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September 1, 2025 39 mins

Ben Maller starts off hour 3 recapping Alabama’s loss to unranked FSU over the weekend and how head coach Kalen DeBoer’s too nice personality might be clashing with Alabama’s historically tough football culture & wonders if Nick Saban would leave the media to come back to Crimson Tide + a new edition of the Insta Advice Line! 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Omaha, Omaha. It's our number three, our number three, and
we talked from College Football the Original Recipe podcast on
this Labor day, the first of September. Here in our
number three is Kaylan de Boor's two nice personality clashing
with Alabama's hard nosed football culture as Alabama got smashed

(00:24):
over the weekend. Would Alabama boosters actually write that check
for sixty three million mid season to make de Boor
go away, make that coaching change? And is it true
that Nick Saban would come back out of retirement to
save Alabama football. We'll discuss that and give me your

(00:45):
reaction to the Oregon Ducks mascot being beheaded. It was
one of the great bloopers of the weekend. We'll talk
about that as well. Right now here, it is our
number three. The Bama debacle, That's what it was, us
big bad Alabama not any longer. Where have you gone,
Nick Saban? Welcome? Well, he's boring us on television, that's

(01:07):
where he's gone. Wel come, in the beginning of another
hour of the Ben Malors Show. We are in the
air everywhere, in your face, even on a Labor day,
as we are tongue tied and brain fried. Coast to coast,
border to border in beyond on the fast and immeasurably

(01:29):
powerful microphones of fs are amminating live from the flood,
the flood of information from the world famous Fox Sports
Radio studios, as approved by Anthony in Anaheim. He gives
the old thumbs up on that. So our lead this
hour play the head small man, all right, we're gonna

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go to Tallahassee. We're somewhere. Jed, who fled, who does
not live in Tallahassee but loves the Seminals. I'm sure
Jed had a big smile on his face. The new
quarterback Tomic Castelanos leading a very powerful rushing attack. Not
a great passing attack for the Seminoles, but a good
rushing attack. Is Florida State unranked. This guy on had

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seventy eight yards, but he had a touchdown, and the
Seminoles stunned number eight preseason Alabama. The final score thirty
one to seventeen. I don't if you saw this over
the weekend or not. Maybe not, maybe we're not watching it.
It was a surprising outcome. Well, I knew Alabamas. I'll

(02:32):
always people after that. I knew Alabama was gonna lose. Okay,
I'm sure you did. I'm sure you did. So that
ends the Crimson Tide streak of twenty three straight wins
in season open So an entire generation has come and gone,
and Alabama had not lost a season opener until over
the weekend, coming off a two to ten el Stinko

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year Florida State handing Alabama a big time law. So
the Seminoles are all excited and they're like, hey, we're back.
And of course the story though, is Alabama, Right, that's
the story here. Alabama with their head coach, second year
coach Caitlin de Boor, students and fans swarming the field

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at Doake Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, celebrating school got fined
like fifty g's because they ran out in the field. Nope,
you're not ont of fun. Catch no fun, got to
find you fifty thousand. Now, the Seminoles were thirteen and
a half point underdog in that game. I think you
know where I'm going with this. I think you're aware
of where I'm headed on this one, but maybe not.

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The better story is in the losing locker room. So
that's where we're going to go. The Crimson Tide their
last nine games against D one opponents With Kaitlyn de Boor,
the Crimson Tide are four and five. Now, I didn't
play college football. I'm told that's a losing record, though,
when you're four and five. Alabama has lost its last
three games, last three game, James outright, not just lose

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the spread? Outright when favored by thirteen or more points,
who goofed? I've got to know. Well, as the temperature
gets cranked up, it is a sauna. It is an
absolute sauna. For Kaylen de Boor, the head coach at Alabama.
The boosters are upset, The fans are upset. The coaching

(04:23):
staff they're annoyed, but they're the ones in charge. The
players seem upset, But the main issue, according to Boots
on the ground here, the main issue is that the
boosters are upset with a what is perceived to be
a happy, go lucky approach. For Kaylen de Boer, that's
the issue that he doesn't seem to be that bothered

(04:46):
by what is going on. So let us discuss the
question is the coach, Kaylen de Boor's too nice personality
is that clashing with Alabama's hard nosed football culture, at
least the perception of the hard nosed football culture. So
I've got a cup of sugar, beach front property and Shakespeare,

(05:09):
and we'll throw all these things together and we're gonna
make the barbaganoosh. We're gonna make the barbaganoos. So a
move over, move over, Jerry Jones, move on over now,
move on over, right, and the Cowboys the Dixie Drama
oh Rama, the Dixie Drama Factory is open for business.

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So the Crimson Tide, who for most of my life
have been one of the great college football teams. Right,
they had a couple of terrible years in the middle,
but for the most part they've been pretty good. So
the Crimson Tide juggernaut sputtering down the highway, and they
got a flat tire. They popped the tire. Now, Kaylyn
de Boor has he's been accused of being you're too nice.

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You're mister nice guy. Don't be too nice. That's the
rap sheet. Now in tuscal loose in Tuscaloosa, they don't
have any NFL. This is the biggest game in time.
We know that. And they don't want a boy scout.
They do not want a boy scout. They don't want
an eagle scout. They want a drill sergeant. They want
an in your face drill sergeant. And de Boor who
coached at Washington, but he's from the Midwest. He's got

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that Midwestern nice thing going on. And they said, well,
that'll play well then Sue falls or something like that.
But it's not gonna play well in the Southeastern Conference
meat grinder. It just doesn't play well. And it's it's
essentially the sec y'all tell me this every year. It's
a chainsaw battle, chainsaw fight, and de Bar's got a

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butter knife. It would appear at this particular point. And
the neighborhood is it's a weird neighborhood Alabama because they're
supposed to be one of the big, big time players
in college football. They're clearly not the way they finished
last year and the way they started this year. And
there's a lot of a lot of stuff going on.

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But de Bor is the neighbor who lends you the
cup of sugar in the neighborhood. But Alabama fans they
don't want the neighbor that'll lend you a cup of sugar.
They don't want that, right. They want a neighbor that
is an a hole that has a sign says my
dog is bigger than my gun and snarling junkyard dog

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also there chewing on the rebar. That's what they want.
That is not who they have currently as their head coach. Now, secondly,
let's address the sixty three million dollar elephant in the
room or in this case, the Komodo dragon in the room.
And that is the amount of money, the amount of

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money that Alabama would have to come up with to
get rid of Kaitlyn de boor literally the GDP of
Small Island Nations. That's how much money debor is guaranteed
if Alabama gets rid of him. So, would Alabama boosters
actually write the check, the jump sized cartoon check mid season?

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Would they write that check to make a coaching change?
Is at that bad? So I'm a malard theory I
would like to share with the class. So here's my
theory on this. The theory is that, well, in theory,
you said, well, it's not gonna happen, right, There's no
way that somebody's gonna pay this money to get sixty
three million is an insane amount of money. However, all

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we need is one oligarch with Southern roots, right, one aristocrat,
one robber baron, who's got that oil money And all
of a sudden, right, you know, with some of these people,
there's a lot of people floating around like this. I'm
not one of them. They got pockets that are deeper
than the Gulf of Mexico or America or every want

(08:47):
to call it. And suddenly that happens, and Caitlin de
boor instead a roll Todd, it's roll out, get out
of here, Get your ass out of here. You're going.
You cannot underestimate the power of oil money and generational
Southern pride. You cannot do it. If the tide play

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like they did on Saturday, and they do it a
couple more times here, all of a sudden, somebody's like, hey,
we'll make some phone calls. Why don't we partner our
money together. We had a good year in the stock market.
We'll figure this thing out. But the crimson clad oil barons,
you're you gonna start tossing that money around. They'll toss
it in the air everywhere, like they're buying beachfront property

(09:31):
right at the apocalypse For Alabama football, this would be
the apocalypse. Now Debor can return if he gets the
sixty three million. You can get a secondary job somewhere
at some mid level university and get back to coaching
the way he did his way up the ladder, when
he had success at multiple stops and then finally got
Washington into the National Championship playoff tournament and all that. Now,

(09:57):
is it true? Is is it true that Nick Saban
would come out of retirement, would come out of retirement
to save Alabama football? This has been a rumor that's
been bouncing around the pinball machine that Saban there was
a story a couple months ago that he was thinking
about coming back to coaching. We all assume NFL NFL,
not college NFL, But would would Nick Saban actually leave

(10:24):
television and go back to Alabama and save the Crimson Tide?
Is it true? So this is a fairy tale that
is making the rounds in the backwoods that Saban's gonna
come back and save them. And Saban's gonna leave the television,
the makeup and all that stuff from television and swoop
out of his lake house where he owns the entire

(10:46):
lake like Superman, and you know, take off the golfizor
the whole thing there, dust off the headset and say
I'm back to save Alabama football. Now is it fun
to imagine that? Absolutely? Fun to imagine that? Absolutely? What
are the chances? So, using the law of averages and

(11:08):
based on we have seen coaches come back to save
universities that have gotten second runs at different schools, and
they can give you a bunch of examples, but I
don't need to bore you with that right now. But Saban,
I'll say the chance is five percent. There's a five
percent chance that Nick Saban says I gotta go back.
I gotta save Alabama. I built this thing up, we

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can't have it torn down right now. And I'm gonna
leave TV and I'm gonna go in there. And that's it.
But the legend of Nick Saban, now we we'll have
to get Van the one leg at Bama man on
to go over this. But the legend is so big.
He's become like Elvis in the state of Alabama. Like
there's sightings of Nick Saban and people have said, well,

(11:54):
I saw Sabin, you know so, and so he was
kind of near the campus. You see this was that mean?
Is there some be there and you know someone will say, oh,
I saw him at the gas station or something like that.
Here's the thing though about Nick Saban, He's still getting
paid five hundred thousand dollars a year by the university.
They gave him this golden parachute. Or even though he's

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no longer coaching, he's like the coach emeritis and they
just gave him five hundred thousand dollars for being a
nice guy, even though I don't think he's that nice
a guy. All right, So final thought, The funniest thing,
by far, the funniest thing I saw from a weekend
watching college football which started on Thursday and we'll continue
until later today, Bill Belichick making his college coaching debut

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as North Carolina in Chapel Hill taking on TCU. But
the funniest thing I saw was on the Oregon trail.
So they saw I don't saw the Clipper not or
heard about it. The Oregon Ducks kicked off the twenty
twenty five season against the Montana State squad, the Bobcats
of Montana State. Now during the pregame festivities, Oregon's mascot,

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better known as the Duck, who is Donald Duck of course,
deal with Phil Walt Disney back in the day, and
Walt Disney clearly not thinking that the corporation will be
taken over by corporate weasels and all that, and wouldn't
have to make a deal with Oregon. He made a
deal with Oregon, gave them Donald Duck. Famous story. We
all know that. So the mascot came running out prior

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to the game pregame, the mascot suffered a Janet Jackson
like wardrobe malfunction. Now he did not show his mascot boobies. However,
the mascot did show the world his human head. What yeah,
the duck's head fell off. That is mascot one, oh, one,
you cannot lose your mascot head. The head came off

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the mascot, causing the mascot to immediately run for safe
haven to a safe space inside the tunnel in Eugene, Oregon,
to avoid his face being seen by the cameras in
the crowd. It was a momentary gaff, and the duck
not waddle. It ran. It lost its duck waves. When

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it lost its head and ran, it lost its balance.
It tripped the Duck mascot and had the head fall off.
That's some bad velcrow used. You got a velcrow that
head in. Somebody goofed up on the mascot team there
at Oregon. Now the mascot was trying to carry something
out of the field and did not work out so well.

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So give me your reaction to the Oregon Duck's mascot
pregame festivities there being beheaded losing its mascot head over
the weekend. So this is very relatable content. I love it.
You see these mascots, like in Milwaukee they have the
racing sausages and every so often they'll fall down and trip.

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But that's the duck in all of us. What I
saw was very relatable. That's a klutz. The duck is
a c in feathers. That's what I saw there. And
this fiasco immediately gets nomination and has to get an
award from the Mascot Hall of Fame, which is in
the Chicago Land area, but it's just across the border

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there in Indiana. Because this is hilarious. I saw the clip.
I got watch it now. Is it as funny as
Rocky the mascot for the Nuggets being raised down to
the court from the rafters there like a Victorian widow.
It just like who had fainted. No, that is not
as good as Rocky the mascot, I would argue, not

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as good as Poe the Ravens mascot who was playing.
I think this was a couple of years ago. It
wasn't last year. I think it was two years ago,
and blew out the ACL in a halftime bit where
the kids were playing football at halftime and the mascot,
Poe the Ravens mascot, hurt himself trying to win. I
guess a roster battle and all that. But this was

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very good. This was also on par with There was
a hockey coach named Craig mctabage McTavish who played a
long time in the NHL. He was coaching, I believe,
the Edmonton Oilers and they were playing the Calgary Flames,
and Calgary has a mascot named Harvey the Hound, and
Harvey the Hound is just a kind of a sad
looking dog with a big red tongue. But Harvey the

(16:17):
Hound lost its tongue because Craig mctaviash ripped the tongue
out of the mascot costume. There it was, Yeah, Harvey
lost his tongue. Very unfortunate. But you're the mascot though,
losing your head. You imagine you're Disneyland and kid wants
to see Mickey Mouse, and Mickey had one too many

(16:37):
beers before going out, and next thing you know, Mickey
ends up, goes tumbling down, and the head goes flying,
the mask goes flying. Oh my god. But that's it.
I mean, it was really art. It was in many ways.
It was art, right. It was like Shakespeare the foam
costume Shakespeare. If you because one second, one second you're inspired,

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You're the beloved mascot of the University of Oregon, right,
all that Nike money, and the next thing you are,
you're Humpty Dumpty. Humpty Dumpty goes tumbling down, down, down.
All the King's horses and all the King's men cannot
put the duck's head back on again. Yeah. It's the
kind of highlight blooper reel that cements your legacy in sports,

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almost as good as when mister Met gave the bird.
When mister Met gave the bird, when the Mets were
losing and mister Met gave the bird, the duck waddled
straight into legend. So it was embarrassing, but it made
us all smile, met us all love. It is the
Ben Mahler Show. Take a bunch of calls. We also
have the Instant Advice Line coming up a little bit

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later in the hour. But time now for the Mallor
Reel of the day. And here's the Mallard Riddle of
the day. A Guy Fieri did a rant about him
on my podcast a couple weeks back. He's every restaurant
there's a picture of Guy Fieri anyway. Guy Fieri's son
married the world's number one ranked blank. Again, Guy Fieri,

(18:06):
the guy from Diners, drive ins and dives there. He's
got the blank, the bright spiky blonde hair, and he
drives around and makes it seem like he drives all
these restaurants even though he flies in. Guy Fieri's son
married the world's number one ranked blank. That is the
Malar riddle of the day. The answer, we'll get to it.
We will do it next.

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We'll be used against you in the court of sports radio.
Later this hour the insant advice line. Now back to
it all, Back to it we go, and we'll pay
off the mallor riddle of today. Guy Fieri's son married
recently the world's number one ranked blank That is the question.
What is the answer? And Ferg Dog says the number

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one ranked gamer girl. Good for him, says Ferg Dog.
Let's see here, Page Dan, Uh some food person from
malor prop Guy, I don't know what that was all about.
Guy Fiery's son married the world's number one ranked pickle
eater from o g arc puffet alf the Alien says,

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the world's number one ranked drag queen. Uh see here?
Stuck in Sacramento went crackhead the number one ranked crackhead?
Do they rank the crack eggs? Wow? That does not
look good though? Stuck in Sacramento? Wow, that is that
is wild? How the mighty have fallen in that photo?
Who else do we have? Page down? The hawk Tua

(20:34):
from Ozzie Waz that's his guests here, Paige Dan, you
got to give.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
Him that hook that night?

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Parrito says the number one importer of cucumbers is the answer?
Trucker Joe went hooker, number one hooker. Who else do
we have?

Speaker 4 (20:52):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (20:52):
Fat dad E says Guy Fiery's son married the number
one lot lizard. Page down came to read that on
the air. All right, let's see here. Do you have
an answer?

Speaker 5 (21:07):
Yeah, I'm thinking like the number one massage therapy, number
one ranked massage therapist.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Man, that was so cool. That is incorrect. Guy Fiery's
son married the world's number one ranked pickle ball player.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Is that still a thing?

Speaker 1 (21:27):
It's not. It's something old people do. Tara Bernstein tied
the knot with Guy Fieri's kid, Hunter Fieri, in northern California.
There you go. So they didn't get married in Flavortown though.
That's a bad they should have gotten they that's a
bad job by them. Okay, let's go to the phones.
We'll say hello to Whoopy Pie Blair. Hello, Whoopy Pie

(21:51):
Blair from the Great state of Maine. It's been a
while you wait for the holidays to call. You're very
very busy man. You can't call other than holadays.

Speaker 6 (22:01):
Yes, I am bad.

Speaker 7 (22:04):
I'm at my mom's house to myself and I shave
my eyebrows in my head and so she said, that
doesn't look like you look pathetic.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yeah, why would you do that?

Speaker 2 (22:17):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (22:18):
I was actually in boxes and TikTok, and somebody told me,
and I told them.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
Wait, so you were on TikTok and somebody told you.

Speaker 7 (22:29):
To shave your Yeah, well I said, you send me
two galaxies, I'll do it, and I freaking did it.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
Did they send you the thing?

Speaker 7 (22:37):
Layne Blair get it again?

Speaker 1 (22:42):
And thinking maybe you shouldn't be on social media player.
I'm thinking you're easily influenced, Blair. I'm thinking you're easily manipulated.

Speaker 5 (22:49):
That's the funnest ones to have on there.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Ben.

Speaker 7 (22:51):
Okay, if I just got a thousand followers because I
just go wow, a lot of people women And okay, do.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
You follow you follow any ugly women?

Speaker 6 (23:04):
No?

Speaker 1 (23:05):
No, only cute women.

Speaker 7 (23:06):
Okay, I want to ask you something. Then Dodger is
going to do good when the real series.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
I just don't you don't care about that. Yes, I
know you don't. You don't watch sports anymore. You don't
watch you don't watch sports, your dude, you don't want you.
You know what, Blair, You've changed.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
I'm going to bring you.

Speaker 7 (23:25):
You've changed my podcasts and we're going to you.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
You have changed, Blair. You don't watch sports anymore. You're
just like you're looking at hot chicks on TikTok. That's
all you're doing this. You got to get out there,
live your life a little bit.

Speaker 7 (23:39):
I am. I'm working on my podcasts and practicing it.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
Are you eating right now? You're on the Why are
you eating? You're on the air.

Speaker 5 (23:46):
Sounds like you're eating greens?

Speaker 1 (23:48):
Are eating?

Speaker 6 (23:49):
I know you're really hot?

Speaker 7 (23:52):
Hot peppers?

Speaker 1 (23:54):
That are.

Speaker 7 (23:56):
The green ones, not the other one.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
Bell peppers. Aren't that hot? You're talking about bell peppers?

Speaker 6 (24:05):
I think I think they are.

Speaker 7 (24:07):
I think I think I think she's on it because
I think she named it if I look at the can.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
So so Blair, all right, so okay, so you're just
you're easily influenced. So if I had the wrong word,
Oh did you say something? I don't know, I wasn't.

Speaker 6 (24:26):
That's a bad job by you.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
That's a bad job. But it's a borst job by you. Blair. Yeah, Blair,
watch your top Serranos.

Speaker 6 (24:36):
No, I mean mount all of what the flice?

Speaker 7 (24:40):
Pepperoni?

Speaker 6 (24:41):
What freak?

Speaker 7 (24:42):
And they're hot.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
We're getting we're getting the Goofy Blair. This is the
Goofy Blair. Yeah yeah, now blue but Blair Blair in
the Wholiday. But if we do the Malard meet and
greet in Boston. Will you be able to drive down
and see us again? Talk to mom, talk to your mom.
I'm not talking to your mom, and that's not talk

(25:05):
to your mom.

Speaker 6 (25:05):
If I get a hotel and.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
A hotel.

Speaker 6 (25:09):
I'm working?

Speaker 1 (25:10):
Oh you are? What do you do? What kind of
work you're doing?

Speaker 6 (25:12):
Blair working at Kobe College?

Speaker 8 (25:15):
Okay, beautiful Waterville, Maine, working in the dying. Do you
still call the you still call the local You don't
call the local sports radio anymore, do you?

Speaker 6 (25:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (25:27):
I do call it a big job.

Speaker 4 (25:28):
But you're off today.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
Because the holiday exactly, this is the real stars are
off today.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
All right.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
Well it's fascinating you. I'm not a real star. That's
why I'm here. That's why I'm here.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
No, you're a big legend, that's what you are.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
That's right.

Speaker 7 (25:42):
Big.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
And I remember there. I mean when I met Blair
Maine at the cask and flagging and you you were
a little traumatized. You were traumatized because there was a
DM DMX.

Speaker 6 (25:53):
Get freak out of the way.

Speaker 7 (25:55):
Well yeah, walking down the trees, I get them out
of all right.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
I gotta never forget that one.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
I gotta go. Thank you though, all right, go away.
Let's let's say hello to strip club John in Cleveland. Boy,
the legends are out on this labor day. Hello strip
club John Man.

Speaker 6 (26:15):
I hear you're surrounded by radio honest show girl tonight.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yes, we have a group of a good looking group here,
good looking that what's going on with you, johnspin I
was actually thinking about you. You haven't called in a while.
I was like, well, maybe I haven't called him a while.

Speaker 9 (26:35):
I've been busy working, you know, slaving away. That's why
I got labor day off, and I slave away to
the rind. You know, it's like going to a steel
mill every day.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
It's very difficult. And we've talked in the past about
you know, things have changed a lot, John. A lot
of women go on the TikTok or whatever. They become
famous in other ways. But there's always enough for the club, right,
you always find enough dance is for the club.

Speaker 6 (27:01):
Well yeah, and plus Trump has made it made it tip.
You know there's no taxes on tips.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
Really, yeah, I didn't know that strippers and are making
much more money now.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
I had no idea. So okay, I should get I
should get some tips. Why is there someone tip me
if I don't have to pay taxes on tips anymore.
I didn't even know you are on camera, Ben, I
am my camera. That is correct.

Speaker 6 (27:26):
No taxes on tips.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Oh that's great, it's wonderful.

Speaker 6 (27:29):
So if you want to make five thousand dollars a week,
you tell it's all yours.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Five a week. Oh man, Wow, that's the average, really average?

Speaker 6 (27:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (27:39):
And uh and where is this club located?

Speaker 5 (27:42):
And what hours do I need to be there?

Speaker 6 (27:46):
You could drink on the job. You could do it.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
You want me sloppy? That's bad. He's just saying you could. Yeah,
you're allowed. You know.

Speaker 5 (27:59):
Have you ever had any of your strippers try to
light each other on fire? I heard about this one
girl who got attacked with like, yeah, lighter fluid outside
of the stripers.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
That's a crime, Lorena, that's yeah.

Speaker 5 (28:12):
Well they get mad when you make more money than
the popular.

Speaker 6 (28:14):
Girls dressing room all the time. Yeah, there's the house
to break up.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
There's a lot of hair pulling and things like that. Yeah, yeah,
I got see. I don't want to die. That's very competitive.
It's very competitive. I'm guessing it's competitive, right, John, because
there's certain guys that come in there probably have a
lot of more. Yeah, yeah, you call them away. They fight.
They fight over the women, fight over the guys that

(28:41):
are loaded, that don't that give all their money, the
strippers that they're fighting over them. Wow, it's a wild world, man,
it's wild world.

Speaker 6 (28:51):
Well, and I'm so excited.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
Why is that?

Speaker 6 (28:54):
I don't know if you remember? Do you remember what
college played football for?

Speaker 1 (28:59):
I remember you had told me. I forget though? Where
do you play? Kent State?

Speaker 6 (29:03):
And they they wonder their first game in twenty one games?
O the world the longest losing streak.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Congratulations, there you go. How are you going to celebrate?
You called the shop?

Speaker 6 (29:14):
I might have to go to the strip?

Speaker 1 (29:16):
Ye, No, that's your night off. You don't want to
go there on your well maybe you do want to
go there on your night off. And never no, man,
my god, Well congratulations on that. And remember any stories
you have were your spot if you you see, you know,
if something happens, you're like, you got to call us up.
Let us know. I love those stories, all right, buddy.

Speaker 6 (29:34):
But you know, no matter what, no matter what happens,
you know, I mean, it's like Venus, you know what happens,
there's state there though you know I got.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
To be you know, well you don't have to know. No,
you don't have to say any names or anything like that.
But you know you can just tell us you've told
us things without naming people in the past. Yeah, that's true,
all right, buddy, All right.

Speaker 6 (29:52):
Well, no matter what a stripper tells you, there's no
section in the champagne.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Room that never happens. Never, never, No one would ever
hook up in there. That's that's just a false rumor never.
All all, thank you. I gotta go. John's trip flop. John,
our buddy from Cleveland legend has been calling me for
many many years. Let's go to Danny. I think this
might be Danny DeVito. Is this Danny DeVito in Boston?
Hello Danny? He blew me off. There he is another guy?

(30:19):
Has he called in a long time? Where have you been?

Speaker 4 (30:21):
Yeah, it's been for a month. You know, every now
and then life happened dead, you know, personal work and wise,
you know on the show now.

Speaker 6 (30:31):
For about a year and a half.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Right, has it been that good?

Speaker 7 (30:36):
I've been doing that.

Speaker 6 (30:37):
So I heard you might be coming down the Boston.
Is that official?

Speaker 1 (30:42):
Well, it's not official. This guy named the Leprechaun wants
us to come down there. We're still working out the
logistics on that, but hopefully we'll be able to get
back there and do some meet and greets and hang
out with the people.

Speaker 6 (30:53):
We'll meet you is that in Boston? Has that?

Speaker 7 (30:57):
I heard something like?

Speaker 1 (30:58):
What's well? You, of course, being a garbage man, would
know all about garbage, Danny. But well no, there's chatter
of doing one in Boston and then one in Worcester,
so like to uh, I know, the Rain is excited
about that. The two for one specially excited about that,

(31:20):
very excited about that. Uh, you know, hang out, meet
the people and all that, you know, press the flesh
and whatnot. And but nothing's been confirmed yet, but we'll
let you know. We will promote it, Danny. Hopefully life
has calmed down for you and you can call up
more often.

Speaker 6 (31:34):
So I could call it. And what about Benny Versus Penny?

Speaker 1 (31:39):
NBC whacked Benny Versus the Penny. They whacked that show,
so that show is now YouTube. We had a soft launch.
There'll be new episodes low starting this week, So Benny
Versus the Penny will be a YouTube show for now.
And there is some chatter about some TV stuff down
the line, but for now it's on YouTube, so that's
where it'll be this season, and a new episode, likely

(32:01):
on Thursday, will effort to get that out all the NFL,
the big games in the NFL, pick every game against
the spread. Thank you, Danny the Great Dane.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
And then you got something else going on with your show,
right You signed a multi Dale? Is that true?

Speaker 1 (32:17):
The radio? Yeah, the radio show will be here for
unless they whack me and then they have to pay me,
and which I promise you they will not pay me
not to do the show. So I will be here
till that contracts up. Thank you. All right, go away,
there's the Danny Devino. We're catching up with Danny just
like that. Amazing, amazing. Let's go to Chris, who's in
southern California. What's going on? Chris?

Speaker 4 (32:36):
Welcome, Sane, great, thanks, you know. I got a fun
riddle for you and then more serious college football quiz.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
All right, here we go, fun riddle, fun. Hopefully it's
not about Hopefully it's not about UCLA and their pathetic
defense and crap, no, no, no.

Speaker 4 (32:50):
No, no, what is the only thing worse than the Dodgers?
Almost getting swept by the still barely alive Diamondback.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
The only thing worse than the I'm back almost getting
their tush kicked all weekend by the Dims, I don't.

Speaker 4 (33:03):
Know it is the Podres actually losing two out of
three to the Twinsies, who have a worse record, worse
record than the West Sacramento as that is pretty embrassing.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
And also the Twins who traded away half their big
league roster, just gave them away at the trade deadline
said we're done, We're out.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
So that you know, the pod Pods are done. I mean,
they may make the postseason, but the mean, even if
the Dodgers fed backing in.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
The other way, about that, hold off on that, hold
off on that, about that, I don't know about that.

Speaker 4 (33:41):
They're down by two and the Dodgers get the tiebreaker,
they got to catch.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
Up three games Dodgers.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
Just so here's my here's my serious question. Were in
college college football?

Speaker 1 (33:51):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (33:51):
So as you as you as you know about one
third of the D one basketball schools don't play college football. Yeah,
and I'm carrious from your professional perspective, if you think
that that is pretty much the plateau, or if you
think that the ratio is going to get worse in
coming years, so I.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
Think it'll probably be about to say, I mean, there'll
be a few that will drop because they just don't
want to compete with the NIL. But this is actually
an opportunity, I would think, Chris, if you have a
very wealthy booster that wants to put football on the map,
because that's really how you put your school on the map,
and you have deep pockets in theory, if you pay
the players enough. I know they're supposed to put all
these regulations in on NIL, but until they put all

(34:35):
those things in and they're locked in, you could buy
You could be anywhere and buy players and put a
competitive team, a college football team in a couple of
years on the field. So it shouldn't inspire someone that's
got deep pockets to want to do that.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
Well, yeah, you know, you figure, I mean just about
there's hardly any Catholic universities in the country that are
left play in football. So you know, the folks who
make it, you know, into the tournament. Derella is the basketball.
You know, you get your Gonzaga's, Loyola's, you know, my
Santa Clara guys. Every so often you know, there's you know,
there's just now football anymore, the schools. I mean, so
unless you're thinking about starting from scratch again after twenty

(35:12):
five thirty years, I think that's yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Well you're well, it is a big minded but it's
it's a big minded climb. But with the nil stuff.
If you've got the money, they will show up, Chris,
Like I mean, like Santa Clair. How you put a
team on the field, give them a couple of years
in the lower level, work your way up, and then
they start spending money and you're on your way. I
gotta go. Thank you. They're great, Chris, ry buddy, thank

(35:35):
you for listening and gapping away and all that stuff.
We'll take your calls. Actually we're not going to take
your calls in a normal way. We'll have the Insta
advice line on screen radio. We'll get to that. We'll
do it next.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
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Speaker 1 (35:51):
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Speaker 2 (36:32):
Hey, you sports figure, guy or girl?

Speaker 6 (36:35):
Who got here with you?

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Talking to Son? Here some instant advice hold that though
no one's paid attention to me for ten whole seconds,
And if you don't like it, no, wait we go.
It's the Instant Advice line Onscreen Radio. Who needs our advice?
In the world of sports? Well given the favorite status
for the Heisman Trophy, the number one overall rankings, the

(37:01):
Texas Longhorns. Advice to Arch Manning who went out there
and rode the vomit comet against Ohio State, The next
to the Maning Royal Family. You're alive on the air
when you hear my voice at eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox Advice to arch Manning. Hello, line one,
you're on the airline one.

Speaker 4 (37:19):
Go yeah, show up to the twenty twenty six malar
meet and greet in Vegas.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
There you go. That sounds like slug in Vegas. Let's
go to your line too. You're on the air advice
to arch Manning. Line two, loaning time.

Speaker 6 (37:32):
If a nick efat couple jumping the pool, is that
considered skinny dippings?

Speaker 1 (37:35):
That's good point? Probably not. Let's go to you on
line three. You're on the air it's the incident advice line.
We're giving advice to arch Manning after he rode the
vomit comet against Ohio State. Hello, you're on the air
line three. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (37:47):
Man, we can solve this difficulty by declaring Dravis Kelsey
the greatest podcaster.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
Now, oh my god, please pathetic. You're on a line
for Hello. Line four, you're on the airline for You
are giving advice to arch Manning. Line four.

Speaker 6 (38:01):
He got a clear plane, like his son, like his
old dad.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
Archie Manning is a grandfather. I think you meant to
say a line five. You're on the airline five.

Speaker 6 (38:10):
Hello, become a stripper. I'd give you twenty bucks for
a leaf dance best.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
I'm good on that. Line six Hello, Line six, you're
on the airline Say that was for a dog? Line six? Hello?

Speaker 6 (38:21):
Is that how her promo?

Speaker 4 (38:22):
Just reference to door Sanders of the sawn of Barry.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
I don't know. I don't listen to the promos.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Hello.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
Line one, you're on the airline one. Hello, next time,
I don't know sean hood guy but calls back and
let us know. Line two you're on the airline too.

Speaker 6 (38:36):
Hello, David, say looks like worn out?

Speaker 1 (38:40):
Okay, thank you for that. That's lucky Tony in the
bay A. Line three, you're next. It's the instant of vice.
Line for arch Manning. Hello, Line three.

Speaker 4 (38:50):
For the Hall of Fame, No.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Five hundred quarterback. We'll do one more, only one more
of it's good. I'll take credit. If not, I'll blame Brie.
Go ahead, Brie, pick the final comment or five. You're
on the airline five go you weren't fast enough line
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