June 6, 2025 • 42 mins
Big Ben talks about Tyrese Haliburton and the Pacers sending the Thunder to an improbable loss in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, Aaron Rodgers finally signing with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, and more!
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So our lead this hour, and that's how.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
You start an NBA far Finals game number one right
there in Oklahoma City, and our leads story the opening act.
The curtain went up on the twenty twenty five Finals
and as the Pacers were massive underdogs, how big everywhere
I looked, Oh, this is going to be a four games,
gentlemen sweep four game series. Pacers just can't keep up.
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They cannot keep up, and that's why they play the games.
But they rolled into Petty Coat Junction there played date
with SGA and the Thunder. And I'm going to assume
the position you are not watching. I'm going to assume
the position that you maybe tuned over a little bit,
but you weren't watching the whole thing. So the NBA's
most overrated over raight it player, Tyreese Halliburton hits down,
(02:50):
hits now the Thunderer down by a point he or
the Pacers rather down by point. Tyrese Halliburton a twenty
one jumper doagger with zero point three seconds left, and
that gave Indiana their first and only lead of the game.
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They trailed almost all the way from soup to nuts,
but the three point shot or the jump shot by
Halliburton there put them up by one. The Pacers end
up stunning, leaving Oklahoma City mesmerized one eleven to one
ten to the final in game number one there of
the NBA Finals, a whacky to backie kind of a comeback.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
The Pacers turned the ball over twenty five times.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You can't win the game if you turn the ball
over twenty five times, the broadcaster said.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Trailed by fifteen points in the fourth quarter. In the
fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It's a pit of vipers playing in Oklahoma City, a
team with the top home record in the entire sport.
And the Pacers could not slough. They could not stop SGA.
The MVP, who had thirty eight points to lead the way,
and none of that mattered. None of it mattered because
Haliburton his basket was the great eraser on the chalkboard
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there as Pascal Siakam led the Pacers with nineteen points.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Obi Toppin.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I had jotted down, this is not a good night
when I keep seeing Obi Toppin hit shots, But it
turned out to be a good night. I was gonna
mock Obi Toppin having seventeen points, but in the end
it worked.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
The formula worked.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Miles Turner had fifteen and Tyreese Halliburton a very quiet
fourteen points. Andrew Nemhart also had fourteen. So the Indiana
Pacers now three wins away from the championship. In game
number two is back in Oklahoma City on Sunday night.
(04:53):
The better story is in the losing locker room, so
that is where we're gonna direct our focus. That's where
the raw emotion is. You end up losing like this,
it's rather embarrassing. So let us discuss and we have
some audio. Little flavor flave boy, it'll taste of this.
(05:13):
Here's Sga, the MVP of the NBA, commenting and says
that there was a lesson learned for the Thunder.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Take a listen.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
It happened so fast.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I feel like we got matched. He got down, going right,
pulled up from the midi and knocked down the shot.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
It didn't feel like anything crazy. He just he just
made a play. With the time winding down, we had
control of the game for the most part of it.
Now it is a forty eight minute game, and they
teach you that lesson more than anyone else in the league.
The hard way.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Did it the hard Away, but not that Tim Hardaway.
Here's more from.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
The MVP of the NBA, SGA, who says, even though
it says NBA Finals and there's no other games, these
are called island games because they are the only game
in town in that sport. But SGA says his mindset
is that's all the same.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
As much as we can, we just got to treat
it like every other game, every other situation we've been in. Yes,
we haven't been in the situation, but it doesn't mean
our character has to change or what we did last time.
It's still basketball, still the game of basketball that we
grew up playing. The rules don't change just because we're
in the finals. So it's like we've been in a
situation before and the other situation we handled it. We
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handled it well.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
We were better for game two.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
And that's the goal.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
It's all about the goal. It's all about the goal.
So it's all about well the Thunder coach Mark Dagano there,
he talked about the fact that, eh, you just you
just rinse it off and move on.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Take a listen in games in series, if you make
it this far, you have to endure to do that,
and it gives you rich experiences that you can draw on.
So the biggest experience we've had that is understanding that
every game is a new game. The most important game
in the series is always the next one, regardless of
the outcome. We would have liked to win tonight, but
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tonight was a starting point, not an end point. There's
a lot of things we can improve on. There's a
lot of things I'm sure Indiana thinks they can improve on,
and now the.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Series starts to evolve.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
So I would have liked to get the game, but
you know, need to be a better team in game two.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Okay, So that's my philosophy, right, I'm the most important
monologue is the one I'm doing right now. You know,
I'm not worried about next hour. I'm certainly not thinking
about hour three or hour four. You think I'm worried
about the Sunday and the Monday monologue or the podcast
I have to do later today, or maybe the podcast
I have to do on Sunday or the Saturday pot No, no, no,
I'm focused. I'm in the moment. I am in the
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moment right now. So let us discuss the question as
I do the monologue right now.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I'm not worried about game two. I'm worried about this game.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
So who is the biggest donkey for SGA's thunder the
Thunder from down Under? All right? So my thought and this,
They've got Brazilian butt lift, Quick Trip and Netflix, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are gonna make the Gabba Ghul.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
We're gonna make the Gabba Gul.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Alright, So a Oklahoma city didn't have one donkey, they
didn't have two donkeys.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
They had a herd.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Of donkeys from up fifteen nine forty two to go.
You nurse that like a baby. Fifteen point lead nine
forty two to go. Good teams don't blow fifteen point
leads with nine to forty two to go. So let's
get a team wide dunscap. These guys all like to
take photos together when they win, right when they lose?
Do they all stand around and stare at the camera
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and throw towels around it? Only when they win? Okay?
So the autopsy of a gag, the autopsy of a
pratt fall. This was a Vaudvillian, Vaudvillian choke job. And
I'll mention the three stooges here, Jalen Williams, Lou Dort,
and chet Holmren, the pilot and the cold pilots of
(09:04):
that's right, the vomit comet.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
They were right there in the cockpit on the vomit comet.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Now as the thunder closed the game, they were again
up fifteen. They were outscored in the final nine minutes
and forty two seconds thirty two to sixteen thirty two
sixteen at home by the Pacers in the NBA Finals.
And how did the pilot and co pilots do well?
(09:29):
Williams and Dort and also Homegren combined to go zero
for seven. I didn't play in the NBA. I don't
think that's particularly good. Oh, you're being too difficult. What's
wrong with you? Man? What's wrong with you? You're being a hater.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Okay, Well they had two points.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
That's it, two points in the final nine to forty
two barf City. Now, do you think I'm going to
give a pass to SGA that he's fine? He had
ten He did have ten of the final sixteen points
for Oklahoma City.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Nope, because he visited the brick house.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
If you watch the end of this game, Oklahoma City
had the ball, they had the chance to put the
game on ice. SGA took a jumper, little baby jumper,
and it was a brick house. Could have sealed the
game right there. And then Halliburton came down and said, daer.
(10:29):
He said, day, of course, I'm happy about this outcome out.
I want to I want to see Indiana win this series.
Not that I have any skin in the game here,
but this game one validated several of our long standing
hypothesis on sport that stats tell you what has happened,
not what's going to happen. Now for reference, the thunder
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I kept reading different articles, different stories online about Oklahoma
City and people's giving their opinions and the general consensus,
but people that claim to be smarter than you and
I is that this particular Oklahoma City team was so stacked.
It was like they went out and they got the
Brazilian butt lift.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I mean they were just I mean, man, they were
in charge.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
They were strutting down the catwalk, shaking their tukas their
badunka dunk, and they went out there a Godzilla sized favorite,
Godzilla sized favorite. Oklahoma City thirty six and one at
home with a fifteen point lead this season, thirty six
and one when they went up by fifteen, and you're
in the NBA Finals, you had SGA, your MVP home cooking,
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and none of it mattered. None of it mattered at all. Also,
most games are lost, not one. You have to finish
the race. The thunder didn't get her done down the
stretch and they sucked any time you cannot suck, and
so they lose.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Now turning the.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Page, So what does this game do for the Pacers
and what does it do for individually? Tyrese Haliburton, as
he was the guy playing hero ball at the end.
So we'll start with Halliburton. Why not? So this is
another pillar building, the pillar of a legend who was
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the most overrated player, as voted by his peers, not
the media, not the coaches, by his fellow players. They
thought he was overrated. And now he's gone out there
and he stopped at the quick trip. It's classic myth making,
raising your Q score up, up, up, and you think
of some of the great folk heroes in America. Johnny
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Appleseed comes to mind here. Now it's Tyrese the Terrible,
the cold blooded assassin in clutch time as he has
gone to in and out Burger and he has gotten
a four by four. That's four game winning baskets in
four playoffs series. Halliburton hit the game winner in the
final one point one second of every round in the playoffs.
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He did it against the Doc Rivers, Bucks, the by
To Mitchell Calves, the Jalen Brunson Knickerbockers, and now the
SGA Thunder. And you take a couple of steps back.
So what does it mean for Indiana. Well, it's no
playoff series truly begins until the road team wins. And
so okay, we checked that box done. And what it
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does is it puts the pendulum on and really the
choke hold on Oklahoma City because the Pacers have now
set the tone and all these people who were writing
these wonderful stories just licking the toes of Oka.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
See, the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Went out there and did trail for ninety nine point
nine percent of the game. But it doesn't matter. All
you remember is the outcome of the game, and it
doesn't matter. You don't get like half a win if
you led most of the game. And Indian went out
there and had a nice candlelight dinner and they had
the mood lighting and everything was good, good vibrations, and
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they went out there and they win the game of
the end.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
All right now, last word to the State of the
League address.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
As the NBA Finals were underway, Commissioner Adam Silver, he
represented the Lizard People and he spoke to the assembled
NBA media, Adam Silver making it clear that he has
no interest, none in taking a machete and shortening the
eighty two game regular season, saying quote, I don't really
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see the benefit. I don't really see the benefit Silver
said to reducing the number of games. He went on
to say people used to say you should reduce the
number of games because it will lead to a reduction
of injuries. If that were the case, you'd think you'd
have more injuries in April than in October. We don't
see that. Silver continued his diatribe. He said, or you'd
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think you'd see more injuries in the playoffs than you
do in the regular season.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
But we don't see that either. Post quote.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Okay, So Adam Silver just dismissing the idea of shortening
the NBA season, saying, again, I don't really see the benefit.
What is he really saying? You know what he said,
but what was he really saying. So he's saying it
does not compute. The math ain't mathing here. So he's
(15:15):
talking about cold hard cash, those crispy new fresh one
hundred dollars bill, that's what he's talking about. This is
all about those sweet sweet television dollars. And Adam Silver
is like running a production company for Netflix. There it's
an eighty two episode docu series with sneakers, load management.
The series. It goes on and on and on. So
(15:35):
if you were to take that aforementioned machete and chop chop, chop, chop,
chop and chop away, I don't know ten games. So
you now have ten fewer items to sell. Your inventory
has gone down, and so okay, that's fine, that's ten games.
You can't get money from ESPN, NBC, Amazon or whatever
(15:59):
they're other streaming.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Service they come up with here.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
So that's the benefit he doesn't see because it hurts
what the bottom line. It's all about the bottom line.
You can do all the charity you want. You can
be the wokest of the woke, but ultimately you're not
that woke when you have a product and you don't
want to cheapen the product because you want to make
that money. The NBA regular season, in so many ways,
it's like it's like watching c SPAN, you know, on
(16:25):
Congress it's c Span, Like you know, it's millionaires. Most
Congress people are millionaires, taking days off, not voting, not
showing up to their work, you know, for month after
month after month. And Adam Silver knows also, and this
is actually something I truly believe in.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Here, Adam Silver knows that.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
You cannot chop chop enough games off the schedule because
of load management. It's baked into the DNA. The players
are soft. The players are told to be soft. They're
raised that way. So it doesn't matter. Whatever the number is.
You could shorten the season into sixty games, get rid
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of twenty two games.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Snip snip. That done with twenty two games, So from eighty.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Two to sixty you could give the players weekly massages
and acupuncture and they'd still sit out half of those
games they did. Now play thirty games instead of right
now the eighty two game schedule. The players play maybe
you know, fifty five games or so, or fifty games
somewhere in that area, or sixty even. But if it
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doesn't matter, you can't go low enough, and you can't
trust the players. You can't because whatever the number is,
even if they say, okay, you give us that number,
we're gonna play, they're not. And out of an abundance
of caution, they're gonna stay away. That's what they're gonna do.
You know it, and I know it, and everyone involved
knows it. That's the reality. That's another reason not to
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get rid of any game.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
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So our lead this hour, play the hit, small Man,
Play the hits. All right, We're gonna play the hits.
We move away from pro bouncy ball, and our long
national nightmare is now over. Dateline Western Pennsylvania. After months
and months of a very public courtship between Aaron Rodgers
(19:38):
and Mike Tomlin, we now have a endpoint.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
No more will he or won't he speculation.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
We assume that you've heard by now, unless you've been
living by a rock.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Down by the river.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Maybe not. But Aaron Rogers has decided he will take
his talents to Mike Tomlin and the Pittsburgh Seeders, letting
Tomlin know that he intends to join the team.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
For the twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
And the Steelers had put a full court press, a
full court press on the now ex jet, but the
ex jet has landed at.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
A new airport in Pittsburgh, so that move.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
According to the Pittsburgh football team, all that is required
is a physical.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Now you know the way this works.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
If the team wants you to play for the team,
they will find a doctor to pass you, or they'll
just give the old wink and a nod to the
doctor who is employed by the team. And so it's
very difficult to not pass a physical if the team
wants you to pass physical, right, yeah, exactly. So at
age forty one, air and Rogers is going to be
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hanging out at the confluence. What a beautiful city Pittsburgh
is the Monongahela, the Alleghany rivers. There they get together,
they have a baby, and that's called the Ohio River.
And man, is that need really cool? If you've never
been there. I was out of years ago. I got
to get back.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I've not been to Pittsburgh in a minute.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
So let us discuss the question what is the temperature
around air? And Rogers finally going to the Steelers?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
So what is the temperature in the room? So I've
got foreigner screenplay and quirky.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
And we will combine all of these things together, and
we are going to throw some fries on top of
our sandwich as we hydrate and kind of get get
her blood going a little bit. So again we got
foreigner screenplay and quirky. Number I said, number W. The
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average body temperature is ninety eight point six degrees. Now
you knew that, right, fahrenheit ninety eight point six. You
learned that when you were younger. So I checked the
thermometer in the room. The thermometer in the room, we
took we took a look at it. What is the
thermometer in the room? Say when Aaron Rodgers is involved.
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It is always a high grade fever. Keep an eye
on it. You may have to go to the emergency room.
Why is that Aaron Rodgers is a firebrand with a
capital F firebrand. I get a kick out of Rogers.
I don't have as big an issue as some of
you do. I get these long manifesto emails every once
(22:24):
in a while from someone, and they often start I
used to like Aaron Rodgers when he played for the Packers,
and now I can't support him anymore. And okay, and
they have like the Packer logos, they're avvy, they're avatar.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
But the soundtrack, the soundtrack of Aaron Rodgers is from
the band Foreigner.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
It's agent Provocateur. That's Aaron.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Aaron Rodgers is an agent provocateur. He's also a foreigner
in Pittsburgh. He's an outsider. He's a mercenary. He provokes
a reaction, he ignites rage, and that's good for what
I do. Some people get the heb gebis. It's good
good for talk radio. People are ignited into rage and
(23:13):
about everything. Right. I'll give you an example. So one
of the stories, the working hypothesis on Rogers and why
he waited until the first week in June to sign.
One of the popular opinions by popular people is that
Rogers was annoyed at the way the media attacked him
for going to see the Pyramids in Greece and skipping
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out on the Jets and some practices in the off season.
So he determines like, well, I'm gonna wait and I'm
gonna enjoy my off season. I'm not gonna sign. Therefore,
no one can goof on me for not signing. And
so he waited to take his talents to Alleghany County,
and he wanted to enjoy traveling around and hanging out
(23:55):
with his buddy Joe Rogan and all the podcast don't
that he does, and so he thought, hey, i'll avoid criticism.
You can't rip me if I don't sign. I'm not
under nfl umbrella. I can do whatever I want. Yeah, oh,
there's a blast in the past. But here's the thing,
he didn't miss any OTAs. So of course Rogers decides
(24:18):
that's what I'm gonna do. I'm not gonna sign. I'm
gonna wait until the last minute. I'm gonna sign a contract.
And the Steelers were perfectly okay with this. They rubber
stamp it. They gave the okay, and Rogers has been
getting roasted like a pig at a traditional Hawaiian luau.
He's selfish, he is an egomaniac. Oh my god. Yeah,
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I'll tell you this much. Rogers will be motivated. You're
getting a motivated player to prove that he can still play,
to motivate it. Also mainly to prove that it wasn't
It wasn't him, It was the Jets. He's not the
reason that his career is in a ditch on the
side of the road. It was the Jets, and they
have mandatory mini camp up next week. So Rogers decided,
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all right, this is as long as I can wait.
I can't wait no more. I gotta do it now.
The question becomes, even if you're motivated, is the car
running on empty?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Is there any gas left in the tank? Is there?
Rogers has not looked like an elite.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
NFL quarterback since prior to COVID, and I would argue
a couple years prior to that because even his last
year at lombau Field he was not doing the Lambeau
leap very often. It was not a good season for
Rogers if you actually watch the games. Now, if you
look at the Pro Football Reference page and you're a
(25:39):
low information fan, you just read the box score.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Oh it was the same hold on Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
No, it wasn't right. That's one of the reasons the
Packers were not too worried about letting Rogers go. They
saw a declining player and that continued with the Jets,
and he got hurt and all that stuff. So you know,
he can go there and eat the go back to
Wisconsin and eat the cheese skirts. But Pittsburgh fans, now
they will boo you. They're gonna boo your ass, is
(26:03):
what they're going to do into the next week. When
you start floating those little screen passes and instead of
completing them and getting the first down, you throw it
over the head or it bounces. You're gonna hear about
it now.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Page two.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Are the critics of the quarterback? Are the critics being
too harsh on Aaron Rodgers? Or is this scrutiny justified?
And Rogers's been around for a while and it's mentioned
the temperatures at a fever pitch for Aaron Rodgers, But
is this justified or is this just a bit to
(26:40):
wash so I would argue this is the nature of
the beast, nature of the beast. When you are high profile,
and also when you go around acting like Socrates with
a spiral, you're going to get scrutiny. It's in the
recipe for the cake. It's baked into the cake there.
And Pittsburgh is a legacy franchise. It's appropriate because this
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is a legacy saving situation for Rogers.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I've already read the advanced screenplay.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
I have a copy of it. When you do overnight
talk radio, it's one of the perks that you get.
So I've read the screenplay. It reads like a Hollywood script.
It's Aaron Rodgers trying to rewrite the narrative yet again.
It's the old Cinderella Rise, Fall, Rise again. And there
is a dimension. There is a dimension in the multiverse
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where Aaron Rodgers goes out there and da da, he
gets it done. He won in Green Bay, he fizzled
in Jersey. He then rises again in Pittsburgh. Now there
is an alternative reality also, and the alternative reality is
that Aaron Rodgers has nothing left. That Aaron Rodgers is
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dun skies. There's nothing there. The tank is on empty
and Rogers ends up meditating on Mount Washington in Pittsburgh
and gets abducted by UFOs while meditating on Mount Washington
and has never heard from again. And the next time
Rodgers has talked about is over with our buddy George
(28:10):
Norri on coast to coast and that's where That's where.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
It is, all right now, final point?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
So how does this relationship between Mike Tomlin and Aaron
Rodgers work out in Pittsburgh? Now, I'm I'm fascinated by
this because these are two gigantic, egoed human beings, and
we love Mike Tomlin. Mike Tomlin has been so good,
so good for what we do. At least two or
(28:37):
three times during the NFL season, Mike Tomlin will say
some hokey thing like our windshield is bigger than our
rear view mirror, and then we'll do ten minutes on
Mike Tomlin some something. You know, he says, I want volunteers,
not hostages. There's all these Tomlin Tomlin isms that are
out there, and I'm fundamentally against comfort. I'm trying to
(29:00):
remember some of these things off the top, off the
top of my head. But it's great, you know, trying
to get my mojo back. I mean, it's endless, it's endless,
all these little lines, and so we get to see
that dynamic and it's it's gonna get off to a
fine So I think there's a honeymoon period.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Rogers is gonna show up.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
He's gonna have his church clothes on, he's gonna say
all the right things. He'll kiss, I'll probably kiss a
baby wrapped in a terrible towel to show everyone that
he loves Pittsburgh. The real moment where this gets interesting
is like week four or five, when the rubber meets
the road. Can't wait, Yeah, Rogers. At that point, Aaron
will be visiting the speakeasy over in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and
(29:40):
he'll be at a at a bar, the speakeasy bar
there with Fry Daddy, and he'll be drinking shots of ayahuasca.
And he'll be bemoaning to Fry Daddy in Harrisburg, blaming
the offensive line for the misalignment.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Of the energy.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
And he needs some more essential oils to turn things around.
And that's just the way it is. But I'm ready
for that. I'm ready. I'm good to go. This is
his hand picked for Mike Tomlin, his hand picked quarterback.
Be careful what you ask for. They've had a very
quirky bromance. Mike Tomlin is one of the few coaches
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that can command enough ri E s P E c
T enough respect to manage all the personality quirks that
come with the all inclusive Aaron Rodgers experience. Now, this
only works if Rogers has something left and buys it. Now,
I think he's gonna buy it emotionally. I believe he'll
(30:44):
buy it. Physically, that's the question. He's in his forties.
Usually you start sucking as an athlete at that time,
and there have been exceptions to that, but for the
most part, they just they don't happen often, and Pittsburgh
has been stuck in this transitional cycle at quarterback ever
since Ben Roethlisberger walked away after the twenty twenty one season.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Rogers will be the.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Fifth different week number one quarterback in as many seasons,
so five years in a row, new quarterback, and despite that,
Pittsburgh has reached the playoffs four times in the last
five seasons, only to be vaporized in the postseason in
lopsided losses. Uncompetitive like they don't even belong like they're
(31:32):
just a tomato can that somehow accidentally got to the playoffs.
Now other than Rogers, Other than Rogers, they've got Mason Rudolph.
They took a late round flyer, not a Dayton flyer,
but they took a late round flyer on Ohio State
quarterback Will Howard. So Will Howard is the other option
(31:52):
in the quarterback room. Stay tuned developing hot dot dot dot.
As someone I occasionally work with would.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Like to say or has, be sure to catch live
editions of the Ben Mellor Show weekdays at two am
Eastern eleven pm Pacific. How about that to the third degree,
this is one big tent gets grilled all right?
Speaker 7 (32:17):
Cool wel Reggie Bush is on the warpath again. In
a recent interview, he said that the NFL Players Association
needs to make playing surfaces a top priority and it's
negotiations with owners. He said a lot of leg injuries
are tied back to the surface plate on and that
grass should be the only one used in the NFL.
Ben do you think the NFLPA will ever make this
a priority?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Well, they can make it a priority, but unless they're
going to.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Spend the money to build stadiums where some of these
same you can't even have grass because they're indoor only facilities.
It's impossible. I know in Arizona, whether it's warm, they
can take the turf. They they have it en rollers,
they take it outside the stadium. Well, what are you
supposed to do in the Superdome in New Orleans for example,
and in several other stadiums where you're in cold weather,
(33:00):
you can't do it.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
So even if you make it a priority, you're strewed.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
There's no way to get it done because of the
environments where the teams play in the stadiums.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
So it's a nice thought, but it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 7 (33:14):
Next The Phoenix Sun still planned to trade Kevin Durant
this offseason. In a recent report from Shams, says that
there will be a quote robust market for Durant, with
up to six teams interested. Ben, are you surprised that
there's still that much demand for Durant?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
No, because he still box office and most of these
people watch these games, they don't really pay that close attention.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
They see Durant, he's a big name. They know who
he is.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
He's a Hall of Famer, He's had a decorated career,
and the fact that he might suck or even know
how that he sucks.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
He's just not as good. He's a diminishing asset. People
don't care.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
So you get him, You create some buzz, you sell
a few tickets, and everyone's happy, and you know it
doesn't really help you as much as he would five
years ago.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
But that's fine next so tonight.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
Notwithstanding, there are some NBA analysts out there that believe
the Thunder are set up for a decade long run
of championship contention, Ben, do you think the window is
that large for Okissy?
Speaker 3 (34:06):
No? No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
It's ridiculous the I read those same stories here, shoulder massage,
neck massage, wet kisses for the Thunder. My god, I
have not seen that kind of ball washing since I
was watching something else back in the day.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
It's insane. How do we do? Koop?
Speaker 5 (34:23):
You pass this edision?
Speaker 4 (34:24):
There?
Speaker 2 (34:24):
It is he that was the old Hawk Tour right there?
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Blame week, Blame week too. It's Big Ben's lame joke
of the week.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
And we go.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
We go to South Florida, one of our favorites. He's
got his own segment on national talk radio.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
He's a star.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Are in six hundred cities for some reason to carry
this dumb show?
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Weed Man hippie? We love Hello, weed Man? I love you?
Is your You're still by yourself?
Speaker 1 (35:15):
There's no roommate, right, there's a good roommate. Hell, there's
a weed Man's got a friend. All right, what's your
what's your roommate's name? Weed Man? Mark Mark, Mark, Hi Mark.
All right, let's say get to the good Mark. Yeah,
we're gonna do the jokes.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Well, this is great. Weed Man's got his own his sidekick.
This is awesome. All right.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
These are actual jokes in and by actual listeners all
over the country and around the world.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
You can send these jokes in care of Benmaller Show
at gmail dot com, Ben Malorshow at gmail dot com.
Who was the last doctor that weed Man went to see?
Speaker 8 (35:54):
Who?
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Doc Gooden? That's I love I know you do that's
the joke. That's a chip in Maine.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
What does a certain type of worm and weed man
hippie have in common?
Speaker 3 (36:09):
What an inch?
Speaker 1 (36:11):
That's John in Yustown, Ohio. All right, Which garden tool
does weed man hate the most?
Speaker 3 (36:20):
What the weed whacker?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
That's Dennis in Detroit that sent that joke in. Thank
you Dennis. Why doesn't the lifeguard save weed man hippie?
Why because he's too far out, man, He's too far out.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
That's a Bobby.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Bobby in Florida sent that one in. Why were weed
Man's appearance fee demands to do lame jokes rejected by
Fox Sports Radio management?
Speaker 8 (36:50):
Why?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Well, it turns out that he's being replaced by an
alternative free segment of jokes called Poppy's Picks. That's Tom
and Indianna. Well, we got one Lizzo joke this week.
How is Lizzo like the Detroit Red Wings?
Speaker 8 (37:09):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Well, according to Monkey Bone in Yelm.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Washington, she showers just like the Red Wings at the
end of every game, after all the periods are done.
She showers right there. Free jurgis right there? All right?
Oh man, I got both you guys laughing. This is
like a live studio audience. A truck full of Vicks
vapor rub crash in the middle of the highway during
(37:34):
rush hour this week.
Speaker 8 (37:36):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Really yeah, amazingly no congestion at all.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
I don't know why that's Hank. Hank and Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Sent that one in.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
These are actual jokes by actual listeners.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
What else do we have here? How did Angel Reese
recently hire or who did Angel rees recently hire as
a new shooting coach? Wow, blind Scott, she hired Line Scott.
That's George and Uvaldi Texas.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Very nice. Why did the scarecrow win an award?
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Why? Because he was outstanding in his field? The great
Dominican Mike. I love Dominican Mirket. It's great to hear
that he's still out there every day hollering. James tells
Tammy and Montana that he's going jogging and he doesn't
do it. Weed man, Why it's a running joke. That's
why it's a running joke. What is blind Scott going
(38:27):
to try as his next service animal?
Speaker 3 (38:31):
What a blind nut to find a squirrel? That's it?
Here you go, all.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Right, Big Ben's Chip in Maine. Big Man's Lame Jokes
of the Week. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
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I don't think that starts right now. Here is Justin
cooper at OROPO fan on X here he is on
the ones and twos.
Speaker 5 (38:58):
Take it away, Thank you, Marcel. I appreciate that.
Speaker 8 (39:02):
I again talking, so you win before you go to
the entertainment side. Who's gonna win in Game two of
the NBA Finals on Sunday, Pacers or Thunder?
Speaker 1 (39:15):
He's asking for a take.
Speaker 7 (39:17):
I would like it to be the Pacers, but I
think it'll probably be the Thunder.
Speaker 5 (39:21):
In Game two.
Speaker 8 (39:22):
Oh, good luck with that. It could be a tide.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
Okay, time, you're taking time, marcell.
Speaker 7 (39:31):
All right, We're gonna start off in the theaters this
week and and there's a couple of exciting movies premiering
this weekend. Uh The first one is called Ballerina, and
this is actually a John Wick spinoff movie that stars
uh Anna de Armas, who is great beautiful actress. Keanu
(39:52):
Reeves will appear in the movie, as well as other
characters from the John Wicks series such as Ian McShane
u and Lance Reddick and Also, apparently Norman Retis is
going to be in this movie of the Walking Dead fame.
But this one has a pretty good review so far,
so check that out. Nice action movie in theaters this
weekend called Ballo Arena. Also in theaters this weekend is well,
(40:18):
it's been out for a week already, but it's been
the limited release, and so this weekend you get the full,
available everywhere release of Wes Anderson's newest movie called The
Phoenician Scheme. And this one stars Michael Sarah as well
as Benicio del Tororiz Ahmed, Tom Hanks makes an appearance,
(40:41):
Brian Cranston, and a bunch of other names, as many
big names normally do in Wes Anderson movies. The only
description I have for you is the story of a
family and a family business. It's not not much of
a description, but that is available in theaters right now.
Moving over to television, we have a couple of things
(41:03):
that I want to mention. First, this is interesting. I'm intrigued,
but I'm not sure how this is gonna go. It
is a live special in a first for CNN. It's
called good Night and good Luck, and this stars George
Clooney and it is a live stream of a Broadway
(41:24):
performance where I don't need that.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
Yeah, I mean know, I mean the whole point of
the Broadway thing is to go to a theater. That's
the whole point.
Speaker 5 (41:35):
No, I mean, I guess.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
I mean you're one of those small seats in some
old theater in Manhattan that's with the whole experience.
Speaker 5 (41:44):
Yeah, he is. This is the one where he is
playing God. What is the Edward R. Murrow? George Clooney
is playing him in this Broadway show.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
But that I've heard of him? Yeah, media media legend.
Speaker 5 (41:58):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (42:00):
But if you are, if you do happen to be
interested in watching this. It streams live on CNN at
seven pm Eastern four pm Pacific on Saturday. It will
also be available to stream on HBO Max and last,
but not least, if you're a big fan of the
Predator movies, there is a new one.
Speaker 5 (42:21):
This one is called Predator Killer of Killers.
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powerful warrior of Viking, a ninja, and a w a
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You start an NBA far Finals game number one right
there in Oklahoma City, and our leads story the opening act.
The curtain went up on the twenty twenty five Finals
and as the Pacers were massive underdogs, how big everywhere
I looked, Oh, this is going to be a four games,
gentlemen sweep four game series. Pacers just can't keep up.
(02:22):
They cannot keep up, and that's why they play the games.
But they rolled into Petty Coat Junction there played date
with SGA and the Thunder. And I'm going to assume
the position you are not watching. I'm going to assume
the position that you maybe tuned over a little bit,
but you weren't watching the whole thing. So the NBA's
most overrated over raight it player, Tyreese Halliburton hits down,
(02:50):
hits now the Thunderer down by a point he or
the Pacers rather down by point. Tyrese Halliburton a twenty
one jumper doagger with zero point three seconds left, and
that gave Indiana their first and only lead of the game.
(03:10):
They trailed almost all the way from soup to nuts,
but the three point shot or the jump shot by
Halliburton there put them up by one. The Pacers end
up stunning, leaving Oklahoma City mesmerized one eleven to one
ten to the final in game number one there of
the NBA Finals, a whacky to backie kind of a comeback.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
The Pacers turned the ball over twenty five times.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You can't win the game if you turn the ball
over twenty five times, the broadcaster said.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Trailed by fifteen points in the fourth quarter. In the
fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It's a pit of vipers playing in Oklahoma City, a
team with the top home record in the entire sport.
And the Pacers could not slough. They could not stop SGA.
The MVP, who had thirty eight points to lead the way,
and none of that mattered. None of it mattered because
Haliburton his basket was the great eraser on the chalkboard
(04:12):
there as Pascal Siakam led the Pacers with nineteen points.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Obi Toppin.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I had jotted down, this is not a good night
when I keep seeing Obi Toppin hit shots, But it
turned out to be a good night. I was gonna
mock Obi Toppin having seventeen points, but in the end
it worked.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
The formula worked.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Miles Turner had fifteen and Tyreese Halliburton a very quiet
fourteen points. Andrew Nemhart also had fourteen. So the Indiana
Pacers now three wins away from the championship. In game
number two is back in Oklahoma City on Sunday night.
(04:53):
The better story is in the losing locker room, so
that is where we're gonna direct our focus. That's where
the raw emotion is. You end up losing like this,
it's rather embarrassing. So let us discuss and we have
some audio. Little flavor flave boy, it'll taste of this.
(05:13):
Here's Sga, the MVP of the NBA, commenting and says
that there was a lesson learned for the Thunder.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Take a listen.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
It happened so fast.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I feel like we got matched. He got down, going right,
pulled up from the midi and knocked down the shot.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
It didn't feel like anything crazy. He just he just
made a play. With the time winding down, we had
control of the game for the most part of it.
Now it is a forty eight minute game, and they
teach you that lesson more than anyone else in the league.
The hard way.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Did it the hard Away, but not that Tim Hardaway.
Here's more from.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
The MVP of the NBA, SGA, who says, even though
it says NBA Finals and there's no other games, these
are called island games because they are the only game
in town in that sport. But SGA says his mindset
is that's all the same.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
As much as we can, we just got to treat
it like every other game, every other situation we've been in. Yes,
we haven't been in the situation, but it doesn't mean
our character has to change or what we did last time.
It's still basketball, still the game of basketball that we
grew up playing. The rules don't change just because we're
in the finals. So it's like we've been in a
situation before and the other situation we handled it. We
(06:29):
handled it well.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
We were better for game two.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
And that's the goal.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
It's all about the goal. It's all about the goal.
So it's all about well the Thunder coach Mark Dagano there,
he talked about the fact that, eh, you just you
just rinse it off and move on.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Take a listen in games in series, if you make
it this far, you have to endure to do that,
and it gives you rich experiences that you can draw on.
So the biggest experience we've had that is understanding that
every game is a new game. The most important game
in the series is always the next one, regardless of
the outcome. We would have liked to win tonight, but
(07:08):
tonight was a starting point, not an end point. There's
a lot of things we can improve on. There's a
lot of things I'm sure Indiana thinks they can improve on,
and now the.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Series starts to evolve.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
So I would have liked to get the game, but
you know, need to be a better team in game two.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Okay, So that's my philosophy, right, I'm the most important
monologue is the one I'm doing right now. You know,
I'm not worried about next hour. I'm certainly not thinking
about hour three or hour four. You think I'm worried
about the Sunday and the Monday monologue or the podcast
I have to do later today, or maybe the podcast
I have to do on Sunday or the Saturday pot No, no, no,
I'm focused. I'm in the moment. I am in the
(07:44):
moment right now. So let us discuss the question as
I do the monologue right now.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I'm not worried about game two. I'm worried about this game.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
So who is the biggest donkey for SGA's thunder the
Thunder from down Under? All right? So my thought and this,
They've got Brazilian butt lift, Quick Trip and Netflix, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are gonna make the Gabba Ghul.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
We're gonna make the Gabba Gul.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Alright, So a Oklahoma city didn't have one donkey, they
didn't have two donkeys.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
They had a herd.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Of donkeys from up fifteen nine forty two to go.
You nurse that like a baby. Fifteen point lead nine
forty two to go. Good teams don't blow fifteen point
leads with nine to forty two to go. So let's
get a team wide dunscap. These guys all like to
take photos together when they win, right when they lose?
Do they all stand around and stare at the camera
(08:42):
and throw towels around it? Only when they win? Okay?
So the autopsy of a gag, the autopsy of a
pratt fall. This was a Vaudvillian, Vaudvillian choke job. And
I'll mention the three stooges here, Jalen Williams, Lou Dort,
and chet Holmren, the pilot and the cold pilots of
(09:04):
that's right, the vomit comet.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
They were right there in the cockpit on the vomit comet.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Now as the thunder closed the game, they were again
up fifteen. They were outscored in the final nine minutes
and forty two seconds thirty two to sixteen thirty two
sixteen at home by the Pacers in the NBA Finals.
And how did the pilot and co pilots do well?
(09:29):
Williams and Dort and also Homegren combined to go zero
for seven. I didn't play in the NBA. I don't
think that's particularly good. Oh, you're being too difficult. What's
wrong with you? Man? What's wrong with you? You're being a hater.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Okay, Well they had two points.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
That's it, two points in the final nine to forty
two barf City. Now, do you think I'm going to
give a pass to SGA that he's fine? He had
ten He did have ten of the final sixteen points
for Oklahoma City.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Nope, because he visited the brick house.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
If you watch the end of this game, Oklahoma City
had the ball, they had the chance to put the
game on ice. SGA took a jumper, little baby jumper,
and it was a brick house. Could have sealed the
game right there. And then Halliburton came down and said, daer.
(10:29):
He said, day, of course, I'm happy about this outcome out.
I want to I want to see Indiana win this series.
Not that I have any skin in the game here,
but this game one validated several of our long standing
hypothesis on sport that stats tell you what has happened,
not what's going to happen. Now for reference, the thunder
(10:51):
I kept reading different articles, different stories online about Oklahoma
City and people's giving their opinions and the general consensus,
but people that claim to be smarter than you and
I is that this particular Oklahoma City team was so stacked.
It was like they went out and they got the
Brazilian butt lift.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I mean they were just I mean, man, they were
in charge.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
They were strutting down the catwalk, shaking their tukas their
badunka dunk, and they went out there a Godzilla sized favorite,
Godzilla sized favorite. Oklahoma City thirty six and one at
home with a fifteen point lead this season, thirty six
and one when they went up by fifteen, and you're
in the NBA Finals, you had SGA, your MVP home cooking,
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and none of it mattered. None of it mattered at all. Also,
most games are lost, not one. You have to finish
the race. The thunder didn't get her done down the
stretch and they sucked any time you cannot suck, and
so they lose.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Now turning the.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Page, So what does this game do for the Pacers
and what does it do for individually? Tyrese Haliburton, as
he was the guy playing hero ball at the end.
So we'll start with Halliburton. Why not? So this is
another pillar building, the pillar of a legend who was
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the most overrated player, as voted by his peers, not
the media, not the coaches, by his fellow players. They
thought he was overrated. And now he's gone out there
and he stopped at the quick trip. It's classic myth making,
raising your Q score up, up, up, and you think
of some of the great folk heroes in America. Johnny
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Appleseed comes to mind here. Now it's Tyrese the Terrible,
the cold blooded assassin in clutch time as he has
gone to in and out Burger and he has gotten
a four by four. That's four game winning baskets in
four playoffs series. Halliburton hit the game winner in the
final one point one second of every round in the playoffs.
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He did it against the Doc Rivers, Bucks, the by
To Mitchell Calves, the Jalen Brunson Knickerbockers, and now the
SGA Thunder. And you take a couple of steps back.
So what does it mean for Indiana. Well, it's no
playoff series truly begins until the road team wins. And
so okay, we checked that box done. And what it
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does is it puts the pendulum on and really the
choke hold on Oklahoma City because the Pacers have now
set the tone and all these people who were writing
these wonderful stories just licking the toes of Oka.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
See, the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Went out there and did trail for ninety nine point
nine percent of the game. But it doesn't matter. All
you remember is the outcome of the game, and it
doesn't matter. You don't get like half a win if
you led most of the game. And Indian went out
there and had a nice candlelight dinner and they had
the mood lighting and everything was good, good vibrations, and
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they went out there and they win the game of
the end.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
All right now, last word to the State of the
League address.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
As the NBA Finals were underway, Commissioner Adam Silver, he
represented the Lizard People and he spoke to the assembled
NBA media, Adam Silver making it clear that he has
no interest, none in taking a machete and shortening the
eighty two game regular season, saying quote, I don't really
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see the benefit. I don't really see the benefit Silver
said to reducing the number of games. He went on
to say people used to say you should reduce the
number of games because it will lead to a reduction
of injuries. If that were the case, you'd think you'd
have more injuries in April than in October. We don't
see that. Silver continued his diatribe. He said, or you'd
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think you'd see more injuries in the playoffs than you
do in the regular season.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
But we don't see that either. Post quote.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Okay, So Adam Silver just dismissing the idea of shortening
the NBA season, saying, again, I don't really see the benefit.
What is he really saying? You know what he said,
but what was he really saying. So he's saying it
does not compute. The math ain't mathing here. So he's
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talking about cold hard cash, those crispy new fresh one
hundred dollars bill, that's what he's talking about. This is
all about those sweet sweet television dollars. And Adam Silver
is like running a production company for Netflix. There it's
an eighty two episode docu series with sneakers, load management.
The series. It goes on and on and on. So
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if you were to take that aforementioned machete and chop chop, chop, chop,
chop and chop away, I don't know ten games. So
you now have ten fewer items to sell. Your inventory
has gone down, and so okay, that's fine, that's ten games.
You can't get money from ESPN, NBC, Amazon or whatever
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they're other streaming.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Service they come up with here.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
So that's the benefit he doesn't see because it hurts
what the bottom line. It's all about the bottom line.
You can do all the charity you want. You can
be the wokest of the woke, but ultimately you're not
that woke when you have a product and you don't
want to cheapen the product because you want to make
that money. The NBA regular season, in so many ways,
it's like it's like watching c SPAN, you know, on
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Congress it's c Span, Like you know, it's millionaires. Most
Congress people are millionaires, taking days off, not voting, not
showing up to their work, you know, for month after
month after month. And Adam Silver knows also, and this
is actually something I truly believe in.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Here, Adam Silver knows that.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
You cannot chop chop enough games off the schedule because
of load management. It's baked into the DNA. The players
are soft. The players are told to be soft. They're
raised that way. So it doesn't matter. Whatever the number is.
You could shorten the season into sixty games, get rid
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of twenty two games.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Snip snip. That done with twenty two games, So from eighty.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Two to sixty you could give the players weekly massages
and acupuncture and they'd still sit out half of those
games they did. Now play thirty games instead of right
now the eighty two game schedule. The players play maybe
you know, fifty five games or so, or fifty games
somewhere in that area, or sixty even. But if it
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doesn't matter, you can't go low enough, and you can't
trust the players. You can't because whatever the number is,
even if they say, okay, you give us that number,
we're gonna play, they're not. And out of an abundance
of caution, they're gonna stay away. That's what they're gonna do.
You know it, and I know it, and everyone involved
knows it. That's the reality. That's another reason not to
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get rid of any game.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
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So our lead this hour, play the hit, small Man,
Play the hits. All right, We're gonna play the hits.
We move away from pro bouncy ball, and our long
national nightmare is now over. Dateline Western Pennsylvania. After months
and months of a very public courtship between Aaron Rodgers
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and Mike Tomlin, we now have a endpoint.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
No more will he or won't he speculation.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
We assume that you've heard by now, unless you've been
living by a rock.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Down by the river.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Maybe not. But Aaron Rogers has decided he will take
his talents to Mike Tomlin and the Pittsburgh Seeders, letting
Tomlin know that he intends to join the team.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
For the twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
And the Steelers had put a full court press, a
full court press on the now ex jet, but the
ex jet has landed at.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
A new airport in Pittsburgh, so that move.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
According to the Pittsburgh football team, all that is required
is a physical.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Now you know the way this works.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
If the team wants you to play for the team,
they will find a doctor to pass you, or they'll
just give the old wink and a nod to the
doctor who is employed by the team. And so it's
very difficult to not pass a physical if the team
wants you to pass physical, right, yeah, exactly. So at
age forty one, air and Rogers is going to be
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hanging out at the confluence. What a beautiful city Pittsburgh
is the Monongahela, the Alleghany rivers. There they get together,
they have a baby, and that's called the Ohio River.
And man, is that need really cool? If you've never
been there. I was out of years ago. I got
to get back.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I've not been to Pittsburgh in a minute.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
So let us discuss the question what is the temperature
around air? And Rogers finally going to the Steelers?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
So what is the temperature in the room? So I've
got foreigner screenplay and quirky.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
And we will combine all of these things together, and
we are going to throw some fries on top of
our sandwich as we hydrate and kind of get get
her blood going a little bit. So again we got
foreigner screenplay and quirky. Number I said, number W. The
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average body temperature is ninety eight point six degrees. Now
you knew that, right, fahrenheit ninety eight point six. You
learned that when you were younger. So I checked the
thermometer in the room. The thermometer in the room, we
took we took a look at it. What is the
thermometer in the room? Say when Aaron Rodgers is involved.
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It is always a high grade fever. Keep an eye
on it. You may have to go to the emergency room.
Why is that Aaron Rodgers is a firebrand with a
capital F firebrand. I get a kick out of Rogers.
I don't have as big an issue as some of
you do. I get these long manifesto emails every once
(22:24):
in a while from someone, and they often start I
used to like Aaron Rodgers when he played for the Packers,
and now I can't support him anymore. And okay, and
they have like the Packer logos, they're avvy, they're avatar.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
But the soundtrack, the soundtrack of Aaron Rodgers is from
the band Foreigner.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
It's agent Provocateur. That's Aaron.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Aaron Rodgers is an agent provocateur. He's also a foreigner
in Pittsburgh. He's an outsider. He's a mercenary. He provokes
a reaction, he ignites rage, and that's good for what
I do. Some people get the heb gebis. It's good
good for talk radio. People are ignited into rage and
(23:13):
about everything. Right. I'll give you an example. So one
of the stories, the working hypothesis on Rogers and why
he waited until the first week in June to sign.
One of the popular opinions by popular people is that
Rogers was annoyed at the way the media attacked him
for going to see the Pyramids in Greece and skipping
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out on the Jets and some practices in the off season.
So he determines like, well, I'm gonna wait and I'm
gonna enjoy my off season. I'm not gonna sign. Therefore,
no one can goof on me for not signing. And
so he waited to take his talents to Alleghany County,
and he wanted to enjoy traveling around and hanging out
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with his buddy Joe Rogan and all the podcast don't
that he does, and so he thought, hey, i'll avoid criticism.
You can't rip me if I don't sign. I'm not
under nfl umbrella. I can do whatever I want. Yeah, oh,
there's a blast in the past. But here's the thing,
he didn't miss any OTAs. So of course Rogers decides
(24:18):
that's what I'm gonna do. I'm not gonna sign. I'm
gonna wait until the last minute. I'm gonna sign a contract.
And the Steelers were perfectly okay with this. They rubber
stamp it. They gave the okay, and Rogers has been
getting roasted like a pig at a traditional Hawaiian luau.
He's selfish, he is an egomaniac. Oh my god. Yeah,
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I'll tell you this much. Rogers will be motivated. You're
getting a motivated player to prove that he can still play,
to motivate it. Also mainly to prove that it wasn't
It wasn't him, It was the Jets. He's not the
reason that his career is in a ditch on the
side of the road. It was the Jets, and they
have mandatory mini camp up next week. So Rogers decided,
(25:02):
all right, this is as long as I can wait.
I can't wait no more. I gotta do it now.
The question becomes, even if you're motivated, is the car
running on empty?
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Is there any gas left in the tank? Is there?
Rogers has not looked like an elite.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
NFL quarterback since prior to COVID, and I would argue
a couple years prior to that because even his last
year at lombau Field he was not doing the Lambeau
leap very often. It was not a good season for
Rogers if you actually watch the games. Now, if you
look at the Pro Football Reference page and you're a
(25:39):
low information fan, you just read the box score.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Oh it was the same hold on Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
No, it wasn't right. That's one of the reasons the
Packers were not too worried about letting Rogers go. They
saw a declining player and that continued with the Jets,
and he got hurt and all that stuff. So you know,
he can go there and eat the go back to
Wisconsin and eat the cheese skirts. But Pittsburgh fans, now
they will boo you. They're gonna boo your ass, is
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what they're going to do into the next week. When
you start floating those little screen passes and instead of
completing them and getting the first down, you throw it
over the head or it bounces. You're gonna hear about
it now.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Page two.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Are the critics of the quarterback? Are the critics being
too harsh on Aaron Rodgers? Or is this scrutiny justified?
And Rogers's been around for a while and it's mentioned
the temperatures at a fever pitch for Aaron Rodgers, But
is this justified or is this just a bit to
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wash so I would argue this is the nature of
the beast, nature of the beast. When you are high profile,
and also when you go around acting like Socrates with
a spiral, you're going to get scrutiny. It's in the
recipe for the cake. It's baked into the cake there.
And Pittsburgh is a legacy franchise. It's appropriate because this
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is a legacy saving situation for Rogers.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I've already read the advanced screenplay.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
I have a copy of it. When you do overnight
talk radio, it's one of the perks that you get.
So I've read the screenplay. It reads like a Hollywood script.
It's Aaron Rodgers trying to rewrite the narrative yet again.
It's the old Cinderella Rise, Fall, Rise again. And there
is a dimension. There is a dimension in the multiverse
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where Aaron Rodgers goes out there and da da, he
gets it done. He won in Green Bay, he fizzled
in Jersey. He then rises again in Pittsburgh. Now there
is an alternative reality also, and the alternative reality is
that Aaron Rodgers has nothing left. That Aaron Rodgers is
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dun skies. There's nothing there. The tank is on empty
and Rogers ends up meditating on Mount Washington in Pittsburgh
and gets abducted by UFOs while meditating on Mount Washington
and has never heard from again. And the next time
Rodgers has talked about is over with our buddy George
(28:10):
Norri on coast to coast and that's where That's where.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
It is, all right now, final point?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
So how does this relationship between Mike Tomlin and Aaron
Rodgers work out in Pittsburgh? Now, I'm I'm fascinated by
this because these are two gigantic, egoed human beings, and
we love Mike Tomlin. Mike Tomlin has been so good,
so good for what we do. At least two or
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three times during the NFL season, Mike Tomlin will say
some hokey thing like our windshield is bigger than our
rear view mirror, and then we'll do ten minutes on
Mike Tomlin some something. You know, he says, I want volunteers,
not hostages. There's all these Tomlin Tomlin isms that are
out there, and I'm fundamentally against comfort. I'm trying to
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remember some of these things off the top, off the
top of my head. But it's great, you know, trying
to get my mojo back. I mean, it's endless, it's endless,
all these little lines, and so we get to see
that dynamic and it's it's gonna get off to a
fine So I think there's a honeymoon period.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Rogers is gonna show up.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
He's gonna have his church clothes on, he's gonna say
all the right things. He'll kiss, I'll probably kiss a
baby wrapped in a terrible towel to show everyone that
he loves Pittsburgh. The real moment where this gets interesting
is like week four or five, when the rubber meets
the road. Can't wait, Yeah, Rogers. At that point, Aaron
will be visiting the speakeasy over in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and
(29:40):
he'll be at a at a bar, the speakeasy bar
there with Fry Daddy, and he'll be drinking shots of ayahuasca.
And he'll be bemoaning to Fry Daddy in Harrisburg, blaming
the offensive line for the misalignment.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Of the energy.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
And he needs some more essential oils to turn things around.
And that's just the way it is. But I'm ready
for that. I'm ready. I'm good to go. This is
his hand picked for Mike Tomlin, his hand picked quarterback.
Be careful what you ask for. They've had a very
quirky bromance. Mike Tomlin is one of the few coaches
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that can command enough ri E s P E c
T enough respect to manage all the personality quirks that
come with the all inclusive Aaron Rodgers experience. Now, this
only works if Rogers has something left and buys it. Now,
I think he's gonna buy it emotionally. I believe he'll
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buy it. Physically, that's the question. He's in his forties.
Usually you start sucking as an athlete at that time,
and there have been exceptions to that, but for the
most part, they just they don't happen often, and Pittsburgh
has been stuck in this transitional cycle at quarterback ever
since Ben Roethlisberger walked away after the twenty twenty one season.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Rogers will be the.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Fifth different week number one quarterback in as many seasons,
so five years in a row, new quarterback, and despite that,
Pittsburgh has reached the playoffs four times in the last
five seasons, only to be vaporized in the postseason in
lopsided losses. Uncompetitive like they don't even belong like they're
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just a tomato can that somehow accidentally got to the playoffs.
Now other than Rogers, Other than Rogers, they've got Mason Rudolph.
They took a late round flyer, not a Dayton flyer,
but they took a late round flyer on Ohio State
quarterback Will Howard. So Will Howard is the other option
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in the quarterback room. Stay tuned developing hot dot dot dot.
As someone I occasionally work with would.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Like to say or has, be sure to catch live
editions of the Ben Mellor Show weekdays at two am
Eastern eleven pm Pacific. How about that to the third degree,
this is one big tent gets grilled all right?
Speaker 7 (32:17):
Cool wel Reggie Bush is on the warpath again. In
a recent interview, he said that the NFL Players Association
needs to make playing surfaces a top priority and it's
negotiations with owners. He said a lot of leg injuries
are tied back to the surface plate on and that
grass should be the only one used in the NFL.
Ben do you think the NFLPA will ever make this
a priority?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Well, they can make it a priority, but unless they're
going to.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Spend the money to build stadiums where some of these
same you can't even have grass because they're indoor only facilities.
It's impossible. I know in Arizona, whether it's warm, they
can take the turf. They they have it en rollers,
they take it outside the stadium. Well, what are you
supposed to do in the Superdome in New Orleans for example,
and in several other stadiums where you're in cold weather,
(33:00):
you can't do it.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
So even if you make it a priority, you're strewed.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
There's no way to get it done because of the
environments where the teams play in the stadiums.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
So it's a nice thought, but it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 7 (33:14):
Next The Phoenix Sun still planned to trade Kevin Durant
this offseason. In a recent report from Shams, says that
there will be a quote robust market for Durant, with
up to six teams interested. Ben, are you surprised that
there's still that much demand for Durant?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
No, because he still box office and most of these
people watch these games, they don't really pay that close attention.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
They see Durant, he's a big name. They know who
he is.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
He's a Hall of Famer, He's had a decorated career,
and the fact that he might suck or even know
how that he sucks.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
He's just not as good. He's a diminishing asset. People
don't care.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
So you get him, You create some buzz, you sell
a few tickets, and everyone's happy, and you know it
doesn't really help you as much as he would five
years ago.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
But that's fine next so tonight.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
Notwithstanding, there are some NBA analysts out there that believe
the Thunder are set up for a decade long run
of championship contention, Ben, do you think the window is
that large for Okissy?
Speaker 3 (34:06):
No? No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
It's ridiculous the I read those same stories here, shoulder massage,
neck massage, wet kisses for the Thunder. My god, I
have not seen that kind of ball washing since I
was watching something else back in the day.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
It's insane. How do we do? Koop?
Speaker 5 (34:23):
You pass this edision?
Speaker 4 (34:24):
There?
Speaker 2 (34:24):
It is he that was the old Hawk Tour right there?
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Blame week, Blame week too. It's Big Ben's lame joke
of the week.
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And we go.
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We go to South Florida, one of our favorites. He's
got his own segment on national talk radio.
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He's a star.
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Are in six hundred cities for some reason to carry
this dumb show?
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Weed Man hippie? We love Hello, weed Man? I love you?
Is your You're still by yourself?
Speaker 1 (35:15):
There's no roommate, right, there's a good roommate. Hell, there's
a weed Man's got a friend. All right, what's your
what's your roommate's name? Weed Man? Mark Mark, Mark, Hi Mark.
All right, let's say get to the good Mark. Yeah,
we're gonna do the jokes.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Well, this is great. Weed Man's got his own his sidekick.
This is awesome. All right.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
These are actual jokes in and by actual listeners all
over the country and around the world.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Here we go.
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You can send these jokes in care of Benmaller Show
at gmail dot com, Ben Malorshow at gmail dot com.
Who was the last doctor that weed Man went to see?
Speaker 8 (35:54):
Who?
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Doc Gooden? That's I love I know you do that's
the joke. That's a chip in Maine.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
What does a certain type of worm and weed man
hippie have in common?
Speaker 3 (36:09):
What an inch?
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That's John in Yustown, Ohio. All right, Which garden tool
does weed man hate the most?
Speaker 3 (36:20):
What the weed whacker?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
That's Dennis in Detroit that sent that joke in. Thank
you Dennis. Why doesn't the lifeguard save weed man hippie?
Why because he's too far out, man, He's too far out.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
That's a Bobby.
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Bobby in Florida sent that one in. Why were weed
Man's appearance fee demands to do lame jokes rejected by
Fox Sports Radio management?
Speaker 8 (36:50):
Why?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Well, it turns out that he's being replaced by an
alternative free segment of jokes called Poppy's Picks. That's Tom
and Indianna. Well, we got one Lizzo joke this week.
How is Lizzo like the Detroit Red Wings?
Speaker 8 (37:09):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Well, according to Monkey Bone in Yelm.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Washington, she showers just like the Red Wings at the
end of every game, after all the periods are done.
She showers right there. Free jurgis right there? All right?
Oh man, I got both you guys laughing. This is
like a live studio audience. A truck full of Vicks
vapor rub crash in the middle of the highway during
(37:34):
rush hour this week.
Speaker 8 (37:36):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Really yeah, amazingly no congestion at all.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
I don't know why that's Hank. Hank and Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Sent that one in.
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These are actual jokes by actual listeners.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
What else do we have here? How did Angel Reese
recently hire or who did Angel rees recently hire as
a new shooting coach? Wow, blind Scott, she hired Line Scott.
That's George and Uvaldi Texas.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Very nice. Why did the scarecrow win an award?
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Why? Because he was outstanding in his field? The great
Dominican Mike. I love Dominican Mirket. It's great to hear
that he's still out there every day hollering. James tells
Tammy and Montana that he's going jogging and he doesn't
do it. Weed man, Why it's a running joke. That's
why it's a running joke. What is blind Scott going
(38:27):
to try as his next service animal?
Speaker 3 (38:31):
What a blind nut to find a squirrel? That's it?
Here you go, all.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Right, Big Ben's Chip in Maine. Big Man's Lame Jokes
of the Week. Thank you.
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
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I don't think that starts right now. Here is Justin
cooper at OROPO fan on X here he is on
the ones and twos.
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Take it away, Thank you, Marcel. I appreciate that.
Speaker 8 (39:02):
I again talking, so you win before you go to
the entertainment side. Who's gonna win in Game two of
the NBA Finals on Sunday, Pacers or Thunder?
Speaker 1 (39:15):
He's asking for a take.
Speaker 7 (39:17):
I would like it to be the Pacers, but I
think it'll probably be the Thunder.
Speaker 5 (39:21):
In Game two.
Speaker 8 (39:22):
Oh, good luck with that. It could be a tide.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
Okay, time, you're taking time, marcell.
Speaker 7 (39:31):
All right, We're gonna start off in the theaters this
week and and there's a couple of exciting movies premiering
this weekend. Uh The first one is called Ballerina, and
this is actually a John Wick spinoff movie that stars
uh Anna de Armas, who is great beautiful actress. Keanu
(39:52):
Reeves will appear in the movie, as well as other
characters from the John Wicks series such as Ian McShane
u and Lance Reddick and Also, apparently Norman Retis is
going to be in this movie of the Walking Dead fame.
But this one has a pretty good review so far,
so check that out. Nice action movie in theaters this
weekend called Ballo Arena. Also in theaters this weekend is well,
(40:18):
it's been out for a week already, but it's been
the limited release, and so this weekend you get the full,
available everywhere release of Wes Anderson's newest movie called The
Phoenician Scheme. And this one stars Michael Sarah as well
as Benicio del Tororiz Ahmed, Tom Hanks makes an appearance,
(40:41):
Brian Cranston, and a bunch of other names, as many
big names normally do in Wes Anderson movies. The only
description I have for you is the story of a
family and a family business. It's not not much of
a description, but that is available in theaters right now.
Moving over to television, we have a couple of things
(41:03):
that I want to mention. First, this is interesting. I'm intrigued,
but I'm not sure how this is gonna go. It
is a live special in a first for CNN. It's
called good Night and good Luck, and this stars George
Clooney and it is a live stream of a Broadway
(41:24):
performance where I don't need that.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
Yeah, I mean know, I mean the whole point of
the Broadway thing is to go to a theater. That's
the whole point.
Speaker 5 (41:35):
No, I mean, I guess.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
I mean you're one of those small seats in some
old theater in Manhattan that's with the whole experience.
Speaker 5 (41:44):
Yeah, he is. This is the one where he is
playing God. What is the Edward R. Murrow? George Clooney
is playing him in this Broadway show.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
But that I've heard of him? Yeah, media media legend.
Speaker 5 (41:58):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (42:00):
But if you are, if you do happen to be
interested in watching this. It streams live on CNN at
seven pm Eastern four pm Pacific on Saturday. It will
also be available to stream on HBO Max and last,
but not least, if you're a big fan of the
Predator movies, there is a new one.
Speaker 5 (42:21):
This one is called Predator Killer of Killers.
Speaker 7 (42:25):
It is a straight to Hulu movie and it is
a anthology with a trio of segments, each following a
powerful warrior of Viking, a ninja, and a w a
World War two pilot as they are targeted by your
favorite extraterrestrial predators and that is Koop Scooba Entertainment
Host
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