May 9, 2024 • 38 mins
Chris Plank & Eddie Garcia fill in for Ben Maller and discuss the NBA & NHL playoffs as the Semifinals in the NBA don't seem to be as competitive as the first round, the Knicks taking a 2-0 lead over the Pacers, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Here we go, Addie, there we go, baby.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I was debating with Loraina before the show started. What
no was in earlier this week, Bernie's in tomorrow and
then obviously the Bernie Fratto Show on the weekends. Uh
where is no nos like in Nomad? Is he in
the Pacific time zone now? Or is he in the
Eastern times zone? Do we even know? We do know?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
So he was joining us the last two nights from
South Bend, Indiana, where he hails from. But he's in
the process of moving to New Orleans. Huh so he
had gone to South Bend for something, some family business.
I know he was at his dad's house and uh
so that's where he was just temporarily. But he's he's
(00:49):
in he's in transit. I guess he's Uh. He said
he would normally have been back in New Orleans but
decided to do the show while he was at home
for some reason. Anyway, Uh, he's he is a nomad.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
He is.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
He's a mover and a shaker.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
He's been around. I'm in Portland for a while.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
You mentioned me, and I think there was a stop
like in Michigan somewhere. But my point was, I feel
like the Central time zone, God's time zone as we
not as is arguably the most challenging for this show
because it is legit the middle.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Of the night.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It's when ninety nine point nine percent of the time
you're in bed, at least on the Eastern time zone.
You can get an hour when normal people are up
right five am to six am in the Pacific time
zone when you guys hail from live from the tyraq
dot com studios in Los Angeles. But I mean is
that I don't know I offor do you agree with that?
(01:44):
Because it's not necessarily like I changed everything today, Eddie.
I changed my sleep pattern, which by the way, was beautiful.
I could fill in more. I had to do zero
fatherly duties and everyone is like, yeah, you just go
ahead and go to bed, Like, oh, okay, let's do that.
Got to watch all the Knicks game. Ain't fit in
a quick little nap after that watched Uh. I had
I try to get as smart as I could on hockey,
(02:05):
Eddie to sounds smart tonight.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
But I'm gonna sound dumb.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I don't know what agree or disagree.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
The most challenging time zone to be a true fan
of the Big Ben Malors show is the Central time zone.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Well, I want to be honest with you, I've never
thought about that really. Yeah, so I'll have to give
it some fun thought apps now and uh yeah, I
don't know. I'm so focused into uh me, I'm the
opposite of Brian No. I have lived in the Pacific
time zone literally from birth, so heym.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
So there's there's where we're very similar. You've been in
one time zone your whole life. I've been in one
time zone my whole life. You've been in the Pacific
time zone. I've been in the Central time zone. So
maybe this is just my way of trying to feel
sorry for myself. There's a full day that lies ahead
of us. Early bird gets the worm, Eddie. I'm out
grinding everyone else in the Central time zone today. Let's
(02:59):
go how you been. By the way, it's been a
little bit rough for me on the hockey site since
our kings got eliminated. It's been a little bit tough
to draw me in, and of course I can't. I'm
jumping on the thunderband wagon. So I'm suddenly offended by
everyone who doesn't say great things about Shay Gilgis Alexander
and things of that nature. But how's life for you, Eddie?
(03:20):
How's the hockey? How's the wife? How's the hardball? Off
season going?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
So far? It's been a minute since we've got to hang.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, everything's going good. I'm bummed as well with the
King's exiting there in the first round, but otherwise everything's
just fine.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Life is rolling. I wish I had more football tonight.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
There's just you really got to reach for football, which
is fine, right, I mean, it's okay to not go
the talking heads. You look at some of the networks.
I don't know how much I don't think, Eddie, you
can see how much. I don't know how much. I
don't think Lorani consumes in a coup. Probably he isn't
sit around and go Man'd you hear what Steven A.
Smith had to say? But I know the talk king
(04:00):
heads are consumed with some sort of Dak Prescott narrative
and than anytime anything controversial seems to happen with anyone
else that circles back to Dak Prescott, and they're infatuated
with someone trying to come up and get the chiefs
and making the bills so that or not. But I
don't know about you, Eddie. I feel like this is
a fun time to talk to some NBA and NHL.
It's okay that the NFL isn't on the top ledger
(04:22):
of all the takes.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
It still finds its way right every so often.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
We can dip into a Steelers have a new quarterback situation,
Raiders have spent a little bit. You got a coin
toss story about a draft pick that we'll get to later.
You got controversy about why the schedule hasn't been released yet.
But I come to you as someone who loves talking
NFL and loves talking college football, and I feel okay
that there's just not a ton.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Going on with it right now. No, because it's playoff time.
I think you know, I'm not a big NBA fans
as you know. Yeah, but NBA playoffs, NHL plomps. I
think it's a fun time. You know, you mixing a
little Tom Brady roast or something like that here and there.
I know we've been talking about that the last couple
of days. But yeah, it's okay to take a little
bit of a break from the NFL.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I think it's been hard though, I'm not gonna lie
to you. It's been rough.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
It's been rough because the NFL has dominated the new
cycle twenty four to seven, three sixty five, just dominated.
And it's nice to see a story like the Knicks
being quote unquote back. It's nice to see new blood
in the West. It's nice to see the sports that
(05:30):
get dominated a lot of times in the new cycle.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Ed.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Even though, like you said, you're not the biggest NBA
guy on the planet, I'm suddenly one.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I'm suddenly all in.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
But it's okay to not have to pigeonhole and shee
Warren not pigeonhole. She warn't a conversation about the NFL
at Oh, let's be outraged that they're gonna play on Christmas,
or let's be outraged that it's not necessarily gonna be
something where the schedule is out yet let's just kind
of enjoy Jalen Brunson, and let's enjoy what's going on
with the NBA playoffs right now. Or let's create maybe
(06:01):
a little bit of drama with the way that's officiated.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Now, do I have some nil stories for you tonight?
You bet do.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I have a few scheduling stories absolutely that we'll get
to later. But I'm okay with that, And I've thoroughly
enjoyed the NBA Playoffs. I think it's been an absolute
one sided s show in some instances, but I love
some of the stories that have developed out of it.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Every year, every year.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
We have this debate about the Stanley Cup Playoffs being
infinitely more entertaining than the NBA Playoffs. Right every Singly,
I heard you and not talking about it. I think
it was on Monday night, I'm sorry, Sunday night and
a Monday morning, and I was sitting there giving a
Hallelujah to the radio, right Eddie, Because here we are
in a time where the NBA is king. Every show
(06:48):
is gonna lead with NBA and talk about NBA. But
then when we pull back, you're like, no one's really
done anything that they're.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Not supposed to yet. The home team is one.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Every single game in this second round, there hasn't really
been a buzzer beater our last second game. Dallas looks
like they're playing a team that is infinitely faster than them.
Jalen Brunson has been just jaw droppingly impressive. The Tea
Wolves are running the Nuggets out of the gym right now,
and I don't really know if anyone thinks the Cavaliers
(07:20):
have a shot against the Celtics. It's been boring, right,
but yeah, you just you talked about it in your update.
The Canucks fall behind one zip tonight to the Oilers.
Wait for to one tonight.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Right, Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
The for to one and out and score the final
four goals to win it. Sure the Panthers and the
Bruins was a route, but oh did you have a brawl?
So I'm not trying to play kate you here, Eddie.
I'm not trying to kiss up to you too terribly
early in the show, though you deserve it. But why
is it every single year we sit at this point
where we have the NBA Playoffs that can't reach the
(07:53):
level of entertainment and excitement of what the Stanley Cup
Playoffs is doing at the exact same time, Yet no
one really seems to be motivated to dive into hockey talk.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Why do we still struggle with that?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Well, because I think part of it is well, but
this is kind of evening out. It used to be that,
you know, you would talk about the NBA a little
bit during the regular season. Now it seems like it's
completely pushed back to just the playoffs for the most part,
unless there's some drama more off the court than on
the court. Really, I've always thought being someone who didn't
(08:27):
grow up as a hockey fan but found it later
in life and now is you know, it's a huge
part of who I am as a sports fan that
you know, people don't grow up with it and so
they just don't, you know, want to take the time
to learn it. And you know, I was intrigued by it,
you know, in the nineties, I was in college and
(08:48):
started getting into it. And the fact that I didn't
know anything about it really other than just you know,
Gretzky and Lemieux and stuff like that. That as someone
who loved the other sports and knew and felt like
I knew a lot about it, that made me want
to know more about it. But I think a lot
of other people are like, no, I didn't grow up,
but said, I don't really know some of the rules,
I don't know the players, so I'm I'm just not
(09:08):
going to invest the time in trying to figure it out.
That's that's my take on it.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I think one of the most frustrating things for diehard
hockey fans, and I don't know if I don't know
if Ben has built a wing of the Mallard militia
that loves hockey as much as Eddie does, or if
he's trying to push everyone against it.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And it's somewhat tongue in cheek.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
But I also know that I feel like every single
time I sit down on a show here, or whenever
I talk with my friends or anyone, we're having to
pull something. Well, I'm in Oklahoma City, all right, So
everyone's gaga over the Thunder right now. They're the greatest
roster ever put together. Shay Gilders, Alexander got screwed out
of the MVP Award. You know, all these things that
generate topics and conversations now, but you pull back from it,
(09:57):
and they've played five playoff games so far. One of
them has been good one and it was good for
maybe three and a half quarters. Meanwhile, you look around
in hockey, it seems like every single game is tight
and dripping with drum. And now I know I say
this after six to one Panthers win tonight, but I just.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
But even that game, yeah, there was a lot of
drop out of the gloves and we had what star
player fighting with another star player, even though one of
those guys really does fight it every once in a while,
but even that was entertaining to a point.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, So I sit here tonight as somebody who is
wanting to get learned up on how I can get
more in on the Stanley Cup playoffs even though both
of my teams suck this year, and wondering what it's
going to take to continually. It's not like the NBA
is killing it with the ratings either. It's just somehow
it becomes the major topic. And again, it's not putting
(10:53):
the best product out there, but it's in some people's eyes,
the most compelling. I just find it to be the
most FASCT debate. I feel like we've had quite a
bit here of the last couple of years, Eddie. They're
putting the best product on in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
It's the most entertaining matchups, and yet no one ever
wants to really seem to talk about it outside of
Still Canada. I'm sure, I'm sure Edmonton Radio today is
(11:17):
going to be on fire with that absolute implosion from
the oilers. I'm sure that things are going to be
all over the map in Vancouver today whenever they talk
about the comeback.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
But here in the States, unless your market and you
have a.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Team in it, it's tough to really generate any kind
of response.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Well, I would agree with that as far as what's
going on north of the border, all the All Canadian
matchup there with Vancouver and Edmonton. That's going to be
a big up there. But we do our little part
here on the Ben Malli Show. I know you're gonna
accommodate me. And that's final hour of the show with
the Puck the World segment, and I do get some
pretty decent feedback on social media from people about that.
(11:56):
So as you know, there is a very loyal core
group of hockey heads out there. So uh, we'll try
and do what we can do expand, but you know,
people are kind of setting their ways and that's I
tried for a long time to convert a lot of
people and then I just kind of got tired of
it and say, you know what, I'm just gonna enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
If you don't want to, that's fine. I could not
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malin militia is really about to turn on me. I
love Nascar, all right, but I'm not going to sit
(12:35):
here and try to sell you Nascar talk right, And
I don't even really know how I would do it.
It's like, boy, Eddie, we'll talk about that pit stop. Man,
why didn't they not get it in a half a second?
Left left? Or why did then not get their cambra right?
There's just there's not a lot of angles to get into.
But yet I really get angry whenever you'll hear this
faction of people that are like, oh, all the dew
(12:57):
Is turn left room.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Really good? Yeah, really good.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
But in the same vein, I also understand that I'm
not gonna be able to change anyone's mind.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Just all right, lit's being pong it back.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I'm not a big soccer guy, but yet I'll have
people that just act AGAs that I can't sit around
and watch a soccer match because I have no idea
what league gets in or what tournament it's in. Because
there's eighty six things going on. There's well, no, no, no, no,
that's not the tournament. That's a lot of league and
that's very like, well, I don't know, I don't like soccer,
and I'm the moron because I don't like soccer, right,
(13:30):
But yet, I'm not gonna try to turn anyone to
do a NASCAR fan. I think it's okay to sit
back at you and say everyone's gonna have their own thing.
There's gonna be people tonight and throughout the next month
that are kind of out in the sports world.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Why because all they want to wait for is football.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
There's people I live in a college football community, and
we're gonna sit here. When I'm done with this show tonight,
I'm gonna go and do my local show and we're
gonna talk about college football for three hours. You might
say how, and I'm like, well, you don't understand. There's
this story out of Boise he staying gotta sat in
the college football world on fire, and I don't even
know if it's real right now, But I'm not gonna
(14:05):
try to change your mind on it, because I, like
anyone has heard about it.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Tonight.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Whenever we've got the NBA playoffs and the NHL playoffs.
And we're not gonna sit here and try to change
your mind on anything, because we know.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
She's not gonna. I'm not gonna.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I'm not converting anyone to NASCAR to college football talk
in the middle of May here on the show tonight, Eddie,
that ain't happening.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, And I you know what, I I don't want
to be a hypocrite. And I ask, you know, people,
just give it a try, and if it's not for you,
then that's fine, But don't just say I don't like
it and you've never really, you know, try to try
to give it a chance. So in that vein, I
did give NASCAR a chance and decided it was not
for me. Uh So there there's that. I did give
(14:45):
it an honest chance. I watched some of that. I
picked a driver and just followed them and then just
it just didn't didn't work.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I get it. I get it. I try to turn you.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I even try to turn you in softball, right, and
had you had a family friend that played on the
Oklahoma Sooner National Championships team.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Couldn't do it, Eddie, I couldn't do it many I tried.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Hey, Okay, Well, when we come back, we'll dive into
the highlights from the game tonight, We'll dive into a
little bit on the on the Jalen Brunson situation taking
over the playoffs, the Knicks back, We'll talk about the
comeback tonight for the Vancouver Cannucks. And yes, as always,
I'll still try to find a way to slide some
college football in and some NFL during the show. But
(15:25):
when we come back, when we come back, I'm very triggered. Tonight,
I'm very triggered. It has nothing to do with the
Knicks taking a two to zero lead in their best
of seven series with the Pacers. It adds nothing to
do with Nikola Jokic winning the MVP, But holy smokes,
holy smokes, did tnt absolutely trigger me all night long?
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Speaker 1 (17:12):
This is where I love.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I love just laying out any topic on this show,
because there is a member of the Malord militia that
is into some.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Of it it.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
At any point there is someone at this god forsaken hour,
they can hear the mention of saying like a playoff, tall,
cocky talk, whatever it might be, and all of a
sudden you're like, oh, yeah, I'm down for that. Robin
Minnesota rights the Champions League game between Bayern Munich and
Real Madrid was actually the story of the day. Now,
(17:44):
see Eddie, I don't even know what league that is.
It's one of my best friends. He runs the station
in toll so that we're on eleven seventy the Blitz.
Jeremy Poplin. I'm like, dude, you got to fill me
in on is this part of a tournament? Is this
part of a league?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
What is?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
He like, I don't have the time.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
It's like it's it's in depth, it's you don't want
to learn about it, you don't care. So it's like, wait,
hold on, is this is this what everybody cares about?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Is this the most important league?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
It's like no, No, it's like a tournament, so it's
not really that big of a deal.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
But it is a big deal.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Okay, so is this what everyone celebrates and sets couches
on fire for and all that kind of but not
really so. I at the very least with hockey in
the NBA, and we know what their big events are
they're going on right now, it's playoffs, I don't have
to figure out what's the big deal in soccer and
what is It.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Makes it easy.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I'm glad I don't have to figure out there because
I have no idea, no clue whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
All Right, So tonight in the NBA playoffs, you would
think the big story on T and T would be
the fact that the Nicks and the Pacers were playing
each other. And again I thought, just as a general thought, Eddie,
because we really haven't talked about it.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Thought a competitive game. We thought it was a fun game.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Now we'll get into insufferable Nick fans coming up a
little bit later on in the program, including the one
that suddenly discovered the NBA that I work with on
Sunday nights.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
But I think that's been a fun series so far.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
When we talk about non competitive games that have taken
place so far in the NBA playoffs, at the very least,
the Nicks and the Pacers. They've given us two pretty
good matchups, two great matchups. Dare I even say in
the first two games of the series.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah, I think it's been pretty good. I've been intrigued
with Jalen Brunson as someone who's not really a customer
of the NBA.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, I like the way you put that, not really
a customer of the NBA. So when I sent you
all these topics I want to talk about in seven
of them or NBA was that concerning for you this
evening or were you just like, yeah, I'll play a
long I mean, I'll.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Do the best I can. I'm not gonna sit here
and tell you I think I'm going.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
To Okay, Well, we're not gonna sit here and break
down whether or not they need to run more pick
and roll or what they need to do with their rotation.
But I will say this, one of the greatest moments
for me, just as a sports fan with no rooting interest,
was as a youngster watching Reggie Miller do his thing
in Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Right, We've had thirty for.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Thirties about it. It's really one of the greatest moments
maybe in sports.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Right here is in New York.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
The Knicks were cooking at that point, right, the Pacers
were cooking at that point.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
It was one of the great rivalries. Did we really
need to.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Spend the whole broadcast tonight talking about Reggie Miller being there?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I mean I get it.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
No, not the whole I mean, it could be a
nice little footnote, but.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Bro, it was.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
I felt like at some point someone finally said it
about halftime, after they did their all there, someone finally said, hey, guys,
let's focus on the game here a little bit. I
don't get it. I mean, do we understand that this
wasn't something that happened last year? Like literally books have
been written about this, movies have been made out in
(20:53):
the thirty for thirties. But am I answer to picnic here?
Am I bringing everyone down? Whenever I'm saying, oh, you
know what, I couldn't care less about Reggie Miller calling
the game. He's a terrible analyst. I mean, he really
truly is. I like Reggie Miller. I love listening to
him when he's on with Dan Patrick here on Fox
Sports Radio. I think it's great. I love hearing him
talk about the game. Whenever he's on different podcasts and
(21:15):
things of that nature. But Eddie, when he's calling a game,
it's nails on chalkboard, and my man is never right.
You remember the CBS had the replay official. They might
still have him where they Jim Anson tonies, let's go
back to so and so. Let's see what he thinks.
And he was always wrong. Say I think this one's
gonna get overturned. Jeans Sterotor was the guy right before
(21:36):
Jean's territor. It was the guy that Jean's sterotor took
over for. He was Bless his heart, you know, I
don't think he was bad. He just it shows you,
bless his heart, It shows you how terrible he probably
was at his job. Now you fast forward to Reggie Miller,
and Reggie Miller is not very good as an analyst.
(21:56):
I just don't get it. And we're going to spend
it's not even the thirty year anniversary or anything alread
even close, but it was, you.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Know, is nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
It's like, oh happy, twenty nine years, eight points and
nine seconds. One of the wildest things that's ever happened
in sports. And it became like the whole focus of
the broadcast tonight for some reason early on, and maybe
I'm being a little bit dramatic, but at what point,
Eddie do you step back and you say, all right, listen,
it's really cool that you're here.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
What a great moment. Let's actually focus on the game now.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
In fairness, you have Josh Hard who goes over and
adds to it a little bit when he drops the
F bomb, saying, hey, Eddie's all right, Eddie, Hey Reggie.
They're saying f you, Reggie, right, and so that kind
of adds to the whole allure of it.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
But I mean, come on, Eddie, what are we doing
right now?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Whenever that's the main focus of a broadcast where you
got the game going on for what felt like almost
the entire first half, makes no sense.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
No, I agree with you, and I think it's it's
very I don't know, it's enlightened, is the right word
of you, of someone who you know that that was,
of that general when that happened, And so we tend
to get locked into well, if I remember it, then
everybody watching should remember that too, And then I remember, oh,
I'm in my fifties. It's not everyone watching even remembers
(23:12):
that moment. I mean, if you're a big NBA fan,
you should know about the great historic moment. It's not
one of them. But no, that was a little over
the top. Like I said, you can't ignore it, No,
you can't, but mention it and move on.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
It was funny to me because everything was off.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
It wasn't even the right day to celebrate the anniversary
of it. It wasn't even it was the twenty ninth
year in so you know birthdays that suck, ones that
end in nine, nineteen, twenty nine, thirty nine, forty nine,
because it's like, Yeahray, congratulations on twenty nine years and
a day since it took place. Regiemail, I mean, if
(23:52):
it's the thirty year anniversary, But come on. I love
TNT's coverage of the NBA. I think that I'm not
necessarily sick a fant for their show where everything Charles
Barkley says is the funniest thing ever and everything that
Kenny the Jet Smith says is right. But I love
watching the show. I think you learn a lot when
you suck them into this. It's like, oh, here we
got Reggie Miller. He's getting ready to call the game,
(24:13):
joining us live, and you're not talking about what has
been the best games so far in the NBA Playoffs.
It makes no sense to me whatsoever, but congrats TNT.
You made it the sole focus of what you were
doing here tonight.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Miller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
It be Masuhara, the former translator of Showho Tani reached
a plea deal with federal prosecutors. He will be guilty
the charges of bank fraud and subscribing to a false
tax return. So we'll see what that gets in. But
I've never seen a story that potentially had so much
(24:54):
projuice and controversy around it go away and fade away
so quickly, but it did. Joliozni do not disagree, Eddie?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Can I pose a question off that?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Can we can we kind of simmer here for just
a little bit from the tirect dot com studios?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Did I mentioned the diirect dot com studios?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I still feel there's people that don't believe that show
Hey is an innocent victim in this, because there is
people that, obviously we could get political.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
There's people that still believe in election was fixed.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
There's people that, you know what am I talking about
there's people that think the Earth is flat, Eddie, there's
people that think that we didn't land on the moon, right.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I saw hilarious debate with somebody that thought the Earth
was flat, and just how it's just ForWord by how
he would not be moved. I mean, they're like, what
about pictures of uh, you know, the Earth from space?
Always like, well, where do those pictures come from? You know,
He's like, well where, why are there not any flat
Earth pictures?
Speaker 4 (25:58):
You know?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
He just he just would not move.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Man.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
He had an answer for everything.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Are all the people that were astronauts that went to
space paid off by the United States? Are they all
disappearing like the bowing the bone seven forty seven whistle blowers?
By the way, Eddie, funny story. I actually live kind
of with a conspiracy theorists, all right, conspiracy theorists. Is
that what my wife loves? The conversations that take you
(26:27):
way too deep, right? In other words, ninety nine point
nine percent of them are political. And I know we're
getting near. I know we're getting near election time because
a lot of our conversations when I bring something up
have included the response from her of well, that's what
they want you to think, or that's what they want
you to know. So that's whenever I know, I'm going
(26:47):
to get learned up Eddie about things like kim trails
and things like that. But in this world where we're
apt to believe just about anything and question about everything,
and that's fine, there's still a lot of people out
there that think that what's the translator's name, I al, he's
saying wrong.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I want to say it Pei for some reason.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Yeah, Coop, Coop, I'm sorry, I've been so greedy tonight.
By the way, the crew is here as justin Cooper
running the show. Lorena is on the ones and twos.
She got to hang out with us. She cut her
teeth before she got the call to the big show
right here with Big Ben Mallard and the crew with
Arnie and I on Sunday night. So it's good to
reconnect with her this evening. So good evening, good morning,
(27:30):
whichever way you look at.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
It, it's so nice to hear your voice right talking
hockey looking men at you. Let's go.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
But Eddie, I'm a firm believer that the only way
people would have believed show hey, one hundred percent is
if in that initial press conference he had come out
and said, yeah, you know, I got a gambling problem
and uh he Pey was the fall guy for it,
and I'm uh, I'm really sorry and I'm gonna work
(27:58):
to be better. Even with all this evidence, I'm guaranteeing
you tonight that there is more than a couple of
people that feel like this is some sort of cover
up job and IPAI has taken the fall for it. Right,
even with all this evidence, whenever the FBI is involved,
I guarantee you there are still some out there that
(28:18):
don't believe show Hey at the core of this, right, Oh.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I have no doubt. I'm sure Ben Mallory is definitely
one of those. Oh oh yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I just when this first came out, well, it kind
of broke in the overnight, right whenever this first came
out before, right around the opening series and the opening
weekend for the Dodgers, whenever they were overseas, and it
I remember waking up to the news It's like what
because it had become kind of a little bit of
(28:49):
a blip of a story. Hey, there's some issues with
show Hay's interpreter, and then the interpreter releases a statement that, oh, yeah,
everybody knows, and then you kind of wait, what he's
funneling money to And everyone just took that initial statement
as kind of a gospel, which is what we do.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
But I feel like this.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Has been one of the most amazing stories that has
absolutely disappeared. And I think part of the reason why
it's absolutely disappeared is because there's really even if you
are a firm believer that there's a conspiracy here, Eddie Garcia,
it's a really hard thing to shoot holes in with
how involved the fence have been, with how involved every
angle of this, and oh yeah, by the way, the
(29:34):
FBI isn't really in the business of protecting anybody anybody.
So I feel like that's I'm with you a hundred percent.
I feel like that's why you've seen it absolutely disappear
is because people realize, oh, wait a minute, maybe this
interpreter did absolutely act alone.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Yeah, there's definitely people who do not believe that this was,
you know, the way it's being portrayed, whether that's true
or not. But I mean, I've had people to reach
out to me on social media say we made a
deal with the Japanese government too, I'm like, but why,
but why why would we do that? I don't understand
(30:11):
to protect this hero of Japan or I mean, I okay,
but is that our job? I mean, you know, if
if he gets prosecuted, is that going to send spiral
the Japanese economy into uh? I mean, why why would what?
What's what's the purpose of us protecting him? I no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
But I think what's one of the wildest things in
all of this is how so many And I've argued
with people on Twitter and obviously on the phones at
eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox here eight seven
seven nine ninety six sixty three sixty nine, because the
whole idea is, well, how would you not know? How
would you not know? How would you not get alerts
(30:48):
from your bank? How would you not know? I'm like, guys,
do you understand that show he's probably worth like a
be a billion. I mean, there, he's got so much money.
I'm willing to bet you that they're I'm not going
to bet anyone on that anything. But there's a lot
of money that is in areas that is either protected
for him or that he doesn't really know much about.
And as we learned through this process, these banks will
(31:11):
communicate more with the interpreter than they might with the
actual athlete, and then the agents and the marketing people
will communicate more with the interpreter. So it's kind of
funny to me how we all took this from our
world Wolds. Well, I know, whenever money's leaving my bank,
you don't have like an eight million dollars in your
bank account. It's a little bit of a different world,
and you might have more financial people that are helping
(31:32):
you out. But I feel like over the last twenty
four hours, with this being the true final blow, I
think we all have to accept show he wasn't involved, Shoe,
he wasn't involved. And that's not the reason why the
Dodgers are on fire right now that they have been
set free from this.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
They're just a really good baseball team.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
But I just feel like it's fascinating to me that
there's going to be this faction that will just not
believe that, like the dude Eddie saw fighting on social
media about the world old being the Earth being flat,
he's just gonna be people today They're like, yeah, well
that's what they want you to think. So glad there's
some finality in this in the Dodgers are rolling when
we come back. I've been talking about it all hour long.
(32:11):
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(32:52):
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Speaker 1 (32:54):
It's funny that you bring up the Ben Mallor Facebook page.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I was pointing out to Lorrain and Koup that Eddie
every night that I get the blessed opportunity to sit
in with y'all, or when I do the weekends, whenever
Bernie takes time off, I find myself scrolling Facebook way
too much, and I'm never on Facebook, and then I'll
like something just says, oh, that's cute picture, or I'll
(33:19):
see you know the high school X from thirty years
ago her daughter's Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I mean, I'm just it's a problem. I think it's
an issue.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Can you imagine if somebody has their notifications on and
they see that a high school classmate like to picture
at one forty nine in the morning, Eddie, that's a problem.
That's a that's a real problem right now. So I'm
gonna go ahead and cause And also, by the way,
for those who are like, well, just say out, well,
this is how Coop and I communicate. We get the
(33:50):
messenger up and he lets me know when people like
jet who fled or on hold or whenever you guys
are hanging out at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
So it's kind of a hazard of the of the business.
You're not a big Facebook guy, though, are you at it?
Speaker 3 (34:02):
I'm not. I've I used to be, and then I
just kind of stopped. I guess I went over to Twitter,
and you know they have that like you said, with
you and Coop talking on the Facebook Messenger. I won't
check it for like a month, and then I go
on there. I'm like, oh, some somebody reached out about Hey,
let's you know they'll do something. Oh hey, I didn't
see this for a month. I apologize trying to be
(34:24):
a jerk.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
You want to give you an idea of just how
often I find myself on the old book of faces
I have, I have justin and I was last conversation
took place on December twenty sixth, so it's been a
minute to been a minute. I'm sorry, But you want
to wrap up hour one with Jet who Fled? I mean,
is there is that a you gotta remember now it's
(34:46):
been a minute since I've talked to Jet who Fled?
So Eddie, if you give the thumbs up, is this
a good way to start the phone tonight, I'm down
with it.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Uh. Yeah, we talked to him yesterday and I think
it was yesterday, and well he helped me in when
no Brian knows connection dropped. Oh hell he was, yeah,
he did. Any he had a great suggestion about the
all hell team, which you're talking about. So yeah, I
think it's a good idea. That's great.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
All right, Well here we go our co host Jet,
who fled Good Morning Jet.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
How are you?
Speaker 6 (35:17):
I'm great, dude, I hope you will. Can you believe
the idiots out here conspiratorial breathing, I mean out breathing
idiots suits. I'll tell you example of a smart person
that doesn't believe conspiracy. A guy on Fox Sports Radio
Airways referenging thirty for thirties out of Bristol, Connecticut, multiple
times in genious move in genious they love military style
to raise okay, the hemorrhd sickle networks, avoid them, avoid them.
(35:37):
That's not in English, even in Russian. It's Soviets to
never refres them again, Please please to leave it. I'm
gonna have nightmares about it, bringing everybody down with that,
but I'm gonna bring him right back up. I remember
of the media hates hate hockey and love basketball the
same reason. They have different opinions on New Zealand sports team.
One's all black, ones all white. You cannot be taking
(35:59):
one of those of the other. I think we know
which one in today's time. You did, unless you want
to get fired?
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (36:05):
No, I don't think that's I don't think there's a
racial component to that.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Is that what you're trying to say here.
Speaker 6 (36:11):
Jed, No, I'm not trying to say that. I'm directly
stating that. Also, Nash Nashcar is awesome, dude. I've been
the one race in my life and you can't you
can't count tickets, but me and a guy may not contact.
We nodded and made it happen. My brother paid one
hundred and seventy five dollars for two tickets. I'm paid
fifty and I'm looking straight down at the checkers line.
(36:33):
I'll never go to another race because you can't beat that.
You can't beat that. There's twenty laps left and I
don't know, I don't know how the the milege works.
And I'm like, there's two four last minute. Luckily that
there was not there was not, And they's like, what
you had this guy get this ticket. I was the
only one of my faction with my shirt on.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
It was awesome.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
It was very cool, very cool. Well y'all have him
do it? And that's that thick up.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Yeah, you know there's a part of me that wonders
as kind of a Jet who Fled fan fan, not
kind of I like Jet who Fled? I wonder if
it's all a bit, And then there's a part of
me that's like, nah, now that's really him. I do
like the idea of asking someone is are you kind
of saying this? And they're like, no, no, Eddie, I'm
absolutely saying that. Yeah, yeah, ah, Jet who Fled? What
(37:20):
a way to start at eight seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox eight seven seven nine ninety six sixty three
six names the Hammer and Sickle Network. Huh interesting. I've
heard of the four Letter, I've heard of the mother Ship,
but I've never heard of the Hammer and Sickle Network.
That's a How about Woke Center here? Oh, woke Center? Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
(37:40):
woke Center. It's kind of funny. I'm thinking about my
approach here and people might think, boy, he's really left waning. Nah,
it's just funny to me, how how Jed's on point.
But yet, in that same vein, it's like, I don't
think there's a racial component on how these sports are covered.
But again, it's the middle of the night. We'll do
whatever it takes. Jed to get you fired up when
we come back to the tyrack dot com studios.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Let's dive into a.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Little bit more of what we learned in the NBA
Playoffs Round two and the Stanley Cup Playoffs as well.
In forbid on playing on Fox Sports Radio, stick Around
Here we go, Addie, there we go, baby.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I was debating with Loraina before the show started. What
no was in earlier this week, Bernie's in tomorrow and
then obviously the Bernie Fratto Show on the weekends. Uh
where is no nos like in Nomad? Is he in
the Pacific time zone now? Or is he in the
Eastern times zone? Do we even know? We do know?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
So he was joining us the last two nights from
South Bend, Indiana, where he hails from. But he's in
the process of moving to New Orleans. Huh so he
had gone to South Bend for something, some family business.
I know he was at his dad's house and uh
so that's where he was just temporarily. But he's he's
(00:49):
in he's in transit. I guess he's Uh. He said
he would normally have been back in New Orleans but
decided to do the show while he was at home
for some reason. Anyway, Uh, he's he is a nomad.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
He is.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
He's a mover and a shaker.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
He's been around. I'm in Portland for a while.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
You mentioned me, and I think there was a stop
like in Michigan somewhere. But my point was, I feel
like the Central time zone, God's time zone as we
not as is arguably the most challenging for this show
because it is legit the middle.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Of the night.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It's when ninety nine point nine percent of the time
you're in bed, at least on the Eastern time zone.
You can get an hour when normal people are up
right five am to six am in the Pacific time
zone when you guys hail from live from the tyraq
dot com studios in Los Angeles. But I mean is
that I don't know I offor do you agree with that?
(01:44):
Because it's not necessarily like I changed everything today, Eddie.
I changed my sleep pattern, which by the way, was beautiful.
I could fill in more. I had to do zero
fatherly duties and everyone is like, yeah, you just go
ahead and go to bed, Like, oh, okay, let's do that.
Got to watch all the Knicks game. Ain't fit in
a quick little nap after that watched Uh. I had
I try to get as smart as I could on hockey,
(02:05):
Eddie to sounds smart tonight.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
But I'm gonna sound dumb.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I don't know what agree or disagree.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
The most challenging time zone to be a true fan
of the Big Ben Malors show is the Central time zone.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Well, I want to be honest with you, I've never
thought about that really. Yeah, so I'll have to give
it some fun thought apps now and uh yeah, I
don't know. I'm so focused into uh me, I'm the
opposite of Brian No. I have lived in the Pacific
time zone literally from birth, so heym.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
So there's there's where we're very similar. You've been in
one time zone your whole life. I've been in one
time zone my whole life. You've been in the Pacific
time zone. I've been in the Central time zone. So
maybe this is just my way of trying to feel
sorry for myself. There's a full day that lies ahead
of us. Early bird gets the worm, Eddie. I'm out
grinding everyone else in the Central time zone today. Let's
(02:59):
go how you been. By the way, it's been a
little bit rough for me on the hockey site since
our kings got eliminated. It's been a little bit tough
to draw me in, and of course I can't. I'm
jumping on the thunderband wagon. So I'm suddenly offended by
everyone who doesn't say great things about Shay Gilgis Alexander
and things of that nature. But how's life for you, Eddie?
(03:20):
How's the hockey? How's the wife? How's the hardball? Off
season going?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
So far? It's been a minute since we've got to hang.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, everything's going good. I'm bummed as well with the
King's exiting there in the first round, but otherwise everything's
just fine.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Life is rolling. I wish I had more football tonight.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
There's just you really got to reach for football, which
is fine, right, I mean, it's okay to not go
the talking heads. You look at some of the networks.
I don't know how much I don't think, Eddie, you
can see how much. I don't know how much. I
don't think Lorani consumes in a coup. Probably he isn't
sit around and go Man'd you hear what Steven A.
Smith had to say? But I know the talk king
(04:00):
heads are consumed with some sort of Dak Prescott narrative
and than anytime anything controversial seems to happen with anyone
else that circles back to Dak Prescott, and they're infatuated
with someone trying to come up and get the chiefs
and making the bills so that or not. But I
don't know about you, Eddie. I feel like this is
a fun time to talk to some NBA and NHL.
It's okay that the NFL isn't on the top ledger
(04:22):
of all the takes.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
It still finds its way right every so often.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
We can dip into a Steelers have a new quarterback situation,
Raiders have spent a little bit. You got a coin
toss story about a draft pick that we'll get to later.
You got controversy about why the schedule hasn't been released yet.
But I come to you as someone who loves talking
NFL and loves talking college football, and I feel okay
that there's just not a ton.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Going on with it right now. No, because it's playoff time.
I think you know, I'm not a big NBA fans
as you know. Yeah, but NBA playoffs, NHL plomps. I
think it's a fun time. You know, you mixing a
little Tom Brady roast or something like that here and there.
I know we've been talking about that the last couple
of days. But yeah, it's okay to take a little
bit of a break from the NFL.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I think it's been hard though, I'm not gonna lie
to you. It's been rough.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
It's been rough because the NFL has dominated the new
cycle twenty four to seven, three sixty five, just dominated.
And it's nice to see a story like the Knicks
being quote unquote back. It's nice to see new blood
in the West. It's nice to see the sports that
(05:30):
get dominated a lot of times in the new cycle.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Ed.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Even though, like you said, you're not the biggest NBA
guy on the planet, I'm suddenly one.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I'm suddenly all in.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
But it's okay to not have to pigeonhole and shee
Warren not pigeonhole. She warn't a conversation about the NFL
at Oh, let's be outraged that they're gonna play on Christmas,
or let's be outraged that it's not necessarily gonna be
something where the schedule is out yet let's just kind
of enjoy Jalen Brunson, and let's enjoy what's going on
with the NBA playoffs right now. Or let's create maybe
(06:01):
a little bit of drama with the way that's officiated.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Now, do I have some nil stories for you tonight?
You bet do.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I have a few scheduling stories absolutely that we'll get
to later. But I'm okay with that, And I've thoroughly
enjoyed the NBA Playoffs. I think it's been an absolute
one sided s show in some instances, but I love
some of the stories that have developed out of it.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Every year, every year.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
We have this debate about the Stanley Cup Playoffs being
infinitely more entertaining than the NBA Playoffs. Right every Singly,
I heard you and not talking about it. I think
it was on Monday night, I'm sorry, Sunday night and
a Monday morning, and I was sitting there giving a
Hallelujah to the radio, right Eddie, Because here we are
in a time where the NBA is king. Every show
(06:48):
is gonna lead with NBA and talk about NBA. But
then when we pull back, you're like, no one's really
done anything that they're.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Not supposed to yet. The home team is one.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Every single game in this second round, there hasn't really
been a buzzer beater our last second game. Dallas looks
like they're playing a team that is infinitely faster than them.
Jalen Brunson has been just jaw droppingly impressive. The Tea
Wolves are running the Nuggets out of the gym right now,
and I don't really know if anyone thinks the Cavaliers
(07:20):
have a shot against the Celtics. It's been boring, right,
but yeah, you just you talked about it in your update.
The Canucks fall behind one zip tonight to the Oilers.
Wait for to one tonight.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Right, Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
The for to one and out and score the final
four goals to win it. Sure the Panthers and the
Bruins was a route, but oh did you have a brawl?
So I'm not trying to play kate you here, Eddie.
I'm not trying to kiss up to you too terribly
early in the show, though you deserve it. But why
is it every single year we sit at this point
where we have the NBA Playoffs that can't reach the
(07:53):
level of entertainment and excitement of what the Stanley Cup
Playoffs is doing at the exact same time, Yet no
one really seems to be motivated to dive into hockey talk.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Why do we still struggle with that?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Well, because I think part of it is well, but
this is kind of evening out. It used to be that,
you know, you would talk about the NBA a little
bit during the regular season. Now it seems like it's
completely pushed back to just the playoffs for the most part,
unless there's some drama more off the court than on
the court. Really, I've always thought being someone who didn't
(08:27):
grow up as a hockey fan but found it later
in life and now is you know, it's a huge
part of who I am as a sports fan that
you know, people don't grow up with it and so
they just don't, you know, want to take the time
to learn it. And you know, I was intrigued by it,
you know, in the nineties, I was in college and
(08:48):
started getting into it. And the fact that I didn't
know anything about it really other than just you know,
Gretzky and Lemieux and stuff like that. That as someone
who loved the other sports and knew and felt like
I knew a lot about it, that made me want
to know more about it. But I think a lot
of other people are like, no, I didn't grow up,
but said, I don't really know some of the rules,
I don't know the players, so I'm I'm just not
(09:08):
going to invest the time in trying to figure it out.
That's that's my take on it.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I think one of the most frustrating things for diehard
hockey fans, and I don't know if I don't know
if Ben has built a wing of the Mallard militia
that loves hockey as much as Eddie does, or if
he's trying to push everyone against it.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And it's somewhat tongue in cheek.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
But I also know that I feel like every single
time I sit down on a show here, or whenever
I talk with my friends or anyone, we're having to
pull something. Well, I'm in Oklahoma City, all right, So
everyone's gaga over the Thunder right now. They're the greatest
roster ever put together. Shay Gilders, Alexander got screwed out
of the MVP Award. You know, all these things that
generate topics and conversations now, but you pull back from it,
(09:57):
and they've played five playoff games so far. One of
them has been good one and it was good for
maybe three and a half quarters. Meanwhile, you look around
in hockey, it seems like every single game is tight
and dripping with drum. And now I know I say
this after six to one Panthers win tonight, but I just.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
But even that game, yeah, there was a lot of
drop out of the gloves and we had what star
player fighting with another star player, even though one of
those guys really does fight it every once in a while,
but even that was entertaining to a point.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, So I sit here tonight as somebody who is
wanting to get learned up on how I can get
more in on the Stanley Cup playoffs even though both
of my teams suck this year, and wondering what it's
going to take to continually. It's not like the NBA
is killing it with the ratings either. It's just somehow
it becomes the major topic. And again, it's not putting
(10:53):
the best product out there, but it's in some people's eyes,
the most compelling. I just find it to be the
most FASCT debate. I feel like we've had quite a
bit here of the last couple of years, Eddie. They're
putting the best product on in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
It's the most entertaining matchups, and yet no one ever
wants to really seem to talk about it outside of
Still Canada. I'm sure, I'm sure Edmonton Radio today is
(11:17):
going to be on fire with that absolute implosion from
the oilers. I'm sure that things are going to be
all over the map in Vancouver today whenever they talk
about the comeback.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
But here in the States, unless your market and you
have a.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Team in it, it's tough to really generate any kind
of response.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Well, I would agree with that as far as what's
going on north of the border, all the All Canadian
matchup there with Vancouver and Edmonton. That's going to be
a big up there. But we do our little part
here on the Ben Malli Show. I know you're gonna
accommodate me. And that's final hour of the show with
the Puck the World segment, and I do get some
pretty decent feedback on social media from people about that.
(11:56):
So as you know, there is a very loyal core
group of hockey heads out there. So uh, we'll try
and do what we can do expand, but you know,
people are kind of setting their ways and that's I
tried for a long time to convert a lot of
people and then I just kind of got tired of
it and say, you know what, I'm just gonna enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
If you don't want to, that's fine. I could not
agree with you more about converting people. As we come
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malin militia is really about to turn on me. I
love Nascar, all right, but I'm not going to sit
(12:35):
here and try to sell you Nascar talk right, And
I don't even really know how I would do it.
It's like, boy, Eddie, we'll talk about that pit stop. Man,
why didn't they not get it in a half a second?
Left left? Or why did then not get their cambra right?
There's just there's not a lot of angles to get into.
But yet I really get angry whenever you'll hear this
faction of people that are like, oh, all the dew
(12:57):
Is turn left room.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Really good? Yeah, really good.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
But in the same vein, I also understand that I'm
not gonna be able to change anyone's mind.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Just all right, lit's being pong it back.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I'm not a big soccer guy, but yet I'll have
people that just act AGAs that I can't sit around
and watch a soccer match because I have no idea
what league gets in or what tournament it's in. Because
there's eighty six things going on. There's well, no, no, no, no,
that's not the tournament. That's a lot of league and
that's very like, well, I don't know, I don't like soccer,
and I'm the moron because I don't like soccer, right,
(13:30):
But yet, I'm not gonna try to turn anyone to
do a NASCAR fan. I think it's okay to sit
back at you and say everyone's gonna have their own thing.
There's gonna be people tonight and throughout the next month
that are kind of out in the sports world.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Why because all they want to wait for is football.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
There's people I live in a college football community, and
we're gonna sit here. When I'm done with this show tonight,
I'm gonna go and do my local show and we're
gonna talk about college football for three hours. You might
say how, and I'm like, well, you don't understand. There's
this story out of Boise he staying gotta sat in
the college football world on fire, and I don't even
know if it's real right now, But I'm not gonna
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try to change your mind on it, because I, like
anyone has heard about it.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Tonight.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Whenever we've got the NBA playoffs and the NHL playoffs.
And we're not gonna sit here and try to change
your mind on anything, because we know.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
She's not gonna. I'm not gonna.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I'm not converting anyone to NASCAR to college football talk
in the middle of May here on the show tonight, Eddie,
that ain't happening.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, And I you know what, I I don't want
to be a hypocrite. And I ask, you know, people,
just give it a try, and if it's not for you,
then that's fine, But don't just say I don't like
it and you've never really, you know, try to try
to give it a chance. So in that vein, I
did give NASCAR a chance and decided it was not
for me. Uh So there there's that. I did give
(14:45):
it an honest chance. I watched some of that. I
picked a driver and just followed them and then just
it just didn't didn't work.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I get it. I get it. I try to turn you.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I even try to turn you in softball, right, and
had you had a family friend that played on the
Oklahoma Sooner National Championships team.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Couldn't do it, Eddie, I couldn't do it many I tried.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Hey, Okay, Well, when we come back, we'll dive into
the highlights from the game tonight, We'll dive into a
little bit on the on the Jalen Brunson situation taking
over the playoffs, the Knicks back, We'll talk about the
comeback tonight for the Vancouver Cannucks. And yes, as always,
I'll still try to find a way to slide some
college football in and some NFL during the show. But
(15:25):
when we come back, when we come back, I'm very triggered. Tonight,
I'm very triggered. It has nothing to do with the
Knicks taking a two to zero lead in their best
of seven series with the Pacers. It adds nothing to
do with Nikola Jokic winning the MVP, But holy smokes,
holy smokes, did tnt absolutely trigger me all night long?
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Speaker 1 (17:12):
This is where I love.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I love just laying out any topic on this show,
because there is a member of the Malord militia that
is into some.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Of it it.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
At any point there is someone at this god forsaken hour,
they can hear the mention of saying like a playoff, tall,
cocky talk, whatever it might be, and all of a
sudden you're like, oh, yeah, I'm down for that. Robin
Minnesota rights the Champions League game between Bayern Munich and
Real Madrid was actually the story of the day. Now,
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see Eddie, I don't even know what league that is.
It's one of my best friends. He runs the station
in toll so that we're on eleven seventy the Blitz.
Jeremy Poplin. I'm like, dude, you got to fill me
in on is this part of a tournament? Is this
part of a league?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
What is?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
He like, I don't have the time.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
It's like it's it's in depth, it's you don't want
to learn about it, you don't care. So it's like, wait,
hold on, is this is this what everybody cares about?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Is this the most important league?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
It's like no, No, it's like a tournament, so it's
not really that big of a deal.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
But it is a big deal.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Okay, so is this what everyone celebrates and sets couches
on fire for and all that kind of but not
really so. I at the very least with hockey in
the NBA, and we know what their big events are
they're going on right now, it's playoffs, I don't have
to figure out what's the big deal in soccer and
what is It.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Makes it easy.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I'm glad I don't have to figure out there because
I have no idea, no clue whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
All Right, So tonight in the NBA playoffs, you would
think the big story on T and T would be
the fact that the Nicks and the Pacers were playing
each other. And again I thought, just as a general thought, Eddie,
because we really haven't talked about it.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Thought a competitive game. We thought it was a fun game.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Now we'll get into insufferable Nick fans coming up a
little bit later on in the program, including the one
that suddenly discovered the NBA that I work with on
Sunday nights.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
But I think that's been a fun series so far.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
When we talk about non competitive games that have taken
place so far in the NBA playoffs, at the very least,
the Nicks and the Pacers. They've given us two pretty
good matchups, two great matchups. Dare I even say in
the first two games of the series.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah, I think it's been pretty good. I've been intrigued
with Jalen Brunson as someone who's not really a customer
of the NBA.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, I like the way you put that, not really
a customer of the NBA. So when I sent you
all these topics I want to talk about in seven
of them or NBA was that concerning for you this
evening or were you just like, yeah, I'll play a
long I mean, I'll.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Do the best I can. I'm not gonna sit here
and tell you I think I'm going.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
To Okay, Well, we're not gonna sit here and break
down whether or not they need to run more pick
and roll or what they need to do with their rotation.
But I will say this, one of the greatest moments
for me, just as a sports fan with no rooting interest,
was as a youngster watching Reggie Miller do his thing
in Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Right, We've had thirty for.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Thirties about it. It's really one of the greatest moments
maybe in sports.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Right here is in New York.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
The Knicks were cooking at that point, right, the Pacers
were cooking at that point.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
It was one of the great rivalries. Did we really
need to.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Spend the whole broadcast tonight talking about Reggie Miller being there?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I mean I get it.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
No, not the whole I mean, it could be a
nice little footnote, but.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Bro, it was.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
I felt like at some point someone finally said it
about halftime, after they did their all there, someone finally said, hey, guys,
let's focus on the game here a little bit. I
don't get it. I mean, do we understand that this
wasn't something that happened last year? Like literally books have
been written about this, movies have been made out in
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the thirty for thirties. But am I answer to picnic here?
Am I bringing everyone down? Whenever I'm saying, oh, you
know what, I couldn't care less about Reggie Miller calling
the game. He's a terrible analyst. I mean, he really
truly is. I like Reggie Miller. I love listening to
him when he's on with Dan Patrick here on Fox
Sports Radio. I think it's great. I love hearing him
talk about the game. Whenever he's on different podcasts and
(21:15):
things of that nature. But Eddie, when he's calling a game,
it's nails on chalkboard, and my man is never right.
You remember the CBS had the replay official. They might
still have him where they Jim Anson tonies, let's go
back to so and so. Let's see what he thinks.
And he was always wrong. Say I think this one's
gonna get overturned. Jeans Sterotor was the guy right before
(21:36):
Jean's territor. It was the guy that Jean's sterotor took
over for. He was Bless his heart, you know, I
don't think he was bad. He just it shows you,
bless his heart, It shows you how terrible he probably
was at his job. Now you fast forward to Reggie Miller,
and Reggie Miller is not very good as an analyst.
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I just don't get it. And we're going to spend
it's not even the thirty year anniversary or anything alread
even close, but it was, you.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Know, is nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
It's like, oh happy, twenty nine years, eight points and
nine seconds. One of the wildest things that's ever happened
in sports. And it became like the whole focus of
the broadcast tonight for some reason early on, and maybe
I'm being a little bit dramatic, but at what point,
Eddie do you step back and you say, all right, listen,
it's really cool that you're here.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
What a great moment. Let's actually focus on the game now.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
In fairness, you have Josh Hard who goes over and
adds to it a little bit when he drops the
F bomb, saying, hey, Eddie's all right, Eddie, Hey Reggie.
They're saying f you, Reggie, right, and so that kind
of adds to the whole allure of it.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
But I mean, come on, Eddie, what are we doing
right now?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Whenever that's the main focus of a broadcast where you
got the game going on for what felt like almost
the entire first half, makes no sense.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
No, I agree with you, and I think it's it's
very I don't know, it's enlightened, is the right word
of you, of someone who you know that that was,
of that general when that happened, And so we tend
to get locked into well, if I remember it, then
everybody watching should remember that too, And then I remember, oh,
I'm in my fifties. It's not everyone watching even remembers
(23:12):
that moment. I mean, if you're a big NBA fan,
you should know about the great historic moment. It's not
one of them. But no, that was a little over
the top. Like I said, you can't ignore it, No,
you can't, but mention it and move on.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
It was funny to me because everything was off.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
It wasn't even the right day to celebrate the anniversary
of it. It wasn't even it was the twenty ninth
year in so you know birthdays that suck, ones that
end in nine, nineteen, twenty nine, thirty nine, forty nine,
because it's like, Yeahray, congratulations on twenty nine years and
a day since it took place. Regiemail, I mean, if
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it's the thirty year anniversary, But come on. I love
TNT's coverage of the NBA. I think that I'm not
necessarily sick a fant for their show where everything Charles
Barkley says is the funniest thing ever and everything that
Kenny the Jet Smith says is right. But I love
watching the show. I think you learn a lot when
you suck them into this. It's like, oh, here we
got Reggie Miller. He's getting ready to call the game,
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joining us live, and you're not talking about what has
been the best games so far in the NBA Playoffs.
It makes no sense to me whatsoever, but congrats TNT.
You made it the sole focus of what you were
doing here tonight.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
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Speaker 3 (24:33):
It be Masuhara, the former translator of Showho Tani reached
a plea deal with federal prosecutors. He will be guilty
the charges of bank fraud and subscribing to a false
tax return. So we'll see what that gets in. But
I've never seen a story that potentially had so much
(24:54):
projuice and controversy around it go away and fade away
so quickly, but it did. Joliozni do not disagree, Eddie?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Can I pose a question off that?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Can we can we kind of simmer here for just
a little bit from the tirect dot com studios?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Did I mentioned the diirect dot com studios?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I still feel there's people that don't believe that show
Hey is an innocent victim in this, because there is
people that, obviously we could get political.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
There's people that still believe in election was fixed.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
There's people that, you know what am I talking about
there's people that think the Earth is flat, Eddie, there's
people that think that we didn't land on the moon, right.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I saw hilarious debate with somebody that thought the Earth
was flat, and just how it's just ForWord by how
he would not be moved. I mean, they're like, what
about pictures of uh, you know, the Earth from space?
Always like, well, where do those pictures come from? You know,
He's like, well where, why are there not any flat
Earth pictures?
Speaker 4 (25:58):
You know?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
He just he just would not move.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Man.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
He had an answer for everything.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Are all the people that were astronauts that went to
space paid off by the United States? Are they all
disappearing like the bowing the bone seven forty seven whistle blowers?
By the way, Eddie, funny story. I actually live kind
of with a conspiracy theorists, all right, conspiracy theorists. Is
that what my wife loves? The conversations that take you
(26:27):
way too deep, right? In other words, ninety nine point
nine percent of them are political. And I know we're
getting near. I know we're getting near election time because
a lot of our conversations when I bring something up
have included the response from her of well, that's what
they want you to think, or that's what they want
you to know. So that's whenever I know, I'm going
(26:47):
to get learned up Eddie about things like kim trails
and things like that. But in this world where we're
apt to believe just about anything and question about everything,
and that's fine, there's still a lot of people out
there that think that what's the translator's name, I al, he's
saying wrong.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I want to say it Pei for some reason.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Yeah, Coop, Coop, I'm sorry, I've been so greedy tonight.
By the way, the crew is here as justin Cooper
running the show. Lorena is on the ones and twos.
She got to hang out with us. She cut her
teeth before she got the call to the big show
right here with Big Ben Mallard and the crew with
Arnie and I on Sunday night. So it's good to
reconnect with her this evening. So good evening, good morning,
(27:30):
whichever way you look at.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
It, it's so nice to hear your voice right talking
hockey looking men at you. Let's go.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
But Eddie, I'm a firm believer that the only way
people would have believed show hey, one hundred percent is
if in that initial press conference he had come out
and said, yeah, you know, I got a gambling problem
and uh he Pey was the fall guy for it,
and I'm uh, I'm really sorry and I'm gonna work
(27:58):
to be better. Even with all this evidence, I'm guaranteeing
you tonight that there is more than a couple of
people that feel like this is some sort of cover
up job and IPAI has taken the fall for it. Right,
even with all this evidence, whenever the FBI is involved,
I guarantee you there are still some out there that
(28:18):
don't believe show Hey at the core of this, right, Oh.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I have no doubt. I'm sure Ben Mallory is definitely
one of those. Oh oh yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I just when this first came out, well, it kind
of broke in the overnight, right whenever this first came
out before, right around the opening series and the opening
weekend for the Dodgers, whenever they were overseas, and it
I remember waking up to the news It's like what
because it had become kind of a little bit of
(28:49):
a blip of a story. Hey, there's some issues with
show Hay's interpreter, and then the interpreter releases a statement that, oh, yeah,
everybody knows, and then you kind of wait, what he's
funneling money to And everyone just took that initial statement
as kind of a gospel, which is what we do.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
But I feel like this.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Has been one of the most amazing stories that has
absolutely disappeared. And I think part of the reason why
it's absolutely disappeared is because there's really even if you
are a firm believer that there's a conspiracy here, Eddie Garcia,
it's a really hard thing to shoot holes in with
how involved the fence have been, with how involved every
angle of this, and oh yeah, by the way, the
(29:34):
FBI isn't really in the business of protecting anybody anybody.
So I feel like that's I'm with you a hundred percent.
I feel like that's why you've seen it absolutely disappear
is because people realize, oh, wait a minute, maybe this
interpreter did absolutely act alone.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Yeah, there's definitely people who do not believe that this was,
you know, the way it's being portrayed, whether that's true
or not. But I mean, I've had people to reach
out to me on social media say we made a
deal with the Japanese government too, I'm like, but why,
but why why would we do that? I don't understand
(30:11):
to protect this hero of Japan or I mean, I okay,
but is that our job? I mean, you know, if
if he gets prosecuted, is that going to send spiral
the Japanese economy into uh? I mean, why why would what?
What's what's the purpose of us protecting him? I no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
But I think what's one of the wildest things in
all of this is how so many And I've argued
with people on Twitter and obviously on the phones at
eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox here eight seven
seven nine ninety six sixty three sixty nine, because the
whole idea is, well, how would you not know? How
would you not know? How would you not get alerts
(30:48):
from your bank? How would you not know? I'm like, guys,
do you understand that show he's probably worth like a
be a billion. I mean, there, he's got so much money.
I'm willing to bet you that they're I'm not going
to bet anyone on that anything. But there's a lot
of money that is in areas that is either protected
for him or that he doesn't really know much about.
And as we learned through this process, these banks will
(31:11):
communicate more with the interpreter than they might with the
actual athlete, and then the agents and the marketing people
will communicate more with the interpreter. So it's kind of
funny to me how we all took this from our
world Wolds. Well, I know, whenever money's leaving my bank,
you don't have like an eight million dollars in your
bank account. It's a little bit of a different world,
and you might have more financial people that are helping
(31:32):
you out. But I feel like over the last twenty
four hours, with this being the true final blow, I
think we all have to accept show he wasn't involved, Shoe,
he wasn't involved. And that's not the reason why the
Dodgers are on fire right now that they have been
set free from this.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
They're just a really good baseball team.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
But I just feel like it's fascinating to me that
there's going to be this faction that will just not
believe that, like the dude Eddie saw fighting on social
media about the world old being the Earth being flat,
he's just gonna be people today They're like, yeah, well
that's what they want you to think. So glad there's
some finality in this in the Dodgers are rolling when
we come back. I've been talking about it all hour long.
(32:11):
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Tirack dot com Fox Sports Radio Studios. In for Ben Maller,
(32:52):
it's Chris Plank.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
It's funny that you bring up the Ben Mallor Facebook page.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I was pointing out to Lorrain and Koup that Eddie
every night that I get the blessed opportunity to sit
in with y'all, or when I do the weekends, whenever
Bernie takes time off, I find myself scrolling Facebook way
too much, and I'm never on Facebook, and then I'll
like something just says, oh, that's cute picture, or I'll
(33:19):
see you know the high school X from thirty years
ago her daughter's Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I mean, I'm just it's a problem. I think it's
an issue.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Can you imagine if somebody has their notifications on and
they see that a high school classmate like to picture
at one forty nine in the morning, Eddie, that's a problem.
That's a that's a real problem right now. So I'm
gonna go ahead and cause And also, by the way,
for those who are like, well, just say out, well,
this is how Coop and I communicate. We get the
(33:50):
messenger up and he lets me know when people like
jet who fled or on hold or whenever you guys
are hanging out at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
So it's kind of a hazard of the of the business.
You're not a big Facebook guy, though, are you at it?
Speaker 3 (34:02):
I'm not. I've I used to be, and then I
just kind of stopped. I guess I went over to Twitter,
and you know they have that like you said, with
you and Coop talking on the Facebook Messenger. I won't
check it for like a month, and then I go
on there. I'm like, oh, some somebody reached out about Hey,
let's you know they'll do something. Oh hey, I didn't
see this for a month. I apologize trying to be
(34:24):
a jerk.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
You want to give you an idea of just how
often I find myself on the old book of faces
I have, I have justin and I was last conversation
took place on December twenty sixth, so it's been a
minute to been a minute. I'm sorry, But you want
to wrap up hour one with Jet who Fled? I mean,
is there is that a you gotta remember now it's
(34:46):
been a minute since I've talked to Jet who Fled?
So Eddie, if you give the thumbs up, is this
a good way to start the phone tonight, I'm down
with it.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Uh. Yeah, we talked to him yesterday and I think
it was yesterday, and well he helped me in when
no Brian knows connection dropped. Oh hell he was, yeah,
he did. Any he had a great suggestion about the
all hell team, which you're talking about. So yeah, I
think it's a good idea. That's great.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
All right, Well here we go our co host Jet,
who fled Good Morning Jet.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
How are you?
Speaker 6 (35:17):
I'm great, dude, I hope you will. Can you believe
the idiots out here conspiratorial breathing, I mean out breathing
idiots suits. I'll tell you example of a smart person
that doesn't believe conspiracy. A guy on Fox Sports Radio
Airways referenging thirty for thirties out of Bristol, Connecticut, multiple
times in genious move in genious they love military style
to raise okay, the hemorrhd sickle networks, avoid them, avoid them.
(35:37):
That's not in English, even in Russian. It's Soviets to
never refres them again, Please please to leave it. I'm
gonna have nightmares about it, bringing everybody down with that,
but I'm gonna bring him right back up. I remember
of the media hates hate hockey and love basketball the
same reason. They have different opinions on New Zealand sports team.
One's all black, ones all white. You cannot be taking
(35:59):
one of those of the other. I think we know
which one in today's time. You did, unless you want
to get fired?
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (36:05):
No, I don't think that's I don't think there's a
racial component to that.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Is that what you're trying to say here.
Speaker 6 (36:11):
Jed, No, I'm not trying to say that. I'm directly
stating that. Also, Nash Nashcar is awesome, dude. I've been
the one race in my life and you can't you
can't count tickets, but me and a guy may not contact.
We nodded and made it happen. My brother paid one
hundred and seventy five dollars for two tickets. I'm paid
fifty and I'm looking straight down at the checkers line.
(36:33):
I'll never go to another race because you can't beat that.
You can't beat that. There's twenty laps left and I
don't know, I don't know how the the milege works.
And I'm like, there's two four last minute. Luckily that
there was not there was not, And they's like, what
you had this guy get this ticket. I was the
only one of my faction with my shirt on.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
It was awesome.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
It was very cool, very cool. Well y'all have him
do it? And that's that thick up.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Yeah, you know there's a part of me that wonders
as kind of a Jet who Fled fan fan, not
kind of I like Jet who Fled? I wonder if
it's all a bit, And then there's a part of
me that's like, nah, now that's really him. I do
like the idea of asking someone is are you kind
of saying this? And they're like, no, no, Eddie, I'm
absolutely saying that. Yeah, yeah, ah, Jet who Fled? What
(37:20):
a way to start at eight seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox eight seven seven nine ninety six sixty three
six names the Hammer and Sickle Network. Huh interesting. I've
heard of the four Letter, I've heard of the mother Ship,
but I've never heard of the Hammer and Sickle Network.
That's a How about Woke Center here? Oh, woke Center? Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
(37:40):
woke Center. It's kind of funny. I'm thinking about my
approach here and people might think, boy, he's really left waning. Nah,
it's just funny to me, how how Jed's on point.
But yet, in that same vein, it's like, I don't
think there's a racial component on how these sports are covered.
But again, it's the middle of the night. We'll do
whatever it takes. Jed to get you fired up when
we come back to the tyrack dot com studios.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Let's dive into a.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Little bit more of what we learned in the NBA
Playoffs Round two and the Stanley Cup Playoffs as well.
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