November 25, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Brian Kelly blaming LSU for his lack of a new gig, Lane Kiffin refusing to answer questions about leaving Ole Miss, Joel Klatt saying that Kiffin would lose credibility if he left Ole Miss, Maller's Mountain of Money: Miley Cyrus Edition, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ding dong. It's our numb berth three, our number three,
and we're hanging out together talking of all things college football.
That's right, you heard me right, college football. Good story
coming out of Baton Rouge. Thumbs up or thumbs down
on Brian Kelly, the unbattled former coach blaming LSU for
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his lack of a new gig. Also, what do you
take away from Lane Kiffin refusing to answer questions about
possibly leaving Old Miss after the Egg Bowl this weekend
and Joel Klatt speaking of that. Joel Klatt, the Big
Fox college football muckety muck, says Lane Kiffin would lose
credibility leaving Old Miss. Do you agree or disagree? We'll
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talk about that and more right now here. It is
our number three. The buy you boo boo.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
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this hour the rare, inappropriate, rare and appropriate college football heavy,
college football heavy Malard monologue. We go where the stories
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of the day take us, and that would be in
batl Rouge, Louisiana, The Drama Orama, the drama Orama of
the day. If you have not seen, perhaps not, former
former coach Brian Kelly, the old Golden Domer. Remember he
did the cosplay when he went to Louisiana and pretended
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like he all of a sudden picked up the local dialect.
So Brian Kelly is still in a brew ha ha
a legal battle royale with the school that he coached
for the last couple of seasons. He claims that LSU,
through his lawyers, made it nearly impossible for him to
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land another head coaching job. The attorneys, the high paid
by the hour attorneys for Brian Kelly, wrote a letter
to LSU that they made public earlier this month, blaming
the university for their apparent inability to land or his
inability to land another coaching job. After the rather awkward,
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awkward departure from the school. LSU has claimed in recent
days that it has not formally terminated Brian Kelly coached Kelly.
They have not done that, however, They also don't want
to pay him his fifty four million dollars in massive
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buy At fifty four million dollars to go away, I
guess tell something. I've worked here at Fox Sports Radio
my entire adult life, just about I would go away
for fifty four million, you know, I'd actually, I'd cut
him a deal. I'd go away for thirty million. How
about that thirty million. I'm good, easy money. I'll right don't.
I'm willing to leave just thirty million. I'm out. You'll
never hear from me again. I will go live in
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a shack in Montana somewhere. That's it. See you later,
all right. So that is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss the question thumbs up or thumbs down
on Brian Kelly, through his lawyers blaming LSU for his
lack of a new coaching gig as the coaching carousels
going round and round and round and round and round
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and round and round. So my views on this, I
have automatic reply Judge, Judy and Farmer's insurance, and we
will combine all of these things together, and we are
gonna make it rain Goba goool. We're gonna make it
rain the Goba goool, all right. So now, first of all,
I'm gonna give this a massive jumbo size, the jumbo
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size thumbs up on this, Kelly threw his attorneys playing
the mensa card from the bottom of the deck, the mensigar.
He has weaponized LSU's own frugality. Okay, he has weaponized
their own legal bull crap against them. How sweet is that?
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How sweet is that LSU never formally terminated Brian Kelly
because they didn't want to pay him the fifty plus
million payss they owe him. And so now Brian Kelly's like,
all right, oh yeah, I'm still technically employed. Those are
your words, not mine. I'm still technically employee. I can't
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get a job. You can't hire somebody full time if
I already got on a full time job and you
still owe me, pay up, pay the man. You got
to pay the man. So it's legal limbo. How low
can you go do the limb?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
They're doing the legal limbo. Now. Think of it as
the world's most expensive automatic reply out of office message.
It's Brian Kelly. I am no longer the head football
coach at LSU, but I'm still getting paid by the university.
I will not be available. I'm not responding to your emails.
I'm sorry, not sorry. Now, don't misconstrue the fact that
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Brian Kelly is not a likable guy. He comes across
as a colossal douche. He just does right, self serving schmuck,
that's what he comes aboud. I've ever met the guy.
I don't know. Maybe he's fine in person. I just
I'm telling you the public perception that we have of
Brian Kelly as a douche canoe, and that's what he
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is here. And so that said, LSU deserves every single
bit of this, whatever this is. They deserve every single bit.
They gave out a mega, mega, mega millions contract. They
agreed to this ridonculous buyout, completely bonkers that they would
do that. They hired this guy like he was the
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second coming of Nick Saban at LSU, and how'd that
work out? Eh, not so much. So now they're ducking
their own contract. It doesn't seem like it's gonna end
up very well. Everything's vetted by lawyers and all that.
But LSU thought they were very slick and they're playing
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this game. Well, we're gonna get out of paying the
fifty million dollars. They tried the just don't send the
termination paperwork loophole. They said, well, we're not gonna send
the paperwork. Well that doesn't work. Now guess what spoiler alert,
The loophole tent is collapsing. So you got to pay
the fifty million dollars. You decided you wanted to agree
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to that contract. Bad job by you. And then you've
got Brian Kelly's lawyers who are on the offensive. Here,
they're going offensive before they play defense, and they're blocking
and attacking at the same time. They're blocking LSU's position
in court, and then they're attacking publicly now in the
court of public opinion. He's like, hey, listen, LSU is
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that you need to get a new job. Okay, I
agree with you. I'd like to get a new job.
Brian Kelly's like, well, I just can't get a new
job because, according to you, you haven't fired my ass,
so you gotta fire me. LSU overpaid and they overplayed
their hand. So they're zero for two on this and
now they're gonna have to overpay every cent. Good luck,
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all right. Secondly, turning the Patriot in a related story,
the guy who is likely to replace Brian Kelly at
least it's his job if he wants it. That's current
Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin. Good Old Lane Kiffin Now
Lane reportedly declined to answer. Not reportedly. I watched the
news conference. It was all over the place. He declined
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to answer questions about his future. He was asked over
and over again about the possibility of leaving Old Miss,
and reports are that LSU's offered him ninety million. Florida
is willing to match that. I saw one report online
and said that the Gators are all horny to get
their hands on Lane Kiffin as well, And so it's
his decision, and what will he do? What will he do?
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Big money offers coaching Florida swamp or to hang out
in Baton Rouge for Lane Kiffin. Lane repeatedly said some
version of We're not answering anything that doesn't have to
do with the game, the team, or the season. Lane
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Kiffin said, all right, So question, what do you take
away from lane Kiffin refusing to answer basic questions about
his future and the likely lack of future he has
at Old Miss. So, after watching Lane Kiffin deal with
the media, there's only one conclusion that you can come to.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
He don't.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Good bye. He's out of there. He's out of This
is classic college football, transferred portal for coaches nonsense. Even
Danny in Nashville, who grew up hating Lane Kiffin because
of what he did in Tennessee, he would agree on this.
Alane Kiffin already has his bags packed, He's lined up
the movers, all of that, he's ordered, raising canes at
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the airport. He's ready to go. He's ready to go here.
You don't dodge questions. This hard play dodgeball with these questions.
You don't do that unless you've got one foot out
the door and you're gonna jump ship for the bag
of money, money, money, And they're both Florida and Lsu
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waving stacks of cash, straight cash. And who knows. There's
always the wildcard possibility of an NFL team. There's a
couple of teams that have already whacked their coaches. Could
you see the New York Giants entering the chat saying, Hey,
we got rid of that fat ass Brian day Ball.
We got your old college quarterback here, Jackson Dart Next year,
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we got a top receiver, we got a couple of
good defensive players. How would you like to coach in
the NFL again? Yeah? Now, I love the Lane Kiffin
who's always about Lane Kiffen. The only one that loves
Lane Kiffin more than Lane Kiffin is the Lane Kiffin Dappelganger,
which is Lane Kiffin in the mirror. They love each other,
and so suddenly he's like a monk. We're only talking
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about the game. We don't want to t. Nobody cares
about the game, Lane, Nobody cares about that. How do
you get to determine what we talk about. It's not
a state run organization. If you want that, you can
just have LSU's website. Ask you questions. That's it. Now.
I'm a big body language guy, and I believe in
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the body so you read the body language. Lane Kiffin's
eyes were blinking, blinkers, blinkers, they were blinking like strobe
lights at Marty Grass a lot of blanket did the
old head shake thing. I saw that, and that is
a straight dead give away from the FBI handbook on
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Lying the Nervous Swallow. The shifty posture of Lane Kiffin,
and he looked if you are blind, guys can see this.
But he looked like he had stolen something and got
caught on surveillance camera. He was sweating like he was
being cross examined by Judge Judy. And it was just
some local yokel beat reporters who happened to cover Old
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Miss football. And they're clearly waiting here. You don't have
to be some kind of insider to know that they're
waiting until after the egg Bowl, which I believe is
on Friday, and once that rivalry game is over between
Old Miss and Mississippi State, there'll be some news release
and confetti cannon will go off and that'll be that.
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So coaches lie all the time. If you're planning on staying,
you would say you're staying, although we'd still question that
because plenty of coaches have said they're staying and then
they don't. But on this one, it just looked very uncomfortable,
like he's about to leave and he knows he's leaving,
and people at the school know he's leaving, and part
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of him doesn't want to leave Lane Kiffin, but he's
got to take the money because that's that's who he is.
And so he's got these mixed emotions, wearing the Old
Miss logo on his shirt while he was talking and
all that. So staying with the theme, though the silence
is the answer on the Lane Kiffin thing. But staying
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with the theme, someone's obviously buying him a ticket and
buying their ticket on the Lane train. Then whoever that
is now Fox Sports College football guru Joel Clatt, I
guess he's got a podcast, because everyone's got a podcast.
I saw this and Joel Clatt implied that lane Kiffin
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would be making a mistake by leaving Old Miss. He says,
how does Lane Kiffin leave Old Miss in the middle
of a playoff run and have any credibility in his
next place? Close quote all right, question. Joel Klatt, college
football insider for Fox Sports, says lane Kiffin would lose
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credibility leaving Old Miss this late in the game. Agree
or disagree with that? Take agree or disagree. So I
am in the camp on the side of the aisle.
I'm on disagreement side of the isle. That's where I am.
This is not some kind of Sunday school. We're not
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talking about Sunday school here. This is cottage football. Is
what it is, whooa cottage football, and it's also the
Hunger Games. In many ways, you don't survive on credibility.
You survive on leverage and money. Right now, Lane kiffn
has leverage and he's about to get a lot of money.
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He's still making good money. Don't hate the player, you
gotta hate the game. Right The contracts are typically one
way streets and the buyouts are massive. We just talked
about Brian Kelly earlier in this monologue and the amount
of money that Brian Kelly's got fifty four million coming
his way. And in terms of the whole loyalty thing,
I hear people talk about loyalty and what that means,
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and usually loyalty should be a two way street, like
if you've been with a business for a long time,
they should give you raise and take care of you
and things like that. I hate to be the bearer
of bad news. Most businesses aren't run like that. They're
run by a holes. They don't reward their employees for
loyalty and dedication and long term employment. They don't believe
in that. They believe in nickel and diming everybody. And
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the only way to really get ahead in that business
is to change jobs. And it's just the idea of
loyalty is a Disney fairy tale, is what it is.
These guys know. And Lane Kiffen more than anyone. He
comes from a football family. He's a Nepo baby. His
dad was a great defensive coach Monte Kiffen. So Lane
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Kiffin knows how the sausage is made. He grew up
in a factory the way they made the sausage. He
knows all about it. He's not some naive assistant that
doesn't understand what's going on. He's the tagline from Farmers Insurance.
He knows a thing or too, Lane Kiffen, because he's
seen a thinger too. This guy, at a very young
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age coached the Raiders when Al Davis, at the end
of his life, was the owner of the River. Very briefly,
he lived that life with the Oakland Raiders. He went
to Tennessee. He was at USC as well. He ghosted Knoxville.
They were burning sofas in the street when he left
to go to a SC didn't lose a wink a sleep,
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Lane Kiffin when he was doing that. And then just
such a terrible job for the men of Troy that
the University of Southern California after a blowout loss to
Arizona State. I believe they gave up like sixty something
points to the Sun Devils. On the way back to Lax.
From Sky Harbor Airport to Lax, Lane Kiffin was dragged
off the USC team plane. Lane Kiffin, head coach at USC,
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was dragged off the plane after a loss of the
Sun Devils and was fired on the tarmac at Lax.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
On the tarmac do you think a guy who got
fired on the tarmac at lax is worried about being loyal?
Come on, was sc loyal to Lane Kiffen when they
whacked him while they were taking luggage off the Delta
Airlines plane?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Come on? Please. Pat Hayden, who was the athletic dire
at the time, summoned Lane Kiffin to a private air
room adjacent to the tarmac like he had violated TSA rules,
You're gone. And that's how the business works. That is
how it works. It rewards opper tunist is what it words.
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Joe Klatt knows this. He's out there preaching credibility and
it's a business that rewards movement for players and coaches.
You want to make more money as a player, you
gotta go in to the portal. That's where the money is.
You don't get loyalty points. They don't give you more
money for being loyal. They don't, and so you want
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to get paid. Lane kif has made a lot of money,
but he's just playing the game the way the rules
have been written. And so there's two options. Either somebody
had Old missed some booster matches the offer and Lane
could stay at Old miss which is highly unlikely, or
he's gone and that's it. Those are the two options,
or go. In college football, the sport we're talking about, credibility,
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the lasts about five minutes. That's it. Buyouts last a
couple of years if the school actually pays them. LSU
doesn't really want to do that. And Kiffen knows exactly
which side he's on. So I's like, credit, Billy, I
see that. I might come on. I roll my eyes.
Really we're doing that. That's what we're doing. It is
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the riddle of today. Yukon the Coach. Yukon basketball coach
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Dan Hurley said this week that he will not let
his players blank. All Right, Dan Hurley, the Yukon coach,
said he will not let his players blank. That is
the Mallor Riddle of the day, the answer, We'll get
to it, and we will do it next.
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Now back to it, all right. We will have the
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mallard amount of money coming up in a little bit.
But here is the riddle of the day. Yukon coach
Dan Hurley guy could have been the Lakers coach, but
they let that podcaster guy take over. Now here it
is a Yukon coach. Dan Hurley said he won't let
his players blank. All right, that is new the question.
Georgia boy, good to see the name Georgia boys, been
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checking that often? Says a courtesy flush after dropping a deuce.
Bobby and Florida says, you con coach will not allow
his players to play Patty Cake. Scrooge says, eat a
nice juicy Berger is the answer alf the alien Opiner
says he won't let his players get a vanity license plate?
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What else do you have? Page down Andy in Lionel Lakes,
Minnesota says a Yukon coach will not let his players
find the hawk Tua Girl, Rob the Goatman says, will
not allow them to listen to me give that. Will
not be allowed to listen to the ben Malers show.
Have dessert before finishing their dinner. Not allowed. Stevie meat
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Ball says he will not let his players front white
It causes dirty Basketball's all right? Interesting on that something
evolving chocolate pudding after dinner for milkman Mike. What else
do we have? Paige down? Lady Sideburns said something about Toots.
What else do we have? Page down? I guess sniff tooots?
All right? What else? Page down? Won't let players give
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Blind Scott any money from Donkey's sausage? That's his answer.
One allows players to engage in any criminal activity the sausage.
That's from just Josh. Who else do we have page down?
It's her Nate Hammer, he writes in he says, well,
will not let us players run the Iditarod Trail sled
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dog race in Alaska? Play with legos from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota?
What allows players to put ketchup on a hot dog?
That's Doc Dan wear high heels from JT the Wingman
in Knoxville. What else do we have page down Rebecca right,
since she says will not let the players hold one
nostril closed and blow a snot rocket out of the
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other one. That's probably better that way for sure. Filler up.
Phil says, will not allow us players to eat pork.
All right, enough of that. Do you have an answer,
Lrea is not pick your nose, which Michael leper Con went.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
With, Yeah, I think he won't allow them to share toothbrushes.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Toothbrushes, all right? Is it tooth? Is that correct?
Speaker 7 (23:58):
No?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
It was incorrect. Unfortunately, the correct answer none other than
Yukon coach Dan Hurley revealing that he will not let
his players have turkey on Thanksgiving. No turkey, that is
not okay, Well, they have a game. Yukon has a
game on Friday afternoon, and so he's worried about the
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trip to fan. He thinks they'll be sleepy if they
eat turkey on Thanksgiving. So he says, you've a miss.
Well I know that, but he's he said it. It's
it's scientifically dubious, but that's what he said. And so
Yukon's gonna have an early Thanksgiving, but they're they're gonna
have it, like I think tomorrow and so. But no,
players are not allowed to eat turkey on Thanksgiving. Not allowed.
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Let's go to the phones, screaming, Steven is in North Dakota.
He's back, Hello, screaming Steven.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
Oh my god, man, thank you so much. I miss you. Guys, Hey, everybody,
I miss you.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
We're here. Where have you been? Where you? We've been
here every night.
Speaker 8 (25:03):
I worked nice.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
I listened to for a couple hours, and then I
fall asleep. Keim a really weird schedule. Anyways, I got
them shocks in North Dakota. Seventeen millions. You can come
to North Dakota and live in a shack instead of Monthana.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
W for seventeen million, I will move to North Dakota.
I'm in. I'm in. Anybody else want in on that?
North Dakota seventeen million? Anybody all right? Coops in?
Speaker 7 (25:29):
Well?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
But with Cooper move Loraina, North Dakota seventeen million. I mean,
for seventeen million, I suppose I could do it. You
could handle his beautiful restaurants in North Dakota. It's God's country.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Come on, no, you have to help me. Butcher chickens
in the fall?
Speaker 1 (25:43):
How many chickens? Oh, I've never pushared a chicken before,
but I might be good at it.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
I will cut off the head of every single chicken.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
Yeah what Minneapolis sports not winning since ninety one and
just a heck, come on, give it to me, every
give it to him?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Then? Yeah, I mean, well, Kirby Pucket, I'll tell you what, Kirby,
Kirby Puckett made a deal with the devil. And that's why.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
But the Lakers used to be all purple and gold
and not just the Vikings colors are the same purple.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah, but of course the problem is the Lakers. Nobody
watched the NBA when they were in Minneapolis.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
Well that's true too, Yeah, but what about like the
Royal and win like eight games are on the Timbers
ten losing?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Well you need scream and Steven. You have to turn
to the vood voodoo bugaloo. You have to turn to witchcraft,
is what you have to do.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
Yeah, in the woods.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah,
but ye have it? Yeah but yeah it come on, yeah,
not rabbit, not rabbit. It's it yeah but yeah it
yeah it yeah but yeah, but yeah it you have it?
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Yet the sort of Minneapolis area team of the force works.
Would you put money on to win the next championship right.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Now, you'd have to say the Vikings, And they're not
anywhere close. And I am close, but that would be
the Vikings.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
About the wild there, the wolves.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, the wolves, aren't they The.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
Twins are going. We don't even want to talk about that.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
I forget about the twins. They're not winning anything.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
There's some nice in your Vesseyville, North Dakota.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Well, it could be worse. You could be the Angels.
It could be worse.
Speaker 7 (27:31):
I love the Angels. I used to like back in
the day, the cowboy dude that owned them.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
All, the singing cowboy genatry. Yeah, singing cowboys. All right,
I gotta go call me again. Thank you, screaming okay,
not a Drew all right, thank you? All right, there's
a screaming Steven there. I love him, Adam saying that. Yeah,
he's one of our favorites. Let's go to another one
of our favorites. The Legends are out. Dick in Dayton. Hello,
(27:59):
Dick up Earl today Dick and Dayton.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Happy Thanksgivin guys.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Happy Thanksgiving week, Dick s they're big social lighte that
you are hitting all the big Thanksgiving parties. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
your early Thanksgiving? Was it yesterday?
Speaker 9 (28:12):
No?
Speaker 4 (28:14):
I think well they had won last week and then
they're going to have one Thursday. But I'm going over
to see my best friend. There were no creeks, so
I'll be going most of the day. But hey, I
want to say something that I never did tell you
that I missed. The used to have the end Zone
show on sports, you know Ox Sports with you could
(28:38):
call it on Monday night. Gimme Donovan, Doug Deacon and
Tony Grocy and I called every week and I used
to be about the second caller and get me just
always said, look, we're going to get happy. Now we'll
talk to Dick. But I want to say something that
say hello to Andrew. Is doing a good job on
the Browns, pretty good. I think he's great.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I'll send him a message. I'll text him, Hey, Andrew,
you've you've been given the seal of approval by Dick.
Dick from Dayton is giving you the seal of approval,
and that means.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Something that Matt the big one, Everybody's got a party
this week. This has got to be Ryan Day has
to be Coach of the Year. But I'm hoping he
meets Michigan this year. Guys, he's done that.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Well.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
If he doesn't be Michigan, I know they didn't last year,
didn't go great and they still won. But yeah, you
gotta win that game. That's that's a must win game. Obviously.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
You know that.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
You're mister Ohio. Now we played a game earlier. We
didn't really play a game, but your name came up.
You were sleeping. We were talking about all the political
shows that you call. Somebody said, you call Larry Elder, Yes,
you do call Larry Elder. What other used to do
you ever call Limball back in the day? Did you
ever call Russia?
Speaker 4 (29:49):
I never? I tell you who I did call this.
I was on this show. Son Sean Handedy and Neil.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Board struck my call and they did, Okay, what about
Klay Travis if you know Clay.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
But there's another guy he's on it. Uh he's pretty good. Uh.
Who's you heard of Mark Levin? He'll put me on.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Oh yeah, I've heard him. Mean, he's been around for
a long time. As you love political and sports, those
are two things, right, political and talk radio and sports radio.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
But I just think the Browns Radio network, you know,
ninety three three of the Fan with Titus and Jeff
are good. It's it's probably one of the best. And
I have another friend that uh took blood Wick and Jerry.
Jeff Walker has given me a lot of you know,
day from Dayton comes and gets me. He heard me
(30:35):
on there, and he's he comes on like Christmas and
my birthday and yeah, he's starting to listen to Fox.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Oh good, all right, And that's that's Dave from Dayton.
They call him Dave.
Speaker 9 (30:44):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Hey? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (30:46):
Ok?
Speaker 4 (30:46):
And yeah. And I heard my cousin she said that
she hears me up there. And you know the Titus
and Jeff Felts. He's been around a long time. And
I say, no, travaliers, all you do right to.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
The line to the lane. Remember that went to the
line to the lane. Yep, all right, bye bye. There
he goes, very happy happy Dick Dayton. Man, Hey, I
need some contestants. We have Mallard's Mount of Money. If
you want to play, call right now eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox. We need some contestants. Let's say
(31:19):
hello to Greg in the Sunshine State. What's going on? Greg?
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Welcome, Hey, good morning. I got a couple things. Number One,
that riddle of the day. Well, Hurley went to Duke, right,
so he should be had a little bit of intelligence.
But turkey's a lean meat and trip to fan is
only in your system for a short time. He wanted
to eat it on Thursday because you'd actually be well
rested for Friday.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Well well, yeah, I know, but you're you're confusing your
hurlies is what you're confusing. Because his brother was Bobby Hurley,
who's the coach at Arizona State. Yeah, Bobby, that's all right.
All those hurlies are the same, you know, all those
hurlies are they?
Speaker 4 (31:56):
What's it to talk?
Speaker 8 (31:57):
He doesn't sound like he was from Duke, and obviously
that kind of thinking makes me questioned about Duke's curriculum. Anyway, Listen,
the other thing I was gonna say is you, uh,
you are killing it today. I mean just murdering it
with your h with your monologue at four o'clock, with
Elaine kissing you. You couldn't hit it more on the
head man.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
You know, every few.
Speaker 8 (32:17):
Years, just every few years, there's a college coach. It's
like I can't miss I mean, hate to say that,
but truthfully, kiss it. You can't miss. Those kids love
playing for him wherever he goes. Heck, he wanted SAU.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
I'm a Florida guy. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 8 (32:30):
I followed him. SAU was nothing. He bought that money.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
He would keep it.
Speaker 8 (32:33):
Great things at SAU and once everywhere he's gone. So
I think LSU is probably gonna be the I would
say that the most attractive place for him to go
because he's gonna have amples of money that they can
buy players, and those players are strong. Those are good
Southern boys that are fast and strongly. In LSU, they
always attract some monster talent Florida.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
I don't know. I think there's the man.
Speaker 8 (32:56):
I'm a Florida guy, but it's gonna be tough to
get come back. I think these other SEC teams is
kind of overtaking them. But I was kissing house brother.
I say, l you baby, sign for.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
The big mon.
Speaker 9 (33:07):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I know Lane can't sleep right now. He's very stressed out,
so I'm sure he's listening. Who wants to make him Richard? Yeah?
All right, wait, god, Greg, that was a good call. Greg.
We're not used to that. A good call by you amazing?
How lucky are we? We talked at gregging for all right,
it is the Ben malersho with a pause for the cause.
We'll have Mallard's Mountain of money, Mallar's mount Do we
(33:30):
have our contestants coop? We have a coop still screens
you're coming in. Well, we we'll screen those calls. We
get the contestants on, and we'll have Mallor's amount of money.
We'll get to that. We'll do it next.
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quick wick. All right, who do we have? We have
Dave in so Cal just down the road there in
in Sino Man. Hello Dave. Welcome all right to that David, Yeah,
said Dave. Who would you like to partner up with?
Speaker 9 (35:02):
Dave?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
You got me? Or cool? Let me get you all right, Dave,
try to control your emotion. Hold on a sec and
then we have any meenie miney moe. Let's say hello
to far out Dave. Hello, far out Dave.
Speaker 8 (35:17):
Hey, hey, bab you know the time it is mean
too about to work.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Doubt that's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
All right, Hold on a sec. Well, the category is
quickly cool please all right, So this is a Day
versus Dave matchup. The categories are this Miley Cyrus edition.
She turned thirty three on Sunday. We have the best
of both worlds, the climb, we can't stop and wrecking Ball.
So cal, Dave, you were on first, which category would
you like?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Wrecking ball? All right? And far out, Dave.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
That leaves you with we can't stop the climb or
the best of both worlds can't stop?
Speaker 1 (35:57):
All right? All right, very good. We'll put forty five
the clock. Gentlemen, we need the first and last name, Dave,
the Sokow Dave? Are you ready? Sokow David Nzino?
Speaker 5 (36:07):
All right?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
These athletes have all had a reputation as locker room cancers.
We'll put forty five seconds on the clock. We're on
our way go. He is a star receiver for the
Pittsburgh Steelers. He's currently facing charges in Miami wide receiver over, Yes,
that is correct. The how about this agent zero for
(36:27):
the Washington Wizards, NBA player, also in trouble with the
law right now? Former NBA player? All right? He was
a third baseman, five hundred home run guy or close
to it. Was traded for Mike Piazza from the Marlins
to the Dodgers back in the nineties, played with the
(36:48):
Yankees and the Mets and the Brewers, and was a journeyman.
Hit a lot of home runs. No, how about this
legends he slept with Lebron's mom. Internet legend says, this
guy slept. You didn't get that one. Yes, yes, of course,
all right, ten points. Good job, tremendous job. We didn't
(37:09):
get Gary Stratfield Delante West Gilbert reads, Yes, all right.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Far out, Dave, we have We can't stop that. These
athletes are part of some of the biggest winning streaks
in their sports.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Are you ready? Far out Dave?
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Get there? Sorry right now? No the other Dave, Dave
from Ohio. Not not so cal, Dave. You're not playing
right now, not right now? All right, Dave, forty five
seconds on the clock. Begin all right. The best quarterback
of all time in the NFL. No, no, no, for
the Patriots.
Speaker 8 (37:52):
Tom Brady.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Yes, this guy's the enforcer on the Warriors. He likes
to kick people in the nuts. Yes, this guy go
to one hundred points in an NBA game.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
We yep.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
This guy was the wide receiver on the Colts for
Peyton Manning after Marvin Harrison.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Ahead, Okay, this guy was on the Cleveland Indians. He's
now on the Mets. He was shortstop.
Speaker 8 (38:18):
Yeah, Francis Francisco Lindor.
Speaker 9 (38:23):
Yes, uh, this guy was the center on the Indian Aprisa.
All right day, we're up at socowed David and Cino.
You've got the climb, the.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Or the best of best. Both worlds were a climb.
Which one do you want? Okay, why not? Let's do it.
Forty five seconds on the clock. We need first and
last name. These athletes are in both college and pro
football Hall of Fames. Forty five seconds.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Greatest tackle in Rams history from Ohio State, played for
the Saint Louis who were am no for the offensive
tackle for the San Luis Rams in the two thousands.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
School Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
How about wide receiver for the wide receiver for the
Chargers nicknamed Bambi in the nineteen sixties and seventies.
Speaker 7 (39:16):
Bambi, Bambi wide receiver.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Do you like sports? You enjoy sports? I like you
like Bambi? We should should we ask Bambi questions? A
quarterback for the Colts when they won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 8 (39:34):
Uh te.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
A primetime Colorado coach from prime Primetime God twenty points. Yeah, Orlando,
you know Orlando, pay Atlanta allwarth. Why would you call
the player trivia game
Ding dong. It's our numb berth three, our number three,
and we're hanging out together talking of all things college football.
That's right, you heard me right, college football. Good story
coming out of Baton Rouge. Thumbs up or thumbs down
on Brian Kelly, the unbattled former coach blaming LSU for
(00:23):
his lack of a new gig. Also, what do you
take away from Lane Kiffin refusing to answer questions about
possibly leaving Old Miss after the Egg Bowl this weekend
and Joel Klatt speaking of that. Joel Klatt, the Big
Fox college football muckety muck, says Lane Kiffin would lose
credibility leaving Old Miss. Do you agree or disagree? We'll
(00:46):
talk about that and more right now here. It is
our number three. The buy you boo boo.
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this hour the rare, inappropriate, rare and appropriate college football heavy,
college football heavy Malard monologue. We go where the stories
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of the day take us, and that would be in
batl Rouge, Louisiana, The Drama Orama, the drama Orama of
the day. If you have not seen, perhaps not, former
former coach Brian Kelly, the old Golden Domer. Remember he
did the cosplay when he went to Louisiana and pretended
(02:50):
like he all of a sudden picked up the local dialect.
So Brian Kelly is still in a brew ha ha
a legal battle royale with the school that he coached
for the last couple of seasons. He claims that LSU,
through his lawyers, made it nearly impossible for him to
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land another head coaching job. The attorneys, the high paid
by the hour attorneys for Brian Kelly, wrote a letter
to LSU that they made public earlier this month, blaming
the university for their apparent inability to land or his
inability to land another coaching job. After the rather awkward,
(03:34):
awkward departure from the school. LSU has claimed in recent
days that it has not formally terminated Brian Kelly coached Kelly.
They have not done that, however, They also don't want
to pay him his fifty four million dollars in massive
(03:57):
buy At fifty four million dollars to go away, I
guess tell something. I've worked here at Fox Sports Radio
my entire adult life, just about I would go away
for fifty four million, you know, I'd actually, I'd cut
him a deal. I'd go away for thirty million. How
about that thirty million. I'm good, easy money. I'll right don't.
I'm willing to leave just thirty million. I'm out. You'll
never hear from me again. I will go live in
(04:18):
a shack in Montana somewhere. That's it. See you later,
all right. So that is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss the question thumbs up or thumbs down
on Brian Kelly, through his lawyers blaming LSU for his
lack of a new coaching gig as the coaching carousels
going round and round and round and round and round
(04:39):
and round and round. So my views on this, I
have automatic reply Judge, Judy and Farmer's insurance, and we
will combine all of these things together, and we are
gonna make it rain Goba goool. We're gonna make it
rain the Goba goool, all right. So now, first of all,
I'm gonna give this a massive jumbo size, the jumbo
(05:03):
size thumbs up on this, Kelly threw his attorneys playing
the mensa card from the bottom of the deck, the mensigar.
He has weaponized LSU's own frugality. Okay, he has weaponized
their own legal bull crap against them. How sweet is that?
(05:25):
How sweet is that LSU never formally terminated Brian Kelly
because they didn't want to pay him the fifty plus
million payss they owe him. And so now Brian Kelly's like,
all right, oh yeah, I'm still technically employed. Those are
your words, not mine. I'm still technically employee. I can't
(05:46):
get a job. You can't hire somebody full time if
I already got on a full time job and you
still owe me, pay up, pay the man. You got
to pay the man. So it's legal limbo. How low
can you go do the limb?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
They're doing the legal limbo. Now. Think of it as
the world's most expensive automatic reply out of office message.
It's Brian Kelly. I am no longer the head football
coach at LSU, but I'm still getting paid by the university.
I will not be available. I'm not responding to your emails.
I'm sorry, not sorry. Now, don't misconstrue the fact that
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Brian Kelly is not a likable guy. He comes across
as a colossal douche. He just does right, self serving schmuck,
that's what he comes aboud. I've ever met the guy.
I don't know. Maybe he's fine in person. I just
I'm telling you the public perception that we have of
Brian Kelly as a douche canoe, and that's what he
(06:45):
is here. And so that said, LSU deserves every single
bit of this, whatever this is. They deserve every single bit.
They gave out a mega, mega, mega millions contract. They
agreed to this ridonculous buyout, completely bonkers that they would
do that. They hired this guy like he was the
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second coming of Nick Saban at LSU, and how'd that
work out? Eh, not so much. So now they're ducking
their own contract. It doesn't seem like it's gonna end
up very well. Everything's vetted by lawyers and all that.
But LSU thought they were very slick and they're playing
(07:31):
this game. Well, we're gonna get out of paying the
fifty million dollars. They tried the just don't send the
termination paperwork loophole. They said, well, we're not gonna send
the paperwork. Well that doesn't work. Now guess what spoiler alert,
The loophole tent is collapsing. So you got to pay
the fifty million dollars. You decided you wanted to agree
(07:52):
to that contract. Bad job by you. And then you've
got Brian Kelly's lawyers who are on the offensive. Here,
they're going offensive before they play defense, and they're blocking
and attacking at the same time. They're blocking LSU's position
in court, and then they're attacking publicly now in the
court of public opinion. He's like, hey, listen, LSU is
(08:16):
that you need to get a new job. Okay, I
agree with you. I'd like to get a new job.
Brian Kelly's like, well, I just can't get a new
job because, according to you, you haven't fired my ass,
so you gotta fire me. LSU overpaid and they overplayed
their hand. So they're zero for two on this and
now they're gonna have to overpay every cent. Good luck,
(08:38):
all right. Secondly, turning the Patriot in a related story,
the guy who is likely to replace Brian Kelly at
least it's his job if he wants it. That's current
Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin. Good Old Lane Kiffin Now
Lane reportedly declined to answer. Not reportedly. I watched the
news conference. It was all over the place. He declined
(09:00):
to answer questions about his future. He was asked over
and over again about the possibility of leaving Old Miss,
and reports are that LSU's offered him ninety million. Florida
is willing to match that. I saw one report online
and said that the Gators are all horny to get
their hands on Lane Kiffin as well, And so it's
his decision, and what will he do? What will he do?
(09:24):
Big money offers coaching Florida swamp or to hang out
in Baton Rouge for Lane Kiffin. Lane repeatedly said some
version of We're not answering anything that doesn't have to
do with the game, the team, or the season. Lane
(09:45):
Kiffin said, all right, So question, what do you take
away from lane Kiffin refusing to answer basic questions about
his future and the likely lack of future he has
at Old Miss. So, after watching Lane Kiffin deal with
the media, there's only one conclusion that you can come to.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
He don't.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Good bye. He's out of there. He's out of This
is classic college football, transferred portal for coaches nonsense. Even
Danny in Nashville, who grew up hating Lane Kiffin because
of what he did in Tennessee, he would agree on this.
Alane Kiffin already has his bags packed, He's lined up
the movers, all of that, he's ordered, raising canes at
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the airport. He's ready to go. He's ready to go here.
You don't dodge questions. This hard play dodgeball with these questions.
You don't do that unless you've got one foot out
the door and you're gonna jump ship for the bag
of money, money, money, And they're both Florida and Lsu
(10:58):
waving stacks of cash, straight cash. And who knows. There's
always the wildcard possibility of an NFL team. There's a
couple of teams that have already whacked their coaches. Could
you see the New York Giants entering the chat saying, Hey,
we got rid of that fat ass Brian day Ball.
We got your old college quarterback here, Jackson Dart Next year,
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we got a top receiver, we got a couple of
good defensive players. How would you like to coach in
the NFL again? Yeah? Now, I love the Lane Kiffin
who's always about Lane Kiffen. The only one that loves
Lane Kiffin more than Lane Kiffin is the Lane Kiffin Dappelganger,
which is Lane Kiffin in the mirror. They love each other,
and so suddenly he's like a monk. We're only talking
(11:42):
about the game. We don't want to t. Nobody cares
about the game, Lane, Nobody cares about that. How do
you get to determine what we talk about. It's not
a state run organization. If you want that, you can
just have LSU's website. Ask you questions. That's it. Now.
I'm a big body language guy, and I believe in
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the body so you read the body language. Lane Kiffin's
eyes were blinking, blinkers, blinkers, they were blinking like strobe
lights at Marty Grass a lot of blanket did the
old head shake thing. I saw that, and that is
a straight dead give away from the FBI handbook on
(12:23):
Lying the Nervous Swallow. The shifty posture of Lane Kiffin,
and he looked if you are blind, guys can see this.
But he looked like he had stolen something and got
caught on surveillance camera. He was sweating like he was
being cross examined by Judge Judy. And it was just
some local yokel beat reporters who happened to cover Old
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Miss football. And they're clearly waiting here. You don't have
to be some kind of insider to know that they're
waiting until after the egg Bowl, which I believe is
on Friday, and once that rivalry game is over between
Old Miss and Mississippi State, there'll be some news release
and confetti cannon will go off and that'll be that.
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So coaches lie all the time. If you're planning on staying,
you would say you're staying, although we'd still question that
because plenty of coaches have said they're staying and then
they don't. But on this one, it just looked very uncomfortable,
like he's about to leave and he knows he's leaving,
and people at the school know he's leaving, and part
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of him doesn't want to leave Lane Kiffin, but he's
got to take the money because that's that's who he is.
And so he's got these mixed emotions, wearing the Old
Miss logo on his shirt while he was talking and
all that. So staying with the theme, though the silence
is the answer on the Lane Kiffin thing. But staying
(13:48):
with the theme, someone's obviously buying him a ticket and
buying their ticket on the Lane train. Then whoever that
is now Fox Sports College football guru Joel Clatt, I
guess he's got a podcast, because everyone's got a podcast.
I saw this and Joel Clatt implied that lane Kiffin
(14:09):
would be making a mistake by leaving Old Miss. He says,
how does Lane Kiffin leave Old Miss in the middle
of a playoff run and have any credibility in his
next place? Close quote all right, question. Joel Klatt, college
football insider for Fox Sports, says lane Kiffin would lose
(14:29):
credibility leaving Old Miss this late in the game. Agree
or disagree with that? Take agree or disagree. So I
am in the camp on the side of the aisle.
I'm on disagreement side of the isle. That's where I am.
This is not some kind of Sunday school. We're not
(14:50):
talking about Sunday school here. This is cottage football. Is
what it is, whooa cottage football, and it's also the
Hunger Games. In many ways, you don't survive on credibility.
You survive on leverage and money. Right now, Lane kiffn
has leverage and he's about to get a lot of money.
(15:10):
He's still making good money. Don't hate the player, you
gotta hate the game. Right The contracts are typically one
way streets and the buyouts are massive. We just talked
about Brian Kelly earlier in this monologue and the amount
of money that Brian Kelly's got fifty four million coming
his way. And in terms of the whole loyalty thing,
I hear people talk about loyalty and what that means,
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and usually loyalty should be a two way street, like
if you've been with a business for a long time,
they should give you raise and take care of you
and things like that. I hate to be the bearer
of bad news. Most businesses aren't run like that. They're
run by a holes. They don't reward their employees for
loyalty and dedication and long term employment. They don't believe
in that. They believe in nickel and diming everybody. And
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the only way to really get ahead in that business
is to change jobs. And it's just the idea of
loyalty is a Disney fairy tale, is what it is.
These guys know. And Lane Kiffen more than anyone. He
comes from a football family. He's a Nepo baby. His
dad was a great defensive coach Monte Kiffen. So Lane
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Kiffin knows how the sausage is made. He grew up
in a factory the way they made the sausage. He
knows all about it. He's not some naive assistant that
doesn't understand what's going on. He's the tagline from Farmers Insurance.
He knows a thing or too, Lane Kiffen, because he's
seen a thinger too. This guy, at a very young
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age coached the Raiders when Al Davis, at the end
of his life, was the owner of the River. Very briefly,
he lived that life with the Oakland Raiders. He went
to Tennessee. He was at USC as well. He ghosted Knoxville.
They were burning sofas in the street when he left
to go to a SC didn't lose a wink a sleep,
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Lane Kiffin when he was doing that. And then just
such a terrible job for the men of Troy that
the University of Southern California after a blowout loss to
Arizona State. I believe they gave up like sixty something
points to the Sun Devils. On the way back to Lax.
From Sky Harbor Airport to Lax, Lane Kiffin was dragged
off the USC team plane. Lane Kiffin, head coach at USC,
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was dragged off the plane after a loss of the
Sun Devils and was fired on the tarmac at Lax.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
On the tarmac do you think a guy who got
fired on the tarmac at lax is worried about being loyal?
Come on, was sc loyal to Lane Kiffen when they
whacked him while they were taking luggage off the Delta
Airlines plane?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Come on? Please. Pat Hayden, who was the athletic dire
at the time, summoned Lane Kiffin to a private air
room adjacent to the tarmac like he had violated TSA rules,
You're gone. And that's how the business works. That is
how it works. It rewards opper tunist is what it words.
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Joe Klatt knows this. He's out there preaching credibility and
it's a business that rewards movement for players and coaches.
You want to make more money as a player, you
gotta go in to the portal. That's where the money is.
You don't get loyalty points. They don't give you more
money for being loyal. They don't, and so you want
(18:36):
to get paid. Lane kif has made a lot of money,
but he's just playing the game the way the rules
have been written. And so there's two options. Either somebody
had Old missed some booster matches the offer and Lane
could stay at Old miss which is highly unlikely, or
he's gone and that's it. Those are the two options,
or go. In college football, the sport we're talking about, credibility,
(18:58):
the lasts about five minutes. That's it. Buyouts last a
couple of years if the school actually pays them. LSU
doesn't really want to do that. And Kiffen knows exactly
which side he's on. So I's like, credit, Billy, I
see that. I might come on. I roll my eyes.
Really we're doing that. That's what we're doing. It is
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Dan Hurley said this week that he will not let
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said he will not let his players blank. That is
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Now back to it, all right. We will have the
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mallard amount of money coming up in a little bit.
But here is the riddle of the day. Yukon coach
Dan Hurley guy could have been the Lakers coach, but
they let that podcaster guy take over. Now here it
is a Yukon coach. Dan Hurley said he won't let
his players blank. All right, that is new the question.
Georgia boy, good to see the name Georgia boys, been
(21:52):
checking that often? Says a courtesy flush after dropping a deuce.
Bobby and Florida says, you con coach will not allow
his players to play Patty Cake. Scrooge says, eat a
nice juicy Berger is the answer alf the alien Opiner
says he won't let his players get a vanity license plate?
(22:13):
What else do you have? Page down Andy in Lionel Lakes,
Minnesota says a Yukon coach will not let his players
find the hawk Tua Girl, Rob the Goatman says, will
not allow them to listen to me give that. Will
not be allowed to listen to the ben Malers show.
Have dessert before finishing their dinner. Not allowed. Stevie meat
(22:38):
Ball says he will not let his players front white
It causes dirty Basketball's all right? Interesting on that something
evolving chocolate pudding after dinner for milkman Mike. What else
do we have? Paige down? Lady Sideburns said something about Toots.
What else do we have? Page down? I guess sniff tooots?
All right? What else? Page down? Won't let players give
(22:59):
Blind Scott any money from Donkey's sausage? That's his answer.
One allows players to engage in any criminal activity the sausage.
That's from just Josh. Who else do we have page down?
It's her Nate Hammer, he writes in he says, well,
will not let us players run the Iditarod Trail sled
(23:19):
dog race in Alaska? Play with legos from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota?
What allows players to put ketchup on a hot dog?
That's Doc Dan wear high heels from JT the Wingman
in Knoxville. What else do we have page down Rebecca right,
since she says will not let the players hold one
nostril closed and blow a snot rocket out of the
(23:41):
other one. That's probably better that way for sure. Filler up.
Phil says, will not allow us players to eat pork.
All right, enough of that. Do you have an answer,
Lrea is not pick your nose, which Michael leper Con went.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
With, Yeah, I think he won't allow them to share toothbrushes.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Toothbrushes, all right? Is it tooth? Is that correct?
Speaker 7 (23:58):
No?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
It was incorrect. Unfortunately, the correct answer none other than
Yukon coach Dan Hurley revealing that he will not let
his players have turkey on Thanksgiving. No turkey, that is
not okay, Well, they have a game. Yukon has a
game on Friday afternoon, and so he's worried about the
(24:21):
trip to fan. He thinks they'll be sleepy if they
eat turkey on Thanksgiving. So he says, you've a miss.
Well I know that, but he's he said it. It's
it's scientifically dubious, but that's what he said. And so
Yukon's gonna have an early Thanksgiving, but they're they're gonna
have it, like I think tomorrow and so. But no,
players are not allowed to eat turkey on Thanksgiving. Not allowed.
(24:43):
Let's go to the phones, screaming, Steven is in North Dakota.
He's back, Hello, screaming Steven.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
Oh my god, man, thank you so much. I miss you. Guys, Hey, everybody,
I miss you.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
We're here. Where have you been? Where you? We've been
here every night.
Speaker 8 (25:03):
I worked nice.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
I listened to for a couple hours, and then I
fall asleep. Keim a really weird schedule. Anyways, I got
them shocks in North Dakota. Seventeen millions. You can come
to North Dakota and live in a shack instead of Monthana.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
W for seventeen million, I will move to North Dakota.
I'm in. I'm in. Anybody else want in on that?
North Dakota seventeen million? Anybody all right? Coops in?
Speaker 7 (25:29):
Well?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
But with Cooper move Loraina, North Dakota seventeen million. I mean,
for seventeen million, I suppose I could do it. You
could handle his beautiful restaurants in North Dakota. It's God's country.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Come on, no, you have to help me. Butcher chickens
in the fall?
Speaker 1 (25:43):
How many chickens? Oh, I've never pushared a chicken before,
but I might be good at it.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
I will cut off the head of every single chicken.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
Yeah what Minneapolis sports not winning since ninety one and
just a heck, come on, give it to me, every
give it to him?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Then? Yeah, I mean, well, Kirby Pucket, I'll tell you what, Kirby,
Kirby Puckett made a deal with the devil. And that's why.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
But the Lakers used to be all purple and gold
and not just the Vikings colors are the same purple.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah, but of course the problem is the Lakers. Nobody
watched the NBA when they were in Minneapolis.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
Well that's true too, Yeah, but what about like the
Royal and win like eight games are on the Timbers
ten losing?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Well you need scream and Steven. You have to turn
to the vood voodoo bugaloo. You have to turn to witchcraft,
is what you have to do.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
Yeah, in the woods.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah,
but ye have it? Yeah but yeah it come on, yeah,
not rabbit, not rabbit. It's it yeah but yeah it
yeah it yeah but yeah, but yeah it you have it?
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Yet the sort of Minneapolis area team of the force works.
Would you put money on to win the next championship right.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Now, you'd have to say the Vikings, And they're not
anywhere close. And I am close, but that would be
the Vikings.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
About the wild there, the wolves.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, the wolves, aren't they The.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
Twins are going. We don't even want to talk about that.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
I forget about the twins. They're not winning anything.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
There's some nice in your Vesseyville, North Dakota.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Well, it could be worse. You could be the Angels.
It could be worse.
Speaker 7 (27:31):
I love the Angels. I used to like back in
the day, the cowboy dude that owned them.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
All, the singing cowboy genatry. Yeah, singing cowboys. All right,
I gotta go call me again. Thank you, screaming okay,
not a Drew all right, thank you? All right, there's
a screaming Steven there. I love him, Adam saying that. Yeah,
he's one of our favorites. Let's go to another one
of our favorites. The Legends are out. Dick in Dayton. Hello,
(27:59):
Dick up Earl today Dick and Dayton.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Happy Thanksgivin guys.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Happy Thanksgiving week, Dick s they're big social lighte that
you are hitting all the big Thanksgiving parties. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
your early Thanksgiving? Was it yesterday?
Speaker 9 (28:12):
No?
Speaker 4 (28:14):
I think well they had won last week and then
they're going to have one Thursday. But I'm going over
to see my best friend. There were no creeks, so
I'll be going most of the day. But hey, I
want to say something that I never did tell you
that I missed. The used to have the end Zone
show on sports, you know Ox Sports with you could
(28:38):
call it on Monday night. Gimme Donovan, Doug Deacon and
Tony Grocy and I called every week and I used
to be about the second caller and get me just
always said, look, we're going to get happy. Now we'll
talk to Dick. But I want to say something that
say hello to Andrew. Is doing a good job on
the Browns, pretty good. I think he's great.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I'll send him a message. I'll text him, Hey, Andrew,
you've you've been given the seal of approval by Dick.
Dick from Dayton is giving you the seal of approval,
and that means.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Something that Matt the big one, Everybody's got a party
this week. This has got to be Ryan Day has
to be Coach of the Year. But I'm hoping he
meets Michigan this year. Guys, he's done that.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Well.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
If he doesn't be Michigan, I know they didn't last year,
didn't go great and they still won. But yeah, you
gotta win that game. That's that's a must win game. Obviously.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
You know that.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
You're mister Ohio. Now we played a game earlier. We
didn't really play a game, but your name came up.
You were sleeping. We were talking about all the political
shows that you call. Somebody said, you call Larry Elder, Yes,
you do call Larry Elder. What other used to do
you ever call Limball back in the day? Did you
ever call Russia?
Speaker 4 (29:49):
I never? I tell you who I did call this.
I was on this show. Son Sean Handedy and Neil.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Board struck my call and they did, Okay, what about
Klay Travis if you know Clay.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
But there's another guy he's on it. Uh he's pretty good. Uh.
Who's you heard of Mark Levin? He'll put me on.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Oh yeah, I've heard him. Mean, he's been around for
a long time. As you love political and sports, those
are two things, right, political and talk radio and sports radio.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
But I just think the Browns Radio network, you know,
ninety three three of the Fan with Titus and Jeff
are good. It's it's probably one of the best. And
I have another friend that uh took blood Wick and Jerry.
Jeff Walker has given me a lot of you know,
day from Dayton comes and gets me. He heard me
(30:35):
on there, and he's he comes on like Christmas and
my birthday and yeah, he's starting to listen to Fox.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Oh good, all right, And that's that's Dave from Dayton.
They call him Dave.
Speaker 9 (30:44):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Hey? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (30:46):
Ok?
Speaker 4 (30:46):
And yeah. And I heard my cousin she said that
she hears me up there. And you know the Titus
and Jeff Felts. He's been around a long time. And
I say, no, travaliers, all you do right to.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
The line to the lane. Remember that went to the
line to the lane. Yep, all right, bye bye. There
he goes, very happy happy Dick Dayton. Man, Hey, I
need some contestants. We have Mallard's Mount of Money. If
you want to play, call right now eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox. We need some contestants. Let's say
(31:19):
hello to Greg in the Sunshine State. What's going on? Greg?
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Welcome, Hey, good morning. I got a couple things. Number One,
that riddle of the day. Well, Hurley went to Duke, right,
so he should be had a little bit of intelligence.
But turkey's a lean meat and trip to fan is
only in your system for a short time. He wanted
to eat it on Thursday because you'd actually be well
rested for Friday.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Well well, yeah, I know, but you're you're confusing your
hurlies is what you're confusing. Because his brother was Bobby Hurley,
who's the coach at Arizona State. Yeah, Bobby, that's all right.
All those hurlies are the same, you know, all those
hurlies are they?
Speaker 4 (31:56):
What's it to talk?
Speaker 8 (31:57):
He doesn't sound like he was from Duke, and obviously
that kind of thinking makes me questioned about Duke's curriculum. Anyway, Listen,
the other thing I was gonna say is you, uh,
you are killing it today. I mean just murdering it
with your h with your monologue at four o'clock, with
Elaine kissing you. You couldn't hit it more on the
head man.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
You know, every few.
Speaker 8 (32:17):
Years, just every few years, there's a college coach. It's
like I can't miss I mean, hate to say that,
but truthfully, kiss it. You can't miss. Those kids love
playing for him wherever he goes. Heck, he wanted SAU.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
I'm a Florida guy. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 8 (32:30):
I followed him. SAU was nothing. He bought that money.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
He would keep it.
Speaker 8 (32:33):
Great things at SAU and once everywhere he's gone. So
I think LSU is probably gonna be the I would
say that the most attractive place for him to go
because he's gonna have amples of money that they can
buy players, and those players are strong. Those are good
Southern boys that are fast and strongly. In LSU, they
always attract some monster talent Florida.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
I don't know. I think there's the man.
Speaker 8 (32:56):
I'm a Florida guy, but it's gonna be tough to
get come back. I think these other SEC teams is
kind of overtaking them. But I was kissing house brother.
I say, l you baby, sign for.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
The big mon.
Speaker 9 (33:07):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I know Lane can't sleep right now. He's very stressed out,
so I'm sure he's listening. Who wants to make him Richard? Yeah?
All right, wait, god, Greg, that was a good call. Greg.
We're not used to that. A good call by you amazing?
How lucky are we? We talked at gregging for all right,
it is the Ben malersho with a pause for the cause.
We'll have Mallard's Mountain of money, Mallar's mount Do we
(33:30):
have our contestants coop? We have a coop still screens
you're coming in. Well, we we'll screen those calls. We
get the contestants on, and we'll have Mallor's amount of money.
We'll get to that. We'll do it next.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
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Speaker 1 (33:47):
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Speaker 5 (34:29):
Here we go now Malor's Mountain of Money. Hello, do
you have what it takes to get to the top?
Probably not?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
All right, away we go. It's signed out for Mallar's
mount of Mine. That's welcome in our concessions, quick ry
quick wick. All right, who do we have? We have
Dave in so Cal just down the road there in
in Sino Man. Hello Dave. Welcome all right to that David, Yeah,
said Dave. Who would you like to partner up with?
Speaker 9 (35:02):
Dave?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
You got me? Or cool? Let me get you all right, Dave,
try to control your emotion. Hold on a sec and
then we have any meenie miney moe. Let's say hello
to far out Dave. Hello, far out Dave.
Speaker 8 (35:17):
Hey, hey, bab you know the time it is mean
too about to work.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Doubt that's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
All right, Hold on a sec. Well, the category is
quickly cool please all right, So this is a Day
versus Dave matchup. The categories are this Miley Cyrus edition.
She turned thirty three on Sunday. We have the best
of both worlds, the climb, we can't stop and wrecking Ball.
So cal, Dave, you were on first, which category would
you like?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Wrecking ball? All right? And far out, Dave.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
That leaves you with we can't stop the climb or
the best of both worlds can't stop?
Speaker 1 (35:57):
All right? All right, very good. We'll put forty five
the clock. Gentlemen, we need the first and last name, Dave,
the Sokow Dave? Are you ready? Sokow David Nzino?
Speaker 5 (36:07):
All right?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
These athletes have all had a reputation as locker room cancers.
We'll put forty five seconds on the clock. We're on
our way go. He is a star receiver for the
Pittsburgh Steelers. He's currently facing charges in Miami wide receiver over, Yes,
that is correct. The how about this agent zero for
(36:27):
the Washington Wizards, NBA player, also in trouble with the
law right now? Former NBA player? All right? He was
a third baseman, five hundred home run guy or close
to it. Was traded for Mike Piazza from the Marlins
to the Dodgers back in the nineties, played with the
(36:48):
Yankees and the Mets and the Brewers, and was a journeyman.
Hit a lot of home runs. No, how about this
legends he slept with Lebron's mom. Internet legend says, this
guy slept. You didn't get that one. Yes, yes, of course,
all right, ten points. Good job, tremendous job. We didn't
(37:09):
get Gary Stratfield Delante West Gilbert reads, Yes, all right.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Far out, Dave, we have We can't stop that. These
athletes are part of some of the biggest winning streaks
in their sports.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Are you ready? Far out Dave?
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Get there? Sorry right now? No the other Dave, Dave
from Ohio. Not not so cal, Dave. You're not playing
right now, not right now? All right, Dave, forty five
seconds on the clock. Begin all right. The best quarterback
of all time in the NFL. No, no, no, for
the Patriots.
Speaker 8 (37:52):
Tom Brady.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Yes, this guy's the enforcer on the Warriors. He likes
to kick people in the nuts. Yes, this guy go
to one hundred points in an NBA game.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
We yep.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
This guy was the wide receiver on the Colts for
Peyton Manning after Marvin Harrison.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Ahead, Okay, this guy was on the Cleveland Indians. He's
now on the Mets. He was shortstop.
Speaker 8 (38:18):
Yeah, Francis Francisco Lindor.
Speaker 9 (38:23):
Yes, uh, this guy was the center on the Indian Aprisa.
All right day, we're up at socowed David and Cino.
You've got the climb, the.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Or the best of best. Both worlds were a climb.
Which one do you want? Okay, why not? Let's do it.
Forty five seconds on the clock. We need first and
last name. These athletes are in both college and pro
football Hall of Fames. Forty five seconds.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Greatest tackle in Rams history from Ohio State, played for
the Saint Louis who were am no for the offensive
tackle for the San Luis Rams in the two thousands.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
School Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
How about wide receiver for the wide receiver for the
Chargers nicknamed Bambi in the nineteen sixties and seventies.
Speaker 7 (39:16):
Bambi, Bambi wide receiver.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Do you like sports? You enjoy sports? I like you
like Bambi? We should should we ask Bambi questions? A
quarterback for the Colts when they won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 8 (39:34):
Uh te.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
A primetime Colorado coach from prime Primetime God twenty points. Yeah, Orlando,
you know Orlando, pay Atlanta allwarth. Why would you call
the player trivia game
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