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Hour 2 - The City of Losers · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Yabba-dabba-doo it's our number two and how do you do
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Speaker 1: yes right here on the ben mather show what do
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Speaker 1: you take away from the raiders naming kirk cousins qb1
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Speaker 1: over fernando mendoza yikes what an embarrassment for that top
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Speaker 1: pick In the 2026 draft, all that hype, Mr. College Football,
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Speaker 1: and the guy got beat out by a 38-year-old washed-up
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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. Holy crap on a cracker. How suspicious is
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Speaker 1: the timing of these Lane Kiffin stories out of an
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Speaker 1: upcoming book dropping right before his first game at LSU?
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Speaker 1: And then shortly after that, LSU playing Ole Miss is
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Speaker 1: old school. Also, which is more ridiculous, LSU using former
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Speaker 1: NFL players or the Attorney General of Georgia threatening to
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Speaker 1: kick LSU out of the Southeastern Conference? We'll discuss all
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Speaker 1: of that. That's actually happening. I know, it sounds ridiculous,
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Speaker 1: but we'll tell you. Right now, here it is, hour
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Speaker 1: number two. Well, it has been said over the years
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Speaker 1: and get to work. So our lead this hour from
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Speaker 1: Lost Wages, Nevada, a fine city. We had a great
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Speaker 1: the others that I'm not naming right now, and they're
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Speaker 1: yelling at me, hey, what about me, Maller? All right,
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Speaker 1: calm down. So the news out, the Raiders have made
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Speaker 1: a decision, and that is our lead this hour. The
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Speaker 1: Raiders officially naming. The rotting carcass of Kirk Cousins as
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Speaker 1: QB number one. And he will begin the season beating out,
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Speaker 1: beating out the top pick in the 2026 NFL draft,
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Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza, as he will be sitting that one out.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw this or not. Perhaps
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Speaker 1: you missed it. Mendoza, all that hype. And I mentioned
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Speaker 1: how embarrassing this was for Mendoza. when he was not
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Speaker 1: getting the first-team reps in training camp and how that
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Speaker 1: was a joke. And, of course, the Raider fan base,
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Speaker 1: some of them not the brightest, got very upset, very
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Speaker 1: upset and very emotional. And I get it. You've been
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Speaker 1: kicked in the ankles quite a bit over the years,
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Speaker 1: and this is another kick in the ankles. All that losing,
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Speaker 1: all that tanking for this guy?
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Speaker 2: Really?
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Speaker 1: Really? So first-year coach, you all tell me this guy's
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Speaker 1: a prodigy, Clint Kubiak. We'll see about that. Well, Kubiak
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Speaker 1: said that Cousins played really good football and had a
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Speaker 1: strong offseason in training camp and earned it. Of course, A,
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Speaker 1: no one watches training camp or offseason workouts, so who
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Speaker 1: cares about that? And playing really good football, under what
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Speaker 1: measurement was he playing really good football? Anyway, it's all
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Speaker 1: a good jumping-off point. Let us discuss... The question, what
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Speaker 1: do you make? What do you make and what do
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Speaker 1: you take away from the Raiders naming Kirk Cousins as
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Speaker 1: their top QB over Fernando Mendoza? So Cousins gets that
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Speaker 1: QB1 title. My observations, I've got Mega Mansion, Glen Ivy
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Speaker 1: Hot Springs, and Mason Jar. And we'll put all of
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Speaker 1: these things together and we're going to turn on the chainsaw.
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Speaker 1: is what we're going to do. So, number one! Number one!
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Speaker 1: Number one! Number one!
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Speaker 3: Number one!
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Speaker 1: Let me be very clear for those of you in
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Speaker 1: the back of the room. You ask me, what do
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Speaker 1: you take away from the Raiders naming Kirk Cousins over
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Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza as the starting quarterback? This is a pure
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Speaker 1: humiliation situation for the Raiders. And there's no other way
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Speaker 1: to look at this. Unless you're wearing your Raider onesie,
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Speaker 1: that's it. And your little Raider sippy cup. You don't
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Speaker 1: spend a year intentionally losing like the Raiders did last year,
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Speaker 1: tanking a season away to get the top pick in
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Speaker 1: the draft, the number one overall pick, Fernando Mendoza, and
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Speaker 1: then discover, well, wait a minute, assembly required.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 1: No, there's no assembly required with a top pick in
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Speaker 1: the draft. You're supposed to be, Mendoza's supposed to be
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Speaker 1: a plug and play. Apparently, the plug wasn't included. They
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Speaker 1: bought it on Timu. They should have bought it on Amazon.
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Speaker 1: Bad job by them. The Raiders just wasted a season
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Speaker 1: of football to draft a developmental quarterback. And many of
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Speaker 1: you seem perfectly fine with that, which tells me you're
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Speaker 1: not that bright. I get it. I understand. You do
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Speaker 1: not draft a project at number one. You don't do it.
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Speaker 1: This is like buying the most expensive mega mansion. So
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Speaker 1: you can brag to all your friends. I'm telling you,
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Speaker 1: the nicest mega mansion, the most bathrooms, the most bedrooms.
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Speaker 1: It's got the biggest pool on the block. It's the
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Speaker 1: greatest mega mansion. Everyone's impressed. They look at it like, oh,
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Speaker 1: my God. And then you go in there and you realize, well,
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Speaker 1: wait a minute. I need to call Roto-Rooter. Well, why
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Speaker 1: do you need to call Roto-Rooter? Because the plumbing isn't
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Speaker 1: hooked up. Well, why is the plumbing not hooked up?
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but it looks nice on the outside.
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Speaker 1: Remember Indiana's little run there to the title? You guys,
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Speaker 1: even Jamarcus Russell started week one for the old Oakland Raiders.
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Speaker 1: Do you understand that? This is how embarrassing. He's not
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Speaker 1: even as good as Jamarcus Russell. Kirk Cousins won the job.
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Speaker 1: That tells you. infinitely more about Fernando Mendoza than it
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Speaker 1: does about Kirk Cousins the Raiders saying we're developing Mendoza
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Speaker 1: is NFL code it's a dog whistle for we really
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Speaker 1: f this up and this guy isn't anywhere close to
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Speaker 1: being ready and might never be ready if 38 year
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Speaker 1: old Captain Kirk who and I yes I like the
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Speaker 1: guy's career and all that you know it's been good
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Speaker 1: for business sucking in every primetime game the good thing
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Speaker 1: about playing for the Raiders you don't have to worry
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Speaker 1: about primetime games very often Captain Kirk, at this point,
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Speaker 1: after three stink bomb seasons, Vikings didn't want him back.
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Speaker 1: Falcons kicked him out of town. In fact, the moment
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Speaker 1: he got to Atlanta, they drafted a quarterback because they
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Speaker 1: knew he couldn't play. And the better option in September
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Speaker 1: is Kirk Cousins. And, okay, so Mendoza was overdrafted in April.
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Speaker 1: That's what that means. That's it. All right, page two.
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Speaker 1: We now move to the fast lane. college football, a
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Speaker 1: new excerpt that several of you sent below the Mason-Dixon
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Speaker 1: line my way. I think the book's called Lane Being Lane.
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Speaker 1: So the excerpts of the book made their way around
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Speaker 1: the interweb, and it details Lane Kiffin, his years at
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Speaker 1: Alabama when he was the Crimson Tide offensive coordinator for
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Speaker 1: Nick Saban from 2014 to 2016. Now, a lot of
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Speaker 1: this stuff popped up back in those days, but time's
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Speaker 1: Time flies by, and it's hard to believe it's been
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Speaker 1: this long, and yet it has. So Lane Kiffin's wife
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Speaker 1: and kids remained in California. So his wife and kids
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Speaker 1: were back in California. And let's just say Lane Kiffin
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Speaker 1: decided he wanted to enjoy his life a little bit
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Speaker 1: there in Tuscaloosa, and he enjoyed all the good bars
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Speaker 1: in Tuscaloosa as the marriage continued. Went up, up, and away! Yeah,
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Speaker 1: went sideways there. So in the book, Nick Saban reportedly
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Speaker 1: instructed one of the Alabama staffers to, quote, just keep
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Speaker 1: him away, Lane Kiffin, away from the sorority girls. Former
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Speaker 1: Alabama staffer and the great name Josh Booty, Mr. Booty, recalls,
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Speaker 1: that lane kiffin asked bar employees to introduce him to
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Speaker 1: the hotties it's uh you know i think most uh
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Speaker 1: men they go into a bar where the hotties at
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Speaker 1: uh now one friend feared that lane kiffin was such
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Speaker 1: an alcoholic that he would drink himself to death and
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Speaker 1: recalled him crying over effing up his life. Now, these
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Speaker 1: excerpts of this book also revisit one of the great
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Speaker 1: Internet stories, those of you that are too young or
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Speaker 1: didn't pay attention to the Internet back then, the legendary
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Speaker 1: Joey Freshwater, one of my favorite characters in college football history.
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Speaker 1: If you've never heard of Joey Freshwater, that is the
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Speaker 1: alias that Lane Kiffin supposedly used. He denied it. I
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Speaker 1: tend to think that there was a Joey Freshwater name Alias,
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Speaker 1: not quite as good as Ron Mexico, my favorite Atlanta
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Speaker 1: Falcon quarterback, the great Ron Mexico.
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Speaker 2: Anyway.
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Speaker 1: All right, question. How suspicious is the timing of these
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Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin stories right before college football and the first
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Speaker 1: real opportunity for Lane Kiffin to show the world what
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Speaker 1: he's like at LSU and then eventually LSU plays Ole
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Speaker 1: Miss here shortly. So how suspicious is the timing on this?
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Speaker 1: So I looked at the Maller scorecard, and this is
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Speaker 1: what's called a CM situation, calculated madness. And I do believe,
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Speaker 1: based on circumstantial evidence, that this is a payback situation
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Speaker 1: from Ole Miss with a dish best served, piping hot
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Speaker 1: in Vanity Fair, because this story's out of Vanity Fair.
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Speaker 1: They ran a bunch of the excerpts of this upcoming
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Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin book. And so it looks to me, based
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Speaker 1: on what I'm seeing here, like they're reheating decade-old Joey
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Speaker 1: Freshwater leftovers in a casserole in the microwave, and they're
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Speaker 1: serving them up with an ice-cold smear beer, a frosty
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Speaker 1: mug of character assassination for Lane Kiffin. And yeah, these
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Speaker 1: stories stem from... Lane the boozing era on a booze
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Speaker 1: cruise for Lane during his Alabama days, as we've talked about.
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Speaker 1: But you do wonder how much Ole Miss helped roll
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Speaker 1: down the manure wagon, pushing it downhill there. Is it
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Speaker 1: true that jilted boosters of Ole Miss helped grease the
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Speaker 1: skids to ensure that the mud arrived just as LSU
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Speaker 1: begins the $ 90- plus million Lane Kiffin experience? Inquiring minds would
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Speaker 1: like to know. So forget the mineral baths at Glen
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Speaker 1: Ivy Hot Springs. Lane went directly to Club Mud. He
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Speaker 1: went over to Club Mud. Kiffin claiming that he's been
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Speaker 1: sober since 2021. And right on cue, despite that claim,
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Speaker 1: right on cue, his poltergeist, the greatest hits album from
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Speaker 1: his poltergeist here, is back on the jukebox. So there
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Speaker 1: you go. That's SEC, not revenge porn. It's revenge theater
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Speaker 1: at its finest. Now, speaking of that, the gift that
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Speaker 1: keeps on giving is Staying in college football, and this
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Speaker 1: does involve Lane Kiffin and his need for professional football
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Speaker 1: players on LSU. So the Georgia Athletic Director, or actually
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Speaker 1: not Athletic Director, Attorney General. That's a little higher than
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Speaker 1: Athletic Director. The Attorney General of Georgia. Somebody named Chris Carr,
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Speaker 1: I am told. I don't live in Georgia, and I
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Speaker 1: don't know all my Attorney Generals. But this guy Chris
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Speaker 1: Carr is urging... the Southeastern Conference Commissioner, the SEC Commissioner
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Speaker 1: Greg Sankey, to use, quote, all measures available, including suspending
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Speaker 1: or removing LSU from the conference. If the Tigers do
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Speaker 1: use former NFL players... The attorney general in the state
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Speaker 1: of Georgia is calling for the Southeastern Conference to excommunicate
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Speaker 1: Louisiana State. Now, Carr threatened all legal means necessary, declaring,
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Speaker 1: this is my favorite part, college athletes are for college
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Speaker 1: athletes only. I'm sure he started laughing after that. Now,
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Speaker 1: the dispute centers on the former Ole Miss players, Lane
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Speaker 1: Kiffin's old guys, Daquan Wright and Zavian Harris, who joined
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Speaker 1: the NFL for training camp and then said, well, I
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Speaker 1: kind of want to go back. I'll go play for Lane. Now,
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Speaker 1: a Louisiana judge did rule that the Southeastern Conference cannot
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Speaker 1: punish schools for using these players who return after signing
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Speaker 1: NFL contracts. Of course, this will be appealed and go
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Speaker 1: to a higher court, and it'll go to likely a
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Speaker 1: federal court. Now, the SEC penalties that they claim they're
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Speaker 1: going to issue if you play one of these NFL
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Speaker 1: guys is a half-season coaching suspension, Fines worth 50% of
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Speaker 1: the sport's annual budget and a loss of conference voting
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Speaker 1: rights and also a partridge in a pear tree. So
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Speaker 1: the question, which is more ridiculous? LSU campaigning to use
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Speaker 1: former NFL players and apparently going to court with Lane
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Speaker 1: Kiffin being the ringleader or the attorney general of Georgia?
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Speaker 1: trying to get LSU kicked out, threatening to kick LSU
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Speaker 1: out of the Southeastern Conference. So this is all-encompassing Southern
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Speaker 1: fried football at its absolute greatest. It's just different. Deep
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Speaker 1: fried in Looney Tunes batter. And here comes another political
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Speaker 1: goober parachuting in from... thousands of feet in the sky,
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Speaker 1: screaming about protecting the integrity of college sports. And so
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Speaker 1: is LSU and Coach Lane Kiffin really the great menace
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Speaker 1: of Western civilization? At least they didn't use student-athlete. They
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Speaker 1: instead said college athletics are for college athletes only. Of course,
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Speaker 1: they're getting paid. It's semi-professional football. Now, what about Texas?
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Speaker 1: There's a lineman, Cole Hudson, who returned for a fifth
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Speaker 1: year after wearing NFL laundry. He was at rookie minicamp
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Speaker 1: with the Browns and the Cowboys. And so I don't
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Speaker 1: remember there being an emergency siren for that. I don't
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Speaker 1: see that. The whole mason jar of moonshine, the whole
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Speaker 1: mason jar of moonshine is actually about the courts. It's
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Speaker 1: not about the players. It's not about Lane Kiffin. It's
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Speaker 1: about the courts. If LSU gets a judge... To rule
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Speaker 1: and confirm the original ruling that these players are eligible,
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Speaker 1: the Southeastern Conference can go pound sand with a rubber mallet.
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Speaker 1: All right? They can go try to trudge the ocean.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. Conference rule books, last I checked, and
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Speaker 1: I'm never wrong about these things, do not supersede court orders. Understand? Okay.
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Speaker 1: So spare me the sanctimonious sermons. I don't like what
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Speaker 1: LSU's doing and Lane Kiffin at all. I think it's
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Speaker 1: rather silly. That said, if it is allowed by the
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Speaker 1: court system, there's not much the SEC can do. And
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Speaker 1: Georgia had a former player involved in a... Well, they
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Speaker 1: had a bunch of guys that were speed racing in
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Speaker 1: the most famous, the fatal streetcar accident. I don't remember
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Speaker 1: as many political grandstanding moments from people in Georgia over
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Speaker 1: the sacred honor of playing on Saturday. So it's, of course...
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Speaker 1: integrity based on the situation in this case it's just
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Speaker 1: some political guy peacocking around and trying to get some
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Speaker 1: think this just happens all the time in the NBA. And,
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Speaker 1: you know, for some reason, because that little Weasel podcast
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Speaker 1: guy got all upset and made a note of that,
22:32
Speaker 1: they made a big deal. But we'll see. We'll see
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Speaker 1: what comes of this. I'm looking forward to it. It's
22:36
Speaker 1: going to be a lot of fun. A lot of
22:39
Speaker 1: billable hours, the Clipper thing, lawsuits up the wazoo, and
22:44
Speaker 1: that's always good for business. Discovery is a wonderful thing,
22:49
Speaker 1: and I cannot wait to see all that. Femi, the
22:53
Speaker 1: top Uber Eats driver in Minnesota, says, I will never
22:55
Speaker 1: forget the night in 2019 when the Kauai trade of
22:58
Speaker 1: the Clippers was announced. Big Ben was invited as a
23:00
Speaker 1: guest by the Jason Smith Show. You were so excited
23:03
Speaker 1: like a giddy teenager. I don't know what you're talking about.
23:06
Speaker 1: I was totally professional. I have no idea what you're
23:08
Speaker 1: talking about. What else do we have? The Baltimore Freeloader
23:12
Speaker 1: account writes in, says, I thought we might get a
23:14
Speaker 1: four-hour Clipper monologue tonight. Bad job by me missing hour one.
23:20
Speaker 1: I think Ballmer ever charged Uncle Dennis for a meal,
23:25
Speaker 1: and more importantly, to make up the financial loss, will
23:29
Speaker 1: he squeeze the media on food? I don't think that
23:35
Speaker 1: will happen. There's not enough media to make the money back.
23:40
Speaker 1: If there was, they would do it. Ryan in San
23:42
Speaker 1: Diego writes and says, when I heard the news about
23:45
Speaker 1: the Clippers today, Ryan in San Diego says, I just
23:49
Speaker 1: want to know who goofed. I've got to know. That
23:52
Speaker 1: would be Adam Silver. He's going to have the wrath
23:56
Speaker 1: of a fire-breathing dragon. And as much fun as you
24:00
Speaker 1: want to make of Steve Ballmer, at least he's not
24:02
Speaker 1: the whoever that woman is who bought the Padres. Holy crap.
24:05
Speaker 1: My God. Michael in Tulsa. Patrice, I've had some bad owners.
24:09
Speaker 1: That seems like it's going to be right in the
24:11
Speaker 1: top five. Michael in Tulsa writes and says, Ben, my
24:16
Speaker 1: odds of college game day being in Oxford when LSU
24:20
Speaker 1: is at Mississippi on September 19th are just slightly lower
24:25
Speaker 1: than Anthony in Louisiana. Giving a shout out to his
24:30
Speaker 1: cousin Lorena or Marcel in Brooklyn and the Leprechaun Not fighting.
24:37
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. How dare you?
24:39
Speaker 1: How dare you? How dare you? All right. What else
24:44
Speaker 1: do we have here? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Bozo,
24:49
Speaker 1: the district attorney, says Jacoby Brissett started over Drake May
24:52
Speaker 1: in May's rookie year. I think that sitting behind an
24:55
Speaker 1: experienced quarterback worked out pretty well for May and the Patriots. Well,
24:59
Speaker 1: you're assuming the position, Bozo, because you're a Bozo, that
25:02
Speaker 1: Drake May would not have been good anyway. This is
25:05
Speaker 1: always the false assumption that one makes that somehow sitting
25:10
Speaker 1: there and standing makes you a better player. That is
25:14
Speaker 1: a false assumption. It is a flaw in the human condition.
25:19
Speaker 1: That's the way it is. Absolutely. Shay writes and he
25:23
Speaker 1: says at the intro of your show where the people
25:25
Speaker 1: are cheering and probably standing up with a thunderous ovation
25:29
Speaker 1: and so excited when your show is beginning. He says,
25:34
Speaker 1: is that real? Yes, we have a studio audience, Shay.
25:36
Speaker 1: I know you're not that smart. I realize that. You're
25:39
Speaker 1: on the dumb side. But we have a studio audience,
25:42
Speaker 1: and they decide to cheer every hour. It's very kind
25:45
Speaker 1: of them to do that. I do appreciate it. I mean,
25:48
Speaker 1: they don't have to do it. They decide they would
25:50
Speaker 1: like to do it. We'll take some phone calls now.
25:52
Speaker 1: Let's say hello. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Let's say hello
25:56
Speaker 1: to Hollering James. Is Hollering James in the hospital or
26:01
Speaker 1: is Hollering James out of the hospital? Inquiring minds would
26:05
Speaker 1: like to know. Hello, James.
26:08
Speaker 6: They have released the beast. And no, he's not from
26:13
Speaker 6: the East. He's from the Midwest, where it's the best.
26:17
Speaker 1: We'd like to let all the affiliates know, Hollering James
26:20
Speaker 1: is on the prowl. Hollering James is on the prowl.
26:24
Speaker 6: And he has a new number for Tammy in Montana.
26:27
Speaker 6: If you want to take it down, Ben, you can
26:29
Speaker 6: give it to her. And she can call me.
26:32
Speaker 1: Personally. I will. How about this? I'll have Coop get
26:37
Speaker 1: the number. And then if he does give it to me,
26:39
Speaker 1: sometimes I don't get the number. If he gives it
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Speaker 1: to me, I will then pass it on to– I
26:43
Speaker 1: will contact Tammy and send her the number. How about that?
26:46
Speaker 1: All right? Would that make you happy? Would that make
26:49
Speaker 1: you happy?
26:50
Speaker 7: Happy, happy.
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Speaker 3: That makes you happy and my hair is not nappy.
26:55
Speaker 1: Okay. Like a Louisiana man. How can we help you?
27:01
Speaker 1: What's going on with you?
27:02
Speaker 3: I got a hot take. I got a hot take.
27:05
Speaker 3: What do you think of the deal? with the Minnesota
27:09
Speaker 3: Timberwolves and the Minnesota Vikings cutting Max Brousmer. Am I
27:15
Speaker 3: saying the name right?
27:17
Speaker 6: Is it Max?
27:18
Speaker 3: Mad Max?
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Speaker 1: They put him on the practice squad.
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Speaker 3: He might be in jeopardy of a job. And they
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Speaker 3: kept a jury that Tammy Montana sent me. They kept J.J. McCarthy.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they did. Well, why would you care about the quarterback?
27:38
Speaker 1: He wasn't any good, so who cares? Brosner sucked. It
27:41
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You have plenty of quarterbacks that suck. You
27:45
Speaker 1: don't need another one that sucks.
27:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't think J.J. McCartney, they should have
27:51
Speaker 3: given Rosenberg a chance. They should have given him four quarterbacks.
27:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good. How many quarterbacks do you play at
27:58
Speaker 1: one time, James?
27:59
Speaker 3: You play one quarterback at a time.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so if you play one quarterback at a time.
28:05
Speaker 1: You've got to understand, Kyler is not a full quarterback.
28:10
Speaker 1: He's half a quarterback. Kyler Murray is half a quarterback.
28:13
Speaker 1: He's half there and then half the time his mind
28:16
Speaker 1: is worried about the latest video game, whatever's out, Call
28:19
Speaker 1: of Duty.
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Speaker 6: Too many video games.
28:21
Speaker 3: Hey, you know what? I think Lorena should get a
28:24
Speaker 3: video game on porn and have Kyler Murray play that.
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Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
28:31
Speaker 3: The video games. They want to look at the video
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Speaker 3: games I watch.
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Speaker 1: There's porn video games? That's enough of James. All right.
28:42
Speaker 1: Thank you, James. All right.
28:46
Speaker 4: Geez.
28:46
Speaker 1: No, James, that's just a porn. That's not a video game.
28:48
Speaker 1: Let's see. That's just a... All right. Let's go down
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Speaker 1: to the top connoisseur of barbecue food. If you ever
28:56
Speaker 1: want to know where to eat, barbecue in Tucson, Arizona.
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Speaker 1: that college town in the desert southwest. You have to
29:05
Speaker 1: ask Mike in Tucson. Hello, Mike in Tucson. Welcome.
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Speaker 8: Hey, man.
29:10
Speaker 3: How you doing?
29:11
Speaker 6: All this Lane Kiffin talk reminded me of when Al Davis,
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Speaker 6: you didn't want to draft Demacus Russell. He's a great quarterback.
29:21
Speaker 6: Get over it. But Mendoza's taking a lot of heat, man.
29:26
Speaker 3: But he did play with.
29:27
Speaker 6: The ones, and I just think, We're not the laughingstock
29:32
Speaker 6: of AFC West, man.
29:33
Speaker 1: You just drafted a guy, number one overall, and he
29:36
Speaker 1: couldn't beat out Kirk Cousins. Ha ha! See, that's a laughingstock.
29:49
Speaker 1: That's a laughingstock.
29:52
Speaker 2: Well, Ben.
29:53
Speaker 6: You took a load management day off last Thursday when
29:55
Speaker 6: I finally called in.
29:57
Speaker 1: No, I did not take a load management. The company
29:59
Speaker 1: didn't get me a studio. We were supposed to do
30:01
Speaker 1: the show from Vegas. They didn't get me a studio.
30:03
Speaker 1: There were logistics there. Otherwise, I would have done the show.
30:05
Speaker 1: I fully prepared to do the show. No load management.
30:09
Speaker 1: That was powers out of my control. I take it
30:12
Speaker 1: up with the company. I was ready to work. I
30:14
Speaker 1: was ready to go.
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Speaker 6: Well, Ben, okay, can we hear the autumn wind?
30:18
Speaker 3: You have the best voice, the autumn wind.
30:21
Speaker 4: Even though you're a raider.
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Speaker 1: Lorena, can you, the people, the customer's always right. Can you, Lorena,
30:24
Speaker 1: can you find the autumn wind is a raider. Can
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Speaker 1: you find that audio? Let's see if Lorena can find
30:29
Speaker 1: it here.
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Speaker 6: Sure.
30:30
Speaker 1: Give me about 47 seconds. All right. You'll have to
30:34
Speaker 1: fill 47 seconds. What is your favorite Lane Kiffin fired story?
30:39
Speaker 1: You have a favorite Lane. I guess you're going with
30:41
Speaker 1: Al Davis. When he had the news conference to explain
30:44
Speaker 1: how terrible Coach Lane Kiffin was. We now have it.
30:47
Speaker 1: Here we go.
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Speaker 8: The autumn wind is a pirate blustering in from sea.
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Speaker 8: With a rollicking song, he sweeps along, swaggering boisterously.
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Speaker 1: His face is weather-beaten. He wears a hooded sash with
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Speaker 1: a silver hat.
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Speaker 8: About his head and a bristling black mustache.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty good, huh? Want me to keep going? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: go ahead, man.
31:09
Speaker 3: Keep going.
31:09
Speaker 1: He growls as he storms the country, a villain big
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Speaker 1: and bold.
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Speaker 8: And the trees all shake and quiver and quake as
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Speaker 8: he robs them of their gold. The autumn wind is
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Speaker 8: a raider, pillaging just for fun.
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Speaker 1: He'll knock you around and upside down and laugh when
31:33
Speaker 1: he's conquered and won! I don't know.
31:36
Speaker 3: I don't know who I am.
31:37
Speaker 6: But he was like, he's an ancient poet.
31:40
Speaker 1: Are you talking to someone else? I just played the
31:45
Speaker 1: stupid thing you wanted. What are you doing, Mike? Oh,
31:50
Speaker 1: my God. Hang up on him. What, he just got bored?
31:54
Speaker 1: Wait a minute. Is he still there? He asked for this. Oh,
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Speaker 1: my God. I hung up on him. Has anyone had–
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Speaker 1: I was just thinking about this. This just popped into
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Speaker 1: my head. I'm going to workshop this right now. Has
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Speaker 1: there ever been a coach in modern times that has
32:11
Speaker 1: had more legendary removals of jobs than Lane Kiffin? Like,
32:17
Speaker 1: I don't know. You remember, Coop, when he coached the Raiders?
32:19
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's been a long time. He was
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Speaker 1: a young lad in 07. But Lane Kiffin got let go,
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Speaker 1: and there was a public prosecution by Al Davis– And
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Speaker 1: it was it was a great late like Lane accused
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Speaker 1: him of insubordination, called him a flat out liar. It
32:36
Speaker 1: was hilarious.
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Speaker 7: Right.
32:38
Speaker 1: Al got up there at the whole overhead projector. It
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Speaker 1: was it was great. And then when he was at Tennessee,
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Speaker 1: he was fired and there was a mob of people
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Speaker 1: burning couches in the streets in Knoxville. They gathered around
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Speaker 1: the complex and the streets were barricaded. Students were blocking exits.
32:56
Speaker 1: There were small fires. It was like a demilitarized zone
32:59
Speaker 1: in Knoxville when Tennessee, when Kiffin went off to USC.
33:03
Speaker 1: And then at SC, famously, got fired on the tarmac.
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Speaker 1: He got fired on a tarmac. The athletic director, Pat Hayden,
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Speaker 1: told Kiffin he wanted to speak to him. When the
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Speaker 1: team landed, I think they got smoked by Arizona State.
33:16
Speaker 1: They flew back to L.A. at like 3 in the morning,
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Speaker 1: and he got fired in some room at LAX. And
33:25
Speaker 1: that was it. And then what happened at Ole Miss?
33:28
Speaker 1: So that's pretty good. That's got to be the greatest
33:33
Speaker 1: trio of either firings or I'm leaving in modern coaching.
33:40
Speaker 1: So impressive work by Lane Kiffin. It's the way to go.
33:45
Speaker 1: Almost as good as Dorko the Comedian in Honolulu, who's back.
33:50
Speaker 1: Dorko's so popular now. He does all these comedy gigs.
33:53
Speaker 1: It's hard to get a hold of him. Hello, Dorko
33:55
Speaker 1: the Comedian. Welcome.
33:57
Speaker 7: Oh, my God, Ben.
33:59
Speaker 1: Hi.
33:59
Speaker 3: How are you?
34:01
Speaker 1: How's the comedy, Dorko? You doing a lot of gigs there,
34:04
Speaker 1: getting on stage, dominating?
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Speaker 7: Well, for a guy born with one testicle, it's pretty good.
34:10
Speaker 7: It's going well. Congratulations on that.
34:15
Speaker 1: You and John Kruk. He was born with two, I think.
34:19
Speaker 7: I'm thinking on the Raiders. All you've got to do
34:22
Speaker 7: is look at Mark Davis' haircut, and that's everything you
34:25
Speaker 7: need to know about who their starting QB is going
34:27
Speaker 7: to be.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you think that's the sign from the heavens right there?
34:34
Speaker 3: So, how is Vegas, baby?
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Speaker 1: Oh, it was great. I was bummed out. I thought
34:39
Speaker 1: you might show up. I know Vegas is like a
34:41
Speaker 1: suburb of Honolulu. They have all the commercials for come
34:44
Speaker 1: to Vegas and gamble and all that. But you didn't
34:47
Speaker 1: see Dorco the comedian. We had a great time. Next year,
34:49
Speaker 1: you got to show up, Dorco, or we'll go to Hawaii.
34:51
Speaker 1: We'll do a Hawaiian aloha meet and greet in Honolulu somewhere.
34:57
Speaker 7: Yeah, I was contemplating it. Vegas is considered the ninth island.
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Speaker 1: But.
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Speaker 7: Maybe, I don't know, when's the next one going to be?
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Speaker 7: Another one this year, or we've got to wait until 2027?
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure. It's hard to do them during football season.
35:13
Speaker 1: There's some chatter. We might do one more. We can
35:17
Speaker 1: do one in L.A. We can do one because Matt
35:19
Speaker 1: Jack wanted to do one in L.A., so we could
35:21
Speaker 1: do one in L.A. We need some time to promote it.
35:24
Speaker 1: It's likely the last one, but unless someone wants to
35:26
Speaker 1: step up and say, hey, I want to host it,
35:28
Speaker 1: and we can get you here and all that, so.
35:30
Speaker 1: But we'll let you know. You know, Dorco, we don't
35:32
Speaker 1: really promote these things, but we'll let you know. And
35:34
Speaker 1: next time we need jokes, Dorco, I demand jokes.
35:39
Speaker 7: You know who to call. Hawaii's number one.
35:42
Speaker 1: That's right, the top comic in all of Hawaii, the
35:44
Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle of Hawaii. Dave Chappelle's the top comic from Ohio,
35:48
Speaker 1: and Dorco's the top comic in Hawaii. So there it is.
35:51
Speaker 1: Time now for the Insta Trivia. We'll get to Mallory
35:54
Speaker 1: third degree. Here's the Insta Trivia. The Raiders' Fernando Mendoza
35:59
Speaker 1: becomes the first number one overall quarterback drafted since blank,
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Speaker 1: not to start week one. It's been a minute. The Raiders'
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Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza becoming the first top overall quarterback picked since blank,
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36:21
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Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza, be coming. Be coming. The very first number
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Speaker 1: one overall pick since blank.
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Speaker 8: Number one.
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Speaker 1: To not start week one. Alf the Alien Alpiner from
37:59
Speaker 1: in between Worcester and Springfield, Mass., going with Chris Everett.
38:03
Speaker 1: Bruce Jenner from Femi, the top Uber Eats driver. Who
38:07
Speaker 1: else do we have? Trucker Joe going with, it's got
38:12
Speaker 1: to be Steve. Ho U Fat, all right, a legendary
38:15
Speaker 1: name from the past there. Rainbow Rifle Dorco from Malaprop Guy.
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Speaker 1: Quaker Hayfield from Not Blind Austin. I see what you
38:23
Speaker 1: did there. Leif Garrett from Hugh on the 5. John Elway,
38:28
Speaker 1: guest by Pauly D. Ken Stabler from Analog Al. Alan
38:33
Speaker 1: got this right. Bad job by him. Steve Bartkowski from
38:37
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38:41
Speaker 1: George from Chip and the Qs. Vinny Testaverde from our
38:43
Speaker 1: buddy JT the Wingman. Do you have an answer? Please, Lorraine.
38:49
Speaker 1: It's not Matt Leinart, guest by Rebecca. I'm going to
38:52
Speaker 1: go with Eric Dickerson. Oh, he threw out the first
38:55
Speaker 1: pitch of the Angel game. That is incorrect. Happy birthday,
38:57
Speaker 1: Eric Dickerson. I did some shows with him back in
38:59
Speaker 1: the day. Baker Mayfield is the answer. Here we go,
39:03
Speaker 1: here we go, here we go. 2018, 2018 Browns. Tyrod
39:07
Speaker 1: Taylor started it instead of him. Go ahead there, Koopaloop, please.
39:10
Speaker 2: Joey Porter Jr. was asked on Tuesday if he'll play
39:12
Speaker 2: week one without a new deal. He said, I don't know.
39:14
Speaker 2: I would have to talk to the guys upstairs and
39:16
Speaker 2: my agents about that one. Ben, do you think they'll
39:18
Speaker 2: get a deal done or will we see a Le'Veon
39:20
Speaker 2: Bell type situation?
39:22
Speaker 1: Well, I don't think they're going to get a deal done.
39:25
Speaker 1: And it's the Steelers. And by the way, come on now.
39:28
Speaker 1: He's signed a... a, I think he's making, what does
39:31
Speaker 1: he make, $ 4 million or something like that for the Steelers?
39:35
Speaker 1: If you don't show up, you should tarnish the man's reputation.
39:40
Speaker 1: You're getting paid or you already have a contract. You're
39:42
Speaker 1: worried about your next contract.
39:43
Speaker 3: Next!
39:44
Speaker 2: With every momentous occasion comes some Debbie Downers. With Stan
39:48
Speaker 2: Kroenke buying the Angels, Buster Only reports that this makes
39:50
Speaker 2: Mike Trout trade more likely. We also have people speculating
39:54
Speaker 2: that Kroenke moves the team out of California.
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Speaker 1: Ben, do you think either of those two things could happen? No,
39:59
Speaker 1: the Angels aren't moving out of California. That's ridiculous. That's
40:02
Speaker 1: not going to happen. They have a loyal, even when
40:05
Speaker 1: they suck, they're still getting two, three million fans a year.
40:08
Speaker 1: They're not moving. And Trout is moving, though.
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Speaker 8: Next!
40:11
Speaker 2: A new report says the Mavericks want to play Kyrie
40:13
Speaker 2: Irving through January to build his value and then trade
40:15
Speaker 2: him at the deadline. Ben, do you see any scenario
40:17
Speaker 2: in which Kyrie Irving is still with Dallas at the
40:19
Speaker 2: end of the season?
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Speaker 1: Well, that's funny. They want to play him and then
40:22
Speaker 1: trade him. He doesn't play. All right. He's always hurt.
40:25
Speaker 1: What are we doing with Kyrie? How'd we do Koopaloo?
40:27
Speaker 1: There it is. You failed. Trout's going nowhere. Yeah, he is.
40:31
Speaker 1: He's going to the Phillies.