June 20, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Indiana Pacers forcing a Game 7 in the NBA Finals as they blow out the Thunder in Game 6, if this counts as a choke for SGA & OKC, who has the edge in Game 7, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome, it's our number what our number one of the
Original Recipe Podcast. A Happy Friday to you. It's the
twentieth day of June. And before I tell you what's.
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On the menu for this hour, a reminder that the
Fifth Hour.
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Podcast a very special episode, very special episode. If you're
a big fan of the show, the Overnight Show, you're
gonna want to listen to the Fifth Hour Podcast. Something
I have not talked about into a microphone in probably
fourteen years or so, and I am going to talk
about it on the Fifth Hour Podcast.
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It's the episode's called I Believe Benny boot Camp. That's
what I think it's called.
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We're gonna put it up later today Fifth Hour Podcast.
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Check that out. But as far as the Original Recipe.
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Pod, our number one NBA Finals, it was supposed to
end and it didn't.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Game six. Does this performance or.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Lack thereof qualify as a choke by Shay Jogis Alexander
and the Thunder? Also, where is the finger of blame
and shame pointed at for Okac and who's got the
edge heading into a Game seven on Sunday night between
the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And the Thunder.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
The answer is likely going to surprise you. You'll find
out that answer right now. Queue up the band, sparks
are about to fly. It's our number one. It was
a big night, and it was a silent night, not
what you were hoping for.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
If you're a fan of a certain basketball team.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Welcome in the beginning of another night of the Ben
Malor Show.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
We are in the air every.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Whares we come out so winging like a Dodger manager,
and we are the ultimate enhancer of audio unless we're
not coast to coast, border to border and beyond on
the vast and pleasantly powerful microphones of FSR and mandating
live from the fetti as in the confetti that wasn't
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coming down from the rafters as we're hanging out here
from the Fox Sports Radio studios as approved by Viva
Los Vicki. And hoo's your Bill, who is likely hammered
right now, and he'll send us a bunch of offensive
comments on the social media page because the phones are
still left up. And then somewhere in Oklahoma City, Kyrie,
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our buddy Kyrie, is all bummed out. He's all bummed out.
We'll get to that in a minute. I was gonna
start with the Dodgers. We're getting covered up on our
LA affiliate right now by Dodger post scheme programming.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
There was a scrum.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
That took place late in that Dodger Podre game, and
we had belly bumping managers. Was it a belly bumped
Was it a show of Dave Roberts and the podres
manager shilt getting into it.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
We'll talk more about that as we work our way
through the overnight. But don't bury the lead, my man.
We're not going to be the lead.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
So I lead this hour is from the home state
of popcorn legend, Orville Reddenbacher, Orville Reddenbacker from Indiana, now
in Indianapolis, the heart of the Hoosier State, a fine
city with some really good restaurants. I was there years ago,
back when Reggie Miller, who's now a cheerleader apparently watching
the game a cheerleader for the Pacers, but he was
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playing before he became a cheerleader years ago, and I
enjoyed my time in Indianapolis. So is Game six of
the NBA Finals, the Thunder looking to close things out,
to sellbrate good times, to celebrate a championship. All they
had to do was win over the beaten and broken
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Pacers who were just trying to play that Beg's tune,
the stay Alive, Stay and Alive and all that.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Now, I don't know if you were watching.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I'm going to assume the position, probably not based on
the ratings. This is a FNF Finals, friends and family,
friends and family, nobody else watching, So friends and family
were tuned in.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Don't worry though, we watch. It's our public service, so.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
You would not have to an act of kindness, a
good mitzvah if you will. And there was the headline
all day. Would Tyrese Haliburton play? Would he not play?
What's going to happen here?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Well?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Playing with a strained right calf? He did play? And
how did he do it well?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Tyrese Saliburton had fourteen points in just twenty three minutes,
and the Indiana basketball team had a laugher as they
celebrate it a win.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
They were one celebrating over Oklahoma City.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
One oh eight ninety one, a game that was not
that close, A game that was not that close on
Thursday night. So we get a game seven, which normally
would be solid gold. Again, very few people care about
this NBA Finals based on the amount of people watching it.
And so there you go, Burton playing on one good leg,
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on one good leg, and he made some plays. It
was a balanced effort obi topping the old Knickerbocker led
the Pacers with twenty points, a lot of that in
garbage time off the bench. Indiana had not one, not two,
not three, not four, not five, if my math is correct,
six players in double figuress. I'm told as good. I
didn't play in the NBA, but I'm told that's good.
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And they led by as many as thirty one points.
Thirty one points the Pacers led by, and so all
that's great. All that's really great stuff, and congratulations to
the Pacers on the win. However, you know how we
roll in these parts. You've been listening, you're nodding your head.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yes, I know. The better story is in the losing
locker room.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
So let us discuss the question for the esteem panel,
which you are a part of, whether you participate or not,
and the company's making it very hard for you to participate.
The question does this performance qualify as a chokey mic?
Choke by Shay jogis Alexander and the Thunder. So my
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thoughts on this. I've got UMass whirlpool refrigerator and penny slots,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a one way ticket back
to the dust Bowl, because that's where both these teams
will be going. One last night, one last night of
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pro bouncy ball, and then it's all over or not.
The last the parties over a Sunday night, which I'm
happy about. We get one more night of content, one
more night of content for the show, which I'm pleased about.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
And I'll be watching and I like Game sevens.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I don't really care about either one of these teams,
but I enjoy Game seven, so I'll be watching. Hopefully
we get a close game. I'm looking forward to that.
More on that in a second. But answer the question,
does this performance qualify as a choke by S and
the Thunder? The only acceptable answer is three letters.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Y E S. That's it.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
That's all this game was set up. It was on
a pedestal. It was on a pedestal for OKC. No
Scott Foster. The NBA did not bring in the extender.
He was not called in off the bench to make
sure this series went to seven games. Indiana appeared to
be a bedraggled basketball team, as their star Tyre's Halliburt
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we mentioned playing with one good leg and yet you
look down from thirty thousand feet in the sky and
Oklahoma City, this performance by coach Mark Dagno and his
team was a I call it a U mass like
performance because Oklahoma City on this night they were minute men,
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is what they were. We did the math and we determined,
based on a thorough, thorough review of the available evidence,
that Oklahoma City played effectively good basketball for three minutes
and thirty four seconds period, heartstop.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Three minutes and thirty four seconds. Oklahoma City jumped out
to a ten.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
To two lead in the game, and that was at
the eight to twenty six mark of the first quarter.
And then they had to play the rest of the game.
And that was the problem from that point forward, from
the ten to two advantage for the Thunder until early
in the fourth quarter, the Thunder, we're told, one of
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the all time great individual teams, were outscored by thirty
nine points in an NBA Finals game.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Pah, tick pa tick horrific. Hey are you even trying?
Are you even trying?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
To be outscored by thirty nine points in that stretch,
and there the garbage time after that. Let's say there
was garbage time before that as well. So where is
the finger of blame as we turn the page? Where
is the finger of blame? Pointed at Burro Casey. We
love to play the blame game and pointing the finger.
Let's start with SGA all right. Now there's a lot
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of letters here. You got SGA and then I've got
in my algebra equation, I've got MVP. So I've got
SGA and then I've got MVP. And he was standing
right in front of the Whirlpool refrigerator. Shay jogis Alexander.
He was standing right in front of the refrigerator, the
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Whirlpool refrigerator. Now he had a chance to close the
refrigerator door, to turn the lights out, have the eggs cooling,
Watch as the butter is getting hard and the jello's jiggling,
as the iconic late Great chick her and old.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Sportscasters said back in his day, did that happen?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Instead, what do we got? The under had twenty one turnovers?
Twenty one, so bakery is what that is? Eight of
them by Shay Jogis Alexander eight of them, eight of them.
He had seven made baskets and eight turnovers. He sucked
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at a time you cannot suck. In Game six of
the NBA Finals, let's go jump ahead. Here a cut
two mark, and here's SGA pointing out that it was
not a good night to play basketball for OKAC.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
The way I see it is, we suck tonight if
we've learned the lessons and we have one game for everything,
for everything we've worked for, and so do they, and
the better team Sunday will win.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Okay, So at least he admitted he did suck at
a time you cannot suck. So we appreciate that that
is the first step to rehabilitation when you're writing the
vomit comet. Here is SGA asked whether or not the
Thunder had championship dreams and they were already imagining what
it would be like to do that big postgame celebration
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winning the title in game six, Yers, what do you
had to say on that?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
See in the back of our minds for sure. Now,
we didn't play like it at all, and that's why
the night went the way it did. We got exactly
what we deserved, what we earned. Then we had to
own that.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
See, I would argue they played like they thought they
had the game in the bag. If you saw anything
leading up to this game, it was a FATA compleat.
It was in the back. What's in the back, championship, championship,
it was in the back, championship in the back, to
show up.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
That's it. You're done, You're good, You're gonna win. Man now.
The coach of the Thunder, Mark Dagnoll, pointing.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Out they were this close, they were right there and
they can almost taste the champion.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Coach explain that to me.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
It was hard tonight. You know, Indiana was great and
we were not.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
So we have the same.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Opportunity Indiana does on Sunday scorell B zero zero when
the ball goes up in the air. It's a privilege
to play in game sevens. It's a privilege to play
in the finals. As disappointing as tonight was, we're grateful
for the opportunity and we put in a lot of
work this season to be able to play that game
at home, you know, which is exciting to be able
to do it in front of our fans. So, you know,
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obviously disappointed tonight, but we'll regroup, get back to zero,
learn from it with clear eyes like we always do,
get ourselves as ready as we can be to play
game seven on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
That's nothing but cliches.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
That is sports cliche dot Com from Mark Dagnow Dagno,
who is just going on and on? I mean that
was at least seven right now. I was alerted by
one of our eagle eared listeners who said that right
after the game, and I turned the game off right
after the game.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Because there was no point.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Who cares, But I'm told that the point guard Tyrese
Haliburton of the Pacers went full on sports cliche guy
also on the television interview. I've not heard that yet.
We'll try to track that down, but he apparently just
gave nothing but cliches in his interview. But back to
the point at hand. So we mentioned SGA seven made baskets,
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eight turnovers, and who else gets to wear the clown knows?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
How about loud Dort, the.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Great loude Dort, Jalen Williams and Alex Caruso. The Three
Musketeers of Misery, The Three Musketeers of misery co conspirators
behind SGA for this performance.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Now Dort wasn't dud loude Dort? Was it done?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
He finished with three points. He had a minus twenty
eight on the plus minus. That means while he was
on the court, his team was outscored by twenty eight.
How about Alice Caruso, the one that got away from
the La, the bald Mamba, the bald mamba, who played
like a bald middle aged man. He had a cardio game.
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It was like he was playing the ymca, running around
doing cardio. He finished with as many points as you
and I had. That's it zilch zip o, zip nada.
As my friend and former FSR personalities Jama would say,
Didley squat in twenty two minutes twenty two minutes and
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the Thunder were outscored by thirty three points. With Alex Caruso,
the bald Mamba, the white mamba as some call him
on the floor, how.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
About Jalen Williams.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
You talk about a forty for forty He said hold
my beer to lud Dort and he said, hold my beer.
Alex Caruso. Jay Williams had sixteen points. If I'm not mistaken.
He had forty points in the previous game in the finals.
While he was on the court, the Thunder were outscored
by forty And again, I didn't playing the NBA.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I'm not a baller. I'm just a gas bag. I
don't believe that's particularly good. But what do I know?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
What do I He was on the court, a guy
that was in the running and still is in the
running for finals MVP of Oklahoma City wins. It's gonna
be Sga or Jalen Williams and outscored by forty forty points?
All right, now the last word here. So we do
have a Game seven of the NBA Finals. It is
on Sunday night. I believe it is going to be broadcast.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
On some random channel on tub. I think I believe.
Maybe I'm wrong on that. Maybe I'm wrong on that.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
So who's got the edge heading into Game seven? A
first glance, knee jerk. Look at Game seven? We will
not have a live talk show. I'll do the podcast
this weekend. We'll have the Friday, Saturday, Sunday pods and
all that. But who's got the edge heading into Game
seven between the Pacers and the Thunder.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
So I'm going with Indiana. Oh, you're just being a
shock jock. No, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Let me give you my rationale. Let me give you
my evidence. I'll state my case why. I believe the
Indiana Pacers have a slight edge. It's not a large edge,
it's a slight edge. Here's what imagine.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
If you will.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Being at the casino and you're playing the penny slots. Now,
the penny slots make the most money for the casino.
They make more money from the penny slots than anything
else in the casino. That's why there's so many penny slots,
because they're not really penny slots. Right.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
You end up playing much more than just one penny,
and so you're paying.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
You're playing the penny slots, and you get fifty free plays,
fifty free spins. That's the Pacers. They're playing with house money.
They're unencumbered. They can play free ando loose. That doesn't
mean they are gonna play that way, but they again't.
Oklahoma City has had, I'm told by many basketball toe lickers,
a all time great history season, sixty eight wins during
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the regular season, they're at home, they're favored.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
By I believe they opened at nine.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I believe they're favored by eight points in the game
on Sunday the overnight line, so favored by eight, You've
got the MVP of the NBA, you're dining on your
home cooking.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
You're supposed to win the game.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
All of those ingredients are in your favor and they're
all ingredients for what Tight took his syndrome, the tight
spinter feeling, the squeeze. And this is one of those
situations where Oklahoma City, by their gutless performance in Game six,
just pathetic. This is an f around and find out
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chart situation. U f around and you're gonna find out
Game seven. Matchups do not matter, doesn't matter what you think,
who you think has has an edged. The film doesn't
really matter, who cares about that? And home court doesn't matter.
Injuries don't matter. The only thing that matters, and this
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is why we love Game seven is who does better
in that moment is the great Dick Stockton taught me
years ago. Stats tell you what has happened, not what's
going to happen.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
That's why they play their games.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
So OKAC has ft around, they played with their food
and now it's judgment day on Sunday night, and I'm
there for and I'm sure I'll be the the one
representative of the overnight watch. I don't know anybody else can
watch that, but I'll be checking it out on Sunday night.
I look forward so Game seven to decide the championship.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Now I'm told.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
That the company has not fixed the phones, so they
continue to throw speed bumps in front of me.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I appreciate that they want to make sure I'm on my.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Toes as a talk show host doing a called in
talk show with one line working, I do appreciate that.
I don't want to get lazy, so I always prepare
to not take any calls. Now, technically we will be
able to take calls, but it's kind of like just
calling your buddy Hank or something. If you have a
friend Hank, say hey, Hank, and then nobody else can
call Hank.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Although even that, you can have multiple calls at the
same time.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Right, you have a call on and then you can say, hey,
I'll put that call on hold, and then I'll take
another call, and so then you can have three way calling.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
We don't even have that. We can't even do.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
That, but we will attempt to do an overnight call
and talk show with one phone working. And if you
want to be really, really bold and try to get
that one line you can, you probably won't get it.
You'll get a busy signal, a little like not even ring.
And you know that's what I'm being told by people
several I want. I want to let you know that
several regular callers are this close to needing some kind
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of mental health because they haven't been able to get
it based on the very angry messages.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
If they're saying saying to me, which I want you
to know, I have not. I'm not the one. This
is not a active sabotage.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I have not gone into the phone system here in
sabotage the phone system.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
I have not.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
If you want to try to get in eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox now, your better opportunity is
on the X machine, much better opportunity. And if you
want to give that a shot, and just ask what
you might have asked on the air, if you had
called in or said say something witty and funny, make
other people smile while they work the graveyard shift and
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we are on the red eye flight.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
You can do that at Ben Malor. That's at Ben malor.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
If you'd like to be part of the program, and
your comments can and we'll be used against you in
the court of sports talk radio. So please act accordingly.
And that's my warning for this hour.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Now straight ahead, you're living the island life. You're living
the island life. But who's living the island life. We'll
get to that. We'll take your calls, the whole thing,
and we will.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Do it.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Next.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
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.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Miller and you. It is the Ben Mahler Show.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
As we slide into a Friday on the overnight still
Thursday in the West. We'll get to the Friday portion
for everyone soon enough. On the red eye flight you
can interact with this show. The phone system is still glitching,
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but I'm not being informed that they have coop.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Is this correct? They've solved the phone issue? Is this correct?
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Here?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
It seems to be the case.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
We got an email earlier today that said it wouldn't
be fixed until tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
But right now we have five lines with people on them,
So all right, look at that Hallelujah, we can do
a real talk show. Go figure.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
I believe you can interact with his show on the
phones because the phones are working at eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox. Hell Olujah, hel Alujah man. I
got so much content we won't be able to get
to it. And also you can salo on the X
Machine at Ben Malor. That's at Ben Mahlor if you'd
like to be part of the program that way, And
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our guy Mark is in tonight running the board, hitting the.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Buttons and all that.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Behind the glass Mark Ramsey six four nine five oh.
On X you can sailor to Mark. He's no longer hiding.
You can say, oh, you can see what he looks
like in all that.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Mark M. A. R. C.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Ramsey six or nine to five oh on the X
machine and coops here at a Bronco fan, your comments
can and we'll be used against you in the court
of sports radio. So we were talking about the NBA
Finals and it will go to a Game seven that
will be played on Sunday, and so we're mildly excited
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about that as we can be about a series that
we're really knocked that into.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
But hey, why not let's I heard at.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
The beginning of the broadcast before I hit the mute
button because of Doris Burke, I heard Mike Breen, who
was laying it on thick, he had his knee pads on,
talking about what a great NBA Finals it's been. And
I said, you know what, I'd do the same thing.
If I was making the amount of money Mike Breen
was to call NBA games, I would I would say,
what an amazing finals it was. I don't care if
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they were serving me dog food, I would be like,
this is so good.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Oh my God, give me more, Give me more, Give
me more, Give me more.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Anyway, do we have the player the night I assumed
the play of the ice from the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Do we have that ready to go? All right? Very exciting.
So we are lining that up as we speak right now. Well,
as soon as we get.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
That, we will we will give it to you, and
then we have some calls to take.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Prior to that. The phones apparently have been fixed. The
long national nightmare is over, and to the phones we go.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
And a man that has been knocked out has not
been able to call in because of the glitch. The
thing of a jig not working, and that is Andre
in the Commonwealth. I know Justin in Cincinnati's excited he's back,
and several of those super fans of the show. But
here he is Andre, the summer of Andre now as
he's done with that whole school thing. Hello, Andre, welcome,
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yes man, very.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Good to be with you.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
And I'm glad that this glitch has been worked out
because it's a celebratory day, not necessarily for the Oklahoma
City sunder, but for myself here in the Commonwealth. Also
willis we're getting ready to go outside. School is certainly
and definitely and most definitively out for the summer, Okay,
So I'm looking forward to getting back into my regular
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work duties with the Mala Militia in order to move up,
to move up the ladder. So that's the happy note.
On the other note, it is somewhat happened, but not
for the people again in Oklahoma City. Two best words
in sports game seven and form my mind is lot
of people thinking this is going to be a coronation.
Coronation tonight. Ben. I think Adam Silver was in the building.
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He most certainly had to have been, but we didn't
see any pans to Adam Silver in the craft. I
think he might have gotten a private jet and went
back to Manhattan half times, all right, because this thing
was in the tank. I mean, Oklahoma City did a
no show, and I give the bench their bench a
little bit of credit, right because they ended up losing
by seventeen about that's not really embarrassing, but they were
getting a thirty piece with special sauce for most of
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this game. So we go into the game seven. I
do think technologically it doesn't you know, you lose by
seventeen eighteen on the road, you say, okay, we can.
You know, I wanted Indiana to put it on them
and get that thirty piece, you know, like the Memorial
Day massacres. I'm dating myself, Ben, But nineteen eighty four
Boston Celtics against the last right, right, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
And I I remember, I remember, yes.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
So so if it's a beautiful thing game seven, it
could go either way, and it's a toss up. I
said Indiana and seven. I'm gonna stick with that, even
though I think Oklahoma City's the more talented team. I'm
sick with my original pick. But here's my my final
take on this bench. If Indiana continues the momentum and
can get a double digit lead on Oklahoma City. I
think they will crack under the pressure. I think, Okay,
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he has to get out to a lead and make
Indiana play catch up versus the other way around. And
I think that's gonna be, you know, like a heavyweight match, Ben,
that first half in terms of who lands the first
tower punch. That's the way it's gonna go. I'm thrilled
to be with you for the summer.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Ben.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
I even know I'm gonna miss until Sunday, but I'm back,
and you know I'm perpetuity. He's a beautiful thing and
will Steven, though he's not barking, he says hello too.
All right, we'll just cruise out into the sunset if
it's beautiful. Ben.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
All right, there he goes are fired up, a man
relieved that the national nightmare is over.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
The phones are.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Now working here, and hallelujah for him and for the
people that have been sending me very angry emails.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
You can calm down. Everything is okay, everything is fine.
There's nothing to see here.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
A lot of people excited, and I was happy about
this too, because one of the highlight I don't know
we have this is the play of the night, but
the Pascal Siakam hammered dunk is the play that most
people are gonna remember from this game. They apparently the
editing staff chose that not to put that in, apparently
if they determined that was not a not a highlight
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worthy of being played, even though it's the even though
that's the only highlight that we really mattered. Uhiakam had
a hammered dunk that was unforgettable, and it was really
poetry in motion. It was really poetry in motion, insane
for an in game dunk situation, and one of those
moments that you know, back in the old days they
(27:37):
used to say posterized. Nobody uses posters anymore, right, who
puts posters up? But it was amazing, and I had
so many people, so many people who reached out to me,
and they were sending me messages because of the Marcel
and Brooklyn drop and Marcel famously trying to pronounce Pascal
(27:58):
Siakam's name and gave us one of the all time
greatest drops in overnight talk radio and demonic Daggers Steve
Matt Mike. I mean, there's several other guys. I jotted
down a few names that were very happy, and they
were upset that Mike Breen on the broadcast apparently did
not say Pascal seea com which is what Marcel said
(28:23):
was his name. I did not say that, Nature Boy
writes in answering the call, A while these says Tyreeves
did pretty good despite his calf issues. Yes he is
holding a calf. AI is wonderful. Who's your bills excited?
Although he did already give a concession speech? Bill Bill,
did you not give a concession speech after Game five?
(28:43):
I believe you did. You sent a concession speech out
that it was over for the Pacers who goofed. I've
got to know Chip and the qu'es right, Since says
a plus on the mal monologue, I can't help but
wonder why, if the games in the NBA are all
indeed rigged by the league, why in Heaven's name would
they put on this yawn fest between two teams most
(29:05):
folks don't care.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
About and won't watch. Yeah, it's fair point.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Do you think anyone who casually turned on that game
was watching in the second half, or really even midway
through the second quarter? Probably not Spoxwed calls in from
the Oregon Trail and he says, Hey, I was at
the Elks tonight calling BINGO for the lodge, so I
wasn't able to watch the NBA game. However, I knew
(29:35):
that the Ben Maler Show would take me to the
better story and blow viate spectacularly. Great takedown of OKC,
very entertainab Well, thank you, spox Weed. That was the
atomic elbow A. I believe this is a an AI account.
We're so popular now that AI social media accounts are
sending messages in the name on this is Katie and
(29:58):
singing the praises of the show.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
And then trying to get me to promote.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Some scam artists, which I'm choosing not not to do.
Shane and des Moines writes and says, thank god you're back.
C minus to whoever ruined my heir everywhere earlier this week.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Well that's not very nice, Shane. Come on now.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
G Managed in Chicago rites in from the Windy City
says a plus on the mall monologue, I have to say,
NBA is such a roller coaster ride. Reminds me of
an X of mine. It's inconsistent. You never know what
you're getting. It's filled with divas and it's a bad product.
A team should never be losing at any point of
a game by thirty points. Absolutely, g manjed one hundred percent.
(30:42):
I recall conversations to the late great Bill Fitch, a
Hall of Fame coach who I befriended late in his
coaching career. He was coaching the LA Clippers at the
Mausoleum there the sports arena in He had many pearls
of wisdom. But one of the things he pointed out,
he said, at that time, and this is when the
talent was much better in the NBA from top to bottom,
but he pointed out that as long as you play hard,
(31:06):
fundamental basketball, you shouldn't never lose a game by even
twenty points. But to be down by thirty, you're taking
possessions off, You're playing sloppy, no attention to detail. And
that's what happened to Oklahomaity. You know, you think they're
gonna play much better in game seven.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
However, if it's close, late and close, what happens. I'll
be watching. I'll be watching to find out.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Milkman Mike in Colorado says great opening monologue to finish
out the week. Much like the FSR phone lines, the
thunder just didn't seem to work. And Sga sat there
on the bench pouting like his mama took away his
dessert because he didn't finish his dinner. And Jason in
Kansas City, who I got to meet at the Mallard
meet and Greedy says ten out of ten on the
(31:55):
Mallard monologue, the Pacers played with actual pace. Well, the
thunder were stuck in neutral. Also, OKC needs to stop
with not starting Harkenstein. He says it hasn't worked and
it won't work in Game seven, says the basketball savant
Jason in can City. Scrooge in Northern California No col says,
(32:20):
if the Pacers win Game seven, they will be the
first team to have won an NBA Championship without a
superstar caliber player because of others. Because other than some
clutch shooting a game on Halliburton has been a jag,
just a guy.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Oh, they won't be the first.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
The Detroit Pistons are that team, Scrooge, was it The
four Pistons who are credited as.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Being the last team in the modern era and maybe
the only team in the modern.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Era to win a championship without a real headline superstar.
Although it is interesting, No, in that series the Lakers
had snap Crackle pop Berg Dog says, congratulations on the
phones getting fixed to celebrate, How about putting all the
lines on the air at the same time. No, No,
that does. That still doesn't work. The phone system, it
(33:11):
still does. It does not work anyway. It is the
Ben Mahlor Show. As we are working our way through
the overnight hours, chopping away, chop chop chop, chop, chop,
chop chop. As we we can't be stopped. We cannot
be stopped here in the overnight. Let's go back to
the phone. Let's say hello to Jackson, who's in Seattle.
(33:32):
Hello Jackson, Welcome, Jackson is gone. Poppy in San Diego,
Hello Poppy.
Speaker 7 (33:40):
Hey man, I'm so glad to here, like my mental
health is. It's good now because the lads are finally working.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Oh thank god, Hellelujah, hallelujah.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
But I'm also happy because the Padres, oh San Diego,
they won. You know, it's a good day right here.
But what I wanted to talk more is what you said.
Great monologue from my menser, But how you say the
better news is in the losing locker room. So I
have the inside screw for you guys. So SGA then
the text message to Adam Silver, he said he was
(34:12):
not happy what went on, and he told them, you
know what, I'm not happy. You better make this up.
So Adam seldom tell them a text message back and
he said, don't worry. Scott Foster is going to be
there in game seven. So guys just know Scott Foster
is going to be there, because if you saw the game.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Tonight, it doesn't matter in a game, it doesn't matter
in game seven if he's there or not. He's the extender.
The series is already extended all the way. It doesn't
matter if he's there. Any team can win Game seven.
Speaker 7 (34:42):
Yes, but that's the point. Don't matter what I was
going to tell you what Tonight's tim If you saw
the you saw the calls, and most of the calls
were going on the Pacers favor s g A, your
former clipper wasn't getting no calls. And so that when
I'm telling you the game is going to change, we're
breaking the news right here, breaking news. Gop Boss is
gonna be there in game seven and Oklahoma thunder is
(35:03):
gonna win by mine, they say, whatever, the spreaders, I
don't care. It's gonna be a revenge game and they're
gonna spank them.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Revenge game.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
What do you do?
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Revis not a revenge There's no revenge game. It's not
a revenge game. It's a series. There's no revenge game.
It's not a revenge game. Why do you say revenge
you know, I say revenge game. It's not a revenge game.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
It's not high school. It's not high school. Their college
is not a revenge game. It's professional sports. All these
guys played AA ball growing up together. They're all buddies.
They all go out and party and chase chicks together.
They don't care about revenge game.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Come on, yeah.
Speaker 7 (35:36):
But what I'm saying, mentor, I'm saying you like the
flashy titles. I gotta be like you. I mean, you're
my mentors.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
You know, I gotta I know I'm your mentor.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
Mat But what I'm trying to say is, Scott Foster
is gonna be all right?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Are you're repeating yourself?
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Scott Foster, Scott Foster, Scott all right, God, thank you
for the call.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
Go away.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
We now have the play of the night. Ready to go,
the play of the night. And how exciting is that?
I know you're fired up. This is the the tire
Rack player the night and it is the one play
that everyone's been yapping about. And our guy friend of
the show, I feel like he is a friend of
the show. He didn't know it, but the former Toronto
raptor Pascal siakam getting it done.
Speaker 8 (36:17):
Ellen Williams has his past deflected. Halliburton steals it into
the open floor. He got it to thy off him
who threw down the right hand tamahawk. It's a twenty
point lead.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
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buying should be. Time now for the who am I Game?
This is where we pretend to be somebody else else.
We call it the who am I Game? And here
it is ok ses Jalen Williams head an to forget
a I want to get away kind of a night.
He had a plus minus of minus forty in Game
six that breaks my record for the worst plus minus
(37:12):
in an NBA Finals game in the play by play
era that goes back to the late nineties again. Jalen
Williams of Oklahoma City had a plus minus of minus
forty for the thunder in Game six that broke my
record for the lowest slash worst plus minus in a
Finals game in the play by play era. Who am I?
(37:33):
That is the question? The answer, We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Miller and you.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
It is the Ben Mahlor Show, up all night, every
single night, and you can stream this show in all
of our Fox Sports Radio shows live twenty four to
seven in the new and improved iHeartRadio app. Just search
Fox Sports Radio and the app to stream us live.
In one of the newest features in the app, you
can select Fox Sports Radio, the Ben Mahlor Show, and
(38:05):
The Fifth Hour Podcast as some of your presents, just
like the presets on the car radio doll.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
You know that's the radio jargon.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
P one means preset one, So if you're a P one,
that means that this show is the most important show.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
So be sure to preset.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Fox Sports Radio, Ben Mahler Show and the Fifth Hour
podcast and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
It will always pop up at the top of your
screen as the music ends.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Early and back to the show, all right, back to
when we go? Time now for the who am I?
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Game?
Speaker 1 (38:36):
And here we go.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else and
then you have to try to figure out who we are.
A lot of reaction to the phones being back, much
of it negative. Aileen Wright Sin says break the phones again,
please to avoid Poppies calls, and nature Boy says a
curse on whoever fixed the phone lines with Poppy, and
(38:58):
g Man also says Poppy Poppy's call makes me wish
the phones were not working. On another note, what is
andre in the Commonwealth's opinion on Karen Reid beating the
Commonwealth this week?
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Not guilty? Unbelievable? Well, he's not here anymore, so we
can't answer that. But here is the who am I game?
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Okay sees Jalen Williams had a night to forget minus
forty on the plus minus in Game six that broke
my record for the lowest plus minus in a Finals game.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
In the play by play era, who am I?
Speaker 2 (39:29):
That is the question? What is the answer? And unlet's
see does anyone know? Bobby and Florida is going with
Grimace Femi, the number one uber each driver in the
Minnesota Twin Cities going with Scott Foster, Nick the Wendy's guy,
got it right, Bad job by him, Greg the real
estate mogul from Baltimore and friend of sports with Coleman
going with mister Snuffalofagus as his answer. Rob and Minnesota
(39:53):
says Brian Buxton is the way to go.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Alf the alien opiner, says US Navy veteran William Patrick Hitler.
He says there apparently, He says that's his fun fact.
Hitler's own nephew was in the US Navy in nineteen
forty four. Wow, that is wild, that's true.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Who else we have?
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Milkman Mike says Jenny Kavner, the a's play by play announcer,
trying to get her dippin' dots if you know what
I mean?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Alphabet soup from Terry in England.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
All Right, the correct answer, because we're short on time
and no one's here to answer it other than me.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Is Drew Holliday.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Drew Holliday of the Celtics is the answer minus thirty
eight last year
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome, it's our number what our number one of the
Original Recipe Podcast. A Happy Friday to you. It's the
twentieth day of June. And before I tell you what's.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
On the menu for this hour, a reminder that the
Fifth Hour.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Podcast a very special episode, very special episode. If you're
a big fan of the show, the Overnight Show, you're
gonna want to listen to the Fifth Hour Podcast. Something
I have not talked about into a microphone in probably
fourteen years or so, and I am going to talk
about it on the Fifth Hour Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It's the episode's called I Believe Benny boot Camp. That's
what I think it's called.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
We're gonna put it up later today Fifth Hour Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Check that out. But as far as the Original Recipe.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Pod, our number one NBA Finals, it was supposed to
end and it didn't.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Game six. Does this performance or.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Lack thereof qualify as a choke by Shay Jogis Alexander
and the Thunder? Also, where is the finger of blame
and shame pointed at for Okac and who's got the
edge heading into a Game seven on Sunday night between
the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And the Thunder.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
The answer is likely going to surprise you. You'll find
out that answer right now. Queue up the band, sparks
are about to fly. It's our number one. It was
a big night, and it was a silent night, not
what you were hoping for.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
If you're a fan of a certain basketball team.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Welcome in the beginning of another night of the Ben
Malor Show.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
We are in the air every.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Whares we come out so winging like a Dodger manager,
and we are the ultimate enhancer of audio unless we're
not coast to coast, border to border and beyond on
the vast and pleasantly powerful microphones of FSR and mandating
live from the fetti as in the confetti that wasn't
(02:07):
coming down from the rafters as we're hanging out here
from the Fox Sports Radio studios as approved by Viva
Los Vicki. And hoo's your Bill, who is likely hammered
right now, and he'll send us a bunch of offensive
comments on the social media page because the phones are
still left up. And then somewhere in Oklahoma City, Kyrie,
(02:29):
our buddy Kyrie, is all bummed out. He's all bummed out.
We'll get to that in a minute. I was gonna
start with the Dodgers. We're getting covered up on our
LA affiliate right now by Dodger post scheme programming.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
There was a scrum.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
That took place late in that Dodger Podre game, and
we had belly bumping managers. Was it a belly bumped
Was it a show of Dave Roberts and the podres
manager shilt getting into it.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
We'll talk more about that as we work our way
through the overnight. But don't bury the lead, my man.
We're not going to be the lead.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
So I lead this hour is from the home state
of popcorn legend, Orville Reddenbacher, Orville Reddenbacker from Indiana, now
in Indianapolis, the heart of the Hoosier State, a fine
city with some really good restaurants. I was there years ago,
back when Reggie Miller, who's now a cheerleader apparently watching
the game a cheerleader for the Pacers, but he was
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playing before he became a cheerleader years ago, and I
enjoyed my time in Indianapolis. So is Game six of
the NBA Finals, the Thunder looking to close things out,
to sellbrate good times, to celebrate a championship. All they
had to do was win over the beaten and broken
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Pacers who were just trying to play that Beg's tune,
the stay Alive, Stay and Alive and all that.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Now, I don't know if you were watching.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I'm going to assume the position, probably not based on
the ratings. This is a FNF Finals, friends and family,
friends and family, nobody else watching, So friends and family
were tuned in.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Don't worry though, we watch. It's our public service, so.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
You would not have to an act of kindness, a
good mitzvah if you will. And there was the headline
all day. Would Tyrese Haliburton play? Would he not play?
What's going to happen here?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Well?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Playing with a strained right calf? He did play? And
how did he do it well?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Tyrese Saliburton had fourteen points in just twenty three minutes,
and the Indiana basketball team had a laugher as they
celebrate it a win.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
They were one celebrating over Oklahoma City.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
One oh eight ninety one, a game that was not
that close, A game that was not that close on
Thursday night. So we get a game seven, which normally
would be solid gold. Again, very few people care about
this NBA Finals based on the amount of people watching it.
And so there you go, Burton playing on one good leg,
(05:03):
on one good leg, and he made some plays. It
was a balanced effort obi topping the old Knickerbocker led
the Pacers with twenty points, a lot of that in
garbage time off the bench. Indiana had not one, not two,
not three, not four, not five, if my math is correct,
six players in double figuress. I'm told as good. I
didn't play in the NBA, but I'm told that's good.
(05:24):
And they led by as many as thirty one points.
Thirty one points the Pacers led by, and so all
that's great. All that's really great stuff, and congratulations to
the Pacers on the win. However, you know how we
roll in these parts. You've been listening, you're nodding your head.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yes, I know. The better story is in the losing
locker room.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
So let us discuss the question for the esteem panel,
which you are a part of, whether you participate or not,
and the company's making it very hard for you to participate.
The question does this performance qualify as a chokey mic?
Choke by Shay jogis Alexander and the Thunder. So my
(06:10):
thoughts on this. I've got UMass whirlpool refrigerator and penny slots,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a one way ticket back
to the dust Bowl, because that's where both these teams
will be going. One last night, one last night of
(06:31):
pro bouncy ball, and then it's all over or not.
The last the parties over a Sunday night, which I'm
happy about. We get one more night of content, one
more night of content for the show, which I'm pleased about.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
And I'll be watching and I like Game sevens.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I don't really care about either one of these teams,
but I enjoy Game seven, so I'll be watching. Hopefully
we get a close game. I'm looking forward to that.
More on that in a second. But answer the question,
does this performance qualify as a choke by S and
the Thunder? The only acceptable answer is three letters.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Y E S. That's it.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
That's all this game was set up. It was on
a pedestal. It was on a pedestal for OKC. No
Scott Foster. The NBA did not bring in the extender.
He was not called in off the bench to make
sure this series went to seven games. Indiana appeared to
be a bedraggled basketball team, as their star Tyre's Halliburt
(07:30):
we mentioned playing with one good leg and yet you
look down from thirty thousand feet in the sky and
Oklahoma City, this performance by coach Mark Dagno and his
team was a I call it a U mass like
performance because Oklahoma City on this night they were minute men,
(07:52):
is what they were. We did the math and we determined,
based on a thorough, thorough review of the available evidence,
that Oklahoma City played effectively good basketball for three minutes
and thirty four seconds period, heartstop.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Three minutes and thirty four seconds. Oklahoma City jumped out
to a ten.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
To two lead in the game, and that was at
the eight to twenty six mark of the first quarter.
And then they had to play the rest of the game.
And that was the problem from that point forward, from
the ten to two advantage for the Thunder until early
in the fourth quarter, the Thunder, we're told, one of
(08:34):
the all time great individual teams, were outscored by thirty
nine points in an NBA Finals game.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Pah, tick pa tick horrific. Hey are you even trying?
Are you even trying?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
To be outscored by thirty nine points in that stretch,
and there the garbage time after that. Let's say there
was garbage time before that as well. So where is
the finger of blame as we turn the page? Where
is the finger of blame? Pointed at Burro Casey. We
love to play the blame game and pointing the finger.
Let's start with SGA all right. Now there's a lot
(09:18):
of letters here. You got SGA and then I've got
in my algebra equation, I've got MVP. So I've got
SGA and then I've got MVP. And he was standing
right in front of the Whirlpool refrigerator. Shay jogis Alexander.
He was standing right in front of the refrigerator, the
(09:39):
Whirlpool refrigerator. Now he had a chance to close the
refrigerator door, to turn the lights out, have the eggs cooling,
Watch as the butter is getting hard and the jello's jiggling,
as the iconic late Great chick her and old.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Sportscasters said back in his day, did that happen?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Instead, what do we got? The under had twenty one turnovers?
Twenty one, so bakery is what that is? Eight of
them by Shay Jogis Alexander eight of them, eight of them.
He had seven made baskets and eight turnovers. He sucked
(10:22):
at a time you cannot suck. In Game six of
the NBA Finals, let's go jump ahead. Here a cut
two mark, and here's SGA pointing out that it was
not a good night to play basketball for OKAC.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
The way I see it is, we suck tonight if
we've learned the lessons and we have one game for everything,
for everything we've worked for, and so do they, and
the better team Sunday will win.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Okay, So at least he admitted he did suck at
a time you cannot suck. So we appreciate that that
is the first step to rehabilitation when you're writing the
vomit comet. Here is SGA asked whether or not the
Thunder had championship dreams and they were already imagining what
it would be like to do that big postgame celebration
(11:12):
winning the title in game six, Yers, what do you
had to say on that?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
See in the back of our minds for sure. Now,
we didn't play like it at all, and that's why
the night went the way it did. We got exactly
what we deserved, what we earned. Then we had to
own that.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
See, I would argue they played like they thought they
had the game in the bag. If you saw anything
leading up to this game, it was a FATA compleat.
It was in the back. What's in the back, championship, championship,
it was in the back, championship in the back, to
show up.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
That's it. You're done, You're good, You're gonna win. Man now.
The coach of the Thunder, Mark Dagnoll, pointing.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Out they were this close, they were right there and
they can almost taste the champion.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Coach explain that to me.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
It was hard tonight. You know, Indiana was great and
we were not.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
So we have the same.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Opportunity Indiana does on Sunday scorell B zero zero when
the ball goes up in the air. It's a privilege
to play in game sevens. It's a privilege to play
in the finals. As disappointing as tonight was, we're grateful
for the opportunity and we put in a lot of
work this season to be able to play that game
at home, you know, which is exciting to be able
to do it in front of our fans. So, you know,
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obviously disappointed tonight, but we'll regroup, get back to zero,
learn from it with clear eyes like we always do,
get ourselves as ready as we can be to play
game seven on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
That's nothing but cliches.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
That is sports cliche dot Com from Mark Dagnow Dagno,
who is just going on and on? I mean that
was at least seven right now. I was alerted by
one of our eagle eared listeners who said that right
after the game, and I turned the game off right
after the game.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Because there was no point.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Who cares, But I'm told that the point guard Tyrese
Haliburton of the Pacers went full on sports cliche guy
also on the television interview. I've not heard that yet.
We'll try to track that down, but he apparently just
gave nothing but cliches in his interview. But back to
the point at hand. So we mentioned SGA seven made baskets,
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eight turnovers, and who else gets to wear the clown knows?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
How about loud Dort, the.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Great loude Dort, Jalen Williams and Alex Caruso. The Three
Musketeers of Misery, The Three Musketeers of misery co conspirators
behind SGA for this performance.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Now Dort wasn't dud loude Dort? Was it done?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
He finished with three points. He had a minus twenty
eight on the plus minus. That means while he was
on the court, his team was outscored by twenty eight.
How about Alice Caruso, the one that got away from
the La, the bald Mamba, the bald mamba, who played
like a bald middle aged man. He had a cardio game.
(14:08):
It was like he was playing the ymca, running around
doing cardio. He finished with as many points as you
and I had. That's it zilch zip o, zip nada.
As my friend and former FSR personalities Jama would say,
Didley squat in twenty two minutes twenty two minutes and
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the Thunder were outscored by thirty three points. With Alex Caruso,
the bald Mamba, the white mamba as some call him
on the floor, how.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
About Jalen Williams.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
You talk about a forty for forty He said hold
my beer to lud Dort and he said, hold my beer.
Alex Caruso. Jay Williams had sixteen points. If I'm not mistaken.
He had forty points in the previous game in the finals.
While he was on the court, the Thunder were outscored
by forty And again, I didn't playing the NBA.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I'm not a baller. I'm just a gas bag. I
don't believe that's particularly good. But what do I know?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
What do I He was on the court, a guy
that was in the running and still is in the
running for finals MVP of Oklahoma City wins. It's gonna
be Sga or Jalen Williams and outscored by forty forty points?
All right, now the last word here. So we do
have a Game seven of the NBA Finals. It is
on Sunday night. I believe it is going to be broadcast.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
On some random channel on tub. I think I believe.
Maybe I'm wrong on that. Maybe I'm wrong on that.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
So who's got the edge heading into Game seven? A
first glance, knee jerk. Look at Game seven? We will
not have a live talk show. I'll do the podcast
this weekend. We'll have the Friday, Saturday, Sunday pods and
all that. But who's got the edge heading into Game
seven between the Pacers and the Thunder.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
So I'm going with Indiana. Oh, you're just being a
shock jock. No, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Let me give you my rationale. Let me give you
my evidence. I'll state my case why. I believe the
Indiana Pacers have a slight edge. It's not a large edge,
it's a slight edge. Here's what imagine.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
If you will.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Being at the casino and you're playing the penny slots. Now,
the penny slots make the most money for the casino.
They make more money from the penny slots than anything
else in the casino. That's why there's so many penny slots,
because they're not really penny slots. Right.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
You end up playing much more than just one penny,
and so you're paying.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
You're playing the penny slots, and you get fifty free plays,
fifty free spins. That's the Pacers. They're playing with house money.
They're unencumbered. They can play free ando loose. That doesn't
mean they are gonna play that way, but they again't.
Oklahoma City has had, I'm told by many basketball toe lickers,
a all time great history season, sixty eight wins during
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the regular season, they're at home, they're favored.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
By I believe they opened at nine.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I believe they're favored by eight points in the game
on Sunday the overnight line, so favored by eight, You've
got the MVP of the NBA, you're dining on your
home cooking.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
You're supposed to win the game.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
All of those ingredients are in your favor and they're
all ingredients for what Tight took his syndrome, the tight
spinter feeling, the squeeze. And this is one of those
situations where Oklahoma City, by their gutless performance in Game six,
just pathetic. This is an f around and find out
(17:45):
chart situation. U f around and you're gonna find out
Game seven. Matchups do not matter, doesn't matter what you think,
who you think has has an edged. The film doesn't
really matter, who cares about that? And home court doesn't matter.
Injuries don't matter. The only thing that matters, and this
(18:06):
is why we love Game seven is who does better
in that moment is the great Dick Stockton taught me
years ago. Stats tell you what has happened, not what's
going to happen.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
That's why they play their games.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
So OKAC has ft around, they played with their food
and now it's judgment day on Sunday night, and I'm
there for and I'm sure I'll be the the one
representative of the overnight watch. I don't know anybody else can
watch that, but I'll be checking it out on Sunday night.
I look forward so Game seven to decide the championship.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Now I'm told.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
That the company has not fixed the phones, so they
continue to throw speed bumps in front of me.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I appreciate that they want to make sure I'm on my.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Toes as a talk show host doing a called in
talk show with one line working, I do appreciate that.
I don't want to get lazy, so I always prepare
to not take any calls. Now, technically we will be
able to take calls, but it's kind of like just
calling your buddy Hank or something. If you have a
friend Hank, say hey, Hank, and then nobody else can
call Hank.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Although even that, you can have multiple calls at the
same time.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Right, you have a call on and then you can say, hey,
I'll put that call on hold, and then I'll take
another call, and so then you can have three way calling.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
We don't even have that. We can't even do.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
That, but we will attempt to do an overnight call
and talk show with one phone working. And if you
want to be really, really bold and try to get
that one line you can, you probably won't get it.
You'll get a busy signal, a little like not even ring.
And you know that's what I'm being told by people
several I want. I want to let you know that
several regular callers are this close to needing some kind
(19:49):
of mental health because they haven't been able to get
it based on the very angry messages.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
If they're saying saying to me, which I want you
to know, I have not. I'm not the one. This
is not a active sabotage.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I have not gone into the phone system here in
sabotage the phone system.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
I have not.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
If you want to try to get in eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox now, your better opportunity is
on the X machine, much better opportunity. And if you
want to give that a shot, and just ask what
you might have asked on the air, if you had
called in or said say something witty and funny, make
other people smile while they work the graveyard shift and
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we are on the red eye flight.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
You can do that at Ben Malor. That's at Ben malor.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
If you'd like to be part of the program, and
your comments can and we'll be used against you in
the court of sports talk radio. So please act accordingly.
And that's my warning for this hour.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Now straight ahead, you're living the island life. You're living
the island life. But who's living the island life. We'll
get to that. We'll take your calls, the whole thing,
and we will.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Do it.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Next.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
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.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Miller and you. It is the Ben Mahler Show.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
As we slide into a Friday on the overnight still
Thursday in the West. We'll get to the Friday portion
for everyone soon enough. On the red eye flight you
can interact with this show. The phone system is still glitching,
(21:37):
but I'm not being informed that they have coop.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Is this correct? They've solved the phone issue? Is this correct?
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Here?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
It seems to be the case.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
We got an email earlier today that said it wouldn't
be fixed until tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
But right now we have five lines with people on them,
So all right, look at that Hallelujah, we can do
a real talk show. Go figure.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
I believe you can interact with his show on the
phones because the phones are working at eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox. Hell Olujah, hel Alujah man. I
got so much content we won't be able to get
to it. And also you can salo on the X
Machine at Ben Malor. That's at Ben Mahlor if you'd
like to be part of the program that way, And
(22:20):
our guy Mark is in tonight running the board, hitting the.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Buttons and all that.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Behind the glass Mark Ramsey six four nine five oh.
On X you can sailor to Mark. He's no longer hiding.
You can say, oh, you can see what he looks
like in all that.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Mark M. A. R. C.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Ramsey six or nine to five oh on the X
machine and coops here at a Bronco fan, your comments
can and we'll be used against you in the court
of sports radio. So we were talking about the NBA
Finals and it will go to a Game seven that
will be played on Sunday, and so we're mildly excited
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about that as we can be about a series that
we're really knocked that into.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
But hey, why not let's I heard at.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
The beginning of the broadcast before I hit the mute
button because of Doris Burke, I heard Mike Breen, who
was laying it on thick, he had his knee pads on,
talking about what a great NBA Finals it's been. And
I said, you know what, I'd do the same thing.
If I was making the amount of money Mike Breen
was to call NBA games, I would I would say,
what an amazing finals it was. I don't care if
(23:25):
they were serving me dog food, I would be like,
this is so good.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Oh my God, give me more, Give me more, Give
me more, Give me more.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Anyway, do we have the player the night I assumed
the play of the ice from the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Do we have that ready to go? All right? Very exciting.
So we are lining that up as we speak right now. Well,
as soon as we get.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
That, we will we will give it to you, and
then we have some calls to take.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Prior to that. The phones apparently have been fixed. The
long national nightmare is over, and to the phones we go.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
And a man that has been knocked out has not
been able to call in because of the glitch. The
thing of a jig not working, and that is Andre
in the Commonwealth. I know Justin in Cincinnati's excited he's back,
and several of those super fans of the show. But
here he is Andre, the summer of Andre now as
he's done with that whole school thing. Hello, Andre, welcome,
(24:21):
yes man, very.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Good to be with you.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
And I'm glad that this glitch has been worked out
because it's a celebratory day, not necessarily for the Oklahoma
City sunder, but for myself here in the Commonwealth. Also
willis we're getting ready to go outside. School is certainly
and definitely and most definitively out for the summer, Okay,
So I'm looking forward to getting back into my regular
(24:44):
work duties with the Mala Militia in order to move up,
to move up the ladder. So that's the happy note.
On the other note, it is somewhat happened, but not
for the people again in Oklahoma City. Two best words
in sports game seven and form my mind is lot
of people thinking this is going to be a coronation.
Coronation tonight. Ben. I think Adam Silver was in the building.
(25:05):
He most certainly had to have been, but we didn't
see any pans to Adam Silver in the craft. I
think he might have gotten a private jet and went
back to Manhattan half times, all right, because this thing
was in the tank. I mean, Oklahoma City did a
no show, and I give the bench their bench a
little bit of credit, right because they ended up losing
by seventeen about that's not really embarrassing, but they were
getting a thirty piece with special sauce for most of
(25:25):
this game. So we go into the game seven. I
do think technologically it doesn't you know, you lose by
seventeen eighteen on the road, you say, okay, we can.
You know, I wanted Indiana to put it on them
and get that thirty piece, you know, like the Memorial
Day massacres. I'm dating myself, Ben, But nineteen eighty four
Boston Celtics against the last right, right, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
And I I remember, I remember, yes.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
So so if it's a beautiful thing game seven, it
could go either way, and it's a toss up. I
said Indiana and seven. I'm gonna stick with that, even
though I think Oklahoma City's the more talented team. I'm
sick with my original pick. But here's my my final
take on this bench. If Indiana continues the momentum and
can get a double digit lead on Oklahoma City. I
think they will crack under the pressure. I think, Okay,
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he has to get out to a lead and make
Indiana play catch up versus the other way around. And
I think that's gonna be, you know, like a heavyweight match, Ben,
that first half in terms of who lands the first
tower punch. That's the way it's gonna go. I'm thrilled
to be with you for the summer.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Ben.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
I even know I'm gonna miss until Sunday, but I'm back,
and you know I'm perpetuity. He's a beautiful thing and
will Steven, though he's not barking, he says hello too.
All right, we'll just cruise out into the sunset if
it's beautiful. Ben.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
All right, there he goes are fired up, a man
relieved that the national nightmare is over.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
The phones are.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Now working here, and hallelujah for him and for the
people that have been sending me very angry emails.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
You can calm down. Everything is okay, everything is fine.
There's nothing to see here.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
A lot of people excited, and I was happy about
this too, because one of the highlight I don't know
we have this is the play of the night, but
the Pascal Siakam hammered dunk is the play that most
people are gonna remember from this game. They apparently the
editing staff chose that not to put that in, apparently
if they determined that was not a not a highlight
(27:15):
worthy of being played, even though it's the even though
that's the only highlight that we really mattered. Uhiakam had
a hammered dunk that was unforgettable, and it was really
poetry in motion. It was really poetry in motion, insane
for an in game dunk situation, and one of those
moments that you know, back in the old days they
(27:37):
used to say posterized. Nobody uses posters anymore, right, who
puts posters up? But it was amazing, and I had
so many people, so many people who reached out to me,
and they were sending me messages because of the Marcel
and Brooklyn drop and Marcel famously trying to pronounce Pascal
(27:58):
Siakam's name and gave us one of the all time
greatest drops in overnight talk radio and demonic Daggers Steve
Matt Mike. I mean, there's several other guys. I jotted
down a few names that were very happy, and they
were upset that Mike Breen on the broadcast apparently did
not say Pascal seea com which is what Marcel said
(28:23):
was his name. I did not say that, Nature Boy
writes in answering the call, A while these says Tyreeves
did pretty good despite his calf issues. Yes he is
holding a calf. AI is wonderful. Who's your bills excited?
Although he did already give a concession speech? Bill Bill,
did you not give a concession speech after Game five?
(28:43):
I believe you did. You sent a concession speech out
that it was over for the Pacers who goofed. I've
got to know Chip and the qu'es right, Since says
a plus on the mal monologue, I can't help but
wonder why, if the games in the NBA are all
indeed rigged by the league, why in Heaven's name would
they put on this yawn fest between two teams most
(29:05):
folks don't care.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
About and won't watch. Yeah, it's fair point.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Do you think anyone who casually turned on that game
was watching in the second half, or really even midway
through the second quarter? Probably not Spoxwed calls in from
the Oregon Trail and he says, Hey, I was at
the Elks tonight calling BINGO for the lodge, so I
wasn't able to watch the NBA game. However, I knew
(29:35):
that the Ben Maler Show would take me to the
better story and blow viate spectacularly. Great takedown of OKC,
very entertainab Well, thank you, spox Weed. That was the
atomic elbow A. I believe this is a an AI account.
We're so popular now that AI social media accounts are
sending messages in the name on this is Katie and
(29:58):
singing the praises of the show.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
And then trying to get me to promote.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Some scam artists, which I'm choosing not not to do.
Shane and des Moines writes and says, thank god you're back.
C minus to whoever ruined my heir everywhere earlier this week.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Well that's not very nice, Shane. Come on now.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
G Managed in Chicago rites in from the Windy City
says a plus on the mall monologue, I have to say,
NBA is such a roller coaster ride. Reminds me of
an X of mine. It's inconsistent. You never know what
you're getting. It's filled with divas and it's a bad product.
A team should never be losing at any point of
a game by thirty points. Absolutely, g manjed one hundred percent.
(30:42):
I recall conversations to the late great Bill Fitch, a
Hall of Fame coach who I befriended late in his
coaching career. He was coaching the LA Clippers at the
Mausoleum there the sports arena in He had many pearls
of wisdom. But one of the things he pointed out,
he said, at that time, and this is when the
talent was much better in the NBA from top to bottom,
but he pointed out that as long as you play hard,
(31:06):
fundamental basketball, you shouldn't never lose a game by even
twenty points. But to be down by thirty, you're taking
possessions off, You're playing sloppy, no attention to detail. And
that's what happened to Oklahomaity. You know, you think they're
gonna play much better in game seven.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
However, if it's close, late and close, what happens. I'll
be watching. I'll be watching to find out.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Milkman Mike in Colorado says great opening monologue to finish
out the week. Much like the FSR phone lines, the
thunder just didn't seem to work. And Sga sat there
on the bench pouting like his mama took away his
dessert because he didn't finish his dinner. And Jason in
Kansas City, who I got to meet at the Mallard
meet and Greedy says ten out of ten on the
(31:55):
Mallard monologue, the Pacers played with actual pace. Well, the
thunder were stuck in neutral. Also, OKC needs to stop
with not starting Harkenstein. He says it hasn't worked and
it won't work in Game seven, says the basketball savant
Jason in can City. Scrooge in Northern California No col says,
(32:20):
if the Pacers win Game seven, they will be the
first team to have won an NBA Championship without a
superstar caliber player because of others. Because other than some
clutch shooting a game on Halliburton has been a jag,
just a guy.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Oh, they won't be the first.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
The Detroit Pistons are that team, Scrooge, was it The
four Pistons who are credited as.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Being the last team in the modern era and maybe
the only team in the modern.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Era to win a championship without a real headline superstar.
Although it is interesting, No, in that series the Lakers
had snap Crackle pop Berg Dog says, congratulations on the
phones getting fixed to celebrate, How about putting all the
lines on the air at the same time. No, No,
that does. That still doesn't work. The phone system, it
(33:11):
still does. It does not work anyway. It is the
Ben Mahlor Show. As we are working our way through
the overnight hours, chopping away, chop chop chop, chop, chop,
chop chop. As we we can't be stopped. We cannot
be stopped here in the overnight. Let's go back to
the phone. Let's say hello to Jackson, who's in Seattle.
(33:32):
Hello Jackson, Welcome, Jackson is gone. Poppy in San Diego,
Hello Poppy.
Speaker 7 (33:40):
Hey man, I'm so glad to here, like my mental
health is. It's good now because the lads are finally working.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Oh thank god, Hellelujah, hallelujah.
Speaker 7 (33:51):
But I'm also happy because the Padres, oh San Diego,
they won. You know, it's a good day right here.
But what I wanted to talk more is what you said.
Great monologue from my menser, But how you say the
better news is in the losing locker room. So I
have the inside screw for you guys. So SGA then
the text message to Adam Silver, he said he was
(34:12):
not happy what went on, and he told them, you
know what, I'm not happy. You better make this up.
So Adam seldom tell them a text message back and
he said, don't worry. Scott Foster is going to be
there in game seven. So guys just know Scott Foster
is going to be there, because if you saw the game.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Tonight, it doesn't matter in a game, it doesn't matter
in game seven if he's there or not. He's the extender.
The series is already extended all the way. It doesn't
matter if he's there. Any team can win Game seven.
Speaker 7 (34:42):
Yes, but that's the point. Don't matter what I was
going to tell you what Tonight's tim If you saw
the you saw the calls, and most of the calls
were going on the Pacers favor s g A, your
former clipper wasn't getting no calls. And so that when
I'm telling you the game is going to change, we're
breaking the news right here, breaking news. Gop Boss is
gonna be there in game seven and Oklahoma thunder is
(35:03):
gonna win by mine, they say, whatever, the spreaders, I
don't care. It's gonna be a revenge game and they're
gonna spank them.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Revenge game.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
What do you do?
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Revis not a revenge There's no revenge game. It's not
a revenge game. It's a series. There's no revenge game.
It's not a revenge game. Why do you say revenge
you know, I say revenge game. It's not a revenge game.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
It's not high school. It's not high school. Their college
is not a revenge game. It's professional sports. All these
guys played AA ball growing up together. They're all buddies.
They all go out and party and chase chicks together.
They don't care about revenge game.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Come on, yeah.
Speaker 7 (35:36):
But what I'm saying, mentor, I'm saying you like the
flashy titles. I gotta be like you. I mean, you're
my mentors.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
You know, I gotta I know I'm your mentor.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
Mat But what I'm trying to say is, Scott Foster
is gonna be all right?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Are you're repeating yourself?
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Scott Foster, Scott Foster, Scott all right, God, thank you
for the call.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
Go away.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
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Speaker 8 (36:17):
Ellen Williams has his past deflected. Halliburton steals it into
the open floor. He got it to thy off him
who threw down the right hand tamahawk. It's a twenty
point lead.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
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We call it the who am I Game? And here
it is ok ses Jalen Williams head an to forget
a I want to get away kind of a night.
He had a plus minus of minus forty in Game
six that breaks my record for the worst plus minus
(37:12):
in an NBA Finals game in the play by play
era that goes back to the late nineties again. Jalen
Williams of Oklahoma City had a plus minus of minus
forty for the thunder in Game six that broke my
record for the lowest slash worst plus minus in a
Finals game in the play by play era. Who am I?
(37:33):
That is the question? The answer, We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
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(38:05):
The Fifth Hour Podcast as some of your presents, just
like the presets on the car radio doll.
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You know that's the radio jargon.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
P one means preset one, So if you're a P one,
that means that this show is the most important show.
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Speaker 2 (38:32):
Early and back to the show, all right, back to
when we go? Time now for the who am I?
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Game?
Speaker 1 (38:36):
And here we go.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else and
then you have to try to figure out who we are.
A lot of reaction to the phones being back, much
of it negative. Aileen Wright Sin says break the phones again,
please to avoid Poppies calls, and nature Boy says a
curse on whoever fixed the phone lines with Poppy, and
(38:58):
g Man also says Poppy Poppy's call makes me wish
the phones were not working. On another note, what is
andre in the Commonwealth's opinion on Karen Reid beating the
Commonwealth this week?
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Not guilty? Unbelievable? Well, he's not here anymore, so we
can't answer that. But here is the who am I game?
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Okay sees Jalen Williams had a night to forget minus
forty on the plus minus in Game six that broke
my record for the lowest plus minus in a Finals game.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
In the play by play era, who am I?
Speaker 2 (39:29):
That is the question? What is the answer? And unlet's
see does anyone know? Bobby and Florida is going with
Grimace Femi, the number one uber each driver in the
Minnesota Twin Cities going with Scott Foster, Nick the Wendy's guy,
got it right, Bad job by him, Greg the real
estate mogul from Baltimore and friend of sports with Coleman
going with mister Snuffalofagus as his answer. Rob and Minnesota
(39:53):
says Brian Buxton is the way to go.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Alf the alien opiner, says US Navy veteran William Patrick Hitler.
He says there apparently, He says that's his fun fact.
Hitler's own nephew was in the US Navy in nineteen
forty four. Wow, that is wild, that's true.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Who else we have?
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Milkman Mike says Jenny Kavner, the a's play by play announcer,
trying to get her dippin' dots if you know what
I mean?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Alphabet soup from Terry in England.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
All Right, the correct answer, because we're short on time
and no one's here to answer it other than me.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Is Drew Holliday.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Drew Holliday of the Celtics is the answer minus thirty
eight last year
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