May 14, 2025 • 36 mins
Ben Maller talks about who deserves the blame for the Nuggets collapse down the stretch against the Thunder, the opinion that the Nuggets have just run out of gas because they're lacking depth, Too Much or Not Enough, #QueenofHearts w/ LaReina, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ding Dong. We are right at the door your audio
door here and our.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Number three, our number three, the question who deserves the
most of the Rocky Mountain Blame Trout for Denver's collapse
down the stretch, as OKC is one win away from
the conference finals, as Denver had the lead going to
the fourth quarter and blew it. The popular opinion by
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popular people is that the Niccola Jokic Nuggets have just
run out of gas because they're lacking depth in the
fourth quarter of these games. Does that work for you?
And what are the chances in Portland, Oregon that the
Trailblazers who are for sale now stay on the Oregon Trail.
We'll talk about that and more right now. It's a
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hammer dunk in our number three. Watch out from that
thunder down under the NBA. Welcome in the beginning of
another hour of the Ben Malor Show. We are in
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Speaker 1 (01:50):
Random. I don't know that's true or not, but he
said he said it, so it's kind of a random
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Speaker 2 (01:58):
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the center square as the NBA playoff schedule continuously late game.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Were you watching? I know Kyrie in OKAC was watching.
I know that.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I don't know if you were watching. But the pivotal
Game five. The winner of Game five and a time
series often goes on to win the series.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah bruh.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
All right, So you got the Joker Nuggets versus SGA
and the Thunder the set up to two. And if
you missed the game, Shade jogis Alexander getting it done,
the ex Clipper who's gonna win the MVP barring some
kind of shocking upset. Shade jogis Alexander thirty one points,
all cat On up and Oklahoma City trailing going to
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the fourth quarter. They were down at one point by
double digits. They worked all the way back and they
get the win over the Denver basketball team. They win
by seven, and they're up three games to two in
the Western Conference semi finals. So the Thunder overcame a
domination situation by the Joker. And the other day of
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the story was he's worn out, The Jokic is washed up.
All of a sudden, he's out of energy, and then
he goes out puts up a forty four burger fifteen
rebound night for Nicola Jokic, and it wasn't enough. So
OKC can punch their ticket to the Final four of
the NBA on Thursday. That game in Denver in Denver,
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So let us discuss the question who deserves the most
Rocky Mountain blame trout. That's what we're doing, the rocky Mountain,
not oysters, the blame trout for Denver's collapse in the
fourth quarter, down the stretch of the game. So I've
got loaf, lung capacity, and night writer, and we will
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combine all of these things together, and we are going
to give you a couple of pharmacy grade ibuprofen because
you probably have a headache if you like the Nuggets.
The better story, though, is in that locker room, the
losing locker room. So that is where we will go.
And my first thought on who deserves the blame, let's
start out with Jamal Murray and then we'll move on
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to Michael Porter, but we'll start with Jamal Murray, who
is the number two option. Look, so I had this
game on I four go. I gave up watching baseball.
I watched this game so you would not have to.
And Jamal Murray was playing at a very high level.
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He was playing above his skill level.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I would argue. For much of the game.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
He had twenty four points going to the fourth quarter
and was playing relatively well. There was like a stretch
where he missed a bunch of shots, but other than
that he was doing pretty well. Through three quarters. He
was playing the role of the helper to Yoki, and
then they flipped the clock to the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Game on the line.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Jamal Murray in crunch time took six shots, missed five
of them, had four points, no assists, one turnover, and
was useless for the most part on the court. He
rode the vomit comet Jamal Murray road de vomit coming
now Michael Porter, who was delivering daggers in the previous
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round against the Clippers and has made big shots here
as well.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Lousy from soup to nuts. Not good, not good.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
The sorcery that this cat had, Porter, Hey, Porter, the
sorcery that he had earlier in the playoffs flickered and
faded in this game.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
And he had a cardio fourth quarter. There's a theme.
He had the cardio fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
No points, no rebounds, no assist, oh three shooting. You
get a zero, you get a zero, you get a zero,
you get a zero. A lot of zeros overall. Porter
took seven shots in the game. He was one for seven. Now,
I didn't play in the NBA. I don't think that's good.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
You're just the overnight guy.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Okay, that was putastic. Two points in twenty nine minutes
from a starting ballplayer. Two points in twenty nine minutes.
But from top to bottom, from top to bottom, the
supporting actors for the Nuggets served up a fool's gold loaf.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
A fool's gold loaf, as.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Mike, who lives in the Denver area, told me via email,
this is a local delicacy in the Denver area. He
wanted me to include this, he said, I would not
do it, so in you fasce Mike, I included it.
So what is a Fool's gold gloaf?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
You ask?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
So it is a hollowed out loaf of bread, warmed
and stuffed, kind of like OKC handed the Nuggets. They
were a hollowed out loaf of bread in the fourth
quarter and they were warmed and then they got stuffed
by Okay. See Denver shot in the final minutes of
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this game. Denver shot less than twenty four percent five
of twenty one. They missed sixteen of their twenty one
shots on the fourth quarter from the floor from free
point land less than ten percent, one of twelve, one
of twelve from three point land. Now, secondly, there's a
theme among the basketball elites that I would like to address.
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As you know, I mean theme buster, not a MythBuster,
a theme buster. So the popular opinion by popular people
is that the Nicola jokicch Nuggets have just run out
of cass. It is so exhausting, such a struggle these
NBA playoffs. They lack the depth. It's not their fault,
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they just don't have depth. Does this work for you?
Does this work for you? So I am shaking my head. No,
you can't see me, but I'm shaking my no. Now,
this is a good way to play, right, There's a
good way to play dodgeball from responsibility. And that is
a pet peeple Like who knew that the Denver basketball
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team was in a triathlon? That you were starting out swimming,
then you were cycling, and.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Then you were running.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I had no idea the NBA playoffs we're swimming, cycling
and running a triathlon.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
But here we are.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
It is literally and figuratively your job to be in
peak physical condition. You don't play back to back games
in the NBA. You have the top trainers in basketball,
you have the support staff. You stay at five star hotels.
When you're on the road, you're traveled by private chartered
planes that are luxury. You have luxury buses, often with
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police escort to take you around. And we're supposed to
have a pity party because the Denver Nuggets, according to
the media, excuse makers are just they're they're so bedraggled
by what's going on. And the other thing that I
wanted to mention here, because this happens every time a
Denver sports team is in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
What do we get, right?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
We get the same storyline that the Nuggets, they play
in Denver, they have a competitive advantage because of altitude.
Capital a altitude, right, you all got a competitive advantage.
You're superhuman, you live in Denver. You love to brag
about five and eighty feet above sea level. You wear
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that on your jersey. Sometimes that is a flex you flex,
you flex, you flex, you flex. You love that And
as a result of that right you're supposed to have
if you're in you live in altitude. Olympic athletes go
there to train because the theory in the science is
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that you have a super lung capability capacity endurance as
a result of living in altitude. You have improved lung
capacity because you're in altitude, which would mean again all
things leading to endurance. Recovery is boosted because of the altitude,
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increased red blood set l production because of the altitude.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
But yet these dumb dumbs, Oh they're fatigued. Oh my god,
they're so tired. Oh my god, shut up.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Oklahoma City, by the way, I looked it up one
ninety eight feet above sea level. But again, all that matters.
The only thing that matters is what you do in
the moment. The Nuggets have been like a thoroughbred horse.
Of course, that that horse that jumps out of the
gates and is leading and leading and around the track.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
They go, and then down the stretch, down the stretch.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And then they go to have a snack down the stretch.
They're like, I would like a nice snack, and that's it.
So the thunder have outplayed the Nuggets in several key
moments here and so, in addition to Michael Porter and
Jamal Murray, how about Christian Brown, which looks.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Like it should be brawn.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
These guys have come up with a lowercase lowercase.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
For tiny, tiny, very tiny.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
All right, now, final thought, we go to the business
of basketball. One of these franchises for sale. If you
saw this or not, but I thought this was interesting,
worth a.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Worth a mention.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
The estate of the late Paul Allen announcing they have
passed a threshold to avoid having to pay a certain
amount of tax. So Paul Allen's estate announcing that they
are putting the Portland Trailblazers on the market. They can
be yours if the price is right. And they just
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agreed the NBA to a new eleven year, seventy six
billion dollar media deal and all that is a ridiculous
amount of money that the ABC, Amazon, NBC will be
paying the NBA. And so that is part of the
reason that they are getting this team on the market
right now, the Trailblazers. Over the last year years since
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Paul Allen passed. He died in twenty eighteen. And what
a bummer man, You got all that money, dude, you
live in the king and you check out a little early.
That sucks anyway, Paul Allen dead. His sister who's a
bit of a hermit. She's she's been running the team
since twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Now, what are the chances? What are the.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Chances the Blazers stay? Importand anytime a team is on
the market, there's always a chance they leave. That's not
guaranteed you're going to stay. But what are the chances
that the Blazers end up leaving the Oregon Trail. So
I'm gonna set the odds. We'll do the odds on
whether they stay. I'm not gonna be the odds on
them leaving, but the odds that they stay. Based on
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a minutes long deliberation of the available evidence, I'm going
to say the odds are minus three hundred, which is
a seventy five percent chance that the Trail Blazers stay
in Oregon. And there's a couple of reason. Now, I'm
not going to say the Arena lease. Some people have
pointed that out. Well, they got at lease through twenty thirty.
That's not that long. It's twenty twenty five. That's only
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five years. That's nothing, and the team won't be sold
for another year anyway, so it's really like four more years.
And it takes a.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Number of years to build a new arena. So there's that.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
The other extenuating circumstances here, Seattle's gonna get an expansion
team at one point or another. So does somebody sneak
in there and say, well, I'm tired of waiting for
an expansion team. Why don't we just buy the Trailblazers
and we'll move them to Seattle. The Seattle Trailblazers will
change their name or whatever. So that's that's an outside possibility.
But the advice is act right now if you're wanting
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to keep that. I guess the money's all gonna be
donated charity, which must upset Jody Allen and the Allen.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I guess he didn't have any kids or anything. But anyway,
so do you gotta act fast.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
And the person to save the Trailblazers from going outside
of state Oregon is the night writer, Phil Knight, the godfather,
the godfather of Nike, which is small, little mom and
pop Oregon operation, and he tried to buy the team
a couple of years back. He was rejected, rejected, But
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that guy, he didn't have deep pockets. He's got pockets
that go all the way down to the core of
the earth. Worth thirty five billion capital b billion.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Phil Knight the Nike godfather.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
So it turns out at the making shoes and sweatshops
very profitable, very profitable for the bottom line, doing very
well there. He's also on a race against time. See
that's the issue with Phil Knight. Phil Knight is eighty seven,
all right, so he's already in bonus time. He's in
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overtime eighty seven. So if Knight can get the Blazers,
it would be in the family. He's got some kids,
at least one, so it would be in the family.
It could also be under the Knight umbrella. It could
be some problems logistically with business because the NBA and
Nike are in business together, but it.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Would be under the umbrella.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
And then the team would as long as Nike's around
and they're based in Oregon, there'd be no way the
team would leave, you would assume, and there you go. Now,
if Phil Knight doesn't decide to buy the team now
because he says I'm.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Too old or whatever, who else is there?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
So I did some research here and there's not many
people that have the kind of money to buy a
professional sports team that are from Oregon, like Phil Knight's
pretty much it. That's the problem, Like it's Phil Knight
or I don't. Somebody from the outside's gonna have to
go there and bring in an outsider. They could always
move the team. But the co founder of the Dutch
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Brothers Coffee is an Oregonian and the CEO of Columbia
Sportswear is also from from Oregon.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
But they don't. They don't have Nike money. They don't,
No one does.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
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Speaker 2 (17:08):
A couple of notes and we'll pay off the riddle
of the day. Uh, it's with a heavy heart.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I didn't plan on saying this when I came in here.
But that monologue that I did on the Thunder and
the Nuggets, during that monologue, a cockroach killed itself during
that monologue.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, down in the old studio. Oh no, it's on
the other side.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Though the other side there's a dead cockroach went belly up.
Is it in the regular spot, No, it's on the
other side, but it's in the same on that metal area.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
But on the other side.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah, and it just it must have just it just
because I mean, I have my my own track there
that I have created, and there it was not there.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
It was not their previous it was not before. I
think when I make shoeless, well not right now. I've
decided to wear the shoes now. Once I saw the
dead cockroach, I put the shoes back on.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Did you pick up the dead cockroach?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
No? I left it there.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Can I go see if it's a lie?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yes, you can go check it out if you'd like.
You want to do that right now?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I want to do it right. All right, You're going
to take a straight can.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Okay of lace all in there? Hold lot of second No,
not pure. I want like, oh this is empty though.
I like that. They still have puirele. You know, the
pandemic's over a clean hands. Never heard anyone ben They
have soap in the bathroom and wash your hands. You know,
that's usually what we do when we go to the
bathroom and wash your hands.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I'm going to go all right, Lorrain is going to
be our boots on the ground. She's going to walk
to the other side of the studio.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
She's going to put my shoes on all right.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
So Loraine is going to try to figure out whether
the cockroaches is actually dead or just plain dead. Those
cockroaches like to do the rope a dope. They like
to pretend to be dead and then they're not.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Surprise, they do it all the time. Sneaky little thing.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yeah, a little sneaky little cockroaches. So there is she's
taking her headphones off. She's got it back.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I will leave the phones up in case you want
to take any car.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Okay, thank you for that. She's going to leave the building,
leave the studio. She's leaving the board. She's then walking
around the board. She's going to walk out. She's hustling.
She's got to walk out the door. Then she makes
a left turn. Then she's got to make a right turn.
But I think she's going down to the kitchen. She's gone.
She's not gone to the kitchen. She's walking. She's backing up.
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Now she's going forward. She's got to walk down the hall.
Then she's got to make a left turn, go down.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
A long hall, then make a little bit of a
side turn.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
That's a little little bit of a little bit of
a walk, and then on another left and then right
there boom, that's the cocker roach right there. Dead cockroach.
Right when I mentioned the trailblazers. I think that was
the end for the cockroach. It killed itself right there.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Boom.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Done Mather's mentioning the Portland Trailblazers and the monologue let
me take my own life and the cockroach committed cockroach,
you know what? So anyway, here's the end. When is
Loraina returns, we'll get the update whether it's actually dead
or not. Time out for the mallor Riddle of the Day.
Seventy six r Star Paul George by George announced that
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after getting his body and mind healthy, he is finally
ready to get back to blank. Finally ready to get
back to blank? That is the riddle. What is the answer?
And let see does anyone know the answer? We go
to the great unwashed Stevie Meatpaul says, double dribbling wall
sniffing jockstraps is the answer. Page and get on Ben's
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good side. Back to singing Christmas carols to Lorraine. Uh,
mister irrigation said, hang gliding with Don Lemon is the answer.
Lorena is making your way back into the studio. She
has a can of chemicals that she's holding here. Let
me pay off the riddle first. Lorena nature boy, answering
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the Call of the Wild, says PG. Thirteen, is our
ready to start his stand up comedy career? Lady sideburns,
you know the show's doing well with Lady Cyburn's listening.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Ready to get back to pulling fingers again.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Uh shucking and jiving from milkman Mike in Colorado eating
deep fried ranch.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
That's disgusting. From King Rory.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Uh oh wow, justin going going below the belt my man.
Uh strip cribbage from Donkey sausage. That's his answer. Uh
Key says, back to being Lorena sugar daddy.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Okay, Uh no, yeah, the correct answer. Paul George announced
that he after getting his body and mind healthy, I'll
go ahead.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yes, he was going to get back into making a
cockroach circus.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
A cockroach circus? Is that correct?
Speaker 6 (21:48):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Paul George announced, after getting his body of mind healthy,
he is finally ready to get back to podcasting, podcasting podcast.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
All right, let's get the update. Breaking news here.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Believe that my Portland trailblazers mentioned in the monologue Cockroach
committed suicide during that Lorena went over to investigate. She
made the long walk down there. Now, Ferduck says, don't
blame yourself, Ben, I guarantee that cockroach was not driven
to suicide. From listening to your show, Mister irrigation says,
is it a big ass cockroach or the little German version?
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I once found a two pound cockroach dead one time. Wow, Lorena,
what did your investigation determine alive?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
It's alive? It's not.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Okay, heard the drop, Ben, it is a lie.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Are you sure it's alive?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Though?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
How do you know for sure it's alive.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Well, when I walked up to it, its back leg
was still twitching, which is always a sign.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
However, I have you know, I have heard from people
that work in hospice sometimes even when people die, there's
some movements there that take place even after you've checked out.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Twitch a bit. I'll give him that I have been
on hospice myself, but I will send you said video.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Took a video of this. He's very exciting.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
I will also post it to Twitter if the people
if that's what they of.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Course they want that. So this is our live coverage.
This is in depth team coverage.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Watch the video, Ben I like saw said bug.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
So you did you sprayed the bug with chemicals aggressively
and the bug moved? What you were doing this?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yes, but that would they would move even if it
was not like alive, because you're spraying it with something
that a little little cockroach.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I think it was like interesting, Yeah, that exact sound.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
So you're you're reporting it is a live Has it
come through yet? Okay? I have not received it.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Still says there's like a there's like an inch left
on this yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Inch, Okay, I see there you go? All right, I
have not received the.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
No, how about now?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Oh, here we go. Now I've received the attachment. Here,
here we go.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Cockroach on cockroach too, cockroach. It's a love for you.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
I'm lucky I didn't step on it because I could
have totally stepped on it ruined. That would have ruined
my day to go home. I might have yeah, oh
oh yeah, I see it. Yeah, there's definitely a you know,
I think you're right? Yeah, yeah, because you know, you
spray it and it wouldn't move that.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah, what is it waiting for? You think it's just
like resting.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I think he's giving up.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
You think give up situation?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Yeah, he would be on life support if that was
a thing.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
They don't have cockroach life support you.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
No, I'm about to put him outside too.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
This is like the seventy fifth generation of the cockroach family. No,
but I'm saying that this used to be a Denny's.
The Fox Sports radio studios were in. But it was
a Denny's in the nineties, like thirty years ago. It
was a Denny's.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I heard Danny g used to eat here.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Yeah, a lot of people that lived in this area.
What do you eat bad?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Thirty It was a Denny's and so like, think about
how many relatives have lived there. Cock It's life and
checked out and this is like the next generation of
these cockroaches.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
How said, are they the Denny's closed? And that we're here?
But there's a lot of pigs that work here and
leave food around, so it's kind of like work. You know,
it's still the Denny's in many ways.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Don't call me a pig.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Bed. I didn't say the company I'm in right now.
I just said there's people I come in on the
weekends and some people eating five course meals on the weekends. Anyway,
do we need we need to play the game, because
we have a lot of bits, a lot of bits,
bits bits bits, bits bits bits, Ben Meller.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Game, we've endored too many of these? Is it too
much or not enough? All right?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Ready, let's do it A or B A or B.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Hey A B, B A B.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Let's go to a.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Okay, do you have picked hollering James from Minnesota to me?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
James? Yes?
Speaker 7 (25:49):
Are what's squares? Cockroaches?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Oh? That's all hard when ben bugs are cockroaches, bed
busse You.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Can avoid cockroaches.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
The bed bugs bite you.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
The worst is the flying cockroaches. Those are the ones.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
Night sleep. Don't let the bed bugs bite you. Okay,
ed was one of my apartments.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
I'm sure you've had all kinds of critters. James, who
got to play the game? You want to play the game, James,
Let's get in the history of the Ben Mother show.
The greatest win of all time on a game show.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
Swoop poy. No, it was not sleepy play. It was hollering.
James was swoopy ploy Hollering.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
James was fast at Lee back in the old days
when Eddie was on the show and we had him
play this game.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Ready, No, I've never met Edie.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
All right, let's play. Hurry up, let's play play the guy.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Eddie balls ready, I'm ready?
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Question number one, Edwin Diaz, that's a now has one
hundred and forty saves as a New York Met. Is
that too much or not enough?
Speaker 7 (27:06):
Hollering James, first question, Let's see that's not enough?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
He says not enough. Let's find out not oh for long? Yeah,
all right, too much? One hundred and twenty five saves
as a MET that happened on Tuesday, third most behind
John Franco and Armando Benitez.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
All right, question too, James? You ready?
Speaker 7 (27:31):
I guess?
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Bet Nikolea Jokic became the fifth player in NBA history
to have forty plus points fifteen plus rebounds multiple times in.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
A single postseason. Is that too much or not enough?
Speaker 7 (27:46):
Too much?
Speaker 1 (27:47):
All right, let's find out?
Speaker 7 (27:51):
Oh no, I should be sleepy.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Can you fall asleep right now? Maybe we can do it. Yeah,
you sound better when you're actually sleeping.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Well, you're over for to James, you get this one wrong.
The game's over. Question number three on Monday, Anthony Edwards, Oh,
you should get this right. That's a Minnesota player. Anthony
Edwards recorded his tenth playoff game with thirty or more points?
Is that too much or not enough? Hollering James to
stay alive.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
I think you wit the last game. I'm not sure
I say too much.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
All right, let's find out, James. That's as impressive as
you getting it right while you're sleeping, that you.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Got that song.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
I want to hear the song.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Well, we were gonna play it if you won. You
didn't win. I don't know that.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
We ea going out to my best friend in Montana.
No names mentioned?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Yes, no name mentioned, a female from Montana. There's so
many that are part of the show. Well, it's up
to Coop. Coop's got the song. It's not in the system,
so it's up to Coop. He's he's he's got the song,
so if he wants to play, he can play it.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
But that's it.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
I don't just kid.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
How about thirty how about thirty seconds? How about that
thirty seconds? A little taste?
Speaker 7 (29:20):
Get come on? Please for me?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Is this is this a Jay Scoop song? I mean
I believe so.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
The six bills evening and thirty six bills that night,
A months to two in the app.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
It makes me feel all right? Oh Rocket the rain
is rocking it sills in Time of Steve, I bought
in Time of Sports. I bought some people, then show,
and then I bought some more. Sure James, Oh this
is the game show?
Speaker 2 (29:58):
How good steps in the the one who was sleeping James,
where you have a cuss storming? No, Daddy once told me, James,
you be sports covering men one of buffer.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
He turned into you like this song, James, But no,
she hates it. All right, that's enough, thank you, James.
Speaker 7 (30:20):
All right, you're you're, you gotta give me for trying.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah, I'll give you a little, uh, give you a
pity party, and I'll give you a I'll give you
a participation.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
All right, go away, shut up, please sah. Anyway, all right,
here we are.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
We're gonna have the f SR Tech Queen Queen of
Hearts Lorena, and it's her segment.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I'm gonna go out hang out with Bill Miller.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
We're gonna we're gonna smoke some SIGs and Lorena will
take over there and I'll go look at the cockroach
that's playing dead in the hall and all that. But
the Queen of Hearts with Loraina hashtag Queen Hearts eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
You want to speak to Lorena, We'll get to that.
We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Miller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
It's Love It Bars with Little Rain at ten nine
clean Up Hearts, going to help You, gear Rye, get
rye and N gear right and n dear Ry.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
You heard the man. It is time for love here
on the Ben Malle Show. And we love love, don't we. Ben.
You know, I was curious about their love life, Bill Miller.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
You want to talk you about Bill Miller's love life? Curious?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
He always seems so grumpy.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a bad mood.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
He doesn't like work in the overnight. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Well, you know, whenever I had old managers who were
in bad moods, you know, we always used to say, right,
they need to get late.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Bill definitely goes yeah, yeah, yeah, you know it's I
used to have. I had a board op that the
first day I knew, like panicked because he couldn't handle
the hours, like totally wished out.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
It was. It was ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
I had a few of them that have done that
actually over the years, it's it's always tough, you know.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
To handle the heat. Get out of there.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
That's right, But this is not about that, Lorena. There
you go.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Brian writes and says, Lorena, if my wife dies, am
I allowed to fornicate with another woman?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
What a wonderful question.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
That is a very good question. And a lot of
people actually have a hard time with this. I know
it may seem like a joke.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
The vows don't only say till death do us parts?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Do you part? So if you part, sometimes the guilt
lays in your mind, you know. And then what if
you're like doing it and you yell out your old
wife's name, or even worse, you start crying while you're
doing it because all these emotions overflood you. That would
be absolutely devastating and very embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
So you're saying that maybe the first one you should
see a professional, the first one you get.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
That out, to get that out.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Yeah, sure, you know what I'm saying. I understand that out.
Very nice. Tim writes in from Parts Unknown.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
He says, Lorraina, my girlfriend criticizes.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Everything I like, thinks I should only like what she likes. Oh,
I guess he wants he wants some advice on that.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Yeah, that's really hard. It sounds like she probably doesn't
like you very much. I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Wow, shots fire.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
It's one of those things though, where everything irritates you. Yeah,
and it's it's actually because everything you do irritates them,
So you know, maybe try not to be yourself so much.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Try not to be yourself, that's what I said. Wow, Yeah,
I'm rather harsh.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Well, being yourself is obviously putting you into the doghouse
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
So well it should. Isn't that her problem? Not a
heat problem like with somebody.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
You want to be with her or does she want
to be with him?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Clearly he's at the point now where he's annoyed by it,
and he's riding into a radio show about sports to
complain about is a lady friend there?
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Well?
Speaker 2 (33:55):
King Roy writes and says, my wife and I are
celebrating our tenth wedding anniversary. Should we do something special
or just treated as another day and maybe wait until
our twenty fifth anniversary to do something special.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Always embrace the day today. You don't know if you're
going to make it to your twenty fifth anniversary as
sad or dark as that may sound, so you must
embrace today. Book a trip to Europe. Make it big
like the first decade, that's huge, Go big, go big.
We don't even make it to the first year anymore. So, like,
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you know, congratulations, Coop. But you know it's hard. It's
hard to get relationships in these days, So celebrate every milestone.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
All right, Mike writes, and he says, Larta, do you
approve of the firefighter breaking up with his wife at
his birthday?
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Did you see this video? This video went viral.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
I did not see this.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Yeah, New Jersey firefighter birthday party. He found out his
wife was cheating. He had the video evidence, and he
asked for her ring. He made it seem like he
was going to give her a new ring, and then
broke up with her and called her a bunch of
names and said, you know all that.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
So you approve of that?
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Or I mean, how you react when you find out
you're being cheated on is really complicated. He obviously acted out.
I think there's a lot better ways that you could
break up with your.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
You don't approve of in front of all your wife's
friends and your friends. It is actually I just saw
the video. It's actually pretty good.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Ferg Dog says, I recently got married, and I am
already regretting it.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Is it okay to get a divorce over text?
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Yes, of course this isn't working. I don't want to
see your face anymore, or else I'm going to do
something aggressive. So yes, you know, if that's what you
need to do, that's what you need to do.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Yeah, I'm sure that was a great relationship over text.
JT the Wingman writes in says, when.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
They got married over FaceTime? Who's to say this.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Is when I when I'm at Myrtle Beach Bike week
this weekend? Is it wrong for an engaged man to
root for topless female bikers at a rally?
Speaker 1 (35:59):
As long as you window shop, right, Loraine?
Speaker 3 (36:00):
No touching, but you can touch on It's fine, Yeah,
I mean you.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Can look, you could appreciate. It's like art. You can
appreciate art, right.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
And also it's on the community. It's not like you're
going to a special place to pay for this privilege.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Late Night Jerectester says, is writing your Instagram account inside
a graduation cap a good way to pick up a date?
You know, you throw the cap up at the end
of the graduation, so you're right, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
No, I guess that's that's creative for sure. I don't
know if that's going to work for you, but no,
and you could try it. There's better ways, like in Personal.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Queen of Hearts. There you go, lorraina Queen of Hearts
right there. Boom,
Ding Dong. We are right at the door your audio
door here and our.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Number three, our number three, the question who deserves the
most of the Rocky Mountain Blame Trout for Denver's collapse
down the stretch, as OKC is one win away from
the conference finals, as Denver had the lead going to
the fourth quarter and blew it. The popular opinion by
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popular people is that the Niccola Jokic Nuggets have just
run out of gas because they're lacking depth in the
fourth quarter of these games. Does that work for you?
And what are the chances in Portland, Oregon that the
Trailblazers who are for sale now stay on the Oregon Trail.
We'll talk about that and more right now. It's a
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hammer dunk in our number three. Watch out from that
thunder down under the NBA. Welcome in the beginning of
another hour of the Ben Malor Show. We are in
the air everywhere, just like next door neighbors, as we
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are always opened and occasionally satisfying, coast to coast, border
the border and beyond on the vast and discernibly powerful
microphones of FSR emmating live from the seats, the cheap
seats of broadcasting from the Fox Sports Radio studios as
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approved by truck Stop Fungus and JD in Boston. Now,
truck Stop Fungus sent me a message. He said he
was in Seattle and he saw someone he claims defecate
outside of the Mariners Ballpark.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Random. I don't know that's true or not, but he
said he said it, so it's kind of a random
thing to say. Uh, yeah, he did.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
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hour is from oak Lahoma City. The dust Bowl was
the center square as the NBA playoff schedule continuously late game.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Were you watching? I know Kyrie in OKAC was watching.
I know that.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I don't know if you were watching. But the pivotal
Game five. The winner of Game five and a time
series often goes on to win the series.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah bruh.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
All right, So you got the Joker Nuggets versus SGA
and the Thunder the set up to two. And if
you missed the game, Shade jogis Alexander getting it done,
the ex Clipper who's gonna win the MVP barring some
kind of shocking upset. Shade jogis Alexander thirty one points,
all cat On up and Oklahoma City trailing going to
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the fourth quarter. They were down at one point by
double digits. They worked all the way back and they
get the win over the Denver basketball team. They win
by seven, and they're up three games to two in
the Western Conference semi finals. So the Thunder overcame a
domination situation by the Joker. And the other day of
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the story was he's worn out, The Jokic is washed up.
All of a sudden, he's out of energy, and then
he goes out puts up a forty four burger fifteen
rebound night for Nicola Jokic, and it wasn't enough. So
OKC can punch their ticket to the Final four of
the NBA on Thursday. That game in Denver in Denver,
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So let us discuss the question who deserves the most
Rocky Mountain blame trout. That's what we're doing, the rocky Mountain,
not oysters, the blame trout for Denver's collapse in the
fourth quarter, down the stretch of the game. So I've
got loaf, lung capacity, and night writer, and we will
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combine all of these things together, and we are going
to give you a couple of pharmacy grade ibuprofen because
you probably have a headache if you like the Nuggets.
The better story, though, is in that locker room, the
losing locker room. So that is where we will go.
And my first thought on who deserves the blame, let's
start out with Jamal Murray and then we'll move on
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to Michael Porter, but we'll start with Jamal Murray, who
is the number two option. Look, so I had this
game on I four go. I gave up watching baseball.
I watched this game so you would not have to.
And Jamal Murray was playing at a very high level.
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He was playing above his skill level.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I would argue. For much of the game.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
He had twenty four points going to the fourth quarter
and was playing relatively well. There was like a stretch
where he missed a bunch of shots, but other than
that he was doing pretty well. Through three quarters. He
was playing the role of the helper to Yoki, and
then they flipped the clock to the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Game on the line.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Jamal Murray in crunch time took six shots, missed five
of them, had four points, no assists, one turnover, and
was useless for the most part on the court. He
rode the vomit comet Jamal Murray road de vomit coming
now Michael Porter, who was delivering daggers in the previous
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round against the Clippers and has made big shots here
as well.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Lousy from soup to nuts. Not good, not good.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
The sorcery that this cat had, Porter, Hey, Porter, the
sorcery that he had earlier in the playoffs flickered and
faded in this game.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
And he had a cardio fourth quarter. There's a theme.
He had the cardio fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
No points, no rebounds, no assist, oh three shooting. You
get a zero, you get a zero, you get a zero,
you get a zero. A lot of zeros overall. Porter
took seven shots in the game. He was one for seven. Now,
I didn't play in the NBA. I don't think that's good.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
You're just the overnight guy.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Okay, that was putastic. Two points in twenty nine minutes
from a starting ballplayer. Two points in twenty nine minutes.
But from top to bottom, from top to bottom, the
supporting actors for the Nuggets served up a fool's gold loaf.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
A fool's gold loaf, as.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Mike, who lives in the Denver area, told me via email,
this is a local delicacy in the Denver area. He
wanted me to include this, he said, I would not
do it, so in you fasce Mike, I included it.
So what is a Fool's gold gloaf?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
You ask?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
So it is a hollowed out loaf of bread, warmed
and stuffed, kind of like OKC handed the Nuggets. They
were a hollowed out loaf of bread in the fourth
quarter and they were warmed and then they got stuffed
by Okay. See Denver shot in the final minutes of
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this game. Denver shot less than twenty four percent five
of twenty one. They missed sixteen of their twenty one
shots on the fourth quarter from the floor from free
point land less than ten percent, one of twelve, one
of twelve from three point land. Now, secondly, there's a
theme among the basketball elites that I would like to address.
(08:11):
As you know, I mean theme buster, not a MythBuster,
a theme buster. So the popular opinion by popular people
is that the Nicola jokicch Nuggets have just run out
of cass. It is so exhausting, such a struggle these
NBA playoffs. They lack the depth. It's not their fault,
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they just don't have depth. Does this work for you?
Does this work for you? So I am shaking my head. No,
you can't see me, but I'm shaking my no. Now,
this is a good way to play, right, There's a
good way to play dodgeball from responsibility. And that is
a pet peeple Like who knew that the Denver basketball
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team was in a triathlon? That you were starting out swimming,
then you were cycling, and.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Then you were running.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I had no idea the NBA playoffs we're swimming, cycling
and running a triathlon.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
But here we are.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
It is literally and figuratively your job to be in
peak physical condition. You don't play back to back games
in the NBA. You have the top trainers in basketball,
you have the support staff. You stay at five star hotels.
When you're on the road, you're traveled by private chartered
planes that are luxury. You have luxury buses, often with
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police escort to take you around. And we're supposed to
have a pity party because the Denver Nuggets, according to
the media, excuse makers are just they're they're so bedraggled
by what's going on. And the other thing that I
wanted to mention here, because this happens every time a
Denver sports team is in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
What do we get, right?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
We get the same storyline that the Nuggets, they play
in Denver, they have a competitive advantage because of altitude.
Capital a altitude, right, you all got a competitive advantage.
You're superhuman, you live in Denver. You love to brag
about five and eighty feet above sea level. You wear
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that on your jersey. Sometimes that is a flex you flex,
you flex, you flex, you flex. You love that And
as a result of that right you're supposed to have
if you're in you live in altitude. Olympic athletes go
there to train because the theory in the science is
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that you have a super lung capability capacity endurance as
a result of living in altitude. You have improved lung
capacity because you're in altitude, which would mean again all
things leading to endurance. Recovery is boosted because of the altitude,
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increased red blood set l production because of the altitude.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
But yet these dumb dumbs, Oh they're fatigued. Oh my god,
they're so tired. Oh my god, shut up.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Oklahoma City, by the way, I looked it up one
ninety eight feet above sea level. But again, all that matters.
The only thing that matters is what you do in
the moment. The Nuggets have been like a thoroughbred horse.
Of course, that that horse that jumps out of the
gates and is leading and leading and around the track.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
They go, and then down the stretch, down the stretch.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And then they go to have a snack down the stretch.
They're like, I would like a nice snack, and that's it.
So the thunder have outplayed the Nuggets in several key
moments here and so, in addition to Michael Porter and
Jamal Murray, how about Christian Brown, which looks.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Like it should be brawn.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
These guys have come up with a lowercase lowercase.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
For tiny, tiny, very tiny.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
All right, now, final thought, we go to the business
of basketball. One of these franchises for sale. If you
saw this or not, but I thought this was interesting,
worth a.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Worth a mention.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
The estate of the late Paul Allen announcing they have
passed a threshold to avoid having to pay a certain
amount of tax. So Paul Allen's estate announcing that they
are putting the Portland Trailblazers on the market. They can
be yours if the price is right. And they just
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agreed the NBA to a new eleven year, seventy six
billion dollar media deal and all that is a ridiculous
amount of money that the ABC, Amazon, NBC will be
paying the NBA. And so that is part of the
reason that they are getting this team on the market
right now, the Trailblazers. Over the last year years since
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Paul Allen passed. He died in twenty eighteen. And what
a bummer man, You got all that money, dude, you
live in the king and you check out a little early.
That sucks anyway, Paul Allen dead. His sister who's a
bit of a hermit. She's she's been running the team
since twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Now, what are the chances? What are the.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Chances the Blazers stay? Importand anytime a team is on
the market, there's always a chance they leave. That's not
guaranteed you're going to stay. But what are the chances
that the Blazers end up leaving the Oregon Trail. So
I'm gonna set the odds. We'll do the odds on
whether they stay. I'm not gonna be the odds on
them leaving, but the odds that they stay. Based on
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a minutes long deliberation of the available evidence, I'm going
to say the odds are minus three hundred, which is
a seventy five percent chance that the Trail Blazers stay
in Oregon. And there's a couple of reason. Now, I'm
not going to say the Arena lease. Some people have
pointed that out. Well, they got at lease through twenty thirty.
That's not that long. It's twenty twenty five. That's only
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five years. That's nothing, and the team won't be sold
for another year anyway, so it's really like four more years.
And it takes a.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Number of years to build a new arena. So there's that.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
The other extenuating circumstances here, Seattle's gonna get an expansion
team at one point or another. So does somebody sneak
in there and say, well, I'm tired of waiting for
an expansion team. Why don't we just buy the Trailblazers
and we'll move them to Seattle. The Seattle Trailblazers will
change their name or whatever. So that's that's an outside possibility.
But the advice is act right now if you're wanting
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to keep that. I guess the money's all gonna be
donated charity, which must upset Jody Allen and the Allen.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I guess he didn't have any kids or anything. But anyway,
so do you gotta act fast.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
And the person to save the Trailblazers from going outside
of state Oregon is the night writer, Phil Knight, the godfather,
the godfather of Nike, which is small, little mom and
pop Oregon operation, and he tried to buy the team
a couple of years back. He was rejected, rejected, But
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that guy, he didn't have deep pockets. He's got pockets
that go all the way down to the core of
the earth. Worth thirty five billion capital b billion.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Phil Knight the Nike godfather.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
So it turns out at the making shoes and sweatshops
very profitable, very profitable for the bottom line, doing very
well there. He's also on a race against time. See
that's the issue with Phil Knight. Phil Knight is eighty seven,
all right, so he's already in bonus time. He's in
(15:46):
overtime eighty seven. So if Knight can get the Blazers,
it would be in the family. He's got some kids,
at least one, so it would be in the family.
It could also be under the Knight umbrella. It could
be some problems logistically with business because the NBA and
Nike are in business together, but it.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Would be under the umbrella.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
And then the team would as long as Nike's around
and they're based in Oregon, there'd be no way the
team would leave, you would assume, and there you go. Now,
if Phil Knight doesn't decide to buy the team now
because he says I'm.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Too old or whatever, who else is there?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
So I did some research here and there's not many
people that have the kind of money to buy a
professional sports team that are from Oregon, like Phil Knight's
pretty much it. That's the problem, Like it's Phil Knight
or I don't. Somebody from the outside's gonna have to
go there and bring in an outsider. They could always
move the team. But the co founder of the Dutch
(16:44):
Brothers Coffee is an Oregonian and the CEO of Columbia
Sportswear is also from from Oregon.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
But they don't. They don't have Nike money. They don't,
No one does.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show
weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox
Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
A couple of notes and we'll pay off the riddle
of the day. Uh, it's with a heavy heart.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I didn't plan on saying this when I came in here.
But that monologue that I did on the Thunder and
the Nuggets, during that monologue, a cockroach killed itself during
that monologue.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, down in the old studio. Oh no, it's on
the other side.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Though the other side there's a dead cockroach went belly up.
Is it in the regular spot, No, it's on the
other side, but it's in the same on that metal area.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
But on the other side.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah, and it just it must have just it just
because I mean, I have my my own track there
that I have created, and there it was not there.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
It was not their previous it was not before. I
think when I make shoeless, well not right now. I've
decided to wear the shoes now. Once I saw the
dead cockroach, I put the shoes back on.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Did you pick up the dead cockroach?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
No? I left it there.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Can I go see if it's a lie?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yes, you can go check it out if you'd like.
You want to do that right now?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I want to do it right. All right, You're going
to take a straight can.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Okay of lace all in there? Hold lot of second No,
not pure. I want like, oh this is empty though.
I like that. They still have puirele. You know, the
pandemic's over a clean hands. Never heard anyone ben They
have soap in the bathroom and wash your hands. You know,
that's usually what we do when we go to the
bathroom and wash your hands.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I'm going to go all right, Lorrain is going to
be our boots on the ground. She's going to walk
to the other side of the studio.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
She's going to put my shoes on all right.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
So Loraine is going to try to figure out whether
the cockroaches is actually dead or just plain dead. Those
cockroaches like to do the rope a dope. They like
to pretend to be dead and then they're not.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Surprise, they do it all the time. Sneaky little thing.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yeah, a little sneaky little cockroaches. So there is she's
taking her headphones off. She's got it back.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I will leave the phones up in case you want
to take any car.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Okay, thank you for that. She's going to leave the building,
leave the studio. She's leaving the board. She's then walking
around the board. She's going to walk out. She's hustling.
She's got to walk out the door. Then she makes
a left turn. Then she's got to make a right turn.
But I think she's going down to the kitchen. She's gone.
She's not gone to the kitchen. She's walking. She's backing up.
(19:26):
Now she's going forward. She's got to walk down the hall.
Then she's got to make a left turn, go down.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
A long hall, then make a little bit of a
side turn.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
That's a little little bit of a little bit of
a walk, and then on another left and then right
there boom, that's the cocker roach right there. Dead cockroach.
Right when I mentioned the trailblazers. I think that was
the end for the cockroach. It killed itself right there.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Boom.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Done Mather's mentioning the Portland Trailblazers and the monologue let
me take my own life and the cockroach committed cockroach,
you know what? So anyway, here's the end. When is
Loraina returns, we'll get the update whether it's actually dead
or not. Time out for the mallor Riddle of the Day.
Seventy six r Star Paul George by George announced that
(20:09):
after getting his body and mind healthy, he is finally
ready to get back to blank. Finally ready to get
back to blank? That is the riddle. What is the answer?
And let see does anyone know the answer? We go
to the great unwashed Stevie Meatpaul says, double dribbling wall
sniffing jockstraps is the answer. Page and get on Ben's
(20:35):
good side. Back to singing Christmas carols to Lorraine. Uh,
mister irrigation said, hang gliding with Don Lemon is the answer.
Lorena is making your way back into the studio. She
has a can of chemicals that she's holding here. Let
me pay off the riddle first. Lorena nature boy, answering
(20:57):
the Call of the Wild, says PG. Thirteen, is our
ready to start his stand up comedy career? Lady sideburns,
you know the show's doing well with Lady Cyburn's listening.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Ready to get back to pulling fingers again.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Uh shucking and jiving from milkman Mike in Colorado eating
deep fried ranch.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
That's disgusting. From King Rory.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Uh oh wow, justin going going below the belt my man.
Uh strip cribbage from Donkey sausage. That's his answer. Uh
Key says, back to being Lorena sugar daddy.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Okay, Uh no, yeah, the correct answer. Paul George announced
that he after getting his body and mind healthy, I'll
go ahead.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yes, he was going to get back into making a
cockroach circus.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
A cockroach circus? Is that correct?
Speaker 6 (21:48):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Paul George announced, after getting his body of mind healthy,
he is finally ready to get back to podcasting, podcasting podcast.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
All right, let's get the update. Breaking news here.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Believe that my Portland trailblazers mentioned in the monologue Cockroach
committed suicide during that Lorena went over to investigate. She
made the long walk down there. Now, Ferduck says, don't
blame yourself, Ben, I guarantee that cockroach was not driven
to suicide. From listening to your show, Mister irrigation says,
is it a big ass cockroach or the little German version?
(22:23):
I once found a two pound cockroach dead one time. Wow, Lorena,
what did your investigation determine alive?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
It's alive? It's not.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Okay, heard the drop, Ben, it is a lie.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Are you sure it's alive?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Though?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
How do you know for sure it's alive.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Well, when I walked up to it, its back leg
was still twitching, which is always a sign.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
However, I have you know, I have heard from people
that work in hospice sometimes even when people die, there's
some movements there that take place even after you've checked out.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Twitch a bit. I'll give him that I have been
on hospice myself, but I will send you said video.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Took a video of this. He's very exciting.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
I will also post it to Twitter if the people
if that's what they of.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Course they want that. So this is our live coverage.
This is in depth team coverage.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Watch the video, Ben I like saw said bug.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
So you did you sprayed the bug with chemicals aggressively
and the bug moved? What you were doing this?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yes, but that would they would move even if it
was not like alive, because you're spraying it with something
that a little little cockroach.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I think it was like interesting, Yeah, that exact sound.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
So you're you're reporting it is a live Has it
come through yet? Okay? I have not received it.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Still says there's like a there's like an inch left
on this yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Inch, Okay, I see there you go? All right, I
have not received the.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
No, how about now?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Oh, here we go. Now I've received the attachment. Here,
here we go.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Cockroach on cockroach too, cockroach. It's a love for you.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
I'm lucky I didn't step on it because I could
have totally stepped on it ruined. That would have ruined
my day to go home. I might have yeah, oh
oh yeah, I see it. Yeah, there's definitely a you know,
I think you're right? Yeah, yeah, because you know, you
spray it and it wouldn't move that.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah, what is it waiting for? You think it's just
like resting.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I think he's giving up.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
You think give up situation?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Yeah, he would be on life support if that was
a thing.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
They don't have cockroach life support you.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
No, I'm about to put him outside too.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
This is like the seventy fifth generation of the cockroach family. No,
but I'm saying that this used to be a Denny's.
The Fox Sports radio studios were in. But it was
a Denny's in the nineties, like thirty years ago. It
was a Denny's.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I heard Danny g used to eat here.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Yeah, a lot of people that lived in this area.
What do you eat bad?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Thirty It was a Denny's and so like, think about
how many relatives have lived there. Cock It's life and
checked out and this is like the next generation of
these cockroaches.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
How said, are they the Denny's closed? And that we're here?
But there's a lot of pigs that work here and
leave food around, so it's kind of like work. You know,
it's still the Denny's in many ways.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Don't call me a pig.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Bed. I didn't say the company I'm in right now.
I just said there's people I come in on the
weekends and some people eating five course meals on the weekends. Anyway,
do we need we need to play the game, because
we have a lot of bits, a lot of bits,
bits bits bits, bits bits bits, Ben Meller.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Game, we've endored too many of these? Is it too
much or not enough? All right?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Ready, let's do it A or B A or B.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Hey A B, B A B.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Let's go to a.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Okay, do you have picked hollering James from Minnesota to me?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
James? Yes?
Speaker 7 (25:49):
Are what's squares? Cockroaches?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Oh? That's all hard when ben bugs are cockroaches, bed
busse You.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Can avoid cockroaches.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
The bed bugs bite you.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
The worst is the flying cockroaches. Those are the ones.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
Night sleep. Don't let the bed bugs bite you. Okay,
ed was one of my apartments.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
I'm sure you've had all kinds of critters. James, who
got to play the game? You want to play the game, James,
Let's get in the history of the Ben Mother show.
The greatest win of all time on a game show.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
Swoop poy. No, it was not sleepy play. It was hollering.
James was swoopy ploy Hollering.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
James was fast at Lee back in the old days
when Eddie was on the show and we had him
play this game.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Ready, No, I've never met Edie.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
All right, let's play. Hurry up, let's play play the guy.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Eddie balls ready, I'm ready?
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Question number one, Edwin Diaz, that's a now has one
hundred and forty saves as a New York Met. Is
that too much or not enough?
Speaker 7 (27:06):
Hollering James, first question, Let's see that's not enough?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
He says not enough. Let's find out not oh for long? Yeah,
all right, too much? One hundred and twenty five saves
as a MET that happened on Tuesday, third most behind
John Franco and Armando Benitez.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
All right, question too, James? You ready?
Speaker 7 (27:31):
I guess?
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Bet Nikolea Jokic became the fifth player in NBA history
to have forty plus points fifteen plus rebounds multiple times in.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
A single postseason. Is that too much or not enough?
Speaker 7 (27:46):
Too much?
Speaker 1 (27:47):
All right, let's find out?
Speaker 7 (27:51):
Oh no, I should be sleepy.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Can you fall asleep right now? Maybe we can do it. Yeah,
you sound better when you're actually sleeping.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Well, you're over for to James, you get this one wrong.
The game's over. Question number three on Monday, Anthony Edwards, Oh,
you should get this right. That's a Minnesota player. Anthony
Edwards recorded his tenth playoff game with thirty or more points?
Is that too much or not enough? Hollering James to
stay alive.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
I think you wit the last game. I'm not sure
I say too much.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
All right, let's find out, James. That's as impressive as
you getting it right while you're sleeping, that you.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Got that song.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
I want to hear the song.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Well, we were gonna play it if you won. You
didn't win. I don't know that.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
We ea going out to my best friend in Montana.
No names mentioned?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Yes, no name mentioned, a female from Montana. There's so
many that are part of the show. Well, it's up
to Coop. Coop's got the song. It's not in the system,
so it's up to Coop. He's he's he's got the song,
so if he wants to play, he can play it.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
But that's it.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
I don't just kid.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
How about thirty how about thirty seconds? How about that
thirty seconds? A little taste?
Speaker 7 (29:20):
Get come on? Please for me?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Is this is this a Jay Scoop song? I mean
I believe so.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
The six bills evening and thirty six bills that night,
A months to two in the app.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
It makes me feel all right? Oh Rocket the rain
is rocking it sills in Time of Steve, I bought
in Time of Sports. I bought some people, then show,
and then I bought some more. Sure James, Oh this
is the game show?
Speaker 2 (29:58):
How good steps in the the one who was sleeping James,
where you have a cuss storming? No, Daddy once told me, James,
you be sports covering men one of buffer.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
He turned into you like this song, James, But no,
she hates it. All right, that's enough, thank you, James.
Speaker 7 (30:20):
All right, you're you're, you gotta give me for trying.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah, I'll give you a little, uh, give you a
pity party, and I'll give you a I'll give you
a participation.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
All right, go away, shut up, please sah. Anyway, all right,
here we are.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
We're gonna have the f SR Tech Queen Queen of
Hearts Lorena, and it's her segment.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I'm gonna go out hang out with Bill Miller.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
We're gonna we're gonna smoke some SIGs and Lorena will
take over there and I'll go look at the cockroach
that's playing dead in the hall and all that. But
the Queen of Hearts with Loraina hashtag Queen Hearts eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
You want to speak to Lorena, We'll get to that.
We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Miller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
It's Love It Bars with Little Rain at ten nine
clean Up Hearts, going to help You, gear Rye, get
rye and N gear right and n dear Ry.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
You heard the man. It is time for love here
on the Ben Malle Show. And we love love, don't we. Ben.
You know, I was curious about their love life, Bill Miller.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
You want to talk you about Bill Miller's love life? Curious?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
He always seems so grumpy.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a bad mood.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
He doesn't like work in the overnight. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Well, you know, whenever I had old managers who were
in bad moods, you know, we always used to say, right,
they need to get late.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Bill definitely goes yeah, yeah, yeah, you know it's I
used to have. I had a board op that the
first day I knew, like panicked because he couldn't handle
the hours, like totally wished out.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
It was. It was ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
I had a few of them that have done that
actually over the years, it's it's always tough, you know.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
To handle the heat. Get out of there.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
That's right, But this is not about that, Lorena. There
you go.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Brian writes and says, Lorena, if my wife dies, am
I allowed to fornicate with another woman?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
What a wonderful question.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
That is a very good question. And a lot of
people actually have a hard time with this. I know
it may seem like a joke.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
The vows don't only say till death do us parts?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Do you part? So if you part, sometimes the guilt
lays in your mind, you know. And then what if
you're like doing it and you yell out your old
wife's name, or even worse, you start crying while you're
doing it because all these emotions overflood you. That would
be absolutely devastating and very embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
So you're saying that maybe the first one you should
see a professional, the first one you get.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
That out, to get that out.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Yeah, sure, you know what I'm saying. I understand that out.
Very nice. Tim writes in from Parts Unknown.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
He says, Lorraina, my girlfriend criticizes.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Everything I like, thinks I should only like what she likes. Oh,
I guess he wants he wants some advice on that.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Yeah, that's really hard. It sounds like she probably doesn't
like you very much. I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Wow, shots fire.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
It's one of those things though, where everything irritates you. Yeah,
and it's it's actually because everything you do irritates them,
So you know, maybe try not to be yourself so much.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Try not to be yourself, that's what I said. Wow, Yeah,
I'm rather harsh.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Well, being yourself is obviously putting you into the doghouse
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
So well it should. Isn't that her problem? Not a
heat problem like with somebody.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
You want to be with her or does she want
to be with him?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Clearly he's at the point now where he's annoyed by it,
and he's riding into a radio show about sports to
complain about is a lady friend there?
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Well?
Speaker 2 (33:55):
King Roy writes and says, my wife and I are
celebrating our tenth wedding anniversary. Should we do something special
or just treated as another day and maybe wait until
our twenty fifth anniversary to do something special.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Always embrace the day today. You don't know if you're
going to make it to your twenty fifth anniversary as
sad or dark as that may sound, so you must
embrace today. Book a trip to Europe. Make it big
like the first decade, that's huge, Go big, go big.
We don't even make it to the first year anymore. So, like,
(34:26):
you know, congratulations, Coop. But you know it's hard. It's
hard to get relationships in these days, So celebrate every milestone.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
All right, Mike writes, and he says, Larta, do you
approve of the firefighter breaking up with his wife at
his birthday?
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Did you see this video? This video went viral.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
I did not see this.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Yeah, New Jersey firefighter birthday party. He found out his
wife was cheating. He had the video evidence, and he
asked for her ring. He made it seem like he
was going to give her a new ring, and then
broke up with her and called her a bunch of
names and said, you know all that.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
So you approve of that?
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Or I mean, how you react when you find out
you're being cheated on is really complicated. He obviously acted out.
I think there's a lot better ways that you could
break up with your.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
You don't approve of in front of all your wife's
friends and your friends. It is actually I just saw
the video. It's actually pretty good.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Ferg Dog says, I recently got married, and I am
already regretting it.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Is it okay to get a divorce over text?
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Yes, of course this isn't working. I don't want to
see your face anymore, or else I'm going to do
something aggressive. So yes, you know, if that's what you
need to do, that's what you need to do.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Yeah, I'm sure that was a great relationship over text.
JT the Wingman writes in says, when.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
They got married over FaceTime? Who's to say this.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Is when I when I'm at Myrtle Beach Bike week
this weekend? Is it wrong for an engaged man to
root for topless female bikers at a rally?
Speaker 1 (35:59):
As long as you window shop, right, Loraine?
Speaker 3 (36:00):
No touching, but you can touch on It's fine, Yeah,
I mean you.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Can look, you could appreciate. It's like art. You can
appreciate art, right.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
And also it's on the community. It's not like you're
going to a special place to pay for this privilege.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Late Night Jerectester says, is writing your Instagram account inside
a graduation cap a good way to pick up a date?
You know, you throw the cap up at the end
of the graduation, so you're right, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
No, I guess that's that's creative for sure. I don't
know if that's going to work for you, but no,
and you could try it. There's better ways, like in Personal.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Queen of Hearts. There you go, lorraina Queen of Hearts
right there. Boom,
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