January 23, 2026 • 46 mins
Big Ben talks about former Chargers DC Jesse Minter getting hired as the new head coach for the Baltimore Ravens, the FBI sniffing around the doctor who provided Colts owner Jim Irsay with his opioids, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, and more!
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from the school of poetry, if you want to call
it that, the school of poetry. So the coaching carousel,
it's only a couple of seats open. Another seat has
been filled if you update your big board, not a
list big board. The game of musical chairs. So if
you have not heard, I don't know what you've been doing,
doing something else, perhaps you missed it. So we have
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learned that the Ravens that's a football team, not a
good one. They didn't make the playoffs. The Ravens have
hired Charger defensive coordinator Jesse Minter, who Jesse Mintter. That
sounds like a picture for the Atlanta Braves. Anyway, jesse
Minter will be the new head coach. You can feel
the excitement unless you can't. Unless you can't, So he
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replaces John Harbaugh with the title as an up and comer,
a fast rising coach, the flavor of the month. Jesse
Minter from the Chargers strong ties to the Harball family.
Mint who was at one point an assistant with the
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Ravens and recently has worked with Jim Harball law around,
following him around like a puppy dog from Michigan to
the Chargers. And now he's going to replace Jim Harbaugh's
brother and tagged again forty two rising Star all that,
so that is a good jumping off point. Let us
discuss the question now former Charger defensive coordinator Jesse Minter
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taking over the Ravens job. Is it fair to expect
instant results from a guy who's never done the job before?
Is it fair to expect instant success? So my thoughts
on this, I've got claw machine, tennis, ball, and narcotics
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and we'll put all of these things together and we
are going to make some delicious, amazing spaghetti and meatball.
So a my first thought on this is the idea
that it's not fair is insane. Like there's some people
that think everything needs to be be completely fair. Life
is not fair. Your life will improve when you realize
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that life is not fair. There's so many people that
don't seem to understand that concept. That is why these
guys get paid a lot of money, right, big money,
big money and big money, and they hope they don't
get away with me. Now, this is not last I
checked the Raider job. That's an outhouse, right, the Browns
of Porta Potti. It's not that in comparison to the
Raiders and the Browns. This is a five star restaurant.
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This is not a roach coach, as we used to
call food trucks back in the day. You've got an
MVP level quarterback, a really good gamer, really good gamer
in Lamar Jackson, a great regular season player who often
there's a glitch in the matrix and he goes a
wall when January comes around, Lamar if Lamar is still
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in the building, and that's not a guarantee, right, there's
still a chance in the multiverse that the Ravens get
rid of Lamar Jackson to go completely scorched earth. However,
if he is still there, if you're still in the
Lamar Jackson business, then jesse Mincher, the new coach, has
zero elbow room. Does anyone disagree with that? Okay, I
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don't see anybody raising their hand. There's no grace period here.
There's no learning on the job. You hit the ground
running or you get trampled by a stampede. That's how
it works. And this is going to be Jesse Minter's
first head coaching job in Baltimore at any level, at
any level. And so now he will be managing the offense,
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the defense, special teams, massive egos, annoying media people like
sports with Coleman, and the buffet line. He'll be making
sure the foods served at a certain time, like do
they want burgers? Maybe they don't want burgers. How about fish? No,
other players don't really like fish. Okay, chicken, Maybe we'll
do chicken. Well, now they kind of want burgers, and say,
how about steak. Okay, we'll do stick. We a forged
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to get where the NFL we can afford anything we want.
So you got to control all that stuff. And the
other problem is you don't know what you don't know
right hiring rookie coaches. There's certain teams that are just
loser teams, like the Raiders, now the Browns, the Titans.
Even the Titans hired a either hire a rookie coach
or you hire a reject, right rookie or reject and
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the Ravens. I didn't think that that was that job
that you would hire first timer and all that stuff.
Now I have a theory I'll give you in a
minute when you'll hire a first time head coach. Having
been in this chair behind this microphone for a number
of years, I've noticed that it's kind of like going
to the arcade. When you hire a rookie head coach,
it's like playing the claw machine. Everything looks really good
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in the claw machine, like all the stuffed animals. Maybe
they have some electronic devices in there. You're like, man,
that's really good. I like that new iPhone that's in there. Okay, good.
So you put your money in there. You have a
lot of hope. There's flashing lights because it's an arcade, right,
and what happens normally you walk away with nothing and
you've lost your money. So what are the odds that
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this guy is a good higher Jesse Mintor for the
los A, the for the Ravens, from the chargers, right
from the chargers to the rives. So I'm gonna set
the Mallard line at plus one fifty all right, plus
one fifty enough. You're not good at Matt. That is
very generous. I'm Benny Brightside, I'm mister Positive. I'm Sunshine, Rainbows, Lollipops,
Puppy dogs, the whole thing. So that is a generous
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for now, the heat, if you look at this, the
heat's gonna be on right away unless Lamar Jackson is
let go and then that's you know, they trade him.
But it's gonna be like you're a line cook and
you're in a top restaurant, a seafood restaurant in Baltimore,
and you're making crab cakes at dinner rush. You got
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to keep throwing those crab cakes out. I mean, you
gotta do it otherwise forget about it. And the roster
is aging. It's not a smooth situation there. The quarterback
clock is ticking and so the margin for aero is
a very microscopic the margin for air. Now turning the page,
so we keep the theme here, at least for now,
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the theme of the hour. So the question now is
what does the decision, now that we know who's replacing
the former coach, what does the decision to hire someone
tied to the Harbaugh family and even tied to John
Harbaugh as the next Raven coach? What does that tell us? Right, So,
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sitting in the psychologists chair, this was was not just
about football. It would it would indicate that the Ravens
ownership group. It was like couple's therapy, but everyone's wearing
like jockstraps and stuff. So the ownership looked at the Ravens,
the guys in Baltimore, and they realized that Lamar Jackson
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and John Harbaugh were at loggerheads. They weren't speaking the
same language. You got a flip phone and the other
guy's doing the TikTok and all that stuff. So Jesse
Minter now enters the picture and he's the Harball family's
Swiss army knife. Now he's not a blood relative, but
this guy has been a tennis ball Jesse Mintor. You
look at his resume and it's whack a mole between
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John Harbaugh spent four years with the Ravens, Jim Harball,
and he's gone back and forth. It's like a kid
shuttled between divorced parents every other weekend and the Ravens again.
Four years they had this guy with John men Michigan,
then the Chargers. So this is in theory, it's a
peace treaty. It is a peace treaty by ownership for
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the quarterback. The owner, Steve Bashati, wanted to keep John Harbor.
To me hiring this guy is a dead giveaway. We
hired Jesse Mintor, who's tied to the Harballs. It tells
me that the owner decided to keep Lamar Jackson or
attempt to keep Lamar Jackson happy, and that's why he decided. Well,
I have to get rid of John Harbaugh because I
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want to keep Lamar Jackson happy. So but I'm gonna
still go as close as I can get to the
Harball bloodline without actually hiring a Hardball. Keep that alive,
and then I can get Lamar Jackson happy and all that.
So you get a new voice, but the same perspective
on football. So using some more Malard psychobabble, don't forget
the story. Dump dumpity, dumpity dumpity, do right the story
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dump now Lamar and I was away from my post.
It was the end of twenty twenty five, so it
was only a few weeks ago. But Lamar was accused
of sleeping in meetings, video games till sunrise, and essentially
just being like an overgrown kid. Even though he's got
this massive contract, he he doesn't take the job seriously.
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He gets star treatment. And so the theory I have
again amateur psychologists, I practice on the radio. So the
theory is that that was an intentional leak to try
to wake Lamar up, that embarrass him, send that story out,
and instead it blew up in the hands of John Harbaugh. Right.
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It nuked the relationship with Lamar Jackson, so Lamar shut
down even more. The moment, which we knew at the time,
was a big thing. Some of you dumb people didn't
know the moment after the Steeler Ravens game when he
was asked Lamar Jackson whether he wanted John Harbaugh back,
and he refused to answer the question. That was the moment.
That was the tipping point. That was when things went
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caugh boom. Is what happened right there, and the owners blinked.
And again I theory is they did want to fire
John Harbaugh, so they essentially hired his steps on is
what they did. It's not really a full reboot for
the Ravens. It's like it's like, Hey, I'm gonna have
a diet coke instead of regular coke and I'm healthy
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Now I'm good because I had I'm drinking diet coke.
You know, it's get the super sized combo meal and
I'll get the diet coke. Okay, you're good, You're living
extra ten years, all right. Now, last word, we head
the Buffalo where the buffalo roam. So while the Bills
are turning their full attention to a coaching search, and
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there are some really shady names on that coaching search,
there is a grassroots movement that has started. You see this, no, okay,
So there's a grassroots movement that has started among the
Bills mafia. And I'm not sure whether there are boots
on the ground for Alexis and Inka Terror and Derek
the Bill's Monster. He's one of the guys in the
Bills mafia that wears the mask and jumps on tables,
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So I don't know if these guys are part of it.
The grassroots movement, though, has started among the Bills mafia
to tried to have their voices or they have petitioned
to reinstate Sean McDermott. So what let me repeat that
for those of you in the back there. So, yeah,
so the petition is to reinstate Sean McDermott, as you know,
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the coach. Now, as of a little bit before we
crack the microphones here on the Overnight Show at Fox,
the thing's only been up for a couple of days.
The petition to reinstate the fired Bill's coach has over
thirty eight thousand signatures, over thirty eight thousand signatures and
county and county. So the question do you expect the
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wack A Noodle owner Steve Pagola, who we featured in
a previous episode of the show. Do you expect owner
Steve Pagola rather to see this and to pay attention
to the Bill's Mafia and their petition to bring back
the now former coach. Sean McDermott. All right, so my
first thought on this, it's like buying flowers for your
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girlfriend after you forgot her birthday, your anniversary and Valentine's Day. Right,
it's a sweet gesture. You don't gain any real leverage,
you don't. Do you think that the owner of an
NFL team, Steve Pagola, is sitting in a leather chair
somewhere in his estate and sipping to atobisk and trembling
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because the Internet is upset? Do you think that's going on?
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Right?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Maybe he's having French onion. He could be French onion. Soo,
As Donnie Brasco would say back, in the day. Forget
a body, forget a body. Come on, now, this shows passion.
I thought it. Listen, Bill's mafia has passion. They still
have passion. The majority of Bill's mafia loved Sean McDermott.
There was a great bond there between the coach and
the fan base, and for that, I say great. It's
also whoop de damn do passion. And this is another
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thing that I've learned from working on the suburbs of
the industrial complex of sports. Passion does not run billion
dollar franchises. And there's an old saying in the industrial
complex of sports, and especially the NFL, that he who
listens to the fan base ends up sitting with said
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fan base that you cannot listen to them. And ownership
doesn't crowdsource decisions. It's not like a bake sale or
something along those lines. And so you're asking what, like, like,
what are you trying to send a message? Because I
don't think it's the message you want. And there is
a way to send a message. It's very painful message,
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very painful message to send it. It's painful to get
that message out. But it involves narcotics. It's the narcotic
known as apathy. It's a hell of a drug apathy.
The loudest protest, the loudest protest you can make as
a fan base is not going on social media and
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or attacking you know, random dot bots or whatever. The
thing that you can do that will get attention is
too And this is gonna scare you. It scares me.
It's this thing I can't do. The sound of silence.
The loudest protest is not noise. It's nothing. It's do nothing,
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say nothing, be nothing. Stop buying tickets, stop buying the merge,
stop high fiving every team, tweet like it. You're a
trained seal. Just don't do it. Hit pause. Is it hard? Yeah? Absolutely.
Aloofness is no fun if you're fully invested. However, it
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does work. There's a history of this working. The greatest
example is the Roman dynasty of baseball the Dodgers right now.
And the reason the Dodgers have that is because the
fan base turned their back when they had this parking
lot magnet named Frank McCort that owned the Dodgers. People
actually stopped going to Dodger games. The attendants went down,
the TV ratings were terrible, and people stopped caring they
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had apathy and Major League Baseball, the commission at the
time was this used car salesman, this huckster named Bud Selik,
who allowed all of the steroids to go on in
baseball and then also allowed to tie in the All
Star Game back when that used to matter. That was
really the point of demarcation, when the All Star Game
started sucking because of Bud's selick in all sports. But anyway,
the point is that at that time Baseball freaked out.
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This was one of their great cats, the Dodgers, and
so they worked out a deal to force Frank McCord out.
They gave them the parking lots. Dodgers ended up with
a sweetheart TV deal which is why they have this
and finagling the contracts to have them deferred. And the
Dodgers are set up so you talk with your wallet, right,
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and petitions are that's a whisper and until the revenue
needle moves the wrong direction, and are you in the
red or in the black? Are you in the red
or in the black? And so this thing is just
a symphony. It's it's a you're looking for for some
help from I don't know who. You're not gonna get
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it right.
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No fixing, no funny business here. I don't know what
the line is on DraftKings. I'll have to check. But
our lead from Indianapolis and we have a true crime
mystery in the NFL. Yeah, are those still popular? Those
true crime shows? Are they still I don't know. I
don't know if they're still popular. If you haven't seen it,
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perhaps not. We have learned that the FBI, better known
by that name rather than the Federal Bureau of Investigations,
is looking into the death of former Colts owner Jim
Ersay and the doctor who was supplying him all of
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those pills and whatnot, huge amounts of opioids and ketamine
and injections and all that stuff. All that stuff, and
so from the story it was reported by the Washington Post,
they said the same California based doctor Ersa lives in
indian He lived in Indianapolis. Live anywhere now but Ursa
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in He had a doctor in California who also signed
his death certificate, the same one that was handing him
all the good stuff and ruled the death natural. All right,
So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
discuss again the FBI. The question is the FBI sniffing
around the doctor who provided Colts owner Jim Mersay his
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opi opiods? So how do you read this one? All right?
How do you read this one? So my observations, I
got deep pockets, nanny pod, and tub sales pitch again,
deep pockets, nanny pod and tub sales pitch. And we'll
put all of these things together. One two, three, n ABC.
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So number one, number one a little faster number one. No,
that was better. That was better. So this is not
the Jim Mersey story. Is not a who done it?
It is a how much is it? Story? In my opinion,
it's a sad story, right, somebody dies a sad thing. However,
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I don't believe this is worthy of violence. You know
what I'm saying. We don't need to play the violin.
Jim Irsay was a lot of things. He was quite
the character. He was good for what I do because
he said's anythings? And I appreciate people like that. If
everyone did the same thing, boy, life would be boring.
And so ever, say it was a character. He was
and wasn't the greatest owner in the world. But who
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cares because he said some wack of doodle stuff and
we love that. We love that. He also had demons.
We all have demons, right, everyone's got demons. He had demons.
He was an addict. He was very open about that.
It was painful, and this went on for decades. And
one thing I know people in my world. I'm sure
you have people in your world that are addicted to
drugs or whatever. Alcohol. You always find if you're an addict,
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you're always gonna find your fix. It's like water finding
a crack, right, It's the water's going to find the crack. Well,
there's no crack. Well, there's a crack. You didn't realize
the water found it. And the other thing I know
from I'm not rich, but I know some people that
are rich. And when you have deep pockets, you can
find whatever you need. Right, And especially if you're an
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attic and you have a lot of cash, there's always
a doctor feel good. Right, there's always a doctor feel
good willing to play pharmacist for hire. Now that said,
this is also one of those textbook one percent justice.
You know how there's like different different things. And when
regular people die because they're addicts and they found a
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doctor that is running a buffet of pills for them,
it's bubcus, right, they get bupkus. There's no investigation. That's it.
It's kind of a shrug. Maybe you get the emoji,
the shrug emoji, and then that's it. You move on. However,
when a billionaire who happens to own an NFL team
keels over in the same situation, suddenly it is CSI rehab.
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We've seen some high profile cases over the years. I
don't know how old you are. They should be a
musician named Michael Jackson. He was kind of famous. His
doctor was giving him all kinds of stuff. It was convicted,
went to jail. More recently that if you watch the
show Friends back in the name Matthew Perry who died
in I think it was Malibu, and there's similar situation there.
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So these people had a lot of money, they were
famous people, and they were able to find doctors. According
to one was convicted. I don't know what happened with
the I haven't kept track of the Matthew Perrys. So,
but they had there's a lot of there's a lot
of opportunity, uh when you when you've got the money,
and so wealth buys uh confusion, it also buys you
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plausible deniability. Now, I want to be clear, I got
a very passionate reaction. Last year we talked about the
sad story involving the pitcher Tyler Skaggs of the Angels,
and he also was a drug addict, and he, you know,
he died from an overdose at a hotel room in
Texas and the Angels were playing the Rangers and the
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person that was giving him the drugs in that case
is currently in jail, will be in jail pretty much
the rest of his life. And I had said I
did not believe that that warranted a conviction because that
was a couple of junkies that were sharing drugs. They
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were both drug addicts. And so to me, this is
different than Jim Mersey story. And the reason it's different,
I'll say why, is because doctors, unlike just regular people
that are addicted to drugs, they take the Hippocratic oath, right,
and when you take the hypocritic oath, which is the
foundational ethical code of medicine for physicians, and I think
most of us know that we learned that in school.
And so when you do that, you emphasize the principles
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of things like do no harm, right, do no harm,
and patient you get to be quiet about patients of
the confidentiality and all that stuff, and so all of
those things go into it. And so it's different when
you're a doctor, when you're handing out the opioids like
tic TACs, it's problematic as opposed again to somebody who
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is a low level staffer for the Angels and was
also a drug addict, and Tyler Skaggs reached out to
him to get drugs. To me, that's a different situation,
all right. Now we move away from that's sad tale.
We go to the Bay Area where John Lynch the
story still has legs the GM of the Niners confirming
confirming John Lynch that wide receiver Brandon Iuc will not return.
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We talked about this in a previous episode of the show.
John Lynch said he has played his last snap. Now
we are told the Niners are all horny to get
their hands on Vikings. Wide receiver Jordan Addison, who played
at Pitt and SC was a very good college player
and had a great rookie year in the NFL for
the Minnesota football team. So the theory is based on
what I understand a minute long deliberation of the available information,
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that Jordan Addison would slide in to the Niners and
become the primary pass catcher and not likely sending Brandon
Ayac back to Minnesota. Now, why would Minnesota want to
get to get rid of Jordan Addison. Well, there's some
financial stuff, but it's also he's just become a knucklehead.
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Buffoonery has been taking place here. So Addison's production is strong,
although it's not going the right direction of the off
field stuff. The buffoonery is the story here for Jordan Addison.
So the question on this one for the class. And
you're in the class. So the question is the forty
nine ers, according to various outposts making efforts to this offseason,
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they have targeted Vikings wide receiver Jordan Addison as a
guy they want do you approve or disprove? As you know,
it's very important. I'm at the bully pulpit here, and
at the bully pulpit very important that what I say matters.
So I approve the Vikings going for Jordan Addison with
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the qualifier of adult supervision. The talent this guy is
absolutely is wonderful. The smarts does not have a high
football IQ. Okay, don't ask. Jordan Addison can play at
a very high level. He's got the tools in the toolbox. Unfortunately,
the toolbox is missing the instruction manual. So if you
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get him, you're gonna have to go online and see
can I get the instruction man? Well, we don't. We don't
send that out. Well why not? I need it? I
need the instruction man. Well, we don't do it anymore.
I can send it to your phone. I don't have
a smartphone. I have a dumb phone. Okay, you're screwed.
That's it. So that's why he'll be available from Minnesota.
If you believe these coupes, and really, anyone's available, and
anyone's can be available. Of the Dallas Mavericks can give
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away Luca. Anyone can be available, and you can get
Jordan Addison for pennies on the dollar. Because there is
a hole in his ozone layer when it comes to
decision making. So if you activate the Malard think Tank,
which we like to do, you bring Jordan Addison in,
then you hold an A and E style intervention. You
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bring in that A and E style intervention. I'm talking
the full babysitter package. You go on nanny pod, you
get the VIP package, you got the nanny, you got
the babysitter, which I guess is different than a nanny.
Then you've got the chauffeur. Got to have the show
for guy. Now in San Francisco they got those self
driving waymos, which in LA they're turned into barbecues, but
I don't know if they do it in San Francisco too.
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So get one of those, you know, give him a
personal weymo and then you're good on that GPS ankle bracelet.
If you have to. The court might give him that,
anything to keep him from Buckley. Now he has served
the vikings three years in the NFL. The three x
three combo. What is the three x three combo? That's
that's the meal, three by three combo meal. You've got
three seasons in the NFL and three arrests. Three arrests
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in the NFL. Now, I believe the last one, which
was at a hotel in Florida, I think the charges
were not They didn't go forward with that case. But
he still was arrested for it, but they didn't go forward.
It worked out some kind of deal. It would appear
and the production. That's the other issue. He's not terrible,
but it's like a phone battery that every year you
(30:18):
have your phone, the battery drains a little bit faster.
You know what I'm talking about. It's paying the ass, Yeah, exactly.
So that's the issue. He's had fewer catches Jordan Nattison,
fewer yards and fewer touchdowns every season since his breakout
rookie year. And nevertheless, here's the thing. I don't want
to see the Niners do well. But if I was
the Niners, I would say, well, we don't really need
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somebody that's acquired boy. We don't need acquire boy. So
they need a weapon, and we know that brock Purty. Really,
what the Niners are saying is brock Purty's not that good,
is what they're saying. Right, He's not good enough. Some
quarterbacks elevate wide receivers. Brock Purty is not. That guy's
very average talent. They overpaid him, and this is an
admission that he needs playmakers. Brock perty because he doesn't
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make players around him better, They make him better. He
doesn't make them better. He doesn't elevate his teammates. That's
really what the Niners are saying by this rumor getting
out there and Kyle Shannon's offense. All you geniuses tell
me how great this guy is as a coach and
all that stuff. His offense is hyped as a finishing
school and all that. So let's see. Let's see. Let's
(31:21):
see Lance the bus driver, Nest Do in the Bay,
and Terry and England's a big forty nine er fan,
and Jay Scoop and all these cats. Let's see how
this goes all? Right, now, final point, dud Jersey. We
go to Jersey. We are told that multiple defensive coordinator candidates,
including two big names, two prominent names in the NFL,
(31:44):
have said ix nay on the Jets say they have
declined to even interview with Jets head coach Aaron Glenn. Now,
the big Apple media having a field day, acting like
termites finding soft wood. They are consuming it from the
inside out, so excited. This is so great for them.
So the question, how do you process Aaron Glenn and
(32:06):
the Jets being rejected by multiple big name defensive coordinators.
So this is not Harvard law right, turning you down.
This is not Harvard law. This is the NFL coaching
market telling you, eh, and we're good, we're good. We
(32:26):
don't need that. Now tells me that Aaron Glenn and
the Jets front office aimed way too high, way too hot, right,
and you outkicked your coverage. Our old morning guy Klay
Travis would like that, but you OutKick your coverage right.
You tripped over your own shoelaces and you landed faced
first in a cloud of stardust. It's bad job by you.
(32:50):
It shows you zero situational winners. They don't know where
they rank on the food chain in the NFL, and
you really have to know where you rank the Jets.
That's I guess. I'll use the analogy like this. Imagine,
if you will. You are a tech startup. You've got
a little bit of venture capital, but you're not you're
not loaded, right, you're a little venture capital. So you're
(33:11):
a tech startup, You're gonna fix the world and all
that stuff. And you go out and you try to
poach an Apple executive and you offer them a bunch
of stock options, and the Apple executive looks at you
and said wait a minute, that's monopoly money, and said, well,
I know it's monopoly money, but we want you to
come work for us. We're a hot to try start up. Well, no,
(33:32):
but I work at Apple. I have real money. I
don't need. I do not need that monopoly money. But
please come on. You're using the if you're the startup
the Jets, you're using the tub sales pitch, what I
call the tub sales pitch. You know what the tub
sales pitch is. It's trust us, bro that's the sales pitch.
Just trust us brouh And we're building something. Yeah, that's it.
(33:56):
That's a ticket. We're building something. It is an open
secret that coaches. No, you go to the Jets, Yeah,
you'll make a decent amount of money, but you better
not buy anything. Because the Jets have a stumble bump owner.
The roster blows. There's chaos in the air everywhere, and
so there's also a lack of job security for Aaron
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Glenn and so it appears they've said hard passed. You're
gonna get someone. Ob mean, someone will take that job.
It's kind of like going to Best Buy. The Jets
are like, I think I gotta get a refrigerator. And
so you look at the price of the refrigerators and
they're really expensive, and said, man, I can't afford that.
And so you're not getting a shiny stainless steel model
with the ice maker and all the bells and whistles
(34:40):
and the dew hickeys and all that. You're in the
back open box fridge, you know, the back where they
have all the stuff. That's damage. You got dents on
the door, it's missing the shelf. There's some kind of weird,
funny humming sound thing. I don't know what that is,
but don't worry about it. And by the way, all
sales are final. All sales are final. Good luck, good
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luck yikes.
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Coobol.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
It was reported on Wednesday that Brian Daball is targeting
the Bill's head coaching job. Ben, what odds do you
give Dave Ball of actually landing it?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Well, of course everyone's targeting that job. I give him
a better than fifty percent I'd say a sixty percent yes,
because he's bros with Josh Allen and Josh Allen they
got to suck up to Allen. So I say that
Brian day Ball, I would say he's got about sixty
percent chance. He worked there. He was beloved in Buffalo, like,
that's the one guy they can hire that people won't
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be pissed off about.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Next, in a piece where league executives, coaches, and scouts
were asked to make a bold prediction, one thinks that
the Falcons could start the season with Kirk Cousins not
only still on the team, but at the top of
the depth chart.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Ben, could you see that happening? Well?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Could they? Yes? Could they? But if I'm Kevin Stefanski
and I'm taking over, I want to change it off.
I want to bring new people in there. Cousins look
pretty washed up at the end of last year, so
I would make a change. But could he? Sure? I
could see that?
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Next?
Speaker 4 (36:20):
On Wednesday, there was a report that sugg Justin Steve
Kerr's future with the Warriors is up in the air,
and that multiple assistant coaches on his staff are offerating
under the premise that Kerr will not be back next season.
Do you think this is it for Steve Kerr?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Yeah, well I think it's fair. If Kerr realizes it's
all over for the Warriors, he's out. He'll go back
and do television or at Amazon or NBC, which he
did at TNT before and that did. How'd we do, Kobolo?
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Unlike unlike that guy pretending to be John from Colorado
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I'm it's a I'm proud to be that.
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it away, thank you, Marcel. I am taking it away,
all right, So we're gonna start off like we always
do in the theaters on Koop Scuba and Entertainment, but
we're gonna we're just gonna take a brief trip there
because the couple of releases this weekend have terrible reviews, uh,
(41:52):
but they're worth mentioning just because they've got some star power.
The first is a movie called Mercy Now. This stars
Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson, and it is a action
adventure slash side fi. Stop calling, I'm not going to
screen your calls.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
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Speaker 5 (42:10):
In the near future, a detective step.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Oh my, people love to call the show a detective.
Speaker 4 (42:19):
A detective stands on trial accused of murdering his wife.
He has ninety minutes to prove his innocence to the
advanced AI judge.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
Oh Ai judge, That's just what I need in my world.
Speaker 4 (42:30):
Yes, it sounds it sounds like a like an interesting premise,
but the critics apparently did not like it. It's got
a twenty six percent on Rotten Tomatoes so far.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Did they did? They did? I don't know who made it,
but they're like, we gotta get Ai in a movie.
Let's get Ai in a movie. Everyone do an Ai.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
Let's get a people want to see that in the
movie though, well, I mean the the AI character is
played by a real actress. But you know, it's it's
it's it's what's going on in society, Ben, That's that's
you know what we gotta you know, that could be
a future we might be judged, you know, juried and executions.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
By a I kill plug it, you know, if to
worry about it, plug it.
Speaker 4 (43:10):
H The second movie coming out this weekend is a
another installment in the Silent Hill series. This is returned
to Silent Hill. Uh, this one. I'm just gonna mention
it because it's a known brand. But it's got a
nine percent on Rotten Tomatoes and the nine that's true.
(43:35):
That's that's something I guess. I'm moving over to television.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
Television, the boob tube.
Speaker 4 (43:40):
Yes, that is correct. We have a documentary for you, Ben, Oh,
thank you. There we got and this one is mel
Brooks the ninety nine year old man.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
You're still around?
Speaker 4 (43:53):
Yes, this is a documentary directed by jud Appatoo and
Michael you know what, jut outtime.
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With somebody else?
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Okay, you don't know how to say it, leave it out.
Speaker 5 (44:05):
That's right.
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Just mumble it, just mumble it.
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Bonfiglio, Michael Bonfiglio. That's probably how Yeah, there we go.
H It is a two part look at the comedy legend.
Both parts are available to stream right now on HBO Max.
Part one was actually last night at eight eight pm.
If you don't do the whole streaming thing. Part two
will be tonight at eight pm on HBO.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
Yeah, I do. I just stream it. I just stream it.
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I'm good on that my music. Please thank you, Lauren.
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Come on.
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Ye here, here's something interesting that is going to be
on Netflix, and it's it's gonna be on Netflix tonight.
Actually you might have seen some advertisements for it. It's
called Skyscraper Live. So it is a live event and
it follows free soloist Alex Hanald.
Speaker 5 (44:59):
Who is going to climb one of.
Speaker 4 (45:01):
The world's tallest buildings type one oh one, which I mean,
that's the plan.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
This is live. Yes, Sophie dies.
Speaker 4 (45:11):
I guess we're gonna see a death on Netflix if
that happens.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
Okay, I don't live.
Speaker 5 (45:18):
Look, I mean they might have, like you know, kind
of like we do a.
Speaker 4 (45:23):
A little bit of a delay just in case he falls.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
Bay Area calls up and says bad words and things
like that.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
Right, yeah, so and I and I imagine if the
cameras are following him if he falls. I doubt the
camera is going to pan down to see if he falls.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
Everyone gets pancakes soon.
Speaker 5 (45:44):
Anyway, if you're interested to.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
See me somebody, I want to see him make it.
I don't want to see any gad zukery. I want
to see the guy make Yeah.
Speaker 5 (45:51):
There you go.
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That is tonight at eight pm Eastern five pm Pacific
time on Netflix. And Last but not Least is the
premiere of the third season of Apple's acclaimed dramedy Shrinking,
starring Harrison Ford and Jason Siegel. This season, we'll see
Jeff Daniels and Michael J. Fox joined the cast. Rude yes,
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oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (46:18):
That is Michael J. Fox's first TV role in five years.
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And that will be on Apple TV Wednesday, January twenty eighth.
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We are together in the air ev reware as we
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it that, the school of poetry. So the coaching carousel,
it's only a couple of seats open. Another seat has
been filled if you update your big board, not a
list big board. The game of musical chairs. So if
you have not heard, I don't know what you've been doing,
doing something else, perhaps you missed it. So we have
(03:13):
learned that the Ravens that's a football team, not a
good one. They didn't make the playoffs. The Ravens have
hired Charger defensive coordinator Jesse Minter, who Jesse Mintter. That
sounds like a picture for the Atlanta Braves. Anyway, jesse
Minter will be the new head coach. You can feel
the excitement unless you can't. Unless you can't, So he
(03:37):
replaces John Harbaugh with the title as an up and comer,
a fast rising coach, the flavor of the month. Jesse
Minter from the Chargers strong ties to the Harball family.
Mint who was at one point an assistant with the
(03:57):
Ravens and recently has worked with Jim Harball law around,
following him around like a puppy dog from Michigan to
the Chargers. And now he's going to replace Jim Harbaugh's
brother and tagged again forty two rising Star all that,
so that is a good jumping off point. Let us
discuss the question now former Charger defensive coordinator Jesse Minter
(04:22):
taking over the Ravens job. Is it fair to expect
instant results from a guy who's never done the job before?
Is it fair to expect instant success? So my thoughts
on this, I've got claw machine, tennis, ball, and narcotics
(04:43):
and we'll put all of these things together and we
are going to make some delicious, amazing spaghetti and meatball.
So a my first thought on this is the idea
that it's not fair is insane. Like there's some people
that think everything needs to be be completely fair. Life
is not fair. Your life will improve when you realize
(05:04):
that life is not fair. There's so many people that
don't seem to understand that concept. That is why these
guys get paid a lot of money, right, big money,
big money and big money, and they hope they don't
get away with me. Now, this is not last I
checked the Raider job. That's an outhouse, right, the Browns
of Porta Potti. It's not that in comparison to the
Raiders and the Browns. This is a five star restaurant.
(05:28):
This is not a roach coach, as we used to
call food trucks back in the day. You've got an
MVP level quarterback, a really good gamer, really good gamer
in Lamar Jackson, a great regular season player who often
there's a glitch in the matrix and he goes a
wall when January comes around, Lamar if Lamar is still
(05:48):
in the building, and that's not a guarantee, right, there's
still a chance in the multiverse that the Ravens get
rid of Lamar Jackson to go completely scorched earth. However,
if he is still there, if you're still in the
Lamar Jackson business, then jesse Mincher, the new coach, has
zero elbow room. Does anyone disagree with that? Okay, I
(06:09):
don't see anybody raising their hand. There's no grace period here.
There's no learning on the job. You hit the ground
running or you get trampled by a stampede. That's how
it works. And this is going to be Jesse Minter's
first head coaching job in Baltimore at any level, at
any level. And so now he will be managing the offense,
(06:30):
the defense, special teams, massive egos, annoying media people like
sports with Coleman, and the buffet line. He'll be making
sure the foods served at a certain time, like do
they want burgers? Maybe they don't want burgers. How about fish? No,
other players don't really like fish. Okay, chicken, Maybe we'll
do chicken. Well, now they kind of want burgers, and say,
how about steak. Okay, we'll do stick. We a forged
(06:51):
to get where the NFL we can afford anything we want.
So you got to control all that stuff. And the
other problem is you don't know what you don't know
right hiring rookie coaches. There's certain teams that are just
loser teams, like the Raiders, now the Browns, the Titans.
Even the Titans hired a either hire a rookie coach
or you hire a reject, right rookie or reject and
(07:15):
the Ravens. I didn't think that that was that job
that you would hire first timer and all that stuff.
Now I have a theory I'll give you in a
minute when you'll hire a first time head coach. Having
been in this chair behind this microphone for a number
of years, I've noticed that it's kind of like going
to the arcade. When you hire a rookie head coach,
it's like playing the claw machine. Everything looks really good
(07:38):
in the claw machine, like all the stuffed animals. Maybe
they have some electronic devices in there. You're like, man,
that's really good. I like that new iPhone that's in there. Okay, good.
So you put your money in there. You have a
lot of hope. There's flashing lights because it's an arcade, right,
and what happens normally you walk away with nothing and
you've lost your money. So what are the odds that
(08:02):
this guy is a good higher Jesse Mintor for the
los A, the for the Ravens, from the chargers, right
from the chargers to the rives. So I'm gonna set
the Mallard line at plus one fifty all right, plus
one fifty enough. You're not good at Matt. That is
very generous. I'm Benny Brightside, I'm mister Positive. I'm Sunshine, Rainbows, Lollipops,
Puppy dogs, the whole thing. So that is a generous
(08:25):
for now, the heat, if you look at this, the
heat's gonna be on right away unless Lamar Jackson is
let go and then that's you know, they trade him.
But it's gonna be like you're a line cook and
you're in a top restaurant, a seafood restaurant in Baltimore,
and you're making crab cakes at dinner rush. You got
(08:45):
to keep throwing those crab cakes out. I mean, you
gotta do it otherwise forget about it. And the roster
is aging. It's not a smooth situation there. The quarterback
clock is ticking and so the margin for aero is
a very microscopic the margin for air. Now turning the page,
so we keep the theme here, at least for now,
(09:06):
the theme of the hour. So the question now is
what does the decision, now that we know who's replacing
the former coach, what does the decision to hire someone
tied to the Harbaugh family and even tied to John
Harbaugh as the next Raven coach? What does that tell us? Right, So,
(09:27):
sitting in the psychologists chair, this was was not just
about football. It would it would indicate that the Ravens
ownership group. It was like couple's therapy, but everyone's wearing
like jockstraps and stuff. So the ownership looked at the Ravens,
the guys in Baltimore, and they realized that Lamar Jackson
(09:50):
and John Harbaugh were at loggerheads. They weren't speaking the
same language. You got a flip phone and the other
guy's doing the TikTok and all that stuff. So Jesse
Minter now enters the picture and he's the Harball family's
Swiss army knife. Now he's not a blood relative, but
this guy has been a tennis ball Jesse Mintor. You
look at his resume and it's whack a mole between
(10:13):
John Harbaugh spent four years with the Ravens, Jim Harball,
and he's gone back and forth. It's like a kid
shuttled between divorced parents every other weekend and the Ravens again.
Four years they had this guy with John men Michigan,
then the Chargers. So this is in theory, it's a
peace treaty. It is a peace treaty by ownership for
(10:34):
the quarterback. The owner, Steve Bashati, wanted to keep John Harbor.
To me hiring this guy is a dead giveaway. We
hired Jesse Mintor, who's tied to the Harballs. It tells
me that the owner decided to keep Lamar Jackson or
attempt to keep Lamar Jackson happy, and that's why he decided. Well,
I have to get rid of John Harbaugh because I
(10:55):
want to keep Lamar Jackson happy. So but I'm gonna
still go as close as I can get to the
Harball bloodline without actually hiring a Hardball. Keep that alive,
and then I can get Lamar Jackson happy and all that.
So you get a new voice, but the same perspective
on football. So using some more Malard psychobabble, don't forget
the story. Dump dumpity, dumpity dumpity, do right the story
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dump now Lamar and I was away from my post.
It was the end of twenty twenty five, so it
was only a few weeks ago. But Lamar was accused
of sleeping in meetings, video games till sunrise, and essentially
just being like an overgrown kid. Even though he's got
this massive contract, he he doesn't take the job seriously.
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He gets star treatment. And so the theory I have
again amateur psychologists, I practice on the radio. So the
theory is that that was an intentional leak to try
to wake Lamar up, that embarrass him, send that story out,
and instead it blew up in the hands of John Harbaugh. Right.
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It nuked the relationship with Lamar Jackson, so Lamar shut
down even more. The moment, which we knew at the time,
was a big thing. Some of you dumb people didn't
know the moment after the Steeler Ravens game when he
was asked Lamar Jackson whether he wanted John Harbaugh back,
and he refused to answer the question. That was the moment.
That was the tipping point. That was when things went
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caugh boom. Is what happened right there, and the owners blinked.
And again I theory is they did want to fire
John Harbaugh, so they essentially hired his steps on is
what they did. It's not really a full reboot for
the Ravens. It's like it's like, Hey, I'm gonna have
a diet coke instead of regular coke and I'm healthy
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Now I'm good because I had I'm drinking diet coke.
You know, it's get the super sized combo meal and
I'll get the diet coke. Okay, you're good, You're living
extra ten years, all right. Now, last word, we head
the Buffalo where the buffalo roam. So while the Bills
are turning their full attention to a coaching search, and
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there are some really shady names on that coaching search,
there is a grassroots movement that has started. You see this, no, okay,
So there's a grassroots movement that has started among the
Bills mafia. And I'm not sure whether there are boots
on the ground for Alexis and Inka Terror and Derek
the Bill's Monster. He's one of the guys in the
Bills mafia that wears the mask and jumps on tables,
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So I don't know if these guys are part of it.
The grassroots movement, though, has started among the Bills mafia
to tried to have their voices or they have petitioned
to reinstate Sean McDermott. So what let me repeat that
for those of you in the back there. So, yeah,
so the petition is to reinstate Sean McDermott, as you know,
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the coach. Now, as of a little bit before we
crack the microphones here on the Overnight Show at Fox,
the thing's only been up for a couple of days.
The petition to reinstate the fired Bill's coach has over
thirty eight thousand signatures, over thirty eight thousand signatures and
county and county. So the question do you expect the
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wack A Noodle owner Steve Pagola, who we featured in
a previous episode of the show. Do you expect owner
Steve Pagola rather to see this and to pay attention
to the Bill's Mafia and their petition to bring back
the now former coach. Sean McDermott. All right, so my
first thought on this, it's like buying flowers for your
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girlfriend after you forgot her birthday, your anniversary and Valentine's Day. Right,
it's a sweet gesture. You don't gain any real leverage,
you don't. Do you think that the owner of an
NFL team, Steve Pagola, is sitting in a leather chair
somewhere in his estate and sipping to atobisk and trembling
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because the Internet is upset? Do you think that's going on?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Right?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Maybe he's having French onion. He could be French onion. Soo,
As Donnie Brasco would say back, in the day. Forget
a body, forget a body. Come on, now, this shows passion.
I thought it. Listen, Bill's mafia has passion. They still
have passion. The majority of Bill's mafia loved Sean McDermott.
There was a great bond there between the coach and
the fan base, and for that, I say great. It's
also whoop de damn do passion. And this is another
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thing that I've learned from working on the suburbs of
the industrial complex of sports. Passion does not run billion
dollar franchises. And there's an old saying in the industrial
complex of sports, and especially the NFL, that he who
listens to the fan base ends up sitting with said
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fan base that you cannot listen to them. And ownership
doesn't crowdsource decisions. It's not like a bake sale or
something along those lines. And so you're asking what, like, like,
what are you trying to send a message? Because I
don't think it's the message you want. And there is
a way to send a message. It's very painful message,
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very painful message to send it. It's painful to get
that message out. But it involves narcotics. It's the narcotic
known as apathy. It's a hell of a drug apathy.
The loudest protest, the loudest protest you can make as
a fan base is not going on social media and
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or attacking you know, random dot bots or whatever. The
thing that you can do that will get attention is
too And this is gonna scare you. It scares me.
It's this thing I can't do. The sound of silence.
The loudest protest is not noise. It's nothing. It's do nothing,
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say nothing, be nothing. Stop buying tickets, stop buying the merge,
stop high fiving every team, tweet like it. You're a
trained seal. Just don't do it. Hit pause. Is it hard? Yeah? Absolutely.
Aloofness is no fun if you're fully invested. However, it
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does work. There's a history of this working. The greatest
example is the Roman dynasty of baseball the Dodgers right now.
And the reason the Dodgers have that is because the
fan base turned their back when they had this parking
lot magnet named Frank McCort that owned the Dodgers. People
actually stopped going to Dodger games. The attendants went down,
the TV ratings were terrible, and people stopped caring they
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had apathy and Major League Baseball, the commission at the
time was this used car salesman, this huckster named Bud Selik,
who allowed all of the steroids to go on in
baseball and then also allowed to tie in the All
Star Game back when that used to matter. That was
really the point of demarcation, when the All Star Game
started sucking because of Bud's selick in all sports. But anyway,
the point is that at that time Baseball freaked out.
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This was one of their great cats, the Dodgers, and
so they worked out a deal to force Frank McCord out.
They gave them the parking lots. Dodgers ended up with
a sweetheart TV deal which is why they have this
and finagling the contracts to have them deferred. And the
Dodgers are set up so you talk with your wallet, right,
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and petitions are that's a whisper and until the revenue
needle moves the wrong direction, and are you in the
red or in the black? Are you in the red
or in the black? And so this thing is just
a symphony. It's it's a you're looking for for some
help from I don't know who. You're not gonna get
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No fixing, no funny business here. I don't know what
the line is on DraftKings. I'll have to check. But
our lead from Indianapolis and we have a true crime
mystery in the NFL. Yeah, are those still popular? Those
true crime shows? Are they still I don't know. I
don't know if they're still popular. If you haven't seen it,
(20:15):
perhaps not. We have learned that the FBI, better known
by that name rather than the Federal Bureau of Investigations,
is looking into the death of former Colts owner Jim
Ersay and the doctor who was supplying him all of
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those pills and whatnot, huge amounts of opioids and ketamine
and injections and all that stuff. All that stuff, and
so from the story it was reported by the Washington Post,
they said the same California based doctor Ersa lives in
indian He lived in Indianapolis. Live anywhere now but Ursa
(20:56):
in He had a doctor in California who also signed
his death certificate, the same one that was handing him
all the good stuff and ruled the death natural. All right,
So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
discuss again the FBI. The question is the FBI sniffing
around the doctor who provided Colts owner Jim Mersay his
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opi opiods? So how do you read this one? All right?
How do you read this one? So my observations, I
got deep pockets, nanny pod, and tub sales pitch again,
deep pockets, nanny pod and tub sales pitch. And we'll
put all of these things together. One two, three, n ABC.
(21:41):
So number one, number one a little faster number one. No,
that was better. That was better. So this is not
the Jim Mersey story. Is not a who done it?
It is a how much is it? Story? In my opinion,
it's a sad story, right, somebody dies a sad thing. However,
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I don't believe this is worthy of violence. You know
what I'm saying. We don't need to play the violin.
Jim Irsay was a lot of things. He was quite
the character. He was good for what I do because
he said's anythings? And I appreciate people like that. If
everyone did the same thing, boy, life would be boring.
And so ever, say it was a character. He was
and wasn't the greatest owner in the world. But who
(22:27):
cares because he said some wack of doodle stuff and
we love that. We love that. He also had demons.
We all have demons, right, everyone's got demons. He had demons.
He was an addict. He was very open about that.
It was painful, and this went on for decades. And
one thing I know people in my world. I'm sure
you have people in your world that are addicted to
drugs or whatever. Alcohol. You always find if you're an addict,
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you're always gonna find your fix. It's like water finding
a crack, right, It's the water's going to find the crack. Well,
there's no crack. Well, there's a crack. You didn't realize
the water found it. And the other thing I know
from I'm not rich, but I know some people that
are rich. And when you have deep pockets, you can
find whatever you need. Right, And especially if you're an
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attic and you have a lot of cash, there's always
a doctor feel good. Right, there's always a doctor feel
good willing to play pharmacist for hire. Now that said,
this is also one of those textbook one percent justice.
You know how there's like different different things. And when
regular people die because they're addicts and they found a
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doctor that is running a buffet of pills for them,
it's bubcus, right, they get bupkus. There's no investigation. That's it.
It's kind of a shrug. Maybe you get the emoji,
the shrug emoji, and then that's it. You move on. However,
when a billionaire who happens to own an NFL team
keels over in the same situation, suddenly it is CSI rehab.
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We've seen some high profile cases over the years. I
don't know how old you are. They should be a
musician named Michael Jackson. He was kind of famous. His
doctor was giving him all kinds of stuff. It was convicted,
went to jail. More recently that if you watch the
show Friends back in the name Matthew Perry who died
in I think it was Malibu, and there's similar situation there.
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So these people had a lot of money, they were
famous people, and they were able to find doctors. According
to one was convicted. I don't know what happened with
the I haven't kept track of the Matthew Perrys. So,
but they had there's a lot of there's a lot
of opportunity, uh when you when you've got the money,
and so wealth buys uh confusion, it also buys you
(24:42):
plausible deniability. Now, I want to be clear, I got
a very passionate reaction. Last year we talked about the
sad story involving the pitcher Tyler Skaggs of the Angels,
and he also was a drug addict, and he, you know,
he died from an overdose at a hotel room in
Texas and the Angels were playing the Rangers and the
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person that was giving him the drugs in that case
is currently in jail, will be in jail pretty much
the rest of his life. And I had said I
did not believe that that warranted a conviction because that
was a couple of junkies that were sharing drugs. They
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were both drug addicts. And so to me, this is
different than Jim Mersey story. And the reason it's different,
I'll say why, is because doctors, unlike just regular people
that are addicted to drugs, they take the Hippocratic oath, right,
and when you take the hypocritic oath, which is the
foundational ethical code of medicine for physicians, and I think
most of us know that we learned that in school.
And so when you do that, you emphasize the principles
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of things like do no harm, right, do no harm,
and patient you get to be quiet about patients of
the confidentiality and all that stuff, and so all of
those things go into it. And so it's different when
you're a doctor, when you're handing out the opioids like
tic TACs, it's problematic as opposed again to somebody who
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is a low level staffer for the Angels and was
also a drug addict, and Tyler Skaggs reached out to
him to get drugs. To me, that's a different situation,
all right. Now we move away from that's sad tale.
We go to the Bay Area where John Lynch the
story still has legs the GM of the Niners confirming
confirming John Lynch that wide receiver Brandon Iuc will not return.
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We talked about this in a previous episode of the show.
John Lynch said he has played his last snap. Now
we are told the Niners are all horny to get
their hands on Vikings. Wide receiver Jordan Addison, who played
at Pitt and SC was a very good college player
and had a great rookie year in the NFL for
the Minnesota football team. So the theory is based on
what I understand a minute long deliberation of the available information,
(26:58):
that Jordan Addison would slide in to the Niners and
become the primary pass catcher and not likely sending Brandon
Ayac back to Minnesota. Now, why would Minnesota want to
get to get rid of Jordan Addison. Well, there's some
financial stuff, but it's also he's just become a knucklehead.
(27:19):
Buffoonery has been taking place here. So Addison's production is strong,
although it's not going the right direction of the off
field stuff. The buffoonery is the story here for Jordan Addison.
So the question on this one for the class. And
you're in the class. So the question is the forty
nine ers, according to various outposts making efforts to this offseason,
(27:44):
they have targeted Vikings wide receiver Jordan Addison as a
guy they want do you approve or disprove? As you know,
it's very important. I'm at the bully pulpit here, and
at the bully pulpit very important that what I say matters.
So I approve the Vikings going for Jordan Addison with
(28:06):
the qualifier of adult supervision. The talent this guy is
absolutely is wonderful. The smarts does not have a high
football IQ. Okay, don't ask. Jordan Addison can play at
a very high level. He's got the tools in the toolbox. Unfortunately,
the toolbox is missing the instruction manual. So if you
(28:29):
get him, you're gonna have to go online and see
can I get the instruction man? Well, we don't. We don't
send that out. Well why not? I need it? I
need the instruction man. Well, we don't do it anymore.
I can send it to your phone. I don't have
a smartphone. I have a dumb phone. Okay, you're screwed.
That's it. So that's why he'll be available from Minnesota.
If you believe these coupes, and really, anyone's available, and
anyone's can be available. Of the Dallas Mavericks can give
(28:52):
away Luca. Anyone can be available, and you can get
Jordan Addison for pennies on the dollar. Because there is
a hole in his ozone layer when it comes to
decision making. So if you activate the Malard think Tank,
which we like to do, you bring Jordan Addison in,
then you hold an A and E style intervention. You
(29:14):
bring in that A and E style intervention. I'm talking
the full babysitter package. You go on nanny pod, you
get the VIP package, you got the nanny, you got
the babysitter, which I guess is different than a nanny.
Then you've got the chauffeur. Got to have the show
for guy. Now in San Francisco they got those self
driving waymos, which in LA they're turned into barbecues, but
I don't know if they do it in San Francisco too.
(29:34):
So get one of those, you know, give him a
personal weymo and then you're good on that GPS ankle bracelet.
If you have to. The court might give him that,
anything to keep him from Buckley. Now he has served
the vikings three years in the NFL. The three x
three combo. What is the three x three combo? That's
that's the meal, three by three combo meal. You've got
three seasons in the NFL and three arrests. Three arrests
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in the NFL. Now, I believe the last one, which
was at a hotel in Florida, I think the charges
were not They didn't go forward with that case. But
he still was arrested for it, but they didn't go forward.
It worked out some kind of deal. It would appear
and the production. That's the other issue. He's not terrible,
but it's like a phone battery that every year you
(30:18):
have your phone, the battery drains a little bit faster.
You know what I'm talking about. It's paying the ass, Yeah, exactly.
So that's the issue. He's had fewer catches Jordan Nattison,
fewer yards and fewer touchdowns every season since his breakout
rookie year. And nevertheless, here's the thing. I don't want
to see the Niners do well. But if I was
the Niners, I would say, well, we don't really need
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somebody that's acquired boy. We don't need acquire boy. So
they need a weapon, and we know that brock Purty. Really,
what the Niners are saying is brock Purty's not that good,
is what they're saying. Right, He's not good enough. Some
quarterbacks elevate wide receivers. Brock Purty is not. That guy's
very average talent. They overpaid him, and this is an
admission that he needs playmakers. Brock perty because he doesn't
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make players around him better, They make him better. He
doesn't make them better. He doesn't elevate his teammates. That's
really what the Niners are saying by this rumor getting
out there and Kyle Shannon's offense. All you geniuses tell
me how great this guy is as a coach and
all that stuff. His offense is hyped as a finishing
school and all that. So let's see. Let's see. Let's
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see Lance the bus driver, Nest Do in the Bay,
and Terry and England's a big forty nine er fan,
and Jay Scoop and all these cats. Let's see how
this goes all? Right, now, final point, dud Jersey. We
go to Jersey. We are told that multiple defensive coordinator candidates,
including two big names, two prominent names in the NFL,
(31:44):
have said ix nay on the Jets say they have
declined to even interview with Jets head coach Aaron Glenn. Now,
the big Apple media having a field day, acting like
termites finding soft wood. They are consuming it from the
inside out, so excited. This is so great for them.
So the question, how do you process Aaron Glenn and
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the Jets being rejected by multiple big name defensive coordinators.
So this is not Harvard law right, turning you down.
This is not Harvard law. This is the NFL coaching
market telling you, eh, and we're good, we're good. We
(32:26):
don't need that. Now tells me that Aaron Glenn and
the Jets front office aimed way too high, way too hot, right,
and you outkicked your coverage. Our old morning guy Klay
Travis would like that, but you OutKick your coverage right.
You tripped over your own shoelaces and you landed faced
first in a cloud of stardust. It's bad job by you.
(32:50):
It shows you zero situational winners. They don't know where
they rank on the food chain in the NFL, and
you really have to know where you rank the Jets.
That's I guess. I'll use the analogy like this. Imagine,
if you will. You are a tech startup. You've got
a little bit of venture capital, but you're not you're
not loaded, right, you're a little venture capital. So you're
(33:11):
a tech startup, You're gonna fix the world and all
that stuff. And you go out and you try to
poach an Apple executive and you offer them a bunch
of stock options, and the Apple executive looks at you
and said wait a minute, that's monopoly money, and said, well,
I know it's monopoly money, but we want you to
come work for us. We're a hot to try start up. Well, no,
(33:32):
but I work at Apple. I have real money. I
don't need. I do not need that monopoly money. But
please come on. You're using the if you're the startup
the Jets, you're using the tub sales pitch, what I
call the tub sales pitch. You know what the tub
sales pitch is. It's trust us, bro that's the sales pitch.
Just trust us brouh And we're building something. Yeah, that's it.
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That's a ticket. We're building something. It is an open
secret that coaches. No, you go to the Jets, Yeah,
you'll make a decent amount of money, but you better
not buy anything. Because the Jets have a stumble bump owner.
The roster blows. There's chaos in the air everywhere, and
so there's also a lack of job security for Aaron
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Glenn and so it appears they've said hard passed. You're
gonna get someone. Ob mean, someone will take that job.
It's kind of like going to Best Buy. The Jets
are like, I think I gotta get a refrigerator. And
so you look at the price of the refrigerators and
they're really expensive, and said, man, I can't afford that.
And so you're not getting a shiny stainless steel model
with the ice maker and all the bells and whistles
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and the dew hickeys and all that. You're in the
back open box fridge, you know, the back where they
have all the stuff. That's damage. You got dents on
the door, it's missing the shelf. There's some kind of weird,
funny humming sound thing. I don't know what that is,
but don't worry about it. And by the way, all
sales are final. All sales are final. Good luck, good
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luck yikes.
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Coobol.
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It was reported on Wednesday that Brian Daball is targeting
the Bill's head coaching job. Ben, what odds do you
give Dave Ball of actually landing it?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Well, of course everyone's targeting that job. I give him
a better than fifty percent I'd say a sixty percent yes,
because he's bros with Josh Allen and Josh Allen they
got to suck up to Allen. So I say that
Brian day Ball, I would say he's got about sixty
percent chance. He worked there. He was beloved in Buffalo, like,
that's the one guy they can hire that people won't
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be pissed off about.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Next, in a piece where league executives, coaches, and scouts
were asked to make a bold prediction, one thinks that
the Falcons could start the season with Kirk Cousins not
only still on the team, but at the top of
the depth chart.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Ben, could you see that happening? Well?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Could they? Yes? Could they? But if I'm Kevin Stefanski
and I'm taking over, I want to change it off.
I want to bring new people in there. Cousins look
pretty washed up at the end of last year, so
I would make a change. But could he? Sure? I
could see that?
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Next?
Speaker 4 (36:20):
On Wednesday, there was a report that sugg Justin Steve
Kerr's future with the Warriors is up in the air,
and that multiple assistant coaches on his staff are offerating
under the premise that Kerr will not be back next season.
Do you think this is it for Steve Kerr?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Yeah, well I think it's fair. If Kerr realizes it's
all over for the Warriors, he's out. He'll go back
and do television or at Amazon or NBC, which he
did at TNT before and that did. How'd we do, Kobolo?
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You pass this edition when I won the game?
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Unlike unlike that guy pretending to be John from Colorado
who did not win.
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been working on in his spare time? Why he's making
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the largest rolling paper ball in the world. Congratulations, and
I we bought. Why don't beg buds? Why don't beg
bugs fear weed Man?
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Why?
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Because they know he can't bite? They know he cannot bite.
Do you ever find your teeth. I don't think you
found your teeth there. How did Ferg Dog? How did
Ferg Dog describe learning Braille? He said it was a
bumpy ride, a bumpy ride. Noah in Austin, beg you
Weed man, bye bye. There he goes our buddy Weed.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
I have the Morning News set Lines podcast after the
one minute what about look on my Instagram page is
coming up after this. But in the meantime, listeners theopon Entertainment,
what a Fox Sports Radios, Great Friday, Mali Show, traditions,
sorts now and here, it's not of it, my man,
my man, Sword Juna Cooper and I say, broco Fan,
(41:13):
take it away. I'm in my mind, brockle Fan on Nex.
Speaker 5 (41:18):
Thank you Marcel's mentor, Coop your his mentor. That's that's
I'm it's a I'm proud to be that.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Yeah, that's your student. You're really doing a great job
teaching me so so good.
Speaker 5 (41:29):
It is, thank you, Yes it.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
Is, yes, it is, it's all yours, my man, take
it away, thank you, Marcel. I am taking it away,
all right, So we're gonna start off like we always
do in the theaters on Koop Scuba and Entertainment, but
we're gonna we're just gonna take a brief trip there
because the couple of releases this weekend have terrible reviews, uh,
(41:52):
but they're worth mentioning just because they've got some star power.
The first is a movie called Mercy Now. This stars
Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson, and it is a action
adventure slash side fi. Stop calling, I'm not going to
screen your calls.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (42:10):
In the near future, a detective step.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Oh my, people love to call the show a detective.
Speaker 4 (42:19):
A detective stands on trial accused of murdering his wife.
He has ninety minutes to prove his innocence to the
advanced AI judge.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
Oh Ai judge, That's just what I need in my world.
Speaker 4 (42:30):
Yes, it sounds it sounds like a like an interesting premise,
but the critics apparently did not like it. It's got
a twenty six percent on Rotten Tomatoes so far.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Did they did? They did? I don't know who made it,
but they're like, we gotta get Ai in a movie.
Let's get Ai in a movie. Everyone do an Ai.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
Let's get a people want to see that in the
movie though, well, I mean the the AI character is
played by a real actress. But you know, it's it's
it's it's what's going on in society, Ben, That's that's
you know what we gotta you know, that could be
a future we might be judged, you know, juried and executions.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
By a I kill plug it, you know, if to
worry about it, plug it.
Speaker 4 (43:10):
H The second movie coming out this weekend is a
another installment in the Silent Hill series. This is returned
to Silent Hill. Uh, this one. I'm just gonna mention
it because it's a known brand. But it's got a
nine percent on Rotten Tomatoes and the nine that's true.
(43:35):
That's that's something I guess. I'm moving over to television.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
Television, the boob tube.
Speaker 4 (43:40):
Yes, that is correct. We have a documentary for you, Ben, Oh,
thank you. There we got and this one is mel
Brooks the ninety nine year old man.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
You're still around?
Speaker 4 (43:53):
Yes, this is a documentary directed by jud Appatoo and
Michael you know what, jut outtime.
Speaker 5 (44:02):
With somebody else?
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Okay, you don't know how to say it, leave it out.
Speaker 5 (44:05):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
Just mumble it, just mumble it.
Speaker 4 (44:09):
Bonfiglio, Michael Bonfiglio. That's probably how Yeah, there we go.
H It is a two part look at the comedy legend.
Both parts are available to stream right now on HBO Max.
Part one was actually last night at eight eight pm.
If you don't do the whole streaming thing. Part two
will be tonight at eight pm on HBO.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
Yeah, I do. I just stream it. I just stream it.
Speaker 5 (44:33):
I'm good on that my music. Please thank you, Lauren.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
Come on.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
Ye here, here's something interesting that is going to be
on Netflix, and it's it's gonna be on Netflix tonight.
Actually you might have seen some advertisements for it. It's
called Skyscraper Live. So it is a live event and
it follows free soloist Alex Hanald.
Speaker 5 (44:59):
Who is going to climb one of.
Speaker 4 (45:01):
The world's tallest buildings type one oh one, which I mean,
that's the plan.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
This is live. Yes, Sophie dies.
Speaker 4 (45:11):
I guess we're gonna see a death on Netflix if
that happens.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
Okay, I don't live.
Speaker 5 (45:18):
Look, I mean they might have, like you know, kind
of like we do a.
Speaker 4 (45:23):
A little bit of a delay just in case he falls.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
Bay Area calls up and says bad words and things
like that.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
Right, yeah, so and I and I imagine if the
cameras are following him if he falls. I doubt the
camera is going to pan down to see if he falls.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
Everyone gets pancakes soon.
Speaker 5 (45:44):
Anyway, if you're interested to.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
See me somebody, I want to see him make it.
I don't want to see any gad zukery. I want
to see the guy make Yeah.
Speaker 5 (45:51):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (45:52):
That is tonight at eight pm Eastern five pm Pacific
time on Netflix. And Last but not Least is the
premiere of the third season of Apple's acclaimed dramedy Shrinking,
starring Harrison Ford and Jason Siegel. This season, we'll see
Jeff Daniels and Michael J. Fox joined the cast. Rude yes,
(46:17):
oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (46:18):
That is Michael J. Fox's first TV role in five years.
Speaker 4 (46:22):
And that will be on Apple TV Wednesday, January twenty eighth.
Shrinking third season that is Coop Scoop on Entertainment
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