Hour 2 – Thunder Storm

The Thunder’s historic offense buries the Nuggets but did they get help from referee Scott Foster? Plus, Maller to the 3rd Degree and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom shack a laka. It's our num ber to our
number two, the flavor of the day.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Here we go to.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Okase bigger story, toss up question, bigger story the thunder
historic offensive explosion or the Nuggets complete and total collapse.
I'll discuss that. How do the Joker and Nuggets overcome
that stink bomb performance in Oklahoma? Now, Internet investigators believe

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that the NBA assigned Scott Foster to referee this game
to ensure Oklahoma.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
City ended up tying the series. Where are you at
on this grand conspiracy theory? Discuss that?

Speaker 1 (00:47):
And here we go off into the wild blue yonder
in our number two.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
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Oklahoma and that is where the Western Conference semi Finals
game number two, your peace sign game number two.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Now s GA for ok C.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
All right, that was the matchup. So yet he had
the MVP. It is hard to believe that he's not
gonna win the MVP. Shaw jogis Alexander and Oklahoma City
looking to avoid the embarrassment of losing at home again
and trying to even things up with the Jokers Den Vernugas.
This was the set up here was expected to be

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a competitive game.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
I don't know if you.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Saw it, good news. If you missed it, you are
in a better situation than me. He didn't miss anything.
Holy Toledo. What a terrible game in terms of competition,
So he had Shay Jogis Alexander who had thirty four points,
and then play as many minutes as you and I did.
In the fourth quarter, he only played three quarters. The

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reason he only played three quarters is because the thunder
put the Wahammie on Denver a revenge performance. OKC set
a league record and wins one forty nine.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
To one ZHO six. Yes, let me repeat that.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
They won by forty three points over the Denver basketball team,
and now the Western Conference semifinals tied up at one
game a piece.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
How lopsided was it? Thanks for asking.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Oklahoma City set an NBA postseason record for first half.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Points with eighty seven.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
They put up eighty seven points in twenty four minutes.
That broke the record of eighty eighty six points. They
probably think that record was probably set back in the eighties. No,
it was said within the last ten years, back in
twenty seventeen, which seems like it's a lot closer than
ten years ago. But June of twenty seventeen, the Cleveland
Cadavers against the Golden State Warriors in Game four of

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the NBA Finals, but eighty seven points a new record
for a playoff game for Oklahoma City, the Thunder led
by as many as forty nine points forty nine point
lead in a second round playoff game. So let us
discuss toss up question bigger story the thunders historic offensive

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explosion or the Nuggets complete and total collapse. So my
observations on this, I've got quantum, leap, porta potty, and liberty,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to have a your wounds party, which

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I think is what they're doing in Denver.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
They're licking their wounds.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
The better story, almost always, all right, Number one.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Story is in the losing locker room.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
This was a biblical beatdown, Biblical beatdown. This was Goliath
versus you know who, and Goliath won. This was a
Goliath win Oklahoma City in a domination situation across the board.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Now there was a little bit of funny business. We're
gonna get to that in a minute.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
And we didn't watch the second half. We made the
editorial decision at halftime. We watched Charles Barkley with Ernie Johnson,
Kenny Smith and Shaquille O'Neal, and then when halftime ended,
we turned the game off and then we went back
to it on the post game. So we did not
watch the second half, and so we'll focus on the

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first half. If you watched like us, like we were
watching the first half, I'm pretty sure that my eyeballs
moving back and forth at the television put more of
an effort into the game than Denver did.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
How bad was it? It was so bad? Thanks for asking.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
The Kole jochicch and the Nuggets underwent a quantum leap,
a metamorphosis in this game. They became bullfighters, and if
you've ever been to a bullfight or seen one on television,
they were the mattador ole ole O lay ole on defense,
lackluster snagnet Oklahoma City.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
It was. It was so ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
At one point, it looked like you were watching the
old Harlem Globe Trotters.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
From back in the day.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
They shot almost sixty percent okase did in the first
half of that game. They won all of the hustle stats,
all of them. As Jill Gis Alexander was slicing and dicing.
You look at the points of the paint, second chance points,
fast break points, the rebounds, everything, every the fifty to
fifty balls, the raffle balls, all all that stuff, all

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right now, page two, So how do the Joker and
the Nuggets overcome this absolute stink bomb in Okasee?

Speaker 2 (07:11):
And it was a stink bomb. This was flatulence in
the air everywhere.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
And yeah, so you go to the porta potty and
you take the wisdom of Eagles Super Bowl winning quarterback
Jalen Hurts, who famously said after an absolute dud against
the Cowboys, he said, when you take your deuce, you
don't sit there and.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Look at it. You flush it and you move on.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Now, it's very hard to flush in a porta potty,
very hard to flush. Every time I've gone to a
porta potty, things are stacked on top of each other,
if you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
But it's really how you react.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
I mean, we are looking at a best of five
series if my malor math is correct, and Denver does
now have home court advantage over Kyrie's Oklahoma City Thunder.
That's the guy that we know who loves the Thunder
and has interacted with the show. Now, why couldn't these Nuggets,
these Nuggets guys have shown up and played like they

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did in the game on Wednesday night. Why couldn't they
have played like that in Game seven against the Clippers
right Denver.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
They were huffing and puffing as they were out there.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
It looked like they had not one, not two, not three,
not four, but five James Harden out on the court.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
There's a James Harden there. There's a James Harden there.
There's a James Harden over there. There's a James Harden
over there. Everywhere's James Harden.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Playoff Harden everywhere you look, playoff Harden everywhere. All right,
final point. Now, let's get to the Komodo dragon in
the room if you will. If you didn't see this game,
you probably don't know why I'm going with this. The
official became part of the story. So well, it doesn't matter.
The Nuggets were down by forty nine points, Oklahoma City

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won by forty three points. It doesn't matter. But I've
got a talk show to do, so to me, it matters.
Scott Fought who had been out with a calf injury
and not officiating game I think since back in March,
so he was out, but he was the crew chief
Scott Foster for game number two. So Scott Foster was

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out his first playoff game of twenty twenty five. Now,
Internet investigators believe the NBA assigned Scott Foster to this
game to ensure that Oklahoma City would tie this series up.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
So where are you at on this one? Again?

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Internet salus believe they've uncracked the code, that the NBA
purposely put Scott Foster out there to make sure that
Oklahoma City tied up the series. So on this one,
my reaction, I have a cheshire Cat smile on my
face right now, from ear to ear, I just do.
Scott Foster is like the last of the Mohigans. I

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grew up in my wheelhouse. In my era, there was
the shady referee. Typically in baseball. The last real shady
umpire was Angel Hernandez, and Angel Hernandez is no longer
unped Baseball finally was able to force him out. And
the NFL's had a few officials over the years that

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you thought there might be some something.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Going on there, but not really now.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
And then you look at basketball and you've got Scott Foster,
the last one standing, the last one left.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
It's the twilight zone. All the other crooked officials.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Have either died off, or retired or been fired, but
you've got Scott Foster, who was Buddies if I'm not mistaken,
as I understand it with Tim Donahey who was fixing
NBA games back in the day.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
So you got Scott Foster, who get.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Many people think is involved in some funny business and
a lot of the belief is that that he he
was there as a secret agent for Oklahoma City.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
Are you buying any of this?

Speaker 1 (11:05):
No, the NBA would never fix any games. We know
the games have been doctored with again Tim Donnie. So
to me, this is a liberty story. A liberty story.
When the legend becomes the fact, you print the legend.
The man who shot Liberty Founce an old movie in Hollywood,

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and it's true. When the legend becomes the fact, you
print the legend. And the Nuggets, now, I'm not gonna.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Sit here and say they played well.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
They didn't play well, but they were swimming against the
tide the early part of the game. The early part
of the game that the tide was the tempo.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Set by the officials.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
It did appear that the officiating crew favored Oklahoma City.
Let me explain, early on in the game, you had
some early soft foul calls on Denver in particular Nakole Jokisch,
who's always complaining vetching the referees. But it did look
like some of those calls early on were we're not

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kosher and so, and then it appeared that the Oklahoma
City team was been giving leeway. They were giving leeway,
the benefit of the doubt, and that they were able
to play a little a little spicyer, shall we say, right,
moving screens, hacking yokics, things like that. Now, before you

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dismiss this, oh, you're just an overnight conspiracy guy. What
do you know at Let me put my tinfoil hat
on and go through the numbers on this. So Scott
Foster has officiated over sixteen hundred regular season games. He
has worked over two hundred and forty playoff games. He's

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done twenty four NBA finals. He is the, if not
the most, he's at near the very top most experienced referees.
Do you know what Scott Foster's nickname.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Is in basketball? Do you know what his nickname is?

Speaker 1 (12:59):
No, his nickname is the Extender. Why is he known
as the Extender? It's kind of like this old TV show,
The A Team back in the day, and they've made
some remakes of that. I think they made a movie
a few years back. But the A Team and their

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whole mantra. Right, there were a crack commando unit, the
A Team, and.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
They gave this whole rant. You know, they were soldiers
of fortune.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
They say, if you have a problem, if you have
an issue, and you've got that problem and no one
can help you, Right, you have a problem.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
No one else can help you.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
And if you can find them, maybe you can can
hire the A Team.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
In the NBA.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
If you've got a series that you want to make
sure it's a close series and it's extended for television
ratings purposes, who you gonna call.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
You're gonna call your.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Version of the A Team the Extender, like Alfioso named
the Extender Scott Foster, who's often been associated with games
where the trailing team wins to extend the series, thus
the nickname the Extender, often with his own proprietary blend

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of controversy where he's involved in some controversial foul calls
or technical fouls or whatever.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Now I went back and I looked at the numbers,
because why not.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
The data shows that home teams win over sixty percent
of the games he officiates and say, well, that's kind
of within the margin of error in terms of generally
the home team usually wins more than the road team,
so does that prove anything? But then you have to
go on a game by game basis and say, okay,

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what about in playoff series when he's officiating and it's
the team that's trailing, does that team win? And I
don't have those numbers. I haven't gone that deep down
the rabbit hole. I will at some point on a
slow day, I will do that, but I will not
do that right now. All right, your thoughts if you
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later in the.

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A well known pro bouncy ball player being accused of malingering.
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In the military, you're not supposed to be a malingering soldier,
but in sports you can be a malingering player.

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talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk
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lot of pro bouncy ball as the Celtics.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Are in a massive hole that.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
They've created by blowing twenty point leads in the first
two games against the Knickerbockers, who go back to New
York now down I ninety five a chance to they're
already stuck the dagger into the Celtics. They can really
go next level if they win on Saturday, and then
you're talking about a sweep, which would be wild, wild
and crazy. And how soon before the stories pop out that, well,

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the Celtics there's some turmoil in the locker room because
the team's going to be sold and Jalen Brown's going
to be traded, and two or three other guys are
going to be traded, so they get under the apron.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
And dollars to donuts.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
I'll bet you that if this thing continues to go
the direction it's going for the Celtics, you're going to
see all these stories popping up about the players upset
because they're going to get traded, and the changes are
going to be made because the new owners a tight wad,
not going to spend a kind of money, and very
upset people complaining about that.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
So we'll see if that transparts.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
And also the Nuggets who just didn't have anything, and
then the officials, Scott Foster his crew made sure that they.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Didn't have anything going on there as well. Let's go
to the phones and let's see your eenie meanie miney moe. Uh,
who do we have you.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
I got some interesting names here. Some of these names
I don't recognize. It says F dog, but I think
that's Joe dog.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
I don't know an F dog.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
Well, let's see who the Hello. It says F dog,
but I think this is Joe dog or not F dog.
But let's find out which dog this is.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Hello dog.

Speaker 4 (19:38):
If you see a guy in a bear's hat and
you want to talk football, fuck off?

Speaker 2 (19:43):
Okay, thank you.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
See that's that's another classic call for that's Tony in
the Bay Area.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
He made Lee jump. That's very funny. Uh you boys?

Speaker 1 (19:57):
You see you see somebody new is not not a
listener to the show and just is sitting in that
chair and you just pounce, You just attack.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
That's good. You knew it smelled fish. I did. I
did I know Joe DOGG and some of the other dog. Yeah,
that don't know an F dog. That's that's great. You'll
have to hear the podcast for that. So now I'm concerned. No, no,
I leave that on there.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Okay, So now I'm worried that these other callers are
also phony phone calls because I see some names here
that I don't recognize.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
So now I'm thinking every call is phony, that every
call called for new callers. Okay, I did. I did
ask for new people to call in.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
But now I'm like thinking, maybe this is like, let's
get let's get some jokes in on Lee the producer.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah, I don't care, let's keep going.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Why not say hello to Ron in Rochester, the Flower City,
I think, depending on which Rochester is in, I don't know,
maybe the Minnesota Rochester, Hello, Ron, Welcome.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
Rochester in New York crowd Syracuse graduate. I'm a holdover
from the last guy. I was just saying, how why
the sels Pennsylvania hold on?

Speaker 3 (21:14):
Hold?

Speaker 2 (21:15):
So you're a holdover? Who's the last guy.

Speaker 4 (21:20):
The last show we were talking about, uh the picking straight.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
Yeah yeah, but I've been on the air now, it's
my second hour and the show before me doesn't take calls.

Speaker 4 (21:34):
That's weird. Sod you?

Speaker 2 (21:38):
Well, I'm no, I haven't even talked about the George anyway.
Did you just called in randomly?

Speaker 4 (21:42):
Like?

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Did you just have the numbers saved on your phone?
It was very bizarre. Uh No, I've talked to Basketball.
I haven't talked to George. Okay, so you have it
on your phone, so you thought.

Speaker 4 (21:52):
I hear your yes, then yes, I done. Never heard
of him all the time. I love that.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Oh good, I'm glad. I'm feel free to use that.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
Make sure to plug the show to get try to
get people to listen to the show that that would
help us out.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
Run. Try to get your friends to listen to the podcast.
That would be good.

Speaker 4 (22:11):
So listen. So let me tell you something about So.
I grew up in Rochester, went to Syracuse University, he
moved to New York City, was working in advertising, and
I was working on the McDonald's account for New York City.
Has one guy and like twenty girls in my in
my group, and I voted to keep w FIN to
buy w FIN in nineteen eighty nine, eighty eight. And

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if it wasn't for me, you know, mad Dog and
sports radio, none of any of that stuff. We're being squashed.
And you'll thank me for making it happen.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
So you're saying that you Ron are the man that
saved sports talk radio and without you, yes, none of
that would have happened. You saved the entire format. Why
is this not a documentary? I feel like should be
a documentary.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Run.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
I feel like your story would be a great documentary
the guy that saves sports talk radio? It really should
wouldn't that be like a wouldn't that be a great hold?

Speaker 2 (23:12):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Wouldn't that be like a Netflix one of those Netflix
docuseries type deals?

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Right? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Right?

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Is there a delay? I feel like there's an I
F B delay, Like there's a satellite delay, there's a
hook up delay?

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Is there a delay?

Speaker 1 (23:29):
Wrong?

Speaker 5 (23:29):
But I don't. I don't think there is one.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
I thought you're in it's really weird. I mean, I'm listen.
I'm a real person, you know, and I think you're
really funny, and you know, I enjoy listening at you.
Can I tell my picking thing and then my funny
Frank cohera story.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
I only have time. I only have time for I
only have time.

Speaker 4 (23:51):
See.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
I think, is this ai? Maybe this is like an
AI machine? You think of Lorai?

Speaker 4 (23:54):
This is like AI?

Speaker 1 (23:55):
How about this is Ron? Is it possible that Ron
is not? Is he AI? Or a lizard person?

Speaker 2 (24:02):
How about that? You couldn't he?

Speaker 4 (24:08):
I'm real?

Speaker 2 (24:09):
Are you sure?

Speaker 4 (24:10):
I'll tell you my Frank?

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Are you a lizard? Are you? Are you saying you're
not a lizard person?

Speaker 4 (24:14):
Frank Harrison?

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Are you a lizard person.

Speaker 4 (24:17):
I'm not at all.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Okay, that's what a lizard person would say. They would say,
they're not a.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Yeah again, I don't understand.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
I don't understand the delay. I don't get to delay,
go ahead.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
It's really weird. So I lived in New York City
for twenty years and I was in the Sheridan a
fifty second street in Broadway, and I could see a
star mile away. I think Franco Harris walking by himself
towards me. I'm like, hey, how are you doing. I'm
like you on my wall growing up, is like really,
why did you take me down? I'm like, I went
to college, my mon bahlaha. He's like he was so
cool and you know it, just such a nice guy.

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And that was a pretty funny situation.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
All right, Well, thank you for one of the more
interesting phone calls there there there he is?

Speaker 2 (25:03):
That was great. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
Is it possible that that's one of the there's a theory.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
There's a couple of theories out there. There's like you, I.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Don't go full coast to coast, but there's like aliens
living amongst us and the oceans and all that.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Oh my gosh, do you know what I saw today,
What did you see?

Speaker 6 (25:24):
I thought something about the fact that there might be
like tunnels underneath the pyramids in Egypt, and then I
started thinking to myself.

Speaker 4 (25:29):
I was like, what if that's where the aliens have
been living this whole time.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
No, no, my theory has always been there in the oceans, well,
not always, I developed this. I'm sure they are in
the oceans.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Why wouldn't they be.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yeah, no one would ever find them.

Speaker 6 (25:41):
Never.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
Plus, the great thing about if you're if you were
coming here to observe, there's more water than on this
planet than there's land by a well, like seventy water.
I think it's even higher than that, but it's mostly
it's mostly water.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
So you come here, you're in the ocean.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
And plus, if anyone on a bus, there's all kinds
of boats crossing the Atlantic and the Pacific and all
these oceans. But if you're out there on a boat
and you say, hey, I saw I saw these alien
craft go in the ocean, these goblins, everyone says, that's
just a drunk sailor.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
You know, he's just right, That's that's it.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
I was right, benevarth surface is covered with water.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
I don't believes.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Again, just for the record, I'm going Ron, either AI,
that was somebody doing AI and that was not because
there's such a long delay. It would be like somebody
typing something into AI to talk or blood thirsty reptilian alien,
one of those two. And I'm not taking no for
an answer.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
I'm not. Let's keep going on the phone, so we'll
say hello to.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
Any meenie miney mo. Let's say hello to Zach who's
in Seattle? What's going on?

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Zach? Welcome?

Speaker 5 (27:05):
Always a pleasure to listen to you, guys, and be
blessed to be joining you on the airwaves. Ron needs
a thirty for thirty on ESPN for saving mad Dog's career.
Apparently that was quite the call. But now the main
reason I called in a bit ago. I'm out here
doing Uber Eat Store Dash for my one in five

(27:26):
year old daughter's side hustle. Always love your guys show.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
And the question now hold on said question, what are people?
What are people in Seattle? What's the go to? What's
the number one? You're doing Uber each there? What food
are the people eating? The late night mounch you see,
what's the go to late night munchy for the good
people of Seattle.

Speaker 5 (27:49):
Honestly, here it's either Dave's Hot Chicken Nashville Chicken. I've
probably done six hundred deliveries for them in the past year,
not no exaggeration. Or pizza if it's super late night. Now,
if it's dinner rush, it's sushi Raman, you know that
kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Okay, Yeah, because there's not a lot open late a
lot of places, you know, late night, you're limited on
your options. It's pizza that Dave's Hot chickens everywhere.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yeah, I got you, all right, very good.

Speaker 5 (28:18):
Yeah. So the reason I called it originally though, was
you were talking about, you know, the NBA playoffs, you know, overall,
and I just I'm so thankful that I grew up
in the era of you know, Jordan and being able
to understand what he was doing and how amazing it was.
Got to see him live one time in Chicago, which
was amazing. But it's like eighty seven points and a half.

(28:41):
I remember Nicks Pacers games that ended at like seventy
two points you know per team. You know, it's like, yeah, it's.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
Just well, to be fair, though, do Zach to be fair?
People complained about that too, right, they're like, this is terrible.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
I remember in the night.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yeah, people complained about Mike Vitello and pat Riley ruining
the NBA. I know, I remember doing monologues God forbid
and and people can play all it's just terrible. They're
just too physical and they're not letting them play basketball.
They're grabbing in the whole thing. So they complained about it.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
People love to complain.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
One or negative nancies, negative mates as they're called, right,
and the some Warriors, but you know, they're just totally
different eras in basketball, football, et cetera, baseball. But what
I did want to share was this part. This is
the NBA playoffs where I don't who's the clear kind
of favorite, like after the upsets that have happened in

(29:38):
Boston and Cleveland, you know, being the favorite and you know,
Minnesota and Curry going down with the Warriors, like who
is Like anybody can win and that's pretty exciting to
think about, Like literally any of these remaining teams could
win realistically.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Yeah, I don't know. I mean you say that, I
still I'm not I'm not there.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
I mean, we'll see how this right, you know, in
the moment, Yeah, things at this moment would do the show.
Obviously today that's the mantra. So sure you could make
that argument. I still don't.

Speaker 5 (30:11):
I mean, it often makes one extra three pointer of
the past two games they went on, you know, but
they're not making the changes, like you said, they're not
doing the adjustments. They're living by the three dying by it.
But it's like, obviously there's a hierarchy of the remaining
teams that are most likely to win, YadA YadA. But
it's like, you know, Halliburton is over here being called,

(30:32):
you know, the most overrated by his peers, and now
he's out here being mister clutch, you know. And I
really appreciate an admire that his dad acted a fool
and he's the of the the older generation his dad
and Halliburton came in with you know, respect and and
you know, are like, his dad shouldn't have done that,
and et cetera.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
I thought, well, by the way, how how how pissed
must Tyree Haliburton's dad be that he's not allowed to
go to the games. And his kids said two of
the great performances of his career since he since he
got banned from the arena.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
It's like it's he earned.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
It after what he did to seeing the sun do that,
to be honest and all that, but it's like he
didn't get to see the sun do his next game
winner and again his son is Peers have called him
the most overrated player, and now here he is with
two clutch, huge shots, and I think it's really cool
how he handled the whole scenario.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
I gotta leave it there, Zach.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
I gotta get some other people on, but thank you
to be safe out there driving around Seattle.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
There delivering the hot chicken to the to the people
they need. They need their chicken. They need their hot chicken.
Very important.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
Let's go to uh, who do we have? Let's go
to Ben, who's in Michigan. Hello, Ben, Welcome, It's Ben
and Ben in the overnight.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Hello Ben, Hello.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Again, there's a delay. I don't understand the delay. There's
no doing this live. There's no delay like on the
I mean you're on the phone. There's no Yes, Ben,
you're on the air.

Speaker 4 (32:01):
Hello, Hello, Are you talking to me?

Speaker 2 (32:07):
No, I'm talking to the guy over on the side
over there. I don't know if it's adult here, if
they're idiot's Ben?

Speaker 1 (32:14):
Damn, Oh, damn, okay, well that then, okay, let me
let me direct my rage at lead a lap Lee.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
How do you get Dan? How do you get Ben
out of.

Speaker 6 (32:25):
Daily to him is a Ben ben Webb, Ben Webb
in Michigan.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
You got it?

Speaker 4 (32:33):
Wait?

Speaker 1 (32:33):
Wait wait, wait, So your name is Dan, your name
is your Your name is not Ben Webb.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
No, it's Dan.

Speaker 5 (32:45):
Last night it was Daniel and I won here trivia.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Okay, all right, hold is it so? Lee? Oh no, no, no, no,
I can't let this go. I can't let this Okay.
The color calls up. You say, hey, Fox Sports Radio,
what's your name? Where you call him? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (33:02):
And he says, my name is Dan, I'm in Michigan,
and you get Ben.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Webb in Michigan. That is is outstanding.

Speaker 6 (33:10):
That is correct. That is what happened. But as I
always do, I always repeat their name back to them.
As you can tell, I'm having a hard time with
a few of these callers.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
Yeah said, what was the one last night? Oh god,
that was a good one. Well, ourselves was hard for
me to our cell was hard. No, it was it
two nights ago. It was like pet O, remember Pete?
Oh yeah, you said that. You guy's name was and
it was like, uh, what was his real name? It
was not Peto. I forget what he said, but it
was yeah.

Speaker 6 (33:34):
Anyway, Well, usually when I repeat their names back to them,
they always just say yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
So I was like, all right, there you go. That's
the name. All right, let's go back to Dan.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
No, No, definitely not Dave. You're definitely Dan.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
Yeah, Okay, thank you, all right, I'm done. Nah, no
more calls this hour. I can't handle this. My god,
I'm gonna have a headache. Holy crap.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
That was bad. Now, just between us, don't let my
bosses know how bad this segment is. Please do not
let them know. Joe the ghost.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
Hunter writes in from Ohio. He says, Ben, I bet
that caller was Sasquatcher. What about a ghost? Maybe, Joe,
maybe that was a ghost?

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Do do do do Do Do do do.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Boso the District Attorney writes and said, there's no way
that caller from Rochester was AI. There was nothing about
that call that was intelligent, artificial, or otherwise.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Very funny.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
Boso Alf the Alien opliner says, Ben, thanks to malor
prop guy, we have our hats ready for you to.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Go full coast to Coast.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
Super Marcus Steve writes in he says, this is the
problem with letting that loser, Mike the Leprechaun on the
air as much as you do. Other new callers are
certain to think that these are the types of calls
that you want.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
Get rid of.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
Mike the Leprechaun will equal no more bad calls.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
He's trash.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
I like how everything it's It's the not the six
degrees of Kevin Bacon, It's the six degrees of Mike
the Leprekhan.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
He's the Michig Gossip. Super Marcus Steve is is next
next level. Mark says I hate Ron more than e Dog.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
No more calls for the man that saved sports radio,
says says Mark, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
What that was.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
I I've never I know, I've done TV a little bit.
We have that We've been lucky enough to do the
TV show the last two years, and we do the
show from Universal Studios. It's out of Boston, it's produced
out of Boston, So there's a satellite delay, Like I know,
there's a delay, like I'm I know there's a delay
between what we're saying and what that's that happens in
television live radio, like if you're listening, there's a lake

(35:47):
because guys like Toning the Bay Area call up and
say bad, bad words. But when you're on hold, you're
hearing the live feed, you're not hearing the delay. Anyway,
we're gonna have mallarly third Degree. We'll get to that
time now for the insta Trivia in honor of the
memory of the late great Eddie Garcia. He's not dead,
he's not working. In Over the last three years, the
Dallas Stars have scored eleven goals and Miko Rantnan has

(36:11):
eleven points in NHL history. The only other player to
have ten or more points in a three game span
while scoring or assisting on every one of his team's
goals regular season or the playoffs was blank. That's the
ins to Trivia, the Answer and Mallard of the Third Degree.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Next.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Miller and you It is the Ben Mahler Show, up
all night, every single night on the show, and you
can stream the show and all the other Fox Sports
Radio programs live twenty four to seven New and improved
iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
Just search Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
In the app to stream us live and one of
the newest features in the app is that you can
select Fox Sports Radio is one of your presets, just
like the presets on a radio dial. Be sure to
preset Fox Sports Radio in the iHeartRadio app and also
Ben Maller Show in Fifth Hour podcast. It'll always pop
up at the top of the screen. Time Now for

(37:12):
the Insta trivia, and here it is. Over the last
three games, the Dallas Stars have scored eleven points and
Miko Rantnan has eleven points as well. In NHL history,
the only other player to have ten or more points
over a three game span while scoring or assisting on
every one of his team's goals regular season of the
playoffs was blank.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
That is the question. What is the answer?

Speaker 1 (37:35):
Jim Rockford guessed by barbecuing lynn Wayne Gretzky from Harry,
although he misspelled Wayne Gretzky's name somehow.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
I don't know how you do that.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
Steve Rogers from Scrooge, Dick Trickle from Random Ryan in Carolina,
a very popular name. Who else we have Gorlock the
Destroyer from the Mexican John Dutton Charlie Simmer from alf
The Alien of Piner.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
Who else will we have?

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Marcel Dion Triple Crown winner for the La Kings from
Stuck in Sacramento, Gordon Bombay.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
From King Rory. Who else do we have? Page Down?

Speaker 1 (38:06):
Mike the Leprechaun from Milkman, Mike page Down, Tanya Harding
from JT The Wingman A Legend the meth Raccoon from
Donkey Sausage.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
I saw that.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
That's a good story. I have to talk about that
this weekend on the podcast. Ron tug Nutt from Andy
and Lion o' lakes. All right, Loraina, do you have
an answer?

Speaker 2 (38:24):
Loring? Yes, Zach Effron before his chin job. Wow, No,
that's the answer. Is Mario Lemieux Mario Lenieu back in
nineteen eighty nine, before I was alive. All right, here
we go. It's maller. How about that?

Speaker 3 (38:40):
The third?

Speaker 5 (38:41):
Here we go. I think you're older than that.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Ben, this is one big Ben gets grilled Lorraine. That
was on the air, Lorraine lead a while Ben Terry Yes.

Speaker 6 (38:52):
Terry Gill recently listened to his top five current quarterbacks,
including Mahomes, Burrow, Allan, Lamar Jackson, and even Baker Mayfield,
notably leaving off his own quarterback to uh Is it
a problem.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
Yes, it is a massive problem, Tyreek Hill. He wants
to be traded to me. The better story though thee
is he had surgery on his wrist. Did you see
what he was eating in the hospital.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
What was that? Chick fil A?

Speaker 1 (39:15):
That's what I would eat in the hospital. He had
somebody delivered chick fil A. He was in the hospital bed.
He just had an operation and he was eating Chick
fil A.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
That's a bit. That's healthy fast food there, Ben Well, sure,
absolutely right next Ben.

Speaker 6 (39:29):
Following the trade of Pickings to Dallas, the Steelers are
rumored to be interested in Amari Cooper, Rogers former teammate
Ellen Lazard, and even Gave Davis, who was just released
by the Jags. Do any of these receivers move the
needle for you or mister Rogers.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
Well, obviously, Alan Lazard is a safety blanket for Aaron Rodgers,
so that would be the one.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
This is.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
I would like to think the Steelers are not going
to fall for the same trap that the Jets did
and just bring a bunch of Rogers toadies to Pittsburgh.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
But otherwise Why would you bring the lizard in? He's
not that good. Next quick bite.

Speaker 6 (39:58):
We know the Draft is set into DC after Pittsburgh.
Baltimore's pushing to host it afterwards. Is charm City deserving
of this prestigious event.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
Yes, they should hold in Baltimore.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
They should hold the draft at my friend's sports with
Coleman's home in Baltimore in his front yard. They can
hold it right there. There'll be fifteen people that will
show up in Baltimore.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
How did we do? I'd go. That's a pass I passed.
I won Ron in Rochester. I'm a winner. I won
the game.