WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Bear Chested Ben 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:01.520 Kabbooms. 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:05.440 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.520 of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.560 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:17.520 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:18.440 Wow. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:22.360 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:29.480 The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard starts right now in. 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:32.120 The air everywhere. 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.400 The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mather and Danny g 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:38.880 Radio A Happy Saturday to you. The twenty ninth day 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:46.720 of November. Rivalry weekend continuing in college football today, watched 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:49.320 what I watched out with Texas Texas A and M 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:53.159 watched a little bit of that game on Friday, the 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.880 Mississippi Mississippi Steak and the Egg Bowl. 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.240 Watched that. In the NFL, we'll start with the NF. 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:05.200 Let's get be a very sporty fifth hour podcast, A 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:09.160 very sporty fifth hour podcast. We've got on this one, 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:13.840 disco Hulkemania, and ain't no fun if the. 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:15.520 Homies can't have none. 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:19.720 And we'll combine all of these things together, and we 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:23.120 are going to meditate, because what else are you supposed 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:25.600 to do on a Saturday, But we'll start with this 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:32.960 in Philadelphia, PA, the Delaware Valley, the et A, G 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:34.399 L E S. 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:38.000 Eagles su c K suck Suck suck. 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:43.080 Yes, they got smashed by the Chicago Bears. 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:44.200 Stump Bears. 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:49.800 Bears getting it done yesterday on Black Friday, a twenty 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:56.400 four to fifteen final, as Chicago converting almost sixty percent 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:59.559 of their third down plays, They were two for three 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:01.920 in the red zone, and they win a game where 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:06.240 Caleb Williams was terrible because they had multiple running backs 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.120 that went over one hundred and twenty five yards. It 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:12.160 was like a throwback for the Bears. As Caleb Williams 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:16.000 was terrible. It didn't matter. The Bears won anyway in 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:20.920 dominating fashion. Their defense, which had been so bad against 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:24.160 the run, held Sequon Barkley down. Of course, he only 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.720 had thirteen attempts in that game. But don't bury the lead. 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:30.240 My man won't bear the lead. So the Eagles coach 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:35.200 Nick Sirianni. Did you see what he said after the game? No? Okay, 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:41.480 So Sirianni said that while they will evaluate everything in Philadelphia, 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:46.440 he will be staying with offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo as 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:50.560 the play caller, Sirianni saying, quote, this is the greatest 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:54.200 team sport there is and it is never about one person. 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.240 Close quote. So that is a good jumping off point. 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:02.440 Let us discuss the question, can you explain why Nick 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:09.400 Sirianni refused to consider even the thought of changing the 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:10.480 Eagles play caller? 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.359 So on this one, it's rather simple, right. 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.200 This is like saying, hey, listen, we really got to 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.320 clean the house. I want to clean the entire house. Okay, 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:19.919 you want to clean the entire house. That's great, let's 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.160 clean the entire house. Okay, we're gonna do it, but 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.920 we're not touching the kitchen, the bathroom or the living room. 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.040 We don't want to do that. But what you said 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.120 you wanted to clean the entire house, It's like, well 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:31.240 that's kind of important. 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:32.920 Well, I just don't want to do it. What are 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:36.800 we even doing? This is football spin class, is what 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:37.080 it is. 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:41.440 Everything's on the table, Every possibility is on the table 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:46.440 in Philly except the one thing, the one thing that 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:51.480 clearly needs to actually be on the table, which makes this, 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:55.400 to use one of our classic mallarisms, it's coach speak. 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.680 Cotton candy like you're get in the summer at the 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.960 State Fair, get that cotton candy and it looks. 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:03.240 Oh man, it's a big. Look at that, what a 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:03.560 deal like? 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.120 And then you're like, well, it's just spung sugar and 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:10.960 it looks big, but there's no substance. Philadelphia has been 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:16.000 outscored forty eight to fifteen in the last six quarters 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.640 since they blew that twenty one to nothing lead to 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.640 the Dallas Cowboys. They got thrown into the wood chipper 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:26.120 by the Bears, of all things, the Chicago Bears, who 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:30.040 are now nine to three on the season, although most 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:33.719 of those wins have been nail biers, not this game 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:40.160 on Black Friday. And now Nick Sirianni's got that everything's fine, 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:44.440 don't worry. He's got that look on his face. He's 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.800 got that kind of grin thing going on, like he's 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:53.120 hosting HGTV and advice from the upper balcony. Here, buddy, 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:57.560 but it bety. This ain't a renovation show. It's not 0:04:57.720 --> 0:04:59.960 we're not renovating. We're doing the demo, is what we're doing. 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:04.000 The Bears ran the ball like they had resurrected Walter 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:11.360 Payton Sweetness in a secret basement lab somewhere somewhere, far 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:16.120 far away. Forty seven carries two hundred and eighty one 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.440 yards for the Chicago Bears, a couple of rushing touchdowns. 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:23.480 They had two guys go over one hundred and twenty 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:27.240 five yards, averaging six yards per rush. That is not 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:32.320 a defensive front in Philly. That was an open toll booth. 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:37.279 Good luck. You couldn't You couldn't have planned it worse 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.200 for the Philadelphia defense in this game because Camvib Williams 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.440 was not very good. He completed less than fifty percent 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:47.760 of his passes, he had an interception in the game. 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.400 It was not very good and it didn't matter. 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:55.080 Because the Eagles defensively allowed the Chicago Bears to run 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.640 it right down their throat and it was ridiculous. You 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.839 could have driven the Malard Moobe two point zero through 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.960 those running lanes without slowing down. And then you also 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.560 have Jalen Hurts for Philadelphia right now, He's not Superman. 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:13.560 He's Clark Kent without the glasses, and he's just nothing special. 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:17.640 He's just a dude, not the dude. He's just a dude. 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:24.359 Your garden variety mortal quarterback, quarterbacking with practice squad results 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:28.239 right now for Jalen Hurts, in fact, what's my evidence. 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.839 Let's go last four games. Jalen Hurts has averaged six 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.400 and a half yards per past seven is average. He's 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:38.720 below average, completing fifty nine percent of his passes that 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:42.320 ain't good, has a passer rating of eighty five. That's 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.960 not elite. That's Marriott Lobby is what that is. You're 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:49.520 in the Marriott Lobby. Quarterback club is what you are. 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:52.479 So it's is it panic at the disco? It's panic 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:56.279 at the Batulo disco. The offensive coordinator and you know 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.360 they had high hopes. They had high hopes and now 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:03.120 they're living the death of a Bachelor champion is what 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.960 they're doing here. And Nick Siriani another example. This guy 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:12.800 is not leading his team. He's riding shotgun with no GPS. 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:17.640 He's a show pony who needs a perfect weather situation 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.360 to succeed. And now I want to say perfect weather, 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:24.160 I mean everything's gonna be right, relatively healthy, getting along 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:28.240 with each other. You throw a thunderstorm in there, right, 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:32.640 you throw a thunderstorm in there. And Nick Siriani is 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:36.520 the guy hiding behind the vending machine. He's sucking his thumb, 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.120 is what he's doing. And you know what this is. 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.960 This is it's the Malard Milk Carton moment, is what 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.880 it is. You look at the Eagles offense, and we've 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.920 seen them a lot. They're the defending, reigning champion and 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.040 all that. But you look at the Eagles offense, you say, 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:52.880 have you seen this unit? 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:57.760 The last last time we saw them really clicking. 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:02.680 Was Week eight? Was Week eight, And reward has been 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.560 offered if you find the Eagles offense now. Nick Sirianni 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:10.360 says they're evaluating everything. But again, for those of you 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.320 in the back of the room that are a little late, 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:16.960 guess what if he doesn't start evaluating Sirianni the play calling, 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:21.520 the owner will start evaluating him. So this is not 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:27.400 fly Egles fly on the road to Victor Ree anymore. 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:27.800 It's not that. 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:34.520 It's this is fry egles fry. Because you can't handle 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:39.320 success the Eagles fan base booing them and emptying out 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.079 all those people in Philadelphia that mocked the Dodger fans 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:45.680 for leaving early. That stadium was empty by the time 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:50.240 Al Michaels signed off on that broadcast, it was empty. 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:55.240 With the Capitol League now flipping the page. Here Part 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:55.960 two of this. 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.040 Fifth Hour Malor monologue. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.880 Extensive edition of The Fifth Hour with Me and Danny 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:06.679 g So. After the Bears upset the Eagles in convincing 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:10.400 fashion and it was not really all that close. The 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.559 Bears were in control late in the game, and so 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.920 the Eagles go down, we talked about what's going on 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.640 with Nick Siohanni. But on the side of the Bears 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:24.560 first year coach Ben Johnson. Ben Johnson performing one of 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:29.679 his electrifying locker room hype speeches become a weekly ritual, 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:33.640 always recorded for social media, and it was one of 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:38.360 those moments that leaves you wondering how he has a voice. Afterwards, 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:42.800 but he added a different twist, a little funny twist 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:44.760 to this week. I don't know if you saw it 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:51.600 or not, when as he was giving his postgame speech, 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:56.760 he ripped off his shirt in what seemed to be a. 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:58.280 First for the team. 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.599 I don't recall my Ditka ever doing that back in 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:05.400 the day, or any of the other Bears coaches we've had. 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:11.000 So Indeed, as Ben Johnson was working up to a lather, 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:15.440 get himself worked into a tizzy, he did indeed pull 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:17.080 his shirt over his head. 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:18.640 The players around him are opted. 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:25.160 The locker room was howling, excited cheers and streams. The 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:27.520 bear chested coach right in the middle of the locker 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:29.040 room and. 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.000 You look at that groove and it was like, oh man. 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:36.240 And then came the standard good, better, best rallying cry 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:41.120 from Ben Johnson and just a little less dressed than 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:45.640 he normally is. Now that postgame reaction has been well 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:50.080 dissected since the Bears game ended with the Eagles. I 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:53.360 know Lucky Tony very excited. The Bears are kicking some 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:57.320 ass right now. So the fact that the Bears coach 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:00.320 Ben Johnson decided to become a Chippendale's dancer, that is 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:04.319 a good jumping off point. So let us discuss the question. 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:08.320 This actually came from p one Mike who emailed me 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:12.160 late last night and Mike said, hey, what about this? 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:16.719 And his question was, did the Chicago coach Ben Johnson 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:24.160 jinks the Bears season with his shirt off celebration? I 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:28.000 have a satin night john On all right, So to 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.160 say that the Bears jinx their entire season because Ben 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:33.720 Johnson decided that he wanted to take his shirt off. 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.880 I'm gonna go no way on that. Absolutely not. This 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:40.960 is not a curse. It is not. In fact, I 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:42.000 would argue that it. 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:46.200 Is civic service for the good people of Chicago. You 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.760 don't jinx the season when you're getting a free hot dog. 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.240 And we've learned since that game ended yesterday that the 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:56.680 mom and pop Wiener's Circle shop to restaurant Wiener Circle 0:11:56.720 --> 0:12:00.559 in Chicago, it's on the north side, knocked the part 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:05.120 of town and they literally promised three winners if Ben 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:09.160 Johnson went shirtless, and he's now gone shirtless. So that's 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:14.199 not a curse. That is public charity is what that is. 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:19.480 It's community outreach. That's the Windy City stimulus package. So again, 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.920 you don't jinx a season, you ignite this season. This 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:27.960 was hul Comania. It was hull Comania territory, the late 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:31.880 great Hall Cogan, the guy ripped the shirt the Bears 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.480 coach like he was about to go tag team with 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:39.320 macho man and slide into a slim gym guy and 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:43.080 the only thing missing was the right index finger to 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:44.840 the ear, the classic Hull Cogan. 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.680 I can't hear you gesture. 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:52.080 So if you want superstition and you want karma and 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.120 all that. That's fine. I'm not against those things. They 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.559 make for good talk radio. You win football games, though, 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:05.960 and this big a movement, Capital M becomes a movement, 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:13.360 Capital M energy, full frontal commitment, and Johnson is all 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:13.760 of that. 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:14.480 He's all of that. 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:19.440 Ben Johnson's got this good, better, best speech which has 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:23.680 turned into a bit of a cultural ritual in the 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:27.200 football world. It came, we are told, from his high 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:31.959 school days at AC Reynolds, and now the Bears at 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:32.439 the pro. 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:34.120 Level are living it. 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:38.559 It's kind of like their pledge of allegiance good, better, best, 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:42.559 never let it rest. They're chanting it like they're about 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:47.160 to stampede, similar to the wildebeast in the Lion King. 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:53.160 And so it's working. They're hitting on all cylinders. And 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:56.840 when the Bears win, like they did yesterday on Black Friday, 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:00.920 Ben Johnson conducts that speech like he he's a conductor 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:05.120 at the Chicago Symphony. And when they lose, he risked 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.319 becoming a viral me. Remember the Chargers coach Brandon Staley 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:13.520 was doing yoga stretches before kickoff and they recorded it 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:17.520 and Brian my branded Staley rather has really not gotten 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:22.080 any any serious interest as a head coach because of that. 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:27.600 And there's a thin line between motivation and mockery. They 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:31.920 both start with M and O and after that they go. 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:32.760 Their separate ways. 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:38.080 And so Ben Johnson's walking walking this motivation and mockery 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:42.680 like it's a tightrope and he's the tightrope artist over Lake, 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:49.120 Michigan in a blizzard. So at this moment, this was 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:50.840 I file this one in the basket. If you look 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:52.240 at the basket, what was in the basket? If you 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.760 look at the basket, I file this one in the 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.920 shirtless swagger basket. 0:14:58.360 --> 0:14:59.640 This was blue. 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:04.040 Collar Glenn, blue collar glamour. This was the full embodiment 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:08.280 of every Chicago construction worker who eats a beef sandwich 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:12.200 at seven in the morning and then for lunch, but 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.080 they have lunch at like ten thirty. They have the 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:17.800 deep dish Chicago pizza and then they have dessert. They 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.840 have that great popcorn, which tree in Chicago knows all about. 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:28.360 That's the move here. So listen, this was what the 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:31.640 Bears want to become. Was it a little cheesy, a 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:36.040 little corny shure, But it's fun. They're winning, And as 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:38.360 long as you're winning, the whole stadium is going to 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:43.200 get bear chested in January at Soldier Field, it'll. 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:46.320 Be the Lambeau meets Marty Gras scene. 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:50.600 Frostbite is the free giveaway meets euphoria, which is also 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.080 a giveaway should you actually get into the stadium. So 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:57.000 this guy is a man of the people, man of 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:02.240 the people. He's not coaching football leading a revolution of 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:04.240 pork passion and pigskin. 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:05.720 That's PPP. 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:10.920 And you don't jinx your season for Michael and the rest. 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:12.320 Of you think, oh my god, I can't believe it. 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.040 Did You don't jinx your season when the team's laughing, 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:19.240 bonding and celebray good times. 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:23.040 They're celebrating good times. You don't ruin the magic when. 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:27.480 You're leaning in to the abracadabra, the hocus pocus. That 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:32.200 locker room was not tense. It was alive with energy. 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:34.840 It was alive with energy, and players respond to that. 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:39.160 And it's not analytics, And no, you shouldn't have done that. 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.080 You shouldn't have played that guy because of the analytics. 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:44.960 This is humans being bros, humans being bros. And let's 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:49.320 be real, Chicago has not had this kind of charisma. 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:50.800 I know they got to the Super Bowl with the 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.480 Rex Grossman, but they've not had this kind of suit 0:16:53.520 --> 0:17:00.760 of charisma since Mike Ditka removed his his with two 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:05.520 fingers in the old stop at on National TV. And 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:09.520 that is personality football. We just saw the moment in 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:14.400 which the Bears coach Ben Johnson, good old Ben Johnson, 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:20.920 became an internet legend. Johnson is throwing gasoline on the bonfire. 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:26.560 And if the fire gets too big, okay, fine, you 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:28.399 don't want it to get too big. It shouldn't get 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:32.560 too big. Better to burn out, right than fade away 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:36.920 you want to burn out, and worst case scenarios like hey, hey, 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:39.160 at least you got a free hot dog. At least 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:42.679 she got a free hot dog. Congratulations, We're happy for you. 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:47.399 So Ben Johnson trying to feed Chicago one shirtless video 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:48.320 clip at a time. 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:49.239 That's it, all right. 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:54.760 Meanwhile, we head back to college football. Old Miss head 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:59.840 coach Lane Kiffen expected to make a decision later today. 0:17:59.880 --> 0:18:06.080 He confronted a reporter someone named Ben not me, Ben Garrett, 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:10.680 not Ben Gay, Ben Garrett of something called the Old 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:16.520 Miss Spirit, which sounds like it's a riveting magazine newspaper. 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:18.920 All that stuff. So it's very very very interesting. 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:24.199 Anyway, So Lane Keivin confronted this guy regarding some offensive 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:28.760 remarks made on his podcast amid the rumors that Lane 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:33.360 Kivin's going to leave Oxford for Baton Rouge. The moment 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:39.359 happened just minutes after Old Miss had closed its regular 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:45.720 season with a thirty eight nineteen nineteen victory over Mississippi 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:48.160 State the Egg Bowl. The game, there was a fight 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:51.679 in the thing and right there boom and so there 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:53.000 are they locked in? Are they? 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:54.679 Are they a playoff team? I don't know. 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:59.000 The Rebels, who were seventh in the college football playoff 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:02.399 ranking are now eleven and one. Now later today, at 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.200 some point, probably earlier in the day than late, Lane 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:07.520 Kiffin is going to take out the trash a little 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:11.439 Saturday news conference and the expectation is that Lane will 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:14.120 take advantage of that escape portal and he gone, He's 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:17.080 out of here, see you later, bye bye. So that 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:20.239 is a good jumping off point. Everyone's japping about this. 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:25.800 Let us discuss the question. Here's the question. What stood 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:32.200 out to you about Lane Kiffin's hulla balloo with the. 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:33.280 Old Miss reporter? 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:38.080 All of this over social media presence and whatnot. So 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:44.560 the question here is what stood out to you about 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:49.359 Lane Kiffin's hulla balloo with the the Old Miss Reporter. 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:55.120 So we've got ourselves here a real Southern fried soap opera, 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:59.720 and this is one that did not come with commercial breaks. 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:04.520 All miss regular season did not end when the clock 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:10.159 hit zero zero zero zero to infinity and beyond, and 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:13.640 so you've got you've got this back and forth thing 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:14.520 going on. 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:17.080 I think it's I think it's freaking great. 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:25.200 I absolutely love it. It is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful right there. 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:28.160 I mean the regular season, as we say, it's over 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:30.760 for Old Miss. But this is this is cinema. You 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:35.320 got Lane Kiffin there, visor on white hoodie, surrounded by 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:41.520 five fully uniformed Mississippi State troopers like he was John Gottie, 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:44.679 and he spotted the reporter and decided, you know what, 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:47.240 I'm gonna be mean, Gene Oakland, I'm gonna be Bobby 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:49.320 the Marain Heat and I'm gonna do a wrestling promo 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:53.840 from back in the day. And as the reporter, this 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:58.320 guy Ben Garrett from something called The Old Miss Spirit. 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:00.000 We're not sure what that is, but the kid Froz 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:02.920 and I've actually been there. I relate to this story 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:04.720 because I've had this happen to me where I've gotten 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:07.920 confronted and when you're a young enough guy, you don't 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:11.359 really know what to do. You're like, oh oh oh boy, 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:16.040 uh oh yeah. So yet you have that And he 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:19.160 did freeze like he was this guy Ben Garrett, the 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:22.600 reporter froze like he was a wood frog in winter 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:27.679 hibernation mode, shut down sequence, initiated all that stuff, and 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:31.600 so you respart. No fight, no pushback, no quick thinking, 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:35.800 just a lot of puddles, a lot of puddles out 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:40.240 there for Lane Kiffin. And then, like so many do today, 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:44.480 the reporter ran not to the tunnel. He didn't run 0:21:44.560 --> 0:21:47.040 to try to find a number to apologize to. 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:49.639 The so and so. 0:21:49.920 --> 0:21:50.000 No. 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:54.840 What sparked this a line from this guy's podcast about 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:57.760 Lane Kiffin. The guy he gets does some podcasts and said, 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:03.160 can't turn a hoe into a housewife. How hose rather 0:22:03.240 --> 0:22:05.679 hose don't act right? 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:08.239 So pece a while. Lane was offended by this. But 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:09.240 here's the thing. 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:12.679 Now, it's not just any kind of jabber. That is 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:17.440 a direct lyric from Snoop Doggy Dog and Nate dogg 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:21.359 the classic West Coast anthem. Ain't no fun if the 0:22:21.400 --> 0:22:24.959 homies can't have none. So there is that, uh. And 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:29.720 it was a nineties staple, is what it was. But 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:33.800 Lane Kiffen heard it differently. Good old Lane, stay eating y'all. Lane, 0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:36.400 he heard it differently. He got some word from someone 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:41.400 that they called him a ho. And moments after the 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:45.880 egg Bowl win, there and some are saying the biggest 0:22:46.160 --> 0:22:51.280 egg Bowl win over arrival in their rivalry game in 0:22:51.520 --> 0:22:56.000 Old Miss history. So Lane storms right to the locker 0:22:56.040 --> 0:23:00.320 room and then he got distracted and says, you know, 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:03.960 want to walk in here and call me a hoe, pointing. 0:23:03.760 --> 0:23:05.879 Towards the locker room. We'll see how it goes. 0:23:06.400 --> 0:23:09.359 And in that cartoon bubble above my head, I stood 0:23:09.440 --> 0:23:14.240 up and I applauded again. Content that is cinema is 0:23:14.280 --> 0:23:16.600 what that is, and it's going to be old news. 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:18.919 The reason I brought this up and I brought up 0:23:18.920 --> 0:23:22.480 the Friday NFL game is one of the advantags you 0:23:22.520 --> 0:23:25.240 have doing a podcast every day is you don't have 0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:28.800 to worry about trying to squeeze everything in and because 0:23:28.840 --> 0:23:31.840 every day is unique, every day is unique. But we 0:23:31.920 --> 0:23:34.960 have a unique setup here where we are able to 0:23:36.080 --> 0:23:39.399 give you content that other shows cannot. 0:23:39.000 --> 0:23:42.280 Give you cannot give you. It's just just the way 0:23:42.320 --> 0:23:42.600 it is. 0:23:42.600 --> 0:23:44.600 And so we put this thing together here on the 0:23:44.640 --> 0:23:48.280 fifth hour to embrace this because we know we're not 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:50.600 going to be able to really enjoy it with other 0:23:50.640 --> 0:23:52.960 things going on over the course of the weekend. But 0:23:53.080 --> 0:23:56.200 by confronting the reporter, keep just again keeping the real. 0:23:56.520 --> 0:24:00.560 By confronting the reporter, Lane Kiffn did not just respond, 0:24:01.240 --> 0:24:06.400 He gave that fledgling podcast a free Times Square, billboard, 0:24:07.240 --> 0:24:12.960 National Audio, Advertising and television, Old school Media, all those 0:24:12.960 --> 0:24:17.040 big media companies. Before the show, maybe seventeen to twenty 0:24:17.080 --> 0:24:21.479 people had heard of the podcast. One of them was 0:24:21.560 --> 0:24:26.200 probably the host mom, another was a cousin, two others 0:24:26.200 --> 0:24:28.920 were third cousins. And then there was a stray raccoon 0:24:29.680 --> 0:24:32.000 that was quietly chewing through some. 0:24:31.920 --> 0:24:34.320 Kind of pipe. I don't know what that was. And 0:24:34.640 --> 0:24:37.359 that is the new Moxie two point zero. 0:24:37.400 --> 0:24:40.399 So thanks to Lane again for going professional wrestling at 0:24:40.440 --> 0:24:45.879 the podium. This kid's just been given billboard placement in 0:24:46.160 --> 0:24:49.840 midtown Manhattan without having to pay a nickel or a dime, 0:24:49.920 --> 0:24:52.680 not a dimeback, not a dime and that's the irony. 0:24:52.760 --> 0:24:55.760