Hour 4 - Investigation

Ben Maller continues to discuss the Tua Tagovailoa injury and the NFLPA announcing they will be investigating the situation and the doctors involved, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, Benny's Balderdash, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number four, hour four of
our radio program. We play the hits and we circle
back to the story of stories. To a tongue of
Byloa injured a brain injury. Into the hospital, he goes.
Dolphins lose to the Bengals, who ends up winning as

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the nfl PA is investigating who's gonna win the investigation
when it's all done of the doctor's handling of to
a tongue of byloa, what changes will be made as
a result of this to a situation? And does the
NFL Players Association bear any responsibility to the events that
took place this week? We talk about that and more

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right now in our number four. It was an NFL
starting quarterback injured in the Thursday night game to a
tongue of Bayla. And now now the wrangling begins. The
wrangling begins the morning after. Wellcome, in the beginning of

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another hour of the Ben Maller Show. We are in
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The Bengals come back in the fourth quarter beat the
Dolphins in the Thursday Night special on Amazon As. The
Bengals get all the points in the fourth quarterfield goal
touchdown and they end up winning twenty seven fifteen was
the final The outcome, though, as we have been talking
about most of the night here, small potatoes, because Tua

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Tonga bay Loah was forced out of the game with
a head slash neck injury. About five minutes left in
the first half. Toua Baylah went back to pass ball,
was at the Bengal forty yard line and he got sacked.
His head slammed into the turf and he immediately closed

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his eyes there went into the fencing position, which we
learned earlier in the show is something that newborn babies
do up until about four months and when you get
a brain injury. It happens not everyone, but occasionally, when
you get a brain injury, you reset back to being
a newborn baby, which is rather scary. And he was

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taking off the field on a stretcher and took to
the taking to the hospital and all that. And it
turns out that he got out of the hospital last
night and according to the Dolphins, went back on the
team playing tongue byloa is likely back in Miami by
now and he is with the team. This is the
second time in less than a week the tool was

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forced from a game after it appeared he hit his
head on the turf he was injured in the Bills game.
Talked about that you probably heard it here or somewhere else,
or maybe you saw it yourself, and the Dolphins swore
up and down on the Holy Bible that that was
not not a head injury. It was a back injury.
It was not neurological, and that led to a dagger

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coming down from the NFL Players Association boss. If you've
not been following along here and possibly not, de Marie Smith,
the Players Association head honcho, the Big Una. He has
vowed to pursue quote every legal option regarding the handling

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of to a tongue of Valoa's situation. Now some more context,
Smith text the following message to Richard Sherman and others. Quote,
we insisted on these rules to avoid exactly this scenario.
We will pursue every legal option, including making referrals against

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doctors to licensing agencies and the team that is obligated
to keep our players safe. Quote. All right, so let
us discuss the question. It's always the blame game, right,
The blame game is always the question. We'll get to
the blame game. But who ends up winning? From the
NFL Players Association, implying there will be a thorough investigation

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and they are going to hold people accountable into the doctors,
who's going to end up winning? So my take on this,
We've got Beagles, Irish Spring and Simon and Garfunkel, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
will make the barbacanoosh. We're gonna make the babacanoose for

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the final time this week. All right. So to kick off,
this is not a criminal case, it is most likely
not even a civil case. But even if none of
those things happen, there's a lot of consternation, a lot
of streaming, shouting, pounding the table. We talked in an
earlier hour, you were probably not listening about the checks

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and balances that the Dolphins are claiming was followed. You
could argue cynically, of course the Dolphins are gonna say
that's the case. But now that is going to be
placed under the microscope, and you're gonna have the NFLPA lawyers,
investigators who are going to pull out the fine tooth

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comb examining every nook and cranny. You'll have statements being
made from all of the key players with the Dolphins.
I'm talking about the coaches, the medical staff, the training staff, etc. Etc. Etc.
You'll have medical experts brought into question, the Dolphins medical
experts to question the NFL's medical experts. They're gonna get

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into the nitty gritty to answer the question post though.
In the end, when everything is done, all the teas
across the eyes are dotted, the real winners will be
the legal beagles. A lot of billable hours. The lawyers
always win in the end, whether you win the case
or not, whether you have a case or not, and

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they'll be able to afford another yacht under their vacation villa.
They'll be good in that department. Now, furthermore, what changes
will be made, if any, as a result of this
latest tah kerfluffle with the concussion in the second quarter
of the game last night in Cincinnati. So there will

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be a blue ribbon panel put together more than one,
a collaborative effort of medical minds, and they'll have impressive resumes.
We know how this works in the NFL and the PA.
They love the impressive resumes, people that worked as the
head of some hospital somewhere and have years and years
of experience. And they'll bring in former players, a mix,

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if you willy, a mishmash of medical people, lawyers, former players,
and all that will result is more bureaucracy red tape
for days. There is a small chance that, based on
the results of the investigation, the NFLPA and the NFL
will hold a human sacrifice. We learned years ago you

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have to have a fall guy, and they will expunge
one of the neurologists from the NFL's umbrella. That person
will be they violated the hippocratic oath, and then the
NFL and the Players Association will get out the Irish
spring and scrub a dub dub, wash your hands and

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move on, and nothing to see here. Nothing to see here. Now,
we should also point out that all of the outrage
after the fact about to his injury, he was actually
playing okay at the beginning of the game before the
injury for a guy that was supposed to be playing

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with a concussion. According to the Internet. There he was
doing all right at the beginning, in the first quarter,
and then things took a turn to the dark side
after that. Obviously got hurt and whatnot, but early on
he looked all right. It didn't look like he had
had been suffering the effects of some kind of situation
that would have caused his performance to go down. And

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then he got hit and then that was it. But
the parting shot, does the NFLPA bear any responsibility? We
mentioned the basis of this Malard monologue that the head
of the NFL PAD Maurice Smith, vows to pursue every
legal option, and he has a very strong statement that
he released. Well, if mister Smith was so shaken taken

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aback by the two injury to the bills, he's in
the position. I'm not in the position, You're not in
the position he's in the position to do something. He
could have actually done something. Did he sound the alarm bells? Now?
He didn't do that, that's a rhetorical question. He had
the chance to step in and raise a big hullaballoo,

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but rather than point the finger at the NFL or
attempt to keep two of from playing the guardian angel
of the nfl PA played a Simon and Garfuncle classic,
The Sound of Silence. Hello Darkness, my old friend, I've
come to talk with you again. He was he suffering

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from amnesia? Is that the case was the head of
the NFLPA preoccupied with something else I don't know. But instead,
just like all the people on social media who were
all flustered and worked into a ladder after the fact,
he's passing the buck here. That's the way of corporate America.

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Instead of being proactive and preventing an issue from escalating,
the NFLPA waited until after things went downhill, and now
they are running to scramble and do the old cy
A drill. You know what the cya drill is. Everyone
who's ever had a job has dealt with someone that's
had the CIA drill. Cover your ass, Cover the old

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Tuckis and just a bunch of empty suits. As that goes,
Let's hear from Mike McDaniel. He's the head coach of
the Dolphins. He was boy wonder king of all nerds.
Now he has become public enemy number one. Adare election
of duties. How could the head coach of the Dolphins

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allowed toa to play? He does not care about tah
It's unreal. Anyway, here's Mike McDaniel talking about how emotional
things were on the Dolphin sidelines when the injury happened.
That was an emotional moment. That is not part of
the deal that anyone signs up for, even though you

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know it's a possibility and football to have something that
you have to get taken off. The best news that
we could get is that everything is checked out. Okay,
it was good news. Here's more from Mike McDaniel. And
here's where we get into talking about brain doctors. There's
an independent specialist that specializes in the specialty of brain matter.

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So for me, as long as I'm coaching here, I'm
not gonna fudge that whole situation. See what he should
have done? There is used a Belichick line. Do I
look like a doctor. That's I would have been a
good line to use there so day talking about the
independent the doctors, and well, I do believe the Dolphins
are not at fault here that these things pop up.

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And two was cleared. He wanted to play, He played,
And I don't think you need we need to hold
a war tribunal over this, and it's part of the
game of football. Occasionally these things happen. But here's more
from Mike McDaniel, the head coach of the Dolphins. He
talked about all of the regulations NFL teams have to

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deal with when you talk about concussions. If there's any
sort of inclination that someone has a concussion, they go
into the cussion Protocol and it's very strict. If we
don't mess with that, never have and I as long
as I'm the head coach, that will never be an
issue that you guys have to worry about. Completely unflustered,

(12:51):
completely relaxed. It's like he's sitting back having a cup
of coffee composed. All right, spend Malor's show on Fox.
You want to talk about any parts of this story.
It is a developing story. And I'll be going to
bed after the show. But by the time I wake up,
I'm sure there'll be several more think pieces put out
in the media and condemnation and people making big statements

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to get attention. I know, last night and really all
night social media filled with doctors people that specialize in
the brain. Didn't realize there were that many of them
that were out there, but neurologists popping up and everyone
had a hot take on this. There was one particular
neurologist who got a lot of clout online for saying

(13:38):
that somebody from the Dolphins should go to jail for
murder if TWA dies, a very angry rant on social media.
Oh my god, unbelievable. It's wild and crazy and all
of that. And straight ahead for us, we've got the
Coop scoop on entertainment. We still have some other business
to take care of from earlier. We'll clear out the

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Ledger as well. Take your calls. We've got balder dash
later in the hour, the whole shebang. We'll get to it,
and we will do it next. Be sure to catch
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Daniel in Ohio rights and he says it's not part

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of the deal. It's not what you sign up for,
but you have to know it could happen. Contradicting statement,
Mike McDaniel is hiding behind that tan. He's a goblin.
According to Daniel, we know kind of goblin he is.
That's what he said. I don't know no idea. Hey

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do we have this ukulele tune? So we're gonna play
this this? This is I tease this a while ago.
It's just a little little ditty. It's like something somebody
that calls this show would come up with. So on
Amazon and get to the point. Please. On the lead
up to the Thursday night game, you had the Amish

(15:29):
Rifle and Ta. They did an interview and they cooked
up some music here and this is the vocals of
Ryan Fitzpatrick. They both have the old ukulele and here's
how it sounded. Well, we need more of these guys.
I love these interviews. Oh my gosh, it's so much fun.

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You don't run so very far. Father. My love to
see you're playing after so happenly. Can't wait to see
you on the desk about night victory. So for those

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of you who don't have Amazon, there you go, there
you go. All right, let's go to the Phone's milk man,
Mike's cashing a golden ticket. Hell, milk man, Mike, Hey
a boarding here. First off, I just want to thank
everybody that reached out to me about two weeks ago
when I was training for my race Pike. I got
a lot of encouragement from val. I want to thank

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you guys for a lot. How do you get through it? Yeah?
Can you pick We want to hear every word, Mike.
There's a lot of ambient noise there. We can't hear
every word. Can you pick up the phone? Possible? Hang
on a checord? All right, Okay, how's that? Much better,
much better. Okay, Well, what said Mike McDaniels sing. Every
time I hear that guy talk, all I can think

(17:05):
about is Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Every
time he's going to miss their hands class and this
is this like our time and everything else. Dude's got
no clue, he really doesn't. He's gonna end up getting
somebody seriously hurt before this season's over. But the main
reason I called was last night when you guys were

(17:26):
talking about the community milk in the fridge and the
food left in there and stuff. I had somebody at
my work when I was still a supervisor that used
to take my stuff in the morning and I booby
trapped the food he used to take my breakfast burrito,
and we be in Merlax and carat Hall and ghost
pepperd and he ate it. And you want to talk

(17:48):
about somebody that was happenings the major major cramps the
whole rest of the day. That guy did and he
never took it again. I don't know that that's legal,
but that is one way to solve the problem. That
would be one way to solve the problem. Mike, Oh yeah, well,
it's not like we killed him or anything. No, you know,

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but I think he was wishing he had died. But
you know, don't you don't you learn you're learn in
kindergarten not to take other people's stuff, right, I think, well, yeah, yeah,
I got you, all right, Mike. Well we look forward
to your next adventure. Buddy. That's pretty funny, but thank you.
All right? Is our friend milkman, Mike, don't take his
burrito or you'll be having the runs there mona Zuma's revenge,

(18:35):
we'll attack you. Let's go to Justin in Hershey, Pa,
what's going on? Justin welcome? H Hello, Justin Gone. I'm
sure he had a great call, but he's not there.
So we'll say hello to Rachel and Mata Bello in
southern California. Hello, Rachel, Viva Been Nelly, Viva Be Nelly,

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Viva Viva Viva Ben Maller, how are you handsome? I swallowed?
Who needs Viva las Vegas? We've got that instead. That's
much better than Viva las Vegas, Rachel. If I was
any better, I'd be McDaniel, But not Mike McDaniel, Dolphin coach,
because he's public enemy number one. Though then that injury

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looked nightmarish. I feel so badly for the Dolphins. I mean,
it's gonna I hope it's resolved in a positive manner
for everyone, and I hope for a speedy recovery for Tua.
He was doing, you know, fairly well last game. He
played okay in this game. But I mean, it's it's
just a very very stat situation for other Dolphins and

(19:47):
especially for Tua. You know, speedy recovery is what we're
wishing for for him and for all the Dolphins fans. Um,
you know, how would you want the nfl PA to
resolve this? What would be you would be your suggestion, Well,
you just make sure that that nobody lied, that they
they did what they were supposed to do, and you

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just make sure that the doctors you have them verified
that what they did was the right stuff and they
checked all the proverbial boxes that the red tape says,
and then you move on this. You know, these injuries
pop up from time to time. But to early in
the game looked fine. He was playing the game, he
looked all right, and I thought he had a head

(20:29):
injury in the Bills game. But I'm not a doctor,
and I don't. Are you a doctor, Rachel, You're not.
The final decision is with him. He's decision to play
at exactly yes, you mean you play the accountability in
the blame game, you know to He got the advice
from the doctors. They said he was all right, and
he said, I want to play. And there are reasons

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for that. He's been criticized. I've criticized him. Other people
criticize him that he's fragilely, didn't play that much. He
gets hurt a lot, and so I think that's one
of the factors, one of the variables that caused him
to want to play. My prayers are for him to
a good luck for you, all right, Thank you, Rachel.
Good night Rachel and Montabella Flexus, America's favorite drag queen

(21:10):
caller from Buffalo. Hello Flexus, all right, Ben you there? No? Okay, Well,
I wish they put Rachel on speed dial. Well, anyway,
I call up for my picks. I'm doing the Lions
of Steelers and the Saints. Okay, thank you, Lions, Steelers

(21:31):
and Saints. Okay, you're going three. Saints are terrible. Andy Dalton,
good luck on that. Good luck on that. Be sure
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(21:53):
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Out of and Plexico Birds on the iHeartRadio app, Apple
Podcast or wherever you get your podcast from. Some quarterback
news from the NFL, which is always very important us
the Saints. Jameis Winston once again not sure if he's

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going to be able to play on Sunday over in
London where the Saints will be taking on the Minnesota Vikings.
If he can't go, Andy Dalton, we'll get the start
for the Saints. Get out the rosary beads in the
Bayou yeah. And if you're in London, boy, aren't you
happy to see Andy Dalton. That's a that's a treat. Also,
Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert a full participant in practice as
he continues to work through the rib issue. Now, like

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de Ben Maller and the Tirak dot Com, Fox Sports
RADI your student. All right, thank you for that, Eddie,
and we have the coop scoop on Entertainment. I actually
saved the couple of stories for the coop scoop on Entertainment.
So we'll see if he mentions the stories much like Eddie.
And if he doesn't, you know, I do the hockey.
Eddie does a hockey. And he doesn't mention them, then
we'll we'll condemn them and I'll bring them up. So anyway,
let's get back to our man in Brooklyn. His name

(23:22):
is Marcel and what eating food is his game? Hello? Marcel,
I like that, Ben. Happy Friday to you. Three weeks
away until my birthday. Prepare yourselves for October that will
be exactly tomorrow. Now, do you have a series of
events lined up for your birthday? Month? Oh, it could

(23:44):
be a very special one. A look at a look
back at my career talking to you. Also, what's going
to be a birthday cake will take place, and also
had to send my friends and family over here in Brooklyn.
Are my very special day that will be three weeks
from now, but don't say it. We'd like to alert

(24:05):
all the affiliates. Three weeks from now, Marcel in Brooklyn,
we'll have a party. Yes, indeed, the Big Jab here,
the Big Job a friend of Fox Radio in Portland. Yes,
are you back on the Big Jab? Now? Are you
promoting them on this show? Is that what you're doing?
I will do that. I will do that next Tuesday.

(24:26):
Now do you promote my show on their show? Oh yeah, okay,
thank god? I love that. I will do. All the
people listening in Maine say, who the f is? That?
Is that? What they say? Oh? That the enemy within
Blair Blair Poutin, that's his name. That's right, all right,
Well you just go on that station to annoy it Blair.
We don't have a lot of time, marcelfs. So we

(24:47):
got to get to the picks because Coop's waiting over
there and he's his airtime. Oh yeah, get ready for
the Coop Scoop on Entertainment, his chest ahead, but first
a new dawn, a new day, wrapping up to September,
almost getting into October. We can't wait, so maya blusha.
Let's get into it. And we want to warn you

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because of that. The following contains explicitive language to all
of the FCC and Fox Sports Radio as well as
the iHeart Radio affiliates nationwide. Parential discretion is advised. Ye
have all blee? Okay, alright? Nothing in Cincinnati? Who joins us? Now?
Good morning sir? Oh wow's don't you don't think he's there?

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He's okay, he'll be back. So then started with you,
my friend? Go ahead? What happened to robinas? Oh? Now,
oh yeah, let's put Robin Vegas in. Good morning sir,
Happy Friday? Miss you on Wednesday? But what is your
food pick from last night? Oh? Yeah, I don't think.

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What about Queen Roxanne? Is she there? Oh? Put Queen
Rosen for there a way Queen rox In from Buffalo,
Good morning to you, Happy Friday. What did your foot
peck from last night? He moved the Buffalo Eda cazzadia?
Oh casadilla and oh good choice, but not the mixed
match for I'm rock. Thank you what do you think.

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He's got a pretty sultry voice, doesn't she yea, oh
you really know it? You go pizza. I'm going pizza, pizza, pizza, pizza, pizza, Pizza, pizza, pizza.
The mixed match today, Eddie, Eddie, go ahead, Eddie, I
don't know pizza. Oh you got two times, Frank my
friend put that. Take that. You take that, take that, Eddie.

(26:40):
I'm gonna say pizza pizza for you, buddy, and recoop
you little duck who scoop on entertainment his head, It's
coming at you after mine. Uh Marshall, I think you
had barbecue beef tenderloin tacos with mango line slaw not
to mix match. Sorry, sorry, our from last night is pizza. Yeah,

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that's a wind around. Entertainment starts right now. Have a
great weekend, you guys. I'll see you back here on Monday.
Here we go the coop scoop on tament. Hooray for
Hollywood orray for Hollywood. In a Motion pictures star Justin
Cooper with the Inside School, Ben I got a lot
to talk about this week. Let's go because I was

(27:27):
out for a week with COVID and so I spent
a lot of time watching TV and no, uh, for
some reason, I decided to watch a bunch of depressing
stuff but really really good uh. And these are these
are older shows that I may have our may or
may not have brought up on Coop Scoop Entertainment, but

(27:48):
I had never gotten around to watching him. So I
just want to mention it. Uh. Dope Sick on Hulu,
which is a limited series. It actually won some Emmy Awards,
was nominated for some Emmy Awards recently. And that is
about the opioid epidemic and uh, the pharmacy that created
oxycotton and the people behind that and how they're basically

(28:09):
just uh, you know, drug dealers out in the open.
It was pretty crazy stuff. I highly recommend watching that
starts Kevin Costner. It's it's really it's it's Michael Keaton. Uh,
it's really good stuff. Um. Then another one on Apple
TV plus. This is another limited series that I watched.
It's called Five Days at Memorial. This came out about

(28:30):
a month ago and it was about the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina inside a hospital there where a doctor ended
up getting I guess sued and also almost like criminally
indicted on murder charges euthanizing patients that I guess we're

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stuck in this hospital. That was That's a tough watch,
but also really good, really good stuff. UM out recently
this week Dahmer Uh. I've heard about Yes, Yes, and
social media is all talking about this. It's it's called
Dahmer Monster, the Jeffrey Dahmer story. It seems a lot
of younger people Coop do not know who they don't

(29:12):
know that, Yeah, exactly. It's hard to believe it's been
that long, but it has been a long time. I
was noticing that as well. A lot of the comments
on Twitter. It's like people hearing about this for the
first time. But Evan Peters, who always does a great
job playing psychopaths and crazy evil people, stars as Jeffrey Dahmer.
Molly Ringwald's also in this and I watched I started

(29:34):
watching that, watched the first episode. It's it's pretty creepy. Um.
Another show that was out this past week. I have
not gotten around and watching it. I've brought it up
on Coop Scoop before. It's called Blonde. It's Netflix's dramatize,
somewhat fictionalized take on Marilyn and Row starring Anna di Armis,

(29:54):
and uh, she's great. So I will be watching that
out in theaters this weekend. A new horror movie called Smile.
This is getting pretty good reviews. It looks creepy people.
The baseball yes, Smile behind home play, Uh, basic premise.
After witnessing a bizarre traumatic incident involving a patient, doctor

(30:16):
Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain,
and you know, creepy, creepy people. Smiles. Uh, moving over
to Netflix, it's out today. This is a new animated
adults series, not like adult adult but animated money Here

(30:37):
we go, animated series for adults. It's called Intergalactic and
it is co created by Kid Cutty the Rapper, and
he also stars in this and other stars that lend
their voice to this show, or Timothy Shallowmay, Vanessa Hudgins,
Jaden Smith, McCauley Culkin. So it's you know, it's getting

(30:57):
pretty good reviews. That's on Netflix right now. Another uh
drama that is out on Apple TV Plus today. Someone's
getting middling reviews. But I feel like it'd be interesting
to a lot of our listeners. It's called the greatest
beer run ever, and it's based on a true story
of a X marine who drunkenly hatches an idea to

(31:19):
show his support for his friends serving in Vietnam by
traveling to the front line to bring them some beer.
This actually happened. Uh, this sounds like what was the
guys that went the White Castle? Oh, Harold and Kumar? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's kind of it's kind of a similar premise. Yeah,
but this one's based on a true story. And the director, uh,

(31:43):
his previous film Green Book one best picture, so you
know take that for which will uh moving on real quick?
Also today on Disney Plus. Any any nineties kid like
myself is going to be excited about this. It is
hocus Pocus too. And so that is the sequel of
the nineteen ninety three box office flop, but it turned
into a cult classic. Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica, Sarah Jessica

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Parker and Kathy Not Jimmie returned in the start in
the roles as the Witches and Hoax Focus too. And then, uh,
did you see who's gonna play Dennis Rodman? No, I
did not, you did not. They they're making a movie
about when Robin was with the Bulls and he went
to Vegas. Remember the fake ye took his little vacation.

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Jonathan Majors is in talks. It's not a done deal.
He looks. I can see him being Rodman. I don't
know who that is. I didn't know either, but I
looked him up. Let me see it does okay, See
I can see that. Like, dye his hair a little bit,
get some fake tattoos on him. I think that's good
to go. And did you see Netflix? I saw this story.
They shot an entire season of a new show and

(32:51):
then cancel it. No it's not. Yeah, it's called Grendel,
this upcoming series and they made the whole thing and
as an adaptation of the Grendel comics from Dark Horse.
And they shot the whole thing and then decided to
wun't any good and they got rid of it. Interesting,
I mean, why would they do that. Netflix is notorious

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for just randomally canceling shows, even ones that are you know,
have a big following. I guess you get paid anyway, though, right,
if you're shot the show, you get paid for it.
So yeah, but only one season. It's a good point. Yeah,
all right. That is coop Scoop on entertainment. There. It
is the Coop School by Entertainment. Very good thing. A
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(33:37):
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(34:41):
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Let's get to the game though, balder dash. Right now,
We've got two guys named John in Vegas that want
to play, so only one of them can play. We
can't have two guys with the same name from the

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same city, so we're gonna have Las Vegas John play.
Hello Las Vegas, John, let's him Welcome in and you
will be playing against Mitch in Wisconsin. Hello Mitch, Welcome man, buddy.
All right, here we go, gentlemen, Let's get right to
the game in a a lot of time. So the
categories are Draft day and red ass. Those are the categories, John,

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which one do you want to start with? Draft Day?
All right, we'll start with draft day. I will tell
you the athlete, tell me the team that originally drafted them.
For two hundred dollars, we'll go to the NBA. Shaquille O'Neill,
John John, we'll land no magic, that is correct, all right,
four hundred dollars. I will tell you the athlete. Tell
me the team that originally drafted them from the NFL.

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Charles Woodson, John John again, Raiders. That is correct. That
the Raiders are right, and four hundred dollars the Oakland Raiders.
Six hundred dollars. Now I name the athlete. Tell me
the team that originally drafted them from the NFL. Julia's Peppers,
John John again, Cleveland Browns. No, that is incorrect, Mitch.

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Are you enjoying the game? Mitch? Yeah, yeah, it's yeah.
You Just yell your name. That is correct. Just like that.
You've you've actually got the lead now, amazing. Just yell
your name. Your name is your buzzer eye. I should
have said that. I thought everyone knew, but I guess
there's new people all the time. Eight hundred dollars. I'll

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tell you the athlete, tell me the team that originally
drafted them. Bill lame beer Mitch. Mitch asked me, Celtics. No,
you just thought white guy Celtics. No, John Steel, No,

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believe it or not, it's the Cleveland Cavaliers. Last one
thousand dollars. Baseball all give you the athlete the team
the drafted him. Jeff Bagwell, anybody, John John, No, No,
it was the Red Sox. It was the Red Sox.
Didn't give me a chance, that's true. I did not
give you a chance, all right, beat you out by me.

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You didn't know the answer, though. Come on, now, you
did not. No, you did. I don't believe you. No,
you did not. You didn't give me a chance. Yeah,
you're lying. Your nose is growing. All right, here we go,
red ass the category. These sports figures have all been
considered sore losers. Two hundred dollars. Not used to losing.

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The future Hall of Fame quarterbacks suffered a forty one
nothing playoff loss to the New York Jets, but still
found a way to take it out on that idiot
kicker John John in Vegas. Oh, Peyton, that is correct,
Peyton Manning is right, all right? Four hundred dollars. Now,

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this Hall of Fame wide receiver, full of any saw
on the field and off. He once walked off the
field before the game was over, losing to the Riches
were out of time. It was Randy Moss who wins
the game. Coop Mitch. Mitch somehow wins the game. He
didn't even know how to play the game. He won
the games. Got a murder. Gotta go. I have nowhere

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to go. I have nothing to do.