May 15, 2024 • 40 mins
Big Ben talks about the Timberwolves losing their 3rd straight game to the Denver Nuggets and who is to blame as they fall behind in the series, the Knicks spanking the Nuggets to take a lead in their series, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ La Reina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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and we're back at it again here heading into a
hump day in the overnight and coming up later on
next Now we have Mallard of the third degree that's
on the on deck circle. Also too much or not
enough got the The Queen of Hearts will make its return.
So anything that you want in your life solved, Lorraine, Uh,
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we'll solve that for you and password. The word game
is you'll be sleeping by then. You're not gonna be
lit team by then, but we will have pass we
can hear on the podcast later on. The chances of
you listening now and listening at the end of the
show are slimming none, but we'd like to think maybe
like two percent of people will anyway, enough about that,
our lead this hour coming from the mountain territory, the
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Rocky Mountains to be exact, that is where well Rocky
Mountain adjacents, shall we say. The pivotal game five tied
up two to two, Minnesota and Denver, the reeling Wolves,
the upstart Nuggets playing like they did a year ago
after El Stinko. The first couple of games. Well, if
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you didn't watch this, and maybe not, maybe you didn't
care about it. Nikola Jokicic turning on the after burners.
That's a basketball player. He won the MVP. They gave
it to him before the game. Nicola Ogic went out
forty points, thirteen assists, seven rebounds, a partridge in a
pear tree, and the Denver basketball team mollywopped the Minnesota
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basketball team by fifteen and so they have the team
from Colorado a three games to two lead the Nuggets,
clearly fueled by the Mallard food dish there in Denver.
They ended up getting the victory rather easily in the
fourth quarter. Really never in doubt they had a lead
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at arms length. They did trail briefly in the third quarter.
But the Nuggets are one win away from heading back
to the Final four of the NBA. So let us
discuss the question better story losing locker room. So who
gets the largest part of the Timberwolves Juicy Lucy a blame.
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So I've got plato head and shoulders and delta, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make the Mighty Mississippi that runs through
the Twin Cities, and kind of like the Nuggets are
running through the Timberwolves. Here these last few games, so a,
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there's plenty of sports talk shame to go around for
the Minnesota basketball team. That is obvious. However, it falls
ultimately on the yin and the yang, the yin and
the yang. What does that mean? We start with Anthony Edwards.
I like this guy. He's dynamic, he's fun, he's exciting.
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He's not Michael Jordan, although some have tried to compare
him to Michael Jordan. That's fine. But in this game,
if you didn't see it, Anthony Edwards played like your
aunt Betty, your seventy year old aunt Betty out there.
My god, Edwards a very empty eighteen points. It was
one of nine, at one point five of fifteen. He
finished from the floor. He was the Duke Anthony Edwards,
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the Duke of Puke in this game, barf bag worthy
performance by a headliner, the coming out party for Anthony Edwards,
and he did not show up. And I do love
when the Nuggets lose at home, which they did the
first couple of games. We hear a lot about the altitude,
and we don't hear about the altitude. Rather, when they
lose it home, when they win in home, it's the altitude.
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It's all Man, that team's tired. People seem to have
trouble making sure what the reality is of that? Is
it the altitude? Because like the Nuggets my entire life,
every couple of years, the Nuggets win a championship because
of the altitude. They almost never lose at home, and
they win all the time in the playoffs because of
the altitude unless they know. But as far as the
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yen and the end, get back to that. So Anthony Edwards,
the Duke of Puke, we got that barf bag. How
about the French rejection. There was a lot of rejection,
but it was not It was not at the hands
of Rudy Gobert, Defensive player of the Year times four
in the NBA and the most polarizing player in pro basketball.
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There was no player in the NBA had a noise
more of the elites in the NBA than Rudy Gobert.
They can't stand this guy. They can't stand it, and
they were having orgasms watching him drown on the court
in this game that was played a few hours ago.
Less than that, the stifled tower Gobzilla as they call him, well, NICOLEA.
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Jokic streated Rudy Gobert like a kid handles play though
it was absolute child's play here. The Wolves just the
snapshit I have. I don't know if you noticed this
or not, if you're watching the game. Even blind Emmett
saw this. Walking off the court. The Wolves are walking
off the court. They looked absolutely bedraggled. As you're sorry
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they lost the game, they're supposed to be done. I
get that, but there was something more. There was something
more to this. You had a shot of their coach
on crutches trying to get off the court. You had
Carl Anthony Towns who had a limp as he was
hobbling off the court. Mike Connelly didn't even play in
the game. He was unable to make the cut with
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a sore achilles, so he was out. And the team
just looks exhausted, fatigue, draine zonked, all of those things.
That's what Minnesota looks like. And so will we get
a win by Minnesota to force a game seven? Or
will they meekly roll over and play dead as so
many great Minnesota teams have done in the past, Now
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turning the page. If you watched the game on TV
or just listen to the audio on the TV broadcast,
you probably noted that it sounded a lot different. It
looked a lot different because Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley
were not there. They were not sick, they did not
have the gobbly gook, they didn't have any of that. Instead,
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they were out working the advertising market for TNT So
where are you at on Shaq and Charles Barkley, missing
the beloved inside the NBA for TNTs up front in
New York City? Where you at on that? So? I
hated it. I look forward to this. I look forward
to watching Charles Barkley more than I do these stupid
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games that I'm watching for the NBA, beause most of
them are not very enjoyable. And this was a great example.
You had the Knickerbockers who took a can of whoop
ass to the Pacers in the early game, and Denver
never really in any danger stranger danger against Minnesota. So
I look forward to bark. I didn't get my bark.
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I did not get my bark. Draymond Green was on
there a human tranquilizer for a guy that loves to
kick people in the nuts and punch them. Boy, is
that guy a boar? Traymond Green, My god, do people
feed him lines for his podcast? That is terrible. He sucks.
And then you have Vince Carter. I'd rather hear hollering
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James snore than Vin's cart. What a boar, hit the
mute button. It's nothing personal. You just suck at this.
But you got to put these guys on right their
ex jocks, You gotta put them on TV. They're terrible,
My god, horrific. And if there was any doubt that
Charles Barkley is the secret sauce, if you had any
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question about how valuable Charles Barkley is as a broadcaster,
he is the straw and not a cheap, crappy paper
straw like they have in California in other place. He's
a real plastic straw that will last ten thousand years.
And he stirs the drink. There for TNT and that
was a refresher course. And Charles Barkley and Shack were
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laying out in New York City. They were laying out
bottles of head and shoulders, shall we say, the bottles
of head and shoulders right there for Madison Avenue, As
the Great John Sterling told me on my podcast The
Fifth Hour a couple of years back, he said, the
most important thing is to sell the soap. So Charles
Barkley trying to sell a lot of soap, and it's
very important. Otherwise X nay on the TNTA for Charles Barkle.
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This is a last ditch you'd call it in football.
Be a hil Mary play TNT. If they get enough
ad money. If the people on Madison Avenue pay top
dollar here, then TNT will increase the check they're going
to cut to the NBA. If not, Turner will be
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excommunicated and say bye bye to Ernie Johnson. He'll go
at Barkley and Kenny Smith and those guys will likely
go somewhere else, but it will not be the same.
So those are the sticks. Now the last word. We
pivot quickly an emergency portion of the Malard monologue. We
go now to the lone Star state. We talk baseball,
talking bays Ball. An old friend has a return here
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in Major League Baseball on random night, middle of the week.
May not a lot going on in the sport of
baseball this week. Well in Houston, ding Ding Ding ding Ding. Yeah,
scandal in Houston. The Astros have a starter named Brunel Blanco,
the cheating Astros. He puts the cheat in the ass
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one thousand and two, one thousand holes. So Renel Blanco
was ejected at the game on Tuesday night there and
started the fourth inning. It was a two to one
victory over the Athletics, the nomads of baseball, and Renel
Blanco ejected for cheating. So wild scene. The third base
umpire laz Di as I've heard of him, he came
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over and he he was ejecting Blanco. Right. He checked
his glove a regular DUI checkpoint, if you will, in
this case a pine tar checkpoint, and it was more
than pine tar, though threw a pitch in Before he
had thrown a pitch in the fourth inning, Blanco was
given the heave ho the umpires Blanco the manager of
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the cheaters, Joe Espada, I believe this is the guy's name,
and they had a brief powwow on the mound and
then the right handed pitcher was given the boot. Now,
Blanco's glove was confiscated and taken to FBI headquarters blank
blank blank blank unless it wasn't, but the glove was
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taken by the umpires and putting a secret location, So
hopefully nobody'll sneak through the catwalks there in Houston to
try to get said glove back. But here's the deal. Yet,
the ass they won the game? Who cares about that?
Can you explain why starting pitcher Renel Blanco and the
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Astros are back cheating again? Well, you could argue they
never stopped cheating, But have you seen the team play? Hello,
have you watched any of this product? That's a bad product.
There's worms, there's worms in the product here. That's a
fleabag outfit in Houston. Houston has been a mill dewey team,
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especially in particular on the pitching staffy A one one
thousand holes. They have been like remember that story, I
think it was a year ago, two years ago, that
Delta flight, Remember the one from Atlanta to Barcelona that
had a biohazard issue because somebody went in the bathroom
and there was like poop and feces that was flowing
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down the player. That's the Astros. They're twenty eighth in
er a twenty eight in whip. They whip, and they
whip it bad, the Astros. And so what they've done
here is they've gone back to the franchise charter. That's
what they've done. They've gone back to the franchise charter there,
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and they're showing their true colors. When you peel back
the onion, even though the names have changed other than
Alboovey Bragman and one or two other players from that
unpunished cheating team of twenty seventeen. Nonetheless, when you peel
back everything here, you have to now question the entire
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body of work of Renel Blanco a total fraud. He's
got stanky stank all over him here, Blanco, who threw
a no hitter. But of course baseball will not do anything.
Oh no, no, no, it was all good. It was all kosher.
Blanco threw a no hitter this season. In his debut
this season, threw a no hitter, lot four hits, struck
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out one on Tuesday while cheating. The umpire's finally caught
up to him in the fourth inning. He has an
ERA of just over two this season. That's some really
good pintar. How soon before the bang bang, the trash
cans and whistle whistle come back. How soon before that
comes back, Blanco is going to get an automatic ten
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games suspension, So he'll be out for ten games. But
there you go. That cheat's gonna cheat. And they are dirty,
rotten cheaters, the Houston a holes and even and all
they suck. Imagine having to cheat against the Oakland Athletics.
I mean, that's one thing. You're going against the Yankees.
Right on the dodge, you say, Okay, we got to
play a good team. You're playing the Athletics and you
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gotta cheat to beat the Athletics? Are you kidding me?
You pathetic loser.
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from the Empire State, the Empire City in the Empire State,
from above station in the middle of the concrete jungle,
the belly of the Beast. There in Manhattan, the visiting
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Pacers as they were in town for a playdate Game
number five, Big Game five. They're trying to take a
bite out of the Big Apple against the Knickerbockers. Were
you watching, well, you definitely didn't miss anything. If you
missed this, you didn't know in terms of competition, in
terms of the gag factor. Somebody missing a shot late, No,
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that didn't happen. There was no need to worry about
missing a shot late. The game was over way way
earlier than that. So, as we like to say, don't worry.
We watched so you would not have to. It's our
good MITSVA of the day. And Jalen Brunson, he didn't
put up double Nichols, he put double four's up forty
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four points for Jalen Brunson, and the Knicks dismembered the
Pacers one twenty one to ninety one. That is a
thirty point win. How often in the NBA playoffs is
a team lost by thirty plus and then come back
and one by thirty or more. Well, it's just happened
in the back to back games in this series. Eastern
Conference semi Finals, Game five goes to New York. So
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they have a three to two lead in the second
round playoff series. Let us discuss the question where did
things go wrong for the Pacers. So I've got stage name,
Harry Potter and travel agent, and we'll combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a pratfall,
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which is what the Pacers had. They had a big
pratfall for everyone to see. I actually thought this game
would be somewhat close. Bad job by me, But anyway,
Number one where things went wrong for the Pacers the
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moment they went through TSA. The moment they said, can
you raise your hands in the air and stand there
so we can take an X ray scan of your junk.
That is where things went wrong for the Indiana basketball team.
They were apparently staying at a hostel in Manhattan. There
they had cockroaches and vermin all over the place of
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that wowsers. Now, if you're going to single out one
particular person, it has to be Tyrese Halliburton. That's the person.
Because Halle Burton was not part of the plan for Indiana.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
He was terrible.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
His stage name, if he was a professional wrestler would
be el Stinko, as he played like Elstinko, finished with
a lethargic thirteen points, five assists, two rebounds to turnovers.
A non factor. He was there, but wasn't helpful in
any way. Not a dynamic playmarker. He has been that
guy we've seen him be that guy, but he wasn't
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in this game. And that's a trend that we saw
on this night because Anthony Edwards also was a non
factor for Minnesota in their game against Denver. But Tyre's
Haliburton is not as good as Anthony Edwards. But he
was just kind of dragging along. Did he have some
bad street food before the game. Maybe he went to
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one of those carts and they gave him a hot
dog that was all nasty. I don't know, But unable
to push the pace and zombie like is the way
I would describe the way Tyreese Haliburton was playing most
of that game. In general, there was just a fog
over the Indiana basketball team. And how is this series
looking now? After five games? Five games? We know New
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York has the lead, but after five games the series
is looking the word is I will use the word blurry.
It's looking a little blurry because we do head back
to the Hoosier State in Indiana. We know they like
home cooking, we know that. And these teams are a
carbon copy of each other so far in this series.
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They've been carbon copies. They play very well at home,
and they stink when they go on the road and
the New York players. I kept reading stories about how
injured the Knicks are and how messed up they are,
and Tom Thibodeau is the devil incarnate and he's running
the players like a drill sergeant, like he's some kind
of despotic leader into the ground. And then I watched
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the Knicks go out at home against the Pacers. They
look fine. Jelen Brunson, boys, he's got one leg. He
didn't look like it looked fine, played very well. But
now I promise you this. I don't know a lot,
but I do know we will get a game seven
back at the Mecca, the world's most famous arena, Madison
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Square Garden. There will be a game seven. So I'm
marking down right now in Penn, not in Pen's in Penn.
I am writing down and get my pen, my pen
somewhere here all right there it is, here's I found
my pain. I'm writing down in Penn that the win
will go to Indiana in game six. And I'm never
wrong about these, never wrong about these. All right now,
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turning the page on that, we go to another series
tied up at two too. There's a trend. It's almost
like this is all planned, It's preordained. Dallas and Oklahoma
City tied up to two Western semi finals. The mainstream
basketball media I took some of their content. They've been
debating whether or not the Luca Donzik is healthy. They're
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biting their fingernails. Oh no, balancing hope and fear and
the nagging knee injury as a source of much conjecture
from the basketball media. The implication rather obvious that Luka
is covering up and the Mavericks are covering something up,
even though he wouldn't admit to it. There's something going on,
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So question are the reports? Are the reports the MAVs
star Luka Doncik is hiding an injury? Is this something
thing or nothing? Is this something or nothing that he's
hiding an injury? So it is something. It is something
that is tremendously annoying. Makes me want to puke in
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my mouth, That's what that is. Okay, It just Luca
has sucked at a time you cannot suck in a
couple of these games, mainly the last game in particular,
where he had amazing stats filling up categories, but not
in terms of helping the Mavericks win the final five
and a half minutes. But rather than just say hey,
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he took up a side hustle as a freemason, rather
than just say that that you again sucked at a
time you cannot suck. Instead they go the NBA media.
They go to their Harry Potter Book of Spells, paid
seventy seven. How to candy coat any crap bag performance
in the playoffs? Have you noticed? It might be the
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only one. I'm really saying, I must be the only
one that notices the NBA media any time a star
player throws out a dud. It's never that they just
played bad. Well, it's because they're hurt. That's why they
put shut up, shut up, stop. I mean, what's going
on with that? And as we have known over the years,
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there there is a difference, right, there's a difference between
playing hurt and when you're actually injured and you're supposed
to in playoff games. You're playoffs, you're supposed to play
when you're hurt. That that happens quite often. If you're injured,
you're not supposed to play. So if Luca's injured, that's fine,
he shouldn't be playing. If he's hurt, you know, suck
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it up, Buttercup, rub some dirt on it there, and
what are we gonna give this guy a purple heart
for playing with a with a sore knee bravery in action,
Luca Dontrich My god, what a dumbbo alright, anyway, final point.
We now turn to the gossip wheel, always a fun
thing to talk about. This is what will fuel the
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conversation once these playoff games end. A trade rumor started
by a washed up former NFL player, of all people
bouncing around the echo chamber, it's coming to my attention
that it involves the Phoenix basketball team, Kevin Durant telling
a fledgling podcaster that he would have a have no problem,
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cought have no problem coming down to Miami, Miami, Miami.
If it made sense, not the end of that. That's
weasel terminology. If it made sense, what makes sense to
you might not make sense to me. So that, of
course was the kerosene on top of the barbecue that
ignited this story. KD wants to play in South Beach.
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That chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter went everywhere. So let's discuss
the question thumbs up or thumbs down? Is there anything
to the Suns being a legitimate possibility for Kevin Durant
to send him to the Heat. That the Sons would
send Durant to the Heat. Is that thumbs up er
thumbs down, So I'm gonna go thumbs up that there's
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something to this, So I'm gonna go thumbs up on this.
It is on brand for Durant. Whether it's the Heat
or a mystery team that happens to have a lot
of wins and a lot of glamour to them, you
have to say that Durant is more likely than not
if he has the opportunity to finagle his way out
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of Arizona, he will do it. So it's on brand.
This is in his DNA as a player. We've watched
it over the years. It's the soundtrack is the Johnny
Cash Classic. I've been everywhere man since he was born
in DC, and maybe I missed a couple of cities here,
But as a basketball player, Kevin Durant has played high
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school or above DC, Maryland, Virginia, Austin, Texas, Seattle, Oklahoma City, Oakland, Brooklyn,
and Phoenix. And he ain't done yet. He's still got
a couple of years left in the tank. And so
when times get tough for Kevin Durant, he gets going
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in terms of leaving wherever he is going to another
team and Katie loves to hit the panic button. He
knows how to contact via text his travel agent and
enter the transfer portal. And you know he'd love to
do it, love to do it again because that Sun's
team's a little broken. Didn't work out. They fired their
coach already, Frank Vogel and paying him for the next
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four years to do nothing.
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human nature and more. Listen to The Fifth Hour with
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you get your podcast. Here we go, here we go,
here we go, here we ma how about that?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets great?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
All right, Coop the loop?
Speaker 5 (28:19):
All right, Ben?
Speaker 6 (28:20):
There are only a couple of teams in the AL
with a worse record than the Houston Astros. We discussed
this earlier, Only a few teams in all of baseball
with the worst record. Despite this, their GM says he
can't predict any scenario where the Astros sell it the deadline.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Ben, are you buying that?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I am buying it. And here's why nobody wants that
trash out of Houston. Right. Altuve and Bregman are tainted.
They're dirty, they're dirty, rotten cheeters, Coop, nobody wants them,
and the other guys are as stiffs on that team.
So in this case, I actually believe him.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Next, Broncos wide receiver Courtland Sutton continues to work out
away from his team facility as he looks to get
a reworked contract with a pay raise. He's requested a trade,
but the Broncos don't plan on doing so. Ben, how
do you think this turns out?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I think they'll trade him because they have the salary.
They'll say they have no money, even though they can
come up with money, and they'll end up trading him
for like a fifth round draft. Oh and then you'll
complain and you'll whine and all that.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
And next recent report made claims that the Jets made
legitimate attempts to hire someone who would run the show
on offense over Nathaniel Hackett. Hackett would still have had
the offensive coording to their title, but would essentially have
been replaced.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Ben, Where do you think this report came from? So?
I think this came from someone on the Robert Sala coaching,
somebody close to Robert Sala because they want to listen,
we wanted somebody else, but Aaron Rodgers wanted Nathaniel Hackett
the boob to continue. How did we do coop?
Speaker 7 (29:44):
You fail this?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
It is it's a win for me. That is a
win for me, Lorena said, I want and that's a win.
Thank you, Lorena for the win. I appreciate that. Very
kind of you to do.
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Clean up hearts going to help you get rye gear
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In this is the part you talk.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
You get here forgot my instrumental?
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God, hold on, I need I need my music bed
under here. All right, let me just did this in post.
No one will hear. This is no one actually listening.
Look what time it is? No one's listening? All right,
there's no Oh I'm we're playing again. No, it's this
is the bed.
Speaker 7 (30:53):
Okay, it sounded so empty.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
All right, very excited.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
You don't understand how much I really do over here
right now? Okay, it wasn't just pre made.
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There's a lot of buttons. There's many, many buttons.
Speaker 7 (31:03):
Yes, like love.
Speaker 9 (31:03):
It's very complicated to keep this running, okay, Benjamin, buttons, Yes,
I press them all. Yes, absolutely. So you're going to
answer questions from random people. There are some calls for you. Yes,
would you like to start with a.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Call or do you want to start with a let's
start with a call. Okay, all right, let's see you
pick one or two?
Speaker 7 (31:22):
Go ahead, numero dose sennor all right.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Let's Saloa to Kelly in Nashville. Hello, Kelly, Hello Kelly,
how are we doing?
Speaker 7 (31:32):
We are fantastic on yourself.
Speaker 10 (31:34):
I am doing great this morning. Thank you.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
I forget it's morning.
Speaker 8 (31:38):
Okay.
Speaker 10 (31:39):
So my question is, what is your opinion on how
household duty should be split up in a marriage in
terms of cleaning and cooking and things.
Speaker 11 (31:51):
Well, I, personally, I think it should be more than
just fifty to fifty, right, Like, if you know your
person's busy and hasn't had time to catch up with themselves,
you should go above and beyond fifty fifty.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Well, you know, like Justin and Cincinnati, by the way,
says the woman should do all of it. That's what
he just wrote it.
Speaker 11 (32:10):
I mean if oh, yeah, no, I expect to also,
you know, have my partner take care of himself. I
do not expect to clean up after them at all,
unless I want to really c after them.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
What if they're really good but they're just pigs, you know.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
No, if we both work, then we both need to clean.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
I used to work with a guy, that really good guy,
but he just never cleaned up at himself. This guy
used to work here in fact, in the a lot
of trash you leave around food, you know.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Yeah, his name is his name rhyme with Tom Looney.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
I forget, you know, I forget, you know. I don't
know what happened to him.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
I used to follow him as the update guy.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
And I yeaheah.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
I wonder if his wife hass to clean up after him.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
The worst, the worst, this is the seafood come down
over there. Definitely not all right, I guarantee, thank thank you.
All right, Kelly, here's a question from Art Puffin, who
rites it very you know, it's a real big question,
Art Puffin. He says, Uh, Lorena, are you familiar with
the door test? What is the door test?
Speaker 7 (33:20):
You know that the door test?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 7 (33:22):
Does he explain it in there?
Speaker 1 (33:24):
He does not.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
Okay, well, you're gonna have to let us know, Art,
because I want to know what the door test is.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
I believe it's from the movie A Bronx Tale.
Speaker 7 (33:33):
I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Uh yeah, I don't. I don't anyone know anyone.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
No, says the door test is a dating test that
involves opening the car door for a date and waiting
for her to unlock it for you.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Oh okay, Oh oh.
Speaker 7 (33:48):
Well, you know, I think you should get the door
for her. I feel like the doors is naturally unlocked.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Now, Robbie the Mariner fan says, is five to ten
considered short asking for a friend?
Speaker 7 (33:59):
No, yes, yes it is.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Technically it could be large in other ways, though you
never know, no idea way. Yes, let's see you're uh
you can't read that. Uh, let's take well, let's take
another call. When we take, let's do any the comic guy,
Andy the comic book Guy. Hello, Andy the comic book Guy.
Speaker 8 (34:20):
Oh, hello Lorraine.
Speaker 10 (34:22):
Now, thank you for taking my question.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
So I am getting married, uh next summer.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Congratulations?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Are we are we invited the wedding.
Speaker 8 (34:34):
Actually, you are preaptively on our first trap of the list.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Yes, all right, and there is a lot of static
on your line.
Speaker 8 (34:40):
I don't know what it looked at first. She's invited,
but because I've met you. But anyway, my question is this.
So I'm getting married. I've lived in La feteen years,
but I'm getting married back in my hometown of Buffalo,
and we are inviting a lot of people. I'm inviting
this one man who is pretty handsome, and I'm just
(35:02):
a little worried you might show up and sell your
wife to him. Yeah, and like the weird thing is
is but this man is actually my hall pass Josh
so handy.
Speaker 6 (35:20):
All that your's a troll phone call.
Speaker 7 (35:27):
I was gonna say, well, you might as well just
have him.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
We already married anyway, Okay, he is.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
That's funny, that's hilarious. What a scenario to imagine in
my head. That was crazy.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
I didn't love it. I did not enjoy it.
Speaker 7 (35:41):
You should love things more often.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Be be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
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and the password is password, you idiots, the word Game
of the Stars.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Here's Ben Meler and right to the game we go.
I didn want to mention though I teased this earlier.
There is a tabloid report that Mark Davis, the guy
that is the owner of the Raiders, his girlfriend is pregnant,
which is gonna find whatever. But she's twenty six and
he how is Mark Davis at this point? What are
(36:24):
we looking at? Like mid sixties? I think something like that.
Probably anyway, he's sixty eight, Wow, sixty eight Now we
don't know for sure that it's his kid, but that
would be awkward. If his girlfriend had a kid and
it wasn't his kid, that would be a little awkward.
But I don't know what happens in Vegas. You know, Hey,
good for them, a right, let's welcome in our contestants.
(36:46):
We have Blake in Arkansas. Hello, Blake, what's going on?
Speaker 12 (36:51):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Welcome in Blake? How's life?
Speaker 10 (36:53):
It's going for some betting advice? But I'm already on
the line, Tory Monus sol pleasant game, all right.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Great attitude like that. You're settling to play the game
which people are call up begging to play. And you
don't need my advice. Blake. You're you're a made man
there in Arkansas with your business.
Speaker 10 (37:11):
I know, look at the.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Futures for NC Baseball.
Speaker 8 (37:18):
Just take four SC games.
Speaker 10 (37:20):
You'll want some money.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
All right, we'll deal with that later. We have Chris
in Boston, who's gonna play? Hello Christopher, Good morning, Ben.
How's everything in Boston this morning? Everything is great, very
nice here. All right, let's play the game last night game. Yeah,
the Bruins are back until they're not back, baby, they're back.
The B's are back, Blake, who do you want to
(37:42):
partner up with? Blake? You got me, Eddie, Lorena or Coop.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
I'll take Bucky Man.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
All right, we're in it. And Chris, what about you? Chris?
Who do you want to partner up with? Chris? Let's sake, Eddie,
Well you want to lose the game, that's going to happen. Yeah, okay,
we have a list of words one to ten and Blake,
you were on first and your teamed up with me,
so we're gonna win. So please pick a number one
to ten. Please number one, number one. Yes, you got
(38:13):
to say it was Try it again, maybe it'll work
this time. Go ahead, No, I was giving you the opportunity.
Let's go with hmmm. I'll be stunned if anybody gets no,
one's gonna get this. This is out.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
I will, I will go ahead.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I'm about component.
Speaker 5 (38:34):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Guess that guest component component, Blake.
Speaker 12 (38:43):
I'm thinking, thanks much time as you want. Okay, we're
off to a good start as we expect.
Speaker 8 (38:54):
Go.
Speaker 6 (38:55):
I think this was added when I was on vacation
to the list here.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
I don't remember putting this word on. All right, well,
go ahead there, Chris, I'm sensing a shutout, a low
scoring game. But go ahead, let's go, Eddie. Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
Ingredient, Chris. No, I'm for throwing out.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
I want to see somebody get at least one, right,
go ahead, Uh, Chris, pick a number one two to ten. Element.
By the way, what was element?
Speaker 6 (39:34):
Man?
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Component? Element?
Speaker 5 (39:36):
Chris?
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Number two? Number two? All right? This segments are number two?
All right?
Speaker 5 (39:44):
How about.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Boy? Okay in that room, Annie, this is these words suck.
Speaker 5 (39:53):
Let's go with uh wicker wicker, Yeah, I got that right.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Right, Go ahead there, hurry up, Blake, picking number three
to ten. Three, We're just gonna We're just gonna go one,
two and three.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
All right.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Uh, let me let me check what the hold on said.
Speaker 5 (40:12):
Oh, here we go, funny business.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Yeah, I can do that right cool. He says, that
is not too it's a conjoined word words. All right, whatever,
I don't care, screw you. Let's go.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
Again.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Scorch. The word is worth the birds, scorch bird. That's
not really a win, Eddie. I would say that's a
bad win. I wouldn't take credit for that win.
Speaker 10 (40:40):
That was
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hump day in the overnight and coming up later on
next Now we have Mallard of the third degree that's
on the on deck circle. Also too much or not
enough got the The Queen of Hearts will make its return.
So anything that you want in your life solved, Lorraine, Uh,
(01:55):
we'll solve that for you and password. The word game
is you'll be sleeping by then. You're not gonna be
lit team by then, but we will have pass we
can hear on the podcast later on. The chances of
you listening now and listening at the end of the
show are slimming none, but we'd like to think maybe
like two percent of people will anyway, enough about that,
our lead this hour coming from the mountain territory, the
(02:19):
Rocky Mountains to be exact, that is where well Rocky
Mountain adjacents, shall we say. The pivotal game five tied
up two to two, Minnesota and Denver, the reeling Wolves,
the upstart Nuggets playing like they did a year ago
after El Stinko. The first couple of games. Well, if
(02:40):
you didn't watch this, and maybe not, maybe you didn't
care about it. Nikola Jokicic turning on the after burners.
That's a basketball player. He won the MVP. They gave
it to him before the game. Nicola Ogic went out
forty points, thirteen assists, seven rebounds, a partridge in a
pear tree, and the Denver basketball team mollywopped the Minnesota
(03:03):
basketball team by fifteen and so they have the team
from Colorado a three games to two lead the Nuggets,
clearly fueled by the Mallard food dish there in Denver.
They ended up getting the victory rather easily in the
fourth quarter. Really never in doubt they had a lead
(03:24):
at arms length. They did trail briefly in the third quarter.
But the Nuggets are one win away from heading back
to the Final four of the NBA. So let us
discuss the question better story losing locker room. So who
gets the largest part of the Timberwolves Juicy Lucy a blame.
(03:46):
So I've got plato head and shoulders and delta, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make the Mighty Mississippi that runs through
the Twin Cities, and kind of like the Nuggets are
running through the Timberwolves. Here these last few games, so a,
(04:07):
there's plenty of sports talk shame to go around for
the Minnesota basketball team. That is obvious. However, it falls
ultimately on the yin and the yang, the yin and
the yang. What does that mean? We start with Anthony Edwards.
I like this guy. He's dynamic, he's fun, he's exciting.
(04:28):
He's not Michael Jordan, although some have tried to compare
him to Michael Jordan. That's fine. But in this game,
if you didn't see it, Anthony Edwards played like your
aunt Betty, your seventy year old aunt Betty out there.
My god, Edwards a very empty eighteen points. It was
one of nine, at one point five of fifteen. He
finished from the floor. He was the Duke Anthony Edwards,
(04:52):
the Duke of Puke in this game, barf bag worthy
performance by a headliner, the coming out party for Anthony Edwards,
and he did not show up. And I do love
when the Nuggets lose at home, which they did the
first couple of games. We hear a lot about the altitude,
and we don't hear about the altitude. Rather, when they
lose it home, when they win in home, it's the altitude.
(05:12):
It's all Man, that team's tired. People seem to have
trouble making sure what the reality is of that? Is
it the altitude? Because like the Nuggets my entire life,
every couple of years, the Nuggets win a championship because
of the altitude. They almost never lose at home, and
they win all the time in the playoffs because of
the altitude unless they know. But as far as the
(05:34):
yen and the end, get back to that. So Anthony Edwards,
the Duke of Puke, we got that barf bag. How
about the French rejection. There was a lot of rejection,
but it was not It was not at the hands
of Rudy Gobert, Defensive player of the Year times four
in the NBA and the most polarizing player in pro basketball.
(05:58):
There was no player in the NBA had a noise
more of the elites in the NBA than Rudy Gobert.
They can't stand this guy. They can't stand it, and
they were having orgasms watching him drown on the court
in this game that was played a few hours ago.
Less than that, the stifled tower Gobzilla as they call him, well, NICOLEA.
(06:21):
Jokic streated Rudy Gobert like a kid handles play though
it was absolute child's play here. The Wolves just the
snapshit I have. I don't know if you noticed this
or not, if you're watching the game. Even blind Emmett
saw this. Walking off the court. The Wolves are walking
off the court. They looked absolutely bedraggled. As you're sorry
(06:43):
they lost the game, they're supposed to be done. I
get that, but there was something more. There was something
more to this. You had a shot of their coach
on crutches trying to get off the court. You had
Carl Anthony Towns who had a limp as he was
hobbling off the court. Mike Connelly didn't even play in
the game. He was unable to make the cut with
(07:05):
a sore achilles, so he was out. And the team
just looks exhausted, fatigue, draine zonked, all of those things.
That's what Minnesota looks like. And so will we get
a win by Minnesota to force a game seven? Or
will they meekly roll over and play dead as so
many great Minnesota teams have done in the past, Now
(07:25):
turning the page. If you watched the game on TV
or just listen to the audio on the TV broadcast,
you probably noted that it sounded a lot different. It
looked a lot different because Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley
were not there. They were not sick, they did not
have the gobbly gook, they didn't have any of that. Instead,
(07:51):
they were out working the advertising market for TNT So
where are you at on Shaq and Charles Barkley, missing
the beloved inside the NBA for TNTs up front in
New York City? Where you at on that? So? I
hated it. I look forward to this. I look forward
to watching Charles Barkley more than I do these stupid
(08:14):
games that I'm watching for the NBA, beause most of
them are not very enjoyable. And this was a great example.
You had the Knickerbockers who took a can of whoop
ass to the Pacers in the early game, and Denver
never really in any danger stranger danger against Minnesota. So
I look forward to bark. I didn't get my bark.
(08:34):
I did not get my bark. Draymond Green was on
there a human tranquilizer for a guy that loves to
kick people in the nuts and punch them. Boy, is
that guy a boar? Traymond Green, My god, do people
feed him lines for his podcast? That is terrible. He sucks.
And then you have Vince Carter. I'd rather hear hollering
(08:56):
James snore than Vin's cart. What a boar, hit the
mute button. It's nothing personal. You just suck at this.
But you got to put these guys on right their
ex jocks, You gotta put them on TV. They're terrible,
My god, horrific. And if there was any doubt that
Charles Barkley is the secret sauce, if you had any
(09:17):
question about how valuable Charles Barkley is as a broadcaster,
he is the straw and not a cheap, crappy paper
straw like they have in California in other place. He's
a real plastic straw that will last ten thousand years.
And he stirs the drink. There for TNT and that
was a refresher course. And Charles Barkley and Shack were
(09:38):
laying out in New York City. They were laying out
bottles of head and shoulders, shall we say, the bottles
of head and shoulders right there for Madison Avenue, As
the Great John Sterling told me on my podcast The
Fifth Hour a couple of years back, he said, the
most important thing is to sell the soap. So Charles
Barkley trying to sell a lot of soap, and it's
very important. Otherwise X nay on the TNTA for Charles Barkle.
(10:04):
This is a last ditch you'd call it in football.
Be a hil Mary play TNT. If they get enough
ad money. If the people on Madison Avenue pay top
dollar here, then TNT will increase the check they're going
to cut to the NBA. If not, Turner will be
(10:25):
excommunicated and say bye bye to Ernie Johnson. He'll go
at Barkley and Kenny Smith and those guys will likely
go somewhere else, but it will not be the same.
So those are the sticks. Now the last word. We
pivot quickly an emergency portion of the Malard monologue. We
go now to the lone Star state. We talk baseball,
talking bays Ball. An old friend has a return here
(10:49):
in Major League Baseball on random night, middle of the week.
May not a lot going on in the sport of
baseball this week. Well in Houston, ding Ding Ding ding Ding. Yeah,
scandal in Houston. The Astros have a starter named Brunel Blanco,
the cheating Astros. He puts the cheat in the ass
(11:12):
one thousand and two, one thousand holes. So Renel Blanco
was ejected at the game on Tuesday night there and
started the fourth inning. It was a two to one
victory over the Athletics, the nomads of baseball, and Renel
Blanco ejected for cheating. So wild scene. The third base
umpire laz Di as I've heard of him, he came
(11:33):
over and he he was ejecting Blanco. Right. He checked
his glove a regular DUI checkpoint, if you will, in
this case a pine tar checkpoint, and it was more
than pine tar, though threw a pitch in Before he
had thrown a pitch in the fourth inning, Blanco was
given the heave ho the umpires Blanco the manager of
(11:55):
the cheaters, Joe Espada, I believe this is the guy's name,
and they had a brief powwow on the mound and
then the right handed pitcher was given the boot. Now,
Blanco's glove was confiscated and taken to FBI headquarters blank
blank blank blank unless it wasn't, but the glove was
(12:16):
taken by the umpires and putting a secret location, So
hopefully nobody'll sneak through the catwalks there in Houston to
try to get said glove back. But here's the deal. Yet,
the ass they won the game? Who cares about that?
Can you explain why starting pitcher Renel Blanco and the
(12:36):
Astros are back cheating again? Well, you could argue they
never stopped cheating, But have you seen the team play? Hello,
have you watched any of this product? That's a bad product.
There's worms, there's worms in the product here. That's a
fleabag outfit in Houston. Houston has been a mill dewey team,
(13:02):
especially in particular on the pitching staffy A one one
thousand holes. They have been like remember that story, I
think it was a year ago, two years ago, that
Delta flight, Remember the one from Atlanta to Barcelona that
had a biohazard issue because somebody went in the bathroom
and there was like poop and feces that was flowing
(13:24):
down the player. That's the Astros. They're twenty eighth in
er a twenty eight in whip. They whip, and they
whip it bad, the Astros. And so what they've done
here is they've gone back to the franchise charter. That's
what they've done. They've gone back to the franchise charter there,
(13:44):
and they're showing their true colors. When you peel back
the onion, even though the names have changed other than
Alboovey Bragman and one or two other players from that
unpunished cheating team of twenty seventeen. Nonetheless, when you peel
back everything here, you have to now question the entire
(14:07):
body of work of Renel Blanco a total fraud. He's
got stanky stank all over him here, Blanco, who threw
a no hitter. But of course baseball will not do anything.
Oh no, no, no, it was all good. It was all kosher.
Blanco threw a no hitter this season. In his debut
this season, threw a no hitter, lot four hits, struck
(14:30):
out one on Tuesday while cheating. The umpire's finally caught
up to him in the fourth inning. He has an
ERA of just over two this season. That's some really
good pintar. How soon before the bang bang, the trash
cans and whistle whistle come back. How soon before that
comes back, Blanco is going to get an automatic ten
(14:50):
games suspension, So he'll be out for ten games. But
there you go. That cheat's gonna cheat. And they are dirty,
rotten cheaters, the Houston a holes and even and all
they suck. Imagine having to cheat against the Oakland Athletics.
I mean, that's one thing. You're going against the Yankees.
Right on the dodge, you say, Okay, we got to
play a good team. You're playing the Athletics and you
(15:12):
gotta cheat to beat the Athletics? Are you kidding me?
You pathetic loser.
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from the Empire State, the Empire City in the Empire State,
from above station in the middle of the concrete jungle,
the belly of the Beast. There in Manhattan, the visiting
(17:10):
Pacers as they were in town for a playdate Game
number five, Big Game five. They're trying to take a
bite out of the Big Apple against the Knickerbockers. Were
you watching, well, you definitely didn't miss anything. If you
missed this, you didn't know in terms of competition, in
terms of the gag factor. Somebody missing a shot late, No,
(17:32):
that didn't happen. There was no need to worry about
missing a shot late. The game was over way way
earlier than that. So, as we like to say, don't worry.
We watched so you would not have to. It's our
good MITSVA of the day. And Jalen Brunson, he didn't
put up double Nichols, he put double four's up forty
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four points for Jalen Brunson, and the Knicks dismembered the
Pacers one twenty one to ninety one. That is a
thirty point win. How often in the NBA playoffs is
a team lost by thirty plus and then come back
and one by thirty or more. Well, it's just happened
in the back to back games in this series. Eastern
Conference semi Finals, Game five goes to New York. So
(18:16):
they have a three to two lead in the second
round playoff series. Let us discuss the question where did
things go wrong for the Pacers. So I've got stage name,
Harry Potter and travel agent, and we'll combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a pratfall,
(18:39):
which is what the Pacers had. They had a big
pratfall for everyone to see. I actually thought this game
would be somewhat close. Bad job by me, But anyway,
Number one where things went wrong for the Pacers the
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moment they went through TSA. The moment they said, can
you raise your hands in the air and stand there
so we can take an X ray scan of your junk.
That is where things went wrong for the Indiana basketball team.
They were apparently staying at a hostel in Manhattan. There
they had cockroaches and vermin all over the place of
(19:19):
that wowsers. Now, if you're going to single out one
particular person, it has to be Tyrese Halliburton. That's the person.
Because Halle Burton was not part of the plan for Indiana.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
He was terrible.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
His stage name, if he was a professional wrestler would
be el Stinko, as he played like Elstinko, finished with
a lethargic thirteen points, five assists, two rebounds to turnovers.
A non factor. He was there, but wasn't helpful in
any way. Not a dynamic playmarker. He has been that
guy we've seen him be that guy, but he wasn't
(19:57):
in this game. And that's a trend that we saw
on this night because Anthony Edwards also was a non
factor for Minnesota in their game against Denver. But Tyre's
Haliburton is not as good as Anthony Edwards. But he
was just kind of dragging along. Did he have some
bad street food before the game. Maybe he went to
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one of those carts and they gave him a hot
dog that was all nasty. I don't know, But unable
to push the pace and zombie like is the way
I would describe the way Tyreese Haliburton was playing most
of that game. In general, there was just a fog
over the Indiana basketball team. And how is this series
looking now? After five games? Five games? We know New
(20:41):
York has the lead, but after five games the series
is looking the word is I will use the word blurry.
It's looking a little blurry because we do head back
to the Hoosier State in Indiana. We know they like
home cooking, we know that. And these teams are a
carbon copy of each other so far in this series.
(21:02):
They've been carbon copies. They play very well at home,
and they stink when they go on the road and
the New York players. I kept reading stories about how
injured the Knicks are and how messed up they are,
and Tom Thibodeau is the devil incarnate and he's running
the players like a drill sergeant, like he's some kind
of despotic leader into the ground. And then I watched
(21:24):
the Knicks go out at home against the Pacers. They
look fine. Jelen Brunson, boys, he's got one leg. He
didn't look like it looked fine, played very well. But
now I promise you this. I don't know a lot,
but I do know we will get a game seven
back at the Mecca, the world's most famous arena, Madison
(21:45):
Square Garden. There will be a game seven. So I'm
marking down right now in Penn, not in Pen's in Penn.
I am writing down and get my pen, my pen
somewhere here all right there it is, here's I found
my pain. I'm writing down in Penn that the win
will go to Indiana in game six. And I'm never
wrong about these, never wrong about these. All right now,
(22:06):
turning the page on that, we go to another series
tied up at two too. There's a trend. It's almost
like this is all planned, It's preordained. Dallas and Oklahoma
City tied up to two Western semi finals. The mainstream
basketball media I took some of their content. They've been
debating whether or not the Luca Donzik is healthy. They're
(22:28):
biting their fingernails. Oh no, balancing hope and fear and
the nagging knee injury as a source of much conjecture
from the basketball media. The implication rather obvious that Luka
is covering up and the Mavericks are covering something up,
even though he wouldn't admit to it. There's something going on,
(22:50):
So question are the reports? Are the reports the MAVs
star Luka Doncik is hiding an injury? Is this something
thing or nothing? Is this something or nothing that he's
hiding an injury? So it is something. It is something
that is tremendously annoying. Makes me want to puke in
(23:12):
my mouth, That's what that is. Okay, It just Luca
has sucked at a time you cannot suck in a
couple of these games, mainly the last game in particular,
where he had amazing stats filling up categories, but not
in terms of helping the Mavericks win the final five
and a half minutes. But rather than just say hey,
(23:34):
he took up a side hustle as a freemason, rather
than just say that that you again sucked at a
time you cannot suck. Instead they go the NBA media.
They go to their Harry Potter Book of Spells, paid
seventy seven. How to candy coat any crap bag performance
in the playoffs? Have you noticed? It might be the
(23:55):
only one. I'm really saying, I must be the only
one that notices the NBA media any time a star
player throws out a dud. It's never that they just
played bad. Well, it's because they're hurt. That's why they
put shut up, shut up, stop. I mean, what's going
on with that? And as we have known over the years,
(24:16):
there there is a difference, right, there's a difference between
playing hurt and when you're actually injured and you're supposed
to in playoff games. You're playoffs, you're supposed to play
when you're hurt. That that happens quite often. If you're injured,
you're not supposed to play. So if Luca's injured, that's fine,
he shouldn't be playing. If he's hurt, you know, suck
(24:38):
it up, Buttercup, rub some dirt on it there, and
what are we gonna give this guy a purple heart
for playing with a with a sore knee bravery in action,
Luca Dontrich My god, what a dumbbo alright, anyway, final point.
We now turn to the gossip wheel, always a fun
thing to talk about. This is what will fuel the
(24:58):
conversation once these playoff games end. A trade rumor started
by a washed up former NFL player, of all people
bouncing around the echo chamber, it's coming to my attention
that it involves the Phoenix basketball team, Kevin Durant telling
a fledgling podcaster that he would have a have no problem,
(25:20):
cought have no problem coming down to Miami, Miami, Miami.
If it made sense, not the end of that. That's
weasel terminology. If it made sense, what makes sense to
you might not make sense to me. So that, of
course was the kerosene on top of the barbecue that
ignited this story. KD wants to play in South Beach.
(25:43):
That chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter went everywhere. So let's discuss
the question thumbs up or thumbs down? Is there anything
to the Suns being a legitimate possibility for Kevin Durant
to send him to the Heat. That the Sons would
send Durant to the Heat. Is that thumbs up er
thumbs down, So I'm gonna go thumbs up that there's
(26:03):
something to this, So I'm gonna go thumbs up on this.
It is on brand for Durant. Whether it's the Heat
or a mystery team that happens to have a lot
of wins and a lot of glamour to them, you
have to say that Durant is more likely than not
if he has the opportunity to finagle his way out
(26:24):
of Arizona, he will do it. So it's on brand.
This is in his DNA as a player. We've watched
it over the years. It's the soundtrack is the Johnny
Cash Classic. I've been everywhere man since he was born
in DC, and maybe I missed a couple of cities here,
But as a basketball player, Kevin Durant has played high
(26:48):
school or above DC, Maryland, Virginia, Austin, Texas, Seattle, Oklahoma City, Oakland, Brooklyn,
and Phoenix. And he ain't done yet. He's still got
a couple of years left in the tank. And so
when times get tough for Kevin Durant, he gets going
(27:09):
in terms of leaving wherever he is going to another
team and Katie loves to hit the panic button. He
knows how to contact via text his travel agent and
enter the transfer portal. And you know he'd love to
do it, love to do it again because that Sun's
team's a little broken. Didn't work out. They fired their
coach already, Frank Vogel and paying him for the next
(27:31):
four years to do nothing.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
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Would mean a lot to have you join us on
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you get your podcast. Here we go, here we go,
here we go, here we ma how about that?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets great?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
All right, Coop the loop?
Speaker 5 (28:19):
All right, Ben?
Speaker 6 (28:20):
There are only a couple of teams in the AL
with a worse record than the Houston Astros. We discussed
this earlier, Only a few teams in all of baseball
with the worst record. Despite this, their GM says he
can't predict any scenario where the Astros sell it the deadline.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Ben, are you buying that?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I am buying it. And here's why nobody wants that
trash out of Houston. Right. Altuve and Bregman are tainted.
They're dirty, they're dirty, rotten cheeters, Coop, nobody wants them,
and the other guys are as stiffs on that team.
So in this case, I actually believe him.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Next, Broncos wide receiver Courtland Sutton continues to work out
away from his team facility as he looks to get
a reworked contract with a pay raise. He's requested a trade,
but the Broncos don't plan on doing so. Ben, how
do you think this turns out?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I think they'll trade him because they have the salary.
They'll say they have no money, even though they can
come up with money, and they'll end up trading him
for like a fifth round draft. Oh and then you'll
complain and you'll whine and all that.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
And next recent report made claims that the Jets made
legitimate attempts to hire someone who would run the show
on offense over Nathaniel Hackett. Hackett would still have had
the offensive coording to their title, but would essentially have
been replaced.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Ben, Where do you think this report came from? So?
I think this came from someone on the Robert Sala coaching,
somebody close to Robert Sala because they want to listen,
we wanted somebody else, but Aaron Rodgers wanted Nathaniel Hackett
the boob to continue. How did we do coop?
Speaker 7 (29:44):
You fail this?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
It is it's a win for me. That is a
win for me, Lorena said, I want and that's a win.
Thank you, Lorena for the win. I appreciate that. Very
kind of you to do.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
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Speaker 5 (30:11):
It's a good byes go little rain an.
Speaker 8 (30:16):
Clean up hearts going to help you get rye gear
rye ton gear right tonight, dear Rye.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
In this is the part you talk.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
You get here forgot my instrumental?
Speaker 1 (30:36):
God, hold on, I need I need my music bed
under here. All right, let me just did this in post.
No one will hear. This is no one actually listening.
Look what time it is? No one's listening? All right,
there's no Oh I'm we're playing again. No, it's this
is the bed.
Speaker 7 (30:53):
Okay, it sounded so empty.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
All right, very excited.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
You don't understand how much I really do over here
right now? Okay, it wasn't just pre made.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
There's a lot of buttons. There's many, many buttons.
Speaker 7 (31:03):
Yes, like love.
Speaker 9 (31:03):
It's very complicated to keep this running, okay, Benjamin, buttons, Yes,
I press them all. Yes, absolutely. So you're going to
answer questions from random people. There are some calls for you. Yes,
would you like to start with a.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Call or do you want to start with a let's
start with a call. Okay, all right, let's see you
pick one or two?
Speaker 7 (31:22):
Go ahead, numero dose sennor all right.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Let's Saloa to Kelly in Nashville. Hello, Kelly, Hello Kelly,
how are we doing?
Speaker 7 (31:32):
We are fantastic on yourself.
Speaker 10 (31:34):
I am doing great this morning. Thank you.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
I forget it's morning.
Speaker 8 (31:38):
Okay.
Speaker 10 (31:39):
So my question is, what is your opinion on how
household duty should be split up in a marriage in
terms of cleaning and cooking and things.
Speaker 11 (31:51):
Well, I, personally, I think it should be more than
just fifty to fifty, right, Like, if you know your
person's busy and hasn't had time to catch up with themselves,
you should go above and beyond fifty fifty.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Well, you know, like Justin and Cincinnati, by the way,
says the woman should do all of it. That's what
he just wrote it.
Speaker 11 (32:10):
I mean if oh, yeah, no, I expect to also,
you know, have my partner take care of himself. I
do not expect to clean up after them at all,
unless I want to really c after them.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
What if they're really good but they're just pigs, you know.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
No, if we both work, then we both need to clean.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
I used to work with a guy, that really good guy,
but he just never cleaned up at himself. This guy
used to work here in fact, in the a lot
of trash you leave around food, you know.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Yeah, his name is his name rhyme with Tom Looney.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
I forget, you know, I forget, you know. I don't
know what happened to him.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
I used to follow him as the update guy.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
And I yeaheah.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
I wonder if his wife hass to clean up after him.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
The worst, the worst, this is the seafood come down
over there. Definitely not all right, I guarantee, thank thank you.
All right, Kelly, here's a question from Art Puffin, who
rites it very you know, it's a real big question,
Art Puffin. He says, Uh, Lorena, are you familiar with
the door test? What is the door test?
Speaker 7 (33:20):
You know that the door test?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 7 (33:22):
Does he explain it in there?
Speaker 1 (33:24):
He does not.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
Okay, well, you're gonna have to let us know, Art,
because I want to know what the door test is.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
I believe it's from the movie A Bronx Tale.
Speaker 7 (33:33):
I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Uh yeah, I don't. I don't anyone know anyone.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
No, says the door test is a dating test that
involves opening the car door for a date and waiting
for her to unlock it for you.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Oh okay, Oh oh.
Speaker 7 (33:48):
Well, you know, I think you should get the door
for her. I feel like the doors is naturally unlocked.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Now, Robbie the Mariner fan says, is five to ten
considered short asking for a friend?
Speaker 7 (33:59):
No, yes, yes it is.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Technically it could be large in other ways, though you
never know, no idea way. Yes, let's see you're uh
you can't read that. Uh, let's take well, let's take
another call. When we take, let's do any the comic guy,
Andy the comic book Guy. Hello, Andy the comic book Guy.
Speaker 8 (34:20):
Oh, hello Lorraine.
Speaker 10 (34:22):
Now, thank you for taking my question.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
So I am getting married, uh next summer.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Congratulations?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Are we are we invited the wedding.
Speaker 8 (34:34):
Actually, you are preaptively on our first trap of the list.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Yes, all right, and there is a lot of static
on your line.
Speaker 8 (34:40):
I don't know what it looked at first. She's invited,
but because I've met you. But anyway, my question is this.
So I'm getting married. I've lived in La feteen years,
but I'm getting married back in my hometown of Buffalo,
and we are inviting a lot of people. I'm inviting
this one man who is pretty handsome, and I'm just
(35:02):
a little worried you might show up and sell your
wife to him. Yeah, and like the weird thing is
is but this man is actually my hall pass Josh
so handy.
Speaker 6 (35:20):
All that your's a troll phone call.
Speaker 7 (35:27):
I was gonna say, well, you might as well just
have him.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
We already married anyway, Okay, he is.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
That's funny, that's hilarious. What a scenario to imagine in
my head. That was crazy.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
I didn't love it. I did not enjoy it.
Speaker 7 (35:41):
You should love things more often.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
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and the password is password, you idiots, the word Game
of the Stars.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Here's Ben Meler and right to the game we go.
I didn want to mention though I teased this earlier.
There is a tabloid report that Mark Davis, the guy
that is the owner of the Raiders, his girlfriend is pregnant,
which is gonna find whatever. But she's twenty six and
he how is Mark Davis at this point? What are
(36:24):
we looking at? Like mid sixties? I think something like that.
Probably anyway, he's sixty eight, Wow, sixty eight Now we
don't know for sure that it's his kid, but that
would be awkward. If his girlfriend had a kid and
it wasn't his kid, that would be a little awkward.
But I don't know what happens in Vegas. You know, Hey,
good for them, a right, let's welcome in our contestants.
(36:46):
We have Blake in Arkansas. Hello, Blake, what's going on?
Speaker 12 (36:51):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Welcome in Blake? How's life?
Speaker 10 (36:53):
It's going for some betting advice? But I'm already on
the line, Tory Monus sol pleasant game, all right.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Great attitude like that. You're settling to play the game
which people are call up begging to play. And you
don't need my advice. Blake. You're you're a made man
there in Arkansas with your business.
Speaker 10 (37:11):
I know, look at the.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Futures for NC Baseball.
Speaker 8 (37:18):
Just take four SC games.
Speaker 10 (37:20):
You'll want some money.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
All right, we'll deal with that later. We have Chris
in Boston, who's gonna play? Hello Christopher, Good morning, Ben.
How's everything in Boston this morning? Everything is great, very
nice here. All right, let's play the game last night game. Yeah,
the Bruins are back until they're not back, baby, they're back.
The B's are back, Blake, who do you want to
(37:42):
partner up with? Blake? You got me, Eddie, Lorena or Coop.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
I'll take Bucky Man.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
All right, we're in it. And Chris, what about you? Chris?
Who do you want to partner up with? Chris? Let's sake, Eddie,
Well you want to lose the game, that's going to happen. Yeah, okay,
we have a list of words one to ten and Blake,
you were on first and your teamed up with me,
so we're gonna win. So please pick a number one
to ten. Please number one, number one. Yes, you got
(38:13):
to say it was Try it again, maybe it'll work
this time. Go ahead, No, I was giving you the opportunity.
Let's go with hmmm. I'll be stunned if anybody gets no,
one's gonna get this. This is out.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
I will, I will go ahead.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I'm about component.
Speaker 5 (38:34):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Guess that guest component component, Blake.
Speaker 12 (38:43):
I'm thinking, thanks much time as you want. Okay, we're
off to a good start as we expect.
Speaker 8 (38:54):
Go.
Speaker 6 (38:55):
I think this was added when I was on vacation
to the list here.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
I don't remember putting this word on. All right, well,
go ahead there, Chris, I'm sensing a shutout, a low
scoring game. But go ahead, let's go, Eddie. Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
Ingredient, Chris. No, I'm for throwing out.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
I want to see somebody get at least one, right,
go ahead, Uh, Chris, pick a number one two to ten. Element.
By the way, what was element?
Speaker 6 (39:34):
Man?
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Component? Element?
Speaker 5 (39:36):
Chris?
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Number two? Number two? All right? This segments are number two?
All right?
Speaker 5 (39:44):
How about.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Boy? Okay in that room, Annie, this is these words suck.
Speaker 5 (39:53):
Let's go with uh wicker wicker, Yeah, I got that right.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Right, Go ahead there, hurry up, Blake, picking number three
to ten. Three, We're just gonna We're just gonna go one,
two and three.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
All right.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Uh, let me let me check what the hold on said.
Speaker 5 (40:12):
Oh, here we go, funny business.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Yeah, I can do that right cool. He says, that
is not too it's a conjoined word words. All right, whatever,
I don't care, screw you. Let's go.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
Again.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Scorch. The word is worth the birds, scorch bird. That's
not really a win, Eddie. I would say that's a
bad win. I wouldn't take credit for that win.
Speaker 10 (40:40):
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