May 29, 2024 • 39 mins
Big Ben talks about the Timberwolves forcing Game 5 by beating the Mavs in Dallas, if Pat Riley would trade Jimmy Butler to the 76ers, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenofHearts w/ La Reina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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lead coming out of Dallas. It was going to be
a coronation for the Mavericks, proof that Luca is God's
gift to basketball, the greatest backcourt in NBA history. WHOA,
There's no way Dallas could lose at home. No way
in a game down the stretch, no way at all.
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See had Luka Doncik and the Mavericks looking to terminate
the Minnesota basketball team for the playoffs, get a clean sweep,
and move on to Boston in the NBA Finals. That
did not happen. I don't know if he saw this
or not. Maybe you were not watching. You assumed the
outcome batch up by you. Someone named Carl Anthony Towns,
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who usually sucks in big moments, did not suck in
this game. Carl Anthony Town's kitty cat upstage the Dallas Stars,
not the hockey team, the basketball players, by scoring twenty
five points, but twenty of them in the second half.
As the Wolves squeeze past the mav Rex one toh
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five to one hundred, and they avoid being swept, so
the humiliation did not happen there. Anthony Edwards twenty nine points,
ten rebounds. Nice of him to show up, and I
guess he didn't get tired in this game for a
Minnesota the head the ten rebounds of the nine to sis.
So the Wolves staying alive. Staying alive. Game five will
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be on Thursday night, and whether you like it or not,
that game will be played Thursday night back in the
Twin Cities. Now what I want to talk to about.
In the lead up to this game, a reporter from
the Mavericks television channel in Dallas sent out a video which,
for some reason she deleted. We're not sure why. What's
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the point of deleting it when it went everywhere? But
in the video clip that went around, Kyrie Irving said
that the Wolves heading into game four. You see this,
He said, the Wolves heading into game four. For them,
this was their super Bowl. However, for Dallas it was
just a normal game. La la la la la la
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la la la la la la la la la la
la la. So that was the money quote. So of course,
what do you think happened? That's right immediately after that
quote started bouncing around the echo chamber. Oh my god,
I can't believe Kyrie said it.
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Bulletin, Bard, Bulletin, Bard, Bulletin.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Br n y Ning, bulletin. Mah my gud. So let's
discuss did Kyrie Irving's words come back to sting the Mavericks?
Was the outcome of game for a result of Kyrie
Irving's big mouth. So I've got Miss Cleo, Silly Putty,
and the multiverse, and we will combine all of these
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things together and we are going to make some soggy
Texas toast, is what we're going to make, because that's
what the Dallas basketball team throughout there now. To answer
the question, did Kyrie Irving's words come back to haunt
the Mavericks? So as much as I love to bash Kyrie,
it's a lot of fun. And I really do enjoy
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sports hate. And I took some shot in freude at
the end of this game. I did. I I had
a little shot in freud a moment I did. I
enjoyed it. That being said, if you think that the
reason Minnesota decided to engage at the end of this
game and Karl Anthony town has actually made shots when
he normally is a brick house at the end of
the games. If you think that was because Kyrie Irving
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was caught on candid camera at a shoot around and
made some comments, you probably should stand up because I
think you are sitting on the buffoon button, you dingle Berry.
The Timberwolves, last I checked, they can't play in the
Super Bowl. Of course, neither can the Vikings anytime recently.
But the bigger issue here Kyrie Irving his words about
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the way that Dallas was going to approach this game.
That was a prophecy. I haven't seen a prophecy that
good since back when I was younger and I used
to watch the Miss Cleo infomercials, the modern day psychic cotline,
if you will. And Kyrie Irving played like it was
a November game on a random Tuesday night against the Rockets.
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That's the way he played, at least the results were
that way. He took eighteen shots to get sixteen points,
only made six shots, miss twelve of the eighteen shots
that he took, and Luca but he had the big stadl.
He had the triple double.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Not impressive. I wasn't impressed. The greatest backcourt in NBA history, who,
according to Prisoners of the Moment, in the fourth quarter,
they shot thirty three point three percent Kyrie Irving and
Luka Datric thirty three point three percent half the side
of the devil in the fourth quarter, shooting from the
fourth right. Now turning the page, here there's another grand conspiracy.
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Now this is a ready made conspiracy. Just add water,
just add what ready made conspiracy? So do you believe
the internet? Sluice? I'll say that word, sluice inner. Do
you believe them when they say that Scott Foster rigged
this game, that phone calls were made and the game
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was rigged for Minnesota to win. Now, I didn't see
it that way. I know that stuff bounces around the Internet.
We got people like Poppy and San Diego that call
up and they're convinced they know exactly how this is
all going to go. And while there have been some improprieties,
shall we say, in Scott Foster games, and I do
believe that games have been rigged. We know they have
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been rigged. There's proof of it. The NBA, back in
the old days, with the commissioner named David Stern, they
swept it under the rug. They said, Wow, we just
had a rogue referee. We don't believe that to be true.
We think there were multiple referees that were involved in
some funny business. Tim Donnie he's the one that was
the fall guy. But Scott Foster was buddy buddy with
Tim Donnie. But this the Scott Foster story. Even though
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I do think funny business happens, I didn't see anything.
Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see anything that
rose to the level of Okay, well this is this
is another one of these Scott Foster games. It has
become the man that shot Liberty. Balance. When you talk
about Scott Foster, when the legend becomes the fact you
broadcast the legend, Scott Foster at this point is silly putty.
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He's silly putty, right, He's malleable. Just depends on the
outcome of the game, and you can twist him into
that outcome. It's like we often talk about things like momentum.
The Matvericks had all the momentum. Why would they lose
this game? They had won three games in a row.
They hit every big shot down the stretch. Explain to
me why Dallas would get back momentum. I don't understand it.
Do you understand? I don't understand. Here's another example, though,
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the Scott Foster thing. Because the outcome, whatever fits the narrative,
whatever you're trying to sell, you go with. Now I
will again. I'm I'm gonna go back to Scott Foster.
At some point there'll be a game that he totally botches,
and at that point we can revisit this. But this
was not one of those games, right, and we call
it like we see it. I wish there was some
impropriety that could bring up and say, well, that was it.
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I mean, Karl Anthony Town's fouled out in the final
seconds of the game. Now that being said, I don't
doubt that they did a happy dance at NBA headquarters
in Midtown, Manhattan at the outcome because it would have
been for television purposes apocalyptic. Had both conference finals ended
up in a sweep and you're sitting there twiddling your
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thumbs waiting for the NBA Finals to begin, which don't
start until next Thursday. But had Minnesota not one, let's
say the Mavericks had won, then Scott Foster would have
been called the closer he's the closer, but since Minnesota
ended up winning, he's the extender. So he's either the
closer or the extender. It just whatever fits the story
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you're trying to tell. And I would love to have
said there was something there. I didn't see anything. If
you saw something, you can call up and chew my
ear off. All right, Now, last word here, is there
a pas for the Wolves to come back? I know
Lorrain is dying to know, big Sportsman. Is there a
path for the Timer Puffs to come back in the
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Western Conference House and get to the NBA founds head
east to Boston? Is there a path? So I'm gonna
nod my head yes on this. I'm Benny Brightside on
this one, believe it or not. I am someone that
my mind wanders. I'm up all night. I never can
sleep at night. I'm always up doing this show. And
I do buy into the multiverse theory of the world
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that there's a bunch of different dimensions and in a
parallel dimension, the Mavericks get a round trip flight on
the Vomit Comet, and they totally botched this thing, just
like they botched the fourth quarter of this pass game. Here,
this this game Tuesday night, and there is a scenario now,
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needless to say, it's you know, the parallel dimension of
the multiverse. It's a rocky road. Not rocky road ice
cream that's delicious. It's a rocky road. However, it really
just is one more game. Game five is the Waterloo moment.
Tell me I'm wrong. That to me, that's the moment
where everything moves upside down. So my advice to my
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friends in Minnesota, and we have many great listeners in Minnesota.
You know, Lucas gonna go out and eat a bunch
of juicy Lucy's. The guy's a pig. He eats a
lot of food. Good for him. So Luca's gonna go
out and load up on some burgers. So he eats
so many burghers he ends up hibernating and he sleep
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walks through Game five. Dallas loses that game all of
a sudden. That ride on the vomit comet takes them
into the pressure cooker in game six because they then
have to win. Now, next game is in Minnesota on Thursday,
but then after that they go back to Texas. If
you lose game six at home, OMG, O MG, you're cooked, right,
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because then then all of a sudden, you got you
got a game seven. So the pressure is on Luka
and Kyrie at game six. Now right now, there's still
no pressure on Minnesota. You play a pressure game, pressure, pressure, pressure,
because the Wolves. I read the internet, I heard the
conversation the Wolves. They already had their funeral. The eulogy
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has been written for the twenty twenty four Timberwolves after
they lost the first three games. No one's ever come back.
I get it. But if you put yourself, if you
lose game five, your Dallas, and then you gotta win
game six, otherwise you end up in a game seven.
You put yourself in a winner take all game seven
where one twisted ankle or Luka Doncik not getting his
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nap in, or Kyrie Irving making some lunatic comment like
he's known to do about the world being flat or whatever,
and all of a sudden, and instead of going to Boston,
the mav Rex will go to Cancunin. There's a thing
involved with this called the gambler's fallacy. The way the
gambler's fallacy works, this is erroneous thinking that a certain
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event is more or less likely to happen given a
previous set of events like, no one has ever come
back from this deficit in the history of the NBA playoffs.
We've only seen a few teams in hockey and the
famous Red Sox against the Yankees and the Alcs that
did it in baseball. But there again, there is that
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path there because they have home court.
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lead this hour from the Chatterbox. That's what we do it.
We're a big chatterbox. Now it's working over time pro
bouncy ball. We're not going to revisit the Minnesota basketball
team winning and staving off elimination in Game four, Dallas
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still up three to one, they go back to Minnesota,
back to Minnesota for an opportunity to rise up one
more time and force than the game six. You see
that works there and with every win things get ratcheted
up for the Dallas basketball team. But this is not
about that. The on court drama has been not very good.
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There's been a drought. We're in a drought for on
court drama. We need el Nino, who used to be
a call of the show, el Nino to save the day.
Now the speculation chatterbox is where the drama orama is in.
It's filling the void. A lot of noise coming out
of Philadelphia every single day. There's a different story. There
was a rumor a couple of days ago that Paul
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George of the People's Team is going to leave la
his homeland, to go to the city of brother Love.
Then there was Lebron James and we smin the wheel
round and round round. The wheel goes around and we
stop at another name for the Sixers. If you have
not been following, this one is pretty good. It is
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more realistic than Lebron James. As we pointed out, Lebron James,
he don't play a town like Philadelphi, wouldn't play in
a place like Philly, New York, Boston. He just can't
handle it. He's soft. That's the reality of the situation
when it comes to criticism. He's not someone wired for
a town like that, and that's why he hasn't gone
to a team like the Knicks. Or the Celtics. He's
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had opportunities during the course of his career. But this
is about the Sixers. So the seventy six ers, if
you didn't see this, they are interested in Jimmy Buckets,
Jimmy Butler, a reunion. He played there, he played there
six years ago. He played there. A little birdie has
been chirping, trip trip trip, just like that. That's what
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it sounds like, drip trip trip. Little Birdie's been chirping that.
The Sixers are prepared to offer Jimmy Buckets the max extension,
max max max. If the heat end up beating a
playing ball, he'd have to trade. They have to be
willing to trade Jimmy Butler to an Eastern Conference rival
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and send him back to the Delaware Valley. So let
us discuss the question. Would Miami boss pat Riley trade
Jimmy Butler to the seventy six ers. We'll keep it simple,
So I've got magic eight ball, jerry mandering, and puppeteering,
and we will combine all of these things together and
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we are going to make a walk off celebration. That's
what we're gonna do, walk off and celebrate good times.
So number all right. This one is a little more
complicated than most, a little more complicated the most. But
to answer the question, would pat Riley actually do it?
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Would he pulled the trigger on a deal that would
send Jimmy Buckets to Philadelphia. It's complicated because we love Butler.
He's got gut Skyle, he's got moxie, all that stuff,
all those big words, he's got all that love. The
way he plays. The Sixers would first of all have
to admit that they screwed up not keeping Jimmy Butler.
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If you bring him back, you're admitting u f um,
which is hard to do. But there were different people
in charge back when Jimmy Butler left the Sixers to
go on his merry way around the NBA. But Butler's
approach is necessary in Philadelphia because they need what the
old Coastal Carolina coach said years ago, be a dog.
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They need dogs. They need they not cast no me ows,
they don't need know me ows. They need dogs. And
he's a dog, all right, and not not the kind
of dog with fleas. He's got all his shots. Jimmy Butler,
he's he's got the dog in him. He does. That's
I think that's d A W G. That's spelling, not
the dog, spelling of dog. But the question was asked
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to pat Riley, and Ryle's publicly shot down the premise
of the question, the idea that Jimmy Butler would leave
and be sent out of Miami to Philadelphia. But later
on he left the door open. So you're saying there's
a chance. And now asking my friend the magic we
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asked the magic gate ball, should you, pat Riley, trade
Jimmy Butler to Philadelphia? The Magic gate Ball says, signs
point to yes. Signs point to yes is the answer. Now,
we do have a believer. Do not let a falling
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star fall on you. Right, Jimmy Butler is a human
cannonball the way that he plays. But he's also in
his mid thirties and outside of Lebron James and a
few other athletes that have been able to find certain enhancers,
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that is a tough combo. That is a tough combo
dish in terms of longevity. All right, Now, page two,
we go to the draft, which is coming. I know
you're excited about, No, you're not excited about. Okay, bout job,
but America's favorite projected second round pick is yet again
in the headlines. For a guy that's not very good
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at basketball, this cat is great at content engagement. Bronnie James,
what is he doing now? I remember Bronnie James talked
earlier about how tough his life was being the son
of a billionaire, and Bronnie James is attempting to hand
pick hand pick his landing spot during the upcoming draft.
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It's less than a month away. Now we are told
that Bronnie James was originally going to work out for
ten franchises in the cartel of Basketball ten. It's a lot.
There's only thirty teams in the NBA. He was gonna
work out for ten of them. But since has had
a change of heart, Bronnie James has decided that he
is going to reject eight of the ten that he
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had previously agreed to work out for. Now Shams Sharania.
Sharania said that the remaining two teams on the big
board are the Purple and Gold team and the Purple
and Orange team. That's it. So what is the word?
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What is the word for Bronnie James limiting his NBA
draft workouts to the Lakers and the Suns. So the
word is actually two words. It's political bull crap. Is
the words I have political bull crap, and it is
jerry mandering, which everyone does in politics. Right the team
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read the team blue, everyone does it. Scrownie Bronni is
attempting here to read district where he plays basketball, and
he's using the muscle of the family business to limit
his options here. And that, as they said in that
movie back of that, that's a bull move, Cotton, that
is a bull move. It'd be one thing if you
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were good. Now, I've always had a problem with this.
I called Eli Manning the punk his entire career because
he punked out. I'm playing for the old San Diego Chargers,
and I stand by that he's a punk. Eli Manning, Elijah,
there's that. But it's one thing if you actually have ability.
But we've seen no evidence that Bronnie James, other than
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getting in the right genetic lottery his father is a billionaire,
that he can actually play at a high level. I
did see him in college basketball average less than five
points a game as a backup on a sub five
hundred team at the University of Southern California. So the
Whispering Tree does hint that these sons are legitimately considering
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drafting Bronnie James for no other reason than to convince
his papa to come to Arizona. That that is it.
Like they admit that they know behind closed doors, Broni
James can't play, but they also know his father can
sell a lot of tickets and create a little buzz
and hype and all that stuff. So that is actually
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the final part of this puzzle as we wind our
way through the NBA conversation. So with Bronni limiting his
options to La La Land and the land of the Cacti,
that's it. The question must be asked, thumbs up or
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thumbs down? Is Lebron James interested in a job transfer
to Phoenix? And there's only one way to answer this
giant thumbs up. Giant thumbs up on this one. That's it.
That's the only way to answer this giant thumbs up.
For years, this goes back at least four years, probably longer,
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probably longer, but at least four years. I have heard
from people who know more than I and like to
tell me they know more than I that this has
always been the plan, that Lebron it's an open secret
that Lebron would like to be teammates with Bronni and
why wouldn't he be? Right, Father's son two man show
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coming to an arena near you. So how would this work?
I'll tell you this would be like a master card commercial.
I can see it right now. Flight from Lax to
Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, one way ticket eighty two dollars.
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Signing a veteran minimum contract, which Lebron would have to do,
would cost him fifty plus million dollars in salary that
Lebron would leave on the table. But playing in the
NBA as a father son combo priceless, right? Can't you
see the commercial? I could see the commercial. There are
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some things that money can buy. I can't buy him.
But for everything else, there's that credit card, right, yeah, exactly. Anyway,
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That is at Ben Mahler if you'd like to be
part of the program. That fashion accessory story. Micah Parsons,
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who during the day plays for the Dallas Cowboys, but
he showed up at the Mavericks game last night and
he had a Mavericks jersey, had a Luka Doncic jersey. Say, okay, good,
he's a Maverick fan. He's supporting the Dallas team. He
plays in Dallas. But there are photos of him in
a Sixers jersey he played and he's from that area,
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which is said, okay, that's fine. But then he's also
got photos of him in Celtic memorabile. He's he reminds
me of Justin Bieber. Remember years ago. Bieber would wear
all these different hockey jerseys and just show up. Or
Snoop Dogg does the same thing. If you give Snoop
Dogg a check, he will wear any laundry you give him.
He does not have any. There's no shame in his game,
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no shame in his game. So Michael Parson is being
ripped apart for wearing a Maverick jersey after wearing a
Sixer jersey and a Celtic jersey. Maybe he just likes jerseys.
He doesn't like any of those teams. He just happens
to like wearing jersey. That's a possibility.
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Here we Go, Here we Go, Here we got degree,
Here we Go, Here we Go?
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Is one big Ben gets Gat.
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The coop a loop justin Kruk Well Ben last night.
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Notwithstanding the it is being suggested that a lot of
the credit for the success of the Mavericks this season
is the maturation of Kyrie Irving and how he has
a new mindset and approach to the game.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Do you agree with that? No, I don't. And the
ultimate test if Dallas does get to the finals and
Kyrie has asked about geo global politics and in nevily
the fans in Boston are gonna boo him, and then
he's going to play the race card from the bottom
of the deck. And so yeah, I'm not convinced. Now
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it's possible. I mean, he's on some he's got some
therapy and some meds or whatever. I don't know, but
I don't believe it. I don't bite it. He's done, okay,
but it ain't over yet.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
Next Giants defensive end Keevon Thibodeau has had four sacks
as a rookie in twenty twenty two, and then jumped
up to an eleven and a half in twenty twenty three,
the last season. He began a recent press conference by
saying that he's going for Michael Strahan's record this season.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Ben, do you think he has that potential? Oh, that's
so wonderful for him to do that as great that
he wants to set straight hands record, which is a
bogus record. I remember I was doing sports radio when
Brett Farv took a dive for Michael Strahan. I remember that.
But yeah, if he gets a quarterback to take a
dive for him, and hey, he plays an extra game.
The Giants Strayhan did it in sixteen games, and Kevan
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Thibodeau is going to play seventeen games assuming he stays healthy.
So why not. I don't think that's only a record.
The sack's only been around since nineteen eighty two, so
it's not like it's a record that goes back and
that was set probably twenty years ago. It's a it's
a record that's not that old. Next.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Baseball is known for its wacky injuries off the field,
and the one of the latest comes from Miguel Son.
Know of the Angels, snow suffered an injury set back
this week by keeping a heating pad on his knee
too long and causing burns.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yeah, I've ben. What's your favorite wacky baseball injury? Well
I could. Me and the Segur used to go back
and forth with stupid baseball, and she's my favorite right now.
At the top of my head is there was a
player for the Brewers years ago named Richie Sexon in
spring training. He shows up, he's working out with a
team and he has these horrible headaches. They're thinking, oh
my god, he might have brain cancer. It turned out
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that he just wore a hat that was too small.
He's so stupid anyway, there it is malin the third degree?
How do we know you pass?
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Speaker 5 (30:26):
Get Rye gear Rye to n gear right to night.
Speaker 8 (30:31):
Dear Rye, Why the face bed?
Speaker 2 (30:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
I just I like the pause it's good.
Speaker 9 (30:46):
Hey, my hands are only so fast.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I understand. I think we should have more pauses. Yes, absolutely,
any wisdom to start here, lorain or you just want
me to read questions ready for you?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Take it?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Okay? All right?
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Yes, right?
Speaker 9 (31:02):
Will let me know what the what is questioning these
minds today? Ben?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
All right, double old Mexican in San Diego. Here's a
lot of questions that he wants to know. What is
the best way to turn a friend into a girlfriend?
Get out of that friend zone.
Speaker 9 (31:16):
Yeah, it's so hard because you really do want to
build that relationship before you start dating.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Right.
Speaker 9 (31:22):
It's you say you're supposed to like be with your
best friend, but sometimes you get so into that friend
zone that they don't even see you like that. So, like,
it's hard. It is hard. But my biggest advice for
you stay consistent. Okay, and when you slide in like
the oh, hey maybe we should take this somewhere if
she says no, just stay consistent. Don't be a jerk.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Stay the answer, Double Mexicans. Once you get pigeonholed, you're
never getting out of that box. You're that's not that's
not always true. That's true.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
You got to wait for them to go, and then
they get divorced and then they're like, oh, you know what,
I should have been with the nice guy and if
you're still around, yeah, then they'll then they'll come.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Back, all right, King Rory, The King Roy says, is
it rude to ask someone if they have a sexually
transmitted disease before sleeping with it?
Speaker 9 (32:21):
Oh my gosh. That should never be seen as rude.
That should be seen as responsible. If you are going
to be responsible during your endeavors, you should ask, and
you should ask to see Peter.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
They're supposed to tell if they know, right.
Speaker 9 (32:32):
And everyone knows though a lot of things don't actually
show any signs or symptoms. Oh really, yeah, especially in males.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Yeah, are you blaming male?
Speaker 4 (32:40):
No?
Speaker 9 (32:41):
No, but it is. It is often males see ghost
symptoms in most of their things. Yes, really, yes, So
always ask, always ask, and it should never be shameful.
If they don't want to tell, you probably shouldn't sleep
with them.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
All right, boys, some of these I don't know that
we want. Let's go. Let's go. Now, this guy Rick
in Maryland, I know Rick. He's got the great pipe,
so I'm sure he's got a good question. Hello, Rick
and Maryland. You're on with Loreina the Queen of Hearts.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
Morning time, Morning time, Morning time. Li's up, Loraina? Yes,
I have a question. Yes, this is this is this
is a good one. I met this lady. Her name
is April, and so we got to know each other.
So it went to meet her family. Okay, didn't know
(33:27):
she was one third of a triplets in April. I
mean May and June. I like June. What should I do?
Speaker 9 (33:36):
Oh my gosh, I see if they're all down to
hang out sometime. I'm sure they love to ruminiss. I
don't know if you're really serious about that, though. See
your sister, you have the best connection with you. You
may like June the most, but who do you have
the best connection with?
Speaker 7 (33:52):
June?
Speaker 9 (33:53):
Like summer's your month? Baby?
Speaker 1 (33:56):
They all look the same. What's the what are you
all right?
Speaker 7 (33:59):
A little different?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
I thank you, Rick, there he goes. Rick went in doubt,
go with June.
Speaker 9 (34:10):
Summer is a great month, you know?
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah? All right? Donut Kelly our friend Kelly, she writes,
since she says, if something about your significant other is
really annoying but it actually doesn't affect you, do you
just let it go.
Speaker 9 (34:24):
No, Oh my gosh, you have to say something. Those
are those things that build up. It can be something
so minuscule, right, like, oh, you don't take your dishes
to the sink, and then one day you're gonna grab
the dishing or throw it at his head and you're
gonna break it. Wow, because you're just gonna get so frustrated.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
I mean that seems rather drastic.
Speaker 9 (34:42):
You know, if you hold it in, that's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Yeah. Well, okay, Like my wife has miss aphonia. You
know what that is?
Speaker 9 (34:50):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (34:50):
That's like when you chew food like.
Speaker 9 (34:53):
That doesn't chew. Yeah, you do it with your mouth open,
like I'm.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
A great chore. But she don't like it. That's her issue.
But she puts music on while we eat.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
So yeah.
Speaker 9 (35:04):
See my mom used to complain about my dad's chewing
and then they got divorced like a year and a
half later.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (35:09):
So it's kind of a sign that you don't love
them like you should to be honest.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Anyways, might be over this least is perfectly in the
Ferg Dog's question why he says are all women insane?
It's a great question, Ferg dog. I think that's Is
that a rhetorical question, you think or.
Speaker 9 (35:24):
A rhetorical question? Of course, we're all nuts. Yeah, we'll
think too much.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
All right, Let's go to a man who has traveled
the friendly skies, and I'm sure he's seen a lot
of crazy things in those airplanes. Our friend salsa, Hello, Salsa.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
Good evening, Hello the rain up.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Hello.
Speaker 7 (35:40):
I have a question.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
I'm a dancer, so when I go out, I have
a lot.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
Of people that are taking pictures of me, insid videos
to my lady, trying to break us up.
Speaker 9 (35:49):
Wait, like a dancer, dancer, like an exotic dancer.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Latin dance.
Speaker 9 (35:54):
Oh okay, but they're trying to send pictures to upset her. Yeah,
that seems ridiculous. Are you dancing naked? Okay, Well, she
probably knows what you're doing. She probably knows your job.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Well, it's not for the airlines, she's hobby.
Speaker 6 (36:09):
Latin dancing is very sexual. So I imagine that's the
problem here, right, and listen, how do.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
You suggest I handled it?
Speaker 9 (36:17):
I would say I, if she has a problem, invite
her to go with you. And if she doesn't want
to go with you, then she needs a respect that
you have your own you know.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
All the time.
Speaker 9 (36:26):
Oh see, then what's the problem. Shake your hips with.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Her, but make sure she's the other women are looking right.
You're like the male Shakira, and everyone look at your hips.
Speaker 9 (36:36):
Your wife should be envious. She should be like, wow,
my husband's that good? All these women trying to break
us up being sexy and dance your butt off. Okay,
that's all we can do in this life.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Thank you the great Salsa aurized you didn't call up
when the marriage meet the Clippers. I thought you would
call up anyway, there it is the Queen of Hearts
with the radar.
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Speaker 1 (37:18):
Anyway we go, it's password, the word Game of the
Stars is welcome in ar contestants, and I'm going to
put them on based on how long they have been
on on hold. So we'll say hello to Mason the Millennial,
who would like to play. Hello Mason the Millennial.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
Hey Ben, I'm so sad when your show's over, but
thank God, the freench open is going on right now.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Okay, wonderful and let me know how that goes. Mason.
Who do you want to partner up with? Their Mason
the Millennial?
Speaker 4 (37:50):
You know I'm going with Coop my guy.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Okay, so bad choice. And we have Jed who fled Hello, Jed.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
It should be true kid with Poppy dude, because that's
a big sugs dude and white Fox means it's it's
a cout now rushed dude. Don't forget that white Sox.
It's a com Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
All right, Eddie, you're up. We have a list of
words one to ten and Mason pick a number one
to ten, please five, number five the way? Yeah, so
Poppy's one friend Mason Lundy all right, go ahead there, Eddie, please,
it's it's it's my turn. Oh that's right, Mason, Mason
and Cool I got the team's got, don't cel Is.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
They can't even detemine whose first?
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Let's go with I can hang up on you right now.
There's a bigger name online one and let's go with
Stroll I got walk. Yeah, that's right, right, all right,
you're up, Jed, pick a pick a number, Yon has That.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
Means either eight or not, whichever's either tight.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Number eight all right, number eight, you need ten to tie.
We start with ten points. Go down to nine, eight, seven, six,
five to seven. Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (38:59):
Okay, let's go with.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Mm hmm. How about snug. That's a good one.
Speaker 6 (39:10):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Jed, Yes, hurry up, may speaking, number number two. Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
Let's go with next one wins Lougie, good one.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
Jed, Saliva saliva, Loukie.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
You gotta get loogie you one.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
You won.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Jed won because you lost to Jed. He's on pharmaceuticals
right now. You lost that guy, My gut
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Well have you had the Minnesota basketball team eliminated? Not
quite yet?
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lead coming out of Dallas. It was going to be
a coronation for the Mavericks, proof that Luca is God's
gift to basketball, the greatest backcourt in NBA history. WHOA,
There's no way Dallas could lose at home. No way
in a game down the stretch, no way at all.
(02:03):
See had Luka Doncik and the Mavericks looking to terminate
the Minnesota basketball team for the playoffs, get a clean sweep,
and move on to Boston in the NBA Finals. That
did not happen. I don't know if he saw this
or not. Maybe you were not watching. You assumed the
outcome batch up by you. Someone named Carl Anthony Towns,
(02:23):
who usually sucks in big moments, did not suck in
this game. Carl Anthony Town's kitty cat upstage the Dallas Stars,
not the hockey team, the basketball players, by scoring twenty
five points, but twenty of them in the second half.
As the Wolves squeeze past the mav Rex one toh
(02:45):
five to one hundred, and they avoid being swept, so
the humiliation did not happen there. Anthony Edwards twenty nine points,
ten rebounds. Nice of him to show up, and I
guess he didn't get tired in this game for a
Minnesota the head the ten rebounds of the nine to sis.
So the Wolves staying alive. Staying alive. Game five will
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be on Thursday night, and whether you like it or not,
that game will be played Thursday night back in the
Twin Cities. Now what I want to talk to about.
In the lead up to this game, a reporter from
the Mavericks television channel in Dallas sent out a video which,
for some reason she deleted. We're not sure why. What's
(03:28):
the point of deleting it when it went everywhere? But
in the video clip that went around, Kyrie Irving said
that the Wolves heading into game four. You see this,
He said, the Wolves heading into game four. For them,
this was their super Bowl. However, for Dallas it was
just a normal game. La la la la la la
(03:50):
la la la la la la la la la la
la la. So that was the money quote. So of course,
what do you think happened? That's right immediately after that
quote started bouncing around the echo chamber. Oh my god,
I can't believe Kyrie said it.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Bulletin, Bard, Bulletin, Bard, Bulletin.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Br n y Ning, bulletin. Mah my gud. So let's
discuss did Kyrie Irving's words come back to sting the Mavericks?
Was the outcome of game for a result of Kyrie
Irving's big mouth. So I've got Miss Cleo, Silly Putty,
and the multiverse, and we will combine all of these
(04:33):
things together and we are going to make some soggy
Texas toast, is what we're going to make, because that's
what the Dallas basketball team throughout there now. To answer
the question, did Kyrie Irving's words come back to haunt
the Mavericks? So as much as I love to bash Kyrie,
it's a lot of fun. And I really do enjoy
(04:55):
sports hate. And I took some shot in freude at
the end of this game. I did. I I had
a little shot in freud a moment I did. I
enjoyed it. That being said, if you think that the
reason Minnesota decided to engage at the end of this
game and Karl Anthony town has actually made shots when
he normally is a brick house at the end of
the games. If you think that was because Kyrie Irving
(05:17):
was caught on candid camera at a shoot around and
made some comments, you probably should stand up because I
think you are sitting on the buffoon button, you dingle Berry.
The Timberwolves, last I checked, they can't play in the
Super Bowl. Of course, neither can the Vikings anytime recently.
But the bigger issue here Kyrie Irving his words about
(05:43):
the way that Dallas was going to approach this game.
That was a prophecy. I haven't seen a prophecy that
good since back when I was younger and I used
to watch the Miss Cleo infomercials, the modern day psychic cotline,
if you will. And Kyrie Irving played like it was
a November game on a random Tuesday night against the Rockets.
(06:09):
That's the way he played, at least the results were
that way. He took eighteen shots to get sixteen points,
only made six shots, miss twelve of the eighteen shots
that he took, and Luca but he had the big stadl.
He had the triple double.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Not impressive. I wasn't impressed. The greatest backcourt in NBA history, who,
according to Prisoners of the Moment, in the fourth quarter,
they shot thirty three point three percent Kyrie Irving and
Luka Datric thirty three point three percent half the side
of the devil in the fourth quarter, shooting from the
fourth right. Now turning the page, here there's another grand conspiracy.
(06:46):
Now this is a ready made conspiracy. Just add water,
just add what ready made conspiracy? So do you believe
the internet? Sluice? I'll say that word, sluice inner. Do
you believe them when they say that Scott Foster rigged
this game, that phone calls were made and the game
(07:09):
was rigged for Minnesota to win. Now, I didn't see
it that way. I know that stuff bounces around the Internet.
We got people like Poppy and San Diego that call
up and they're convinced they know exactly how this is
all going to go. And while there have been some improprieties,
shall we say, in Scott Foster games, and I do
believe that games have been rigged. We know they have
(07:30):
been rigged. There's proof of it. The NBA, back in
the old days, with the commissioner named David Stern, they
swept it under the rug. They said, Wow, we just
had a rogue referee. We don't believe that to be true.
We think there were multiple referees that were involved in
some funny business. Tim Donnie he's the one that was
the fall guy. But Scott Foster was buddy buddy with
Tim Donnie. But this the Scott Foster story. Even though
(07:54):
I do think funny business happens, I didn't see anything.
Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see anything that
rose to the level of Okay, well this is this
is another one of these Scott Foster games. It has
become the man that shot Liberty. Balance. When you talk
about Scott Foster, when the legend becomes the fact you
broadcast the legend, Scott Foster at this point is silly putty.
(08:20):
He's silly putty, right, He's malleable. Just depends on the
outcome of the game, and you can twist him into
that outcome. It's like we often talk about things like momentum.
The Matvericks had all the momentum. Why would they lose
this game? They had won three games in a row.
They hit every big shot down the stretch. Explain to
me why Dallas would get back momentum. I don't understand it.
Do you understand? I don't understand. Here's another example, though,
(08:41):
the Scott Foster thing. Because the outcome, whatever fits the narrative,
whatever you're trying to sell, you go with. Now I
will again. I'm I'm gonna go back to Scott Foster.
At some point there'll be a game that he totally botches,
and at that point we can revisit this. But this
was not one of those games, right, and we call
it like we see it. I wish there was some
impropriety that could bring up and say, well, that was it.
(09:03):
I mean, Karl Anthony Town's fouled out in the final
seconds of the game. Now that being said, I don't
doubt that they did a happy dance at NBA headquarters
in Midtown, Manhattan at the outcome because it would have
been for television purposes apocalyptic. Had both conference finals ended
up in a sweep and you're sitting there twiddling your
(09:26):
thumbs waiting for the NBA Finals to begin, which don't
start until next Thursday. But had Minnesota not one, let's
say the Mavericks had won, then Scott Foster would have
been called the closer he's the closer, but since Minnesota
ended up winning, he's the extender. So he's either the
closer or the extender. It just whatever fits the story
(09:48):
you're trying to tell. And I would love to have
said there was something there. I didn't see anything. If
you saw something, you can call up and chew my
ear off. All right, Now, last word here, is there
a pas for the Wolves to come back? I know
Lorrain is dying to know, big Sportsman. Is there a
path for the Timer Puffs to come back in the
(10:12):
Western Conference House and get to the NBA founds head
east to Boston? Is there a path? So I'm gonna
nod my head yes on this. I'm Benny Brightside on
this one, believe it or not. I am someone that
my mind wanders. I'm up all night. I never can
sleep at night. I'm always up doing this show. And
I do buy into the multiverse theory of the world
(10:34):
that there's a bunch of different dimensions and in a
parallel dimension, the Mavericks get a round trip flight on
the Vomit Comet, and they totally botched this thing, just
like they botched the fourth quarter of this pass game. Here,
this this game Tuesday night, and there is a scenario now,
(10:56):
needless to say, it's you know, the parallel dimension of
the multiverse. It's a rocky road. Not rocky road ice
cream that's delicious. It's a rocky road. However, it really
just is one more game. Game five is the Waterloo moment.
Tell me I'm wrong. That to me, that's the moment
where everything moves upside down. So my advice to my
(11:19):
friends in Minnesota, and we have many great listeners in Minnesota.
You know, Lucas gonna go out and eat a bunch
of juicy Lucy's. The guy's a pig. He eats a
lot of food. Good for him. So Luca's gonna go
out and load up on some burgers. So he eats
so many burghers he ends up hibernating and he sleep
(11:39):
walks through Game five. Dallas loses that game all of
a sudden. That ride on the vomit comet takes them
into the pressure cooker in game six because they then
have to win. Now, next game is in Minnesota on Thursday,
but then after that they go back to Texas. If
you lose game six at home, OMG, O MG, you're cooked, right,
(12:04):
because then then all of a sudden, you got you
got a game seven. So the pressure is on Luka
and Kyrie at game six. Now right now, there's still
no pressure on Minnesota. You play a pressure game, pressure, pressure, pressure,
because the Wolves. I read the internet, I heard the
conversation the Wolves. They already had their funeral. The eulogy
(12:26):
has been written for the twenty twenty four Timberwolves after
they lost the first three games. No one's ever come back.
I get it. But if you put yourself, if you
lose game five, your Dallas, and then you gotta win
game six, otherwise you end up in a game seven.
You put yourself in a winner take all game seven
where one twisted ankle or Luka Doncik not getting his
(12:49):
nap in, or Kyrie Irving making some lunatic comment like
he's known to do about the world being flat or whatever,
and all of a sudden, and instead of going to Boston,
the mav Rex will go to Cancunin. There's a thing
involved with this called the gambler's fallacy. The way the
gambler's fallacy works, this is erroneous thinking that a certain
(13:11):
event is more or less likely to happen given a
previous set of events like, no one has ever come
back from this deficit in the history of the NBA playoffs.
We've only seen a few teams in hockey and the
famous Red Sox against the Yankees and the Alcs that
did it in baseball. But there again, there is that
(13:33):
path there because they have home court.
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The Game of Musical Chairs it has not started yet,
but it's this close. Well come in the beginning of
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lead this hour from the Chatterbox. That's what we do it.
We're a big chatterbox. Now it's working over time pro
bouncy ball. We're not going to revisit the Minnesota basketball
team winning and staving off elimination in Game four, Dallas
(15:38):
still up three to one, they go back to Minnesota,
back to Minnesota for an opportunity to rise up one
more time and force than the game six. You see
that works there and with every win things get ratcheted
up for the Dallas basketball team. But this is not
about that. The on court drama has been not very good.
(15:59):
There's been a drought. We're in a drought for on
court drama. We need el Nino, who used to be
a call of the show, el Nino to save the day.
Now the speculation chatterbox is where the drama orama is in.
It's filling the void. A lot of noise coming out
of Philadelphia every single day. There's a different story. There
was a rumor a couple of days ago that Paul
(16:20):
George of the People's Team is going to leave la
his homeland, to go to the city of brother Love.
Then there was Lebron James and we smin the wheel
round and round round. The wheel goes around and we
stop at another name for the Sixers. If you have
not been following, this one is pretty good. It is
(16:42):
more realistic than Lebron James. As we pointed out, Lebron James,
he don't play a town like Philadelphi, wouldn't play in
a place like Philly, New York, Boston. He just can't
handle it. He's soft. That's the reality of the situation
when it comes to criticism. He's not someone wired for
a town like that, and that's why he hasn't gone
to a team like the Knicks. Or the Celtics. He's
(17:02):
had opportunities during the course of his career. But this
is about the Sixers. So the seventy six ers, if
you didn't see this, they are interested in Jimmy Buckets,
Jimmy Butler, a reunion. He played there, he played there
six years ago. He played there. A little birdie has
been chirping, trip trip trip, just like that. That's what
(17:23):
it sounds like, drip trip trip. Little Birdie's been chirping that.
The Sixers are prepared to offer Jimmy Buckets the max extension,
max max max. If the heat end up beating a
playing ball, he'd have to trade. They have to be
willing to trade Jimmy Butler to an Eastern Conference rival
(17:45):
and send him back to the Delaware Valley. So let
us discuss the question. Would Miami boss pat Riley trade
Jimmy Butler to the seventy six ers. We'll keep it simple,
So I've got magic eight ball, jerry mandering, and puppeteering,
and we will combine all of these things together and
(18:05):
we are going to make a walk off celebration. That's
what we're gonna do, walk off and celebrate good times.
So number all right. This one is a little more
complicated than most, a little more complicated the most. But
to answer the question, would pat Riley actually do it?
(18:27):
Would he pulled the trigger on a deal that would
send Jimmy Buckets to Philadelphia. It's complicated because we love Butler.
He's got gut Skyle, he's got moxie, all that stuff,
all those big words, he's got all that love. The
way he plays. The Sixers would first of all have
to admit that they screwed up not keeping Jimmy Butler.
(18:49):
If you bring him back, you're admitting u f um,
which is hard to do. But there were different people
in charge back when Jimmy Butler left the Sixers to
go on his merry way around the NBA. But Butler's
approach is necessary in Philadelphia because they need what the
old Coastal Carolina coach said years ago, be a dog.
(19:14):
They need dogs. They need they not cast no me ows,
they don't need know me ows. They need dogs. And
he's a dog, all right, and not not the kind
of dog with fleas. He's got all his shots. Jimmy Butler,
he's he's got the dog in him. He does. That's
I think that's d A W G. That's spelling, not
the dog, spelling of dog. But the question was asked
(19:38):
to pat Riley, and Ryle's publicly shot down the premise
of the question, the idea that Jimmy Butler would leave
and be sent out of Miami to Philadelphia. But later
on he left the door open. So you're saying there's
a chance. And now asking my friend the magic we
(20:01):
asked the magic gate ball, should you, pat Riley, trade
Jimmy Butler to Philadelphia? The Magic gate Ball says, signs
point to yes. Signs point to yes is the answer. Now,
we do have a believer. Do not let a falling
(20:22):
star fall on you. Right, Jimmy Butler is a human
cannonball the way that he plays. But he's also in
his mid thirties and outside of Lebron James and a
few other athletes that have been able to find certain enhancers,
(20:42):
that is a tough combo. That is a tough combo
dish in terms of longevity. All right, Now, page two,
we go to the draft, which is coming. I know
you're excited about, No, you're not excited about. Okay, bout job,
but America's favorite projected second round pick is yet again
in the headlines. For a guy that's not very good
(21:04):
at basketball, this cat is great at content engagement. Bronnie James,
what is he doing now? I remember Bronnie James talked
earlier about how tough his life was being the son
of a billionaire, and Bronnie James is attempting to hand
pick hand pick his landing spot during the upcoming draft.
(21:29):
It's less than a month away. Now we are told
that Bronnie James was originally going to work out for
ten franchises in the cartel of Basketball ten. It's a lot.
There's only thirty teams in the NBA. He was gonna
work out for ten of them. But since has had
a change of heart, Bronnie James has decided that he
is going to reject eight of the ten that he
(21:51):
had previously agreed to work out for. Now Shams Sharania.
Sharania said that the remaining two teams on the big
board are the Purple and Gold team and the Purple
and Orange team. That's it. So what is the word?
(22:13):
What is the word for Bronnie James limiting his NBA
draft workouts to the Lakers and the Suns. So the
word is actually two words. It's political bull crap. Is
the words I have political bull crap, and it is
jerry mandering, which everyone does in politics. Right the team
(22:34):
read the team blue, everyone does it. Scrownie Bronni is
attempting here to read district where he plays basketball, and
he's using the muscle of the family business to limit
his options here. And that, as they said in that
movie back of that, that's a bull move, Cotton, that
is a bull move. It'd be one thing if you
(22:57):
were good. Now, I've always had a problem with this.
I called Eli Manning the punk his entire career because
he punked out. I'm playing for the old San Diego Chargers,
and I stand by that he's a punk. Eli Manning, Elijah,
there's that. But it's one thing if you actually have ability.
But we've seen no evidence that Bronnie James, other than
(23:18):
getting in the right genetic lottery his father is a billionaire,
that he can actually play at a high level. I
did see him in college basketball average less than five
points a game as a backup on a sub five
hundred team at the University of Southern California. So the
Whispering Tree does hint that these sons are legitimately considering
(23:41):
drafting Bronnie James for no other reason than to convince
his papa to come to Arizona. That that is it.
Like they admit that they know behind closed doors, Broni
James can't play, but they also know his father can
sell a lot of tickets and create a little buzz
and hype and all that stuff. So that is actually
(24:01):
the final part of this puzzle as we wind our
way through the NBA conversation. So with Bronni limiting his
options to La La Land and the land of the Cacti,
that's it. The question must be asked, thumbs up or
(24:23):
thumbs down? Is Lebron James interested in a job transfer
to Phoenix? And there's only one way to answer this
giant thumbs up. Giant thumbs up on this one. That's it.
That's the only way to answer this giant thumbs up.
For years, this goes back at least four years, probably longer,
(24:48):
probably longer, but at least four years. I have heard
from people who know more than I and like to
tell me they know more than I that this has
always been the plan, that Lebron it's an open secret
that Lebron would like to be teammates with Bronni and
why wouldn't he be? Right, Father's son two man show
(25:10):
coming to an arena near you. So how would this work?
I'll tell you this would be like a master card commercial.
I can see it right now. Flight from Lax to
Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, one way ticket eighty two dollars.
(25:31):
Signing a veteran minimum contract, which Lebron would have to do,
would cost him fifty plus million dollars in salary that
Lebron would leave on the table. But playing in the
NBA as a father son combo priceless, right? Can't you
see the commercial? I could see the commercial. There are
(25:51):
some things that money can buy. I can't buy him.
But for everything else, there's that credit card, right, yeah, exactly. Anyway,
it is the Ben Mahlor's Show. If you would like
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That is at Ben Mahler if you'd like to be
part of the program. That fashion accessory story. Micah Parsons,
(26:15):
who during the day plays for the Dallas Cowboys, but
he showed up at the Mavericks game last night and
he had a Mavericks jersey, had a Luka Doncic jersey. Say, okay, good,
he's a Maverick fan. He's supporting the Dallas team. He
plays in Dallas. But there are photos of him in
a Sixers jersey he played and he's from that area,
(26:38):
which is said, okay, that's fine. But then he's also
got photos of him in Celtic memorabile. He's he reminds
me of Justin Bieber. Remember years ago. Bieber would wear
all these different hockey jerseys and just show up. Or
Snoop Dogg does the same thing. If you give Snoop
Dogg a check, he will wear any laundry you give him.
He does not have any. There's no shame in his game,
(27:00):
no shame in his game. So Michael Parson is being
ripped apart for wearing a Maverick jersey after wearing a
Sixer jersey and a Celtic jersey. Maybe he just likes jerseys.
He doesn't like any of those teams. He just happens
to like wearing jersey. That's a possibility.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
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Speaker 1 (27:21):
Here we Go, Here we Go, Here we got degree,
Here we Go, Here we Go?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Is one big Ben gets Gat.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
The coop a loop justin Kruk Well Ben last night.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
Notwithstanding the it is being suggested that a lot of
the credit for the success of the Mavericks this season
is the maturation of Kyrie Irving and how he has
a new mindset and approach to the game.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Do you agree with that? No, I don't. And the
ultimate test if Dallas does get to the finals and
Kyrie has asked about geo global politics and in nevily
the fans in Boston are gonna boo him, and then
he's going to play the race card from the bottom
of the deck. And so yeah, I'm not convinced. Now
(28:09):
it's possible. I mean, he's on some he's got some
therapy and some meds or whatever. I don't know, but
I don't believe it. I don't bite it. He's done, okay,
but it ain't over yet.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
Next Giants defensive end Keevon Thibodeau has had four sacks
as a rookie in twenty twenty two, and then jumped
up to an eleven and a half in twenty twenty three,
the last season. He began a recent press conference by
saying that he's going for Michael Strahan's record this season.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Ben, do you think he has that potential? Oh, that's
so wonderful for him to do that as great that
he wants to set straight hands record, which is a
bogus record. I remember I was doing sports radio when
Brett Farv took a dive for Michael Strahan. I remember that.
But yeah, if he gets a quarterback to take a
dive for him, and hey, he plays an extra game.
The Giants Strayhan did it in sixteen games, and Kevan
(28:59):
Thibodeau is going to play seventeen games assuming he stays healthy.
So why not. I don't think that's only a record.
The sack's only been around since nineteen eighty two, so
it's not like it's a record that goes back and
that was set probably twenty years ago. It's a it's
a record that's not that old. Next.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Baseball is known for its wacky injuries off the field,
and the one of the latest comes from Miguel Son.
Know of the Angels, snow suffered an injury set back
this week by keeping a heating pad on his knee
too long and causing burns.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yeah, I've ben. What's your favorite wacky baseball injury? Well
I could. Me and the Segur used to go back
and forth with stupid baseball, and she's my favorite right now.
At the top of my head is there was a
player for the Brewers years ago named Richie Sexon in
spring training. He shows up, he's working out with a
team and he has these horrible headaches. They're thinking, oh
my god, he might have brain cancer. It turned out
(29:47):
that he just wore a hat that was too small.
He's so stupid anyway, there it is malin the third degree?
How do we know you pass?
Speaker 7 (29:56):
That's all time.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Winds tank, no wins, kang Garcia whoa.
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Speaker 8 (30:20):
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Up Hearts Gonna help you.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
Get Rye gear Rye to n gear right to night.
Speaker 8 (30:31):
Dear Rye, Why the face bed?
Speaker 2 (30:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
I just I like the pause it's good.
Speaker 9 (30:46):
Hey, my hands are only so fast.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I understand. I think we should have more pauses. Yes, absolutely,
any wisdom to start here, lorain or you just want
me to read questions ready for you?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Take it?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Okay? All right?
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Yes, right?
Speaker 9 (31:02):
Will let me know what the what is questioning these
minds today? Ben?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
All right, double old Mexican in San Diego. Here's a
lot of questions that he wants to know. What is
the best way to turn a friend into a girlfriend?
Get out of that friend zone.
Speaker 9 (31:16):
Yeah, it's so hard because you really do want to
build that relationship before you start dating.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Right.
Speaker 9 (31:22):
It's you say you're supposed to like be with your
best friend, but sometimes you get so into that friend
zone that they don't even see you like that. So, like,
it's hard. It is hard. But my biggest advice for
you stay consistent. Okay, and when you slide in like
the oh, hey maybe we should take this somewhere if
she says no, just stay consistent. Don't be a jerk.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Stay the answer, Double Mexicans. Once you get pigeonholed, you're
never getting out of that box. You're that's not that's
not always true. That's true.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
You got to wait for them to go, and then
they get divorced and then they're like, oh, you know what,
I should have been with the nice guy and if
you're still around, yeah, then they'll then they'll come.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Back, all right, King Rory, The King Roy says, is
it rude to ask someone if they have a sexually
transmitted disease before sleeping with it?
Speaker 9 (32:21):
Oh my gosh. That should never be seen as rude.
That should be seen as responsible. If you are going
to be responsible during your endeavors, you should ask, and
you should ask to see Peter.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
They're supposed to tell if they know, right.
Speaker 9 (32:32):
And everyone knows though a lot of things don't actually
show any signs or symptoms. Oh really, yeah, especially in males.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Yeah, are you blaming male?
Speaker 4 (32:40):
No?
Speaker 9 (32:41):
No, but it is. It is often males see ghost
symptoms in most of their things. Yes, really, yes, So
always ask, always ask, and it should never be shameful.
If they don't want to tell, you probably shouldn't sleep
with them.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
All right, boys, some of these I don't know that
we want. Let's go. Let's go. Now, this guy Rick
in Maryland, I know Rick. He's got the great pipe,
so I'm sure he's got a good question. Hello, Rick
and Maryland. You're on with Loreina the Queen of Hearts.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
Morning time, Morning time, Morning time. Li's up, Loraina? Yes,
I have a question. Yes, this is this is this
is a good one. I met this lady. Her name
is April, and so we got to know each other.
So it went to meet her family. Okay, didn't know
(33:27):
she was one third of a triplets in April. I
mean May and June. I like June. What should I do?
Speaker 9 (33:36):
Oh my gosh, I see if they're all down to
hang out sometime. I'm sure they love to ruminiss. I
don't know if you're really serious about that, though. See
your sister, you have the best connection with you. You
may like June the most, but who do you have
the best connection with?
Speaker 7 (33:52):
June?
Speaker 9 (33:53):
Like summer's your month? Baby?
Speaker 1 (33:56):
They all look the same. What's the what are you
all right?
Speaker 7 (33:59):
A little different?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
I thank you, Rick, there he goes. Rick went in doubt,
go with June.
Speaker 9 (34:10):
Summer is a great month, you know?
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah? All right? Donut Kelly our friend Kelly, she writes,
since she says, if something about your significant other is
really annoying but it actually doesn't affect you, do you
just let it go.
Speaker 9 (34:24):
No, Oh my gosh, you have to say something. Those
are those things that build up. It can be something
so minuscule, right, like, oh, you don't take your dishes
to the sink, and then one day you're gonna grab
the dishing or throw it at his head and you're
gonna break it. Wow, because you're just gonna get so frustrated.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
I mean that seems rather drastic.
Speaker 9 (34:42):
You know, if you hold it in, that's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Yeah. Well, okay, Like my wife has miss aphonia. You
know what that is?
Speaker 9 (34:50):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (34:50):
That's like when you chew food like.
Speaker 9 (34:53):
That doesn't chew. Yeah, you do it with your mouth open,
like I'm.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
A great chore. But she don't like it. That's her issue.
But she puts music on while we eat.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
So yeah.
Speaker 9 (35:04):
See my mom used to complain about my dad's chewing
and then they got divorced like a year and a
half later.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (35:09):
So it's kind of a sign that you don't love
them like you should to be honest.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Anyways, might be over this least is perfectly in the
Ferg Dog's question why he says are all women insane?
It's a great question, Ferg dog. I think that's Is
that a rhetorical question, you think or.
Speaker 9 (35:24):
A rhetorical question? Of course, we're all nuts. Yeah, we'll
think too much.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
All right, Let's go to a man who has traveled
the friendly skies, and I'm sure he's seen a lot
of crazy things in those airplanes. Our friend salsa, Hello, Salsa.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
Good evening, Hello the rain up.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Hello.
Speaker 7 (35:40):
I have a question.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
I'm a dancer, so when I go out, I have
a lot.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
Of people that are taking pictures of me, insid videos
to my lady, trying to break us up.
Speaker 9 (35:49):
Wait, like a dancer, dancer, like an exotic dancer.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Latin dance.
Speaker 9 (35:54):
Oh okay, but they're trying to send pictures to upset her. Yeah,
that seems ridiculous. Are you dancing naked? Okay, Well, she
probably knows what you're doing. She probably knows your job.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Well, it's not for the airlines, she's hobby.
Speaker 6 (36:09):
Latin dancing is very sexual. So I imagine that's the
problem here, right, and listen, how do.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
You suggest I handled it?
Speaker 9 (36:17):
I would say I, if she has a problem, invite
her to go with you. And if she doesn't want
to go with you, then she needs a respect that
you have your own you know.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
All the time.
Speaker 9 (36:26):
Oh see, then what's the problem. Shake your hips with.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Her, but make sure she's the other women are looking right.
You're like the male Shakira, and everyone look at your hips.
Speaker 9 (36:36):
Your wife should be envious. She should be like, wow,
my husband's that good? All these women trying to break
us up being sexy and dance your butt off. Okay,
that's all we can do in this life.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Thank you the great Salsa aurized you didn't call up
when the marriage meet the Clippers. I thought you would
call up anyway, there it is the Queen of Hearts
with the radar.
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
and the password is password, you idiot, password the word
Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Meller.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Anyway we go, it's password, the word Game of the
Stars is welcome in ar contestants, and I'm going to
put them on based on how long they have been
on on hold. So we'll say hello to Mason the Millennial,
who would like to play. Hello Mason the Millennial.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
Hey Ben, I'm so sad when your show's over, but
thank God, the freench open is going on right now.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Okay, wonderful and let me know how that goes. Mason.
Who do you want to partner up with? Their Mason
the Millennial?
Speaker 4 (37:50):
You know I'm going with Coop my guy.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Okay, so bad choice. And we have Jed who fled Hello, Jed.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
It should be true kid with Poppy dude, because that's
a big sugs dude and white Fox means it's it's
a cout now rushed dude. Don't forget that white Sox.
It's a com Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
All right, Eddie, you're up. We have a list of
words one to ten and Mason pick a number one
to ten, please five, number five the way? Yeah, so
Poppy's one friend Mason Lundy all right, go ahead there, Eddie, please,
it's it's it's my turn. Oh that's right, Mason, Mason
and Cool I got the team's got, don't cel Is.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
They can't even detemine whose first?
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Let's go with I can hang up on you right now.
There's a bigger name online one and let's go with
Stroll I got walk. Yeah, that's right, right, all right,
you're up, Jed, pick a pick a number, Yon has That.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
Means either eight or not, whichever's either tight.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Number eight all right, number eight, you need ten to tie.
We start with ten points. Go down to nine, eight, seven, six,
five to seven. Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (38:59):
Okay, let's go with.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Mm hmm. How about snug. That's a good one.
Speaker 6 (39:10):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Jed, Yes, hurry up, may speaking, number number two. Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
Let's go with next one wins Lougie, good one.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
Jed, Saliva saliva, Loukie.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
You gotta get loogie you one.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
You won.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Jed won because you lost to Jed. He's on pharmaceuticals
right now. You lost that guy, My gut
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