June 16, 2023 • 41 mins
Big Ben talks about Rob Manfred's response to the Oakland fans' reverse boycott and the A's moving to Las Vegas, the highlights from the Denver Nuggets championship parade, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, and more!
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But we begin the festivities here with the story that
I've been dying to talk about. Here comes from Major
League Baseball. It's right in my wheelhouse. So it's all
but done.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
The A's are being handed three hundred and eighty million
dollars of the taxpayer's money from Nevada in a great
bank heist by corporate Baseball. The politicians have greenlighted the
corporate welfare donation.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
So congratulations.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Now, if you're a taxpayer Nevada, we'd like you to
bend over, because yes.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I think we know it's you're about to get spanked.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
The Commissioner, Rob Manford, or man Fraud, as we lovingly
call him, Rob Manford, spoke with reporters, and this is
in New York at the regular owners meetings. They have
quarterly owners meetings even during the season. In most of
this news conference was dedicated to questions about the athletics
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who are about to evacuate and move out of Oakland
and head to Las Vegas. Now, I wanted to play
a couple of sound bites in particular here to give
you a little taste, little flavor of what we're talking about.
So Rob Manford, he will start with us. He blamed
the city leaders in Oakland. He said, it's really their
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fault that DA's are saying screw you and giving the
bird to the fans in Oakland.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Take a list.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I think that the real question is what is it
that Oakland was prepared to do that There is no
Oakland offer, okay, I mean, they never got to the
point where they had a plan to build a stadium
at any site. And it's not just John Fisher. You
don't build a stadium based on the club activity along.
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The community has to provide support, and you know, at
some point you come to the realization it's just not
gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Much more on that in a second, but there's more here.
He was asked about the A's reverse boycott. We talked
about this, We had our boots on the ground, We
had several listeners that are fans of the show in
the Bay Area that we're at that game. It was
an emotional night for so many people. We had Mason
the Millennial call up. He was in tears as an
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A's fan bummed out and it was an amazing scene
to see all those people there, the chanting, the whole thing,
the reverse boycott. So Rob Manford decided, you know what,
I'm the commissioner of Baseball. I'm the guardian of the game.
So what i am going to do is I am
going to take a cheap shot at the Oakland fan.
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That's what I'm going to do, just to prove I'm
not making it up.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Here. Listen closely to the tone.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Of Rob Manford when he was asked about the A's
reverse boycott, the fan boycott in Oakland.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
The other take, as you know, I mean, it was great,
It's great to see what is this year? You know,
almost an average major League Baseball crowd in the facility
for one night. That's a great thing.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, almost an average Major League baseball crowd in a
facility for one night to see the worst team buy design.
By the way, by design, that's the money quote. So
we'll start with that. Let's discuss the question when you
first heard, maybe it's right now, when you first heard
Rob Manford taking a shot, a sarcastic, cheap shot at
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the Oakland fan reverse boycott here?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So I've got triumph, costanza, and deep clutter, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a nice weekend getaway, which is it's
a staycation, but it's a weekend getaway, which is right
around the corner.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Right around the corner. So number wha.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Rob Manford is not only the Commissioner of baseball, he
is also moonlighting as Bozo the Clown.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
It is fascinating to me.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
We talk about this guy a lot because he says
dumb things, and we like people that do dumb things
and say dumb things. This weasel, he's like the head weasel.
He never disappoints. Manford is so out of touch with
reality it's fascinating to me. I shouldn't be surprised because
it seems like most of these commissioners are a little cuckoo.
But he sits on this throne and his job is
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to massage the eagle of the owners. He gets paid
very handsomely for that. In fact, he gets I think
eleven million dollars a year to be a toty, a
cabana boy for the billionaire owners of baseball, and he
lives in a nice house in the New York bubble.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
But when it.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Comes to the fan, here's my analysis from many monologues
regarding Rob Manford. Rob Manford is a doppelganger to Triumph,
the insult comic dog if you remember that character from
back in.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
The day, A foul mouth puppet. Manford he mocks.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
He mocks the very people that baseball needs more than
anyone else.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
The hardcore fan, right hardcore fan.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
He's a savage and Manford has a long track record
of this kind of activity. It's not his first rodeo.
Some of my favorite Rob Manford hits if you look
at the charts over the years, calling the World Series
a hunk of metal, that's great running interference for the
twenty seventeen cheating ah Stros.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
He's still doing that.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
How about the one last year I believe it was
when he was smiling and practicing his golf swing while
announcing the cancelation of games because of a work stoppage
in the sport he's the commissioner of. And now we
can add Rob Manford poo pooing and sarcastically sneering and
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belittling the Oakland fan as they're taking the team away,
giving the atomic elbow right to the solar plexus. Right,
stay classy, major League Baseball, and I get the commission
The commissioner will be there forever because baseball makes money
despite all the doom and gloom, and so that's really
all the aristocrats care about. Now page two here we
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already played the sound bite. When I go back to
the first sound bite we played, hopefully were listening, and
in that sound bite, Rob Manford he really diminished and
attacked the Oakland politicians and pointed the finger the blame
game at those politicians for helping create this situation, for
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not forking over the ballpark in Oakland. He said, I again,
the quote was, I think the real question is what
is it Oakland was prepared to do. He kind of snickered, Well,
he said that, and he said, there's no Oakland offer. Okay,
they never got to a point where they had a
plan to build a stadium at any site. Well, the
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Mayor of Oakland, and I don't live in Oakland, but
the Mayor of Oakland said that quote that was just
totally false, was the quote. So someone is lying here,
and the kangaroo court that is Overnight Sports Radio will
help decide with you and I we will help decide.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
So you medical? You meddical?
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
The Oakland Mayor's office disputing Rob Manford's comments on the
A's stadium that there was no plan. They say that
he's lying. That totally false is a way of saying
you're lying. Rob Manford's like, well, no, there was no plan.
So whose side are you on now? Before I give
you my answer? This is a lose lose situation. We
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loathe politicians and Rob Manford. So this is like two
bad guys, two heels in wrestling.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Going at it. You know, you don't want anyone to win.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
But the arrow on this one is pointing at corporate
Major League Baseball. What Rob Manford did is known as
a lie by omission.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
All right, From what I understand, Oakland was prepared.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Even with all the crazy, fed up politics in California.
They were prepared to give the A's a ballpark at
the Howard Terminal area.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
If you're in the Bear you know what that is.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
If you're not, it's a waterfront property in Oakland there
that's got factory stuff there and warehouses things like that,
and they were going to build a stadium there. So
why did the commissioners say that they had no plane
in oak In the immortal words of George Costans, just
remember it's not a lie if you believe it right.
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Manford left out very important details in order to hide
that true. So again, this as I've been told from
people who claim to know more than me about this situation.
Oakland was going to give that Howard Terminal property, make
it available for John Fisher.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
And this had moved along. I don't know if it
was eighty percent done. I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
But the thing was, Oakland would not just hand over
to the billionaire owner the extra land. See John Fisher,
the owner of the A's. He wanted the extra land
because he wanted to develop.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
His own fund zone.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
We go down to the A's ballpark and we'll sell
you some overpriced food at our restaurants and will price
gouge you at the gift shops and the other stores
and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Have a great time.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
So without that sweetener, that extra group of goodies, there
was no plan. So Manford has essentially helped chaperone the
A's out of Oakland and into Nevada because it helps
the bottom line of corporate baseball A right final point,
So I'm gonna go to Philadelphia. Bryce Harper, the Philly Star,
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who's a native son to Las Vegas, he came out
throwing and kicking at the idea of the Athletics would
leave Oakland. He's upset, he does, and I think that
Oakland should lose that team. And Harper said he feels
bad for the A's fans who bleed green and all
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that stuff. He don't agree with it.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
And he even.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Quoted the dopey rooted in Oakland marketing plan, which looks
cringeworthy in retrospect. And the part that resonated with me. Though,
Bryce Harper recommended that the athletic name dies when the
A's leave Oakland. He said, quote, I don't think they
should use the A's name. I really don't, he said,
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I don't think it's fair to anybody in Oakland for
that to happen. I really don't. I think they should
rebrand it. He said, that's my personal opinion.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Close quote.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
So Bryce Harper says the a should rebrand in Vegas?
Is that fair or foul? That is a fare ball
line drive right over the pitcher's mound and second base
right into center field. I have felt this way foreveryon.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I don't want to have to.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Tell Bryce Arper that the A's have actually been in
Kansas City and Philadelphia before.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
We'll just leave that one alone.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
But when we eventually take over, it'll be a hostile takeover,
and we are the caretakers of sport. If teams relocate
from that point forward, here's what's gonna happen. They're going
to have to leave the team nickname, the records, the trophies,
the memorabilia in the town they are abandoning. You want
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a fresh start, Okay, I'll let you move to another city,
but you're gonna vacate everything. And when you get divorced.
I've had buddies of mine, I went to high school
with them. What some of these guys are divorced right
when you get divorced. Let me ask question, do you
keep all of your partner's clothes and their pictures and
their knickknacks. No, you have to declutter, right, You gotta
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get rid of that stuff. You gotta start fresh. And
that's what that's what the A should do. And all
these teams that move to New City, it's gotta modernize.
And I don't think you should be able to count
the records. It bothers me when I in the NBA.
For example, the Supersonic records belong to Oklahoma.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
City bull crap. The Montreal expos records belong to the
Washington Nationals.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
My fat ass right clear away everything right, Franchise relocation
is a divorce. You are telling the people you are leaving,
we hate your guts. We want someone younger and better looking.
And it ain't you, Fats All.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
That's what you're saying right now.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Keep in mind all of my favorite teams, if I
was in charge, you would have new names. The Rams
have been in multiple cities, the Clippers multiple cities, The
Dodgers were in Brooklyn, and they'd all they've all come
from other places. I think the only team I kind
of like, the Kings, have been they were La from La,
but everyone else has.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Been from somewhere else. But I'm gonna tell you they
should do it bagas they will not rebrand. I will
bet you they won't rebrand.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I've talked to people in sports about this, and they've
told me it's too expensive because all the good names
are either taboo, like for example, Vegas. They don't like
to put gambling monikers on sports teams, so that there'd
be some great gambling names, but they don't want to
do that. And a lot of the trademarks are owned
by people, and these these billionaires are too cheap to
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actually cut a check to get a good nickname, to
get the rights to a good nickname, because they're copyrighted
by people that are hoarding the good names.
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on Thursday, and I did not have an intention of
talking about it, but it comes. It didn't cross my radar,
and there's some things that happened I thought were interesting.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
So it was a celebratory kind of day.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
And I know for a fact based on email and
people that call the show and send messages on social
media that the Malord militia was well represented in the
Mile High City. We had a number of people that
are up all night with us, that stayed up all day.
Some of them took the night off, but they we
went and were hanging out at the parade. So if
you didn't see this, there were thousands, thousands of fans
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that gathered at the parade, just like your standard parade,
there to celebrate the Nuggets ending the forty seven years
without a championship, and they had speeches, declarations, celebrations, a
whole lot of booze was everywhere.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
So let's discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Having seen the video online. I did not watch it
live because I was sleeping when it was going on,
but I did watch the key parts of it online.
So the question is great, the Nuggets parades, celebration.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
So I'm gonna give it a B plus. I'm not going, eh,
not going. I'm gonna give it a B plus.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I've got Bart Simpson, Doctor Pimple Popper, and Skip Bayless
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice shiny trophy, which
is what the Nuggets now have after they won those
sixteen playoff games. So hey, let's start with the crowd.
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We had a discussion about the crowd in a previous
episode of the show. They were there, loud and proud,
the alcohol was in the air everywhere, Happy days or
here again? Did you see the crowd estimate? Do you
see how many people were there? Well, the city of
Denver estimated key part of this estimation. They estimated that
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seven hundred and fifty thousand men, women.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
And children showed up to celebrate.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Now that surpasses the Colorado Avalanche, the local hockey team
there that won not that long ago. There they had
five hundred thousand they claim at that break. It is
less than they say the Broncos had. The Broncos had
a million people. So I'm skeptical of these guestimations. I
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think it's kind of like looking at the clouds and saying, look,
that cloud looks like a fire breathing dragon.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I'm pretty sure it is.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
The Metro Denver area if you include all of the
suburbs around Denver and all the other little communities around,
the greater Denver area has two point nine million people.
So if seven hundred and fifty thousand people showed up,
and we'll assume all of those people lived in Metro
Denver that area, because most people aren't going to be
traveling from that far away, and how how many wild
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nugget fans are there when you get further and further
away from den So that's my assumption. I did some
back of the napkin math. So if you have two
point nine million people in the Greater Denver area and
seven hundred and fifty thousand of them showed up to
the parade. That means that almost twenty six percent of
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the population showed up to partay with the joker.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Eh. I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, I mean there were a lot of people there,
but they just pulled these numbers out of their tuks,
is what they do.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Now.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Meanwhile, coach Michael Malone.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Coach Michael Malone, now he was a man on a mission,
completely knockered.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
It was happy hour for Michael Malone. And among his clothes.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
We're not satisfied, We're not done yet, he said, We're
greedy bastards. He also said, I got a crazy idea.
I'm a little emotional. He said, let's do this blank again.
I'll use the word crap he said, said the other word.
But he was bouncing around. He had a ball cap on,
he had sunglasses, had a T shirt at.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
A chain around his neck.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
You know what he looked like in the cartoon bubble
above my head. And if you've seen a photo of
Michael Malone, I want you to let me know if
you back me up on this, because in the cartoon
bubble in my head, I imagine if Bart Simpson was
a fifty two year old man that coached an NBA team,
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that that's what he would look like, like maybe the
hat would be backwards.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
The hat wasn't backwards.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
But other than that, like Michael Malone, I'm thinking that's
Bart Simpson right there.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
That's how Bart would act at a parade.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
All right.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
You also had Jeff Green issue a tribute to the SuperSonics.
He's one of two two players left who played in
Seattle for the hometown team there in Seattle before they
were rudely kicked out of the Pacific Northwest and headed
to the dust Bowl in Oklahoma. How about Aaron Gordon,
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who was gronk like, and we actually have a soundbat
we're gonna play here. So there's this reporter for the
local TV there in Denver, Nick Rothschild is his name,
and he asked a very standard cookie cutter question, trying
to get an emotional response. So Aaron Gordon was asked,
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is it hitting you that you're an NBA champion yet
you still?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Or do you need time right? Or do you need
time all right?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
So that was something like that, But and here's the response.
Let's go to the audio tape. Listen to how Aaron
Gordon handled that question.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Hitting you that you're an NBA champion yet or you
still need time hitting me as those modellas.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
It was Medello madness, isn't Gordon the guy that walked
around downtown Denver in his basketball shorts with the fans.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
That was kind of cool. That was neat.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
You had KCP, not to be confused with KFC. Contavious
Colbo Pope, the Nuggets guard. He did the old Stone
cold beer smash chugging some Bruskies couple at the same time.
Why not right now page two here, So one of
the viral moments at this parade happened when a guy
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named Vic Lombardi. He's a gas bag and longtime talking head,
does TV and radio in Denver. He's been a media
personality there for some time, and he was at the podium.
He was introducing the Nuggets head coach, Michael Malone to
the crowd and rather than just give a standard declaration,
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here's the head coach or the Denver Nuggets, Michael Malone.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
No, you're at a at a rally.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
You gotta you gotta put a erasma taz on it
at a rally, So listen here Let's go to the
audio tape. Listen to how Lombardi introduced the Denver coach.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
He came into this world and the.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Son of a coach by the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Gina came the Lakers day. No me, uh, can we
play that again? I'd like to you know, this sounds
like to me.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Have you ever watched the Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest
on Coney Island, which is coming up next month? I
gotta get joy Joey Chest on my podcast again. But
it's coming up next month in New York and the
Carnival Barker guy that does the introductions. That's That's what
this sounds like. But okay, this is this introducing the
coach of the Nuggets. Listen, he came into this world
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and the son of a coach by the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Gina came the Lakers day.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yes, he ate seven hundred and twenty eight chicken wings,
seventy two fully loaded piping hot tacos and had no
reversal of fortune.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Here he is.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
So did Denver's parade celebration cross the line by poking
fun at the Lakers? Now now shake now, shake my now,
I got no skin in the game as an outsider.
I loved it, give me more. I thought it was hilarious.
That's what these events are for. It's like going to
a political rally. You're trying to energize the party's base
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at those things, and this was.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
It was chicken soup for the souls. What it was.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
It was doctor pimple Popper popping up on stage and
performing a puss filled inflamed cyst. Extra moving the cyst,
just taking it off the face like that, right, but
move the cyst, get the medical equipment and all that,
and then you pop the cyst and you remove the
cyst and there's a bunch of purple and gold pus
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oozing out of that stops.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah, making it rain all right.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Meanwhile, I want to get away from the the Nuggets
prayed for a second because I want to go back
to a good punching bag for the show, an old
punching back for the show. It was good in Minnesota,
Carl Anthony towns now. He said the same day that
the Nuggets won the championship. This was released on some
fledgling podcasts. Karl Anthony town said he believes the Minnesota
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Timberwols run from last year. I guess two years ago
now because the Nuggets have just won. But he says
Minnesota's twenty twenty two run in the Playing Tournament with
Pat Beverly was more special than the nuggets twenty twenty
three championship.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Yeah, he said that in a recent podcast now his Lodge.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
He said, since the Wolves were thrown together and didn't
have a lot of time to practice and it was
a new team, that's more impressive than Denver who's been
together for several years and they know each other and
all that.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
So I wanted to talk about this.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
So Carl Anthony Towns his quote again, saying the Wolves
run of twenty twenty two, which wasn't really much of
a run, it was more like a couple of steps
than you dropped dead, was more special than the Nuggets
title run. Help me understand that, Well, I'm gonna help
you understand that. So this one is simple. Okay, I'm
gonna put all of these recent quotes from Karl Anthony
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Towns into the same basket. I have now determined the
Minnesota Timberwolve star has got that big contract. This is
all part of a sinister plan. It's his sizzle reel
and Kat is going to email a copy of this
to Skip Bayless. This is his demo tape to snatch
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up the chair that Shannon Sharp used to sit in
on Undisputed. Because Carl Anthony Towns, this guy is an
artisan at the bad take. He's a bad take artisan
is what he is, and such such a bad take
guy that he should be doing television.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
He should.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
For example, his stance we talked about this is stance
on his NBA legacy. He also said that if you
let me play or call the plays. He said, I
can get forty points any time. Well, you have you
shoot fifty shots, you'll probably get forty points.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
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He is the man's a samurai of the hot take. Wild.
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Speaker 2 (29:25):
To the third degree, this is one big vent gets
grilled the coup dalo.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
Former NFL bus turned analyst Ryan Leaf said that the
Steelers could take the AFC North by signing Leonard Fournette
and that the one two punch of Naj Harris and
Fournette would take the pressure off Kenny Pickett. Ben would
Fournette make that much of an impact on the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Well, first of all, I love Ryan Leaf. I was
in San Diego and he played for the Chargers and
they were so bad. I had sideline passes when he
was the quarterback. It was just horrible.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
But Ryan Leaf should knock it off.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Leonard Fournett, last I checked, is not Derek Henry, Barry
Sanders or something like that. He's been spotty. He'll have
a good year, bad year, good game, bad game. He's
been very inconsistent, and there's no question. You look at
that division, Joe Burrow and the Bengals are head and
shoulders above everyone else going into the year. The Browns
are a solid bet for last place. The Ravens and
(30:22):
Steelers are like neck and neck, but Leonard Fournett is
not going to be the difference.
Speaker 7 (30:26):
Next, there were reports now that's an unnamed NFL player
lost eight million dollars from gambling last year. Been with
all this negative publicity piling up from gambling and players
gambling and getting suspended, what do you think the chances
are of sports league's reversing course from getting into bed
with these gambling companies.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Zero.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
These guys are collateral damage. The NFL is making money
hand over fist from the gambling houses. They're not getting
rid of that.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
Next, Bears defensive lineman Justin Jones took some shots at
Green Bays fans earlier this week, calling them crappy, but
he didn't say crappy and saying that half of them
don't even know football. Ben, which fan base do you
find to be the least knowledgeable.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
The Arizona Cardinals. And it's not even close. That's a
in put it on the board. He like you, I
won the game, he told me my headphones.
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That's Ben Maler's show at gmail dot com. And let's
get to the jokes right now. Do we have a
fake weed man? Weed Man's phone is still broken, so
I don't know. No fake weed man.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Okay, here we go. What is Lizzo's favorite type of marijuana.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
I don't know what is Lizzo's favorite type of marijuana?
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Anything edible? Anything edible. That's from Serfer Todd, the comedian,
My Bad Man.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
We do have a We have a fake weed man.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Okay, hello, fake Okay, we'll make you have Why doesn't Lizzo.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
Not not not Eddie?
Speaker 3 (32:42):
That was Eddie, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Yeah, we have a fake weed man.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
All right, hurry up, fake Lizzo please or fake out
fake weed man, not fake.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
You?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Okay, all right, thank you. What Why doesn't Lizzo have
a boyfriend?
Speaker 8 (32:57):
I don't know why not?
Speaker 3 (32:58):
She doesn't want to share her Eddie? Come on, that's that's.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
That's Brendan from Boston who sent that one in. When
Lizzo needs a ride, why doesn't? Why does she only
use Uber?
Speaker 8 (33:14):
I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Well, ironically, lift can't even pick her up Eddie, so
they I can't can't. That's Solfa cod the comedian.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Why does the smoke from Canadian wildfires make Lizzo hungry?
Speaker 8 (33:28):
I don't know why. It sounds like barbecue or something.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
No, it smells like poutine, actually is what it smells like?
Speaker 8 (33:34):
Eddie?
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Come on?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
That's from Eke in Roseville.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
I don't get it. Then I know, I don't know
what happened to the lack of track. What is Lizzo's
zodiac sign?
Speaker 8 (33:44):
I don't know what is it?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Well, she is a capra cornbread is what the that's
her zodiac sign. That's what Kurt from Earth we sent
that with IOA. Sam's not playing along. We might have
to get rid of the lane jokes. Why is Lizzo
the only one on the Nuggets bandwagon? I don't know why,
because the wagons are at maximum capacity. That would be
why you like that fake weed? Man?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Yes, what causes title waves?
Speaker 8 (34:14):
Lizzo jumping into the ocean.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
No, no, Lizo doing a cannonball, that's what causes title waves.
It's from Noah in Austin.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
Did you hear that.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Lizzo is close to calling it quits on her music career?
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Big news here?
Speaker 8 (34:28):
God, No, I didn't hear that.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Yeah, she should also call it quits after going back
the seventh time at the buffetti.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
That's from Noah. Noah from Austin.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
When doctors told Lizzo she needed to get in shape,
she had a response ready ating and what does she say,
she said, you know that round is a shape. That's
a that's a shape right there. All right, that's a
thank you, Yes, it is a big Ben's lame jokes
of the week. What's the difference between Lizzo and Superbirds
Retired w NBA Jersey.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Well, super Birds retired w NBA Jersey doesn't have any
stretch marks that he Oh my god, that's what Gordon
to call.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Very funny. Fake we man.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Did you know that we met Hibbie once volunteered to
join a search for a missing person, but was told
to leave instead. Yeah, the authority said that his presence
kept throwing off the cadaver dogs.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
They didn't know what was going on.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
That was from hill building by He'll.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Like, Coop, you got any jokes over there, Coop? Sure,
all right.
Speaker 7 (35:39):
So my my neighbor has been mad at his wife
for sunbathing nude.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
Personally, I'm on the fence.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
A bear was seen in swimming.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
There was seen.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
There was seen swimming by the beef of the Florida
Panhandle last sweek, Eddie.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Yeah, near South Beach.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
You could see you can also see weed man hippie
swimming in Debt so a little south there.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
You see, that's a Georgian. All right.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
What does a beer bottle and weed man's underwear have
in common?
Speaker 8 (36:16):
I don't know what is the common.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
They both can be used as a weapon. They both
can be used as a weapon. Here Roberto is Roberto
is chauffeuring the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Owner around town.
Speaker 8 (36:30):
I did not hear that.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Yeah, he's a bus driver.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Ed, all right?
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Why does Roberto respect your Marcus Russell's NFL career.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Because he was a bust eddie?
Speaker 8 (36:46):
Here's a button?
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Don't know that?
Speaker 3 (36:51):
There is Big Ben's lame jokes of the week. Thanks
fake weed Man.
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Speaker 1 (37:02):
Let's get over to the kopolo part right for Holley,
What what are you gonna be watching this week?
Speaker 3 (37:06):
I did watch the Hot Cheetos movie Coop last Yeah,
how was that? That was pretty good? Actually?
Speaker 5 (37:12):
All right? All right, well I have something else for you, Ben.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Oh good.
Speaker 7 (37:17):
Uh. This actually came out a little over a week ago,
but I did not. I overlooked it during last week's
Coop Scoop and Entertainment. But I did watch it myself.
It is a documentary series on Netflix called Arnold and
it is about Arnold Schwarzenegger. Oh yes, it is a
three part documentary and yes, yes, the Govenator. It was
(37:45):
actually really good. I really liked the documentary was very interesting.
You know, talks about his entire life.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
He even talking about all the steroids he was doing
on Venice Beach back in the.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
Year he does.
Speaker 7 (37:56):
She does talk about the steroids. He talks about his
love child with his housekeeper.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Yeah, that's really a good housekeeper when she'll have your kid,
that's uh, and.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
Keep him secret for like a decade plus.
Speaker 7 (38:14):
Yes, but no, I mean, you know, he It's one
of the things that I like about Arnold, even when
he was, you know, running for governor, was governor he was,
He's always like, uh, he wasn't a bs R. You know,
he doesn't dance around it. He addresses it head on
and you know, never mind I was mind. I don't
(38:35):
like him anymore.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
How much did they chargers pay him to say that?
Speaker 7 (38:41):
But anyway, if you haven't seen that, check that out
on Netflix. It's a it's called Arnold's It's good stuff.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Okay, I'll check it out.
Speaker 7 (38:48):
Now this weekend, we have a lot of good movies
coming out this weekend, a lot of interesting movies. First,
we have the latest Disney Pixar movie called Elemental and
you know, this is about a bunch of different elements,
like you know, fire water, living in element City and
they have to you know, do.
Speaker 5 (39:07):
Some stuff and comedy ensues.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
Then we have The Flash coming out this weekend.
Speaker 8 (39:15):
I'm gonna go see it.
Speaker 7 (39:16):
Yes, I'm gonna check that out as well. You know,
I'm somebody that and I've said this before. I'm getting
a little, like, I don't know, tired of all the
superhero movies. But this one, this one's caught my attention.
We've got we've got Michael Keaton coming back as Batman.
Uh So that's a pretty exciting and it's got some
uh it was. It was a good, good trailer. I'm
(39:37):
excited for this. And uh, Ezra Miller who plays the Flash,
he's a disturbed person. And yet they're still going forward it,
so it should be interesting. You didn't get canceled, no,
I mean kind of like about two months.
Speaker 8 (39:50):
Yeah, they canceled them, but they're still gonna put the
movie out.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (39:53):
Too much money, money, invested.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
He's in rehab letting people back now from being canceled.
Speaker 7 (39:58):
No, just if you have a movie that costs a
lot of exactly exactly, And then we also have now
this is a limited release this weekend in theaters everywhere
next weekend. But I want to mention it's called Asteroid City.
It is the latest movie from Wes Anderson, who is
my favorite director, and this one looks like it could
(40:20):
be one of his best. So I'm very excited about that.
And my music is gone. There we go, there we go.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
What's wrong with you? Mark?
Speaker 5 (40:31):
What are we doing? Mark stops screwing up?
Speaker 7 (40:33):
And then moving over to television. This is available right
now on Netflix. It is the sixth season of Black Mirror,
coming back after a long hiatus, and this season is
a little bit more on the horror side than the
previous seasons, which were very sci fi. But there's still,
(40:54):
you know, still some sci fi elements in this one
as well, so it's getting good reviews. I'm excited about that.
You got I believe Paul Is in an episode this season,
and then last but not least, a Jesse Pinkman, Sam Crappy.
Speaker 5 (41:12):
We were gonna try to have him say he definitely
didn't know who it was.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
They can't keep getting away with this.
Speaker 7 (41:19):
And then, uh, last, last, but not least, we have
the Return of the Righteous Gemstones on HBO, a great
comedy about televangelists, and that that one's got John Goodman
who is fantastic in the show, and the other Danny
(41:40):
mcbrid Pride, Thank you, I was blanking on his name.
Speaker 5 (41:43):
Good stuff on HBO. And that is that is this
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And we have baldered Ash the Coop Scoop on Entertainment
in our number four, and some other surprises along the way.
But we begin the festivities here with the story that
I've been dying to talk about. Here comes from Major
League Baseball. It's right in my wheelhouse. So it's all
but done.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
The A's are being handed three hundred and eighty million
dollars of the taxpayer's money from Nevada in a great
bank heist by corporate Baseball. The politicians have greenlighted the
corporate welfare donation.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
So congratulations.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Now, if you're a taxpayer Nevada, we'd like you to
bend over, because yes.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I think we know it's you're about to get spanked.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
The Commissioner, Rob Manford, or man Fraud, as we lovingly
call him, Rob Manford, spoke with reporters, and this is
in New York at the regular owners meetings. They have
quarterly owners meetings even during the season. In most of
this news conference was dedicated to questions about the athletics
(03:06):
who are about to evacuate and move out of Oakland
and head to Las Vegas. Now, I wanted to play
a couple of sound bites in particular here to give
you a little taste, little flavor of what we're talking about.
So Rob Manford, he will start with us. He blamed
the city leaders in Oakland. He said, it's really their
(03:27):
fault that DA's are saying screw you and giving the
bird to the fans in Oakland.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Take a list.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I think that the real question is what is it
that Oakland was prepared to do that There is no
Oakland offer, okay, I mean, they never got to the
point where they had a plan to build a stadium
at any site. And it's not just John Fisher. You
don't build a stadium based on the club activity along.
(03:59):
The community has to provide support, and you know, at
some point you come to the realization it's just not
gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Much more on that in a second, but there's more here.
He was asked about the A's reverse boycott. We talked
about this, We had our boots on the ground, We
had several listeners that are fans of the show in
the Bay Area that we're at that game. It was
an emotional night for so many people. We had Mason
the Millennial call up. He was in tears as an
(04:27):
A's fan bummed out and it was an amazing scene
to see all those people there, the chanting, the whole thing,
the reverse boycott. So Rob Manford decided, you know what,
I'm the commissioner of Baseball. I'm the guardian of the game.
So what i am going to do is I am
going to take a cheap shot at the Oakland fan.
(04:47):
That's what I'm going to do, just to prove I'm
not making it up.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Here. Listen closely to the tone.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Of Rob Manford when he was asked about the A's
reverse boycott, the fan boycott in Oakland.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
The other take, as you know, I mean, it was great,
It's great to see what is this year? You know,
almost an average major League Baseball crowd in the facility
for one night. That's a great thing.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, almost an average Major League baseball crowd in a
facility for one night to see the worst team buy design.
By the way, by design, that's the money quote. So
we'll start with that. Let's discuss the question when you
first heard, maybe it's right now, when you first heard
Rob Manford taking a shot, a sarcastic, cheap shot at
(05:34):
the Oakland fan reverse boycott here?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So I've got triumph, costanza, and deep clutter, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a nice weekend getaway, which is it's
a staycation, but it's a weekend getaway, which is right
around the corner.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Right around the corner. So number wha.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Rob Manford is not only the Commissioner of baseball, he
is also moonlighting as Bozo the Clown.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
It is fascinating to me.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
We talk about this guy a lot because he says
dumb things, and we like people that do dumb things
and say dumb things. This weasel, he's like the head weasel.
He never disappoints. Manford is so out of touch with
reality it's fascinating to me. I shouldn't be surprised because
it seems like most of these commissioners are a little cuckoo.
But he sits on this throne and his job is
(06:34):
to massage the eagle of the owners. He gets paid
very handsomely for that. In fact, he gets I think
eleven million dollars a year to be a toty, a
cabana boy for the billionaire owners of baseball, and he
lives in a nice house in the New York bubble.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
But when it.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Comes to the fan, here's my analysis from many monologues
regarding Rob Manford. Rob Manford is a doppelganger to Triumph,
the insult comic dog if you remember that character from
back in.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
The day, A foul mouth puppet. Manford he mocks.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
He mocks the very people that baseball needs more than
anyone else.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
The hardcore fan, right hardcore fan.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
He's a savage and Manford has a long track record
of this kind of activity. It's not his first rodeo.
Some of my favorite Rob Manford hits if you look
at the charts over the years, calling the World Series
a hunk of metal, that's great running interference for the
twenty seventeen cheating ah Stros.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
He's still doing that.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
How about the one last year I believe it was
when he was smiling and practicing his golf swing while
announcing the cancelation of games because of a work stoppage
in the sport he's the commissioner of. And now we
can add Rob Manford poo pooing and sarcastically sneering and
(08:13):
belittling the Oakland fan as they're taking the team away,
giving the atomic elbow right to the solar plexus. Right,
stay classy, major League Baseball, and I get the commission
The commissioner will be there forever because baseball makes money
despite all the doom and gloom, and so that's really
all the aristocrats care about. Now page two here we
(08:35):
already played the sound bite. When I go back to
the first sound bite we played, hopefully were listening, and
in that sound bite, Rob Manford he really diminished and
attacked the Oakland politicians and pointed the finger the blame
game at those politicians for helping create this situation, for
(08:57):
not forking over the ballpark in Oakland. He said, I again,
the quote was, I think the real question is what
is it Oakland was prepared to do. He kind of snickered, Well,
he said that, and he said, there's no Oakland offer. Okay,
they never got to a point where they had a
plan to build a stadium at any site. Well, the
(09:17):
Mayor of Oakland, and I don't live in Oakland, but
the Mayor of Oakland said that quote that was just
totally false, was the quote. So someone is lying here,
and the kangaroo court that is Overnight Sports Radio will
help decide with you and I we will help decide.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
So you medical? You meddical?
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
The Oakland Mayor's office disputing Rob Manford's comments on the
A's stadium that there was no plan. They say that
he's lying. That totally false is a way of saying
you're lying. Rob Manford's like, well, no, there was no plan.
So whose side are you on now? Before I give
you my answer? This is a lose lose situation. We
(10:01):
loathe politicians and Rob Manford. So this is like two
bad guys, two heels in wrestling.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Going at it. You know, you don't want anyone to win.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
But the arrow on this one is pointing at corporate
Major League Baseball. What Rob Manford did is known as
a lie by omission.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
All right, From what I understand, Oakland was prepared.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Even with all the crazy, fed up politics in California.
They were prepared to give the A's a ballpark at
the Howard Terminal area.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
If you're in the Bear you know what that is.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
If you're not, it's a waterfront property in Oakland there
that's got factory stuff there and warehouses things like that,
and they were going to build a stadium there. So
why did the commissioners say that they had no plane
in oak In the immortal words of George Costans, just
remember it's not a lie if you believe it right.
(10:57):
Manford left out very important details in order to hide
that true. So again, this as I've been told from
people who claim to know more than me about this situation.
Oakland was going to give that Howard Terminal property, make
it available for John Fisher.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
And this had moved along. I don't know if it
was eighty percent done. I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
But the thing was, Oakland would not just hand over
to the billionaire owner the extra land. See John Fisher,
the owner of the A's. He wanted the extra land
because he wanted to develop.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
His own fund zone.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
We go down to the A's ballpark and we'll sell
you some overpriced food at our restaurants and will price
gouge you at the gift shops and the other stores
and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Have a great time.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
So without that sweetener, that extra group of goodies, there
was no plan. So Manford has essentially helped chaperone the
A's out of Oakland and into Nevada because it helps
the bottom line of corporate baseball A right final point,
So I'm gonna go to Philadelphia. Bryce Harper, the Philly Star,
(12:05):
who's a native son to Las Vegas, he came out
throwing and kicking at the idea of the Athletics would
leave Oakland. He's upset, he does, and I think that
Oakland should lose that team. And Harper said he feels
bad for the A's fans who bleed green and all
(12:26):
that stuff. He don't agree with it.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
And he even.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Quoted the dopey rooted in Oakland marketing plan, which looks
cringeworthy in retrospect. And the part that resonated with me. Though,
Bryce Harper recommended that the athletic name dies when the
A's leave Oakland. He said, quote, I don't think they
should use the A's name. I really don't, he said,
(12:50):
I don't think it's fair to anybody in Oakland for
that to happen. I really don't. I think they should
rebrand it. He said, that's my personal opinion.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Close quote.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
So Bryce Harper says the a should rebrand in Vegas?
Is that fair or foul? That is a fare ball
line drive right over the pitcher's mound and second base
right into center field. I have felt this way foreveryon.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I don't want to have to.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Tell Bryce Arper that the A's have actually been in
Kansas City and Philadelphia before.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
We'll just leave that one alone.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
But when we eventually take over, it'll be a hostile takeover,
and we are the caretakers of sport. If teams relocate
from that point forward, here's what's gonna happen. They're going
to have to leave the team nickname, the records, the trophies,
the memorabilia in the town they are abandoning. You want
(13:45):
a fresh start, Okay, I'll let you move to another city,
but you're gonna vacate everything. And when you get divorced.
I've had buddies of mine, I went to high school
with them. What some of these guys are divorced right
when you get divorced. Let me ask question, do you
keep all of your partner's clothes and their pictures and
their knickknacks. No, you have to declutter, right, You gotta
(14:07):
get rid of that stuff. You gotta start fresh. And
that's what that's what the A should do. And all
these teams that move to New City, it's gotta modernize.
And I don't think you should be able to count
the records. It bothers me when I in the NBA.
For example, the Supersonic records belong to Oklahoma.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
City bull crap. The Montreal expos records belong to the
Washington Nationals.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
My fat ass right clear away everything right, Franchise relocation
is a divorce. You are telling the people you are leaving,
we hate your guts. We want someone younger and better looking.
And it ain't you, Fats All.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
That's what you're saying right now.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Keep in mind all of my favorite teams, if I
was in charge, you would have new names. The Rams
have been in multiple cities, the Clippers multiple cities, The
Dodgers were in Brooklyn, and they'd all they've all come
from other places. I think the only team I kind
of like, the Kings, have been they were La from La,
but everyone else has.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Been from somewhere else. But I'm gonna tell you they
should do it bagas they will not rebrand. I will
bet you they won't rebrand.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I've talked to people in sports about this, and they've
told me it's too expensive because all the good names
are either taboo, like for example, Vegas. They don't like
to put gambling monikers on sports teams, so that there'd
be some great gambling names, but they don't want to
do that. And a lot of the trademarks are owned
by people, and these these billionaires are too cheap to
(15:35):
actually cut a check to get a good nickname, to
get the rights to a good nickname, because they're copyrighted
by people that are hoarding the good names.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
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Speaker 3 (16:00):
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(16:53):
on Thursday, and I did not have an intention of
talking about it, but it comes. It didn't cross my radar,
and there's some things that happened I thought were interesting.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
So it was a celebratory kind of day.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
And I know for a fact based on email and
people that call the show and send messages on social
media that the Malord militia was well represented in the
Mile High City. We had a number of people that
are up all night with us, that stayed up all day.
Some of them took the night off, but they we
went and were hanging out at the parade. So if
you didn't see this, there were thousands, thousands of fans
(17:28):
that gathered at the parade, just like your standard parade,
there to celebrate the Nuggets ending the forty seven years
without a championship, and they had speeches, declarations, celebrations, a
whole lot of booze was everywhere.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
So let's discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Having seen the video online. I did not watch it
live because I was sleeping when it was going on,
but I did watch the key parts of it online.
So the question is great, the Nuggets parades, celebration.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
So I'm gonna give it a B plus. I'm not going, eh,
not going. I'm gonna give it a B plus.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I've got Bart Simpson, Doctor Pimple Popper, and Skip Bayless
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice shiny trophy, which
is what the Nuggets now have after they won those
sixteen playoff games. So hey, let's start with the crowd.
(18:33):
We had a discussion about the crowd in a previous
episode of the show. They were there, loud and proud,
the alcohol was in the air everywhere, Happy days or
here again? Did you see the crowd estimate? Do you
see how many people were there? Well, the city of
Denver estimated key part of this estimation. They estimated that
(19:01):
seven hundred and fifty thousand men, women.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
And children showed up to celebrate.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Now that surpasses the Colorado Avalanche, the local hockey team
there that won not that long ago. There they had
five hundred thousand they claim at that break. It is
less than they say the Broncos had. The Broncos had
a million people. So I'm skeptical of these guestimations. I
(19:31):
think it's kind of like looking at the clouds and saying, look,
that cloud looks like a fire breathing dragon.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I'm pretty sure it is.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
The Metro Denver area if you include all of the
suburbs around Denver and all the other little communities around,
the greater Denver area has two point nine million people.
So if seven hundred and fifty thousand people showed up,
and we'll assume all of those people lived in Metro
Denver that area, because most people aren't going to be
traveling from that far away, and how how many wild
(20:01):
nugget fans are there when you get further and further
away from den So that's my assumption. I did some
back of the napkin math. So if you have two
point nine million people in the Greater Denver area and
seven hundred and fifty thousand of them showed up to
the parade. That means that almost twenty six percent of
(20:23):
the population showed up to partay with the joker.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Eh. I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, I mean there were a lot of people there,
but they just pulled these numbers out of their tuks,
is what they do.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Now.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Meanwhile, coach Michael Malone.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Coach Michael Malone, now he was a man on a mission,
completely knockered.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
It was happy hour for Michael Malone. And among his clothes.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
We're not satisfied, We're not done yet, he said, We're
greedy bastards. He also said, I got a crazy idea.
I'm a little emotional. He said, let's do this blank again.
I'll use the word crap he said, said the other word.
But he was bouncing around. He had a ball cap on,
he had sunglasses, had a T shirt at.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
A chain around his neck.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
You know what he looked like in the cartoon bubble
above my head. And if you've seen a photo of
Michael Malone, I want you to let me know if
you back me up on this, because in the cartoon
bubble in my head, I imagine if Bart Simpson was
a fifty two year old man that coached an NBA team,
(21:42):
that that's what he would look like, like maybe the
hat would be backwards.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
The hat wasn't backwards.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
But other than that, like Michael Malone, I'm thinking that's
Bart Simpson right there.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
That's how Bart would act at a parade.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
All right.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
You also had Jeff Green issue a tribute to the SuperSonics.
He's one of two two players left who played in
Seattle for the hometown team there in Seattle before they
were rudely kicked out of the Pacific Northwest and headed
to the dust Bowl in Oklahoma. How about Aaron Gordon,
(22:17):
who was gronk like, and we actually have a soundbat
we're gonna play here. So there's this reporter for the
local TV there in Denver, Nick Rothschild is his name,
and he asked a very standard cookie cutter question, trying
to get an emotional response. So Aaron Gordon was asked,
(22:37):
is it hitting you that you're an NBA champion yet
you still?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Or do you need time right? Or do you need
time all right?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
So that was something like that, But and here's the response.
Let's go to the audio tape. Listen to how Aaron
Gordon handled that question.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Hitting you that you're an NBA champion yet or you
still need time hitting me as those modellas.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
It was Medello madness, isn't Gordon the guy that walked
around downtown Denver in his basketball shorts with the fans.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
That was kind of cool. That was neat.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
You had KCP, not to be confused with KFC. Contavious
Colbo Pope, the Nuggets guard. He did the old Stone
cold beer smash chugging some Bruskies couple at the same time.
Why not right now page two here, So one of
the viral moments at this parade happened when a guy
(23:36):
named Vic Lombardi. He's a gas bag and longtime talking head,
does TV and radio in Denver. He's been a media
personality there for some time, and he was at the podium.
He was introducing the Nuggets head coach, Michael Malone to
the crowd and rather than just give a standard declaration,
(23:56):
here's the head coach or the Denver Nuggets, Michael Malone.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
No, you're at a at a rally.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
You gotta you gotta put a erasma taz on it
at a rally, So listen here Let's go to the
audio tape. Listen to how Lombardi introduced the Denver coach.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
He came into this world and the.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Son of a coach by the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Gina came the Lakers day. No me, uh, can we
play that again? I'd like to you know, this sounds
like to me.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Have you ever watched the Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest
on Coney Island, which is coming up next month? I
gotta get joy Joey Chest on my podcast again. But
it's coming up next month in New York and the
Carnival Barker guy that does the introductions. That's That's what
this sounds like. But okay, this is this introducing the
coach of the Nuggets. Listen, he came into this world
(24:52):
and the son of a coach by the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Gina came the Lakers day.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yes, he ate seven hundred and twenty eight chicken wings,
seventy two fully loaded piping hot tacos and had no
reversal of fortune.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Here he is.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
So did Denver's parade celebration cross the line by poking
fun at the Lakers? Now now shake now, shake my now,
I got no skin in the game as an outsider.
I loved it, give me more. I thought it was hilarious.
That's what these events are for. It's like going to
a political rally. You're trying to energize the party's base
(25:39):
at those things, and this was.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
It was chicken soup for the souls. What it was.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
It was doctor pimple Popper popping up on stage and
performing a puss filled inflamed cyst. Extra moving the cyst,
just taking it off the face like that, right, but
move the cyst, get the medical equipment and all that,
and then you pop the cyst and you remove the
cyst and there's a bunch of purple and gold pus
(26:07):
oozing out of that stops.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah, making it rain all right.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Meanwhile, I want to get away from the the Nuggets
prayed for a second because I want to go back
to a good punching bag for the show, an old
punching back for the show. It was good in Minnesota,
Carl Anthony towns now. He said the same day that
the Nuggets won the championship. This was released on some
fledgling podcasts. Karl Anthony town said he believes the Minnesota
(26:35):
Timberwols run from last year. I guess two years ago
now because the Nuggets have just won. But he says
Minnesota's twenty twenty two run in the Playing Tournament with
Pat Beverly was more special than the nuggets twenty twenty
three championship.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Yeah, he said that in a recent podcast now his Lodge.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
He said, since the Wolves were thrown together and didn't
have a lot of time to practice and it was
a new team, that's more impressive than Denver who's been
together for several years and they know each other and
all that.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
So I wanted to talk about this.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
So Carl Anthony Towns his quote again, saying the Wolves
run of twenty twenty two, which wasn't really much of
a run, it was more like a couple of steps
than you dropped dead, was more special than the Nuggets
title run. Help me understand that, Well, I'm gonna help
you understand that. So this one is simple. Okay, I'm
gonna put all of these recent quotes from Karl Anthony
(27:37):
Towns into the same basket. I have now determined the
Minnesota Timberwolve star has got that big contract. This is
all part of a sinister plan. It's his sizzle reel
and Kat is going to email a copy of this
to Skip Bayless. This is his demo tape to snatch
(27:59):
up the chair that Shannon Sharp used to sit in
on Undisputed. Because Carl Anthony Towns, this guy is an
artisan at the bad take. He's a bad take artisan
is what he is, and such such a bad take
guy that he should be doing television.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
He should.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
For example, his stance we talked about this is stance
on his NBA legacy. He also said that if you
let me play or call the plays. He said, I
can get forty points any time. Well, you have you
shoot fifty shots, you'll probably get forty points.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
But Karl Anthony Towns is a samurai of the hot take.
He is the man's a samurai of the hot take. Wild.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
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Sports Illustrated.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
And I'm Joe Madden.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
We're going to be around to talk a little bit
about managerial visions and what may have occurred to the
dugout maybe in the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
It's the book of Joe podcasts. I can't wait for this, Joe.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
We're going to dive into what goes on in the
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Speaker 3 (29:09):
League Baseball, cars, wind, whatever else we want to talk about. Yeah,
well there are no boundaries, right.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
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on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
It's maller.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (29:25):
To the third degree, this is one big vent gets
grilled the coup dalo.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
Former NFL bus turned analyst Ryan Leaf said that the
Steelers could take the AFC North by signing Leonard Fournette
and that the one two punch of Naj Harris and
Fournette would take the pressure off Kenny Pickett. Ben would
Fournette make that much of an impact on the Steelers.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Well, first of all, I love Ryan Leaf. I was
in San Diego and he played for the Chargers and
they were so bad. I had sideline passes when he
was the quarterback. It was just horrible.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
But Ryan Leaf should knock it off.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Leonard Fournett, last I checked, is not Derek Henry, Barry
Sanders or something like that. He's been spotty. He'll have
a good year, bad year, good game, bad game. He's
been very inconsistent, and there's no question. You look at
that division, Joe Burrow and the Bengals are head and
shoulders above everyone else going into the year. The Browns
are a solid bet for last place. The Ravens and
(30:22):
Steelers are like neck and neck, but Leonard Fournett is
not going to be the difference.
Speaker 7 (30:26):
Next, there were reports now that's an unnamed NFL player
lost eight million dollars from gambling last year. Been with
all this negative publicity piling up from gambling and players
gambling and getting suspended, what do you think the chances
are of sports league's reversing course from getting into bed
with these gambling companies.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Zero.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
These guys are collateral damage. The NFL is making money
hand over fist from the gambling houses. They're not getting
rid of that.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
Next, Bears defensive lineman Justin Jones took some shots at
Green Bays fans earlier this week, calling them crappy, but
he didn't say crappy and saying that half of them
don't even know football. Ben, which fan base do you
find to be the least knowledgeable.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
The Arizona Cardinals. And it's not even close. That's a
in put it on the board. He like you, I
won the game, he told me my headphones.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
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It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week.
Speaker 7 (31:38):
Man.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Here we go, lame jokes of the week.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
These are actual jokes sent in by actual listeners. We
do not have professional Hollywood joke writers, but we have
hardworking people just like you, your fellow soldier in arms,
sports talk radio consumer who happens to enjoy writing jokes.
And you can submit jokes if you want for future
episodes of the show.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Send them in now, tonight, tomorrow, whenever.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Send them in care of Ben Maler's show at gmail
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Speaker 3 (32:08):
That's Ben Maler's show at gmail dot com. And let's
get to the jokes right now. Do we have a
fake weed man? Weed Man's phone is still broken, so
I don't know. No fake weed man.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Okay, here we go. What is Lizzo's favorite type of marijuana.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
I don't know what is Lizzo's favorite type of marijuana?
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Anything edible? Anything edible. That's from Serfer Todd, the comedian,
My Bad Man.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
We do have a We have a fake weed man.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Okay, hello, fake Okay, we'll make you have Why doesn't Lizzo.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
Not not not Eddie?
Speaker 3 (32:42):
That was Eddie, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Yeah, we have a fake weed man.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
All right, hurry up, fake Lizzo please or fake out
fake weed man, not fake.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
You?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Okay, all right, thank you. What Why doesn't Lizzo have
a boyfriend?
Speaker 8 (32:57):
I don't know why not?
Speaker 3 (32:58):
She doesn't want to share her Eddie? Come on, that's that's.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
That's Brendan from Boston who sent that one in. When
Lizzo needs a ride, why doesn't? Why does she only
use Uber?
Speaker 8 (33:14):
I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Well, ironically, lift can't even pick her up Eddie, so
they I can't can't. That's Solfa cod the comedian.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Why does the smoke from Canadian wildfires make Lizzo hungry?
Speaker 8 (33:28):
I don't know why. It sounds like barbecue or something.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
No, it smells like poutine, actually is what it smells like?
Speaker 8 (33:34):
Eddie?
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Come on?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
That's from Eke in Roseville.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
I don't get it. Then I know, I don't know
what happened to the lack of track. What is Lizzo's
zodiac sign?
Speaker 8 (33:44):
I don't know what is it?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Well, she is a capra cornbread is what the that's
her zodiac sign. That's what Kurt from Earth we sent
that with IOA. Sam's not playing along. We might have
to get rid of the lane jokes. Why is Lizzo
the only one on the Nuggets bandwagon? I don't know why,
because the wagons are at maximum capacity. That would be
why you like that fake weed? Man?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Yes, what causes title waves?
Speaker 8 (34:14):
Lizzo jumping into the ocean.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
No, no, Lizo doing a cannonball, that's what causes title waves.
It's from Noah in Austin.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
Did you hear that.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Lizzo is close to calling it quits on her music career?
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Big news here?
Speaker 8 (34:28):
God, No, I didn't hear that.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Yeah, she should also call it quits after going back
the seventh time at the buffetti.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
That's from Noah. Noah from Austin.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
When doctors told Lizzo she needed to get in shape,
she had a response ready ating and what does she say,
she said, you know that round is a shape. That's
a that's a shape right there. All right, that's a
thank you, Yes, it is a big Ben's lame jokes
of the week. What's the difference between Lizzo and Superbirds
Retired w NBA Jersey.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Well, super Birds retired w NBA Jersey doesn't have any
stretch marks that he Oh my god, that's what Gordon
to call.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Very funny. Fake we man.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Did you know that we met Hibbie once volunteered to
join a search for a missing person, but was told
to leave instead. Yeah, the authority said that his presence
kept throwing off the cadaver dogs.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
They didn't know what was going on.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
That was from hill building by He'll.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Like, Coop, you got any jokes over there, Coop? Sure,
all right.
Speaker 7 (35:39):
So my my neighbor has been mad at his wife
for sunbathing nude.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
Personally, I'm on the fence.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
A bear was seen in swimming.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
There was seen.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
There was seen swimming by the beef of the Florida
Panhandle last sweek, Eddie.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Yeah, near South Beach.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
You could see you can also see weed man hippie
swimming in Debt so a little south there.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
You see, that's a Georgian. All right.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
What does a beer bottle and weed man's underwear have
in common?
Speaker 8 (36:16):
I don't know what is the common.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
They both can be used as a weapon. They both
can be used as a weapon. Here Roberto is Roberto
is chauffeuring the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Owner around town.
Speaker 8 (36:30):
I did not hear that.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Yeah, he's a bus driver.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Ed, all right?
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Why does Roberto respect your Marcus Russell's NFL career.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Because he was a bust eddie?
Speaker 8 (36:46):
Here's a button?
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Don't know that?
Speaker 3 (36:51):
There is Big Ben's lame jokes of the week. Thanks
fake weed Man.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Let's get over to the kopolo part right for Holley,
What what are you gonna be watching this week?
Speaker 3 (37:06):
I did watch the Hot Cheetos movie Coop last Yeah,
how was that? That was pretty good? Actually?
Speaker 5 (37:12):
All right? All right, well I have something else for you, Ben.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Oh good.
Speaker 7 (37:17):
Uh. This actually came out a little over a week ago,
but I did not. I overlooked it during last week's
Coop Scoop and Entertainment. But I did watch it myself.
It is a documentary series on Netflix called Arnold and
it is about Arnold Schwarzenegger. Oh yes, it is a
three part documentary and yes, yes, the Govenator. It was
(37:45):
actually really good. I really liked the documentary was very interesting.
You know, talks about his entire life.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
He even talking about all the steroids he was doing
on Venice Beach back in the.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
Year he does.
Speaker 7 (37:56):
She does talk about the steroids. He talks about his
love child with his housekeeper.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Yeah, that's really a good housekeeper when she'll have your kid,
that's uh, and.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
Keep him secret for like a decade plus.
Speaker 7 (38:14):
Yes, but no, I mean, you know, he It's one
of the things that I like about Arnold, even when
he was, you know, running for governor, was governor he was,
He's always like, uh, he wasn't a bs R. You know,
he doesn't dance around it. He addresses it head on
and you know, never mind I was mind. I don't
(38:35):
like him anymore.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
How much did they chargers pay him to say that?
Speaker 7 (38:41):
But anyway, if you haven't seen that, check that out
on Netflix. It's a it's called Arnold's It's good stuff.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Okay, I'll check it out.
Speaker 7 (38:48):
Now this weekend, we have a lot of good movies
coming out this weekend, a lot of interesting movies. First,
we have the latest Disney Pixar movie called Elemental and
you know, this is about a bunch of different elements,
like you know, fire water, living in element City and
they have to you know, do.
Speaker 5 (39:07):
Some stuff and comedy ensues.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
Then we have The Flash coming out this weekend.
Speaker 8 (39:15):
I'm gonna go see it.
Speaker 7 (39:16):
Yes, I'm gonna check that out as well. You know,
I'm somebody that and I've said this before. I'm getting
a little, like, I don't know, tired of all the
superhero movies. But this one, this one's caught my attention.
We've got we've got Michael Keaton coming back as Batman.
Uh So that's a pretty exciting and it's got some
uh it was. It was a good, good trailer. I'm
(39:37):
excited for this. And uh, Ezra Miller who plays the Flash,
he's a disturbed person. And yet they're still going forward it,
so it should be interesting. You didn't get canceled, no,
I mean kind of like about two months.
Speaker 8 (39:50):
Yeah, they canceled them, but they're still gonna put the
movie out.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (39:53):
Too much money, money, invested.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
He's in rehab letting people back now from being canceled.
Speaker 7 (39:58):
No, just if you have a movie that costs a
lot of exactly exactly, And then we also have now
this is a limited release this weekend in theaters everywhere
next weekend. But I want to mention it's called Asteroid City.
It is the latest movie from Wes Anderson, who is
my favorite director, and this one looks like it could
(40:20):
be one of his best. So I'm very excited about that.
And my music is gone. There we go, there we go.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
What's wrong with you? Mark?
Speaker 5 (40:31):
What are we doing? Mark stops screwing up?
Speaker 7 (40:33):
And then moving over to television. This is available right
now on Netflix. It is the sixth season of Black Mirror,
coming back after a long hiatus, and this season is
a little bit more on the horror side than the
previous seasons, which were very sci fi. But there's still,
(40:54):
you know, still some sci fi elements in this one
as well, so it's getting good reviews. I'm excited about that.
You got I believe Paul Is in an episode this season,
and then last but not least, a Jesse Pinkman, Sam Crappy.
Speaker 5 (41:12):
We were gonna try to have him say he definitely
didn't know who it was.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
They can't keep getting away with this.
Speaker 7 (41:19):
And then, uh, last, last, but not least, we have
the Return of the Righteous Gemstones on HBO, a great
comedy about televangelists, and that that one's got John Goodman
who is fantastic in the show, and the other Danny
(41:40):
mcbrid Pride, Thank you, I was blanking on his name.
Speaker 5 (41:43):
Good stuff on HBO. And that is that is this
Sunday evening, and that is Coop Scoop Entertainment.
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