Hour 1 - Silent Thunder

Ben Maller talks about who the fall guy is for the Oklahoma City Thunder being unable to close out the Nuggets in Game 6, what was the thing that pushed Denver into the winner's circle, if the Nuggets are doomed having to play Game 7 in OKC, and more!

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Who's the fall guy? The fall guy for SGKC squad
being unable unable to close the Nuggets out in Game six?
And what was the thing that pushed Nikola Jokicic and

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the Nuggets into the winner's circle in that game in Denver,
and are the Nuggets doomed having to play a game
seven in OKC will answer all of those questions and
take a very interesting phone call from a young lad
in Dallas. All that and more right now here, it

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in England and that annoying supermarket Steve guy and these

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guys can that can play. So I'm gonna hold off
on sending out the social media show Rundown just to
annoy them. And Loraina is like, that's the way to
do it. She said that exist. See right there, she
encouraged me because of that. I'm gonna make you wait
for that, but we are going to start right now
at the very top from five two hundred and eighty

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feet above sea level. How do I know that? It
was on the front of the uniform the mile High
City in Island game The Island Life in the NBA
Playoff Playoffs in just one game on the NBA card
Western Conference Semi Finals, game number six, and the ex
clip Shay jogas Alexander and the Thunder looking to punch

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their ticket to take on Minnesota in the Western Conference Finals,
a date in the Final four for Oklahoma City, and
all they had to do was go to Denver and
beat the Nuggets, and the media elites told me that
Nuggets have run out of gas. There's nothing left. They
don't have a big enough rotation. They can't compete with
the youthful legs of Oklahoma City. So surely Nikola jokicch

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was cooked as the Nuggets. They were just trying to
stay alive, but they didn't have the depth and they're
gonna run out. You told me that. You told me that,
all right, So I don't know if you saw the
game or night. Maybe not. Maybe I was the only
one watching. I did it for you. It's my good
mits for the day. So Jamal Murray, that's a basketball player.
He was sick, and there's nothing in all of sport

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that can match NBA broadcasters talking about players that are sick.
They're literally on their deathbed, these players. Oh my god.
He needed around the clock medical attention. He had the
creeping crudd. Anyway, Jamal Murray was sick. Can you imagine
showing up the work sick? Who does that? Well? Before COVID,
most people did. Anyway, Jamal Murray was ill, and, according

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to the broadcasters, could have died. He then went out
and scored twenty five points. And the Nuggets. He guided them,
the guiding light for Denver for some of the game,
not the entire game, but he did enough there and
the Nuggets end up winning rather comfortably. The game was
not in jeopardy in the final part of the fourth
quarter one nineteen to one oh seven. So what does
that mean. It means the series now goes back to

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Oklahoma City for a decisive Game seven. Nicola Jokic the Joke,
led the way with twenty nine points for Denver. He
had fourteen rebounds, eight assists, and a partridge in the
pear tree. And Christian Brown, although it looks like its
name should be Braun, I'd rather be called Braun because
that's a tough you know, Braun. Anyway, Christian Brown had

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twenty three points for the Denver basketball team and the
thunder who were all giddy. They're like, oh man, we're
in good shape there. And they had some opportunities with
the lead in this game, but Shade Jogas Alexander had
thirty two. It was not enough. However, the good news is,
I know Kyrie is excited about this in OKCS Our buddy,
he's a listener. Story is in the losing locker room.

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So let us discuss, all right, the question who's the
fall guy? Who's the fall guy for SGA's OKC squad?
There's a lot of letters, SGA OKC, who's the fall
guy for Oklahoma City? Unable to close out game six?
So my thoughts on this, I've got tow truck, KFC

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and eight ball and we will combine all of this
randomness together and we are going to make a happy dance.
Because if you bet on the Denver Nuggets, you had
a little happy dance there. You were very happy with
the outcome of this game. Now, a there's one name
that everyone agrees is at the very top. If you

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got to have a fall gotta have a fall guy,
and that would be Jalen Williams. That is a basketball player.
Not a good one, apparently not right now. I'm not
getting a lot of bang for your buck. If you're
in Oklahoma City, he's got to wear this one. In fact,
he was so bad, How bad was he? He was
so bad he needed a bib. Okay, he needed a

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bib because he had a barf bag because he was
riding the vomit comet. And when you ride the vomit comic.
You need a barf bag, you need a bib because
stuff goes everywhere. And now I'm not gonna sit here
and tell you he's the guy that is the center
of Oklahoma City's not the centerpiece. He's a secondary scorer
for the Thunder. We've seen them in the playoffs here

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quite a bit. And he sucked at a time you
cannot suck, which is from pillar to post, and took
fifteen shots in the game, missed twelve of the fifteen.
I didn't play in the NBA. I just do the
overnight show. I don't think that's good. You're a hater man, Okay, Yeah,
six points, that's it. Six points. And this game was

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right for the picking. And it's not quite to the
same degree as the Knicks, who messed things up up
and they could have closed out Boston. They gave Boston
some life losing that last game in the Eastern Conference
side of the bracket. But you're messing around here. You're
messing around if you're OKAC. That game was in reach.

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The game was tied at eighty late third quarter, late
third quarter, game tied at eighty, and right around that
time that is where the check engine light came on
the dashboard for the Nuggets and it was what we're
calling it, the perfect ten, the perfect ten because the
Thunder and it was not just not just Jaylen Williams,

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the entire Thunder team needed a tow truck. They ran
out of gas. They ran out again. Now killing the
narrative that the youthful legs of Oklahoma City they have
the edge. How many of these stories have we heard
over the last couple of days that okayse he's just younger, hipper,
they're cooler and they've got more bouncy bounce in their legs.

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And the Nuggets of the old team they don't have
enough depth there. They don't they don't play enough players.
All this crap. But on this night, Oklahoma City was
huffing and puffing down the stretch. It wasn't because of
the altitude. Let's start stop with that. And so every
time a Denver Sports teams in a big game, it's
the alta. They never win anything, stop, right, But the

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Thunder did go down under. They did at the end
of this game outscored in a ten minute block late
third quarter, late third quarter to just a few minutes
on the clock. So from late third quarter, about a
little less than two minutes third quarter to about three
minutes or so to go. In the basketball game, the

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Denver basketball team outscored the Oklahoma City basketball team. Saw
you know. It was twenty nine to thirteen, and that
was in a ten oh three stretch. They ended up
building up. By the time that was all done, they
had a sixteen point lead in that stretch. And that
was all she wrote. That was all she wrote. Mister
MVP Alexander, in that stretch, you're the MVP. You're supposed

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to make sure your team doesn't get buried. He took
four shots, missed three of the four, and the thunder
collectively shot twenty percent. That's pepe lepew, pay you twenty percent,
and even worse from behind the arc, one of nine
for a robust eleven point one percent from three point range.
So that was game, set and match. And on the

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other side, though, we gotta go to the Denver side
of things, page two. Here, what was the thing that
pushed Nikola jokicchen the the Nuggets into the Winter Circle.
He was saying, well, it's gotta be Jamal Murray, It's
gonna be Murray Man. Murray was good. Okay, he was good.
Oh what about the Joker man, the joker dude. Oh yeah,
joker was good. But it was someone we've never heard of,

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Julian Strather who he went KFC in this game. Strather, who, well,
I guess he was the first round pick, but he
must have been one of those picks we don't pay
attention to near the end of the first round. But
he had the secret blend like KFS. He had eleven
herbs and spices all by himself in the back breaking
run for the Denver basketball team, that ten minute stretch

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where they took the game over there and ended up
getting done the perfect ten if you will, as we're
calling here, he single handedly outscored a guy we've never
heard of, Julian Strather outscored the entire Oklahoma City team.
He had fifteen points by himself all in that stretch,

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and Oklahoma City as a team had thirteen points in
that stretch. So he was bounding and astounding out there
and just dropping out of thin air. And in that
period of time, it was like he was back in
college and he was swooping and hooping and all that.
And Nikola jokis you figure he's dependable. Jamal Murray not

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as dependable, although he does seem to make a lot
of big baskets in playoff games. He's won several playoff
games in recent years with clutch play. But those guys,
you you kind of assume they're gonna be there. The
other Jabbronis are the gay and that that is problematic
as we turn the page here going into a game
seven situation, because now it comes down to the greatest

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two words in sport, Game seven. All the marvels, winner,
take all, winner, take all? Oh my god, winner, take all?
The tension, the drama, oh rama, O MG, what is
going to happen? You don't know, You don't know what

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you don't know, so you gotta watch to see if
you can find out what you don't know. Well, here
is Shay Jogis. Alexander as the expected MVP, is going
to tell you his thoughts on a Game seven. Take
a listens, Stuart, I, it's oh what you did it for?

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Where's your whole? Yes, either your dream continues or your
dream ends. So you lay it all out there on
the floor and live with the results.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
Pro me.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
I'm excited for the opportunity for sure. Okay, well you
should get into talk radio because every hour is Game seven.
At any moment, could say the wrong thing, Game over.
That's it. You just have to live with the results
of the of the show. Every night, Game seven, every
minute the VU meter is moving Game seven. That's see,

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these athletes only get a few Game sevens. Every single
segment is a Game seven in talk radio, every single segment.
All right, so let's let's get us the game will
be playing. As we mentioned, in Oklahoma City, the thunder
were the highest seed in the entire NBA the sixty
eight win regular season. They were the number on the
overall seed. And are Nicola jokicch and the Nuggets doomed?

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Are they doomed having to play in Oklahoma City for
a Game seven? And my answer is three words, not
at all, Not at all. And after asking the counsel
of the magic eight ball, we went up to the
magic eight ball. We said, magic eight ball, almighty all powerful,
magic eight ball. If Denver, we asked the magic ball,

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does Denver have a legitimate opportunity to win Game seven
in Oklahoma City? The magic eight ball? We shook it.
It replied outlook good, let me repeat that outlook good
from the magic eight ball. So we will be betting
on the Nuggets while the Thunder we'll have the crowd

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on their side, and I'm sure they'll make a big deal.
They'll all wear the same colored T shirts and all that.
My argument is this, it is an antiquated take that
home court matters in modern basketball. It is an antiquated take.
Let me make my elevator pitch. I'll give you my
supporting Gavin is why is an antiquated take at home
court matters in these playoffs. NBA teams are thirty one

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and thirty if my malor math is correct, in the
playoffs at home, they're one game above five hundred at
home the home team. If you look at game seven
since twenty twenty one, the home team is only five
and ten in game seven since twenty twenty one. There

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is a massive seed change that has taken place since
the pandemic in home court advantage. What used to be
is no longer like it's an old It's like say,
defense wins championships in football. While you're dating yourself. Home
court historically the home team had won but seventy nine,

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almost eighty percent of the time there's been a dramatic
change in recent years. Now, why is that, Well, there's
a lot of variables. One of the variables is the
teams don't really give a crap about the regular season.
That's one of them, right. You also have the load
management see first point for second point, and the fact
that all these arenas are pretty much the same. There's

(16:05):
no they're all I've been to NBA games in different cities.
They play the same music, The cheerleaders come on the
court at the same time, the mascot comes out at
the same time. It's just a different outfit for the
cheerleaders or the mascots that got a different costume. But
it's all cookie cutter. It's all essentially the same every

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city you go through. But in terms of the pressure,
we know, pressure breaks pipes and pipe pipes burst. Because
so there's obviously more on the Thunder, and we all
agree on that there's going into Game seven, there's more
pressure on the Thunder. Dream season number one season, sixty
eight wins, sixty eight win season. You've got Shade Jogis,
Alexander sga is gonna be the MVP phenomenal. He's been

(16:48):
good in this series. Averaging twenty eight points and almost
eight rebounds and seven assists and a bunch of steals.
He has not hurt. He's not earned the dependable label.
And I look at the Nugget's like, well, the nugget, Yeah,
Jokic has been the best player in the series, and
career wise, he's a much better career player than SGA

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side by side, and you figure out he will dominate,
he should dominate the big guys. In game seven, they
got Chet Holmgren and Isaiah Hartenstein for Oklahoma City. And
even though Jokic had a couple of duds in this series,
it wasn't because of anything Oklahoma City was doing. He
just didn't play well in a couple of games. But

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you just look at the Nuggets. They can still smell
they can smell that twenty twenty three title. And they've
got a joker as a coach, not just a joker
as a player. The impractical jokers look alike the James
Murray of NBA coaches, David Adaman, the NEPO baby who
took over for the coach people thought was good Malone

(17:50):
right before the playoffs started. So when you whack your
coach before the playoffs, you're pretty much saying we're not
good enough. We don't think we're gonna be good enough,
we don't think we're going to win. Otherwise you wouldn't
make that particular move right before the playoff. So that's
the setup going into a Game seven between the Thunder
and the Nuggets. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. We

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So what that means the Friday Fun Day edition of
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your calls now. Straight ahead, though straight ahead, you must
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in his eye, Ben. And so we got a couple
of games left, at least a couple of games left
in the NBA playoffs, and Game seven on Sunday, Sunday Sunday,

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which is now gearanteed between the Thunder and the Nuggets. Now,
Oklahoma City was favored in the game that was played
on Thursday night. They were a five point favorite when
that line opened. They ended up a five and a
half point favorite. They lose the game outright. So now
we get to a game seven and the point spread
out that is on Sunday afternoon, three point thirty Eastern time,

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Game seven, Oklahoma City hosting Denver, and the opening overnight line,
the overnight line on this the Thunder opened up a
nine point favorite in that game. It is already down
to seven and a half. So down to seven and
a half, and do not have any early numbers on that.
The numbers don't come out till later about where the

(21:44):
money is. But right now, Thunder favored by seven and
a half and moving. That line is active on the
overnight for Game seven, which we played on Sunday afternoon.
Will there also be an Eastern Conference Game seven and
the Celtics and the Knicks they will play later tonight

(22:04):
Friday night Midtown Manhattan, and the Knicks opened up a
two and a half point favorite in that game and
that line has stayed flat. Knicks favored by two and
a half. The public all over the Knicks. The sharp
money in a lean towards the Knicks, but it's not

(22:27):
as dramatic as the public. The public's more the average better,
more into the Knicks than the wise guys are. But
both sides have the team from Gotham as the right
side in that game. So we began here yapping about
the Thunder from down under the ten minute stretch. Game

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was tied at eighty late third quarter ten minute stretch
and they just couldn't get any right, and then the
Denver Nuggets schooled them, built up a sixteen point lead
and then held on as someone named Julian Strather off
the bench fifteen points, three of four on moneyballs, and

(23:08):
he hit more three point shots than any Oklahoma City player.
Hey did not, as the line goes, did not have
that on the old Bengo card going into the game.
But there will be a game on a Sunday and
we will take your comments. We'll go to the phones
here in a minute. Also, you must be in the
front row. You must be in the front row. We'll

(23:30):
get to that late night. Drug tester says it didn't
pan out last round, but I am doubling down for
a round two. If Denver loses Game seven, it'll be
because Nikola Jokic got distracted by the preaking mistakes race
this Saturday. Yeah, well, I'm not sure how that's gonna
work because the game's on Sunday and I don't know

(23:50):
about that. You know, I'm not how that goes. What
else do we have? This is page down. Terry in England,
uh says, a good job by you. The daily big board.
That's right, Sterry. That is a big board. That is
not a list. We do not do lists, absolutely, Milkman
Mike and Colorado says, great monologue to start the end

(24:12):
of the work week. I know you don't do shout outs,
but if you did, I'd ask for a shout out
to my step son Thomas and his fiance Emily, who
are getting married on Sunday. Well, yeah, Milkman Mike, Now, Loraina,
we don't do that. We're not a morning show. Morning
shows get paid a lot of money. The company likes them,
gives them bonuses, and we don't get any of that stuff.

(24:34):
So we can't do shout outs. We're not. I mean,
once we start getting that stuff, I'll be more than
happy to do shoutouts.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
I understand, Ben, but yes, I love love.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
No, no, no, don't silly. I mean, we can say mazeltop,
but we can't. That's about as far as we can go.
And then we can pivot from that Lorena and say,
I can't think of a better gift for Milkman Mike's
steps on and fiance Emily. Thomas and Emily. What a
better wedding gift when they get married there than a

(25:06):
trip to a Mallard meet and greet. Wouldn't that be
just perfect? They could show up to Vancouver and hang
out with us at the mall brilliance, right, come on, brilliant.
We are less than two weeks await. It does not
feel like that. It does not feel like we're less than.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
Tone because every day I wake up and I'm like,
is today the day? We go to Canada?

Speaker 2 (25:24):
Really? Every day?

Speaker 4 (25:25):
Every day?

Speaker 2 (25:26):
No, No, I've been able to compartmentalize. I just like
worry about that day. It sounds like bull crap, but
I just do it. And then one day I'm gonna
wake up, I'm like, holy crap, I gotta go to Vancouver,
like today is the day? And then I'll worry about that.
But I socks.

Speaker 4 (25:41):
Make sure you pack enough socks. Guys, Okay, no.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
He cares. You can buy socks anywhere. No, no, no, anywhere. Literally,
I could be in pyong Yang and buy socks. It
doesn't matter. You can buy socks anywhere in US.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
Socks.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Why why do women worry so much about pack? Guys
don't worry about pack. They don't worry about that is
throw some stuff in the bag. You're You're done, and
now I don't go full. Rob park my guy Rob
Parker here, like he'll he flies Spirit airlines. You know
they charge you when you breathe every breath of air.
They charge you on Spirit Airlines. So Rob, he'll just

(26:16):
take the clothes on his back, or he'll layer his clothes.
He's told me the story, he's talked about it on
the show. He'll like layer his clothes and then we goes.
He'll fly like Atlanta because he loves the ballet there
in Atlanta, and then he'll just buy some clothes at
a you know, secondary store and just leave him there.
That's like, and it's cheaper. That's how expensive the baggage is.
It's cheaper just to do that than to buy or

(26:38):
to bring your clothes anyway. Spock's Weed writes in says,
I missed most of the male monologue to a last
minute house chores. Who's doing house chores at this hour?
Come on? And if I'm not mistaken audio content, you
can do your chores while you're listening to the show. Hello.

(27:00):
Can't watch a TV show or watch something on your phone,
but you can listen and multitask anyways. Spox Weed says,
I'm sure it's an A plus plus good job by you.
Firk Dog says you better post the rundown asp or
a certain someone is going to frege out. We posted it.

(27:20):
We posted it. Nature Boy answering the call a wild
says he asked, he asked the magic eight ball. He said, Nuggets,
who's winning Game seven? The magic eight ball told him
the Nuggets, of course, is the way that went, so
very exciting, very very excited. We will take some calls here.

(27:43):
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox is the call
in number, and we have lame jokes of the week
that'll be coming up in our number three. All the yes,
all the great Zingers and one line and weed Man
will be here. It'll be amazing and stunning and wild

(28:06):
and all that. Let's go to the phones and we'll
start out Eenie Meanie money. Let's go now to a
man who I don't did he call after the last
Nuggets lost. I don't think he did, but he's on
the phone now after they won. Let's go to the
top nugget lap Dog that calls this show from Colorado.
He's in Denver and his name is Jeff, and he's

(28:28):
on the radio right now. Hello, Jeff, Welcome, Hey man,
I do believe I did call in and did you?
I don't remember talking to you when we lose them
when we win.

Speaker 5 (28:38):
But tonight tonight was great. They've had a lead in
the last two games if it just couldn't hold it,
but tonight they held it, But yeah, does many nervous?
Is Aaron Gordon grabbed that? We got we got the
wammi hammy going on.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
Now that's part of it. If you're if you're not healthy,
you're not gonna win. That's that's how it works.

Speaker 5 (28:59):
So yeah, but Luke, But with that, if Aaron Gordon
can't play on Sunday, it's a fifty to fifty. But
if Aaron Gordon can go, I think we can take it.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
Because well even if we hold one, even if he plays,
is he gonna play, how's he gonna plays? He mean
he good? Or is he gonna suck? Because if he
plays and he sucks, who cares? If he plays or not?
Have somebody else in there who maybe won't suck. Give
somebody cares.

Speaker 5 (29:26):
Aaron Gordon is the one that does a dirty work
down low.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
If he that's fine. I mean, you said he didn't
do anything in this game. He played, He played thirty
eight minutes and he didn't really do much and they
won anyway, so that's fine. He didn't really make any
real meaningful impact. I mean a few assists, a few rebounds,
but he didn't. It wasn't a factor in all on
the offense at all and they still won the game
going away. But he's the one that does a dirty

(29:51):
work down all right, you keep saying dirty work. I
can do dirty work too. I can pick up trash.

Speaker 5 (29:56):
No, but without him pushing the other guy?

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Are you? I feel like you're making excuses already. You're
making excuses already. Bad job by you, you are, You're
making You're like, well, if Gordon's not able to go,
we're screwed. Oh man, come on, no, go out there,
Go out there and win the game. Who cares who's playing,
who's not playing. Just go out there and win the game.
Because the pressure is actually not on the Nuggets, the

(30:21):
pressures on Oklahoma City in Game seven because they won
sixty eight games. This is the dream season for the
Thunder all these young lads and all that. The coming
of age. It's like a coming of age movie in Hollywood.
This is their coming of age moment. But they still
have another one even if they win that game on Sunday,
because they have to play Minnesota in the Western Conference Finals.
But the pressures on them to not suck, not screw

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this up.

Speaker 5 (30:46):
Oh, I agree. The pressure's on Okay because they've never
been in the game seven.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
Well, it's not even that. It's just that if they
lose at home in a game seven and against a
nugget team where they're supposed to beat. Let's be fair,
they're supposed to win this series as the top seed
in the NBA, and if they screw this thing up,
start asking questions and their total frauds Like Cleveland.

Speaker 5 (31:10):
Oh, when sc get him fould trouble, they like they
had the the WT flick on their face, So like, uh, oh.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Well yeah, but that's another factor that you don't like
to talk about. Right, what's going to happen in a
game seven houses the game going to be officiated? Is
is Jokis gonna end up with two fouls in the
first five minutes of the first quarter and Murray got
in in foul trouble and stuff like that.

Speaker 5 (31:35):
I think they didn't. They didn't have three guys like
attacking Joker tonight. The ball was moving a little bit
better and Jamal was supposedly sick. But the next time
I get sick, I want the juju in the locker
room that he got and I'll be ready to go to.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
The next They always do this, It's NBA puffery. Every
NBA player that's sick is about to die. It's all
it's all bs, it's bull crap. Anyway, I gotta I
gotta go. Thank you, all right, And Joe, I'm sure
you'll call up after Game seven unless the Nuggets get
run off the court and lose by thirty points and
then you won't call up. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
I loved his PG thirteen vocabulary.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
You enjoyed that, so you have to rather than like
Tony in the Bay Area, who I like him. I
romanticize Tony's phone calls, but every phone call ends with
an S word or an F word or some other
exotic curse work.

Speaker 4 (32:29):
Yeah, I like that. He was like, WTF. I'm like, yeah, yeah,
I don't got a dump that.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Well, you could say what the and then just pause
and people know that skids. Yeah, you know, I could
rhapsodize that way about it, and then that's fine as well. Anyway,
let's go back to the phones. We go to Dallas,
but not Charlie. We'll get to Charlie La. Let's go
to Jola in Dallas. What's up, Joela? Welcome Jola, Jola
hung up?

Speaker 5 (32:55):
All right?

Speaker 2 (32:56):
Oh, we well, go to Charlie then let's go to Charlie.
Joey want to talk to He's in Dallas. Hello Charlie
and royal flush Charlie is his name? The Dallas Dumper?
Hello Charlie, Hey Bin, not in the bathroom this time?

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Huh no, not in the bathroom finally.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
All right, the Dallas Dumper is here, but not taking
a dump. Okay, what's on your mind?

Speaker 1 (33:22):
I hate to say, Well, my Dallas Stars lost, which
was but my Dallas Stars will still win on Saturday,
which Autenger is really good and Charlie is really good.

(33:45):
But we have a really good team.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Charlie, Charlie, I feel like you're sputtering the call. Spell
you started the race and you stumbled out of the
starting block. Is that a correct take? Lorraine? Doesn't it
seem like Charlie he started the call and then he
stumbled right as he got out of the gates, right,
he's trying? Yeah? Can I can I help you, Charlie? Man,

(34:12):
I can help your take, just to give you some
talking points? No, sure, okay, you want to what's the
good talking about? How about the basketball?

Speaker 5 (34:23):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (34:24):
About it all right now, Steph Curry. He said he
was sad watching the Warriors lose to the Timberlves. Do
you have any advice to Steph Curry because he was sad?

Speaker 5 (34:39):
Because I don't know.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
That's a good take. Send that out, Coop. I don't
know that's the take right there. I don't know that's
the take. It's a great take. It's an honest take.
And you know what, nobody else has that take? Does
anyone else have I don't anyone else has that take.
I don't know that's an original take.

Speaker 4 (35:03):
You know, I thought Charlie might have a really good
way to not feel so sad, maybe, you know, like
holding a stuffed animal or a stuffy Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
You know, what do you do when you're sad? Charlie?
What do you what's your move to avoid being sad?
I go to my room? Oh there you go. Steph
Curry could have gone to his room. That could have
been your take. Steph Curry should go to his room
and play video games. Okay, all right, well thank you, Charlie.

(35:34):
Have a good week. ID pal, it's Charlie. That's our guy. Okay,
all right, we are we are rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling
and roll. That was a dagger to the heart. It

(35:57):
was It is the ben Malord show. As we press
on time now for the who am I?

Speaker 3 (36:02):
Game?

Speaker 2 (36:02):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else and
we'll go to football for the who am I game?

Speaker 5 (36:08):
Who?

Speaker 2 (36:09):
So, the schedule could change a little bit, we know
that based on the flexing. But barring a last minute
flexaru and moving a game into primetime, cam Ward of
the Tennessee Titans will become the first quarterback drafted number
one overall to not have a game in prime time

(36:31):
as a rookie since me again, Tennessee Titans top pick
cam Ward at this point not scheduled to have a
primetime game, cam Ward would be the first quarterback drafted
first overall to not have a game in prime time
as a rookie since me? Who am I? That is

(36:52):
the question? The answer, We'll get to it. We'll do
it next.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
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Speaker 2 (37:00):
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Speaker 5 (37:38):
Thank God for the Internet.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
The Interweb. Do you see that box of North Carolina
merch that John Gruden got in the mail the other day?
How much? Yeah? Yeah? Gruden posted a video they sent
this giant box. I thought in the video Gruden was
kind of like the little at work, just opening the

(38:01):
box and going through all the stuff in the box,
like what's in the box? It was like all this
North Carolina merch and all that, Like why don't we
get any of that stuff? Well, you get all like
the food and all that. You get a lot of
the I mean, we occasionally got the Little Debbie guy
hooked us up in Rhode Island, Providence. He would send
us like the Little Debbie stuff and we occasionally get
some some food items. But the clothing stuff, I mean,

(38:23):
he had every possible North Carolina T shirt you know,
the hats, all that stuff. I'm not a North Carolina fan,
but somebody wants to send Look and I used to
get hats. People would send me hats and I do
wear them. I have a rotation of random hats that
that people have sent me. Say massive box of stuff.

(38:46):
Time now for the who Am I? Game? This is
where I pretend to be somebody else? As I called it,
who Am I? Game? Barring a last minute switcheroo in
a flex into primetime, Tennessee Titans rookie cam Ward will
become the first quarterback drafted number one overall to not
have you in your mind time as a rookie since me,

(39:08):
it's been a minute. It has been a minute. Normally,
the protocol is if you're a quarterback and you're drafted
number one overall, then you end up getting at least
one primetime game to showcase you. Nick the Wendy's guy
got it right. Bad job by him, Benito, the long
suffering Cowboy fans is my answer is price picks. No,
that's inat the correct answer is George Washington from Femi

(39:32):
william Is going with Drew Bledsoe Late Night Drug tester says,
you are Megan Fox who is thirty nine today? Unbelievable?
How did that happen? Who do we have? Bernie Carbo
from Mister Nice Guy, Not a Nice Guy? The Old
Red Sox CM Punk from King Rory Kwame Brown guests
by Sean. Who else do we have? Charlie from Terry

(39:56):
in England? Is Charlie's inability to speak with out being
in a toilet? All those things related? He is better
when he's in the toilet. Steve Bono from Bay City
Tony Lorena, what say you, Lorena?

Speaker 4 (40:09):
I'm gonna go with Conan O'Bryant.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
Conan was so good for the Harvard football team back
in the day. That's incorrect. A last number one overall
pick to not get a primetime game his rookie year,
Cam Newton in twenty eleven. The Windys Guy got it right,
Cam Newton twenty eleven. That was the last one. That's
it Nick to Windy's Guy got it right,