Hour 4 - To Keep or Not To Keep

Ben Maller discusses if the Dodgers are better off with Dave Roberts as manager, gives some career advice to Clayton Kershaw, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, Sports Jeopardy, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our dumb berfall our four ready
to go. Don't forget Benny versus the Penny this weekend
local regional cable television. Check your local TV listenings. It's
a show that I do with Tom Looney this hour.
Are the Dodgers really better off with Dave Roberts's manager?
And what career advice do you have for Clayton Kershaw

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as he's trying to decide what to do next? And
can you decode the Orioles GM's comments about payroll, all
that and more right now? To keep or not to keep?
That is the question. Welcome, in the beginning of another
hour of the Ben Mallor Show. We are in the

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Thursday night NFL game went to Kansas City, but they

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only scored This is embarrassing for the Chiefs nineteen points.
That's it against the team and the Broncos that had
the NFL's worst defense. And even though the Chiefs moved
the ball, they had some issues when they would get
into the red zone. They had a few hiccups, a
few hiccups there in the in the redzvue, well not

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even in the Rens. I guess it was technically outside
the red zone because they were one of two in
the red zone, but they were in scoring territory and
they ended up settling for a field goal. You got
a feel goal, you get a field goal. You got
that four field goals, so if you're in field goal range,
you should get the Chiefs. Anyway, it was not good.
Broncos sucked. They're one in five, but the the Chiefs,

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even though they're five and one. You look at that offense,
you're I don't know about that. I don't know about that.
And then the baseball went to the Fighting Phills. Turn
out the last the parties over, say bye bye, say
bye bye to the Atlanta Braves Asa good bye. They're gone.

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They are They're disposable, and they've been disposed of. They're
out of the baseball playoffs, just like that. The top
three teams in baseball that started playing in April and
then finished like a week and a half ago, and
now there are there are a bunch of teams that
weren't that good. And one of those teams, one of

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those middle of the road teams, is going to win
the World sirt and the top teams had the whammy
put on them. Now one of those teams that had
the whammy put on them is in Los Angeles, and
that is where we start. A man with the greatest,
most important stolen base in baseball history, Dave Roberts. Dave Roberts.

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So that is our Really, the Dodgers have yet again
kicked the bucket and they are licking their wounds here
doing inventory after a gutless playoff performance. The drum beat
has grown among the natives who are restless to get
rid of Dave Roberts. Now this is a yearly passage,

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much like punk Satani Phil Will he see the shadow?
Will he not see the shadow? How much more winter
is there? The swallows returning to Capistrano, You getting the
irs to have you pay the taxes, and if you
don't pay the taxes, they knock on your door, like
all these things that happen on a yearly basis. So

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if you haven't seen the latest doun here with the
fan base upset, there are prominent baseball scribes who are
passionately defending the Dodger manager, essentially saying they liked him
in that spot. Even though the Dodgers have crumbled away
the last couple of years, it doesn't matter. Dave Roberts

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is nice to them, and so they want to see
him hang around. We want to have you hang around,
all right, So fine, all right, whatever defending the underperformance
in recent years. Now, for what it's worth, Dave Roberts
has signed through the twenty twenty five season with the Dodgers.
So let us discuss the question. Are the Dodgers one

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report said they would be better off with Dave Roberts?
So are the Dodgers really better off with Dave Roberts
as their manager? And so the way I will answer this,
I've got temperament, MTV and farming, and we will combine
all of these things together, and we'll be sitting on
cloud nine, which the Dodgers will not be sitting on

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because they're losers and they lost. Not to lead off here,
Dave Roberts keeps this gig. And the reason he now,
the Dodgers are not better off with Dave Roberts. The
Dodger fan base is not better off with Dave Roberts.
But Roberts keeps the gig. And that is a tell,
all right, is that is a dead giveaway because the

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Dodgers are spelling out the situation. They're saying that Dave Roberts,
the manager, is not accountable for the player's performance and
for his decisions in October, like, for example, leaving that
fat ass Lance Linn in to give up four home runs.
Like he said, wait a minute, you know he's a
playoff game. You're not scoring a lot of runs. What

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are you doing? So Roberts, if he keeps the job,
the Dodgers are telling everyone that he's a middle manager
and by the way, spoiler alert, that's exactly what what
he is.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Now.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Roberts has the right temperament of a big league manager.
Ride he's loquacious with the media. He seems to handle
the personalities in the clubhouse pretty well. And every major
in game decision, every thing that is done is mapped out.
It is handled by the algorithms. It is handled by

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the nerds. They're the ones that decide what is done
in terms of who, how many pitches this guy will throw,
which reliever do you bring in, depending on who's at bat,
And it's just putting everything together from the three ring
binder and just following the script. That's it. So Dave
Roberts he can manage the Dodgers and they can go
out there and play like choking dogs and there's no

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accountability because he's merely following orders. And if the Dodgers
fired him, they would do a national search to hire
a new manager, and people would get all excited, and
then they would just hire his doppelganger, a carbon copy.
They would go out and hire a carbon coffee. Why
because the organizational philosophy is to get as many free

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spins as possible, meaning much like the Atlanta Braves of
the nineties, the Dodgers are like, well, it's quantity over quality.
As long as we make the postseason every year, we
can continue to gouge the Dodger fans with overpriced souvenirs
and food, and people will fill the ballpark and we'll

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get a lot of attention, and some years we'll win.
We'll win, and other years we won't. And it's just baseball,
and that's the way it is. And we'll have a
gold mine because that's the way they look at it.
And the problem with the analysta we were talking about
this in an earlier hour on the show, is that
there's a fatal flaw with that thing of a jig,

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the analytics, and it's that it seems to work in
the regular season, but it does not give you goose
bumps very often in October because the long season numbers
equal out right, there's there's too many squiggly lines in
the postseason because it's a small sample size. It's not

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there's not enough time for those squiggly lines to even
out be flat lines. In the regular season, the squiggly
line becomes the flat line, and so over the course
of of time, you might play bad in April, but
you'll make it up in June, you know, and things
match up. But in the postseason it doesn't work that way.
You only have in a five game series, you might

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only have three chances. That's it. But maybe the Dodgers
would have been great, They would have hit wonderful in
Games four and five. But they didn't get to those games,
all right, they didn't get to those. But the guy
running the Dodgers, one of the big shots with the Dodgers,
a guy named Stan Casten, a veteran executive in baseball.
And Stan Kasten was part of the Atlanta Braves when

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they had Bobby Cox and Andrew Jones and Chipper Jones
and John Smoltz and Maddox and Glavin and all those guys.
And now he's in La and they're doing the same thing.
And like the Atlanta Braves, they won one World Series
right now, although twenty seventeen they went like a half
a World Series because the other team cheated, so they
didn't get it all right. Furthermore, staying in La La Land,

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a lot of chatter about the status of thirty five
year old Clayton Kershaw going for I have read more
than one think piece essentially begging Kershaw to come back,
that the Dodgers need him, Baseball needs Clayton Kershaw. I
always loved that one baseball needs Clayton Kershaw, like the
sport's gonna stop if Kershaw retires. So he was asked

(09:40):
about all this now the Dodger ace refused to commit
to playing in twenty twenty four. I wonder how upset
Kershaw is because one of the rumors last offseason that
I heard was he was contemplating signing a one year
contract with the Texas Rangers. When the Rangers went out
and got the Graham and they signed Valdi from the

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Red Sox, they were chatting with Kershaw. There was consideration
to add Kershaw. He's from that area. He chose to
come back to the Dodgers. Well, if he was with
the Rangers, would they still be where they are? Who knows.
But in a parallel dimension, he would have been part
of that Ranger team which is in the American League
Championship Series. But anyway, he was noncommittal when asked multiple

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times about playing in twenty twenty four. He said, I
don't know how to answer that right now, is what
he said. So, what career advice do you have for
Clayton Kershaw? Now, I'm gonna give you advice. My advice
to Clayton Kershaw My professional unsolicited advice is to go MTV,
not work for MTV, or go the classic.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
MTV show Pimp My Ride, Pimp My Ride and have
them make you a pimped out golf cart and right
off into the sunset in that pimp golf cart and
knock yourself out.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Kershaw is cooked. He should have retired a couple of
years ago. The Diamondback players hand delivered that message. They
bludgeon Kershaw with the Louisville Slugger. He was unable to
get that outpitch to end at bats. He was able
to get two strikes on the batters, but he couldn't
finish them off. That is a sign you're done. And

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you mix in shoulder inflammation and you've got the daily double,
the daily dubble. Kershaw has been, and I'm being kind here,
an enigma. The man has been an enigma. Nobody else
you'd rather have on the bump on a Wednesday night
against the Podreser Diamondbacks in April, May, June, July, or August.

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And there's no one else you wouldn't want to have
on the mound against the Podreser Diamondbacks in October. I
takes suck pills. I'm convinced the man takes suck pills.
He goes down to the pharmacy and says, what pills
do you want? They say, what pill do you want?
The pharmacist sassy sistion, I get those suck pills. And
then sometimes they're out of suck pills, and so Kershaw's like, okay,

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how about the blow pills. Okay, there you go, I'll
take those two. Now. Clayton is a very charitable guy
off the field, and in the playoffs he's always given
He's always given a right parting shot. We head to Baltimore, Maryland,
where the crabcakes are fresh and the baseball is not.
The Orioles won one hundred and one games, just like

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the Dodgers in the Atlanta Braves, they're on an early vacation.
All one hundred win teams are gone. The Orioles were
twenty fifth in payroll now. Their general manager, Mike Elias,
was asked whether or not the payroll would go up
next season because the Oils have a good young team
and a couple of more players, and they'd be on
their way. He said, quote, it's day one of the

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offseason was the quote. So can you decode the Orioles
GMS comments about increasing Baltimore's payroll. So this was an
evasive non answer answer. And so the way I read this,
and I have a decoder ring. You don't have a
decoder ring. I have him. They used to give him

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out in crackerjack boxes. What's that? That's a that's a
souvenir they used to sell the ballparks. So this is
an Okham's razor situation. Tell me you're cheap without telling
me you're cheap, riddle me this baseball man. If Baltimore
was about to open up the purse strings and write
a bunch of big checks, right, they were about to

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do that, don't you think, just between me and you
and the lamppost over there, don't you think that Mike
Elias the GM would have been bragging about that. Oh yeah,
we're gonna spend money. Oh yeah, buy your season tickets
right now, I'm asking for a friend, right, wouldn't that
be good pr wouldn't that be good good will with
the fan base. But instead, instead the Baltimore GM is
going farming, as in state farm. He's announcing he wants

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that old Aaron Rodgers discount double check right, and if
the owner's box, if the Owner's Box wants to spend money,
then they can contact the GM. But it sounds like
the Angelo's family is just gonna pocket the extra money
and claim poverty and all. That's that's the Oriole story
in a nutshell, all right. It is the Ben Mallard Show.

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his new nicknames. And I'm good with it. Well, but
the people have to vote, Iowa Sam. It's fine that
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You know, there's a democracy on this show. You're also
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your nickname. But somehow Kevin has more nicknames than you,
and you're on the show full time. It is odd.

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Kevin is known as Sparti, Spartacus, and Williamsport. He's already
got three nicknames and he's only been on the show
a few times.

Speaker 5 (16:20):
You could just call him will You could call him
Spartacus Williamsport. That's like his full name.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Oh that's good. I like that Spartacus Williamsport.

Speaker 5 (16:27):
That's very likely. He sounds like a nobleman from him.

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He goes to like Brown Universities.

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Yes, or he's like.

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Yeah, Spartacus williams Sport. That williams Sport. The third, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (16:39):
The third of course, he got an English nobleman.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
The third is that's how much each hour? A third
of the hour he eats up with his news updates.
A third of the hour he eats up with his
news updates. Anyway, we have this bit. We have no
production for this, right, there's no production. We have no
big open. This is just a test run. This is
what we call a dummy run, which is appropriate. And listen,
it's a spin off on my show. Here. For years

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we did Betty versus the Penny. The bit was so
popular it became a television show. It's on television this
weekend beyond tonight. It's seven thirty on NBC Sports Boston,
but all over the countries on in Philadelphia and San
Francisco and New York. Check your local Chicago, check your
local cable listenings. So it became a TV show, so
we don't do it on the radio anymore because it's

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on the TV show. And when they finally realize it's
on TV and they cancel the TV show, then it'll
be back on the radio. But until that happens, we
have time to fill. And so we cooked up this
idea picking with the Chicken and Poppy, this guy from
San Diego who really rubs people the wrong way a
lot of people. Other people seem to like him, Mason

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the millennial that forty nine er fans seems to like him.
So are you there, Poppy, you're back on. We're gonna
have you. We're gonna have you make your pick, and
then we're gonna have the chicken make its pick and Poppy.
The game we're doing is the Monday night game, so
that is the Dallas Cowboys and the Los Angeles Chargers

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of San Diego. Uh and and so I'll give you
the line on this, Poppy, and then you're gonna pick. Okay,
so that's it. So we're not gonna have a lot
of time to play grab ass and all that. You understand.

Speaker 7 (18:19):
Yeah, I'm gonna go quick and I'm gonna all.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
Right, hold on, hold on, hold on, let me give
you the points. But Monday night, I should be at
this game. Although I haven't heard for sure, I will
be there. The Chargers open to two and a half
point favorite at home, and that has stayed at two
and a half, so it's just under that magic number
of three. So the U, the uh, the the the

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Cowboys favored by two and a half on the road
over the Chargers, and Poppy picking against the chicken. That's
what you're doing, Poppy, and your pick is.

Speaker 7 (18:55):
And I'm ready here, guys. The Cowboys the average on
the point at Scorida and on the book it's done
twenty two points on defense, uh at three. The Chargers
on offense playing at home, so they're better than the Cowboys.
But the defense just.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Give me a best, give me a pick.

Speaker 5 (19:18):
And the defense have a better What part.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Of just give me a pick? You understand which part
I'm doing? The beat here?

Speaker 2 (19:26):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (19:26):
Ben Man, give me a second real quick, so that
on that side, I like the better team. And and
this so my stadium, there's gonna be a lot of
cowboy fans.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Well did he make the pick? Is he done? I'm
taking the Cowboys, all right? That's all you boy, two words,
taking Cowboys. That's it. That's all you have. Right now,
we walcome in our friend Freudian Grip. Do we know
where Freudian Grip lives? Do we know where he lives?
We don't know where he lives, right, we have no
idea where he lives. Well, he lives in a in
a nice house out in the farm farmland somewhere in

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the United States. Here forty in Grip. And he is
the man providing us the chicken. And here we go,
he says. This is Abigail the Chicken, the first chicken.
He says, he tried, wanted nothing to do with this
particular game. So the way this works, Abigail the chicken.
To the right of Abigail the chicken is a bowl
with the Dallas Cowboys logo. To the left of Abigail

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the chicken is a bowl with the Chargers logo. There
is food in each bowl, and here we go. Here
we go, Abigail the chicken walking over. Does Abigail go
to the right or the left? One step, two step,
doing the chicken walk, and boom, Abigail the Chicken goes
straight towards the Dallas Cowboys. So Abigail picking the Cowboys.

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So the first installment of picking with the chicken, both
the chicken and Poppy taking America's team the Dallas Cowboys.
Now we're in a foul mood. All right, thank you.
I guess next week we'll have to do three games.
But if they all agree, it doesn't really matter anyway.

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That all right, thank you and the chicken. Thanks to
Abigail the Chicken. Let's say hello to Regina spin Cycle. Regina.
She's in the Twin Cities and she's morning sitting Shiva
for the loss of the Minnesota Twins. Hello Regina, we
so to I'll toove.

Speaker 8 (21:32):
It and then it's so I again.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah, and you have a cheater on your team anyway,
and you got Korea. He's a cheater.

Speaker 8 (21:42):
I'm sorry. I know we adopted him.

Speaker 5 (21:46):
I know it's not right.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, now is it? Is it true? Regina? If the
Vikings start trading players that you might be flipped to
the Seattle Seahawks. Is that true or false?

Speaker 8 (21:57):
Well, I un green and it's very prevalent on there's uniforms,
so possibly maybe a little bit, a little.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
Bit a little possibility. I got you, Okay, all right,
very good, all right? Nice?

Speaker 8 (22:14):
We lost Jefferson. It was just like, how can we
lose him?

Speaker 1 (22:19):
Right now?

Speaker 8 (22:20):
Saying he's on I R and I'm just like, where
are we going to go without him?

Speaker 7 (22:24):
No?

Speaker 1 (22:24):
You still have Jordan Addison's pretty good. He's a rookie,
but he's pretty good. You got him. You can move
the ball around. You should still be able to play
the Bears. The Bears are terrible. You should still be
able to score Hockinson. The Viking should still be able
to move the football against the Chicago Bears. Come on, hoping, pray.

Speaker 8 (22:44):
I'm just hoping that I'm on the ringing, Come on
the ringing a p right now.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
I don't know that the higher power cares about the
Viking Bears game. But maybe maybe the higher power does care.
I don't, I don't know. I'm not to talk to
the higher power. I have no idea whether that's the case.
All right, Well, now you're just setting yourself up for jokes.
That's what you're doing right there. I guess yes, of course.
All right, well, it's great to hear from you. Don't

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be a stranger, Regina, embarrassed of Minnesota, and tell your
strange husband there the doc that we're still here. He
has not called in many monthstock Mic, you're talking.

Speaker 8 (23:23):
He's so busy with all of his clients and traveling
the nation and trying to work with everybody and doing
all of his you know, time, no.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
Time for us. He moved on from us. He used
to call every single day for years, and now he's
moved on. I don't understand anyway. All right, thank you, Regina,
have a great weekend. All right, there she goes our
friend's spin cycle. Regina, she's on her knees, as she said,
there for the Minnesota vikings. All right, to do with
that what you want.

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Speaker 1 (24:24):
It is the Ben Maler Show. And we're gonna have
the koop scoop on entertainment? Do we have that? I
want to play that audio real quick because people get
a lot of reaction from this, people in the media
business about this. So this is after the Phillies game,
with the brand obviously not gonna interview these guys during
the game, I let me do that occaionally. So Nick
Castaos hit a couple of home runs for the Phills

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and back to back games. So after the game ends,
I believe this is Matt Weiner of Turner goes up
to Castellanos to interview him and and listen to the
rather awkward exchange that went down. Take a list, iba, Nick.

Speaker 5 (25:07):
Nobody in Major League history has hit two home runs
on back to back postseason games, but you just did,
and you guys are headed to the NLCS. Where's the
question about here's a question. Thank you for telling.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Now some people are saying he's a dick and Dayton
Nick cassidao's for saying that. I disagree. All right, you
just gave a statement, how hard is it to throw in?
Even the most basic, which we also hate, is how
does it feel? Or how were you able to do it?
You know, how?

Speaker 7 (25:43):
What?

Speaker 1 (25:44):
Why?

Speaker 3 (25:44):
Where?

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Any kind of question. But instead Matt Weiner, who's been
doing television for like fifty years, he's like, he just
makes he reads a statement. He's like, all right, here's
some numbers. He just pauses. It's just say, just throw
something in at the end. And it's not that hard, it's.

Speaker 5 (26:02):
Not how do you turn that into a question?

Speaker 1 (26:05):
Though?

Speaker 6 (26:05):
Oh do you end up doing the old like it's
it's just such a softball and you're like, well, how
did you feel about it?

Speaker 1 (26:12):
Well? That's what every every question is usually how does
it feel?

Speaker 5 (26:16):
Which questions are just.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
Well, but yeah they're terrible, they cringe worthy. But you
could also say like, uh, what was the key to it?

Speaker 6 (26:23):
Right?

Speaker 1 (26:23):
You could do that, like what was the key right?

Speaker 5 (26:25):
But again, like lack of substance, it's hard, it's hard
to spin it.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
But at least there's attempt. An attempt was made rather
than just giving a freaking stack question is yeah, yeah,
so I thought it was funny. I might I've told
this so. I have a buddy of mine. It's an
old newspaper guy. I used to work at the La
Times and with a bunch of other newspapers and he's
a friend of mine. He sends me after like NBA games.
Every question is how does it feel Lebron or how

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does it feel? You know what?

Speaker 5 (26:53):
If he said it feels awful?

Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but he always he drives him nuts
because it's like not you know, he's old journalism guy.
You guys. So I sent him this and he said,
I don't know who that is, but that's my new
favorite player who Castalona? Anyway, all right, let's get to Hollywood.
Hollywood the Coop Scoop on Entertainment and here he is
star of major motion pictures in TV, the Kopolo justin Cooper.

Speaker 6 (27:19):
All right, Ben, we're gonna We're actually gonna start with
TV because uh.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
Oh Benny versus the Penny this weekend.

Speaker 6 (27:26):
Yeah, I got to talk about that, okay, because I
don't think there's a let's see what. No, there's not
really much going on in theaters that I really want
to highlight that's coming out this weekend. But on TV
we do have available right now on Netflix. It is
a new mini series, a horror mini series, and it

(27:46):
is called The Fall of the House of Usher. And
basically this is an eight part adaptation of the works
of Edgar Allen Poe. And this is getting good reviews
and it is mainly based on the short story of
the same name, but it also, you know, mixes in
additional works from Edgar Allan Poe. And that is available

(28:10):
on Netflix right now in its entirety.

Speaker 5 (28:14):
Yes, very very talented man.

Speaker 6 (28:17):
Also available right now on Paramount Plus and premiering on
CBS next week is a revival of Frasier. Yeah the
what Yes, Yes, Yes, Kelsey Grammar is back.

Speaker 5 (28:38):
Yes, eggs.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
The guy that played his father is gone, but he
passed in twenty eighteen. Yes, is Fraser still going to
work as a radio guy? Then me guess he's going
to do a podcast now right?

Speaker 6 (28:51):
I'm not sure he What I do know from the
is he is relocated back to Boston.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
Yes, yep, and go back to the bar there.

Speaker 5 (29:03):
Yeah, cheers. Uh yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (29:05):
Other other familiar faces will appear in guest roles, but
the bulk of the main cast, aside from Kelsey Grammar,
will consist of newcomers. So far, the reviews for this
revival are are mixed.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
This is on NBC. What channel is this?

Speaker 5 (29:22):
It will be on CBS on CBS.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
Was it Fraser originally on NBC? Though back in the
day I thought it was.

Speaker 5 (29:29):
I believe, I believe it was. I think you're right.

Speaker 6 (29:31):
But right now it's available on Paramount Plus streaming. But
it will be on your regular broadcast television on CBS
starting next week on Tuesday, October seventeenth. But yeah, it
seems that most people don't like this, this revival, but
you know, mixed reviews, mixed reviews.

Speaker 5 (29:52):
It's got a fifties.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
They might as well do it. I mean, that's what
they do in movies. They just remake the same movies,
so they might as well do it in television. It's true,
bring back all the old shows.

Speaker 5 (30:01):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
I'm doctor Pray for Crane.

Speaker 6 (30:03):
Yes, hi, Doctor h also available right now today. If
you watched Thursday night football, you saw constant commercials for this.
It is an Amazon Prime Video movie called The Burial
and it stars Tommy Lee Jones as a funeral home
owner that enlists a smooth talking lawyer played by Jamie

(30:27):
Fox to save his business. It is based on a
true story and it is also in limited amount of
movie theaters right now, but it is available to stream
on Prime Video if you are a member of Amazon Prime.
Also available today and this one is available on Disney
Plus and Hulu. It is a new adaptation of Goosebumps, the.

Speaker 8 (30:55):
R. L.

Speaker 6 (30:55):
Stein horror novel franchise from when I was a child
and love those books. Yeah, so did I. This one
is getting This one's getting good reviews. Justin Long stars
in this as well as Rachel Harris and Miles McKenna.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
I I'm too old for Goosebumps.

Speaker 5 (31:14):
Yeah, yeah, that was that was after your time.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
And I mean I had Goosebumps when I was a kid,
but I didn't.

Speaker 5 (31:21):
Not read gooseb Are you more of a hardy boys guy? Ben?

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Nah? I wouldn't really that either.

Speaker 5 (31:27):
Yeah, those are kind of cheesy. Yeah, he liked The
Babysitters Club.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
What's Wrong with the Babysitter.

Speaker 6 (31:35):
Last but not Least is a new series mini series
on Apple TV Plus. It's called Lessons in Chemistry and
it is adapted from the best selling novel of the
same name set in the nineteen fifties, and it stars
Brie Larsen, The beautiful Brie Larsen, single mother, ambitions of
a scientist, the patriarchy, all that stuff. But it's getting

(31:58):
good reviews. So that is on Apple TV Plus. And
that is Coopscoop on Entertainment.

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Speaker 1 (33:19):
Oh do I ever love you? Oh? My god, I'll
love you even more if you download the podcast later
and watch my TV show, Benny Versus the Penny. But
let's get to the game right now. Here we go,
Here we go. Let's welcome in our contestants. We have
Andy the comic book Guy, part of Bill's Mafia. Hello,
Andy the Comic book Guy.

Speaker 8 (33:40):
Hello Ben.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
Good evening, No, it's good morning. And we have Jeff,
who's in southern California. Hello Jeff.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
How you doing?

Speaker 6 (33:49):
Ben?

Speaker 1 (33:50):
If I was any better, I'd be a Bets, but
not Mookie Bets because he didn't get a hit in
the playoffs. You had as many hits as Mookie Bets
did in the playoffs. Embarrassing anyway. All right, well, gentlemen,
good to have you know, I know Andy is the
comic book guy. What do you do, Jeff, I'm a
long storman. Oh nice. Well you're in the right spot there, absolutely, yeah,

(34:12):
in sam Pedro there the Port of la is that
the busiest port in America? The Port of La.

Speaker 6 (34:18):
It is they do the most containers.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
Yeah, yeah, because you get everything from from Asia, right,
all the all the stuff from China and all that. Yeah,
that's right. All right, let's play the game here. Good luck,
we have alumni association and better late than never. Andy
the comic book Guy was on first, your name is
your buzzer? Pick a category? Andy, what do you say?

(34:46):
Oh boy, Andy, you're you're cutting out like Stefan Diggs.
Your your phone's breaking up? Okay, fine, there we go.
These athletes all won their first championship at age thirty
five or older. A bunch of geezers. All right, two
hundred bucks. This Hall of Fame quarterback went to three
Super Bowls in his twenties, but got blown out in

(35:08):
all of them. It wasn't until he had a Super
Bowl or Hall of Fame running back rather behind him
that he was able to win his first Super Bowl
at age thirty seven. Wow and Andy to Wow, Uh no,
that is incorrect, Jeff, would you like way? Yeah, there

(35:29):
you go, John Elway. That is correct, John Elway, good
job by you. We'll keep it going for four hundred.

Speaker 6 (35:35):
By the way, you get negative points if you answer incorrectly,
So if you if you don't know, should exactly?

Speaker 1 (35:40):
A former member remember of the Fab Five, this bawler
finally got a chip at nearly forty years old. He
recently returned to Michigan to be there. Hey, yeah, yes, Jeff,
that is correct. Juwan hourd the Fab five guys six
hundred bucks. After twelve straight All Star appearances, this third
third baseman was finally able to get a World Series

(36:03):
ring at age thirty eight as a member of the
New York Yankees. He would later go on to hit
his first home run or the first home run rather
in Devil Ray's history. Jeff, that is correct. Wait look
at you all right? Good Jeff? By you, Jeff, eight
hundred bucks. This former Puerto Rican outfielder won his first
championship at age forty years old. Unfortunately he had to

(36:24):
cheat to get it. Jeff, look at you, Jeff, you
are dancing pantsing Andy the comic book guy. All right,
thousand dollars, here we go. This seven footer spent twenty
three years in the league, many of them alongside Dominique
Wilkins in Atlanta. He would win his first championship at

(36:47):
age forty, while backing up David Robinson and Tim Duncan.
Now that is that is Kevin Willis, Kevin will Let's go.
Let's get man. I didn't write the board. All right,
Alumni association, I'll tell you the athlete, tell me what

(37:08):
school they went to. Limited time here, so we got
to go quick. Let's do for eight hundred dollars. Since
you want football priest homes and Annie Niagara University. Oh
you see, you just did that to promote night. You're
you're schmuck. Uh no no, Jeff, no, yeah, oh no,

(37:32):
not Texas A and M. You just want your Texas.
We're out of time. It doesn't matter. You won the
game anyway. Here you go. Good job by Jeff lost
with Bill's mafia man? What happened the paon Diggs