May 28, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about who is to blame for the Knicks loss to the Pacers in Game 4 of the ECF, the narrative that Tyrese Haliburton's father being at the game inspired the victory, what Jalen Brunson and the Knicks need to do to get back in the series, and more!
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number one. It's all about the Pacers. They're a win
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away from the NBA Finals. Who is the guilty party
for Tom Thibodeau's next losing the game last night? Also
thumbs up thumbs down to the media narrative that Tyrese
Halliburton's father being at the game inspired the pay victory
And what do the Jalen Brunson Knicks need to do
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to get back in the series as they have no
margin for error? We'll talk about all that and more
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and we asked the question, who's your daddy? Well, if
it's the Knicks right now, it's the Indiana Pacers. That's
who's your daddy right now? Wow? As the Pacers, they
they're that close they can feel it at this point.
After a dud the other night, Tyrese Haliburton and the
Pacers looking to bounce back get it done as they
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hosted Jalen Brunson and the Knickerbockers there in Game four
the Eastern Conference Finals. I assume you were watching. Maybe not,
maybe you did something else. You were sleeping. I don't
know what you were doing. You have no idea. I'm
not stalking you, but don't worry. We watched and it
was a pleasure. I didn't have to hit the mute
button once. No doors Burke. I just got to watch
a game without having to mute it. Thank God, hallelujah. Man,
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I'm gonna miss TNT. Gonna miss it. Maybe one more
game for TNT and this crap broadcasting at least part
of it. Anyway, Tyrese Haliburton did a little bit of this,
a lot of that, and some of that and ended
up with thirty two points, fifteen assists, twelve rebounds without
a turnover and that performance, that performance putting the Pacers
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on his back there and a zoom past the Knicks.
They win one thirty to one twenty one the final
there three to one lead in the Eastern Conference Finals.
Haliberd the first player with such a stat line more
on that later in the hour as he gets it
done there, and the first player in the modern ear
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since they first tracked these statistics to have that line.
Game five will be Thursday in New York. We will
not be on that night because we'll be doing the
Malard Meet and greet in Vancouver that night, but we're watching.
I assume we'll watch the end of it from the
from the bar we'll be at there in Vancouver, having
a great time. Anyway, let us discuss what just happened
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in game number four, and the better story is in
the losing locker room. So that is where we will begin
this Malard monologue. Who is the guilty party? Who is
the guilty party? For Tom Thibodeau and the Knickerbockers who
o loose this game and did not have a single
lead in the second half. They trailed the entire second
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half of that game. So I've got mousetrap, media machine,
and many bottles of rum, and we will combine all
all of these things together and we are going to
make a dirty water dog because the next Now they're
not just the dirty water, they're the dog in the
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dirty water as well. Who we all right, So let's
get right to the heart of the matter. You see
what I did there, the heart of the matter. Now
he's a secondary actor, but he played a key role
in the demise of the film. That would be Josh Hart,
who's a bit of a fringe NBA players. Well they're
not that good. He's just kind of a roster guy.
Not great, not terrible. He's just kind of there. He's
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played a long time in the NBA and nobody's gonna
accuse him of being a good player. But he was bad.
He was an evil doer for the in this particular game.
In fact, he was the Duke, the Duke of Puke.
A lot of it in the second quarter of the
game turned in the second quarter here it flipped. And
if you look at the surveillance tape from the crime scene,
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you can see that josh Hart left a smoking gun
at the crime scene. There was a biohazard on the
court there, as Indiana had set up a mouse trap.
They set up a mouse trap and Heart bit the cheese.
You're not supposed to bite the cheese. He bit the cheese. There.
Committed five turnovers, four of them in the first half
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of the game, and the Pacers got out were able
to move the ball down the court, matriculate the ball
down the court in transition, and they capitalized on almost
all of those mistakes by josh Hart. They turned those
five turnovers into directly into eight points on the other end.
So that's not good, he said, Well, it's only eight points, okay.
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Hart also fouled out of the game, and the Pacers
scored nine points either as a result or directly after
those fouls. Nine points. Now, as a team, the Knicks
finished with seventeen turnovers. Seventeen turnovers, and I gave you
all kinds of numbers. Indian outscored New York by eleven
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in that game, and they had thirteen more points on
the fast break, and he's gonna break it down point
by pointier. Now the other villains for New York, you
could say, well, Mitchell Robinson that it's kind of just
a big lugging plotting player. And then mckil bridges, who
they traded seventeen thousand draft picks to get. He sucked.
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Miles McBride, who's a backup good name though doesn't Miles
McBride sound like a fake Hollywood name, some kind of
superhero Miles McBride to save the day, not on this game.
Did not save the day all right? Now? Page two.
So Indiana wins the game, and the story is all
about someone's dad. What John Halliburton a return to watch
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his kid there He had been forced well, we talk
about the hardship, forced to watch the previous eight Indiana
Pacer postseason games from somewhere else as he got into
it on the court with the Greek freak Giannis ident
to Coombo in one of the great moments scripted reality
there of the NBA, following the last second shot to
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eliminate Milwaukee previously in the postseason, got right there. So
this has become a big talking point in the in
the NBA media. So I'm gonna play the game thumbs
up or thumbs down. So thumbs up or thumbs down
on the narrative that Tyrese Halliburton's father inspired this victory,
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because I'm getting a lot of that. I'm getting a
lot of that that this win was because of John
Halliburton sitting at the very top near not the very
Toppy's in the box there. So thumbs up or thumbs
down on Tyreus Halliburton's father inspiring the Pacers win. So
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I will not be Benny Bright's oude on this. I
Am going I'm going thumbs down, a strong, powerful thumbs
down on this. So let me get so, we're supposed
to believe that the reason that Tyree's played well was
because his daddy was at the arena and that's that's
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what pushed the Pacers over the top. Are you bleeping
kidding me? Seriously? Is this the latest Disney fairy tale
being peddled by the NBA media machine that works overtime,
the pr machine. Oh, it's Everything's got to be a
Disney type story, and let's all calm down. Take a breath. Okay,
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take a breath, Calm down, it's not a Hollywood movie.
I'm happy the dad was back. We had said it
was kind of ridiculous let him back. I would have
put him at the top of the arena. I wouldn't
put him in luxury box. I would have put John
Halliburt into the very top of the arena. I'm not
saying it wasn't nice to have him back. That's fine.
I'm out of total curmudget. However, I mean to think
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that somehow he's sitting in a luxury box, the dad,
and that's why the kid plays well here. It's a
classic overreaction. I got a good story. I went to
sports writing one oh one back in the day, and
I got to justify that. I learned this like the
second day of sports writing one oh one. You gotta
bring the family into the narrative. You're gonna bring the
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dand or the mom in there and the kids, and
oh man, that'll sell. That'll play in Peoria. Okay, all right,
so the guy, the way I look at it, you know,
what do I know? I'm just doing the old night Shore.
But the way I look at it, he had a
bounce back game. And and of course now they're writing
all these think pieces about man there's some kind of
spiritual connection with the dad and all that stuff. But maybe,
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just maybe, I know this is outrageous what I'm about
to say, it's an unpopular opinion, but maybe Halliburton, tyree
Aaliburton realized, well, he didn't play that well in the
last game. So I don't know he watched them, tay,
he practiced. Maybe he shot a few more baskets. I
don't know. Some of that made some adjustments, played better.
But no, it's got to be the dad. It's gotta
be the dad. That's why. Has nothing to do with
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the practice, the extra shots, watching the film whatever, finding
out what the Knicks were doing and how to attack that. No, yeah, okay,
and the Pacers were at home, and so some of
these other scrubs on the Pacers. The role players usually
played better at home, so we had some of that
that happened as well. All right, now the last word here,
So what do the Jalen Brunson New York Knicks, What
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do they do here to get back in this series?
What do they do. They're down three games to one,
down three games, so what do they do here to
get back in the series? And are there are a
couple things. I have two words that I jotted down
on my notes app on my phone, divine intervention. That
would be my first option. So the Knicks need to
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get together a rabbi, a priest, a miracle healer. They
can bring them all together, medical medium, get them to
have a huddle, a shaman and one or two witches
and bring them all together there. They can huddle up
and call an audible here. And if that doesn't work,
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they need to get a time machine. And they got
to go back and get Serrano, a great character in
a movie called Major League. And they can build a
shrine in the next locker room and they can have
two Jobu statues and then a couple mini bottles of rum,
and that will inspire them to come back in this series. Listen,
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the Knicks are cooked. In fact, they're cooked the way
I like my steak. Well done, Okay, charcoal, That's how
cooked they are at this point. Stick a fork in them,
do whatever you want, whatever cliche you want to throw
out there for the Knicks. This is the team that
the New York media machine was hyping up the greatest
Nick team since Walt Clyde Fraser. The Year of the Nick.
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Everything had opened up, the parting of the Red Sea,
in this case, the parting of the East River. It
was already the Knicks playing a tomato canned Pacer team,
and then they had Minnesota or OKC in the finals championship.
Then they hadn't to play the games. Then they hadn't
play it. Now the good news, and it is a
positive year. At least the Nick fan got to experience
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the joy of a championship because I'm pretty sure they
had a Ticker taparade in the Canyon of Heroes after
New York beat Boston in the previous round. I know
there was mayhem in Manhattan throwing trash at Pacer fans,
the classy Knickerbocker supporters there. So they got to celebrate championship,
So congratulations. Normally you have to actually win to celebrate.
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The Knicks did not. They will not, but hey, they
got to celebrate what it was like to win a championship.
That's kind of cool that you don't actually have to
win the championship to have a celebration, and well, we
like Jalen Brunson. We're not here to trash Jalen Brunson.
Jalen Brunson, who's played well, good stats again, Tyreus Haliburton,
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ate your lunch, okay, or I guess your dinner because
the game was played at night here, But Haliburton fifteen assists,
no turnovers. The Knicks as a team had seventeen assists
as a team and seventeen turnovers, So it's not that deep.
It's an Ockham's razor situation. The simplest answers most likely
the right answer. And don't even get me started, like
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Obi Toppin, who's not a key player for the Pacers,
but is a former Nick who they gave away in
some transaction a couple of years back, and now he
is dancing on your grave with a couple of baskets
lad in games that were key baskets in this series.
Obi topping adding some salt to the wound. Now, if
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you want to get technical, and why not, we have
plenty of time if you would like to get technical.
The move here and and the move is rather rather simple.
The move is that you need a couple of twisted ankles.
If if you're the if you're the Knicks, you know Halliburton,
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and you start with that, you know something would happen.
We don't want anyone to get hurt. But if something
were to happen to Halliburton, he got hurt, that would
be that would be interesting. Pascal siakam boy, if he
got hurt, that would really change things. Uh. And so
you've got those two things. And then if the NBA
decides they need a game six and we find out
the extender Scott Foster's in there for game five, that
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helps you out. Scott Foster's got a really good winning
percentage for the team that's trailing in a series. So
you bring Scott Foster and that get that'll get game,
and then you have a twisted ankle that'll get you
another game and then all of a sudden, the game
set and you're alive. Do I think that's going to happen? No,
I don't think. I don't believe that's going to happen.
We are headed towards tape delay NBA Finals territory with
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Oklahoma City and Indiana. And if you are someone that
enjoys the agony of big corporations, having to deal with
crap that is man alive. Good luck. Yeah, all right, well,
hey listen. Advice to Jalen Brunson and Tom Thibboteau. You
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might want to start writing your talking point memo on
the will Get Back Next Year speeches. What you do
is you start out with a compliment. You see, the
Pacers played very well. They deserve to win. And then
you say, well, if a few things had been different,
we would have won. And you talk about how much
you love the team and how much you love the fans,
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and how much you believe the team is going to
be right there and you're gonna bounce back, and I
mean the whole thing. We know it's gonna happen. It
happens all the time when you lose. That's what you do. Hey.
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is it true that an NBA star has said the
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Quiet part out loud? Has said the quiet part out loud?
We'll get to that, and also some controversy regarding this show.
We'll explain what that's all about. We'll get to it,
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Our first snaff foo in the Mallard Meet and greet.
We'll go there in a second, also, is it true?
An NBA star saying the quiet part out loud, Yes
it is, and we have the audio to back it up. So,
Tyrese Halliburton of the Pacers, there's a question he was asking. Now,
it's a very long question, but his answer is the
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key to this. Now, if you've noticed in the postseason
in the NBA, every single night, every single night, there
is some kind of thing that happened that has never
happened before. It's amaze every night this happens. One of
the odds that every night something would happen that had
never happened before. So there was a stat and I
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want you to listen how excited. I don't know who
this reporter is. I have no idea who it is,
but this guy got so excited he sounded like he
had a chubby asking the question about the stat. And
then listen to Halliburton's response.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
They go this tie, according to some of the research,
people are doing the most assists ever to play in
a finals game Conference finals without a turnover, and also
the most combination point rebounds, assists, steals with no turnovers
in a game ever.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
You know, ever, what is that? Did you know that?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
And what is that like to do that?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I mean, I didn't know that. I feel like we're
making up stats at some point to make me look better.
But yeah, exactly, Yes, I love that answer. Great answer,
that's a wonderful answer, because that's exactly what's happening. Exactly
what's happening. I've had some friends over the years that
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work in the stats world. In fact, Eddie who used
to work at the show before the company whacked him,
but Eddie worked in that world as well, and he
used to tell us about the time where he was there,
and what would happen is they'd say, Okay, get me
a stat, and I want you know, it's got to
be all time first player since blank, but it's got
to go back a number of years. And if you
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know the way stats work, you can twist them around
to fit any argument. In fact, often what happens, I know,
in politics, they'll say, okay, we need here's my position,
let's get some stats to back it up. And so
they'll find some stats to back it up. But in
the basketball world, or in sports in general, if you
add enough variables, if you add an off qualifiers, you
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will have first one ever to do this. Just by
adding on a Wednesday night, I when I did stuff
with the Dodgers years ago. There's this great gentleman named
Ross Porter who was ahead of his time, who is
a Dodger broadcast. I love Ross, and Ross was great,
but Ross love stats and he would like you know,
the Atlanta Bright was on a Wednesday night in July,
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I have never lost when they had a three to
one lead in the seventh inning and pitcher from Indiana
on the mound. You know, he was, you just keep
adding things and then you're going to You're going to
get it as well. That's the first time ever that
has happened. So bravo to Tyree Saliburton. Uh and he
also he had a good sound night. Now, we ripped
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Caliburton when he let he didn't talk to the media
as a coward because he played poorly in a game earlier.
But hey, this guy's good man. Take advantage of the spotlight,
because ain't nobody gonna be watching you when you play? Okay,
see in the finals, all right, people are watching now
because you're playing the Knicks. But another media narrative we
mention this, the media just laying it on thick that
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John how Burton, the father of the father of Tyrese Aliburton,
had been let go from Guantanamo Bay. He had been
in a prison camp, and he had been let go
and allowed to watch his kid play. And it was
an amazing thing that he had left the just draconian conditions,
inhumane conditions to watch his son play. So they asked
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Tyres Alliburton about it. And here's what he said. I
know we're saying free pops, and Pops is free, but
he was.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Not in jail.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
He happened to be in a very beautiful home, sitting very.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Pretty watching NBA basketball. He's just fun. Wait a minute,
I thought he was in Siberia. I don't understand me.
He said he was in Siberia. I don't get it.
All right. Anyway, let's go to the phones and a
longtime pacer apologist goes back many years Sean the hood
guy who can taste it. He's so close he can
take Hello. What's going on, Sean the hood guy?
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Man? Yeah, you're saying, right, hand tasted. But I'm not
gonna drink the kool aid yet. They might go down
there and lose this game just to take it back
home and win it. On our floor, but don't turn it.
And we're not gonna turn the lights out yet because
you know what happens when you turn the lights out.
It comes from the ghetto. Being from the hood. When
you want you turn the lights out, that's when the
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roaches and the rets start to run. So keep the
lights on the keep them bright so nobody won't come out.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Oh, are we getting back to tails from the Hood,
because I love the Tails from the Hood store. I mean,
you uhould tell those all the time.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
I'm gonna hit you with one pretty soon. Oh, guys,
been getting in trouble on podcasts and telling stories, so
I've been trying to keep low with that. But I'm
gonna hit you with a good one pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Okay, all right, I got you. Well listen. I feel
good for you and the other Pacer fans that listen.
There aren't many of you, so I know you've been
loyal to the Pacers over the years and the boys.
You talk about a toss up if it is Indiana
and okay, seeing the finals, that is a toss up situation.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Yeah, Because I think I feel that the races might
be kind of low because.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Everybody kind of low. Come on, listen. I'll be watching,
you'll be watching. So what do we care. That's that's
an NBA problem. That's their problem. That ain't my problem.
That's not your problem. That's their problem. That's television. That's
ESPN's problem. Maybe c's problem. That ain't my problem.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Yeah, because you know why, because they would love to
see New York win.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Well, I'll tell you and I'll probably do a model.
I'll do a monologue about this at some point. If
we do get Indiana OKC, there will be a dramatic
change in the salary cap rules in the NBA because
they are not going to allow this to happen on
a regular basis. They are they will manipulate. They change
the rules to accommodate the small market or the less
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big revenue teams to accommodate them. And if this is
what we're going to get, they will change those rules
to make sure the big market teams end up getting
back to the finals. So enjoy this because it's not
going to last that long.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Hey, I might have my own parade down for the
road pretty soon. So you never know.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
You should you should? Yeahah, let us know you should.
That would be hilarious if you got You gotta get
like a convertible, right, and then have like two or
three your buddies and you can all do like you should.
And if you call the local like Newspeople, they'll probably
cover it. You know, you just do it on them.
You'll go viral pacer parade down Figueroa in in lad
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be great.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Yeah, I got a couple of homeboys that got a
little rider, so that might, you know, bring out the
crowd or something like that. It ain't nobody, ain't nobody
gonna beat it, but who me and Mike.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Im, Yeah, it's not gonna be. Now, it's gonna be.
It's gonna be a big parade. It'll be a parade,
not a big parade, but you know, a small parade.
But that's fine. So yeah, small market, right exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
All right, Hey, if it do happen, though, I love
to celebrate with y'all, so you know, I just call
the check in and let you know. I'm not gonna
count my chickens yet. If we lose, we lose, we
think it back home and take it home.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
All right, all right, very good, All right, there's a
seawan the hood got check it and ferg Dog writes
in from so Kelly says it's only been two games
and the Chris Taylor signing is already paying off in
spades for the Halos. He's had some really impressive swings tonight.
How bad lead to you and the your Doyers miss
him now, Ben, Yeah, it's devastating. Now, don't tell anybody
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for Doug. I actually was watching and then I was
in the car driving and I listened to the The
Angel broadcast and things are so bad for the Angels.
How bad are they? They're they're so bad. They're like, well,
they're making hard contact, they're not scoring run, they're making
hard they but you know your team blows. When the
broadcasters are talking about like the bat speed and the
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nerd stats, that is a sign things are not going
well for your baseball team. They're gonna go in an
eight game losing streak. Now, I know it appears that way.
King Roy writes and says the pace is one because
the NBA. The NBA is rigging the playoffs to show
that these small markets can win against the big markets.
The NBA has been rigging the playoffs for years. And yes,
I do believe my Bucks championship was rigged because it
(27:51):
was best for the business of basketball. Yes, well that's
whatever happens is rigged. That's the It doesn't matter what happened.
So I think the NBA does rig the lottery occasionally.
I only they do it all time generational talent. They'll
do a solid, do a good mitzvah for certain team.
So I do believe they rig that. Absolutely Cleveland losing,
(28:12):
Lebron's leaving, we'll do you solid. We'll get you a
couple first picks overall, will help you out on that.
New Orleans they got the number one pick. The league
owned the team and they sold the team, and we'll
set you up with a good number one pick. And
then the player turned out to be trash. So we
have a Mallard meet and Greek coming up on Thursday night.
(28:33):
This is our Wednesday show, So Thursday night to Malloy
May and we have our first controversy on the mat.
So the malor Meeting Great is on Thursday, May twenty ninth,
Courtside on Maine. If you're in Vancouver, we'd love to
meet you. Come on down and say hello, hang out
with us, me a lot of fun. I have no
idea how many people are gonna be there. Weld think
they'll be a good crowd, but we don't know. And
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we've never done something like this in Vancouver before, so
it's gonna be a lot of fun. Seven to ten.
You can get there a little earlier than that, you know,
depends when everyone shows up. But I should be there
by seven. I'm flying in my flight, depending on traffic
and customs and all that, so I don't think it'll
take long. So should be there by seven for that,
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And so we're looking forward to that. Now. The controversy.
So at the at the end of yesterday's show, I
was was talking to Lorraine. I was trying to make plans.
I figured, you know, we're a team here. We're going
to do things as as a few things as a team.
I thought we would go out and enjoy.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Vancouver, which is why I haven't made a lot of
plans yet.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah, So I was going over Souff with Vancouver with Loraina,
and to my amazement, I found out that Lorena and
Coop have planned a dinner and chose not to invite
me to the dinner. And I thought, initially I thought, well,
asked they'll be doing and I talked to a couple
of radio friends. I said, well, wait a minute, why
are they They're going because of your show. You're the
you're the host of the show. They should should have
invited you. And I said, well, you know, I don't
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know if it's that big a deal.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
And then I thought about well, it's kind of kind
of rude. I thought, I don't know. I want to,
but I want to ask you, the listener, do you
think it is rude that Coop set up a dinner
with Lorraina and everyone else on the traveling party other
than me and did not invite because I think it's
kind The more I thought about it, I thought it
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was kind of rude.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
I know you you would not have you would not go,
but do.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
You want I don't think you know social etiquette though
I think social etiquette is allow me that decision. See,
social etiquette is not. I don't think you want to go,
so I'm not gonna.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
I know you don't want to go. It's not I
don't think you know. I know I've worked with you
for a decade. I know you don't want to go.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
You understand I have the power to say no, Like
I invite people to my holiday party. Everybody I don't
want to hang out with, but I still invite them,
so I allow them to say no because I know
they're not going to show.
Speaker 7 (30:43):
So you want just a pointless gesture.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I want you to be polite and say, here, we're
going to this restaurant. Maybe I'll show up and maybe
I won't eat. I'll just hang out for the social
element of it. How about that.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
I don't think you can do that. It's a it's
a Michelin Star restaurant.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I don't care what Michelin start shows a tire company.
Tire company are.
Speaker 7 (31:03):
Kind of mining coops.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Little thing.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Now I understand we've done. It's time I thought about it.
You guys do your thing. I will do my thing. No,
that's not what you guys. Have a great time. I
thought it was one of the rudest things I've been in.
I've traveled with baseball teams, I've traveled. That is one
of the rudest things I've ever experienced. But maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
I'll let you guys vote on that if you want.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
Cut into your head too, because yesterday you were not
upset about it. Yeah, well, so who put us in
your head.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
I mentioned, because you know what, for putting such toxic
I did before our trip. I did think, and you
know what, we can alter the reservation if you want
to eat rabbit.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
If you want to rabbit, Ben.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
That's not the point. I don't think you understand the point.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
It's just I do get the point.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Again. I mentioned to a few people, and they could
not believe it. They said, wait a minute, the Ben
Malor shows going there meet and me and and that,
and they couldn't. And I was like, you know the
more you yes, that is a he just that's like
one of the rudest things.
Speaker 7 (32:02):
I have ever not going as the show.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Again, I don't think you understand the point.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
I don't know what I understand the point. You love
being offended.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
Well, we will go as the show. But you took
a separate flight.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yeah, well I don't live near you people, so.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
That I don't live near Lax I don't either.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Well there's no airport where you live, Coop.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
Yeah there is. It's called a burd bank.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Uh. Well, you could have flown out of bird Bank.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
No.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
I mean I was going with whatever was provided.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Okay, well that's fine, but ya, maybe I'm wrong on that, oh,
you know, if you guys want to chime in on that.
I thought it was tremendously rude. But that's, you know, fine,
you didn't think it was rude, And but no, I
actually did. I just I was leaving, and uh, I thought, well,
I was going over stuff with you and ran about
what what are we going to do? You know, malor
meet and greet and all this stuff. And then you're like, oh,
I've already got plans on Friday with Coop and everyone
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else who's traveling there except except me.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
He actually literally, actually what exactly happened.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
The exact words that he said was, oh, you know,
you know, we're I'm still trying to figure out where
we do. I figure not going to be hanging out
together the entire times. I'm still truck. And then I
tell him about the dinner and now he's offended that
we're not going to be hanging out together the entire time.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
And listen, the the plan we were making plans. I
did not realize plans were already made. I had no
idea plans were already made.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
That's the only plan that is premate.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
So you guys have a good time. You have a
good time. All right, anyway, it is the Ben Malor Show.
If you'd like to be part, you can join us
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you'd like to be part. Also on X at Ben Mahler.
That's at Ben Maller. Here's who am I game? So
Tyrese Halliburton had fig here's in one of those made
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up stats. Fifteen plus assists and no turnovers. Now, that's
the eleventh time in his career that he's had that
stat line. Only Chris Paul and me had more such
games in NBA history. And that's in the regular season
the playoffs combined. Who am I again? Tyrese Haliburton fifteen
plus assists, no turnovers for the eleventh time in his career.
(34:02):
Only Chris Paul and me had more such games in
NBA history regular season and playoffs. Who am I? I
will tell you the answer. We'll get to it. We
will do it next.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
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we go in time to pay off the who am I? Game?
And here is the who am I? Game? So Tyrese
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Haliburton had fifteen cysts over fifteen, says, but Tyres Haliburton
fifteen plus assists no turnovers in the game against the Knickerbockers.
That's the eleventh time in his career he's done that.
Only Chris Paul and me had more such games in
the entire history of the NBA regular season and playoffs combined.
Who am I?
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Who?
Speaker 1 (35:21):
That is the question? What is the answer? Terry in
England says? Is it a romantic dinner for two at
an expensive Michelin star restaurant? Who else do we have.
Let's see page down. Joe Hendry from Shane in Des Moines.
That was random Milkman. Mike says, is it Coop and
Loraina's dinner? Benny the Bunny? Who else do we have here?
(35:44):
Ferkduck says the very rude Bennetts. I hope they have
a terrible trip. Who else we have? Jabber Jaw from
Alf the Alien Opiner Paige down see can't read that?
Oscar Robertson from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota, King Roy going
with E T Extraterrestrial. It's his answer. Bob Tewksbury from
mister nice Guy. Who else do we have? Jed Boomhauer
(36:08):
from Benito the long Suffering Cowboy Fan as the answer?
Who else do we have? Page down? It's Evoy from
Compton going with Bolban Marjianovitch as his answer. Kurt Nymphius
from Sean in the Valley of the Sun. Who else
(36:32):
you have? Kool aid Man guess by slim Tim that's
his answer, Brian going with Larry David as his selection. There,
he says, and he would be pissed if his coworkers
made plans without him. Absolutely. Luis Lopez, former Padre legend
from DJ spin our friend in San Diego? Patrick, Who
(36:52):
else do we have? Page down bugs? Bunny from Andy
and lion O Lakes, Manuel and Guardina got it right?
Bad job by him. He obviously cheated a right Loraineo,
do you have an answer? I was gonna guess Nicola
jokicch all right, No, that's incorrect. It is actually John
Stockton is the correct answer. John Stockton and a lot
(37:17):
of very interesting coms. We were talking about the big
controversy and the Malor meet and greet. There response a
lot of responses here. Let's see what do we have
these pages down here? Fat Daddy says, this is Fat Daddy.
I know that was rude to not invite you to
the dinner. It's all about the invitation for you to
either say yes or no. You should be rude, bend
(37:39):
and take away their segments on the show, the entertainment
thing for Coop and the Lorraino bits. He says. Mexican.
John Dunton says, the kid from lyar Elia should have
invited you to dinner. That's rude, bro. It's because you're
a Clipper fit? Is it because I'm a Clipper fan?
You're rude, Coop, Is that why you're being rude? Is
that like like the Clippers? All right? Terry in England
says Coop is very friends with Lorraina. He's a crafty
(38:02):
blank plank. Let's go to John in Rochester. What's going on? John?
Welcome cutting hopping down the Bundy trail.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (38:11):
Sorry, Ben, there you are, hippity hop hop Easters on
its way.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
You're complaining about a dinner.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
Ben, you didn't get invited to.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
I can't even get in the country you're going to.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Well, that's because you're a felon.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
No, I'm a missingmeter that you're a misty.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Okay, Well that's your problem. He am my problem. That's
your problem. That's not that's a that's a you problem,
not a meat problem. So deal with it. Ferg Dog says,
I'm on your side. Ben. The Bennetts are rude, he says.
Keith Ocho text so he's been listening to show for
a long time. He says, I think for the entertainment
value of the show, it was extremely rude of Ben
to be excluded from the dinner plans. There you go,
(38:48):
so he recommends, Well, I'm just pointing it out and
I You know, I talked to a couple of people.
They were like, yeah, this is this is one of
the craziest things they've ever heard. And the more I
thought about it, I was like, you know that, actually
that is rageous. The more I thought about this is
this is crazy.
Speaker 5 (39:03):
Well, I just want to say how hurt I was
when you would not take the same plane as us,
even though I begged you and begged you so that
we could have this bonding time together.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
You know what, Bonnie, Yeah, you wanted me to spend
three extra hours, three extra hours in the cars.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
You like to go hiking one of the mornings.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Uh, well, you you and Coop can go hiking and
have a great time. Well, listen, you ask him, maybe
he'll want to go hiking.
Speaker 7 (39:26):
You know, I say, I'm too thoughtful.
Speaker 5 (39:27):
I know he wouldn't want to go.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Is that thoughtful to you? Normally ask there Mala prop
guy rights, Sin says Michelin man playing basketball and a
swanky Michelin Raider restaurant in Vancouver. He says, uh, there
you go. What else do we have? Page Van? I
can't well, somebody's I don't think I can. I can
(39:49):
read on the air, but I do appreciate the most
and you can vote. By the way, there's a poll
up if you'd like to vote on that right now.
Was it rude of Justin Cooper and Lorena to not
invite me to a dinner Friday night and the voting.
It's early on in the voting, and so far Yes
is leading in that, so if you'd like to vote
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on that. But we are gonna have the Mallard meting Grid,
I will be at that. I was invited to that,
so I will show up to that on Thursday night,
and we are looking forward to everyone that does show up,
as we're gonna have a fine time. I will have
a fine time with I don't know if they'll show up.
I don't know if they were invited, but I will
be there at the court side on May tomorrow night.
Unbelievable
Here we go. Welcome, it's our numb bur what our
number one of the original recipe Ben Maler show. We
are glad you have chosen to download the podcast. You're
actually listening to the podcast. Don't forget Big Malor Meet
and Greet coming up tomorrow. Hopefully we'll meet you if
you're in the area, if it's geographically desirable, or taking
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the team on the road There Malor Meet and Greet
in Vancouver. Today's the twenty eighth of May. Tomorrow the
twenty ninth, from seven to ten at Courtside on Maine
seven pm to ten pm. Will be hanging out there
in Vancouver. It can be a lot of fun. Hopefully
you'll come hang out with us. But here an hour
number one. It's all about the Pacers. They're a win
(00:44):
away from the NBA Finals. Who is the guilty party
for Tom Thibodeau's next losing the game last night? Also
thumbs up thumbs down to the media narrative that Tyrese
Halliburton's father being at the game inspired the pay victory
And what do the Jalen Brunson Knicks need to do
(01:04):
to get back in the series as they have no
margin for error? We'll talk about all that and more
right now here. It is give it up for our
number one, back to being the bricks. Welcome in the beginning.
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Come another night of the Bang Malors Show. We are
in the air everywhere like teammates, as we know. These
takes are so good you're gonna want to sniff them.
They're that good. They're stiffable. They're sniffable. Takes coast to coast,
border to border and beyond on the vast and bluntly
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powerful microphones of FSR emmundating live from the Hole. We're
bunkered deep inside the Foxhole, lobbing out hot take from
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in true classic Australian fashion, are super p one from
(02:10):
Western Australia. He sent me a message, he said, Hey,
I was off from work. I didn't get to hear
the show live. I was at the bar drinking for
seven hours or whatever he's doing. Anyway, we are hanging
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pro Bouncy Ball. We go to the hoo's your state
(02:53):
and we asked the question, who's your daddy? Well, if
it's the Knicks right now, it's the Indiana Pacers. That's
who's your daddy right now? Wow? As the Pacers, they
they're that close they can feel it at this point.
After a dud the other night, Tyrese Haliburton and the
Pacers looking to bounce back get it done as they
(03:14):
hosted Jalen Brunson and the Knickerbockers there in Game four
the Eastern Conference Finals. I assume you were watching. Maybe not,
maybe you did something else. You were sleeping. I don't
know what you were doing. You have no idea. I'm
not stalking you, but don't worry. We watched and it
was a pleasure. I didn't have to hit the mute
button once. No doors Burke. I just got to watch
a game without having to mute it. Thank God, hallelujah. Man,
(03:39):
I'm gonna miss TNT. Gonna miss it. Maybe one more
game for TNT and this crap broadcasting at least part
of it. Anyway, Tyrese Haliburton did a little bit of this,
a lot of that, and some of that and ended
up with thirty two points, fifteen assists, twelve rebounds without
a turnover and that performance, that performance putting the Pacers
(04:04):
on his back there and a zoom past the Knicks.
They win one thirty to one twenty one the final
there three to one lead in the Eastern Conference Finals.
Haliberd the first player with such a stat line more
on that later in the hour as he gets it
done there, and the first player in the modern ear
(04:25):
since they first tracked these statistics to have that line.
Game five will be Thursday in New York. We will
not be on that night because we'll be doing the
Malard Meet and greet in Vancouver that night, but we're watching.
I assume we'll watch the end of it from the
from the bar we'll be at there in Vancouver, having
a great time. Anyway, let us discuss what just happened
(04:46):
in game number four, and the better story is in
the losing locker room. So that is where we will begin
this Malard monologue. Who is the guilty party? Who is
the guilty party? For Tom Thibodeau and the Knickerbockers who
o loose this game and did not have a single
lead in the second half. They trailed the entire second
(05:08):
half of that game. So I've got mousetrap, media machine,
and many bottles of rum, and we will combine all
all of these things together and we are going to
make a dirty water dog because the next Now they're
not just the dirty water, they're the dog in the
(05:29):
dirty water as well. Who we all right, So let's
get right to the heart of the matter. You see
what I did there, the heart of the matter. Now
he's a secondary actor, but he played a key role
in the demise of the film. That would be Josh Hart,
who's a bit of a fringe NBA players. Well they're
not that good. He's just kind of a roster guy.
Not great, not terrible. He's just kind of there. He's
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played a long time in the NBA and nobody's gonna
accuse him of being a good player. But he was bad.
He was an evil doer for the in this particular game.
In fact, he was the Duke, the Duke of Puke.
A lot of it in the second quarter of the
game turned in the second quarter here it flipped. And
if you look at the surveillance tape from the crime scene,
(06:15):
you can see that josh Hart left a smoking gun
at the crime scene. There was a biohazard on the
court there, as Indiana had set up a mouse trap.
They set up a mouse trap and Heart bit the cheese.
You're not supposed to bite the cheese. He bit the cheese. There.
Committed five turnovers, four of them in the first half
(06:36):
of the game, and the Pacers got out were able
to move the ball down the court, matriculate the ball
down the court in transition, and they capitalized on almost
all of those mistakes by josh Hart. They turned those
five turnovers into directly into eight points on the other end.
So that's not good, he said, Well, it's only eight points, okay.
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Hart also fouled out of the game, and the Pacers
scored nine points either as a result or directly after
those fouls. Nine points. Now, as a team, the Knicks
finished with seventeen turnovers. Seventeen turnovers, and I gave you
all kinds of numbers. Indian outscored New York by eleven
(07:21):
in that game, and they had thirteen more points on
the fast break, and he's gonna break it down point
by pointier. Now the other villains for New York, you
could say, well, Mitchell Robinson that it's kind of just
a big lugging plotting player. And then mckil bridges, who
they traded seventeen thousand draft picks to get. He sucked.
(07:41):
Miles McBride, who's a backup good name though doesn't Miles
McBride sound like a fake Hollywood name, some kind of
superhero Miles McBride to save the day, not on this game.
Did not save the day all right? Now? Page two.
So Indiana wins the game, and the story is all
about someone's dad. What John Halliburton a return to watch
(08:04):
his kid there He had been forced well, we talk
about the hardship, forced to watch the previous eight Indiana
Pacer postseason games from somewhere else as he got into
it on the court with the Greek freak Giannis ident
to Coombo in one of the great moments scripted reality
there of the NBA, following the last second shot to
(08:28):
eliminate Milwaukee previously in the postseason, got right there. So
this has become a big talking point in the in
the NBA media. So I'm gonna play the game thumbs
up or thumbs down. So thumbs up or thumbs down
on the narrative that Tyrese Halliburton's father inspired this victory,
(08:51):
because I'm getting a lot of that. I'm getting a
lot of that that this win was because of John
Halliburton sitting at the very top near not the very
Toppy's in the box there. So thumbs up or thumbs
down on Tyreus Halliburton's father inspiring the Pacers win. So
(09:12):
I will not be Benny Bright's oude on this. I
Am going I'm going thumbs down, a strong, powerful thumbs
down on this. So let me get so, we're supposed
to believe that the reason that Tyree's played well was
because his daddy was at the arena and that's that's
(09:36):
what pushed the Pacers over the top. Are you bleeping
kidding me? Seriously? Is this the latest Disney fairy tale
being peddled by the NBA media machine that works overtime,
the pr machine. Oh, it's Everything's got to be a
Disney type story, and let's all calm down. Take a breath. Okay,
(09:58):
take a breath, Calm down, it's not a Hollywood movie.
I'm happy the dad was back. We had said it
was kind of ridiculous let him back. I would have
put him at the top of the arena. I wouldn't
put him in luxury box. I would have put John
Halliburt into the very top of the arena. I'm not
saying it wasn't nice to have him back. That's fine.
I'm out of total curmudget. However, I mean to think
(10:21):
that somehow he's sitting in a luxury box, the dad,
and that's why the kid plays well here. It's a
classic overreaction. I got a good story. I went to
sports writing one oh one back in the day, and
I got to justify that. I learned this like the
second day of sports writing one oh one. You gotta
bring the family into the narrative. You're gonna bring the
(10:41):
dand or the mom in there and the kids, and
oh man, that'll sell. That'll play in Peoria. Okay, all right,
so the guy, the way I look at it, you know,
what do I know? I'm just doing the old night Shore.
But the way I look at it, he had a
bounce back game. And and of course now they're writing
all these think pieces about man there's some kind of
spiritual connection with the dad and all that stuff. But maybe,
(11:04):
just maybe, I know this is outrageous what I'm about
to say, it's an unpopular opinion, but maybe Halliburton, tyree
Aaliburton realized, well, he didn't play that well in the
last game. So I don't know he watched them, tay,
he practiced. Maybe he shot a few more baskets. I
don't know. Some of that made some adjustments, played better.
But no, it's got to be the dad. It's gotta
be the dad. That's why. Has nothing to do with
(11:27):
the practice, the extra shots, watching the film whatever, finding
out what the Knicks were doing and how to attack that. No, yeah, okay,
and the Pacers were at home, and so some of
these other scrubs on the Pacers. The role players usually
played better at home, so we had some of that
that happened as well. All right, now the last word here,
So what do the Jalen Brunson New York Knicks, What
(11:51):
do they do here to get back in this series?
What do they do. They're down three games to one,
down three games, so what do they do here to
get back in the series? And are there are a
couple things. I have two words that I jotted down
on my notes app on my phone, divine intervention. That
would be my first option. So the Knicks need to
(12:15):
get together a rabbi, a priest, a miracle healer. They
can bring them all together, medical medium, get them to
have a huddle, a shaman and one or two witches
and bring them all together there. They can huddle up
and call an audible here. And if that doesn't work,
(12:35):
they need to get a time machine. And they got
to go back and get Serrano, a great character in
a movie called Major League. And they can build a
shrine in the next locker room and they can have
two Jobu statues and then a couple mini bottles of rum,
and that will inspire them to come back in this series. Listen,
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the Knicks are cooked. In fact, they're cooked the way
I like my steak. Well done, Okay, charcoal, That's how
cooked they are at this point. Stick a fork in them,
do whatever you want, whatever cliche you want to throw
out there for the Knicks. This is the team that
the New York media machine was hyping up the greatest
Nick team since Walt Clyde Fraser. The Year of the Nick.
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Everything had opened up, the parting of the Red Sea,
in this case, the parting of the East River. It
was already the Knicks playing a tomato canned Pacer team,
and then they had Minnesota or OKC in the finals championship.
Then they hadn't to play the games. Then they hadn't
play it. Now the good news, and it is a
positive year. At least the Nick fan got to experience
(13:43):
the joy of a championship because I'm pretty sure they
had a Ticker taparade in the Canyon of Heroes after
New York beat Boston in the previous round. I know
there was mayhem in Manhattan throwing trash at Pacer fans,
the classy Knickerbocker supporters there. So they got to celebrate championship,
So congratulations. Normally you have to actually win to celebrate.
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The Knicks did not. They will not, but hey, they
got to celebrate what it was like to win a championship.
That's kind of cool that you don't actually have to
win the championship to have a celebration, and well, we
like Jalen Brunson. We're not here to trash Jalen Brunson.
Jalen Brunson, who's played well, good stats again, Tyreus Haliburton,
(14:25):
ate your lunch, okay, or I guess your dinner because
the game was played at night here, But Haliburton fifteen assists,
no turnovers. The Knicks as a team had seventeen assists
as a team and seventeen turnovers, So it's not that deep.
It's an Ockham's razor situation. The simplest answers most likely
the right answer. And don't even get me started, like
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Obi Toppin, who's not a key player for the Pacers,
but is a former Nick who they gave away in
some transaction a couple of years back, and now he
is dancing on your grave with a couple of baskets
lad in games that were key baskets in this series.
Obi topping adding some salt to the wound. Now, if
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you want to get technical, and why not, we have
plenty of time if you would like to get technical.
The move here and and the move is rather rather simple.
The move is that you need a couple of twisted ankles.
If if you're the if you're the Knicks, you know Halliburton,
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and you start with that, you know something would happen.
We don't want anyone to get hurt. But if something
were to happen to Halliburton, he got hurt, that would
be that would be interesting. Pascal siakam boy, if he
got hurt, that would really change things. Uh. And so
you've got those two things. And then if the NBA
decides they need a game six and we find out
the extender Scott Foster's in there for game five, that
(15:53):
helps you out. Scott Foster's got a really good winning
percentage for the team that's trailing in a series. So
you bring Scott Foster and that get that'll get game,
and then you have a twisted ankle that'll get you
another game and then all of a sudden, the game
set and you're alive. Do I think that's going to happen? No,
I don't think. I don't believe that's going to happen.
We are headed towards tape delay NBA Finals territory with
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Oklahoma City and Indiana. And if you are someone that
enjoys the agony of big corporations, having to deal with
crap that is man alive. Good luck. Yeah, all right, well,
hey listen. Advice to Jalen Brunson and Tom Thibboteau. You
(16:37):
might want to start writing your talking point memo on
the will Get Back Next Year speeches. What you do
is you start out with a compliment. You see, the
Pacers played very well. They deserve to win. And then
you say, well, if a few things had been different,
we would have won. And you talk about how much
you love the team and how much you love the fans,
(16:58):
and how much you believe the team is going to
be right there and you're gonna bounce back, and I
mean the whole thing. We know it's gonna happen. It
happens all the time when you lose. That's what you do. Hey.
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is it true that an NBA star has said the
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Quiet part out loud? Has said the quiet part out loud?
We'll get to that, and also some controversy regarding this show.
We'll explain what that's all about. We'll get to it,
and we will do it next.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
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Kooperloop and the Producer's chair at a Bronco Fan uh
Bronco Fan Big Mallard Meet and greet in Vancouver tomorrow.
More on that coming up in a minute. All right,
back to it. And there is some controversy on the
Mallor meet and greet in Vancouver. We'll get to that.
(19:37):
Our first snaff foo in the Mallard Meet and greet.
We'll go there in a second, also, is it true?
An NBA star saying the quiet part out loud, Yes
it is, and we have the audio to back it up. So,
Tyrese Halliburton of the Pacers, there's a question he was asking. Now,
it's a very long question, but his answer is the
(19:58):
key to this. Now, if you've noticed in the postseason
in the NBA, every single night, every single night, there
is some kind of thing that happened that has never
happened before. It's amaze every night this happens. One of
the odds that every night something would happen that had
never happened before. So there was a stat and I
(20:19):
want you to listen how excited. I don't know who
this reporter is. I have no idea who it is,
but this guy got so excited he sounded like he
had a chubby asking the question about the stat. And
then listen to Halliburton's response.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
They go this tie, according to some of the research,
people are doing the most assists ever to play in
a finals game Conference finals without a turnover, and also
the most combination point rebounds, assists, steals with no turnovers
in a game ever.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
You know, ever, what is that? Did you know that?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
And what is that like to do that?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I mean, I didn't know that. I feel like we're
making up stats at some point to make me look better.
But yeah, exactly, Yes, I love that answer. Great answer,
that's a wonderful answer, because that's exactly what's happening. Exactly
what's happening. I've had some friends over the years that
(21:13):
work in the stats world. In fact, Eddie who used
to work at the show before the company whacked him,
but Eddie worked in that world as well, and he
used to tell us about the time where he was there,
and what would happen is they'd say, Okay, get me
a stat, and I want you know, it's got to
be all time first player since blank, but it's got
to go back a number of years. And if you
(21:33):
know the way stats work, you can twist them around
to fit any argument. In fact, often what happens, I know,
in politics, they'll say, okay, we need here's my position,
let's get some stats to back it up. And so
they'll find some stats to back it up. But in
the basketball world, or in sports in general, if you
add enough variables, if you add an off qualifiers, you
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will have first one ever to do this. Just by
adding on a Wednesday night, I when I did stuff
with the Dodgers years ago. There's this great gentleman named
Ross Porter who was ahead of his time, who is
a Dodger broadcast. I love Ross, and Ross was great,
but Ross love stats and he would like you know,
the Atlanta Bright was on a Wednesday night in July,
(22:18):
I have never lost when they had a three to
one lead in the seventh inning and pitcher from Indiana
on the mound. You know, he was, you just keep
adding things and then you're going to You're going to
get it as well. That's the first time ever that
has happened. So bravo to Tyree Saliburton. Uh and he
also he had a good sound night. Now, we ripped
(22:39):
Caliburton when he let he didn't talk to the media
as a coward because he played poorly in a game earlier.
But hey, this guy's good man. Take advantage of the spotlight,
because ain't nobody gonna be watching you when you play? Okay,
see in the finals, all right, people are watching now
because you're playing the Knicks. But another media narrative we
mention this, the media just laying it on thick that
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John how Burton, the father of the father of Tyrese Aliburton,
had been let go from Guantanamo Bay. He had been
in a prison camp, and he had been let go
and allowed to watch his kid play. And it was
an amazing thing that he had left the just draconian conditions,
inhumane conditions to watch his son play. So they asked
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Tyres Alliburton about it. And here's what he said. I
know we're saying free pops, and Pops is free, but
he was.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Not in jail.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
He happened to be in a very beautiful home, sitting very.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Pretty watching NBA basketball. He's just fun. Wait a minute,
I thought he was in Siberia. I don't understand me.
He said he was in Siberia. I don't get it.
All right. Anyway, let's go to the phones and a
longtime pacer apologist goes back many years Sean the hood
guy who can taste it. He's so close he can
take Hello. What's going on, Sean the hood guy?
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Man? Yeah, you're saying, right, hand tasted. But I'm not
gonna drink the kool aid yet. They might go down
there and lose this game just to take it back
home and win it. On our floor, but don't turn it.
And we're not gonna turn the lights out yet because
you know what happens when you turn the lights out.
It comes from the ghetto. Being from the hood. When
you want you turn the lights out, that's when the
(24:18):
roaches and the rets start to run. So keep the
lights on the keep them bright so nobody won't come out.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Oh, are we getting back to tails from the Hood,
because I love the Tails from the Hood store. I mean,
you uhould tell those all the time.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
I'm gonna hit you with one pretty soon. Oh, guys,
been getting in trouble on podcasts and telling stories, so
I've been trying to keep low with that. But I'm
gonna hit you with a good one pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Okay, all right, I got you. Well listen. I feel
good for you and the other Pacer fans that listen.
There aren't many of you, so I know you've been
loyal to the Pacers over the years and the boys.
You talk about a toss up if it is Indiana
and okay, seeing the finals, that is a toss up situation.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Yeah, Because I think I feel that the races might
be kind of low because.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Everybody kind of low. Come on, listen. I'll be watching,
you'll be watching. So what do we care. That's that's
an NBA problem. That's their problem. That ain't my problem.
That's not your problem. That's their problem. That's television. That's
ESPN's problem. Maybe c's problem. That ain't my problem.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Yeah, because you know why, because they would love to
see New York win.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Well, I'll tell you and I'll probably do a model.
I'll do a monologue about this at some point. If
we do get Indiana OKC, there will be a dramatic
change in the salary cap rules in the NBA because
they are not going to allow this to happen on
a regular basis. They are they will manipulate. They change
the rules to accommodate the small market or the less
(25:37):
big revenue teams to accommodate them. And if this is
what we're going to get, they will change those rules
to make sure the big market teams end up getting
back to the finals. So enjoy this because it's not
going to last that long.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Hey, I might have my own parade down for the
road pretty soon. So you never know.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
You should you should? Yeahah, let us know you should.
That would be hilarious if you got You gotta get
like a convertible, right, and then have like two or
three your buddies and you can all do like you should.
And if you call the local like Newspeople, they'll probably
cover it. You know, you just do it on them.
You'll go viral pacer parade down Figueroa in in lad
(26:17):
be great.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Yeah, I got a couple of homeboys that got a
little rider, so that might, you know, bring out the
crowd or something like that. It ain't nobody, ain't nobody
gonna beat it, but who me and Mike.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Im, Yeah, it's not gonna be. Now, it's gonna be.
It's gonna be a big parade. It'll be a parade,
not a big parade, but you know, a small parade.
But that's fine. So yeah, small market, right exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
All right, Hey, if it do happen, though, I love
to celebrate with y'all, so you know, I just call
the check in and let you know. I'm not gonna
count my chickens yet. If we lose, we lose, we
think it back home and take it home.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
All right, all right, very good, All right, there's a
seawan the hood got check it and ferg Dog writes
in from so Kelly says it's only been two games
and the Chris Taylor signing is already paying off in
spades for the Halos. He's had some really impressive swings tonight.
How bad lead to you and the your Doyers miss
him now, Ben, Yeah, it's devastating. Now, don't tell anybody
(27:06):
for Doug. I actually was watching and then I was
in the car driving and I listened to the The
Angel broadcast and things are so bad for the Angels.
How bad are they? They're they're so bad. They're like, well,
they're making hard contact, they're not scoring run, they're making
hard they but you know your team blows. When the
broadcasters are talking about like the bat speed and the
(27:29):
nerd stats, that is a sign things are not going
well for your baseball team. They're gonna go in an
eight game losing streak. Now, I know it appears that way.
King Roy writes and says the pace is one because
the NBA. The NBA is rigging the playoffs to show
that these small markets can win against the big markets.
The NBA has been rigging the playoffs for years. And yes,
I do believe my Bucks championship was rigged because it
(27:51):
was best for the business of basketball. Yes, well that's
whatever happens is rigged. That's the It doesn't matter what happened.
So I think the NBA does rig the lottery occasionally.
I only they do it all time generational talent. They'll
do a solid, do a good mitzvah for certain team.
So I do believe they rig that. Absolutely Cleveland losing,
(28:12):
Lebron's leaving, we'll do you solid. We'll get you a
couple first picks overall, will help you out on that.
New Orleans they got the number one pick. The league
owned the team and they sold the team, and we'll
set you up with a good number one pick. And
then the player turned out to be trash. So we
have a Mallard meet and Greek coming up on Thursday night.
(28:33):
This is our Wednesday show, So Thursday night to Malloy
May and we have our first controversy on the mat.
So the malor Meeting Great is on Thursday, May twenty ninth,
Courtside on Maine. If you're in Vancouver, we'd love to
meet you. Come on down and say hello, hang out
with us, me a lot of fun. I have no
idea how many people are gonna be there. Weld think
they'll be a good crowd, but we don't know. And
(28:54):
we've never done something like this in Vancouver before, so
it's gonna be a lot of fun. Seven to ten.
You can get there a little earlier than that, you know,
depends when everyone shows up. But I should be there
by seven. I'm flying in my flight, depending on traffic
and customs and all that, so I don't think it'll
take long. So should be there by seven for that,
(29:14):
And so we're looking forward to that. Now. The controversy.
So at the at the end of yesterday's show, I
was was talking to Lorraine. I was trying to make plans.
I figured, you know, we're a team here. We're going
to do things as as a few things as a team.
I thought we would go out and enjoy.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Vancouver, which is why I haven't made a lot of
plans yet.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah, So I was going over Souff with Vancouver with Loraina,
and to my amazement, I found out that Lorena and
Coop have planned a dinner and chose not to invite
me to the dinner. And I thought, initially I thought, well,
asked they'll be doing and I talked to a couple
of radio friends. I said, well, wait a minute, why
are they They're going because of your show. You're the
you're the host of the show. They should should have
invited you. And I said, well, you know, I don't
(29:49):
know if it's that big a deal.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
And then I thought about well, it's kind of kind
of rude. I thought, I don't know. I want to,
but I want to ask you, the listener, do you
think it is rude that Coop set up a dinner
with Lorraina and everyone else on the traveling party other
than me and did not invite because I think it's
kind The more I thought about it, I thought it
(30:11):
was kind of rude.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
I know you you would not have you would not go,
but do.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
You want I don't think you know social etiquette though
I think social etiquette is allow me that decision. See,
social etiquette is not. I don't think you want to go,
so I'm not gonna.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
I know you don't want to go. It's not I
don't think you know. I know I've worked with you
for a decade. I know you don't want to go.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
You understand I have the power to say no, Like
I invite people to my holiday party. Everybody I don't
want to hang out with, but I still invite them,
so I allow them to say no because I know
they're not going to show.
Speaker 7 (30:43):
So you want just a pointless gesture.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I want you to be polite and say, here, we're
going to this restaurant. Maybe I'll show up and maybe
I won't eat. I'll just hang out for the social
element of it. How about that.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
I don't think you can do that. It's a it's
a Michelin Star restaurant.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I don't care what Michelin start shows a tire company.
Tire company are.
Speaker 7 (31:03):
Kind of mining coops.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Little thing.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Now I understand we've done. It's time I thought about it.
You guys do your thing. I will do my thing. No,
that's not what you guys. Have a great time. I
thought it was one of the rudest things I've been in.
I've traveled with baseball teams, I've traveled. That is one
of the rudest things I've ever experienced. But maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
I'll let you guys vote on that if you want.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
Cut into your head too, because yesterday you were not
upset about it. Yeah, well, so who put us in
your head.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
I mentioned, because you know what, for putting such toxic
I did before our trip. I did think, and you
know what, we can alter the reservation if you want
to eat rabbit.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
If you want to rabbit, Ben.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
That's not the point. I don't think you understand the point.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
It's just I do get the point.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Again. I mentioned to a few people, and they could
not believe it. They said, wait a minute, the Ben
Malor shows going there meet and me and and that,
and they couldn't. And I was like, you know the
more you yes, that is a he just that's like
one of the rudest things.
Speaker 7 (32:02):
I have ever not going as the show.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Again, I don't think you understand the point.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
I don't know what I understand the point. You love
being offended.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
Well, we will go as the show. But you took
a separate flight.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yeah, well I don't live near you people, so.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
That I don't live near Lax I don't either.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Well there's no airport where you live, Coop.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
Yeah there is. It's called a burd bank.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Uh. Well, you could have flown out of bird Bank.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
No.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
I mean I was going with whatever was provided.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Okay, well that's fine, but ya, maybe I'm wrong on that, oh,
you know, if you guys want to chime in on that.
I thought it was tremendously rude. But that's, you know, fine,
you didn't think it was rude, And but no, I
actually did. I just I was leaving, and uh, I thought, well,
I was going over stuff with you and ran about
what what are we going to do? You know, malor
meet and greet and all this stuff. And then you're like, oh,
I've already got plans on Friday with Coop and everyone
(32:50):
else who's traveling there except except me.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
He actually literally, actually what exactly happened.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
The exact words that he said was, oh, you know,
you know, we're I'm still trying to figure out where
we do. I figure not going to be hanging out
together the entire times. I'm still truck. And then I
tell him about the dinner and now he's offended that
we're not going to be hanging out together the entire time.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
And listen, the the plan we were making plans. I
did not realize plans were already made. I had no
idea plans were already made.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
That's the only plan that is premate.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
So you guys have a good time. You have a
good time. All right, anyway, it is the Ben Malor Show.
If you'd like to be part, you can join us
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That's at Ben Maller. Here's who am I game? So
Tyrese Halliburton had fig here's in one of those made
(33:39):
up stats. Fifteen plus assists and no turnovers. Now, that's
the eleventh time in his career that he's had that
stat line. Only Chris Paul and me had more such
games in NBA history. And that's in the regular season
the playoffs combined. Who am I again? Tyrese Haliburton fifteen
plus assists, no turnovers for the eleventh time in his career.
(34:02):
Only Chris Paul and me had more such games in
NBA history regular season and playoffs. Who am I? I
will tell you the answer. We'll get to it. We
will do it next.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
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we go in time to pay off the who am I? Game?
And here is the who am I? Game? So Tyrese
(35:01):
Haliburton had fifteen cysts over fifteen, says, but Tyres Haliburton
fifteen plus assists no turnovers in the game against the Knickerbockers.
That's the eleventh time in his career he's done that.
Only Chris Paul and me had more such games in
the entire history of the NBA regular season and playoffs combined.
Who am I?
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Who?
Speaker 1 (35:21):
That is the question? What is the answer? Terry in
England says? Is it a romantic dinner for two at
an expensive Michelin star restaurant? Who else do we have.
Let's see page down. Joe Hendry from Shane in Des Moines.
That was random Milkman. Mike says, is it Coop and
Loraina's dinner? Benny the Bunny? Who else do we have here?
(35:44):
Ferkduck says the very rude Bennetts. I hope they have
a terrible trip. Who else we have? Jabber Jaw from
Alf the Alien Opiner Paige down see can't read that?
Oscar Robertson from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota, King Roy going
with E T Extraterrestrial. It's his answer. Bob Tewksbury from
mister nice Guy. Who else do we have? Jed Boomhauer
(36:08):
from Benito the long Suffering Cowboy Fan as the answer?
Who else do we have? Page down? It's Evoy from
Compton going with Bolban Marjianovitch as his answer. Kurt Nymphius
from Sean in the Valley of the Sun. Who else
(36:32):
you have? Kool aid Man guess by slim Tim that's
his answer, Brian going with Larry David as his selection. There,
he says, and he would be pissed if his coworkers
made plans without him. Absolutely. Luis Lopez, former Padre legend
from DJ spin our friend in San Diego? Patrick, Who
(36:52):
else do we have? Page down bugs? Bunny from Andy
and lion O Lakes, Manuel and Guardina got it right?
Bad job by him. He obviously cheated a right Loraineo,
do you have an answer? I was gonna guess Nicola
jokicch all right, No, that's incorrect. It is actually John
Stockton is the correct answer. John Stockton and a lot
(37:17):
of very interesting coms. We were talking about the big
controversy and the Malor meet and greet. There response a
lot of responses here. Let's see what do we have
these pages down here? Fat Daddy says, this is Fat Daddy.
I know that was rude to not invite you to
the dinner. It's all about the invitation for you to
either say yes or no. You should be rude, bend
(37:39):
and take away their segments on the show, the entertainment
thing for Coop and the Lorraino bits. He says. Mexican.
John Dunton says, the kid from lyar Elia should have
invited you to dinner. That's rude, bro. It's because you're
a Clipper fit? Is it because I'm a Clipper fan?
You're rude, Coop, Is that why you're being rude? Is
that like like the Clippers? All right? Terry in England
says Coop is very friends with Lorraina. He's a crafty
(38:02):
blank plank. Let's go to John in Rochester. What's going on? John?
Welcome cutting hopping down the Bundy trail.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (38:11):
Sorry, Ben, there you are, hippity hop hop Easters on
its way.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
You're complaining about a dinner.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
Ben, you didn't get invited to.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
I can't even get in the country you're going to.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Well, that's because you're a felon.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
No, I'm a missingmeter that you're a misty.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Okay, Well that's your problem. He am my problem. That's
your problem. That's not that's a that's a you problem,
not a meat problem. So deal with it. Ferg Dog says,
I'm on your side. Ben. The Bennetts are rude, he says.
Keith Ocho text so he's been listening to show for
a long time. He says, I think for the entertainment
value of the show, it was extremely rude of Ben
to be excluded from the dinner plans. There you go,
(38:48):
so he recommends, Well, I'm just pointing it out and
I You know, I talked to a couple of people.
They were like, yeah, this is this is one of
the craziest things they've ever heard. And the more I
thought about it, I was like, you know that, actually
that is rageous. The more I thought about this is
this is crazy.
Speaker 5 (39:03):
Well, I just want to say how hurt I was
when you would not take the same plane as us,
even though I begged you and begged you so that
we could have this bonding time together.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
You know what, Bonnie, Yeah, you wanted me to spend
three extra hours, three extra hours in the cars.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
You like to go hiking one of the mornings.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Uh, well, you you and Coop can go hiking and
have a great time. Well, listen, you ask him, maybe
he'll want to go hiking.
Speaker 7 (39:26):
You know, I say, I'm too thoughtful.
Speaker 5 (39:27):
I know he wouldn't want to go.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Is that thoughtful to you? Normally ask there Mala prop
guy rights, Sin says Michelin man playing basketball and a
swanky Michelin Raider restaurant in Vancouver. He says, uh, there
you go. What else do we have? Page Van? I
can't well, somebody's I don't think I can. I can
(39:49):
read on the air, but I do appreciate the most
and you can vote. By the way, there's a poll
up if you'd like to vote on that right now.
Was it rude of Justin Cooper and Lorena to not
invite me to a dinner Friday night and the voting.
It's early on in the voting, and so far Yes
is leading in that, so if you'd like to vote
(40:10):
on that. But we are gonna have the Mallard meting Grid,
I will be at that. I was invited to that,
so I will show up to that on Thursday night,
and we are looking forward to everyone that does show up,
as we're gonna have a fine time. I will have
a fine time with I don't know if they'll show up.
I don't know if they were invited, but I will
be there at the court side on May tomorrow night.
Unbelievable
Host
Ben Maller
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