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Hour 2 - Mix and Match Situation · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Boom, Shaka laka. It's our number two. Our number two
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Speaker 1: is ready for you. On the Ben mal Show podcast,
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Speaker 1: It's an NBA heavy hour two. What will it take
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Speaker 1: to get people jazzed up for the Knicks, Pacers, Thunder
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Speaker 1: and Wolves in the Conference finals of the NBA. And
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Speaker 1: why does the perception persist that small market teams in
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Speaker 1: the NBA Conference Finals are just poison for TV ratings,
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Speaker 1: even though there are examples in the past that show otherwise.
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Speaker 1: And what impact could this NBA uniform change have to
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Speaker 1: the tyrese Haliburton Pacers playoff run. I'll explain. That was
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Speaker 1: from a listener who sent me an email from Indianapolis.
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Speaker 1: That and more right now here, it is our number two.
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Speaker 1: It is a mix and match situation, if there ever
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Speaker 1: was one. Welcome in the beginning of another hour of
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Speaker 1: from the hardwood now. Since the Celtics played gutless basketball
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Speaker 1: on Friday and were exterminated by the New York Knickerbockers
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Speaker 1: on that Friday night game, no contest, no fight, just
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Speaker 1: roll over and play dead, getting the fetal position there,
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Speaker 1: so we did not have a Game seven in the
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Speaker 1: Eastern Conference Semifinals that was supposed to be played on
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Speaker 1: Monday night. Of course, for that to happen, there needs
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Speaker 1: to actually be a Game seven. There was no game set,
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Speaker 1: so instead all the arenas went dark on Monday and
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Speaker 1: the Day of Reflection. Day of Reflection Conference finals will
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Speaker 1: begin here on Tuesday night and a lot of chatter.
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Speaker 1: And I'm all about the chatter. I'm in the chatter business.
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Speaker 1: In fact, I live for chatter. So the chatter about
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Speaker 1: the look of the final four of the NBA. And
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Speaker 1: if you have not been following, I don't know how
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Speaker 1: you could have missed all this. But this is not
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Speaker 1: your dad's, this is not your grandpa's Conference finals. You've
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Speaker 1: got the Knicks who have been bad for a generation,
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Speaker 1: twenty five years of suck. You've got the Pacers who
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Speaker 1: are there, the Timberwolves and OKC, so not the usual suspects,
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Speaker 1: although you say, well, Minnesota and Indiana, okay, still not
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Speaker 1: used to those teams being in the conference final. And
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Speaker 1: so some new actors on the stage. And when there's
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Speaker 1: new actors, you either like the actors you don't like
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Speaker 1: the actors. Now many are convinced, many the wise people,
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Speaker 1: the cool kids, are convinced. The lack of the traditional
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Speaker 1: superstar player, the lack of the normal French eyeses that
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Speaker 1: we see in this round of the playoffs, is going
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Speaker 1: to be bad for the bottom line of basketball. So
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Speaker 1: let us discuss the question what will it take. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna deputize you as the marketing gurup. So what will
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Speaker 1: it take to get people jazzed up for Knicks, Pacers
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Speaker 1: and Thunder and Wolves in the conference finals of the NBA.
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Speaker 1: So I've got ken Burns, algebra, and SpongeBob and we
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Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we are
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Speaker 1: going to make a line drive base hit right up
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Speaker 1: the gut is what we're gonna make. So numb burn
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Speaker 1: number get a number, all right. So we obviously do
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Speaker 1: not work for the NBA. We are not on the dime,
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Speaker 1: not in the tank. As far as I know, the
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Speaker 1: company does not have a deal with the NBA. So
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Speaker 1: I am not shackled to kiss the tucks of Adam
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Speaker 1: Silver in the NBA. And this is a their problem,
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Speaker 1: it's not our problem. But the question for the monologue was, Hey,
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Speaker 1: help the NBA out. What is going to get take
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Speaker 1: to get people all jazz dubbed as a public service
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Speaker 1: A lot of PSAs get aired when I'm on the
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Speaker 1: radio overnight, So as a public service announcement, let's help
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Speaker 1: the NBA out. So it's not about the base. People
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Speaker 1: mistake this as being about the base. It's not about
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Speaker 1: the base. It's like a political convention. The political convention
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Speaker 1: you're going to fire up the base, but it's not
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Speaker 1: really about the base, right the basketball hardoh is going
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Speaker 1: to watch. We're a captive audience, absolutely a captive audience here.
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Speaker 1: We have a talk show to do every night, so
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Speaker 1: of course we're gonna watch. It's broadcasting, not narrow casting, unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: and there's a narrow window for these these teams. It
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Speaker 1: is about the undecided voter. They've got to convince the
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Speaker 1: undecided voter to win the heart, mind, and soul of
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Speaker 1: the undecided voter here. And when you have the usual suspects,
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Speaker 1: it's obviously easier. Everyone knows that you You don't even
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Speaker 1: me to tell you it's easier if you simply toss
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Speaker 1: out Steph Curry, Lebron James, somebody like that, players of
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Speaker 1: that ILK that are in many ways prepackaged and it's
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Speaker 1: just ready to go. You take it off the shelf
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Speaker 1: and you're good to go. It's easy to sell that.
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Speaker 1: The NBA, I assume they have a lot of marketing people,
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Speaker 1: you know, highly educated marketing people there. I've been, I
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Speaker 1: walked by I was last time I was in New York.
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Speaker 1: I was wandering around in the middle of the night,
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Speaker 1: which you probably should not do. You could get mugged.
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Speaker 1: But I'm a big guy, and I was wandering around
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Speaker 1: and within about a three or four block area of
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Speaker 1: midtown Manhattan, you have the NBA headquarters, You've got Major
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Speaker 1: League Baseball, the NFL, and also hockey, although hockey as
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Speaker 1: headquarters in Toronto as well, but they're all within like
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Speaker 1: the Triangle of Sport Doom, all in that area, just
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Speaker 1: adjacent to Madison Avenue. So they're all and they have
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Speaker 1: like the top minds and all that stuff. So the
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Speaker 1: NBA marketing people, you roll up your sleeves here and
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Speaker 1: it is storytelling, one oh one. That is how you
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Speaker 1: close the gap. That's obviously how you close the gap.
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Speaker 1: And humans are hardwired for stories. We all are. We
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Speaker 1: learn as kids based on fables and stories, and that's
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Speaker 1: just the way we are programmed in the matrix, you know,
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Speaker 1: where it's all part of some weird glitch or something
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Speaker 1: like that. Anyway, the NBA in the Conference finals, if
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Speaker 1: I were in charge, if I were advising them, you
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Speaker 1: sell the heck out of Anthony Edwards, who's had some success,
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Speaker 1: although he also loves to talk about his big d
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Speaker 1: You can sell that as well. There's an crowd that
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Speaker 1: we're like that. Shay giogas Alexander the former Clipper. Easy
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Speaker 1: to sell a former Clipper, obviously, Jalen Bruntson, but as
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Speaker 1: ken Burns, who's I think done every documentary on PBS
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Speaker 1: of these ken Burns, the famous documentary filmmaker. He once
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Speaker 1: said that all story, every story is a is a manipulation. Okay,
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Speaker 1: every story is a manipulation. That the truth is a
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Speaker 1: byproduct of the stories, and emotional truth is something that
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Speaker 1: you have to build. So the league will leverage, if
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Speaker 1: you will, the myth building that is required here, manipulation
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Speaker 1: through highlight reels, social media, sizzle, trying to squeeze out
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Speaker 1: other campaigns as well, trying to squeeze something out here
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Speaker 1: and create the legend. Your myth building is essentially what
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Speaker 1: you're doing. You're building the myth of these players. And
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Speaker 1: this is going to be the next group of players
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Speaker 1: that dominate the NBA, and you got to figure it out.
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Speaker 1: You gotta like these guys because they're going to be
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Speaker 1: here every year and and all that, and you have
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Speaker 1: to hook you have to you have to get your
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Speaker 1: claws in to the know nothing, uneducated fan that that
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Speaker 1: not you. I mean, you're listening to a sports talk
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Speaker 1: radio show. God, you have highly educated, only the best
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Speaker 1: and brightest minds. Lorena was telling me that in our
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Speaker 1: production meeting. She said, Ben, you know, the smartest people
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Speaker 1: listen to overnight talk radio. And I said, you know what, Loreni,
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Speaker 1: You're absolutely right.
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Speaker 3: I did.
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Speaker 1: I did. You told me that she educated me in
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Speaker 1: a production meeting that we had. All right, So page
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Speaker 1: two here, So why does the perception persist?
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Speaker 4: Right?
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Speaker 1: Why does the perception persist that small market teams in
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Speaker 1: the NBA are a death sentence, that they are for television,
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Speaker 1: that you hurt the TV ratings Here there are examples
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Speaker 1: in the past where that is not the case, and
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Speaker 1: it's actually shown otherwise. But why is it that that
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Speaker 1: perception continues here? And it's it's a numbers situation.
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Speaker 5: And I I.
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Speaker 1: Kind of work barely in TV. I don't even have
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Speaker 1: the show will be picked up again for season three.
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Speaker 1: I don't know I have everything yet, so I get
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Speaker 1: a little taste of it. But it's pretty simple. It's
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Speaker 1: it's like anything you have a report card, and when
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Speaker 1: you're in the TV world or the NBA world, it's uh,
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Speaker 1: it's it's a simple I guess I'll use algebra here.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna use some algebra. So as a general rule
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Speaker 1: of thumb, basic algebra is H B M plus LF
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Speaker 1: equals e S, which means big market plus legacy franchise
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Speaker 1: equals easy street. That's the equation on that. Now, if
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Speaker 1: you throw in an amazing HP headline player, well then
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Speaker 1: you that's even better. And so you have the usual suspects.
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Speaker 1: You have the usual suspects. When you have them out there,
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Speaker 1: you can attract the casual fan. It's the you should
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Speaker 1: talk about the water cooler crowd. I always used to
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Speaker 1: talk about that. You want the people at the water
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Speaker 1: cooler when you have nothing to say, or you're in
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Speaker 1: the elevator and it's that awkward silence. You see the
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Speaker 1: game last night, You see what so and so, you
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Speaker 1: know jack Wagon did last night? You know that kind
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Speaker 1: of thing. That's what they're looking for. So some more
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Speaker 1: malor math to give you an idea of what kind
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Speaker 1: of reach you're going to try to get. Now, the
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Speaker 1: Knicks are the outlier in this conference finals for the NBA.
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Speaker 1: You've got the Knicks in the New York City tri
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Speaker 1: state area. The population in the Tri State area of
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Speaker 1: New York City is twenty million people. That's the number
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Speaker 1: one medium in the United States. So twenty million people
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Speaker 1: in the Tri state area. If you combine the rest
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Speaker 1: of the market sizes in the conference finals, what do
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Speaker 1: you think the math is on how many people combined
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Speaker 1: live in If you were to combine, You've got Oklahoma
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Speaker 1: City metro, Minneapolis Saint Paul Metro, and Indianapolis Metro. If
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Speaker 1: you combined all of those cities together, I've done the
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Speaker 1: math on this. It's malad maas so I'm pretty close.
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Speaker 1: So if you combine all those cities metro population, what
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Speaker 1: do you think the total is?
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Speaker 6: Now?
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Speaker 1: I remember New York's at twenty million, So do you
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Speaker 1: have a guess in your head? Use your computer like brain,
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Speaker 1: your calculator in your brain, come up with a number. Again,
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Speaker 1: I've been to all these cities in my travels over
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Speaker 1: my time here. So I've been to Oklahoma City, not
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Speaker 1: much going on there. I love the Twin Cities beautiful,
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Speaker 1: loved it, wonderful time. I enjoyed my time in Indianapolis.
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Speaker 1: So if you combine all of those cities, the total
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Speaker 1: combined population is reveal answers six million. Six million is
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Speaker 1: the number. So twenty million live in the Tri state
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Speaker 1: area with the Knicks and six million total in the
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Speaker 1: three cit Now listen, that is thirty percent the combined
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Speaker 1: population of New York. Say they keep in mind, not
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Speaker 1: everyone in New York like sports. Not everyone's a Knicks
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Speaker 1: fan in New York. There's a lot of people from
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Speaker 1: all over the world that live in that city, in
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Speaker 1: that area. So there is that, but that's that's the base.
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Speaker 1: The base is always the people that live in the
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Speaker 1: city of the team, and that's that's the issue. But again,
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Speaker 1: it's not my problem. That's their problem. They've got to
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Speaker 1: figure out. I don't have to figure out. You sell
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Speaker 1: the stories, all right now. A final point to the
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Speaker 1: fashion department, and Mike set me this very upset. Convinced
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Speaker 1: the NBA Conference Finals are being rigged, that the NBA
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Speaker 1: is trying to screw over the Indiana Pacers. Mike sent
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Speaker 1: a message he said he's very upset with us. The
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Speaker 1: NBA has instructed teams to only use their core uniforms
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Speaker 1: in the Conference Finals in the NBA Finals, not the
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Speaker 1: city edition. The city edition uniforms, which true allowed the
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Speaker 1: first two rounds of the playoffs. Now what does that
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Speaker 1: mean in Layman's terms? Uh, it is seen. According to Mike,
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Speaker 1: he says, the Pacer people are upset, the fans are
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Speaker 1: upset because the it's a shot. Indiana has been wearing
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Speaker 1: these I love this Icy white they're calling sorry, they're
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Speaker 1: Icy White City Edition jerseys. They've been wearing at in
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Speaker 1: home games the first two rounds, but those have been outlawed.
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Speaker 1: They're for boating. You're not You're not allowed to wear
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Speaker 1: the Icy White City Edition jersey, according to the big
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Speaker 1: brother there in the in the NBA. So let me
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Speaker 1: let me address this from Mike who sent me this email. Uh,
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Speaker 1: and thank you for listening, Mike. I appreciate that. All right,
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Speaker 1: So what impact what impact could the NBA uniform mandate
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Speaker 1: have for Tyrese Haliburton's Pacers and their player off run?
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Speaker 1: So I know the line is the clothes maketh the man.
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Speaker 1: I've heard that, like, that's an old expression, The clothes
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Speaker 1: maketh the man. My response is, with a capital B, popkiss.
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Speaker 1: That is my response?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: Are you? Are you supposed to have me believe that?
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Speaker 1: The reason the Pacers played well and and and did
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Speaker 1: these wonderful things is because of the again Icy White
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Speaker 1: City edition uniform. Is that like a SpongeBob square pats
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Speaker 1: like Ferg Dog's favorite mermaid man in SpongeBob where the
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Speaker 1: elderly superpowers because of the costume and all that come on.
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Speaker 1: It's a poppycock, that's what that is. And he played
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Speaker 1: well or don't play well. And if Jalen Brunson happens
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Speaker 1: to twist an ankle or Karl Anthony Towns has my
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Speaker 1: grand headache. And this is a couple of games, you're
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Speaker 1: in good shape. So either out play the knicks or
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Speaker 1: get a really good voodoo doll. And that seems to
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Speaker 1: have been the formula for the pacers here is it
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Speaker 1: is often the formula. Just wait for people to fall apart,
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Speaker 1: to break down, and then you have a chance to advance.
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Speaker 1: is I think you are short changing the number of
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Speaker 1: Timberwolf fans. Think of all the Gunners podcasts has added
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Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, we lost Gunner used to call the show.
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Speaker 1: He didn't call a show anymore. Have you noticed that
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Speaker 1: you think you think Gunnar would call up every single day?
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Speaker 1: Now that the team's in the final four, he hasn't
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Speaker 1: called up.
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Speaker 8: Maybe he's getting anxiety or something because his team is
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Speaker 8: doing so well.
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Speaker 1: Eh or he was just lazy. I don't know, haven't.
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Speaker 1: I guess he's still on social media. Somebody was saying,
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Speaker 1: but I don't know he's in call show. King Roy says,
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Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference finals already have the WWE writing their script.
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Speaker 1: It started last year when Halliburton and Brunson had a
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Speaker 1: stare down in the squared circle. I would not be
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Speaker 1: surprised if there is a chair shot to the back,
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Speaker 1: or if someone goes through a flaming table staples of
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Speaker 1: do you always call me Brian and instead of big
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Speaker 4: How are you guys doing out?
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Speaker 6: Hey?
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Speaker 4: I've been I called in last week. I had a
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Speaker 4: gripe with the hour three uh shakedown with the count?
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Speaker 8: Goodness, here we go.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was I was told you were not interested
21:37
Speaker 4: with my conversations.
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Speaker 8: No, I wasn't impressed. I just don't see the urgency.
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Speaker 3: But the whole point of the count is the hass
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Speaker 3: hah or one ha two ha ha three ha ha ha.
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Speaker 4: And you have it on high number four the rain.
21:59
Speaker 1: Are your thoughts on this development? This guy has a
22:01
Speaker 1: big problem here. His name is Josh. He thinks that
22:04
Speaker 1: the there's a great injustice that's going on here on
22:06
Speaker 1: the show, and he wants to fix the injustice.
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Speaker 8: Yes, yes, I do hear it. And you know what
22:11
Speaker 8: for evidence, let's let's play said drop that you are talking?
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Speaker 1: What number is it?
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Speaker 4: Number?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
22:19
Speaker 1: So here is?
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Speaker 8: Yes, he does the fourth? How this gentleman wants me
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Speaker 8: to go into the system and fix the haw.
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Speaker 1: But I didn't even know that. You know, you ruined that.
22:31
Speaker 1: Now you've ruined that for me because now every time
22:33
Speaker 1: I hear that, I want to hear the fourth. Huw
22:35
Speaker 1: you screwed that. You screwed it for me, dude, why'd
22:39
Speaker 1: you do that?
22:40
Speaker 4: I've never called the show before, and I count money
22:44
Speaker 4: and do you I paid Jack time. So if you
22:47
Speaker 4: guys change that for me. Every time I got to
22:49
Speaker 4: pay somebody three thousand dollars, I'll go through one, two, three, four, five, six, seventh, ten.
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Speaker 3: How about one.
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Speaker 8: You give me one thousand dollars and I will change.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, sh'll just hand you money.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't give you a thousand others because Jack
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Speaker 4: pons or twelve hundred stuff.
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Speaker 1: Well you got to win less, isn't it like less
23:14
Speaker 1: than twelve hundred because you after that you have to
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Speaker 1: pay taxes on it.
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Speaker 4: Right, Well, that's the reason I got to pay.
23:20
Speaker 1: Okay, I got you. Yeah, yeah, how come I haven't
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Speaker 1: raised the rate. That's the same rate since the seventies, right,
23:26
Speaker 1: the early.
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Speaker 4: It is terrible because I'm muscle the gamberg.
23:30
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, but with inflation and the downgrade of the dollar,
23:37
Speaker 1: you'd think they would say, oh, well, let's I'm up
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Speaker 1: three thousand dollars or something like that. But it's always
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Speaker 1: twelve mon.
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Speaker 4: They're talking about bringing the five thousand. But at the
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Speaker 4: same time I get cheap month.
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Speaker 3: Oh I'm sorry, I didn't go there.
23:50
Speaker 4: But people don't make the tip unless I give them money.
23:54
Speaker 3: So they took that away. A lot of people lose
23:58
Speaker 3: their jobs.
23:59
Speaker 1: Anyway, I got all right, Well there you go. You've
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Speaker 1: ruined that. You've ruined the count, so thank you. All right, Now,
24:06
Speaker 1: Lorene can either edit that or we can have the
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Speaker 1: guy lives in Maine, that's the guy that did the
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Speaker 1: count voice. If he's listening, he can call back and
24:11
Speaker 1: do the count again.
24:12
Speaker 8: Yes, I'm sure he would love to count again.
24:14
Speaker 1: I don't mind it, and you know I'm annoyed by
24:17
Speaker 1: it now he's upset me.
24:18
Speaker 8: Look, look what I can do, Ben right number three?
24:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they're not going to remember to do that. No,
24:26
Speaker 1: I will not know you're not.
24:28
Speaker 7: But I could.
24:29
Speaker 1: You could, but I could well yeah, I mean emphasis
24:32
Speaker 1: on the I could run on the Boston Marathon. I
24:36
Speaker 1: could you know I could do? Then? I did do
24:38
Speaker 1: a marathon one day. I did twenty six point two miles.
24:41
Speaker 1: It wasn't like an actual race. I just walked around
24:43
Speaker 1: twenty six miles in one day and the listener sent
24:46
Speaker 1: me a trophy. That's a lot of walking, Gotta I
24:47
Speaker 1: got a trophy out of it. Yeah, it is a
24:50
Speaker 1: lot of walking, a lot of a lot of watering around.
24:53
Speaker 1: Is the Ben Malors Show. As we work our way
24:56
Speaker 1: through the overnight trucker, Joe writes in says he's on
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Speaker 1: a lonely dark road in Upstate New York. We'll say
25:04
Speaker 1: hi to my niece. On my younger niece. She goes
25:09
Speaker 1: to school in Upstate New York. So make sure if
25:11
Speaker 1: you go buy some random college campus, make sure to
25:15
Speaker 1: say hello there. There's a bunch of schools in upstate
25:18
Speaker 1: New York. So stay classy, my friends. The video has
25:21
Speaker 1: gone viral New York Nick fans Gone wild, gone wild
25:26
Speaker 1: and wild and wild and crazy and all that stuff.
25:28
Speaker 1: So there's two videos that went viral this week. One
25:30
Speaker 1: was a Indiana Pacer fan that decided to represent his
25:35
Speaker 1: team after the Knicks advanced to the conference final. And
25:40
Speaker 1: this guy was wandering around outside Madison Square Garden wearing
25:44
Speaker 1: his Indiana Pacer jersey. And what is there always if
25:50
Speaker 1: you've ever been in New York here, you have to
25:51
Speaker 1: live there, you know this. But if you walk around
25:53
Speaker 1: Manhattan at night every night, what is there? Piles of trash? Right,
25:58
Speaker 1: because they pick up the trash every day and it smells,
26:01
Speaker 1: and it's really the worst is in August when it's
26:03
Speaker 1: really humid, hot and the trash is rotting and it's
26:07
Speaker 1: like sweating from the humidity, and it's just disgusting, and
26:12
Speaker 1: there's rats everywhere. It's like it's like a horror movie.
26:15
Speaker 1: So anyway, this was not that, but it was the
26:17
Speaker 1: trash is out was people started throwing trash at this
26:20
Speaker 1: Pacer fan. So that was a viral video. Now what
26:24
Speaker 1: would lead did you lose a bet? Like, why would
26:27
Speaker 1: you decide I'm gonna go out in a mob mob
26:30
Speaker 1: mentality a bunch of knucklehead, drunk nick fans and I'm
26:34
Speaker 1: gonna go wander around there and in my Pacer jersey?
26:38
Speaker 1: What could possibly go around? Well, he did go viral
26:40
Speaker 1: and and he did not any serious injury, and he
26:44
Speaker 1: was gifted a free playoff ticket, a couple of free
26:48
Speaker 1: tickets by Tyrese Haliburton, who made sure to let everyone
26:51
Speaker 1: know he was giving him free tickets so he could
26:54
Speaker 1: go to a playoff game there. So well, I guess
26:56
Speaker 1: that worked out for him. Worked out for him. Now,
26:58
Speaker 1: Brian Windhorse, who is I don't know. He's a large man.
27:05
Speaker 1: He's a very large man. He's a chunky and Brian
27:10
Speaker 1: Winhorse is a television commentator, not a good one. But
27:13
Speaker 1: he was wandering outside the Manhattan studio of their Madison
27:17
Speaker 1: Square garden and the Nick fans were talking to him
27:23
Speaker 1: and insulting him, and then they were throwing garbage at him.
27:27
Speaker 1: So that two instances the New York nick names. If
27:31
Speaker 1: you're a Nick fan and you're like in your early thirties,
27:34
Speaker 1: you don't remember really the last time the Knicks were
27:37
Speaker 1: even in the Conference final. It's been twenty five years,
27:43
Speaker 1: so you got to be in your mid thirties too
27:45
Speaker 1: above to have remembered the Knicks even getting to this point.
27:49
Speaker 1: And God forbid, God helped New York City if the
27:52
Speaker 1: Knicks end up winning the championship, Holy crap man alive. Okay, anyway,
27:57
Speaker 1: it is the Ben Maler Show. Let's go back to
27:59
Speaker 1: the phone. Charlie. It's all Charlie all the time. This
28:03
Speaker 1: is not that Charlie and Wisconsin. This is the other
28:06
Speaker 1: Charlie who's got many nicknames here on this show. You
28:09
Speaker 1: remember your nickname, Charlie.
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Speaker 6: Chit Chat Charlie, I'm royal flesh Charlie.
28:15
Speaker 1: That's right. And the Dallas Dumper. You got a lot
28:22
Speaker 1: of nicknames. For God, it's only called the show A
28:25
Speaker 1: couple of times Royal flush Charlie.
28:29
Speaker 6: Right there, So my Dallas Stars.
28:37
Speaker 1: That's right, you own a lot of people don't know this,
28:39
Speaker 1: but Charlie is the youngest owner in the NHL. He
28:41
Speaker 1: actually owns the Dallas Stars. Ye, congratulations on that. Can
28:51
Speaker 1: I get free? Can I get free tickets? Can I
28:53
Speaker 1: get free tickets? Come on, Charlie. You know I love
29:05
Speaker 1: that the sigh that makes the call. Doesn't that make
29:09
Speaker 1: the call?
29:09
Speaker 8: The SI definitely one of the best parts of Charlie's phone.
29:12
Speaker 1: Calls, the raw emotion of Charlie.
29:15
Speaker 8: You know, the sigh in the bathroom specifically though.
29:17
Speaker 1: It's it's yeah, I like when you were playing you're
29:21
Speaker 1: playing koy with us, You're like, oh, I'm not in
29:23
Speaker 1: the bathroom. No, No, I like that. That's a lot
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Speaker 1: of fun. Yeah.
29:30
Speaker 6: Well, I've got predictions.
29:33
Speaker 1: Oh man, that's a drop right there, Lorena, I think
29:36
Speaker 1: that's a drop. I got predictions. That's a drop. Come on,
29:40
Speaker 1: you know that's a drop. Go ahead, trow, I cannot wait.
29:43
Speaker 1: I was actually telling Coop when I was making the
29:45
Speaker 1: long drive in, I said, Coop, I hope Charlie calls
29:47
Speaker 1: up with some predictions. Can you make that happen. Coop said,
29:50
Speaker 1: I'll produce that. I'll make that happen. So here we are.
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Speaker 1: My dreams have come true. My god, how lucky am I?
29:57
Speaker 6: The Thunder will win the series games?
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Speaker 1: All send that out coup on social media. Charlie the
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Speaker 1: Dallas Dumper, the Royal Flush. Charlie is calling a shot
30:10
Speaker 1: right now that the that's right, chit chat, chit chat.
30:16
Speaker 1: Charlie also the Thunder and said, what else? Nicks and Pacers?
30:21
Speaker 1: Who you got there?
30:24
Speaker 3: Oh?
30:25
Speaker 1: Seven games? Bot series? Seven games? Amazing? How amazing that
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Speaker 1: will be?
30:32
Speaker 6: Oh?
30:33
Speaker 4: Yes it is.
30:41
Speaker 1: Are you always a funny Charlie? Or you just saved
30:43
Speaker 1: the humor for us?
30:44
Speaker 5: Is that.
30:45
Speaker 6: You just I can be funny, but I kind of timidate.
30:48
Speaker 1: It for y'all. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that kind
30:51
Speaker 1: of you to do that, and all the people won't
30:53
Speaker 1: do it this portion of the show. By the way, Charlie,
30:54
Speaker 1: you know we have a sponsor. Did you know that
30:56
Speaker 1: we have sponsors? People that pay money to advertise on
30:58
Speaker 1: the show. Isn't that amazing?
30:59
Speaker 6: I didn't tell you have a sponsor.
31:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well this is not really for you because
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31:24
Speaker 1: other final takes here, Charlie, anything else? Yes, No, there's more,
31:28
Speaker 1: but wait, there's more.
31:31
Speaker 6: One final prediction?
31:32
Speaker 1: Oh man, I can't wait the drama. This is so
31:36
Speaker 1: exciting here, the raw emotion of Charlie giving another Is
31:40
Speaker 1: this a hockey prediction?
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Speaker 6: How do you know?
31:44
Speaker 1: I'm a psychic. I'm a distant relative of Nostradamus and
31:47
Speaker 1: friend of Nostradinas. I've met him. He lives in Seattle.
31:52
Speaker 6: Bro, My Dallas Stars are going to beat the Oilers
31:57
Speaker 6: in seven games.
31:59
Speaker 1: Wow, did not expect you to pick the Dallas Stars.
32:02
Speaker 1: Did not have that on my big board.
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Speaker 6: Okay, stop lying.
32:07
Speaker 1: Okay, now he's calling me a liar. Charlie's calling me
32:10
Speaker 1: a liar. Man, All right, I gotta go. How do
32:16
Speaker 1: you feel about the other, Charlie, Charlie and Charlie, We
32:18
Speaker 1: should get you guys on the air. At the same
32:19
Speaker 1: time of Charlie and Charlie on the.
32:20
Speaker 6: Air actually meant to mention that I would definitely love
32:24
Speaker 6: to do that, Like, yeah, he'd be like.
32:27
Speaker 1: A big brother to you because you're you're about the
32:29
Speaker 1: age he was when he started listening to the show
32:31
Speaker 1: and now he's in college.
32:33
Speaker 7: Yeah.
32:34
Speaker 1: Crazy.
32:36
Speaker 6: Also, my Dallas Stars are going to win the Stanley Cup.
32:41
Speaker 1: Okay, I gotta go, thank you. All right. There's Charlie,
32:44
Speaker 1: the Dallas Stopper, the Royal Flush Charlie and chit Chat Charlie,
32:48
Speaker 1: three nicknames, one caller, Go to bed, Charlie, you got school,
32:52
Speaker 1: go to bed, Go to bed, now, go to bed?
32:55
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, Ben malays show. We are rolling on
32:59
Speaker 1: through the overnight and the fashion faux Paul laundry story.
33:04
Speaker 1: Jalen Williams of the Oklahoma City Thunder he got put
33:11
Speaker 1: into the penalty box. What did he do? He wore
33:15
Speaker 1: a shirt postgame that said, I can't say this word,
33:21
Speaker 1: but it kind of sounds like Eddie used to do
33:23
Speaker 1: a show about the puck and but this is not
33:26
Speaker 1: that some word that starts with F and then it
33:30
Speaker 1: was f art Let's dance. He wore that to the
33:33
Speaker 1: news conference. And how many dollars was he fined? Lorraina,
33:38
Speaker 1: how much do you think that shirt. Wearing clothing with
33:41
Speaker 1: profane language and a postgame media session cost NBA basketball
33:46
Speaker 1: player Jalen Williams, who wore a shirt that said, f
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Speaker 1: art Let's dance.
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Speaker 8: I'm gonna say sixty five thousand.
33:53
Speaker 1: Ben, all right, Troop Belop, I'm gonna go fifty thousand.
33:57
Speaker 1: All right, your boff wrote the guy you wrote the game.
34:01
Speaker 1: It's twenty five thousand. You ruin my game. Bad job
34:06
Speaker 1: by you, twenty five That seems like a lot. Twenty
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Speaker 1: five thousand dollars. The fine is the biggest that Jalen
34:13
Speaker 1: Williams has received. The other five fins about like two
34:16
Speaker 1: thousand dollars each for technical files. So the NFL, the NFL,
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Speaker 1: the NBA clearly does not think f art Let's dance.
34:24
Speaker 1: They think that's expensive. It is the Ben Mahler Show.
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Speaker 1: As we are working away through the overnight. Coming up,
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Speaker 1: we will have Malard of the thirty three. Here is
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Speaker 1: the Insta trivia, and here it is the we actually
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Speaker 1: played the highlight earlier Miami Marlins catcher Jyesue's Sanchez becoming
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Speaker 1: the first player with a leadoff homer and a walk
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Speaker 1: off RBI in the same game since blank. That happened
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Speaker 1: in a while Miami Marlin jes Sus Sanchez the first
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Speaker 1: player with a leadoff homer and a walk off RBI
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Speaker 1: in the same game. Since blank that it is the
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Speaker 1: for the Insta Tribute with Mallard the third Degree on
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Speaker 1: deck and here is the Insta Tribua Miami Marlin Hey
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Speaker 1: Sue Sanchez becoming the first player with a leadoff homer
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Speaker 1: and a walk off RBI in the same game since blank,
36:38
Speaker 1: That is the question. What is the answer? Malaprop Guy says,
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Speaker 1: Alf the alien Opiner is the answer? Alf hitting a
36:46
Speaker 1: ball over the over the monster.
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Speaker 7: What do we have here?
36:50
Speaker 1: Milkman Mike has a new nickname for Charlie Kilby. Overis
36:55
Speaker 1: good name from DJ Spin, former Marlin, former Padre Bust Rhymes,
37:00
Speaker 1: who is fifty three today from Late Night Drug tester.
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Speaker 1: The Diminutive Hack Wilson and his size five feet still
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Speaker 1: one of the great baseball fun facts. He has the
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Speaker 1: record for runs batted in a season, Hack Wilson, Bob
37:16
Speaker 1: Yucker from King Rory, Johnny Damon Guests by Eke and Roseville, Minnesota,
37:21
Speaker 1: mister irrigation going with Minnesota legend Rusty Koontz. Let make
37:26
Speaker 1: sure I say that right. Who else we have private
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Speaker 1: sham from Big reg and Iowa page down JT of
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Speaker 1: a wingman or Buddy j T going with Mets legend,
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Speaker 1: Hojo Howard Johnson, John Cruck to misplaced San Diego.
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Speaker 8: What say you, lay, I don't think he's done it
37:42
Speaker 8: since nineteen ninety seven.
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Speaker 1: Ben, Huh, that's a terrible answer. The answer is Alex
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Speaker 1: Gordon twenty thirteen, sixteen ninety seven.
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Speaker 7: To the third degree. This is gets Grell.
38:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, Larea, I never do numbers because that's terrible to
38:11
Speaker 1: read numbers on the radio. So I will never have
38:13
Speaker 1: an instant trivia or who am I am with number here?
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Speaker 8: I thought you were being clever.
38:18
Speaker 1: Oh all right, shut up, plan wow ceedee.
38:25
Speaker 5: Lamb said in a recent interview that he does not
38:27
Speaker 5: view George Pickens as a number two receiver.
38:30
Speaker 1: Quote, it ain't no ab, none of that. It's one Ben.
38:34
Speaker 1: Do the Cowboys have two number one receivers?
38:36
Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 1: No, There will be one receiver that gets the ball
38:40
Speaker 1: more than the other receiver, and that will be the
38:43
Speaker 1: number receiver. This is gonna be great talk radio. I
38:47
Speaker 1: am here for it. I've got my popcorn ready, I
38:50
Speaker 1: got my butter wet ready, I got my candy. It
38:53
Speaker 1: is going to be great because maybe even in training camp,
38:55
Speaker 1: but if not training camp by week three or four,
38:58
Speaker 1: this is going to go come boom, and I'm there
39:01
Speaker 1: for it.
39:02
Speaker 5: Next, Bill Simmons believes he has figured out a great
39:05
Speaker 5: trade for the Milwaukee Bucks, a player for player trade
39:08
Speaker 5: with the Cleveland Calves for Evan Mobley.
39:12
Speaker 1: And Giannis and Tenna Koombo.
39:13
Speaker 5: Simmons points out that while Giannis is a better player,
39:16
Speaker 5: Mobley is six and a half years younger, and.
39:18
Speaker 1: They would work out for everybody. Yeah, Ben, how do
39:20
Speaker 1: you feel about this trade? Yeah? First of all, there
39:22
Speaker 1: is no great trade. If Yannis is leaving Milwaukee, it
39:25
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what you're getting back, It is not going
39:28
Speaker 1: to be a great trade. No one's gonna buy a
39:30
Speaker 1: ticket to watch Evan Mobley play basketball in Milwaukee. So
39:34
Speaker 1: the moment you get rid of Yannis, you're saying bye
39:37
Speaker 1: bye to trying to win. So there's no great trade
39:41
Speaker 1: for Giannis. That's bullcrap.
39:42
Speaker 5: Next, I wasn't that long ago that Tom tibdau Ha
39:46
Speaker 5: was talked about as being on the hot seat, and
39:48
Speaker 5: now he and the Knicks are about to host the
39:50
Speaker 5: Eastern Conference Finals. Ben, do you think that this has
39:53
Speaker 5: secured TIB's future with the Knicks?
39:55
Speaker 1: Well, no, it's New York and if the Knicks get
39:58
Speaker 1: run off the court by the Pacers, it'll be back
40:00
Speaker 1: on the hot season. As long as they win and
40:02
Speaker 1: they don't get blown out, he'll be fine. How'd we
40:04
Speaker 1: do you pass this edition? Nineteen ninety seven? Lreeda ninety seven,
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven, Leda ninety seven, The great number ninety se.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't even live then. Ninety seven. My god,