Hour 1 – Empty Victory Lap

Ben Maller opens the show discussing the release of the NBA Finals Game 7 Ratings and why it was so meaningless in the grand scheme of the rest of the Finals games, then dives into the ridiculousness of the chatter of shortening the NBA playoffs to reduce injuries & MORE! 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, It's our number one Hour one
of the original Recipe podcast, and a happy Tuesday to you.
It is the twenty fourth day of June. But you
already knew that because you looked at your smartphone, or
if you're blind, you listened to your smartphone. But here
an hour number one. It is the post mortem on

(00:20):
the NBA Finals, the NBA taking a victory lap for
the TV ratings in Game seven. How do you assess
this one? Also, our colleague Colin Cowherd is among a
handful of pundits recommending the league immediately shortened the NBA
playoff format to a best of five from a best
of seven. Any insights you'd like to add on that?

(00:42):
And young stars Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren set to
get massive rookie scale contract extensions from the Thunder. Give
me the pros and cons of this, we'll talk about
that and more. Settle in here. It is. It's our
number one. It is report card time. Yes, our favorite time,

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report card time. Welcome in the beginning of another night
of the Ben Malor Show. We are in the air
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from pro Bouncable. Well, are you talking about basketball this season? Eddy?
Don't talk about that? Shut up Smacculi, you moron, and
all you other idiots. All right, listen, I'm not gonna
sit here and start the show with that Celtic trade
with the Blazers. That's not worthy of starting the show.
But something that did catch my attention as the curtain

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did come now finally on the finals as it all ended.
That's all she wrote there. Sunday night, we talked about
that in depth as Oklahoma City celebrating a championship and
the MVP Shade Jogis Alexander and the Thunder beating Indiana,
a hobbled pacer team at the end in seven games.

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But the report card it came out, Oh, it's so exciting. No,
I don't work for the NBA. I don't get paid
by the NBA. I have no skin in the game.
I am merely an independent observer in the middle of
the night, a neutral party, neutral party. But I love
it and I look forward to this because it is

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a wellness check to see how you're doing. So the
report card came out. I don't if you saw this
or not. Perhaps not. I don't care about that. All right,
well I care. It matters to me because I think
it's funny. I think it's funny. So the big headline was,
and this came out from the NBA marketing arm. They

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pumped their chest out. They were like a peacock with
their feathers in the air everywhere. They were very braggadocious.
They said, listen, are you haters? All you people that
said mean things. The Pacers Thunder Game seven was the
most watched NBA game in six years. Put that in

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your pipe and smoking. Sixteen point four million out of
a country of three hundred plus million. Wow. Watch the
game seven. Pretty good game. Wasn't all that close in
the second half, late third quarter, Oklahoma City pulled away
and then the fourth quarter pretty much kept a hobbled

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Pacer team at arms length in the fourth quarter. So
let us discuss the question. Here's the question for the
steam panel. So the NBA is taking a victory lap
here for the television ratings in the finals Game seven.
How do you assess this one? So I've got Copperfield,
Cyprus and Andy Warhol and we will combine all of

(04:44):
these things together and we are going to tell the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the sports talk radio truth.
All right. So ay, this is what's called a deja
vu situation. I am not talking about the Gentlemen's club.
I'm going dejav here. And here's why the NBA, yet again,
yet again, is gaslighting you. Maybe not you, because I'd

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like to think that you're a different level than the
low information fan, But they're gas lighting the public is
what they're doing. Do not be a resident of the
village of Suckersville. Do not do it now, Adam Silver
and his underlings, all right, taking a bow here for
the supposed rating success a victory and the television ratings here,

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and the usual suspects and sports media slapper slabber, slobbery,
you know who they are, are gleefully regurgitating this as
the gospel. See, I told you so. They just take
the press release. Now. I used to run a website
and I would get these press releases, and I knew
the places that would just republish them without like adding anything.

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And there's a lot of people, I get, a lot
of people are busy. You know, I got stuff going on,
and you don't read past the headline. And they know that.
They know whatever they put in a news release will
be repackaged almost verbatim, and people will only see the
headline and all that. So it is true that Game
seven of the NBA Finals between Oklahoma City and Indiana

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to sixteen point four million viewers. Golf clop, right, little
golf clop. That's nice. However, as the late great radio man,
the legend of radio from a different generation. Paul Harvey
would say, now for the rest of the story. Now
for the rest of the store. So the quiet part

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that the NBA does not does not want you to
talk about. They don't want to bring this up, So
don't bring this up. See, I'm not part of the mainstream.
We're not late at night here, so I can talk
about this. But those mainstream daytime guys, they're not supposed
to talk about it. So the part they don't want
you to talk about is the overall final ratings. So

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the full seven game NBA Finals, the worst rated final
in a generation eighteen years, which is closing in on twenty,
which is a generation seven. I was barely alive in
O seven. The last time the NBA Finals did worse
than this, and that was back when the San Antonio
Spurs in the San Antonio River. They floated down that

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river as champions over Lebron's cadavers in the seven NBA
Finals in that was a David Stern production, and he
had to pretend like people actually cared then. But David
Stern was more honest because he knew when there was
bull crap could He was very hard. It was very
hard for him to sell the bull crap Adam Silver
because he's like a lizard person, he seems to have

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no problem selling it. So eighteen years after that, the
finals this year, and that this was a seven game series.
And imagine I was actually texting one of my my
TV friends, who are better people because they're on television
and actually this guy works behind the scenes, and I say, well,
what would the numbers have been had they not gotten

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the sixteen million? And they were like, well, it's hard
to really know exactly what it would have been, but
it would have been you would have to go back
like twenty five years or thirty years for a lower
rating than that. And so Adam Soilber and his PR
machine churning over and over and over, you know, doing

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the thing where they hope nobody notices. You know that
I hope nobody notices this, and that that one game
spike in game seven, it does not make up for
what two weeks of apathy. I mean, this is what
we're doings of apathy in the NBA Finals and the league.
And this is their their own doing it. And we've

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talked about this repeatedly. They've gotten so used to selling
style over substance that they now even they spend the numbers.
It reminds me when my early days in radio. I
remember we had a program director the ratings. I was
doing local radio. The ratings would come out and the
boss would go into a cubby hole in the back

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of the radio station for like three hours and spin
the numbers because we had terrible ratings. But he would
find like one demographic, right, men seventy plus that have
two teeth. We're number one in the market, you know.
And he'd sell that and be like, all right, we're good.
We're number one in the market men's seventy plus with
like three teeth to dominate there. And so that's what

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the NBA is doing it. David Copperfield is impressed. It's
like hocus pocus. Yeah, the ratings were the worst rated
in eighteen years. But we did really well in Game seven,
really well. Right, look over here, don't look over there.
It's the art of magic, and I love magic. The
art of magic is to get the people to look
where you want them to look and not where you're
actually doing the switch. And that's what the NBA did.

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And so don't worry about the fact if you're panite,
don't worry about the fact the first six game the
NBA Finals barely move the needle. Don't worry about that. No, no, no, no, no. Now,
the NBA has to live with the reality that they
have cooked up here. For multiple generations forty years, the
league has been totally dependent on big market glamour teams, drama,

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player movement, the trades. Now, of course, recently it's been
social media buzz that doesn't translate into money, which is
the problem. They haven't really monetized that in a way
that they can make any real money on it. And
so the Finals featured if you're a hard old basketball guy,
all the nerds on social media like, oh, this is
the greatest team basketball man. The public doesn't want to

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consume your product. It's like a restaurant where the food's
got the finest quality. Nobody wants to eat it because
they think it's disgusting, but it's oh, it's really healthy
for you right now. Page two. So one of the
other storylines here is the snap crackle pop Tyrese, Haliburton
Gonzo in the first quarter and people continue to be
freaking out, O MG Haliburton, the Achilles injury. I can't

(11:10):
believe it now. Our teammate, our colleague, Colin Cowherd from
his humble abote in Chicago, is among a handful of
pundits recommending the league immediately shortened the NBA playus. Did
you see this? Yes, He's not alone. By the way,
there's other people that are also advocating that the NBA
must shorten the postseason. No more best of seven. No

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our delicate little flowers cannot handle the best of seven.
That we need to go to a best of five.
Save our beloved basketball heroes, go to a best of five.
Any insights you'd like to add on this. So when
I saw this, I immediately thought, well, this is sports talk, Barry,

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this is the Babylon Bee or the Onion is satire,
NBA sentel, this is not real. This is fake. I'm
not gonna fall for it. And then I saw it
again and I watched the clip and I was like, well,
I think that's legit. I think he actually said it.
I can't believe he said it, but he said it,
and so other people said it. So it's like it's
Cypress Hill, is what it is. It's insane to the membrane,

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it's insane to the membrane reminds me of the pandemic
when people are running around out of an abundance of caution.
Don't do anything out of what it was this countion.
It will never be safe enough for our NBA heroes
never ever. Why stop at a best of five because
in neverally someone's gonna get hurt in a best of five,

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So why would you do that? You shouldn't have best
of five? How about best of three? You know? And
wait a minute, somebody could get hurt in a best
of thie. So we should go like the ncaa March
madness and just to a single elimination. But in ever
least somebody might pop an achilles in a single elimission game.
We need to protect our NBA hereros. These are our superstars.

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We need to protect them. So I've decided I will
let the NBA if they pay me a nominal fee,
I will allow the NBA to borrow my friend the
penny from Benny versus the penny, and they can flip
the penny so no one will get harmed. Just bring
in like Lebron will represent the Lakers, and Kawhi will
represent the Clippers, and like everyone you know, everyone's star

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player and then just flip flip the penny boom done.
That's the way. Forget the five games. Somebody could still
get hurt. You could see, you could see these world
class athletes to spend millions of dollars a year on
their bodies, poping achilles. So just bringing the penny Listen,
nobody wanted to see Tyreese Halliburton limp off like he
was at a you know, a gymnasium, you know, somewhere

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at some fitness center, playing a bunch of middle aged
guys and he popped his achilles and all that. But
the answer is, in all seriousness, you don't chop away
with the machete the NBA playoffs and chop games away
like you're tossing marshmallows into a fire or something like that.
The playoffs are supposed to be a grind. It's supposed

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to be the team that stands at the top of
the mountain when it's all said and done, has survived
the war of attrition. But everyone's so soft, like what happened, Like,
guys got it, Guys have always gotten hurt. It's like, now, oh,
no one can get hurt. Oh my god, all right now.
Last word. So one of the other storylines. You're fresh

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off the NBA Championship. The chatter within the league circles
is that money, money, money coming down, a lot of money.
Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren skeletor of the Thunder, they
are going to receive massive rookie scale extensions, which means,

(14:52):
let me praise this a different way Chiching Chi Ching,
Chiching from OKC the Thunder. So give me the pros
and cons of what's about to happen, all right, So
the pros to the victor goes the spoils. Right, you
win a championship, everyone's got that excitement and you've got

(15:13):
that rush of energy, and so congratulations you hosted the trophy.
There fireworks over Bricktown and the confetti coming down thunder Rally,
everyone's all excited and all that stuff. And you saw
Sam Presty. Boy that everyone loves Sam Presty. My goodness,
holy crap, looks like a nerd to me anyway. So

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Sam Presty, they're standing the top as the champion GM
and everyone's celebrating. All the basketball nerds or they're all
excited there, they're all Jones up and all that. Now
the cons on this are even as the champagne continues
to flow in Okase and everything's covered in gold. Now

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you win the championship and all that, there is a
disease which Oklahoma City has now acquired. And the illness,
which was first diagnosed by pat Riley a million years ago,
is the disease of me. It's below the surface. You
can't see it right now, but it's there. It's just
developing the disease of me, and it's gonna echo more

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and more and more throughout the dust ball. You've got
the generational wealth being passed out to everyone. And as
Andy Warhol famously said back in his day, life, just
a series of images that change and they repeat themselves
as they change. They're just the same thing happens to
new people. And that's kind of it. So we've seen

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this before. We've seen this before, and we will not
pretend I mean, maybe you will, but I will not
pretend that the situation cann be any different. In Oklahoma City.
They look like an AAU team the way they were
all celebrating on all that stuff. But even if it's subtle,
even if it's subtle. You know, it's we over me,

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which was the mantra that used to win the championship.
And suddenly you're starting to think more about stats and
contracts and things like that, and you get your money
and all that, and the salaries start going up, up
and away, and the swell your bank account gets a
little bit bigger. You're like, hey, manute man, wait a minute,
and I want a championship here. Maybe I want to
go play in a bigger city where there's more to do,
And why am I here? I like Oklahoma City, but

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I want to go somewhere else with the lights are
a little brighter and there's more to do and why not?
And then the pecking order gets a little murky, and
the culture, the culture club becomes uh, it's a buzzword.
Nobody actually follows it, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
It is the Bane Maverler show. What do you think
about all? That? Will take your calls on that. We

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did have a trade. We'll talk more about it as
we go through the overnight. The Celtics have said bye
bye to Drew Holliday. They trade him back to the Blazers,
a team he played for in the past. He goes
back to Portland. But this one thing the Blazers needed,
that missing piece, a thirty five year old point guard.
Hell of a trade by the Trailblazers to get Drew
Holiday back, and Anthony Simmons goes to Boston. He's a

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dime a dozen. See some nerds all excited about that
one thing I've learned. I covered some bad NBA teams
back in the day. You never get excited about a
young player putting up stats on a crap team because
that's the easiest thing in the world to do. That's
the easiest thing in the world. Dude. No one's paying attention,
no one's watching. It's a much different animal going to
a team that actually people care about and pay attention

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to and actually win games, which is what Simmons is gonna,
plausb be gonna do unless he's traded again from the
Celtics somewhere else. We'll take your calls eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox, also on ex at Ben Mahllor.
That's at Ben Mahlor if you'd like to be part
of the program and straight ahead numb like a little bug.

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What is that all about? We'll get to that, and
we will do it next.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
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Speaker 1 (19:10):
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(19:31):
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it all right, back to it coming up later on
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The Maloro's amount of Money will have Sight to Bite
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little bit after we get done, and you can enjoy
anything you may have missed coming up a little bit later.
The numb little bug will get to that also, the best.
The best will go there as well. We'll take your
calls up until then and your reactions, because that's what
we're all about. Sheen in the Moys says, I love you, sir,

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and that take on a lesser win for okay season
insane take there you go. You're a master of working
people up. What did I say? That was incorrecttion touch
up my work? Go ahead? What was incorrect?

Speaker 3 (20:48):
I love you.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Rather than talk in general terms, I'd like a specific
I'm anything I said was incorrect. I said that that
championship they wanted congratulations, but it didn't move the needle.
That's it. Aka Terror writes in from Rochester and says
the only way I would tune in to a basketball
game or a tender game live is if Lorena was

(21:13):
my date. Hey, Adam, Silver basketball sucks. Viva la Baseball,
says Inca Terror. Baseball very big in the INCA community,
Very very popular, Yes, very very popular. What else do
we have, King Roy says, speaking of the finals, your
colleague Colin Cowhard ranked the Lakers Mickey Mouse Championship the

(21:37):
best team to win the finals in the last seven years.
I thought Daytime Radio was supposed to be taken more seriously.
What say you bet well, I'm sleeping when Coward's on,
So I don't know about that. But I go by
a guy who was on that team who pointed out
Alex Caruso that he's now got a legitimate ring that
he pointed out, that's an illegitimate he implied, that's an
illegitimate ring, the twenty twenty ring, and Coward's got to

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stir it up. It's one of the things like I
don't do lists on this show. As you know, we
don't do list here. But the whole point of doing
a list. I remember the late great TJ. Simers, may
he rest in peace, the columnist for the La Times,
buddy of mine, and he talked about you do list.
You've got to throw something outrageous in there because people
get worked up. There's a flaw in human beings. They
get worked up over list. Oh, I can't believe you

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put that guy ahead of that guy. Oh my god,
Oh my god, it's so ridiculous. Oh man, they go nuts.
Freddie writes in and and says, I would recommend they
play NBA two K, but they might still get injured.
Those those thumbs. Yeah you mention assumed he getting hurt

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playing NBA two K and they keep showing the replay
of his thumb bending backwards. Oh my god, it's them.
Get that man, some ice, Get that man, some ice.
Brian says, the Malor curse, well, no, we solved that, now, Brian,
for years on this show it was called the curse
of the Benbino. That has been solved. The curse of
the Van Bino has been solved. He says that the Mala

(23:05):
curse strikes again, this time on the Icon Tyrese Haliburton
and his achilles missing all of next season.

Speaker 4 (23:11):
Is that when you like predict something.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Well, the curse of the Beanbino is when I merely
say something that should happen and everyone agrees is going
to happen does not happen. And that was created by
MotorCity Mike who used to call from Detroit and he
said that it's the curse of the Benbino. But that
was solved when the Dodgers won the hardest World Series
of all time. In twenty twenty, the Clippers got to
the Final Four, and the Rams won the greatest Super

(23:33):
Bowl I've ever seen over the Cincinnati ben Gals. And
so all that has been solved. The curse of the
Benbino no longer exists. Supermarket Steve writes in from La
La Land. He says, great monologue, Ben, the league's two
soft Sorry, I have a random question. This is a
non sequitur from Supermarket Steve. Are you a curly or

(23:53):
shemp man? I think I know what side you lie on,
but your answer might affect my opinion of you. Well,
there's nothing more relevant in twenty twenty five, Supermarket Steve,
and you are on the pulse of the people than
some hot stooges talk. You clearly understand that the Three Stooges.

Speaker 4 (24:13):
Is that who he's asking. I thought it was like
a curly fry question.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
The three Stuges who were active a Vudvillion Act. The
a Vudvillian Act, by the way that they last performed
as a group as a trio in nineteen seventy fifty
five years ago. Wow, and he's asking me about the Stooges,
which are timeless, and you know the answer. There's only

(24:40):
one proper answer, Curly. That's it. And anyone that watches
The Stooges and doesn't understand that Curly is the star
of the show is a moron. And when I was
a kid, there was no good television. The Internet didn't exist,
so they used to show replays of The Stooges when
I was a kid. And when I was a child,
anytime I ate pancakes, I always wanted to pour batter

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on my brothers because that's what the Stooges would do.
So I tried to copy that. Terry in England writes
and he says, the problem with the penny Ben is
the fingers and thumb flipping the coin. Sorry, bad strain
for the NBA players. Limit to one coin flip per season.
Yeah you mentioned they did. They did a coin flip

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and Kawhi be like, I can't you know I have
my thumb. I have like a nail issue. I need
to get good down to the day spa and get
get the thing taking care of that, get the manny
and get that done. Chip and the ques right since
says A plus on the Mallard monologue. Somebody needs to
remind the diva NBA players who are afraid of getting

(25:41):
injured that one of the reasons why they are paid
so much in the first place, because there is a
chance they will get hurt, say risk, they get overpaid
to take. Well, we don't want anyone get hurt though.
Let's call the phones. Let's say hello to Jim. Who's
in St. Louis. What's going on? Jim? Welcome?

Speaker 3 (25:58):
Hey, I was listening to the turd today.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
You were listening to the turd.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah, oh, I'm sorry they're heard.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Okay, yes, I understand. Yes, Anyway, I think you misunderstood
what he said. He said that all the playoff games
will be five games, except for the finals. We should
be seven. Well why were we do seven? Somebody could
get hurt in the in the finals? Well, we can't
do seven. We don't want somebody to get hurt. What's that?

Speaker 3 (26:27):
You mess up your monologue? I only give you a
C on your monologue. Yeah, I'm hoping you misrepresented the turd.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Well, I was sleeping. He's for me. He's an overnight show,
so I don't listen because I'm sleeping. When he's on.
But here's a thing. You're listening what what?

Speaker 2 (26:41):
What a do?

Speaker 5 (26:41):
You?

Speaker 1 (26:41):
A vampire?

Speaker 3 (26:43):
Pretty much?

Speaker 1 (26:44):
What are you doing? Hard and narcotics? Why? How can
you stay up all night and listen to his show?
What's going on with that?

Speaker 2 (26:49):
Well?

Speaker 1 (26:49):
I wake up, I hear him talking, and then I
go back to sleep. You do interesting? That's interesting? Yeah? Okay,
well thanks for com I'm so glad I took that call.
We're all we're all a bit dumber, but thank you.
Go away, come back, go away. Big Daddy is in Memphis.
What's going on? The Big Daddy and all his all

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his constituents there it is?

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Man, I guess we're.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
Gonna have to watch the Big Three. Man, I ain't
no sports domees.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
You know, watching ain't nothing to you're gonna really watch
the Big Three?

Speaker 3 (27:25):
I have to wait nothing know, Man, guns moved.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
All of it.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
Look at it.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
We got like we got like a month NFL training
camp in like a month.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
It is.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
It is a good time for people to get arrested
in sports. The summer, the weather is good, is really hot.
There's a heat dome. There's a big heat dome over America.
So guys get arrested. There more speeding tickets, you name.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
It, yeah, got and like you just said, is the
best one of them all? No, hands down, exactly.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
There's no second there's no second place. It's curly all
day and all night. There's no o. There's stooge that matters.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
May come on. Ain't nobody using none of them jokes today?

Speaker 1 (28:11):
Well, of course you know you can't. Well, I'll tell
you a funny story there. There's that. There's a there's
a building over in Culver City. There's a triangle building
right near here in Socow where they filmed some episodes
of The Stooges, and I had to go there. I
had to do some work in that building there was
they were recording something. I had to I had to
go there. So the whole time I was there, I

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was thinking. I was like, how can I find the episode?
I couldn't. I couldn't find it, but I remember watching it.
It's one of the very unique buildings, but I couldn't
find the exact episode where they like it was a
triangle building and they were running around the building. It's
a really old building, but it was right next to
the movie studio, which makes sense because it's like write
a joint to it, so like, all right, let's just
go film there because it's a cool building.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
So anyway, yeah, you know he did from a mental problem.
That's what ended up happening. If you watch someone over
the episode.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Oh did he from getting hit with the frying getting
hit from the frying pan and all that stuff.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
And yeah, oh no, but they got mad.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Hey, hey, let me point out this. This, This points
out that nobody gives an f about the NBA Finals.
I did fifteen minutes, eighteen minutes on the monologue on
the NBA Finals, and people want to talk about that. Stooges,
a show that's been off the air for fifty five years,
is getting more traction on overnight sports talk radio than

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the NBA Finals.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
Right the final, everybody getting hurt. It won't take time
off me. You come to work.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
We heard that's right. Hey. I had I've had larryningiitis.
I had, uh what I have? Ah, it was like
a beginning of the year. I had some some crap,
uh that I had. I could barely talk. Yes, I
still wanted You have to know exactly even when I
don't want to talk, you think I want to talk
I don't want to talk, but I still talk talk

(29:57):
talk talk talk talk talk nonsense, op talk.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
You stop. I'm hunting and I'm at work something.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Now what do you do? You have a physical job, right,
You got to put stuff on shelves and all that.
Right here, I just use my hands.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
But it's all about taking it off the pallette, you
know what I'm saying, and putting it. My bag breaks sometimes, man.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
You know, yeah, what's the worst job at the grocery store.
There's a lot of people like yourself to work at
the grocery store. So what's the worst thing you have
to take out of the palette and put on the shelf?
The worst thing?

Speaker 2 (30:29):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (30:29):
Man, I say those drinks. Man, they hated the drinks.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Right, so you're talking about alcohol. You talking about like
soda pop?

Speaker 6 (30:38):
What do you They come in the pay come all
the way up and then it's real heavy when it
comes off, and you had to watch how you do
it because it's want of them drinks and want them
once the night following you too, it's trying to go
home there you go.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
By the way. Uh now, big daddy supermarket Steve Wrights,
and he says, I don't know How could Big Daddy
say the only thing on TV right now is the
Big Three. We are right in the middle of the
great W n B A season.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
He can watch it if he want to look at it.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
No, you're not.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
That's what I'm going. You know, they don't repeat. That's
what I'm going. That's how we're gonna do that. Make
sure it's gonna be a beautiful summer. Yeah, you know,
like y'all got two people sounded like.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Yes, all all those women sound the same bre You
sound just like that all the time. You sound just
like the breeze in producing Brianna.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
Yes, that's that's that's what you call a good ear.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
A good ear? What does that mean you? Oh? I
can't I better hearing? Well, it's weird because my hearing
is not very good. Actually, but I turned my headphones
all the way up, so when I turn them all
the way up, I think I can hear pretty good.
I can recognize like vocal patterns and things like that.
All right, go back to work, big Daddy. You're gonna
get in trouble, all right, thank you? All right, go away,

(31:58):
there's a big Daddy.

Speaker 4 (32:00):
Do you think you could tell the difference between me
and Brie.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
Hmm, let's see here. Well, I would hope that because
you're here every single like nights.

Speaker 4 (32:10):
You think, okay, let me get okay, hold on, I'm
gonna give us both a phrase, and you are going
to close your eyeballs.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
And in my eyes right, I can't even see anything you.
I can't even see in there. There's so many freaking
lights in here. I can't see. I can see the
outline the silhouette of you, but I and Bree, but
I can't really like see anything other than that. So okay, okay,
are you ready?

Speaker 4 (32:31):
I love chili cheese fries.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
That's the word. I love chili cheese fries. That was
brit Me.

Speaker 4 (32:40):
Let me try. Let me Charlotte, I love chili cheese fries.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Oh that was Lorraine. See but see, there's some but
there are some.

Speaker 4 (32:47):
Things that we could sound alike. But I know, okay,
so you can distinguish between us.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
I think I can't. You think I think I can't.

Speaker 4 (32:55):
But I am better than the militia, I might.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Well, yeah, these guys come on, well, they listen with
half an ear. That's why nature Boy says, if the
Dodgers keep pitching KIK, they should pay him double. Yeah,
I'm guaranteeing you he'll get in one of these games
in Colorado. By the way, So the numb little bug
have you seen this? It wasn't viral. They did a
side by side of the NBA title celebrations and they

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compared the NBA and the NHL and the NHL guys
the Florida Panthers, who just won their second consecutive championship,
were like a bunch of nine year olds winning a
little league title. Like they were going crazy. They were
throwing their gear everywhere and they were like so excited.

(33:41):
It's like the greatest thing in the world, right, And
then the NBA guys were like, all right, let's shake
some hands here. It was like just very business like,
Like what happened to the pure joy? You would think
Oklahoma City of all places, right, small market team with
the players that aren't household names and all that, that
these guys would be celebrating this great accomplishment and all that,

(34:02):
and they didn't seem all that fired up. It's like, all,
we won, you know, we we won. Well, the hockey guys,
which is going nuts, they're like so happy, it's like
the greatest thing in the world, the most wonderful thing
in the world, and they were so excited. Now, Shay
jogis Alexander. He was talking to the media and when

(34:26):
the finals, MVP and all that, and he agreed that
he's the quote best player in the world after the
NBA talk. Now, does he know the legal definition of
the term best is as good as all the rest?
That means when you say the best sandwich, you can
say that because it's it's the definition in advertising is
as good as all the rest. So he's saying I'm

(34:48):
the best, which means he's saying I'm as good as
every other player in the world. One thing I will
say he is not the best at is marketing, because
nobody I know is all that excited. They're not running
out to buy SGA merch. There's not a lot of
buzz in that department at all. Anyway, It is the
Ben Malers show time now for the who am I? Game?

(35:10):
As we pretend to be somebody else in a blake
attempt to suck up to our friends in Seattle. Mariners
catcher cal Raley has hit home runs now in four
consecutive games, and he is monster mashing for the Seattle
baseball team. Marinor's catcher Cal Raley has eighteen homers on
the road on the road this season. That is tied

(35:31):
for the second most by an American League player through
the first thirty seven road games of a season. I
am the only AL player to hit more road homers
in the first thirty seven road games of a season.
And again, this is the who am I game? Marinis
catcher Cal Rawley, He's got eighteen home runs on the

(35:52):
road that is tied for the second most by an
American League player through the first thirty seven games of
any single season. I am the only AL player to
hit more road dingers in the first thirty seven road
games of a season. Who am I? That is the question.
The answer. We'll get to it. We'll do it next.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
Miller and you. It is the Ben Mahler Show. You
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Radio shows live twenty four to seven of the new
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(36:40):
to preset Fox Sports Radio Ben Mahler Show on the
Fifth Hour Podcast in the iHeartRadio app. It will always
pop up at the very top of your screen.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
Thank God for the Internet.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
All right, back to it we go, and a time
now to payoff the who am I? Game? This is
where we pretend to be somebody else figure out who
it is, thus answering the riddle, which is the who
M I? Game? Well, here it is if you were
not listening, bad job by you. But Mariners catcher Cal
Rowley's got eighteen home runs on the road. That is

(37:12):
tied for the second most by an American League player
through the first thirty seven road games of a season.
I am the only American League player to hit more
road homers in that stretch of games. Who am I?
That is the question? What is the end? We're trying
to find out? Who? Dan? The jammerman going with the

(37:34):
iconic lucial ball. That's another relevant name. Ozzie was from
Western Australia is listening on the satellite hookup. There he's
got out in the land of the Kangaroo, he says.
Sons legend. Bradley Beal is the answer. Kevin Quackenbush, good
name by mister nice guy. Never heard of that bad
padre knowledge. Who else do we have? Bender the Offender

(37:56):
from Ferk Dog That's his answer? Andy and Lion o Lakes,
Minnesota says it's got to be the Junkyard dog brother.
Who else do we have? Kevin Durant from Shane in
Des Moines, Slim c C. Sabathia from Big Lou in
the LBC. Eke in Roseville, Minnesota says Paul Sorrento. Fun fact,

(38:17):
I have a Paul Sorrento back by the way I
got back. Fun fact. Here's a great name from Bay City,
Tony Hippolito Pana former Yankee pitcher fran Healy. Another good
name from I forty Ian peacemaker from King Rory Larry
Linville from alf the alien Opino that's solid. Edwin Incarnacione

(38:39):
from gumby Dave. That's his answer. Yosemite Sam from Slim
Tim the cheesehead Curly of course from malor prop guy.
Who else do we have, Paige And we'll skip over that,
Butch Weineger from Steve the misplaced San Diego. That's a
pretty good name. All right, Loreena, do you have an answer?

(38:59):
Please pal d Luca. Oh, that sounded like Brie. No,
the correct answer.

Speaker 4 (39:04):
That didn't sound like me at all.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
Bree is George Bell Taco Bell of the Toronto Blue
Jays in nineteen eighty seven. And that leads us into
the play of the night. We go to that Mariner
Twins game. Here's the tire i raq play of the day.
This If you can figure out which Mariner player it.

Speaker 5 (39:24):
Is, the two one pitch swinging a well hit ball
deep the left field, and this one is gone. Goodbye baseball. Hey,
cal Rawley has become the first Mariner in history to
hit ten or more home runs in three kensecutive months.

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