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May 29, 2024 • 37 mins

Ben Maller talks about the Minnesota Timberwolves staving off elimination by defeating the Mavericks in Dallas in Game 4, if Scott Foster rigged the game for the Wolves, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome, it's our number one. You already knew that original recipe.
It's the Mallord Podcast. Here as we break down the
NBA Western Conference Finals Game four, Minnesota visiting Dallas. Did
Kyrie Irving's pregame words at the shoot around about the
Wolves playing in their Super Bowl just another game for Dallas?

(00:24):
Did that come back to sting the Mavericks as they
went down losing in clutch time? Do you believe the
Scott Foster conspiracy that the game was rigged in favor
of the Timberwolves? And is there a path for the
Minnesota basketball team to come back in this series? It
has never happened before in NBA history, But they got

(00:44):
one win Minnesota. Is it one and done? Does this
become a gentleman's sweep? Or is there a path for
the Timberwolves to come back in the series? Well analyze
that and a whole lot more right now here, it
is our number one.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Well, have you had the Minnesota basketball team eliminated?

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Not quite yet?

Speaker 3 (01:09):
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not gonna bear the lead.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Our lead.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Coming out of Dallas, it was going to be a
coronation for the Mavericks, proof that Luca is God's gift
of basketball, the greatest backcourt in NBA history. WHOA, There's
no way Dallas could lose at home, No way in
a close game down the stretch, no way at all.

(02:32):
See had Luka Doncik and the Mavericks looking to terminate
the Minnesota basketball team for the playoffs, get a clean
sweep and move on to Boston in the NBA Finals.
That did not happen. I don't know if you saw
this or not. Maybe you were not watching. You assumed
the outcome batch up by you. Someone named Carl Anthony Towns,

(02:52):
who usually sucks in big moments, did not suck in
this game. Karl Anthony Towns kitty cat upstage the Dallas Stars,
not the hockey team, the basketball players by scoring twenty
five points, but twenty of them in the second half
as the Wolves squeeze past the mav Rex one oh

(03:14):
five to one hundred and they avoid being swept. So
the humiliation did not happen there. Anthony Edwards twenty nine points,
ten rebounds. Nice of him to show up, and I
guess he didn't get tired in this game for a
Minnesota he had the ten rebounds of the nine er Sis.
So the Wolves staying alive. Staying Alive. Game five will

(03:36):
be on Thursday night, and whether you like it or not,
that game will be played Thursday night back in the
Twin Cities.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Now what I want to talk to about In the
lead up to this game.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
A reporter from the Mavericks television channel in Dallas sent
out a video, which for some reason she deleted. We're
not sure why. What's the point of deleting it when
it went everywhere? But in the video clip that went around,
Kyrie Irvings said that the Wolves heading into Game four.

(04:08):
You see this, He said, the Wolves heading into Game four.
For them, this was their super Bowl. However, for Dallas,
it was just a normal game. La la la la
la la la la la la la la la la
la la la la. So that was the money quote.
So of course, what do you think happened? That's right,

(04:29):
immediately after that quote started bouncing around the echo chamber.
Oh my god, I can't believe Kyrie said it.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Bulletin Bard, bulletin, mard, bulletin, ning bullet.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Mah my god.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
So let's discuss. Did Kyrie Irving's words come back to?
Sting the Mavericks was the outcome of game for a
result of Kyrie Irving's big mouth. So I've got Miss Cleo,
Silly Putty, and the multiverse, and we will combine all

(05:02):
of these things together and we are going to make
some soggy Texas toast, is what we're going to make,
because that's what the Dallas basketball team throughout there. Now
to answer the question, did Kyrie Irving's words come back
to haunt the Mavericks. So as much as I love
to bash Kyrie, it's a lot of fun and I

(05:24):
really do enjoy sports hate. And I took some shot
in freude at the end of this game.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
I did. I had a little shot in freude moment
I did. I enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
That being said, if you think that the reason Minnesota
decided to engage at the end of this game and
Karl Anthony town has actually made shots when he normally
is a brick house at the end of the game,
if you think that was because Kyrie Irving was caught
on candid camera at a shoot around and made some comments,
you probably should stand up because I think you are

(05:55):
sitting on the buffoon button, you dingle Berry. Last I checked,
they can't play in the Super Bowl. Of course, neither
can the Vikings anytime recently. But the bigger issue here
Kyrie Irving his words about the way that Dallas was
going to approach this game.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
That was a prophecy.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
I haven't seen a prophecy that good since back when
I was younger and I used to watch the Miss
Cleo infomercials, the modern day psychic cotline, if you will.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
And Kyrie Irving played like it was a November game
on a random Tuesday night against the Rockets.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
That's the way he played. At least the.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Results were that way. He took eighteen shots to get
sixteen points, only made six shots, miss twelve of the
eighteen shots that he took. And Luca he had the
big standard, he had the triple double. Not impressive. I
wasn't impressed. The greatest backcourd in NBA history, who, according
to Prison the moment in the fourth quarter, they shot

(07:03):
thirty three point three percent. Kyrie Irving and Luka Datrich
thirty three point three percent half the side of the
devil in the fourth quarter, shooting from the fourth right. Now,
turning the page, here there's another grand conspiracy. Now this
is a ready made conspiracy. Just add water, just add
what ready made conspiracy? So do you believe the internet sluice?

(07:27):
I'll say that word slusee, the internet sloose? Do you
believe them when they say that Scott Foster rigged this game,
that phone calls were made and the game was rigged
for Minnesota to win. Now, I didn't see it that way.
I know that stuff bounces around the internet. We got
people like Poppy and San Diego that call up and

(07:48):
they're convinced they know exactly how this.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Is all going to go.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
And while there have been some improprieties, we say in
Scott Foster games, and I do believe that games have
been rigged.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Oh they have been rigged. There's proof of it.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
The NBA back in the old days, with the commissioner
named David Stern, they swept.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
It under the rug. They said, wow, we just had
a rogue referee. We don't believe that to be true.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
We think there were multiple referees that were involved in
some funny business. Tim Donnie he's the one that was
the fall guy, But Scott Foster was buddy buddy with
Tim Donnie. But this the Scott Foster story. Even though
I do think funny business happens, I didn't see anything.
Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see anything that
rose to the level of Okay, well this is this

(08:33):
is another one of these Scott Foster games. It has
become the man that shot liberty balance. When you talk
about Scott Foster, when the legend becomes the fact, you broadcast.
The legend Scott Foster at this point is silly puddy.
He's silly putty, right, He's malleable just depends on the

(08:53):
outcome of the game, and you can twist him into
that outcome. It's like we often talked about things like, well, madam,
the mattericks all the momentum. Why would they lose this game?
They had won three games in a row. They hit
every big shot down the stretch. Explain to me why
Dallas would get back momentum. I don't understand it.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Do you understand? I don't understand.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Here's another example, though, the Scott Foster thing, because the outcome,
whatever fits the narrative, whatever you're trying to sell you
go with. Now I will again, I'm gonna go back
to Scott Foster. At some point there'll be a game
that he totally botches, and at that point we can
revisit this. But this was not one of those games, right,
and we call it like we see it. And I
wish there was some impropriety that could bring up and say,

(09:32):
well that was it. I mean, Karl Anthony Town's fouled
out in the final seconds of the game. Now that
being said, I don't doubt that they did a happy
dance at NBA headquarters in Midtown Manhattan at the outcome,
because it would have been for television purposes apocalyptic had
both conference finals ended up in a sweep and you're

(09:54):
sitting there twiddling your thumbs waiting for the NBA Finals
to begin, which don't start until next But had Minnesota
not one, let's say the Mavericks had won, then Scott
Foster would have been called the closer. He's the closer.
But since Minnesota ended up winning, he's the extender. So
he's either the closer or the extender. It just whatever

(10:16):
fits the story you're trying to tell. And I would
love to have said there was something there. I didn't
see anything. If you saw something, you can call up
and chew my ear off. All right, Now, last word, here,
is there a path for the Wolves to come back?
I know Lorrain is dying to know, big Sportsman. Is
there a path for the timer Puffs to come back

(10:41):
in the Western Conference House and get to the NBA
found head east to Boston.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Is there a path?

Speaker 2 (10:46):
So I'm gonna nod my head yes on this. I'm
Benny Brightside on this one.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Believe it or not.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
I am someone that my mind wanders. I'm up all night.
I never can sleep at night. I'm always up doing
this show. And I buy into the multiverse theory of
the world that there's a bunch of different dimensions. And
in a parallel dimension, the Mavericks get a round trip
flight on the Vomit Comet and they totally botched this thing,

(11:16):
just like they botched the fourth quarter of this pass game.
Here this this game Tuesday night, and there is a scenario. Now,
needless to say, it's, you know, the parallel dimension in
the multiverse. It's a rocky road. Not rocky road ice
cream that's delicious, It's.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
A rocky road.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
However, it really just is one more game. Game five
is the Waterloo moment. Tell me I'm wrong. That to me,
that's the moment where everything moves upside down. So my
advice to my friends in Minnesota, and we have many
great listeners in Minnesota. You know, Luca is gonna go

(11:54):
out and eat a bunch of juicy Lucy's. The guy's
a pig. He eats a lot of food. Good for him.
So Lucas gonna go out and load up on some burgers.
So he ets so many burgers, he ends up hibernating
and he sleep walks through Game five. Dallas loses that
game all of a sudden, that ride on the vomit

(12:16):
comet takes them into the pressure cooker in game six
because they then have to win. Now, next game is
in Minnesota on Thursday. But then after that they go
back to Texas. If you lose game six at home,
OMG O MG, you're cooked, right, because then then all
of a sudden, you got you got a game seven.

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So the pressure is on Luka and Kyrie at game six.
Now right now, there's still no pressure on Minnesota. You
play a pressure game, pressure, pressure, pressure, because the Wolves.
I read the internet, I heard the conversation the Wolves.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
They already had their funeral.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
The eulogy has been written for the twenty twenty four
Timberwolves after they lost the first three games.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
No one's ever come back. I get it.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
But if you put yourself, if you lose game five,
your Dallas, and then you got to win game six,
otherwise you end up in a game seven. You put
yourself in a winner take all game seven where one
twisted ankle or Luka Doncik not getting his nap In
or Kyrie Irving making some lunatic comment like he's known

(13:24):
to do about the world being flat or whatever, and
all of a sudden, instead of going to Boston, the
mav Rex will go to Kankunin. There's a thing involved
with this called the gambler's fallacy. The way the gambler's
fallacy or is this is erroneous thinking that a certain
event is more or less likely to happen given a

(13:45):
previous set of events. Like no one has ever come
back from this deficit in the history of the NBA playoffs.
We've only seen a few teams in hockey, and the
famous Red Sox against the Yankees and the Alcs that
did it in baseball. But there again, there is that
path there because they have home court. It is the

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Speaker 2 (16:04):
Mallar, slow class, Eddie. I do a high class show.
It's a bad job by you. Shame on you.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
That's funny. Your sarcasm is not needed here, Eddie.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Late Night drug tester says I have to see the
final thirty list of NBA players that could play in
the NFL from Austin Rivers and mel Kiper before saying
any of the Timberwolves can play in the Super Bowl. Yeah,
that's just the.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Content I need.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
You would have gotten a lot of that content over
the next week, but now you have to wait until
Friday and less Minnesota wins, and then you'll push back
all that content to the offseason. You feed me in
Chicago says A plus and some homemade hummus on the
Mallard monologue, Mister NFL wants to expand training camp move
OTAs they are going to take the space Alien NBA

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Commissioner's lunch. The shield never loses, says you feed me.
We'll talk about that cut up a little bit later.
Spoxwed writes in It's Big Night. If Spoxwed is listening,
says A plus US plus on the Mallard monologue the
night Ben to start the show. I did not hear
most of it because I was driving home from the
Elks and had to get set up to listen. However,

(17:10):
that is the what people say when they want to
be read on the air, especially like the thing you
said about it, says spots Me. So he thinks I
don't read negative comments. I just don't get any negative commass.
Everyone loves the show. There's no one that hates the show.
We have a character who we pay marked, the full
name guy who's on the payroll, who pretends to not

(17:32):
like the show. But it's all an act. It's like
professional wrestling. It's all a bit and I would get
meet anyone, not a single man, woman or child that
does not.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
Like the show.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
David writes in from Ohio, although he's a Steeler fan, says, hey, Ben,
I'm sorry, I missed most of the monologue came in
on the word extender, and the only thing I could
think of was nobody's partner or Sagima other wants to
hear the words, Hey, go get the extender. David commenting

(18:09):
on that's the comment that we needed. Absolutely, Ferg Dog says,
where's the where's the Mallard run down? You know I
cannot function without it? From the what's the delio?

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Maller?

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Well, I thought I thought I sent it. I guess
I didn't. Maybe I didn't click the send button on it.
That's a bad job by me.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Hey, when that happens.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yeah, no, I thought I did. Let me check you
let me see here, click on this. I'm gonna click
on this. I'm gonna do this on the air radio.
It's you know, I guess, said Van. Where the hell
did it go? I had it there and then I
was in the queue and then it just, uh, it disappeared.
Oh my god? Do you think the gremlins attacked?

Speaker 1 (18:51):
Could that be?

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Let's go to the phones. We'll say hello to Jeff
who's in Lost Wages, Nevada. Hello, Jeff, welcome.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Hello.

Speaker 8 (19:00):
I just want to I just want to know what
the Dale fans are thinking. We had our top three guys,
Rudy Gobert five fouls, Anthony Edward's five files, town fouls out, Hey,
what what else do they are? They rigging it for
the Timberwold No, I.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Agree, they didn't rig it for the Timberwolves. I agree
with you. You're me, but I agree with you the Internet.
I was reading social media. I'm not their dumb ass Internet.
They're morons for the Internet. It's all about engagement, man.
You get engagement. You say the game was rigged when
it's even when it's not rigged, you get engagement.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
And you know what, I have a problem with that.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Let me tell you. I have a problem with that
because here's why. Because there are games that are rigged.
And then when you say every game's rigged, it takes
away from the games that we actually believe were rigged.
Bad job by them.

Speaker 8 (19:49):
Hey, and I'm not I'm not saying anything. I'm not
guaranteeing a win, but Wolves seven guaranteed, Well look at.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
This what I like.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
He's not guaranteed, but Wolves and seven guaranteed.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Go down one of the go down one of the books,
or use your phone there and bet all your money
on the Timberwolves coming back to win the championship.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
I'm only a couple miles away.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
What could possibly go wrong?

Speaker 2 (20:10):
All right? Thank you, Jeff. All Right.

Speaker 7 (20:12):
I think Ben agrees with you on that. He said
the other day, we're going to see what's that you
said the other day? We are going to see someone
rally from down three to nothing.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, the NBA?

Speaker 2 (20:20):
Will you buy into the gambler's fallacy? Garcia, that's why
the casinos are so big. You think, just because it's
never happened, it's not going to happen.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
I think it's very unlikely.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Well, I would agree it's unlikely. Mathon, No, Mavericks will
not win. We will get at least six games, and
I'll tell you why. That's on Thursday. So you don't
want to have a full week between basketball games, so
you need to at least get to the weekend and
then that would set up a Saturday.

Speaker 6 (20:47):
Yeah, but the league's not rigged and Lucas just going
to dominate with the.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
League is rigged. It's been proven that the league is rigged.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
So we have proof of that, Tim Donnahey's a lot
of evidence, and there's evidence that got covered up right.

Speaker 6 (21:00):
But then when stuff like this happens and there is
like a week between, or there's some crappy NBA Finals
matchup that nobody wants to watch, we don't all get
on the radio and say, like, I'll see the NBA
is not rigged.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Whatever.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
I mean, you just interject that was really an unnecessary interjection.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Would you agree, Eddie?

Speaker 2 (21:18):
That was an unnecessary interjection by I feel like that
did not add to the show. I feel like that
lessened the show. I feel like.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
On the internet to see if you had posted your
that's great content.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Because the Twitter ROTI or the X Roddy or whatever
they're called the losers. I mean, these people live on
that that tweet that I sent out, that X thing
that I sent out, that that has all the topics
of the amount of monologues I mean, that is must click.
That is must click. And the fact that I had
set it up and all I had to do was
click the send button. I didn't click the send button,

(21:51):
And now I guess I closed the window and the
thing's gone. All those emojis, I know, malor emoji. I
looked in the draft folders, not there. It's the first
place I looked at draft folders. Not there, Matt Wrights
and says, Luka Doncik is the greatest NBA player of
all time. If the MAVs win the championship against the Celtics,

(22:13):
well he's not the greatest player of all time, but
you will hear he's the greatest player of all time.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
Over and over and over and over and over.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Art Puffin writes in he says, another genuine Mallard monologue.
Although I was searching for the rundown the whole time
you were talking to no avail.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
But I digress.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Your worst case scenario for the MAVs is brilliant, very feasible.
He says, good job by you, although he put an
H instead of a G. All the pressure is on
Luca and well, no, the pressure is still on Minnesota.
Once we get the game six, then it switches. Then
it goes back to the other direction. Then it goes

(22:55):
back the other direction.

Speaker 4 (22:57):
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Speaker 1 (23:03):
How about some news from Major League Baseball? Do you
see the day's ball?

Speaker 7 (23:07):
The officially announced they are integrating stats of the players
who played in the Negro leagues with the official Major
League Baseball records. So Josh Gibson is now the all
time major League leader in batty average surpassing.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
So that is now officially.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
What is the rule on this?

Speaker 1 (23:25):
Are you? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
You're not allowed to say that's a bad thing. You
have to support that whatever you want. I guess it's
just stats. We're satchel page on all those lists. Now
you're asking Eddie a question? Allowed to look missed sportscasting
one on one the day. You're not supposed to ask
a question the guy does not know the answer to.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
I thought he had the thing up like in front
of him with you know the thing. The thing is
not up in front of.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Well what thing are you talking about? The records? You
don't have the records, Eddie, in front of it.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
I don't have the record book open in front of me.
Why that is factual? And you're supposed to I didn't
know I was going to ask that question.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
You're supposed to be the news guy.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Could give me a little heads up. I'm sorry, that's
all right?

Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yeah, are you?

Speaker 1 (24:07):
I just have Josh Gibson.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
Oh, I used to have a guy in the early
days of my career. He's I'm guaranteed he's dead now,
but he used to. Yeah he was old.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
I mean he I mean, you know, I don't know,
I mean still around.

Speaker 6 (24:19):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
Look at that taking a shot at the second darkness.
I mean, but no, this guy was the old guy.
Quinton was his name. And he called up a caller
caller and you know, let me tell you about Josh Gibson.
He had seen Josh Gibson play right, and he told,
oh my god, he believed no one was as good

(24:40):
as Josh Gibson. And he would call up and I
would say, somebody else is better, and he would say, oh,
you don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Josh Gibson was a Paul Bunyan like figure, if you will.
Right there, there were lots of tall foot home.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yeah that's right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah exactly.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Which is fine, fine, yeah, no, it's all right.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
It just seems part of her sports. It's always odd
when you something's been one way and you go back
and change it, you know what I mean, Like the record,
it seems odd to me, but they you know, I'm
sure baseball, I'll say it.

Speaker 7 (25:12):
I guess it wasn't major League Baseball, right, no sofa.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
I was talking to Harmon about this. The late Don Newcomb,
who was played in the negro Leagues, was with the
Brooklyn Dodgers, and he told I remember him telling stories
about how crappy it was playing in that in the
negro Leagues, like the travel, everything was just terrible. I'm
sure the lighting in the stadiums was brutal, and not
that they played a lot of night games.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
But anyway, well, there you go.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
Baseball's changed. I guess I'll have to go on Baseball
Reference to see the new the new leaders in certain categories.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
I'll do a little research on that for you if
you feel like, if you.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Really will that be your fun fact that well I saw?

Speaker 1 (25:51):
Are you doing it on your own?

Speaker 4 (25:52):
Well?

Speaker 1 (25:52):
I saw.

Speaker 6 (25:52):
I just saw a little a little thing that says
MLB is reviewing the statistics to see how many app
bats are endings pitched qualify for new records. So I
don't know if it's not like official yet or what
that means, but I don't know.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
Somewhere there is an army of nerds that are going
over all of the box scores.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
There's like a super Nerd.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Convention where they're getting all together and they're all they're
all aroused at either.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Well not the arousal part, but just a room full
of nerds.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
I mean, this is very exciting, the biggest thing that's
ever happened in the nerd community. Just amazing, absolutely amazing.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
Oh wait a minute, we can go back and change
like the record book here, this is outstanding.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
This is so good.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
Well that was not fun, but this is a fun fact.
Somebody named Jeremiah Estrada. We're not sure who that is.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
We're told he.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
Was a a player that was with the Cubs. The
Podreys picked him up on waivers from the Cubs. He
has now struck out thirteen consecutive batters, breaking the previous
MLB record of eleven. All thirteen strikeouts were swinging. The
streak is still active. So Jeremy Estrada.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
I never heard of this guy. But does that count?

Speaker 1 (27:19):
He did it?

Speaker 2 (27:19):
I guess it does count. He pitched for two of
the Cubs and now he's on the padre. If he's
so good, why do the Cubs get rid of him?

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Well? What's going on with that? You feem me?

Speaker 2 (27:27):
I don't get it. In Chicago and all you guy
Eugene in Chicago and you guy, who's up with that?
I mean, I don't know this guy is. But there's
your fun fact. It is the Ben Malishow. Are you
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(27:49):
Visit expresspros dot com to find the location nearest you.
That's expresspro dot com. I've had this problem at I'm
so seamless with the mentions. That's not a live read,
that's a mention. I've had this seamless, very seamless, seamless. Yes,
So I've had this issue very smooth with Lorrain and
I was Sam and well Roberto.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
Didn't care at the end, so he didn't give a crap.
But but.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
I'm so I'm like a ninja. I'm like Victor Brick
would say, yokozuna the way I'm able to I'm able
to wrestler. I know the same thing, but you know
in relatives like you know, so I was able to
work these mentions in where it's Uh, it's it's difficult

(28:34):
for the people to keep track.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
It's so buttery the way that you sip them in.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
Ben.

Speaker 5 (28:39):
Yes, sometimes I think they're so buttery that they're not
actually there.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
No, no, no, they are absolutely there.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
I kind of like that thing. Ben was supposed to
tweet out, but he didn't. Oh, I haven't done that yet.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Well I was. I was engaging with you, and it's
your fault, Garcia, it's your fault.

Speaker 6 (28:54):
So I just wanted to.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Double check, Ben, you know, I just I like to
double check because if you don't get them right, I
got to kick you in the ship.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, I understand that this is the deal. Wow, Eddie,
I'm gonna go to HR. Eddie is encouraging violence. Eddie's
a very violent You have to lesson Eddie. Not only
has Eddie gone woke, but now he's encouraging violence.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
So that's I don't know, Well maybe not. I have
no idea.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
Very yeah, very confused. At a buddy of mine is
dropped by the garage. He had to drop something off,
and I said, I said, I hope you can get
out of here.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
I don't know if he got out of here without.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Having the It's very expensive here the garage, it is
a pay sweet parking garage money. I think it's twenty
eight dollars a day to park, he absurd. Who the
hell would pay twenty eight dollars a day to park?

Speaker 6 (29:39):
Not me?

Speaker 2 (29:40):
I mean, what do they think they are Disneyland? Is
there a bigger ripoff than twenty eight dollars a day
to park in this building?

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Michael?

Speaker 2 (29:48):
Anyway, I did meet the security guy. We had a
nice conversation about the street takeover, Oh intersection names?

Speaker 1 (29:59):
Can I say his name?

Speaker 2 (30:00):
I don't know?

Speaker 5 (30:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (30:01):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (30:01):
JB really good?

Speaker 2 (30:03):
JB is great. He's not I don't think he starts.
I think he starts in like twenty minutes. But he's wonderful,
shows up early and everything.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Does his job. Haven't seen him sleeping once, you know,
I see him in.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
The parking lot making sure nobod's breaking into our cars, goob, wonderful.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
Did he go out and check it out last night? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (30:19):
But he said, well what am I? I can't do
any I mean there's nothing you can do. He just
he just wanted to make sure they didn't hit the building.
But even if there's nothing you can do. But yeah,
we had a street takeover last night. It was pretty crazy. Anyway,
we'll take your calls coming up here. I promise also
time now for the who Am I?

Speaker 1 (30:39):
Game? I will send out the show rundown on on X.
I know you're needing it and your night's not complete
without that. We will. We will do that.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
I thought I did, but somehow it vanished into the matrix.
So the fashion accessory will push that back a wardrobe malfunction.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
Here's the who Am My? Game?

Speaker 2 (31:01):
Only Carl Malone and John Stockton have more NBA playoff
games than me without winning a championship. Again, only the
Mailman Karl Malone and former radio guy and John Stockton
have more NBA playoff.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Games than me without winning a ring. Who Am I?
The answer? We'll get to it. We'll do it next.

Speaker 4 (31:21):
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Speaker 7 (31:33):
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(31:54):
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Speaker 1 (31:55):
Fox Sports Radio Studios, It's Ben Mallor and time now
for the who am I?

Speaker 5 (32:00):
Game?

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Only?

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Carl Malone and John Stockton had more NBA playoff games
than me without ever winning a ring. Who am I?
That's the question. What's the answer? Dad boy? Malcolm says?
Elgin Baylor is the answer? Who else do we have?
James Harden from Double Mexican So we're really working out there.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
Way to go? Uh, let's see who do we have?

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Truck or Joe says Speedy Gonzalez cousin Pedro from South
of the Boy. Julio Rodriguez He's back, guessed by Robbie
the Mariner fan. It's needed a tough love Matland monologue
to inspire him. Donielle Marshall from EKE in Roseville, Minnesota.
Jeremiah Estrada's cousin Eric Estrada Guessed by Milkman Mike. I

(32:42):
was just talking to someone who ran into Ericastrada at
the grocery store here in la I think it was
my friend Jay who said, yeah, he ran into Eric Astra.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
I just saw him in a TV show I was
watching Out of the Blue.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Well that was made a long time. He say lost,
He's lost a lot of weight. He's very skinny.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
Dude, did you see him in Fallout? Cooper? Do you
even who that is?

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Poncerello?

Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yeah, you know who Ericsarade is. Coop might be before
your time. The name sounds familiar. He was in the
Fallout just for a quick second. He got paid for it.
Al the alien O Pinter says.

Speaker 7 (33:13):
W C.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
Fields, it's a very young photo of w. C. Fields
that you found. My favorite one of my favorite quotes
from w. C.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
Fields.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
I'm Matt the Warrior Raider fan, says Sam Perkins. Is
the answer Forrest Gump from King Rory Andrew in the
Bay Area. We haven't talked to Andrew in a while,
says The answer is James the Beard hardened that that
is the answer.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Who else?

Speaker 4 (33:34):
We have?

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Brad Lohaus from a Reek in Minnesota? Did Reek said
you any? Did he?

Speaker 7 (33:40):
He sent me an amazing University of Minnesota hockey jersey
with my name on it?

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Wow? Yeah, how come he likes you some much? I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
That's fancy.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Thank you. That was very kind of you there for me.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
What's what's in the box from me?

Speaker 1 (33:55):
Absolutely nothing? Nothing? Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Oh, I guess I'll stop reading his comments on the air,
all right.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
No, he's come to several of our events. The Nature
Boy Rick Flair from Rob in Vegas. That's his answer.
Who people ripping me the burner account for being late
on the X comment? Bob Nepper from mister Nice Guy.
That's his answer. I forty Ian says in msg PA

(34:21):
announcer voice Pat treg.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yoey, Did I do it right? I think so close
to that.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
Cowboy Killer says it has to be Marv Albert that
that is the answer.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Who else do we have?

Speaker 4 (34:33):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (34:33):
Any?

Speaker 2 (34:34):
The comic book guy's been triggered by the hour four
monologue without even having the hour four monologue be presented.
Yet he's already triggered. I guess you know what it's about.
Uh see Mark Grace former Saddleback College guy Mark Grace
from Chris into Moines. That's his answer. Bobcat Goldwaite zed
the cadet from Art Puffin, Eddie, do you have an answer, Eddie.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
Yes, it is Joe Pavelski of the Dallas Stars. Is
that correct? No?

Speaker 2 (35:02):
That is Incorrectropy you the correct answer? Most playoff games
without winning a championship. You got carmelone won, John Stockton two.
And the answer we were looking for Al Horford, Al
Horford of your Boston Celtics, Big Al, good old aw.
As you know, Eddie, I moonlighted several years back in

(35:23):
local Boston radio, and at that time Al Horford was
on the Celtics. His nickname was Average Al because he
played a lot and had very average performance most of
the time. They called them average Olt. Let's say hello
to Big Daddy. He was like, very nice, he would
like to address the electorate. Hello, big daddy.

Speaker 8 (35:42):
What's going on to all my fans and all my cositiones?

Speaker 2 (35:45):
I thound Josh.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
Looked an all time for home run?

Speaker 8 (35:50):
You think I mean that's what I thought?

Speaker 1 (35:52):
Oh? The all like in Major League Baseball? Well, now
how many did how many guess it would be professional baseball?

Speaker 2 (35:57):
Professional baseball? Oh the negro LEA I don't know. I
wasn't there. Who's the guy in Japan.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
That hit all the home runs? Horror, Oh that guy?
How many did he? Are they going to count those stats? Eddie?
I don't know. I don't know. That's big league baseball,
it's professional. What's that?

Speaker 2 (36:17):
I could talking bays ball. I'm only allowed to talk
to baseball a certain amount of time or else I
will get pushed.

Speaker 4 (36:27):
But take this down here. You need some money now,
no doubt play.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
You want us to play? I ever got upset, Lorena.
I do not play the songs.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
It's in the imaging. It's been in the imaging for years.
But uh, and it's all you do.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
But I am not guilty.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
But my question is how hard is it a to
actually get like new opens?

Speaker 1 (36:52):
It seems to be very difficult and.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Then be how difficult is it just to delete the
ones that people get all upset by. I don't I
don't see.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
Why opens all the time. They just don't just always
use the same like themes.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
We need a new So what's a new Ben's song?
We need, you know, that's what we need. We need
a new Ben's song. I talk about something, but we
need a new Ben's song.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
That's a good.

Speaker 6 (37:13):
Michael Jackson, Benn No I don't.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
I don't think it's a good one for this.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
Yeah, you do like Benny the Jets, but that's about
a check. I'm like, dude, you know, I don't know
I can. That would work, Benny the Jets are.

Speaker 8 (37:25):
You talking about?

Speaker 1 (37:27):
What do you suppose that? I love you, big daddy.
I love you man,
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