November 7, 2025 • 54 mins
Big Ben talks about Bo Nix and the Broncos barely coming away with a win against the hapless Raiders, former WR Antonio Brown getting arrested and extradited from Dubai on attempted murder charges, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, and more!
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Well, it turns out that not all, not all NFL
games are good. We've been very lucky on Thursday night,
a lot of good NFL games. A L Stinko L
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We're back at it again. And our lead this hour
don't bury the lead mo Man. Our lead this hour
is from what else? That's right? The Thursday night game? Why?
Why not? What the heck?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So we'll start with the Broncos coming in great record,
all right, Broncos great record. Win against the Eagles was nice.
Some of the other wins not that impressive. So you're like, okay,
what's going on here? Who are the real Denver Broncos?
The Raiders of Morbid franchise. The Raiders have not been relevant.
You think about the Raiders, they have not been relevant
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in a generation or two at this point. Certainly a generation,
I guess a little over a generation now, the last
time the Raiders had a competitive team on the field.
So that was the setup Mile High City, the Raiders
taking their oxygen tanks to the five and eighty feet
in the sky rocky mountain air there in Denver. It
was Pete Carroll's Silver and Black versus Sean Payton's Broncos,
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and it was set to be a slabberd knocker, a
true slabber knocker. Now Vegas seemingly had no chance in
this game if you look at the gambling line, you
look at the way the Broncos defense is played. He said, well,
there's no actually, no way, no way that this game
will be close. If you saw the game or not,
maybe not, I've already said it's a sninker. So but
you didn't miss anything. You did not miss anything. The
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Broncos now they do stay atop the AFC West. Their
defense played very well, although I don't know how good
they are because Gino Smith sucks. They sacked Gino Smith
not once, not twice, not three times, not four times,
not five, how about six times? Gino Smith was sacked
several of those because of his incompetence as a quarterback,
Las Vegas had ten first downs. That's it. Of course,
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the Broncos were just as bad. Bo Nicks did connect
with Troy Franklin for a Denver touchdown, and the Raiders
were led by Ashton Genty, the rookie from Boise State,
who did have a touchdown. That was the only highlight
for the Raiders, who had a chance to tie the game.
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This would have likely ended in a tie the way
both teams were playing on offense. But Daniel Carlson, whose
dad ran WKRP in Cincinnati, Daniel Carlson, they're missing a
game tying forty eight yard field goal with under four
and a half minutes to go in the game, So
Denver they get to win. They win their seventh straight game,
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seventh straight game, the longest winning streak in a decade.
That's how pathetic the Broncos have been for a long time.
And they extend their home winning streak to ten. I
know milkman Mike in Colorado and his wife very excited
about that, but the chatter is not about It's not
about the Raiders. Here. The Raiders, We'll get to them
in a second. The better story here is actually in
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the Broncos. It's very bizarre that you have the record
that the Broncos have and yet you're in a situation
they're in where they just didn't look very good, I guess,
one of the worst franchises in Pro football and they
needed a miskick to avoid likely going to overtime. So
rather pathetic. So that's what everyone's happening about, and specifically
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bow Knicks. What's going on with bow Knicks? What's up
with this guy? You look at what Drake May has
been able to do for the New orleand Patriots this
year in the same draft class, and I don't think
JJ McCarthy's anything to write home about. But the way
that Broncos were bragging about bow Knicks, you'd think these
are the kind of games you fill up your statuet,
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and instead bow Knicks booed off the field booooooooooo for
bow Knicks as he was serenaded in the Rocky Mountains
with the booze. People very upset with the way that
the Broncos were matriculating the ball down the field ball,
Let's start with that. And here is bon Nicks, in
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his own words on being booed by the hometown fans.
Take a listen, but you think about some of their
reaction to booze and that kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Well, I've been booed before, and I'll be booed again,
so I'm not gonna be the last time. It's obviously unfortunate.
You don't want your own fans booing you, but you know.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
It's part of it, all right. So that is a
good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question thumbs
up or thumbs down, thumbs up or thumbs down, does
bon Nicks deserve the heat for his play with the
Broncos now summer, Say it's only one game. The weather
conditions were not great because it was windy and all
that stuff. So on this one, I've got Checkmate, Iron
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Maiden and Masquerade Ball, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a
nice fast because I'm on one right now. So I'm
not eating anything, so I'm not gonna cook anything. I'm
not gonna bake anything. I'm just gonna fast, all right.
So Hey, to answer the question thumbs up or thumbs down,
does bow Knicks deserve the heat for the way he's
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playing or played in this game anyway with the Broncos.
So it big thumbs up, big fat thumbs up, big
fat thumbs up. You're the quarterback. You're in the big chair.
As our old morning guy used to say back in
the day, you get the credit when it's good. Everyone
licks your toes when things are going well, and you
get to blame when it goes bad. And it's really bad,
bad to the bone. That's how this works. That's how
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all of this works. And I get so annoyed. As
I'm not a Bronco fan. Obviously, I don't really spend
too much time thinking about the Broncos, but I see
some of the stuff that's out there. It's like the
excuse making. Already the body on the game is not
even cold, and already some of these Bronco apologies are like, wow,
the wind conditions were not particularly good. You know what
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are we doing? You're telling me that bow Knicks gets
a mulligan because of the weather conditions. Like you you
played the Raiders, you played the Las Vegas rat that's
like a powder puff football team. They suck. They suck
in altitude, they suck on sea level. They just suck. Okay,
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and so so what's it? Only bow can play well
in perfect conditions? Is that?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
What?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You don't play the dome. There's no dome, there's no
roof over the stadium. So what's he gonna do when
it's ten degrees and you're playing a playoff game at
home in January and it's snowing. How's that gonna go?
So this was not the bow show. This was the
bow No show is what it is. Here is Bownicks
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pointing out that the offense, the point total a little unbecoming.
Take a listen, you gotta do better.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
At some point, ten points at gonna be enough.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
We gotta score more.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
We just have a tougher, resilient football team.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
We five ways to win.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Usually right now, it's the defense leaning the charge. They
just continue to get the ball back. A bunch of
sacks tonight, you know, a few that were in field
goal range that knocked them out. And he'll win a
lot of games with the defense playing like that. And
then tonight we had a little spark with some special
teams plays and then you know, we just at some
point we got to start moving the football scoring points.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
A couple of things. First of all, doesn't he sound
like Dan Rolofsky. You know that terrible commentator who was
a horrible NFL quarterback, dani ro Lobsky. He sounds to
me like Dani Rolobsky, just very robotic, lifeless. Bo Nicks
like he's just memorized sports cliche dot com. So what
it sounded like to me? But hey, dude, you're in
the cockpit and right now you're riding the vomit comet.
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So congratulations that Broncos offense is riding the vomit comet,
a migraine inducing offense. Ten first downs against the Raiders.
The Raiders like, at least the Raiders have the excuse
when they had no offense. They said, well, we played
the Broncos. They're supposedly good. You're the Raiders. You suck, Like,
what is that? Five of fifteen? I believe I'm third down?
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Terrible and bow Knicks. The numbers are bad, but they're
merely misleading. Bo Nicks had one hundred and fifty yards
passing in this game. Okay, one hundred fifty yards that's
not good. That's not good. He had forty three of
them on one big pass play, So that means I
did the math on this The other twenty seven pass
attempts for bow Knicks, he averaged less than four yards
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per pass. Three point nine yards per pass. Oh my god. Now,
in chess they say checkmate, right, you've heard that in chess?
Checkmate bow Knicks. When he's playing quarterback for the Broncos,
he says, check down is what he says. There Several
times I lost count he completed passes on third down
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throws that were short of the sticks, Like, why not
just throw the ball into the upper deck? Why even
bother throwing if you're gonna throw it, And he's clearly
in an area where the receiver's not gonna get yards
after the catch, he has to go back to catch
the ball, allowing the defense to get the position to
make a stop there. And he did that multiple times
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in this particular game, which is one of the most
maddening things to do. If you watch football and it's
third down and the quarterback the numbers look good, he
completed the pass. Now his numbers in this game were
not good at all, but he completed the pass and
it's just short of the line to gain. You can't
run an NFL offense that way? And how bad? How
bad are things well, following this el Stinko performance, the
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updated numbers, Bow doesn't look very good quarterback of the Broncos.
The updated numbers, his passer rating now is lower than
Kyler Murray. Now, why do we bring that name up?
Kyler Murray was benched, he was demoted by the Cardinals,
and the Broncos quarterback is statistically worse. And the eyeball
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test even are blind listeners who don't have functioning eyeballs, even,
they would tell you he sucks. And so Kyler got
benched and bo he deserves the like. Again, you're either
part of the solution or you're part of the proper
right now, on that offense, he is the latter. And
if Russell Wilson, you know, Russell somewhere poured one out
to celebrate the fact that Broncos offense looks so bad
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even though Denver won. He has a grudge against Sean Payton.
But if Russell Wilson were here to comment about the
Denver offense, he'd say, Bronco Country, let's sigh, because you sigh,
You sigh. When you watch the Broncos on offense, You're like, Wow,
that's not gonna do anything, all right, now, continuing the
theme of the hour. So the question now is what
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intrigues you the most from the wide angle lens wide
angle lens, what intrigues you the most about Sean Payton's Broncos,
who at this moment I just slayed bo Nicks. They
are the top team in the NFL. The Denver Broncos
are in the catbird seat in the entire NFL. They're
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eight and two. They're eight and two, all right. So
this run by the Broncos ten games into the season,
it's like that iron Maiden lyric living on a razor's edge.
That is the way the Broncos are doing it. You
watch them play. I'm seeing them play a few times.
Played against the Eagles, saw that a while back, and
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the game against the Colts where their special teams screwed
it up. But the Broncos are bipolar, right, They're allergic
to style points. Denver had more penalties than first downs,
just like the Raiders did. But it's when the Raiders
do it, it's like, well, the Raiders, they're bad. That's
what bad teams do. But the Broncos are supposed to
be good. They had eleven flags, ten first downs, seven
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three and outs on thirteen drives, more than half of
the Broncos drives three and out. It's just not it's
not a championship level football. But yet they have the record.
So it's mind boggling. And here in an island game
where everyone's watching, the world's checking out, and the Broncos
look like the most fraudulent eight and two team we've
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seen in the NFL in years. They just don't pass
the test there. And you watch them and you go,
how the hell are they winning these games? Like I
get that they have a good defense, My god, And
so to use a horse racing analogy, that the Broncos
are winning these games even though they're not played in
terrible weather most of them, it's like they're in a swamp.
And if you know anything about racing and horse racing
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and all, the Broncos thing is kind of a false nickname.
They're really the mutters. The Broncos are the mutters this year,
a bunch of race horses slogging through the slop of
their terrible offense and somehow finishing ahead of everyone else
in the race. So they're the Denver Mutters, not the Malors.
The mutters, old school, ugly football. Now, I'm not gonna
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say in trash. Obviously defense is legit. I don't even
think negative to say about the defense. They're the real
deal and all that. The rest of the team, a
lot of divine intervention is needed, and it is ugly
with the capitol you ugly in fact, you look at
just the way they're playing undisciplined football. I crunch the
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numbers and I say, the Broncos, there's only two teams
or the mutters. There's Chicago Bears and Jacksonville to commit
more penalties per game than the Denver football team. So
let's send a text message over to Sean Payton, and
right now we'll let Sean know. Sean, you're either coaching
the team this way to be undisciplined or you're allowing it.
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Either way, it's on you. You're the big money coach,
you're the highest paid coach in the NFL by most accounts.
You're the guy that wanted this whole thing. You handpicked
most of the roster, and somehow the Broncos are winning
a knife fight and they have a butter knife, but
they're winning. You shouldn't win a butter You shouldn't win
a knife fight with a butter knife. There's not a
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lot of rhythm, not a lot of flow. They're not
very graceful. They're not like a gazelle running across the serengetti.
There's none of that. And yet here we are, here
we are. Somehow they end up with another wins. Not sustainable.
Can't keep living on the razor's edge without getting cut.
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So but the the Muters are eight and two, and
is that false advertising shirt because they don't they don't
have the vibe of an eight and two team. But
they're laughing all the way to the very top of
NFL Mountain. For now in the standings, our last word
to the losing locker room the Raiders. Oh yeah, all right?
So question is this a step in the right direction
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or a step in the wrong direction? As the Raiders
had a shot to tie the game in the fourth
quarter against what is the NFL's top team. So what's
the temperature? Here's the question, what's the temperature in the
room for Pete Carroll and the Raiders, the NFL's oldest coach,
the NFL's oldest coast Well, here is before I answer
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that question, here's Pete Carroll giving his state of the
Raider address. Take a listen. There's so many things we
can get better at it.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
But the fighters in this dog now, I ain't no
doubt about it, and so I believe I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Wait to tell them how proud I was the way
they competed.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
And so we all know in this room we don't
do something, and so it's just a matter of time.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Congratulations Raider fans. You get a nice little sticker there,
participation ribbon as well. Good job, good loss, good loss
by the Raiders. So the temperature for Pete Carroll is
boiling hot, boiling hot. The silver and black. If you
look at the thermometer, it just shattered. It just shattered
here with zigzag lightning overhead. This was your shot, this
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was your chance. Le Broncos offense wanted to give you
the game, and Gino Smith says, I don't want the game.
I don't need the game. I know Halloween, Gino's like,
I know, Halloween was just a few days ago. But
you know what I'm proving even after Halloween that on
a weekly basis, I visit the Masquerade Ball. And there
was Gino at the Masquerade Ball and back up being
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propped up as a starter. He's got the mask on
like he's a starter. And they should write a book
about how Geno Smith, who everyone knew sucked with the
Jets when he first came in, couldn't play, and how
this guy was able to hornswoggle Seattle. I kind of
understand the Seattle thing, because they needed somebody and they
got rid of Russell Wilson and he happened to be there,
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so like, we'll throw this stiff out, and he proved
to be a stiff, and so he I just laughed
because I remember conversations with like No Stradinis and some
of the guys who are Seattle Seahawk lapdogs. They're like, oh, no,
Gino's good. Yeah, no, he was never good. Number one
and number two. The fact that Gino not only convinced
Seattle to gain, but now the Raiders and he's the
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NFL's thirtieth rank quarterback. Now, remember the narrative was when
the Raiders went out and got Geno Smith. The narrative
as well, okay, upgrade, upgrade. The numbers are like, okay,
he's gonna be at least average. So he's the thirty
the rank quarterback in the NFL. He's an upgrade unless
he's not. So I went back and I looked Aidan O'Connell,
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who played a lot at the end. They kind of
took over mid season or early part of the season
and played most.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Of the year.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Aid O'Connell last year was the twenty sixth ranked quarterback
in the NFL. So the Raiders went out they signed it.
As Pete Carroll said, you know, they got some dogs
in there. They got dogs with fleas. So they signed
this guy who's a dog with fleas, gave him a
big contract, and are worse off than they were if
they just kept Aidan O'Connell around and throwing him out there.
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And the way Gino plays that plotting style and just
running in sand the Raiders' offense there. Other than that,
they're fine. Okay, I just want the record. They're fine
other than that. And you can practically hear the trickle
down panic when Gino's playing quarterback there. The receivers are
barking the lineman or something. Well, they traded Jacoby Myers.
That's why the Raiders didn't go. Okay, if you're gonna
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die on that mountain, good luck. You look at the sideline,
right you look at the sideline and they got that
that Marines thing embraced the suck, but they're not embracing
it trying to fight through it. It's like we suck
coming of age, more like coming apart. For Pete Carroll's team,
they know who they are. It's at the point now
I get to mid season where past mid season bad
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teams know they're bad. They know they're bad. They're that
that that toxicity, and the Silver and Black are giving
their fans. The few hearty souls that are left that
love the Raiders like Scrooge in the Bay Area. They're
giving them mercury poisoning. Right, and Tom Brady's fingerprints are
all over this mess. We might have to call slug
in Vegas and get slugged to have an intervention. The
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ownership group that the hires, the culture, all that, and
Tom Brady. No one wants to rip him in the
media because Tom Brady's a god, but boy did he
botch this man. Hired the wrong coach, hired the wrong quarterback,
just a bad roster. It's like going to a It's
like getting a Brazilian, you know, butt implant in a
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third world country and you end up dying. It's just
bad now. Meanwhile, Pete Carroll's probably on the sidelines. They're
dreaming of the Early Bird Special and planning some Jim Rummy,
Like what did I do? I didn't sign up for this.
It's like you want to get away? Man? Is it depressing?
Not for me, I'm not a Raider fan.
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So we're back at it and did the full breakdown
on the Thursday night NFL game. The Broncos get to
eight and two, they don't get any style points. No
style points for you. So now our lead this hour.
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We go to the Middle East. That's right, We're going
to the Middle East. Is this going to be some
kind of breakdown on a geopolitical storyline, No, absolutely not.
We don't do that. We're hanging out in the toy store.
We're not going there. We're going to the crime blotder
the police blodder. That is where former Petsberg stealer the
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insert Antonio Brown pop back up on our radar. You
might remember Antonio Brown. He's been on the DL for
a while there hanging out made some headlines in Dubai.
So if you didn't see this, perhaps not. We learned
now that Antonio Brown. Yep, that Antonio Brown, the former
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NFL receiver. Antonio Brown, was extradited back from Dubai to
the United States and is currently in custody facing charges
of attempted second degree murder with a deadly weapon. All
of this stemming from a shooting incident that happened outside
of a boxing event in May of this year in Miami.
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Now Brown is last we heard, he's being held in
the Essex County Jail there in Jersey pending a hearing.
He'll eventually end up in Miami Dade County. So I
guess the good news is he got a free trip
back from Dubai. He didn't have to pay for it.
The taxpayers had to pay for it. Now, AB's legal
team has stayed. You think his lawyers have said he
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did it, he's guilty, no comment, or he didn't do it. Yes,
there are claiming that he's going to fight the charges.
They're claiming that he's innocent and all that. So that's
a good jumping off point. So let us discuss this
story's been on the back burner because Antonio Brown, even
though he's very active on social media, Antonio Brown has
been away and some people thought he was kidding when
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he was in Dubai that they thought he was making
that up. Apparently he wasn't. He was actually in Dubai.
He wasn't lying about that. So the question is this
just how much legal trouble is Antonio Brown facing at
this we assume will be a trial upcomings normally the
way these things work, So again, is how much legal
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troubles former Steelers receiver Antonio Brown in as we inch
closer to an eventual trial. So my observations on this,
I've got helter skelter, love, child, and snow globe, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to swim through some muddy waters because Antonio
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Brown is swimming through some muddy waters right now. Every man, woman,
and child can agree with that. So number number So
let's just say the obvious. I think we all know this.
This is not stealing some milk duds from the movie
theater stack Bar. This is not that. This is a
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big deal. It's a big effing deal. Attempted second degree
murder with a deadly weapon. Now, that is up to
up to fifteen years, all expenses paid, all inclusive at
the Gray Bar Resort Hotel in Florida. Now keep in
mind that up to the greatest weasel term of all time.
(27:52):
Once you are told about the powers of up to
you'll never forget it. Everything you look at on your phone,
every advice you're on, every time you go to a
brick and mortar store and you look at advertising and
they say up to forty percent of up to seventy percent.
Of course, most of the time you're not getting any
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kind of a discount. The human mind, though, sees up
too and just assumes, well, that means, okay, that's the deal.
So rarely, what I'm trying to say is, rarely do
people get sentenced to the maximum time. You got to
read one bad ombre to get the maximum time. Now, regardless,
you can't exactly shrug this off either, they've got surveillance video.
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Obviously a lot of witnesses it was a big crowd
here the whole nine yards. So from the police report,
which is a version of the truth, not always the
entire truth. And Tonio Brown did not here's the amazing
part of this for those that haven't met in an it.
And Tonio Brown did not fire a single gunshot. Yet
he's on a second degree murder charge in Miami. Well,
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how could that possibly be, Well, it's the law. It's
the law in Miami. And he I guess you could
say it's helter skelter if you're old enough to know
the legend of Charles Manson. We broadcast from la and
Charles Manson a legend. I guess, of course he was
in for the murder. Manson never actually killed anyone. Charles
(29:17):
Manson just brainwashed other people, a lot of women, to
go do the dirty deed. And so that's the thing
with Antonio Brown is it's the same concept as I
understand the surveillance video that shows Antonio Brown arguing with
the victim. The guy was twenty nine years old. I
don't know if he's thirty now. He's twenty nine at
a time. This is in the parking lot outside of
(29:39):
a boxing venue in Miami, and The altercation began because
Antonio Brown accused the guy of stealing a chain. Now
not his chain, as I understand, I believe it was
a chain of one of his friends, one of the
people that were in the posse with Antonio Brown. So
Brown and his group confronted the guy and say, hey,
(29:59):
give me chain. I want the chain, and he said no.
The guy said no, and they went back and forth.
And the allegation is that Antonio Brown essentially said release
the kraken, and he is alleged to have gone brave
heart and pointed towards the victim and said words to
the effect of handle this or get him to a
(30:20):
group of goons that were around him, and one of
the associates of Antonio Brown is according to the story
as I understand it, then said okay. Well, Antonio Brown
said handle this, get him, Okay, I'll pull out my handgun.
Bang bang, yeah, fired a couple of shots, struck the
victim in the leg, grazing the head. Otherwise, Antonio Brown,
(30:43):
if that bullet goes a little bit further to the
other direction, Antonio Brown's on a murder charge instead. It's
it's not that although it's attempted murder. Since ab didn't
fire a single shot. A lot of people said, well,
he's he should be okay. In fact, I even thought, well, okay,
he didn't. He's not one that pulled the trigger. It
wasn't his gun. Yet you look at it, and the
(31:06):
legal beagles there in Miami tell me not so fast,
my friends. So from what I've read, Antonio Brown is
still cooked. He's cooked. He's charged, as we mentioned, with
a tempted second degree murder with a deadly weapon. If
you look at the Florida law in the Sunshine State,
he was charged with Florida's principal theory. We have a
(31:29):
lot of lawyers. There are like a lot of former lawyers.
One of my favorite memories on this show was when
the Robert Kraft story was going on and he visited
the Robin Tug massage parlor there in Florida, and there
was this debate would he be able to get out
of it? And we this guy called up, He's an
older gentleman, he'd been a lawyer, and he called up
(31:50):
and he told us the legal loophole that Robert Kraft
would use to get out of trouble. And it was
the fruit of the poisonous tree if I remember correctly
and laid it all out and I was like okay,
and then that became the thing that Robert Kraft you. So,
I know there's some lawyers listening that will help us
(32:10):
out on this, because I'm just an amateur lawyer practicing
on the radio. The law. It means he didn't pull
the trigger Antonio Brown himself. The prosecutors are going to
allege that he orchestrated the shooting though, that he was
the mastermind, like Antonio Brown could be the mastermind of anything. Now,
it's more likely than not that Antonio Brown's lawyers will
(32:33):
try to work out some kind of plea deal to
a lesser charge because it's all on video, and so
they're going to try to go down that direction, a
plea to a lesser charge, say aggravated assault or accessory
or something along those lines, that would keep him depending
on how they approach it, they could keep him out
of the big house, out of the Gray Bar hotel.
(32:54):
And man, though, if this goes to trial and you're
going to be dependent on a jury of your peers,
what would a jury of Antonio Antonio Brown's like a
space cadet. What would a jury of his peers be.
Would we have to get Martians from other planets to
come in anyway? It would be playing Russian Roulette with
the Florida justice system. So good luck on that now.
(33:15):
Generally speaking, also prosecutors, this is my experience following some
of these high profile sports cases. Prosecutors as a rule
don't like to make deals with people who go on
the lamb to Dubai for four months. I'm just saying,
I'm just saying, all right now. Pace two, continuing the theme, So,
(33:35):
how would you describe ab Antonio Brown? AB's life in
the spotlight? He has been a public figure for a
number of years, hasn't played football in a long time,
but he's still a public figure. He was a public
figure very with the fur coats and all the nonsense
in Pittsburgh when he first came out on the scene.
So how would I describe Antonio Brown's life in the spotlight?
(33:58):
You could write a ten part docu series for Netflix
and you would still leave amazing stories on the cutting
room floor. That's how whack a doodle this is. It's cartoonish,
it's looney tunes. It's like mixing together into a big pot,
Daffy Duck and pepe Le Pew and the Tasmanian Devil
(34:22):
and you throw some cte in there and da da.
Now every year, every year it's a new episode from
mister Big Chess to mister Hot Air Balloon. That's one
of my favorite stories. The Blonde Mustache Chronicles of Antonio Brown.
If you remember that Attack of the Frozen Feet, one
of my all time favorite stories as well. Antonio Brown
acts like if Dennis Rodman and why Lee Coyote had
(34:46):
a love child, it would be Antonio Brown. Like if
somehow and it's twenty twenty five, there's some weird scientists
out there Frankenstein Labs. If you could have wy Lee
Coyote and Dennis Robin have a love child, it would
be Antonio Brown. The guy once killed his own aquarium
full of piranhas and stiffed the person that installed the aquarium.
(35:08):
He forgot to take care of it, and they all died.
And uh, you know, of course you said, well, what
who even has piranhas anymore? But that was a few
years back. Or how about the time Antonio Brown took
a limo. This is one of the all time great
Stories's bounced around the internet for years. Antonio Brown at
one point took a limousine to a charity event. He
(35:29):
then made the people at the charity event uncorked every
bottle of wine. You know, was really expensive bottle of wine,
the really pricey booze that snotty rich people.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Like to drink.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
And so Antonio Brown he takes a limo. They bought it.
They got a limo. He went to the charity event
they had they uncorked. He had him on cork every
bottle of wine, as I understand it, and he said, eh,
nah eh, and he walked out and he didn't pay. Yes,
that's Antonio Brown. How about the time he launched furniture
(36:02):
like he was on the David Letterman show back in
the day from the fourteenth floor balcony and tossed it
over the side of the fourteenth floor balcony like he
was in the Home Run derby Us. I'm almost hit
a kid. Then there was the Raider era, which is
my personal favorite for Antonio Brown. He showed up the
camp in a hot air balloon. Do you remember this.
(36:24):
I remember that I did a talk show when he
was there. He showed up in a hot air balloon.
We didn't even know that was possible. Remember, the Raiders
were training in northern California Wine country where they have
hot air balloons, and he somehow commandeered a hot air balloon.
The frost bitten feet is an all time great. He
couldn't practice with the Raiders because he had frostbite on
(36:47):
his feet, and it's just great, screaming at the gm ah,
mister big chest, so good, oh so good. And later
some people have forgotten this. So in between teams, so
he was with the Raiders. As you never played a
game with the Raiders. He had the whole helmet thing
was ridiculous. So the Saints tryouts also a great Antonio
(37:09):
Brown story. So they told him, listen, we just want
you to try out. We don't we don't bring an entourage,
don't bring any cameras. We want to keep this on
the down low. And so what does Antonio Brown do?
He brought both. He brought people to shoot a rap
video at the Saints facility and on the camera crew
and everything on the field, the lighting, the whole thing,
(37:31):
the sound people. That's that's Antonio Brown, right, and you
toss in the chef this is also right. Out of
a movie. There was a chef that Antonio Brown was
very upset with. The chef had put a fishhead in
the refrigerator or the freezer. I think it was the freezer,
(37:51):
and Antonio Brown got very upset, didn't want to pay
the guy. He claimed it was a threat like the
god Father movie, not realizing that the chef was going
to make some soup with the fishhead. He didn't realize
that because you know who would. And the gummy fallis
is right, the gummy Dick and Dayton's that he was
(38:14):
throwing at police officers. You can't make this stuff up.
And the grand finale, the grand finale for Antonio Brown
met Life stadium, Buccaneers and Jets shirt off, toss the
equipment in the crowd and do jumping Jackson the end
zone and then give the peace sign as you Sasha
(38:34):
your way into sports infamy as you run off the field.
There So Antonio Brown's life in the Spotlight. It's the
world's most chaotic highlight reel. You've got a lot of
circus stuff going on, the clown car, You've got police
blotter mixed in there, some really good entertainment. It is
a master class Antonio Brown masterclass in self sabotage. Now
(38:59):
we are all rubbernecking the Antonio Brown experience. Somehow though
you cannot look away. You cannot look away all right. Now,
final point to Jersey. We go, we go to Jersey.
After the Jets had a clear and sale this week,
they said bye bye to Sauce Gardner. They sent his
(39:20):
ass to Indy and Quinn Williams said, hey, go eat
some barbecue in Texas. Get the hell out of here,
like great Texas barbecue. So the big defensive tackle from
Alabama went to Dallas. The focus now turning to who's
left And I bring this up because Jets wide receiver
Garrett Wilson said this week, when asked about the turbulence
(39:42):
with the Jets, he said, hey, I'm paid to play football,
and the Jets front office has a vision. He said
they have a vision. And he said he doesn't get
paid to have a vision, and he has to trust them,
right question. So Garrett Wilson, wide receiver overrated on my
big board. Jets fans slabber all over them. Overrated, but
(40:05):
he's okay. So Garrett Wilson says that the Jets have
a vision and that he has to trust it. I
gotta trust the vision. How do you interpret this? Okay,
So this is the football version of you know, when
something bad happens and everyone doesn't know what to do,
so they say thoughts and prayers, because what else are
(40:27):
you gonna say? You say thoughts and prayers.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Or go.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
What he really meant to say was I really hate
what's happening, but I love all of the money that
I'm getting my chape. My paycheck is so big. Do
you understand the type of house I can afford? Do
you understand the trips I can take with that money?
You think I'm gonna f that up? So it's passive
aggressive code for Garrett Wilson saying these guys are freaking nuts,
(40:54):
these are loons. This is some tomfoolery that is going
on with the Jets, but I can't say it. So
when you say, hey, I get paid to play football
and they have a vision and I have to trust them,
it's kind of like saying, hey, my house is on fire,
but it's okay. I trust the landlord's vision. The vision's
(41:14):
really good, So I trust the landlord's vision. The Ganggreen
vision is extended misery the Jets front office to explain
on it. The vision of the Jets right now in
this moment is a snow globe. The Jets are like, hey,
why don't we model it. We'll do the modeling. Like
a snow globe. You shake, well, you take a snow globe.
(41:36):
You shake a snowglobe, You shake it up, and you
watch the glitter fall. There's no plan the glitter falls.
Where the glutter is gonna fall. It's a snow globe.
You just keep kicking the can down the road. That's
what the Jets are doing right now.
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Speaker 1 (41:55):
It's Mallard, how about that?
Speaker 2 (41:57):
To the third degree?
Speaker 1 (42:00):
This is one big Ben gets grilled all right. Cool.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
Lion's quarterback Jared Goff is on pace to take more
sacks than he ever has in a season before. He
said on Wednesday that he and the offensive line can
fix it. Ben, Do you think they can or will
this be a problem for the lines down the road?
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Well, what really he's saying is it's a coaching problem.
Jared Goff has been spoon fed by good coaches. He
had Sean McVay in the last couple of years, mister Johnson,
Ben Johnson the coach of the Bears now. So usually
when you're pressured, you adjust, you make quick throws, you
you neutralize the pressure. The Lions haven't done that, and
Jared Goff can't handle it. So it's a coaching issue.
(42:35):
It's not an offensive line issue. It's a coaching issue.
They're not running the right offense because Jared Goff's not
that good and you have to spoon feed him otherwise
he sucks.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
Next, Shaquille O'Neal recently claimed that he's heard it through
the grapevine that LS was having conversations with Nick Saban.
Speaker 5 (42:52):
You buying it, Ben, I'm sure they talked.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
I don't think they talked about him coming to Baton
Rouge again to coach at LSU. I'm sure they had
conversations because Nick Saban's friends with everybody. He's a godfather
of college football.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
Next, the Braves decided to kick the can down the
road on Chris Sale. They're exercising their option for twenty
twenty six. Salesman stellar for the Braves, but they aren't
sure if they want to sign him to another extension.
Speaker 5 (43:13):
But if he continues to pitch, well, do you think
he'll get one? Or is he too old?
Speaker 1 (43:17):
Now he's too old for a long term extension. He
can go year to year or get a two year deal.
But yeah, he's washed up in terms of that. That's
not gonna happen. How do we do cool?
Speaker 5 (43:23):
He passes it.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
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I won, Eloy, I won.
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Knock knock, who's there? Blame week? Blame week too.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week. Well that Steward,
Here we go big Ben's lame jokes in the week.
He's your actual jokes by actual listeners. Weed Man, are
you there? Weed Man? Hippie in my i ami a
fan favorite. Yeah, thank you, Darren, thank you for Monday.
I love you Luck all right, people have been sending
a lot of weed Man jokes. I hope you're prepared.
(44:09):
People are goofing on you. Are you ready, weed Man? Yeah?
I love you. Okay, Now you have a homework assignment
this weekend. Weed Man. You have to get an email address. Okay, okay,
I'll try. No, no, it takes two minutes. Anyway, here
we maybe I'll call you up. I'll walk you through it.
How about that?
Speaker 4 (44:29):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (44:29):
All right, all right, very good time. Now, though, for
the portion of the show where we have fun jokes jokes,
these are actual jokes. If you'd like to send jokes
in for a future episode of the show, send them
care of Benmalershow at gmail dot com. Benmalershow at gmail
dot com. Why did weed Man return the broom that
he bought? Why it didn't come with instructions? That's Eeke
(44:51):
in Roseville, Minnesota. What do you call weed man aggressively
pursuing a quarterback? A bum rush? That's Kurt from Earth
who sent that one in. What did weed Man's heart
say to weed Man? What they said, if you don't
(45:11):
behave yourself, you're gonna be placed under cardiac arrest is
what it said there. That's a Drew in Minnesota. Noah
and Austin sent this one in. When weed Man was little,
what did he say after he encountered his first homeless man?
What I want to be just like him when I
grow up. Oh, come on, that's not right. No, come on,
(45:33):
I'll care you. That's a low blow. That is a
low blow, all right. How many weed men does it
take to change a light bulb? How many it takes three?
One to hold the lighter while the other two turn
the light bulb into a pipe. That's a drew. Truly,
I think you prematurely laughed weed Man on that one.
(45:54):
It's Big Ben's lames jokes a week. Did you hear
that weed Man found a new job? Very exciting news?
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (45:59):
What?
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Yeah? Yeah? He found it on inweed dot com as
I guess he's what you're not here. That's a Brendan,
a funny guy Brendan from Boston who sent that one in.
Did you hear weed Man hippie has been hired to
work within archaeologists? How about that big news there? Yeah,
turns out you're an expert because your life is in ruins.
(46:22):
So there you go. George George and Uvaldi, Texas sent
that one in. Why hasn't weed man set up an
email account. Yet we're all asking that question. Why have
you not set up an email account? Now? Well, according
to Chip and Mane, it's because he can't find E
stamps anywhere. No E stamps to send the email? All right?
(46:44):
Did you hear that weed Man hippie lost a bicycle
race to a barber?
Speaker 6 (46:48):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (46:49):
Yeah, well the barber knew a short cut and so
he just kind of it's it, Eric said George and Uvaldi, Texas,
thank you, George, looks at the school there in Uvalde.
Tom in Indiana said this one in. Did you hear
that headhunters try to recruit weed Man for a telemarketing job?
Speaker 2 (47:06):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (47:08):
Happy, Well apparently it fell through. According to Tom in Indiana,
it fell through due to your fake resume and your
demand to work at home with your Obama phone, So
they did not. It'll hire you, all right. Why Why
did weed Man hippie keep staring at the frozen orange?
Why the package said concentrate, so he was concentrated what
(47:34):
he was doing? That said George. George and Uvalde, Texas.
It's Big Ben's lame jokes league. What is weed Man's
favorite government program? What snap? It reminds him of the alligators?
All right? What is that? Was some Michael leprechaun. What
is weed Man's favorite body part? What a bum? Come on?
(47:56):
That's easy man? That's a mic again? What is it's big?
He Ben's lame jokes? These are actual jokes by actual
listeners like yourself, who sent them in care of Benmaler
Show at gmail dot com. Benmaller Show at gmail dot com.
What is the difference between weed Man and Blind Scott?
What everyone likes weed Man? That's a Noah in Austin.
(48:17):
That's not that's not nice. What is weed Man's permanent address? What?
What it's sesame and Broadway, New York, New York, right
next door to Oscar the Grouch. That's Drue true in Minnesota,
weed Man, have you heard that your doctor is reaching
out to you?
Speaker 6 (48:37):
No?
Speaker 1 (48:38):
Wow? Yeah, yeah, he needs to examine, He needs to
explain that you have vagrancy. He said you have vagrancy.
That's a Drew Trew in Minnesota. You got any Jokescoop?
Speaker 3 (48:50):
No?
Speaker 1 (48:50):
All right, now, Coops out of the show. Did you
hear weed Man was called for jury duty for the
Antonio Brown case?
Speaker 3 (48:58):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (48:58):
Now you hear that?
Speaker 1 (49:00):
Yeah? Yeah, Apparently, after further investigation, the district attorney determined
that weed Man was born deceptive and ripped off more
people than Antonio Brown. No drury duty. That's all right,
very nice. See what else we have? How good is
the tire rack lunch room? How good? It's a Michelin
(49:22):
Star restaurant. That's how good it is. That's how good
it is? A last one? What is Marcel's favorite childhood toy?
Marcel and Brooklyn? It is a building Blocks, Building Blocks reda.
Thank you. That's Mike again, thank you, There he goes.
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Speaker 5 (49:42):
Thank you, Marcel.
Speaker 3 (49:43):
All right, there's a lot this weekend as far as
entertainment goes that I want to point out. And we're
going to start in the theaters as always, and this
is gonna be it's gonna be a tough one, I mean,
an exciting one for me. Two of my favorite actresses
have new movies this weekend, both Jennifer Lawrence and Sidney Sweeney.
Speaker 1 (50:03):
Yes, interesting, back to back.
Speaker 5 (50:07):
I might I might have to do that. Which one
will I go to first?
Speaker 1 (50:10):
Though?
Speaker 5 (50:10):
That's the question.
Speaker 1 (50:11):
I think. I think Jennifer Lawrence because she's been on
longer you know. Yeah, she had been on your radar
longer than Sidney Sweeney.
Speaker 3 (50:18):
That's true, and Sidney Sweeney, this isn't exactly a role
where she's a.
Speaker 5 (50:23):
Hot exactly. The goodies well should be more than about her.
Speaker 3 (50:30):
No, No, you're right, this is not her acting your capabilities.
Lorena is right. This may be her best role as
far as acting goes.
Speaker 5 (50:37):
We'll see. H She is coming out, and they.
Speaker 1 (50:39):
Don't put ugly people in movies coming out.
Speaker 3 (50:42):
She's coming out in the movie Christy, where she will
play the Hall of Fame boxer Christy Martin.
Speaker 5 (50:50):
And yeah, this one's got pretty good.
Speaker 1 (50:53):
This is Christie Martin.
Speaker 5 (50:54):
Yeah, pretty good reviews so far in theaters.
Speaker 3 (50:58):
And then back to Jennifer for Lawrence, she will be
in a movie called Die My Love and it is
a uncompromising portrait of a woman in gulf by love
and madness. And her co star in this will be
Robert Pattinson and the early reviews from critics are saying
this is a tour de forced performance from Jennifer Lawrence.
(51:20):
So yeah, maybe a potential potential Oscar nod here for
this one. Yes, Nick Nolty and Sissy Spasic also star
in this movie.
Speaker 5 (51:29):
That's still around.
Speaker 1 (51:30):
Yes, good for them.
Speaker 3 (51:31):
And then, last, but not least, I have to mention
this even though I have zero interest at all, but
I know a lot of people will. Predator bad Lands
is in theater. It's it's the latest Predator movie. You know,
Alien versus Predator, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (51:46):
I think you guess how many I've seen of those movies.
Speaker 5 (51:48):
Zero?
Speaker 1 (51:49):
You're right, you win? Can you guys me me too?
Speaker 3 (51:51):
I mean, I've seen all the Alien movies, but I
have except for Alien Versus Predator, I've not seen any
Predator movies.
Speaker 5 (51:57):
I just like that one scene where it comes out
of its.
Speaker 1 (52:00):
To make it.
Speaker 3 (52:02):
Yeah, that's Alien, not Predator. But El Fanning stars in
this one and shocking. The reason I bring it up.
It's got great reviews from the critics and even better
reviews from audiences. So it's an enjoyable film apparently, So
check that out if you're a fan. Moving over to television,
we have a couple of things I want to point out.
The first is a new movie called or limited series
(52:27):
called Death by Lightning. This is on Netflix. It's available
right now, and it's an interesting premise. I'm surprised they
were able to get like a whole limited series from this,
but it chronicles the assassination of President James Garfield. So yeah,
it is produced by the makers of Loss, some of
my favorite producers, so I might check it out for
(52:47):
that reason alone. But it's stars Nick Offerman, Matthew McFadden,
Betty Gilpin, lots lots of big names there, and so
check that out on Netflix.
Speaker 5 (52:59):
It's got good reviews from critics.
Speaker 3 (53:02):
Frankenstein also comes out Gamro del Toros Frankenstein.
Speaker 1 (53:05):
I mentioned that late Halloween was last week.
Speaker 3 (53:08):
It came out in theaters a couple of weeks ago,
but it was like a limited release. So now it's
you know, everybody can see it on Netflix. And then
last but not lease, I have to.
Speaker 1 (53:17):
Ask, but here we go. This is the walk off,
This is the big hitter right here, here we go.
Speaker 3 (53:22):
That's right, the highly anticipated follow up from Vince Gilligan,
the creator of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul Plurabis.
Speaker 5 (53:31):
It premieres on That's a mouthful. I don't know, that's
a mouthful.
Speaker 3 (53:35):
Plurabis, It's you know, it is a It's available right
now on Apple TV and it is a drama slash
sci fi where the most miserable person on Earth must
save the world from happiness.
Speaker 5 (53:48):
That is the tagline, and.
Speaker 1 (53:50):
It's oh is that right, yeah, Bill somewhere.
Speaker 3 (53:54):
It stars Rhea Sehorn from Better Call Saw Fame and
uh yeah, the It's already been greenlit for a second season.
You can watch the first two episodes right now. There
will be nine episodes this season pluribus on Apple TV.
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We're back at it again. And our lead this hour
don't bury the lead mo Man. Our lead this hour
is from what else? That's right? The Thursday night game? Why?
Why not? What the heck?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So we'll start with the Broncos coming in great record,
all right, Broncos great record. Win against the Eagles was nice.
Some of the other wins not that impressive. So you're like, okay,
what's going on here? Who are the real Denver Broncos?
The Raiders of Morbid franchise. The Raiders have not been relevant.
You think about the Raiders, they have not been relevant
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in a generation or two at this point. Certainly a generation,
I guess a little over a generation now, the last
time the Raiders had a competitive team on the field.
So that was the setup Mile High City, the Raiders
taking their oxygen tanks to the five and eighty feet
in the sky rocky mountain air there in Denver. It
was Pete Carroll's Silver and Black versus Sean Payton's Broncos,
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and it was set to be a slabberd knocker, a
true slabber knocker. Now Vegas seemingly had no chance in
this game if you look at the gambling line, you
look at the way the Broncos defense is played. He said, well,
there's no actually, no way, no way that this game
will be close. If you saw the game or not,
maybe not, I've already said it's a sninker. So but
you didn't miss anything. You did not miss anything. The
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Broncos now they do stay atop the AFC West. Their
defense played very well, although I don't know how good
they are because Gino Smith sucks. They sacked Gino Smith
not once, not twice, not three times, not four times,
not five, how about six times? Gino Smith was sacked
several of those because of his incompetence as a quarterback,
Las Vegas had ten first downs. That's it. Of course,
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the Broncos were just as bad. Bo Nicks did connect
with Troy Franklin for a Denver touchdown, and the Raiders
were led by Ashton Genty, the rookie from Boise State,
who did have a touchdown. That was the only highlight
for the Raiders, who had a chance to tie the game.
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This would have likely ended in a tie the way
both teams were playing on offense. But Daniel Carlson, whose
dad ran WKRP in Cincinnati, Daniel Carlson, they're missing a
game tying forty eight yard field goal with under four
and a half minutes to go in the game, So
Denver they get to win. They win their seventh straight game,
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seventh straight game, the longest winning streak in a decade.
That's how pathetic the Broncos have been for a long time.
And they extend their home winning streak to ten. I
know milkman Mike in Colorado and his wife very excited
about that, but the chatter is not about It's not
about the Raiders. Here. The Raiders, We'll get to them
in a second. The better story here is actually in
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the Broncos. It's very bizarre that you have the record
that the Broncos have and yet you're in a situation
they're in where they just didn't look very good, I guess,
one of the worst franchises in Pro football and they
needed a miskick to avoid likely going to overtime. So
rather pathetic. So that's what everyone's happening about, and specifically
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bow Knicks. What's going on with bow Knicks? What's up
with this guy? You look at what Drake May has
been able to do for the New orleand Patriots this
year in the same draft class, and I don't think
JJ McCarthy's anything to write home about. But the way
that Broncos were bragging about bow Knicks, you'd think these
are the kind of games you fill up your statuet,
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and instead bow Knicks booed off the field booooooooooo for
bow Knicks as he was serenaded in the Rocky Mountains
with the booze. People very upset with the way that
the Broncos were matriculating the ball down the field ball,
Let's start with that. And here is bon Nicks, in
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his own words on being booed by the hometown fans.
Take a listen, but you think about some of their
reaction to booze and that kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Well, I've been booed before, and I'll be booed again,
so I'm not gonna be the last time. It's obviously unfortunate.
You don't want your own fans booing you, but you know.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
It's part of it, all right. So that is a
good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question thumbs
up or thumbs down, thumbs up or thumbs down, does
bon Nicks deserve the heat for his play with the
Broncos now summer, Say it's only one game. The weather
conditions were not great because it was windy and all
that stuff. So on this one, I've got Checkmate, Iron
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Maiden and Masquerade Ball, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a
nice fast because I'm on one right now. So I'm
not eating anything, so I'm not gonna cook anything. I'm
not gonna bake anything. I'm just gonna fast, all right.
So Hey, to answer the question thumbs up or thumbs down,
does bow Knicks deserve the heat for the way he's
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playing or played in this game anyway with the Broncos.
So it big thumbs up, big fat thumbs up, big
fat thumbs up. You're the quarterback. You're in the big chair.
As our old morning guy used to say back in
the day, you get the credit when it's good. Everyone
licks your toes when things are going well, and you
get to blame when it goes bad. And it's really bad,
bad to the bone. That's how this works. That's how
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all of this works. And I get so annoyed. As
I'm not a Bronco fan. Obviously, I don't really spend
too much time thinking about the Broncos, but I see
some of the stuff that's out there. It's like the
excuse making. Already the body on the game is not
even cold, and already some of these Bronco apologies are like, wow,
the wind conditions were not particularly good. You know what
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are we doing? You're telling me that bow Knicks gets
a mulligan because of the weather conditions. Like you you
played the Raiders, you played the Las Vegas rat that's
like a powder puff football team. They suck. They suck
in altitude, they suck on sea level. They just suck. Okay,
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and so so what's it? Only bow can play well
in perfect conditions? Is that?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
What?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You don't play the dome. There's no dome, there's no
roof over the stadium. So what's he gonna do when
it's ten degrees and you're playing a playoff game at
home in January and it's snowing. How's that gonna go?
So this was not the bow show. This was the
bow No show is what it is. Here is Bownicks
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pointing out that the offense, the point total a little unbecoming.
Take a listen, you gotta do better.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
At some point, ten points at gonna be enough.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
We gotta score more.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
We just have a tougher, resilient football team.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
We five ways to win.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Usually right now, it's the defense leaning the charge. They
just continue to get the ball back. A bunch of
sacks tonight, you know, a few that were in field
goal range that knocked them out. And he'll win a
lot of games with the defense playing like that. And
then tonight we had a little spark with some special
teams plays and then you know, we just at some
point we got to start moving the football scoring points.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
A couple of things. First of all, doesn't he sound
like Dan Rolofsky. You know that terrible commentator who was
a horrible NFL quarterback, dani ro Lobsky. He sounds to
me like Dani Rolobsky, just very robotic, lifeless. Bo Nicks
like he's just memorized sports cliche dot com. So what
it sounded like to me? But hey, dude, you're in
the cockpit and right now you're riding the vomit comet.
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So congratulations that Broncos offense is riding the vomit comet,
a migraine inducing offense. Ten first downs against the Raiders.
The Raiders like, at least the Raiders have the excuse
when they had no offense. They said, well, we played
the Broncos. They're supposedly good. You're the Raiders. You suck, Like,
what is that? Five of fifteen? I believe I'm third down?
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Terrible and bow Knicks. The numbers are bad, but they're
merely misleading. Bo Nicks had one hundred and fifty yards
passing in this game. Okay, one hundred fifty yards that's
not good. That's not good. He had forty three of
them on one big pass play, So that means I
did the math on this The other twenty seven pass
attempts for bow Knicks, he averaged less than four yards
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per pass. Three point nine yards per pass. Oh my god. Now,
in chess they say checkmate, right, you've heard that in chess?
Checkmate bow Knicks. When he's playing quarterback for the Broncos,
he says, check down is what he says. There Several
times I lost count he completed passes on third down
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throws that were short of the sticks, Like, why not
just throw the ball into the upper deck? Why even
bother throwing if you're gonna throw it, And he's clearly
in an area where the receiver's not gonna get yards
after the catch, he has to go back to catch
the ball, allowing the defense to get the position to
make a stop there. And he did that multiple times
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in this particular game, which is one of the most
maddening things to do. If you watch football and it's
third down and the quarterback the numbers look good, he
completed the pass. Now his numbers in this game were
not good at all, but he completed the pass and
it's just short of the line to gain. You can't
run an NFL offense that way? And how bad? How
bad are things well, following this el Stinko performance, the
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updated numbers, Bow doesn't look very good quarterback of the Broncos.
The updated numbers, his passer rating now is lower than
Kyler Murray. Now, why do we bring that name up?
Kyler Murray was benched, he was demoted by the Cardinals,
and the Broncos quarterback is statistically worse. And the eyeball
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test even are blind listeners who don't have functioning eyeballs, even,
they would tell you he sucks. And so Kyler got
benched and bo he deserves the like. Again, you're either
part of the solution or you're part of the proper
right now, on that offense, he is the latter. And
if Russell Wilson, you know, Russell somewhere poured one out
to celebrate the fact that Broncos offense looks so bad
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even though Denver won. He has a grudge against Sean Payton.
But if Russell Wilson were here to comment about the
Denver offense, he'd say, Bronco Country, let's sigh, because you sigh,
You sigh. When you watch the Broncos on offense, You're like, Wow,
that's not gonna do anything, all right, now, continuing the
theme of the hour. So the question now is what
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intrigues you the most from the wide angle lens wide
angle lens, what intrigues you the most about Sean Payton's Broncos,
who at this moment I just slayed bo Nicks. They
are the top team in the NFL. The Denver Broncos
are in the catbird seat in the entire NFL. They're
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eight and two. They're eight and two, all right. So
this run by the Broncos ten games into the season,
it's like that iron Maiden lyric living on a razor's edge.
That is the way the Broncos are doing it. You
watch them play. I'm seeing them play a few times.
Played against the Eagles, saw that a while back, and
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the game against the Colts where their special teams screwed
it up. But the Broncos are bipolar, right, They're allergic
to style points. Denver had more penalties than first downs,
just like the Raiders did. But it's when the Raiders
do it, it's like, well, the Raiders, they're bad. That's
what bad teams do. But the Broncos are supposed to
be good. They had eleven flags, ten first downs, seven
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three and outs on thirteen drives, more than half of
the Broncos drives three and out. It's just not it's
not a championship level football. But yet they have the record.
So it's mind boggling. And here in an island game
where everyone's watching, the world's checking out, and the Broncos
look like the most fraudulent eight and two team we've
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seen in the NFL in years. They just don't pass
the test there. And you watch them and you go,
how the hell are they winning these games? Like I
get that they have a good defense, My god, And
so to use a horse racing analogy, that the Broncos
are winning these games even though they're not played in
terrible weather most of them, it's like they're in a swamp.
And if you know anything about racing and horse racing
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and all, the Broncos thing is kind of a false nickname.
They're really the mutters. The Broncos are the mutters this year,
a bunch of race horses slogging through the slop of
their terrible offense and somehow finishing ahead of everyone else
in the race. So they're the Denver Mutters, not the Malors.
The mutters, old school, ugly football. Now, I'm not gonna
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say in trash. Obviously defense is legit. I don't even
think negative to say about the defense. They're the real
deal and all that. The rest of the team, a
lot of divine intervention is needed, and it is ugly
with the capitol you ugly in fact, you look at
just the way they're playing undisciplined football. I crunch the
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numbers and I say, the Broncos, there's only two teams
or the mutters. There's Chicago Bears and Jacksonville to commit
more penalties per game than the Denver football team. So
let's send a text message over to Sean Payton, and
right now we'll let Sean know. Sean, you're either coaching
the team this way to be undisciplined or you're allowing it.
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Either way, it's on you. You're the big money coach,
you're the highest paid coach in the NFL by most accounts.
You're the guy that wanted this whole thing. You handpicked
most of the roster, and somehow the Broncos are winning
a knife fight and they have a butter knife, but
they're winning. You shouldn't win a butter You shouldn't win
a knife fight with a butter knife. There's not a
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lot of rhythm, not a lot of flow. They're not
very graceful. They're not like a gazelle running across the serengetti.
There's none of that. And yet here we are, here
we are. Somehow they end up with another wins. Not sustainable.
Can't keep living on the razor's edge without getting cut.
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So but the the Muters are eight and two, and
is that false advertising shirt because they don't they don't
have the vibe of an eight and two team. But
they're laughing all the way to the very top of
NFL Mountain. For now in the standings, our last word
to the losing locker room the Raiders. Oh yeah, all right?
So question is this a step in the right direction
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or a step in the wrong direction? As the Raiders
had a shot to tie the game in the fourth
quarter against what is the NFL's top team. So what's
the temperature? Here's the question, what's the temperature in the
room for Pete Carroll and the Raiders, the NFL's oldest coach,
the NFL's oldest coast Well, here is before I answer
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that question, here's Pete Carroll giving his state of the
Raider address. Take a listen. There's so many things we
can get better at it.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
But the fighters in this dog now, I ain't no
doubt about it, and so I believe I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Wait to tell them how proud I was the way
they competed.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
And so we all know in this room we don't
do something, and so it's just a matter of time.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Congratulations Raider fans. You get a nice little sticker there,
participation ribbon as well. Good job, good loss, good loss
by the Raiders. So the temperature for Pete Carroll is
boiling hot, boiling hot. The silver and black. If you
look at the thermometer, it just shattered. It just shattered
here with zigzag lightning overhead. This was your shot, this
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was your chance. Le Broncos offense wanted to give you
the game, and Gino Smith says, I don't want the game.
I don't need the game. I know Halloween, Gino's like,
I know, Halloween was just a few days ago. But
you know what I'm proving even after Halloween that on
a weekly basis, I visit the Masquerade Ball. And there
was Gino at the Masquerade Ball and back up being
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propped up as a starter. He's got the mask on
like he's a starter. And they should write a book
about how Geno Smith, who everyone knew sucked with the
Jets when he first came in, couldn't play, and how
this guy was able to hornswoggle Seattle. I kind of
understand the Seattle thing, because they needed somebody and they
got rid of Russell Wilson and he happened to be there,
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so like, we'll throw this stiff out, and he proved
to be a stiff, and so he I just laughed
because I remember conversations with like No Stradinis and some
of the guys who are Seattle Seahawk lapdogs. They're like, oh, no,
Gino's good. Yeah, no, he was never good. Number one
and number two. The fact that Gino not only convinced
Seattle to gain, but now the Raiders and he's the
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NFL's thirtieth rank quarterback. Now, remember the narrative was when
the Raiders went out and got Geno Smith. The narrative
as well, okay, upgrade, upgrade. The numbers are like, okay,
he's gonna be at least average. So he's the thirty
the rank quarterback in the NFL. He's an upgrade unless
he's not. So I went back and I looked Aidan O'Connell,
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who played a lot at the end. They kind of
took over mid season or early part of the season
and played most.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Of the year.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Aid O'Connell last year was the twenty sixth ranked quarterback
in the NFL. So the Raiders went out they signed it.
As Pete Carroll said, you know, they got some dogs
in there. They got dogs with fleas. So they signed
this guy who's a dog with fleas, gave him a
big contract, and are worse off than they were if
they just kept Aidan O'Connell around and throwing him out there.
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And the way Gino plays that plotting style and just
running in sand the Raiders' offense there. Other than that,
they're fine. Okay, I just want the record. They're fine
other than that. And you can practically hear the trickle
down panic when Gino's playing quarterback there. The receivers are
barking the lineman or something. Well, they traded Jacoby Myers.
That's why the Raiders didn't go. Okay, if you're gonna
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die on that mountain, good luck. You look at the sideline,
right you look at the sideline and they got that
that Marines thing embraced the suck, but they're not embracing
it trying to fight through it. It's like we suck
coming of age, more like coming apart. For Pete Carroll's team,
they know who they are. It's at the point now
I get to mid season where past mid season bad
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teams know they're bad. They know they're bad. They're that
that that toxicity, and the Silver and Black are giving
their fans. The few hearty souls that are left that
love the Raiders like Scrooge in the Bay Area. They're
giving them mercury poisoning. Right, and Tom Brady's fingerprints are
all over this mess. We might have to call slug
in Vegas and get slugged to have an intervention. The
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ownership group that the hires, the culture, all that, and
Tom Brady. No one wants to rip him in the
media because Tom Brady's a god, but boy did he
botch this man. Hired the wrong coach, hired the wrong quarterback,
just a bad roster. It's like going to a It's
like getting a Brazilian, you know, butt implant in a
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third world country and you end up dying. It's just
bad now. Meanwhile, Pete Carroll's probably on the sidelines. They're
dreaming of the Early Bird Special and planning some Jim Rummy,
Like what did I do? I didn't sign up for this.
It's like you want to get away? Man? Is it depressing?
Not for me, I'm not a Raider fan.
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So we're back at it and did the full breakdown
on the Thursday night NFL game. The Broncos get to
eight and two, they don't get any style points. No
style points for you. So now our lead this hour.
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We go to the Middle East. That's right, We're going
to the Middle East. Is this going to be some
kind of breakdown on a geopolitical storyline, No, absolutely not.
We don't do that. We're hanging out in the toy store.
We're not going there. We're going to the crime blotder
the police blodder. That is where former Petsberg stealer the
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insert Antonio Brown pop back up on our radar. You
might remember Antonio Brown. He's been on the DL for
a while there hanging out made some headlines in Dubai.
So if you didn't see this, perhaps not. We learned
now that Antonio Brown. Yep, that Antonio Brown, the former
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NFL receiver. Antonio Brown, was extradited back from Dubai to
the United States and is currently in custody facing charges
of attempted second degree murder with a deadly weapon. All
of this stemming from a shooting incident that happened outside
of a boxing event in May of this year in Miami.
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Now Brown is last we heard, he's being held in
the Essex County Jail there in Jersey pending a hearing.
He'll eventually end up in Miami Dade County. So I
guess the good news is he got a free trip
back from Dubai. He didn't have to pay for it.
The taxpayers had to pay for it. Now, AB's legal
team has stayed. You think his lawyers have said he
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did it, he's guilty, no comment, or he didn't do it. Yes,
there are claiming that he's going to fight the charges.
They're claiming that he's innocent and all that. So that's
a good jumping off point. So let us discuss this
story's been on the back burner because Antonio Brown, even
though he's very active on social media, Antonio Brown has
been away and some people thought he was kidding when
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he was in Dubai that they thought he was making
that up. Apparently he wasn't. He was actually in Dubai.
He wasn't lying about that. So the question is this
just how much legal trouble is Antonio Brown facing at
this we assume will be a trial upcomings normally the
way these things work, So again, is how much legal
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troubles former Steelers receiver Antonio Brown in as we inch
closer to an eventual trial. So my observations on this,
I've got helter skelter, love, child, and snow globe, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to swim through some muddy waters because Antonio
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Brown is swimming through some muddy waters right now. Every man, woman,
and child can agree with that. So number number So
let's just say the obvious. I think we all know this.
This is not stealing some milk duds from the movie
theater stack Bar. This is not that. This is a
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big deal. It's a big effing deal. Attempted second degree
murder with a deadly weapon. Now, that is up to
up to fifteen years, all expenses paid, all inclusive at
the Gray Bar Resort Hotel in Florida. Now keep in
mind that up to the greatest weasel term of all time.
(27:52):
Once you are told about the powers of up to
you'll never forget it. Everything you look at on your phone,
every advice you're on, every time you go to a
brick and mortar store and you look at advertising and
they say up to forty percent of up to seventy percent.
Of course, most of the time you're not getting any
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kind of a discount. The human mind, though, sees up
too and just assumes, well, that means, okay, that's the deal.
So rarely, what I'm trying to say is, rarely do
people get sentenced to the maximum time. You got to
read one bad ombre to get the maximum time. Now, regardless,
you can't exactly shrug this off either, they've got surveillance video.
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Obviously a lot of witnesses it was a big crowd
here the whole nine yards. So from the police report,
which is a version of the truth, not always the
entire truth. And Tonio Brown did not here's the amazing
part of this for those that haven't met in an it.
And Tonio Brown did not fire a single gunshot. Yet
he's on a second degree murder charge in Miami. Well,
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how could that possibly be, Well, it's the law. It's
the law in Miami. And he I guess you could
say it's helter skelter if you're old enough to know
the legend of Charles Manson. We broadcast from la and
Charles Manson a legend. I guess, of course he was
in for the murder. Manson never actually killed anyone. Charles
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Manson just brainwashed other people, a lot of women, to
go do the dirty deed. And so that's the thing
with Antonio Brown is it's the same concept as I
understand the surveillance video that shows Antonio Brown arguing with
the victim. The guy was twenty nine years old. I
don't know if he's thirty now. He's twenty nine at
a time. This is in the parking lot outside of
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a boxing venue in Miami, and The altercation began because
Antonio Brown accused the guy of stealing a chain. Now
not his chain, as I understand, I believe it was
a chain of one of his friends, one of the
people that were in the posse with Antonio Brown. So
Brown and his group confronted the guy and say, hey,
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give me chain. I want the chain, and he said no.
The guy said no, and they went back and forth.
And the allegation is that Antonio Brown essentially said release
the kraken, and he is alleged to have gone brave
heart and pointed towards the victim and said words to
the effect of handle this or get him to a
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group of goons that were around him, and one of
the associates of Antonio Brown is according to the story
as I understand it, then said okay. Well, Antonio Brown
said handle this, get him, Okay, I'll pull out my handgun.
Bang bang, yeah, fired a couple of shots, struck the
victim in the leg, grazing the head. Otherwise, Antonio Brown,
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if that bullet goes a little bit further to the
other direction, Antonio Brown's on a murder charge instead. It's
it's not that although it's attempted murder. Since ab didn't
fire a single shot. A lot of people said, well,
he's he should be okay. In fact, I even thought, well, okay,
he didn't. He's not one that pulled the trigger. It
wasn't his gun. Yet you look at it, and the
(31:06):
legal beagles there in Miami tell me not so fast,
my friends. So from what I've read, Antonio Brown is
still cooked. He's cooked. He's charged, as we mentioned, with
a tempted second degree murder with a deadly weapon. If
you look at the Florida law in the Sunshine State,
he was charged with Florida's principal theory. We have a
(31:29):
lot of lawyers. There are like a lot of former lawyers.
One of my favorite memories on this show was when
the Robert Kraft story was going on and he visited
the Robin Tug massage parlor there in Florida, and there
was this debate would he be able to get out
of it? And we this guy called up, He's an
older gentleman, he'd been a lawyer, and he called up
(31:50):
and he told us the legal loophole that Robert Kraft
would use to get out of trouble. And it was
the fruit of the poisonous tree if I remember correctly
and laid it all out and I was like okay,
and then that became the thing that Robert Kraft you. So,
I know there's some lawyers listening that will help us
(32:10):
out on this, because I'm just an amateur lawyer practicing
on the radio. The law. It means he didn't pull
the trigger Antonio Brown himself. The prosecutors are going to
allege that he orchestrated the shooting though, that he was
the mastermind, like Antonio Brown could be the mastermind of anything. Now,
it's more likely than not that Antonio Brown's lawyers will
(32:33):
try to work out some kind of plea deal to
a lesser charge because it's all on video, and so
they're going to try to go down that direction, a
plea to a lesser charge, say aggravated assault or accessory
or something along those lines, that would keep him depending
on how they approach it, they could keep him out
of the big house, out of the Gray Bar hotel.
(32:54):
And man, though, if this goes to trial and you're
going to be dependent on a jury of your peers,
what would a jury of Antonio Antonio Brown's like a
space cadet. What would a jury of his peers be.
Would we have to get Martians from other planets to
come in anyway? It would be playing Russian Roulette with
the Florida justice system. So good luck on that now.
(33:15):
Generally speaking, also prosecutors, this is my experience following some
of these high profile sports cases. Prosecutors as a rule
don't like to make deals with people who go on
the lamb to Dubai for four months. I'm just saying,
I'm just saying, all right now. Pace two, continuing the theme, So,
(33:35):
how would you describe ab Antonio Brown? AB's life in
the spotlight? He has been a public figure for a
number of years, hasn't played football in a long time,
but he's still a public figure. He was a public
figure very with the fur coats and all the nonsense
in Pittsburgh when he first came out on the scene.
So how would I describe Antonio Brown's life in the spotlight?
(33:58):
You could write a ten part docu series for Netflix
and you would still leave amazing stories on the cutting
room floor. That's how whack a doodle this is. It's cartoonish,
it's looney tunes. It's like mixing together into a big pot,
Daffy Duck and pepe Le Pew and the Tasmanian Devil
(34:22):
and you throw some cte in there and da da.
Now every year, every year it's a new episode from
mister Big Chess to mister Hot Air Balloon. That's one
of my favorite stories. The Blonde Mustache Chronicles of Antonio Brown.
If you remember that Attack of the Frozen Feet, one
of my all time favorite stories as well. Antonio Brown
acts like if Dennis Rodman and why Lee Coyote had
(34:46):
a love child, it would be Antonio Brown. Like if
somehow and it's twenty twenty five, there's some weird scientists
out there Frankenstein Labs. If you could have wy Lee
Coyote and Dennis Robin have a love child, it would
be Antonio Brown. The guy once killed his own aquarium
full of piranhas and stiffed the person that installed the aquarium.
(35:08):
He forgot to take care of it, and they all died.
And uh, you know, of course you said, well, what
who even has piranhas anymore? But that was a few
years back. Or how about the time Antonio Brown took
a limo. This is one of the all time great
Stories's bounced around the internet for years. Antonio Brown at
one point took a limousine to a charity event. He
(35:29):
then made the people at the charity event uncorked every
bottle of wine. You know, was really expensive bottle of wine,
the really pricey booze that snotty rich people.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Like to drink.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
And so Antonio Brown he takes a limo. They bought it.
They got a limo. He went to the charity event
they had they uncorked. He had him on cork every
bottle of wine, as I understand it, and he said, eh,
nah eh, and he walked out and he didn't pay. Yes,
that's Antonio Brown. How about the time he launched furniture
(36:02):
like he was on the David Letterman show back in
the day from the fourteenth floor balcony and tossed it
over the side of the fourteenth floor balcony like he
was in the Home Run derby Us. I'm almost hit
a kid. Then there was the Raider era, which is
my personal favorite for Antonio Brown. He showed up the
camp in a hot air balloon. Do you remember this.
(36:24):
I remember that I did a talk show when he
was there. He showed up in a hot air balloon.
We didn't even know that was possible. Remember, the Raiders
were training in northern California Wine country where they have
hot air balloons, and he somehow commandeered a hot air balloon.
The frost bitten feet is an all time great. He
couldn't practice with the Raiders because he had frostbite on
(36:47):
his feet, and it's just great, screaming at the gm ah,
mister big chest, so good, oh so good. And later
some people have forgotten this. So in between teams, so
he was with the Raiders. As you never played a
game with the Raiders. He had the whole helmet thing
was ridiculous. So the Saints tryouts also a great Antonio
(37:09):
Brown story. So they told him, listen, we just want
you to try out. We don't we don't bring an entourage,
don't bring any cameras. We want to keep this on
the down low. And so what does Antonio Brown do?
He brought both. He brought people to shoot a rap
video at the Saints facility and on the camera crew
and everything on the field, the lighting, the whole thing,
(37:31):
the sound people. That's that's Antonio Brown, right, and you
toss in the chef this is also right. Out of
a movie. There was a chef that Antonio Brown was
very upset with. The chef had put a fishhead in
the refrigerator or the freezer. I think it was the freezer,
(37:51):
and Antonio Brown got very upset, didn't want to pay
the guy. He claimed it was a threat like the
god Father movie, not realizing that the chef was going
to make some soup with the fishhead. He didn't realize
that because you know who would. And the gummy fallis
is right, the gummy Dick and Dayton's that he was
(38:14):
throwing at police officers. You can't make this stuff up.
And the grand finale, the grand finale for Antonio Brown
met Life stadium, Buccaneers and Jets shirt off, toss the
equipment in the crowd and do jumping Jackson the end
zone and then give the peace sign as you Sasha
(38:34):
your way into sports infamy as you run off the field.
There So Antonio Brown's life in the Spotlight. It's the
world's most chaotic highlight reel. You've got a lot of
circus stuff going on, the clown car, You've got police
blotter mixed in there, some really good entertainment. It is
a master class Antonio Brown masterclass in self sabotage. Now
(38:59):
we are all rubbernecking the Antonio Brown experience. Somehow though
you cannot look away. You cannot look away all right. Now,
final point to Jersey. We go, we go to Jersey.
After the Jets had a clear and sale this week,
they said bye bye to Sauce Gardner. They sent his
(39:20):
ass to Indy and Quinn Williams said, hey, go eat
some barbecue in Texas. Get the hell out of here,
like great Texas barbecue. So the big defensive tackle from
Alabama went to Dallas. The focus now turning to who's
left And I bring this up because Jets wide receiver
Garrett Wilson said this week, when asked about the turbulence
(39:42):
with the Jets, he said, hey, I'm paid to play football,
and the Jets front office has a vision. He said
they have a vision. And he said he doesn't get
paid to have a vision, and he has to trust them,
right question. So Garrett Wilson, wide receiver overrated on my
big board. Jets fans slabber all over them. Overrated, but
(40:05):
he's okay. So Garrett Wilson says that the Jets have
a vision and that he has to trust it. I
gotta trust the vision. How do you interpret this? Okay,
So this is the football version of you know, when
something bad happens and everyone doesn't know what to do,
so they say thoughts and prayers, because what else are
(40:27):
you gonna say? You say thoughts and prayers.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Or go.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
What he really meant to say was I really hate
what's happening, but I love all of the money that
I'm getting my chape. My paycheck is so big. Do
you understand the type of house I can afford? Do
you understand the trips I can take with that money?
You think I'm gonna f that up? So it's passive
aggressive code for Garrett Wilson saying these guys are freaking nuts,
(40:54):
these are loons. This is some tomfoolery that is going
on with the Jets, but I can't say it. So
when you say, hey, I get paid to play football
and they have a vision and I have to trust them,
it's kind of like saying, hey, my house is on fire,
but it's okay. I trust the landlord's vision. The vision's
(41:14):
really good, So I trust the landlord's vision. The Ganggreen
vision is extended misery the Jets front office to explain
on it. The vision of the Jets right now in
this moment is a snow globe. The Jets are like, hey,
why don't we model it. We'll do the modeling. Like
a snow globe. You shake, well, you take a snow globe.
(41:36):
You shake a snowglobe, You shake it up, and you
watch the glitter fall. There's no plan the glitter falls.
Where the glutter is gonna fall. It's a snow globe.
You just keep kicking the can down the road. That's
what the Jets are doing right now.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
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Speaker 1 (41:55):
It's Mallard, how about that?
Speaker 2 (41:57):
To the third degree?
Speaker 1 (42:00):
This is one big Ben gets grilled all right. Cool.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
Lion's quarterback Jared Goff is on pace to take more
sacks than he ever has in a season before. He
said on Wednesday that he and the offensive line can
fix it. Ben, Do you think they can or will
this be a problem for the lines down the road?
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Well, what really he's saying is it's a coaching problem.
Jared Goff has been spoon fed by good coaches. He
had Sean McVay in the last couple of years, mister Johnson,
Ben Johnson the coach of the Bears now. So usually
when you're pressured, you adjust, you make quick throws, you
you neutralize the pressure. The Lions haven't done that, and
Jared Goff can't handle it. So it's a coaching issue.
(42:35):
It's not an offensive line issue. It's a coaching issue.
They're not running the right offense because Jared Goff's not
that good and you have to spoon feed him otherwise
he sucks.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
Next, Shaquille O'Neal recently claimed that he's heard it through
the grapevine that LS was having conversations with Nick Saban.
Speaker 5 (42:52):
You buying it, Ben, I'm sure they talked.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
I don't think they talked about him coming to Baton
Rouge again to coach at LSU. I'm sure they had
conversations because Nick Saban's friends with everybody. He's a godfather
of college football.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
Next, the Braves decided to kick the can down the
road on Chris Sale. They're exercising their option for twenty
twenty six. Salesman stellar for the Braves, but they aren't
sure if they want to sign him to another extension.
Speaker 5 (43:13):
But if he continues to pitch, well, do you think
he'll get one? Or is he too old?
Speaker 1 (43:17):
Now he's too old for a long term extension. He
can go year to year or get a two year deal.
But yeah, he's washed up in terms of that. That's
not gonna happen. How do we do cool?
Speaker 5 (43:23):
He passes it.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
That is a win. Putter on the barn, that's a win.
I won, Eloy, I won.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
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Knock knock, who's there? Blame week? Blame week too.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week. Well that Steward,
Here we go big Ben's lame jokes in the week.
He's your actual jokes by actual listeners. Weed Man, are
you there? Weed Man? Hippie in my i ami a
fan favorite. Yeah, thank you, Darren, thank you for Monday.
I love you Luck all right, people have been sending
a lot of weed Man jokes. I hope you're prepared.
(44:09):
People are goofing on you. Are you ready, weed Man? Yeah?
I love you. Okay, Now you have a homework assignment
this weekend. Weed Man. You have to get an email address. Okay, okay,
I'll try. No, no, it takes two minutes. Anyway, here
we maybe I'll call you up. I'll walk you through it.
How about that?
Speaker 4 (44:29):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (44:29):
All right, all right, very good time. Now, though, for
the portion of the show where we have fun jokes jokes,
these are actual jokes. If you'd like to send jokes
in for a future episode of the show, send them
care of Benmalershow at gmail dot com. Benmalershow at gmail
dot com. Why did weed Man return the broom that
he bought? Why it didn't come with instructions? That's Eeke
(44:51):
in Roseville, Minnesota. What do you call weed man aggressively
pursuing a quarterback? A bum rush? That's Kurt from Earth
who sent that one in. What did weed Man's heart
say to weed Man? What they said, if you don't
(45:11):
behave yourself, you're gonna be placed under cardiac arrest is
what it said there. That's a Drew in Minnesota. Noah
and Austin sent this one in. When weed Man was little,
what did he say after he encountered his first homeless man?
What I want to be just like him when I
grow up. Oh, come on, that's not right. No, come on,
(45:33):
I'll care you. That's a low blow. That is a
low blow, all right. How many weed men does it
take to change a light bulb? How many it takes three?
One to hold the lighter while the other two turn
the light bulb into a pipe. That's a drew. Truly,
I think you prematurely laughed weed Man on that one.
(45:54):
It's Big Ben's lames jokes a week. Did you hear
that weed Man found a new job? Very exciting news?
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (45:59):
What?
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Yeah? Yeah? He found it on inweed dot com as
I guess he's what you're not here. That's a Brendan,
a funny guy Brendan from Boston who sent that one in.
Did you hear weed Man hippie has been hired to
work within archaeologists? How about that big news there? Yeah,
turns out you're an expert because your life is in ruins.
(46:22):
So there you go. George George and Uvaldi, Texas sent
that one in. Why hasn't weed man set up an
email account. Yet we're all asking that question. Why have
you not set up an email account? Now? Well, according
to Chip and Mane, it's because he can't find E
stamps anywhere. No E stamps to send the email? All right?
(46:44):
Did you hear that weed Man hippie lost a bicycle
race to a barber?
Speaker 6 (46:48):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (46:49):
Yeah, well the barber knew a short cut and so
he just kind of it's it, Eric said George and Uvaldi, Texas,
thank you, George, looks at the school there in Uvalde.
Tom in Indiana said this one in. Did you hear
that headhunters try to recruit weed Man for a telemarketing job?
Speaker 2 (47:06):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (47:08):
Happy, Well apparently it fell through. According to Tom in Indiana,
it fell through due to your fake resume and your
demand to work at home with your Obama phone, So
they did not. It'll hire you, all right. Why Why
did weed Man hippie keep staring at the frozen orange?
Why the package said concentrate, so he was concentrated what
(47:34):
he was doing? That said George. George and Uvalde, Texas.
It's Big Ben's lame jokes league. What is weed Man's
favorite government program? What snap? It reminds him of the alligators?
All right? What is that? Was some Michael leprechaun. What
is weed Man's favorite body part? What a bum? Come on?
(47:56):
That's easy man? That's a mic again? What is it's big?
He Ben's lame jokes? These are actual jokes by actual
listeners like yourself, who sent them in care of Benmaler
Show at gmail dot com. Benmaller Show at gmail dot com.
What is the difference between weed Man and Blind Scott?
What everyone likes weed Man? That's a Noah in Austin.
(48:17):
That's not that's not nice. What is weed Man's permanent address? What?
What it's sesame and Broadway, New York, New York, right
next door to Oscar the Grouch. That's Drue true in Minnesota,
weed Man, have you heard that your doctor is reaching
out to you?
Speaker 6 (48:37):
No?
Speaker 1 (48:38):
Wow? Yeah, yeah, he needs to examine, He needs to
explain that you have vagrancy. He said you have vagrancy.
That's a Drew Trew in Minnesota. You got any Jokescoop?
Speaker 3 (48:50):
No?
Speaker 1 (48:50):
All right, now, Coops out of the show. Did you
hear weed Man was called for jury duty for the
Antonio Brown case?
Speaker 3 (48:58):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (48:58):
Now you hear that?
Speaker 1 (49:00):
Yeah? Yeah, Apparently, after further investigation, the district attorney determined
that weed Man was born deceptive and ripped off more
people than Antonio Brown. No drury duty. That's all right,
very nice. See what else we have? How good is
the tire rack lunch room? How good? It's a Michelin
(49:22):
Star restaurant. That's how good it is. That's how good
it is? A last one? What is Marcel's favorite childhood toy?
Marcel and Brooklyn? It is a building Blocks, Building Blocks reda.
Thank you. That's Mike again, thank you, There he goes.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 5 (49:42):
Thank you, Marcel.
Speaker 3 (49:43):
All right, there's a lot this weekend as far as
entertainment goes that I want to point out. And we're
going to start in the theaters as always, and this
is gonna be it's gonna be a tough one, I mean,
an exciting one for me. Two of my favorite actresses
have new movies this weekend, both Jennifer Lawrence and Sidney Sweeney.
Speaker 1 (50:03):
Yes, interesting, back to back.
Speaker 5 (50:07):
I might I might have to do that. Which one
will I go to first?
Speaker 1 (50:10):
Though?
Speaker 5 (50:10):
That's the question.
Speaker 1 (50:11):
I think. I think Jennifer Lawrence because she's been on
longer you know. Yeah, she had been on your radar
longer than Sidney Sweeney.
Speaker 3 (50:18):
That's true, and Sidney Sweeney, this isn't exactly a role
where she's a.
Speaker 5 (50:23):
Hot exactly. The goodies well should be more than about her.
Speaker 3 (50:30):
No, No, you're right, this is not her acting your capabilities.
Lorena is right. This may be her best role as
far as acting goes.
Speaker 5 (50:37):
We'll see. H She is coming out, and they.
Speaker 1 (50:39):
Don't put ugly people in movies coming out.
Speaker 3 (50:42):
She's coming out in the movie Christy, where she will
play the Hall of Fame boxer Christy Martin.
Speaker 5 (50:50):
And yeah, this one's got pretty good.
Speaker 1 (50:53):
This is Christie Martin.
Speaker 5 (50:54):
Yeah, pretty good reviews so far in theaters.
Speaker 3 (50:58):
And then back to Jennifer for Lawrence, she will be
in a movie called Die My Love and it is
a uncompromising portrait of a woman in gulf by love
and madness. And her co star in this will be
Robert Pattinson and the early reviews from critics are saying
this is a tour de forced performance from Jennifer Lawrence.
(51:20):
So yeah, maybe a potential potential Oscar nod here for
this one. Yes, Nick Nolty and Sissy Spasic also star
in this movie.
Speaker 5 (51:29):
That's still around.
Speaker 1 (51:30):
Yes, good for them.
Speaker 3 (51:31):
And then, last, but not least, I have to mention
this even though I have zero interest at all, but
I know a lot of people will. Predator bad Lands
is in theater. It's it's the latest Predator movie. You know,
Alien versus Predator, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (51:46):
I think you guess how many I've seen of those movies.
Speaker 5 (51:48):
Zero?
Speaker 1 (51:49):
You're right, you win? Can you guys me me too?
Speaker 3 (51:51):
I mean, I've seen all the Alien movies, but I
have except for Alien Versus Predator, I've not seen any
Predator movies.
Speaker 5 (51:57):
I just like that one scene where it comes out
of its.
Speaker 1 (52:00):
To make it.
Speaker 3 (52:02):
Yeah, that's Alien, not Predator. But El Fanning stars in
this one and shocking. The reason I bring it up.
It's got great reviews from the critics and even better
reviews from audiences. So it's an enjoyable film apparently, So
check that out if you're a fan. Moving over to television,
we have a couple of things I want to point out.
The first is a new movie called or limited series
(52:27):
called Death by Lightning. This is on Netflix. It's available
right now, and it's an interesting premise. I'm surprised they
were able to get like a whole limited series from this,
but it chronicles the assassination of President James Garfield. So yeah,
it is produced by the makers of Loss, some of
my favorite producers, so I might check it out for
(52:47):
that reason alone. But it's stars Nick Offerman, Matthew McFadden,
Betty Gilpin, lots lots of big names there, and so
check that out on Netflix.
Speaker 5 (52:59):
It's got good reviews from critics.
Speaker 3 (53:02):
Frankenstein also comes out Gamro del Toros Frankenstein.
Speaker 1 (53:05):
I mentioned that late Halloween was last week.
Speaker 3 (53:08):
It came out in theaters a couple of weeks ago,
but it was like a limited release. So now it's
you know, everybody can see it on Netflix. And then
last but not lease, I have to.
Speaker 1 (53:17):
Ask, but here we go. This is the walk off,
This is the big hitter right here, here we go.
Speaker 3 (53:22):
That's right, the highly anticipated follow up from Vince Gilligan,
the creator of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul Plurabis.
Speaker 5 (53:31):
It premieres on That's a mouthful. I don't know, that's
a mouthful.
Speaker 3 (53:35):
Plurabis, It's you know, it is a It's available right
now on Apple TV and it is a drama slash
sci fi where the most miserable person on Earth must
save the world from happiness.
Speaker 5 (53:48):
That is the tagline, and.
Speaker 1 (53:50):
It's oh is that right, yeah, Bill somewhere.
Speaker 3 (53:54):
It stars Rhea Sehorn from Better Call Saw Fame and
uh yeah, the It's already been greenlit for a second season.
You can watch the first two episodes right now. There
will be nine episodes this season pluribus on Apple TV.
And that is Coop screw under Him
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