May 21, 2024 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about which NBA Conference Finals matchup has the most juice, which Finals matchup would be the most attractive for TV, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb Bert too. Hour two
Ready to go, and here in hour number two of
the original Recipe podcast, it's all about the Conference Finals.
No need to watch, We'll tell you everything that's going
to happen right now here. In hour number two, we
start with a toss up question the conference final matchup
(00:21):
with more juice? Is it Minnesota, Dallas or Boston Indiana? Also,
which overall NBA Finals matchup would be the most attractive
for the television advertisers and executives. And what do you
make of the mav Res, the Wolves, the Celtics and
the Pacers all ending up in the conference finals.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
What does that signal? We'll tell you the deeper meaning, Oh,
it's so deep it's sports.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We'll get to that and more right now here. It
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lead this hour coming from the wacky, wacky world of
the Playoffs Playoffs pro bouncy ball style. So the comm
before the storm, the Colm was on Monday night. The
storm will start on Tuesday night. The conference finals will
begin tonight at the Garden in Boston.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And you know what that means. That's right, I know.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Try to stay Colm, Try to stay cool, try to
stay collected. Act like you've been here before, but perhaps
maybe you haven't been here before. This is a one
stop shop. What we're about to do here a one
stop shop, a sneak preview of the jam session which
is about to begin on Tuesday night. Here, as Jim
Nance would say, it is a tradition unlike any other.
(02:36):
You got the Pacers on one side, the Celtics on
the other. In the Eastern bracket, and then on Wednesday,
that would be tomorrow. The Western Conference Finals start with
the mav Rex taking on the Timberwols that game in Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
So let us discuss the question. We'll make it a
toss up question.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So the toss up question conference finals matchup, which one
has more juice?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You can only pick one.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So I've got Mason jar Darth Vader, and Buckingham Palace,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we will poke you in the eye. If you don't
keep your eyes open, I'm gonna poke your out right there.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
All right.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
So number one, the machine brokes his break. You can't
fix it now, it's just gonna hold the rest of
the night. It's gonna be all night. It's gonna be
the stop, all right. So to answer the question, toss
up question, which of these two conference finals has more juice?
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The arrow is clearly pointing to the west, the Western Front.
That is the series that has the Ras Matassa. The
Celtics are a sizable, sizable favorite. In fact, I saw
one gambling house that said, this is the biggest favorite
we've seen the conference finals since the Jordan Bulls.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That's how massive a favorite.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
The Celtics are, and there's a tremendous gap in town. Now,
the more talented team doesn't always win in sports, we
know that, but in basketball normally that does work out
that way. The odds makers have this is one of
the great mismatches in NBA Conference Finals history. So that juice,
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there is some juice, but it's concentrate. It's not the
good juice. It's the concentrate. But the Wolves and the Mavericks.
When you break that apart and you put that on
the microscope, there the Wolves and the Mavericks. That's a
Mason jar filled with a wonderfully homemade orange juice with
extra pulp like Tropicana orange juice extra, which is not homemade.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
But when I think orange juice, that's the one that
pops into my head.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
So Superstars, you got Luka Doncik on one side, Anthony
Edwards on the other.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
They're bumping heads. So that's good.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
And neither one of them has been to the NBA
Finals before, so one of them will be able to
get there unless there's a tie.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I don't think they can be a tie. That'll be
wild if there was a.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
But wrangling with the power that that means if you
get to the NBA Finals, the influence, the extra clout
that you gain, the more Madison Avenue sucks up to
you and wants you to sell over priced items to
the great unwashed in America. Right, the winner will punch
their ticket to the NBA Finals. Now you lose, you're
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still a loser in the finals. But to just get
to the finals to get over that hump, humpty hump,
and then you still have to get over another hump.
But it is expected in terms of the matchups in
this series that Anthony Edwards is going to go against
Kyrie Irving. He's not going to go mono amano with
Lukka in this series, so that'll be one matchup. Jaden
(05:56):
McDaniels is supposed to match up for Minnesota against Luca
don Chik. Now page two here which of the finals
matchups the conference finals matchups?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
It is assuming we can.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Predict with our ability as a south Sayer to look
into the future a distant relative of Nostre Dama's friend
of nos Radena's, and we can break the outcome of
the conference finals, which finals matchup by default, which finals
matchup would be more attractive for the Almighty Television because
this again is just a TV show. These are just
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actors on a TV show, So this one is also
child's play. The matchup the TV wants and indirectly the
NBA wants because they like to keep their TV partners happy,
would be Boston versus Dallas. That's the matchup they want,
and that does factor heavily in the eyeballs into the arithmetic.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
It's it's all about the eyeballs.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Dallas is the number five media market in America and
Boston is number seven. We start out with a bigger
base in Boston and in Dallas. Minneapolis is number fifteen
in terms of media market and Indianapolis is number twenty five,
so they're down a little bit. But the Celtics and
Mavericks that would just hit a little different, right, That
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would hit a little different here. And here's why, not
only just the TV stuff, but you could play the
Imperial March at the beginning of that series when Dallas,
if they were to beat Minnesota, would go into the
city of Boston there because that's the Darth Vader soundtrack,
and the Darth Vader is Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
He's the heel Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Former Celtic and so long ago I was doing the
local filling stuff in Boston when Kyrie Irving told Celtics
season ticket holders that he was going to stay with
the Celtics, only to then have a meeting in the
hallway at the All Star Game, if I remember correctly,
with Kevin Durant, and they orchestrated a super team with
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the Brooklyn Nets. Didn't work out so well anyway. But listen,
the point is, Kyrie Irving is the bad guy. You
need a good guy, you need a bad guy, and
from a fan perspective in Boston, he is despised.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
The ironic part of that is that there's this.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Odd dichotomy because you have Jalen Brown, who worships Kyrie's
like a Kyrie Irving fanboy, and a lot of the
Celtics is a few of those guys that were still
were there when Kyrie was in Boston, they're still hanging
around and they all love Kyrie, at least public. So
that's an interesting footnote. And Boston has had a no
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sweat playoff schedule so far. Like you know, how we
do commercials for DraftKings is like a no sweat bet.
You get your money back. The Celtics have done a
lot of that. Like they've done a lot of that.
In fact, just to touch up my work here, through
ten playoff games, the team that wears the green, the
Celtic have played how many seconds of clutch time? How
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about seventy nine seconds? Less than a minute twenty of
clutchdown that's where the score on that giant jumbo tron
is within five points in the last five minutes of
the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
They played seventy nine seconds.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Nine of the ten games have been decided by double ditches,
including both games.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
That they lost on their playoff run. All right, final point, So.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Let's take a wide angle look at the final four
of the NBA, which again begins tonight. In checking that out,
so you don't have to, don't worry, we'll watch. So
what do you make of the MAVs, the Wolves, the
Celtics and the Pacers all getting to the conference final.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
So you've got.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Luca aunt Edwards, Tyrese Haliburton, and Jason Tatum the headliners
on that. So at first glance, it appears to be
a large anomaly. This was the thing that wasn't supposed
to happen. At the time, it wasn't supposed to happen. However,
I'm looking at it differently. I'm gonna be Benny Bright's
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out on this, and what I believe has happened.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Here is.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
The changing of the guard. Like our friend Bernie who's
walking around London there and imagine you'll go over to
Buckingham Palace at some point, because when you go to
London as an American, you got to go to Buckingham Palace.
It's required or they don't allow you to come back
to the States. So he's gonna go to Buckingham Palace
and they'll have the changing of the Guard, and it's
out with the old, in with the new. And we're
seeing that in the NBA. Lebron James is thirty nine.
(10:36):
He's more worried about his podcasting than he is the Lakers.
Steph Curry is thirty six. I don't even know what
he's worried about. But the Warriors are toast. They're not
gonna win again. Kevin Durant, that was a hot mess
in the Valley of the Sun. But that's the old Guard.
Those are the guys that have been around and they've
been hanging out for a long time, but now you
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got the new guys. Now, that does not mean that
we are going to regularly see Tyrese Halliburton and the
Pacers in the conference finals or even Aunt Edwards. But
there's another way, right, there's another wave of guys behind
them that are intermingling in. So the next couple of
years changing of the guard. We'll find out. But it's
the circle of life in the NBA. The eras, they
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don't normally blend together. There's normally like an odd transition.
And Jordan left, you were like searching for the next
Michael Jordan and them and Kobe. But people were not
all in on Kobe for a while. Then they became
all in with Kobe and there's a transitional period. It
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Famer on blast say that this player one of the
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which player is it? We'll get to that and we
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Speaker 4 (13:43):
Who the heg is Justin Cooper.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
A Bronco fan.
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Speaker 1 (13:51):
It's Ben Maller, the King Rory right, so he says,
it must be great to be a Dallas sports fan.
The Rangers won the World Series last year, and both
the mav Res and the Stars are in the Conference finals.
Now only if they had a football team, but unfortunately
the Texas moved to Kansas City back in nineteen sixty four.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
That is unfortunate. That is a shame.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
It is odd, though, because we're on a pretty big
sports talk radio station in Dallas and we get a
few calls out of Dallas. But it's not like overwhelming.
It's not like people are up all night they can't
wait to talk about their teams. It's not that that's
not what's going on late night. Drug Tester says, no
dog in the fight for the NBA Final Four, but
I think Minnesota versus Boston is the best for show content.
(14:34):
Blind Scott versus an Andre versus Hayes and hollering James
and Gunner. That is Marconi Award winning material. No, I
agree for the show. I want Minnesota and I want
the Celtics. That's what I think. That would be wonderful
for the show. Worst case scenario would be what Indiana Dallas.
That would be the worst case scenario. That'd be good
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for Rick Carlisle, the former Maverick coach Back in the day.
Art Puffin says, Yo, mal Boston and Dallas in the
finals sounds like the best option. Radio gas bag takes,
he says, so Art disagrees with late night drug test.
He says, on the bright side, we can blind blind
Scott have the scoop on.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
The NBA poop. You can have all these the scoop
and just go to the phones.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And how lucky am I I get to chat with
Mark the full name guy in Medford, Oregon.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Hello, Mark, Hello Ben Mallor. You know it's not quite
a full moon.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Okay. I was wondering, I'm in a room with no
I'm in a room with no windows. I can't see outside.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Oh well, I was wondering, what do you know about
biodynamic gardening?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Well, as you know, being a talk show host, I'm
an expert in everything, so I have all the answers.
What exactly specifically do you need to know about the gardening?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Oh well, I was trying to mention that you know
where and when you plant your seeds matter.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yes, I the farmer, the key, there's a there's a season,
there's a there's a circle to life on the farm. Iowa, Sam,
when he worked on the show for ten minutes, told
me about that before he quit the show. H He
said that, yeah, you have to plan at a certain time.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
You have to.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
You have to clear everything out and then you have
to get ready to plant again. But you're right, you
have to do a certain time, and if you don't
plan it at the right time, you're screwed.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yep, that's true.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Well, also with biodynamic gardening, they they also plant certain crops.
It's different phrases of the moon because of the UH
gravity and how it affects the UH water and the soil.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I didn't know you were a horticologist or whatever it is.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I studied horticulture in college.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Oh, who knew you were a landscaper.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
We get a job at a nurse get a job
at a nursery, man, you know, go out there.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
And I was working at a nursery for quite a while.
So I was going to say, you know that astrology
also incorporates some of the same principles. And so I
was born in Brooklyn, New York, matters.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Stop all of that. You did all of that, all
that bull craft to get that line in all that
bull crap. I've been I've been to Brooklyn multiple times.
I didn't see any gardens when I was in Brooklyn,
I didn't see any gardens.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Okay, not the part in Ner Manhattan to City gardens.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I know it's Big Bochronicle Gardens in Brooklyn, New York.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Well, congratulations, that's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Wait a minute, it's connected to Prospect Park. It's a
beautiful location there. It's as beautiful as any Boattamble gardens
anywhere in any city.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I don't know about that. I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Oh yeah, you're you're bias. You're bias. You live foul
is miles away. That doesn't matter. Everything in New york's
famous because all the media is in New York. That's
why everything's famous in New York.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
You're not in New York.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I'm not famous. That's my point. You see my point.
You made my point for me. Yeah, moron, you made
my point for me.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Okay, well there you go.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
All right, look at that.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Are you gonna take Are you gonna take a bow?
Now that you made me look like an idiot?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Well no, I was gonna say that. You know, I
want a blind Scot's biggest fan. And if you have
a meet and greet are in Boston, you know I've
went on showing up and a Bucky gat.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Uniform, he said, I said, Bucky dan Eddie.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
He didn't say the f wort. He said, Bucky. I
bet your blind Scott don't even know who Bucky Dant is.
How about that? I bet, in fact, that was so
long ago. I bet there's a lot of people now
that don't know who Bucky Dant is.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Oh yeah, you had to go there, right.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
You're dating yourself that you go there, get to me.
Sports started in the year two thousand. That's when sports started,
the year two thousand.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah, all right, I can I.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Go for me? It started in nineteen fifty five?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Can I go?
Speaker 7 (19:14):
Now?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Brooklyn?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
All right? One allows the World Series.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I was bored, and they couldn't wait to get out
of Brooklyn and head to the West Coast, just like
you couldn't wait to get out of Brooklyn and head
of the West Coast. You were, and the Dodgers leaving
Brooklyn behind.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
That is really true.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I will not deny that.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Get that.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yeah, as much as you ripped the Dodgers for different Yeah,
all right, I gotta go, my man. I'm hanging up
on you. You're born, Thank you. I go away, all right?
There he goes Mark the name guy. Let's say hello
to Tony in the Bay Area. Hello, Tony, hey man,
Well god.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
You guys know I'm not a criminal like you guys.
I've been in love for about a year and the
lady has a pretty face, beautiful brown skin. He toto,
and one of these days I might even know her name.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah, okay, thank you, You're welcome, Okay, goodbye. All right,
there's a there is hollering. James is in Minneapolis, min assault.
Hello hollering, James, Hey, Ben Mayday, Mayday, Mayday.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
No, I can't hear you.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
He's declaring an emergency?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Is an emergen?
Speaker 5 (20:27):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
What is the emergency here, James?
Speaker 5 (20:29):
What is the emergency?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
What about my tipper Wolves? Now, my timber Uppie. Did
you believe me when I said they could be devolop there?
Speaker 8 (20:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Okay, did you believe me when I said they could
beat him?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Hey, James, hell James, I got an idea for a bit.
You want to be part of the bit, and you're
a chance to win three golden tickets.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
God, three golden tickets a.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Whole on a seconds out tell you what the bit
is in a second but I just came up with
the bit in my head and if he if he
gets this correct, then we'll give him the three golden tickets.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
We've got some news from Oh it's notimes that we
have news, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
That's good that we holds.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I like that we have news. I'm like time Eddy
for you.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
An updates update from Golf date line blotter.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Scottie Scheffler's arraignment date has been postponed to June the third,
but he will not be required to attend UH and
he will not be entering a guilty plea.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
I thought they were supposed to drop all the charge.
I guess he hasn't written a big enough change.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
I guess he will. He will, he will enter a
not guilty plea. Apparently we've been told on that.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
But I thought they were supposed to drop the charges
at least the as of as of this report, they
have not dropped the charges. To come up with a
bigger donation and then they'll drop the charges. And that's
usually it works, you pay them off.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
I would know I'm never in any kind of trouble
like that. I don't know how that works. Yeah, how
about you.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I've never had to, but I've We've done stories about
athletes that have gotten into trouble and then they cut
a check and all of a sudden, their trouble goes away.
Happens quite a bit. Well, Eddie, that wasn't fun. But
you know, here we go.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
Fun fact just probably won't be either. I'm sorry, was
my mic on Eddie. Let the professional talk. It's adult time.
Where's the professional at right over? He showing up later
right over here.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
So Rafael Devers, Eddie mentioned this, but he buried the lead.
He had six six consecutive game with a home run,
So six straight games. That's a Red Sox team record.
That's the lead he beat, Eddie. Here's who he beat.
He was tied prior to the home run on Monday night.
Rafael Devers was tied with Jimmy Fox from nineteen forty,
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Ted Williams nineteen fifty seven, radio, Dick Stewart from nineteen
six to dick Ster George Scott.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
You probably remember him, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I actually do with those cyber nineteen Well, everyone in
the seventies, had that nineteen seventy seven. How about this
one though, Jose Canseko from the nineteen ninety five Red
Sox are old buddy Oh. Fox Sports radio alumnus Kevin
Kennedy was the manager.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Of Hoseki years ago. Jose and Boston.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Those midnineties Red Sox were really good. And then Bobby
Dalbock in twenty twenty when no one was watching during COVID.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
So that's it.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
So all those guys eliminated from the Red Sox record book,
Rafael Devers knocking Ted Williams, Jimmy Fox, Dick Stewart, George Scott,
Jose Cansako, and Bobby Dalbick out of the book. That's
a fun fact fun efin fact, that is fun. Isn't
that fun right there now? Hollering James? Is that not fun?
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Hollering James, Yeah exactly, Okay, you were not even Are
you ready?
Speaker 5 (23:48):
So fun? He was ignored.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I'm gonna ask you three questions, hollering James.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
If you for each question you get right, you get
a golden ticket.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Are you ready my show?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
It's all right there, It's a lot, I don't know.
Sound like a rooster.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Listen James, just answer, you don't need to prepare that
you're a Minnesota sports fan.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Yes, I believe I can truly consider my show a
Minnesota sports fan.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
And how long have you been a fan of the
Minnesota sports scene?
Speaker 8 (24:22):
Ever?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Here I was young, a little boy, a little hollering James.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
I need to interject that we played a game with
hollering James and he didn't know Joe Mauer.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Well, Eddie, I know this guy's fired up. You know
what he's got. He's got wolf fever, timberwolf fever. So
let's play the game. Here, hollering James, three questions, very
simple question.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
What happens if he gets them all wrong?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Well, the term he's not gonna get them all wrong.
We'll start, We'll start simple enough. The leading scorer for
the Minnesota Timberwolves here, hollering James this season for the
Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 10 (25:00):
Dammy him me your suret, Anthony.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Edwards, see that you got a golden take?
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Just like that again, all right, let's sensing the golden ticket.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
It's supposed to be all right level.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
This is another easy one, who led the Minnesota Timberwolves
this season in assists.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
For another golden another golden ticket.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Holler and James anohing me, he's looking it up. Don't
what do you go to the right website?
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Was one?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Was this?
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Jalen Rose, Jalen.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Road hit the wrong website.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
McDaniels, No, that is incorrect.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
That is incorrect.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
I think that should cancel out his previously one.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
You got one, I gave one. Mike's at zero. Mike
Conley led the Wolves and assists that your five point
nine again, five point nine is the game?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
One lost one? All right?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Now here we go, hollering James, this is another easy one.
I mean, this guy's been on TV Challenge the listener.
This guy, listen, it's hollering, Jenny.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
He is a real fan.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
You should know this, James. I'm gonna I'm gonna give
you a layup. James, Okay, you can't get this.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Give him to layups. He missed one.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Holler and James for another golden ticket. Named the head
coach of the Minnesota Timbrels. Right now, give you an
extra golden ticket, Colonel. That is incorrect. That is just
named the head coach of the Vikings. Yes, you named
the Viking head coach. But now that's the Viking see
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that's the Kevin O'Connell Viking coach.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
That's not he doesn't coach it.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Yeah, definitely should cancel out that golden ticket.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
He won. Nerves shut Now, I'll give you one more guest.
Hollow in James, the head coach is this is a
great game. This is the number one Timberwolves fan in
all of Minneapolis, the entire state of Minnesota, all the
way from Duluth, all the way down. All right, James,
come on now, one more guests, head coach Minnesota Timberlves
go ahead, you got this.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
You got me? Ben I give no.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
He gave up Eddie Flips.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
May he rest in peace.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
No, the correct answer is Chris Finch. You ever heard
of that guy, James, Chris Finch? Yeah, never heard of
that James. You did get one golden ticket, So congratulations, James,
you gotta golden I know I know what he's gonna do.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
It's gonna get you know who you're gonna.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Give it to.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
You want to give Tammy your golden ticket? What are
you doing, James?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Jeez?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I swear he call He calls me every day and says,
I have a golden ticket I want to use a
golden tickets.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Edwards.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Okay, congratulations, all right, level Tammy, I know that's the
worst game ever. Yeah, okay, thank you James. Tremendous game time.
Can you be sleeping? We'll play the game. We were better.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
It's more fun.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Actually, it would be a lot better.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Let's keep him on hold. They'll fall asleep a little
bit later. My theory on James, here's my theory on
Hollig James. Since he's gotten no real money, this is
his way to pay back Tammy with the golden tickets,
because he knows the golden tickets. I mean, it's audio gold,
very valuable things. So he wants to pay back Tammy
for her generosity for helping him out.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Well, it might be valuable if she called the show often,
but she doesn't.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
So well, she's working a lot.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
I'm not saying she has never reasons, but yeah, she's not.
Golden tickets are valuable to people.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
They are.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
He's never called. It's kind of worthless.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Calm down over there, very angry.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
I'm very calm. Just a terrible game by you.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
It was not it was a great game. I didn't
think he was gonna get one, right, Probably the worst
moment of the show that was not the one. No,
We've had many worse moments than that. Let's go to
speaking the worst tiger Man. Let's say a lot of
tiger Man hold On touched the I don't think I
touched the right line of this line.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Hello tiger Man.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Oh, I don't know, i'd be man.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Is your is yours?
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Not work?
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Because mine? Mine crashed screen?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Yea and everything, Well, the thing's broken. Maybe the cockroach
has got in the system. I don't know, But there's
tiger Man. Hello Tiger Many.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
Hey Ben getting again?
Speaker 10 (29:23):
About three inches of snow up here tonight.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Oh it's beautiful spring weather in Utah.
Speaker 10 (29:29):
Oh yeah. I wanted to ask if you saw that
story about the Las Vegas Convention Board giving like one
hundred thousand dollars to the Aces players, and if you
could potentially see like you know, like Ormando or the
big like tourist cities also doing that to their players
as well, and other sports.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Not professionally they get enough money professionally.
Speaker 9 (29:56):
I don't like.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
In the w n B A was investigating, from what
I read there, investigating whether that was legal or not.
It might not be allowed. They might have to give
the money back.
Speaker 10 (30:05):
So yeah, I don't see that. Then it would be
terrible publicity for them.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
At this point, though, what do they care.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
It's like once Caitlin Clark people realize she's on a
terrible team and she's not that good in the w NBA,
who's going to be watching?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I don't know, it's ah.
Speaker 10 (30:21):
I was really just asking because when I saw that,
I was immediately thought about like UCF and how like
a public school like that would be able to possibly
get you know, recruits by saying, hey, you know we
have this sort of income to give you so well.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yeah, but any but anyone can do that, like you're
a fan as we know you where your purple and
yellow on your your uniform there when you call in
there that LSU. They can mess.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Around with that.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Anyone can do That's not illegal to do that, right, No.
Speaker 10 (30:54):
I wouldn't say that it's illegal, but it's an unfair advantage.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
But you know it's not unfair because anyone can do it,
like you just get a sponsor to pay the player.
They used to do it back in the old days
with and they'd have envelopes with car keys and they'd
give the recruits.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Cars and stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
But now now it's more just money and all that
with the modern world. But back when John Wooden was coaching,
they just give envelopes with money. So they did it
back then, back in the old days.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Well all right, now, are you going to come down now,
tiger Man.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
We're talking about doing a Malamean greet in Vegas, which
is like halfway for you from where you are.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Would you show up to that?
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Ben?
Speaker 10 (31:30):
I don't know if you believe this or not, but
actually go to Vegas three times a month, so.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
You'll be there. Okay, we'll let you know. We have
nothing scheduled yet. We're efforting that. When I say efforting,
I mean we're waiting for a listener to come up
with a venue and a date and then.
Speaker 10 (31:44):
We'll have to what Then usc LSU is in Vegas
Labor Day weekends, so maybe that would be great.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
It's only five hundred.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Pops, so only five hundred bucks. That's nothing. Five hundred
bucks for that.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, all right, we'll look into it.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Of course, the best way to say, say, five hundred
bucks and just go to a sportsbook and watch it
on TV.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
That's the move there. So thank you, our friend. We're
very worried.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
About the w NBA and the money and being handed out.
Firk Duck says, thank you for the fantastic game band.
Tell that hater Eddie to pipe down, he's bumming me out.
Digital space Monkey says it's amazing that hollering James is
actually able to be more successful at the Game's dead asleep.
(32:32):
That's true. DeAndre says, hollering James really yeah, that's that's
the reality right there.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Sounds like Eugenie in Chicago wants a golden Team. Eugene
didn't show I did a malard of meet and greet
in Chicago. Eugene didn't show up. Bad job by him. Well,
I reached out to him. I said, I'm in town.
He was busy working, no days off, no days up.
Justin and Cincinnati says Mark being a landscaper is a surprise.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
I forget what else. There's something else on there. I
don't know what else he wrote on there.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Adrian says, when are you going to talk about the
Stanley Cup playoffs? Who you got to win? Already say Adrian, pokey,
pokey pokey. I already said Edmonton, my oilers gonna win
the whole thing. That's right, They're gonna win the whole thing.
The coronation of Connor McDavid. It's gonna, it's gonna happen.
So anyway, it is the that came the wrong name.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
I think I just did. Anyway, it is the Ben
Malers Show.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
As we continue on and time now for the install
trivia of Mallard of the third Degree. Here's the instant trivia.
We'll go to baseball. Where here we go the Mariners,
Julio Rodriguez not having a good year this year, But
Julio Rodriguez, Jose Abray of the Cheating A Holes, and
Blank are the only active players who had sixty home
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runs and sixty doubles over their first two seasons. Again,
Julio Rodriguez of the Mariners, Jose Abrader back when he's
with the White Sox, and are the only active players
that had sixty home runs sixty doubles over their first
two seasons.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
That is the insta tributa the answer.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
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Ben mallor.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Any time now for the Insta Trivia. The Mariners, Julia Rodriguez,
who's been brutal this season. More on him later, but
Juvia Rodriguez four of White Sock. He's on the cheating
a holes, although I think he was in the minor
leagues briefly. Jose Bray, you and Blank are the only
active players that had sixty home runs and sixty doubles
over their first two seasons in the big leagues. That
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is the question. What is the answer? Eric A Stradagus
by Cowboy Killer Prince Fielder from Justin in Cincinnati. I
see the dietings paying off for him. Who else do
we have? Page now Late Night Drug tester says, you
are Josh Allen, who is twenty eight years old today.
Which hour is the monologue going to be honoring this occasion?
(35:26):
We'll have to tune into Andy the Comic Book Guy's
podcast for that. Mister nice guy says Glenn Allen. Hill
is the answer guy that had an issue with spiders
back in the day. Jonathan India from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota,
Alf the Alien Opiner says, Miley Cyrus is the way
to go. Robbie the Mariner fan says Justin in Cincinnati's surgeon.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Wow, it's a low blow.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Double ow Mexican says Jim Otto, rest in peace. Who
else do we have page down? Matthew Raider Tom Brady
Roast fan, he loved that Tom Brady roast. He could
not talk enough about the Tom Brady Roast. Uh, he
got it correct because he cheated. Jay Dot in Utah
says Ronald Acuna Junior of his Atlanta Braves. He's a
big Braves fan. Who else do we have page down?
(36:15):
Dusty Rhodes and Andre the Giant from the King Rory
that's his answer. Slim Pickens from Johnny Q. Eddie, What
say you, Eddie?
Speaker 5 (36:26):
Former Pittsburgh Pirates legend Paul big Poison Waner.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Wow, I thought you were gonna go like Paul austen
Mocker of the Braves. But no, that's incorrect. It's also
not Danny from that much I forty ian.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
The answer is Chris Bryant of the Rockies. Supposed to
come back later on Tuesday. He's injured. Wink wink, nod nod.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Here we go.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
Here we got to the third degree. This is one
big fan gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Cooper Loop is fussing around right now, wasting valuable time.
By the time he figures out where his headphones are,
we will have no time.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Left for the bit.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
So what are we gonna do?
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Just want to give me the win right now?
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Coop? You want to?
Speaker 5 (37:13):
Yeah, I might have to do that.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
What you lost your phone?
Speaker 8 (37:17):
Coop?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Oh my god, Coop lost his phone?
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Why did she have your phone?
Speaker 2 (37:21):
I told you not to come into my hair question, Wow.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Eddie, Coop, Lorena had Coop's phone?
Speaker 5 (37:29):
Whoa well came into her area? Apparently?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Is that the price of a mission? When I go
to the gym, sometimes if I take something from the counter,
that have to give my phone to the gym.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Okay, let's just do one question, man, Okay, why not?
Speaker 6 (37:41):
TMZ caught up with former MVD Jimmy Rollins, who told
them that he thinks when Shoe Hee Otani is able
to pitch again, he should be a closer.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
What do you think of that idea?
Speaker 1 (37:51):
I don't hate it, but to me, if Otani is
going to be a dominant pitcher as a starter, that
is more valuable than a closer. So my position is,
like I thought Otani was okay as a pitcher with
the Angels.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
I didn't think he was like the greatest thing in
the world.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
It's just the uniqueness of Otani ending up being able
to hit a bunch of home runs and pitch. But
if he's not gonna be a dominant starting pitcher, then
I'm okay with him going to the bullpen. But I'd
rather have him as a guy that pitches once every
six days as a dominant starter. The most important thing, Coop,
you found your phone. That's the most important thing. So congratulations.
(38:28):
How did I do? Coop?
Speaker 2 (38:29):
You pass?
Speaker 1 (38:31):
One question? Colexus, one question? That's all I needed.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
One question.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Amazing
Hello and welcome. It's our numb Bert too. Hour two
Ready to go, and here in hour number two of
the original Recipe podcast, it's all about the Conference Finals.
No need to watch, We'll tell you everything that's going
to happen right now here. In hour number two, we
start with a toss up question the conference final matchup
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with more juice? Is it Minnesota, Dallas or Boston Indiana? Also,
which overall NBA Finals matchup would be the most attractive
for the television advertisers and executives. And what do you
make of the mav Res, the Wolves, the Celtics and
the Pacers all ending up in the conference finals.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
What does that signal? We'll tell you the deeper meaning, Oh,
it's so deep it's sports.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We'll get to that and more right now here. It
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lead this hour coming from the wacky, wacky world of
the Playoffs Playoffs pro bouncy ball style. So the comm
before the storm, the Colm was on Monday night. The
storm will start on Tuesday night. The conference finals will
begin tonight at the Garden in Boston.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And you know what that means. That's right, I know.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Try to stay Colm, Try to stay cool, try to
stay collected. Act like you've been here before, but perhaps
maybe you haven't been here before. This is a one
stop shop. What we're about to do here a one
stop shop, a sneak preview of the jam session which
is about to begin on Tuesday night. Here, as Jim
Nance would say, it is a tradition unlike any other.
(02:36):
You got the Pacers on one side, the Celtics on
the other. In the Eastern bracket, and then on Wednesday,
that would be tomorrow. The Western Conference Finals start with
the mav Rex taking on the Timberwols that game in Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
So let us discuss the question. We'll make it a
toss up question.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So the toss up question conference finals matchup, which one
has more juice?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You can only pick one.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So I've got Mason jar Darth Vader, and Buckingham Palace,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we will poke you in the eye. If you don't
keep your eyes open, I'm gonna poke your out right there.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
All right.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
So number one, the machine brokes his break. You can't
fix it now, it's just gonna hold the rest of
the night. It's gonna be all night. It's gonna be
the stop, all right. So to answer the question, toss
up question, which of these two conference finals has more juice?
(03:45):
The arrow is clearly pointing to the west, the Western Front.
That is the series that has the Ras Matassa. The
Celtics are a sizable, sizable favorite. In fact, I saw
one gambling house that said, this is the biggest favorite
we've seen the conference finals since the Jordan Bulls.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That's how massive a favorite.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
The Celtics are, and there's a tremendous gap in town. Now,
the more talented team doesn't always win in sports, we
know that, but in basketball normally that does work out
that way. The odds makers have this is one of
the great mismatches in NBA Conference Finals history. So that juice,
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there is some juice, but it's concentrate. It's not the
good juice. It's the concentrate. But the Wolves and the Mavericks.
When you break that apart and you put that on
the microscope, there the Wolves and the Mavericks. That's a
Mason jar filled with a wonderfully homemade orange juice with
extra pulp like Tropicana orange juice extra, which is not homemade.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
But when I think orange juice, that's the one that
pops into my head.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
So Superstars, you got Luka Doncik on one side, Anthony
Edwards on the other.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
They're bumping heads. So that's good.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
And neither one of them has been to the NBA
Finals before, so one of them will be able to
get there unless there's a tie.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I don't think they can be a tie. That'll be
wild if there was a.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
But wrangling with the power that that means if you
get to the NBA Finals, the influence, the extra clout
that you gain, the more Madison Avenue sucks up to
you and wants you to sell over priced items to
the great unwashed in America. Right, the winner will punch
their ticket to the NBA Finals. Now you lose, you're
(05:36):
still a loser in the finals. But to just get
to the finals to get over that hump, humpty hump,
and then you still have to get over another hump.
But it is expected in terms of the matchups in
this series that Anthony Edwards is going to go against
Kyrie Irving. He's not going to go mono amano with
Lukka in this series, so that'll be one matchup. Jaden
(05:56):
McDaniels is supposed to match up for Minnesota against Luca
don Chik. Now page two here which of the finals
matchups the conference finals matchups?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
It is assuming we can.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Predict with our ability as a south Sayer to look
into the future a distant relative of Nostre Dama's friend
of nos Radena's, and we can break the outcome of
the conference finals, which finals matchup by default, which finals
matchup would be more attractive for the Almighty Television because
this again is just a TV show. These are just
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actors on a TV show, So this one is also
child's play. The matchup the TV wants and indirectly the
NBA wants because they like to keep their TV partners happy,
would be Boston versus Dallas. That's the matchup they want,
and that does factor heavily in the eyeballs into the arithmetic.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
It's it's all about the eyeballs.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Dallas is the number five media market in America and
Boston is number seven. We start out with a bigger
base in Boston and in Dallas. Minneapolis is number fifteen
in terms of media market and Indianapolis is number twenty five,
so they're down a little bit. But the Celtics and
Mavericks that would just hit a little different, right, That
(07:16):
would hit a little different here. And here's why, not
only just the TV stuff, but you could play the
Imperial March at the beginning of that series when Dallas,
if they were to beat Minnesota, would go into the
city of Boston there because that's the Darth Vader soundtrack,
and the Darth Vader is Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
He's the heel Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Former Celtic and so long ago I was doing the
local filling stuff in Boston when Kyrie Irving told Celtics
season ticket holders that he was going to stay with
the Celtics, only to then have a meeting in the
hallway at the All Star Game, if I remember correctly,
with Kevin Durant, and they orchestrated a super team with
(08:03):
the Brooklyn Nets. Didn't work out so well anyway. But listen,
the point is, Kyrie Irving is the bad guy. You
need a good guy, you need a bad guy, and
from a fan perspective in Boston, he is despised.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
The ironic part of that is that there's this.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Odd dichotomy because you have Jalen Brown, who worships Kyrie's
like a Kyrie Irving fanboy, and a lot of the
Celtics is a few of those guys that were still
were there when Kyrie was in Boston, they're still hanging
around and they all love Kyrie, at least public. So
that's an interesting footnote. And Boston has had a no
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sweat playoff schedule so far. Like you know, how we
do commercials for DraftKings is like a no sweat bet.
You get your money back. The Celtics have done a
lot of that. Like they've done a lot of that.
In fact, just to touch up my work here, through
ten playoff games, the team that wears the green, the
Celtic have played how many seconds of clutch time? How
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about seventy nine seconds? Less than a minute twenty of
clutchdown that's where the score on that giant jumbo tron
is within five points in the last five minutes of
the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
They played seventy nine seconds.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Nine of the ten games have been decided by double ditches,
including both games.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
That they lost on their playoff run. All right, final point, So.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Let's take a wide angle look at the final four
of the NBA, which again begins tonight. In checking that out,
so you don't have to, don't worry, we'll watch. So
what do you make of the MAVs, the Wolves, the
Celtics and the Pacers all getting to the conference final.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
So you've got.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Luca aunt Edwards, Tyrese Haliburton, and Jason Tatum the headliners
on that. So at first glance, it appears to be
a large anomaly. This was the thing that wasn't supposed
to happen. At the time, it wasn't supposed to happen. However,
I'm looking at it differently. I'm gonna be Benny Bright's
(10:09):
out on this, and what I believe has happened.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Here is.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
The changing of the guard. Like our friend Bernie who's
walking around London there and imagine you'll go over to
Buckingham Palace at some point, because when you go to
London as an American, you got to go to Buckingham Palace.
It's required or they don't allow you to come back
to the States. So he's gonna go to Buckingham Palace
and they'll have the changing of the Guard, and it's
out with the old, in with the new. And we're
seeing that in the NBA. Lebron James is thirty nine.
(10:36):
He's more worried about his podcasting than he is the Lakers.
Steph Curry is thirty six. I don't even know what
he's worried about. But the Warriors are toast. They're not
gonna win again. Kevin Durant, that was a hot mess
in the Valley of the Sun. But that's the old Guard.
Those are the guys that have been around and they've
been hanging out for a long time, but now you
(10:57):
got the new guys. Now, that does not mean that
we are going to regularly see Tyrese Halliburton and the
Pacers in the conference finals or even Aunt Edwards. But
there's another way, right, there's another wave of guys behind
them that are intermingling in. So the next couple of
years changing of the guard. We'll find out. But it's
the circle of life in the NBA. The eras, they
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don't normally blend together. There's normally like an odd transition.
And Jordan left, you were like searching for the next
Michael Jordan and them and Kobe. But people were not
all in on Kobe for a while. Then they became
all in with Kobe and there's a transitional period. It
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It's Ben Maller, the King Rory right, so he says,
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Now only if they had a football team, but unfortunately
the Texas moved to Kansas City back in nineteen sixty four.
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That is unfortunate. That is a shame.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
It is odd, though, because we're on a pretty big
sports talk radio station in Dallas and we get a
few calls out of Dallas. But it's not like overwhelming.
It's not like people are up all night they can't
wait to talk about their teams. It's not that that's
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Art Puffin says, Yo, mal Boston and Dallas in the
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And how lucky am I I get to chat with
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Speaker 3 (15:23):
Hello, Mark, Hello Ben Mallor. You know it's not quite
a full moon.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Okay. I was wondering, I'm in a room with no
I'm in a room with no windows. I can't see outside.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Oh well, I was wondering, what do you know about
biodynamic gardening?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Well, as you know, being a talk show host, I'm
an expert in everything, so I have all the answers.
What exactly specifically do you need to know about the gardening?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Oh well, I was trying to mention that you know
where and when you plant your seeds matter.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Yes, that's right.
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Yes, I the farmer, the key, there's a there's a season,
there's a there's a circle to life on the farm. Iowa, Sam,
when he worked on the show for ten minutes, told
me about that before he quit the show. H He
said that, yeah, you have to plan at a certain time.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
You have to.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
You have to clear everything out and then you have
to get ready to plant again. But you're right, you
have to do a certain time, and if you don't
plan it at the right time, you're screwed.
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Yep, that's true.
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Well, also with biodynamic gardening, they they also plant certain crops.
It's different phrases of the moon because of the UH
gravity and how it affects the UH water and the soil.
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I didn't know you were a horticologist or whatever it is.
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I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I studied horticulture in college.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Oh, who knew you were a landscaper.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
We get a job at a nurse get a job
at a nursery, man, you know, go out there.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
And I was working at a nursery for quite a while.
So I was going to say, you know that astrology
also incorporates some of the same principles. And so I
was born in Brooklyn, New York, matters.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Stop all of that. You did all of that, all
that bull craft to get that line in all that
bull crap. I've been I've been to Brooklyn multiple times.
I didn't see any gardens when I was in Brooklyn,
I didn't see any gardens.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Okay, not the part in Ner Manhattan to City gardens.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I know it's Big Bochronicle Gardens in Brooklyn, New York.
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Well, congratulations, that's wonderful.
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Wait a minute, it's connected to Prospect Park. It's a
beautiful location there. It's as beautiful as any Boattamble gardens
anywhere in any city.
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I don't know about that. I don't know about that.
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Oh yeah, you're you're bias. You're bias. You live foul
is miles away. That doesn't matter. Everything in New york's
famous because all the media is in New York. That's
why everything's famous in New York.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
You're not in New York.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I'm not famous. That's my point. You see my point.
You made my point for me. Yeah, moron, you made
my point for me.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Okay, well there you go.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
All right, look at that.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Are you gonna take Are you gonna take a bow?
Now that you made me look like an idiot?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Well no, I was gonna say that. You know, I
want a blind Scot's biggest fan. And if you have
a meet and greet are in Boston, you know I've
went on showing up and a Bucky gat.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Uniform, he said, I said, Bucky dan Eddie.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
He didn't say the f wort. He said, Bucky. I
bet your blind Scott don't even know who Bucky Dant is.
How about that? I bet, in fact, that was so
long ago. I bet there's a lot of people now
that don't know who Bucky Dant is.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Oh yeah, you had to go there, right.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
You're dating yourself that you go there, get to me.
Sports started in the year two thousand. That's when sports started,
the year two thousand.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah, all right, I can I.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Go for me? It started in nineteen fifty five?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Can I go?
Speaker 7 (19:14):
Now?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Brooklyn?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
All right? One allows the World Series.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I was bored, and they couldn't wait to get out
of Brooklyn and head to the West Coast, just like
you couldn't wait to get out of Brooklyn and head
of the West Coast. You were, and the Dodgers leaving
Brooklyn behind.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
That is really true.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I will not deny that.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Get that.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yeah, as much as you ripped the Dodgers for different Yeah,
all right, I gotta go, my man. I'm hanging up
on you. You're born, Thank you. I go away, all right?
There he goes Mark the name guy. Let's say hello
to Tony in the Bay Area. Hello, Tony, hey man,
Well god.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
You guys know I'm not a criminal like you guys.
I've been in love for about a year and the
lady has a pretty face, beautiful brown skin. He toto,
and one of these days I might even know her name.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah, okay, thank you, You're welcome, Okay, goodbye. All right,
there's a there is hollering. James is in Minneapolis, min assault.
Hello hollering, James, Hey, Ben Mayday, Mayday, Mayday.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
No, I can't hear you.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
He's declaring an emergency?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Is an emergen?
Speaker 5 (20:27):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
What is the emergency here, James?
Speaker 5 (20:29):
What is the emergency?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
What about my tipper Wolves? Now, my timber Uppie. Did
you believe me when I said they could be devolop there?
Speaker 8 (20:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Okay, did you believe me when I said they could
beat him?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Hey, James, hell James, I got an idea for a bit.
You want to be part of the bit, and you're
a chance to win three golden tickets.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
God, three golden tickets a.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Whole on a seconds out tell you what the bit
is in a second but I just came up with
the bit in my head and if he if he
gets this correct, then we'll give him the three golden tickets.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
We've got some news from Oh it's notimes that we
have news, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
That's good that we holds.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I like that we have news. I'm like time Eddy
for you.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
An updates update from Golf date line blotter.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Scottie Scheffler's arraignment date has been postponed to June the third,
but he will not be required to attend UH and
he will not be entering a guilty plea.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
I thought they were supposed to drop all the charge.
I guess he hasn't written a big enough change.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
I guess he will. He will, he will enter a
not guilty plea. Apparently we've been told on that.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
But I thought they were supposed to drop the charges
at least the as of as of this report, they
have not dropped the charges. To come up with a
bigger donation and then they'll drop the charges. And that's
usually it works, you pay them off.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
I would know I'm never in any kind of trouble
like that. I don't know how that works. Yeah, how
about you.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I've never had to, but I've We've done stories about
athletes that have gotten into trouble and then they cut
a check and all of a sudden, their trouble goes away.
Happens quite a bit. Well, Eddie, that wasn't fun. But
you know, here we go.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
Fun fact just probably won't be either. I'm sorry, was
my mic on Eddie. Let the professional talk. It's adult time.
Where's the professional at right over? He showing up later
right over here.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
So Rafael Devers, Eddie mentioned this, but he buried the lead.
He had six six consecutive game with a home run,
So six straight games. That's a Red Sox team record.
That's the lead he beat, Eddie. Here's who he beat.
He was tied prior to the home run on Monday night.
Rafael Devers was tied with Jimmy Fox from nineteen forty,
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Ted Williams nineteen fifty seven, radio, Dick Stewart from nineteen
six to dick Ster George Scott.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
You probably remember him, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I actually do with those cyber nineteen Well, everyone in
the seventies, had that nineteen seventy seven. How about this
one though, Jose Canseko from the nineteen ninety five Red
Sox are old buddy Oh. Fox Sports radio alumnus Kevin
Kennedy was the manager.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Of Hoseki years ago. Jose and Boston.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Those midnineties Red Sox were really good. And then Bobby
Dalbock in twenty twenty when no one was watching during COVID.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
So that's it.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
So all those guys eliminated from the Red Sox record book,
Rafael Devers knocking Ted Williams, Jimmy Fox, Dick Stewart, George Scott,
Jose Cansako, and Bobby Dalbick out of the book. That's
a fun fact fun efin fact, that is fun. Isn't
that fun right there now? Hollering James? Is that not fun?
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Hollering James, Yeah exactly, Okay, you were not even Are
you ready?
Speaker 5 (23:48):
So fun? He was ignored.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I'm gonna ask you three questions, hollering James.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
If you for each question you get right, you get
a golden ticket.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Are you ready my show?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
It's all right there, It's a lot, I don't know.
Sound like a rooster.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Listen James, just answer, you don't need to prepare that
you're a Minnesota sports fan.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Yes, I believe I can truly consider my show a
Minnesota sports fan.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
And how long have you been a fan of the
Minnesota sports scene?
Speaker 8 (24:22):
Ever?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Here I was young, a little boy, a little hollering James.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
I need to interject that we played a game with
hollering James and he didn't know Joe Mauer.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Well, Eddie, I know this guy's fired up. You know
what he's got. He's got wolf fever, timberwolf fever. So
let's play the game. Here, hollering James, three questions, very
simple question.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
What happens if he gets them all wrong?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Well, the term he's not gonna get them all wrong.
We'll start, We'll start simple enough. The leading scorer for
the Minnesota Timberwolves here, hollering James this season for the
Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 10 (25:00):
Dammy him me your suret, Anthony.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Edwards, see that you got a golden take?
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Just like that again, all right, let's sensing the golden ticket.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
It's supposed to be all right level.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
This is another easy one, who led the Minnesota Timberwolves
this season in assists.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
For another golden another golden ticket.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Holler and James anohing me, he's looking it up. Don't
what do you go to the right website?
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Was one?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Was this?
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Jalen Rose, Jalen.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Road hit the wrong website.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
McDaniels, No, that is incorrect.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
That is incorrect.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
I think that should cancel out his previously one.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
You got one, I gave one. Mike's at zero. Mike
Conley led the Wolves and assists that your five point
nine again, five point nine is the game?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
One lost one? All right?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Now here we go, hollering James, this is another easy one.
I mean, this guy's been on TV Challenge the listener.
This guy, listen, it's hollering, Jenny.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
He is a real fan.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
You should know this, James. I'm gonna I'm gonna give
you a layup. James, Okay, you can't get this.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Give him to layups. He missed one.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Holler and James for another golden ticket. Named the head
coach of the Minnesota Timbrels. Right now, give you an
extra golden ticket, Colonel. That is incorrect. That is just
named the head coach of the Vikings. Yes, you named
the Viking head coach. But now that's the Viking see
(26:38):
that's the Kevin O'Connell Viking coach.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
That's not he doesn't coach it.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Yeah, definitely should cancel out that golden ticket.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
He won. Nerves shut Now, I'll give you one more guest.
Hollow in James, the head coach is this is a
great game. This is the number one Timberwolves fan in
all of Minneapolis, the entire state of Minnesota, all the
way from Duluth, all the way down. All right, James,
come on now, one more guests, head coach Minnesota Timberlves
go ahead, you got this.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
You got me? Ben I give no.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
He gave up Eddie Flips.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
May he rest in peace.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
No, the correct answer is Chris Finch. You ever heard
of that guy, James, Chris Finch? Yeah, never heard of
that James. You did get one golden ticket, So congratulations, James,
you gotta golden I know I know what he's gonna do.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
It's gonna get you know who you're gonna.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Give it to.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
You want to give Tammy your golden ticket? What are
you doing, James?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Jeez?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I swear he call He calls me every day and says,
I have a golden ticket I want to use a
golden tickets.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Edwards.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Okay, congratulations, all right, level Tammy, I know that's the
worst game ever. Yeah, okay, thank you James. Tremendous game time.
Can you be sleeping? We'll play the game. We were better.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
It's more fun.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Actually, it would be a lot better.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Let's keep him on hold. They'll fall asleep a little
bit later. My theory on James, here's my theory on
Hollig James. Since he's gotten no real money, this is
his way to pay back Tammy with the golden tickets,
because he knows the golden tickets. I mean, it's audio gold,
very valuable things. So he wants to pay back Tammy
for her generosity for helping him out.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Well, it might be valuable if she called the show often,
but she doesn't.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
So well, she's working a lot.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
I'm not saying she has never reasons, but yeah, she's not.
Golden tickets are valuable to people.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
They are.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
He's never called. It's kind of worthless.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Calm down over there, very angry.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
I'm very calm. Just a terrible game by you.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
It was not it was a great game. I didn't
think he was gonna get one, right, Probably the worst
moment of the show that was not the one. No,
We've had many worse moments than that. Let's go to
speaking the worst tiger Man. Let's say a lot of
tiger Man hold On touched the I don't think I
touched the right line of this line.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Hello tiger Man.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Oh, I don't know, i'd be man.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Is your is yours?
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Not work?
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Because mine? Mine crashed screen?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Yea and everything, Well, the thing's broken. Maybe the cockroach
has got in the system. I don't know, But there's
tiger Man. Hello Tiger Many.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
Hey Ben getting again?
Speaker 10 (29:23):
About three inches of snow up here tonight.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Oh it's beautiful spring weather in Utah.
Speaker 10 (29:29):
Oh yeah. I wanted to ask if you saw that
story about the Las Vegas Convention Board giving like one
hundred thousand dollars to the Aces players, and if you
could potentially see like you know, like Ormando or the
big like tourist cities also doing that to their players
as well, and other sports.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Not professionally they get enough money professionally.
Speaker 9 (29:56):
I don't like.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
In the w n B A was investigating, from what
I read there, investigating whether that was legal or not.
It might not be allowed. They might have to give
the money back.
Speaker 10 (30:05):
So yeah, I don't see that. Then it would be
terrible publicity for them.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
At this point, though, what do they care.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
It's like once Caitlin Clark people realize she's on a
terrible team and she's not that good in the w NBA,
who's going to be watching?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I don't know, it's ah.
Speaker 10 (30:21):
I was really just asking because when I saw that,
I was immediately thought about like UCF and how like
a public school like that would be able to possibly
get you know, recruits by saying, hey, you know we
have this sort of income to give you so well.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yeah, but any but anyone can do that, like you're
a fan as we know you where your purple and
yellow on your your uniform there when you call in
there that LSU. They can mess.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Around with that.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Anyone can do That's not illegal to do that, right, No.
Speaker 10 (30:54):
I wouldn't say that it's illegal, but it's an unfair advantage.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
But you know it's not unfair because anyone can do it,
like you just get a sponsor to pay the player.
They used to do it back in the old days
with and they'd have envelopes with car keys and they'd
give the recruits.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Cars and stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
But now now it's more just money and all that
with the modern world. But back when John Wooden was coaching,
they just give envelopes with money. So they did it
back then, back in the old days.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Well all right, now, are you going to come down now,
tiger Man.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
We're talking about doing a Malamean greet in Vegas, which
is like halfway for you from where you are.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Would you show up to that?
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Ben?
Speaker 10 (31:30):
I don't know if you believe this or not, but
actually go to Vegas three times a month, so.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
You'll be there. Okay, we'll let you know. We have
nothing scheduled yet. We're efforting that. When I say efforting,
I mean we're waiting for a listener to come up
with a venue and a date and then.
Speaker 10 (31:44):
We'll have to what Then usc LSU is in Vegas
Labor Day weekends, so maybe that would be great.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
It's only five hundred.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Pops, so only five hundred bucks. That's nothing. Five hundred
bucks for that.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, all right, we'll look into it.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Of course, the best way to say, say, five hundred
bucks and just go to a sportsbook and watch it
on TV.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
That's the move there. So thank you, our friend. We're
very worried.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
About the w NBA and the money and being handed out.
Firk Duck says, thank you for the fantastic game band.
Tell that hater Eddie to pipe down, he's bumming me out.
Digital space Monkey says it's amazing that hollering James is
actually able to be more successful at the Game's dead asleep.
(32:32):
That's true. DeAndre says, hollering James really yeah, that's that's
the reality right there.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Sounds like Eugenie in Chicago wants a golden Team. Eugene
didn't show I did a malard of meet and greet
in Chicago. Eugene didn't show up. Bad job by him. Well,
I reached out to him. I said, I'm in town.
He was busy working, no days off, no days up.
Justin and Cincinnati says Mark being a landscaper is a surprise.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
I forget what else. There's something else on there. I
don't know what else he wrote on there.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Adrian says, when are you going to talk about the
Stanley Cup playoffs? Who you got to win? Already say Adrian, pokey,
pokey pokey. I already said Edmonton, my oilers gonna win
the whole thing. That's right, They're gonna win the whole thing.
The coronation of Connor McDavid. It's gonna, it's gonna happen.
So anyway, it is the that came the wrong name.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
I think I just did. Anyway, it is the Ben
Malers Show.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
As we continue on and time now for the install
trivia of Mallard of the third Degree. Here's the instant trivia.
We'll go to baseball. Where here we go the Mariners,
Julio Rodriguez not having a good year this year, But
Julio Rodriguez, Jose Abray of the Cheating A Holes, and
Blank are the only active players who had sixty home
(33:51):
runs and sixty doubles over their first two seasons. Again,
Julio Rodriguez of the Mariners, Jose Abrader back when he's
with the White Sox, and are the only active players
that had sixty home runs sixty doubles over their first
two seasons.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
That is the insta tributa the answer.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Next.
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(34:40):
Ben mallor.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Any time now for the Insta Trivia. The Mariners, Julia Rodriguez,
who's been brutal this season. More on him later, but
Juvia Rodriguez four of White Sock. He's on the cheating
a holes, although I think he was in the minor
leagues briefly. Jose Bray, you and Blank are the only
active players that had sixty home runs and sixty doubles
over their first two seasons in the big leagues. That
(35:03):
is the question. What is the answer? Eric A Stradagus
by Cowboy Killer Prince Fielder from Justin in Cincinnati. I
see the dietings paying off for him. Who else do
we have? Page now Late Night Drug tester says, you
are Josh Allen, who is twenty eight years old today.
Which hour is the monologue going to be honoring this occasion?
(35:26):
We'll have to tune into Andy the Comic Book Guy's
podcast for that. Mister nice guy says Glenn Allen. Hill
is the answer guy that had an issue with spiders
back in the day. Jonathan India from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota,
Alf the Alien Opiner says, Miley Cyrus is the way
to go. Robbie the Mariner fan says Justin in Cincinnati's surgeon.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Wow, it's a low blow.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Double ow Mexican says Jim Otto, rest in peace. Who
else do we have page down? Matthew Raider Tom Brady
Roast fan, he loved that Tom Brady roast. He could
not talk enough about the Tom Brady Roast. Uh, he
got it correct because he cheated. Jay Dot in Utah
says Ronald Acuna Junior of his Atlanta Braves. He's a
big Braves fan. Who else do we have page down?
(36:15):
Dusty Rhodes and Andre the Giant from the King Rory
that's his answer. Slim Pickens from Johnny Q. Eddie, What
say you, Eddie?
Speaker 5 (36:26):
Former Pittsburgh Pirates legend Paul big Poison Waner.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Wow, I thought you were gonna go like Paul austen
Mocker of the Braves. But no, that's incorrect. It's also
not Danny from that much I forty ian.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
The answer is Chris Bryant of the Rockies. Supposed to
come back later on Tuesday. He's injured. Wink wink, nod nod.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Here we go.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
Here we got to the third degree. This is one
big fan gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Cooper Loop is fussing around right now, wasting valuable time.
By the time he figures out where his headphones are,
we will have no time.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Left for the bit.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
So what are we gonna do?
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Just want to give me the win right now?
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Coop? You want to?
Speaker 5 (37:13):
Yeah, I might have to do that.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
What you lost your phone?
Speaker 8 (37:17):
Coop?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Oh my god, Coop lost his phone?
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Why did she have your phone?
Speaker 2 (37:21):
I told you not to come into my hair question, Wow.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Eddie, Coop, Lorena had Coop's phone?
Speaker 5 (37:29):
Whoa well came into her area? Apparently?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Is that the price of a mission? When I go
to the gym, sometimes if I take something from the counter,
that have to give my phone to the gym.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Okay, let's just do one question, man, Okay, why not?
Speaker 6 (37:41):
TMZ caught up with former MVD Jimmy Rollins, who told
them that he thinks when Shoe Hee Otani is able
to pitch again, he should be a closer.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
What do you think of that idea?
Speaker 1 (37:51):
I don't hate it, but to me, if Otani is
going to be a dominant pitcher as a starter, that
is more valuable than a closer. So my position is,
like I thought Otani was okay as a pitcher with
the Angels.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
I didn't think he was like the greatest thing in
the world.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
It's just the uniqueness of Otani ending up being able
to hit a bunch of home runs and pitch. But
if he's not gonna be a dominant starting pitcher, then
I'm okay with him going to the bullpen. But I'd
rather have him as a guy that pitches once every
six days as a dominant starter. The most important thing, Coop,
you found your phone. That's the most important thing. So congratulations.
(38:28):
How did I do? Coop?
Speaker 2 (38:29):
You pass?
Speaker 1 (38:31):
One question? Colexus, one question? That's all I needed.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
One question.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Amazing
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