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April 24, 2024 • 39 mins

Big Ben talks about the Clippers dropping Game 2 to Luka Doncic and the Mavs, the Suns falling down 0-2 to the Timberwolves, Maller to the Third Degree, Queen of Hearts w/ La Reina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!

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from La La Land, just down the road from where
we broadcast from an overhill, and then you've got to
go on another road and then eventually he'll get to
where the game was played. But it was game two,
Game two between the People's Team and the mav Rex,
coming off an embarrassing, gutless performance Dallas in game one

(02:07):
when they were run off the court by the superior
Clipper team going into game two here. So I don't
know whether or not you were engaged in this based
on the feedback I was getting on social media before
the game. You were asking me to watch. You did
not want to watch this game, so I did. I
got hemorrhoids sitting on my ass watching this game. But
get to the point, please, So the activity on the court,

(02:31):
the way I would describe it, it was a clunker.
It was a clunker of a game. Luka Donjik is
getting all the love. Nobody sucks toes better than the
NBA media, and they are all over Luca. So Luca
Donjik thirty two points, Kyrie Irving the Anti Semite had

(02:53):
twenty three, and Dallas pulls out a photo finish a
three point win over the Clippers. So the series now
tied one to one and they head to the Lone
Star State for games three and four. Now, the better
store is in the losing locker room, and that's where

(03:14):
we're gonna go first here. So let us discuss the
question as we get into game two, who gets to
where the proverbial kick me sign for the Clippers as
they lose at home and the series doesn't start till
the team loses at home. Well, the series has now started,
as the Clippers go down there on skid row to

(03:35):
the Mavericks. So I've got tractor supply Ritz and nineteen
eighties infomercial and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make cowboy boots, which
you'll see a lot of if you go to game three,
not game two, but game three back in Texas. So

(03:57):
a on the Clipper side of here, there's plenty plenty
of blame to pass around here, and you can point
the finger here, there, and everywhere. In this particular game.
The game was one of those games. It was like
left for the Clippers in the free library box. They

(04:19):
didn't deserve it. They had no business having a chance
to win this game. The fact that they had a
lead is a going to the fourth quarter. Now, that
was granted. It was because Luca is a knucklehead and
got called for a technical foul with less than a
second ago.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
But they still had a lead, a one point lead
going to the fourth quarter.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
The way the Clippers played in the first half, I
was texting a friend of mine, They're gonna lose by
twenty five points. They should be down by twenty five points.
I don't know why they're not down by twenty four points.
It makes no sense. And yet still in the end
they fetched around and the Clippers decided they did not
want to open that little library box with the free

(04:56):
books and all that. And in terms of the individual players,
because we named names here, that's what we do behind
the microphone, the bully pulpit.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
We named names.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
So I've told the Clippers have this Hall of Fame
trio with James Harden, Paul George and Kawhi Leonard, and
collectively they were mid They was just middle of the road.
There was nothing spectacular. Nobody stepped up. They all had
opportunities on the launching pad in the fourth quarter to

(05:25):
take over the game, and none of them had the
ability on that night to take over the game in
the fourth quarter. To give you an idea, zubots, he
led the team's going in the fourth quarter. Now he's
he didn't do much in the first half and all that,
And that's nice that he led the team is scoring
in the fourth quarter. But that's not how it's supposed

(05:46):
to go. That's not how it's supposed to go. And
we must circle. And I did circle.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
I wrote it.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
I circled Kawhi Leonard's name because Kawhi Leonard made its
much bally Hood return. Be careful what you wish for
Kawhi Leonard back after missing nine games, missing nine games,
and while his final numbers were not terrible, they weren't horrible.

(06:12):
Was all right, it's passable. He did not make enough
impact plays. You're not paying Kawhi Leonard to be a
jag just a guy. You're paying him to take over
games that are closed in the fourth quarter. Otherwise, you
can get some guy out of the European Basketball Association
that can can put up mid numbers. You don't need

(06:34):
to pay and put all the effort and massage the
shoulders of Kawhi Leonard if he's not going to take
over games at the end.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
He didn't take over the game. The game was right there,
he didn't do it.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
It's a bad job by him. And so most of
the time he didn't even play in these playoff games.
The fact he actually played is amazing. He usually misses him.
But Tylu, here's the advice, Tylu from the Malard think take.
Tylu needs to go to tract Or Supplyny and get
one of those fifty five pound drums of w D
forty and work away the rust before Game three because

(07:09):
what I'm seeing like the Clippers are a better team.
They should win this series, but you got to win
the close ones. Yeah, you guys make the plays at
the end based on the first two games. That's the analysis.
I don't know how you can disagree with that. Now,
turning the pitch from the Dallas side, how satisfying is
this Game two victory for the Mavericks And on the

(07:32):
Malard scale of satisfaction. The arrow on this one is
pointing to not very Let me explain my elevator pitch
why this should not be very satisfying. It would be
inaccurate to say that the Mavericks played a good game,
that they played well. I don't think they did. Both
teams were playing hot potato. You remember when you were

(07:54):
a kid, played the game of hot Potato. And when
the music stopped, the Clippers were the ones holding the beanbag.
And if you know how it works, I mean, you
hold the beam meg, you're out. And so they had
to go to the penalty box and they lose the game.
But it was a room service situation like room service
at the Ritz. And the way the Clippers played again,
I thought they would be down by twenty five. I
thought they should have been down by twenty five the
way they played. Yet they still hatched shot in the

(08:16):
fourth quarter to win the game. And that's that's a
testimonial to the Mavericks. And they're incompetence there because the
Clippers room service delivery.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
Mavericks opened the door.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
All they had to do was pushed the card in,
and they almost tipped the whole card over and the
spaghetti and the meat balls were gonna fly everywhere, and
then the last minute they saved it. The Clippers were
dining on kibbles and bits in this particular name, and
yet again they had the lead going to the fourth quarter.
Explain that it makes no sense. Jason Kidds team overall

(08:48):
first two games. Not impressed. I am not impressed. Well,
I've seen from doubts. Everything I read was how dominant
this Maverick team is and how they're invincible. Nobody can
stop them. I haven't seen that. Have you seen that?

Speaker 3 (08:59):
I have seen that.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
I have not seen that bad perimeter defense. Clippers didn't
shoot the ball well. They were missing wide open pre
boy shots. If anything, it was the air conditioning system
at the crypt that was keeping the ball from going in.
It wasn't because of any Maverick defense. I didn't see any,
did you. Maybe you've got better eyesight than me. But
and the Mavericks again, I go back to the point.

(09:22):
They failed to capitalize on the shoddy offense by the Clippers,
and they should have blown the Clippers off the court.
The fact that they didn't should be a point of
positivity for the Clippers. They played a terrible game.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
They can play much worse, and they still had a
shot to win the game in the fourth quarter. All right,
last word here, we had quickly to Milwaukee. Back in
the day, Doc Rivers was the coach of the Lob
City Clippers. Now he's ruining the childhood of young fans
in Milwaukee who worshiped the Bucks. So Pascal Siakam, I
gotta be careful how I say that. Name favorite player

(10:00):
on the show collectively is Pascal Siakim. So he painted
a masterpiece in this game. Thirty seven points, eleven rebounds,
six assists.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
And.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
I'm not gonna lie that that Minnesota Phoenix here. We'll
get to that later. That game was not that close.
I turned over to the Indiana game, and I enjoyed that.
I enjoyed every second of it, as Indiana did not
fear the deer at all. Beating the Bucks with ease,
led by as many as twenty three points, they win

(10:32):
going away. The Pacers have now even up the series
one to one, and they head back to the Hoosier
State Game three later in the week. But the drama
is on the Milwaukee side. We're all about the drama.
This is like an old school radio drama. Rama is
what this show is. So the dramas in Wisconsin. And
there is there cause for concern. Les it right to

(10:54):
it is their cause for concern for Doc Rivers and
the Bucks. And I'm nodding my head. Yes, this was
a vintage performance. I have studied the career of Doc
Rivers as a coach. He's coached almost every team in
the NBA. And this was a vintage Doc Rivers coach

(11:16):
team performance. And if your ownership in Milwaukee, I hope
you enjoyed that this should be an illumination situation as
you're now witnessing firsthand why Doc Rivers keeps getting fired
everywhere he goes. It's not because he's not a nice guy.
It's not because he's.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
Not great with the media.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Right, debonair, Doc, but don't ask him to coach up
a team in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Playoffs?

Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah yeah, And here's the thing. If you expect Doc
Rivers to roll up his sleeves and make some kind
of brilliant strategic move in game adjustments, they're called you
are a fool. You are Doc Rivers is the epitom
me of an old school nineteen eighties infomercial clap, bog

(12:06):
clap off the clapper, and you watched he reminds me
of the old cowboys coach.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
Here he's standing on the sidelines.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
The Milwaukee Bucks are being run off the court by
the Indiana Pacers, and Doc Rivers is standing there and
he's clapping.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
And it was theater of the.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Absurd, not that I haven't seen it with the Clippers,
and in our friends in Philly who are listening saw it.
And our buddies in Boston they saw it too. Everywhere
he goes, it's the same act. It's the same act, right,
And Pascal Siakam is literally cooking the bucks on his abaci.
He's got his bachi girl. He's cooking the bucks. And

(12:43):
Doc is doing one of two things. Either he's clapping, come.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
On, boys, come out, come out, play batter, come out.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah, he's doing that, or he is He's standing there bemused,
bewildered and bedeviled by what's going on. And that means
he has his hands in his pockets and he's giving
the Elmo you know that Elmo gift with the shoulder shrug.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
No adjustments, right, no adjustments. Buckle up.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Now I realize that I have trash coaches for years
in the I mean, I do believe of all the
professional sports, NBA coaches matter the least. But if you're
bad at your job and you do nothing other than
you're good with the media, I don't know how that
there there can be a positive, there can be something
other than I'm the motivational guy. So that is a preview.

(13:36):
If you're listening to Milwaukee or anyone there likes the
bucks Buck Country, if that's a thing, I don't know
if that's maybe that's not a thing, but watch out
because the Pacers will be enjoying some venison several more
times here in the playoffs.

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(15:49):
to even things up saw a couple of road teams
Wins Win on the NBA card on Tuesday night. The
mav Rex given a gift by the Clippers. They won
that game. Didn't play that well they won. Neither team
played well in that game. It was a ninety style
game and the Pacers ran laps around the Doc Rivers

(16:10):
coached Milwaukee Bucks.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
So what about Phoenix.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
The Sun's trying to even up the books there as
they took on big bad Minnesota. This was the early
game on the card, so I was I was actually
watching the I used to call them the Indians. Now
I guess they're named after a bridge, the Guardians. We're
playing the Red Sox. I was watching that game, and
then I watched the Dodgers. A bit of the Dodgers

(16:33):
in the Nationals. Not much natitude for Washington in that game.
But then I had to flip over to these Suns
and the Timberwolves. So if you didn't watch, the reason
I left those baseball games is because I was doing
my public service. My good mits of the day was
watching so Jadon Daniels, who Jadon Daniels put some shine
on my name, Jayden Daniels tickling the nets with twenty

(16:57):
five points. All five starters scored in double figures as
the timm Wolves zoom past the Suns one oh five
to ninety three. So Minnesota now they take a two
zero series lead, they hold serve at home.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
All of the pressure.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Is on Phoenix now going back to Arizona, they have
to win both games. One slip up and big time problems.
But the better story is there. That's where we start
on the side of the ledger from the Grand Canyon State,
where Kevin Durant is getting absolutely charboiled for his performance

(17:40):
in these first two games for the Suns. And so
let's discuss that the question does Kevin Durant deserve the
bashing that he is getting because the Sons have lost
both these games. So I've got store brand pufferfish and JPS,

(18:00):
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Speaker 3 (18:06):
Now.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
When I was in Minnesota, I think I ate at
all of the top rated juicy lucy places and I
enjoyed everyone. I thought my favorite was in Saint Paul. Actually,
I think the one over there I thought was the top one.
I had at the Nook I think it was called
the Nook there. I thought that was great anyway.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
So number one. Yes.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
To answer the question, does Kevin Durant deserve the bashing
he's getting because of the Sun's situation in the postseason.
The answer, I'm nodding my head again. Yes, The answer
is yes. You're Kevin Durant. When he went to Arizona
billed as the generational superstar, even though he had failed
in Brooklyn, it was going to be different.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
It was going to be different, Durant.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
He left Brooklyn, jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge and said,
I gotta get out to the West. I gotta go
to Arizona. Out in Arizona, the Bohemian baller, Kevin Durant,
the Slim Reaper. He's in Arizona. And they got Bradley
BeO for him. They picked Bradley beel Up from the Wizards.
Devin Booker was already there. These are three big time players.
It's a three headed fire breathing dragon, except the dragon

(19:17):
doesn't have any fire. What do you do? And so
it's false advertising, false advertising. It is a results based business.
All businesses result based, and Kevin Durant a name brand.
First ballot Hall of Famer as he will join Muffett
McGraw in the Hall of Fame. Kevin Durant name brand product.

(19:40):
He has been a store brand results guy, store brand results.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
What's my Havid is? Now?

Speaker 1 (19:45):
The point total doesn't seem that bad. Durant didn't play
particularly great.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
In the game last night. He had eighteen.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
Points, but forty nine points overall in the first two games, however,
wald Durant has been on the court, running back and
forth getting cardio. The Arizona basketball team, the team that
plays in Finnish Durant. While he's been out there, the
Suns have been outscored by forty four points with him

(20:11):
on the court. Forty four points. Now, I never played
in the NBA. I did stay at a holiday and
Express recently, and so I know that's pretty good if
you're Minnesota, not if you're Arizona or or Phoenix Route.
I mean, my god, the Suns have absolutely unraveled against
a team they were supposed to have all of the

(20:32):
playoff experience with Devin Booker and Durant, not necessarily Bradley Beal,
but they were the season veterans, and they had a
championship coach. Wink wink, nod nod in Frank Vogue, we
know that's not a real championship. But nonetheless, this was
not supposed to be a domination situation. Even if you
thought Minnesota was going to win the first two games,

(20:52):
you did not expect them to blow the Suns off
the court, which happened. And the most humiliating thing for Phoenix,
if you saw the game, was Anthony Edwards, who has
dubbed himself God's Gift to basketball.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
Anthony Edwards, who I'm not ripping. I like the guy.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
But Anthony Edwards stunk at a time he can't stink,
and it didn't matter. The t Wolves still won the game.
The Sun's lost to Jayden Daniels wows and Devin Booker
not as quite as bad as Kevin Durant, but while
Booker's been on the court, the Sons have been outscored
by thirty nine points, which I don't think is all
that good. So Phoenix, they look disjointed. You always look

(21:30):
bad when you lose, but they're a special kind of bad.
Nothing smooth, everything difficult. The puzzle pieces just don't appear
to fit. And now they go back to try to
avoid a humiliation of losing three in a row. And
then you're on death's doorstep after that to lose the
playoff series. Now page two, Here we head to Philadelphia

(21:52):
where Joe L and B that's a basketball player said
that that last second loss the other night at the
Gotten to the Knickerbockers was worse, worse for the Sixers
than the famous loss. Remember, if you're old on its,
remember back in twenty nineteen, before the pandemic, when the
team from Canada won the championship and on their way

(22:14):
to winning the championship, Kawhi Leonard, Bouncy, Bouncy, Bouncy, it
goes that bouncy bounce it that big shot for the Raptors.
I was back in twenty nineteen. So the question Joel
Embiid saying that this latest loss to the Knickerbockers blowing
a five point lead in the final thirty seconds worse
than the dacker from the claw Kawhi Leonard, does that

(22:37):
work for you, well, Joel Embiid, it's his opinion. It's
not a good opinion. I'm gonna question the judgment of
Joel Embiid. Here's why. This is what I call a
puffer fish situation. It's puffery, Okay, it's puffer it's exaggeration
because I recall and maybe you forgot Joel Embiid walking

(22:59):
through the bowels of the arena after that shot went
in for Kawhi crying, crying like he got an F
on his report card and he had to go home
to mom and dad, and mom and dad expected him
to get a's and b's and he got an F.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
Man was he crying?

Speaker 7 (23:16):
So?

Speaker 1 (23:16):
And it's also not an apples to apples comparison because
the Kawhi basket was the kill shot.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
That was Game seven. Nana na na na la, good
bye Game seven. You lost.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
The Knicks loss is game two in Philadelphia. If they've
got any machismo, they'll come back and they'll make this
a series. It's not a non fatal loss. It's a
sad loss. It's a depressing loss, but it's not worse
than Kawhi Leonard because if the Kawhi Leonard shot doesn't
go in, you have a shot of winning the game,

(23:55):
advancing further. And plus maybe you're the one that wins
the championship, although you did have Ben Simmons on the team,
so highly unlikely. All right, final point, We now go
to Boston. As we continue to parse the words of
teams and players and coaches in the NBA playoffs, and
this caught my attention. Several of you listened to us
the Ben Malich Show here on Fox via our home
in Boston on the Sports Hub said this to me

(24:17):
that the Celtics and we're not going to talk about
the game, don't work. This is the Celtics clearly better
than the shorthanded Miami Heat. This should at most go
five games. It really should be a sweep without Jimmy
Buckets for Miami. But that's a different conversation. So let
them play Joe, Let them play Joe. Filling the content

(24:37):
machine here. Coach Joe Mizzoula was asked if he was
bothered about his Celtics not being represented at all in
any category across the board for the NBA Awards. Now
they announced recently all the finalists, the top three in
every category, and not a single Celtics show up on

(25:00):
any award. Boston for much of the year the top
team in the NBA during the regular season, and historically
this is one of the all time great regular season
Celtic teams. Take that Larry Bird Bill Russell. Statistically, it
is during the regular season with the Tatum led Celtics,
but yet not a single Boston player finished in the

(25:22):
top three in any category, sixth Man of the Year, MVP,
Most Improved, none of that, zippo. So Missoula was asked
about that if he was bothered, He's bothered by the
Celtics not being represented at all. His response he said, quote, no,

(25:43):
not at all. I think it's beautiful. Why would you
get an award for the past?

Speaker 3 (25:49):
Close? Quote?

Speaker 1 (25:52):
So how do you classify? How do you classify Joe
Missoula being pleased that none of the Celtics are even
in the top three for these individual awards. So I
would classify this as unorthodox, out of the orthodoxy, kooky.
I would put it in a kookie category. Joe Mizula
did not toe the company line. He did not His

(26:16):
GPS is set for off the beaten path. With these answers,
the boiler plate response, you've consumed sports long enough, right,
we're all grown up. Here's not a lot of kids
listening the time we're on, So you consume sports. What
does the coach normally say in any sport across the
board if they're asked about a player being up for

(26:38):
an MVP or some individual award.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
What do they always say? What's the boiler plate response?

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Ding ding ding ding ding. They say it's a travesty.
They say it's unfair. I stand by my players. This
is not right. The voters got it wrong. Shame on them.
It's a blasphemy. But not Joe, not let them play.
Joel Mozula as again, he's agnostic. When it comes two awards,

(27:06):
it's a singular goal. We are here to win a chrumpionship.
You can win awards and win a championship. You are
able to do both things. It is conceivable to do
both of those things. And let me point out that
technically everything that anyone has ever accomplished, by definition, is

(27:30):
in the past. For example, if the Celtics and they
are the favorite to win the championship, if Boston does
win the championship later this summer, and they'll have a
little duck boat parade and they'll celebrate Jason Tatum and
Jalen Brown, all these guys. But then they have to
wait because they don't get their rings right away. They

(27:53):
have to design them and then they have to make them,
and so they'll have to wait several months to get
their rings. So does that mean Joe Mazula's like, no,
nobody gets because that's a past accomplishment. Sorry, you don't
get that. And that mindset would be great, Like you
go to you go to have a meal, going by
cotton candy at the stabers A.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
I'm good, I need to pay for that.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
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Speaker 3 (28:25):
It's Mallard. How about that?

Speaker 2 (28:27):
To the third degree? This is one gets.

Speaker 7 (28:33):
Well.

Speaker 4 (28:33):
Speaking of Tyreek Hill, a report surfaced earlier this week
that says that the Dolphins may be targeting a long
term replacement for him in the draft. Now, Ben Hill
is only thirty years old, but the team could save
fifty million dollars in cap space by moving on from
him at the end of the season. Do you think
they'll do it?

Speaker 7 (28:50):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yes, I mean Tyreek he has been teetering on the
brink of disaster even in Miami. Had that incident at
the yacht or the harbor there in Miami.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
So there's that. And yeah, he's a speed guy. Once
you get.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
Past the age of thirty, you start getting slower. So
what else does Tyreek provide for you?

Speaker 7 (29:08):
So?

Speaker 4 (29:08):
Yes, next, despite a potential first round exit, reports us
saying that the Lakers plan to keep Darvin Ham for
one more season no matter what happens.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Oh please, Ben, are you buying these reports? No?

Speaker 5 (29:19):
No.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
If the Lakers get swept by the Nuggets and Darvin
Ham doesn't use one challenge the entire series, he's gonna
be fired. I remember Doc Rivers blew one of the
series with the Clippers, so so he's gonna be back
as coach, and then a couple weeks later, who was fired.
I do not believe Darvin Ham is guaranteed to be
back next year. That's what they're saying. It doesn't guarantee anything.

(29:39):
The Lakers get swept next.

Speaker 4 (29:41):
Total, eighty one NBA players across thirty teams answer to
polelasking who the most overrated player is in the league.
Rudy Gobert had the highest response rate. Ben, Do you agree? Well,
I don't play in the NBA. Everyone rips Gobert.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
He plays in antiquated style and apparently he's a schmuck.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
Everyone hates him. What does he do to everyone? Nobody?
Wis the guy? I don't understand how do we do come?
He passes?

Speaker 1 (30:03):
You say right up out time beg you perfect score
every judge.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
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Speaker 3 (30:26):
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Speaker 5 (30:30):
Hearts, going to help you gear Rye gear Rye to
n gear Rye to nine Dear Ride.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
You know what I love about this, Lorena is this
is a temporary open sent by a listener. It is
now the permanent open for the Queen of Hearts.

Speaker 8 (30:48):
I just love it. It's so good and it's such a vibe.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
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Speaker 8 (30:53):
Do you know that it does?

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(31:15):
lot of questions. Are you ready to answer?

Speaker 3 (31:17):
You have all the answer questions?

Speaker 8 (31:18):
Yes, I hope I have all these.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
She's like the Google of love.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
Lorena, double O Mexican and San Diego wants to know, Lorena,
how long should you wait to call a woman after
you get their phone number? This is the age old question.
You call them or text them?

Speaker 8 (31:31):
Mauria, right, I'm not one to wait.

Speaker 9 (31:33):
If you wait to text me too long, I think
you're disinterested, So I think you should text them immediately.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
See that's the problem with Larrina. Some of you ladies
over there get being Back when I was in the
dating game, they want you to wait a little bit.

Speaker 8 (31:45):
If a girl is serious, she's not trying to play games.

Speaker 9 (31:47):
Ben.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
Oh, well, they were all playing games, Lorena back in
the day. Let's see here, we'll skip over that. One
late night drug tester says, can you please get a
female on popular overnight debate. Do you fill your car
with premium gas or the cheapest gas available? Yes, very
important question, Lorena. We've had many arguments on this topic

(32:12):
of conversation.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (32:14):
Well, you know, just like I love, I also love
cheap gas.

Speaker 8 (32:18):
Yeah, okay, cheap gas for the win.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Arco explain to Coop that you do not need the
expensive gas.

Speaker 8 (32:26):
I don't need it.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
It's a scam. Coop gets burned on that scam. That's
actually not true.

Speaker 4 (32:32):
But it is a scam. It's been proven. I can
show you that we've We've gone over this many times.
I've showed you the proof, and then.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
I've showed you the difference proof, all right, Cowboy Killer
writes in He says, Lorena is cheesecake factory. A good
first date or not a good not a good enough restaurant.

Speaker 9 (32:53):
You have too many options. You can't give your girl
too many options. Don't take them to cheesecake.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
No, I know what happened.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
You'll order off that's skinny men, that skinny delicious menu.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
No, you will not.

Speaker 8 (33:02):
Nope, don't do it? All right, put more effort in.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
He also Cowboy Killer wants to know should men and
women go fifty to fifty?

Speaker 3 (33:10):
No? Never, I'll see your old school.

Speaker 9 (33:12):
I think we all know men make more, so you
should obviously pay seventy five and I'll take twenty five.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
Oh that's not true. They pay all you engineers the
same money.

Speaker 4 (33:21):
Yeah, and my wife makes more money than I do.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
Yeah, my wife has a more stable job than I have.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
Ferg Dog says on the Queen of Hearts, Lorena, Is
it true that women like men with smelly feet? Is that?
Is that true? No, that's not true.

Speaker 7 (33:40):
No.

Speaker 8 (33:41):
I like a man who gets a good pedicure.

Speaker 9 (33:43):
You got nice feet. I like to massage, So if
you have nice feet, it's better.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
But if you have a man with nasty feet, you
can then help the man get better feet.

Speaker 8 (33:51):
You No, no, not help that.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
You cannot help that. All right, you want to take
a call. We have a polar Bear.

Speaker 8 (33:58):
Yeah, let's do it.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
He's in Cincinnati. Polar Bear. You're on with the Queen
of Hearts, Lorena.

Speaker 7 (34:06):
Lorena. I'm gonna work to me a two show. I
think you do. I think you're doing a great job.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
Congratulations, sir. I'm being a man.

Speaker 7 (34:17):
I'm an older man. I'm up, and I just recently
started dating. And I'm a woman that I'm really interested in.
She's loving me, though I have a problem understanding what
she says.

Speaker 8 (34:37):
No, you don't need to understand her. Just look in
her eyes and show her you love her.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
Just send her emojis. That's the language, that's the universe.
That's a global language, right, emojis.

Speaker 9 (34:46):
There's so many ways to communicate, Like I, if you
miss it. Just say uh huh and shake your head,
you know not not in say yes.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
All right, good luck, polar Bear. You sound like a
strapping young man.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Kelly in Nashville writes in and says, have you ever
go did a family member for being ridiculous?

Speaker 3 (35:03):
On how to deal? How do you deal with that? Lorena?

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (35:06):
You have ever ghosted a family book for being ridiculous?

Speaker 9 (35:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (35:09):
I guess my family all the time. I barely conder.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
Oh, Loraina, it's bad job. What was there was one?
I didn't get it? Which one it was?

Speaker 1 (35:16):
For?

Speaker 6 (35:17):
Jack?

Speaker 3 (35:17):
Date? We have so many questions.

Speaker 9 (35:18):
Yeah, there's so many that popped up. You wanted to
know about his erectyl dysfunction.

Speaker 8 (35:21):
Probably I want him to know that.

Speaker 9 (35:23):
Just take time to figure out what excites you. There's
so many different things that can cause it. Don't get
the blue pill. Just be patient and kind with yourself
and figure out what gets you a little.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
Feisty just attacked one of our sponsors. Lorena out there.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. There's
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Speaker 3 (35:43):
Is password, you idiot.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
Password. The word Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Meller.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
I just got yelled at by Ted solwo Eddy. He
said I screwed up the Zach Hyman thing because he
scored a hat trick on passover?

Speaker 3 (35:59):
Was that probably was? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (36:03):
Oh well the effort was made. Let's welcome in our contestants.
We have Milkman, Mike and Colorado. Hello, Milkman, no small talk.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
Who do you want to partner up with?

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Let's go with Eddie? All right, Eddie is the choice,
and we say hello to you just broke the heart
of Sirius Sean.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
Hello, Sirias Sean. Eddie?

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Would you like to partner with both players?

Speaker 7 (36:33):
Eddie?

Speaker 3 (36:33):
You want to do that? All right? You're not Sean.
He's already been picked.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
Do you want me to ask Milkman Mike if he'll change
his partner?

Speaker 7 (36:42):
Sure?

Speaker 3 (36:43):
All right?

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Uh, Sean has a man crush on a bromance with Eddie? Mike,
would you would you switch it up? We got Loraina
over there, We got Coop and Me.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Well, you know what, let's go with Lorena and give
her her first win today.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
Okay, Loraina, you're up. That's the match up.

Speaker 4 (37:02):
First win? Is this your first attempt? To password or
did you play when I was gone?

Speaker 8 (37:05):
I have played one.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
Okay, here we go. Let's get right to the guy
right there. List of words, milkman. Pick up number one
to ten.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
Let's go to number four, number four, all.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
Right, Loraina, number four, Loraina, it should be easy.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
Prison.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Well it again, prison.

Speaker 7 (37:30):
Jail?

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Yeah, nothing lead for Lorraina. You want to quit right now?
Many go ahead.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
I we'll try to take a number one to ten, Sean,
but not number four that's already been taken.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
Number one, number number alright, Let's go with scrub scrub, no.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
Chance, watch no no ah, right, Loraine, you can get
a dominating lead.

Speaker 8 (37:54):
Here, squeaky.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
Cen.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Yeah she used Malia, good job.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
Are you all right?

Speaker 1 (38:05):
Nineteen to nothing and let's see here. Back to milkman.
Mike gets pass word the word game of the stories.

Speaker 7 (38:12):
All right, well, let's go with number eight.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
Number eight, Do I do it? Yes? You you're different?

Speaker 8 (38:22):
Grew uhitch?

Speaker 3 (38:31):
What do you say? Digit? Oh? Ditch?

Speaker 7 (38:34):
You know?

Speaker 3 (38:34):
All right? Go ahead there serious Sean, gotta get this one.
Let's go with boogie boogie.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Damn.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
Yeah, you're on the board.

Speaker 10 (38:46):
Shot all right, come back here, quick shot, bigger that
bar what ten ted al right ted, go ahead freak frequently, frequently, frequently.

Speaker 7 (39:02):
Opt in.

Speaker 6 (39:04):
The time game.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
Hurry up, hurry.

Speaker 6 (39:06):
Up, mog man, bring it up, bar let's go another fine,
right up, hurry up, another five hurd away.

Speaker 7 (39:13):
Do what golf? Golf?

Speaker 3 (39:20):
No, she chose you striver the way the shrim You
lost the right up
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