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Hour 2: Tomlin's Next Steps, Denis Leary, Superman Reappears

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4956 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Get Up resumes with all of the Tomlin angles. How'd he tell his team? What are his next steps? (0:00) Meanwhile - Denis Leary hypes us up about his Patriots divisional matchup vs the Texans! (14:10) Then - weekend watch: we take a look at the biggest storylines heading into a divisional weekend with major league implications now, and in the future! (24:00) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Think back to what you were doing at 15 years old.

0:04.0

Maybe you just got your braces off.

0:06.0

Maybe you just gotten your learner's permit.

0:08.0

That's so cute.

0:09.0

But Martin Luther King Jr. was starting college at the age of 15 after skipping two grades in high school.

0:16.0

Following the footsteps of both his grandfather and father, King became a third-generation

0:20.9

Morehouse College man, well, teenager back in 1944.

0:25.7

And then just four years later, at the age of 19, he was ordained as a minister in the

0:29.7

same church as his father.

0:31.5

From that point forward, King knew what he wanted from himself for his life and what he

0:35.7

wanted to give to the world. And as you can see,

0:38.5

that same determination helped shape humanity into the world we know today. M.L.K. More than a dream.

0:49.3

We roll on, pardon me, I'm sorry, the voice. ESPN's NBA doubleheader tonight. We have Donovan Mitchell and the Cavs taken on Tyrese Maxie and the Sixers. That's seven Eastern. And we got Jamal Murray and the Nuggets taken on Cooper Flag and the Mab's NBA countdown. Starts your night at 630 Eastern Time. Got the little something in the throat. I think it's because all the jet talk.

1:11.7

Got your little broken up.

1:13.1

It does. It got on you. I'm for Clint. Anyway, the regular crowd is here, and you know who's coming in? Did you see him outside? I did. I did. Dennis Leary? Yeah. He looks fly. He looks fly like me. Man got on a smooth and left than I. Does he? He's a lot cooler.

1:25.9

He's going to come by the studio.

1:26.9

Everyone's all excited to because Oprah is in the building.

1:29.4

Oprah Winfrey is here in the building. smooth leather like my man does he yeah he's a lot cooler in by the studio everyone's all excited

1:28.0

too because Oprah's in the building Oprah Winfrey is here in the building oh there's a lot of

1:32.6

energy in the room everyone gets a car there's a lot of bad what was he you got a coach

1:36.9

you get a quarterback you get a quarterback you get a quarterback in Pittsburgh they need a coach

1:40.9

right now because the massive news from steel city is that Mike Tomlin stepped down yesterday after 19 seasons with two years left on his contract. Steelers will retain his coaching rights through the end of the 27 season should he choose to return. That feels like an interesting and important part of the story because it certainly makes it feel as though he will not jump to another place.

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