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Hour 1 - How To Lose a Game...Twice · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: We go.
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Speaker 2: Welcome. It's our numb ber one, our one. You are
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Speaker 2: locked in. It is the original recipe, Ben Malors, show
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Speaker 2: up all night, welcome aboard is we will piece this
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Speaker 2: thing together right now in our number one. So the
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Speaker 2: Eastern Conference Finals Game one, an instant classic at the Mecca,
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Speaker 2: the Pacers and the Knicks, and it came down to
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Speaker 2: the very end and in overtime the Pacers pull it
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Speaker 2: out after Tyres Saliburton hit a big shot to send
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Speaker 2: the game to overtime. So who gets the dirty waters
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Speaker 2: Street dog of blame for the Jalen Brunson Knickerbockers with
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Speaker 2: this epic gag job. They had a ninety nine point
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Speaker 2: eight percent chance of winning and they didn't get it done.
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Speaker 2: All those New York celebrities moaning and groaning, it was
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Speaker 2: great to see. What is the word for Aaron Nesmith,
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Speaker 2: that's a basketball player for the Pacers, his performance in
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Speaker 2: leading Indiana at Madison Square Garden, and any advice to
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Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson and the Knicks going forward also Indiana, any
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Speaker 2: advice to them as well. We'll dig our heels in
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Speaker 2: right now and motormouth Malard beginning in our number one
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Speaker 2: how to win a game, how to lose a game,
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Speaker 2: and how to lose the game again and again and again. Well,
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Speaker 2: come in not beginning of another night of the Ben
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Speaker 2: So what a night and come in here we break
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Speaker 2: down these playoff games and I'm not gonna sit here
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Speaker 2: and tell you anything different. The other night, after the
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Speaker 2: Oklahoma City Minnesota game, I was like, Man, I mean,
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Speaker 2: I'm glad I get paid to watch this crap. It's
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Speaker 2: just terrible. It was just god awful in the West.
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Speaker 2: And then you have Game one in the East, and
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Speaker 2: we're gonna start with that world's most famous arena, all
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Speaker 2: those celebrity a holes sitting in the front row, Midtown Manhattan,
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Speaker 2: right there above Penn Station, the Mecca, the big stage.
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Speaker 2: Like Game one Eastern Conference files, you had Tyreese Saliburton
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Speaker 2: and the Pacers taking on Jalen Brunson and the Knicks.
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Speaker 2: And that was the setup, right, that was the set
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Speaker 2: up here. I measured there was some disagreement in terms
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Speaker 2: of the gambling side of things, and that the wise
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Speaker 2: guys were on the Knicks.
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Speaker 4: And the public loved the Indiana Pacers.
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Speaker 2: Now, I just want to clarify before we get into
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Speaker 2: the meat of the monologue. We will address later on.
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Speaker 2: We've got a full night of overnight talk radio. We
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Speaker 2: will address the untimely death.
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Speaker 4: Of Jim Ersay, the Colt's owner. We'll get to that
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Speaker 4: later on.
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Speaker 2: Ers's the announcement came down on Wednesday that Jim Mersey
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Speaker 2: had died. More on that later, but we're gonna start
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Speaker 2: with the basketball. And if you didn't see the game,
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Speaker 2: you know, normally we say it's our good good Mitch
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Speaker 2: for the day, it's our good active kindness year. We
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Speaker 2: did this for you, and that's kind of the catchphrase
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Speaker 2: of the show watching these basketball games. However, on this night,
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Speaker 2: it's different than all other nights because this game was
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Speaker 2: a doozy. It was a doozy Tyreese Saliburton. He tied
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Speaker 2: the game, he thought he won the game. He had
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Speaker 2: a long jumper that bounced and it looked like it
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Speaker 2: hit the rafters at Madison Square Garden right off the
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Speaker 2: back of the rim as time expired at regulation.
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Speaker 4: At the end of regulation, this is like.
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Speaker 2: Every cheeseball Hollywood movie where the ball bounced it. The
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Speaker 2: only difference is that's the game winning shot. This was
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Speaker 2: not the game winning shot, but the ball bounced up
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Speaker 2: in the air and everyone's doing the surrender cobra.
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Speaker 4: In the crowd at that moment.
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Speaker 2: And then they did it again after the game, and
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Speaker 2: so the Pacers had to go to overtime, and then
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Speaker 2: they finished it off.
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Speaker 4: They did the kill shot in overtime.
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Speaker 2: A stunning, mind blowing, unreal come back, and down go
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Speaker 2: the Knicks, Down go the Knicks at least for one
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Speaker 2: game one thirty eight one to thirty five year final.
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Speaker 2: And how unlikely. The New York Knicks had a seventeen
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Speaker 2: point lead midway through the fourth quarter. They had a
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Speaker 2: fourteen point lead with under three minutes remaining in regulation.
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Speaker 2: This just does not happen. And all the broadcasters like
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Speaker 2: to get on, Oh well, you never know, this could
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Speaker 2: be the day a comeback happens. And ninety nine point
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Speaker 2: ninety nine percent of the time it's bull crap. This
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Speaker 2: was the point zero zero zero zero zero zero zero
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Speaker 2: one percent where it was not bull crap. And while
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Speaker 2: Halliburton's getting the headlines here, Aaron Nesmith brought the Pacers
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Speaker 2: back as it was. Forget the Splash Brothers. This guy's
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Speaker 2: better than the Splash Brothers back in the old days.
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Speaker 2: With Golden State at the end there for Indiana Halliburton,
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Speaker 2: after he made his shot, he thought he had won
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Speaker 2: the game there and then the moment there he was
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Speaker 2: going crazy. He did the old Reggie Miller choke signal
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Speaker 2: that Reggie Miller did in another life. Many many years
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Speaker 2: ago in the nineties for Spike Lee back in the day.
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Speaker 2: So Indiana has taken home court advantage, and Game two
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Speaker 2: is Friday Night, Friday.
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Speaker 4: Night, Game two of this series.
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Speaker 2: Now, the better story continues to be in the losing
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Speaker 2: locker room? And how do you explain that? How does
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Speaker 2: one explain that performance? Plowing his seventeen point lead midway
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Speaker 2: through the fourth quarter, fourteen point lead three minutes ago
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Speaker 2: in the game, Holy crap, that sucked. Let's hear it
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Speaker 2: from Tom Thibodeau, the head coach of the New York Knickerbockers.
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Speaker 2: Here's coach Tibbs and he's talking about how the end
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Speaker 2: of the game, let's go to a cut two on
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Speaker 2: this the end of the game, and you hear the
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Speaker 2: question of the answer, and some things got really wonky
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Speaker 2: for the Knicks and the Pacers.
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Speaker 4: Take a listen.
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Speaker 5: Does you feel like guys got a little too loose
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Speaker 5: in the final minutes offensively and a little sloppy with
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Speaker 5: the ball?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 5: You know, the turnovers were costly, you know so, and
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Speaker 5: then they converted them into eg buckets, you know, so
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Speaker 5: that sort of fueled their offense. That's what got them
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Speaker 5: going again. You know they started off the game, you know,
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Speaker 5: in a good rhythm, and then you know, we did
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Speaker 5: it much better as the half went on, and then
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Speaker 5: you know, down to stretch, we didn't do what we
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Speaker 5: needed to do.
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Speaker 4: So code for we are choking dogs.
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Speaker 2: That's what he meant to say, but instead he gave
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Speaker 2: you some thirty second SoundBite there. How about Jalen Brunson,
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Speaker 2: here's a Jalen Brunson as he didn't.
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Speaker 4: Get it done.
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Speaker 2: You hear the question and the answer is Brunson on
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Speaker 2: what happened there at the end? And how do you summarize?
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Speaker 2: You guys had a fourteen point lead with two fifty
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Speaker 2: one left to go. How do you summarize how the
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Speaker 2: game close? You can't really summarize it. Give them a
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Speaker 2: lot of credit.
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Speaker 1: They close the game out like they've been doing in
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Speaker 1: all playoffs.
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Speaker 2: Just not really good on our part. I can sum
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Speaker 2: it up chicken crap. It was chicken crap as it
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Speaker 2: was so bad. God was that terrible? And it was
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Speaker 2: great to watch the listen. I have no skin in
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Speaker 2: the game. I don't put man. The pacers are fun
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Speaker 2: to watch, all right, So the question shout, We examine
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Speaker 2: the question here let's break it down here because we
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Speaker 2: have the power the bully pulpit here in sports radio.
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Speaker 2: So who gets the dirty water street dog, a blame
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Speaker 2: for Jalen Brunson's knicks and an epic all time choke job,
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Speaker 2: all time choke job. So I've got frying pan, burger king,
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Speaker 2: and goldfish, and we will combine all of these things
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Speaker 2: together and we're gonna make a nice soft pretzel which
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Speaker 2: would have put up more of a resistance than the
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Speaker 2: New York Knicks defensively. If you just put a sof
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Speaker 2: pretzel with that salt on there that's been sitting out
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Speaker 2: rotating in the sun all day, that would have provided
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Speaker 2: more of a resistance than the New York Knicks defense
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Speaker 2: at the end of the game. But we have to
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Speaker 2: start with the head of the serpent. We liked the player,
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Speaker 2: but that was a absolute dog.
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Speaker 4: Crap performance by him.
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Speaker 2: The basketball God giveth the basketball God, taketh away. Jalen Brunson,
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Speaker 2: the most clutch player in the NBA this season. He's
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Speaker 2: got to wear this right there on the chin, right there.
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Speaker 2: And this is a public service announcement that past results
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Speaker 2: do not guarantee future success. All that matters is what
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Speaker 2: you do in the moment. How do you handle the
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Speaker 2: immense pressure of that moment. And on this night, unlike
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Speaker 2: most other nights, Jalen Brunson, he was in the cockpit
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Speaker 2: and he was flying the vomit comet. And this wasn't
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Speaker 2: just a vomit comment. This was a comic Kazi mission
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Speaker 2: by the the Knicks. Brunson was in the frying pan,
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Speaker 2: but he was a block of mozzarella, which turned out
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Speaker 2: to be you know, put cheese in a frying pan.
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Speaker 2: It's a gooey mozzarella melting beautifully. At the end of
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Speaker 2: that game, how bad was it? Now?
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Speaker 4: The Knicks were up.
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Speaker 2: I mentioned seventeen. I jotted it down. They were up
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Speaker 2: by seventeen with six twenty six the going game halfway through.
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Speaker 2: That's a lot of time. They had a fourteen point ly,
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Speaker 2: as we mentioned, with under three minutes to go in
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Speaker 2: the game. But I'm gonna start this from the six
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Speaker 2: to twenty six mark. From that point up seventeen, you
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Speaker 2: just make a few plays, you win the game.
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Speaker 4: New York was outscored.
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Speaker 2: By twenty points, including overtime twenty points. Jalen Brunson had
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Speaker 2: He did have twelve points. However, he is the playmaker.
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Speaker 2: Now he's the playmaker. He did not facilitate the offense.
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Speaker 2: He became a hog, a ball hog, and pigs get fat,
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Speaker 2: hogs get slaughtered. I heard that somewhere along the way,
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Speaker 2: stumbling and bumbling brunts in the final minutes here as
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Speaker 2: the final about ten minutes of the game. He had
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Speaker 2: no assist he had no steals, he had three turnovers
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Speaker 2: and a bunch of shots, and the Knicks got bupkus.
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Speaker 2: And there's an actual at the deli there there's a
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Speaker 2: thing we can take the numbers and also taking a
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Speaker 2: number and getting in line are og and Anobi and
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Speaker 2: Josh Hart who were contaminated with cooties.
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Speaker 4: At the end of the game.
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Speaker 2: They combined to shoot sixteen percent at the end of
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Speaker 2: the game. And as we mentioned, Tom Thibodeau, who has
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Speaker 2: to wear the shame bell, the Knicks coach, there were
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Speaker 2: failing to adjust defensively. And listen, I never coached in
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Speaker 2: the NBA. I just do an overnight talk show. But
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Speaker 2: even I knew what Indiana was doing. And I'm pretty
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Speaker 2: sure the Knicks knew what was going on. They didn't
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Speaker 2: stop it. Is that because they couldn't stop it. But
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Speaker 2: the Pacers repeatedly sliding underscreens, and that allowed the Pacer
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Speaker 2: players to get three point opportunities, and many of them
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Speaker 2: were wide open, no resistance, and so tims should have gone.
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Speaker 2: Dennis Green, a former Fox Sports radio personality, Dennis Green
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Speaker 2: and said, now, if you want to crown them, then
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Speaker 2: crown their asses. But they are who we thought they were,
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Speaker 2: and we let them off. The New York was outscored
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Speaker 2: twenty seven to four on points off turnovers. You talk
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Speaker 2: about giving a game away, that is the textbook example
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Speaker 2: of giving a game away.
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Speaker 4: It's wonderful, all right now, page two.
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Speaker 2: So Indiana wins it, and that's that's the secondary story.
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Speaker 2: The Knicks blowing it is the biggest story. I think
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Speaker 2: we can all agree on that you know anything about sports.
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Speaker 2: But what is the word for aaron Nismith's performance in
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Speaker 2: leading the Indiana Pacers back at Madison Square guard Now,
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Speaker 2: he got to assist because the Knicks just completely fell apart.
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Speaker 2: They became unraveled at the end there. But on the
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Speaker 2: other side, aaron Ne Smith a bunch of big shots
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Speaker 2: there down the stretch. So what is the word? So
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Speaker 2: my word is actually a. It's a fast food situation.
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Speaker 2: It's burger king two words, because that is a That
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Speaker 2: performance was a whopper. That was an absolutely I mean,
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Speaker 2: you've got nsb real here. Aaron Ne Smith is a
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Speaker 2: rather faceless, nameless player in the NBA, right, You know,
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Speaker 2: the hard old people know who he is, but the
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Speaker 2: casual people don't know who this guy is. You talk
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Speaker 2: about making a name for yourself. He was shaken and
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Speaker 2: bacon out there late in the game. He had twenty
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Speaker 2: points over the final ten minutes, but six of six
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Speaker 2: to close the game on three point shots. He looked
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Speaker 2: like me Moneyball Malleer out there knocking down three point
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Speaker 2: shots and man, he absolutely deep fried the New York
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Speaker 2: basketball team.
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Speaker 4: And it was so great.
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Speaker 2: All those celebrities during the surrender cobra position with their
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Speaker 2: hands above, you know, putting their their elbows extended and
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Speaker 2: their the back of their their head, the hands on
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Speaker 2: the back of their head was great. Now. The the
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Speaker 2: only moment that most will likely remember is Tyree Saliburton
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Speaker 2: and his basket. But it is fair to say the
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Speaker 2: real dagger the dagger. Most of them were from Nieman right.
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Speaker 2: Most of them were Halliburton's basket was majestic. It was beautiful,
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Speaker 2: and it was it was great. And so this also,
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Speaker 2: much to the dismay have meant, he proves that lightning.
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Speaker 2: You know, they say lightning never strikes in the same
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Speaker 2: place twice, which is a myth. And well, it wasn't
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Speaker 2: a game winning shot, Tyrey Saliburton. He didn't win the game,
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Speaker 2: but his basket there, his basket was the signature highlight
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Speaker 2: of this particular game. It was really was Reggie Miller
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Speaker 2: esque except the toe was on the line. And it's
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Speaker 2: fair to say he he used all his artillery with
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Speaker 2: the choke sign which didn't make the New York Post.
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Speaker 2: I believe the somebody sent me a copy of that
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Speaker 2: the back page. I think it's actually the front page
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Speaker 2: of the New York Post. People still read those newspapers
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Speaker 2: in New York. Not many other places, but they still
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Speaker 2: read the newspaper in New York. And sure enough, Halliburton
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Speaker 2: right there. I think I said choke two point zero
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Speaker 2: or something like that on the back page. Now the
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Speaker 2: last word here, all right, the last word. So let's
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Speaker 2: take a couple steps back where one game in. Isn't
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Speaker 2: that an elimination situation? The Knicks had a big lead,
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Speaker 2: they blew the lead. The Knicks actually got the lead
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Speaker 2: with Jalen Brunson not even out there. So any advice
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Speaker 2: to Jalen Brunson and Karl Anthony Towns and Tom Thibodeaux
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Speaker 2: and the Knicks going forward. So before I give you
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Speaker 2: my advice, I want to play cut one here. So
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Speaker 2: here is let's go back to Tom Thibodau. Here's what
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Speaker 2: Tom Thibodeau had to say about, you know, just in
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Speaker 2: general the mindset of the Knicks going back for game two.
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Speaker 2: Take a list, coach, what do you do going into
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Speaker 2: game to Friday to bounce back from this? What do
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Speaker 2: you tell you guys to put this behind?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, the same thing. You know, like there's a lot
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Speaker 5: of emotional highs and lows in the playoffs. You got
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Speaker 5: to bounce back quickly. You look at the film, make
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Speaker 5: your corrections, get ready for game two.
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Speaker 2: And that's you know, when you go into the.
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Speaker 5: Playoffs, you lay out the plan or how you're going
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Speaker 5: to approach the entire playoffs.
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Speaker 2: So that was a cookie cutter response by Tom Thibodeau.
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Speaker 2: And what I would do, I would get up in
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Speaker 2: front of the team, they would all they would all
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Speaker 2: ignore me. Who are you? Why are you here? You're
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Speaker 2: You're a loser. But I would tell the team, I said, listen,
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Speaker 2: the only Uncle Mo is in Brooklyn. But on the court,
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Speaker 2: there's no Uncle Mo. There's no Mo, there's no momentum,
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Speaker 2: and there is no carryover to these things. And so
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Speaker 2: you have to you do have to be the goldfish.
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Speaker 4: And you have to forget everything.
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Speaker 2: And I would also advise going to a drug store
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Speaker 2: and buying some mouthwash because that entire Nick team down
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Speaker 2: the stretch at halatosis, Holy crap. Now for Indiana, you
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Speaker 2: keep doing you. I get the Pacers. They've got that
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Speaker 2: Jenna si Quah if you will here, there's something about
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Speaker 2: I don't have any team in the playoffs. I like
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Speaker 2: watching the Pacers play. I'm Benny Brightside on the Pacers.
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Speaker 2: I enjoy. They don't play much defense, but they keep
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Speaker 2: coming at you in waves convoys on offense, and it
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Speaker 2: really is poetry in motion. It's tantalizing offensive basketball. And
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Speaker 2: they shoot a lot of three point shots, but not
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Speaker 2: to the level of teams like the Celtics and some
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Speaker 2: others that were eliminated. Well, that's what I think about,
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Speaker 4: So it's gonna be a lot of fun to be
19:29
Speaker 4: there and hanging out with you.
19:30
Speaker 2: That'll be coming up a week from today, a week
19:33
Speaker 2: from today, and again, if you want more information on
19:36
Speaker 2: specifics and all that, you can find that on the
19:41
Speaker 2: Facebook page and also find that on the Instagram page,
19:45
Speaker 2: which is on Instagram. It's Ben Mahlor on Fox. On
19:48
Speaker 2: the Facebook page, It's Ben Mahlor show, So check that out.
19:53
Speaker 2: Peter writes, In says the New York Next pulled a
19:57
Speaker 2: Laker level choke job blowing that game. They had absolutely
20:01
Speaker 2: no business losing. Frauds.
20:04
Speaker 4: That was a Laker like fraudulent.
20:06
Speaker 2: A good take there by you.
20:09
Speaker 4: What else do we ye?
20:11
Speaker 2: There's a lot of shame. Yes, Ryan says, we lost
20:14
Speaker 2: the legend rest in peace. Jim ursay, very interesting way
20:19
Speaker 2: to send that out, Ryan, Ryan in the long suffering
20:24
Speaker 2: San Diego, although his heart's in oc.
20:26
Speaker 4: Who else we have?
20:27
Speaker 2: Mister Luciano rights In says nine point two out of
20:31
Speaker 2: ten on the Maley Monologue. Seven more games and the
20:34
Speaker 2: Pacers are going to win their first NBA championship, as
20:38
Speaker 2: stated by mister Luciana. Not quite at that point yet,
20:42
Speaker 2: but he wouldn't be opposed to that. King Rory writes
20:47
Speaker 2: since says, this is the third time the Pacers have
20:49
Speaker 2: come back to win a game they should have lost
20:52
Speaker 2: in the playoff playoffs, Game five against the Bucks, Game
20:56
Speaker 2: two against the Calves, and now Game one against the Knicks. Coincidence,
21:00
Speaker 2: I think not. The NBA is rigging these playoff games
21:07
Speaker 2: to show that Tyrese Halliburton isn't overaded. Okay, let's address
21:17
Speaker 2: this first of all. That overrated thing was a handful
21:20
Speaker 2: of players on a poll done by The Athletic. Do
21:24
Speaker 2: you think the NBA gives a rats ass about some
21:29
Speaker 2: stupid pull on a pay website that like seven people
21:32
Speaker 2: pay for the Athletic? Do you think they care about that?
21:35
Speaker 2: Come on and riddle me this, batman. Okay, riddle me this.
21:42
Speaker 2: Why exactly would the end if they're gonna rig things,
21:44
Speaker 2: wouldn't they rig it for New York? Wouldn't they say,
21:47
Speaker 2: you know, New York, they have one. I'm old they
21:50
Speaker 2: have one in my life. I've been around a long time.
21:52
Speaker 2: They have one, the trash. And so when they rig
21:57
Speaker 2: it for New York and set up the TV partner
22:00
Speaker 2: and next year they're changing the television deal and they've
22:03
Speaker 2: got all that, so why wouldn't they set that up?
22:05
Speaker 2: And then they have a new generation of Nick fans
22:07
Speaker 2: all fired up and all that. So come on, I'm
22:12
Speaker 2: not buying. And last I checked, well, we love being
22:15
Speaker 2: on the radio in Indianapolis. It is barely a top
22:20
Speaker 2: twenty five market. It's it's just a hair ahead of Baltimore.
22:23
Speaker 2: It's number twenty five. It's it's behind Portland, Oregon, and
22:29
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh and Charlotte's and that that realm. So if you're
22:32
Speaker 2: gonna rig it, why would you?
22:33
Speaker 4: Why would you do it?
22:34
Speaker 2: For that make a lot of sense?
22:37
Speaker 4: It does not.
22:39
Speaker 2: Let's see here, Shane in the Moyes says, Ben, do
22:43
Speaker 2: you know what the difference is between Michael Leprechaun and
22:46
Speaker 2: a pothole? He says, I would swerve to miss the
22:49
Speaker 2: pothole as a non sequitor. Fox spox Weed writes in
22:54
Speaker 2: from the Oregon Trail and says, woo hoo. Another sighting
22:58
Speaker 2: of the vomit comet over the sky of New York
23:00
Speaker 2: smells terrific, just like the streets of New York. Now,
23:03
Speaker 2: this guy, Bill, why'd you go? Ooh, I'm sure they
23:08
Speaker 2: don't smell good?
23:09
Speaker 4: You know, the streets of you. You haven't been in
23:11
Speaker 4: New York?
23:12
Speaker 3: No, I've never been.
23:13
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you gotta go. And I recommend waiting until
23:18
Speaker 2: August or September and walking around in the evening when
23:23
Speaker 2: everyone puts their trash out and it's really humid and
23:28
Speaker 2: the trash is sweating. Don't say sweaty trash.
23:31
Speaker 4: I hate that the visual is so it's so amazing.
23:36
Speaker 2: Ah at people running around, rats running around, dancing in
23:40
Speaker 2: the trash. It's rataitoey, is what it is. It's literally rataitoey.
23:44
Speaker 2: But they're just all enjoying the trash. Wonderful. But that's
23:48
Speaker 2: a great city, Bill writes, any he's a hoosier guy.
23:51
Speaker 2: You know this guy, Bill's the I told you so.
23:54
Speaker 2: You know he lives in La Now. So he's like
23:55
Speaker 2: a fake Hoosier. A real hoosier doesn't leave Ideana. You're
23:58
Speaker 2: a fake hoosier Bill in La Now anyway, he says,
24:01
Speaker 2: poetry in motion. I think you are Johnny come lately.
24:05
Speaker 2: I've been busting your ass since November. That sounds dirty.
24:09
Speaker 2: Dig the show as Bill. Yeah, so, Bill, first of all,
24:14
Speaker 2: I don't read every one of your comments. Get Fortunately,
24:17
Speaker 2: there's actually more than like two people listening, so we
24:20
Speaker 2: actually get a lot of messages and I try to
24:21
Speaker 2: scan through. Although many of you say I read the
24:23
Speaker 2: same five messages from the usual suspects every single day.
24:28
Speaker 2: The nature Boy writes and says great monologue and game
24:31
Speaker 2: in the NBA. We got the chance to watch the
24:33
Speaker 2: irritating Nick fans get a double curb snopping on the
24:37
Speaker 2: same night. Can't wait until Friday. Yeah, I was actually
24:40
Speaker 2: mentioning in the pre show meeting. I was talking to
24:42
Speaker 2: the great Justin Frossberg, who produces the show prior to
24:46
Speaker 2: this with Jason and Mike and Jason's typical sports radio
24:50
Speaker 2: New York Hank and all that, you know, Nick Apologist
24:52
Speaker 2: and all that. So we were going back and forth
24:54
Speaker 2: and how great is it because not only did the
24:56
Speaker 2: Knicks lose once, they lost twice, and they celebrated the
25:01
Speaker 2: win when they were up seventeen, they celebrated. They celebrated
25:05
Speaker 2: when they were up fourteen, so they celebrated twice, and
25:09
Speaker 2: then they lost twice. When Haliburton hit the shot, and
25:14
Speaker 2: if you heard it or saw it or whatever, you know,
25:16
Speaker 2: they thought, oh he won the game, or good shape,
25:18
Speaker 2: this is great, you know, or they thought they lost
25:20
Speaker 2: and then his foot was on the line so we
25:22
Speaker 2: had another chance, and then they ended up blowing in overtime.
25:27
Speaker 2: Assumer Market Steve writes in from Soke sins, I missed
25:30
Speaker 2: the original Burger King jingle, Hold the pickles, hold the
25:33
Speaker 2: lettuce special orders, don't upset us. All we ask is
25:37
Speaker 2: that you let us serve it your way and have
25:41
Speaker 2: it your way. There, you go, have it your way.
25:45
Speaker 2: Did you do the voiceover for the Burger King commercial? Yeah,
25:48
Speaker 2: back in the day. Yeah.
25:51
Speaker 4: I have a funny Burger King story.
25:53
Speaker 2: So I guess I can tell this. It's overnight. So
25:57
Speaker 2: I was doing local radio early in my career, and
25:59
Speaker 2: we there was a college football game that was sponsored
26:03
Speaker 2: not by Burger King, it was sponsored by another major restaurant, right,
26:08
Speaker 2: And so I was doing the Ben and Dave Show
26:13
Speaker 2: in LA and I came in with my guy.
26:18
Speaker 4: That's pretty much what it was like.
26:19
Speaker 2: We had a song just like that. So we came
26:22
Speaker 2: in there and we were just bashing how at that
26:23
Speaker 2: time they they didn't do this kind of thing like
26:26
Speaker 2: the name when the trophy was named after the restaurant
26:29
Speaker 2: or whatever. So we were goofing on them, and the
26:32
Speaker 2: the general manager of the radio station comes running in, uh,
26:35
Speaker 2: you know, and this you know, this guy was quite
26:38
Speaker 2: the character where these power bright jackets and you know,
26:42
Speaker 2: comes running in and he starts reading us the ride act.
26:46
Speaker 2: He's a you too, blankety blank blank, and he's like,
26:49
Speaker 2: you know, I guess the restaurant.
26:51
Speaker 4: We were ripping.
26:52
Speaker 2: I guess it spent some some money advertising, but he said,
26:55
Speaker 2: he then tells me, if you guys want to rip
26:57
Speaker 2: a restaurant, rip Burger King. They don't advertise it was
27:02
Speaker 2: it was the funniest it was. Maybe you had to
27:05
Speaker 2: be there, but it was just hilarious. Guys in his
27:09
Speaker 2: power suit, he's like a Tony Robbins want to be
27:11
Speaker 2: and he's screaming at us if you want to rip somebody,
27:14
Speaker 2: rip Burger King. He was holding.
27:17
Speaker 3: I like Burger King.
27:19
Speaker 2: I liked it when it was good. But you know
27:21
Speaker 2: that's a long time ago. You know, did they still
27:24
Speaker 2: have the longated chicken sandwich? Do they still have that? Course? Okay,
27:28
Speaker 2: I've not been to Burger King in a long time.
27:30
Speaker 2: And and Burger King has the onion rings, which McDonald's
27:33
Speaker 2: does not have. They're barely onion rings. They're more like
27:35
Speaker 2: onion flavored bat Yeah, there's no onion inside of them.
27:40
Speaker 4: Fun fact. You want a fun fact on onion rings?
27:42
Speaker 3: That the fun fact, wasn't it?
27:44
Speaker 2: No, No, this is a fun fun fact. So I
27:48
Speaker 2: learned this doing copious amounts of research on the Fifth
27:50
Speaker 2: Hour podcast, which will return this weekend on Friday, Saturday,
27:53
Speaker 2: and Sunday. That McDonald's the reason they don't have onion rings.
27:58
Speaker 2: And there have been people that own Donald's restaurants that
28:00
Speaker 2: have tried to tell the company, we need onion rings.
28:03
Speaker 2: They make so much money on fries that they could
28:08
Speaker 2: not compete. The onion ring would not make as much profit,
28:12
Speaker 2: so they don't want to. They figure some people would
28:15
Speaker 2: just order onion rings that they wouldn't order fries, and
28:18
Speaker 2: so they'd lose money on it. So that's why they've
28:20
Speaker 2: never added onion rings, even though it's easy for them
28:23
Speaker 2: to add it. Garry interesting, that is a fun fact.
28:26
Speaker 2: That is a fun fact. There you go, how about
28:28
Speaker 2: that they could have the onion rings. I'm a big
28:31
Speaker 2: onion ring guy. I love the onion ring, don't. I
28:33
Speaker 2: don't like onions, but actually I've eaten more onions lately now.
28:36
Speaker 2: Truck Stop Fungus Rites in one of the great one
28:39
Speaker 2: of the great characters on the show, and he's trying
28:43
Speaker 2: to avoid those lot lizards. He says. He's playing some
28:46
Speaker 2: grand theft auto at the Pilot Travel Center in rugged Benton, Arkansas,
28:52
Speaker 2: while listening to the mad Man mauther So and he's
28:55
Speaker 2: got a good setup. Man, I'm looking here, he's got
28:58
Speaker 2: he took a photo. He's got the grand theft big
29:00
Speaker 2: TV right there, he's in the back, and that's you're
29:03
Speaker 2: living your best life right there. Are better than the best,
29:05
Speaker 2: because the best means as good as all the rest.
29:07
Speaker 2: It was pretty solid. So always nice to know where
29:10
Speaker 2: truck stop fungus is hanging out. Where he is at
29:15
Speaker 2: let's see here page down the Mexican John Dutton writes,
29:19
Speaker 2: and this has been Will you ever do a Malord
29:21
Speaker 2: meet up in Tijuana, Mexico? I heard they have a
29:24
Speaker 2: great sports bar there, and then he names I'm not
29:28
Speaker 2: gonna mention it, but.
29:30
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, uh yeah, I don't know.
29:32
Speaker 2: But yeah, Tijuana, Coop, you want to do the how
29:35
Speaker 2: about you represent the show? Coop you go to Tijuana? Now,
29:38
Speaker 2: I'm good, Lorraina, you want to do Tijuana? You do? Yeah,
29:43
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't have a problem with Mexico. I do.
29:46
Speaker 2: Look at the deadliest cities every year and Tijuana is
29:50
Speaker 2: normally in the top ten. Uh so it's a little problematic.
29:54
Speaker 2: But they'd love us, right, How would they not like us?
29:57
Speaker 3: No, we're the best. No one would want to hurt us.
30:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, super Margastein says, I did not think
30:04
Speaker 2: Lorraina was old enough to know the jingle for Burger King.
30:08
Speaker 2: By the way, Ben not wrong. That sounded pretty much
30:10
Speaker 2: on the nose, like the girl who sings the song.
30:14
Speaker 2: So I think that's his way of complimenting you. Fer
30:17
Speaker 2: Dog says Burger King sucks on team Carls Junior, which is,
30:22
Speaker 2: if you're east of the Missisian that would be Hearty's.
30:26
Speaker 2: So there you go. All right, well that's I do
30:29
Speaker 2: like that.
30:29
Speaker 5: Carl's Junior has the zucchini, like the deep fried zucchini.
30:34
Speaker 2: But anything deep fried is good. Yeah, you can't really,
30:36
Speaker 2: you can't f up deep fried food. Deep fried food
30:39
Speaker 2: by definition, as Homer Simpson taught me.
30:41
Speaker 4: It's just better.
30:43
Speaker 2: It's just clearly better. Anyway, it is the Ben Mauch. Sure,
30:45
Speaker 2: we're talking about this big playoff game at the Garden,
30:48
Speaker 2: the Mecca, as the Indiana Pacers to the unthinkable, the unimaginable,
30:53
Speaker 2: and they come back, do we have the player of
30:55
Speaker 2: the night, By the way, do we have this ready
30:56
Speaker 2: to go in the queue? As they like to say,
30:58
Speaker 2: all right, let's go. I assume this is the what
31:01
Speaker 2: I think it is. But let's go to that Indiana,
31:03
Speaker 2: New York game Midtown Manhattan right over Penn Station the
31:07
Speaker 2: Pacers and the next time, now for the tire Iraq
31:10
Speaker 2: play of the night two point games. Six seconds to go.
31:15
Speaker 2: Haliburton driving. He's in the lane, he nearly lost, and
31:18
Speaker 2: he backs up and unloads a three. That did not happen.
31:24
Speaker 2: It hit the back of the rim, hit pot tie
31:26
Speaker 2: into the air, and it dropped gently through the net.
31:32
Speaker 2: I like this guy, this pacer play by play guy's
31:34
Speaker 2: pretty good. I gotta tell you well, that is the
31:36
Speaker 2: tire rack play of the day, Haliburton tying it, Pacers
31:41
Speaker 2: go to win it in overtime. For over forty years,
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Speaker 2: some some love to this guy, the pacer play by
32:07
Speaker 2: play guy, because he's out outstanding and uh just great
32:13
Speaker 2: that he's the guy that gave us the uh the.
32:16
Speaker 3: Dagger right the dayerl yeah.
32:23
Speaker 2: I believe his name is Mark Boyle. I believe that
32:26
Speaker 2: is who we are yapping about there. Mark Boyle is name.
32:29
Speaker 2: Radio play by play is his game. And this guy
32:33
Speaker 2: has been calling NBA games for the Pacers for thirty
32:37
Speaker 2: six years. That's I think that's a yeah, that's a
32:42
Speaker 2: that's a long time, right, that's that's a long long
32:46
Speaker 2: run there, so out standing, out standing anyway, it is
32:52
Speaker 2: the Ben Malor Show. As we work our way through
32:56
Speaker 2: the overnight hours, we will I will take some calls.
32:58
Speaker 2: I know we got carried away. I had to tell
32:59
Speaker 2: a good burger king story and that took some time.
33:01
Speaker 2: We'll get also worried about farming. We'll go there as well.
33:04
Speaker 2: Time now for the who Am I Game, and we'll
33:07
Speaker 2: go to the Pacers one more time. Tyrese Halliburton had
33:11
Speaker 2: four hundred and fifty five points, two hundred and sixteen assists,
33:14
Speaker 2: and one hundred and twenty seven rebounds in his first
33:17
Speaker 2: twenty five career playoff games. The only other players in
33:20
Speaker 2: the last sixty years to reach those levels in their
33:25
Speaker 2: first twenty five career postseason contests are Chris Paul better
33:30
Speaker 2: known as CP three, and me who again Tyrese Haliburton,
33:35
Speaker 2: that's a basketball player for the Pacers. Four hundred fifty
33:38
Speaker 2: five points, two hundred and sixteen assists, one hundred and
33:41
Speaker 2: twenty seven rebounds in his first twenty five career playoff games.
33:45
Speaker 2: The only other players in the last sixty years to
33:48
Speaker 2: reach those marks in their first twenty five career postseason
33:51
Speaker 2: contest are Chris Paul and me. Who am I? The answer,
33:57
Speaker 2: We'll get to it and we will.
33:59
Speaker 3: Do it.
34:01
Speaker 1: Next, be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
34:03
Speaker 1: Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
34:07
Speaker 2: Thank God for the Pacers. What a win over the
34:09
Speaker 2: next one of the great nights. You know, we watched
34:11
Speaker 2: these games and then last some nights sucked and a
34:13
Speaker 2: lot of times are like what are we doing? And
34:15
Speaker 2: then every once in a while you get one of
34:16
Speaker 2: those and you're like, wow, that's pretty cool.
34:18
Speaker 4: We'll play off the who am I?
34:19
Speaker 2: Game? Here in a moment, I did want to mention
34:21
Speaker 2: the quote from Tyreese Halliburton, the choke signal that he
34:26
Speaker 2: gave channeling Reggie Miller now he claimed after the game,
34:29
Speaker 2: the choke sign that he gave to the Knicks. He
34:31
Speaker 2: said that he was quote is a quote here. I
34:33
Speaker 2: wasn't plotting on it or anything. He said. If I
34:37
Speaker 2: would have known it was a two, I wouldn't have
34:39
Speaker 2: done it. That's kind of obvious, Halliburton said, quote continues,
34:42
Speaker 2: I might have wasted it if I do it again.
34:46
Speaker 2: Here's the money part of the quote. Haliburton says, if
34:48
Speaker 2: I do it again, people might say I'm Aura Farming.
34:52
Speaker 4: That's what he said.
34:53
Speaker 2: So you don't want to get caught Aura Farming. That
34:56
Speaker 2: would be that would be a nightmare for Tyrese Haliburt. Boy,
35:00
Speaker 2: this guy's been but Nana's absolutely ridiculously the good. Here.
35:05
Speaker 2: I saw Charles Barkley on the TNT post game. I
35:08
Speaker 2: actually watched the TNT post game because he's good. And
35:11
Speaker 2: Barkley said he's He's going to contact Adam Silver to
35:15
Speaker 2: allow Halliburton's dad to come back because Haliburton's dad's banned
35:20
Speaker 2: because he got into the face of Giannis.
35:22
Speaker 4: Remember that.
35:24
Speaker 2: He's an a hole. But see, I wouldn't want Halliburton's
35:28
Speaker 2: dad back.
35:29
Speaker 4: And here's why.
35:31
Speaker 2: If Halliburton his father comes back and the Pacers start
35:35
Speaker 2: losing these games, who do you think is going to
35:36
Speaker 2: get blamed Ding Ding ding Ding, the old man, the pops,
35:41
Speaker 2: they'll be blamed. And has he not even in the irenay?
35:44
Speaker 2: How would anyone know if he's there or not? Just
35:46
Speaker 2: give him a ticket in the upper deck if you
35:47
Speaker 2: want to allow him into the game. Here's the who
35:49
Speaker 2: am I? Game? Tyree's who I mentioned? Tyres Celibert four
35:54
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty five points, two hundred and sixteen assists,
35:57
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty seven rebounds in his first twenty
36:00
Speaker 2: five career playoff games. The only other players the last
36:03
Speaker 2: sixty years, that's three generations to reach those marks in
36:08
Speaker 2: their first twenty five career postseason contest are Chris Paul
36:11
Speaker 2: and me. Who am I? That is the question? What
36:15
Speaker 2: is the answer? We have? Also upset Nick the Windy's Guy.
36:18
Speaker 2: He said, we spent too much time talking about Burger.
36:20
Speaker 2: You don't know Nick the Wendy's guy in Minnesota. This
36:23
Speaker 2: is the guy that let us know that Kirk Cousins
36:25
Speaker 2: was eating was eating fast food or that wasn't it
36:28
Speaker 2: was with somebody else but another fast food guy Minnesota.
36:31
Speaker 2: But Nick the Wendy's Guy a fine representative of the
36:34
Speaker 2: Windy's company, and he's upset with.
36:36
Speaker 4: U because we didn't talk about Windy's enough.
36:37
Speaker 2: So there you go.
36:38
Speaker 4: All right, let's see, does anyone know the answer?
36:40
Speaker 2: Paige Down sonic legend Slick Watts from The Nature Boy, Weird,
36:46
Speaker 2: Al Yankovich from Spock's Weed, Paige Down, Sean Paul shake
36:51
Speaker 2: that than from Brian. Who else do we have? Angel
36:54
Speaker 2: Reese from Mister Irrigation. Alan Tramo guests by Rob in
36:59
Speaker 2: Minnesota to Charlie from Wisconsin says we should be talking
37:04
Speaker 2: about Culver's. Yeah, Culvers is better than Burger King. It
37:08
Speaker 2: is not even close. Come on, please? Who else do
37:11
Speaker 2: we have? Truck or Joe says a big, big ass
37:15
Speaker 2: rat in New York City. Pacer legend Vern Fleming Good
37:20
Speaker 2: get by Bay City Tony the Vern Fleming Pacers with
37:24
Speaker 2: Chuck Person the Rifleman. Yeah, and who else do we have?
37:28
Speaker 2: Page down can't read that. This guy, This guy Bill's
37:37
Speaker 2: very upset that I called him a fake Hoosier. He's
37:40
Speaker 2: he's triggered by that. I'm just calling to light. The
37:44
Speaker 2: guy lives in LA though he's going like Venice Beach
37:46
Speaker 2: or Santa Monica every day. Rick Smith's from Ozzie Waz
37:51
Speaker 2: in Western Australia. Money Line Mikey from Shane and Des
37:54
Speaker 2: Moines and So from Vancouver says Vancouver Grizzly's legend, Big
37:59
Speaker 2: Country briars. You're gonna get to meet Enzo, Lorena when
38:03
Speaker 2: we're in Vancouver. Enzo. I've helped raise Enzo. He's all
38:06
Speaker 2: grown up now, but I helped raise him years ago. Anyway, Lorena,
38:09
Speaker 2: do you have an answer? My guess was gonna be
38:11
Speaker 2: Devincenzo ben Okay, what's his first name? Something? Okay? Uh?
38:16
Speaker 2: Tyree Saliburton four hundred fifty five points, two hund sixty assists,
38:20
Speaker 2: hundred try seven rebounds. You only have the players to
38:22
Speaker 2: do it last sixty years. Chris Paul, Magic Johnson, Magic Johnson,
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Speaker 2: Irvin Johnson, Magic Johnson