Hour 2 - The King's Decree

Ben Maller talks about LeBron James saying "there's no room for error" against the Nuggets, the Miami Heat fans being called out for being front-runners, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our num Ber two hour two
ready to go, and Lebron James has some explaining to
do the Lakers losing over the weekend in Denver. Lebron
says there's quote no room for error against the Nuggets.
How do you decode this? We'll discuss that. Also over

(00:21):
the weekend, Michael Wilbon and Kendrick Perkins called out Miami
fans for being front runners. What do you make of that?
And why do all these NBA broadcasters continue to say
a comeback is right around the corner. We had so
many blowouts this weekend and all the broadcasters like, oh no,
we could see it comeback. Stranger things have happened. We'll

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talk about that and more right now here. It is
our number two, the King's Decree. Welcome, in the beginning
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in depth team coverage, but I lead this hour from
Pro Bouncy Ball in depth coverage of the opening weekend
of the n b A postseason. And this hour we're
gonna start out in Denver. Now we're gonna go back
to Saturday after the Lakers Game one loss. Some of

(02:29):
you got suckered in. You thought, hey, pretty well in
the first half, I got a chance to win this game,
and then they had to play the second half, well
specifically the third quarter when the trap door opened up
and things went sideways. But Lebron James gave a State
of the Union style address following the Lakers defeat against
the Nuggets. And if you didn't see this, and maybe not,

(02:50):
Lebron declared, I'll give you the money quote. He said,
we know we just don't have much room for error
versus a Denver team, he said. He talk about the
Nuggets and he says, you got to execute, got to
make shots, you've got to defense. So let us discuss
the question Lebron James the money quote. Lebron's saying that

(03:10):
there is no room for error. That's his quote there
against the Nuggets. How do you decode the commentary by Lebron?
So I've got zig zag, maintenance and indoctrinated, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a six pack of wings. Chicken wings,

(03:31):
which is what the Laker players can be eating when
they watch the Nuggets in the next round of the playoffs.
They can go out to a nice restaurant and need
some some chicken wings, possibly some pretzels soft pretzel. I
recommend the soft pretzel so number one, Yes, things broken,

(03:52):
things broken, all right, So Lebron James, we know what
Lebron's doing, all right. Now to the to the untar, WHOA,
there's nothing Lebron said. That's a benign comment by Lebron,
saying there's no room for error. But Lebron is using
his old, time tested playbook. He is. The Lakers played

(04:13):
as well as possible and still ended up disemboweled by Denver.
Lebron knows it. Everyone in that locker room knows it.
They can't play any better than that, and a got
smoked in the third quarter by by Denver. And so
Lebron realizing the end game, he knows what the endgame

(04:35):
on this is for the Lakers. They're gonna be eliminated
by the Nuggets in the first Nune. Of the players,
Lebron he hadn't won a championship as a Laker yet,
hasn't won anything as a Laker, an abject failure in
LA and he's gonna get knocked out in the first
round of the playoffs now. And so Lebron's doing the
groundwork here the old zigzag, the misdirection play by Lebron

(04:58):
James to the untrained ear. Not to the untrained to hear,
it sounds like he's complimenting the Kola jokicch and the Nuggets,
saying nice things. Do you have to play perfect? It's
really camouflage, though it's camo. It's camouflaged, and it's a
shot at his own locker room. Lebron. See this is

(05:20):
Lebron's like a ninja. How he does it? He takes
a shot at his own guys. Well, it sounds like
he's just praising you other team, and dumb fans are like, oh,
I don't understand what that's about. It's just you're reading
too much into this. I know I'm not. So when
the Lakers inevitably lose, Lebron can say, oh, it ain't
my fault. I mean, we just don't have a good
enough team because my teammates blow and the ones that

(05:42):
don't blow, they suck, and so that's the problem. Lebron
would appreciate it if you I'm talking about you, not
the person behind you. I'm talking to you. If you
have amnesia when it comes to him allowing the Kola
jokicic to run right past me. There's one play late
in the game Lakers and Nuggets when lebron allowed Jokic

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to sprint past them while Anthony Davis was gassed and
he had his hands on his knees and couldn't make
it past half court in the fourth quarter. And the
altitude thing, I don't buy is an excuse. And the
reason I don't buy it is my entire life. I've
heard broadcasters talk about how it's impossible to win in Denver,

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and yet I only recall the Broncos winning a few
in the Avalanche, you know, once in a while. The Nuggets,
but it's not like they win every year. They don't.
It's not like they're in the championship round every year,
but they have this altitude advantage and all that. I
don't buy it. All right, Patter, we heading out of
South Beach. This is by request from a consumer of

(06:49):
this show in South Florida who was very upset because
over the weekend, Michael Wilbon, I'm told that's a commentator,
and Kendrick Perkins, who were told that's a former player,
called out the Miami fan. So the Heat played the
playing championship game. If it's called that, I don't know
what it's called. It's stupid. I didn't watch it, but

(07:11):
apparently they very upset with the lack of attendance, the
lack of passion from the Miami fan, and they called
the Heat fans. This is talking about Kendrick Perkins and
Michael Wilbon. They called the Heat fans front runners. So
what do you make of that? What do you make
of the front runner statement? So I'm going to defend

(07:36):
the Heat backer, Okay. And I think that's part of
the reason that I got sent this this email, because
this guy knows he's a listener to the show, and
he knows my position on this, and I've been very
consistent about it. The Heat fan and I did not
see the game on Friday. From what I was reading
about it, they were not a lot of people. There

(07:56):
are a lot of empty seats. People were not that
into it. Fine, but I look at the Miami fan.
They're not cheap, they're not suckers. It's all about the maintenance.
They're high maintenance. They're a high maintenance fanbase. But I
don't think that's a bad thing. Other people look down
upon the Heat fans. Oh it's a bad fan, it's
a bad fan. But I look at it like no,

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that's the way it ought to be. They have expensive
taste and they're not easily entertained. There's a lot of rubes,
a lot of dumb people that just blindly support teams
and they get taken advantage of. They're called suckers. Miami
is not quite like that. They don't operate that way,

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and they got plenty of distractions in South Florida, and
the NBA is just one of the entertainment options that
you have. You're not beholden to fill up the arena,
right if you don't feel like it, if it doesn't
have enough juice to you to your taste, you don't
have to go. And so don't be a sucker. That's

(09:00):
the lesson. They're not suckers, and you need to provide
a little extra to get the Miami fan excited, and
that's fine. These sports teams have been gouging fans, not
just in Miami but everywhere for generations. It's like how
high can you go? It's like going to Disneyland to

(09:21):
go to a sporting event in most places. So it's
not like they're looking out for you, right, They're not
exactly looking out for you there. That's not happening, So hey,
good for the heat fan. If they want to stay
home or go somewhere else and spend their entertainment dollars
somewhere else, I'm fine with that. And I don't see
why Michael Wilbond or Kendrick Perkins would care. It's not

(09:43):
their money. They go to those games for free. What
do they care they were paying for tickets. When's the
last time they paid for tickets?

Speaker 2 (09:50):
All?

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Right? Final point? So we saw a bunch of routes
or roots in the NBA playoffs. In if you put
a basket of blowouts on one side and a basket
of competitive games on the other, the basket of blowouts,
you'd have to get a second bag for the basket
because it's completely full. The Thunder and Pelicans game was

(10:15):
a close game, but I can't talk about that game
because nobody cares about nationally those teams. We do broadcasting,
not narrowcasting. And if I sit here and do a
Thunder Pelicans monologue, they're gonna come in here with baseball
bats and they're gonna bludge me. So I'm not gonna
do that. The Bucks, Clippers, and Celtics all built up
massive leads. Were never threatened. Clippers twenty nine point lead.

(10:38):
I believe the Bucks thirty Celtics thirty four points a
domination situation, as these opponents were completely flummoxed. But I
want to see if you notice what I noticed because
watching these games this weekend, I noticed that despite the
games clearly being lopsided competitive at all, all of those

(11:02):
games had announcers to varying degrees who attempted to make
it seem like the unthinkable, the unimaginable rally was going
to take place, that the Pacers were going to come
back against the box even though Dame Lillard was going
gaga in the first half, and the mad Recks were

(11:23):
going to come back in the second half and watch
out there. This could be the greatest comeback of all
the time. But now the heat maybe not as much,
but still you got that vibe. So the question why
to these NBA broadcasters, universally, universe across the board advertised
big comeback on the horizon, Big comeback on the horizon.

(11:47):
So they have all been here's my theory, They've all
been indoctrinated. They went to the clown College of Sportscasting.
It's the same dogma it's the same. They keep repeating it, Oh,
you gotta want you can't turn it off, And as
somebody that is in the business, I understand how it works.
Right in this case, they're treating the people watching the

(12:10):
game as blithering idiots that, oh, no, this is gonna
be the day, this is going to be the day
there's a comeback, because they're trying to keep the audience.
It's obviously we know that they're paranoid about losing viewers,
and I understand it's easier to keep the audience that
you have then artificially generate a new audience. It's like

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in our business we talk about TSL time spent listening
in audio, and it's time spent watching if you will,
on television. But it's pretty difficult to get people to
turn on a blowout and get them engaged in all that,
And so they sell FuMO fear of missing out. You
cannot turn the game off just in case the historical

(12:52):
comeback happens, you will be so upset. It's manure. It
is fresh laid manure. That's what it is. Right. You
can if you go back and look when it goes
team goes up by thirty point twenty nine to thirty points.
In the history of the NBA, comebacks like that have
only happened a handful of times, and it usually happens

(13:14):
once or twice a generation. It does not happen most
ninety nine percent of the time, it doesn't happen. So
if you're gonna watch for the one percent, you're a loser. Okay,
go get a life, go out, go outside, get some
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Speaker 1 (15:08):
A basketball heavy maland monologue. To start hour two, the
KC car Haller writes and says, not only do they
all imply that a comeback is in the making, they
all use the same line, no lead is safe in
the NBA. Yeah, even though almost ninety nine of thirty

(15:29):
point leads are safe in the NBA. But yeah, Fargo
Pete says, maybe Lebron's next excuse about why they think
so bad can be that everyone in the team was
trying to sneak in their daily fourteen farts. Well, good message,
good memory, Fargo Pete, that's our fun fact from last week. Yeah,
the average human being farts a minimum fourteen times, So

(15:52):
when you're watching a game, there's a good chance that
several players are farting while they're on the court. Absolutely,
Matthew Raider, former a's fans is I disagree. It's a
shot at his locker room. It's a coded message to
the officials that the Lakers are going to need a
lot more than nineteen to six three throw attempt advantage

(16:13):
they had in Game one.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, Did I see the stat over the weekend? I
think I think I saw somewhere that the Nuggets sets
the fewest foul shots attempted in a win in the playoffs?
Is that all time? I think I saw that over
the over the weekend, But I saw a lot of
random statistics, so maybe it maybe my mind has that.
But the Denver Nuggets only got to the line six times.

(16:40):
They made five of them. But here's the thing. Maybe
it was the second half, because in the second half,
the Denver Nuggets shot as many foul shots as I
shot and you shot, and the entire Fox Sports Radio
overnight team shot zero, zip o none. Let's called the phones,
Andrey is in the Commonwealth. He's back. Andre has returned.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
Hello, Andre, good evening, Bennett. It's good to be back.
And in terms of Denver Nuggets, it's tough to shoot
free throws when the balls going to the basket and their
offense led by the joker but also Jamal.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
The Lakers are a perfect team. They don't foul. That's
that's clearly the thing. In the eyes of John Goebel, Mitchell, Irvin,
Nick Booker, I don't even know who these people. These
are the officials I could I used to name, I
used to be able to name like half the officials
in the NBA. I have no idea who these people are.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
No, you got Tony Brothers. Everybody knows Scott Foster. Scott Foster.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Probably they never well Scott, that's that's Tim Donnie's buddy.
Scott Foster.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Another referee whose name goes down in infamy. But no, Denver,
I just think you know you noted that. You know,
when Nicola Jokics to make a rim run and run
past the likes of Lebron Daves, of Lebron James, Anthony
Davis and the rest of the whole Lakers teams, you know,
it just shows you that your team is gased. Uh
And Denver's a pacing space team. They're moving around and

(18:06):
the Lakers just kind of ran out again. You know,
they were winning in the first half. But I just
think Denver has their number. Is the bottom line, the
Lakers when Denver's not intimidated by them, all the star
power on pay. And that's the whole story of the
Lakers written large. And let's kind of duvetail to where
the show began. You're talking about the Clippers and the

(18:27):
Mavericks and what's going on, Ben. We need more respect
on Luca Donci's name, all right. The one to one.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Compared I competitor at the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys,
Dak Prescott. A lot of empty stats. This is the
third time the Clippers and Mavericks have played in the playoffs.
In recent years, I've seen a lot of playoff, Luca
a lot of empty calories there.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
There was no empty empty calories in the bubble when
Luca lit the whole dog on Team Up. And the
situation hasn't changed to date.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
Because he doesn't who won that series for I forget
who won that.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yeah, the Clippers won that series. And then they were
up three to one against the Denver Nuggets when they
should have got a championship in the bubble and they
allowed that lead.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
I'm glad they did. I want the Clippers to have
a legitimate championship, not a fake, bogus one. I want
a legitimate championship. They will get that this year.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
Well, you know, who knows what happened with Kawhi. But Ben,
I got to, you know, push back a little bit
on where you began the show. First of all, the
Clippers respect the tylu and respect the organizational strength much
more than one player. And quiet you know, I lost.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
Stop Kawhi letters the franchise. Stop come on. The reason
they traded for James Sartans because they Knewkawhi would break down.
That's a different conversation. But don't tell me you expected
the Clippers to win without Kawhi Landery.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Come on, I had I had full confidence. That's my
overarching point is that they have a strong organization and
it's Luca against the world. I ree Irving is not
a reliable h.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
Well, Kyrie was putting up empty stats also when they
were down twenty nine. Then he had twenty five points
the rest of the game, down twenty nine. Good way
to go, Kyrie, Good job by you.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
Because the entire team is based on offense driving, the
team isn't built to win.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
Bill that we can agree on that they are one
trick team. That's all they do, and not Luca's fought.

Speaker 6 (20:10):
So with Luca, what are.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
You saying they're built around loop? That's the way Luca plays.
You listen, when Luca and Kyrie are out there defensive,
they better score every time down because defensively, it's three.
It's three on deep. Assuming the other guys on the
Mavericks play defense, it's three against five, and you'll have
five offensive players versus three defensive players. And then Kyrie
taking his time. You know, sometimes he'll play defense off

(20:34):
the times you want. And Luca never plays defense.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
Okay, but he's a legitimate superstar. You compare him with
Joe Burrow, not somebody like Dak Prescott, And if Mavericks
know what they're freaking doing, they would maximize Joe Burrow
account like that. I he was sincinnati a.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's a he's a great offensive.
But there's a bunch of you know what a friend
of mine pointed out, he's like Antoine Walker, Antoine, that
might be before your time. I don't know Antwine Walker,
great off. It's a player, no defense, no defense.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Compaired, Luca Doncion said. Somebody who burned through one hundred
million dollars I'm.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Gonna telling you about it was our financial advisor. I
don't know its finances. I have no idea. I gotta
go on.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Paris to Larry Bird knocked freaking Antoline Walker or Dak fred.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
Got anybody else? I thank you. Let's say hello to
Jeff Wrongs again, idiot who's in Louisville. Hello, Jeff, what's
going on? Jeff?

Speaker 7 (21:27):
Hey?

Speaker 6 (21:27):
Big?

Speaker 7 (21:27):
Being good to hear it from you.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Man, Well, thank you. I called you up. I wanted
I wanted to talk. It's been a while since we talked,
so I wanted to call you up here.

Speaker 7 (21:35):
You're right, I love, he said to humor. Manu No.
I had this thought on baseball. When anybody that subs
a needy professional sport, they don't get to come in
and warm up like a shooting guard. He doesn't get
to come in and shoot three or four jumpshots. Why
it would speed the game up. It's a pitcher, he's
already warmed up in the bullpen. Just comes in and

(21:56):
he's ready. Why does he get eight or on pitches.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
It's a great idea. I like this. Actually it's so stupid.
I like it. It's wonderful. They'll argue it's for safety.
They'll argue it's for safety reasons, Jeff, But I agree
with you, Like, if I'm a pinch shitter, shouldn't I
get a couple of swings in the baddest box before
I the real it bad begins.

Speaker 7 (22:13):
They don't do that, right, how's that safety issues? If
you're warming up on a mound in the bullpen, this's
is identical to the one on the field, Well.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
They'll claim it's not identical in the mound, and you know,
when the game's going on, the mound gets worn out.
On the field, the pit the actual pitching mound as
opposed to the bullpens. They get worn out and so
they're not it's not the same, and you need a
couple of pitches to kind of get your bearings underneath you.
But hey, that's a that's rob. I could see my
rob Man fraud getting rid of the warm up pitches.
They hate the warm up pitches as it is right now.

(22:44):
I could see that. That's a very random thought. Jeff,
that's a non sequitor. But I'm glad that you called
with your non sequitor.

Speaker 7 (22:50):
I like that. I do think your clippers are going
to make it the finals. Lose Boston, by the way.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
I'll listen, I'll take I'll take a trip to the finals.
They've already been to the final once recently. I'll take
a trip back. All right, thank you, all right, I
gotta go. There's a Jeff from the home of the
Louisville Slugger. It's down the road there. That is, there's
other bats that people use. Back in the day when
when I was a kid, it was like Louisville Slugger.
That was the bat, that was the go to bat.

(23:17):
Got to have that Louisville Slugger. That's the way to go.

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Speaker 5 (23:25):
Did you see in that Dodger is victory Shotani hit
a home run, a milestone dinger for Otani.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
Did you know the second of that game?

Speaker 5 (23:35):
That's a Dodger fan.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
I was watching basketball Dodger fan Clipper's game was going
on the same time.

Speaker 5 (23:39):
Otani with that home run, now the all time leading
home run hitter in Major League Baseball for a Japanese
born player. He passed.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Uh oh, the guy likes the porn with the Yankees. Yeah,
uh hit Deci, Matsui, god Zilla, Lorena. This guy dec
Sue had the most prolific porn collection back when you
before the internet or so, we were impressive. Yeah, like
the every VHS, d v D you could possibly have.
They come out, By the way, who spilled the beans
on that, That's a good question. I think it was

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the one of the tabloids in New York.

Speaker 8 (24:12):
I think I just imagine this huge library of pornography vault.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
I would say, you know, yeah, much easier safe.

Speaker 9 (24:20):
It's got to be bigger than a safe.

Speaker 5 (24:22):
No, but like a walking and safe like a like
a bank would have you know wheels, you gotta spin.

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become the first major League Baseball team in really the
modern era to trail at any point in each of
their first twenty two games in a season. You've got
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(26:02):
saw a team that was this putred, this this fertilizer
that the Rockies are this year, the Washington Senators in
nineteen fifty seven trailed in the first thirty two games.
So congratulations of the Colorado Rockies, a special group of losers.
You guys have trailed in every game so far this season.

(26:25):
Even hollering James thinks that's impressive. Hello, hollering James in Minneapolis,
minnesot Dah.

Speaker 6 (26:32):
Hey Ben, Oh you an apology? But guess why.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
Show? Oh yeah, James, is true? You got somebody told
me you got banned on a satellite radio show.

Speaker 6 (26:42):
Is that true that something happened? I don't know, I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
What are you cheating on, James? I mean, I thought,
you know, I thought you you're more loyal to Tammy.
What about us? You're cheating on this show? You've got
other lovers out there. You're you're you know what you are.
You're a sports talk radio jigglow.

Speaker 7 (26:58):
That's what you are cheating.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
I want to know, Lorena.

Speaker 6 (27:04):
I mean, Tammy's got the best legs?

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Are you calm down? You don't have to mention Tammy
every time you call Tammy got some nice legs? Yeah,
all right, listen, hollering James, what are you doing here?
You're cheating on this show. You you're our friend. We
allow you because you're in Minneapolis. They're in Minnesota to
call the station there locally, but you call us. We're
the national show.

Speaker 6 (27:27):
You call, I have to call you the national show.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
But you're the only show I didn't get man use.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
Nobody else I'll allow you on. Nobody else will put
you on anymore.

Speaker 6 (27:37):
You have to put me on. Come on, you don't
have the worst color of the year. I have to
steal that title. You should have not give me just
a benny. You should have named me the worst color
of the year.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
She would like the title the Uh, well, well we
were still alive. We can't give you the title, James.
We want you to slip it for many, many more years.
Hollering James, I know, but you know bad my call.
Your calls do suck. You're terrible. But here's the thing.
We love you, and so we put up in your
god off of phone calls because you're a friend of
ours and I've met you and we've had a meal together,

(28:09):
so you're a friend. So I put up with these
terrible phone calls.

Speaker 6 (28:13):
Another the Timber phone clubs, Jess, what what do you
think about timber Wolves? Now my timber puppies. I got
a timber Wolves jersey, I mean T shirt. When they're
playing the Lakers in the Championship League that the keeping
coren wow.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
I was as he was at those games. I'm so old.
I was at those those games when Sam Cassell and
Kevin Garnett we were this close but not quite a.

Speaker 6 (28:37):
Cell and Kevin Garnett. I can even name a few
of the Laker players. It was mar ONEm Mark, Mattson, Schill, O'Neill,
Kobe Bryant. It was a wonderful Kobe Bryant.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
And uh is it true? Not James? You haven't you
now have a cell phone? Is that true?

Speaker 6 (28:56):
If there's a cell phone take down, he's got my number.
I called the station. You gotta have color idea my number.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
I don't Sorry, you don't even know your own number.

Speaker 6 (29:05):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
How do you not know your own number? I just
got it today, all right, But you should be able
to figure out your number.

Speaker 6 (29:13):
There. I mean that I can't figure out my number.
I'm too stupid in the literary that's like, that's.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
The beauty of you, that you have no concept of
even getting your own fun. But that's what we love
about you.

Speaker 6 (29:23):
I haven't get my own phone. It was long over two,
and I'm glad to him. He's proudably she heard me.
Got you stay mad at me?

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah, all right, I gotta I gotta go. Thank you though,
all right, go away. So before the show, I was
sitting in the back there preparing doing some final notes,
and then to say you came in there, and then
Lorena came in and you were saying something about a cockerroach. Right,
what were you? You were telling me a story about
a cockerroach in the hallwayr daddy cockroach.

Speaker 9 (29:52):
Yeah, yeah, he's dead in the hallway.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Yeah I saw that. Now do you think you did
see him? I did, well. I was walking. I thought
that's the scene of the crime. Did you kill him?
You did not just dropped in hold on a sec.
I'm a little concerned that I might have accidentally killed
the cockroach.

Speaker 9 (30:07):
What do you mean?

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Because I walked in there before because I thought maybe
i'd sit in that our old studio. I thought I
would sit in there and maybe prepare you know, in there.
But I walked right My foot landed right there, and
I don't remember the cockroach being there. But maybe it
like crawled under my foot and I killed it and
then it flipped over trying to survive and it died.

Speaker 9 (30:28):
It might have that actually would be a really do
you feel bad?

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Not at all? But here's the thing. Let me so,
should we give the cockroach a burial at sea? Or
do we let it? Do we leave it for the
cleaning crew? So they realized there's an infestation of cockroaches
in the building.

Speaker 9 (30:44):
I think they know now.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
They don't know because these things don't come out during
the daily range. They only come out at night.

Speaker 9 (30:50):
I was telling Cooper should put it in a little sea.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
Through box, oh, like as a souvenir. Yes, And they don't.
They don't degrade.

Speaker 8 (30:57):
No, I can't see how long it takes for it
to turn white like the ones in the window.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
Are they white?

Speaker 9 (31:02):
They're see through?

Speaker 8 (31:03):
They're like, yeah, like the shell has completely gone in sea.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
The skin of the cockroach is still Yeah.

Speaker 9 (31:09):
It's all still there. Yeah, like the outline. Uh huh.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
No, I read that that's an urban legend that cockroaches
do not actually survive a nuclear blast. They don't. That's
that's fake, even though we've all heard that that's not true.

Speaker 7 (31:20):
Huh.

Speaker 8 (31:20):
I feel like they could just squeeze in places and
they don't have to, you know, they're just all over
the walls. Yes, percent, if we go tear off a panel,
there's probably a family underneath generations.

Speaker 9 (31:31):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's a grandpa. That one
definitely has, you know, well well fed.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
I think people that eat in the studio, I'm not
gonna look at anyone in particular here that might be
consuming massive mass. Now, speaking of that, I did, I
did make. I promised cookies. I did cookies. So I
have I forgot.

Speaker 9 (31:47):
Did you remember that new tupperware container that I did not?

Speaker 1 (31:50):
I did not have brought them in the old one.
But uh, now these are these are the chocolate chip
but they're they're a little different because they got the
the butter, like the heat thing, you know bars, So yeah,
pretty good, little salt on top, so you get that
salty sweet mixing. What do you think.

Speaker 9 (32:12):
I think you should share them with me right now?

Speaker 1 (32:14):
Parked up here, He's like, you want to come get them, Coop?
You want to know I can you know? No, I
bought cookies? You did? Oh he did? He just bought
him out of the machine. I'm sorry, Coop. I didn't
realize you were bought. Well, you can return them, you know,
just put them back in the machine. I hate them already,
you hate them all. But those are little baby cookies.
These are like full sized cookies. These are pretty good.

Speaker 9 (32:34):
He had some trashy dry cookies. Man, what a waste.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
Yeah, how many chemicals are in those cookies? These are
the ingredients in this was like five ingredients in these cookies.
That's it. There's the flour, the sugar, and then there's
like baking powder and anyway quality. Yeah, all right, on
that fun note. On that fun note, Uh, some of
the people are vicious. A lot of point a lot

(33:00):
of folks pointing out that Scott Foster gets a lot
of love on this show. Mark the Walker says, Scott
Foster Australian for a whistle swallower, he says. My friend,
the Great Sports with Coleman says that on this show
there's one official mention more than Scott Foster. That's Angel Hernandez. Yeah,

(33:24):
we talked about him a lot. Umpires bad umpires for sure.
Tom Now for the insta trivia and we will have
Mallor to the third degree. Here's the answer trivia, Ronald
Acuno Junior. He's just one stolen base away from passing
Blank for the most stolen bases since the Braves franchise
relocated to Atlanta. That is the answer, Trivia. The answer next.

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Speaker 1 (34:16):
It's Ben Malor and here's the instat trivia. Ronald Acuno Junior.
He's just one stolen base away from passing Blank for
the most stolen bases since the Braves franchise relocated to
Atlanta from Milwaukee. Mister nice Guy going with Dave Stewart
as his answer. Cowboy Killer says it has to be

(34:40):
Smokey the Bear. Only you can prevent forest fires. Our
friend Spacoli in North Carolina a big Smokey the Bear fan,
as am I Calligan Tim from Michigan going with Kenny
lofton it says an answer. Robbie the Mariner fan says
Dan Uggla is the way to go. We all star

(35:01):
Bay City Tony says Boom boom Beck, who pitched for
the nineteen fifty seven Washington Senators. That's his answer. Miguel
on fire, what can Brown do for you? From Alf
the Alien Opiner page down, kent Herbeck twins legend from
our friend Robin Minnesota, Wally in Florida going with Otis Nixon.

(35:23):
Chris Chambliss from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. King Rory the
King Roy says Blooper is the way to go, Chief
Nakahoma from I forty eight, be careful, I forty eight.
You're gonna get canceled out there. Jim Tomay guest by Ben,
he said powder toast Man himself. Jim Tomay, Chief Wahoo

(35:44):
guests by Trucker, Joe rip Oman from WWF from mad Jack,
what's that Uda.

Speaker 5 (35:52):
I'm gonna go with former met and Expo and others.
Quby Brooks, great Huby Brooks.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
That is incorrect, though the correct answer ready Rafael for
call Robbie up for call Well. I think weighed seven
hundred pounds when he played for the Dodgers, but with
the Braves he's the Atlanta all time steals guy. Here
we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here we go.
It's Mallard.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
How about that to the third degree. This is one
big Ben gets grit all open. Ben.

Speaker 10 (36:19):
The Broncos have said that they don't plan to trade
wide receiver Cortland Sutton.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
This despite offers Ben. Do you believe them? No, I
don't believe anybody in the nfls lying season. Coop. The
draft is this week, and if the Broncos want let's
say JJ McCarthy and they have to trade up to
get him. Of course they're gonna throw Courtland Sutland or
Courtland Sutton rather in the trade. So I don't believe
they're not going to trade him. They might not plan
on trading him, but that doesn't mean they're not gonna
trap Next, the.

Speaker 10 (36:43):
Yankees are said to be interested in Pete Alonzo if
the Mets end up with one Soto next season, Ben,
could you see the New York Baseball Stars changing uniforms?

Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yeah, so Pete Alonso will go anywhere for the money,
so will Won Sodo. So I guess the answer to
that is yes, although I don't want to see one
Soto as I don't know as I met, I'll go
yes as a possibility but a highly unlikely.

Speaker 10 (37:07):
Next, Raiders fan were seeing Raiders fans were seening heckling
Patrick Mahomes and his wife during their Cabo vacation, and
they appeared to be genuinely annoyed. Ben, did the Silver
and Black fans cross the line with Mahomes?

Speaker 1 (37:19):
No? This is in fact, this is the ultimate sign
of R E. S P E c T. It is
because Mahomes he's sitting there in Cobo with his uh,
with his wife there and they're they're heckling him. Now,
Mahomes has lost a couple of games with the Raiders
in recent years, but still overall, with the championships and
all that, a complete domination situation side by side. But

(37:42):
now he shouldn't be upset, should be honored.

Speaker 6 (37:46):
Now.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
I bet you if you go to pyong Yang, nobody
knows who you are, so if you want to go
on vacation to Pyongyang, they'll leave you alone anyway. There
it is, how do we do coope?

Speaker 7 (37:53):
Malla?

Speaker 1 (37:53):
A third degree? You pass today won the game.