June 5, 2025 • 41 mins
Big Ben talks about Leon Draisaitl scoring a goal in OT to bring the Oilers to a 1-0 lead over the Panthers in the Stanley Cup Final, reports that Knicks players are unhappy with Jalen Brunson's father having a such a big voice in the organization, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and more!
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So our lead this hour, the rare and appropriate, rare
and appropriate Mala monologue about hockey. Now we have the
Mallard meet and greet in Vancouver. It was great to
meet many of our fine Canadian lads that listen to
the show, and several of them are like, well, you
need to talk more hockey. And I said, well, when
I talk hockey, you complain that I talk hockey because
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you say, well, you know, not a hockey guy.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
And then if I don't talk about hockey, you.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Bitch about that, and you say, well you should really
talk you know, you should talk about hockey. So this
is a trial run. We'll see how it does. If
it does well, maybe we'll do more of it. But
our lead this hour, that's right, the rare and appropriate
Malard monologue will start out at the capital city of
the Canadian province of Alberta.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Oh God, Edmunds.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
There's been a generation since a team from that country.
One Lord's Stanley Cup and and there you go. The
curtain went up to dab the twenty twenty five Stanley
Cup final rematch style the reigning champions, the Florida Panthers,
who are in this thing every single year now scanning
against the chosen one. Connor McDavid and the Oilers there
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for Lord Stanley's Cup. Game one full of fun unless
it was well that it was actually not a bad game.
I did watch it. A couple of Homeboys friends of
the show there, Kenny Albert and Eddie Oldchuck on the
turner call.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
And maybe he did not watch it. I don't know
what else you were doing.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
There's some crappy baseball games on Leon Drycidle, I've heard
of him. He was not very effective last year in
the Stanley cupon he was hurt, all right, well, Leon
drystyle lighting the lamp. He let the lamp put the
BESTKT in the basket power play game winner in the
final seconds of the first overtime, which turned out to
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be the only overtime and the much maligned the week Link.
You are the week Link, Stuart Skinner was not the
week Link you at twenty nine saves and Edmonton down
by multiple goals, and generally speaking, when you're down by
multiple goals, you're not normally coming back to win that game.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Against the quality upon it.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
But that's why they play the games a multi goal deficit.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Edmonton came back, so they win.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
The game four to three in game one, and game
two will be on Friday night. We are not in
the watch tower. We are not in the watch tower
on Friday night. That there'll be somebody else in the chair,
so we don't need to worry about that. And then
that game in Edmonton, then they'll go back to the
Sunshine State for games three and four. And you know
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the drill, if you've listened to the show at all,
The better story is where ding ding ding ding.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
The better story is in the losing locker room. And
so that is where we will again and that is
what we will discuss. So the question this in depth
Malard monologue about the puck, what stands out from the flopperoo,
the Matthew Chuck Panthers flopping in game number one, blowing
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a two goal lead. So I've got Uncle Mo, red
bull and politicking, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to take a drive
in the zamboni. Yeah, joy ride in the zamboni. So
number I said, numb burn. So the Panthers, to quote
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one of the great philosophers of our time and one
of the most important orders and really oracles as well
of society. The Panthers sucked at a time you cannot suck,
despite having a lead at the end of the first
period and at the end of the second period they
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had been thirty one in zho in playoff games under
their current head coach Paul Maurice, going back the last
couple of years.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
They couldn't lose in that situation. They lost that game.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
They blew the two goal there three to one, proving
yet again that Uncle Mo lives in Brooklyn, but not
in hockey games.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
There is no such thing as Uncle Mo.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
They had all the momentum, they had all the more
mad of you dumb idiot fans say, I had all
the more madam, Oh my god, Why would they give
that up? Why would the Florida Panthers up three to one,
give back the momentum. Shouldn't you hold on to the momentum?
And why did you give it up? Did Edmonton steal it?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
That's a crime. Arrest them. They stole it. So they
Florida did not grow the lead.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And even I a rather novice hockey observer who was
forced to cover hockey in my younger days many many
years back, but the defensive zone breakdowns, and I'll use
an analogy here that I think is more relatable to
the common non hockey fan. Think of the Florida Panthers
for much of this game like a walrus lying around
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and farting on the beach. That's what they did most
of the game. They really only competed in the second period.
It was a domination situation.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
The other way. Outside of that.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Outside of that second period, when Matthew Kachuck's team out
shot outshot, the Florida Panthers outshot Edmonton by I think
it was nine, the rest of the game was thirty
eight to fifteen shots on goal in favor of the Oilers.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
So you were in.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
The dreaded zombie mode, disheveled and they looked lost.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
And I was texting one of the few friends I
have that.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Likes hockey, not Eddie, by the way, and there were
like two or three times in overtime early on, whereas well,
that should ended the game, and that should ended the game,
and it's general in most sports. I think you'd agree
with my point. I'm about to make a brilliant point.
I'd like to alerd all the affiliates. We're about to
make a rare, brilliant point that when you're watching a game,
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it doesn't matter what This happens to be a hockey game,
but if you're watching a basketball game, football, whatever, in baseball,
when you're watching a game, you can tell which.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Team wants it a little more, the more.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Aggressive team and the team that's more locked in, And
nine out of ten times that team is going to
go home with a nice w. It doesn't happen all
the time, but nine out of ten times the team
that just has a little more in there. Now, how
you could be off your bio rhythms off in a
Stanley Cup final game, I don't get that.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I don't understand it happens.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
There's human beings involved that eventually there won't be if
you get enough time, they'll just be robots playing robots.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
And then you won't have to worry about that.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
But the Panthers defense in the third period, it's like
they had they decided, we're gonna go down to Dairy Queen,
we're gonna get some some cones and we'll just let
them melt, and there you go. And I just completely
forgot the rudimentary elements, like even I know you need
to clear the puck, Yeah, I gotta it. Can't clear
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the puck, you can't win the game. Now, Patrito are
in depth hockey coverage. So what does Florida now need
to do to get back? They down won nothing. They
it's not the end of the world here, the big deal.
Hockey teams come back from that all the time. And
the series really hasn't started because the game was in Edmonton.
The home team won, so as you know, the rule
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in all these series is the series doesn't start until
the home team loses and the road team wins and
all that stuff. So the first thing I would do
is I would go to go down to Walmart and
I would buy a ca of Red Bull and then
I'd buy some no does some caffeine supplements. Combine those
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things together here in a near lethal dose. Big advantage,
big advantage of you if you're going into this seriously.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
What's the advantage. The key advantage was that.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Carolina, Carolina, that Florida has a better goaltender than Edmonton.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
That's Sergei Vebrovski is better than Stuart.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Skinner and all that stuff, and that that's the advantage.
And the stars are on the side of Edmonton, all right.
We talked about this in a previous episode of the show.
Another rare and appropriate hockey reference with the chosen one,
Connor McDavid. And this is his opportunity to check that
box that you have to check and to be part
of it and lead the team to a win and
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all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
And but the.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Advantage for Florida is, hey, they got a better goalton
that the kryptonite of Edmonton is they got Stewart Skinner.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
That's your game, right, So so how do you take
advantage that?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Now?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
You know? What do I know?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I just I do the open I shore. We rarely
talk about hockey. I normally talk about the plague more
than hockey. But Stuart Skinner a lightning rod of a
player who had been playing well recently, and in this
game he faced thirty two shots and stopped twenty nine
of them. And that doesn't even tell So, I mean,
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if the fans were chanting his name whatever, they're all
wearing Oilers jerseys, find what you expect that. But I
would argue for most of the late stages of this game,
the third period and overtime, which I believe the math
on that like thirty forty minutes or something.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I think it's forty minutes almost forty minutes.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
The Panthers against the Oilers. The Oilers out shot the
Panthers twenty four to eight.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
So what's going on?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
You know?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I mean, Skinner, he doesn't have to make many saves.
If you take eight shots the third period in an
overtime combined, and then you're helping out, I mean, that's
what you want. That's exactly what you would want. I
would assume if you're the team from Edmonton, you're like,
all right, our goaltender blows, so as long as they
don't shoot the pucket him, he doesn't really suck.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Because that's they can't score.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
To my knowledge, and again, you know, rudimentary hockey knowledge,
it's very difficult to score. Very difficult to score if
you do not put the puck on the net. Very
difficult to do that. All right, Now, final point, we
move away from hockey to a developing storyline in pro
bouncy ball. The Saint John's coach, Rick Patino. He's back
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in the Sporting News. Now there is an opening in Gotham.
There is an opening in Gotham. Rick Patino was asked
about that job, and Patino said recently that he would
quote absolutely not take the Knickerbocker head coaching job.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Do you believe him? So I'm gonna now quote Rick Patino.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
He says he would absolutely not take the Acerbocker head
coaching job. And I'm going to use the quote absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
I don't believe him. Patino is in his early.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Seventy seventy two, right, so he's past retirement age, and
he knows.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
He's unlikely to get the call. So you say, oh,
I'm not interested. Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
You say that, however, you and I both know he
would take the job.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
In a heartbeat.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
He would absolutely take the job. Man, would he loved
that job. He's aroused just thinking about it. Now Patino
has to say no publicly because he knows it's a
long shot. They won't really talk to him, and you know,
if they do, it's going to be kind of a
courtesy thing and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
And you got to be loyal to your college job.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
And so privately, though so publicly, you say no, absolutely not.
I've got a great job. I'm not going anywhere else. Privately,
what is going on behind the scenes? What do you
think is going on? Like Patino's a showman, he knows
how to play the media. He's been doing it for
about my entire life, maybe longer than that. And I'm
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not saying that Patino's out there like openly begging for
the job with the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I don't buy that.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
However, would you be shocked because I wouldn't be shocked
if he's quietly politicking through intermediaries and back channels and
was like, hey, you know I had this job at
one point. We know Patino's got an ego the size
of the Empire State Building, and you think he doesn't
dream of walking back in as a pro coach to
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the Garden and being the guy that dots the eye
in championship and the Knickerbockers win, the crowd goes wild,
the parade through the canyon, the heroes, you fade to black.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
That's it. Boom documentary over.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
And he has said he loved coaching there. He called
the vibration electric when he coached the Knicks. And he
does know a thing or two because he's seen a
thing or two over the years and coached the Knicks
in the in the eighties, way back in the eighties,
before social media, when people actually went to games and
watched the and didn't hold their phone up like the
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Statue of.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Liberty to record everything on videos that no one watches.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
And in Kentucky and Louisville and the Celtics and the
scandal here late night restaurant rendezvous over there, come back, prostitutes,
the whole deal, A little bit of this, a little
bit of that, and.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
You mix it all together. Patino's got all of it.
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lead this hour is from the Big Apple.
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The Big Apple.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
The only big apple I've ever seen when I went
to New York is that a Mets game. They have
a big apple out in the outfield.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
That's it. I've never seen a big apple anywhere else.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
So follow up to the follow up, follow up to
the follow up coach Tom Thibodeau escorted out of the building,
out of the building in Gotham.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Have you heard the latest on this? Perhaps not?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Well, you can't just get rid of a coach and
then just have the story go away. The story's got legs.
So what is the latest? The scuttle butt as the
streets around midtown Manhattan are talking and we are told
a handful of Knickerbocker players were not happy. They were unhappy.
What were they unhappy about? Because everyone's got to be happy.
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You can't have anyone who's not happy. So the Knicks
players were unhappy with the presence of an assistant coach.
But not just any assistant coach. That's right, Rick Brunson.
The plot thickens according to something called Oops Wire. I
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don't know what that is, but they say that multiple
Knicks players have been unhappy with the presidence of assistant
coach Rick Brunson. If that name sounds familiar, that is
the forefather of Jalen Brunson. That's the Papa Bear. That's
the Papa Bear. Now the problem. The problem is that
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Rick has had too big a say in the goings.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
On with the Knickerbockers. Behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Okay, so that's the report, simple players upset Rick Brunson,
the daddy of Jalen Brunson, has become too influential with
the New York basketball team. So let us discuss the
question for the esteem panel, which you find.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Yourself part of? How am I part of a panel?
You are? You just go with it. You're part of
the esteem panel.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
So question multiple nick players unhappy, They're unhappy with Jalen
Brunson's daddy that he has such a strong presence on
the coaching staff. What does this signify to you? So
I've got madmen, zip code, and workshop, and we will
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combine all of these things together and we're going to
have some chills and thrills and try not to stumble
and bumble like the Knickerbockers did in those games. So
my first thought, A, there's one word that sums this up.
It is prevalent.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
It is a disease.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
It is in all of our professional sports, all of them,
the disease. It is a one word. It's starts with
an N. In fact, capital end, nepotism, nepotism, capital end.
This is El classico, the NBA family business. It's a
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coaching version of lebron and he's running.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
The Lakers a GM by proxy.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Ands Bronnie who has no business being in the NBA,
but his daddy is the star.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Of the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Soda Browny James draft in the second round and then
went out there and embarrassed himself. So they're catering to
one guy, right, the Knicks aren't Jalen Brunson. Well, he
gave them a hometown discount. We okay, good, congratulations. Now
we like the player. We like Jalen Brunson, solid ballplayer.
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This just does not feel right though. The whole thing
doesn't feel right, and it's like, well, you're doing you know, because.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
It's in the news. Well, I didn't feel right before.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
In fact, the talk was that the reason that Rick
Brunson was hired by the Knicks was because they were
trying to woo Jalen Brunson the whole thing. So it's
just not a professional setup in the real world, I
would say.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
And then every time I.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Bring this up, well, everyone every business you know, how
many how many lawyers I deal with? Their father was
a lawyer and they get hired at the law firm
or a doctor and all, okay, Well, I know in
radio it usually doesn't work that way. It just doesn't,
which it did, but that does not work that way.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
The second you start building your organization.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Around family ties.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
And family ties instead of just based on performance, it
doesn't immediately wound it. It doesn't. But there's cracks, there's
little like fissures, you know, you know, like the earthquakes.
They say, well, when the big earthquake happens, there's usually
some four shocks leading up to that. It's internal politics.
And this is not why New York lost to Indian.
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The fact that Jalen Brunson's daddy was on the bench
is not why they lost. However, it is a symptom
to a bigger condition, like bigger problem. It sounds like
the guys in the locker room are sick of the
dad being right there, and they feel like there's only
one set of rules for Jalen Brunson and then for
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the rest of the team, and you know, it's outside
of the inner circle. That's what it sounds like. The
picture that is being painted, which is a term that
I think we're leading down a road that leads to
a dead end street, and the dead end street is
conflict there's one one street, this is conflict. Then there's
another of and then the third street is interest, and
so they're all connected. Conflict of interest just a little
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too cozy, just a little too cozy. And the argument is,
how can you hold the guy accountable when his father
is literally standing right there, right right.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Right over over there, that's right there.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
And this is not the first time Rick Brunson has
been accused of having.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Too much influence. So when you take a.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Couple of steps back, it's like a mad Men situation, right,
there's an inner circle within an inner circle. It's all
kind of like it like weird thing, this weird castle role.
And you got some players who feel like they're being
iced out a little bit, and you know it's you
got issues, all right, but that's their problem. You want
to bet that whoever gets the head coaching job of
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the Knicks retains Rick Brunson as an assistant coach. You
can't get rid of him. He's like their mascot. You
cannot get rid of Rick Brunson. He's gonna have a
job all right now. Page two to the finals. Can
you feel the buzz in the air, Can you feel
the excitement for the NBA Finals twenty twenty five. No,
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that's actually a mosquito. You just got bitten by a mosquito.
That's what you felt. You got bitten by a mosquito.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Now it is on not like Donkey Kong.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
No, no, no, it's like a ripoff version of Donkey Kong
in sleepy Oklahoma City.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
The Thunder will rain down.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Thunder and Pacers the least attractive NBA Finals matchup in
the history of the NBA Finals. There has never been
a worst matchup in terms of star power, in terms
of national.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Appeal than this. This is it right here. Your congratulations.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
So the commissioner, Adam Silver, half man, half alien, half
lizard person. Adam Silver asked that he was asked in
an interview on FS one. He was asked about two
small market teams meeting in the finals and that this
is not a good product. You're selling an inferior product.
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And I'm paraphrasing some of this. So what did Adam
Silver say? He responded by saying, quote, this is a
quote from Adam Silver.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
If we were going into a Super Bowl and it.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Was Packers versus Steelers, you guys would celebrate that close.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Quote. Does that comp work for you? Does it work
for you?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
So my answer is CCS classic corporate spin mixed with
what about ism?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
What about this? What about that?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Okay, So, does he understand that he's not the NFL commissioner?
Does he realize that it's he's not in charge of
the Packers and the Steelers, He's in charge of the
Thunder and the Pacers. So you're comparing the Thunder and
the Pacers, two NBA teams that are basically invisible unless
you happen to be inside their zip code.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
If you're outside the zip code, forget about it, to.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
The pets Burg Steelers, the Insers, and the Green Bay Packers,
teams that have national followings because band wagner fans jump
on band wagons and those teams have won and so
they have.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Fans all over the country.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
The Green Bay Packers are a team where and when
they need more money, they just put more stock up
and then people pay money and they get a stock
option in the Green Bay Packers and that's it. But
these are two of the most iconic brands that have
a national following historically rich franchises in NFL history.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
And that is your analogy.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
That's how you're going to defend the thunder and the
pacers is you're going to compare these two. So what
you should have done will be like, okay, so if
we had a Super Bowl with the Carolina Panthers and
they were taking on Jacksonville, would you guys celebrate that?
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Now? Of course not?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Of course wouldn't celebrate that. I mean, his his work.
How stupid are you?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Seriously?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
The Commission of the NBA a billion dollar business. I
have been by your headquarters there in Manhattan. You're a
big skyscraper and all that. That's what you came up with.
That's what you came up with. Okay, interesting, that's odd,
all right? So I would think that you're trying to
insult what little intelligence your customers have by acting like
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the finals or you know, some kind of cultural moment
that people want to watch. And you know, no matter
what and all that stuff, the numbers will ultimately tell
the story. You are going to get absolutely waxed in
the television ratice.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
And this is a TV show, Make no mistake.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
As much as we talk about this, that and the
other thing, when you get down to it, it's a
TV show. The reason that the industrial complex of American Sport.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
North American Sport is as big as it is is
because of television.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
And you're putting on a show that if you put
the pilot.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
On, no one would watch the other episodes.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Like, you're gonna have up to seven episodes of this
mini series, minimum four episodes, and most will not.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Want to watch more than one. And that's that's what
you've got.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
And I will laugh when the NBA Finals gets beat
in the ratings by the Thousand Pounds Sisters Show or
the rerun of Doctor Pimple Popper.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
This is z you know that show, which is a
fine show.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
It's just just great, you know, pushing parody over pedigree
and all that stuff. Yeah, it's all about the parody.
Everyone loves parody until you actually get parody, and then
you don't like to taste of parody. But you're not
supposed to say that because you say, oh, we don't like,
we like it, but you don't really like and all
that stuff. And now it'll be great. We've got listeners
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in Oklahoma City. We're on in Indianapolis, and so for them, congratulations.
Then you're a bartender in Oklahoma City, man, that's great.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
You'll get extra tips. People will be buying a lot
of booze.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
It'll be great if you're a farmer in Indianapolis, outstanding
for the rest of us, you know, the struggle is real.
Well again, I have a talk show to do, so
it's not like this is going to vanish into thinner.
I just proved I can do a monologue about anything,
as I did a hockey monologue and actually watched the
Florida Panthers and the Edmonton Oilers which went to overtime.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
No last ward.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Here we go to the broadcast world, or as we
like to call it, the yaka.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
The Act, the Yakady Act.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
That is where a headline which I did not initially see.
The great thing about the power of the bully pulpit
is so many of you reach out to me. Many
of you be email, but some of you on social
media and you want me to see certain stories. And
you're like, well, I help you. This idiot will talk
about this story. I think it's a good story, and
this one absolutely I had several of you send me
this story, and I totally agree.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
It's a great story. It's something we've talked about in
previous episodes of the show. What is this story. I'll
get to the story.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
So NBA broadcaster Doris Burke, the much maligned on these airwaves.
Doris Burke, Okay, she is supposedly on the hot seat
as in dun skis at ESPN as the lead NBA commentator.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Do you fancy a thought on this one? All right?
You fancy a thought on this one?
Speaker 1 (29:38):
So I have what, for many Wolkesters will be an
unpopular opinion. We are going to say the quiet part
out loud. We are going to do it. We're not mainstream,
We're not We're on overnight. We can do this.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
We can do it.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Those daytime people have to be politically correct and all
that stuff. We don't have to do it, all right,
we don't have to. So nobody wants to say this.
Nobody at ESPN wants to say this. There are sports
media people don't want to say it. They don't have
the balls to say it. If Doris Burke is your
number one NBA commentator, you've done something terribly wrong.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
You have there. I said it. I don't like it, tough.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Listen, I get that the Wolkester's over at ESPN. They
fell in love with the headline.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
You look at us. We're progressive.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
You know, female analysts call in the finals. Okay, now
what now? You actually have to do the work. And
she stinks right, And I have not listened to her
recent work, but I heard enough of it, you know,
running the x's and o's, trying to do the old
workshop that. Hey, I know my basketball and I'm going
to workshop this, that and the other. Not entertaining, not entertaining.
(30:46):
Knowing the game does not make a great broadcast. Being
a great broadcaster knowing the game two different things.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I want entertainment, I want energy. I want juice. Give
me the juice. Need the juice, I need it.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Give me something. And I've said for years when she
is working, it's tap tap on the mute, mute, tap
tap mute, mute, tap tap mute, mute. That's what I
do to think that Doris is not on the we
goofed On, Mark Jackson too, and Jeff Van Gundy, but
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side by side.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
They are.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
It's like Marv Albert and Mike Furtello calling a game
when Van Gundy and Jackson are there compared to when
Doris Burk's there.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
You know, Mama, there goes that.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Man. I'll take that nine days a week, nine days
a week, and that booth ran circles around what they had.
They put that podcast guy JJ Reddick in there briefly.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I mean, they don't even know what they're doing. They're trying.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
They're not even trying, right, and so now who knows
who's next. Man, be careful. Doc Rivers will probably be
fired in Milwaukee. They'll put Doc back on there. That'll
be great, oh man, So be careful what you ask for.
I still amaze. I believe the conspiracy that the NBA
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forced ESPN to get rid of Jeff Van Gundy and
Mark Jackson because of criticism directed at the officials and
just the general lack of sense of humor when it
comes to the commentary Jeff Van Gundy had. You don't
leave the top network television gig to become an assistant
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coach with the Boston Celtics, which is what Jeff Van
Gundy did.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
You don't make that move.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Maybe you leave to become a head coach, but you
don't leave to become an assistant coach. And he got
whacked and Mark Jackson also Mark Jackson.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
For reasons that we can get into, whether you want to.
I mean listen.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
People say he's too religious, he's got some skeletons. The
whole thing is he bumbles along and whatever he did,
he's talking.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
No one will hire him to be a head coach.
No one will hire Mark Jackson to be a coach.
So why would he leave? They kicked him out.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
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Speaker 1 (33:13):
Here we go, Here we all, Here we go.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
It's one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
All right, what are we have here? Cool?
Speaker 4 (33:26):
The Pacers are the biggest NBA Finals underdog in seven years.
They're at plus five hundred. How many people think the
series will be a sweeper? A gentleman sweep for the
thunder Ben is an OKC injury. The only hope that
Indiana has.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
No Shay jogis Alexander could go out there and just
poop the bed, right, just suck at a time you
cannot suck, and they can miss a bunch of Indiana
is an exciting team. They're a good offensive team. There's
a lot of randomness on a given night. You lose
one game, then it's snowballs and there's a fluke in
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another game and then all of a sudden, you're like, well.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Wait a minute, that's not supposed to happen.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
I'm not buying that this is going to be a
domination situation.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
I don't believe the hype. An injury obviously changes everything.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
But Indiana they're the inter lopers here, but so's Oklahoma City.
They're also they're uninvited guest. Nobody wants to see them
in the finals, So no next.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Ravens offensive coordinator Todd Monkin told reporters on Tuesday that
they need to get Zay Flowers the ball war this
season and have they been under utilizing Flowers.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
They're not going to get in the ball. Lamar Jackson
loves his tight ends. They're a running team, and so
it's all June talk. They're not going to get Flowers
to the ball.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
More next now, the Rams offensive coordinator said that DeVante
Adams isn't showing his age at thirty two.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
Many people have been.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Expecting deathcoming season for Adams to be like last season
for Derrick Henry.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
But I think Adams is found the fountain of youth
in la.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I don't it's June. He's wearing a visor in shorts.
You don't show your age when you're wearing shorts and Advisor.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Hey, he's so stupid. I'll believe it when he does
it in the season. How do we know he pass there?
Speaker 4 (35:06):
It is.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
That's a win. There you go, devoid of style points.
But a win is a win, is a win, is
a win I want.
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It's now time.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
For time for horr Ask Ben Twitter.
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Speaker 3 (35:34):
And where we go to ask Ben.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour,
and you can send those questions in using the hashtag
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Speaker 3 (35:46):
I know it's an amazing concept. Let's get to the
reading of the questions. In cool the.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
King, Rory would like to know would you rather go
skinny dipping or streaking?
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Well, obviously skinny dipping because the water will cover you know,
a lot there, so that would be the move.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
I mean, let's go streaking. I that's good in.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
A Will Ferrell movie. That's that's solid. But go the
skinny dipping thing. Why not lorraina.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Oh, this is hard because you know, I'm not a
big fan.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Of the water.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
No, and it's waters cold, and don't you always talk
about how you love the summer and the beginning.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
I love the bikinis, but I don't get in the water.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
So you're like being near water, babe.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
Yes, on the sand.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Just like you just want people to look at you
on the beach.
Speaker 5 (36:37):
But probably might just streak, yeah, but I probably wouldn't
run swift.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Walk like a slow Okay, cool.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
I think I gotta go with the skinny dipping.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Yeah, because it's usually people that skinny dip. There's not
a lot of people around when they're doing it.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
You meant like warm water though, right.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Well, well if you're underwater, I use it, you know. Yeah,
maybe a towel when you get out, you know.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
And like I don't like, I don't like running, and
like things just move more when you're running.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
And that's.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Wasn't there somebody that ran on the on the dodge
at the Dodger game. There was not a streaker, but
do we still have streakers? There used to be streakers
that would run on the No.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
There was a woman where I was a kid very
famous named more Danda, the Kissing Bandit.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
And yeah he's like probably eighty. Now, all right, what's next?
What do we have here?
Speaker 5 (37:32):
Uh? Alf Alien, I've heard him.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Hi Alf wants to know traditional birthday cake or ice
cream cake.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
I've had both.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
As I have preached from the bully pulpit for many,
many years, the most important thing about the cake is
the foster. I'm fine with ice cream cake, although there's
the waiting process.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
I don't like waiting for it. You have to leave
it out. You it too soon, it's not right. But
if you if you wait too long, it sucks. There's
that sweet spot with ice.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Cream cake where it's just amazing, and if you don't
get it right, you've ruined the entire experience.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
So I guess on that respect, I'll.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Go with the cake, the regular cake with.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
The frosting in the middle.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
I'd like two layers of frosting in addition to the
outside frosting.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Lorrain, I'm an ice.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
Cream cake type of girl. Sometimes regular cake it gets
me a stomach ache. I'll get nauseous.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
It makes no sense because there's more content in the
ice cream cake.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
You have ice cream, you have cake, you have the frosting.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
And it doesn't make sense right, No, yeah, I think that's.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Maybe right ahead, Yeah, it might be or your stomach.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
All right, I gotta go with regular cake.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
I just thought I like a moist cake, and ice
cream cake is never moist.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
There are some people that are annoyed by the word moist.
They don't like that word. They think that's a troubling word.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
Yeah, I understand.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
I don't care. What is next here? It's asked, Ben,
your questions are answers.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
Fird dog says, can you whistle? Please demonstrate?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
So I pointed out, I can whistle, but I can
only whistle blowing air in, not out.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
And my thought that was only me yet Wow, yeah,
thank you. But the problems you're limited because you can
only take so much air in and then that's it.
Alf lorena. Yes, I demonstration. Okay. That was.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
The first one was to be blowing in, the second
one was to be blown out, so I can go in.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
The back out one that doesn't. Yeah, I can't even
get any sound when.
Speaker 5 (39:48):
It's also called issues when I played the flute.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
So I can understand it, all right, Uh.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
Cool, I can normal whistle.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Show off, but I can't do that like fancy like
finger whistle that like, oh yeah, it seemed to be
able to do when.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
You call a dog, Yeah, that's a boss move. Man.
My grandfather, he one of my gird He knew. He
was like the man's man when it came to whistling. Yeah,
he was the boss dud. He knew. He knew every way.
He was a multi whistle player because he could.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
He could whistle with his fingers, he could whistle blowing in,
he could whistle blowing out.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
He was the king of all whistling.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
I had like my friend growing up and one of
my best friends, his dad could do a super loud
whistle with like his the two fingers in his mouth
and that was like anywhere, like you could hear it
from like you know, a mile away, and then the
kids would come like come running.
Speaker 5 (40:42):
It was like.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Awesome. Yeah remember that song, the whistle song, which was
a double in time.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
While yeah, yeh might have met something else.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
All right, what's next year? And ask Ben your questions
are answers.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
There's another question from King Ry.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
He wants to know, did your parents ever hang a
report card or a test of yours on the refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
Well, obviously not one that was good.
Speaker 5 (41:08):
You know it.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
You gotta do better, Loreina.
Speaker 4 (41:14):
Yeah, I feel like my mom would do that, especially
like colors and stuff.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Yeah, all right, cool.
Speaker 5 (41:19):
My mom was the same. She would put up the
bad progress support. It's like, look, how terrible you are.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
Do better?
Speaker 4 (41:27):
The family Dame Donkey sausage real quick, favorite flavor of
potato chips.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Oh, I mean you can't Salt and pepper's Basicly, I
mean you can't go wrong with potatoes.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Loreina, Oh, that's so.
Speaker 5 (41:40):
Also, Halo Paolo Peno, sour cream and onion.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
Those are good. They're all good.
Speaker 4 (41:46):
Cattle.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
How do you You can't have a potato chip? Potato
chip is wonderful. So delivery vehicle
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So our lead this hour, the rare and appropriate, rare
and appropriate Mala monologue about hockey. Now we have the
Mallard meet and greet in Vancouver. It was great to
meet many of our fine Canadian lads that listen to
the show, and several of them are like, well, you
need to talk more hockey. And I said, well, when
I talk hockey, you complain that I talk hockey because
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you say, well, you know, not a hockey guy.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
And then if I don't talk about hockey, you.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Bitch about that, and you say, well you should really
talk you know, you should talk about hockey. So this
is a trial run. We'll see how it does. If
it does well, maybe we'll do more of it. But
our lead this hour, that's right, the rare and appropriate
Malard monologue will start out at the capital city of
the Canadian province of Alberta.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Oh God, Edmunds.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
There's been a generation since a team from that country.
One Lord's Stanley Cup and and there you go. The
curtain went up to dab the twenty twenty five Stanley
Cup final rematch style the reigning champions, the Florida Panthers,
who are in this thing every single year now scanning
against the chosen one. Connor McDavid and the Oilers there
(03:17):
for Lord Stanley's Cup. Game one full of fun unless
it was well that it was actually not a bad game.
I did watch it. A couple of Homeboys friends of
the show there, Kenny Albert and Eddie Oldchuck on the
turner call.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
And maybe he did not watch it. I don't know
what else you were doing.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
There's some crappy baseball games on Leon Drycidle, I've heard
of him. He was not very effective last year in
the Stanley cupon he was hurt, all right, well, Leon
drystyle lighting the lamp. He let the lamp put the
BESTKT in the basket power play game winner in the
final seconds of the first overtime, which turned out to
(03:56):
be the only overtime and the much maligned the week Link.
You are the week Link, Stuart Skinner was not the
week Link you at twenty nine saves and Edmonton down
by multiple goals, and generally speaking, when you're down by
multiple goals, you're not normally coming back to win that game.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Against the quality upon it.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
But that's why they play the games a multi goal deficit.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Edmonton came back, so they win.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
The game four to three in game one, and game
two will be on Friday night. We are not in
the watch tower. We are not in the watch tower
on Friday night. That there'll be somebody else in the chair,
so we don't need to worry about that. And then
that game in Edmonton, then they'll go back to the
Sunshine State for games three and four. And you know
(04:47):
the drill, if you've listened to the show at all,
The better story is where ding ding ding ding.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
The better story is in the losing locker room. And
so that is where we will again and that is
what we will discuss. So the question this in depth
Malard monologue about the puck, what stands out from the flopperoo,
the Matthew Chuck Panthers flopping in game number one, blowing
(05:17):
a two goal lead. So I've got Uncle Mo, red
bull and politicking, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to take a drive
in the zamboni. Yeah, joy ride in the zamboni. So
number I said, numb burn. So the Panthers, to quote
(05:41):
one of the great philosophers of our time and one
of the most important orders and really oracles as well
of society. The Panthers sucked at a time you cannot suck,
despite having a lead at the end of the first
period and at the end of the second period they
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had been thirty one in zho in playoff games under
their current head coach Paul Maurice, going back the last
couple of years.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
They couldn't lose in that situation. They lost that game.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
They blew the two goal there three to one, proving
yet again that Uncle Mo lives in Brooklyn, but not
in hockey games.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
There is no such thing as Uncle Mo.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
They had all the momentum, they had all the more
mad of you dumb idiot fans say, I had all
the more madam, Oh my god, Why would they give
that up? Why would the Florida Panthers up three to one,
give back the momentum. Shouldn't you hold on to the momentum?
And why did you give it up? Did Edmonton steal it?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
That's a crime. Arrest them. They stole it. So they
Florida did not grow the lead.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And even I a rather novice hockey observer who was
forced to cover hockey in my younger days many many
years back, but the defensive zone breakdowns, and I'll use
an analogy here that I think is more relatable to
the common non hockey fan. Think of the Florida Panthers
for much of this game like a walrus lying around
(07:17):
and farting on the beach. That's what they did most
of the game. They really only competed in the second period.
It was a domination situation.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
The other way. Outside of that.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Outside of that second period, when Matthew Kachuck's team out
shot outshot, the Florida Panthers outshot Edmonton by I think
it was nine, the rest of the game was thirty
eight to fifteen shots on goal in favor of the Oilers.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
So you were in.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
The dreaded zombie mode, disheveled and they looked lost.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
And I was texting one of the few friends I
have that.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Likes hockey, not Eddie, by the way, and there were
like two or three times in overtime early on, whereas well,
that should ended the game, and that should ended the game,
and it's general in most sports. I think you'd agree
with my point. I'm about to make a brilliant point.
I'd like to alerd all the affiliates. We're about to
make a rare, brilliant point that when you're watching a game,
(08:20):
it doesn't matter what This happens to be a hockey game,
but if you're watching a basketball game, football, whatever, in baseball,
when you're watching a game, you can tell which.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Team wants it a little more, the more.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Aggressive team and the team that's more locked in, And
nine out of ten times that team is going to
go home with a nice w. It doesn't happen all
the time, but nine out of ten times the team
that just has a little more in there. Now, how
you could be off your bio rhythms off in a
Stanley Cup final game, I don't get that.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I don't understand it happens.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
There's human beings involved that eventually there won't be if
you get enough time, they'll just be robots playing robots.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
And then you won't have to worry about that.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
But the Panthers defense in the third period, it's like
they had they decided, we're gonna go down to Dairy Queen,
we're gonna get some some cones and we'll just let
them melt, and there you go. And I just completely
forgot the rudimentary elements, like even I know you need
to clear the puck, Yeah, I gotta it. Can't clear
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the puck, you can't win the game. Now, Patrito are
in depth hockey coverage. So what does Florida now need
to do to get back? They down won nothing. They
it's not the end of the world here, the big deal.
Hockey teams come back from that all the time. And
the series really hasn't started because the game was in Edmonton.
The home team won, so as you know, the rule
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in all these series is the series doesn't start until
the home team loses and the road team wins and
all that stuff. So the first thing I would do
is I would go to go down to Walmart and
I would buy a ca of Red Bull and then
I'd buy some no does some caffeine supplements. Combine those
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things together here in a near lethal dose. Big advantage,
big advantage of you if you're going into this seriously.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
What's the advantage. The key advantage was that.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Carolina, Carolina, that Florida has a better goaltender than Edmonton.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
That's Sergei Vebrovski is better than Stuart.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Skinner and all that stuff, and that that's the advantage.
And the stars are on the side of Edmonton, all right.
We talked about this in a previous episode of the show.
Another rare and appropriate hockey reference with the chosen one,
Connor McDavid. And this is his opportunity to check that
box that you have to check and to be part
of it and lead the team to a win and
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all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
And but the.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Advantage for Florida is, hey, they got a better goalton
that the kryptonite of Edmonton is they got Stewart Skinner.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
That's your game, right, So so how do you take
advantage that?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Now?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
You know? What do I know?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I just I do the open I shore. We rarely
talk about hockey. I normally talk about the plague more
than hockey. But Stuart Skinner a lightning rod of a
player who had been playing well recently, and in this
game he faced thirty two shots and stopped twenty nine
of them. And that doesn't even tell So, I mean,
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if the fans were chanting his name whatever, they're all
wearing Oilers jerseys, find what you expect that. But I
would argue for most of the late stages of this game,
the third period and overtime, which I believe the math
on that like thirty forty minutes or something.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I think it's forty minutes almost forty minutes.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
The Panthers against the Oilers. The Oilers out shot the
Panthers twenty four to eight.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
So what's going on?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
You know?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I mean, Skinner, he doesn't have to make many saves.
If you take eight shots the third period in an
overtime combined, and then you're helping out, I mean, that's
what you want. That's exactly what you would want. I
would assume if you're the team from Edmonton, you're like,
all right, our goaltender blows, so as long as they
don't shoot the pucket him, he doesn't really suck.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Because that's they can't score.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
To my knowledge, and again, you know, rudimentary hockey knowledge,
it's very difficult to score. Very difficult to score if
you do not put the puck on the net. Very
difficult to do that. All right, Now, final point, we
move away from hockey to a developing storyline in pro
bouncy ball. The Saint John's coach, Rick Patino. He's back
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in the Sporting News. Now there is an opening in Gotham.
There is an opening in Gotham. Rick Patino was asked
about that job, and Patino said recently that he would
quote absolutely not take the Knickerbocker head coaching job.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Do you believe him? So I'm gonna now quote Rick Patino.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
He says he would absolutely not take the Acerbocker head
coaching job. And I'm going to use the quote absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
I don't believe him. Patino is in his early.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Seventy seventy two, right, so he's past retirement age, and
he knows.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
He's unlikely to get the call. So you say, oh,
I'm not interested. Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
You say that, however, you and I both know he
would take the job.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
In a heartbeat.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
He would absolutely take the job. Man, would he loved
that job. He's aroused just thinking about it. Now Patino
has to say no publicly because he knows it's a
long shot. They won't really talk to him, and you know,
if they do, it's going to be kind of a
courtesy thing and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
And you got to be loyal to your college job.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
And so privately, though so publicly, you say no, absolutely not.
I've got a great job. I'm not going anywhere else. Privately,
what is going on behind the scenes? What do you
think is going on? Like Patino's a showman, he knows
how to play the media. He's been doing it for
about my entire life, maybe longer than that. And I'm
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not saying that Patino's out there like openly begging for
the job with the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I don't buy that.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
However, would you be shocked because I wouldn't be shocked
if he's quietly politicking through intermediaries and back channels and
was like, hey, you know I had this job at
one point. We know Patino's got an ego the size
of the Empire State Building, and you think he doesn't
dream of walking back in as a pro coach to
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the Garden and being the guy that dots the eye
in championship and the Knickerbockers win, the crowd goes wild,
the parade through the canyon, the heroes, you fade to black.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
That's it. Boom documentary over.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
And he has said he loved coaching there. He called
the vibration electric when he coached the Knicks. And he
does know a thing or two because he's seen a
thing or two over the years and coached the Knicks
in the in the eighties, way back in the eighties,
before social media, when people actually went to games and
watched the and didn't hold their phone up like the
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Statue of.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Liberty to record everything on videos that no one watches.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
And in Kentucky and Louisville and the Celtics and the
scandal here late night restaurant rendezvous over there, come back, prostitutes,
the whole deal, A little bit of this, a little
bit of that, and.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
You mix it all together. Patino's got all of it.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mallor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Filling the tabloids with nonsense or is it real?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Welcome.
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sit back in the day from the Fox Sports radio studios.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
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Speaker 3 (16:54):
The Big Apple.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
The only big apple I've ever seen when I went
to New York is that a Mets game. They have
a big apple out in the outfield.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
That's it. I've never seen a big apple anywhere else.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
So follow up to the follow up, follow up to
the follow up coach Tom Thibodeau escorted out of the building,
out of the building in Gotham.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Have you heard the latest on this? Perhaps not?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Well, you can't just get rid of a coach and
then just have the story go away. The story's got legs.
So what is the latest? The scuttle butt as the
streets around midtown Manhattan are talking and we are told
a handful of Knickerbocker players were not happy. They were unhappy.
What were they unhappy about? Because everyone's got to be happy.
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You can't have anyone who's not happy. So the Knicks
players were unhappy with the presence of an assistant coach.
But not just any assistant coach. That's right, Rick Brunson.
The plot thickens according to something called Oops Wire. I
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don't know what that is, but they say that multiple
Knicks players have been unhappy with the presidence of assistant
coach Rick Brunson. If that name sounds familiar, that is
the forefather of Jalen Brunson. That's the Papa Bear. That's
the Papa Bear. Now the problem. The problem is that
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Rick has had too big a say in the goings.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
On with the Knickerbockers. Behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Okay, so that's the report, simple players upset Rick Brunson,
the daddy of Jalen Brunson, has become too influential with
the New York basketball team. So let us discuss the
question for the esteem panel, which you find.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Yourself part of? How am I part of a panel?
You are? You just go with it. You're part of
the esteem panel.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
So question multiple nick players unhappy, They're unhappy with Jalen
Brunson's daddy that he has such a strong presence on
the coaching staff. What does this signify to you? So
I've got madmen, zip code, and workshop, and we will
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combine all of these things together and we're going to
have some chills and thrills and try not to stumble
and bumble like the Knickerbockers did in those games. So
my first thought, A, there's one word that sums this up.
It is prevalent.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
It is a disease.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
It is in all of our professional sports, all of them,
the disease. It is a one word. It's starts with
an N. In fact, capital end, nepotism, nepotism, capital end.
This is El classico, the NBA family business. It's a
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coaching version of lebron and he's running.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
The Lakers a GM by proxy.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Ands Bronnie who has no business being in the NBA,
but his daddy is the star.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Of the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Soda Browny James draft in the second round and then
went out there and embarrassed himself. So they're catering to
one guy, right, the Knicks aren't Jalen Brunson. Well, he
gave them a hometown discount. We okay, good, congratulations. Now
we like the player. We like Jalen Brunson, solid ballplayer.
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This just does not feel right though. The whole thing
doesn't feel right, and it's like, well, you're doing you know, because.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
It's in the news. Well, I didn't feel right before.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
In fact, the talk was that the reason that Rick
Brunson was hired by the Knicks was because they were
trying to woo Jalen Brunson the whole thing. So it's
just not a professional setup in the real world, I
would say.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
And then every time I.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Bring this up, well, everyone every business you know, how
many how many lawyers I deal with? Their father was
a lawyer and they get hired at the law firm
or a doctor and all, okay, Well, I know in
radio it usually doesn't work that way. It just doesn't,
which it did, but that does not work that way.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
The second you start building your organization.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Around family ties.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
And family ties instead of just based on performance, it
doesn't immediately wound it. It doesn't. But there's cracks, there's
little like fissures, you know, you know, like the earthquakes.
They say, well, when the big earthquake happens, there's usually
some four shocks leading up to that. It's internal politics.
And this is not why New York lost to Indian.
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The fact that Jalen Brunson's daddy was on the bench
is not why they lost. However, it is a symptom
to a bigger condition, like bigger problem. It sounds like
the guys in the locker room are sick of the
dad being right there, and they feel like there's only
one set of rules for Jalen Brunson and then for
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the rest of the team, and you know, it's outside
of the inner circle. That's what it sounds like. The
picture that is being painted, which is a term that
I think we're leading down a road that leads to
a dead end street, and the dead end street is
conflict there's one one street, this is conflict. Then there's
another of and then the third street is interest, and
so they're all connected. Conflict of interest just a little
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too cozy, just a little too cozy. And the argument is,
how can you hold the guy accountable when his father
is literally standing right there, right right.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Right over over there, that's right there.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
And this is not the first time Rick Brunson has
been accused of having.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Too much influence. So when you take a.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Couple of steps back, it's like a mad Men situation, right,
there's an inner circle within an inner circle. It's all
kind of like it like weird thing, this weird castle role.
And you got some players who feel like they're being
iced out a little bit, and you know it's you
got issues, all right, but that's their problem. You want
to bet that whoever gets the head coaching job of
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the Knicks retains Rick Brunson as an assistant coach. You
can't get rid of him. He's like their mascot. You
cannot get rid of Rick Brunson. He's gonna have a
job all right now. Page two to the finals. Can
you feel the buzz in the air, Can you feel
the excitement for the NBA Finals twenty twenty five. No,
(23:17):
that's actually a mosquito. You just got bitten by a mosquito.
That's what you felt. You got bitten by a mosquito.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Now it is on not like Donkey Kong.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
No, no, no, it's like a ripoff version of Donkey Kong
in sleepy Oklahoma City.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
The Thunder will rain down.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Thunder and Pacers the least attractive NBA Finals matchup in
the history of the NBA Finals. There has never been
a worst matchup in terms of star power, in terms
of national.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Appeal than this. This is it right here. Your congratulations.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
So the commissioner, Adam Silver, half man, half alien, half
lizard person. Adam Silver asked that he was asked in
an interview on FS one. He was asked about two
small market teams meeting in the finals and that this
is not a good product. You're selling an inferior product.
(24:08):
And I'm paraphrasing some of this. So what did Adam
Silver say? He responded by saying, quote, this is a
quote from Adam Silver.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
If we were going into a Super Bowl and it.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Was Packers versus Steelers, you guys would celebrate that close.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Quote. Does that comp work for you? Does it work
for you?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
So my answer is CCS classic corporate spin mixed with
what about ism?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
What about this? What about that?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Okay, So, does he understand that he's not the NFL commissioner?
Does he realize that it's he's not in charge of
the Packers and the Steelers, He's in charge of the
Thunder and the Pacers. So you're comparing the Thunder and
the Pacers, two NBA teams that are basically invisible unless
you happen to be inside their zip code.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
If you're outside the zip code, forget about it, to.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
The pets Burg Steelers, the Insers, and the Green Bay Packers,
teams that have national followings because band wagner fans jump
on band wagons and those teams have won and so
they have.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Fans all over the country.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
The Green Bay Packers are a team where and when
they need more money, they just put more stock up
and then people pay money and they get a stock
option in the Green Bay Packers and that's it. But
these are two of the most iconic brands that have
a national following historically rich franchises in NFL history.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
And that is your analogy.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
That's how you're going to defend the thunder and the
pacers is you're going to compare these two. So what
you should have done will be like, okay, so if
we had a Super Bowl with the Carolina Panthers and
they were taking on Jacksonville, would you guys celebrate that?
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Now? Of course not?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Of course wouldn't celebrate that. I mean, his his work.
How stupid are you?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Seriously?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
The Commission of the NBA a billion dollar business. I
have been by your headquarters there in Manhattan. You're a
big skyscraper and all that. That's what you came up with.
That's what you came up with. Okay, interesting, that's odd,
all right? So I would think that you're trying to
insult what little intelligence your customers have by acting like
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the finals or you know, some kind of cultural moment
that people want to watch. And you know, no matter
what and all that stuff, the numbers will ultimately tell
the story. You are going to get absolutely waxed in
the television ratice.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
And this is a TV show, Make no mistake.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
As much as we talk about this, that and the
other thing, when you get down to it, it's a
TV show. The reason that the industrial complex of American Sport.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
North American Sport is as big as it is is
because of television.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
And you're putting on a show that if you put
the pilot.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
On, no one would watch the other episodes.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Like, you're gonna have up to seven episodes of this
mini series, minimum four episodes, and most will not.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Want to watch more than one. And that's that's what
you've got.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
And I will laugh when the NBA Finals gets beat
in the ratings by the Thousand Pounds Sisters Show or
the rerun of Doctor Pimple Popper.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
This is z you know that show, which is a
fine show.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
It's just just great, you know, pushing parody over pedigree
and all that stuff. Yeah, it's all about the parody.
Everyone loves parody until you actually get parody, and then
you don't like to taste of parody. But you're not
supposed to say that because you say, oh, we don't like,
we like it, but you don't really like and all
that stuff. And now it'll be great. We've got listeners
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in Oklahoma City. We're on in Indianapolis, and so for them, congratulations.
Then you're a bartender in Oklahoma City, man, that's great.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
You'll get extra tips. People will be buying a lot
of booze.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
It'll be great if you're a farmer in Indianapolis, outstanding
for the rest of us, you know, the struggle is real.
Well again, I have a talk show to do, so
it's not like this is going to vanish into thinner.
I just proved I can do a monologue about anything,
as I did a hockey monologue and actually watched the
Florida Panthers and the Edmonton Oilers which went to overtime.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
No last ward.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Here we go to the broadcast world, or as we
like to call it, the yaka.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
The Act, the Yakady Act.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
That is where a headline which I did not initially see.
The great thing about the power of the bully pulpit
is so many of you reach out to me. Many
of you be email, but some of you on social
media and you want me to see certain stories. And
you're like, well, I help you. This idiot will talk
about this story. I think it's a good story, and
this one absolutely I had several of you send me
this story, and I totally agree.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
It's a great story. It's something we've talked about in
previous episodes of the show. What is this story. I'll
get to the story.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
So NBA broadcaster Doris Burke, the much maligned on these airwaves.
Doris Burke, Okay, she is supposedly on the hot seat
as in dun skis at ESPN as the lead NBA commentator.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Do you fancy a thought on this one? All right?
You fancy a thought on this one?
Speaker 1 (29:38):
So I have what, for many Wolkesters will be an
unpopular opinion. We are going to say the quiet part
out loud. We are going to do it. We're not mainstream,
We're not We're on overnight. We can do this.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
We can do it.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Those daytime people have to be politically correct and all
that stuff. We don't have to do it, all right,
we don't have to. So nobody wants to say this.
Nobody at ESPN wants to say this. There are sports
media people don't want to say it. They don't have
the balls to say it. If Doris Burke is your
number one NBA commentator, you've done something terribly wrong.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
You have there. I said it. I don't like it, tough.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Listen, I get that the Wolkester's over at ESPN. They
fell in love with the headline.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
You look at us. We're progressive.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
You know, female analysts call in the finals. Okay, now
what now? You actually have to do the work. And
she stinks right, And I have not listened to her
recent work, but I heard enough of it, you know,
running the x's and o's, trying to do the old
workshop that. Hey, I know my basketball and I'm going
to workshop this, that and the other. Not entertaining, not entertaining.
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Knowing the game does not make a great broadcast. Being
a great broadcaster knowing the game two different things.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I want entertainment, I want energy. I want juice. Give
me the juice. Need the juice, I need it.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Give me something. And I've said for years when she
is working, it's tap tap on the mute, mute, tap
tap mute, mute, tap tap mute, mute. That's what I
do to think that Doris is not on the we
goofed On, Mark Jackson too, and Jeff Van Gundy, but
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side by side.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
They are.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
It's like Marv Albert and Mike Furtello calling a game
when Van Gundy and Jackson are there compared to when
Doris Burk's there.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
You know, Mama, there goes that.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Man. I'll take that nine days a week, nine days
a week, and that booth ran circles around what they had.
They put that podcast guy JJ Reddick in there briefly.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
I mean, they don't even know what they're doing. They're trying.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
They're not even trying, right, and so now who knows
who's next. Man, be careful. Doc Rivers will probably be
fired in Milwaukee. They'll put Doc back on there. That'll
be great, oh man, So be careful what you ask for.
I still amaze. I believe the conspiracy that the NBA
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forced ESPN to get rid of Jeff Van Gundy and
Mark Jackson because of criticism directed at the officials and
just the general lack of sense of humor when it
comes to the commentary Jeff Van Gundy had. You don't
leave the top network television gig to become an assistant
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coach with the Boston Celtics, which is what Jeff Van
Gundy did.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
You don't make that move.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Maybe you leave to become a head coach, but you
don't leave to become an assistant coach. And he got
whacked and Mark Jackson also Mark Jackson.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
For reasons that we can get into, whether you want to.
I mean listen.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
People say he's too religious, he's got some skeletons. The
whole thing is he bumbles along and whatever he did,
he's talking.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
No one will hire him to be a head coach.
No one will hire Mark Jackson to be a coach.
So why would he leave? They kicked him out.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Here we go, Here we all, Here we go.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
It's one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
All right, what are we have here? Cool?
Speaker 4 (33:26):
The Pacers are the biggest NBA Finals underdog in seven years.
They're at plus five hundred. How many people think the
series will be a sweeper? A gentleman sweep for the
thunder Ben is an OKC injury. The only hope that
Indiana has.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
No Shay jogis Alexander could go out there and just
poop the bed, right, just suck at a time you
cannot suck, and they can miss a bunch of Indiana
is an exciting team. They're a good offensive team. There's
a lot of randomness on a given night. You lose
one game, then it's snowballs and there's a fluke in
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another game and then all of a sudden, you're like, well.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Wait a minute, that's not supposed to happen.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
I'm not buying that this is going to be a
domination situation.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
I don't believe the hype. An injury obviously changes everything.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
But Indiana they're the inter lopers here, but so's Oklahoma City.
They're also they're uninvited guest. Nobody wants to see them
in the finals, So no next.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Ravens offensive coordinator Todd Monkin told reporters on Tuesday that
they need to get Zay Flowers the ball war this
season and have they been under utilizing Flowers.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
They're not going to get in the ball. Lamar Jackson
loves his tight ends. They're a running team, and so
it's all June talk. They're not going to get Flowers
to the ball.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
More next now, the Rams offensive coordinator said that DeVante
Adams isn't showing his age at thirty two.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
Many people have been.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Expecting deathcoming season for Adams to be like last season
for Derrick Henry.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
But I think Adams is found the fountain of youth
in la.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I don't it's June. He's wearing a visor in shorts.
You don't show your age when you're wearing shorts and Advisor.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Hey, he's so stupid. I'll believe it when he does
it in the season. How do we know he pass there?
Speaker 4 (35:06):
It is.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
That's a win. There you go, devoid of style points.
But a win is a win, is a win, is
a win I want.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
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Speaker 5 (35:25):
It's now time.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
For time for horr Ask Ben Twitter.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Send us your questions on Twitter now.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
And where we go to ask Ben.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour,
and you can send those questions in using the hashtag
of ask Ben.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
I know it's an amazing concept. Let's get to the
reading of the questions. In cool the.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
King, Rory would like to know would you rather go
skinny dipping or streaking?
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Well, obviously skinny dipping because the water will cover you know,
a lot there, so that would be the move.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
I mean, let's go streaking. I that's good in.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
A Will Ferrell movie. That's that's solid. But go the
skinny dipping thing. Why not lorraina.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Oh, this is hard because you know, I'm not a
big fan.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Of the water.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
No, and it's waters cold, and don't you always talk
about how you love the summer and the beginning.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
I love the bikinis, but I don't get in the water.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
So you're like being near water, babe.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
Yes, on the sand.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Just like you just want people to look at you
on the beach.
Speaker 5 (36:37):
But probably might just streak, yeah, but I probably wouldn't
run swift.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Walk like a slow Okay, cool.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
I think I gotta go with the skinny dipping.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Yeah, because it's usually people that skinny dip. There's not
a lot of people around when they're doing it.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
You meant like warm water though, right.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Well, well if you're underwater, I use it, you know. Yeah,
maybe a towel when you get out, you know.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
And like I don't like, I don't like running, and
like things just move more when you're running.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
And that's.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Wasn't there somebody that ran on the on the dodge
at the Dodger game. There was not a streaker, but
do we still have streakers? There used to be streakers
that would run on the No.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
There was a woman where I was a kid very
famous named more Danda, the Kissing Bandit.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
And yeah he's like probably eighty. Now, all right, what's next?
What do we have here?
Speaker 5 (37:32):
Uh? Alf Alien, I've heard him.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Hi Alf wants to know traditional birthday cake or ice
cream cake.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
I've had both.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
As I have preached from the bully pulpit for many,
many years, the most important thing about the cake is
the foster. I'm fine with ice cream cake, although there's
the waiting process.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
I don't like waiting for it. You have to leave
it out. You it too soon, it's not right. But
if you if you wait too long, it sucks. There's
that sweet spot with ice.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Cream cake where it's just amazing, and if you don't
get it right, you've ruined the entire experience.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
So I guess on that respect, I'll.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Go with the cake, the regular cake with.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
The frosting in the middle.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
I'd like two layers of frosting in addition to the
outside frosting.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Lorrain, I'm an ice.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
Cream cake type of girl. Sometimes regular cake it gets
me a stomach ache. I'll get nauseous.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
It makes no sense because there's more content in the
ice cream cake.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
You have ice cream, you have cake, you have the frosting.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
And it doesn't make sense right, No, yeah, I think that's.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Maybe right ahead, Yeah, it might be or your stomach.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
All right, I gotta go with regular cake.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
I just thought I like a moist cake, and ice
cream cake is never moist.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
There are some people that are annoyed by the word moist.
They don't like that word. They think that's a troubling word.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
Yeah, I understand.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
I don't care. What is next here? It's asked, Ben,
your questions are answers.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
Fird dog says, can you whistle? Please demonstrate?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
So I pointed out, I can whistle, but I can
only whistle blowing air in, not out.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
And my thought that was only me yet Wow, yeah,
thank you. But the problems you're limited because you can
only take so much air in and then that's it.
Alf lorena. Yes, I demonstration. Okay. That was.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
The first one was to be blowing in, the second
one was to be blown out, so I can go in.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
The back out one that doesn't. Yeah, I can't even
get any sound when.
Speaker 5 (39:48):
It's also called issues when I played the flute.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
So I can understand it, all right, Uh.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
Cool, I can normal whistle.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Show off, but I can't do that like fancy like
finger whistle that like, oh yeah, it seemed to be
able to do when.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
You call a dog, Yeah, that's a boss move. Man.
My grandfather, he one of my gird He knew. He
was like the man's man when it came to whistling. Yeah,
he was the boss dud. He knew. He knew every way.
He was a multi whistle player because he could.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
He could whistle with his fingers, he could whistle blowing in,
he could whistle blowing out.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
He was the king of all whistling.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
I had like my friend growing up and one of
my best friends, his dad could do a super loud
whistle with like his the two fingers in his mouth
and that was like anywhere, like you could hear it
from like you know, a mile away, and then the
kids would come like come running.
Speaker 5 (40:42):
It was like.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Awesome. Yeah remember that song, the whistle song, which was
a double in time.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
While yeah, yeh might have met something else.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
All right, what's next year? And ask Ben your questions
are answers.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
There's another question from King Ry.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
He wants to know, did your parents ever hang a
report card or a test of yours on the refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
Well, obviously not one that was good.
Speaker 5 (41:08):
You know it.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
You gotta do better, Loreina.
Speaker 4 (41:14):
Yeah, I feel like my mom would do that, especially
like colors and stuff.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Yeah, all right, cool.
Speaker 5 (41:19):
My mom was the same. She would put up the
bad progress support. It's like, look, how terrible you are.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
Do better?
Speaker 4 (41:27):
The family Dame Donkey sausage real quick, favorite flavor of
potato chips.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Oh, I mean you can't Salt and pepper's Basicly, I
mean you can't go wrong with potatoes.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Loreina, Oh, that's so.
Speaker 5 (41:40):
Also, Halo Paolo Peno, sour cream and onion.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
Those are good. They're all good.
Speaker 4 (41:46):
Cattle.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
How do you You can't have a potato chip? Potato
chip is wonderful. So delivery vehicle
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