April 24, 2025 • 39 mins
Big Ben talks about the Rockets tying up their series against the Warriors with Jimmy Butler going down, Kristaps Porzingis getting bloody in a win over the Magic, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (01:56):
But we're gonna start out with playoff pro bouncy ball.
Why we are allowed. We don't talk much basketball during
the regular season because the players stopped caring about the
regular seasons, so why why should we care? Seemingly that
they do care about the playoffs. And it was the
showcase game of the night. Deep in the heart of
Texas is where we began, and oh what a night
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it was. In Houston, Golden State trying to snatch another
road win. While the Rockets were hoping that they would
actually end the misery, they got embarrassed in many ways.
They were a country mile behind Golden State in the
first game, so trying to even up the books. We
know that was the setup, so I thought maybe he watched,
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but I don't know, maybe he didn't watch. There were
other stuff going on. A Jalen Green playing the role
of sniper. He was a skunk in the first game.
He stunk up the arena, but on this particular night,
made not one, not two, not three, not four, not five,
not six, not seven, how about eight moneyball eight three
pointers for Jalen Green and thirty eight points. Thirty eight
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points as the Rockets get into the wind column and
they take down the Warriors.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
The series is now one.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Up, best of five. Golden State has home court advantaged.
The seventh seated Warriors don't bury the lead, my man.
They were short handed. They were shorthanded and then some
as Jimmy Butler, the butler did it. Jimmy was not
doing the shimmy, Jimmy Butler leaving calling it a pelvic contusion.
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He landed on his took us. It appears to be
a tailbone injury. He was undercut. He was undercut by
a Rockets player. There happened late first quarter. Late first quarter.
Now that was not bad enough, which was worse for
the worst because Butler left the injury of the Warriors
were also shorthanded as one of their role players, Randon Pajemski.
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He also had a problem with his stuff. Oh my stomach,
bad stomach. So he pitched a shutout I think play
like fourteen minutes or something like that.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
He was useless.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So Game number three is on Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, and
that will be in northern California. So let us discuss
the question how much trouble are the Warriors in now. Normally,
when you go on the road and you get a
split and you're the team that does not have home court,
that is a wonderful mitzvah. But how much trouble of
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the war is in if Jimmy Butler is down for
the count and cannot return in this series. So I've
got general Electric, secret blend and mechanical engineer, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
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going to boggle the mind, is what we're going to do,
unless we don't. So a Jimmy Butler is the antithesis
of the standard issue NBA player.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Let's start with that, all Right's start with that.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
The modern ballplayer is a mister Softy in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Maybe I'm wrong on this. I look at Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
One of the reasons I've appreciated watching him play over
the years is he's a throwback.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
He's a red.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Blooded American alpha male, and outside of his personal beef
with pat Riley, when he held a wildcat strike there
in Miami. When I've seen Jimmy Butler play, it appears
he's got dragon balls and he's the kind of guy
that would just take some pharmacy great ibuprofen and suck
it up. So if playoff Jimmy is d O and E,
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then this becomes a general electric situation. That means you
open up the ge oven there. You take the warriors
out of that oven because they are cooked. And if
they want to bring in a motivational speaker, may I
recommend bringing in Nick van Exell, who can say one, two, three,
can kun because that's where they're headed.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Now, sure you can have.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
The next man up philosophy, and that's certainly what the
warrior is going to do. If Butler's out, And as
someone that's injured my tailbone before and I had to
sit on one of those rings, you know the things
you said, the pads with the ring on it because
you can't sit down because your butt hurts. Yeah, I
had to do that. Good luck coming back and playing
at a high level. Now, could Butler return as a decoy? Sure,
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But if this is as bad as they're saying it is,
it maybe they're lying.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
They lie a lot in the NBA. They like to
do that.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
They embellish injuries as part of the business of basketball.
But assuming he's an actual legit injury the way it's
being described, good luck being anything more than a decoy anyway.
So next man up that would be Jonathan Kaminga, that
he would be activated. The problem is Kaminga has been
on the knotty list for the Warriors. I'm not even
a Warriors fan, and I know this. I've seen the
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stories you've sent me, some of the stories about how
he's not in the rotation. He's just been after games
sadly shooting jump shots and empty arenas. So he got
his opportunity. He's been on the natty list. Kaminga, he
comes off the natty list.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
How did he do?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Jonathan Kaminga? He played twenty six minutes, had eleven points,
three rebounds to assists, and he shot thirty three point
three percent half the Sign of the Devil. It was unremarkable, unremarkable.
And so that's the guy at Butler's not able to
get going. That's the guy. Good luck with him being
the guy. Now, there was the moment within the moment
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here in this game, Golden State was lurking in the
shadows there, trying to sneak up like a snake in
the grass.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Even though they were shorthanded. They did get within eleven at.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
One point, which is still not all that great. That's
not all that great. However, around that time, there was
a rhubarb that took place. So what did you make,
Golden States? Draymond Green getting into a shouting match with
Fred van Vliet late in the fourth quarter, So just imagine,
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if you.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Will, in the cartoon bubble over your head. There was
some some back.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
And forth and Draymond got right there nose to nose.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
And if anyone ate garlic, the other person would have
been knocked out.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
It was a doggie bag filled with historyonics is what
it was. By modern basketball. This game was somewhat physical.
I do not agree with the level of physicality that
was described by the broadcasters.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Seemed like they were going a little too far over
the top.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
But Raymond Green and Fred Van Vliet stood toe to
toe and they exchanged.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Naughty words, naughty naughty words, and then they got separated.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
And it was that secret blend of T and B,
theatrics and bravado. But it's fake bravado, as most NBA
dust ups happened these days. Yeah, the last real NBA
dust up was the Malice at the Palace in Michigan
there with the Pistons and the Pacers, and since then
they've all just been nothing but nonsense it which.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Is likely better that way. It's probably better that way.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Anyway, you had the standard fake tough guys, the teammates
that run over to protect the fake tough guys, and
so you could you can almost imagine Draymond as he's
surrounded by his warrior teammates.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Hold me back, bro, hold me back, bro. You know
that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
And then you had the h town crowd serenading's Raymond Green,
chanting f you Draymon. More than that in a minute.
All right, now, last Warrior. We're gonna move away from
the playoff games. We get to the other matchups later on,
but we move on now to Dallas because there isn't say, Ben,
why would you go to Dallas? Do you know the
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Mavericks are not in the playoffs? Why would you bring
up the Mavericks? Well we go where the the News
of the day takes this, and there's another chapter and
more chatter on the worst decision in sport that took
place this basketball season. So kick back and relax and
enjoy the tale we are hearing now. The reason for
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the viral, viral divorce, the breakup herd round basketball between
Louka and the mav Rex could that's a weasel word,
could go all the way back to a couple weeks
before the transaction, which was not a trade because the
trade you get equal value wasn't a trade, was giveaway.
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Before the Mavericks gave away Luca, we're now reading that
the new MAVs ownership tried to approach Doncik about conditioning
also known as hey, stop being a fat tub of goo,
Luca getting shape, fatty And how'd that work out?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Well?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Patrick Dumont, Patrick Dumont, nobody's chant chanting.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Fire doomat nobody's doing that. It's fire Nico. Anyway, this guy, Patrick.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Dumont, who won the not the genetic lottery, he won
the marriage lottery. Through marriage, he now gets to own
the Mavericks and he had a less than positive some
would call negative encounter with Luca before giving the green
light to send his ass out of Dallas.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
So we'll frame it this way.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Luka Donzik had a issue a falling out with the
new Mavericks owner weeks before he was traded or given away.
Do you find this significant? Are these two things related?
And I would respond to that by saying, is a
wildfire hot? Is a wildfire hot?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Right?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
This sounds like a plant. If you ask where did
this story come from? Randomly, I would say, based on
my years of investigative talk radio, it is more likely
than not that this was leaked by somebody who is
connected with Nico Nico Harrison, who has now held two
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horrific news conferences about this trade.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
And it's likely.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
It's like, hey, wait a minute, you know this guy
signed off on it, and he recommended it, and so
let's throw him under the proverbial team plane as it's
taxing for takeoff there. And so it sounds like, hey,
what my fault. Dumont's the guy, Hey my fault, blame Dumont.
Now if true, If true, the mav Rec franchise was
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harpooned by a mechanical engineer, you realize that this guy
could have become an HVAC technician or a civil engineer
or something like that. If your fine jobs instead Patrick Dumont,
who did get a mechanical engineering degree from John Hop
University there in Baltimore, go Blue Jays, and then went
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to a business school. He married into the Adelson family,
the gambling family, So through marriage he married into that family,
and the old man died and he rose to the
level of owner of the Maverick. You talk about a
hostile takeover, all right, So we could totally see Luca
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getting confronted by somebody he doesn't really know, this guy Dumont,
Patrick Dumont, a stranger, and Luca being a total dink
with the guy and the highbrow owner of the Mavericks
who thinks his poopy doesn't smelly and used to work
at bear Stearns on Wall Street, going scorched earth.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
And saying, all right, this trade this guy and Nico Harrison.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
It's not to say Nico didn't cheer for that to happen,
but ultimately, a trade like this does not happen without
the owner giving the okay, and so it's just not possible.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
There is not a dimension where that happens. It just
doesn't take place.
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Speaker 1 (14:17):
So our lead this hour, Our lead, this hour is
from Boston. We peak around the playoff card Eastern Conference,
Eastern Conference out of the bracket. The Boston basketball team
playing without Jason Tatum.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Oh my aching wrist out. My yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
He came down hard on the wrist there and said
he was perfectly fine, everything was good. Yet he did
not play in game two versus Orlando, and this was
one of the first games of the night there. I
don't know if you saw this or not, if you
were checking it out, maybe you were objecting to the
game and watching something else. You said, enough is enough,
But we watched so you would not have to. Jalen Brown,
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who is being paid as a number umber one type player. Well,
Jaylen Brown went out and played. He had thirty six points,
ten rebounds, bib assists. And the story here was not
so much Jalen Brown. It was Chris tops Porzingis, who
dramatically returned to the game after getting bloody, a big
bloody gash right on his forehead, right in the middle
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of his forehead. Had twenty points and the Celtics beat
the Magic and so Boston up two to OHO in
the series, and they win a game without Tatum, who
has a bone bruise a contrusion. He's got a bone
bruise in his right wrist and he missed a playoff
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game for the first time in his career, so he
was out. But Boston up two oh and they are
in good shape here, lied by his many's fifteen in
the second half.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
They did hold off a mild.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Push by the team from Mickey Town in Florida. There
the Celtics had twelve three pointers, which is not that
many for them.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
They were twenty five of thirty three from the charity Stride.
Game three is Friday in Central Florida.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
The bigger story here, though, is the subplot, and that
is the moment that we will remember not long term,
but we'll remember it for the short term. Celtics center
Chris tops Porzingis went to the locker room with a
massive dash right there on his forehead, blood in the
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air everywhere, and I came back out. They slapped a
bandage on his forehead and he shot a pair of
foul shots.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
He took a full elbow from.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
A guy I've never heard of on the Orlando Magic.
Is it Goga Bitadza. That's a mouthful anyway, for me,
not for him. And that was in the third quarter. Now,
during the review, there was a lengthy review as they
wanted to watch every possible angle and high death of
the elbow from Bitadza Bitadze rather as it hit Porzingis.
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So during the review, Chris Stops dramatically emerged from the
locker room. The crowd went wild. The crowd went wild.
He had blood down the back of his head. He
was completely disheveled and at bandage right there in the
four As we mentioned, he re entered the game, connected
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one of two foul shots and then left the game again,
and that led to the great SoundBite of the night.
Joel Mizzoula Joel Missoula as only he can do commenting
on Christops Porzingis, and I think we have the audio
on list listen to Joe as he works himself up
into a crescendo.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
I like his overall just approach. I think he has
an ability in innate ability to take things very serious
and at the same time, you know, have great perspective
and then you know you see how he I think
he can control his environment really well with how he
handles the crowd and how he handles the physicality of it,
and he can maintain his kind of his poise and
he just has a great way about him. And I
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think that that that helps us. And like, yeah, I do.
I love watching him. I like watching him bleed on
the court. I think it's important. Uh and then he,
you know, he comes back in and does his job.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
So I do like that about Yeah, I like that
about it. Let's we play that this this highlight that
last part. Listen, listen again. This is the this is
the money part of it. Listen closely.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
I like watching them bleed on the court. I think
it's important.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yeah, there you go. I like watching the bleed on
the cord. I think it's important. A right, So let
us discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Is there a deeper meaning to the Celtic coach Joe
Missoula Let him play Joe Joe Mizzoula being happy that
Chris stops porzingis played covered in blood. So my observations,
I've got Kleenex, milkman, and Paris baguette, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
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to spike the punch bowl, is what we're gonna do.
We're gonna spike the punch bowl, all right, So numb burn?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Can I get a numb burn?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
To answer the question, is there a deeper meaning of this?
I am nodding my head. Yes, I'm nodding my head. Yeah, yeah,
I'm going yes, I'm gone. I'mna get busy if I
keep doing this. Aside from Joe Mazoula continuing to be
the quirky quote machine of the NBA. Now, I am not,
as you know, a psychologist. I am just a mere
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peon in the radio world, the overnight gas bag. However,
I can't play a shrink on the radio. And here's
my diagnose. Joe Mazoo was confessing. That was a confessional
that he is concerned. The coach of the Celtics is
worried that the reigning NBA champions are soft, and there
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was meaning in that. Coach Joe does not want to
coach team of flowers. He doesn't want the pussy willow
flower team out there.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
He doesn't.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Now, to rephrase this for those of you a little
slow in the back of the room, Joe Mizula is
worried about the Kleenex. He wants to avoid a tissue
paper team and instead he wants that thick scar. Tissue
is what he would like, and it's unbecoming if you're
not like that. You might remember when when Jason Tatum
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got hurt in Game one, Missoula ran out there and
chased the trainer away. Do you remember that he pushed
the trainer away for the Celtics, the medical staff away,
because he's trying to toughen up Tatum. Turned out, Tatum
missed the game. But porzingis he's out there. There's blood
on the floor, there's blood everywhere, and Mozilla's his quote is, hey,
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he was happy. He liked watching him bleed out on
the court right there. He enjoyed it. He enjoyed it,
And so there we are. And it's pretty wild, though,
considering that porzingis his reputation, one of the reasons he
kept moving around from the Knickerbockers to the Mavericks and
all these other teams he's played for Washington.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
His reputation is fragile, fradgile.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
He's your prototypical modern NBA ballplayer who misses a ton
of games.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
He's always hurt. He was hurt last year when the
Celtics went on their run and they would win the championship.
He got hurt in that run, all right, now, page two.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
So what intrigues you the most about this individual? Christops
Berzingis moment for the Celtics. So for me, it's the
obvious cinematic nature of the event, right, the cinematic nature.
If this had been during an NBA Finals game, it
would have been on par on par with Paul Pierce,
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who needed a wheelchair because he soiled his pants. He
had poopy in the pantsy and he had to get
a wheelchair because he didn't want people to see the
streak down the.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Back of his pants.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Now, Chris on this one was the milkman. Now, not
milkman Mike in Colorado, although Milkman Mike in Colorado was
in Boston recently. No, no, no, he was a different milkman.
Because Porzingis was playing to the crowd. He was smiling
from ear to ear. He was milking the malman, just
enjoying the hell out of it. As the crowd chanted
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his name, Porzingis looked like he was in some kind
of a fight, like a Rocky Balboa old school boxing movie.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Bloodied, battered, bruised, and completely beaten. But he came back
into the game.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
And was he actually growing a unicorn or did somebody
take the unicorn off of his forehead? Now, as for
Jason Tatum, that particular injury is at a big deal,
a little deal, or no deal. So I have it
as a no deal. I don't think it's a big deal.
Even though he missed the game. I believe the reason
he missed the game is because the Celtics don't consider
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the Magic a threat.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
And they were right.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
They went out there without without Tatum and without Porzingis
for a stretch and they still beat Orlando. So out
of an abundance of caution, remember that back in twenty
twenty shut the whole world down. I have an abundance
of caution, But out of an abundance of caution, they
rested Tatum. Had this been a tougher opponent, a worthy opponent,
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we believe on this side of the microphones, that he
would have played.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
He would have played all right. Final point.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Now, I was gonna talk about the calves and the heat,
and I attempted to find a talking point.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I did.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I don't want to shortchange the people of Cleveland. I
don't want to do that. I could not find a
talking point. I could not find a talking point. There's
nothing there. I know that Miami was within a couple
of points late in the fourth quarter, but there was
just nothing that really stood out, and so we moved
to the diamond. Baseball barbarism a major league baseball team complaining,
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complaining about work conditions. Is it a baseball team that
plays in a minor league ballpark the Tampa Bay Rays.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
No.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Is it a baseball team that plays in a minor
league ballpark the Sacramento Athletics.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
No.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
The team that wears the halo, but making it seem
like they're playing in baseball hell. Now, to set this up,
Bajor League baseball teams normally play an afternoon game on
a getaway day before or they go to or leave
the West Coast.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
That's typically how it's done.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
You fly to or from the West Coast, you play
a day because you got to sit on the plane
for a few hours, god forbid, And especially if there's
no often you don't have a day off between games.
You play the early game and then you go out
and you play you play the following day at night.
The Angels our schedule here on this Thursday to play
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the Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Pirates the Bucos. There's only one.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Person I know that cares about that game. That's Seria Sean.
So the Pirates and the Angels are gonna play in Anaheim.
And then the Angels will take a chartered bus. They
will have an escort. They will go to the airport.
They will go to a special part of the airport
not to be touched by the unwashed. They will then
board a chartered flight. They will then fly to Minnesota.
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They will then get off the plane to a private
bus with an escort, and they will then go to
a hotel where they will check in at a five
star hotel and then play a bunch of road games
in Minnesota starting the following night. And the Angels are
spitting mad about this. Among the players, you have closer
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Kenley Jansen, which is still very odd that guy blew
some big games with the Dodgers. Kenley Jansen and outfielder
Taylor Ward have called the travel schedule, among other things,
quote not healthy, clost quote and vote unfair. They're arguing
it creates a competitive disadvantage. Ken Lee Jansen in particular,
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sounded like someone might die.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Because of this.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Do you have empathy for ken Lee Jansen and the
Angels and their public complaints about their travel schedule? So
I will be the judge, jury and executioner on this one,
and motion denied, Motion denied. Now the Angels, I don't
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know if they have any sponsors left, because who I've
watched any of those games, But the Angels should be
sponsored by Paris Baguette, because that is a team filled
with cream puffs, that is a cream puff team. Complaining
about the schedule. I thought everyone learned this. I thought
one of the lessons of sport. One of the lessons
that we learn in sport is complaining about the schedule
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does not change the schedule. And that the teams that
are good, the teams that win, the teams that elebrate
victories on a regular basis, they focus their energy on
adapting and using that as a badge of honor, a
badge of honor, preparing overcoming that that is an obstacle,
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That is machismo, that is masculinity. You've overcome an obstacle,
Not the modern athlete, not the Angels.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
No, no, no, oh booo, it's hard. It's so difficult.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Ash shut up, so stupid, it is so dumb. Rather
than say, Okay, we're gonna use this as an exciting
thing to build some mental toughness, and we're gonna show
what kind of tough team we are. You acknowledge it
and then you rise above it. The angels, Oh no,
it's not healthy.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
It's unfair. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
We gotta go on a chartered plane, a charted You're
not sitting on Southwest Group B. You're on a chartered plane.
You're not flying Spirit Airlines where if you breathe and
spit a loogie they.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Charge you for it.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Then you get on your luxury chartered bus, you go
to your five star hotel with eight gazillion thread count chets.
You talk about hardship, you talk about overcoming, overcoming adverse.
It's like it's like skid Row amazing courage in sports.
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The angels courage in sports so embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
He's so stupid. Oh my god, I saw you gotta
be kidding me.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
And the other part of it is they're actually complaining
about ownership because the team decides the time of the game.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
The home team decides.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
There are rules, there are rules, But really, what the
Angels entire team is doing is complaining about Artie Marino.
But yet see they want to be paid as much
moneys they get, as far as I know, and so
the Angels they know if they played the Pirates at
one o'clock on a Thursday afternoon in April, would have
been seven and a half people there. Seven and one
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really short person would have been there. Okay, seven and
a half people would have been a game. They played
the game at night, they got fifteen people, so they
double the attendance at night.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
So that's why they did that. It's just wonderful.
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Speaker 3 (29:28):
This is one big Ben gets grilled koblu.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
So the Rams won't say much about whether they are
looking to draft a quarterback, but we do know that
things are year to year with Matthew Stafford, who isn't
exactly a spring chicken.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
Now, Ben, do you.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
Think the Rams wait until next offseason to address their
long term future at quarterback?
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
So The Rams are in the try to win now
period still, so they need help on the offensive line,
they need help in the secondary.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
They'd like to add a tight.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
End, so they could draft somebody in the middle rounds,
but it's not a priority. And McVeigh so cocky and
confident that when Stafford leaves, he thinks he can turn
anyone into a serviceable quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
So it is not.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Something I would expect the Rams to draft high.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
We'll see. I mean, I don't think any of these
guys are all that great in the draft. Next, that's
a quarterback.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
As we mentioned on the show yesterday, Celtics guard Peyton
Pritchard won sixth Man of the Year, but Calves owner
Dan Gilbert insists that it should have been his guy,
Tied Jerome, saying, anybody who watched Calves basketball this season
knows Ti Jerome is the sixth man of the year.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
Ben was Jerome overlooked? So let me get straight.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
The owner of the Caves, Dan Gilbert, did he write
a letter? Did he do it in a letter? No, listen,
t Ty. Every time I watched the Calves, Ti Jerome's
playing great, He's making moneyballs, he's making big shots.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
He looks wonderful. The problem is.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
That Peyton Pritchard is he was just better and the
Celtics were you know, they didn't have a better record
than the Calves and all that in the regular season,
but Peyton Pritchard's impact was greater than Ti Jerome. And
Ti Jerome plays in Cleveland, So yeah, you're overlood when
you're playing in Cleveland. That's kind of how that works.
You know, Tiger Roones played for four different NBA teams.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
I didn't know. I'd never even heard of a guy.
Speaker 7 (31:08):
Yeah, this was the first I had heard of him.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
All right, next, basketball fans do not want to see
another thunder Grizzlies matchup. There were calls for a mercy
rule in the series all over social media Tuesday evening, Ben,
do you think Memphis has any chance of winning a
game at home or will this be a sweep for Okse?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Oh, they have a chance because you have a bad
shooting night Shade yogis, Alexander hasn't played well.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
The officials.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I mean, there's a shot that you get at least
one win, but they're just not competitive. They don't have
that fighting spirit in Memphis, so based on the way
that they just kind of go through the motions.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I'd say no, but yeah, they can steal a game
with some help. How did we do you pass?
Speaker 7 (31:46):
This edition?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
There is on the board.
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Speaker 7 (32:09):
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Speaker 1 (32:17):
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Speaker 3 (32:25):
Over to the Koop of Loop for the reading of
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Speaker 1 (32:28):
These are actual questions by actual listeners who used the
hashtag ask bad.
Speaker 7 (32:34):
All right, We're gonna start off with a question from
Tony in the Bay.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Hi Tony.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
Now, I feel like I have an advantage because he
told me this a while ago, so I've had time
to think about it. But okay, the question is would
you rather and this is gonna you have to do
this for the rest of your life. Would you rather
talk like Jack Sparrow or walk like C three po.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
So I'm I'm an introvert.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
I don't like to talk to people all them the job,
so I'd be fine.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
That would just give me a reason not to talk
to people, So I'd do the talking. Lorena, I love voices.
I'd probably do Jack Sparrow for sure. You'd like that, Okay,
for the rest of your life. Yeah, I think i'd
like it. Cool.
Speaker 7 (33:16):
So here was my thought.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
If I was single, I would choose the C three
po thing because it's kind of like you could pass
it off as like something's kind of like physically wrong
with you and you get kind of like sympathy there.
The other one, you're just like a weirdo talking like
Jack Sparrow all the time. But because I'm married, I
would pick the Jack Sparrow one.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Okay. You could say though, to pick up chicks, you
could be like, I'm doing cosplay as Jack.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
Yeah, but then but you're always doing it after a while.
They'd be like, come on, man.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Yeah, her point, But maybe you know I just wanted.
Speaker 7 (33:47):
To, so I would choose.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
I would choose the Jack Sparrow one because I'd want
my complete mobility.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Still, gotcha, all right, what's next?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Just ask Ben your questions all answers to the rest
all the hour.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
All right, now, this is an interesting one. We've We've
been asked many.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
Times what our favorite like pizza toppings are, but Jared
would like to.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Know what are your from a sandwich shop?
Speaker 7 (34:07):
Yes, what are your favorite nacho toppings?
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah, I'm a basic beach with the nachos. I love
the just the cheese and a few holopanos. I'm really
I mean, I've eaten some exotic stuff. I love poutine obviously,
which is not nacho's. Poutine is not nachos that we're
gonna get that in Vancouver.
Speaker 7 (34:24):
By the way, I'm actually stunned that you like halapanos
on there.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
That's just a little bit. I don't mind, Like I
don't mind too A little bit of hot stuff.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
I don't mind. That's pretty much it. I don't I
don't know what else? Are you a little piece of
chicken or whatever? No, that's all? Or what about you, Lorena?
Speaker 7 (34:38):
I like everything on my nachos.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
What does that mean? What exactly does that?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Well?
Speaker 7 (34:41):
But he has what's your favorite nacho toppings?
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Like?
Speaker 7 (34:44):
You have to pick you know, a couple.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Gooey and neon orange cheese.
Speaker 7 (34:48):
Okay, I like the obviously the cheese. I like refried.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Beans, I likes I.
Speaker 7 (34:55):
Like Okay, okay, stops.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Hurry off, he's ruining the show.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
So my favorites like, I'm like Lorraine, I like them.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
I like all that stuff, but I think the refried
beans and sour cream are are my favorite ones.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Oh my god, so bad.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
Next here's another interesting one, and shockingly enough, it comes
from Gunner. Uh what where's he been?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
By the way? I thought he would call in after
game one?
Speaker 7 (35:28):
Yeah, I don't know. Uh.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
I'm curious to see if you guys can even answer this.
What are your top three pastas?
Speaker 3 (35:36):
So my go to is fetchini alfredo. That's my top.
I love fini Alfredo.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I like ravioli. That's number two, and then number three.
I don't really have a number three. I would say spaghetti,
but I ate way too much spaghetti as a kid,
so it's.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Not really my number three. Those are my top two?
What about you, Lorrain?
Speaker 7 (35:51):
I like cheese filled noodles.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
So cheese filled ravioli.
Speaker 7 (35:55):
Yes, yeah, yeah, I don't like such.
Speaker 6 (36:01):
I guess I like the rigatoni with the that are
kind of like logs that the sauce can get stuck
in the side.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
Yes, and then I also like the shells.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
I like the pasta shells, and I like when those
are also subbed with cheese cools.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Probably knows more. He's you know, he grew up eating
nothing but pasta.
Speaker 6 (36:15):
Like yeah, so number one. My number one is Rigatoni.
And for the exact reason that Lorena said.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
It's got.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
It's got like the ridges in it. It holds sauce
very well. It's it's like when it's out Dente. It's perfect.
I like Farfalli, which is the bow ties. And then
my last one, uh god, that's truly struggling.
Speaker 7 (36:37):
Penney, probably Penne Penny.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Very nice. What is next year's ask?
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Ben?
Speaker 3 (36:44):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.
Speaker 6 (36:48):
Donkey sausage, I donkey. You would like to know. Has
have any of you ever been diagnosed with sleep apnea?
Speaker 7 (36:57):
No?
Speaker 3 (36:57):
No, I have not, lorrena No.
Speaker 7 (37:00):
I do want to do some type of a sleep
thing where they.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Why Why do you want to do you think you
have sleep happy?
Speaker 5 (37:07):
No?
Speaker 4 (37:07):
But I have really crazy dreams and I want to
see what like the brain activities that.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Actually means that you're a good sleeper. I don't remember,
that's true.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
I don't go into a deep sleep like I don't sleeper.
Speaker 7 (37:19):
Let means you enter ram like a lot. Uh No,
I have not been diagnosed with that. Okay, uh moving on,
we have ben.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Your question is are answered?
Speaker 6 (37:28):
Josh would like to Josh, you would like to know
if you could know the date of your death?
Speaker 7 (37:33):
Would you want to know what it is?
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Only if I would be immortal till that day?
Speaker 3 (37:40):
And here's why I would live a hell of a life.
I would jump out of planes. I would do I.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
Figure theoretically you would be right because if you know
that you're going to die that day, you know you're
not going to die.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Before that day, Okay, then i'd do that. Sure? Why not?
Just hopefully it's not tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (37:53):
I know that's.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
You know. Ah, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Mean part part of the mystery, part of the great
thing about life is you don't.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
I don't.
Speaker 7 (38:08):
I definitely don't want to know.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
You know, you might live to be one hundred and ten,
or you might be done.
Speaker 7 (38:13):
I used to cry about that in my bed. I
don't want to know.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Yeah, I got all right?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Cool?
Speaker 7 (38:19):
Uh, I think I'm with the rain.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Now, I wouldn't want to know because it would just
it would give me horrible anxiety and I probably wouldn't.
Speaker 7 (38:26):
Be able to enjoy myself.
Speaker 6 (38:29):
Yeah, ever, I don't know unless unless I found out
it was you know, seventy years or an now or whatever.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
But yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Now we all want to live as long as we can.
But you know, you know you're gonna check out at
some point, and you know I've got old, I've lost
a lot of friends and family whatever, So what's next?
Speaker 3 (38:45):
What do we have here?
Speaker 6 (38:46):
This is depressing the Allen wants to know what type
of contraband or souvenirs do you plan on bringing back
from the Great White North?
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Cheese doodles that I mean a lot of poutine I've got.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
I got a whole long, a big board of things
I wanted. What about you, Lorange? But those cheese things
are amazing.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
A moose ben, a stuffed animal moose.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Good luck, Coop.
Speaker 6 (39:09):
It's gonna be expensive to take that on the plane.
I'm gonna go with a white spirit, a White Caps jersey.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Oh yeah, that'd be pretty cool. I'll get a hat.
I don't know, I don't know about jersey. I get
like a hat that'd be cool.
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Whoo.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
But we're gonna start out with playoff pro bouncy ball.
Why we are allowed. We don't talk much basketball during
the regular season because the players stopped caring about the
regular seasons, so why why should we care? Seemingly that
they do care about the playoffs. And it was the
showcase game of the night. Deep in the heart of
Texas is where we began, and oh what a night
(02:17):
it was. In Houston, Golden State trying to snatch another
road win. While the Rockets were hoping that they would
actually end the misery, they got embarrassed in many ways.
They were a country mile behind Golden State in the
first game, so trying to even up the books. We
know that was the setup, so I thought maybe he watched,
(02:41):
but I don't know, maybe he didn't watch. There were
other stuff going on. A Jalen Green playing the role
of sniper. He was a skunk in the first game.
He stunk up the arena, but on this particular night,
made not one, not two, not three, not four, not five,
not six, not seven, how about eight moneyball eight three
pointers for Jalen Green and thirty eight points. Thirty eight
(03:06):
points as the Rockets get into the wind column and
they take down the Warriors.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
The series is now one.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Up, best of five. Golden State has home court advantaged.
The seventh seated Warriors don't bury the lead, my man.
They were short handed. They were shorthanded and then some
as Jimmy Butler, the butler did it. Jimmy was not
doing the shimmy, Jimmy Butler leaving calling it a pelvic contusion.
(03:41):
He landed on his took us. It appears to be
a tailbone injury. He was undercut. He was undercut by
a Rockets player. There happened late first quarter. Late first quarter.
Now that was not bad enough, which was worse for
the worst because Butler left the injury of the Warriors
were also shorthanded as one of their role players, Randon Pajemski.
(04:07):
He also had a problem with his stuff. Oh my stomach,
bad stomach. So he pitched a shutout I think play
like fourteen minutes or something like that.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
He was useless.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So Game number three is on Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, and
that will be in northern California. So let us discuss
the question how much trouble are the Warriors in now. Normally,
when you go on the road and you get a
split and you're the team that does not have home court,
that is a wonderful mitzvah. But how much trouble of
(04:40):
the war is in if Jimmy Butler is down for
the count and cannot return in this series. So I've
got general Electric, secret blend and mechanical engineer, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
(05:01):
going to boggle the mind, is what we're going to do,
unless we don't. So a Jimmy Butler is the antithesis
of the standard issue NBA player.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Let's start with that, all Right's start with that.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
The modern ballplayer is a mister Softy in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Maybe I'm wrong on this. I look at Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
One of the reasons I've appreciated watching him play over
the years is he's a throwback.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
He's a red.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Blooded American alpha male, and outside of his personal beef
with pat Riley, when he held a wildcat strike there
in Miami. When I've seen Jimmy Butler play, it appears
he's got dragon balls and he's the kind of guy
that would just take some pharmacy great ibuprofen and suck
it up. So if playoff Jimmy is d O and E,
(05:48):
then this becomes a general electric situation. That means you
open up the ge oven there. You take the warriors
out of that oven because they are cooked. And if
they want to bring in a motivational speaker, may I
recommend bringing in Nick van Exell, who can say one, two, three,
can kun because that's where they're headed.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Now, sure you can have.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
The next man up philosophy, and that's certainly what the
warrior is going to do. If Butler's out, And as
someone that's injured my tailbone before and I had to
sit on one of those rings, you know the things
you said, the pads with the ring on it because
you can't sit down because your butt hurts. Yeah, I
had to do that. Good luck coming back and playing
at a high level. Now, could Butler return as a decoy? Sure,
(06:32):
But if this is as bad as they're saying it is,
it maybe they're lying.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
They lie a lot in the NBA. They like to
do that.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
They embellish injuries as part of the business of basketball.
But assuming he's an actual legit injury the way it's
being described, good luck being anything more than a decoy anyway.
So next man up that would be Jonathan Kaminga, that
he would be activated. The problem is Kaminga has been
on the knotty list for the Warriors. I'm not even
a Warriors fan, and I know this. I've seen the
(07:00):
stories you've sent me, some of the stories about how
he's not in the rotation. He's just been after games
sadly shooting jump shots and empty arenas. So he got
his opportunity. He's been on the natty list. Kaminga, he
comes off the natty list.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
How did he do?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Jonathan Kaminga? He played twenty six minutes, had eleven points,
three rebounds to assists, and he shot thirty three point
three percent half the Sign of the Devil. It was unremarkable, unremarkable.
And so that's the guy at Butler's not able to
get going. That's the guy. Good luck with him being
the guy. Now, there was the moment within the moment
(07:38):
here in this game, Golden State was lurking in the
shadows there, trying to sneak up like a snake in
the grass.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Even though they were shorthanded. They did get within eleven at.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
One point, which is still not all that great. That's
not all that great. However, around that time, there was
a rhubarb that took place. So what did you make,
Golden States? Draymond Green getting into a shouting match with
Fred van Vliet late in the fourth quarter, So just imagine,
(08:11):
if you.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Will, in the cartoon bubble over your head. There was
some some back.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
And forth and Draymond got right there nose to nose.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
And if anyone ate garlic, the other person would have
been knocked out.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
It was a doggie bag filled with historyonics is what
it was. By modern basketball. This game was somewhat physical.
I do not agree with the level of physicality that
was described by the broadcasters.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Seemed like they were going a little too far over
the top.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
But Raymond Green and Fred Van Vliet stood toe to
toe and they exchanged.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Naughty words, naughty naughty words, and then they got separated.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
And it was that secret blend of T and B,
theatrics and bravado. But it's fake bravado, as most NBA
dust ups happened these days. Yeah, the last real NBA
dust up was the Malice at the Palace in Michigan
there with the Pistons and the Pacers, and since then
they've all just been nothing but nonsense it which.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Is likely better that way. It's probably better that way.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Anyway, you had the standard fake tough guys, the teammates
that run over to protect the fake tough guys, and
so you could you can almost imagine Draymond as he's
surrounded by his warrior teammates.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Hold me back, bro, hold me back, bro. You know
that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
And then you had the h town crowd serenading's Raymond Green,
chanting f you Draymon. More than that in a minute.
All right, now, last Warrior. We're gonna move away from
the playoff games. We get to the other matchups later on,
but we move on now to Dallas because there isn't say, Ben,
why would you go to Dallas? Do you know the
(09:55):
Mavericks are not in the playoffs? Why would you bring
up the Mavericks? Well we go where the the News
of the day takes this, and there's another chapter and
more chatter on the worst decision in sport that took
place this basketball season. So kick back and relax and
enjoy the tale we are hearing now. The reason for
(10:19):
the viral, viral divorce, the breakup herd round basketball between
Louka and the mav Rex could that's a weasel word,
could go all the way back to a couple weeks
before the transaction, which was not a trade because the
trade you get equal value wasn't a trade, was giveaway.
(10:40):
Before the Mavericks gave away Luca, we're now reading that
the new MAVs ownership tried to approach Doncik about conditioning
also known as hey, stop being a fat tub of goo,
Luca getting shape, fatty And how'd that work out?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Well?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Patrick Dumont, Patrick Dumont, nobody's chant chanting.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Fire doomat nobody's doing that. It's fire Nico. Anyway, this guy, Patrick.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Dumont, who won the not the genetic lottery, he won
the marriage lottery. Through marriage, he now gets to own
the Mavericks and he had a less than positive some
would call negative encounter with Luca before giving the green
light to send his ass out of Dallas.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
So we'll frame it this way.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Luka Donzik had a issue a falling out with the
new Mavericks owner weeks before he was traded or given away.
Do you find this significant? Are these two things related?
And I would respond to that by saying, is a
wildfire hot? Is a wildfire hot?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Right?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
This sounds like a plant. If you ask where did
this story come from? Randomly, I would say, based on
my years of investigative talk radio, it is more likely
than not that this was leaked by somebody who is
connected with Nico Nico Harrison, who has now held two
(12:13):
horrific news conferences about this trade.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
And it's likely.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
It's like, hey, wait a minute, you know this guy
signed off on it, and he recommended it, and so
let's throw him under the proverbial team plane as it's
taxing for takeoff there. And so it sounds like, hey,
what my fault. Dumont's the guy, Hey my fault, blame Dumont.
Now if true, If true, the mav Rec franchise was
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harpooned by a mechanical engineer, you realize that this guy
could have become an HVAC technician or a civil engineer
or something like that. If your fine jobs instead Patrick Dumont,
who did get a mechanical engineering degree from John Hop
University there in Baltimore, go Blue Jays, and then went
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to a business school. He married into the Adelson family,
the gambling family, So through marriage he married into that family,
and the old man died and he rose to the
level of owner of the Maverick. You talk about a
hostile takeover, all right, So we could totally see Luca
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getting confronted by somebody he doesn't really know, this guy Dumont,
Patrick Dumont, a stranger, and Luca being a total dink
with the guy and the highbrow owner of the Mavericks
who thinks his poopy doesn't smelly and used to work
at bear Stearns on Wall Street, going scorched earth.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
And saying, all right, this trade this guy and Nico Harrison.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
It's not to say Nico didn't cheer for that to happen,
but ultimately, a trade like this does not happen without
the owner giving the okay, and so it's just not possible.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
There is not a dimension where that happens. It just
doesn't take place.
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Speaker 1 (14:17):
So our lead this hour, Our lead, this hour is
from Boston. We peak around the playoff card Eastern Conference,
Eastern Conference out of the bracket. The Boston basketball team
playing without Jason Tatum.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Oh my aching wrist out. My yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
He came down hard on the wrist there and said
he was perfectly fine, everything was good. Yet he did
not play in game two versus Orlando, and this was
one of the first games of the night there. I
don't know if you saw this or not, if you
were checking it out, maybe you were objecting to the
game and watching something else. You said, enough is enough,
But we watched so you would not have to. Jalen Brown,
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who is being paid as a number umber one type player. Well,
Jaylen Brown went out and played. He had thirty six points,
ten rebounds, bib assists. And the story here was not
so much Jalen Brown. It was Chris tops Porzingis, who
dramatically returned to the game after getting bloody, a big
bloody gash right on his forehead, right in the middle
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of his forehead. Had twenty points and the Celtics beat
the Magic and so Boston up two to OHO in
the series, and they win a game without Tatum, who
has a bone bruise a contrusion. He's got a bone
bruise in his right wrist and he missed a playoff
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game for the first time in his career, so he
was out. But Boston up two oh and they are
in good shape here, lied by his many's fifteen in
the second half.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
They did hold off a mild.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Push by the team from Mickey Town in Florida. There
the Celtics had twelve three pointers, which is not that
many for them.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
They were twenty five of thirty three from the charity Stride.
Game three is Friday in Central Florida.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
The bigger story here, though, is the subplot, and that
is the moment that we will remember not long term,
but we'll remember it for the short term. Celtics center
Chris tops Porzingis went to the locker room with a
massive dash right there on his forehead, blood in the
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air everywhere, and I came back out. They slapped a
bandage on his forehead and he shot a pair of
foul shots.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
He took a full elbow from.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
A guy I've never heard of on the Orlando Magic.
Is it Goga Bitadza. That's a mouthful anyway, for me,
not for him. And that was in the third quarter. Now,
during the review, there was a lengthy review as they
wanted to watch every possible angle and high death of
the elbow from Bitadza Bitadze rather as it hit Porzingis.
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So during the review, Chris Stops dramatically emerged from the
locker room. The crowd went wild. The crowd went wild.
He had blood down the back of his head. He
was completely disheveled and at bandage right there in the
four As we mentioned, he re entered the game, connected
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one of two foul shots and then left the game again,
and that led to the great SoundBite of the night.
Joel Mizzoula Joel Missoula as only he can do commenting
on Christops Porzingis, and I think we have the audio
on list listen to Joe as he works himself up
into a crescendo.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
I like his overall just approach. I think he has
an ability in innate ability to take things very serious
and at the same time, you know, have great perspective
and then you know you see how he I think
he can control his environment really well with how he
handles the crowd and how he handles the physicality of it,
and he can maintain his kind of his poise and
he just has a great way about him. And I
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think that that that helps us. And like, yeah, I do.
I love watching him. I like watching him bleed on
the court. I think it's important. Uh and then he,
you know, he comes back in and does his job.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
So I do like that about Yeah, I like that
about it. Let's we play that this this highlight that
last part. Listen, listen again. This is the this is
the money part of it. Listen closely.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
I like watching them bleed on the court. I think
it's important.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yeah, there you go. I like watching the bleed on
the cord. I think it's important. A right, So let
us discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Is there a deeper meaning to the Celtic coach Joe
Missoula Let him play Joe Joe Mizzoula being happy that
Chris stops porzingis played covered in blood. So my observations,
I've got Kleenex, milkman, and Paris baguette, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
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to spike the punch bowl, is what we're gonna do.
We're gonna spike the punch bowl, all right, So numb burn?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Can I get a numb burn?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
To answer the question, is there a deeper meaning of this?
I am nodding my head. Yes, I'm nodding my head. Yeah, yeah,
I'm going yes, I'm gone. I'mna get busy if I
keep doing this. Aside from Joe Mazoula continuing to be
the quirky quote machine of the NBA. Now, I am not,
as you know, a psychologist. I am just a mere
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peon in the radio world, the overnight gas bag. However,
I can't play a shrink on the radio. And here's
my diagnose. Joe Mazoo was confessing. That was a confessional
that he is concerned. The coach of the Celtics is
worried that the reigning NBA champions are soft, and there
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was meaning in that. Coach Joe does not want to
coach team of flowers. He doesn't want the pussy willow
flower team out there.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
He doesn't.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Now, to rephrase this for those of you a little
slow in the back of the room, Joe Mizula is
worried about the Kleenex. He wants to avoid a tissue
paper team and instead he wants that thick scar. Tissue
is what he would like, and it's unbecoming if you're
not like that. You might remember when when Jason Tatum
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got hurt in Game one, Missoula ran out there and
chased the trainer away. Do you remember that he pushed
the trainer away for the Celtics, the medical staff away,
because he's trying to toughen up Tatum. Turned out, Tatum
missed the game. But porzingis he's out there. There's blood
on the floor, there's blood everywhere, and Mozilla's his quote is, hey,
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he was happy. He liked watching him bleed out on
the court right there. He enjoyed it. He enjoyed it,
And so there we are. And it's pretty wild, though,
considering that porzingis his reputation, one of the reasons he
kept moving around from the Knickerbockers to the Mavericks and
all these other teams he's played for Washington.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
His reputation is fragile, fradgile.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
He's your prototypical modern NBA ballplayer who misses a ton
of games.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
He's always hurt. He was hurt last year when the
Celtics went on their run and they would win the championship.
He got hurt in that run, all right, now, page two.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
So what intrigues you the most about this individual? Christops
Berzingis moment for the Celtics. So for me, it's the
obvious cinematic nature of the event, right, the cinematic nature.
If this had been during an NBA Finals game, it
would have been on par on par with Paul Pierce,
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who needed a wheelchair because he soiled his pants. He
had poopy in the pantsy and he had to get
a wheelchair because he didn't want people to see the
streak down the.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Back of his pants.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Now, Chris on this one was the milkman. Now, not
milkman Mike in Colorado, although Milkman Mike in Colorado was
in Boston recently. No, no, no, he was a different milkman.
Because Porzingis was playing to the crowd. He was smiling
from ear to ear. He was milking the malman, just
enjoying the hell out of it. As the crowd chanted
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his name, Porzingis looked like he was in some kind
of a fight, like a Rocky Balboa old school boxing movie.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Bloodied, battered, bruised, and completely beaten. But he came back
into the game.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
And was he actually growing a unicorn or did somebody
take the unicorn off of his forehead? Now, as for
Jason Tatum, that particular injury is at a big deal,
a little deal, or no deal. So I have it
as a no deal. I don't think it's a big deal.
Even though he missed the game. I believe the reason
he missed the game is because the Celtics don't consider
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the Magic a threat.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
And they were right.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
They went out there without without Tatum and without Porzingis
for a stretch and they still beat Orlando. So out
of an abundance of caution, remember that back in twenty
twenty shut the whole world down. I have an abundance
of caution, But out of an abundance of caution, they
rested Tatum. Had this been a tougher opponent, a worthy opponent,
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we believe on this side of the microphones, that he
would have played.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
He would have played all right. Final point.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Now, I was gonna talk about the calves and the heat,
and I attempted to find a talking point.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I did.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I don't want to shortchange the people of Cleveland. I
don't want to do that. I could not find a
talking point. I could not find a talking point. There's
nothing there. I know that Miami was within a couple
of points late in the fourth quarter, but there was
just nothing that really stood out, and so we moved
to the diamond. Baseball barbarism a major league baseball team complaining,
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complaining about work conditions. Is it a baseball team that
plays in a minor league ballpark the Tampa Bay Rays.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
No.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Is it a baseball team that plays in a minor
league ballpark the Sacramento Athletics.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
No.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
The team that wears the halo, but making it seem
like they're playing in baseball hell. Now, to set this up,
Bajor League baseball teams normally play an afternoon game on
a getaway day before or they go to or leave
the West Coast.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
That's typically how it's done.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
You fly to or from the West Coast, you play
a day because you got to sit on the plane
for a few hours, god forbid, And especially if there's
no often you don't have a day off between games.
You play the early game and then you go out
and you play you play the following day at night.
The Angels our schedule here on this Thursday to play
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the Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Pirates the Bucos. There's only one.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Person I know that cares about that game. That's Seria Sean.
So the Pirates and the Angels are gonna play in Anaheim.
And then the Angels will take a chartered bus. They
will have an escort. They will go to the airport.
They will go to a special part of the airport
not to be touched by the unwashed. They will then
board a chartered flight. They will then fly to Minnesota.
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They will then get off the plane to a private
bus with an escort, and they will then go to
a hotel where they will check in at a five
star hotel and then play a bunch of road games
in Minnesota starting the following night. And the Angels are
spitting mad about this. Among the players, you have closer
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Kenley Jansen, which is still very odd that guy blew
some big games with the Dodgers. Kenley Jansen and outfielder
Taylor Ward have called the travel schedule, among other things,
quote not healthy, clost quote and vote unfair. They're arguing
it creates a competitive disadvantage. Ken Lee Jansen in particular,
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sounded like someone might die.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Because of this.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Do you have empathy for ken Lee Jansen and the
Angels and their public complaints about their travel schedule? So
I will be the judge, jury and executioner on this one,
and motion denied, Motion denied. Now the Angels, I don't
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know if they have any sponsors left, because who I've
watched any of those games, But the Angels should be
sponsored by Paris Baguette, because that is a team filled
with cream puffs, that is a cream puff team. Complaining
about the schedule. I thought everyone learned this. I thought
one of the lessons of sport. One of the lessons
that we learn in sport is complaining about the schedule
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does not change the schedule. And that the teams that
are good, the teams that win, the teams that elebrate
victories on a regular basis, they focus their energy on
adapting and using that as a badge of honor, a
badge of honor, preparing overcoming that that is an obstacle,
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That is machismo, that is masculinity. You've overcome an obstacle,
Not the modern athlete, not the Angels.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
No, no, no, oh booo, it's hard. It's so difficult.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Ash shut up, so stupid, it is so dumb. Rather
than say, Okay, we're gonna use this as an exciting
thing to build some mental toughness, and we're gonna show
what kind of tough team we are. You acknowledge it
and then you rise above it. The angels, Oh no,
it's not healthy.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
It's unfair. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
We gotta go on a chartered plane, a charted You're
not sitting on Southwest Group B. You're on a chartered plane.
You're not flying Spirit Airlines where if you breathe and
spit a loogie they.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Charge you for it.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Then you get on your luxury chartered bus, you go
to your five star hotel with eight gazillion thread count chets.
You talk about hardship, you talk about overcoming, overcoming adverse.
It's like it's like skid Row amazing courage in sports.
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The angels courage in sports so embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
He's so stupid. Oh my god, I saw you gotta
be kidding me.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
And the other part of it is they're actually complaining
about ownership because the team decides the time of the game.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
The home team decides.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
There are rules, there are rules, But really, what the
Angels entire team is doing is complaining about Artie Marino.
But yet see they want to be paid as much
moneys they get, as far as I know, and so
the Angels they know if they played the Pirates at
one o'clock on a Thursday afternoon in April, would have
been seven and a half people there. Seven and one
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really short person would have been there. Okay, seven and
a half people would have been a game. They played
the game at night, they got fifteen people, so they
double the attendance at night.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
So that's why they did that. It's just wonderful.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
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Speaker 1 (29:21):
Here we Go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go, Here we go.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
This is one big Ben gets grilled koblu.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
So the Rams won't say much about whether they are
looking to draft a quarterback, but we do know that
things are year to year with Matthew Stafford, who isn't
exactly a spring chicken.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
Now, Ben, do you.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
Think the Rams wait until next offseason to address their
long term future at quarterback?
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
So The Rams are in the try to win now
period still, so they need help on the offensive line,
they need help in the secondary.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
They'd like to add a tight.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
End, so they could draft somebody in the middle rounds,
but it's not a priority. And McVeigh so cocky and
confident that when Stafford leaves, he thinks he can turn
anyone into a serviceable quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
So it is not.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Something I would expect the Rams to draft high.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
We'll see. I mean, I don't think any of these
guys are all that great in the draft. Next, that's
a quarterback.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
As we mentioned on the show yesterday, Celtics guard Peyton
Pritchard won sixth Man of the Year, but Calves owner
Dan Gilbert insists that it should have been his guy,
Tied Jerome, saying, anybody who watched Calves basketball this season
knows Ti Jerome is the sixth man of the year.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
Ben was Jerome overlooked? So let me get straight.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
The owner of the Caves, Dan Gilbert, did he write
a letter? Did he do it in a letter? No, listen,
t Ty. Every time I watched the Calves, Ti Jerome's
playing great, He's making moneyballs, he's making big shots.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
He looks wonderful. The problem is.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
That Peyton Pritchard is he was just better and the
Celtics were you know, they didn't have a better record
than the Calves and all that in the regular season,
but Peyton Pritchard's impact was greater than Ti Jerome. And
Ti Jerome plays in Cleveland, So yeah, you're overlood when
you're playing in Cleveland. That's kind of how that works.
You know, Tiger Roones played for four different NBA teams.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
I didn't know. I'd never even heard of a guy.
Speaker 7 (31:08):
Yeah, this was the first I had heard of him.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
All right, next, basketball fans do not want to see
another thunder Grizzlies matchup. There were calls for a mercy
rule in the series all over social media Tuesday evening, Ben,
do you think Memphis has any chance of winning a
game at home or will this be a sweep for Okse?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Oh, they have a chance because you have a bad
shooting night Shade yogis, Alexander hasn't played well.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
The officials.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I mean, there's a shot that you get at least
one win, but they're just not competitive. They don't have
that fighting spirit in Memphis, so based on the way
that they just kind of go through the motions.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I'd say no, but yeah, they can steal a game
with some help. How did we do you pass?
Speaker 7 (31:46):
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Speaker 3 (31:47):
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Speaker 1 (32:17):
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Speaker 3 (32:25):
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Speaker 1 (32:28):
These are actual questions by actual listeners who used the
hashtag ask bad.
Speaker 7 (32:34):
All right, We're gonna start off with a question from
Tony in the Bay.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Hi Tony.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
Now, I feel like I have an advantage because he
told me this a while ago, so I've had time
to think about it. But okay, the question is would
you rather and this is gonna you have to do
this for the rest of your life. Would you rather
talk like Jack Sparrow or walk like C three po.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
So I'm I'm an introvert.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
I don't like to talk to people all them the job,
so I'd be fine.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
That would just give me a reason not to talk
to people, So I'd do the talking. Lorena, I love voices.
I'd probably do Jack Sparrow for sure. You'd like that, Okay,
for the rest of your life. Yeah, I think i'd
like it. Cool.
Speaker 7 (33:16):
So here was my thought.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
If I was single, I would choose the C three
po thing because it's kind of like you could pass
it off as like something's kind of like physically wrong
with you and you get kind of like sympathy there.
The other one, you're just like a weirdo talking like
Jack Sparrow all the time. But because I'm married, I
would pick the Jack Sparrow one.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Okay. You could say though, to pick up chicks, you
could be like, I'm doing cosplay as Jack.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
Yeah, but then but you're always doing it after a while.
They'd be like, come on, man.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Yeah, her point, But maybe you know I just wanted.
Speaker 7 (33:47):
To, so I would choose.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
I would choose the Jack Sparrow one because I'd want
my complete mobility.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Still, gotcha, all right, what's next?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Just ask Ben your questions all answers to the rest
all the hour.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
All right, now, this is an interesting one. We've We've
been asked many.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
Times what our favorite like pizza toppings are, but Jared
would like to.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Know what are your from a sandwich shop?
Speaker 7 (34:07):
Yes, what are your favorite nacho toppings?
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah, I'm a basic beach with the nachos. I love
the just the cheese and a few holopanos. I'm really
I mean, I've eaten some exotic stuff. I love poutine obviously,
which is not nacho's. Poutine is not nachos that we're
gonna get that in Vancouver.
Speaker 7 (34:24):
By the way, I'm actually stunned that you like halapanos
on there.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
That's just a little bit. I don't mind, Like I
don't mind too A little bit of hot stuff.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
I don't mind. That's pretty much it. I don't I
don't know what else? Are you a little piece of
chicken or whatever? No, that's all? Or what about you, Lorena?
Speaker 7 (34:38):
I like everything on my nachos.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
What does that mean? What exactly does that?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Well?
Speaker 7 (34:41):
But he has what's your favorite nacho toppings?
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Like?
Speaker 7 (34:44):
You have to pick you know, a couple.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Gooey and neon orange cheese.
Speaker 7 (34:48):
Okay, I like the obviously the cheese. I like refried.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Beans, I likes I.
Speaker 7 (34:55):
Like Okay, okay, stops.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Hurry off, he's ruining the show.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
So my favorites like, I'm like Lorraine, I like them.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
I like all that stuff, but I think the refried
beans and sour cream are are my favorite ones.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Oh my god, so bad.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
Next here's another interesting one, and shockingly enough, it comes
from Gunner. Uh what where's he been?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
By the way? I thought he would call in after
game one?
Speaker 7 (35:28):
Yeah, I don't know. Uh.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
I'm curious to see if you guys can even answer this.
What are your top three pastas?
Speaker 3 (35:36):
So my go to is fetchini alfredo. That's my top.
I love fini Alfredo.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I like ravioli. That's number two, and then number three.
I don't really have a number three. I would say spaghetti,
but I ate way too much spaghetti as a kid,
so it's.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
Not really my number three. Those are my top two?
What about you, Lorrain?
Speaker 7 (35:51):
I like cheese filled noodles.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
So cheese filled ravioli.
Speaker 7 (35:55):
Yes, yeah, yeah, I don't like such.
Speaker 6 (36:01):
I guess I like the rigatoni with the that are
kind of like logs that the sauce can get stuck
in the side.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
Yes, and then I also like the shells.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
I like the pasta shells, and I like when those
are also subbed with cheese cools.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Probably knows more. He's you know, he grew up eating
nothing but pasta.
Speaker 6 (36:15):
Like yeah, so number one. My number one is Rigatoni.
And for the exact reason that Lorena said.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
It's got.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
It's got like the ridges in it. It holds sauce
very well. It's it's like when it's out Dente. It's perfect.
I like Farfalli, which is the bow ties. And then
my last one, uh god, that's truly struggling.
Speaker 7 (36:37):
Penney, probably Penne Penny.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Very nice. What is next year's ask?
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Ben?
Speaker 3 (36:44):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.
Speaker 6 (36:48):
Donkey sausage, I donkey. You would like to know. Has
have any of you ever been diagnosed with sleep apnea?
Speaker 7 (36:57):
No?
Speaker 3 (36:57):
No, I have not, lorrena No.
Speaker 7 (37:00):
I do want to do some type of a sleep
thing where they.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Why Why do you want to do you think you
have sleep happy?
Speaker 5 (37:07):
No?
Speaker 4 (37:07):
But I have really crazy dreams and I want to
see what like the brain activities that.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Actually means that you're a good sleeper. I don't remember,
that's true.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
I don't go into a deep sleep like I don't sleeper.
Speaker 7 (37:19):
Let means you enter ram like a lot. Uh No,
I have not been diagnosed with that. Okay, uh moving on,
we have ben.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Your question is are answered?
Speaker 6 (37:28):
Josh would like to Josh, you would like to know
if you could know the date of your death?
Speaker 7 (37:33):
Would you want to know what it is?
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Only if I would be immortal till that day?
Speaker 3 (37:40):
And here's why I would live a hell of a life.
I would jump out of planes. I would do I.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
Figure theoretically you would be right because if you know
that you're going to die that day, you know you're
not going to die.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Before that day, Okay, then i'd do that. Sure? Why not?
Just hopefully it's not tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (37:53):
I know that's.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
You know. Ah, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Mean part part of the mystery, part of the great
thing about life is you don't.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
I don't.
Speaker 7 (38:08):
I definitely don't want to know.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
You know, you might live to be one hundred and ten,
or you might be done.
Speaker 7 (38:13):
I used to cry about that in my bed. I
don't want to know.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Yeah, I got all right?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Cool?
Speaker 7 (38:19):
Uh, I think I'm with the rain.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Now, I wouldn't want to know because it would just
it would give me horrible anxiety and I probably wouldn't.
Speaker 7 (38:26):
Be able to enjoy myself.
Speaker 6 (38:29):
Yeah, ever, I don't know unless unless I found out
it was you know, seventy years or an now or whatever.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
But yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Now we all want to live as long as we can.
But you know, you know you're gonna check out at
some point, and you know I've got old, I've lost
a lot of friends and family whatever, So what's next?
Speaker 3 (38:45):
What do we have here?
Speaker 6 (38:46):
This is depressing the Allen wants to know what type
of contraband or souvenirs do you plan on bringing back
from the Great White North?
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Cheese doodles that I mean a lot of poutine I've got.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
I got a whole long, a big board of things
I wanted. What about you, Lorange? But those cheese things
are amazing.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
A moose ben, a stuffed animal moose.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Good luck, Coop.
Speaker 6 (39:09):
It's gonna be expensive to take that on the plane.
I'm gonna go with a white spirit, a White Caps jersey.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Oh yeah, that'd be pretty cool. I'll get a hat.
I don't know, I don't know about jersey. I get
like a hat that'd be cool.
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