Hour 2 - Feeling Green

Ben Maller talks about the Celtics losing Game 1 to the 76ers without Joel Embiid thanks to 45 points from James Harden, what went wrong for the Celtics, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number two, hour two of
our radio show. We head to the Eastern Conference of
pro Bouncy Ball, the Sixers and the Celtics and James
Harden a throwback performance at forty five points, Philadelphia gets
the upset. What went sideways for the Celtics? How discouraging

(00:23):
is this latest loss on the parquet for Boston? And
on the other side, how about the Sixers? They get
game one without Joel andb We'll talk about all of
the different angles on this matchup and more. Right now,
it's our number two feeling green welmeme. In the beginning

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But our lead this hour coming from a playoff hoops
a palooza in the NBA to the park we go
Eastern Conference style in Boston. The Celtics the de facto

(02:16):
favorite to win the Eastern Conference, with the Milwaukee Bucks
hanging out in cancn And so that is the whereabouts
the city of Boston there where the Eastern Conference semifinals
got started on Monday. The Sixers and Celtics, longtime NBA
rivals in the Eastern Conference, and Philly without Joel Embiid

(02:38):
Ah my aching knee. Ah, he's out, He's got a
bum knee. Where you watching this game? The Celtics a
double digit favorite. Very rarely do you see a double
digit favorite in the NBA playoffs. But as we were
getting done with this show yesterday, the Celtics were a
double digit favorite at home to easily take care of Philly,

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and that did not happen. That's why they play the games.
James Harden lighting things up. He had forty five points,
including a backbreaking three point shot late in the game.
The seventy six ers studying the Celtics one nineteen to
one fifteen the final. Philly gets Game one, and they

(03:23):
also take home court advantage away from Boston as Game
two will be tomorrow on Wednesday. Back in the Commonwealth.
There the better story, you know how we roll in
these parts. The better story is in the losing locker room.
When teams win, they have music and fun and balloons

(03:43):
and all that. But when they lose, there's no music
and everyone's in a sullen mood. They're angry and they're
they're bummed out and all that. That's where the story is.
So the question. Boston a double digit favorite at home?
What went sideways for the Celtics. I've got truck stop,
Roto Ruter and macho man, and we will combine all

(04:07):
of these things together and we are going to make
a cream pie, a Boston cream pie, which is I
think what the Celtics received a nice right there, boom
right to the schnaz right there, all right, so number
w here you go, Number one, Boston guilty on this

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night of a term known as social loafing. They were there,
they saw them play, and they put some points up
on the board there, but wowsers, there was no attention
to detail at all. These Celtics were on defense sleepwalking.
It's like they thought they were designated hitters in professional
baseball and all they had to worry about was the

(04:50):
offense and not the defense. And now how do we
know that they did not even pretend took care on
that side? Complacency, he said in in the second half,
in particular, they offered the kind of resistance. To give
you an idea what kind of is. And I watched
this game from beginning to end. The resistance the Celtics

(05:10):
defensively put up and I'm saying They're an all time
great defensive team, but at least put some effort. If
you put effort in, the outcome would have been much
different here. But the complacency, the level of resistance, it's
like if you've been driving across the country and for
our brothers and sisters that drive those big rigs, you
know exactly what I'm talking about. You know how you
go to some truck stops and they have that one

(05:32):
ply toilet paper that it just doesn't hold together. You knows,
it's fragile, it falls apart. You got to use a
lot of it. It's a boondoggle. It's a bathroom boondoggle,
is what it was when you use that at a
truck shop. And that's essentially the Celtics trying to play defense.
It's one ply toilet paper. They played. Philly shot fifty

(05:53):
point six percent from the floor on the road in
what was supposed to be a hostile environment in Boston
without mister MVP himself Joel Embiid, who was wearing funny
clothes on the sidelines, the Sixers only played eight guys.
They didn't have a huge rotation. They haven't played eight players.
James Harden Tyrese Maxi and Tobias Harris ex clipper Tobias

(06:17):
Harris combined for eighty nine points. James Harden, you know
what he looked like. He looked like the James Harden
back in Houston on a regular season Monday night against
the New Orleans Pelicans. That's what he looked like. He
was great, he was wonderful. You don't really get that.
That's not the player that James Harden has been in
the playoffs. This was a rare and appropriate dominating the game.

(06:41):
That's what Harden used to play like on a regular
basis back in the day for Houston. It was great
in the regular season. The playoffs, he's been a guy
that has vanished. He turns into a ghost and he
goes into a hiding place in the playoffs. There's pretty
much every playoffs when he was good back with the Rockets.

(07:02):
But for one night, it was a throwback night and
James Harden was great and he benefited. He was the
beneficiary of no defensive intensity, none by the opposition there
and in theory in I never played in the NBA,
but I have a state at a nice hotel. From
time to time, they've taught me over the years that
if you play intense defense, even if a great player

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is gonna score points, you're gonna wear that player down.
The whole object is to wear the player done. It's
kind of like in baseball, if you go against a
great starting pitcher, you gotta foul pitches off. You've any
scored many runs, You're not gonna need a lot of hits,
but you gotta foul pitches off so then you can
get into the bullpen, or if they leave the starter
in they get tired. Well, the same concept applies in

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the NBA, that you're going against a great player, you
gotta wear them down. You gotta make them work and
exert a lot of energy, and then in the fourth
quarter they will not be as effective and you will
have a better opportunity to win the game. Did the
Celtics do that? No, I am shaking my head.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
No.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Harden did not suffer from exhaustion in the second half.
He did not have heavy legs. None of that happened.
None of that happened because again, the one ply toilet
paper from the truck stop, and I was like our buddy, sir,
scratch off at a truck stop in Arkansas, he's got
that one ply toilet paper and it's a problem. Now
Page two here, how discouraging is this loss for Boss?

(08:28):
It doesn't end the series. Obviously, this is last I checked.
I'll have to check my notes. This is not the
single elimination NCAA tournament. But what this is is a
nice ice bucket right to the face. It's a reality
check here, and I do believe that first impressions matter. However,

(08:50):
there is no such thing as momentum. So the idea
that somehow Philadelphia is gonna win Game two because they
have all the momentum, now that is bullshoy. Is what
that is is they don't have them women, And there
is no such thing as momentum from moment to moment,
from game to game. But here's the thing. First impressions matter.
The Celtics were visiting the Carnival. They were playing stupid games,

(09:14):
and they won a stupid prize, a loss when they're
the better team. And a lot of people are calling
out Joel Missoula as he was helpless on the sidelines
as this game was going the wrong direction, and the
coach who was promoted because the other coach was stooping.
One of the secretaries for the Celtics, well, Joel Missoula
man oh Man, oh Man, may we recommend a call

(09:36):
to Roto Ruter because there appears to be a plumbing
issue in the locker room. There was a pipe or
two that burst for Boston in this game, and we
know from the old adage for plumbers that crap runs
downhill and the Celtics are knee deep in the poopa
palooza here. They're the more talented team. However, here's the

(09:59):
problem here. It only looks great on a depth chart.
When you look at your favorite website and you're looking
at the depth chart side by side, they're like, ah,
that's pretty good. They've got more players, they've got more
talent and all that stuff. But the problem, it's the
same old problem we talk about on a regular basis
behind these microphones at Fox Sports Radio. It's great that

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you have the better team, but you have to perform
in the moment. What you do in the moment. That's
the issue here. The Celtics having a general the word
is indifference on defense, causing heads to roll, at least
in the proverbial sense. We imagine that the Celtics will
batten down the Hatches for game two, they'll play much
better game that the message will get sent and the

(10:44):
Celtics will even this up Joelle and be likely not
going to play in game number two. But the damage
has been done. The damage has been done. Now the
final point here, the final point. How are things looking
on the other side for the Sixers? And they've got
this cheshire cat smile from ear to ear right now,
Philadelphia happy days are here again. But it's only one game.

(11:09):
It's only one game, and they can celebrate and go
crazy for twenty four hours. I think that's the general
rule there. A vintage James Harden performance could not have
asked for a better hardened performance. And we are not
we are not Doc Rivers fans. We have been on
the record we do not support Doc. But we will
concede that for one night, Philadelphia was putting up masterpiece theater.

(11:35):
In this NBA playoff game. The Celtics had a lounge
act and really it was down the stretch, down the stretch,
down the stretch they come James Harden. He got the
switch and he was matched up against Alhover. That final shot,
the three pointer that was the backbreaker, which turned out
to be the backbreaker. Late in the game, there was
a defensive switch by Boston al Horford ended up on

(11:59):
Harden and my goodness, my goodness. And so they bought
Joe Ellenbiid some more time, which is good. So how
do the Celtics respond. We think they'll play better. This
is not even a Joe Missoula thing. This is more
of a Jason Tatum thing, because the Celtics had a
similar situation. They they were futzing around in a game
against Atlanta and that was the game at the Garden

(12:23):
there that Trey hit the big three point shot from
like half court and Atlanta won and extended that series.
They won Game five. Trey Young hit a big, big basket.
So it had similar vibes here even though it was
game one. So you got to channel the macho man here.
And this will test the cojones of the Green team here.

(12:44):
We will see if they have that vimen vigor. They
should have that the bounce back and all that, because
they did play like a bunch of lightweights in the
second half. Now, if you didn't see the game, this
is a great test to some If you talk to
somebody about the game and if you say, well, you
see the game and they said, well, Boston shot fifty
eight percent. I don't see what the problem is. They
were fight well, not in the second half. The game
was won in the fourth quarter, but in the second

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half in general, the Celtics shot forty four percent. Jason
Tatum and Jalen Brown combined were outscored by James Harden
and Tyrese Maxey fifty three to twenty. In the second half,
they were outscored by thirty three points Brown and Tatum.
Brown only attempted three more shots than I did, and

(13:25):
you did three in the second half of the game.
He was a decoy. Malcolm Brogden, Marcus Smart and Al
Horford all attempted more shots from the floor in the
second half than Jalen Brown and the Celtics from three
point range in the second half we two of twelve,
and my computer, like brain, tells me that is under

(13:46):
twenty percent. That's sixteen percent from downtown. So let's go
inside the locker room. You'll hear the question and the
answer on this one here is Jason Tatum and the
one that got away. Let's go to the audio tape.
Does this feel like a missed opportunity?

Speaker 3 (14:02):
Given how long they were off the embiid situation.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
And you guys coming into this series hoping to make
a statement, does a game onet feel like a missed opportunity?

Speaker 5 (14:10):
I guess you just want to win every game you play.
You know, regardless of the circumstance, you just you won't win.
And we didn't do it enough to win. So every
game you lose, I guess is a missed opportunity to
get a win.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
No, there's no guessing. You blew it. You blew it.
You sucked at a time you cannot suck. That was
a bad question, though. I remember when I was early
in my career, I had a program director and he said,
the greatest question that you can ask is like five
or less words, Jason, did you blow it?

Speaker 4 (14:43):
Like?

Speaker 1 (14:43):
Just like that, right, because then they don't have to
the problem when you ask a long question, it's like
a hard oh contest. For a lot of sports media guys.
They want to ask long questions because it makes them
feel like they're insiders and they know the game. But
the most efficient questions is when you catch someone off
card and they have no idea it's coming, and then
they have to answer, and they don't have time and

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they start hemming and hanging. Alright, there's the Bean Maler Show.
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later on later on, we began with a Celtic Sixers
monologue and has always been the case. Here we are
on the number one sports radio station in the country

(17:31):
in Boston, and when the Celtics win, or the Red
Sox win, or the Patriots win, they are lined up.
It's it's all like local radio. When they lose radio silence,
radio silence, late night trug Tester, right, since is maybe
the Boston Hater knows something and is waiting for the
Celtics to blow it and give a two for one
call along for the with the Brons. Yeah, we have

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not heard from the Boston.

Speaker 4 (17:55):
Hater and might be dead.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
You don't need to add that, Eddie that that's not helpful.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
You don't know. I'm not just say it.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
I mean, he's a he's an older gentleman.

Speaker 4 (18:06):
You said it the other day.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
I didn't say it in those terms. I did not.
I said, if he's alive, we will hear.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
From but and if he's not, we won't.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
Well it would be it would be more impressive if
he's dead and we would Yeah, that would be we
would be national news if if we could get a
dead like I'm still upset with Genie and Medford. She
has not called the show since she passed away, and
beer Drink and Brian not one damn phone call. You
know how famous the show would be if we got
a call from the other side. Holy crap, that would
be amazing yet to happen, you know, I mean, and

(18:39):
I'm if you happen to pass away anytime soon, please
give us a call after you pass away, let us
verify it, and then we'll be able to monetize that. Yeah,
it's going to the phones and we'll saylo to sir,
scratch off the highways and byways of Arkansas. Hey, fan favorite.

Speaker 6 (19:02):
Hey, what's going on?

Speaker 7 (19:03):
Man?

Speaker 6 (19:04):
You know I will tell you something I'm gonna tell
you other night, but you know I can't get to
your thick head. I listen your show seven days a week.
If I'm a home, you'll let you're on my phone,
But you don't want to tell you something about KD.
I had to go through something years ago that I
think he needs to go through. He needs to go
through some anger management classes because I'm gonna tell you
something right now, being he's gonna hurt somebody one of
these days. That anger, that anger will hurt people at

(19:26):
times and I just believe sooner or later that old
boy is gonna have tasting kind of classes because I'm
just a praise He's gonna hurt somebody. That anger he's
got it Just it's kind of scary to a point.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Did you hurt anyone when when you were very angry
as a young man so scratch off? Did you cause violence?
Did you break things? What was your level of violence?

Speaker 6 (19:44):
I got accused. They said I had a hammer and
I was gonna use it. And I had no idea
that the hammer wasn't even in my hand, but it
was told that I had a hammer, and being I
don't even like guns, I don't even like hunting on
my two brothers, I just don't like to kill nothing,
you know what I mean. And somebody told me all
the time. I said, man, you won't ever get wrong,

(20:06):
because if they do, they'll run off because you're talking
to this, I mean whatever. But I just I don't know, man.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
That is your secrete weapon, that is your power that
you you are. You're such a talker that people could
die from you talking, that you would just overwhelm them
with an ocean of words.

Speaker 6 (20:26):
I understand. I just love people, man, I've never met
a straighter in six states I've lived in, and I
just I had a lot of people wait.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Wait, wait, wait, wait wait wait, hold on, I say this
is no. I don't buy that. There are some people
that you can't possibly like. There are people that are rude,
there are people that are mean. There are people that
are not polite. You don't like those people. You complain
to me, You say I say bad words, which I
do not say.

Speaker 6 (20:49):
Let's don't start that. I okay, I told you.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
I'm sorry, Okay, okay, apologic, except that.

Speaker 6 (20:54):
Something else about the Lakers. I looked at the Lakers.
You know, we talked about this a man Toms and
we've talked about the bubble. Well, we had two bubbles.
We had the Dodgers and we had the Lakers. You know,
you both won. The Lakers warning you want the Dodgers,
but the bubble man, the Lakers warned the bubbles. They
had to do it because it's what was going on
in the statement.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
But again, and I for the eight thousandth time, for
the uneducated, for the low information fan, baseball was much
more difficult than basketball in the bubble. Everyone knows that,
and yet these Laker historians. You'd think with all the
other success the Lakers have had, they would concede that
was the easiest NBA playoff in the history of the

(21:34):
NBA playoffs. But yet they're so stubborn, they're so bulleheaded,
they will not concede an obvious fact. Baseball much more difficult.
And the baseball's designed for the long haul. It's designed
for the marathon, not the sprint. But that year it
was a sprint, much different situation, much harder in baseball
than it's ever been or will ever be again exactly.

(21:56):
And you agreed with me, so I will hang up
on you, but thank you.

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Speaker 4 (22:45):
I mentioned this on yesterday's show, but it has now
been confirmed. Bryce Harper will in fact make his season
debut coming up later on tonight at Dodgers Stadium, one
hundred and fifty nine days since having Tommy John surgery.
He'll be the designated hitter for the Philadelphia Phillies, and
they could use him after getting crushed last night.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
It looks like the Phillies went I had a good
time in Los Angeles and we're not ready to play.
That's the la flu, Eddie. Some teams have the l
A flu. The Phillies had that. But Bryce Harper was
supposed to come back in July, and he's come back
a couple of months before the anticipated return. Does that
fully count though, Because he's a half a baseball player,
He's just gonna I mean, that's cool, he's came back,
but it's not like he's going to play the field.

(23:25):
He's not. He can't throw. He just a hitter. That's it.
He's not like a real real baseball player. You actually
got to play defense.

Speaker 4 (23:34):
You don't think designated hitters are real baseball players?

Speaker 1 (23:37):
No, because I think I could do that.

Speaker 4 (23:39):
Well, that's completely I think I.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
Could shoot foul I know I could shoot foul shots
in the NBA. And I could be a designated hitter.
I could be.

Speaker 4 (23:45):
He could not.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
I didn't say I could get hits, but I could
be a designated hitter. I could be the ball would
be a designated striker round you never know. I could
be bullpenketcher, long snapper in football. I could do it.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
I don't think you can.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
I could do it.

Speaker 4 (24:01):
No, I could do twenty years ball in there and
there's a hallway.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
Was this bone?

Speaker 4 (24:06):
That's not the ball?

Speaker 1 (24:10):
That's a great throw. You see the spiral in that throat.
That's the greatest float it's ever been done in the studio.
No one's had a better throw than that throat. That's
probably the all time greatest.

Speaker 4 (24:17):
Steve Harvey probably had a better throw than that.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
No, he didn't know. He wasn't here long enough to
have it anyway. Uh my fun fact bottom of the hour.
Fun fact. Now, we talked about this last week. The
Atlanta Braves had these oversized hats that they were wearing,
and they got banned because new Era, the hat official
hat company in Meajor League Baseball, said You're not allowed
to do that. That's not our product.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
You got to be kidding.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah, so that got banned. But the Washington Nationals Eddie,
I saw this. You see this, have the home run wig,
you know, like those judges in London and the Encountered WI. Yeah,
like George Washington born day exactly.

Speaker 8 (24:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
I like this. I like when teams tie it into
something that's related to their their team, like the have
a sword they pull out when.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
They Now the Angels have a samurai hat. But that
is that they're allowed to do that, I guess is
a tribute to TODDI but I don't know. I've not
seen a lot of samurai is in Orange County. I
don't know. Please stay with us, We respect your culture.
I saw the Padres in Mexico at a pinata in
the locker room. They that was not bad. This is

(25:23):
kind of cool though the National is the only reason
to watch the National is just to see if somebody
it's a home run. They put a wig on, but
I did not see the logo for the hat company
on there, so they might have to ban that also
major League Baseball.

Speaker 4 (25:35):
Anyway, I know that the Reds have a Viking helmet
they put on. It really doesn't have any relation to Reds,
but they're doing that.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
Would the Reds put I don't know what they related? Well,
they have to put like a big like I can
a chili like that? Put that like they camp? But
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you think one hundred percent, one hundred and fifty percent,
two hundred percent or four hundred percent. What do you
think you got two two hundred percent? Eddie, you want
in on this? Two hundred four hundred percent is the editor.
They are claiming that tickets as sales season ticket sales
have gone up four hundred percent, which in my head

(26:52):
means nobody was buying Jets season tickets, you know, like
the Packers can't if the Packers got a good player
of the Steelers, they couldn't say season two get sales
one up four hundred percent. You know why they're already sold.
They sell out every game, they have all the season tickets.
But the Jets are claiming after his introductory press conference
last week at Florham Park there that ticket sales have

(27:14):
gone bokers. People lining up to buy their jet tickets
and their jet merchandise. Let's go to the phones and
will sale. O Eenie meenie miney moe spind cycle. Regina,
the hostess with the mostest in the Twin Cities. We'll
be hanging out with her. A. No, it's not a formal,

(27:35):
This is not a this is Regina. This is not
a formal. This is a casual get.

Speaker 4 (27:40):
Together, some eat and greet.

Speaker 7 (27:43):
But however, for like the out of towners who want
to show up, they can give me a heads up
if they want at Spencycle Regina at you know dot com,
because I'm secured a block of rooms for Friday and
Saturday at one hundred and thirty.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Oh wow, that's actually that's a good deal with these
days for a hotel room. And we should point out
now we know last time you were at the last
meet and greet we did Regina, and there's usually a big,
pretty big after party that takes place after the meet
and greet that some of the big fans like to
get together and continue the party all night long. And
so that's why it's better to have it at a hotel.
That way, you don't have to drive anywhere, you don't

(28:20):
even get any trouble with any of that. So you
just go to the hotel boom, you're right there, perfect exactly, and.

Speaker 7 (28:27):
They have we have a window of the meet and
greet that I forgot to mention from five pm to
nine pm and I sent the direct reservation number and
address team for easy posting.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
All right, this is very exciting, and I know we'll
have all that on the podcast on Friday also, but
I'll post it on the on the social media and
all that, so it'll be great. Oh I'll call me. Wow,
all right, very nice.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
We look for it.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Doc Mike's already RSVP. We got a few other people.
Now there's no really formal way to r SVP. Right,
it's justtty much who shows up? Maybe they'll just me, me,
you and Doc Mike.

Speaker 7 (29:04):
What's up cycle dot com?

Speaker 1 (29:08):
Okay, there you go. Are very good. So we can't
get a rough estimate of boundary people are going to
be there because listen, if you have five you're bored
with me. You said there's acts throwing at this thing
and bowling and all kinds of other stuff, so you
can go yes, yeah, I'm not the most interesting person,
but you can go throw you can throw axes and
eat and eat a cheeseburger or something like that. All right, well, Vigo,

(29:29):
thank you, Regina. I appreciate you. All right, all right,
there she goes. All right. Our friends spends psycho Regina,
and she has helped us put this together. And I
think all all the big fans in Minnesota had several
others that reached out that We're like, hey, I know
somebody you know, talk to the owner of this restaurant,
and we witnessed this again May twenty. If EDTTI still

(29:50):
time to buy a plane ticket ed you want to
come hang out with the people, you can throw.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
I hung out with the people here in southern California,
so did I.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
But I'm doing it again.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
And I even put that together. They're sort of.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
So and I see, now you're bragging. Now you're now
you're bragging. And we're supposed to do another one later,
hopefully we with our comic book friend who hasn't called
the show much recently, Andy the comic book guy. We're
talking about doing something with him at the end of
summer Big Year Eddie for the mallor meet and Big
Year apparently. Yeah, you think Coop will show up to
that one.

Speaker 4 (30:21):
It's kind of near where he is, close to where
he lives.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
But he might have played probably you probably playing poker
or something. No, it's not in Pasadena's I think. I
think in that area that's not that far from here. Yeah,
that's pretty close. It would have to be in Coop's
front lawn.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
And even then, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
I don't know that he would.

Speaker 4 (30:42):
Make an appearance, but he wouldn't mingle.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
He would drive by and wave at everyone. And then
keep going, I am the most personable person on this show.

Speaker 6 (30:49):
That is nut.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
I think it might be I don' don't think Ben
malor show.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
Please hold.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
Right, Ben mal shall hold ask populater on who the
most personal were I say please every time, Eddie.

Speaker 10 (31:04):
And just because I don't want to talk to these
people while I'm doing the show doesn't mean that I don't.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
You know, listen again, I'm on time. Mallard by the clock,
four the clock, plausably all about the clock. We have
the instant trivia and also Mallard of the third degree
that is coming up for you and hey. Blank was
the only player that declined a twenty twenty three NFL
Draft invite but was still picked in the first round. Anyway. Again,

(31:31):
Blank the only player who declined an NFL Draft invite
to Kansas City but was still picked in the first round. Anyway.
That is the install trivia. The answer. We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.

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(32:15):
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Speaker 1 (32:18):
Maller turn out for the insta trivia. We'll have Mallard
of the third degree coming up. But here's the instant trivia.
Blank was the only player to decline a twenty twenty
three first round invite to the draft there but was
still picked in the first round. Anyway, that is the question.
What is the answer? And Cowboy Killer says it has

(32:42):
to be skeletor page Down. Fudgie in Boston says the
unpersonable Justin Cooper, who doesn't show up to the Malard
meet and greets either. Wow, some heat from Fudgie. Who
else do we have? Page Down? Stromboli guessed by Stevie
Meatballs Mister Ira Relevant twenty twenty three des Jan Johnson

(33:04):
is the answer for Miguel on Fire. Bobby Witt Junior
guests by the Late Night Drug Tester. The Eddie Garcia
Berner account says the Canadian tuxedo is the answer. Milkman
Mike in Colorado is going with Ralphie Parker is his answer?
Fer Dog in SoCal says Josh Klingler. Part of the
Great Morning Show there at Sixtens Sports in Kansas City

(33:26):
with Bob Fesco. Who else we have? Mavericks says Charlie Hussel.
Pete Rose he had a thing or two in Lost
Wages Nevada Malard prop guy says Ben, did you substitute
the verbal octagon for the who am I? Game? Because
your content contributors are honoring the writers' strike without naming names?

(33:47):
Which of your staff crossed the picket lines? But we,
of course cannot name names, but their initials are blank
blank those are the initials. Who else do we have?
Page down? Just Josh says spin Cycle Axilding Regina is
the answer. Alf the alien O piners going with first
Rounder Auto the drinking dog from Rhode Island. Well, that's

(34:08):
great memory, great show memory. Alf Otto the drinking jaw
dog that was on the weekend show we had Auto
would call it. Well, that was fun And do you
have an answer? Eddie? Please? Do you have an answer?

Speaker 4 (34:19):
Yeah, I'm gonna go with R.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
W mccorters our W McCord's final answer, Eddy, is that
your final? That's unfortunately incorrect, Eddie. The correct answer from
Northwestern offensive tackle Peter Scaranski was picked eleventh overall by
the Titans. He's the grandson of an NFL lineman that

(34:41):
played for the Vince Lombardi Packers.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
Here we go, it's Miller. How about that to the
third degree? This is one big VN gets grilled and
Coop d Loop in the house.

Speaker 8 (34:56):
Ben.

Speaker 10 (34:57):
We have been expecting that Joe Mixon and the Bengals
would part way this offseason. Now head coach Zach Taylor
is saying his future is here with the team.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Are you buying it? Ben? Well, that's like my future
right now is here because I'm in the building. But no,
Zach Taylor is not is not. He did not drop
a bomb on anything here. And the date the deadline,
from what I understand it is sometime in June, and
the Bengals will have to decide whether they want to
keep Joe Mixon or not at that date, and the

(35:26):
only way Mixon will stay is if he takes a
pay cut. But the way I look at it, the
Bengals drafted a running back in the fifth round, it
is more likely than not the reason they did that
is because they're getting ready to release Joe Mixon, no
matter what Zach Taylor says. And Mixon's got some legal issues,
he's got financial issues according to the Bengals, because he

(35:47):
was not very productive. He will be in the transfer protocol.

Speaker 10 (35:50):
Next TMZ caught up with Warren Moon over the weekend
when he said that despite the Aaron Rodgers signing, the
Bills are still the number one team in the AFC
East Ben Is he right.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
Yes, of course he's right. Look the Jets, we don't
know what this concoction of the Jets locker room will be.
We have no idea. They should be better. They were
a fringe playoff contender last year. They fell apart at
the end of the year. But Buffalo going in player
for player mono o'mano, the Buffalo Bills have a much
better team from top to bottom. And Josh Allen, although

(36:24):
he sucked at a time you cannot suck in the
playoffs last year, he's got better playmakers around him. He's
younger than Aaron Rodgers. The Bills added Damian Harris, a
good pass catching running back out of the backfield. Next,
all right, you better answer this one correctly.

Speaker 10 (36:39):
All right, Jamal Williams is now at the Saints, but
he's already losing himself some fans in the Bayou. Yeah,
he was recorded eating crawfish with barbecue sauce, which we
have learned is not okay.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
Ben, what is your worst food faux pas? So you
probably think I have some weird fruit faux pa. I
do not have a weird folks, I don't know. I
might diet is cheeseburgers, cheese, steak, chicken fingers, tacos, crunchy
gringo tacos. That's pretty much all I eat with pizza.
I like pizza.

Speaker 10 (37:10):
Tell you what the answer is, it's how you eat
your steak with your you feel this edition.

Speaker 5 (37:20):
I won the game.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
Everyone knows Rob Parker eats a steak. Well done, Me
and Rob Parker. Butterfly cut