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One of our great bosses over the years likes to say so. March madness. The curtain went up on the twenty twenty five men's basketball tournament, and I don't know if you're watching or not. I'm pretty sure I need some kind of IV. I think I overdosed on hoops. And normally what happens on tournament days is I'm not gonna lie.
I don't watch the early games at all. Why would I.
I usually sleep, But I filled in at the local station on Thursday, so I was up early, and so I watched, and then I kept watching, and I kept watching, and all the way through the night, though a lot to digest. The biggest story after a minutes long Mall review of the day, the biggest story the clash of big name coaches. This might have been the greatest game in the world, and all that there was a late lead change.
I think there were like ten lead changes in the game.
But the big name coach, which is what we put our hat on.
Here.
You had John Kylipari on one side making his tournament debut as Arkansas's coach, and Bill self the staple of Kansas basketball in Lawrence, Kansas, home of a Ben mallor food dish there at the Bird in Lawrence. So someone named Jonas It's not Jonas Knox, it's Jonas i Do scored twenty two points and Arkansas came back and ends up winning seventy nine to seventy two in the opening round of the tournament. So that number ten seed knocks off the number seven seed Kansas the better story in the losing locker room. So that is where we will focus on this particular game that Jayhawks eliminated from the madness of March. And now the questions are being asked, will they be rebooting the coaching staff?
What all right?
So let us discuss anytime a big name coach gets excommunicated from the tournament. Early on, you asked the question, we will ask the question, is the venerable Bill Self on the hot seat at Kansas? So I've got toothpaste, biblical and ven diagram, and we will combine all of these things together and we are going to make some banana cream pie. The king of all pies is the banana cream pie. And it doesn' appear that Kansas took a banana cream pie to the face, all right, So a to answer the question, is Bill self on the hot seat at Kansas?
I am nodding my head, yes, I am nodding my head. Yes. Now, this is only the second time that.
The Associated Press preseason number one team has lost in the first round of the tournament. The only Kansas, by the way, was that team. They were preseason number one. There our first game of the tournament. The only other time in the history of the tournament it's happened was Bill Self and Kansas back in five they lost to buck Nell.
And so there you go a little fun factoid for you.
But I want you to turn up your headphones a little bit because you're gonna hear in the background we talk about Bill Self and his status, you'll hear the sound of crackling geese.
You hear that little sound of crackling geese.
Now you know what that means, right, That means storm clouds are building. And this was Kansas' worst season according to many pundits, and the numbers bear this out. In the twenty two years with Bill Self at the hell that's a generation of Bill Self coaching Kansas basketball. But it cuts deep, and I go back to the D word. I go back to the D word. Darwinism, adapt or die is the way I look at this and the NIL which has been around for a few years now.
But the name, image, likeness thing has been.
A gigantic sea change for the old guard in college sports, and we've seen a lot of them leave.
But you look at a guy like Bill Self who's been.
Around and around and around and around and around, and you don't necessarily like it. Whether you like it or not, it doesn't matter. It's not up for debate. This is the way college athletics are. And despite Nick Saban and other prominent college figures of years gone by going to Capitol Hill, you're not gonna be able to put the toothpaste back in the tube. The toothpaste is out of the tube, you can't put it back in, and it's gonna be all messy and you're sloppy the whole thing. So Bill self coach self has been unable to consistently keep up with the new ecosystem in college basketball. And Bill Self and Kansas now they've lost the first weekend, not in the first game, but the first weekend in five of the last six NCAA tournaments, so five out of six they're done by. They don't even get to the sweet sixteen. And you look around and there are some big time jobs open. So this could be like a lateral move. The one that I was texting some of my college basketball.
People, you know something.
You know, I watched the tournament, but I'm not obsessing on every single college basketball game. And the job that kept popping up with Bill self was the Texas Longhorns job. They lost in the tournament, and there's a lot of chatter that there's gonna be a coaching change of it. It hasn't already happened in Austin. So Bill Self could just move to that job and there's some other prominent gigs that are either open or will be open, so.
There's some opportunities there.
Of self wants to have an exit stage, right, he can do that now Page two, give me the good, the bad, and the ugly from day number one of March number are with the good, I'll be Benny Bright said, So the good we had another heavyweight coaching matchup secured, and I'm all about the matchups.
Boss.
Now, this doesn't necessarily reflect what happened on Thursday, but it is a direct reflection of the events of Thursday because of wins on Day one Arkansas. If you look at your bracket, Arkansas and Saint John's will face off on.
Saturday, Saturday, Saturday in the second round of tournament play.
Now, to me, that's a great thing because you've got John Calipari, big name coach versus Rick Patino, and I got Saint John's going, I mean right there all the way.
So I was a little concerned early on.
When Omaha Omaha had an early lead, But you know, it's college basketball, So who cares about the first five minutes in many cases, the first ten minutes or the twenty minute.
Who cares?
But Rick Patino versus John Calipari will play on Saturday because of what happened on Thursday, and that'll be the twenty fourth time they will have gotten together, but the.
First time in almost a decade.
Last time Buttino was at Louisville and coach cal was I believe that that was back Kentucky, still back in twenty sixteen. Now, the bad, bad to the bone, that would be the Atlantic Coast Conference. Now in my lifetime, for much of my adult life, that was the gold standard of NCAA basketball, right, And there's a biblical expression that applies here. How the mighty have fallen? Now, maybe it's just this just an off year, but you had Louisville the number eight seed, lost to number nine Creighton early on. You had Clemson the number five seed. That was the biggest upset of the day. They were getting both. It just absolutely destroyed. It ended up being a closer final score. But McNeice formerly known as McNeese State the number twelve seed, not Clemson out. So that means, now, if my mal or math is correct, and I am Benny Bractologist, so half of the ACC contingent has already vacated the field. Half That means that you only have the number one seed Duke and the number eleven seed North Carolina and the Tarihills. They had to win in that fugazy first four game the other night just to get to this point. So now, why is it so bad? As a distant relative of Nostra Damas and friend of Nostra Denis, I will tell you, going.
Back and looking at my crystal ball, why things are so bad.
In the last four years, the ACC has said bye bye to coach k Roy Williams, Tony Bennett, Jim Beheim, you can go down. Leonard Hamilton had some success at times. He's also gone Jim Larronega. I'm sure I missed somebody else as well. They've all retired, they've all checked out.
I'm done. That's it now. The ugly.
And if you look at my big board here not a list my big board.
This is debatable.
I could have flipped the ACC the bad with the ugly, but I'm gonna go with carpet bagging coaches who it's just a flavor of college sports. It's like you don't need to really learn the names of the players or the coaches because they're always changing. And the carpet bagging coaches in March matis you had Will Wade. Boy, what a scandal he was at at LSU back in the day. So Will Wade is the coach at McNeese formerly McNeese State. So he has agreed to take the job at North Carolina State.
So that's a better job for him.
But the announcement coming down as McNeice pulled off this win in the tournament. Then there's a guy named ben Ben McCollum who is in a similar situation, although it's not a done deal we are told for him. This guy McCollum is the coach at Drake. He's in his first season at Drake, not Drek Drake. Just like the musician, everyone likes to pick on the Canadian guy. So he has been connected to the Iowa job. Holy Hawkeys bat Man, and he didn't have a job yet, but it seems to be almost a done deal.
He was born in Iowa City.
I was reading a little bit about this guy from Iowa City and he grew up in the state. It just seems like a natural thing considering Iowa Pole axed their head coach, so it seems like that's gonna happen now the last word here. We enjoy the tournament, certainly the first couple of days. Always, always enjoy, always enjoying. This was not like anything outrageous. I would say this was a pretty benign day one overall of March Madness, with the lack of dramatic buzzard meters and all that stuff were there were so many missed layups. I was trying to hit my little notes thing app I was. I was futching around my phone trying to count all the mislayups, and I just I just gave up the answers a lot. There were a lot of mislaymups. But what is the big takeaway from the start of March Madness twenty twenty five. I'm glad you asked. It's time now for a Ben Mahler Show PSA, a Ben Mahler Show public service announcement. Yeah, so consider there's my good Mitch for the day. It is a reminder I do this at least one at one point during the year, much like the swallows returning to Capistrano, or will punk Satani Phil see his shadow?
Where we have more winter?
These things are traditional. So if you look at my ven diagram here. The NCAA tournament is different than almost every other sporting event. Every other sporting event starts out and builds up to a crescendo.
Right.
You start out, there's a little like baseball, Just baseball, Okay, opening day, you pay a little attention and you see how your team's doing, and then you check back every once in a while, and then you build up to the playoffs and then ultimately the World Series. So you're building up to this this thing where it Most things in life start out small and then gradually increase and they get to that climax.
Right, this is the opposite. This is the opposite.
Public support for March madness is directly related. There's a correlation to how your bracket is doing, and it is the only thing I can go. Maybe some NASCAR people have challenged me over there, what about.
The Daytona five buggety? Okay, But if you're.
A real NASCAR fan, you're gonna watch and there's the playoff and.
You're into that whole thing. So I don't consider it the same thing.
Right, This is a situation where we start out Thursday and now going into Friday peak.
Interest Fully, attentive, fully attentive.
And the deeper we get into the weeds of the NCAA tournament, the less interest we have depending on how your your brackets crumpled up and you've just been absolutely destroyed on your your pixing. Also, if you're in an office pool, get those squares.
You know, those those square things and all that. Yeah.
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March madness football Football Time Now for a Mallor Show follow up, A Mallor Show follow up dateline Foxborough Free agent visit, Free agent visit Wide receiver Stefon Diggs a very public courtship.
With the Patriots. Have you heard the latest? Well, we are told that the meeting.
According new reports, the meeting between Stefan Diggs and the Patriots went very well. However, there is no contract that is said to be imited. Diggs visited New England. That visit consisted of a free meal with team employees that was on Wednesday night, and there were meetings.
On Thursday, there was a physical.
He was poked and prodded, and then he was picked up by a car service and driven to the air.
And he got out of dodge he took off.
So let us discuss the question Stefan Diggs meeting with the Patriots. However, however, he left without a contract. What does that tell us? So I've got sugar Loaf, Texas roadhouse and my pillow, and we will combine all of these things together and we are going to make some gummy candy.
Is what we're gonna make.
Because I know that our friend Lorena loves gummy candy and she doesn't like when people at work steel her gummy candy. All right, So num burr, I said, numb bur My first thought on this Stefan Diggs's story and what it tells us the fact that he didn't agree to a contract with the Patriots, is that.
The check engine light started a flash. Oooooow, that's what it sounds like. Who just like that?
So the check engine light started flashing and making some noise when the exam was taking place, when the physical was taking place, There's gotta be something that was a little funky, little funky there.
Now, what is my supporting evidence?
This was, to our knowledge, Tofon Diggs's first free agent visit of the offseason. The NFL drafts about a month away. There's been a lot of players bouncing around.
So the fact that he went to New England, what does that tell us?
It tells us that that was his either only option or he wanted to play for the Patriots, or both or both. So you don't visit a team unless you're willing to sign a contract with the team. Otherwise you would have gone somewhere else first, and he traveled all that way to get a turkey dinner and a bag of chips. So that's what it is now as the mantra in the NFL. We've all heard this over the years. You pay attention to this stuff. If you bring a free agent in for a visit and you want the player, what do you do. You put a padlock on the door, you dead bolt the door, and you don't let good players leave the building. You get the doc you signed out, and you say, all right, let's sign The fact that that did not happen with Stefon Diggs. Instead, instead it's we're getting spin like, well, you know, it's just to get to know your type of meeting and you know where you're at medically, that type of thing.
Uh.
And if you smell closely, that's bull almost said the ForWord. It's bull bull pucky quote Jay Scoop, it's bull pucky. But the Patriots I love the reporting. According to Jordan Schultz, the king of All Starbucks, he said that the Patriots intend to remain in contact after they.
Met with Stefawn Diggs.
So this is now sounding to me like a the old school nineteen seventies sugar Loaf song don't call us, will call you, don't call us?
So it makes you wonder things that make you go hmm.
Is that acl now like barbecue pulled port? Did Stefan Diggs ask for too much money? We know the Patriots are a bunch of tightwades. Now they say they could circle back.
That's a weasel word.
It sounds on this side of the microphone like Stefon Diggs will.
Continue his job search.
So it sounds like to me, and there's really no one else knocking on his door to our knowledge. Now page two, there are whispers in hush tones that that Cowboy's front office is said to be a house divided.
Isn't that dramatic? House divided?
A house divided over Micah Parsons and whether or not to give him a mega mega mega Mega got millions contract extension, defensive star Micah Parsons.
So is this genuine or is this phony? So I have.
This one, the Micah Parsons Front Office Divide, the Great Divide, the chasm in the front office of the Cowboys. I have this as kosher. I believe that it's legit. I don't think it's phony maloney. In fact, it's not a surprise. It would have been a surprise if there was a consensus. The fact that Michael Parsons hasn't agreed to a contract yet is part of the story. But my position, and I know this from and I have an advantage over everyone else. I'm a human being, so I know what human beings you act like. It is nearly impossible to get a group of people to agree on anything because back in the day, and I was a bad student, but I paid attention.
And a little bit you would when you were doing group projects.
There's always the person that does the lion's share of the work. There's the people that just do the bare minimum. And then there's the people that are the caboose and they're just along for the ride, right, They're just along for the ride, and that's the standard fair. And with the Cowboys, like any other team, there's gonna be clicks, and you don't expect universal agreement. Michael Parsons is more name than game.
Do you agree with that?
Like the name is pretty good because he plays with the Cowboys, got the star in his helmet. But it's like if you went to the Texas Roadhouse and they added to their menu there and they said, well, by this item, it's all sizzle, but it's a petite steak. It's not no steak. It's just a petite steak, but it's a lot of sizzle, just like that, but not a lot of steak. And as we understand the power structure in Dallas, there's sound of it right.
There either that at a lightning and rain. But you have good cop, bad Cop, You've got good cop bad cup.
So Stephen Jones the spawn, the kid that just happened to get in the right genetic lottery. His dad happened old the Cowboys.
So Stephen Jones is a tight one.
From what we're hearing, and he didn't want to spend money. And then Jerry Jones wants to spoil his guys and just give them the riches of Solomon. Thus you have what's known as the I word instability. Also, everyone, everyone who's around the Cowboys has to be part of the reality show, and the Cowboys always must maximize media coverage. And if the Cowboys had already signed Michael Parsons to an extension, the story's over. If you wait until training camp at the eleventh hour. It's like those movies where they have the sticks of dynamite wrapped with tape and they have a timer. You gotta stop it right before the timer gets down to double.
Zero or triple zero. You gotta stop.
But ultimately, we do believe that Micah Parsons, against our better judgment, will get a bag, a giant bag, and he'll be paraded around the Death Star with the Cowboys practice and everyone will be happy and smiling, and we all right. Now final point, we go to Baltimore. A hum dinger, a humdinger of a story. How do you untangle the latest revelations that Ravens Kicker, the creepy Kicker Justin Tucker hired a law firm for those facing high profile reputational attacks. How do you untangle that? So this is kind of like a Metallica song fight Fire with Fire, And I love the fact that an NFL kicker is in such a corner. He's like a cornered snake that he's hiring one of these high falutin DC area firms that is supposed to clean up your mess. And it's the same company that Mike Lindell hired, the My Pillow Guy. So Justin Tucker has something in common with the My Pillow Guy. The company I was reading about it called the Claire Locke.
I think I'm getting that right.
It was a story in the Baltimore Sun about this, and that's the law firm, and they've pretty much cornered the market on these type of stories scandal ridden people and normally politics from what I read.
And then you have an NFL player here, and so Justin Tucker.
Is under siege. If you missed it, he's been accused. How can I clean this up?
For radio?
Justin Tucker has been accused of giving out his franken beans to those that didn't ask for his franken beans, brushing his as Lady Gaga would say, his disco stick against the massage therapist and leaving what some of them thought was his own personal homemade blend ranch dressing on the massage.
Table, among other things.
And we're over a dozen I think we were around sixteen massage therapists.
That we're making these various claims.
Now, my moles tell me that it's only a matter of when. It's not a matter of if. It's a matter of when Justin Tucker will end up getting whacked. Probably shouldn't have used that word, but in Baltimore that he's out. The Ravens are expected to draft a kicker in the late April draft.
Likely day two, day three, definitely not day one. Maybe day three.
They'll draft a kicker, and then on some random Friday, when no one's paying attention, all of a sudden.
It'll be bye bye, and Justin.
Tucker will be excommunicated from the flock. He will no longer be a poet and you don't even know it.
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John Lynch spoke to reporters at Stanford's pro day Wednesday and talked about the forty nine ers clearing room this offseason and that they have a plan to restock the roster. He said, we have some big things coming our way. Ben, how long do you think it'll be before the forty nine ers are legit contenders again?
Well, the problem is they don't have a quarterback, they have a game manager, they don't have a guy that upgrades.
Players around him.
So, uh, it's gonna be There'll be a fringe playoff team, but to be a real Super Bowl contender, it's gonna be a long time because Rock Purty's not that guy. You're not that guy, Pal, And what else is John Lynch gonna say? He's got to be positive next?
So in the most recent episode of HBOS last week tonight, John Oliver called for the banning of player props due to student athletes getting harassed for failing to hit a certain stat. The nc double A then basically did the same thing on Twoda day. Yeah, Ben, do you think player props on college sports could be a thing of the past.
No, Because John Oliver is not that bright because you'll you'll get rid of the illegal.
Betting of player props.
But dudes will just go to their bookies or they'll they'll go to the the illegal websites and bet player player props are not going away.
So either you have them legal or you don't have them legal. It's not it's noble as they get rid of them.
They're not going away because people are gonna if people want to bet props, are going to find a way to bet props.
So you know, knock yourself out.
Next, Doc Rivers called an emergency meeting with Damian Lillard and Jannison Tetakunpo after they lost to the Warriors without Steph Curry. Yeah, it's supposed to be an open forum for both starts to provide input on ways to improve the team.
Ben, how much trouble are they in?
None? They just beat the snot out of your Lakers. Cool? What do you say? Won a one eighteen to eighty nine?
The Bucks are back, baby, stop it they buck Jannis was no Luca, no Labron.
Stop the Lakers fail.
You fail this edition. That is.
Tremendous job by the Bucks walk off. Good job, Doc Rivers, good job doc.
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Blame Weed?
Blame week too. It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week and no, here we go outside that poor Big Ben's lame jokes a week. These are actual jokes by actual listeners. Hello weed Man, Hello weed Man.
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Oh no, All right, let's let's get to the jokes and thanks to everyone that wrote these jokes.
Send them in for next week.
Care of Benmahler Show at gmail dot com. That's Ben Malors Show at gmail dot com. Did you know that Lizzo is suing Vince McMahon over the Wwe know why?
Yeah?
Apparently she tried to use the name Worldwide Eating and tied up in Litigan as Georgia volved in Texas. What are Lizzo's favorite parts of March Madness?
What the round of sixty four? And she loves the Sweet sixteen? Big Fan?
That's Eric in Kansas? What happened the last time Lizzo went out.
For Korean barbecue. What she brought home a doggie bag? A doggie wow, sir for Todd the comedian.
All right, Lizzo was so excited by her recent weight loss that she did know. She didn't know whether to go to the bathroom or go blind.
Wow. Yeah, so she farted and closed one eyes. What she did? That's a Dan in South Carolina, Thank you Dan? All right? How does Lizzo plan on getting to the moon space x x x x x x xx l is how she's gonna get to the moon. That's not Drew.
Drew in Minnesota. How does Lizzo like her Tater Todds? Buy the bag? Buy the bag? That's a free long shot from La Masa, San Diego Way, our buddy free long shot.
Why is Lizzo a fan of board Ops? Why?
Well, she loves Mary's Mac and sheese a big fan there.
That's how about Mary.
She's only been on the show a couple of days and she's already getting jokes written about her by buttermumk Cavo. Well, what else is lost beside weed man hippie's teeth?
What his desire to work?
That's a buttermilk Tavo again Big Ben's lame jokes of the Week.
What is the best thing about being weed man hippie? What if you get punched in the mouth, you won't lose any teeth.
That's Eke in Rose, Little Minnesota.
Okay, what is thank you queen obvious?
What is the difference between the Doyers and weed Man's underwear?
What?
According to Tony in the Bay Area, the Dodgers are the evil Empire. Weed man's underwear is just evil. So how is weed man hippie like a bad soccer team?
No goals, no goals? That's surfer Todd the comedian.
Did your weed man got a call from a Hollywood star? He's gonna be a new version of a McCaulay culkin classic.
How about that?
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Home Alone?
No, No, it's homeless Alone, that's what they're calling it.
It's a spinoff. That's Dennis in Detroit. Come on, no, that's homeless I know.
All right.
Did you know that Lizzo and Weedman Hippie had a snack company that was shut down?
Wow?
No? Yeah, apparently it was just too high in fat.
So they got Timothy. Timothy and Northern Kentucky. Set that one in. You got any jokes over there?
Kobal loop? Uh? Ben?
Did you hear that Weedman hippie got arrested for public nudity?
I missed that.
Yeah, the cops took him to small claims court.
That's from Benny Brightside.
You can send your inappropriate jokes to Ben Maller, producer at gmail dot com.
Okay, did you know that young Weedman hippie helped to in vent the toothbrush?
No?
Yeah, because if anyone else had invented it, it would have been called the teeth brush. That's a George and involved in Texas. Did you did you.
Hear that weed Man is starting a homeless comedy troupe?
Wow?
No, yeah, it's called the Sleeping on the Groundlings is what it's called.
That's Eric Eric in Kansas set that one in. What do weed man?
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What does weed man do when his roommate is around? In college basketball? What do they all have in common?
What?
March madness? There you go, march madness?
What what do weed man in the Miami Heat have in common? What when Tracy Morgan has to look at either one he vomits?
That's an Eric in Kansas. Very nice. It's Big Ben's lame jokes of the week. Let's see one more. What takes longer than helm Amanda shower.
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Well, let's get over to a man that doesn't need to get paid right now, Let's say hello to the kooperl Coop Scoop on Entertainment arebra Holly.
Thank you, Ben.
I just I feel a little bit thrown off because I don't have my normal Uh yeah, but that's okay. I don't know what happened to him.
Must be over in New Jersey with the family.
So I'm gonna very briefly talk about a couple new movies that are out this weekend. And the reason I'm gonna say briefly is because I believe that both of these movies are going to be very bad.
Yeah.
So the first one is, of course, Disney snow White. There's been lots of controversy surrounding this movie and the main character that plays snow White.
Uh.
The early reviews are not good, and I just I don't I don't see people, uh people going to see this, but who knows, I could be wrong. I'm interested to see how it does. I won't be seeing it.
Well, isn't.
Uh this is like the woke snow White And it seems to me.
Like even they are embarrassed by it.
Now.
I guess they're trying to I heard, yeah, they like it was complaining. They're not promoting it.
They didn't do like a big red carpet kind of thing that like they were going to do, and I guess.
They didn't get the pulse of the people in America.
Yeah, looking for a woke snow White, bad job by Mickey Mouse.
Huh.
Yeah, it should should be interesting to see.
How will that be worse.
Than when they remember the the all female Ghostbusters was remember that?
Yeah? That wasn't was that? I don't think that was Disney though.
But no, it wasn't. But it was still a disaster.
Yeah. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how much money they lose on this. Another movie that is out this weekend, and it's it's interesting because I just saw the trailer for this for the very first time, like last week, and then it's already it's already out in theaters. It's the latest Robert de Niro Mafia movie. It's called The Alto Nights and he plays two separate characters in this movie, with the use of prosthetics and whatnot, so he has a lot of scenes with himself. The reviews are not good early on. It's got a thirty eight percent right now on Rotten Tomatoes. And one of my best friends already saw the movie and he said, and I quote, that was the most boring mob movie ever.
That's okay, Yes, I mean they've been I feel like they stopped making good mob movies a while ago.
What was the last good mob show? The Sopranos. That's not a.
Movie that was just yeah, I mean last that's.
A long time. That's like twenty years probably at least.
I don't know the last good mob movie was.
It's been been a while.
Uh, you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna go and I'm gonna say that Departed.
I mean, where was that though? It's been a while.
Yeah, that has been a long time.
Scorsese came out with that one on Netflix, but I just I couldn't even get through it.
Two thousand and six, was The Departed.
Yeah, it's almost twenty years ago. Yeah, yeah, right, it's funny graduated high school years ago.
All right, Moving on to television, now, there's a couple shows out this weekend and they're all available right now that I well, most of them. First one that I want to bring up is a new series called Happy Face and this is on Paramount Plus and it stars Dennis Quaid as the real life serial killer Keith Hunter Jessperson, aka the Happy Face Killer. It is an eight episode Paramount Plus original and the first two episodes are available right now, and then the rest will come weekly. And then we also have a new show on Netflix called The Residents.
Now they're saying, what they're.
Calling this is a screwball who done it? Kind of like like if it was Knives Out the White House Edition?
Okay, yes, and this.
One has got Uzo Aduba from Orange's New Black starring in it as the lead detective. Gean Carlo Esposito also stars in this one, and Al Franken also, oh.
He's still around.
Yeah, okay, So all eight episodes of that are available on Netflix right now.
That is called The Residents.
And then last but not least, if you want to wait till Wednesday. There is a new comedy premiering on Apple TV Plus. It is called The Studio and it stars Seth Rogan.
Where is that? There we go?
It stars Seth rogen as the head of an aging Hollywood movie studio that is struggling to stay relevant in the streaming area in the streaming era. Katherine O'Hara also stars Katherine Hahn. And it's gonna get a lot of cameos from people playing themselves, like Martin Scorsese and Charlotte's They're on Ron Howard and all that. And that is on APPLEATV plus, and that is Coopscoop on Entertainment.
