May 15, 2025 • 43 mins
Big Ben talks about the Minnesota Timberwolves advancing to the Western Conference Finals and the Warriors getting eliminated without Steph Curry, Jalen Brunson and the Knicks being unable to close out their series against the Celtics in Game 5, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and more!
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and we'll start out with a game that ended not
that long before we cracked the microphones here within the
last couple hours in downtown Minneapolis, right next to the
Sid Hartman statue in the Twin Cities there close out
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game and Edwards and the Timwolves game five there against
Jimmy Butler and the Warriors Minnesota.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
The set up up three to one.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
They rolled into the target center and Steph Curry did
not roll out on the court. He couldn't play, too
fragile to play, and he was on the sidelines again
and Boston earlier on the NBA.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Card they won. We'll talk more about that game later.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So they stayed alive, they'll beige stand alive, and so
Golden State had their chance to stay alive. And you're
watching the game, you know what happened, but perhaps you
did not watch the game. Julius Randall for years of
playoff third, but not on this night. Julius ran on
twenty nine points. He took eighteen shots, he made thirteen
of the eighteen. That seems pretty good. I didn't play
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in the NBA, but I think that's pretty good. So
Randall had twenty nine points on thirteen of eighteen shooting.
Anthony Edwards added twenty two points in twelve assists, and
the Timberwolves led by as many as twenty five points,
and they found their way into the next level of
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the NBA postseason. Won twenty one to one ten the
final as they get to win over the Warriors, so
Minnesota wins the series four games to won. The Wolves
have now advanced the Western Conference Finals again, where they
will play either the Thunder or the Nuggets, and the
winner of that will go on to the NBA Finals.
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Minnesota could have as many as five days off. O MG,
they'll be so rusty. Five days off. That's if the
Nuggets beat the Thunder in the Mile High City coming
up on Thursday night, and that would force a game seven.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
And that's sorry.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Some more on all that We have plenty of time
to talk about all that later on. The better story, though,
is in the eliminated locker room, not the loser's locker room,
the eliminated elimination.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
That's what happened to the team from Northern California.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So let us discuss the question did the Warriors ever
have a real shot without Steph Curry or was this
series over before it started once Curry his hammy went whammy.
So I've got Looney Tunes, Jacuzzi, and biblical and we
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will combine all of these things together, and we are
going to make the Baba Ganoche is what We're gonna make,
the Baba Ganosh, all right. So my first thought on this,
the Warriors were clearly on life support. They had aspirations
of championships and all these wonderful things. But the moment
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Curry went down and they won that game, Buddy, heal
game won, Buddy, He'll play well. Golden State wins with
Steph Curry playing limited time because he got hurt.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I think he played thirteen minutes in that game, and
that was it.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
And as Steph Curry goes, it turns out, so go
the Warriors. The Djenga Tower when you take Curry out
of the wobbly Jenga tower, it comes tumbling down, down, down,
And so as was the case here, Golden State ends
up their playoff run booby trapped or in this case,
Hammi trapped by Steph Curry who was sitting on the
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bench getting hemorrhoids. As Golden State floundered. There was a
comical report we'll get to later which I just have
to bring this up at some point during the show
about Curry and how he was trying to come back.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Well, explain more on that later in the show.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
But the Warriors were a beautiful sand castle when they
got Jemmy Butler on a sunshiny day. This weather's nice,
getting better summertimes around the corner and they just beautiful
sand castle. And then Steph Curry when he went rice
Krispy snapcrackle pop goes to Hammy. They were the sand
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castle at high tide. They were the sand castle at
high Tide. And was Steve Kerr out coached in this
particular series. Was he out coaching well, Chris Finch, the
other coach for the Worries.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
We're not sure.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
If out coached is the right word to describe Steve Kerr.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I don't know that he did anything. I don't know
that you can be out coach if you don't do anything.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
When Steph Curry left because of injury, Steve Kerr and
Golden State had a chance.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
They were suddenly dead and buried.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
They were a cow stuck in a hole on the
side of the road, and this was an opportunity for
them to overachieve. And for all the criticism, money, but
he could have coached the Golden State Warriors back when
they had the Splash Brothers and.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
They had Durant, they were winning championships.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Well, here's an opportunity for Steve Kerr and a team
to overachieve. All right, Kirk could go out there, coach
him up, scheme them up, outperform. You're suddenly very low expectations.
Did any of that happen? Did any of that happen? Uh?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I think?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Well, anyway, here is Steve Kerr commenting on the big
story of Golden State season where they were not playing
that great and then they made the trade. They got
Jimmy Butler who did not want to go to the Warriors.
He initially he did not want to play for the
Warriors and then they paid him some more money, so
he said, okay, you should you paid me.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I'll go.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Here's Steve Kerr waxing loquacious about Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Take a listen. I love our guys.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Like I said, this was a hell of a run
for us, considering where we were at the trade deadline.
You know, Jimmy changed our season, flipped everything for us,
gave us a chance. We became one of the best
teams in the league. And obviously, you know, you get
to the Final eight in the NBA, you're one of
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the best teams, and we had had a shot. But
you know, things didn't go our way. But like I said,
Minnesota deserves the credit. They were the better team.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah wait a minute, because I was told when I mentioned,
like in years past, when the Clippers have gotten to
the Elite eight or the Final.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Four, nobody says that. Nobody says that's impressive. Well here's
Steve Kerr saying that's impressive. So all you haters, no,
what's happy about making you? Lady? Steve Kerr just said,
and you're one of the better teams in the NBA
when you get to the Elite eight. He just said it.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
But as far as Jimmy Butler's concerned. To me, that's
more disappointing than Steve Kerr, Like, that's that's a guy
we support. We don't like many people on this show.
There's many many people that we take shots at on
a regular basis. But one of the players we like
watching is Jimmy Butler, and he went looney Tunes right
from play Playoff Jimmy, here's another guy. Opportunity, knock, knock
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at the front door, opportunity. Steph Curry's out. You figure
at some point he's gonna come back. He just got
to carry the load for three, you know, three or
four games without Curry, and that's Jimmy Butler, who's done
it with other teams. Playoff Jimmy went to He had
a metamorphosis. He went from playoff Jimmy to pependit pew
p u, what stinks. The baton was passed from Curry
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to Butler said hey, I need to pick me up here,
and Jimmy Butler took the baton and he fumbled it
right into the sewer.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
He was sleepwalking.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
There were points in these last couple of games. I
think he was playing in a medically induced coma. I'm
waiting for the almost guaranteed report this happens only well,
he was playing with some kind of injury and he
didn't disclose it. You know that that story always comes
out after the fact. But as a result, the Warriors
did something they have never done in the postseason going
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back over fifty years. The Warriors had not lost four
straight playoff games in a single postseason since nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Holy crap, all right now, page two?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Is this the official end game for Golden State as
a contender? A feeble exit from the postseason against the
Minnesota basketball team? Is this the official end for Golden
State there? Or do they have one last run, one
last dance left in them. So, as you know, not
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only do I moonlight as a gas bag, blow hard
and know it all here at Fox Sports Radio, I
am also a mal meteorologist. I can forecast what's ahead
for all of these teams. I know you're waiting with
bated breath. So the malar meteorologists forecast for the next
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year or two for the Warriors. Golden State is now
entering the twilight zone. Fasten your seatbelt, It's going to
be a bumpy ride. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
You got Steph Curry, who's what he thirty seven, Draymond
Green thirty five in the twilight zone of their careers.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Curries Hammy is already Whammy.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
So he's got the older you get, he's got the
the issues, the cloud hanging over him. Jimmy Butler thirty five,
also has dealt with various injuries and he missed about
twenty five percent of the games during his time with
the Miami Heat. Some of that because he was at
loggerheads with pat Riley, but that's that's an issue.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
So you've got major durability concerns.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Golden State, what they need to do is swing another
trade with the Sunshine State, and they need to pick
up a jacuzzi, but a Punce Devione jacuzzie. That's what
they need to get, a Punce Deli oone jacuzzie because Pastelione,
he has that mythical spring. I think it's in San Augustine, Florida,
and it will restore youth to anyone who drinks or
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bays in the water there. So that's what they have
to get. So as long as they have that, they're fine.
How many young players have passed through Golden State that
were supposed to be that next wave that turned out
to be turns one after another, whether the team didn't
trust them or they just didn't live up to the
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lofty expectations, but it's been a constant stream for that
particular team. Now, last word, we go to the winning
locker room, the winners. So back to the Final four,
the swing in effect for the Minnesota basketball team as
they are just four wins away from getting the finals.
So the question on this is Anthony Edwards' playoff run
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with the Timberwolves. Is his playoff run shutting up the doubters?
A classic sports debate, Who's nothing? The daughters could say,
they'll be come on?
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Okay, So the.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Resume is looking good, depending on whether or not you
put it under the microscope. Because Anthony Edwards now has
playoff series wins against Kevin Durant, Lebron James, Steph Curry,
and Nicola Jokic, all of that, all of that before
he even turns twenty four.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
So that's pretty good. Lebron washed up an old.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
We can all agree on that ran out of gas
and the playoff Steph Curry got hurt.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Does that really count who knows?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
And the jokicic one, sure, Durant, Okay, if you want
to give up credit for that, that's fine. So in
terms of the question, is Anthony Awres' playoff run you
know shutting up to I'm gonna shake my head. No,
I'm shaking my head. No you can't see me. You
don't look at me. I'm shaking my head. On this
has been a roller coaster up and down, and the
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Timberwolves have been the beneficiaries of what we would call
biblical kindness in this playoff run. It's the classic biblical
story Moses parting the red sea. Minnesota has beaten the
forty year old Lebron who ran out of gas. If
you don't believe me, look at his fourth quarter numbers,
the out of shape Hookah Luca and slaying the always
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overrated Lakers who hired a podcaster as their coach, and
he coached like a podcaster.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
It was so good to see love what a hot
take is validated.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I love a good hot take validation, and podcaster JJ
Reddick validated the hot take.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Thank you for that, JJ.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
All right, So that when okay, you beat old Lebron
and out of shape.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Luca Lakers aren't very good. We all know that.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
And now you put under the Mallard microscope, you take
out the Warriors, a team that was neutered. They had
their balls chopped off when Steph Curry left with a
hammy injury. So you're not getting a lot of style
points under the microscope. Now wide angle lens, it looks
pretty good for the low information fan. The casual fan
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will say that's very impressive, but under the microscope again,
not that much.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
And so there you go.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
In that being said, in the modern NBA, we've seen
this a lot with like Indiana has made back to
back conference finals and they have been.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
The beneficiary as well of pop goes.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
To the Achilles over there for Dame Lizard for example,
or some of the injuries that have taken place with
Cleveland had a bunch of guys out, although I don't
think they would have won anyway, but that's fine. So
in the modern NBA, this is how you get it done.
You can talk about getting all these.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Great players and having amazing talent, but really what you
need is a good voodoo doll.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
That's the secret. If you have a good voodoo doll,
that is the great equalizer. Every NBA postseason is a
war of attrition. It's always been, but the players are
softer now than they've ever been. They have the greatest
medical they have all the top minds in sports medicine,
all the IVY League geniuses that are babying and coddling
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the players, and it doesn't matter, right, they have it
all figured out, right, They've all the medical figured out.
When you're gonna get hurt, you have to rest this
amount of time to avoid getting hurt.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
And they still go out and get hurt all the time.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Right, So whatever team gets injured the least will go
the furthest in the postseason. Now, in terms of what
this all means, it's a mixed bag for the Wolves
because they are very reliant on Anthony Edwards and Julius Randall,
and they have to score score score score score score
score score score. And it's obviously a soft underbelly for
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Minnesota because if either one has an off performance, if
they underperform, then that's an issue. The three point shooting
is not good. The fence appears to be the meat
and potatoes for the Timberwolves, and they make a lot
of unforced errors as they say in tennis, which becomes
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problematic if you play a team that can take advantage
of that, which would be more Oklahoma say, if you
play Denver, that's a much better opportunity for Minnesota than OKC.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
But we shall see.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
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So our lead this hour is from pro Bouncy Ball.
We'll go to Boston a closeout game for the Celtics
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opponent at the Knicks, to advance Jalen Brunson and the
Knickerbocker traveling party going up I ninety five.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Of course they.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Flew work assignment, work assignment versus Jalen Brown and the
Celtics who are weather beaten without Jason Tatum.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
It was game.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Number five, Game five, New York for a chance to
level up and play Tyres Hallip Burton and the Indiana
basketball team in the Eastern Conference Finals and wake up
the old clips of Reggie Miller from back in the day.
But I'm not sure whether you were watching this or not.
It was the early game on the basketball card, maybe not.
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The story here was Derek White, who had thirty four points,
seven seven three point shots through the basket there to
lead the Celtics to a laffer They win one twenty
seven to one oh two ha ha In Game five
against the Knicks on Wednesday night there at the TD
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Garden Eastern Conference semi Finals, the Celtics, who could not
make a three point shot in multiple games in this
series to save their life, connected on twenty two twenty
two to three pointers to post their first home victory
of the series and the first without Jason Tatum. Following
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the snap crackle pop goes the Achilles the ten in
injury there. Now, the better story is in the losing
locker room where Josh Hart was bloody early in the game.
He led the Knicks with twenty four points. He did
leave briefly and that was in the first quarter. There
a bloody gash with blood all over his face and
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that was an omen of things to come for the Knicks.
There an inadvertent elbow, oh and he bled like a tomato.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
So that was part of the story there. The photos
win viral.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Jalen Brunson had twenty two, but a very mellow kind
of performance by Brunson there. He fouled out was seven
nineteen to go in the game, he was out. So
the Knicks do not do the thing they were supposed
to do at the time they were supposed to do it,
and so they will now have another opportunity. They've got
three chances to win one game. Now they have two
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chances to win one game. The Knicks will try to
win the series. Back in Midtown Manhattan, right over Penn
Station there on Friday night, if the Celtics win Game seven.
We love Game seven. I want a Game seven, I
would link. Can we make that happen? We all think
positive vibrations. Let's get a Game seven that would be
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in Boston on Monday, in Boston on Monday.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Why couldn't Jalen Brunson's Knicks close out this series? Why
could they not get this done. I've got my observation
of this. I've got cocktail, scrub, a dub dub and PSA,
and we will combine all of these things together, and
we are gonna make a dirty water dog, is what
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We're gonna make, a street dirty water dog.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
And that's what we're gonna do, all.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Right, So Number I said, Number Yeah, let's start with
the obvious that New York did not play with the
same mojo that they had been playing with there. They
looked I don't know that I would use the word disheveled,
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but they were just a little off. I'm not sure
why that was some Knickerbocker apologists.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Or saying, well, it was the officials.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
The NBA wants us to go to six, I should
want to go to seven. They need a game seven.
Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Jalen Brunson sounded like the uber driver call we took
last hour.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
He was very subdued, very subdued.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
He was restrained, and several of the Knicks players were
completely frazzled, completely frazzled in this game. We'll get to
them in a minute. But here's Tom Thibodeau. You'll hear
the question and the answer. He's the coach of the next.
Tom Thibodeau on how upsetting this was.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
Take a listen, Tom, just off the bat, what most
disappointed you tonight.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
That we didn't play for forty eight minutes and you know,
the start of the second quarter, we didn't play well.
We had a league, didn't play tough with the lead,
came out to start the third. Didn't play well there.
I can't afford to do that.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Okay, so individually mentioned Brunson.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Who was fine but needed to be better than that.
But the real villain.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
There was literally nothing redeeming about Og and Annobi's performance.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
There was nothing redeeming.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Og played like he was Doa, not the old gangster
he was Doa. Played like someone spiked his cocktail with
elephant tranquilizers. He took twelve shots, he missed eleven of them,
shot less than ten percent eight point three percent in
a closeout game, had two assists, two turnovers, and three fouls.
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How about Mikal Bridges, He's had some bad games. He
saved them with key defensive plays late in games, and
no chance to do that here.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Took fourteen shots, missed ten of them. Missed ten of the.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Fourteen shots he took. That was a pratt fall performance
by Mkal Bridges. So New York led by nine in
the second quarter, Tom Thibodeau referenced that they stopped playing
from that point they were up by nine to the
close of the game, they were outscored by what thirty
five points? I believe it was from that point to
the end of the game.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Which I don't think is good. What do I know?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I just to the Overnight show. I don't think that's good.
Maybe it is, Maybe there's some kind of positivity. I
don't know what it would be, but who knows? All
right now, paytrio. So who was the biggest X factor
for Boston without Jason Tatum? Other people had to step up?
As the line goes, and Jalen Brown was fine or
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Devin Derek White. Derek White went bonkers. Derek White was trending.
He was silky smooth. He was the smooth operator with
all the three point shots. He put on a shooting
clinic there from behind the arc. Those moneyballs. Now that
said for me, it's scrub, a dub dub. Luke Cornett,
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the scrub. I had to look this guy up. Who
the f is Luke Cornett?
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Who is this guy?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
And he went out had ten points, nine rebounds, seven
block shots.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
He went mutumbo, if you're old, you know who that is?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Twenty five minutes and as Shaq would say, I owe
you an apology.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
I was I wasn't really familiar with your game.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
May the force be with you, Luke Force Multiplier, the Butcher,
the Baker, the candlestick maker, and that candlestick keeping hope alive,
the flame of hope is alive, keeping hope alive. And
now Joe Mizzoula gave a bunch of wild soundbites. This
guy is total whack a doodle, Joe Mosula. So, Joe
Mizoula was asked about the mentality for the rest.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Of the series.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
He said, four hours ago, he said, we we had.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Just one win and we had to win one game,
rather win one.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Game, and now we just have to win one game.
That is known as the old Wine in New Bottle.
Old Wine in New Bottle, a fancy way to say,
take it one day at a time.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Live in the moment. You must live in the moment now.
The other quote, which was hilarious from Joe Mizoula, and
it reminded me of a random.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
NFL coach from years ago. Joe Mizzoula was asked about
the situation involving Chris stops Porzingis. Now Porzingis has been there,
but hasn't really been there because he's got the gobbledee
gook and we're not sure what he has. But it
can't be that hard. It can't be that difficult because
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he's playing right. I mean, it's not going to kill you.
Whatever it is, we don't know what it is. It's
not contagious or else he wouldn't be with the team,
So we're not sure about that. But Joe Mizzoula, well,
I think we have the audience. So listen is Joel Mozula.
Listen to him talk about Chris stops Porzingis and like
why he wasn't out there, and take a listen.
Speaker 8 (27:48):
Joe, You've always trusted your core lineup. You don't change
like the main line up a tiny trust your top players.
So making the switch going away from KP for the
second half, just how difficult of a decision has it been,
kind of maybe evaluating that throughout the series and then
making that call tonight.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
I mean, he did, I mean, he couldn't breathe, and
you know, so he was available absolutely necessary, and so
that was just a decision between me and him. He
was having just difficulties breathing, but he wanted to be
out there, and you know, if we absolutely needed him,
we would have been able to go to him.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
And rely on him.
Speaker 9 (28:22):
But you've seen a lot of that this year is
changing the lineup at halftime is something that we've done
a lot, you know, this year, because it just adds
a different dimension and can change some sub patterns throughout
the game. So it took credit to the guys just
buying into what gives us the best chance to win.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
We don't need all that.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
The money part of it was he couldn't breathe like
they I don't know who edited that, but that's the
key part.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
That he couldn't breathe, which reminded me.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
If you've been with the show a long time, you
might remember years ago, the Indianapolis Colts had a coach
named Chuck Pegana and it was a primetime game. Chuck
Pegana was coaching the Colts. I forget the name of
the quarterback. The quarterback played but wasn't supposed to play,
and so after the game Pegano said he was literally
(29:05):
on his deathbed, is what.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
The coach said. I'll never forget that. It was literally
under stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Now you have Joe Mozula saying Porzingis couldn't breathe. So
I went back and I looked at the clip. I
did not see any oxygen. I did not see any
oxygen for for zingis. So if a man can't breathe,
you need oxygen. Fortunately, we can't report he has not
died despite not being able to breathe.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Okay, all right, final point is literally, Oh, there it is.
That's it. That's Chuck Pegano. That's what.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
What do we know?
Speaker 4 (29:40):
What year that was? That's got to be old. Now,
that's a long time two tho fourteen.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Wow?
Speaker 6 (29:48):
Man, uh, that's that Carson Wentz was it?
Speaker 4 (29:52):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I think it was a hassleback or something, one of
the hassleback guys. I don't, I guess look up quarterbacks
for the Colson in twenty fourteen. Oh it's been eleven
years since that sound bite.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
I still remember it. Wow. All right. Final point, So.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Let's get to the New York side of things. Is
this loss by the Knickerbockers. Is this loss an anomaly
for Tom Thibodeau's Tom Thibodeau, Tom Thibodeau, his New York
squad or a sign of penning doom? So is this
loss an anomaly for New York or is this.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
A sign of pending doom? Now? I love, absolutely love
Sky is falling Talk Radio. I love it to me.
This is a public service announcement. It's a PSA.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
It's an old school public service announcement from the International
Association of Fire Chiefs. Don't play with matches. You're playing
with matches. The Knicks are futzing around with matches, and
in this case, they're playing with their food.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
You keep hope alive.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
For the Celtics, you're keeping hope alive. The series has
already been handed to New York. You're up three to one.
Tatum goes down, you're up three to one. So if
you look at our audio, we don't have a telestrator because.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
We're on radio, even though there's a camera in here.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
But if you look at the audio straighter, game six
becomes do or die. Game six becomes don't poop your pants.
Game six becomes a diaper game. You mess that up,
and I would refer you to the chart. F around
and find out chart. I've got it right up here.
F around and find out for now things are okay.
(31:34):
That's one game. It doesn't matter, but it sets the foundation.
It sets the foundation. That game, okay, And even in
defeat like the next, they seem to be in fine
spirits and all that. It didn't seem to have worked off.
There was one moment I saw this clip making the
rounds on the socials at the Garden there in Boston,
(31:55):
after Jalen Brunson had fouled out. They put him on
the jumbo tron and he he waved to the crowd
and it was hilarious because he's on the scoreboard and
somebody took this video from the upper deck and so
you see Brunson sitting on the Knicks bench, but you
can see it through the scoreboard and he's waving.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
At the crowd. It was pretty funny. And they had.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
A watch party in Manhattan. A bunch of Nick lap
dogs were out there and they were chanting, well they
originally channing or they're gonna win.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
And then they moved to Nixon six.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
With the series now headed back to Madison Square Garden
on Friday night, you blow that and then it's a
do or die Game seven in Boston, and that puts
the Knicks on notice. Choking dog notice, choking dog notice.
(32:49):
And despite having some family that liked the Knicks, I
look at this as an opportunity. If the Knicks can
blow this on Friday, how awesome it would be to
see Tracy Morgan go out there and give a pep
talk to the Knicks before Game seven and then watch
(33:10):
them go out and projectile vomit like Tracy Morgan does
at Knicks games, all over the court in a Game seven.
So I and there's other celebrities on Celebrity Row and
all that.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Man, that would be fun to watch all them cry?
Oh God, that would be cool?
Speaker 7 (33:22):
Man?
Speaker 6 (33:23):
Would I love that?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
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Speaker 10 (33:29):
Bye, Here we go, Here we Go, Third Degree, La
La La La.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
La go.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
And Ben.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Justin Cooper doesn't.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
Steelers defensive end Cam Hayward recently said on his podcast
that the Steelers could be a better team because of
the George Pickens trade. He pointed to Mike Tomlin's track
record of trading receivers and it working out better for
the Steelers. Ben, do you think he's right with this one?
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Well, here's the way I'll say.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
The argument is additioned by subscribe by substraction. Right, you're
upside down. It shouldn't work that way. That George Pickens
is a talented player, and that if you just look
at the trade. It's it's lopsided for Dallas. But this
is an erratic person. This is somebody who does not
show up every game and he's got a lot of
blotches on his resume. The way I look at it,
(34:23):
the Steelers are gonna be fine. Aaron Rodgers will be there.
They'll be about where they were they always are in Pittsburgh.
I don't think they'll be better, They'll be about where
they have been. Next where they'll be gonna win nine
ten games and that's that next.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
Bruce Arians made a radio appearance this week where he
said that if the Bucks stay healthy, that reaching the
Super Bowl is definitely obtainable. Ben, do you think Tampa
Bay has improved enough to take the next step this season?
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Bruce Arians is full of crap, because no one stays healthy.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
The injury rate in the NFL as a hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
So if the Buccaneers path to getting to the super
Bowl is one hundred percent health, they're not going to
the super Bowl. Everyone has injuries. You've got to have depth,
you've got to overcome the injuries. So anytime I hear
someone say, well, if they stay healthy, of course that's
not the contest.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
Next Shaq said in a recent interview that he thinks
he may have won more titles with Penny Hardaway than
he did with Kobe had Penny not gotten injured. Ben,
do you agree with that?
Speaker 4 (35:17):
Well, again, we go back to, you know, the multiverse.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Yeah, there's a dimension in the multiverse where Penny Hardaway
is amazing and if people thought he was going to
be some better at the time, and then Kobe ever
would turn out to be.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
But I think Shaq is blowing smoke on a podcast.
How'd we do?
Speaker 6 (35:33):
You passed? This edition?
Speaker 4 (35:34):
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Speaker 1 (35:35):
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Speaker 4 (35:54):
It's now time for time. Horry, Harry, I get hurt me?
Ask bad Twitter. That is your questions on Twitter now.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
And oh wait we go it's asked pet. Your questions
are answers for the rest of the hour. These are
actual questions by actual listeners, no AI questions, real human beings.
As far as we know, real human beings and to
the reading of the questions over to the coop a loop.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
All right, Ben, We're gonna start off with a question
from digital space Monkey.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Hi digital space Monkey.
Speaker 6 (36:28):
He says, I was recently paid off with a gift
card to raising Canes for one hundred dollars. What is
the better bang for the buck, the three finger meal
or the Caniac combo I subbslaw for more fries.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yes, that's as Yeah. Yeah, so I'm a Candiact combo guy.
When I go to Canes. It's a little pricey. Now,
certainly California's very I don't know how much is where
you are, but very expensive about here. But yeah, that's
the way to go. You don't do the Coleslaw. You're
eating fried chicken. You don't want damn vegetables. Get those
out of there, and then you get the Texas toast
(37:01):
on both sides. You can get a toasted on both sides. Yeah,
you get rid of the Coleslaw extra fiz. That's the
way to go, and just go cany at Combo.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
That's it. They sell more of those three piece things,
but it's better off Canny at Combo. Now, Loraina gets
the kids meal, right, Loraina when you go.
Speaker 6 (37:16):
To Cansa you already know Ben, Yes, I get the kids.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
I've seen you. I'm like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (37:21):
And then I just that is such a that is
such a like a chick move, right, Isn't it?
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Like I'm just gonna get the kids meal.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
I split the caney at combo with my wife. Okay,
I eat the whole thing because that's the that's the
sixth tender ones, right.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm a hawser right, the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
All right, what's next? What are we at?
Speaker 6 (37:43):
All right? Uh, let's go with.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
To ashp in your questions are answers for the rest
of the hour.
Speaker 6 (37:53):
That was a good one that I saw, and I
wanted to get back to. Let's do this one. Okay,
the King Rory wants to know what do you think
is more difficult to learn at an older age. That's
gotta be ice skating or swimming.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Yeah, ice skating, right, But I mean I guess that's
because we all learned how to swim when we were
really young.
Speaker 6 (38:19):
I would I would assume I don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah, yeah, we get tossed, we all got I assume
yeah I got tossed in the water and when.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
I was well kid.
Speaker 6 (38:28):
Yeah, Sam, so traumatize as well. Thanks for that.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
It is odd, though, I mean, I guess you're a
fair amount of people that never learned how to swim.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
It's odd to be good. In my world, that's what
we learned.
Speaker 6 (38:38):
But I don't know. We have a question here from
Josh the.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Oh he's in the Bras Bears fa.
Speaker 6 (38:45):
Yeah, he wants to know what what is your guy's
favorite Monopoly piece to use?
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Why the dramatic clause, Lorena, what do you.
Speaker 6 (38:56):
Really fought over this? We were like, this one's mine.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
When's the last time you I haven't played Monopoly in
probably fifteen years. I think, well, why are you judging me?
Speaker 7 (39:09):
Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 6 (39:10):
That's probably been that long for me as well. But
I but I know what piece I use?
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Yeah, I mean we I would play with the we'd
play with the family, and the games would.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
Take forever and all that stuff. And so I'm trying
to I don't remember what my might go to. What
is your Clarina?
Speaker 1 (39:26):
What was your dog?
Speaker 6 (39:28):
Do the dog? I would always choose either the battleship
or the top hat. I liked both of those. I
was a big fan of the boot too.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Yeah, I think it was the top Hat.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
I liked the top Act because I was styling and
profiling back I'm sure you were back in the day.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
A lot of style to my game.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
All right, to ask men, your questions are answers for
the rest of the hour.
Speaker 6 (39:54):
Eke is asking me what was the best food that
I had on my.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
Cruise Cooper's in Alaska.
Speaker 6 (40:03):
Yes, it wasn't the last cruise. On the cruise itself,
I think it was like this pork medallion dish with
like some raspberry chutney or something like that that was
really free.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
Everything was free on the boat.
Speaker 6 (40:18):
Yeah, yep, I did. I paid for it, but yeah,
and I did upgrade when my meal once to like
a ribbi. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
And you could you get food at any hour, Like
if you wanted a snack at two in the morning,
could you get something.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Or you had to wait till the morning.
Speaker 6 (40:34):
Directly, the room service was twenty four hours.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
Oh man, Yeah, it's dangerous. That is dangerous.
Speaker 6 (40:41):
It was pretty great. I was having like double dinners
desserts with every meal. It was so speaking of dessert.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
So much food must get wasted on those because people like, oh,
I'll take the full.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Meal, like two bites of me. I'm done, all right.
What's next to you?
Speaker 6 (40:57):
Alphie alien Opiner would like to.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
Know I've heard of him.
Speaker 6 (41:00):
Yeah. Would you eat a burger with a pastry for
a bun? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Sure, it's it's the salt, sugar, fat, it's the it's
the sweet spot.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
I had to try that.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
I wouldn't go out of my way to eat it,
but I wouldn't say no to it.
Speaker 6 (41:16):
Lorena, I like a ramen noodle bun, but I would
try a donut bun for sure.
Speaker 7 (41:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:23):
That's been around for years. Doughnut and a hamburger.
Speaker 6 (41:26):
Yeah, definitely, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
Right, be really good.
Speaker 6 (41:31):
I've never had it, but I would.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Yeah, yeah I've I don't think i've had any like
the donut thing.
Speaker 6 (41:38):
I don't think that because like you, I wouldn't like
seek it out, like I'm not going to be like,
oh yeah, I'm going to pay for that. But if
like it was sitting here on the counter, if somebody
left this, right, I would eat it, put it in
my mouth.
Speaker 4 (41:53):
Yeah, absolutely, all right. Somebody left some weird food the
other day in the kitchen. Was it like, what was it?
Speaker 7 (41:59):
Was?
Speaker 1 (42:00):
You?
Speaker 4 (42:00):
Old containers.
Speaker 6 (42:01):
Nobody ate that was? That was Lorainas that was it
was like my Mexican food.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Yeah, it was planting, Yeah yeah yeah, who's leaving rice
and beans in the kitchen?
Speaker 4 (42:11):
Like, what are you doing?
Speaker 6 (42:13):
Was Loraina's food? I was idiot.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
You don't eat it, you don't leave it there. Remember
the rule, it's on that table. It's fair game. I
did share, Okay, yeah, nobody wanted it right.
Speaker 6 (42:26):
Next next question, this is one's from fer Dog, his
first good question in like a year. I'm I'm proud
of you for dog taking a shot. He wants to know,
would you rather have one million dollars or the ability
to talk to animals?
Speaker 1 (42:43):
All right, so I would rather talk to animals. Here's
why I could get an animal army and make more
than a million. So yes, Lorena, why.
Speaker 6 (42:52):
Already talk to animals. I will take the money. Cool,
I take the ability to talk to animals.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
That'd be yeah, I would become I'd become Barnaman Bailey
times a thousand.
Speaker 4 (43:02):
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and we'll start out with a game that ended not
that long before we cracked the microphones here within the
last couple hours in downtown Minneapolis, right next to the
Sid Hartman statue in the Twin Cities there close out
(02:16):
game and Edwards and the Timwolves game five there against
Jimmy Butler and the Warriors Minnesota.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
The set up up three to one.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
They rolled into the target center and Steph Curry did
not roll out on the court. He couldn't play, too
fragile to play, and he was on the sidelines again
and Boston earlier on the NBA.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Card they won. We'll talk more about that game later.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So they stayed alive, they'll beige stand alive, and so
Golden State had their chance to stay alive. And you're
watching the game, you know what happened, but perhaps you
did not watch the game. Julius Randall for years of
playoff third, but not on this night. Julius ran on
twenty nine points. He took eighteen shots, he made thirteen
of the eighteen. That seems pretty good. I didn't play
(03:04):
in the NBA, but I think that's pretty good. So
Randall had twenty nine points on thirteen of eighteen shooting.
Anthony Edwards added twenty two points in twelve assists, and
the Timberwolves led by as many as twenty five points,
and they found their way into the next level of
(03:24):
the NBA postseason. Won twenty one to one ten the
final as they get to win over the Warriors, so
Minnesota wins the series four games to won. The Wolves
have now advanced the Western Conference Finals again, where they
will play either the Thunder or the Nuggets, and the
winner of that will go on to the NBA Finals.
(03:45):
Minnesota could have as many as five days off. O MG,
they'll be so rusty. Five days off. That's if the
Nuggets beat the Thunder in the Mile High City coming
up on Thursday night, and that would force a game seven.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
And that's sorry.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Some more on all that We have plenty of time
to talk about all that later on. The better story, though,
is in the eliminated locker room, not the loser's locker room,
the eliminated elimination.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
That's what happened to the team from Northern California.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So let us discuss the question did the Warriors ever
have a real shot without Steph Curry or was this
series over before it started once Curry his hammy went whammy.
So I've got Looney Tunes, Jacuzzi, and biblical and we
(04:41):
will combine all of these things together, and we are
going to make the Baba Ganoche is what We're gonna make,
the Baba Ganosh, all right. So my first thought on this,
the Warriors were clearly on life support. They had aspirations
of championships and all these wonderful things. But the moment
(05:03):
Curry went down and they won that game, Buddy, heal
game won, Buddy, He'll play well. Golden State wins with
Steph Curry playing limited time because he got hurt.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I think he played thirteen minutes in that game, and
that was it.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
And as Steph Curry goes, it turns out, so go
the Warriors. The Djenga Tower when you take Curry out
of the wobbly Jenga tower, it comes tumbling down, down, down,
And so as was the case here, Golden State ends
up their playoff run booby trapped or in this case,
Hammi trapped by Steph Curry who was sitting on the
(05:39):
bench getting hemorrhoids. As Golden State floundered. There was a
comical report we'll get to later which I just have
to bring this up at some point during the show
about Curry and how he was trying to come back.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Well, explain more on that later in the show.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
But the Warriors were a beautiful sand castle when they
got Jemmy Butler on a sunshiny day. This weather's nice,
getting better summertimes around the corner and they just beautiful
sand castle. And then Steph Curry when he went rice
Krispy snapcrackle pop goes to Hammy. They were the sand
(06:16):
castle at high tide. They were the sand castle at
high Tide. And was Steve Kerr out coached in this
particular series. Was he out coaching well, Chris Finch, the
other coach for the Worries.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
We're not sure.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
If out coached is the right word to describe Steve Kerr.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I don't know that he did anything. I don't know
that you can be out coach if you don't do anything.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
When Steph Curry left because of injury, Steve Kerr and
Golden State had a chance.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
They were suddenly dead and buried.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
They were a cow stuck in a hole on the
side of the road, and this was an opportunity for
them to overachieve. And for all the criticism, money, but
he could have coached the Golden State Warriors back when
they had the Splash Brothers and.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
They had Durant, they were winning championships.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Well, here's an opportunity for Steve Kerr and a team
to overachieve. All right, Kirk could go out there, coach
him up, scheme them up, outperform. You're suddenly very low expectations.
Did any of that happen? Did any of that happen? Uh?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I think?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Well, anyway, here is Steve Kerr commenting on the big
story of Golden State season where they were not playing
that great and then they made the trade. They got
Jimmy Butler who did not want to go to the Warriors.
He initially he did not want to play for the
Warriors and then they paid him some more money, so
he said, okay, you should you paid me.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I'll go.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Here's Steve Kerr waxing loquacious about Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Take a listen. I love our guys.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Like I said, this was a hell of a run
for us, considering where we were at the trade deadline.
You know, Jimmy changed our season, flipped everything for us,
gave us a chance. We became one of the best
teams in the league. And obviously, you know, you get
to the Final eight in the NBA, you're one of
(08:08):
the best teams, and we had had a shot. But
you know, things didn't go our way. But like I said,
Minnesota deserves the credit. They were the better team.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah wait a minute, because I was told when I mentioned,
like in years past, when the Clippers have gotten to
the Elite eight or the Final.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Four, nobody says that. Nobody says that's impressive. Well here's
Steve Kerr saying that's impressive. So all you haters, no,
what's happy about making you? Lady? Steve Kerr just said,
and you're one of the better teams in the NBA
when you get to the Elite eight. He just said it.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
But as far as Jimmy Butler's concerned. To me, that's
more disappointing than Steve Kerr, Like, that's that's a guy
we support. We don't like many people on this show.
There's many many people that we take shots at on
a regular basis. But one of the players we like
watching is Jimmy Butler, and he went looney Tunes right
from play Playoff Jimmy, here's another guy. Opportunity, knock, knock
(09:04):
at the front door, opportunity. Steph Curry's out. You figure
at some point he's gonna come back. He just got
to carry the load for three, you know, three or
four games without Curry, and that's Jimmy Butler, who's done
it with other teams. Playoff Jimmy went to He had
a metamorphosis. He went from playoff Jimmy to pependit pew
p u, what stinks. The baton was passed from Curry
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to Butler said hey, I need to pick me up here,
and Jimmy Butler took the baton and he fumbled it
right into the sewer.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
He was sleepwalking.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
There were points in these last couple of games. I
think he was playing in a medically induced coma. I'm
waiting for the almost guaranteed report this happens only well,
he was playing with some kind of injury and he
didn't disclose it. You know that that story always comes
out after the fact. But as a result, the Warriors
did something they have never done in the postseason going
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back over fifty years. The Warriors had not lost four
straight playoff games in a single postseason since nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Holy crap, all right now, page two?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Is this the official end game for Golden State as
a contender? A feeble exit from the postseason against the
Minnesota basketball team? Is this the official end for Golden
State there? Or do they have one last run, one
last dance left in them. So, as you know, not
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only do I moonlight as a gas bag, blow hard
and know it all here at Fox Sports Radio, I
am also a mal meteorologist. I can forecast what's ahead
for all of these teams. I know you're waiting with
bated breath. So the malar meteorologists forecast for the next
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year or two for the Warriors. Golden State is now
entering the twilight zone. Fasten your seatbelt, It's going to
be a bumpy ride. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
You got Steph Curry, who's what he thirty seven, Draymond
Green thirty five in the twilight zone of their careers.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Curries Hammy is already Whammy.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
So he's got the older you get, he's got the
the issues, the cloud hanging over him. Jimmy Butler thirty five,
also has dealt with various injuries and he missed about
twenty five percent of the games during his time with
the Miami Heat. Some of that because he was at
loggerheads with pat Riley, but that's that's an issue.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
So you've got major durability concerns.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Golden State, what they need to do is swing another
trade with the Sunshine State, and they need to pick
up a jacuzzi, but a Punce Devione jacuzzie. That's what
they need to get, a Punce Deli oone jacuzzie because Pastelione,
he has that mythical spring. I think it's in San Augustine, Florida,
and it will restore youth to anyone who drinks or
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bays in the water there. So that's what they have
to get. So as long as they have that, they're fine.
How many young players have passed through Golden State that
were supposed to be that next wave that turned out
to be turns one after another, whether the team didn't
trust them or they just didn't live up to the
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lofty expectations, but it's been a constant stream for that
particular team. Now, last word, we go to the winning
locker room, the winners. So back to the Final four,
the swing in effect for the Minnesota basketball team as
they are just four wins away from getting the finals.
So the question on this is Anthony Edwards' playoff run
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with the Timberwolves. Is his playoff run shutting up the doubters?
A classic sports debate, Who's nothing? The daughters could say,
they'll be come on?
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Okay, So the.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Resume is looking good, depending on whether or not you
put it under the microscope. Because Anthony Edwards now has
playoff series wins against Kevin Durant, Lebron James, Steph Curry,
and Nicola Jokic, all of that, all of that before
he even turns twenty four.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
So that's pretty good. Lebron washed up an old.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
We can all agree on that ran out of gas
and the playoff Steph Curry got hurt.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Does that really count who knows?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
And the jokicic one, sure, Durant, Okay, if you want
to give up credit for that, that's fine. So in
terms of the question, is Anthony Awres' playoff run you
know shutting up to I'm gonna shake my head. No,
I'm shaking my head. No you can't see me. You
don't look at me. I'm shaking my head. On this
has been a roller coaster up and down, and the
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Timberwolves have been the beneficiaries of what we would call
biblical kindness in this playoff run. It's the classic biblical
story Moses parting the red sea. Minnesota has beaten the
forty year old Lebron who ran out of gas. If
you don't believe me, look at his fourth quarter numbers,
the out of shape Hookah Luca and slaying the always
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overrated Lakers who hired a podcaster as their coach, and
he coached like a podcaster.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
It was so good to see love what a hot
take is validated.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I love a good hot take validation, and podcaster JJ
Reddick validated the hot take.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Thank you for that, JJ.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
All right, So that when okay, you beat old Lebron
and out of shape.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Luca Lakers aren't very good. We all know that.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
And now you put under the Mallard microscope, you take
out the Warriors, a team that was neutered. They had
their balls chopped off when Steph Curry left with a
hammy injury. So you're not getting a lot of style
points under the microscope. Now wide angle lens, it looks
pretty good for the low information fan. The casual fan
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will say that's very impressive, but under the microscope again,
not that much.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
And so there you go.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
In that being said, in the modern NBA, we've seen
this a lot with like Indiana has made back to
back conference finals and they have been.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
The beneficiary as well of pop goes.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
To the Achilles over there for Dame Lizard for example,
or some of the injuries that have taken place with
Cleveland had a bunch of guys out, although I don't
think they would have won anyway, but that's fine. So
in the modern NBA, this is how you get it done.
You can talk about getting all these.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Great players and having amazing talent, but really what you
need is a good voodoo doll.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
That's the secret. If you have a good voodoo doll,
that is the great equalizer. Every NBA postseason is a
war of attrition. It's always been, but the players are
softer now than they've ever been. They have the greatest
medical they have all the top minds in sports medicine,
all the IVY League geniuses that are babying and coddling
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the players, and it doesn't matter, right, they have it
all figured out, right, They've all the medical figured out.
When you're gonna get hurt, you have to rest this
amount of time to avoid getting hurt.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
And they still go out and get hurt all the time.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Right, So whatever team gets injured the least will go
the furthest in the postseason. Now, in terms of what
this all means, it's a mixed bag for the Wolves
because they are very reliant on Anthony Edwards and Julius Randall,
and they have to score score score score score score
score score score. And it's obviously a soft underbelly for
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Minnesota because if either one has an off performance, if
they underperform, then that's an issue. The three point shooting
is not good. The fence appears to be the meat
and potatoes for the Timberwolves, and they make a lot
of unforced errors as they say in tennis, which becomes
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problematic if you play a team that can take advantage
of that, which would be more Oklahoma say, if you
play Denver, that's a much better opportunity for Minnesota than OKC.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
But we shall see.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
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So our lead this hour is from pro Bouncy Ball.
We'll go to Boston a closeout game for the Celtics
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opponent at the Knicks, to advance Jalen Brunson and the
Knickerbocker traveling party going up I ninety five.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Of course they.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Flew work assignment, work assignment versus Jalen Brown and the
Celtics who are weather beaten without Jason Tatum.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
It was game.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Number five, Game five, New York for a chance to
level up and play Tyres Hallip Burton and the Indiana
basketball team in the Eastern Conference Finals and wake up
the old clips of Reggie Miller from back in the day.
But I'm not sure whether you were watching this or not.
It was the early game on the basketball card, maybe not.
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The story here was Derek White, who had thirty four points,
seven seven three point shots through the basket there to
lead the Celtics to a laffer They win one twenty
seven to one oh two ha ha In Game five
against the Knicks on Wednesday night there at the TD
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Garden Eastern Conference semi Finals, the Celtics, who could not
make a three point shot in multiple games in this
series to save their life, connected on twenty two twenty
two to three pointers to post their first home victory
of the series and the first without Jason Tatum. Following
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the snap crackle pop goes the Achilles the ten in
injury there. Now, the better story is in the losing
locker room where Josh Hart was bloody early in the game.
He led the Knicks with twenty four points. He did
leave briefly and that was in the first quarter. There
a bloody gash with blood all over his face and
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that was an omen of things to come for the Knicks.
There an inadvertent elbow, oh and he bled like a tomato.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
So that was part of the story there. The photos
win viral.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Jalen Brunson had twenty two, but a very mellow kind
of performance by Brunson there. He fouled out was seven
nineteen to go in the game, he was out. So
the Knicks do not do the thing they were supposed
to do at the time they were supposed to do it,
and so they will now have another opportunity. They've got
three chances to win one game. Now they have two
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chances to win one game. The Knicks will try to
win the series. Back in Midtown Manhattan, right over Penn
Station there on Friday night, if the Celtics win Game seven.
We love Game seven. I want a Game seven, I
would link. Can we make that happen? We all think
positive vibrations. Let's get a Game seven that would be
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in Boston on Monday, in Boston on Monday.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Why couldn't Jalen Brunson's Knicks close out this series? Why
could they not get this done. I've got my observation
of this. I've got cocktail, scrub, a dub dub and PSA,
and we will combine all of these things together, and
we are gonna make a dirty water dog, is what
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We're gonna make, a street dirty water dog.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
And that's what we're gonna do, all.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Right, So Number I said, Number Yeah, let's start with
the obvious that New York did not play with the
same mojo that they had been playing with there. They
looked I don't know that I would use the word disheveled,
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but they were just a little off. I'm not sure
why that was some Knickerbocker apologists.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Or saying, well, it was the officials.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
The NBA wants us to go to six, I should
want to go to seven. They need a game seven.
Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Jalen Brunson sounded like the uber driver call we took
last hour.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
He was very subdued, very subdued.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
He was restrained, and several of the Knicks players were
completely frazzled, completely frazzled in this game. We'll get to
them in a minute. But here's Tom Thibodeau. You'll hear
the question and the answer. He's the coach of the next.
Tom Thibodeau on how upsetting this was.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
Take a listen, Tom, just off the bat, what most
disappointed you tonight.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
That we didn't play for forty eight minutes and you know,
the start of the second quarter, we didn't play well.
We had a league, didn't play tough with the lead,
came out to start the third. Didn't play well there.
I can't afford to do that.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Okay, so individually mentioned Brunson.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Who was fine but needed to be better than that.
But the real villain.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
There was literally nothing redeeming about Og and Annobi's performance.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
There was nothing redeeming.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Og played like he was Doa, not the old gangster
he was Doa. Played like someone spiked his cocktail with
elephant tranquilizers. He took twelve shots, he missed eleven of them,
shot less than ten percent eight point three percent in
a closeout game, had two assists, two turnovers, and three fouls.
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How about Mikal Bridges, He's had some bad games. He
saved them with key defensive plays late in games, and
no chance to do that here.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Took fourteen shots, missed ten of them. Missed ten of the.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Fourteen shots he took. That was a pratt fall performance
by Mkal Bridges. So New York led by nine in
the second quarter, Tom Thibodeau referenced that they stopped playing
from that point they were up by nine to the
close of the game, they were outscored by what thirty
five points? I believe it was from that point to
the end of the game.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Which I don't think is good. What do I know?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I just to the Overnight show. I don't think that's good.
Maybe it is, Maybe there's some kind of positivity. I
don't know what it would be, but who knows? All
right now, paytrio. So who was the biggest X factor
for Boston without Jason Tatum? Other people had to step up?
As the line goes, and Jalen Brown was fine or
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Devin Derek White. Derek White went bonkers. Derek White was trending.
He was silky smooth. He was the smooth operator with
all the three point shots. He put on a shooting
clinic there from behind the arc. Those moneyballs. Now that
said for me, it's scrub, a dub dub. Luke Cornett,
(25:53):
the scrub. I had to look this guy up. Who
the f is Luke Cornett?
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Who is this guy?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
And he went out had ten points, nine rebounds, seven
block shots.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
He went mutumbo, if you're old, you know who that is?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Twenty five minutes and as Shaq would say, I owe
you an apology.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
I was I wasn't really familiar with your game.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
May the force be with you, Luke Force Multiplier, the Butcher,
the Baker, the candlestick maker, and that candlestick keeping hope alive,
the flame of hope is alive, keeping hope alive. And
now Joe Mizzoula gave a bunch of wild soundbites. This
guy is total whack a doodle, Joe Mosula. So, Joe
Mizoula was asked about the mentality for the rest.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Of the series.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
He said, four hours ago, he said, we we had.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Just one win and we had to win one game,
rather win one.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Game, and now we just have to win one game.
That is known as the old Wine in New Bottle.
Old Wine in New Bottle, a fancy way to say,
take it one day at a time.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Live in the moment. You must live in the moment now.
The other quote, which was hilarious from Joe Mizoula, and
it reminded me of a random.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
NFL coach from years ago. Joe Mizzoula was asked about
the situation involving Chris stops Porzingis. Now Porzingis has been there,
but hasn't really been there because he's got the gobbledee
gook and we're not sure what he has. But it
can't be that hard. It can't be that difficult because
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he's playing right. I mean, it's not going to kill you.
Whatever it is, we don't know what it is. It's
not contagious or else he wouldn't be with the team,
So we're not sure about that. But Joe Mizzoula, well,
I think we have the audience. So listen is Joel Mozula.
Listen to him talk about Chris stops Porzingis and like
why he wasn't out there, and take a listen.
Speaker 8 (27:48):
Joe, You've always trusted your core lineup. You don't change
like the main line up a tiny trust your top players.
So making the switch going away from KP for the
second half, just how difficult of a decision has it been,
kind of maybe evaluating that throughout the series and then
making that call tonight.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
I mean, he did, I mean, he couldn't breathe, and
you know, so he was available absolutely necessary, and so
that was just a decision between me and him. He
was having just difficulties breathing, but he wanted to be
out there, and you know, if we absolutely needed him,
we would have been able to go to him.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
And rely on him.
Speaker 9 (28:22):
But you've seen a lot of that this year is
changing the lineup at halftime is something that we've done
a lot, you know, this year, because it just adds
a different dimension and can change some sub patterns throughout
the game. So it took credit to the guys just
buying into what gives us the best chance to win.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
We don't need all that.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
The money part of it was he couldn't breathe like
they I don't know who edited that, but that's the
key part.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
That he couldn't breathe, which reminded me.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
If you've been with the show a long time, you
might remember years ago, the Indianapolis Colts had a coach
named Chuck Pegana and it was a primetime game. Chuck
Pegana was coaching the Colts. I forget the name of
the quarterback. The quarterback played but wasn't supposed to play,
and so after the game Pegano said he was literally
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on his deathbed, is what.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
The coach said. I'll never forget that. It was literally
under stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Now you have Joe Mozula saying Porzingis couldn't breathe. So
I went back and I looked at the clip. I
did not see any oxygen. I did not see any
oxygen for for zingis. So if a man can't breathe,
you need oxygen. Fortunately, we can't report he has not
died despite not being able to breathe.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Okay, all right, final point is literally, Oh, there it is.
That's it. That's Chuck Pegano. That's what.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
What do we know?
Speaker 4 (29:40):
What year that was? That's got to be old. Now,
that's a long time two tho fourteen.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Wow?
Speaker 6 (29:48):
Man, uh, that's that Carson Wentz was it?
Speaker 4 (29:52):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I think it was a hassleback or something, one of
the hassleback guys. I don't, I guess look up quarterbacks
for the Colson in twenty fourteen. Oh it's been eleven
years since that sound bite.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
I still remember it. Wow. All right. Final point, So.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Let's get to the New York side of things. Is
this loss by the Knickerbockers. Is this loss an anomaly
for Tom Thibodeau's Tom Thibodeau, Tom Thibodeau, his New York
squad or a sign of penning doom? So is this
loss an anomaly for New York or is this.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
A sign of pending doom? Now? I love, absolutely love
Sky is falling Talk Radio. I love it to me.
This is a public service announcement. It's a PSA.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
It's an old school public service announcement from the International
Association of Fire Chiefs. Don't play with matches. You're playing
with matches. The Knicks are futzing around with matches, and
in this case, they're playing with their food.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
You keep hope alive.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
For the Celtics, you're keeping hope alive. The series has
already been handed to New York. You're up three to one.
Tatum goes down, you're up three to one. So if
you look at our audio, we don't have a telestrator because.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
We're on radio, even though there's a camera in here.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
But if you look at the audio straighter, game six
becomes do or die. Game six becomes don't poop your pants.
Game six becomes a diaper game. You mess that up,
and I would refer you to the chart. F around
and find out chart. I've got it right up here.
F around and find out for now things are okay.
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That's one game. It doesn't matter, but it sets the foundation.
It sets the foundation. That game, okay, And even in
defeat like the next, they seem to be in fine
spirits and all that. It didn't seem to have worked off.
There was one moment I saw this clip making the
rounds on the socials at the Garden there in Boston,
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after Jalen Brunson had fouled out. They put him on
the jumbo tron and he he waved to the crowd
and it was hilarious because he's on the scoreboard and
somebody took this video from the upper deck and so
you see Brunson sitting on the Knicks bench, but you
can see it through the scoreboard and he's waving.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
At the crowd. It was pretty funny. And they had.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
A watch party in Manhattan. A bunch of Nick lap
dogs were out there and they were chanting, well they
originally channing or they're gonna win.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
And then they moved to Nixon six.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
With the series now headed back to Madison Square Garden
on Friday night, you blow that and then it's a
do or die Game seven in Boston, and that puts
the Knicks on notice. Choking dog notice, choking dog notice.
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And despite having some family that liked the Knicks, I
look at this as an opportunity. If the Knicks can
blow this on Friday, how awesome it would be to
see Tracy Morgan go out there and give a pep
talk to the Knicks before Game seven and then watch
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them go out and projectile vomit like Tracy Morgan does
at Knicks games, all over the court in a Game seven.
So I and there's other celebrities on Celebrity Row and
all that.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Man, that would be fun to watch all them cry?
Oh God, that would be cool?
Speaker 7 (33:22):
Man?
Speaker 6 (33:23):
Would I love that?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
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Speaker 10 (33:29):
Bye, Here we go, Here we Go, Third Degree, La
La La La.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
La go.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
And Ben.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Justin Cooper doesn't.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
Steelers defensive end Cam Hayward recently said on his podcast
that the Steelers could be a better team because of
the George Pickens trade. He pointed to Mike Tomlin's track
record of trading receivers and it working out better for
the Steelers. Ben, do you think he's right with this one?
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Well, here's the way I'll say.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
The argument is additioned by subscribe by substraction. Right, you're
upside down. It shouldn't work that way. That George Pickens
is a talented player, and that if you just look
at the trade. It's it's lopsided for Dallas. But this
is an erratic person. This is somebody who does not
show up every game and he's got a lot of
blotches on his resume. The way I look at it,
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the Steelers are gonna be fine. Aaron Rodgers will be there.
They'll be about where they were they always are in Pittsburgh.
I don't think they'll be better, They'll be about where
they have been. Next where they'll be gonna win nine
ten games and that's that next.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
Bruce Arians made a radio appearance this week where he
said that if the Bucks stay healthy, that reaching the
Super Bowl is definitely obtainable. Ben, do you think Tampa
Bay has improved enough to take the next step this season?
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Bruce Arians is full of crap, because no one stays healthy.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
The injury rate in the NFL as a hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
So if the Buccaneers path to getting to the super
Bowl is one hundred percent health, they're not going to
the super Bowl. Everyone has injuries. You've got to have depth,
you've got to overcome the injuries. So anytime I hear
someone say, well, if they stay healthy, of course that's
not the contest.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
Next Shaq said in a recent interview that he thinks
he may have won more titles with Penny Hardaway than
he did with Kobe had Penny not gotten injured. Ben,
do you agree with that?
Speaker 4 (35:17):
Well, again, we go back to, you know, the multiverse.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Yeah, there's a dimension in the multiverse where Penny Hardaway
is amazing and if people thought he was going to
be some better at the time, and then Kobe ever
would turn out to be.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
But I think Shaq is blowing smoke on a podcast.
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actual questions by actual listeners, no AI questions, real human beings.
As far as we know, real human beings and to
the reading of the questions over to the coop a loop.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
All right, Ben, We're gonna start off with a question
from digital space Monkey.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Hi digital space Monkey.
Speaker 6 (36:28):
He says, I was recently paid off with a gift
card to raising Canes for one hundred dollars. What is
the better bang for the buck, the three finger meal
or the Caniac combo I subbslaw for more fries.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yes, that's as Yeah. Yeah, so I'm a Candiact combo guy.
When I go to Canes. It's a little pricey. Now,
certainly California's very I don't know how much is where
you are, but very expensive about here. But yeah, that's
the way to go. You don't do the Coleslaw. You're
eating fried chicken. You don't want damn vegetables. Get those
out of there, and then you get the Texas toast
(37:01):
on both sides. You can get a toasted on both sides. Yeah,
you get rid of the Coleslaw extra fiz. That's the
way to go, and just go cany at Combo.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
That's it. They sell more of those three piece things,
but it's better off Canny at Combo. Now, Loraina gets
the kids meal, right, Loraina when you go.
Speaker 6 (37:16):
To Cansa you already know Ben, Yes, I get the kids.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
I've seen you. I'm like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (37:21):
And then I just that is such a that is
such a like a chick move, right, Isn't it?
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Like I'm just gonna get the kids meal.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
I split the caney at combo with my wife. Okay,
I eat the whole thing because that's the that's the
sixth tender ones, right.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm a hawser right, the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
All right, what's next? What are we at?
Speaker 6 (37:43):
All right? Uh, let's go with.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
To ashp in your questions are answers for the rest
of the hour.
Speaker 6 (37:53):
That was a good one that I saw, and I
wanted to get back to. Let's do this one. Okay,
the King Rory wants to know what do you think
is more difficult to learn at an older age. That's
gotta be ice skating or swimming.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Yeah, ice skating, right, But I mean I guess that's
because we all learned how to swim when we were
really young.
Speaker 6 (38:19):
I would I would assume I don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah, yeah, we get tossed, we all got I assume
yeah I got tossed in the water and when.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
I was well kid.
Speaker 6 (38:28):
Yeah, Sam, so traumatize as well. Thanks for that.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
It is odd, though, I mean, I guess you're a
fair amount of people that never learned how to swim.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
It's odd to be good. In my world, that's what
we learned.
Speaker 6 (38:38):
But I don't know. We have a question here from
Josh the.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Oh he's in the Bras Bears fa.
Speaker 6 (38:45):
Yeah, he wants to know what what is your guy's
favorite Monopoly piece to use?
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Why the dramatic clause, Lorena, what do you.
Speaker 6 (38:56):
Really fought over this? We were like, this one's mine.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
When's the last time you I haven't played Monopoly in
probably fifteen years. I think, well, why are you judging me?
Speaker 7 (39:09):
Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 6 (39:10):
That's probably been that long for me as well. But
I but I know what piece I use?
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Yeah, I mean we I would play with the we'd
play with the family, and the games would.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
Take forever and all that stuff. And so I'm trying
to I don't remember what my might go to. What
is your Clarina?
Speaker 1 (39:26):
What was your dog?
Speaker 6 (39:28):
Do the dog? I would always choose either the battleship
or the top hat. I liked both of those. I
was a big fan of the boot too.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Yeah, I think it was the top Hat.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
I liked the top Act because I was styling and
profiling back I'm sure you were back in the day.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
A lot of style to my game.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
All right, to ask men, your questions are answers for
the rest of the hour.
Speaker 6 (39:54):
Eke is asking me what was the best food that
I had on my.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
Cruise Cooper's in Alaska.
Speaker 6 (40:03):
Yes, it wasn't the last cruise. On the cruise itself,
I think it was like this pork medallion dish with
like some raspberry chutney or something like that that was
really free.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
Everything was free on the boat.
Speaker 6 (40:18):
Yeah, yep, I did. I paid for it, but yeah,
and I did upgrade when my meal once to like
a ribbi. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
And you could you get food at any hour, Like
if you wanted a snack at two in the morning,
could you get something.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Or you had to wait till the morning.
Speaker 6 (40:34):
Directly, the room service was twenty four hours.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
Oh man, Yeah, it's dangerous. That is dangerous.
Speaker 6 (40:41):
It was pretty great. I was having like double dinners
desserts with every meal. It was so speaking of dessert.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
So much food must get wasted on those because people like, oh,
I'll take the full.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Meal, like two bites of me. I'm done, all right.
What's next to you?
Speaker 6 (40:57):
Alphie alien Opiner would like to.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
Know I've heard of him.
Speaker 6 (41:00):
Yeah. Would you eat a burger with a pastry for
a bun? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Sure, it's it's the salt, sugar, fat, it's the it's
the sweet spot.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
I had to try that.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
I wouldn't go out of my way to eat it,
but I wouldn't say no to it.
Speaker 6 (41:16):
Lorena, I like a ramen noodle bun, but I would
try a donut bun for sure.
Speaker 7 (41:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:23):
That's been around for years. Doughnut and a hamburger.
Speaker 6 (41:26):
Yeah, definitely, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
Right, be really good.
Speaker 6 (41:31):
I've never had it, but I would.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Yeah, yeah I've I don't think i've had any like
the donut thing.
Speaker 6 (41:38):
I don't think that because like you, I wouldn't like
seek it out, like I'm not going to be like,
oh yeah, I'm going to pay for that. But if
like it was sitting here on the counter, if somebody
left this, right, I would eat it, put it in
my mouth.
Speaker 4 (41:53):
Yeah, absolutely, all right. Somebody left some weird food the
other day in the kitchen. Was it like, what was it?
Speaker 7 (41:59):
Was?
Speaker 1 (42:00):
You?
Speaker 4 (42:00):
Old containers.
Speaker 6 (42:01):
Nobody ate that was? That was Lorainas that was it
was like my Mexican food.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Yeah, it was planting, Yeah yeah yeah, who's leaving rice
and beans in the kitchen?
Speaker 4 (42:11):
Like, what are you doing?
Speaker 6 (42:13):
Was Loraina's food? I was idiot.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
You don't eat it, you don't leave it there. Remember
the rule, it's on that table. It's fair game. I
did share, Okay, yeah, nobody wanted it right.
Speaker 6 (42:26):
Next next question, this is one's from fer Dog, his
first good question in like a year. I'm I'm proud
of you for dog taking a shot. He wants to know,
would you rather have one million dollars or the ability
to talk to animals?
Speaker 1 (42:43):
All right, so I would rather talk to animals. Here's
why I could get an animal army and make more
than a million. So yes, Lorena, why.
Speaker 6 (42:52):
Already talk to animals. I will take the money. Cool,
I take the ability to talk to animals.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
That'd be yeah, I would become I'd become Barnaman Bailey
times a thousand.
Speaker 4 (43:02):
Dude, Come on,
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