June 11, 2026 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about Richard Jefferson claiming the Warriors would give back two KD titles for the 2016 ring, LeBron James complaining about NBA pregame shows, Braves slugger Ronald Acuna Jr. getting injured again, #AskBen, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom goes the dynamite. It's our numb bird three, our
number three, ready to go. And Richard Jefferson and it's
a broadcaster and former NBA player. He had an interesting
take thumbs up or thumbs down on Richard Jefferson's claim
that the Warriors would give back two KD Championship rings
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to get the twenty sixteen championship ring that they lost.
Also does Lebron James complaints about NBA pregame shows needing
more x's and o's past the scrutiny test. And in baseball,
the Atlanta Braves slugger Ronald Acuna Jr. Injured again, the
Braves the top team in baseball? How many alarms does
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that set off that Acuna Junior is hurt yet again?
In the A T L we'll talk about all that
and more. Right now here it is our number three.
Would you give it back? Now? Would you give it back? Welcome?
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pause for the monologue and our lead this hour not
from the NBA Finals, although if you want to call
up and yap about that, a historical, historical choke job.
Holy crap, great googly moogli? What was that? As the
New York Knicks down by twenty nine, facing their last rights,
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and then they ended up coming back all the way
back and they end up getting the win, which was
very generous of the San Antonio choking Spurs as they
blew a twenty nine point leader chance to tie up
the NBA Finals and it all went away. I don't
understand why they would do that. They had all the momentum,
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They had all the momentum, and then og Annobi HiT's
the game winning shot and he is now a New
York Knicks legend. He'll be the old guy, you know,
thirty years from now, forty years from now. Let's go
see the Knicks alumni. There's og Ananobi sitting courtside. Who's
that guy? The kids that haven't even been born yet'll say,
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I don't know who that is. Yes, all right, anyway,
our lead this hour is from basketball, but from the
way back machine. Broadcaster Richard Jefferson. Doesn't it feel like
these guys are just temporary, like the you got Tim Legler,
Richard Jefferson, Like they're just kind of there until they
get a bigger name, whoever that is. They're just temporary guys. Anyway.
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Richard Jefferson said recently that he believes the Golden State
Warriors would give back not one, but two two championships
in exchange for the twenty sixteen NBA title. Did you
see this at all? No? Okay, He said the Warriors
would gladly trade both of their Kevin Durant era championships.
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This is a quote from Richard Jefferson started about twenty seventeen,
twenty eighteen to get the twenty sixteen title instead to
secure that legacy and be recognized as the undisputed greatest
team ever. Close quote. All right, so that is a
good jumping off point. Now, some of you people, you
know who, you are obsess over these championship rings and
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you go GODGA for this and all that. So the
question is this thumbs up or thumbs down? Thumbs up
thumbs down on Richard Jefferson's claim that the Golden State
Warriors franchise that's a basketball team that plays in San Francisco,
would give back two KD titles for the twenty sixteen ring.
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So my observations, I've got the louve, I've got lacking
the gene, and potatoes are grotten. And we will combine
all of these things together and we're gonna line them up,
and we're gonna go one, two, three and ABC. As
we chew the rag. We always start though with number one,
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number one two, two thumbs up, two thumbs up, one
thousand percent in agreement here. The Warriors would absolutely if
they could return those Kevin Durant rings like a bad
Amazon order, if it meant erasing the blight that is
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on that Warrior run blowing a three to one lead
against the Cadavers, that seventy three win season to collapse.
Is the scar that they keep pretending is a tattoo.
It's not a tattoo, It's a scar. And forget the Mediterranean,
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the Keto, the Atkins diet, Steph Curry and Golden State
would pick the qvqued diet. Now, what is the qvque diet?
That is quality versus quantity? Now, before I was on
the quantity versus quality diet, but they would rather have
the quality versus the quantity. The twenty fifteen to twenty
sixteen Golden State Warriors had the greatest regular season in
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the history of the sport. They went seventy three and
nine with the Splash Brothers and Steph Curry was the
unanimous MVP that year. They were on the path to
absolute basketball immortality, and then Draymond Green decided he wanted
to star in the Nutcracker and he got suspended. Next
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thing you know, things started going sideways. Golden Stated and
have blown the three to one lead to Lebron Kyrie
and the Cavs, the only three to one comeback in
finals history unless Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs can match that.
So winning the twenty sixteen title, what would that have done?
That would have validated the greatest team ever argument the
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narrative without needing to go out and get Kevin Durant,
preserving the original dynasty, legacy and all that stuff in
the purest form, and that was the ring that would
have changed the conversation forever. The twenty sixteen banner would
have hung in the louver and it didn't get it,
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and any anyone a couple with Kevin Durant, and those
those banners are not in the louver. They're actually hanging
at a hot dog on a stick at a mall
in the food court somewhere in northern California. There's like
two hot dog on a sticks there and there's one
one hanging the championship banners. Now page two to TV
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Land we go. Everyone loves television and radio, so Lebron
James Lebron, Lebron spending some time here raising holy hell
calling out NBA pregame and postgame shows. His complaint was
that they lack real analysis. And I'm not making this up,
by the way, I'm not. This is not something I'm
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making up out of thin air. It sounds ridiculous. Lebron grumbled.
I don't watch a lot of pregame shows postgame shows
because just you know me. Lebron said, you already know
how I am about that blank He said a bad word,
he said, a naughty word. Can't say that, Lebron washed
your mouth out with soap and water because they don't
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speak about the game enough. Lebron quote continues. He says,
there's not enough knowledgeable or not of knowledge, not of
knowledge about the game, breaking down the game the you
know what I mean as a fan to actually learn
about the game or what we're watching close quote. I
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feel like Lebron used some extra words that didn't need
to be used. That's a different conversation. So the question
on this one, does Lebron James complain about NBA pregame
shows needing more x's and o's past the scrutiny test,
so on this one. And I actually passed it through
a couple of times on the scrutiny test, and it
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did not passed. It failed. Please, Lebron's critique doesn't pass
the common sense checkpoint. It flunks the Benny Bs meter.
It flunks the Benny Bs meter, the Benny Bs meter,
it got pegged, it was smoking a little bit. There
were some smarks, sparks flying out of the back of it,
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which upset Terry in England. He did not like that
Lebron's setting off alarm bells. And I guess nobody is
nobody I know And I've never met anyone in life,
in real life that wants to hear more about the
different offenses, Like can I get a dissertation on the
Princeton offense before the tip off of the game. Nobody
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wants that. Nobody tunes in for film breakdowns. And this
tells me Lebron James doesn't know how television works and
what broadcasting is. He doesn't know it. Right. Pregame shows
are not supposed to be ted talks. They're as with
better lighting, all right. It's the b V and test
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broadcasting versus narrow casting. You want entertainment, you want some personality,
some razmataz, you want the kerfluffle involving the players. The
NBA sells razzle dazzle. They don't sell a coaching clinic.
They're not selling a webinar about coaching. And if you
do want that content, if you're the one percent that
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wants the deep basketball content because you're a hard oh,
then they have this thing called YouTube. And there's a
lot of podcasts also. We call them friends and family
podcasts because those are the ones that listen to those podcasts,
the deep dive, analytical shows that draw flies in bots
and mostly flies in terms of listenership. The casual fan.
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They have done research after research, and while things change
and technology changes and all that the fans desire has
remain mostly the same. Most of the people that watch
these shows cannot tell the difference between a basketball and
volleyball and that's who the network's program for. It's all
about entertainment value, and yeah, you gotta dumb it down.
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You got to keep the casuals engaged. They don't want
to hear about the fast break and the offensive rebounding
and all that. They say, Give me Charles Barkley clouding
on Shaquille O'Neal. That's what I would like. That's the contact.
I would like. Give me the video of shaq walking
off to go beat the whiz, because nobody beats the whiz.
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They don't need a whiteboard. There's no seminar with a
whiteboard on the triangle offense that people want. They do
not want that content. This is the classic sad Lebron
ergo sad meeting self awareness deficiency. Lebron sad he's lacking
the gene that allows you to laugh at yourself. It
is more probable than not. As the NFL likes to
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say that Charles Barkley and the boys love to bust
the balls of Lebron James and because Lebron cannot take
a joke from sir Charles. He wants to change the
whole industry. He would like Poindexter to come in there
and write down some x's and o's and all that,
and America would prefer the drama. O rama is what
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they would like. My final point, we shift over to baseball.
The top team in baseball this year, the Atlanta Brows
have been playing better than anyone. And the Braves got
some news that was not surprising, very predictable news involving
their former MVP, the star Ronald Acuna Junior. Do you
see what happened with him? The Braves outfielder has been
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placed on the we used to call back in the
old days of the disabled list. Who knew we were heathens.
Back in the day, we called it the DL. Now
they the wolkesters at baseball, called the i L. That's
much better, much better, the injured list. A left hammy
went whammy. He's trained as hammy. Acuna Junior injured himself
while running out a ground ball. Yeah, the most benign
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thing in baseball. And we don't even know how much
he you know, how much hustle he put on that,
but he injured himself going down to first base on
a ground ball, So that means he'll be out for
at least the next ten days, a week and a half,
likely longer. The question, Brave slugger Ronald Acuna Junior injured
the hammy that went whammy. He's injured yet again, how
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many alarms does that set off? So for the Atlanta Braves,
it is business as usual. I know Tommy in Atlanta
is nodding his head at this point. If you're the Braves,
you have to treat Ronald Lacuna Junior's injuries like if
you live in California, you treat earthquakes. It's like, oh,
that was just a little one. I didn't really feel
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that one. It's just a small one. That's it, because
it's just a small injury. At this point, it is
deja vu and not the strip club all over again.
This is the second time this that the left hammy
has gone a little bit whammy and popped out, following
a Grade one strain last month. Also a thumb bruise.
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Oh my thumb. And so these things keep happening month
after month, year after year. The guy is running the
same playbook, Ronald Lacuna Junior. He's got on his resume
now two torn acls, he's got a strain here, a
pull here. Everything south of the Waste has gone haywire
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and Ronald is officially out as a result of all this,
he was on the roller coaster. He's out of the
bubble of trust. And if you look at the results,
we're sitting here in mid June and the player is
hitting two point fifty one with seven home runs. It
doesn't seem like you're a superstar. When you're sitting in
mid June hitting two fifty one with seven home runs.
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He's a star, He's just not a super star is
here and a super stars up here you can't see,
but just trust me. And yet, despite the rash of
injuries that the Braves have had this year and key
arms at times, you guys that have been dinged up,
some short term, some long term, Spencer Strider guys like
that Atlanta is dominating as baseball's top team, not the Dodgers,
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the Braves. The fact that the Braves are monster mashing
without Ronald Lacuno Junior doing anything spectacular tells you everything
that he is not the needle mover that he had
been at this point. He's not the main dish. He's
the side dish. He's potatoes al Gratten and that's it.
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And Atlanta's been able to win with him, They've been
able to win without him and around him, and despite him,
they've been able to win. It is the Bean Mallor Show.
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Hopper Yeah, it's very exciting here, and so we'll get
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Speaker 4 (20:14):
The hopper is loyal to Bill.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Well clearly you obviously, and if you'd like to be
part of the show. Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox,
we saw the greatest choke job in basketball history as
the San Antonio Spurs were welcomed by the Atlanta Falcons.
They go twenty nine point lead. Twenty nine point choke
job by Victor Wimba and Yama the UFO. Holy crap, unbelievable.
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So we talked about that earlier. We'll talk about that
more if you want. And on X we have coming
up in a little bit, Ask Ben, Ask Ben. That's
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So please please please act accordingly. Well, here's the Mallor
Riddle of the day. Here it is Mallard Riddle of
the day. Nick's superfan Ben Stiller vowed to never wear
blank after the wild reaction he got from his wife.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
And what is it?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Just Josh said, like Jimmy Kimmel, wearing blackface. Well that's
kind of I mean, Josh, what else do we have
Let's see page down? King Roy says, Lego crocs is
his answer. Mother in law's girdle from Lady Sideburns, Elizabethan
Elizabethan collar, which is I guess according to Doc Dan,
(21:51):
that's the call you know your dog. You know your
dog like can't stop licking its pause, you give him
the caller. They have a cutter. Yeah, apparently that's called.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
The shame cone.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
The cone. Yeah, it's called the corner of Doc Dan.
It's called the Elizabethan collar. I didn't know. I didn't
know that. What else do we have? A latex bodysuit
from Donkey Sausage? Page down? Trucker Joe, I can't say that.
Timmy from Busco, Indiana, he vowed to never wear his
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SpongeBob footed pajamas again. Crocs with socks from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
What else do we have? A page down? JT the
wingman said, is yamaka? What else do we have? Page down?
Skittles dress from courtesy Flusher. Autographed golf shoes worn by
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Tiger Woods from from Michael in Tulsa. His hot dog
necklace from filler Up Phil? What else do we have?
A cod piece from Johnny c rest in Peace, the
big cod piece in the sky, Buddy Frank Pollack my
old bord poop was we nicknamed the codpiece? What else
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do we have? He was part of the Compton Fishing Club.
They used to work at your Fox sports Rader the Coton.
You know Compton. There's a lot of fishing in Compton.
You think that that would not be the case, but yeah,
they have a big fishing club there in Compton. Yeah.
Which was funny eye patch from your female Larina? Do
you have an answer to the Mallard riddle of the day.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Yeah, it's obviously gray sweatpants.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Gray sweatpants? Is that correct? Nick? Super fan Ben Stiller
about to never wear these quote stupid final shirt they
give out because his wife freaked out. Said said this
before game four. He said, I came home after the
last game, burned the clothes we were wearing. I'm not
wearing that stupid final shirt ever again that I was wearing.
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Of course he was slightly kidding, but there you go.
Ben Stiller, who showed up four hours before the next game.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
He has four arms four.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Hours before the next game, he showed up, nice hors
please we do have the World Cup. Pick him? I
am on time, malerd buy the clock for the clock,
plausibly all about the clock. So let's say hello to No. No,
I'm not doing the pick them right now, no, no,
no no, I got to take a call, fir. Andrea
is in Berkeley. She's the astrology insider. She's a native
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New Yorker, although she's lived in the Bay Area quite
a long time. So we go to Berkeley right there
and we say lo to our friend Andrea. And Andrea,
I want you to know that you have a big
fan in Anthony and Louisiana. He's a big fan of
your work.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Thank you, Ben, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
And say hi to Anthony.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
Hi, Anthony, what sign are you?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I don't know. He's not on hold. I'll find out next.
I'll find out next time he calls Iky.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Please do that's important?
Speaker 7 (24:50):
Yeah, absolutely, And speaking of important, Wow, that was quite
a huge comeback win for the Knicks down twenty nine points.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
That was really amazing. And the last time they won
the NBA Finals was in nineteen seventy three, and it's like,
why does that year sound familiar to me, Oh, the
Mets one in nineteen seventy three. So anyway, a colleague
of mine, my sports so sology colleague got the Nick's
birthday for me. So they're born June sixth, nineteen forty six,
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so they just had their Gemini birthday. And they're having
a positive Jupiter transit, which is expansion, abundance and opportunity,
so kind of strike while the iron's hot and Jupiter
venus in cancer now connecting to their venus in cancer,
so they're having a venus return which is a very optimistic,
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positive time. So really just exciting. I mean I watched
the last especially watched the last quarter, and to see
that comeback win was really something, and you know, the
celebrities like you were saying it kind of makes it interesting,
but that was really, you know, quite an accomplishment. One
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O seven, one O six in Game four, the largest
comeback in Finals history, and they recovered from a twenty
nine point that's a.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Sit I mean, Matt, yeah, no, that's the biggest of
all time.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
It was pretty awesome to watch.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I'm not gonna have it was thank you did you
actually keep watching a lot of people I feel like
turned the game off, and then somebody sent them a
text and then they turned the game back on. Now
I had the game on. I did not turn it
off because I nothing I was to watch, so I
kept it on. But if you're not invested, if you
didn't have a bet on the game, or even if
you had a bet on the game, you figured you're
wen't going to win your bet. It was a small
point spread and all that, And if you're not a
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Knicks fan or a Spurs fan, why would you keep watching?
You know?
Speaker 5 (26:50):
You know what bothers me then about this. I was
just thinking about this. So they're down, you know, like
twenty nine around there, down a lot and twenty seven.
At halftime, my wife goes, can we can we We're
listening to the Harry Potter audio books. She's like, she's like,
can we listen to the book instead of this game?
Speaker 8 (27:09):
And I almost and I almost said yes because it
was such a blowout. But then something in me was like,
what if they have like the biggest comeback of all
time and I missed it and I'm listening to the
Harry Potter audio book. So I kept it on, and
I wish I would have also, just like threw one
hundred bucks on them coming back to win as well.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Oh yeah, the amount of money you would have made
down twenty seven or twenty nine or whatever.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
Wow, you right, decision. Yeah, very intuitive, and you listen
to your intuition. And quite frankly, I wasn't paying as
much attention as I did until the fourth quarter, and
then it was like, okay, you know, yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I thought like, Eh, the Knicks will get close, but
they're not actually gonna win. And then at some point
in the fourth quarter I said this. I saw the
look on some of the guys on the spurs. I said, oh, dude,
these guys are sucking dogs. They have nothing, they have
no idea what they're doing, and they're drowning and there's
no one to stop them from drowning, and they're gonna
just yeah, right in the bottom of the Hudson. Thank
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you so much, Andrea, our friend Andrea there from Berkeley.
It's time now for the World Cup. Pick them. Here
we go, the World Cup. Pick them. Let's see here,
I have the hopper. Let's see the hopper. That's the
sound of the hopper. This is the actual hopper. Now
do we have a caller of this hour, Cooper, are
we going caller free? Who do we have here? Do
we have anything line up?
Speaker 5 (28:29):
See? I mean hold on, there's that same person that
wanted at the beginning, but it was it's so weird.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
We want we want different people. We right the same people.
We had two percent chance. Last hour we had hollering
James if you knew to the show. The World Cup
is beginning here in the United States, and since we're
not really soccer people, to honor the World Cup and
to be completely fair, we are having the World Cup
pick them. We're drafting all forty eight teams. There's Team
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Ben Hi, I'm Ben, There's Team Coop, and then Team
Lorena goes to three team. And then we also have
the callers that are representing you the other listeners. And
this hour we have Mike the lepre Gohn who's actually
a soccer guy, Mike the Leprechaun from Boston who hosted us.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
I just I just spoke to Coop a second ago. Yes,
I will tell you the eight final teams.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
How about that to begin with?
Speaker 1 (29:23):
No, No, we don't want that, we don't need that contact.
We have the hopper. We have the Hopper and we're
gonna go and we're short on top.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Sor we have poppy for stupid stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah, yeah, we have poppy for that. All right, So
I'm gonna spin the hopper that I'm going first. All
I'm going first. Here we go, big money, big money,
big money is stop. All right. The hopper has spun around,
and my team, Coop is number thirty eight. Number thirty
eight is my team in round Scotland, Scotland.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
Right, they're wearing and kills.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
They're wearing they're wearing skirts. What what did you say?
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Yes, in Boston they're playing there, playing in Boston on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
They're playing and they're gonna win at least game.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
All right, I'm spinning the hopper again. This is for Coop. Coop.
Your next team is number nineteen, Coop, number nineteen.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Ooh, Germany. That's a good one. I think that's a
good one. Right.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
One of my favorites, one of my favorites, one of
my fs is that.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Okay, is it good?
Speaker 5 (30:23):
They're they're they're number ten ranked number ten.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
All right, you're up, Loraina, you're listening to our live coverage.
Here we go, big money, big money and stop, all right, Lorena,
number twenty six for Loraina. Number twenty six. What team
is that alphabetical order? We've numbered every team that would
be Jordan, Oh, Jordan, But now Michael Jordan. All right,
thank you. I'll be here all night. And now now
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you're up, Michael Leprecaun. Are you nervous? I've got the
hopper right here? Here we go.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Jack Angels, I kind of fight ballid Dow, I gotta
fight ball.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I don't play okay, all right, and hi Jack number
twenty three. Jack's a good guy. Number twenty three. Jordan
is Michael Jordan's number. Iraq, oh Rock, congratulations, Mike Country.
A lot of American taxpayer dollars have gone to Iraq.
(31:20):
All right, here we go. Let's see here you're up again,
mister Leprechaun. And a way we go. Number fifteen for
the Leprechaun, number fifteen, give me it.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
We already picked England, and I already pick you were
stopping Ecuador?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
A right, Ecuador. Congratulations, they're okay, Brazil. You know what
they're They're better than your they're better than your phone.
Yeah yeah, they're better on your phone. All right, here
we go, Loraina, you're up next year I'm spending the hopper,
big money, big money, and stop popper number four for
lorraina number four Austrian, Austria. Okay, world Cup picking leo,
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you lay, you lay lay. Next up is Cooper loop
on the World Cup. Pick them live coverage. Nobody else
has this. We've got the hopper, and around and around
around the hopper goes big money, big money. And here
we go number thirty four, number thirty four for Coop.
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Number thirty four.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
That's the that's the one that was not supposed to
be in it. So I think I think I need
to pick again. Yeah, that was Poland who's not not
not actually in it?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
All right? All right, around and around we go number forty,
Coop number four, number forty, that would be South Africa,
South Africa, okay, Africa. All right, here we go World Cup.
Pick them my last team here and we have asked
men coming up here. It is big money, big money.
Stop number number six, number.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Six is that Bosnia and Herzego?
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I get too. That's two, right, they're combined. I get two, No,
only one? All right, okay, Mike, who you have winning? Quickly?
Who do you have winning the World Cup? Go ahead, quickly.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Okay, I'm just give me the top, give me the team.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
You give me the top two France, friend, yeah, France,
the French. Okay, gotcha.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Your phone, I keep you on longer. But your phone.
Your phone is really bad. I don't know what's going
to charge your phone or get a new phone. I
don't know what's going on. All right, there, it is
this hour. We'll do it again next hour. Always fun,
what fun. It is almost as much fun as ask Ban.
Your questions are answers, ask Ban. We'll get to that.
We will do it next.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
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Speaker 2 (34:45):
It's now time for time for how I Ask Twitter.
Send us your questions on Twitter now.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
And way we go. It's time out for asking man.
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour
and we head over to the Kooper Loop for the
reading of the questions.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
All right, Ben, We're going to start off with a
question from JT, the wingman.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Hi JT. I've met him multiple times.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
He wants to know do you use a water pick flosser.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
I have used the water pick floss. It typically breaks.
It doesn't last that long, So I go, I've got
o g I go back to just the regular floss.
So I have used it. I'm not against it. It
doesn't the thing the machine, We've had a couple of
them over the years. They don't usually last that long.
What about you the rain it?
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Yeah, I went, I'm like you I've used one.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I have one, but I don't.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
I don't actively use it an ect. I prefer hand flossing.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
I have a little floss stakes, you know, one that
has like a pointy side.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
And yes, oh I love yeah, yeah, I'm I am
an epic for when it comes to those little philosophers.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
Keep them in my bag.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
They're great, good to have. I love the clank clankity clank.
What about your cool.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
I'm the same. We have a water pick. I have
used it before, but I don't really use it. I
use the individual ones too much.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
There's too much work. You know, it's just a convenience.
It's just the regular flos. All right, what's next? What
do we got here? It's ask man. Your questions are answered?
All right?
Speaker 5 (36:23):
I love this question. This is from Alf the Alien
O Piner Hi Alf, sweet tarts or spree.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
H I'm a sweet tart guy. I'm a sweet target.
What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Oh that's really hard. I forget about spreeze completely, right,
but I really enjoyed the texture of so I think
I'm gonna go with sprees alright.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
I'm fine. That's a bad job by you. What about you, Coop?
Speaker 5 (36:49):
So I'm adding the caveat. If it's the chewy spreeze,
absolutely like over sweethearts all day, every day. But if
it's the original spree like you have in your picture,
alf the the hard sprees, I'm gonna pick sweethearts. Yeah,
I want the chewy sprees.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
What Alfie, That's what I want to know? What's next? Alple?
Were like a pickle? Uh tart? What is next to?
What do we got?
Speaker 5 (37:12):
Donkey sausage?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Would like to know? Donkey, I donkey.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
I think we've had this before, but we'll do it again.
What would the title of your memoir be, uh.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Grumpy talk show host guy won't shut up or something
like that. I don't I haven't thought about that.
Speaker 5 (37:28):
GIRs is easy? What in the air everywhere?
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Oh? Okay, I guess fine. Whatever What about you, Lorenam?
You're gonna write a book about your amazing life, all
the adventures you've gone on. Just keep going. Well that's it. Yeah,
she keep going to the lights turn off and then
game over. That's it, everything gets reset. What about you,
Lorena or a coop brother?
Speaker 5 (37:50):
I'm gonna say mine would be called no lies.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Oh no lies? The claw I thought you'd call it
the claw.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
Is uh. The next question is from the King, Rory.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Hi, Rory, he wants to Rory.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
He wants to know are you concerned on how much
microplastics you are consuming on a daily basis?
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Yes, not at all. I don't give a crappy. I'd
love to just eat plastic. I love plastic. I love
the taste of plastic. It's just absolutely wonderful. In fact,
I would like to be buried on top of that
plastic island out in the Pacific. What are they calling that,
the Great Deposition Island trash out? Yeah? Why not? What
about your very worried about plastics.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
I'm very worried. Even today I was eating my DIBs
and I accidentally broke off a piece of the border
into the ice cream, and it was in my mouth
and I was like, oh my gosh, I almost swallowed
this and died. Like plastics are a very serious thing,
because you know that they can't even do a case
people who don't have micropes.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
I don't exactly, man, we don't care, all right, Next,
what do we got? What do you go ask? Ben?
Your questions are answers.
Speaker 5 (38:59):
A classic one, but I've never seen this guy ask
a question before, so I'm gonna ask it. Mike wants
to know what do you put on your hot dogs? Oh?
FedEx mic in Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Oh the great FedEx Mike. So I go. I upset
people because go mustard, little ketchup mustard. I strip it
like stripes, like pin stripes on my hot dog. So
in every bite I got a little mustard and ketchup.
What about you, Loreina?
Speaker 4 (39:19):
I do mayonnaise and ketchup and make mustard a little
bit of ketchup onions.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
I don't mind the onions. Say, brought those back to Costco?
What's next? What do we got?
Speaker 5 (39:31):
He did?
Speaker 1 (39:33):
You gotta ask for him?
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Though?
Speaker 7 (39:34):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (39:34):
Okay, okay, the heck a quick? Another one from King
Roy because I like this one. Are any of you
a fan of the hot Honey fad?
Speaker 1 (39:43):
I've had, actually had hot Pney hot Honey pizza somewhere.
It was pretty good. Actually I didn't. I sound like
I'm gonna go out of my way to get it,
but I thought it was pretty good. What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 5 (39:53):
Yeah, put it on all my pepperoni pizza please. Yes,
I love the hot Honey delicious.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
It's solid the hot honey they had, They had a webinar.
All the restaurants loved the hot honey. They can't get
enough of it.
Boom goes the dynamite. It's our numb bird three, our
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a broadcaster and former NBA player. He had an interesting
take thumbs up or thumbs down on Richard Jefferson's claim
that the Warriors would give back two KD Championship rings
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to get the twenty sixteen championship ring that they lost.
Also does Lebron James complaints about NBA pregame shows needing
more x's and o's past the scrutiny test. And in baseball,
the Atlanta Braves slugger Ronald Acuna Jr. Injured again, the
Braves the top team in baseball? How many alarms does
(00:47):
that set off that Acuna Junior is hurt yet again?
In the A T L we'll talk about all that
and more. Right now here it is our number three.
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pause for the monologue and our lead this hour not
from the NBA Finals, although if you want to call
up and yap about that, a historical, historical choke job.
Holy crap, great googly moogli? What was that? As the
New York Knicks down by twenty nine, facing their last rights,
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and then they ended up coming back all the way
back and they end up getting the win, which was
very generous of the San Antonio choking Spurs as they
blew a twenty nine point leader chance to tie up
the NBA Finals and it all went away. I don't
understand why they would do that. They had all the momentum,
(04:46):
They had all the momentum, and then og Annobi HiT's
the game winning shot and he is now a New
York Knicks legend. He'll be the old guy, you know,
thirty years from now, forty years from now. Let's go
see the Knicks alumni. There's og Ananobi sitting courtside. Who's
that guy? The kids that haven't even been born yet'll say,
(05:06):
I don't know who that is. Yes, all right, anyway,
our lead this hour is from basketball, but from the
way back machine. Broadcaster Richard Jefferson. Doesn't it feel like
these guys are just temporary, like the you got Tim Legler,
Richard Jefferson, Like they're just kind of there until they
get a bigger name, whoever that is. They're just temporary guys. Anyway.
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Richard Jefferson said recently that he believes the Golden State
Warriors would give back not one, but two two championships
in exchange for the twenty sixteen NBA title. Did you
see this at all? No? Okay, He said the Warriors
would gladly trade both of their Kevin Durant era championships.
(05:52):
This is a quote from Richard Jefferson started about twenty seventeen,
twenty eighteen to get the twenty sixteen title instead to
secure that legacy and be recognized as the undisputed greatest
team ever. Close quote. All right, so that is a
good jumping off point. Now, some of you people, you
know who, you are obsess over these championship rings and
(06:15):
you go GODGA for this and all that. So the
question is this thumbs up or thumbs down? Thumbs up
thumbs down on Richard Jefferson's claim that the Golden State
Warriors franchise that's a basketball team that plays in San Francisco,
would give back two KD titles for the twenty sixteen ring.
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So my observations, I've got the louve, I've got lacking
the gene, and potatoes are grotten. And we will combine
all of these things together and we're gonna line them up,
and we're gonna go one, two, three and ABC. As
we chew the rag. We always start though with number one,
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number one two, two thumbs up, two thumbs up, one
thousand percent in agreement here. The Warriors would absolutely if
they could return those Kevin Durant rings like a bad
Amazon order, if it meant erasing the blight that is
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on that Warrior run blowing a three to one lead
against the Cadavers, that seventy three win season to collapse.
Is the scar that they keep pretending is a tattoo.
It's not a tattoo, It's a scar. And forget the Mediterranean,
(07:42):
the Keto, the Atkins diet, Steph Curry and Golden State
would pick the qvqued diet. Now, what is the qvque diet?
That is quality versus quantity? Now, before I was on
the quantity versus quality diet, but they would rather have
the quality versus the quantity. The twenty fifteen to twenty
sixteen Golden State Warriors had the greatest regular season in
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the history of the sport. They went seventy three and
nine with the Splash Brothers and Steph Curry was the
unanimous MVP that year. They were on the path to
absolute basketball immortality, and then Draymond Green decided he wanted
to star in the Nutcracker and he got suspended. Next
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thing you know, things started going sideways. Golden Stated and
have blown the three to one lead to Lebron Kyrie
and the Cavs, the only three to one comeback in
finals history unless Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs can match that.
So winning the twenty sixteen title, what would that have done?
That would have validated the greatest team ever argument the
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narrative without needing to go out and get Kevin Durant,
preserving the original dynasty, legacy and all that stuff in
the purest form, and that was the ring that would
have changed the conversation forever. The twenty sixteen banner would
have hung in the louver and it didn't get it,
(09:14):
and any anyone a couple with Kevin Durant, and those
those banners are not in the louver. They're actually hanging
at a hot dog on a stick at a mall
in the food court somewhere in northern California. There's like
two hot dog on a sticks there and there's one
one hanging the championship banners. Now page two to TV
(09:35):
Land we go. Everyone loves television and radio, so Lebron
James Lebron, Lebron spending some time here raising holy hell
calling out NBA pregame and postgame shows. His complaint was
that they lack real analysis. And I'm not making this up,
by the way, I'm not. This is not something I'm
(09:56):
making up out of thin air. It sounds ridiculous. Lebron grumbled.
I don't watch a lot of pregame shows postgame shows
because just you know me. Lebron said, you already know
how I am about that blank He said a bad word,
he said, a naughty word. Can't say that, Lebron washed
your mouth out with soap and water because they don't
(10:17):
speak about the game enough. Lebron quote continues. He says,
there's not enough knowledgeable or not of knowledge, not of
knowledge about the game, breaking down the game the you
know what I mean as a fan to actually learn
about the game or what we're watching close quote. I
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feel like Lebron used some extra words that didn't need
to be used. That's a different conversation. So the question
on this one, does Lebron James complain about NBA pregame
shows needing more x's and o's past the scrutiny test,
so on this one. And I actually passed it through
a couple of times on the scrutiny test, and it
(10:59):
did not passed. It failed. Please, Lebron's critique doesn't pass
the common sense checkpoint. It flunks the Benny Bs meter.
It flunks the Benny Bs meter, the Benny Bs meter,
it got pegged, it was smoking a little bit. There
were some smarks, sparks flying out of the back of it,
(11:21):
which upset Terry in England. He did not like that
Lebron's setting off alarm bells. And I guess nobody is
nobody I know And I've never met anyone in life,
in real life that wants to hear more about the
different offenses, Like can I get a dissertation on the
Princeton offense before the tip off of the game. Nobody
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wants that. Nobody tunes in for film breakdowns. And this
tells me Lebron James doesn't know how television works and
what broadcasting is. He doesn't know it. Right. Pregame shows
are not supposed to be ted talks. They're as with
better lighting, all right. It's the b V and test
(12:05):
broadcasting versus narrow casting. You want entertainment, you want some personality,
some razmataz, you want the kerfluffle involving the players. The
NBA sells razzle dazzle. They don't sell a coaching clinic.
They're not selling a webinar about coaching. And if you
do want that content, if you're the one percent that
(12:28):
wants the deep basketball content because you're a hard oh,
then they have this thing called YouTube. And there's a
lot of podcasts also. We call them friends and family
podcasts because those are the ones that listen to those podcasts,
the deep dive, analytical shows that draw flies in bots
and mostly flies in terms of listenership. The casual fan.
(12:51):
They have done research after research, and while things change
and technology changes and all that the fans desire has
remain mostly the same. Most of the people that watch
these shows cannot tell the difference between a basketball and
volleyball and that's who the network's program for. It's all
about entertainment value, and yeah, you gotta dumb it down.
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You got to keep the casuals engaged. They don't want
to hear about the fast break and the offensive rebounding
and all that. They say, Give me Charles Barkley clouding
on Shaquille O'Neal. That's what I would like. That's the contact.
I would like. Give me the video of shaq walking
off to go beat the whiz, because nobody beats the whiz.
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They don't need a whiteboard. There's no seminar with a
whiteboard on the triangle offense that people want. They do
not want that content. This is the classic sad Lebron
ergo sad meeting self awareness deficiency. Lebron sad he's lacking
the gene that allows you to laugh at yourself. It
is more probable than not. As the NFL likes to
(13:58):
say that Charles Barkley and the boys love to bust
the balls of Lebron James and because Lebron cannot take
a joke from sir Charles. He wants to change the
whole industry. He would like Poindexter to come in there
and write down some x's and o's and all that,
and America would prefer the drama. O rama is what
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they would like. My final point, we shift over to baseball.
The top team in baseball this year, the Atlanta Brows
have been playing better than anyone. And the Braves got
some news that was not surprising, very predictable news involving
their former MVP, the star Ronald Acuna Junior. Do you
see what happened with him? The Braves outfielder has been
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placed on the we used to call back in the
old days of the disabled list. Who knew we were heathens.
Back in the day, we called it the DL. Now
they the wolkesters at baseball, called the i L. That's
much better, much better, the injured list. A left hammy
went whammy. He's trained as hammy. Acuna Junior injured himself
while running out a ground ball. Yeah, the most benign
(15:06):
thing in baseball. And we don't even know how much
he you know, how much hustle he put on that,
but he injured himself going down to first base on
a ground ball, So that means he'll be out for
at least the next ten days, a week and a half,
likely longer. The question, Brave slugger Ronald Acuna Junior injured
the hammy that went whammy. He's injured yet again, how
(15:28):
many alarms does that set off? So for the Atlanta Braves,
it is business as usual. I know Tommy in Atlanta
is nodding his head at this point. If you're the Braves,
you have to treat Ronald Lacuna Junior's injuries like if
you live in California, you treat earthquakes. It's like, oh,
that was just a little one. I didn't really feel
(15:50):
that one. It's just a small one. That's it, because
it's just a small injury. At this point, it is
deja vu and not the strip club all over again.
This is the second time this that the left hammy
has gone a little bit whammy and popped out, following
a Grade one strain last month. Also a thumb bruise.
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Oh my thumb. And so these things keep happening month
after month, year after year. The guy is running the
same playbook, Ronald Lacuna Junior. He's got on his resume
now two torn acls, he's got a strain here, a
pull here. Everything south of the Waste has gone haywire
(16:32):
and Ronald is officially out as a result of all this,
he was on the roller coaster. He's out of the
bubble of trust. And if you look at the results,
we're sitting here in mid June and the player is
hitting two point fifty one with seven home runs. It
doesn't seem like you're a superstar. When you're sitting in
mid June hitting two fifty one with seven home runs.
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He's a star, He's just not a super star is
here and a super stars up here you can't see,
but just trust me. And yet, despite the rash of
injuries that the Braves have had this year and key
arms at times, you guys that have been dinged up,
some short term, some long term, Spencer Strider guys like
that Atlanta is dominating as baseball's top team, not the Dodgers,
(17:18):
the Braves. The fact that the Braves are monster mashing
without Ronald Lacuno Junior doing anything spectacular tells you everything
that he is not the needle mover that he had
been at this point. He's not the main dish. He's
the side dish. He's potatoes al Gratten and that's it.
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And Atlanta's been able to win with him, They've been
able to win without him and around him, and despite him,
they've been able to win. It is the Bean Mallor Show.
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bit later this it'll be rounds five and six of
the World Cup. Pick them. The Hopper is back. Say hello,
Hopper Yeah, it's very exciting here, and so we'll get
to that.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
The hopper is loyal to Bill.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Well clearly you obviously, and if you'd like to be
part of the show. Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox,
we saw the greatest choke job in basketball history as
the San Antonio Spurs were welcomed by the Atlanta Falcons.
They go twenty nine point lead. Twenty nine point choke
job by Victor Wimba and Yama the UFO. Holy crap, unbelievable.
(20:42):
So we talked about that earlier. We'll talk about that
more if you want. And on X we have coming
up in a little bit, Ask Ben, Ask Ben. That's
hashtag ask Ben Ben Maler on ex Lorena FSR Tech
Ranahan was getting a workout and Cooper, a Bronco fan,
your comments can't you the court of the Mallard militia,
(21:07):
So please please please act accordingly. Well, here's the Mallor
Riddle of the day. Here it is Mallard Riddle of
the day. Nick's superfan Ben Stiller vowed to never wear
blank after the wild reaction he got from his wife.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
And what is it?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Just Josh said, like Jimmy Kimmel, wearing blackface. Well that's
kind of I mean, Josh, what else do we have
Let's see page down? King Roy says, Lego crocs is
his answer. Mother in law's girdle from Lady Sideburns, Elizabethan
Elizabethan collar, which is I guess according to Doc Dan,
(21:51):
that's the call you know your dog. You know your
dog like can't stop licking its pause, you give him
the caller. They have a cutter. Yeah, apparently that's called.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
The shame cone.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
The cone. Yeah, it's called the corner of Doc Dan.
It's called the Elizabethan collar. I didn't know. I didn't
know that. What else do we have? A latex bodysuit
from Donkey Sausage? Page down? Trucker Joe, I can't say that.
Timmy from Busco, Indiana, he vowed to never wear his
(22:22):
SpongeBob footed pajamas again. Crocs with socks from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
What else do we have? A page down? JT the
wingman said, is yamaka? What else do we have? Page down?
Skittles dress from courtesy Flusher. Autographed golf shoes worn by
(22:43):
Tiger Woods from from Michael in Tulsa. His hot dog
necklace from filler Up Phil? What else do we have?
A cod piece from Johnny c rest in Peace, the
big cod piece in the sky, Buddy Frank Pollack my
old bord poop was we nicknamed the codpiece? What else
(23:03):
do we have? He was part of the Compton Fishing Club.
They used to work at your Fox sports Rader the Coton.
You know Compton. There's a lot of fishing in Compton.
You think that that would not be the case, but yeah,
they have a big fishing club there in Compton. Yeah.
Which was funny eye patch from your female Larina? Do
you have an answer to the Mallard riddle of the day.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Yeah, it's obviously gray sweatpants.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Gray sweatpants? Is that correct? Nick? Super fan Ben Stiller
about to never wear these quote stupid final shirt they
give out because his wife freaked out. Said said this
before game four. He said, I came home after the
last game, burned the clothes we were wearing. I'm not
wearing that stupid final shirt ever again that I was wearing.
(23:49):
Of course he was slightly kidding, but there you go.
Ben Stiller, who showed up four hours before the next game.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
He has four arms four.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Hours before the next game, he showed up, nice hors
please we do have the World Cup. Pick him? I
am on time, malerd buy the clock for the clock,
plausibly all about the clock. So let's say hello to No. No,
I'm not doing the pick them right now, no, no,
no no, I got to take a call, fir. Andrea
is in Berkeley. She's the astrology insider. She's a native
(24:21):
New Yorker, although she's lived in the Bay Area quite
a long time. So we go to Berkeley right there
and we say lo to our friend Andrea. And Andrea,
I want you to know that you have a big
fan in Anthony and Louisiana. He's a big fan of
your work.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Thank you, Ben, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
And say hi to Anthony.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
Hi, Anthony, what sign are you?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I don't know. He's not on hold. I'll find out next.
I'll find out next time he calls Iky.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Please do that's important?
Speaker 7 (24:50):
Yeah, absolutely, And speaking of important, Wow, that was quite
a huge comeback win for the Knicks down twenty nine points.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
That was really amazing. And the last time they won
the NBA Finals was in nineteen seventy three, and it's like,
why does that year sound familiar to me, Oh, the
Mets one in nineteen seventy three. So anyway, a colleague
of mine, my sports so sology colleague got the Nick's
birthday for me. So they're born June sixth, nineteen forty six,
(25:25):
so they just had their Gemini birthday. And they're having
a positive Jupiter transit, which is expansion, abundance and opportunity,
so kind of strike while the iron's hot and Jupiter
venus in cancer now connecting to their venus in cancer,
so they're having a venus return which is a very optimistic,
(25:47):
positive time. So really just exciting. I mean I watched
the last especially watched the last quarter, and to see
that comeback win was really something, and you know, the
celebrities like you were saying it kind of makes it interesting,
but that was really, you know, quite an accomplishment. One
(26:11):
O seven, one O six in Game four, the largest
comeback in Finals history, and they recovered from a twenty
nine point that's a.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Sit I mean, Matt, yeah, no, that's the biggest of
all time.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
It was pretty awesome to watch.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I'm not gonna have it was thank you did you
actually keep watching a lot of people I feel like
turned the game off, and then somebody sent them a
text and then they turned the game back on. Now
I had the game on. I did not turn it
off because I nothing I was to watch, so I
kept it on. But if you're not invested, if you
didn't have a bet on the game, or even if
you had a bet on the game, you figured you're
wen't going to win your bet. It was a small
point spread and all that, And if you're not a
(26:47):
Knicks fan or a Spurs fan, why would you keep watching?
You know?
Speaker 5 (26:50):
You know what bothers me then about this. I was
just thinking about this. So they're down, you know, like
twenty nine around there, down a lot and twenty seven.
At halftime, my wife goes, can we can we We're
listening to the Harry Potter audio books. She's like, she's like,
can we listen to the book instead of this game?
Speaker 8 (27:09):
And I almost and I almost said yes because it
was such a blowout. But then something in me was like,
what if they have like the biggest comeback of all
time and I missed it and I'm listening to the
Harry Potter audio book. So I kept it on, and
I wish I would have also, just like threw one
hundred bucks on them coming back to win as well.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Oh yeah, the amount of money you would have made
down twenty seven or twenty nine or whatever.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
Wow, you right, decision. Yeah, very intuitive, and you listen
to your intuition. And quite frankly, I wasn't paying as
much attention as I did until the fourth quarter, and
then it was like, okay, you know, yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I thought like, Eh, the Knicks will get close, but
they're not actually gonna win. And then at some point
in the fourth quarter I said this. I saw the
look on some of the guys on the spurs. I said, oh, dude,
these guys are sucking dogs. They have nothing, they have
no idea what they're doing, and they're drowning and there's
no one to stop them from drowning, and they're gonna
just yeah, right in the bottom of the Hudson. Thank
(28:08):
you so much, Andrea, our friend Andrea there from Berkeley.
It's time now for the World Cup. Pick them. Here
we go, the World Cup. Pick them. Let's see here,
I have the hopper. Let's see the hopper. That's the
sound of the hopper. This is the actual hopper. Now
do we have a caller of this hour, Cooper, are
we going caller free? Who do we have here? Do
we have anything line up?
Speaker 5 (28:29):
See? I mean hold on, there's that same person that
wanted at the beginning, but it was it's so weird.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
We want we want different people. We right the same people.
We had two percent chance. Last hour we had hollering
James if you knew to the show. The World Cup
is beginning here in the United States, and since we're
not really soccer people, to honor the World Cup and
to be completely fair, we are having the World Cup
pick them. We're drafting all forty eight teams. There's Team
(28:57):
Ben Hi, I'm Ben, There's Team Coop, and then Team
Lorena goes to three team. And then we also have
the callers that are representing you the other listeners. And
this hour we have Mike the lepre Gohn who's actually
a soccer guy, Mike the Leprechaun from Boston who hosted us.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
I just I just spoke to Coop a second ago. Yes,
I will tell you the eight final teams.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
How about that to begin with?
Speaker 1 (29:23):
No, No, we don't want that, we don't need that contact.
We have the hopper. We have the Hopper and we're
gonna go and we're short on top.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Sor we have poppy for stupid stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah, yeah, we have poppy for that. All right, So
I'm gonna spin the hopper that I'm going first. All
I'm going first. Here we go, big money, big money,
big money is stop. All right. The hopper has spun around,
and my team, Coop is number thirty eight. Number thirty
eight is my team in round Scotland, Scotland.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
Right, they're wearing and kills.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
They're wearing they're wearing skirts. What what did you say?
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Yes, in Boston they're playing there, playing in Boston on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
They're playing and they're gonna win at least game.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
All right, I'm spinning the hopper again. This is for Coop. Coop.
Your next team is number nineteen, Coop, number nineteen.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Ooh, Germany. That's a good one. I think that's a
good one. Right.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
One of my favorites, one of my favorites, one of
my fs is that.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Okay, is it good?
Speaker 5 (30:23):
They're they're they're number ten ranked number ten.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
All right, you're up, Loraina, you're listening to our live coverage.
Here we go, big money, big money and stop, all right, Lorena,
number twenty six for Loraina. Number twenty six. What team
is that alphabetical order? We've numbered every team that would
be Jordan, Oh, Jordan, But now Michael Jordan. All right,
thank you. I'll be here all night. And now now
(30:48):
you're up, Michael Leprecaun. Are you nervous? I've got the
hopper right here? Here we go.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Jack Angels, I kind of fight ballid Dow, I gotta
fight ball.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I don't play okay, all right, and hi Jack number
twenty three. Jack's a good guy. Number twenty three. Jordan
is Michael Jordan's number. Iraq, oh Rock, congratulations, Mike Country.
A lot of American taxpayer dollars have gone to Iraq.
(31:20):
All right, here we go. Let's see here you're up again,
mister Leprechaun. And a way we go. Number fifteen for
the Leprechaun, number fifteen, give me it.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
We already picked England, and I already pick you were
stopping Ecuador?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
A right, Ecuador. Congratulations, they're okay, Brazil. You know what
they're They're better than your they're better than your phone.
Yeah yeah, they're better on your phone. All right, here
we go, Loraina, you're up next year I'm spending the hopper,
big money, big money, and stop popper number four for
lorraina number four Austrian, Austria. Okay, world Cup picking leo,
(32:04):
you lay, you lay lay. Next up is Cooper loop
on the World Cup. Pick them live coverage. Nobody else
has this. We've got the hopper, and around and around
around the hopper goes big money, big money. And here
we go number thirty four, number thirty four for Coop.
(32:25):
Number thirty four.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
That's the that's the one that was not supposed to
be in it. So I think I think I need
to pick again. Yeah, that was Poland who's not not
not actually in it?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
All right? All right, around and around we go number forty,
Coop number four, number forty, that would be South Africa,
South Africa, okay, Africa. All right, here we go World Cup.
Pick them my last team here and we have asked
men coming up here. It is big money, big money.
Stop number number six, number.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Six is that Bosnia and Herzego?
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I get too. That's two, right, they're combined. I get two, No,
only one? All right, okay, Mike, who you have winning? Quickly?
Who do you have winning the World Cup? Go ahead, quickly.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Okay, I'm just give me the top, give me the team.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
You give me the top two France, friend, yeah, France,
the French. Okay, gotcha.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Your phone, I keep you on longer. But your phone.
Your phone is really bad. I don't know what's going
to charge your phone or get a new phone. I
don't know what's going on. All right, there, it is
this hour. We'll do it again next hour. Always fun,
what fun. It is almost as much fun as ask Ban.
Your questions are answers, ask Ban. We'll get to that.
We will do it next.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
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Speaker 1 (33:56):
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Speaker 2 (34:45):
It's now time for time for how I Ask Twitter.
Send us your questions on Twitter now.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
And way we go. It's time out for asking man.
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour
and we head over to the Kooper Loop for the
reading of the questions.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
All right, Ben, We're going to start off with a
question from JT, the wingman.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Hi JT. I've met him multiple times.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
He wants to know do you use a water pick flosser.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
I have used the water pick floss. It typically breaks.
It doesn't last that long, So I go, I've got
o g I go back to just the regular floss.
So I have used it. I'm not against it. It
doesn't the thing the machine, We've had a couple of
them over the years. They don't usually last that long.
What about you the rain it?
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Yeah, I went, I'm like you I've used one.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I have one, but I don't.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
I don't actively use it an ect. I prefer hand flossing.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
I have a little floss stakes, you know, one that
has like a pointy side.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
And yes, oh I love yeah, yeah, I'm I am
an epic for when it comes to those little philosophers.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
Keep them in my bag.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
They're great, good to have. I love the clank clankity clank.
What about your cool.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
I'm the same. We have a water pick. I have
used it before, but I don't really use it. I
use the individual ones too much.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
There's too much work. You know, it's just a convenience.
It's just the regular flos. All right, what's next? What
do we got here? It's ask man. Your questions are answered?
All right?
Speaker 5 (36:23):
I love this question. This is from Alf the Alien
O Piner Hi Alf, sweet tarts or spree.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
H I'm a sweet tart guy. I'm a sweet target.
What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Oh that's really hard. I forget about spreeze completely, right,
but I really enjoyed the texture of so I think
I'm gonna go with sprees alright.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
I'm fine. That's a bad job by you. What about you, Coop?
Speaker 5 (36:49):
So I'm adding the caveat. If it's the chewy spreeze,
absolutely like over sweethearts all day, every day. But if
it's the original spree like you have in your picture,
alf the the hard sprees, I'm gonna pick sweethearts. Yeah,
I want the chewy sprees.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
What Alfie, That's what I want to know? What's next? Alple?
Were like a pickle? Uh tart? What is next to?
What do we got?
Speaker 5 (37:12):
Donkey sausage?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Would like to know? Donkey, I donkey.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
I think we've had this before, but we'll do it again.
What would the title of your memoir be, uh.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Grumpy talk show host guy won't shut up or something
like that. I don't I haven't thought about that.
Speaker 5 (37:28):
GIRs is easy? What in the air everywhere?
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Oh? Okay, I guess fine. Whatever What about you, Lorenam?
You're gonna write a book about your amazing life, all
the adventures you've gone on. Just keep going. Well that's it. Yeah,
she keep going to the lights turn off and then
game over. That's it, everything gets reset. What about you,
Lorena or a coop brother?
Speaker 5 (37:50):
I'm gonna say mine would be called no lies.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Oh no lies? The claw I thought you'd call it
the claw.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
Is uh. The next question is from the King, Rory.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Hi, Rory, he wants to Rory.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
He wants to know are you concerned on how much
microplastics you are consuming on a daily basis?
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Yes, not at all. I don't give a crappy. I'd
love to just eat plastic. I love plastic. I love
the taste of plastic. It's just absolutely wonderful. In fact,
I would like to be buried on top of that
plastic island out in the Pacific. What are they calling that,
the Great Deposition Island trash out? Yeah? Why not? What
about your very worried about plastics.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
I'm very worried. Even today I was eating my DIBs
and I accidentally broke off a piece of the border
into the ice cream, and it was in my mouth
and I was like, oh my gosh, I almost swallowed
this and died. Like plastics are a very serious thing,
because you know that they can't even do a case
people who don't have micropes.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
I don't exactly, man, we don't care, all right, Next,
what do we got? What do you go ask? Ben?
Your questions are answers.
Speaker 5 (38:59):
A classic one, but I've never seen this guy ask
a question before, so I'm gonna ask it. Mike wants
to know what do you put on your hot dogs? Oh?
FedEx mic in Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Oh the great FedEx Mike. So I go. I upset
people because go mustard, little ketchup mustard. I strip it
like stripes, like pin stripes on my hot dog. So
in every bite I got a little mustard and ketchup.
What about you, Loreina?
Speaker 4 (39:19):
I do mayonnaise and ketchup and make mustard a little
bit of ketchup onions.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
I don't mind the onions. Say, brought those back to Costco?
What's next? What do we got?
Speaker 5 (39:31):
He did?
Speaker 1 (39:33):
You gotta ask for him?
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Though?
Speaker 7 (39:34):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (39:34):
Okay, okay, the heck a quick? Another one from King
Roy because I like this one. Are any of you
a fan of the hot Honey fad?
Speaker 1 (39:43):
I've had, actually had hot Pney hot Honey pizza somewhere.
It was pretty good. Actually I didn't. I sound like
I'm gonna go out of my way to get it,
but I thought it was pretty good. What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 5 (39:53):
Yeah, put it on all my pepperoni pizza please. Yes,
I love the hot Honey delicious.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
It's solid the hot honey they had, They had a webinar.
All the restaurants loved the hot honey. They can't get
enough of it.
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