Latest / The Ben Maller Show / Best of The Ben Maller Show

Transcript

Best of The Ben Maller Show · The Ben Maller Show

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Maller
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: from 2 to 6 Eastern, 11 p.m. to 3 a.m.
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. And to find your local
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: station for the Ben Maller Show at foxsportsradio.com. You can
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: find it there or stream us live every night on
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app by searching FSR.
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Let's get right to it. Our lead from the mistake
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: by the lake. It was the kickoff of NFL weekend
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: number four. We're in week number four of the NFL
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: on a Thursday night. Aaron Rodgers trying to deliver the
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: knockout punch for the Steelers. They rolled into Ohio for
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: a play date against Deshaun Watson and the Browns, your
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: dynamic duo. Al Michaels and Herbie, the $ 10 million seat
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: filler till Sean McVay leaves the Rams, had the call
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: on the Amazon. Now, I don't know about you, but,
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: my God, did they try a little too hard to
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: ram down our throats what a great rivalry this is?
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: Why do I not think of this as a great rivalry?
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: I just don't. The Browns have sucked for a generation plus,
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: and we're supposed to say, oh, what a rivalry, because
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: they're close to each other, Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Whoop-dee-damn-do. Trying
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: a bit too hard. So I don't know if you
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: watch this or not. Maybe not. And don't worry, we
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: were able to simultaneously watch two things at once. Watch
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: the baseball game, which thank God was over after the
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: first inning as the Phillies went flaccid in Atlanta. And
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: so we got to focus on the football game. And
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: the creepy quarterback everyone loves when the bad guy does well,
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, 268 yards passing. And he moved the Browns,
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: matriculated the ball down the field to get into position
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: for an Andre Schmidt career-long 56-yard field goal with 10
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: seconds left. And Cleveland. Gets a 27-24 win over the
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday night. The Steelers just can't win
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: one of these primetime games on the road in the division.
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: So Watson completed 24 of 33 passes, had a touchdown
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: and an interception. And on that final go-ahead drive, Watson
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: attempted five passes, completed four of them for 46 yards.
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: And the go-ahead score there. Third straight week now. The
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: Browns are in the win column. They're 3-1 for the
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: first time since 2021. I was a little kid back
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: in 2021. I barely remember that. So it's been a
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: long time. Now, the better story is in the losing
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: locker room where Aaron Rodgers nearly completed the two-touchdown comeback.
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: He threw a three-yard touchdown pass play to Pat Friermuth.
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: And that then led to the two-point conversion where Rodgers,
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: after a penalty on Cleveland, had the quarterback keeper. And
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: it was all tied up. Two point conversion.
• 3:21
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: Tied at 24 with 124 to go or 144 rather
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: to go in the game. And Pittsburgh would go on,
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: of course, to lose the game. They go on to
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: lose the game. And that is a good jumping off point.
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question. How humiliating. How humiliating
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: is it for Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers to lose to
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: the Browns' Deshaun Watson in this spot? All right, so
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: I've got Boombox, Dunkin' Donuts, and Guantanamo Bay. And we'll
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: put all of these things together, and we are going
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: to stick the landing is what we're going to do.
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: We're going to stick the landing. So, A, the fact
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: that Cleveland... was able to manhandle Pittsburgh in the first
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: half and play with the lead. You know what that
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: is for the Steelers? That is an elbow right to
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: the nuts is what that is. You're the Steelers. You're
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: supposed to be the bully. You're supposed to bully Cleveland.
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: And instead, Cleveland gave you the industrial strength wedgie. Three
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: touchdowns in the second quarter there for the Pittsburgh Steelers
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: and against the Steelers for the Cleveland Browns. And so
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh spends the rest of the game playing uphill, barefoot,
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: and they were trying to carry a walrus up the
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: hill on their back. They had a walrus. I don't
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: know where it came from. I don't know where it
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: came from. There was a walrus on their back, and
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: they fall behind by two touchdowns. They somehow complete the
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: comeback and immediately say, you know what? We don't want this.
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: We're going to give this right back to you. And
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: the much ballyhooed defense of the Pittsburgh Steelers let Deshaun
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: Watson and friends march into field goal range at the end.
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: That's embarrassing. It's kind of like a contractor you hire
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: and they fix your bathroom like a luxury master bathroom
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: type thing and then As they're finishing up and they're
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: putting their tools in the truck, the guy backs his
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: Ford F-150 right through the garage. Well, you screwed that up.
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: Now we've got to get that fixed, too. So that's
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: a bad job by you. To think a wide receiver,
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: DK Metcalf, who had deserved all the criticism he got.
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: He'd been terrible. Not only a wide receiver, but terrible
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: the first few weeks of the year. He finally wakes
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: up from his season-long coma. Now, he wasn't perfect. He
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: cut five of nine passes, which is not great. But
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: he had 115 yards. And he looked around and said,
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: wait a minute. I had 115 yards receiving and we
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: still lost the game? And so at 2-2, Pittsburgh remains
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: in the old neighborhood Mike Tomlin used to live in.
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: And you can cue up the boom box. Get that
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: boom box going there. Lou Bega's updated classic. It's no
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: longer Mambo No. 5. It's Mambo No. 500. The mediocrity
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: Mambo for the Steelers continues there. And Mike McCarthy, new coach.
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: Same dance floor here after four games. The Steelers are
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: the same team they had been very mid, very mid.
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: Now staying with Pittsburgh. Now let's get to the good
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: stuff here. So we had a volcanic eruption on the sidelines.
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, kaboom! On the Steelers' sideline there during the
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: loss to Cleveland. Apparently was not real happy with the
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: Play calling and the communication did not go very well.
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: So midway through the first quarter, the Amazon cameras caught
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: Rodgers yelling towards the bench. And you don't have to
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: be a great lip reader to know. He said, what
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: the F? Call it. Call it. As in what the fun, K? Fun, K. Fun, K.
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: Call it. So the broadcast then showed Mike McCarthy. Returning fire.
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: An eye for an eye with his own profane insult
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: over the headset. I'm sure steal a laptop. Ben Roethlisberger
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: right now doing a podcast. It was because Amazon showed
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: him on TV. That's why it happens. Because, oh, my God,
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: he shouldn't show the quarterback and the coach on TV.
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: It's not fair.
• 7:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: OK, shut up. Let's hear from the barking coach, the
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: barking player. Let's start with the barking player. Here's the
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: rotund Mike McCarthy, who gave his side of the story
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: on what went on with Aaron Rodgers. Take a listen.
• 7:51
  Speaker 5: Communication sometimes is not the best choice of words, but
• 7:55
  Speaker 5: everybody's competing on the field. And I think, you know,
• 7:58
  Speaker 5: what's said on the field, the way I grew up
• 8:00
  Speaker 5: in this game, you know, usually stays on the field.
• 8:02
  Speaker 5: That's not the case today. I understand that. But yeah,
• 8:06
  Speaker 5: any negative communication on my part, I wish I wouldn't
• 8:10
  Speaker 5: use those words.
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: He thought the NFL was like Vegas. What happens in
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: Vegas stays in Vegas. What happens on the field stays
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: in the field. But here's more. Let's hear from Aaron Rodgers.
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: I'm sure this will be pleasant and not fire-brained at all.
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: Here's Rodgers giving his side of what happened. Take a listen.
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was loud. It was definitely a good
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: crowd tonight. It was loud.
• 8:33
  Speaker 6: Some of the calls, it was hard to hear, for sure.
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: That's all. It's already here. All right, so McCarthy acknowledging, yeah,
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: you know, language, you know, competition, all that stuff. And Rodgers, oh,
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: that was loud. There you go. So this continues now.
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: I believe that's three times this year we've had a flare-up,
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: a hot spot for the Steelers. Oh, why are you
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: bringing this up, Maller? I know.
• 8:57
  Speaker 7: I know.
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: So you had the Bengal game where Rodgers was mouthing off.
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: The game in New England, Rodgers after the game said that,
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: He essentially said McCarthy and the coaching staff were not
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: working with the players properly and all that. Now you
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: have this. So the question, what is your takeaway from
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and Mike McCarthy barking at each other during
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: the Steelers' latest loss in primetime? So to answer this,
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: I have turned to the good doctor, Dr. Maller. And Dr.
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: Maller has chimed in. And the diagnosis, very swift here.
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: We didn't have to wait too long here. And Rogers
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: has been diagnosed with acute IDGAF. It is a common
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: illness that affects older athletes. And you can look it
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: up in any medical journal. It's IDGAF. I don't give a...
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: And then I forget what the F stands for. Chronic
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: Sideline Inflammation. And Rogers.
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: Look at him out there. Rodgers isn't managing relationships anymore.
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: He's not. He's managing the irritation. His give a damn meter,
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: the Aaron Rodgers give a damn meter, is not just low.
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: Somebody stole it when he played for the Jets. It's gone.
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: It's gone. It's gone. And this is what happens when
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: a quarterback plays long enough to reach what we call the,
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: what are you going to do, bench me period of
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: his career? That's where we are. The decorum is gone.
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: And Rodgers has always been a bit of a hothead,
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: a cantankerous guy. Now he's a cantankerous old crank. No
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: more Mr. Nice Guy. No more Mr. Nice Guy. Now,
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: I love it. It's great for the talk show. I
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: love that Rodgers is like this. It's so good. And
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: he is completely unfiltered, unprocessed, and unsanitized. Pure farm-to-table aggregation
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: for people. rogers and after decades of seemingly worrying about
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: doing things the right way you got to do things
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: the right way he's finally hit the who am i
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: trying to impress stage of life which is always fun
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: we always hope we get old enough we live long
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: enough to get to that point where you can be
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: the guy that just harasses the waiters at the restaurant
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: and Rodgers is there. At some point, the brain standards
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: and practices department gets laid off, and Rodgers has become
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: the quarterback version of the old guy at the donut shop,
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: the Dunkin' Donuts, who's been waiting for four minutes for
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: his dozen donuts and demands to see the manager. Well, no,
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: it's only been four minutes, sir. Well, no, I want
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: to see the manager. I shouldn't be waiting. But it's
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: been four minutes. It takes a little longer than four minutes.
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: But I want to talk to the manager. No, sir,
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: you're an a-hole. No, no, it's a you problem. All right,
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: last word to the Cleveland side of things. And they
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: were really buttering the biscuits or the brownies there. On Amazon,
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: Al Michaels, when he wasn't talking about Dave Concepcion, was
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: celebrating the brownies there. So the question, are you a
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: believer in the elf from Cleveland? That's their mascot. Deshaun
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: Watson's 3-1 Cleveland squad. Are you a believer in them
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: being authentic? Does this have staying power? Yeah, sure. Listen,
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: I've seen enough. I think we should cancel the rest
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: of the NFL season right now. Cleveland is 3-1 Cleveland.
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: Why don't we just give Deshaun Watson the Walter Payton
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: Man of the Year Award because a lot of the
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: NFL media is trying to give him that. And the
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: Browns are closing in on 72 Dolphins territory. We'll just
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: pretend that first loss didn't happen. And they should actually
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: move some of their home games from Cleveland over to
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: Canton and just play there because all these players are
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: going to end up. enshrined with gold jackets never mind
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: the 14 penalties against Pittsburgh or Deshaun Watson missing some
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: bunny throws that Stevie Meatballs and Inca Terror would have
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: seen were open who cares about that I mean come
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: on they they beat Tampa Bay Carolina and now the
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: Steelers that is a murderer's row Don't even worry about
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: playing Baltimore in the division. I guess you don't have
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: to play Kansas City or Buffalo, so you don't have
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: to worry about that. Here is Todd Munkin, the Munk Man.
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: Todd Munkin here commenting on his happy little quarterback. Take
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: a listen. Happy for Deshaun. Not happy at a sack
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: there at the end, but three straight fourth quarter comebacks, man.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: Really cool. Really cool for him. He's got that Doc
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: Rivers voice where you want to give him a throat
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: lozenge and say, hey, dude, go to the doctor. You
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: got something wrong with your throat. Well, here is the
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: man of the hour, according to the Amazon people, the
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: Walter Payton man of the year. mother Teresa with a
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: football in his hands. Deshaun Watson. Hey, Deshaun, you said
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: F the Browns fans before. What do you think of
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: the Browns fans now, Deshaun? It was electric.
• 14:07
  Speaker 8: It was amazing. From the time we came out pregame,
• 14:11
  Speaker 8: you know, it was super dope to be called out
• 14:13
  Speaker 8: and hit a crowd and, you know, feel the energy.
• 14:17
  Speaker 8: And then just from start to finish, the crowd was
• 14:19
  Speaker 8: in it, the energy at the stadium, we fed off them.
• 14:22
  Speaker 8: And You know, to get a big victory against a
• 14:24
  Speaker 8: division rivalry on primetime, it was just, I mean, this
• 14:28
  Speaker 8: is what you dream about. This is what you work for.
• 14:30
  Speaker 8: This is the things that, you know, you put that
• 14:32
  Speaker 8: grind in the summertime and train and camp for nights
• 14:35
  Speaker 8: like this.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: So it was amazing. Yeah, he definitely did grind on
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: those massage therapists. He definitely did do some grinding on
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: them for sure. And it's all about that. You know,
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: as a little kid, you dream of winning a week
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: four game. That is what you dream about. We all
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: agree on that. Listen, Deshaun Watson, here's where he's at.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: So if you look at the big board here, not
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: a list, a big board, Deshaun Watson has escaped from
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: Guantanamo Bay. He's now at a halfway house with lukewarm water.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: And that's that's where we are. That's where we are.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: And so I'm not hopping on the ooey-gooey Browns choo-choo train.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: I'm not. Now, the Browns do play a terrible schedule meeting.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: They play a lot of crap bag teams as well. Eventually,
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: they'll realize they're a crap bag team. And reality will
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: settle in. And we'll be here to document it when
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: that happens. Right now, that's not the case. I think
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: they have another cupcake coming up here, a cream puff
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: with Jets. So that's good for the Browns. This thing's
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: being held together by duct tape, penalty flags, and three
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: wins over teams. that will all be watching the playoffs together,
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: eating chicken wings at Buffalo Wild Wings. And so eventually
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: the train will derail, and we will be here for that.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: It's not there yet, so you're feeling good, right? Oh,
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: here we go. Just like those annoying Raider aficionados. It's
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: like the mirage, the illusion. Enjoy the illusion.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific on
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
• 16:07
  Speaker 7: Stugatz here, pleased to be hosting college football with Stugatz
• 16:11
  Speaker 7: and the Bear. We do it two times a week,
• 16:13
  Speaker 7: every Monday, every single Friday throughout the college football season.
• 16:17
  Speaker 7: You can expect a little bit of this. Will Stein,
• 16:20
  Speaker 7: the head coach at Kentucky, joins us. Open bar at
• 16:22
  Speaker 7: a wedding, ordering a Shirley Temple.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Will or will not?
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: No.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Will not. Ketchup on steak.
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: Will or will not?
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Will or will not? Will not. Thank you. A little
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: bit of this.
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: Rhys Davis, host of College Game Day, is with us now.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: And then I'm going home to the BBC, and they're
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: saying Jockovich instead of Jokovich.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Right, because you can't say Jockovich.
• 16:45
  Speaker 7: If you do, you know the blowback you're going to
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: get from the American audience.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Right. And a whole lot of this.
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: Listen to college football with Stugatz and the Bear on
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: From Major League Baseball. Now, we would like to alert
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: all the affiliates, though. That coming up in a little bit,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: we will have. We'll do the baseball monologue, and then
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: after that, no calls. We've got Benny versus the Penny.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: We have handpicked the eight most important games that are
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: worthy of conversation on the radio. So we'll get to
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: the eight games, and then all the picks will be on.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: the Instagram, and the Facebook page. So you'll get all
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: the picks against the spread. And boy, did we start
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: out with a great pick. We hope you lost a
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: lot of money with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Just a completely
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: pathetic performance, disgraceful performance by the Yinzers. As they go
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: down in the Thursday night game. But our lead is
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: from below the Mason-Dixon line. It was the final game
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: of the wild card round in the MLB postseason. Kyle
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Schwarber and the Fightin' Phils squaring up with Matt Olsen.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: And the Braves, the winner, gets a play date with
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. And that'll be this weekend, of course, as
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: we said there, the divisional round on Fox 1. Were
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: you locked in? Were you engaged?
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: With the NFL game going on, Steelers and Browns, and
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: this game, baseball game going on at the same time,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: my right hand was getting a workout. So somebody named
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Michael Harris II, I was more of a fan of
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Michael Harris I, but Michael Harris II went boom! And
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: then he said kaboom! And blasted a 3-1 ding-dong shot.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: in the first inning, and the game was pretty much over. Atlanta,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Tomahawk chopped their way to a 6-2 win over the
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: once-proud Philadelphia baseball team, and that is a decisive Game
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: 3 win in the wildcard round. Someone named Ray Kerr
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: was the surprise star. I say that in air quotes.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: He is a no-name who was the opener. He threw
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: three and a third scoreless innings in his postseason debut.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: For Atlanta, in only the fourth start of his Major
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: League Baseball career, he allowed one hit and one walk.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Ozzie Albies added a two-run home run, and then that
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: was 5-0 at that point. Then Matt Olsen. said, hey,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: let me try this. Let me go boom shakalaka. So
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: he went boom shakalaka, hit a home run, and extended
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: the margin. Now, the better story is in the losing
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: locker room, so that is where we're going to start.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia has now been excommunicated from the postseason. They were
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: on fumes the last week. They barely made the playoffs,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: and now the band is playing. No, no, no! la. La, la, la. Hey, hey. Goodbye.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Just like that. So that is a good jumping off point.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. What went wrong for Bryce
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Harper's Phillies in this winner take all game three in
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: the wild card round? So I've got Slurpee, Chesterfield Sofa,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: and Mosquitoes. And we will combine all of these things together,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: and we are going to give you one hell of
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: a shaggy dog story. Now, in this case, number one.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Number one. Number one. This was a shaggy dog covered
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: in fleas type story is what this was. This game
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: was O-V-E-R early. Now, the lesson. to this game and
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: really what went wrong for the Philadelphia Phillies. It's the
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: old Wall Street disclaimer. And Philadelphia clearly did not read
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the fine print on that. Past performance does not guarantee
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: future success. Philadelphia went with Aaron Nola. Remember the guy
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: that had a hissy fit because he didn't get named
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: to the All-Star game, and then when he was invited
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: to the All-Star game, he said, I'm not going. You
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: didn't invite me. So what a fitting ending to this
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: schmucks season in Philadelphia. Aaron Nola, Mr. Arrogant over there,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: was supposed to be the seasoned adult in the room.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: 12-year savvy veteran. That Philly pedigree. Big playoff games he's
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: been in. 34 playoff starts in his career. An all-star nod. However,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: in October, it turns out that your baseball card, your
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: baseball reference page, is just prologue. The box score writes
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: the ending. So Aaron Nola starting on short rest. God forbid.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: God forbid. So Aaron Nola on short rest. And what
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: did he do? Well, instead of punching his ticket and
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: the Phillies' ticket to the next round, Aaron Nola punched
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the ticket on the Vomit Comet. They went on the
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Vomit Comet. He lasted a pathetic one-and-two-thirds innings while surrendering
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: three runs, including that Michael Harris bomb that really pretty
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: much ended the game, right? The first inning, three-run home run,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: that's it, following back-to-back walks. So this is an industrial strength,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: a nausea situation at a time you simply cannot have
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: nausea and suck. Now, to make matters worse, Philadelphia got
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: pretty much frozen out by someone named Ray Kerr. Who
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the F is Ray Kerr? This is the ultimate convenience
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: store opener who went from stocking shelves at a 7-Eleven
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: in Reno, Nevada. I'm not making this up, by the way.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: In his younger days, baseball was not going well, and
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: he took a job at a movie theater, and he
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: took a job at a 7-Eleven in Reno, Nevada. And
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: he ended up mopping up Bryce Harper in Game 3.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Three to third innings for this guy Kerr, scoreless innings,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: as he gave the Philadelphia baseball team the full 7-Eleven experience.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: They were shoved a slurpee, a big gulp, and a
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: postseason stomachache And this is this story is the kind
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: of story they've made a million times in Hollywood. But
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: this one would actually be rejected for Hollywood schmaltz, except
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: it actually happened. And Philadelphia had to swallow the Big
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Gulp and the Slurpee and the the taquitos and the
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: hot dogs that have been on those rollers for 17 hours.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: They enjoy those.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Now, page two. To the autopsy of the fight and
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: fills from 30,000 feet up in the sky looking down,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: the question must be asked, has the championship window closed?
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Thumbs up or thumbs down? Is it time for Dave
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Dombrowski to take out the sticks of dynamite and blow
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: up the Philadelphia Phillies roster? Is it now time? Must
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: it happen? All right, so on this one, I'm going
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: to go thumbs down. I'm going thumbs down on a
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: full rebuild. It is melodramatic. It is completely unnecessary. And honestly,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: the idea that you're going to intentionally lose, which is
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the clinical term is called tanking. Tanking is a scam.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: It's a disease. It's snake oil. The championship window is
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: not closed. Now, I'm not going to sit here and
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: tell you that it's wide open. It's not. The championship
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: window is stuck halfway down, and the general manager, Dave Dombrowski,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: needs to go out to Home Depot and buy some WD-40.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: He just does. You don't trade. You do not trade
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Bryce Harper or Trey Turner without eating a lot of cash,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: a lot of delicious dead presidents with barbecue sauce on top.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: And those contracts are so bloated. I believe Trey Turner's
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: got seven years left. He's already slowing down. He's got
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: seven years left on his contract. Holy crap on a cracker, Batman.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Seven years. The guy's already showing signs of decay. My God.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: And those contracts, the Harper-Turner contracts, have their own zip codes. Now,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: you could trade them. Again, you'd have to throw money in.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: You wouldn't get much in return. But this is Philadelphia.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: And that is a town I don't believe you can
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: get away with rebuilding, which is, again, it's a bull
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: crap term, rebuilding. It's intentionally sucking. So you have to
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: try to reload on the fly so the people can
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: still complain, except they won't complain as loud. You don't
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: blow the thing up in Philadelphia. You don't. My guy,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Jonathan in Delaware, Fats in Philadelphia, those guys and Fry Daddy,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: they know that you can reshuffle, like you're at the Bellagio,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: you can reshuffle the cards, and you hope that Dave
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Dombrowski's not holding a 16. He needs Dombrowski to get,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: when he's down getting the WD-40, he needs a paint scraper,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: drywall compound, and to make several uncomfortable phone calls. He's
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: got to make that happen. This offseason, we will not
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: see HGTV Demo Day. We're not going to have Demo Day.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: What we're going to have is some light enhancements. You
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: change the wallpaper. You add an accent wall. You add that,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: reupholster the Chesterfield sofa. And you throw Alex Baum's recliner
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: on off or up and say, hey, you want a recliner?
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: This is his recliner. You've already paid for the house.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: You got to remodel the kitchen without setting the fire
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: to the mortgage. You don't want to burn up the
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: mortgage there. So Don Mattingly, any chance Mattingly had to
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: return his Phillies manager, you would say is over at
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: this point. It's not that big a brain teaser. Donnie
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Baseball will go back to coaching somewhere. He will not
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: be the manager of the Phillies next year. And the Phillies, though,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: have not reached what's known as the Godzilla threshold. The
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Godzilla threshold is the level where things are so bad.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: How bad are they? They're so bad that total destruction
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: back to bedrock is justified. They're not there. Godzilla is
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: somewhere offshore right now lounging on a platoon boat. So
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: not that far away. We're not quite there. Now, final point.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Looking ahead, looking ahead, we go to Atlanta, the Atlanta
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: side of things. They get the victory, rather easy. Easy
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: peasy lemon squeezy over the once proud Philadelphia Phillies. And
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: now the Braves will head off to the West Coast,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: La La Land, to face old friend Freddie Freeman and
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: the D-O-D-G-E-R-S Dodgers. That'll be the battlefield. Chavez Ravine. as
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: these teams have met quite often in the playoffs over
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: the last 10 years, and they will meet again. The question,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: how do Matt Olsen and the Atlanta Braves match up
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: with the big blue wrecking crew, the favorite to win
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: the World Series this year, the Dodgers? So looking at
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: the tail of the tape, the Braves are the Mosquito team,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: In the Dodgers' bedroom, it's like 2, 2.17 in the
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: morning or so, and that mosquito, that blood-sucking mosquito is
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: out there, and there's a bunch of other mosquitoes around it. Now,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: you might eventually kill that mosquito, but what about all
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: its friends? What about all its little mosquito buddies? What
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: about the buddies? Yeah, so good luck sleeping. Good luck sleeping.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Atlanta is not as good as the Dodgers. They are pesky,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: and I have seen it too many times. Pesky can
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: be lethal in October. I do not expect this to
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: be a cakewalk. The Dodgers bring in the Hollywood razzle-dazzle.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: They fix things at the end of the year. They
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: played well the last few weeks of the season after
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: taking some time off and enjoying themselves, as they often
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: do after the All-Star break. But here's the thing. So
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers have the razzle-dazzle. They believe Otani will magically
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: return and be great and all that stuff. But nobody
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: ever got eliminated because the other team looked better if
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: you looked at the depth chart on your tablet. You
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: don't get eliminated because of that. That's why they play
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: the games. So Atlanta does not need to be better
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: than Los Angeles for six months. They don't have to
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: be better than the Dodgers for... three months. They just
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: merely need to be better over the five games. That's it.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: That's the October loophole. Five games. The Dodgers are floating
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: around on a luxury yacht right now. But Atlanta shows
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: up And they're on a little boat out there, fishing boat,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: a little dinghy. Not even a fishing boat, but they
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: have a flamethrower. They have a flamethrower. So you got
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Matt Olsen, Ronald Lacuna Jr., a couple other guys that
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: are big boppers. Some industrial-strength can openers there. One mistake,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: one meatball sub over the plate, and they peel the
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: lid right off that vaunted Dodger pitching staff. So you
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: got Walt Weiss, his squad bringing some success head-to-head recently
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: against the Dodgers. Elite defense. The Braves have a studier bullpen,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: at least based on what has happened over the course
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: of the season. And the Dodgers, they have the supposed
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: better rotation. They have more depth. They've got Otani. They
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: have the party favors on paper, the Dodgers. However, it's
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: a short series. It's a short series, so a couple
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: guys get sluggish, and then there you go. And remember,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: we'll get the complaining from the teams that were off. Oh,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: it's so difficult. It's so hard. Oh, we didn't play
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: for a week. Horror of horrors of horrors. So upstart
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: does beat elite all the time in baseball. It does happen.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: So we'll see how this plays out.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Pacific.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Knock, knock.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Who's there? Lame week.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Lame week who?
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: It's Big Ben's Lame Joke of the Week. All right,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: let's do it. Weed Man, are you there? Weed Man,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: here we go. Weed Man. Yeah, I'm here. You don't
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: seem happy, Weed Man. What's wrong? You seem angry. Why
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: are you angry? Don't be angry.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: What's wrong?
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: I'm not angry.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: I'm not angry.
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: I'm not angry at all.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: All right. What did Weed Man say when he saw
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: the empty appliance box?
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: What?
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Home.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: He said home is what he said. What did he
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: say when he saw a stack of empty boxes?
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: What?
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: He said, yippee, condos. That's from Rosie. Rosie said, thank you, Rosie.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Why was Weed Man not allowed to work the photo
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: booth at the Maller meet and greet?
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Because the sign said, no shirt, no shoes, no teeth,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: no service. That's OG Art Puffin. What is the difference
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: between Weed Man and a catfish?
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: What?
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Well, one is a bottom feeder. The other is a fish.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: That's OG Art Puffin. That's not nice. Well, here's a
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: joke from the multi-time platinum lame joke writer of the year,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Surfer Todd the Comedian. From Vegas, he lives in California, Vegas,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: and Mexico. This guy's such a baller, he's got three homes. Wow.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: I know, you don't even have one home. Did you
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: hear that Weed Man says if someone pays for his
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: new set of teeth, he will work for their assistant.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: How about that?
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: I will.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Weed Man is willing to be a dentured servant.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: That's a great joke. What does Weed Man put on
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: top of his pasta?
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: What?
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Legalized marinara. He loves the legalized marinara. That's Eek in Roseville, Minnesota.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: What did Weed Man say when he heard Poppy's picks
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: were serving up a steaming pile of crap?
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: What?
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: He said Weed Man said pass the salt is what
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: he said. What is Weed Man's favorite astrological sign?
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: What?
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: That was by the last joke was from Lucky Tony. Taurus,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: because 420 is never in retrograde. That's Michael in Tulsa.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: What is or who is Weed Man's favorite football player
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: of all time? Who? Brandon Whedon from Bengals and others.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: That's from Brendan in Boston. What does Weed Man and
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Chris Collinsworth have in common? What? Both would do anything
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: for a quarterback. For a quarterback. That's Kurt from Earth.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Weed Man. Lame jokes of the week.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsportsradio.com. And
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: within the iHeartRadio app, search FSR to listen live.
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: It is the first day of October now, second day,
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: ladies and gents, and the Coop's Coupon Entertainer. It's right
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: about now. And here is Justin Cooper at our Bronco
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: Sound X. All yours for the Coop's Coupon Entertainment. Hooray
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: for Hollywood.
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: Thank you, as always, Marcel. We have some catching up
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: to do here.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: I was out last week during Coop's Coupon Entertainment, so
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: I wanted to highlight a couple of things that were
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: released last weekend. The first is a movie called Heart
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: of the Beast. And this movie basically stars Brad Pitt
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: and a dog.
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: And it is a.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: What kind of dog?
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: German Shepherd.
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: Oh.
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I'm biased to the bulldog.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: I went and saw this movie. It was pretty good. It's...
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: I say pretty good because it's kind of predictable. It's
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: one of those, like, it's a survivalist movie. He's out
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: in the wilderness and, you know, bad things happen. And then,
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: you know, you think he.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Made a movie about the survivor man guy back in
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: the day, or there's guys that would drop in the
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: middle of the forest, that kind of thing. Yeah.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: So basically he is a former Marine, I think. And
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: the dog was also, you know, enlisted. It's an army
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: dog or Marine dog or whatever. And they're both retired and,
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: you know, stuff in the wilderness happens and you think,
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: you know, the dog's going to die. You think he's
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: going to die. And then, you know, I'm not going
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: to give any spoilers. But yeah, it was it was
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: good stuff.
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: I liked it.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: OK, so that's that's in theaters right now. Also in theaters.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: And this one was something I was looking forward to
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: talking about. It came out last weekend. It's got good reviews.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: It's called primetime. And this is on Sanders.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Got a movie.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: This stars Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen. The to catch
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: a predator. Can I have those cookies? Yeah.
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: Why don't you take a seat? Yeah.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: So I believe the real Chris Hansen really did not
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: like this movie and had issues with it. I'm not.
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: I'm not totally sure. I guess I just don't like
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: the way he's portrayed.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: I saw a trailer for it, and they kind of
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: make Chris Hansen's out to be like this ruthless.
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: I haven't seen the movie. I am going to check
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: it out, and I'll report back to you. But I
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: don't know.
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: We'll see.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: Fair enough.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: Moving on to this weekend in theaters, the only movie
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: I want to point out is the new Tom Cruise
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: movie called Digger.
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: This one kind of got.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: You know, I worked at Kiss AM. Our engineer was
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: named Digger. One of the nicest people I ever met.
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: I had a dog named Digger.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: No, this guy was an old guy, and he lived
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: on Mount Wilson in L.A., where all the transmitters are,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: just to make sure the station stayed on the air.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: How loyal is that?
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: Nice.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: He lived by himself on Mount Wilson.
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's got Tom Cruise, Riz Ahmed, John Goodman,
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: and Jesse Plemons. And basically, Tom Cruise plays the most
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: powerful man in the world, who embarks on a frantic
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: mission to prove that he's humanity's savior before the disaster
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: that he unleashed destroys everything.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's good. So it's like Frankenstein's lab. You know,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: we made this monster and it got out.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: It seems a little over the top. I don't know
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: if they're trying to do some, like, elon parallels here uh.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Does tom cruise jump out of a plane at any
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: plane jumping.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: He might honestly he's got to be yeah he loves
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: that uh also another movie this one's a straight to
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: streaming movie but it is available on netflix right now
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: and it is called unabomber.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Uh that's an uplifting family movie.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah uh is it the unabomber i don't know i
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: think it's just unabomber but It stars Shailene Woodley, and
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: apparently I don't know how to spell Unabomber.
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: I lost it here.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: U-N-I-B-O-M-E-R. There we go again.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: Unabomber.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: So that is on Netflix.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: It stars Shailene Woodley and Jacob Tremblay as Ted Kaczynski.
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: Russell Crowe also stars in this movie.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Is he still alive in jail or is he dead?
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: He is dead. He died three years ago.
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: But obviously this kind of goes over his teenage years
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: and then later the manhunt to get him.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: So they caught him. You know, they never caught. When
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: I was a kid, they had this thing in Chicago
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: where people were dying. They were poisoning Tylenol. They never
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: caught that.
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I do know about that one as well.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, never got away. That guy got away with it.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: Probably dead now. It's been 40 years. Probably dead.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: Also available right now, a new limited series called East
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: of Eden on Netflix. And this one stars Florence Pugh.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: And it is basically, it used to be, it was
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: a feature film back in 1955. uh based on the
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: nobel prize winning john steinbeck novel uh it's a seven
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: episode miniseries that follows generations of the trask family this
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: one's got good reviews that is on netflix and i
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: am uh i'm out of time so i'm gonna skip
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: these last two ones