Hour 4 - Major Announcement

Ben Maller reveals a major announcement regarding his career, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, Sports Jeopardy, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our nub Bear four, the fourth
and final hour of the show, and a rather large
announcement here in our number four. Now, the plan was
to do a Malard monologue and to rant about Aaron
Donald and Davante Adams and this, that and the other thing.

(00:22):
And while we will get to those things, we will
begin here with some interesting news if you're a fan
of the show and you're a fan of my bullshoy,
so we'll get to all of that. And we also
have the Coop Scoop on entertainment and sports Jeopardy. It's
coming your way right now. It's a great mystery. The

(00:45):
mystery is about to be revealed here in our number four.
What the heck are you doing? My goodness, weldube and
beginning of another of the Ben Malors show.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
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(01:47):
buying should be. So I have prepared. I had prepared
a Mallard monologue, but I'm gonna break the format. I'm
about to break the format. I feel like I can
do this. It's holiday weekend. I'm pretty sure my bosses
are not listening right now because they're probably going on
vacation for the holiday week. So I wanted to share

(02:09):
some stuff with you. First of all, Yeah, as we
normally do the monologue on all that, but I have
some news here that I've finally been allowed to share
with you. It has been embargo. This actually goes back
over a year. What I'm about to tell you, and
it's to me. It's an enormous story. And if you're
a fan of the show and you've supported what I've

(02:29):
done here, I thank you, God bless you, and I
Actually it's so funny. I was such a loser. I
tweeted out, and I put on social media all I
xed out whatever it is, so I put on social media.
I was gonna make a big announcement here in the
five am Eastern hour, and you know, it's a big deal.

(02:50):
So I had people freaking out. You know, I had
some of the big p ones. We're like, oh my god,
I'm not gonna be listening live, but I'm gonna wake up.
And so I do appreciate that that you were that
can concerned that I was about to announce that I'm
leaving Fox Sports Radio. That you were panicked and you
were sending me messages are all kinds of things. And

(03:10):
what I'm about to tell you, I just got the
green light literally yesterday, and that's why I'm giving it
to you today. So and what I'm about to tell
you has not been announced. This news will be coming
out on Tuesday of next week, after Labor Day weekend.
But they've allowed me, the people that I've dealt with

(03:31):
here are allowing me to tell you right now because
they said, but we actually want these people to be
part of this, so we need this. So a couple
weeks back, I took an unplanned trip to Boston and
Eddie did a great job filling in for me, and
all that I had already blown my travel budget for
the year going to Minnesota I had visit my brother

(03:52):
in New York. My niece graduated high school, so you know,
cost me a fortune. So I went to Boston and
but a lot of people thought that I was leaving
I was going there that I got emails from people, Oh,
you know, you're gonna get work at the Sports Harbor EI.
You know, you know, do local Boston radio, And I

(04:14):
got a lot of that, you know, And I'm here
to tell you that they have no interest in me.
I did work at EI a couple years ago. I
did some remote work for them, but fortunately they have
no interest in But I didn't meet about a job
I'll tell you right now, and a very impressive job,
a job I'm going to tell you right now. This
is the biggest gig that I've ever been up. So

(04:36):
I went back to Boston and I met with a
bunch of big network executive shall we say, from a
big network, And I got to tell you this is
not my scene. If you know, if you know me,
if you've met me at one of these mallor meet
and greets that we've done over the years, Man, am
I not a social butterfly. I'm an introvert. That's why

(04:57):
I do radio, the whole thing. But you know, I
had to go, oh big thing. So I went back
and met with a bunch of people and did a
bunch of stuff and all that, and unlike every other
one of these opportunities. And again, if you've listened over
the years, you know the many great jobs that I've
been up for and I have not gotten because something

(05:17):
has come up all the time, and really big time
jobs that I've been interviewed for and been close to.
And so that's one of the reasons I didn't say
a damn thing about this. In fact, I've only my
wife knows and like two other people. That's it. And
I'm gonna tell you right now, and again it's not
gonna announced publicly until Tuesday. So what I'm gonna tell

(05:39):
you is that nobody else knows this, and probably nobody
else cares except me. But I am excited to announce
that after twenty years of being on radio and doing
the podcast and all that, Benny Versus the Penny is
going to television starting next now. I am not leaving

(06:02):
Fox Sports Radio. My radio rights are owned by iHeartMedia.
I have a contract with iHeart Meat. I want to
think Don Martin who has been wonderful. Mom man, he's
been great. Don did know about this for a while.
He was encouraging me. Very happy that this is happening.
But I have joined NBC Sports and Benny Versus the
Penny will be broadcast. It's gonna be produced out of

(06:25):
NBC Boston, and very excited. Vinnie is the producer of that.
The TV version of Anni Versus the Fantos is gonna
start next week and Vinnie his day job he produces
Felger and Mass, the TV show version of Felger and Mass,
which is the number one sports radio show in the
country on the Sports Hub in Boston. So Vinnie's gonna

(06:48):
be the producer and this is gonna blow you away.
So if you've been a fan of the show over
the years and you heard the nonsense that I've done
here at at Fox Sports Radio, We've had many people
do the penny over the years. Justin Cooper, my producer
here at the radio show, he did the Penny for

(07:08):
a number of years. Originally, that bit started twenty years
ago with Turk Stevens. I actually had Turk on the
podcast a couple of weeks ago, the Fifth Hour podcast.
We were talking about when I came up with the
idea to do Benny versus the Penny, and I believe
it was because I couldn't get a chimpanzee in the studio,
so I thought we'd just flipped the penny. And so

(07:30):
we've done it for a long time and I've had
different people. Danny g did it last year. I David
Gascon did it a couple of years for a couple
of years. And so, meeting with the people over at NBC,
we determined that the perfect penny for the television show
is my old radio partner from the Blitz, Tom Looney.

(07:51):
So I'm gonna be reunited with Tom. I love Tom.
Tom left Fox Sports Radio a couple of years back,
and I'm good friends with him a continue a week.
Completely disagree politically. We fight with each other politically, but
you know it's just you know, idiots when neither one
of us know anything about politics. But anyway, so Tom
will be the penny, and I am excited. It's going

(08:12):
to be produced out of NBC Sports Boston, but it
will be broadcast nationally. It is going to be on
all the country. And my nightmare now now that I
can tell you my nightmare is that no one watches
and it's like the lowest rated show of all time.
So I need you to watch it, and I'll probably
promote the hell out of as much as I can.
You know, obviously I can't do it too much here.
But that's the news. And so it's finally to thank

(08:35):
you guys who have been loyal over the years, and
it's it's going to be on in places that this
radio show is not on. And my hope is that
if this TV show does well Benny versus the Penny,
that it will help our radio show and that you know,
the show's gonna be carried in New York City. This
radio show has never been carried on a station locally

(08:57):
in New York City. But the TV show will be
on TV in New York and it's gonna be on Chicago.
We used to be on in Chicago and some other places.
So I'm very excited about it. And actually today on
the Fifth Hour podcast, i'll have more information on that.
In fact, i'll have Tom Looney on as he will
he will talk about that. So that is the news,

(09:20):
and thank you guys for supporting me over the years.
I'm I'm very excited I'm also I'm now I look
at myself. I've always loved radio because I'm not on
cameraon I have had to do these videos for the
for the company, for Fox Sports Radio iHeart and they
go on YouTube and stuff like that and just hate
how I look, uh, just hate it. And so but

(09:42):
now I'll be on on TV, so I can hate
myself even more like the on the real TV and stuff.
So so that is that any questions from the ben ats,
I know Eddie was very upset that I did not
tell him. Cooper Loop was slightly annoyed and concerned. Iowa Sam.
I don't know if he had a any kind of
feeling at all.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
I feel like Ben in the last couple, excuse me,
the last guest I was Sam.

Speaker 4 (10:06):
Yes, yes, no, you just asked if I had any opinions.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
The last few weeks too, maybe a month or so,
you kept mentioning Benny versus the Penny to us in
breaks over the queue. I feel like you were just
hiding in plain sight. You were a giving, you were a.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Clues Well. I want you to know that the last couple,
I have not gotten a lot of sleep in a while.
I've had a lot of daytime stuff. The people that
I'm dealing with at NBC are on the East Coast.
I'm on the West. I have terrible hours for somebody
on the East coast normal that has normal business hours.
So I've had like communicating in the morning or I
get by the time I get up, most people are

(10:42):
on the East Coast are probably off work. So I
have another question, Ben, Yes, I was Sam with a question. Yes,
I was.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
So you're going to be this is a television project.
Where are you going to be doing this from your home?
From a studio.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
I will be in a television studio. I we will
do it on satellite from LA I did I have
filmed some things in Boston when I was back there.
I did some some stuff for the for the show.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
All right, So have you have you overhauled your wardrobe?
Are you ready to be you know? Over yes?

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yes? Well no, I mean I I have a like
a wardrobe budget. But I was told there's a certain
outfit they want me to wear, so I have to
wear that.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Out like a suit covered with dollar signs or something.
Well that would be nice, that would be that would
be it. But no, it's just a regular regular We're
very happy for you.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Ben.

Speaker 4 (11:32):
That's very cool.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Well, thank you, thank you. I was Sam and show
while you're on Friday's Saturdays, Benny versus depending on the
TV show. Well, he're on Friday Saturdays and Sunday morning
before the NFL games, and it will be up for
those of you that listening in LA. Will be on
in Los Angeles.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
And it's gonna be on the Dodger station here in LA,
their cable channel.

Speaker 5 (11:53):
So is this a thirty minute program.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Or yes, Eddie, thirty minutes. That's it. Thirty all I
needs thirty minutes.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
So here's my question.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
Yes, justin.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
So you know, in the past, we have always needed
a voice for.

Speaker 6 (12:07):
The penny because it has been a a radio bit.
That's right, and you can't see the penny being flipped.
Will Tom Looney dress up as a giant penny?

Speaker 5 (12:17):
If he does, I'm definitely tuning in.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Well, I gotta tell you now, I brought Looney on
board to this project. There were, you know, some other
people that were considered, but you know they here's the
odd thing, Eddie. Remember I actually told this story to
one of the guys at NBC. I said, my guy, Eddie,
he met with some executive at Fox, and Eddie said,
the guy hated me and wanted to be off radio.
Remember that, Eddie, remember that a couple of years ago.

(12:40):
You wouldn't name the guy some executive, you said at Fox.
So they got to kick out of that. But the
people that I've dealt with, one of the big executives
over there, the huge fan of the show, huge and
used to listen to me and Looney on the Blitz
here on on FSR. Back we did that show for
seven years, you know, on the weekend.

Speaker 5 (12:58):
You know what's funny about that? What's I remember the story?
I don't remember who the person was.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Oh sure you wouldn't tell me the name of the person? Yeah,
that bothered me for so long. I was so annoyed
by that you wouldn't.

Speaker 5 (13:10):
It must not have been anybody important. If I don't
remember who it is.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
I guess not. But this is a I feel like
kind of I'm in a dream. Idi. I feel like
it's like the Matrix. I'm gonna wake up here and
I'm gonna be like, aha, the jokes on you. But
contracts have been signed and I am told everything will
be going on. So anyway, I hope you're you're not
too upset that I didn't do a full Malond monologue. Yeah,

(13:33):
tom my guy. It's when I when I met with
the people over there, were talking about you have to
worry about what you wear when you do TV stuff,
and I said, can I wear a burka?

Speaker 5 (13:43):
So no one?

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Can? You know, just see my eyes and that said,
I don't need anything, and looney, of course I wanted
to every you know, muscle shirt. You know, I want
to have a tank top.

Speaker 5 (13:50):
You probably want to do a shirtless.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
Exactly, yeah, exactly. I said, well, you probably should wear
some clothes would probably be be uh, drop my pants
right here. It's about That's about right. That is that
is about right anyway. So that's it.

Speaker 5 (14:03):
And Wins the fort Show.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
It is going to air this coming Friday, oh wow, Friday, Friday,
Saturday and Sunday.

Speaker 5 (14:12):
And it's called Versus.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
It is called Benny Versus. I have my own. It's
Nash with Me on New York, LA, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington,
d C, Dallas, a bunch of I don't even know
what it's gonna be on. It's distributed by NBC, so
it's gonna be all over their cable channels and whatnot.
So anyway, all right, we will press on and get
back to the normal nonsense and straight ahead, straight ahead

(14:36):
for us, the Coop Scoop on entertainment. And we'll take
some calls, by the way, if you want to be
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of that, and we will do it next.

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Speaker 1 (15:26):
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Fercat Wrights and says, congratulations, Ben. Now that you're in
a good mood, can you confirm the rumor that the

(15:47):
original penny is actually a quarter? Yeah? No, that's not
true at all at all. At the Warrior Raider fan says,
I am a Comcast customers, so I'm actually paying Ben
salary right now. There you go. Wonderful. All right, people,

(16:09):
very nice. I don't have time to respond to everybody
or read all this stuff, so I do appreciate it.
And I would like to point out now, Andrea remember
this Eddie. Andrea said big things were gonna happen this
year because the planets were all lined up. She did
say that.

Speaker 5 (16:21):
She says a lot of things.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
How dare you any Let's take some phone calls. It
is a call in show. Let's say hello to Eenie Meenie,
miney Moe. Let's say hello to Marcel in Brooklyn. Hello, Marcel,
breaking news, my man? Yeah, what's the breaking news?

Speaker 8 (16:40):
And you know what that means? My please. No, according
to this, that's problem mala militia. Let's get into en.
Yeah and oh yes, that's what drug test supports us
that he wasn't made to negotiate the contract of de boy.
Blair becomes the new and brand Brend embassor of Clemson.

(17:06):
He doesn't need Blair in Clemson. He belongs to Maine.
What is wrong with that? Fool?

Speaker 1 (17:13):
What Marcell? We're on the air, Marcel. People are hearing this, Marcell.
What are we doing here? Marcell? I just became a
big TV guy. Now you're bringing me down to earth. Marcell.
How dare you?

Speaker 8 (17:23):
Oh, you're you're back from the vacation days. Belongs in
along that last the truck me.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
I know you called earlier tonight. Why did you call
in earlier? Marcell? You were on hold a while ago.
What was going on with that?

Speaker 8 (17:40):
Well, that's because I said about this breaking news. According
to that, oh it's going to that?

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah, all right.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
I know.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
How's Marcel in the morning. How's your morning show going,
Marcel in the morning.

Speaker 8 (17:52):
Even Mornings with Marcel and Friends is going solo instead?
I really love it, and I hope you really of
it too. I promise I promise Ben to give you
the shout.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Okay, I think we're done. Are we done? Is that it?
We're done? We're good. Now.

Speaker 8 (18:10):
How about how about some food picks and said for Oh.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Food picks that's just what I wanted food picks for.

Speaker 8 (18:16):
Yes, a new day, September is here. We made it,
so to make it mala militia. Let's get into it.
There you go, and who are what? Not Justin and
Cincinnati or Robin Michigan does? But how about some of

(18:36):
the other gas, including line three is going to be
playing along.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
With what you? Who's line? What is line three? Who's
line line three? I don't know?

Speaker 4 (18:46):
I just touched.

Speaker 9 (18:49):
Who what?

Speaker 1 (18:53):
Blind?

Speaker 10 (18:53):
You don't know?

Speaker 8 (18:53):
Blind?

Speaker 1 (18:54):
You don't know? Blind Emmt, Blind Emmett, good morning to
you along on the No, Marcel, you show some respect.
This is blind Emmett. This guy's a famous caller to
the show and you you just disrespected him.

Speaker 8 (19:12):
Blind emmetts.

Speaker 9 (19:13):
I believe you had buffalo wings and tater tots for
dinner tonight with some fry sauce. Did the tater tots?

Speaker 8 (19:20):
Thin? Oh? I give you a spet, but no, that's
not a mixed match.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Okay, I'm gonna go. I'll go with pizza.

Speaker 8 (19:29):
Pizza right on the money.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
All right, Eddie, go ahead, Eddie, I'm gonna go.

Speaker 5 (19:36):
Let's see pizza.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
No Eddie, Wow?

Speaker 8 (19:47):
All right?

Speaker 1 (19:49):
Mark here, I'm gonna how about your white sox? Mark,
you like your wife, I'm gonna go with the gorgon.

Speaker 5 (19:59):
Mark.

Speaker 8 (19:59):
Here, go ahead, Mark, good morning.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
Mark's wearing his nineteen eighty two white Sox hat over there.
Look at that. I'm believing.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
Go fighting a LINEI okay, Cooper Loop No oh sorry,
not a miss.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Mark. You do not win? What are you?

Speaker 6 (20:16):
I think you had barbecue bacon and onion flatbreads, which
is kind of like pizza.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
Oh yeah, oh wow, all right, Reveral answers the drama.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Sorry blind mme that you didn't win, But go ahead.

Speaker 8 (20:32):
We gotta selve the smile on our faces. And who
is going to be the fou pick from last night?
Should be already?

Speaker 1 (20:43):
Mark? Come on, Mark, where's the sound bite? Mark? You
punky suck?

Speaker 8 (20:48):
Mark? There you go? And yes, this is what pizza
looks like. This is our las fight. It's pizza.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
Oh oh coming all right, thank you, Marsa. I must
move on.

Speaker 5 (21:03):
Let's go have a great weekend off all right radio
is like that that got you that TV show.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
That's right, Eddie. If anybody hears this, the show will
be canceled before it starts. Let's say hello to the
wild eye wild eyed Southern Boy who claims he's on hold.
He's been on hold the entire show is that.

Speaker 10 (21:20):
I'm twenty minutes out, buddy, But I want to tell
you something. I'm tickled to death. I give you a
hand all the time and pick on you, but I
won't tell you. It wouldn't be the same. Have your
your big old self around there, Brothers. I always want
to know how a big old boy you was. And
I thought you short guy, and he was tall. But
your big old boy, man, I see you get that tree.
I'm like, damn that tree by the big being.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
But anyway, man, all right, yes, I mean yeah, were
you on hold the entire show? Wild Eyed Southern Boy?
Finally Scatcher one, Oh yeah, well I didn't know. I
didn't see your name for a while, but yeah.

Speaker 10 (21:53):
Yeah, here lady. For uh. For some reason, it rains
and rains. I've been like seventy six times less than
I call it fitple times. But it ain't no big deal.
I did more Bragg when you just tell you, man,
I'm just trying to stick around. I know what your
miss but your boy, you're gonna be with he when
I first started out years ago, he was on there
with another guy before before the Jay Smith came around,
and that was a good show man before you got

(22:13):
there and boys.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
Okay, thank you. Let's go to Rachel. What do you
want to do with that? Let's go to Rachel in Monapella.
I don't know what you want to say. I mean, hello, Rachel,
my man. Then Rachel, Rachel, we missed you. We want
Where's I've had people email me where is Rachel? We
have not heard from Rachel. We hear her every day

(22:36):
in the image every day. My guy in Youngstown was like,
where's uh, where is Rachel?

Speaker 11 (22:42):
Well, I've been going to the doctor to try clem.
I am through because it's I've had some sinus issues.
Oh I'm embarrassed to go in the air.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
No yo, no, no, have you heard some of the
people on the air. Come on, No, there's nothing to
be embarrassed about here.

Speaker 6 (22:59):
Fun.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
You sound good. You said a little nasal, but that's
all right, you're fine, You're good.

Speaker 11 (23:04):
Well, I just had to call today and no matter
what and say that the bloom moon did, wonders, Ben wonders.
It's it's working miracles on all of us, and you're
gonna be successful, you and Tommy, Lenny. I pray for
you every day because I love you, Ben, and I
always will.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
Oh, thank you, Rachel. And does that mean you'll be
watching Rachel?

Speaker 11 (23:27):
Of course?

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Okay there so why Eddie, there will not be a
zero point zero rating. So that's that's good.

Speaker 11 (23:33):
And I've been calling and touching touching base with with
Justin and telling him till Ben that I am just
trying to, you know, work with the doctors to try
and clear up my throat.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
Yeah, all right, well, ray listen, you sound fine, Rachel.
I mean so a little congestion like we said and
all that, but it's all it's all good. It's all good,
and I'm glad you're out there. And yeah, yes, call
more often. We love when you call in. All right, Rachel, I.

Speaker 11 (23:57):
Will Ben all right now that I feel.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
All right, Well, hopefully you feel better. I'll give you
some medicine or whatever that you need to have done.
All right, Thank you the great Rachel in mad Bellship
with the show a long time.

Speaker 7 (24:08):
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Speaker 5 (25:14):
We did have a passing of a Hall of Famer
and the NFL and a guy who was broadcasting for
a while there on the old NFL radio network, Gil Brandt.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
I love that Gil Brandt was still putting out hot
takes on Twitter.

Speaker 5 (25:29):
Yeah, he was nineties, ninety one years old.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
He got in some trouble near the end of Gill Was.
I liked him. Man, he's old school. That goes back
we were kids at you. He was there with the Cowboys,
Tom Landry and Gil Brandt, the old tex Shram. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (25:46):
But Gil brand was a Cowboys vice president of player
personnel for twenty eight years and obviously helped turn them
into America's team.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, rest in peace, good run for Gil Brandt. It
is the Ben Mahlor's Show. As we continue on through
these over night hours, chopping it down here and uh now, Coop,
you know the the NFL starts next week. Coop, by
the way, do we need to do that today?

Speaker 7 (26:16):
Coop?

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Is that we need to do?

Speaker 7 (26:17):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yeah, I don't know, Coop sending me messages, but I
think that's for next week. I think I don't know
it's for this week. Interesting now, I don't I don't think.
I don't think that's I can't be right. There's nothing,
there's no games anyway. All right, let's get to the
coop scoop on entertainment. All right for Holly? What all right?

(26:38):
For hollywo all your entertainment needs the coop the loop.

Speaker 6 (26:45):
Well, Ben, I'm not gonna be able to do this
too much longer if they don't end this strike.

Speaker 5 (26:51):
I knowed you out there on the pick up line, Coop.

Speaker 6 (26:54):
I have I have done that before, not not this,
not this go around, because it's been many, many years
since I've done anything in that industry. But you know,
we'll start off with the theaters got like one movie
per week coming out now, and this week it's a
it completes a trilogy. We have The Equalizer three coming

(27:18):
out this weekend starring Denzel Washington, and this one also
stars he will be reunited with Dakota Fanning, who one
of my favorite Denzel movies was Man on Fire with
Dakota Fanning. But unrelated. This is the Equalizer three and
this one's it's got pretty good reviews so far, and

(27:40):
I will check this out because there's not much else
to see.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
Well, it's good for me, coop, and I don't want
to strike, obviously. I want to strike the end. I
got friends that are out of work. They work in
that business. But a lot of documentaries, a lot of
document You don't need writers for documentaries, right, just well
you actually a lot of them do have writing. But yeah,
they're still they're making a lot of documentaries.

Speaker 4 (27:59):
That is true.

Speaker 6 (27:59):
And there is a documentary that I wanted to bring up.
I don't know, Ben, if you have Apple, I.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Have not watched the final episode of Telemarketers yet, so
don't spoil that.

Speaker 6 (28:08):
I have watched the final episode and well, so sorry.
So this documentary it is on Apple TV Plus, okay,
and it is called Wanted The Escape of Carlos Ghosen. Now,
basically this is a four part documentary and one thing
I will say about these is like they all seem
to be like, you know, four parts, and that I
just feel like they overdo it sometimes, like the Telemarketers

(28:32):
one probably could have been two parts.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
Yeah, I agree with you.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
Yeah, you know, it's.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Really bad as those Netflix ones where they don't it's
a seven parts.

Speaker 6 (28:41):
Yeah, I know, I don't. I just I can't. My
attention span isn't that long. But this one is about
the former Nissan CEO, Carlos Ghosen, who was arrested in
twenty eighteen for misuse of company funds, but while out
on bail, he escaped to Lebanon with the help from
a former Green Beret.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
Oh yeah, he's he escaped getting punished, so but they
must have caught him eventually.

Speaker 4 (29:09):
I don't know. You'll have to watch the documentary series.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
It's a cliffhanger, that's right.

Speaker 6 (29:15):
I don't I don't remember this story in the news,
so I don't know how it ends. But that is
on Apple TV Plus right now. Wanted the Escape of
Carlos Coop.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
If there's no new movies, you'll have to promote Benny
Versus the Penny on the Koop Scoop and Entertainment.

Speaker 6 (29:29):
Yeah, yeah, I'll have to do that new low next week, clearly, yes,
but yeah, that's it.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
That's all right, the Coop Scalpe Entertainment. Now, we may
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Either way, give us a buzz if you want to
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(30:39):
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Speaker 1 (30:42):
And we have a two for one special. Wow, two
for one special. That sounds pretty cool, right, two for
one special. We're gonna have Sports Jeopardy coming up in
a bit, but we are announcing a new bit on
the show, a new bit on the show every single
Friday throughout the NFL season, which begins next week. We

(31:02):
are going to have the Draft Kings Battle Royal. We'll
come up with a juicy name. We didn't really come
up with. This sounds pretty good, Battle Royale. And every
week we're gonna do a round robin. We'll go around
the room and we are gonna pick some games in
the NFL, possibly prop bets, parlays, whatever it might be.

(31:23):
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So check out. I will start first here big Super

(31:45):
Bowl prediction. This is the content you're dying for. We'll
go around the room. Who do we like? So you
can call me Chalky, Mick Chalk if you want, I am.
I'm going with the Chiefs. Patrick Mahomes is the top quarterback.
I don't even think it's closed. He's so much better
than everyone else. Andy Reid is, if not at the
very top, he's right there. And Chris Jones is holding

(32:08):
out right now for Kansas City, but he'll be back
by the end of the season, and I have not
seen anyone be able to close the gap, if anyone
will close the gap at the Bengals. But I'm going
with the favorite. How boring is that? I'm taking Kansas City, Eddie.
Any draft Kings pick here for the Super Bowl? You'd
like to share with the klass.

Speaker 5 (32:27):
You just want me to pick a Super Bowl winner?
Is that what we're doing?

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Well? Yeah, like the Chiefs are plus six hundred, that's
set to win the whole thing. Who do you like him?
You can pick the Chargers of the Steelers, Eddie.

Speaker 5 (32:39):
I'd love to, but I don't believe in that kind
of thing is bad luck. Let's go with the New
York Jets.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
Oh, Eddie, Oh, you're getting value on that. The Jets
on draftings are plus sixteen hundred. I Aowa, say, big
super Bowl pick. You can pick the hot guys to
win the whole thing this year.

Speaker 4 (32:56):
I'm gonna say Perty's arm looks pretty good. I'm gonna
take the San Francisco forty nine ers.

Speaker 6 (33:03):
Uh you see do you see what he did there?

Speaker 1 (33:06):
Yeah? Oh, at Iowa. That's right. But he didn't go
to Iowa. He went to his good Yeah. Nobody's in.
There's an Iowa connection.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
But ambassador for the state, that small state.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
Gotta go page down. And the Jets were I didn't
see the Jets. I know they're on here. Oh the
Jets are plus they're plus six one hundred. All so,
all right, Coople, little super Bowl pick here, DraftKings be
a big sponsor to do this all year round robin action.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
I would love to pick the Broncos, but I'll try
and pick them.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
Go off the board, Coople, little pick the Cardinals. Come on,
the Cardinals. You get plus forty thousand, cool, plus forty thousand.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
I think the best value.

Speaker 6 (33:50):
It's gotta be the Bengals because you got you got
plus eleven hundred, and they're I feel like they're gonna
be the the challenge to the to the Chiefs in
the ANC.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
Obviously, you didn't pick the Vikings. You didn't fill the
Vikings in the playoffs. It should be in the playoffs
and that Hockenson. Do you don't think they're going to
make the playoffs? Playoff?

Speaker 4 (34:13):
No, And I'm not as hot on the Lions as
everybody else is either.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
No, yem, I love the Lions. I fought with Rob
Parker the other day when I wasn't in the Coward
show there because Rob Rob hates He says he doesn't
hate the Lions, but Rob used to be a columnist
in Detroit, and I think he still carries some vengeance
towards the Lions because he had to go to terrible
Lions games on the road. Okay, that is it, so
again every week we'll do it here. Thanks to our
friends at DraftKings for making that possible, and we look

(34:38):
forward to that. No, hopefully having a great time. Okay,
here we go, let's.

Speaker 6 (34:43):
Do it right.

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It's America's most popular game show, Get out of here
Sports Jeopardy.

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This is Fox Sports Radio and now here's your host,
Ben Mallard.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Thank you, spin Max. Let's welcome in Chris in the Commonwealth. Hello, Chris, welcome,
all right, welcome. You're driving as always, you're driving around there, Chris?
I got you?

Speaker 4 (35:12):
All right?

Speaker 1 (35:12):
You ready to go here? Yes? All right? Buddy, hold
on a second. And Jed who fled in the Sunshine State, Hello, Jed?

Speaker 9 (35:22):
Oh much could be key?

Speaker 8 (35:25):
This music?

Speaker 10 (35:26):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (35:31):
Okay, yes, wonderful. Okay, all right, zip it, take a breath.
Here we go. The category is for sports, Jeffter. This
week we have alumni Association and abbreviated Alumni Association and abbreviated.

(35:51):
And you got on the air first, Chris, so you
get to pick the category. We will start with.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Alumni.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
Okay, Classic sports Jeopardy category. I will tell you the athlete.

Speaker 8 (36:06):
You tell terrible, dude, Will I'm trying to fix it.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
Well, Jed, why would you point that out? You have
a you have an advantage over Chris because his phone such.

Speaker 11 (36:18):
Terrible.

Speaker 10 (36:18):
The name brand, it's a really good phone.

Speaker 8 (36:19):
You're right, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
Okay, here we go. I'll tell you the athlete. Tell
me the school they went to for two hundred dollars.
The NFL's Matthew Stafford. Yeah, Georgia, okay, that is correct, Georgia,
bull bogs. I'll tell you the athlete, tell me the
school they went to. Guys in a legend from the
NBA back in the day, Alan Iverson, Jana, George.

Speaker 8 (36:45):
Aw.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
Yes, Georgetown is correct.

Speaker 8 (36:48):
Damn four hundred dollars playing a legend rushed.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
Well, at least your phone's working now, so maybe you
can try to answer one of the questions. All right,
six hundred dollars. I'll tell the athlete. Tell me the
school they went to. Oh boy, Sam Cassell, Yes.

Speaker 4 (37:13):
Let's go to Let's go to Chris first.

Speaker 1 (37:14):
Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris. No, not Chris, uh Jedediah
Over there went to Florida State. So he had a Yeah,

(37:34):
that's worse, Frank cal i'py you all right, Well, no,
we're still playing the game. Thank you. Though. You got
to watch, though, Chris, because otherwise no one will be watching.
Eight hundred dollars. Alumni Association. I'll name the athlete. Tell
me the school they went to, Damon Stottemeyer, Arizona.

Speaker 8 (37:55):
Chris.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
No, you're both wrong. You know you're both wrong. You
went to Georgia Tech. The rambling wreck of Georgia Tech.
That's what it says here. I thought he went somewhere
on Arizona. You're you're right, I I was, I was cool.

Speaker 4 (38:17):
Was he was a coach. He was the coach of
Georgia Tech.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
I don't ah, we're out of time anyway. Who won
is a jedu one? I gotta give him a golden ticket? Really,
that's what I gotta do with. I don't want to
do that.