speaker 1: message that Jim Harbaugh is sending by firing Greg Roman 540 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:14,800 Speaker 1: as the Chargers offensive coordinator. So the message rather obvious. 541 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,280 Speaker 1: It ain't my fault, it's his fault. That's the message. 542 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 1: It's like, hey, I'm a great coach. This guy's a stooge. 543 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,000 Speaker 1: That's what This was. Not some kind of football tragedy 544 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,840 Speaker 1: or anything like that. It wasn't that. This was crisis management. 545 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh acting like a classical comedian, like a David 546 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:38,200 Speaker 1: Copperfield and going, hey, look over there, okay, look over 547 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,640 Speaker 1: and then you do the switcheroo over here is what 548 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 1: you do, the old switchero abercadabra presto. So Greg Roman 549 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:51,720 Speaker 1: was the fall guy, a human pinata, a human pinata, 550 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,120 Speaker 1: and after that lost to New England. Here's another example. 551 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:58,680 Speaker 1: This is the theme of the NFL. Right now, we 552 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,080 Speaker 1: mentioned the Viking GM earlier. Not endorsing JJ mccarthury. He 553 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:06,920 Speaker 1: talked about Lamar Jackson not supporting John Harball, claiming he 554 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,800 Speaker 1: was too emotional after the game and people bought that. 555 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:14,640 Speaker 1: Dumb people bought that, and Jalen Hurts not endorsing the 556 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,280 Speaker 1: offensive coordinator who was whacked. Well, Jim Harball was asked 557 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 1: whether or not he wanted Greg Roman back, and he 558 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:25,040 Speaker 1: refused to endorse him. So there you go, did get way. 559 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:26,680 Speaker 1: I guess we're at the point now where guys don't 560 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:31,840 Speaker 1: want to lie, so instead they just don't answer the question, 561 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,840 Speaker 1: which is as good as saying the guy's toast. And 562 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,760 Speaker 1: that's it. That was the kiss of death for Greg 563 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,480 Speaker 1: Roman and dead Man coaching. Now, I am not sitting 564 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 1: here telling you that Greg Roman is in the same 565 00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,480 Speaker 1: zip code with Sean McVay, although they might live in 566 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,320 Speaker 1: the same neighborhood because rich people live in the same 567 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:49,640 Speaker 1: neighborhoods in LA so it's possible. But it's just simply 568 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:53,680 Speaker 1: pointing out. All it is is pointing out the will 569 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:57,880 Speaker 1: deebeast in the room wearing the powder blue charger jersey 570 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:03,680 Speaker 1: out of the charger powder blue. Someone someone in the 571 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,440 Speaker 1: league reached out to me and I actually I wanted 572 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:07,800 Speaker 1: to mention this on the air, and I won't spend 573 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,399 Speaker 1: long with You know, there are people that are I've 574 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:12,600 Speaker 1: associated with over these people that listen to the show 575 00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:14,799 Speaker 1: that here's some of the bull crap that I throw 576 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:16,719 Speaker 1: into these microphones and they react to it. So one 577 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,480 Speaker 1: of the things I heard from someone that is associated 578 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:21,719 Speaker 1: with an NFL team. I will not say what that 579 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,160 Speaker 1: person does or I will get in trouble. But anyway, 580 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,240 Speaker 1: they pointed out that Herbert, they went back and watched 581 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:31,080 Speaker 1: the tape. I have much too busy to go back 582 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:34,200 Speaker 1: and watch the tape. Sounds terrible. I went back and 583 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:38,440 Speaker 1: watched and they essentially said, I'm gonna use a metaphor here, 584 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,360 Speaker 1: but it's like justin Herbert. You know how when you 585 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,279 Speaker 1: start going in the kitchen and cooking and maybe you 586 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,160 Speaker 1: burn your hand on the stove, and now you don't 587 00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,040 Speaker 1: touch the oven because you burned your hand. You know 588 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:52,320 Speaker 1: that kind of thing. So this is a PTSD situation, 589 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,480 Speaker 1: meaning that Herbert had I believe, four interceptions against the 590 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:59,360 Speaker 1: Texans in last year's playoffs, and according to the table, 591 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,439 Speaker 1: many people are licking the toes of Mike rabel as 592 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:07,480 Speaker 1: the god's gifted defensive coaching. They were pointing out that Herbert, 593 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,680 Speaker 1: there were throws there. The problem was there were tight windows. 594 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:15,759 Speaker 1: Great quarterbacks get paid hundreds of millions of dollars to 595 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,520 Speaker 1: complete those passes, and justin Herbert because of what happened. 596 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,120 Speaker 1: The theory is what happened the year prior was so 597 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,840 Speaker 1: gun shy he wouldn't make those throws. He had time 598 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:29,520 Speaker 1: to throw the ball. There were makeable throws, but he 599 00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:31,839 Speaker 1: was so paranoid about turning the ball over and throwing 600 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,080 Speaker 1: interceptions that he would not do it. He held the 601 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,439 Speaker 1: ball like it was a live hand grenade and would 602 00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:39,000 Speaker 1: not throw it. And he took sacks, He passed up 603 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:44,200 Speaker 1: throws that great quarterbacks make. He essentially played not to lose, 604 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:48,480 Speaker 1: and then he ended up losing anyway. That's the analysis 605 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:52,560 Speaker 1: that I was given. And so if that's true, and 606 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:56,480 Speaker 1: again this is one man's opinion and it was sent 607 00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,359 Speaker 1: to me. If true, then the Patriots only get half 608 00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:04,600 Speaker 1: credit and the Houston Texans of twenty twenty four get 609 00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:06,680 Speaker 1: credit the twenty twenty five playoffs. But it was the 610 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:09,520 Speaker 1: end of the twenty twenty four season as Herbert had 611 00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,200 Speaker 1: all kinds of issues there, So there you go? Will 612 00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:14,200 Speaker 1: he be a Minnesota Viking? I traded him to the 613 00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:17,439 Speaker 1: Bengals yesterday tomorrow? Where am I gonna trade him? Stay 614 00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:19,239 Speaker 1: tuned developing hot dot dot dot. 615 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:21,720 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller 616 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,880 Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. 617 00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:28,040 Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here 618 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:29,279 Speaker 1: we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, 619 00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:31,120 Speaker 1: Here we go. 620 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,800 Speaker 2: So is one Big Ben gets crowed. 621 00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:38,440 Speaker 6: Running back Travis ettn shared advice for Tremor Lawrence ETN 622 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:42,360 Speaker 6: whatever on Monday, saying quote, I would say the biggest 623 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,440 Speaker 6: thing for him is to just let his nuts hang. Yes, 624 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,759 Speaker 6: just be cocky, stop caring what people think. But do 625 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:50,719 Speaker 6: you think the problem is in Trevor Lawrence's head? 626 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:52,200 Speaker 1: Well, first of all, I love the fact they told 627 00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,440 Speaker 1: this to a female reporter that asked the question, which 628 00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:56,760 Speaker 1: years ago would have gotten him banned from the NFL. 629 00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,839 Speaker 1: But times, I guess have changed a little bit. Secondly, yes, 630 00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:02,440 Speaker 1: I think they should hire big Balls Bob from Vegas, 631 00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,080 Speaker 1: our listener in Vegas. Bring him in there now. The 632 00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,600 Speaker 1: problem is Trevor Lawrence sucked at a time he could 633 00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:09,839 Speaker 1: not suck he's screwed up in the At the end, 634 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,040 Speaker 1: Josh Allen played better the entire game, but especially in 635 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:16,080 Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. And Lawrence wasn't terrible, but he's got 636 00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:17,080 Speaker 1: to play better next. 637 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,160 Speaker 6: The Oklahoma City Thunder looked unbeatable and on their way 638 00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:21,920 Speaker 6: to beating the record for most wins in a season, 639 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,279 Speaker 6: and now they've been playing five hundred basketball for the 640 00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:25,080 Speaker 6: better part of a month. 641 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, Ben, have the Thunder hit a wall? Should fans 642 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:28,400 Speaker 1: be worried? 643 00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:29,359 Speaker 2: Yes? 644 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:33,920 Speaker 1: Panic, panic, No, it's I'm giving this out. They can 645 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,279 Speaker 1: forget about breaking the all time records and all that. 646 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,520 Speaker 1: That's not going to happen. It's in the middle of 647 00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:40,839 Speaker 1: the NBA season, between now and then after the All 648 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,560 Speaker 1: Star break, which is in February. It's the dogge next. 649 00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,080 Speaker 6: I was reported this week that Rams owner Stan Kronky 650 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:47,920 Speaker 6: is in a battle with the city of Inglewood, with 651 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,560 Speaker 6: multiple lawsuits between the two currently up in the air. 652 00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:52,440 Speaker 1: Ben, is this a big deal for the Rams? 653 00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:52,960 Speaker 2: No? 654 00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,279 Speaker 1: What do you me to moving back to Saint Louis State? No, 655 00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,520 Speaker 1: they're not. There were twelve billion dollars. He didn't even 656 00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:01,120 Speaker 1: worry about any of that. Souf, How do we do 657 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:02,479 Speaker 1: you passed as they went. 658 00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:03,319 Speaker 2: Put it on the bar. 659 00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:07,759 Speaker 1: Another win, another one, and another one and another one. 660 00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,960 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 661 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,360 Speaker 2: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio 662 00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:18,560 Speaker 2: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to 663 00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:19,359 Speaker 2: listen live. 664 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:26,000 Speaker 7: It's of It Buys with Lorraine at nine, Clean Up Hearts, 665 00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:29,480 Speaker 7: Going to help You. Gear Rye, gear Rye, to Night, 666 00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:32,600 Speaker 7: dear ry Tonight, Dear Ride. 667 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:35,080 Speaker 8: That's right, you heard the man. 668 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:38,680 Speaker 9: It is time for love here on the Ben Mallor Show, 669 00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:42,080 Speaker 9: New Year, New Love, New drama. 670 00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,200 Speaker 8: What's happening in the world. 671 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:48,200 Speaker 1: Of love in the militia? Well, actual questions by actual listeners. 672 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:52,640 Speaker 1: Keith Oho Texto writes in from Texas. He says, Lorena, 673 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:57,200 Speaker 1: was there an embarrassing fashion moment in your adolescence? So 674 00:38:57,640 --> 00:38:59,320 Speaker 1: I want to know, I don't know if it's a love. 675 00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:02,560 Speaker 8: Questions, yeah, but like an embarrassing fashion. 676 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:07,520 Speaker 1: Moment, something break Cooper or tampon costume the school that 677 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:08,920 Speaker 1: was his embarrassing thing. 678 00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:13,440 Speaker 8: There was this one time that my pants the. 679 00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:15,400 Speaker 1: One time at band camp but. 680 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:19,319 Speaker 9: Non my pants came popping off. It was I was like, really, 681 00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:20,839 Speaker 9: and then your pants are ruined? For the whole rest 682 00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:21,160 Speaker 9: of the day. 683 00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:22,680 Speaker 1: It was early in the day or late in the day. 684 00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:23,239 Speaker 8: Late in the day. 685 00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:23,360 Speaker 6: Oh. 686 00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,239 Speaker 9: And then there's also this time when I was a kid, 687 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:26,960 Speaker 9: I didn't make it to the bathroom in time in 688 00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:28,520 Speaker 9: like third grade, and so I had to go up 689 00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:30,280 Speaker 9: to the office and change my whole outfit. 690 00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:31,760 Speaker 8: It was absolute tragedy. 691 00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:33,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, it happens. 692 00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:36,480 Speaker 9: Oh and then another time in middle school, I thought 693 00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:38,320 Speaker 9: I was a fashion easta and I bought this skirt 694 00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:39,959 Speaker 9: from wet Seal that was way too short. 695 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,400 Speaker 8: It didn't meet it didn't like meet the finger temples. 696 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:43,680 Speaker 1: Did you violate the dress correct? 697 00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:44,760 Speaker 8: I got sent to the office. 698 00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:45,279 Speaker 2: Yeah. 699 00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:49,480 Speaker 1: And I had a buddy of mine, his daughter. He 700 00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:51,759 Speaker 1: doesn't she dressed. He didn't dress the way he wants 701 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,160 Speaker 1: me to dress. And so he loves when the school 702 00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:56,160 Speaker 1: calls him and says, your daughter needs to change it. 703 00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,640 Speaker 1: He loves it. Oh yeah, because it's like he's like, 704 00:39:58,920 --> 00:39:59,879 Speaker 1: she doesn't listen to him. 705 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,040 Speaker 9: So I know kids who go to school and close 706 00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:04,200 Speaker 9: and then take off those clothes when they get to school. 707 00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:09,600 Speaker 1: Dirty dirty, dirty, dirty dirty all right, BP writes in 708 00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:11,719 Speaker 1: on The Queen of Hearts. He says, I'm traveling soon 709 00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:14,160 Speaker 1: by plane and would like to join the Mile High Club. 710 00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,080 Speaker 1: Problem is I'll be alone. Do you do you need it? 711 00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,800 Speaker 1: He says, do you need a partner to become a member? 712 00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:24,920 Speaker 9: There you go, that's a really good question, and you 713 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,880 Speaker 9: get half credit on that if you yeah. I mean 714 00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:31,279 Speaker 9: it's a mile high five then right, because it's just. 715 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:32,120 Speaker 8: You more hand. 716 00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,600 Speaker 1: I guess these days you could go like marry your hand, 717 00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:38,799 Speaker 1: and honestly you might be. 718 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:40,360 Speaker 8: Able to find someone on the plane even if you 719 00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:41,080 Speaker 8: go by yourself. 720 00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:44,040 Speaker 9: There's some kinky people out here, really, you know, kind 721 00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:46,200 Speaker 9: of like crazy your eye about eyebrows and look at 722 00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:47,640 Speaker 9: the back, be like you're part of that club. 723 00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:51,560 Speaker 1: Yet, super Market Steve writes in he says the Golden 724 00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:54,120 Speaker 1: ticket is not much of a prize. I like waiting 725 00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,120 Speaker 1: on hold hearing the unedited version of the show. Can 726 00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:00,319 Speaker 1: we invent a new ticket? When a certain all her 727 00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:03,320 Speaker 1: calls in the minute they start talking and Lorena dumps 728 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,320 Speaker 1: them mm, and he says we should. He wants you 729 00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:08,919 Speaker 1: to dump the leprechaun. That's a supermarket Steve. 730 00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:10,680 Speaker 8: I try to dump him all the time, and he 731 00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:11,480 Speaker 8: just calls back. 732 00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:15,120 Speaker 1: He does, Yeah, he does call back. Yeah, Shane Shanon 733 00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:17,960 Speaker 1: Mooy says, does it bother Lorena that Monsey gets hit 734 00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:22,279 Speaker 1: on more on Fsruh? Is that true? I don't know. 735 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,920 Speaker 9: Oh my gosh, I'm so jealous someone else gets sexually 736 00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:26,680 Speaker 9: assaulted on the airwaves. 737 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:26,640 Speaker 8: More than me. 738 00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,480 Speaker 1: I don't know about that, but according to Shane, he's 739 00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:31,480 Speaker 1: done field research. 740 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:32,120 Speaker 4: Now. 741 00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,120 Speaker 8: I heard people want me and Monsey to do a 742 00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:36,640 Speaker 8: podcast together. So really we'll see if we do that. 743 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:38,600 Speaker 1: Are you gonna Are you gonna do that? 744 00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:40,719 Speaker 8: Girls? And splorts? 745 00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:41,800 Speaker 1: Girls? 746 00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:42,960 Speaker 8: And I don't know what it'll be called. 747 00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:45,560 Speaker 1: I don't have no idea, all right, Mike writes in 748 00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,560 Speaker 1: on email, He says, oh but wait, just real fast. 749 00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:50,640 Speaker 8: You can't be jealous. There's enough love for everybody. 750 00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:55,600 Speaker 1: Mike says, there's an influencer when viral or recently for 751 00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:59,160 Speaker 1: marrying her high school teacher. The reason she went viral 752 00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:02,839 Speaker 1: is because he is nearly forty years older than her 753 00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:07,080 Speaker 1: and she's fighting back. I guess this is somebody in Italy. 754 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:12,440 Speaker 1: Mike said, she's twenty two, he is sixty. Get to 755 00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:13,279 Speaker 1: your big jump. 756 00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:14,319 Speaker 8: That's a huge. 757 00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:17,040 Speaker 1: She's been called a gold digger, So Mike wants to know, Loraina, 758 00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:18,120 Speaker 1: do you think she's a gold. 759 00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:20,080 Speaker 9: Digger and he's a teacher. Definitely not a gold digger, 760 00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:24,520 Speaker 9: but definitely probably likes older men. Obviously, maybe that support system, 761 00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:26,120 Speaker 9: the daddy, maybe even the grandpa. 762 00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:28,320 Speaker 1: Last, how much do teachers get paid in Italy? I 763 00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:28,600 Speaker 1: don't know. 764 00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:29,439 Speaker 8: That's a good question. 765 00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:32,920 Speaker 1: You paid more money over there? We know, we don't know. 766 00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:35,000 Speaker 8: No, I have no idea, You have no idea. All right, 767 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:36,040 Speaker 8: it's salary. 768 00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:40,000 Speaker 1: In Queen of Hearts with Lorena here, Mike de Leprechaunt says, 769 00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:44,240 Speaker 1: what if you made a bad first impression on someone 770 00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:44,800 Speaker 1: you like? 771 00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:47,200 Speaker 8: He said, you might as well just never talk to 772 00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:47,680 Speaker 8: them again. 773 00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:53,040 Speaker 1: What if your male partner gets nervous and has distillers? 774 00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:57,000 Speaker 1: I don't know what that is, some kind of something 775 00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:00,400 Speaker 1: I don't Can you spell it for me? Distillers droop? 776 00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:01,320 Speaker 1: I don't know what that is. 777 00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:02,400 Speaker 8: I don't know what that is. 778 00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:03,719 Speaker 1: Did you make that up? Mike? 779 00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:05,319 Speaker 8: Get a little soft? Is that what you're saying? 780 00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:08,239 Speaker 1: I don't want hello, I don't know that. I want 781 00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:10,440 Speaker 1: to know that. So there's no answer, right, Lorena? 782 00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:13,200 Speaker 2: Yes? I want to be sure to catch live editions 783 00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,800 Speaker 2: of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern 784 00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:20,200 Speaker 2: eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone, and the password is. 785 00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:26,320 Speaker 1: Password, you idiot, password the word Game of the Stars. 786 00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,400 Speaker 1: Here's Ben Maller. Let's do it. Let's welcome in archittestants 787 00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:32,000 Speaker 1: for password the word Game of the Stars. We have 788 00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:35,000 Speaker 1: Larry and lost wages. Nevada is gonna be one of 789 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:40,600 Speaker 1: our contestants. Hello, Larry, Welcome and all right you big 790 00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:41,040 Speaker 1: time mius. 791 00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:41,359 Speaker 2: Larry. 792 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:42,400 Speaker 1: I don't know, I can barely hear you. 793 00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:43,120 Speaker 6: Is everything good? 794 00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,719 Speaker 1: Okay? Is it gonna be? Okay? We'll let you play 795 00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:51,759 Speaker 1: the game. Who you want to partner up with? Larry? 796 00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:57,040 Speaker 1: You got me Ben, Lorena coop coop? All right, You're 797 00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,560 Speaker 1: gonna lose, and we got. 798 00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:01,000 Speaker 8: Chocolate secon is impressive. 799 00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:02,000 Speaker 1: Chuck in Arizona. 800 00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:04,879 Speaker 2: Hello, Chuck, how's it going, big man? 801 00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:07,040 Speaker 1: Welcome in, Chuck. You want to play with me or Lorena? 802 00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:11,560 Speaker 7: Uh, I'll go with the host. 803 00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:12,600 Speaker 2: Let me get a big man. 804 00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:14,919 Speaker 1: Okay, I'll see if the host wants is the host one? Okay? 805 00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:17,120 Speaker 1: The host wants to play? All right, the host is 806 00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:20,600 Speaker 1: going to play? Very good, let's do what I all right? 807 00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:25,200 Speaker 1: Very nice? Uh, Larry is over here, and let's get 808 00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:26,959 Speaker 1: to the game. Coop. We have a list of words. Larry, 809 00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:32,640 Speaker 1: pick a number one to ten. Larry, later, what do 810 00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:32,920 Speaker 1: you say? 811 00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:33,600 Speaker 8: Seven? 812 00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:38,200 Speaker 1: Seven? All right, Coop? Number seven? All right, let's go 813 00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:41,440 Speaker 1: with Let's go with. 814 00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:47,439 Speaker 2: Loaf bright. 815 00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, hell it was easy, Coop, Come on, all right, 816 00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:53,920 Speaker 1: go ahead, Chuck, it's passwords. We're gave a starts. Which 817 00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:58,000 Speaker 1: number you want? Uh, let's go with two, number two, 818 00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:03,960 Speaker 1: number two? All right, let's let's go with victor, victor 819 00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:10,840 Speaker 1: with the V victor. Yeah, that's right, we're talking about. 820 00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:14,080 Speaker 1: That was hard, man, that was hard. I love losers, 821 00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:16,600 Speaker 1: so that was hard. All right, go ahead, there, Larry, 822 00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:19,040 Speaker 1: password picking number one to ten, but not two, not seven? 823 00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:21,560 Speaker 2: Number one. 824 00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,080 Speaker 1: Hey, that's my line. You don't steal my line, schmuck, 825 00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:27,600 Speaker 1: what's wrong with you? All right, go ahead, let's go with. 826 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:34,040 Speaker 6: Let's see I mean I could go hurry up, hurry up, 827 00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:43,240 Speaker 6: let's hurry up, melancholy, chaos. 828 00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:47,040 Speaker 1: No, all right, Chuck, how about sad? 829 00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:50,640 Speaker 2: Uh sick? 830 00:45:51,280 --> 00:46:01,080 Speaker 1: No, hurry up, Coop, hurry up, sorrowful huh Yeah no, no, 831 00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:05,839 Speaker 1: bull crap, the crap, bull crap. That is not right. 832 00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:07,200 Speaker 4: That is not right. 833 00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:09,520 Speaker 1: That's that's a terrible end of the game.