May 14, 2026 • 40 mins
Chris Plank fills in for Ben Maller and talks about the Cleveland Cavaliers going up 3-2 against the Detroit Pistons and coming within 1 win of facing the Knicks in the Eastern Conference Finals, what's next for LeBron James, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, thanks for listening to the Ben Maler Show podcast.
It's me Ben. Be sure to catch us live every
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Thalt Scout, Thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It is a.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Wednesday night into a Thursday morning, or for those of
us in God's time zone, happy Thursday Morning to the
third Shifters.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Kind of like to always look at this.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I mean, that's that great debate, right like the great
Art Bell he used to say, good evening, good afternoon,
good morning. Wherever you may listen, be listening along these great,
great United States of America. I never really know what
to say, because, like Lorrain and Coop, they're in the
middle of let's go.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Let's hit the clubs, let's go, let's go. In my
time zone, it's kind of like bro, I did even
get to bed.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
It's like one am. You know what am I doing here?
And on the East Coast, you know they've they've been
in bed for a while, but I'm I'm always pumped
when I get a chance to hang out with the
Mallard militia, and we'll do it for the next four hours.
Here on Fox Sports Radio, we have a bevy of
topics to get into, including but not limited to the
(01:37):
NBA Playoffs.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I was listening to Jason Smith.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I say this a lot on our Sunday night show
that I do Sunday nights from ten p to one
a Central Time with Arnie Spanier.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I listen to Jason and Mike more than anyone.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
It's just that's that's the show that's on whenever you know,
I'm usually out and about or that is my appointment listening.
And I'm just gonna tell you right now, there is
a topic in the sports world that I'm sure there's
a faction of you that are already tired of. And
(02:10):
we have games going on on the court, so it's
a little bit frustrating when you get caught up in
a non game story I think in the middle of
the playoffs. But hearing Jason and Mike talk about Lebron
James what his future looks like, I mean, come on,
(02:31):
that's like music to my ear. I'm so infatuated with
this story. Now, now let's be clear. I spent the
better part of a month infatuated with the Mike Vrabel
Diana Rassini story, and I think it reached the point
where I was like, oh, okay, I think we know
a little bit too much here. It's time to move
on in life. So I finally got over that a little.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Bit, A little bit. Isn't it amazing?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
By the way, side story on that, How dude, our
dudets will become experts on something And the next thing,
you know, someone you've never heard of, with like five
thousand followers on Twitter, You're like, ooh, what does Kyle
Stevens have? What does uh what does Justin have on
the latest Diana Rassini Mike Rabel stuff? You know, I
just like, I can't help I'm sucked in. I'm sucked in.
(03:19):
But I got over that a little bit. So I wonder.
I wonder if the the Lebron talk will be something
that by the time we finally get two set off
season for all the NBA. Obviously, the Lakers were in
the off season after they couldn't even compete in Game
one in the second half, but we'll get into it.
(03:40):
I I'm just gonna go ahead and apologize to the
Mala militia here in the first segment. I'm gonna apologize
to Fox Sports radio listeners everywhere. I'm hooked on it.
I'm I'm dialed into it as a Laker fan. I'm
intrigued by it. But you know, you want to know
what's next. You want to know if he's got to
be back with the Lakers, if it's even the right
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which sounds crazy to say.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
It really does if you think about it.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
The all time leading score in NBA history, a guy
who's got rings, a guy who's won MVPs, a guy
who is playing in his forties like he was in
his you know, early thirties, late twenties.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
It sounds wild to say is that even the right
move for the team?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
And then you add into the mix the reported I
don't know if you would say disdain unlike on comfortableness?
Is that even a word between he and Luca Doc?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Dont you? So?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I do want to talk to some Lebron. Maybe should
I have like a Lebron warning tonight, Koop, Like we
have a little alarm that we play where people are like, Okay, listen,
I'm gonna go to the conspiracy theory talk if you
talk Lebron, because I think there is a faction that
is over it.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Like, for instance, I do I do a local show.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I in fact I and broadcasting live from the k
r e F Studios, the home of Sooner Fans, which
is a proud affiliate of Fox Sports Radio when we're
not local, and if I were to bring up Lebron
on my show locally, I would be tard and feathered.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I would be boom, what are you doing? Bro?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
We've got spring football that just wrapped up, you got
Sooner softball, We've got the thunder.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
What are you doing? But it is, I mean, it's
one of the biggest stories in sports right now.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
So we'll we'll get into it. Lorena work on the
Lebron warning siren that we can have and take people funk.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, I find I don't know what.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Maybe it's someone crying, maybe it's someone yelling at the officials,
maybe it's someone flop and I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Just just find it it, find it, make it work.
It's wild.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
The NBA playoffs are always one of the most anticipated times.
I think of the Year. And this comes from someone
who has loved the NBA since birth. I feel like
every single time you explain your passion for a sport
or the why behind it, you give kind of your
fan or resume right, so me give you my fan
(06:15):
or resume here real quick. I grew up loving the Lakers.
My dad grew up loving the Celtics. Gen Xer's child
of the eighties. You guys know what that was all about.
And it's just that we didn't get a lot of NBA.
I lived in Sae, I grew up just outside of
Saint Louis, and Saint Louis wasn't really an NBA mecca, right,
I know. We It's like Jason Chatis from Saint Louis,
(06:37):
What are you talking about. Ain't a soul from Saint
Louis to cared about the NBA for the longest time, Okay.
And it just wasn't a big deal. We had the Cardinals,
we had the Blues, we even had the Big Red,
we had the old Saint Louis Cardinals back in the day.
And it's just it wasn't big in the market that
I grew up in. But I loved it. I moved
to Oklahoma. I was here for the start of my career.
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I did sports talk radio back in the nineteen hundreds
whenever I got started, and if you talked about the
NBA during that span here again, you would not have
been very popular. But the Thunder get the Oklahoma City
gets a team. It's wildly successful. It goes to the Tank.
Now that everyone's trying to emulate, the Clippers are dumb
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enough to give them Shay Gilgess Alexander as part of
a deal for Paul George, and I guess you could
say the rest is history. They're going to be a
two time back to backworld champion. And all that being said,
I live in a market I now, as a fan
of the sport, am in a city that is.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Crazy for the NBA, crazy for the NBA. I just moved.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
The house down the street from me has an inflatable
Bison that's got a Thunder jersey on, because that's kind
of our mask gut, you know, it's just that, that's
what it is. And I say all that, I give
you all that background to basically let you know that
I am not an anti NBA person. I am not
somebody that comes to this network to this show tonight
(08:08):
as a person that looks at the NBA as shut
up and dribble too, political player run league that all
those different, I guess you could say attributes that are
associated with the league that some try to paint as
declining and popularity.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I am not that guy. I love the NBA.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I have found that the games not involving my team
have become incredibly unwatchable. And I don't know and now listen,
it's the job boohoo buckeroo. Right, just ran into a
guy stopped at seven eleven because I don't know if
you all are familiar with what my My key to
(08:49):
success is here with the BN Mallard Show is I
have Let's see, I have two celsiuses and I have
two bush lights. And depending on how things go in
the first hour, we're either going celsias an hour or
we're going a couple of bush lights just to get
through the thing. Okay, it's one or the other. But
like I was, I was. I was stopping at a
(09:09):
seven eleven and I was talking to the dude and
he was, man, I've been here since two o'clock. Can't
wait till five am when I'm off, and I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Myself, dang, that's a long shift.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Could you imagine though, if he had a sprinkle in
watching these NBA playoffs, it'd be even worse. He has
another pain that we're having a feel right now, having
to sit through that damn Cleveland Cavaliers Detroit Pistons game.
Does he know the horror of having to watch the
second half of Games one through three of the thunder
Lakers series? Was he paying attention? Even though, in fairness,
the Tea Wolves Spur series has been incredibly fascinating right
(09:42):
just at least with the elbows storyline and kind of
how the game is played out. But I I mean,
this is this has just not been a banner playoffs.
I think for the NBA you had the upset where
the Celtics blued and the Sixers moved on, and then
(10:02):
suddenly the Knicks have found like another level of shooting,
another level of ball. I'm not you know, I don't
know the how or the why behind it, but it
is what it is. So all that all that background,
I'm a fan. I love it. I'm in a market
that's sick for it. It's just I don't think it's
(10:24):
been incredibly entertaining.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
And I've got a checklist of things here that throughout
the night we can go through. I would love to
hear from dissenting voices at eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox Tonight, we still take calls, right, Loraina Coop,
we still take I like to hear that eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine ninety
six six three sixty nine. I've got just a few
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things throughout the night that I'd love to sprinkle in
and get your takes.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Just one that's pretty obvious, and this is I could
go to.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I think for every host, not every play is a foil,
Not every play is a foul. And we are in
an era, a time, a spot in this sport where
nobody thinks that they ever had.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
A play that they made where they weren't fouled.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
And it's not just oh God, I was fouled and
then run back on defense, you know, it was, oh
it's fouled. It's like y'all went to drama class or something.
And I again, I'm reaching that age, reaching that age.
I'm at that age now where I'm kind of like
old man yelling at clouds. I am my wife calls
me the grumpy old man. Now, I don't know why.
(11:38):
I just hate everything, and it's the NBA, this sport
that I love, this league that I grew up on,
this association that in my city where I live, is dominating.
I can't watch it outside of my teams, and even
when I do, it's not competitive. Maybe it's a situation, right,
(12:01):
Maybe it's a situation where we're getting down to the
teams that truly have it, and maybe those two teams
are spurs thunder. You know, twenty twenty or twenty twenty one,
in college basketball, we knew who the two best teams
in college basketball was. It was Gonzagon Baylor, and the
whole season was waiting to see Gonzagon Baylor play in
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the national Championship game.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
And guess what they did.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
And it was It was not a great game, but
it was a highly anticipated game.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
And there were you know, there were.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Good games throughout the tournament, right, Yeah, the buzzer beater
are there.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
That was great, But.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Everyone kind of knew what was inevitable. And I wonder
if that's where we are with these NBA playoffs. Maybe
all my handwringing, all my frustration all my disappointment, all
my disdain is going to be fixed when you have
OKC and San Antonio go at it, the one team
(12:58):
right now that you kind of feel like.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Has a shot to derail the Thunder.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Pardon my improper English, And I don't think I'll be
judged here this evening. Ain't nobody got anything for the
Thunder in the East. Are you watching those games? Okase?
He's doing this without one of their best players, Okay.
And I'm not trying to come at this as an
arrogant Thunder fan, all right. I'm just observing what I
see day in and day out. It's the reality of
the league right now. And maybe maybe getting OKAC in
(13:25):
San Antonio in the NBA's Western Conference Finals might be
a good precursor to really getting these playoffs back on track,
making them more entertaining. Now there might be a faction
of you they just love the game. I did a
lot of work with a guy named Rick Camler. Rick's
(13:46):
a great NBA mind, and anytime I would complain about
the association to him, his reaction would be, what are
you talking about? You know the NBA They had me
at the logo. Maybe there's a faction that's feeling that tonight.
I don't know. But the bottom line, more than anything else,
is I look at a league that needs its players
(14:08):
to stop being babies. Here's the second thing, and this
might be I mean, Coop and Lorena may laugh hysterically
back in the studio. I find it incredibly hard to
find the games.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I mean, as goofy as that sounds.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
You know, there's these things that local newspapers do now
on Twitter on X and I think we've all seen them,
and it'll be.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
How to watch the game.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
And I would always push back on those and say,
you turn on your TV. It's not real freaking hard.
But with the NBA, all of a sudden, I'm kind
of like, wait, am I on Prime tonight? Do I
need to have my ESPN app? Are we still doing TNT?
Is this thing on NBC. It's like, I have found
that it's incredibly hard to find the games. So with
that in mind, I've got a laundry list of I'm
(14:59):
not here to fix things tonight.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I'm usually a guy that whenever I have a problem,
I'm going to present a way to fix it. I
don't have a way to fix this tonight, except maybe patience.
I don't think too many teams tanking has anything to
do with it. I don't think the amount of talent
in the.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
League is down.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
In fact, we might have more talented players than we've
ever had. Now, we might not have better basketball players,
but we definitely have more talented and more athletic dudes
than we've ever seen before.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
But it's just been a hard watch.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Man been a hard watch, and maybe it's just a
precursor towards that thunder Spur series, which seems inevitable if
San Antonio can take care of Minnesota tonight. The other
thing that is weighing heavy on me this evening here
on the Ben Malor Show Chris Blink sitting in on
Fox Sports Radio is the NFL schedule release.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Y'all.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I am drunk for the NFL, and I am basically
that I'm that girl at the end of the bar,
and whatever the NFL sells me, I'm gonna buy it,
and I'm gonna love it, and I'm gonna go home
with it, and I don't care. I love the NFL,
but I hate the way they do the schedule release, the.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Leaks, the trickling out of games.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
It's like, if we're gonna do a schedule release, just
release the damn things.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I mean, as we sit here tonight.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
I was listening to Brian No last night and he
was right, you could start patching things together, you know,
you start kind of looking at it, and it's all
the extra work to patch things together. And I don't
really I don't want to work that hard. I mean,
just just give me the damn schedule. I'm not somebody
who gets overly obsessed or overly cares about the overseas
(16:46):
games or the the nationally televised games. I want to
know when my teams already know when. In the NFL,
you already know who's playing. You already know when they're
going to play, or excuse me, who they're gonna play.
You just don't know win or on what network. But
yet the NFL has this, I guess you could say,
(17:07):
hold on us to where every single little leak becomes
oh my gosh, did you see this?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Oh my god, look at this.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I didn't know about something called nerding on the NFL,
but I follow it whenever it comes to schedule leaks season,
but I hate it.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
It's one of those moments I mean, I think we've
all had crutches.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Maybe even the term addictions can be used where it's like, man,
can't get enough of this? But I hate that I
do now. I'm not trying to go dark here and
talk you know, alcohol or drugs or anything. Still very
early in the night. We haven't reached the golden hour yet.
But it's like that's me with the NFL, and I hate.
I hate that I'm scrolling this. I hate that I'm
following every leak. I'm like, wait a minute, is that
(17:53):
real that the Dolphins and the Raiders are going to
play in Week one?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Where did that come from? Who released that? Is that? Is?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Is that true that in week eighteen that Ben Gosling's
reporting that it's going to be the Bears and the Vikings.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I mean, it's not really gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Are the Niners and the Giants playing in week thirteen
in a noon game?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
It's ah, but yet here I am here, I am.
I'm a sucker.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Plank's a sucker when it comes the NFL and the
schedule release. So I've been I've been patching it all together.
And because I guess we can't wait until later on
this evening when the whole schedule gets released, I'll do
my best coming up later on the program. I mean,
like hour three, we'll go through all the games we
(18:35):
know so far, and then the NFL releases the games
that are going to be played overseas. It's just I
hate that, I like it is what I'm saying. I
need help. But maybe at some point we won't be
as sick for it as we are and the NFL
can kind of change the way to present it. One
other note here in the opening, college football is always
(19:00):
a tough sell.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I think in the overnights.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
I know that my guy Shady sewan Ford twenty any
single time I bring up anything college sports related is
going to pepper me on Twitter with disdain, frustration, and
the h I guess you could say sports equivalent of
how dare you? But again, fan resume, I live in
a place where college sports is king. I live in
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a college town. If the NBA isn't one when the
thunder I went into title, it's college sports. And we
have a lot going on in the world of college football.
And I'm saying that in May we have Lane kiffinster
in the pot, We've got conference meetings, going on. We've
got debates about what the future of the college football
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playoff is going to look like. It's it's an absolute mess,
and I think I think.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
We have a path towards success.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
I think we can look at things now and realize,
all right, so that's what it's got to look like
if we're going to get this thing under control. And
maybe some people don't think it needs to be under
control at all. But I got all the news notes
in tidbits, including Lane Kiffin attempting to walk back a
little bit of what he said in Vanity Fair. First
of all, hand up, I didn't know Vanity Fair was
(20:18):
still a thing. I thought it kind of went the
way of like Sports Illustrated, you know, I didn't really
know that magazines were still a thing. But we'll get
to the latest from Lane Kiffin. And then you add
to it, the most powerful man in college football, or
at least the dude that's had the title, is speaking
out against one of the more powerful entities in the
(20:38):
Coaches Association, and he he's not happy with the way
things are going. So we'll dive into that coming up
on a busy night here on Fox Sports Radio. It's
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Back even Though i'm sitting here And i'm complaining about THE,
NBA i will give you what we learned tonight from
That Calves pistons. Series Because pistons once again find themselves
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Thing we'll dive into it coming up.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
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Speaker 2 (22:15):
Loraina how are oh my, gosh so glad to be?
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Here how come you guys don't get a vacation When ben's.
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Gone that's a good.
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QUESTION i don't have enough vacation days to do anything
more Than i've been.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Doing ben hardly, ever takes any time off though he.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
Doesn't, Yeah i'm glad him And aaron are taking this extra.
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Time, uh you, know, uh and respect.
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Coop how are? You what's?
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HAPPENING i always tell the story every Time i'm on
one of my. Bosses it's like you were on With,
coop like he's a movie. Star SO i always feel
LIKE i CAN i need to get an autograph Picture
coop SO i can show off to my boss here
At Sooner. Vision you, know we have some unfinished business
because when last we, Talked, kop you were on your
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way to the.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
What was it THE Afc divisional game Of. Broncos, yeah
how did?
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Well OBVIOUSLY i know the game didn't go as you wanted,
To but how was the? Experience?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
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Speaker 4 (23:17):
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Speaker 2 (23:21):
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Speaker 3 (23:24):
Was it was an, insane amazing. GAME i feel LIKE
i aged twenty years watching that. Game, uh but it.
Was it was a weird experience because the joy was
very short. LIVED i was still walking back to the
hotel from the stadium when the news broke about Bo nix's.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Ankle that was, crazy like literally literally five minutes on
a play that nobody even thought. Anything, yeah now you
know WHAT i care.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
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yes how did it? Work everybody was? Cool?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
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IF i, remember.
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get a decent, price BUT i was only able to
find two tickets in the same row and there were
eight seats between, US i, believe. Right SO i got
there and it was like a family of. Four maybe
(24:42):
there was nine seats between, us but there was a
family there AND i asked them if they were willing
to move down one, seat and the dad was, like you,
know sure if everybody else, agrees.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
You, know Like i'll move.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
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and they Were bills. Fans oh, no AND i was,
like uh, oh but they were totally they were, like oh,
yeah no. Problem and then the last people was a
group of three people who Were broncos season ticket. Holders
and this is WHERE i was like. Nervous oh, yeah
(25:18):
AND i you, know he comes and he's like like
they we were, there sitting in the. Seats and then
they were the last ones to show. Up they showed
up basically right when the game, started AND i was, like,
hey do you mind moving down one seat SO i
could sit next to my, Wife and immediately he was, like, no,
man these are our. Seats and he's like he's, like you,
(25:38):
Know he's Like i'm, sorry you, KNOW i don't know
if other people are going to show. Up and then
we're in their. Seat AND i was, like oh. NO
I i was, LIKE i already asked. Everybody they're all,
like we all they all. AGREED i have two like
AND i, said that's my seat right, there and this
is my seat right. HERE i have both of these.
Seats they already moved, down so it's just you, know one.
More and he's, like, oh he's, like, OKAY i kind of. Misunderstood,
(26:00):
yeah that's no. Problem, yeah and then, yeah we Were
they became buddies and we watched the whole game.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Together so it was.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Cool watch The broncos beat The. BILLS i don't know
WHY i was thinking that you were at the championship,
game but 'tis is what it.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Is did you end up going to the championship? Game? No,
oh good. Call that would have been.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Enraging, yeah but you got to see the greatest moment
maybe that we've had for The broncos in a, Minute so.
Kudos have they sent anything about How bonix is progressing
or did?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
HE i, MEAN i haven't heard.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Anything All i've heard is that we didn't know what
city the game was going to be in for the
opener against The, chiefs and then we found out like
two hours, later, well well we don't know it's. City
and then it's, like, oh, yeah it's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Here.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Yeah so a couple of weeks ago they said that
he had a second procedure to clean UP i, guess
but the reports were that it was expected and it's,
not you, know not a. SETBACK i read something maybe
the day or two ago from THE GM i believe
(27:04):
because they just extended him through twenty Thirty George. PEYTON
i think they said that he'll be ready For mini.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Caamp so there you.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Go all, Right, Well i'm glad that. Was it was
something that AS i, was it shows you how weird
in my mind. Works i'm driving into the studios and
as a, Plum i'm, like, DUDE i get to hang
With loraina And coop AND i don't, know maybe Maybe
Blind scott'll call, tonight maybe we'll hear from weed man.
Hippie i'm, like oh, gosh you gotta find out If
coop got to sit next to his fiance at The broncos.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Game so big night for. Me, hey by the, Way,
lorena where Did ben? Go do we?
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Know is he is he being vocal about this? One
or is he keeping it low key because he doesn't
want his throngs of fans to follow.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
HIM i do believe he was decently open about it
at the meet and, greet at least him And. Aaron
after The boston meet and greet took a nice drive
up To New york to go visit some.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Family, Ooh now on their drive up To New, york
are they stopping to See Arnie?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Spanier, NO i wouldn't blame. Him can you imagine? THAT
i was.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
WONDERING i was, LIKE i feel like he did mention,
him BUT i. Don't, YEAH i don't think he's stopping.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
It, Yeah arnie AND i have done a show together
for about twelve years.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Now as old as my.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
DAUGHTER i, know right were our show is as old
as your daughter And. Lorena you worked with us for
a minute On sunday.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
NIGHT i did good.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Times i've still never been in the same room with.
Him i've never met him in.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
Po you've never met him in?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Person, no not at.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
All, well first of, All arnie never leaves his. House you,
know that's one. THING i, mean he is a self
proclaimed trophy, husband so he. Doesn't he's one of those
fortunate ones that you know doesn't have A monday a
nine to five or A monday Through. Friday he does
The sunday night show and that's really about. It and
then he claims he's going to all these events and
(28:54):
he never. Does, so, yeah that doesn't surprise me at.
All that shouldn't surprise you all that we've never been.
Together all, right well, Cool, well so the crew is
here And, lorena things are going.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Good you're staying.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Busy the rest was good and leading up for tonight's,
show everybody's fired up and ready for the next three
hours in twenty.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Minutes oh, yeah and me And coop Have coldstone ice,
cream so we are just we're, ready.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Is how? What very?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Envious, No i'm not eating sugar right, now SO i
would be. Tempted that would be Very that's very good
That i'm. Here it's FUNNY i say That i'm one
of those guys LIKE i am not eating. Sugar i'm
staying away from it AND i. Won't but, literally like
five minutes before the, SHOW i just Housed Dr pepper
like it was the last Thing i've ever had in.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Mind and that is.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Three times your daily sugar amount already.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Understood, Understood but it wasn't even A Doctor pember zero
or a Diet Doctor.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Pepper it. Was it was the.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Original but in, FAIRNESS i did start drinking it before
midnight and THEN i finished it after. Midnight so does
that MEAN i can carry it over to two days or?
Not you see him trying to.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
ME i like your math, there BUT i.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
DON'T i don't know if that's how that. WORKS i don't.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Understand Diet Doctor pepper is one of the best diet
SODA's out.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
THERE i.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Agree i'm not arguing with, You, coop you. WIN i
made a poor choice. Here it was JUST i don't drink.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Soda but, again LIKE i, SAID I i'm moving all,
Right i'm in The i'm in. Hell have you? Guys
what's the Al pacino?
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Movie is The Longest yard where he's talking to the
team before the game and he's, LIKE i ruined.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
EVERYTHING i ever had in.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Life the difference between winning and losing is a fight
for every, inch you, know and. Uh it's one of
my favorite movie scenes ever because he opens it up
or he, Goes we're in.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Hell we're in. Hell that's WHERE i feel right. Now
i'm in hell right. Now SO i got.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
HERE i DON'T i have to do it THAT i
usually have a studio at.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Home not a humble, brag just the.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Reality AND i there was a fridge full of soda
AND i didn't even think about.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
IT i was, LIKE i am killing one of those right.
Now before.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
This IF i would have been, SMART i would have
looked right next to it and, thought there is a,
diety Doctor, pepper there's a Diet. Coke i'll take. It
when's the last time either one of you, Moved? Coop
when's the last time you? Moved has it been a?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
While twenty? Twelve, Okay?
Speaker 7 (31:15):
Lorena oh, gosh maybe four years?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Ago?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Now, okay so yours is a little bit more, recent, Right, YEAH.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
I don't get to move as much as In.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
La you, Know i'll blame, you ladies and.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Gentlemen there is no hell like the hell of, moving
especially when you add in two daughters at twelve and,
seventeen who have amassed a wealth of. Crap Now i'm
guilty of this, too, Right i'm a little bit of
a hoarder when it comes to. Things but, dude we
(31:50):
had we had a moving truck come On, monday AND i,
said down the, Street, loraina we're more like fifteen minutes.
Away we're moving from actually one city to, another but
it's literally like a five mile. Move and the moving
truck showed up at nine. Am great, Dudes even THOUGH
(32:11):
i did have to break out a chainsaw because they
got their moving truck stuck on a.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Tree AND i felt like a manly.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
MAN i grabbed that chainsaw AND i cut down that
freaking limb LIKE i was Hacksaw Jim. Duggan, well EVEN
i don't know the Hacksaw Jim duggan ever have a
chainsaw LIKE i. WAS i don't Know jason From friday the,
thirteenth whatever it might. BE i cut that. DOWN i felt.
Manly they started at nine. Am do you know what
time they got? Done eleven? Pm? What and then they
(32:41):
had to go back the next day because they couldn't get.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Everything it took that. Long, yes.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Do you know What mike garage is right down my
new beautiful Ows it's boxes Boxes almost.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Cussed i'm, SORRY i don't want to have to check.
TEST i got a dumb, hit you got, dumb but
it's just boxes of. CRAP i don't even know what's in.
IT i don't.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Know we can't find. Anything Here's here's what's happened is we've.
Moved we put everything in, boxes and we just go
to the store and buy what we. Need now tonight
we went and bought a pan so we could. Cook
it's because we can't find our pots and pans anywhere
because we moved.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Them so it's been a little bit, hellish but we're getting.
There it's pretty.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
Lucky you get, movers. THOUGH i usually you, know you
have to bring all your family, members your aunts and your.
Uncles who has a. Truck, okay let's get this book.
Together that's really. Convenient you got like people to box
it up for, you, Though my, guy.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Yeah we, well, no, no, no but they didn't box it.
Up they just took the.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Boxes oh, okay right right, Now i'm not, Listen i'm
Not ben Malur. Rich, Okay i'm JUST i got enough
money to pay for the. Movers so if every so
often you see me kind of lose my mind a little,
bit that's. Why all, right, Anyway Lorena, Coop i'm pumped
to hang with you guys. Tonight line them up eight
seven seven ninety nine On fox eight seven seven nine
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Tonight there's a lot to get to on the. Show
(35:17):
BUT i did say i'd love to hear From Blind.
Scott look who's first up? Tonight let's go to the
phones eight, seven seven ninety nine On. Fox what's, Up Blind?
Scott how are?
Speaker 2 (35:27):
You?
Speaker 5 (35:27):
Man So christen spent about nine months SINCE i talked to.
You you, Know i've spent about six thousand dollars On
SERIOUS xm subscription SINCE i got. It SO i feel
Like i'm part of this new. Home you can welcome
me in whenever you. Charts but, yeah ever since the
twenty and THIRTEEN i got locked. UP i was in
solitary confinement for like seventy two. Days so they let
(35:47):
me get it AND i so whenever you're, ON i
consume it because you've Got you're really good at. Radio
you're coming out of the. Break it's really. Good you
do good contents That i'm not used. To like whatever
you're doing down there down, south you know all up
here in The Northeast, quarter you, know, yeah yeah. Yeah,
so LIKE i Met, ben we were all hanging, out,
Me coop And lorena On friday night over At. Fenway
(36:08):
chris was recently In boston for The navy And army
game At, fenway So coop And loraina were At fenway
parking On coop left something you'll have to ask the next, Hour,
chris you have something out of that trip To. Denver
So chris goes on vacation To colorado every year and
he Loves. Colorado But coop left the worst part of
the story out purposely to not offend, You, chris because
(36:29):
you'll be mad when he tells you what happened to
him when he went there was not. Good it was
not a good, trip not, memorable and he would not
given an endorsement Of colorado after you hear. This BUT
i don't wanted to eat into my airtime, though BECAUSE
i just Met Ben miller and he guided me all
around this bar and the listeners were buying me like twelve,
dakers AND i on think Met lorainer in them for
an hour and a half and then they left me
at the bar by myself AND i closed the place
(36:52):
down and they all ran, away AND i Met ben's
wife And ben in front at me in front of
my apartment and was, like can you stop backing crazy
on social? Media it'supposed to present the show. Better AND
i never see him that, mad BUT i was at
the real funny like running up to. Him but it
was really great to see. Him, like So i've Met
ben more Than chris. Has benman's only met him once
at A denny's like down the street for breakfast When
(37:13):
chris was in town. Before LIKE i Know chris's whole
radio career Because i'm a huge. Fan so we'll talk
in forwards either LIKE i Know reck, whatever It's Rex
jones or. Whatever but that's off for this. Show But,
Chris i'm so happy you through the. Time i'm gonna
listen to the whole. Show you. KNOW i love it
when you're On Fox Sports radio because you usually talk
to people like you'll ask advice To lorena about your
(37:33):
family in a little, while AND i just can't. WAIT
i would talk through this whole, segment BUT i haven't
been able to get on the radio In. Boston they
brought me from all the social media pages Because i'm
obsessed with This Mike rabel. Thing i'm posting about. It
Mike brable was in my neighborhood having that affair when
he was With Diane. Rasenia he was right across the
street from me having. BREAKFAST i swear he was Using
(37:53):
Josh craft's apartment in the neighborhood WHERE i live to
have an affair with, her right on The Boston. Harbor
So i've been obsessed with this with the Sports hub
so they won't take my calls. Anymore they won't communicate with.
Me they blot me from WS an and the sports.
HUBS i talked about it so. Much you, know you
can't get enough of, it you know What i'm, saying
kicking enough of. Radio you KNOW i love.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
It, Hey Blind, scott thanks, BUDDY i appreciate the. Support
so you guys hung out With Blind. Scott huh we?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Did how'd that?
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Go?
Speaker 2 (38:25):
FINE i THOUGHT i Heard lorena laughing in the. Background
she was.
Speaker 7 (38:29):
Calling, YEAH i have A after The boston meet and,
GREET i kind of lost my voice to.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Bed don't blame. You, uh you know it's.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
FUNNY i have broke bread With Ben mallor before it
was in two thousand and. Seven, now this is gonna seem,
crazy all, right think about. This we had A Fox
Sports Radio christmas party and it was it was D luxe.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Y'all, oh, Yeah i've heard about this is back in
the day when it back when they actually put time
and effort and money into The christmas.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Parties, yeah they flew me.
Speaker 7 (39:06):
In shut, Up, no they did.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
NOT i kid you. Not, gosh dang, it, MAN i
gotta watch my mouth. TONIGHT i kid you.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Not Oh i'm ready to dump.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
You are you?
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Ready well let me be cause it's actually a really
cool STORY i. Had it was. SEVEN i had just
gone through a. DIVORCE i met this girl THAT i really.
Liked we'd been dating for about six, months And Annie
zaderevich was running and she's, like we want to fly
in for The christmas party and do your show and.
(39:37):
Studio it'll be. Great i'm, like that's. Awesome i'm, like
CAN i bring my? Girlfriend she, goes What i'm, LIKE i, know,
Listen i'm just. Divorced i'm in a tough. Spot CAN
i bring my? Girlfriend she?
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Goes?
Speaker 4 (39:47):
Absolute absolutely so me my girlfriend at the, time who's
now my wife of eighteen. Years, wow did this On
friday And saturday night live from THE i guess it's
still the Same Fox Sports radio. Studios and after The
friday show we went and HAD i think it was
(40:11):
either is there a did is it might have been village?
Speaker 2 (40:14):
In or is village in even a? Thing is that
only A midwestern? Thing but it might have Been.
Speaker 4 (40:18):
DENNY'S i think Blind scott was, right and we had
we had dinner with The Ben mallard is a.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Blast oh, yeah my wife still talks about it. Today great.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
Memories now we got to Talk colorado coop BECAUSE i
don't like that you don't dig one of my vacation.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Destinations, okay we'll get.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
LOVE i Love, Colorado, okay but Bline scott made my.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Night all. RIGHT i want to get your.
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Call it's eight, seven seven ninety nine On fox eight
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Books Chris plankin For Ben mallor right here On Fox
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Thalt Scout, Thank you,
thank you.
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It is a.
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Wednesday night into a Thursday morning, or for those of
us in God's time zone, happy Thursday Morning to the
third Shifters.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Kind of like to always look at this.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I mean, that's that great debate, right like the great
Art Bell he used to say, good evening, good afternoon,
good morning. Wherever you may listen, be listening along these great,
great United States of America. I never really know what
to say, because, like Lorrain and Coop, they're in the
middle of let's go.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Let's hit the clubs, let's go, let's go. In my
time zone, it's kind of like bro, I did even
get to bed.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
It's like one am. You know what am I doing here?
And on the East Coast, you know they've they've been
in bed for a while, but I'm I'm always pumped
when I get a chance to hang out with the
Mallard militia, and we'll do it for the next four hours.
Here on Fox Sports Radio, we have a bevy of
topics to get into, including but not limited to the
(01:37):
NBA Playoffs.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I was listening to Jason Smith.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I say this a lot on our Sunday night show
that I do Sunday nights from ten p to one
a Central Time with Arnie Spanier.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I listen to Jason and Mike more than anyone.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
It's just that's that's the show that's on whenever you know,
I'm usually out and about or that is my appointment listening.
And I'm just gonna tell you right now, there is
a topic in the sports world that I'm sure there's
a faction of you that are already tired of. And
(02:10):
we have games going on on the court, so it's
a little bit frustrating when you get caught up in
a non game story I think in the middle of
the playoffs. But hearing Jason and Mike talk about Lebron
James what his future looks like, I mean, come on,
(02:31):
that's like music to my ear. I'm so infatuated with
this story. Now, now let's be clear. I spent the
better part of a month infatuated with the Mike Vrabel
Diana Rassini story, and I think it reached the point
where I was like, oh, okay, I think we know
a little bit too much here. It's time to move
on in life. So I finally got over that a little.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Bit, A little bit. Isn't it amazing?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
By the way, side story on that, How dude, our
dudets will become experts on something And the next thing,
you know, someone you've never heard of, with like five
thousand followers on Twitter, You're like, ooh, what does Kyle
Stevens have? What does uh what does Justin have on
the latest Diana Rassini Mike Rabel stuff? You know, I
just like, I can't help I'm sucked in. I'm sucked in.
(03:19):
But I got over that a little bit. So I wonder.
I wonder if the the Lebron talk will be something
that by the time we finally get two set off
season for all the NBA. Obviously, the Lakers were in
the off season after they couldn't even compete in Game
one in the second half, but we'll get into it.
(03:40):
I I'm just gonna go ahead and apologize to the
Mala militia here in the first segment. I'm gonna apologize
to Fox Sports radio listeners everywhere. I'm hooked on it.
I'm I'm dialed into it as a Laker fan. I'm
intrigued by it. But you know, you want to know
what's next. You want to know if he's got to
be back with the Lakers, if it's even the right
(04:03):
which sounds crazy to say.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
It really does if you think about it.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
The all time leading score in NBA history, a guy
who's got rings, a guy who's won MVPs, a guy
who is playing in his forties like he was in
his you know, early thirties, late twenties.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
It sounds wild to say is that even the right
move for the team?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
And then you add into the mix the reported I
don't know if you would say disdain unlike on comfortableness?
Is that even a word between he and Luca Doc?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Dont you? So?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I do want to talk to some Lebron. Maybe should
I have like a Lebron warning tonight, Koop, Like we
have a little alarm that we play where people are like, Okay, listen,
I'm gonna go to the conspiracy theory talk if you
talk Lebron, because I think there is a faction that
is over it.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Like, for instance, I do I do a local show.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I in fact I and broadcasting live from the k
r e F Studios, the home of Sooner Fans, which
is a proud affiliate of Fox Sports Radio when we're
not local, and if I were to bring up Lebron
on my show locally, I would be tard and feathered.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I would be boom, what are you doing? Bro?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
We've got spring football that just wrapped up, you got
Sooner softball, We've got the thunder.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
What are you doing? But it is, I mean, it's
one of the biggest stories in sports right now.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
So we'll we'll get into it. Lorena work on the
Lebron warning siren that we can have and take people funk.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, I find I don't know what.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Maybe it's someone crying, maybe it's someone yelling at the officials,
maybe it's someone flop and I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Just just find it it, find it, make it work.
It's wild.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
The NBA playoffs are always one of the most anticipated times.
I think of the Year. And this comes from someone
who has loved the NBA since birth. I feel like
every single time you explain your passion for a sport
or the why behind it, you give kind of your
fan or resume right, so me give you my fan
(06:15):
or resume here real quick. I grew up loving the Lakers.
My dad grew up loving the Celtics. Gen Xer's child
of the eighties. You guys know what that was all about.
And it's just that we didn't get a lot of NBA.
I lived in Sae, I grew up just outside of
Saint Louis, and Saint Louis wasn't really an NBA mecca, right,
I know. We It's like Jason Chatis from Saint Louis,
(06:37):
What are you talking about. Ain't a soul from Saint
Louis to cared about the NBA for the longest time, Okay.
And it just wasn't a big deal. We had the Cardinals,
we had the Blues, we even had the Big Red,
we had the old Saint Louis Cardinals back in the day.
And it's just it wasn't big in the market that
I grew up in. But I loved it. I moved
to Oklahoma. I was here for the start of my career.
(06:59):
I did sports talk radio back in the nineteen hundreds
whenever I got started, and if you talked about the
NBA during that span here again, you would not have
been very popular. But the Thunder get the Oklahoma City
gets a team. It's wildly successful. It goes to the Tank.
Now that everyone's trying to emulate, the Clippers are dumb
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enough to give them Shay Gilgess Alexander as part of
a deal for Paul George, and I guess you could
say the rest is history. They're going to be a
two time back to backworld champion. And all that being said,
I live in a market I now, as a fan
of the sport, am in a city that is.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Crazy for the NBA, crazy for the NBA. I just moved.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
The house down the street from me has an inflatable
Bison that's got a Thunder jersey on, because that's kind
of our mask gut, you know, it's just that, that's
what it is. And I say all that, I give
you all that background to basically let you know that
I am not an anti NBA person. I am not
somebody that comes to this network to this show tonight
(08:08):
as a person that looks at the NBA as shut
up and dribble too, political player run league that all
those different, I guess you could say attributes that are
associated with the league that some try to paint as
declining and popularity.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I am not that guy. I love the NBA.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I have found that the games not involving my team
have become incredibly unwatchable. And I don't know and now listen,
it's the job boohoo buckeroo. Right, just ran into a
guy stopped at seven eleven because I don't know if
you all are familiar with what my My key to
(08:49):
success is here with the BN Mallard Show is I
have Let's see, I have two celsiuses and I have
two bush lights. And depending on how things go in
the first hour, we're either going celsias an hour or
we're going a couple of bush lights just to get
through the thing. Okay, it's one or the other. But
like I was, I was. I was stopping at a
(09:09):
seven eleven and I was talking to the dude and
he was, man, I've been here since two o'clock. Can't
wait till five am when I'm off, and I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Myself, dang, that's a long shift.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Could you imagine though, if he had a sprinkle in
watching these NBA playoffs, it'd be even worse. He has
another pain that we're having a feel right now, having
to sit through that damn Cleveland Cavaliers Detroit Pistons game.
Does he know the horror of having to watch the
second half of Games one through three of the thunder
Lakers series? Was he paying attention? Even though, in fairness,
the Tea Wolves Spur series has been incredibly fascinating right
(09:42):
just at least with the elbows storyline and kind of
how the game is played out. But I I mean,
this is this has just not been a banner playoffs.
I think for the NBA you had the upset where
the Celtics blued and the Sixers moved on, and then
(10:02):
suddenly the Knicks have found like another level of shooting,
another level of ball. I'm not you know, I don't
know the how or the why behind it, but it
is what it is. So all that all that background,
I'm a fan. I love it. I'm in a market
that's sick for it. It's just I don't think it's
(10:24):
been incredibly entertaining.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
And I've got a checklist of things here that throughout
the night we can go through. I would love to
hear from dissenting voices at eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox Tonight, we still take calls, right, Loraina Coop,
we still take I like to hear that eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine ninety
six six three sixty nine. I've got just a few
(10:49):
things throughout the night that I'd love to sprinkle in
and get your takes.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Just one that's pretty obvious, and this is I could
go to.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I think for every host, not every play is a foil,
Not every play is a foul. And we are in
an era, a time, a spot in this sport where
nobody thinks that they ever had.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
A play that they made where they weren't fouled.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
And it's not just oh God, I was fouled and
then run back on defense, you know, it was, oh
it's fouled. It's like y'all went to drama class or something.
And I again, I'm reaching that age, reaching that age.
I'm at that age now where I'm kind of like
old man yelling at clouds. I am my wife calls
me the grumpy old man. Now, I don't know why.
(11:38):
I just hate everything, and it's the NBA, this sport
that I love, this league that I grew up on,
this association that in my city where I live, is dominating.
I can't watch it outside of my teams, and even
when I do, it's not competitive. Maybe it's a situation, right,
(12:01):
Maybe it's a situation where we're getting down to the
teams that truly have it, and maybe those two teams
are spurs thunder. You know, twenty twenty or twenty twenty one,
in college basketball, we knew who the two best teams
in college basketball was. It was Gonzagon Baylor, and the
whole season was waiting to see Gonzagon Baylor play in
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the national Championship game.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
And guess what they did.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
And it was It was not a great game, but
it was a highly anticipated game.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
And there were you know, there were.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Good games throughout the tournament, right, Yeah, the buzzer beater
are there.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
That was great, But.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Everyone kind of knew what was inevitable. And I wonder
if that's where we are with these NBA playoffs. Maybe
all my handwringing, all my frustration all my disappointment, all
my disdain is going to be fixed when you have
OKC and San Antonio go at it, the one team
(12:58):
right now that you kind of feel like.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Has a shot to derail the Thunder.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Pardon my improper English, And I don't think I'll be
judged here this evening. Ain't nobody got anything for the
Thunder in the East. Are you watching those games? Okase?
He's doing this without one of their best players, Okay.
And I'm not trying to come at this as an
arrogant Thunder fan, all right. I'm just observing what I
see day in and day out. It's the reality of
the league right now. And maybe maybe getting OKAC in
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San Antonio in the NBA's Western Conference Finals might be
a good precursor to really getting these playoffs back on track,
making them more entertaining. Now there might be a faction
of you they just love the game. I did a
lot of work with a guy named Rick Camler. Rick's
(13:46):
a great NBA mind, and anytime I would complain about
the association to him, his reaction would be, what are
you talking about? You know the NBA They had me
at the logo. Maybe there's a faction that's feeling that tonight.
I don't know. But the bottom line, more than anything else,
is I look at a league that needs its players
(14:08):
to stop being babies. Here's the second thing, and this
might be I mean, Coop and Lorena may laugh hysterically
back in the studio. I find it incredibly hard to
find the games.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I mean, as goofy as that sounds.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
You know, there's these things that local newspapers do now
on Twitter on X and I think we've all seen them,
and it'll be.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
How to watch the game.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
And I would always push back on those and say,
you turn on your TV. It's not real freaking hard.
But with the NBA, all of a sudden, I'm kind
of like, wait, am I on Prime tonight? Do I
need to have my ESPN app? Are we still doing TNT?
Is this thing on NBC. It's like, I have found
that it's incredibly hard to find the games. So with
that in mind, I've got a laundry list of I'm
(14:59):
not here to fix things tonight.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I'm usually a guy that whenever I have a problem,
I'm going to present a way to fix it. I
don't have a way to fix this tonight, except maybe patience.
I don't think too many teams tanking has anything to
do with it. I don't think the amount of talent
in the.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
League is down.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
In fact, we might have more talented players than we've
ever had. Now, we might not have better basketball players,
but we definitely have more talented and more athletic dudes
than we've ever seen before.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
But it's just been a hard watch.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Man been a hard watch, and maybe it's just a
precursor towards that thunder Spur series, which seems inevitable if
San Antonio can take care of Minnesota tonight. The other
thing that is weighing heavy on me this evening here
on the Ben Malor Show Chris Blink sitting in on
Fox Sports Radio is the NFL schedule release.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Y'all.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I am drunk for the NFL, and I am basically
that I'm that girl at the end of the bar,
and whatever the NFL sells me, I'm gonna buy it,
and I'm gonna love it, and I'm gonna go home
with it, and I don't care. I love the NFL,
but I hate the way they do the schedule release, the.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Leaks, the trickling out of games.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
It's like, if we're gonna do a schedule release, just
release the damn things.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I mean, as we sit here tonight.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
I was listening to Brian No last night and he
was right, you could start patching things together, you know,
you start kind of looking at it, and it's all
the extra work to patch things together. And I don't
really I don't want to work that hard. I mean,
just just give me the damn schedule. I'm not somebody
who gets overly obsessed or overly cares about the overseas
(16:46):
games or the the nationally televised games. I want to
know when my teams already know when. In the NFL,
you already know who's playing. You already know when they're
going to play, or excuse me, who they're gonna play.
You just don't know win or on what network. But
yet the NFL has this, I guess you could say,
(17:07):
hold on us to where every single little leak becomes
oh my gosh, did you see this?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Oh my god, look at this.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I didn't know about something called nerding on the NFL,
but I follow it whenever it comes to schedule leaks season,
but I hate it.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
It's one of those moments I mean, I think we've
all had crutches.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Maybe even the term addictions can be used where it's like, man,
can't get enough of this? But I hate that I
do now. I'm not trying to go dark here and
talk you know, alcohol or drugs or anything. Still very
early in the night. We haven't reached the golden hour yet.
But it's like that's me with the NFL, and I hate.
I hate that I'm scrolling this. I hate that I'm
following every leak. I'm like, wait a minute, is that
(17:53):
real that the Dolphins and the Raiders are going to
play in Week one?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Where did that come from? Who released that? Is that? Is?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Is that true that in week eighteen that Ben Gosling's
reporting that it's going to be the Bears and the Vikings.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I mean, it's not really gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Are the Niners and the Giants playing in week thirteen
in a noon game?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
It's ah, but yet here I am here, I am.
I'm a sucker.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Plank's a sucker when it comes the NFL and the
schedule release. So I've been I've been patching it all together.
And because I guess we can't wait until later on
this evening when the whole schedule gets released, I'll do
my best coming up later on the program. I mean,
like hour three, we'll go through all the games we
(18:35):
know so far, and then the NFL releases the games
that are going to be played overseas. It's just I
hate that, I like it is what I'm saying. I
need help. But maybe at some point we won't be
as sick for it as we are and the NFL
can kind of change the way to present it. One
other note here in the opening, college football is always
(19:00):
a tough sell.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I think in the overnights.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
I know that my guy Shady sewan Ford twenty any
single time I bring up anything college sports related is
going to pepper me on Twitter with disdain, frustration, and
the h I guess you could say sports equivalent of
how dare you? But again, fan resume, I live in
a place where college sports is king. I live in
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a college town. If the NBA isn't one when the
thunder I went into title, it's college sports. And we
have a lot going on in the world of college football.
And I'm saying that in May we have Lane kiffinster
in the pot, We've got conference meetings, going on. We've
got debates about what the future of the college football
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playoff is going to look like. It's it's an absolute mess,
and I think I think.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
We have a path towards success.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
I think we can look at things now and realize,
all right, so that's what it's got to look like
if we're going to get this thing under control. And
maybe some people don't think it needs to be under
control at all. But I got all the news notes
in tidbits, including Lane Kiffin attempting to walk back a
little bit of what he said in Vanity Fair. First
of all, hand up, I didn't know Vanity Fair was
(20:18):
still a thing. I thought it kind of went the
way of like Sports Illustrated, you know, I didn't really
know that magazines were still a thing. But we'll get
to the latest from Lane Kiffin. And then you add
to it, the most powerful man in college football, or
at least the dude that's had the title, is speaking
out against one of the more powerful entities in the
(20:38):
Coaches Association, and he he's not happy with the way
things are going. So we'll dive into that coming up
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Speaker 2 (21:16):
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Speaker 4 (21:18):
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Speaker 2 (22:06):
Ben on.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Vacation let's welcome in the. Crew you know, her you love.
Her good, morning good. Evening what's, Up?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Loraina how are oh my, gosh so glad to be?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Here how come you guys don't get a vacation When ben's.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Gone that's a good.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
QUESTION i don't have enough vacation days to do anything
more Than i've been.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Doing ben hardly, ever takes any time off though he.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
Doesn't, Yeah i'm glad him And aaron are taking this extra.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Time, uh you, know, uh and respect.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Him the king Of poker through the late Night coop
De loup Justin, cooper what's, Up?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Coop how are? You what's?
Speaker 4 (22:44):
HAPPENING i always tell the story every Time i'm on
one of my. Bosses it's like you were on With,
coop like he's a movie. Star SO i always feel
LIKE i CAN i need to get an autograph Picture
coop SO i can show off to my boss here
At Sooner. Vision you, know we have some unfinished business
because when last we, Talked, kop you were on your
(23:06):
way to the.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
What was it THE Afc divisional game Of. Broncos, yeah
how did?
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Well OBVIOUSLY i know the game didn't go as you wanted,
To but how was the? Experience?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
WELL i mean the game went.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Great Oh i'm thinking of The championship Game Star, yeah my.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Bad uh, yeah a digital game was? Good yeah it.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Was it was an, insane amazing. GAME i feel LIKE
i aged twenty years watching that. Game, uh but it.
Was it was a weird experience because the joy was
very short. LIVED i was still walking back to the
hotel from the stadium when the news broke about Bo nix's.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Ankle that was, crazy like literally literally five minutes on
a play that nobody even thought. Anything, yeah now you
know WHAT i care.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
About did you end up getting didding to your? Fiance? Yes,
yes how did it? Work everybody was? Cool?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Really yeah we got. There we there was like so
IF i, remember.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
We need to reset the.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
STORY i don't think anyone remembers this dangling chat for,
SO i had bought.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Tickets the tickets were insanely. PRICED i was able to
get a decent, price BUT i was only able to
find two tickets in the same row and there were
eight seats between, US i, believe. Right SO i got
there and it was like a family of. Four maybe
(24:42):
there was nine seats between, us but there was a
family there AND i asked them if they were willing
to move down one, seat and the dad was, like you,
know sure if everybody else, agrees.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
You, know Like i'll move.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Over and then there was a dad and his son
and they Were bills. Fans oh, no AND i was,
like uh, oh but they were totally they were, like oh,
yeah no. Problem and then the last people was a
group of three people who Were broncos season ticket. Holders
and this is WHERE i was like. Nervous oh, yeah
(25:18):
AND i you, know he comes and he's like like
they we were, there sitting in the. Seats and then
they were the last ones to show. Up they showed
up basically right when the game, started AND i was, like,
hey do you mind moving down one seat SO i
could sit next to my, Wife and immediately he was, like, no,
man these are our. Seats and he's like he's, like you,
(25:38):
Know he's Like i'm, sorry you, KNOW i don't know
if other people are going to show. Up and then
we're in their. Seat AND i was, like oh. NO
I i was, LIKE i already asked. Everybody they're all,
like we all they all. AGREED i have two like
AND i, said that's my seat right, there and this
is my seat right. HERE i have both of these.
Seats they already moved, down so it's just you, know one.
More and he's, like, oh he's, like, OKAY i kind of. Misunderstood,
(26:00):
yeah that's no. Problem, yeah and then, yeah we Were
they became buddies and we watched the whole game.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Together so it was.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Cool watch The broncos beat The. BILLS i don't know
WHY i was thinking that you were at the championship,
game but 'tis is what it.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Is did you end up going to the championship? Game? No,
oh good. Call that would have been.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Enraging, yeah but you got to see the greatest moment
maybe that we've had for The broncos in a, Minute so.
Kudos have they sent anything about How bonix is progressing
or did?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
HE i, MEAN i haven't heard.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Anything All i've heard is that we didn't know what
city the game was going to be in for the
opener against The, chiefs and then we found out like
two hours, later, well well we don't know it's. City
and then it's, like, oh, yeah it's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Here.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Yeah so a couple of weeks ago they said that
he had a second procedure to clean UP i, guess
but the reports were that it was expected and it's,
not you, know not a. SETBACK i read something maybe
the day or two ago from THE GM i believe
(27:04):
because they just extended him through twenty Thirty George. PEYTON
i think they said that he'll be ready For mini.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Caamp so there you.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Go all, Right, Well i'm glad that. Was it was
something that AS i, was it shows you how weird
in my mind. Works i'm driving into the studios and
as a, Plum i'm, like, DUDE i get to hang
With loraina And coop AND i don't, know maybe Maybe
Blind scott'll call, tonight maybe we'll hear from weed man.
Hippie i'm, like oh, gosh you gotta find out If
coop got to sit next to his fiance at The broncos.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Game so big night for. Me, hey by the, Way,
lorena where Did ben? Go do we?
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Know is he is he being vocal about this? One
or is he keeping it low key because he doesn't
want his throngs of fans to follow.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
HIM i do believe he was decently open about it
at the meet and, greet at least him And. Aaron
after The boston meet and greet took a nice drive
up To New york to go visit some.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Family, Ooh now on their drive up To New, york
are they stopping to See Arnie?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Spanier, NO i wouldn't blame. Him can you imagine? THAT
i was.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
WONDERING i was, LIKE i feel like he did mention,
him BUT i. Don't, YEAH i don't think he's stopping.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
It, Yeah arnie AND i have done a show together
for about twelve years.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Now as old as my.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
DAUGHTER i, know right were our show is as old
as your daughter And. Lorena you worked with us for
a minute On sunday.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
NIGHT i did good.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Times i've still never been in the same room with.
Him i've never met him in.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
Po you've never met him in?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Person, no not at.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
All, well first of, All arnie never leaves his. House you,
know that's one. THING i, mean he is a self
proclaimed trophy, husband so he. Doesn't he's one of those
fortunate ones that you know doesn't have A monday a
nine to five or A monday Through. Friday he does
The sunday night show and that's really about. It and
then he claims he's going to all these events and
(28:54):
he never. Does, so, yeah that doesn't surprise me at.
All that shouldn't surprise you all that we've never been.
Together all, right well, Cool, well so the crew is
here And, lorena things are going.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Good you're staying.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Busy the rest was good and leading up for tonight's,
show everybody's fired up and ready for the next three
hours in twenty.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Minutes oh, yeah and me And coop Have coldstone ice,
cream so we are just we're, ready.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Is how? What very?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Envious, No i'm not eating sugar right, now SO i
would be. Tempted that would be Very that's very good
That i'm. Here it's FUNNY i say That i'm one
of those guys LIKE i am not eating. Sugar i'm
staying away from it AND i. Won't but, literally like
five minutes before the, SHOW i just Housed Dr pepper
like it was the last Thing i've ever had in.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Mind and that is.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Three times your daily sugar amount already.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Understood, Understood but it wasn't even A Doctor pember zero
or a Diet Doctor.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Pepper it. Was it was the.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Original but in, FAIRNESS i did start drinking it before
midnight and THEN i finished it after. Midnight so does
that MEAN i can carry it over to two days or?
Not you see him trying to.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
ME i like your math, there BUT i.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
DON'T i don't know if that's how that. WORKS i don't.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Understand Diet Doctor pepper is one of the best diet
SODA's out.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
THERE i.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Agree i'm not arguing with, You, coop you. WIN i
made a poor choice. Here it was JUST i don't drink.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Soda but, again LIKE i, SAID I i'm moving all,
Right i'm in The i'm in. Hell have you? Guys
what's the Al pacino?
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Movie is The Longest yard where he's talking to the
team before the game and he's, LIKE i ruined.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
EVERYTHING i ever had in.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Life the difference between winning and losing is a fight
for every, inch you, know and. Uh it's one of
my favorite movie scenes ever because he opens it up
or he, Goes we're in.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Hell we're in. Hell that's WHERE i feel right. Now
i'm in hell right. Now SO i got.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
HERE i DON'T i have to do it THAT i
usually have a studio at.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Home not a humble, brag just the.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Reality AND i there was a fridge full of soda
AND i didn't even think about.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
IT i was, LIKE i am killing one of those right.
Now before.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
This IF i would have been, SMART i would have
looked right next to it and, thought there is a,
diety Doctor, pepper there's a Diet. Coke i'll take. It
when's the last time either one of you, Moved? Coop
when's the last time you? Moved has it been a?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
While twenty? Twelve, Okay?
Speaker 7 (31:15):
Lorena oh, gosh maybe four years?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Ago?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Now, okay so yours is a little bit more, recent, Right, YEAH.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
I don't get to move as much as In.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
La you, Know i'll blame, you ladies and.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Gentlemen there is no hell like the hell of, moving
especially when you add in two daughters at twelve and,
seventeen who have amassed a wealth of. Crap Now i'm
guilty of this, too, Right i'm a little bit of
a hoarder when it comes to. Things but, dude we
(31:50):
had we had a moving truck come On, monday AND i,
said down the, Street, loraina we're more like fifteen minutes.
Away we're moving from actually one city to, another but
it's literally like a five mile. Move and the moving
truck showed up at nine. Am great, Dudes even THOUGH
(32:11):
i did have to break out a chainsaw because they
got their moving truck stuck on a.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Tree AND i felt like a manly.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
MAN i grabbed that chainsaw AND i cut down that
freaking limb LIKE i was Hacksaw Jim. Duggan, well EVEN
i don't know the Hacksaw Jim duggan ever have a
chainsaw LIKE i. WAS i don't Know jason From friday the,
thirteenth whatever it might. BE i cut that. DOWN i felt.
Manly they started at nine. Am do you know what
time they got? Done eleven? Pm? What and then they
(32:41):
had to go back the next day because they couldn't get.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Everything it took that. Long, yes.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Do you know What mike garage is right down my
new beautiful Ows it's boxes Boxes almost.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Cussed i'm, SORRY i don't want to have to check.
TEST i got a dumb, hit you got, dumb but
it's just boxes of. CRAP i don't even know what's in.
IT i don't.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Know we can't find. Anything Here's here's what's happened is we've.
Moved we put everything in, boxes and we just go
to the store and buy what we. Need now tonight
we went and bought a pan so we could. Cook
it's because we can't find our pots and pans anywhere
because we moved.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Them so it's been a little bit, hellish but we're getting.
There it's pretty.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
Lucky you get, movers. THOUGH i usually you, know you
have to bring all your family, members your aunts and your.
Uncles who has a. Truck, okay let's get this book.
Together that's really. Convenient you got like people to box
it up for, you, Though my, guy.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Yeah we, well, no, no, no but they didn't box it.
Up they just took the.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Boxes oh, okay right right, Now i'm not, Listen i'm
Not ben Malur. Rich, Okay i'm JUST i got enough
money to pay for the. Movers so if every so
often you see me kind of lose my mind a little,
bit that's. Why all, right, Anyway Lorena, Coop i'm pumped
to hang with you guys. Tonight line them up eight
seven seven ninety nine On fox eight seven seven nine
nine six sixty three six. Nine when we, Come we'll
(34:00):
hit your phone calls good stuff on x already you
can hit me up At Plank. Show that's At Plank,
show and everybody go follow us right here At Fox Sports.
Radio be sure to catch live editions Of The Ben
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right welcome back into The Ben Malors show here On
Fox Sports.
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LISTEN I i want to get a lot of your calls.
Tonight there's a lot to get to on the. Show
(35:17):
BUT i did say i'd love to hear From Blind.
Scott look who's first up? Tonight let's go to the
phones eight, seven seven ninety nine On. Fox what's, Up Blind?
Scott how are?
Speaker 2 (35:27):
You?
Speaker 5 (35:27):
Man So christen spent about nine months SINCE i talked to.
You you, Know i've spent about six thousand dollars On
SERIOUS xm subscription SINCE i got. It SO i feel
Like i'm part of this new. Home you can welcome
me in whenever you. Charts but, yeah ever since the
twenty and THIRTEEN i got locked. UP i was in
solitary confinement for like seventy two. Days so they let
(35:47):
me get it AND i so whenever you're, ON i
consume it because you've Got you're really good at. Radio
you're coming out of the. Break it's really. Good you
do good contents That i'm not used. To like whatever
you're doing down there down, south you know all up
here in The Northeast, quarter you, know, yeah yeah. Yeah,
so LIKE i Met, ben we were all hanging, out,
Me coop And lorena On friday night over At. Fenway
(36:08):
chris was recently In boston for The navy And army
game At, fenway So coop And loraina were At fenway
parking On coop left something you'll have to ask the next, Hour,
chris you have something out of that trip To. Denver
So chris goes on vacation To colorado every year and
he Loves. Colorado But coop left the worst part of
the story out purposely to not offend, You, chris because
(36:29):
you'll be mad when he tells you what happened to
him when he went there was not. Good it was
not a good, trip not, memorable and he would not
given an endorsement Of colorado after you hear. This BUT
i don't wanted to eat into my airtime, though BECAUSE
i just Met Ben miller and he guided me all
around this bar and the listeners were buying me like twelve,
dakers AND i on think Met lorainer in them for
an hour and a half and then they left me
at the bar by myself AND i closed the place
(36:52):
down and they all ran, away AND i Met ben's
wife And ben in front at me in front of
my apartment and was, like can you stop backing crazy
on social? Media it'supposed to present the show. Better AND
i never see him that, mad BUT i was at
the real funny like running up to. Him but it
was really great to see. Him, like So i've Met
ben more Than chris. Has benman's only met him once
at A denny's like down the street for breakfast When
(37:13):
chris was in town. Before LIKE i Know chris's whole
radio career Because i'm a huge. Fan so we'll talk
in forwards either LIKE i Know reck, whatever It's Rex
jones or. Whatever but that's off for this. Show But,
Chris i'm so happy you through the. Time i'm gonna
listen to the whole. Show you. KNOW i love it
when you're On Fox Sports radio because you usually talk
to people like you'll ask advice To lorena about your
(37:33):
family in a little, while AND i just can't. WAIT
i would talk through this whole, segment BUT i haven't
been able to get on the radio In. Boston they
brought me from all the social media pages Because i'm
obsessed with This Mike rabel. Thing i'm posting about. It
Mike brable was in my neighborhood having that affair when
he was With Diane. Rasenia he was right across the
street from me having. BREAKFAST i swear he was Using
(37:53):
Josh craft's apartment in the neighborhood WHERE i live to
have an affair with, her right on The Boston. Harbor
So i've been obsessed with this with the Sports hub
so they won't take my calls. Anymore they won't communicate with.
Me they blot me from WS an and the sports.
HUBS i talked about it so. Much you, know you
can't get enough of, it you know What i'm, saying
kicking enough of. Radio you KNOW i love.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
It, Hey Blind, scott thanks, BUDDY i appreciate the. Support
so you guys hung out With Blind. Scott huh we?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Did how'd that?
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Go?
Speaker 2 (38:25):
FINE i THOUGHT i Heard lorena laughing in the. Background
she was.
Speaker 7 (38:29):
Calling, YEAH i have A after The boston meet and,
GREET i kind of lost my voice to.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Bed don't blame. You, uh you know it's.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
FUNNY i have broke bread With Ben mallor before it
was in two thousand and. Seven, now this is gonna seem,
crazy all, right think about. This we had A Fox
Sports Radio christmas party and it was it was D luxe.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Y'all, oh, Yeah i've heard about this is back in
the day when it back when they actually put time
and effort and money into The christmas.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Parties, yeah they flew me.
Speaker 7 (39:06):
In shut, Up, no they did.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
NOT i kid you. Not, gosh dang, it, MAN i
gotta watch my mouth. TONIGHT i kid you.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Not Oh i'm ready to dump.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
You are you?
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Ready well let me be cause it's actually a really
cool STORY i. Had it was. SEVEN i had just
gone through a. DIVORCE i met this girl THAT i really.
Liked we'd been dating for about six, months And Annie
zaderevich was running and she's, like we want to fly
in for The christmas party and do your show and.
(39:37):
Studio it'll be. Great i'm, like that's. Awesome i'm, like
CAN i bring my? Girlfriend she, goes What i'm, LIKE i, know,
Listen i'm just. Divorced i'm in a tough. Spot CAN
i bring my? Girlfriend she?
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Goes?
Speaker 4 (39:47):
Absolute absolutely so me my girlfriend at the, time who's
now my wife of eighteen. Years, wow did this On
friday And saturday night live from THE i guess it's
still the Same Fox Sports radio. Studios and after The
friday show we went and HAD i think it was
(40:11):
either is there a did is it might have been village?
Speaker 2 (40:14):
In or is village in even a? Thing is that
only A midwestern? Thing but it might have Been.
Speaker 4 (40:18):
DENNY'S i think Blind scott was, right and we had
we had dinner with The Ben mallard is a.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Blast oh, yeah my wife still talks about it. Today great.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
Memories now we got to Talk colorado coop BECAUSE i
don't like that you don't dig one of my vacation.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Destinations, okay we'll get.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
LOVE i Love, Colorado, okay but Bline scott made my.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Night all. RIGHT i want to get your.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
Call it's eight, seven seven ninety nine On fox eight
seven seven nine ninety six six three sixty.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Nine that's our one in the.
Speaker 4 (40:43):
Books Chris plankin For Ben mallor right here On Fox
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