May 2, 2024 • 41 mins
Big Ben talks about the Clippers getting TROUNCED at home by the Mavericks in Game 5, the Miami Heat getting eliminated by the Boston Celtics, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, Puck the World: Playoff Edition w/ Eddie Garcia, and much more!
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Pro Basketball, a night of non competitive NBA games. But
for the Clips, they were at a four kloor Dallas
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and the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I think you know we're going to start with that game.
Of course we will throw.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
The low hanging fruit out to the masses. So the
Maverickson Clippers Game five Western Conference Opening Round.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
The winner of Game five.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Historically has won the series eighty two percent of the time,
according to Kevin Harlan. So clearly there would be motivation
to win Game five that you should you should bring
to Gusto. You should bring the energy, you should bring
the effort. I brought the effort. I don't know about you.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I did, I said, I almost got on my left
ass cheek. I think I got a blister from sitting
watching all of this. But anyway, maybe you mist so.
Luca Doncic, reading the lead up to this game, you
would have thought that they were going to have to
chop off the leg of Luca below the knee.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Oh my aching knee, Luke.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Nothing the NBA does better than throwing out the dramatic
thespian performance there the overcoming the injury. The I always
like to bring up the Willis Reid game, which is
the most ridiculous thing in the world.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
He played the first quarter. That's it.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
But the New York media had a field day with that,
and to this day, if you're of a certain age,
the Willis Reid game or the Michael Jordan flu game,
which we've learned since that documentary was not even the flow.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
It was food. The Kobe Bryant they.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Do that, and Luca I'll be fine, they said, Oh,
by a k knee. He went out and scored twenty
of his thirty five in the second half at tennissist
and a bunch of rebounds and Dallas, Dallas puts.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
The Clippers of the Guilla team won twenty three to
ninety three.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
A sad day for the People's team as the Dallas
Pro bouncy Ball team takes a three games to two
lead in the first round series. Maxi Kleiba with five
to three pointers, Kyrie Irving a very quiet fourteen points
as the Mavericks win. But the better story, ding ding, ding, ning, ning,
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losing locker room.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
That's where we will go.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
So let us discuss the question, which is a rather
obvious question. How do James Harden and Paul George allow
the Clippers to lose a home playoff game by thirty points?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
How do you do that? So I've got Yo yo
d talks and pendulum.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make bread and butter is what
we're going to make, because you think the bread and
butter would just be playing with some extra effort in
a playoff game.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
But what do I know?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So, hey, to answer the question, how did James Harden
and Paul George and the Clippers lose a home playoff
game by thirty points? This performance made me want to
puke in my mouth. I think I did actually puke
in my mouth at the start of the fourth quarter.
But it was an all encompassing type of suck. As
we learned from a baseball player recently, it was gutless basketball.
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There's no other way to say it. It was absolutely gutless.
Lack of daisical. I'd a buddy of mine sometimes he'll
text me for gambling wisdom, and he sent me a
text during the afternoon and I was kind of out
of it and I was kind of, you know, trying
to get my day going, and he's like, hey, I
saw on TV that Luca is not gonna probably play.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
He might not play if he plays, he's not gonna
be that good. And he's got a bad knee and
all that and knees barking.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And this is time to go big, but big on
the Clippers. And my response was your fool was my response,
because the key actors for the Clippers, and this has
been a problem for years and it was the same
thing in the Lob City days. They've changed the actors,
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but the play is the same, the script is the same.
The key players for the Clippers suffer from a neurosis.
They they have bipolar disorder. They go from success to
suck and on a dime.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Now, a lot of.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
People go from good to bad, but it's just different.
It's like a yo yo up and down and all around.
And even with that said as my unprofessional diagnosis, even
with that said, what the Clippers did in that game
on Wednesday night was a masterclass in fecal matter. Paul George,
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he's in the big chair, right. I keep seeing these
stories from the NBA insider craft. They're like, Wow, Paul George,
he's gonna opt out. People want to sign Paul George
to a big contract to be their lead dog. And
I'm like, Okay, he was in the big chair and
right there big chair on the vomit comet is where
he was a headliner who played hooky.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
He had fifteen points. That's a lead. That's a lead, guy, fifteen.
It's not like Dallas is a good defensive team.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
How about James Harden, James Harden suffering from a chronic
case of IDGAF.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I don't give an.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
F He had two field goals made too, four turnovers,
seven points a minus twenty five while he was out.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
In the court, and a partridge in the paratree.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
And then you've got Russell west Brick, who was an
absolute Mama Luke in his game.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Now he's a backup, but he's a Hall of famer.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
He had a triple double every game, mister triple double,
had as many assists as my fat ass and your
fat ass at zero sis. And those three players, all
of them hall of famers. They will all be hanging
out with Muffett McGraw, all of them, George, Harden and
Westbrook combined to shoot twenty two point two percent. They
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couldn't even get to thirty three point three percent, which
would have been half. The Sign of the Devil but
it blows me away. And it's not even that you're
gonna miss shots, I get it, but watching this, the attitude,
the mentality, the style of play absolutely does just drive
me insane.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
That's probably why I lost my hair.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Generally speaking, the more aggressive team wins in any athletic endeavor.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
We have all heard that.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Is this not some kind of great epiphany that the more
aggressive team wins in a boxing match, the more aggressive
fighter often wins, right, as usually in a basketball game
and a football game and the other thing. It's like,
it's not you're asking too much maximum effort and just hustling,
hustling on every play. It does not require you to
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be an Olympic athlete. You do not have to be
an elite athlete. You don't have to have any athletic
ability just to put effort in. And these guys, all
these guys all have great athletic ability. It's it's just
craziness to me that this goes on, and it's like,
why we shouldn't be like this. It's it's insane, absolutely insane,
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And uh, is that Paul George we have talking about this?
Are all here's a Paul George on the Clippers lack
of effort in a playoff game.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I just think we just got to do a better
job of getting a rhythm, playing a little a little faster.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
I thought that was their counter tonight was to play
faster offensively, which got them in rhythm and got them
in a better flow. But that's got to be our
mentality going into Game six is just playing a little faster.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I think a lot of those you know, three point
shots for late in.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
The shot clock.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Where there wasn't much rhythm or flow to those three
So we just got to do a better job of
getting in rhythm, uh with with you know, playing a
little up tempo and especially in a half court.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yeah, the rhythm was a flat line. That was the rhythm.
Flat line.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Since since Paul George is now podcast p can I
now play? I think I can play in the NBA.
I do podcast, this show's podcast. I do podcasts on
the weekend. Why don't I moonlight and play in the NBA?
How about that?
Speaker 6 (09:43):
All?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Right? Now, turning the Patriot, where does this performance leave
the Clippers? Well, the obvious one, Captain obvious is they're
down three to two. It is not an elimination. It's
not a best of five situation. Surprisingly, though, as walking
into the studio and I had this revelation from the
Book of Revelation. The Clippers are shockingly in really good shape.
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Here sneaky good shape. And let me explain why. All
they have to do is win two games in a row.
They've got four Hall of Famers on the team. You
think they can win two games in a row. And
this loss, you'd think it would put the pressure on
the Cliffs. But no, the Clippers loss will work as
a detox. It's like a defense. Get those harmful performances
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out of your body. Eliminate all the talksins and James
Harden and Paul George and what Russell Westbrook. They played
better on the road, the immense pressure from the great
Clipper fans.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
They struggle with that.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
The other option, though, would be Kawhi Lonard get off
his fat ass and stop malingering and stop with the
If I see one more shot him sitting on the
bench with a goofy look on his face with the
baseball cap, I'm gonna throw something at my TV, but
go in your money.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Stop with the absenteeism.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Okay, enough enough, but what are you doing all right,
last word here. So we talked about the Clippers being
in sneaky good shape. But on the other side, for
the Mavericks, who had an oil painting in this game,
do the Mavericks have the series in the back? Do
the Mavericks have this series in the bag? Well, absolutely not.
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I just explained the Clippers in a sneaky good spot. Now,
why is that Kyrie Irving and Luka Doncik together have
not done anything right as a dynamic duo.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
They haven't done anything yet.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
And I haven't really even been impressed with the Mavericks
and they're playing this series. They're up three games to two.
But it's more about what the Clippers haven't done than
anything that the Dallas Mavericks have done on the other side.
And when you check the pendulum of pressure, the Malord
pendulum of pressure, it is actually on Dallas. It's leaning
towards down. The Clippers have already been eliminated. You've already
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eliminated them. I checked my inbox. You've told me the
Clippers cannot win, that it's all over.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
They're done.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
So Dallas, right, they have to get this and you can't.
You cannot suffer from tight Touker syndrome. If you get
to a game seven, all bets are off right. The
matters still have worked to do. They better not screw
this up. Clippers can come out Lucy Goosey. They've already died.
They'll be reborn if they win in game six. But
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in a game seven, anything can happen in a game seven,
and the Clippers don't get their stuff together in game six.
And more importantly, there's no such thing as Uncle Mo.
Uncle Mo does not exist. The only Uncle Mo is
a guy from Brooklyn that calls the show. That's the
only Uncle Mo. Momentum is an illusionary phenomena in sports.
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It is something that dumb sportscasters and idiotic sports writers
came up with to fill space and to fill time
period stop.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
It is the Ben Mahlor Shows.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
We jump through the hoop, something the Clippers did not
do a lot.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Of going through the hoop. They hit the rim, they
hit the backboard. Sometimes they didn't even do that.
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Speaker 3 (14:52):
Pro bouncy Ball on the menu.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yet again, we will work our way back to NBA
drama rama the Mavericks running the Clippers off the court
in La Laland. And so that means there will be
a game six and then after that of Game seven,
people overreacting being prisoners of the Malmont because Dallas.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Won in a route or route.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
But our lead this hour coming from the Commonwealth, the
NBA Playoff Palosa, where the final margin of both games
was a combined over sixty points. The Celtics and Heat
in Game five of the Eastern Conference opening round series.
I don't know if you saw this. It was the
early early card, early part of the card, perhaps not
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Jalen Brown and Derek White, yet again the expert Derek White,
each of them scoring twenty five points as the Boston
basketball team advanced in a laugher to the Eastern Conference
semi finals. They beat the hobbled Heat and there was
no glimmer of hope in this game from Miami one
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eighteen to eighty four.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
As that's it.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Boston will now face the winner of the Cleveland Orlando series.
The Cadavers have a three to two lead in that series.
Game six is tomorrow Tomorrow, Friday night in or Lando,
so you let me know how that goes. You can
do some scouting, can watch that, let me know how
that goes. So this game no contest at all. There's
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really nothing to dissect from the game. Clearly, the Celtics
without Christops porzingis it didn't matter against a bewildered, beaten,
and broken Miami Heat team as the Heat without Jimmy
Buckets and several other key players, and they never led
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Miami and the show buy as many as thirty seven.
So the better story is in the losing locker room,
so that is where we will focus.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Won't spend too much.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Time on this, but the question what does pat Riley,
What does Ryle's do? What does pat Riley do to
fix this Heat roster which clearly has broken the Heat
culture and all that. That didn't really work when you
don't have good players. So my observations, I've got ABC
overdosing and arm candy, and we will toss all of
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these things together and we are going.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
To baffle you with bull crap, is what we're going
to do.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
So number Wall right enough, pat Riley, I know one thing.
I don't know a lot, but I know what. Pat
Riley's not gonna sit there drinking my tie and in
his banana hammock there on the beach in Miami, twiddling
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his thumbs. That's not gonna happen. This is going to
be compelling theater for those of us that dabble in
the ancient art of gas baggery. All cards are on
the table. I see a dimension in my crystal ball
where Miami gets out of business with Jimmy Buckets. Now
I like Jimmy Butler, but Jimmy Butler is getting hurt
a lot. He's getting older, and at some point you
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got to cut the cord.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
You got to put your food down and move on
by some other food because the food's going bad. And
then you got Bam out of Bio, who's younger. But
he's a guy that you'd likely have to trade in
cahoots with other players to get something of value in return.
So those guys Jimmy buckets. Jud he's not guaranteed to
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come back to need this bam out of biole. But
pat Riley right, he's got a reservation. He's going to
visit the Sorcerer's Workshop. That's where he's going, Sorcerer's Workshop,
and he's got to cook up a new potion. The
potion they've been using doesn't work. It's not working right now.
It was supposed to be the Dame Traine. Remember this
whole season, was going to be Dame Lillard back in
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the Eastern Conference for the first time, and he's gonna
lead Miami to the Promised Land. But the Blazers would
not capitulate, and the owners like got upset because Dame said,
I'm only playing for Miami, So the owner of the
Blazers you want to beat and then went to Milwaukee
and then the rest is history. So who are the
next wave of stars that Miami can get their hands
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on in the transfer portal? So I'm looking at who's
available and all kidding aside, it's like that old ABC
show from a million years ago thirty something. It's Lebron,
James Paul, George Clay Thompson, James Harden, Tobias Harris, Pascal Siakam.
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They are all expected to be available depending on contract opouts.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
All of them are either in their.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Early thirties or late thirties, and all of them carry
a different degree of falling star status. So pat Riley,
you gotta think outside the box now when you go
to Miami. When you play in Miami is a.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Couple of teams. We all know the team's.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
LA any team in La Any team in Miami, which
is only one, but you can get pretty much whoever
you want because everyone wants to play there.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
So even guys that are under contract.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
You could see a scenario where the Heat could get
one of those guys.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
There have to be some kind.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Of kerfluffle between the agent and the team and a demand.
Not happy, not satisfied, didn't go far enough in the playoffs,
and all of a sudden, you can It's like a
claw machine.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
You can kind of manipulate the little stuffed animal and
get it where you want. Now, speaking of manipulation.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
We head now to Arizona. The Suns are eliminated by
the Minnesota Pro Bouncy Ball team. The state of the
team address always fun matt Ishbia trying to get a
gold star.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Near his name. For his State of the Sun's address.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
He rejected the negative media people and the vibrations, the
vibrations around the Suns. He said, quote ask the other
twenty nine gms. Matt Isshbia said, twenty six of them
would trade listen to this their whole team for our
whole team and our draft picks and everything. As is,
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the Suns don't have any first round picks till twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
But wait, there's more.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
The Sun's owner, also continuing is and he said the
narrative that the house is burning is incorrect. The Phoenix
Suns are doing great, excellent, not as good as we
want to be. Ishbi has stated, not as good as
we're going to do next year. And that's what we're
going to figure out. What we've got to tweak, modify
and adjust to win a championship next year.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Close quote.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
All right, so let's discuss what does this rant by
the Sun's owner, Matt Ishbia's signal to you.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Okay, I'm gonna go first.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
So this is the positive affirmations strategy, right, it's a
positive affort strategy. Trying to speak it into reality. Ishbia thinks,
if you believe him at face value that ninety percent
of the NBA general managers are morons.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
They are moron.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
And now, the one that is really the key part
of this, the thing that's the key part of this rant.
If I could speak, that would help. But the thing
that is a key part of this is what wasn't said,
what was left on the cutting room floor. At no
point I watched this. I didn't see him say this.
Maybe I missed it. I watched the video that was
available online. At no point did Matt Ishbia say that
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Frank Vogel is my coach, He's gonna come back. Frank
Vogel is burnt toast. He's Jim nance Toast. He's burnt toast.
The Phoenix owner kept his mouth shut when it came
to Frank Vogel and his future on the sidelines. That's
what we call muddy waters, is what that is now.
Ishbia is equal parts egotistical and delusional. He's currently overdosing
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on Hubris as we speak. But since we do the
show from a little town called Realcyville, living in Realityville,
I'm the mayor of Realityville, the Suns right now, at
this moment in time, right at this moment in time.
They have a top heavy roster with an aging superstar
who has bohemian tendencies and is more likely to ask
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for a trade than to be part of the solution.
Shout out Kevin Durant. He's right now on his burner
sending nasty things my way. But the roster doesn't appear
to fit together. Bradley Beale, for all the hype that
he got coming out of Washington, he was a zero.
And there's not a lot of wiggle room. There's not
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other than trading Devin Booker, which you don't want to
do apparently, So good luck. All right, final point. We
mentioned this in a previous episode of the show. We'll
bring it up again. I think it's interesting. So the NBA,
which many people do not like to watch, according to
the feedback I get. I get a lot of vitrio.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Why are you talking so much about the NBA.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Every time this time of the year, every spring.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
It's the same thing. But the NBA is closing in
on a mega, mega, mega millions deal with NBC, So
those of you that hate the NBA will fly into
a tantrum.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
But it's a big media rights deal.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Now, it's not one hundred percent done, yet it's possible
that they will work some kind of compromise. The early
scenario says that Turner Sports would be on Now there
are some other people say Turner.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Would keep some NBA games, which is not as many.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
But if they are out, if Turner is out of
this and NBC takes the package of NBA games from them,
Charles Barkley is in play. He revealed that he can
get out of his deal, that he can get out
of his deal and he would be willing to do
so if TNT does not end up keeping the NBA
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package if they lose the rights. Barkley in a recent
interviews said quote he covered his ass. He said, I
covered my ass. He signed a ten year contract. I
can't imagine having a ten year contract.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Holy crap.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
He signed a ten year contract and two years ago
there's an opt out tossed in. So this has led
to speculation about the round mound of basketball talking rebound
and his broadcasting future. So the question is Charles Barkley
a part of this NBA media rights negotiation And while
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he's not at the very front of it, I would argue, yes,
I'm gonna nod my head. Yes, that Charles Barkley in
this equation, if what I know is true, Charles Barkley
is the arm candy for every boob tube executive. And
I know some of the people at NBC from what
I know, they would love to have Charles bark Who
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wouldn't want to have it?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
It's a captain obvious, right, everyone would want Charles Barkley.
He's the prize. Barkley is the prize.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Barkley makes every other jocksniffing ex athlete look like a boob.
Charles Barkley's at what he does wonderful. And you get
these other hacks like Kendrick Perkins and these other dopes
that are terrible, but Barkley's not. He's the tour de
force and Barkley, if he's available, he's likely going to
double his cellar. He's going to get the king's ransom.
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He can ask whatever has literally a blank check, and
whatever the amount is, they will match.
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Here we god, how about that to the third degree,
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The San Antonio Spurs only had twenty two wins this season,
and yet on Tuesday, Magic Johnson said the team will
definitely make the playoffs next year. Then are you on
board with his prediction?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Well, first off, Magic Johnson's he's seen the advanced script
for next NBA season, so obviously that's being written. But yeah, listen,
I do think the Spurs are gonna make the playoffs
because they will go out and get a player that's
gonna make a difference. And the NBA needs Wemby. They
need Wemby to be a big deal. They need Wemby
to matter, They need the Parisian prodecty to matter. You
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don't matter if you don't make the playoffs.
Speaker 9 (27:20):
Next Jarrod Mayo said in a recent interview that Bill
Belichick probably would have traded back from the number three
spot to get more picks. Ben, Do you think that's
true and would have been the better move? Yes, A,
I think it's true. B. It's Gerrod Mayo patting himself
on the back seat. We're doing things different. We're not
like Belichick, you massholes. We're better than Belichick.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
And see, I think they drafted a guy that stinks
in Drake may so it would have been the better move.
I'm not impressed with Drake May and I will I'd
be proven wrong. We'll find out, But I don't think
this guy's all that. I think his ceiling is an
average quarterback in the NFL. But it's nice if girod
Mayo'd have pat himself on the back next.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
Pop Pierre suggested this week that Donovan Mitchell would be
the perfect target for the Lakers. Ben do you think
the Cavs will look to trade to Mitchell?
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I do, And it sounds like Mitchell's does not want
to sign an extension in Cleveland, and there have been
whispers that he's like all these other NBA guys. He
spends time in the offseason in LA. Even though he's
an East Coast guy. He spends time in LA, spends
time in Miami. So he's in play. He is absolutely
in play for the Lakers. And I wouldn't be smiled
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that my entire life. They've gotten every big name that
they want, They get every FN big name.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
It's ridiculous. He anyway, how did we don't koopole out
pass this edition? That is a win.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
I'm the all time wins.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
King at this, I've got the most wins of all time. Amazing.
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Speaker 3 (28:57):
It's now time for time for honey, Honey, I can
honey wait?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Ask bad?
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Twitter said, is your questions on Twitter now?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
And the way we go it is ask being your
questions are answers for the rest of the hour. The
rest of the hour, the reading of the questions, we
go over to the man at the bully pulpit over there,
Coop dow Loop.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Cowboy Killer would like to know hi, Cowboy Killer said.
Speaker 9 (29:27):
When eating out, do you wait until everyone gets their
food to start eating?
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Or do you are do you just eat right away?
He doesn't. Yeah, he's yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
So here's what happened. It depends who I'm with. If
I'm with my friends, who cares. But if I'm like
family or someone like the in laws, I try.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
To be polite. But if not, I'm just absolute caveman
and I just started eating right away. What about what
about you? Eddie?
Speaker 10 (29:52):
I usually wait, I make it act like I'm doing
it for politeness. But I also don't really like my
food hot, so I wait for it to kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Off their food hot.
Speaker 7 (30:03):
Nobody, I don't. I don't like it hot.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Yeah, so a lot of people have that thought, a
lot of people.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
I care about me.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Very selfish, lorrain Ah.
Speaker 11 (30:13):
I taste it with my nose while I wait.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Ben, you enjoy the smell, and you say, a lot
of eating is the smell that you enjoy the meat
you have.
Speaker 11 (30:22):
To eat, you have to taste it with your nose
for It's just like wine.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
I don't know but that I'm not a wine first.
Speaker 9 (30:27):
In Cupolou, I do not wait, and and I get
angry if I'm out with people that do wait. It's like,
stop it, eat your food. Yeah, don't wait for me,
because my food's not here. I'm going to enjoy my
food when it gets here. You enjoy your food now
like you know, it comes out and then just it's
supposed to be eaten fresh, like I'm not gonna wait
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for you, don't wait for me.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
It was really it's a restaurant problem. You're supposed to
bring food out at safe time.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
True.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
True, I'm supposed to bring it out one by one.
What is next year? It's asked, Ben, your questions are answered,
Lady Sideburns. Oh this is big, Lady Sideburns, total babe.
Speaker 9 (31:05):
Yes, I would like to know if you had to
select one part of your body that you would never
be allowed to wash again.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
I'll go my my right calf, my right calf. I
think i'd be I'd be okay with not watching that.
What about watching that? What about you? Eddie?
Speaker 7 (31:25):
Let's go elbow, elbow.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Your elbow gets sweaty though not my elbow maybe, no, yours,
it's not. It's not a bad answer. That's a better
answer than your answer.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
No, my cash is better answer because the calf's lower.
You know, in the elbows. You got to move your
elbow a lot. You smell it more. If your calf smells,
it's lower, it's closer to the ground.
Speaker 7 (31:44):
Are you talking about.
Speaker 12 (31:45):
This is a really hard one. Yeah, this is really hard.
I'm gonna go with my pinky finger, Ben. I feel
like it gets the least dirty of most things, man.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
It does, trust me. It gets dirty. It gets you
put in place you never realize it allop.
Speaker 9 (32:02):
See, that's not a bad answer either. I was gonna
go with like, see, I don't know, can you choose
just one finger or because then that likes attached to
your hands, so you'd have to be choosing your hands
if she was cheating.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
See.
Speaker 9 (32:15):
My thought was like, I know, eventually, no matter what
you choose, it's gonna suck eventually. But you go with
your feet because then you're washing the rest of your
body and you're gonna have some of those SuDS like
hit your feet on, you know, just from being rinsed off.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
So it's kind of trying. You're trying to cheat.
Speaker 9 (32:32):
Also, well, look you're not directly washing your feet, but
they're gonna get no.
Speaker 12 (32:36):
I think you would have to put your feet outside
of the bathtub if you were to choose your feet coop.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
I don't showers, you might have to chop your feet
off because.
Speaker 12 (32:44):
Some people count that as washing their feet. They do
not wash their feet. They just let soap and water
run down.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
That's not washing your feet, man, No, it's not what
is next? To what do we have?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
It's ask ben we're doing the unthinking about your questions?
Are answers fraught with peril?
Speaker 3 (32:59):
What is next? All right?
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (33:02):
Ferg Dog would like to Fergie, do you know how
to play chess. How about backgammon?
Speaker 3 (33:10):
No, I'm a great checkers player.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
No.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I my grandfather, one of my grandfathers, try to teach
me how to play chess. Now, my mom did, my dad.
My dad was really good at chess, and I said
it takes too much patience.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
So I never did, Eddie.
Speaker 10 (33:25):
Yes, I know how to play chess, although I have
not played in a long long time. And I think
when I was younger, I think I did know how
to play backgammon.
Speaker 7 (33:33):
But I don't remember how to play anymore.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
All right, Lorraine, Nut.
Speaker 11 (33:37):
I do like chess. I do not practice it. I
do not play it.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
But I used to your show off Google Loop.
Speaker 9 (33:44):
I like chess as well, and I did it just
recently play in Japan. All right, but I do not
know how to play back in.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Okay, I'll kick your assid checkers?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Though?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
What is next here? What do we have?
Speaker 9 (33:56):
Donkey Sausage would like to know, Donkey, what is your
favorite restaurant that's not around anymore?
Speaker 3 (34:04):
I'll tell you there's this. But I was started out
in radio in Burbank we adults.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Yeah, Oh my god, I missed that place every time
I drive by there It was in the lower floor
of a building right across from Warner Brothers. They had
the greatest chicken fingers I've ever had in my life.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
I used to hang I was like our cheers.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
I used to go out there three or four nights
a week and drink and eat chicken fingers.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
And I was like four hundred, five hundred pounds. I
loved it. And they closed and they said they were
going to reopen. They never reopened. I missed dults. Oh
my god, Eddie, what about you.
Speaker 7 (34:35):
At I agree?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
It was an amazing place and.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
There were people this is back in the you know,
the Seinfeld It a long time ago, but the cast
from these different TV shows then everyone was watching those shows.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
They would come and hang out there and eat the
chicken figures. What about you? Low right up?
Speaker 11 (34:49):
I miss hometown buffet, Ben, right.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
That's a good answer.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
I didn't they went away?
Speaker 11 (34:55):
Yeah, well, all the ones I know about have been closed.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Pandemic, right, the pandemic. They didn't.
Speaker 11 (34:59):
I think that was I think that was their final straw.
Speaker 12 (35:01):
And it's funny because it's like, Okay, when I was
a kid, did was it really good food?
Speaker 11 (35:04):
Like if I went back now, would I still be impressed.
I don't know, we'll never know.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Quantity over quality.
Speaker 12 (35:11):
But they had like the fresh ham, like you could
get the sliced ham straight off.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
The you know.
Speaker 11 (35:15):
Oh oh it was good.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
A friend of mine, speaking of buffets and Vegas, said
that they they've started to get rid of the buffets
in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
There's hardly any left in Vegas. I guess everyone's against
the Vegas. What about you, a coople ope restaurant? You
missed well.
Speaker 9 (35:29):
Lorena brought up a good point like that. I wasn't
even thinking buffets, and that made me think of suit Plantation.
I really liked suit Plantation.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
I heard there is one sup plantation that has come
back out in the Inland Empire.
Speaker 7 (35:40):
Somebody told me really google.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (35:42):
Well, but then aside from that, the first thing that
I thought of, and I'm pretty sure this was a chain,
like I don't think it was, you know, specific to
my hometown, but there was a restaurant called Elephant Bar
and they had the best chicken fingers ever ever.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Ever. Yes, yes, by the.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Way, here it is if you want soup plantation. In
La Here, Rancho Cucamonga opened up a.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
New soup plantation. You're better off driving. Did you pay it?
I think you can get there? Yeah, yeah, exactly quickly. Right.
He wants to know if you ever stayed at an Airbnb. Yes,
many times I've stayed at airbnbs. What about you?
Speaker 7 (36:20):
Oh yeah, on vacation, lots of times.
Speaker 11 (36:22):
I love Airbnbs.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Yes, many times, many times. Oh, we're all airbnb people.
Take that, hotels, Take that you, hotels.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
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Speaker 3 (36:35):
And we bounced the puck over to Eddie. Can you
bounce a puck?
Speaker 7 (36:39):
You can't bounce a puck? Yeah you can't.
Speaker 10 (36:41):
Yeah, you want to hit a mouth in the punk though,
definitely not. That's not good for your for your mouth,
that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
That's not good. But here's Eddie puck.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
All right, thanks man.
Speaker 10 (36:50):
The NHL Playoffs started last week, and five of the
eight first round series are already over. The New York
Rangers the first team to advance it around Humber two.
They are the only team to sweep there for stround series,
as they eliminated the Washington Capitals in four games. The
President's Trophy winners for the most points in the regular
season and number one seed in the East, will take
on the Carolina Hurricanes in round two.
Speaker 7 (37:09):
The Hurricanes took care of the New York Islanders in
five games.
Speaker 10 (37:12):
New York and Carolina, So talking about the Rangers and
Carolina finished one two in the Eastern Conference and also
won two in the Metropolitan Division. Rangers finished with one
hundred and fourteen points, Hurricanes with one hundred and eleven points.
Speaker 7 (37:22):
So it's gonna be a good.
Speaker 10 (37:23):
Match up there in round number two between the Rangers
and Hurricanes. Florida Panthers, who represented the Eastern Conference in
the Stanley Cup Finals last year, advanced into the second
round with a four to one series winner with the
Tampa Bay Lightning. First time the Panthers beat their in
state rivals in a playoff series, they had been zero
for three. Florida now awaits the winner of the Bruins
Maple Leaf series. Boston leads that series three games to two.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
They did.
Speaker 10 (37:46):
Did miss a golden opportunity to close out the series
in Game five, lost on home ice in overtime to
a Toronto team that did not have the NHL's goal
scoring champ Austin Mattals.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
They took a syndrome out.
Speaker 10 (37:57):
With an illness, but Bruins still lead the series three
games to two. They'll win this series in the West,
the top seed in the West.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
The guarantee it right now.
Speaker 7 (38:03):
Yes, I guarantee you tweet that out.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Coop Eddie Garcia geron tees that the Fruins will win.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
They gonna win to night, Eddie, No, it will win tonight.
They win, I think tonight. So there you go, in
your face, the win tonight.
Speaker 7 (38:18):
Top seed in the West.
Speaker 10 (38:19):
Dallas Stars have been in a dogfight with the defending
Stanley Cup champion Vegas Golden Knights. Dallas lost the first
two games, but now come back to win three in
a row. They won last night to take a three
to two series lead. Winner of the Stars Golden Knights
will face the Coldoro Avalanche in Round two. ABS beat
the Winnipeg Jets in five games in a mild upset.
Colorado lost the first game, then won four in a row.
That's the third place team in the Central over the
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second place team. Winnipeg became the first team in NHL
history to allow five or more goals in each of
their first five games. Of the postseason. That's not a
good thing to do. Edmonton Oilers beat the LA Kings
four to one to advance in around number two. Oilers
scored nine power play goals in the series. The Kings
had zero. That's a problem. Oilers now await the winner
of the Vancouver Nashville series. Cannot leave that series three
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games to two, but the Predators pulled out a two
to one winning Game five to stay alive and force
a game six back in Nashville. Vancouver has won their
three games this postseason using three different goalies, which is rare.
Matter of fact, it's only happened three times in the
history of the NHL. They started with Thatcher Demco he
got hurt. They turned to Kesey de Smith.
Speaker 7 (39:19):
He got hurt.
Speaker 10 (39:20):
So now they're using a guy named Arthur's Silvos, who
is like, that's not him.
Speaker 7 (39:26):
It's a different guy.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
So what if you have three goal tenders you don't
have one?
Speaker 7 (39:30):
Well, you know, when they get hurt, what are you
gonna do.
Speaker 10 (39:32):
Some news from the NHL Seattle Kracken fire their head
coach Dave hackxtell after three seasons, who's the first coach
in cracking history?
Speaker 7 (39:40):
Dismissed after they missed the playoffs.
Speaker 10 (39:41):
Down the year before they had one hundred points and
went to the Western Conference semi finals, so they did
not live up the expectations. This year, we're starting to
get the trophy finalists announced. Vesident Trophy finalists for the
Top Goalie, Connor Hellibuck of Winnipeg, Thatcher Demco of Vancouver
and Sergey Bobrovski at Florida, the Norris Trophy for the
top Defense, and he got Quinne Hughes Vancouver, Kill mccarr Colorado,
and Roman Josi in Nashville. And the Calder Trophy finalists
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for Rookie of the Year Connor Bdard of Chicago brought
favor from Minnesota and Luke Hughes from New Jersey. Tam
Bay Lightning coach John Cooper apologized for making what he
called an inappropriate analogy oologize after Game five, when they
lost to the Florida Panthers. Cooper vented about two questionable
goaltender interference calls, said after the game quote, we might
as well put skirts on the goalies then, if that's
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how we're going to be. He said he was sincerely sorry,
especially as the father of two daughters, a place forts
and stop as a supporter here.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
John Cooper should have said, listen, I had twenty twenty
four men are wearing skirts.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
I won't care. Come on, look around.
Speaker 7 (40:39):
I don't think that would have helped it. That would
have worked now, Rest in peace.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Bob Cole.
Speaker 10 (40:44):
He was the voice of hockey in Canada for a
half century. Passed away at the age of ninety. Called
his first game on radio in nineteen sixty nine, moved
to TV in nineteen seventy three. His final game was
in twenty nineteen. Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame
in nineteen ninety six. It's a Canadian legend, Bob Cole
passing away. Oh God, and that's your puck.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
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Pro Basketball, a night of non competitive NBA games. But
for the Clips, they were at a four kloor Dallas
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and the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I think you know we're going to start with that game.
Of course we will throw.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
The low hanging fruit out to the masses. So the
Maverickson Clippers Game five Western Conference Opening Round.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
The winner of Game five.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Historically has won the series eighty two percent of the time,
according to Kevin Harlan. So clearly there would be motivation
to win Game five that you should you should bring
to Gusto. You should bring the energy, you should bring
the effort. I brought the effort. I don't know about you.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I did, I said, I almost got on my left
ass cheek. I think I got a blister from sitting
watching all of this. But anyway, maybe you mist so.
Luca Doncic, reading the lead up to this game, you
would have thought that they were going to have to
chop off the leg of Luca below the knee.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Oh my aching knee, Luke.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Nothing the NBA does better than throwing out the dramatic
thespian performance there the overcoming the injury. The I always
like to bring up the Willis Reid game, which is
the most ridiculous thing in the world.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
He played the first quarter. That's it.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
But the New York media had a field day with that,
and to this day, if you're of a certain age,
the Willis Reid game or the Michael Jordan flu game,
which we've learned since that documentary was not even the flow.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
It was food. The Kobe Bryant they.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Do that, and Luca I'll be fine, they said, Oh,
by a k knee. He went out and scored twenty
of his thirty five in the second half at tennissist
and a bunch of rebounds and Dallas, Dallas puts.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
The Clippers of the Guilla team won twenty three to
ninety three.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
A sad day for the People's team as the Dallas
Pro bouncy Ball team takes a three games to two
lead in the first round series. Maxi Kleiba with five
to three pointers, Kyrie Irving a very quiet fourteen points
as the Mavericks win. But the better story, ding ding, ding, ning, ning,
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losing locker room.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
That's where we will go.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
So let us discuss the question, which is a rather
obvious question. How do James Harden and Paul George allow
the Clippers to lose a home playoff game by thirty points?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
How do you do that? So I've got Yo yo
d talks and pendulum.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make bread and butter is what
we're going to make, because you think the bread and
butter would just be playing with some extra effort in
a playoff game.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
But what do I know?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So, hey, to answer the question, how did James Harden
and Paul George and the Clippers lose a home playoff
game by thirty points? This performance made me want to
puke in my mouth. I think I did actually puke
in my mouth at the start of the fourth quarter.
But it was an all encompassing type of suck. As
we learned from a baseball player recently, it was gutless basketball.
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There's no other way to say it. It was absolutely gutless.
Lack of daisical. I'd a buddy of mine sometimes he'll
text me for gambling wisdom, and he sent me a
text during the afternoon and I was kind of out
of it and I was kind of, you know, trying
to get my day going, and he's like, hey, I
saw on TV that Luca is not gonna probably play.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
He might not play if he plays, he's not gonna
be that good. And he's got a bad knee and
all that and knees barking.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
And this is time to go big, but big on
the Clippers. And my response was your fool was my response,
because the key actors for the Clippers, and this has
been a problem for years and it was the same
thing in the Lob City days. They've changed the actors,
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but the play is the same, the script is the same.
The key players for the Clippers suffer from a neurosis.
They they have bipolar disorder. They go from success to
suck and on a dime.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Now, a lot of.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
People go from good to bad, but it's just different.
It's like a yo yo up and down and all around.
And even with that said as my unprofessional diagnosis, even
with that said, what the Clippers did in that game
on Wednesday night was a masterclass in fecal matter. Paul George,
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he's in the big chair, right. I keep seeing these
stories from the NBA insider craft. They're like, Wow, Paul George,
he's gonna opt out. People want to sign Paul George
to a big contract to be their lead dog. And
I'm like, Okay, he was in the big chair and
right there big chair on the vomit comet is where
he was a headliner who played hooky.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
He had fifteen points. That's a lead. That's a lead, guy, fifteen.
It's not like Dallas is a good defensive team.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
How about James Harden, James Harden suffering from a chronic
case of IDGAF.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I don't give an.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
F He had two field goals made too, four turnovers,
seven points a minus twenty five while he was out.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
In the court, and a partridge in the paratree.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
And then you've got Russell west Brick, who was an
absolute Mama Luke in his game.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Now he's a backup, but he's a Hall of famer.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
He had a triple double every game, mister triple double,
had as many assists as my fat ass and your
fat ass at zero sis. And those three players, all
of them hall of famers. They will all be hanging
out with Muffett McGraw, all of them, George, Harden and
Westbrook combined to shoot twenty two point two percent. They
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couldn't even get to thirty three point three percent, which
would have been half. The Sign of the Devil but
it blows me away. And it's not even that you're
gonna miss shots, I get it, but watching this, the attitude,
the mentality, the style of play absolutely does just drive
me insane.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
That's probably why I lost my hair.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Generally speaking, the more aggressive team wins in any athletic endeavor.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
We have all heard that.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Is this not some kind of great epiphany that the more
aggressive team wins in a boxing match, the more aggressive
fighter often wins, right, as usually in a basketball game
and a football game and the other thing. It's like,
it's not you're asking too much maximum effort and just hustling,
hustling on every play. It does not require you to
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be an Olympic athlete. You do not have to be
an elite athlete. You don't have to have any athletic
ability just to put effort in. And these guys, all
these guys all have great athletic ability. It's it's just
craziness to me that this goes on, and it's like,
why we shouldn't be like this. It's it's insane, absolutely insane,
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And uh, is that Paul George we have talking about this?
Are all here's a Paul George on the Clippers lack
of effort in a playoff game.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I just think we just got to do a better
job of getting a rhythm, playing a little a little faster.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
I thought that was their counter tonight was to play
faster offensively, which got them in rhythm and got them
in a better flow. But that's got to be our
mentality going into Game six is just playing a little faster.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I think a lot of those you know, three point
shots for late in.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
The shot clock.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Where there wasn't much rhythm or flow to those three
So we just got to do a better job of
getting in rhythm, uh with with you know, playing a
little up tempo and especially in a half court.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yeah, the rhythm was a flat line. That was the rhythm.
Flat line.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Since since Paul George is now podcast p can I
now play? I think I can play in the NBA.
I do podcast, this show's podcast. I do podcasts on
the weekend. Why don't I moonlight and play in the NBA?
How about that?
Speaker 6 (09:43):
All?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Right? Now, turning the Patriot, where does this performance leave
the Clippers? Well, the obvious one, Captain obvious is they're
down three to two. It is not an elimination. It's
not a best of five situation. Surprisingly, though, as walking
into the studio and I had this revelation from the
Book of Revelation. The Clippers are shockingly in really good shape.
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Here sneaky good shape. And let me explain why. All
they have to do is win two games in a row.
They've got four Hall of Famers on the team. You
think they can win two games in a row. And
this loss, you'd think it would put the pressure on
the Cliffs. But no, the Clippers loss will work as
a detox. It's like a defense. Get those harmful performances
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out of your body. Eliminate all the talksins and James
Harden and Paul George and what Russell Westbrook. They played
better on the road, the immense pressure from the great
Clipper fans.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
They struggle with that.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
The other option, though, would be Kawhi Lonard get off
his fat ass and stop malingering and stop with the
If I see one more shot him sitting on the
bench with a goofy look on his face with the
baseball cap, I'm gonna throw something at my TV, but
go in your money.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Stop with the absenteeism.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Okay, enough enough, but what are you doing all right,
last word here. So we talked about the Clippers being
in sneaky good shape. But on the other side, for
the Mavericks, who had an oil painting in this game,
do the Mavericks have the series in the back? Do
the Mavericks have this series in the bag? Well, absolutely not.
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I just explained the Clippers in a sneaky good spot. Now,
why is that Kyrie Irving and Luka Doncik together have
not done anything right as a dynamic duo.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
They haven't done anything yet.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
And I haven't really even been impressed with the Mavericks
and they're playing this series. They're up three games to two.
But it's more about what the Clippers haven't done than
anything that the Dallas Mavericks have done on the other side.
And when you check the pendulum of pressure, the Malord
pendulum of pressure, it is actually on Dallas. It's leaning
towards down. The Clippers have already been eliminated. You've already
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eliminated them. I checked my inbox. You've told me the
Clippers cannot win, that it's all over.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
They're done.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
So Dallas, right, they have to get this and you can't.
You cannot suffer from tight Touker syndrome. If you get
to a game seven, all bets are off right. The
matters still have worked to do. They better not screw
this up. Clippers can come out Lucy Goosey. They've already died.
They'll be reborn if they win in game six. But
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in a game seven, anything can happen in a game seven,
and the Clippers don't get their stuff together in game six.
And more importantly, there's no such thing as Uncle Mo.
Uncle Mo does not exist. The only Uncle Mo is
a guy from Brooklyn that calls the show. That's the
only Uncle Mo. Momentum is an illusionary phenomena in sports.
(12:45):
It is something that dumb sportscasters and idiotic sports writers
came up with to fill space and to fill time
period stop.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
It is the Ben Mahlor Shows.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
We jump through the hoop, something the Clippers did not
do a lot.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Of going through the hoop. They hit the rim, they
hit the backboard. Sometimes they didn't even do that.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
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Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yet again, we will work our way back to NBA
drama rama the Mavericks running the Clippers off the court
in La Laland. And so that means there will be
a game six and then after that of Game seven,
people overreacting being prisoners of the Malmont because Dallas.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Won in a route or route.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
But our lead this hour coming from the Commonwealth, the
NBA Playoff Palosa, where the final margin of both games
was a combined over sixty points. The Celtics and Heat
in Game five of the Eastern Conference opening round series.
I don't know if you saw this. It was the
early early card, early part of the card, perhaps not
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Jalen Brown and Derek White, yet again the expert Derek White,
each of them scoring twenty five points as the Boston
basketball team advanced in a laugher to the Eastern Conference
semi finals. They beat the hobbled Heat and there was
no glimmer of hope in this game from Miami one
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eighteen to eighty four.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
As that's it.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Boston will now face the winner of the Cleveland Orlando series.
The Cadavers have a three to two lead in that series.
Game six is tomorrow Tomorrow, Friday night in or Lando,
so you let me know how that goes. You can
do some scouting, can watch that, let me know how
that goes. So this game no contest at all. There's
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really nothing to dissect from the game. Clearly, the Celtics
without Christops porzingis it didn't matter against a bewildered, beaten,
and broken Miami Heat team as the Heat without Jimmy
Buckets and several other key players, and they never led
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Miami and the show buy as many as thirty seven.
So the better story is in the losing locker room,
so that is where we will focus.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Won't spend too much.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Time on this, but the question what does pat Riley,
What does Ryle's do? What does pat Riley do to
fix this Heat roster which clearly has broken the Heat
culture and all that. That didn't really work when you
don't have good players. So my observations, I've got ABC
overdosing and arm candy, and we will toss all of
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these things together and we are going.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
To baffle you with bull crap, is what we're going
to do.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
So number Wall right enough, pat Riley, I know one thing.
I don't know a lot, but I know what. Pat
Riley's not gonna sit there drinking my tie and in
his banana hammock there on the beach in Miami, twiddling
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his thumbs. That's not gonna happen. This is going to
be compelling theater for those of us that dabble in
the ancient art of gas baggery. All cards are on
the table. I see a dimension in my crystal ball
where Miami gets out of business with Jimmy Buckets. Now
I like Jimmy Butler, but Jimmy Butler is getting hurt
a lot. He's getting older, and at some point you
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got to cut the cord.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
You got to put your food down and move on
by some other food because the food's going bad. And
then you got Bam out of Bio, who's younger. But
he's a guy that you'd likely have to trade in
cahoots with other players to get something of value in return.
So those guys Jimmy buckets. Jud he's not guaranteed to
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come back to need this bam out of biole. But
pat Riley right, he's got a reservation. He's going to
visit the Sorcerer's Workshop. That's where he's going, Sorcerer's Workshop,
and he's got to cook up a new potion. The
potion they've been using doesn't work. It's not working right now.
It was supposed to be the Dame Traine. Remember this
whole season, was going to be Dame Lillard back in
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the Eastern Conference for the first time, and he's gonna
lead Miami to the Promised Land. But the Blazers would
not capitulate, and the owners like got upset because Dame said,
I'm only playing for Miami, So the owner of the
Blazers you want to beat and then went to Milwaukee
and then the rest is history. So who are the
next wave of stars that Miami can get their hands
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on in the transfer portal? So I'm looking at who's
available and all kidding aside, it's like that old ABC
show from a million years ago thirty something. It's Lebron,
James Paul, George Clay Thompson, James Harden, Tobias Harris, Pascal Siakam.
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They are all expected to be available depending on contract opouts.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
All of them are either in their.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Early thirties or late thirties, and all of them carry
a different degree of falling star status. So pat Riley,
you gotta think outside the box now when you go
to Miami. When you play in Miami is a.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Couple of teams. We all know the team's.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
LA any team in La Any team in Miami, which
is only one, but you can get pretty much whoever
you want because everyone wants to play there.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
So even guys that are under contract.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
You could see a scenario where the Heat could get
one of those guys.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
There have to be some kind.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Of kerfluffle between the agent and the team and a demand.
Not happy, not satisfied, didn't go far enough in the playoffs,
and all of a sudden, you can It's like a
claw machine.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
You can kind of manipulate the little stuffed animal and
get it where you want. Now, speaking of manipulation.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
We head now to Arizona. The Suns are eliminated by
the Minnesota Pro Bouncy Ball team. The state of the
team address always fun matt Ishbia trying to get a
gold star.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Near his name. For his State of the Sun's address.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
He rejected the negative media people and the vibrations, the
vibrations around the Suns. He said, quote ask the other
twenty nine gms. Matt Isshbia said, twenty six of them
would trade listen to this their whole team for our
whole team and our draft picks and everything. As is,
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the Suns don't have any first round picks till twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
But wait, there's more.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
The Sun's owner, also continuing is and he said the
narrative that the house is burning is incorrect. The Phoenix
Suns are doing great, excellent, not as good as we
want to be. Ishbi has stated, not as good as
we're going to do next year. And that's what we're
going to figure out. What we've got to tweak, modify
and adjust to win a championship next year.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Close quote.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
All right, so let's discuss what does this rant by
the Sun's owner, Matt Ishbia's signal to you.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Okay, I'm gonna go first.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
So this is the positive affirmations strategy, right, it's a
positive affort strategy. Trying to speak it into reality. Ishbia thinks,
if you believe him at face value that ninety percent
of the NBA general managers are morons.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
They are moron.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
And now, the one that is really the key part
of this, the thing that's the key part of this rant.
If I could speak, that would help. But the thing
that is a key part of this is what wasn't said,
what was left on the cutting room floor. At no
point I watched this. I didn't see him say this.
Maybe I missed it. I watched the video that was
available online. At no point did Matt Ishbia say that
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Frank Vogel is my coach, He's gonna come back. Frank
Vogel is burnt toast. He's Jim nance Toast. He's burnt toast.
The Phoenix owner kept his mouth shut when it came
to Frank Vogel and his future on the sidelines. That's
what we call muddy waters, is what that is now.
Ishbia is equal parts egotistical and delusional. He's currently overdosing
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on Hubris as we speak. But since we do the
show from a little town called Realcyville, living in Realityville,
I'm the mayor of Realityville, the Suns right now, at
this moment in time, right at this moment in time.
They have a top heavy roster with an aging superstar
who has bohemian tendencies and is more likely to ask
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for a trade than to be part of the solution.
Shout out Kevin Durant. He's right now on his burner
sending nasty things my way. But the roster doesn't appear
to fit together. Bradley Beale, for all the hype that
he got coming out of Washington, he was a zero.
And there's not a lot of wiggle room. There's not
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other than trading Devin Booker, which you don't want to
do apparently, So good luck. All right, final point. We
mentioned this in a previous episode of the show. We'll
bring it up again. I think it's interesting. So the NBA,
which many people do not like to watch, according to
the feedback I get. I get a lot of vitrio.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Why are you talking so much about the NBA.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Every time this time of the year, every spring.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
It's the same thing. But the NBA is closing in
on a mega, mega, mega millions deal with NBC, So
those of you that hate the NBA will fly into
a tantrum.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
But it's a big media rights deal.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Now, it's not one hundred percent done, yet it's possible
that they will work some kind of compromise. The early
scenario says that Turner Sports would be on Now there
are some other people say Turner.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Would keep some NBA games, which is not as many.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
But if they are out, if Turner is out of
this and NBC takes the package of NBA games from them,
Charles Barkley is in play. He revealed that he can
get out of his deal, that he can get out
of his deal and he would be willing to do
so if TNT does not end up keeping the NBA
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package if they lose the rights. Barkley in a recent
interviews said quote he covered his ass. He said, I
covered my ass. He signed a ten year contract. I
can't imagine having a ten year contract.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Holy crap.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
He signed a ten year contract and two years ago
there's an opt out tossed in. So this has led
to speculation about the round mound of basketball talking rebound
and his broadcasting future. So the question is Charles Barkley
a part of this NBA media rights negotiation And while
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he's not at the very front of it, I would argue, yes,
I'm gonna nod my head. Yes, that Charles Barkley in
this equation, if what I know is true, Charles Barkley
is the arm candy for every boob tube executive. And
I know some of the people at NBC from what
I know, they would love to have Charles bark Who
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wouldn't want to have it?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
It's a captain obvious, right, everyone would want Charles Barkley.
He's the prize. Barkley is the prize.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Barkley makes every other jocksniffing ex athlete look like a boob.
Charles Barkley's at what he does wonderful. And you get
these other hacks like Kendrick Perkins and these other dopes
that are terrible, but Barkley's not. He's the tour de
force and Barkley, if he's available, he's likely going to
double his cellar. He's going to get the king's ransom.
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He can ask whatever has literally a blank check, and
whatever the amount is, they will match.
Speaker 6 (26:32):
You.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maler
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Speaker 1 (26:38):
Here we god, how about that to the third degree,
I just said that.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
This is one big Ben gets grilled hoop dalup.
Speaker 9 (26:49):
The San Antonio Spurs only had twenty two wins this season,
and yet on Tuesday, Magic Johnson said the team will
definitely make the playoffs next year. Then are you on
board with his prediction?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Well, first off, Magic Johnson's he's seen the advanced script
for next NBA season, so obviously that's being written. But yeah, listen,
I do think the Spurs are gonna make the playoffs
because they will go out and get a player that's
gonna make a difference. And the NBA needs Wemby. They
need Wemby to be a big deal. They need Wemby
to matter, They need the Parisian prodecty to matter. You
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don't matter if you don't make the playoffs.
Speaker 9 (27:20):
Next Jarrod Mayo said in a recent interview that Bill
Belichick probably would have traded back from the number three
spot to get more picks. Ben, Do you think that's
true and would have been the better move? Yes, A,
I think it's true. B. It's Gerrod Mayo patting himself
on the back seat. We're doing things different. We're not
like Belichick, you massholes. We're better than Belichick.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
And see, I think they drafted a guy that stinks
in Drake may so it would have been the better move.
I'm not impressed with Drake May and I will I'd
be proven wrong. We'll find out, But I don't think
this guy's all that. I think his ceiling is an
average quarterback in the NFL. But it's nice if girod
Mayo'd have pat himself on the back next.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
Pop Pierre suggested this week that Donovan Mitchell would be
the perfect target for the Lakers. Ben do you think
the Cavs will look to trade to Mitchell?
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I do, And it sounds like Mitchell's does not want
to sign an extension in Cleveland, and there have been
whispers that he's like all these other NBA guys. He
spends time in the offseason in LA. Even though he's
an East Coast guy. He spends time in LA, spends
time in Miami. So he's in play. He is absolutely
in play for the Lakers. And I wouldn't be smiled
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that my entire life. They've gotten every big name that
they want, They get every FN big name.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
It's ridiculous. He anyway, how did we don't koopole out
pass this edition? That is a win.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
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Speaker 3 (28:41):
King at this, I've got the most wins of all time. Amazing.
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Speaker 3 (28:57):
It's now time for time for honey, Honey, I can
honey wait?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Ask bad?
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Twitter said, is your questions on Twitter now?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
And the way we go it is ask being your
questions are answers for the rest of the hour. The
rest of the hour, the reading of the questions, we
go over to the man at the bully pulpit over there,
Coop dow Loop.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Cowboy Killer would like to know hi, Cowboy Killer said.
Speaker 9 (29:27):
When eating out, do you wait until everyone gets their
food to start eating?
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Or do you are do you just eat right away?
He doesn't. Yeah, he's yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
So here's what happened. It depends who I'm with. If
I'm with my friends, who cares. But if I'm like
family or someone like the in laws, I try.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
To be polite. But if not, I'm just absolute caveman
and I just started eating right away. What about what
about you? Eddie?
Speaker 10 (29:52):
I usually wait, I make it act like I'm doing
it for politeness. But I also don't really like my
food hot, so I wait for it to kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Off their food hot.
Speaker 7 (30:03):
Nobody, I don't. I don't like it hot.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Yeah, so a lot of people have that thought, a
lot of people.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
I care about me.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Very selfish, lorrain Ah.
Speaker 11 (30:13):
I taste it with my nose while I wait.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Ben, you enjoy the smell, and you say, a lot
of eating is the smell that you enjoy the meat
you have.
Speaker 11 (30:22):
To eat, you have to taste it with your nose
for It's just like wine.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
I don't know but that I'm not a wine first.
Speaker 9 (30:27):
In Cupolou, I do not wait, and and I get
angry if I'm out with people that do wait. It's like,
stop it, eat your food. Yeah, don't wait for me,
because my food's not here. I'm going to enjoy my
food when it gets here. You enjoy your food now
like you know, it comes out and then just it's
supposed to be eaten fresh, like I'm not gonna wait
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for you, don't wait for me.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
It was really it's a restaurant problem. You're supposed to
bring food out at safe time.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
True.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
True, I'm supposed to bring it out one by one.
What is next year? It's asked, Ben, your questions are answered,
Lady Sideburns. Oh this is big, Lady Sideburns, total babe.
Speaker 9 (31:05):
Yes, I would like to know if you had to
select one part of your body that you would never
be allowed to wash again.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
I'll go my my right calf, my right calf. I
think i'd be I'd be okay with not watching that.
What about watching that? What about you? Eddie?
Speaker 7 (31:25):
Let's go elbow, elbow.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Your elbow gets sweaty though not my elbow maybe, no, yours,
it's not. It's not a bad answer. That's a better
answer than your answer.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
No, my cash is better answer because the calf's lower.
You know, in the elbows. You got to move your
elbow a lot. You smell it more. If your calf smells,
it's lower, it's closer to the ground.
Speaker 7 (31:44):
Are you talking about.
Speaker 12 (31:45):
This is a really hard one. Yeah, this is really hard.
I'm gonna go with my pinky finger, Ben. I feel
like it gets the least dirty of most things, man.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
It does, trust me. It gets dirty. It gets you
put in place you never realize it allop.
Speaker 9 (32:02):
See, that's not a bad answer either. I was gonna
go with like, see, I don't know, can you choose
just one finger or because then that likes attached to
your hands, so you'd have to be choosing your hands
if she was cheating.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
See.
Speaker 9 (32:15):
My thought was like, I know, eventually, no matter what
you choose, it's gonna suck eventually. But you go with
your feet because then you're washing the rest of your
body and you're gonna have some of those SuDS like
hit your feet on, you know, just from being rinsed off.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
So it's kind of trying. You're trying to cheat.
Speaker 9 (32:32):
Also, well, look you're not directly washing your feet, but
they're gonna get no.
Speaker 12 (32:36):
I think you would have to put your feet outside
of the bathtub if you were to choose your feet coop.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
I don't showers, you might have to chop your feet
off because.
Speaker 12 (32:44):
Some people count that as washing their feet. They do
not wash their feet. They just let soap and water
run down.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
That's not washing your feet, man, No, it's not what
is next? To what do we have?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
It's ask ben we're doing the unthinking about your questions?
Are answers fraught with peril?
Speaker 3 (32:59):
What is next? All right?
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (33:02):
Ferg Dog would like to Fergie, do you know how
to play chess. How about backgammon?
Speaker 3 (33:10):
No, I'm a great checkers player.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
No.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I my grandfather, one of my grandfathers, try to teach
me how to play chess. Now, my mom did, my dad.
My dad was really good at chess, and I said
it takes too much patience.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
So I never did, Eddie.
Speaker 10 (33:25):
Yes, I know how to play chess, although I have
not played in a long long time. And I think
when I was younger, I think I did know how
to play backgammon.
Speaker 7 (33:33):
But I don't remember how to play anymore.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
All right, Lorraine, Nut.
Speaker 11 (33:37):
I do like chess. I do not practice it. I
do not play it.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
But I used to your show off Google Loop.
Speaker 9 (33:44):
I like chess as well, and I did it just
recently play in Japan. All right, but I do not
know how to play back in.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Okay, I'll kick your assid checkers?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Though?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
What is next here? What do we have?
Speaker 9 (33:56):
Donkey Sausage would like to know, Donkey, what is your
favorite restaurant that's not around anymore?
Speaker 3 (34:04):
I'll tell you there's this. But I was started out
in radio in Burbank we adults.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Yeah, Oh my god, I missed that place every time
I drive by there It was in the lower floor
of a building right across from Warner Brothers. They had
the greatest chicken fingers I've ever had in my life.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
I used to hang I was like our cheers.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
I used to go out there three or four nights
a week and drink and eat chicken fingers.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
And I was like four hundred, five hundred pounds. I
loved it. And they closed and they said they were
going to reopen. They never reopened. I missed dults. Oh
my god, Eddie, what about you.
Speaker 7 (34:35):
At I agree?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
It was an amazing place and.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
There were people this is back in the you know,
the Seinfeld It a long time ago, but the cast
from these different TV shows then everyone was watching those shows.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
They would come and hang out there and eat the
chicken figures. What about you? Low right up?
Speaker 11 (34:49):
I miss hometown buffet, Ben, right.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
That's a good answer.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
I didn't they went away?
Speaker 11 (34:55):
Yeah, well, all the ones I know about have been closed.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Pandemic, right, the pandemic. They didn't.
Speaker 11 (34:59):
I think that was I think that was their final straw.
Speaker 12 (35:01):
And it's funny because it's like, Okay, when I was
a kid, did was it really good food?
Speaker 11 (35:04):
Like if I went back now, would I still be impressed.
I don't know, we'll never know.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Quantity over quality.
Speaker 12 (35:11):
But they had like the fresh ham, like you could
get the sliced ham straight off.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
The you know.
Speaker 11 (35:15):
Oh oh it was good.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
A friend of mine, speaking of buffets and Vegas, said
that they they've started to get rid of the buffets
in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
There's hardly any left in Vegas. I guess everyone's against
the Vegas. What about you, a coople ope restaurant? You
missed well.
Speaker 9 (35:29):
Lorena brought up a good point like that. I wasn't
even thinking buffets, and that made me think of suit Plantation.
I really liked suit Plantation.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
I heard there is one sup plantation that has come
back out in the Inland Empire.
Speaker 7 (35:40):
Somebody told me really google.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (35:42):
Well, but then aside from that, the first thing that
I thought of, and I'm pretty sure this was a chain,
like I don't think it was, you know, specific to
my hometown, but there was a restaurant called Elephant Bar
and they had the best chicken fingers ever ever.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Ever. Yes, yes, by the.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Way, here it is if you want soup plantation. In
La Here, Rancho Cucamonga opened up a.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
New soup plantation. You're better off driving. Did you pay it?
I think you can get there? Yeah, yeah, exactly quickly. Right.
He wants to know if you ever stayed at an Airbnb. Yes,
many times I've stayed at airbnbs. What about you?
Speaker 7 (36:20):
Oh yeah, on vacation, lots of times.
Speaker 11 (36:22):
I love Airbnbs.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Yes, many times, many times. Oh, we're all airbnb people.
Take that, hotels, Take that you, hotels.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
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Speaker 3 (36:35):
And we bounced the puck over to Eddie. Can you
bounce a puck?
Speaker 7 (36:39):
You can't bounce a puck? Yeah you can't.
Speaker 10 (36:41):
Yeah, you want to hit a mouth in the punk though,
definitely not. That's not good for your for your mouth,
that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
That's not good. But here's Eddie puck.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
All right, thanks man.
Speaker 10 (36:50):
The NHL Playoffs started last week, and five of the
eight first round series are already over. The New York
Rangers the first team to advance it around Humber two.
They are the only team to sweep there for stround series,
as they eliminated the Washington Capitals in four games. The
President's Trophy winners for the most points in the regular
season and number one seed in the East, will take
on the Carolina Hurricanes in round two.
Speaker 7 (37:09):
The Hurricanes took care of the New York Islanders in
five games.
Speaker 10 (37:12):
New York and Carolina, So talking about the Rangers and
Carolina finished one two in the Eastern Conference and also
won two in the Metropolitan Division. Rangers finished with one
hundred and fourteen points, Hurricanes with one hundred and eleven points.
Speaker 7 (37:22):
So it's gonna be a good.
Speaker 10 (37:23):
Match up there in round number two between the Rangers
and Hurricanes. Florida Panthers, who represented the Eastern Conference in
the Stanley Cup Finals last year, advanced into the second
round with a four to one series winner with the
Tampa Bay Lightning. First time the Panthers beat their in
state rivals in a playoff series, they had been zero
for three. Florida now awaits the winner of the Bruins
Maple Leaf series. Boston leads that series three games to two.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
They did.
Speaker 10 (37:46):
Did miss a golden opportunity to close out the series
in Game five, lost on home ice in overtime to
a Toronto team that did not have the NHL's goal
scoring champ Austin Mattals.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
They took a syndrome out.
Speaker 10 (37:57):
With an illness, but Bruins still lead the series three
games to two. They'll win this series in the West,
the top seed in the West.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
The guarantee it right now.
Speaker 7 (38:03):
Yes, I guarantee you tweet that out.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Coop Eddie Garcia geron tees that the Fruins will win.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
They gonna win to night, Eddie, No, it will win tonight.
They win, I think tonight. So there you go, in
your face, the win tonight.
Speaker 7 (38:18):
Top seed in the West.
Speaker 10 (38:19):
Dallas Stars have been in a dogfight with the defending
Stanley Cup champion Vegas Golden Knights. Dallas lost the first
two games, but now come back to win three in
a row. They won last night to take a three
to two series lead. Winner of the Stars Golden Knights
will face the Coldoro Avalanche in Round two. ABS beat
the Winnipeg Jets in five games in a mild upset.
Colorado lost the first game, then won four in a row.
That's the third place team in the Central over the
(38:39):
second place team. Winnipeg became the first team in NHL
history to allow five or more goals in each of
their first five games. Of the postseason. That's not a
good thing to do. Edmonton Oilers beat the LA Kings
four to one to advance in around number two. Oilers
scored nine power play goals in the series. The Kings
had zero. That's a problem. Oilers now await the winner
of the Vancouver Nashville series. Cannot leave that series three
(39:01):
games to two, but the Predators pulled out a two
to one winning Game five to stay alive and force
a game six back in Nashville. Vancouver has won their
three games this postseason using three different goalies, which is rare.
Matter of fact, it's only happened three times in the
history of the NHL. They started with Thatcher Demco he
got hurt. They turned to Kesey de Smith.
Speaker 7 (39:19):
He got hurt.
Speaker 10 (39:20):
So now they're using a guy named Arthur's Silvos, who
is like, that's not him.
Speaker 7 (39:26):
It's a different guy.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
So what if you have three goal tenders you don't
have one?
Speaker 7 (39:30):
Well, you know, when they get hurt, what are you
gonna do.
Speaker 10 (39:32):
Some news from the NHL Seattle Kracken fire their head
coach Dave hackxtell after three seasons, who's the first coach
in cracking history?
Speaker 7 (39:40):
Dismissed after they missed the playoffs.
Speaker 10 (39:41):
Down the year before they had one hundred points and
went to the Western Conference semi finals, so they did
not live up the expectations. This year, we're starting to
get the trophy finalists announced. Vesident Trophy finalists for the
Top Goalie, Connor Hellibuck of Winnipeg, Thatcher Demco of Vancouver
and Sergey Bobrovski at Florida, the Norris Trophy for the
top Defense, and he got Quinne Hughes Vancouver, Kill mccarr Colorado,
and Roman Josi in Nashville. And the Calder Trophy finalists
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for Rookie of the Year Connor Bdard of Chicago brought
favor from Minnesota and Luke Hughes from New Jersey. Tam
Bay Lightning coach John Cooper apologized for making what he
called an inappropriate analogy oologize after Game five, when they
lost to the Florida Panthers. Cooper vented about two questionable
goaltender interference calls, said after the game quote, we might
as well put skirts on the goalies then, if that's
(40:26):
how we're going to be. He said he was sincerely sorry,
especially as the father of two daughters, a place forts
and stop as a supporter here.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
John Cooper should have said, listen, I had twenty twenty
four men are wearing skirts.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
I won't care. Come on, look around.
Speaker 7 (40:39):
I don't think that would have helped it. That would
have worked now, Rest in peace.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Bob Cole.
Speaker 10 (40:44):
He was the voice of hockey in Canada for a
half century. Passed away at the age of ninety. Called
his first game on radio in nineteen sixty nine, moved
to TV in nineteen seventy three. His final game was
in twenty nineteen. Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame
in nineteen ninety six. It's a Canadian legend, Bob Cole
passing away. Oh God, and that's your puck.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
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