May 23, 2024 • 37 mins
Big Ben talks about the Timberwolves getting upset by the Mavericks in Game 1 of the WCF, the NBA moving on from TNT after next season, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, and more!
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the hits my my nd twin Cities. That was the
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site of the big ticket on the Wednesday sporting card
l Sporto. The lights turned on extra bright Western Conference Finals.
I assumed you were watching the mav Rex and the
timber Puffs as they were matching up against each other,
but maybe not. Maybe you did not watch. You other
(02:00):
things going on, so listen, I got nothing going on.
I was watching Lukka Luka Doncik had thirty three points,
but fifteen of them in the fourth quarter, and the
Dallas basketball team in a game that was never in
double digits either way. It was a close game at
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all points, but Luka Doncik had thirty three points. Dallas
ends up getting a three point road win, one oh
eight to one oh five over the Minnesota basketball team.
Game one of the Western Finals, the Mavericks trailed by four.
It's not a lot, but a trail by four with
three point thirty seven to go after Anthony Edwards had
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made a three point shot, But then Dallas goes on
an eight zero run to turn the game around in
the final minutes, and they end up holding on and
winning the game. So let us discuss the question better
story in the losing locker room. Who gets the biggest
part of the juicy lucy of blame for the timber Wolves.
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So I've got dragon, fat, farm, and liberty, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a pontoon boat. Because it looked like
the Minnesota basketball team was on a pontoon boat kind
of floating away there. So a I heard this years ago.
(03:28):
I think it's appropriate here. The fish rots from the
head down, so apparently does a timberwolf. This one not
that hard to dissect. Anthony Edwards getting the double double,
juicy lucy of blame and shame Edwards. We like to talk,
We're all about to talk. We do talk radio. But
Anthony Edwards rode one of those oversized cartoon checks and
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he could not cash the check that he wrote. He
was buried, buried in quicksand for Game one, Anthony Edwards
he played the role of the dragon, but he was
the dragons in terms of dragon breath foul smelling. They
had nineteen points, took sixteen shots for Michael Jordan two
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point zero. The basketball pundits have told US did not
have a higher gear here. And while Anthony Edwards is
the headliner and he sucked the most, there's plenty of
suckage to go around. How about Carl Anthony Towns, He
had a seat in the vomit comet, Carl Anthony Towns
six of twenty from the floor, a pedestrian stat line.
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And Minnesota, who dominated from outside. They had a plus
thirty six point advantage from three point ranch, which I'm
told is pretty good. Ended up losing the game anyway.
Why did they do that well? In part because Carl
Anthony Towns and defensive stalwart Rudy Gobert did not do
their job in the painted area Dallas. Dallas had a
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plus twenty four advantage, the mav Res plus twenty four
points in the paint, outscoring the Timberwolves sixty two to
thirty eight. This game, in that regard, was a boone
doggle for Minnesota. It was. But wait, there's more. Page two.
Here we have the SoundBite of the night. It's Anthony
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Edwards of your Minnesota basketball team, commenting on what went
wrong for the Wolves. Take a listen. Do you think
that the high from Game seven maybe kind of affected
you guys coming in today at all. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I mean I can see it was a little step
a step behind everybody, especially myself. Kyrie got a transition
layup from I think we scored and he just outran me.
I was just exhausted, man, So yeah, for sure, we'll
be all right.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
All right, that's a different sound bite. But he said
the quote I was looking for. He said we were
just a little tired. Probably was the actual quote I
was trying to get. I don't know why we got
that one anyway, Anthony Edwards, he did say, trust me,
he said he said the Wolves were tired. Thumbs up
or thumbs down? Do you find this significant? Do you
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find it significant? So I am going to go thumbs
up on this, and I would say that particular quote
which you didn't hear for some reason. It's game one.
The Wolves had a couple of nights off, right, They
played on Sunday at Game seven was on Sunday, unless
my math is wrong, and I believe it was. So
they had Monday and Tuesday off. They were at home,
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so they didn't have to travel anywhere, not that that
would be a problem. And it's not just Anthony Edwards
it's the entire NBA community if you're watching the TNT broadcast,
Reggie Miller, I think he pulled a muscle as he
was desperately trying to defend Anthony Edwards. He earned his stripes.
Reggie Miller did in the excuse department, going back and forth.
(06:56):
I at one point it was he's tired. He said
that a lot. That was the main excuse, he's tired,
and then there was alsos like some phantom injury at
one point. Then he made a shot, so Reggie had
to take that back. I thought the whole thing was nauseating,
and you have to ask the question like if you're
going to use the tired excuse, like what are you doing?
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Anthony Edwards is twenty two years old. And the basketball media,
which love to make excuses when guys don't play well,
it's never they just have a bad game. It's always
they're hurt, they're tired, they're this or that the other.
But he was being treated Anthony. It was like an
escapee from a fat farm. This is not Oliver Miller
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or Zion Williamson, and there's no excuse for being tired.
Go out and get some of that turbo charged red
bull or whatever you use there and go for it
all right, Now, last word here. So there's another bubbling
storyline from the Dallas Minnesota game evolves Kinray Irving, who
(07:59):
claimed that he used the I Got Kyrie quote from
Anthony Edwards as motivation. Now, he said it kind of
in a dismissive way because he was asked about it,
But he claimed that he did use that as motivation. Now,
Charles Barkley made a big deal about this, implying that
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the stat line by Kyrie Irving in this game was
directly related to the commentary by Anthony Edwards. Does all
of that work for you? Does all of that work
for you? And the answer is absolutely not right. There
is no correlation, right, there is no quality. This is
(08:43):
the man who shot liberty valance situation. Right when the
legend becomes the fact, you print the legend. Now, let
me give him my evidence here. Oh, you can't say
that Kyrie Irving said that he used at as motivation.
You can't say no that, I will and listen and
take notes. Give you my evidence. Okay, my eyeballs and
my byfocals. That's my other. Now, Kyrie came out Game
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Busters I just started the game, right. Kyrie irb came
out uncle drew eleven of fourteen from the floor, twenty
four points. He was a maestro in the first half.
So what happened at halftime? What happened? He came out
in the second half and he was guilty of truancy.
He played like a Dingleberry. So does that mean he
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no longer was motivated by I Got Kyrie? That only
inspired him for half the game and didn't inspire him
for the second half. Explain that Kyrie Irving after halftime
took nine shots. He made one more shot than you did,
and one more shot than I had. One shot he
made one of nine, only had six points in the
second half, and in the fourth quarter he took six shots,
(09:49):
didn't make a single shot in the fourth quarter. But
I got Kyrie. He was motivated by that. But he
wasn't motivated in the fourth quarter. He was bailed out
by Luca. He was absolutely bailed out. But this is
what I always go back to, Like the whole bulletin
board stuff, it doesn't work, It doesn't apply here, and
it didn't apply in this moment either. It's one of
(10:11):
those things. It's a good storyline. You go with it.
You're like, yeah, that's it. I got Kyrie. Anthony Edwards
didn't play well. Minnesota didn't play well. If I'm Dallas,
I'm not feeling particularly good right now because the Wolves
played a bad game and still had a shot to
win the game in the final minutes. They're not gonna
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play that way in Game two Minnesota, So I wouldn't
feel too good if I was Dallas. But as far
as the whole motivational tactic, the Anthony Edwards I got
Kyrie quote motivating Kyrie, even though he was being polite
with the media and said it did it obviously didn't
matter in the second half of that game, as Kyrie
Irving was an absolute non factor at that point.
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back to the Dallas Mavericks winning Game one of the
Western Finals in the final minutes. Say we're down a
back and forth game, but down about three minutes to
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go in the game, they make a little run, they
win the game and so Dallas gets home court advantage
for the moment away from Minnesota. But interesting story here
in the trade papers. It's been reported for a couple
of weeks now, but it appears it's going to be
announced the NBA, possibly as soon as later today, but
(13:33):
likely by the weekend. The NBA is moving on from
Turner Sports. We are told that it is going to
be announced likely this week this week, that the games
will be a broadcast going forward on ESPN, Amazon and
b C. Now, what does that mean? That means d
(13:54):
da da da da da da da good bye to
Inside the NBA, the pre eminent studio show in American sports.
Let's be honest, all these shows blow. They're terrible. The
only one that was any good was on Turner, and
now that show is on life support. One more season.
(14:14):
They're not done yet. They got the playoffs here, a
couple more games in the Western Conference Finals, and then
one last lame dark season. So Charles Barkley chimed in
on all of this. He's not a couple of interviews,
do't if he saw the latest one he did? Maybe
not so, Sir Charles. A subdued Charles Barkley. He talked
(14:36):
about all the people at Turner who are going to
lose their jobs. Of course, the yin to the yang
is there'll be a bunch of people that'll get jobs
at NBC. But he also mentioned that Ernie Johnson, the
host of Inside the NBA, that he will hang up
the IFB. He will be retiring soon. Now Ernie didn't
(14:59):
announces with iron, Barkley made it seem like that is
going to happen rather soon. He's not going to go
hang out with the peacock. So let us discuss the question.
Charles Barkley commenting about Ernie Johnson saying he will retire.
He's not going to leave the Joe to bring the
Band of Merry Men over to NBC. What are your
thoughts on this? So I've got the Staypuff, marshmallow Man,
(15:23):
Butcher Shop, and the Spider Verse, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make a hard o pregame show, which is what every
other pregame show is. Hard, oh hard. Who wants that?
I don't want that. Maybe you want that. I don't
want that. Maybe you're the problem you want it. I
don't want that all right now, Number w My first thought, bahumbug,
(15:55):
it does blow right, it does. If there's one thing
this Salvage, there is one thing the Salvage and the
big money world of sports television, it would be that show.
In a wide ocean as big as the mighty Pacific
of Manure, You've got this north Star inside the NBA
(16:16):
and Ernie Johnson, I get it. He's setting his ways.
He's gonna turn sixty eight years old later this year.
He's in the twilight of his broadcasting career. But EJ's
Nidos stat of a Knight. How about this? Ernie Johnson
has been at Turner Sports since nineteen eighty nine. My
(16:37):
computer like brain tells me that's like thirty five years
or so. That's a good run. And inside the NBA,
the I've got again one year left. At that point though,
I was thinking about this as I was walking into
the studio here inside the NBA, which is not as
good with Draymond Green, he sucks, but the other guys
are good. He's been on for some reason. I guess
they gotta get a current player on. Anyway, he should
(17:00):
stick to his little dumb podcast. But inside the NBA,
one year left, and when they go away, I will
garerong to you that inside the NBA becomes the State
Puff marshmallow Man. It will be ghostly. It is going
to be that touchstone that will haunt all other studio shows.
(17:23):
It will become a broadcasting Poulter guys that everything is
judged against. Anytime you see a pregame show in any
sport that is good, you say, well, it's good, but
it's not as good. It's not as good as what
Barkley and those guys had at Inside the NBA. Now
page two, we pivot from television to the bag, to
(17:46):
the bag, and we go bam out of Bio. Now,
that is a basketball player for the Miami basketball team
and they're not in the playoffs anymore. But Bam out
of Bio was among the handful of name brand players
who got the shaft or did he get the chef?
He missed out on a chance at a much bigger
paid a Why Because the NBA announced the twenty twenty
(18:08):
four All NBA teams. I know it's always a big
day for you. They were revealed on social media back
on Wednesday. And because Bam out of Bio did not
make even the third team, he is not eligible for
the Supermax. So did Bam at a Bio get a
raw deal from the All NBA voters as he was
(18:32):
a key figure in Miami's season this year. So I'm
gonna go no on this. I saw some I don't
want to say it was a hullaballoo, but I saw
some noise, some chatter about this, and I'm gonna go know,
I'm gonna go to the butcher shop, Benny's butcher Shop.
And out of Bio. While he is a good player,
he is a cut below. I was a cut below
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the All NBA status. He had a solid year. He
averaged the double double. It was around twenty points a
game and ten rebounds a game and shot the ball well,
but not an All NBA player. Not on my big
board now speaking of the All NBA and Bam out
of Bio missing out. Also Dearon Fox of the Sacramento
(19:16):
Kings also did not get voted to the All NBA. Now,
Luka Doncik and Shay Gilgas Alexander are the big winners
of the All NBA Honors. Talking about having a good day,
Luca leads Dallas in the fourth quarter, outplays Kyrie Irving
and everyone else in the fourth quarter, leading the Mavericks
to the playoff win. And earlier in the day, Luka
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Doncik and Shay Yoga Gillos Alexander finding out they were
on the All NBA team, which means for Luca he
is in line to get a super Max extension that
will pay him in the neighborhood in the neighborhood of
three hundred and forty six million dollars over five years
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to dribble a basketball and shoot the basketball and play
eighty one dates a year and some extra games in
the playoffs. Now gilgis Alexander, though, that's where the story is.
Don't bury the lead, my man, all right, we won't,
so shake gyogas Alexander will make history if he goes through.
He has an opportunity to sign a max extension super
(20:22):
max extension because of his All NBA status. That is
his second consecutive appearance on the first team All NBA.
So that means if he signs on the dit line,
he will become the first ballplayer to earn at least
eighty million dollars in one season. Yeah, now, the year
(20:47):
will be twenty thirty thirty one, so we've got a
few more years to go before that. But when we
get there, Shae Gilgas Alexander, assuming he signs this contract,
his salary that year it will be eighty one point
four million pesos. That's a lot of pasos. Let me
repeat that for those of you in the back of
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the room, thunder guard, shake Yogas Alexander in line in
a very nice line with velvet ropes to become the
first player to earn at least eighty million dollars in
one season. Can you help me understand this. I will
help you understand this. I will get out my audio telestrator.
(21:29):
This is a. It is A. It's the g It's
the Golden Kanuck is what it is. And if you've
seen that meme from the Spider Verse, the character from
a Spider Man movie a few years ago named Kingpin,
you've probably seen it. If you're on social media and
it's captioned the quote is booming or business is booming.
I think it's the quote on that that meme, that
(21:51):
Spider Verse meme Kingpin, and life is good, life is
very good in the NBA. You mix in though the
devaluing of the dollar inflation, and you have the perfect storm.
Because Shay gyogas Alexander. He's not a guy that moves
in the am I wrong on this? Does anyone say
(22:11):
I gotta watch that game tonight because I want to
see what this guy does. I don't have even though
he's been on the All NBA team, I don't put
him in that category. I don't, and I don't think
people are buying tickets and looking at their the schedule
on their phone is that when is Oklahoma City coming in?
I got to see this Gygas Alexander guy play. But
(22:32):
all of that doesn't matter. He's not musty TV, but
he's going to be the Richie Rich of basketball. And
I don't know about you. If I had a chance
to make eighty one million dollars in an eighty two
game season, you figure he's going to miss at least
one game. So eighty eighty basically a million dollars plus
a game after taxes, it's about ten bucks. But nonetheless,
(22:55):
I would get whiplash trying to run over to sign
the deal. Where do I sign? Put me in, coach,
I'm ready to play.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
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Here we go. It's smaller to the third degree, exlightly
about that. This is one big tent. Gets grilled goopball.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
I think he went to North Carolina. Don't know why
I know that he did.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
He went to South Carolina and North Carolina, as I
did a couple weeks ago. Go ahead there, Coopolo, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Ben. Justin Field said in an interview on Tuesday that
he isn't just going to hand over the starting job
to Russell Wilson. Saying I definitely don't have the mindset
of sitting all year.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Ben.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Do you think Field starts any games for the Steelers?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Well, the good news is he's not at a crossroads.
He'll be able to walk up and down the sidelines
while he holds the clipboard. But of course, at some
point Justin Fields is going to play. Either A Russell
Wilson plays the way he has in Denver recently and
then he gets benched, or B Russell Wilson ends up
getting hurt. I don't see scenario where Russell Wilson is
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amazing from beginning it. He might have a couple of
games at Pittsburgh, but not all year. So yeah, Fields
will get an opportunity, unless he's so bad they release
him in training camp.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
Next Ben, the Phillies have the best record in baseball,
having won thirty six games already and have a six
or seven game lead over the Braves in the NL East, Ben,
Are they really this good or have they benefited from
an easy schedule?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
So it has yet to be determined. They've not crossed
the rubicon yet. We are not at that point yet
where we can say for sure the Phillies are good.
They're a very talented team. They have some big name players.
They're starting to play some better teams now, so we'll
have a better read on the Phillies. Inconclusive is the
answer right now.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Next, Lamar Jackson is intentionally down to two hundred and
five pounds a season, shedding ten pounds off his weight
from last year. The thought is that Jackson will be
even faster, more agile, Ben, Do you think this weight
loss will have an impact?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
This is one of those stories every year. I ranted
about this the other night. Coop athlete doesn't play as
well as they think they should, even tho Lamar seemed
to play pretty well last year. Then they have to
lose weight or gain weight. It's the yo yo, the
yo yo. You go up, you go down. I don't
think it's going to impact him at all. How did
(25:13):
we don't go?
Speaker 6 (25:14):
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Speaker 6 (25:54):
All right, we are going to start with a question
for Lorena. It's from Cowboy Killer. He wants to know
and that's interesting why it's just for Lorena? But all right,
how how does she eat her steak?
Speaker 7 (26:12):
Well, it depends on the steak, but nine out of
ten times I like a medium, rare, good and good job.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yeahs, you gotta have that thing well done, well done.
You don't want any You don't want any disease to
come out of that.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
No disease, No one wants you want to boot Ben?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yeah, I know I know how to property make the steak.
What's next here? What are we at?
Speaker 6 (26:34):
These? Question is for everybody. It is from ferd dog
Hi Fergie. He wants to know if you had to
eat with chopsticks for a month, would you be fine
or would you starve to death?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I would starve to death. I was Yeah, I was
at a Korean barbecue place and they gave me chopsticks,
and I said, no, next time I go there, I'm
gonna get I'm gonna bring a fork. I'm gonna bring
contraband into the place. I'm gonna bring my own metal
fork they give me like a cheap plastic fork. But yeah,
I might. My f was really good at eating with chopsticks.
I know it's a disaster, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
I've never done it before, but you've.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Never You've never tried to eat with chopsticks.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
No, but if I had to, how is that possible?
That's very easy. I don't know how to use them,
so why would I try when I can use a form.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
You in a restaurant where they give you chopsticks, You
never fussed around with them at all?
Speaker 5 (27:22):
No, Wow, But if I had to learn, I think
I could.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Yeah, try eating a lot of rice with chopsticks. Good
luck on that. What about you, Lorena.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
I am a very very talented chopstick user, and when
I can't get something onto a chopstick or like in it,
I'll just stab it. Yeah, stabbing method always works.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Real well, you're very violent.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
First in Kubloop, I was actually complimented on my chopstick usage.
While in Japan, humble by a local.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Somebody trying to get a bigger tip out of you.
But that's fine. What is next year? What do we have?
Speaker 6 (27:58):
H you don't tip in Japan, and so that wasn't
the case.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Uh art puffing, Maybe I should go to Japan. You
don't have to tip.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
No, Yeah, it's great art puffin.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
On the way art I blocked you because of what
you did.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
High art puffing, big fan art puffing. Good job by
you did.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
He sent out a video of some woman eating a
cockroach or something.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Oh okay, No, I'm getting a lot of videos that.
In the South, the cicada eddie is a delicious treat.
They cover them in chocolate and they're very crunchy and
they've got a lot of good qualities.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
I don't think you eat them raw though, I think
you like bake them or deep fry them first.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Some people like you much like fish. Some people eat sushi.
Some people eat their fish cook. What is next? What
we have?
Speaker 6 (28:37):
I want to do? Back to back questions from art puffin.
These are two good questions.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I'll take that eddie art puffing back to back.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
In your adolescence, were you ever suspended or kicked out
of a school. If so for what?
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Uh? Yeah, I had a few incidents back in the
day when I was I was in school. I got
picked out a lot as the fat kid. I tossed
a kid in a trash can. We were walking between
we had we had to go to the an assembly,
and I tossed the kid in a trash can. He
got in trouble for that and had a few issues
with My attendance was not particularly great, so I got
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in trouble with that. What about you, Eddie?
Speaker 5 (29:10):
I got suspended, Never kicked out at school, but suspended
for throwing wet toilet paper balls on the ceiling of
the bathroom. They would stick if me and my friend were.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Doing were they game used, Eddie or No?
Speaker 5 (29:22):
No, No, you just bawled him up and you got
him wet and then you just throw him up on
the ceiling. They stick.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Is there anything more disgusting than a high school bathroom?
Oh my god, Lorena.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
Ben, I was a goodie two shoes, I cried the
first time I got a detention. There's no way I
was getting expelled teachers shoes all the way.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
What about you?
Speaker 6 (29:45):
Yeah, I was suspended And what you dressed up as
a tampon. No, No, I was just made to throw
the costume away. But no, I was suspended for a
couple of different things, and then I was kicked out.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
I got to give us something.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
Kicked out of middle school of my CAF like middle
school that I went to for what they said was
a combination of grades and behavior.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
The combo combination of a bunch of a bunch of
factors together. Yes, all right, what is next?
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Year?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
To ask Ben? Your questions are answers hashtag ask Ben.
If you want to try to slide a question past
the goaltender, here goople loop is at the net and
he's fielding your questions. All right.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
The second art puffin question, have you ever witnessed a crime?
If so, what was it and what did you do?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I don't know. I mean, i've seen car accidents, that's
not really a crime. I'm trying to think.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
I'm sure I've witnessed like vandalism before.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah, I've seen a lot of like tagging of buildings
and stuff like that, and I've learned. I've been told
not to mess with those people because they don't like
when you mess with their art. They like, you know,
they do stuff to you. So yeah, I've seen a
lot of like vandalism. I don't know that I've seen any.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Probably seen some fights that we could be considered assault, right.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Well, games, football games, I've seen fights, a lot of those. Yeah,
that's about it, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
Yeah, okay, Well I have seen myself.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I thought you were taking the pizza.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Out of Shakey's.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
That's a crime, right, I suppose that is staff? Yes,
all right, I got.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Sticky fingers covered in marshmallows.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
Well, Google, we did pay for it, and b and yeah,
what's that breaking and entering, no trespassing that.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
They let me in, coop, they let me in, okay,
all right?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
And now sometimes I have had to pull along the
side of the road and publicly urinate.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
But yes, I've never done that.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
You've never done that in the middle of nowhere on
some country roads somewhere.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
What kind of life has Eddie lived here?
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Take your business?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
When the when?
Speaker 5 (32:01):
When?
Speaker 6 (32:01):
I've never gone to the bathroom side of the road,
has never used chopsticks?
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Like get out a little bit any like that, dun studio.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
The only thing, the thing that I thought of right
away was h DUIs and I and I do call
nine to one one for that when I see, Yeah,
I've seen.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
I've had problem that is though, Coop.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Sometimes they're just on their damn phone.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
Well I normally like all kind of like look in
the window to see if like what's going on, But
if they're like if it's not, if they're like veering
in and out of the lane.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Like I've had times where I thought they were drunk
and then I pulled up next Tom I just saw
they were on their foot.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
There was one week about ten years ago I had
back to back days where somebody was driving the wrong
way towards me.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Oh that's what I've ever seen that.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Yeah, back, it was weird. It was the same week,
like a couple of days apart. It was crazy. Real quick,
one more Coop, real quick, doubleow.
Speaker 6 (32:53):
Mexican wants to know when is the last time you
used a porta potty?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Oh god, I can't remember the lie. I avoid that.
I'd rather go in the wood. So what about you, lady.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
I don't recall either. I'm yeah, probably a football game.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
Yeah, I squatted at a festival a few years ago.
Speaker 6 (33:10):
Oh there you go, Cooper, Yeah, festival.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
After tal Ye better you than me.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
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Speaker 1 (33:22):
Let's get the hockey right now. You week go with
Eddie fuck the world all right?
Speaker 5 (33:29):
Thank you, Benny. Second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs
are in the books. The Conference finals just getting started
will tell you how we got to our final four.
The number one seed in the East, the President Trophy
winning New York Rangers first team into the Conference finals.
They eliminated the Carolina Hurricanes four games to two. In
the deciding game of the series, the Rangers were down
three to one going into third pot on the road,
and then New York Chris Krider became a hero three
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straight goals for the natural hat trick, de rally of
the team and clinch the series. Crider became just the
third player in NHL history to score period goals including
a series clincher, joining Jay Ginsel and some guy never
heard of from like the twenties. He's also the first
Ranger player with three goals in a playoff period, joining
Mark Messier and Wayne Gretzky is the only other players
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to do that. So the Rangers onto the Eastern Conference Finals.
In the West, the number one seed the Dallas Stars.
They advanced, feating the Colorda Avalanche in six games, four
games to two. They won the deciding game six two
on a double overtime on a Matt du Shane Golie
is a former first round pick of Colorado Stars. Go
three to nothing, or should say, they won all three
games in Denver against the top home team in the
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regular season, Colorado Avalanche star and likely League MVB. Nathan
McKinnon held the two goals and three assists in these
six games. Florida Panthers eliminated the Boston Bruins four games
to two. A lot of controversies in this series, and
it all went against Boston. Game two, Bruins lost their
captain and key player Bat Marshan when he got sucker
punch to the face by Sam Bennett. He didn't play
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the next two games. Bennett somehow did not get suspended,
and then in Game four, he pushed a Bruins defenseman
into Boston goalie Jeremy Swinman and then scored the game
time goal. They eventually go on to win that game
as well. Somehow that goal was allowed to stand after
video review. Boston could not overcome those moments that win
against him, and that mint that Florida would move on
to face the New York Rangers in the Eastern Conference Finals.
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Final team to advance in that Final four was the
evonton Otherers. They got by the Canucks three to two
in a Game seven in Vancouver. Knucks did not have
their number one goalie and vezn the Trophy finalist Stature
Demco due to injury for the entire series, and then
they lost their top scorer, Brock Bessler for the designing
Game seven due to a blood clot issue. Oilers won
by Stars Connor McDavid and Leon dry Sidle McDavid twenty
four points so far in the playoffs, Dry Seedles got
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twenty one and defenseman Evan Bouchard's twenty points to the
most by an NHL defenseman in the history of the
league through the first two rounds of the postseason. So
the Oilers will face the Dallas Stars in the Western
Conference Finals. So last night it was Game one of
the East Finals, Panthers shutting out the Rangers in New
York three nothing. Sergey Mabrowski twenty three saves in the shutout,
so Florida with a one zero series lead, and then
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Game one of the Western Conference Finals comes up tonight
in Dallas with the Stars hosting the Oilers. Lots of
coaching news Toronto Maple Leafs hired Craig Berube as their
next head coach. Here replaces the fired Sheldon Keith Grube
as most recently the head coach of the Saint of
Lois Bluesy guided him their only Stanley Cup title back
in twenty eighteen, takes over an underachieving Mayple Leafs team
that's looking for its first Stanley Cup title since nineteen
(36:21):
sixty seven. Carolina Hurricanes resigned their coach Rod Brindamore and
his staffed to multi year extensions. He's a former captain
of their two thousand six Stanley Cup winning team. He's
guided the Hurricanes to six straight playoff appearances to appearances
in the conference finals, but yet to reach a Stanley
Cup final. New Jersey Devils hired former Leafs head coach
Sheldon Keef to be their next day coaching gets a
four year deal. Guided the Mayple Leice to the playoffs
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five straight years, but they only made it out of
the first round once and the La Kings removed the
interim tag from head coach Jim Hiller.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
He gets a year deal.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
Intro I'll be sleeping, I'll be sleeping. Yeah, okay, But
he took over for the Fire Tom McClelland. At the
end of the year, they went twenty one to twelve
and one under him, losing the first round of the ploffs.
This is his first full time NHL head coaching job.
We still have head coaching vagancies in Seattle, San Jose
and Winnipeg. And that is your puck.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
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site of the big ticket on the Wednesday sporting card
l Sporto. The lights turned on extra bright Western Conference Finals.
I assumed you were watching the mav Rex and the
timber Puffs as they were matching up against each other,
but maybe not. Maybe you did not watch. You other
(02:00):
things going on, so listen, I got nothing going on.
I was watching Lukka Luka Doncik had thirty three points,
but fifteen of them in the fourth quarter, and the
Dallas basketball team in a game that was never in
double digits either way. It was a close game at
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all points, but Luka Doncik had thirty three points. Dallas
ends up getting a three point road win, one oh
eight to one oh five over the Minnesota basketball team.
Game one of the Western Finals, the Mavericks trailed by four.
It's not a lot, but a trail by four with
three point thirty seven to go after Anthony Edwards had
(02:43):
made a three point shot, But then Dallas goes on
an eight zero run to turn the game around in
the final minutes, and they end up holding on and
winning the game. So let us discuss the question better
story in the losing locker room. Who gets the biggest
part of the juicy lucy of blame for the timber Wolves.
(03:07):
So I've got dragon, fat, farm, and liberty, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a pontoon boat. Because it looked like
the Minnesota basketball team was on a pontoon boat kind
of floating away there. So a I heard this years ago.
(03:28):
I think it's appropriate here. The fish rots from the
head down, so apparently does a timberwolf. This one not
that hard to dissect. Anthony Edwards getting the double double,
juicy lucy of blame and shame Edwards. We like to talk,
We're all about to talk. We do talk radio. But
Anthony Edwards rode one of those oversized cartoon checks and
(03:53):
he could not cash the check that he wrote. He
was buried, buried in quicksand for Game one, Anthony Edwards
he played the role of the dragon, but he was
the dragons in terms of dragon breath foul smelling. They
had nineteen points, took sixteen shots for Michael Jordan two
(04:14):
point zero. The basketball pundits have told US did not
have a higher gear here. And while Anthony Edwards is
the headliner and he sucked the most, there's plenty of
suckage to go around. How about Carl Anthony Towns, He
had a seat in the vomit comet, Carl Anthony Towns
six of twenty from the floor, a pedestrian stat line.
(04:35):
And Minnesota, who dominated from outside. They had a plus
thirty six point advantage from three point ranch, which I'm
told is pretty good. Ended up losing the game anyway.
Why did they do that well? In part because Carl
Anthony Towns and defensive stalwart Rudy Gobert did not do
their job in the painted area Dallas. Dallas had a
(04:57):
plus twenty four advantage, the mav Res plus twenty four
points in the paint, outscoring the Timberwolves sixty two to
thirty eight. This game, in that regard, was a boone
doggle for Minnesota. It was. But wait, there's more. Page two.
Here we have the SoundBite of the night. It's Anthony
(05:19):
Edwards of your Minnesota basketball team, commenting on what went
wrong for the Wolves. Take a listen. Do you think
that the high from Game seven maybe kind of affected
you guys coming in today at all. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I mean I can see it was a little step
a step behind everybody, especially myself. Kyrie got a transition
layup from I think we scored and he just outran me.
I was just exhausted, man, So yeah, for sure, we'll
be all right.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
All right, that's a different sound bite. But he said
the quote I was looking for. He said we were
just a little tired. Probably was the actual quote I
was trying to get. I don't know why we got
that one anyway, Anthony Edwards, he did say, trust me,
he said he said the Wolves were tired. Thumbs up
or thumbs down? Do you find this significant? Do you
(06:11):
find it significant? So I am going to go thumbs
up on this, and I would say that particular quote
which you didn't hear for some reason. It's game one.
The Wolves had a couple of nights off, right, They
played on Sunday at Game seven was on Sunday, unless
my math is wrong, and I believe it was. So
they had Monday and Tuesday off. They were at home,
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so they didn't have to travel anywhere, not that that
would be a problem. And it's not just Anthony Edwards
it's the entire NBA community if you're watching the TNT broadcast,
Reggie Miller, I think he pulled a muscle as he
was desperately trying to defend Anthony Edwards. He earned his stripes.
Reggie Miller did in the excuse department, going back and forth.
(06:56):
I at one point it was he's tired. He said
that a lot. That was the main excuse, he's tired,
and then there was alsos like some phantom injury at
one point. Then he made a shot, so Reggie had
to take that back. I thought the whole thing was nauseating,
and you have to ask the question like if you're
going to use the tired excuse, like what are you doing?
(07:17):
Anthony Edwards is twenty two years old. And the basketball media,
which love to make excuses when guys don't play well,
it's never they just have a bad game. It's always
they're hurt, they're tired, they're this or that the other.
But he was being treated Anthony. It was like an
escapee from a fat farm. This is not Oliver Miller
(07:37):
or Zion Williamson, and there's no excuse for being tired.
Go out and get some of that turbo charged red
bull or whatever you use there and go for it
all right, Now, last word here. So there's another bubbling
storyline from the Dallas Minnesota game evolves Kinray Irving, who
(07:59):
claimed that he used the I Got Kyrie quote from
Anthony Edwards as motivation. Now, he said it kind of
in a dismissive way because he was asked about it,
But he claimed that he did use that as motivation. Now,
Charles Barkley made a big deal about this, implying that
(08:19):
the stat line by Kyrie Irving in this game was
directly related to the commentary by Anthony Edwards. Does all
of that work for you? Does all of that work
for you? And the answer is absolutely not right. There
is no correlation, right, there is no quality. This is
(08:43):
the man who shot liberty valance situation. Right when the
legend becomes the fact, you print the legend. Now, let
me give him my evidence here. Oh, you can't say
that Kyrie Irving said that he used at as motivation.
You can't say no that, I will and listen and
take notes. Give you my evidence. Okay, my eyeballs and
my byfocals. That's my other. Now, Kyrie came out Game
(09:06):
Busters I just started the game, right. Kyrie irb came
out uncle drew eleven of fourteen from the floor, twenty
four points. He was a maestro in the first half.
So what happened at halftime? What happened? He came out
in the second half and he was guilty of truancy.
He played like a Dingleberry. So does that mean he
(09:26):
no longer was motivated by I Got Kyrie? That only
inspired him for half the game and didn't inspire him
for the second half. Explain that Kyrie Irving after halftime
took nine shots. He made one more shot than you did,
and one more shot than I had. One shot he
made one of nine, only had six points in the
second half, and in the fourth quarter he took six shots,
(09:49):
didn't make a single shot in the fourth quarter. But
I got Kyrie. He was motivated by that. But he
wasn't motivated in the fourth quarter. He was bailed out
by Luca. He was absolutely bailed out. But this is
what I always go back to, Like the whole bulletin
board stuff, it doesn't work, It doesn't apply here, and
it didn't apply in this moment either. It's one of
(10:11):
those things. It's a good storyline. You go with it.
You're like, yeah, that's it. I got Kyrie. Anthony Edwards
didn't play well. Minnesota didn't play well. If I'm Dallas,
I'm not feeling particularly good right now because the Wolves
played a bad game and still had a shot to
win the game in the final minutes. They're not gonna
(10:33):
play that way in Game two Minnesota, So I wouldn't
feel too good if I was Dallas. But as far
as the whole motivational tactic, the Anthony Edwards I got
Kyrie quote motivating Kyrie, even though he was being polite
with the media and said it did it obviously didn't
matter in the second half of that game, as Kyrie
Irving was an absolute non factor at that point.
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back to the Dallas Mavericks winning Game one of the
Western Finals in the final minutes. Say we're down a
back and forth game, but down about three minutes to
(13:11):
go in the game, they make a little run, they
win the game and so Dallas gets home court advantage
for the moment away from Minnesota. But interesting story here
in the trade papers. It's been reported for a couple
of weeks now, but it appears it's going to be
announced the NBA, possibly as soon as later today, but
(13:33):
likely by the weekend. The NBA is moving on from
Turner Sports. We are told that it is going to
be announced likely this week this week, that the games
will be a broadcast going forward on ESPN, Amazon and
b C. Now, what does that mean? That means d
(13:54):
da da da da da da da good bye to
Inside the NBA, the pre eminent studio show in American sports.
Let's be honest, all these shows blow. They're terrible. The
only one that was any good was on Turner, and
now that show is on life support. One more season.
(14:14):
They're not done yet. They got the playoffs here, a
couple more games in the Western Conference Finals, and then
one last lame dark season. So Charles Barkley chimed in
on all of this. He's not a couple of interviews,
do't if he saw the latest one he did? Maybe
not so, Sir Charles. A subdued Charles Barkley. He talked
(14:36):
about all the people at Turner who are going to
lose their jobs. Of course, the yin to the yang
is there'll be a bunch of people that'll get jobs
at NBC. But he also mentioned that Ernie Johnson, the
host of Inside the NBA, that he will hang up
the IFB. He will be retiring soon. Now Ernie didn't
(14:59):
announces with iron, Barkley made it seem like that is
going to happen rather soon. He's not going to go
hang out with the peacock. So let us discuss the question.
Charles Barkley commenting about Ernie Johnson saying he will retire.
He's not going to leave the Joe to bring the
Band of Merry Men over to NBC. What are your
thoughts on this? So I've got the Staypuff, marshmallow Man,
(15:23):
Butcher Shop, and the Spider Verse, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make a hard o pregame show, which is what every
other pregame show is. Hard, oh hard. Who wants that?
I don't want that. Maybe you want that. I don't
want that. Maybe you're the problem you want it. I
don't want that all right now, Number w My first thought, bahumbug,
(15:55):
it does blow right, it does. If there's one thing
this Salvage, there is one thing the Salvage and the
big money world of sports television, it would be that show.
In a wide ocean as big as the mighty Pacific
of Manure, You've got this north Star inside the NBA
(16:16):
and Ernie Johnson, I get it. He's setting his ways.
He's gonna turn sixty eight years old later this year.
He's in the twilight of his broadcasting career. But EJ's
Nidos stat of a Knight. How about this? Ernie Johnson
has been at Turner Sports since nineteen eighty nine. My
(16:37):
computer like brain tells me that's like thirty five years
or so. That's a good run. And inside the NBA,
the I've got again one year left. At that point though,
I was thinking about this as I was walking into
the studio here inside the NBA, which is not as
good with Draymond Green, he sucks, but the other guys
are good. He's been on for some reason. I guess
they gotta get a current player on. Anyway, he should
(17:00):
stick to his little dumb podcast. But inside the NBA,
one year left, and when they go away, I will
garerong to you that inside the NBA becomes the State
Puff marshmallow Man. It will be ghostly. It is going
to be that touchstone that will haunt all other studio shows.
(17:23):
It will become a broadcasting Poulter guys that everything is
judged against. Anytime you see a pregame show in any
sport that is good, you say, well, it's good, but
it's not as good. It's not as good as what
Barkley and those guys had at Inside the NBA. Now
page two, we pivot from television to the bag, to
(17:46):
the bag, and we go bam out of Bio. Now,
that is a basketball player for the Miami basketball team
and they're not in the playoffs anymore. But Bam out
of Bio was among the handful of name brand players
who got the shaft or did he get the chef?
He missed out on a chance at a much bigger
paid a Why Because the NBA announced the twenty twenty
(18:08):
four All NBA teams. I know it's always a big
day for you. They were revealed on social media back
on Wednesday. And because Bam out of Bio did not
make even the third team, he is not eligible for
the Supermax. So did Bam at a Bio get a
raw deal from the All NBA voters as he was
(18:32):
a key figure in Miami's season this year. So I'm
gonna go no on this. I saw some I don't
want to say it was a hullaballoo, but I saw
some noise, some chatter about this, and I'm gonna go know,
I'm gonna go to the butcher shop, Benny's butcher Shop.
And out of Bio. While he is a good player,
he is a cut below. I was a cut below
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the All NBA status. He had a solid year. He
averaged the double double. It was around twenty points a
game and ten rebounds a game and shot the ball well,
but not an All NBA player. Not on my big
board now speaking of the All NBA and Bam out
of Bio missing out. Also Dearon Fox of the Sacramento
(19:16):
Kings also did not get voted to the All NBA. Now,
Luka Doncik and Shay Gilgas Alexander are the big winners
of the All NBA Honors. Talking about having a good day,
Luca leads Dallas in the fourth quarter, outplays Kyrie Irving
and everyone else in the fourth quarter, leading the Mavericks
to the playoff win. And earlier in the day, Luka
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Doncik and Shay Yoga Gillos Alexander finding out they were
on the All NBA team, which means for Luca he
is in line to get a super Max extension that
will pay him in the neighborhood in the neighborhood of
three hundred and forty six million dollars over five years
(20:00):
to dribble a basketball and shoot the basketball and play
eighty one dates a year and some extra games in
the playoffs. Now gilgis Alexander, though, that's where the story is.
Don't bury the lead, my man, all right, we won't,
so shake gyogas Alexander will make history if he goes through.
He has an opportunity to sign a max extension super
(20:22):
max extension because of his All NBA status. That is
his second consecutive appearance on the first team All NBA.
So that means if he signs on the dit line,
he will become the first ballplayer to earn at least
eighty million dollars in one season. Yeah, now, the year
(20:47):
will be twenty thirty thirty one, so we've got a
few more years to go before that. But when we
get there, Shae Gilgas Alexander, assuming he signs this contract,
his salary that year it will be eighty one point
four million pesos. That's a lot of pasos. Let me
repeat that for those of you in the back of
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the room, thunder guard, shake Yogas Alexander in line in
a very nice line with velvet ropes to become the
first player to earn at least eighty million dollars in
one season. Can you help me understand this. I will
help you understand this. I will get out my audio telestrator.
(21:29):
This is a. It is A. It's the g It's
the Golden Kanuck is what it is. And if you've
seen that meme from the Spider Verse, the character from
a Spider Man movie a few years ago named Kingpin,
you've probably seen it. If you're on social media and
it's captioned the quote is booming or business is booming.
I think it's the quote on that that meme, that
(21:51):
Spider Verse meme Kingpin, and life is good, life is
very good in the NBA. You mix in though the
devaluing of the dollar inflation, and you have the perfect storm.
Because Shay gyogas Alexander. He's not a guy that moves
in the am I wrong on this? Does anyone say
(22:11):
I gotta watch that game tonight because I want to
see what this guy does. I don't have even though
he's been on the All NBA team, I don't put
him in that category. I don't, and I don't think
people are buying tickets and looking at their the schedule
on their phone is that when is Oklahoma City coming in?
I got to see this Gygas Alexander guy play. But
(22:32):
all of that doesn't matter. He's not musty TV, but
he's going to be the Richie Rich of basketball. And
I don't know about you. If I had a chance
to make eighty one million dollars in an eighty two
game season, you figure he's going to miss at least
one game. So eighty eighty basically a million dollars plus
a game after taxes, it's about ten bucks. But nonetheless,
(22:55):
I would get whiplash trying to run over to sign
the deal. Where do I sign? Put me in, coach,
I'm ready to play.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
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Speaker 1 (23:09):
Here we go. It's smaller to the third degree, exlightly
about that. This is one big tent. Gets grilled goopball.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
I think he went to North Carolina. Don't know why
I know that he did.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
He went to South Carolina and North Carolina, as I
did a couple weeks ago. Go ahead there, Coopolo, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Ben. Justin Field said in an interview on Tuesday that
he isn't just going to hand over the starting job
to Russell Wilson. Saying I definitely don't have the mindset
of sitting all year.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Ben.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Do you think Field starts any games for the Steelers?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Well, the good news is he's not at a crossroads.
He'll be able to walk up and down the sidelines
while he holds the clipboard. But of course, at some
point Justin Fields is going to play. Either A Russell
Wilson plays the way he has in Denver recently and
then he gets benched, or B Russell Wilson ends up
getting hurt. I don't see scenario where Russell Wilson is
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amazing from beginning it. He might have a couple of
games at Pittsburgh, but not all year. So yeah, Fields
will get an opportunity, unless he's so bad they release
him in training camp.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
Next Ben, the Phillies have the best record in baseball,
having won thirty six games already and have a six
or seven game lead over the Braves in the NL East, Ben,
Are they really this good or have they benefited from
an easy schedule?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
So it has yet to be determined. They've not crossed
the rubicon yet. We are not at that point yet
where we can say for sure the Phillies are good.
They're a very talented team. They have some big name players.
They're starting to play some better teams now, so we'll
have a better read on the Phillies. Inconclusive is the
answer right now.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Next, Lamar Jackson is intentionally down to two hundred and
five pounds a season, shedding ten pounds off his weight
from last year. The thought is that Jackson will be
even faster, more agile, Ben, Do you think this weight
loss will have an impact?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
This is one of those stories every year. I ranted
about this the other night. Coop athlete doesn't play as
well as they think they should, even tho Lamar seemed
to play pretty well last year. Then they have to
lose weight or gain weight. It's the yo yo, the
yo yo. You go up, you go down. I don't
think it's going to impact him at all. How did
(25:13):
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Speaker 6 (25:14):
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now and away we go to ask Ben. Your questions
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actual questions submitted by listeners like yourself on x at.
Ben Mahler over to the Kopuloup for the reading of
the questions.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
All right, we are going to start with a question
for Lorena. It's from Cowboy Killer. He wants to know
and that's interesting why it's just for Lorena? But all right,
how how does she eat her steak?
Speaker 7 (26:12):
Well, it depends on the steak, but nine out of
ten times I like a medium, rare, good and good job.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yeahs, you gotta have that thing well done, well done.
You don't want any You don't want any disease to
come out of that.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
No disease, No one wants you want to boot Ben?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yeah, I know I know how to property make the steak.
What's next here? What are we at?
Speaker 6 (26:34):
These? Question is for everybody. It is from ferd dog
Hi Fergie. He wants to know if you had to
eat with chopsticks for a month, would you be fine
or would you starve to death?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I would starve to death. I was Yeah, I was
at a Korean barbecue place and they gave me chopsticks,
and I said, no, next time I go there, I'm
gonna get I'm gonna bring a fork. I'm gonna bring
contraband into the place. I'm gonna bring my own metal
fork they give me like a cheap plastic fork. But yeah,
I might. My f was really good at eating with chopsticks.
I know it's a disaster, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
I've never done it before, but you've.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Never You've never tried to eat with chopsticks.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
No, but if I had to, how is that possible?
That's very easy. I don't know how to use them,
so why would I try when I can use a form.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
You in a restaurant where they give you chopsticks, You
never fussed around with them at all?
Speaker 5 (27:22):
No, Wow, But if I had to learn, I think
I could.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Yeah, try eating a lot of rice with chopsticks. Good
luck on that. What about you, Lorena.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
I am a very very talented chopstick user, and when
I can't get something onto a chopstick or like in it,
I'll just stab it. Yeah, stabbing method always works.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Real well, you're very violent.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
First in Kubloop, I was actually complimented on my chopstick usage.
While in Japan, humble by a local.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Somebody trying to get a bigger tip out of you.
But that's fine. What is next year? What do we have?
Speaker 6 (27:58):
H you don't tip in Japan, and so that wasn't
the case.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Uh art puffing, Maybe I should go to Japan. You
don't have to tip.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
No, Yeah, it's great art puffin.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
On the way art I blocked you because of what
you did.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
High art puffing, big fan art puffing. Good job by
you did.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
He sent out a video of some woman eating a
cockroach or something.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Oh okay, No, I'm getting a lot of videos that.
In the South, the cicada eddie is a delicious treat.
They cover them in chocolate and they're very crunchy and
they've got a lot of good qualities.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
I don't think you eat them raw though, I think
you like bake them or deep fry them first.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Some people like you much like fish. Some people eat sushi.
Some people eat their fish cook. What is next? What
we have?
Speaker 6 (28:37):
I want to do? Back to back questions from art puffin.
These are two good questions.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I'll take that eddie art puffing back to back.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
In your adolescence, were you ever suspended or kicked out
of a school. If so for what?
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Uh? Yeah, I had a few incidents back in the
day when I was I was in school. I got
picked out a lot as the fat kid. I tossed
a kid in a trash can. We were walking between
we had we had to go to the an assembly,
and I tossed the kid in a trash can. He
got in trouble for that and had a few issues
with My attendance was not particularly great, so I got
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in trouble with that. What about you, Eddie?
Speaker 5 (29:10):
I got suspended, Never kicked out at school, but suspended
for throwing wet toilet paper balls on the ceiling of
the bathroom. They would stick if me and my friend were.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Doing were they game used, Eddie or No?
Speaker 5 (29:22):
No, No, you just bawled him up and you got
him wet and then you just throw him up on
the ceiling. They stick.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Is there anything more disgusting than a high school bathroom?
Oh my god, Lorena.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
Ben, I was a goodie two shoes, I cried the
first time I got a detention. There's no way I
was getting expelled teachers shoes all the way.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
What about you?
Speaker 6 (29:45):
Yeah, I was suspended And what you dressed up as
a tampon. No, No, I was just made to throw
the costume away. But no, I was suspended for a
couple of different things, and then I was kicked out.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
I got to give us something.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
Kicked out of middle school of my CAF like middle
school that I went to for what they said was
a combination of grades and behavior.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
The combo combination of a bunch of a bunch of
factors together. Yes, all right, what is next?
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Year?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
To ask Ben? Your questions are answers hashtag ask Ben.
If you want to try to slide a question past
the goaltender, here goople loop is at the net and
he's fielding your questions. All right.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
The second art puffin question, have you ever witnessed a crime?
If so, what was it and what did you do?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I don't know. I mean, i've seen car accidents, that's
not really a crime. I'm trying to think.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
I'm sure I've witnessed like vandalism before.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah, I've seen a lot of like tagging of buildings
and stuff like that, and I've learned. I've been told
not to mess with those people because they don't like
when you mess with their art. They like, you know,
they do stuff to you. So yeah, I've seen a
lot of like vandalism. I don't know that I've seen any.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Probably seen some fights that we could be considered assault, right.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Well, games, football games, I've seen fights, a lot of those. Yeah,
that's about it, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
Yeah, okay, Well I have seen myself.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I thought you were taking the pizza.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Out of Shakey's.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
That's a crime, right, I suppose that is staff? Yes,
all right, I got.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Sticky fingers covered in marshmallows.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
Well, Google, we did pay for it, and b and yeah,
what's that breaking and entering, no trespassing that.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
They let me in, coop, they let me in, okay,
all right?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
And now sometimes I have had to pull along the
side of the road and publicly urinate.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
But yes, I've never done that.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
You've never done that in the middle of nowhere on
some country roads somewhere.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
What kind of life has Eddie lived here?
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Take your business?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
When the when?
Speaker 5 (32:01):
When?
Speaker 6 (32:01):
I've never gone to the bathroom side of the road,
has never used chopsticks?
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Like get out a little bit any like that, dun studio.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
The only thing, the thing that I thought of right
away was h DUIs and I and I do call
nine to one one for that when I see, Yeah,
I've seen.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
I've had problem that is though, Coop.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Sometimes they're just on their damn phone.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
Well I normally like all kind of like look in
the window to see if like what's going on, But
if they're like if it's not, if they're like veering
in and out of the lane.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
Like I've had times where I thought they were drunk
and then I pulled up next Tom I just saw
they were on their foot.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
There was one week about ten years ago I had
back to back days where somebody was driving the wrong
way towards me.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Oh that's what I've ever seen that.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Yeah, back, it was weird. It was the same week,
like a couple of days apart. It was crazy. Real quick,
one more Coop, real quick, doubleow.
Speaker 6 (32:53):
Mexican wants to know when is the last time you
used a porta potty?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Oh god, I can't remember the lie. I avoid that.
I'd rather go in the wood. So what about you, lady.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
I don't recall either. I'm yeah, probably a football game.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
Yeah, I squatted at a festival a few years ago.
Speaker 6 (33:10):
Oh there you go, Cooper, Yeah, festival.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
After tal Ye better you than me.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mellor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Let's get the hockey right now. You week go with
Eddie fuck the world all right?
Speaker 5 (33:29):
Thank you, Benny. Second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs
are in the books. The Conference finals just getting started
will tell you how we got to our final four.
The number one seed in the East, the President Trophy
winning New York Rangers first team into the Conference finals.
They eliminated the Carolina Hurricanes four games to two. In
the deciding game of the series, the Rangers were down
three to one going into third pot on the road,
and then New York Chris Krider became a hero three
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straight goals for the natural hat trick, de rally of
the team and clinch the series. Crider became just the
third player in NHL history to score period goals including
a series clincher, joining Jay Ginsel and some guy never
heard of from like the twenties. He's also the first
Ranger player with three goals in a playoff period, joining
Mark Messier and Wayne Gretzky is the only other players
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to do that. So the Rangers onto the Eastern Conference Finals.
In the West, the number one seed the Dallas Stars.
They advanced, feating the Colorda Avalanche in six games, four
games to two. They won the deciding game six two
on a double overtime on a Matt du Shane Golie
is a former first round pick of Colorado Stars. Go
three to nothing, or should say, they won all three
games in Denver against the top home team in the
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regular season, Colorado Avalanche star and likely League MVB. Nathan
McKinnon held the two goals and three assists in these
six games. Florida Panthers eliminated the Boston Bruins four games
to two. A lot of controversies in this series, and
it all went against Boston. Game two, Bruins lost their
captain and key player Bat Marshan when he got sucker
punch to the face by Sam Bennett. He didn't play
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the next two games. Bennett somehow did not get suspended,
and then in Game four, he pushed a Bruins defenseman
into Boston goalie Jeremy Swinman and then scored the game
time goal. They eventually go on to win that game
as well. Somehow that goal was allowed to stand after
video review. Boston could not overcome those moments that win
against him, and that mint that Florida would move on
to face the New York Rangers in the Eastern Conference Finals.
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Final team to advance in that Final four was the
evonton Otherers. They got by the Canucks three to two
in a Game seven in Vancouver. Knucks did not have
their number one goalie and vezn the Trophy finalist Stature
Demco due to injury for the entire series, and then
they lost their top scorer, Brock Bessler for the designing
Game seven due to a blood clot issue. Oilers won
by Stars Connor McDavid and Leon dry Sidle McDavid twenty
four points so far in the playoffs, Dry Seedles got
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twenty one and defenseman Evan Bouchard's twenty points to the
most by an NHL defenseman in the history of the
league through the first two rounds of the postseason. So
the Oilers will face the Dallas Stars in the Western
Conference Finals. So last night it was Game one of
the East Finals, Panthers shutting out the Rangers in New
York three nothing. Sergey Mabrowski twenty three saves in the shutout,
so Florida with a one zero series lead, and then
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Game one of the Western Conference Finals comes up tonight
in Dallas with the Stars hosting the Oilers. Lots of
coaching news Toronto Maple Leafs hired Craig Berube as their
next head coach. Here replaces the fired Sheldon Keith Grube
as most recently the head coach of the Saint of
Lois Bluesy guided him their only Stanley Cup title back
in twenty eighteen, takes over an underachieving Mayple Leafs team
that's looking for its first Stanley Cup title since nineteen
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sixty seven. Carolina Hurricanes resigned their coach Rod Brindamore and
his staffed to multi year extensions. He's a former captain
of their two thousand six Stanley Cup winning team. He's
guided the Hurricanes to six straight playoff appearances to appearances
in the conference finals, but yet to reach a Stanley
Cup final. New Jersey Devils hired former Leafs head coach
Sheldon Keef to be their next day coaching gets a
four year deal. Guided the Mayple Leice to the playoffs
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five straight years, but they only made it out of
the first round once and the La Kings removed the
interim tag from head coach Jim Hiller.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
He gets a year deal.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
Intro I'll be sleeping, I'll be sleeping. Yeah, okay, But
he took over for the Fire Tom McClelland. At the
end of the year, they went twenty one to twelve
and one under him, losing the first round of the ploffs.
This is his first full time NHL head coaching job.
We still have head coaching vagancies in Seattle, San Jose
and Winnipeg. And that is your puck.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
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