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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go right to Jerry's World, deep in the heart
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  Speaker 1: of Texas, the greatest roller coaster of them all. The
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys lined up a cupcake. Just show up and enjoy
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  Speaker 1: that delicious cream puff. And that's how they kicked off
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  Speaker 1: week five of the NFL schedule. The 0-4 Buccaneers, the
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  Speaker 1: creamsicle Buccaneers, going back to their roots. Suck, suck, suck, suck, suck, suck, suck, suck, suck.
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  Speaker 1: He sailed that sinking pirate ship into port, into Jerry's
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  Speaker 1: port right there. It turned out that Jerry was hoping
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  Speaker 1: for some glory hole, and he didn't get that. Dak
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  Speaker 1: Prescott and Dallas thinking this would be an easy win.
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  Speaker 1: Massive favorites on the gambling line over on DraftKings. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Al Michaels, Kirk Herbstreet were in the booth on the
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  Speaker 1: Amazon booth. So I don't know if you watched or not.
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  Speaker 1: If you're old, you don't know how to watch on Amazon,
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  Speaker 1: so you probably didn't. Perhaps you missed it. Bucky Irving.
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  Speaker 1: You know I'm a fan of Bucky's. Bucky Irving running
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  Speaker 1: for a career-high 165 yards, rumbling and stumbling. He had
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  Speaker 1: a 72-yard run. What a burst. And he scored not
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  Speaker 1: one but two touchdowns. I'm told that's good. And Tampa Bay,
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown or greater dog. Arf, arf, arf. The dogs
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  Speaker 1: are live. They came back to beat Dallas 24-16 Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: First win of the year. So if you had the
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  Speaker 1: Buccaneers going 0-17, you're a loser. The better story, though,
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  Speaker 1: is in the losing locker room. Head coach Brian Schottenheimer
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  Speaker 1: is under siege. Who could have seen that coming? Cameras
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  Speaker 1: caught on Amazon. Jerry Jones looking absolutely miserable as Dallas unraveled.
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  Speaker 1: They had possession of the ball. They were matriculating the
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  Speaker 1: ball down the field. They needed a touchdown on a
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  Speaker 1: two-point conversion because the nerds told them to go for
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  Speaker 1: two on the previous touchdown, which I don't care how
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  Speaker 1: many times people tell me, well, the math says you're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to do it. Dum-da-dum-dum-dum. I just think it's the
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  Speaker 1: stupidest thing in the world. So does Al Michaels. Me
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  Speaker 1: and Al are aligned. Just like we're aligned, Al likes
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  Speaker 1: his steak well done, the proper way to eat a steak,
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  Speaker 1: and I like my steak well done. So when you're
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  Speaker 1: in line with Al Michaels on that, not bad. And
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  Speaker 1: no vegetables. No vegetables. And Al's really freaking old, and
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't eat vegetables. So there you go. Now, afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: Jerry addressed the media. He insisted... that he remains optimistic
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  Speaker 1: about the Cowboys' offense. He did express some disappointment about
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  Speaker 1: the defense. However, however, he defended the defensive coordinator. I
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  Speaker 1: guess we have some of what Jerry had to say,
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  Speaker 1: so let's give you a little taste here. Here is
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones, rich, oil tycoon, living the dream as the
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  Speaker 1: general manager of the Dallas Cowboys, giving his post-game sermon
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  Speaker 1: on the Cowboys' latest loss.
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  Speaker 3: Extraordinarily, extraordinarily disappointing.
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  Speaker 1: We really do need to get it done. And there
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  Speaker 1: you go.
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  Speaker 4: Basically.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: We can't hear that. The microphone was over in Waco.
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  Speaker 1: We had the microphone was in Waco. So we played
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  Speaker 1: that because we had it. Somebody apparently determined to put
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  Speaker 1: that in the system. And I'd like to thank them.
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  Speaker 1: I think they should get an award from the company
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  Speaker 1: because that sounded really good. Let's make the listener have
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  Speaker 1: to turn their radio up to 1,000 to hear what
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  Speaker 1: the person is saying. All right, trust me. So Jerry
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  Speaker 1: started by saying he was disappointed, but then tried to
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  Speaker 1: sell optimism about the Cowboys offense. And he did express
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  Speaker 1: some disappointment specifically about the defense. And yet he defended
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  Speaker 1: the hotshot defensive coordinator, Christian Parker. The money quote, let's
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  Speaker 1: just give you the money quote. We'll work off the
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  Speaker 1: money quote. Can we all agree on that? Let's just
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  Speaker 1: pretend that didn't happen. Here's the money quote. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so Jerry Jones' money quote was, this isn't fold the
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  Speaker 1: tents here. This isn't fold the tents here. Translation, the
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  Speaker 1: circus remains open for business. All right, so that is
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping-off point. Let us discuss the question. Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Jones saying that they're not folding the tents. He talked
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  Speaker 1: about making another trade to try to improve the roster.
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  Speaker 1: He's not folding the tents on the Cowboys season. Isn't
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  Speaker 1: the bigger problem that Jerry refuses to admit the circus,
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  Speaker 1: while it's still open, is on fire? It's on fire.
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  Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I've got Capistrano rebranded and
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  Speaker 1: Pepsi game. And we'll put all these together, and we're
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  Speaker 1: going to do the jitterbug. We're going to do the jitterbug. So, A, Jerry,
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  Speaker 1: by saying he's not folding the tents, I can go
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  Speaker 1: back to any year the past 30 years, and Jerry's
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  Speaker 1: said some version of he's not folding the tents. Now,
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  Speaker 1: why would he? The circus is sold out. Why would
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  Speaker 1: you fold the circus tent if it's all sold out?
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  Speaker 1: The clowns are all under contract. Jerry is a master thespian,
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  Speaker 1: producing a reality show where the same idiots get voted
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  Speaker 1: off every year, and you people keep watching. Jerry deserves
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  Speaker 1: an Emmy Award for pretending the Cowboys are Super Bowl contenders,
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  Speaker 1: using the drama as a diversion to distract fans From
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  Speaker 1: one minor flaw, the team, at least in this game
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday night, struggled with blocking and tackling, which I
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  Speaker 1: believe is somewhat important in professional football. So yet again,
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  Speaker 1: we have seen in an island game, Jerry Jones, he
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  Speaker 1: built this multibillion-dollar cathedral in Texas, and yet visiting teams
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  Speaker 1: regularly treat that like a public restroom somewhere on a
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  Speaker 1: rest area. And they're just covered in feces and urine.
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  Speaker 1: It's disgusting. And Jerry loves watching Dallas fans bite fingernails
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  Speaker 1: and grind their teeth and all that. But he's got
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  Speaker 1: 13 more products to sell. This is only week, well,
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's week five. So he's got 12 products left.
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  Speaker 1: This is week five. So 12 products left for Jerry
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  Speaker 1: to sell. And he's not going to let a vermin
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  Speaker 1: infestation shut his restaurant down. Bring on the rats. Bring
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  Speaker 1: on the mice. I see some cockroaches over there. Bring
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  Speaker 1: them all in. And much like the swallows returning to
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  Speaker 1: San Juan Capistrano, the inevitable Cowboys poop fest arrives predictably
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  Speaker 1: every season. Now, granted, this year it's a little early.
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  Speaker 1: This year it's a little early. The Cowboys are a
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  Speaker 1: luxury brand. that is selling a defective product, and Jerry
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  Speaker 1: gets richer every time the merchandise malfunctions. What a hustle.
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  Speaker 1: People thought three-card Monty was a good hustle. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: what Jerry's got is even better. Even better. It really is.
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  Speaker 1: And just think, the Cowboys, if they don't get that
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  Speaker 1: fluky late win against the Texans, then this is much worse.
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  Speaker 1: It's bad as it is. They're under. 500 after five games.
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  Speaker 1: And Cowboys lucky to be in that position. Only one
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  Speaker 1: game under 500. Now pinwheeling to the quarterback position. The Cowboys,
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  Speaker 1: I guess this guy's got lifetime tenure. You can't get
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  Speaker 1: rid of him. It's wild. Dakota Prescott. who sounded frustrated,
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  Speaker 1: according to the media in Dallas there that was outside
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  Speaker 1: the locker room. Someone yelled, embarrassing, as Dak was making
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  Speaker 1: his way through the bowels of Jerry's world, trying to
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  Speaker 1: get to the happy place there in the locker room.
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  Speaker 1: So somebody yelled out, embarrassing, as he was walking back
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  Speaker 1: to the Cowboys locker room. And reporters said it was
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  Speaker 1: somebody who worked at the stadium. Something tells me that
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  Speaker 1: person's not long for that job. And it was another
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  Speaker 1: walk of shame for the Dallas quarterback there. He knows
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  Speaker 1: a thing or two about that. So the question, you
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  Speaker 1: got Cowboys quarterback Dakota Prescott sounding annoyed that someone barked out, quote, embarrassing,
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  Speaker 1: close quote, as he walked back to the Cowboys dressing room.
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  Speaker 1: Your thoughts on that one? So the stadium employee, and
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  Speaker 1: we don't know who it is. I'm guessing it'll come
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  Speaker 1: out in the next couple of days because he'll get fired,
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  Speaker 1: who heckled Dak Prescott, I believe did not cross the line.
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  Speaker 1: That is tremendous passion. It's just a huge passion play.
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  Speaker 1: He delivered the most accurate scouting report of the evening.
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  Speaker 1: It was absolutely embarrassing. And actually, when you think about it,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't go hard enough. Whoever that was could have yelled,
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  Speaker 1: Grand Larceny! Grand Larceny! Considering the payroll. The dictionary owes
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  Speaker 1: Dak an apology. Embarrassing is entirely too gentle. for a
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  Speaker 1: football atrocity, which is not a real atrocity. It's a
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  Speaker 1: football atrocity. We can use the word atrocity because it's
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  Speaker 1: not real. It's a football atrocity. It was mortifying, emasculating, humbling,
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  Speaker 1: and hideous. All of those things. And it's yet another
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  Speaker 1: stain on the pro football reference page of Dak Prescott.
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  Speaker 1: Not that it matters. He'll probably make more money now
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  Speaker 1: because of this. A team tied for the worst record
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL winning your house. Whose house? Your house.
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  Speaker 1: Ransacked it. Took your balls off without anesthesia. And an
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  Speaker 1: undrafted quarterback named Jalen Daniels, the guy played at Kansas
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  Speaker 1: for like 10 years. And he outplayed the $ 60 million
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  Speaker 1: man who's paid like a small sovereign nation. That's what
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about. That's what happened. Am I being overly dramatic?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I am being overly dramatic. Dak christened
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  Speaker 1: this 2026 Cowboys offense with Gotti. Remember this during training camp? Gotti.
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  Speaker 1: Greatest offense there is. Well, it turns out. The Dallas
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  Speaker 1: football team has rebranded to a new acronym. The new
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  Speaker 1: acronym is CRAPPY. That's one P. C-R-A-P-Y, which stands for
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys Really Are Pathetic Yearly. New offense, no longer gaudy. CRAPPY.
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys Really Are Pathetic Yearly. That's what it means. And
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  Speaker 1: that's not a football philosophy. It's consumer fraud philosophy. Complaint
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  Speaker 1: territory is what it is, right? Dak sold the sizzle.
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  Speaker 1: And he served up lukewarm, like a microwave dinner. And
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  Speaker 1: the plastic is even on. He didn't take the plastic off.
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  Speaker 1: Bad job by him. 16 points. 16 points against a
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  Speaker 1: mid-Bucks defense, 0-4 Tampa team, short week, Thursday night, without
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  Speaker 1: their starting quarterback. And Dak was offended by the review, right?
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  Speaker 1: Apparently not the product. That is the underlying condition. That
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  Speaker 1: seems to be the problem there. One of the many
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  Speaker 1: problems with Dallas. Dak was offended by the person's review
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  Speaker 1: and not the actual performance. The Cowboys should have thanked
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  Speaker 1: that guy. He was doing some quality control work. And
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  Speaker 1: Dak has 60 million reasons to develop something that you need.
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  Speaker 1: That would be much thicker skin. Much thicker skin. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so he was all upset by that in the postgame.
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  Speaker 1: And let's see. All right, the last word here. So
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  Speaker 1: to the Tampa side of things. And the Buccaneers left
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  Speaker 1: for dead. This was a free money game. Many of
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  Speaker 1: you thought I was nuts. I got some feedback on
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  Speaker 1: the email. You picked the Buccaneers. I didn't think the
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  Speaker 1: Bucs were going to win the game. I just thought
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  Speaker 1: they'd lose a close game. And they were trending that
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  Speaker 1: way to lose a close game. And there's no way
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  Speaker 1: you can think the Cowboys defensively The way they stopped
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  Speaker 1: the run coming into this game would be able to
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  Speaker 1: stop anybody, and they couldn't stop the Buccaneers running game
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  Speaker 1: and Bucky Irving and all that. But the last part
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  Speaker 1: of this, to the Tampa side of things, so the question,
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  Speaker 1: how much does this win mean for Coach Todd Bowles
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  Speaker 1: and the Buccaneers? So after a minutes-long review of the
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  Speaker 1: available information, Todd Bowles has been living through a season-long
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  Speaker 1: El Nino! Much like the guy that used to call
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  Speaker 1: the show. But for one night, the clouds parted, the
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  Speaker 1: sun came out, and the birds actually chirped. Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-day.
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  Speaker 1: And let's be honest. The Buccaneers were a dead relationship.
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  Speaker 1: They had little passion. There was not a lot of excitement.
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  Speaker 1: There appeared to be no rhythm to it. Suddenly, the
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  Speaker 1: spark was back. The spark was back. This was the
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  Speaker 1: football equivalent. of getting a stay of execution from the
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  Speaker 1: governor at 1159, or being that woman they tried to
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  Speaker 1: kill in Tennessee who survived, the first woman ever, I
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  Speaker 1: think first person ever. Did you see that story the
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  Speaker 1: other day? That's wild, right? Tried to kill her. They
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  Speaker 1: couldn't even kill her. How about that? Anyway, listen, Tampa
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  Speaker 1: Bay is still alive, not because they're good. Let's not
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  Speaker 1: confuse the fact that the Buccaneers are good. They're not.
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  Speaker 1: They're alive because the NFC South is the only division
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  Speaker 1: where you can start 0-4 and still have someone hold
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  Speaker 1: the elevator open for you. You got the Saints, you
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  Speaker 1: got the Panthers, the Falcons. Ah, come on. Everyone's all
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  Speaker 1: horny for the Falcons now. Let's wait and see. You
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  Speaker 1: beat the Packers and the Saints. Not exactly a murderer's row.
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  Speaker 1: And they have the Ravens upcoming this weekend without Lamar Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: But in terms of this game for the Buccaneers, this
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  Speaker 1: was a Pepsi game. Gotta have it. And for once,
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  Speaker 1: Tampa did not grab the RC Cola. They actually did
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  Speaker 1: the right thing. They grabbed the Pepsi. Gotta have it.
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  Speaker 1: That was the old marketing slogan. If you're old, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. Anyway, Bucky Irving, majestic. Majestic,
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  Speaker 1: almost as good as Beaver Nuggets at Buc-ee's. He was
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  Speaker 1: like a thoroughbred running through a parking lot full of
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  Speaker 1: shopping carts and Supermarket Steve was trying to put them
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  Speaker 1: all back and no. Anyway, Todd Bowles hasn't just been
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  Speaker 1: on the hot seat. He was floating on one of
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  Speaker 1: those plastic floating, what do you call them, the pink thingamajigs? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he was floating on that in a boiling cauldron. And
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  Speaker 1: someone finally turned down the burner. His guys are still scratching.
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  Speaker 1: There's still some clawing, playing somewhat hard for him. And
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  Speaker 1: that's how crazy it is. In today's NFL, simply having
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  Speaker 1: players who still give a damn qualifies as some kind
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  Speaker 1: of heartwarming achievement. It's just wild. Now, keep in mind,
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  Speaker 1: even though this was nice, and I'm a Todd Bowles fan.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's a much better soundbite than he is
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  Speaker 1: a head coach. We like Todd Bowles. He's given us
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  Speaker 1: some good content over the years. coaching mostly crappy teams.
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  Speaker 1: But keep in mind, Todd Bowles isn't out of the woods.
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  Speaker 1: He's not out of the woods. But for one night
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  Speaker 1: in Jerry's world, the Wolves have stopped howling. The Villagers
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  Speaker 1: have put down their pitchforks and their torches. The Executioner
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  Speaker 1: has taken a coffee break and is having a donut
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  Speaker 1: right now. It's a cinnamon roll donut. It's my favorite donut,
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  Speaker 1: the cinnamon roll. It is the Ben Maller Show. If you...
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  Speaker 1: of the fun right here. By the way, I just
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  Speaker 1: saw this. Can we play this again? So here's Dak Prescott.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned this, obviously, earlier here. Somebody called out embarrassing.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Dak, asked about that topic, the word embarrassing. Here's
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  Speaker 1: what Dak had to say. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 5: It's a loss we're supposed to have, definitely supposed to have.
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  Speaker 5: To use the word embarrassing– It's tough. I feel like
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  Speaker 5: I'm discrediting the NFL if I use that, and particularly
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  Speaker 5: the Tampa Bay Bucs and a great Todd Bowles coach
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  Speaker 5: and defensive coach team. Guy's been a winning coach for
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  Speaker 5: a long time, and whether he's been a head coach
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  Speaker 5: or a defensive coordinator, and that's the plan. And what
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  Speaker 5: they did tonight is the reason for that. And so
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  Speaker 5: to say embarrassing, I think I'd be discrediting them. But
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  Speaker 5: we're definitely supposed to win this game. This is a
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  Speaker 5: game that was.
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  Speaker 5: Game we're supposed to have on paper or whichever way
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  Speaker 5: you want to look at it. And I think Shadi
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  Speaker 5: said it best in the locker room. In this league,
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  Speaker 5: you've got to win the games you're supposed to win.
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  Speaker 5: And when a winless team comes into your home stadium
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  Speaker 5: on a Thursday night primetime game, yeah, we're supposed to
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  Speaker 5: win that. And so it sucks and right up there
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  Speaker 5: close to embarrassing. But I don't know if I would
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  Speaker 5: say that.
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  Speaker 1: Let me clear my throat here. Bull crap. Bull crap.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, Dak.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Stop. Just stop. All right. This is, again, part of
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  Speaker 1: the problem. You can be embarrassing. You don't have to, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I can't say the word embarrassing. Dude, you're getting $ 60
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  Speaker 1: million a year. You got outplayed by a guy based
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  Speaker 1: on his college tape should be selling insurance somewhere. And
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  Speaker 1: he just shoved it down your throat. And I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: use the word embarrassing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mentioned Laundry Day, and many in Chicago are
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  Speaker 1: very excited there as they had the White Sox looking
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  Speaker 1: to close things out. And how did that go? Our
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  Speaker 1: lead from Chicago, well, facing elimination, second consecutive day. The
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  Speaker 1: team from Cleveland got her done. The Cleveland baseball team
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  Speaker 1: led by Jose Ramirez. Jose Ramirez, that's right. Jose Ramirez
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  Speaker 1: getting it done. He stepped up yet again. So if
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  Speaker 1: you were watching, and I don't know how many you were,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: even I was watching, I was going back and forth.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: And I am not going to lie. I was a
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: little more into the football game. A little more in.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: But I watched the baseball. I flipped back. A lot
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: of timeouts in these NFL games. A lot of chances
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: to flip back to the baseball game. Anyway, I saw
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: my buddy Marlins man. They had a blackout in Chicago.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Everyone was wearing black. There's Marlins man in his orange jersey. Anyway,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez. Homer drove in three runs, and the team
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: formerly known as the Indians beat the White Sox 9-5.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: And that means the American League Divisional Series is headed
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: to a winner-taker. all game five outstanding now you can't
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: say the greatest two words in sports game seven but
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: you can say the second greatest words in sports game
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: five somebody named patrick bailey we don't know who that
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: is but he went deep as well game two starter
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: gavin williams this guy's a stud He's so good, he's
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: going to end up like the Yankees or the Dodgers.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: He's not long for Cleveland. But Gavin Williams came out
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: of the bullpen, and he got the last three outs
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: as the Guardians win in the Windy City for the
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: second straight day after beginning their postseason with a couple
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: of duds. They looked like they were completely lifeless at
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: home in northern Ohio, and much to the joy of
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Ohio Al and strip club John and Dick and Dayton
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: and all the other legends in Ohio. Here it is.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: So the fallen angel, remember Joe Adele? Yeah, he didn't
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: get off to a great start in the playoffs, but
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Joe Adele hitting a two-run ribby single there in the
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: sixth inning. And that is it. A six-run sixth inning,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: and the AL Central champs get it done. The better story, though,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: is in the losing locker room. So all the pomp
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: and circumstance, all the excitement in the Windy City, the
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: White Sox baby, the Pope wrote a nice letter for them.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: You can't lose at home when the Pope writes a letter.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: The guy's watching from the Vatican. He's supposed to be
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: saving sick kids. What are you doing? Anyway, the White
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Sox were all ready, dressed up, dolled up, ready to
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: dance the night away and move on to the ALCS
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: and play the Tampa Bay Rays. And then they went
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: out and got mollywhopped. Absolutely mollywhopped. And that is a
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: good jumping off point. So let us discuss the question.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Who gets the blame slice of deep dish pizza for
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: manager Will Venables, White Sox, crumbling at home? So I've
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: got Porta Potty, Ryan Seacrest, and The Good Doctor. And
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together. And we're
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: going to put you on the short list. We're going
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: to put you on the short list. So number one.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Number one.
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: One, one, one.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Number one.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: One, one, one. Number one. This loss by the White
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Sox was tailor-made. It was. Unfortunately, the Taylor was blindfolded, drunk,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: and using a rusty sewing machine. It's unfortunate. Somebody named
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Grant Taylor, we're not sure who that is, apparently he's
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: a relief pitcher for the White Sox, he entered in
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: the sixth inning, and he did not retire a single batter.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's good. Oh, you're being mean, Maller!
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: I know.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: How bad was it? It was so bad, his ERA
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: needed a designated driver on his way home after that performance.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: In 20 minutes, Chicago's bullpen went from postseason royalty. They
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: were going to get an invite to the Vatican to
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: hang out with the Pope. And then they became a
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: roadside attraction. From franchise pillar to franchise port-a-potty. Offensively, stranding
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: not one, not two, not three, not four, not five,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: not six, not seven, not.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: Eight, not nine.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: How about 12 runners? which I'm told is borderline brutal
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: when you strand that many runners. And this game, though,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: was still winnable until the middle inning meltdown. The White
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Sox actually had an early lead in this game, but
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: yet they continued to go back to their old friend.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: And as it says in the Bible, you live by
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: the bullpen, you die by the bullpen. It's right there
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: in the Bible. Now, that said, I am going to
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: be Benny Brightside on this. The White Sox did not
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: lose game four. What they did here is secure the
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: most valuable real estate in October. The visiting clubhouse, Will Venable,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: the manager of the White Sox, is actually playing 3D
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: chess while everyone else plays Candyland. The road team has
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: won every game of this series. That means the White
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Sox have road field advantage. Chicago has Cleveland right where
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: they want them. Those Cleveland players will be sleeping in
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: their own beds. They'll be eating their own food at home.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: They'll be surrounded by their families. They'll be in front
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: of their hometown fans. That's just where you don't want
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: to be. And that is where they're going to be.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: They're cooked. They're royally screwed. They really are. All right,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: page two. To the calendar app on your phone. To
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: the calendar app on your phone. We mentioned December 1st
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: is the big date. Baseball's labor agreement with the union
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: runs out. So baseball's proposing a bunch of things. They
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: say they want to cut the regular season back. There's
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: too many games. Keep in mind, the National Hockey League
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: just added more games this season. There's more games in
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: the NHL than there have been, and it added two
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: more games. Baseball's like, ah, there's too many games. So
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: they want to get out their samurai sword, and they
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: want to chop away eight games. They want to go
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: from 162 games to 154 games. In 2029, so a
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: couple years down the line, it's shortest schedule. Since 1961,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: they've always played more than that, but they want to
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: go back to the pre-1962 season. They had some expansion
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: that year. So the divisional series would also expand from
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: a best of five to a best of seven. Starting
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: next season, the very optimistic MLB people The plan is
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: that the number three seed would handpick wildcard opponents. So
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: if you're the number three seed, you get to say, oh,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I want to play this team. That team sucks. I
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: want to play them. The number one seeds would then
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: select divisional round opponents. So the 12-team playoff format would
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: remain the same. So they're not going to add more
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: teams for now. That's something they'll do down the line. Also,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: most Mondays, from what I was reading, most Mondays would
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: become off days. They would have select nationally televised broadcast
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: island games, which baseball doesn't have very many of, island games.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball also claims additional rest. This is what
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I love. They're claiming that this extra rest will improve
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: player health and create fewer bullpen games. That's funny. That
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: is funny. Fewer bullpen games.
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Did Dave Chappelle write that for you? Major League Baseball
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: claims additional rest will improve player health and create fewer
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: bullpen games. That is that right there, that line, my God.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: So salaries supposedly will remain untouched, but the Players Union
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: is warning that these proposals are tied to a salary cap,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: threatening compensation, player rights, et cetera, et cetera. So let's
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: just jump into the main part of this. The question
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: is this. Give me the word. Give me the word
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: for Major League Baseball looking to have the top teams
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs handpick their playoff opponent. Give me the
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: word for that. So my word is capital G gimmicky.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Capital G gimmicky. That's my word. Rob Manford, or as
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: we like to call him, Manfraud, continues to work his magic.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: someone that doesn't really like baseball. He's turning MLB into
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Springfield Elementary. You've got Bart and Milhouse picking teams, and
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: bad news for Ralph Wiggum, you're not going to be
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: picked until the very end. And Principal Skinner negotiating the
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: TV rights right now. So what's next? What do we
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: have next? So the top seed gets to call shotgun
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: on the team boss and sit in the front? Is
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: that how that works? Is that the next collective bargaining agreement?
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Picking your playoff opponent Wow. That is so un-baseball-like. You
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: know what that is? That's going down to the YMCA.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: That's a pickup game at the YMCA. It just happens
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: to have a multi-billion dollar TV contract attached to it.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: And you and I both know that Rob Manford would
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: love to hire Ryan Seacrest to host the selection show. America,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: your votes are in. And Dodgers are going to play. Actually,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers wouldn't even have picked. The Brewers. The Brewers
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: are going to pick. So and so. Can you imagine?
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: The only positive I can think of this from a
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: talk radio standpoint, could you imagine the humiliation of a
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: number one seed in baseball picking a team they think
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: is inferior, a lousy opponent, and then ending up losing
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: to that team? Congratulations, you've just created a national holiday
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: for struggling sports gas bags on talk radio. Thank you
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: for that. Now, meanwhile, the owners, the thing that stands
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: out about this, the owners are negotiating through the media.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: No ifs, ands, or buts about it. This is a
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: media negotiation. Apparently, the collective bargaining table has been replaced
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: by a group chat with the top 1% of baseball writers,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: the ones that lick the toes of Major League Baseball.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: You know who they are. So Major League Baseball has
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: apparently confused collective bargaining with an episode of The View.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: We're just going to sit around the table here, boys,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: and here's what we're going to do. It's a corporate
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: PowerPoint presentation that escaped from captivity. is what it is.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: The fewer games, listen, you want to have fewer games,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: that's fine. Don't tell me it's going to create less
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: bullpen games because they're just going to say these nerds
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: will be like, okay, we'll give them even more rest.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: It's like the NBA. Once that disease, it's a mind disease.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Once it gets into your mind, there's no way around.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: The NBA is still feeling the effects of load management,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: which went unchecked for years. And the product is terrible,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: and the regular season is completely irrelevant. And it was
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: self-inflicted by the NBA. Baseball wants fewer games. Fine. I'm
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: telling you, you can have every Monday off. These guys
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: can go out on the beach in their banana hammock
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: and get suntans and knock themselves out, and they're still
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: going to take time off. The pitching is still going
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: to be babied. guaranteed out of an abundance of caution.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: All right, final point. I want to go back to Atlanta. Now,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: we loaded up on Ronald Acuna Jr. in a previous
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: episode of the show, and this became a talking point
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: around baseball, not because of us, of course, just because
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: other people picked up on the obvious thumb that was throbbing, right,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: the sore thumb. So Brave fans loudly booed.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: Boo!
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Boo, boo, boo, boo, boo. Boo, boo, boo, boo, boo.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Ronald Acuna Jr., This following the epic fail against the Dodgers,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: a very pathetic performance in the postseason. And Kuna Jr.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: was verklempt. He was very emotional as he walked off
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: the field. Now, on Turner Sports, the grandy man can,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: the grandy man can. Curtis Granderson, he offered some encouragement
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: on TV, saying to Ronald the Kuna Jr., don't ever
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: sell yourself short of that Pedro Martinez, who's your daddy?
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Pedro Martinez defending Ronald Acuna Jr. on Turner, saying, quote,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: we love Ronald and we're proud of him, too. Isn't
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: that sweet? That's so sweet. All right. Question. What did
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: you make of Pedro Martinez and Curtis Granderson defending Atlanta
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Brave in battle outfielder Ronald Acuna Jr.? So the first
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: thought I had was, he's not watching. I promise you,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: he's not sitting on his ass watching the Turner Sports
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: coverage of the baseball playoffs. So what are you doing?
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: And I thought it was saucy. I thought the comments
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: were saucy. It was weak sauce. I wanted to puke
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: in my mouth. Here comes the brotherhood of the jococracy,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: former players, the Baseball Alumni Association of Hurt Feelings, circling
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: the wagons. to protect the one and only one of
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: their guys uh heaven forbid that we have some truth
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: in broadcasting ronald lacuna jr wasn't just bad against the
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: dodgers he was terrible terrible terrible terrible terrible i believe
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: he had what two hits and 15 at bats four
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: strikeouts that's not a slump that is a missing person's
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: report and here come pedro and The Grandy Man with
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: the emotional support blankies. They've got the blankies, the complimentary
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: mani and pedis at the day spa. So are we
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: playing Major League Baseball here or running some kind of
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: resort in Scottsdale? What exactly is going on? This just
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: in to Fox Sports Radio. Ronald Acuna Jr. earned those boos.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Every single one of those boos. Now, we support the
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: good doctor, Dr. Tough Love, the paying customers in Atlanta.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: We're not booing the childhood. They weren't booing the family.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: They weren't booing the personality of Ronald Acuna Jr. They
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: were booing the performance. And that's still allowed. And when
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: that's not allowed, I'm out. I'll go find something else
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: to do. If we get to the point you're not
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: allowed to boo, no boo for you, I'm out. To me,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: that's called accountability. And the fans are not your friends.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: They're your customers. And Ronald Lacuna Jr. does not need
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: a group hug anymore. He doesn't need a participation trophy,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: some extra bags of orange slices. He doesn't certainly need
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: a lavender-scented bubble bath, one of those scented bubble baths.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: He doesn't need that. He needs tough love. And the
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Braves need a franchise player, and they're at a crossroads.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: They've got to figure out whether they want to keep
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: this guy around because he's got, by baseball standards, a
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: pretty reasonable contract, or if they want to unload him.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: And he's supposed to be a franchise player. He's like
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: a franchise ghost is what he is.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Pacific. Thank you.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Knock, knock.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: Who's there?
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Lame Week.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Lame Week who?
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: It's Big Ben's Lame Joke of the Week. All right,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: let's do it. Weed Man, my buddy Billy in Hollywood, Florida.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Are you there, Billy?
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, how you doing, Ben?
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: Make me laugh.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Any more free food from Purito? Oh, I want to
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: thank Purito.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: He sent me, it's great.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: He sent me steak and potato.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: It's great.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. I feel like Purito's paying you for
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: the show. I feel like you're getting paid by Purito
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: and food to be on the show. I feel like
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: that's going on. All right, let's do this. Here are
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: the actual jokes. Kara, BenMallerShow at gmail.com. What brand of
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: lollipop best describes Weed Man?
• 34:41
  Speaker 7: What?
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Dum-dums. That's Noah in Austin. Thank you, Noah. Did you
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: hear that Weed Man Hippie got Mike the Leprechaun high? Really? Yep.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: The Blarney got stoned. You know about the Blarney stone?
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: That's Rosie, of course, right there. Yeah, yeah. Why is
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Weed Man on the no-fly list? Why?
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Because he could not wait a mile to get high.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: That's why. That's Scotty on the Pike, the legendary Scotty
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: on the Pike. Did you hear that Weed Man is
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: getting into his ancestry?
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. He wants to know all about his tree.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: You love the tree, Weed Man. That's from Brendan in Boston.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Why does Weed Man like the Ben Maller show so much? Why?
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Because it gets him higher. Higher! That's Mike in Tulsa.
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: It does.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Yes, it does. Now, what does Weed Man think of
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: the capital of Florida is? What do you think the
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: capital of Florida is? What? What is it? The letter F.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: That would be the capital of Florida for you. For you.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: That's from Eric in Kansas. Do you even know what
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: the capital of Florida is?
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: No.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: No.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Isn't it Tallahassee? I believe it is, right? I think
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: it's Tallahassee. But how long have you lived in Florida,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Weed Man?
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: A long time.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: I know. You don't even know the capital of your state.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: That's wild. All right, now that weed. What do Weed
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Man and the Miami Dolphins have in common?
• 36:24
  Speaker 7: What?
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: They're both going to be losers this weekend. That's Eric
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: in Kansas. What did Weed Man call the recent garbage
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: spill on the interstate in the city of Youngstown?
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: What?
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Two words. Thanksgiving dinner. That's John from Youngstown, Ohio. Why
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: did Weed Man spend a week in front of a bakery? Why?
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: He was hoping for free dough. He wanted that dough.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: I believe that was Mike the Leprechaun who sent that
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: one in. Did you hear that the Weed Man became
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: famous in his detective job as an undercover agent?
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Yes, he was known as Sherlock Homeless. That's Mike the Leprechaun.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: What does Weed Man tell his grandchildren to call him?
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: What?
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Granddaddy Purple. That's Surfer Todd the Comedian. There you go.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: George in Uvalde says, did you know Weed Man Hippie
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: once bought a sweet car online?
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: Really?
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it belonged to Neil Diamond. There you go. Bye-bye-bye.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: That's George and Yuval D.R. I think that's all we
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: have time for. Thank you, Weed Man. There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Weed Man. Hippie, be well, my man.
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  Speaker 7: And the Coop Scoop on Entertainment, that is, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 7: which starts right now. And here is none other than
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  Speaker 7: my man himself, Justin Cooper, at all. Bronco's fan on
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  Speaker 7: X is all yours. And take it away.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Marcel. As always on Coop Scoop on Entertainment,
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  Speaker 4: we're going to start off in the movie theaters. And
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  Speaker 4: in this weekend, we've got a couple movies that I've
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  Speaker 4: been excited about wanting to check out. The first one
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to mention is Other Mommy.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 4: I have seen the trailers for this, and it looks pretty,
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  Speaker 4: you know, pretty freaky, a little terrifying. My wife wants
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  Speaker 4: to see it, but she's also horrified at the same time.
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  Speaker 4: It stars Jessica Chastain as the other mommy, and the
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  Speaker 4: regular mommy. But Bella, an eight-year-old girl living at home
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  Speaker 4: with marital problems, confronts a sinister entity that comes out
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  Speaker 4: of her closet. The presence whom she calls Other Mommy
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  Speaker 4: becomes increasingly threatening to her and her family. That is out,
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  Speaker 4: but it's got pretty bad reviews so far.
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  Speaker 1: See, that name, Coop, could go either way. It could
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  Speaker 1: be a Hollywood movie or it could be an adult movie.
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  Speaker 1: You never know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true. It probably is an adult movie somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure. In fact, you know, we should check with
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  Speaker 1: our expert. Everyone's got to have a guy, Lucky Tony.
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  Speaker 1: I'll bet you Lucky Tony knows if there's a movie
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  Speaker 1: by that name. I bet you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so you're probably right. Also out in theaters this
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  Speaker 4: weekend is The Social Reckoning. Now, this is a companion movie.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you want to call it a
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  Speaker 4: sequel to The Social Network from back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I remember that.
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  Speaker 4: The Facebook movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this is also
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  Speaker 4: from Aaron Sorkin. And it is inspired by true and
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  Speaker 4: true events. We're back at Facebook. The whistleblower who started
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  Speaker 4: the social media reckoning that we're seeing playing out today.
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  Speaker 4: I believe it has to do with, you know, all
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  Speaker 4: of the.
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  Speaker 1: When people were telling the truth and they were getting
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  Speaker 1: blocked during the pandemic? Is that what it was about?
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  Speaker 4: Not just that, but like, I don't know, purposely, you know,
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  Speaker 4: putting stuff to divide people on Facebook and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, it's like in TV, they said
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  Speaker 1: if it bleeds, it leads. But on the internet, if
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  Speaker 1: it causes heartache, people stay on longer, right? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: people are upset. Political ideology... People get very worked up
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  Speaker 1: by that crap. Right, right.
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  Speaker 4: And it's good for them. Yeah, so this has got
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  Speaker 4: a big cast. It's a true David and Goliath story.
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  Speaker 4: We've got Mikey Madison, who won Best Actress a couple
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  Speaker 4: years ago for that movie Onora. She is in the
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  Speaker 4: movie playing Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer who enlists
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  Speaker 4: the help of Jeff Horowitz, who is played by Jeremy
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  Speaker 4: Allen White, who is famous from the show The Bear.
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  Speaker 4: And who is the Wall Street Journal reporter? And they
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  Speaker 4: go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the
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  Speaker 4: whistle on the social network's most guarded secrets. Jeremy Strong
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  Speaker 4: plays Mark Zuckerberg in this one. Bill Burr also appears
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  Speaker 4: in this movie. So, yeah, it's got a pretty good
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  Speaker 4: review so far. That's out this weekend. And last but
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  Speaker 4: not least, one thing that I wanted to point out
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  Speaker 4: on TV this week, Wednesday, October 14th, is the return
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  Speaker 4: of the show The Lowdown on FX at 9 p.m.
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  Speaker 4: This is season two. I watched season one.
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  Speaker 1: It was great.
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  Speaker 4: The cast is led by Ethan Hawke, who plays an
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  Speaker 4: obsessive Tulsa citizen journalist. and Betty Gilpin and Tommy Lee
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  Speaker 4: Jones join the second season.
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  Speaker 1: Still getting work, Tommy Lee Jones.
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  Speaker 4: I know, right? He's old.
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  Speaker 1: How old?
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  Speaker 4: He's got these late 70s? He's 80 years old.
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  Speaker 1: 80 years old. That's late 70s. That's early 80s. That's
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  Speaker 1: past late 70s, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But, yeah, that is Wednesday at 9 p.m. on FX,
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  Speaker 4: The Lowdown.