April 16, 2025 • 45 mins
Big Ben talks about the Warriors just barely defeating the Grizzlies in their play-in matchup, Nico Harrison telling reporters that he doesn't regret the Luka Doncic trade, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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two things I know are true. And we are back
at it now. The NBA Playoffs have not started. There
is a misnomer that the playoffs began with two games. No, no, no,
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that was the Qwighlight Zone. It doesn't exist. It's you know,
there's a show back in way back in the nineties.
I was like a little kid and it was called
Seinfeld and they said it was it was the show
about nothing.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
So they called the show.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Well, the playing tournament is basketball games about nothing. There
is no record. They just these games just vanish. They
don't exist, but for the moment they did exist. And
so that is our lead here pro bouncy ball to
play in games.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I don't know if you watch. We're going to start out.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
In the Bay Area in San Francisco, where Jimmy Butler
put up a show thirty eight points at a bunch
of other stats, but thirty eight points to lead the way.
Stephen Curry with thirty seven and that one two punch.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Was barely enough.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
The Warriors outlasted the Grizzlies, who had an unimaginable f
up at the end of this game, like the kind
of f up that should cause the franchise to go
to the G League.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
That kind of f up.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
But the Warriors win it, and so they have earned
the seventh seed. Make sure to fill out your bracket accordingly.
Golden State, the seventh seed in the West. That means
they will go to Houston to hang out in the
den of.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Iniquity, and they will iniquity there.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
They will hang out where the a holes have the
trash cans and all that the baseball team, So that's
where they're headed. Desmond Bain, who sounds like a superhero villain,
had thirty points. And Ja Morant, we almost had our
first injury in the Benny bracket challenge that we're doing
calling it, come on, dumb name. But Ja Morant did
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leave this game with a ankle injury. He came back
in he had twenty two points. And so the Grizzlies
now they're still alive. It's not an elimination situation. But
Memphis will head home and then they will await the
winner of the mav Recks and the Kings.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
That'll be Sacramento that wins that matchup.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
That game being played here later on Wednesday night in
the capital of the People's Republic of California to determine.
So it'll be the winner of that game, which will
be Sacramento. They will take on Memphis. I don't even
know why they're bothering to play that game. So let
us discuss the question. Let's focus in first on the
team that won, and we know they're in the plus,
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how should Steph Curry and friends, Steph Curry and friends,
how should all of them be feeling about the Warriors
after a rather up and down playing win over Memphis.
So I've got thingam a jig, a Christmas story, and
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double whammy, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are gonna make the Gabba Ghoul.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, We're gonna We're gonna make the Gabba Ghul. Al Right, So.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
A uh, the the thought I had two words here,
sweating bullets. Sweating bullets like you're in a hot yoga studio.
The Warriors team, it's fair to say, despite the gotty
record when they went out and got Jimmy Butler, if
you look at how they played the last couple of
weeks in key games, they are not hitting on all cylinders.
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You don't have to be some kind of basketball insider
to know that, just have to have some kind of
marginal elementary knowledge of basketball. The struggle is real. And
that wasn't playoff Jimmy, because this is not a playoff game.
It was playing Jimmy on the roster and with him
it was supposed to be calm waters. You had a
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team on the other side that fired their coach for
some reason right before the end of the year, and
instead of calm waters, com pond water that doesn't move,
it was turbulent seas is what you had. Their Golden
State was not able to hit the thing of a jig.
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The thing of a jig didn't work that it was
supposed to turn on the after burners, and so the
thing of a jig got stuck and they couldn't turn
on the afterburs. It looked at one point if you
watch the game, and that's my act of goodwill, that's
my active kindness, I watched the game so you would
not have to. But they were unable to go full throttle.
They did have a twenty point lead Golden State in
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the second quarter, and at that point you're like, all right,
they're looking like they're gonna blow out the Grizzlies, and
I can go watch some baseball game and just focusing
on that up twenty second quarter, and then you end
up having a finger biting fiesta at the end there.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
And even with.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
John Morant and his air hand grenades and air guns
and all the fake weaponry, he did suffer a sprained ankle.
That was not a fake sprain ankle. That was a
real sprain ankle. But even with that, Steph Curry and friends,
if you look at the way they play the lost
home loss to San Antonio, the loss of the Clippers,
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which you know, that's a good loss. Clippers a better
team than Golden State. But going to the Rockets, now,
the Warriors have that veteran pedigree as they take on
the Rockets that it also looks the way they're going
here that they need a shaman and a couple of
witches on the team playing down there to take on Houston.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Good luck, Steph Curry. Is he washed up?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I don't wash I had a big game here. But
is he gassed? I think that's the word I was
looking for. Gas. And there were some.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Quotes if you listen between the words of Steve Kerr
and some of the others that indicated the Warriors are tired.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
They can't handle the schedule.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
All right, my god, all right, now, let's get to
the Komodo dragon.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
In the room. Can you explain in one word?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Can you explain in one word the Memphis Grizzlies plausibly
an NBA team down three points fourth quarter, win and
you're in the playoffs. Lose, you gotta play another game.
Win and you're in the playoffs. Lose, you gotta play
another game down three five point four seconds left on
the clock, ball out of bounds, ball out of bounds.
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How on God's green Earth do you commit a five
second violation in that situation that The word I have
is I jotted this down on my notesapp on my phone. Malfeasance.
Don't ask me to smell it. Malfeasance is the word
that was why MCA like it is what that was.
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And I don't even know the name of the interim
coach with the Grizzlies. There's no need to learn the
name because he ain't keeping that job. But my god,
what are you doing? I mean, I mean, holy you know.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
What I mean?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
You're right there? He got to get there. You can't
get the ball and bounds. At least get a shot up.
Get the ball that Desmond Baine who was was killing it,
and they didn't do that.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
All right, Now we turn the page.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
We go to Orlando where Mickey Mouse lives down the street.
Cole Anthony, he said, I'm no Mickey Mouse, I'm not Goofy,
I'm not Donald Duck. But he went wacky off the
bench twenty six points, a lot of extended garbage time
as a bench player. Cole Anthony led the way twenty
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six points, six assists, and the Orlando basketball team gets
a one, twenty ninety five blowout. That's a vaporizing, a
vaporizing of the team from Georgia, the Hawks. And so
that's that was the early game, the Eastern Conference game.
Paulo Bonceno seventeen points, nine rebound, seven assists for the Floridians.
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As they have locked their ticket in, they have earned
the Eastern Conference seven seed, a five hundred record, forty
one up, forty one down, and the Magic or the
seventh seed. That means they have a date in the Commonwealth,
the Magic and Celtics that'll kickoff on Sunday, and Orlando
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split four games against Boston during the regular season. But
you can't judge anything off that because the players don't
try in the regular season.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Most of them do not show up to work.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
It is a massive problem in that business and it
continues to be a problem no matter what they do.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
The players just are soft. They're weak. They can't handle it.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
The better story though, in this one, was in the
losing locker room. There was some faux outrage at the
end of this game. As the Hawks now they will
play at home Friday night. They're not eliminated. They'll play
for the eighth spot. They'll play the winner of the
Bulls and.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
The Heat on Friday night.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
But Hawks star guard Trey Young was ejected with four
forty eight left in the fourth quarter. He picked up
not one, but two quick technical fouls, the first one
for throwing the ball at an official in an angerly manner,
the second for kicking the ball away before the magic
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shot foul shots, and that was the old seal. Later
get out of here. So somebody will say, oh, you
can't eject Trey Young, what are you doing here? So
was Trey Young? Was Trey Young's ejection with a little
less than five minutes to go fair or foul. So
upon an experedited review a seconds long. I only needed
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to watch this one time. Fair ball, fair ball, fair call,
fair ball, fair call. Tray Young?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
What he did here? He went a Christmas story.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
He tripled dog dared, triple dog dared.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
James Williams, the generically named official.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And you and I both know if you triple dog
dare someone, they gotta do it. It's a triple dog dare.
And it was a triple dog dare by Trey Young.
And he wanted to get out of there. And he
was like he was singing, Nana na na eh, good bye.
It was premeditated. The Hawks were getting spit roasted by Orlando.
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They were down by twenty. It seemed like the entire
game they were getting there, you know what hand of them.
And so Trey Young decided that he would get a
jump on everybody. The creature comforts in the locker room
as opposed to hemorrhoids sitting.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
On the bench.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
All right now, turning the page away from these Hugaysey
playing games, we go now to the Big Easy where
the streets are talking and they are telling us that
the inevitable is about to have become reality if you're
looking ahead in the hot top time machine and trying
to figure out what's going to be the big story
of the silly season. Because every year in the silly
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season in pro bouncy ball, you gotta have at least
two big name players that change teams, or at least
the talk that at least two big name players that
change teams. They do it every year. It's all part
of the writing. The writing team there in the writing
room they put that together.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
So one of the.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Names, according to the chatter, they're telling us that the Pelicans,
silly named basketball team there in Louisiana, that they have
given the ownership there has given the newly appointed Joe Dumars.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
That's right. You think Joe Dumares had this job like
a month ago or two months ago. Probably did.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Joe Dumars, who's now the GM there, the old Piston guy,
and he has been mandated to deal away the dead
weight otherwise known as Zion Williamson. So how do you
digest how do you digest Zion Williamson trade talks that
will pop up here as we get through the next
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couple of months and through the playoffs and all that
in New Orleans. So I digest this like Zion digests
a tray of Begnet's. I'm talking about the puffy pastry,
that delicious, that donut just wonderful. Uh. And Zion, who
was drafted number one overall number and recall at the time,
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the guy was so good he was literally jumping out
of his shoes at Duke the handful of games he
played for Duke, and so every one said, oh man,
this guy's God's gift of basketball. He's the next prodigy
and all that stuff. So they tagged him.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
With the capitol P potential.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
And again, a prospect is a suspect until proven otherwise.
And Zion, because of that, he wrote checks that were
massive and even though he has a just jumbo size,
just absolute jumbo size, padunkadunk could not cash those checks.
And he's got the double whammie Zion. He's overweight and
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injury prone. Overweight and injury prone and injury prone. That's
a dime a dozen in the NBA. But you toss
in the overweight. Oh boy, So who do you see.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Making a run at Zion on the trade market? Now?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Looking in to our Malar crystal ball, which is never wrong.
The Mallard crystal ball, never wrong. We see my Miami, Miami, Miami, Miami, Chicago, Brooklyn,
and as a wild card, the crystal ball, which is
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never wrong. The Charlotte Hornets go back close to home.
He's from South Carolina. That's the closest team there in
North Carolina. The Hornets go down there below the Mason
Dixon line, Miami. If they can get some of that
water that the fountain of youth from Ponce de Leon.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
If they can do that, you go to Miami.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Nothing good happens in basketball in Brooklyn, and the Bulls
have to suck for like one hundred years because they
had Michael Jordan for all those years. But Zion, either way,
he's a diminished asset. The bloom is off the rose
at this particular point. But there's enough people in that business.
There's enough people that will say, well, he's young enough
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and he just hasn't been coached up the right way,
and we'll just get him big bottle of ozepic and
he'll be lean and mean, and we'll keep them away
from the only fans models and the watch out.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
There to the moon, to the Moon, to the Moon,
To the Moon, to the Moon, To the Moon, to
the Moon.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
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Speaker 1 (16:23):
This hour is from the Lone Star State High Drama.
We have a mantra we go where these stories of
the day take us and right now this hour deep
in the heart of Texas and that is where the
mav Res and they are the Maverrecks.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Now they will play, proving there are too many.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Teams involved in the NBA postseason slash play and the
Mavericks the mav rex will take on Sacramento later on tonight,
but Maverick GM Nico Harrison addressing Yes Fire Niko, Nico
Harrison addressing the Komodo draft in the room and really
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more like the snuffleofagus in the room. Nico addressing the
media in only ways that he can do it in
a very private round table cloak and dagger like discussion.
This took place on Tuesday, was the first time since
giving away the Family Jewels, literally giving away Luca in
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one of the most absurd moments in the history of Sports.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Well, I've been doing this job anyway.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
So if you didn't hear what he said, and maybe
not Nico Harrison, chances are you didn't hear it.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
There's no video of it. So Nico Harrison said that
he has no.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Regrets, no regrets trading the Maverick superstar, no regrets trading Luca,
despite universal backlash, every single person.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
In lockstep that you're wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
He is standing Nico Harrison on top of if mountain
and he said, no, I'm right.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
So if you didn't hear the quote. Now, we don't
have video of this, and I don't believe.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
There's any that is out there. It's not allowed. We'll
explain why in a second. But Nico Harrison said he
has no regrets trading away the aforementioned Luca. He said,
there's no regrets on the trade. He grumbled during this
roundtable discussion with the media. Part of it is doing
the best thing for the MAVs. Now Nico Harrison gushed
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that he believes the team post trade, which was intended
to be on the court before all the injuries, is
a quote championship team. Nico added that once everyone is
at full strength, the team will have one of the
strongest front lines in the NBA. Okay, let us discuss.
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So why don't we play the what's the word game?
Let's play what's the word game? I love what's the
word game? One of my favorite games.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
What's the word? I love words? I like the lexicon.
All right, here's the what's the word game? Question?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
MAVs GM Nico Harrison, saying that he has no regrets
for giving away Luka Donzik to the Lakers is blank.
So I've got Captain Jack Sparrow, Charlie Latuna, and Aretha Franklin,
and we'll combine all these things together and we are
going to make some ant acid, which is what the
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Dallas fan needs. So again, answer the question, maverism Nico Harrison,
saying he has no regrets for giving away Luka Doncic
to the Lakers is blank.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
What's the word? My word is.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Devilish, as in crafty and devilish. All right, that's my
word here. That's number one. Every man, woman and child,
every man one a child knows that this was not
a trade, this was a give this would give away.
This is a I'm I'm done with college, I'm moving.
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I don't want my ikea furniture. Come pick what you want.
I'm not taking anything with me.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
I'm out. I'm done. That's what that is, right. And
it's akin to arson, is what it is. Right.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
If it was a crime, it would be arson. You'd
burn the building now right. The house is on fire.
The house is on fire. It's a five alarm fire.
It's an unforced error. Unforced error. It is such a
terrible move. This is one of those things. It's like
so wild and crazy to me. It is such an
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f up that most people truly believe that there must
be some kind of conspiracy involved.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
That no one in their right mind, no one.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
That is not on some kind of pharmaceuticals or mandata
to make this kind of move, would make this move.
That is where we're at. So, either it was the
Maverick owners who want to move the team out of
Dallas and move them to Vegas, and they want the
fans to turn on the team, and so they traded
the top player for nothing, gave them away, or it's
at a higher level. NBA TV ratings were terrible, no
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one was watching. Ratings were in the toilet. Adam Silver
and the people in New York there on fifth Avenue
got together and the TV people are saying, we're paying
you a lot of money and you're not giving us
return on investment, and we're going to have to give
make goods because in television and sometimes in radio two,
if you promise an advertiser a certain audience and you
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don't give them that audience, you have to then make
up those commercials. And there's nothing that executives in television
and radio hate more than make goods. They can't stand
it because they're giving free spots away because they didn't
provide the audience they promised to pride. It's problematic. It's problematic.
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So that that's one of the conspiracies. And while we
are in line, and I want the record to show
that we are in line, that Nico Harrison is a
big dummy. He's a big dummy, He's a Schmendrick. I
have an unpopular take. I'm about to share an unpopular take.
I'd like to warn all the affiliates. Unpopular take coming
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down the pike. The part of Nico Harrison not apologizing
is the correct call. It is the right call.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Let me explain.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
It's Captain Jack Sparrow like it is savvy. It is
savvy public figures. I've said this for years. This is
not an original take, but it applies to this. If
you're a public figure, you should never apologize, and in
this case, you certainly shouldn't not tell you why, because
the Maverick fan is not going to forgive you. This
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is an unforgivable sin. What you have done is a
war crime in in the sporting world.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
It's a war crime.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
We need to have a tribunal here. The fan also
does not care if you're sorry. They don't care if
somebody else told you to do it. They just want
to use your apology against you. And the moment that
Nico Harrison apologizes, he's essentially he's admitting culpability.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
He's admitting guilt. It's not gonna make anyone feel better.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
It's not like Luca's gonna walk back and put on
a Maverick uniform again, and it's just going to pour
gasoline on the fire and the lunatics are going to
go ten times harder after Nico Harrison. So the top
course of action here is to just not acknowledge the outrage.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
And so I actually agree with that part of it.
Now there's other parts.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Of this that are completely ridiculous now turning the page two.
One of those would be Nico Harrison. He was asked
at this little shindig, if he feels an obligation to
the Maverick fan, if there's an obligation to the fan,
and he said no. He said, no, my obligations are
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to the Dallas Mavericks. What's in the best interest of
the Dallas mav Rex that's the most important thing.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Close quote.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
So how do you decode Nico Harrison and his word
about not caring about the Maverick fan. See, this was
a unforced error, much like the Luca Doncik trade. It
was also Charlie the Tuna like now, Charlie Latuna was
his character back in the day, and the players on
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the New York Giants used to pick on Bill Parcells
and they said, you look like that Charlie the Tuna,
And Bill Parcells had a quote he said, if you
listen to the fans, he said, you'll be sitting.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Up there with him.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
So it's that mindset. However, on this one, it's a
very simple answer. It's like, yeah, the without the fan,
the Mavericks are nothing. The whole business model is based
on the fan. So if your obligation is not to
the fan, then it's like, well, I don't care about
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the customers. You're literally serving the customers, you moron. And
what do you need in that profession? You know it,
and I know it. Everyone knows it. You need stars.
You gotta have the star. It's the entertainment world, it's
show business. That is the world you're in. And part
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of me is wondering, is that a tel? Is that
a tel? What does that mean? Did Harrison reveal that
he was simply following the orders of ownership and so
he's not obligated to the fan. He's obligated to the
owner who told him to get rid of Luca because
they want to move the team to Vegas, and the
quickest way to move the team to Vegas is to
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get rid of this guy right now. Final point. So
here's where it gets even crazier. There were reports throughout
the day, and some of this happened while I was sleeping,
But when I woke up, I was I was acutely
aware of what was going on.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I was dialed in.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
So why did the Dallas Mavericks outlaw cameras? Why did
they ban cameras from the Nico Harrison news conference. So
not only did they ban cameras, originally they banned recording devices,
which I'm pretty sure makes it not a news conference
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and makes it like just like a board meeting or
something like that. But my answer is the it's the
Aretha Franklin tune from back in the day, Chain of fools.
It is a pr debacle. What are you afraid of? Like?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
What do you do?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
And the other thing that drives me nuts. And I've
been battling this for a long time, these teams, and
we talk about it on these era you know, the
media elites that cover the games that are inside hand picked,
and the Dallas Mavericks did it, Like I would be
embarrassed to be on that list.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
But the Dallas Mavericks they.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Picked hand picked media buddies, right media friends, useful idiots
in the media, and they invited them behind closed doors.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
For this little get together.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
And again initially they didn't want to allow any video
or audio, the handpicked toadies the knee pad, whereas the
brown nosers and the media there in Dallas they objected. Originally,
we were told, and then the Mavericks all right, well,
you can record on your little phones there or whatever.
You can't publish anything. You can't do it just to
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transcribe stuff. Talk about real balls, real balls.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Now. The other theme here.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Is that the Mavericks traded for Anthony Davis, and we
mentioned the quote from Nico Harrison. He said, well, I
would have worked out if if the injuries hadn't happened.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
And you know what that is. That is a steaming.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Shovel full of bullshoy. It is piping hot fertilizer, is
what that is. And ifs and butts were candy and nuts,
you'd win the championship every year. The criticism of the trade,
the whole point that people were going was that we
you didn't get enough in return, and what you got.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Was a damaged player in Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
You can't play the injury excuse when you trade for
a player that is universally known as a broken down
useless player because he's not dependable.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
And then he gets broken down and becomes useless.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
You can't then say well, if only we had stayed
healthy again, ifs and butts were candy and nuts, you'd
win the championship every year.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
And the Mavericks now they're building.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Around two injury prone players, two aging players, Kyrie Irving
and Anthony Davis. And if you look at their injury charts,
it goes on page down, page down, page down.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Pay. I mean, it just keeps going and going going.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
It's like an energizer, Buddy, he goes and goes and
goes and goes.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
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Speaker 3 (29:13):
Here we go, here we got smaller. How about that?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Coobler all right, Ben, love to see here.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Former Cardinals cornerback Patrick Peterson returned to Arizona on Monday
to announce his retirement with the team that drafted him
back in twenty eleven. Ben, do you think Peterson is
a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
He's a borderline Hall of Famer. The criteria that I
use for the Hall of Fame, he does not. He's borderlines.
He wasn't All Pro three times. He was on an
All Decade team. But you can certainly tell the story
of the NFL without.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Mentioning Patrick Peterson.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
There's really nothing there there that is over the top memorable.
He's one of those borderlines guys that it'll maybe he
gets in down the line, but it's not a no brainer.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Next, quarterback Will Howard recently said the same thing that
all draft prospects say. Draft meal, you're or you will
regret it.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
You will regret it.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
Ben, what is your assessment of the college football National
champ Uh?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
He was fine. He's got the the size of a good.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
NFL player, and he's got the he's got the accolades.
But I don't there's nothing that says this guy's going
to Megan now. He does not have an elite arm.
And if you look at all the you know, the.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Decision making and all that stuff that he.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Was locked in on receivers, he's like a second or
third round pick.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
And maybe he'll make it.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Maybe he will, but I'm not overly confident that Will
Howard's gonna go on and be great. He may maybe'd
be like Brock Purty get with a good team be overrated.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
Next, for the first time in eleven years, someone other
than Lebron James or Steph Curry has the best selling
jersey in the the in the NBA, and that player
is Luka Doncik. Ben, Is it safe to say that
with the trade Los Angeles, Luca is the next face
of the NBA.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
No, it's safe to.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Say that he changed teams and there's a lot of
historians that wanted to buy his jersey and so they
sold a lot.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
That's why he was numboys not the face of the NBA.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
You failed this edition.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
He is the face of the NBA. Is not.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
No, he's not.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Nobody says that they're gonna lose the.
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Speaker 3 (31:40):
Clean Up Hearts, Gonna Help You, dear Ry gear Rye
tonight gear right to night.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Dear Ry, you heard the man. It's time for love
here on the Ben Mala Show.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Hi, Ben, Hey, your segment is You're the star here.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
This is all about you. Lorene good good week of.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
No, I'm glad you know, yes, of course. Oh my gosh,
so much love this week almost like it's Valentine's Day.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
But it's not.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
That's too much.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Why are you staring at me?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Like that, has it been two months since? Yes, it's April, right,
that was Valentine's Day. It was in February. Wow, okay,
wild yeah all you want you want these questions? Right,
you want a questions?
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Oh yeah, you know we could go that way. We
can go that route for sure.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Okay, we also go always. Okay, we'll do We'll do
a little bit of this, a little bit of that.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Lorena is a an expert at relationships, and she's the
number one love relationship expert on Fox Sports Radio at
this hour.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Yes, I've heard I've already saved like five marriages.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Really.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Oh yeah, all right, let's see here, late night drug tester. Right, since,
says Lorena, are those supplements to improve bedroom performance sold
at the gas station a better value than the prescription viagri.
We used to have a board op at Fox Sports
Radio years ago.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Who swore by those things.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Yes, he told He told everyone in the building. He's like, you, dude,
you gotta go. He went, He said, you got to Arco.
Uh that's the name of the gas station.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
The unbelievable. He bragged everyone.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
That's interesting. That's like bragging about going to Arco for
their hot dogs like, Oh, if.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
You had their hot dogs are so great.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
But if you if you get real good hot dogs,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Named there.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Yeah, and I personally have never used those enhancement pills
at all.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Well, no, I don't think anyone thought you would have
used them. I don't know that they're necessarily Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Well maybe a man can answer your team.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Yes, okay, you have no no comment on that late
night drug test are fair enough?
Speaker 3 (33:52):
JT.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
The Wingman writes in from Knoxville. He's been to the
last four mal Or meet reach. I do not believe
he'll be making it to Canada, but you never know.
He says, I'm trying to help my showfriend ferg Dog
with the ladies. Can you offer him some fashion tips
to help with the ladies?
Speaker 6 (34:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Yeah, Steve Covino has this one fashion tiph like to
wear your socks high up into your calfs.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Why, like a vatto.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
I think that's what he calls it, or a fool. Yeah,
girls really like that, and then it gives you a
nice tandline. It gives you a nice handline.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
What about your advice?
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Make sure yeah, thrift stores, man, find your own style. Yeah,
in like a vintage type.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Way.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
Yeah, don't wear don't wear shirts that everyone has. Don't
be too clean, because then you're unapproachable. You gotta look
like the average man.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Well, the average man buys stuff off the rack, though,
isn't that usually what the average man does?
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (34:54):
No, I think the average man doesn't ever go shopping
for new items.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Oh that's the thing that's probably true.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Yeah, all right, very go let's take a call here.
It is the Queen of hearts, our friend Loraina. Let's
say that's me, Ben, I've heard of you. Let's go
to Dave, who's in East LA. What's going on? Dave?
Well is up?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Dave?
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Hello, loredo, Dave.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
Do you wear high socks?
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
I do?
Speaker 4 (35:19):
See Well, thank you.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
You have the greatest voice in personality, and you've got
to be just smoking hot fox.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
Smoking, that's right smoking.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Calm down, Dave, calm down.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Anyways, what's your question?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Whenever whenever I hear Lorena, I just get so turned on.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
It's a little uncomfortable.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
I don't think there was a question coming.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Shout out to all of my listeners who attempt to
ask me out on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
It's not going to Does that happen? Really? Is that
every day? But there's a lot of confident men out
you would love.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
To take you out.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Let's go to dinner.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
I don't know you, sir. Wow, this is not a
dating site.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Okay, isn't it? Well?
Speaker 4 (36:07):
You know, hey, Instagram is.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
From what I've seen, it's a lot of onlyfan models
on there that are trying to get customers that it appears,
but I don't.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Know, maybe maybe not, who knows, I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
All right, let's say hello to I'll go all the
way across the way from East LA to Dennis, who's
hanging out in Vermont.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
He's neighbors with Arnie Spaniel. Hello, Dennis, welcome.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Oh God, bless Arnie.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
How you doing? Guys? What's going on?
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Man?
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
All right?
Speaker 4 (36:39):
You got what's going on?
Speaker 1 (36:42):
And I'm sorry for the last scholar.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
Yeah, that was creepy.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
So I've retired, like you.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Gotta talk to me out of retirement from Malaysia relationships.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
I'm almost done.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
Were you starred?
Speaker 5 (37:03):
What happened? Why did you leave the game?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (37:07):
God?
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Last one was a doozy.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Uh So I'm fifty.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Years old and I'm actually pretty damn good looking.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
But I'm retired.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
I mean, I don't know how to get out of retirement.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Well, you got to put yourself there if you want
if you want it, you got to go after it.
If you want that companionship, you got to put yourself
out there. Again. I almost don't want the companionship.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
You do, but you do. You called up, you wanted.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
No, No, I know you also love your peace right
like you have a sense of like calmness when you're alone.
I feel the exact same way. So find someone who's
okay with being flexible, with your with how you're feeling, and.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
He wants a friend with benefits. That's what the man.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
That's great. If that's what that, Yeah, you can find
that for sure.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
You don't have to get out of retirement.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
You just put yourself.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
I think she said how you got it? You're not listening,
she said it.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
Go outside, Go to the grocery store, go to a bar,
go to a breek, go to You're fifty, right, go hiking,
go hang.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Out, go to go to Ben and Jerry's.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Oh my god, all right, I was so close to
the end that we were doing.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
We were doing so good. We were doing so good.
And then Dennis the Man is over there you Coop,
that's Coop. Yeah, I know, Coop, so cute? Up all right?
Moving on?
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Fird Dog says are long distance relationship is a complete
waste of time.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
No, no, They're hard to maintain for sure.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
But only a partial.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
Yeah, but you have to be able to travel to
go see them. You have to. I hate when people
try to make that work, like you have to be
able to see that person.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
Yeah, expensive and things like that.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
Yeah, Facetime's kind of nice though, right, eh, a little bit,
but you can't do the touch of feeling.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Queen of hearts there it is. Oh no, oh, we're good.
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It's welcome in our contestants and we have well, let's
see here. We have.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Daniel in Fort Wayne. Hello, Daniel, Welcome.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Good morning band, America's favorite crossing guard and Daniel.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
Who do you want to partner up with? Daniel?
Speaker 6 (40:44):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (40:45):
I have to go with you, my friend.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Good job by you, Daniel. We're in it to win it.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
And we have Daniel, you're gonna play. We also have
Mitchell in Ohio who's gonna play?
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Hello Mitchell?
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Hey, what's up?
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Ben?
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Mitchell? Boy? You're you're quite the care Who do you
want to partner on with? Mitchell?
Speaker 1 (41:04):
You got Cooper Loreina, okay, Lorany, You're out, figure out.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
I know. Not pick that's all right, you'll get ten
million boxes tomorrow. Everything's good, all right, very nice. Here,
let's play the game and again, Daniel, crossing guard Mitchell,
what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (41:22):
You're out? You used to deliver like newspapers? Right, you're
still doing that.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
Yea, quite as many now do like door.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Dash, door dash. I got you? All right? Well, very good.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
We have a list of words one to ten and
no cheating, no cheating, no cheating, and we'll start out
with you America's favorite crossing guard, Daniel.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Pick a number one to ten, Daniel.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
I want to take the lead seed number three.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
Number three. Let's see.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Good.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
Look are you cheering for him? Is that right?
Speaker 4 (41:56):
Just good luck?
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Okay, okay, let's go with catastrophe. It's after all right,
that's it. Ten points. We're off to a good start,
my man, pots of pants.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
All right, I'll go ahead.
Speaker 5 (42:10):
Coop your up, all right, Mitchell, pick a number.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
Number one.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
You didn't say that, right, Mitchell, say it right, Mitchell, number.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
One, alright, you tried it. I'll give you all.
Speaker 5 (42:27):
Right, Mitchell. Let's go for let's go with.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Entryway, entry.
Speaker 6 (42:37):
Entryway, Yeah, alright.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Coop got excited because he was shocked. You got it right?
All right?
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Go ahead there, please, Daniel, pick a number, not one,
not three, ten, number ten?
Speaker 3 (42:56):
Thank you? An easy one, that is, I haven't done
it yet, you don't know. How about we go with
frightening get shared?
Speaker 1 (43:08):
There you go?
Speaker 3 (43:08):
All right, that works, that'll work, all right?
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Ten twenty to ten, we get ten points. Go ahead
and Coop your back up.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
It's password the word game of the stars.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
We are showing you the knowledge the lexicon of the
average overnight sports talk radio.
Speaker 5 (43:23):
Call it all right, Michel, not one, not three, not ten?
Speaker 3 (43:28):
Hey, number eight?
Speaker 5 (43:30):
All right, let's go with rescue. That's right, we're back
in it.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
These are baby, that was?
Speaker 2 (43:38):
That was? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (43:40):
Quite over there. Okay, we're gonna keep going. Danie'll pick
the number. Yeah, we're a lot of gone. But way five,
number five? All right? Well, why are you laughing at that?
Let's go with hmm, I think that's two words.
Speaker 4 (44:01):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (44:04):
Let's see here which you can Let's go with uh dismissed.
Speaker 5 (44:16):
No, all right, Mitchell, here we go for the win.
Speaker 6 (44:19):
Here, let's go with let's go with terminated, my man?
Speaker 3 (44:31):
All right, I don't even know if I need to
give a clue.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
I feel like you should get this already, but uh,
let's let's go with.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
That's it's a word. I used a lot. I don't know.
Whacked fired ye cry gratulated, had of time. Now we
(45:01):
don't have any time. We're out of time.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
Now we have no time.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
It's all you lost, Mitchell, You lost, Mitchell, We're out
of time.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
Congratulates this, Daniel, you're you're the big winning.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
You get a golden ticket, Mitchell, you get a lifetime
supply nothing and a trip to nowhere. But you need
to call the show more, Mitchell. We love your takes.
Mitchell is one of the great characters that calls the show,
and he's had some of the more outrageous calls over
the years. But big winner Daniel the Crossing Guard from
Port Wayne gets it done.
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at it now. The NBA Playoffs have not started. There
is a misnomer that the playoffs began with two games. No, no, no,
(01:51):
that was the Qwighlight Zone. It doesn't exist. It's you know,
there's a show back in way back in the nineties.
I was like a little kid and it was called
Seinfeld and they said it was it was the show
about nothing.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
So they called the show.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Well, the playing tournament is basketball games about nothing. There
is no record. They just these games just vanish. They
don't exist, but for the moment they did exist. And
so that is our lead here pro bouncy ball to
play in games.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I don't know if you watch. We're going to start out.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
In the Bay Area in San Francisco, where Jimmy Butler
put up a show thirty eight points at a bunch
of other stats, but thirty eight points to lead the way.
Stephen Curry with thirty seven and that one two punch.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Was barely enough.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
The Warriors outlasted the Grizzlies, who had an unimaginable f
up at the end of this game, like the kind
of f up that should cause the franchise to go
to the G League.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
That kind of f up.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
But the Warriors win it, and so they have earned
the seventh seed. Make sure to fill out your bracket accordingly.
Golden State, the seventh seed in the West. That means
they will go to Houston to hang out in the
den of.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Iniquity, and they will iniquity there.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
They will hang out where the a holes have the
trash cans and all that the baseball team, So that's
where they're headed. Desmond Bain, who sounds like a superhero villain,
had thirty points. And Ja Morant, we almost had our
first injury in the Benny bracket challenge that we're doing
calling it, come on, dumb name. But Ja Morant did
(03:32):
leave this game with a ankle injury. He came back
in he had twenty two points. And so the Grizzlies
now they're still alive. It's not an elimination situation. But
Memphis will head home and then they will await the
winner of the mav Recks and the Kings.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
That'll be Sacramento that wins that matchup.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
That game being played here later on Wednesday night in
the capital of the People's Republic of California to determine.
So it'll be the winner of that game, which will
be Sacramento. They will take on Memphis. I don't even
know why they're bothering to play that game. So let
us discuss the question. Let's focus in first on the
team that won, and we know they're in the plus,
(04:13):
how should Steph Curry and friends, Steph Curry and friends,
how should all of them be feeling about the Warriors
after a rather up and down playing win over Memphis.
So I've got thingam a jig, a Christmas story, and
(04:33):
double whammy, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are gonna make the Gabba Ghoul.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, We're gonna We're gonna make the Gabba Ghul. Al Right, So.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
A uh, the the thought I had two words here,
sweating bullets. Sweating bullets like you're in a hot yoga studio.
The Warriors team, it's fair to say, despite the gotty
record when they went out and got Jimmy Butler, if
you look at how they played the last couple of
weeks in key games, they are not hitting on all cylinders.
(05:08):
You don't have to be some kind of basketball insider
to know that, just have to have some kind of
marginal elementary knowledge of basketball. The struggle is real. And
that wasn't playoff Jimmy, because this is not a playoff game.
It was playing Jimmy on the roster and with him
it was supposed to be calm waters. You had a
(05:30):
team on the other side that fired their coach for
some reason right before the end of the year, and
instead of calm waters, com pond water that doesn't move,
it was turbulent seas is what you had. Their Golden
State was not able to hit the thing of a jig.
(05:50):
The thing of a jig didn't work that it was
supposed to turn on the after burners, and so the
thing of a jig got stuck and they couldn't turn
on the afterburs. It looked at one point if you
watch the game, and that's my act of goodwill, that's
my active kindness, I watched the game so you would
not have to. But they were unable to go full throttle.
They did have a twenty point lead Golden State in
(06:10):
the second quarter, and at that point you're like, all right,
they're looking like they're gonna blow out the Grizzlies, and
I can go watch some baseball game and just focusing
on that up twenty second quarter, and then you end
up having a finger biting fiesta at the end there.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
And even with.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
John Morant and his air hand grenades and air guns
and all the fake weaponry, he did suffer a sprained ankle.
That was not a fake sprain ankle. That was a
real sprain ankle. But even with that, Steph Curry and friends,
if you look at the way they play the lost
home loss to San Antonio, the loss of the Clippers,
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which you know, that's a good loss. Clippers a better
team than Golden State. But going to the Rockets, now,
the Warriors have that veteran pedigree as they take on
the Rockets that it also looks the way they're going
here that they need a shaman and a couple of
witches on the team playing down there to take on Houston.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Good luck, Steph Curry. Is he washed up?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I don't wash I had a big game here. But
is he gassed? I think that's the word I was
looking for. Gas. And there were some.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Quotes if you listen between the words of Steve Kerr
and some of the others that indicated the Warriors are tired.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
They can't handle the schedule.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
All right, my god, all right, now, let's get to
the Komodo dragon.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
In the room. Can you explain in one word?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Can you explain in one word the Memphis Grizzlies plausibly
an NBA team down three points fourth quarter, win and
you're in the playoffs. Lose, you gotta play another game.
Win and you're in the playoffs. Lose, you gotta play
another game down three five point four seconds left on
the clock, ball out of bounds, ball out of bounds.
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How on God's green Earth do you commit a five
second violation in that situation that The word I have
is I jotted this down on my notesapp on my phone. Malfeasance.
Don't ask me to smell it. Malfeasance is the word
that was why MCA like it is what that was.
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And I don't even know the name of the interim
coach with the Grizzlies. There's no need to learn the
name because he ain't keeping that job. But my god,
what are you doing? I mean, I mean, holy you know.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
What I mean?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
You're right there? He got to get there. You can't
get the ball and bounds. At least get a shot up.
Get the ball that Desmond Baine who was was killing it,
and they didn't do that.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
All right, Now we turn the page.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
We go to Orlando where Mickey Mouse lives down the street.
Cole Anthony, he said, I'm no Mickey Mouse, I'm not Goofy,
I'm not Donald Duck. But he went wacky off the
bench twenty six points, a lot of extended garbage time
as a bench player. Cole Anthony led the way twenty
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six points, six assists, and the Orlando basketball team gets
a one, twenty ninety five blowout. That's a vaporizing, a
vaporizing of the team from Georgia, the Hawks. And so
that's that was the early game, the Eastern Conference game.
Paulo Bonceno seventeen points, nine rebound, seven assists for the Floridians.
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As they have locked their ticket in, they have earned
the Eastern Conference seven seed, a five hundred record, forty
one up, forty one down, and the Magic or the
seventh seed. That means they have a date in the Commonwealth,
the Magic and Celtics that'll kickoff on Sunday, and Orlando
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split four games against Boston during the regular season. But
you can't judge anything off that because the players don't
try in the regular season.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Most of them do not show up to work.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
It is a massive problem in that business and it
continues to be a problem no matter what they do.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
The players just are soft. They're weak. They can't handle it.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
The better story though, in this one, was in the
losing locker room. There was some faux outrage at the
end of this game. As the Hawks now they will
play at home Friday night. They're not eliminated. They'll play
for the eighth spot. They'll play the winner of the
Bulls and.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
The Heat on Friday night.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
But Hawks star guard Trey Young was ejected with four
forty eight left in the fourth quarter. He picked up
not one, but two quick technical fouls, the first one
for throwing the ball at an official in an angerly manner,
the second for kicking the ball away before the magic
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shot foul shots, and that was the old seal. Later
get out of here. So somebody will say, oh, you
can't eject Trey Young, what are you doing here? So
was Trey Young? Was Trey Young's ejection with a little
less than five minutes to go fair or foul. So
upon an experedited review a seconds long. I only needed
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to watch this one time. Fair ball, fair ball, fair call,
fair ball, fair call. Tray Young?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
What he did here? He went a Christmas story.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
He tripled dog dared, triple dog dared.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
James Williams, the generically named official.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And you and I both know if you triple dog
dare someone, they gotta do it. It's a triple dog dare.
And it was a triple dog dare by Trey Young.
And he wanted to get out of there. And he
was like he was singing, Nana na na eh, good bye.
It was premeditated. The Hawks were getting spit roasted by Orlando.
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They were down by twenty. It seemed like the entire
game they were getting there, you know what hand of them.
And so Trey Young decided that he would get a
jump on everybody. The creature comforts in the locker room
as opposed to hemorrhoids sitting.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
On the bench.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
All right now, turning the page away from these Hugaysey
playing games, we go now to the Big Easy where
the streets are talking and they are telling us that
the inevitable is about to have become reality if you're
looking ahead in the hot top time machine and trying
to figure out what's going to be the big story
of the silly season. Because every year in the silly
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season in pro bouncy ball, you gotta have at least
two big name players that change teams, or at least
the talk that at least two big name players that
change teams. They do it every year. It's all part
of the writing. The writing team there in the writing
room they put that together.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
So one of the.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Names, according to the chatter, they're telling us that the Pelicans,
silly named basketball team there in Louisiana, that they have
given the ownership there has given the newly appointed Joe Dumars.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
That's right. You think Joe Dumares had this job like
a month ago or two months ago. Probably did.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Joe Dumars, who's now the GM there, the old Piston guy,
and he has been mandated to deal away the dead
weight otherwise known as Zion Williamson. So how do you
digest how do you digest Zion Williamson trade talks that
will pop up here as we get through the next
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couple of months and through the playoffs and all that
in New Orleans. So I digest this like Zion digests
a tray of Begnet's. I'm talking about the puffy pastry,
that delicious, that donut just wonderful. Uh. And Zion, who
was drafted number one overall number and recall at the time,
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the guy was so good he was literally jumping out
of his shoes at Duke the handful of games he
played for Duke, and so every one said, oh man,
this guy's God's gift of basketball. He's the next prodigy
and all that stuff. So they tagged him.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
With the capitol P potential.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
And again, a prospect is a suspect until proven otherwise.
And Zion, because of that, he wrote checks that were
massive and even though he has a just jumbo size,
just absolute jumbo size, padunkadunk could not cash those checks.
And he's got the double whammie Zion. He's overweight and
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injury prone. Overweight and injury prone and injury prone. That's
a dime a dozen in the NBA. But you toss
in the overweight. Oh boy, So who do you see.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Making a run at Zion on the trade market? Now?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Looking in to our Malar crystal ball, which is never wrong.
The Mallard crystal ball, never wrong. We see my Miami, Miami, Miami, Miami, Chicago, Brooklyn,
and as a wild card, the crystal ball, which is
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never wrong. The Charlotte Hornets go back close to home.
He's from South Carolina. That's the closest team there in
North Carolina. The Hornets go down there below the Mason
Dixon line, Miami. If they can get some of that
water that the fountain of youth from Ponce de Leon.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
If they can do that, you go to Miami.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Nothing good happens in basketball in Brooklyn, and the Bulls
have to suck for like one hundred years because they
had Michael Jordan for all those years. But Zion, either way,
he's a diminished asset. The bloom is off the rose
at this particular point. But there's enough people in that business.
There's enough people that will say, well, he's young enough
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and he just hasn't been coached up the right way,
and we'll just get him big bottle of ozepic and
he'll be lean and mean, and we'll keep them away
from the only fans models and the watch out.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
There to the moon, to the Moon, to the Moon,
To the Moon, to the Moon, To the Moon, to
the Moon.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app or leave.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
This hour is from the Lone Star State High Drama.
We have a mantra we go where these stories of
the day take us and right now this hour deep
in the heart of Texas and that is where the
mav Res and they are the Maverrecks.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Now they will play, proving there are too many.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Teams involved in the NBA postseason slash play and the
Mavericks the mav rex will take on Sacramento later on tonight,
but Maverick GM Nico Harrison addressing Yes Fire Niko, Nico
Harrison addressing the Komodo draft in the room and really
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more like the snuffleofagus in the room. Nico addressing the
media in only ways that he can do it in
a very private round table cloak and dagger like discussion.
This took place on Tuesday, was the first time since
giving away the Family Jewels, literally giving away Luca in
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one of the most absurd moments in the history of Sports.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Well, I've been doing this job anyway.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
So if you didn't hear what he said, and maybe
not Nico Harrison, chances are you didn't hear it.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
There's no video of it. So Nico Harrison said that
he has no.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Regrets, no regrets trading the Maverick superstar, no regrets trading Luca,
despite universal backlash, every single person.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
In lockstep that you're wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
He is standing Nico Harrison on top of if mountain
and he said, no, I'm right.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
So if you didn't hear the quote. Now, we don't
have video of this, and I don't believe.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
There's any that is out there. It's not allowed. We'll
explain why in a second. But Nico Harrison said he
has no regrets trading away the aforementioned Luca. He said,
there's no regrets on the trade. He grumbled during this
roundtable discussion with the media. Part of it is doing
the best thing for the MAVs. Now Nico Harrison gushed
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that he believes the team post trade, which was intended
to be on the court before all the injuries, is
a quote championship team. Nico added that once everyone is
at full strength, the team will have one of the
strongest front lines in the NBA. Okay, let us discuss.
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So why don't we play the what's the word game?
Let's play what's the word game? I love what's the
word game? One of my favorite games.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
What's the word? I love words? I like the lexicon.
All right, here's the what's the word game? Question?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
MAVs GM Nico Harrison, saying that he has no regrets
for giving away Luka Donzik to the Lakers is blank.
So I've got Captain Jack Sparrow, Charlie Latuna, and Aretha Franklin,
and we'll combine all these things together and we are
going to make some ant acid, which is what the
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Dallas fan needs. So again, answer the question, maverism Nico Harrison,
saying he has no regrets for giving away Luka Doncic
to the Lakers is blank.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
What's the word? My word is.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Devilish, as in crafty and devilish. All right, that's my
word here. That's number one. Every man, woman and child,
every man one a child knows that this was not
a trade, this was a give this would give away.
This is a I'm I'm done with college, I'm moving.
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I don't want my ikea furniture. Come pick what you want.
I'm not taking anything with me.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
I'm out. I'm done. That's what that is, right. And
it's akin to arson, is what it is. Right.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
If it was a crime, it would be arson. You'd
burn the building now right. The house is on fire.
The house is on fire. It's a five alarm fire.
It's an unforced error. Unforced error. It is such a
terrible move. This is one of those things. It's like
so wild and crazy to me. It is such an
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f up that most people truly believe that there must
be some kind of conspiracy involved.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
That no one in their right mind, no one.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
That is not on some kind of pharmaceuticals or mandata
to make this kind of move, would make this move.
That is where we're at. So, either it was the
Maverick owners who want to move the team out of
Dallas and move them to Vegas, and they want the
fans to turn on the team, and so they traded
the top player for nothing, gave them away, or it's
at a higher level. NBA TV ratings were terrible, no
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one was watching. Ratings were in the toilet. Adam Silver
and the people in New York there on fifth Avenue
got together and the TV people are saying, we're paying
you a lot of money and you're not giving us
return on investment, and we're going to have to give
make goods because in television and sometimes in radio two,
if you promise an advertiser a certain audience and you
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don't give them that audience, you have to then make
up those commercials. And there's nothing that executives in television
and radio hate more than make goods. They can't stand
it because they're giving free spots away because they didn't
provide the audience they promised to pride. It's problematic. It's problematic.
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So that that's one of the conspiracies. And while we
are in line, and I want the record to show
that we are in line, that Nico Harrison is a
big dummy. He's a big dummy, He's a Schmendrick. I
have an unpopular take. I'm about to share an unpopular take.
I'd like to warn all the affiliates. Unpopular take coming
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down the pike. The part of Nico Harrison not apologizing
is the correct call. It is the right call.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Let me explain.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
It's Captain Jack Sparrow like it is savvy. It is
savvy public figures. I've said this for years. This is
not an original take, but it applies to this. If
you're a public figure, you should never apologize, and in
this case, you certainly shouldn't not tell you why, because
the Maverick fan is not going to forgive you. This
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is an unforgivable sin. What you have done is a
war crime in in the sporting world.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
It's a war crime.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
We need to have a tribunal here. The fan also
does not care if you're sorry. They don't care if
somebody else told you to do it. They just want
to use your apology against you. And the moment that
Nico Harrison apologizes, he's essentially he's admitting culpability.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
He's admitting guilt. It's not gonna make anyone feel better.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
It's not like Luca's gonna walk back and put on
a Maverick uniform again, and it's just going to pour
gasoline on the fire and the lunatics are going to
go ten times harder after Nico Harrison. So the top
course of action here is to just not acknowledge the outrage.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
And so I actually agree with that part of it.
Now there's other parts.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Of this that are completely ridiculous now turning the page two.
One of those would be Nico Harrison. He was asked
at this little shindig, if he feels an obligation to
the Maverick fan, if there's an obligation to the fan,
and he said no. He said, no, my obligations are
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to the Dallas Mavericks. What's in the best interest of
the Dallas mav Rex that's the most important thing.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Close quote.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
So how do you decode Nico Harrison and his word
about not caring about the Maverick fan. See, this was
a unforced error, much like the Luca Doncik trade. It
was also Charlie the Tuna like now, Charlie Latuna was
his character back in the day, and the players on
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the New York Giants used to pick on Bill Parcells
and they said, you look like that Charlie the Tuna,
And Bill Parcells had a quote he said, if you
listen to the fans, he said, you'll be sitting.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Up there with him.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
So it's that mindset. However, on this one, it's a
very simple answer. It's like, yeah, the without the fan,
the Mavericks are nothing. The whole business model is based
on the fan. So if your obligation is not to
the fan, then it's like, well, I don't care about
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the customers. You're literally serving the customers, you moron. And
what do you need in that profession? You know it,
and I know it. Everyone knows it. You need stars.
You gotta have the star. It's the entertainment world, it's
show business. That is the world you're in. And part
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of me is wondering, is that a tel? Is that
a tel? What does that mean? Did Harrison reveal that
he was simply following the orders of ownership and so
he's not obligated to the fan. He's obligated to the
owner who told him to get rid of Luca because
they want to move the team to Vegas, and the
quickest way to move the team to Vegas is to
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get rid of this guy right now. Final point. So
here's where it gets even crazier. There were reports throughout
the day, and some of this happened while I was sleeping,
But when I woke up, I was I was acutely
aware of what was going on.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I was dialed in.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
So why did the Dallas Mavericks outlaw cameras? Why did
they ban cameras from the Nico Harrison news conference. So
not only did they ban cameras, originally they banned recording devices,
which I'm pretty sure makes it not a news conference
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and makes it like just like a board meeting or
something like that. But my answer is the it's the
Aretha Franklin tune from back in the day, Chain of fools.
It is a pr debacle. What are you afraid of? Like?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
What do you do?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
And the other thing that drives me nuts. And I've
been battling this for a long time, these teams, and
we talk about it on these era you know, the
media elites that cover the games that are inside hand picked,
and the Dallas Mavericks did it, Like I would be
embarrassed to be on that list.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
But the Dallas Mavericks they.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Picked hand picked media buddies, right media friends, useful idiots
in the media, and they invited them behind closed doors.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
For this little get together.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
And again initially they didn't want to allow any video
or audio, the handpicked toadies the knee pad, whereas the
brown nosers and the media there in Dallas they objected. Originally,
we were told, and then the Mavericks all right, well,
you can record on your little phones there or whatever.
You can't publish anything. You can't do it just to
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transcribe stuff. Talk about real balls, real balls.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Now. The other theme here.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Is that the Mavericks traded for Anthony Davis, and we
mentioned the quote from Nico Harrison. He said, well, I
would have worked out if if the injuries hadn't happened.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
And you know what that is. That is a steaming.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Shovel full of bullshoy. It is piping hot fertilizer, is
what that is. And ifs and butts were candy and nuts,
you'd win the championship every year. The criticism of the trade,
the whole point that people were going was that we
you didn't get enough in return, and what you got.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Was a damaged player in Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
You can't play the injury excuse when you trade for
a player that is universally known as a broken down
useless player because he's not dependable.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
And then he gets broken down and becomes useless.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
You can't then say well, if only we had stayed
healthy again, ifs and butts were candy and nuts, you'd
win the championship every year.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
And the Mavericks now they're building.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Around two injury prone players, two aging players, Kyrie Irving
and Anthony Davis. And if you look at their injury charts,
it goes on page down, page down, page down.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Pay. I mean, it just keeps going and going going.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
It's like an energizer, Buddy, he goes and goes and
goes and goes.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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Speaker 3 (29:13):
Here we go, here we got smaller. How about that?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
Coobler all right, Ben, love to see here.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Former Cardinals cornerback Patrick Peterson returned to Arizona on Monday
to announce his retirement with the team that drafted him
back in twenty eleven. Ben, do you think Peterson is
a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
He's a borderline Hall of Famer. The criteria that I
use for the Hall of Fame, he does not. He's borderlines.
He wasn't All Pro three times. He was on an
All Decade team. But you can certainly tell the story
of the NFL without.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Mentioning Patrick Peterson.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
There's really nothing there there that is over the top memorable.
He's one of those borderlines guys that it'll maybe he
gets in down the line, but it's not a no brainer.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Next, quarterback Will Howard recently said the same thing that
all draft prospects say. Draft meal, you're or you will
regret it.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
You will regret it.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
Ben, what is your assessment of the college football National
champ Uh?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
He was fine. He's got the the size of a good.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
NFL player, and he's got the he's got the accolades.
But I don't there's nothing that says this guy's going
to Megan now. He does not have an elite arm.
And if you look at all the you know, the.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Decision making and all that stuff that he.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Was locked in on receivers, he's like a second or
third round pick.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
And maybe he'll make it.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Maybe he will, but I'm not overly confident that Will
Howard's gonna go on and be great. He may maybe'd
be like Brock Purty get with a good team be overrated.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
Next, for the first time in eleven years, someone other
than Lebron James or Steph Curry has the best selling
jersey in the the in the NBA, and that player
is Luka Doncik. Ben, Is it safe to say that
with the trade Los Angeles, Luca is the next face
of the NBA.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
No, it's safe to.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Say that he changed teams and there's a lot of
historians that wanted to buy his jersey and so they
sold a lot.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
That's why he was numboys not the face of the NBA.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
You failed this edition.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
He is the face of the NBA. Is not.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
No, he's not.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Nobody says that they're gonna lose the.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
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Speaker 3 (32:05):
This is all about you. Lorene good good week of.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
No, I'm glad you know, yes, of course. Oh my gosh,
so much love this week almost like it's Valentine's Day.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
But it's not.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
That's too much.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Why are you staring at me?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Like that, has it been two months since? Yes, it's April, right,
that was Valentine's Day. It was in February. Wow, okay,
wild yeah all you want you want these questions? Right,
you want a questions?
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Oh yeah, you know we could go that way. We
can go that route for sure.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Okay, we also go always. Okay, we'll do We'll do
a little bit of this, a little bit of that.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Lorena is a an expert at relationships, and she's the
number one love relationship expert on Fox Sports Radio at
this hour.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Yes, I've heard I've already saved like five marriages.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Really.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Oh yeah, all right, let's see here, late night drug tester. Right, since,
says Lorena, are those supplements to improve bedroom performance sold
at the gas station a better value than the prescription viagri.
We used to have a board op at Fox Sports
Radio years ago.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Who swore by those things.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Yes, he told He told everyone in the building. He's like, you, dude,
you gotta go. He went, He said, you got to Arco.
Uh that's the name of the gas station.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
The unbelievable. He bragged everyone.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
That's interesting. That's like bragging about going to Arco for
their hot dogs like, Oh, if.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
You had their hot dogs are so great.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
But if you if you get real good hot dogs,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Named there.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Yeah, and I personally have never used those enhancement pills
at all.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Well, no, I don't think anyone thought you would have
used them. I don't know that they're necessarily Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Well maybe a man can answer your team.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Yes, okay, you have no no comment on that late
night drug test are fair enough?
Speaker 3 (33:52):
JT.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
The Wingman writes in from Knoxville. He's been to the
last four mal Or meet reach. I do not believe
he'll be making it to Canada, but you never know.
He says, I'm trying to help my showfriend ferg Dog
with the ladies. Can you offer him some fashion tips
to help with the ladies?
Speaker 6 (34:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Yeah, Steve Covino has this one fashion tiph like to
wear your socks high up into your calfs.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Why, like a vatto.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
I think that's what he calls it, or a fool. Yeah,
girls really like that, and then it gives you a
nice tandline. It gives you a nice handline.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
What about your advice?
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Make sure yeah, thrift stores, man, find your own style. Yeah,
in like a vintage type.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Way.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
Yeah, don't wear don't wear shirts that everyone has. Don't
be too clean, because then you're unapproachable. You gotta look
like the average man.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Well, the average man buys stuff off the rack, though,
isn't that usually what the average man does?
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (34:54):
No, I think the average man doesn't ever go shopping
for new items.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Oh that's the thing that's probably true.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Yeah, all right, very go let's take a call here.
It is the Queen of hearts, our friend Loraina. Let's
say that's me, Ben, I've heard of you. Let's go
to Dave, who's in East LA. What's going on? Dave?
Well is up?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Dave?
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Hello, loredo, Dave.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
Do you wear high socks?
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
I do?
Speaker 4 (35:19):
See Well, thank you.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
You have the greatest voice in personality, and you've got
to be just smoking hot fox.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
Smoking, that's right smoking.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Calm down, Dave, calm down.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Anyways, what's your question?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Whenever whenever I hear Lorena, I just get so turned on.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
It's a little uncomfortable.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
I don't think there was a question coming.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Shout out to all of my listeners who attempt to
ask me out on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
It's not going to Does that happen? Really? Is that
every day? But there's a lot of confident men out
you would love.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
To take you out.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Let's go to dinner.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
I don't know you, sir. Wow, this is not a
dating site.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Okay, isn't it? Well?
Speaker 4 (36:07):
You know, hey, Instagram is.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
From what I've seen, it's a lot of onlyfan models
on there that are trying to get customers that it appears,
but I don't.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Know, maybe maybe not, who knows, I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
All right, let's say hello to I'll go all the
way across the way from East LA to Dennis, who's
hanging out in Vermont.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
He's neighbors with Arnie Spaniel. Hello, Dennis, welcome.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Oh God, bless Arnie.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
How you doing? Guys? What's going on?
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Man?
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
All right?
Speaker 4 (36:39):
You got what's going on?
Speaker 1 (36:42):
And I'm sorry for the last scholar.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
Yeah, that was creepy.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
So I've retired, like you.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Gotta talk to me out of retirement from Malaysia relationships.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
I'm almost done.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
Were you starred?
Speaker 5 (37:03):
What happened? Why did you leave the game?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (37:07):
God?
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Last one was a doozy.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Uh So I'm fifty.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Years old and I'm actually pretty damn good looking.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
But I'm retired.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
I mean, I don't know how to get out of retirement.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Well, you got to put yourself there if you want
if you want it, you got to go after it.
If you want that companionship, you got to put yourself
out there. Again. I almost don't want the companionship.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
You do, but you do. You called up, you wanted.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
No, No, I know you also love your peace right
like you have a sense of like calmness when you're alone.
I feel the exact same way. So find someone who's
okay with being flexible, with your with how you're feeling, and.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
He wants a friend with benefits. That's what the man.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
That's great. If that's what that, Yeah, you can find
that for sure.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
You don't have to get out of retirement.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
You just put yourself.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
I think she said how you got it? You're not listening,
she said it.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
Go outside, Go to the grocery store, go to a bar,
go to a breek, go to You're fifty, right, go hiking,
go hang.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Out, go to go to Ben and Jerry's.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Oh my god, all right, I was so close to
the end that we were doing.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
We were doing so good. We were doing so good.
And then Dennis the Man is over there you Coop,
that's Coop. Yeah, I know, Coop, so cute? Up all right?
Moving on?
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Fird Dog says are long distance relationship is a complete
waste of time.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
No, no, They're hard to maintain for sure.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
But only a partial.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
Yeah, but you have to be able to travel to
go see them. You have to. I hate when people
try to make that work, like you have to be
able to see that person.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
Yeah, expensive and things like that.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
Yeah, Facetime's kind of nice though, right, eh, a little bit,
but you can't do the touch of feeling.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Queen of hearts there it is. Oh no, oh, we're good.
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Speaker 1 (40:08):
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Speaker 1 (40:26):
It's welcome in our contestants and we have well, let's
see here. We have.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Daniel in Fort Wayne. Hello, Daniel, Welcome.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Good morning band, America's favorite crossing guard and Daniel.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
Who do you want to partner up with? Daniel?
Speaker 6 (40:44):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (40:45):
I have to go with you, my friend.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Good job by you, Daniel. We're in it to win it.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
And we have Daniel, you're gonna play. We also have
Mitchell in Ohio who's gonna play?
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Hello Mitchell?
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Hey, what's up?
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Ben?
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Mitchell? Boy? You're you're quite the care Who do you
want to partner on with? Mitchell?
Speaker 1 (41:04):
You got Cooper Loreina, okay, Lorany, You're out, figure out.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
I know. Not pick that's all right, you'll get ten
million boxes tomorrow. Everything's good, all right, very nice. Here,
let's play the game and again, Daniel, crossing guard Mitchell,
what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (41:22):
You're out? You used to deliver like newspapers? Right, you're
still doing that.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
Yea, quite as many now do like door.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Dash, door dash. I got you? All right? Well, very good.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
We have a list of words one to ten and
no cheating, no cheating, no cheating, and we'll start out
with you America's favorite crossing guard, Daniel.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Pick a number one to ten, Daniel.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
I want to take the lead seed number three.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
Number three. Let's see.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Good.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
Look are you cheering for him? Is that right?
Speaker 4 (41:56):
Just good luck?
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Okay, okay, let's go with catastrophe. It's after all right,
that's it. Ten points. We're off to a good start,
my man, pots of pants.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
All right, I'll go ahead.
Speaker 5 (42:10):
Coop your up, all right, Mitchell, pick a number.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
Number one.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
You didn't say that, right, Mitchell, say it right, Mitchell, number.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
One, alright, you tried it. I'll give you all.
Speaker 5 (42:27):
Right, Mitchell. Let's go for let's go with.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Entryway, entry.
Speaker 6 (42:37):
Entryway, Yeah, alright.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Coop got excited because he was shocked. You got it right?
All right?
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Go ahead there, please, Daniel, pick a number, not one,
not three, ten, number ten?
Speaker 3 (42:56):
Thank you? An easy one, that is, I haven't done
it yet, you don't know. How about we go with
frightening get shared?
Speaker 1 (43:08):
There you go?
Speaker 3 (43:08):
All right, that works, that'll work, all right?
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Ten twenty to ten, we get ten points. Go ahead
and Coop your back up.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
It's password the word game of the stars.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
We are showing you the knowledge the lexicon of the
average overnight sports talk radio.
Speaker 5 (43:23):
Call it all right, Michel, not one, not three, not ten?
Speaker 3 (43:28):
Hey, number eight?
Speaker 5 (43:30):
All right, let's go with rescue. That's right, we're back
in it.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
These are baby, that was?
Speaker 2 (43:38):
That was? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (43:40):
Quite over there. Okay, we're gonna keep going. Danie'll pick
the number. Yeah, we're a lot of gone. But way five,
number five? All right? Well, why are you laughing at that?
Let's go with hmm, I think that's two words.
Speaker 4 (44:01):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (44:04):
Let's see here which you can Let's go with uh dismissed.
Speaker 5 (44:16):
No, all right, Mitchell, here we go for the win.
Speaker 6 (44:19):
Here, let's go with let's go with terminated, my man?
Speaker 3 (44:31):
All right, I don't even know if I need to
give a clue.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
I feel like you should get this already, but uh,
let's let's go with.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
That's it's a word. I used a lot. I don't know.
Whacked fired ye cry gratulated, had of time. Now we
(45:01):
don't have any time. We're out of time.
Speaker 2 (45:05):
Now we have no time.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
It's all you lost, Mitchell, You lost, Mitchell, We're out
of time.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
Congratulates this, Daniel, you're you're the big winning.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
You get a golden ticket, Mitchell, you get a lifetime
supply nothing and a trip to nowhere. But you need
to call the show more, Mitchell. We love your takes.
Mitchell is one of the great characters that calls the show,
and he's had some of the more outrageous calls over
the years. But big winner Daniel the Crossing Guard from
Port Wayne gets it done.
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