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#480: Influencing & 5 Questions | OBB Benched | The Spirit of Europe

Published 3 days, 17 hours ago
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Instead of top-rated quarterbacks, training camp or GM sagas... we're talking about influencer degrees, terrible grading scales, getting sucked out of airplanes and Spaceballs! Welcome to OBB Benched!


Ro's still out, so Jenners, Scoop, and Toast keep the bench warm one more time before Miami's 2026 fall camp opens tomorrow. This week's five questions cover Arizona State's new bachelor's degree in becoming an influencer (yes, that's real), a screenshot of a grading scale out of California that nobody can quite believe, and the return of Rick Moranis for Spaceballs 2 after 30 years away from the business.


Along the way: Scoop's Panda Express standoff over two pennies, a Ryanair passenger who nearly went out the window at 20,000 feet, a sequel debate nobody wins (Phantom Menace still haunts one of these guys), and the athletes whose careers injuries cut short before we ever got to see how good they could've been.


Also: Miami lands the No. 1 spot in the ACC's preseason media poll, and Tua's already banged up at Falcons camp before a single practice.


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 OBB Benched is the offseason, off-topic companion show to Orange Bowl Boys, where no subject is off-limits and nothing is safe.


00:00 Cold open — no camp talk today, one day out from Hurricanes camp

01:22 Arizona State's new bachelor's degree in influencing

07:37 Q1: the degree you wish you'd gone back for

11:45 California's controversial new grading scale

14:35 The lost art of paying — and getting change — in cash

17:38 Maven's "keep the change" moment at Publix

19:05 Q2: how you got punished as a kid

22:13 Rick Moranis returns for Spaceballs 2 at Comic-Con

23:41 Q3: the sequel that was a total letdown

25:37 Sequel debate: Top Gun Maverick, Days of Thunder 2, Caddyshack 2

29:06 Obligatory airline story: Ryanair window scare

31:26 Q4: worst airplane passenger you've dealt with

35:16 Tua Tagovailoa banged up at Falcons camp

35:59 Q5: the athlete injuries robbed of greatness

37:18 ACC media poll: Miami picked No. 1 in the preseason


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