May 12, 2023 • 36 mins
Ben Maller talks about the release of the NFL schedule, which teams were exposed by the release, which player the NFL is trying to promote the most, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, Benny's Balderdash, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb for Fall, our four
of our radio show in the podcast format, and we're
talking football. I've got my calendar app and my phone out.
It was schedule release day. We so what teams we're
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exposed as the NFL released their schedule, exposed as the
least attractive NFL teams, shall we say? And which player
is the marketing arm of the NFL trying to promote
the most based on the schedule. And also what are
some of the oddities that stand out the most looking
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at the twenty twenty three schedule. We'll talk about all
that and more right now here. It is our number four.
Have a heck of a weekend. Stay safe, we'll talk
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Shoebe and so lead this hour coming from the big announcement,
The big announcement. Your twenty twenty three NFL schedule has
been fully released. Tata huh say what presto ebra cadabrah.
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It's always a big day in my house, unless it's
not so right a passage rite of past planning on
what you will be doing between September and February and
doing it in the month of May. So I'm not
sure if you were paying attention or not. I did
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not watch the made for television extravaganza. I was busy
watching the seventy six ers doc Rivers, Who's a guilty
of basketball malpractice yet again? As the Celtics able to
win with with Jason Tatum having a terrible, terrible performance
in that gift. So, but I did check out the
schedule once it was all released, And so the twenty
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twenty three schedule, if you didn't see it, it's gonna
kick off on Thursday, September seventh with the reigning Super
Bowl champion Canza City Chiefs, as they will play host
the Lions at Arrowhead in Kansas City. Eighteen weeks later.
It all ends on January seventh. The regular season all together,
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the NFL will play five hundred and forty four regular
season games over one hundred and twenty two days four months,
followed by another thirty five days. And that's the playoff
action which begin and the I think with January fourteenth,
that weekend, the weekend of January fourteenth, and it will
conclude with Super Bowl fifty eight to be played in
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Lost Wages about a sin City in February February eleventh,
twenty twenty four. And if you could go back and
put a time machine and fast forward from ten years ago,
fifteen years ago, twenty five years ago, thirty years ago,
and say there will be a Super Bowl played in
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Las Vegas. But it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen early
twenty twenty four. So let us discuss the question what
teams were exposed as the ugly ducklings of the NFL
based on the schedule release. So I've got Cocoa Puffs,
creamery and Guy Mitchell, and we will combine all of
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these random things together and we are going to make
a stomach ache, is what we're going to make. Hopefully
you don't get one. But to kick off here, the
NFL has changed the rules of engagement and I love it.
I love it now. I find the schedule release a
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bit of a boondoggle, I do. But no longer every
team garanteed at least one one date with the pretty girl.
No no, no, no, no no no no, no, no, no no,
not everyone's gonna get that prime time exposure. Now if
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you you don't know about them, they change the rules.
I mean, in the years past you always got at
least one Thursday night game or a Monday night game,
but not anymore. You have to earn it. You have
to earn it. And I love that the NFL announced
who the ugly redheaded step children are the league, who
the uncool teams are, who the uncool coaches are, who
the uncool quarterbacks are, the teams that are on the
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catwalk doing the the walk of shame. I can make
make a little pirouet there at the end when you
get to the end of the catwalk. Uh, it's four
on the floor of football. The four on the floor,
the very bottom the sewer. If you will, You've got
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the Texans, the Falcons, the Cardinals, and the Colts. These
are the four ugliest teams in the NFL, the four
teams that are wearing the dune cap. They are unwelcome,
they are unwanted. It's like when you have breakfast and
you want cocoa puffs, but you get a soggy bowl
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of coco puffs. Nobody wants that. Or maybe you like
Captain Crunch, but it's soggy. You don't want that. And
so those are the teams that are being shunned. They
are practicing what we all had to do back in
twenty twenty, social distancing. They have been socially distanced from
primetime games. The Texans, Falcons, Cardinals and Colts have all
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pitched shutouts. They are the headless horsemen. That's what they
have in common. They are the headless horsemen. They have
no name quarterbacks, no name coaches. They have stars who
are lacking because they have no stars. And that's the
thing you need to have. A headliner. It's a television
show the NFL is a television show, and you cannot
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work up an appetite to watch these teams.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You don't get goosebumps watching these teams, and that's what
they want on television. So the coaches Dimiko Ryan, Demigo, Ryans,
Arthur Smith, Jonathan Gannon, Shane Steichen. They are the flotsam
and jetsam of coaches. Not a big name among the group.
You've got CJ. Stroud from the Ohio State University, Desmond Ritter,
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Colet McCoy. Remember Kyler Murray's hurt. But even if he's there,
the guy's are more of a gamer. He's just like,
not really a football player. He's more of a video
game guy. You'd rather watch him on Twitch playing Call
of Duty. And then you've got my guy, Gardner Minshew,
who's not not someone that people go out of their
way to watch. I like watching him play, but he
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does not possess the nectar of the gods. And Anthony Richardson,
who is undercooked, not ready for prime time and all that.
So that is a hodgepodge of nothingness, as Dennis Eckersley
famously said back in the day. So you've got faceless
cast offs, unproven young quarterbacks, and one diva prima donna
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who's the size of a garden gnome. That's what you got. Now.
The team that I'm surprised was not part of this
also is Washington, the Washington football team. They actually got
a primetime game. And that is a joke. That is
a joke. The commanders should have been on the naughty
list to get one primetime game. That is a bad team, man,
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that is a bad blankety blank blank team. Furthermore so,
we talked about the teams that have been outed by
the NFL as ugly pee. You right, need to go
back and do some work. So which player is getting
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propped up by the NFL, because this is also a
dead give what the dead giveaway? Which player is the
marketing arm of the NFL trying to promote the most?
So we look at this using the process of elimination.
And if you peruse the NFL's honor roll, and when
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I say the honor roll, I'm talking about the teams
that are on the most primetime games that they're riding
the roller coaster to the top of the mountain. So
if you look at the honor roll, it's filled with
the usual suspect, Kansas City with the top quarterback in
the NFL, Patrick Mahomes, Buffalo. Here we go Buffalo and
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the Bills mafia, and they've got their stud quarterback Josh Allen,
and then you've got Dallas. Why because no matter if
the Cowboys stink the high Heaven, it does not matter,
because that Cowboy brand is the Bombiti Bombiti Bomiti. So
that leaves us with our answers. So all those teams
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have six games under the lights. The Cowboys brand is
like pixie dust, pouring pixie dust over whatever you put
on television. The outlier. I would like to go to
the creamery and get a scoop of Sherbert or in
this case, Justin Herbert. Justin Herbert, that is the player
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the NFL marketing people are hyping up. What is my
evidence the Chargers. The Chargers are tied with the Chiefs, Bills,
and Cowboys for the most prime time games. Your honor,
the prosecution rests. This is an open and shutcase that
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the NFL yet again putting the Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert
on the launching pad on the big stage. The Bolts
are not even the most pops their team in their
own city. They're not even the most popular team in
their own stadium, and yet they are getting the regal
treatment from the NFL. The Chargers have more primetime games.
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Justin Herbert's gonna be on primetime more barring some kind
of change than Aaron Rogers and the Jets. Other teams
getting extra sugar that the NFL is propping up, but
not as much as Justin Herbert. Based on my minutes
long investigation into the NFL schedule, the NFL marketing people,
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they want you to be a fan of Justin Fields
of the Bears, the NFL's worst team, the worst team
in the NFL, the Chicago Bears last season with Justin Fields,
they have four primetime games, four of them. That is
the same number as Joe Burrow, who's actually good, and
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the Bengals have and a former MVP, Lamar Jackson and
the Ravens. But wait, there's more. The Lions. If you
want to if you want proof that we are in
an upside down bizarro world, the Detroit Lions are getting
four primetime games. The Detroit Lions, Holy Honolulu Blue. And
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then you've got the Bronx. Why are we seeing Russell
Wilson four times in primetime? Why why? Why? Why? All right?
Last thing year? So one of the other parts of
this the the nerds take out a machete and they
slice up. Oh, this is not fair and that's not fair,
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and they play the not fair game. And then I
always play the Yabbat Yabbitt Yabbat yabat game. And I
like playing the Yabbat yabbitt yabat game. But everyone's got
their own agenda. So which schedule oddities stand out the
most when looking at the upcoming NFL regular season schedule?
So may we recommend the Guy Mitchell Classic Singing the
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Blues because a bunch of teams will be singing the Blues,
including the Lrims and the forty nine Ers. The Rams
and forty nine Ers have not one, not two, not three,
but four four games. That is, they're tied for the
most in the NFL, playing that dreaded quirk in the schedule.
Every gambler pays attention to this when a team is
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rested coming off a bye and they play a team
that is not rested. So the Rams and Niners have
four of those matchups. No other team has more than
two that is a ready made excuse. Just to add
a little water, You're good to go. Little water, You're
good to go. There are eleven teams that do not
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have a single game against a team coming off the
by and that includes teams like the Patriots, the Dolphins,
the who else is on this? Baltimore's on that list,
the Tennessee is on there. So who's it's got the
hardest schedule? So I saw this bounce around. It actually
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makes sense if you base this off the projected win
total at the at the casinos in Vegas and they project,
you know whatever, you're Jacksonville's gonna win nine games or
ten games or whatever it is. So using that criteria
the team, why don't we start with the easiest schedule.
The team with the easiest schedule would be the New
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Orleans Saints. Now a lot of this is because they
get to play the other teams in their division that
also blow So that's Derek Carr and the Saints. The
other teams that have the easiest projected schedule based on
an opponent win total the Falcons, Hello, the Panthers, and
then you've got the Colts and the Bears who are
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on easy street. So they've gotten rid of the dead
wood and they're playing a bunch of other supposedly easy teams.
And then I always said, but yeah, but yeah, but yeah,
but this is what's supposed to happen. It doesn't mean
that's going to happen. That's my yeah butt response. But wait,
what about the hardest schedule based on the projected opponent
win total? The hardest schedule in the NFL, Holy Bill Belichick, Batman,
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The New England Patriots. The Patriots have the toughest schedule
based on opponent projected win total in the NFL. So
there is not a beacon of light at the end
of the tunnel. That is an oncoming runaway train, is
what it is. Patriots have the toughest schedule in the NFL.
Buffalo is second, Kansas City third, the Raiders Holy Jimmy
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Garoppolo are fourth, and then the Dolphins. What else pops up?
There's some other quirky things. Kansas City, according to our
friends at DraftKings, is favored in every game. It would
be an upset if the Chiefs don't go seventeen and zero.
They are favored in every game in the early line,
in the May line, favorite in every game. The forty
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nine Ers are favored in city sixteen games on DraftKings,
so that but Ago sixteen and one, Bengals in fifteen,
Eagles in fourteen, Bills in thirteen, and we can go
on and on and on and on and on and on.
There's a bunch of teams that play three straight home
games without a bye week that includes the Dolphins are
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on that, the Cowboys, the Ravens, the Rams, the Texans.
There's a also teams that play three road games in Rold.
People always freak out about that. The Giants play most
of the road games early in the season, and you've
got the Broncos who play three road games. Ravens, but
that includes a trip to London, so that's kind of
a fugazy situation because you'll be hanging out in London
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having a fine time. And the Panthers and the Panthers
as well on that short list. It is the Ben
Malord Show. You want to come at about any of this,
you can join us here. The Lions are opening at
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have NBA Action tonight. We'll take a look at that.
We have the Koop Scoop on entertainment. Well, and we
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will get to all of it, and we will do
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Speaker 1 (17:38):
Hot schedule talk. The kind of content you need. You
didn't know you needed it, but you need it in
your life. Kyle says solid monologue this morning, Washington is
not deserve a primetime game at all. Are you still
coming to Maine this summer?
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Well?
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Check out the Fifth Hour podcast Kyle, which will be
up later today. We'll have some information on that. Bengals
fan Bryan says, your rams are toast on Monday night.
Hashtag redemption f them picks. Yeah, Yeah, let's see. Remember,
it's not whether you win or lose, did you cover
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the spread? That's really what matters in these games. Ferg
Dog writes in he says, get used to justin Sherbert Ben.
He's the best player in the league and he's not
even in his prime yet. This is some Charger propaganda.
Anything less than the final four will be a massive
disappointment for the Chargers this particular season, so he says
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in our guy, David, the fry Daddy in Pennsylvania, the
fry benefactor. He says, the Chargers and Bears will be
playoff teams playoffs, so I can see the Chargers making
the plays. I don't see the Bears, though, making I
don't have my crystal ball. I don't have the Bears
making the pluff. That is overly optimisty. I know the
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division sucks and Green Bay's no good anymore and all that,
But the Lions are on the come, as they say
in the gambling world, and the Vikings are still pretty good.
They're both better when you look at a depth chart,
they're better than the Bears. I see the Packers finishing
in last place, though, and the Bears being ahead of
the Packers in that Yes, there you go. A Florida
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man writes in Well, you know it's big if it's
a Florida man. He's a Lions fan in Florida, he says,
I can understand why. He says, I can't understand your
confusion regarding the Lions number of primetime matchups. It is
confusing for Lions fans as well. It's very inconvenient that
you have to actually stay up late at night in
Florida to watch the Lions play on a Monday night
or Thursday or Sunday. What's up with that? I don't
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get it. All right, let's go to the phones and
we'll say hello to the Boston Burper. Hello, Boston Burper,
Good morning you guys doing Boston Broper. Everything good still
with you? You last week, talked to you, you had
made the big proposal. Everything was good on that. Everything's
(20:07):
still on track. Everything's going well.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Yes, yes, sir, Yeah, everything's great.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Hey.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
One thing that I did want to say, though, I
think I made a mistake. I told you guys that
I was eating great for that week, and I think
I said that I was going to the point in
to go like for an anniversary meal or whatever. But
that's like a dive bar in Woodster Man. I said
the wrong place. I meant to say the Bancroft first.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Long, we're going to a dive bar. Some some of
our best memories when I was younger. We're going to
dive bars. Had a great time.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Yeah, yeah, that's fair. I just feel like some locals
were kind of on me. They're like, oh, bringing her
to the point, and that's that's real nice.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
So I think you your your pond scum here. You're
a masshole. Is out your real masshole? Right? You're going
over there?
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Exactly?
Speaker 6 (20:52):
And hey, I also meant to ask Coop how his
trip to Boston went and if he was able to
walk from Logan straight to his Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Is that's right? Cooper Loop announced he was going to
walk right out of Logan Airport and just go around Boston.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
Way.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
That actually happened, right, No, it did not.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
It did not happen. Coops a will embarrassed by that.
He doesn't want to talk about it.
Speaker 8 (21:13):
But I'm sure I could have figured out a way.
But the thing is that my flight was delayed and
I had a Fenway tour that I had to get to,
and so I needed to quickly get a uber to
go and drop my luggage off at Blind Scott's apartment
and then get another uber over to Fenway.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, he was spending He's spending the night with Blind Scott's.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
That's not that's not what happened.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Really, producing there's time. Yeah, you could actually, I think
Boston Burper go back me up on this. You could
actually walk out of Logan. You'll get arrested, but you
could do it, right, it's conceivable you could do it,
but they'll probably end up you know, they'll pull you
aside and detain you at least, right.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Yeah, I mean I don't know, man, she works for
Delta out of there, and I don't think that you
can just walk out. Yeah, you probably get in some
trouble for sure.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Your sister, Your sister probably hooks you up, right, she's
the worst of the airline you got.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
I've gotten some buddy passes out of it. The thing is, though,
on a buddy pass, you know, it's you only get
the seat if there's a seat available. So really, what
you want to do is you want to have you know,
your trip out secured. It's really the way back that
you really want to use. The buddy passes.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
But you got to figure out you got it. What
you got to do is because you got a friend
of the airline, you're your sister. You got to figure
out when the off hours are, when like the flights
that aren't really that pack, you know, and get that.
That's hard information to find, but you can find it. Man,
you're set.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
So yeah, yeah, for sure. But hey man, the reason
that I was actually calling, I know that we spoke
about the Mallard militia oates. I do want to, you know, pledge.
But the thing is, I want to do the whole
thing in burp. Like I said, I'm back on Twitter.
I'm the Boston Burper. I followed pretty much. Honestly, I
really just have for you guys in the show. But
it's somebody could like either DM me or whatever on
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either Twitter or on Instagram and let me know what
that oath is. I want to be able to practice
up and I don't.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Okay, all right, we'll do it. Well, I'll uh maybe
i'll send it to you.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
I have it, so yeah, yeah, we're Instagram. So all right, guys,
well ahead, appreciate the time.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
There you go, all right, there he goes the Boston Burper.
You should save that for the Talent Show though that's
in July. You should save that for that would that
could win the Talent Show, Boston Burper to do the
Mallurn Milisia Oath for the Talent Show. That's that's a
hard act to beat. That's a tough act that the
Mallard Palooza to beat that.
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During the summer, be sure to catch live editions of
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Hey, it's Ben, host of The Fifth Hour with Ben
Maller along with my trustee sidekick David Gascon. Would mean
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Fifth Hour? I'll tell you it's a spin off of
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known as Doc following thirty days, Yes I am, and
I'm gonna give you a fun fact about Doc Rivers.
So following the game last night, Game six the Celtics
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winning that game, Doc Rivers has coached forty nine forty
nine potential closeout games in his career.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
It's a lot.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
That is a lot. You know what his winning percentage is?
Now you down't eddy his winning percentage.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
It's fun though.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
It's a fun fact Doc Rivers. His teams are seventeen
and thirty two. That is a three forty seven winning
percentage in potential closeout games for Doc Rivers. I looked
at the early line for the matchup on Sunday and
the Celtics opened to seven and a half point favorite.
They are favored by seven and a half at home
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against the Sixers, and as far as the games tonight,
Real Quick, the Knicks and Heat close out game for
Miami and they are favored by five and a half.
Most of the money's on them and the Lakers and Warriors.
Lakers are two and a half point favorite and most
of the money, as always is the case, everyone bets
on the Lakers because the first Storis love doing that.
They like losing their money. People, shut up, let's get
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to that. Do we have the YouTuber Marcel in the Morning? Hello,
Marcel in the Morning in the morning, that's right it
he needs a jingle, that's right. You give us ten minutes.
We'll give you. Marcel and his brother in Brooklyn. Hello, Marcel.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
I know you did this Marcel on Friday.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Marcel in the Morning, Come on, sing everyone now, Marcel
in the.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Morning, if you will come your way, will.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
You be having a Toronto raptor play on your show?
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (26:02):
The Toronto rafter huh Pascal see it? Come No, that's
the incorrect one.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
What's your next show? Is it to every Tuesday? You're
doing that on YouTube?
Speaker 7 (26:17):
I have I have mornings with Marcel and Friends to
have that even the verse of the day.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
We're selling friends Marcel and Friends. It's so good.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
Great.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Why doesn't Fox? We should give him a show on
the weekends. You should get a weekend show here, Marcell.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
Oh yeah, I have Andy Furman and Brian Noel on Sundays.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Okay, so it's like you have your own show.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
We'll be right after Bernie freddo my man. I will
speak to him tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
What's his name, Bernie Fredo, Fredo. I used to call
him Fretto, but we call him Fredo now. Bernie is
a great man. And Jack said, can you introduce Cooper
Loop here? Guy. I know you're a big morning guy
on YouTube. You're you're an influencer, you're a content creator.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
Yes, but first your show.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
No, we're good.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
We're good at Marcel. Thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Now we've get it. We've done enough of those commotions.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
Entertainment starts right now. Have a great week at you, guys.
I'll see you on Monday with peg.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
There he goes YouTuber Marcel my Rick. But right now,
let's get.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
A question on that.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Man, you got Eddie, If you've not watched Marcel's youth,
I'm not all right, Eddi's based, but you gotta watch
Marcel's morning show because really you're.
Speaker 8 (27:45):
Gonna record your stuff during during coop scoop Eddie?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Oh Eddie, go ahead? Who goofed? I've got to know
his initials are e G okay, go ahead there please.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
Well, man, this is actually a good week for Eddie
to do that.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Are you saying there's not much going on? There's always
stuff going on.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
Well, we we typically like to start in theaters. But
unless you are a middle aged to elderly woman, there's
nothing new out this weekend for you to.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Go out with Brady eighty again or whateverary anything I
saw that that's not playing in La though.
Speaker 8 (28:22):
No there, it's it's a sequel to some movie called
book Club, book Club the Next Chapter, which.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
There's a movie about book Club about it. Yes, and
it's got get.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Mother's Day weekend. It's got Jane Fonda and Diane Keaton, which.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Mean Fond is getting more work now than ever.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
I know.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Aren't they both in eighty for Brady?
Speaker 8 (28:46):
Yes, yes, I think they are, so I guess what's
going on over there?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
This is not the Hollywood you grew up in.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Cool definitely, not.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Like a sinkhole over there. And there's.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Moving over to television.
Speaker 8 (29:03):
Oh okay, if you if you have not yet seen
the movie Air starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, great
freaking movie man about Nike.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Wanted to see that I have not seen. But Jordan's
not in it, right, there's nobody even playing you don't see.
Speaker 8 (29:19):
Yeah, I mean there's somebody playing him, but he doesn't
have any lines and you don't release.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
You don't ever see his face.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
That's like Steinbrenner and Seinfeld, right, you don't ever seen yes,
so yeah, So those of you that have not seen reference,
how come Seinfeld is an outdated.
Speaker 8 (29:31):
Reference because it's old and it is thirty years old
and it wasn't funny back then, and it's not funny.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
Uh So for those of you that have not seen it,
like Ben, it is now available on Amazon Prime.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
Oh good, I got have Prime. I'll watch that.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Yeah, you have to pay extra for Ita movie.
Speaker 8 (29:49):
And no, if you remember of Amazon Prime, then you
got to watch it.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Let's then let's watch Let's not watch it together.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Okay, we'll not watch it together, but we're well yeah, okay,
go ahead.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Please.
Speaker 8 (30:00):
We also have a new Apple TV Plus show drama
available today right now. It's called City on Fire. It
centers on the shooting of an NYU student in Central
Park in the summer of two thousand and three and
then if she is connected to a wealthy real estate
family with secrets to hide. Yeah, yeah, and so that
(30:21):
is available on Apple TV Plus. We also have a
documentary on Apple TV Plus. Oh okay, here, and that's
what I'm probably gonna check out. It is called Still
a Michael J. Fox Movie. So this is a documentary
about Michael J. Fox, which covers his acting career and
the diagnosis of Parkinson's that he received at age twenty nine.
(30:45):
And so it features a new interview with Michael J.
Fox and plenty of scenes from his work. And that
is getting good reviews. It received great reviews at sun
Dance back in January. So that is now an Apple
TV Plus and I'm running low on time, so I'm
going to skip ahead to one last thing that I
want to point out.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Oh look at that. It's another Apple TV Plus show.
I love this service. You know what can I say?
It is? This one's called High Desert. It is a
dark comedy.
Speaker 8 (31:15):
This premiere is on Wednesday, and it stars Patricia Arquette
and it takes place in the desert town of Yucca.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Valley here in California.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
Y Valley.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Yes, I've been there, hi ok.
Speaker 8 (31:30):
It also stars Matt Dillon, Brad Garrett and Rupert Friend
Bernadette Peters and three episodes stream on Wednesday, May seventeenth,
And that is koops scoop on all right.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
We don't have a lot of time to get in
to this, But there is a story that I saw
Coop that you guys will appreciate. Remember Dwight Howard, you
split for the Lakers, former MVP in the NBA. He
has created an international incident. He's playing I believe in
Taiwan and the story's BBC reporting a White Howard is.
He's been drawing criticism because in that country he he
(32:08):
called Taiwana country. So he's creative. Yes, yes, in that Yes,
China does not appreciate that, Eddie, and Dwight Howard has
issued an apology.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
In Chinese like John Cena.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I don't think so. He said, if I offended anyone
in China, anybody you know, I apologize And yeah, so
that's an interest. Well, keep an eye on that story.
But Dwhite Howard, yeah, we apologize.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
We love China, We love you know, playing there.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
You don't want to end up in one of those
gulag situations there. Wow. Okay, Dwight Howard, Okay, very nice
for him. He's got some explaining to do. I guess
all right. We will have Benny's Balderdash eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox. If you want to play, we'll
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And now it's just what you've been waiting for. It's
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Speaker 7 (33:35):
What the hell is this?
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Formerly known as something? We're not allowed to say it?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
All right, Right to the game we go. We've got
Mason the Millennial and he will go against Uncle Mo,
our defending champion. Are you there, Mason the Millennial?
Speaker 7 (33:52):
No?
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Boy?
Speaker 7 (33:52):
Oh man, I'm cook.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Well you you can hang up if you want. We
have somebody else who wants to play.
Speaker 7 (34:01):
I'll go again.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Okay, Uncle more. Are you there, Uncle Moe? Good morning Ben,
Good morning Mason.
Speaker 8 (34:07):
What's going on? Guys?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
All right, let's do it here. Good luck. Both you
guys are regulars on the show. Mason's in the Bay
Area and Uncle Moe, of course in Brooklyn. We've got
scraping the bottom an alumni association, Uncle Mo, which one
do you want? Craving the bottom? Okay, these athletes were
drafted very late, but you know who they are. Two
hundred dollars. Drafted at nineteen years old, all the way
(34:31):
back in twenty fourteen. This Serbian just got robbed of
a third straight. Oh Mo, look get you. You don't even
know basketball, but you know who that guy is. Unbelievable
correct to Kola Jokics. Four hundred dollars. This right handed
right hander was drafted in the ninth round of the
twenty ten MLB draft, but he showed first round talent
(34:52):
right away, winning in a Rookie of the Year in
twenty fourteen and eventually snagging back to back cy Young wars.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Mo, is that the ground, Jacob?
Speaker 7 (35:02):
The ground?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
That is correct? Yeah, Mason, you are getting cooked all right?
Six hundred dollars. This Hall of Famer wasn't drafted until
the eleventh round in nineteen eighty nine by the Cincinnati
Reds as a shortstop. He would eventually transition into a
pitcher and collect the second most saves in MLB history.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Mason Bob Gibson.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Wow, that is unbelievably better. Okay, Uncle Mo. Yes, Trevor Hoffman,
you got it right. Eight hundred dollars this eleventh round
MLB draft pick. As a Rookie of the Year with
Montreal MVP with the Cubs, he also collected eight Gold
Gloves during his Hall of Fame career. And I believe
(35:51):
he works. I believe he works at a mortuary.
Speaker 7 (35:54):
Now, oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
No, I'll go out now, No, Mason, next category, Okay,
I know that is Andre Dawson. Andre Dawson, he works
in the funeral business. Now, thousand dollars the last one.
Here we go. The former Arizona University basketball player was
a seventeenth round pick. Spent only twenty games with Houston,
(36:20):
one of his eleven teams. He ranks fifteenth all time
in stolen bases. Anybody I played basketball, I think you
played with Steve Kerr at Arizona. That Eddie win oh,
welcome MO actually wins unforced late good job a long ago.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Next week.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
That was terrible by Mason, But that's all right. I
think I don't know. It was bad, right, it was bad. Yeah, murder.
I have nothing to do.
Hello and welcome. It's our numb for Fall, our four
of our radio show in the podcast format, and we're
talking football. I've got my calendar app and my phone out.
It was schedule release day. We so what teams we're
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exposed as the NFL released their schedule, exposed as the
least attractive NFL teams, shall we say? And which player
is the marketing arm of the NFL trying to promote
the most based on the schedule. And also what are
some of the oddities that stand out the most looking
(00:44):
at the twenty twenty three schedule. We'll talk about all
that and more right now here. It is our number four.
Have a heck of a weekend. Stay safe, we'll talk
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Shoebe and so lead this hour coming from the big announcement,
The big announcement. Your twenty twenty three NFL schedule has
been fully released. Tata huh say what presto ebra cadabrah.
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It's always a big day in my house, unless it's
not so right a passage rite of past planning on
what you will be doing between September and February and
doing it in the month of May. So I'm not
sure if you were paying attention or not. I did
(02:37):
not watch the made for television extravaganza. I was busy
watching the seventy six ers doc Rivers, Who's a guilty
of basketball malpractice yet again? As the Celtics able to
win with with Jason Tatum having a terrible, terrible performance
in that gift. So, but I did check out the
schedule once it was all released, And so the twenty
(02:59):
twenty three schedule, if you didn't see it, it's gonna
kick off on Thursday, September seventh with the reigning Super
Bowl champion Canza City Chiefs, as they will play host
the Lions at Arrowhead in Kansas City. Eighteen weeks later.
It all ends on January seventh. The regular season all together,
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the NFL will play five hundred and forty four regular
season games over one hundred and twenty two days four months,
followed by another thirty five days. And that's the playoff
action which begin and the I think with January fourteenth,
that weekend, the weekend of January fourteenth, and it will
conclude with Super Bowl fifty eight to be played in
(03:49):
Lost Wages about a sin City in February February eleventh,
twenty twenty four. And if you could go back and
put a time machine and fast forward from ten years ago,
fifteen years ago, twenty five years ago, thirty years ago,
and say there will be a Super Bowl played in
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Las Vegas. But it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen early
twenty twenty four. So let us discuss the question what
teams were exposed as the ugly ducklings of the NFL
based on the schedule release. So I've got Cocoa Puffs,
creamery and Guy Mitchell, and we will combine all of
(04:34):
these random things together and we are going to make
a stomach ache, is what we're going to make. Hopefully
you don't get one. But to kick off here, the
NFL has changed the rules of engagement and I love it.
I love it now. I find the schedule release a
(04:55):
bit of a boondoggle, I do. But no longer every
team garanteed at least one one date with the pretty girl.
No no, no, no, no no no no, no, no, no no,
not everyone's gonna get that prime time exposure. Now if
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you you don't know about them, they change the rules.
I mean, in the years past you always got at
least one Thursday night game or a Monday night game,
but not anymore. You have to earn it. You have
to earn it. And I love that the NFL announced
who the ugly redheaded step children are the league, who
the uncool teams are, who the uncool coaches are, who
the uncool quarterbacks are, the teams that are on the
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catwalk doing the the walk of shame. I can make
make a little pirouet there at the end when you
get to the end of the catwalk. Uh, it's four
on the floor of football. The four on the floor,
the very bottom the sewer. If you will, You've got
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the Texans, the Falcons, the Cardinals, and the Colts. These
are the four ugliest teams in the NFL, the four
teams that are wearing the dune cap. They are unwelcome,
they are unwanted. It's like when you have breakfast and
you want cocoa puffs, but you get a soggy bowl
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of coco puffs. Nobody wants that. Or maybe you like
Captain Crunch, but it's soggy. You don't want that. And
so those are the teams that are being shunned. They
are practicing what we all had to do back in
twenty twenty, social distancing. They have been socially distanced from
primetime games. The Texans, Falcons, Cardinals and Colts have all
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pitched shutouts. They are the headless horsemen. That's what they
have in common. They are the headless horsemen. They have
no name quarterbacks, no name coaches. They have stars who
are lacking because they have no stars. And that's the
thing you need to have. A headliner. It's a television
show the NFL is a television show, and you cannot
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work up an appetite to watch these teams.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You don't get goosebumps watching these teams, and that's what
they want on television. So the coaches Dimiko Ryan, Demigo, Ryans,
Arthur Smith, Jonathan Gannon, Shane Steichen. They are the flotsam
and jetsam of coaches. Not a big name among the group.
You've got CJ. Stroud from the Ohio State University, Desmond Ritter,
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Colet McCoy. Remember Kyler Murray's hurt. But even if he's there,
the guy's are more of a gamer. He's just like,
not really a football player. He's more of a video
game guy. You'd rather watch him on Twitch playing Call
of Duty. And then you've got my guy, Gardner Minshew,
who's not not someone that people go out of their
way to watch. I like watching him play, but he
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does not possess the nectar of the gods. And Anthony Richardson,
who is undercooked, not ready for prime time and all that.
So that is a hodgepodge of nothingness, as Dennis Eckersley
famously said back in the day. So you've got faceless
cast offs, unproven young quarterbacks, and one diva prima donna
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who's the size of a garden gnome. That's what you got. Now.
The team that I'm surprised was not part of this
also is Washington, the Washington football team. They actually got
a primetime game. And that is a joke. That is
a joke. The commanders should have been on the naughty
list to get one primetime game. That is a bad team, man,
(08:44):
that is a bad blankety blank blank team. Furthermore so,
we talked about the teams that have been outed by
the NFL as ugly pee. You right, need to go
back and do some work. So which player is getting
(09:04):
propped up by the NFL, because this is also a
dead give what the dead giveaway? Which player is the
marketing arm of the NFL trying to promote the most?
So we look at this using the process of elimination.
And if you peruse the NFL's honor roll, and when
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I say the honor roll, I'm talking about the teams
that are on the most primetime games that they're riding
the roller coaster to the top of the mountain. So
if you look at the honor roll, it's filled with
the usual suspect, Kansas City with the top quarterback in
the NFL, Patrick Mahomes, Buffalo. Here we go Buffalo and
(09:46):
the Bills mafia, and they've got their stud quarterback Josh Allen,
and then you've got Dallas. Why because no matter if
the Cowboys stink the high Heaven, it does not matter,
because that Cowboy brand is the Bombiti Bombiti Bomiti. So
that leaves us with our answers. So all those teams
(10:08):
have six games under the lights. The Cowboys brand is
like pixie dust, pouring pixie dust over whatever you put
on television. The outlier. I would like to go to
the creamery and get a scoop of Sherbert or in
this case, Justin Herbert. Justin Herbert, that is the player
(10:28):
the NFL marketing people are hyping up. What is my
evidence the Chargers. The Chargers are tied with the Chiefs, Bills,
and Cowboys for the most prime time games. Your honor,
the prosecution rests. This is an open and shutcase that
(10:49):
the NFL yet again putting the Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert
on the launching pad on the big stage. The Bolts
are not even the most pops their team in their
own city. They're not even the most popular team in
their own stadium, and yet they are getting the regal
treatment from the NFL. The Chargers have more primetime games.
(11:13):
Justin Herbert's gonna be on primetime more barring some kind
of change than Aaron Rogers and the Jets. Other teams
getting extra sugar that the NFL is propping up, but
not as much as Justin Herbert. Based on my minutes
long investigation into the NFL schedule, the NFL marketing people,
(11:33):
they want you to be a fan of Justin Fields
of the Bears, the NFL's worst team, the worst team
in the NFL, the Chicago Bears last season with Justin Fields,
they have four primetime games, four of them. That is
the same number as Joe Burrow, who's actually good, and
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the Bengals have and a former MVP, Lamar Jackson and
the Ravens. But wait, there's more. The Lions. If you
want to if you want proof that we are in
an upside down bizarro world, the Detroit Lions are getting
four primetime games. The Detroit Lions, Holy Honolulu Blue. And
(12:18):
then you've got the Bronx. Why are we seeing Russell
Wilson four times in primetime? Why why? Why? Why? All right?
Last thing year? So one of the other parts of
this the the nerds take out a machete and they
slice up. Oh, this is not fair and that's not fair,
(12:39):
and they play the not fair game. And then I
always play the Yabbat Yabbitt Yabbat yabat game. And I
like playing the Yabbat yabbitt yabat game. But everyone's got
their own agenda. So which schedule oddities stand out the
most when looking at the upcoming NFL regular season schedule?
So may we recommend the Guy Mitchell Classic Singing the
(13:00):
Blues because a bunch of teams will be singing the Blues,
including the Lrims and the forty nine Ers. The Rams
and forty nine Ers have not one, not two, not three,
but four four games. That is, they're tied for the
most in the NFL, playing that dreaded quirk in the schedule.
Every gambler pays attention to this when a team is
(13:22):
rested coming off a bye and they play a team
that is not rested. So the Rams and Niners have
four of those matchups. No other team has more than
two that is a ready made excuse. Just to add
a little water, You're good to go. Little water, You're
good to go. There are eleven teams that do not
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have a single game against a team coming off the
by and that includes teams like the Patriots, the Dolphins,
the who else is on this? Baltimore's on that list,
the Tennessee is on there. So who's it's got the
hardest schedule? So I saw this bounce around. It actually
(14:04):
makes sense if you base this off the projected win
total at the at the casinos in Vegas and they project,
you know whatever, you're Jacksonville's gonna win nine games or
ten games or whatever it is. So using that criteria
the team, why don't we start with the easiest schedule.
The team with the easiest schedule would be the New
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Orleans Saints. Now a lot of this is because they
get to play the other teams in their division that
also blow So that's Derek Carr and the Saints. The
other teams that have the easiest projected schedule based on
an opponent win total the Falcons, Hello, the Panthers, and
then you've got the Colts and the Bears who are
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on easy street. So they've gotten rid of the dead
wood and they're playing a bunch of other supposedly easy teams.
And then I always said, but yeah, but yeah, but yeah,
but this is what's supposed to happen. It doesn't mean
that's going to happen. That's my yeah butt response. But wait,
what about the hardest schedule based on the projected opponent
win total? The hardest schedule in the NFL, Holy Bill Belichick, Batman,
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The New England Patriots. The Patriots have the toughest schedule
based on opponent projected win total in the NFL. So
there is not a beacon of light at the end
of the tunnel. That is an oncoming runaway train, is
what it is. Patriots have the toughest schedule in the NFL.
Buffalo is second, Kansas City third, the Raiders Holy Jimmy
(15:37):
Garoppolo are fourth, and then the Dolphins. What else pops up?
There's some other quirky things. Kansas City, according to our
friends at DraftKings, is favored in every game. It would
be an upset if the Chiefs don't go seventeen and zero.
They are favored in every game in the early line,
in the May line, favorite in every game. The forty
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nine Ers are favored in city sixteen games on DraftKings,
so that but Ago sixteen and one, Bengals in fifteen,
Eagles in fourteen, Bills in thirteen, and we can go
on and on and on and on and on and on.
There's a bunch of teams that play three straight home
games without a bye week that includes the Dolphins are
(16:19):
on that, the Cowboys, the Ravens, the Rams, the Texans.
There's a also teams that play three road games in Rold.
People always freak out about that. The Giants play most
of the road games early in the season, and you've
got the Broncos who play three road games. Ravens, but
that includes a trip to London, so that's kind of
a fugazy situation because you'll be hanging out in London
(16:40):
having a fine time. And the Panthers and the Panthers
as well on that short list. It is the Ben
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We have the Koop Scoop on entertainment. Well, and we
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Speaker 1 (17:38):
Hot schedule talk. The kind of content you need. You
didn't know you needed it, but you need it in
your life. Kyle says solid monologue this morning, Washington is
not deserve a primetime game at all. Are you still
coming to Maine this summer?
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Well?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Check out the Fifth Hour podcast Kyle, which will be
up later today. We'll have some information on that. Bengals
fan Bryan says, your rams are toast on Monday night.
Hashtag redemption f them picks. Yeah, Yeah, let's see. Remember,
it's not whether you win or lose, did you cover
(18:16):
the spread? That's really what matters in these games. Ferg
Dog writes in he says, get used to justin Sherbert Ben.
He's the best player in the league and he's not
even in his prime yet. This is some Charger propaganda.
Anything less than the final four will be a massive
disappointment for the Chargers this particular season, so he says
(18:40):
in our guy, David, the fry Daddy in Pennsylvania, the
fry benefactor. He says, the Chargers and Bears will be
playoff teams playoffs, so I can see the Chargers making
the plays. I don't see the Bears, though, making I
don't have my crystal ball. I don't have the Bears
making the pluff. That is overly optimisty. I know the
(19:01):
division sucks and Green Bay's no good anymore and all that,
But the Lions are on the come, as they say
in the gambling world, and the Vikings are still pretty good.
They're both better when you look at a depth chart,
they're better than the Bears. I see the Packers finishing
in last place, though, and the Bears being ahead of
the Packers in that Yes, there you go. A Florida
(19:23):
man writes in Well, you know it's big if it's
a Florida man. He's a Lions fan in Florida, he says,
I can understand why. He says, I can't understand your
confusion regarding the Lions number of primetime matchups. It is
confusing for Lions fans as well. It's very inconvenient that
you have to actually stay up late at night in
Florida to watch the Lions play on a Monday night
or Thursday or Sunday. What's up with that? I don't
(19:47):
get it. All right, let's go to the phones and
we'll say hello to the Boston Burper. Hello, Boston Burper,
Good morning you guys doing Boston Broper. Everything good still
with you? You last week, talked to you, you had
made the big proposal. Everything was good on that. Everything's
(20:07):
still on track. Everything's going well.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Yes, yes, sir, Yeah, everything's great.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Hey.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
One thing that I did want to say, though, I
think I made a mistake. I told you guys that
I was eating great for that week, and I think
I said that I was going to the point in
to go like for an anniversary meal or whatever. But
that's like a dive bar in Woodster Man. I said
the wrong place. I meant to say the Bancroft first.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Long, we're going to a dive bar. Some some of
our best memories when I was younger. We're going to
dive bars. Had a great time.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Yeah, yeah, that's fair. I just feel like some locals
were kind of on me. They're like, oh, bringing her
to the point, and that's that's real nice.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
So I think you your your pond scum here. You're
a masshole. Is out your real masshole? Right? You're going
over there?
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Exactly?
Speaker 6 (20:52):
And hey, I also meant to ask Coop how his
trip to Boston went and if he was able to
walk from Logan straight to his Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Is that's right? Cooper Loop announced he was going to
walk right out of Logan Airport and just go around Boston.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
Way.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
That actually happened, right, No, it did not.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
It did not happen. Coops a will embarrassed by that.
He doesn't want to talk about it.
Speaker 8 (21:13):
But I'm sure I could have figured out a way.
But the thing is that my flight was delayed and
I had a Fenway tour that I had to get to,
and so I needed to quickly get a uber to
go and drop my luggage off at Blind Scott's apartment
and then get another uber over to Fenway.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, he was spending He's spending the night with Blind Scott's.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
That's not that's not what happened.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Really, producing there's time. Yeah, you could actually, I think
Boston Burper go back me up on this. You could
actually walk out of Logan. You'll get arrested, but you
could do it, right, it's conceivable you could do it,
but they'll probably end up you know, they'll pull you
aside and detain you at least, right.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Yeah, I mean I don't know, man, she works for
Delta out of there, and I don't think that you
can just walk out. Yeah, you probably get in some
trouble for sure.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Your sister, Your sister probably hooks you up, right, she's
the worst of the airline you got.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
I've gotten some buddy passes out of it. The thing is, though,
on a buddy pass, you know, it's you only get
the seat if there's a seat available. So really, what
you want to do is you want to have you know,
your trip out secured. It's really the way back that
you really want to use. The buddy passes.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
But you got to figure out you got it. What
you got to do is because you got a friend
of the airline, you're your sister. You got to figure
out when the off hours are, when like the flights
that aren't really that pack, you know, and get that.
That's hard information to find, but you can find it. Man,
you're set.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
So yeah, yeah, for sure. But hey man, the reason
that I was actually calling, I know that we spoke
about the Mallard militia oates. I do want to, you know, pledge.
But the thing is, I want to do the whole
thing in burp. Like I said, I'm back on Twitter.
I'm the Boston Burper. I followed pretty much. Honestly, I
really just have for you guys in the show. But
it's somebody could like either DM me or whatever on
(23:03):
either Twitter or on Instagram and let me know what
that oath is. I want to be able to practice
up and I don't.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Okay, all right, we'll do it. Well, I'll uh maybe
i'll send it to you.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
I have it, so yeah, yeah, we're Instagram. So all right, guys,
well ahead, appreciate the time.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
There you go, all right, there he goes the Boston Burper.
You should save that for the Talent Show though that's
in July. You should save that for that would that
could win the Talent Show, Boston Burper to do the
Mallurn Milisia Oath for the Talent Show. That's that's a
hard act to beat. That's a tough act that the
Mallard Palooza to beat that.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
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Hey, it's Ben, host of The Fifth Hour with Ben
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So following the game last night, Game six the Celtics
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Speaker 5 (24:34):
It's a lot.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
That is a lot. You know what his winning percentage is?
Now you down't eddy his winning percentage.
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It's fun though.
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It's a fun fact Doc Rivers. His teams are seventeen
and thirty two. That is a three forty seven winning
percentage in potential closeout games for Doc Rivers. I looked
at the early line for the matchup on Sunday and
the Celtics opened to seven and a half point favorite.
They are favored by seven and a half at home
(25:05):
against the Sixers, and as far as the games tonight,
Real Quick, the Knicks and Heat close out game for
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Most of the money's on them and the Lakers and Warriors.
Lakers are two and a half point favorite and most
of the money, as always is the case, everyone bets
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They like losing their money. People, shut up, let's get
(25:27):
to that. Do we have the YouTuber Marcel in the Morning? Hello,
Marcel in the Morning in the morning, that's right it
he needs a jingle, that's right. You give us ten minutes.
We'll give you. Marcel and his brother in Brooklyn. Hello, Marcel.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
I know you did this Marcel on Friday.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Marcel in the Morning, Come on, sing everyone now, Marcel
in the.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Morning, if you will come your way, will.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
You be having a Toronto raptor play on your show?
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (26:02):
The Toronto rafter huh Pascal see it? Come No, that's
the incorrect one.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
What's your next show? Is it to every Tuesday? You're
doing that on YouTube?
Speaker 7 (26:17):
I have I have mornings with Marcel and Friends to
have that even the verse of the day.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
We're selling friends Marcel and Friends. It's so good.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
Great.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Why doesn't Fox? We should give him a show on
the weekends. You should get a weekend show here, Marcell.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
Oh yeah, I have Andy Furman and Brian Noel on Sundays.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Okay, so it's like you have your own show.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
We'll be right after Bernie freddo my man. I will
speak to him tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
What's his name, Bernie Fredo, Fredo. I used to call
him Fretto, but we call him Fredo now. Bernie is
a great man. And Jack said, can you introduce Cooper
Loop here? Guy. I know you're a big morning guy
on YouTube. You're you're an influencer, you're a content creator.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
Yes, but first your show.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
No, we're good.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
We're good at Marcel. Thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Now we've get it. We've done enough of those commotions.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
Entertainment starts right now. Have a great week at you, guys.
I'll see you on Monday with peg.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
There he goes YouTuber Marcel my Rick. But right now,
let's get.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
A question on that.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Man, you got Eddie, If you've not watched Marcel's youth,
I'm not all right, Eddi's based, but you gotta watch
Marcel's morning show because really you're.
Speaker 8 (27:45):
Gonna record your stuff during during coop scoop Eddie?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Oh Eddie, go ahead? Who goofed? I've got to know
his initials are e G okay, go ahead there please.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
Well, man, this is actually a good week for Eddie
to do that.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Are you saying there's not much going on? There's always
stuff going on.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
Well, we we typically like to start in theaters. But
unless you are a middle aged to elderly woman, there's
nothing new out this weekend for you to.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Go out with Brady eighty again or whateverary anything I
saw that that's not playing in La though.
Speaker 8 (28:22):
No there, it's it's a sequel to some movie called
book Club, book Club the Next Chapter, which.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
There's a movie about book Club about it. Yes, and
it's got get.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Mother's Day weekend. It's got Jane Fonda and Diane Keaton, which.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Mean Fond is getting more work now than ever.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
I know.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Aren't they both in eighty for Brady?
Speaker 8 (28:46):
Yes, yes, I think they are, so I guess what's
going on over there?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
This is not the Hollywood you grew up in.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Cool definitely, not.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Like a sinkhole over there. And there's.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Moving over to television.
Speaker 8 (29:03):
Oh okay, if you if you have not yet seen
the movie Air starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, great
freaking movie man about Nike.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Wanted to see that I have not seen. But Jordan's
not in it, right, there's nobody even playing you don't see.
Speaker 8 (29:19):
Yeah, I mean there's somebody playing him, but he doesn't
have any lines and you don't release.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
You don't ever see his face.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
That's like Steinbrenner and Seinfeld, right, you don't ever seen yes,
so yeah, So those of you that have not seen reference,
how come Seinfeld is an outdated.
Speaker 8 (29:31):
Reference because it's old and it is thirty years old
and it wasn't funny back then, and it's not funny.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
Uh So for those of you that have not seen it,
like Ben, it is now available on Amazon Prime.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
Oh good, I got have Prime. I'll watch that.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Yeah, you have to pay extra for Ita movie.
Speaker 8 (29:49):
And no, if you remember of Amazon Prime, then you
got to watch it.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Let's then let's watch Let's not watch it together.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Okay, we'll not watch it together, but we're well yeah, okay,
go ahead.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
Please.
Speaker 8 (30:00):
We also have a new Apple TV Plus show drama
available today right now. It's called City on Fire. It
centers on the shooting of an NYU student in Central
Park in the summer of two thousand and three and
then if she is connected to a wealthy real estate
family with secrets to hide. Yeah, yeah, and so that
(30:21):
is available on Apple TV Plus. We also have a
documentary on Apple TV Plus. Oh okay, here, and that's
what I'm probably gonna check out. It is called Still
a Michael J. Fox Movie. So this is a documentary
about Michael J. Fox, which covers his acting career and
the diagnosis of Parkinson's that he received at age twenty nine.
(30:45):
And so it features a new interview with Michael J.
Fox and plenty of scenes from his work. And that
is getting good reviews. It received great reviews at sun
Dance back in January. So that is now an Apple
TV Plus and I'm running low on time, so I'm
going to skip ahead to one last thing that I
want to point out.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Oh look at that. It's another Apple TV Plus show.
I love this service. You know what can I say?
It is? This one's called High Desert. It is a
dark comedy.
Speaker 8 (31:15):
This premiere is on Wednesday, and it stars Patricia Arquette
and it takes place in the desert town of Yucca.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Valley here in California.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
Y Valley.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Yes, I've been there, hi ok.
Speaker 8 (31:30):
It also stars Matt Dillon, Brad Garrett and Rupert Friend
Bernadette Peters and three episodes stream on Wednesday, May seventeenth,
And that is koops scoop on all right.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
We don't have a lot of time to get in
to this, But there is a story that I saw
Coop that you guys will appreciate. Remember Dwight Howard, you
split for the Lakers, former MVP in the NBA. He
has created an international incident. He's playing I believe in
Taiwan and the story's BBC reporting a White Howard is.
He's been drawing criticism because in that country he he
(32:08):
called Taiwana country. So he's creative. Yes, yes, in that Yes,
China does not appreciate that, Eddie, and Dwight Howard has
issued an apology.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
In Chinese like John Cena.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I don't think so. He said, if I offended anyone
in China, anybody you know, I apologize And yeah, so
that's an interest. Well, keep an eye on that story.
But Dwhite Howard, yeah, we apologize.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
We love China, We love you know, playing there.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
You don't want to end up in one of those
gulag situations there. Wow. Okay, Dwight Howard, Okay, very nice
for him. He's got some explaining to do. I guess
all right. We will have Benny's Balderdash eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox. If you want to play, we'll
get the balderdash. We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
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Speaker 4 (33:29):
And now it's just what you've been waiting for. It's
Ben's balder dash.
Speaker 7 (33:35):
What the hell is this?
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Formerly known as something? We're not allowed to say it?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
All right, Right to the game we go. We've got
Mason the Millennial and he will go against Uncle Mo,
our defending champion. Are you there, Mason the Millennial?
Speaker 7 (33:52):
No?
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Boy?
Speaker 7 (33:52):
Oh man, I'm cook.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Well you you can hang up if you want. We
have somebody else who wants to play.
Speaker 7 (34:01):
I'll go again.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Okay, Uncle more. Are you there, Uncle Moe? Good morning Ben,
Good morning Mason.
Speaker 8 (34:07):
What's going on? Guys?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
All right, let's do it here. Good luck. Both you
guys are regulars on the show. Mason's in the Bay
Area and Uncle Moe, of course in Brooklyn. We've got
scraping the bottom an alumni association, Uncle Mo, which one
do you want? Craving the bottom? Okay, these athletes were
drafted very late, but you know who they are. Two
hundred dollars. Drafted at nineteen years old, all the way
(34:31):
back in twenty fourteen. This Serbian just got robbed of
a third straight. Oh Mo, look get you. You don't even
know basketball, but you know who that guy is. Unbelievable
correct to Kola Jokics. Four hundred dollars. This right handed
right hander was drafted in the ninth round of the
twenty ten MLB draft, but he showed first round talent
(34:52):
right away, winning in a Rookie of the Year in
twenty fourteen and eventually snagging back to back cy Young wars.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Mo, is that the ground, Jacob?
Speaker 7 (35:02):
The ground?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
That is correct? Yeah, Mason, you are getting cooked all right?
Six hundred dollars. This Hall of Famer wasn't drafted until
the eleventh round in nineteen eighty nine by the Cincinnati
Reds as a shortstop. He would eventually transition into a
pitcher and collect the second most saves in MLB history.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Mason Bob Gibson.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Wow, that is unbelievably better. Okay, Uncle Mo. Yes, Trevor Hoffman,
you got it right. Eight hundred dollars this eleventh round
MLB draft pick. As a Rookie of the Year with
Montreal MVP with the Cubs, he also collected eight Gold
Gloves during his Hall of Fame career. And I believe
(35:51):
he works. I believe he works at a mortuary.
Speaker 7 (35:54):
Now, oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
No, I'll go out now, No, Mason, next category, Okay,
I know that is Andre Dawson. Andre Dawson, he works
in the funeral business. Now, thousand dollars the last one.
Here we go. The former Arizona University basketball player was
a seventeenth round pick. Spent only twenty games with Houston,
(36:20):
one of his eleven teams. He ranks fifteenth all time
in stolen bases. Anybody I played basketball, I think you
played with Steve Kerr at Arizona. That Eddie win oh,
welcome MO actually wins unforced late good job a long ago.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Next week.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
That was terrible by Mason, But that's all right. I
think I don't know. It was bad, right, it was bad. Yeah, murder.
I have nothing to do.
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