May 23, 2024 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Timberwolves getting upset at home by the Mavericks in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals and who gets the blame for Minnesota, Anthony Edwards saying that he was tired, and much more!
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So here an hour. Number one is all about pro
bouncy ball. Who gets the biggest part of the juicy
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lucy of blame? As the tim Wolves go down in
Game one, Dallas gets the win. Also, Aunt Edwards says
that the Wolves were tired. Thumbs up or thumbs down?
Do you find that significant? He's twenty two years old
and he's complaining after two days off that he's tired.
(00:43):
Also Kyrie Irving saying that he used the Anthony Edwards
I got Kyrie comment the other day as motivation. Now
Charles Barkley implied it was directly related to Irving's performance.
Does that work for you? We'll talk about all of
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play the hits, My My, n twin Cities. That was
the site of the big ticket on the Wednesday sporting
card l Sport. The lights turned on extra bright Western
Conference Finals. I assumed you were watching the mav Rex
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and the Timber Puffs as they were matching up against
each other, But maybe you did not watch. You had
other things going on, so listen. I got nothing going on.
I was watching Lukka Luka Doncik had thirty three points,
but fifteen of them in the fourth quarter, and the
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Dallas basketball team in a game that was never in
double digits either way. It was a close game at
all points, but Luka Dancik had thirty three points. Dallas
ends up getting a three point road win one oh
eight to one oh five over the Minnesota basketball team.
Game one of the Western Finals, the Mavericks trailed by four.
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It's not a lot, but a trail by four with
three point thirty seven to go after Anthony Edwards had
made a three point shot. But then Dallas goes on
an eight zero run to turn the game around in
the final minutes and they end up holding on and
winning the game. So let us discuss the question better
(03:31):
story in the losing locker room, who gets the biggest
part of the juicy lucy of blame for the Timberwolves.
So I've got dragon, fat, Farm and Liberty, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a pontoon boat, because it looked like
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the Minnesota basketball team was on a pontoon boat kind
of floating away there. So a I heard this years ago.
I think it's appropriate here. The fish rots from the
head down, so apparently does a timberwolve. This one not
that hard to dissect. Anthony Edwards getting the double double
juicy lucy of blame and shame Edwards. We liked the talk.
(04:18):
We're all about to talk. We do talk radio. But
Anthony Edwards wrote one of those oversized cartoon checks and
he could not cash the check that he wrote. He
was buried, buried in quicksand for Game one, Anthony Edwards
he played the role of the dragon, but he was
the dragons in terms of dragon breath foul smelling. They
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had nineteen points, took sixteen shots for Michael Jordan two
point zero. The basketball pundits have told us did not
have a higher gear here, and well, Anthony Edwards is
the headliner and he sucked the most. There's plenty of
suckage to go around. How about Carl Anthony town He
had a seat in the vomit comet, Carl Anthony Towns
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six of twenty from the floor, a pedestrian stat line,
and Minnesota, who dominated from outside. They had a plus
thirty six point advantage from three point rach, which I'm
told is pretty good. Ended up losing the game anyway.
Why did they do that well? In part because Carl
Anthony Towns and defensive stalwart Rudy Gobert did not do
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their job. In the painted area Dallas. Dallas had a
plus twenty four advantage the mav Rex plus twenty four
points in the paint outscoring the Timberwolves sixty two to
thirty eight. This game, in that regard, was a boone
doggle for Minnesota. It was. But wait, there's more. Page two.
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Here we have the SoundBite of the night. It's Anthony
Edwards of your Minnesota basketball team, commenting on what went
wrong for the Wolves. Take a list. Do you think
that the high from game seven maybe kind of affected
you guys coming in today at all?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
I mean see, it was a little a step a
step behind everybody, especially myself.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Kyrie got a transition layup from I think we scored
and he.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Just outran me and I was just exhausted, man.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
So yeah, for sure, but we'll be all right.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
All right. That's a different sound bye. But he said
the quote I was looking for, he said we were
just a little tired. Probably was the actual quote I
was trying to get. I don't know why we got
that one anyway, Anthony Edwards, he did say, trust me,
he said, he said the Wolves were tired. Thumbs up
or thumbs down? Do you find this significant, do you
(06:45):
fight it significant? So I am going to go thumbs
up on this, and I would say that particular quote
which you didn't hear for some reason. It's game one.
The the Wolves had a couple of nights off, right,
They played on Sunday. Games seven was on Sunday, unless
my math is wrong, and I believe it was. So
they had Monday and Tuesday off. They were at home,
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so they didn't have to travel anywhere, not that that
would be a problem. And it's not just Anthony Edwards,
it's the entire NBA community. If you're watching the TNT broadcast.
Reggie Miller, I think he pulled a muscle as he
was desperately trying to defend Anthony Edwards. He earned his stripes.
Reggie Miller did in the excuse department, going back and forth.
(07:29):
I at one point it was he's tired. He said
that a lot. That was the main excuse, He's tired,
and then there was also like some phantom injury at
one point. Then he made a shot, so Reggie had
to take that back. I thought the whole thing was nauseating,
and you have to ask the quurse, like if you're
going to use the tired excuse, like, what are you doing?
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Anthony Edwards is twenty two years old, and the basketball media,
which love to make excuses when guys don't play well,
it's never they just have a game. It's always they're hurt,
they're tired, they're this or that the other. But he
was being treated Anthony. It was like an escapee from
a fat farm. This is not Oliver Miller or Zion Williamson.
(08:12):
And there's no excuse for being tired. Go out, get
some of that turbo charged red bull or whatever you
use there, and go for it. All right, Now, last
word here. So there's another bubbling storyline from the Dallas
Minnesota game evolves Kyrie Irving, who claimed that he used
(08:35):
the I Got Kyrie quote from Anthony Edwards as motivation. Now,
he said it kind of in a dismissive way because
he was asked about it, but he claimed that he
did use that as motivation. Now, Charles Barkley made a
big deal about this, implying that the stat line by
Kyrie Irving in this game was directly related to the
(08:59):
commentary by Anthony Edwards. Does all of that work for you?
Does all of that work for you, and the answer
is absolutely not right. There is no correlation, right, there
is no quality. This is the man who shot liberty
valance situation.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
When the legend becomes the fact, you print the legend. Now,
let me give you my evidence here. Oh, you can't
say that Kyrie Irving said that he used at his motivation.
You can't say no that I will and listen and
take notes. I'll give you my evidence. Okay, my eyeballs
and my byefocals. That's my other. Now, Kyrie came out
gamebusters and started the game right, Kyrie Rbit came out
(09:43):
Uncle drew eleven or fourteen from the floor, twenty four points.
He was a maestro in the first half. So what
happened at halftime? What happened? He came out in the
second half and he was guilty of truancy. He played
like a Dingleberry. So I mean he no longer was
motivated by I got Kyrie. That only inspired him for
(10:04):
half the game. It didn't inspire him for the second half.
Explain that Kyrie Irving after halftime took nine shots. He
made one more shot than you did and one more
shot than I had. One shot he made one of nine.
Only had six points in the second half, and in
the fourth quarter he took six shots, didn't make a
single shot in the fourth quarter. But I got Kyrie.
(10:28):
He was motivated by that, But he wasn't motivated in
the fourth quarter. He was bailed out by Luca. He
was absolutely bailed out. But this is what I always
go back to, like the whole bulletin board stuff, it
doesn't work. It doesn't apply here, and it didn't apply
in this moment either. It's one of those things. It's
a good storyline, so you go with it and you're like, yeah,
(10:49):
that's it. I got Kyrie. Anthony Hwers didn't play well.
Minnesota didn't play well. If I'm Dallas, I'm not feeling
particularly good right now because the Wolves play a bad
game and still had a shot to win the game
in the final minutes. They're not gonna play that way
in Game two Minnesota, So I wouldn't feel too good
(11:11):
if I was Dallas. But as far as the whole
motivational tactic, the Anthony Edwards, I got Kyrie quote motivating Kyrie,
even though he was being polite with the media and
said it did it obviously didn't matter in the second
half of that game, as Kyrie Irving was an absolute
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It's Ben Mallar.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
It is a ginormous night because moving man Matt with
the Mobile Malar billboard says a plus on the opening
Mallin monologue part of a balanced breakfast, he says, the
Malor show and a cup of coffee doing it live
New York City to Philly. He's out and about here
in the early morning hours making his move.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
David when he hangs up the steering wheel or is
the is that going to be it for the for
the moving billboard?
Speaker 7 (14:12):
Because he said he was.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Why would why would you say that? He said, he
said he's thinking about moving to a management Yeah, but
that means no, No, that means more mobile Mallet with him, Well,
if he's in management, if he's the big boss guy
and he's in charge of the moving company, then and
they add more trucks, they'll put the mall branding on
more truck.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
Sure about that? You better check with them.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Well, I me and him had we have a bond.
There's a connection that we have once he put my
name on his truck, and uh yeah, there'll be more.
They're not gonna get You can't get rid of that.
That's a legendary truck. Yeah you saw it. You would
just stop by the station, see in front of the
(14:55):
studio right there. Yeah, David writes in. He says, Luca
legend taking over once again, closing out the win like
the MVP that he is. Well, okay, I don't think
he won the MVP this year.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Well, cowboy Dan be calling in tonight, do you think, oh.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
That's a good point. Now, I don't think he cares
about it. Yeah. CJ writes in from DC says, tonight, Mallard,
the monologue gets a C minus because you didn't get
the memo or here we go on halftime adjustments. That's
why Kyrie cooled off. That's why, Yes, he's giving all
the credit to the Timberwolves, and they're brilliant halftime adjustments.
(15:36):
How many athletes have to tell you that halftime adjustments
are a myth before you get the point in your head.
Apparently not enough. Apparently not enough, And as many coaches
have said, if you have a problem during game, you
don't wait till halftime to fix the problem. You fix
the problem immediately, You get it rectified, immediately, you find
(15:59):
the remedy, You make the adjustment you don't wait till halftime.
At halftime, you go and use the bathroom at halftime.
That is what you do. At halftime. You take care
of business. You empty out the old tank there at
halftime in the bathroom. Put you go. Man, What else
(16:19):
do we have? Page down? We'll skip over that late
night drug TESTA says. The great thing about these conference
finals is I expect the Minnesota contingent to call in
tonight and reply like Sean the Hood Guy did yesterday
after the Pacers lost Game one. Now, Ferg Dog says,
you missed the lead bend. Bad job by you. The
(16:39):
biggest story on the LA radio waves isn't the NBA
Western Conference Finals, he says, it's the showdown between you
and Blake Snell's bff David Vasse, who he got in
a couple of good jabs, but in the end he
was no match for your overwhelming power. Way to take
(17:01):
down that punk, says Fergduck. Yeah, we had a little
radio roar radio war, Eddie. It was a war as
I've heard. Yeah, yeah, myself and Bessy who did fire
the first shot and much like elementary school playground rules,
if you throw the first punch, you're if they see it,
you're in trouble. He threw the first punch. He took
a cheap shot at me on the very popular Petros
(17:24):
and Money show in LA, and I had to respond.
I sat in with our friend Fred and Fred Rogan,
and so I responded, and I went for the jugular.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
Good.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
What'd you say?
Speaker 10 (17:36):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I said, he is such a Dodger Homer. He's turning
into a smurf, is what I said. But I and
then I found out he's friends with Blake Snell. If
those yeah, David David Vesse, I've known him a long time.
But he hosts the postgame Dodger show, which in our
affiliate in LA. He's on usually right before we come
on when the Dodgers play at night on the West Coast,
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which is most of the time they play at night
on the West Coast, and so he comes on. I
come on after him. And I think I pointed out
when we're on the air, Eddie, we have to turn
the transmitter back on because of vass Ah. There's no one,
no one left.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
But it was good.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
It was a good radio war. And I don't know
if it's over or not. We'll see. I know my
hope it is.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Because yeah, you know, all due respect to him, I
don't think he has a vass A army. There is
a Malard militia though, and they will they will go
after him and be ruthless.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Well I have boots on the ground, Eddie that are
monitoring everything Vassa says on all these radio appearances, that
MLB TV thing that he does all of that, and
if he says anything again, it is going to backfire, okay,
because I've got foot soldiers that the cyber warriors and
the mall of militia that are licking their chops. They
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want another battle.
Speaker 10 (18:54):
They need.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
We have not had a good battle. When's the last
time we had a battle. It was the porn star
that we had a battle with. I think that was
the last time we had a bat.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
Wow spats with shots.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Well, that's the all time greatest. That's a world.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
That other one was a minor skirt, a one.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Day skirmish is what it was. But it still happened.
We got into a tussle with a porn star. Jason
writes in from Cansa City, says nine out of ten
on the Mallard Monologue, band I always maintained that game
one of a series is the most irrelevant game of
the series. However, if Minie loses Game two, they are
(19:30):
in some serious trouble. Dallas is still a two man team. Yeah,
Minnesota should still win the series, but Anthony Edwards could
be tired, and if he's tired, they might not be
able to win because it'll be tired and they won't
be able to win the game because Yeah, Matt. By
the way, follow up Matt, movie Man. Matt says, New
York City to Philly a grueling ninety miles. He says, well,
(19:51):
I know I've made that. I've made that track. Yes,
that has happened. That has absolutely happened. What else we
have page down here? What are the odds of Walmart
Gunner calling the show? I goes slim and nun. He
might call him though. If he calls in, he'll have
all this bravado. But oh, you're gonna win the game.
We're gonna win the series.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Nothing to worry about.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Everything's fine here. But my senses that Gunner is like
Cowboy Dan, that he's very much like Cowboy Dan in
the respect that he will just kind of hang out
and wait for a win and only call after a win.
Let's go to the phones. Will say hello to Mojo
(20:34):
in the Bay Area, I'm told a first time call her. Hello, Mojo, welcome.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
Hey, mister Ben Mallard. Yes, I am a new member
of the Mala Militia, and of course I'm the Mojo
Rising because I love the doors man. You know what
I mean, Jim Morrison, the doors.
Speaker 10 (20:50):
That Hey, I was worried.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I was worried. I was worried you were like Mojo
Potato guy. But no, your doors all the way.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Man, he now Mojo Rising man, you know fire. But hey, anyway,
I just want to tell you, Mandy, I love you
because you keep it completely real.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
Man.
Speaker 8 (21:05):
You always like you're you're funny guy, and you just
keep it real. You tell the truth all the time.
And I love that kind of a person. Just like
earlier what you're saying, like with Anthony Edwards, did it
come on? He's twenty two? How can you be tired?
I mean, that is this classic stuff man, And you guys,
you know, you guys really do a great show. Man.
And out here in California, I'm a Warriors, a Raiders fan,
even though they moved to Vegas and a Sharks fan,
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and the Sharks have been crappy around here for years.
But that's what I'm tell you, Man.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I love you guys. Oh well, thank you, mo You're
very kind of is a very positive phone call by
by Mojo. Take note, Eddy Mojo rising over there, my guy, Mojo.
I'm a truth teller, Eddy, truth teller right there, like
Jim Morrison back in the day.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
How about shut up. I prefer the Mojo potatoes myself.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Well when I saw that because we didn't we talk.
Didn't that come up on this show?
Speaker 7 (21:55):
Yeah, we're talking Shaky's the other day. Maybe she brought
it up. She was a the buffet and.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Stole some foods, smuggling out dessert. Yes, that was me,
But I don't know that she took any Mojo potatoes.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
I don't think I think it was a dessert item.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Oh yeah, dessert. My buddy sports with Coleman, Baltimore media
freeloader was sending me photos of multiple freeloading events that
he was at. Oh, well done, Baltimore area.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Multiple Yeah, one day, but.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
No, well back to back days that famous. Have you
been to Jimmy's famous seafood in Baltimore.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
I'm not a seafood fan myself either, am I.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
And that's what he did point out because sports with
Coleman knows, I do not enjoy the fish. I believe
all fish live matter, Eddi, and they should be left
in the ocean. But he he did say they had.
He sent me photos they had in addition a seafood place,
they had Greek meatballs. How could how good could a
Greek meatball be at a seafood place? And steak tacos
(22:57):
they had that, so that might have been pretty good.
That might have been good. And then there's something else. Well,
he took advantage of last week the big race in Baltimore,
so he had he had complete run of the city.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Loading you have you ever been to I mean, we
don't have any of those big races out here on
the West coast. Have you ever been to a major
Horsey race?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Well, yeah, last year at Santa Anita. I mean it's
not a Triple Crown race, but they had they had
a major race at Santa Anita and that it's awesome.
Speaker 10 (23:26):
I love going.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
I would think that they would have quite the spread there.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I didn't get invited though, Oh remember I did some
podcasts last year at Santa Nina.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
Do you remember that?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yes, yeah, went out there and had had a fine time,
had a fine time, but they did not have any
free food. There was no woweah right yeah. CJ writes
and says, it's cool, Ben, this is a guy that
said no halftime or he said halftime adjustments, and I
said no. Just say you never had an athletic past,
he says, because if you had an angry coach yelling
(23:59):
at you away from the public eyes in a halftime adjustment. Again,
that's in high school or youth sports. It's not at
the professional level. It's different. I know, CJ, you're a coach,
but at the pro level, they're not wired that way.
That's not how it works. And you can go in
any of these athletes who I'm Peyton Manning, who is
(24:22):
not a favorite of mine. But Peyton had a rant
about this. Belichick's ranted about this in football, and there
have been players in other sports that have said similar
things about the halftime adjustments being a myth. But hey,
guys like CJ, that's why the myth continues. Just keep
going with is the Ben Mahlor Show. Now, Our friend
(24:47):
Terry in England is chiming in on the battle. He says,
I say better get back in his box. Disrespecting, he says,
our leader can only mean one outcome for that dodger Homer,
he says, who does not want to mess with the
Mallamlish He does not want to Matt the Warrior Raider
(25:08):
fan says, Mojo has my vote for the Caller of
the Year. Well, that was fast premature. There's got a
long way to go to get the Caller of the Year.
Isn't it like January? It's whenever the Academy Awards are
that night, so you think it's early March, early March,
early March. So yeah, we're in May. We got ten
(25:30):
more months or whatever to go here.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Except for that, be sure to catch live editions of
The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
And No, I have not forgotten about the Wnbai the Fever.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Oh Man lose to the Storm. Oh wait a minute,
that's Kaitlyn Clark's team. Any how can Kaitlyn Clark being
a bad team.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Eighty five eighty three The Storm gal beat the Fever
Kaitlyn Clark twenty one point seven, rebout, seven assistter team
is zero and five. Now.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Well, now, the great WNBA fan there, Cooper Loop, tells
me that she screwed up at the end of the game.
Speaker 10 (26:02):
There.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Oh really, yeah, she made a mistake at the end
of the game. Yeah, cool in on that more if
he wants. But that's embarrassing.
Speaker 7 (26:09):
He's too busy eating something right now.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Oh all right, very good donut, powdered donut. What kind
of donut?
Speaker 6 (26:17):
This one was a sugar donut? But uh, I have
brought in a dozen donuts courtesy of Mike Carmen.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Wait a minute, so Mike Harmon left a dozen donuts?
Speaker 7 (26:26):
No, how does I'm refused?
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Well, so yesterday, I don't know if you recall, but
you asked about the was that yesterday or two days ago,
day before yesterday?
Speaker 7 (26:38):
Whatever?
Speaker 6 (26:38):
When you saw the wings on the table? Oh yeah,
And you asked like, did I get any And I
was like, no, Harmon took them all.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
And then I saw a venmo of some some money
from Mike Harmon that he sent me. He heard me,
he heard my disappointment on the air and said, get
your you know, get you guys something.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
Shout out to Harmon, give yourself something nice. Yeah, and
you chose donuts. That's right. Wow, that's baller.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
That's a nice thing that Mike Harmon did. Are those
fresh doughnuts?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
So those are?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
They've been sitting around for a while.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
I got them right before I got to the studio, I.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Know, but they usually make them during the overnight while
we're here.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
Hey, well we're overnight folks, we're not. We're not too
picky about that.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
What do you want a donuts? Been saying around, sitting
around twelve hours?
Speaker 7 (27:26):
You want to it's a free donut, I'll you know, look,
I'll take whatever I can get.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
It wasn't free for Harmon. He had to pay for it.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
I've eaten two so far, and so far I wouldn't
I wouldn't say that they were like just baked. But
they're not stale there. They still taste fresh.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Years ago I did a remote broadcast, as in local radio,
from the world's biggest donut shop. They claimed it was
west of the Mississippi. It was a Winchles. I think
it was a Winchles donut shop, which is a big
chain and there's nothing the right out of the oven.
And they were hooking us up. They were like the
donuts were coming out of the cooker and right into
(28:06):
our mouth. Oh my god, melting your mouth. Donuts so good.
Tom from Fullerton writes, and he says, listening to the
Mallor Show while simultaneously watching and listening to Rush videos,
in other words, I am definitely not getting laid tonight.
All right, Well, that's probably fair to say, Tom, that's
probably fair to say. That's not that's not going to happen.
(28:28):
Rush is awesome, but when you're by yourself listening to
a sports radio show and watching Rush videos, that's usually not,
as Lorena would say, an aphrodisiac. I don't think, I don't.
I mean, I don't know. Maybe it is. Let's see here.
Matt the Warrior Raider fan had a line about blind
(28:48):
Scott here and halftime adjustments. Very very interesting. We have
another first time. I'll get that. But I have a
fun fact. You know, let's hit that button. You know,
it's fun fact, fun fat. This is only fun if
you're a Maverick fan but not a fan of the
Minnesota basketball team. So Anthony Edwards the Last forty shots,
(29:11):
Anthony Edwards has taken the new Michael Jordan. He has
missed twenty eight of his last forty shots going back
to Game seven at Denver. And but wait, there's more.
Anthony Edwards only has one basket, only had one basket
inside the arc, none of them at the rim. So
(29:33):
he's supposed to be this great guy, and he has
been great going to the basket, but it's been hanging out,
lurking out on the on the edges and not going
to the basket. Let's go to George in Arkansas, who
is a first time caller. Hello, George, George, George, George, George.
If I was any better, i'd be sir scratch off.
(29:56):
But no I wouldn't because he, you know, hoses a
lot of bets. He's in Arkansas.
Speaker 10 (30:01):
Frog here, I tell you what, thanks for taking my call.
First of all, I was going through the stations about
a month ago, found you and been listening every since.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
Love what you do.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Well, thank you listen. That's old school right there, that's
old school, George. Yeah, it's hard to do that these days.
You just skied latey night, you're looking for someone to
listen to, and you found us. That's what.
Speaker 10 (30:28):
I want to write about, is these pampered athletes, and
then people say they're tired. How do you get tired
playing forty eight minutes and not even all the way
the same forty eight minutes. You get a lot of freaks.
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Well, George, these guys like the party, so when your party,
it's a little difficulty. You are right, though. If you
watch an NBA game, it's forty eight minutes over about
two hours, two and a half hours. Get take here's
about two hours, so you got a lot of downtime.
There's a lot of downtown. I think it's two and
a half hours actually, most of these NBA games. So yeah,
(31:08):
it's it's you and I do that.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
We'd be fired.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Oh yeah, if I took a segment off, I would
you know, I'd be in a lot of trouble. What
do you do for a living, George? What kind of
work do you do?
Speaker 10 (31:17):
I'm disabled?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Oh you're disabled?
Speaker 8 (31:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Sixty? Oh really? Wow? That's wild. And how long were
you in the service for I was in for four years?
Four years? Okay, yea, So I'm glad you found the
show I've been Thank you for your service there, George.
I appreciate that you're finding us man, thank you all right,
be good, all right, all right, George the Great George
(31:42):
in Arkansas checking in. So how about this? There was
a I see this the other day.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
There was a.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Charity event, a ten k charity bike ride. I think
this was in the Philadelphia area, and AJ Brown took part.
You see what happened with this. AJ Brown took part
in this thing. And you see what he did to
partake in the ten k charity bike race. He used
(32:10):
an electric bike. It was the Eagles Autism Challenge, a
ten mile charity bike ride, and the players of the
Eagles usually take part in and A. J. Brown's like, oh,
I'll take part in it, and he helped. The local
TV station interviewed him and he decided, you know, I'll
be honest here and he used one of those e bikes.
(32:33):
Yeah wow, you know what that's like something I would do.
Man the built in motor right there. It's a world
class athlete. AJ Brown. Work smarter, not harder, Ben, That's
what he said. He said, work smarter, not harder. He said,
I bought my electric bike, so I'm working smarter, not harder.
(32:56):
I'm in great shape, but this is my day off.
I'm here to support and put a smile on people's faces.
Not work too hard. No, that's uh, that's solid. That's
that's pretty pretty good, pretty pretty good. I would say
I would take some more of these riveting calls, and
(33:16):
we'll go in depth, in depth. We will go straight
ahead though the who am I?
Speaker 7 (33:20):
Game?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
We'll go back to pro bouncy ball. Derek Lively say,
player for the Dallas basketball team. Derek Lively led the
Mavericks in plus mice. He leads the Mavericks, I should
say plus minus at plus one oh six in the playoffs.
That is the highest for a rookie in the playoffs
since me. Again, this is NBA history. Derek Lively leads
(33:45):
the Mavericks in plus minus at plus one oh six.
That is the highest for a rookie in the playoffs
in the NBA since me. Who am I? That is
the question? The answer. We'll get to it. We'll do it, NAG.
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Speaker 1 (34:41):
Send those questions in early and often. Here's the who
am I? Game? Derek Lively that is a who basketball
player for Dallas. He leads the Mavericks in plus minus
at one six. That means, well, he's been on the
court the Mavericks that outscore their opponent by one hundred
and six points in the playoffs. That is the highest
(35:02):
for a rookie in the playoffs in the NBA. Since me,
who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Let's see there's anyone in the Malamucho malaprop guy going
with a very specific southern southern California reference. He says,
doctor George Fishbeck, do you get that reference? At he
(35:25):
you probably don't. I don't know if you get that reference.
This might be before you. I don't get that he
was a weather He was a weather guy in La
Doctor George Fishbeck.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
Wow, and I remember like Johnny Mountain and the Dallas Raine.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
This guy was before them, legendary weather guy. Who else
do we have? Rod the Ambassador of Bakersfield, says Snidley Whiplash.
I said, I said, Snidley Nightly, that job by me.
Butter Bean guessed by Cowboy Killer that's his answer. Piglet
from Milkman Mike in Colorado, Ike and Roseville, Minnesota, going
(36:01):
with keky vandawah as his answer. Ken Jennings, who was
fifty today, I guess by the late night drug tester
Tanyan Sturtz from mister nice Guy Who's not so Nice?
Jane in Des Moines, going with Mariner's legend Edgar Martinez
as his answer. Bay City Tony says Charles Shackleford is
(36:22):
the way to go. Who else do we have? Page down.
Stevie Meatball said Craft Foods stop producing light and lively
yogurt in twenty oh five. That is my final answer,
says Stevine Meatball's who's never wrong. Sam Perkins from Double
O Mexican in San Diego. Matt the Warrior Raider fan
(36:44):
is going with the Kiwi Steven Adams as his answer?
Who else we have? Don Jan says Ben the Crue
Happy Thursday. You are Tony Snow have to be Tony Snell.
Royce White. I got into a beef with that guy,
remember Royce White. Yeah, I got into a beef with
that guy from Iowa State. That's from Trucker Joe.
Speaker 7 (37:06):
Where is he now?
Speaker 1 (37:07):
I don't know he Remember he said he was going
to dominate the NB. All these guys tell me they're
going to dominate. They don't dominate the Freedom Man.
Speaker 7 (37:13):
Couldn't he not? He couldn't even dominate getting on a plane, right, Yeah,
well that.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Was an issue, yes, uh yeah, yeah. Anyway, I forty
and says the Freedo Bandito A fine answer. Who else
do we have? Page down Daisy Duck from Johnny Q.
Keith Glass Clipper Legend from Elias Tom from Fullerton says
the sexy soul, seducing sounds of rush. Ozzie was listening
(37:38):
to us in Western Australia says Strawberry Shortcake is the answer.
Were you a fan of strawberry shortcake when you were younger?
Speaker 6 (37:48):
You know, honestly it was still a little before my time.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Oh I thought, though, aren't they still around those strawberry short.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
I thought, I thought that, No, you can only buy
them at antique stores.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Wow, look at that taking a shot at Ozzie wah
was Look at that. Lorraina just buried a guy in
Western Australia. All right, Eddie, do you have an answer
again the question? Derek Lively, he led the Mavericks. He
leads the Mavericks right now plus minus at plus one
oh six, That is the highest for a rookie in
the NBA playoffs since me? Who am I lee?
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Go with another dukie. I'm sure justin Cincinnati will be
all excited about that. La Clipper legend Mason Plumbley.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Fine basketball player, Mason Plumbley. Is that correct?
Speaker 8 (38:26):
No, that is.
Speaker 10 (38:29):
Wrong.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
It is a bad job by you. It happens to
be another guy that I got into a beef over
with an entire country. Eddie Manu Ginobili. Yeah, I was
getting the TV state. One of the TV stations in
(38:49):
Argentina ran a clip that we recorded me ripping managed
and Noble, and it became an international incident. They were
not happy with me. I don't know why they wouldn't
be happy with me. I don't get it.
Here we go. Welcome to the original Recipe podcast. We
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So here an hour. Number one is all about pro
bouncy ball. Who gets the biggest part of the juicy
(00:22):
lucy of blame? As the tim Wolves go down in
Game one, Dallas gets the win. Also, Aunt Edwards says
that the Wolves were tired. Thumbs up or thumbs down?
Do you find that significant? He's twenty two years old
and he's complaining after two days off that he's tired.
(00:43):
Also Kyrie Irving saying that he used the Anthony Edwards
I got Kyrie comment the other day as motivation. Now
Charles Barkley implied it was directly related to Irving's performance.
Does that work for you? We'll talk about all of
that and or right now give it up for our
number one, Howling at the Moon.
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play the hits, My My, n twin Cities. That was
the site of the big ticket on the Wednesday sporting
card l Sport. The lights turned on extra bright Western
Conference Finals. I assumed you were watching the mav Rex
(02:27):
and the Timber Puffs as they were matching up against
each other, But maybe you did not watch. You had
other things going on, so listen. I got nothing going on.
I was watching Lukka Luka Doncik had thirty three points,
but fifteen of them in the fourth quarter, and the
(02:48):
Dallas basketball team in a game that was never in
double digits either way. It was a close game at
all points, but Luka Dancik had thirty three points. Dallas
ends up getting a three point road win one oh
eight to one oh five over the Minnesota basketball team.
Game one of the Western Finals, the Mavericks trailed by four.
(03:11):
It's not a lot, but a trail by four with
three point thirty seven to go after Anthony Edwards had
made a three point shot. But then Dallas goes on
an eight zero run to turn the game around in
the final minutes and they end up holding on and
winning the game. So let us discuss the question better
(03:31):
story in the losing locker room, who gets the biggest
part of the juicy lucy of blame for the Timberwolves.
So I've got dragon, fat, Farm and Liberty, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a pontoon boat, because it looked like
(03:53):
the Minnesota basketball team was on a pontoon boat kind
of floating away there. So a I heard this years ago.
I think it's appropriate here. The fish rots from the
head down, so apparently does a timberwolve. This one not
that hard to dissect. Anthony Edwards getting the double double
juicy lucy of blame and shame Edwards. We liked the talk.
(04:18):
We're all about to talk. We do talk radio. But
Anthony Edwards wrote one of those oversized cartoon checks and
he could not cash the check that he wrote. He
was buried, buried in quicksand for Game one, Anthony Edwards
he played the role of the dragon, but he was
the dragons in terms of dragon breath foul smelling. They
(04:42):
had nineteen points, took sixteen shots for Michael Jordan two
point zero. The basketball pundits have told us did not
have a higher gear here, and well, Anthony Edwards is
the headliner and he sucked the most. There's plenty of
suckage to go around. How about Carl Anthony town He
had a seat in the vomit comet, Carl Anthony Towns
(05:04):
six of twenty from the floor, a pedestrian stat line,
and Minnesota, who dominated from outside. They had a plus
thirty six point advantage from three point rach, which I'm
told is pretty good. Ended up losing the game anyway.
Why did they do that well? In part because Carl
Anthony Towns and defensive stalwart Rudy Gobert did not do
(05:26):
their job. In the painted area Dallas. Dallas had a
plus twenty four advantage the mav Rex plus twenty four
points in the paint outscoring the Timberwolves sixty two to
thirty eight. This game, in that regard, was a boone
doggle for Minnesota. It was. But wait, there's more. Page two.
(05:49):
Here we have the SoundBite of the night. It's Anthony
Edwards of your Minnesota basketball team, commenting on what went
wrong for the Wolves. Take a list. Do you think
that the high from game seven maybe kind of affected
you guys coming in today at all?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
I mean see, it was a little a step a
step behind everybody, especially myself.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Kyrie got a transition layup from I think we scored
and he.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Just outran me and I was just exhausted, man.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
So yeah, for sure, but we'll be all right.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
All right. That's a different sound bye. But he said
the quote I was looking for, he said we were
just a little tired. Probably was the actual quote I
was trying to get. I don't know why we got
that one anyway, Anthony Edwards, he did say, trust me,
he said, he said the Wolves were tired. Thumbs up
or thumbs down? Do you find this significant, do you
(06:45):
fight it significant? So I am going to go thumbs
up on this, and I would say that particular quote
which you didn't hear for some reason. It's game one.
The the Wolves had a couple of nights off, right,
They played on Sunday. Games seven was on Sunday, unless
my math is wrong, and I believe it was. So
they had Monday and Tuesday off. They were at home,
(07:06):
so they didn't have to travel anywhere, not that that
would be a problem. And it's not just Anthony Edwards,
it's the entire NBA community. If you're watching the TNT broadcast.
Reggie Miller, I think he pulled a muscle as he
was desperately trying to defend Anthony Edwards. He earned his stripes.
Reggie Miller did in the excuse department, going back and forth.
(07:29):
I at one point it was he's tired. He said
that a lot. That was the main excuse, He's tired,
and then there was also like some phantom injury at
one point. Then he made a shot, so Reggie had
to take that back. I thought the whole thing was nauseating,
and you have to ask the quurse, like if you're
going to use the tired excuse, like, what are you doing?
(07:50):
Anthony Edwards is twenty two years old, and the basketball media,
which love to make excuses when guys don't play well,
it's never they just have a game. It's always they're hurt,
they're tired, they're this or that the other. But he
was being treated Anthony. It was like an escapee from
a fat farm. This is not Oliver Miller or Zion Williamson.
(08:12):
And there's no excuse for being tired. Go out, get
some of that turbo charged red bull or whatever you
use there, and go for it. All right, Now, last
word here. So there's another bubbling storyline from the Dallas
Minnesota game evolves Kyrie Irving, who claimed that he used
(08:35):
the I Got Kyrie quote from Anthony Edwards as motivation. Now,
he said it kind of in a dismissive way because
he was asked about it, but he claimed that he
did use that as motivation. Now, Charles Barkley made a
big deal about this, implying that the stat line by
Kyrie Irving in this game was directly related to the
(08:59):
commentary by Anthony Edwards. Does all of that work for you?
Does all of that work for you, and the answer
is absolutely not right. There is no correlation, right, there
is no quality. This is the man who shot liberty
valance situation.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
When the legend becomes the fact, you print the legend. Now,
let me give you my evidence here. Oh, you can't
say that Kyrie Irving said that he used at his motivation.
You can't say no that I will and listen and
take notes. I'll give you my evidence. Okay, my eyeballs
and my byefocals. That's my other. Now, Kyrie came out
gamebusters and started the game right, Kyrie Rbit came out
(09:43):
Uncle drew eleven or fourteen from the floor, twenty four points.
He was a maestro in the first half. So what
happened at halftime? What happened? He came out in the
second half and he was guilty of truancy. He played
like a Dingleberry. So I mean he no longer was
motivated by I got Kyrie. That only inspired him for
(10:04):
half the game. It didn't inspire him for the second half.
Explain that Kyrie Irving after halftime took nine shots. He
made one more shot than you did and one more
shot than I had. One shot he made one of nine.
Only had six points in the second half, and in
the fourth quarter he took six shots, didn't make a
single shot in the fourth quarter. But I got Kyrie.
(10:28):
He was motivated by that, But he wasn't motivated in
the fourth quarter. He was bailed out by Luca. He
was absolutely bailed out. But this is what I always
go back to, like the whole bulletin board stuff, it
doesn't work. It doesn't apply here, and it didn't apply
in this moment either. It's one of those things. It's
a good storyline, so you go with it and you're like, yeah,
(10:49):
that's it. I got Kyrie. Anthony Hwers didn't play well.
Minnesota didn't play well. If I'm Dallas, I'm not feeling
particularly good right now because the Wolves play a bad
game and still had a shot to win the game
in the final minutes. They're not gonna play that way
in Game two Minnesota, So I wouldn't feel too good
(11:11):
if I was Dallas. But as far as the whole
motivational tactic, the Anthony Edwards, I got Kyrie quote motivating Kyrie,
even though he was being polite with the media and
said it did it obviously didn't matter in the second
half of that game, as Kyrie Irving was an absolute
non factor at that point. Right is the Ben Mahlor Show,
(11:35):
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It is a ginormous night because moving man Matt with
the Mobile Malar billboard says a plus on the opening
Mallin monologue part of a balanced breakfast, he says, the
Malor show and a cup of coffee doing it live
New York City to Philly. He's out and about here
in the early morning hours making his move.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
David when he hangs up the steering wheel or is
the is that going to be it for the for
the moving billboard?
Speaker 7 (14:12):
Because he said he was.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Why would why would you say that? He said, he
said he's thinking about moving to a management Yeah, but
that means no, No, that means more mobile Mallet with him, Well,
if he's in management, if he's the big boss guy
and he's in charge of the moving company, then and
they add more trucks, they'll put the mall branding on
more truck.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
Sure about that? You better check with them.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Well, I me and him had we have a bond.
There's a connection that we have once he put my
name on his truck, and uh yeah, there'll be more.
They're not gonna get You can't get rid of that.
That's a legendary truck. Yeah you saw it. You would
just stop by the station, see in front of the
(14:55):
studio right there. Yeah, David writes in. He says, Luca
legend taking over once again, closing out the win like
the MVP that he is. Well, okay, I don't think
he won the MVP this year.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Well, cowboy Dan be calling in tonight, do you think, oh.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
That's a good point. Now, I don't think he cares
about it. Yeah. CJ writes in from DC says, tonight, Mallard,
the monologue gets a C minus because you didn't get
the memo or here we go on halftime adjustments. That's
why Kyrie cooled off. That's why, Yes, he's giving all
the credit to the Timberwolves, and they're brilliant halftime adjustments.
(15:36):
How many athletes have to tell you that halftime adjustments
are a myth before you get the point in your head.
Apparently not enough. Apparently not enough, And as many coaches
have said, if you have a problem during game, you
don't wait till halftime to fix the problem. You fix
the problem immediately, You get it rectified, immediately, you find
(15:59):
the remedy, You make the adjustment you don't wait till halftime.
At halftime, you go and use the bathroom at halftime.
That is what you do. At halftime. You take care
of business. You empty out the old tank there at
halftime in the bathroom. Put you go. Man, What else
(16:19):
do we have? Page down? We'll skip over that late
night drug TESTA says. The great thing about these conference
finals is I expect the Minnesota contingent to call in
tonight and reply like Sean the Hood Guy did yesterday
after the Pacers lost Game one. Now, Ferg Dog says,
you missed the lead bend. Bad job by you. The
(16:39):
biggest story on the LA radio waves isn't the NBA
Western Conference Finals, he says, it's the showdown between you
and Blake Snell's bff David Vasse, who he got in
a couple of good jabs, but in the end he
was no match for your overwhelming power. Way to take
(17:01):
down that punk, says Fergduck. Yeah, we had a little
radio roar radio war, Eddie. It was a war as
I've heard. Yeah, yeah, myself and Bessy who did fire
the first shot and much like elementary school playground rules,
if you throw the first punch, you're if they see it,
you're in trouble. He threw the first punch. He took
a cheap shot at me on the very popular Petros
(17:24):
and Money show in LA, and I had to respond.
I sat in with our friend Fred and Fred Rogan,
and so I responded, and I went for the jugular.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
Good.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
What'd you say?
Speaker 10 (17:36):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I said, he is such a Dodger Homer. He's turning
into a smurf, is what I said. But I and
then I found out he's friends with Blake Snell. If
those yeah, David David Vesse, I've known him a long time.
But he hosts the postgame Dodger show, which in our
affiliate in LA. He's on usually right before we come
on when the Dodgers play at night on the West Coast,
(18:00):
which is most of the time they play at night
on the West Coast, and so he comes on. I
come on after him. And I think I pointed out
when we're on the air, Eddie, we have to turn
the transmitter back on because of vass Ah. There's no one,
no one left.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
But it was good.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
It was a good radio war. And I don't know
if it's over or not. We'll see. I know my
hope it is.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Because yeah, you know, all due respect to him, I
don't think he has a vass A army. There is
a Malard militia though, and they will they will go
after him and be ruthless.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Well I have boots on the ground, Eddie that are
monitoring everything Vassa says on all these radio appearances, that
MLB TV thing that he does all of that, and
if he says anything again, it is going to backfire, okay,
because I've got foot soldiers that the cyber warriors and
the mall of militia that are licking their chops. They
(18:53):
want another battle.
Speaker 10 (18:54):
They need.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
We have not had a good battle. When's the last
time we had a battle. It was the porn star
that we had a battle with. I think that was
the last time we had a bat.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
Wow spats with shots.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Well, that's the all time greatest. That's a world.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
That other one was a minor skirt, a one.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Day skirmish is what it was. But it still happened.
We got into a tussle with a porn star. Jason
writes in from Cansa City, says nine out of ten
on the Mallard Monologue, band I always maintained that game
one of a series is the most irrelevant game of
the series. However, if Minie loses Game two, they are
(19:30):
in some serious trouble. Dallas is still a two man team. Yeah,
Minnesota should still win the series, but Anthony Edwards could
be tired, and if he's tired, they might not be
able to win because it'll be tired and they won't
be able to win the game because Yeah, Matt. By
the way, follow up Matt, movie Man. Matt says, New
York City to Philly a grueling ninety miles. He says, well,
(19:51):
I know I've made that. I've made that track. Yes,
that has happened. That has absolutely happened. What else we
have page down here? What are the odds of Walmart
Gunner calling the show? I goes slim and nun. He
might call him though. If he calls in, he'll have
all this bravado. But oh, you're gonna win the game.
We're gonna win the series.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Nothing to worry about.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Everything's fine here. But my senses that Gunner is like
Cowboy Dan, that he's very much like Cowboy Dan in
the respect that he will just kind of hang out
and wait for a win and only call after a win.
Let's go to the phones. Will say hello to Mojo
(20:34):
in the Bay Area, I'm told a first time call her. Hello, Mojo, welcome.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
Hey, mister Ben Mallard. Yes, I am a new member
of the Mala Militia, and of course I'm the Mojo
Rising because I love the doors man. You know what
I mean, Jim Morrison, the doors.
Speaker 10 (20:50):
That Hey, I was worried.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I was worried. I was worried you were like Mojo
Potato guy. But no, your doors all the way.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
Man, he now Mojo Rising man, you know fire. But hey, anyway,
I just want to tell you, Mandy, I love you
because you keep it completely real.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
Man.
Speaker 8 (21:05):
You always like you're you're funny guy, and you just
keep it real. You tell the truth all the time.
And I love that kind of a person. Just like
earlier what you're saying, like with Anthony Edwards, did it
come on? He's twenty two? How can you be tired?
I mean, that is this classic stuff man, And you guys,
you know, you guys really do a great show. Man.
And out here in California, I'm a Warriors, a Raiders fan,
even though they moved to Vegas and a Sharks fan,
(21:28):
and the Sharks have been crappy around here for years.
But that's what I'm tell you, Man.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I love you guys. Oh well, thank you, mo You're
very kind of is a very positive phone call by
by Mojo. Take note, Eddy Mojo rising over there, my guy, Mojo.
I'm a truth teller, Eddy, truth teller right there, like
Jim Morrison back in the day.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
How about shut up. I prefer the Mojo potatoes myself.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Well when I saw that because we didn't we talk.
Didn't that come up on this show?
Speaker 7 (21:55):
Yeah, we're talking Shaky's the other day. Maybe she brought
it up. She was a the buffet and.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Stole some foods, smuggling out dessert. Yes, that was me,
But I don't know that she took any Mojo potatoes.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
I don't think I think it was a dessert item.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Oh yeah, dessert. My buddy sports with Coleman, Baltimore media
freeloader was sending me photos of multiple freeloading events that
he was at. Oh, well done, Baltimore area.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Multiple Yeah, one day, but.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
No, well back to back days that famous. Have you
been to Jimmy's famous seafood in Baltimore.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
I'm not a seafood fan myself either, am I.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
And that's what he did point out because sports with
Coleman knows, I do not enjoy the fish. I believe
all fish live matter, Eddi, and they should be left
in the ocean. But he he did say they had.
He sent me photos they had in addition a seafood place,
they had Greek meatballs. How could how good could a
Greek meatball be at a seafood place? And steak tacos
(22:57):
they had that, so that might have been pretty good.
That might have been good. And then there's something else. Well,
he took advantage of last week the big race in Baltimore,
so he had he had complete run of the city.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Loading you have you ever been to I mean, we
don't have any of those big races out here on
the West coast. Have you ever been to a major
Horsey race?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Well, yeah, last year at Santa Anita. I mean it's
not a Triple Crown race, but they had they had
a major race at Santa Anita and that it's awesome.
Speaker 10 (23:26):
I love going.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
I would think that they would have quite the spread there.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I didn't get invited though, Oh remember I did some
podcasts last year at Santa Nina.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
Do you remember that?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yes, yeah, went out there and had had a fine time,
had a fine time, but they did not have any
free food. There was no woweah right yeah. CJ writes
and says, it's cool, Ben, this is a guy that
said no halftime or he said halftime adjustments, and I
said no. Just say you never had an athletic past,
he says, because if you had an angry coach yelling
(23:59):
at you away from the public eyes in a halftime adjustment. Again,
that's in high school or youth sports. It's not at
the professional level. It's different. I know, CJ, you're a coach,
but at the pro level, they're not wired that way.
That's not how it works. And you can go in
any of these athletes who I'm Peyton Manning, who is
(24:22):
not a favorite of mine. But Peyton had a rant
about this. Belichick's ranted about this in football, and there
have been players in other sports that have said similar
things about the halftime adjustments being a myth. But hey,
guys like CJ, that's why the myth continues. Just keep
going with is the Ben Mahlor Show. Now, Our friend
(24:47):
Terry in England is chiming in on the battle. He says,
I say better get back in his box. Disrespecting, he says,
our leader can only mean one outcome for that dodger Homer,
he says, who does not want to mess with the
Mallamlish He does not want to Matt the Warrior Raider
(25:08):
fan says, Mojo has my vote for the Caller of
the Year. Well, that was fast premature. There's got a
long way to go to get the Caller of the Year.
Isn't it like January? It's whenever the Academy Awards are
that night, so you think it's early March, early March,
early March. So yeah, we're in May. We got ten
(25:30):
more months or whatever to go here.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Except for that, be sure to catch live editions of
The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
And No, I have not forgotten about the Wnbai the Fever.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Oh Man lose to the Storm. Oh wait a minute,
that's Kaitlyn Clark's team. Any how can Kaitlyn Clark being
a bad team.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Eighty five eighty three The Storm gal beat the Fever
Kaitlyn Clark twenty one point seven, rebout, seven assistter team
is zero and five. Now.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Well, now, the great WNBA fan there, Cooper Loop, tells
me that she screwed up at the end of the game.
Speaker 10 (26:02):
There.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Oh really, yeah, she made a mistake at the end
of the game. Yeah, cool in on that more if
he wants. But that's embarrassing.
Speaker 7 (26:09):
He's too busy eating something right now.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Oh all right, very good donut, powdered donut. What kind
of donut?
Speaker 6 (26:17):
This one was a sugar donut? But uh, I have
brought in a dozen donuts courtesy of Mike Carmen.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Wait a minute, so Mike Harmon left a dozen donuts?
Speaker 7 (26:26):
No, how does I'm refused?
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Well, so yesterday, I don't know if you recall, but
you asked about the was that yesterday or two days ago,
day before yesterday?
Speaker 7 (26:38):
Whatever?
Speaker 6 (26:38):
When you saw the wings on the table? Oh yeah,
And you asked like, did I get any And I
was like, no, Harmon took them all.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
And then I saw a venmo of some some money
from Mike Harmon that he sent me. He heard me,
he heard my disappointment on the air and said, get
your you know, get you guys something.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
Shout out to Harmon, give yourself something nice. Yeah, and
you chose donuts. That's right. Wow, that's baller.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
That's a nice thing that Mike Harmon did. Are those
fresh doughnuts?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
So those are?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
They've been sitting around for a while.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
I got them right before I got to the studio, I.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Know, but they usually make them during the overnight while
we're here.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
Hey, well we're overnight folks, we're not. We're not too
picky about that.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
What do you want a donuts? Been saying around, sitting
around twelve hours?
Speaker 7 (27:26):
You want to it's a free donut, I'll you know, look,
I'll take whatever I can get.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
It wasn't free for Harmon. He had to pay for it.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
I've eaten two so far, and so far I wouldn't
I wouldn't say that they were like just baked. But
they're not stale there. They still taste fresh.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Years ago I did a remote broadcast, as in local radio,
from the world's biggest donut shop. They claimed it was
west of the Mississippi. It was a Winchles. I think
it was a Winchles donut shop, which is a big
chain and there's nothing the right out of the oven.
And they were hooking us up. They were like the
donuts were coming out of the cooker and right into
(28:06):
our mouth. Oh my god, melting your mouth. Donuts so good.
Tom from Fullerton writes, and he says, listening to the
Mallor Show while simultaneously watching and listening to Rush videos,
in other words, I am definitely not getting laid tonight.
All right, Well, that's probably fair to say, Tom, that's
probably fair to say. That's not that's not going to happen.
(28:28):
Rush is awesome, but when you're by yourself listening to
a sports radio show and watching Rush videos, that's usually not,
as Lorena would say, an aphrodisiac. I don't think, I don't.
I mean, I don't know. Maybe it is. Let's see here.
Matt the Warrior Raider fan had a line about blind
(28:48):
Scott here and halftime adjustments. Very very interesting. We have
another first time. I'll get that. But I have a
fun fact. You know, let's hit that button. You know,
it's fun fact, fun fat. This is only fun if
you're a Maverick fan but not a fan of the
Minnesota basketball team. So Anthony Edwards the Last forty shots,
(29:11):
Anthony Edwards has taken the new Michael Jordan. He has
missed twenty eight of his last forty shots going back
to Game seven at Denver. And but wait, there's more.
Anthony Edwards only has one basket, only had one basket
inside the arc, none of them at the rim. So
(29:33):
he's supposed to be this great guy, and he has
been great going to the basket, but it's been hanging out,
lurking out on the on the edges and not going
to the basket. Let's go to George in Arkansas, who
is a first time caller. Hello, George, George, George, George, George.
If I was any better, i'd be sir scratch off.
(29:56):
But no I wouldn't because he, you know, hoses a
lot of bets. He's in Arkansas.
Speaker 10 (30:01):
Frog here, I tell you what, thanks for taking my call.
First of all, I was going through the stations about
a month ago, found you and been listening every since.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
Love what you do.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Well, thank you listen. That's old school right there, that's
old school, George. Yeah, it's hard to do that these days.
You just skied latey night, you're looking for someone to
listen to, and you found us. That's what.
Speaker 10 (30:28):
I want to write about, is these pampered athletes, and
then people say they're tired. How do you get tired
playing forty eight minutes and not even all the way
the same forty eight minutes. You get a lot of freaks.
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Well, George, these guys like the party, so when your party,
it's a little difficulty. You are right, though. If you
watch an NBA game, it's forty eight minutes over about
two hours, two and a half hours. Get take here's
about two hours, so you got a lot of downtime.
There's a lot of downtown. I think it's two and
a half hours actually, most of these NBA games. So yeah,
(31:08):
it's it's you and I do that.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
We'd be fired.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Oh yeah, if I took a segment off, I would
you know, I'd be in a lot of trouble. What
do you do for a living, George? What kind of
work do you do?
Speaker 10 (31:17):
I'm disabled?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Oh you're disabled?
Speaker 8 (31:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Sixty? Oh really? Wow? That's wild. And how long were
you in the service for I was in for four years?
Four years? Okay, yea, So I'm glad you found the
show I've been Thank you for your service there, George.
I appreciate that you're finding us man, thank you all right,
be good, all right, all right, George the Great George
(31:42):
in Arkansas checking in. So how about this? There was
a I see this the other day.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
There was a.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Charity event, a ten k charity bike ride. I think
this was in the Philadelphia area, and AJ Brown took part.
You see what happened with this. AJ Brown took part
in this thing. And you see what he did to
partake in the ten k charity bike race. He used
(32:10):
an electric bike. It was the Eagles Autism Challenge, a
ten mile charity bike ride, and the players of the
Eagles usually take part in and A. J. Brown's like, oh,
I'll take part in it, and he helped. The local
TV station interviewed him and he decided, you know, I'll
be honest here and he used one of those e bikes.
(32:33):
Yeah wow, you know what that's like something I would do.
Man the built in motor right there. It's a world
class athlete. AJ Brown. Work smarter, not harder, Ben, That's
what he said. He said, work smarter, not harder. He said,
I bought my electric bike, so I'm working smarter, not harder.
(32:56):
I'm in great shape, but this is my day off.
I'm here to support and put a smile on people's faces.
Not work too hard. No, that's uh, that's solid. That's
that's pretty pretty good, pretty pretty good. I would say
I would take some more of these riveting calls, and
(33:16):
we'll go in depth, in depth. We will go straight
ahead though the who am I?
Speaker 7 (33:20):
Game?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
We'll go back to pro bouncy ball. Derek Lively say,
player for the Dallas basketball team. Derek Lively led the
Mavericks in plus mice. He leads the Mavericks, I should
say plus minus at plus one oh six in the playoffs.
That is the highest for a rookie in the playoffs
since me. Again, this is NBA history. Derek Lively leads
(33:45):
the Mavericks in plus minus at plus one oh six.
That is the highest for a rookie in the playoffs
in the NBA since me. Who am I? That is
the question? The answer. We'll get to it. We'll do it, NAG.
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(34:33):
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Speaker 1 (34:41):
Send those questions in early and often. Here's the who
am I? Game? Derek Lively that is a who basketball
player for Dallas. He leads the Mavericks in plus minus
at one six. That means, well, he's been on the
court the Mavericks that outscore their opponent by one hundred
and six points in the playoffs. That is the highest
(35:02):
for a rookie in the playoffs in the NBA. Since me,
who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Let's see there's anyone in the Malamucho malaprop guy going
with a very specific southern southern California reference. He says,
doctor George Fishbeck, do you get that reference? At he
(35:25):
you probably don't. I don't know if you get that reference.
This might be before you. I don't get that he
was a weather He was a weather guy in La
Doctor George Fishbeck.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
Wow, and I remember like Johnny Mountain and the Dallas Raine.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
This guy was before them, legendary weather guy. Who else
do we have? Rod the Ambassador of Bakersfield, says Snidley Whiplash.
I said, I said, Snidley Nightly, that job by me.
Butter Bean guessed by Cowboy Killer that's his answer. Piglet
from Milkman Mike in Colorado, Ike and Roseville, Minnesota, going
(36:01):
with keky vandawah as his answer. Ken Jennings, who was
fifty today, I guess by the late night drug tester
Tanyan Sturtz from mister nice Guy Who's not so Nice?
Jane in Des Moines, going with Mariner's legend Edgar Martinez
as his answer. Bay City Tony says Charles Shackleford is
(36:22):
the way to go. Who else do we have? Page down.
Stevie Meatball said Craft Foods stop producing light and lively
yogurt in twenty oh five. That is my final answer,
says Stevine Meatball's who's never wrong. Sam Perkins from Double
O Mexican in San Diego. Matt the Warrior Raider fan
(36:44):
is going with the Kiwi Steven Adams as his answer?
Who else we have? Don Jan says Ben the Crue
Happy Thursday. You are Tony Snow have to be Tony Snell.
Royce White. I got into a beef with that guy,
remember Royce White. Yeah, I got into a beef with
that guy from Iowa State. That's from Trucker Joe.
Speaker 7 (37:06):
Where is he now?
Speaker 1 (37:07):
I don't know he Remember he said he was going
to dominate the NB. All these guys tell me they're
going to dominate. They don't dominate the Freedom Man.
Speaker 7 (37:13):
Couldn't he not? He couldn't even dominate getting on a plane, right, Yeah,
well that.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Was an issue, yes, uh yeah, yeah. Anyway, I forty
and says the Freedo Bandito A fine answer. Who else
do we have? Page down Daisy Duck from Johnny Q.
Keith Glass Clipper Legend from Elias Tom from Fullerton says
the sexy soul, seducing sounds of rush. Ozzie was listening
(37:38):
to us in Western Australia says Strawberry Shortcake is the answer.
Were you a fan of strawberry shortcake when you were younger?
Speaker 6 (37:48):
You know, honestly it was still a little before my time.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Oh I thought, though, aren't they still around those strawberry short.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
I thought, I thought that, No, you can only buy
them at antique stores.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Wow, look at that taking a shot at Ozzie wah
was Look at that. Lorraina just buried a guy in
Western Australia. All right, Eddie, do you have an answer
again the question? Derek Lively, he led the Mavericks. He
leads the Mavericks right now plus minus at plus one
oh six, That is the highest for a rookie in
the NBA playoffs since me? Who am I lee?
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Go with another dukie. I'm sure justin Cincinnati will be
all excited about that. La Clipper legend Mason Plumbley.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Fine basketball player, Mason Plumbley. Is that correct?
Speaker 8 (38:26):
No, that is.
Speaker 10 (38:29):
Wrong.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
It is a bad job by you. It happens to
be another guy that I got into a beef over
with an entire country. Eddie Manu Ginobili. Yeah, I was
getting the TV state. One of the TV stations in
(38:49):
Argentina ran a clip that we recorded me ripping managed
and Noble, and it became an international incident. They were
not happy with me. I don't know why they wouldn't
be happy with me. I don't get it.
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