May 28, 2025 • 41 mins
Big Ben talks about the Knicks failing to even the series against the Pacers in Game 4, Hasson Reddick not showing up to Bucs OTAs, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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the wo's your state and we asked the question, who's
your daddy? Well, if it's the Knicks right now, it's
the Indiana Pacers. That's who's your daddy right now? As
the Pacers they they're that close they can feel it
at this point. After a dud the other night, Tyrense
Halliburton and the Pacers looking to bounce back get it
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done as they hosted Jalen Brunson and the Knickerbockers there
in Game four the Eastern Conference Finals. I assume you
were watching. Maybe not, maybe you did something else. You
were sleeping. I don't know what you were doing.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
You have no idea.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I'm not stalking you. But don't worry. We watched and
it was a pleasure. I didn't have to hit the
mute button once. No doors Burke. I just got to
watch a game without having to mute it. Thank God. Hallelujah. Man,
I'm gonna miss TNT. Gonna miss it. Maybe one more
game for TNT in this crap broadcasting, at least part
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of it. Anyway, Tyrese Haliburton did a little bit of this,
a lot of that, and some of that and ended
up with thirty two points, fifteen assists, twelve rebounds without
a turnover, and that performance, that performance putting the Pacers
on his back there and they zoom passed the Knicks.
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They win one thirty to one, twenty one to the
final there three to one lead in the Eastern Conference Finals.
Haliburt the first player with such a stat line more
on that later in the hour as he gets it
done there, and the first player in the modern ear
since they first tracked these statistics to.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Have that line. Game five will be Thursday in New York.
We will not be on that night because we'll be
doing the Mallard Meet and greet in.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Vancouver that night, but we're watching I assume we'll watch
the end of it from the from the bar we'll
be at there in Vancouver having a great time. Anyway,
let us discuss what just happened in game number four,
and the better story is in the losing locker room.
So that is where we will begin this malar monologue.
Who is the guilty party?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Who is the.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Guilty party for Tom Thibodeau and the Knickerbockers who lose
this game and did not have a single lead in
the second half. They trailed the entire second half of
that game. So I've got mousetrap, media machine, and many
bottles of rum, and we will combine all all of
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these things together and we are going to make a
dirty water dog because the next Now they're not just
the dirty water, they're the dog in the dirty water
as well. Who we all right, So let's get right
to the heart of the matter. You see what I
did there the heart of the matter. Now, he's a
secondary actor, but he played a key role in the
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demise of the film that would be Josh Hart bit
of a fringe NBA players, Well, they're not that good.
He's just kind of.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
A roster guy.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Not great, not terrible, He's just kind of there. He's
played a long time in the NBA and nobody's gonna
accuse him of being a good player.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
But he was bad. He was an evil doer for
the Knicks in this particular game.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
In fact, he was the duke, the duke of a
lot of it. In the second quarter of the game
turned in the second quarter. Here it flipped and if
you look at the surveillance tape from the crime scene,
you can see that Josh Hart left a smoking gun
at the crime scene. There was a biohazard on the
court there, as Indiana had set up a mouse trap.
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They set up a mouse trap and Heart bit the cheese.
You're not supposed to bite the cheese. He bit the cheese.
There committed five turnovers, four of them in the first
half of the game, and the Pacers got out were
able to move the ball down the court, matriculate the
ball down the court in transition, and they capitalized on
almost all of those mistakes by Josh Hart. They turned
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those five turnovers into directly into eight.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Points on the other end. So that's that's not good,
he said, well, it's only eight points, okay.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Hart also fouled out of the game, and the Pacers
scored nine points, either as a result or directly after
those fouls.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Nine points.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Now, as a team, the Knicks finished with seventeen turnovers.
Seventeen turnovers, and I gave you all kinds of numbers.
Indian outscored New York by eleven in that game, and
they had thirteen more points on the fast break. And
he's gonna break it down point by point here. Now,
the other villains for New York, you could say, well,
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Mitchell Robinson that it's kind of just a big lugging
plotting player. And then mckil bridges, who they traded seventeen
thousand draft picks to get he sucked. Miles McBride, who's
a back cup good name, though, doesn't Miles McBride sound
like a fake Hollywood name, some kind of superhero Miles
McBride to save the day, not on this game. Did
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not save the day all right?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Now? Page two.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
So Indiana wins the game and the story is all
about someone's dad. What John Halliburton a returned to watch
his kid there. He had been forced well we talk
about the hardship forced to watch the previous eight Indiana
Pacer postseason games from somewhere else as he got into
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it on the court with the Greek freak Giannis Identa
Coomba in one of the great moments scripted reality there
of the NBA, following the last second shot to ellmen
Nate Milwaukee previously in the postseason got right there. So
this has become a big talking point in the in
the NBA media. So I'm gonna play the game thumbs
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up or thumbs down. So thumbs up or thumbs down
on the narrative that Tyrese Halliburton's father inspired this victory, because.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I'm getting a lot of that.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I'm getting a lot of that that this win was
because of John Halliburton sitting at the very top near
not very Toppy's in the box there. So thumbs up
or thumbs down on Tyre's Halliburton's father inspiring the Pacers win.
So I will not be Benny Bright's side on this.
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I am going I'm going thumbs down, a strong, powerful
thumbs down on this. So let me get so we're
supposed to believe that the reason that Tyree's played well
was because his daddy was at the arena, and that's
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that's what pushed the pacers.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Over the top. Are you bleeping kidding me? Seriously?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Is this the latest Disney fairy tale being peddled by
the NBA media machine that works overtime, the pr machine. Oh,
it's everything's got to be a Disney type story and
that's all. Calmed down. Take a breath, Okay, take a breath.
Calm down, it's not a Hollywood movie. I'm happy the
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dad was back. We had said it was kind of
ridiculous let him back. I would have put him at
the top of the arena. I wouldn't put him in
luxury box. I would have put John Halliburt into the
very top of the arena. I'm not saying it wasn't
nice to have him back. That's fine. I'm out of
total curmudget. However, I mean to think that somehow he's
sitting in a luxury box, the dad, and that's why
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the kid plays well.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Here. It's a classic overreaction. I got a good story.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I went to sports writing one oh one back in
the day, and I got to justify that. I learned
this like the second day of sports writing, one oh one.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
You gotta bring the family into the narrative. You're gonna
bring the Dan or the mom in there and the kid,
and oh man, that'll sell. That'll play in Peoria.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Okay, all right, So the guy the way I look
at it, you know, what, do I know, I'm just
doing the old night shop. But the way I look
at it, he had a bounce back game. And and
of course now they're writing all these think pieces about man,
you know, there's some kind of spiritual connection with the
dad and all that stuff. But maybe, just maybe, I
know this is outrageous what I'm about to say. It's
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an unpopular opinion, but maybe Halliburton ty Reese Aaliburton realized, well,
he didn't play that well in the last game. So
I don't know, he watched him take me practiced. Maybe
he shot a few more baskets.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Some of that made some adjustments, played better. But no,
it's got to be the dad. It's gotta be the dad.
That's why. Has nothing to do with the practice, the
extra shots, watching the film, whatever, finding out what the
Knicks were doing and how to attack that. No, yeah, okay,
And the Pacers were at home, and so some of
these other scrubs on the Pacers. The role players usually
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played better at.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Home, so we had some of that that happened as well.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
All right, now the last word here, So what do
the Jalen Brunson New York Knicks? What do they do
here to get back in the series?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
What do they do?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
They're down three games to one, down three games to one,
So what do they do here to get back in
the series? And are there are a couple of things.
I have two words that I jotted down on my
notes app on my phone, divine intervention.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
That would be my first option.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
So the Knicks need to get together a rabbi, a priest,
a miracle healer. They can bring them all together, medical medium,
get them to have a huddle, a shaman and one
or two witches and bring them all together there. They
can huddle up and call an audible here. And if
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that doesn't work, they need to get a time machine.
And they got to go back and get Serrano, great
character in a movie called Major League. And they can
build a shrine in the next locker room, and they
can have two Joe bu statues and then a couple
mini bottles of rum, and that will inspire them to
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come back in this year. Listen, the Knicks are cooked.
In fact, they're cooked the way I like my steak.
Well done, Okay, charcoal, That's how cooked they are at
this point. Stick a fork in them, do whatever you want,
whatever cliche you want to throw out there for the Knicks.
This is the team that the New York media machine
was hyping up, the greatest Nick team since.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Walt Clyde Fraser. The year of the Nick.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Everything had opened up, the parting of the Red Sea,
in this case, the parting of the East River. It
was already the Knicks playing a tomato caned pacer team,
and then they had Minnesota or OKC in the finals championship.
Then they had to play the games. Then they hadn't
play it. Now the good news, and it is a
positive year. At least the Nick fan got to experience
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the joy of a championship. Because I'm pretty sure they
had a ticker tape parade in the Canyon of Heroes
after New York beat Boston in the previous round. I
know there was mayhem in Manhattan throwing trash at Pacer fans,
the classy Knickerbocker supporters there. So they got to celebrate championship,
so congratulations. Normally you have to actually win to celebrate.
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The Knicks did not, they will not, but hey, they
got to celebrate what it was like to win a championship.
That's kind of cool that you don't actually have to
win the championship to have a celebration. And well, we
like Jalen Brunson, We're not here to trash Dalen Brunson.
Jalen Brunson who played well, good stats again, Tyreus Haliburton,
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ate your lunch, okay, or I guess your dinner because
the game was played at night here. But Haliburton fifteen assists,
no turnovers. The Knicks as a team had seventeen assists
as a team and seventeen turnovers.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
So it's not that deep. It's an Ockham's.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Razor situation, simplest answers most likely the right answer, and
don't even get me started, like Obi Toppin, who's not
a key player for the Pacers but is a former
Nick who they gave away in some transaction a couple
of years back, and now he is dancing on your
grave with a couple of baskets lad In games that
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were key baskets in this series. Obi Toppin adding some
salt to the wound. Now, if you want to get technical,
and why not, we have plenty of time if you
would like to get technical. The move here and and
the move is rather simple. The move is that you
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need a couple of twisted ankles. If you're the if
you're the Knicks, you know Halliburton, and you start with that,
you know something would happen. We don't want anyone to
get hurt. But if something were to happen to Halliburton,
he got hurt, that would be that would be interesting.
Pascal siakam boy, if he got hurt, that would really
change things. And so you've got those two things. And
then if the NBA decides they need a game six
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and we find out the extender Scott Foster's in there
for game five, that helps you out. Scott Foster's got
a really good winning percentage for the team that's trailing
in a series. So you bring Scott Foster and that
get that'll get your game. And then you have a
twisted ankle that'll get you another game. And then all
of a sudden, the game seven and you're alive. Do
I think that's going to happen? No, I don't think.
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I don't believe that's going to happen. We are we
are headed towards tape delay NBA Finals territory with Oklahoma
City and Indiana. And if you are someone that enjoys
the agony of big corporations having to deal with crap,
that is.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Man alive. Good luck?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, all right, well, hey listen. Advice to Jalen Brunson
and Tom Thibboteau. You might want to start riding your
talking point memo on the will get Back next Year speeches.
What you do is you start out with a compliment.
You see, the Pacers played very well. They deserve to win.
And then you say, well, if a few things had
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been different, we would have won. And you talk about
how much you love the team and how much you
love the fans, and how much you believe the team's
gonna be right there and you're gonna bounce back, and
I mean, the whole thing. We know it's gonna happen,
and it happens all the time, and you lose, that's.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
What you do.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
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So get away from the basketball, as the Pacers are
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a win away from the NBA Finals and are lead
this hour from football. It's May, it's late May, We're
almost into June.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
And so that means.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
A staple of the football calendar, organized team activities, which
is guaranteed to provide content for fledgling overnight sports radio
gas bags. The offseason workouts so intense, so wild, that
some people cannot be bothered to attend said workouts.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Well, not everyone is there.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
For example, Hassan Reddick, remember him a sack merchant back
in the day, and he's still making a lot of money.
Son Reddick, who was someone who just joined this offseason
the Tampa Bay football team, the Buccaneers, and he decided, Eh,
I'm not gonna go. I'm gonna skip the first day
of OTAs. Now, if you didn't see this, perhaps not,
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I don't blame you. I thought this was interesting considering
what happened with him last year. The money quote was
from Todd Bowles. The really entertaining some Todd Bowles is
a much better SoundBite than he is a head coach.
I liked Todd Bowles cas baggery anyway, Todd Bowles said,
when asked about the big defensive pickup of the Buccaneers
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not showing up. He said, I'm sure one of these
days will see him close.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Gotta love the dry eloquence of Todd Bowles. So let
us discuss. So you got the edge rusher who had
a very public falling out with the Jets and.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
The Eagles and the only anyway.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
So you've got Hassan Reddick, who has now skipped the
beginning of OTAs with his new team, the Buccaneers. The
head coach, Todd Bowles says, quote, I'm sure one of
these days will see him close.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
So should the Bucks be worried about their big defensive pickup?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I have on this one.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I've got Warner Brothers, Sampler, plate and chivalrous and we
will combine all of these.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Things together, and we're going to take a.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Trip to can Kun, which is likely where Hassan Reddick
is and can't coon somewhere.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
So number one, I'm not in my head. Yes on
this one, I'm not in my head. Yes.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Now, this is absolutely, positively, undeniably a problem. Now you
can say it's not a big problem, but you can't
say it's not a problem. You can't because of the player.
Now I realized there are always the jocksniffers, the fanboys
in the media that are out there that will point
out that OTA's are vall on Terry, Capitol v Fall
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and Terry. It's the It's the smell test that's the problem.
The smell test is the problem here.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
This is a guy who sat out months with the
He was unhappy with Philadelphia and they went to the.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Jets because of a contract beef. Where's the beef? He
was very upset, and now he gets another fact check
in Tampa. Granted it's not a long term deal, but
he got a good amount of money and it was
fourteen million or something for one year. And this is
the first impression, I ain't showing up. It's not I
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ain't playing unless I got mine. He's getting the contract,
He's just not going to show up. And this becomes
a I mentioned the smell test. This is a Warner
Brothers classic cartoon, pepe Le pew p. Yeah, what stinks?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
All right? And it's all about the optiction.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
We had a conversation last night about bad manners, like
Coop has terrible manners, and this is bad manners. I
know you technically don't have to be there, but you're
already a question mark. Right, You're already a question mark
in terms of attitude from last year, and it's a
fresh opportunity to say, oh, you know, I got that
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situation done with.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I've got a new contract, I'm on a new team.
Things are different. It's not like it was last year.
And you have to build up the.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Bubble of trust, right, And your decision rather than build
up the bubble of trust is to go m I A.
That is your decision. And I think that's being a
great leader. I mean, maybe I'm wrong. I don't know,
but the man has an allergic reaction Hassan Reddick to
voluntary workers, it's the bare minimum condition is a lot
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of lazy people. I guess he's lazy, you know, just
I don't want to do anything extra, you know, it's
like you should work for the government or something like that.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I work at the DMV.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
I see a lot of people the DMV that do
the bare minimum, go through go through the motions and
all that. And so you see that that phrase ota,
you see that on your calendar app and immediately you
buy some suntan lotionan and you're like booking a beach
vacation somewhere far away. It's a it's kind of like
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dway looks like you're starting at a new company. You've
changed careers, you're starting at a new company, and you
have a zoom meeting and you decide to ghost the
zoom meeting.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Yeah, yeah, I'm good. I'm good and.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Uh I did love Todd Bowles quote again saying that
we'll see him one of these days. We'll see we'll
see the player. Hassan Redick, the Bucks coach said, Which
is I think what we all say.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
If you're out and about and you've ordered an uber and.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
You see that there's a lot of traffic in the
cars being and all that stuff, because it's stuck in traffic,
you say, wow, we'll see the uber one of these days.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
It'll show up. One of these days, it'll show up,
all right now, Page two, speaking of no shows.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Speaking of no shows, you have tight End Kyle Pitts,
who did not show up to OTAs in Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
This is the tight end.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
You told me, you draft Nicks, that this is God's
gift to the tight end position. You told me that
there's no way this does not work out. Built like
a Donnis, runs like a gazelle, unbelievable. Right, So he
has decided not show up to the OTAs in Atlanta
and your thoughts on this particular situation, so to this
one is gummy? All right, this one is absolutely gummy.
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You've got a guy who's been underwhelming. It's been kind,
he's been underwhelming since his rookie year. He has not
lived up to the immense hype that he had coming
out of the draft, and this is when he decides
to make a statement very bizarre. So again, just for
the record, this is a top five pick that you
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told me was going to be amazing, the draft nerds
told me was going to be amazing. A unicorn, a
unicorn tight end, going to rewrite the record book. So
this is the final year. I believe, I believe I
have this right, final year of his rookie contract, and
he's upset he's not getting an extension and he's bothered
by that.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Has he even earned a second contract?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Does anyone think that he's what he has done, his
body of work is worthy of a second contract, Like
another can't miss guy who flopped the idea of Kyle
Pitts coming out. I remember we did the typical draft
shows and you were like, Oh, this guy's a three
headed dragon, fire breathing dragon, and he's out there running
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around the idea of Kyle Pits much better than what
has been the reality of Kyle Pits.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
He has been a ampler plate with the Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Falcons of injuries, inconsistent performance, and a lot of excuses.
People that love to make excuses that I said this
guy was gonna be good.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
I told you he was going to be great. He's
not great. It's not his fault. It's not his fault.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Blame the quarterbacks, because of course there's never been players,
never been players that have put up great stats with
mediocre corpe.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
It never happens. You have to have a great quarterback
to put up good stats. You have to. It's a rule.
It's a rule. You have to. You have to unless
you don all right, now, final points.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
So we go down to Cincinnati is where we go
where the Beals and their wide receiver Jamar Chase said
that while he does not does not want to play
in the exhibition games, he understands. He said that he
may may have to because that's what's best for the
Cincinnati football team, which has lost its first two games
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the past three seasons.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
They have gotten out to zero and two starts.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
What say you on the generosity of Jamar Chase to
say we might have to play and some some.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Of these exhibition games. There are only two exhibition games anyway,
so it's really about playing in one of them. They're
gonna play one of them, and that's that's, that's that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
So, uh, my reaction is how how wonderful chivalrous is
my word, how chivalrous of Jamar cha very noble, a
noble star, a noble star who signed the record setting
contract with the Cincinnati football team. And these guys, this
is one thing that's completely changing my lifetime. These guys
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treat the preseason like it is beneath them. It is
a nuisance, it is beneath them. They are way too
good to go out and get some reps, not even
a couple of reps. Just it's August. I can't do it.
I cannot get out there in August. And so this
is where these these modern guys fall behind the weasel term,
(27:07):
the shield of the weasel, and the weasel term on
this is out of an abundance of caution. You got
that a lot during the pandemic, right you couldn't go
out and eat eat, you know, fries at at a
restaurant because of abundance of caution and all that stuff,
which was turned out to be total bull crap by
the politician. Anyway, the way you don't play a lot.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
But you can play a little bit, you can play
a little bit, and you can't approach this thing like
playing scared.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
That's really the message, right, And it seems like the
Cincinnati Bungals, if you will, they start out owing to
pretty much every year. It's like a birth what right
in Cincinnati? And then what happens is they have to
grab a shovel because they start out on they got
to grab a shovel. And then they have to dig
out of a hole just because they've they've dug themselves
(27:56):
a hole. And and maybe if they actually try something
a little different in these exhibition games, they wouldn't come
out of the gate looking like they just met each other.
It's like the first day of school they started at
a new school. Hey, what's your name?
Speaker 3 (28:10):
All right?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
And the right out of the tunnel before the game,
all right, we have play some football. Your name Bill, John,
all right, whatever your name it? And now the light
bulb has turned on. The light bulb has turned on.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
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Speaker 3 (28:31):
It's Maller. How about that? To the third degree?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
This is one big bent gets grilled?
Speaker 3 (28:38):
All right good.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
It is being reported by an NBA insider that thanks
to Jason Tatum's injury and rumors of the Celtics breaking
up their core, that Joannison Tenna Kumbo could stay with
the Bucks for at least one more season.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
But do you think the.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
State of the Celtics changes things for the Greek freak.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yeah, he's not going to the Celtics. That's not happening.
So they're trying to They if they do start picking
the team apart, they're gonna unload salaries. So why would
they bring in one of the highest paid players in
the NBA that made any sense?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Why he would go there. It's gonna be Miami, or
he'll go to.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
The Lakers or the Clippers or the Nicks and one
of those teams is not going well.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Not going to stay with the Bucks because the Celtics are.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Gonna be only He's gonna stay with the Bucks because
they're gonna suck because the Lillard's out next year, he's
gotta pop to Killes next.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
The Red Sox are now under five hundred and the
fall in the fourth place in the Al East, and
this has sparked rumors about Alex Corra's future being in doubt.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Ben is the end near for Cora's Boston tenure.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Well, I'm not boots on the ground, but my people
in Boston are telling me that Cora's checked out.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
That's what they're saying. That he's just not into it.
This whole graduation kerfluffle.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Where his daughter graduated in the morning and he couldn't
make the game at night because he had a dinner
to attend. That did not go over well with the
natives in Boston. And it's just he's coddling the third baseman,
Rafael Devers, who's a dh now and refuses to play
any other position than dash and alscor is protecting him.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
That's not going over well with the people in He's in.
He's definitely in jeopardy. They did.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
They just gave him a new contract, though so unlikely
to be fired in like the next month.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Next eating legend Joey Chestnutt broke his own popcorn eating
record on Memorial Day inhaling forty two servings in just
eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
The Ben.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
If you were forced to compete in an eating contest,
which food would you perform best with?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well, my go to is the chicken finger, But I
could like the popcorn. Thing's very difficult if it's buttered popcorn.
I could do two buckets of the movie theater. But
that's bier. I'm pushing it at my biggest but chicken fingers.
How about jelly beans? I can eat a lot of
jelly beans.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
All right? How did we do you pass? The same?
All right, there's a one. Put it on the board.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
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Speaker 6 (31:17):
It's time for love here on the Ben Malae Show.
Don't you just love love?
Speaker 7 (31:24):
Ben?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Oh? It's all all the rage, all all the rage.
Let's see Shane in.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
The Morne right and says, with Bill Belichick being a
sugar daddy, Lorena, is there a silver haired fox in
Hollywood or sports that you would not mind being arm
candy for?
Speaker 7 (31:41):
Hmmm?
Speaker 6 (31:42):
Oh my gosh, who's that really? Oh my gosh, George Clooney.
I would be his sugar baby.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Doesn't he live in Paris or something?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
That?
Speaker 6 (31:49):
I would love to live in Paris and be his
sugar baby. I will eat croissants all dayly.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Maybe not, maybe living like an island French riviera sounds.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
Great too, But yeah, no, I I'd pick that silver fox.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Yeah, okay. JT.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
The Wingman writes in from Knoxville, Tennessee, says it's now
considered summer. What type of suit should I wear to
the beach to look kunky for the ladies?
Speaker 7 (32:14):
I like speedos, The tighter the better.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Wow. A lot of europe a lot of.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
Men recently have been using the thongbacks. No, yeah, so
cheeks out, suns out, buns out.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
I don't think that's true.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
I've seen it.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
You're making that.
Speaker 6 (32:29):
No, I've seen it with the waxed rear ends and everything.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
I don't believe that. I choose what kind of bathing seed.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
Do you wear ben.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Burker a potato sack? You wear a movement?
Speaker 7 (32:42):
I wear a moo moo?
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I wear a what's wrong with that? Don't judge me.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
I'm not judging.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Don judge me. Let's see.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Uh ferg Dog writes, since says, I made dinner plans
with my girlfriend without asking my wife if she wants
to come to How incredibly rude was it? In classless?
Was that of me?
Speaker 4 (32:57):
No?
Speaker 6 (32:58):
I think it's more thoughtful than anything. You don't want
to hurt anyone's feelings.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Okay, all VP rights and sis. Should I invite my
girlfriend to a group dinner even though I know she
won't go?
Speaker 7 (33:10):
No, don't disrupt her with that.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
Leave her at home with a box of chocolates, maybe
a little fun toy that she can play with.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Wow. Interesting, And you go and.
Speaker 7 (33:18):
Do your thing. You don't have to do everything together.
Couples are fun like that.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Let's say hello to whoopee Pie Blair in Maine, who's
randomly called up. We don't hear from hm much anymore.
We lost him, woope past we lost him to TikTok. Hello,
whoopy Pie Blair?
Speaker 8 (33:32):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (33:34):
What do you want?
Speaker 8 (33:36):
What do I want Lorena. I just had some things
on dating, so I found them out on the internet,
which is great.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Let me know, so.
Speaker 8 (33:46):
Going going on a first date or going on a
date in general, take a girl out on a date
to like a picnic on a walk, you have like wine.
Speaker 6 (33:58):
With it or well you technically can't walk and drink
at the same time unless you're in Vegas.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
Yeah, but no, if you take a blanket, then you
have a blanket with you. You could you know, or
you know.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
I feel like this is more of a statement than
a question.
Speaker 8 (34:14):
I feel like this is, yeah, well would you would
you have a date with a man like at the
park with the blanket the wine?
Speaker 6 (34:22):
She Oh yeah, I've done that before I even broke
a pair of my favorite pants.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
It was the worst day.
Speaker 8 (34:27):
Oh my god. Oh, we don't want to go into that.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
There was another time I was there and they came up.
There was a photographer who came up and was like,
you guys are so cute. Can I take pictures of you?
And so we had like this little park session. So yes,
take your date to the park. Go and seduce them
in the grass, pick them some flowers, watch people play
with their dogs, get a nice little tan Blair.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
You want us to sit here on a date Blair, that.
Speaker 8 (34:55):
Would be amazing. On the Ben Mallers Show. Oh my god,
Yeah my god, I like that for you Whoope Pie podcast,
Blair has a date.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
We don't have time for that all right, called blind
Date Blair.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
It later called back Blair. I gotta I gotta hang
up on you because other people want to talk.
Speaker 7 (35:17):
Reguarding the time, he says.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Isaiah is in Minnesota and is on with Lorraina, the
Queen of Hearts.
Speaker 7 (35:26):
Hello, Isaiah, how can I help you?
Speaker 5 (35:28):
Hello Lorraina.
Speaker 8 (35:31):
I am in a long different relationship with somebody from
Kansas City, but they just lost all the five questions
of five questions on.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
How do I break up with them?
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (35:46):
You know, honestly, in a relationship like that, I feel
like you should just ghost them. There's no greater shame
than the shame that they have bestowed upon you nation
like nationwide.
Speaker 7 (35:54):
So you know what I'm saying, Brandon, But.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
That was that was really difficult to listen.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
I appreciate it. Thank you, appreciate getting astray. Yeah, that
was not good.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Are puzzles or trivia games good to help build a
relationship or they destroy destroy more.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
That's from King Rory.
Speaker 6 (36:15):
It should be a healthy, fun game. But sometimes if
you are really competitive, you know you can throw the
board against the wall and then but you know you
got a competition, you got a breakup to make up, baby, makeup.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
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Attention everyone, and the password is password, you idiot.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Password the word Game of the Stars.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Here's Ben Meller.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
And way we go with password. We have mister Irrigation
in Houston. Who's gonna play? Hello, mister Irrigation, go Ridskins?
All right? And who do you want to play? Partner
up with your mister irrigation? You man, all right, We're in.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
It to win it, mister Irrigation. Hold on a second.
We have Mark on the North end who wants to
play in Boston? Hello, Mark, good morning, Good morning, Good
morning Mark.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
And who would you like to partner up with?
Speaker 8 (37:25):
My opponents sold you for me? So I'm gonna go with.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Cool all right, Coop, you're in it. We have a
list of words. Let me make sure you're both on
the Air's password the word game of the star. All right,
list of words one to ten, mister irrigation. You were
on the air first, mister irrigation, So please pick a
number one to ten.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Number one. All right, let's go eenie meanie, miney moe.
How about let me make sure this is one word?
Hold on, seke here I think it is. Yeah, it
appears to be one word. How about ball club? There
(38:10):
you go, all right? Ten nothing good, guys, have the lead.
Mark you are not one word. It is one word.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
I typed it right in his ball club one word.
It is one word. It is what it literally, I
typed it in. It's one word. It says right here,
one word. Type it in doesn't make it one word. Checked,
It says one word. Go ahead, Uh, Mark, go ahead,
Mark jeez. Number three.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Already cheating man.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
All right, let's go with you said number three?
Speaker 3 (38:46):
All right, let's go with enter entertainment. Oh boy, entertainment,
Uh singer. No, let's go, mister irrigation. Let's go with enjoyment.
Speaker 5 (39:09):
Movie.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
That's very specific.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
Know.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
How about let's go with leisure.
Speaker 8 (39:19):
Hobby?
Speaker 1 (39:20):
No, all right, I'm gonna do a reverse Mallard maneuver.
Reverse Malman mald maneuver normally leads into a word. But
I'm gonna do the reverse malle maneuver.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
Zone.
Speaker 8 (39:33):
Relax?
Speaker 3 (39:34):
What relax? Zone? What is that.
Speaker 8 (39:41):
I'm trying to throw off my phony?
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Oh? Good job, smart move. I'm let's try. At what
point do we throw the word out after? After this one?
I'm amusement? No, no, the word was the F word fun.
Not that word fun is the where we're going.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Okay, mister irrigation, picked a number one to ten, please,
but not one and not three?
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Uh? What do you say? Thought?
Speaker 1 (40:11):
He said, Travis, Yes, no, that's that's Travis Kelsey.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
All right, this should be easy. Let's go with custodian.
Oh giver? What what?
Speaker 4 (40:26):
What?
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Dude? If you if you're sick and you have a caregiver,
who's a custodian? You got problem? All right?
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Uh, let's go with a cleaner j Yeah, let's go.
We were tied now, No, we're not tired.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Yeah, you got doctor point. It's ten to nine. There's
no docking. Misterigation. You don't know what a custodian is.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Okay, go ahead, Mark, pick a number one to ten,
but not one, three or seven.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
That would be okay. I think we know that. I mean,
I'm not. Let's go with.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
Let's see here, all right, up, jump jup, let's go
with shattered.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Broken.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Yeah, misterrigation picking number number four, number four.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
All right.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Uh, the clue is let's see here. We're gonna walk
off win on this one right now, You got this.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
The clue is lethargic. Yeah, that's a winner.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
The buzzard, mister Okay, said you won the game.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
Another win,
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the wo's your state and we asked the question, who's
your daddy? Well, if it's the Knicks right now, it's
the Indiana Pacers. That's who's your daddy right now? As
the Pacers they they're that close they can feel it
at this point. After a dud the other night, Tyrense
Halliburton and the Pacers looking to bounce back get it
(02:29):
done as they hosted Jalen Brunson and the Knickerbockers there
in Game four the Eastern Conference Finals. I assume you
were watching. Maybe not, maybe you did something else. You
were sleeping. I don't know what you were doing.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
You have no idea.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I'm not stalking you. But don't worry. We watched and
it was a pleasure. I didn't have to hit the
mute button once. No doors Burke. I just got to
watch a game without having to mute it. Thank God. Hallelujah. Man,
I'm gonna miss TNT. Gonna miss it. Maybe one more
game for TNT in this crap broadcasting, at least part
(03:02):
of it. Anyway, Tyrese Haliburton did a little bit of this,
a lot of that, and some of that and ended
up with thirty two points, fifteen assists, twelve rebounds without
a turnover, and that performance, that performance putting the Pacers
on his back there and they zoom passed the Knicks.
(03:24):
They win one thirty to one, twenty one to the
final there three to one lead in the Eastern Conference Finals.
Haliburt the first player with such a stat line more
on that later in the hour as he gets it
done there, and the first player in the modern ear
since they first tracked these statistics to.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Have that line. Game five will be Thursday in New York.
We will not be on that night because we'll be
doing the Mallard Meet and greet in.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Vancouver that night, but we're watching I assume we'll watch
the end of it from the from the bar we'll
be at there in Vancouver having a great time. Anyway,
let us discuss what just happened in game number four,
and the better story is in the losing locker room.
So that is where we will begin this malar monologue.
Who is the guilty party?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Who is the.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Guilty party for Tom Thibodeau and the Knickerbockers who lose
this game and did not have a single lead in
the second half. They trailed the entire second half of
that game. So I've got mousetrap, media machine, and many
bottles of rum, and we will combine all all of
(04:35):
these things together and we are going to make a
dirty water dog because the next Now they're not just
the dirty water, they're the dog in the dirty water
as well. Who we all right, So let's get right
to the heart of the matter. You see what I
did there the heart of the matter. Now, he's a
secondary actor, but he played a key role in the
(04:56):
demise of the film that would be Josh Hart bit
of a fringe NBA players, Well, they're not that good.
He's just kind of.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
A roster guy.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Not great, not terrible, He's just kind of there. He's
played a long time in the NBA and nobody's gonna
accuse him of being a good player.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
But he was bad. He was an evil doer for
the Knicks in this particular game.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
In fact, he was the duke, the duke of a
lot of it. In the second quarter of the game
turned in the second quarter. Here it flipped and if
you look at the surveillance tape from the crime scene,
you can see that Josh Hart left a smoking gun
at the crime scene. There was a biohazard on the
court there, as Indiana had set up a mouse trap.
(05:42):
They set up a mouse trap and Heart bit the cheese.
You're not supposed to bite the cheese. He bit the cheese.
There committed five turnovers, four of them in the first
half of the game, and the Pacers got out were
able to move the ball down the court, matriculate the
ball down the court in transition, and they capitalized on
almost all of those mistakes by Josh Hart. They turned
(06:05):
those five turnovers into directly into eight.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Points on the other end. So that's that's not good,
he said, well, it's only eight points, okay.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Hart also fouled out of the game, and the Pacers
scored nine points, either as a result or directly after
those fouls.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Nine points.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Now, as a team, the Knicks finished with seventeen turnovers.
Seventeen turnovers, and I gave you all kinds of numbers.
Indian outscored New York by eleven in that game, and
they had thirteen more points on the fast break. And
he's gonna break it down point by point here. Now,
the other villains for New York, you could say, well,
(06:46):
Mitchell Robinson that it's kind of just a big lugging
plotting player. And then mckil bridges, who they traded seventeen
thousand draft picks to get he sucked. Miles McBride, who's
a back cup good name, though, doesn't Miles McBride sound
like a fake Hollywood name, some kind of superhero Miles
McBride to save the day, not on this game. Did
(07:09):
not save the day all right?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Now? Page two.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
So Indiana wins the game and the story is all
about someone's dad. What John Halliburton a returned to watch
his kid there. He had been forced well we talk
about the hardship forced to watch the previous eight Indiana
Pacer postseason games from somewhere else as he got into
(07:34):
it on the court with the Greek freak Giannis Identa
Coomba in one of the great moments scripted reality there
of the NBA, following the last second shot to ellmen
Nate Milwaukee previously in the postseason got right there. So
this has become a big talking point in the in
the NBA media. So I'm gonna play the game thumbs
(07:56):
up or thumbs down. So thumbs up or thumbs down
on the narrative that Tyrese Halliburton's father inspired this victory, because.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I'm getting a lot of that.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I'm getting a lot of that that this win was
because of John Halliburton sitting at the very top near
not very Toppy's in the box there. So thumbs up
or thumbs down on Tyre's Halliburton's father inspiring the Pacers win.
So I will not be Benny Bright's side on this.
(08:30):
I am going I'm going thumbs down, a strong, powerful
thumbs down on this. So let me get so we're
supposed to believe that the reason that Tyree's played well
was because his daddy was at the arena, and that's
(08:52):
that's what pushed the pacers.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Over the top. Are you bleeping kidding me? Seriously?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Is this the latest Disney fairy tale being peddled by
the NBA media machine that works overtime, the pr machine. Oh,
it's everything's got to be a Disney type story and
that's all. Calmed down. Take a breath, Okay, take a breath.
Calm down, it's not a Hollywood movie. I'm happy the
(09:19):
dad was back. We had said it was kind of
ridiculous let him back. I would have put him at
the top of the arena. I wouldn't put him in
luxury box. I would have put John Halliburt into the
very top of the arena. I'm not saying it wasn't
nice to have him back. That's fine. I'm out of
total curmudget. However, I mean to think that somehow he's
sitting in a luxury box, the dad, and that's why
(09:41):
the kid plays well.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Here. It's a classic overreaction. I got a good story.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I went to sports writing one oh one back in
the day, and I got to justify that. I learned
this like the second day of sports writing, one oh one.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
You gotta bring the family into the narrative. You're gonna
bring the Dan or the mom in there and the kid,
and oh man, that'll sell. That'll play in Peoria.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Okay, all right, So the guy the way I look
at it, you know, what, do I know, I'm just
doing the old night shop. But the way I look
at it, he had a bounce back game. And and
of course now they're writing all these think pieces about man,
you know, there's some kind of spiritual connection with the
dad and all that stuff. But maybe, just maybe, I
know this is outrageous what I'm about to say. It's
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an unpopular opinion, but maybe Halliburton ty Reese Aaliburton realized, well,
he didn't play that well in the last game. So
I don't know, he watched him take me practiced. Maybe
he shot a few more baskets.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Some of that made some adjustments, played better. But no,
it's got to be the dad. It's gotta be the dad.
That's why. Has nothing to do with the practice, the
extra shots, watching the film, whatever, finding out what the
Knicks were doing and how to attack that. No, yeah, okay,
And the Pacers were at home, and so some of
these other scrubs on the Pacers. The role players usually
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played better at.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Home, so we had some of that that happened as well.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
All right, now the last word here, So what do
the Jalen Brunson New York Knicks? What do they do
here to get back in the series?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
What do they do?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
They're down three games to one, down three games to one,
So what do they do here to get back in
the series? And are there are a couple of things.
I have two words that I jotted down on my
notes app on my phone, divine intervention.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
That would be my first option.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
So the Knicks need to get together a rabbi, a priest,
a miracle healer. They can bring them all together, medical medium,
get them to have a huddle, a shaman and one
or two witches and bring them all together there. They
can huddle up and call an audible here. And if
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that doesn't work, they need to get a time machine.
And they got to go back and get Serrano, great
character in a movie called Major League. And they can
build a shrine in the next locker room, and they
can have two Joe bu statues and then a couple
mini bottles of rum, and that will inspire them to
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come back in this year. Listen, the Knicks are cooked.
In fact, they're cooked the way I like my steak.
Well done, Okay, charcoal, That's how cooked they are at
this point. Stick a fork in them, do whatever you want,
whatever cliche you want to throw out there for the Knicks.
This is the team that the New York media machine
was hyping up, the greatest Nick team since.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Walt Clyde Fraser. The year of the Nick.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Everything had opened up, the parting of the Red Sea,
in this case, the parting of the East River. It
was already the Knicks playing a tomato caned pacer team,
and then they had Minnesota or OKC in the finals championship.
Then they had to play the games. Then they hadn't
play it. Now the good news, and it is a
positive year. At least the Nick fan got to experience
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the joy of a championship. Because I'm pretty sure they
had a ticker tape parade in the Canyon of Heroes
after New York beat Boston in the previous round. I
know there was mayhem in Manhattan throwing trash at Pacer fans,
the classy Knickerbocker supporters there. So they got to celebrate championship,
so congratulations. Normally you have to actually win to celebrate.
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The Knicks did not, they will not, but hey, they
got to celebrate what it was like to win a championship.
That's kind of cool that you don't actually have to
win the championship to have a celebration. And well, we
like Jalen Brunson, We're not here to trash Dalen Brunson.
Jalen Brunson who played well, good stats again, Tyreus Haliburton,
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ate your lunch, okay, or I guess your dinner because
the game was played at night here. But Haliburton fifteen assists,
no turnovers. The Knicks as a team had seventeen assists
as a team and seventeen turnovers.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
So it's not that deep. It's an Ockham's.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Razor situation, simplest answers most likely the right answer, and
don't even get me started, like Obi Toppin, who's not
a key player for the Pacers but is a former
Nick who they gave away in some transaction a couple
of years back, and now he is dancing on your
grave with a couple of baskets lad In games that
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were key baskets in this series. Obi Toppin adding some
salt to the wound. Now, if you want to get technical,
and why not, we have plenty of time if you
would like to get technical. The move here and and
the move is rather simple. The move is that you
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need a couple of twisted ankles. If you're the if
you're the Knicks, you know Halliburton, and you start with that,
you know something would happen. We don't want anyone to
get hurt. But if something were to happen to Halliburton,
he got hurt, that would be that would be interesting.
Pascal siakam boy, if he got hurt, that would really
change things. And so you've got those two things. And
then if the NBA decides they need a game six
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and we find out the extender Scott Foster's in there
for game five, that helps you out. Scott Foster's got
a really good winning percentage for the team that's trailing
in a series. So you bring Scott Foster and that
get that'll get your game. And then you have a
twisted ankle that'll get you another game. And then all
of a sudden, the game seven and you're alive. Do
I think that's going to happen? No, I don't think.
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I don't believe that's going to happen. We are we
are headed towards tape delay NBA Finals territory with Oklahoma
City and Indiana. And if you are someone that enjoys
the agony of big corporations having to deal with crap,
that is.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Man alive. Good luck?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, all right, well, hey listen. Advice to Jalen Brunson
and Tom Thibboteau. You might want to start riding your
talking point memo on the will get Back next Year speeches.
What you do is you start out with a compliment.
You see, the Pacers played very well. They deserve to win.
And then you say, well, if a few things had
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been different, we would have won. And you talk about
how much you love the team and how much you
love the fans, and how much you believe the team's
gonna be right there and you're gonna bounce back, and
I mean, the whole thing. We know it's gonna happen,
and it happens all the time, and you lose, that's.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
What you do.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
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a win away from the NBA Finals and are lead
this hour from football. It's May, it's late May, We're
almost into June.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
And so that means.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
A staple of the football calendar, organized team activities, which
is guaranteed to provide content for fledgling overnight sports radio
gas bags. The offseason workouts so intense, so wild, that
some people cannot be bothered to attend said workouts.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Well, not everyone is there.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
For example, Hassan Reddick, remember him a sack merchant back
in the day, and he's still making a lot of money.
Son Reddick, who was someone who just joined this offseason
the Tampa Bay football team, the Buccaneers, and he decided, Eh,
I'm not gonna go. I'm gonna skip the first day
of OTAs. Now, if you didn't see this, perhaps not,
(18:35):
I don't blame you. I thought this was interesting considering
what happened with him last year. The money quote was
from Todd Bowles. The really entertaining some Todd Bowles is
a much better SoundBite than he is a head coach.
I liked Todd Bowles cas baggery anyway, Todd Bowles said,
when asked about the big defensive pickup of the Buccaneers
(18:56):
not showing up. He said, I'm sure one of these
days will see him close.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Gotta love the dry eloquence of Todd Bowles. So let
us discuss. So you got the edge rusher who had
a very public falling out with the Jets and.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
The Eagles and the only anyway.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
So you've got Hassan Reddick, who has now skipped the
beginning of OTAs with his new team, the Buccaneers. The
head coach, Todd Bowles says, quote, I'm sure one of
these days will see him close.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
So should the Bucks be worried about their big defensive pickup?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I have on this one.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I've got Warner Brothers, Sampler, plate and chivalrous and we
will combine all of these.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Things together, and we're going to take a.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Trip to can Kun, which is likely where Hassan Reddick
is and can't coon somewhere.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
So number one, I'm not in my head. Yes on
this one, I'm not in my head. Yes.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Now, this is absolutely, positively, undeniably a problem. Now you
can say it's not a big problem, but you can't
say it's not a problem. You can't because of the player.
Now I realized there are always the jocksniffers, the fanboys
in the media that are out there that will point
out that OTA's are vall on Terry, Capitol v Fall
(20:17):
and Terry. It's the It's the smell test that's the problem.
The smell test is the problem here.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
This is a guy who sat out months with the
He was unhappy with Philadelphia and they went to the.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Jets because of a contract beef. Where's the beef? He
was very upset, and now he gets another fact check
in Tampa. Granted it's not a long term deal, but
he got a good amount of money and it was
fourteen million or something for one year. And this is
the first impression, I ain't showing up. It's not I
(20:51):
ain't playing unless I got mine. He's getting the contract,
He's just not going to show up. And this becomes
a I mentioned the smell test. This is a Warner
Brothers classic cartoon, pepe Le pew p. Yeah, what stinks?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
All right? And it's all about the optiction.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
We had a conversation last night about bad manners, like
Coop has terrible manners, and this is bad manners. I
know you technically don't have to be there, but you're
already a question mark. Right, You're already a question mark
in terms of attitude from last year, and it's a
fresh opportunity to say, oh, you know, I got that
(21:28):
situation done with.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I've got a new contract, I'm on a new team.
Things are different. It's not like it was last year.
And you have to build up the.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Bubble of trust, right, And your decision rather than build
up the bubble of trust is to go m I A.
That is your decision. And I think that's being a
great leader. I mean, maybe I'm wrong. I don't know,
but the man has an allergic reaction Hassan Reddick to
voluntary workers, it's the bare minimum condition is a lot
(21:58):
of lazy people. I guess he's lazy, you know, just
I don't want to do anything extra, you know, it's
like you should work for the government or something like that.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I work at the DMV.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
I see a lot of people the DMV that do
the bare minimum, go through go through the motions and
all that. And so you see that that phrase ota,
you see that on your calendar app and immediately you
buy some suntan lotionan and you're like booking a beach
vacation somewhere far away. It's a it's kind of like
(22:27):
dway looks like you're starting at a new company. You've
changed careers, you're starting at a new company, and you
have a zoom meeting and you decide to ghost the
zoom meeting.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Yeah, yeah, I'm good. I'm good and.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Uh I did love Todd Bowles quote again saying that
we'll see him one of these days. We'll see we'll
see the player. Hassan Redick, the Bucks coach said, Which
is I think what we all say.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
If you're out and about and you've ordered an uber and.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
You see that there's a lot of traffic in the
cars being and all that stuff, because it's stuck in traffic,
you say, wow, we'll see the uber one of these days.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
It'll show up. One of these days, it'll show up,
all right now, Page two, speaking of no shows.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Speaking of no shows, you have tight End Kyle Pitts,
who did not show up to OTAs in Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
This is the tight end.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
You told me, you draft Nicks, that this is God's
gift to the tight end position. You told me that
there's no way this does not work out. Built like
a Donnis, runs like a gazelle, unbelievable. Right, So he
has decided not show up to the OTAs in Atlanta
and your thoughts on this particular situation, so to this
one is gummy? All right, this one is absolutely gummy.
(23:45):
You've got a guy who's been underwhelming. It's been kind,
he's been underwhelming since his rookie year. He has not
lived up to the immense hype that he had coming
out of the draft, and this is when he decides
to make a statement very bizarre. So again, just for
the record, this is a top five pick that you
(24:08):
told me was going to be amazing, the draft nerds
told me was going to be amazing. A unicorn, a
unicorn tight end, going to rewrite the record book. So
this is the final year. I believe, I believe I
have this right, final year of his rookie contract, and
he's upset he's not getting an extension and he's bothered
by that.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Has he even earned a second contract?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Does anyone think that he's what he has done, his
body of work is worthy of a second contract, Like
another can't miss guy who flopped the idea of Kyle
Pitts coming out. I remember we did the typical draft
shows and you were like, Oh, this guy's a three
headed dragon, fire breathing dragon, and he's out there running
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around the idea of Kyle Pits much better than what
has been the reality of Kyle Pits.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
He has been a ampler plate with the Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Falcons of injuries, inconsistent performance, and a lot of excuses.
People that love to make excuses that I said this
guy was gonna be good.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
I told you he was going to be great. He's
not great. It's not his fault. It's not his fault.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Blame the quarterbacks, because of course there's never been players,
never been players that have put up great stats with
mediocre corpe.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
It never happens. You have to have a great quarterback
to put up good stats. You have to. It's a rule.
It's a rule. You have to. You have to unless
you don all right, now, final points.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
So we go down to Cincinnati is where we go
where the Beals and their wide receiver Jamar Chase said
that while he does not does not want to play
in the exhibition games, he understands. He said that he
may may have to because that's what's best for the
Cincinnati football team, which has lost its first two games
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the past three seasons.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
They have gotten out to zero and two starts.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
What say you on the generosity of Jamar Chase to
say we might have to play and some some.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Of these exhibition games. There are only two exhibition games anyway,
so it's really about playing in one of them. They're
gonna play one of them, and that's that's, that's that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
So, uh, my reaction is how how wonderful chivalrous is
my word, how chivalrous of Jamar cha very noble, a
noble star, a noble star who signed the record setting
contract with the Cincinnati football team. And these guys, this
is one thing that's completely changing my lifetime. These guys
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treat the preseason like it is beneath them. It is
a nuisance, it is beneath them. They are way too
good to go out and get some reps, not even
a couple of reps. Just it's August. I can't do it.
I cannot get out there in August. And so this
is where these these modern guys fall behind the weasel term,
(27:07):
the shield of the weasel, and the weasel term on
this is out of an abundance of caution. You got
that a lot during the pandemic, right you couldn't go
out and eat eat, you know, fries at at a
restaurant because of abundance of caution and all that stuff,
which was turned out to be total bull crap by
the politician. Anyway, the way you don't play a lot.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
But you can play a little bit, you can play
a little bit, and you can't approach this thing like
playing scared.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
That's really the message, right, And it seems like the
Cincinnati Bungals, if you will, they start out owing to
pretty much every year. It's like a birth what right
in Cincinnati? And then what happens is they have to
grab a shovel because they start out on they got
to grab a shovel. And then they have to dig
out of a hole just because they've they've dug themselves
(27:56):
a hole. And and maybe if they actually try something
a little different in these exhibition games, they wouldn't come
out of the gate looking like they just met each other.
It's like the first day of school they started at
a new school. Hey, what's your name?
Speaker 3 (28:10):
All right?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
And the right out of the tunnel before the game,
all right, we have play some football. Your name Bill, John,
all right, whatever your name it? And now the light
bulb has turned on. The light bulb has turned on.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
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Speaker 3 (28:31):
It's Maller. How about that? To the third degree?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
This is one big bent gets grilled?
Speaker 3 (28:38):
All right good.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
It is being reported by an NBA insider that thanks
to Jason Tatum's injury and rumors of the Celtics breaking
up their core, that Joannison Tenna Kumbo could stay with
the Bucks for at least one more season.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
But do you think the.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
State of the Celtics changes things for the Greek freak.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yeah, he's not going to the Celtics. That's not happening.
So they're trying to They if they do start picking
the team apart, they're gonna unload salaries. So why would
they bring in one of the highest paid players in
the NBA that made any sense?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Why he would go there. It's gonna be Miami, or
he'll go to.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
The Lakers or the Clippers or the Nicks and one
of those teams is not going well.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Not going to stay with the Bucks because the Celtics are.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Gonna be only He's gonna stay with the Bucks because
they're gonna suck because the Lillard's out next year, he's
gotta pop to Killes next.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
The Red Sox are now under five hundred and the
fall in the fourth place in the Al East, and
this has sparked rumors about Alex Corra's future being in doubt.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Ben is the end near for Cora's Boston tenure.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Well, I'm not boots on the ground, but my people
in Boston are telling me that Cora's checked out.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
That's what they're saying. That he's just not into it.
This whole graduation kerfluffle.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Where his daughter graduated in the morning and he couldn't
make the game at night because he had a dinner
to attend. That did not go over well with the
natives in Boston. And it's just he's coddling the third baseman,
Rafael Devers, who's a dh now and refuses to play
any other position than dash and alscor is protecting him.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
That's not going over well with the people in He's in.
He's definitely in jeopardy. They did.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
They just gave him a new contract, though so unlikely
to be fired in like the next month.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Next eating legend Joey Chestnutt broke his own popcorn eating
record on Memorial Day inhaling forty two servings in just
eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
The Ben.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
If you were forced to compete in an eating contest,
which food would you perform best with?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well, my go to is the chicken finger, But I
could like the popcorn. Thing's very difficult if it's buttered popcorn.
I could do two buckets of the movie theater. But
that's bier. I'm pushing it at my biggest but chicken fingers.
How about jelly beans? I can eat a lot of
jelly beans.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
All right? How did we do you pass? The same?
All right, there's a one. Put it on the board.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
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Speaker 7 (31:24):
Ben?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Oh? It's all all the rage, all all the rage.
Let's see Shane in.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
The Morne right and says, with Bill Belichick being a
sugar daddy, Lorena, is there a silver haired fox in
Hollywood or sports that you would not mind being arm
candy for?
Speaker 7 (31:41):
Hmmm?
Speaker 6 (31:42):
Oh my gosh, who's that really? Oh my gosh, George Clooney.
I would be his sugar baby.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Doesn't he live in Paris or something?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
That?
Speaker 6 (31:49):
I would love to live in Paris and be his
sugar baby. I will eat croissants all dayly.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Maybe not, maybe living like an island French riviera sounds.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
Great too, But yeah, no, I I'd pick that silver fox.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Yeah, okay. JT.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
The Wingman writes in from Knoxville, Tennessee, says it's now
considered summer. What type of suit should I wear to
the beach to look kunky for the ladies?
Speaker 7 (32:14):
I like speedos, The tighter the better.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Wow. A lot of europe a lot of.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
Men recently have been using the thongbacks. No, yeah, so
cheeks out, suns out, buns out.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
I don't think that's true.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
I've seen it.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
You're making that.
Speaker 6 (32:29):
No, I've seen it with the waxed rear ends and everything.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
I don't believe that. I choose what kind of bathing seed.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
Do you wear ben.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Burker a potato sack? You wear a movement?
Speaker 7 (32:42):
I wear a moo moo?
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I wear a what's wrong with that? Don't judge me.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
I'm not judging.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Don judge me. Let's see.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Uh ferg Dog writes, since says, I made dinner plans
with my girlfriend without asking my wife if she wants
to come to How incredibly rude was it? In classless?
Was that of me?
Speaker 4 (32:57):
No?
Speaker 6 (32:58):
I think it's more thoughtful than anything. You don't want
to hurt anyone's feelings.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Okay, all VP rights and sis. Should I invite my
girlfriend to a group dinner even though I know she
won't go?
Speaker 7 (33:10):
No, don't disrupt her with that.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
Leave her at home with a box of chocolates, maybe
a little fun toy that she can play with.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Wow. Interesting, And you go and.
Speaker 7 (33:18):
Do your thing. You don't have to do everything together.
Couples are fun like that.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Let's say hello to whoopee Pie Blair in Maine, who's
randomly called up. We don't hear from hm much anymore.
We lost him, woope past we lost him to TikTok. Hello,
whoopy Pie Blair?
Speaker 8 (33:32):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (33:34):
What do you want?
Speaker 8 (33:36):
What do I want Lorena. I just had some things
on dating, so I found them out on the internet,
which is great.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Let me know, so.
Speaker 8 (33:46):
Going going on a first date or going on a
date in general, take a girl out on a date
to like a picnic on a walk, you have like wine.
Speaker 6 (33:58):
With it or well you technically can't walk and drink
at the same time unless you're in Vegas.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
Yeah, but no, if you take a blanket, then you
have a blanket with you. You could you know, or
you know.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
I feel like this is more of a statement than
a question.
Speaker 8 (34:14):
I feel like this is, yeah, well would you would
you have a date with a man like at the
park with the blanket the wine?
Speaker 6 (34:22):
She Oh yeah, I've done that before I even broke
a pair of my favorite pants.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
It was the worst day.
Speaker 8 (34:27):
Oh my god. Oh, we don't want to go into that.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
There was another time I was there and they came up.
There was a photographer who came up and was like,
you guys are so cute. Can I take pictures of you?
And so we had like this little park session. So yes,
take your date to the park. Go and seduce them
in the grass, pick them some flowers, watch people play
with their dogs, get a nice little tan Blair.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
You want us to sit here on a date Blair, that.
Speaker 8 (34:55):
Would be amazing. On the Ben Mallers Show. Oh my god,
Yeah my god, I like that for you Whoope Pie podcast,
Blair has a date.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
We don't have time for that all right, called blind
Date Blair.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
It later called back Blair. I gotta I gotta hang
up on you because other people want to talk.
Speaker 7 (35:17):
Reguarding the time, he says.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Isaiah is in Minnesota and is on with Lorraina, the
Queen of Hearts.
Speaker 7 (35:26):
Hello, Isaiah, how can I help you?
Speaker 5 (35:28):
Hello Lorraina.
Speaker 8 (35:31):
I am in a long different relationship with somebody from
Kansas City, but they just lost all the five questions
of five questions on.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
How do I break up with them?
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (35:46):
You know, honestly, in a relationship like that, I feel
like you should just ghost them. There's no greater shame
than the shame that they have bestowed upon you nation
like nationwide.
Speaker 7 (35:54):
So you know what I'm saying, Brandon, But.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
That was that was really difficult to listen.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
I appreciate it. Thank you, appreciate getting astray. Yeah, that
was not good.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Are puzzles or trivia games good to help build a
relationship or they destroy destroy more.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
That's from King Rory.
Speaker 6 (36:15):
It should be a healthy, fun game. But sometimes if
you are really competitive, you know you can throw the
board against the wall and then but you know you
got a competition, you got a breakup to make up, baby, makeup.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
People like that makeup like Giggy Giggdy Giggy.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Are be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Attention everyone, and the password is password, you idiot.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Password the word Game of the Stars.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Here's Ben Meller.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
And way we go with password. We have mister Irrigation
in Houston. Who's gonna play? Hello, mister Irrigation, go Ridskins?
All right? And who do you want to play? Partner
up with your mister irrigation? You man, all right, We're in.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
It to win it, mister Irrigation. Hold on a second.
We have Mark on the North end who wants to
play in Boston? Hello, Mark, good morning, Good morning, Good
morning Mark.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
And who would you like to partner up with?
Speaker 8 (37:25):
My opponents sold you for me? So I'm gonna go with.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Cool all right, Coop, you're in it. We have a
list of words. Let me make sure you're both on
the Air's password the word game of the star. All right,
list of words one to ten, mister irrigation. You were
on the air first, mister irrigation, So please pick a
number one to ten.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Number one. All right, let's go eenie meanie, miney moe.
How about let me make sure this is one word?
Hold on, seke here I think it is. Yeah, it
appears to be one word. How about ball club? There
(38:10):
you go, all right? Ten nothing good, guys, have the lead.
Mark you are not one word. It is one word.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
I typed it right in his ball club one word.
It is one word. It is what it literally, I
typed it in. It's one word. It says right here,
one word. Type it in doesn't make it one word. Checked,
It says one word. Go ahead, Uh, Mark, go ahead,
Mark jeez. Number three.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Already cheating man.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
All right, let's go with you said number three?
Speaker 3 (38:46):
All right, let's go with enter entertainment. Oh boy, entertainment,
Uh singer. No, let's go, mister irrigation. Let's go with enjoyment.
Speaker 5 (39:09):
Movie.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
That's very specific.
Speaker 5 (39:12):
Know.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
How about let's go with leisure.
Speaker 8 (39:19):
Hobby?
Speaker 1 (39:20):
No, all right, I'm gonna do a reverse Mallard maneuver.
Reverse Malman mald maneuver normally leads into a word. But
I'm gonna do the reverse malle maneuver.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
Zone.
Speaker 8 (39:33):
Relax?
Speaker 3 (39:34):
What relax? Zone? What is that.
Speaker 8 (39:41):
I'm trying to throw off my phony?
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Oh? Good job, smart move. I'm let's try. At what
point do we throw the word out after? After this one?
I'm amusement? No, no, the word was the F word fun.
Not that word fun is the where we're going.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Okay, mister irrigation, picked a number one to ten, please,
but not one and not three?
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Uh? What do you say? Thought?
Speaker 1 (40:11):
He said, Travis, Yes, no, that's that's Travis Kelsey.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
All right, this should be easy. Let's go with custodian.
Oh giver? What what?
Speaker 4 (40:26):
What?
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Dude? If you if you're sick and you have a caregiver,
who's a custodian? You got problem? All right?
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Uh, let's go with a cleaner j Yeah, let's go.
We were tied now, No, we're not tired.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Yeah, you got doctor point. It's ten to nine. There's
no docking. Misterigation. You don't know what a custodian is.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Okay, go ahead, Mark, pick a number one to ten,
but not one, three or seven.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
That would be okay. I think we know that. I mean,
I'm not. Let's go with.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
Let's see here, all right, up, jump jup, let's go
with shattered.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Broken.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Yeah, misterrigation picking number number four, number four.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
All right.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Uh, the clue is let's see here. We're gonna walk
off win on this one right now, You got this.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
The clue is lethargic. Yeah, that's a winner.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
The buzzard, mister Okay, said you won the game.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
Another win,
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