April 17, 2026 • 40 mins
In the final hour of the Ben Maller Show, Brian Noe explains why he doesn’t see the Spurs going all the way in the NBA Postseason & takes some callers from the Militia!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Let's give this.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Oh what is going on, militia.
How are we doing these early morning hours? Huh? I
hope everything is fantastic, you know Aokay, stars across the board. Okay,
so we got a lot to talk about here. You
(00:46):
know what I call this time of year sort of
like the Hodgepodge time of the sports calendar. Are there
are plenty of things to talk about, but a lot
of the stories are kind of like bits and pieces,
you know what I mean. I'm interested in a lot
of storylines, which are you know, like sports talk topics.
(01:09):
There are a lot of things that I'm interested in.
But I'd be lying to you if I said there's
this one monster topic that almost everybody is captivated by
has an opinion about. You know, we really don't have
that right now. We don't if you look at the
NFL Draft as a whole. I said this a little
(01:29):
bit earlier in the the Wee Hours and the Malard
Militia experience. It's just lacking a ton of buzz. It's
lacking pizzazz. You know. I think it's gonna be good
when it rolls around, but leading up to it, it
doesn't have a whole lot there. I've got a couple
of things that I think are very interesting, but as
(01:51):
a whole, it's not just like driving conversation, driving interest.
I've been interested in the playing tournament. Three of the
four games have been awesome off the charts. Blazers had
a ridiculous comeback against the Sun's Heat and Hornets go
into overtime. LaMelo Ball loses his mind and doesn't really
(02:15):
get punished at all for it, intentionally grabbing Bam out
of Bio's foot, causing him to fall right on his back.
He can't finish the game totally. The NBA is like, yeah,
we're gonna upgrade that to a flagrant too and not
suspend him for the next game. So it it really
equates to absolutely nothing. So we had that we had
(02:38):
the Steph Curry Show, the Warriors come back against the Clippers.
That was an outstanding game. We've had outstanding play in games.
But it's not just driving conversation. So there are a
lot of bits and pieces type topics which I think
are good, which listen. I think that in the add
(03:00):
day and age of sports and especially sports talk, I
think that quick topics can be good. You don't have
to have like that central topic that you talk about
for twenty minutes and it's just like wow, man, I
can't get enough. There's nothing wrong with a couple of
minute topic here, a couple of minute topic there. I
like that type of stuff. I'll tell you what. We
had a caller earlier in the evening, and I hate
(03:23):
disagreeing with the militia, but I'm gonna disagree with I'm
trying to find who it was exactly. It might have
been Dave in Ohio. I think that's who it was,
my guy Dave. And he's on the Spurs. He thinks
the Spurs gonna go far, maybe even win at all.
I don't. I don't. I can't wait to see what
the Spurs do in the playoffs. But what is so
(03:45):
interesting to me about the Spurs is they're trying to
do what almost no NBA team ever does, which is
have microwaveable success. You know, like you know, microwave a dinner. Oh,
we've got Marcel on hold Marcel, Like if Marcel microwaves
(04:06):
his dinner, you know it takes two three minutes done,
Maybe it just takes one minute done. That's what the
Spurs are trying to do in the playoffs. They're trying
to microwave championship success and it typically does not happen
like that in the NBA. I go back to Jordan,
(04:26):
Michael Jordan, the goat, the greatest of all time, year
after year after year for a long time, would get
bounced in the playoffs. They had some really talented teams,
and it's like that. They lost to the Pistons, all right,
Next year lost to the Pistons. All right, they're gaining
(04:48):
on them, though, next year lost to the Pistons. It
happened three years in a row before they finally got
over that hurdle hit. So the Spurs, they've got a
ton of talent. Wemby is an alien, He's awesome, He's outstanding.
Stefan Castle is outstanding. They've got a deep squad, but
(05:13):
you know what they don't have. They have hardly any
playoff experience. And I think that matters. I know that matters.
You've got what Harrison Barnes and Luke Cornett, those are
your guys with playoff experience. That's what you got, that's
what you bringing to the table. Experience wise, you got
(05:35):
nothing as far as experience goes. If the Goat lost
year after year after year after year before he finally
won a championship, I can't expect the Spurs to take
their lumps here and there. I just don't see how
they go from pretty much no playoffs experience collectively too. Yeah,
(05:59):
they just want it all. They're just that talented. I
just don't buy it at all. Now, they might be
great the first couple of series. I think they're gonna
blow the doors off of the Blazers. Man, the Blazers
are just they got a pretty good squad. You know,
they've got some depth, They've got some good playmakers. I'm
the I call him the Trito. When that guy he's
(06:21):
just like a bowl. He's like a bull and the
hoop is a red cape, you know, and he's just
attacking the rim, and he's fun to watch. He's good,
he's effective. Drew Holliday is one of my favorite NBA
players of all time. Seriously, I love Drew Holliday. Is
such a solid basketball player, great defender, can create his
(06:43):
own shot, can give you a little bit of scoring,
great glue guy. He's so strong. He can guard centers
if he needs to be, you know, Team USA, He's
guarding centers. It's like that shouldn't happen, that shouldn't be
a thing. He can do it. He can guard players
far bigger than him, far far much taller than him,
far taller, much taller. I love Drew Holiday, but the
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Blazers are just too dumb, man. It's a turnover after
turnover after turnover. The Spurs are gonna blow the doors
off of them. Spurs might have their way with the Nuggets. Maybe, maybe,
if that's the team that they're facing, you know, but man,
if it's Spurs thunder. I know everybody wants to bring
up the regular season, and the Spurs were fantastic in
the regular season. Playoffs are a different animal, man, And
(07:31):
I'm not gonna sit here and act like, okay, see
can't be had because they can the Spurs could beat them.
They're capable. But are you telling me, like, no playoff
experience is fine, it doesn't even matter. There's a big game.
Let's say it's Game three, series tied one to one.
It's a big game. You're on the road, it's the
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final minute. You have got to get a bucket this
possession or we're going down to one. You're telling me
a lot lack of playoff experiences doesn't even matter. It
doesn't even matter. Unfazed, It's like they've been here numerous times.
I just don't buy it. I don't buy it. I
gotta be proven wrong, man, I got to be proven
wrong by the Spurs to truly buy in. But there
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have been teams that have been far more talented than
the Spurs that took their lumps and did not win
a Microwavable championship right away. Just didn't happen. So yeah,
there you go. Very nice. It'll be done here soon.
That was good. That is the fan in the background
(08:35):
as Lorraina takes a nap. Is that what that sounds?
Is that? What that is?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Me and are working out?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
You know what that also is? That's the actual fan
in the background when my guy, Isaac Loewenkron does updates.
Isaac Ilo loves him. A fan in the background, Man,
he's all about the fan in the background.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Have you seen Isla with his coffee cup? I hate
to cut you.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Off, No, I have seen him with this car.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Oh my god. He is such a legend with that
cute little cup of coffee.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah, he's all about it, all about it. Yeah. So
I can't wait to see what happens to the Spurs
in particular. But I you know, I would. I would
look at the OKC thunder think about this too, how
hard it is in the NBA playoffs. So oka, See,
they had taken their lumps before, they had lost to
the the Dallas Mavericks in the playoffs, right, and then
(09:28):
last year they were far and away the most talented team,
the best team, best record, best best win point differential
in the history of the NBA. Like the amount of
points that they won by on average, right, we're talking.
I'd have to look it up at about fourteen points
(09:50):
per game they won by on average. Like we're factoring
in the losses, you don't. You're blowing the freaking doors
off of teams night in and night out. If you
lose a game by two points, you gotta beat the
next team by you know, I can't do math on
(10:11):
the fly, goodness, we have to win by to average
fourteen points, you have to win by what like twenty six? No, thirty?
Is that right? To balance it out? Something like whatever,
don't don't grade me too harshly, Mallard militia. But you
have to crush the next team to be averaging fourteen
(10:32):
points per game that you're winning by. So you're killing
teams left and right. Last season, they get to the playoffs,
you get to the finals against the Indiana Pacers, who
are not nearly as talented as Okase was, and it
is a dog fight. So to think that the Spurs
(10:56):
are just gonna out talent everybody and that's it, Like,
that's just it's not reality. That's not how the NBA
playoffs work.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Man.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Oh, I'm happy to fade them. I'm happy to fade
the Spurs. I'm not saying I'm gonna do it against
the Blazers. I'm gonna have to wait a little bit.
But oh man, no, Like if you're asking me championship
right out of the gate, no, I do not see it.
And I'll have to eat my words if I'm wrong,
which again, if you miss the uh, the the warning
(11:27):
label earlier in the show, I have been wrong plenty
of times before. This might be the latest installment. And listen,
the Spurs have enough talent to prove someone like me wrong.
When Ben Yama is just that good and he can
go off. That's the other thing to keep an eye on.
When ben Yama played very modest minutes throughout the regular season,
(11:48):
if his minutes go up and its production, you know,
goes up as a result, he's just on the floor more.
Hey look out, but man, he was gassed at numerous times.
That's the other thing. Like, if he's averaging much more minutes,
you know, in the playoffs, does that take a toll
(12:09):
on him? Is he ready for that type of workload?
Those are all legitimate questions. So now now I just
don't buy it. I saw thing on ESPN today they
predicted the whole playoffs is if it's a bracket, and
they had the Spurs beating the Celtics. I'm just like,
I No, I don't buy it, man, don't buy it.
And they're breaking down the matchups, it's like, well, the
(12:30):
Celtics allowed the highest rate of three pointers. Like their
defense allowed the most the three the most amount of
three point shots, right, Like Joe Mizzoula loves to pack
the paint, you know, they don't allow a whole lot
of points in the paint. They make you shoot threes.
They're banking on you not making a lot of threes.
(12:52):
That sort of thing is breaking down this whole matchup, Like, well,
the Spurs, they they're not that great from three, but
they came on down the stretch, so maybe they and
they had the Spurs winning, and I'm like, I don't
think they even get there. I don't think they even
are in the finals. I'll be impressed if they even
survived the West. I'll be very impressed if they survived
(13:12):
the West. You just typically gotta take your lumps in
the NBA playoffs. It's generally the way it works out.
And I think the Spurs will be the latest installment
of that. All right, eight seven, seven ninety nine on
Fox is your phone number. I'm gonna get out to
the militia coming up next. And also we got to
(13:32):
weave in a little bit of ball, A couple of topics,
a couple of storylines I'm interested in with the draft
right around the corner. The NBA is weird with the
rule that they made a couple of exceptions four. It's
sort of like speed limit sixty five eighty five, fat
(13:53):
dah whatever, give you a pass. That's basically what the
NBA did. I don't quite get that, but get to
both of those story lines right around the corner. I'm
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a random question for you girls. So Loraina here, bree here,
do you Yeah, I don't even know if you carry money.
(15:01):
But if you carry money, do all of the president's
heads face the same direction? Do you get down that way?
You know what I'm saying? Or you just like stuff
all the money back wherever it goes. I don't care.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
I guess it just goes in different directions. And I
kind of have it smushed up in my wallet.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Oh you know, as someone who puts peanut butter idea
on brioche, it doesn't shock me right there. How about you, Lorena,
how do you get down? Well?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
I used to be a bookkeeper, so I would count
all the money from Red Robin.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
At the end of the day and stuff, and I
was so.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Like, I was so meticulous about everything being facing, like
everything had to face the right direction. So it kind
of just stuck with me, and I love it. I
don't do cash very much anymore since I stopped serving,
and I don't have tip money. But yeah, if I
do have cash, it's all facing.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Hey, I'm with you, So I'll put it facing the
same direction, and I'll put it in like the amounts right, like.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Yeah, like ones five, yeah, organized.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Oh yeah, But I bring that up because today I
noticed that goes even deeper for me. Okay, So I
picked up a pizza and I put a little money
in the well, yeah they did, that's a separate story. Yeah,
but they gave me a little bit of change. So
(16:25):
I put that in the tip jar, and I put
a little bit more money, and I noticed the President's
head was upside down when I put it in the
tip jar, and it was the only bill in the
tip jar, right, And so I waited for the girl
to go back. You know, she's going to continue making pizza.
So I waited for her to go back there, and
(16:46):
then real quickly I turned the President's head like where
it's like the right way. It was bugging me that
it was upside down in the tip jar that I
was walking out of, Like what do I care?
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Up?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Felt wrong. It just didn't feel like it should go
like that, you know. So that's a little OCD. Yeah,
and even in the tip jar, I had to correct
that real quick. Just didn't feel right. Yeah, there was
a time I didn't care. I would just throw all
the money back in my wallet and whatever. You know,
it'll be a surprise like, oh shoot, I still have
a ten in here, nice, you know, But no, I
(17:20):
can't do that. Anymore. Just can't get down that way. Yeah. Man,
the pizza was fantastic, though. There's some good ZA. Shout
out to my friends on the East Coast. They were like, oh,
I got some Zaha. I'm like, za what They're like, yeah,
pizza ZA.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
That's like the first time I heard a hot dog
called a glizzy.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I'm like, what what, I've never heard that? Who told
you that? Where were they from? A glizzy?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Go look it up Glizzy gobbler and where were they from?
Speaker 5 (17:55):
So I heard it from Rock Parker, and I think
it's an East Coast thing.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
It's an East Coast thing for sure. That's terrible, awful. Wow,
I don't even get that one. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
Let's listen to him right now.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I had a glizzy in my Mouth's that's a great
drop for sure. Yeah, very well done. I had a
glizzy in my mouth. I'm going to get to the
draft in a second here, but let me go out
to the militia. They've been patient. I appreciate that always.
Bob is in Baltimore, got a thought for us. What's
going on? Bob, You're on Fox Sports.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
Radio in morning?
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (18:31):
He had a caller last hour talk about the Orioles,
the Guardians, Dames. Yeah, and I want to give you.
I want to give you a reason when the bands
we're rooting for Cleveland.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Okay you're ready.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Yeah it was in Cleveland. I thought it was, but yeah,
I was like, I thought that was Cleveland though, But okay, Yeah,
I'm glad you set the record straight.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
To the caller who I won't mention name because he
doesn't do his facts. He doesn't get the respect. Yeah,
maybe you want to check your facts before you call
in the national radio station and give adage. Yeah, but
I will, But I will say on behalf of the
Orioles fans in Baltimore. If the game happened to be
(19:19):
in Baltimore, then if we had the chance of seeing history,
we would be rooting.
Speaker 9 (19:24):
For the history.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
We wouldn't be rooting against our team or turning against
our team. We'd be rooting to see history.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Right right now, I'm with you, Bob. I think, look, man,
if it's if it's one to nothing and the road
team has a chance at a no hitter, that's tough, right,
Like you, I don't know if I could root for
it then, because it does feel more like you're taking
the other side. But when it's for nothing and I
(19:54):
don't think my chances are very good to win this game,
you know, I'm going to root for history in that situation.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
But yeah, and the thing is is Baltimore fans both
football baseball, they're pretty intelligent. They know what's going on,
they know the length of the season, they know their teams.
So you know, one game somebody mentioned the thunder sixty
three games. One game, unless you know it's potentially a
(20:20):
playoff situation where they're gonna miss or make not make
the playoffs, you know, Bontimore fans are going to be
rooting for the history.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Right by the way, Bob, before you go, I did
see the Ravens unveiled some pretty sweet uniforms. I think
that was on Thursday. It just came out. But yeah,
I don't know if you're a Ravens fan. Also, you
have you seen that it's like the black Matt helmets.
And I saw the headline, I'm like, oh, Matt, I
remember the Jaguars had the Matt finished helmets before. Remember
(20:51):
there was like like business in the front, party in
the back, the mullet like the gold in the back.
But they were matt helmets, and I'm like, I don't know,
but the Ravens Matt helmets. They look sharp, man, they
look really good.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (21:05):
I'm not not a Ravens Chan and I'm also blind, so.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
God, oh, double whammy.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
They had a big thing last night.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Unfortunate Bob, me too. Fins up. Maybe let's go. Yeah,
we're not trading a Chan at all. No, you stop
thinking about Devin h get away. Get your dirty fingers
away from David. A Chan is what the Dolphins say.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Right here that I think.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
Make sure they're gonna try to They're basically going to
be a running timmy or tend to be a running team,
depending on how they're offensive line is.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
But yeah, yeah, well hey man, we'll see small steps.
Yeah all right, Bob, well, good stuff.
Speaker 8 (21:46):
But you're doing a good job now, Thank.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
You, Bob. I appreciate that.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Man.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yeah, okwin Orange. How about that Bob and I bonding
over the fins. It's a beautiful thing right there. Man,
Dolphins are gonna be grease fire this season. It pains me,
but hey, hopefully they'll draft a receiver. Malik Willis kind
of needs. Those might need a receiver or to to
throw to it could be helpful. All we got Andrea,
(22:14):
my girl in Berkeley. She's with us this morning. What
is going on, Andrea?
Speaker 9 (22:18):
Yes, enjoying your show. I wanted to put in a
call and say hello, and uh, we're Shoe and the
callers a happy new Moon. And Aries and Aries is
a fire sign. It rules energy, assertion, aggression and if
you what was interesting the Giants had a bench clearing brawl. Yeah,
(22:39):
at the end of the game. Yeah, I thought that
had a lot of emotion to it. Eric Miller is
a closer and Stuart one of the Reds if they
got into it. And there's actually six planets and aries
as we speak, Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Neptune, Kai,
(23:00):
and so if we have the new moon, you know
what happens in two weeks it's the full moon. Wow,
I know how I wanted to let you know. May first, Bryan,
we have the full moon, and I know how you
like to howl. I do, well, yeah, we always have
the new moon and then exactly two weeks later we
(23:21):
have the full moon. But meanwhile, you know, new moon
and areas certainly has a lot of energy and get
up and go.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
So I didn't know this, so, like this might be
a dumb question, but I'm curious, are are people that
you know they're sign is aries? Are they a little aggressive?
Are they on the aggressive side?
Speaker 9 (23:40):
Absolutely? Yeah, yeah, I mean you could take the high
road or the low road with it, but yes, aggression
is a big part of their personality.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
So would a person that I'm looking it up right
now born between March twenty first April nineteenth, would they
maybe maybe be in the market for some heavy metal
These areas people over here aggressive style of music, what do.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
You think could very well be And you know, we're
more than our Sun's sign. We have to see the
rest of our chart, but certainly Areas is a fire sign.
It's very pioneering, very assertive, aggressive and a lot of
athletes actually are arees, so it's interesting. So it was
New Moon and areas as above show below and it's like, wow,
(24:23):
that was kind of sense bring up to shut out
and the Reds weren't having it.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Well you know this too, you know this as well,
and as another question for you, but me being a scorpio,
like we can be a routing bunch over here, us
scorpios here, So how does it work like a Scorpio
and aries, is that sort of like, you know, like
a bad combination or can it be good? I don't
know how that works with you know.
Speaker 9 (24:50):
Well, that's an excellent question, Brian. There's a lot of
Mars energy areas as will buy Mars Scorpio visual by
Mars and Pluto. Here's the thing. Aeras is more obvious
and outright with its aggression and assertion and energy, and
Scorpio might have those characteristics, but there will be a
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lot more private and secretive about it. Yeah, so it
won't be so blatant about it, but they will still
feel it. Yeah, so they just demonstrate it in a
more reserved private way.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Hmm.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Interesting, Okay, good stuff.
Speaker 9 (25:27):
That's the Scorpio mystique. We love that air of mystery.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's what you get with us. No doubt
about that. Well, well, good stuff, Andrea, it's always good
talking to you. I hope you have a pleasant morning,
and yeah, I spend a little bit of time with you.
Speaker 9 (25:43):
Yes, I just had to put in a call in
perfect timing new Moon and areas, and we'll keep in
touch and enjoy the full mood together as well.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Absolutely no doubt about that, you know, I will good stuff.
There she is Andrew and Berkeley always good man. I
feel like I learned some stuff, you know. I I
probably ask her the dumbest questions ever.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
But I love compatibility charts.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Do you get that?
Speaker 4 (26:08):
If I ever start talking to someone new, I always
I'm like, okay, what's their sign?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
So you're a scorpio too, right?
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Scorpio twins.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
So who are.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
We supposed to be compatible with? And who are we
supposed to be the least compatible?
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Let me look this up real fast.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
It's funny. I always get along the best with scorpios.
Oh really Yeah, My longest relationships are all scorpios. But
we're not supposed to. It's not supposed to work like that.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
But it does. You just you you rage against what's
supposed to be Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Against that, for sure, no doubt. See it says your
top compatibility is going to be fellow water signs, So
cancers and pisces are probably your best options.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Hmmm. Okay, what's what's bad? What's terrible?
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Best matches?
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Because the best matches are those?
Speaker 7 (26:59):
Where's my bad?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Hmm? To say anything about people that like briosch Wow, I'm.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Away from them, and it says generally Scorpio's worst compatibility
are air signs, So Gemini, Aquarius, and Libra are no goes.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
By the way, Gemini is a Slayer song. I don't
know if you guys knew that or not, but that's
your metal fun fact for.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
The thank you for Geminis are Psycho Yeah, yeah, I know,
I know. Yeah, they're split personalities.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Really Yeah, the song Gemini you might be a bigger
fan of. I'll check it out. There was also a
ride at Cedar Point, I believe, called Gemini Great theme
Park standing a park, Yeah, Cedar Point in Ohio. I
think it's the only one. It's not like a chain,
it's not like, I don't know, it's Great America or
(27:52):
something like they have them all over it. Yeah. I
think there's just one Cedar Point. Yeah, I think that
was Cedar Point. I don't know, maybe I'm mixing up Mite,
but there was a Gemini there for a little while,
long time ago, back in the day. All Right, I
want to hear from Mitch in Minnesota. Let's hear what
Mitch has to say. What's going on, Mitch, You're on
Fox Sports.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Radio, mister Ben, how are you what's up, Mitch?
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Are you doing.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
It's been a while, bro, I have not called in
in a while, and I am a Gemini.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Oh Mitch, we were just talking trash about Gemini's right,
you gotta it's wrong. You guys are a good bunch.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
I love Slayer. The band is great, but Panther is
way better.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Oh man, I don't know, Mitch. It's to me, it's
they're both fantastic bands.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Man.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
It just it depends on what you're in the mood for.
You know, you need a little bit more thrash, that's
Slayer all day. If you wanted a little bit more rhythm,
a little bit more jams, that's Panterra's. It's just whatever
you're in the mood for.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Well, there's also old school Mattel. I mean, yeah, a
little black savage.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
What's your favorite? What's your favorite Pantera jam? There, Mitch,
I'm curious what do you have off the top of your.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Head as far as album or song?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Give me both. I'm curious about bolts because it's always
between you know, it's always between driven and uh vulgar like.
I don't know if anyone would go beyond those.
Speaker 6 (29:27):
You said it, you said it the vulgar display of power. Yeah,
is amazing they have that whole album is just jams,
you know.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Yeah, Hey, I got you. You have a favorite song
off that album or something else?
Speaker 6 (29:42):
What's that now?
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Your favorite song off that album or something else?
Speaker 6 (29:47):
This love is really good.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
It's a good song. I go a new level. I
go a new level, Mitch, that's always been.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
Yeah, the whole album, you can just it's kind of
like tools.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Uh oh you lost me, Mitch, Mitch, you lost me.
I don't know what it is. Man's right, Thank goodness,
thank the moon and the stars. Hoop is not in
here this morning? Right on?
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Man?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Like yeah, gosh, thanks right?
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Hey Gemini the song from Flair, Yeah yeah, I mean
there's a there's a lot of jams that Slayir has.
It's unbelievable. But it's all your taste, you know, Yeah,
no doubt right. I mean, think your poison, Think your poison.
(30:40):
What do you want to By the way, what do
you think of the whole gouging of the not gouging
but the ticket master?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Oh well are you talking about? Is it the New
Jersey thing you're talking about?
Speaker 6 (30:56):
Well, there was there was a I saw the news
Ticketmaster and Live Nation.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Okay, this is different.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Yeah, yeah, they're getting well as far as concert gets.
You know, they're they're gouging the fans.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Uh well yeah, I mean it sucks. But that's just
the reality, man.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Right, and your favorite bands, and this goes across the board.
You can be a metal fan, a pop music fan,
a rap music san, a country music fan. It doesn't matter.
They're gouging fans away from you know, a hard earned
whatever and seeing their favorite artists perform.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
You know, I mean it sucks, you know, it happens, though, man,
it's the reality. Same thing in sports. You want to
go see a high profile game, it's gonna be a
crazy amount of money. That's just the way it goes.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
And and and the like. Yeah right, and the rest
the players right, like you go. You're going to see
the Minnesota Vikings on the week number you know, because
they're done at week number ten and they're resting all
their players, right, Well.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Yeah, that's terrible, man, until load management thing is brutal. Mitch,
But hey man, we got to run is good talking
music and beyond with you though, good stuff from Mitch.
Very nice. All right, I'm gonna go rapid fire style
to close us out. Can you believe our journey is
over already? This is crazy?
Speaker 7 (32:37):
Just flew by.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Man. It's like a kite and a stiff wind, you know,
so gone right, That's what tonight was like.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
That means it was a good show.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
I hope it does. I hope it does. And it
was funny. Let me go back to Bob and balt More.
That was great. Where I was, I didn't I didn't
catch that. James and Tacoma shout out to him, so
if you missed it, just so it makes sense. James
and Tacoma checked in and said, hey, you know, the
(33:14):
Cleveland Guardians pitcher nearly had a no hitter and a
bunch of the the Baltimore fans were cheering for him
to have a no hitter? Would you cheer for the
other team? You know, YadA, YadA, And so you know,
Bob corrected him and said, well, the game was in Cleveland.
It was a bunch of Cleveland fans cheering for the
(33:36):
Cleveland pitcher to have the no no hitter. But listen, okay,
he screwed up the logistics of it. Whatever, But the
question still remains. You know, if if you've got a
chance to see the opposing team do something historic against
your favorite team. Would you cheer for that to happen?
It's it still applies, you know. Okay, a couple of
(33:56):
the facts were wrong, but the question still is legit.
So that's all. That was about eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox. It's the phone number. I roll out
the red carpet in style for the premiere of Premiere
Guests and also shoehorning draft in the association into the
(34:17):
final segment. Shoehorning this in like Brie shoehorns peanut butter
on both sides of her Brioche buns. Yeah, let me
pay that off real fast. You you've heard everything there
is to know. Bree uses Brioche buns and she puts
peanut butter on both sides. Yes, I do. And you're
(34:40):
okay with this, you're you know, yes, that's.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
Like more peanut butter, and then the jelly is in
the middle. You get to bite a bread, peanut butter
and jelly. It's just like a full real sandwich.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
I think Brioche is just too aggressive.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
Is it just too bready for you?
Speaker 3 (34:56):
It's way too ready for people.
Speaker 7 (34:58):
Gosh, it's delicious.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
It's dominant, you know, it takes away from the peanut
butter and the jelly. Yeah, so you just want like
a vessel to put your peanut butter and jelly. So
you can have a peanut butter and jelly with like
celery or like rice cakes.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
I used to put peanut butter on celery before. That's fantastic.
Speaker 7 (35:17):
Where's the jelly?
Speaker 3 (35:19):
I had never done that.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Well, apparently you just like the peanut butter and jelly.
Speaker 7 (35:22):
You're so you mean about the bread so harsh?
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Yeah, I don't know. Hey, gotta give it a try, Brian, please,
I will.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
I'm gonna.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
I'm gonna send you money and I want you to
go buy boch bread and I want you to try it,
and you're gonna be like life changing hashtag life changing.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
You know what if you actually sent me money for
the purposes of this experiment PB and J on a
brioche bun, I promise you I would make that happen.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
I will right now.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Okay, I heard the the cost of buns is through
the roof? Do I have that right?
Speaker 5 (36:01):
Is it mine?
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Probably?
Speaker 6 (36:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Probably?
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Well, different different places, different.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Gout you for more money, is what I'm but it's delicious. Okay,
all right, we'll make this happen. I'll report back, yes,
post videos and everything. Can't wait. We'll make this happen,
all right. The premiere of premiere guests and shoehorning stuff
into the final segment that's on the way. I'm Brian
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buying should be Oh, Gemini is a fantastic song. Shout
out to Loraina playing it in the background. Very good job,
very nice. This pain will never end. It's Tom Mariah
(37:21):
lead vocals right there. Okay, shoehorning stuff. We'll go fast
because we want to hear from Marcel. Intriguing thing with
the draft, So I have a bet on David Bailey
to be the number two overall pick. So I hope
that's the case. So the odds keep fluctuating back and forth.
So the latest thing is the Jets had a meeting
(37:43):
scheduled with David Bailey and they canceled it. They're like, oh,
we don't need a meeting, and so the betting people
are like, well, it's gonna be Rvel Reese from Ohio State.
He's going to be the number two overall pick. The
Jets aren't even meeting with David Bailey. But there have
been some insights that have said, well, they've done that before.
The Jets didn't meet with James Ferrier and they took
(38:05):
him in the top ten, so it doesn't mean they're
not taking David Bailey. So kind of interesting how that's going.
And also the NBA the sixty five game rule, you're
supposed to play sixty five games to be eligible for
postseason awards. Right to be for awards. Luca's supposed to
be out Lorena, Oh contrere what he's in right, Like,
(38:29):
he missed a couple of games to see the birth
of his daughter, and so the NBA is like, that's fine.
And they did the same thing with Kate Cunningham. Kate
Cunningham had a collapsed lung and they're like, even though
he didn't meet the threshold, They're like, yeah, close enough,
it's fine. And so Anthony Edwards of the Minnesota Timberwolves,
he tried the same thing. He played sixty games, and
(38:52):
the arbitrator was like, Nope, you don't qualify. They allowed Luca.
They gave him grace. They gave Kid Cunningham grace. No
grace for Aunt Edwards. None.
Speaker 7 (39:02):
Wasn't just one game behind though, like he was.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Yeah he was. I think he had sixty four and
yeah that's fine at sixty three. Yeah, yeah, Aunt was
at sixty. We got Marcel in Brooklyn, what's going on, Marcel?
Good morning to.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
You, buddy, oh waiting up and Brianna, my real friends,
my real friends too, morning to you. Happy Friday. We
made it through the weekend. Him boom, congratulations we made
it through the weekend, baby.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Come on, absolutely, we did all. I'm Marcel. We played
any games. What we got going on?
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (39:41):
A quick.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Quickly all right, yeah you went with you went with
chicken nuggets.
Speaker 7 (39:49):
I'm going with pizza Peter Butter.
Speaker 5 (39:51):
And Jelly.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
Pizza.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
I will ne
Hey, thanks for listening to the Ben Maler Show podcast.
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Let's give this.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Oh what is going on, militia.
How are we doing these early morning hours? Huh? I
hope everything is fantastic, you know Aokay, stars across the board. Okay,
so we got a lot to talk about here. You
(00:46):
know what I call this time of year sort of
like the Hodgepodge time of the sports calendar. Are there
are plenty of things to talk about, but a lot
of the stories are kind of like bits and pieces,
you know what I mean. I'm interested in a lot
of storylines, which are you know, like sports talk topics.
(01:09):
There are a lot of things that I'm interested in.
But I'd be lying to you if I said there's
this one monster topic that almost everybody is captivated by
has an opinion about. You know, we really don't have
that right now. We don't if you look at the
NFL Draft as a whole. I said this a little
(01:29):
bit earlier in the the Wee Hours and the Malard
Militia experience. It's just lacking a ton of buzz. It's
lacking pizzazz. You know. I think it's gonna be good
when it rolls around, but leading up to it, it
doesn't have a whole lot there. I've got a couple
of things that I think are very interesting, but as
(01:51):
a whole, it's not just like driving conversation, driving interest.
I've been interested in the playing tournament. Three of the
four games have been awesome off the charts. Blazers had
a ridiculous comeback against the Sun's Heat and Hornets go
into overtime. LaMelo Ball loses his mind and doesn't really
(02:15):
get punished at all for it, intentionally grabbing Bam out
of Bio's foot, causing him to fall right on his back.
He can't finish the game totally. The NBA is like, yeah,
we're gonna upgrade that to a flagrant too and not
suspend him for the next game. So it it really
equates to absolutely nothing. So we had that we had
(02:38):
the Steph Curry Show, the Warriors come back against the Clippers.
That was an outstanding game. We've had outstanding play in games.
But it's not just driving conversation. So there are a
lot of bits and pieces type topics which I think
are good, which listen. I think that in the add
(03:00):
day and age of sports and especially sports talk, I
think that quick topics can be good. You don't have
to have like that central topic that you talk about
for twenty minutes and it's just like wow, man, I
can't get enough. There's nothing wrong with a couple of
minute topic here, a couple of minute topic there. I
like that type of stuff. I'll tell you what. We
had a caller earlier in the evening, and I hate
(03:23):
disagreeing with the militia, but I'm gonna disagree with I'm
trying to find who it was exactly. It might have
been Dave in Ohio. I think that's who it was,
my guy Dave. And he's on the Spurs. He thinks
the Spurs gonna go far, maybe even win at all.
I don't. I don't. I can't wait to see what
the Spurs do in the playoffs. But what is so
(03:45):
interesting to me about the Spurs is they're trying to
do what almost no NBA team ever does, which is
have microwaveable success. You know, like you know, microwave a dinner. Oh,
we've got Marcel on hold Marcel, Like if Marcel microwaves
(04:06):
his dinner, you know it takes two three minutes done,
Maybe it just takes one minute done. That's what the
Spurs are trying to do in the playoffs. They're trying
to microwave championship success and it typically does not happen
like that in the NBA. I go back to Jordan,
(04:26):
Michael Jordan, the goat, the greatest of all time, year
after year after year for a long time, would get
bounced in the playoffs. They had some really talented teams,
and it's like that. They lost to the Pistons, all right,
Next year lost to the Pistons. All right, they're gaining
(04:48):
on them, though, next year lost to the Pistons. It
happened three years in a row before they finally got
over that hurdle hit. So the Spurs, they've got a
ton of talent. Wemby is an alien, He's awesome, He's outstanding.
Stefan Castle is outstanding. They've got a deep squad, but
(05:13):
you know what they don't have. They have hardly any
playoff experience. And I think that matters. I know that matters.
You've got what Harrison Barnes and Luke Cornett, those are
your guys with playoff experience. That's what you got, that's
what you bringing to the table. Experience wise, you got
(05:35):
nothing as far as experience goes. If the Goat lost
year after year after year after year before he finally
won a championship, I can't expect the Spurs to take
their lumps here and there. I just don't see how
they go from pretty much no playoffs experience collectively too. Yeah,
(05:59):
they just want it all. They're just that talented. I
just don't buy it at all. Now, they might be
great the first couple of series. I think they're gonna
blow the doors off of the Blazers. Man, the Blazers
are just they got a pretty good squad. You know,
they've got some depth, They've got some good playmakers. I'm
the I call him the Trito. When that guy he's
(06:21):
just like a bowl. He's like a bull and the
hoop is a red cape, you know, and he's just
attacking the rim, and he's fun to watch. He's good,
he's effective. Drew Holliday is one of my favorite NBA
players of all time. Seriously, I love Drew Holliday. Is
such a solid basketball player, great defender, can create his
(06:43):
own shot, can give you a little bit of scoring,
great glue guy. He's so strong. He can guard centers
if he needs to be, you know, Team USA, He's
guarding centers. It's like that shouldn't happen, that shouldn't be
a thing. He can do it. He can guard players
far bigger than him, far far much taller than him,
far taller, much taller. I love Drew Holiday, but the
(07:08):
Blazers are just too dumb, man. It's a turnover after
turnover after turnover. The Spurs are gonna blow the doors
off of them. Spurs might have their way with the Nuggets. Maybe, maybe,
if that's the team that they're facing, you know, but man,
if it's Spurs thunder. I know everybody wants to bring
up the regular season, and the Spurs were fantastic in
the regular season. Playoffs are a different animal, man, And
(07:31):
I'm not gonna sit here and act like, okay, see
can't be had because they can the Spurs could beat them.
They're capable. But are you telling me, like, no playoff
experience is fine, it doesn't even matter. There's a big game.
Let's say it's Game three, series tied one to one.
It's a big game. You're on the road, it's the
(07:52):
final minute. You have got to get a bucket this
possession or we're going down to one. You're telling me
a lot lack of playoff experiences doesn't even matter. It
doesn't even matter. Unfazed, It's like they've been here numerous times.
I just don't buy it. I don't buy it. I
gotta be proven wrong, man, I got to be proven
wrong by the Spurs to truly buy in. But there
(08:14):
have been teams that have been far more talented than
the Spurs that took their lumps and did not win
a Microwavable championship right away. Just didn't happen. So yeah,
there you go. Very nice. It'll be done here soon.
That was good. That is the fan in the background
(08:35):
as Lorraina takes a nap. Is that what that sounds?
Is that? What that is?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Me and are working out?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
You know what that also is? That's the actual fan
in the background when my guy, Isaac Loewenkron does updates.
Isaac Ilo loves him. A fan in the background, Man,
he's all about the fan in the background.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Have you seen Isla with his coffee cup? I hate
to cut you.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Off, No, I have seen him with this car.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Oh my god. He is such a legend with that
cute little cup of coffee.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah, he's all about it, all about it. Yeah. So
I can't wait to see what happens to the Spurs
in particular. But I you know, I would. I would
look at the OKC thunder think about this too, how
hard it is in the NBA playoffs. So oka, See,
they had taken their lumps before, they had lost to
the the Dallas Mavericks in the playoffs, right, and then
(09:28):
last year they were far and away the most talented team,
the best team, best record, best best win point differential
in the history of the NBA. Like the amount of
points that they won by on average, right, we're talking.
I'd have to look it up at about fourteen points
(09:50):
per game they won by on average. Like we're factoring
in the losses, you don't. You're blowing the freaking doors
off of teams night in and night out. If you
lose a game by two points, you gotta beat the
next team by you know, I can't do math on
(10:11):
the fly, goodness, we have to win by to average
fourteen points, you have to win by what like twenty six? No, thirty?
Is that right? To balance it out? Something like whatever,
don't don't grade me too harshly, Mallard militia. But you
have to crush the next team to be averaging fourteen
(10:32):
points per game that you're winning by. So you're killing
teams left and right. Last season, they get to the playoffs,
you get to the finals against the Indiana Pacers, who
are not nearly as talented as Okase was, and it
is a dog fight. So to think that the Spurs
(10:56):
are just gonna out talent everybody and that's it, Like,
that's just it's not reality. That's not how the NBA
playoffs work.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Man.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Oh, I'm happy to fade them. I'm happy to fade
the Spurs. I'm not saying I'm gonna do it against
the Blazers. I'm gonna have to wait a little bit.
But oh man, no, Like if you're asking me championship
right out of the gate, no, I do not see it.
And I'll have to eat my words if I'm wrong,
which again, if you miss the uh, the the warning
(11:27):
label earlier in the show, I have been wrong plenty
of times before. This might be the latest installment. And listen,
the Spurs have enough talent to prove someone like me wrong.
When Ben Yama is just that good and he can
go off. That's the other thing to keep an eye on.
When ben Yama played very modest minutes throughout the regular season,
(11:48):
if his minutes go up and its production, you know,
goes up as a result, he's just on the floor more.
Hey look out, but man, he was gassed at numerous times.
That's the other thing. Like, if he's averaging much more minutes,
you know, in the playoffs, does that take a toll
(12:09):
on him? Is he ready for that type of workload?
Those are all legitimate questions. So now now I just
don't buy it. I saw thing on ESPN today they
predicted the whole playoffs is if it's a bracket, and
they had the Spurs beating the Celtics. I'm just like,
I No, I don't buy it, man, don't buy it.
And they're breaking down the matchups, it's like, well, the
(12:30):
Celtics allowed the highest rate of three pointers. Like their
defense allowed the most the three the most amount of
three point shots, right, Like Joe Mizzoula loves to pack
the paint, you know, they don't allow a whole lot
of points in the paint. They make you shoot threes.
They're banking on you not making a lot of threes.
(12:52):
That sort of thing is breaking down this whole matchup, Like, well,
the Spurs, they they're not that great from three, but
they came on down the stretch, so maybe they and
they had the Spurs winning, and I'm like, I don't
think they even get there. I don't think they even
are in the finals. I'll be impressed if they even
survived the West. I'll be very impressed if they survived
(13:12):
the West. You just typically gotta take your lumps in
the NBA playoffs. It's generally the way it works out.
And I think the Spurs will be the latest installment
of that. All right, eight seven, seven ninety nine on
Fox is your phone number. I'm gonna get out to
the militia coming up next. And also we got to
(13:32):
weave in a little bit of ball, A couple of topics,
a couple of storylines I'm interested in with the draft
right around the corner. The NBA is weird with the
rule that they made a couple of exceptions four. It's
sort of like speed limit sixty five eighty five, fat
(13:53):
dah whatever, give you a pass. That's basically what the
NBA did. I don't quite get that, but get to
both of those story lines right around the corner. I'm
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a random question for you girls. So Loraina here, bree here,
do you Yeah, I don't even know if you carry money.
(15:01):
But if you carry money, do all of the president's
heads face the same direction? Do you get down that way?
You know what I'm saying? Or you just like stuff
all the money back wherever it goes. I don't care.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
I guess it just goes in different directions. And I
kind of have it smushed up in my wallet.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Oh you know, as someone who puts peanut butter idea
on brioche, it doesn't shock me right there. How about you, Lorena,
how do you get down? Well?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
I used to be a bookkeeper, so I would count
all the money from Red Robin.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
At the end of the day and stuff, and I
was so.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Like, I was so meticulous about everything being facing, like
everything had to face the right direction. So it kind
of just stuck with me, and I love it. I
don't do cash very much anymore since I stopped serving,
and I don't have tip money. But yeah, if I
do have cash, it's all facing.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Hey, I'm with you, So I'll put it facing the
same direction, and I'll put it in like the amounts right, like.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Yeah, like ones five, yeah, organized.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Oh yeah, But I bring that up because today I
noticed that goes even deeper for me. Okay, So I
picked up a pizza and I put a little money
in the well, yeah they did, that's a separate story. Yeah,
but they gave me a little bit of change. So
(16:25):
I put that in the tip jar, and I put
a little bit more money, and I noticed the President's
head was upside down when I put it in the
tip jar, and it was the only bill in the
tip jar, right, And so I waited for the girl
to go back. You know, she's going to continue making pizza.
So I waited for her to go back there, and
(16:46):
then real quickly I turned the President's head like where
it's like the right way. It was bugging me that
it was upside down in the tip jar that I
was walking out of, Like what do I care?
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Up?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Felt wrong. It just didn't feel like it should go
like that, you know. So that's a little OCD. Yeah,
and even in the tip jar, I had to correct
that real quick. Just didn't feel right. Yeah, there was
a time I didn't care. I would just throw all
the money back in my wallet and whatever. You know,
it'll be a surprise like, oh shoot, I still have
a ten in here, nice, you know, But no, I
(17:20):
can't do that. Anymore. Just can't get down that way. Yeah. Man,
the pizza was fantastic, though. There's some good ZA. Shout
out to my friends on the East Coast. They were like, oh,
I got some Zaha. I'm like, za what They're like, yeah,
pizza ZA.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
That's like the first time I heard a hot dog
called a glizzy.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I'm like, what what, I've never heard that? Who told
you that? Where were they from? A glizzy?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Go look it up Glizzy gobbler and where were they from?
Speaker 5 (17:55):
So I heard it from Rock Parker, and I think
it's an East Coast thing.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
It's an East Coast thing for sure. That's terrible, awful. Wow,
I don't even get that one. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
Let's listen to him right now.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I had a glizzy in my Mouth's that's a great
drop for sure. Yeah, very well done. I had a
glizzy in my mouth. I'm going to get to the
draft in a second here, but let me go out
to the militia. They've been patient. I appreciate that always.
Bob is in Baltimore, got a thought for us. What's
going on? Bob, You're on Fox Sports.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
Radio in morning?
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (18:31):
He had a caller last hour talk about the Orioles,
the Guardians, Dames. Yeah, and I want to give you.
I want to give you a reason when the bands
we're rooting for Cleveland.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Okay you're ready.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Yeah it was in Cleveland. I thought it was, but yeah,
I was like, I thought that was Cleveland though, But okay, Yeah,
I'm glad you set the record straight.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
To the caller who I won't mention name because he
doesn't do his facts. He doesn't get the respect. Yeah,
maybe you want to check your facts before you call
in the national radio station and give adage. Yeah, but
I will, But I will say on behalf of the
Orioles fans in Baltimore. If the game happened to be
(19:19):
in Baltimore, then if we had the chance of seeing history,
we would be rooting.
Speaker 9 (19:24):
For the history.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
We wouldn't be rooting against our team or turning against
our team. We'd be rooting to see history.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Right right now, I'm with you, Bob. I think, look, man,
if it's if it's one to nothing and the road
team has a chance at a no hitter, that's tough, right,
Like you, I don't know if I could root for
it then, because it does feel more like you're taking
the other side. But when it's for nothing and I
(19:54):
don't think my chances are very good to win this game,
you know, I'm going to root for history in that situation.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
But yeah, and the thing is is Baltimore fans both
football baseball, they're pretty intelligent. They know what's going on,
they know the length of the season, they know their teams.
So you know, one game somebody mentioned the thunder sixty
three games. One game, unless you know it's potentially a
(20:20):
playoff situation where they're gonna miss or make not make
the playoffs, you know, Bontimore fans are going to be
rooting for the history.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Right by the way, Bob, before you go, I did
see the Ravens unveiled some pretty sweet uniforms. I think
that was on Thursday. It just came out. But yeah,
I don't know if you're a Ravens fan. Also, you
have you seen that it's like the black Matt helmets.
And I saw the headline, I'm like, oh, Matt, I
remember the Jaguars had the Matt finished helmets before. Remember
(20:51):
there was like like business in the front, party in
the back, the mullet like the gold in the back.
But they were matt helmets, and I'm like, I don't know,
but the Ravens Matt helmets. They look sharp, man, they
look really good.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (21:05):
I'm not not a Ravens Chan and I'm also blind, so.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
God, oh, double whammy.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
They had a big thing last night.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Unfortunate Bob, me too. Fins up. Maybe let's go. Yeah,
we're not trading a Chan at all. No, you stop
thinking about Devin h get away. Get your dirty fingers
away from David. A Chan is what the Dolphins say.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Right here that I think.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
Make sure they're gonna try to They're basically going to
be a running timmy or tend to be a running team,
depending on how they're offensive line is.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
But yeah, yeah, well hey man, we'll see small steps.
Yeah all right, Bob, well, good stuff.
Speaker 8 (21:46):
But you're doing a good job now, Thank.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
You, Bob. I appreciate that.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Man.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yeah, okwin Orange. How about that Bob and I bonding
over the fins. It's a beautiful thing right there. Man,
Dolphins are gonna be grease fire this season. It pains me,
but hey, hopefully they'll draft a receiver. Malik Willis kind
of needs. Those might need a receiver or to to
throw to it could be helpful. All we got Andrea,
(22:14):
my girl in Berkeley. She's with us this morning. What
is going on, Andrea?
Speaker 9 (22:18):
Yes, enjoying your show. I wanted to put in a
call and say hello, and uh, we're Shoe and the
callers a happy new Moon. And Aries and Aries is
a fire sign. It rules energy, assertion, aggression and if
you what was interesting the Giants had a bench clearing brawl. Yeah,
(22:39):
at the end of the game. Yeah, I thought that
had a lot of emotion to it. Eric Miller is
a closer and Stuart one of the Reds if they
got into it. And there's actually six planets and aries
as we speak, Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Neptune, Kai,
(23:00):
and so if we have the new moon, you know
what happens in two weeks it's the full moon. Wow,
I know how I wanted to let you know. May first, Bryan,
we have the full moon, and I know how you
like to howl. I do, well, yeah, we always have
the new moon and then exactly two weeks later we
(23:21):
have the full moon. But meanwhile, you know, new moon
and areas certainly has a lot of energy and get
up and go.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
So I didn't know this, so, like this might be
a dumb question, but I'm curious, are are people that
you know they're sign is aries? Are they a little aggressive?
Are they on the aggressive side?
Speaker 9 (23:40):
Absolutely? Yeah, yeah, I mean you could take the high
road or the low road with it, but yes, aggression
is a big part of their personality.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
So would a person that I'm looking it up right
now born between March twenty first April nineteenth, would they
maybe maybe be in the market for some heavy metal
These areas people over here aggressive style of music, what do.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
You think could very well be And you know, we're
more than our Sun's sign. We have to see the
rest of our chart, but certainly Areas is a fire sign.
It's very pioneering, very assertive, aggressive and a lot of
athletes actually are arees, so it's interesting. So it was
New Moon and areas as above show below and it's like, wow,
(24:23):
that was kind of sense bring up to shut out
and the Reds weren't having it.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Well you know this too, you know this as well,
and as another question for you, but me being a scorpio,
like we can be a routing bunch over here, us
scorpios here, So how does it work like a Scorpio
and aries, is that sort of like, you know, like
a bad combination or can it be good? I don't
know how that works with you know.
Speaker 9 (24:50):
Well, that's an excellent question, Brian. There's a lot of
Mars energy areas as will buy Mars Scorpio visual by
Mars and Pluto. Here's the thing. Aeras is more obvious
and outright with its aggression and assertion and energy, and
Scorpio might have those characteristics, but there will be a
(25:11):
lot more private and secretive about it. Yeah, so it
won't be so blatant about it, but they will still
feel it. Yeah, so they just demonstrate it in a
more reserved private way.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Hmm.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Interesting, Okay, good stuff.
Speaker 9 (25:27):
That's the Scorpio mystique. We love that air of mystery.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's what you get with us. No doubt
about that. Well, well, good stuff, Andrea, it's always good
talking to you. I hope you have a pleasant morning,
and yeah, I spend a little bit of time with you.
Speaker 9 (25:43):
Yes, I just had to put in a call in
perfect timing new Moon and areas, and we'll keep in
touch and enjoy the full mood together as well.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Absolutely no doubt about that, you know, I will good stuff.
There she is Andrew and Berkeley always good man. I
feel like I learned some stuff, you know. I I
probably ask her the dumbest questions ever.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
But I love compatibility charts.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Do you get that?
Speaker 4 (26:08):
If I ever start talking to someone new, I always
I'm like, okay, what's their sign?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
So you're a scorpio too, right?
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Scorpio twins.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
So who are.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
We supposed to be compatible with? And who are we
supposed to be the least compatible?
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Let me look this up real fast.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
It's funny. I always get along the best with scorpios.
Oh really Yeah, My longest relationships are all scorpios. But
we're not supposed to. It's not supposed to work like that.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
But it does. You just you you rage against what's
supposed to be Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Against that, for sure, no doubt. See it says your
top compatibility is going to be fellow water signs, So
cancers and pisces are probably your best options.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Hmmm. Okay, what's what's bad? What's terrible?
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Best matches?
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Because the best matches are those?
Speaker 7 (26:59):
Where's my bad?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Hmm? To say anything about people that like briosch Wow, I'm.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Away from them, and it says generally Scorpio's worst compatibility
are air signs, So Gemini, Aquarius, and Libra are no goes.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
By the way, Gemini is a Slayer song. I don't
know if you guys knew that or not, but that's
your metal fun fact for.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
The thank you for Geminis are Psycho Yeah, yeah, I know,
I know. Yeah, they're split personalities.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Really Yeah, the song Gemini you might be a bigger
fan of. I'll check it out. There was also a
ride at Cedar Point, I believe, called Gemini Great theme
Park standing a park, Yeah, Cedar Point in Ohio. I
think it's the only one. It's not like a chain,
it's not like, I don't know, it's Great America or
(27:52):
something like they have them all over it. Yeah. I
think there's just one Cedar Point. Yeah, I think that
was Cedar Point. I don't know, maybe I'm mixing up Mite,
but there was a Gemini there for a little while,
long time ago, back in the day. All Right, I
want to hear from Mitch in Minnesota. Let's hear what
Mitch has to say. What's going on, Mitch, You're on
Fox Sports.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Radio, mister Ben, how are you what's up, Mitch?
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Are you doing.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
It's been a while, bro, I have not called in
in a while, and I am a Gemini.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Oh Mitch, we were just talking trash about Gemini's right,
you gotta it's wrong. You guys are a good bunch.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
I love Slayer. The band is great, but Panther is
way better.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Oh man, I don't know, Mitch. It's to me, it's
they're both fantastic bands.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Man.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
It just it depends on what you're in the mood for.
You know, you need a little bit more thrash, that's
Slayer all day. If you wanted a little bit more rhythm,
a little bit more jams, that's Panterra's. It's just whatever
you're in the mood for.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Well, there's also old school Mattel. I mean, yeah, a
little black savage.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
What's your favorite? What's your favorite Pantera jam? There, Mitch,
I'm curious what do you have off the top of your.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Head as far as album or song?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Give me both. I'm curious about bolts because it's always
between you know, it's always between driven and uh vulgar like.
I don't know if anyone would go beyond those.
Speaker 6 (29:27):
You said it, you said it the vulgar display of power. Yeah,
is amazing they have that whole album is just jams,
you know.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Yeah, Hey, I got you. You have a favorite song
off that album or something else?
Speaker 6 (29:42):
What's that now?
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Your favorite song off that album or something else?
Speaker 6 (29:47):
This love is really good.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
It's a good song. I go a new level. I
go a new level, Mitch, that's always been.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
Yeah, the whole album, you can just it's kind of
like tools.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Uh oh you lost me, Mitch, Mitch, you lost me.
I don't know what it is. Man's right, Thank goodness,
thank the moon and the stars. Hoop is not in
here this morning? Right on?
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Man?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Like yeah, gosh, thanks right?
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Hey Gemini the song from Flair, Yeah yeah, I mean
there's a there's a lot of jams that Slayir has.
It's unbelievable. But it's all your taste, you know, Yeah,
no doubt right. I mean, think your poison, Think your poison.
(30:40):
What do you want to By the way, what do
you think of the whole gouging of the not gouging
but the ticket master?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Oh well are you talking about? Is it the New
Jersey thing you're talking about?
Speaker 6 (30:56):
Well, there was there was a I saw the news
Ticketmaster and Live Nation.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Okay, this is different.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Yeah, yeah, they're getting well as far as concert gets.
You know, they're they're gouging the fans.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Uh well yeah, I mean it sucks. But that's just
the reality, man.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Right, and your favorite bands, and this goes across the board.
You can be a metal fan, a pop music fan,
a rap music san, a country music fan. It doesn't matter.
They're gouging fans away from you know, a hard earned
whatever and seeing their favorite artists perform.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
You know, I mean it sucks, you know, it happens, though, man,
it's the reality. Same thing in sports. You want to
go see a high profile game, it's gonna be a
crazy amount of money. That's just the way it goes.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
And and and the like. Yeah right, and the rest
the players right, like you go. You're going to see
the Minnesota Vikings on the week number you know, because
they're done at week number ten and they're resting all
their players, right, Well.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Yeah, that's terrible, man, until load management thing is brutal. Mitch,
But hey man, we got to run is good talking
music and beyond with you though, good stuff from Mitch.
Very nice. All right, I'm gonna go rapid fire style
to close us out. Can you believe our journey is
over already? This is crazy?
Speaker 7 (32:37):
Just flew by.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Man. It's like a kite and a stiff wind, you know,
so gone right, That's what tonight was like.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
That means it was a good show.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
I hope it does. I hope it does. And it
was funny. Let me go back to Bob and balt More.
That was great. Where I was, I didn't I didn't
catch that. James and Tacoma shout out to him, so
if you missed it, just so it makes sense. James
and Tacoma checked in and said, hey, you know, the
(33:14):
Cleveland Guardians pitcher nearly had a no hitter and a
bunch of the the Baltimore fans were cheering for him
to have a no hitter? Would you cheer for the
other team? You know, YadA, YadA, And so you know,
Bob corrected him and said, well, the game was in Cleveland.
It was a bunch of Cleveland fans cheering for the
(33:36):
Cleveland pitcher to have the no no hitter. But listen, okay,
he screwed up the logistics of it. Whatever, But the
question still remains. You know, if if you've got a
chance to see the opposing team do something historic against
your favorite team. Would you cheer for that to happen?
It's it still applies, you know. Okay, a couple of
(33:56):
the facts were wrong, but the question still is legit.
So that's all. That was about eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox. It's the phone number. I roll out
the red carpet in style for the premiere of Premiere
Guests and also shoehorning draft in the association into the
(34:17):
final segment. Shoehorning this in like Brie shoehorns peanut butter
on both sides of her Brioche buns. Yeah, let me
pay that off real fast. You you've heard everything there
is to know. Bree uses Brioche buns and she puts
peanut butter on both sides. Yes, I do. And you're
(34:40):
okay with this, you're you know, yes, that's.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
Like more peanut butter, and then the jelly is in
the middle. You get to bite a bread, peanut butter
and jelly. It's just like a full real sandwich.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
I think Brioche is just too aggressive.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
Is it just too bready for you?
Speaker 3 (34:56):
It's way too ready for people.
Speaker 7 (34:58):
Gosh, it's delicious.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
It's dominant, you know, it takes away from the peanut
butter and the jelly. Yeah, so you just want like
a vessel to put your peanut butter and jelly. So
you can have a peanut butter and jelly with like
celery or like rice cakes.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
I used to put peanut butter on celery before. That's fantastic.
Speaker 7 (35:17):
Where's the jelly?
Speaker 3 (35:19):
I had never done that.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Well, apparently you just like the peanut butter and jelly.
Speaker 7 (35:22):
You're so you mean about the bread so harsh?
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Yeah, I don't know. Hey, gotta give it a try, Brian, please,
I will.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
I'm gonna.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
I'm gonna send you money and I want you to
go buy boch bread and I want you to try it,
and you're gonna be like life changing hashtag life changing.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
You know what if you actually sent me money for
the purposes of this experiment PB and J on a
brioche bun, I promise you I would make that happen.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
I will right now.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Okay, I heard the the cost of buns is through
the roof? Do I have that right?
Speaker 5 (36:01):
Is it mine?
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Probably?
Speaker 6 (36:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Probably?
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Well, different different places, different.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Gout you for more money, is what I'm but it's delicious. Okay,
all right, we'll make this happen. I'll report back, yes,
post videos and everything. Can't wait. We'll make this happen,
all right. The premiere of premiere guests and shoehorning stuff
into the final segment that's on the way. I'm Brian
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out to Loraina playing it in the background. Very good job,
very nice. This pain will never end. It's Tom Mariah
(37:21):
lead vocals right there. Okay, shoehorning stuff. We'll go fast
because we want to hear from Marcel. Intriguing thing with
the draft, So I have a bet on David Bailey
to be the number two overall pick. So I hope
that's the case. So the odds keep fluctuating back and forth.
So the latest thing is the Jets had a meeting
(37:43):
scheduled with David Bailey and they canceled it. They're like, oh,
we don't need a meeting, and so the betting people
are like, well, it's gonna be Rvel Reese from Ohio State.
He's going to be the number two overall pick. The
Jets aren't even meeting with David Bailey. But there have
been some insights that have said, well, they've done that before.
The Jets didn't meet with James Ferrier and they took
(38:05):
him in the top ten, so it doesn't mean they're
not taking David Bailey. So kind of interesting how that's going.
And also the NBA the sixty five game rule, you're
supposed to play sixty five games to be eligible for
postseason awards. Right to be for awards. Luca's supposed to
be out Lorena, Oh contrere what he's in right, Like,
(38:29):
he missed a couple of games to see the birth
of his daughter, and so the NBA is like, that's fine.
And they did the same thing with Kate Cunningham. Kate
Cunningham had a collapsed lung and they're like, even though
he didn't meet the threshold, They're like, yeah, close enough,
it's fine. And so Anthony Edwards of the Minnesota Timberwolves,
he tried the same thing. He played sixty games, and
(38:52):
the arbitrator was like, Nope, you don't qualify. They allowed Luca.
They gave him grace. They gave Kid Cunningham grace. No
grace for Aunt Edwards. None.
Speaker 7 (39:02):
Wasn't just one game behind though, like he was.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Yeah he was. I think he had sixty four and
yeah that's fine at sixty three. Yeah, yeah, Aunt was
at sixty. We got Marcel in Brooklyn, what's going on, Marcel?
Good morning to.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
You, buddy, oh waiting up and Brianna, my real friends,
my real friends too, morning to you. Happy Friday. We
made it through the weekend. Him boom, congratulations we made
it through the weekend, baby.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Come on, absolutely, we did all. I'm Marcel. We played
any games. What we got going on?
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (39:41):
A quick.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Quickly all right, yeah you went with you went with
chicken nuggets.
Speaker 7 (39:49):
I'm going with pizza Peter Butter.
Speaker 5 (39:51):
And Jelly.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
Pizza.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
I will ne
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by Audiochuck Media Company.