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- 0:00Speaker 1: Ding Dong. We are right at the door your audio
- 0:04Speaker 1: door here and our.
- 0:05Speaker 2: Number three, our number three, the question who deserves the
- 0:10Speaker 2: most of the Rocky Mountain Blame Trout for Denver's collapse
- 0:17Speaker 2: down the stretch, as OKC is one win away from
- 0:20Speaker 2: the conference finals, as Denver had the lead going to
- 0:24Speaker 2: the fourth quarter and blew it. The popular opinion by
- 0:28Speaker 2: popular people is that the Niccola Jokic Nuggets have just
- 0:32Speaker 2: run out of gas because they're lacking depth in the
- 0:35Speaker 2: fourth quarter of these games. Does that work for you?
- 0:38Speaker 2: And what are the chances in Portland, Oregon that the
- 0:42Speaker 2: Trailblazers who are for sale now stay on the Oregon Trail.
- 0:47Speaker 2: We'll talk about that and more right now. It's a
- 0:50Speaker 2: hammer dunk in our number three. Watch out from that
- 0:57Speaker 2: thunder down under the NBA. Welcome in the beginning of
- 1:04Speaker 2: another hour of the Ben Malor Show. We are in
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- 1:24Speaker 2: microphones of FSR emmating live from the seats, the cheap
- 1:30Speaker 2: seats of broadcasting from the Fox Sports Radio studios as
- 1:35Speaker 2: approved by truck Stop Fungus and JD in Boston. Now,
- 1:40Speaker 2: truck Stop Fungus sent me a message. He said he
- 1:42Speaker 2: was in Seattle and he saw someone he claims defecate
- 1:47Speaker 2: outside of the Mariners Ballpark.
- 1:50Speaker 1: Random. I don't know that's true or not, but he
- 1:53Speaker 1: said he said it, so it's kind of a random
- 1:55Speaker 1: thing to say. Uh, yeah, he did.
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- 2:29Speaker 2: hour is from oak Lahoma City. The dust Bowl was
- 2:34Speaker 2: the center square as the NBA playoff schedule continuously late game.
- 2:41Speaker 1: Were you watching? I know Kyrie in OKAC was watching.
- 2:44Speaker 1: I know that.
- 2:44Speaker 2: I don't know if you were watching. But the pivotal
- 2:46Speaker 2: Game five. The winner of Game five and a time
- 2:50Speaker 2: series often goes on to win the series.
- 2:52Speaker 3: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah bruh.
- 2:55Speaker 2: All right, So you got the Joker Nuggets versus SGA
- 2:58Speaker 2: and the Thunder the set up to two. And if
- 3:02Speaker 2: you missed the game, Shade jogis Alexander getting it done,
- 3:06Speaker 2: the ex Clipper who's gonna win the MVP barring some
- 3:10Speaker 2: kind of shocking upset. Shade jogis Alexander thirty one points,
- 3:15Speaker 2: all cat On up and Oklahoma City trailing going to
- 3:21Speaker 2: the fourth quarter. They were down at one point by
- 3:24Speaker 2: double digits. They worked all the way back and they
- 3:27Speaker 2: get the win over the Denver basketball team. They win
- 3:30Speaker 2: by seven, and they're up three games to two in
- 3:34Speaker 2: the Western Conference semi finals. So the Thunder overcame a
- 3:40Speaker 2: domination situation by the Joker. And the other day of
- 3:45Speaker 2: the story was he's worn out, The Jokic is washed up.
- 3:49Speaker 2: All of a sudden, he's out of energy, and then
- 3:50Speaker 2: he goes out puts up a forty four burger fifteen
- 3:54Speaker 2: rebound night for Nicola Jokic, and it wasn't enough. So
- 3:57Speaker 2: OKC can punch their ticket to the Final four of
- 4:03Speaker 2: the NBA on Thursday. That game in Denver in Denver,
- 4:09Speaker 2: So let us discuss the question who deserves the most
- 4:14Speaker 2: Rocky Mountain blame trout. That's what we're doing, the rocky Mountain,
- 4:18Speaker 2: not oysters, the blame trout for Denver's collapse in the
- 4:24Speaker 2: fourth quarter, down the stretch of the game. So I've
- 4:27Speaker 2: got loaf, lung capacity, and night writer, and we will
- 4:34Speaker 2: combine all of these things together, and we are going
- 4:39Speaker 2: to give you a couple of pharmacy grade ibuprofen because
- 4:43Speaker 2: you probably have a headache if you like the Nuggets.
- 4:45Speaker 2: The better story, though, is in that locker room, the
- 4:47Speaker 2: losing locker room. So that is where we will go.
- 4:50Speaker 2: And my first thought on who deserves the blame, let's
- 4:53Speaker 2: start out with Jamal Murray and then we'll move on
- 4:56Speaker 2: to Michael Porter, but we'll start with Jamal Murray, who
- 5:00Speaker 2: is the number two option. Look, so I had this
- 5:07Speaker 2: game on I four go. I gave up watching baseball.
- 5:12Speaker 2: I watched this game so you would not have to.
- 5:15Speaker 2: And Jamal Murray was playing at a very high level.
- 5:18Speaker 2: He was playing above his skill level.
- 5:21Speaker 1: I would argue. For much of the game.
- 5:23Speaker 2: He had twenty four points going to the fourth quarter
- 5:26Speaker 2: and was playing relatively well. There was like a stretch
- 5:29Speaker 2: where he missed a bunch of shots, but other than
- 5:30Speaker 2: that he was doing pretty well. Through three quarters. He
- 5:33Speaker 2: was playing the role of the helper to Yoki, and
- 5:39Speaker 2: then they flipped the clock to the fourth quarter.
- 5:42Speaker 1: Game on the line.
- 5:43Speaker 2: Jamal Murray in crunch time took six shots, missed five
- 5:48Speaker 2: of them, had four points, no assists, one turnover, and
- 5:53Speaker 2: was useless for the most part on the court. He
- 5:57Speaker 2: rode the vomit comet Jamal Murray road de vomit coming
- 6:01Speaker 2: now Michael Porter, who was delivering daggers in the previous
- 6:05Speaker 2: round against the Clippers and has made big shots here
- 6:08Speaker 2: as well.
- 6:09Speaker 1: Lousy from soup to nuts. Not good, not good.
- 6:13Speaker 2: The sorcery that this cat had, Porter, Hey, Porter, the
- 6:18Speaker 2: sorcery that he had earlier in the playoffs flickered and
- 6:21Speaker 2: faded in this game.
- 6:23Speaker 1: And he had a cardio fourth quarter. There's a theme.
- 6:27Speaker 1: He had the cardio fourth quarter.
- 6:30Speaker 2: No points, no rebounds, no assist, oh three shooting. You
- 6:37Speaker 2: get a zero, you get a zero, you get a zero,
- 6:40Speaker 2: you get a zero. A lot of zeros overall. Porter
- 6:45Speaker 2: took seven shots in the game. He was one for seven. Now,
- 6:48Speaker 2: I didn't play in the NBA. I don't think that's good.
- 6:51Speaker 1: You're just the overnight guy.
- 6:53Speaker 2: Okay, that was putastic. Two points in twenty nine minutes
- 6:58Speaker 2: from a starting ballplayer. Two points in twenty nine minutes.
- 7:02Speaker 2: But from top to bottom, from top to bottom, the
- 7:05Speaker 2: supporting actors for the Nuggets served up a fool's gold loaf.
- 7:12Speaker 1: A fool's gold loaf, as.
- 7:16Speaker 2: Mike, who lives in the Denver area, told me via email,
- 7:19Speaker 2: this is a local delicacy in the Denver area. He
- 7:22Speaker 2: wanted me to include this, he said, I would not
- 7:23Speaker 2: do it, so in you fasce Mike, I included it.
- 7:26Speaker 2: So what is a Fool's gold gloaf?
- 7:28Speaker 1: You ask?
- 7:29Speaker 2: So it is a hollowed out loaf of bread, warmed
- 7:34Speaker 2: and stuffed, kind of like OKC handed the Nuggets. They
- 7:39Speaker 2: were a hollowed out loaf of bread in the fourth
- 7:42Speaker 2: quarter and they were warmed and then they got stuffed
- 7:46Speaker 2: by Okay. See Denver shot in the final minutes of
- 7:50Speaker 2: this game. Denver shot less than twenty four percent five
- 7:55Speaker 2: of twenty one. They missed sixteen of their twenty one
- 7:58Speaker 2: shots on the fourth quarter from the floor from free
- 8:00Speaker 2: point land less than ten percent, one of twelve, one
- 8:04Speaker 2: of twelve from three point land. Now, secondly, there's a
- 8:08Speaker 2: theme among the basketball elites that I would like to address.
- 8:11Speaker 2: As you know, I mean theme buster, not a MythBuster,
- 8:14Speaker 2: a theme buster. So the popular opinion by popular people
- 8:18Speaker 2: is that the Nicola jokicch Nuggets have just run out
- 8:22Speaker 2: of cass. It is so exhausting, such a struggle these
- 8:29Speaker 2: NBA playoffs. They lack the depth. It's not their fault,
- 8:33Speaker 2: they just don't have depth. Does this work for you?
- 8:36Speaker 2: Does this work for you? So I am shaking my head. No,
- 8:40Speaker 2: you can't see me, but I'm shaking my no. Now,
- 8:42Speaker 2: this is a good way to play, right, There's a
- 8:46Speaker 2: good way to play dodgeball from responsibility. And that is
- 8:51Speaker 2: a pet peeple Like who knew that the Denver basketball
- 8:55Speaker 2: team was in a triathlon? That you were starting out swimming,
- 9:00Speaker 2: then you were cycling, and.
- 9:01Speaker 1: Then you were running.
- 9:03Speaker 2: I had no idea the NBA playoffs we're swimming, cycling
- 9:05Speaker 2: and running a triathlon.
- 9:06Speaker 1: But here we are.
- 9:08Speaker 2: It is literally and figuratively your job to be in
- 9:11Speaker 2: peak physical condition. You don't play back to back games
- 9:16Speaker 2: in the NBA. You have the top trainers in basketball,
- 9:20Speaker 2: you have the support staff. You stay at five star hotels.
- 9:23Speaker 2: When you're on the road, you're traveled by private chartered
- 9:26Speaker 2: planes that are luxury. You have luxury buses, often with
- 9:31Speaker 2: police escort to take you around. And we're supposed to
- 9:34Speaker 2: have a pity party because the Denver Nuggets, according to
- 9:37Speaker 2: the media, excuse makers are just they're they're so bedraggled
- 9:42Speaker 2: by what's going on. And the other thing that I
- 9:45Speaker 2: wanted to mention here, because this happens every time a
- 9:47Speaker 2: Denver sports team is in the playoffs.
- 9:50Speaker 1: What do we get, right?
- 9:52Speaker 2: We get the same storyline that the Nuggets, they play
- 9:56Speaker 2: in Denver, they have a competitive advantage because of altitude.
- 10:02Speaker 2: Capital a altitude, right, you all got a competitive advantage.
- 10:06Speaker 2: You're superhuman, you live in Denver. You love to brag
- 10:10Speaker 2: about five and eighty feet above sea level. You wear
- 10:14Speaker 2: that on your jersey. Sometimes that is a flex you flex,
- 10:20Speaker 2: you flex, you flex, you flex. You love that And
- 10:23Speaker 2: as a result of that right you're supposed to have
- 10:27Speaker 2: if you're in you live in altitude. Olympic athletes go
- 10:32Speaker 2: there to train because the theory in the science is
- 10:37Speaker 2: that you have a super lung capability capacity endurance as
- 10:43Speaker 2: a result of living in altitude. You have improved lung
- 10:47Speaker 2: capacity because you're in altitude, which would mean again all
- 10:51Speaker 2: things leading to endurance. Recovery is boosted because of the altitude,
- 10:58Speaker 2: increased red blood set l production because of the altitude.
- 11:02Speaker 1: But yet these dumb dumbs, Oh they're fatigued. Oh my god,
- 11:07Speaker 1: they're so tired. Oh my god, shut up.
- 11:10Speaker 2: Oklahoma City, by the way, I looked it up one
- 11:13Speaker 2: ninety eight feet above sea level. But again, all that matters.
- 11:17Speaker 2: The only thing that matters is what you do in
- 11:19Speaker 2: the moment. The Nuggets have been like a thoroughbred horse.
- 11:23Speaker 2: Of course, that that horse that jumps out of the
- 11:26Speaker 2: gates and is leading and leading and around the track.
- 11:29Speaker 1: They go, and then down the stretch, down the stretch.
- 11:33Speaker 2: And then they go to have a snack down the stretch.
- 11:37Speaker 2: They're like, I would like a nice snack, and that's it.
- 11:40Speaker 2: So the thunder have outplayed the Nuggets in several key
- 11:45Speaker 2: moments here and so, in addition to Michael Porter and
- 11:49Speaker 2: Jamal Murray, how about Christian Brown, which looks.
- 11:52Speaker 1: Like it should be brawn.
- 11:54Speaker 2: These guys have come up with a lowercase lowercase.
- 12:01Speaker 1: For tiny, tiny, very tiny.
- 12:04Speaker 2: All right, now, final thought, we go to the business
- 12:07Speaker 2: of basketball. One of these franchises for sale. If you
- 12:12Speaker 2: saw this or not, but I thought this was interesting,
- 12:14Speaker 2: worth a.
- 12:15Speaker 1: Worth a mention.
- 12:17Speaker 2: The estate of the late Paul Allen announcing they have
- 12:22Speaker 2: passed a threshold to avoid having to pay a certain
- 12:25Speaker 2: amount of tax. So Paul Allen's estate announcing that they
- 12:29Speaker 2: are putting the Portland Trailblazers on the market. They can
- 12:33Speaker 2: be yours if the price is right. And they just
- 12:37Speaker 2: agreed the NBA to a new eleven year, seventy six
- 12:43Speaker 2: billion dollar media deal and all that is a ridiculous
- 12:46Speaker 2: amount of money that the ABC, Amazon, NBC will be
- 12:49Speaker 2: paying the NBA. And so that is part of the
- 12:53Speaker 2: reason that they are getting this team on the market
- 12:56Speaker 2: right now, the Trailblazers. Over the last year years since
- 13:00Speaker 2: Paul Allen passed. He died in twenty eighteen. And what
- 13:04Speaker 2: a bummer man, You got all that money, dude, you
- 13:06Speaker 2: live in the king and you check out a little early.
- 13:08Speaker 2: That sucks anyway, Paul Allen dead. His sister who's a
- 13:13Speaker 2: bit of a hermit. She's she's been running the team
- 13:15Speaker 2: since twenty eighteen.
- 13:17Speaker 1: Now, what are the chances? What are the.
- 13:19Speaker 2: Chances the Blazers stay? Importand anytime a team is on
- 13:23Speaker 2: the market, there's always a chance they leave. That's not
- 13:25Speaker 2: guaranteed you're going to stay. But what are the chances
- 13:28Speaker 2: that the Blazers end up leaving the Oregon Trail. So
- 13:31Speaker 2: I'm gonna set the odds. We'll do the odds on
- 13:34Speaker 2: whether they stay. I'm not gonna be the odds on
- 13:36Speaker 2: them leaving, but the odds that they stay. Based on
- 13:40Speaker 2: a minutes long deliberation of the available evidence, I'm going
- 13:43Speaker 2: to say the odds are minus three hundred, which is
- 13:45Speaker 2: a seventy five percent chance that the Trail Blazers stay
- 13:49Speaker 2: in Oregon. And there's a couple of reason. Now, I'm
- 13:53Speaker 2: not going to say the Arena lease. Some people have
- 13:55Speaker 2: pointed that out. Well, they got at lease through twenty thirty.
- 13:57Speaker 2: That's not that long. It's twenty twenty five. That's only
- 14:01Speaker 2: five years. That's nothing, and the team won't be sold
- 14:05Speaker 2: for another year anyway, so it's really like four more years.
- 14:08Speaker 2: And it takes a.
- 14:09Speaker 1: Number of years to build a new arena. So there's that.
- 14:13Speaker 2: The other extenuating circumstances here, Seattle's gonna get an expansion
- 14:18Speaker 2: team at one point or another. So does somebody sneak
- 14:21Speaker 2: in there and say, well, I'm tired of waiting for
- 14:23Speaker 2: an expansion team. Why don't we just buy the Trailblazers
- 14:25Speaker 2: and we'll move them to Seattle. The Seattle Trailblazers will
- 14:28Speaker 2: change their name or whatever. So that's that's an outside possibility.
- 14:32Speaker 2: But the advice is act right now if you're wanting
- 14:37Speaker 2: to keep that. I guess the money's all gonna be
- 14:38Speaker 2: donated charity, which must upset Jody Allen and the Allen.
- 14:42Speaker 1: I guess he didn't have any kids or anything. But anyway,
- 14:45Speaker 1: so do you gotta act fast.
- 14:46Speaker 2: And the person to save the Trailblazers from going outside
- 14:51Speaker 2: of state Oregon is the night writer, Phil Knight, the godfather,
- 14:56Speaker 2: the godfather of Nike, which is small, little mom and
- 15:01Speaker 2: pop Oregon operation, and he tried to buy the team
- 15:05Speaker 2: a couple of years back. He was rejected, rejected, But
- 15:10Speaker 2: that guy, he didn't have deep pockets. He's got pockets
- 15:13Speaker 2: that go all the way down to the core of
- 15:15Speaker 2: the earth. Worth thirty five billion capital b billion.
- 15:22Speaker 1: Phil Knight the Nike godfather.
- 15:24Speaker 2: So it turns out at the making shoes and sweatshops
- 15:30Speaker 2: very profitable, very profitable for the bottom line, doing very
- 15:33Speaker 2: well there. He's also on a race against time. See
- 15:36Speaker 2: that's the issue with Phil Knight. Phil Knight is eighty seven,
- 15:41Speaker 2: all right, so he's already in bonus time. He's in
- 15:46Speaker 2: overtime eighty seven. So if Knight can get the Blazers,
- 15:51Speaker 2: it would be in the family. He's got some kids,
- 15:55Speaker 2: at least one, so it would be in the family.
- 15:58Speaker 2: It could also be under the Knight umbrella. It could
- 16:02Speaker 2: be some problems logistically with business because the NBA and
- 16:05Speaker 2: Nike are in business together, but it.
- 16:07Speaker 1: Would be under the umbrella.
- 16:08Speaker 2: And then the team would as long as Nike's around
- 16:10Speaker 2: and they're based in Oregon, there'd be no way the
- 16:12Speaker 2: team would leave, you would assume, and there you go. Now,
- 16:15Speaker 2: if Phil Knight doesn't decide to buy the team now
- 16:18Speaker 2: because he says I'm.
- 16:19Speaker 1: Too old or whatever, who else is there?
- 16:23Speaker 2: So I did some research here and there's not many
- 16:26Speaker 2: people that have the kind of money to buy a
- 16:29Speaker 2: professional sports team that are from Oregon, like Phil Knight's
- 16:33Speaker 2: pretty much it. That's the problem, Like it's Phil Knight
- 16:37Speaker 2: or I don't. Somebody from the outside's gonna have to
- 16:39Speaker 2: go there and bring in an outsider. They could always
- 16:41Speaker 2: move the team. But the co founder of the Dutch
- 16:44Speaker 2: Brothers Coffee is an Oregonian and the CEO of Columbia
- 16:52Speaker 2: Sportswear is also from from Oregon.
- 16:56Speaker 1: But they don't. They don't have Nike money. They don't,
- 16:59Speaker 1: No one does.
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- 17:08Speaker 2: A couple of notes and we'll pay off the riddle
- 17:12Speaker 2: of the day. Uh, it's with a heavy heart.
- 17:15Speaker 1: I don't.
- 17:15Speaker 2: I didn't plan on saying this when I came in here.
- 17:17Speaker 2: But that monologue that I did on the Thunder and
- 17:22Speaker 2: the Nuggets, during that monologue, a cockroach killed itself during
- 17:31Speaker 2: that monologue.
- 17:32Speaker 1: Yeah, down in the old studio. Oh no, it's on
- 17:37Speaker 1: the other side.
- 17:37Speaker 2: Though the other side there's a dead cockroach went belly up.
- 17:41Speaker 2: Is it in the regular spot, No, it's on the
- 17:45Speaker 2: other side, but it's in the same on that metal area.
- 17:48Speaker 1: But on the other side.
- 17:49Speaker 2: Yeah, and it just it must have just it just
- 17:51Speaker 2: because I mean, I have my my own track there
- 17:54Speaker 2: that I have created, and there it was not there.
- 17:57Speaker 5: It was not their previous it was not before. I
- 17:59Speaker 5: think when I make shoeless, well not right now. I've
- 18:03Speaker 5: decided to wear the shoes now. Once I saw the
- 18:05Speaker 5: dead cockroach, I put the shoes back on.
- 18:08Speaker 3: Did you pick up the dead cockroach?
- 18:09Speaker 1: No? I left it there.
- 18:10Speaker 3: Can I go see if it's a lie?
- 18:11Speaker 1: Yes, you can go check it out if you'd like.
- 18:13Speaker 1: You want to do that right now?
- 18:15Speaker 3: I want to do it right. All right, You're going
- 18:16Speaker 3: to take a straight can.
- 18:18Speaker 1: Okay of lace all in there? Hold lot of second No,
- 18:23Speaker 1: not pure. I want like, oh this is empty though.
- 18:25Speaker 1: I like that. They still have puirele. You know, the
- 18:27Speaker 1: pandemic's over a clean hands. Never heard anyone ben They
- 18:32Speaker 1: have soap in the bathroom and wash your hands. You know,
- 18:34Speaker 1: that's usually what we do when we go to the
- 18:35Speaker 1: bathroom and wash your hands.
- 18:36Speaker 2: I'm going to go all right, Lorrain is going to
- 18:39Speaker 2: be our boots on the ground. She's going to walk
- 18:40Speaker 2: to the other side of the studio.
- 18:42Speaker 3: She's going to put my shoes on all right.
- 18:45Speaker 2: So Loraine is going to try to figure out whether
- 18:47Speaker 2: the cockroaches is actually dead or just plain dead. Those
- 18:50Speaker 2: cockroaches like to do the rope a dope. They like
- 18:52Speaker 2: to pretend to be dead and then they're not.
- 18:54Speaker 3: Surprise, they do it all the time. Sneaky little thing.
- 18:58Speaker 2: Yeah, a little sneaky little cockroaches. So there is she's
- 19:02Speaker 2: taking her headphones off. She's got it back.
- 19:03Speaker 3: I will leave the phones up in case you want
- 19:05Speaker 3: to take any car.
- 19:06Speaker 2: Okay, thank you for that. She's going to leave the building,
- 19:09Speaker 2: leave the studio. She's leaving the board. She's then walking
- 19:12Speaker 2: around the board. She's going to walk out. She's hustling.
- 19:16Speaker 2: She's got to walk out the door. Then she makes
- 19:17Speaker 2: a left turn. Then she's got to make a right turn.
- 19:20Speaker 2: But I think she's going down to the kitchen. She's gone.
- 19:23Speaker 2: She's not gone to the kitchen. She's walking. She's backing up.
- 19:26Speaker 2: Now she's going forward. She's got to walk down the hall.
- 19:28Speaker 2: Then she's got to make a left turn, go down.
- 19:32Speaker 1: A long hall, then make a little bit of a
- 19:35Speaker 1: side turn.
- 19:36Speaker 2: That's a little little bit of a little bit of
- 19:38Speaker 2: a walk, and then on another left and then right
- 19:41Speaker 2: there boom, that's the cocker roach right there. Dead cockroach.
- 19:44Speaker 2: Right when I mentioned the trailblazers. I think that was
- 19:47Speaker 2: the end for the cockroach. It killed itself right there.
- 19:49Speaker 1: Boom.
- 19:49Speaker 2: Done Mather's mentioning the Portland Trailblazers and the monologue let
- 19:53Speaker 2: me take my own life and the cockroach committed cockroach,
- 19:56Speaker 2: you know what? So anyway, here's the end. When is
- 20:00Speaker 2: Loraina returns, we'll get the update whether it's actually dead
- 20:02Speaker 2: or not. Time out for the mallor Riddle of the Day.
- 20:05Speaker 2: Seventy six r Star Paul George by George announced that
- 20:09Speaker 2: after getting his body and mind healthy, he is finally
- 20:12Speaker 2: ready to get back to blank. Finally ready to get
- 20:16Speaker 2: back to blank? That is the riddle. What is the answer?
- 20:21Speaker 2: And let see does anyone know the answer? We go
- 20:24Speaker 2: to the great unwashed Stevie Meatpaul says, double dribbling wall
- 20:29Speaker 2: sniffing jockstraps is the answer. Page and get on Ben's
- 20:35Speaker 2: good side. Back to singing Christmas carols to Lorraine. Uh,
- 20:42Speaker 2: mister irrigation said, hang gliding with Don Lemon is the answer.
- 20:48Speaker 2: Lorena is making your way back into the studio. She
- 20:51Speaker 2: has a can of chemicals that she's holding here. Let
- 20:54Speaker 2: me pay off the riddle first. Lorena nature boy, answering
- 20:57Speaker 2: the Call of the Wild, says PG. Thirteen, is our
- 21:00Speaker 2: ready to start his stand up comedy career? Lady sideburns,
- 21:05Speaker 2: you know the show's doing well with Lady Cyburn's listening.
- 21:07Speaker 1: Ready to get back to pulling fingers again.
- 21:10Speaker 2: Uh shucking and jiving from milkman Mike in Colorado eating
- 21:16Speaker 2: deep fried ranch.
- 21:17Speaker 1: That's disgusting. From King Rory.
- 21:20Speaker 2: Uh oh wow, justin going going below the belt my man.
- 21:24Speaker 2: Uh strip cribbage from Donkey sausage. That's his answer. Uh
- 21:29Speaker 2: Key says, back to being Lorena sugar daddy.
- 21:32Speaker 1: Wow.
- 21:32Speaker 2: Okay, Uh no, yeah, the correct answer. Paul George announced
- 21:37Speaker 2: that he after getting his body and mind healthy, I'll
- 21:41Speaker 2: go ahead.
- 21:42Speaker 3: Yes, he was going to get back into making a
- 21:44Speaker 3: cockroach circus.
- 21:46Speaker 2: A cockroach circus? Is that correct?
- 21:48Speaker 6: No?
- 21:48Speaker 2: Paul George announced, after getting his body of mind healthy,
- 21:50Speaker 2: he is finally ready to get back to podcasting, podcasting podcast.
- 21:58Speaker 1: All right, let's get the update. Breaking news here.
- 22:01Speaker 2: Believe that my Portland trailblazers mentioned in the monologue Cockroach
- 22:06Speaker 2: committed suicide during that Lorena went over to investigate. She
- 22:10Speaker 2: made the long walk down there. Now, Ferduck says, don't
- 22:12Speaker 2: blame yourself, Ben, I guarantee that cockroach was not driven
- 22:15Speaker 2: to suicide. From listening to your show, Mister irrigation says,
- 22:19Speaker 2: is it a big ass cockroach or the little German version?
- 22:23Speaker 2: I once found a two pound cockroach dead one time. Wow, Lorena,
- 22:29Speaker 2: what did your investigation determine alive?
- 22:33Speaker 1: It's alive? It's not.
- 22:38Speaker 3: Okay, heard the drop, Ben, it is a lie.
- 22:41Speaker 1: Are you sure it's alive?
- 22:43Speaker 4: Though?
- 22:43Speaker 1: How do you know for sure it's alive.
- 22:45Speaker 3: Well, when I walked up to it, its back leg
- 22:47Speaker 3: was still twitching, which is always a sign.
- 22:51Speaker 2: However, I have you know, I have heard from people
- 22:54Speaker 2: that work in hospice sometimes even when people die, there's
- 22:56Speaker 2: some movements there that take place even after you've checked out.
- 23:00Speaker 3: Twitch a bit. I'll give him that I have been
- 23:03Speaker 3: on hospice myself, but I will send you said video.
- 23:07Speaker 1: Took a video of this. He's very exciting.
- 23:08Speaker 3: I will also post it to Twitter if the people
- 23:11Speaker 3: if that's what they of.
- 23:11Speaker 2: Course they want that. So this is our live coverage.
- 23:14Speaker 2: This is in depth team coverage.
- 23:16Speaker 3: Watch the video, Ben I like saw said bug.
- 23:20Speaker 1: So you did you sprayed the bug with chemicals aggressively
- 23:23Speaker 1: and the bug moved? What you were doing this?
- 23:25Speaker 2: Yes, but that would they would move even if it
- 23:28Speaker 2: was not like alive, because you're spraying it with something
- 23:32Speaker 2: that a little little cockroach.
- 23:34Speaker 3: I think it was like interesting, Yeah, that exact sound.
- 23:40Speaker 1: So you're you're reporting it is a live Has it
- 23:42Speaker 1: come through yet? Okay? I have not received it.
- 23:45Speaker 3: Still says there's like a there's like an inch left
- 23:48Speaker 3: on this yeah.
- 23:49Speaker 1: Inch, Okay, I see there you go? All right, I
- 23:52Speaker 1: have not received the.
- 23:54Speaker 3: No, how about now?
- 23:55Speaker 1: Oh, here we go. Now I've received the attachment. Here,
- 23:58Speaker 1: here we go.
- 23:59Speaker 3: Cockroach on cockroach too, cockroach. It's a love for you.
- 24:03Speaker 2: I'm lucky I didn't step on it because I could
- 24:05Speaker 2: have totally stepped on it ruined. That would have ruined
- 24:07Speaker 2: my day to go home. I might have yeah, oh
- 24:11Speaker 2: oh yeah, I see it. Yeah, there's definitely a you know,
- 24:14Speaker 2: I think you're right? Yeah, yeah, because you know, you
- 24:18Speaker 2: spray it and it wouldn't move that.
- 24:20Speaker 1: Yeah, what is it waiting for? You think it's just
- 24:22Speaker 1: like resting.
- 24:23Speaker 3: I think he's giving up.
- 24:25Speaker 1: You think give up situation?
- 24:26Speaker 3: Yeah, he would be on life support if that was
- 24:29Speaker 3: a thing.
- 24:30Speaker 1: They don't have cockroach life support you.
- 24:32Speaker 3: No, I'm about to put him outside too.
- 24:34Speaker 2: This is like the seventy fifth generation of the cockroach family. No,
- 24:39Speaker 2: but I'm saying that this used to be a Denny's.
- 24:42Speaker 2: The Fox Sports radio studios were in. But it was
- 24:44Speaker 2: a Denny's in the nineties, like thirty years ago. It
- 24:48Speaker 2: was a Denny's.
- 24:49Speaker 3: I heard Danny g used to eat here.
- 24:51Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of people that lived in this area.
- 24:53Speaker 1: What do you eat bad?
- 24:54Speaker 2: Thirty It was a Denny's and so like, think about
- 24:57Speaker 2: how many relatives have lived there. Cock It's life and
- 25:00Speaker 2: checked out and this is like the next generation of
- 25:04Speaker 2: these cockroaches.
- 25:04Speaker 1: How said, are they the Denny's closed? And that we're here?
- 25:07Speaker 1: But there's a lot of pigs that work here and
- 25:09Speaker 1: leave food around, so it's kind of like work. You know,
- 25:10Speaker 1: it's still the Denny's in many ways.
- 25:12Speaker 3: Don't call me a pig.
- 25:13Speaker 2: Bed. I didn't say the company I'm in right now.
- 25:15Speaker 2: I just said there's people I come in on the
- 25:16Speaker 2: weekends and some people eating five course meals on the weekends. Anyway,
- 25:21Speaker 2: do we need we need to play the game, because
- 25:23Speaker 2: we have a lot of bits, a lot of bits,
- 25:25Speaker 2: bits bits bits, bits bits bits, Ben Meller.
- 25:28Speaker 1: Game, we've endored too many of these? Is it too
- 25:30Speaker 1: much or not enough? All right?
- 25:32Speaker 2: Ready, let's do it A or B A or B.
- 25:38Speaker 3: Hey A B, B A B.
- 25:42Speaker 1: Let's go to a.
- 25:43Speaker 2: Okay, do you have picked hollering James from Minnesota to me?
- 25:47Speaker 3: What's up?
- 25:47Speaker 2: James? Yes?
- 25:49Speaker 7: Are what's squares? Cockroaches?
- 25:55Speaker 3: Oh? That's all hard when ben bugs are cockroaches, bed
- 26:00Speaker 3: busse You.
- 26:02Speaker 1: Can avoid cockroaches.
- 26:03Speaker 3: The bed bugs bite you.
- 26:07Speaker 1: The worst is the flying cockroaches. Those are the ones.
- 26:10Speaker 7: Night sleep. Don't let the bed bugs bite you. Okay,
- 26:15Speaker 7: ed was one of my apartments.
- 26:19Speaker 2: I'm sure you've had all kinds of critters. James, who
- 26:21Speaker 2: got to play the game? You want to play the game, James,
- 26:24Speaker 2: Let's get in the history of the Ben Mother show.
- 26:27Speaker 2: The greatest win of all time on a game show.
- 26:30Speaker 7: Swoop poy. No, it was not sleepy play. It was hollering.
- 26:34Speaker 7: James was swoopy ploy Hollering.
- 26:38Speaker 2: James was fast at Lee back in the old days
- 26:40Speaker 2: when Eddie was on the show and we had him
- 26:42Speaker 2: play this game.
- 26:45Speaker 3: Ready, No, I've never met Edie.
- 26:49Speaker 1: All right, let's play. Hurry up, let's play play the guy.
- 26:52Speaker 7: Eddie balls ready, I'm ready?
- 26:57Speaker 2: Question number one, Edwin Diaz, that's a now has one
- 27:01Speaker 2: hundred and forty saves as a New York Met. Is
- 27:04Speaker 2: that too much or not enough?
- 27:06Speaker 7: Hollering James, first question, Let's see that's not enough?
- 27:12Speaker 2: He says not enough. Let's find out not oh for long? Yeah,
- 27:17Speaker 2: all right, too much? One hundred and twenty five saves
- 27:22Speaker 2: as a MET that happened on Tuesday, third most behind
- 27:25Speaker 2: John Franco and Armando Benitez.
- 27:28Speaker 1: All right, question too, James? You ready?
- 27:31Speaker 7: I guess?
- 27:32Speaker 2: Bet Nikolea Jokic became the fifth player in NBA history
- 27:38Speaker 2: to have forty plus points fifteen plus rebounds multiple times in.
- 27:41Speaker 1: A single postseason. Is that too much or not enough?
- 27:46Speaker 7: Too much?
- 27:47Speaker 1: All right, let's find out?
- 27:51Speaker 7: Oh no, I should be sleepy.
- 27:55Speaker 1: Can you fall asleep right now? Maybe we can do it. Yeah,
- 28:03Speaker 1: you sound better when you're actually sleeping.
- 28:05Speaker 2: Well, you're over for to James, you get this one wrong.
- 28:07Speaker 2: The game's over. Question number three on Monday, Anthony Edwards, Oh,
- 28:12Speaker 2: you should get this right. That's a Minnesota player. Anthony
- 28:14Speaker 2: Edwards recorded his tenth playoff game with thirty or more points?
- 28:18Speaker 2: Is that too much or not enough? Hollering James to
- 28:22Speaker 2: stay alive.
- 28:23Speaker 7: I think you wit the last game. I'm not sure
- 28:27Speaker 7: I say too much.
- 28:29Speaker 2: All right, let's find out, James. That's as impressive as
- 28:38Speaker 2: you getting it right while you're sleeping, that you.
- 28:40Speaker 6: Got that song.
- 28:43Speaker 7: I want to hear the song.
- 28:45Speaker 1: Well, we were gonna play it if you won. You
- 28:46Speaker 1: didn't win. I don't know that.
- 28:47Speaker 7: We ea going out to my best friend in Montana.
- 28:53Speaker 7: No names mentioned?
- 28:55Speaker 2: Yes, no name mentioned, a female from Montana. There's so
- 28:59Speaker 2: many that are part of the show. Well, it's up
- 29:02Speaker 2: to Coop. Coop's got the song. It's not in the system,
- 29:04Speaker 2: so it's up to Coop. He's he's he's got the song,
- 29:07Speaker 2: so if he wants to play, he can play it.
- 29:08Speaker 7: But that's it.
- 29:11Speaker 1: I don't just kid.
- 29:14Speaker 2: How about thirty how about thirty seconds? How about that
- 29:17Speaker 2: thirty seconds? A little taste?
- 29:20Speaker 7: Get come on? Please for me?
- 29:24Speaker 1: Is this is this a Jay Scoop song? I mean
- 29:27Speaker 1: I believe so.
- 29:33Speaker 2: The six bills evening and thirty six bills that night,
- 29:38Speaker 2: A months to two in the app.
- 29:40Speaker 1: It makes me feel all right? Oh Rocket the rain
- 29:43Speaker 1: is rocking it sills in Time of Steve, I bought
- 29:46Speaker 1: in Time of Sports. I bought some people, then show,
- 29:50Speaker 1: and then I bought some more. Sure James, Oh this
- 29:56Speaker 1: is the game show?
- 29:58Speaker 2: How good steps in the the one who was sleeping James,
- 30:01Speaker 2: where you have a cuss storming? No, Daddy once told me, James,
- 30:05Speaker 2: you be sports covering men one of buffer.
- 30:09Speaker 1: He turned into you like this song, James, But no,
- 30:17Speaker 1: she hates it. All right, that's enough, thank you, James.
- 30:20Speaker 7: All right, you're you're, you gotta give me for trying.
- 30:24Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll give you a little, uh, give you a
- 30:26Speaker 2: pity party, and I'll give you a I'll give you
- 30:29Speaker 2: a participation.
- 30:30Speaker 1: All right, go away, shut up, please sah. Anyway, all right,
- 30:34Speaker 1: here we are.
- 30:34Speaker 2: We're gonna have the f SR Tech Queen Queen of
- 30:38Speaker 2: Hearts Lorena, and it's her segment.
- 30:41Speaker 1: I'm gonna go out hang out with Bill Miller.
- 30:43Speaker 2: We're gonna we're gonna smoke some SIGs and Lorena will
- 30:45Speaker 2: take over there and I'll go look at the cockroach
- 30:48Speaker 2: that's playing dead in the hall and all that. But
- 30:50Speaker 2: the Queen of Hearts with Loraina hashtag Queen Hearts eight seven,
- 30:52Speaker 2: seven ninety nine on Fox.
- 30:53Speaker 1: You want to speak to Lorena, We'll get to that.
- 30:56Speaker 1: We'll do it next.
- 30:57Speaker 4: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Miller
- 31:00Speaker 4: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
- 31:08Speaker 6: It's Love It Bars with Little Rain at ten nine
- 31:12Speaker 6: clean Up Hearts, going to help You, gear Rye, get
- 31:15Speaker 6: rye and N gear right and n dear Ry.
- 31:22Speaker 3: You heard the man. It is time for love here
- 31:25Speaker 3: on the Ben Malle Show. And we love love, don't we. Ben.
- 31:30Speaker 3: You know, I was curious about their love life, Bill Miller.
- 31:34Speaker 1: You want to talk you about Bill Miller's love life? Curious?
- 31:37Speaker 3: He always seems so grumpy.
- 31:38Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a bad mood.
- 31:40Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 31:40Speaker 1: He doesn't like work in the overnight. Yeah.
- 31:42Speaker 3: Well, you know, whenever I had old managers who were
- 31:44Speaker 3: in bad moods, you know, we always used to say, right,
- 31:47Speaker 3: they need to get late.
- 31:49Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
- 31:49Speaker 2: Bill definitely goes yeah, yeah, yeah, you know it's I
- 31:52Speaker 2: used to have. I had a board op that the
- 31:54Speaker 2: first day I knew, like panicked because he couldn't handle
- 31:57Speaker 2: the hours, like totally wished out.
- 31:58Speaker 1: It was. It was ridiculous.
- 31:59Speaker 2: I had a few of them that have done that
- 32:01Speaker 2: actually over the years, it's it's always tough, you know.
- 32:05Speaker 3: To handle the heat. Get out of there.
- 32:07Speaker 1: That's right, But this is not about that, Lorena. There
- 32:11Speaker 1: you go.
- 32:12Speaker 2: Brian writes and says, Lorena, if my wife dies, am
- 32:16Speaker 2: I allowed to fornicate with another woman?
- 32:19Speaker 1: What a wonderful question.
- 32:20Speaker 3: That is a very good question. And a lot of
- 32:22Speaker 3: people actually have a hard time with this. I know
- 32:24Speaker 3: it may seem like a joke.
- 32:25Speaker 1: The vows don't only say till death do us parts?
- 32:28Speaker 3: Do you part? So if you part, sometimes the guilt
- 32:30Speaker 3: lays in your mind, you know. And then what if
- 32:33Speaker 3: you're like doing it and you yell out your old
- 32:36Speaker 3: wife's name, or even worse, you start crying while you're
- 32:39Speaker 3: doing it because all these emotions overflood you. That would
- 32:43Speaker 3: be absolutely devastating and very embarrassing.
- 32:46Speaker 2: So you're saying that maybe the first one you should
- 32:48Speaker 2: see a professional, the first one you get.
- 32:50Speaker 3: That out, to get that out.
- 32:51Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, you know what I'm saying. I understand that out.
- 32:54Speaker 1: Very nice. Tim writes in from Parts Unknown.
- 32:57Speaker 2: He says, Lorraina, my girlfriend criticizes.
- 33:01Speaker 1: Everything I like, thinks I should only like what she likes. Oh,
- 33:06Speaker 1: I guess he wants he wants some advice on that.
- 33:09Speaker 3: Yeah, that's really hard. It sounds like she probably doesn't
- 33:11Speaker 3: like you very much. I'm not even kidding.
- 33:14Speaker 1: Wow, shots fire.
- 33:16Speaker 3: It's one of those things though, where everything irritates you. Yeah,
- 33:21Speaker 3: and it's it's actually because everything you do irritates them,
- 33:26Speaker 3: So you know, maybe try not to be yourself so much.
- 33:29Speaker 1: Try not to be yourself, that's what I said. Wow, Yeah,
- 33:33Speaker 1: I'm rather harsh.
- 33:35Speaker 3: Well, being yourself is obviously putting you into the doghouse
- 33:37Speaker 3: a little bit.
- 33:38Speaker 1: So well it should. Isn't that her problem? Not a
- 33:40Speaker 1: heat problem like with somebody.
- 33:42Speaker 3: You want to be with her or does she want
- 33:44Speaker 3: to be with him?
- 33:46Speaker 2: Clearly he's at the point now where he's annoyed by it,
- 33:49Speaker 2: and he's riding into a radio show about sports to
- 33:52Speaker 2: complain about is a lady friend there?
- 33:54Speaker 5: Well?
- 33:55Speaker 2: King Roy writes and says, my wife and I are
- 33:57Speaker 2: celebrating our tenth wedding anniversary. Should we do something special
- 34:01Speaker 2: or just treated as another day and maybe wait until
- 34:03Speaker 2: our twenty fifth anniversary to do something special.
- 34:06Speaker 3: Always embrace the day today. You don't know if you're
- 34:09Speaker 3: going to make it to your twenty fifth anniversary as
- 34:12Speaker 3: sad or dark as that may sound, so you must
- 34:15Speaker 3: embrace today. Book a trip to Europe. Make it big
- 34:19Speaker 3: like the first decade, that's huge, Go big, go big.
- 34:23Speaker 3: We don't even make it to the first year anymore. So, like,
- 34:26Speaker 3: you know, congratulations, Coop. But you know it's hard. It's
- 34:32Speaker 3: hard to get relationships in these days, So celebrate every milestone.
- 34:35Speaker 2: All right, Mike writes, and he says, Larta, do you
- 34:38Speaker 2: approve of the firefighter breaking up with his wife at
- 34:43Speaker 2: his birthday?
- 34:44Speaker 1: Did you see this video? This video went viral.
- 34:46Speaker 3: I did not see this.
- 34:47Speaker 2: Yeah, New Jersey firefighter birthday party. He found out his
- 34:52Speaker 2: wife was cheating. He had the video evidence, and he
- 34:55Speaker 2: asked for her ring. He made it seem like he
- 34:57Speaker 2: was going to give her a new ring, and then
- 35:00Speaker 2: broke up with her and called her a bunch of
- 35:01Speaker 2: names and said, you know all that.
- 35:02Speaker 1: So you approve of that?
- 35:04Speaker 3: Or I mean, how you react when you find out
- 35:07Speaker 3: you're being cheated on is really complicated. He obviously acted out.
- 35:10Speaker 3: I think there's a lot better ways that you could
- 35:12Speaker 3: break up with your.
- 35:13Speaker 1: You don't approve of in front of all your wife's
- 35:15Speaker 1: friends and your friends. It is actually I just saw
- 35:19Speaker 1: the video. It's actually pretty good.
- 35:21Speaker 2: Ferg Dog says, I recently got married, and I am
- 35:23Speaker 2: already regretting it.
- 35:25Speaker 1: Is it okay to get a divorce over text?
- 35:29Speaker 3: Yes, of course this isn't working. I don't want to
- 35:32Speaker 3: see your face anymore, or else I'm going to do
- 35:34Speaker 3: something aggressive. So yes, you know, if that's what you
- 35:37Speaker 3: need to do, that's what you need to do.
- 35:40Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure that was a great relationship over text.
- 35:43Speaker 2: JT the Wingman writes in says, when.
- 35:45Speaker 3: They got married over FaceTime? Who's to say this.
- 35:48Speaker 2: Is when I when I'm at Myrtle Beach Bike week
- 35:50Speaker 2: this weekend? Is it wrong for an engaged man to
- 35:53Speaker 2: root for topless female bikers at a rally?
- 35:59Speaker 1: As long as you window shop, right, Loraine?
- 36:00Speaker 3: No touching, but you can touch on It's fine, Yeah,
- 36:04Speaker 3: I mean you.
- 36:04Speaker 1: Can look, you could appreciate. It's like art. You can
- 36:06Speaker 1: appreciate art, right.
- 36:08Speaker 3: And also it's on the community. It's not like you're
- 36:10Speaker 3: going to a special place to pay for this privilege.
- 36:13Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
- 36:14Speaker 2: Late Night Jerectester says, is writing your Instagram account inside
- 36:18Speaker 2: a graduation cap a good way to pick up a date?
- 36:22Speaker 2: You know, you throw the cap up at the end
- 36:24Speaker 2: of the graduation, so you're right, oh yeah.
- 36:26Speaker 3: No, I guess that's that's creative for sure. I don't
- 36:29Speaker 3: know if that's going to work for you, but no,
- 36:31Speaker 3: and you could try it. There's better ways, like in Personal.
- 36:38Speaker 1: Queen of Hearts. There you go, lorraina Queen of Hearts
- 36:41Speaker 1: right there. Boom,