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Le Batard & Friends - Mystery Crate

Episode Three Hundred - Fifty Five: Goodbye Pennies, Hello Benny

Le Batard & Friends - Mystery Crate

Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Tensions are high as the crew revisits who’s brave enough to say they don’t want turkey this year for Thanksgiving. Chris Cote introduces his new dog, Samantha Bennett. Then it’s a spirited argument about when it’s actually acceptable to put up Christmas decorations, followed by a Jess sharing a realization that the U.S. government still hasn’t figured out how to phase out the penny. Finally, being a weather person may be really hard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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All right, an eventful start to mystery crate for the second time.

0:40.7

Actually, for the third time that we've restarted this episode.

0:44.0

But we care about you guys, which is why we're doing it.

0:46.9

Jess, you're in the New York studios.

0:49.1

Your camera's looking great.

0:50.4

You're on an episode of Pablo Torre.

0:52.0

I feel like you're just on one right now. I am on one. It comes out today, Friday, with Mike Scher and Pablo, uh, talking about a scandal I actually mentioned on Wednesday when I was on the Lovitar show involving a political reporter. You guys will not want to miss it. There's quite a twist in the middle. Wow. Well, you told us the twist on Wednesday.

1:12.8

No, this is a new twist.

1:27.7

A new twist? A new twist? Found something out. Wow. I saw him work his magic in person. It was actually ridiculous. He surprised us with something that I was not expecting. Was it a good surprise? Like sometimes you see people that like, oh, there's a surprise. and there are you oh watch this guy work and then it's like a painter or something. You're doing, you're like, yeah, this guy kind of sucks.

1:29.2

But like, probably is really good.

1:30.4

Or when someone shows you a video, a video on their phone and they're like, just wait, just wait. This part's really funny. Just wait. And you're like, waiting. Chris Coding taps the screen to see how much time there's left. hate when people try to show me a video like in person i'm like text it to me i'll watch it later okay

1:44.9

we're in a big setting right now it's loud loud in here. Look, look, look. Look, watch this. If you want me to appreciate this video legitimately, I'll watch it later. Okay. Chris, let me beat you. Let me beat you with something that my dad does that I think is one of the worst things a person can do to company.

2:02.1

He has this friend who has like these backyard concerts in his yard sometimes.

2:09.0

And he will record videos at these backyard concerts.

2:12.6

And then he will show them.

2:14.2

It's his friend's concert.

2:15.9

It's like, so they're usually like cover bands or like old bands from like the 70s or 80s that are doing these like really small venue shows. So they're real bands, but he'll show them to people that come over for dinner on his phone. And it's like an iPhone video of an outdoor. Oh my God, I'm like, dad, please don't do that. That should be a bucket punishment. It should be a bucket punishment. Your dad, like, watching those videos from your dad. It's so mean, but it's so cool. This is actually a great transition. I don't think he watches Mystery Craig. Welcome to that, by the way.

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