Oscar de la Pollo
The Ben Maller Show
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2018
⏱️ 162 minutes
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Ben Maller talks about the "defective" Oklahoma City Thunder, the Timberwolves acting like an 8th seed, rumors of discontent with Julio Jones & the Falcons, an errant "like" by Kevin Durant, and more!
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| 0:34.1 | It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here? |
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| 0:45.0 | Bush v. Gore, we examine an unmistakable turning point in American politics, the 2000 election, |
| 0:50.8 | which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most controversial rulings in Supreme Court history. |
| 0:55.4 | So if you're trying to make sense at the present moment, check out Fiasco, Bush v. Gore. |
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| 1:03.1 | Well, it seems so good at the time. |
| 1:09.8 | Oklahoma City, all that firepower with Russell Westbrook, Carmelo Anthony, and all the rest. |
| 1:13.8 | How'd that work out? Not so good in Salt Lake City. Welcome in the beginning of the Ben Mallor show. We are in the air everywhere, the vast Fox Sports Radio Network emanating live from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios. |
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| 1:38.0 | Now, I had the best of intentions when I was looking ahead to the night. |
| 1:42.6 | I said, well, it's likely we'll talk about the rockets. |
| 1:46.3 | It's likely the rockets will be the story. |
| 1:49.6 | But as the night, see, the great thing about this is you have to have flexibility. |
| 1:55.5 | You have to have flexibility. |
| 1:56.6 | And I had the flexibility to see the better story, the better talker is what happened in Oklahoma City. |
| 2:03.9 | Not that I find in Oklahoma City Utah matchup generally compelling, but that was absolutely the case on this particular night. |
| 2:13.9 | All the bravado, all the showmanship of Russell Westbrook, and he is on the |
| 2:21.1 | cusp of getting knocked out of the NBA playoffs in the first round. |
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