May 2, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about LeBron James' status with the Lakers moving forward, JJ Redick's "get into championship shape" comment after the season, Austin Reaves and his struggles during the playoffs, Lame Jokes of the Week, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dingdong. It's our number three, our number three, and the
post mortem, the autopsy on the downfall of the team
that was guaranteed to win the championship at the trade deadline,
the Lakers. What is your judgment on Lebron James and
his status with the Lakers? Lebron being called out by
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a number of pundits and former players for his pathetic
play in the fourth quarter. Also, what do you make
of the get into championship shape quote from JJ Reddick.
He did not name any individual players. He said the
Lakers have to get into championship shape. What does that mean? Also,
Austin Reeves admitted that his struggles in the first round
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loss were his fault. He took responsibility. How concerned should
the Lakers be with him going forward as he was
a total flop in the opening round of the playoffs. Well,
talk about all of that and more right now here.
It is our number three. A parade of excuses. It
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is just a parade of excuses, that's all.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
It is.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
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La Land. The post mortem that we're doing, the autopsy
on the Lakers. The body's dead there, killed by Rudy
Gobert of all peoplekes I saw video of Aunt Edwards
doing a victory lap around the arena there in La
but it should have been Rudy Gobert that was doing
a victory lap. So the autopsy on the Lakers getting
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tossed into the ocean done in the NBA playoffs. So
Lebron James has been called out for his vanishing act.
The greatest player of all time at the end of
every one of those games was measurably bad. So if
you haven't been keeping track, you've got pundit After pundit
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barking about Lebron this and all that. That's fine comments
that was sent to me by several listeners was a
former NBA player named Jeff Tigue who was pretty average.
It was an All Star one year, played mostly for
the Atlanta Hawks. So Jeff Tigue said that Lebron James
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doesn't care about the game anymore. He's laughing and joking
in the middle of a playoff game. And that has
been the sentiment. That has been the sentiment that Lebron's
just not into it, that he's been doing this for
so long, he's just numb to it all. So let
us discuss the question, what is your judgment on Lebron
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James and his approach, his attitude, his status, if you will,
all of those different things with the Lakers. So I've
got Motley Crue, Gift Basket, and the Vampire Diaries, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make crunchy talk is what We're going
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to make, delicious crunchy tacos. So, first of all, Lebron
James gets a C for his Laker tenure this season
as in content, right, I see a guy who is
content I see a guy who is traveling down the
winding road is called Glory Road. Lebron is playing at
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this point for two reasons. He's playing at this point
because he wants to continue to have that access to
all the Hollywood friends and all that that he's assembled
since he got to LA And obviously for his kid
who can't play who he's forced on the Lakers, Bronnie James,
who took up a roster spot. And he doesn't have
the Mamba mentality right Like you know, Kobe Bryant at
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the end of his career was broken down and was
a shell of what he had been, but he approached
the game the same way that he had in his
younger days. And I look at Lebron and I don't
think Lebron ever had that. I don't think he had
that approach. However, he did have a much different attitude
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than he appears to have at this point. It's just blase.
Am I wrong on that? It just feels blase? And
I was criticized in a previous hour by my producer
Justin Cooper for pointing out Lebron James as the most
overrated player in the NBA right now. But the proof
is in the pudding, or in this case, the record.
The last fourteen playoff games the Lakers have had with
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Lebron James, they're two and twelve. They are two and
twelve in their last fourteen playoff games. At this point,
Lebron is like Vince Neil, you know Vince Neil at
Motley Crue music legend, right, I don't really have the
music gene, but I understand he's had some difficulty in
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the vocal department, which is a problem if you're in
that world. And because of his age and you're a
rock and roll guy, you make some decisions with the sex,
drugs and rock role and all that, and mainly the
sex and the drugs, and it impacts your ability to
at this point in your life to deliver the type
of performance that people grew accustomed to. And so what
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happens is you're not obviously in your heyday. Lebron. We
know he's not in his heyday, and he still looks
like Adonis. And during the regular season the numbers are there.
There's a little slippage, but like an old singer, it's
a lot of nostalgia. It's a lot of nostalgia at
this point. He's very, very dependent on the people around him.
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Much like Vince Neil needs his bandmates and all that
to pick him up, Lebron needs his teammates to pick
him up. Now, would the Lakers move on from Lebron
James this offseason? And the only answer to that is
n plus oh no, Right, should they move on? Yes, like,
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just allow Luca to be the center of the universe
and just build the team around Luca and that's it.
But they don't have the balls to do that. They
don't the Lakers. One of the great flaws of that franchise.
They got a terrible owner, one of the worst owners
in sports, Genei Bus. Lebron is an aging headliner, and
that franchise has been infected with celebrity worship syndrome. They
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are a mix of jock sniffers, Yeah, jock sniffers and
star efforts. For example, take a listen to skinny jeans
Rob Polinka. All right, listen to Rob Polinka here. Now,
if you're running the Lakers, shouldn't you go out and say, listen,
my job is to put the top team on the
court for the franchise, for the fans, and for the people.
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They are here listen to what Rob Polinka stated. The
agenda is for the Lakers and the offseason tailing.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Lebron is a goat, you know, one of the goats
of the game. And he's been a completely selfless leader.
And I think we saw that in this playoff series,
moving to playing more off the ball and committing to
the defensive end.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
And I think it's just a testament to his championship
DNA and character.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And I think Lebron's going to have high expectations for
the roster and we're going to do everything we can
to meet those. But I also know that whatever it is,
he's going to still give his one hundred percent every night.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Wow, what you heard right there was Rob Polinka. It
was like he was at a seven to eleven and slurpy, slurpy, slurpey,
if you know what I mean. All right now. Secondly,
what an embarrassment that is? My God, speaking of embarrassments,
your head coach is a schmuck and a podcaster. JJ Reddick,
the first year coach who's now I guess is going
to be back. I would have fired him. He made
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a comment that has gone viral in the autopsy. The
day after his team was beaten by Rudy Gobert. You
know how many coaches have advanced in the NBA playoffs
because Rudy Gobert sucks. JJ Reddick allowed Rudio Bear to
turn into Godzilla. Anyway, So the comment that has a
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lot of legs here is Reddick said he urged the
roster to quote get in championship shape. Okay, that's what
he said about. Again, here's rather than me give you
the full quote, here's JJ Redick. This is the money quote.
Take a list.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
I'll start with the offseason and the work that's required
in an offseason to be.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
In championship shape.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
And you know, we have a ways to go as
a roster, and certainly there are individuals that were in
phenomenal shape.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
There's certainly other ones that could have been in better shape.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
That's where my mind goes immediately is you know, we
have to get in championship shape.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Okay, so what do you make of that get into
championship shape? That's from podcaster JJ Reddick, who's mask a
Laker coach. Okay, so every man, woman and child knows
he's talking about what Hohoko Luca. He's obviously talking about Luca,
but he didn't have the balls to say that right
and just come out and name Lucas. So he said,
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we have to get a championship shape. Who else on
the team's not in shape? Who? Seriously? And isn't it
your job as the coach of the team to make
sure the players are in shape? Like isn't that part
of the job? Am I mistaken? Is that now not
part of the job? Like, isn't that part of the deal?
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I know you got the training staff and you got
eight million assistant coaches and all that, but how is
that not part of the deal? Like during the season
the only big addition was Luca Dunje And what really
JJ Reddicks saying you have to be in shape because
I might not play anyone other than you for the
entire game, so you better be in shape. It's also
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a way to pass the blame, is it not. It's
a way to pass the blame. Every everyone knew that
Luca was jumbo sized when he came over from Dallas.
And if you didn't know that, you weren't paying attention.
Because Nico Harrison and the people around the Mavericks, they
leaked to anyone that would listen tubby, tubby tubby. He's
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a tubby tubby tubby, you know. And then the Lakers, well,
he's just big boned. You know, it's genetics, it's big
bone and all that. But again, instead of calling Luca out, JJ,
the podcaster used the cliff notes version of what Lebron does?
Lebron you know, and I know why they're their besties,
No wonder their besties, right, JJ Reddick and Lebron are
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the princes of passive aggressive behavior, subtle insults, little stubbornness.
Do you act like a child? Very unlikable. Now, Luca,
I would imagine when he left the Laker facility. At
his close out interview, the Lakers, JJ Reddick gave him
a gift basket and in the gift basket was a
membership to twenty four hour Fitness and a cost size
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container Ovo zempic. Right here, you go, knock yourself out,
have a great offseason, and here's some hookah for you
as well. Now, nothing is going to change, right, nothing
is going to change because Luca is still a very
productive player, and he's it's one of those things that
he's fit fat. During the regular season, he can get
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his numbers put up great stats and late in games
he becomes a plump chump Layton games. That's a problem.
I ain't nothing's gonna really go upside down in that direction.
I'd be stunned if that's the case. Any of he
shows up in shape, he'll start eating donuts every day
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and that'll be that all right now, final thought. So,
one of the other people being called out here as
we do the autopsy, as Rudy Gobert killed the Lakers,
Minnesota advances Austin Reeves. I am old enough to remember
when I was told Austin Reeves is the greatest third
option in the NBA. I was told that he's an
all star level, all star level ballplayer. How lucky are
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the Lakers Austin Reeves. They found the next big thing,
the perfect compliment to Luca and Lebron. Well, if you
saw the series between LA and Minnesota, Austin Reeves was
a ghost, not a friendly ghost. He was just a ghost.
And he admitted that he sucked at a time you
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cannot suck. He essentially admitted that he was in the
very front seat on the vomit comet. In the postseason.
He took responsibility for the performance against Minnesota. How concerned
should the Lakers be with Austin Reeves going forward? So
on the malor scale of concern one to ten, with
ten being oh my god, playoff harden, Oh my god,
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I'm out an eight. I'm at an eight. And this
is a reality check. It just is a reality check, right,
because Austin Reeves was on this magic carpet ride during
the regular season. He was having massive offensive games on
a regular basis, and the dopes who follow the NBA
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and are supposed to be the real ones that know everything,
they were talking him up, up selling Austin Reeves as
the number three option, the greatest number three option of
the NBA, All star level talent and all of this.
It turns out he was the iceman, but not the iceman,
the ice cube man. He melted under the heat of
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playoff basketball. It was the Vampire Diaries, and he saw
the sunlight. He saw the sunlight. Now, what is my evidence?
All right? Austin Reeves played more minutes in the playoffs
and on average and was measurably worse. Reeves scoring average
from the regular season of the playoffs was down almost
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twenty percent, almost twenty percent. His true shooting percentage fell
thirteen percent. He was taking less efficient shots from the
regular season, he was forcing shots. But wait, there's more.
Austin Reeves field goal percentage was down, his three point
shooting was down, and so he was playing against the
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team that was able to defend him in Minnesota, and
he did not have an answer. His turnovers increased, his
assist decreased across the board. Now, the question that must
be asked is is this a one off? We don't know? Right?
Is this what you're gonna get? And if this is
what you're gonna get, it doesn't matter what other moves
you make, you're cooked. You're absolutely cooked. If this is
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the player who's a fraud in the plus and right now,
you'd have to say Austin Reeves is a fraud, a
total fraud. The way that he played, I'm just judging
him off the body of his work. It is the
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But time now for the Mallor Riddle Love the Day.
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And here's the Mallor Riddle Love to Day. TNTs Kevin Harlan,
who admitted to me at the Super Bowl a couple
years ago, he's a listener to our show. Can you
believe that? Kevin Harlan. Yeah, he's a He travels a lot. Obviously,
TNT flies back. He lives in Kansas City, and he
says he does hear our show when he's flying back
in the early morning hours. How cool is that? Kevin
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Harlan of TNT recently made a joke about blank while
doing a commercial read during the NBA Playoffs. Again, TNT's
Kevin Harlan recently made a joke about blank while doing
a commercial read during a recent ENA playoff game. That
is the Mallord Riddle of the day. The answer, We'll
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get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
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Act accordingly, and now back to it all, right, back
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those podcasts download numbers. We're two months behind in honor
of Tony the Bay Area, but time to pay off now.
The malor riddle of the day. TNT's iconic broadcaster Kevin
Harlan made a joke about blank while doing a commercial
read during a recent NBA playoff game. That is the question,
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what is the answer, and let's see here does any
one know the answer? Alf the Alien Opiner says he
made a joke about truck tires. What else? Ants had
a ticnick from Asher? What else do we have? Hardest
level in doom history? Finally getting beat from ferg Dog
(20:22):
Budgie in Boston said Magic Johnson's old late night talk
show Mister Irrigation going with radical left wing media legacy
media guy and Don Lemon Okay, calm down, mister irigishon
fact checkers from King Rory, that's his answer. Late night
drug testter says John Elway's poor uber reviews while page
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down here. Patrick in San Diego got it right, bad
job by him. Eke in Roseville, Minnesota says growing up
in Green Bay is the answer. Milkman Mike in Colorado
says he made fun of blind Scott's phone calls. That
is the answer. Who else do we have? Super Marcus
Steve in SoCal says Kevin Harlan made a joke about
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weed man hippie being able to finally buy his cardboard
box instead of renting it using Rocket mortgage, even you
can own your home. Well, thanks for listening to these sponsors.
I appreciate that. Fat Daddy says. Kevin Harlan made a
joke about weed Man and Lizzo smoking paprika. All right,
what else do we have? Made a joke about private
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parts when doing a Viagra ad from Mike the Leprechaun
from the Boston area. Who else do we have? Gunner
is pro clipper now, so Gunner's come full circle. Terry
in England says it was a joke about Lizzo, but
that was the answer. All right, Lorraine, do you have
an answer? It is the Mallard riddle of the day.
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Kevin Harlan made a joke recently about blank while doing
a commercial read during a recent NBA playoff game on TNT. Okay, easy,
that is a great answer, is that right? Let's see here? No?
Also also not a nine year old girl guessed by
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Andy and lion O Lakes, Minnesota the correct answer. Kevin
Harlane recently made a joke about tariffs terrifs.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
That was going to be my other guest no joke,
and then I was like, no, I'm not getting into politics.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Okay, Oh, I really did.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Threw my lip really bad though.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
What were you eating?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Non?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
How do you get injured eating? Non?
Speaker 5 (22:42):
There's no my teeth got confused.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Really are you doing any medication here? Could that be
part of the problem? No, very unfortunate. Let's go to
the phones. Let's say, oh, by the way, before we
get the phones, cool, do we have podcast numbers? Coop? Now,
this is Tony in the Bay Area. He's always curious
where people are listening to the show. Last time we
did this in February, Ohio was the top state other
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than California, because we usually do very well in California.
But other than that, I think it was Ohio was
number two.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
That is correct, And we do have the updated numbers
for the last thirty days.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
All right, last thirty days. Here we go.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
First, of course, just you know, for a little extra
info here, Canada is our number two country.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And we will be in Canada later this month. We
are just weeks away. Oh Cada. We love our Canadian
brothers and sisters. Been on the air there a lot
Cooper Loop and we will be flying in to Vancouver
coming up on the What day are we looking at?
It is twenty ninth of the month here. So we
are twenty seven days away from flying in in a
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meet and greet that night in Vancouver. I'll post some
details later today and also on Saturday, we'll be to soccer.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
That's right. And you know when you because I can
click down, I can click on each country here and
look at the top cities in the country. Okay, by
far and away, the most downloaded or the most podcast
downloads in Canada comes from Vancouver.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
All right, that's my man. All Right, we're gonna have
a great We're gonna have a great turnout. I can't
wait now. I don't want to say this on the air,
but we talked about like wardrobe. I think we're all
in agreement what we're planning to do, right, We're all
kind of going in that direction, right.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
Something today?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Okay, I've not I've not made the purchase, but I'm
thinking I'm gonna do that this weekend and then assuming
it arrives in time, I will all be good.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Should we have everyone do it or just us?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I think, well, we don't want to. I don't know
if we want to give it away on the air.
I mean, we do it, we all do it. I
think that's fine.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Okay, okay, just make it.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I'm just kidding. So we're doing very well in Canada,
that's great.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Yes, France is the number three country.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
All right, how about that? That's right, the people of Love, right, Peri,
the city of Love and all of France and all
that one.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
That is correct. And and of course Paris is the
top city in France for podcast downloads.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
But let's go, you know why, because I'm an a
hole and people in Paris respect it.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Yeah, probably right, all right, so let's go. Let's go
to the United States.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
So and Amica America call my home.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
This is very fascinating to me how much this changes
from month to month, because let's.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
See what we were number one in Ohio last an.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
Eight, Ohio has fallen to eighth place. Oh my god, yes.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Bad job by Ohio slackers. Losers.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
California is number one, and I don't think that'll probably
ever change.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
The fourth largest economy in the world or something like that.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Yeah, and and plus you know it's that's sorry time
we're on and you know our home base here, the
mother ship. Yeah, number two is Texas. Oh oh, I'm
sorry the guests.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
I was hoping to guess, but I don't need to
guess now, Okay, So look at that we're doing well
in Texas. You think that's all the people in California
that moved to Texas listening to the show.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
I don't know it could be. But interestingly enough, Texas
does not even appear in the top like like twelve cities.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Oh, it's a very large state too, I goes on,
that's true. No passo down to the the Gulf of
Mexico or America. So Texas is number two. What do
we got number three? Uh, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
No, Pennsylvania is not in the top ten.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh, let me guess.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Let me guess. M I S S I S S
I P. That's your guess.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
That's a terrible Guah, you're a horrible Not a lot
of people live there. Number one and number two, I mean,
what do you do?
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Okay, jeez, Mississippian all of their pro sports teams. No,
it's not Mississippi. Number three is Florida.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Oh the Sunshine. I do get a lot of interaction
with people who live in Florida, so we do get
a lot of email, and that's not a great way
to judge things. But there's a lot of people that
like to email me that give me all kinds of
information about their their life and all that. All right,
So Florida, any other key facts? Any other countries other
than US Canada that we are you said, France, So
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that's number three.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
So yeah, Australia is number four, okay, and then the
United Kingdom, UK, New Zealand, Netherlands.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
As Terry in England likes to point out, many of
our listeners are hiding from authorities so they use VPNs.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
So yes, who knows, uh, you know, number four on
the state list and this is kind of I feel
like these guys their mainstay in the top five. The
order changes a lot month to month, but these guys
always in the top five.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Minnesota, damn damn right, that's where we did the Mallard
meet and greet back a couple of years back in
Minnesota because they love the show. I might have to
go back to Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
That's right. And Washington rounds up rounds out the top five.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
All right, well let's go to Washington right now. Thank
you all for listening to the show live and the podcast.
John There's no way Johnson Johnson Seattle, is he still there?
Are you still there, John in Seattle. There's no way
you're still there, John, you can't be there. You had
to hang up, right, he's gone, he's got to be gone.
Has he gone?
Speaker 7 (28:44):
Or you got John Tongue.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Oh, don't hang up, John, don't hang up Johnny?
Speaker 7 (28:50):
Oh there bs countries.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Oh do you.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
Remember in a favorite private Ryan when the Jeremy guy. Oh, say,
can you see sech your liberty?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Bro?
Speaker 6 (29:03):
That's where I was at. I was almost there.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Oh. Man triggered, Well, we're not planning on doing that.
Very violent. We don't know.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
I was.
Speaker 7 (29:18):
I was ready to be gush. Say can you see?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (29:23):
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
More important, more importantly, who cares about that? Everything okay?
With your side? Check? Everything okay with your side? Chick?
You everything all right?
Speaker 7 (29:32):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (29:35):
And and you know everything is good where?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Okay? You've made up. You two kids have made up.
You're okay. That's good. Okay. Do you have any advice
John to Bill Belichick and his sugar baby, any advice
you'd like to give Belichick?
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (29:55):
Stay off social media?
Speaker 8 (29:57):
That was my advice.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
The stay up.
Speaker 8 (30:00):
And I want to say this. I'm gonna get some
need for this. How come it's okay for okay, how
come it's okay for him to be seventy something and
she's twenty?
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Oh I know where he's going with this.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
Oh yeah, you already know, you already know. And Shannon's
choka chick is Belichick?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Yeah something like yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
Bo chick and Choka chick.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
You know, it's funny that you bring this up. John.
I was going to ask Ben this like literally yesterday
on the radio. I mean, look, because I mean, Shannon's
getting a lot of heat for like, you know, you're
a fifty something year old man, why are you dating
a twenty year old? But let's also and then the
reason I didn't bring it up on the air is
because Shannon's being accused of like raping her and Bill
(31:00):
Belichick is not. But what you're right, he's still getting
keyped for the age difference.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Well, although the finance didn't the woman want oh wait, no,
isn't the story Shannon Sharp offered her? Was it ten million? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (31:14):
And she turned it down? Or no, yes, offer five
or something or I don't I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I thought I thought it was ten and she turned
it down. But Belichick his side chick or I don't
know if it is his main chick. But she's got
nine million in real estate. So that's that she took
the deal. Uh, Shannon Sharp offered the deal, the deal
was not accept Belichick's lady friend took the deal. She
had nine million in real estate. Now she was a
cheerleader doing makeup before she met Belichick. Uh yeah, John, John,
(31:47):
I'm sure your your side. Chick's got millions too, right
from you, you probably took.
Speaker 7 (31:51):
Care of Oh no, she's just a freaking nurse, that's
all she is.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Well, that doesn't sound bad to me. I don't know.
I mean, uh, Belishick probably be interested in that.
Speaker 9 (32:01):
But anyway, yes, and I think everyone should just stat
in their uh if anyway, let me get back to
what I really wanted to make it.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Make a great make a great point right now, make
a dazzling point. Make a good point. Put put the
prolation point on the car. Go ahead, make make it
your joint.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
Oh my god, you guys accused me?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Uh j J.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Reddick is the problem because Bro, we had the best
defensive team and he shrunk our team down to nothing.
Speaker 8 (32:41):
Like what the heck? How can't you shrink the Lakers
are the best team when you when you put everyone.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
Involved, keep submitting people.
Speaker 8 (32:52):
Keep not submitting people.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
My god, that's a different conversation. Yeah, all right, I
got your You're upsee I thank you, John touch great advice. Hey,
our friend John and Seattle and everyone should date a
freaky nurse. According to the John and Seattle. That's all
you need right there, No freak, a little freak.
Speaker 8 (33:13):
All right.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Anyway, we'll press on. We're gonna have Big Ben's Lame
Jokes of the Week for the rest of the hour.
Big Ben's Lame Jokes of the Week. We'll get to that,
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We blame week. It's Big Man's lame joke of the week,
lame jokes jokes of the week, not the singular jokes
of the week. Is weed Man? There? Do we have
the the weed Man? That's the laugh track of the
lame jokes of the week. I don't hear him. Apparently
(34:30):
we don't have there. He is weed Man. I notice
you don't call other than this anymore? Your big time
that week? No, no, no, no, I'm gonna call every
night for the next couple of weeks. Really, Oh yeah,
you're true? Do you promise?
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah?
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All right, here we go. Are you ready to you
sound like you're your little nasal? You're under the weather everything? Okay, No,
I'm good, all right, thanks for the birthday present. I
believe I'm very kind of you to get me nothing.
I thank you for that. All right, here we are
Big Ben's lamb jokes. I've given you nothing, You've given
me nothing. Oh, here we go. Let's change it up
(35:08):
a little bit. This we do some other joke. Why
does Lorena want to burn Mike the Leprechaun with an
iron Why she wants to press her luck? Is she
what she wants to do? That's Kurt from Earth. Well,
apparently Mike the Leprechaun is scared of Lorena getting a
lot of mail weed.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
Man.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Why yeah, I guess she's going postal on him soon.
That's Kurt from Earth again. I feel like that's a
data term. How did William Shatner celebrate my birthday?
Speaker 8 (35:41):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
New diaper? He got a new diaper. That's Tony in
the Bay Area. Why. Why did blind Scott boycott the show?
Why he was in a blind fury? That's why. Did
you hear about the recent John Elway incident on the
(36:03):
golf course?
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Yeah, it does change the meaning of the drive. Now.
That's JJ, JJ and Kirby from East Long Beach near
the pyramid there. We thanked them for that. What NBA
award did John Morant win? Unanimously? What best shooting guard?
Best shooting guard? That's Chip in Maine, Naked Chip, very nice. Here.
(36:33):
Did you hear that Anthony Edwards was fined fifty thousand
for verbally comparing his manhood with a Laker fan?
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Yeah? Oh yes? After visually inspecting both parties, NBA Commissioner
Adam Silver agreed with Edwards and doubled the fine. Doubled it.
That's Gordon Tacoma. What do you call blind Scott's Stocker mentality?
What blind? That's Crewe in Minnesota. We sent that in.
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It's Big Bends. Lame jokes of the week. These are
actual jokes by actual listeners to the show. How do
you kill one hundred flies?
Speaker 6 (37:11):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Smack weed Man Hippie in the face. That's John in Youngstoud, Ohio.
What was the worst bud weed Man got on four
to twenty? What your roommate? That's Eric in Kansas. What
did Weedman and his roommate watch on movie Night? What
(37:37):
ten Things I Hate about you? That's Eric in Kansas? Again,
you got any jokes over there?
Speaker 8 (37:44):
Coop?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Let me see hold on, Okay, while you're working on that,
did you hear that President Trump is going to cancel
the Obama phone programs? Here about that?
Speaker 6 (37:55):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Yeah, apparently Trump was enraged. Weed Man hippiees phones sounds
better than Ben's. That's Toman. What is the difference between
mouthwashed Mike and weed man hippie? What Mike baze regularly
the Blagio and has fresh breath. That's shipping man. I hope,
(38:18):
I hope mouthwashed. Mike is okay. We've not heard from
him in a while. I hope he's all right. How
can weed Man solve his roommate problem? Ow move out
back on the streets. No more roommate. That's Noah in Austin,
all right?
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (38:36):
What?
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Boy? I don't know. If I could read this by
a probish, you'd skip over that one. I want to
have a job on Monday. What are Lizzo's fondest memories
from her college softball career? What the pizza parties? You
win pizza, you lose pizza. That's surfer Todd the comedian. Well,
(38:58):
Lizzo accidentally rubbed catch up in her eyes weed mane? Wow? Yeah?
What's that all? Bet? She now has Heine's sight. Econ
rose to a Minnesota coop? You got anything over there, coop?
Speaker 5 (39:13):
What is weed Man Hippie's favorite candy?
Speaker 8 (39:18):
Right?
Speaker 5 (39:18):
Gummies? Because he has no teeth?
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (39:24):
What?
Speaker 1 (39:25):
What is the title of Lizzo's autobiography? What pigmy? That's
a chip in Maine.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
If any bright Side sent my job on beg you,
Benny bright Side.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Why should you always be bruly honest to Lizzo? Why
because if you sugar croat your words, She's gonna try
to eat them. That's that's Noah Noah in Austin. Why
does Lizzo get better service than anyone from the United
States Postal Service? Why she has her own ZIP code?
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That's Terry in Saint Paul. Right there there it is
Big Ben's lame jokes. We thank you, weed Man. You're
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hippie from Miami Yard Buddy Lame Jokes of the Week.
Dingdong. It's our number three, our number three, and the
post mortem, the autopsy on the downfall of the team
that was guaranteed to win the championship at the trade deadline,
the Lakers. What is your judgment on Lebron James and
his status with the Lakers? Lebron being called out by
(00:22):
a number of pundits and former players for his pathetic
play in the fourth quarter. Also, what do you make
of the get into championship shape quote from JJ Reddick.
He did not name any individual players. He said the
Lakers have to get into championship shape. What does that mean? Also,
Austin Reeves admitted that his struggles in the first round
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loss were his fault. He took responsibility. How concerned should
the Lakers be with him going forward as he was
a total flop in the opening round of the playoffs. Well,
talk about all of that and more right now here.
It is our number three. A parade of excuses. It
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is just a parade of excuses, that's all.
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La Land. The post mortem that we're doing, the autopsy
on the Lakers. The body's dead there, killed by Rudy
Gobert of all peoplekes I saw video of Aunt Edwards
doing a victory lap around the arena there in La
but it should have been Rudy Gobert that was doing
a victory lap. So the autopsy on the Lakers getting
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tossed into the ocean done in the NBA playoffs. So
Lebron James has been called out for his vanishing act.
The greatest player of all time at the end of
every one of those games was measurably bad. So if
you haven't been keeping track, you've got pundit After pundit
(03:55):
barking about Lebron this and all that. That's fine comments
that was sent to me by several listeners was a
former NBA player named Jeff Tigue who was pretty average.
It was an All Star one year, played mostly for
the Atlanta Hawks. So Jeff Tigue said that Lebron James
(04:16):
doesn't care about the game anymore. He's laughing and joking
in the middle of a playoff game. And that has
been the sentiment. That has been the sentiment that Lebron's
just not into it, that he's been doing this for
so long, he's just numb to it all. So let
us discuss the question, what is your judgment on Lebron
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James and his approach, his attitude, his status, if you will,
all of those different things with the Lakers. So I've
got Motley Crue, Gift Basket, and the Vampire Diaries, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make crunchy talk is what We're going
(05:01):
to make, delicious crunchy tacos. So, first of all, Lebron
James gets a C for his Laker tenure this season
as in content, right, I see a guy who is
content I see a guy who is traveling down the
winding road is called Glory Road. Lebron is playing at
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this point for two reasons. He's playing at this point
because he wants to continue to have that access to
all the Hollywood friends and all that that he's assembled
since he got to LA And obviously for his kid
who can't play who he's forced on the Lakers, Bronnie James,
who took up a roster spot. And he doesn't have
the Mamba mentality right Like you know, Kobe Bryant at
(05:46):
the end of his career was broken down and was
a shell of what he had been, but he approached
the game the same way that he had in his
younger days. And I look at Lebron and I don't
think Lebron ever had that. I don't think he had
that approach. However, he did have a much different attitude
(06:08):
than he appears to have at this point. It's just blase.
Am I wrong on that? It just feels blase? And
I was criticized in a previous hour by my producer
Justin Cooper for pointing out Lebron James as the most
overrated player in the NBA right now. But the proof
is in the pudding, or in this case, the record.
The last fourteen playoff games the Lakers have had with
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Lebron James, they're two and twelve. They are two and
twelve in their last fourteen playoff games. At this point,
Lebron is like Vince Neil, you know Vince Neil at
Motley Crue music legend, right, I don't really have the
music gene, but I understand he's had some difficulty in
(06:50):
the vocal department, which is a problem if you're in
that world. And because of his age and you're a
rock and roll guy, you make some decisions with the sex,
drugs and rock role and all that, and mainly the
sex and the drugs, and it impacts your ability to
at this point in your life to deliver the type
of performance that people grew accustomed to. And so what
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happens is you're not obviously in your heyday. Lebron. We
know he's not in his heyday, and he still looks
like Adonis. And during the regular season the numbers are there.
There's a little slippage, but like an old singer, it's
a lot of nostalgia. It's a lot of nostalgia at
this point. He's very, very dependent on the people around him.
(07:35):
Much like Vince Neil needs his bandmates and all that
to pick him up, Lebron needs his teammates to pick
him up. Now, would the Lakers move on from Lebron
James this offseason? And the only answer to that is
n plus oh no, Right, should they move on? Yes, like,
(07:55):
just allow Luca to be the center of the universe
and just build the team around Luca and that's it.
But they don't have the balls to do that. They
don't the Lakers. One of the great flaws of that franchise.
They got a terrible owner, one of the worst owners
in sports, Genei Bus. Lebron is an aging headliner, and
that franchise has been infected with celebrity worship syndrome. They
(08:23):
are a mix of jock sniffers, Yeah, jock sniffers and
star efforts. For example, take a listen to skinny jeans
Rob Polinka. All right, listen to Rob Polinka here. Now,
if you're running the Lakers, shouldn't you go out and say, listen,
my job is to put the top team on the
court for the franchise, for the fans, and for the people.
(08:45):
They are here listen to what Rob Polinka stated. The
agenda is for the Lakers and the offseason tailing.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Lebron is a goat, you know, one of the goats
of the game. And he's been a completely selfless leader.
And I think we saw that in this playoff series,
moving to playing more off the ball and committing to
the defensive end.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
And I think it's just a testament to his championship
DNA and character.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And I think Lebron's going to have high expectations for
the roster and we're going to do everything we can
to meet those. But I also know that whatever it is,
he's going to still give his one hundred percent every night.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Wow, what you heard right there was Rob Polinka. It
was like he was at a seven to eleven and slurpy, slurpy, slurpey,
if you know what I mean. All right now. Secondly,
what an embarrassment that is? My God, speaking of embarrassments,
your head coach is a schmuck and a podcaster. JJ Reddick,
the first year coach who's now I guess is going
to be back. I would have fired him. He made
(09:47):
a comment that has gone viral in the autopsy. The
day after his team was beaten by Rudy Gobert. You
know how many coaches have advanced in the NBA playoffs
because Rudy Gobert sucks. JJ Reddick allowed Rudio Bear to
turn into Godzilla. Anyway, So the comment that has a
(10:07):
lot of legs here is Reddick said he urged the
roster to quote get in championship shape. Okay, that's what
he said about. Again, here's rather than me give you
the full quote, here's JJ Redick. This is the money quote.
Take a list.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
I'll start with the offseason and the work that's required
in an offseason to be.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
In championship shape.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
And you know, we have a ways to go as
a roster, and certainly there are individuals that were in
phenomenal shape.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
There's certainly other ones that could have been in better shape.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
That's where my mind goes immediately is you know, we
have to get in championship shape.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Okay, so what do you make of that get into
championship shape? That's from podcaster JJ Reddick, who's mask a
Laker coach. Okay, so every man, woman and child knows
he's talking about what Hohoko Luca. He's obviously talking about Luca,
but he didn't have the balls to say that right
and just come out and name Lucas. So he said,
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we have to get a championship shape. Who else on
the team's not in shape? Who? Seriously? And isn't it
your job as the coach of the team to make
sure the players are in shape? Like isn't that part
of the job? Am I mistaken? Is that now not
part of the job? Like, isn't that part of the deal?
(11:33):
I know you got the training staff and you got
eight million assistant coaches and all that, but how is
that not part of the deal? Like during the season
the only big addition was Luca Dunje And what really
JJ Reddicks saying you have to be in shape because
I might not play anyone other than you for the
entire game, so you better be in shape. It's also
(11:55):
a way to pass the blame, is it not. It's
a way to pass the blame. Every everyone knew that
Luca was jumbo sized when he came over from Dallas.
And if you didn't know that, you weren't paying attention.
Because Nico Harrison and the people around the Mavericks, they
leaked to anyone that would listen tubby, tubby tubby. He's
(12:15):
a tubby tubby tubby, you know. And then the Lakers, well,
he's just big boned. You know, it's genetics, it's big
bone and all that. But again, instead of calling Luca out, JJ,
the podcaster used the cliff notes version of what Lebron does?
Lebron you know, and I know why they're their besties,
No wonder their besties, right, JJ Reddick and Lebron are
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the princes of passive aggressive behavior, subtle insults, little stubbornness.
Do you act like a child? Very unlikable. Now, Luca,
I would imagine when he left the Laker facility. At
his close out interview, the Lakers, JJ Reddick gave him
a gift basket and in the gift basket was a
membership to twenty four hour Fitness and a cost size
(13:00):
container Ovo zempic. Right here, you go, knock yourself out,
have a great offseason, and here's some hookah for you
as well. Now, nothing is going to change, right, nothing
is going to change because Luca is still a very
productive player, and he's it's one of those things that
he's fit fat. During the regular season, he can get
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his numbers put up great stats and late in games
he becomes a plump chump Layton games. That's a problem.
I ain't nothing's gonna really go upside down in that direction.
I'd be stunned if that's the case. Any of he
shows up in shape, he'll start eating donuts every day
(13:42):
and that'll be that all right now, final thought. So,
one of the other people being called out here as
we do the autopsy, as Rudy Gobert killed the Lakers,
Minnesota advances Austin Reeves. I am old enough to remember
when I was told Austin Reeves is the greatest third
option in the NBA. I was told that he's an
all star level, all star level ballplayer. How lucky are
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the Lakers Austin Reeves. They found the next big thing,
the perfect compliment to Luca and Lebron. Well, if you
saw the series between LA and Minnesota, Austin Reeves was
a ghost, not a friendly ghost. He was just a ghost.
And he admitted that he sucked at a time you
(14:25):
cannot suck. He essentially admitted that he was in the
very front seat on the vomit comet. In the postseason.
He took responsibility for the performance against Minnesota. How concerned
should the Lakers be with Austin Reeves going forward? So
on the malor scale of concern one to ten, with
ten being oh my god, playoff harden, Oh my god,
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I'm out an eight. I'm at an eight. And this
is a reality check. It just is a reality check, right,
because Austin Reeves was on this magic carpet ride during
the regular season. He was having massive offensive games on
a regular basis, and the dopes who follow the NBA
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and are supposed to be the real ones that know everything,
they were talking him up, up selling Austin Reeves as
the number three option, the greatest number three option of
the NBA, All star level talent and all of this.
It turns out he was the iceman, but not the iceman,
the ice cube man. He melted under the heat of
(15:34):
playoff basketball. It was the Vampire Diaries, and he saw
the sunlight. He saw the sunlight. Now, what is my evidence?
All right? Austin Reeves played more minutes in the playoffs
and on average and was measurably worse. Reeves scoring average
from the regular season of the playoffs was down almost
(15:54):
twenty percent, almost twenty percent. His true shooting percentage fell
thirteen percent. He was taking less efficient shots from the
regular season, he was forcing shots. But wait, there's more.
Austin Reeves field goal percentage was down, his three point
shooting was down, and so he was playing against the
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team that was able to defend him in Minnesota, and
he did not have an answer. His turnovers increased, his
assist decreased across the board. Now, the question that must
be asked is is this a one off? We don't know? Right?
Is this what you're gonna get? And if this is
what you're gonna get, it doesn't matter what other moves
you make, you're cooked. You're absolutely cooked. If this is
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the player who's a fraud in the plus and right now,
you'd have to say Austin Reeves is a fraud, a
total fraud. The way that he played, I'm just judging
him off the body of his work. It is the
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But time now for the Mallor Riddle Love the Day.
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in the early morning hours. How cool is that? Kevin
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Harlan of TNT recently made a joke about blank while
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Kevin Harlan recently made a joke about blank while doing
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it all. Interact with the live show. Say hello on
X at Ben Maller, that's at Ben Mallard, Lorraina in
a goofy mood, goofy mood. FSR Tech Queen Hi, don't
(19:09):
talk to me, Cooper Loop. Uh, Bronco fan, that's a
Bronco fan. Your comments can and we'll be used against
you in the court of sports talk radio. So act accordingly,
Act accordingly, and now back to it all, right, back
to what we go as I Ben, We'll get to
(19:32):
those podcasts download numbers. We're two months behind in honor
of Tony the Bay Area, but time to pay off now.
The malor riddle of the day. TNT's iconic broadcaster Kevin
Harlan made a joke about blank while doing a commercial
read during a recent NBA playoff game. That is the question,
(19:56):
what is the answer, and let's see here does any
one know the answer? Alf the Alien Opiner says he
made a joke about truck tires. What else? Ants had
a ticnick from Asher? What else do we have? Hardest
level in doom history? Finally getting beat from ferg Dog
(20:22):
Budgie in Boston said Magic Johnson's old late night talk
show Mister Irrigation going with radical left wing media legacy
media guy and Don Lemon Okay, calm down, mister irigishon
fact checkers from King Rory, that's his answer. Late night
drug testter says John Elway's poor uber reviews while page
(20:45):
down here. Patrick in San Diego got it right, bad
job by him. Eke in Roseville, Minnesota says growing up
in Green Bay is the answer. Milkman Mike in Colorado
says he made fun of blind Scott's phone calls. That
is the answer. Who else do we have? Super Marcus
Steve in SoCal says Kevin Harlan made a joke about
(21:07):
weed man hippie being able to finally buy his cardboard
box instead of renting it using Rocket mortgage, even you
can own your home. Well, thanks for listening to these sponsors.
I appreciate that. Fat Daddy says. Kevin Harlan made a
joke about weed Man and Lizzo smoking paprika. All right,
what else do we have? Made a joke about private
(21:30):
parts when doing a Viagra ad from Mike the Leprechaun
from the Boston area. Who else do we have? Gunner
is pro clipper now, so Gunner's come full circle. Terry
in England says it was a joke about Lizzo, but
that was the answer. All right, Lorraine, do you have
an answer? It is the Mallard riddle of the day.
(21:51):
Kevin Harlan made a joke recently about blank while doing
a commercial read during a recent NBA playoff game on TNT. Okay, easy,
that is a great answer, is that right? Let's see here? No?
Also also not a nine year old girl guessed by
(22:13):
Andy and lion O Lakes, Minnesota the correct answer. Kevin
Harlane recently made a joke about tariffs terrifs.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
That was going to be my other guest no joke,
and then I was like, no, I'm not getting into politics.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Okay, Oh, I really did.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Threw my lip really bad though.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
What were you eating?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Non?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
How do you get injured eating? Non?
Speaker 5 (22:42):
There's no my teeth got confused.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Really are you doing any medication here? Could that be
part of the problem? No, very unfortunate. Let's go to
the phones. Let's say, oh, by the way, before we
get the phones, cool, do we have podcast numbers? Coop? Now,
this is Tony in the Bay Area. He's always curious
where people are listening to the show. Last time we
did this in February, Ohio was the top state other
(23:12):
than California, because we usually do very well in California.
But other than that, I think it was Ohio was
number two.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
That is correct, And we do have the updated numbers
for the last thirty days.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
All right, last thirty days. Here we go.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
First, of course, just you know, for a little extra
info here, Canada is our number two country.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And we will be in Canada later this month. We
are just weeks away. Oh Cada. We love our Canadian
brothers and sisters. Been on the air there a lot
Cooper Loop and we will be flying in to Vancouver
coming up on the What day are we looking at?
It is twenty ninth of the month here. So we
are twenty seven days away from flying in in a
(23:57):
meet and greet that night in Vancouver. I'll post some
details later today and also on Saturday, we'll be to soccer.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
That's right. And you know when you because I can
click down, I can click on each country here and
look at the top cities in the country. Okay, by
far and away, the most downloaded or the most podcast
downloads in Canada comes from Vancouver.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
All right, that's my man. All Right, we're gonna have
a great We're gonna have a great turnout. I can't
wait now. I don't want to say this on the air,
but we talked about like wardrobe. I think we're all
in agreement what we're planning to do, right, We're all
kind of going in that direction, right.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
Something today?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Okay, I've not I've not made the purchase, but I'm
thinking I'm gonna do that this weekend and then assuming
it arrives in time, I will all be good.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Should we have everyone do it or just us?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I think, well, we don't want to. I don't know
if we want to give it away on the air.
I mean, we do it, we all do it. I
think that's fine.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Okay, okay, just make it.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I'm just kidding. So we're doing very well in Canada,
that's great.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Yes, France is the number three country.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
All right, how about that? That's right, the people of Love, right, Peri,
the city of Love and all of France and all
that one.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
That is correct. And and of course Paris is the
top city in France for podcast downloads.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
But let's go, you know why, because I'm an a
hole and people in Paris respect it.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Yeah, probably right, all right, so let's go. Let's go
to the United States.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
So and Amica America call my home.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
This is very fascinating to me how much this changes
from month to month, because let's.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
See what we were number one in Ohio last an.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
Eight, Ohio has fallen to eighth place. Oh my god, yes.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Bad job by Ohio slackers. Losers.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
California is number one, and I don't think that'll probably
ever change.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
The fourth largest economy in the world or something like that.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Yeah, and and plus you know it's that's sorry time
we're on and you know our home base here, the
mother ship. Yeah, number two is Texas. Oh oh, I'm
sorry the guests.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
I was hoping to guess, but I don't need to
guess now, Okay, So look at that we're doing well
in Texas. You think that's all the people in California
that moved to Texas listening to the show.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
I don't know it could be. But interestingly enough, Texas
does not even appear in the top like like twelve cities.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Oh, it's a very large state too, I goes on,
that's true. No passo down to the the Gulf of
Mexico or America. So Texas is number two. What do
we got number three? Uh, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
No, Pennsylvania is not in the top ten.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh, let me guess.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Let me guess. M I S S I S S
I P. That's your guess.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
That's a terrible Guah, you're a horrible Not a lot
of people live there. Number one and number two, I mean,
what do you do?
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Okay, jeez, Mississippian all of their pro sports teams. No,
it's not Mississippi. Number three is Florida.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Oh the Sunshine. I do get a lot of interaction
with people who live in Florida, so we do get
a lot of email, and that's not a great way
to judge things. But there's a lot of people that
like to email me that give me all kinds of
information about their their life and all that. All right,
So Florida, any other key facts? Any other countries other
than US Canada that we are you said, France, So
(27:45):
that's number three.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
So yeah, Australia is number four, okay, and then the
United Kingdom, UK, New Zealand, Netherlands.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
As Terry in England likes to point out, many of
our listeners are hiding from authorities so they use VPNs.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
So yes, who knows, uh, you know, number four on
the state list and this is kind of I feel
like these guys their mainstay in the top five. The
order changes a lot month to month, but these guys
always in the top five.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Minnesota, damn damn right, that's where we did the Mallard
meet and greet back a couple of years back in
Minnesota because they love the show. I might have to
go back to Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
That's right. And Washington rounds up rounds out the top five.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
All right, well let's go to Washington right now. Thank
you all for listening to the show live and the podcast.
John There's no way Johnson Johnson Seattle, is he still there?
Are you still there, John in Seattle. There's no way
you're still there, John, you can't be there. You had
to hang up, right, he's gone, he's got to be gone.
Has he gone?
Speaker 7 (28:44):
Or you got John Tongue.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Oh, don't hang up, John, don't hang up Johnny?
Speaker 7 (28:50):
Oh there bs countries.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Oh do you.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
Remember in a favorite private Ryan when the Jeremy guy. Oh, say,
can you see sech your liberty?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Bro?
Speaker 6 (29:03):
That's where I was at. I was almost there.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Oh. Man triggered, Well, we're not planning on doing that.
Very violent. We don't know.
Speaker 8 (29:18):
I was.
Speaker 7 (29:18):
I was ready to be gush. Say can you see?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (29:23):
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
More important, more importantly, who cares about that? Everything okay?
With your side? Check? Everything okay with your side? Chick?
You everything all right?
Speaker 7 (29:32):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (29:35):
And and you know everything is good where?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Okay? You've made up. You two kids have made up.
You're okay. That's good. Okay. Do you have any advice
John to Bill Belichick and his sugar baby, any advice
you'd like to give Belichick?
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (29:55):
Stay off social media?
Speaker 8 (29:57):
That was my advice.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
The stay up.
Speaker 8 (30:00):
And I want to say this. I'm gonna get some
need for this. How come it's okay for okay, how
come it's okay for him to be seventy something and
she's twenty?
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Oh I know where he's going with this.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
Oh yeah, you already know, you already know. And Shannon's
choka chick is Belichick?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Yeah something like yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
Bo chick and Choka chick.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
You know, it's funny that you bring this up. John.
I was going to ask Ben this like literally yesterday
on the radio. I mean, look, because I mean, Shannon's
getting a lot of heat for like, you know, you're
a fifty something year old man, why are you dating
a twenty year old? But let's also and then the
reason I didn't bring it up on the air is
because Shannon's being accused of like raping her and Bill
(31:00):
Belichick is not. But what you're right, he's still getting
keyped for the age difference.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Well, although the finance didn't the woman want oh wait, no,
isn't the story Shannon Sharp offered her? Was it ten million? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (31:14):
And she turned it down? Or no, yes, offer five
or something or I don't I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I thought I thought it was ten and she turned
it down. But Belichick his side chick or I don't
know if it is his main chick. But she's got
nine million in real estate. So that's that she took
the deal. Uh, Shannon Sharp offered the deal, the deal
was not accept Belichick's lady friend took the deal. She
had nine million in real estate. Now she was a
cheerleader doing makeup before she met Belichick. Uh yeah, John, John,
(31:47):
I'm sure your your side. Chick's got millions too, right
from you, you probably took.
Speaker 7 (31:51):
Care of Oh no, she's just a freaking nurse, that's
all she is.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Well, that doesn't sound bad to me. I don't know.
I mean, uh, Belishick probably be interested in that.
Speaker 9 (32:01):
But anyway, yes, and I think everyone should just stat
in their uh if anyway, let me get back to
what I really wanted to make it.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Make a great make a great point right now, make
a dazzling point. Make a good point. Put put the
prolation point on the car. Go ahead, make make it
your joint.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
Oh my god, you guys accused me?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Uh j J.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Reddick is the problem because Bro, we had the best
defensive team and he shrunk our team down to nothing.
Speaker 8 (32:41):
Like what the heck? How can't you shrink the Lakers
are the best team when you when you put everyone.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
Involved, keep submitting people.
Speaker 8 (32:52):
Keep not submitting people.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
My god, that's a different conversation. Yeah, all right, I
got your You're upsee I thank you, John touch great advice. Hey,
our friend John and Seattle and everyone should date a
freaky nurse. According to the John and Seattle. That's all
you need right there, No freak, a little freak.
Speaker 8 (33:13):
All right.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Anyway, we'll press on. We're gonna have Big Ben's Lame
Jokes of the Week for the rest of the hour.
Big Ben's Lame Jokes of the Week. We'll get to that,
we'll do it neck.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
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(33:48):
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get off the air.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Knock knock, who's there? Blame?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
We blame week. It's Big Man's lame joke of the week,
lame jokes jokes of the week, not the singular jokes
of the week. Is weed Man? There? Do we have
the the weed Man? That's the laugh track of the
lame jokes of the week. I don't hear him. Apparently
(34:30):
we don't have there. He is weed Man. I notice
you don't call other than this anymore? Your big time
that week? No, no, no, no, I'm gonna call every
night for the next couple of weeks. Really, Oh yeah,
you're true? Do you promise?
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
All right, here we go. Are you ready to you
sound like you're your little nasal? You're under the weather everything? Okay, No,
I'm good, all right, thanks for the birthday present. I
believe I'm very kind of you to get me nothing.
I thank you for that. All right, here we are
Big Ben's lamb jokes. I've given you nothing, You've given
me nothing. Oh, here we go. Let's change it up
(35:08):
a little bit. This we do some other joke. Why
does Lorena want to burn Mike the Leprechaun with an
iron Why she wants to press her luck? Is she
what she wants to do? That's Kurt from Earth. Well,
apparently Mike the Leprechaun is scared of Lorena getting a
lot of mail weed.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
Man.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Why yeah, I guess she's going postal on him soon.
That's Kurt from Earth again. I feel like that's a
data term. How did William Shatner celebrate my birthday?
Speaker 8 (35:41):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
New diaper? He got a new diaper. That's Tony in
the Bay Area. Why. Why did blind Scott boycott the show?
Why he was in a blind fury? That's why. Did
you hear about the recent John Elway incident on the
(36:03):
golf course?
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Yeah, it does change the meaning of the drive. Now.
That's JJ, JJ and Kirby from East Long Beach near
the pyramid there. We thanked them for that. What NBA
award did John Morant win? Unanimously? What best shooting guard?
Best shooting guard? That's Chip in Maine, Naked Chip, very nice. Here.
(36:33):
Did you hear that Anthony Edwards was fined fifty thousand
for verbally comparing his manhood with a Laker fan?
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Yeah? Oh yes? After visually inspecting both parties, NBA Commissioner
Adam Silver agreed with Edwards and doubled the fine. Doubled it.
That's Gordon Tacoma. What do you call blind Scott's Stocker mentality?
What blind? That's Crewe in Minnesota. We sent that in.
(37:04):
It's Big Bends. Lame jokes of the week. These are
actual jokes by actual listeners to the show. How do
you kill one hundred flies?
Speaker 6 (37:11):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Smack weed Man Hippie in the face. That's John in Youngstoud, Ohio.
What was the worst bud weed Man got on four
to twenty? What your roommate? That's Eric in Kansas. What
did Weedman and his roommate watch on movie Night? What
(37:37):
ten Things I Hate about you? That's Eric in Kansas? Again,
you got any jokes over there?
Speaker 8 (37:44):
Coop?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Let me see hold on, Okay, while you're working on that,
did you hear that President Trump is going to cancel
the Obama phone programs? Here about that?
Speaker 6 (37:55):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Yeah, apparently Trump was enraged. Weed Man hippiees phones sounds
better than Ben's. That's Toman. What is the difference between
mouthwashed Mike and weed man hippie? What Mike baze regularly
the Blagio and has fresh breath. That's shipping man. I hope,
(38:18):
I hope mouthwashed. Mike is okay. We've not heard from
him in a while. I hope he's all right. How
can weed Man solve his roommate problem? Ow move out
back on the streets. No more roommate. That's Noah in Austin,
all right?
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (38:36):
What?
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Boy? I don't know. If I could read this by
a probish, you'd skip over that one. I want to
have a job on Monday. What are Lizzo's fondest memories
from her college softball career? What the pizza parties? You
win pizza, you lose pizza. That's surfer Todd the comedian. Well,
(38:58):
Lizzo accidentally rubbed catch up in her eyes weed mane? Wow? Yeah?
What's that all? Bet? She now has Heine's sight. Econ
rose to a Minnesota coop? You got anything over there, coop?
Speaker 5 (39:13):
What is weed Man Hippie's favorite candy?
Speaker 8 (39:18):
Right?
Speaker 5 (39:18):
Gummies? Because he has no teeth?
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (39:24):
What?
Speaker 1 (39:25):
What is the title of Lizzo's autobiography? What pigmy? That's
a chip in Maine.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
If any bright Side sent my job on beg you,
Benny bright Side.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Why should you always be bruly honest to Lizzo? Why
because if you sugar croat your words, She's gonna try
to eat them. That's that's Noah Noah in Austin. Why
does Lizzo get better service than anyone from the United
States Postal Service? Why she has her own ZIP code?
(39:57):
That's Terry in Saint Paul. Right there there it is
Big Ben's lame jokes. We thank you, weed Man. You're
the best. You're the greatest, Buddy, the great weed Man
hippie from Miami Yard Buddy Lame Jokes of the Week.
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