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- 0:26Speaker 1: I want to remind you we have the fifth hour.
- 0:28Speaker 1: The fifth hour with, yeah, with me, Ben Maller. And
- 0:33Speaker 1: that'll be coming up later today.
- 0:35Speaker 2: It's actually probably available by now when you start listening
- 0:37Speaker 2: to this podcast. And on this Friday edition, we have
- 0:40Speaker 2: the post-game show from the big Maller meet and greet
- 0:44Speaker 2: in Lost Wages, Nevada. All the good, the bad, and
- 0:48Speaker 2: the ugly as we had a rollicking time in Sin City.
- 0:52Speaker 2: Also a little movie magic episode. involving one of the
- 0:55Speaker 2: big stories of the week. So that'll be coming up
- 0:57Speaker 2: for you on today's episode of the Fifth Hour. Now
- 1:00Speaker 2: here in hour number one, we talk about the big story.
- 1:05Speaker 2: It's an ongoing story. At the time we recorded the
- 1:08Speaker 2: Ben Maller Show, it was a win in round one
- 1:12Speaker 2: for LSU. So how big a deal is Lane Kiffin's
- 1:15Speaker 2: LSU courtroom victory, as they will play Clemson on Saturday?
- 1:20Speaker 2: And what comes next in this ongoing saga between LSU's
- 1:24Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin and.
- 1:25Speaker 1: The SEC and the NCAA? We'll talk about that.
- 1:28Speaker 2: George's Kirby Smart says the NFL people tell him the
- 1:33Speaker 2: SEC remains ahead of the Big Ten. How does that
- 1:37Speaker 2: reshape basketball? the situation, the battle between those two conferences.
- 1:42Speaker 2: We'll talk about all that and more. You get your
- 1:44Speaker 2: second bite of the apple on this fourth day of
- 1:46Speaker 2: September on this Friday.
- 1:48Speaker 1: Here it is, our number one. A tiger in your tank.
- 1:59Speaker 2: Welcome in the beginning. of another night of the Ben
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- 3:46Speaker 1: So later on this hour, we'll have the Who Am
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- 3:50Speaker 2: Also, in hour two, Mallard to the third degree, we'll
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- 4:02Speaker 1: the Mallor Riddle of the Day. The Comedy Club will
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- 4:17Speaker 2: They're very funny. And then later on, way, way past
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- 4:24Speaker 2: place in hour four. We'll also have Sports Jeopardy as
- 4:28Speaker 2: well is in my deal here. I must begin with
- 4:32Speaker 2: a Maller monologue. It would be called something else, but
- 4:34Speaker 2: my name is Maller. So our lead this hour from
- 4:38Speaker 2: below the Mason-Dixon line, Southern Fried Fury.
- 4:44Speaker 1: Man, is this a great story. So a Baton Rouge judge.
- 4:49Speaker 2: Who may or may not have been wearing LSU boxer
- 4:51Speaker 2: shorts ruled against the NCAA, and that clears a pathway.
- 4:58Speaker 1: The A-gap is now.
- 4:59Speaker 2: Open for former NFL players Daquan Wright and Zavion Harris
- 5:06Speaker 2: and others to return to college. So if you didn't
- 5:11Speaker 2: see this, this has been bubbling up throughout the nighttime hours,
- 5:15Speaker 2: and it will continue to percolate through Friday because there'll
- 5:19Speaker 2: be more legal wrangling taking place as last-minute injunctions are
- 5:23Speaker 2: requested and whatnot. But for now, we'll focus on what
- 5:27Speaker 2: has happened. So it's good.
- 5:31Speaker 1: These guys, Daquan Wright and Xavier Harris, who went off
- 5:34Speaker 1: to the NFL and didn't make it in the NFL,
- 5:37Speaker 1: can now reunite, and it feels so good.
- 5:41Speaker 2: With the troublemaker, the rabble-rouser, LSU coach Lane Kiffin, who
- 5:47Speaker 2: previously coached both these guys long ago at Ole Miss,
- 5:51Speaker 2: unless it really wasn't that long ago. And the dispute
- 5:56Speaker 2: centers on the NCAA. They've got this five-year eligibility thingamajig,
- 6:02Speaker 2: this rule, the five-year eligibility. So I'll give you the
- 6:04Speaker 2: layman way this works. It extended to players from the
- 6:09Speaker 2: 2022 season. Recruiting class and COVID is tied into this.
- 6:15Speaker 1: And so the.
- 6:16Speaker 2: Ruling says that players, players who spent time with pro
- 6:21Speaker 2: teams can still return within that five year window. Now,
- 6:26Speaker 2: the judge there, the honorable wink, wink, nod, nod. Someone
- 6:31Speaker 2: named William Jordan, I have no idea who that is,
- 6:34Speaker 2: sided with the players. Sided with the players. Heard testimony,
- 6:39Speaker 2: hours and hours of testimony that included the SEC Commissioner
- 6:43Speaker 2: Greg Sankey, who was in Baton Rouge to give his testimony.
- 6:47Speaker 1: So that is where we are as of this hour.
- 6:51Speaker 2: LSU, when they take the field on Saturday night in
- 6:54Speaker 2: Death Valley against Clemson, they will have a couple, possibly
- 6:58Speaker 2: a couple of NFL players, at least on the field. Now,
- 7:00Speaker 2: whether they play or not, that's up in the air.
- 7:03Speaker 2: So the question is this, as we discuss, how big
- 7:06Speaker 2: a deal is Coach Lane Kiffin's LSU courtroom victory So
- 7:13Speaker 2: I've got Hot Tub, Lifeboat, and Himalayan. And we will
- 7:18Speaker 2: combine all of these things together and we are going
- 7:22Speaker 2: to face the music in this courtroom drama-o-rama.
- 7:28Speaker 1: I'm ready for it. So you've got my first thought
- 7:30Speaker 1: on this. You've got the micro and you have the macro.
- 7:34Speaker 1: You have the micro and the macro. We'll start with
- 7:37Speaker 1: the micro. So LSU for now adds a couple of former.
- 7:42Speaker 2: training camp players in the NFL as Lane Kiffin tries
- 7:45Speaker 2: to stockpile his roster and Lane by doing this has
- 7:50Speaker 2: been able to unlock college football's ultimate recruiting weapon what
- 7:55Speaker 2: is that the temporary injunction Forget the five-star quarterback. Baton Rouge,
- 8:03Speaker 2: best offseason signing, and they've signed a bunch of players.
- 8:08Speaker 1: You look at these stupid Fugazi recruiting things, and I
- 8:11Speaker 1: don't really pay attention to that much stuff, but some
- 8:13Speaker 1: of you idiots send it to me.
- 8:14Speaker 2: So good recruits, right, big players and whatnot, but the
- 8:17Speaker 2: biggest offseason move was the legal team and what they've
- 8:22Speaker 2: been able to pull off in cahoots with Lane Kiffin.
- 8:25Speaker 2: And at this point, Lane Kiffin hasn't just bent the
- 8:28Speaker 2: SEC rulebook. He has dragged it into court, screaming and shouting,
- 8:33Speaker 2: and then subpoenaed it. And then you've got the macro.
- 8:36Speaker 2: And the macro, this isn't an eligibility spat. It's being
- 8:41Speaker 2: described as, well, it's about eligibility. It is a jurisdictional,
- 8:45Speaker 2: it's about jurisdiction, right? It's a cage match about jurisdiction.
- 8:51Speaker 2: And the SEC's stance is, We make the rules, and
- 8:57Speaker 2: that's it. And LSU said, okay, we're going to channel
- 9:01Speaker 2: our inner Lee Corso and say, not so fast, my friend.
- 9:05Speaker 2: So now the SEC has already sprinted over to federal court,
- 9:10Speaker 2: and they're arguing that, hey, you cannot join our little club,
- 9:14Speaker 2: our members-only club, And then rewrite the clubhouse rules.
- 9:18Speaker 1: That's not how any of this works. You're not allowed
- 9:20Speaker 1: to do it. And Lane Kiffin says, no, no, no, no, no, no.
- 9:24Speaker 1: We just did it, suckers.
- 9:26Speaker 2: And I was thinking about this as I was making
- 9:28Speaker 2: my way into the studio, walking down the hall. And
- 9:30Speaker 2: I was like, do you imagine if you could fire
- 9:34Speaker 2: up the hot tub time machine and go back to,
- 9:38Speaker 2: I don't know, 1995 or 2005? Let's go 2005. And
- 9:44Speaker 2: there's somebody that is there in 2005. They love their
- 9:48Speaker 2: college football. And you tell them 20 something years from now,
- 9:52Speaker 2: there'll be an NFL player that got released at the
- 9:55Speaker 2: end of training camp who will.
- 9:56Speaker 1: Then go back to LSU and.
- 9:59Speaker 2: Then the Southeastern Conference will sue LSU.
- 10:05Speaker 1: And it'll all be playing out in real time. They'd
- 10:08Speaker 1: have you committed. They'd have you, oh, that's never going
- 10:11Speaker 1: to happen.
- 10:12Speaker 2: Because back in 2005, they were still feeding us the
- 10:14Speaker 2: bull crap about student-athlete, although I saw that annoying. I
- 10:17Speaker 2: was watching some college football on Thursday night, and I
- 10:20Speaker 2: saw a fair amount of the Nick Saban propaganda. And
- 10:24Speaker 2: he used the term student-athlete, and I was.
- 10:27Speaker 1: Like, Nick, come on, buddy. They're all getting paid, dude.
- 10:29Speaker 1: What are you doing?
- 10:30Speaker 2: That's why you quit, because they are getting paid. And
- 10:32Speaker 2: so you ran off to do your little TV thing.
- 10:34Speaker 2: and make your annoying commercials, and now you're trying to
- 10:37Speaker 2: advocate votes in Capitol Hill to make it closer to
- 10:42Speaker 2: the way it.
- 10:43Speaker 1: Was and all that stuff, and it just makes me
- 10:46Speaker 1: want to puke in my mouth.
- 10:48Speaker 2: So we're just now waiting to see who actually runs
- 10:51Speaker 2: college sports. Is it going to be the conference or
- 10:54Speaker 2: whichever judge has the gavel?
- 10:57Speaker 1: We'll find out.
- 10:58Speaker 2: Now, page two, as we continue our in-depth team coverage
- 11:03Speaker 2: of this southern drama The question here, what comes next
- 11:08Speaker 2: in the saga between LSU, led by Lane Kiffin, and
- 11:13Speaker 2: the NCAA, and really this is more about the SEC.
- 11:18Speaker 2: So at this point, the way I read the room,
- 11:20Speaker 2: and I'm in the corner of the room, the upper
- 11:21Speaker 2: right-hand corner of the room, and I'm looking down. I'm
- 11:23Speaker 2: in a bird's nest in the upper right-hand corner, and
- 11:26Speaker 2: I'm looking down. They can't see me. I can see them.
- 11:29Speaker 2: So what I'm looking at here, Lane Kiffin isn't just
- 11:33Speaker 2: coloring outside the lines. He's using his superpowers of being
- 11:39Speaker 2: a pest, and he's like, well, wait a minute. I'm
- 11:43Speaker 2: going to sue over who owns the coloring book. I
- 11:46Speaker 2: know it says it's the SEC coloring book, but I'm
- 11:49Speaker 2: coloring outside of it, and then I'm saying, well, I
- 11:52Speaker 2: own the coloring book.
- 11:54Speaker 1: That's it. So LSU.
- 11:56Speaker 2: can have on their roster ex-NFL players because of this
- 11:59Speaker 2: judge and the injunction and all that.
- 12:02Speaker 1: And there's conflicting.
- 12:04Speaker 2: Reports about whether or not these guys are actually going
- 12:07Speaker 2: to play. One of the stories that I've been coming
- 12:11Speaker 2: across here is Daquan Wright cannot play against Clemson because
- 12:16Speaker 2: of the seven-day practice rule. So I saw that and
- 12:21Speaker 2: I thought, well, that's funny.
- 12:22Speaker 1: That's pretty funny.
- 12:23Speaker 2: Pardon us for not not betting the mortgage on anyone
- 12:27Speaker 2: following the rule book anymore in baton rouge so it's
- 12:30Speaker 2: like oh you got to practice for seven games or
- 12:33Speaker 2: seven days or whatever no no he practiced for the
- 12:35Speaker 2: cleveland browns i think he's ready to go okay good
- 12:38Speaker 2: sounds good so the sec wanted to make an example
- 12:42Speaker 2: out of lsu they're still trying to do that at
- 12:45Speaker 2: this point in the story instead louisiana state made the
- 12:50Speaker 2: SEC hire more lawyers.
- 12:52Speaker 1: That's it. Just more lawyers there.
- 12:54Speaker 2: And the commissioner, Greg Sankey, who traveled over to Baton
- 12:57Speaker 2: Rouge to flex his authority, the Southeastern Conference authority, right?
- 13:04Speaker 2: And he left there needing a federal lifeboat. That's what
- 13:08Speaker 2: the SEC needs. They're going to a higher court here.
- 13:11Speaker 2: And so now comes the SEC's federal lawsuit. And at
- 13:15Speaker 2: this point, think of it like a boxing match. And
- 13:19Speaker 2: LSU won round one 10-9. 10-9, they won round one.
- 13:26Speaker 2: They have not won the heavyweight title yet. If Kiffin
- 13:29Speaker 2: wins this, NFL cut-down day will become the new shopping
- 13:34Speaker 2: day for the, you know, it's like the day after Christmas.
- 13:38Speaker 2: You know, you return stuff, you get sales and all
- 13:40Speaker 2: that stuff. In this case, it's the transfer portal. So
- 13:43Speaker 2: can the SEC punish LSU anyway? It's the billion-dollar question.
- 13:49Speaker 2: College football's chain of command is now what? The NCAA
- 13:55Speaker 2: conference school and whichever judge answers the phone first.
- 14:02Speaker 1: There's many people say, well, this is.
- 14:03Speaker 2: A one time situation and it's not going to change
- 14:08Speaker 2: precedent in college sports. It's because of the 2022 class.
- 14:13Speaker 2: And to those people, I love your naive way of
- 14:17Speaker 2: looking at the world, because what I see is an
- 14:20Speaker 2: opportunity and some lawyers to say, well, there was this loophole.
- 14:26Speaker 2: But college players are getting paid anyway. They're professional. The
- 14:29Speaker 2: people that are in college sports don't want to admit that.
- 14:32Speaker 2: When you're getting paid to do something that's a job,
- 14:36Speaker 2: we call it what you want, but to me, professional.
- 14:39Speaker 2: You're being paid, compensated to play football.
- 14:42Speaker 1: That's it.
- 14:44Speaker 2: And that's where we are. And so we'll see how
- 14:47Speaker 2: this plays out. But the SEC has officially, for now, rebranded.
- 14:51Speaker 1: From it just means more, which has been their slogan,
- 14:54Speaker 1: it just means more, to it just means more litigation.
- 14:57Speaker 1: It's the new slogan. I just added an extra word.
- 15:01Speaker 1: All right, last word from.
- 15:03Speaker 2: Us to the popularity contest. We'll keep the theme going,
- 15:07Speaker 2: but we'll move away from LSU and Georgia.
- 15:11Speaker 1: Got Georgia on my mind. Coach Kirby Smart.
- 15:15Speaker 2: Kirby Smart planting the Southeastern Conference flag in a recent interview,
- 15:21Speaker 2: insisting that the NFL personnel, the NFL people consistently tell
- 15:30Speaker 2: him that the Southeastern Conference is superior to to the
- 15:35Speaker 2: Big Ten when it comes to future NFL pedigree. Smart
- 15:39Speaker 2: says NFL scouts and coaches alike overwhelmingly, overwhelmingly favor the
- 15:45Speaker 2: SEC ballplayer when asked which league produces the top player, and.
- 15:51Speaker 1: He said it's not even close.
- 15:53Speaker 2: Now, Kirby Smart claiming that even Big Ten coaching friends
- 15:57Speaker 2: privately agree, although, of course, they will not admit it publicly,
- 16:01Speaker 2: can't do it publicly. Now, Smart argues the gap extends
- 16:04Speaker 2: beyond just NFL talent. He said the SEC is tougher,
- 16:09Speaker 2: more physical as a conference, he said, and challenging those
- 16:13Speaker 2: who criticize the SEC to compare the schedules and the
- 16:18Speaker 2: week-to-week competition and all that. Well, this is not a
- 16:21Speaker 2: great time to talk about this because Rutgers lost to
- 16:23Speaker 2: UMass from the Big Ten, which means they'll probably be
- 16:27Speaker 2: decommissioned from the Big Ten.
- 16:28Speaker 1: But let's address this anyway. So the question....
- 16:31Speaker 2: Georgia coach Kirby Smart says the SEC remains ahead of
- 16:36Speaker 2: the Big Ten, despite what has happened on the field.
- 16:41Speaker 2: So how does this reshape the situation, if at all?
- 16:45Speaker 2: So Kirby Smart is a senior fellow at the prestigious
- 16:50Speaker 2: Trust Me Bro Institute. Yeah, the TMBI Institute. is what
- 16:57Speaker 2: it's called there, the Trust Me Bro Institute of NFL Scouting.
- 17:02Speaker 2: So just kind of roll your eyes, and you're like, well,
- 17:04Speaker 2: come on, Kirby. I mean, that's just a great name, Kirby.
- 17:07Speaker 2: You don't hear a lot of people named Kirby.
- 17:09Speaker 1: You don't.
- 17:10Speaker 2: And you're the head coach at Georgia. You sell the
- 17:15Speaker 2: product of SEC football for a living. When you go
- 17:18Speaker 2: out and offer those big cartoon checks to various players,
- 17:21Speaker 2: various recruits, you're selling the SEC.
- 17:24Speaker 3: See?
- 17:25Speaker 2: This is not Consumer Reports breaking things down. So you
- 17:29Speaker 2: take Kirby Smart's opinion with a grain of salt and
- 17:33Speaker 2: probably the entire Himalayan pink salt shaker.
- 17:37Speaker 1: Just have all of that Himalayan pink salt and just enjoy.
- 17:41Speaker 2: Methinks the gentleman from Athens, Georgia might be slightly biased,
- 17:47Speaker 2: Your Honor. It's kind of like asking a person that
- 17:51Speaker 2: works as a car dealer at a Ford lot, whether
- 17:55Speaker 2: or not you should go across to the other dealer
- 17:57Speaker 2: and buy a Toyota. It's like, well, I don't think
- 18:00Speaker 2: that's a good idea. You know, we got these cars
- 18:03Speaker 2: right here.
- 18:03Speaker 1: And NFL people privately agree with you, is what he said.
- 18:08Speaker 1: Kirby Smart at Georgia. How convenient. How convenient.
- 18:11Speaker 2: Now, I would like to point out, I want to
- 18:13Speaker 2: point this out, that my imaginary friends also agree with
- 18:17Speaker 2: all of my hot takes. And it's just a fact
- 18:19Speaker 2: of life. And my imaginary friends believe that these are
- 18:23Speaker 2: the greatest monologues you've ever heard. And it's really wonderfully
- 18:28Speaker 2: packaged malarkey.
- 18:31Speaker 1: That's the cut of beef. Premium USDA certified malarkey. It's propaganda.
- 18:38Speaker 1: It's just absolute propaganda.
- 18:40Speaker 2: Because in modern times, the Southeastern Conference keeps winning the
- 18:45Speaker 2: hypothetical national championship and they have the NFL scouts who
- 18:49Speaker 2: are slobbering and licking their chops. And the Big Ten
- 18:54Speaker 2: keeps winning the actual one.
- 18:55Speaker 1: You said Indiana. Indiana won the last championship from the
- 19:01Speaker 1: Big Ten.
- 19:03Speaker 2: One of, if not the single worst college football program
- 19:08Speaker 2: in my time and in everyone's time won a championship.
- 19:12Speaker 1: And that was not a SEC school. That was not
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- 21:18Speaker 2: Still the 3rd of September on a Thursday. late on
- 21:23Speaker 2: the west, heading into the fourth for most of the country,
- 21:27Speaker 2: and still third over in Hawaii and Alaska as well,
- 21:30Speaker 2: as we are just warming up the red-eye flight. A
- 21:35Speaker 2: spicy hot Mallard monologue. Lane Kiffin, LSU, win round one.
- 21:41Speaker 1: Round one against the Southeastern Conference. Another round expected to
- 21:47Speaker 1: take place today. If it does not, if....
- 21:51Speaker 2: The SEC does not get some kind of injunction than
- 21:54Speaker 2: the real stories on Saturday there at Clemson or at
- 21:57Speaker 2: home for LSU against Clemson and see what happens with
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- 22:18Speaker 2: and we have The bad guys that, well, they like
- 22:23Speaker 2: to show.
- 22:23Speaker 1: The cops also like to show. So it's a little
- 22:25Speaker 1: bit of everything. Got to have jobs.
- 22:30Speaker 2: 877-99-ON-FOX is the call-in number also available for you if
- 22:34Speaker 2: you want to just hide behind your fake avatar and
- 22:37Speaker 2: your bogus name and all that. You can say hello,
- 22:41Speaker 2: care of, at Ben Maller on X. Lorena is in
- 22:47Speaker 2: the hizzy, and she's feeling great. And just really the
- 22:51Speaker 2: model of health there. Say hello to Lorena, FSR Tech Queen.
- 22:56Speaker 1: Not bad.
- 22:57Speaker 2: No, that could be worse. And Coop, a Bronco fan.
- 23:03Speaker 2: That's a Bronco fan. And if you think you're going
- 23:06Speaker 2: to outfox Coop or anyone here, you're just wrong. You're
- 23:12Speaker 2: just wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Now back to what
- 23:16Speaker 2: we go. Femi writes in from the Twin Cities, the
- 23:19Speaker 2: top Uber Eats driver. as far as I'm concerned. He says, hey, Ben,
- 23:22Speaker 2: these lawyers are just cashing out. Didn't the Clippers say
- 23:26Speaker 2: the NBA spent $ 50 million on its lawsuit? I wonder
- 23:30Speaker 2: what SEC money they're paying off to the lawyers there.
- 23:34Speaker 2: I should have been in law school. Yeah. The problem
- 23:38Speaker 2: with that, Femi, and I don't know if these numbers
- 23:40Speaker 2: are still the same because these numbers are from a.
- 23:43Speaker 1: Few years ago, but every year there are.
- 23:46Speaker 2: Roughly 60,000 people that pass the bar.
- 23:51Speaker 1: In the United States. So there's technically 60,000 lawyers in America.
- 23:56Speaker 2: This was as of a few years ago every year,
- 23:58Speaker 2: 60,000 new lawyers. Now, a fair amount of people become
- 24:01Speaker 2: lawyers just because it's something that was on their bucket
- 24:04Speaker 2: list when they were younger and they don't actually practice law.
- 24:08Speaker 2: There's a certain percentage of those lawyers that become sleazy
- 24:11Speaker 2: ambulance chasing lawyers.
- 24:12Speaker 1: I call them billboard lawyers.
- 24:14Speaker 2: So there's a certain percentage of that. There's so many
- 24:17Speaker 2: branches of law that you can go into, right? You
- 24:19Speaker 2: can go into divorce law. You can go into, you know,
- 24:23Speaker 2: death law. That's a fun one.
- 24:24Speaker 1: Boy, that's great. Estate planning, law, lawyer crap and all that.
- 24:29Speaker 2: It's a special niche if you're the big Manhattan law firms,
- 24:35Speaker 2: which is typically who these leagues turn to, to investigate.
- 24:39Speaker 1: It's pretty... Pretty wild.
- 24:42Speaker 2: Late Night Drug Tester writes in, he says, just looking
- 24:44Speaker 2: at the history of Lane Kiffin, even with players that
- 24:47Speaker 2: couldn't play in the NFL, he will still find a
- 24:51Speaker 2: way to screw it up unless he brings Nick Saban
- 24:55Speaker 2: in as head coach. Yes, I'm sure Lane will stand
- 24:58Speaker 2: down and allow Nick to take over. And for a
- 25:02Speaker 2: guy that hasn't had that big-time run, the greatest team
- 25:05Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin had was at Ole Miss last year, and
- 25:08Speaker 2: he quit on Ole Miss to run off to LSU.
- 25:11Speaker 1: That was a fluke.
- 25:12Speaker 2: He obviously admitted that was a fluke, what he did
- 25:14Speaker 2: at LSU last year, putting that team together. He couldn't
- 25:16Speaker 2: do it again, otherwise he would have stayed. Otherwise he
- 25:18Speaker 2: would have stayed. So he ran off to LSU. We
- 25:21Speaker 2: talked about this the other day. When he got run
- 25:24Speaker 2: out of Tennessee, they were like a 7-6 team that year.
- 25:28Speaker 2: SC was the preseason number one team, and they got
- 25:32Speaker 2: smoked by Arizona State, and he got fired at LAX
- 25:35Speaker 2: last year.
- 25:37Speaker 1: They weren't a good team.
- 25:37Speaker 2: The Raiders were, he was a young lad with the
- 25:40Speaker 2: Raiders in his early 30s, but they were not.
- 25:41Speaker 1: A good team. Obviously, Al Davis hated Lane Kiffin.
- 25:45Speaker 2: He's the common denominator in all that. The Baltimore Freeloader
- 25:50Speaker 2: account writes in and says, a rough night here in
- 25:53Speaker 2: the Charmed City. Adley Rushman comes back with the Red
- 25:57Speaker 2: Sox and treats the Orioles like clam chowder. I can't
- 26:01Speaker 2: stand clam chowder, but I like a good knish, unlike A.J.
- 26:05Speaker 1: Brzezinski.
- 26:06Speaker 2: I know what it is, and so do you. A
- 26:09Speaker 2: great section at the yard. A great selection at the yard.
- 26:12Speaker 2: I have rumors, though. They have a kosher food stand
- 26:16Speaker 2: in Baltimore. They do not sell matzo ball soup, which
- 26:19Speaker 2: seems like blasphemy. If I was the health department, I'd
- 26:23Speaker 2: shut that place down. You've got to serve some matzo
- 26:24Speaker 2: ball soup. That's a bad job by you. You have
- 26:27Speaker 2: to add up. Truck Stop Fungus writes in, and he
- 26:33Speaker 2: found Kathy and Madison. Truck Stop Fungus is sitting in
- 26:36Speaker 2: his tighty-whities at a sleazy one-star hotel with bedbugs hopping
- 26:42Speaker 2: on and off the bed somewhere in the boondocks of Arkansas,
- 26:47Speaker 2: eating a bowl of chili with his belly hanging over
- 26:50Speaker 2: his tighty-whities. And he's very excited that he found Kathy,
- 26:54Speaker 2: who listens to the show every night. on a different affiliate.
- 26:58Speaker 2: She loves flipping around and finding the show on different
- 27:01Speaker 2: stations and all that. Now, Trek Stop Fungus also says
- 27:03Speaker 2: if college athletes weren't getting paid, these former NFL players
- 27:07Speaker 2: wouldn't be interested. This isn't going to end well. Exactly, yes,
- 27:11Speaker 2: they're going because they can't make NFL money. And the
- 27:14Speaker 2: sweet spot, we talked about this in a previous episode
- 27:18Speaker 2: of the show, if you're on the practice squad, and
- 27:20Speaker 2: who knows if these guys would even be on the
- 27:21Speaker 2: practice squad, but if you're on the practice squad... A
- 27:25Speaker 2: first-year player on the practice squad, somewhere around $ 250, 000, which
- 27:28Speaker 2: seems like a good amount of money to me. But
- 27:31Speaker 2: for them, it's like not enough. And they can go
- 27:32Speaker 2: play at LSU and make more than that. So they're
- 27:34Speaker 2: going to go for the money.
- 27:36Speaker 1: Money, money, money. Money, money, money.
- 27:39Speaker 2: Not a burner says, I'm very interested in hearing about
- 27:42Speaker 2: your imaginary friends. Could you please elaborate on these figments
- 27:47Speaker 2: of your imagination? Yeah, well, I think you know a
- 27:50Speaker 2: couple of them. I think you know two or three
- 27:53Speaker 2: of my imaginary friends.
- 27:55Speaker 1: I believe you do.
- 27:56Speaker 2: Michael in Tulsa writes in and says, Ben, malarkey is
- 28:01Speaker 2: nowhere near as good as the gabagoo, the baba ganoush,
- 28:05Speaker 2: or the jambalaya. That's Michael chiming in. Random Ryan in
- 28:11Speaker 2: Carolina checks in. He says, Rod Tidwell walked for $ 11
- 28:17Speaker 2: million so Michael Wilson could run for $ 75 million. Who
- 28:22Speaker 2: is the better value? What say you? Boogity, boogity, boogity, boogity, boogity, boogity, boogity.
- 28:30Speaker 1: Yes, the great Rod Tidwell. Show me the money.
- 28:32Speaker 4: Legend.
- 28:34Speaker 3: Legend.
- 28:35Speaker 1: Legend, legend, legend.
- 28:38Speaker 2: Listen, the Arizona Cardinals are so irrelevant.
- 28:44Speaker 1: How irrelevant are they? Thanks for asking.
- 28:48Speaker 2: They signed a player to a contract worth almost $ 80 million,
- 28:52Speaker 2: and the only reason we're mentioning this is because of
- 28:54Speaker 2: our friend here who.
- 28:56Speaker 1: Brought it up, Random Ryan. That's how irrelevant they are.
- 28:59Speaker 1: Michael Wilson. Can you imagine that? $ 78 million.
- 29:02Speaker 2: You play on a team going nowhere, dead-end team, and
- 29:07Speaker 2: don't have to worry about ever playing in a big game.
- 29:10Speaker 2: You get an average of $ 25.
- 29:12Speaker 1: Million per year for Michael Wilson. My God. Yikes. Yikes, yikes, yikes, yikes, yikes. Yeah,
- 29:24Speaker 1: so I think it was $ 25 million. Maybe it was
- 29:27Speaker 1: less than that. It might have been less than that.
- 29:30Speaker 1: I think the average.
- 29:31Speaker 2: The estimation was he should have been $ 18 million. Should
- 29:34Speaker 2: have been $ 18 million. He ended up with $ 25 million.
- 29:36Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 29:36Speaker 1: So. that's a little nutso. A little nutso.
- 29:43Speaker 2: All right, we got some calls. Let's go to the phones.
- 29:45Speaker 2: It is a call and show. And also the other
- 29:48Speaker 2: knuckleheads on Twitter will get to that. I did want
- 29:49Speaker 2: to mention LSU. They're not done apparently adding NFL players.
- 29:55Speaker 1: There are reports.
- 29:57Speaker 2: In the bowels of the dark web that that LSU
- 30:03Speaker 2: looking to add another NFL bounce-back player, defensive back Blake Cotton.
- 30:10Speaker 2: I have no idea who that is. Apparently he played
- 30:13Speaker 2: for the Utes.
- 30:14Speaker 1: What is a Ute?
- 30:16Speaker 2: He was a defensive back there. He attempted to play
- 30:19Speaker 2: for the Denver Broncos, and it did not work out.
- 30:23Speaker 2: He spent the offseason with the Broncos. He was released
- 30:26Speaker 2: last month, which was like last week.
- 30:29Speaker 1: And that's it. Not finalized. Not finalized.
- 30:33Speaker 2: They are looking to add LSU, another former NFL player.
- 30:41Speaker 1: So that's outstanding. That is outstanding.
- 30:45Speaker 3: All right, let's see.
- 30:45Speaker 1: What do we got here? Let's go to the phones. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
- 30:48Speaker 1: Pick a caller by their name and see who do
- 30:51Speaker 1: we have. Let's go to....
- 30:56Speaker 2: Let's go to Anthony in Louisiana.
- 30:58Speaker 1: Hello, Anthony. Welcome. What's going on, Anthony?
- 31:01Speaker 4: Hey, how you doing?
- 31:03Speaker 2: If I was any better, Anthony, I'd be a Kiffin,
- 31:08Speaker 2: but not Lane Kiffin. Well, I guess I would be Lane.
- 31:10Speaker 2: He makes a lot of money, and he's got a
- 31:12Speaker 2: lot of power and all that. You a big Lane
- 31:15Speaker 2: Kiffin fan there?
- 31:16Speaker 6: Yeah, I like Alabama.
- 31:19Speaker 1: Oh, that's right. Even though you live in Louisiana, you
- 31:21Speaker 1: hate LSU.
- 31:22Speaker 7: Gotcha, gotcha.
- 31:25Speaker 4: I hope you have a good weekend, man.
- 31:27Speaker 2: Well, it's very kind of you to say that. Are
- 31:29Speaker 2: you going to listen to the Fifth Hour podcast, Anthony?
- 31:31Speaker 2: Do you want to come on the mailbag sometime? People
- 31:33Speaker 2: would love to hear you on the mailbag.
- 31:35Speaker 4: They do?
- 31:37Speaker 1: Yeah, they'd love to hear you. Absolutely. Come on. The
- 31:39Speaker 1: witty commentary?
- 31:40Speaker 6: Hey, cuz.
- 31:43Speaker 7: How's Lorena doing?
- 31:45Speaker 1: I'm a little under the weather. Do you have any advice?
- 31:49Speaker 1: Do you have any advice, Anthony, for Lorena to feel better?
- 31:52Speaker 6: Yeah, Lorena, when you go home, go home and drink something.
- 31:54Speaker 4: Let me teach.
- 31:56Speaker 1: Oh, that is good advice.
- 31:57Speaker 7: Thank you.
- 31:58Speaker 3: I love you, cuz.
- 31:59Speaker 1: You're the best. Thank you for caring for me, my guy.
- 32:02Speaker 7: Okay.
- 32:04Speaker 1: All right. Thank you. All right.
- 32:06Speaker 3: Go away.
- 32:07Speaker 2: That's unbelievable commentary. You will not get that anywhere else.
- 32:11Speaker 2: Nobody else has that because nobody else will allow.
- 32:13Speaker 3: Him on the air.
- 32:14Speaker 1: Let's go to Daryl in New Orleans. What's going on, Daryl?
- 32:18Speaker 3: Welcome.
- 32:19Speaker 1: You're on Fox Sports Radio.
- 32:20Speaker 3: Hey, talk to me.
- 32:23Speaker 1: If I was any better, I'm fine. What's going on, Darrell?
- 32:26Speaker 1: What you got, man?
- 32:28Speaker 3: Lane Kiffin irritates my soul. He's muddying the waters. He's
- 32:34Speaker 3: taking the purity out of the game.
- 32:36Speaker 7: You know, I don't know.
- 32:40Speaker 3: I think the game is fine without him. My son
- 32:42Speaker 3: played for him last year. My son played at all.
- 32:44Speaker 1: Oh, really? Wow.
- 32:46Speaker 3: Okay. Number 44, Andrew Jones.
- 32:50Speaker 1: Cool.
- 32:50Speaker 3: And he pulled him from Grambling. But I just, you know,
- 32:56Speaker 3: he made kids a bunch of promises of, you know,
- 33:00Speaker 3: furthering their play time with the NCAA. He broke a
- 33:06Speaker 3: lot of kids' hearts, man. He really did. So I
- 33:11Speaker 3: hope he has.
- 33:11Speaker 2: What was that like as a father of a player?
- 33:14Speaker 2: Did Lane come out and try to recruit? He obviously
- 33:17Speaker 2: recruited your son. You said your son was at Grambling.
- 33:19Speaker 1: Is that what you said?
- 33:20Speaker 3: Yeah. Actually, the current coach is who actually recruited my son.
- 33:26Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
- 33:27Speaker 3: I got you. I never shook Lane Kiffin's hand. But
- 33:32Speaker 3: needless to say, I hope he has a horrible time
- 33:36Speaker 3: at LSU, to be quite honest with you. But I
- 33:40Speaker 3: don't think he quite understands. At Ole Miss– They could
- 33:45Speaker 3: tolerate a loss, you know, two or three losses. He's
- 33:49Speaker 3: not going to have that same tolerance in Louisiana, in
- 33:52Speaker 3: Baton Rouge. He can lose two losses. He can have
- 33:56Speaker 3: two losses if he wants to and think he'll be
- 33:57Speaker 3: okay for next year. But two losses at LSU, they're
- 34:01Speaker 3: looking to get rid of your butt for next year.
- 34:05Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's got more than one year, though,
- 34:07Speaker 2: because of that money. I mean, they do have some
- 34:09Speaker 2: rich boosters at LSU, but, yeah, that's like, what.
- 34:11Speaker 1: $ 90 million? That's $ 90 million. That's a lot to pay
- 34:14Speaker 1: out after. You've got to give them at least a
- 34:15Speaker 1: couple years, right?
- 34:17Speaker 2: Now, obviously, the other thing, Daryl, you know, because your
- 34:20Speaker 2: son played college football, if the NCAA, if they win,
- 34:24Speaker 2: and let's say, like, Lane gets suspended or something like that,
- 34:28Speaker 2: I guess they could get rid of him.
- 34:30Speaker 1: There's some loopholes in the contract and all.
- 34:32Speaker 3: That, but it's pretty crazy.
- 34:34Speaker 7: Look at it from this perspective, man. If you're going
- 34:38Speaker 7: to say that, hey, I can.
- 34:43Speaker 3: Score 100 points in a basketball game and everybody on
- 34:48Speaker 3: the court is 3'5, 3'5 inches tall, do you think
- 34:55Speaker 3: that that would be a good game or something like that?
- 34:58Speaker 3: I've actually.
- 35:00Speaker 6: did this phenomenal thing. If Lane Kiffin actually becomes successful
- 35:06Speaker 6: with the NFL players and he goes and he hypothetically
- 35:10Speaker 6: wins a national championship, it would be muddy because people
- 35:15Speaker 6: will feel like he cheated.
- 35:18Speaker 1: Yeah, well, some will, but others will just say, well,
- 35:21Speaker 1: we won. It doesn't matter and all that. Did your
- 35:23Speaker 1: son benefit, Daryl, from any NIL? Did he get a
- 35:26Speaker 1: little money there, I hope, at least a little bit, something?
- 35:30Speaker 3: I won't speak his business, man, but he enjoyed his
- 35:33Speaker 3: time at Ole Miss, man. All right. I enjoyed watching
- 35:37Speaker 3: him at Ole Miss, and I am forever an Ole
- 35:40Speaker 3: Miss fan. I'm from Louisiana.
- 35:42Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? Okay. I got you. I
- 35:45Speaker 1: got you. You're a hottie-tottie, right? Is that what they say?
- 35:47Speaker 3: Hottie-tottie. Hottie-tottie guy.
- 35:50Speaker 1: All right, my man. Thanks for listening. All right. Appreciate it.
- 35:52Speaker 1: Thank you.
- 35:53Speaker 3: All right.
- 35:53Speaker 1: Good luck to you. There you go. How about that, Daryl?
- 35:55Speaker 1: Check it in.
- 35:56Speaker 2: We have no way of verifying that, but it seems legit.
- 35:59Speaker 2: It says his son played for Lane Kiffin at Ole Miss.
- 36:04Speaker 2: I'm sure Daryl's done this, but if you want to
- 36:07Speaker 2: fall down a rabbit hole, type in It's one of
- 36:11Speaker 2: the search engines or whatever thingamajig AI and like lies
- 36:15Speaker 2: told by Lane Kiffin.
- 36:20Speaker 1: He will lie right to your face. He is the
- 36:23Speaker 1: definition of a weasel.
- 36:25Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 36:26Speaker 1: All right.
- 36:26Speaker 2: Well, we mentioned LSU looking to add another. Another NFL player.
- 36:32Speaker 2: We'll push back this, but direct deposit and some sad fireworks.
- 36:35Speaker 1: We'll get to that.
- 36:36Speaker 2: We have the Who Am I game right now. They'll
- 36:38Speaker 2: go to baseball for the Who Am I game. The
- 36:40Speaker 2: Dodgers picked up their first home win. They beat the
- 36:42Speaker 2: Cardinals late. Came back to beat the Redbirds. The Dodgers
- 36:46Speaker 2: picked up their first home win since August 17th, 1988,
- 36:49Speaker 2: in which a Dodgers starter.
- 36:54Speaker 2: In this case Tarek Skubal, allowed 10-plus hits with no
- 36:57Speaker 2: extra base hits. I was the last Dodgers starter back
- 37:02Speaker 2: in that season years ago that started, gave up that
- 37:06Speaker 2: many hits, and still ended up the Dodgers winning that
- 37:10Speaker 2: game at home.
- 37:11Speaker 1: Who am I? The answer, we'll get to it, and
- 37:15Speaker 1: we will do it.
- 37:18Speaker 4: Next be sure to catch live editions of the ben
- 37:21Speaker 4: maller show weekdays at 2 a.m eastern 11 p.m pacific.
- 37:25Speaker 2: The ben maller show on fox sports radio the friday
- 37:30Speaker 2: edition reminder that means a brand new episode of the
- 37:35Speaker 2: fifth hour.
- 37:38Speaker 1: With ben maller i know what a name Amazing.
- 37:41Speaker 2: The bonus hour, you get that every Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
- 37:44Speaker 2: It's only available via the podcast. It's exclusive for the
- 37:48Speaker 2: real P1s.
- 37:49Speaker 1: They love it.
- 37:50Speaker 2: So check out the real fifth hour today, the postgame
- 37:53Speaker 2: show from what was another magical weekend in Vegas, meeting
- 37:57Speaker 2: so many great fans of the show, friends of the show,
- 38:00Speaker 2: people that help us get through the overnight together, part
- 38:04Speaker 2: of our nocturnal family who traveled from near and far there.
- 38:07Speaker 1: So we'll Go back and look at some of the
- 38:09Speaker 1: highlights of that. Check that out. Fifth Hour Podcast available everywhere.
- 38:13Speaker 1: It'll be up later on today.
- 38:14Speaker 2: And when you're done listening to this show, you can
- 38:16Speaker 2: hear that show.
- 38:18Speaker 1: Thank you. All right, back to it. Time now. Before
- 38:21Speaker 1: we pay off the Who Am I game, I do
- 38:22Speaker 1: want to mention this. What a night.
- 38:24Speaker 2: For Rutgers football. Holy crap on a cracker, Batman. Rutgers
- 38:29Speaker 2: did the impossible. They got mollywhopped by UMass.
- 38:35Speaker 1: They lost.
- 38:36Speaker 2: They were down 24-7 at halftime to the Minutemen of
- 38:41Speaker 2: UMass and end up losing 37.
- 38:44Speaker 1: They gave up 37 points. A Big Ten. I know
- 38:47Speaker 1: they're not a.
- 38:47Speaker 2: Real Big Ten team, but still, they're technically in the
- 38:49Speaker 2: Big Ten. Rutgers lost 37-21 at.
- 38:53Speaker 1: Home.
- 38:54Speaker 2: At home, obviously, they're not going to go play at UMass.
- 38:57Speaker 2: and Greg Sciano's already on the hot seat at Rutgers.
- 39:00Speaker 2: It gets even better, though.
- 39:01Speaker 1: So UMass figured, hey, we'll go in there, we'll get
- 39:06Speaker 1: a check, we'll lose. Well, they won, so they got
- 39:08Speaker 1: a check anyway.
- 39:09Speaker 2: 1.5 million Rutgers had to pay after the Scarlet Knights
- 39:14Speaker 2: embarrassed themselves, and then they had planned a big fireworks
- 39:16Speaker 2: show to celebrate the start of their new season and
- 39:19Speaker 2: all the optimism.
- 39:20Speaker 1: So they figured, well, we'll beat UMass. We'll play a
- 39:23Speaker 1: bunch of fireworks. Well, they didn't beat UMass.
- 39:25Speaker 2: And pretty much everyone left the stadium because they were
- 39:28Speaker 2: so pissed at the Scarlet Knights. And then they still
- 39:31Speaker 2: shut off the fireworks.
- 39:33Speaker 1: It's so funny. There's a bunch of.
- 39:35Speaker 2: Video online of this empty stadium in Jersey and all
- 39:39Speaker 2: these fireworks.
- 39:40Speaker 1: Oh, it was so freaking good.
- 39:42Speaker 2: Anyway, here's the— it' s hilarious.
- 39:45Speaker 1: So not for them, but for me. Dodger pitcher— here we go.
- 39:48Speaker 2: Dodgers picked up their first home win since 1988, in
- 39:53Speaker 2: which a Dodger starter allowed 10 or more hits, no
- 39:56Speaker 2: extra base hits. I was the starter that day. The
- 39:58Speaker 2: Dodgers won against the Cardinals here with Tarek Skubal.
- 40:02Speaker 1: Getting it done.
- 40:03Speaker 2: Michael in Tulsa says a knucklehead. Pat Neshek, who's 46
- 40:07Speaker 2: today from Late Night Drug Tester. The shuttlecock of sports
- 40:10Speaker 2: talk from Not a Burner. Adrian Peterson, guest by Femi.
- 40:14Speaker 2: Pedro Astacio, good name by Alf.
- 40:16Speaker 1: I love it. Bert Hooten, another good name from Robbie
- 40:19Speaker 1: the Mariner fan. Who else do we have? Page down.
- 40:21Speaker 1: Tim Belcher from Richard. That's a good name.
- 40:23Speaker 2: Bill Belichick's spiraling legacy, guest by Curmudgeon Wayne.
- 40:27Speaker 1: What say you, Lorena? Quick rate. Joshua Bays. Nope, it's
- 40:30Speaker 1: John Tudor. John Tudor. Back in 88 against the Phillies.
- 40:35Speaker 1: John Tudor.