March 21, 2025 • 41 mins
Big Ben talks about Kansas getting upset by Arkansas in the 1st round of the NCAA Tournament and if Bill Self is on the hot seat, Stefon Diggs leaving the Patriots without a contract, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, and more!
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight
from two to six Eastern eleven pm to three am
Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and to find your local
station for the Benmatlers Show at Foxsports Radio dot com.
You can find it there or stream us live every
night on the iHeartRadio app by searching FSR.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
This is the best of the Ben Malor Show on
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Call it some self deflection, if you will, welcome in
the beginning of another night of the Benmahlor Show, the
day night doubleheader. As we are in the air everywhere
in collaboration, as we are under Lock and.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Key coast coast border to vort A and beyond on
the mast and unrelentingly powerful microphones of FSRE and moundating
live from the Elephant. How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time. That's how you eat an elephant.
We're broadcasting live from the ti Raq dot com studios.
Tyrack dot com will help you get there and unmatched selection,
(01:20):
fast free shipping, free road hazard protection and over ten
thousand recommended installers. Tire rack dot com the way tire
buying should be. I know gen Z Charlie, who was
the breakout star of yesterday's show, and Lorain.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Is back with us tonight, but she she didn't.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Hear gen Z Charlie got a lot of email, a
lot of feedback from Zenz to gen Z Charlie. He's
on spring break. He called the show because that's what
all the cool kids do. They call sports talk radio
overnight radio when they're on spring break. Now we'll circle
back to that, I'm sure at some point.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
But our lead this hour is don't bear. I'm the
lead mo man.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
One of our great bosses over the years likes to
say so. March madness. The curtain went up on the
twenty twenty five men's basketball tournament, and I don't know
if you're watching or not. I'm pretty sure I need
some kind of IV. I think I overdosed on hoops.
And normally what happens on tournament days is I'm not
(02:23):
gonna lie.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I don't watch the early games at all. Why would I.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I usually sleep, But I filled in at the local
station on Thursday, so I was up early, and so
I watched, and then I kept watching, and I kept watching,
and all the way through the night, though a lot
to digest. The biggest story after a minutes long Mall
(02:48):
review of the day, the biggest story the clash of
big name coaches. This might have been the greatest game
in the world, and all that there was a late
lead change.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I think there were like ten lead changes in the game.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
But the big name coach, which is what we put
our hat on.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Here.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
You had John Kylipari on one side making his tournament
debut as Arkansas's coach, and Bill self the staple of
Kansas basketball in Lawrence, Kansas, home of a Ben mallor
food dish there at the Bird in Lawrence. So someone
named Jonas It's not Jonas Knox, it's Jonas i Do
(03:27):
scored twenty two points and Arkansas came back and ends
up winning seventy nine to seventy two in the opening
round of the tournament. So that number ten seed knocks
off the number seven seed Kansas the better story in
the losing locker room. So that is where we will
focus on this particular game that Jayhawks eliminated from the
madness of March. And now the questions are being asked,
(03:51):
will they be rebooting the coaching staff?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
What all right?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
So let us discuss anytime a big name coach gets
excommunicated from the tournament. Early on, you asked the question,
we will ask the question, is the venerable Bill Self
on the hot seat at Kansas? So I've got toothpaste,
biblical and ven diagram, and we will combine all of
(04:19):
these things together and we are going to make some
banana cream pie. The king of all pies is the
banana cream pie. And it doesn' appear that Kansas took
a banana cream pie to the face, all right, So
a to answer the question, is Bill self on the
hot seat at Kansas?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I am nodding my head, yes, I am nodding my head. Yes. Now,
this is only the second time that.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
The Associated Press preseason number one team has lost in
the first round of the tournament. The only Kansas, by
the way, was that team. They were preseason number one.
There our first game of the tournament. The only other
time in the history of the tournament it's happened was
Bill Self and Kansas back in five they lost to
(05:05):
buck Nell.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
And so there you go a little fun factoid for you.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
But I want you to turn up your headphones a
little bit because you're gonna hear in the background we
talk about Bill Self and his status, you'll hear the
sound of crackling geese.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
You hear that little sound of crackling geese.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Now you know what that means, right, That means storm
clouds are building. And this was Kansas' worst season according
to many pundits, and the numbers bear this out. In
the twenty two years with Bill Self at the hell
that's a generation of Bill Self coaching Kansas basketball. But
(05:43):
it cuts deep, and I go back to the D word.
I go back to the D word. Darwinism, adapt or
die is the way I look at this and the
NIL which has been around for a few years now.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
But the name, image, likeness thing has been.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
A gigantic sea change for the old guard in college sports,
and we've seen a lot of them leave.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
But you look at a guy like Bill Self who's been.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Around and around and around and around and around, and
you don't necessarily like it. Whether you like it or not,
it doesn't matter. It's not up for debate. This is
the way college athletics are. And despite Nick Saban and
other prominent college figures of years gone by going to
(06:28):
Capitol Hill, you're not gonna be able to put the
toothpaste back in the tube. The toothpaste is out of
the tube, you can't put it back in, and it's
gonna be all messy and you're sloppy the whole thing.
So Bill self coach self has been unable to consistently
keep up with the new ecosystem in college basketball. And
(06:50):
Bill Self and Kansas now they've lost the first weekend,
not in the first game, but the first weekend in
five of the last six NCAA tournaments, so five out
of six they're done by. They don't even get to
the sweet sixteen. And you look around and there are
some big time jobs open. So this could be like
a lateral move. The one that I was texting some
(07:12):
of my college basketball.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
People, you know something.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
You know, I watched the tournament, but I'm not obsessing
on every single college basketball game. And the job that
kept popping up with Bill self was the Texas Longhorns job.
They lost in the tournament, and there's a lot of
chatter that there's gonna be a coaching change of it. It
hasn't already happened in Austin. So Bill Self could just
(07:35):
move to that job and there's some other prominent gigs
that are either open or will be open, so.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
There's some opportunities there.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Of self wants to have an exit stage, right, he
can do that now Page two, give me the good,
the bad, and the ugly from day number one of
March number are with the good, I'll be Benny Bright said,
So the good we had another heavyweight coaching matchup secured,
(08:07):
and I'm all about the matchups.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Boss.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Now, this doesn't necessarily reflect what happened on Thursday, but
it is a direct reflection of the events of Thursday
because of wins on Day one Arkansas. If you look
at your bracket, Arkansas and Saint John's will face off on.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Saturday, Saturday, Saturday in the second round of tournament play.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Now, to me, that's a great thing because you've got
John Calipari, big name coach versus Rick Patino, and I
got Saint John's going, I mean right there all the way.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
So I was a little concerned early on.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
When Omaha Omaha had an early lead, But you know,
it's college basketball, So who cares about the first five
minutes in many cases, the first ten minutes or the
twenty minute.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Who cares?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
But Rick Patino versus John Calipari will play on Saturday
because of what happened on Thursday, and that'll be the
twenty fourth time they will have gotten together, but the.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
First time in almost a decade.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Last time Buttino was at Louisville and coach cal was
I believe that that was back Kentucky, still back in
twenty sixteen. Now, the bad, bad to the bone, that
would be the Atlantic Coast Conference. Now in my lifetime,
for much of my adult life, that was the gold
standard of NCAA basketball, right, And there's a biblical expression
(09:30):
that applies here. How the mighty have fallen? Now, maybe
it's just this just an off year, but you had
Louisville the number eight seed, lost to number nine Creighton
early on. You had Clemson the number five seed. That
was the biggest upset of the day. They were getting both.
It just absolutely destroyed. It ended up being a closer
(09:53):
final score. But McNeice formerly known as McNeese State the
number twelve seed, not Clemson out. So that means, now,
if my mal or math is correct, and I am
Benny Bractologist, so half of the ACC contingent has already
vacated the field. Half That means that you only have
(10:16):
the number one seed Duke and the number eleven seed
North Carolina and the Tarihills. They had to win in
that fugazy first four game the other night just to
get to this point. So now, why is it so bad?
As a distant relative of Nostra Damas and friend of
Nostra Denis, I will tell you, going.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Back and looking at my crystal ball, why things are
so bad.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
In the last four years, the ACC has said bye
bye to coach k Roy Williams, Tony Bennett, Jim Beheim,
you can go down. Leonard Hamilton had some success at times.
He's also gone Jim Larronega. I'm sure I missed somebody
else as well. They've all retired, they've all checked out.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
I'm done. That's it now. The ugly.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
And if you look at my big board here not
a list my big board.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
This is debatable.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I could have flipped the ACC the bad with the ugly,
but I'm gonna go with carpet bagging coaches who it's
just a flavor of college sports. It's like you don't
need to really learn the names of the players or
the coaches because they're always changing. And the carpet bagging
coaches in March matis you had Will Wade. Boy, what
(11:34):
a scandal he was at at LSU back in the day.
So Will Wade is the coach at McNeese formerly McNeese State.
So he has agreed to take the job at North
Carolina State.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
So that's a better job for him.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
But the announcement coming down as McNeice pulled off this
win in the tournament. Then there's a guy named ben
Ben McCollum who is in a similar situation, although it's
not a done deal we are told for him. This
guy McCollum is the coach at Drake. He's in his
first season at Drake, not Drek Drake. Just like the musician,
(12:11):
everyone likes to pick on the Canadian guy. So he
has been connected to the Iowa job. Holy Hawkeys bat Man,
and he didn't have a job yet, but it seems
to be almost a done deal.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
He was born in Iowa City.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I was reading a little bit about this guy from
Iowa City and he grew up in the state. It
just seems like a natural thing considering Iowa Pole axed
their head coach, so it seems like that's gonna happen
now the last word here. We enjoy the tournament, certainly
the first couple of days. Always, always enjoy, always enjoying.
(12:48):
This was not like anything outrageous. I would say this
was a pretty benign day one overall of March Madness,
with the lack of dramatic buzzard meters and all that
stuff were there were so many missed layups. I was
trying to hit my little notes thing app I was.
I was futching around my phone trying to count all
the mislayups, and I just I just gave up the
(13:09):
answers a lot. There were a lot of mislaymups. But
what is the big takeaway from the start of March
Madness twenty twenty five. I'm glad you asked. It's time
now for a Ben Mahler Show PSA, a Ben Mahler
Show public service announcement. Yeah, so consider there's my good
Mitch for the day. It is a reminder I do
(13:31):
this at least one at one point during the year,
much like the swallows returning to Capistrano, or will punk
Satani Phil see his shadow?
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Where we have more winter?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
These things are traditional. So if you look at my
ven diagram here. The NCAA tournament is different than almost
every other sporting event. Every other sporting event starts out
and builds up to a crescendo.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You start out, there's a little like baseball, Just baseball, Okay,
opening day, you pay a little attention and you see
how your team's doing, and then you check back every
once in a while, and then you build up to
the playoffs and then ultimately the World Series. So you're
building up to this this thing where it Most things
in life start out small and then gradually increase and
they get to that climax.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Right, this is the opposite. This is the opposite.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Public support for March madness is directly related. There's a
correlation to how your bracket is doing, and it is
the only thing I can go. Maybe some NASCAR people
have challenged me over there, what about.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
The Daytona five buggety? Okay, But if you're.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
A real NASCAR fan, you're gonna watch and there's the
playoff and.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
You're into that whole thing. So I don't consider it
the same thing.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Right, This is a situation where we start out Thursday
and now going into Friday peak.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Interest Fully, attentive, fully attentive.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
And the deeper we get into the weeds of the
NCAA tournament, the less interest we have depending on how
your your brackets crumpled up and you've just been absolutely
destroyed on your your pixing. Also, if you're in an
office pool, get those squares.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
You know, those those square things and all that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mallor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Definitely not digging it, not digging it well.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Come in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
Mahlor Show. We are in the air everywhere. We are
in cahoots as we are the soundtrack to the March
of Time, very deep coast, the coast, border, the border,
and beyond on the mast. Hey corsefully powerful microphones of
(15:58):
FSR ming live from the edge, the mathematical house edge.
We're broadcasting live ti iraq dot com Studios, tire iraq
dot com.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
We'll help you get there.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
And unmatched selection, bast free shipping, pre road hazard protection
and over ten thousand recommended in stallers and Old Perito,
a big fan of that tire iraq dot Com The
Way Tire Buying Show be so coming up later this hour,
We're gonna have Mallard of the third degree. I will
(16:33):
pay off something. It's last hour, my favorite story of
the day, and we will continue the conversation about college basketball.
But that is not our lead this out. No, no, no, no,
don't bear the.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Lead, my man. Now, I've learned over the years from
spending many many hours behind these microphones.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
The powerful microphones of Fox Sports Radio, the bully pulpit,
I have learned.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
That what moves the neee, even in the middle of.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
March madness football Football Time Now for a Mallor Show
follow up, A Mallor Show follow up dateline Foxborough Free
agent visit, Free agent visit Wide receiver Stefon Diggs a
very public courtship.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
With the Patriots. Have you heard the latest? Well, we
are told that the meeting.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
According new reports, the meeting between Stefan Diggs and the
Patriots went very well. However, there is no contract that
is said to be imited. Diggs visited New England. That
visit consisted of a free meal with team employees that
was on Wednesday night, and there were meetings.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
On Thursday, there was a physical.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
He was poked and prodded, and then he was picked
up by a car service and driven to the air.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
And he got out of dodge he took off.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
So let us discuss the question Stefan Diggs meeting with
the Patriots. However, however, he left without a contract. What
does that tell us? So I've got sugar Loaf, Texas
roadhouse and my pillow, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make some
(18:28):
gummy candy.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Is what we're gonna make.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Because I know that our friend Lorena loves gummy candy
and she doesn't like when people at work steel her
gummy candy. All right, So num burr, I said, numb
bur My first thought on this Stefan Diggs's story and
what it tells us the fact that he didn't agree
to a contract with the Patriots, is that.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
The check engine light started a flash. Oooooow, that's what
it sounds like. Who just like that?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
So the check engine light started flashing and making some
noise when the exam was taking place, when the physical
was taking place, There's gotta be something that was a
little funky, little funky there.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Now, what is my supporting evidence?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
This was, to our knowledge, Tofon Diggs's first free agent
visit of the offseason. The NFL drafts about a month away.
There's been a lot of players bouncing around.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
So the fact that he went to New England, what
does that tell us?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
It tells us that that was his either only option
or he wanted to play for the Patriots, or both
or both. So you don't visit a team unless you're
willing to sign a contract with the team. Otherwise you
would have gone somewhere else first, and he traveled all
that way to get a turkey dinner and a bag
(19:54):
of chips. So that's what it is now as the
mantra in the NFL. We've all heard this over the years.
You pay attention to this stuff. If you bring a
free agent in for a visit and you want the player,
what do you do. You put a padlock on the door,
you dead bolt the door, and you don't let good
(20:14):
players leave the building. You get the doc you signed out,
and you say, all right, let's sign The fact that
that did not happen with Stefon Diggs. Instead, instead it's
we're getting spin like, well, you know, it's just to
get to know your type of meeting and you know
where you're at medically, that type of thing.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And if you smell closely, that's bull almost said the ForWord.
It's bull bull pucky quote Jay Scoop, it's bull pucky.
But the Patriots I love the reporting. According to Jordan Schultz,
the king of All Starbucks, he said that the Patriots
intend to remain in contact after they.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Met with Stefawn Diggs.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
So this is now sounding to me like a the
old school nineteen seventies sugar Loaf song don't call us,
will call you, don't call us?
Speaker 4 (21:09):
So it makes you wonder things that make you go hmm.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Is that acl now like barbecue pulled port? Did Stefan
Diggs ask for too much money? We know the Patriots
are a bunch of tightwades. Now they say they could
circle back.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
That's a weasel word.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
It sounds on this side of the microphone like Stefon
Diggs will.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Continue his job search.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
So it sounds like to me, and there's really no
one else knocking on his door to our knowledge. Now
page two, there are whispers in hush tones that that
Cowboy's front office is said to be a house divided.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Isn't that dramatic? House divided?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
A house divided over Micah Parsons and whether or not
to give him a mega mega mega Mega got millions
contract extension, defensive star Micah Parsons.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
So is this genuine or is this phony? So I have.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
This one, the Micah Parsons Front Office Divide, the Great Divide,
the chasm in the front office of the Cowboys. I
have this as kosher. I believe that it's legit. I
don't think it's phony maloney. In fact, it's not a surprise.
It would have been a surprise if there was a consensus.
The fact that Michael Parsons hasn't agreed to a contract
(22:36):
yet is part of the story. But my position, and
I know this from and I have an advantage over
everyone else. I'm a human being, so I know what
human beings you act like. It is nearly impossible to
get a group of people to agree on anything because
back in the day, and I was a bad student,
(22:57):
but I paid attention.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
And a little bit you would when you were doing
group projects.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
There's always the person that does the lion's share of
the work. There's the people that just do the bare minimum.
And then there's the people that are the caboose and
they're just along for the ride, right, They're just along
for the ride, and that's the standard fair. And with
the Cowboys, like any other team, there's gonna be clicks,
(23:22):
and you don't expect universal agreement. Michael Parsons is more
name than game.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Do you agree with that?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Like the name is pretty good because he plays with
the Cowboys, got the star in his helmet. But it's
like if you went to the Texas Roadhouse and they
added to their menu there and they said, well, by
this item, it's all sizzle, but it's a petite steak.
It's not no steak. It's just a petite steak, but
it's a lot of sizzle, just like that, but not
(23:52):
a lot of steak. And as we understand the power
structure in Dallas, there's sound of it right.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
There either that at a lightning and rain. But you
have good cop, bad Cop, You've got good cop bad cup.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
So Stephen Jones the spawn, the kid that just happened
to get in the right genetic lottery. His dad happened
old the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
So Stephen Jones is a tight one.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
From what we're hearing, and he didn't want to spend money.
And then Jerry Jones wants to spoil his guys and
just give them the riches of Solomon. Thus you have
what's known as the I word instability. Also, everyone, everyone
who's around the Cowboys has to be part of the
reality show, and the Cowboys always must maximize media coverage.
(24:42):
And if the Cowboys had already signed Michael Parsons to
an extension, the story's over. If you wait until training
camp at the eleventh hour. It's like those movies where
they have the sticks of dynamite wrapped with tape and
they have a timer. You gotta stop it right before
the timer gets down to double.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Zero or triple zero. You gotta stop.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
But ultimately, we do believe that Micah Parsons, against our
better judgment, will get a bag, a giant bag, and
he'll be paraded around the Death Star with the Cowboys
practice and everyone will be happy and smiling, and we
all right. Now final point, we go to Baltimore. A
hum dinger, a humdinger of a story. How do you
(25:26):
untangle the latest revelations that Ravens Kicker, the creepy Kicker
Justin Tucker hired a law firm for those facing high
profile reputational attacks. How do you untangle that? So this
is kind of like a Metallica song fight Fire with Fire,
(25:49):
And I love the fact that an NFL kicker is
in such a corner. He's like a cornered snake that
he's hiring one of these high falutin DC area firms
that is supposed to clean up your mess. And it's
the same company that Mike Lindell hired, the My Pillow Guy.
So Justin Tucker has something in common with the My
(26:11):
Pillow Guy. The company I was reading about it called
the Claire Locke.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
I think I'm getting that right.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
It was a story in the Baltimore Sun about this,
and that's the law firm, and they've pretty much cornered
the market on these type of stories scandal ridden people
and normally politics from what I read.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
And then you have an NFL player here, and so
Justin Tucker.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Is under siege. If you missed it, he's been accused.
How can I clean this up?
Speaker 4 (26:42):
For radio?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Justin Tucker has been accused of giving out his franken
beans to those that didn't ask for his franken beans,
brushing his as Lady Gaga would say, his disco stick
against the massage therapist and leaving what some of them
thought was his own personal homemade blend ranch dressing on
(27:05):
the massage.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Table, among other things.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
And we're over a dozen I think we were around
sixteen massage therapists.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
That we're making these various claims.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Now, my moles tell me that it's only a matter
of when. It's not a matter of if. It's a
matter of when Justin Tucker will end up getting whacked.
Probably shouldn't have used that word, but in Baltimore that
he's out. The Ravens are expected to draft a kicker
(27:35):
in the late April draft.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Likely day two, day three, definitely not day one. Maybe
day three.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
They'll draft a kicker, and then on some random Friday,
when no one's paying attention, all of a sudden.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
It'll be bye bye, and Justin.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Tucker will be excommunicated from the flock. He will no
longer be a poet and you don't even know it.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Van Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm pacifics. This
is one big Ben.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Gets grilled googlo Ben.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
John Lynch spoke to reporters at Stanford's pro day Wednesday
and talked about the forty nine ers clearing room this
offseason and that they have a plan to restock the roster.
He said, we have some big things coming our way. Ben,
how long do you think it'll be before the forty
nine ers are legit contenders again?
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Well, the problem is they don't have a quarterback, they
have a game manager, they don't have a guy that upgrades.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Players around him.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
So, uh, it's gonna be There'll be a fringe playoff team,
but to be a real Super Bowl contender, it's gonna
be a long time because Rock Purty's not that guy.
You're not that guy, Pal, And what else is John
Lynch gonna say? He's got to be positive next?
Speaker 5 (28:48):
So in the most recent episode of HBOS last week tonight,
John Oliver called for the banning of player props due
to student athletes getting harassed for failing to hit a
certain stat. The nc double A then basically did the
same thing on Twoda day. Yeah, Ben, do you think
player props on college sports could be a thing of
the past.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
No, Because John Oliver is not that bright because you'll
you'll get rid of the illegal.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Betting of player props.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
But dudes will just go to their bookies or they'll
they'll go to the the illegal websites and bet player
player props are not going away.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
So either you have them legal or you don't have
them legal. It's not it's noble as they get rid
of them.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
They're not going away because people are gonna if people
want to bet props, are going to find a way
to bet props.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
So you know, knock yourself out.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Next, Doc Rivers called an emergency meeting with Damian Lillard
and Jannison Tetakunpo after they lost to the Warriors without
Steph Curry. Yeah, it's supposed to be an open forum
for both starts to provide input on ways to improve
the team.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Ben, how much trouble are they in?
Speaker 4 (29:43):
None? They just beat the snot out of your Lakers. Cool?
What do you say? Won a one eighteen to eighty nine?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
The Bucks are back, baby, stop it they buck Jannis
was no Luca, no Labron.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Stop the Lakers fail.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
You fail this edition. That is.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
Tremendous job by the Bucks walk off. Good job, Doc Rivers,
good job doc.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio
dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search f s
R to listen.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Live Knock Knock, Who's there?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Blame Weed?
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Blame week too. It's Big Ben's lame joke of the
week and no, here we go outside that poor Big
Ben's lame jokes a week. These are actual jokes by
actual listeners. Hello weed Man, Hello weed Man.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I love you may last.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Did your roommate come back?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Unfortunately?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Oh no, All right, let's let's get to the jokes
and thanks to everyone that wrote these jokes.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Send them in for next week.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Care of Benmahler Show at gmail dot com. That's Ben
Malors Show at gmail dot com. Did you know that
Lizzo is suing Vince McMahon over the Wwe know why?
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Apparently she tried to use the name Worldwide Eating and
tied up in Litigan as Georgia volved in Texas. What
are Lizzo's favorite parts of March Madness?
Speaker 4 (31:21):
What the round of sixty four? And she loves the
Sweet sixteen? Big Fan?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
That's Eric in Kansas? What happened the last time Lizzo
went out.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
For Korean barbecue. What she brought home a doggie bag?
A doggie wow, sir for Todd the comedian.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
All right, Lizzo was so excited by her recent weight
loss that she did know. She didn't know whether to
go to the bathroom or go blind.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Wow. Yeah, so she farted and closed one eyes. What
she did? That's a Dan in South Carolina, Thank you Dan?
All right? How does Lizzo plan on getting to the
moon space x x x x x x xx l
is how she's gonna get to the moon. That's not Drew.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Drew in Minnesota. How does Lizzo like her Tater Todds?
Buy the bag? Buy the bag? That's a free long
shot from La Masa, San Diego Way, our buddy free
long shot.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Why is Lizzo a fan of board Ops? Why?
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Well, she loves Mary's Mac and sheese a big fan there.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
That's how about Mary.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
She's only been on the show a couple of days
and she's already getting jokes written about her by buttermumk Cavo. Well,
what else is lost beside weed man hippie's teeth?
Speaker 4 (32:58):
What his desire to work?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
That's a buttermilk Tavo again Big Ben's lame jokes of
the Week.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
What is the best thing about being weed man hippie?
What if you get punched in the mouth, you won't
lose any teeth.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
That's Eke in Rose, Little Minnesota.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Okay, what is thank you queen obvious?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
What is the difference between the Doyers and weed Man's underwear?
Speaker 6 (33:32):
What?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
According to Tony in the Bay Area, the Dodgers are
the evil Empire. Weed man's underwear is just evil. So
how is weed man hippie like a bad soccer team?
Speaker 4 (33:50):
No goals, no goals? That's surfer Todd the comedian.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Did your weed man got a call from a Hollywood star?
He's gonna be a new version of a McCaulay culkin classic.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Home Alone?
Speaker 4 (34:10):
No, No, it's homeless Alone, that's what they're calling it.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
It's a spinoff. That's Dennis in Detroit. Come on, no,
that's homeless I know.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
All right.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Did you know that Lizzo and Weedman Hippie had a
snack company that was shut down?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (34:25):
No? Yeah, apparently it was just too high in fat.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
So they got Timothy. Timothy and Northern Kentucky. Set that
one in. You got any jokes over there?
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Kobal loop? Uh? Ben?
Speaker 5 (34:38):
Did you hear that Weedman hippie got arrested for public nudity?
Speaker 4 (34:43):
I missed that.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
Yeah, the cops took him to small claims court.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
That's from Benny Brightside.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
You can send your inappropriate jokes to Ben Maller, producer
at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Okay, did you know that young Weedman hippie helped to
in vent the toothbrush?
Speaker 2 (35:01):
No?
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Yeah, because if anyone else had invented it, it would
have been called the teeth brush. That's a George and
involved in Texas. Did you did you.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Hear that weed Man is starting a homeless comedy troupe?
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (35:16):
No, yeah, it's called the Sleeping on the Groundlings is
what it's called.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
That's Eric Eric in Kansas set that one in. What
do weed man?
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
What does weed man do when his roommate is around?
In college basketball? What do they all have in common?
Speaker 6 (35:32):
What?
Speaker 4 (35:34):
March madness? There you go, march madness?
Speaker 1 (35:37):
What what do weed man in the Miami Heat have
in common? What when Tracy Morgan has to look at
either one he vomits?
Speaker 4 (35:46):
That's an Eric in Kansas. Very nice. It's Big Ben's
lame jokes of the week. Let's see one more. What
takes longer than helm Amanda shower.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Weed man eating corn in the Let's chip it made
very funny.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Well, let's get over to a man that doesn't need
to get paid right now, Let's say hello to the
kooperl Coop Scoop on Entertainment arebra Holly.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
Thank you, Ben.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
I just I feel a little bit thrown off because
I don't have my normal Uh yeah, but that's okay.
I don't know what happened to him.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
Must be over in New Jersey with the family.
Speaker 5 (36:38):
So I'm gonna very briefly talk about a couple new
movies that are out this weekend. And the reason I'm
gonna say briefly is because I believe that both of
these movies are going to be very bad.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
So the first one is, of course, Disney snow White.
There's been lots of controversy surrounding this movie and the
main character that plays snow White.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
The early reviews are not good, and I just I
don't I don't see people, uh people going to see this,
but who knows, I could be wrong. I'm interested to
see how it does. I won't be seeing it.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Well, isn't.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Uh this is like the woke snow White And it
seems to me.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Like even they are embarrassed by it.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
Now.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
I guess they're trying to I heard, yeah, they like
it was complaining. They're not promoting it.
Speaker 5 (37:19):
They didn't do like a big red carpet kind of
thing that like they were going to do, and I guess.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
They didn't get the pulse of the people in America.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Yeah, looking for a woke snow White, bad job by
Mickey Mouse.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
Huh.
Speaker 6 (37:29):
Yeah, it should should be interesting to see.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
How will that be worse.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Than when they remember the the all female Ghostbusters was
remember that?
Speaker 6 (37:38):
Yeah? That wasn't was that? I don't think that was
Disney though.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
But no, it wasn't. But it was still a disaster.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
Yeah. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how much money
they lose on this. Another movie that is out this weekend,
and it's it's interesting because I just saw the trailer
for this for the very first time, like last week,
and then it's already it's already out in theaters. It's
the latest Robert de Niro Mafia movie. It's called The
Alto Nights and he plays two separate characters in this movie,
(38:04):
with the use of prosthetics and whatnot, so he has
a lot of scenes with himself. The reviews are not
good early on. It's got a thirty eight percent right
now on Rotten Tomatoes. And one of my best friends
already saw the movie and he said, and I quote,
that was the most boring mob movie ever.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
That's okay, Yes, I mean they've been I feel like
they stopped making good mob movies a while ago.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
What was the last good mob show? The Sopranos. That's
not a.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
Movie that was just yeah, I mean last that's.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
A long time. That's like twenty years probably at least.
Speaker 6 (38:40):
I don't know the last good mob movie was.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
It's been been a while.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Uh, you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna go and
I'm gonna say that Departed.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
I mean, where was that though? It's been a while.
Speaker 6 (38:56):
Yeah, that has been a long time.
Speaker 5 (38:59):
Scorsese came out with that one on Netflix, but I
just I couldn't even get through it.
Speaker 6 (39:03):
Two thousand and six, was The Departed.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Yeah, it's almost twenty years ago. Yeah, yeah, right, it's
funny graduated high school years ago.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
All right, Moving on to television, now, there's a couple
shows out this weekend and they're all available right now
that I well, most of them. First one that I
want to bring up is a new series called Happy
Face and this is on Paramount Plus and it stars
Dennis Quaid as the real life serial killer Keith Hunter Jessperson,
(39:32):
aka the Happy Face Killer. It is an eight episode
Paramount Plus original and the first two episodes are available
right now, and then the rest will come weekly. And
then we also have a new show on Netflix called
The Residents.
Speaker 6 (39:53):
Now they're saying, what they're.
Speaker 5 (39:56):
Calling this is a screwball who done it? Kind of
like like if it was Knives Out the White House Edition?
Speaker 6 (40:04):
Okay, yes, and this.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
One has got Uzo Aduba from Orange's New Black starring
in it as the lead detective. Gean Carlo Esposito also
stars in this one, and Al Franken also, oh.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
He's still around.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
Yeah, okay, So all eight episodes of that are available
on Netflix right now.
Speaker 6 (40:26):
That is called The Residents.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
And then last but not least, if you want to
wait till Wednesday. There is a new comedy premiering on
Apple TV Plus. It is called The Studio and it
stars Seth Rogan.
Speaker 6 (40:42):
Where is that? There we go?
Speaker 5 (40:43):
It stars Seth rogen as the head of an aging
Hollywood movie studio that is struggling to stay relevant in
the streaming area in the streaming era. Katherine O'Hara also
stars Katherine Hahn. And it's gonna get a lot of
cameos from people playing themselves, like Martin Scorsese and Charlotte's
(41:04):
They're on Ron Howard and all that. And that is
on APPLEATV plus, and that is Coopscoop on Entertainment.
Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight
from two to six Eastern eleven pm to three am
Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and to find your local
station for the Benmatlers Show at Foxsports Radio dot com.
You can find it there or stream us live every
night on the iHeartRadio app by searching FSR.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
This is the best of the Ben Malor Show on
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Call it some self deflection, if you will, welcome in
the beginning of another night of the Benmahlor Show, the
day night doubleheader. As we are in the air everywhere
in collaboration, as we are under Lock and.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Key coast coast border to vort A and beyond on
the mast and unrelentingly powerful microphones of FSRE and moundating
live from the Elephant. How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time. That's how you eat an elephant.
We're broadcasting live from the ti Raq dot com studios.
Tyrack dot com will help you get there and unmatched selection,
(01:20):
fast free shipping, free road hazard protection and over ten
thousand recommended installers. Tire rack dot com the way tire
buying should be. I know gen Z Charlie, who was
the breakout star of yesterday's show, and Lorain.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Is back with us tonight, but she she didn't.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Hear gen Z Charlie got a lot of email, a
lot of feedback from Zenz to gen Z Charlie. He's
on spring break. He called the show because that's what
all the cool kids do. They call sports talk radio
overnight radio when they're on spring break. Now we'll circle
back to that, I'm sure at some point.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
But our lead this hour is don't bear. I'm the
lead mo man.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
One of our great bosses over the years likes to
say so. March madness. The curtain went up on the
twenty twenty five men's basketball tournament, and I don't know
if you're watching or not. I'm pretty sure I need
some kind of IV. I think I overdosed on hoops.
And normally what happens on tournament days is I'm not
(02:23):
gonna lie.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I don't watch the early games at all. Why would I.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I usually sleep, But I filled in at the local
station on Thursday, so I was up early, and so
I watched, and then I kept watching, and I kept watching,
and all the way through the night, though a lot
to digest. The biggest story after a minutes long Mall
(02:48):
review of the day, the biggest story the clash of
big name coaches. This might have been the greatest game
in the world, and all that there was a late
lead change.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I think there were like ten lead changes in the game.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
But the big name coach, which is what we put
our hat on.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Here.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
You had John Kylipari on one side making his tournament
debut as Arkansas's coach, and Bill self the staple of
Kansas basketball in Lawrence, Kansas, home of a Ben mallor
food dish there at the Bird in Lawrence. So someone
named Jonas It's not Jonas Knox, it's Jonas i Do
(03:27):
scored twenty two points and Arkansas came back and ends
up winning seventy nine to seventy two in the opening
round of the tournament. So that number ten seed knocks
off the number seven seed Kansas the better story in
the losing locker room. So that is where we will
focus on this particular game that Jayhawks eliminated from the
madness of March. And now the questions are being asked,
(03:51):
will they be rebooting the coaching staff?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
What all right?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
So let us discuss anytime a big name coach gets
excommunicated from the tournament. Early on, you asked the question,
we will ask the question, is the venerable Bill Self
on the hot seat at Kansas? So I've got toothpaste,
biblical and ven diagram, and we will combine all of
(04:19):
these things together and we are going to make some
banana cream pie. The king of all pies is the
banana cream pie. And it doesn' appear that Kansas took
a banana cream pie to the face, all right, So
a to answer the question, is Bill self on the
hot seat at Kansas?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I am nodding my head, yes, I am nodding my head. Yes. Now,
this is only the second time that.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
The Associated Press preseason number one team has lost in
the first round of the tournament. The only Kansas, by
the way, was that team. They were preseason number one.
There our first game of the tournament. The only other
time in the history of the tournament it's happened was
Bill Self and Kansas back in five they lost to
(05:05):
buck Nell.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
And so there you go a little fun factoid for you.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
But I want you to turn up your headphones a
little bit because you're gonna hear in the background we
talk about Bill Self and his status, you'll hear the
sound of crackling geese.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
You hear that little sound of crackling geese.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Now you know what that means, right, That means storm
clouds are building. And this was Kansas' worst season according
to many pundits, and the numbers bear this out. In
the twenty two years with Bill Self at the hell
that's a generation of Bill Self coaching Kansas basketball. But
(05:43):
it cuts deep, and I go back to the D word.
I go back to the D word. Darwinism, adapt or
die is the way I look at this and the
NIL which has been around for a few years now.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
But the name, image, likeness thing has been.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
A gigantic sea change for the old guard in college sports,
and we've seen a lot of them leave.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
But you look at a guy like Bill Self who's been.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Around and around and around and around and around, and
you don't necessarily like it. Whether you like it or not,
it doesn't matter. It's not up for debate. This is
the way college athletics are. And despite Nick Saban and
other prominent college figures of years gone by going to
(06:28):
Capitol Hill, you're not gonna be able to put the
toothpaste back in the tube. The toothpaste is out of
the tube, you can't put it back in, and it's
gonna be all messy and you're sloppy the whole thing.
So Bill self coach self has been unable to consistently
keep up with the new ecosystem in college basketball. And
(06:50):
Bill Self and Kansas now they've lost the first weekend,
not in the first game, but the first weekend in
five of the last six NCAA tournaments, so five out
of six they're done by. They don't even get to
the sweet sixteen. And you look around and there are
some big time jobs open. So this could be like
a lateral move. The one that I was texting some
(07:12):
of my college basketball.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
People, you know something.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
You know, I watched the tournament, but I'm not obsessing
on every single college basketball game. And the job that
kept popping up with Bill self was the Texas Longhorns job.
They lost in the tournament, and there's a lot of
chatter that there's gonna be a coaching change of it. It
hasn't already happened in Austin. So Bill Self could just
(07:35):
move to that job and there's some other prominent gigs
that are either open or will be open, so.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
There's some opportunities there.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Of self wants to have an exit stage, right, he
can do that now Page two, give me the good,
the bad, and the ugly from day number one of
March number are with the good, I'll be Benny Bright said,
So the good we had another heavyweight coaching matchup secured,
(08:07):
and I'm all about the matchups.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Boss.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Now, this doesn't necessarily reflect what happened on Thursday, but
it is a direct reflection of the events of Thursday
because of wins on Day one Arkansas. If you look
at your bracket, Arkansas and Saint John's will face off on.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Saturday, Saturday, Saturday in the second round of tournament play.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Now, to me, that's a great thing because you've got
John Calipari, big name coach versus Rick Patino, and I
got Saint John's going, I mean right there all the way.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
So I was a little concerned early on.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
When Omaha Omaha had an early lead, But you know,
it's college basketball, So who cares about the first five
minutes in many cases, the first ten minutes or the
twenty minute.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Who cares?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
But Rick Patino versus John Calipari will play on Saturday
because of what happened on Thursday, and that'll be the
twenty fourth time they will have gotten together, but the.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
First time in almost a decade.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Last time Buttino was at Louisville and coach cal was
I believe that that was back Kentucky, still back in
twenty sixteen. Now, the bad, bad to the bone, that
would be the Atlantic Coast Conference. Now in my lifetime,
for much of my adult life, that was the gold
standard of NCAA basketball, right, And there's a biblical expression
(09:30):
that applies here. How the mighty have fallen? Now, maybe
it's just this just an off year, but you had
Louisville the number eight seed, lost to number nine Creighton
early on. You had Clemson the number five seed. That
was the biggest upset of the day. They were getting both.
It just absolutely destroyed. It ended up being a closer
(09:53):
final score. But McNeice formerly known as McNeese State the
number twelve seed, not Clemson out. So that means, now,
if my mal or math is correct, and I am
Benny Bractologist, so half of the ACC contingent has already
vacated the field. Half That means that you only have
(10:16):
the number one seed Duke and the number eleven seed
North Carolina and the Tarihills. They had to win in
that fugazy first four game the other night just to
get to this point. So now, why is it so bad?
As a distant relative of Nostra Damas and friend of
Nostra Denis, I will tell you, going.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Back and looking at my crystal ball, why things are
so bad.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
In the last four years, the ACC has said bye
bye to coach k Roy Williams, Tony Bennett, Jim Beheim,
you can go down. Leonard Hamilton had some success at times.
He's also gone Jim Larronega. I'm sure I missed somebody
else as well. They've all retired, they've all checked out.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
I'm done. That's it now. The ugly.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
And if you look at my big board here not
a list my big board.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
This is debatable.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I could have flipped the ACC the bad with the ugly,
but I'm gonna go with carpet bagging coaches who it's
just a flavor of college sports. It's like you don't
need to really learn the names of the players or
the coaches because they're always changing. And the carpet bagging
coaches in March matis you had Will Wade. Boy, what
(11:34):
a scandal he was at at LSU back in the day.
So Will Wade is the coach at McNeese formerly McNeese State.
So he has agreed to take the job at North
Carolina State.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
So that's a better job for him.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
But the announcement coming down as McNeice pulled off this
win in the tournament. Then there's a guy named ben
Ben McCollum who is in a similar situation, although it's
not a done deal we are told for him. This
guy McCollum is the coach at Drake. He's in his
first season at Drake, not Drek Drake. Just like the musician,
(12:11):
everyone likes to pick on the Canadian guy. So he
has been connected to the Iowa job. Holy Hawkeys bat Man,
and he didn't have a job yet, but it seems
to be almost a done deal.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
He was born in Iowa City.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I was reading a little bit about this guy from
Iowa City and he grew up in the state. It
just seems like a natural thing considering Iowa Pole axed
their head coach, so it seems like that's gonna happen
now the last word here. We enjoy the tournament, certainly
the first couple of days. Always, always enjoy, always enjoying.
(12:48):
This was not like anything outrageous. I would say this
was a pretty benign day one overall of March Madness,
with the lack of dramatic buzzard meters and all that
stuff were there were so many missed layups. I was
trying to hit my little notes thing app I was.
I was futching around my phone trying to count all
the mislayups, and I just I just gave up the
(13:09):
answers a lot. There were a lot of mislaymups. But
what is the big takeaway from the start of March
Madness twenty twenty five. I'm glad you asked. It's time
now for a Ben Mahler Show PSA, a Ben Mahler
Show public service announcement. Yeah, so consider there's my good
Mitch for the day. It is a reminder I do
(13:31):
this at least one at one point during the year,
much like the swallows returning to Capistrano, or will punk
Satani Phil see his shadow?
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Where we have more winter?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
These things are traditional. So if you look at my
ven diagram here. The NCAA tournament is different than almost
every other sporting event. Every other sporting event starts out
and builds up to a crescendo.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You start out, there's a little like baseball, Just baseball, Okay,
opening day, you pay a little attention and you see
how your team's doing, and then you check back every
once in a while, and then you build up to
the playoffs and then ultimately the World Series. So you're
building up to this this thing where it Most things
in life start out small and then gradually increase and
they get to that climax.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Right, this is the opposite. This is the opposite.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Public support for March madness is directly related. There's a
correlation to how your bracket is doing, and it is
the only thing I can go. Maybe some NASCAR people
have challenged me over there, what about.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
The Daytona five buggety? Okay, But if you're.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
A real NASCAR fan, you're gonna watch and there's the
playoff and.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
You're into that whole thing. So I don't consider it
the same thing.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Right, This is a situation where we start out Thursday
and now going into Friday peak.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Interest Fully, attentive, fully attentive.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
And the deeper we get into the weeds of the
NCAA tournament, the less interest we have depending on how
your your brackets crumpled up and you've just been absolutely
destroyed on your your pixing. Also, if you're in an
office pool, get those squares.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
You know, those those square things and all that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mallor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Definitely not digging it, not digging it well.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Come in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
Mahlor Show. We are in the air everywhere. We are
in cahoots as we are the soundtrack to the March
of Time, very deep coast, the coast, border, the border,
and beyond on the mast. Hey corsefully powerful microphones of
(15:58):
FSR ming live from the edge, the mathematical house edge.
We're broadcasting live ti iraq dot com Studios, tire iraq
dot com.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
We'll help you get there.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
And unmatched selection, bast free shipping, pre road hazard protection
and over ten thousand recommended in stallers and Old Perito,
a big fan of that tire iraq dot Com The
Way Tire Buying Show be so coming up later this hour,
We're gonna have Mallard of the third degree. I will
(16:33):
pay off something. It's last hour, my favorite story of
the day, and we will continue the conversation about college basketball.
But that is not our lead this out. No, no, no, no,
don't bear the.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Lead, my man. Now, I've learned over the years from
spending many many hours behind these microphones.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
The powerful microphones of Fox Sports Radio, the bully pulpit,
I have learned.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
That what moves the neee, even in the middle of.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
March madness football Football Time Now for a Mallor Show
follow up, A Mallor Show follow up dateline Foxborough Free
agent visit, Free agent visit Wide receiver Stefon Diggs a
very public courtship.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
With the Patriots. Have you heard the latest? Well, we
are told that the meeting.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
According new reports, the meeting between Stefan Diggs and the
Patriots went very well. However, there is no contract that
is said to be imited. Diggs visited New England. That
visit consisted of a free meal with team employees that
was on Wednesday night, and there were meetings.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
On Thursday, there was a physical.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
He was poked and prodded, and then he was picked
up by a car service and driven to the air.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
And he got out of dodge he took off.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
So let us discuss the question Stefan Diggs meeting with
the Patriots. However, however, he left without a contract. What
does that tell us? So I've got sugar Loaf, Texas
roadhouse and my pillow, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make some
(18:28):
gummy candy.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Is what we're gonna make.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Because I know that our friend Lorena loves gummy candy
and she doesn't like when people at work steel her
gummy candy. All right, So num burr, I said, numb
bur My first thought on this Stefan Diggs's story and
what it tells us the fact that he didn't agree
to a contract with the Patriots, is that.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
The check engine light started a flash. Oooooow, that's what
it sounds like. Who just like that?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
So the check engine light started flashing and making some
noise when the exam was taking place, when the physical
was taking place, There's gotta be something that was a
little funky, little funky there.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Now, what is my supporting evidence?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
This was, to our knowledge, Tofon Diggs's first free agent
visit of the offseason. The NFL drafts about a month away.
There's been a lot of players bouncing around.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
So the fact that he went to New England, what
does that tell us?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
It tells us that that was his either only option
or he wanted to play for the Patriots, or both
or both. So you don't visit a team unless you're
willing to sign a contract with the team. Otherwise you
would have gone somewhere else first, and he traveled all
that way to get a turkey dinner and a bag
(19:54):
of chips. So that's what it is now as the
mantra in the NFL. We've all heard this over the years.
You pay attention to this stuff. If you bring a
free agent in for a visit and you want the player,
what do you do. You put a padlock on the door,
you dead bolt the door, and you don't let good
(20:14):
players leave the building. You get the doc you signed out,
and you say, all right, let's sign The fact that
that did not happen with Stefon Diggs. Instead, instead it's
we're getting spin like, well, you know, it's just to
get to know your type of meeting and you know
where you're at medically, that type of thing.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And if you smell closely, that's bull almost said the ForWord.
It's bull bull pucky quote Jay Scoop, it's bull pucky.
But the Patriots I love the reporting. According to Jordan Schultz,
the king of All Starbucks, he said that the Patriots
intend to remain in contact after they.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Met with Stefawn Diggs.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
So this is now sounding to me like a the
old school nineteen seventies sugar Loaf song don't call us,
will call you, don't call us?
Speaker 4 (21:09):
So it makes you wonder things that make you go hmm.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Is that acl now like barbecue pulled port? Did Stefan
Diggs ask for too much money? We know the Patriots
are a bunch of tightwades. Now they say they could
circle back.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
That's a weasel word.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
It sounds on this side of the microphone like Stefon
Diggs will.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Continue his job search.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
So it sounds like to me, and there's really no
one else knocking on his door to our knowledge. Now
page two, there are whispers in hush tones that that
Cowboy's front office is said to be a house divided.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Isn't that dramatic? House divided?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
A house divided over Micah Parsons and whether or not
to give him a mega mega mega Mega got millions
contract extension, defensive star Micah Parsons.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
So is this genuine or is this phony? So I have.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
This one, the Micah Parsons Front Office Divide, the Great Divide,
the chasm in the front office of the Cowboys. I
have this as kosher. I believe that it's legit. I
don't think it's phony maloney. In fact, it's not a surprise.
It would have been a surprise if there was a consensus.
The fact that Michael Parsons hasn't agreed to a contract
(22:36):
yet is part of the story. But my position, and
I know this from and I have an advantage over
everyone else. I'm a human being, so I know what
human beings you act like. It is nearly impossible to
get a group of people to agree on anything because
back in the day, and I was a bad student,
(22:57):
but I paid attention.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
And a little bit you would when you were doing
group projects.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
There's always the person that does the lion's share of
the work. There's the people that just do the bare minimum.
And then there's the people that are the caboose and
they're just along for the ride, right, They're just along
for the ride, and that's the standard fair. And with
the Cowboys, like any other team, there's gonna be clicks,
(23:22):
and you don't expect universal agreement. Michael Parsons is more
name than game.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Do you agree with that?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Like the name is pretty good because he plays with
the Cowboys, got the star in his helmet. But it's
like if you went to the Texas Roadhouse and they
added to their menu there and they said, well, by
this item, it's all sizzle, but it's a petite steak.
It's not no steak. It's just a petite steak, but
it's a lot of sizzle, just like that, but not
(23:52):
a lot of steak. And as we understand the power
structure in Dallas, there's sound of it right.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
There either that at a lightning and rain. But you
have good cop, bad Cop, You've got good cop bad cup.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
So Stephen Jones the spawn, the kid that just happened
to get in the right genetic lottery. His dad happened
old the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
So Stephen Jones is a tight one.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
From what we're hearing, and he didn't want to spend money.
And then Jerry Jones wants to spoil his guys and
just give them the riches of Solomon. Thus you have
what's known as the I word instability. Also, everyone, everyone
who's around the Cowboys has to be part of the
reality show, and the Cowboys always must maximize media coverage.
(24:42):
And if the Cowboys had already signed Michael Parsons to
an extension, the story's over. If you wait until training
camp at the eleventh hour. It's like those movies where
they have the sticks of dynamite wrapped with tape and
they have a timer. You gotta stop it right before
the timer gets down to double.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Zero or triple zero. You gotta stop.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
But ultimately, we do believe that Micah Parsons, against our
better judgment, will get a bag, a giant bag, and
he'll be paraded around the Death Star with the Cowboys
practice and everyone will be happy and smiling, and we
all right. Now final point, we go to Baltimore. A
hum dinger, a humdinger of a story. How do you
(25:26):
untangle the latest revelations that Ravens Kicker, the creepy Kicker
Justin Tucker hired a law firm for those facing high
profile reputational attacks. How do you untangle that? So this
is kind of like a Metallica song fight Fire with Fire,
(25:49):
And I love the fact that an NFL kicker is
in such a corner. He's like a cornered snake that
he's hiring one of these high falutin DC area firms
that is supposed to clean up your mess. And it's
the same company that Mike Lindell hired, the My Pillow Guy.
So Justin Tucker has something in common with the My
(26:11):
Pillow Guy. The company I was reading about it called
the Claire Locke.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
I think I'm getting that right.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
It was a story in the Baltimore Sun about this,
and that's the law firm, and they've pretty much cornered
the market on these type of stories scandal ridden people
and normally politics from what I read.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
And then you have an NFL player here, and so
Justin Tucker.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Is under siege. If you missed it, he's been accused.
How can I clean this up?
Speaker 4 (26:42):
For radio?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Justin Tucker has been accused of giving out his franken
beans to those that didn't ask for his franken beans,
brushing his as Lady Gaga would say, his disco stick
against the massage therapist and leaving what some of them
thought was his own personal homemade blend ranch dressing on
(27:05):
the massage.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Table, among other things.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
And we're over a dozen I think we were around
sixteen massage therapists.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
That we're making these various claims.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Now, my moles tell me that it's only a matter
of when. It's not a matter of if. It's a
matter of when Justin Tucker will end up getting whacked.
Probably shouldn't have used that word, but in Baltimore that
he's out. The Ravens are expected to draft a kicker
(27:35):
in the late April draft.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Likely day two, day three, definitely not day one. Maybe
day three.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
They'll draft a kicker, and then on some random Friday,
when no one's paying attention, all of a sudden.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
It'll be bye bye, and Justin.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Tucker will be excommunicated from the flock. He will no
longer be a poet and you don't even know it.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Van Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm pacifics. This
is one big Ben.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Gets grilled googlo Ben.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
John Lynch spoke to reporters at Stanford's pro day Wednesday
and talked about the forty nine ers clearing room this
offseason and that they have a plan to restock the roster.
He said, we have some big things coming our way. Ben,
how long do you think it'll be before the forty
nine ers are legit contenders again?
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Well, the problem is they don't have a quarterback, they
have a game manager, they don't have a guy that upgrades.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Players around him.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
So, uh, it's gonna be There'll be a fringe playoff team,
but to be a real Super Bowl contender, it's gonna
be a long time because Rock Purty's not that guy.
You're not that guy, Pal, And what else is John
Lynch gonna say? He's got to be positive next?
Speaker 5 (28:48):
So in the most recent episode of HBOS last week tonight,
John Oliver called for the banning of player props due
to student athletes getting harassed for failing to hit a
certain stat. The nc double A then basically did the
same thing on Twoda day. Yeah, Ben, do you think
player props on college sports could be a thing of
the past.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
No, Because John Oliver is not that bright because you'll
you'll get rid of the illegal.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Betting of player props.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
But dudes will just go to their bookies or they'll
they'll go to the the illegal websites and bet player
player props are not going away.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
So either you have them legal or you don't have
them legal. It's not it's noble as they get rid
of them.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
They're not going away because people are gonna if people
want to bet props, are going to find a way
to bet props.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
So you know, knock yourself out.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Next, Doc Rivers called an emergency meeting with Damian Lillard
and Jannison Tetakunpo after they lost to the Warriors without
Steph Curry. Yeah, it's supposed to be an open forum
for both starts to provide input on ways to improve
the team.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Ben, how much trouble are they in?
Speaker 4 (29:43):
None? They just beat the snot out of your Lakers. Cool?
What do you say? Won a one eighteen to eighty nine?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
The Bucks are back, baby, stop it they buck Jannis
was no Luca, no Labron.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Stop the Lakers fail.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
You fail this edition. That is.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
Tremendous job by the Bucks walk off. Good job, Doc Rivers,
good job doc.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio
dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search f s
R to listen.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Live Knock Knock, Who's there?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Blame Weed?
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Blame week too. It's Big Ben's lame joke of the
week and no, here we go outside that poor Big
Ben's lame jokes a week. These are actual jokes by
actual listeners. Hello weed Man, Hello weed Man.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I love you may last.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Did your roommate come back?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Unfortunately?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Oh no, All right, let's let's get to the jokes
and thanks to everyone that wrote these jokes.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Send them in for next week.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Care of Benmahler Show at gmail dot com. That's Ben
Malors Show at gmail dot com. Did you know that
Lizzo is suing Vince McMahon over the Wwe know why?
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Apparently she tried to use the name Worldwide Eating and
tied up in Litigan as Georgia volved in Texas. What
are Lizzo's favorite parts of March Madness?
Speaker 4 (31:21):
What the round of sixty four? And she loves the
Sweet sixteen? Big Fan?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
That's Eric in Kansas? What happened the last time Lizzo
went out.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
For Korean barbecue. What she brought home a doggie bag?
A doggie wow, sir for Todd the comedian.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
All right, Lizzo was so excited by her recent weight
loss that she did know. She didn't know whether to
go to the bathroom or go blind.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Wow. Yeah, so she farted and closed one eyes. What
she did? That's a Dan in South Carolina, Thank you Dan?
All right? How does Lizzo plan on getting to the
moon space x x x x x x xx l
is how she's gonna get to the moon. That's not Drew.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Drew in Minnesota. How does Lizzo like her Tater Todds?
Buy the bag? Buy the bag? That's a free long
shot from La Masa, San Diego Way, our buddy free
long shot.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Why is Lizzo a fan of board Ops? Why?
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Well, she loves Mary's Mac and sheese a big fan there.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
That's how about Mary.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
She's only been on the show a couple of days
and she's already getting jokes written about her by buttermumk Cavo. Well,
what else is lost beside weed man hippie's teeth?
Speaker 4 (32:58):
What his desire to work?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
That's a buttermilk Tavo again Big Ben's lame jokes of
the Week.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
What is the best thing about being weed man hippie?
What if you get punched in the mouth, you won't
lose any teeth.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
That's Eke in Rose, Little Minnesota.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Okay, what is thank you queen obvious?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
What is the difference between the Doyers and weed Man's underwear?
Speaker 6 (33:32):
What?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
According to Tony in the Bay Area, the Dodgers are
the evil Empire. Weed man's underwear is just evil. So
how is weed man hippie like a bad soccer team?
Speaker 4 (33:50):
No goals, no goals? That's surfer Todd the comedian.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Did your weed man got a call from a Hollywood star?
He's gonna be a new version of a McCaulay culkin classic.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Home Alone?
Speaker 4 (34:10):
No, No, it's homeless Alone, that's what they're calling it.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
It's a spinoff. That's Dennis in Detroit. Come on, no,
that's homeless I know.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
All right.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Did you know that Lizzo and Weedman Hippie had a
snack company that was shut down?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (34:25):
No? Yeah, apparently it was just too high in fat.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
So they got Timothy. Timothy and Northern Kentucky. Set that
one in. You got any jokes over there?
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Kobal loop? Uh? Ben?
Speaker 5 (34:38):
Did you hear that Weedman hippie got arrested for public nudity?
Speaker 4 (34:43):
I missed that.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
Yeah, the cops took him to small claims court.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
That's from Benny Brightside.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
You can send your inappropriate jokes to Ben Maller, producer
at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Okay, did you know that young Weedman hippie helped to
in vent the toothbrush?
Speaker 2 (35:01):
No?
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Yeah, because if anyone else had invented it, it would
have been called the teeth brush. That's a George and
involved in Texas. Did you did you.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Hear that weed Man is starting a homeless comedy troupe?
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (35:16):
No, yeah, it's called the Sleeping on the Groundlings is
what it's called.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
That's Eric Eric in Kansas set that one in. What
do weed man?
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
What does weed man do when his roommate is around?
In college basketball? What do they all have in common?
Speaker 6 (35:32):
What?
Speaker 4 (35:34):
March madness? There you go, march madness?
Speaker 1 (35:37):
What what do weed man in the Miami Heat have
in common? What when Tracy Morgan has to look at
either one he vomits?
Speaker 4 (35:46):
That's an Eric in Kansas. Very nice. It's Big Ben's
lame jokes of the week. Let's see one more. What
takes longer than helm Amanda shower.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Weed man eating corn in the Let's chip it made
very funny.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Well, let's get over to a man that doesn't need
to get paid right now, Let's say hello to the
kooperl Coop Scoop on Entertainment arebra Holly.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
Thank you, Ben.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
I just I feel a little bit thrown off because
I don't have my normal Uh yeah, but that's okay.
I don't know what happened to him.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
Must be over in New Jersey with the family.
Speaker 5 (36:38):
So I'm gonna very briefly talk about a couple new
movies that are out this weekend. And the reason I'm
gonna say briefly is because I believe that both of
these movies are going to be very bad.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
So the first one is, of course, Disney snow White.
There's been lots of controversy surrounding this movie and the
main character that plays snow White.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
The early reviews are not good, and I just I
don't I don't see people, uh people going to see this,
but who knows, I could be wrong. I'm interested to
see how it does. I won't be seeing it.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Well, isn't.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Uh this is like the woke snow White And it
seems to me.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Like even they are embarrassed by it.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
Now.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
I guess they're trying to I heard, yeah, they like
it was complaining. They're not promoting it.
Speaker 5 (37:19):
They didn't do like a big red carpet kind of
thing that like they were going to do, and I guess.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
They didn't get the pulse of the people in America.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Yeah, looking for a woke snow White, bad job by
Mickey Mouse.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
Huh.
Speaker 6 (37:29):
Yeah, it should should be interesting to see.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
How will that be worse.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Than when they remember the the all female Ghostbusters was
remember that?
Speaker 6 (37:38):
Yeah? That wasn't was that? I don't think that was
Disney though.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
But no, it wasn't. But it was still a disaster.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
Yeah. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how much money
they lose on this. Another movie that is out this weekend,
and it's it's interesting because I just saw the trailer
for this for the very first time, like last week,
and then it's already it's already out in theaters. It's
the latest Robert de Niro Mafia movie. It's called The
Alto Nights and he plays two separate characters in this movie,
(38:04):
with the use of prosthetics and whatnot, so he has
a lot of scenes with himself. The reviews are not
good early on. It's got a thirty eight percent right
now on Rotten Tomatoes. And one of my best friends
already saw the movie and he said, and I quote,
that was the most boring mob movie ever.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
That's okay, Yes, I mean they've been I feel like
they stopped making good mob movies a while ago.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
What was the last good mob show? The Sopranos. That's
not a.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
Movie that was just yeah, I mean last that's.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
A long time. That's like twenty years probably at least.
Speaker 6 (38:40):
I don't know the last good mob movie was.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
It's been been a while.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Uh, you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna go and
I'm gonna say that Departed.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
I mean, where was that though? It's been a while.
Speaker 6 (38:56):
Yeah, that has been a long time.
Speaker 5 (38:59):
Scorsese came out with that one on Netflix, but I
just I couldn't even get through it.
Speaker 6 (39:03):
Two thousand and six, was The Departed.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Yeah, it's almost twenty years ago. Yeah, yeah, right, it's
funny graduated high school years ago.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
All right, Moving on to television, now, there's a couple
shows out this weekend and they're all available right now
that I well, most of them. First one that I
want to bring up is a new series called Happy
Face and this is on Paramount Plus and it stars
Dennis Quaid as the real life serial killer Keith Hunter Jessperson,
(39:32):
aka the Happy Face Killer. It is an eight episode
Paramount Plus original and the first two episodes are available
right now, and then the rest will come weekly. And
then we also have a new show on Netflix called
The Residents.
Speaker 6 (39:53):
Now they're saying, what they're.
Speaker 5 (39:56):
Calling this is a screwball who done it? Kind of
like like if it was Knives Out the White House Edition?
Speaker 6 (40:04):
Okay, yes, and this.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
One has got Uzo Aduba from Orange's New Black starring
in it as the lead detective. Gean Carlo Esposito also
stars in this one, and Al Franken also, oh.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
He's still around.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
Yeah, okay, So all eight episodes of that are available
on Netflix right now.
Speaker 6 (40:26):
That is called The Residents.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
And then last but not least, if you want to
wait till Wednesday. There is a new comedy premiering on
Apple TV Plus. It is called The Studio and it
stars Seth Rogan.
Speaker 6 (40:42):
Where is that? There we go?
Speaker 5 (40:43):
It stars Seth rogen as the head of an aging
Hollywood movie studio that is struggling to stay relevant in
the streaming area in the streaming era. Katherine O'Hara also
stars Katherine Hahn. And it's gonna get a lot of
cameos from people playing themselves, like Martin Scorsese and Charlotte's
(41:04):
They're on Ron Howard and all that. And that is
on APPLEATV plus, and that is Coopscoop on Entertainment.
Host
Ben Maller
Popular Podcasts
40s and Free Agents: NFL Draft Season
Daniel Jeremiah of Move the Sticks and Gregg Rosenthal of NFL Daily join forces to break down every team's needs this offseason.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.