Hour 4 - Read Between the Lines

Ben Maller talks about how LeBron James' comments about Aaron Rodgers & the Packers could have been a shot at the Lakers, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, Benny's Balderdash, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our nime bur full hour four
of our radio show and a high Bridge story here
combining football and basketball. During the Tennessee Titans win over
the Packers, there was an alternative broadcast with Lebron James
and his friends, and during that broadcast, Lebron said something

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that triggered an immediate reaction. Was Lebron James taking a
shot at the Lakers with what he said about Aaron Rodgers.
What do Lebron and Aaron Rodgers have in common? And
how did Lebron do on his version of the Manning cast.
We'll talk about that and more right now. I have
a great weekend here it is. Be safe, enjoy this

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and our lead this hour coming from the boom Tube.
That's right, the Boom Tube. Now this does relate to
the Thursday night game where the Tennessee Titans molly wopped
curb stomped the green Bay Packers. It was a ten
point win, but it was a domination situation. In the
second half. Titans offense did what they wanted against Green

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Bay's defense and Aaron Rodgers stunk up the joint. Stunk
up the joint in the second half of that game.
So during that game, HBO offered alternative programming, just what
I was looking for unless it wasn't. Now. The game
was on the Amazon Amazon Prime with Al Michaels and

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Kurk Curb Street, but Labron James made his debut as
a commentator. Who that's right, the NBA player who's on
pace is set the scoring record was moonlighting as a
football insider. Football Safant with his buddies Maverick Carter and

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someone named Paul Rivera. I have no idea who that is.
Apparently he's the guy that created the shop, so I
guess he's good enough to be on there. But during
the broadcast, we did have a viral moment. Now, chances
are you were not watching this. I imagine very few
people were watching this, so you might have missed it.
But Lebron made a passionate statement during the conversation about

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Aaron Rogers, which sounded a lot like a boom heymaker
at the Lakers. Take a listen. Oh we don't have it, apparently,
but Lebron went on a rand. He was talking about
Aaron Rodgers and his commentaries about the Packers surrounding Aaron

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Rodgers with better players, and he was saying they should
trade draft picks and all that. He said, I'll give
you a part of it. He said, I would feel
like it's a discredit if you have a transcendent franchise
player like Aaron Rodgers, why won't you surround that when
when you have the picks to maximize what you do?

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It definitely translates. That's the gist of what he said,
I wish we had it, but apparently we don't. So
let us discuss the question. Was Lebron James taking a
shot at the Lakers. Yes, this was, as we pointed out,
a hey maker right to the Lakers. It does manure stink. Now,

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I've got morse code, fabric and cheese rolling, and we
will line all of these things up and we will
knock them down. Now to lead off, Lebron James could
not help himself, right, He couldn't help himself. He saw
an avenue here and he jumped at it. It's like

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he could send a secret coded message and he's like, well,
maybe nobody will pick up on it, or a few
people will pick up on it. But he would have
gotten away with it had it not been for those
meddling bloggers who had to mess everything up, just goofing
up the fun, googing up fun. So Lebron sending a

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not so cryptic message in a bottle, and that was
a message to Skinny Jeans, Rob Polinka and Genie Boss,
the incompetent owner of the once proud Laker franchise, using
Morse code, A little s O S from Lebron hoping
the Lakers will answer his distress signal. Now, the way

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I read the room, this is Lebron saying, hey, if
you don't trade those picks and get me some help,
then you better trade my ass of course, of course,
of course, of course, of course, of course. Now for them,
what do Lebron and Aaron Rodgers have in coming? They

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actually have a lot in coming and wants you to
sit down. I'll explain this to you like you're five
years old. Okay, there was a lot of similarity. These
guys are cut out of the same fabric. They're both
falling stars. Don't let a falling star fall on you.
They both lost a little bit on their fastball. Rogers
is thirty eight years old. Lebron's thirty seven. He's about
to turn thirty eight in December. Neither of these guys

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is performing up to the stats on the back of
their baseball card. And that is a fact, Jack, all right,
that is a fact. Aaron Rodgers is a shell of
what he had been in recent years when he was
winning MVP awards. His quarterback rating, yards perd, tempt completion percentage.
You're all down, down, down, down down. They're doing the limbo.
Both Rogers and Lebron James because the numbers are down

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in certain areas and they're up in other areas, like,
for example, Aaron Rodgers's interceptions are up, the mental mistakes
are up. Lebron has been bruised and battered already. He's
no longer a top ten or top fifteen NBA player.
Those days are done, and King James does look satisfied.
He looks satisfied getting his stats, his field goal percentage,

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three point percentage, file shooting percentage, we're all down dramatically
from recent years now. In addition, both Rogers and Lebron
they use the same handbook, the same playbook. It is
the passive aggressive playbook. They both feel resentful and frustrated.
Most of the time they hide it as part of

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the passive aggressive playbook. They act neutral or pleasant and
even cheerful. But if you listen closely and read between
the words, and listen between the words, they find indirect
ways Lebron and Rogers to show their true colors. For example,
Rogers goes on the Pat McAfee show and uses subtle insults.

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Sometimes there is subtle as a two by four to
your forehead. Lebron says things in code on the shop
on HBO there and you gotta listen very closely, very
very closely. You can figure it out, all right, Part shot.
So how did Lebron James do on his version of
the Manning cast? I'm glad you asked now. I would

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be lying to you if I said, hey, I watched
that thing. We watched that from start to finish. We
did not. I am and al Michael's stand. I stand
by al the curmudgeon of broadcasters, because he brings me
back to my childhood. Every big game, I recall, not
every big game, because Bret Musberger did some him, and

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Keith Jackson did some him, and Vin Scully and other people,
but in many big moments when I was a kid
growing up, Al Michaels was calling the game, and so
he's a legend. And I watched it and I flashed
back to when I was twelve years old. But my
friends in sports media, we're texting me about the job
that Lebron James didn't. So I was like, all right,

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I'll go check out some of the clips. And the
great thing about these things is you don't have to
actually watch the whole broadcast. They put a sizzle reel up,
which they think is very entertaining. Oh, it's so entertaining,
and you can watch that and get like the top
two or three minutes and get kind of the gist
of how it went. And so I will tell you
most of the comments from my people that work in
sports media were not flattering. I had one respected broadcaster

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who's well known, who said it was as bad as
it gets. Feels like I missed the game because he
watched Lebron. Having Lebron ad commentary to an NFL game
in general is like if you were to hire me
to break down cheese rolling in England. Now, I've eaten

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cheese and I've rolled, but do I know anything about
cheese rolling? Though? If you sent me to India or
New Zealand or Australian said talk about cricket, you'd get
crickets is what you would get, uneducated, but I would pretend.
And from the clips I saw when Lebron was talking football,
trying to be a hard o football guy, I watched

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it and it was a lot grab ass. It sounded
like Lebron was trying to fake it till you make
it like he's a faux football fan. Kind of like
you those internet stories about how Lebron We've seen it.
We've all seen it on the internet. People say, well,
he pretends to read books. He's actually been caught a
few times where somebody will ask him, Hey, what's your
favorite part of that book? And he'll be mumbling and

(10:20):
stumbling and you don't know how to say because he's
not actually read the book, and it's very embarrassing. It
sounded kind of like that, right, It sounded kind of
like that. And I get that these type of programs,
the Manning cast, this Lebron version there for the hardcore fanboy.
There for the hardcore fan boy. You need kneepads to
enjoy them. Yeah, you got a genuflect and bend the knee.

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Put your athletes on a pedestal. We don't do that
in this part of town. As the mayor of Realityville,
we appreciate what these great athletes do. Talk about them
all the time is how we make our living. But
if we didn't talk about them, we talk about something else.
And for those of you to say, oh, you wouldn't
have a job without athletes, bullcrap. We survived over one
hundred days with no sports during the pandemic, and we

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have the highest ratings we've ever had, so it's nice
to talk about him. It's more fun to talk about him.
But we don't necessarily need them to make the world
go around. And they're human like you and I are.
And last I checked, they're not able to put two
shoes on at the same time. They put one shoe
on at the same time, one soccer on the they're
mere mortals, and Lebron he should keep his day job

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or his night job. And by the way, as far
as the Lebron trade speculation and all that and the whispers,
here's what I've heard. And even though I'm the number
one or two Laker hater right there with Rob Parker
in that same category here at Fox Sports Radio, what
I have heard recently from people who would know is

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that the plane in Lakerland is no matter how bad
it gets, they're not going to consider trading Lebron until
he breaks the NBA scoring record held by Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
They think of that as a consolation prize that they're
not really that good and maybe they'll be better in
the poffs. But what they want is that great moment.

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They want more nostalgia and that years from now when
they show the clip of Lebron, it's it's kind of
like the highlight of Kareem Abdul Jabbar we've seen in
Actually it was at UNLV against the Utah Jazz when
he made the basket that put him over the record
for the most points. And so the Lakers want that
as another Lakers and so they want that historical moment.

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And from what I've been told, as I understand it,
they are not going to even consider trading him until
he gets that record, and only after that will they
consider sending Lebron somewhere else. So you better hope that
he starts playing, and you better hope that he gets
the record before the trade deadline or that percent say
a whole can of worms there for the purple and gold.

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All Right, is the Bannet Maller Show. If you would
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to sleep here in these trucks, and you're you're yelling.
I was like, okay, I got a whisper. Who the
hell is? Wouldn't most people say, all right, I'm gonna
go to sleep. I'll turn the radio down, or I'll
put some sound in the background, some rain sound or something.
You're gonna listen to the guy barking about sports while
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on the program. Now back to the ti iraq dot
com Fox Sports Radio Studios with Big Bednaller. We talked
earlier about the Thursday night game. We mentioned Lebron did
some alternative programming. I just had a buddy of mine
who also works in the media business, a well known

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morning personality, who said he was totally unaware Lebron even
had in an alternative broadcast on HBO The Shop last night.
You want to hear a fun fact, I'll give you
a fun fact. So the Buffalo Bills destroyed the Tennessee
Titans earlier this year forty one to seven, an absolute

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beat down between those two teams. But since getting blown
off the field by Buffalo, the Titans now have a
better overall record on the season then the Bills. They've
won more games. The Titans are seven and one since
they got off to the O and two start. Buffalo

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is six and three. And one of our friends Dale
and Toledo writes, and he points out that the Buffalo
Bills will be playing not one but two games at
Ford Field in the span of less than a week.
Not only they're playing on Sunday out of an abundance

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of caution, but they also play on Thanksgiving against the
Lions at Ford Field. So my my friend Dale there
says he thinks that the Bills are just going to
camp out and home. Yeah, that's that's what's gonna happen there.

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And my friend Bob also says, tell Eddie the Devils
have won eleven a row. Well, I'll let Eddie know,
but he's actually sleeping right now. He's not He's not here,
so I can't. I can't let him know. Let's go
to the phones and we'll say hello to Fluffy Dave
in Minnesota, who is back from the Witness Protection program.
He has been released. Hello Fluffy Dave, Ben Mallar. How

(17:12):
long has it been? It's been I think years. It's
been a long time, Fluffy Dave, you've been at least
it's been at least a year and a half, yea
two years? Maybe what happened to you? Why did you
stop contributing to show? Where did you go? You know what? Then?
I Uh, I hit a point in my life where
I was like, dude, I'm done working these nights. I

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gotta spend some time with my kids. And then I
got to the point where I was like, f them kids,
I gotta get back to making money any good way,
any good way, you know what I mean? Yeah? Well,
could you do both? Is it possible you could do both?

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Like you could maybe work a couple of nights and
then still see the kids. Could you, like, could you multitask?
Is that pop Fluffy day? Yeah? Yeah, no, that's the
That's the thing that I'm gonna announce tonight Fluffy Days
back full time all right overnight, Ben Mellows Show, I'm

(18:16):
will you, will you? Is it true? You will be
jumping in more frozen lakes in Minnesota yelling our name.
That is one true. But I also I'm gonna be
on the road driving the Great States of America. Oh,
you'm your truck all over? I got you, Okay, I'm
gonna be I'm I'm joining the trucking company. Okay. And

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you're gonna go all over the well you really are
leaving your kids behind. Wow, So you're gonna be all
over the place. That's interesting. Well if you if you
end up in La, well, have you come in studio
hang out with us? I know, Cooper why Hey, hey, hey,
ain't going that Ain't going that crazy, And I'm not
going that far. I'm going I'm going from Minnesota, uh

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down the Georgia. And we got a trucking company that
sweet drive rounds. Okay, all right, Well, good luck. I
hope you make a lot of money doing that. You
make good money being a truck driver. It's it's a
tough life. You make good money, all right, buddy, good
you Glad you're back. I gotta go. Thank you, Fluffy. Sorry,

(19:22):
you gotta take your medicine. Let's go to Poppy in
San Diego. The reason Twitter is about to go out
of business is Poppy bet on Twitter. He bought some
Twitter stock and now everyone's quitting Twitter. Hello Poppy. Let's
test test left Star to the Moon, to the Moon
to the Moon, soapbox about you know. I was right here,

(19:48):
I stopped to arrest area Ben Maller right here and
now ocean side, and there was a guy next to
me right and he was asking me if I can
hop him out and give him some cables, uh, tell
him how to turn on his car, And he said
it was a mechanics and I said, I'm sorry, I
can't help you out with that. And then he got
somebody to help him out, and it was a big man,
and he put the cables on there, and I heard

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the sound of the car and I was like, hey,
it sounds like you need to get a new battery.
I know I've worked on cars. I have my party
mechanics and so no, I don't need one. So let's
put in the cables with the other guy. And they
couldn't jump start the car. I was like, right, right right,
And then the other guys went and put the cables
on their best. An hour later and then he turned
on this car and I went in. I talked to

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him and I told him, look, it feels like you
really need a new battery. He really need to get
a new batterykicking car popped up this many times before,
many times. Poppy. Yeah, we're on the air, Poppy, this
you're telling you're telling the story on you. You're broadcasting
the story. You're giving tales of a tow truck guy.
Yeah to truck guy. Now I'm back to picking with

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poppy picks. This is true. This is what you guys
off and waiting here. We talked about FIFA. The best
Cup comes every four years, and it is true Pifa.
There is a mop there is a mafia and poppies predictions.
This Quitar. That's right. We're gonna cash with Qatar because
Kadar is gonna do the big upset. Um. If you
studied the World Cup and the World Cup, every single

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teams that play at home, but just listen to me, guys,
every single team that plays their home wins. Now look
at this. Now there's bribery and the people that you're
gonna upset the people in Qatar. They're gonna come attack
you better. I'm messing it's okay. Qatar is gonna win.
And the one we're gonna cash with, we're gonna go
with England. England do the money line. We're gonna cash

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Those are poppies tick for the Sorry all our friends
in England, You're not gonna gone gone, gone, gone gone.
Let's say hello to Rachel in southern California in Mona Bello,
another show legend. Hello, Rachel. La la la la la
la la la la la la la m No no

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no no, no, no no no la Ben sweet baby Jesus,
I have a little birthday diddy for oh and I'd
like to share it with all ill well, I know
told me. He actually told me in our production meeting.
He said, I hope somebody sinks to me, and it's you, Yes, Rachel,

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who's gonna make his dreams come true? Are you gonna
pop out of a cake? Also? Could be all right?
Well quite the birthday for you, Cooper Hoop was birthday
was yesterday. Happy days we wish for Coop. A very
special day is due for you. Long life and love
your future holes for you greatest moments, magic memories. Happy birthday,

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dearest Coop, love you baby, Thanks, thanks, Rachel. Coop. When
you were a little boy and you were a big
TV star, movie star, you thought, maybe someday I'll be
a grown up doing overnight radio and a woman will
sing to me on the radio and give you a lummabar.
And now come down, Rachel, come down. Please. Woman's wishes

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for a forever memorable birthday weekend experience for justin love
you as always all right, Thank you, Rachel, Billy Dooey,
have a great weekend, Coop. He loving, thank you too,
our friend, Rachel. Good morning, NFL Football America. Yes, good morning,
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On the NBA, we did a rant yesterday Kevin Durant
took pot shots at many of his teams like he
named him, He named them, He named his teammates like
this guy's up bomb, this guy's U blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah. Well, one of those
guys he called called out. Royce O'Neill had a pretty

(24:43):
big night. He had by his standards. He had eleven
points and eleven assists and ten rebounds where we come
from that's a triple double and the Nets winning their
game against the Portland trail Blizers. And as Kevin's been
pointing out all night, these Sacramento Kings have been playing
very well here. No remember, since they announced they would
fire a laser beam into the sky after every win everyone.

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They're gonna fire a laser beam off. They have gone
six and one. The power of the laser, The power
of the laser. You can't stop the laser. We're gonna
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and don't forget also the Mallard Podcast, the Fifth Hour Podcast.
We'll have Benny versus the Penny Re NFL game this weekend.
We will handicap every game against the spread. Will do
that this weekend, and we'll say hello to Marcel in
Brooklyn real quick and then over to the Coop for
the Coop Scoop on entertainment. Hello Marcel in Brooklyn, Good morning,

(26:17):
Ben Kevin Roverto and Coop de loop. What do we
say a new dawn? Said? What do we say a
new dawn? A new day, wrapping up the week. So
let's get into it, mallam militia. Let's get into it,
and thank you for that sound bite. Starting with real,

(26:38):
John g the second joins us, now, what is your
food pick from last night? A dog? Hello? Hey, hey,
good morning. It's great great. What is your food pick
from last night? My man? You had a dog? No? No, no,

(27:02):
no no, not a mixed match Sorry, but thank you though,
well John, okay, sounding good John, Bye, John, thank you,
Thank you, John. Have a good weekend. Good weekend. I'm
gonna go pizza. Oh you're gonna be a mixed matching it? Yeah,
all right? What the smile on? Yep? Kevin? Kevin, Yes, yeah, Kevin.

(27:29):
He's never Kevin has never listened to the show. The
more I hear Kevin, I don't think he's ever heard
the show. I'm also juggling a couple of things, right,
he knows none of the bits. Uh. Roberto, go ahead, Roberto, Robert,
my man, I'm gonna say you had a dog. A dog?
You're supposed to be Roberto. Oh, yeah, Marcela, so you
had all right, go ahead, cool please, I think you

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had endless shrimp. Not a mixed match either, birthday rim
all right, reveal answers Hi yourselves for the mixed match
and the fruit Pigel last night to this pizza too.

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All right, Toss the Coop right now, Come on, Marcel,
toss the Coop. Have a great weekend, you guys. I'll
see you right back here on Monday. The rest of you.
The coop Scoop on Entertainment starts right now, all right,
all right for Hollywood, Justin Cooper child star liar Liar,

(28:39):
Dennis the Menace. He was on soap operas and now
he's taking tosses from Marcel in Brooklyn. That's right, man. Um,
So we're gonna start off in theaters as I normally
do during this segment. One of the first movies that
I want to point out out available in theaters right

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now is The Menu. Um. Now, this one I actually
saw before I came into the studio too. It was
pretty awesome, men. Yea. So it's basically so a couple
of travels to like an island, to eat like at
an exclusive restaurant, you know. Super five star a mouse

(29:22):
boush multi course meal and then the menu has been
prepared just for them. It's like twelve hundred dollars ahead.
And then stuff goes wrong. People start to die, and
it kind of it seems like a little like if
you've seen the trailers, it seems a little hunger gamish,

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but you know, there's the trailer doesn't reveal everything. It's
that's all I'll say. That's all I'll say. But it was.
It was pretty awesome. It stars Anya Taylor Joy. She
was she was made famous from the Queen's Gambit on
NETFLI licks Nicholas Holt is on it in it, and
then Ralph finds who I Love is also he plays

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he plays the main chef, the head chef. Oh all right, yes,
uh it looks fancy sometimes you know, like I'm like, yeah,
see I'm I'm a foodie and I love food. But
I feel like there's a certain like point where you're
just like, I don't know, what are you? What are
you really eating? Like does that really taste good? Or

(30:28):
you just being pretentious? I don't know anyway, But so
go see that movie. It's really cool. Another movie out
in theaters right now, is called She Said. And this
one's getting good reviews as well. And this is basically
am It's based on the true story of how the
two New York Times reporters broke the whole like Harvey

(30:51):
Weinstein thing which started the me Too movement. And uh so, yeah,
that is in theaters right now as well. Um, let
me see. I just want to see if there's anybody
like super famous in this and am I missing? Is
gonna be? Okay? Carrie Mulligan is in that movie. I don't.
I mean, I don't know. I haven't. The last update

(31:12):
that I saw was that he may need skin grafts.
I have not had. Okay, yeah, right there in Burbank,
like they had a hanger with all those cars. Yeah,
that's crazy. You think he'll go back on stage or
you think this is it? I mean he needs does
he need the money he saved? I thought he saved
all his money. I don't think he needs some money.
I think he just likes doing it. Yeah. I hope
he's all right. I think he's funny. Yeah. Yeah, he

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used to watch it. Actually, yeah, watch it anymore? Oh No,
I haven't watched. I haven't watched Late Night in a
long time. But this weekend, on Saturday Night on HBO
at eight pm is the thirty seventh annual Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. I feel like, for

(31:56):
some reason, I feel like this happens more often than
once a year. I feel like I'm always talking about
this on this segment. But this year the performer inductees
are Pat Benatar, Duran Duran, Eminem, The r Rhythmics, Dolly Parton,
Lionel Richie, and Carly Simon. So pretty, pretty star studded.

(32:18):
Uh h yes uh. Then going back to television on
Let's see, is it it's Monday? I believe yes? On No, No, sorry,
excuse me Tuesday. Tuesday on Hulu is a new drama series.
It's an eight episode limited series based on a true story.
It's called Welcome to Chippindale's Yeah so uh it stars

(32:44):
Wait what I think you said? Your brother? I'm like what, No,
My brother used to watch Chippindale the cartoon. Uh it
stars uh uh Kumali Nanjiani. Uh. He is the an
Indian immigrant who founded the Chippendales male stripping empire. And

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it's from the same screenwriter who did the Pam and
Tommy miniseries if you were a fan of that. So
it's being described as a true crime saga in a
dark comedy, so apparently there's some interesting stuff to the
I guess Founding of Chippendales and Juliet Lewis also stars
in that one. And I'm running out of time here,
so I'm gonna skip a couple of these and I'm

(33:26):
gonna go straight ahead to a sports documentary that is
premiering on HBO on Wednesday. It's just called Shack. It's
a four part look at the Legendary Center and each
part streams weekly on Wednesday's HBO nine pm. Oh, one
more thing, I'm sorry, one more thing, one more thing.

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Also on Wednesday on Netflix is it's called Wednesday. So
it's the new Adams Family spinoff series. It stars Jenna
Ortega as Wednesday Adams, who is now a teenager and
is in high school, so most of it takes place
like at her high school. But you've also got Katherine
data Jones and Luis Guzman who will be Morticia and

(34:09):
Gomez Adams. Fred Armison plays Uncle Fester, and then Christina
Ricci who played Wednesday back in the movies and the
nineties will be in the show, but she'll be playing
a different role, and that is coop scoop entertainment. All right,
thank you for that, Kovaloup. We have a little time
for Balva Dash. Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
is the number eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
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been waiting for. It's Ben's Balderdash. What the hell? Is
this formerly known as something we're not allowed to say?
Hit it? All right, we're gonna play balderdash right now
every week. This time, I gotta tell you I saw photo.
I sent it to Roberto. Brian Cashman's been sleeping on
the street in Lower Manhattan, and I had thirty eight
degrees in New York. He's doing it for charity. It's

(35:38):
the photo of him in a sleeping bag. The Yankee
GM is next level, all right, Roberto, it's pretty funny man,
pretty wild. All right. Let's say hello to Bennie Champ. Andrew.
Hello Andrew, Hello Ben, Welcome back in the bay. And
you're gonna play a guy across the way from you

(35:59):
over there, and Acremental up the road. Hello Drew. Welcome
and Drew. We're gonna play a game, short game here.
It's balderdash. We've got two categories. Your name is your buzzer, gentleman,
good luck. Category number one is alumni association, and category
number two is shut him down. Your name is your buzzer, Andrew.

(36:23):
You get to go first. Then I will see alumni association.
All right. I'll tell you the player, tell me what
college they went to. We'll start in football. For two
hundred dollars. Patrick Mahomes Andrew all right, no, all right,
oh for one to Drew. Would you like to steal? Drew? Yes,

(36:46):
all right, what's your answer? Take? That is correct? And
Andrew takes the lead. All right, four hundred dollars Alumni Association.
I will tell you the player. Tell me what college
they went to. The playmaker, Michael Irvin forget Andrew Miami.

(37:07):
That is correct. Yes, he's very well known as a
Miami Hurricane in his day. All right, four in a
bocks and we're tied up here we go six hundred dollars.
I'll name the player. Tell me what college they went to.
The NBA's joke him, Noah, Andrew Andrew University of Florida.
That is right, it was very some great Florida Gator teams.

(37:29):
That's six hundred dollars. Andrew takes the lead. Eight hundred dollars.
I'll tell you the player. Tell me what cause they
went to? Luke Walton, Luke Walton Andrew Andrew again, University
of Arizona. That is correct. I think your buzzers not working. Drew. Yeah,

(37:51):
I'll name the player. Tell me what cause they went
to Trevor Price. Yeah, if Andrew got that one, I
was gonna I was gonna quit the shows. You really
gotta you gotta be related to the guy. I think
you get that right. But he went to Clemson. Went
to Clemson, all right? Shut him down the category. These
athletes have all won a Defensive Player of the Year

(38:14):
or Gold Glove and two hundred dollars. Regarded as one
of the best defensive players of all time, this defensive
tackle has a record three Defensive Player of the Year
awards and seven First Team All Pro honors. Just won
the Super Bowl as well. Anybody, Wow, I guess you
don't know who Aaron Donweld is. Wow? All right, we're

(38:37):
out of time. Not a household name, do you know? Coop?
I believe Andrew won? Yes, Andrew. Unbelievable that Andrew. How
do you do it? Andrew so good at these games.
I's got a murder. Gotta go.