May 26, 2025 • 49 mins
Big Ben talks about the Pacers epic meltdown as they allow the Knicks to come back from being down 20 to win Game 3, Rich Paul claiming that LeBron James does NOT run the Lakers, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and more!
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our lead This hour from the Mecca, not the Mecca
in New York, the mecca of sports in America anyway
on Sunday, Sunday Sunday Holiday weekend, the Hoosier State Hoo's
Your Daddy. Indianapolis, the site of the Indy five hundred,
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the iconic race. Even if you don't really like racing,
you watch that, right, There's two races you're supposed to watch,
supposed to watch, the Daytona five hundred if you're you're
not really a NASCAR person, and then the Indy five hundred.
So that was going on, and then at night downtown
Indianapolis was jumping all those annoying New Yorkers paying a
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visit to Indianapolis for the basketball game Eastern Conference Finals.
Game number three had Jalen Brunson and the Knicks on
life support, choking a couple of games at home and
now in a position where they have to do something
that's happened before. They have to become the first team
to lose the first two games at home in a
conference final and come back and win taking on Tyrese
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Halliburton and the upstart Pacers. So I don't know if
you were watching or not, maybe a whether it's pretty
good most places you were out doing stuff, having a
good time, perhaps, And we watched. We watched, as we
like to say, as a public service announcement so you
would not have to. And what did we watch, Well,
we watched a dud of a game early on for
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the Knicks. And then the plot twist. The plot twist
is Carl Anthony Towns super charged, up, up, and away.
He only had four points over the first thirty six
minutes of the game, was in foul trouble, and then
put up a twenty burger in the fourth quarter. Twenty
of his twenty four down the stretch run and Jalen Brunson,
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who was also in foul trouble. He had twenty three
points and the Knickerbockers down twenty late second quarter, looking
like doom and gloom for New York. And then they
come all the way back and they beat the Pacers
one oh six to one hundred the final, and so
the Indiana team still leading this series two games to one,
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as Carl Anthony Towns also had fifteen rebounds in this game.
A monster performance. Tyree's Halliburton quiet led the Pacers though
with twenty points and six assists and Miles Turner at nineteen.
Game four will be played on Tuesday night. Tickets are
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not available for that, so let's get into it. We
will discuss the question here who gets to wear the
Indiana colored Dunce cap for Rick Carlile's Pacers. You blow
a twenty point lead at home? What do you? What
do you think of that? The Boston Celtics blowing twenty
point leads at home? But he what's wrong with you? Inexcusable?
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So I've got Netflix, Fever and Goomba, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a value meal and you can enjoy the value.
He goes to holidays. So it's like a value meal situation.
So A I saw the T shirts. The NBA loves themes.
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They're all about the themes. And so the Indiana Pacers
officials handed out the gold and blue, the golden blue
team color T shirts there to everyone it appears in
attendance at that game, and they said, room baby, room
Baby's what they said on them to celebrate the very rare,
very rare occasion where the iconic Indy five hundred and
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a pro bouncy ball playoff game are going on. So
they put that out there, double header action, and it
was room vroom right vroom vroom right into the wall
driving the struggle bus for the Pacers, who, as I
understand it, I believe I have this right, have not won.
They've played four times now, four times on Indy five
hundred day and r zero to four in those in
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those games. Now, what they should have done instead of
handing out a room baby shirt, right, a shirt that
says room baby, they should have handed out a yellow flag,
the caution flag, because the Pacers had a they did
wear the yellow they had the yellow uniforms on it.
Was a caution situation. If you will hear dangerous conditions,
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dangerous conditions on the court, there a disgraceful dare I say,
inexcusable loss when you're up by twenty bad job by
them and you have a twenty point League Eastern Conference
chance to put a total choke hold on the series
here and you let the Knicks have a second life here.
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And last I checked, like the Knicks these guys, is
Patrick Ewing out there? I didn't see him. Maybe he
was there. I guess he might have been there, but
I didn't see the classic Knicks. These guys are still
trying to write their story, and the Pacers helped them
write a chapter in their story by allowing them to
get back in this game here and have new life.
And that's a shame on you situation for Tyrese Haliburton
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and the Pacers. Now, as for specifics, there's a couple
of names that I jotted down on the notes app
on my phone as I was watching the game here,
and they are the headliner's friend of the show Marcel
and Brooklyn's favorite basketball player Pascal Siaka. I'm gonna make
sure I say that properly and Tyrese Haliburton. Those are
the two. If your stars do not shine the brightest,
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you can't expect these other scrubs to get it done.
Even though Indiana was at home and usually the scrub
guys played better at home, but may you were on
the court for the majority of that time. Indiana was
up by twenty late second quarter and then in the
second half, and really the fourth quarter is completely collapsed,
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outscored by twenty six from up twenty to losing by
six at the end of the game, and Siakam and Haliburton,
they might as well have been watching and having a
nice surfing turf at Saint Elmo's there the steakhouse which
every sportscaster, every sports cast goes Indianapolis goes to Saint Elmos.
I've been there when I was there years ago when
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the Pacers were in the finals, and I was there
because that's just what you do. And often what TV
does is they'll they'll put the restaurant on TV because
they get like a discount or they get a payola. Now,
even I guess TNT did that too, they had some
kind of side hustles. So it's like the top restaurant
at least for sportscasters when they go to Indianapolis. They
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got to go to that sant elbos No Rick Carlisle squad.
Clearly they they had a brain fart here as they
did not close the game. In general, in general Indiana,
they got complacent. We've seen this a lot. This is
a an epidemic in pro bouncy ball. You get a
big lead and you get complacent, You ease up a
little bit, you cut corners. It's human nature, and so
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you usually start with defensively. You ease things up, and
then that opens the door a little bit, and the
door's unlocked, and so you open that up there, and
then you allow a little chip away action New York
chipping away in this game. And once the Pacers then
start losing control, they start losing the lead, then what happens.
Tts tight took his syndrome, tight took his syndrome kicked
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in for the Indiana Pacers in this game. And very tough,
very tough to play basketball when you were suffering from
a tight spinter. And we saw that for the Pacers
in the fourth quarter there as it was panic at
the disco or in this case the field house. There
in Indianapolis, they tightened up, they stopped playing free and easy,
free and loose, and then it just was a self
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fulfilling prophecy where they just fell apart at the end. Now,
in the fourth quarter, there were stretches that when you
were watching this, you know, it's kind of like when
you're watching something on on a streaming service like Netflix
and if you have just continue to watch stuff and
it kind of goes through, like you know, they have
those series where it goes in the next episode at
some point they'll they'll click something. Are you still watching?
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Like I felt like, Rick Carlyle, are you guys still watching?
Because all you're doing is watching, You're just watching the
Knicks runner Indiana shot twenty six percent in the fourth quarter,
and that was from the floor and twelve point five
percent from three point range. Now, I didn't play in
the NBA. I just do an overnight show. I don't
think that's particularly good. I don't think that's particularly good.
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That's just my position on that. Here is Rick Carlisle
pointing out he's the coach of the Pacers, pointing out
that they really fed up the end of that game.
They really screwed that thing. Up.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Take a list, poor Java closing the third quarter, not
a good enough start to the fourth quarter. Turned it into,
you know, a real back and forth game, and they
executed down the stretch and we did not execute well enough.
So credit them for fighting hard, hanging in. You know,
we got a pretty pretty good lead in the third quarter,
didn't do a good enough job of attacking but also
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avoiding miscues.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Difficult loss.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
So we'll watch it tomorrow and there are a lot
of things we can do better.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Okay, so standard cliches there at the end. Indiana was
up twenty late second quarter, they had a sixteen point
lead early third quarter and blow it. Here is Tyree's
halla Burton. Good for him. He actually talked to the
media after a loss. Here's Halliburton pointing out, well, some
offensive issues popped up.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Has some misshots, you know, five for twenty five from three.
That's not ideal. You know, I thought I gotta watch
film to really see our offensive processes what they really were.
Felt like we got kind of stagnant on that end,
you know, but yeah, we'll see where we can get better.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Watch film and be ready to go to freagam for
there you go, Just go watch the film. It's all
yet just watch the film, all right. Here's more from
Tyrese Halliburton pointing out here mister halliburt and that, well,
there's some things that he could have done better.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
You know, I was trying to feel out the game,
you know, see who's rotating overs?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Who the rotations are rotations. Obviously Mitch is there.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Yeah, you know, main rim protector, so when he's coming over,
just trying to make the right play. Sure, yeah, yeah,
I could definitely be better there, that's right. Not watch
the film.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
See watch the film.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Areas of improvement, see I can get better a game four?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah, I watched the film. Go, I'm gonna watch the
film too. Get some popcorn, some candy. I'm gonna go
watch the film all right now, Page two. So you
have the loser side, which is the better story. Then
you have the winner side. So who got into Tom
Thibodeau's nicks or what got into them? What got into
Tom Thibodeau's Knickerbocker's There as they were futsing around twenty
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point deficit and even in the early third quarter, it
was like something kicked in late third So what inspired
the comeback? So what inspired the comeback. So the first
thing is they stayed within reasonable striking distance. It was
a workable number and you're only down ten going to
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the fourth quarters, so that's manageable. And then it's it's
Ted Nugent's it's a kitty cat. It's Karl Anthony Towns
cat scratch fever right there, Boom. We mentioned twenty of
twenty four points in the fourth quarter, and that's how
he's supposed to but he very rarely plays like that
in playoff game. It's rare that you get that kind
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of performance from Carl an Day. Usually you get the
four points over three quarters, you don't normally get to
twenty in the fourth quarter. And we ripped the guy
all the time because he's often hanging out in the
litter box in big moments in the playoff game. But
here he left the litter box and he stepped up.
And so if you want to give him flowers, give
him some flowers. I don't like handing out flowers, but
he did a good job. You don't get extra credit.
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You're being you're the franchise player with Brunson, You're you're
the B player to the A player. That's how you're
supposed to play. But you did your job. Good for you.
Do it again, and do it again, and do it again.
All right, now, last word here, I cannot help myself.
I cannot help myself here. Scott Foster was the lead
official at this game, AKA you know what his nickname
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is kids the Extender. Scott Foster the Extender was a
signed to this game. I don't want to sign sound
too much like a whack of doodle from San Diego
that calls the show, but listen, this was an issue
when I saw this during the day, I started texting
some people. We were going back and forth and we're like,
all right, well, there you go. That's the story. Here
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you go the direction of the Knicks. If you don't
know what to do, just take the next. Pacers were
favored by I think four in the game, but Scott
Foster was a sign to officiate Game three between the
Knicks and the Pacers, and what do you know, Surprise, surprise, surprise,
the big market Knicks on life support. They have a
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modern medical miracle. They come off the deck down twenty.
They extend the series, extend the series, creating some excitement.
So are you buying? Are you buying? Into the conspiracy
with Scott Foster or is this just some kind of
wild cuinki dink. That's the question. What's the answer. So
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to me, this isn't even a conspiracy at this point,
I think you're just you're an idiot if you think
it's a conspiracy. It's not a conspiracy. It's not. I mean,
there's no. I mean it's it's at the point now
with Scott Foster where everyone and their mother know the deal. Yo, right,
everyone knows. It's not a coincidence. It's a pattern at
this point, So stop with stop with the arts conspiracy. No,
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it's it's a pattern of activity that has taken place here.
Perception is reality. And when the NBA mob, when the
league office has a problem on their hands and no
one can solve it, who you're gonna call the mob
at the NBA, they turned to their league gumba and
that's Scott Foster. They put Scott fu out there and
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tada abra, cadabra. Amazing the percentage of success that Scott
Foster officiated games have where the team that's trailing in
a series wins. But again, it's not, no, it's a coincidence.
It's not some kind of grand conspiracy. It just feels
like it's scripted, like it's professional wrestling, is what it
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feels like. When Scott Foster's out there. This man has
been part of how many over the years, I've been
doing this a long time. How many times have I
come in here after a playoff game in a series
where a team's trailing, they win, and Scott Foster's doing
it and magically, deliciously the team that's trailing ends up winning.
And you know something's a little off in your business.
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When the Nick fans are celebrating during the day when
they found out the official assigned to the game. I mean,
it's so stupid. It's like so ridiculous, like the Nick fail.
We got it, dude, we got it. We got a
new player, we got the sixth man. It's gonna be
We're gonna be on the power play, power play when
when we're out there tonight because Scott Foster is gonna
be official. I mean, hell, Adam Silver, what are you doing? Seriously?
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So great? Now, I will admit this was an unorthodox
This was an unorthodox, not your standard Scott Foster special.
In regards to the fact that the Knicks did win.
But they they won with their bench, all right, they
won with their bench Jalen Brunson and Karl Anthony Towns,
even though he came up big late in the fourth quarter,
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but they were in foulchro both had four fouls going
to the fourth quarter. However, this feeds in. This feeds
in to the theory. You see Scott Foster forcing Tom
Thibodeau to play players on the bench he normally does
not play like Foster because of his foul foul calling
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on Brunson and Karl Anthony Towns that forced the Knickerbockers
to play multiple players they would not normally play, and
that turned out to be the secret sauce in this game.
So coaching credit goes to Scott Foster in this game.
And look the NBA, they'll tell you and this will
come up. I'm sure they'll NBA release a statement. They've
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done this many times. I'll say, well, listen, Foster is
just an experienced referee and it's just noise. It's just
you know, people trying to get engagement on social media
and all that. Well, I'm not on social media right now.
I'm on the radio. And you look at this. The
numbers do not lie. The numbers do not lie. And
you don't earn the nickname the extender. You don't earn
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that nickname just by coming out of thin air here.
You got to put some serious work in to get
that nickname. And the players, they've done surveys over the years,
the players have voted Scott Foster the most distrusted official
in the NBA. And whether or not it's fair, I
think it is. I believe if it is fair based
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on the body of work. You are a product. You
are what your record says you are. So based on
the body of work, I would say there's something there
right there, and certainly a perception problem if you're the
NBA at best, it's just a perception problem, right that's
you say, that's it, but you assign him to the series.
In this game, when the knicks are down, you're just
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throwing You're throwing gas on the fire, is what you're doing.
You're just pouring gas on the fire there. And so
let's not forget. We don't want to go way back
in the greatest scandal cover up in the history of
professional sports, the Tim Donahue fixing game scandal of the
Oughts back in the day and Tim Donahe and Scott Foster.
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There were one hundred and thirty four calls between Tim
Donhee and Scott phone calls. I think that magic number.
I have that tattooed in my brain. One hundred and
thirty four if I remember correctly. Phone calls in seven
in seven between Scott Foster and Tim Donnee as donnihe
was fixing games. So there you go. Suspicious but clear,
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I mean's completely nothing wrong, nothing wrong here at all.
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lead this hour. We'll get back to the basketball if
you want to talk about that. At Indiana twenty point
lead second quarter, blew the game as they had tight spinters.
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Tight took his syndrome there in the fourth quarter and
the lead melted away. And so the extender gets it
done again. He said, well, it's just a coincidence. But
always Scott Foster, almost always Scott Foster out there again.
So our lead this hour, though, is from the King
James version of NBA Conversation. Several of you reached out
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to me over the weekends. Did you see what the
quote was? Can you believe that? Oh my god? And
this is all about Rich Paul the Lebron James creation,
Rich Paul. Without Lebron, Rich Paul is hanging out somewhere
in Ohio and has a regular job, maybe a good
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union job, but a regular job. And that's that. But
now he's a gazillionaire. And I think is he married
to to the singer and Adele. I don't know they married.
I don't think they're married. They're just they're just a
stupid that's all, all right. So anyway, Rich Paul commenting
on Lebron Lebron James, saying that Lebron James, according to
Rich Paul, Lebron James does not have as much power
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as the perception is in basketball world. In the basketball
world there, he does not decide, does not decide what
the what is going on there the Laker personnel moves
and all that stuff. In a recent appearance with member
of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association, Rich Eisen, the
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NBA agent there claiming claiming Rich Paul claiming that his
client has limited involvement in key front off his decisions.
So I don't even saw this or not, maybe you
missed it over the weekend. So Rich Paul saying that
the idea that Lebron, James Lebron is the unofficial GM
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of the Lakers. He said, that's quote false, that's false,
he said, that's false. So we can slice this up
a million different ways. But let us discuss for a
couple of good minutes. Here the question for the esteem panel,
what you are part of? So Rich Paul Lebron's age,
longtime business associated, business associate friend, Rich Paul, all of
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those things right, he's in the inner circle, Rich Paul.
He goes on the record, Rich Paul saying that Brown
James does not run the Lakers. That's the quote right there?
Are you buying that? Are you buying that? So I've
got fingerprints, unleaded gasoline, and groundwork, and we will combine
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all of these things together and we are gonna make
the gobaol. We're gonna make the Gabba goouls what we're
gonna make all right? So number I said number Yeah.
Now the quote the great Andy Furman. We were born
at night, but not last night. So no, not buying
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what they're selling. Not buying it. Now. I know there's
a lot of people that live in Suckersville, the low
information fan that will say, well, Rich Paul said it
and if he said it, it must be true. He
wouldn't have said it if it's not true. So Rich
Paul said it, it's true, and Bauda being Bata Boom
just like that. But we're not We're not that. Listen.
Rich Paul is a guy who is as far are
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in the tank as you could possibly be for Lebron.
He is a creation of Lebron James. He would be
nothing without Lebron. And I get it. You are beholden
to Lebron. You are, and I would be too. I
would lick Lebron's toes if I had the life Rich
Paul has, I would all because of Lebron. Nothing he did,
He just happened to latches, you know what, into Lebron
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and there you go. And so I mean, don't kidd
yourself here, come on, let's look at this objectively. Lebron
may not have the title general manager of the Lakers.
He may not have that particular title. It's just semantics.
It's all semantics. Lebron influences everything, and every man, woman
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and child knows it. Everything, coaches, trades, rotations, all of it.
His fingerprints, Lebron's fingerprints are all over every decision that
has made. And it's been that way since he got there,
and he would have gone there if it hadn't been
that way. And that's just the way it is. Skinny jeans.
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Rob Polinka one of the all time great figurehead foe
general managers. I mean, if you were a Ropolink, you
wouldn't want him running anything. Right. The guy don't know
what he's doing. Everyone knows that. But he's like, well,
he's a perfect foil. He has a pretty la, pretty boy,
kind of punchable face, Rob Polenka. So he's out there
as the GM, and he's like, he didn't make any decisions.
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He just runs it by Lebron. He's a middle manager,
Rob Polenka, what do you think, Lebron? All right, you
want that? I will make that happen. Sure. And it's
not even about being swayed per se. It's not about
being swayed. It is the business model. That is the
business model, Lebron James GM by proxy, GM by proxy,
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Lebron James there without it. They literally hired the coach.
The Lakers hired the coach because the qualifications the guy
was Lebron's podcast Buddy Rich fall no Lebron's not making this, dude.
They hired the Lebron's podcast co host as the couch.
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You think we're all morons? Seriously, you hired the Lakers
hired a podcast guy as the coach because he was
doing a podcast with Lebron. If Lebron had been doing
a podcast with Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan would be coaching
the Lakers right now. Do you realize how ridiculous this is?
Do you understand how stupid is anything?
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Well, no, Lebron doesn't really make these decisions. I mean,
so you've got players who have gone on the record say, well,
I wasn't I wouldn't getting a playing time, so I
went I didn't go to the coach. I went to
Lebron to get more playtime. I went to Lebron to
get more play time. Oh my god. But he doesn't
run the Lakers. I doesn't run the Lakers. Just like
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it's just it's just another quinkid Like Scott Foster when
he officiates an NBA playoff game where the team is
trailing in a series. You know ninety percent of the
time that team that's trailing ends up winning. But it's
just a coincidence. It's just weird. It's just one of
those weird things about life. That's it. Now, page two
to the gossip world. You know, I'm a sucker for
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that world. So Danica Patrick, we used to play great
game on this show, which lap will danicarekin man? Was
that a fun game and we always had winners. We
always had winners. She would wreck ninety five percent of
the races. It was. It was wonderful anyway, So Dannic
and Patrick now washed up former athletes. She recently opened
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up on the Sage steel show It Must to Be
a Podcast describing her relationship with NFL legend Aaron Rodgers.
She described it as quote emotionally abusive. She said the
breakup was the most painful experience of her life. So
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what is your reaction to people are bringing this up?
So Steelers can't sign Aaron Rodgers now because this is
some baggage and this is a mess and alls. So
this is I would file this one based on the
information I have as an unnecessary airing of a dirty
laundry and a personal grievance. That's where I have this
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one filed based on the information that I have. Now, listen,
She's obviously free to speak and do whatever she wants there.
But let's not pretend that there was not alterior motives
by throwing this out here, that there's ulterior motives here
by Danika Patrick, because it does add unleaded gasoline on
top of the inferno is what it does here. And Danik,
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she didn't just say that it's painful. She said emotionally abusive,
very dramatic. There's some people think that very seriously. Right.
I would argue though, that most relationships that end there's
some kind of emotional trauma that because otherwise you just
stay together, right, otherwise you just stay together. And she
does this randomly on a podcast years after Rogers was
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with Danik. That's a long time ago, and that's been many,
many years since they were together. So why now maybe
just to clear the air, right, clear the air, or
or get a little publicity, you know, get little publicity
out there. That was really talking about Danic and Patrick
these days she's irrelevant. So and it's just the latest
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in a long winding road. If you keep track of
the gossip here Rogers, he's had some issues the public
figure Aaron Rodgers in relationships, the family, drama, well documented
drama with former teammates check, coaches check. So the one
(30:51):
common denominator is the drama. That's the one common denominator
of the drama. All right, now, final point to the
business of the NFL. We got why not as we
slice and dice it on this holiday here Roger Goodell,
the commissioner, Roger Goodell is out there. He's out about
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He's a man about town. Roger Goodell saying that the
next CBA, the next collective bargaining agreement, may have to
deal with owners concerns. The owners are upset. The aristocrats,
the robber barons of football are not happy. They're upset
with a salary cap system and rising costs inflation. They
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don't like it. They don't like having to pay more
and more and more and more and more and more
and more. Costs are a rising to the moon to
the moon, to the moon to the moon. So is
this a legitimate problem? Is this a legitimate problem for
the very wealthy, very wealthy oligarchs of thel or is
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it just a bunch of rich guys complaining? All right,
just a bunch of rich guys out there belly aching.
It's not fair blah blah blah. So the league just
brought in. Let me do the math on this. I
think it's twenty billion. Is that the right number? Twenty
billion dollars in revenue. That seems like a lot. I'm
not a business guy, but that seems like a lot
of money. And every single franchise, the only reason you
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buy a franchise is because you're already ridonculously rich. And
this is just a toy. It's a way for people
to know who you are. It is a way for
you to get the top seat at the restaurant. It
is a way for you to be the star of
the cocktail party. That's why you buy an NFL team,
and he makes some money with it. The main point
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is that you've already been successful, but now you want
everyone You're You're You're not an introvert. Introverts don't buy
teams because you buy a team to get attention. You're
an extrovert. That's why you would buy a team. And
that's where we are, I mean, And so the rising costs,
let's do some malor math on this. So every franchise
is essentially just a toy to what's around with the
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values all keep going up. So that's that's true. And
the rising costs was that the private jets and all
the different taxes and whatnot, and on the third homes
and the fourth homes and the capital gains tax when
you make money on the stock market, those kind of
things go up. Costs rise, I believe, though the revenues,
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unlike most businesses, the NFL revenues are outpacing the costs.
So even though, yeah, the costs are going up, the
revenue is also going up. And so good luck man.
You know what this is. Though, when you pull this
story apart, Roger Goodell complaining and saying we're gonna have
to address the rising costs, the owners are not happy
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and all this stuff, what he's doing is he's laying
the groundwork. Goodell is laying the groundwork to try to
squeeze the play again in the next negotiation. And the
weakest of all the gladiators of football when it comes
to this kind of thing, they get stopped on all
the time. And so you're looking at it what well
like lockout, You're looking at you know, the roll back
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on certain things that have been given. Those are the
usual threats that are made and so the endgame. The
consensus is this that all this is being cost out
because Goodell's gonna say, listen, we gotta cut costs. However,
if you give us that eighteenth game, will be okay, well,
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we won't cut any money. Just give us the eighteenth
game and we're good. And that's just sign off on that. Now.
In terms of the actual negotiation, normally you'd say, okay,
if you're claiming that the costs are going up, you're
not making as much money. Open the books. Let's go
to the books. Let's see what the finances are. Let
the players see what you're talking about. And we know
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that is not happening. That is never happening ever ever, ever,
ever to infinity and beyond. That is not happening. And
the owners have that sealed up like they used to
seal up Alcatraz back in the day. They're just not
gonna happen there and then, and regardless, this is just again,
it's a shot across the bow, random shot twenty twenty five.
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The negotiation is not going to happen for a while.
But he's tossing it out there. It's like I'll throw
this out there randomly, you know, why not see what
happens now, the NFL Players Association will respond and we'll
go back and forth and all that be.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
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Speaker 1 (35:39):
There we go, Here we go, third degree.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
This is one big Ben gets grill.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
So but I know they recently voted on changing the
NFL playoff structure to straight seating so that bad division
winners don't get a home team home game, and they
voted against him. But college football has adopted trade seating
for the twenty twenty five playoffs. If this works out
in college do you think it would nudge the NFL
to go in the same direction.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Ummm No, it's an overreaction to college football because they
did it. It's a small sample size one year, and
they did it because the favorites went ten to one.
The only upset in the college football playoff was when
Penn State and Notre Dame got together and Notre Dame
beat Penn State. That's why they did it. But the
NFL does their own thing. I don't think they're going
to copy college football on this regard. Next.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
Since the release of the NFL schedule, The most popular
bet has been Patriots over eight and a half wins.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Are you on board with that? Well, if you look
at the schedule, the Patriots are supposed to be better
and they play some terrible teams like Tennessee and New Orleans.
You look at the non conference schedule, non division schedule,
yes they should. If they don't win nine games, Rabel's
done a terrible job.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
Next, so let's revisit the Karl Anthony Towns Julius Randall trade.
Is your opinion of who won the trade any different
now than it was when it was originally made?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Well, and not after what I saw him in the
fourth quarter coup of Game three where Karl Anthony town
has put up twenty points. Listen, it's it's an even
trade with a lean to the Knicks because Carl Anthony Towns,
even though he's an enigma, he's a more talented enigma
than Julius Rando's guy's own demons. How did we do you? Passes?
That is a win. I wanted protein for everyone protein.
(37:25):
Thank you all right, I appreciate it. She's clapping for
me after.
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E Dog lives on Long Island. He's a big fan
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(40:03):
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about Kitlin Clark. I guess over the weekend. I saw
that somewhere. Saw the headline. Didn't read the story line one.
You're on the Airline one, number one, the number one. Yeah.
The editor of the Boston Herald listens to this show.
I start him tweet you the other day, Danny Bentro. Yeah,
he's a big fan of the show. They should write
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Come on, man, what you do it? Line number two Hello?
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Who's impressed? Line number three, Hello, Line three, bits on.
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The fire hydrant, walk in front of a subway train.
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We're giving advice to E Dog. That's a caller from
New York KLLO. Line six. I found a jolly ratcher
under my bed and I hate it. Oh that's disgusting, dude.
But unless it was was in the rapper, No, it
is in the rapper. It's okay, but it was like
you know, it gets real sticky. And then the all
right last call are on one. Oh my god, that
(42:27):
was a disaster at the end. Oh my god, we
ruined the end of that. What happened? Why that happen?
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Speaker 1 (42:39):
Let's get to the guy that's got to that guy?
Just like that, you strut around like you know everything.
Computers are for losers.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Normal people.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Oh dare she?
Speaker 2 (42:50):
What do you?
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Let's find out?
Speaker 2 (42:52):
Are you smarter than an f s R Tech Queen?
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Well, don't make me regret this, but we're gonna have hollering. James.
Play the game, James, be on your good behavior, James, NA,
thank you. Ben. Okay, he's off the well he's on
the meds, but he's on the right meds. Are you
smart on the FSR Tech Queen? The the categories this week?
That doesn't I'll just give you random questions.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
All right, we'll just do random questions, all right, uh
and the lorraino will you're gonna go first? Is that correct? Alright?
Very since I won last time, okay, all right, in
honor of since I won, in honor of our big
trip this week. What is the capital of Canada? James jaid?
(43:41):
I like that. We immediately established one thing, and you
are changing the rules. Go ahead, James, Alberta? All right,
Well you love Alberta.
Speaker 6 (43:50):
When I was younger, my aunt's name was Alberta. So
I'm gonna go to James.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
Do you think James is right? The capital of Canada
is Alberta? All right, that's know that is wrong and
everyone right now, No, it's but it's you know, it's
in Ottawa's play. Yes. Yes, they're called the Senators because
that's the political capital of Canada and that's where all
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the moving and shaking goes on. And we're on there.
So all those people in Ottawa listening right now are
like these a holes, these American a holes. All right,
let's keep going here. Let's see what was that? What
are you doing? Don't ask that question, you know, I
want to know what he's doing here. Let's see here.
All right, let's go on next up. What is the
center of an atom called? Oh, oh, I know this.
Speaker 5 (44:40):
Go ahead, Lorena, the nucleus.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
James, you agree with that?
Speaker 4 (44:45):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Adam? What is your answer? All right? You guys got
it right. The nucleus is the correct answer. That's right,
That's right. Okay, it's together. You're supposed to be competing.
Who was the first person to complete a solo flight
across the Atlantic Ocean? First person? James? You're going with
(45:13):
the Wright brothers? All right? Larani you agree? No, I
do not agree.
Speaker 6 (45:17):
And I want to say Amelia Earhart, but I know
that she died in an effort to get across the ocean.
Maybe she didn't die.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
Yeah, they never found her body.
Speaker 6 (45:26):
I know she disappeared, but she might have already done
it before she disappeared. So I'm gonna say Amelia a hut.
Speaker 1 (45:34):
All right, have a tremendous suggess and both you are
completely wrong. It's is it? Chuck Yeager? No, okay, Chuck
Yeger set the sound oh the speed record. But Charles Lindbergh,
Charles Lindberg wasn't wasn't the airport in books? Shut up?
(45:55):
It wasn't the airport in San Diego named Lindbergh Field
at one point? I don't know if it still is
when I work when I worked in San Diego, I
think it was called I think it was called that.
Let's see. What else do we have here? Let's see.
I gotta get these other You have a couple sets
of questions I'm using here, so I have to switch
up the question. Oh, here we go, this is the
These are the better questions. Let's go to sports. Here,
we'll go to sports. And in swimming, this particular stroke
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is named after a bug named after a bug, butterfly.
All right, Lorena, you agree or disagree? I disagree? Okay,
what do you think?
Speaker 6 (46:38):
Are you laughing?
Speaker 4 (46:39):
Coop?
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Go ahead, Loa? What bug do you think? Go ahead?
Speaker 4 (46:43):
All right?
Speaker 1 (46:43):
Mom on here, what are.
Speaker 6 (46:45):
Those bugs that are on the water like the skipper bugs?
Speaker 1 (46:49):
The skipper bug? All right? Is it the skipper bug? No,
James got it right, It's the butterfly. James collaring, James,
I believe me. James is now in the lead. No man,
all right, are you smarter than the f SR tech?
You can't lose? What does that? What does that one
look like? The butterfly.
Speaker 2 (47:10):
Oh my god, in the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
She has no idea who Mark Spitz is. Don't even bother.
All right, you have a great exemp. You guys seem
very smart. Let's go to a science question, which Oregon
is responsible for getting rid of all those bad toxins
in your body? You want to go first, Ladies go first.
Speaker 6 (47:29):
No, I'm letting men go first.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
That means neither one of you know the answer. Loraina,
go ahead. I'm gonna go with your liver, all right, James,
you agree or disagree?
Speaker 2 (47:38):
Yeah, your liver.
Speaker 1 (47:40):
I agree with Lorena.
Speaker 6 (47:41):
Is it your kidney?
Speaker 1 (47:43):
I like that. You immediately thought you were wrong. No,
you're right, it's the liver. The liver is correct. The
liver is correct.
Speaker 6 (47:50):
I'm technically winning. He's stolen two of my answers.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
Well, that's allowed. It is a low.
Speaker 6 (47:55):
Well I'm just saying, okay, all right, come on place,
I am playing fair. Your cheating.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
I don't know he's cheating, per ses. Okay again with
the tammy. One more question. It comes down to this
in tennis, what is the term for a forty forty?
What is the clinical term they're using tennis like the
Wimbledon's coming up here? What is the clinical term? All right,
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watch your mouth, James, Lorena, what say you?
Speaker 6 (48:30):
Oh, I'm gonna go with quarenta ben all right, wow, hollering, James,
got it right.
Speaker 1 (48:38):
It is a deuce. You win the game. You are
smarter than the MSR tech wee. Congratulations, James. You get
a golden ticket. You get a golden ticket. I'm actually
stun James. I I thought there was no way. And
he knew the Butterfly one too. I was surprised by that.
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I know experience. It's fifty years ago. All right, very nice,
Thank you, James,
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our lead This hour from the Mecca, not the Mecca
in New York, the mecca of sports in America anyway
on Sunday, Sunday Sunday Holiday weekend, the Hoosier State Hoo's
Your Daddy. Indianapolis, the site of the Indy five hundred,
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the iconic race. Even if you don't really like racing,
you watch that, right, There's two races you're supposed to watch,
supposed to watch, the Daytona five hundred if you're you're
not really a NASCAR person, and then the Indy five hundred.
So that was going on, and then at night downtown
Indianapolis was jumping all those annoying New Yorkers paying a
(02:45):
visit to Indianapolis for the basketball game Eastern Conference Finals.
Game number three had Jalen Brunson and the Knicks on
life support, choking a couple of games at home and
now in a position where they have to do something
that's happened before. They have to become the first team
to lose the first two games at home in a
conference final and come back and win taking on Tyrese
(03:08):
Halliburton and the upstart Pacers. So I don't know if
you were watching or not, maybe a whether it's pretty
good most places you were out doing stuff, having a
good time, perhaps, And we watched. We watched, as we
like to say, as a public service announcement so you
would not have to. And what did we watch, Well,
we watched a dud of a game early on for
(03:29):
the Knicks. And then the plot twist. The plot twist
is Carl Anthony Towns super charged, up, up, and away.
He only had four points over the first thirty six
minutes of the game, was in foul trouble, and then
put up a twenty burger in the fourth quarter. Twenty
of his twenty four down the stretch run and Jalen Brunson,
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who was also in foul trouble. He had twenty three
points and the Knickerbockers down twenty late second quarter, looking
like doom and gloom for New York. And then they
come all the way back and they beat the Pacers
one oh six to one hundred the final, and so
the Indiana team still leading this series two games to one,
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as Carl Anthony Towns also had fifteen rebounds in this game.
A monster performance. Tyree's Halliburton quiet led the Pacers though
with twenty points and six assists and Miles Turner at nineteen.
Game four will be played on Tuesday night. Tickets are
(04:34):
not available for that, so let's get into it. We
will discuss the question here who gets to wear the
Indiana colored Dunce cap for Rick Carlile's Pacers. You blow
a twenty point lead at home? What do you? What
do you think of that? The Boston Celtics blowing twenty
point leads at home? But he what's wrong with you? Inexcusable?
(04:56):
So I've got Netflix, Fever and Goomba, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a value meal and you can enjoy the value.
He goes to holidays. So it's like a value meal situation.
So A I saw the T shirts. The NBA loves themes.
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They're all about the themes. And so the Indiana Pacers
officials handed out the gold and blue, the golden blue
team color T shirts there to everyone it appears in
attendance at that game, and they said, room baby, room
Baby's what they said on them to celebrate the very rare,
very rare occasion where the iconic Indy five hundred and
(05:43):
a pro bouncy ball playoff game are going on. So
they put that out there, double header action, and it
was room vroom right vroom vroom right into the wall
driving the struggle bus for the Pacers, who, as I
understand it, I believe I have this right, have not won.
They've played four times now, four times on Indy five
hundred day and r zero to four in those in
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those games. Now, what they should have done instead of
handing out a room baby shirt, right, a shirt that
says room baby, they should have handed out a yellow flag,
the caution flag, because the Pacers had a they did
wear the yellow they had the yellow uniforms on it.
Was a caution situation. If you will hear dangerous conditions,
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dangerous conditions on the court, there a disgraceful dare I say,
inexcusable loss when you're up by twenty bad job by
them and you have a twenty point League Eastern Conference
chance to put a total choke hold on the series
here and you let the Knicks have a second life here.
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And last I checked, like the Knicks these guys, is
Patrick Ewing out there? I didn't see him. Maybe he
was there. I guess he might have been there, but
I didn't see the classic Knicks. These guys are still
trying to write their story, and the Pacers helped them
write a chapter in their story by allowing them to
get back in this game here and have new life.
And that's a shame on you situation for Tyrese Haliburton
(07:14):
and the Pacers. Now, as for specifics, there's a couple
of names that I jotted down on the notes app
on my phone as I was watching the game here,
and they are the headliner's friend of the show Marcel
and Brooklyn's favorite basketball player Pascal Siaka. I'm gonna make
sure I say that properly and Tyrese Haliburton. Those are
the two. If your stars do not shine the brightest,
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you can't expect these other scrubs to get it done.
Even though Indiana was at home and usually the scrub
guys played better at home, but may you were on
the court for the majority of that time. Indiana was
up by twenty late second quarter and then in the
second half, and really the fourth quarter is completely collapsed,
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outscored by twenty six from up twenty to losing by
six at the end of the game, and Siakam and Haliburton,
they might as well have been watching and having a
nice surfing turf at Saint Elmo's there the steakhouse which
every sportscaster, every sports cast goes Indianapolis goes to Saint Elmos.
I've been there when I was there years ago when
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the Pacers were in the finals, and I was there
because that's just what you do. And often what TV
does is they'll they'll put the restaurant on TV because
they get like a discount or they get a payola. Now,
even I guess TNT did that too, they had some
kind of side hustles. So it's like the top restaurant
at least for sportscasters when they go to Indianapolis. They
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got to go to that sant elbos No Rick Carlisle squad.
Clearly they they had a brain fart here as they
did not close the game. In general, in general Indiana,
they got complacent. We've seen this a lot. This is
a an epidemic in pro bouncy ball. You get a
big lead and you get complacent, You ease up a
little bit, you cut corners. It's human nature, and so
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you usually start with defensively. You ease things up, and
then that opens the door a little bit, and the
door's unlocked, and so you open that up there, and
then you allow a little chip away action New York
chipping away in this game. And once the Pacers then
start losing control, they start losing the lead, then what happens.
Tts tight took his syndrome, tight took his syndrome kicked
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in for the Indiana Pacers in this game. And very tough,
very tough to play basketball when you were suffering from
a tight spinter. And we saw that for the Pacers
in the fourth quarter there as it was panic at
the disco or in this case the field house. There
in Indianapolis, they tightened up, they stopped playing free and easy,
free and loose, and then it just was a self
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fulfilling prophecy where they just fell apart at the end. Now,
in the fourth quarter, there were stretches that when you
were watching this, you know, it's kind of like when
you're watching something on on a streaming service like Netflix
and if you have just continue to watch stuff and
it kind of goes through, like you know, they have
those series where it goes in the next episode at
some point they'll they'll click something. Are you still watching?
(10:13):
Like I felt like, Rick Carlyle, are you guys still watching?
Because all you're doing is watching, You're just watching the
Knicks runner Indiana shot twenty six percent in the fourth quarter,
and that was from the floor and twelve point five
percent from three point range. Now, I didn't play in
the NBA. I just do an overnight show. I don't
think that's particularly good. I don't think that's particularly good.
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That's just my position on that. Here is Rick Carlisle
pointing out he's the coach of the Pacers, pointing out
that they really fed up the end of that game.
They really screwed that thing. Up.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Take a list, poor Java closing the third quarter, not
a good enough start to the fourth quarter. Turned it into,
you know, a real back and forth game, and they
executed down the stretch and we did not execute well enough.
So credit them for fighting hard, hanging in. You know,
we got a pretty pretty good lead in the third quarter,
didn't do a good enough job of attacking but also
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avoiding miscues.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Difficult loss.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
So we'll watch it tomorrow and there are a lot
of things we can do better.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Okay, so standard cliches there at the end. Indiana was
up twenty late second quarter, they had a sixteen point
lead early third quarter and blow it. Here is Tyree's
halla Burton. Good for him. He actually talked to the
media after a loss. Here's Halliburton pointing out, well, some
offensive issues popped up.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Has some misshots, you know, five for twenty five from three.
That's not ideal. You know, I thought I gotta watch
film to really see our offensive processes what they really were.
Felt like we got kind of stagnant on that end,
you know, but yeah, we'll see where we can get better.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Watch film and be ready to go to freagam for
there you go, Just go watch the film. It's all
yet just watch the film, all right. Here's more from
Tyrese Halliburton pointing out here mister halliburt and that, well,
there's some things that he could have done better.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
You know, I was trying to feel out the game,
you know, see who's rotating overs?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Who the rotations are rotations. Obviously Mitch is there.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Yeah, you know, main rim protector, so when he's coming over,
just trying to make the right play. Sure, yeah, yeah,
I could definitely be better there, that's right. Not watch
the film.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
See watch the film.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Areas of improvement, see I can get better a game four?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah, I watched the film. Go, I'm gonna watch the
film too. Get some popcorn, some candy. I'm gonna go
watch the film all right now, Page two. So you
have the loser side, which is the better story. Then
you have the winner side. So who got into Tom
Thibodeau's nicks or what got into them? What got into
Tom Thibodeau's Knickerbocker's There as they were futsing around twenty
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point deficit and even in the early third quarter, it
was like something kicked in late third So what inspired
the comeback? So what inspired the comeback. So the first
thing is they stayed within reasonable striking distance. It was
a workable number and you're only down ten going to
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the fourth quarters, so that's manageable. And then it's it's
Ted Nugent's it's a kitty cat. It's Karl Anthony Towns
cat scratch fever right there, Boom. We mentioned twenty of
twenty four points in the fourth quarter, and that's how
he's supposed to but he very rarely plays like that
in playoff game. It's rare that you get that kind
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of performance from Carl an Day. Usually you get the
four points over three quarters, you don't normally get to
twenty in the fourth quarter. And we ripped the guy
all the time because he's often hanging out in the
litter box in big moments in the playoff game. But
here he left the litter box and he stepped up.
And so if you want to give him flowers, give
him some flowers. I don't like handing out flowers, but
he did a good job. You don't get extra credit.
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You're being you're the franchise player with Brunson, You're you're
the B player to the A player. That's how you're
supposed to play. But you did your job. Good for you.
Do it again, and do it again, and do it again.
All right, now, last word here, I cannot help myself.
I cannot help myself here. Scott Foster was the lead
official at this game, AKA you know what his nickname
(14:10):
is kids the Extender. Scott Foster the Extender was a
signed to this game. I don't want to sign sound
too much like a whack of doodle from San Diego
that calls the show, but listen, this was an issue
when I saw this during the day, I started texting
some people. We were going back and forth and we're like,
all right, well, there you go. That's the story. Here
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you go the direction of the Knicks. If you don't
know what to do, just take the next. Pacers were
favored by I think four in the game, but Scott
Foster was a sign to officiate Game three between the
Knicks and the Pacers, and what do you know, Surprise, surprise, surprise,
the big market Knicks on life support. They have a
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modern medical miracle. They come off the deck down twenty.
They extend the series, extend the series, creating some excitement.
So are you buying? Are you buying? Into the conspiracy
with Scott Foster or is this just some kind of
wild cuinki dink. That's the question. What's the answer. So
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to me, this isn't even a conspiracy at this point,
I think you're just you're an idiot if you think
it's a conspiracy. It's not a conspiracy. It's not. I mean,
there's no. I mean it's it's at the point now
with Scott Foster where everyone and their mother know the deal. Yo, right,
everyone knows. It's not a coincidence. It's a pattern at
this point, So stop with stop with the arts conspiracy. No,
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it's it's a pattern of activity that has taken place here.
Perception is reality. And when the NBA mob, when the
league office has a problem on their hands and no
one can solve it, who you're gonna call the mob
at the NBA, they turned to their league gumba and
that's Scott Foster. They put Scott fu out there and
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tada abra, cadabra. Amazing the percentage of success that Scott
Foster officiated games have where the team that's trailing in
a series wins. But again, it's not, no, it's a coincidence.
It's not some kind of grand conspiracy. It just feels
like it's scripted, like it's professional wrestling, is what it
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feels like. When Scott Foster's out there. This man has
been part of how many over the years, I've been
doing this a long time. How many times have I
come in here after a playoff game in a series
where a team's trailing, they win, and Scott Foster's doing
it and magically, deliciously the team that's trailing ends up winning.
And you know something's a little off in your business.
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When the Nick fans are celebrating during the day when
they found out the official assigned to the game. I mean,
it's so stupid. It's like so ridiculous, like the Nick fail.
We got it, dude, we got it. We got a
new player, we got the sixth man. It's gonna be
We're gonna be on the power play, power play when
when we're out there tonight because Scott Foster is gonna
be official. I mean, hell, Adam Silver, what are you doing? Seriously?
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So great? Now, I will admit this was an unorthodox
This was an unorthodox, not your standard Scott Foster special.
In regards to the fact that the Knicks did win.
But they they won with their bench, all right, they
won with their bench Jalen Brunson and Karl Anthony Towns,
even though he came up big late in the fourth quarter,
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but they were in foulchro both had four fouls going
to the fourth quarter. However, this feeds in. This feeds
in to the theory. You see Scott Foster forcing Tom
Thibodeau to play players on the bench he normally does
not play like Foster because of his foul foul calling
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on Brunson and Karl Anthony Towns that forced the Knickerbockers
to play multiple players they would not normally play, and
that turned out to be the secret sauce in this game.
So coaching credit goes to Scott Foster in this game.
And look the NBA, they'll tell you and this will
come up. I'm sure they'll NBA release a statement. They've
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done this many times. I'll say, well, listen, Foster is
just an experienced referee and it's just noise. It's just
you know, people trying to get engagement on social media
and all that. Well, I'm not on social media right now.
I'm on the radio. And you look at this. The
numbers do not lie. The numbers do not lie. And
you don't earn the nickname the extender. You don't earn
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that nickname just by coming out of thin air here.
You got to put some serious work in to get
that nickname. And the players, they've done surveys over the years,
the players have voted Scott Foster the most distrusted official
in the NBA. And whether or not it's fair, I
think it is. I believe if it is fair based
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on the body of work. You are a product. You
are what your record says you are. So based on
the body of work, I would say there's something there
right there, and certainly a perception problem if you're the
NBA at best, it's just a perception problem, right that's
you say, that's it, but you assign him to the series.
In this game, when the knicks are down, you're just
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throwing You're throwing gas on the fire, is what you're doing.
You're just pouring gas on the fire there. And so
let's not forget. We don't want to go way back
in the greatest scandal cover up in the history of
professional sports, the Tim Donahue fixing game scandal of the
Oughts back in the day and Tim Donahe and Scott Foster.
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There were one hundred and thirty four calls between Tim
Donhee and Scott phone calls. I think that magic number.
I have that tattooed in my brain. One hundred and
thirty four if I remember correctly. Phone calls in seven
in seven between Scott Foster and Tim Donnee as donnihe
was fixing games. So there you go. Suspicious but clear,
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I mean's completely nothing wrong, nothing wrong here at all.
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lead this hour. We'll get back to the basketball if
you want to talk about that. At Indiana twenty point
lead second quarter, blew the game as they had tight spinters.
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Tight took his syndrome there in the fourth quarter and
the lead melted away. And so the extender gets it
done again. He said, well, it's just a coincidence. But
always Scott Foster, almost always Scott Foster out there again.
So our lead this hour, though, is from the King
James version of NBA Conversation. Several of you reached out
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to me over the weekends. Did you see what the
quote was? Can you believe that? Oh my god? And
this is all about Rich Paul the Lebron James creation,
Rich Paul. Without Lebron, Rich Paul is hanging out somewhere
in Ohio and has a regular job, maybe a good
(22:27):
union job, but a regular job. And that's that. But
now he's a gazillionaire. And I think is he married
to to the singer and Adele. I don't know they married.
I don't think they're married. They're just they're just a
stupid that's all, all right. So anyway, Rich Paul commenting
on Lebron Lebron James, saying that Lebron James, according to
Rich Paul, Lebron James does not have as much power
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as the perception is in basketball world. In the basketball
world there, he does not decide, does not decide what
the what is going on there the Laker personnel moves
and all that stuff. In a recent appearance with member
of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association, Rich Eisen, the
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NBA agent there claiming claiming Rich Paul claiming that his
client has limited involvement in key front off his decisions.
So I don't even saw this or not, maybe you
missed it over the weekend. So Rich Paul saying that
the idea that Lebron, James Lebron is the unofficial GM
(23:31):
of the Lakers. He said, that's quote false, that's false,
he said, that's false. So we can slice this up
a million different ways. But let us discuss for a
couple of good minutes. Here the question for the esteem panel,
what you are part of? So Rich Paul Lebron's age,
longtime business associated, business associate friend, Rich Paul, all of
(23:54):
those things right, he's in the inner circle, Rich Paul.
He goes on the record, Rich Paul saying that Brown
James does not run the Lakers. That's the quote right there?
Are you buying that? Are you buying that? So I've
got fingerprints, unleaded gasoline, and groundwork, and we will combine
(24:16):
all of these things together and we are gonna make
the gobaol. We're gonna make the Gabba goouls what we're
gonna make all right? So number I said number Yeah.
Now the quote the great Andy Furman. We were born
at night, but not last night. So no, not buying
(24:38):
what they're selling. Not buying it. Now. I know there's
a lot of people that live in Suckersville, the low
information fan that will say, well, Rich Paul said it
and if he said it, it must be true. He
wouldn't have said it if it's not true. So Rich
Paul said it, it's true, and Bauda being Bata Boom
just like that. But we're not We're not that. Listen.
Rich Paul is a guy who is as far are
(25:00):
in the tank as you could possibly be for Lebron.
He is a creation of Lebron James. He would be
nothing without Lebron. And I get it. You are beholden
to Lebron. You are, and I would be too. I
would lick Lebron's toes if I had the life Rich
Paul has, I would all because of Lebron. Nothing he did,
He just happened to latches, you know what, into Lebron
(25:22):
and there you go. And so I mean, don't kidd
yourself here, come on, let's look at this objectively. Lebron
may not have the title general manager of the Lakers.
He may not have that particular title. It's just semantics.
It's all semantics. Lebron influences everything, and every man, woman
(25:43):
and child knows it. Everything, coaches, trades, rotations, all of it.
His fingerprints, Lebron's fingerprints are all over every decision that
has made. And it's been that way since he got there,
and he would have gone there if it hadn't been
that way. And that's just the way it is. Skinny jeans.
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Rob Polinka one of the all time great figurehead foe
general managers. I mean, if you were a Ropolink, you
wouldn't want him running anything. Right. The guy don't know
what he's doing. Everyone knows that. But he's like, well,
he's a perfect foil. He has a pretty la, pretty boy,
kind of punchable face, Rob Polenka. So he's out there
as the GM, and he's like, he didn't make any decisions.
(26:27):
He just runs it by Lebron. He's a middle manager,
Rob Polenka, what do you think, Lebron? All right, you
want that? I will make that happen. Sure. And it's
not even about being swayed per se. It's not about
being swayed. It is the business model. That is the
business model, Lebron James GM by proxy, GM by proxy,
(26:50):
Lebron James there without it. They literally hired the coach.
The Lakers hired the coach because the qualifications the guy
was Lebron's podcast Buddy Rich fall no Lebron's not making this, dude.
They hired the Lebron's podcast co host as the couch.
(27:12):
You think we're all morons? Seriously, you hired the Lakers
hired a podcast guy as the coach because he was
doing a podcast with Lebron. If Lebron had been doing
a podcast with Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan would be coaching
the Lakers right now. Do you realize how ridiculous this is?
Do you understand how stupid is anything?
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Well, no, Lebron doesn't really make these decisions. I mean,
so you've got players who have gone on the record say, well,
I wasn't I wouldn't getting a playing time, so I
went I didn't go to the coach. I went to
Lebron to get more playtime. I went to Lebron to
get more play time. Oh my god. But he doesn't
run the Lakers. I doesn't run the Lakers. Just like
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it's just it's just another quinkid Like Scott Foster when
he officiates an NBA playoff game where the team is
trailing in a series. You know ninety percent of the
time that team that's trailing ends up winning. But it's
just a coincidence. It's just weird. It's just one of
those weird things about life. That's it. Now, page two
to the gossip world. You know, I'm a sucker for
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that world. So Danica Patrick, we used to play great
game on this show, which lap will danicarekin man? Was
that a fun game and we always had winners. We
always had winners. She would wreck ninety five percent of
the races. It was. It was wonderful anyway, So Dannic
and Patrick now washed up former athletes. She recently opened
(28:38):
up on the Sage steel show It Must to Be
a Podcast describing her relationship with NFL legend Aaron Rodgers.
She described it as quote emotionally abusive. She said the
breakup was the most painful experience of her life. So
(28:58):
what is your reaction to people are bringing this up?
So Steelers can't sign Aaron Rodgers now because this is
some baggage and this is a mess and alls. So
this is I would file this one based on the
information I have as an unnecessary airing of a dirty
laundry and a personal grievance. That's where I have this
(29:21):
one filed based on the information that I have. Now, listen,
She's obviously free to speak and do whatever she wants there.
But let's not pretend that there was not alterior motives
by throwing this out here, that there's ulterior motives here
by Danika Patrick, because it does add unleaded gasoline on
top of the inferno is what it does here. And Danik,
(29:45):
she didn't just say that it's painful. She said emotionally abusive,
very dramatic. There's some people think that very seriously. Right.
I would argue though, that most relationships that end there's
some kind of emotional trauma that because otherwise you just
stay together, right, otherwise you just stay together. And she
does this randomly on a podcast years after Rogers was
(30:08):
with Danik. That's a long time ago, and that's been many,
many years since they were together. So why now maybe
just to clear the air, right, clear the air, or
or get a little publicity, you know, get little publicity
out there. That was really talking about Danic and Patrick
these days she's irrelevant. So and it's just the latest
(30:29):
in a long winding road. If you keep track of
the gossip here Rogers, he's had some issues the public
figure Aaron Rodgers in relationships, the family, drama, well documented
drama with former teammates check, coaches check. So the one
(30:51):
common denominator is the drama. That's the one common denominator
of the drama. All right, now, final point to the
business of the NFL. We got why not as we
slice and dice it on this holiday here Roger Goodell,
the commissioner, Roger Goodell is out there. He's out about
(31:14):
He's a man about town. Roger Goodell saying that the
next CBA, the next collective bargaining agreement, may have to
deal with owners concerns. The owners are upset. The aristocrats,
the robber barons of football are not happy. They're upset
with a salary cap system and rising costs inflation. They
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don't like it. They don't like having to pay more
and more and more and more and more and more
and more. Costs are a rising to the moon to
the moon, to the moon to the moon. So is
this a legitimate problem? Is this a legitimate problem for
the very wealthy, very wealthy oligarchs of thel or is
(32:01):
it just a bunch of rich guys complaining? All right,
just a bunch of rich guys out there belly aching.
It's not fair blah blah blah. So the league just
brought in. Let me do the math on this. I
think it's twenty billion. Is that the right number? Twenty
billion dollars in revenue. That seems like a lot. I'm
not a business guy, but that seems like a lot
of money. And every single franchise, the only reason you
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buy a franchise is because you're already ridonculously rich. And
this is just a toy. It's a way for people
to know who you are. It is a way for
you to get the top seat at the restaurant. It
is a way for you to be the star of
the cocktail party. That's why you buy an NFL team,
and he makes some money with it. The main point
(32:47):
is that you've already been successful, but now you want
everyone You're You're You're not an introvert. Introverts don't buy
teams because you buy a team to get attention. You're
an extrovert. That's why you would buy a team. And
that's where we are, I mean, And so the rising costs,
let's do some malor math on this. So every franchise
is essentially just a toy to what's around with the
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values all keep going up. So that's that's true. And
the rising costs was that the private jets and all
the different taxes and whatnot, and on the third homes
and the fourth homes and the capital gains tax when
you make money on the stock market, those kind of
things go up. Costs rise, I believe, though the revenues,
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unlike most businesses, the NFL revenues are outpacing the costs.
So even though, yeah, the costs are going up, the
revenue is also going up. And so good luck man.
You know what this is. Though, when you pull this
story apart, Roger Goodell complaining and saying we're gonna have
to address the rising costs, the owners are not happy
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and all this stuff, what he's doing is he's laying
the groundwork. Goodell is laying the groundwork to try to
squeeze the play again in the next negotiation. And the
weakest of all the gladiators of football when it comes
to this kind of thing, they get stopped on all
the time. And so you're looking at it what well
like lockout, You're looking at you know, the roll back
(34:15):
on certain things that have been given. Those are the
usual threats that are made and so the endgame. The
consensus is this that all this is being cost out
because Goodell's gonna say, listen, we gotta cut costs. However,
if you give us that eighteenth game, will be okay, well,
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we won't cut any money. Just give us the eighteenth
game and we're good. And that's just sign off on that. Now.
In terms of the actual negotiation, normally you'd say, okay,
if you're claiming that the costs are going up, you're
not making as much money. Open the books. Let's go
to the books. Let's see what the finances are. Let
the players see what you're talking about. And we know
(34:59):
that is not happening. That is never happening ever ever, ever,
ever to infinity and beyond. That is not happening. And
the owners have that sealed up like they used to
seal up Alcatraz back in the day. They're just not
gonna happen there and then, and regardless, this is just again,
it's a shot across the bow, random shot twenty twenty five.
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The negotiation is not going to happen for a while.
But he's tossing it out there. It's like I'll throw
this out there randomly, you know, why not see what
happens now, the NFL Players Association will respond and we'll
go back and forth and all that be.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
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Speaker 1 (35:39):
There we go, Here we go, third degree.
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This is one big Ben gets grill.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
So but I know they recently voted on changing the
NFL playoff structure to straight seating so that bad division
winners don't get a home team home game, and they
voted against him. But college football has adopted trade seating
for the twenty twenty five playoffs. If this works out
in college do you think it would nudge the NFL
to go in the same direction.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Ummm No, it's an overreaction to college football because they
did it. It's a small sample size one year, and
they did it because the favorites went ten to one.
The only upset in the college football playoff was when
Penn State and Notre Dame got together and Notre Dame
beat Penn State. That's why they did it. But the
NFL does their own thing. I don't think they're going
to copy college football on this regard. Next.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
Since the release of the NFL schedule, The most popular
bet has been Patriots over eight and a half wins.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Are you on board with that? Well, if you look
at the schedule, the Patriots are supposed to be better
and they play some terrible teams like Tennessee and New Orleans.
You look at the non conference schedule, non division schedule,
yes they should. If they don't win nine games, Rabel's
done a terrible job.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
Next, so let's revisit the Karl Anthony Towns Julius Randall trade.
Is your opinion of who won the trade any different
now than it was when it was originally made?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Well, and not after what I saw him in the
fourth quarter coup of Game three where Karl Anthony town
has put up twenty points. Listen, it's it's an even
trade with a lean to the Knicks because Carl Anthony Towns,
even though he's an enigma, he's a more talented enigma
than Julius Rando's guy's own demons. How did we do you? Passes?
That is a win. I wanted protein for everyone protein.
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Thank you all right, I appreciate it. She's clapping for
me after.
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to me for ten whole seconds, and if.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
You don't like it, anyway we go. It's the instant
advice line, as recommended by Fergnog advice to people in course.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
No.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Normally we do athletes or coaches or teams that need
the wisdom the pearls of knowledge that are provided the
wisdom teeth of the mall of militia. But in this
case we're changing it up a little bit in honor
of Ferg Dog. He said, you know that guy e
Dog e Dog is one of our callers from Long
Island and he's been on the spectrum and I need
(38:21):
some help, need some help with the pick up line.
So any advice to e Dog on better pickup lines.
You're live on the air when you hear my voice
line number one at eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox Hello line one, All right, thank you line too.
You're on the air. We're giving advice to eat Dog
(38:41):
e Dogs in that's it. Yeah, caller too. E Dog's
on Long Island. He needs some help. Hello caller too,
Hello say okay, I couldn't understand that. Why what do
you say? I didn't hear that. I don't want to
hear that. Line three. Hello, line three, you're on the
air Line three. Go hey, sting you a job? Keep
(39:01):
working all right? Thank you for that. You're already on
the air, sir. Hang up. Line number four. Hello, Line force,
the instant advice line for E Dog. Hello line four
in morning time?
Speaker 3 (39:12):
What does the E stand for enough?
Speaker 1 (39:15):
That's very funny. Rick from Maryland checking in morning time.
Line number one. No w NBA talk from Rick and
Maryland this time. Hello, Line one. You're on the Airline one. Okay,
thank you. Line two, never call again, line too, Hello,
gotta go. There's the famous gotta murder. Gotta go, one
of the great drops of all time. Line three, you're
(39:36):
on the Airline three. Hello like me?
Speaker 2 (39:39):
They really like me?
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Okay, thank you. Line six, This is going very well.
E Dog lives on Long Island. He's a big fan
of the show, and he called up earlier. He needs
some help. Pick up lines and not going very well. Hello,
Line six, yes, man, the only way to solve this
problem is to suspend Brittany Grinder from the NBA. Okay,
(40:03):
we'll get right on that. Yes, she said something mean
about Kitlin Clark. I guess over the weekend. I saw
that somewhere. Saw the headline. Didn't read the story line one.
You're on the Airline one, number one, the number one. Yeah.
The editor of the Boston Herald listens to this show.
I start him tweet you the other day, Danny Bentro. Yeah,
he's a big fan of the show. They should write
(40:23):
a big story there in the Boston Herald about this show.
Come on, man, what you do it? Line number two Hello?
Line two, girls a keg.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
In your pants because I can see myself tapping it.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Ok that was good, like that one. Look at you
actually impressed Lorena. She's got a real woman in the flash.
Who's impressed? Line number three, Hello, Line three, bits on.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
The fire hydrant, walk in front of a subway train.
Speaker 5 (40:51):
Get the latest?
Speaker 1 (40:52):
All right? I sounded like man, well and guardian a
little bit a. Line four, Line four, you're on the
airline four.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
Go.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Ask right?
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Okay, it keeps calling back. You listen to our live
coverage This is the Insta Advice Line. We are trained
professionals the safety and is offer taking unscreen calls. This
is why we have a call screener as you can
listen and understand how terrible this is. We're giving advice
to E Dog listening to the show. Listen to New
York and he's having problems with pickup lines. You're live
(41:22):
on the air. When you hear my voice at eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox, line number one, Hello, line one.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
One, ask her to see the new Pee Wee Herman movie,
Avengers of Pee Week coming to a theater new Year.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Okay, thank you for that line too, Hello, line two.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
The next change lineup the same.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Mystic morning time. Oh see there. Now he had to
he had to work the w NBA, the Rick and Maryland.
Line number four. Go to line four, Hello, line four,
all to pick up line. Okay, it's all see the
only only fans there line. Let's go to line six,
Line six. You're on the air. Next, it's the Insta
Advice Line. Live coverage here on the Ben Maler Show.
(42:02):
We're giving advice to E Dog. That's a caller from
New York KLLO. Line six. I found a jolly ratcher
under my bed and I hate it. Oh that's disgusting, dude.
But unless it was was in the rapper, No, it
is in the rapper. It's okay, but it was like
you know, it gets real sticky. And then the all
right last call are on one. Oh my god, that
(42:27):
was a disaster at the end. Oh my god, we
ruined the end of that. What happened? Why that happen?
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Let's get to the guy that's got to that guy?
Just like that, you strut around like you know everything.
Computers are for losers.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Normal people.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Oh dare she?
Speaker 2 (42:50):
What do you?
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Let's find out?
Speaker 2 (42:52):
Are you smarter than an f s R Tech Queen?
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Well, don't make me regret this, but we're gonna have hollering. James.
Play the game, James, be on your good behavior, James, NA,
thank you. Ben. Okay, he's off the well he's on
the meds, but he's on the right meds. Are you
smart on the FSR Tech Queen? The the categories this week?
That doesn't I'll just give you random questions.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
All right, we'll just do random questions, all right, uh
and the lorraino will you're gonna go first? Is that correct? Alright?
Very since I won last time, okay, all right, in
honor of since I won, in honor of our big
trip this week. What is the capital of Canada? James jaid?
(43:41):
I like that. We immediately established one thing, and you
are changing the rules. Go ahead, James, Alberta? All right,
Well you love Alberta.
Speaker 6 (43:50):
When I was younger, my aunt's name was Alberta. So
I'm gonna go to James.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
Do you think James is right? The capital of Canada
is Alberta? All right, that's know that is wrong and
everyone right now, No, it's but it's you know, it's
in Ottawa's play. Yes. Yes, they're called the Senators because
that's the political capital of Canada and that's where all
(44:17):
the moving and shaking goes on. And we're on there.
So all those people in Ottawa listening right now are
like these a holes, these American a holes. All right,
let's keep going here. Let's see what was that? What
are you doing? Don't ask that question, you know, I
want to know what he's doing here. Let's see here.
All right, let's go on next up. What is the
center of an atom called? Oh, oh, I know this.
Speaker 5 (44:40):
Go ahead, Lorena, the nucleus.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
James, you agree with that?
Speaker 4 (44:45):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Adam? What is your answer? All right? You guys got
it right. The nucleus is the correct answer. That's right,
That's right. Okay, it's together. You're supposed to be competing.
Who was the first person to complete a solo flight
across the Atlantic Ocean? First person? James? You're going with
(45:13):
the Wright brothers? All right? Larani you agree? No, I
do not agree.
Speaker 6 (45:17):
And I want to say Amelia Earhart, but I know
that she died in an effort to get across the ocean.
Maybe she didn't die.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
Yeah, they never found her body.
Speaker 6 (45:26):
I know she disappeared, but she might have already done
it before she disappeared. So I'm gonna say Amelia a hut.
Speaker 1 (45:34):
All right, have a tremendous suggess and both you are
completely wrong. It's is it? Chuck Yeager? No, okay, Chuck
Yeger set the sound oh the speed record. But Charles Lindbergh,
Charles Lindberg wasn't wasn't the airport in books? Shut up?
(45:55):
It wasn't the airport in San Diego named Lindbergh Field
at one point? I don't know if it still is
when I work when I worked in San Diego, I
think it was called I think it was called that.
Let's see. What else do we have here? Let's see.
I gotta get these other You have a couple sets
of questions I'm using here, so I have to switch
up the question. Oh, here we go, this is the
These are the better questions. Let's go to sports. Here,
we'll go to sports. And in swimming, this particular stroke
(46:21):
is named after a bug named after a bug, butterfly.
All right, Lorena, you agree or disagree? I disagree? Okay,
what do you think?
Speaker 6 (46:38):
Are you laughing?
Speaker 4 (46:39):
Coop?
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Go ahead, Loa? What bug do you think? Go ahead?
Speaker 4 (46:43):
All right?
Speaker 1 (46:43):
Mom on here, what are.
Speaker 6 (46:45):
Those bugs that are on the water like the skipper bugs?
Speaker 1 (46:49):
The skipper bug? All right? Is it the skipper bug? No,
James got it right, It's the butterfly. James collaring, James,
I believe me. James is now in the lead. No man,
all right, are you smarter than the f SR tech?
You can't lose? What does that? What does that one
look like? The butterfly.
Speaker 2 (47:10):
Oh my god, in the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
She has no idea who Mark Spitz is. Don't even bother.
All right, you have a great exemp. You guys seem
very smart. Let's go to a science question, which Oregon
is responsible for getting rid of all those bad toxins
in your body? You want to go first, Ladies go first.
Speaker 6 (47:29):
No, I'm letting men go first.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
That means neither one of you know the answer. Loraina,
go ahead. I'm gonna go with your liver, all right, James,
you agree or disagree?
Speaker 2 (47:38):
Yeah, your liver.
Speaker 1 (47:40):
I agree with Lorena.
Speaker 6 (47:41):
Is it your kidney?
Speaker 1 (47:43):
I like that. You immediately thought you were wrong. No,
you're right, it's the liver. The liver is correct. The
liver is correct.
Speaker 6 (47:50):
I'm technically winning. He's stolen two of my answers.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
Well, that's allowed. It is a low.
Speaker 6 (47:55):
Well I'm just saying, okay, all right, come on place,
I am playing fair. Your cheating.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
I don't know he's cheating, per ses. Okay again with
the tammy. One more question. It comes down to this
in tennis, what is the term for a forty forty?
What is the clinical term they're using tennis like the
Wimbledon's coming up here? What is the clinical term? All right,
(48:27):
watch your mouth, James, Lorena, what say you?
Speaker 6 (48:30):
Oh, I'm gonna go with quarenta ben all right, wow, hollering, James,
got it right.
Speaker 1 (48:38):
It is a deuce. You win the game. You are
smarter than the MSR tech wee. Congratulations, James. You get
a golden ticket. You get a golden ticket. I'm actually
stun James. I I thought there was no way. And
he knew the Butterfly one too. I was surprised by that.
(48:59):
I know experience. It's fifty years ago. All right, very nice,
Thank you, James,
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Ben Maller
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