May 5, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller opens the show talking about the Rockets Game 7 loss against the Warriors & wonders if Jalen Green is a dud in Houston, explains why he thinks Minnesota has a big advantage over the Warriors in the Western Conference Semifinals & MORE!
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Welcome, it's our number one, our one of the original
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Fox Sports Radio. He was kind enough to spend a
few good minutes with us on the podcast over the weekend,
So check that out Fifth Hour Podcast. Here in hour
number one, it's all about Game seven, the Warriors and
the Rockets. Who gets to wear the scarlet letter for
e may Udokah's Rockets as they come up limp at home?
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And do the Rockets have a Jalen Green problem going
forward as yet another stinker for Houston in the playoffs?
And true or fall? Steph Curry and the Warriors have
a cake walk over the Timberwolves in the Western Conference semifinals.
Will take a look at that and more. Right now,
give it up for our number one. Hey, thanks for
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week here with the game seven that was played, you know,
not that long ago, a couple hours ago it ended,
and not much of a game, not much of a game.
But our lead this hour is from h Town, that
was where the game was played. The Space City was
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the stage as a dramatic at least it was billed
as a dramatic act. The Western Conference final game of
the opening round of the playoffs, after the second round
had already begun with the Indiana Pacers up ending Cleveland,
and so then they finished up the opening round in
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a scheduling snaffo, and it had Steph Curry leading Golden
State's traveling circus into the baghdad of the Bayou right
there into Houston to wrangle. At least it was supposed
to be a wrangling situation with Alfred Shengoon and Houston.
And how did that go? Well, if you're rockets apologists,
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do not ask, holy crap, what happened there? Buddy? You
got beat by Buddy healed, Buddy effing healed, shoved it
down your throat. Nine three point shots, had thirty three
points and picked up the slack for Steph curry championship pedigree.
He sucked. He was so bad in the first half.
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Holy crap, man did he He was so horrible. Oh
he couldn't play that better, Steph Curry. And I see
that in the postgame they interviewed Curry, of course, because
he's the big name and all that, and not not
Buddy Heel. He scored a bunch of but the game
was over by the time he started scoring points. The
game was over anyway. Three points, that's it in the
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first half of a elimination game. And it didn't matter
because Buddy Heel from here, there and everywhere and oneh
three to eighty nine. The final game was not that close.
The Warriors say, turn out the last the party's over.
Sei later, Houston, get out of here. The better story, though,
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is in the Rockets locker room, and so that is
where we will begin to. Let us discuss the question
who gets to wear the scarlet letter for eme Udoka's
Rockets as they go down in a ball of fire
in game seven. So I've got roto Ruter, politician and
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dress shirt, and we will combine all of these things
together and we're going to make a milk dud. Now
the case of the Rockets just a dud. That's it. Now,
we do love this part. If you listen to the show,
we know you know that we love naming and shaming.
We do. The entire lineup for the Rockets was contaminated
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with stank in this game. Houston was suffering from an
extreme cases my diagnosis here, an extreme case of tight
sphinter syndrome here, which man home cooking. Oh play for
that extra game. Well, it doesn't matter if you're at
home or not. If you play like that, it's a
real and emy Udoka, what he should have done right
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around halftime is contact Roto Ruter because the Rockets what
they had here was a plumbing issue. There was a
plumbing issue for the Rockets in this game here, and
I've been told that pipes will often burst from pressure.
Solwo basketball players who just can't handle it. Several players
sucked at a time you cannot suck. In this game,
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the Rockets horrific offense. They shot forty percent forty point
five percent from the floor. And it's not like Golden
State it's a great defensive team. They're not and made
only six three point shots. How many wide open three
point shots did Houston miss in this game? They had
eleven turnovers as well. Jalen Green useless with a capitol U.
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Useless with a capitol U for Jalen Green. And my
guy Alfred Shengoon, who's been the answer to many who
am I game questions and it's the trivia things like that.
He did have twenty one points. He took twenty three shots.
If you take more shots or as many shots as
you have points, you have not had an efficient performance
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for your team. So scoring twenty one points looks good
for the uneducated fans, but you take twenty three shots,
you're not doing very well. Dylan Brooks morphed back into
Dylan Brooks. He had nine shots to get eight points.
I can go on and on here, but we only
have a four hour radio show. So all those guys,
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all those guys can get fitted for a letterman's jacket
with the scarlet letter L for loser on them to
lose this game and they're not even really have a
shot in the fourth quarter and mostly the entire second
they have a lead in the second half, Golden State
led from wire to wire after halftime. They never trail.
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Now bigger picture here, do the Rockets have a Jalen
Green problem going forward? And there's only one except answer here,
and that is y ees that yes, yes, yes, yes,
yes yes. And if I'm the Rockets, I trade his
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ass first opportunity. Get him out of Houston. The Rocket
franchise for years had good teams and they were dependent
on who James Harden. We'll get to him later, and
James Harden. This guy coughs up fur balls in every
big game. But Houston could have gotten out of that earlier. Now,
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he could have gotten out of earlier. But they say,
oh no, it's gonna get better, it's gonna get better,
it's gonna get better, It's gonna get but it never
got better. Jalen Green, right now, get rid of him.
The guy did not rise to the occasion at all,
suffering from halatosis. Jalen Green a force multiplier in the regulation.
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Guy averaged twenty one points a game in the regular season,
supposedly on the custom of stardom and all this stuff.
There is literally nothing deeming to take out of what
he did in the playoffs. And you cannot build on
players that shrink in big games. You can't do it
can't do it, can't do it, can't do it. And
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so you go from this super nova during the regular
season and all that and Green, you know, he's like
a politician, and you look at Space City and he
actually is the mayor. Though he's not the mayor of
Space City. He's the mayor of barf City, is what
he is. My god, one clunker after another, and how
bad was he. He's scoring average from the regular season
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Jalen Green to the postseason went down almost forty percent.
He was thirty six percent worse in the playoffs than
the regular season. And passive, not passing, passive that is
a dead getaway. That is a dead get You got
trade him. Scoring average went down thirty six percent. He
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averaged thirteen point four points per game, and he scored
under under ten in several of these playoff games. And
you cannot rely on him and the Rockets the way
they're built right now, they're relying on him as a
primary scorer. He didn't have it. He does not have it,
and he was inefficient cross the wards. You might imagine
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field goal percentage, three point percentage, all those things were
worse as you would would suspect from the regular season
to the playoffs and the decision making under personally, Well,
you're not scoring, but you're doing other things to help
the team win, right, you're facilitating the offense, you're moving
the ball around, you're a decoy. He was shaky in
every area, right, And the biggest sin of them all,
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the biggest sin of them all, is defensive liability. And
we had mentioned you're that Buddy Ball, like, oh man,
Buddy Heel lit up the Rockets. Well, really, Buddy Ball
lit up Jalen Green. Okay, the rent of defense. He
was sulky. He's like, oh, he's not scoring and he's
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not playing defense at all. Nine three points Now beyond scoring,
he didn't do anything right. And you look around and
there's there's several other Houston players that did not play
well in Game seven. The fact that the Rockets got
to a game seven and Jalen Green really only did
well maybe one game. He had one big offensive game,
but outside of that, that's it. Nothing, nothing in the
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other games. And defensive liability and he is just lacking
excuse my French that Genna siquah. He just doesn't have
it and you're not gonna get it. How often do
you get it. If you don't have it, If you
don't have it, you're not gonna get it. He doesn't
have it, He's not gonna get it, and so just
trade him right now. I'm telling you I don't even care.
I have no allegiance to the Rockets at all. I
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just know in my life guys that don't have that,
they don't all of a sudden getty. And he doesn't
have it. He does not either rise to the occasion
of you don't. And Jalen Green turtles up. Yeah, he
turtles up, and it's a disaster. And so the Rockets
are gonna be total frauds if they continue with Jalen Green. Okay,
now last word here. So now we look ahead. We
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are into the second round of the playoffs. The Western
Conference side of the bracket will kick off on Monday night,
but the game the series is morning. Nobody cares about
Denver in Oklahoma City. The series that is more interesting
is Minnesota and Golden State. So question for the esteem panel.
True or false? Okay, true or false. Steph Curry and
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the Warriors are going to have a cake walk with
the timber Wolves in the Western Conference semi finals. So
true or false. That is a false. I am going
false on that question. Now Minnesota has home court, I
don't really think that matters at all. These guys travel
by private planes, buses, police escorts, five star hotels. I'd
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rather be on the road. Okay, So I don't really
care about home court advantage and all that. So that
doesn't do anything the secret edge though. Right now Minnesota,
they actually have to play a real team, unlike Hookah
Luca's fat ass and Lebron James aging. Oh, I've hurt
again all that nons Like Golden State. They've got older
players too, but they'll actually give a more competitive effort
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on frauds, the fakers, the LA fakers there. So that's
that's an upgrade in Minnesota as far as the opponent
is concerned. You're not playing a bunch of softies like
the Lakers. Now, the other issue here Minnesota, you would think,
looking at this the defensive part of the Minnesota ten
rules in this matchup, which is really the way you
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beat Golden State's perimeter defense, you play perimeter defense, and
so Minnesota played well. Minnesota can be like the tag
on the back of a dress shirt, you know, that
kind of pokes and prod you a little bit. You
know that annoying tag and you often have to cut
it off and all that. That can be what the
Wolves are in this series defensively, and they have the
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the weaponry they weaponized in that area to get it done.
And so you look around you're like, well, Jaden McDaniels
and Anthony Edwards and a couple of these other guys
on that side are the equipped. They have the attributes
to slow down Steph Curry and Buddy Healed, and they
can can cause some problems with that offense. The Warriors
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not to get too ex's and o's and sporty. I
don't want to get sporty.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Just looking at the matchup, the advantage the Warriors have,
and this is the main problem. From a talent standpoint,
I would I think Minnesota should win. The problem is
that the Timberwolves have a lot of players that go
kurkfluey in big spots and I just can't depend on
teams with those type of players. You cannot do it.
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Something always goes Haywire, Rudy Gobert, who looked like Shaquille
O'Neal against those fatties from the Lakers, right, he just
dominated those pathetic Lakers in that final game. It was embarrassing.
But Rudy Gobert, there's a past with Draymond Green, who
might just choke him, and he might choke him to
death at mid court. He's attempted to choke Rudy Gobert
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in the past Raymond Green, so who knows, get him
in a choke hold and all that. And then you
look at some of the guards for Minnesota that play
a fair amount, and Mike Conley looks to be Old
Dante the Vincenzo, the Big Ragou has sporadic malfunction. So
there's some issues there. There's some issues there for sure. Anyway,
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we'll take your calls on that if you would like
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Queen is? I don't know that's a game. I'm so excited.
That's a lot you know, you're not excited about that.
And the Malord Militia feud will be coming up, so
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Rock gets a PSA here, get rid of Jalen Green.
Get rid of Jalen Green. Trust me, you don't you
do not want to deal with Jalen Green. He just
doesn't have it. I would trade him right now. And
if he finds somewhere else, that's fine. He finds it
somewhere else, it doesn't matter, doesn't You just got to
get rid of them. You gotta get rid of him,
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to it, well, and back to it. And we we
do have a scheduling issue, Lorena, you need to address here.
So we we're not sure what's going but we are
going to Vancouver for the Mallardi No, no, no, it's no,
it's not a bad thing. I mean it's not a
great thing. It's not a bad but we were going
to Vancouver. And I didn't even know this was possible.
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Because everything's all set. Plane tickets have been purchased, hotel
rooms are being booked on. Everything's done. We're going to Vancouver,
British Columbia. We're gonna be in Canada, coming up here
at the end of the month. Oh Canada, eating poutine,
having a great time. Vancouver. They have the planes that
land the water about that stop. Yea, they do. No,
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it is well, we're not going to be in them,
but they have them. I mean you could if you
want anyway. So we were supposed to attend a professional
soccer game on Saturday, and something that I did not
even know is possible. The game has now been postponed
because the Vancouver team is going to be playing in Mexico,
I believe, so, I don't know how that works, but
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they're not playing the game the night we were supposed
to go to the game, which is problematic. Yes, so
I'm not sure whether we're going to do something else.
I have not heard. I have not heard either. Yeah,
like I know, there's some other opportunities, other things going
on in Vancouver that night. Maybe we can do something
else with fans of the show, but it's really up
to the host with the mostest right. What we are
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beholden to the person who's making all of this happen.
So we'll hopefully have some other event that we will
do on Saturday, but not a soccer game, so we
will there's no game to be at. I was so excited.
I was actually looking forward to too. I've never been
to a professional soccer game. That would have been fun.
But we will be in Vancouver and had custom jerseys
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being made really well, that would have been that would
have been very nice. But we will be there nonetheless,
and so we're looking forward to meeting you. And I
know the podcast has done very well in Vancouver people
who are listening there a lot, so we hope to
meet you. And a few of you have sent messages
you're planning on traveling there, so hey, we're gonna be
there and we'll figure something out. We got several weeks
to figure out what we're gonna do on that Saturday,
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and uh, there's a lot to see. But and again
the big meet and greet that we're doing is going
to be on that Thursday. That Thursday, we're going to
be hanging out at the Court Side on Maine right
there on Main Street in Vancouver, and we'll be there
from probably about six thirty or seven till till ten
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o'clock that night. So we'll be there having a great
time party. Yeah, so hope to see you there. But
no soccer game. So the white Caps game somehow got postponed,
which again I didn't even know it was possible a
couple weeks before the game, but there you go, it
has happened. Shaneon de moin Rights and says, man, the
only time I care about the NBA on this show
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is what happens around the LA NBA teams. You say, okay,
a plus on the monologue, Jason in Denver or in Kansas.
He used to be in debt. He's in Kansas City now,
right since, says ten out of ten. On the mald monologue, Man,
I knew the rock Cats were toast when Barkley said
they can't shoot the ball. However, I've got the Wolves
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in six for the series with the Warriors, says Jason.
All right, well, good luck on that again. I'd like
to see the Wolves win. I just don't trust Rudy
go Bear and he's not playing the Lakers's playing a
real team. Anthony in Anaheim rights and says, I am
your favorite state, in your favorite state, listening live. We
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like the lie been the podcast, but you can interact
with the live show. You cannot do that with the podcast.
Gunner Gunner from the from the Walmart in northern Minnesota.
Way past the luth now. I think of the luth
as northern Minnesota. But he's way past the Luth. He says,
I'm calling it now. Wolves will have no problem. He
says he's calling a gentleman sweet. Well, he's feeling his
oats he's absolutely feeling his oats. Rick all rights and says, Ben,
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the Lakers are total frauds. They have it won crap
since Kobe Bryant died. You're absolutely right, Ben, the Lakers
are an s bag team. Rick O says, I wouldn't
I wouldn't want to talk about them on your show,
and that's why I hide behind my phone. I understand, Rico.
Let's go to the phones. Let's say hello, is it Pasha?
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Is that the name? Am I getting that in? In
ocean sized Pasha? All right? Well, Pasha, Hello, Pasha, welcome Pasha,
Hey Ben, big Ben, thank you. I listen to you
every night. Man.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
They're awesome.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
You really my nights. Man.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
You're hilarious. I appreciate that. Thank you. What's going on?
What's on your mind?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
You know?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Like, uh, I'm a huge Laker fan and you make
fun of them all the time. And that's fine because
that's you're so hilarious, Like it's just it's okay.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
But I wish you would.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I wish you would.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Jump on the clippers for me a little bit, because the.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Clippers are gone once again, so you just give me
some equal opportunity to love and just.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Well you keep you keep listening that. Well, you know,
you idiots are demanded a Clipper monologue. So I'll give
you your red meats an hour three. Yeah, that's an hour
three monologue, the Clipper monologue, hour three. Yeah, all right,
you'll get it. You'll get it. By the way here, okay,
well do it next. Oh you're doing the teas? Oh yeah,
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look these guys got the tea's right there. You know,
what what hour is it of the show? By the way, Pasha,
what hour.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Is it right now?
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Is hour zero? Hour zero and a half?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
No?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Are you serious?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
So I want to set you up for the jingle.
But he didn't get the He didn't get the jingle.
So it's unfortunate, all right, much like that, much like
the Lakers. You're bad at math, you know, you just
that's not not Bill Miller. But you see, Bill Miller
was cheating on over the weekend. He was an umpire.
He cursed, he said the F word on the stadium. Pa. Yeah,
Bill Miller, that loser was an umpire in Major League Baseball,
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and he there was a replay and he said the
F word to all these children in the stadium. How
about that?
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Bill, Bill Bill's got a potty mouth. What a dope?
All right, let's go who should we go to? Eeny meenie,
miney moe. Let's say hello to Let's go to Charlie,
who's deep in the heart of Texas and he's about
to burn up the radio with amazing hot takes. Hello, Charlie,
go to bed, Charlie. No, no, Charlie, Charlie's bring the fire.
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You got the fire, right, Charlie, Yes, right, you hear that.
That's the sound of a man possessed by the sports gods,
right there, Charlie. This is the part you talk, Charlie. Charlie.
Hit the button the other side. You hit the button.
He just hit the button. You know. You gotta go
on this side. That Charlie. Oh now we're back on
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I don't know what happened. Oh my god, what happened
to Charlie. Charlie stuck in the twilight zone. No, that's
the wrong side. You gotta go to the other side.
See the other side is the Charlie side. Charlie. Are
you there, Charlie?
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Hello, Oh there he is.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
There's Charlie. It's a lot of work for a crappy
phone call. Try come on, I won the bet.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Then my Nuggets killed your clippers.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
You're not a Nuggets fan. Now, you're not a Nuggets fan.
You're a bandwagging. Fraud is what you are. You're not
a Nuggets fan.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Okay, then you get there. There's no bet. You can't
say it's true. That exactly it's true. So you there's
no bet. You're not a Nuggets fan. You live in well,
you live in near Dallas, right, you're Mavericks fan, is
that correct? All right? No Mavericks fans a Nuggets fan. Yeah, but.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
My predictions work did pretty well.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
No, I don't think they did.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Yes, they did.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
No, I don't think they did.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Warriors series, Cavaliers one series, Celtic.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Let me check. Hold on the sake, put you on hold.
There we go, put them on hold, and then let
me check with Jed. Jed. Do you think Charlie's predictions
are good? Jed? Jed? Who fled? Hello? Jed? Why am
I not hearing there? There is?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Jed?
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Pick a side.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I am picking the side. That's the side Charlie was
just on the other side.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Oh no, that's his.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
This is the side I always use. I've always used
that side. That's the side, that's the past. Got okay, Charlie.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Back to you, Charlie, what did that guy see?
Speaker 2 (27:02):
All right? Jed? What did you What did you say? Jed?
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I don't exactly know, but I can say the more
words did YO with too?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Okay? Your thoughts, Charlie.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
I still don't understand what he said?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
All right, Jed? He still he does not understand what
you said? Jed? Who fled my asses?
Speaker 3 (27:23):
My essues get poored? Just start accumulating together, and now
I become a scientist.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Okay, I think something about a scientist, Charlie.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Well, I can't really say anything about a scientist on
the sports all.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Right, Jeded? He has no no, no rebuttal to you, Jed,
You've absolutely stumped him.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
I put the button in the bud. I don't know
what to do. Man? Is this real? Is this really happening?
I love it, man, Charlie, Charlie, give me him fifteen seconds, dude,
your sarcastic life ethos? How do you do what you
do when you do it? What do you do?
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Man? All right, Charlie, The question from Jed is how
do you do what you do when you do it?
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Uh? I look at how teams have done and based
on that all I predate who will win and how
many games.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
That's very deep. You had very deep commentary from Charlie.
Your thoughts, Jed, Wow, this gonna need to be put
of a bench.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
She's having set gpt. This is not good, Bence Vin,
I said to bar So low, dude, Satan's I'm looking
up at him. What is going on?
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Man?
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I love this, I love this. This is good. It's
not good. It's obviously good. It's like it's an you, dude.
I said, made the fourty with you. I was gonna
call it made this made the sift because this is
sif Ryan, but nobody was getting it. And it's a
I find your lack of laughter disturbing.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Charlie. Your reaction to that, to commentary by Jed, Charlie,
that was a lot, j he said. He said that
was a lot. Jed. Oh, he's still going. Jed's still going.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
No, that was not a lot, Charlie. You're again, I'm gang.
I'm I think it's a yin or you win yin
yang dude.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Any final thoughts.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Charlie, So he said.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Something, yeah, all right, I mean how long I mean,
you can you do this, probably for the entire show, Jed.
He Charlie seems confused. He's he's bewildered.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
We're playing verbal tennis, man. I'm gonna start every time
I finished, something like a chick which hits the ball,
and then you you did the same thing.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Go ahead, Charlie.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
He's speaking in gibberish.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
That sounds like a drop that what do you think
lords a drop that does?
Speaker 4 (29:46):
That?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Sounds like a drop. That's short, that's sweet speaking. And yes, he's.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Trying to make me the ras. I'll make a fIF
I'll do that. Think of the MinID of your asses.
Don't put me in the corner.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Charlie, best chance to Charlie, last chance, Charlie. Go ahead.
Charlie's knock him out right now with a take, Charlie,
go ahead, Charlie, well said Charlie. You just destride him.
You destroyed him with a pregnant pause. Charlie, you know,
my god, Jed, you're reeling right now. Jed, you're down
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for the count. Jed, Holy crap, whoa Charlie? All right?
I can't keep I mean I could, I can't. That
might have been gibberish. Well, that was definitely that was
definitely gibberish. Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, twenty
(30:47):
minutes until Cinco Tomyo. Well, it's actually in most places
sinko tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Well, happy Cinco de Mayo.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
We're just not We're like behind everyone else. Why do
you think you're the Mexican over here? That why I'm
here was that? But I thought in sego to my
like in Mexico, it's just another day. It's not like,
you know, it's not a big deay Mexico for me. Well,
I'm just saying it's you know, it's just why I
don't like my last name. I should have Garcia. You
want Garcia, I want you want to take Eddie's name.
(31:16):
You want to take Eddie Eddie's name? Yea, he's not here.
How dare you? How dare you all right?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Edie?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Are you going to make me feel like that Eddie's name? Well,
I just want to point out that. So I was
away from social media on what I do is I
am the weekend. I don't usually go on there much
other than during the show, but I was on there
on Saturday and Friday just to promote the podcast. Get
you idiots to download the podcast, so I pop on,
(31:45):
I put something on there, and then that's that, and
then I live my life because I'm not beholden to
the morons in the matrix. I'm not so whatever. Fine,
So I can't tell you how proud I am that
the Clippers matters so much to you. It is just
(32:06):
heartwarming to me. You all tell me all the Clippers
are irrelevant, they don't matter, they're losers. But yet the
primal scream of joy when the Clippers went out there
and not just rode the vomit comment, they were on
the express train of vomit in that in that game
against devro Wi again, and in the pure joy that
the Laker historians have, which just tells you how much
(32:30):
the Clippers mean. And you wouldn't react that way if
the Clippers were irrelevant. They've got a better owner, they've
got a better arena, they've got more real fans, and
I understand, listen, I would be upset too. You know,
the Lakers are old money, right, They're they're not new,
they're not hip, they're not fresh. They're wokester Lebron and
(32:50):
his crap, and they need to be given players for
nothing like Huka Luka, who then go They still go
out and lose in the first nime. I mean, the
franchise is an absolute bet. Hor Is there any franchise
more embarrassing than the Lakers? Like that? People say the
Dallas Cowboys, But the Cowboys aren't being handed players great
players for nothing the way the Lakers are, and they
(33:11):
still lose. They haven't won any championship since Kobe. Kobe's
not coming back. It's unreal. And yet I smiled every
one of you morons to send me emails trying to
ruin my weekend, and I didn't get them until the
Sunday evening, but I loved it. I was like, man,
this is so great, and these people are so obtuse.
They're so stupid. They don't even realize when you're sending
(33:34):
me a message about how happy you are the Clippers lost.
That means that they matter to you. You wouldn't care
if you don't care. Do you care when the Memphis
Grizzlies lose a game? Do you care when the Atlanta
Hawks lose a game or the Orlando mad No, because
they don't matter to you. The Clippers matter, and they're
in your head. You losers all right. Anyway, it is
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the Ben Malors Show. As we roll on time Now
for the who am I So? With the King of
the Wokesers, Greg Popovich finally, thank god, leaving coaching who
hung around way too long anyway, Coach pop is gone,
Thank goodness. So Mike Tomlin, who was hired way back
in twenty oh seven, is the longest tenured coach in
(34:18):
North American pro sports. I am second behind Mike Tomlin
in terms of tenure among the major North American team sports.
Who am I? That is the question the answer. We'll
get to it and we will do it next.
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pay off the who am I game in a second.
But I've been told now before we do that we
have the most exciting highlight. I've been told by Brie
this is the most exciting highlight you will ever hear.
And if it's not the most exciting highlight you've ever heard,
then we're gonna end the show and we're all gonna
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go home and we're gonna go to bed, and then
then we'll get up and try again maybe tomorrow, or
this just might be it, but here we go. This
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Never before we played a Winnipeg Jets highlight, but here
(36:11):
it is.
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Yauk walks the line.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
To fuck it in front for the captain Adam Lowry Jets.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Wid Jet Sweet Jets, wad Holy, there you go. Adam
Lowry the game winner in double overtime thanks to the
Power ninety seven Jets radio network. One of my my
old friends years ago, I did. I used to do
(36:41):
a hit in Toronto every week on the radio, and
then the guy from Toronto went to Winnipeg and he
was doing like the afternoon show in Winnipeg. I went
on there every once in a while and they would
always get annoyed because I never wanted to talk hockey,
never want to talk to anyway. Third longest Game seven
in NHL history, Lowry deflecting the game winning shot in there,
and so that is it. Turn out the last party's
(37:04):
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Terry says, But Austin Powers Mojo says, Charlie and Jed
who fled? Made the best segment ever? Eh, but that
(37:46):
Joe the ghost Owner says, award winning call, Jed talking
to an eleven year old kid, Big ratings, loved it.
I'm dying over you. So take it that he's twelve. Okay, yeah,
he's twelve, and really he's got the brain the mind
of like, you know, maybe thirteen and maybe thirteen, possibly thirteen,
but yes, he's he was a big star, big star anyway.
(38:09):
Time now for the who am I? Game? Popovich is out?
He stepped down, thank god. As coach of the Spurs,
Mike Tomlin, who was hired in seven, is the longest
tenured coach now in North American sport. I am second
behind Tomlin in terms of tenure in North American team sports.
Who am I? Who asked the question, what's the answer? Trucker?
Joe's going with Vinnie Del Negro is his answer? Pop
(38:32):
Warner from Chip and the Ques, very funny, Purvis short,
there's a good name from Slim Tim the Proud cheesehead,
John got it right, bad job by him. Sean in
the Valley of the Sun, going with Lindy and Fante
as his answer. Who else do we have? Jed who
Fledge interpreter. That's from Ozzie Waz in Western Australia. The
(38:53):
Roach Coach from Larry d. Angelo Dundee from Stale Student.
That's a new one. John Hairball from Jordan who's in
the Great State of Ohio. I believe out. Bob Toledo
from James, Yeah, whatever happened to Bob? To Who else
do you have? Page Dan? We'll skip over that one.
(39:13):
Aaron Roland from Shane in Des Moines. Chris Wilcox from
Big Lou He's on number two. Rick Rude from far Out,
Dave read Arbach from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Mister Miagi
gets by the nature boy answering the call to the wild.
All right, did you have an answer? Lorraina, yes, Ben,
(39:34):
I believe it may be Mario Lopez. Mario Lopez, Okay,
is he still got radio thing? Yes? He does on
one four three, okay, syndicated Now correct answer is not him?
That would be Eric Spolstra coach spou the Miami heatback
in eight that's a long time ago. That's seventeen years ago.
That's a that's a good run, right,
We go.
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So check that out Fifth Hour Podcast. Here in hour
number one, it's all about Game seven, the Warriors and
the Rockets. Who gets to wear the scarlet letter for
e may Udokah's Rockets as they come up limp at home?
(00:46):
And do the Rockets have a Jalen Green problem going
forward as yet another stinker for Houston in the playoffs?
And true or fall? Steph Curry and the Warriors have
a cake walk over the Timberwolves in the Western Conference semifinals.
Will take a look at that and more. Right now,
give it up for our number one. Hey, thanks for
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week here with the game seven that was played, you know,
not that long ago, a couple hours ago it ended,
and not much of a game, not much of a game.
But our lead this hour is from h Town, that
was where the game was played. The Space City was
(03:07):
the stage as a dramatic at least it was billed
as a dramatic act. The Western Conference final game of
the opening round of the playoffs, after the second round
had already begun with the Indiana Pacers up ending Cleveland,
and so then they finished up the opening round in
(03:28):
a scheduling snaffo, and it had Steph Curry leading Golden
State's traveling circus into the baghdad of the Bayou right
there into Houston to wrangle. At least it was supposed
to be a wrangling situation with Alfred Shengoon and Houston.
And how did that go? Well, if you're rockets apologists,
(03:49):
do not ask, holy crap, what happened there? Buddy? You
got beat by Buddy healed, Buddy effing healed, shoved it
down your throat. Nine three point shots, had thirty three
points and picked up the slack for Steph curry championship pedigree.
He sucked. He was so bad in the first half.
(04:12):
Holy crap, man did he He was so horrible. Oh
he couldn't play that better, Steph Curry. And I see
that in the postgame they interviewed Curry, of course, because
he's the big name and all that, and not not
Buddy Heel. He scored a bunch of but the game
was over by the time he started scoring points. The
game was over anyway. Three points, that's it in the
(04:34):
first half of a elimination game. And it didn't matter
because Buddy Heel from here, there and everywhere and oneh
three to eighty nine. The final game was not that close.
The Warriors say, turn out the last the party's over.
Sei later, Houston, get out of here. The better story, though,
(04:55):
is in the Rockets locker room, and so that is
where we will begin to. Let us discuss the question
who gets to wear the scarlet letter for eme Udoka's
Rockets as they go down in a ball of fire
in game seven. So I've got roto Ruter, politician and
(05:16):
dress shirt, and we will combine all of these things
together and we're going to make a milk dud. Now
the case of the Rockets just a dud. That's it. Now,
we do love this part. If you listen to the show,
we know you know that we love naming and shaming.
We do. The entire lineup for the Rockets was contaminated
(05:39):
with stank in this game. Houston was suffering from an
extreme cases my diagnosis here, an extreme case of tight
sphinter syndrome here, which man home cooking. Oh play for
that extra game. Well, it doesn't matter if you're at
home or not. If you play like that, it's a
real and emy Udoka, what he should have done right
(06:03):
around halftime is contact Roto Ruter because the Rockets what
they had here was a plumbing issue. There was a
plumbing issue for the Rockets in this game here, and
I've been told that pipes will often burst from pressure.
Solwo basketball players who just can't handle it. Several players
sucked at a time you cannot suck. In this game,
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the Rockets horrific offense. They shot forty percent forty point
five percent from the floor. And it's not like Golden
State it's a great defensive team. They're not and made
only six three point shots. How many wide open three
point shots did Houston miss in this game? They had
eleven turnovers as well. Jalen Green useless with a capitol U.
(06:47):
Useless with a capitol U for Jalen Green. And my
guy Alfred Shengoon, who's been the answer to many who
am I game questions and it's the trivia things like that.
He did have twenty one points. He took twenty three shots.
If you take more shots or as many shots as
you have points, you have not had an efficient performance
(07:07):
for your team. So scoring twenty one points looks good
for the uneducated fans, but you take twenty three shots,
you're not doing very well. Dylan Brooks morphed back into
Dylan Brooks. He had nine shots to get eight points.
I can go on and on here, but we only
have a four hour radio show. So all those guys,
(07:28):
all those guys can get fitted for a letterman's jacket
with the scarlet letter L for loser on them to
lose this game and they're not even really have a
shot in the fourth quarter and mostly the entire second
they have a lead in the second half, Golden State
led from wire to wire after halftime. They never trail.
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Now bigger picture here, do the Rockets have a Jalen
Green problem going forward? And there's only one except answer here,
and that is y ees that yes, yes, yes, yes,
yes yes. And if I'm the Rockets, I trade his
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ass first opportunity. Get him out of Houston. The Rocket
franchise for years had good teams and they were dependent
on who James Harden. We'll get to him later, and
James Harden. This guy coughs up fur balls in every
big game. But Houston could have gotten out of that earlier. Now,
(08:30):
he could have gotten out of earlier. But they say,
oh no, it's gonna get better, it's gonna get better,
it's gonna get better, It's gonna get but it never
got better. Jalen Green, right now, get rid of him.
The guy did not rise to the occasion at all,
suffering from halatosis. Jalen Green a force multiplier in the regulation.
(08:51):
Guy averaged twenty one points a game in the regular season,
supposedly on the custom of stardom and all this stuff.
There is literally nothing deeming to take out of what
he did in the playoffs. And you cannot build on
players that shrink in big games. You can't do it
can't do it, can't do it, can't do it. And
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so you go from this super nova during the regular
season and all that and Green, you know, he's like
a politician, and you look at Space City and he
actually is the mayor. Though he's not the mayor of
Space City. He's the mayor of barf City, is what
he is. My god, one clunker after another, and how
bad was he. He's scoring average from the regular season
(09:33):
Jalen Green to the postseason went down almost forty percent.
He was thirty six percent worse in the playoffs than
the regular season. And passive, not passing, passive that is
a dead getaway. That is a dead get You got
trade him. Scoring average went down thirty six percent. He
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averaged thirteen point four points per game, and he scored
under under ten in several of these playoff games. And
you cannot rely on him and the Rockets the way
they're built right now, they're relying on him as a
primary scorer. He didn't have it. He does not have it,
and he was inefficient cross the wards. You might imagine
(10:18):
field goal percentage, three point percentage, all those things were
worse as you would would suspect from the regular season
to the playoffs and the decision making under personally, Well,
you're not scoring, but you're doing other things to help
the team win, right, you're facilitating the offense, you're moving
the ball around, you're a decoy. He was shaky in
every area, right, And the biggest sin of them all,
(10:42):
the biggest sin of them all, is defensive liability. And
we had mentioned you're that Buddy Ball, like, oh man,
Buddy Heel lit up the Rockets. Well, really, Buddy Ball
lit up Jalen Green. Okay, the rent of defense. He
was sulky. He's like, oh, he's not scoring and he's
(11:04):
not playing defense at all. Nine three points Now beyond scoring,
he didn't do anything right. And you look around and
there's there's several other Houston players that did not play
well in Game seven. The fact that the Rockets got
to a game seven and Jalen Green really only did
well maybe one game. He had one big offensive game,
but outside of that, that's it. Nothing, nothing in the
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other games. And defensive liability and he is just lacking
excuse my French that Genna siquah. He just doesn't have
it and you're not gonna get it. How often do
you get it. If you don't have it, If you
don't have it, you're not gonna get it. He doesn't
have it, He's not gonna get it, and so just
trade him right now. I'm telling you I don't even care.
I have no allegiance to the Rockets at all. I
(11:49):
just know in my life guys that don't have that,
they don't all of a sudden getty. And he doesn't
have it. He does not either rise to the occasion
of you don't. And Jalen Green turtles up. Yeah, he
turtles up, and it's a disaster. And so the Rockets
are gonna be total frauds if they continue with Jalen Green. Okay,
now last word here. So now we look ahead. We
(12:11):
are into the second round of the playoffs. The Western
Conference side of the bracket will kick off on Monday night,
but the game the series is morning. Nobody cares about
Denver in Oklahoma City. The series that is more interesting
is Minnesota and Golden State. So question for the esteem panel.
True or false? Okay, true or false. Steph Curry and
(12:31):
the Warriors are going to have a cake walk with
the timber Wolves in the Western Conference semi finals. So
true or false. That is a false. I am going
false on that question. Now Minnesota has home court, I
don't really think that matters at all. These guys travel
by private planes, buses, police escorts, five star hotels. I'd
(12:55):
rather be on the road. Okay, So I don't really
care about home court advantage and all that. So that
doesn't do anything the secret edge though. Right now Minnesota,
they actually have to play a real team, unlike Hookah
Luca's fat ass and Lebron James aging. Oh, I've hurt
again all that nons Like Golden State. They've got older
players too, but they'll actually give a more competitive effort
(13:17):
on frauds, the fakers, the LA fakers there. So that's
that's an upgrade in Minnesota as far as the opponent
is concerned. You're not playing a bunch of softies like
the Lakers. Now, the other issue here Minnesota, you would think,
looking at this the defensive part of the Minnesota ten
rules in this matchup, which is really the way you
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beat Golden State's perimeter defense, you play perimeter defense, and
so Minnesota played well. Minnesota can be like the tag
on the back of a dress shirt, you know, that
kind of pokes and prod you a little bit. You
know that annoying tag and you often have to cut
it off and all that. That can be what the
Wolves are in this series defensively, and they have the
(14:00):
the weaponry they weaponized in that area to get it done.
And so you look around you're like, well, Jaden McDaniels
and Anthony Edwards and a couple of these other guys
on that side are the equipped. They have the attributes
to slow down Steph Curry and Buddy Healed, and they
can can cause some problems with that offense. The Warriors
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not to get too ex's and o's and sporty. I
don't want to get sporty.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Just looking at the matchup, the advantage the Warriors have,
and this is the main problem. From a talent standpoint,
I would I think Minnesota should win. The problem is
that the Timberwolves have a lot of players that go
kurkfluey in big spots and I just can't depend on
teams with those type of players. You cannot do it.
(14:44):
Something always goes Haywire, Rudy Gobert, who looked like Shaquille
O'Neal against those fatties from the Lakers, right, he just
dominated those pathetic Lakers in that final game. It was embarrassing.
But Rudy Gobert, there's a past with Draymond Green, who
might just choke him, and he might choke him to
death at mid court. He's attempted to choke Rudy Gobert
(15:07):
in the past Raymond Green, so who knows, get him
in a choke hold and all that. And then you
look at some of the guards for Minnesota that play
a fair amount, and Mike Conley looks to be Old
Dante the Vincenzo, the Big Ragou has sporadic malfunction. So
there's some issues there. There's some issues there for sure. Anyway,
(15:29):
we'll take your calls on that if you would like
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If you're with us till the very end, the bitter
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the Day in our three the Insta Advice Line and
we'll also have are you Smarter than the FSR Tech
Queen is? I don't know that's a game. I'm so excited.
That's a lot you know, you're not excited about that.
And the Malord Militia feud will be coming up, so
a lot of bits and way down the line an
hour four And if you miss any of this because
(16:12):
you actually have to go to bed or you're not
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Rock gets a PSA here, get rid of Jalen Green.
Get rid of Jalen Green. Trust me, you don't you
do not want to deal with Jalen Green. He just
doesn't have it. I would trade him right now. And
if he finds somewhere else, that's fine. He finds it
somewhere else, it doesn't matter, doesn't You just got to
get rid of them. You gotta get rid of him,
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all right, anyway, we'll take your calls eight seven seven
ninety nine Fox the whole thing and more evidence, more
evidence that you do run the show. You do run
the show. Who are you? And what show do you run?
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
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Follow Ben at Ben Maller. That's at Ben Mahler. Lorraina
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Tech Queen and Coop a loop. So embarrassed by the
way the Lakers played last week, he said, I need
(18:01):
some time away, I need some therapy. So he stepped
out and in his place. Our friend Breed. Look at that,
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(18:23):
to it, well, and back to it. And we we
do have a scheduling issue, Lorena, you need to address here.
So we we're not sure what's going but we are
going to Vancouver for the Mallardi No, no, no, it's no,
it's not a bad thing. I mean it's not a
great thing. It's not a bad but we were going
to Vancouver. And I didn't even know this was possible.
(18:43):
Because everything's all set. Plane tickets have been purchased, hotel
rooms are being booked on. Everything's done. We're going to Vancouver,
British Columbia. We're gonna be in Canada, coming up here
at the end of the month. Oh Canada, eating poutine,
having a great time. Vancouver. They have the planes that
land the water about that stop. Yea, they do. No,
(19:04):
it is well, we're not going to be in them,
but they have them. I mean you could if you
want anyway. So we were supposed to attend a professional
soccer game on Saturday, and something that I did not
even know is possible. The game has now been postponed
because the Vancouver team is going to be playing in Mexico,
I believe, so, I don't know how that works, but
(19:27):
they're not playing the game the night we were supposed
to go to the game, which is problematic. Yes, so
I'm not sure whether we're going to do something else.
I have not heard. I have not heard either. Yeah,
like I know, there's some other opportunities, other things going
on in Vancouver that night. Maybe we can do something
else with fans of the show, but it's really up
to the host with the mostest right. What we are
(19:49):
beholden to the person who's making all of this happen.
So we'll hopefully have some other event that we will
do on Saturday, but not a soccer game, so we
will there's no game to be at. I was so excited.
I was actually looking forward to too. I've never been
to a professional soccer game. That would have been fun.
But we will be in Vancouver and had custom jerseys
(20:10):
being made really well, that would have been that would
have been very nice. But we will be there nonetheless,
and so we're looking forward to meeting you. And I
know the podcast has done very well in Vancouver people
who are listening there a lot, so we hope to
meet you. And a few of you have sent messages
you're planning on traveling there, so hey, we're gonna be
there and we'll figure something out. We got several weeks
to figure out what we're gonna do on that Saturday,
(20:32):
and uh, there's a lot to see. But and again
the big meet and greet that we're doing is going
to be on that Thursday. That Thursday, we're going to
be hanging out at the Court Side on Maine right
there on Main Street in Vancouver, and we'll be there
from probably about six thirty or seven till till ten
(20:54):
o'clock that night. So we'll be there having a great
time party. Yeah, so hope to see you there. But
no soccer game. So the white Caps game somehow got postponed,
which again I didn't even know it was possible a
couple weeks before the game, but there you go, it
has happened. Shaneon de moin Rights and says, man, the
only time I care about the NBA on this show
(21:15):
is what happens around the LA NBA teams. You say, okay,
a plus on the monologue, Jason in Denver or in Kansas.
He used to be in debt. He's in Kansas City now,
right since, says ten out of ten. On the mald monologue, Man,
I knew the rock Cats were toast when Barkley said
they can't shoot the ball. However, I've got the Wolves
(21:37):
in six for the series with the Warriors, says Jason.
All right, well, good luck on that again. I'd like
to see the Wolves win. I just don't trust Rudy
go Bear and he's not playing the Lakers's playing a
real team. Anthony in Anaheim rights and says, I am
your favorite state, in your favorite state, listening live. We
(21:59):
like the lie been the podcast, but you can interact
with the live show. You cannot do that with the podcast.
Gunner Gunner from the from the Walmart in northern Minnesota.
Way past the luth now. I think of the luth
as northern Minnesota. But he's way past the Luth. He says,
I'm calling it now. Wolves will have no problem. He
says he's calling a gentleman sweet. Well, he's feeling his
oats he's absolutely feeling his oats. Rick all rights and says, Ben,
(22:24):
the Lakers are total frauds. They have it won crap
since Kobe Bryant died. You're absolutely right, Ben, the Lakers
are an s bag team. Rick O says, I wouldn't
I wouldn't want to talk about them on your show,
and that's why I hide behind my phone. I understand, Rico.
Let's go to the phones. Let's say hello, is it Pasha?
(22:47):
Is that the name? Am I getting that in? In
ocean sized Pasha? All right? Well, Pasha, Hello, Pasha, welcome Pasha,
Hey Ben, big Ben, thank you. I listen to you
every night. Man.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
They're awesome.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
You really my nights. Man.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
You're hilarious. I appreciate that. Thank you. What's going on?
What's on your mind?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
You know?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Like, uh, I'm a huge Laker fan and you make
fun of them all the time. And that's fine because
that's you're so hilarious, Like it's just it's okay.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
But I wish you would.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
I wish you would.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Jump on the clippers for me a little bit, because the.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Clippers are gone once again, so you just give me
some equal opportunity to love and just.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Well you keep you keep listening that. Well, you know,
you idiots are demanded a Clipper monologue. So I'll give
you your red meats an hour three. Yeah, that's an hour
three monologue, the Clipper monologue, hour three. Yeah, all right,
you'll get it. You'll get it. By the way here, okay,
well do it next. Oh you're doing the teas? Oh yeah,
(23:48):
look these guys got the tea's right there. You know,
what what hour is it of the show? By the way, Pasha,
what hour.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Is it right now?
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Is hour zero? Hour zero and a half?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
No?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Are you serious?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
So I want to set you up for the jingle.
But he didn't get the He didn't get the jingle.
So it's unfortunate, all right, much like that, much like
the Lakers. You're bad at math, you know, you just
that's not not Bill Miller. But you see, Bill Miller
was cheating on over the weekend. He was an umpire.
He cursed, he said the F word on the stadium. Pa. Yeah,
Bill Miller, that loser was an umpire in Major League Baseball,
(24:24):
and he there was a replay and he said the
F word to all these children in the stadium. How
about that?
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Bill, Bill Bill's got a potty mouth. What a dope?
All right, let's go who should we go to? Eeny meenie,
miney moe. Let's say hello to Let's go to Charlie,
who's deep in the heart of Texas and he's about
to burn up the radio with amazing hot takes. Hello, Charlie,
go to bed, Charlie. No, no, Charlie, Charlie's bring the fire.
(24:52):
You got the fire, right, Charlie, Yes, right, you hear that.
That's the sound of a man possessed by the sports gods,
right there, Charlie. This is the part you talk, Charlie. Charlie.
Hit the button the other side. You hit the button.
He just hit the button. You know. You gotta go
on this side. That Charlie. Oh now we're back on
(25:15):
I don't know what happened. Oh my god, what happened
to Charlie. Charlie stuck in the twilight zone. No, that's
the wrong side. You gotta go to the other side.
See the other side is the Charlie side. Charlie. Are
you there, Charlie?
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Hello, Oh there he is.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
There's Charlie. It's a lot of work for a crappy
phone call. Try come on, I won the bet.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Then my Nuggets killed your clippers.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
You're not a Nuggets fan. Now, you're not a Nuggets fan.
You're a bandwagging. Fraud is what you are. You're not
a Nuggets fan.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Okay, then you get there. There's no bet. You can't
say it's true. That exactly it's true. So you there's
no bet. You're not a Nuggets fan. You live in well,
you live in near Dallas, right, you're Mavericks fan, is
that correct? All right? No Mavericks fans a Nuggets fan. Yeah, but.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
My predictions work did pretty well.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
No, I don't think they did.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Yes, they did.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
No, I don't think they did.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Warriors series, Cavaliers one series, Celtic.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Let me check. Hold on the sake, put you on hold.
There we go, put them on hold, and then let
me check with Jed. Jed. Do you think Charlie's predictions
are good? Jed? Jed? Who fled? Hello? Jed? Why am
I not hearing there? There is?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Jed?
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Pick a side.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I am picking the side. That's the side Charlie was
just on the other side.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Oh no, that's his.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
This is the side I always use. I've always used
that side. That's the side, that's the past. Got okay, Charlie.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Back to you, Charlie, what did that guy see?
Speaker 2 (27:02):
All right? Jed? What did you What did you say? Jed?
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I don't exactly know, but I can say the more
words did YO with too?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Okay? Your thoughts, Charlie.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
I still don't understand what he said?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
All right, Jed? He still he does not understand what
you said? Jed? Who fled my asses?
Speaker 3 (27:23):
My essues get poored? Just start accumulating together, and now
I become a scientist.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Okay, I think something about a scientist, Charlie.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Well, I can't really say anything about a scientist on
the sports all.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Right, Jeded? He has no no, no rebuttal to you, Jed,
You've absolutely stumped him.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
I put the button in the bud. I don't know
what to do. Man? Is this real? Is this really happening?
I love it, man, Charlie, Charlie, give me him fifteen seconds, dude,
your sarcastic life ethos? How do you do what you
do when you do it? What do you do?
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Man? All right, Charlie, The question from Jed is how
do you do what you do when you do it?
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Uh? I look at how teams have done and based
on that all I predate who will win and how
many games.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
That's very deep. You had very deep commentary from Charlie.
Your thoughts, Jed, Wow, this gonna need to be put
of a bench.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
She's having set gpt. This is not good, Bence Vin,
I said to bar So low, dude, Satan's I'm looking
up at him. What is going on?
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Man?
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I love this, I love this. This is good. It's
not good. It's obviously good. It's like it's an you, dude.
I said, made the fourty with you. I was gonna
call it made this made the sift because this is
sif Ryan, but nobody was getting it. And it's a
I find your lack of laughter disturbing.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Charlie. Your reaction to that, to commentary by Jed, Charlie,
that was a lot, j he said. He said that
was a lot. Jed. Oh, he's still going. Jed's still going.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
No, that was not a lot, Charlie. You're again, I'm gang.
I'm I think it's a yin or you win yin
yang dude.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Any final thoughts.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Charlie, So he said.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Something, yeah, all right, I mean how long I mean,
you can you do this, probably for the entire show, Jed.
He Charlie seems confused. He's he's bewildered.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
We're playing verbal tennis, man. I'm gonna start every time
I finished, something like a chick which hits the ball,
and then you you did the same thing.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Go ahead, Charlie.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
He's speaking in gibberish.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
That sounds like a drop that what do you think
lords a drop that does?
Speaker 4 (29:46):
That?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Sounds like a drop. That's short, that's sweet speaking. And yes, he's.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Trying to make me the ras. I'll make a fIF
I'll do that. Think of the MinID of your asses.
Don't put me in the corner.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Charlie, best chance to Charlie, last chance, Charlie. Go ahead.
Charlie's knock him out right now with a take, Charlie,
go ahead, Charlie, well said Charlie. You just destride him.
You destroyed him with a pregnant pause. Charlie, you know,
my god, Jed, you're reeling right now. Jed, you're down
(30:21):
for the count. Jed, Holy crap, whoa Charlie? All right?
I can't keep I mean I could, I can't. That
might have been gibberish. Well, that was definitely that was
definitely gibberish. Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, twenty
(30:47):
minutes until Cinco Tomyo. Well, it's actually in most places
sinko tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Well, happy Cinco de Mayo.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
We're just not We're like behind everyone else. Why do
you think you're the Mexican over here? That why I'm
here was that? But I thought in sego to my
like in Mexico, it's just another day. It's not like,
you know, it's not a big deay Mexico for me. Well,
I'm just saying it's you know, it's just why I
don't like my last name. I should have Garcia. You
want Garcia, I want you want to take Eddie's name.
(31:16):
You want to take Eddie Eddie's name? Yea, he's not here.
How dare you? How dare you all right?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Edie?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Are you going to make me feel like that Eddie's name? Well,
I just want to point out that. So I was
away from social media on what I do is I
am the weekend. I don't usually go on there much
other than during the show, but I was on there
on Saturday and Friday just to promote the podcast. Get
you idiots to download the podcast, so I pop on,
(31:45):
I put something on there, and then that's that, and
then I live my life because I'm not beholden to
the morons in the matrix. I'm not so whatever. Fine,
So I can't tell you how proud I am that
the Clippers matters so much to you. It is just
(32:06):
heartwarming to me. You all tell me all the Clippers
are irrelevant, they don't matter, they're losers. But yet the
primal scream of joy when the Clippers went out there
and not just rode the vomit comment, they were on
the express train of vomit in that in that game
against devro Wi again, and in the pure joy that
the Laker historians have, which just tells you how much
(32:30):
the Clippers mean. And you wouldn't react that way if
the Clippers were irrelevant. They've got a better owner, they've
got a better arena, they've got more real fans, and
I understand, listen, I would be upset too. You know,
the Lakers are old money, right, They're they're not new,
they're not hip, they're not fresh. They're wokester Lebron and
(32:50):
his crap, and they need to be given players for
nothing like Huka Luka, who then go They still go
out and lose in the first nime. I mean, the
franchise is an absolute bet. Hor Is there any franchise
more embarrassing than the Lakers? Like that? People say the
Dallas Cowboys, But the Cowboys aren't being handed players great
players for nothing the way the Lakers are, and they
(33:11):
still lose. They haven't won any championship since Kobe. Kobe's
not coming back. It's unreal. And yet I smiled every
one of you morons to send me emails trying to
ruin my weekend, and I didn't get them until the
Sunday evening, but I loved it. I was like, man,
this is so great, and these people are so obtuse.
They're so stupid. They don't even realize when you're sending
(33:34):
me a message about how happy you are the Clippers lost.
That means that they matter to you. You wouldn't care
if you don't care. Do you care when the Memphis
Grizzlies lose a game? Do you care when the Atlanta
Hawks lose a game or the Orlando mad No, because
they don't matter to you. The Clippers matter, and they're
in your head. You losers all right. Anyway, it is
(33:55):
the Ben Malors Show. As we roll on time Now
for the who am I So? With the King of
the Wokesers, Greg Popovich finally, thank god, leaving coaching who
hung around way too long anyway, Coach pop is gone,
Thank goodness. So Mike Tomlin, who was hired way back
in twenty oh seven, is the longest tenured coach in
(34:18):
North American pro sports. I am second behind Mike Tomlin
in terms of tenure among the major North American team sports.
Who am I? That is the question the answer. We'll
get to it and we will do it next.
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(35:25):
the talk fiesta. But is back to it and we'll
pay off the who am I game in a second.
But I've been told now before we do that we
have the most exciting highlight. I've been told by Brie
this is the most exciting highlight you will ever hear.
And if it's not the most exciting highlight you've ever heard,
then we're gonna end the show and we're all gonna
(35:49):
go home and we're gonna go to bed, and then
then we'll get up and try again maybe tomorrow, or
this just might be it, but here we go. This
is it. This is the wait for it now, tie
rack play all the day. Let's go to the audio
tape and go to the Winnipeg that's right, the Winnipeg Jets.
Never before we played a Winnipeg Jets highlight, but here
(36:11):
it is.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Yauk walks the line.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
To fuck it in front for the captain Adam Lowry Jets.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Wid Jet Sweet Jets, wad Holy, there you go. Adam
Lowry the game winner in double overtime thanks to the
Power ninety seven Jets radio network. One of my my
old friends years ago, I did. I used to do
(36:41):
a hit in Toronto every week on the radio, and
then the guy from Toronto went to Winnipeg and he
was doing like the afternoon show in Winnipeg. I went
on there every once in a while and they would
always get annoyed because I never wanted to talk hockey,
never want to talk to anyway. Third longest Game seven
in NHL history, Lowry deflecting the game winning shot in there,
and so that is it. Turn out the last party's
(37:04):
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the Jed who fled Charlie call Terry in England. The
curmudgeon says, what the hell was that? The worst three
minutes in Malor show history? That is a low bar
Terry says, But Austin Powers Mojo says, Charlie and Jed
who fled? Made the best segment ever? Eh, but that
(37:46):
Joe the ghost Owner says, award winning call, Jed talking
to an eleven year old kid, Big ratings, loved it.
I'm dying over you. So take it that he's twelve. Okay, yeah,
he's twelve, and really he's got the brain the mind
of like, you know, maybe thirteen and maybe thirteen, possibly thirteen,
but yes, he's he was a big star, big star anyway.
(38:09):
Time now for the who am I? Game? Popovich is out?
He stepped down, thank god. As coach of the Spurs,
Mike Tomlin, who was hired in seven, is the longest
tenured coach now in North American sport. I am second
behind Tomlin in terms of tenure in North American team sports.
Who am I? Who asked the question, what's the answer? Trucker?
Joe's going with Vinnie Del Negro is his answer? Pop
(38:32):
Warner from Chip and the Ques, very funny, Purvis short,
there's a good name from Slim Tim the Proud cheesehead,
John got it right, bad job by him. Sean in
the Valley of the Sun, going with Lindy and Fante
as his answer. Who else do we have? Jed who
Fledge interpreter. That's from Ozzie Waz in Western Australia. The
(38:53):
Roach Coach from Larry d. Angelo Dundee from Stale Student.
That's a new one. John Hairball from Jordan who's in
the Great State of Ohio. I believe out. Bob Toledo
from James, Yeah, whatever happened to Bob? To Who else
do you have? Page Dan? We'll skip over that one.
(39:13):
Aaron Roland from Shane in Des Moines. Chris Wilcox from
Big Lou He's on number two. Rick Rude from far Out,
Dave read Arbach from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Mister Miagi
gets by the nature boy answering the call to the wild.
All right, did you have an answer? Lorraina, yes, Ben,
(39:34):
I believe it may be Mario Lopez. Mario Lopez, Okay,
is he still got radio thing? Yes? He does on
one four three, okay, syndicated Now correct answer is not him?
That would be Eric Spolstra coach spou the Miami heatback
in eight that's a long time ago. That's seventeen years ago.
That's a that's a good run, right,
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