May 23, 2025 • 46 mins
Big Ben talks about the Thunder winning easily over the Timberwolves in Game 2 of the WCF and who is to blame for Minnesota, if the Pirates could really trade away their star pitcher Paul Skenes, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, and more!
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Thunder to make you lots of noise. There's not much
lightning on the other side. Welcome in the beginning of
another night of the Benmahler Show.
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We are in the air everywhere, cheek to cheek as
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Benchwarmer like a Minnesota star sitting his tuckas on the
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He's big fan of Jozi, the only one I know
consistently has supported the Thunder and Gunner, who has been
in hiding, and I don't blame him in Minnesota. As
he's predicted the Wolves are gonna win. Things are not
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this hour is from the Jules Heist or the Julius
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Heist or whatever you want to call it. But we'll
go to the Sooner State game number two. And if
you were optimistic, if you were excited, thinking, wow, yeah,
you had a pretty bad Game one in this series,
but then you had the Knickerbockers and the Pacers go
bonkers in their series. So certainly you're not gonna get
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two clunkers in a row in the Minnesota OKC series.
So after truancy in the series, Opener ant Man and
the Wolves flew in for game two with SGA and
the thunder, and I don't know what you got going on,
whether you sampled this or not. Maybe you were watching it,
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or maybe you were staring at a wall. If you
were staring at the wall, you likely had as much
fun as those watching the game. And as we like
to point out our public service announcement, do not worry.
We watched so you did not have to in the game.
Very similar same blueprint as game one. It was close
at halftime and then they had to play the rest
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of the game and shay Gilgis Alexander thirty eight points
twenty four hours after he was named the MVP picked
up the award there in a Gallas ceremony. How upset
was Adam Silver He had to fly to Oklahoma to
hand him the trophy. He must have been so pissed. Anyway,
he got the trophy. And then Oklahoma City went out
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there in the second half and the term his I'll
use the term disemboweled. They disemboweled Minnesota yet again. They
win one eighteen to one oh three the final and
so it is two nothing in favor of the team
from Oklahoma and they have held serve at home and
now the series will shift up north. Gilgos Alexander made
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twelve of twenty one field goals and thirteen of fifteen
foul shots. That continues to be a cloud following him
around as the critics of Gildas Alexander are having a
field there with that. But he did get the trophy
there from Adam Silver. He also had eight assists and
three steals and a partridge in a pear tree. Jalen
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Williams said twenty six. Chet Holmgren, who looks like Skeletor,
had twenty two, and so that's where we are. Game
three will be Saturday in downtown Minneapolis. Tickets are not available,
look like him sold out. The better story, though, is
in that losing locker room. And if you listen to
the show on a semi regular basis, there is a
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method to the madness. There is a formula that we have.
You've likely picked up on it unless you're totally obtuse.
And the way it works is we look at the
team that lost and then we break it apart, we
put it under the microscope, and we analyze it. We
like to play this game called the blame game. We
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like to play the blame game. It's a fun game
to play the blame game, and this night rather easy
to play the blame game. Now, before we get into that,
let's get to the head coach of the Minnesota Timbarolls.
First off, here, let's go to cut two. First, here's
the coach Finch, who was commenting about how his team
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has had no clue how to stop s g A.
Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Obviously, you know, SHA's a handful to contain. You know,
he's getting around us to you know, to when there's contact,
he's getting around us. And you know, we gotta do
a better job of square on him.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
O kiss all about the square you squares, You gotta
square them up.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
That's what I always told my my players when I
was coaching back and they got to square them up.
Here's one more from coach Finch. And so it's too nothing,
you're down. You got game three in the Wolf then,
and what's gonna happen in that game?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Coach?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Every minute in the series is a chance to find something,
you know, So we're gonna go back home. This is
a good team, good team at home. So we're gonna
go home and you know, fight for game three. I
mean heads up and look at the tabe and get
ready for Game three.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
So they I think they have a better chance. Like
if it was a fight, I think that Minnesota has
tougher players than Oklahoma City. Like I think chet Holmgan
could win a fight. I know he's tall, but he
won punch. That's it.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Now, don't bury the lead, my man.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
All right? So the story here is Julius Randall, who
was not only a basketball player, he was horrible. So
let's discuss that part of it. Because this is the number.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Two number two watch him.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Behind the star, the headliner Anthony Edwards, who also made
some headlines for what he did after the game. Let's
discuss the question what happened to playoff Julius Randall for
the Wolves. So I've got day spa vacuum, and Quickie Martin,
and we will combine all of these things together and
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we're gonna make some amazing sticky rice and beef bugogie.
That's what we're gonna make, all right. So a Julius
Randva I was just asked in a previous episode of
the show, has he changed his reputation now? Has he
figured things out? And he was known early in his
career as a guy that was a ghost in playoff games. Well,
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Randall in this game sucked at a time you cannot suck.
And forget load management. I know that's all the rage
in the NBA. Not load management. This was waste management.
What a waste, what a waste, hot garbage. And he
was benched in the fourth quarter. Your second player on
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the team is benched in the fourth quarter. Now, this
is a reminder that even when Randall is going well,
and he has had some nice performances in the playoff,
so a lot of that was against Fat Luca and
the Lakers, So how much credit do you get for that?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
But he still he still has those.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Demons, those demons from NBA playoff pass in him. And
that was a total clunker and that doesn't do it justice.
Six points, four turnovers, five assists, five rebounds, two of
eleven floor and got hemorrhoids from sitting on the bench
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in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
But wait, there's more.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
So Randall, we're pretty sure that he went to the
day spa during the game and he decided, you know,
I'm neder that cold plunge thing, and he did it
during the game at the wrong time.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
So the game was ultimately lost in the third quarter,
but specifically a.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Seven minute roughly seven minute stretch of the fourth quarter,
Minnesota was down by four at seven forty three on
the clock. I went back and I looked in the
third quarter, by four, anyone's game two baskets. Really with
the NBA, it's a three point shot and maybe a
four point player tied up. From that point. Over the
next seven minutes and eight seconds, Oklahoma City went after burners.
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They went turbotastic, and it was thirty to ten plus
twenty for Minnesota or plus twenty for Oklahoma City minus
twenty for the timber Wolves, and they were down by
twenty four points at that point, game, set, and match.
And in that meltdown that stretch, Oklahoma City shot eighty
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two percent, which means the only way the thunder could
miss a shot is if the air conditioning events were
pointed at the ball and the ball went flying and
the thunders swarming the Wolves like locusts, and Minnesota did
not do well. They find themselves now in the bowl,
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and as long as they went at home, they can
keep hope alive. But the the dust bowl is where
they're at right now. And if they don't snap out
of it and figure some things out here. They will
be put into an urn with a capital you. They'll
just be some dust now outscored by twelve again on
points on turnovers, points off turnovers. But the most.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Maddening thing, and listen, talk about both sides.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
We're talking about the losing locker room here. But the
Minnesota team's one thing to lose. But they got outworked right.
The thunder won all the hustle stats in a playoff game. Hey,
you're on the road. You got to out hustle the opposition.
That's basketball. One oh one.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Didn't do it, did not do it all.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Right now, turning the page, I mentioned Anthony Edwards made
some headlines, the ant man making headlines on and off
the court. He declined to speak with reporters after the game,
his team losing in non competitive fashion. Again, the face
of the franchise said, I ain't talking, and he's stormed
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out without had a little pity party and took off.
He apparently was upset because he was fined fifty thousand
dollars for a rather mild f bomb that he tossed
out just in casual.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
We don't how men talk.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
We just use the F bomb. I think women do
it too. We all use the F bomb, but you
can't do it with polite society. Anyway, Edwards had thirty
two points in the game and the low information fans, oh,
he played well, he had thirty two points. Come on, now,
well he took twenty six shots. That ain't great. The
issue though, is he he skipped out. He ski daddled
at a time you're not supposed to ski daddle. So
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the question for the esteem panel, which you are a
part of, is it fair to criticize Anthony Edwards for
not speaking to the media after game two? Considering that
he is a team leader and we are told the
face of the franchise. So after a thirty second deliberation,
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one thousand percent, is it fair? It is a breach
of the NBA protocol. That's one thing, as a violation
of your responsibilities literally in the contract. Like the NBA
players signed the contracts. They get all the big money,
but they have to talk to the media because the
NBA is just a TV show and it's based on
media stuff. And it also shows you that there's a
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leadership vacuum there, there's poor accountability and you're the guy,
Anthony Edwards, you're the guy, right, I'm not the guy.
You're the guy.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
How can you be the guy if you don't act
like the guy.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
You're the guy. It's supposed to be the future of
the NBA. I think we've eliminated that after the Big
D coming. You do have the Big D. You told
everyone you have the Big D. If you have the
Big D, why would you hide when the lights are
the brightest. It's easy when you go out and put
up fifty points in a game and are hammer dunking
the ball down people's throats, it's easy. You're out there
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shaking and bacon. Oh yeah, go out there. You want
to make up. You got the sound person over there,
you got the camera. The test is when you're stumbling
and bumbling. Take one for the team. My shoulder, the
what a burden getting up there and talking to Cliches
for seven minutes. Oh my god, And for that two
hundred and forty million dollars in a winfall contract.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
It's a real SOB story, it really is.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Man.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Can a guy get a break? Can he get a break?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Now? There's an issue here the NBA has, and not
many people are talking about it. Anthony Edwards can go
over to the deli counter and take a number. Is
The NBA has an infestation of mister softy players. When
things are going well, they're out in front, they're on
the camera. When things get bad, they play hide and seek.
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By Mike Count. By Mike Count, Anthony Edwards is the
third number three. He's number three in terms of players
that have skipped out on media responsibilities because they lost
a tough game. Draymond Green, tough guy. Traymond Green will
punch his teammate in a face, sucker punch him. He
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he's a tough guy.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Couldn't show up.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
To the media thing, got scared of the media. How
about Tyrese Halliburton, the hero of this playoff, the story
of this playoffs, the breakout star of the playoffs. Pacers
lost a tough game in the last round and he's
skid dad a out of there. He couldn't he couldn't
man up and talk to the to the reporters. Oh
my god, I can't speak in cliches. So he'll get
fined again, Anthony Edwards and upward and onward and last
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word here, So I saw this, I wanted to mention
I don't know if you saw it. A not former
NBA coach Michael Malone for the second consecutive night providing content.
We thank him for that. He's masquerading as a TV guy,
even though he'll just be coaching someone else next year.
So Michael Malone spoke about guarding Shay Jogis Alexander Right.
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I talked about how do you defend him and all
that stuff. He said, quote, it's almost impossible. A lot
of times off defensive players like Shay will initiate the
contact or hook their arm looking to draw the contact.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
He is.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Here's the money quote from Michael Malone. He said of SGA,
he is a foul artist, Powell artist. So Michael Malone,
longtime NBA coach, says that the MVP of the NBA, SGA,
is quote almost impossible to guard because of the arm
movements that he makes and is a foul artist. Can
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you decipher what exactly that means?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
So, yes, I can.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I have turned to the mallor Rosetta stone. I have
turned to the mallor Rosetta stone, which is never wrong.
So SGA's game, what Malone is saying is sda's game
is like a quickie Mark. It's stopping, got stopping, Got
stopping Ghost, stopping ghost. He's baiting the defender in and
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it's not so much that he's beating the defensive player,
if you know what I'm saying. But if you're stopping
and going and the defender is reacting to that, you're
drawing foul. And really all this is, and we point
this out in previous episodes of the show, this is
the next generation Artisan. He is the next generation Artisan
who took the baton. I know James Harden's still playing,
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not in big games in the playoff season show for those,
but he plays in the regular season. And Dwayne Wade,
who's not playing anymore, he's out getting tattoos those guys. Right,
If foul drawing, here's the other question. If foul drawing
is a legitimate part of the game, then why do
so many coaches and players and fans everyone.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Get very upset and they very angry.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Right, they label the players for mastering the art of
foul baiting, if you will, So, I look at it
like gamesmanship, and I look at it like the tush push.
Instead of trying to ban the tush push, you should
figure out what Philadelphia is doing and run the play like.
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That's my argument. And instead of being upset with SGA
because he's baiting for fouls, you should say, what is
he doing, Let's do that. That's really good, that's something
we should be doing. Right. He's like a surgeon out
there on offense using a scalpel to leverage defenders' mistakes
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and get cheap points. And this is a great example
this game right here where from the foul line he
got fifteen foul shots thirteen points where no one's guarding you.
You're just standing there and it's practice. It's Papa shot,
is what it is.
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monologue related to baseball. We'll get back to the basketball later.
Not much of a talker as Minnesota played gutlass basketball
lose and they got run off the court in the
second half. So we'll go to the bird. A pirate's
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life for me, A pirate's life for me, that'd be Pittsburgh,
and this is not about the Steelers. We actually have
some Steeler content later, but instead we will head to
the Iron City, where Paul Skeene's name has come up
prominently the last couple days on the trading block. His
name has been mentioned.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Shiver me timbers.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
So you haven't been following it, perhaps not the Pirates
manager Ben Charrington, who briefly was in Boston and got
run out of there. So Ben Charrington was asked about
the chatter that the Vultures are out they would like
to poach Paul Skeins. Paul Skeenes is the only player
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on the Pirates worth watching. Everyone else is a minor
league player, so the rumor has been bouncing around.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
I was like, well, the Pirates blow.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
And they've got one guy that's halfway decent, and so
that's trade the guy, right, they have nobody else. You
spend any money to watch one guy? So is that
under consideration? So Ben Charrington said, quote, no, it's not
part of the conversation at all.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Close quote Okay, So.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Let's drill down on this one. The question for the
esteem panel, which you, by the way, are part of,
so congratulations, is Pirates GM Ben Charrington lying to protect
leverage or is Paul Skein's truly untouchable? Was he really untouchable?
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So my observations here, I've got corporate jargon, devil c
and dradel, and we'll combine all of these things together
and try to avoid a tongue twister and have the
Great Perogi Race. I like that. Many teams have copied
the Milwaukee Brewers, who for years and years have had
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that sausage race, and then over the years the Diamondbacks
have a race with former player costumes. The Nationals and
the Pirates have the Great Parogi Race, and the Mets
have that like the sub the Burrow Race. The Mets
have that? All right? So Number I said, Number why
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not get off? All right? So my first thought here
Ben Sherrington saying it's not part of the conversation law,
what else was he supposed to say? Serious question like
could you imagine the world where Charrington came out said, yeah,
we would love to trade Paul Skins. We realize he's
a major league player. We're a minor league team. You
shouldn't have one major league player when you're a minor
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league team. We're not trying to win. We're a joke
of an organization. Our ushers will attack fans who are drunk.
We'll have fans get drunk, underage, fall out of the crowd.
We'll take down tributes of dead baseball players that are
historic in our town to put up an alcohol add.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
That's the pirates, right.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
So imagine if he had said, ben Cherrington, we're gonna
have a silent auction and the bidding ends right of
the trade deadline. Holy canoly that would have been created
a tinderbox. It would have been baseball malpractice. So instead
he's using corporate jargon. Corporate jargon. Now you have to
listen between the words. You have to listen between the words.
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So Charington said no. Regarding the possibility of Paul Skins,
the phenom pitcher, being traded, he said, no, it's not
part of the conversation at all. Well quote So conversation,
as you know because you paid attention, conversation means oral communication.
How about digital communication? How about a text chain? How
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about an internal email chain? Bandied about on trading the picture,
how about that? It's not really conversation. Technically, you're not wrong.
You have plausible deniability. You have plausible deniability because you say, oh,
I didn't. It wasn't a conversation. It was a text
and that's not a conversation. It's a digital thing, but
it's not a conversation. So yeah, if you rummaged through
my text messages, okay, but I didn't say it all right? Now,
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Page two? Should the seven Pirate fans left? Should these
seven Pirate fans remaining believe anything their front office says
at this particular point. And again, we're outsiders on this,
we don't have any skin in the game. I've been
to the Pirates ballpark years ago. It was beautiful, much
better than any of the players they've had in that
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town since they opened that new ballpark, which is not
even new anymore. It's really old to answer the question,
should the Pirate fans even believe anything anything that their
front office says at this point? Only if you live
in the township called Suckersville. If you live in Suckersville, okay,
But Pittsburgh Baseball is literally and figuratively lost a drift
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on the Devil's see, it's a pirate ghost ship, devoid
of life at this particular point, floating into the abyss,
untouched by time or tide, and they have drifted unmanned
for decades, that pirate ghost ship for decades. So there's
zero confidence that they know what they're doing, which is
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why you can't believe them. It's also why you should
hope they don't trade Paul Skins because they don't know
how to pick good players, So why would you trade
him to get a package of players when you're you
don't know who's good and who's bad. And you know,
there's a lot of talking about trying to build something sustainable.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
But it's just words. It's all it is is words.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
And my evidence is the track wreck now that tells
you what has happened, not what's going to happen in
the future. And all these glowing reports, Oh you get
a bounty of prizes for Paul Skins and all the
riches of Solomon, do you realize every halfway decent player,
every halfway decent player that has passed through Pittsburgh Every
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once in a while, Yeah, the blind nut blind squirrel
finds a nut, right, Every once in a while, they
figure things out, Like Andrew McCutcheon was an MVP in Pittsburgh,
traded Garrett Cole Young Pitcher showed some signs of promise.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Traded like those type players. They get them every once
in a while.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
They passed through Western Pennsylvania and they're repackaged and they
get quantity over quality every single time. And as the
results come in, the results are poppycock.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Poppycock. That's the results. And so what's the bottom line.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
If the Pirates trade Paul Skins, it would be a
sporty war crime. There should be a tribunal here against
Pittsburgh by all seven Pirate fans. You don't trade a
generational alarm that you don't have to trade for years
to come. Who's not even in his athletic prime yet.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
And at this.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Point, considering how pathetic the Pirates are, Paul Skins is
not just a player at this point, he is the
avatar of the Pirates, right, he is the face of
the Pirates. You trade Paul Skins, and you're telling the
fans without telling the fans, we don't care.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
You shouldn't care, don't support us.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
We're never gonna be serious.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
We're a joke, all right now, turning to Fink.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
All right, so the final part is we're gonna go
to the Big Apple where the big showcase series this weekend,
the Dowyers and the Mets. The Dodgers not playing that
well recently. The Mets also not playing that well recently.
But they're gonna lock horns here and wrangle over the weekend.
And if I'm not mistaken, every one of those games
is on a different channel. Every one of those games
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is on a different channel as Baseball has sliced up
their television agreement.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
So get to the point, please.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
With one Soto being a jag, not a Jacksonville jag,
just a guy. At this point, one Soto is just
a guy. So with that going on, his early season problems, struggles,
what we want to say, and the team that he left,
the Yankees, playing pretty well. Someone that works for the Pinstripers,
(27:45):
off the record, of course, believes that losing one Soto
last offseason worked out better for the Bronx Bombers. Now,
this is per the New York Post, a shady tabloid,
so take it for what it's worth. But they said
an anonymous Yankee staff member said, they meaning the Yankees
are quote definitely better without soda, all right, So that's
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the money quote. As we like to say that's the money.
Quote powder keg of a situation, So we'll frame it
this way. Was one Soto's departure from the Bronx over
to Queens. Was this really part of a grander master plan?
Or are the Yankees just trying to save face after
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losing out to the Mets. So the arrow here is
pointing directly towards the drado dradl dradl dredder as as
in spin the drado. This is emotional damage control, is
what it is. Now.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Riddle me this, batman.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
If the Yankees are better off, okay, forget all the
stats and all the the Yankees are better off, then
why on God's green Earth did they aggressively pursue Juan
Soto in the first place? Like why didn't they just
say listen, we thank you and have a nice day.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
We're out.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
But they offered him a contract which was just a
few million behind the Mets. They didn't throw in as
many perks other than that they were right there. So
they want to sweep that under the rug. Now there
are absolutely concerns. I don't know. You can get it
now if you want, but the money. The only way
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these contracts work out is if you win a World Series,
and even then eventually you're gonna get stuck with an
albatross every one of those big contracts at the end
of the contract.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
It is horrific.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
I was told one time by a baseball executive that
these ten year contracts, you have to look at them
like five year contracts, that you have to win a
lot in the first five years, and then anything you
get after year five, year, six, seven, eight, it's going
to be mostly rags is the rags. And so you
look at it. If you look at it like a
five year contract, even though it's being paid out over
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ten years, you can justify the big money. The Yankees
also will have for now long term flexibility and all that.
The early returns for Juan Soto have not been particularly good. Nevertheless,
I believe this is a damage control situation. It's spin, spin, spin,
as we said, the pr spin and it's delusion.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Masquerading is some kind of brilliant strategy.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
And it's like, Okay, it's like going to gamble in
Vegas and you're playing roulette and you put the wrong
bet in. You wanted to bet on like black twenty,
and you ended up betting on red seven and you
end up winning, and you're like, oh, I meant to
do that. You screwed up.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
For some reason, it worked out, but you have fed up.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Now let's see what Cody Bellinger and Golby Paul Goldschmidt
do when we down to October. Now, Bellinger's not hitting
for a great average last I checked. Goldschmidt's he's old.
So we'll see if they break down before the season.
And that said of the players the Yankees picked up
with money that could have gone and would have gone
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and would have been allotted to the bonehead there, mister Soto,
Max Free does look to be the real deal.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Now there is a conspiracy, and I do embrace many.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Of these conspiracies.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
So this is the conspiracy, is that it's a.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Ploy the quote, of course, off the record, the quote
is to mess with Juan Soto's head. So he goes
down the tubes even more, knowing that he's a delicate
little flower, and he reads all of the media coverage.
He's aware of all the media coverage. It's tormenting him
that people aren't kissing his ass all the time. And
and so he's like, oh man, this is terrible. And
(31:52):
now the Yankees are This called the dog pile where
you pile on top. And that's that's what's going on
at the moment in time.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
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Speaker 1 (32:06):
Here we go to a third degree.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
This is one gets grilled gool.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
It was reported that there was no discussion of a
contract extension for Roger Goodell at the league meeting this week.
Goodell already has the second longest tenure as NFL commissioner,
going on his nineteenth year. Now, Ben, how much longer
do you expect Goodell to service commissioner? Can he match
Pete Rizzell's record of twenty nine years?
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Well, the NFL is making money hand over fist, and they,
for some reason, the owners seem to think that Roger
Goodell is the reason that they're making that money, that
his immen's leadership and all that. Why not. So Goodell
seems like he hasn't really aged. You know, you're like
people come president and they get really old really fast
when they become president.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Well, you're the NFL commissioner.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
You've got your vacation home in Maine, You've got your
weekend home in the Hamptons. You're living the great life.
And I look at Goodella, it doesn't seem like he
looks much older than he did before. He's currently how
was sixty six? He could go another four years or
so at least, I would say. And it's a great job.
Why not, easy job, easy job. Next?
Speaker 7 (33:16):
All right, so you know Tyre's Halliburton's dad was banned
from the playoff games after he taunted Giannis and Tenna Kompo.
Now Charles Barkley thinks that Halliburton's dad should be let
back in to the stadium to watch the games.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
Do you agree.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
With conditions like he should have to sign, he should
stand out in front of the arena with a sandwich
board saying I will not confront opposing players. And he
should have to sit in the very top of the arena,
right the very top of the arena.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
I did see the video.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
You see the video where tyres Aalburn's dad recreated the
Reggie Miller choke yester after the comeback. So he's embracing it. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:53):
Next, the NFL announce that they will be giving out
a new league award starting this upcoming season. The Protector
of the Year award. That's for the best offensive lineman.
But if you could add your own award, no matter
how ridiculous, what would it be.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
How dumb is the offensive line award?
Speaker 1 (34:07):
By the way, how dumb is that?
Speaker 5 (34:09):
I think best coach?
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Remember the RAM said that guy with McVeigh, who would
hold McVeigh back?
Speaker 5 (34:15):
The coach that does that? How do we do a coop?
Speaker 6 (34:17):
You passed this sedition?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
That is I passed. I passed Loraine again, I I won.
Oh my god, perfect week.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
I think it was a perfect week this week.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
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Speaker 1 (34:48):
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the show, the format, and so send your jokes in
care of Benmallor show at gmail dot com. And here
we go, weed Man, Are you there, my buddy, weed Man,
hippie Miami, Miami, Miami, Miami, Miami. Yeah, I love you
made raft Okay, I'll make you laugh. What is the
most ironic thing about blind Scott?
Speaker 8 (35:33):
What?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
A blind man who's obsessed with someone named Toucher? That's
Drew in Minnesota. Did you hear that blind Scott was
offered to head up the FBI? Yeah, he actually refused
to do the job. He couldn't spell. So that's Milkman.
(36:02):
Mike and Colorado sent that one in. How do you
know that blind Scott is really blind?
Speaker 8 (36:08):
How?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Because he obviously could not see the Celtic suck?
Speaker 5 (36:12):
That's why?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
What?
Speaker 5 (36:16):
What is what is worse than an e dog call
from Long Island?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
What anything that comes out of blind Scott's mouth? Anything
that's that's Noah in Austin. Hey, weed Man, when you
lived in New York, I know you had a place
that you were in Manhattan, right, But did you do
you ever got to Long Island. Yeah, sure, okay, you
were like a city guy, I got all right. Uh,
(36:41):
this one's from Econ Rose, Minnesota. But the penny may
not return to Benny versus the penny. What about that? Yeah,
what feels like it's getting nickel and dying by NBC.
There you go, that's yeah, we will address that evil
report that the Henny's apparently going away here the podcast, Yeah,
(37:03):
the fifth hour. Apparently we're getting rid of the petty
Gordon in Tacoma, writes and says, did you hear that
Bill Belichick and George Don Hudson made history when they
stayed out late last weekend?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
What happened? What they do?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Yeah? Apparently it's the first time ever that a silver
alert and an amber alert were wish your issued for
the same couple.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
So, Laranda, do you know what a silver alert is?
Speaker 1 (37:32):
You know?
Speaker 6 (37:32):
Yeah, when old people go missing.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Yeah, there you go, it's right. Yeah. Kurt from Earthwrights
And says, Bill Belichick's girlfriend just got food poisoned in
the bedroom. Well, apparently he's really looking forward to Jordan's
flu game. So who is Bill Belichick's favorite Tar Hill? Well,
(37:56):
that's obviously Michael Jordan. That's Brendan from Boston. What do
you what do you? What do you call Bill Belichick's
girlfriend with a split personality?
Speaker 5 (38:07):
What a pair of Jordan's?
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Now that's a court familiar. Well, how would you describe
the silence between Charlie's takes on the show? Bathroom stalls?
Is what you'd call the mess chip in Maine?
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Coop?
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Any jokes over there? Coop though? All right, now, why
can't anyone find Mike the Leprechaun's package?
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Why?
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Because his package is mike roscopic as a chip? In main?
What happened when Lizzo's personal trainer suggested she do squats?
Speaker 8 (38:48):
What?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Well, she moved her cakes and pies to the bottom
shelf of the refrigerator. And that's that's it right there.
That's from Ethan Rose, Minnesota. Well, this is kind of
a Coop joke, but it got sent to me and
I I gotta do it. I go in honor of
Coop the offensive joke of the league. Why wasn't Baltimore
surprised about the passing of Jim Ursay this week? Why, well,
(39:10):
that's not the first time that he has left in
the middle of the night without warning. It has happened
before honestly ship in Maine. All right, let's get to
your jokes, weed Man. What do you call any mutual
agreement between Coop Lorena and weed Man Hippie?
Speaker 5 (39:28):
What a joint decision?
Speaker 1 (39:31):
That's splendid Daddy, a big fan of our show. He's
in Lee's Burg, Alabama. Thank you, Splendid Daddy. What was
weed Man's first spoken words as a toddler?
Speaker 8 (39:42):
What?
Speaker 5 (39:44):
Puff puff give?
Speaker 8 (39:46):
That was?
Speaker 1 (39:46):
That's manny manny a from Newark, Cotch.
Speaker 6 (39:50):
Have one here? Oh go ahead, Coop, this is from
from Milkman Mike.
Speaker 7 (39:55):
Did you hear the position sixty nine is being renamed
to ninety six?
Speaker 8 (40:00):
Oh no?
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Why yes?
Speaker 7 (40:01):
Due to inflation it now costs more to eat out.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
What are a couple of undeniable truths about the next
twenty five years?
Speaker 8 (40:14):
What?
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Yeah, Well, the Browns and Cowboys will not reach the
super Bowl with their current ownership, and weed Man Hippie
will never have a job. That's John and Youngstown, Ohio.
What's weed Man's greatest magic trick of all time? Making
his roommate disappear? Apparently there's a dog version. There's a
(40:35):
dog version of weed Man. Yeah, it's all bark, no bite.
Speaker 5 (40:40):
No, Well that's from Kurt from Earth.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
We man's trying to stay healthy while seeking employment. How
about that one?
Speaker 8 (40:48):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Yeah, when someone starts giving him job applications, he runs
like a deer. That's Tom in Indiana Lane jokes up
the week you weed man.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 8 (41:06):
My man Justin Cooper is back and his coop on
Entertainment is writable right now, I promise you that. So
here is Justin Cooper and welcome back.
Speaker 6 (41:20):
Thank you Marcel.
Speaker 7 (41:23):
All right, Ben, We're gonna start off in the theaters
as always, and there's a couple couple big movies out
this weekend that I'm excited about. The first is the
live action Lelo and Stitch movie that's right now. Disney,
of course, is just you know, doing every movie in
their entire history as a live action remake. H most
(41:46):
of them are pretty terrible.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
I want to, I want to what executive at Disney
decided this is what we need to do. This is
the next two years or three years. This is gonna
make all of these movies.
Speaker 7 (41:56):
Yeah, and see the problem is though that He's still
gonna be seen as a success because you know, for
every like three or four of them that fail, one
of them just like knocks it out of the park
and makes a ton of money. And I guess that's
all that matters, and this might be one of them.
It's got pretty good reviews from critics, but so far
(42:17):
the audience score is ninety three percent, so everybody's loving
this one. Lelon Stitch is one of those fan favorites.
And I've seen the trailers for this. It looks it
looks pretty good, you know, as far as live action
remakes go. The other movie that is in theaters this
weekend is Mission Impossible, the final Reckoning until the next one.
Speaker 6 (42:41):
Yeah that's yeah. Look, I mean maybe maybe.
Speaker 7 (42:46):
It is the final Reckoning because like Tom Cruise is
what like seventy five now, still.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Doody's the lizard person, so he'll live forever.
Speaker 6 (42:54):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
You're a lizard person, you don't die.
Speaker 6 (42:56):
That's right. Yeah, sold his soul.
Speaker 7 (43:00):
Now it's I mean, it's getting good reviews from critics
and fans alike, so I probably will check this one out.
It is also available in Imax, which you know, this
is one of those movies that I think it's actually
worth it in imax. Lots of cool, big stunts and
explosions and planes and stuff.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Just make sure the popcorn is buttered.
Speaker 6 (43:22):
That's right, all right.
Speaker 7 (43:24):
Moving over to television, Ben, First off, we have a
new series. It's a limited series on Netflix. It's called Sirens.
It is a darkly comedic series and it stars Kevin
Bacon and Julianne Moore, and it follows two sisters over
the course of a single holiday weekend at a lavish
(43:44):
island beach estate owned by a wealthy socialite and philanthropist
who employs the younger sister as our personal assistant, a
relationship that the older sister finds somewhat creepy and hopes
to end. And that one's getting pretty good reviews that
it's available on Netflix right now. That is called Sirens.
And moving along, we have a documentary this weekend.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Oh, here we go, all right, this is my wheelhouse.
Speaker 7 (44:07):
Here we go, a limited series documentary. It's a two party.
It's on HBO at eight pm tonight or available to
stream on HBO Max.
Speaker 6 (44:20):
And it is called Pee Wee as himself.
Speaker 5 (44:24):
That's my guy.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Is that Pee Wee?
Speaker 5 (44:25):
Hermy that is that's my guy.
Speaker 6 (44:27):
Wasn't it like, you're not supposed to watch this stuff anymore?
Speaker 1 (44:31):
He's dead, He's okay, once you die, you can watch
the stuff.
Speaker 7 (44:34):
I think he got like semi canceled, but he really
shouldn't have because he didn't.
Speaker 5 (44:39):
He was normal to do that in a.
Speaker 1 (44:43):
Porn theater, wasn't it was?
Speaker 6 (44:45):
Yeah, it was a porn.
Speaker 8 (44:47):
Out.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
That's kind of what that's kind of what it's, Lorena.
Speaker 5 (44:50):
When I first when I was when I was like,
have you know torn theater?
Speaker 6 (44:54):
Lorena, does it say please touch yourself?
Speaker 1 (44:57):
Lorena Laria, Listen, When I first when I went to
New York first time, when I was I was like nineteen,
I went to my brother moved there. I was in
Times Square. It used to be nothing but peep shows,
like they were. That's like all they had was those
kind of like porn theaters. And then what do you
think guys did in there? Yeah, exactly, think they were
just saying they were observing.
Speaker 6 (45:16):
On the side of a freeway like regular.
Speaker 7 (45:18):
That's basically what those aren't anyway, exactly.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
God, Yeah, you can't can't sol pee wee. He's dead anyway,
it does and by the way God has forgiven Pee Wee.
Those movies were so good.
Speaker 7 (45:30):
Anyway, Anyway, it's it's airing this It is a two part,
two hundred minute HBO Docky series.
Speaker 5 (45:37):
I'm Gonna Watch That. It's on tonight.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
It starts.
Speaker 7 (45:39):
It is on tonight at eight pm. It is airing
in its entirety, but you can also stream it on HBO.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
I'm gonna watch that. I'm gonna right, I'm gonna try
to get that whole thing done this week.
Speaker 7 (45:47):
It offers an intimate look at the life of late
actor Paul Rubins, best known as Peebee Herman. It is
bolstered by archival footage, but the documentary chiefly consists of
a rare, out of character interview between director and the
star that is edited down from over forty hours of
cannon conversations between the two, and critics were impressed by
(46:07):
the insightful documentary when it debuted at Sundance earlier this year.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Okay, cool, that sounds like something I'd be into.
Speaker 7 (46:14):
Yeah. And last, but not least, there is a new
comedy series launching on FX, also on Hulu as well.
It starts on Wednesday and nine pm on FX or
for streaming on Hulu. It is called Adults and it
is basically a gen Z spin on Friends. So it's
a group of twenty somethings living in New York but
(46:36):
lacking the skills required for life in the adult world.
FX comedies are usually pretty pretty good, so I'll check
it out.
Speaker 6 (46:43):
I'll report back to you.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
It sounds like a horror movie, not a comedy, but
that's fine.
Speaker 7 (46:46):
You know, fine, I'll do it.
Speaker 6 (46:48):
And that is scoop scoop on entertainment, all right, there,
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this hour is from the Jules Heist or the Julius
(02:10):
Heist or whatever you want to call it. But we'll
go to the Sooner State game number two. And if
you were optimistic, if you were excited, thinking, wow, yeah,
you had a pretty bad Game one in this series,
but then you had the Knickerbockers and the Pacers go
bonkers in their series. So certainly you're not gonna get
(02:31):
two clunkers in a row in the Minnesota OKC series.
So after truancy in the series, Opener ant Man and
the Wolves flew in for game two with SGA and
the thunder, and I don't know what you got going on,
whether you sampled this or not. Maybe you were watching it,
(02:51):
or maybe you were staring at a wall. If you
were staring at the wall, you likely had as much
fun as those watching the game. And as we like
to point out our public service announcement, do not worry.
We watched so you did not have to in the game.
Very similar same blueprint as game one. It was close
at halftime and then they had to play the rest
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of the game and shay Gilgis Alexander thirty eight points
twenty four hours after he was named the MVP picked
up the award there in a Gallas ceremony. How upset
was Adam Silver He had to fly to Oklahoma to
hand him the trophy. He must have been so pissed. Anyway,
he got the trophy. And then Oklahoma City went out
(03:33):
there in the second half and the term his I'll
use the term disemboweled. They disemboweled Minnesota yet again. They
win one eighteen to one oh three the final and
so it is two nothing in favor of the team
from Oklahoma and they have held serve at home and
now the series will shift up north. Gilgos Alexander made
(03:58):
twelve of twenty one field goals and thirteen of fifteen
foul shots. That continues to be a cloud following him
around as the critics of Gildas Alexander are having a
field there with that. But he did get the trophy
there from Adam Silver. He also had eight assists and
three steals and a partridge in a pear tree. Jalen
(04:20):
Williams said twenty six. Chet Holmgren, who looks like Skeletor,
had twenty two, and so that's where we are. Game
three will be Saturday in downtown Minneapolis. Tickets are not available,
look like him sold out. The better story, though, is
in that losing locker room. And if you listen to
the show on a semi regular basis, there is a
(04:43):
method to the madness. There is a formula that we have.
You've likely picked up on it unless you're totally obtuse.
And the way it works is we look at the
team that lost and then we break it apart, we
put it under the microscope, and we analyze it. We
like to play this game called the blame game. We
(05:04):
like to play the blame game. It's a fun game
to play the blame game, and this night rather easy
to play the blame game. Now, before we get into that,
let's get to the head coach of the Minnesota Timbarolls.
First off, here, let's go to cut two. First, here's
the coach Finch, who was commenting about how his team
(05:28):
has had no clue how to stop s g A.
Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Obviously, you know, SHA's a handful to contain. You know,
he's getting around us to you know, to when there's contact,
he's getting around us. And you know, we gotta do
a better job of square on him.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
O kiss all about the square you squares, You gotta
square them up.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
That's what I always told my my players when I
was coaching back and they got to square them up.
Here's one more from coach Finch. And so it's too nothing,
you're down. You got game three in the Wolf then,
and what's gonna happen in that game?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Coach?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Every minute in the series is a chance to find something,
you know, So we're gonna go back home. This is
a good team, good team at home. So we're gonna
go home and you know, fight for game three. I
mean heads up and look at the tabe and get
ready for Game three.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
So they I think they have a better chance. Like
if it was a fight, I think that Minnesota has
tougher players than Oklahoma City. Like I think chet Holmgan
could win a fight. I know he's tall, but he
won punch. That's it.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Now, don't bury the lead, my man.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
All right? So the story here is Julius Randall, who
was not only a basketball player, he was horrible. So
let's discuss that part of it. Because this is the number.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Two number two watch him.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Behind the star, the headliner Anthony Edwards, who also made
some headlines for what he did after the game. Let's
discuss the question what happened to playoff Julius Randall for
the Wolves. So I've got day spa vacuum, and Quickie Martin,
and we will combine all of these things together and
(07:13):
we're gonna make some amazing sticky rice and beef bugogie.
That's what we're gonna make, all right. So a Julius
Randva I was just asked in a previous episode of
the show, has he changed his reputation now? Has he
figured things out? And he was known early in his
career as a guy that was a ghost in playoff games. Well,
(07:34):
Randall in this game sucked at a time you cannot suck.
And forget load management. I know that's all the rage
in the NBA. Not load management. This was waste management.
What a waste, what a waste, hot garbage. And he
was benched in the fourth quarter. Your second player on
(07:54):
the team is benched in the fourth quarter. Now, this
is a reminder that even when Randall is going well,
and he has had some nice performances in the playoff,
so a lot of that was against Fat Luca and
the Lakers, So how much credit do you get for that?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
But he still he still has those.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Demons, those demons from NBA playoff pass in him. And
that was a total clunker and that doesn't do it justice.
Six points, four turnovers, five assists, five rebounds, two of
eleven floor and got hemorrhoids from sitting on the bench
(08:32):
in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
But wait, there's more.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
So Randall, we're pretty sure that he went to the
day spa during the game and he decided, you know,
I'm neder that cold plunge thing, and he did it
during the game at the wrong time.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
So the game was ultimately lost in the third quarter,
but specifically a.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Seven minute roughly seven minute stretch of the fourth quarter,
Minnesota was down by four at seven forty three on
the clock. I went back and I looked in the
third quarter, by four, anyone's game two baskets. Really with
the NBA, it's a three point shot and maybe a
four point player tied up. From that point. Over the
next seven minutes and eight seconds, Oklahoma City went after burners.
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They went turbotastic, and it was thirty to ten plus
twenty for Minnesota or plus twenty for Oklahoma City minus
twenty for the timber Wolves, and they were down by
twenty four points at that point, game, set, and match.
And in that meltdown that stretch, Oklahoma City shot eighty
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two percent, which means the only way the thunder could
miss a shot is if the air conditioning events were
pointed at the ball and the ball went flying and
the thunders swarming the Wolves like locusts, and Minnesota did
not do well. They find themselves now in the bowl,
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and as long as they went at home, they can
keep hope alive. But the the dust bowl is where
they're at right now. And if they don't snap out
of it and figure some things out here. They will
be put into an urn with a capital you. They'll
just be some dust now outscored by twelve again on
points on turnovers, points off turnovers. But the most.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Maddening thing, and listen, talk about both sides.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
We're talking about the losing locker room here. But the
Minnesota team's one thing to lose. But they got outworked right.
The thunder won all the hustle stats in a playoff game. Hey,
you're on the road. You got to out hustle the opposition.
That's basketball. One oh one.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Didn't do it, did not do it all.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Right now, turning the page, I mentioned Anthony Edwards made
some headlines, the ant man making headlines on and off
the court. He declined to speak with reporters after the game,
his team losing in non competitive fashion. Again, the face
of the franchise said, I ain't talking, and he's stormed
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out without had a little pity party and took off.
He apparently was upset because he was fined fifty thousand
dollars for a rather mild f bomb that he tossed
out just in casual.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
We don't how men talk.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
We just use the F bomb. I think women do
it too. We all use the F bomb, but you
can't do it with polite society. Anyway, Edwards had thirty
two points in the game and the low information fans, oh,
he played well, he had thirty two points. Come on, now,
well he took twenty six shots. That ain't great. The
issue though, is he he skipped out. He ski daddled
at a time you're not supposed to ski daddle. So
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the question for the esteem panel, which you are a
part of, is it fair to criticize Anthony Edwards for
not speaking to the media after game two? Considering that
he is a team leader and we are told the
face of the franchise. So after a thirty second deliberation,
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one thousand percent, is it fair? It is a breach
of the NBA protocol. That's one thing, as a violation
of your responsibilities literally in the contract. Like the NBA
players signed the contracts. They get all the big money,
but they have to talk to the media because the
NBA is just a TV show and it's based on
media stuff. And it also shows you that there's a
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leadership vacuum there, there's poor accountability and you're the guy,
Anthony Edwards, you're the guy, right, I'm not the guy.
You're the guy.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
How can you be the guy if you don't act
like the guy.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
You're the guy. It's supposed to be the future of
the NBA. I think we've eliminated that after the Big
D coming. You do have the Big D. You told
everyone you have the Big D. If you have the
Big D, why would you hide when the lights are
the brightest. It's easy when you go out and put
up fifty points in a game and are hammer dunking
the ball down people's throats, it's easy. You're out there
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shaking and bacon. Oh yeah, go out there. You want
to make up. You got the sound person over there,
you got the camera. The test is when you're stumbling
and bumbling. Take one for the team. My shoulder, the
what a burden getting up there and talking to Cliches
for seven minutes. Oh my god, And for that two
hundred and forty million dollars in a winfall contract.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
It's a real SOB story, it really is.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Man.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Can a guy get a break? Can he get a break?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Now? There's an issue here the NBA has, and not
many people are talking about it. Anthony Edwards can go
over to the deli counter and take a number. Is
The NBA has an infestation of mister softy players. When
things are going well, they're out in front, they're on
the camera. When things get bad, they play hide and seek.
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By Mike Count. By Mike Count, Anthony Edwards is the
third number three. He's number three in terms of players
that have skipped out on media responsibilities because they lost
a tough game. Draymond Green, tough guy. Traymond Green will
punch his teammate in a face, sucker punch him. He
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he's a tough guy.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Couldn't show up.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
To the media thing, got scared of the media. How
about Tyrese Halliburton, the hero of this playoff, the story
of this playoffs, the breakout star of the playoffs. Pacers
lost a tough game in the last round and he's
skid dad a out of there. He couldn't he couldn't
man up and talk to the to the reporters. Oh
my god, I can't speak in cliches. So he'll get
fined again, Anthony Edwards and upward and onward and last
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word here, So I saw this, I wanted to mention
I don't know if you saw it. A not former
NBA coach Michael Malone for the second consecutive night providing content.
We thank him for that. He's masquerading as a TV guy,
even though he'll just be coaching someone else next year.
So Michael Malone spoke about guarding Shay Jogis Alexander Right.
(14:53):
I talked about how do you defend him and all
that stuff. He said, quote, it's almost impossible. A lot
of times off defensive players like Shay will initiate the
contact or hook their arm looking to draw the contact.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
He is.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Here's the money quote from Michael Malone. He said of SGA,
he is a foul artist, Powell artist. So Michael Malone,
longtime NBA coach, says that the MVP of the NBA, SGA,
is quote almost impossible to guard because of the arm
movements that he makes and is a foul artist. Can
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you decipher what exactly that means?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
So, yes, I can.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I have turned to the mallor Rosetta stone. I have
turned to the mallor Rosetta stone, which is never wrong.
So SGA's game, what Malone is saying is sda's game
is like a quickie Mark. It's stopping, got stopping, Got
stopping Ghost, stopping ghost. He's baiting the defender in and
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it's not so much that he's beating the defensive player,
if you know what I'm saying. But if you're stopping
and going and the defender is reacting to that, you're
drawing foul. And really all this is, and we point
this out in previous episodes of the show, this is
the next generation Artisan. He is the next generation Artisan
who took the baton. I know James Harden's still playing,
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not in big games in the playoff season show for those,
but he plays in the regular season. And Dwayne Wade,
who's not playing anymore, he's out getting tattoos those guys. Right,
If foul drawing, here's the other question. If foul drawing
is a legitimate part of the game, then why do
so many coaches and players and fans everyone.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Get very upset and they very angry.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Right, they label the players for mastering the art of
foul baiting, if you will, So, I look at it
like gamesmanship, and I look at it like the tush push.
Instead of trying to ban the tush push, you should
figure out what Philadelphia is doing and run the play like.
(17:04):
That's my argument. And instead of being upset with SGA
because he's baiting for fouls, you should say, what is
he doing, Let's do that. That's really good, that's something
we should be doing. Right. He's like a surgeon out
there on offense using a scalpel to leverage defenders' mistakes
(17:26):
and get cheap points. And this is a great example
this game right here where from the foul line he
got fifteen foul shots thirteen points where no one's guarding you.
You're just standing there and it's practice. It's Papa shot,
is what it is.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
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Speaker 1 (17:51):
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long well gone. In the beginning of another of the
Ben Malor Show, we are in the air ywhere, jointly
as we put some mustard on it coast, the coast, border,
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Take Popper deep in the bowels of the Fox Sports
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Speaker 5 (18:45):
I'm in Florida now, bad job by you, anyway, he
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But Ferg Doog likes that tire rack dot Com the
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way that tire buying show be so our lead this
hour is the rare and appropriate, rare and appropriate Malon
monologue related to baseball. We'll get back to the basketball later.
Not much of a talker as Minnesota played gutlass basketball
lose and they got run off the court in the
second half. So we'll go to the bird. A pirate's
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life for me, A pirate's life for me, that'd be Pittsburgh,
and this is not about the Steelers. We actually have
some Steeler content later, but instead we will head to
the Iron City, where Paul Skeene's name has come up
prominently the last couple days on the trading block. His
name has been mentioned.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Shiver me timbers.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
So you haven't been following it, perhaps not the Pirates
manager Ben Charrington, who briefly was in Boston and got
run out of there. So Ben Charrington was asked about
the chatter that the Vultures are out they would like
to poach Paul Skeins. Paul Skeenes is the only player
(20:18):
on the Pirates worth watching. Everyone else is a minor
league player, so the rumor has been bouncing around.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
I was like, well, the Pirates blow.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
And they've got one guy that's halfway decent, and so
that's trade the guy, right, they have nobody else. You
spend any money to watch one guy? So is that
under consideration? So Ben Charrington said, quote, no, it's not
part of the conversation at all.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Close quote Okay, So.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Let's drill down on this one. The question for the
esteem panel, which you, by the way, are part of,
so congratulations, is Pirates GM Ben Charrington lying to protect
leverage or is Paul Skein's truly untouchable? Was he really untouchable?
(21:06):
So my observations here, I've got corporate jargon, devil c
and dradel, and we'll combine all of these things together
and try to avoid a tongue twister and have the
Great Perogi Race. I like that. Many teams have copied
the Milwaukee Brewers, who for years and years have had
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that sausage race, and then over the years the Diamondbacks
have a race with former player costumes. The Nationals and
the Pirates have the Great Parogi Race, and the Mets
have that like the sub the Burrow Race. The Mets
have that? All right? So Number I said, Number why
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not get off? All right? So my first thought here
Ben Sherrington saying it's not part of the conversation law,
what else was he supposed to say? Serious question like
could you imagine the world where Charrington came out said, yeah,
we would love to trade Paul Skins. We realize he's
a major league player. We're a minor league team. You
shouldn't have one major league player when you're a minor
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league team. We're not trying to win. We're a joke
of an organization. Our ushers will attack fans who are drunk.
We'll have fans get drunk, underage, fall out of the crowd.
We'll take down tributes of dead baseball players that are
historic in our town to put up an alcohol add.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
That's the pirates, right.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
So imagine if he had said, ben Cherrington, we're gonna
have a silent auction and the bidding ends right of
the trade deadline. Holy canoly that would have been created
a tinderbox. It would have been baseball malpractice. So instead
he's using corporate jargon. Corporate jargon. Now you have to
listen between the words. You have to listen between the words.
(22:51):
So Charington said no. Regarding the possibility of Paul Skins,
the phenom pitcher, being traded, he said, no, it's not
part of the conversation at all. Well quote So conversation,
as you know because you paid attention, conversation means oral communication.
How about digital communication? How about a text chain? How
(23:12):
about an internal email chain? Bandied about on trading the picture,
how about that? It's not really conversation. Technically, you're not wrong.
You have plausible deniability. You have plausible deniability because you say, oh,
I didn't. It wasn't a conversation. It was a text
and that's not a conversation. It's a digital thing, but
it's not a conversation. So yeah, if you rummaged through
my text messages, okay, but I didn't say it all right? Now,
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Page two? Should the seven Pirate fans left? Should these
seven Pirate fans remaining believe anything their front office says
at this particular point. And again, we're outsiders on this,
we don't have any skin in the game. I've been
to the Pirates ballpark years ago. It was beautiful, much
better than any of the players they've had in that
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town since they opened that new ballpark, which is not
even new anymore. It's really old to answer the question,
should the Pirate fans even believe anything anything that their
front office says at this point? Only if you live
in the township called Suckersville. If you live in Suckersville, okay,
But Pittsburgh Baseball is literally and figuratively lost a drift
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on the Devil's see, it's a pirate ghost ship, devoid
of life at this particular point, floating into the abyss,
untouched by time or tide, and they have drifted unmanned
for decades, that pirate ghost ship for decades. So there's
zero confidence that they know what they're doing, which is
(24:45):
why you can't believe them. It's also why you should
hope they don't trade Paul Skins because they don't know
how to pick good players, So why would you trade
him to get a package of players when you're you
don't know who's good and who's bad. And you know,
there's a lot of talking about trying to build something sustainable.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
But it's just words. It's all it is is words.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
And my evidence is the track wreck now that tells
you what has happened, not what's going to happen in
the future. And all these glowing reports, Oh you get
a bounty of prizes for Paul Skins and all the
riches of Solomon, do you realize every halfway decent player,
every halfway decent player that has passed through Pittsburgh Every
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once in a while, Yeah, the blind nut blind squirrel
finds a nut, right, Every once in a while, they
figure things out, Like Andrew McCutcheon was an MVP in Pittsburgh,
traded Garrett Cole Young Pitcher showed some signs of promise.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Traded like those type players. They get them every once
in a while.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
They passed through Western Pennsylvania and they're repackaged and they
get quantity over quality every single time. And as the
results come in, the results are poppycock.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Poppycock. That's the results. And so what's the bottom line.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
If the Pirates trade Paul Skins, it would be a
sporty war crime. There should be a tribunal here against
Pittsburgh by all seven Pirate fans. You don't trade a
generational alarm that you don't have to trade for years
to come. Who's not even in his athletic prime yet.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
And at this.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Point, considering how pathetic the Pirates are, Paul Skins is
not just a player at this point, he is the
avatar of the Pirates, right, he is the face of
the Pirates. You trade Paul Skins, and you're telling the
fans without telling the fans, we don't care.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
You shouldn't care, don't support us.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
We're never gonna be serious.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
We're a joke, all right now, turning to Fink.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
All right, so the final part is we're gonna go
to the Big Apple where the big showcase series this weekend,
the Dowyers and the Mets. The Dodgers not playing that
well recently. The Mets also not playing that well recently.
But they're gonna lock horns here and wrangle over the weekend.
And if I'm not mistaken, every one of those games
is on a different channel. Every one of those games
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is on a different channel as Baseball has sliced up
their television agreement.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
So get to the point, please.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
With one Soto being a jag, not a Jacksonville jag,
just a guy. At this point, one Soto is just
a guy. So with that going on, his early season problems, struggles,
what we want to say, and the team that he left,
the Yankees, playing pretty well. Someone that works for the Pinstripers,
(27:45):
off the record, of course, believes that losing one Soto
last offseason worked out better for the Bronx Bombers. Now,
this is per the New York Post, a shady tabloid,
so take it for what it's worth. But they said
an anonymous Yankee staff member said, they meaning the Yankees
are quote definitely better without soda, all right, So that's
(28:10):
the money quote. As we like to say that's the money.
Quote powder keg of a situation, So we'll frame it
this way. Was one Soto's departure from the Bronx over
to Queens. Was this really part of a grander master plan?
Or are the Yankees just trying to save face after
(28:33):
losing out to the Mets. So the arrow here is
pointing directly towards the drado dradl dradl dredder as as
in spin the drado. This is emotional damage control, is
what it is. Now.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Riddle me this, batman.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
If the Yankees are better off, okay, forget all the
stats and all the the Yankees are better off, then
why on God's green Earth did they aggressively pursue Juan
Soto in the first place? Like why didn't they just
say listen, we thank you and have a nice day.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
We're out.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
But they offered him a contract which was just a
few million behind the Mets. They didn't throw in as
many perks other than that they were right there. So
they want to sweep that under the rug. Now there
are absolutely concerns. I don't know. You can get it
now if you want, but the money. The only way
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these contracts work out is if you win a World Series,
and even then eventually you're gonna get stuck with an
albatross every one of those big contracts at the end
of the contract.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
It is horrific.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
I was told one time by a baseball executive that
these ten year contracts, you have to look at them
like five year contracts, that you have to win a
lot in the first five years, and then anything you
get after year five, year, six, seven, eight, it's going
to be mostly rags is the rags. And so you
look at it. If you look at it like a
five year contract, even though it's being paid out over
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ten years, you can justify the big money. The Yankees
also will have for now long term flexibility and all that.
The early returns for Juan Soto have not been particularly good. Nevertheless,
I believe this is a damage control situation. It's spin, spin, spin,
as we said, the pr spin and it's delusion.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Masquerading is some kind of brilliant strategy.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
And it's like, Okay, it's like going to gamble in
Vegas and you're playing roulette and you put the wrong
bet in. You wanted to bet on like black twenty,
and you ended up betting on red seven and you
end up winning, and you're like, oh, I meant to
do that. You screwed up.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
For some reason, it worked out, but you have fed up.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Now let's see what Cody Bellinger and Golby Paul Goldschmidt
do when we down to October. Now, Bellinger's not hitting
for a great average last I checked. Goldschmidt's he's old.
So we'll see if they break down before the season.
And that said of the players the Yankees picked up
with money that could have gone and would have gone
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and would have been allotted to the bonehead there, mister Soto,
Max Free does look to be the real deal.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Now there is a conspiracy, and I do embrace many.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Of these conspiracies.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
So this is the conspiracy, is that it's a.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Ploy the quote, of course, off the record, the quote
is to mess with Juan Soto's head. So he goes
down the tubes even more, knowing that he's a delicate
little flower, and he reads all of the media coverage.
He's aware of all the media coverage. It's tormenting him
that people aren't kissing his ass all the time. And
and so he's like, oh man, this is terrible. And
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now the Yankees are This called the dog pile where
you pile on top. And that's that's what's going on
at the moment in time.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
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Speaker 1 (32:06):
Here we go to a third degree.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
This is one gets grilled gool.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
It was reported that there was no discussion of a
contract extension for Roger Goodell at the league meeting this week.
Goodell already has the second longest tenure as NFL commissioner,
going on his nineteenth year. Now, Ben, how much longer
do you expect Goodell to service commissioner? Can he match
Pete Rizzell's record of twenty nine years?
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Well, the NFL is making money hand over fist, and they,
for some reason, the owners seem to think that Roger
Goodell is the reason that they're making that money, that
his immen's leadership and all that. Why not. So Goodell
seems like he hasn't really aged. You know, you're like
people come president and they get really old really fast
when they become president.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Well, you're the NFL commissioner.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
You've got your vacation home in Maine, You've got your
weekend home in the Hamptons. You're living the great life.
And I look at Goodella, it doesn't seem like he
looks much older than he did before. He's currently how
was sixty six? He could go another four years or
so at least, I would say. And it's a great job.
Why not, easy job, easy job. Next?
Speaker 7 (33:16):
All right, so you know Tyre's Halliburton's dad was banned
from the playoff games after he taunted Giannis and Tenna Kompo.
Now Charles Barkley thinks that Halliburton's dad should be let
back in to the stadium to watch the games.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
Do you agree.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
With conditions like he should have to sign, he should
stand out in front of the arena with a sandwich
board saying I will not confront opposing players. And he
should have to sit in the very top of the arena,
right the very top of the arena.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
I did see the video.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
You see the video where tyres Aalburn's dad recreated the
Reggie Miller choke yester after the comeback. So he's embracing it. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:53):
Next, the NFL announce that they will be giving out
a new league award starting this upcoming season. The Protector
of the Year award. That's for the best offensive lineman.
But if you could add your own award, no matter
how ridiculous, what would it be.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
How dumb is the offensive line award?
Speaker 1 (34:07):
By the way, how dumb is that?
Speaker 5 (34:09):
I think best coach?
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Remember the RAM said that guy with McVeigh, who would
hold McVeigh back?
Speaker 5 (34:15):
The coach that does that? How do we do a coop?
Speaker 6 (34:17):
You passed this sedition?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
That is I passed. I passed Loraine again, I I won.
Oh my god, perfect week.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
I think it was a perfect week this week.
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we go, weed Man, Are you there, my buddy, weed Man,
hippie Miami, Miami, Miami, Miami, Miami. Yeah, I love you
made raft Okay, I'll make you laugh. What is the
most ironic thing about blind Scott?
Speaker 8 (35:33):
What?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
A blind man who's obsessed with someone named Toucher? That's
Drew in Minnesota. Did you hear that blind Scott was
offered to head up the FBI? Yeah, he actually refused
to do the job. He couldn't spell. So that's Milkman.
(36:02):
Mike and Colorado sent that one in. How do you
know that blind Scott is really blind?
Speaker 8 (36:08):
How?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Because he obviously could not see the Celtic suck?
Speaker 5 (36:12):
That's why?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
What?
Speaker 5 (36:16):
What is what is worse than an e dog call
from Long Island?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
What anything that comes out of blind Scott's mouth? Anything
that's that's Noah in Austin. Hey, weed Man, when you
lived in New York, I know you had a place
that you were in Manhattan, right, But did you do
you ever got to Long Island. Yeah, sure, okay, you
were like a city guy, I got all right. Uh,
(36:41):
this one's from Econ Rose, Minnesota. But the penny may
not return to Benny versus the penny. What about that? Yeah,
what feels like it's getting nickel and dying by NBC.
There you go, that's yeah, we will address that evil
report that the Henny's apparently going away here the podcast, Yeah,
(37:03):
the fifth hour. Apparently we're getting rid of the petty
Gordon in Tacoma, writes and says, did you hear that
Bill Belichick and George Don Hudson made history when they
stayed out late last weekend?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
What happened? What they do?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Yeah? Apparently it's the first time ever that a silver
alert and an amber alert were wish your issued for
the same couple.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
So, Laranda, do you know what a silver alert is?
Speaker 1 (37:32):
You know?
Speaker 6 (37:32):
Yeah, when old people go missing.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Yeah, there you go, it's right. Yeah. Kurt from Earthwrights
And says, Bill Belichick's girlfriend just got food poisoned in
the bedroom. Well, apparently he's really looking forward to Jordan's
flu game. So who is Bill Belichick's favorite Tar Hill? Well,
(37:56):
that's obviously Michael Jordan. That's Brendan from Boston. What do
you what do you? What do you call Bill Belichick's
girlfriend with a split personality?
Speaker 5 (38:07):
What a pair of Jordan's?
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Now that's a court familiar. Well, how would you describe
the silence between Charlie's takes on the show? Bathroom stalls?
Is what you'd call the mess chip in Maine?
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Coop?
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Any jokes over there? Coop though? All right, now, why
can't anyone find Mike the Leprechaun's package?
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Why?
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Because his package is mike roscopic as a chip? In main?
What happened when Lizzo's personal trainer suggested she do squats?
Speaker 8 (38:48):
What?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Well, she moved her cakes and pies to the bottom
shelf of the refrigerator. And that's that's it right there.
That's from Ethan Rose, Minnesota. Well, this is kind of
a Coop joke, but it got sent to me and
I I gotta do it. I go in honor of
Coop the offensive joke of the league. Why wasn't Baltimore
surprised about the passing of Jim Ursay this week? Why, well,
(39:10):
that's not the first time that he has left in
the middle of the night without warning. It has happened
before honestly ship in Maine. All right, let's get to
your jokes, weed Man. What do you call any mutual
agreement between Coop Lorena and weed Man Hippie?
Speaker 5 (39:28):
What a joint decision?
Speaker 1 (39:31):
That's splendid Daddy, a big fan of our show. He's
in Lee's Burg, Alabama. Thank you, Splendid Daddy. What was
weed Man's first spoken words as a toddler?
Speaker 8 (39:42):
What?
Speaker 5 (39:44):
Puff puff give?
Speaker 8 (39:46):
That was?
Speaker 1 (39:46):
That's manny manny a from Newark, Cotch.
Speaker 6 (39:50):
Have one here? Oh go ahead, Coop, this is from
from Milkman Mike.
Speaker 7 (39:55):
Did you hear the position sixty nine is being renamed
to ninety six?
Speaker 8 (40:00):
Oh no?
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Why yes?
Speaker 7 (40:01):
Due to inflation it now costs more to eat out.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
What are a couple of undeniable truths about the next
twenty five years?
Speaker 8 (40:14):
What?
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Yeah, Well, the Browns and Cowboys will not reach the
super Bowl with their current ownership, and weed Man Hippie
will never have a job. That's John and Youngstown, Ohio.
What's weed Man's greatest magic trick of all time? Making
his roommate disappear? Apparently there's a dog version. There's a
(40:35):
dog version of weed Man. Yeah, it's all bark, no bite.
Speaker 5 (40:40):
No, Well that's from Kurt from Earth.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
We man's trying to stay healthy while seeking employment. How
about that one?
Speaker 8 (40:48):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Yeah, when someone starts giving him job applications, he runs
like a deer. That's Tom in Indiana Lane jokes up
the week you weed man.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 8 (41:06):
My man Justin Cooper is back and his coop on
Entertainment is writable right now, I promise you that. So
here is Justin Cooper and welcome back.
Speaker 6 (41:20):
Thank you Marcel.
Speaker 7 (41:23):
All right, Ben, We're gonna start off in the theaters
as always, and there's a couple couple big movies out
this weekend that I'm excited about. The first is the
live action Lelo and Stitch movie that's right now. Disney,
of course, is just you know, doing every movie in
their entire history as a live action remake. H most
(41:46):
of them are pretty terrible.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
I want to, I want to what executive at Disney
decided this is what we need to do. This is
the next two years or three years. This is gonna
make all of these movies.
Speaker 7 (41:56):
Yeah, and see the problem is though that He's still
gonna be seen as a success because you know, for
every like three or four of them that fail, one
of them just like knocks it out of the park
and makes a ton of money. And I guess that's
all that matters, and this might be one of them.
It's got pretty good reviews from critics, but so far
(42:17):
the audience score is ninety three percent, so everybody's loving
this one. Lelon Stitch is one of those fan favorites.
And I've seen the trailers for this. It looks it
looks pretty good, you know, as far as live action
remakes go. The other movie that is in theaters this
weekend is Mission Impossible, the final Reckoning until the next one.
Speaker 6 (42:41):
Yeah that's yeah. Look, I mean maybe maybe.
Speaker 7 (42:46):
It is the final Reckoning because like Tom Cruise is
what like seventy five now, still.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Doody's the lizard person, so he'll live forever.
Speaker 6 (42:54):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
You're a lizard person, you don't die.
Speaker 6 (42:56):
That's right. Yeah, sold his soul.
Speaker 7 (43:00):
Now it's I mean, it's getting good reviews from critics
and fans alike, so I probably will check this one out.
It is also available in Imax, which you know, this
is one of those movies that I think it's actually
worth it in imax. Lots of cool, big stunts and
explosions and planes and stuff.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Just make sure the popcorn is buttered.
Speaker 6 (43:22):
That's right, all right.
Speaker 7 (43:24):
Moving over to television, Ben, First off, we have a
new series. It's a limited series on Netflix. It's called Sirens.
It is a darkly comedic series and it stars Kevin
Bacon and Julianne Moore, and it follows two sisters over
the course of a single holiday weekend at a lavish
(43:44):
island beach estate owned by a wealthy socialite and philanthropist
who employs the younger sister as our personal assistant, a
relationship that the older sister finds somewhat creepy and hopes
to end. And that one's getting pretty good reviews that
it's available on Netflix right now. That is called Sirens.
And moving along, we have a documentary this weekend.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Oh, here we go, all right, this is my wheelhouse.
Speaker 7 (44:07):
Here we go, a limited series documentary. It's a two party.
It's on HBO at eight pm tonight or available to
stream on HBO Max.
Speaker 6 (44:20):
And it is called Pee Wee as himself.
Speaker 5 (44:24):
That's my guy.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Is that Pee Wee?
Speaker 5 (44:25):
Hermy that is that's my guy.
Speaker 6 (44:27):
Wasn't it like, you're not supposed to watch this stuff anymore?
Speaker 1 (44:31):
He's dead, He's okay, once you die, you can watch
the stuff.
Speaker 7 (44:34):
I think he got like semi canceled, but he really
shouldn't have because he didn't.
Speaker 5 (44:39):
He was normal to do that in a.
Speaker 1 (44:43):
Porn theater, wasn't it was?
Speaker 6 (44:45):
Yeah, it was a porn.
Speaker 8 (44:47):
Out.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
That's kind of what that's kind of what it's, Lorena.
Speaker 5 (44:50):
When I first when I was when I was like,
have you know torn theater?
Speaker 6 (44:54):
Lorena, does it say please touch yourself?
Speaker 1 (44:57):
Lorena Laria, Listen, When I first when I went to
New York first time, when I was I was like nineteen,
I went to my brother moved there. I was in
Times Square. It used to be nothing but peep shows,
like they were. That's like all they had was those
kind of like porn theaters. And then what do you
think guys did in there? Yeah, exactly, think they were
just saying they were observing.
Speaker 6 (45:16):
On the side of a freeway like regular.
Speaker 7 (45:18):
That's basically what those aren't anyway, exactly.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
God, Yeah, you can't can't sol pee wee. He's dead anyway,
it does and by the way God has forgiven Pee Wee.
Those movies were so good.
Speaker 7 (45:30):
Anyway, Anyway, it's it's airing this It is a two part,
two hundred minute HBO Docky series.
Speaker 5 (45:37):
I'm Gonna Watch That. It's on tonight.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
It starts.
Speaker 7 (45:39):
It is on tonight at eight pm. It is airing
in its entirety, but you can also stream it on HBO.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
I'm gonna watch that. I'm gonna right, I'm gonna try
to get that whole thing done this week.
Speaker 7 (45:47):
It offers an intimate look at the life of late
actor Paul Rubins, best known as Peebee Herman. It is
bolstered by archival footage, but the documentary chiefly consists of
a rare, out of character interview between director and the
star that is edited down from over forty hours of
cannon conversations between the two, and critics were impressed by
(46:07):
the insightful documentary when it debuted at Sundance earlier this year.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Okay, cool, that sounds like something I'd be into.
Speaker 7 (46:14):
Yeah. And last, but not least, there is a new
comedy series launching on FX, also on Hulu as well.
It starts on Wednesday and nine pm on FX or
for streaming on Hulu. It is called Adults and it
is basically a gen Z spin on Friends. So it's
a group of twenty somethings living in New York but
(46:36):
lacking the skills required for life in the adult world.
FX comedies are usually pretty pretty good, so I'll check
it out.
Speaker 6 (46:43):
I'll report back to you.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
It sounds like a horror movie, not a comedy, but
that's fine.
Speaker 7 (46:46):
You know, fine, I'll do it.
Speaker 6 (46:48):
And that is scoop scoop on entertainment, all right, there,
it is
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