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- 0:31Speaker 3: Okay, so we start with is this good news? Now?
- 0:36Speaker 3: Initially it sounds like it is, but I'm not convinced
- 0:40Speaker 3: that it actually is. This is chiefs wide receiver Rashie Rice.
- 0:45Speaker 3: So he's going to have a disciplinary hearing that's expected
- 0:50Speaker 3: to be on September thirtieth in New York. So this
- 0:54Speaker 3: means he'll likely be able to play the first four
- 0:58Speaker 3: weeks of the season before any potential discipline, and we
- 1:01Speaker 3: can eliminate potential he's going to be disciplined like he
- 1:04Speaker 3: had a role in a multi car crash I left
- 1:07Speaker 3: multiple people injured during the twenty twenty four offseason. It's
- 1:11Speaker 3: finally played out in court, it's done with. So now
- 1:14Speaker 3: it's the NFL stepping in determining what the punishment is
- 1:17Speaker 3: going to be. The interesting part is it's supposed to
- 1:21Speaker 3: happen around September thirtieth, So you think, okay, Rashi Rice,
- 1:27Speaker 3: all these reports from Chiefs camp, just glowing reports. Some
- 1:31Speaker 3: of these reporters are saying he actually looks better and
- 1:34Speaker 3: more explosive than he did before he suffered a knee
- 1:37Speaker 3: injury last season. And so it's like, all right, Chiefs,
- 1:41Speaker 3: they're cooking with grease. Now they got their wide receiver one,
- 1:44Speaker 3: Rashie Rice on the field for the first four weeks
- 1:46Speaker 3: most likely. But I started thinking about this, and I'm like,
- 1:51Speaker 3: if it's up to the Chiefs, if they had it,
- 1:53Speaker 3: if they had their preference, what would their preference be?
- 1:57Speaker 3: Would it be that Let's just say it's a four weeks.
- 2:00Speaker 3: I don't know how long it's going to be, but
- 2:02Speaker 3: just for the sake of argument, let's just say it's
- 2:04Speaker 3: four games. Okay. If you're the Chiefs, would you prefer
- 2:10Speaker 3: your stud wide receiver to be suspended for the first
- 2:13Speaker 3: four games or like the next four games, you know
- 2:17Speaker 3: what I mean? Instead of weeks one through four, would
- 2:20Speaker 3: you pick weeks five through eight? Which would you choose?
- 2:24Speaker 3: I honestly don't know what they would choose. And I
- 2:28Speaker 3: looked at this, I'm strangely curious about this whole thing
- 2:32Speaker 3: because I'm looking at the schedule and I'm considering all
- 2:34Speaker 3: these things. If you look at the Rashi Rice situation,
- 2:38Speaker 3: just from the schedule standpoint, I think that the first
- 2:42Speaker 3: four games are a little tougher than the next four games.
- 2:46Speaker 3: So if Rashi Rice, if he were suspended the first
- 2:50Speaker 3: four weeks, which it sounds like he will not be,
- 2:53Speaker 3: so they take on the Chargers in Brazil. By the way,
- 2:56Speaker 3: fun fact, so I I dated a Brazilllion girl one time.
- 3:00Speaker 3: That's not the fun fact. Well maybe it is, but
- 3:03Speaker 3: she I said Brazil one time, like that's how and
- 3:07Speaker 3: she looked at me sideways and she goes, you don't
- 3:09Speaker 3: say it with an L. She's like, it's Brazil. And
- 3:13Speaker 3: I'm like, like with a W at the end, and
- 3:15Speaker 3: she's like, yeah, like Brazil. I'm like, all right, I
- 3:20Speaker 3: don't make the rules. Apparently that's the way if you
- 3:22Speaker 3: want to get in cool with the Brazilian crowd, you
- 3:25Speaker 3: don't go with an L at the end of the pronunciation.
- 3:27Speaker 3: You go with the W. But in any event, the
- 3:30Speaker 3: Chiefs are taking on the Chargers in Brazil. That's the
- 3:34Speaker 3: first game. Then they're at home to host the Eagles
- 3:37Speaker 3: at the Giants on a Sunday night, Then they host
- 3:40Speaker 3: the Ravens. So think of the three of the first
- 3:42Speaker 3: four games Chargers Internationally, Eagles, Ravens. That's pretty tough slate.
- 3:49Speaker 3: So it looks like Rashi Rice will be there for
- 3:51Speaker 3: the first four weeks. If you're a Chiefs fan, probably
- 3:54Speaker 3: good news. Now if you look at the next four
- 3:56Speaker 3: games at Jacksonville on a Monday, host the Lions on
- 4:01Speaker 3: a Sunday night, host the Raiders, host the Commanders on
- 4:06Speaker 3: a Monday night. So you've got three of the next
- 4:08Speaker 3: four games our primetime games, a couple of Monday night games,
- 4:12Speaker 3: a Sunday night game. Get the Lions in there, get
- 4:15Speaker 3: the Commanders in there. So it's not like this layup
- 4:19Speaker 3: of games, you know, layup city the next four weeks.
- 4:22Speaker 3: So like the schedule is what it is if you
- 4:25Speaker 3: think of it from a rhythm standpoint, right, having Rashie
- 4:30Speaker 3: Rice miss weeks one through four or miss weeks five
- 4:34Speaker 3: through eight, I really don't know what their preference would be.
- 4:37Speaker 3: Think about this. I think there are arguments on both sides.
- 4:41Speaker 3: You could start the season with Rashie Rice. He's there
- 4:44Speaker 3: for the first four games, you start to establish a rhythm,
- 4:48Speaker 3: and then the suspension kicks in and he's gone for
- 4:50Speaker 3: a little bit of time and then he comes back.
- 4:53Speaker 3: Is that easier for your team compared to, Hey, he's
- 4:58Speaker 3: just gone the first four weeks. We got to make
- 5:00Speaker 3: do without him, and then boom, he's there for Week
- 5:02Speaker 3: five and if healthy, he's there for the rest of
- 5:05Speaker 3: the season. I really don't know what their preference would be,
- 5:08Speaker 3: don't My guess is it would probably differ from team
- 5:12Speaker 3: to team, from player to player. There might be like
- 5:15Speaker 3: Mahomes might say, Oh, my preference is this. Meanwhile, Josh
- 5:18Speaker 3: Allen might say, well, you know, if it were up
- 5:21Speaker 3: to me and it's my stud wide receiver is suspended
- 5:24Speaker 3: for weeks one through four or weeks five through eight,
- 5:27Speaker 3: this is what I would prefer. I really don't know.
- 5:30Speaker 3: I don't know my I would say, my preference is
- 5:34Speaker 3: to have Rashie Rice there for the first four games.
- 5:37Speaker 3: You play three tough teams Chargers, Eagles, Ravens, and I
- 5:41Speaker 3: also think to establish a rhythm, to get into a groove,
- 5:46Speaker 3: to have him there for the beginning of the season.
- 5:50Speaker 3: I think that's important because you start to get you know,
- 5:54Speaker 3: solidified as an offense, and you find out what works,
- 5:58Speaker 3: you're finding out what does, and you're starting to get
- 6:01Speaker 3: into these patterns, right, and then he's gone for a
- 6:05Speaker 3: little while. You have to make do and then he's back.
- 6:07Speaker 3: I think that's a little bit easier than it is
- 6:12Speaker 3: to just not have him there for four weeks. You're
- 6:14Speaker 3: trying to make do. Maybe you start establishing some rhythms,
- 6:18Speaker 3: you're getting into some patterns that are working, and then
- 6:21Speaker 3: all of a sudden he's there and you have to
- 6:23Speaker 3: recalibrate everything. I think the way it looks like it's
- 6:27Speaker 3: gonna shake out, which is Russ ge Rice is going
- 6:30Speaker 3: to be there for the first four weeks. It's just
- 6:32Speaker 3: like an injury almost, you know, he goes away for
- 6:34Speaker 3: the next four games or however long the suspension is,
- 6:38Speaker 3: I don't know, and then you get him back. I
- 6:41Speaker 3: think that's a little bit better. So I don't know
- 6:44Speaker 3: why mine just latched onto that one, like I don't.
- 6:48Speaker 3: I'm strangely curious from team to team what they would
- 6:51Speaker 3: prefer if it were up to me, If I'm a
- 6:54Speaker 3: Chiefs fan. Put it that way, I would prefer for
- 6:57Speaker 3: him to be there for the first four weeks. Now,
- 6:59Speaker 3: the the disciplinary officer, the blast from the past, Sue L. Robinson.
- 7:07Speaker 3: She's jointly appointed by the NFL and the NFL Players
- 7:10Speaker 3: Association to oversee this disciplinary stuff. Right, used to be Goodell.
- 7:15Speaker 3: Now it's Sue L. Robinson. You might be like, how
- 7:18Speaker 3: do I know that name? That's what I was thinking.
- 7:21Speaker 3: It's It's like, okay, she presided over the Deshaun Watson
- 7:27Speaker 3: disciplinary hearing, right, she was the one that determined how
- 7:30Speaker 3: long that suspension was going to be. And her name
- 7:33Speaker 3: was thrown out there all the freaking time. What Sue L.
- 7:37Speaker 3: Robinson gonna rule?
- 7:38Speaker 4: What?
- 7:38Speaker 3: She blah blah blah. So that's the same Sue L. Robinson.
- 7:42Speaker 3: This is only her second disciplinary hearings. The second case
- 7:46Speaker 3: she's presided over will be Rashi Rice and we'll see.
- 7:50Speaker 3: I'm curious how long the suspension is going to be
- 7:53Speaker 3: and what week it actually kicks in. But that's the story.
- 7:58Speaker 3: He's supposed to get this disciplinary hearing on September thirtieth
- 8:02Speaker 3: in New York, and if that is the date, that
- 8:05Speaker 3: means he would be able to play the first four games.
- 8:08Speaker 3: So there you go. I think kind of interesting stuff.
- 8:10Speaker 3: By the way, for what it's worth in terms of
- 8:13Speaker 3: the suspension, amount of time, the length of the suspension.
- 8:18Speaker 3: So he pled guilty to two third degree felony charges.
- 8:23Speaker 3: It was collusion involving serious bodily injury and racing on
- 8:28Speaker 3: the highway causing bodily injury. Now he received deferred adjudications.
- 8:33Speaker 3: That means the case will be dismissed if he completes
- 8:37Speaker 3: the probation. Basically, it's like you have this probationary period
- 8:42Speaker 3: where if you don't screw up again, it just goes away.
- 8:45Speaker 3: It's basically how it works. So take that for what
- 8:48Speaker 3: it's worth. Sue L. Robinson will take all that into account,
- 8:52Speaker 3: and she'll say three games suspensioned or I don't know,
- 8:57Speaker 3: somewhere between three and six would be my guess, maybe
- 9:00Speaker 3: like three four games probably what he gets. But I'll
- 9:03Speaker 3: tell you what, man Rashi Rice being back for that
- 9:06Speaker 3: Chief's offense is gonna be a big, big deal. He
- 9:10Speaker 3: was off to a magnificent start last season, played only
- 9:13Speaker 3: three and a half games, productive, had twenty four catches,
- 9:16Speaker 3: almost three hundred yards, and three touchdown grabs in three
- 9:20Speaker 3: and a half games, averaging a touchdown a game basically,
- 9:24Speaker 3: So to have him back in the mix, that is
- 9:26Speaker 3: a big, big deal. I don't understand these people that
- 9:29Speaker 3: are like, ah, the blueprint has been figured out over here,
- 9:34Speaker 3: the blueprint to beating the Chiefs, that's established based on
- 9:37Speaker 3: the Eagles beating them. It's like, dude, the Eagles have
- 9:41Speaker 3: such a special roster. Let's not make it sound like
- 9:44Speaker 3: the Raiders bring the same thing to the table, you
- 9:46Speaker 3: know what I mean. Like this idea that the Chiefs
- 9:48Speaker 3: are gonna be I don't know, eight to nine this
- 9:50Speaker 3: season is ridiculous. I think that they're gonna still own
- 9:54Speaker 3: that division. I think they're still gonna be the biggest
- 9:56Speaker 3: problem in the AFC. You could argue the entirel but
- 10:01Speaker 3: for for Mahomes to have these weapons back led by
- 10:05Speaker 3: Rashi Rice is a big, big deal. But there you go.
- 10:08Speaker 3: Be there for the first four weeks. It looks like.
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- 10:19Speaker 5: HI.
- 10:20Speaker 2: This is Jay.
- 10:21Speaker 6: I'm the producer of the Paula and Tony Fusco Show.
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- 10:30Speaker 6: have the dumbest takes on sports, imagicable. Don't listen to
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- 10:49Speaker 3: I typically don't find this interesting at all, and you're
- 10:52Speaker 3: probably like, well, then why would you be talking about it? No,
- 10:56Speaker 3: because I found something interesting about this subject. I typically
- 11:00Speaker 3: don't care about whatsoever. These lists come out, you know,
- 11:04Speaker 3: at some point during the year, probably around this time,
- 11:07Speaker 3: and it lists how much franchises in pro sports are worth.
- 11:13Speaker 3: So it's like, the average NFL team is worth seven
- 11:17Speaker 3: point one to three billion dollars. That's pretty crazy, just
- 11:20Speaker 3: the average team is worth that much. Now, when you
- 11:23Speaker 3: see like it's broken down in many different ways, and
- 11:27Speaker 3: most of it I just don't care about even a
- 11:30Speaker 3: little bit. Where this list is like Okay, the Cowboys
- 11:33Speaker 3: lead the way again. They're valued at twelve point eight
- 11:37Speaker 3: billion dollars. And then there are a couple other teams
- 11:41Speaker 3: that have crossed the ten billion dollars threshold. The Rams
- 11:45Speaker 3: have done that ten point four billion, Giants ten point
- 11:48Speaker 3: two billion. This to me is just like le it's
- 11:52Speaker 3: white noise. It's like, okay, we get it. They're worth
- 11:55Speaker 3: a lot of money. Great, what else you got for me?
- 11:57Speaker 1: You know?
- 11:57Speaker 3: But what stood out to me was this little nugget
- 12:01Speaker 3: where the Bengals, they're the team that's worth the least
- 12:06Speaker 3: in the NFL. They're still worth five point five billion dollars,
- 12:10Speaker 3: the Cincinnati Bengals. But this nugget is what really stood out.
- 12:14Speaker 3: So the Bengals, even though they're in last place in
- 12:17Speaker 3: terms of value among all NFL franchises, five point five
- 12:21Speaker 3: billion dollars. That's more than every NHL team, that's more
- 12:26Speaker 3: than all but four MLB teams, and that's more than
- 12:31Speaker 3: all but seven NBA teams. Think about that. That blows
- 12:36Speaker 3: my mind. Where you're the you know, the runt of
- 12:40Speaker 3: the litter, basically the Bengals in terms of what that
- 12:43Speaker 3: franchise is worth. But it's still worth more than all
- 12:46Speaker 3: but four MLB teams. Only four teams in Major League
- 12:51Speaker 3: Baseball are worth more than the last place Bengals in
- 12:55Speaker 3: the NFL, and then the NBA. The NBA has only
- 13:00Speaker 3: seven franchises that are worth more than the Bengals. That's it.
- 13:05Speaker 3: They have twenty three franchises that are worth less than
- 13:09Speaker 3: the last team in terms of NFL value. That is
- 13:13Speaker 3: wild to me. Like, we get it, we're football obsessed.
- 13:17Speaker 3: We understand that football is king, NFL is king, but man,
- 13:22Speaker 3: when you break it down in some of those ways,
- 13:25Speaker 3: it's still staggering to me. Like the least valuable is
- 13:30Speaker 3: more valuable than almost every MLB franchise. That's just like wow,
- 13:37Speaker 3: Like these I can just picture these commissioners and these
- 13:41Speaker 3: you know, these other team owners of like NBA MLB squads.
- 13:46Speaker 3: You can talk to Manfred or Adam Silver and it's
- 13:49Speaker 3: just like heh yeah yeah yeah, NFL yeah yeah yeah.
- 13:52Speaker 3: You know, it must be so annoying for those guys
- 13:56Speaker 3: to hear about this all the time, you know, Like
- 13:59Speaker 3: they came out with the Christmas Day slate. I think
- 14:04Speaker 3: it was Fan Duel tweeted this out today and it
- 14:07Speaker 3: just broke down how the games you know, when they're
- 14:10Speaker 3: scheduled and the overlap, and it's I just feel bad
- 14:14Speaker 3: for the NBA. I love basketball. I love the NBA.
- 14:17Speaker 3: You know I say it. You don't get a whole
- 14:19Speaker 3: lot of people saying that proudly I do. I love
- 14:21Speaker 3: the NBA, not like football, And I just feel bad
- 14:25Speaker 3: for the NBA when you look at this Christmas Day slate,
- 14:28Speaker 3: all the NBA games are going to be on ABC,
- 14:31Speaker 3: which is pretty cool. Right, It's on network television all
- 14:34Speaker 3: five games. Boom, just keep it locked on that. You
- 14:36Speaker 3: have to say, is this on ESPN? Is it on
- 14:39Speaker 3: ESPN two? Is this the ABC gaft? Nope, everything on
- 14:41Speaker 3: ABC won't matter. They'll still get their teeth kicked in.
- 14:45Speaker 3: It's like, so it starts off at noon, Calves Nicks, Okay,
- 14:49Speaker 3: one pm, Cowboys Commanders, flip, you know, flip over the ball,
- 14:55Speaker 3: and then you know it's a Spurs thunder that probably
- 14:58Speaker 3: wrap up right before kickoff of Lions Vikings, which is
- 15:02Speaker 3: another really good game on Christmas Day. So it's like,
- 15:06Speaker 3: MAVs Warriors, your ratings just got slashed in half, most
- 15:11Speaker 3: likely because you're going head to head with Lions Vikings
- 15:15Speaker 3: and then the nightcap Rockets at the Lakers. Right, you
- 15:17Speaker 3: see KD going against lebron squad Luca on the floor.
- 15:22Speaker 3: All right, we get we're cooking with grease over here.
- 15:24Speaker 3: Well yeah, like fifteen minutes later, it's gonna be Broncos
- 15:27Speaker 3: at the Chiefs. So yeah, have fun with that, NBA,
- 15:31Speaker 3: have fun with that. It's it's a rough reality right here.
- 15:35Speaker 3: You can put all your games on ABC. Not gonna matter,
- 15:38Speaker 3: not gonna matter. Your your audience is still gonna get crushed.
- 15:41Speaker 3: Happens every time. But the point is, like Adam Silver,
- 15:47Speaker 3: NBA team owners when they're like, oh yeah cool, you know,
- 15:49Speaker 3: just just when we're you know, we've already had a
- 15:52Speaker 3: bunch of gut punches, and we know our Christmas Day
- 15:54Speaker 3: ratings are gonna pale in comparison to the NFL. Now
- 15:58Speaker 3: we get this, what franchises our world? You're telling me
- 16:00Speaker 3: we only have seven NFNBA franchises worth more than the
- 16:04Speaker 3: Bengals that are the least valuable NFL team. Cool, great,
- 16:09Speaker 3: very uplifting news here on a Thursday.
- 16:12Speaker 1: You know.
- 16:13Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maler
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- 16:18Speaker 3: So there's a story that caught my attention on Thursday.
- 16:22Speaker 3: This is Michael Porter Junior. Okay, so he's now playing
- 16:25Speaker 3: for the Brooklyn Nets. He is a former member of
- 16:28Speaker 3: the Denver Nuggets. He was traded. But he went on
- 16:31Speaker 3: a podcast and he was talking about sports betting and look,
- 16:35Speaker 3: he made some points that I completely agree with. And
- 16:39Speaker 3: the gist of it is this is all from his standpoint, right,
- 16:43Speaker 3: and it makes sense. He's the one who's dealing with
- 16:45Speaker 3: these idiotic fans that say, dude, I needed one more
- 16:48Speaker 3: basket and you couldn't score, and I'm just mad at you,
- 16:52Speaker 3: and he's got to deal with those people are worse.
- 16:55Speaker 3: He's like, we really do get death threats. His life
- 16:59Speaker 3: is threatened because he didn't get one more rebound and
- 17:03Speaker 3: the parlay didn't hit. You know, this is ridiculous, but
- 17:07Speaker 3: unfortunately that's what a lot of athletes have to deal with.
- 17:10Speaker 3: And a couple of Michael Porter Junior's thoughts on this podcast.
- 17:14Speaker 3: He said, the whole sports gambling entity, it's bad and
- 17:18Speaker 3: it's only going to get worse. And one of the
- 17:21Speaker 3: examples he said, the enjoyment of the game isn't for
- 17:25Speaker 3: the game anymore so that people can make money. In reality,
- 17:29Speaker 3: way more people are losing money than making money. Now
- 17:33Speaker 3: he's right about that, So think about it. This is
- 17:36Speaker 3: the dynamics, this is how it all comes together. And
- 17:38Speaker 3: a lot of athletes get screwed on this. So you
- 17:41Speaker 3: got a lot of sports betters now more than ever
- 17:44Speaker 3: because it's legalized. So you just get on your app
- 17:47Speaker 3: of choice, you know, bet MGM, DraftKings, Fan Duel, whatever,
- 17:51Speaker 3: and you search for the best line. Maybe you got
- 17:54Speaker 3: multiple sports books, right, and you're just firing away, and
- 17:58Speaker 3: there are a lot of betters that lose more than
- 17:59Speaker 3: they and then there are a lot of betters that
- 18:03Speaker 3: can't handle it. It might lash out at an athlete
- 18:07Speaker 3: or twenty and it becomes this whole sucky thing. It's terrible.
- 18:13Speaker 5: What was what was the the part of the quote
- 18:15Speaker 5: that he said right before the part about there's more
- 18:18Speaker 5: people losing than winning.
- 18:21Speaker 3: Oh, he said, the enjoyment of the game isn't for
- 18:23Speaker 3: the game anymore. Okay, that people can make money.
- 18:26Speaker 5: So while I agree with that to an extent, I
- 18:31Speaker 5: feel like it needs like these sports, I mean, for
- 18:35Speaker 5: the most part, maybe not the NFL, but these sports
- 18:38Speaker 5: need gambling oh yeah, because the newer generations like gen
- 18:43Speaker 5: Z I just feel like a stimulants. They're they're not
- 18:47Speaker 5: as into sports as the you know, I feel like
- 18:52Speaker 5: the Millennials were like kind of the last you know,
- 18:55Speaker 5: and even then it's like kind of split, like uh,
- 18:59Speaker 5: you know, it's not this same type of fandom, right, It's.
- 19:02Speaker 3: Not like the same obsession, right, like the same like
- 19:05Speaker 3: oh man, they're just like yeah, I'll catch the highlights
- 19:09Speaker 3: right right.
- 19:09Speaker 5: It's not it's not the connection to the like where
- 19:12Speaker 5: you're you know, I'm the type of fan like where
- 19:15Speaker 5: and you know this is probably not healthy, but you know,
- 19:19Speaker 5: a bad game, a bad loss from the Broncos will
- 19:22Speaker 5: ruin my day, you know, like.
- 19:26Speaker 3: You're throwing things.
- 19:28Speaker 5: You know, Gamblers who are just playing on games, they
- 19:30Speaker 5: don't care. We'll see if they don't care, they care
- 19:32Speaker 5: about the money. Money. Yeah, it can ruin their their day,
- 19:36Speaker 5: but they you know, it's it's totally different.
- 19:40Speaker 3: Yeah, it sucks. I hate it for the athletes because listen,
- 19:45Speaker 3: no one should be you know, talked to completely disrespectfully,
- 19:50Speaker 3: death threats, the whole. There's another story with Max Homer.
- 19:53Speaker 3: He's a golfer and he was talking about some of
- 19:56Speaker 3: the abuse that he faces and has to you know,
- 19:59Speaker 3: get off a social media and there are all these
- 20:01Speaker 3: threats and it's just too much. There was Lance McCullers.
- 20:05Speaker 3: There's a Houston astros pitcher. So there was an intoxicated
- 20:08Speaker 3: better overseas that sent messages on social media threatening to
- 20:14Speaker 3: murder his family and him. Why, well, because he had
- 20:18Speaker 3: a bad start. What so you know, your family's got
- 20:22Speaker 3: to go. He has this bad start on a Tuesday night,
- 20:24Speaker 3: wrecked my parlay. I mean, everybody's got to go, you know,
- 20:28Speaker 3: one by one. Crazy because I've never really thought about that. Yeah,
- 20:31Speaker 3: that's what happened.
- 20:32Speaker 2: Wow.
- 20:33Speaker 3: Crazy. But here's the thing though, this is the point
- 20:36Speaker 3: I want to make about all of this, because these
- 20:40Speaker 3: discussions turn into, hey, because of betting, this is what's happening,
- 20:46Speaker 3: and it's like no, no, no, no, no, stop right there.
- 20:49Speaker 3: It's not because of betting that these things are happening.
- 20:53Speaker 3: It's because people.
- 20:55Speaker 5: Are a holes, because they're psychotic.
- 20:57Speaker 3: Yes, that's why it's happening. So you can't fault betting,
- 21:02Speaker 3: like there's just a disconnect. Put it this way. If
- 21:06Speaker 3: if somebody I don't know had too many drinks one night,
- 21:11Speaker 3: and then did something crazy, you know, like, let's keep
- 21:14Speaker 3: it as apples to apples as possible. They threatened to
- 21:17Speaker 3: murder a person and his entire family. Right, you wouldn't
- 21:23Speaker 3: be like, well, alcohol, you know, if it wasn't for alcohol,
- 21:28Speaker 3: we'd be good. No, you would hold that person accountable.
- 21:32Speaker 3: You would say that's not acceptable, dude, right, Like, so
- 21:35Speaker 3: it's not alcohol's fault, it's not betting's fault. It's the
- 21:41Speaker 3: fault of the idiots that don't know how to behave.
- 21:44Speaker 3: That's the only thing I'm trying to say is, yeah,
- 21:48Speaker 3: just don't blame betting. Blame the person who can't handle betting.
- 21:55Speaker 3: That's the difference right there. But far too often I'm like, well,
- 21:58Speaker 3: I mean with betting, that's what Michael Porter Junior said
- 22:02Speaker 3: at the end, like the whole sports gambling entity, it's
- 22:05Speaker 3: bad and it's only going to get worse. I don't
- 22:09Speaker 3: have a huge problem with that statement, but it's sort
- 22:13Speaker 3: of getting to the same old song and dance where
- 22:15Speaker 3: it's like, if not for betting, like we'd be fine.
- 22:18Speaker 3: Here it's like, no, betting's not going anywhere. They're making
- 22:22Speaker 3: way too much money, Like Coop is saying betting's going.
- 22:25Speaker 3: It's the bridge for a lot of people to be
- 22:28Speaker 3: more invested in these sports. So it's not going anywhere.
- 22:31Speaker 3: It's just like, until these people understand that's not acceptable,
- 22:37Speaker 3: I don't know how you get that in their head,
- 22:39Speaker 3: they're either punished in a way or listen, I can
- 22:42Speaker 3: relate to this in some sort of way where like
- 22:46Speaker 3: filling in, being a fill in radio host, and I
- 22:49Speaker 3: get it. But I told my mom, I'm like, as
- 22:52Speaker 3: weird as this sounds, there are a lot of people
- 22:55Speaker 3: that don't even think of you as a human being.
- 22:58Speaker 3: It's the truth, It's true. They're just you're this person
- 23:03Speaker 3: on the radio, and where's Ben, where's the guy Ben
- 23:06Speaker 3: doesn't do lists? And who's this feeling guy doing list?
- 23:09Speaker 3: They hate you, that's all they think. They think like
- 23:12Speaker 3: you're some something something to entertain me. They don't think beyond.
- 23:18Speaker 3: They don't think, hey, you've got a sister, you've got nephews,
- 23:22Speaker 3: you got a girlfriend, you got a neighbor, bog cat, yeah,
- 23:24Speaker 3: you got Oreo visits. You're a human being, Like they
- 23:28Speaker 3: don't think like that. You're just this thing.
- 23:31Speaker 5: Why are you doing this to me?
- 23:33Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 23:34Speaker 3: Yeah, right, Like that's what it is. So it's the
- 23:37Speaker 3: same concept with sports betting and these athletes that pay
- 23:40Speaker 3: a price for these idiots that are just like I
- 23:43Speaker 3: would have won twenty K and this moron can't make
- 23:46Speaker 3: two free throws. I'm gonna tweet them. It's just like, no, dude,
- 23:51Speaker 3: that's a human being. You don't do that. That's not okay,
- 23:54Speaker 3: not cool. And I don't know how we can get
- 23:58Speaker 3: people to think along those lines. It's either their plunge
- 24:01Speaker 3: severely enough, were that sets in or it sinks in.
- 24:05Speaker 5: Well see, But I also think that there's such a
- 24:08Speaker 5: fine thin line and it's and it's really almost like
- 24:12Speaker 5: arbitrary because you know, I if that happens to me, right,
- 24:17Speaker 5: I lose something by what I'm doing the same thing.
- 24:19Speaker 5: But I'm not seeking the guy out and tagging him,
- 24:23Speaker 5: but I'm cursing him, you know, like.
- 24:27Speaker 3: Well listen, man, if they don't know it, then you know,
- 24:31Speaker 3: well the tree falls in the woods, you know, make
- 24:34Speaker 3: it sound yeah.
- 24:35Speaker 5: But that was going to lead me to my next
- 24:37Speaker 5: statement because I thought, Okay, well do I go on
- 24:40Speaker 5: Twitter and sometimes tweet it out not directly to them,
- 24:43Speaker 5: but just out into you know, into space or what
- 24:47Speaker 5: And I thought, I'm like, you know, I've done that,
- 24:50Speaker 5: like you know, I mean, I don't know if it's
- 24:54Speaker 5: necessarily because of a bet, but I'm sure I have.
- 24:56Speaker 5: But I just I was thinking specifically after like game
- 25:00Speaker 5: one or Game two or whatever. I think I went,
- 25:02Speaker 5: I tweeted out, and I was like, man, Bonick sucks.
- 25:08Speaker 3: Well listen that, that to me is in a different category, right, Listen.
- 25:13Speaker 3: If bon Nicks just goes on Twitter and hey, let's
- 25:15Speaker 3: see what people are talking about, Oh god, right, yes exactly,
- 25:19Speaker 3: that's yeah, that can suck. But if you're literally adding him,
- 25:24Speaker 3: you know, like you're dming him, right, Yo, that's I
- 25:28Speaker 3: think that's a completely different category where it's not the
- 25:31Speaker 3: coolest thing on earth just to even tweet it out there.
- 25:34Speaker 3: But it's not the same thing as like literally you're
- 25:37Speaker 3: basically texting them, you know what I mean Like that,
- 25:41Speaker 3: I don't think it's the same thing. Maybe they're cousins,
- 25:44Speaker 3: but I think they're distant cousins. I don't think that's
- 25:47Speaker 3: that's the same thing at all. But I feel bad
- 25:49Speaker 3: for the athletes. I'll tell you this, If I was
- 25:51Speaker 3: an athlete and had to deal with that, I'd probably
- 25:55Speaker 3: look at sports betting a lot more similarly to how
- 25:58Speaker 3: Michael Porter Junior looks at sports, he probably looks at
- 26:01Speaker 3: it think about it. So his brother is banned for
- 26:03Speaker 3: life because of sports betting, he gets death threats. Sometimes
- 26:08Speaker 3: it gets all these people like, bro, I needed two
- 26:11Speaker 3: more points? What the hell? Can you practice a little
- 26:13Speaker 3: bit harder?
- 26:14Speaker 2: Babe?
- 26:15Speaker 3: All the time you'd be like, oh my gosh, you
- 26:18Speaker 3: guys collectively just jump in a river. Please. I don't
- 26:21Speaker 3: want to hear from you ever again. So yeah, I'd
- 26:24Speaker 3: feel a certain type of way about it too. I
- 26:26Speaker 3: get it from his perspective, but I just don't think
- 26:29Speaker 3: you can get that twisted. It's not the fault of
- 26:31Speaker 3: sports betting. It's the fault of the people that can't
- 26:35Speaker 3: handle it and don't know how to treat y'all need
- 26:37Speaker 3: some mental health. Okay, that's right, y'all need some manners,
- 26:40Speaker 3: is what you need. Right.
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- 26:53Speaker 3: All right, we got Coop Scoops. On a lighter note,
- 26:55Speaker 3: let's dive right into that Coop. You take it away, buddy.
- 26:57Speaker 3: I'm excited for this.
- 26:59Speaker 5: Oh oh hold on, hold on, hold on, I'm sorry.
- 27:01Speaker 5: We need it before we do that. Before we do that,
- 27:03Speaker 5: we need to go to Marcel first, because okay, Marcel usual, yeah,
- 27:07Speaker 5: he usually throws it to me, so oh beautiful.
- 27:09Speaker 3: All right, Marcel and Brooklyn, what's going on, buddy? How
- 27:12Speaker 3: are things?
- 27:13Speaker 4: The ringing four time caller of the year, mister no.
- 27:19Speaker 3: I apologize the four time reigning caller of the Year
- 27:23Speaker 3: of Marcel. What's going on next?
- 27:25Speaker 4: Look for five next year.
- 27:28Speaker 3: My money's on you, Marcel, My money is on you.
- 27:30Speaker 3: You're at least a minus two fifty favorite.
- 27:32Speaker 4: I would say, oh, count you right on, game on, buddy.
- 27:38Speaker 3: That's right. Okay, So you have the thrilling introduction for
- 27:41Speaker 3: Coop Scoops for us here Marcel.
- 27:43Speaker 4: Oh yes, it's thirty two minutes past the hour, five
- 27:46Speaker 4: thirty two here in the east, two thirty two out west,
- 27:49Speaker 4: My boy, Coop you justin Cooper Rockle Fans on X.
- 27:55Speaker 4: Coop On Entertainment starts right now. Take it away, my friend.
- 27:59Speaker 5: I'm thank you, thank you, Marcel. I appreciate that. All right, Brian,
- 28:05Speaker 5: we are going to start off in the theaters as
- 28:07Speaker 5: always on Coop Scoop on Entertainment and in the theaters.
- 28:10Speaker 5: This weekend, we have a sequel sequel that I'm actually
- 28:13Speaker 5: pretty excited about. It is Nobody Too. Oh yeah, did
- 28:17Speaker 5: you did you watch Nobody?
- 28:19Speaker 3: I didn't. Oh man, it's funny. I had to flash
- 28:21Speaker 3: But I'll tell you a story in a second. But
- 28:23Speaker 3: love Bob Odin Kirk. I didn't see the original Nobody,
- 28:27Speaker 3: but it's good. It's good. The previous look good for
- 28:31Speaker 3: the second one.
- 28:32Speaker 5: Yeah, I highly recommend it. So far, the critics are
- 28:35Speaker 5: liking this. It's got an eighty four percent critics score
- 28:37Speaker 5: on Rotten Tomatoes and then ninety three percent audience score,
- 28:41Speaker 5: so audiences are liking it even more.
- 28:43Speaker 3: Dude, I just I gotta say real fast too. But
- 28:45Speaker 3: I had a flashback. You'll have one too. You remember
- 28:47Speaker 3: the No Buddies?
- 28:49Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 28:50Speaker 3: Hell yeah, I just thought this is what we did.
- 28:52Speaker 3: It was a goofy thing like weekend overnights when Coop
- 28:54Speaker 3: and I were working together. That's it's kind of like
- 28:57Speaker 3: the Malard Militia. That's the best we could come up with.
- 29:00Speaker 3: Are you a no Buddy? Yeah?
- 29:02Speaker 4: I are you?
- 29:02Speaker 3: One of our listeners but that's what I just thought
- 29:05Speaker 3: of what you say in the movie title, good stuff.
- 29:07Speaker 5: Yeah, mister nice guy is an original nobody.
- 29:10Speaker 3: That's right, he is.
- 29:11Speaker 5: That's right.
- 29:11Speaker 3: Telly got his burner and became a hater.
- 29:13Speaker 5: I yeah, So this one, this one's you know, it's
- 29:18Speaker 5: it's of course gonna be action packed, but it's also
- 29:20Speaker 5: packed with star power. Uh, you know, aside from Bob Owenkirk,
- 29:24Speaker 5: we've got Connie Nielson, We've got Colin Hanks, Christopher Lloyd,
- 29:28Speaker 5: Sharon Stone. Wow. Yeah, So it's gonna be uh, it's
- 29:33Speaker 5: gonna be a good one. So check that out in
- 29:34Speaker 5: theaters right now. Also in theaters. This one was probably
- 29:38Speaker 5: more of a limited release, so you might have a
- 29:40Speaker 5: little bit of trouble finding it. But it is called
- 29:43Speaker 5: Americana and it is a movie that stars Sidney Sweeney.
- 29:48Speaker 3: Oh I see see how your voice changed right there.
- 29:52Speaker 3: I know how you feel.
- 29:53Speaker 5: About sid that's right. Also, Uh, you know I always say,
- 29:58Speaker 5: is it housy? Is that how you pronounce it? Halsey Halsey, Halsey. Yeah,
- 30:03Speaker 5: she's in this as well.
- 30:04Speaker 3: Halsey.
- 30:05Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, she is she a pop singer. Oh no, yeah, yeah, okay,
- 30:11Speaker 5: all right, anyway, she's in that as well. And this
- 30:14Speaker 5: is basically it is a gallery of dynamic characters clashing
- 30:18Speaker 5: over the possession of a rare Native American artifact in
- 30:22Speaker 5: a modern day Western Okay, yeah, all right, so check
- 30:28Speaker 5: that out for Sidney Sweeney if not anything else, right,
- 30:31Speaker 5: but a lot of people will. But that being said,
- 30:34Speaker 5: so far it is being well received by their critics.
- 30:37Speaker 5: Well good, yes, Moving over to television, Brian, we have
- 30:42Speaker 5: a couple of new things here. One of them is
- 30:46Speaker 5: music related. But before I get to that, hold on,
- 30:50Speaker 5: say okay, we have on Netflix available right now. It
- 30:54Speaker 5: is a new drama slash that they're called Night Always Comes,
- 30:57Speaker 5: and it stars Vanessa Kirby. Do you know who that is?
- 31:00Speaker 3: I don't based on name. I gotta google her.
- 31:03Speaker 5: She is in Fantastic Four in theaters right now. Okay,
- 31:07Speaker 5: she was also.
- 31:08Speaker 3: In uh oh, I do know her.
- 31:10Speaker 5: She was in The Crown, one of the Bond movies.
- 31:13Speaker 5: Oh yes, yes, yeah, that is well and I think
- 31:15Speaker 5: she was. She also in a Fast and Furious movie.
- 31:19Speaker 3: Oh really, wow?
- 31:20Speaker 5: I think I don't know, but yeah, so it starts
- 31:22Speaker 5: it stars her Jennifer Jason Lee.
- 31:25Speaker 3: Oh I'm bad. It was one of The Mission Impossible.
- 31:28Speaker 3: Sometimes I get Bonded Mission Impossible mixed up. But she
- 31:31Speaker 3: was kind of like a bond girl role in The Impossible.
- 31:35Speaker 5: That's rights.
- 31:36Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, a good movie though, that one. I
- 31:38Speaker 3: think it was the seventh one Mission Impossible. But I
- 31:42Speaker 3: know her from that, Yeah, yeah, I remember. She's good.
- 31:44Speaker 5: Yeah. So basically this is the film follows a woman
- 31:47Speaker 5: over the course of a single, increasingly stressful evening, as
- 31:50Speaker 5: she makes her way through Portland, Oregon, in a desperate
- 31:52Speaker 5: quest to raise enough money to save her family's home.
- 31:55Speaker 3: Oh man, yeah, that is realistic, right there, you kid, make.
- 32:01Speaker 5: Right right.
- 32:02Speaker 3: Good luck to her and that one my gosh.
- 32:04Speaker 5: Yeah. So that is us streaming right now on Netflix
- 32:07Speaker 5: on let's see, is this on Monday? Oh no, it
- 32:10Speaker 5: is on Tuesday. Tuesday on Netflix, we have the premiere
- 32:14Speaker 5: of a music documentary Devo.
- 32:18Speaker 3: Oh that's right, what's that about?
- 32:23Speaker 5: Well, it is about the new wave band huh and yeah.
- 32:31Speaker 5: It takes a look at the origins of the Akron,
- 32:34Speaker 5: Ohio band.
- 32:36Speaker 3: Wow, So are you a fan of this band?
- 32:39Speaker 5: I mean, you know they've got a nice song huh.
- 32:45Speaker 3: Okay, what's their most well known song called whip It?
- 32:49Speaker 3: That's Devo. How do you spell?
- 32:51Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, that's a one with the red hats, right, yes, ye, yes, yeah,
- 32:56Speaker 5: Devo with the red hats. Okay, yeah, is it a
- 33:00Speaker 5: d E V Oh?
- 33:00Speaker 3: I know that song?
- 33:01Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 33:02Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, okay, Well, dude, listen.
- 33:05Speaker 5: They call them the energy domes. That's what they wear
- 33:07Speaker 5: on their heads.
- 33:07Speaker 3: The energy domes. Yeah, okay, but cant me in on
- 33:13Speaker 3: most listen almost any genre. A lot of these docs
- 33:17Speaker 3: are really interesting.
- 33:18Speaker 5: Oh yeah, did you did?
- 33:19Speaker 1: You do?
- 33:20Speaker 4: You have?
- 33:20Speaker 5: You have HBO?
- 33:22Speaker 3: I don't right now?
- 33:23Speaker 5: Okay, Well there's a there's a good Billy Joel documentary.
- 33:27Speaker 3: Oh really? Okay?
- 33:28Speaker 5: That I that I recommend? Whoa oh yeah yeah.
- 33:34Speaker 3: Yeah energy domes.
- 33:42Speaker 5: Yes, wow, that'd be a costume. You could do that
- 33:44Speaker 5: for Halloween, go to the.
- 33:47Speaker 3: Poker table wearing that, you know?
- 33:50Speaker 5: Yeah? Alright, alright, all right? And then, last, but not least,
- 33:54Speaker 5: another one of this is gonna sound deranged, but another
- 33:57Speaker 5: one of my childhood crushes. At least it's a movie
- 34:00Speaker 5: about her.
- 34:01Speaker 6: Uh.
- 34:01Speaker 5: This is on Wednesday, August twentieth on Hulu, and it
- 34:04Speaker 5: is the Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox. It is a
- 34:08Speaker 5: limited series about uh, the girl who was wrongfully convicted
- 34:13Speaker 5: of murder and held in prison in Italy. This was snap. Yeah,
- 34:18Speaker 5: this was all going on when I was I think
- 34:21Speaker 5: it was when I was in high school and I
- 34:23Speaker 5: was like following it in the news when it was happening,
- 34:24Speaker 5: and she's super cute, so I have wow.
- 34:29Speaker 3: Yeah, but she was innocent.
- 34:30Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, look, there's still to this day, there's
- 34:34Speaker 5: a whole contingent of people that argue that they still
- 34:37Speaker 5: think that she did it, and but I am not
- 34:41Speaker 5: one of those people. And eventually she was you know, uh,
- 34:46Speaker 5: I guess what's uh, what's the term I'm looking for? Yes, exonerated,
- 34:50Speaker 5: thank you. But yeah, that is a that is on
- 34:53Speaker 5: Hulu Wednesday, the Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, and that
- 34:56Speaker 5: is Coops Entertainment.
- 34:58Speaker 3: Now, is this because of the facts of the case
- 35:00Speaker 3: or because he found her very attractive that you thought
- 35:02Speaker 3: she was innocent?
- 35:03Speaker 5: You know what I mean? It was definitely because of
- 35:06Speaker 5: the facts of the case. Okay, I wanted her to
- 35:10Speaker 5: be innocent, But no, I when I was in I
- 35:14Speaker 5: like deep dive, like researched it on all the different likes.
- 35:17Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, interesting, So you're gonna be all about this,
- 35:21Speaker 3: But it's a documentary, right August twentieth, you said it's
- 35:24Speaker 3: coming up.
- 35:26Speaker 5: It's a it's not really a documentary. Yes, there's like
- 35:31Speaker 5: actual you.
- 35:32Speaker 3: Know, actors and all. Yes, yes, they're just recreating them.
- 35:35Speaker 5: Yes.
- 35:35Speaker 3: Story Okay, what would you call that? Just a just
- 35:39Speaker 3: a movie based on a true story.
- 35:40Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, based on a true story. Drama, I guess.
- 35:43Speaker 3: Okay, interesting good stuff. Nice job, Coop,