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

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.8 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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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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1:10.7	All right, an eventful start to Mystery Crate for the second time. Or non-start.
1:11.1	Actually, for the third time that we've restarted this episode. But we care about you guys, which is why we're doing it. Jess, you're in the New York studios. Your camera's looking great. You're on an episode of Pablo Torre. Like, I feel like you're just on one right now. I am on one. And it comes out today, Friday, with Mike Scher and Pablo, talking about a
1:31.0	scandal I actually mentioned on Wednesday when I was on the Lovetar show involving a political
1:35.6	reporter. You guys will not want to miss it. There's quite a twist in the middle.
1:39.2	But you told us to twist on Wednesday.
1:41.7	No, this is a new twist.
1:43.0	A new twist? A new twist?
1:43.4	A new twist? I saw him work A new twist? Found something out.
1:44.6	Wow.
1:45.4	I saw him work as magic in person.
1:47.6	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 they're, 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
1:58.8	but like or when someone shows you a video a video on their phone and you're in they're like
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