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Hour 1 - The War of Words · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Great balls of fire. It's our number one. Happy, happy
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday to you. It is the eighth day of September.
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  Speaker 1: A brand new edition of the Ben Maller Show. We
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  Speaker 1: stayed up all night. We pretended to be enthusiastic. We
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  Speaker 1: were there all night to provide fresh pod. And on
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  Speaker 1: the Malheur scorecard, how do you grade Lane Kiffin after
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  Speaker 1: labeling Paul Feinbaum rat poison? That's a quote. Is this
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  Speaker 1: statement profound, preposterous, or a publicity stunt? Also, how much
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  Speaker 1: trouble is Michigan quarterback Bryce Underwood actually in? Is he
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  Speaker 1: in big trouble, little trouble, or no trouble? We'll take
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  Speaker 1: a look at that. And Mike Pereira, the Fox replay guru,
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  Speaker 1: chiming in on the Big Ten clock snafu in Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: What's he really saying here? It's not good for the
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten. Not good for the Big Ten. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: to all of that and more. We thank you for listening.
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  Speaker 1: Here it is, our number one. Ratcheting up the war
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  Speaker 1: of words. Welcome in the beginning of another night of
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  Speaker 1: going to jump into some collegiate football in a moment.
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  Speaker 1: But we do have some breaking news that happened late
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  Speaker 1: on Labor Day into the day after Labor Day. A
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  Speaker 1: contract kerfluffle has come to an end as... The New
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  Speaker 1: England Patriots have agreed to a contract with Christian Gonzalez.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about this in a previous episode of the show.
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  Speaker 1: Gonzalez had been threatening to be a part-time employee and
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  Speaker 1: gave out these vague statements about, well, maybe I, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, I might not play the game on Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: night when the NFL season begins. Well, according to state-sponsored
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  Speaker 1: and ESPN-partnered NFL Network, the Patriots have agreed to a
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  Speaker 1: four-year extension of For $ 135 million. $ 102 million guaranteed for
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  Speaker 1: Christian Gonzalez. So he will stay with the New England Patriots.
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  Speaker 1: That comes about 48 hours, a little less than I
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  Speaker 1: guess now, for the season opener in Seattle. And more
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  Speaker 1: on that as we go through the overnight. So that
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  Speaker 1: deal is done, done, done. If state-sponsored NFL media is
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  Speaker 1: reporting it, it better be done. Our lead, though, this
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  Speaker 1: hour is from a story that I am fascinated by.
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  Speaker 1: I can't get enough of this. We'll call it the
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  Speaker 1: Ratatouille story, if you will, here. From Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
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  Speaker 1: where LSU coach Lane Kiffin... Fired back as the fire
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  Speaker 1: of the cannons at Paul Feinbaum. Still hanging out after
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  Speaker 1: all these years. This after criticism following LSU vaporizing Clemson
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend. So if you've not been following this,
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  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin, public enemy, number one in all the land
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  Speaker 1: in college football. And Paul Feinbaum putting the laser pointer
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  Speaker 1: right in the bullseye, right at Lane Kiffin. So Kiffin responded.
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  Speaker 1: He called Feinbaum the, quote, definition of rat poison. I
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  Speaker 1: looked it up. It's actually not true. That's a lie.
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  Speaker 1: I looked up the definition of rat poison. That's not it.
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  Speaker 1: He actually borrowed Nick Saban's famous phrase from years gone
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  Speaker 1: by there. as a commentary on the media chatter. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Feinbaum had questioned Lane Kiffin's behavior and essentially calling him
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a child, paraphrasing, of course, the antics
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  Speaker 1: and all that, arguing that the LSU coach continues to
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  Speaker 1: invite unnecessary controversy despite the domination, demolition, of Clemson there,
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  Speaker 1: just the demolition of Clemson. So that is a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping-off point. Let us discuss the question. On the Maller scorecard,
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  Speaker 1: how do you grade Lane Kiffin after labeling Paul Feinbaum,
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  Speaker 1: longtime college football pundit, quote, rat poison? Is this profound, preposterous,
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  Speaker 1: or a publicity stunt? So I've got Dahmer, Tropical Timeshare,
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  Speaker 1: And Mama's Kitchen. And we'll put them all together here,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to click them into place, like Legos.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to click these things into place. So, A,
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  Speaker 1: on the Maller scorecard, as far as the grade is concerned,
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  Speaker 1: this is oozing, oozing as a publicity stunt. Nobody actually
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  Speaker 1: believes Lane Kiffin and Paul Feinbaum dislike each other.
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  Speaker 2: Do you?
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  Speaker 1: Because if you do, I'd like you to go to
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  Speaker 1: the back of the room. I'd like you to go
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  Speaker 1: back because you get detention. You're going to have detention.
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  Speaker 1: You have to stay after class. The reason why no
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  Speaker 1: one should believe that Lane Kiffin and Paul Feinbaum dislike
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  Speaker 1: each other is simple. They desperately need each other in
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  Speaker 1: the ecosystem of college football. Kiffin and Feinbaum are two
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  Speaker 1: professional pot stirrers, and they're fighting over who's got custody
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  Speaker 1: of the spoon. It's my spoon. No, it's my spoon.
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  Speaker 1: I have the spoon.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Knock it off. All right, so Feinbaum calling Kiffin a
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  Speaker 1: publicity-seeking child is kind of like a skunk. Filing an
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  Speaker 1: odor complaint. Well, you're the skunk. You make the mess.
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  Speaker 1: You make the smell. I'm still upset with the odor.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like the odor. You can't do that. And
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  Speaker 1: so they go back and forth. Feinbaum's been around forever,
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  Speaker 1: and his whole career has been about shaking up the
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  Speaker 1: port-a-potty tank. And for many coaches, he is considered the
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  Speaker 1: king cobra, a venomous snake. in the college football media. Now, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: you've got Kiffin, who just loves being the firebrand. And
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  Speaker 1: he likes to look back when he's driving away and
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  Speaker 1: he can look in the rearview mirror and see the
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  Speaker 1: mushroom cloud. And he thinks that great. That's just wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: And for him, it is. And Feinbaum accusing Kiffin of
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  Speaker 1: loving controversy. It's kind of like Guy Fieri saying, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, I'm going to I'm going to be upset
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  Speaker 1: here with the people because somebody put too much cheese
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  Speaker 1: on my nachos. That's that's a violation. I'm a complainer. well,
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  Speaker 1: it's nachos, supposed to have cheese, but yeah, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to file a formal complaint. Or the great former Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State student Jeffrey Dahmer leaving just a one-star review. One-star
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  Speaker 1: review for the cafeteria. That's not ideal. Now, Kiffin isn't offended.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe he is offended. I believe the word
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  Speaker 1: is delighted that Paul Feinbaum keeps giving him free publicity
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  Speaker 1: and they're College football's perfect dysfunctional marriage. You're complaining about
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  Speaker 1: attention while bathing in it, just having a nice big
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  Speaker 1: bubble bath. What's in the bubble bath? It's an attention
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  Speaker 1: bubble bath. Well, isn't that great? That's wonderful, yes? And frankly,
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  Speaker 1: college football, there's a lot of these coaches that are
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  Speaker 1: just boring. College football would be far less entertaining if,
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  Speaker 1: These two stop throwing tomatoes at each other. It makes
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  Speaker 1: it more enjoyable. Now, one of the most zany things
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  Speaker 1: that happened over the weekend, and we talked about this
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  Speaker 1: in a previous episode of the show, was the Michigan-Western
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  Speaker 1: Michigan game. And to Ann Arbor we go. Fallout, fallout
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  Speaker 1: from the weekend. Michigan coach Kyle Whittingham, who refused to
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  Speaker 1: pull his incompetent quarterback off the field... Well, he has
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  Speaker 1: commented now, Whittingham saying that Bryce Underwood remains the starting quarterback, but,
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  Speaker 1: you know what that means, made it clear that his
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  Speaker 1: hold on the job is not permanent. Now, Whittingham gave
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  Speaker 1: us the money quote, which is what we're going to
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  Speaker 1: use here, the money quote. He said, quote, Coach Michigan said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: he's our quarterback right now, while emphasizing that the situation
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  Speaker 1: isn't infinite. And improvement must come. Now, Whittingham said that
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  Speaker 1: the current Michigan quarterback, Bryce Underwood, must perform week in
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  Speaker 1: and week out at a high level that allows Michigan
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  Speaker 1: to win. Yada, yada, yada.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So the question. How much trouble? is Michigan quarterback Bryce
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  Speaker 1: Underwood actually in? Is he in big trouble, little trouble,
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  Speaker 1: or no trouble at all? So based on the finances,
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  Speaker 1: you'd say no trouble, but that's not the answer. Bryce
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  Speaker 1: Underwood is underperforming, capital U, underperforming. And so I have
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  Speaker 1: him actually in big trouble. I remember, I'm old enough
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  Speaker 1: to remember when the Michigan fans had orgasms when they
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  Speaker 1: were able to get Bryce Underwood away from LSU in
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  Speaker 1: the recruiting game. And the devil's advocate would say, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's one game. Yeah, it was a stinker. But I say,
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  Speaker 1: spare me the patient sermon. He did not play well
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  Speaker 1: last year and looked horrific this year. He should have
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  Speaker 1: been benched. And I believe the reason he didn't get
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  Speaker 1: benched is because of money, money, money. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like if you're a star baseball player or NFL player
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  Speaker 1: or basketball player, you generally get a little more rope
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  Speaker 1: if you've got a lot of cash. I think we
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  Speaker 1: all know that. You know that. I know that. So Michigan...
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  Speaker 1: They had the boosters line up there. They didn't have
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  Speaker 1: the boosters dump $ 3 million. That's the number that I saw,
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  Speaker 1: $ 3 million a year into the collection plate for a
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  Speaker 1: developmental mid-level quarterback who needs training wheels. That's what they've
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  Speaker 1: got right now with Bryce Underwood. $ 3 million a year.
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  Speaker 1: The Wolverines need some ROI, return on investment, on all
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  Speaker 1: those shekels. And as of this moment, as of this
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  Speaker 1: moment in time, the investment has a resale value of
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  Speaker 1: that of a tropical timeshare just outside of Chernobyl. It's
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  Speaker 1: a really nice tropical thing. You get this real afterglow
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  Speaker 1: to you, real afterglow. It's great. You don't need to
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  Speaker 1: get x-rays because you'll have enough x-rays there to last
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  Speaker 1: a lifetime. It's just wonderful. So Underwood's performance against Western
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  Speaker 1: Michigan had the nutritional value of a deep-fried Twinkie dipped
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  Speaker 1: in transmission fluid. Okay, do you understand? And that Hail Mary,
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  Speaker 1: which was in bonus time, we can get into that,
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  Speaker 1: we will in a minute, my God. But when Michigan
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  Speaker 1: desperately needed their expensive quarterback toy to work, they pulled
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  Speaker 1: the string, Kyle Whittingham, and smoke came out of the
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  Speaker 1: toy's ears. Now, again, one game, all that, you play
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  Speaker 1: devil's advocate, I got it, but when you're getting paid
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  Speaker 1: that kind of scratch to be the solution, you don't
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  Speaker 1: get to perform like another problem, which is what Bryce
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  Speaker 1: Underwood did perform like, and the money is always a
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  Speaker 1: big part of this, but my goodness, you just can't win.
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  Speaker 1: You have 27-point favorites or whatever it was against Western Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: and you shouldn't have won. Speaking of that, the last
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  Speaker 1: word here to the clock. The clock talk. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 1: As you know, I am by the clock, for the clock,
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  Speaker 1: plausibly all about the clock. So I know a thing
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  Speaker 1: or two about the clock. Big 10 officials giving Michigan
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  Speaker 1: the extra life like Mario Kart to connect on that
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  Speaker 1: Hail Mary to win the story of the weekend in
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night's extravaganza. So I bring this up again because
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  Speaker 1: the Fox rules analyst and former NFL officiating chief Mike Pereira,
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  Speaker 1: the guy that wears the fancy suits, he has chimed
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  Speaker 1: in on this. Pereira said the NFL would have handled
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  Speaker 1: what the Big Ten did much differently, claiming that replay
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  Speaker 1: officials would rely on the television video feed and clock
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  Speaker 1: everyone sees on TV, you know, like what you should do.
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  Speaker 1: Pereira said that when the replay center video conflicts with
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  Speaker 1: the network feed, you use the footage that everyone sees.
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  Speaker 1: That's a quote. You use the footage that everybody sees.
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  Speaker 1: Adding Mike Pereira, that the same protocol is used in
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  Speaker 1: both the NFL and the UFL. Not that anyone watches
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  Speaker 1: the UFL. All right, so the question. You got Mike Pereira.
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  Speaker 1: from the Fox Replay Center, the rules analyst, chiming in
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  Speaker 1: on the Big Ten clock snafu in Michigan. What is
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  Speaker 1: he really saying here? What is he really saying? So
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  Speaker 1: spare me the incompetence excuse, right? Spare me the technological gobbledygook,
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  Speaker 1: which some like to point out. This was a mama's kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten home cooking served piping hot in Ann Arbor,
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  Speaker 1: and Mike Pereira is saying the quiet part out loud.
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  Speaker 1: Western Michigan won the game. The TV clock hit zero.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody goes home. That's it. Game set and match. Turn
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  Speaker 1: out the lights. The party's over. Kind of like they
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  Speaker 1: did the Florida State game, right? They turned out the lights.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to the Seminoles in a little bit. They'll
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  Speaker 1: be in the B block. Holy cannoli. I'm getting old.
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  Speaker 1: I remember when Florida State used to kill. I know
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  Speaker 1: SMU was in the top 25 preseason poll, but they
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  Speaker 1: would have killed them. Anyway, so the lights should have
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  Speaker 1: been out in Ann Arbor, Western Michigan. Winds, they go
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  Speaker 1: on the bus, they go home, celebrate and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Except suddenly, the conference found a bonus second. It was
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  Speaker 1: in the lost and found. Imagine that. So Pereira, the
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  Speaker 1: former NFL officiating czar, says the NFL handles a clock
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  Speaker 1: discrepancy by trusting the television footage, the evidence. Again, everyone
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  Speaker 1: sees what a revolutionary concept. And you got the Big
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  Speaker 1: Ten over there that operate with the Loch Ness monster
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  Speaker 1: of game clocks. It's trust us, bro. Trust us, bro.
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  Speaker 1: It exists. All right. The Loch Ness. Nobody sees the
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  Speaker 1: Loch Ness Monster, but it exists. And, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: just the clock for the Big Ten exists. It just
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  Speaker 1: you can't see it. I'm sorry, you're just not allowed
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  Speaker 1: to see. Well, why can't I see? Well, you're not
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  Speaker 1: allowed to see. But what's the big deal? So when
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  Speaker 1: the clock on the screen says zero and the league says, well, actually,
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  Speaker 1: our secret clock says otherwise. Now, if Michigan had been
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  Speaker 1: ahead of Western Michigan, then it would have reversed. Not
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  Speaker 1: exactly transparency by the dum-dums over in charge of the
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten replay situation. Now, I recommend they bring back.
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  Speaker 1: An old staple before smartphones, you used to have to
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  Speaker 1: call time. The time at the tone will be, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and just do that. Maybe the Big Ten can do that.
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  Speaker 1: Bring back the time thing. You can call time and
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  Speaker 1: then figure out how much time is left. At the tone,
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  Speaker 1: the time will be, yeah, just like that. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: cook in the books with a copyrighted maize and blue calculator.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, curmudgeon Wayne writes in, he says, whoever that was
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: who recorded Lane Kiffin at halftime, most likely won't be
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: allowed in the locker room any longer. This is embarrassing.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I did see that there was a, what appeared to
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: be an LSU staffer that had their phone down to
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: make it seem like, I assume that's their phone. to
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: make it seem like they were just kind of listening
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: in to Lane Kiffin give the pep talk when LSU
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: was up 31-3 over Clemson, and then he publicly undressed
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin publicly undressed Clemson, although he didn't realize his
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: comments would be broadcast all over the place and be
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: picked up on social media and be seen like five
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: million times on social Who goofed? I've got to know.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Just Josh writes in from Cincinnati. The great Just Josh.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Met him at the epic Malheur meet and greet we
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: did there just across the Ohio River in Kentucky. And
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: he says, across from Cincinnati, he says, seems daylight savings
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: time started early in Ann Arbor this weekend. Give back
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: the W cheetahs. And as far as Paul Feinbaum goes,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: he looks like he could be Adam Silver's brother. He's
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: got that going for him. You think they're from another
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: planet out there far, far away? Who knows? King Rory
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: writes in, says, hypothetically, if Michigan had a chance to
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: be an at-large bid for the college football playoff, will
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the committee look back at the Western Michigan game to
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: make their decision, or will they be like Michigan brings
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: the ratings, put the minimum? Well, you answered your own question,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: King Rory. It is a TV show. So you want
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: the biggest names you can get in the TV show,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: just like the studio. There's actors that are better than
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the headline actors. They do a better job. Nobody knows
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: who the F they are. So you get the headline
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: actors and the people that actually are good at it.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Nobody knows. There are no names. And so they have
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: to wait their turn. That's how that goes. Not a
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Burner writes in from Parts Unknown, says, how long before Kiffin?
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: goes full Urban Meyer and kicking or shoving a player
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: or conjuring up Sharon Moore and winding up in some
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: kind of tawdry sex scandal with an LSU co-ed or
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: faculty member.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Hmm.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Well, you're never too far away from any of those
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: things happening. So have your bingo card out and see
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: how that goes. And the comments over the weekend about
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Lane and that book That was strategic, I guess it
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: was last week, the book that had the quotes. Nick
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Saban saying, keep him away from the co-eds.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Yikes.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Yikes, yikes, yikes, yikes, yikes, yikes, yikes. Now, Jerry in
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Rhode Island writes in and says, hey, Maller, breaking, hell
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: hath no fury. It is frozen over. Robert Kraft paid Gonzo. Wow.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Stunning news. Or is it? Let's F and go. There
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: you go. Well, thank you. For the update there, yes,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: the Patriots have agreed to a big extension, the record-breaking
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: extension for Christian Gonzalez, who was complaining and bitching and
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: moaning about needing the contract and all that, and so
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: he's got the extension. Four years, $ 135 million, but really
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: $ 102 million guaranteed for Gonzalez, who's been one of the
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: better defensive backs in the NFL, and now he will
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: be the highest-paid defensive back In the NFL. So congratulations.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: And Robert Kraft had said when he wasn't getting massages,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: he had said that he believed that Gonzalez would ultimately
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: be in Foxborough for the long haul. And the de
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: facto GM there, Elliot Wolfe, gave the same exact message.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: So it has now happened. Now, this is the part
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: where either Gonzalez falls off the map or. gets hurt
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: or one of those things happen mark the isn't that
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: normally what happens you get a big contract mark the
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: walker writes and says the nature of my job does
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: not tend to lend itself to what you would call
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: consistency for example i'm about to listen to the mallard
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: show for an unprecedented seventh day in a row that
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: can't be a bad thing could it well it's up
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: to you Maybe I'll.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Do another monologue.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Minor addiction. It could be worse. Well, Lorraine, I might
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: do another monologue about how many captains the Rams have
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: with triggered Mark the Walker. He was triggered by that monologue.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: I'm very upset by that monologue. So I might have
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: to go back down that road. You can send your
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: comments in on X, Karev, at Ben Maller. That is
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: at Ben Maller on X. Your comments can and will
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: be used against you in the court of sports radio.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: So please act accordingly. And to the phones we go.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: And let's say hello to, let's go to Graham, who's
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: in Minnesota. What's going on, Graham? You're on the Ben
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Maller Show on Fox. Welcome.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Hey, Ben.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: It's been a while since I've called in. I've just
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: been working and just been really tired. But I just
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: wanted to call and I had a thought and a
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: question about the Michigan game.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: So the Michigan fan in me cannot accept this win
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: with good conscience because I truly feel that Western got hosed.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: And then my.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: Question for you is, do you think Bryce Underwood will
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: be the starting quarterback for Michigan all year, or will
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: they bench him and end up playing Tommy Carr at
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: some point?
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Well, what I saw, I would have benched him at
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: halftime of that game. So you're asking me my opinion.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: I would have already benched him. So I'm going to
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: go with he will not be the quarterback all year.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: As we said, that's the first game and all that.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: But he wasn't great last year, as I remember watching Michigan.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Underwood had issues last year, and he had all offseason
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: to work out the kinks, right?
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he would not be last year. And I have
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: a feeling that... Oklahoma is going to come into the
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: big house and absolutely give Michigan a wake-up call.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Well, they played the way they did the other day. Obviously,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: you're a 27-point favorite. You should at least win by
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: two touchdowns. You maybe don't cover the spread, but you
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: win by two touchdowns. You should need a Hail Mary,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: as you know, as a Michigan fan, Graham, to win
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: that game at the end. What the heck is that?
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: Michigan should have played better, and Underwood– is not the
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: answer at quarterback for Michigan.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: And don't feel bad. He's getting millions of dollars, so
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: he'll be okay. He'll be all right. He's getting paid.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: Ever since J.J. McCarthy left, Michigan's been struggling at quarterback.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's some issues. But, Grandma, I guess we'll talk
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: to you like a year from now or something like that.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Is that how that goes?
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Ben. Hi, Lorena.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Hi.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: How are you?
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: All right. Oh, we hung up on you. I guess
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: we don't care. Oh, darn. Trying to steal Anthony in
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Louisiana's shtick is what he's trying to do there. That's
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: trademarked by Anthony. Hey, cuz. That's it. There's really nothing
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: else to talk about other than that. Pointing that out.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: So I did watch the Florida State Seminoles get to
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: a certain age. You're like, well, when I was a kid,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: they were good. And they were really great. Now they suck.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: So the Seminoles opened up at home. Another one of
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: these games that was delayed. This not delayed because of weather.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: It was a turn at the last. The party's over. Yes.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: As they had a power outage. Game was delayed. Seemed
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: like a couple hours there. I kept I was watching
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: baseball because I was like, I don't want to watch
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: these terrible ESPN announcers just fill time. I'll just go
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: watch a baseball game. So I went over and I
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: watched some baseball. And then I came back and they
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: were still talking. And then I went back and they
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: were still talking. And I did see when the game
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: finally started, somebody named Kevin Jennings, who's apparently the quarterback
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: for SMU, who reminded me of Jameis Winston, a turnover
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: machine and a touchdown machine. He got 430 yards. SMU
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: ranked in the top 25, not highly, but in the
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: back part of the top 25. But Kevin Jennings, 430
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: yards passing, three touchdowns. He also had two interceptions. And
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: do the Seminoles play defense? Maybe they had 10 guys
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: out there instead of 11. It is possible. As the
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Mustangs of SMU, they only had 27 points. However, they
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: had 585 yards of offense. in tallahassee 500 holy jed
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: who fled batman 585 yards of pass of total offense
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: 430 passing yards 155 on the ground and they yet
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: they turned the ball over smu four times and in
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: the end it Didn't matter because Florida State, the Seminoles,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: did not take advantage of that, which brings us to
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: the amazing factoid of the hour here. Prior to the
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: game on Monday, if you look at the prediction market,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Mike Norvell, the head coach of the Seminoles, they said
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: he had about a 50-50 chance. I think the number
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: was 45% according to the prediction market that he would
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: not be the coach. He would be fired during the
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: season for Florida State.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: So that was then. And now after losing to SMU,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: that number on the prediction market has been bumped up
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: to 92 percent. Dead man coaching a 92 percent chance
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: that Mike Dovelle out at Florida State. And you keep
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: looking around, you're like, hey, if Dion can put a
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: good team together at Colorado and get that thing cooking.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: And it's a long shot. Coach Prime goes back to
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: save the Seminoles, developing hot, dot, dot, dot. Now, another
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: great moment involving the Florida State game, they played a
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: special announcement. You see this? They had a special announcement
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: on the video board, we were told. I saw this
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: story bouncing around. And they were trying to surprise the
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Florida State marching band. And they put a big announcement
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: right there on the Jumbotron. They announced that the Seminoles
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: marching band will be performing at At the Macy's Thanksgiving
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Day Parade. They still do those? Yeah, apparently they do. Now,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: if you're in a band, isn't that like your Super Bowl,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: the Rose Parade and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade? That's
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: got to be like if you're I'm not a band person,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: but if you're in a band, that's got to be
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: your Super Bowl, right? Rose Parade or the Macy's Thanksgiving
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Day Parade with the blimps and all that. Anyway, the
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: marching bands. Yeah, the band. And so they made the announcement.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: And the big announcement, this is going to go perform
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: in New York at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Well,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: unfortunately for the band, a great moment for these kids.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Mike Norvell was the one who made the recorded announcement
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: and was booed. They booed the announcement because they hate
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Norvell so much. The Florida State fans are so pissed
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: at this guy that they were booing his ass, which
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: made for. Made for some compelling theater. Let's go back
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: to the calls, because why not? It's a call-in show.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Scotty, who's on the pike. Hello, Scotty.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: What's going on? You're on the Ben Maller Show on Fox.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Welcome. Thank you, Ben. How are you?
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Scotty, if I was any better, I would be a sock,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: but not a red sock, because the American League is
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: the JV. This year, the American League is the JV.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: But what's on your mind there, Scotty?
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, allow me to do a little
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: mallet ball washing and just say that your August 14th
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: episode of the Fifth Hour Podcast should win an award.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: That was excellent.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you. I appreciate that.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Great story. My wife and I have done something similar.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: It brought back a lot of memories to us. I
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: made her listen to it, so I listened to it again.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: And we were just laughing and just talking about it.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: It was excellent.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: Excellent.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: So thank you.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: You see that, Lorraine? I don't win any awards, but
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: according to Scotty and the Pike and his wife, I
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: have won an award. You created a bonding moment between
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: a couple. How cool is that? These things are relatable, Lorena. Well, Ben.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Life just repeats itself. But anyway, you didn't call about that, Scotty.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: What you got, man? What you got?
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Well, what do you think? Can the Red Sox catch
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: the Yankees?
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, there are only three back. I guess the
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Yankees have the tiebreaker, right? I believe the Yankees have
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: the tiebreaker from that.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that last debacle down in the Bronx
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: wasn't very good. And to be honest with you, for
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: a little while, I thought they were just going to
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: try to put it in cruise control and just be
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: happy with the second wild card. But they ripped off
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: five in a row. And, you know, Roman Anthony's back.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: I would say, like, looking at the Red Sox, though,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: I don't really care. Home and road, I don't think
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: it's that. I know you all like to think you
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: have the greatest home field advantage and all that, but
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: I don't think it really matters that much if your
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: bullpen is good. I think the Red Sox have a,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: you know, it's been a little spotty here, obviously, the
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: second half at times, but I think overall... They're pretty good.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: And the big thing, and the news came out on Monday,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: I read somewhere, saw that your ace is supposed to
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: come back. Garrett Crochet is tracking to be ready for
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: the first round of the playoffs. So if you've got
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: him and he's back to form, then it doesn't really
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: matter whether you're at home or on the road because
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: he's going to shut somebody down for six innings or so.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. Because, you know, your third starter, if
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: he was still out, it's Suarez, you know, a debate
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: between Suarez and Jennings.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: And also, you've got to worry about Sonny Gray because
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: he's got a reputation of being a choke artist in
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: big games. So you've got to worry about him a
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: little bit. But we'll get to that in the playoffs.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: All right, Scotty. Thank you, man. Look at that. Scotty
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: driving around right now. Checked in. It's a dedication from
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Scotty and his wife. I thank them both for listening
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: to the August 14th episode. Every other episode of The
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Fifth Hour sucked, but the August 14th one, outstanding. New
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: episodes every weekend. And we're working on something big for Friday.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: I don't want to give it away. I want to
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: jinx it, but there's something big on Friday. We're working
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: for that. There you go. Mark the Walker says, Mallory,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: I was triggered by you overcooking your meat. I don't
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: know what you're talking about. It's not overcooking meat. You
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: like it dry. I like my meat completely dead. I
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: don't want it. You put enough blood in there, you
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: could bring it back to life, and I want that.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Ferg Dogg says seven days in a row for Mark
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: the Walker. Those are rookie numbers. We got to pump
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: those numbers up. I agree. Ferg Dogg, who was part
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: of seven years of high school in the Marching Band,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: says marching bands are for nerds. I bet Robbie was
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: in a band. Time now for the Who Am I game.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Here's a Who Am I game for you. See if
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: you can get this one right. I'm a former NFL
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: player whose first name means peace in the Swahili language.
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: Who?
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: I retired as my team's career leader in catches, receiving yards,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: and receiving touchdowns.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Who?
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Yet I never made a single Pro Bowl. Again, I'm
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: a former NFL player whose first name means peace in
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: the Swahili language. I retired as my team's career leader
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: in catches, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns. Yet never made
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: a single Pro Bowl. Who am I? That is the question,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: the answer. We'll get to it, and we will do
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: it next.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio. And a reminder,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: every single weekend the audio sweatshop is opened up. We
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: do not stop to talk. The 5th Hour Podcast will
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: take over the airwaves every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. And
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: according to Scotty and the Pike, an award-winning August 14th episode,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: a classic Malheur travelogue. But there have been new episodes
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, including the mailbag. We had
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: a zany mailbag on Sunday with JT the Wingman and
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Weedman and Lisa. There was a whole lot going on.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Several people complaining about the quality of Weedman's Obama phone.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell you. Couldn't use Zoom,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: so we used his Obama phone and Didn't work out
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: very well. But you can hear that and everything else
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: the fifth hour every Friday, Saturday in the mailbag on Sunday.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: We thank you. We thank you. We thank you. In advance,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: we thank you. All right, back to it. We will
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: take a call. Then we'll get to the payoff on
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: the Who Am I game. And let's see here. Eenie, meenie, miney, moe.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Big Daddy, who's in Memphis. He's
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: on aisle four, I believe. Aisle four of the grocery store. Hello,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Big Daddy.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Welcome. Time it in.
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: Say hello to all my fans and all my constituents.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: He's the daddy.
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: It's wrestling. Yeah, it's wrestling or sports.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Yes, wrestling is a sport. Professional wrestling, I don't know
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: about that, but like actual college wrestling, yeah, that's a sport.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, college wrestling?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, okay. Well, no, breaking news, we had somebody at
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: Paz down here that used to wrestle. Bill Superstar Dundee,
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: you remember him?
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Bill Dundee, let me see.
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he used to wrestle with Jerry Lawless.
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  Speaker 1: All right. I don't know that he was one of
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: my childhood wrestlers.
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, they come from a long line of wrestlers. Sputnik,
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: you know, all them guys, Jackie Fargo, way down the pipeline.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But he was 82.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: That's a good run, 82. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: I probably saw him when I was a kid, but
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: he wasn't like.
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, big name, yeah. He had a partner called the
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: Bicentennial Baby. They used to come out there in red, white,
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: and blue uniforms, you know, like the flag. Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: I got you.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: I got you.
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: Hey, they got us and the Cowboys and the Rams
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: for the Super Bowl, ain't it? And that's what I've
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: been hearing.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Well, if the Cowboys and Rams play in the Super Bowl,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: that means no AFC teams are in the Super Bowl.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Very difficult. Yeah, hey, the Cowboys, every year the Cowboys
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: are going. to the Super Bowl. I got to leave
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: it there, Big Daddy, because I got to pay off
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: the who am I or Alf's going to kill me.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: So I don't want Alf to kill me and Malaprop
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: guy and Ferg Doggo bludgeoning me. I'm a former NFL
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: player whose first name means peace in Swahili, that language.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: I retired as my team's career leader in catches, receiving yards,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: and receiving touchdowns. I never made a single Pro Bowl,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: despite all those numbers. Who am I? That is the question.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: What is the answer? And let's see. Does anyone know
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: the answer? Yokozuna from Andy and Lionel Lakes. Ben the
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Smasher from Alf. Oh, good art. Ben the Smasher from
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Alf the Alien O'Piner. I like that. Good artwork. Polk
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: High alum Mr. Bundy from Just Josh. I see what
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: you did there. Who else do we have? Page down.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Jeff Lebowski from Mark the Walker. We've got Amani Dog
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: from Malaprop Guy. Ulysses S. Grant from Chris. Who else
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: do we have? Page down. What's the answer? It's Gandhi. No,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: it's Amani Toomer of the Giants. Amani Toomer of the Giants.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Amani Toomer.