June 3, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about if the Toronto Raptors should go all-in for Giannis Antetokounmpo, Charles Barkley saying he plans to retire from TV in two years, Steph Curry flirting with a television career after he's done with Golden State, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Welcome, it's our numberwan, Happy Tuesday to you. It is
the third day of the month of June. And here
in our number one. It's a pro bouncy ball our.
No NBA finals to break down until later in the week,
So we begin with the gossip around pro bouncy ball.
You make the call the question, if you are the
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Toronto Raptors, do you go all in for janisident to Kumbo?
Do you actually have a chance to sign the player
who's currently with the Milwaukee Bucks but it appears would
like to leave Wisconsin? Also, how much stalk do you
give Charles Barkley? And planning to retire from TV in
two years, we'll talk about that and Steph Curry's being
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a broadcasting Steph Curry is flirting with a television career
when he's done with Golden State. Would Steph be a
good TV broadcaster? We've got all the answers. The oracle
of knowledge, We'll give it to you right now here.
It is our number one, talking about Deer Venison. What
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so our lead this hour. I was debating going with baseball.
We did that the other day and I got several complaints.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Just start with baseball. It's only June. I don't understand.
It's not my god didn't play a million more games,
So shut up. I'm gonna talk about a sport. They're
not even gonna play this.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Well, there's a couple of basketball games no one will
be watching this week starting on Thursday, but no games until.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Late in the year. Late in the year.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
But our lead this hour is from pro bouncy Ball.
Pro bouncy Ball. Now, we got a bunch of downtime
before the matchup with the Cornfield versus the Soybean in
the NBA Finals. Now to fill the void, we have
cranked up the rumor machine. It has been working over
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time and serving up some Greek food. That's right, a
little Greek food on that. And if you have not
been following, it's a bad job by you. Some chatter
that the Milwaukee Bucks superstar, the man that held up
the championship trophy a couple of years ago, Jannis Denta Cuombo,
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has a wondering eye and he has been looking.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
North of the border, all eyeing Toronto.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
The Raptors there is said to be in breathless reporting
mutual interest, mutual interest between the Bucks Giannis Denta Cumbo
and Toronto. So Yannis, who's won not one, but two
Most Valuable Player awards, so I'm told that's pretty good.
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I'm playing the NBA and the championship and all that stuff.
And it has been widely speculated that he is considering
a relocation situation. The Bucks have had not one, not two,
but three consecutive first round departures from the postseason. They
have been decommissioned in the first round three years in
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a row. And you compound that with not having a coach.
They're the headless deer, Doc Rivers. I'd rather have an
actual doctor as my coach than a fake doctor, Doc Rivers.
When you hire Doc, you're not trying to win.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
You're not.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
When you hire Doc Rivers, you're trying to give good
soundbites to the media and have nice things said about you.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Because it's Doc Rivers. Everyone loves Doc.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
He's Devin Air. He's got the smile. Everyone loves them.
Can't coach his way out of a wet paper bag.
That's a side. Then you've got the Dame train which
has gone off the tracks, and the Dame enjoying a
steady diet of rice crispy, snap, crackle and pop and
the Achilles there. So those are all the ingredients that
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have gotten to this point. Now you know that Toronto,
they're they're out there kicking the time. They need that headline.
They're not anybody. Not that we talk much Raptors basketball here,
but they don't. So Milwaukee's championship windows seems to close
and it seems to be done dead bolted see it later.
It's not even a window anymore. It's like a wall
at this point. So let us discuss the question. You
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make the call? You make the call question, if you're
the Raptors, do you go all in for Giannis a
Denta Kombo? And do you actually have a chance to
get the player? So my thoughts on this, I've got
Da Vinci, saber Tooth Tiger, and slow churn and we
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will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make some ice. Ice baby, is what we're
gonna make. So a to answer the question question, if
you're the Raptors, you go all in? Yes, I'm not
in my head, yes of course. Now do you have
a chance to actually get the player? Well, that's where
things get a little foggy. That's where things get a
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little foggy. But from the Toronto site, it's a no brainer, right,
It's an absolute no brainer. While it is generally considered
taboo for any star players to sign with the Toronto Raptor,
you can be traded there, but to actually sign now
and this would be a trade. This would be a trade,
but it's kind of trade where the player wants to
go there, So it's.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
A fake trade.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Like a real trade is the player doesn't want to
go there, you trade them anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
This would be a faux trade.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Toronto for big names in the NBA is seen as
a barren wasteland. You just don't go there, and you
can get players in the draft. You can have a
bunch of no name, no brand type players and Yiannis, though,
the reason that there's something there, the reason I'm buying
that there's something there is Gianni's is a different breed
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a kitty cat, a different breed of kitty cat here
and doesn't seem like he needs the suntan lotionan the
bikini bottoms.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
That you get in La or Miami or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
But much like Da Vinci or Michelangelo, a renaissance man
to a point, I do believe the last couple of
years since winning the championship that Yannis has more more
into line with all the other a holes in the NBA.
He's still got that international flavor, flavor flavor, He's got
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that going for him, and he could be convinced that hey,
I can go and enjoy maple syrup powdered powered snowblowers
and all that stuff, and maybe he always wanted to
play near the CN Tower and that he really wanted that.
And yeah, and there's a great Greek town. One of
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our listeners that met at the meet and greets, well,
Toronto's guy, there's a big Greek population there and they've
got a great Greek job.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Honest is I believe under contract if I'm not mistaken
for another couple of seasons. So it would have to
be a trade. Any bucks I am told will demand
a king's ransom. You also have the meddling NBA power
brokers who are gonna try to encourage encourage a Yiannis
to go to a big, big, big, big big market,
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the usual suspects LA Miami, New York, and those are
the usual. Maybe Golden State, maybe a Golden State gets
mixed in there, and he's a known commodity.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Though you're the raptors and you're trying to get that
big guy.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
That's a guy you can actually get, and you're gonna
have to give up a bunch of promissory notes and
you get a proven star who's in the near end
of his prime. A couple more years of Giannis and
then it's a slow decline. All right, now, turning the
page the round mound of rebound. He was known as
that when he played Charles Barkley making some news. He's
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announced that he has it all mapped out his great
escape from television, appearing right here on Fox Sports Radio
with Dan Patrick, who also has got it all mapped out.
Dan's got a plan to retire, so Charles Barkley revealed
that he only intends to.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Work two more years. That's it.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
He's got a two hundred million dollar contract. But here's
Barkley explaining what his plan is as he's still with
Warner Brothers. It's kind of weird, but it's it's gonna
be on ESPN, but he's not gonna really be an
ESPN and play anyway.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Listen, here's what Barkley had to say.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I actually have seven years left on my contract. I're like, yeah,
there's no way I'm working seven years. I says. You know,
I'm gonna be a good soldier for Kenny, Ernie and
Shaq and the people I work with, because I love
the people I work with, especially behind the scenes. I said,
but the best I can do is two years.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
All right, so he said two years.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
He is also concerned, he says if ESPN overworks him,
even though he's going to be working for Turner, he said,
he'll just go home.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
He said, He'll just go home.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
So let us discuss how much stalk? How much doc
do you give Charles Barkley, the greatest ex jock turned
player that jock ocracy usually produces crap with former players
on television, but Charles.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Barkley is not that.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
He is at the very top of the food chain
when he comes to broadcasting. So how much doc do
you give Charles Barkley? As he has announced he is
planning to retire from TV in two years. So after
a thorough deliberation of the available information, we have given
this a solid zero, a solid zero. So Charles Barkley
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and one thing I've come to know over the last
ten plus years of talking about Charles Barkley, and it's
been longer than that, but just the last decade plus,
Charles Barkley loves a saber tooth tiger. But really what
he loves is saber rat. He loves saber rattling. When
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talking about his future, I guess everyone all worked up
into a nice tizzy and likes. Barkley's the guy that
will spit in your pocket and announce that it's raining.
As he's spitting a nice thick loogie in your pocket.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
He'll announce it's rain.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Now, we went back to the copious amounts of notes
that we do on a daily basis for these Mallard monologues,
and we went all the way back, back back back
back back in the hot top time machine to twenty twelve,
and we then searched keywords, and we determined that Charles
bark has publicly discussed or announced he's done with television
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six times since twenty twelve. Six times I'm out, and
every time Barkley's continue to work. Every time we in
our notes, we had twenty twelve, twenty fifteen, twenty eighteen,
twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, and twenty twenty four,
and now we can add twenty twenty five. Although he
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didn't announce he's going to quit right away, he say
it's going to be a couple of years and all that,
and every time he's announced this, every single time he
has continued to work. He signed new contracts and he
has reversed those retirement plans.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
But wait, there's more.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Barkley also loved in the past claiming he was going
to become the governor of Alabama. This was a big
thing that Barkley brought up many times. There were four
times that goes back to the nineties where Barkley announced
that he was going to be the governor of his
home state, his native state of Alabama. He did that
in the nineties, the six as well, eight and actually
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twice in eight he.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Announced he was going to become the governor of Alabama.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
And either time or all the times, I should say
all the times he failed failed. Barkley failed to actually
run for governor of Alabama.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Never did it.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
He always abandoned that plan, and his political ambitions were bullshoy.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
We're absolutely bullshoy.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Now there is an age situation which is a factor,
but only a little bit. Barkley is now sixty two,
so he's he's at the point he's got a lot
of money, and he's got a lot of money because
of television. He's got money because of TV, not because
of basketball, because of basketball and TV. But Charles Barkley
is a TV commentator. He's not a former player. He's
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a TV guy and it really isn't work. Like I've
been lucky enough Alascos had a TV show and like
this has worked, like the radio shows where I do
everything for the show, put it all together. Like the
TV show, there's people that help you. There's like support staff,
producers and directors and people that make you look good
and it helps out a lot. And it's wonderful to
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be in that environment. So if you're doing TV like Barkley,
I mean, you got a million people helping you show
up and you don't have to worry about putting monologues
together and doing all the other You don't worry about it,
right because you know people actually help you out. It's
a it's amazing thing. And Barkley's getting twelve and a
half million dollars per year and he has earned a
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massive amount more as a TV guy than a player.
In fact, I went back I look Barkley when he
played for the Sixers and the Suns and bounced around
the NBA a little bit, mostly the Suns and the Sixers,
but Charles Barkley played with the Rocket Saalz.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
But his total.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Earnings like forty million, which a lot of money and
let's old old money. Forty million as a player he
has made it's estimated close to two hundred million as
a broadcaster. So forty million is a player. I think
it's like one hundred and seventy hundred and seventy five
million something like in that ballpark, which is a good ballpark.
And that does not even include like the endorsement stuff
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that he's he's got. So he's cashing it in now,
last words, speak of the jockocracy of basketball. Flipping the
page here. Warriors star Stephen Curry making some news recently.
He's not retiring from the NBA, not yet, however, he
told c NBC. He said, Lizen, I got it all
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mapped out. I got this whole plan right, this whole
plan mapped out right.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
And uh and so what what is that? What is
the well?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
So he mentioned to c NBC that TV broadcasting he's
thinking about doing that. Uh, he's got team ownership and
possibly playing on the PGA Tour championship.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Uh, the champions.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Tour for the PGA Tour. They got all the mapdown
all right. So to me, the most interesting thing, you know,
athlete owns a team. We've seen that with Jordan we've seen,
you know, stars run teams like Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. Uh.
And so that doesn't really interest me. The TV thing
because we just talked about Barkley that interests me. So
would Steph Curry be a good TV broadcast? All right,
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So let's go to the wheel of fortune here. Can
I get an N? And can I I'd.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Like an N? And can I buy a vowel? I
would like an oh? I would like an oh? That
would be no.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
He's going to be terrible as a broches my god.
So let's break this down unscientifically. Now, Steph Curry is
seen as a charming individual. He is seen as smart,
he is seen as well spoken, and those are all
positive attributes. They're all positive blah blah blah blah. All that.
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That does not mean that he is cut out to
sit in a broadcast booth or in a studio and
commentate on pro balancy ball. Because Steph Curry is like
slow churned vanilla bean ice cream when it comes to
the things he says, He just is you need it edge.
You need an edge to be good. You need to
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tell it like it is. You need to goof around,
have self deprecating humor like Charles Barkley. And when a
player goes out there and is a brick house and
just blows and everyone knows the players can't hit a
jumper save his life, plays El Mattador defense. And you
get on there and make excuses for that player or
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downplay it. You've lost all credibility. Your fraud is what
you are. And Steph Curry as a broadcasterer barring some
kind of shocking renaissance milk toast, that's what you read
in milk Toast. And mister, oh, you know, gee, golly,
I love golf. I love my family and all this stuff.
It's very nice. It's nice to love golf. It means
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you've got money. I don't know anyone poor that likes golf.
I've never met anyone poor in my life that likes
golf and is able to play golf. Rich people like golf,
and super rich we all love golf. They play it
all the time. Right, he's much too pot Steph Curry
to be any good as Rochester. Now that doesn't mean
he's not gonna get a chance. Because of the jockocracy,
which has been around since the eighties. There's this old
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sportscaster you've never heard of named Howard Cosell, who knew
right away what was going on. But you know everything
Curry says now, and I don't think he's gonna change much.
Every take that Curry has is dipped in sugar and
then rolled in sprinkles, So you got the sugar, you
got the sprinkles and all that.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
And I get it. He's been the golden child for
many in the.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
NBA for over a decade and the media has been
licking his toes for a long time here, And you know,
give me someone who's not not afraid to ruffle some
feathers and is not trying to stay in the upper
crust of the oligarchy of the NBA. And because that
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courage is gonna be like a sleep aid is what
he's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Anyway, What do you think about that?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
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What the heck else do you have going on at
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I will predict you've heard of this person, you've heard of,
even if you're not a big basketball fan. You know
who this is, has been evicted from their home. A
former NBA star who you've heard of, even if you're
not a big basketball fan, has been evicted from their home.
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We'll get to that and we will.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Do it.
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Next.
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I game? That'll be coming up here in a little bit.
The great Unwashed would like to speak and Chip in
the ques right soin, says a Plus on the monologue.
I don't believe for a minute that Charles Barkley will
give up all that money and attention anytime soon, unless
his health were to go into the toilet. He isn't
going anywhere anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
No, he is not. See what else do you I?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Chip also says I would love to take up the
game of golf even though I'm not a rich man,
but unfortunately I'm not able to and not good enough
health anymore to run those eighteen bases. They have these
things called golf carts slough Chip. You can get one
of those, and of course you'd have to have a
one money to rent a golf cart, but then you're
you're good to go on that supermarket. Steve says, Charles
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all talked about how much money, how much more money
players make now than they did back then. Charles, I
wonder how much more money you make than Marv Albert
used to make. And then super marg Steve, who's always
questioning everything that has said, doesn't believe anything. He says
that Barkley made a lot more money than that during
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his career. If you listen to the rest of the
I did not listen to the interview. I'm sleeping when
Dan Patrick's on. I saw the clip, so Dan's like
an overnight show for me. I don't hear Dan show anyway.
This is Michael Jordan convinced him to take most of
his Nike contract and stock options, turned it to fifty money.
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Well again, super Mark, Steve, I know comprehension is not
your friend. But I didn't say that he made great investments.
It was how much money he made a player for
the Sixers and the Suns, and then you can buy
that and then you see how much money he's I'm
sure he's made a lot of money on the stock
market as a broadcaster.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Who cares? What p damn do?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Charman Harmon says, Hey, all the raptors have to do
is sign Giannie's brother for big money and boom, they'll
get him. Okay, and not everyone in agreement, though, there's
some people saying that there's no way he's going to Canada.
Not going to happen. What are you talking about? Jac
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says there's no way Giannis wants to play in Canada,
He says, a terrible country, insanely high taxes, in terrible healthcare.
Well a, if you play in Toronto you get paid
in US dollars and if you have a good accountant.
As you know, JC, the rich people don't pay taxes.
It's the poor people that the middle class that pays taxes.
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The rich people find loopholes to get out of paying taxes.
That's so if you're rich, you don't pay the taxes.
So that's that you put up a bunch of shell
charities out there.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
And you're on your way now.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Trucker Joe says, Hey, Ben, when Dan Patrick retires and
Fox Sports Radio comes to you and offers you a
show any bigger bag than what you get now, are
you going to sell out and go to the dreaded
day shift for a slightly bigger bag and better quality
of life?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Just asking for a friend.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Absolutely, I will, I fully admit I will sell out
if somebody's dumb enough to pay me a lot of
money to do what I'm doing right now, I will
absolutely sell out and go to the dreaded day shift
one thousand. I would just like that that schmuck Chris
and Houston who sold out for the day shift, and
all these other guys that have sold that. Yeah, of
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course they pay me some real money, you know, and
maybe include me in some of the promotional videos and
things they don't normally do around these parts.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I would absolutely do it. One sign me up for that.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Mister Irrigation says, I love golf and I'm far from rich,
which leads to my question, would you rather have a
hole in one at Cyprus point hole sixteen at Pebble
Beach at the annual Pro am or pick up the
seven to ten split in a pro Bowlers tournament. Like
John Mose, I'd go Pebble Beach because I can. It
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ain't making bowl. You drink while you're bowling, it's hard
to be really good. I know people drink while you
golf too, but it's hard to be really good at
that while you're completely sloshed. Late night drug test rights
and it says Charles Barkley knows that he can keep
getting me one year deals from ESPN plenty cash.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
He's got a ten year deal.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
It says they're taking applications for putting on a mascot
heead during college football. Milkman Mike and Colorado says, great
o'ply monologue, start the night off. You couldn't be more
correct about Doc Rivers. They'd be better off having Doc
Severnson directing the game plan. I don't think he's available.
They'd probably go further in the playoffs. All right, let's
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go to the phones and let's say hello to Eeny
Meenie miney moll. Let's say hello to Anthony, who's in Louisiana.
What's going on? Anthony?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Welcome? Hey, how you doing, Anthony? If I was any better,
I'd be sleeping, but I'm not. I'm here. What's going
on with you? Anthony?
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Nothing much?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
All right, Well, welcome to the Welcome to the show.
You're a new caller. We've not had you on the
on the show before. Yeah, okay, Lorena, I've been told
to tell you. Hey, hey, that's up from Anthony. What
part of Louisiana are you in there?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Anthony? Yeah? Yeah, you like it there? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (26:39):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
How would y'all trip by?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Y'all went to Toronto? No, No, we didn't go to
We went to Vancouver. You know all those all those
Canadian cities of the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
All the same. Yeah, we went went there. So, uh,
green is that now? Greenville?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I'm not familiar with where that? Is that near like
New Orleans? Or is that somewhere else?
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Green Wood?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Well I know that, but what where is it near
a big city that we would know? I've never heard
of it on your streetport? Okay, okay, I've heard a streeport.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Very nice? All right, and you work you What do
you got going on there?
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Oh? Nothing much.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I'm taking it easy. You're what do you say? I
think he said he's taking it easy.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
They're taking at ease. I'm taking it easy too. We
both have that in color. We already have something in common.
We we we take it easy.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Did you hit from it's because from you. I love
your accents.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I get this. I get the sense that this is
not really a call. I don't think you called to
talk to me. I feel like you talked. You want
to talk talk to Loraina? You want me to step
out of the room. No, no, no, no, you can talk.
You and Loraina can talk. I'll just I'll step off this.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
You go ahead, and I'm gonna I'm gonna hang out
with I'm gonna hang out with Bill Miller. So go ahead, Anthony,
go ahead.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah, what I think you put it hot?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
I'm back from you.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Well, you're very smooth, Anthony. I gotta tell you, does
that work in in shreport? When you're at at the clubs?
Does that work?
Speaker 4 (28:04):
I don't go to the.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
You don't go to the club. Why why do you
not go to the clubs?
Speaker 4 (28:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Do you do online? How old are you are? You
like young old?
Speaker 4 (28:13):
I don't know how old you are.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
You're you're older, middle age older? So you're done picking
up you know, going to the clubs and all that.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
So that's yeah, I got you. Okay, all right, you're
quite the character. I like you. Gotta call me more
often here.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
You take care, all right, bye bye, okay, I will
make sure to do that. Agent. All right, all right,
there you go. That wasn't Was that a real call?
Speaker 3 (28:44):
I don't know what that was.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I don't know if that was a real call. I
think that might have been like a fake. Maybe that
was a I or something like that. I don't know
that's real. I don't know. All right, there you go.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
All we need now is Charlie to call back the
Dallas Dumper and the four you know, all his nicknames,
and he hated them and now he wants the nicknames.
Ferg Dog says, I'll pay you one dollar more than
your current salary to be my best friend, full time
deal and that wouldn't cost you much money. Yeah, Now,
(29:14):
what does it require, fer Dog? What are the rules
of the contract? Do we have to read the fine
print and all that?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Do we know? Let me know, we have the play
of the night to play the night.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
And if you look at the American League, a lot
of hype for the New York Yankees and the Brox Bombers.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
They did not play. They had a travel day on Monday.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
But the team that is the top team if you
look at your Major League Baseball standings and you look
at the American League, the Detroit Tigers are at the
very top of the names, not only in the American League,
but all of Major League Baseball. They are the pace
car in Major League Baseball. The Tigers playing the Tomato
Cans from Chicago and that would be the White Sox
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Carpenter Tiger's Radio on that as the Dhkerry Carpenter hits
three home runs against those pathetic White Socks and he
gets it done. The Tigers had five home runs in Detroit,
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Speaker 1 (31:00):
Show b.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
So you've heard of the name Lamar Odom. Well, Lamar's
back in the headlines here. It seems he's having some
financial difficulties or he just decided he doesn't need to
pay his bills. You see that Lamar Odom played the
Lakers and the Clippers and a bunch of teams bounced
around the NBA. Well, he has been evicted from his
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La Area residents because he did not pay his rent.
How could he not have any money to pay his rent?
And the whole Kardashian thing and all that. Well, Lamar
who is forty five, Lamar owed him forty five years old,
and he has failed to pay his mortgage or not
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mortgage his rent. Though this is right near us, we
do the show from Sherman Oaks in one of the
next cities over his studio city.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
So I could go to this house. I have the address.
We can go to the house.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
But he failed to pay the monthly rent and he
had to pay back rent of forty.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
What Yeah, his monthly rent was fifteen thousand dollars and
then he didn't pay for each additional month he had
to pay also, so it ended up forty five thousand
and so the people that ran the they owned the property,
sued Otom for not being able to pay what he
owed and notice was sent for forty five thousand dollars
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had to pay that with him three days and he
failed to do it. This was not the first time
that Lamar Odom has failed to pay his bills.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
This has happened in the past. So there you go.
More a good reminder not to live above your means.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Yeah, I know LA is expensive, but you don't have
to pay fifteen thousand dollars a month. You can get
like a nice one bedroom apartment for like three grand.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
You can get well some places that will get your
studio apartment. But there you go.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
So Lamar having some issues, he said, well he should
have learned that in college. Well, he didn't really go
to college. He bounced around for a couple of years.
And how many colleges. Did he go to Rhode Island?
He went to UNLV A bunch of places he bounced around.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yikes.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Terry in England has a conspiracy theory. He believes that
Anthony from Louisiana is justin in Cincinnati wearing a very
tight banana hammock.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
So that is his theory.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Mister irrigation believes Anthony in Louisiana sounds like he might
be Charlie's classmate. Well, he's older though, Anthony. I like that, Anthony.
You get that Anthony call more often? Get that on
the show. We need that any It is the Ben
Mallor Shows. We're working our way through the over and
I will get back to the calls at eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox Time.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Now for the who am I? Game? We go to baseball.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
We just played the player of the day of the
Kerry Carpent to home run and that leads us into
the who am I Game? Carry Carpenter became the first
Detroit Tigers player with a three home run game since me.
It's been a minute again, Kerry Carpenter the first Detroit
Tiger player with a three.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Home run game since me?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Who am I? That's the question, the answer, We'll get
to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
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Speaker 1 (34:27):
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Speaker 1 (35:26):
Of your screen.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Oh yeah, all right, time two, get back to it,
and here is the who am I game? The Carpenter
did it carry Carpenter the DH became the first Detroit
Tiger player to have three home runs in a game.
Since me, it's been it's been a minute since that happened.
So that is the question. What's the answer? I forty
(35:48):
ian going with the iconic Matt Noakes as his answer.
You like that short portrait Tiger Stadium Boo Radley from
King Rory.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
That's his answer.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Fergduck says, my best friend one to check clears Ben Maller.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
That's right for absolutely. Who else do we have page down?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Mark from Queens, who's currently residing in Arlington, Texas, says
Kurt Gibson. James, here's an iconic name, Bobby Higginson. Another
great name from Robin, Minnesota, Lance Parrish, alf the Alien
o'piner says the guy that was briefly a Tiger. Gary
Pettis is the answer. Late Night Drug Tessa says, you
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are a singer, be a badoobie who is twenty five today?
I know who that is? Who else do we have
page down? Tony the Tiger from Kellogg's Frosted Flakes from
Andrew in the Bay Area, Leonel Messi from Shane in
Des Moines page now Captain Kangaroo guessed by Andy in
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Lione o' Lakes, Minnesota. That's his answer. Trying to get
the answer to the who am I game? Tyk from
Robbie the Mariner fan. Ricky Henderson the AMPM. Matt would
have gotten gotten that.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Rest in PC. Yeah, well you're right, Yeah, absolutely Matt
the Warrior Raider A's Tom Brady Rose fan, although not
an A's fan, and the teams kept moving. Gorman Thomas
lighting farts from Perrito chet Lemon the late Great chet
Lemon from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Who else do you have?
Page down? Darren Erstad from Eloy in Compton. That's his answer.
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Candy Maldonado a great name from Slim Tim Kelly going
with that great Tiger remember when he played third base
with the Tigers. Tiger Woods from Kelly Donut Kelly formerly
known as Donut Kelly, Thurman Munson from Bryan the Dallas
Dumper guests by Terry in England. Harmon killerbrew Baseball's logo
from Fat Daddy Page down, Nick the Wendy's Guy.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
He got it right.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Bad job by him, Big Rig Rob going with George
Foreman as his answer, Rocky Colavito from Johnny gu al Right,
what say you? Loraina is not big Baller brand LeVar
ball guests by Gil in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
So many amazing Tigers to choose from. Ben, I'm gonna
go with Raja from Aladdin.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Okay, that's a very famous tiger. Well compensated. Unfortunately that
he's incorrect. The correct answer a man that played with
a team called the Cleveland Indians and the Detroit Tigers,
Victor Martinez way back in twenty sixteen, nine years ago.
The of course, the Tigers haven't really tried to win.
(38:43):
For the last nine years, I've found myself watching more
Tiger games. The actually have a good broadcaster, And for me,
it's mostly about the broadcaster because most of the time
I have the game on in the background, I'll have
it on mute because the broadcast Jason Bennetti.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
I think is the guy's name to White Sox.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
He does the Tigers really good, good listen, solid professional broadcaster,
the antithesis of like Doris Burke. You know when I
see when I see a game Doris berks new and
immediately hit the mute button. I said I can't hear
the audio. I don't want to hear the audio realist
is what I call it. And the Tiger games pretty good.
There's some really poor Major League Baseball broadcast though, like
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low quality, like it's one of those things that's changed
a lot in my lifetime. It used to be a
big League team had a professional broadcast. There's a lot
of two bid amateurs that are calling Major League Baseball.
It's sad because a lot of people like to do
that job, I think, But man, there's some bad broadcasters
out there.
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Welcome, it's our numberwan, Happy Tuesday to you. It is
the third day of the month of June. And here
in our number one. It's a pro bouncy ball our.
No NBA finals to break down until later in the week,
So we begin with the gossip around pro bouncy ball.
You make the call the question, if you are the
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Toronto Raptors, do you go all in for janisident to Kumbo?
Do you actually have a chance to sign the player
who's currently with the Milwaukee Bucks but it appears would
like to leave Wisconsin? Also, how much stalk do you
give Charles Barkley? And planning to retire from TV in
two years, we'll talk about that and Steph Curry's being
(00:43):
a broadcasting Steph Curry is flirting with a television career
when he's done with Golden State. Would Steph be a
good TV broadcaster? We've got all the answers. The oracle
of knowledge, We'll give it to you right now here.
It is our number one, talking about Deer Venison. What
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so our lead this hour. I was debating going with baseball.
We did that the other day and I got several complaints.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Just start with baseball. It's only June. I don't understand.
It's not my god didn't play a million more games,
So shut up. I'm gonna talk about a sport. They're
not even gonna play this.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Well, there's a couple of basketball games no one will
be watching this week starting on Thursday, but no games until.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Late in the year. Late in the year.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
But our lead this hour is from pro bouncy Ball.
Pro bouncy Ball. Now, we got a bunch of downtime
before the matchup with the Cornfield versus the Soybean in
the NBA Finals. Now to fill the void, we have
cranked up the rumor machine. It has been working over
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time and serving up some Greek food. That's right, a
little Greek food on that. And if you have not
been following, it's a bad job by you. Some chatter
that the Milwaukee Bucks superstar, the man that held up
the championship trophy a couple of years ago, Jannis Denta Cuombo,
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has a wondering eye and he has been looking.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
North of the border, all eyeing Toronto.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
The Raptors there is said to be in breathless reporting
mutual interest, mutual interest between the Bucks Giannis Denta Cumbo
and Toronto. So Yannis, who's won not one, but two
Most Valuable Player awards, so I'm told that's pretty good.
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I'm playing the NBA and the championship and all that stuff.
And it has been widely speculated that he is considering
a relocation situation. The Bucks have had not one, not two,
but three consecutive first round departures from the postseason. They
have been decommissioned in the first round three years in
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a row. And you compound that with not having a coach.
They're the headless deer, Doc Rivers. I'd rather have an
actual doctor as my coach than a fake doctor, Doc Rivers.
When you hire Doc, you're not trying to win.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
You're not.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
When you hire Doc Rivers, you're trying to give good
soundbites to the media and have nice things said about you.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Because it's Doc Rivers. Everyone loves Doc.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
He's Devin Air. He's got the smile. Everyone loves them.
Can't coach his way out of a wet paper bag.
That's a side. Then you've got the Dame train which
has gone off the tracks, and the Dame enjoying a
steady diet of rice crispy, snap, crackle and pop and
the Achilles there. So those are all the ingredients that
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have gotten to this point. Now you know that Toronto,
they're they're out there kicking the time. They need that headline.
They're not anybody. Not that we talk much Raptors basketball here,
but they don't. So Milwaukee's championship windows seems to close
and it seems to be done dead bolted see it later.
It's not even a window anymore. It's like a wall
at this point. So let us discuss the question. You
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make the call? You make the call question, if you're
the Raptors, do you go all in for Giannis a
Denta Kombo? And do you actually have a chance to
get the player? So my thoughts on this, I've got
Da Vinci, saber Tooth Tiger, and slow churn and we
(05:49):
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make some ice. Ice baby, is what we're
gonna make. So a to answer the question question, if
you're the Raptors, you go all in? Yes, I'm not
in my head, yes of course. Now do you have
a chance to actually get the player? Well, that's where
things get a little foggy. That's where things get a
(06:12):
little foggy. But from the Toronto site, it's a no brainer, right,
It's an absolute no brainer. While it is generally considered
taboo for any star players to sign with the Toronto Raptor,
you can be traded there, but to actually sign now
and this would be a trade. This would be a trade,
but it's kind of trade where the player wants to
go there, So it's.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
A fake trade.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Like a real trade is the player doesn't want to
go there, you trade them anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
This would be a faux trade.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Toronto for big names in the NBA is seen as
a barren wasteland. You just don't go there, and you
can get players in the draft. You can have a
bunch of no name, no brand type players and Yiannis, though,
the reason that there's something there, the reason I'm buying
that there's something there is Gianni's is a different breed
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a kitty cat, a different breed of kitty cat here
and doesn't seem like he needs the suntan lotionan the
bikini bottoms.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
That you get in La or Miami or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
But much like Da Vinci or Michelangelo, a renaissance man
to a point, I do believe the last couple of
years since winning the championship that Yannis has more more
into line with all the other a holes in the NBA.
He's still got that international flavor, flavor flavor, He's got
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that going for him, and he could be convinced that hey,
I can go and enjoy maple syrup powdered powered snowblowers
and all that stuff, and maybe he always wanted to
play near the CN Tower and that he really wanted that.
And yeah, and there's a great Greek town. One of
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our listeners that met at the meet and greets, well,
Toronto's guy, there's a big Greek population there and they've
got a great Greek job.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Honest is I believe under contract if I'm not mistaken
for another couple of seasons. So it would have to
be a trade. Any bucks I am told will demand
a king's ransom. You also have the meddling NBA power
brokers who are gonna try to encourage encourage a Yiannis
to go to a big, big, big, big big market,
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the usual suspects LA Miami, New York, and those are
the usual. Maybe Golden State, maybe a Golden State gets
mixed in there, and he's a known commodity.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Though you're the raptors and you're trying to get that
big guy.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
That's a guy you can actually get, and you're gonna
have to give up a bunch of promissory notes and
you get a proven star who's in the near end
of his prime. A couple more years of Giannis and
then it's a slow decline. All right, now, turning the
page the round mound of rebound. He was known as
that when he played Charles Barkley making some news. He's
(08:59):
announced that he has it all mapped out his great
escape from television, appearing right here on Fox Sports Radio
with Dan Patrick, who also has got it all mapped out.
Dan's got a plan to retire, so Charles Barkley revealed
that he only intends to.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Work two more years. That's it.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
He's got a two hundred million dollar contract. But here's
Barkley explaining what his plan is as he's still with
Warner Brothers. It's kind of weird, but it's it's gonna
be on ESPN, but he's not gonna really be an
ESPN and play anyway.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Listen, here's what Barkley had to say.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I actually have seven years left on my contract. I're like, yeah,
there's no way I'm working seven years. I says. You know,
I'm gonna be a good soldier for Kenny, Ernie and
Shaq and the people I work with, because I love
the people I work with, especially behind the scenes. I said,
but the best I can do is two years.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
All right, so he said two years.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
He is also concerned, he says if ESPN overworks him,
even though he's going to be working for Turner, he said,
he'll just go home.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
He said, He'll just go home.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
So let us discuss how much stalk? How much doc
do you give Charles Barkley, the greatest ex jock turned
player that jock ocracy usually produces crap with former players
on television, but Charles.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Barkley is not that.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
He is at the very top of the food chain
when he comes to broadcasting. So how much doc do
you give Charles Barkley? As he has announced he is
planning to retire from TV in two years. So after
a thorough deliberation of the available information, we have given
this a solid zero, a solid zero. So Charles Barkley
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and one thing I've come to know over the last
ten plus years of talking about Charles Barkley, and it's
been longer than that, but just the last decade plus,
Charles Barkley loves a saber tooth tiger. But really what
he loves is saber rat. He loves saber rattling. When
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talking about his future, I guess everyone all worked up
into a nice tizzy and likes. Barkley's the guy that
will spit in your pocket and announce that it's raining.
As he's spitting a nice thick loogie in your pocket.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
He'll announce it's rain.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Now, we went back to the copious amounts of notes
that we do on a daily basis for these Mallard monologues,
and we went all the way back, back back back
back back in the hot top time machine to twenty twelve,
and we then searched keywords, and we determined that Charles
bark has publicly discussed or announced he's done with television
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six times since twenty twelve. Six times I'm out, and
every time Barkley's continue to work. Every time we in
our notes, we had twenty twelve, twenty fifteen, twenty eighteen,
twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, and twenty twenty four,
and now we can add twenty twenty five. Although he
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didn't announce he's going to quit right away, he say
it's going to be a couple of years and all that,
and every time he's announced this, every single time he
has continued to work. He signed new contracts and he
has reversed those retirement plans.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
But wait, there's more.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Barkley also loved in the past claiming he was going
to become the governor of Alabama. This was a big
thing that Barkley brought up many times. There were four
times that goes back to the nineties where Barkley announced
that he was going to be the governor of his
home state, his native state of Alabama. He did that
in the nineties, the six as well, eight and actually
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twice in eight he.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Announced he was going to become the governor of Alabama.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
And either time or all the times, I should say
all the times he failed failed. Barkley failed to actually
run for governor of Alabama.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Never did it.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
He always abandoned that plan, and his political ambitions were bullshoy.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
We're absolutely bullshoy.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Now there is an age situation which is a factor,
but only a little bit. Barkley is now sixty two,
so he's he's at the point he's got a lot
of money, and he's got a lot of money because
of television. He's got money because of TV, not because
of basketball, because of basketball and TV. But Charles Barkley
is a TV commentator. He's not a former player. He's
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a TV guy and it really isn't work. Like I've
been lucky enough Alascos had a TV show and like
this has worked, like the radio shows where I do
everything for the show, put it all together. Like the
TV show, there's people that help you. There's like support staff,
producers and directors and people that make you look good
and it helps out a lot. And it's wonderful to
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be in that environment. So if you're doing TV like Barkley,
I mean, you got a million people helping you show
up and you don't have to worry about putting monologues
together and doing all the other You don't worry about it,
right because you know people actually help you out. It's
a it's amazing thing. And Barkley's getting twelve and a
half million dollars per year and he has earned a
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massive amount more as a TV guy than a player.
In fact, I went back I look Barkley when he
played for the Sixers and the Suns and bounced around
the NBA a little bit, mostly the Suns and the Sixers,
but Charles Barkley played with the Rocket Saalz.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
But his total.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Earnings like forty million, which a lot of money and
let's old old money. Forty million as a player he
has made it's estimated close to two hundred million as
a broadcaster. So forty million is a player. I think
it's like one hundred and seventy hundred and seventy five
million something like in that ballpark, which is a good ballpark.
And that does not even include like the endorsement stuff
(14:56):
that he's he's got. So he's cashing it in now,
last words, speak of the jockocracy of basketball. Flipping the
page here. Warriors star Stephen Curry making some news recently.
He's not retiring from the NBA, not yet, however, he
told c NBC. He said, Lizen, I got it all
(15:18):
mapped out. I got this whole plan right, this whole
plan mapped out right.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
And uh and so what what is that? What is
the well?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
So he mentioned to c NBC that TV broadcasting he's
thinking about doing that. Uh, he's got team ownership and
possibly playing on the PGA Tour championship.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Uh, the champions.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Tour for the PGA Tour. They got all the mapdown
all right. So to me, the most interesting thing, you know,
athlete owns a team. We've seen that with Jordan we've seen,
you know, stars run teams like Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. Uh.
And so that doesn't really interest me. The TV thing
because we just talked about Barkley that interests me. So
would Steph Curry be a good TV broadcast? All right,
(16:05):
So let's go to the wheel of fortune here. Can
I get an N? And can I I'd.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Like an N? And can I buy a vowel? I
would like an oh? I would like an oh? That
would be no.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
He's going to be terrible as a broches my god.
So let's break this down unscientifically. Now, Steph Curry is
seen as a charming individual. He is seen as smart,
he is seen as well spoken, and those are all
positive attributes. They're all positive blah blah blah blah. All that.
(16:42):
That does not mean that he is cut out to
sit in a broadcast booth or in a studio and
commentate on pro balancy ball. Because Steph Curry is like
slow churned vanilla bean ice cream when it comes to
the things he says, He just is you need it edge.
You need an edge to be good. You need to
(17:03):
tell it like it is. You need to goof around,
have self deprecating humor like Charles Barkley. And when a
player goes out there and is a brick house and
just blows and everyone knows the players can't hit a
jumper save his life, plays El Mattador defense. And you
get on there and make excuses for that player or
(17:23):
downplay it. You've lost all credibility. Your fraud is what
you are. And Steph Curry as a broadcasterer barring some
kind of shocking renaissance milk toast, that's what you read
in milk Toast. And mister, oh, you know, gee, golly,
I love golf. I love my family and all this stuff.
It's very nice. It's nice to love golf. It means
(17:45):
you've got money. I don't know anyone poor that likes golf.
I've never met anyone poor in my life that likes
golf and is able to play golf. Rich people like golf,
and super rich we all love golf. They play it
all the time. Right, he's much too pot Steph Curry
to be any good as Rochester. Now that doesn't mean
he's not gonna get a chance. Because of the jockocracy,
which has been around since the eighties. There's this old
(18:07):
sportscaster you've never heard of named Howard Cosell, who knew
right away what was going on. But you know everything
Curry says now, and I don't think he's gonna change much.
Every take that Curry has is dipped in sugar and
then rolled in sprinkles, So you got the sugar, you
got the sprinkles and all that.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
And I get it. He's been the golden child for
many in the.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
NBA for over a decade and the media has been
licking his toes for a long time here, And you know,
give me someone who's not not afraid to ruffle some
feathers and is not trying to stay in the upper
crust of the oligarchy of the NBA. And because that
(18:51):
courage is gonna be like a sleep aid is what
he's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Anyway, What do you think about that?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
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even if you're not a big basketball fan. You know
who this is, has been evicted from their home. A
former NBA star who you've heard of, even if you're
not a big basketball fan, has been evicted from their home.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
We'll get to that and we will.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Do it.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Next.
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(21:21):
I game? That'll be coming up here in a little bit.
The great Unwashed would like to speak and Chip in
the ques right soin, says a Plus on the monologue.
I don't believe for a minute that Charles Barkley will
give up all that money and attention anytime soon, unless
his health were to go into the toilet. He isn't
going anywhere anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
No, he is not. See what else do you I?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Chip also says I would love to take up the
game of golf even though I'm not a rich man,
but unfortunately I'm not able to and not good enough
health anymore to run those eighteen bases. They have these
things called golf carts slough Chip. You can get one
of those, and of course you'd have to have a
one money to rent a golf cart, but then you're
you're good to go on that supermarket. Steve says, Charles
(22:09):
all talked about how much money, how much more money
players make now than they did back then. Charles, I
wonder how much more money you make than Marv Albert
used to make. And then super marg Steve, who's always
questioning everything that has said, doesn't believe anything. He says
that Barkley made a lot more money than that during
(22:30):
his career. If you listen to the rest of the
I did not listen to the interview. I'm sleeping when
Dan Patrick's on. I saw the clip, so Dan's like
an overnight show for me. I don't hear Dan show anyway.
This is Michael Jordan convinced him to take most of
his Nike contract and stock options, turned it to fifty money.
(22:50):
Well again, super Mark, Steve, I know comprehension is not
your friend. But I didn't say that he made great investments.
It was how much money he made a player for
the Sixers and the Suns, and then you can buy
that and then you see how much money he's I'm
sure he's made a lot of money on the stock
market as a broadcaster.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Who cares? What p damn do?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Charman Harmon says, Hey, all the raptors have to do
is sign Giannie's brother for big money and boom, they'll
get him. Okay, and not everyone in agreement, though, there's
some people saying that there's no way he's going to Canada.
Not going to happen. What are you talking about? Jac
(23:33):
says there's no way Giannis wants to play in Canada,
He says, a terrible country, insanely high taxes, in terrible healthcare.
Well a, if you play in Toronto you get paid
in US dollars and if you have a good accountant.
As you know, JC, the rich people don't pay taxes.
It's the poor people that the middle class that pays taxes.
(23:55):
The rich people find loopholes to get out of paying taxes.
That's so if you're rich, you don't pay the taxes.
So that's that you put up a bunch of shell
charities out there.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
And you're on your way now.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Trucker Joe says, Hey, Ben, when Dan Patrick retires and
Fox Sports Radio comes to you and offers you a
show any bigger bag than what you get now, are
you going to sell out and go to the dreaded
day shift for a slightly bigger bag and better quality
of life?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Just asking for a friend.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Absolutely, I will, I fully admit I will sell out
if somebody's dumb enough to pay me a lot of
money to do what I'm doing right now, I will
absolutely sell out and go to the dreaded day shift
one thousand. I would just like that that schmuck Chris
and Houston who sold out for the day shift, and
all these other guys that have sold that. Yeah, of
(24:47):
course they pay me some real money, you know, and
maybe include me in some of the promotional videos and
things they don't normally do around these parts.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I would absolutely do it. One sign me up for that.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Mister Irrigation says, I love golf and I'm far from rich,
which leads to my question, would you rather have a
hole in one at Cyprus point hole sixteen at Pebble
Beach at the annual Pro am or pick up the
seven to ten split in a pro Bowlers tournament. Like
John Mose, I'd go Pebble Beach because I can. It
(25:21):
ain't making bowl. You drink while you're bowling, it's hard
to be really good. I know people drink while you
golf too, but it's hard to be really good at
that while you're completely sloshed. Late night drug test rights
and it says Charles Barkley knows that he can keep
getting me one year deals from ESPN plenty cash.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
He's got a ten year deal.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
It says they're taking applications for putting on a mascot
heead during college football. Milkman Mike and Colorado says, great
o'ply monologue, start the night off. You couldn't be more
correct about Doc Rivers. They'd be better off having Doc
Severnson directing the game plan. I don't think he's available.
They'd probably go further in the playoffs. All right, let's
(26:00):
go to the phones and let's say hello to Eeny
Meenie miney moll. Let's say hello to Anthony, who's in Louisiana.
What's going on? Anthony?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Welcome? Hey, how you doing, Anthony? If I was any better,
I'd be sleeping, but I'm not. I'm here. What's going
on with you? Anthony?
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Nothing much?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
All right, Well, welcome to the Welcome to the show.
You're a new caller. We've not had you on the
on the show before. Yeah, okay, Lorena, I've been told
to tell you. Hey, hey, that's up from Anthony. What
part of Louisiana are you in there?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Anthony? Yeah? Yeah, you like it there? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (26:39):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
How would y'all trip by?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Y'all went to Toronto? No, No, we didn't go to
We went to Vancouver. You know all those all those
Canadian cities of the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
All the same. Yeah, we went went there. So, uh,
green is that now? Greenville?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I'm not familiar with where that? Is that near like
New Orleans? Or is that somewhere else?
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Green Wood?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Well I know that, but what where is it near
a big city that we would know? I've never heard
of it on your streetport? Okay, okay, I've heard a streeport.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Very nice? All right, and you work you What do
you got going on there?
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Oh? Nothing much.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I'm taking it easy. You're what do you say? I
think he said he's taking it easy.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
They're taking at ease. I'm taking it easy too. We
both have that in color. We already have something in common.
We we we take it easy.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Did you hit from it's because from you. I love
your accents.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I get this. I get the sense that this is
not really a call. I don't think you called to
talk to me. I feel like you talked. You want
to talk talk to Loraina? You want me to step
out of the room. No, no, no, no, you can talk.
You and Loraina can talk. I'll just I'll step off this.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
You go ahead, and I'm gonna I'm gonna hang out
with I'm gonna hang out with Bill Miller. So go ahead, Anthony,
go ahead.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah, what I think you put it hot?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
I'm back from you.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Well, you're very smooth, Anthony. I gotta tell you, does
that work in in shreport? When you're at at the clubs?
Does that work?
Speaker 4 (28:04):
I don't go to the.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
You don't go to the club. Why why do you
not go to the clubs?
Speaker 4 (28:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Do you do online? How old are you are? You
like young old?
Speaker 4 (28:13):
I don't know how old you are.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
You're you're older, middle age older? So you're done picking
up you know, going to the clubs and all that.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
So that's yeah, I got you. Okay, all right, you're
quite the character. I like you. Gotta call me more
often here.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
You take care, all right, bye bye, okay, I will
make sure to do that. Agent. All right, all right,
there you go. That wasn't Was that a real call?
Speaker 3 (28:44):
I don't know what that was.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I don't know if that was a real call. I
think that might have been like a fake. Maybe that
was a I or something like that. I don't know
that's real. I don't know. All right, there you go.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
All we need now is Charlie to call back the
Dallas Dumper and the four you know, all his nicknames,
and he hated them and now he wants the nicknames.
Ferg Dog says, I'll pay you one dollar more than
your current salary to be my best friend, full time
deal and that wouldn't cost you much money. Yeah, Now,
(29:14):
what does it require, fer Dog? What are the rules
of the contract? Do we have to read the fine
print and all that?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Do we know? Let me know, we have the play
of the night to play the night.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
And if you look at the American League, a lot
of hype for the New York Yankees and the Brox Bombers.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
They did not play. They had a travel day on Monday.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
But the team that is the top team if you
look at your Major League Baseball standings and you look
at the American League, the Detroit Tigers are at the
very top of the names, not only in the American League,
but all of Major League Baseball. They are the pace
car in Major League Baseball. The Tigers playing the Tomato
Cans from Chicago and that would be the White Sox
(29:59):
and a special night, the Carpenter got it done and
that is the tire Iraq play of the night.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Take a listen, fly ball right center field.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
D Robert's back at the fence, looking up, he leaps
and it's gone home run. Three homer night for Carry
Carpenter Tiger's Radio on that as the Dhkerry Carpenter hits
three home runs against those pathetic White Socks and he
gets it done. The Tigers had five home runs in Detroit,
(30:30):
wins thirteen to one, blowout city where the Tomato came
the last places team in the American Central that Carry
Carpenter three home run Night on Tigers Radio is the
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Speaker 1 (31:00):
Show b.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
So you've heard of the name Lamar Odom. Well, Lamar's
back in the headlines here. It seems he's having some
financial difficulties or he just decided he doesn't need to
pay his bills. You see that Lamar Odom played the
Lakers and the Clippers and a bunch of teams bounced
around the NBA. Well, he has been evicted from his
(31:26):
La Area residents because he did not pay his rent.
How could he not have any money to pay his rent?
And the whole Kardashian thing and all that. Well, Lamar
who is forty five, Lamar owed him forty five years old,
and he has failed to pay his mortgage or not
(31:47):
mortgage his rent. Though this is right near us, we
do the show from Sherman Oaks in one of the
next cities over his studio city.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
So I could go to this house. I have the address.
We can go to the house.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
But he failed to pay the monthly rent and he
had to pay back rent of forty.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
What Yeah, his monthly rent was fifteen thousand dollars and
then he didn't pay for each additional month he had
to pay also, so it ended up forty five thousand
and so the people that ran the they owned the property,
sued Otom for not being able to pay what he
owed and notice was sent for forty five thousand dollars
(32:30):
had to pay that with him three days and he
failed to do it. This was not the first time
that Lamar Odom has failed to pay his bills.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
This has happened in the past. So there you go.
More a good reminder not to live above your means.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Yeah, I know LA is expensive, but you don't have
to pay fifteen thousand dollars a month. You can get
like a nice one bedroom apartment for like three grand.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
You can get well some places that will get your
studio apartment. But there you go.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
So Lamar having some issues, he said, well he should
have learned that in college. Well, he didn't really go
to college. He bounced around for a couple of years.
And how many colleges. Did he go to Rhode Island?
He went to UNLV A bunch of places he bounced around.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yikes.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Terry in England has a conspiracy theory. He believes that
Anthony from Louisiana is justin in Cincinnati wearing a very
tight banana hammock.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
So that is his theory.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Mister irrigation believes Anthony in Louisiana sounds like he might
be Charlie's classmate. Well, he's older though, Anthony. I like that, Anthony.
You get that Anthony call more often? Get that on
the show. We need that any It is the Ben
Mallor Shows. We're working our way through the over and
I will get back to the calls at eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox Time.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Now for the who am I? Game? We go to baseball.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
We just played the player of the day of the
Kerry Carpent to home run and that leads us into
the who am I Game? Carry Carpenter became the first
Detroit Tigers player with a three home run game since me.
It's been a minute again, Kerry Carpenter the first Detroit
Tiger player with a three.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Home run game since me?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Who am I? That's the question, the answer, We'll get
to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
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Speaker 1 (34:27):
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Speaker 1 (35:26):
Of your screen.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Oh yeah, all right, time two, get back to it,
and here is the who am I game? The Carpenter
did it carry Carpenter the DH became the first Detroit
Tiger player to have three home runs in a game.
Since me, it's been it's been a minute since that happened.
So that is the question. What's the answer? I forty
(35:48):
ian going with the iconic Matt Noakes as his answer.
You like that short portrait Tiger Stadium Boo Radley from
King Rory.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
That's his answer.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Fergduck says, my best friend one to check clears Ben Maller.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
That's right for absolutely. Who else do we have page down?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Mark from Queens, who's currently residing in Arlington, Texas, says
Kurt Gibson. James, here's an iconic name, Bobby Higginson. Another
great name from Robin, Minnesota, Lance Parrish, alf the Alien
o'piner says the guy that was briefly a Tiger. Gary
Pettis is the answer. Late Night Drug Tessa says, you
(36:29):
are a singer, be a badoobie who is twenty five today?
I know who that is? Who else do we have
page down? Tony the Tiger from Kellogg's Frosted Flakes from
Andrew in the Bay Area, Leonel Messi from Shane in
Des Moines page now Captain Kangaroo guessed by Andy in
(36:53):
Lione o' Lakes, Minnesota. That's his answer. Trying to get
the answer to the who am I game? Tyk from
Robbie the Mariner fan. Ricky Henderson the AMPM. Matt would
have gotten gotten that.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Rest in PC. Yeah, well you're right, Yeah, absolutely Matt
the Warrior Raider A's Tom Brady Rose fan, although not
an A's fan, and the teams kept moving. Gorman Thomas
lighting farts from Perrito chet Lemon the late Great chet
Lemon from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Who else do you have?
Page down? Darren Erstad from Eloy in Compton. That's his answer.
(37:35):
Candy Maldonado a great name from Slim Tim Kelly going
with that great Tiger remember when he played third base
with the Tigers. Tiger Woods from Kelly Donut Kelly formerly
known as Donut Kelly, Thurman Munson from Bryan the Dallas
Dumper guests by Terry in England. Harmon killerbrew Baseball's logo
from Fat Daddy Page down, Nick the Wendy's Guy.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
He got it right.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Bad job by him, Big Rig Rob going with George
Foreman as his answer, Rocky Colavito from Johnny gu al Right,
what say you? Loraina is not big Baller brand LeVar
ball guests by Gil in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
So many amazing Tigers to choose from. Ben, I'm gonna
go with Raja from Aladdin.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Okay, that's a very famous tiger. Well compensated. Unfortunately that
he's incorrect. The correct answer a man that played with
a team called the Cleveland Indians and the Detroit Tigers,
Victor Martinez way back in twenty sixteen, nine years ago.
The of course, the Tigers haven't really tried to win.
(38:43):
For the last nine years, I've found myself watching more
Tiger games. The actually have a good broadcaster, And for me,
it's mostly about the broadcaster because most of the time
I have the game on in the background, I'll have
it on mute because the broadcast Jason Bennetti.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
I think is the guy's name to White Sox.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
He does the Tigers really good, good listen, solid professional broadcaster,
the antithesis of like Doris Burke. You know when I
see when I see a game Doris berks new and
immediately hit the mute button. I said I can't hear
the audio. I don't want to hear the audio realist
is what I call it. And the Tiger games pretty good.
There's some really poor Major League Baseball broadcast though, like
(39:23):
low quality, like it's one of those things that's changed
a lot in my lifetime. It used to be a
big League team had a professional broadcast. There's a lot
of two bid amateurs that are calling Major League Baseball.
It's sad because a lot of people like to do
that job, I think, But man, there's some bad broadcasters
out there.
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