May 19, 2025 • 45 mins
Big Ben talks about the Denver Nuggets getting blown out in Game 7 against the Thunder as OKC advances to the Western Conference Finals, the 49ers locking up Brock Purdy with a contract extension, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, Are You Smarter Than an FSR Tech Queen, and more!
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Speaker 3 (00:32):
It was a joker of a Game seven and not
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Maybe not for you, but for us, it does begin
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in here and all that crap. But our lead this
hour is from pro Bouncy Ball. Don't bury the lead,
by man heart. We're not gonna bear the lead. So
we had an island game in the NBA, and island
game not at night. See, the NBA realizes Oklahoma City
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and Denver not worthy of prime time. So they played
that bad boy in the afternoon. That game you normal
game seven, standalone game. Island game played at night. No,
they said this game so crappy, We're not gonna play
that game at night. And they didn't play the game
at night. They played it in the afternoon, Nicola Jokic
and the Nuggets traveling circus headed over to the Sooners
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State there for the last dance, one last opportunity against
Shaye Jogas Alexander the former Clipper, and he plays for
the Thunder.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
So game seven, Oh, greatest words in sports unless it
was this Game seven. Oklahoma City the youngest team in
the history of the NBA to win at least sixty games.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Whoopee am do and against the.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Championship pedigree of Denver. How many times have we heard
that when the Nuggets do anything, go championship pedigree. Shove
that right up your old keister. All right, So, Thunder,
we're an eight point favorite, come into this an eight
point favorite.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
How did that turn out?
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Well?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
If you didn't watch the game, consider yourself lucky. It
was a sleepy afternoon, a Sunday, fun day, without much
fun in terms of competition. You want a close game,
you want a game Game seven. If you could pick
out the scenario with five minutes to go, it's anyone's game.
Who's going to make plays down the stretch? So that
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we got none of that, We got none of that.
That did not happen in this game. But don't worry.
We did watch so you would not have to, and
you didn't miss a damn thing as a shade Jogas
Alexander scored thirty five points and Jalen Williams, who was
an absolute turd in a previous game, had twenty four
and the Thunder vaporized the Nuggets like a fat guy
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at McDonald's eating chicken. Nuggets won twenty five to ninety
three in Game seven. As Oklahoma City advances, they head
now to the Western Conference Final and the top seeded
Thunder will host the sixth seeded Minnesota Timberwolves starting on
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what is that Tuesday night?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Tuesday night? There you go.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
So Oklahoma City the first trip to the conference finals
since twenty sixteen, and so that is the setup here,
But the better story is in the losing locker room,
and so that is where we will begin as we
discuss the question, how does one explain how does one
explain Nakola Jokic and the Nuggets getting crushed like a
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bug on the rug they got stomped on.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
In Game seven.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
It's one thing to lose, but to not have any
kind of fight, A gutless effort by the Denver Nuggets
in this game. So I've got poetic Tom Hanks and
Jelly Roll and we will combine all of these things
together and make a nice trip to can Kuon is
what we're going to make. So a this was what
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I call a bad good game. A bad I use
that phrase. If you've been with the show a long time,
you know sometimes I'll use the phrase bad good. Now
what I mean by that It was bad to watch.
It was bad to watch. It wasn't competitive, but it
was good because it was such a rat kill you
didn't need to watch it. And I was like, I'm
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not gonna sit here and say I watch. After midway
through the third quarter, I'm out. The most valuable thing
we have is our time. I'm not wasting my time
on that drek. Okay, I'm out. If the Nuggets aren't
gonna try, why am I gonna try to watch? My God? Now, Denver,
they started the game with an old Hollywood trick. We
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see its back when people used to watch movies. I know,
movies are kind of laying now and people don't really
go to movies, and the movies they make are terrible
for the most part, But when you used to back
in the old days people used to actually go to
the movies.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I got a big deal, you know, it was a
huge deal.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
And so that quick start, it's called the fake out,
that quick start where you think, man, this is great,
great opening scene, we got something here.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
This is good.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
It's gonna be a good movie. And then you settle
in and it stinks. Movie blows right. And the Nuggets
got out of the gates. They were up by eleven points.
You figure that have a chance. In the fourth chord,
they had to play with the lead. So they were
up by eleven midway through the first quarter. From that
point forward, I went back. I did the mal of
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math on this. From that point forward, up eleven, they
were outscored, they being the Nuggets by fifty four points.
They fell behind by forty three points. So they went
up eleven, down forty three and turn at the last
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the parties over. Now in that stretch, Oklahoma City faced
no defense. Why couldn't the Nuggets play defense like that
against the Clippers in Game seven? In fact, that the
Nuggets looked like the Clippers that gave up James Harden
out there playing for the nugget at five, James Harden's
out there for the Denver Nuggets so Oklahoma City in
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that stretch where they went from down eleven to up
forty three, he had SGA and Jalen Williams combined for
fifty five points.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
In that stretch.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
They shot sixty percent in a game seven over sixty percent.
While in that stretch the Denver stars Nikoley Jokic and
Jamal Murray combined for twenty six points and shot forty
three percent. Now, I never played in the NBA. I
just do an overnight show. But I don't think that's good.
(07:59):
You think think that's good. The Nuggets were an anemic
seventeen percent from three point range, led by Jamal Murray
is one of eight from prepoint range in that stretch. Yeah,
good afternoon, good evening, and good night. Now that being said,
I am actually happy the Nuggets lost.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Well, are you happy the Douggets?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Low?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
You should be happy the Douggets.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Oh no, it's not because of that guy, Jeff and
Denver that calls the show. It's not because of that guy.
But the way I look at the Nuggets losing here,
I'm gonna go very deep here. I feel like this
is poetic. That Denver lost. It's poetic justice, and somewhere
somewhere at a mansion, far far away, Michael Malone cracked
open a cold one and celebrated the demise of the
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Nuggets because they did him dirty, dirty, dirty dogs. They
did Michael Malone dirty, dumping him days before the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
You dance with the one you brought.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
They whacked Malone, thinking that Weasley ownership there in Denver.
They thought, well, I'll get her to the GA, We'll
get rid of the we'll get rid of the cod
We're gonna be fine.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Uh. And how that turned out.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
They hired that I want to be polite NEPO interim
coach David Adelman. Okay, that guy, and they know I'm
gonna zoom into the final four and all that.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Well.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
The doppelganger, as a listener pointed out, of the impractical
Joker star James Murray, had nothing, had absolutely nothing right there.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
And so the Nuggets are out, which is good. It's
it's poetic justin.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
You don't want to see a team that makes that
kind of business decision, that kind of pathetic move, like
the Denver Nuggets have success and they didn't have it
all right, now, turning the page.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
So this got me all worked up.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
One of the pet one of the pet peeves I
have is how amazingly lazy the modern athlete is, right,
how babied, how coddled the modern athlete is.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And it's a great example of that in what happened
in after Game seven.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
So Aaron Gordon, who.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Started despite a hamstring injury, and you would have thought
they had to amputate it. It was like during the Civil
War they had to amputate the leg. And he went
out there and played amazed. He hopped on one leg,
he was on a hopper, so he played fine. Okay,
good for him, all right, But rather than just celebrating
the fact that he played, not that he played that great,
rather than just that after the game had concluded, Aaron
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Gordon said he had a wish about what he'd like
to see the NBA do with the schedule in the playoffs.
And now, now keep in mind the players have complained
for a long time. Wow, we got back to back
games in the regular season. So the NBA made sure
in the playoffs. No back to back. You never played
back to back. Never ever back to back. They used
to play back to back. They never played back to back.
(10:40):
That's not good enough for this schmuck. Listen to Aaron
Gordon take a Liz.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
I would really really appreciate it if there were a
couple of days in between games in the playoffs instead
of every other day, regardless if you go seven games.
And I understand, if you do your work early and
you get first seed, then you can have some time off.
But I think the days in between games not just
off day and a travel day, but travel day and
a recovery day, just two, just two days. I think
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the product of the game would be a lot better.
I think there'd be a just a better product on
the floors. Just to give all these professional athletes just,
you know, one more day of rest, and you would
see a higher level of basketball, probably less blowouts.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Okay, that was not AI, by the way people think, Well,
but no one would actually like No Marshmallow would actually
say that, Like, what would they want their name?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
He said it. That's not AI, that's real. So Aaron Gordon,
you just heard it.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
He thinks the NBA needs more days off between playoff
games to prevent postseason blowouts. What is your verdict on
this one? Okay, so my verdict on this is poppy cocky.
That is my verdict on that. Poppycock. Poppycock, poppycock, poppycock, poppycock.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
That's my verdict. It is twisted reasoning. Now, it's twisted reasoning.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
It's ridiculous, Like tell me you don't know what you're
talking about, without telling me you don't know what you're
talking about. The schedule is fair because it's equal for
all the teams, Like there is supposed to be a
degree of difficulty in the NBA playoffs. Hello, Like what
are we doing here? Like everyone's playing on the same umbrella,
the same conditions. And I keep hearing from people that
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we we have the top trainers, we use computer science
and technology and all this stuff. We're so advanced to
the advancements to help the human body quickly recover. Oh
my god, it's never enough. And it reminds me of
the Tom Hanks character in the League of the Road
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when you talk about this.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Of course it's hard, right, It's yes, it's supposed to
be hard.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
It was easy. Everyone would do it. These guys Eric
Gordon ten, you're wuss. What are you doing? You need
oh read it next year?
Speaker 3 (12:59):
How about a week we play like the NFL. Wait
once a week every Sunday. You play a game every Sunday,
play a stupid game.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
That wouldn't be enough. It is so stupid.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I just I can't wrap my head about how dumb
this is. Well we did, yeah, okay, let's just why
don't we have how about the NBA Finals. It'll be
sometime maybe in August. They'll end the NBA Finals. That
would that be good?
Speaker 4 (13:22):
My god.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
The whole point is to distinguish what the goald is
from the gravel, and to do that you have to
have the war of attrition, not the war of Let's
get as much rest as we can possibly have. It's like, jeez, yeah,
I'm sure blowoffs will never happen. Yeah, how about you
don't quit like the Nuggets did in this game, then
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you won't get blown out?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
And you don't give me, oh they quit. You don't
lose a game by that many points if you're trying,
you don't. And the players again, they complain about the
back to backs. Fine, that there's a you have to
do that because of scheduling issues with the arenas and
so they've gotten rid of a lot of that. The
back to backs they used to play many more back
to backs, and they belly ache playing every other day
in the playoffs. And it's like the lesson is, no
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matter what you guys are gonna bitch about something, you're
gonna complain about something, to shut up. It's annoying, it's unbecoming.
I mean, do you realize the people are watching you
stupid games are working two or three jobs, most of
them they they're not seeing any other family.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
The love was and you're complaining because you want an
extra day off between a stupid playoff game when you're
already getting the day off between the play That's Aaron
Gordon all right.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Anyway, uh now the last part of this.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Nicole Jokish also gave us some good content post game.
As the Nuggets have been extinguished from the playoffs, they
have been decommissioned from the postseason. So he was asked
whether the Nuggets can win a championship as they are
currently constructed another title with this group of players.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Then, well, here's what he had to say.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Take it was, do you feel like this team could
still win a championship as it's put together?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Now?
Speaker 7 (15:02):
I mean, we didn't, so we can't. If we if
we could win it, So I don't believe in those
if stuff. So we had an opportunity, we didn't. We didn't.
We didn't win it, so I think we can't.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Okay, there you go ifs. I do not believe in
the word if. All right, So the question where does
Denver go from here? Where does Denver go from here?
Do they simply remodel around Nicola Yolkic or is this
a total demo?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Blow it up?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
So the answer, Mighty cooder Ring tells me what the
joker just said there is now We're cooked? Is what
he meant to say, right, We're screwed. I mean, this
is this is bad, bad, but bad, bad bad all right.
So if I'm the Nugg, it's like the chance of
them getting a player in the next five to ten
years as good as Yo Kic is are slim and none,
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as the line goes, and none is on a plane
right now going to Bermuda, So good luck on that.
What you do here, if you're the Nuggets, you go
down to home depot and it's a DIY project.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Do it yourself? All right?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
This is do it yourself project. You've got really two
or three seasons of Jokic where you can make this
thing work, right, you can make this thing work. And
so you treat Nicole Jokic like the Jelly Roll song
and you just hold on to him until the wheels
fall off. Of Jokic, he doesn't seem like the kind
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of guy like he's a plane demand that goes to
some other team. He doesn't seem like that kind of
Maybe he is, and he's been in the NBA a
long time, and by osmosis, maybe he's learned to be
a schmuck like all the other guys in demand to
go to some big market teams somewhere. But if I'm
the Nuggets and I got no skin in the game here,
if I'm the Denver Nuggets, I'm like, hey, I'm riding
this all right. I'm going till the wheels fall off.
He's thirty years old. So you got, like I said,
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two or three seasons, and this is gonna be a decline.
These are the athletic primes. At thirty two, that's the peak,
and then it's slowly, you hope it slowly goes down,
and you fill the gaps in around him and you
try to make one one more sustained run.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
With Jokichen. Then that's it. If he's done. When he's done,
you move on.
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The way tire buying should be. So our lead this
hour is from a developing story now. It happened over
the weekend in the NFL. We were away a massive
cartoon chip, massive check was handed out in the NFL,
and so we were not here now if you listen
to the Fifth Hour podcast, which you should be doing
(19:08):
in addition to this podcast, we did do a brief
chat about it myself and Danny g on the Saturday
pod that we did over the weekend, so we were
not in the watchtower. And some new developments after that
have happened, which means that even though this story has
taken place with the last couple of days, it is
still worthy of some hot talk on the radio. So
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and I assume you've heard the meat of it, but
maybe not, maybe not. We learned over the weekend the
forty nine ers have done the thing you can't do
at the time you can't do it. They have paid
brock Party two one hundred and sixty five million dollars
over five years and a contract extension. Now Perty gets
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one hundred and eighty one garrong teeth. If brock Purty
goes out, never throws another touchdown pass, and throws interception fumbles,
all all that, he still gets one hundred and eighty
one million total guaranteed money one hundred and sixty five
point one million in the first three years.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
It must be nice.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
And he is now under contract through the year twenty thirty,
which seems like it's a long way.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Away, but it's already May of twenty twenty five. So
let's deliberate on this. That's what we do here. We deliberate.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
So the question who benefits the most, who benefits the
most from this deal? Is it the forty nine ers
locking up they're alleged in air quotes franchise quarterback, or
is it brock Perty securing a long term, massive amount
of money that is garanteed in that stability that you get.
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All right, So my observations on this. You've got a leaf,
the booth, and the overkill, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
some absolutely delicious garlic fries which you can get in
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San Francisco. They know how to make those garlic fries there.
Oh man, so good. All right, So my first observation,
some would say.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Number yeah, the arrow on this.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
One is directed squarely in the corner of Rock Party.
No ifs ands or butts about it. Now, I have
no ill will.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Against the player.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
There is this perception by people like her nest Do
and Terry in England, the other big forty nine er
apologists that listen to the show, many of them in
northern California, that I am anti brock Party.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I have some ill will. I don't. I've never met
brock Party.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I did see him once at the Super Bowl and
he looked like he was a sophomore in high school.
But that's not That's good for him, you know. Mozeltov,
congratulations on getting the big pay day.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Would I have done it? Absolutely not. I would not
have done this now.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
As we mentioned in the fifth Hour podcast over the weekend,
the exclusive pod only fifth Hour that the company has
me to do over the weekend, this is great news for.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
The La Rams, the Arizona Cardinals, and the Seattle Seahawks.
Just a good weekend, all right.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
You picked up a win over the weekend because of
nothing you did. But it's kind of like I tell
people when they start out in broadcasting, much of your
success will be because other people fail in front of you.
And the forty nine ers they have done that. They
have made the mistake that you cannot do. To give
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one hundred and eighty one million guaranteed to a supporting actor,
not a leading actor. A supporting actor masquerading as a
leading actor is malfeasance, is what it is. That's the
word here. Perty is not the straw that stirs the drink.
You're supposed to be the straw that stirs the drink.
Brock Perdy is not the straw. He is a leaf,
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not Ryan leaf. He is just a leaf in the current.
That is what Brock Party is in the NFL. He's
a system guy. Now you can have success with a
system guy, There's a limit to it. In order to
win a super Bowl, everything else must be perfect, and
if things are not perfect, you're screwed. A Party's success
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is so tied, so handcuffed to Shanahan and the scheme
of the offensive scheme up Rock Party and the talent
around him, which last I checked is not nearly as good.
And unless I'm mistaken rock party does not elevate anyone,
which is what the point of demarcation is to the
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players that you pay and those that you don't pay.
Top dollar two, brock Purty, you're not that guy, Pal,
You're not that guy. That's not offensive. That's just reality,
and it's been proven. When injuries started tearing away the
elite talent the Niners had McCaffrey got last year, Deebo, Samuel,
George Kittle, these guys were dinged up brock Purdy like
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a vampire exposed to sunlight. It did not go well, right.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
We saw the limitations, and the Niners still paid him.
They still paid him, which tells you how dumb the dumb, dumb,
dumb the forty nine ers are like, it's not like
it was a secret.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
If I know, they know.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
So he proved our hypothesis was correct, and yet they
still paid him.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
On what planet in the Milky Way does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Not this one, not this one, maybe some other planning
right across the world. The numbers dropped everything from the
NERD stat expected points added was down. But if you
go by the traditional stats year to year, when Perdy
had his guys and then when he didn't have his guys.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
His numbers. Year to year, he was down.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Yards were down thirty five percent, touchdowns down thirty five percent,
touchdowns down thirty five percent, yards were down nine point
seven percent. Interceptions went up nine percent. So you can
do the metal. That's a lot as a ton. That
is a massive situation. But wait, there's more. The forty
nine Ers went one and seven as they were free falling,
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free falling the tailspin, and brock Purty was not good
enough to save them. Right, He's not a good enough
town to elevate the secondary players that Niners were playing,
and they missed the playoffs, playoffs, and so these are
legitimate concerns that this guy was elevated by elite players
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and he was deflated without those elite players.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Now it's not all bad news. I'll be positive.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I'll be Benny Bright's side for the forty nine ers
marching in chowder society because the Niners sucked so much
last year that they have going into this year the easiest.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Schedule in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
The forty nine Ers, based on strength of schedule from
what had happened last year, are on easy Street, which
just is going to make it more agonizing, because what
you're gonna end up doing is push back the inevitable collapse,
because you can do it with smoke and mirrors for
a while, but eventually when you play better teams down
the line, good luck and so for a while they'll
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be able to hide Brock Party. But man, now flipping
the page about page two, So what does the timing,
What is the timing of this announcement of the Brock
Party contract tell us of anything? So it absolutely tells
us something. To me, it's a big part of the story,
and it's really confirmation that we are on the right
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side of the story with our take all right, because
it is a trip to the booth. That's trip of
the booth, it is the confessional booth. It's an admission.
The forty nine ers have admitted they're not proud of this.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
They're not right.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
There are factions of the franchise that obviously are ashamed.
This is a massive overpay for a marginal talent rock party,
and my supporting evidence on that is the day it
was announced. If you are proud of a move like this,
you want to get full attention. You want everyone to
(27:23):
talk about how great your franchise is and what a
wonderful move this was, and how do you do that?
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Well, there's ways to do it.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
People that work in public relations, though, there's certain days
of the week to get more attention than other days.
The worst possible time to do something the time, like
in politics.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
If you want to announce bad news, or if you're a.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Major corporation and you're going to lay off a bunch
of people, what do you do it?
Speaker 4 (27:50):
When do you do it?
Speaker 3 (27:50):
You do it on the Friday news dump dumpty dump
dump dump the Friday.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
News dump take out the trash day is what they
call it. When you announce something on Friday, is to
downplay the media coverage. And you would do that in
a contract announcement because you're ashamed of it. You're embarrassed
of it. I don't blame the niners. I would be
embarrassed to I would be ashamed. And even in the
age of social media, even in the age now where
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everyone's plugged in all the time and all that news consumption,
it is proven is lower on Fridays and Saturdays and Sundays.
People unplugged, They unwind. Some people even go out and
touch grass.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Amazing.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I get their feet in actual grass, they get out
of their houses. It's amazing, right, So on that the
prosecution rest. I don't know how you can fight that back.
You don't make that announcement on Friday. You can make
that announcement any day of the week. You announce it
on Friday if you're the Niners. If you're embarrassed and
they're embarrassed. All right now, final point. We also learned
over the weekend that the Rock Party six year contract
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with the Niners comes with a no trade clause.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
So is this a.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Big deal, a little deal or no deal? That brock
perty has a no trade claw, so this is no deal.
It's certainly not a big deal. It's not a little deal.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
It's no deal.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And the reason is it is a whoopee damn do situation.
It's kind of like if you buy a car, you
go down to the dealership, you buy the car, and
the dealer will often throw in to try to sweeten
the deal. They'll throw in some extras that sound enticing
to get you to buy the car, but aren't necessary.
(29:39):
And that's what this is. It's not necessary. The no
trade clause is irrelevant. It's like those dealer accessories. It's
like the floor matt or the cargo net in the
car that you don't really need.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Get A no trade clause is overkilled. It's just overkill.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
And the re and why is because if you are
a starting quarterback in the NFL, you're most likely not
going to get traded. But if you are going to
be traded, no one's going to acquire you unless you're
fully invested in that team unless you want to play
for that team. You know you don't want the dead wood.
You cut the dead wood out of the team. So
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no one's going to trade for a guy like Brock
Purdy unless Brock Purdy wants.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
To leave and go play for that team. He's from Arizona.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Maybe someday he wants to play for the Cardinals or
something like that, and that would be the way it goes.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
But it's like, you don't need to put it in.
It's irrelevant.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
If you're some offensive lineman or something like that, or
a different position, we can revisit that, But as a
starting quarterback, it doesn't matter. It's like an extra add
on from the dealership to try to get you to
buy the car.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
It doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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Speaker 3 (30:53):
Here we Go, Here we Go, Here we Go?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Is one Get Ben.
Speaker 8 (31:03):
It was reported on Friday that Packers GM Brian Gudokountz
met with wide receiver Jaden Reid's agent Jew Rosenhaus last
week to clarify reid status in Green Bay after they
drafted Matthew Golden in the first round. Team said it
will not affect reid status as the team's top receiver. Ben,
do you believe them?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Well, Coop, you started a movie called Liar Liar. That
would be Liar Liar, Coop. I mean it's obvious, Listen.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
It's like a Fox Sports radio hired a new weekend
overnight host and said a weekday overnight hosts said, wow,
you're fine, Ben. Nothing where They obviously drafted Golden because
they don't like what they have at the wide receiver
position and you can only have one number one all that,
it's a very crowded situation.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I don't believe the Packers. I don't believe the agent either.
He's obviously not happy.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
If they thought he was as good as advertised, they
wouldn't have drafted this guy in the first round, Matthew Gold.
Speaker 8 (31:52):
Next, with the Eastern and Western Conference finals both set.
Who do you think has been the MVP of the
playoffs so far?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Why?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
As you know, Coop, the NBA does not have an
official MVP of the Playoff award.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
They do not have that.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
That being said, there's one team from New York and
a bunch of small market teams. So I'm gonna go
with the guy from the Knicks, Jalen Brunson as your
playoff MVP right now because of that New York bias.
But Joyus Randall's been great for Minnesota. Shake yogas Alexander
after some tough games to turn around.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Next, We're right.
Speaker 8 (32:22):
Lonzo Ball made the podcast appearance over the weekend. He
predicted his brother LaMelo will end up on the Clippers. Ben,
do you want Mellow on the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
As long as he doesn't have James Hardin itis.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
He's never been in the playoffs with the Hornets, so
if he doesn't suck him in the.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Playoffs, I'm fine. I like Lonzo Ball. How do we
do you pass this edition?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
There?
Speaker 4 (32:40):
It is?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Oh LeVar Bar, I'm at LaVar bar. I like the
var ball LaVar bow. The dad, I like the dad
LaVar ball. He lost his leg, his foot.
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Speaker 4 (32:59):
To and live.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Hey you sports figure, guy or girl?
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Who here were you talking to? Sons?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Here some instant advice?
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Hold that thought. No one's paid attention to me for
ten whole seconds, and if you don't like it, you
and away we go.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
It's the insta advice line unscreened radio. The safety net
is off. So who in the world of sports needs
the wisdom the knowledge of the Militia, the powerful underground
network of legends that listen to the overnight show, So listen.
We could give advice to a coach or a prominent athlete,
(33:38):
a caller, or someone in the world that needs the
knowledge that the Maveler Militia can provide.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
I think at this point we should start keep it simple.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
The Denver Nuggets, they won a championship a couple of
years ago, and they get blown off the court in
Game seven.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
But specifically, Aaron Gordon of the Nuggets. Who thinks that
the NBA needs to have two games two days off
between games. That one day off between games is not enough.
So advice to Aaron Gordon on how to deal with
the great injustice of having to have a day off
between work assignments in the NBA. Eight seven, seven ninety
(34:17):
nine on Fox the number you're live on the air.
When you hear my voice, we're giving advice to Aaron
Gordon of the Nuggets.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Line number one, and you're on the airline one.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Go, I want to date a girl named Sucking.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
All right, think all right? Line three, you're on the
airline three. Hello, we're giving advice. Line number three to
Aaron Gordon of the Nuggets. Line three is not there.
We'll go to you online.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Two.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Hello, line to advice to Aaron Gordon.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Line two, Blond Scott steals candy from babies. All right,
thank you. That's Jed who fled. Line number four. Hello,
line four, we're giving advice to Aaron Gordon. He says
the NBA needs to have two days off between playoff games.
Speaker 7 (34:56):
Like that.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Hey up, because the Angel has swept the freeways.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Greatest greatest moments since two for the Angels, A line
line five. Hello, line five, you're on the airline five.
Your phone sucks.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Rick and Maryland. I don't know what happened. Call back,
Rick and Maryland, get a better phone. Line six, Hello,
line six. Line six is not there? Eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox. We'll go back to line number one.
Give me advice, all right, thank you. We're giving advice
to Aaron Gordon of the Nuggets. He says the NBA
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needs two days off between playoff games.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
That one is just unfair.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
It's the reason the game's blow is because one day
off is just not enough for these little softies.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
In the NBA.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Line two, Hello, line two, Oh, that's that's a tribute
to the late great spoke Caangary, who used to call
this show back in the day and preach about Dale
Murphy for the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Line three, Hello, line three. Oh there it is Lorena.
This is Tukis Tuckers Tucker's man. This is the hero
of the show. Thank you, Tukus Tuckers Tucker's man. I'm
ver klemok he did, he said, tug that's a great
Yiddis word. Line four, you're on the airline four. Hello,
(36:16):
line line four, kicked their Oh I know who that is.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
That's our buddy from LA. He doesn't call a show
much anymore. Line Thorn, Jackass, Josh is his name? Line five, Hello,
Line five, Yeah, yeah, it's easy bringing doge I go
away eight seven, seven ninety nine. On Fox, we're giving
advice to Aaron Gordon. That's a basketball player for the Nuggets,
who actually said, and he wasn't kidding, the NBA needs
(36:45):
to add an extra day off between playoff games because
playing every other day is just not right.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
And it's the reason there's so many blowouts. I'm not
making this up.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
This sounds like satire. This sounds like it's fake. He
actually said it, and there's people that agree with him.
Line six, you're on the air Line six. Go Line six,
not paying attention.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
We're going to line one.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
It's the instant advice line for Aaron Gordon of the Nuggets.
Line number one, All right, Line I don't know that
I heard, but he said maybe not.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Line two.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Hello, Line two, I'd be the pyamedic. Yeah, all right,
you should probably call a different number, not this number.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
Line three. You're on the Airline three.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
You chur leaders do have all right?
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Line five, I don't want to hear the end of that. Line.
Five you're on the airline five.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Hey, big Ben Dollar. What Aaron Gordon needs to do
is listen to Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 6 (37:40):
Go get some aahuasca and become the Aaron twin.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
There you go, just get a liahuasca. Listen to Aaron Rodgers.
That's all you need there, great life advice. Line six,
you're on the airline six bills not Jack as Josh
midto broh.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Okay, well you all those drunks sound the same. I
will do one more coop. You'll pick it. Last one coop,
go ahead, last call on the instant of ice line
number one, number one.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
You're on the air one, go on one morning.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Time morning time? Is it working?
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (38:08):
Working?
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Wrecking Maryland morning Time, the Legend Rick and Maryland.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
He fixed his phone just in time, just before the buzzer.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
Play the game right now here we go said, just
like bet, you strut around like you know everything.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Computers are for losers, normal people. Well, how dare she o?
What do you?
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Let's find out? Are you smarter than an FSR tech queen,
So only one person gets to play. Now, if you're
on hold and you called to play the game, you
might want to hold on because if the person that
plays is terrible, we might go to the bullpen. I'm
just telling me, you gonna hang up if you want.
I'm not forcing you to stay on hold.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
But Marcell picked number one, and that is Nate in Minnesota.
Good morning, Nate Horn, big man.
Speaker 8 (38:55):
How the hell are you?
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Are you smarter than the FSR tech queen? Nate? I sure?
Hell all right, this guy sounds This guy sounds confident. Lorena,
you got no chance.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
This's this guy's highly educated, he's highly motivated. You're driving
around right now. You're probably going to a big job somewhere.
You make a lot of money, the whole thing, right, Oh, sir, I.
Speaker 6 (39:16):
Wanted to be a class clown in high school, and
I had no interest in continuing.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
My education after high school. So if I get to
go to work at four point thirty.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
In the morning, oh okay.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Well, guy, Guy Fieri didn't graduate high school and he's
got a TV show on Food Networks.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
Well, look at him.
Speaker 7 (39:32):
He's a handsome dude.
Speaker 6 (39:34):
I'm not very handsome.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Okay, so this guy's ugly and has a didn't go
to school and is a class clown, and Loree, you
can't lose this guy.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
Honestly, it sounds good for me, but who knows. Okay.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
The categories are geography, history, pop culture, sports, science.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
And grab bag.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
We may not get to all the categories depending on
time and are you smart on the FSR tech Queen
and Nate get a start to pick a category here
in Nate, which one do you want to start with?
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Well, it's a sports station, so let's go.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Sports plausibly a sports station. Okay, this should be very simple.
We'll let Loraina go first. Which NFL team was named
after their first head coach? Which NFL team was named
after their first head coach? All right, not a chance,
Coop is snickering off the side.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
This is hilarious because this is a hard one. This
one's really hard.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
It kind of is.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
It can really only I mean, there's only one. I'm
gonna go with the Bears, the Bears, all right, coach Bear? Alright,
Nate in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
You agree with Loren or do you want to give
a different answer? Which NFL team was named after their
first coach.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
I disagree.
Speaker 6 (40:56):
I think it's the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
All right, that is correct, Cleveland Bears. All right, whatever,
you got that one right, Good job by you.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
We move on.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Let's go to the next category, geography. All right, well,
Lorraino is very good at geography, and it's very good.
She got the great Okay, see this guy's a little scarier.
This Nate's a little freaking out over here.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
This guy.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
All right, So here we go. Geography. Elevation is the
height is the height of land above what? Sea level?
All right? She says sea level? You agree with that, Nate?
Speaker 3 (41:35):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
That was an easy one, got that right. Look at you.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Unbelievable right now, you're not. Let's go to history. The
next category is history, and you should know this.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
This is pretty basic. Are you smart?
Speaker 1 (41:48):
On the FSR tech queen you listening to her live coverage?
Play as long as you listen on the Ben Mallor Show,
We've got Nate class clown, hated school and he's working
at four thirty in the morning and all that in Minnesota.
All right, So, which of the seven Wonders of the
world is still standing today? It's still around today. All right,
(42:09):
which are the seven wonders of the world? Is still
standing today?
Speaker 4 (42:11):
Loraina? Go ahead, day you know all I.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
Went first on the last one.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
He has to go the.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
How this works? Cheat, he's gonna cheat, and he's gonna
copy my answer. I don't think you'll be copying your answer.
I pretty no, go ahead, you go first, mister smart man.
You're gonna copy his and not I have my one.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
I got one.
Speaker 4 (42:30):
Pyramids of e all right, Loraina, what say you?
Speaker 8 (42:34):
No, it's it's the it's the heads over in the thingies,
the what you know, the the Eastern Island, the Easter Island.
Speaker 4 (42:42):
Yeah, no, that is not one of the seven wonders
of the world. It is we're looking for a great pyramid.
But we'll give you that, Nate. You got it right,
you got to write the pyramids, we'll give it to you.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
Whatever you're getting smoked here, Lorenz is not going well smoked, Ben, well, no,
not yet.
Speaker 4 (42:55):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
That'll be after all right, So here we go. Uh,
the science is the next categor word. All right, I
think the game is already over, but we'll keep going.
You've already dominated.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
The game, my man, Nate, all right, what galaxy is
the Earth part of what galaxy is the.
Speaker 4 (43:13):
Earth part of? Go ahead, I want to say, nebula? Nebula? Okay,
are you curious? Even Nate? The class Crown thinks you're
you're what's it around with you? It's the beauty of
the game.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
Well, well she's that's a good question, are you. That's
a better question than I asked, Nate. You want to
give it a shot, Nate. But gallon, there you go
the Milky Way, like the Candy Barle Arena, the Milky Way. Well,
this is the biggest blow we've had on the game,
(43:54):
and we we haven't even gotten the pop culture yet.
Speaker 4 (43:57):
Only that's my favorite.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Right, we'll get to pop culture. Absolutely, you should do
very well here. All right, pop culture. This game is
already over.
Speaker 3 (44:08):
But what was the first social network to reach a
global audience? It started in three Space? I thought, this
guy gets to go for you want to you think
my skirt?
Speaker 4 (44:19):
All right, Nate? What you agree with that?
Speaker 2 (44:22):
Or no?
Speaker 4 (44:23):
Yeah, that is correct, it is it is my space.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
I win.
Speaker 4 (44:28):
No, you do not.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
You do not win.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
This is this game is a blow. At least you
got one right there at the end. All right, Nate, congratulations.
You are smarter than the FSR Tech Queen.
Speaker 7 (44:43):
So Ben, I'll be looking in the mail for my trophy.
Speaker 4 (44:46):
All right, We're going to send you a We'll give
you a golden ticket, so you get that.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
And.
Speaker 4 (44:53):
You know what you can do with your golden ticket.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
You can use it to call the show, and we'll
give you also if you want a life time supply nothing.
So if you want nothing, calls up, we'll give you nothing.
And also a trip to nowhere, so you'll get to
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Maybe not for you, but for us, it does begin
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right this second, slaving away over the hot microphones of
Fox Sports Radio, the bright lights of the YouTube cameras
in here and all that crap. But our lead this
hour is from pro Bouncy Ball. Don't bury the lead,
by man heart. We're not gonna bear the lead. So
we had an island game in the NBA, and island
game not at night. See, the NBA realizes Oklahoma City
(02:19):
and Denver not worthy of prime time. So they played
that bad boy in the afternoon. That game you normal
game seven, standalone game. Island game played at night. No,
they said this game so crappy, We're not gonna play
that game at night. And they didn't play the game
at night. They played it in the afternoon, Nicola Jokic
and the Nuggets traveling circus headed over to the Sooners
(02:42):
State there for the last dance, one last opportunity against
Shaye Jogas Alexander the former Clipper, and he plays for
the Thunder.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
So game seven, Oh, greatest words in sports unless it
was this Game seven. Oklahoma City the youngest team in
the history of the NBA to win at least sixty games.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Whoopee am do and against the.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Championship pedigree of Denver. How many times have we heard
that when the Nuggets do anything, go championship pedigree. Shove
that right up your old keister. All right, So, Thunder,
we're an eight point favorite, come into this an eight
point favorite.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
How did that turn out?
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Well?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
If you didn't watch the game, consider yourself lucky. It
was a sleepy afternoon, a Sunday, fun day, without much
fun in terms of competition. You want a close game,
you want a game Game seven. If you could pick
out the scenario with five minutes to go, it's anyone's game.
Who's going to make plays down the stretch? So that
(03:41):
we got none of that, We got none of that.
That did not happen in this game. But don't worry.
We did watch so you would not have to, and
you didn't miss a damn thing as a shade Jogas
Alexander scored thirty five points and Jalen Williams, who was
an absolute turd in a previous game, had twenty four
and the Thunder vaporized the Nuggets like a fat guy
(04:05):
at McDonald's eating chicken. Nuggets won twenty five to ninety
three in Game seven. As Oklahoma City advances, they head
now to the Western Conference Final and the top seeded
Thunder will host the sixth seeded Minnesota Timberwolves starting on
(04:26):
what is that Tuesday night?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Tuesday night? There you go.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
So Oklahoma City the first trip to the conference finals
since twenty sixteen, and so that is the setup here,
But the better story is in the losing locker room,
and so that is where we will begin as we
discuss the question, how does one explain how does one
explain Nakola Jokic and the Nuggets getting crushed like a
(04:51):
bug on the rug they got stomped on.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
In Game seven.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
It's one thing to lose, but to not have any
kind of fight, A gutless effort by the Denver Nuggets
in this game. So I've got poetic Tom Hanks and
Jelly Roll and we will combine all of these things
together and make a nice trip to can Kuon is
what we're going to make. So a this was what
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I call a bad good game. A bad I use
that phrase. If you've been with the show a long time,
you know sometimes I'll use the phrase bad good. Now
what I mean by that It was bad to watch.
It was bad to watch. It wasn't competitive, but it
was good because it was such a rat kill you
didn't need to watch it. And I was like, I'm
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not gonna sit here and say I watch. After midway
through the third quarter, I'm out. The most valuable thing
we have is our time. I'm not wasting my time
on that drek. Okay, I'm out. If the Nuggets aren't
gonna try, why am I gonna try to watch? My God? Now, Denver,
they started the game with an old Hollywood trick. We
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see its back when people used to watch movies. I know,
movies are kind of laying now and people don't really
go to movies, and the movies they make are terrible
for the most part, But when you used to back
in the old days people used to actually go to
the movies.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I got a big deal, you know, it was a
huge deal.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
And so that quick start, it's called the fake out,
that quick start where you think, man, this is great,
great opening scene, we got something here.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
This is good.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
It's gonna be a good movie. And then you settle
in and it stinks. Movie blows right. And the Nuggets
got out of the gates. They were up by eleven points.
You figure that have a chance. In the fourth chord,
they had to play with the lead. So they were
up by eleven midway through the first quarter. From that
point forward, I went back. I did the mal of
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math on this. From that point forward, up eleven, they
were outscored, they being the Nuggets by fifty four points.
They fell behind by forty three points. So they went
up eleven, down forty three and turn at the last
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the parties over. Now in that stretch, Oklahoma City faced
no defense. Why couldn't the Nuggets play defense like that
against the Clippers in Game seven? In fact, that the
Nuggets looked like the Clippers that gave up James Harden
out there playing for the nugget at five, James Harden's
out there for the Denver Nuggets so Oklahoma City in
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that stretch where they went from down eleven to up
forty three, he had SGA and Jalen Williams combined for
fifty five points.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
In that stretch.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
They shot sixty percent in a game seven over sixty percent.
While in that stretch the Denver stars Nikoley Jokic and
Jamal Murray combined for twenty six points and shot forty
three percent. Now, I never played in the NBA. I
just do an overnight show. But I don't think that's good.
(07:59):
You think think that's good. The Nuggets were an anemic
seventeen percent from three point range, led by Jamal Murray
is one of eight from prepoint range in that stretch. Yeah,
good afternoon, good evening, and good night. Now that being said,
I am actually happy the Nuggets lost.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Well, are you happy the Douggets?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Low?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
You should be happy the Douggets.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Oh no, it's not because of that guy, Jeff and
Denver that calls the show. It's not because of that guy.
But the way I look at the Nuggets losing here,
I'm gonna go very deep here. I feel like this
is poetic. That Denver lost. It's poetic justice, and somewhere
somewhere at a mansion, far far away, Michael Malone cracked
open a cold one and celebrated the demise of the
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Nuggets because they did him dirty, dirty, dirty dogs. They
did Michael Malone dirty, dumping him days before the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
You dance with the one you brought.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
They whacked Malone, thinking that Weasley ownership there in Denver.
They thought, well, I'll get her to the GA, We'll
get rid of the we'll get rid of the cod
We're gonna be fine.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Uh. And how that turned out.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
They hired that I want to be polite NEPO interim
coach David Adelman. Okay, that guy, and they know I'm
gonna zoom into the final four and all that.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Well.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
The doppelganger, as a listener pointed out, of the impractical
Joker star James Murray, had nothing, had absolutely nothing right there.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
And so the Nuggets are out, which is good. It's
it's poetic justin.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
You don't want to see a team that makes that
kind of business decision, that kind of pathetic move, like
the Denver Nuggets have success and they didn't have it
all right, now, turning the page.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
So this got me all worked up.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
One of the pet one of the pet peeves I
have is how amazingly lazy the modern athlete is, right,
how babied, how coddled the modern athlete is.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And it's a great example of that in what happened
in after Game seven.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
So Aaron Gordon, who.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Started despite a hamstring injury, and you would have thought
they had to amputate it. It was like during the Civil
War they had to amputate the leg. And he went
out there and played amazed. He hopped on one leg,
he was on a hopper, so he played fine. Okay,
good for him, all right, But rather than just celebrating
the fact that he played, not that he played that great,
rather than just that after the game had concluded, Aaron
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Gordon said he had a wish about what he'd like
to see the NBA do with the schedule in the playoffs.
And now, now keep in mind the players have complained
for a long time. Wow, we got back to back
games in the regular season. So the NBA made sure
in the playoffs. No back to back. You never played
back to back. Never ever back to back. They used
to play back to back. They never played back to back.
(10:40):
That's not good enough for this schmuck. Listen to Aaron
Gordon take a Liz.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
I would really really appreciate it if there were a
couple of days in between games in the playoffs instead
of every other day, regardless if you go seven games.
And I understand, if you do your work early and
you get first seed, then you can have some time off.
But I think the days in between games not just
off day and a travel day, but travel day and
a recovery day, just two, just two days. I think
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the product of the game would be a lot better.
I think there'd be a just a better product on
the floors. Just to give all these professional athletes just,
you know, one more day of rest, and you would
see a higher level of basketball, probably less blowouts.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Okay, that was not AI, by the way people think, Well,
but no one would actually like No Marshmallow would actually
say that, Like, what would they want their name?
Speaker 4 (11:30):
He said it. That's not AI, that's real. So Aaron Gordon,
you just heard it.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
He thinks the NBA needs more days off between playoff
games to prevent postseason blowouts. What is your verdict on
this one? Okay, so my verdict on this is poppy cocky.
That is my verdict on that. Poppycock. Poppycock, poppycock, poppycock, poppycock.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
That's my verdict. It is twisted reasoning. Now, it's twisted reasoning.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
It's ridiculous, Like tell me you don't know what you're
talking about, without telling me you don't know what you're
talking about. The schedule is fair because it's equal for
all the teams, Like there is supposed to be a
degree of difficulty in the NBA playoffs. Hello, Like what
are we doing here? Like everyone's playing on the same umbrella,
the same conditions. And I keep hearing from people that
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we we have the top trainers, we use computer science
and technology and all this stuff. We're so advanced to
the advancements to help the human body quickly recover. Oh
my god, it's never enough. And it reminds me of
the Tom Hanks character in the League of the Road
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when you talk about this.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Of course it's hard, right, It's yes, it's supposed to
be hard.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
It was easy. Everyone would do it. These guys Eric
Gordon ten, you're wuss. What are you doing? You need
oh read it next year?
Speaker 3 (12:59):
How about a week we play like the NFL. Wait
once a week every Sunday. You play a game every Sunday,
play a stupid game.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
That wouldn't be enough. It is so stupid.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I just I can't wrap my head about how dumb
this is. Well we did, yeah, okay, let's just why
don't we have how about the NBA Finals. It'll be
sometime maybe in August. They'll end the NBA Finals. That
would that be good?
Speaker 4 (13:22):
My god.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
The whole point is to distinguish what the goald is
from the gravel, and to do that you have to
have the war of attrition, not the war of Let's
get as much rest as we can possibly have. It's like, jeez, yeah,
I'm sure blowoffs will never happen. Yeah, how about you
don't quit like the Nuggets did in this game, then
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you won't get blown out?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
And you don't give me, oh they quit. You don't
lose a game by that many points if you're trying,
you don't. And the players again, they complain about the
back to backs. Fine, that there's a you have to
do that because of scheduling issues with the arenas and
so they've gotten rid of a lot of that. The
back to backs they used to play many more back
to backs, and they belly ache playing every other day
in the playoffs. And it's like the lesson is, no
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matter what you guys are gonna bitch about something, you're
gonna complain about something, to shut up. It's annoying, it's unbecoming.
I mean, do you realize the people are watching you
stupid games are working two or three jobs, most of
them they they're not seeing any other family.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
The love was and you're complaining because you want an
extra day off between a stupid playoff game when you're
already getting the day off between the play That's Aaron
Gordon all right.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Anyway, uh now the last part of this.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Nicole Jokish also gave us some good content post game.
As the Nuggets have been extinguished from the playoffs, they
have been decommissioned from the postseason. So he was asked
whether the Nuggets can win a championship as they are
currently constructed another title with this group of players.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Then, well, here's what he had to say.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Take it was, do you feel like this team could
still win a championship as it's put together?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Now?
Speaker 7 (15:02):
I mean, we didn't, so we can't. If we if
we could win it, So I don't believe in those
if stuff. So we had an opportunity, we didn't. We didn't.
We didn't win it, so I think we can't.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Okay, there you go ifs. I do not believe in
the word if. All right, So the question where does
Denver go from here? Where does Denver go from here?
Do they simply remodel around Nicola Yolkic or is this
a total demo?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Blow it up?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
So the answer, Mighty cooder Ring tells me what the
joker just said there is now We're cooked? Is what
he meant to say, right, We're screwed. I mean, this
is this is bad, bad, but bad, bad bad all right.
So if I'm the Nugg, it's like the chance of
them getting a player in the next five to ten
years as good as Yo Kic is are slim and none,
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as the line goes, and none is on a plane
right now going to Bermuda, So good luck on that.
What you do here, if you're the Nuggets, you go
down to home depot and it's a DIY project.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Do it yourself? All right?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
This is do it yourself project. You've got really two
or three seasons of Jokic where you can make this
thing work, right, you can make this thing work. And
so you treat Nicole Jokic like the Jelly Roll song
and you just hold on to him until the wheels
fall off. Of Jokic, he doesn't seem like the kind
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of guy like he's a plane demand that goes to
some other team. He doesn't seem like that kind of
Maybe he is, and he's been in the NBA a
long time, and by osmosis, maybe he's learned to be
a schmuck like all the other guys in demand to
go to some big market teams somewhere. But if I'm
the Nuggets and I got no skin in the game here,
if I'm the Denver Nuggets, I'm like, hey, I'm riding
this all right. I'm going till the wheels fall off.
He's thirty years old. So you got, like I said,
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two or three seasons, and this is gonna be a decline.
These are the athletic primes. At thirty two, that's the peak,
and then it's slowly, you hope it slowly goes down,
and you fill the gaps in around him and you
try to make one one more sustained run.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
With Jokichen. Then that's it. If he's done. When he's done,
you move on.
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The way tire buying should be. So our lead this
hour is from a developing story now. It happened over
the weekend in the NFL. We were away a massive
cartoon chip, massive check was handed out in the NFL,
and so we were not here now if you listen
to the Fifth Hour podcast, which you should be doing
(19:08):
in addition to this podcast, we did do a brief
chat about it myself and Danny g on the Saturday
pod that we did over the weekend, so we were
not in the watchtower. And some new developments after that
have happened, which means that even though this story has
taken place with the last couple of days, it is
still worthy of some hot talk on the radio. So
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and I assume you've heard the meat of it, but
maybe not, maybe not. We learned over the weekend the
forty nine ers have done the thing you can't do
at the time you can't do it. They have paid
brock Party two one hundred and sixty five million dollars
over five years and a contract extension. Now Perty gets
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one hundred and eighty one garrong teeth. If brock Purty
goes out, never throws another touchdown pass, and throws interception fumbles,
all all that, he still gets one hundred and eighty
one million total guaranteed money one hundred and sixty five
point one million in the first three years.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
It must be nice.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
And he is now under contract through the year twenty thirty,
which seems like it's a long way.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Away, but it's already May of twenty twenty five. So
let's deliberate on this. That's what we do here. We deliberate.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
So the question who benefits the most, who benefits the
most from this deal? Is it the forty nine ers
locking up they're alleged in air quotes franchise quarterback, or
is it brock Perty securing a long term, massive amount
of money that is garanteed in that stability that you get.
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All right, So my observations on this. You've got a leaf,
the booth, and the overkill, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
some absolutely delicious garlic fries which you can get in
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San Francisco. They know how to make those garlic fries there.
Oh man, so good. All right, So my first observation,
some would say.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Number yeah, the arrow on this.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
One is directed squarely in the corner of Rock Party.
No ifs ands or butts about it. Now, I have
no ill will.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Against the player.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
There is this perception by people like her nest Do
and Terry in England, the other big forty nine er
apologists that listen to the show, many of them in
northern California, that I am anti brock Party.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I have some ill will. I don't. I've never met
brock Party.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I did see him once at the Super Bowl and
he looked like he was a sophomore in high school.
But that's not That's good for him, you know. Mozeltov,
congratulations on getting the big pay day.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Would I have done it? Absolutely not. I would not
have done this now.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
As we mentioned in the fifth Hour podcast over the weekend,
the exclusive pod only fifth Hour that the company has
me to do over the weekend, this is great news for.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
The La Rams, the Arizona Cardinals, and the Seattle Seahawks.
Just a good weekend, all right.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
You picked up a win over the weekend because of
nothing you did. But it's kind of like I tell
people when they start out in broadcasting, much of your
success will be because other people fail in front of you.
And the forty nine ers they have done that. They
have made the mistake that you cannot do. To give
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one hundred and eighty one million guaranteed to a supporting actor,
not a leading actor. A supporting actor masquerading as a
leading actor is malfeasance, is what it is. That's the
word here. Perty is not the straw that stirs the drink.
You're supposed to be the straw that stirs the drink.
Brock Perdy is not the straw. He is a leaf,
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not Ryan leaf. He is just a leaf in the current.
That is what Brock Party is in the NFL. He's
a system guy. Now you can have success with a
system guy, There's a limit to it. In order to
win a super Bowl, everything else must be perfect, and
if things are not perfect, you're screwed. A Party's success
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is so tied, so handcuffed to Shanahan and the scheme
of the offensive scheme up Rock Party and the talent
around him, which last I checked is not nearly as good.
And unless I'm mistaken rock party does not elevate anyone,
which is what the point of demarcation is to the
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players that you pay and those that you don't pay.
Top dollar two, brock Purty, you're not that guy, Pal,
You're not that guy. That's not offensive. That's just reality,
and it's been proven. When injuries started tearing away the
elite talent the Niners had McCaffrey got last year, Deebo, Samuel,
George Kittle, these guys were dinged up brock Purdy like
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a vampire exposed to sunlight. It did not go well, right.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
We saw the limitations, and the Niners still paid him.
They still paid him, which tells you how dumb the dumb, dumb,
dumb the forty nine ers are like, it's not like
it was a secret.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
If I know, they know.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
So he proved our hypothesis was correct, and yet they
still paid him.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
On what planet in the Milky Way does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Not this one, not this one, maybe some other planning
right across the world. The numbers dropped everything from the
NERD stat expected points added was down. But if you
go by the traditional stats year to year, when Perdy
had his guys and then when he didn't have his guys.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
His numbers. Year to year, he was down.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Yards were down thirty five percent, touchdowns down thirty five percent,
touchdowns down thirty five percent, yards were down nine point
seven percent. Interceptions went up nine percent. So you can
do the metal. That's a lot as a ton. That
is a massive situation. But wait, there's more. The forty
nine Ers went one and seven as they were free falling,
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free falling the tailspin, and brock Purty was not good
enough to save them. Right, He's not a good enough
town to elevate the secondary players that Niners were playing,
and they missed the playoffs, playoffs, and so these are
legitimate concerns that this guy was elevated by elite players
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and he was deflated without those elite players.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Now it's not all bad news. I'll be positive.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I'll be Benny Bright's side for the forty nine ers
marching in chowder society because the Niners sucked so much
last year that they have going into this year the easiest.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Schedule in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
The forty nine Ers, based on strength of schedule from
what had happened last year, are on easy Street, which
just is going to make it more agonizing, because what
you're gonna end up doing is push back the inevitable collapse,
because you can do it with smoke and mirrors for
a while, but eventually when you play better teams down
the line, good luck and so for a while they'll
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be able to hide Brock Party. But man, now flipping
the page about page two, So what does the timing,
What is the timing of this announcement of the Brock
Party contract tell us of anything? So it absolutely tells
us something. To me, it's a big part of the story,
and it's really confirmation that we are on the right
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side of the story with our take all right, because
it is a trip to the booth. That's trip of
the booth, it is the confessional booth. It's an admission.
The forty nine ers have admitted they're not proud of this.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
They're not right.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
There are factions of the franchise that obviously are ashamed.
This is a massive overpay for a marginal talent rock party,
and my supporting evidence on that is the day it
was announced. If you are proud of a move like this,
you want to get full attention. You want everyone to
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talk about how great your franchise is and what a
wonderful move this was, and how do you do that?
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Well, there's ways to do it.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
People that work in public relations, though, there's certain days
of the week to get more attention than other days.
The worst possible time to do something the time, like
in politics.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
If you want to announce bad news, or if you're a.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Major corporation and you're going to lay off a bunch
of people, what do you do it?
Speaker 4 (27:50):
When do you do it?
Speaker 3 (27:50):
You do it on the Friday news dump dumpty dump
dump dump the Friday.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
News dump take out the trash day is what they
call it. When you announce something on Friday, is to
downplay the media coverage. And you would do that in
a contract announcement because you're ashamed of it. You're embarrassed
of it. I don't blame the niners. I would be
embarrassed to I would be ashamed. And even in the
age of social media, even in the age now where
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everyone's plugged in all the time and all that news consumption,
it is proven is lower on Fridays and Saturdays and Sundays.
People unplugged, They unwind. Some people even go out and
touch grass.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
Amazing.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I get their feet in actual grass, they get out
of their houses. It's amazing, right, So on that the
prosecution rest. I don't know how you can fight that back.
You don't make that announcement on Friday. You can make
that announcement any day of the week. You announce it
on Friday if you're the Niners. If you're embarrassed and
they're embarrassed. All right now, final point. We also learned
over the weekend that the Rock Party six year contract
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with the Niners comes with a no trade clause.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
So is this a.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Big deal, a little deal or no deal? That brock
perty has a no trade claw, so this is no deal.
It's certainly not a big deal. It's not a little deal.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
It's no deal.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And the reason is it is a whoopee damn do situation.
It's kind of like if you buy a car, you
go down to the dealership, you buy the car, and
the dealer will often throw in to try to sweeten
the deal. They'll throw in some extras that sound enticing
to get you to buy the car, but aren't necessary.
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And that's what this is. It's not necessary. The no
trade clause is irrelevant. It's like those dealer accessories. It's
like the floor matt or the cargo net in the
car that you don't really need.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Get A no trade clause is overkilled. It's just overkill.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
And the re and why is because if you are
a starting quarterback in the NFL, you're most likely not
going to get traded. But if you are going to
be traded, no one's going to acquire you unless you're
fully invested in that team unless you want to play
for that team. You know you don't want the dead wood.
You cut the dead wood out of the team. So
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no one's going to trade for a guy like Brock
Purdy unless Brock Purdy wants.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
To leave and go play for that team. He's from Arizona.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Maybe someday he wants to play for the Cardinals or
something like that, and that would be the way it goes.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
But it's like, you don't need to put it in.
It's irrelevant.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
If you're some offensive lineman or something like that, or
a different position, we can revisit that, But as a
starting quarterback, it doesn't matter. It's like an extra add
on from the dealership to try to get you to
buy the car.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
It doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
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It was reported on Friday that Packers GM Brian Gudokountz
met with wide receiver Jaden Reid's agent Jew Rosenhaus last
week to clarify reid status in Green Bay after they
drafted Matthew Golden in the first round. Team said it
will not affect reid status as the team's top receiver. Ben,
do you believe them?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Well, Coop, you started a movie called Liar Liar. That
would be Liar Liar, Coop. I mean it's obvious, Listen.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
It's like a Fox Sports radio hired a new weekend
overnight host and said a weekday overnight hosts said, wow,
you're fine, Ben. Nothing where They obviously drafted Golden because
they don't like what they have at the wide receiver
position and you can only have one number one all that,
it's a very crowded situation.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I don't believe the Packers. I don't believe the agent either.
He's obviously not happy.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
If they thought he was as good as advertised, they
wouldn't have drafted this guy in the first round, Matthew Gold.
Speaker 8 (31:52):
Next, with the Eastern and Western Conference finals both set.
Who do you think has been the MVP of the
playoffs so far?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Why?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
As you know, Coop, the NBA does not have an
official MVP of the Playoff award.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
They do not have that.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
That being said, there's one team from New York and
a bunch of small market teams. So I'm gonna go
with the guy from the Knicks, Jalen Brunson as your
playoff MVP right now because of that New York bias.
But Joyus Randall's been great for Minnesota. Shake yogas Alexander
after some tough games to turn around.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Next, We're right.
Speaker 8 (32:22):
Lonzo Ball made the podcast appearance over the weekend. He
predicted his brother LaMelo will end up on the Clippers. Ben,
do you want Mellow on the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
As long as he doesn't have James Hardin itis.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
He's never been in the playoffs with the Hornets, so
if he doesn't suck him in the.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Playoffs, I'm fine. I like Lonzo Ball. How do we
do you pass this edition?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
There?
Speaker 4 (32:40):
It is?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Oh LeVar Bar, I'm at LaVar bar. I like the
var ball LaVar bow. The dad, I like the dad
LaVar ball. He lost his leg, his foot.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
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Speaker 4 (32:59):
To and live.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Hey you sports figure, guy or girl?
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Who here were you talking to? Sons?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Here some instant advice?
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Hold that thought. No one's paid attention to me for
ten whole seconds, and if you don't like it, you
and away we go.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
It's the insta advice line unscreened radio. The safety net
is off. So who in the world of sports needs
the wisdom the knowledge of the Militia, the powerful underground
network of legends that listen to the overnight show, So listen.
We could give advice to a coach or a prominent athlete,
(33:38):
a caller, or someone in the world that needs the
knowledge that the Maveler Militia can provide.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
I think at this point we should start keep it simple.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
The Denver Nuggets, they won a championship a couple of
years ago, and they get blown off the court in
Game seven.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
But specifically, Aaron Gordon of the Nuggets. Who thinks that
the NBA needs to have two games two days off
between games. That one day off between games is not enough.
So advice to Aaron Gordon on how to deal with
the great injustice of having to have a day off
between work assignments in the NBA. Eight seven, seven ninety
(34:17):
nine on Fox the number you're live on the air.
When you hear my voice, we're giving advice to Aaron
Gordon of the Nuggets.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Line number one, and you're on the airline one.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Go, I want to date a girl named Sucking.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
All right, think all right? Line three, you're on the
airline three. Hello, we're giving advice. Line number three to
Aaron Gordon of the Nuggets. Line three is not there.
We'll go to you online.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Two.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Hello, line to advice to Aaron Gordon.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Line two, Blond Scott steals candy from babies. All right,
thank you. That's Jed who fled. Line number four. Hello,
line four, we're giving advice to Aaron Gordon. He says
the NBA needs to have two days off between playoff games.
Speaker 7 (34:56):
Like that.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Hey up, because the Angel has swept the freeways.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Greatest greatest moments since two for the Angels, A line
line five. Hello, line five, you're on the airline five.
Your phone sucks.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Rick and Maryland. I don't know what happened. Call back,
Rick and Maryland, get a better phone. Line six, Hello,
line six. Line six is not there? Eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox. We'll go back to line number one.
Give me advice, all right, thank you. We're giving advice
to Aaron Gordon of the Nuggets. He says the NBA
(35:32):
needs two days off between playoff games.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
That one is just unfair.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
It's the reason the game's blow is because one day
off is just not enough for these little softies.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
In the NBA.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Line two, Hello, line two, Oh, that's that's a tribute
to the late great spoke Caangary, who used to call
this show back in the day and preach about Dale
Murphy for the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Line three, Hello, line three. Oh there it is Lorena.
This is Tukis Tuckers Tucker's man. This is the hero
of the show. Thank you, Tukus Tuckers Tucker's man. I'm
ver klemok he did, he said, tug that's a great
Yiddis word. Line four, you're on the airline four. Hello,
(36:16):
line line four, kicked their Oh I know who that is.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
That's our buddy from LA. He doesn't call a show
much anymore. Line Thorn, Jackass, Josh is his name? Line five, Hello,
Line five, Yeah, yeah, it's easy bringing doge I go
away eight seven, seven ninety nine. On Fox, we're giving
advice to Aaron Gordon. That's a basketball player for the Nuggets,
who actually said, and he wasn't kidding, the NBA needs
(36:45):
to add an extra day off between playoff games because
playing every other day is just not right.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
And it's the reason there's so many blowouts. I'm not
making this up.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
This sounds like satire. This sounds like it's fake. He
actually said it, and there's people that agree with him.
Line six, you're on the air Line six. Go Line six,
not paying attention.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
We're going to line one.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
It's the instant advice line for Aaron Gordon of the Nuggets.
Line number one, All right, Line I don't know that
I heard, but he said maybe not.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Line two.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Hello, Line two, I'd be the pyamedic. Yeah, all right,
you should probably call a different number, not this number.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
Line three. You're on the Airline three.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
You chur leaders do have all right?
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Line five, I don't want to hear the end of that. Line.
Five you're on the airline five.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Hey, big Ben Dollar. What Aaron Gordon needs to do
is listen to Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 6 (37:40):
Go get some aahuasca and become the Aaron twin.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
There you go, just get a liahuasca. Listen to Aaron Rodgers.
That's all you need there, great life advice. Line six,
you're on the airline six bills not Jack as Josh
midto broh.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Okay, well you all those drunks sound the same. I
will do one more coop. You'll pick it. Last one coop,
go ahead, last call on the instant of ice line
number one, number one.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
You're on the air one, go on one morning.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Time morning time? Is it working?
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (38:08):
Working?
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Wrecking Maryland morning Time, the Legend Rick and Maryland.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
He fixed his phone just in time, just before the buzzer.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
Play the game right now here we go said, just
like bet, you strut around like you know everything.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Computers are for losers, normal people. Well, how dare she o?
What do you?
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Let's find out? Are you smarter than an FSR tech queen,
So only one person gets to play. Now, if you're
on hold and you called to play the game, you
might want to hold on because if the person that
plays is terrible, we might go to the bullpen. I'm
just telling me, you gonna hang up if you want.
I'm not forcing you to stay on hold.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
But Marcell picked number one, and that is Nate in Minnesota.
Good morning, Nate Horn, big man.
Speaker 8 (38:55):
How the hell are you?
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Are you smarter than the FSR tech queen? Nate? I sure?
Hell all right, this guy sounds This guy sounds confident. Lorena,
you got no chance.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
This's this guy's highly educated, he's highly motivated. You're driving
around right now. You're probably going to a big job somewhere.
You make a lot of money, the whole thing, right, Oh, sir, I.
Speaker 6 (39:16):
Wanted to be a class clown in high school, and
I had no interest in continuing.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
My education after high school. So if I get to
go to work at four point thirty.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
In the morning, oh okay.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Well, guy, Guy Fieri didn't graduate high school and he's
got a TV show on Food Networks.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
Well, look at him.
Speaker 7 (39:32):
He's a handsome dude.
Speaker 6 (39:34):
I'm not very handsome.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Okay, so this guy's ugly and has a didn't go
to school and is a class clown, and Loree, you
can't lose this guy.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
Honestly, it sounds good for me, but who knows. Okay.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
The categories are geography, history, pop culture, sports, science.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
And grab bag.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
We may not get to all the categories depending on
time and are you smart on the FSR tech Queen
and Nate get a start to pick a category here
in Nate, which one do you want to start with?
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Well, it's a sports station, so let's go.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Sports plausibly a sports station. Okay, this should be very simple.
We'll let Loraina go first. Which NFL team was named
after their first head coach? Which NFL team was named
after their first head coach? All right, not a chance,
Coop is snickering off the side.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
This is hilarious because this is a hard one. This
one's really hard.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
It kind of is.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
It can really only I mean, there's only one. I'm
gonna go with the Bears, the Bears, all right, coach Bear? Alright,
Nate in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
You agree with Loren or do you want to give
a different answer? Which NFL team was named after their
first coach.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
I disagree.
Speaker 6 (40:56):
I think it's the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
All right, that is correct, Cleveland Bears. All right, whatever,
you got that one right, Good job by you.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
We move on.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Let's go to the next category, geography. All right, well,
Lorraino is very good at geography, and it's very good.
She got the great Okay, see this guy's a little scarier.
This Nate's a little freaking out over here.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
This guy.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
All right, So here we go. Geography. Elevation is the
height is the height of land above what? Sea level?
All right? She says sea level? You agree with that, Nate?
Speaker 3 (41:35):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
That was an easy one, got that right. Look at you.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Unbelievable right now, you're not. Let's go to history. The
next category is history, and you should know this.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
This is pretty basic. Are you smart?
Speaker 1 (41:48):
On the FSR tech queen you listening to her live coverage?
Play as long as you listen on the Ben Mallor Show,
We've got Nate class clown, hated school and he's working
at four thirty in the morning and all that in Minnesota.
All right, So, which of the seven Wonders of the
world is still standing today? It's still around today. All right,
(42:09):
which are the seven wonders of the world? Is still
standing today?
Speaker 4 (42:11):
Loraina? Go ahead, day you know all I.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
Went first on the last one.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
He has to go the.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
How this works? Cheat, he's gonna cheat, and he's gonna
copy my answer. I don't think you'll be copying your answer.
I pretty no, go ahead, you go first, mister smart man.
You're gonna copy his and not I have my one.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
I got one.
Speaker 4 (42:30):
Pyramids of e all right, Loraina, what say you?
Speaker 8 (42:34):
No, it's it's the it's the heads over in the thingies,
the what you know, the the Eastern Island, the Easter Island.
Speaker 4 (42:42):
Yeah, no, that is not one of the seven wonders
of the world. It is we're looking for a great pyramid.
But we'll give you that, Nate. You got it right,
you got to write the pyramids, we'll give it to you.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
Whatever you're getting smoked here, Lorenz is not going well smoked, Ben, well, no,
not yet.
Speaker 4 (42:55):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
That'll be after all right, So here we go. Uh,
the science is the next categor word. All right, I
think the game is already over, but we'll keep going.
You've already dominated.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
The game, my man, Nate, all right, what galaxy is
the Earth part of what galaxy is the.
Speaker 4 (43:13):
Earth part of? Go ahead, I want to say, nebula? Nebula? Okay,
are you curious? Even Nate? The class Crown thinks you're
you're what's it around with you? It's the beauty of
the game.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
Well, well she's that's a good question, are you. That's
a better question than I asked, Nate. You want to
give it a shot, Nate. But gallon, there you go
the Milky Way, like the Candy Barle Arena, the Milky Way. Well,
this is the biggest blow we've had on the game,
(43:54):
and we we haven't even gotten the pop culture yet.
Speaker 4 (43:57):
Only that's my favorite.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Right, we'll get to pop culture. Absolutely, you should do
very well here. All right, pop culture. This game is
already over.
Speaker 3 (44:08):
But what was the first social network to reach a
global audience? It started in three Space? I thought, this
guy gets to go for you want to you think
my skirt?
Speaker 4 (44:19):
All right, Nate? What you agree with that?
Speaker 2 (44:22):
Or no?
Speaker 4 (44:23):
Yeah, that is correct, it is it is my space.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
I win.
Speaker 4 (44:28):
No, you do not.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
You do not win.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
This is this game is a blow. At least you
got one right there at the end. All right, Nate, congratulations.
You are smarter than the FSR Tech Queen.
Speaker 7 (44:43):
So Ben, I'll be looking in the mail for my trophy.
Speaker 4 (44:46):
All right, We're going to send you a We'll give
you a golden ticket, so you get that.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
And.
Speaker 4 (44:53):
You know what you can do with your golden ticket.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
You can use it to call the show, and we'll
give you also if you want a life time supply nothing.
So if you want nothing, calls up, we'll give you nothing.
And also a trip to nowhere, so you'll get to
go to nowhere on the dime of the Ben Mallor
Show and the Fox Sports Radio Trip to Nowhere
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