May 19, 2023 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about ABC's Lisa Salters saying that she had never seen Nikola Jokic play before, if this is a referendum on ABC's NBA coverage, Benny's Balderdash, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our nuber fall, our four of
the radio show here an hour number four. Well you
also remember to listen to the fifth hour podcast. ABC
sideline reporter Lisa Salters, who's covered the NBA for a
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very long time. I think it's over fifteen years. She
says she had never seen two time MVP Nicola Jokic
play before. Is that a referendum on Lisa Salter's NBA coverage?
What's going on with the ABC broadcast crew in general,
and in addition, Jeff van Gundy. Jeff van Gundy slamming
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the replay obsession for referees because of flopping and how
can the NBA fix this broken system between the referees
and the floppers. We'll talk about that in more right
now here it is. Have a great weekend and enjoy
our number four here it is now you You gotta
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Coming from the category of the sublime, the amazing, the magical,
mystical powers of broadcasters. They say the darnedest things, these broadcasters,
NBA play by play, sideline color commentators, you name it.
(02:24):
The comments just keep coming the latest round. Several of
you sent me this story demanding, demanding commentary, and by request,
we discuss what a long tenured, long tenured NBA sideline
reporter said this week that has many people's stunned, stunned, stunned, stunned, stunned, stunned.
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All right, so you might be familiar with her work.
She does a lot of big events at ABC, slash, ESPN.
Lisa Souls is her name, and she see her on
the football, and you see her on the basketball and
the other random events sprinkled around, and so she recently
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did an interview where she was talking about the Nuggets
and the Lakers series. She's part of the broadcast team
calling that series. Game two was last night Denver one.
By the way, they're two wins away from the NBA Finals.
Lebron in a whole lot of trouble, a whole lot
of trouble. So anyway, Lisa Salters in this interview she
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was shocked, shocked from watching Nikola Jokic play. You see.
Lisa Salters claimed that despite being an NBA sideline reporter
for almost an entire generation, almost twenty years, that this
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was the first time she had actually watched Nicola Jokic play.
But I'm not kidding, by the way, I'm not exaggerating
at all. As Warner Wolf would say, Let's go to
the audio tape. This happened on the Rich Eisenshow listen
to this.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I have never seen him play before. I never I
haven't done a game here in Denver, and I was
trying to figure out when it's been at least ten years.
Maybe I had a game of theirs in the bubble.
I think maybe I did, But this is really the
first time I've had a chance to watch him play.
And I gotta admit I have been slipping on this guy.
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He is spectacular. He is ridiculously good and just unstoppable.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Wow. All right, So people are freaking out by this.
It's like, what are you doing? I go, what do
you doing? So this is what I want to talk
to you about. So the question is that a referendum
on the sideline reporter, release assaulters and her NBA cover.
So I've got bar Mitzvah, Twilight Zone and Whirley Bird,
and we'll come mind all of these things together and
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we are going to put a Dunce cap on. That's
what we're gonna put because I mean, what are you doing?
She's been a sideline reporter since twenty five eighteen years.
He's been a sideline reporter, So this is wild Nicoleyokitchen.
Maybe I'm wrong on this, but I believe he's won
multiple MVP Awards. He has been a top three NBA
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player in that matrix or metrics for several years, and
the lead NBA reporter who interviews the players and the
coaches and does all the stuff that kills time in
between the action. She's done sidelines for fifty percent of
the biggest games on network. Television for the past eighteen years.
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And she said, you just heard the SoundBite that she
had not seen this guy play. Now, the Joker has
been in the NBA for eight seasons. He has played
almost six hundred New season games. He's been to five
All Star Games, He's been to five All NBA teams.
He's been a two time MVP, as we said, And
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despite all of that, also in the Western Conference finals,
this is the man's bar mitzvah, right, it's he's now
becoming a man in Nicola jokicch finally finally getting recognized
the fact that an elite broadcaster, somebody who's on a
on a national broadcast is like, I've never seen him
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play before. That is a bit of self incrimination. Also,
she must never watch the NBA when she's not working.
She must actually.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Hate the NBA.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
And what else did she learn? Is she just learned
that that high speed internet is better than AOL dial up?
Did she learn that? Also? Is what else that the
typewriter not quite as good as the MacBook? All right? Furthermore,
what is going on in general with this broadcast team
at the four letter? What's going on with them? So
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they are showing a quite staggering lack of knowledge. Now,
over the years, people have said the Midwest is flyover
country and all that, but the mountain time, Mountain time
is the twilight zone. If the Midwest is flyover country,
mountain time is the twilight zone of a boondocks. Welcome
to po Dunk USA, off the beaten path, isolated in
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a jerk water town. Picture. If you will a world
where you can dominate and have such a lack of
recognition in your sport that you are dominating that the
people paid collectively millions of dollars to broadcast your games
have willful ignorance when it comes to your ability. Now,
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at least assaulters is I don't think she's getting millions
of dollars, but Mark Jackson's making a ton of money.
She's all. He's also part of that broadcast team. Mark
Jackson Mambor Jackson failed to vote for the Joker. He
was not even on the ballot. According to Mark Jackson,
it was a terrible mistake. I'm sure it was, yes,
because we all are very sloppy at he There's only
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a handful of people collectively that decide the MVP awards,
So you just fill that out with some chicken scratch
and move on. But he was completely left off the ballot. Now,
Lisa Salters said, Mama, there goes that woman, hold my
beer wild. That is wild and crazy. So not only
no games in Denver, but you the Nuggets haven't popped up.
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There's been no nugget game against any of the glamour teams.
So really, what she's saying, Lisa Salters, is I only
do games for the Warriors, Lakers, or the Celtics. That's it.
And I don't watch the NBA when I'm not working.
That's pretty much what she's saying. Now, the last thing here,
I want to pivot away a little bit because there's
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another broadcaster who's part of this crew, not Mike Breen,
who said something rather interesting, Jeff Van Gundy. Jeff Van Gundy,
there goes that man, the disheveled former Knickerbocker coach who
has been railing against the officials. Now he got on
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his soapbox again. If you're watching Game two on Thursday night,
in the first half of Game two, Van Gundy was rumbling,
stumbling and grumbling about the state of flopping and he said,
this is the overreaction to every time somebody falls down. Now,
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that's why guys exaggerate and embellish their falls. They're always
trying to entice a review close quote. So Ben Gunny's
right about this. So the question is, how can the
NBA do something about it to fix what is clearly
a broken system. So I have some advice. I have
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activated the Malar think tank. The first piece of advice
is to land the wordly bird, to stop with the
helicopter officiating, find some middle ground. There has been too
far of a push one direction. They become overprotective. Let
the game flow. Let the game flow. The pendulum has
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swung too far into paranoia, too far into paranoia. And
it used to be back in the old days, it
used to be that you could close line a guy
and it was often a common foul, and occasionally you'd
get a technical foul, but it was often just a
common foul. The NBA has a quality control prop. It's
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like a sputtering engine in a car that's got a
lot of miles on it. It's a little chopped to drive.
You might have a clogged fuel filter or faulty fuel pump.
Spark plugs are a little damaged and at some point
you're like, enough is enough. So if you determine a
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player is flopping, here is the Mather Think tank advice.
I want to get your feedback on this. My advice.
You bring in a team from Broadway at the replay
facility in New York. There you bring in the experts
on acting, acting coaches, Thespian tendencies. And at the replay
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center you will not only be going by the letter
of the law, you will be going by the letter
of the Thespian law. And if a player is deemed
to be flopping, like the flop for the Lakers, you
give the non flopping players team so the other team
would get a bonus foul shot. If a player is
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determined to have been tanking with the flopping, then you
the other team gets a bonus foul shot. Do that
enough and we will see a metamorphosis. But the reason
everyone's flopping is because, hello, it works. It is effective.
It absolutely is effective. Now I saw David in Pennsylvania
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Road and he immediately said that the sideline reporter should
be fired for not knowing who the joker is. Something
tells me that is not going to happen. Now we
have NBA playoff action tonight and the Boston Celtics trying
to avoid going down two at home to Miami. It
is Game two. This game opened up Celtics by nine
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at the Garden, and at this point it is state flat.
The Celtics are a nine point favorite. The money, the
total tickets in favor of the road team. The consensus
is that's too many points. The Celtics are too inconsistent,
and that's a big number. It's nine points in a
playoff game. And so the money is on the side
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of Jimmy Buckets in the heat to at least keep
it close, closer than nine. That this will come down
to the fourth quarter and it'll be a toss up
game in the fourth quarter. Now, the other game, which
is tomorrow on Saturday, the Nuggets and the Lakers, that's
Game three, that's must win for the Lakers, must win
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for the Lakers, and that game opened up at four.
The overnight line has already bumped up to five and
a half at some locations in favor of the Lakers.
So they're five and a half point favors now. And
I do not have any information on the money, but
I would think it's on the Lakers, because there's been
a point and a half line move since since that
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Speaker 1 (14:46):
Big Panda writes and he says excellent monologue on Lisa Salters.
It is not in he says, is it is not
insanely ridiculous, but it is ridiculous to not know the
two time MVP at a sport you cover for a
but I guarantee you that she knew that. F and
cry Baby the true MVP. Joel Embiid he points out.
(15:08):
Ike in Roseville, Minnesota, says, I have a rap. I
have to wrap Regina and Doc Mike's wedding gift for
the wedding, the mock wedding Saturday at the Malor meet up. Well,
that's a good looking gift. I'm sure she'll she'll enjoy
that a lot. Maybe Doc once wants that, who knows, Well,
we'll see about that. Let's see page down, page down, London,
(15:34):
not actually in London, but London. Right since, says glad
you pointed out the lack of recognition for Nicola Jokic,
striking admission that an NBA broadcaster had never seen him
five times all NBA and enlists all the accolades there
of Nicola Jokic. All right, very good. Let's take some calls.
It is a call in show, and we will say
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hello Enie, Meanie, Miney Moe. Let's say hello to Regina
spin Cycle, Regina and she is in Minnesota. Hello spin
Cycle Regina, Hello, and then.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
All just absolutely exhausted and I'm covered in glitter and
glue for you for me.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Really I didn't. I had no idea that I needed
glitter and glue in my life, but I but I
thank you for going the extra mile there, Regina. I
appreciate it. Yes, I love.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
I'm just letting you know.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Hey, I just.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Want everybody to still continue. Rsvpin and I thank you
for all of the responses. It's been great to having
a response that I've gotten and I'm just so looking
forward to everything that hopefully for you to experience together.
I'm looking about I got one more confirmation about another
(16:59):
musician who's coming and to open up for the other
person Mason and he is Brian Layton and he's a
really big person around here to Heaven and they and
everybody who's been like trying to get all of us
to come together and yeah, yeah, come on, he's a
big names.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Listen. I'm looking forward to Regina. I thank you for
the hostess with the most. It's gonna be a great
night is tomorrow at five pm in Minneapolis there at
the Mermaid will be hanging out at the mermaid Will
there be any mermaids there, Regina? Any?
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Wow? I didn't have a hot tub there?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Who knew?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Is there is there an after party, Virgina, bring your trunks.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Ben.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
I think I'm good, but you know it always happens.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Yes, there's there will be. It was a hotel, and
I guarantee that some fans of the show will get
together after.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
The I'm already here at the hotel.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
Look at that.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
You're already at the hotel. Well, I gotta set up
for you. You gotta stay away from Doc Mike though, Okay,
because you know do you guys are getting married on Saturday,
so you can't you know, can't spend any time before.
It's bad luck. So I won't do that. You got
the doc? All right? Well, thank you, Regina, appreciate that.
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We'll see you on Saturday. Okay, there she goes. All right, Regina,
spend cycle with Gen. She's putting this thing together. Eddie,
there's still time, Eddie if you want to fly in there, Eddie,
come on, you can still make it Saturday night. You
got nothing else want to see you, Noah, but you
can come hang out, have a great time. You have
good food there. Eat some cheese curds, eat some poutine
or whatever, and knock yourself out.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
I'm saving myself with the so cal mallar meet and greet.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Oh is that right? You don't like to leave? You
want to go too far away? You know, get a plane,
fly anywhere, none of that.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Now, I'm going to going to New York in November.
So if anybody in that area wants to meet up.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah, all right, let's say hello to eenie meenie miney mo.
Let's say hello to a angry bill. Hello, angry Bill.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
How you doing? Guys? We got to get this er
and Judge just stop peeking into the dugout. He's peeking
in there far too often. Now we got six homers
and four games winning everything. The guy just got to
peek and peak and peek into that dugout.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
So you have to stop hitting.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Run. How's that Cody Bellinger MVP season going? Is that
going all right for the Cubs? How's he doing there?
Speaker 8 (19:27):
Who's doing all right?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Where's he had in the MVP voting? I haven't looked.
Is he's leading?
Speaker 8 (19:33):
He's leading right voting on May nineteenth. But that's that's
a real thrill, ain't it?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Well? The Dodgers are having some problems, as you said,
mister baseball over there, the Dodgers are really they had
a tough night last night. I mean they got blown
out in there. They're still running away with things in
the National League West. But you know, your baseball.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
Over there, you know you got to do me a
favor and on this weekend, spend a little time with
Doc might in a Euroinale. You and he can teach
a couple of things.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, are you gonna show up there?
You to make an appearance? Angry rebellion? Drive away.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
I wouldn't start.
Speaker 8 (20:09):
I wouldn't go to Minnesota if you paid me and
had three women there for me. Yes, Minnesota is the
butthole in the world.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Is that right? I thought? I thought that was Nutley,
New Jersey, where you were born. I thought that's where
you get out of here. We're done with you, all right,
I'll move. Let's go to Chris in the Commonwealth. Hello, Chris,
you are next up. It is the Ben Malors Show
on Fox. Hello Christopher going and.
Speaker 9 (20:33):
Ben, hopefully you can hear me. Okay, I'm driving into work.
Of course, is always listening, Ben, I got a couple
of things for you.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
First, there's a lot.
Speaker 9 (20:43):
Going on here in the Commonwealth. We got Janet Jackson
at the X Space Center, we got Taylor Swift at
Joel and we playing tonight where you know, I believe
it was Jason cam that apologized to Janet Jackson because
of you know, they had a move saying if Jason
Tatum does not show up, I can't. I am gonna
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just drive off the Tobin Bridge. Okay, I'm just gonna
jump jump off it because I'm tired of his up
and down show up, feel like not showing up, not
showing off because I lost my bruins. I don't have
my bruins. You got the Florida Panthers playing the Carolina parcse.
I mean, I'm telling you, I think Garry Pedman must
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be like the guy that the Boarding and Shawshank Redemption,
Like at the end of the movie when he's like,
what the bulls, He's like, the last thing I remember,
I hope the last thing I remember when the bull
goes to his brain. How the hell did the Carolina
Panthers in Florida.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
You know what I'm saying, You're.
Speaker 10 (21:50):
Having a breakdown, said you sound like me in October
Man relaxed.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Ye, listen, Tatum will be fine in this game, and
the celt So likely win the game. Then then he'll
go and ride the vomit comment in game three, So
tonight you should play very well. Maybe the Celtics will
actually play defense for four quarters. That would be something different.
Speaker 9 (22:12):
Doesn't like defense, he says, throw up three. You should
hear his comments of the game. It's like, hey, what
happened in the third in the third quarter, Well, we
just didn't score it. Yeah we didn't.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Oh, I saw I saw that. Yeah, they asked him
about the defense, and yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:30):
You can't take it because the socks.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
Oh I need.
Speaker 9 (22:35):
For give me the football season.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Well, you know you did. You did have twenty You
did have twenty years. We had nothing to worry about.
So yeah, you're due for a bit of a drought here.
Yeah you got it all right, thank you. You gotta
live like the rest of us here with crapola all
over the place.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Well, the Red Sox are surprisingly better than I thought
they would be. Well, story like you say.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah, they are also in last place, so well.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
It's a good division.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Yeah, they're bringing up the rear. Anyway, it is the
band Malors Show. As the good news is the A
Holes are not leading the American League West.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
And I used to have Fenway Park.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
So yeah, yeah they have that. But it's expensive. It's expensive.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's true baseball. It's somewhat more expensive now.
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
And if I'm not mistake, let me check my wild card.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Standing here one game out.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
The A Holes are the Yeah, they're half a game
out of the wild card.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
It says here, I thought you were about the Red Sox.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I don't care about the rest about the Astros, don't.
The Red Sox are fine, but the A Holes are
half you know. So if the season in today, the
A Holes would not be in the playoffs. So that's
that's good.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
They'll be in there.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
No, they won't. It is the band. But by the way,
we you know, we don't do shoutouts that we do
not do shout outs, so you said, be wrong. So
I will not tell Kathy and Madison to feel better.
Kathy had the COVID, which is you know, people get it,
but she's older, so it could be a that's her
(24:13):
right there, But I think she's doing okay, because she's
tweeting the show, so I think she's doing all right.
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Speaker 1 (24:55):
My fun Factor the Hour. Remember that blow up between
Jimmy Butler and Eric Spolstra. We ranted about that. It
was a little over a year ago. They were at
Loggerheads there and Jimmy Butler I think wanted to decapitate
Eric Spolstra. I might be wrong on that. Maybe he
just wanted to punch him in the gut. But either way,
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since that point in time, I saw this fun fact.
I said, boy, that's really fun. That's a fun fact.
There have been thirteen head coaches that have lost their
job since Jimmy Butler got into it with Eric Spolstra.
But they're still side by side and having a fine
(25:40):
time living LaVita Loca, living the fine life, living the
good life there together. And at that night, boy, that
was a wild night. They did not like each other
at all.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
But was that the one where you Donnis Haslam was
getting into.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
It too, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the same one. And
bad news for Kooper Loop and Roberto's Lakers. All time
NBA teams that have lost the first two games of
the conference finals when they trailed two games to none,
it has happened now so far sixty two times in
the history of the NBA, and the team that was
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trailing won six of the sixty two.
Speaker 10 (26:22):
So well, I'll tell you one good I'll tell you
one good thing, Ben, is that stats tell you what
has happened, not what.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Okay, the Clipperds suck and they.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Calm down, Calm down, Cowboys, calm down, calm down. Don't worry.
Anthony Davis can go have a pool party with Kawhi
Leonard in another week here when the Lakers are eliminated,
they can watch the Nuggets and whoever in the NBA finals.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Well, let's get you know what, you know what else?
I like, Ben, I just want to play this.
Speaker 8 (26:59):
Don't you.
Speaker 10 (27:03):
Ask how you always talk about how the bubble is
like the weakest thing.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
And like, yes, it's fake exactly.
Speaker 10 (27:09):
But it's the same four teams the conference finals.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
The is the weakest of all the.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Was that so so?
Speaker 10 (27:16):
Now the same four teams that were at the you know,
in the conference finals in the bubble are back in
the conference finals.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
They're different teams now they are. There's these things called trades.
I'll teach you about them, really really.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
The who are the leaders? Who are the leaders on
the Lakers?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
The rosters different?
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Who are the leaders on the Celtics? Who are the
leaders on the Nuggets? They're all the same ones.
Speaker 10 (27:38):
Joe Gets, Marie Tatum Brown.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
I'm not using the argument. I'm not losing the argument.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Who is who's the coach of the Lakers? Is it
Frank Vogels? He's still the coach.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
The coach doesn't matter. Who's the Celtics coach doesn't matter?
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Oh wait, let me know all.
Speaker 10 (27:55):
The time that the coach doesn't matter. All of a sudden,
coaching is.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
There not the same Cooper loop. They're not the same,
so the coach doesn't do anything. If they were the same,
I would say, you know what, you're right, But they're
not the same. The rosters different, the coaches for a
lot of these teams are different. It's not the same.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
The argument exactly, you're fighting your own points.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
No, I'm not fighting my own points. Anybody that knows
basketball knows playing at a resort after five months off
in Florida is not It's the easiest of all time.
And we're seeing the Lakers now having to go to
Denver and play on the road, and they've lost the
first two games and all that stuff, and they're gonna
lose the series in five games. That's it, because they
can't handle the travel and all that.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Lebron looks go the bubble.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
He didn't look old at the bubble. I know that
all right. Now. We have no time.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
It was three years ago.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
We have no time for the coops. You've now wasted
all the time.
Speaker 10 (28:46):
Sure we do now, well, well, we'll skip balderdash.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
You don't want to hear about what what Coop thinks
about the Little Mermaid movie.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
That's not fair.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
That's not the only Mermaid I care of is the
Mermaid on Saturday night, Eddie that I'll be hanging out
at in Miny Apps because that's the place to be.
That's where all the cool people are.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
And we've got all kinds of time for Kop Scoop,
let's do it, play the music or bro.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I don't need to do it right. I get in
trouble and then you know, you guys don't get the calls.
I get that's the problem.
Speaker 10 (29:18):
The problem is this, Once I finished, Coopscoop, you're gonna
tell a story for another two minutes.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Well it's people like story, love story.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
All right.
Speaker 10 (29:27):
Coming out this weekend in theaters. Get ready for it.
It's another Fast in the movie. We've got Fast X
coming in theaters.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I'm great. I think this is supposed to be the
last one.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Another generation that people seeing these movies and then driving
like daredevils can't wait for.
Speaker 10 (29:45):
Yes, this one. This one has Jason Momoa, so that's cool,
I guess. Yeah, Jason Momoa and then all the all
the characters from from episodes, nast the actors from the
Nissan commercials. Also, he has Brie Larsen. Yeah, she is
she is fantastic. Also, we're going over to television now
(30:05):
and this is available right now, I believe on Hulu.
Let me let me double check to make sure I'm
telling you the right place. I can't type correctly.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
I'm hearing a lot of sound sound.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Well, there we go. Well I can't find it. But
white Man, white Man can't jump. Yes. The the remake
god awful looks.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Those remakes always go well.
Speaker 10 (30:28):
Yes, And that is starring Jack Harlow in the Woody
Harrelson role. If you don't know who that is, that's
a a white rapper, Jack Harlow.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Jack Harlow, Yes, racist.
Speaker 10 (30:41):
And yeah, so then we're moving on to other We
have a we have a new This one's on Disney
Plus and it is a it's a kind of a
it's an adaptation of a graphic novel. It's called American
Born Chinese. This is getting really good reviews. This debut
is on Wednesday, and it reunites all of the stars
of everything everywhere, all at once. The winner of Best
(31:03):
Picture and.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Yeah, that's that was on Wednesday.
Speaker 10 (31:08):
It's a different story, a totally different thing, but all
the same actors from that movie.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
I just I guess you know they stick together.
Speaker 10 (31:16):
But basically it follows a high school student who's encounter
with a new exchange student finds him in a war
between Chinese mythical gods mythological gods. Yes, and then, last,
but not least, on Apple TV Plus, we have a
new comedy. This one's getting great reviews. It's called Platonic
and it Reunited. It reunites co stars from the movie Neighbors,
(31:42):
Rose Byrne and Seth Rogan who are old friends who
reunite for a platonic friendship and becomes increasingly all consuming.
That is on Apple TV Plus on Wednesday. And that
is Coop Scoop on entertainment.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Okay, no story, We'll have Bald Dash now.
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And now it's just what you've been waiting for. It's
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Speaker 8 (32:44):
What the hell is this?
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Formerly known as something we're not allowed to say? Fort it?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Eh? Oh, way we go, it's balder s. We're gonna
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we'll have a fresh edition of the Fifth Hour podcast today,
a spin off of the show and the first ever
podcast dedicated to chronic hiccups. Yeah, we talked about Bo Jackson.
(33:11):
We told you that story. Bo's got chronic hiccups, and
I was trying to figure out what what exactly how
common that isn't all anyway, It's about the Bo Jackson story.
It'll be on the Fifth Hour today. But let's play
balder dash right now. We welcome in Kevin in Tampa.
Hello Kevin, good morning, Ben. Happy Friday, Yes, happy Friday
(33:35):
to you. The big weekend is upon us and we
say hello. Also, you're gonna be going against Manuel in Guardina. Hello, Manuel, Benny,
what is up?
Speaker 8 (33:45):
I'm looking to receep LA over Tampa, just like we
did in twenty twinya the COVID.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Here right, maybe or not? We got the chips you okay,
you might get the win here, Manuel, but the Lakers
did not. Here we go, let's see what happened. Good luck,
good luck on that. We have alumnia association and thanks
for the memories. Which category shall we go with here?
Speaker 8 (34:16):
Alumni association?
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Okay, Alumni association, your name is your buzzer. I'll tell
you the athlete. Tell me the college they attended. Famous athletes.
College they attended for two hundred dollars. He's a quarterback
for the Jets. Now Aaron Rodgers who was in first coup.
I think that was Kevin cal That is correct, Kevin,
you got that one right, four hundred dollars. Alumni Association.
(34:40):
I will name the athlete. Tell me the college they attended.
That was a big rock star for a couple of years,
played for the Cleveland Browns. Johnny Manzell Kevin, that is correct,
Kevin's two for two. And Alumni Association, I will tell
you the athlete, tell me where they went to college.
Hall of Fame safety in the NFL, John Lynch Manuel.
(35:07):
They were tied up, just like that, we're tied up.
I'll give you the athlete. Tell me the cause they
went to for eight hundred dollars. That was a star
for the Knickerbockers back in the eighties. Mark Jackson, Manuel
st John's Yeah, and Manuell takes the lead Alumni Association
(35:27):
for one thousand dollars. One of the key gritty role
players for the San Antonio Spurs Bruce Bowen, Bruce Manuel.
Speaker 8 (35:38):
You see Canna Barbara.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
No, that is incorrect, Kevin. No answer from Kevin. No,
I don't know. No, no use of lifeline either, fair enough, Okay,
the answer we were looking for, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (35:58):
Do you know where Bruce hel State bulletin?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Yeah, he was a Titan buller Ba. Yes, that is
not known for basketball. They played a high Yes, right, Okay,
here we go. Category two. Thanks for the memories. These
MVPs were traded by the team they won the award
with This foreign born Hall of Famers spent seventeen seasons
with his team, winning two championships and making twelve All
(36:23):
Star teams. Before he was unceremoniously traded to the Toronto
Raptors and a summon Manuel.
Speaker 8 (36:31):
Hawhi Leonard.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
No, no, you want to Kevin. No, not a basketball guy.
Speaker 8 (36:41):
It was.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Keem Elijahwani four hundred dollars. This This player, along with
John Carlos Stanton, are the only MLB players ever to
be traded in the offseason. After being honored as MVP,
he is now part owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves. Anybody
Manuell Roder, Yes, a Rod, but I don't think that's enough.
(37:04):
I believe correct, Coop, Yes, Kevin Wins.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Sashally Tie.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Got a murder.
Speaker 8 (37:17):
I gotta go
Hello and welcome. It's our nuber fall, our four of
the radio show here an hour number four. Well you
also remember to listen to the fifth hour podcast. ABC
sideline reporter Lisa Salters, who's covered the NBA for a
(00:20):
very long time. I think it's over fifteen years. She
says she had never seen two time MVP Nicola Jokic
play before. Is that a referendum on Lisa Salter's NBA coverage?
What's going on with the ABC broadcast crew in general,
and in addition, Jeff van Gundy. Jeff van Gundy slamming
(00:44):
the replay obsession for referees because of flopping and how
can the NBA fix this broken system between the referees
and the floppers. We'll talk about that in more right
now here it is. Have a great weekend and enjoy
our number four here it is now you You gotta
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Coming from the category of the sublime, the amazing, the magical,
mystical powers of broadcasters. They say the darnedest things, these broadcasters,
NBA play by play, sideline color commentators, you name it.
(02:24):
The comments just keep coming the latest round. Several of
you sent me this story demanding, demanding commentary, and by request,
we discuss what a long tenured, long tenured NBA sideline
reporter said this week that has many people's stunned, stunned, stunned, stunned, stunned, stunned.
(02:52):
All right, so you might be familiar with her work.
She does a lot of big events at ABC, slash, ESPN.
Lisa Souls is her name, and she see her on
the football, and you see her on the basketball and
the other random events sprinkled around, and so she recently
(03:12):
did an interview where she was talking about the Nuggets
and the Lakers series. She's part of the broadcast team
calling that series. Game two was last night Denver one.
By the way, they're two wins away from the NBA Finals.
Lebron in a whole lot of trouble, a whole lot
of trouble. So anyway, Lisa Salters in this interview she
(03:33):
was shocked, shocked from watching Nikola Jokic play. You see.
Lisa Salters claimed that despite being an NBA sideline reporter
for almost an entire generation, almost twenty years, that this
(03:53):
was the first time she had actually watched Nicola Jokic play.
But I'm not kidding, by the way, I'm not exaggerating
at all. As Warner Wolf would say, Let's go to
the audio tape. This happened on the Rich Eisenshow listen
to this.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I have never seen him play before. I never I
haven't done a game here in Denver, and I was
trying to figure out when it's been at least ten years.
Maybe I had a game of theirs in the bubble.
I think maybe I did, But this is really the
first time I've had a chance to watch him play.
And I gotta admit I have been slipping on this guy.
(04:32):
He is spectacular. He is ridiculously good and just unstoppable.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Wow. All right, So people are freaking out by this.
It's like, what are you doing? I go, what do
you doing? So this is what I want to talk
to you about. So the question is that a referendum
on the sideline reporter, release assaulters and her NBA cover.
So I've got bar Mitzvah, Twilight Zone and Whirley Bird,
and we'll come mind all of these things together and
(05:03):
we are going to put a Dunce cap on. That's
what we're gonna put because I mean, what are you doing?
She's been a sideline reporter since twenty five eighteen years.
He's been a sideline reporter, So this is wild Nicoleyokitchen.
Maybe I'm wrong on this, but I believe he's won
multiple MVP Awards. He has been a top three NBA
(05:25):
player in that matrix or metrics for several years, and
the lead NBA reporter who interviews the players and the
coaches and does all the stuff that kills time in
between the action. She's done sidelines for fifty percent of
the biggest games on network. Television for the past eighteen years.
(05:47):
And she said, you just heard the SoundBite that she
had not seen this guy play. Now, the Joker has
been in the NBA for eight seasons. He has played
almost six hundred New season games. He's been to five
All Star Games, He's been to five All NBA teams.
He's been a two time MVP, as we said, And
(06:08):
despite all of that, also in the Western Conference finals,
this is the man's bar mitzvah, right, it's he's now
becoming a man in Nicola jokicch finally finally getting recognized
the fact that an elite broadcaster, somebody who's on a
on a national broadcast is like, I've never seen him
(06:31):
play before. That is a bit of self incrimination. Also,
she must never watch the NBA when she's not working.
She must actually.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Hate the NBA.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
And what else did she learn? Is she just learned
that that high speed internet is better than AOL dial up?
Did she learn that? Also? Is what else that the
typewriter not quite as good as the MacBook? All right? Furthermore,
what is going on in general with this broadcast team
at the four letter? What's going on with them? So
(07:04):
they are showing a quite staggering lack of knowledge. Now,
over the years, people have said the Midwest is flyover
country and all that, but the mountain time, Mountain time
is the twilight zone. If the Midwest is flyover country,
mountain time is the twilight zone of a boondocks. Welcome
to po Dunk USA, off the beaten path, isolated in
(07:29):
a jerk water town. Picture. If you will a world
where you can dominate and have such a lack of
recognition in your sport that you are dominating that the
people paid collectively millions of dollars to broadcast your games
have willful ignorance when it comes to your ability. Now,
(07:54):
at least assaulters is I don't think she's getting millions
of dollars, but Mark Jackson's making a ton of money.
She's all. He's also part of that broadcast team. Mark
Jackson Mambor Jackson failed to vote for the Joker. He
was not even on the ballot. According to Mark Jackson,
it was a terrible mistake. I'm sure it was, yes,
because we all are very sloppy at he There's only
(08:16):
a handful of people collectively that decide the MVP awards,
So you just fill that out with some chicken scratch
and move on. But he was completely left off the ballot. Now,
Lisa Salters said, Mama, there goes that woman, hold my
beer wild. That is wild and crazy. So not only
no games in Denver, but you the Nuggets haven't popped up.
(08:38):
There's been no nugget game against any of the glamour teams.
So really, what she's saying, Lisa Salters, is I only
do games for the Warriors, Lakers, or the Celtics. That's it.
And I don't watch the NBA when I'm not working.
That's pretty much what she's saying. Now, the last thing here,
I want to pivot away a little bit because there's
(09:00):
another broadcaster who's part of this crew, not Mike Breen,
who said something rather interesting, Jeff Van Gundy. Jeff Van Gundy,
there goes that man, the disheveled former Knickerbocker coach who
has been railing against the officials. Now he got on
(09:21):
his soapbox again. If you're watching Game two on Thursday night,
in the first half of Game two, Van Gundy was rumbling,
stumbling and grumbling about the state of flopping and he said,
this is the overreaction to every time somebody falls down. Now,
(09:44):
that's why guys exaggerate and embellish their falls. They're always
trying to entice a review close quote. So Ben Gunny's
right about this. So the question is, how can the
NBA do something about it to fix what is clearly
a broken system. So I have some advice. I have
(10:07):
activated the Malar think tank. The first piece of advice
is to land the wordly bird, to stop with the
helicopter officiating, find some middle ground. There has been too
far of a push one direction. They become overprotective. Let
the game flow. Let the game flow. The pendulum has
(10:31):
swung too far into paranoia, too far into paranoia. And
it used to be back in the old days, it
used to be that you could close line a guy
and it was often a common foul, and occasionally you'd
get a technical foul, but it was often just a
common foul. The NBA has a quality control prop. It's
(10:53):
like a sputtering engine in a car that's got a
lot of miles on it. It's a little chopped to drive.
You might have a clogged fuel filter or faulty fuel pump.
Spark plugs are a little damaged and at some point
you're like, enough is enough. So if you determine a
(11:14):
player is flopping, here is the Mather Think tank advice.
I want to get your feedback on this. My advice.
You bring in a team from Broadway at the replay
facility in New York. There you bring in the experts
on acting, acting coaches, Thespian tendencies. And at the replay
(11:36):
center you will not only be going by the letter
of the law, you will be going by the letter
of the Thespian law. And if a player is deemed
to be flopping, like the flop for the Lakers, you
give the non flopping players team so the other team
would get a bonus foul shot. If a player is
(11:59):
determined to have been tanking with the flopping, then you
the other team gets a bonus foul shot. Do that
enough and we will see a metamorphosis. But the reason
everyone's flopping is because, hello, it works. It is effective.
It absolutely is effective. Now I saw David in Pennsylvania
(12:21):
Road and he immediately said that the sideline reporter should
be fired for not knowing who the joker is. Something
tells me that is not going to happen. Now we
have NBA playoff action tonight and the Boston Celtics trying
to avoid going down two at home to Miami. It
is Game two. This game opened up Celtics by nine
(12:42):
at the Garden, and at this point it is state flat.
The Celtics are a nine point favorite. The money, the
total tickets in favor of the road team. The consensus
is that's too many points. The Celtics are too inconsistent,
and that's a big number. It's nine points in a
playoff game. And so the money is on the side
(13:04):
of Jimmy Buckets in the heat to at least keep
it close, closer than nine. That this will come down
to the fourth quarter and it'll be a toss up
game in the fourth quarter. Now, the other game, which
is tomorrow on Saturday, the Nuggets and the Lakers, that's
Game three, that's must win for the Lakers, must win
(13:26):
for the Lakers, and that game opened up at four.
The overnight line has already bumped up to five and
a half at some locations in favor of the Lakers.
So they're five and a half point favors now. And
I do not have any information on the money, but
I would think it's on the Lakers, because there's been
a point and a half line move since since that
(13:49):
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Speaker 1 (14:46):
Big Panda writes and he says excellent monologue on Lisa Salters.
It is not in he says, is it is not
insanely ridiculous, but it is ridiculous to not know the
two time MVP at a sport you cover for a
but I guarantee you that she knew that. F and
cry Baby the true MVP. Joel Embiid he points out.
(15:08):
Ike in Roseville, Minnesota, says, I have a rap. I
have to wrap Regina and Doc Mike's wedding gift for
the wedding, the mock wedding Saturday at the Malor meet up. Well,
that's a good looking gift. I'm sure she'll she'll enjoy
that a lot. Maybe Doc once wants that, who knows, Well,
we'll see about that. Let's see page down, page down, London,
(15:34):
not actually in London, but London. Right since, says glad
you pointed out the lack of recognition for Nicola Jokic,
striking admission that an NBA broadcaster had never seen him
five times all NBA and enlists all the accolades there
of Nicola Jokic. All right, very good. Let's take some calls.
It is a call in show, and we will say
(15:57):
hello Enie, Meanie, Miney Moe. Let's say hello to Regina
spin Cycle, Regina and she is in Minnesota. Hello spin
Cycle Regina, Hello, and then.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
All just absolutely exhausted and I'm covered in glitter and
glue for you for me.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Really I didn't. I had no idea that I needed
glitter and glue in my life, but I but I
thank you for going the extra mile there, Regina. I
appreciate it. Yes, I love.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
I'm just letting you know.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Hey, I just.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Want everybody to still continue. Rsvpin and I thank you
for all of the responses. It's been great to having
a response that I've gotten and I'm just so looking
forward to everything that hopefully for you to experience together.
I'm looking about I got one more confirmation about another
(16:59):
musician who's coming and to open up for the other
person Mason and he is Brian Layton and he's a
really big person around here to Heaven and they and
everybody who's been like trying to get all of us
to come together and yeah, yeah, come on, he's a
big names.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Listen. I'm looking forward to Regina. I thank you for
the hostess with the most. It's gonna be a great
night is tomorrow at five pm in Minneapolis there at
the Mermaid will be hanging out at the mermaid Will
there be any mermaids there, Regina? Any?
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Wow? I didn't have a hot tub there?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Who knew?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Is there is there an after party, Virgina, bring your trunks.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Ben.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
I think I'm good, but you know it always happens.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Yes, there's there will be. It was a hotel, and
I guarantee that some fans of the show will get
together after.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
The I'm already here at the hotel.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
Look at that.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
You're already at the hotel. Well, I gotta set up
for you. You gotta stay away from Doc Mike though, Okay,
because you know do you guys are getting married on Saturday,
so you can't you know, can't spend any time before.
It's bad luck. So I won't do that. You got
the doc? All right? Well, thank you, Regina, appreciate that.
(18:18):
We'll see you on Saturday. Okay, there she goes. All right, Regina,
spend cycle with Gen. She's putting this thing together. Eddie,
there's still time, Eddie if you want to fly in there, Eddie,
come on, you can still make it Saturday night. You
got nothing else want to see you, Noah, but you
can come hang out, have a great time. You have
good food there. Eat some cheese curds, eat some poutine
or whatever, and knock yourself out.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
I'm saving myself with the so cal mallar meet and greet.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Oh is that right? You don't like to leave? You
want to go too far away? You know, get a plane,
fly anywhere, none of that.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Now, I'm going to going to New York in November.
So if anybody in that area wants to meet up.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah, all right, let's say hello to eenie meenie miney mo.
Let's say hello to a angry bill. Hello, angry Bill.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
How you doing? Guys? We got to get this er
and Judge just stop peeking into the dugout. He's peeking
in there far too often. Now we got six homers
and four games winning everything. The guy just got to
peek and peak and peek into that dugout.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
So you have to stop hitting.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Run. How's that Cody Bellinger MVP season going? Is that
going all right for the Cubs? How's he doing there?
Speaker 8 (19:27):
Who's doing all right?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Where's he had in the MVP voting? I haven't looked.
Is he's leading?
Speaker 8 (19:33):
He's leading right voting on May nineteenth. But that's that's
a real thrill, ain't it?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Well? The Dodgers are having some problems, as you said,
mister baseball over there, the Dodgers are really they had
a tough night last night. I mean they got blown
out in there. They're still running away with things in
the National League West. But you know, your baseball.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
Over there, you know you got to do me a
favor and on this weekend, spend a little time with
Doc might in a Euroinale. You and he can teach
a couple of things.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, are you gonna show up there?
You to make an appearance? Angry rebellion? Drive away.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
I wouldn't start.
Speaker 8 (20:09):
I wouldn't go to Minnesota if you paid me and
had three women there for me. Yes, Minnesota is the
butthole in the world.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Is that right? I thought? I thought that was Nutley,
New Jersey, where you were born. I thought that's where
you get out of here. We're done with you, all right,
I'll move. Let's go to Chris in the Commonwealth. Hello, Chris,
you are next up. It is the Ben Malors Show
on Fox. Hello Christopher going and.
Speaker 9 (20:33):
Ben, hopefully you can hear me. Okay, I'm driving into work.
Of course, is always listening, Ben, I got a couple
of things for you.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
First, there's a lot.
Speaker 9 (20:43):
Going on here in the Commonwealth. We got Janet Jackson
at the X Space Center, we got Taylor Swift at
Joel and we playing tonight where you know, I believe
it was Jason cam that apologized to Janet Jackson because
of you know, they had a move saying if Jason
Tatum does not show up, I can't. I am gonna
(21:07):
just drive off the Tobin Bridge. Okay, I'm just gonna
jump jump off it because I'm tired of his up
and down show up, feel like not showing up, not
showing off because I lost my bruins. I don't have
my bruins. You got the Florida Panthers playing the Carolina parcse.
I mean, I'm telling you, I think Garry Pedman must
(21:29):
be like the guy that the Boarding and Shawshank Redemption,
Like at the end of the movie when he's like,
what the bulls, He's like, the last thing I remember,
I hope the last thing I remember when the bull
goes to his brain. How the hell did the Carolina
Panthers in Florida.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
You know what I'm saying, You're.
Speaker 10 (21:50):
Having a breakdown, said you sound like me in October
Man relaxed.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Ye, listen, Tatum will be fine in this game, and
the celt So likely win the game. Then then he'll
go and ride the vomit comment in game three, So
tonight you should play very well. Maybe the Celtics will
actually play defense for four quarters. That would be something different.
Speaker 9 (22:12):
Doesn't like defense, he says, throw up three. You should
hear his comments of the game. It's like, hey, what
happened in the third in the third quarter, Well, we
just didn't score it. Yeah we didn't.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Oh, I saw I saw that. Yeah, they asked him
about the defense, and yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:30):
You can't take it because the socks.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
Oh I need.
Speaker 9 (22:35):
For give me the football season.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Well, you know you did. You did have twenty You
did have twenty years. We had nothing to worry about.
So yeah, you're due for a bit of a drought here.
Yeah you got it all right, thank you. You gotta
live like the rest of us here with crapola all
over the place.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Well, the Red Sox are surprisingly better than I thought
they would be. Well, story like you say.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah, they are also in last place, so well.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
It's a good division.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Yeah, they're bringing up the rear. Anyway, it is the
band Malors Show. As the good news is the A
Holes are not leading the American League West.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
And I used to have Fenway Park.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
So yeah, yeah they have that. But it's expensive. It's expensive.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's true baseball. It's somewhat more expensive now.
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
And if I'm not mistake, let me check my wild card.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Standing here one game out.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
The A Holes are the Yeah, they're half a game
out of the wild card.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
It says here, I thought you were about the Red Sox.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I don't care about the rest about the Astros, don't.
The Red Sox are fine, but the A Holes are
half you know. So if the season in today, the
A Holes would not be in the playoffs. So that's
that's good.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
They'll be in there.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
No, they won't. It is the band. But by the way,
we you know, we don't do shoutouts that we do
not do shout outs, so you said, be wrong. So
I will not tell Kathy and Madison to feel better.
Kathy had the COVID, which is you know, people get it,
but she's older, so it could be a that's her
(24:13):
right there, But I think she's doing okay, because she's
tweeting the show, so I think she's doing all right.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 11 (24:27):
Hey, I'm Doug Gottlieb. The podcast is called All Ball.
We usually talk all basketball all the time, but it's
more about the stories about what made these people love
their sport and all the interesting interactions along the way.
We talked to coaches, we talked to players, We tell
you stories. You download it, you listen to it.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
I think you like it.
Speaker 11 (24:48):
Listen to All Ball with Doug Gottlieb on the iHeartRadio app,
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
My fun Factor the Hour. Remember that blow up between
Jimmy Butler and Eric Spolstra. We ranted about that. It
was a little over a year ago. They were at
Loggerheads there and Jimmy Butler I think wanted to decapitate
Eric Spolstra. I might be wrong on that. Maybe he
just wanted to punch him in the gut. But either way,
(25:19):
since that point in time, I saw this fun fact.
I said, boy, that's really fun. That's a fun fact.
There have been thirteen head coaches that have lost their
job since Jimmy Butler got into it with Eric Spolstra.
But they're still side by side and having a fine
(25:40):
time living LaVita Loca, living the fine life, living the
good life there together. And at that night, boy, that
was a wild night. They did not like each other
at all.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
But was that the one where you Donnis Haslam was
getting into.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
It too, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the same one. And
bad news for Kooper Loop and Roberto's Lakers. All time
NBA teams that have lost the first two games of
the conference finals when they trailed two games to none,
it has happened now so far sixty two times in
the history of the NBA, and the team that was
(26:17):
trailing won six of the sixty two.
Speaker 10 (26:22):
So well, I'll tell you one good I'll tell you
one good thing, Ben, is that stats tell you what
has happened, not what.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Okay, the Clipperds suck and they.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Calm down, Calm down, Cowboys, calm down, calm down. Don't worry.
Anthony Davis can go have a pool party with Kawhi
Leonard in another week here when the Lakers are eliminated,
they can watch the Nuggets and whoever in the NBA finals.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Well, let's get you know what, you know what else?
I like, Ben, I just want to play this.
Speaker 8 (26:59):
Don't you.
Speaker 10 (27:03):
Ask how you always talk about how the bubble is
like the weakest thing.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
And like, yes, it's fake exactly.
Speaker 10 (27:09):
But it's the same four teams the conference finals.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
The is the weakest of all the.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Was that so so?
Speaker 10 (27:16):
Now the same four teams that were at the you know,
in the conference finals in the bubble are back in
the conference finals.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
They're different teams now they are. There's these things called trades.
I'll teach you about them, really really.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
The who are the leaders? Who are the leaders on
the Lakers?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
The rosters different?
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Who are the leaders on the Celtics? Who are the
leaders on the Nuggets? They're all the same ones.
Speaker 10 (27:38):
Joe Gets, Marie Tatum Brown.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
I'm not using the argument. I'm not losing the argument.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Who is who's the coach of the Lakers? Is it
Frank Vogels? He's still the coach.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
The coach doesn't matter. Who's the Celtics coach doesn't matter?
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Oh wait, let me know all.
Speaker 10 (27:55):
The time that the coach doesn't matter. All of a sudden,
coaching is.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
There not the same Cooper loop. They're not the same,
so the coach doesn't do anything. If they were the same,
I would say, you know what, you're right, But they're
not the same. The rosters different, the coaches for a
lot of these teams are different. It's not the same.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
The argument exactly, you're fighting your own points.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
No, I'm not fighting my own points. Anybody that knows
basketball knows playing at a resort after five months off
in Florida is not It's the easiest of all time.
And we're seeing the Lakers now having to go to
Denver and play on the road, and they've lost the
first two games and all that stuff, and they're gonna
lose the series in five games. That's it, because they
can't handle the travel and all that.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Lebron looks go the bubble.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
He didn't look old at the bubble. I know that
all right. Now. We have no time.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
It was three years ago.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
We have no time for the coops. You've now wasted
all the time.
Speaker 10 (28:46):
Sure we do now, well, well, we'll skip balderdash.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
You don't want to hear about what what Coop thinks
about the Little Mermaid movie.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
That's not fair.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
That's not the only Mermaid I care of is the
Mermaid on Saturday night, Eddie that I'll be hanging out
at in Miny Apps because that's the place to be.
That's where all the cool people are.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
And we've got all kinds of time for Kop Scoop,
let's do it, play the music or bro.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I don't need to do it right. I get in
trouble and then you know, you guys don't get the calls.
I get that's the problem.
Speaker 10 (29:18):
The problem is this, Once I finished, Coopscoop, you're gonna
tell a story for another two minutes.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Well it's people like story, love story.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
All right.
Speaker 10 (29:27):
Coming out this weekend in theaters. Get ready for it.
It's another Fast in the movie. We've got Fast X
coming in theaters.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I'm great. I think this is supposed to be the
last one.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Another generation that people seeing these movies and then driving
like daredevils can't wait for.
Speaker 10 (29:45):
Yes, this one. This one has Jason Momoa, so that's cool,
I guess. Yeah, Jason Momoa and then all the all
the characters from from episodes, nast the actors from the
Nissan commercials. Also, he has Brie Larsen. Yeah, she is
she is fantastic. Also, we're going over to television now
(30:05):
and this is available right now, I believe on Hulu.
Let me let me double check to make sure I'm
telling you the right place. I can't type correctly.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
I'm hearing a lot of sound sound.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Well, there we go. Well I can't find it. But
white Man, white Man can't jump. Yes. The the remake
god awful looks.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Those remakes always go well.
Speaker 10 (30:28):
Yes, And that is starring Jack Harlow in the Woody
Harrelson role. If you don't know who that is, that's
a a white rapper, Jack Harlow.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Jack Harlow, Yes, racist.
Speaker 10 (30:41):
And yeah, so then we're moving on to other We
have a we have a new This one's on Disney
Plus and it is a it's a kind of a
it's an adaptation of a graphic novel. It's called American
Born Chinese. This is getting really good reviews. This debut
is on Wednesday, and it reunites all of the stars
of everything everywhere, all at once. The winner of Best
(31:03):
Picture and.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Yeah, that's that was on Wednesday.
Speaker 10 (31:08):
It's a different story, a totally different thing, but all
the same actors from that movie.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
I just I guess you know they stick together.
Speaker 10 (31:16):
But basically it follows a high school student who's encounter
with a new exchange student finds him in a war
between Chinese mythical gods mythological gods. Yes, and then, last,
but not least, on Apple TV Plus, we have a
new comedy. This one's getting great reviews. It's called Platonic
and it Reunited. It reunites co stars from the movie Neighbors,
(31:42):
Rose Byrne and Seth Rogan who are old friends who
reunite for a platonic friendship and becomes increasingly all consuming.
That is on Apple TV Plus on Wednesday. And that
is Coop Scoop on entertainment.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Okay, no story, We'll have Bald Dash now.
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Speaker 6 (32:15):
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(32:36):
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Speaker 5 (32:38):
And now it's just what you've been waiting for. It's
Ben's balder dash.
Speaker 8 (32:44):
What the hell is this?
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Formerly known as something we're not allowed to say? Fort it?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Eh? Oh, way we go, it's balder s. We're gonna
heart our contestants, our contestants right now for baldesh programming. Note,
we'll have a fresh edition of the Fifth Hour podcast today,
a spin off of the show and the first ever
podcast dedicated to chronic hiccups. Yeah, we talked about Bo Jackson.
(33:11):
We told you that story. Bo's got chronic hiccups, and
I was trying to figure out what what exactly how
common that isn't all anyway, It's about the Bo Jackson story.
It'll be on the Fifth Hour today. But let's play
balder dash right now. We welcome in Kevin in Tampa.
Hello Kevin, good morning, Ben. Happy Friday, Yes, happy Friday
(33:35):
to you. The big weekend is upon us and we
say hello. Also, you're gonna be going against Manuel in Guardina. Hello, Manuel, Benny,
what is up?
Speaker 8 (33:45):
I'm looking to receep LA over Tampa, just like we
did in twenty twinya the COVID.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Here right, maybe or not? We got the chips you okay,
you might get the win here, Manuel, but the Lakers
did not. Here we go, let's see what happened. Good luck,
good luck on that. We have alumnia association and thanks
for the memories. Which category shall we go with here?
Speaker 8 (34:16):
Alumni association?
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Okay, Alumni association, your name is your buzzer. I'll tell
you the athlete. Tell me the college they attended. Famous athletes.
College they attended for two hundred dollars. He's a quarterback
for the Jets. Now Aaron Rodgers who was in first coup.
I think that was Kevin cal That is correct, Kevin,
you got that one right, four hundred dollars. Alumni Association.
(34:40):
I will name the athlete. Tell me the college they attended.
That was a big rock star for a couple of years,
played for the Cleveland Browns. Johnny Manzell Kevin, that is correct,
Kevin's two for two. And Alumni Association, I will tell
you the athlete, tell me where they went to college.
Hall of Fame safety in the NFL, John Lynch Manuel.
(35:07):
They were tied up, just like that, we're tied up.
I'll give you the athlete. Tell me the cause they
went to for eight hundred dollars. That was a star
for the Knickerbockers back in the eighties. Mark Jackson, Manuel
st John's Yeah, and Manuell takes the lead Alumni Association
(35:27):
for one thousand dollars. One of the key gritty role
players for the San Antonio Spurs Bruce Bowen, Bruce Manuel.
Speaker 8 (35:38):
You see Canna Barbara.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
No, that is incorrect, Kevin. No answer from Kevin. No,
I don't know. No, no use of lifeline either, fair enough, Okay,
the answer we were looking for, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (35:58):
Do you know where Bruce hel State bulletin?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Yeah, he was a Titan buller Ba. Yes, that is
not known for basketball. They played a high Yes, right, Okay,
here we go. Category two. Thanks for the memories. These
MVPs were traded by the team they won the award
with This foreign born Hall of Famers spent seventeen seasons
with his team, winning two championships and making twelve All
(36:23):
Star teams. Before he was unceremoniously traded to the Toronto
Raptors and a summon Manuel.
Speaker 8 (36:31):
Hawhi Leonard.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
No, no, you want to Kevin. No, not a basketball guy.
Speaker 8 (36:41):
It was.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Keem Elijahwani four hundred dollars. This This player, along with
John Carlos Stanton, are the only MLB players ever to
be traded in the offseason. After being honored as MVP,
he is now part owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves. Anybody
Manuell Roder, Yes, a Rod, but I don't think that's enough.
(37:04):
I believe correct, Coop, Yes, Kevin Wins.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Sashally Tie.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Got a murder.
Speaker 8 (37:17):
I gotta go
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