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Hour 1 - That Was Unexpected... · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: going to join us on the Friday pod. He's leaving
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. There is a lot of online chatter
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Speaker 1: that LSU coach Lane Kiffin should be banned from college
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Speaker 1: football for reports saying he's recruiting NFL players to come
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Speaker 1: to LSU. What say you? Also, TCU says it's protecting
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Speaker 1: student athletes. And they banned a reporter. Critics say it's
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Speaker 1: punishing journalism. Which side actually has the stronger case in
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Speaker 1: that argument? And in the straight-up NFL, Raider running back
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Speaker 1: Ashton Gentry posted a Bible verse after he injured himself.
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Speaker 1: Why does every athlete give an injury update now that
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Speaker 1: has like a cryptic social media scavenger hunt thingamajig to it?
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Speaker 1: It's almost all the time now. We'll talk about that
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Speaker 1: and more right now. Trying not to go off the rails.
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Speaker 1: It's our number one. Well, that was unexpected. Welcome in
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Speaker 1: we're hanging out together, and we'll be here all night
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Speaker 1: long into the wee hours of the morning. Some would
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Speaker 1: say now. Now would be the wee hours in the morning.
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Speaker 1: I guess you'll have to be the judge of that.
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Speaker 1: And we'll work our way through the overnight, get to
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Speaker 1: all the fun stuff, including Ask Ben, which will be
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Speaker 1: coming up in hour number three. Our lead this hour, though,
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Speaker 1: is going to change up a little bit. College football.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you know about this. Beginning, like
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Speaker 1: just days away here, college football gets going. And our
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Speaker 1: lead from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. And, oh, what a story
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Speaker 1: it is. Southern fried football at its finest. We've got
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Speaker 1: a plot twist as we have our obligatory monologue on
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Speaker 1: the life and times of big-time college football. A lot
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Speaker 1: of moving parts. A lot of moving parts. A lot
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Speaker 1: of rough edges. A lot of rough edges in this story.
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Speaker 1: So Lane Kiffin, who is a coach, you might have
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Speaker 1: heard of him. He gets a lot of publicity. A
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Speaker 1: lot of media guys love Lane Kiffin. They like to
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Speaker 1: go on that magic carpet ride with good old Lane.
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Speaker 1: So Lane Kiffin is hanging out. He's a carpetbagger, and
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Speaker 1: he's put his stuff down there in Baton Rouge at LSU.
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Speaker 1: And he is under siege now. Lane Kiffin under attack.
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Speaker 1: Criticism from here, there, and everywhere. Now, what are people
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Speaker 1: upset about with Lane Kiffin? New allegations crawling out of
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Speaker 1: the woodwork. New allegations that Lane Kiffin did not just
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Speaker 1: simply exploit the NFL to college eligibility situation. He was
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Speaker 1: the father, the creator of this situation. You see this? No? Oh,
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Speaker 1: this is a good one. You know it's got to
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Speaker 1: be good if I'm going to start with college football.
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Speaker 1: This is good. This is, I'm digging my tentacles into this.
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Speaker 1: So we have learned now, based on the new reporting,
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Speaker 1: LSU contacted multiple NFL players or their agents representing said
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Speaker 1: NFL players and encouraged them to sue the NCAA for
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Speaker 1: another year of college eligibility. There's a report over at CBS.
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Speaker 1: They claim that LSU, under the ringleader... The ringleader, Lane Kiffin,
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Speaker 1: spoke with players who were still participating at the time
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Speaker 1: in NFL training camp. You're with the Cardinals or the
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Speaker 1: Browns and Ring Ring. Yeah, who's this? It's Lane Kiffin.
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Speaker 1: What do you want from me? You know, you want
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Speaker 1: to come back to college, you know, beautiful women, get paid,
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Speaker 1: under the lights, Death Valley, all that. Yeah, so supposedly
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Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin or people representing Lane Kiffin were contacting these NFL,
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Speaker 1: low-level NFL players who were likely not going to make
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Speaker 1: a roster or Maybe they made a practice squad. And
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Speaker 1: so this, of course, has led to natural questions about
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Speaker 1: whether Lane Kiffin's staff was indeed recruiting players who were
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Speaker 1: still under contract in the NFL. Now, the strategy temporarily
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Speaker 1: paid off. We'll see if it pays off in the
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Speaker 1: long run as LSU had been romping through NFL rosters,
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Speaker 1: cherry picking three major additions, three major additions. led by
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Speaker 1: Daquan Wright and Zavian Harris. There's a third player also
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Speaker 1: supposedly was going to go to LSU. That is all
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Speaker 1: up in the air right now. All right, so that's
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Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question.
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Speaker 1: A lot of online chatter that Lane Kiffin needs to
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Speaker 1: be punished. In fact, some going as far as to say,
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Speaker 1: That LSU coach, Lane Kiffin, if proven, if proven that
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Speaker 1: he was recruiting NFL players to come play in Baton
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Speaker 1: Rouge and to sue the NCAA, should be banned from
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Speaker 1: college football because of this. What say you? All right,
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Speaker 1: so I've got obstacle course, home goods, and farmer boys.
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Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together, and
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Speaker 1: we will be in the danger zone. So my first
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Speaker 1: thought on this, all right, we're going to make some
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Speaker 1: boiled crawfish and blackened alligator. Isn't that what they eat
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Speaker 1: in Baton Rouge? I remember watching a game there, and
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Speaker 1: they had the proverbial shot of the tailgate, and I
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Speaker 1: feel like they were eating blackened alligator and boiled crawfish.
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Speaker 1: Two things I do not want to consume. All right, so... Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, you can have all of mine. I will
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Speaker 1: be fasting is what I will be doing. Now, I've
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Speaker 1: got to tell you, to answer the question, this noise, oh,
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Speaker 1: you've got to get rid of Lane, bending the rules here,
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Speaker 1: college football, suing the NCAA, recruiting NFL players. So what
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Speaker 1: say I, as a talk show host, I say two words.
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Speaker 1: Hell no is what I say. We don't want Lane
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Speaker 1: Kiffin banned. Why would you ban Lane Kiffin? Banned for what?
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Speaker 1: Being better at exploiting the system than everyone else? At
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Speaker 1: what point does the commissioner, Greg Sankey, I believe is
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Speaker 1: his name, the guy that's in charge of the SEC,
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Speaker 1: the rule book there. So at what point is Sankey, like,
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Speaker 1: just step in there and say, listen. We're going to
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Speaker 1: adjust the Southeastern Conference rulebook, and we're just going to
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Speaker 1: have a golden rule, things Lane Kiffin is no longer
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Speaker 1: allowed to do. Just put that in there, boom, done. Now,
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Speaker 1: Lane wasn't simply responding to the court rulings based on
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Speaker 1: what I read. He helped recruit the players to challenge
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Speaker 1: the NCAA rulebook, thus being the father, the forefather of
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Speaker 1: this new movement. and engineering the exact loophole, which he
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Speaker 1: later exploited, and being the snake that Lane Kiffin is,
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Speaker 1: he said, well, I'm just here to take advantage of
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Speaker 1: the rule. He left out the part. That's called a
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Speaker 1: lie by omission. He left out the part, if this
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Speaker 1: is true, where he was actively behind setting this whole
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Speaker 1: thing up. Now, all of that said, having a rule
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Speaker 1: created specifically because you're such a nuisance— I you're such
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Speaker 1: a troublemaker. But to have it created because of you
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Speaker 1: is the coaching equivalent of getting your jersey number retired.
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Speaker 1: And to think across the pearly gates how proud Al
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Speaker 1: Davis must be, because I'm old enough to remember when
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Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin coached the Raiders and not very well. And
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Speaker 1: a frail Al Davis and his. It was an overhead projector.
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Speaker 1: Al read Lane Kiffin, The Riot Act, and Lane Kiffin
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Speaker 1: has evolved. And he's slowly turning in to a poor
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Speaker 1: man's Al Davis of college football. You might never know
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Speaker 1: who Al Davis is anymore. He's been dead for so long.
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Speaker 1: But Al Davis was this legend. owner of the Raiders.
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Speaker 1: And was a troublemaker and fought back against the NFL
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Speaker 1: at every turn and pissed off the old guard NFL people.
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Speaker 1: But that's essentially what Lane Kiffin is doing now as
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Speaker 1: he bounces around as a carpetbagger around college football. And
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Speaker 1: it's wonderfully ironic given the fact that Al Davis was
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Speaker 1: not exactly the president of the Lane Kiffin Marching and
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Speaker 1: Chowder Society in Oakland. Regardless of that, Lane Kiffin embracing
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Speaker 1: the old Raider philosophy. And that Raider philosophy, when Al
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Speaker 1: Davis was there, was the rule book is an obstacle course,
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Speaker 1: not a moral document. Of course, now the Raider philosophy
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Speaker 1: is make sure you're at happy hour at P.F. Chang's.
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Speaker 1: The orange chicken's really good. That's the new philosophy of
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Speaker 1: the Raiders. And let me tell you something. Mark Davis
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Speaker 1: does not miss happy hour. At the P.F. Changs. Now,
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Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin is the new mercenary. The face... Well, he's
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Speaker 1: not new. He's been around for a while. But he's
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Speaker 1: the ultimate mercenary in college football at this point. He's
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Speaker 1: like the Reggie White of coaching. The minister of mischief
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Speaker 1: is Lane Kiffin. So LSU pays him millions of dollars
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Speaker 1: to find better players and plausibly to win a lot
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Speaker 1: of games. We'll see if he does. He hasn't coached
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Speaker 1: a game at LSU yet. Lane is... Any way you
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Speaker 1: slice it, Lane, is good for business. Every sport needs
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Speaker 1: a villain poking the establishment. And so you had just win, baby.
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Speaker 1: And in the case of Lane, you better win and
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Speaker 1: then let everyone else complain. And there'll be another round
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Speaker 1: of lawsuits. And this is not over at all. All right,
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Speaker 1: page two. To Froggyland we go. Why would you go
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Speaker 1: to Froggyland? Another compelling story from the wacky, wacky world
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Speaker 1: of college sports. So TCU, that's what they're known as.
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Speaker 1: Their real name is Texas Christian University. But TCU revoking
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Speaker 1: the credentials of a reporter from one of the few
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Speaker 1: newspapers still in business in America, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram newspaper.
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Speaker 1: They had a beat reporter. Believe it or not, they
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Speaker 1: had a beat reporter for TCU. And the newspaper informed
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Speaker 1: the reporter was persona non grata after an alleged football
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Speaker 1: locker room assault that made its way into the newspaper.
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Speaker 1: Let me give you the thumbnail recap here. So the
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Speaker 1: incident resulted in the TCU campus cops There was a
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Speaker 1: case filed there that led to a player being booted
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Speaker 1: off the TCU football team. And the reporter for the newspaper,
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Speaker 1: he reported he blamed, he said TCU blamed the punishment
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Speaker 1: on concerns that the alleged victim received threats following the incident.
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Speaker 1: the media coverage, although the reporter disputed that, noting the
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Speaker 1: original report did not identify said alleged victim, who later
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Speaker 1: self-identified himself publicly on social media. So the guy that
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Speaker 1: was the person that TCU was upset about getting the
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Speaker 1: name out, put their name on it. Put your name
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Speaker 1: on it, they put their name on it. So the newspaper,
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Speaker 1: the Star-Telegram, is the only media outlet in the greater
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Speaker 1: Dallas area with a full-time reporter covering TCU. It's a
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Speaker 1: one-newspaper outfit. Of course, most towns are one-newspaper towns these days.
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Speaker 1: So the question, TCU says it is protecting a, I
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Speaker 1: love this term, student athlete. Now, the critics say that
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Speaker 1: they're punishing the journalists, the journalism in general. So which
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Speaker 1: side of the aisle... Has the stronger case. You got
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Speaker 1: TCU saying, hey, we're protecting the harmless student athlete. And
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Speaker 1: you have the other side saying, well, you're really punishing
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Speaker 1: the newspaper reporter. So after a minutes-long deliberation of the
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Speaker 1: available information, you talk about a drama-o-rama, and we have determined,
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Speaker 1: the Court of Malheur has determined that Texas Christian University
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Speaker 1: has to eat the L on this one. No barbecue sauce,
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Speaker 1: no honey mustard. Eat the L. And I went and checked.
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Speaker 1: I was trying to figure out, TCU, did they move
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Speaker 1: the campus to Pyongyang? No, no. Then I thought, well,
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Speaker 1: TCU must have gone down to HomeGoods and went shopping
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Speaker 1: for curtains at HomeGoods. And they, for some reason, decided
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Speaker 1: to install the iron curtain around Fort Worth, complete with
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Speaker 1: the Ministry of Horned Frog Information, I guess you could
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Speaker 1: call it there. These thin-skinned little weasels, these dopes, hiding
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Speaker 1: behind the credential police. If you write something that we
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Speaker 1: don't like, and oh, poof, you're going to disappear. Little
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Speaker 1: press pass. You talk about amateur hour. And again, this
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Speaker 1: is another byproduct. I've talked about this a lot over
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Speaker 1: the years, the manipulation of the younger generation who have
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Speaker 1: been raised on... Rainbows and lollipops. Rainbows and lollipops. Yes,
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Speaker 1: the state-sponsored media. Major League Baseball really the first to
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Speaker 1: fully embrace this, but all the sports do it. And
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Speaker 1: so you get something like this in sports, and you
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Speaker 1: get a bunch of people that have been programmed to
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Speaker 1: only want the sunshine and not the clouds, and they
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Speaker 1: get all worked up into a tizzy over this kind
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Speaker 1: of stuff. And so it really is amateur hour. Crisis
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Speaker 1: Management for the Athletic Department, who apparently did not pay
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Speaker 1: close attention. They believe that bad publicity vanishes when you
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Speaker 1: confiscate the laminated badge that you gave out, a little badge. Apparently,
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Speaker 1: nobody at TCU has heard of the Streisand effect. And
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Speaker 1: yet they contacted Femi, the top Uber Eats driver. They said, hey, Femi,
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Speaker 1: I know you're in Minnesota. Can you drive down to
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Speaker 1: Fort Worth? Femi's like, that's kind of far. It's going
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Speaker 1: to cost you a lot. And they said, maybe I'll
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Speaker 1: do it. And so they contacted Femi over there at
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Speaker 1: Uber Eats. And they said, hey, can we order the
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Speaker 1: deluxe-sized family package of the Streisand effect? And Femi said, well,
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Speaker 1: I'll get it to you. Sure, why not? And they
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Speaker 1: wanted this controversy, TCU, to disappear. So naturally, they transformed
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Speaker 1: a local story. into this national freedom of the press story,
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Speaker 1: which I got to give him credit. It's pretty brilliant
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Speaker 1: to be that incompetent. So good job by you. And
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Speaker 1: why even bother having any independent reporters? Just use state-sponsored
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Speaker 1: horned frog media. You can get horned froggy or just
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Speaker 1: horny frog media. I think that's probably it. porn site
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Speaker 1: or something, but hand everyone purple pom-poms and you can
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Speaker 1: have the face paint, a little sticker face paint thing
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Speaker 1: and have the university approved talking points memo sent out
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Speaker 1: every morning. It really is hilarious. So TCU, again, they
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Speaker 1: tried to bury what they thought was an embarrassing story
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Speaker 1: and instead they essentially rented out billboard space right on
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Speaker 1: the interstate for everyone to see. And they have lit up, lights,
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Speaker 1: the whole thing. All right, last word we go. Speaking
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Speaker 1: of lit up, let's go to Vegas. We'll be in
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Speaker 1: Vegas this weekend. Big Mallard meet and greet coming up
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Speaker 1: on Saturday. Viva Las Vegas. Looking forward to it. So
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Speaker 1: the Raiders have not officially confirmed the exact injury to
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Speaker 1: running back Ashton Gentry. All right, so we don't know
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Speaker 1: exactly what's going on. But there are reports. indicating that
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Speaker 1: Jente suffered an ankle sprain. Now, that could mean a
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Speaker 1: number of things. You could have a mild ankle sprain,
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Speaker 1: which you're back in a couple weeks, a high ankle
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Speaker 1: sprain where you're out for two months or longer. He's
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Speaker 1: not expected to be out all season, but there's no timeline.
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Speaker 1: Ashton Jente fueling speculation by posting a photo of himself
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Speaker 1: kneeling on social media, of course, And he was kneeling
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Speaker 1: down there and along with a Bible verse about God
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Speaker 1: working circumstances towards a greater purpose. So he he did that. Now,
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Speaker 1: the question you got Raider running back Ashton Gentry posting
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Speaker 1: a Bible verse after his injury. Why does every athlete
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Speaker 1: injury these days, every athlete injury update update now have
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Speaker 1: to become a cryptic social media thing? scavenger hunt it
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Speaker 1: just every single time every single time and the reason
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Speaker 1: why is because the scavenger hunt pays Cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching.
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Speaker 1: It's a fast food special from Farmer Boys, fresh, hot
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Speaker 1: engagement farming, right off the griddle, right off the griddle,
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Speaker 1: served right in your timeline there. So Ashton Gentry posts
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Speaker 1: a Bible verse, and suddenly the Raider backers are amateur theologians,
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Speaker 1: and they're trying to decode the book of the running back.
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Speaker 1: And as for the coach, Clint Kubiak, and his Raiders...
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Speaker 1: I can't get over the fact that they held a
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Speaker 1: full-blown prayer circle on the field around Ashton Jenty, and
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Speaker 1: now we're talking about just a sprained ankle. Seems like
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Speaker 1: a pretty strong piece of evidence that they initially thought
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Speaker 1: it wasn't a sprained ankle, that it was more like
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Speaker 1: burnt avocado toast, meaning Jenty was burnt toast. And Kubiak,
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Speaker 1: he's a very religious man, good for him. He talks
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Speaker 1: about the power of prayer, and it's a wonderful way
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Speaker 1: also to avoid having to provide any actual update on
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Speaker 1: the status of your player. You just say the power
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Speaker 1: of prayer, and then you don't actually have to give
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Speaker 1: a straight answer. So if Jenty returns quickly... Who gets
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Speaker 1: the game ball on this? Who do you think gets
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Speaker 1: the game ball? The training staff? Modern medicine? Does Kubiak
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Speaker 1: just move the prayer circle at the 50-yard line around
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Speaker 1: the Raider logo there? And do they hold services at
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Speaker 1: you for being part of that. And attention, Malheur Militia.
22:34
Speaker 1: We're taking the Audio Dojo to Las Vegas. The Malheur
22:40
Speaker 1: Meet and Greet Tour continues. Days away now. Just days
22:44
Speaker 1: away this Saturday. august 29th 3 to 5 p.m stakeout
22:49
Speaker 1: bar and grill right now unlv lorena and coop are
22:52
Speaker 1: going to be there we'll have a lot of big
22:54
Speaker 1: names in the mallard militia many of them say they're
22:56
Speaker 1: going to be there most of them will not show
22:57
Speaker 1: up but lance the bus driver claims he'll be there
23:00
Speaker 1: jt and the wingman wayne from mizzou robbie the mariner
23:05
Speaker 1: fan jay scoop and so many more big balls bob
23:10
Speaker 1: was the star last year dante will be there we
23:12
Speaker 1: think and Our guy Kyle. Nada's coming in from L.A.,
23:17
Speaker 1: so we've got some big names who are going to
23:19
Speaker 1: be there. So come on out, hang out, and you
23:21
Speaker 1: don't have to be a caller and all that. Free
23:23
Speaker 1: parking and the whole thing. No admission charge, no cover charge.
23:27
Speaker 1: And you can hang out with Slug. You can tell
23:30
Speaker 1: your friends you hung out with Slug. And Big Lou's
23:33
Speaker 1: going to be there also. It's quite the duo. So
23:36
Speaker 1: check it out. This weekend, Saturday, the Big Maller. Get
23:40
Speaker 1: together there in Vegas. This is not a sanctioned event.
23:43
Speaker 1: We are not getting paid for this. It is just
23:46
Speaker 1: us showing up. Yeah, because the company actually, and I
23:50
Speaker 1: don't know if we should talk about it, the company
23:51
Speaker 1: offered to pay us like $ 10, 000 appearance fees, and we
23:54
Speaker 1: all said no. We don't need the $ 10, 000 appearance fees.
23:57
Speaker 1: We just love the listeners so much that we just
24:00
Speaker 1: want to be there. That's exactly right, Bill. And remember
24:03
Speaker 1: when the company said, well, why don't we pay for
24:04
Speaker 1: your hotel? We said, we don't need you to pay
24:06
Speaker 1: for our hotel. We don't need that. No, no, no,
24:07
Speaker 1: we're good. And they said, well, what about the meals?
24:09
Speaker 1: Maybe we should buy you a couple meals. Definitely don't
24:11
Speaker 1: need that. I said, please, come on. We don't want
24:13
Speaker 1: to hurt the company and have you pay for our
24:15
Speaker 1: meals or our hotel room or our travel expenses. We're
24:20
Speaker 1: team players. All of us agreed, right? Coop, Lorraine. And
24:23
Speaker 1: we all said we don't need that. I mean, come on.
24:26
Speaker 1: All right. Anyway, if you want to be part of
24:28
Speaker 1: this show, I just woke up. 877-99 on Fox. 877-996-6369.
24:35
Speaker 1: Also on X, at Ben Maller. That is at Ben Maller.
24:41
Speaker 1: If you'd like to be part of the live program. Yes,
24:45
Speaker 1: we can. We will take your phone calls, the whole thing.
24:48
Speaker 1: Say hello to Lorena, FSR Tech Queen.
24:50
Speaker 2: Hi, Bill.
24:51
Speaker 1: Over there, Koopa Loop at abrancofan.com. That is a Bronco fan.
24:56
Speaker 1: Your comments can and will be used against you in
25:00
Speaker 1: the court of the Mahler militia. So please act accordingly.
25:05
Speaker 1: I do love this. Yeah, they are coming. Watch out.
25:11
Speaker 1: Watch out. They are on their way, clearly, in Vegas.
25:16
Speaker 1: They will definitely... Definitely be there. Late Night Drug Tester
25:19
Speaker 1: writes in. I do love this Lane Kiffin story. He says,
25:22
Speaker 1: with all the Bible verses matching up with injury updates,
25:26
Speaker 1: Marcel can have more guests on his show besides you,
25:29
Speaker 1: of course. Clearly. All right. Natron says, I was wondering
25:33
Speaker 1: if I could spend my golden ticket on you telling
25:36
Speaker 1: us all of your radio nicknames. That would be awesome.
25:40
Speaker 1: There you go. Well, we'd have to check the bylaws
25:44
Speaker 1: of the. Mal or Militia, Natron, to figure that one out.
25:48
Speaker 1: The listener, I believe, is always right. I don't think
25:50
Speaker 1: I can do all of them. I could possibly do
25:53
Speaker 1: some of the nicknames because I don't think we have time.
25:56
Speaker 1: It is a timed radio show. I have been called
25:58
Speaker 1: over the air, Natron, the spin master of misinformation, the
26:01
Speaker 1: bantering broadcaster, the Beethoven of BS, Benny Bingo. my love
26:06
Speaker 1: of lottery balls, curmudgeon of commentary, chasm of sarcasm, czar
26:10
Speaker 1: of zany, dark knight of weeknight sports radio, the mogul
26:12
Speaker 1: of mischief, Benny the brazen, king of zing, moneyball mallor,
26:16
Speaker 1: Benny the bopper, facetious fox, the sultan of insultin, the
26:21
Speaker 1: shaman of schadenfreude, the sensitive sniffer. Jumping Jack of Wisecrack,
26:28
Speaker 1: Inside of Overnight, Medicine Man Mallor, Nabob of Negativity, the
26:33
Speaker 1: Sage of Outrage, Pinnacle of Cynical, Prince of Preposterous, Professor
26:38
Speaker 1: of Propaganda, I've been called the Hazar of Hyperbole, the
26:42
Speaker 1: Floating Turd of the Spoken Word, and the Mad Hatter
26:46
Speaker 1: of Sports Chatter. And that's only half my nicknames. Alf
26:52
Speaker 1: the Alien O'Piner writes in. He says, funny that you
26:54
Speaker 1: brought up the prayer circle because the MBI formed one
26:58
Speaker 1: as soon as the news broke regarding the status of
27:01
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas iHeart Studios for tomorrow's show. Yes, unfortunately,
27:07
Speaker 1: I will not be doing the show tomorrow. I mean,
27:09
Speaker 1: I have travel plans. I've been booked for a while
27:11
Speaker 1: in Vegas and unable to get me a studio, unfortunately,
27:14
Speaker 1: so I will not be able to do the show tomorrow.
27:17
Speaker 1: I was hoping to do it from Vegas. I usually
27:19
Speaker 1: have done it there, but unfortunately the power is out
27:21
Speaker 1: of my control. So I will be there. I'll be
27:24
Speaker 1: in Vegas. Maybe I'll pop up on some other morning shows.
27:27
Speaker 1: Who knows? You never know. Why not? What else do
27:30
Speaker 1: we have here? Mr. Irrigation writes in and says, Is
27:33
Speaker 1: it true no flag football game to celebrate the Pro Bowl?
27:39
Speaker 1: The league is becoming so blanked it's funny. And he
27:44
Speaker 1: then says, Blank football coming to a stadium tomorrow. We
27:48
Speaker 1: will address that. The NFL finally, finally has hit the
27:54
Speaker 1: kill switch on the Pro Bowl, which really died in
27:58
Speaker 1: Vegas when the players just quit. And it was one
28:02
Speaker 1: of the most ridiculous things we've ever seen. And the
28:05
Speaker 1: NFL's like, well, we'll play some tug-of-war. We'll do a
28:10
Speaker 1: little flag football and all this.
28:13
Speaker 2: It was.
28:15
Speaker 1: Oh, it was crazy. Crazy. Kathy in Madison writes in, says,
28:18
Speaker 1: Benny the Jet and Mallard Militia listening in K-Fan, Twin Cities, Minnesota.
28:23
Speaker 1: Not a shout-out to our group homie, Hollering James. How
28:28
Speaker 1: are you doing, James? Well, that sounded like a shout-out.
28:32
Speaker 1: That sounded like a shout-out to me is what it
28:35
Speaker 1: sounded like. It certainly did. All right, let's take some calls.
28:38
Speaker 1: It is a call-in show. And, again, if you want
28:41
Speaker 1: to be a part of here, you can join the
28:42
Speaker 1: fun at 877- 99 on Fox. That's 877-996-6369. You can
28:49
Speaker 1: send questions in right now on X, as we will
28:52
Speaker 1: have coming up in Hour 3. It'll be Ask Ben.
28:57
Speaker 1: Your questions and our answers, that'll be coming up in
28:59
Speaker 1: Hour 3 of the program. Number 3. That's right. Number 3.
29:06
Speaker 1: We count to number 3, and that's how we do it.
29:10
Speaker 1: And a eeny, meeny, miny, moe, let's say hello to,
29:15
Speaker 1: let's go to Nathan, who's in the Sunshine State. Hello, Nathan.
29:19
Speaker 4: Welcome.
29:19
Speaker 1: You're on the Ben Maller Show on Fox. It's kind
29:21
Speaker 1: of a big state. Where are you at there in Florida, Nathan? Hey, Ben.
29:26
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me.
29:27
Speaker 4: North Florida.
29:28
Speaker 1: North Florida. It's, you know, up here in the North Country.
29:31
Speaker 1: It's cold up here. But my wife and I were
29:35
Speaker 1: listening to your podcast earlier today, and we just said
29:37
Speaker 1: to hell with it. Bought tickets. We will see you.
29:40
Speaker 1: on Saturday. Stop it! Oh, come on. Are you kidding me?
29:43
Speaker 1: That's awesome. All right. Not tickets. We're flying out of Tampa.
29:49
Speaker 1: I will see you on Saturday, brother. Oh, well, thank you, Nate.
29:53
Speaker 1: I look forward to meeting you. Make sure we got
29:55
Speaker 1: to roll out. Lorena, can we buy a red carpet
29:57
Speaker 1: for Nathan and his wife?
29:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
29:59
Speaker 1: Look at what Timu has. Nathan and Brandy, yes, please.
30:03
Speaker 1: Nathan and Brandy. Well, that's great. Well, I'm fired up
30:06
Speaker 1: you're going to be there. I look forward to meeting you.
30:07
Speaker 1: I hope you win a lot of money. And if
30:09
Speaker 1: you lose a lot of money, it's not my fault.
30:11
Speaker 1: If you win a lot of money, it's because of me.
30:12
Speaker 1: If you lose a lot of money, I blame Coop, okay?
30:15
Speaker 1: Remember that, Nathan. Okay. All right. I'll start with Coop.
30:17
Speaker 2: Yeah.
30:18
Speaker 1: Blame it to Coop. If you win, I get a tip, okay? Oh,
30:22
Speaker 1: no problem. Thank you, sir. All right. Safe travels. All right.
30:26
Speaker 1: How about that? That's great. Nathan and Brandy, right? His
30:30
Speaker 1: wife's name is Brandy and they're flying out to Vegas. Yeah,
30:32
Speaker 1: that's what he said. That's pretty cool, right? That's neat.
30:36
Speaker 1: That'd be fun. All right. That's cool. See, now I
30:39
Speaker 1: feel pressure, Lorena, that we have to entertain because it's
30:41
Speaker 1: a long trip. We've got a guy coming in from
30:43
Speaker 1: Vancouver and the whole thing. I'm starting to think we're
30:47
Speaker 1: a big deal. Man. All right. Should I wear a shirt?
30:53
Speaker 1: I wasn't planning on wearing a shirt. I don't know.
30:55
Speaker 1: I guess I have to wear a shirt now.
30:56
Speaker 4: Interesting.
30:56
Speaker 1: Interesting. All right. Let's see here. Let's go to the
31:04
Speaker 1: real Dr. Phil. What are the odds the real Dr.
31:07
Speaker 1: Phil would be listening to the show? Here he is. Unbelievable. Hello,
31:10
Speaker 1: real Dr. Phil.
31:12
Speaker 4: Hello, Ben. And you're the one real sportscaster on the radio.
31:17
Speaker 4: That's why I listen to you.
31:18
Speaker 1: That's right. All these other guys are frauds. They're all frauds.
31:21
Speaker 1: Every one of them is fraud. They're all frauds. Yes.
31:23
Speaker 4: Yeah. You're the one guy speaking truth. So I just
31:26
Speaker 4: want to make a comment about all the angst about
31:29
Speaker 4: college players getting cut by the NFL and not being
31:32
Speaker 4: able to go back and play college football because they
31:34
Speaker 4: were professionals. What do you think they are now? When
31:37
Speaker 4: you get paid to do something, you're a professional. It's
31:40
Speaker 4: simple for you to go back to you got five
31:43
Speaker 4: years to play for a match and.
31:47
Speaker 1: Then you're done. We're getting the Hawaiian phone connection.
31:51
Speaker 4: I'm sorry about that.
31:52
Speaker 1: That's all right. Now it sounds a little better. It
31:54
Speaker 1: sounds a little better. It's coming in now. But you
31:56
Speaker 1: live in Hawaii, so that's cool. You're winning at life,
32:00
Speaker 1: the real Dr.
32:00
Speaker 2: Phil.
32:00
Speaker 1: You're winning at life living there. So don't worry about that.
32:03
Speaker 1: It's all right.
32:03
Speaker 4: Yes, I want to tell you, I went to many
32:05
Speaker 4: Pro Bowls that were skakers. But one year when Mark
32:10
Speaker 4: Brunel was a rookie and made the Pro Bowl, and
32:12
Speaker 4: he came out and started playing it for real, and
32:14
Speaker 4: it became a real game. It was a really exciting experience.
32:18
Speaker 4: A lot of hitting, a lot of touchdowns, but after
32:21
Speaker 4: a while, it became a joke.
32:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it did. They were Pro Bowls where players
32:27
Speaker 1: played hard for many years, and then at some point,
32:32
Speaker 1: it got to the level. I actually covered a Pro
32:36
Speaker 1: Bowl in Hawaii years ago, and I remember the people
32:38
Speaker 1: were like, oh, no, they're going to move. They were
32:39
Speaker 1: worried every year they were going to move the Pro
32:41
Speaker 1: Bowl out of Hawaii because it was so hard to
32:43
Speaker 1: get there for the players on the East Coast, and
32:44
Speaker 1: then Eventually, obviously, they did move the Pro Bowl out
32:47
Speaker 1: of Hawaii, and now there's no more Pro Bowl, and
32:49
Speaker 1: there's no more Aloha Stadium. So the whole thing, it's
32:54
Speaker 1: just a dream.
32:54
Speaker 4: However, there is still Hawaii Stadium. There's about half of
33:00
Speaker 4: it still hasn't been torn down after all these years.
33:03
Speaker 1: Are they going to build a new stadium? They've got
33:05
Speaker 1: to build a new stadium, right? They're going to build
33:06
Speaker 1: a new stadium.
33:08
Speaker 4: Okay, please. The woke governor has decided we're going to
33:14
Speaker 4: build a 20,000-seat stadium with no parking lot. That's his solution.
33:19
Speaker 1: Oh, well, that makes sense. That's a brilliant plan.
33:21
Speaker 4: Yeah, it makes sense because every parking lot in football
33:24
Speaker 4: from high school to the pros, every football season, they
33:28
Speaker 4: have these things called.
33:31
Speaker 4: Tailgate parties, it's part of the culture of America. But
33:34
Speaker 4: here in Hawaii, no, we don't need a parking lot.
33:37
Speaker 4: We don't need tailgate parties.
33:39
Speaker 1: No, no. Just go to the beach. Just go surfing
33:42
Speaker 1: or something. You can do that. All right. Well, listen,
33:47
Speaker 1: thank you. Call me more often. All right, buddy. The
33:50
Speaker 1: real Dr. Phil. That's not the fake Dr. Phil. The
33:55
Speaker 1: real Dr. Phil. Who's the doctor that was with the
33:59
Speaker 1: teen moms? The doctor with the... I don't know. There
34:03
Speaker 1: was a doctor.
34:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, I served him down on Laguna Beach.
34:05
Speaker 1: And for some reason, when you said Dr. Phil, I
34:06
Speaker 1: was like, oh, that's him.
34:07
Speaker 4: And then I was like, no, that's not him.
34:09
Speaker 1: Dr. Drew. Dr. Drew! That's him. Oh, Dr. Drew. Yeah, yeah.
34:13
Speaker 1: He's a handsome doctor. Oh, yeah. He's a big fan
34:16
Speaker 1: of the Dr.
34:17
Speaker 4: Drew.
34:18
Speaker 1: They're a love line. Hosted that love line show. Not
34:20
Speaker 1: a great tipper, though.
34:21
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what.
34:22
Speaker 1: Really? Yeah. Oh, interesting. It's disappointing. Well, you're a radio guy,
34:26
Speaker 1: you know, radio guy. So that's what happens. You're a
34:30
Speaker 1: radio guy. Absolutely. All right. Here's the Ben Maller show.
34:35
Speaker 1: We have the bionic arm situation. And I guess we can.
34:42
Speaker 1: Get to that now if you want, or we can
34:44
Speaker 1: save that for the other side. We also will take
34:46
Speaker 1: more of your calls. 877-99 on Fox. That's 877-996-6369 if
34:54
Speaker 1: you'd like to be part of the program. Also on X,
34:58
Speaker 1: at Ben Maller. That's at Ben Maller if you want
35:03
Speaker 1: to be part of the live radio program. We do
35:06
Speaker 1: have Ask Ben coming up a little bit later. You
35:08
Speaker 1: can send your questions in right now. for Ask Ben
35:11
Speaker 1: and be part of the program that way. And here
35:16
Speaker 1: you go. All right, so time now for the Who
35:19
Speaker 1: Am I game. And this is where I pretend to
35:23
Speaker 1: be somebody else, lest we call it the Who Am
35:26
Speaker 1: I game. And while I am in the Baseball Hall
35:32
Speaker 1: of Fame, I reached base more than 4,000 times today.
35:36
Speaker 1: To reach the Baseball Hall of Fame, I also am
35:41
Speaker 1: known for my clutch play. In fact, I had 13
35:46
Speaker 1: walk-off home runs, which was an MLB record, when I retired.
35:52
Speaker 1: Who am I? That is the question. What is the answer?
35:58
Speaker 1: We'll get to it, and we will do it! next.
36:06
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
36:09
Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
36:12
Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio. A reminder,
36:17
Speaker 1: the 5th Hour Podcast is available every single Friday and
36:20
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36:25
Speaker 1: management thinks if you enjoy this show, you're going to
36:28
Speaker 1: like the 5th Hour Show, so check that out. And
36:32
Speaker 1: on the Friday show, we'll have a conversation with the
36:36
Speaker 1: I don't know if retired's the right word. My longtime
36:40
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio homie, Bernie Frato, announced he's taking some
36:44
Speaker 1: time off, so he's leaving his weekend overnight show. So Bernie,
36:47
Speaker 1: I've known Bernie for years. Yeah, Bernie's exiting stage nine years,
36:52
Speaker 1: a nine-year run at Fox Sports Radio, and Bernie's heading
36:56
Speaker 1: off to Michigan and enjoying life, and so love Bernie.
37:00
Speaker 1: He hosted the Lions postgame show when they were horrible
37:04
Speaker 1: all those years, and he'll Join us on the Fifth
37:06
Speaker 1: Hour on Friday and then new episodes all weekend. So
37:09
Speaker 1: check out the Fifth Hour podcast and you're not going
37:13
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37:15
Speaker 1: you can't really miss it because it's saved for posterity's sake.
37:19
Speaker 1: So check that out this weekend. All right, back to
37:23
Speaker 1: it we go. We'll pay off the Who Am I game.
37:25
Speaker 1: I didn't want to mention this. Remember the NFL linebacker,
37:27
Speaker 1: Shaquem Griffin? He was the guy that did not have
37:33
Speaker 1: the arm. He was missing... Part of his arm there,
37:37
Speaker 1: his hand. Made it all the way to the NFL.
37:41
Speaker 1: And he popped up. He's not in the NFL anymore,
37:44
Speaker 1: Shaquem Griffin. However, he now has a bionic arm, which
37:49
Speaker 1: I think I read about as a kid in comic books.
37:53
Speaker 1: I actually read there were these things called comic books,
37:55
Speaker 1: and I read them. So I saw this. It's kind
37:57
Speaker 1: of crazy. There's a video. I'll try to describe it
38:00
Speaker 1: for our blind listeners. So he showed off an AI-powered
38:03
Speaker 1: bionic arm. Shaquem Griffin. And it's designed to give him abilities,
38:10
Speaker 1: as you might imagine, that the rest of us that
38:12
Speaker 1: have the arm thing have. Griffin lost his left hand
38:16
Speaker 1: at age four and he had a some kind of
38:20
Speaker 1: odd syndrome thing that caused him to lose his. So
38:26
Speaker 1: now he has this new prosthetic. It uses artificial intelligence
38:31
Speaker 1: and it recognizes Griffin's movements and translates them into action
38:36
Speaker 1: with a bionic hand.
38:40
Speaker 2: It's 2026.
38:40
Speaker 1: We have bionic arm, bionic hand. The video shows him
38:46
Speaker 1: experimenting with the technology. The bionic arm allows him to
38:51
Speaker 1: perform everyday functions. Check this out. He can grip, manipulate
38:57
Speaker 1: objects with independence now. This is wild. Wow, the technology.
39:04
Speaker 1: Did he say how much it costed? No, they left
39:07
Speaker 1: that part out of the story. I'm guessing he probably
39:09
Speaker 1: got a deal on it because he's kind of a
39:11
Speaker 1: famous guy.
39:12
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's going to push it, you know?
39:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's promoting it. What's that called? Plug and Play? Yeah,
39:17
Speaker 1: something like that. He's an influencer. And so that's pretty wild.
39:22
Speaker 1: And think about where that's going to be five, ten
39:24
Speaker 1: years from now. If it's there right now, it's just mind-boggling.
39:27
Speaker 1: That's really cool for those that need that. kind of thing.
39:30
Speaker 1: Time now for the Who Am I game. I'm a
39:32
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. I reached base over 4,000 times and
39:36
Speaker 1: hit over 600 home runs. I am also known as Mr. Clutch.
39:39
Speaker 1: My 13 walk-off home runs was an MLB record at
39:43
Speaker 1: the time I retired. Who am I? That is the question.
39:49
Speaker 1: And what is the answer? Let's see. Does anyone know
39:52
Speaker 1: the answer? We go page down the Mallard Militia here. J.R.
39:57
Speaker 1: Rob Dobbs from Donkey Sausage. Jed York in East Palestine,
40:02
Speaker 1: Ohio from Just Josh. Don Ramon from OG Art Puffin.
40:08
Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Let's see. Page down. Reggie
40:10
Speaker 1: Jefferson from Alf the Alien O'Piner. Ronald Reagan from Femi,
40:14
Speaker 1: the Uber East River. Larry Doby, guest by Eek in Roseville, Minnesota.
40:18
Speaker 1: Bernie Frato from Doug. Billy Ripken from Mr. Irrigation. Lars
40:23
Speaker 1: Neutbar from Analog Out. What say you, Lorena?
40:26
Speaker 2: I robot.
40:27
Speaker 1: No, it's Jim Tomei of the Cleveland Indians back in
40:30
Speaker 1: the day. Jim Tomei is the answer. Played with the Dodgers, too,
40:33
Speaker 1: and the Phillies and the White Sox.