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Hour 1 - Thunder Blunder · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Well, it was a thunder blunder. Welcome in the beginning
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Speaker 1: it yet again. And you know what the lead story
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Speaker 1: is here. I don't need to tell you what the
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Speaker 1: lead Come on, zobbies, what the lead story is? Little
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Speaker 1: pro bouncy ball. I know you love this time of
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Speaker 1: the year, you tell you. Oh my god, I kick
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Speaker 1: pro bouncy ball I can get. I need it. Please
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Speaker 1: come on, all right, Well start out in the Alamo.
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Speaker 1: Well not in the actual Alamo, which did not end
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Speaker 1: well for the people on the Alamo. It's a story people,
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Speaker 1: oh the Alamo. I didn't have the happy ending there anyway.
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Speaker 1: That was the scene the big stage game number six
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Speaker 1: of the Western Finals, a T shirt and hat game
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Speaker 1: in theory for Oklahoma. If the Thunder win the game,
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Speaker 1: they get a T shirt and a cap and then
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Speaker 1: they have a big photo op and everyone kisses each
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Speaker 1: other's ass at mid court and get asked how does
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Speaker 1: it feel? How does it feel to get back to
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Speaker 1: the NBA Finals and all that, and they would have
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Speaker 1: punched their ticket to the finals to play New York
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Speaker 1: San Antonio. Trying to stay alive, Stay alive. And if
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Speaker 1: you didn't watch the game, you didn't miss a damn thing.
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Speaker 1: You did not miss anything. Smart decision by you. So
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Speaker 1: so the tall guy for the Spurs who's afraid of
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Speaker 1: the media, Victor wembon Yama, who ran and hid like
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Speaker 1: a coward from the media the other night. Wembanyama went out.
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Speaker 1: He had twenty eight points, ten rebounds, three blocks, and
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Speaker 1: the Spurs staved off elimination. They avoided the Grim Reaper
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Speaker 1: and sent the Western Conference Finals back up to Oklahoma
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Speaker 1: City for Game number seven, and the cliche of game
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Speaker 1: seven the greatest two words in sports, Well, it hasn't
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Speaker 1: really been that way much in basketball so far this year. Anyway.
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Speaker 1: It was a domination situation, if my math is correct,
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Speaker 1: a twenty seven point win for San Antonio. They went
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Speaker 1: to garbage time programming, and I did appreciate Mike Tarrico
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Speaker 1: and Jamal Crawford and Reggie Miller sucking the toes of
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Speaker 1: Wemby trying to make excuses for him for running away
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Speaker 1: and hiding from the media the other night. By the way, Wemby,
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Speaker 1: he did have twenty eight points. He took twenty one shots,
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Speaker 1: which not that great. Oh you're not supposed to say
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Speaker 1: that can be better. That was not picture perfect by Wemby.
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying. I'm just saying. Anyway, Listen, Game seven
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Speaker 1: will be on Saturday night, much needed by the NBA
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Speaker 1: as there are no finals to begin until Wednesday, so
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Speaker 1: Oklahoma City will be the scene. The winner of that
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Speaker 1: game we are told will advance to take on the Knickerbockers.
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Speaker 1: So all those annoying New Yorkers are either going to
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Speaker 1: go to Oklahoma City or San Antonio. It'll be an
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Speaker 1: infestation of those folks, the old men who are celebrities
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Speaker 1: from the nineties who are still there supporting the Knicks,
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Speaker 1: and a couple of younger guys, but mostly just like
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Speaker 1: old dudes that love the Knicks. And so that's the
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Speaker 1: open night Wednesday, the opening night of the Finals. But
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Speaker 1: we're focusing in on game six. The better story is
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Speaker 1: in the losing locker room. And let's start out with
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Speaker 1: the NVP. Shay jogis Alexander, who did lead the team,
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Speaker 1: depends like you want to slice it up. It led
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Speaker 1: the team with fifteen points, and that didn't seem very good.
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Speaker 1: He took eighteen shots, six of eighteen from the floor
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Speaker 1: for SGA and the defending champion Oklahoma City, as they
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Speaker 1: were non competitive for most of this game. Extended garbage time,
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Speaker 1: extended garbagep So that's good jumping off point, let us
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Speaker 1: discuss the question, how do you explain Shay Jogis Alexander
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Speaker 1: going a wall for the Thunder in Game six? Of
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Speaker 1: the finals. So I've got duffel bag, Dino nuggets, and
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Speaker 1: the sound of music. Yeah, and we will put these
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Speaker 1: all together and toss them into the armpit. Why not?
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Speaker 1: All right? So a, the Thunder are really playing with
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Speaker 1: their food here. They're really playing with their food. The
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Speaker 1: way they approached this game, this lase fair approach. They
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Speaker 1: didn't just lose game six. I'm pretty sure that they
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Speaker 1: left their heartbeat back in Oklahoma. Like they could have
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Speaker 1: just forfeited the game and been like, Okay, listen, let's
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Speaker 1: just get to game seven. We're gonna not waste our
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Speaker 1: time and go down to San Antonio. Instead, they chose
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Speaker 1: to go to San Antonio. And they looked zombie fied.
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Speaker 1: You talk about bedraggled. My god. The whole team, Oklahoma
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Speaker 1: City as a team looked flat. They struggled to score efficiency.
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Speaker 1: They were the antithesis of what they had been and
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Speaker 1: they absolutely could not match these Spurs energy. I only
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Speaker 1: it was home court advantage or any of that bull crap.
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Speaker 1: I don't buy into that much at all. Man alive,
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Speaker 1: what a mess this was for the Thunder, the whole operation,
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Speaker 1: all right, and in particular, let's focus in on SGA.
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Speaker 1: Shaye jogis Alexander who did go a wall in this game.
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Speaker 1: He's the face of the franchise and he had a
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Speaker 1: Southwest Airlines like performance. The I want to get away
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Speaker 1: fair for SGA. Mission accomplished. My god. Well, let's hear
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Speaker 1: from the man himself. Here is the two time MVP
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Speaker 1: back to back in belly to belly SGA talking about well,
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Speaker 1: you'll hear the question and the answer. But oh, the fatigue,
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Speaker 1: Oh the fatigue. Take a listen.
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Speaker 3: We talked so much about the other guys that are
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Speaker 3: fighting through stuff, but how much mental and physical fatigue
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Speaker 3: do you have and how are you.
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Speaker 1: Fighting through it? Oh? I'm good, I'm ready to go
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Speaker 1: the biggest game of my career. Yeah, is it the
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Speaker 1: biggest game? It's the next game. And if I lose,
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Speaker 1: my season's over all.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: Well, at least he didn't take the bait that was
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Speaker 1: a leading question by the reporter. Is like these media guys,
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Speaker 1: they think these these gentlemen playing basketball like av seals
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Speaker 1: at the very end of a world war. It's like, dude,
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Speaker 1: come on, they're playing basketball forty eight minutes over two
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Speaker 1: and a half hours, and they get days off and
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Speaker 1: all that, they don't need an emotional support animal like,
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Speaker 1: these guys are such losers. Anyway, as far as SGA
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Speaker 1: and the most important game and all that that whatever,
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Speaker 1: that's jibbersh. Fine. He really needed to get away because
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Speaker 1: he looked like he was playing the video game and
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Speaker 1: he couldn't figure out why the video game was not
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Speaker 1: working because the controller was unplugged and he couldn't figure
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Speaker 1: it out. He had a pa M performance a point
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Speaker 1: a minute performance, bad, bad bad bad bad bad Wow.
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Speaker 1: SGA played twenty eight minutes, and I thought he was bad.
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Speaker 1: I was like, well, he doesn't seem like this is
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Speaker 1: going well. He's out there and it's not exactly going well.
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Speaker 1: And then the eyeball test was confirmed by the box
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Speaker 1: score from the league. SGA played twenty eight minutes, and
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Speaker 1: while he was on the court, Oklahoma City, if my
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Speaker 1: math is correct, was outscored by minus twenty eight points.
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Speaker 1: So for every minute he played, they were outscored by
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Speaker 1: twenty eight so if or by a point rather so,
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Speaker 1: that means if we played all forty eight minutes, they
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Speaker 1: would have lost by forty eight points, which is mathematically impressive. Now,
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Speaker 1: why did this happen? What is it because Shay's kryptonite
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Speaker 1: got exposed. No whistle, no whistle, no rhythm, no rescue
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Speaker 1: that when the referees put the whistle in their pockets,
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Speaker 1: Shay looked like Superman whose baggage was lost. His duffel
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Speaker 1: bag with the cape in it did not make it
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Speaker 1: to the team hotel. Only three foul shots the entire night. Wow.
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Speaker 1: And this feeds into the deep state that is like, well,
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Speaker 1: wait a minute, here, this guy with that the foul shooting,
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Speaker 1: and there's not much there. And sure enough, the kryptonite
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Speaker 1: was right there exposed. And so I recommend Sga gets
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Speaker 1: sweet baby raised barbecue sauce and slather that all over
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Speaker 1: the crow because you're gonna have to eat that one.
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Speaker 1: You didn't look like a freak of nature in this
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Speaker 1: particular game. It looked like they were trying to raise
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Speaker 1: you from the dead. The entire team the zombie. Now
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Speaker 1: in particular, as we turned the pay cheer to game again,
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Speaker 1: Game six, third quarter, that is the turning point of
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Speaker 1: the game, brought to you by nobody but Thunder coach
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Speaker 1: Mark Dagnow. He said, the Spurs threw a great punch
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Speaker 1: in the third court. You think you think they threw
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Speaker 1: a great punch in the third quarter. If you did
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Speaker 1: not see this, the game was. It wasn't a blowout
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Speaker 1: at halftime. Most games are not blowouts at halftime. It
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Speaker 1: was still within striking distance for ok see, they mathematically
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Speaker 1: had a shot. Really, they weren't playing well in the
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Speaker 1: first half, and you, okay, they're still hanging around, hanging around,
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Speaker 1: and then in that third quarter it all went to hell.
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Speaker 1: It just all went away. How bad was it? Well,
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Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you asked how bad it I
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Speaker 1: was worried no one was going to ask how bad
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Speaker 1: it was. So they played twelve minutes of basketball. The
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Speaker 1: Thunder scored thirteen points. Now, I didn't play in the NBA,
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Speaker 1: and I just do this a little overnight show. I
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Speaker 1: don't think that's good. Oh, you're being mean, Mallor why
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Speaker 1: you being mean? Mallor? I know, I'm just an evil
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Speaker 1: talk show host. Ah, the evil media. Yeah, I shouldn't
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Speaker 1: point that out. Oh you shouldn't say that they didn't
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Speaker 1: play well. Yeah, thirty two to thirteen. The Spurs outscored.
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Speaker 1: And it's not like San Antonio destroyed them from the
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Speaker 1: floor either. The Spurs didn't shoot the ball well in
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Speaker 1: the third quarter, they were the ones getting to the
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Speaker 1: foul line, They were the ones making their foul shot.
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Speaker 1: There were fourteen or fifteen from the line, which I
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Speaker 1: believe is pretty good, and so it goes that way,
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Speaker 1: and the Thunder shot a horrific percentage from the floor.
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Speaker 1: So Mark Dagnoll again said they threw a great punch
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Speaker 1: and all that stuff. Can you explain question, can you
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Speaker 1: explain where they went haywire for Okac in that third
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Speaker 1: quarter specifically? So they were obviously lethargic, and I have
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Speaker 1: a theory here, now this is unconfirmed that at halftime
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Speaker 1: they needed a pick me up, so they went out
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Speaker 1: and they had some uncrustables and some Dino Nuggets at halftime,
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Speaker 1: and they needed a nap, and they didn't have time
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Speaker 1: to take the nap because NBC wanted them back on
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Speaker 1: the court. They couldn't take a nap. So the entire
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Speaker 1: team decided, you know what we're gonna do, We're just
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Speaker 1: gonna do it. During the game, the Thunder looked like
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Speaker 1: they knew that Adam Silver and his henchmen needed a
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Speaker 1: Game seven on Saturday, and they got the old the
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Speaker 1: Wink and the nod. They got the message with invisible
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Speaker 1: ink and yeah that was Malfeasan's inexcusable six of twenty
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Speaker 1: eight from the four to twenty one percent shooting in
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Speaker 1: that quarter for the Thundery, I'll score on a twenty
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Speaker 1: nothing run. You look like the Washington Wizards. For god,
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Speaker 1: in the Western Finals. You look like the Frickin' Washington Wizards.
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Speaker 1: San Antonio treating the thunder like airport security treats those
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Speaker 1: little shampoo bottles you try to sneak through. Nothing gets through.
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Speaker 1: So the thunder offense was all dial tone and busy
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Speaker 1: signals for sure. All right, last word, so moving forward,
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Speaker 1: we have it. They always like to say the two
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Speaker 1: greatest words in sports Game seven, which has been bullcrap.
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Speaker 1: We've seen so many bad Game sevens in these NBA Playoffs,
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Speaker 1: from the Pistons not showing up the gutless cowards they
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Speaker 1: were against the Cadavers in that game. We had the Sixers,
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Speaker 1: but they didn't do any anything Game seven. But the
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Speaker 1: Celtics and the Sixers they did nothing early in that game.
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Speaker 1: There've been some bad Game sevens, is what I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to say. Oklahoma City, by the way, is favored I
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Speaker 1: just looked at the overnight line on DraftKings four and
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Speaker 1: a half point opening line. Oklahoma City favored at home
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Speaker 1: on Saturday. The question you make the call your knee
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Speaker 1: jerk reaction. Who has the edge? Who has the mathematical edge?
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Speaker 1: In Game seven, the Thunder got the home court, they
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Speaker 1: are favored over the Spurs. So who you got Thunder
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Speaker 1: or the Spurs. So the way I will approaches, tell
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Speaker 1: me who the zebras are. Go out to the serengetti
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Speaker 1: and find which zebras are going to come in here,
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Speaker 1: and then I'll tell you who's gonna win the game.
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Speaker 1: If the referees decide to officiate the game they way
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Speaker 1: they did Game six and they swallow the whistle. Victor
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Speaker 1: Wembanyama is going to be booking a flight to the
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Speaker 1: NBA Finals, so they'll start at home and be ordering
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Speaker 1: room service croissants when they get to New York. And
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Speaker 1: if Wemby's engaged, which seems to be a big if
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Speaker 1: because there have been some moments in this Western Finals
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Speaker 1: where he has just checked out, like he's like, I
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Speaker 1: don't know what he's thinking about. I have no idea.
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Speaker 1: But when he's engaged, obviously San Antonio is like they
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Speaker 1: have the Eiffel Tower, and when he's not engaged, it's
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Speaker 1: like they had they went to the gift shop below
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Speaker 1: the Eiffel Tower and they got one of those little
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Speaker 1: souvenir Eiffel Tower keychains, which is not as effective as
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Speaker 1: the actual Eiffel Tower. I'm told the Eiffel Tower is
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Speaker 1: much more effective now. On the other hand, if this
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Speaker 1: turns into not La La Paloozer, Malapalooza or Woodstock, if
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Speaker 1: this turns out to be whistle Fest twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 1: advantage Oklahoma City. They will blow out the Spurs and
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Speaker 1: they'll win by a country mile. And that's where I'm leaning.
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Speaker 1: That's where I'm leaning. I was asked this. I made
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Speaker 1: my weekly appearance with my friend Bob Fesco on his
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Speaker 1: show in Kansas City, and they asked me about this.
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Speaker 1: I said, well, I like the Spurs in game six.
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Speaker 1: I think the Thunder will come back and win game seven.
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Speaker 1: And even though this game was a blowout in game six,
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Speaker 1: I'm never wrong about this. I have a crystal ball.
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Speaker 1: I am a distant relative of Nostradamus, And back to
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Speaker 1: being a friend with Nostrudinas and so you look at
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Speaker 1: this and that's the Oklahoma City's greatest offense is not
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Speaker 1: a playbook. It is a remake of the sound of
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Speaker 1: music for the modern era. They love the new version
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Speaker 1: of the sound of music. I think it's coming out
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Speaker 1: this summer. It's called the Sound of a Whistle. The
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Speaker 1: sound of a whistle that's updating. And that parade the
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Speaker 1: conga line to the foul line. SGA might as well
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Speaker 1: bring his sleeping bag to the charity stripe. Is a
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Speaker 1: shade jogis Alexander getting if he gets eighteen foul shots.
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Speaker 1: It's like giving a kid an unlimited amount of swipes
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Speaker 1: at the arcade. You're like, okay, we just keep playing games.
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Speaker 1: Just do it. Play the claw machine, play the ski
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Speaker 1: ball machine, play the whatever you want to play it.
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Speaker 1: Every question will call this is I know what's going
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Speaker 1: to happen when I come back in here next week.
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Speaker 1: Every question we'll call is essentially a thirty minute infomercial
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Speaker 1: confirming the conspiracies of the NBA. And So the edge
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Speaker 1: is to Oklahoma City, not because of home court, just
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Speaker 1: the edge is that the officials. It's the see saw
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Speaker 1: the calls favored. In Game five, Oklahoma City Game six,
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Speaker 1: they went to San Antonio and now it's Game seven,
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Speaker 1: so it goes back to Oklahoma City. And the X
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Speaker 1: factor is whichever ref decides that he's the main character.
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Speaker 1: That's what this is. And Game sevens are supposed to
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Speaker 1: create legends. I haven't had a lot of that this
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Speaker 1: year in the basketball playoffs. Let's hope the referees are
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Speaker 1: not trying to become one of the legends. This is
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Speaker 1: a classic Tony Brothers or Scott Foster moment waiting to happen,
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Speaker 1: which will lead to some kind of calls from we
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Speaker 1: need Congress to get involved here, like what are we doing?
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, my goodness. It is the Ben Mahllor Show.
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Speaker 1: They're not happy with newby Night. They feel like it
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Speaker 1: downgraded the show. And I got one email I will
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Speaker 1: not reveal. I think you can figure out who sent
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Speaker 1: And the regular call when the newbies call up because
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Speaker 1: regulars it's gonna cost more money to pay them because
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Speaker 1: they have to do more work to clean up the
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Speaker 1: spill that the newbies caused last night. And I didn't
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Speaker 1: see it that way. I didn't see that. I thought
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Speaker 1: it was freaking great. I was feeling good, I good
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Speaker 1: self esteem. I was like, man, this is great. Everyone's
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Speaker 1: kissing my ass. It was wonderful anyway, eight seven seven
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Speaker 1: Ben Mahlor. That's at Ben Mahlor, and I will take
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Speaker 1: your calls that So it was it really that simple.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to that. And also it is now an infestation.
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Speaker 1: Another player deciding they are afraid the big bad Boogeyman
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Speaker 1: of basketball. Who is the big bad Boogeyman of basketball?
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Speaker 1: Well you'll find out. We'll get to all that as
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20:52
Speaker 4: No Mo the host of two fools from Philly who
20:55
Speaker 4: have the dumbest takes ever in all of sports talk.
20:58
Speaker 4: And you know, if I'm that, they must really be bad.
21:02
Speaker 4: I have no idea why Fox Sports Radio picked this up,
21:05
Speaker 4: but I know where to put it down in the
21:08
Speaker 4: trash can. So please don't listen to the Paulie and
21:12
Speaker 4: Tony Fusco Show.
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Speaker 1: No way, no how, Bill Miller and you. It is
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Speaker 1: the Ben Mahlor Show. As we hang out together. Got
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Speaker 1: a Game seven on Saturday night? Yeah, all right? Level
21:30
Speaker 1: of interest in Game seven on a scale of one
21:32
Speaker 1: to ten, Spurs and thunder, I'm at a six, slightly
21:39
Speaker 1: above average, slightly above average. I'm at a six for that.
21:44
Speaker 1: If you'd like to be part of this show, We're
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Speaker 1: just beginning the Red Eye flight all night, non stop.
21:52
Speaker 1: Keep your seatbelts fastened. We have not reached our cruising altitude.
21:55
Speaker 1: Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox's eight on the
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Speaker 1: Liveye you're not you haven't called up in a while,
22:04
Speaker 1: helmet Man. What happened to helmet Man? I've noticed helmet
22:08
Speaker 1: Man will call up for like two months in a row,
22:12
Speaker 1: pretty much every week, and then vanished for six months.
22:16
Speaker 1: It's pretty wild. Yeah, anyway, I've got your part. It
22:20
Speaker 1: has been a while. Should we do a wellness check
22:23
Speaker 1: on helmet Man. I'm gonna guess that helmet Man lost
22:26
Speaker 1: his Obama phone and it's been too lazy to go
22:29
Speaker 1: get a new Obama phone. That's what I'm going with. Well,
22:33
Speaker 1: I'm just saying yeah, anyway, Hey, listen, if you want
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Speaker 1: to be part of it, you can join us here
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Speaker 1: at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Also on
22:41
Speaker 1: ex at Ben Mahlor that's at Ben Malor. Lorena is
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Speaker 1: in the hiszy and you can say a load to
22:48
Speaker 1: her from the Lorena Theater on Ventula Baulevard and that
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Speaker 1: is don't talk to me FSR Tech Queen and Coop
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Speaker 1: dal Loop is in the building. He's right over there.
23:02
Speaker 1: Move find him at a Bronco fan. That's a Bronco
23:08
Speaker 1: fan and he is also putting pressure on the Broncos
23:13
Speaker 1: with Von Miller and a celebrity Bronco fans run it
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Speaker 1: back one more time. All right, back to it we go.
23:25
Speaker 1: Analog Al writes in he says spot on monologue, well,
23:28
Speaker 1: thank you, Chris, and de Moines says, rest in peace,
23:31
Speaker 1: Bob Horner a couple of days late. Absolutely, I'm of
23:37
Speaker 1: the generation that grew up with the superstation and TBS
23:41
Speaker 1: and watch a lot of bad Atlanta Braves baseball when
23:44
Speaker 1: I'd get home from school because of the games on
23:46
Speaker 1: the West Coast started at about four o'clock or four
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Speaker 1: thirty or whatever, and so I watched a lot of
23:51
Speaker 1: crappy Braves baseball and Bob Horner was a big part
23:54
Speaker 1: of that. Was supposed to be great, was the number
23:56
Speaker 1: one pick, and he was okay in terms of look
24:02
Speaker 1: like that the whole hair thing. He was overweight, like
24:05
Speaker 1: there was a really good There were a lot of
24:07
Speaker 1: unique body types in haircuts and things like in the eighties.
24:13
Speaker 1: You know, there's not too much of that now. There's
24:15
Speaker 1: a lot of guys I'll kind of look the same
24:17
Speaker 1: and that's it. Dean writes in he says Ben Maller
24:21
Speaker 1: over the refs all in game seven. I don't know
24:25
Speaker 1: what are you talking about. I don't know. You're just
24:27
Speaker 1: putting gibberish out there. Michael from Tulsa rites in, and
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Speaker 1: he says a plus on the mallad monologue. Man is
24:33
Speaker 1: a die hard Spurs fan living in Tulsa. I objectively
24:37
Speaker 1: picked Oklahoma City in seven. When I go to the
24:41
Speaker 1: minor league baseball game Saturday night, should I wear my
24:44
Speaker 1: Sean Elliott or Tony Parker jersey last Come on, you
24:48
Speaker 1: gotta go Sean Elliott. I don't do Tony Parker. You
24:51
Speaker 1: gotta go Sean Elliott. Gunner from the Walmart in Northern
24:55
Speaker 1: Minnesota eating a tuna fish sand which says Oklahoma City
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Speaker 1: Thunder are going to smoke the Spur one thirty one
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Speaker 1: to one oh three in game seven. Then he says,
25:05
Speaker 1: let's go Thunder. It's up with that Mark from Queen's
25:10
Speaker 1: Rights and he says, big Ben, the way you skillfully
25:13
Speaker 1: dug in on the flopping thunder, it almost sounded like
25:17
Speaker 1: you were bearing James Harden and Chris Paul at the
25:21
Speaker 1: same time. Please continue attacking these soft athletes. There you go,
25:24
Speaker 1: it's a newbie. Mark from Queen's Checking in No Stradinas
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Speaker 1: writes in says, our teams may be rivals, but no
25:31
Speaker 1: Stradinas is always a friend of Malch. Well, that's very sweet.
25:34
Speaker 1: No Stradenas, very very kind. No Stradios did a great
25:37
Speaker 1: job on the mail bag on the Fifth Hour podcast.
25:40
Speaker 1: We did get mail bag together. It was very good.
25:43
Speaker 1: He was solid. Well what else do we have? Let's
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Speaker 1: see here? Ryan says, where is your nemesis? Angry Bail?
25:51
Speaker 1: That's Ryan from He's in Mexico for a few months.
25:56
Speaker 1: I don't know where. I'm not his dad, his mom,
25:58
Speaker 1: I don't know where he is. He called in. He
26:02
Speaker 1: sounded like he was doing better. I don't know what's
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Speaker 1: going on with him. Sean writes, and he says, Wemby
26:07
Speaker 1: and your Spurs put an ass kicking on OKC onto
26:14
Speaker 1: Game seven. Well, very deep commentary, Sean. I think we're
26:17
Speaker 1: all just really happy that happened, unless we're not, unless
26:21
Speaker 1: we're like, well that, I don't know that we need that.
26:23
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that we needed that at all. Yeah,
26:26
Speaker 1: not a Burner writes, and he says, with everyone asking
26:29
Speaker 1: about a meet and greet in their area, I was
26:31
Speaker 1: wondering if we should have one on Kong Island. Jay
26:36
Speaker 1: Dot says it's a great spot to visit with the
26:39
Speaker 1: Aliens and Skinwalker Ranch from not a Bird, I'd love
26:46
Speaker 1: to have a meet and greet at Area fifty one.
26:48
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that we'd get shot and arrested if
26:51
Speaker 1: we didn't get shot, or both get shot and arrested
26:54
Speaker 1: we went to Ara fifty one, So I don't think
26:55
Speaker 1: we can do that. I'd have to do some more
26:58
Speaker 1: research on. I have heard a lot of about that
27:00
Speaker 1: skin Walker Ranch thing, like that's pretty crazy that there's
27:04
Speaker 1: a lot of there's a lot going on with that
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Speaker 1: random Ryan in Carolina and he sent in the the
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Speaker 1: old buggety muggedy muggedy muggedy muggedy muggedy muggedy muggy Yeah. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Satellite guy rites in and says, I never hear you
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Speaker 1: hit your soundboard with the never heard of him as
27:28
Speaker 1: much as you used to. More of that, please? All right, Well,
27:32
Speaker 1: I don't control the sound bites I heard there.
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Speaker 2: You heard of that.
27:36
Speaker 1: We can play that pretty much. He's going to be okay, now, okay,
27:45
Speaker 1: I see now you pissed off LORRAINA satellite.
27:49
Speaker 2: That's a really hard game for me because I haven't
27:51
Speaker 2: heard of any of these people.
27:53
Speaker 1: All the time. Uh, Lorena. We used to play a
27:58
Speaker 1: game before you were around, called Coach Player Entertainer, right,
28:02
Speaker 1: which was just coaches obviously, athletes and entertainers and nobody
28:07
Speaker 1: knows anyone. I am convinced like we would play the
28:10
Speaker 1: game and it was so bad, it was like it
28:12
Speaker 1: just we canceled the game because it was pointless because
28:14
Speaker 1: nobody knows anyone's name. We were getting the obscure guys
28:18
Speaker 1: on the bench that don't get to play very much
28:19
Speaker 1: that are on professional sports teams. But you could even
28:22
Speaker 1: do the star players. I'm convinced, like I would love
28:26
Speaker 1: to do this as a documentary, a Netflix docuseries. And
28:31
Speaker 1: I don't know if I should put this out there
28:32
Speaker 1: because somebody's gonna steal my idea. How about this idea though, Okay,
28:37
Speaker 1: late in an NBA season, take a team like the
28:39
Speaker 1: Washington Wizards. I'm gonna work shop this out right now
28:42
Speaker 1: in the air, and I want to see what you think.
28:43
Speaker 1: Give me your feedback at Ben malern X. So to
28:47
Speaker 1: make a docu series. Let's say it's like Game seventy
28:50
Speaker 1: nine of the NBA season, the Wizards are playing on
28:54
Speaker 1: the road and they're playing Atlanta, and you just bring in, yeah, roughly,
29:04
Speaker 1: you know, seven or eight guys that aren't NBA players.
29:06
Speaker 1: You put them in uniforms, you introduce them as the
29:09
Speaker 1: starting lineup for the Washington Wizards, and they go out
29:11
Speaker 1: and they play the game. Would anyone notice if you
29:14
Speaker 1: didn't say, you know, blah blah blah blah blah, these
29:17
Speaker 1: people aren't actually real NBA place. You'd have to sign
29:21
Speaker 1: them like ten day contracts and all that. Would anyone notice?
29:24
Speaker 1: I don't think they would. I think there's always some
29:27
Speaker 1: hard oh guys out there that would notice. But the
29:29
Speaker 1: rank and file in the arena, I'm just eating my popcorn.
29:32
Speaker 1: I got a soft pretzel over here, I got some
29:34
Speaker 1: nachos on the way, I got a couple of beers.
29:36
Speaker 1: I'm good.
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Speaker 2: I think you're selling them a little bit short.
29:41
Speaker 3: I don't think I am, because you got to imagine
29:43
Speaker 3: that people in the arena most of them, you know,
29:45
Speaker 3: maybe not all of them, but most of them are
29:47
Speaker 3: fans of the team. So you'd have people going, who's that,
29:51
Speaker 3: But on a like a you know, on a national basis,
29:55
Speaker 3: I think most.
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Speaker 2: Fans of every other team wouldn't.
29:58
Speaker 1: Notice, Coop, I right now, don't put your hands down, Coop.
30:03
Speaker 1: If I said right now, I will pay you two
30:05
Speaker 1: thousand dollars to name every member of the Washington Wizards
30:08
Speaker 1: right now without look, how many? How much? How much
30:12
Speaker 1: money would I owe you?
30:12
Speaker 2: That's my point. Though I am I'm not a Wizards fan.
30:15
Speaker 2: I have no idea, but that's my point.
30:17
Speaker 1: If the Wizards were playing in Atlanta on the road,
30:20
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the bit I missed on the road.
30:23
Speaker 1: Okay, that was on the that was the bed. It
30:25
Speaker 1: was game seventy nine. They're in Atlanta, they're on the road. Okay, nobody,
30:28
Speaker 1: nobody would know.
30:29
Speaker 2: No, you're right, you're right right.
30:31
Speaker 1: No, Seriously, how many if I if I pay you,
30:33
Speaker 1: if I paid you two thousand dollars per player on
30:35
Speaker 1: the Wizards, how much it would I owe you? Maybe
30:38
Speaker 1: four thousand?
30:39
Speaker 2: Yeah at most? Because Danthony Davis is still.
30:42
Speaker 1: On there, yes, and Young that's it, right? Who else
30:45
Speaker 1: can you name? I think that's all I can name?
30:53
Speaker 2: Still there?
30:55
Speaker 1: Porter, I haven't heard that name in a while. That's good,
31:01
Speaker 1: otto Porter, Wayne Indluz says, let's spend all four hours
31:05
Speaker 1: talking NBA. I can't get enough of this merry girl.
31:09
Speaker 1: Now I'm not gonna spend all four hours Wayne, Wayne,
31:12
Speaker 1: these guys get so triggered. Dude, just calm down, Okay,
31:16
Speaker 1: take a chill pill Wayne, What the f is wrong
31:19
Speaker 1: with you? My god, these guys are such dvas. You
31:24
Speaker 1: guys bitch about everything for real.
31:27
Speaker 2: It's the top story in sports.
31:28
Speaker 1: Like, come on, what am I supposed to do here?
31:31
Speaker 1: You want me to ignore the Western Conference Finals Game six?
31:35
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the phones. Now the calls are.
31:37
Speaker 1: It's gonna be great. Oh my god, are we in
31:40
Speaker 1: for a lot of fun here? Let's say hello to uh,
31:44
Speaker 1: let's go to Anthony, who's in Louisiana, our NBA insider
31:49
Speaker 1: Anthony and Louisiana. Hello Anthony, welcome, Hey man, how you
31:53
Speaker 1: doing well? Listen? It's great for you to ask that.
31:56
Speaker 1: I'm in a pretty good mood. Anthony. We had this
31:58
Speaker 1: thing called newby Night last night. You listened to newbe
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Speaker 1: Night last night?
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Speaker 3: No?
32:03
Speaker 1: Okay, so he told me, why not, Anthony? What were
32:10
Speaker 1: you doing last night?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
32:11
Speaker 1: I've been doing something? Oh were you? Were you cheating
32:15
Speaker 1: on us with somebody? I'm gonna tell the raina if
32:17
Speaker 1: you were cheating on us with another radio show. Did
32:20
Speaker 1: you listen to some other radio shows that No, no, no,
32:23
Speaker 1: you sure about that? Did you go to bed? Is
32:26
Speaker 1: that what happened? Yeah?
32:27
Speaker 2: I went to be Anthony.
32:29
Speaker 1: You can't go to bed. You got a job. You're
32:31
Speaker 1: a paid caller on the show. Man. I had a
32:36
Speaker 1: good momur day barbecue. I thought about the right, what's that?
32:41
Speaker 1: I didn't know?
32:42
Speaker 3: I thought about you?
32:44
Speaker 1: You thought about me? Why didn't you invite me to
32:45
Speaker 1: your barbecue?
32:46
Speaker 3: Then?
32:47
Speaker 1: Oh? I love you? How was it? How was the barbecue?
32:53
Speaker 1: Gave me some of the food?
32:54
Speaker 2: Would you cook?
32:55
Speaker 1: Yeah? Exactly, That's what I want to know.
32:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, we win it.
32:57
Speaker 1: We win it my mind winning Bob Barbecue? Is I
33:03
Speaker 1: like a local barbecue spot? I would assume, yes, yeah,
33:06
Speaker 1: all right, once you get ribs, you get the brisket.
33:14
Speaker 1: All right, very good, delicious?
33:19
Speaker 2: Tell your mam, I said, hi, will.
33:21
Speaker 1: You take care? Okay, thank you? There we go. That's
33:25
Speaker 1: that's not newby night. That's a regular call right there. Well,
33:31
Speaker 1: afraid of the Boogeyman. The other night, Wemby was afraid
33:34
Speaker 1: of the media. You know, these toe sucking media guys
33:37
Speaker 1: had to be very afraid of those guys. Wemby did
33:40
Speaker 1: get a talking to by the NBA. He then spoke,
33:43
Speaker 1: although he was in kind of a snotty mood with
33:45
Speaker 1: the media after game six, well it was now the
33:49
Speaker 1: Thunders term and term rather, Jalen Williams decided, Hey, I
33:55
Speaker 1: don't want to talk. I'm not talking, and so he
33:58
Speaker 1: skipped out on his media availability. Jalen Williams returning from
34:03
Speaker 1: injury and played all of twenty five minutes, had four
34:07
Speaker 1: points on two of six shooting for the Thunder, and
34:11
Speaker 1: was in no mood to talk even though he is
34:13
Speaker 1: contractually obligated to talk. And many people freaking out over
34:18
Speaker 1: the words of Stefan Castle. And I don't have too
34:22
Speaker 1: much time here, so I want to make this quick
34:24
Speaker 1: here to get through this. But Stefan Castle said very
34:29
Speaker 1: confidently after game six here, as a group, we all
34:33
Speaker 1: want this. It's right there in front of us, and
34:35
Speaker 1: we feel like collectively that were better than this team,
34:39
Speaker 1: meaning the Spurs, better than the Thunder that has bounced
34:43
Speaker 1: around the echo chamber. Oh my god, he put the whammy.
34:47
Speaker 1: Stefan Castle put the whammy on the Spurs, Like what
34:51
Speaker 1: is he supposed to say that we are planning on
34:54
Speaker 1: going to Oklahoma and we might not make it out
34:57
Speaker 1: a lot, Like, what are you gonna do? You think
34:59
Speaker 1: we're going to travel and then get our ass kicked
35:01
Speaker 1: by the Thunder? What is you supposed to say? Like
35:05
Speaker 1: they think they're the better team. That's the You're supposed
35:08
Speaker 1: to think that, aren't you? And they're very it's not
35:10
Speaker 1: a terrible take. It's not like they're separated by much
35:14
Speaker 1: at all. That quote, oh the bulletin board, mate, So
35:18
Speaker 1: you think the Thunder we're not going to play hard,
35:21
Speaker 1: But now that Stefan Castle said, hey, we're collectively the
35:24
Speaker 1: better team, now they're going to play hard. Shove it up,
35:26
Speaker 1: you you know what? Time now for the who am
35:28
Speaker 1: I game? Now that I like to pile on people
35:30
Speaker 1: that I goof on. So Oklahoma City's Shaye Jogis Alexander
35:36
Speaker 1: is shooting thirty seven point nine percent in the Western Finals.
35:40
Speaker 1: That doesn't sound good, Well it's not. Alan Iverson and
35:44
Speaker 1: me are the only players to shoot less than thirty
35:47
Speaker 1: eight percent for a series in the playoffs the year
35:51
Speaker 1: that they won the NVP. All right, and that's with
35:54
Speaker 1: one hundred and more field goal attempts again now. Shae
35:56
Speaker 1: jugis Alexander shooting thirty seven point nine percent in the
35:59
Speaker 1: Western Finals. Alan Iverson and me are the only players
36:02
Speaker 1: to shoot less than thirty eight percent in a playoff
36:05
Speaker 1: series the season where they won the MVP. Who am I?
36:09
Speaker 1: That's the question? The answer, We'll get to it next
36:11
Speaker 1: heard of them. Hey, be sure to catch live editions
36:14
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36:17
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36:20
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36:23
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36:26
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36:28
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36:30
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36:34
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour podcast, which you'll have new episodes up later
36:38
Speaker 1: today and Saturday, and then the mail Bag on Sunday,
36:43
Speaker 1: and this week's celebrity mail Bag participant scheduled to be
36:48
Speaker 1: the We're going We're going with the Heavyweight, as Justin
36:51
Speaker 1: and Cincinnati would say. Robbie the Mariner fan schedule to
36:54
Speaker 1: join us on the Sunday mail Bag on the Fifth
36:56
Speaker 1: Hour that's a special. I know he's you know, he's
37:00
Speaker 1: an annoying Mariner fan, Josh Allen suck up Atlanta Falcon fan,
37:04
Speaker 1: very bizarre, but he's gonna join us on the mailbag
37:06
Speaker 1: on Sunday. It's only available in the podcast format, so
37:08
Speaker 1: if you're a super fan of the show, make sure
37:11
Speaker 1: you you should already be listening to the fifth hour podcast.
37:13
Speaker 1: But check that out. Back to it, well, back to
37:16
Speaker 1: it we go, and the rundown is up for you
37:19
Speaker 1: snobs to keep harassing me. You can't get the rundowne
37:22
Speaker 1: uh by, what do you get an injurn? You should
37:23
Speaker 1: get an injurn. They can put the run shut up. Okay,
37:27
Speaker 1: as I say, that's an add on item and it
37:30
Speaker 1: is up now, So make sure to reach whatever, retweet it,
37:34
Speaker 1: post it like it, all that crap, do all that stuff.
37:40
Speaker 1: You can see all the things we'll be chatting about
37:42
Speaker 1: throughout the night and things. There's other things on there
37:45
Speaker 1: that we're not going to be talking about that or
37:47
Speaker 1: that we will be talking about that on there. But
37:48
Speaker 1: you need to get a preview of coming attractions. Here's
37:51
Speaker 1: the the who am I Do we have a play
37:53
Speaker 1: of the day? Do we have a play of the day.
37:55
Speaker 1: I think we do. Yes, do we know? No? Maybe?
37:57
Speaker 3: Not?
37:57
Speaker 1: All right, here's the who am I game? Who?
38:00
Speaker 4: And uh?
38:02
Speaker 1: Way we go. This is where I pretend to be
38:03
Speaker 1: somebody else else. We call it the who am I Game?
38:05
Speaker 1: So Oklahoma City's Shaye Jogis Alexander is shooting thirty seven
38:10
Speaker 1: point nine percent in the Conference finals. Now, Alan Iverson
38:14
Speaker 1: and me are the only players to shoot less than
38:18
Speaker 1: thirty eight percent for a series in a season when
38:22
Speaker 1: they won MVP. Now that's with one hundred or more
38:24
Speaker 1: attempts from the floor. That is the question. What's the answer?
38:28
Speaker 1: A Donald Foyle, A great name by James thorough Bailey
38:31
Speaker 1: of the Utah Jazz from Paul or paulyy d. Who
38:35
Speaker 1: else we have? Claude Lemieux rested in peace. I saw
38:39
Speaker 1: that nine oh four ray Wow, when I covered hockey.
38:42
Speaker 1: He was still playing a million years ago. Sad, sad
38:46
Speaker 1: story there, random Ryan says, Jack and Richard, the co
38:51
Speaker 1: founders of bo Jangles Chicken and Biscuits, bugging bo James
38:57
Speaker 1: solid solid, It's expanding now. Usually just a Southern thing.
39:01
Speaker 1: Rob the goat Man going with Lizzo. Oh look, Lizzo's
39:04
Speaker 1: changed a little bit. Anthony and Louisiana from Fergog. Yeah,
39:10
Speaker 1: I think I did. Set in the record. Larry's Perfect
39:12
Speaker 1: Lawn from Lawn God Larry Glenn Hubbard from Mister Nice Guy.
39:19
Speaker 1: Another great name, Memphis Rains from Shannon Moryne. What say you, Loe, No,
39:24
Speaker 1: the brave little Toaster?
39:26
Speaker 2: Is it?
39:26
Speaker 1: The brave little Toaster? Is that the answer? No? The
39:30
Speaker 1: correct answer would be a Rose, not that kind of rose,
39:34
Speaker 1: Dereck Rose, Chicago Bulls legend, Derek Rose. So there you go.
39:39
Speaker 1: Put that in your pipe and smoke.