March 17, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Michael Jordan planning to sell his majority stake in the Charlotte Hornets, what Jordan's next NBA move might be, 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
the podcast. As we headed in the weekend, remember the
fifth hour podcast. What do you make of Michael Jordan
planning to exit as the puppet master of the Hornets?
Is gonna sell majority interest in the team? Is there
a message in the timing of this story being leaked
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from MJ's camp? And where do you see Michael Jordan's
next NBA move? We'll talk about all that and more
right now in our number four here it is the
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way tirebund should be. College basketball is obviously king right now,
but for our purposes, there's a story that we need
to lead this hour with from Pro Bouncyball. But it's okay,
we'll get back to college basketball later in the hour.
It's all about a legend of the game, a cultural
icon who has popped up on the sports radar. Michael
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Jeffrey Jordan. Hello, Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player of
all time. Take that lebron, Michael Jordan. If you have
not heard, and chances are you were in a coma
play at Saint Patty's Day today right if people are
doing crazy things, we had a wild call back in
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our number two of the show, but maybe you missed it,
maybe he missed it. So we've learned that Michael Jordan
is in deep negotiation to sell his majority steak in
the Charlotte Hornets that's a basketball team, to a group
of minority owners, including one minority owner of the Hornets
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and somebody that owns part of the Atlanta Hawks. Now,
Wooge tells us that there's a significant push and a shove,
if you will, for a sale that would eventually remove
Michael Jordan from being the head Hans show in Charlotte.
Now that being said, if this happens, the plan would
have Michael Jordan remain as a bit player, but not
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in a position to decide who the players are. He
would have a minority stake in the team. Keep in mind,
the NBA does not believe that they have any owners
because Draymond Green complained a couple of years ago. So
they went full woke and decided that they're governors, although
I do not believe they're voted on by the public.
So let us discuss the question, what do you make
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of Michael Jordan planning to exit stage left as the
puppet master of the NBA's hornets. So I've got Sadam
trash Day and John D. Rockefeller and we will connect
all of these things together and we will pass the baton,
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is what we're going to do. So first of all,
Michael Jordan, if you followed basketball from Afar like we do,
you know you don't have to be like a hardcore
basketball who pet. Michael Jordan has been drowning ever since
he crossed the line from player to executive, and he's
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ridden the train over at Nike and the Jordan brand
and all the money they make over at Nike, and
that has not carried over to basketball. It has not.
Jordan dazzled us as a player for the Chicago Bulls,
and he has absolutely baffled us as a decision maker
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by moving forward. It's not official yet, but we're heading
that direction and to sell the team, Michael Jordan is
giving a concession speech. He's announcing I sucked at my job.
I'm throwing in the sponge. As a famous boxer said
back in the day, No Moss, No moss. Mj does
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not need the money. Now, this team is going to
sell for a lot of money. Jordan's gonna keep part
of it. But I believe he paid two hundred and
seventy five million for that team, and it is worth
a heck of a lot more than that. But this
is all about avoiding stomach pain, more of a long
term stomach ache, and actions do speak louder than words.
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Michael Jordan has tried just about everything. He is tossed
stuff against the wall. He's tossed the spaghetti against the
wall to see if any of it stuck on Tobacco Road,
and it hasn't. And a guy that has gone from
the mighta's touch with the Chicago Bulls and with Nike
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to the Sadom Touch with the Hornets. Now we know
with the Mighta's touch, everything you touch turns to gold. Right,
it's the legend with the Sadom touch, everything you touch,
you ruin everything you ruin everything you touch. And mj
has been haunted by basketball demons. And the reality is
that he's such a big story, such rich guy. I've
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determined I have a theory on why Jordan sucks as
an owner slash executive over seeing the roster because he
hasn't had to shop for his own groceries in twenty
five thirty years, probably longer than that, and he's simply
bad at picking up the groceries. Jordan's the guy that
gets the expired fruit that's got worms in it and
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the rotting meat. That's what he buys. Now, what is
my evidence? Look at the picks, Sodom says. Let's go
back twenty eleven NBA draft. The Hornets had the ninth
overall pick. They took Kemball walker Michael Jordan, who certainly
thought would be able to spot talent, passed over Clay
Thompson who went with the eleventh pick, and Kawhi Leonard
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of the People's Team, and he could have had either
one of those. Got twenty twelve NBA draft, though the
Hornets took Michael kid Gilchrist, they passed over Bradley Beale
who went number three. Kid Gilchrist went number two, and
Damian Lillard was in that draft. But wait, there's more.
In twenty thirteen, the Hornets had the fourth pick. They
took a guy named Cody Zeller, just an average garden
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variety NBA player, and they passed over CJ. McCollum, who
has been a good player and the great freak Jannis
at Danta Komba, although to be fair, he was very
raw back in those days. But still you think Michael
Jordan would have the ability to foreshadow greatness and he
did not. And I can keep going. Twenty fifteen, Charlotte
picked Frank Kaminski with the number nine pick. They passed
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over Devin Booker, who was the number thirteen pick. So
let's you get the point now. Secondly, is there a
message in the timing? All right? The timing of this
story being leaked? We assume it was leaked by MJ's camp.
Who else would leak the story? So yes, yes, Yes
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to infinity and beyond. There's absolutely a message. Here's the message.
This story was planted late in the day during the
opening stanza of March Madness. You know what that is dead?
Give what it is a dead giveaway. Michael Jordan's team
made sure people who are associates intermediaries of Jordans made
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sure to leak the story to Woad and did it
on a takeout the trash day situation. Why it's unflattering,
So take the trash out. It's unflattering to the legacy
of his airness. We're talking about the greatest basketball player
of all time of fourteen time NBA All Star. Thirteen
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years Michael Jordan's been the majority owner of the Hornets.
Charlotte has made the postseason twice in a league where
half the teams get to the playoffs. They've made it twice.
That is a one fifty four playoffs success rate. But wait,
there's more. The Hornet's overall winning percentage in the Jordan
years going into this year four twenty one. This season,
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the Hornets are even worse. They have a three ten
winning percentage. So dump it when no one's paying attention.
It's take out the trash day. It's the secret of magic,
it's misdirection, it's and who exactly is consuming NBA news
when you're worried about brackets and that kind of stuff.
There are people, but not many now final thought, the
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final thought here, So where do you see Michael Jordan's
next NBA move? And looking into my crystal ball. As
a distant relative of Nostre Damas and friend of Nostradinas,
he lives in Seattle, I see the island life. Michael
Jordan will be focusing on the big three coconuts, hammocks,
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and palm trees. That is the key there for Michael Jordan.
And he's gonna get a lot of that. He's had
a lot of it. And that's just the reality of
the situation for Michael Jordan. And that's it. He's done
with basketball. Jordan had a rather big milestone a birthday.
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A right mouse was just turned sixty a few days ago,
actually a month ago. Now he's been a month exactly
since this happened. And so now he's like, all right,
I'm done. I'm done with the ownership as far as
running the team, and I'll hang around. And Jordan's got
his own utopia. He's Basketball's Jon d Rockefeller. He's he's
partnered up with Nike. Nike's the standard oil of athletic apparel.
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And he shot his shot with the Wizards, he missed
the bull's eye. He went to the Hornets and did
the same. And one thing about Jordan, which is much
different than Lebron, is that Jordan's much more prim and
proper that he does not crave the spotlight. He's not
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He's not that guy, right, He's not an attention horror
like Lebron James is. He does anyok. Lebron, if he's
not asked a question about something that's a hot button
political issue, he gets upset unless it's about China, and
then you don't want to talk about it. But but
a word of advice to MJ. All right, we're advised
to MJ. I would advise him, as someone that has
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no money and does a struggling overnight sports radio show,
I would advise Michael Jordan to slow down, slow slow
walk the sale of a Hornets. I'm gonna tell you
why the NBA Draft lottery isn't a few months. I'm
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not a fan of the draft. You know that FM
picks but in this case, should the Hornets hit PAYDRD
and find the bonanza in the draft lottery. The prize
is Victor Wimba Yama, the Parisian Prodigy, and he's the
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next big thing, right He's supposed to be the generational talent,
the once in a blue moon wonderkin. And if you
can get the Parisian Prodigy on your team, maybe you
keep the team because you can't screw that up. Or
you sell the team and the team's worth a lot
more because you now have one of the faces of
the NBA who hasn't gone to a club in Denver
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and flashed the gun on Instagram or threatened teenagers. So
it's a better spot in a better spot, all right.
It is the Band Maller Show. If you would like
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I've been down this thing a fair amount of years.
We had one of the craziest calls we ever had
from Tony in the Bay Area in our number two.
So you might want to go back if you missed that,
you might want to go back and hear it. And
while you're doing that, downloading the podcast. When we get done,
don't forget the Fifth Hour podcast, which is also available
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us out as well and keep the show moving and
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keep the bosses off my ass, which is really what
we want, and that's all we're looking for. It's just
keep bit, easy peasy, and that's all we need. That's right.
Is there a mystery team interested in Lamar Jackson? Inquiring
minds would like to know? And the coop scoop on entertainment?
All right for Hollywood, hoor right for Hollywood. We'll get
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alf the Alien Opine Rights and he says, much like
Michael Jordan, I'm also done with basketball so much as
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I thought the Charlotte team was called the Bobcats. Can
they even make us the make up their collective minds already? Yeah?
When Jordan bought the team, they were called the Bobcats.
Mark Man, the Brocco fan, He's been listening a while.
He says, a plus plus with the jokes. Good job everyone,
he said, that was funny. Good there you go, very good.
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Kurt from Earth, and all the rest who are regular
joke writers. We'll go to the phones right now and
eeny meeny, miney mo. Let's say hello to Michael, who's
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in Vegas. Hello Michael, welcome, Hello Ben. How are you doing?
I don't think I'm doing as well as you are. Well,
the weather is not too bad. So are we celebrating
Saint Patrick's there? Are you Irish? Oh my gosh, my
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birthday is the day after Saint Patrick's day? So yes,
is that right? Thank you well, happy birthday. I appreciate that. Umu.
The h Princeton Tigers just won a basketball game. Hello, Hello,
(15:50):
I'm loving this a little bit because I went to
high school and my can I say, I'll monitor off
it's just a high school or dude, I have to
Oh man, you are so schnockered right now? Hey, Michael,
can you can you breathe into the phone? We want
to want to check something. Can you breathe into the
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phone there, take a deep breath. Okay, Roberto, can you
you check? Oh my god, oh we got a breathalyzer.
Oh my God, you should be legally dead, Michael. Holy crap,
I can't believe that. Unbelievable. He should be all right,
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But thank you. It's not you, it's I believe it's you.
Know what that reminds me of I saw this story earlier.
I actually thought a beer drinking Brian, but I guess
it could apply to Michael in Vegas. Do you see
this story? It's it's going around. There's this guy who
lives in Florida who's been popped for duise and stuff.
He's got a rare condition where his body he produces
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alcohol in his gut. How wild is that? So the guy,
like they always he fails breathalyzer tests and things like
that because he's got this weird condition, very rare. It's
called auto brewery syndrome. I've never heard of it. I
thought it was bullcrap, but apparently it's like a real thing.
A certain percentage, very small percentage of people have it.
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And this guy lost a teaching job I think he
had because of it. And it's like a whole big mess.
Imagine that. And then we got guys that don't need
that because they just consume all the boost. Let's go
to eeny meeny mighty. But let's say hello to Marcel
in Brooklyn. Hello Marcel. Top of the Morning, Van Eddie,
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Roberto and Cooked Loop right on darn time. And you
know what that means. The picks for everything sports, including
March Madness. Now, Marcel, have you filled out your bracket?
I assume you have. It's already started. So you who'd
you pick to win the championship? Oh, that is so easy.
I go with everyone else's in the great State of Michigan.
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It's definitely the Spartans representing the Big ten. Oh, I
did not see that you're picking a Michigan in the state.
You know who the coach of Michigan State is. Look
at that. This guy's better. He's better at college basketball
than Dick Vital. At this point, this man knows his
college basketball. He's on CBS, is a matter of fact. Oh,
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I didn't realize. I thought it was a ESPN. I
didn't know he got traded to CBS. I had no idea.
I know what you understand that there, my friend, that's right,
all right, picks, we're getting picks with this exciting something new.
No more, no more food picks. These are actual gambling picks. Right, wha,
I'm not a gambler. Oh why not, because if I gamble,
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I'm going to jail. Well that used to be true,
but not anymore, Mars. Even in the state you live in.
It is now, I believe legal to be in New York. Yah. Yeah,
it's legal as long as the government gets their cut.
It's legal. Indeed it is. You can watch porn o
two Mars, it's okay. Hey, no, no, no, no, cut
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it out quick. Keep away from the private stuff there. Yeah, Marcy,
don't believe it because you want If you watch porn,
your eyes will fall out, right, I guess, Oh okay,
that's what anything. It's too much masturbation. The problem here,
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Oh you recognize that voice. You know who that is.
It's the enemy, the devil within, the devil within a
guy in Maine who just calls the show occasionally a
devil with it. Absolutely. Well, let's get to the bed.
I don't have all day. I have the Coop scoop
warming up. I have any a lot of content here.
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What do we have? Oh, well, I have the I
have the March Madness picks. That's what I say. Well,
this is what I was. You got all upset. That's
what I was saying. It wasn't food picks, it was
March Madness. Picks. Hey, I heard his queen walk. Then
it shocked head. Is that drop? That's is that drop?
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I don't know what that was real? He randomly shouted out.
Queen Roxanne. Yeah, he's from Buffalo. I mean she's from Buffalo.
I think would you like me to set you up
on a date with Queen Roxanne? Whoa, we're friends, but
I'll show down, Okay down? Then you want Marcel's you know,
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he's a period. He wants to keep her in the
friend zone. Marcel, I think she would like to stay.
I don't want to speak for I don't want to
speak for Queen Roxanne, but I think she'd like to
stay in the friend zone too. But who knows? Absolutely? Yeah,
all right, hurry up, Picks is just ahead. My god,
this takes all day. No, no, we don't have time. No,
we've got to do this before Eddie. Let's do it
right now, come on, let's do it right now. We
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can do it, Marcel, Yes, we do it right now.
So it's a new dawn, It's a new day. March
Madness is finally here. Bring out the packet, bring out
the brackets and play my friend KUPTI loop with the mark,
I mean Roberto, I'm sorry it would be March Madness Team,
So what malla militia. Let's get into it, representing the
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ministry sound caller guests and see you better believe it.
Queen Roxane. Oh she's on the phone right now. Okay,
my Queen Roxanne. Pretty Roxanne, good morning to you. My
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March Madness Team is Duke. Oh wow? She sounds kind
of like Lisa. We'd man in the Hippies, lady friend
there a little bit. I don't know. Why is that Lisa?
Is that? I think Lisa might be it? Why is
Lisa still on hold that? Lisa? What are you doing
on hold over? There? Are you trying to pretend to
be Queen Roxanne? I'm Marcelf. Oh there she is. That's late.
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I recognize her voice. Yeah, we make a mistake. Is
that not the most beautiful feminine voice you've ever heard?
My god, she's in a voice of an age male
would say that. Can we please get Are we doing what?
I don't know what we're doing. We're wasting time. I
feel like we're wasting time. Buddy, go ahead. Ben, Oh,
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I'm gonna pick Michigan State. I'm gonna pick Michigan State. Eddie,
Oh shocking, I'm going with I'm going with Lisa. Duke
all right, Duke, all right? Robert, Oh, there is Lisa. Yeah.
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What are we doing here? I don't know. I don't uh, Drake, Oh, talent,
all right, prepare yourself. Our March Madness beat from the
year is and Ben, you're exactly right representing Big Ten's
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definitely yeah. Take that. Anthony and Anaheim another win for me.
I dominate these games with Marcel and Marcel. Marcel, listen,
we don't cheat, right, you don't tell me these answers beforehand.
We don't cheat. No cheater, no chat, bottom line doesn't happen.
Thank you. I have hang up on you. Thank you.
I have a great week with Marcel, our buddy. Marcel
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in Brooklyn, Justin and Cincinnati said he's a big fan
JJ from he did well. That's how I read the tweet.
Either that or he wanted well. Be sure to catch
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Torment Patel attendant while celebrating a win in the World
Baseball Classic and it was a great celebration. He really
was said that, I mean that team from Puerto Rico,
they know how to celebrate that. I may that's great.
Yeah they were. They weren't celebrating. Va holes from Houston
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celebrated that much when they won the World Series. Yeah,
they went from celebrating the guys crying on the fee
on the field. It's a range of emotion. That's true.
That's true. That's that's what you got. In the NFL.
You had Gardner Minshew quarterback signing with the Annapolis Coltson
quarterback Marcus Mariot degrees on a one year deal with
the Philadelphia Eagles. Now Mike ben Maler or the tire
rack dot Com Block Sports Radio Studios. All right, thank
you for that. As we continue on, and am I
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reading this right? Coop on my screen here my call screen?
Is that the same guy that called up earlier? Cooper?
Is that somebody new? Coops? He's busy right now, but
it's interesting the one I just wrote, Yeah, is that
the same guy? Is that a different guy? Thinks? I
don't know. I already forgot that first guy's name. Oh
I had the same name, so that I don't know?
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Oh boy, Well, one way to find out. Should we
take the mystery calls? All right, let's go to the
mystery call and we go to Tony in the Bay Area. Hello, Tony,
how are you doing? First off, thanks for Berto for
playing the Departed song. I don't know the name of it,
but right after my little chat you played it, even
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though I realized later it was for the Irish stuff.
But that's okay, Tony. Call up. You called up earlier.
You told us you had a very vivid dream evolving
a punch people in the face and the guns lucid,
lucid dream out of his a dream. Well that makes
it better. It's a lucid dream. What do you call back?
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I thought you were only allowed to call once. What'd
you call back? Well, because I wrote two jokes that
you read and you give someone else credit for it.
So you broke my heart? Benny? Oh really? Oh I'm sorry. Well,
Coop puts the jokes together, so so it's his fault.
I don't have any to do with that. No, no,
(26:32):
ban has everything to do with the jokes sent to him. No,
Coop's the producer. So uh take your if you have
a problem with Justin Cooper. Is his name? I give
you his email address, I give his phone number, his address.
I give you license plate numbers, credit card, social security,
all of that. All right. I gotta go, Thank you, Tony,
but thank you Justin Cooper. That's who you need to
be upset with. Speaking of Cooper, I gotta go check.
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I try to get the right name. As I get tons,
I get like hundreds of jokes. Everyone. It's the pain
of the all right, let's get the Coop, the Coop
Scoop on entertainment. All right, for Holly Wold, Justin Cooper.
I can't believe he would disrespect Tony in the Bay
Area like that one of us. Listen, this is a
highly believe you put these things together and I just
read them. I don't do it. And then so you're
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the one behind it. I give you all the credit.
I suck you think the segment he said, do you
have any jokes? Hoop? I said no, and then you
went and and you credited the wrong person. That's no,
that's disrespect to them. I would never I would never
do that. So I am really bad at this and
I just whatever is in front of me. I'm much
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like Anchorman. I just read Tony the Bay Area. That
guy's my homie. Anyway, Uh, let's let's get started on
Coop Scoop here. So as always, we're gonna start in theaters.
And this weekend is the premiere of Shazam, Fury of
the Gods, Shack is he back? No, that's Kazam. Oh,
(27:59):
I'm so all those movies are the same. Yeah, yeah,
this one. Uh. I saw the first Shazam movie and
I actually enjoyed it. I did not expect much and
I thought it was pretty good. Unfortunately, the reviews on
this one are not as good as the first one. Yeah,
it's one of the reviews I read said a lot
more monsters, a lot less fun. But that is the
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movie that is coming out in theaters this weekend. Moving
on to television, ben so already the premiered on Thursday.
We have the second season of Shadow and Bone on Netflix.
This is a fantasy series based on a series of novels. Um.
I actually I checked this one out the first season
and I really enjoyed it. Uh. And the second season
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has good reviews as well. So if you haven't check
that out, that is on Netflix. It's called Shadow and Bone.
If you're into fantasy stuff. Uh. Now, moving on on
this premiere today or premieres today. I guess it's available
right now on Netflix. Another Netflix show. This one's interesting.
It's a cartoon. It's an adult animated comedy series, and
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it's called Agent Elvis. All right, So Matthew McConaughey plays
Elvis Presley, who moonlights as a secret government spy. And
also other regular voices to this series are Johnny Knoxville,
Caitlin Olsen, and Don Cheadle. And making stuff about Elvis
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that's impressive. Yes, And then guests. Guest voices that will
appear in certain episodes will be Ed Helms, Fred Armison,
Simon Peg, Craig Robinson, Kieran Culkin, Christina Hendrix, and Priscilla Pressley,
who will be voicing herself. And she is also a
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co creator on the show. So you know, those of
you that don't know, that is Elvis's ex wife, Chi
Ching Chi Ching Chu Ching. Yes. Um, And it's actually
it's got got pretty good reviews. I will check this out.
It's on Netflix, an adult animated series where Elvis is
a secret government spy and moving on. This one is uh,
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This one's on Hulu and it's got kind of middling reviews.
It's called Boston Strangler, and as you might expect, it
is about the Boston Strangler killings. It stars Kia Knightley
and Carrie Koon. Kerry Kon one of my favorite actresses.
She's fantastic h And so this is obviously based on
a true story, and that is on Hulu. It's it's
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a movie on Hulu. I didn't even know it was
Kira Knightley when I heard her speak. Her voice was
so different than normal voice she putting on. It's like
I don't know how they do it, those English folks.
They have our accent down easily. Yeah, it's pretty good.
They're a lot better at doing our accent than we are. Sure. Um.
Then moving on to also today, this is a This
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one's on Amazon Prime Video. It's a new horror dramedy
but kind of leans more towards horror. It's called Swarm
and it is from Donald Glover, who you may know
as Childish Gambino and he's also behind the hit FX
series Atlanta. And this one stars as a young woman
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who becomes obsessed with a Beyonce like pop star and
heads on a cross country trip, which sounds innocuous, but
there's a lot of blood in the trailer. And that's
pretty much all we know because Amazon has been keeping
the story of secret all right. And I think we're
we're hitting the red light, Coop. Are we seeing the
red light? Think we're seeing the red light? Unfortunately? Yes? Oh,
(31:45):
I've got one more, one more, Coop hard out here,
Coop please. Sunday Night, Lucky Hank is the latest series
from Bob Odenkirk that's on AMC at nine pm. Lucky Hank. Yeah,
if you haven't seen The Outsiders nineteen eighty three movie
with Diane Lane and the Prime. Oh my god, what
a smoke show. If management is listening, Justin Cooper and
(32:06):
Roberto have blown through the red light. Oh yeah, that's
very good. Yeah we got I don't think we're good.
We will have Benny's balderdash. We'll get to that. By
the way, the mystery team, they're they're people trying to
connect the dots between Lamar Jackson and the Colts. I
will believe it when it happens. I don't believe that
will happen, but people are connecting the dots. Benny's balderdash.
(32:29):
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It's Ben's balderdash. What the hell is this? Formerly known
(33:14):
as something we're not allowed to say it? It is
balder last time, I don't do shout out, so I
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he's now been listening to the podcast for one hundred
days and he's put in twenty four hundred hours of
listening to the show. God bless you. All right, let's
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play the game right now, here we go. It is
balder dash every week. This time we have Tommy in Atlanta.
He tied last week. Hello Tommy, Tommy's a man of
few words, and Tommy man here he is. All right, Tommy,
very good, Now this is the delight. Got me? Sorry
about that? All right, Tommy, So you're gonna go against
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Kevin in Tampa. This is a rematch from last week.
We had a tie. No ties today we're gonna have
a winner. All right, absolutely, all right, is our friend
from Tampa there? Yes, all right, very good. Well, your
name is your buzzer, gentleman. The categories this week we
have Dear Leader and devout. Those are the categories. Well,
(34:22):
why don't we start with Dear Leader. I will name
the team. You tell me the coach with the most
wins for that team. So I say the name of
the team and they tell me the all time winning
is coach for that team. Everyone understand, Yeah, all right,
your name is your buzzer. And for two hundred dollars,
New England Patriots, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy. That's correct, easy one there,
(34:51):
two hundred bucks, four hundred dollars. I named the team.
Tell me the coach that has the most wins for
that team, the Boston Celtics, Kevin. I'm gonna go with
hour Back. What's his first name, Red hour Back? Yeah,
there you go. That's right, Red arbox, cigar smoking coach
back in the olden days for the Celtics, and he
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is the all time winner still and will likely be
the rest of our lives. Dear Leader, I named the team.
Tell me the coach with the most wins for that team,
the Saint Louis Cardinals. Tommy, Tommy, to look at that, Tommy,
you got that one right? That is correct? The russay.
(35:37):
That's impressive considering the Cardinal has been around since the
eighteen hundreds or eight hundred dollars. Here we go. I
named the team. Tell me the all time winners coach
for that team, the Miami Dolphins. Commy, oh oh, I
don't know that's Eddie. What do you think, Kennie? I
was definitely at first. Man, let's give a damn what
(35:59):
the hell? You don't even know who that is? You
ask me, I'm giving you an answer. All right, let's
try it again. I'll see. I don't think it was Kevin.
It was Kevin, all right, go ahead, Kevin. Geez. I'm
probably wrong anyway, but I'll go Shula, how could you
be wrong? How would you be how could you possibly
(36:20):
be wrong? A? Right? It's Don Shula and the Dolphins
have The Dolphins have sucked ever since he left. So
it's like, exactly, you're right, you're right, do it? Yeah,
Jimmy was okay for a couple of years. A thousand
thousand dollars. I named the team tell me they're all
time winning his coach. This is a tough one. The
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Denver Nuggets. Anybody anybody old school wore funny suits? Nah,
all right, nobody. Eddie that one? What's that Eddie, Doug Mo? Yeah,
Eddie knew it. He's like basketball when Doug Mo was closing.
Let's devout category. These sports figures are deeply religious. They're
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known for being deeply religious. A great appreciation of a
higher power. Two hundred dollars. This future Hall of Fame
quarterbacks saved himself for marriage and Kevin Ken Kevin, I'm
gonna go, Kurt Warner. No, you got the question here,
future all Favors saved himself for marriage. And it's a
good thing too, because he apparently doesn't believe in birth control.
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He's had nine nine children. Power got Philip Rivers, That
is correct. Philip Rivers is four hundred dollars. Devout. These
are very religious sports people. This iconic athlete converted to
Islam and then later cited religious objections to avoid being
(37:49):
drafted in. Kevin Tommy cream of Gould Jabbar no being
drafted into I knew that. Yeah, yeah, it is Muhammad
lead and then swings the game and Kevin and oh
my god, Kevin, you want the games tired until that
last question that it's insane is what that is. I's
(38:14):
got a murder, Gotta go,
Hello and welcome. It's our number four, hour four of
the podcast. As we headed in the weekend, remember the
fifth hour podcast. What do you make of Michael Jordan
planning to exit as the puppet master of the Hornets?
Is gonna sell majority interest in the team? Is there
a message in the timing of this story being leaked
(00:22):
from MJ's camp? And where do you see Michael Jordan's
next NBA move? We'll talk about all that and more
right now in our number four here it is the
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way tirebund should be. College basketball is obviously king right now,
but for our purposes, there's a story that we need
to lead this hour with from Pro Bouncyball. But it's okay,
we'll get back to college basketball later in the hour.
It's all about a legend of the game, a cultural
icon who has popped up on the sports radar. Michael
(01:54):
Jeffrey Jordan. Hello, Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player of
all time. Take that lebron, Michael Jordan. If you have
not heard, and chances are you were in a coma
play at Saint Patty's Day today right if people are
doing crazy things, we had a wild call back in
(02:14):
our number two of the show, but maybe you missed it,
maybe he missed it. So we've learned that Michael Jordan
is in deep negotiation to sell his majority steak in
the Charlotte Hornets that's a basketball team, to a group
of minority owners, including one minority owner of the Hornets
(02:36):
and somebody that owns part of the Atlanta Hawks. Now,
Wooge tells us that there's a significant push and a shove,
if you will, for a sale that would eventually remove
Michael Jordan from being the head Hans show in Charlotte.
Now that being said, if this happens, the plan would
have Michael Jordan remain as a bit player, but not
(03:00):
in a position to decide who the players are. He
would have a minority stake in the team. Keep in mind,
the NBA does not believe that they have any owners
because Draymond Green complained a couple of years ago. So
they went full woke and decided that they're governors, although
I do not believe they're voted on by the public.
So let us discuss the question, what do you make
(03:22):
of Michael Jordan planning to exit stage left as the
puppet master of the NBA's hornets. So I've got Sadam
trash Day and John D. Rockefeller and we will connect
all of these things together and we will pass the baton,
(03:46):
is what we're going to do. So first of all,
Michael Jordan, if you followed basketball from Afar like we do,
you know you don't have to be like a hardcore
basketball who pet. Michael Jordan has been drowning ever since
he crossed the line from player to executive, and he's
(04:06):
ridden the train over at Nike and the Jordan brand
and all the money they make over at Nike, and
that has not carried over to basketball. It has not.
Jordan dazzled us as a player for the Chicago Bulls,
and he has absolutely baffled us as a decision maker
(04:27):
by moving forward. It's not official yet, but we're heading
that direction and to sell the team, Michael Jordan is
giving a concession speech. He's announcing I sucked at my job.
I'm throwing in the sponge. As a famous boxer said
back in the day, No Moss, No moss. Mj does
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not need the money. Now, this team is going to
sell for a lot of money. Jordan's gonna keep part
of it. But I believe he paid two hundred and
seventy five million for that team, and it is worth
a heck of a lot more than that. But this
is all about avoiding stomach pain, more of a long
term stomach ache, and actions do speak louder than words.
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Michael Jordan has tried just about everything. He is tossed
stuff against the wall. He's tossed the spaghetti against the
wall to see if any of it stuck on Tobacco Road,
and it hasn't. And a guy that has gone from
the mighta's touch with the Chicago Bulls and with Nike
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to the Sadom Touch with the Hornets. Now we know
with the Mighta's touch, everything you touch turns to gold. Right,
it's the legend with the Sadom touch, everything you touch,
you ruin everything you ruin everything you touch. And mj
has been haunted by basketball demons. And the reality is
that he's such a big story, such rich guy. I've
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determined I have a theory on why Jordan sucks as
an owner slash executive over seeing the roster because he
hasn't had to shop for his own groceries in twenty
five thirty years, probably longer than that, and he's simply
bad at picking up the groceries. Jordan's the guy that
gets the expired fruit that's got worms in it and
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the rotting meat. That's what he buys. Now, what is
my evidence? Look at the picks, Sodom says. Let's go
back twenty eleven NBA draft. The Hornets had the ninth
overall pick. They took Kemball walker Michael Jordan, who certainly
thought would be able to spot talent, passed over Clay
Thompson who went with the eleventh pick, and Kawhi Leonard
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of the People's Team, and he could have had either
one of those. Got twenty twelve NBA draft, though the
Hornets took Michael kid Gilchrist, they passed over Bradley Beale
who went number three. Kid Gilchrist went number two, and
Damian Lillard was in that draft. But wait, there's more.
In twenty thirteen, the Hornets had the fourth pick. They
took a guy named Cody Zeller, just an average garden
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variety NBA player, and they passed over CJ. McCollum, who
has been a good player and the great freak Jannis
at Danta Komba, although to be fair, he was very
raw back in those days. But still you think Michael
Jordan would have the ability to foreshadow greatness and he
did not. And I can keep going. Twenty fifteen, Charlotte
picked Frank Kaminski with the number nine pick. They passed
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over Devin Booker, who was the number thirteen pick. So
let's you get the point now. Secondly, is there a
message in the timing? All right? The timing of this
story being leaked? We assume it was leaked by MJ's camp.
Who else would leak the story? So yes, yes, Yes
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to infinity and beyond. There's absolutely a message. Here's the message.
This story was planted late in the day during the
opening stanza of March Madness. You know what that is dead?
Give what it is a dead giveaway. Michael Jordan's team
made sure people who are associates intermediaries of Jordans made
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sure to leak the story to Woad and did it
on a takeout the trash day situation. Why it's unflattering,
So take the trash out. It's unflattering to the legacy
of his airness. We're talking about the greatest basketball player
of all time of fourteen time NBA All Star. Thirteen
(08:31):
years Michael Jordan's been the majority owner of the Hornets.
Charlotte has made the postseason twice in a league where
half the teams get to the playoffs. They've made it twice.
That is a one fifty four playoffs success rate. But wait,
there's more. The Hornet's overall winning percentage in the Jordan
years going into this year four twenty one. This season,
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the Hornets are even worse. They have a three ten
winning percentage. So dump it when no one's paying attention.
It's take out the trash day. It's the secret of magic,
it's misdirection, it's and who exactly is consuming NBA news
when you're worried about brackets and that kind of stuff.
There are people, but not many now final thought, the
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final thought here, So where do you see Michael Jordan's
next NBA move? And looking into my crystal ball. As
a distant relative of Nostre Damas and friend of Nostradinas,
he lives in Seattle, I see the island life. Michael
Jordan will be focusing on the big three coconuts, hammocks,
(09:44):
and palm trees. That is the key there for Michael Jordan.
And he's gonna get a lot of that. He's had
a lot of it. And that's just the reality of
the situation for Michael Jordan. And that's it. He's done
with basketball. Jordan had a rather big milestone a birthday.
(10:04):
A right mouse was just turned sixty a few days ago,
actually a month ago. Now he's been a month exactly
since this happened. And so now he's like, all right,
I'm done. I'm done with the ownership as far as
running the team, and I'll hang around. And Jordan's got
his own utopia. He's Basketball's Jon d Rockefeller. He's he's
partnered up with Nike. Nike's the standard oil of athletic apparel.
(10:28):
And he shot his shot with the Wizards, he missed
the bull's eye. He went to the Hornets and did
the same. And one thing about Jordan, which is much
different than Lebron, is that Jordan's much more prim and
proper that he does not crave the spotlight. He's not
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He's not that guy, right, He's not an attention horror
like Lebron James is. He does anyok. Lebron, if he's
not asked a question about something that's a hot button
political issue, he gets upset unless it's about China, and
then you don't want to talk about it. But but
a word of advice to MJ. All right, we're advised
to MJ. I would advise him, as someone that has
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no money and does a struggling overnight sports radio show,
I would advise Michael Jordan to slow down, slow slow
walk the sale of a Hornets. I'm gonna tell you
why the NBA Draft lottery isn't a few months. I'm
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not a fan of the draft. You know that FM
picks but in this case, should the Hornets hit PAYDRD
and find the bonanza in the draft lottery. The prize
is Victor Wimba Yama, the Parisian Prodigy, and he's the
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next big thing, right He's supposed to be the generational talent,
the once in a blue moon wonderkin. And if you
can get the Parisian Prodigy on your team, maybe you
keep the team because you can't screw that up. Or
you sell the team and the team's worth a lot
more because you now have one of the faces of
the NBA who hasn't gone to a club in Denver
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and flashed the gun on Instagram or threatened teenagers. So
it's a better spot in a better spot, all right.
It is the Band Maller Show. If you would like
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(12:33):
I've been down this thing a fair amount of years.
We had one of the craziest calls we ever had
from Tony in the Bay Area in our number two.
So you might want to go back if you missed that,
you might want to go back and hear it. And
while you're doing that, downloading the podcast. When we get done,
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us out as well and keep the show moving and
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keep the bosses off my ass, which is really what
we want, and that's all we're looking for. It's just
keep bit, easy peasy, and that's all we need. That's right.
Is there a mystery team interested in Lamar Jackson? Inquiring
minds would like to know? And the coop scoop on entertainment?
All right for Hollywood, hoor right for Hollywood. We'll get
(13:16):
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Michael Jordan, I'm also done with basketball so much as
(13:57):
I thought the Charlotte team was called the Bobcats. Can
they even make us the make up their collective minds already? Yeah?
When Jordan bought the team, they were called the Bobcats.
Mark Man, the Brocco fan, He's been listening a while.
He says, a plus plus with the jokes. Good job everyone,
he said, that was funny. Good there you go, very good.
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Kurt from Earth, and all the rest who are regular
joke writers. We'll go to the phones right now and
eeny meeny, miney mo. Let's say hello to Michael, who's
(15:01):
in Vegas. Hello Michael, welcome, Hello Ben. How are you doing?
I don't think I'm doing as well as you are. Well,
the weather is not too bad. So are we celebrating
Saint Patrick's there? Are you Irish? Oh my gosh, my
(15:23):
birthday is the day after Saint Patrick's day? So yes,
is that right? Thank you well, happy birthday. I appreciate that. Umu.
The h Princeton Tigers just won a basketball game. Hello, Hello,
(15:50):
I'm loving this a little bit because I went to
high school and my can I say, I'll monitor off
it's just a high school or dude, I have to
Oh man, you are so schnockered right now? Hey, Michael,
can you can you breathe into the phone? We want
to want to check something. Can you breathe into the
(16:11):
phone there, take a deep breath. Okay, Roberto, can you
you check? Oh my god, oh we got a breathalyzer.
Oh my God, you should be legally dead, Michael. Holy crap,
I can't believe that. Unbelievable. He should be all right,
(16:37):
But thank you. It's not you, it's I believe it's you.
Know what that reminds me of I saw this story earlier.
I actually thought a beer drinking Brian, but I guess
it could apply to Michael in Vegas. Do you see
this story? It's it's going around. There's this guy who
lives in Florida who's been popped for duise and stuff.
He's got a rare condition where his body he produces
(17:00):
alcohol in his gut. How wild is that? So the guy,
like they always he fails breathalyzer tests and things like
that because he's got this weird condition, very rare. It's
called auto brewery syndrome. I've never heard of it. I
thought it was bullcrap, but apparently it's like a real thing.
A certain percentage, very small percentage of people have it.
(17:23):
And this guy lost a teaching job I think he
had because of it. And it's like a whole big mess.
Imagine that. And then we got guys that don't need
that because they just consume all the boost. Let's go
to eeny meeny mighty. But let's say hello to Marcel
in Brooklyn. Hello Marcel. Top of the Morning, Van Eddie,
(17:43):
Roberto and Cooked Loop right on darn time. And you
know what that means. The picks for everything sports, including
March Madness. Now, Marcel, have you filled out your bracket?
I assume you have. It's already started. So you who'd
you pick to win the championship? Oh, that is so easy.
I go with everyone else's in the great State of Michigan.
(18:07):
It's definitely the Spartans representing the Big ten. Oh, I
did not see that you're picking a Michigan in the state.
You know who the coach of Michigan State is. Look
at that. This guy's better. He's better at college basketball
than Dick Vital. At this point, this man knows his
college basketball. He's on CBS, is a matter of fact. Oh,
(18:29):
I didn't realize. I thought it was a ESPN. I
didn't know he got traded to CBS. I had no idea.
I know what you understand that there, my friend, that's right,
all right, picks, we're getting picks with this exciting something new.
No more, no more food picks. These are actual gambling picks. Right, wha,
I'm not a gambler. Oh why not, because if I gamble,
(18:52):
I'm going to jail. Well that used to be true,
but not anymore, Mars. Even in the state you live in.
It is now, I believe legal to be in New York. Yah. Yeah,
it's legal as long as the government gets their cut.
It's legal. Indeed it is. You can watch porn o
two Mars, it's okay. Hey, no, no, no, no, cut
(19:15):
it out quick. Keep away from the private stuff there. Yeah, Marcy,
don't believe it because you want If you watch porn,
your eyes will fall out, right, I guess, Oh okay,
that's what anything. It's too much masturbation. The problem here,
(19:35):
Oh you recognize that voice. You know who that is.
It's the enemy, the devil within, the devil within a
guy in Maine who just calls the show occasionally a
devil with it. Absolutely. Well, let's get to the bed.
I don't have all day. I have the Coop scoop
warming up. I have any a lot of content here.
(19:56):
What do we have? Oh, well, I have the I
have the March Madness picks. That's what I say. Well,
this is what I was. You got all upset. That's
what I was saying. It wasn't food picks, it was
March Madness. Picks. Hey, I heard his queen walk. Then
it shocked head. Is that drop? That's is that drop?
(20:19):
I don't know what that was real? He randomly shouted out.
Queen Roxanne. Yeah, he's from Buffalo. I mean she's from Buffalo.
I think would you like me to set you up
on a date with Queen Roxanne? Whoa, we're friends, but
I'll show down, Okay down? Then you want Marcel's you know,
(20:40):
he's a period. He wants to keep her in the
friend zone. Marcel, I think she would like to stay.
I don't want to speak for I don't want to
speak for Queen Roxanne, but I think she'd like to
stay in the friend zone too. But who knows? Absolutely? Yeah,
all right, hurry up, Picks is just ahead. My god,
this takes all day. No, no, we don't have time. No,
we've got to do this before Eddie. Let's do it
right now, come on, let's do it right now. We
(21:00):
can do it, Marcel, Yes, we do it right now.
So it's a new dawn, It's a new day. March
Madness is finally here. Bring out the packet, bring out
the brackets and play my friend KUPTI loop with the mark,
I mean Roberto, I'm sorry it would be March Madness Team,
So what malla militia. Let's get into it, representing the
(21:22):
ministry sound caller guests and see you better believe it.
Queen Roxane. Oh she's on the phone right now. Okay,
my Queen Roxanne. Pretty Roxanne, good morning to you. My
(21:43):
March Madness Team is Duke. Oh wow? She sounds kind
of like Lisa. We'd man in the Hippies, lady friend
there a little bit. I don't know. Why is that Lisa?
Is that? I think Lisa might be it? Why is
Lisa still on hold that? Lisa? What are you doing
on hold over? There? Are you trying to pretend to
be Queen Roxanne? I'm Marcelf. Oh there she is. That's late.
(22:06):
I recognize her voice. Yeah, we make a mistake. Is
that not the most beautiful feminine voice you've ever heard?
My god, she's in a voice of an age male
would say that. Can we please get Are we doing what?
I don't know what we're doing. We're wasting time. I
feel like we're wasting time. Buddy, go ahead. Ben, Oh,
(22:30):
I'm gonna pick Michigan State. I'm gonna pick Michigan State. Eddie,
Oh shocking, I'm going with I'm going with Lisa. Duke
all right, Duke, all right? Robert, Oh, there is Lisa. Yeah.
(22:52):
What are we doing here? I don't know. I don't uh, Drake, Oh, talent,
all right, prepare yourself. Our March Madness beat from the
year is and Ben, you're exactly right representing Big Ten's
(23:14):
definitely yeah. Take that. Anthony and Anaheim another win for me.
I dominate these games with Marcel and Marcel. Marcel, listen,
we don't cheat, right, you don't tell me these answers beforehand.
We don't cheat. No cheater, no chat, bottom line doesn't happen.
Thank you. I have hang up on you. Thank you.
I have a great week with Marcel, our buddy. Marcel
(23:37):
in Brooklyn, Justin and Cincinnati said he's a big fan
JJ from he did well. That's how I read the tweet.
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Torment Patel attendant while celebrating a win in the World
Baseball Classic and it was a great celebration. He really
was said that, I mean that team from Puerto Rico,
they know how to celebrate that. I may that's great.
Yeah they were. They weren't celebrating. Va holes from Houston
(24:45):
celebrated that much when they won the World Series. Yeah,
they went from celebrating the guys crying on the fee
on the field. It's a range of emotion. That's true.
That's true. That's that's what you got. In the NFL.
You had Gardner Minshew quarterback signing with the Annapolis Coltson
quarterback Marcus Mariot degrees on a one year deal with
the Philadelphia Eagles. Now Mike ben Maler or the tire
rack dot Com Block Sports Radio Studios. All right, thank
you for that. As we continue on, and am I
(25:07):
reading this right? Coop on my screen here my call screen?
Is that the same guy that called up earlier? Cooper?
Is that somebody new? Coops? He's busy right now, but
it's interesting the one I just wrote, Yeah, is that
the same guy? Is that a different guy? Thinks? I
don't know. I already forgot that first guy's name. Oh
I had the same name, so that I don't know?
(25:28):
Oh boy, Well, one way to find out. Should we
take the mystery calls? All right, let's go to the
mystery call and we go to Tony in the Bay Area. Hello, Tony,
how are you doing? First off, thanks for Berto for
playing the Departed song. I don't know the name of it,
but right after my little chat you played it, even
(25:50):
though I realized later it was for the Irish stuff.
But that's okay, Tony. Call up. You called up earlier.
You told us you had a very vivid dream evolving
a punch people in the face and the guns lucid,
lucid dream out of his a dream. Well that makes
it better. It's a lucid dream. What do you call back?
(26:10):
I thought you were only allowed to call once. What'd
you call back? Well, because I wrote two jokes that
you read and you give someone else credit for it.
So you broke my heart? Benny? Oh really? Oh I'm sorry. Well,
Coop puts the jokes together, so so it's his fault.
I don't have any to do with that. No, no,
(26:32):
ban has everything to do with the jokes sent to him. No,
Coop's the producer. So uh take your if you have
a problem with Justin Cooper. Is his name? I give
you his email address, I give his phone number, his address.
I give you license plate numbers, credit card, social security,
all of that. All right. I gotta go, Thank you, Tony,
but thank you Justin Cooper. That's who you need to
be upset with. Speaking of Cooper, I gotta go check.
(26:55):
I try to get the right name. As I get tons,
I get like hundreds of jokes. Everyone. It's the pain
of the all right, let's get the Coop, the Coop
Scoop on entertainment. All right, for Holly Wold, Justin Cooper.
I can't believe he would disrespect Tony in the Bay
Area like that one of us. Listen, this is a
highly believe you put these things together and I just
read them. I don't do it. And then so you're
(27:17):
the one behind it. I give you all the credit.
I suck you think the segment he said, do you
have any jokes? Hoop? I said no, and then you
went and and you credited the wrong person. That's no,
that's disrespect to them. I would never I would never
do that. So I am really bad at this and
I just whatever is in front of me. I'm much
(27:37):
like Anchorman. I just read Tony the Bay Area. That
guy's my homie. Anyway, Uh, let's let's get started on
Coop Scoop here. So as always, we're gonna start in theaters.
And this weekend is the premiere of Shazam, Fury of
the Gods, Shack is he back? No, that's Kazam. Oh,
(27:59):
I'm so all those movies are the same. Yeah, yeah,
this one. Uh. I saw the first Shazam movie and
I actually enjoyed it. I did not expect much and
I thought it was pretty good. Unfortunately, the reviews on
this one are not as good as the first one. Yeah,
it's one of the reviews I read said a lot
more monsters, a lot less fun. But that is the
(28:26):
movie that is coming out in theaters this weekend. Moving
on to television, ben so already the premiered on Thursday.
We have the second season of Shadow and Bone on Netflix.
This is a fantasy series based on a series of novels. Um.
I actually I checked this one out the first season
and I really enjoyed it. Uh. And the second season
(28:49):
has good reviews as well. So if you haven't check
that out, that is on Netflix. It's called Shadow and Bone.
If you're into fantasy stuff. Uh. Now, moving on on
this premiere today or premieres today. I guess it's available
right now on Netflix. Another Netflix show. This one's interesting.
It's a cartoon. It's an adult animated comedy series, and
(29:12):
it's called Agent Elvis. All right, So Matthew McConaughey plays
Elvis Presley, who moonlights as a secret government spy. And
also other regular voices to this series are Johnny Knoxville,
Caitlin Olsen, and Don Cheadle. And making stuff about Elvis
(29:34):
that's impressive. Yes, And then guests. Guest voices that will
appear in certain episodes will be Ed Helms, Fred Armison,
Simon Peg, Craig Robinson, Kieran Culkin, Christina Hendrix, and Priscilla Pressley,
who will be voicing herself. And she is also a
(29:54):
co creator on the show. So you know, those of
you that don't know, that is Elvis's ex wife, Chi
Ching Chi Ching Chu Ching. Yes. Um, And it's actually
it's got got pretty good reviews. I will check this out.
It's on Netflix, an adult animated series where Elvis is
a secret government spy and moving on. This one is uh,
(30:15):
This one's on Hulu and it's got kind of middling reviews.
It's called Boston Strangler, and as you might expect, it
is about the Boston Strangler killings. It stars Kia Knightley
and Carrie Koon. Kerry Kon one of my favorite actresses.
She's fantastic h And so this is obviously based on
a true story, and that is on Hulu. It's it's
(30:39):
a movie on Hulu. I didn't even know it was
Kira Knightley when I heard her speak. Her voice was
so different than normal voice she putting on. It's like
I don't know how they do it, those English folks.
They have our accent down easily. Yeah, it's pretty good.
They're a lot better at doing our accent than we are. Sure. Um.
Then moving on to also today, this is a This
(31:01):
one's on Amazon Prime Video. It's a new horror dramedy
but kind of leans more towards horror. It's called Swarm
and it is from Donald Glover, who you may know
as Childish Gambino and he's also behind the hit FX
series Atlanta. And this one stars as a young woman
(31:24):
who becomes obsessed with a Beyonce like pop star and
heads on a cross country trip, which sounds innocuous, but
there's a lot of blood in the trailer. And that's
pretty much all we know because Amazon has been keeping
the story of secret all right. And I think we're
we're hitting the red light, Coop. Are we seeing the
red light? Think we're seeing the red light? Unfortunately? Yes? Oh,
(31:45):
I've got one more, one more, Coop hard out here,
Coop please. Sunday Night, Lucky Hank is the latest series
from Bob Odenkirk that's on AMC at nine pm. Lucky Hank. Yeah,
if you haven't seen The Outsiders nineteen eighty three movie
with Diane Lane and the Prime. Oh my god, what
a smoke show. If management is listening, Justin Cooper and
(32:06):
Roberto have blown through the red light. Oh yeah, that's
very good. Yeah we got I don't think we're good.
We will have Benny's balderdash. We'll get to that. By
the way, the mystery team, they're they're people trying to
connect the dots between Lamar Jackson and the Colts. I
will believe it when it happens. I don't believe that
will happen, but people are connecting the dots. Benny's balderdash.
(32:29):
We'll get to that. We'll do it next. Fox Sports
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It's Ben's balderdash. What the hell is this? Formerly known
(33:14):
as something we're not allowed to say it? It is
balder last time, I don't do shout out, so I
cannot send thank you to Herman from Corpus Christie, who
may or may not have sent me an email saying
he's now been listening to the podcast for one hundred
days and he's put in twenty four hundred hours of
listening to the show. God bless you. All right, let's
(33:37):
play the game right now, here we go. It is
balder dash every week. This time we have Tommy in Atlanta.
He tied last week. Hello Tommy, Tommy's a man of
few words, and Tommy man here he is. All right, Tommy,
very good, Now this is the delight. Got me? Sorry
about that? All right, Tommy, So you're gonna go against
(33:59):
Kevin in Tampa. This is a rematch from last week.
We had a tie. No ties today we're gonna have
a winner. All right, absolutely, all right, is our friend
from Tampa there? Yes, all right, very good. Well, your
name is your buzzer, gentleman. The categories this week we
have Dear Leader and devout. Those are the categories. Well,
(34:22):
why don't we start with Dear Leader. I will name
the team. You tell me the coach with the most
wins for that team. So I say the name of
the team and they tell me the all time winning
is coach for that team. Everyone understand, Yeah, all right,
your name is your buzzer. And for two hundred dollars,
New England Patriots, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy. That's correct, easy one there,
(34:51):
two hundred bucks, four hundred dollars. I named the team.
Tell me the coach that has the most wins for
that team, the Boston Celtics, Kevin. I'm gonna go with
hour Back. What's his first name, Red hour Back? Yeah,
there you go. That's right, Red arbox, cigar smoking coach
back in the olden days for the Celtics, and he
(35:15):
is the all time winner still and will likely be
the rest of our lives. Dear Leader, I named the team.
Tell me the coach with the most wins for that team,
the Saint Louis Cardinals. Tommy, Tommy, to look at that, Tommy,
you got that one right? That is correct? The russay.
(35:37):
That's impressive considering the Cardinal has been around since the
eighteen hundreds or eight hundred dollars. Here we go. I
named the team. Tell me the all time winners coach
for that team, the Miami Dolphins. Commy, oh oh, I
don't know that's Eddie. What do you think, Kennie? I
was definitely at first. Man, let's give a damn what
(35:59):
the hell? You don't even know who that is? You
ask me, I'm giving you an answer. All right, let's
try it again. I'll see. I don't think it was Kevin.
It was Kevin, all right, go ahead, Kevin. Geez. I'm
probably wrong anyway, but I'll go Shula, how could you
be wrong? How would you be how could you possibly
(36:20):
be wrong? A? Right? It's Don Shula and the Dolphins
have The Dolphins have sucked ever since he left. So
it's like, exactly, you're right, you're right, do it? Yeah,
Jimmy was okay for a couple of years. A thousand
thousand dollars. I named the team tell me they're all
time winning his coach. This is a tough one. The
(36:40):
Denver Nuggets. Anybody anybody old school wore funny suits? Nah,
all right, nobody. Eddie that one? What's that Eddie, Doug Mo? Yeah,
Eddie knew it. He's like basketball when Doug Mo was closing.
Let's devout category. These sports figures are deeply religious. They're
(37:04):
known for being deeply religious. A great appreciation of a
higher power. Two hundred dollars. This future Hall of Fame
quarterbacks saved himself for marriage and Kevin Ken Kevin, I'm
gonna go, Kurt Warner. No, you got the question here,
future all Favors saved himself for marriage. And it's a
good thing too, because he apparently doesn't believe in birth control.
(37:26):
He's had nine nine children. Power got Philip Rivers, That
is correct. Philip Rivers is four hundred dollars. Devout. These
are very religious sports people. This iconic athlete converted to
Islam and then later cited religious objections to avoid being
(37:49):
drafted in. Kevin Tommy cream of Gould Jabbar no being
drafted into I knew that. Yeah, yeah, it is Muhammad
lead and then swings the game and Kevin and oh
my god, Kevin, you want the games tired until that
last question that it's insane is what that is. I's
(38:14):
got a murder, Gotta go,
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