June 12, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about who wears the shame bell for the OKC Thunder blowing a 4th quarter lead in Game 3 of the NBA Finals, if the Pacers have a stranglehold on the Finals being up 2-1, LeBron James blaming the media for the lack of emotional investment in the Finals, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We go welcome. It's our number one. Happy Thursday.
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We have made it to the twelfth day of June
in the year twenty twenty five, and we are together
on overnight talk radio. The great thing, though, is this
podcast you listen during the day, so well like a
daytime show, which is much cooler because you can listen
whenever the hell you want. So it's Game three the
NBA Finals, we ranted shortly after Game three came to
an end. Who wears the shamebell for SGA's OKC team
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They blew a small fourth quarter lead in Game three
of the finals, up two games to one, Dude, Tyrese
Haliburton and the Pacers have a stranglehold on the NBA Finals.
And Lebron James knows why you're not watching and you're
not emotionally invested in the NBA Finals. It's the media's fault.
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So he says they're not telling enough stories and doing
their homework and all that stuff, and says they're failing
the fans.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Is he right?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
We'll talk about that and much more right now here.
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This hour is from the Hoosier State that was the
stage for Game three of the NBA Finals. Once a generation,
the Pacers play in the finals, and I was there
the last time many years ago they played in the
NBA Finals, but they.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Were back home. Game there.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Chay geoghis Alexander leading the Thunder into Indianapolis for a
battle with Tyrese Halliburton and the Pacers. Where are you watching?
Of course you were not watching based on the ratings crickets,
but don't worry. We watched so you would not have
to the life of a mensch our good mitzvah of
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the day. And it was a secondary actor that took
over Benedict matherin twenty seven points off the bench. The
Dagger twenty seven points off the bench, played well in
the fourth quarter. Tyrese Halliburton had twenty two and eleven
nine rebounds and a partridge in a paar tree. And
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the upstart Pacers, who were given less than a ten
percent chance of winning this series, well, right now they're
in good shape as they retook the lead in the
NBA Finals, slithering past the Thunder by nine in Game
three on Wednesday night. As now Indiana two wins away
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from having a parade, two wins away from a championship,
and one of the great players on this show, a
man that has been immortalized by our friend Marcel and
Brooklyn Pascal Siakam got to make sure I say that right.
Twenty one points for Indiana. So the Pacers who lost
game two and a route or root a non competitive
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Game two, and then had about seven weeks off. They
come back, they will get to win. So they improved
now to ten and oh, ten and oh since mid
March in the game following loss. So if they just
do that, if they just win every other game since
they won Game one using malor math, they are going
to be crowned the champions of the NBA. Now, Game four,
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shockingly will be played on Friday night.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I hope the players can deal with that having only one.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Day off between the games. With The better story is
where have I trained you? Like Pavlov's dogs? Yes, the
losing locker room. So let us discuss the question who
wears the shame bell for SGA's OKC team that did
have a small lead, a small lead going to the
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fourth quarter, and they blew it a five point league
going to the fourth quarter and they were outplayed by
a wide margin by Indiana in Game three of the finals.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
So who wears the shame bell?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I've got house keys, booster, and lecture, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make cotton candy, because that's what I saw from
Oklahoma City in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
They played like cotton.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Candy in terms of the shame bell. And there's one
thing we love in overnight sports radio is pointing the
finger and giving the shame bell so that the head
of the snake is the problem here. Where have you gone?
SGA A thunder nation whatever that means, turns its lonely
eyes to you as a shay It was right there.
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We'd like to say on this show, when you played
bad in a big game, in a key moment, you've
written the vomit comet and there he was.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
He disappeared. It's kind of like when you're when you're looking.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
To leave the house and you forgot where you put
the keys and you're kind of digging around the junk
drawer and you can't find the house keys that you
know they're in the drunk the drunk drawer, the junk drawer,
and you can't find them. Right, You're like, what's going on?
How bad was he? All right, I'll answer the question.
So okase mentioned they had they had a small lead,
a bite sized lead going to the fourth quarter. Now
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we know that that's not that big an advanced five points. However,
you are the MVP.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You have been.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Compared in columns, online posts, glowing reports from fanboys. You
have been compared to Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. Yes,
I know it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
But you have been. Yeah, this this good, good player,
but that seems a little much.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
So anyway, what did SGA do to add another chapter
to his book of legends?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Don't ask?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
He grabbed a pillow and a blankie and he took
a nap. Shay's fingerpri were all over this one. He
had a very ugly stat line as Shay jogis Alexander
at three points, one rebound, and had as many assists
as you and I had.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
None and one turnover in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
He was not the player that he had been getting
the calls, getting the separation.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
The everything was a little off, and that became problematic
as Indiana.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Was able to take advantage there and the Pacers get
her done.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
And let's hear from the man.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Of the our SGA here pointing out that, hey, the
the other guys over there, they were scratching and clawing
a bit tike a list.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yeah, they were aggressive, they were hiring the pick and rolls.
They really were just like courts said more aggressive, more forceful.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, we gotta starts with me, but we got to
apply that pressure back.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Well, you're all you're the MVP Yere three hundred million
dollar guy, you're all that, come on, gotta get it done,
all right? Well, what about game number four? That's the
next game here? Do you have any thoughts on that
you'd like to share with the class?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
It felt like they won all the fifty to fifty
plays they're executing on both both ens of the ball.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
You're still gone.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
When you give those two things up, and no matter
what quarter, you're probably gonna lose the quarter, especially and
then it goes back to especially on the road in
a hostile environment and crowds behind them. So yeah, we
got to take care of those things. If you want
to come on a game forward.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
A dub okay with a dub All right, very nice,
All right, So here we go again. He sucked at
a time you cannot suck, and you can't do that
in the finals and all that stuff. This is a
legacy situation, and he was a bird without wings, unable
to take off there in the fourth quarter. But in general,
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Oklahoma City, as was mentioned here, it was just out hustle.
You don't have to be an NBA coach or some
kind of high falutin insider to know. You just have
to be able to know ball. No ball, do we
not know ball? Come on, we know ball. We are
experts at ball. So in general, Oklahoma City was just
bad all the way around. Late in the game, but
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thanks to Indiana backup, as we mentioned the star of
the show, Benedict Mathern. The math was math in there
twenty seven points. The Thunder outscored by thirty one points.
I believe if my math is correct, it was twenty one.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
It was a lot. It was a lot. I think
it was thirty one.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Anyway, it was like a lot of bench points, most
of it from Mathren a huge advantage there in the
bench points.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
It was forty nine to eighteen.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Now page two, So let's go to the winning locker room,
which is not as good as story, but we'll go
there anyway. So you have a two to one lead
in the NBA Finals. You've got home court advantage. If
you just win the home games, you're going to win
the championship. So dude, Tyrese Halliburton and the Indiana Pacers
have a stranglehold on the NBA Final. So if you
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look at the comps on this, they are a hitter
batting eight hundred at this point. The comps say, the
analytics say, you are an eight hundred hitter. You're not
Tony Gwynn, You're not Ty Cobb, You're an eight hundred hitter.
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That's Beer League Softball history says the Pacers are in control.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
In the forty one previous.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
NBA Finals that were tied at a game apiece, the
team that won Game three got to get that shiny
hunk of metal thirty three times. That's an eighty percent
winning clip eighty point five percent, So clear advantage of
the Pacers. But as we often point out, what do
we say here the disclaimer? As the great Dick Stockton,
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legendary sportscaster taught me, he said, ben Stat's tell you.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
What has happened, not what's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
This is clearly a booster shot for Indiana, And unlike
some of those booster shots we had to take a
few years ago, these actually work. So can Benedict Mathern
bottle this up and do it again?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Does he even have to do that again?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
It is a game Indiana won with Tyrese Haliburton, who
is known as the closer, and he was not the
closer in terms of big shots fourth quarter. He was
one of four down the stretch in the fourth quarter
and had just three points.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
So this is.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
An exhale situation for Indiana and they're in good, good shape.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
But are they really?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I mean, you can't lose it home, So it's like,
you got to win these home games. If you just
merely win the home games, you don't have to win
another game in Oklahoma City. You don't have to worry
about that, where SGA seems to get every call now
last word. So there's a lot of people in the
NBA that are freaking out. They're running around trying to
put out fires here because no one's watching the finals
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in comparison to years gone by, it's just a bad product.
People aren't into it, and the people have spoken, and
so everyone's trying.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
To come up with rationale.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Adam Silver has pulled seven muscles trying to manipulate the numbers.
We Lebron James has entered the chat. Of course, Lebron,
you know who he's blaming for the lack of an
audience for the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Did you see this?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
All right, Lebron James is blaming the media.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
It's the media's fault, the lack of emotion, the lack
of interest by Joe Schmoe, Joe sixpack doesn't care. The
hoy POLOI is not watching the NBA Finals.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Lebron says that the media is not telling enough stories
and they're not doing their homework. He says they're failing
the fans.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Is he right? All right? So let me begin with this.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
This is a the word I will use is ridiculous.
Capital r capital are ridiculous. The basketball media are a
bunch of lightweights. They are not the problem. Okay, they
are not the problem. The Thunder and Pacers. The Thunder
in particular a great team, right regular season, great team
and all that.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
They tried to win the regular season.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
The Pacers ever since, like January, played very well.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
The issue is they don't have star power.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
And that's the secret ingredient, which is not so secret
that people search out the casuals.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
That's what they look for.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
And usually you have at least one headliner in the
NBA Finals, whether it's Steph.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Curry or Lebron who people love to hate. So you
don't have that.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
You don't have Curry, you don't have Lebron, you don't
have an audience. And the media, the evil media. I
have read a number of glowing think pieces, stories about
the magic of Shay Jogis Alexander and the mythical superpowers
of Tyress Halliburton. Unfortunately, those guys don't make the public tingles.
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My opinion, it's a fact. Okay, sorry, not sorry. It's
nice of media expert Lebron James to lecture the rank
and file on storytelling. This is classic Lebron. Is this
not perfect for Lebron? He's always got to control the
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narrative and make everything about him. Now, I have done
a TV show the last couple years with a guy
who does that too, makes everything about.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Him, and I hate people like that.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
What are the basketball media types supposed to do if
the public doesn't care, are they gonna force them to care?
Where are they gonna make a cooking documentary with Pascal
Siakam cooking his favorite dish, pasta prima era, Like? What
are they gonna a deep dive on Tyreese Halliburn. I
don't know if he collects Pokemon cards or not, but
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it looks like he might be the guy that collects
Pokemon cards.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I'm not judging.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I'm just saying there's no amount of storytelling, none that
can replace star power.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
And that is the real issue. You're starting out.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
It's like starting a race and you're behind by a
couple of lengths at the race because the market size
is a huge advantage.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
You have bigger market, there's more people. Now. Not everyone in.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Every big city cares about sports. There's a lot of
weirdos that aren't like us, that don't like sports. They
don't have the sports gene, so they don't understand. But
there's enough if you're in the big city. The big
metropolis is where you have enough people that do care
and are passionate, and then the other people, some of them,
a percentage of those people are like, well, we better
watch because everyone else is watching.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
So it becomes a communal thing. And even if that
same effect happens.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
In a place like Oklahoma City or Indianapolis, the size
thing is the issue. That's the that's the rubs, as
they say, whoever they are. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
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So act recording and back to it, back to what
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Speaker 2 (18:09):
Mister Irrigation points out he knew the better story was
in the.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Losing locker room supermarket.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Steve writes in he says, how come I don't see
Page Becker's coming back and going for thirty five on
your rundown, because I do broadcasting, not narrow casting, and
there's only one story in the WNBA that's worth my time,
and that's something involving Kitlyn Clark. In fact, if you
look at the average WNBA broadcast on television, there is
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a one hundred and ninety nine percent difference. The audience
goes down by almost two hundred percent when Caitlin Clark
is not playing. So there's one person that matters in
that entire sport, and it's Kaitlyn.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
No one else back.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Now, you you might be all horned up for certain
other players, but there's only one that is worthy of
our time, and it ain't page backers.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
So just deal with that. There you go, tiger Man
in Utah.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Right, Since, says Ben, when did going to an MLB
game become so unaffordable sixty dollars for a ticket in
parking just to park a mile away and sit in
the nose bleachers. Well, tiger Man, you haven't called the
show in a while.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Number one. Number two, this is a non secutor because
we're not talking about this.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Number three, there is a cheat code to go to
baseball games, and if you're willing to go to day
games during the week. I'll let you in a little
hack here on the secondary market in a lot of
these cities, even big Metropolis, is you can get a
ticket for less than five dollars to a baseball and
you'll end up paying more in fees than you will
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for the ticket on those day games on like a
Wednesday or a Thursday, when most people have jobs and
can't go, and people try to get rid of those tickets,
or if you were willing to go to unattracted matchup.
So that's the cheat code, tiger Man. Do that, you'll
you'll save a bunch of money. And now I don't
know how to get around the parking thing, because that's
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that's I haven't figured out a cheat coat on that.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Hey Ben, Yes.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Lorena, don't the Angels have a really good deal right now?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
What you can spend money and watch bad baseball?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yeah, but I think you can get like it gets
four hot dogs and for sodas for like forty bucks.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yes, you just maybe you can turn your seat around
and look at a look at off.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
You might be able to see the fireworks at Disneyland
if you time it right. I think they at nine
o'clock every night. I think there's fireworks.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
They're in second place, all right, I know.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
The Halos are back, baby, they are back. Angel baseball
Ron Washington, he's got them going wash. Every baseball writer
Ron Washington was coaching when I started it as a
like a radio guy, and every baseball he must be
the greatest storyteller. I have not met a baseball writer
that doesn't just slobber all over want Ron Washington, you
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mustpect the greatest guy in the world. The Angels manager
James Wright. Since hey, dumb ass, you are the media.
You spend a lot of time pooping on the NBA playoffs.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
You are just another part of the problem. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
James, you're a genius. Let me explain something, sir, how
this works here. I know you're apparently not that bright. Actually,
So there's the media and then there's the non mainstream media.
And I want you to know my boss is here
at Fox Sports Radio at iHeart. They keep me grounded,
and anytime I negotiate a contract, they remind me that
I am not part of the mainstream that we are
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on at night.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
There is a different world. We are not mainstream.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
We are really underground. If you will a voice in
the night. Here, there's a radio that is six am
to six pm.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Those are the cool kids.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
They get go on road trips and they get the
big salaries and all that stuff, and they get promoted
by the company. And then there's the people that do
nighttime radio. Nighttime radio, it's a lot more fun.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
We're not micro managed or whatever by our bosses, but
we're not mainstream. So and I don't work for the NBA, James,
if you want state sponsored media coverage and you want
the prova news service, watch NBA TV or ESPN and.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
They will give you that. They will give you that
content that you're looking for. That's right. Yeah, I know, shocking,
absolutely shocking.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Late night drug tester rights And he says, with these
smaller market teams in the NBA finals, are there going
to be more post series riots involving cow tipping or
burning crops?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Well, there is another summer of love here in the
United States.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
The people that like to burn cars and buildings, and
they're out there, out and about.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
I also like cow tipping and enjoying themselves.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
So who knows every night is a night to do that.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Apparently these days.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Ferd dog right, Sin says, how dare you doubt the
effectiveness of the booster shot?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Ben?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I just got my tenth one today and I am
the picture of Do look like you're in great, great
shape there? Absolutely yes, Tony writes in, says Halliburton is
Reggie Miller two point oh tyreek, Salbert, I don't think
you nws spelled tyrees because you said Haliburn Halliburton is.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Reggie Miller two point zero and.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Taking out Ben Maller's heavily favorite thunder Well, Tony, you
might want to go to Costco when they open.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Up there and go to the hearing aid area.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
They will test your hearing because if you were paying attention.
I pointed out that I enjoy the way the Pacers play.
I find the pacers pleasing, appetizing, enjoyable, so.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I would have no issue. I have no skin in
the game.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I'm fine with them winning, obviously. I'm happy that SGA
has played well. You know, old Clipper Blood goes very well.
I'm happy about that. But I know Indiana is the
one right there. Anyway, it is the Ben Maller Show
as we are working our way through the overnight hour,
and it's not personal, it's just business.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
We'll get to that story.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
We'll get to that story right now, because I thought
this was interesting and it involves Kevin Durant. Another day,
another eight million rumors about Kevin Durant, and it turns
out these suns now.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
The chatter for months has been that Durant's going to
be traded.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Some people think the deal's already done with San Antonio
and nothing will be done done until after the NBA Finals. However,
it turns out that the person who is negotiating the
trade is Durant's business manager, is said to be sorting
through not one, not two, not three, not four, how
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about five NBA trade possibilities for Kevin Durant.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
There are at least five teams, five teams.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
That are attempting to acquire him, including the Roquettes, the
Spurs that have been mentioned regularly, the Tim Burwos, the
Miami Heat, and the New York knicker Bockers. For Kevin Durant,
who is thirty six years old.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
And while he is not.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Bad, Durant is not bad, I think it is fair
to point out that he is just a little bit,
just a little bit off, and it's enough where it's
like he's not lollygaggering or anything like that. It's just
like he's something's a little haywire there. The thing of
a jig isn't quite working right.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
For Durant, and so you're gonna pay a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Now, these things always have, as I've been told, I've
been educated over the years. They pointed out, people point
out it. But Ben, you don't understand. There's the basketball
part of it, and then there's the business part of it.
And Durant is a big enough name that the low
information fan will go for the sizzle even if there's
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no steak. Even if it's all sizzle and no steak.
At this point, they like the sizzle. People buy on
the sizzle. They like that, so they'll go for the sizzle.
And even if again duransa not quite as good as
he was, and you're getting a player that's going to
continue to get a little bit worse by the year,
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but he's got the sizzle. And as long as you
got the sizzle, you're not in bad shape. You're you're
you're not you're in you're in decent shape. There, So
put that in your pipe and smoke it. Eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox is the number eight seven, seven,
nine nine six six three sixty nine if you would
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like to be part of the program. And a bull
Pucky alert as we turn the page. Bull Pucky alert
and we go now back to Indianapolis where Tyrese Halliburton
was asked about all the chattern Oklahoma City given a
ninety five or ninety six percent chance to win the pace,
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supposed to go out with a whimper in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Finals and right now they're living high on the hog.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Is Indiana just a couple of wins away from winning
the championship and they have the home court.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
And so Haliburton was asked about that.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
I think we have the audio actually, okay, so let's
rather than me not that I don't sound like Halliburton,
I do, but rather than me pretend to beat Tyree Saliburton,
here is Tyree's talking about the perception that the talking
heads and how they approach the media.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
You know, the basketball media take less.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
The commentary is always going to be what it is.
You know most of the time.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
The talking heads on the major platforms, I couldn't care less, honestly, Like,
what do they really know about basketball. The commentary is
what it is at this point, you know it doesn't matter.
You know, we're here in the NBA Finals, two wins
away from an NBA championship.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
So you just got to stay with it, put my
head down and keep working.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
And as a group, we just got to keep learning
from our mistakes, see where we can get better and
take it a day at.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Time, all right.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
So at the end there he filled that last ten
seconds with just rapid fire.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
He carpet bombed your ears with cliches.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
In fact, that was enough where I think we should
play this again and count the cliches.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
So how long was that sound?
Speaker 3 (28:18):
By?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Was that about twenty second? Five?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Twenty five second? A right, so twenty five seconds? How
many cliches will play? The cliche game? Here from from
Tyrese Halliburton.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I just left the tires six rapid fire at the end,
I heard I thought I heard seven. Uh, Lorena, do
you I don't know what a cliche is?
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Right?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
There's a website called sportscliche dot com. I've sent them
some content over the years. You can learn every sports
cliche on one website. I don't get paid by them,
and they don't really have any ads. I don't even
know how they make money over there. But this sportscliche
dot com. If you all learn your sports cliches. Okay,
so let me let me get my my counter out here,
and we're gonna play the Tyres Haliburton cliche game.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
You walk your bets in as you're listening and hit
that button. Loraina, here we go.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
The commentary is always going to be what it is.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
You know, most of the time, the talking heads on
the major platforms, I couldn't care less, honestly, like, what
do they really know about basketball? The commentary is what
it is. At this point, you know, it doesn't matter.
You know, we're here in the NBA Finals, two wins
away from an NBA championship.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
So you just got to stay with it.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
Put my head down and keep working, and as a group,
we just got to keep learning from our mistakes, seeing
where we can get better and take it a day
a time.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Oh man, I thank you were right. I think you
were that seven, No I heard.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I think I had nine really because I count as
some of the ones at the beginning too, because those
were cliches.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
He mixed.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
He weaved Haliburton weave cliches in to the commentary. So
I've got let's hit it one more time and then
I'll say where I think the cliches were so we
can get to nine.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Here it again.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
The commentary is always going to be what it is.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
Well most of the time, the talking heads on the
major platforms, I couldn't care less, honestly, like, what do
they really know about basketball?
Speaker 5 (30:08):
The commentary is what it is. At this point, you know,
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
You know, we're here in the NBA Finals, two wins
away from an NBA championship, So you just got.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
To stay with it or put my head down and
keep working.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
And as a group, we just gotta keep learning from
our mistakes, seeing where we can get better and take
a time eight.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
So eight, it's eight or nine. I counted eight that time.
I initially counted nine, but it's over six. It's over six.
So there's haliburn.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Now, as far as the talking heads that they don't
know basketball.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Uh, are you knocking head?
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
No, I'm not on camera voice. I'm I don't know
what's the what's the radio version of a talking head?
I don't know whatever that is.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
I'm just a weird voice off in the distance that
people ease, drop in and listen to But I am.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I was told earlier that I am part of the media.
That guy that wrote in.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
He was very upset with me because I'm not licking
the toes of the basketball. There's James very upset, You're
part of the problem all that stuff, very very angry
about that. But the whole you don't know ball thing,
like you could use that to nity. If somebody gives
an opinion that you don't like, you just say, well,
they don't know basketball. You know, they don't met And
by the way, the whole business model of the nbam
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my wrong on this?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I don't think I am.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
The whole business model of the NBA is to get
people to watch your product that aren't basketball people because
they have their own lives. So and the whole point
of engagement is for those people that don't live basketball
every day to give opinions on basketball. It's called engagement.
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And there's a lot of money to be made in that.
So like when you say, hey, I couldn't care less
and they don't really know basketball, you're really crapping all
over the product.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Like Tyree's I was writing a story.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
My column would be Tyrese halliburtons all over the NBA
and the fans of the NBA and the media of
the NBA because it says that he's doing right, and
he's like, hey, listen, the talking heads, I couldn't care less.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
They don't know basketball. Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Do you think he's saying that if he's playing for
a team and they're favored to win and everyone's kissing
their ass, methinks that he's not saying that. Methinks that
that is not part of the dialogue that is going on.
I'm just just pointing that out just but I tossed
that out. It is the Ben Mallard Show. I know
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who's your bills very excited about this. He's probably so
hammered he can't figure out how to call into the show.
But he's probably very very happy with his team winning
that game eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, also
on X at Ben Mallard. That's at Ben Maler. I
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Speaker 1 (32:55):
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Speaker 3 (32:58):
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Speaker 1 (33:17):
It's kind of a crappy player. We have something better
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Speaker 2 (33:30):
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Speaker 1 (33:40):
Yeah, that was the dagger, the dagger, unless it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
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way through the overnight hours. Here we'll take some calls,
I promise, coming up time now though, for the who
am I?
Speaker 6 (34:24):
Game?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
And this is where we pretend to be somebody else,
as we call it the who am I? Game? We
go back to that NBA Finals.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Matchup, Indiana's Benedict Matherin became the first player since me
to score twenty seven or more points in an NBA
Finals game before turning twenty three. Again, Indiana pacer off
the bench, Benedict Mathern becoming the first player since me
to score twenty four or more points in an NBA
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Finals game before turning twenty three.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Who am I? That is the question? The answer I'll
tell you. We'll get to that and we will do it. NAGT.
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Speaker 1 (36:00):
Well, back to it in time now for the who
Am I? Game?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
And aha of the NBA Finals as Indiana comes back
and wins another game there, so they are two wins
away from the championship. And what a great choke job
this would be for Oklahoma City if they don't complete
the mission and win the championship because they'd already been
annointed a dynasty. There were several several very worthy stories
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are written about how this is the era of Oklahoma
City and just buckle up for it. And right now
they have lost two of three games in the NBA Finals.
But here's the who am I Game? Indiana's Benedict Mathern,
off the bench, became the first player, the first one
since me, to score twenty seven or more points in
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an NBA Finals game before turning twenty three.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
It doesn't happen very often. That is the question. What
is the answer to the last player to do it? Well,
that's the question. See, we're trying to get the answer
to the question. That's why we asked the question.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
And you can of course answer it as always on
ex at Ben Mallard. That's at Ben Mahler if you'd
like to answer that. And let's see here, Stuck in Sacramento,
a city that is so embarrassing the baseball team does
not want to use the city name in their moniker.
Stuck in Sacramento says, that would be Oklahoma. Guard and
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poutine eating Canadian loud dort is the answer. Nick the
Wendy's Guy, a doting dad who's very happy. He is
proud of his daughter graduating high school this week, says
Tony Parker. That's from our friend Nick, the Wendy's guy,
who is my hookup for Wendy's when I'm in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
He always hooks me up with the Windys. Who else
do we have page down?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Kenny o'mega from King Rory, the Pride of Fullerton, Bronze
Dog from Malor Palooza, very funny, The Iron Chic, a legend,
all time.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Great, The Iron Cheek from Alf the Alien on.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Pinter, Eddie Guardado every day, Eddie Guardato from mister nice Guy,
and I say every day he never missed the meal.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Who else do we have page down?
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Mark from Queens Via Arlington going with Tim the Big
Fundamental Duncan as his answer. Kendra Wilkinson, who is forty
today from the Late Night Drug Tester Eke is going
with the former Mister Kardashian Chris Humphries as his answer.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Who else?
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Milkman Mike in Colorado says it's Pascal Siakam's roommate Marcel
in Brooklyn, who famously is the first person on radio
to report the Titanic.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Had hit an iceberg. Nobody else had that report on radio.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Marcel was the first to report it as a breaking
news story, and he did it right here. Patrick Caine
from Sean in Portland. Who else do we have page down?
Shane the Doris Burke fan in Des Moines going with Hernandez.
Who else do we have a page down? Robbie the
Mariner fan says the Evil Incarnate is the answer. We
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will get to that later, Robbie. That is on my
big board. That is on my big board to get
to that story. Who else Josh in Nebraska, the newspaper
delivery man, Chicago Bears Apologist, says le.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Man James is the last one to do it. Who else?
Page down?
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Some Twinkie from Slim Tim the Pigly Wiggly mascot.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
I love the pigley wiggly man anytime I'm in the South.
That's from JB. I always go to Piggy. I want
to go to a piggy wiggly.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Oh man, it's good they got like porky pig is
their mascot.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
How can you go wrong with that?
Speaker 6 (39:42):
Man?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
It's a bigley wiggly.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
You don't really feel like you're in the South until
you go to a pigley wiggly. Then you feel like
you're in the South. Robin, Minnesota, says Norbel Turner. Gloria
Estefon from gil in San Diego. Magic from Johnny Q.
Who else you have, Paige?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Dad? Do you have an answer A quick right? My
big crush Vnexel Nick Vanexel.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
No, it's Kawhi Leonard, Kawhi Leonard with a spur back
in the day.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
The last one to do it before Benedict Baffert
We go welcome. It's our number one. Happy Thursday.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
We have made it to the twelfth day of June
in the year twenty twenty five, and we are together
on overnight talk radio. The great thing, though, is this
podcast you listen during the day, so well like a
daytime show, which is much cooler because you can listen
whenever the hell you want. So it's Game three the
NBA Finals, we ranted shortly after Game three came to
an end. Who wears the shamebell for SGA's OKC team
(00:31):
They blew a small fourth quarter lead in Game three
of the finals, up two games to one, Dude, Tyrese
Haliburton and the Pacers have a stranglehold on the NBA Finals.
And Lebron James knows why you're not watching and you're
not emotionally invested in the NBA Finals. It's the media's fault.
(00:52):
So he says they're not telling enough stories and doing
their homework and all that stuff, and says they're failing
the fans.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Is he right?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
We'll talk about that and much more right now here.
It is our number one.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
In Pacer Racer.
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Me so our lead.
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This hour is from the Hoosier State that was the
stage for Game three of the NBA Finals. Once a generation,
the Pacers play in the finals, and I was there
the last time many years ago they played in the
NBA Finals, but they.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Were back home. Game there.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Chay geoghis Alexander leading the Thunder into Indianapolis for a
battle with Tyrese Halliburton and the Pacers. Where are you watching?
Of course you were not watching based on the ratings crickets,
but don't worry. We watched so you would not have
to the life of a mensch our good mitzvah of
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the day. And it was a secondary actor that took
over Benedict matherin twenty seven points off the bench. The
Dagger twenty seven points off the bench, played well in
the fourth quarter. Tyrese Halliburton had twenty two and eleven
nine rebounds and a partridge in a paar tree. And
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the upstart Pacers, who were given less than a ten
percent chance of winning this series, well, right now they're
in good shape as they retook the lead in the
NBA Finals, slithering past the Thunder by nine in Game
three on Wednesday night. As now Indiana two wins away
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from having a parade, two wins away from a championship,
and one of the great players on this show, a
man that has been immortalized by our friend Marcel and
Brooklyn Pascal Siakam got to make sure I say that right.
Twenty one points for Indiana. So the Pacers who lost
game two and a route or root a non competitive
(04:06):
Game two, and then had about seven weeks off. They
come back, they will get to win. So they improved
now to ten and oh, ten and oh since mid
March in the game following loss. So if they just
do that, if they just win every other game since
they won Game one using malor math, they are going
to be crowned the champions of the NBA. Now, Game four,
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shockingly will be played on Friday night.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I hope the players can deal with that having only one.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Day off between the games. With The better story is
where have I trained you? Like Pavlov's dogs? Yes, the
losing locker room. So let us discuss the question who
wears the shame bell for SGA's OKC team that did
have a small lead, a small lead going to the
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fourth quarter, and they blew it a five point league
going to the fourth quarter and they were outplayed by
a wide margin by Indiana in Game three of the finals.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
So who wears the shame bell?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I've got house keys, booster, and lecture, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make cotton candy, because that's what I saw from
Oklahoma City in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
They played like cotton.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Candy in terms of the shame bell. And there's one
thing we love in overnight sports radio is pointing the
finger and giving the shame bell so that the head
of the snake is the problem here. Where have you gone?
SGA A thunder nation whatever that means, turns its lonely
eyes to you as a shay It was right there.
(05:49):
We'd like to say on this show, when you played
bad in a big game, in a key moment, you've
written the vomit comet and there he was.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
He disappeared. It's kind of like when you're when you're looking.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
To leave the house and you forgot where you put
the keys and you're kind of digging around the junk
drawer and you can't find the house keys that you
know they're in the drunk the drunk drawer, the junk drawer,
and you can't find them. Right, You're like, what's going on?
How bad was he? All right, I'll answer the question.
So okase mentioned they had they had a small lead,
a bite sized lead going to the fourth quarter. Now
(06:20):
we know that that's not that big an advanced five points. However,
you are the MVP.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You have been.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Compared in columns, online posts, glowing reports from fanboys. You
have been compared to Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. Yes,
I know it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
But you have been. Yeah, this this good, good player,
but that seems a little much.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
So anyway, what did SGA do to add another chapter
to his book of legends?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Don't ask?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
He grabbed a pillow and a blankie and he took
a nap. Shay's fingerpri were all over this one. He
had a very ugly stat line as Shay jogis Alexander
at three points, one rebound, and had as many assists
as you and I had.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
None and one turnover in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
He was not the player that he had been getting
the calls, getting the separation.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
The everything was a little off, and that became problematic
as Indiana.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Was able to take advantage there and the Pacers get
her done.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
And let's hear from the man.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Of the our SGA here pointing out that, hey, the
the other guys over there, they were scratching and clawing
a bit tike a list.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yeah, they were aggressive, they were hiring the pick and rolls.
They really were just like courts said more aggressive, more forceful.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, we gotta starts with me, but we got to
apply that pressure back.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Well, you're all you're the MVP Yere three hundred million
dollar guy, you're all that, come on, gotta get it done,
all right? Well, what about game number four? That's the
next game here? Do you have any thoughts on that
you'd like to share with the class?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
It felt like they won all the fifty to fifty
plays they're executing on both both ens of the ball.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
You're still gone.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
When you give those two things up, and no matter
what quarter, you're probably gonna lose the quarter, especially and
then it goes back to especially on the road in
a hostile environment and crowds behind them. So yeah, we
got to take care of those things. If you want
to come on a game forward.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
A dub okay with a dub All right, very nice,
All right, So here we go again. He sucked at
a time you cannot suck, and you can't do that
in the finals and all that stuff. This is a
legacy situation, and he was a bird without wings, unable
to take off there in the fourth quarter. But in general,
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Oklahoma City, as was mentioned here, it was just out hustle.
You don't have to be an NBA coach or some
kind of high falutin insider to know. You just have
to be able to know ball. No ball, do we
not know ball? Come on, we know ball. We are
experts at ball. So in general, Oklahoma City was just
bad all the way around. Late in the game, but
(09:10):
thanks to Indiana backup, as we mentioned the star of
the show, Benedict Mathern. The math was math in there
twenty seven points. The Thunder outscored by thirty one points.
I believe if my math is correct, it was twenty one.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
It was a lot. It was a lot. I think
it was thirty one.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Anyway, it was like a lot of bench points, most
of it from Mathren a huge advantage there in the
bench points.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
It was forty nine to eighteen.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Now page two, So let's go to the winning locker room,
which is not as good as story, but we'll go
there anyway. So you have a two to one lead
in the NBA Finals. You've got home court advantage. If
you just win the home games, you're going to win
the championship. So dude, Tyrese Halliburton and the Indiana Pacers
have a stranglehold on the NBA Final. So if you
(10:01):
look at the comps on this, they are a hitter
batting eight hundred at this point. The comps say, the
analytics say, you are an eight hundred hitter. You're not
Tony Gwynn, You're not Ty Cobb, You're an eight hundred hitter.
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That's Beer League Softball history says the Pacers are in control.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
In the forty one previous.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
NBA Finals that were tied at a game apiece, the
team that won Game three got to get that shiny
hunk of metal thirty three times. That's an eighty percent
winning clip eighty point five percent, So clear advantage of
the Pacers. But as we often point out, what do
we say here the disclaimer? As the great Dick Stockton,
(10:50):
legendary sportscaster taught me, he said, ben Stat's tell you.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
What has happened, not what's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
This is clearly a booster shot for Indiana, And unlike
some of those booster shots we had to take a
few years ago, these actually work. So can Benedict Mathern
bottle this up and do it again?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Does he even have to do that again?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
It is a game Indiana won with Tyrese Haliburton, who
is known as the closer, and he was not the
closer in terms of big shots fourth quarter. He was
one of four down the stretch in the fourth quarter
and had just three points.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
So this is.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
An exhale situation for Indiana and they're in good, good shape.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
But are they really?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I mean, you can't lose it home, So it's like,
you got to win these home games. If you just
merely win the home games, you don't have to win
another game in Oklahoma City. You don't have to worry
about that, where SGA seems to get every call now
last word. So there's a lot of people in the
NBA that are freaking out. They're running around trying to
put out fires here because no one's watching the finals
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in comparison to years gone by, it's just a bad product.
People aren't into it, and the people have spoken, and
so everyone's trying.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
To come up with rationale.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Adam Silver has pulled seven muscles trying to manipulate the numbers.
We Lebron James has entered the chat. Of course, Lebron,
you know who he's blaming for the lack of an
audience for the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Did you see this?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
All right, Lebron James is blaming the media.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
It's the media's fault, the lack of emotion, the lack
of interest by Joe Schmoe, Joe sixpack doesn't care. The
hoy POLOI is not watching the NBA Finals.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Lebron says that the media is not telling enough stories
and they're not doing their homework. He says they're failing
the fans.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Is he right? All right? So let me begin with this.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
This is a the word I will use is ridiculous.
Capital r capital are ridiculous. The basketball media are a
bunch of lightweights. They are not the problem. Okay, they
are not the problem. The Thunder and Pacers. The Thunder
in particular a great team, right regular season, great team
and all that.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
They tried to win the regular season.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
The Pacers ever since, like January, played very well.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
The issue is they don't have star power.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
And that's the secret ingredient, which is not so secret
that people search out the casuals.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
That's what they look for.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
And usually you have at least one headliner in the
NBA Finals, whether it's Steph.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Curry or Lebron who people love to hate. So you
don't have that.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
You don't have Curry, you don't have Lebron, you don't
have an audience. And the media, the evil media. I
have read a number of glowing think pieces, stories about
the magic of Shay Jogis Alexander and the mythical superpowers
of Tyress Halliburton. Unfortunately, those guys don't make the public tingles.
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My opinion, it's a fact. Okay, sorry, not sorry. It's
nice of media expert Lebron James to lecture the rank
and file on storytelling. This is classic Lebron. Is this
not perfect for Lebron? He's always got to control the
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narrative and make everything about him. Now, I have done
a TV show the last couple years with a guy
who does that too, makes everything about.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Him, and I hate people like that.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
What are the basketball media types supposed to do if
the public doesn't care, are they gonna force them to care?
Where are they gonna make a cooking documentary with Pascal
Siakam cooking his favorite dish, pasta prima era, Like? What
are they gonna a deep dive on Tyreese Halliburn. I
don't know if he collects Pokemon cards or not, but
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it looks like he might be the guy that collects
Pokemon cards.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I'm not judging.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I'm just saying there's no amount of storytelling, none that
can replace star power.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
And that is the real issue. You're starting out.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
It's like starting a race and you're behind by a
couple of lengths at the race because the market size
is a huge advantage.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
You have bigger market, there's more people. Now. Not everyone in.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Every big city cares about sports. There's a lot of
weirdos that aren't like us, that don't like sports. They
don't have the sports gene, so they don't understand. But
there's enough if you're in the big city. The big
metropolis is where you have enough people that do care
and are passionate, and then the other people, some of them,
a percentage of those people are like, well, we better
watch because everyone else is watching.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
So it becomes a communal thing. And even if that
same effect happens.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
In a place like Oklahoma City or Indianapolis, the size
thing is the issue. That's the that's the rubs, as
they say, whoever they are. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
As we are just beginning the red eye flight through
the overnight. We thank you for spending some time alongside
here as we are just settling in and trying to
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people were sending me messages saying there was some phone
issues yesterday.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
That they were they were not people able to get through.
I don't know what happened.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I don't know if the phones were not working or not,
but I got enough of those messages to think that
something might be up. I assume, I assume that the
phones are working right now, but you can let me
know if they're not. Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
That's eight seven seven nine nine six six three sixty nine.
Also on the X Machine at Ben Malor, that's at
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not personal, it's just business and a bull pucky alert,
a bull pucky alert. We'll get to all that and
we'll take your calls, the whole deal, and we will
do it next.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven PM Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app Bill Miller and you.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
It is the Ben Mahler Show.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
We are up all night every night in the cockpit
on the Red Eye flight just beginning trying to reach
full altitude as we navigate the overnight skies. And you
can be part of this show. Now, you don't have
to be part of the show. I want to be
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So act recording and back to it, back to what
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Speaker 2 (18:09):
Mister Irrigation points out he knew the better story was
in the.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Losing locker room supermarket.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Steve writes in he says, how come I don't see
Page Becker's coming back and going for thirty five on
your rundown, because I do broadcasting, not narrow casting, and
there's only one story in the WNBA that's worth my time,
and that's something involving Kitlyn Clark. In fact, if you
look at the average WNBA broadcast on television, there is
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a one hundred and ninety nine percent difference. The audience
goes down by almost two hundred percent when Caitlin Clark
is not playing. So there's one person that matters in
that entire sport, and it's Kaitlyn.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
No one else back.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Now, you you might be all horned up for certain
other players, but there's only one that is worthy of
our time, and it ain't page backers.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
So just deal with that. There you go, tiger Man
in Utah.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Right, Since, says Ben, when did going to an MLB
game become so unaffordable sixty dollars for a ticket in
parking just to park a mile away and sit in
the nose bleachers. Well, tiger Man, you haven't called the
show in a while.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Number one. Number two, this is a non secutor because
we're not talking about this.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Number three, there is a cheat code to go to
baseball games, and if you're willing to go to day
games during the week. I'll let you in a little
hack here on the secondary market in a lot of
these cities, even big Metropolis, is you can get a
ticket for less than five dollars to a baseball and
you'll end up paying more in fees than you will
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for the ticket on those day games on like a
Wednesday or a Thursday, when most people have jobs and
can't go, and people try to get rid of those tickets,
or if you were willing to go to unattracted matchup.
So that's the cheat code, tiger Man. Do that, you'll
you'll save a bunch of money. And now I don't
know how to get around the parking thing, because that's
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that's I haven't figured out a cheat coat on that.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Hey Ben, Yes.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Lorena, don't the Angels have a really good deal right now?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
What you can spend money and watch bad baseball?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yeah, but I think you can get like it gets
four hot dogs and for sodas for like forty bucks.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yes, you just maybe you can turn your seat around
and look at a look at off.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
You might be able to see the fireworks at Disneyland
if you time it right. I think they at nine
o'clock every night. I think there's fireworks.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
They're in second place, all right, I know.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
The Halos are back, baby, they are back. Angel baseball
Ron Washington, he's got them going wash. Every baseball writer
Ron Washington was coaching when I started it as a
like a radio guy, and every baseball he must be
the greatest storyteller. I have not met a baseball writer
that doesn't just slobber all over want Ron Washington, you
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mustpect the greatest guy in the world. The Angels manager
James Wright. Since hey, dumb ass, you are the media.
You spend a lot of time pooping on the NBA playoffs.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
You are just another part of the problem. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
James, you're a genius. Let me explain something, sir, how
this works here. I know you're apparently not that bright. Actually,
So there's the media and then there's the non mainstream media.
And I want you to know my boss is here
at Fox Sports Radio at iHeart. They keep me grounded,
and anytime I negotiate a contract, they remind me that
I am not part of the mainstream that we are
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on at night.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
There is a different world. We are not mainstream.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
We are really underground. If you will a voice in
the night. Here, there's a radio that is six am
to six pm.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Those are the cool kids.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
They get go on road trips and they get the
big salaries and all that stuff, and they get promoted
by the company. And then there's the people that do
nighttime radio. Nighttime radio, it's a lot more fun.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
We're not micro managed or whatever by our bosses, but
we're not mainstream. So and I don't work for the NBA, James,
if you want state sponsored media coverage and you want
the prova news service, watch NBA TV or ESPN and.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
They will give you that. They will give you that
content that you're looking for. That's right. Yeah, I know, shocking,
absolutely shocking.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Late night drug tester rights And he says, with these
smaller market teams in the NBA finals, are there going
to be more post series riots involving cow tipping or
burning crops?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Well, there is another summer of love here in the
United States.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
The people that like to burn cars and buildings, and
they're out there, out and about.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
I also like cow tipping and enjoying themselves.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
So who knows every night is a night to do that.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Apparently these days.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Ferd dog right, Sin says, how dare you doubt the
effectiveness of the booster shot?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Ben?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I just got my tenth one today and I am
the picture of Do look like you're in great, great
shape there? Absolutely yes, Tony writes in, says Halliburton is
Reggie Miller two point oh tyreek, Salbert, I don't think
you nws spelled tyrees because you said Haliburn Halliburton is.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Reggie Miller two point zero and.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Taking out Ben Maller's heavily favorite thunder Well, Tony, you
might want to go to Costco when they open.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Up there and go to the hearing aid area.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
They will test your hearing because if you were paying attention.
I pointed out that I enjoy the way the Pacers play.
I find the pacers pleasing, appetizing, enjoyable, so.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I would have no issue. I have no skin in
the game.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I'm fine with them winning, obviously. I'm happy that SGA
has played well. You know, old Clipper Blood goes very well.
I'm happy about that. But I know Indiana is the
one right there. Anyway, it is the Ben Maller Show
as we are working our way through the overnight hour,
and it's not personal, it's just business.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
We'll get to that story.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
We'll get to that story right now, because I thought
this was interesting and it involves Kevin Durant. Another day,
another eight million rumors about Kevin Durant, and it turns
out these suns now.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
The chatter for months has been that Durant's going to
be traded.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Some people think the deal's already done with San Antonio
and nothing will be done done until after the NBA Finals. However,
it turns out that the person who is negotiating the
trade is Durant's business manager, is said to be sorting
through not one, not two, not three, not four, how
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about five NBA trade possibilities for Kevin Durant.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
There are at least five teams, five teams.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
That are attempting to acquire him, including the Roquettes, the
Spurs that have been mentioned regularly, the Tim Burwos, the
Miami Heat, and the New York knicker Bockers. For Kevin Durant,
who is thirty six years old.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
And while he is not.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Bad, Durant is not bad, I think it is fair
to point out that he is just a little bit,
just a little bit off, and it's enough where it's
like he's not lollygaggering or anything like that. It's just
like he's something's a little haywire there. The thing of
a jig isn't quite working right.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
For Durant, and so you're gonna pay a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Now, these things always have, as I've been told, I've
been educated over the years. They pointed out, people point
out it. But Ben, you don't understand. There's the basketball
part of it, and then there's the business part of it.
And Durant is a big enough name that the low
information fan will go for the sizzle even if there's
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no steak. Even if it's all sizzle and no steak.
At this point, they like the sizzle. People buy on
the sizzle. They like that, so they'll go for the sizzle.
And even if again duransa not quite as good as
he was, and you're getting a player that's going to
continue to get a little bit worse by the year,
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but he's got the sizzle. And as long as you
got the sizzle, you're not in bad shape. You're you're
you're not you're in you're in decent shape. There, So
put that in your pipe and smoke it. Eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox is the number eight seven, seven,
nine nine six six three sixty nine if you would
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like to be part of the program. And a bull
Pucky alert as we turn the page. Bull Pucky alert
and we go now back to Indianapolis where Tyrese Halliburton
was asked about all the chattern Oklahoma City given a
ninety five or ninety six percent chance to win the pace,
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supposed to go out with a whimper in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Finals and right now they're living high on the hog.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Is Indiana just a couple of wins away from winning
the championship and they have the home court.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
And so Haliburton was asked about that.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
I think we have the audio actually, okay, so let's
rather than me not that I don't sound like Halliburton,
I do, but rather than me pretend to beat Tyree Saliburton,
here is Tyree's talking about the perception that the talking
heads and how they approach the media.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
You know, the basketball media take less.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
The commentary is always going to be what it is.
You know most of the time.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
The talking heads on the major platforms, I couldn't care less, honestly, Like,
what do they really know about basketball. The commentary is
what it is at this point, you know it doesn't matter.
You know, we're here in the NBA Finals, two wins
away from an NBA championship.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
So you just got to stay with it, put my
head down and keep working.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
And as a group, we just got to keep learning
from our mistakes, see where we can get better and
take it a day at.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Time, all right.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
So at the end there he filled that last ten
seconds with just rapid fire.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
He carpet bombed your ears with cliches.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
In fact, that was enough where I think we should
play this again and count the cliches.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
So how long was that sound?
Speaker 3 (28:18):
By?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Was that about twenty second? Five?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Twenty five second? A right, so twenty five seconds? How
many cliches will play? The cliche game? Here from from
Tyrese Halliburton.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I just left the tires six rapid fire at the end,
I heard I thought I heard seven. Uh, Lorena, do
you I don't know what a cliche is?
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Right?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
There's a website called sportscliche dot com. I've sent them
some content over the years. You can learn every sports
cliche on one website. I don't get paid by them,
and they don't really have any ads. I don't even
know how they make money over there. But this sportscliche
dot com. If you all learn your sports cliches. Okay,
so let me let me get my my counter out here,
and we're gonna play the Tyres Haliburton cliche game.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
You walk your bets in as you're listening and hit
that button. Loraina, here we go.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
The commentary is always going to be what it is.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
You know, most of the time, the talking heads on
the major platforms, I couldn't care less, honestly, like, what
do they really know about basketball? The commentary is what
it is. At this point, you know, it doesn't matter.
You know, we're here in the NBA Finals, two wins
away from an NBA championship.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
So you just got to stay with it.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
Put my head down and keep working, and as a group,
we just got to keep learning from our mistakes, seeing
where we can get better and take it a day
a time.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Oh man, I thank you were right. I think you
were that seven, No I heard.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I think I had nine really because I count as
some of the ones at the beginning too, because those
were cliches.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
He mixed.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
He weaved Haliburton weave cliches in to the commentary. So
I've got let's hit it one more time and then
I'll say where I think the cliches were so we
can get to nine.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Here it again.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
The commentary is always going to be what it is.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
Well most of the time, the talking heads on the
major platforms, I couldn't care less, honestly, like, what do
they really know about basketball?
Speaker 5 (30:08):
The commentary is what it is. At this point, you know,
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
You know, we're here in the NBA Finals, two wins
away from an NBA championship, So you just got.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
To stay with it or put my head down and
keep working.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
And as a group, we just gotta keep learning from
our mistakes, seeing where we can get better and take
a time eight.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
So eight, it's eight or nine. I counted eight that time.
I initially counted nine, but it's over six. It's over six.
So there's haliburn.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Now, as far as the talking heads that they don't
know basketball.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Uh, are you knocking head?
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
No, I'm not on camera voice. I'm I don't know
what's the what's the radio version of a talking head?
I don't know whatever that is.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
I'm just a weird voice off in the distance that
people ease, drop in and listen to But I am.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I was told earlier that I am part of the media.
That guy that wrote in.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
He was very upset with me because I'm not licking
the toes of the basketball. There's James very upset, You're
part of the problem all that stuff, very very angry
about that. But the whole you don't know ball thing,
like you could use that to nity. If somebody gives
an opinion that you don't like, you just say, well,
they don't know basketball. You know, they don't met And
by the way, the whole business model of the nbam
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my wrong on this?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I don't think I am.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
The whole business model of the NBA is to get
people to watch your product that aren't basketball people because
they have their own lives. So and the whole point
of engagement is for those people that don't live basketball
every day to give opinions on basketball. It's called engagement.
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And there's a lot of money to be made in that.
So like when you say, hey, I couldn't care less
and they don't really know basketball, you're really crapping all
over the product.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Like Tyree's I was writing a story.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
My column would be Tyrese halliburtons all over the NBA
and the fans of the NBA and the media of
the NBA because it says that he's doing right, and
he's like, hey, listen, the talking heads, I couldn't care less.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
They don't know basketball. Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Do you think he's saying that if he's playing for
a team and they're favored to win and everyone's kissing
their ass, methinks that he's not saying that. Methinks that
that is not part of the dialogue that is going on.
I'm just just pointing that out just but I tossed
that out. It is the Ben Mallard Show. I know
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who's your bills very excited about this. He's probably so
hammered he can't figure out how to call into the show.
But he's probably very very happy with his team winning
that game eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, also
on X at Ben Mallard. That's at Ben Maler. I
think we have the play of the night. Do we
not have the play of the night.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Ready to go? Here? Is that cued up? Ready to go?
I think it is?
Speaker 3 (32:58):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Maybe not all right? Here it is let's going the
tire rack play of the night in the world of sport.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
The seven thirty six left of the third Halliburton interceps
hones escorted to the other end with a two hand slab.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
It's kind of a crappy player. We have something better
than I. That was like just a random two seconds.
All right, others, all right, let's try this is now.
This is the real tire rack player night. He's got
the ball.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Now the right answer of the arc here comes up
three Halliburton with twenty two points time out Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Yeah, that was the dagger, the dagger, unless it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
That was the digger Pacers radio there Tyree Saliburt and
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me all right, spen alas show we are working our
way through the overnight hours. Here we'll take some calls,
I promise, coming up time now though, for the who
am I?
Speaker 6 (34:24):
Game?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
And this is where we pretend to be somebody else,
as we call it the who am I? Game? We
go back to that NBA Finals.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Matchup, Indiana's Benedict Matherin became the first player since me
to score twenty seven or more points in an NBA
Finals game before turning twenty three. Again, Indiana pacer off
the bench, Benedict Mathern becoming the first player since me
to score twenty four or more points in an NBA
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Finals game before turning twenty three.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Who am I? That is the question? The answer I'll
tell you. We'll get to that and we will do it. NAGT.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
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Speaker 6 (35:57):
Back to it, Thank God for the Internet.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Well, back to it in time now for the who
Am I? Game?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
And aha of the NBA Finals as Indiana comes back
and wins another game there, so they are two wins
away from the championship. And what a great choke job
this would be for Oklahoma City if they don't complete
the mission and win the championship because they'd already been
annointed a dynasty. There were several several very worthy stories
(36:26):
are written about how this is the era of Oklahoma
City and just buckle up for it. And right now
they have lost two of three games in the NBA Finals.
But here's the who am I Game? Indiana's Benedict Mathern,
off the bench, became the first player, the first one
since me, to score twenty seven or more points in
(36:48):
an NBA Finals game before turning twenty three.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
It doesn't happen very often. That is the question. What
is the answer to the last player to do it? Well,
that's the question. See, we're trying to get the answer
to the question. That's why we asked the question.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
And you can of course answer it as always on
ex at Ben Mallard. That's at Ben Mahler if you'd
like to answer that. And let's see here, Stuck in Sacramento,
a city that is so embarrassing the baseball team does
not want to use the city name in their moniker.
Stuck in Sacramento says, that would be Oklahoma. Guard and
(37:25):
poutine eating Canadian loud dort is the answer. Nick the
Wendy's Guy, a doting dad who's very happy. He is
proud of his daughter graduating high school this week, says
Tony Parker. That's from our friend Nick, the Wendy's guy,
who is my hookup for Wendy's when I'm in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
He always hooks me up with the Windys. Who else
do we have page down?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Kenny o'mega from King Rory, the Pride of Fullerton, Bronze
Dog from Malor Palooza, very funny, The Iron Chic, a legend,
all time.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Great, The Iron Cheek from Alf the Alien on.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Pinter, Eddie Guardado every day, Eddie Guardato from mister nice Guy,
and I say every day he never missed the meal.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Who else do we have page down?
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Mark from Queens Via Arlington going with Tim the Big
Fundamental Duncan as his answer. Kendra Wilkinson, who is forty
today from the Late Night Drug Tester Eke is going
with the former Mister Kardashian Chris Humphries as his answer.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Who else?
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Milkman Mike in Colorado says it's Pascal Siakam's roommate Marcel
in Brooklyn, who famously is the first person on radio
to report the Titanic.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Had hit an iceberg. Nobody else had that report on radio.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Marcel was the first to report it as a breaking
news story, and he did it right here. Patrick Caine
from Sean in Portland. Who else do we have page down?
Shane the Doris Burke fan in Des Moines going with Hernandez.
Who else do we have a page down? Robbie the
Mariner fan says the Evil Incarnate is the answer. We
(39:08):
will get to that later, Robbie. That is on my
big board. That is on my big board to get
to that story. Who else Josh in Nebraska, the newspaper
delivery man, Chicago Bears Apologist, says le.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Man James is the last one to do it. Who else?
Page down?
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Some Twinkie from Slim Tim the Pigly Wiggly mascot.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
I love the pigley wiggly man anytime I'm in the South.
That's from JB. I always go to Piggy. I want
to go to a piggy wiggly.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Oh man, it's good they got like porky pig is
their mascot.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
How can you go wrong with that?
Speaker 6 (39:42):
Man?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
It's a bigley wiggly.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
You don't really feel like you're in the South until
you go to a pigley wiggly. Then you feel like
you're in the South. Robin, Minnesota, says Norbel Turner. Gloria
Estefon from gil in San Diego. Magic from Johnny Q.
Who else you have, Paige?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Dad? Do you have an answer A quick right? My
big crush Vnexel Nick Vanexel.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
No, it's Kawhi Leonard, Kawhi Leonard with a spur back
in the day.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
The last one to do it before Benedict Baffert
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