June 21, 2024 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about J.J. Redick getting hired as the Lakers new head coach, reports that the team "prioritized" Anthony Davis' voice, if there is a silver lining to Redick getting hired, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, it's our number one. The weekend
about to kick off, and welcome to this Friday, the
twenty first day of June. And that means double duty
for me, not only this podcast but the Fifth Hour podcast.
And I'm going to real I'm gonna save this for
the podcast today. The podcasts are big. Now I could
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coach the Lakers. So I have the newest hat in
my collection, which is the Mona Lisa of Baseball Caves.
You'll find out why on today's episode of the Fifth Hour.
I'll also explain my unexpected appearance at a recent wedding venue.
I'll explain why I went to that. But here in
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hour one, it's all about the podcaster JJ Reddick coaching
the Lakers. What letter grade do you give the higher
for Reddick? And what letter grade do you give the Lakers? Also,
reports say the Lakers prioritized Anthony Davis's voice in the
head coaching search. Do you believe any of that? And
is there a silver lining to the Lakers hiring podcaster
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JJ Reddick as their head coach. Will cover all of
that and much more right now here, it is our
number one. No they didn't, Yes they.
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the lead. Pro bouncy ball. After a very public airball,
the Purple and Gold have connected. They have shot their
shot again and this time they have hit the net.
But is that good? Is that bad? Is this like
some kind of weird Carnie game? But if you missed it,
I assume you know by now, but maybe not as
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we know it. Podcaster JJ Redick. They hired a podcaster.
They did it. They hired a podcaster to coach the
Dame J. This is so great. JJ Reddick, podcaster has
agreed to a four year deal to become the head
coach of the once proud Lakers. Reddick's name. And we've
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talked about this. My people that are in the in
the know have told me for some time that there's
a couple of people over there in Lakerland, one of
them named Lebron another one who has a bug up there,
you know what, for Reddick. So Lakers fired Darvin Ham.
They got rid of him. They usually get rid of
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coaches after a couple of years. And the Lakers lost
to the Nuggets, so Darvin Ham was sacrificed after that
playoff loss. And now they hired a podcast so good,
Oh my god, is this great? All right? So let
us discuss the question what letter grade do you give
the hire of podcaster JJ Reddick, and what letter grade
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do you give the Lakers. So I've got Jupiter. I've
also got Minooka, Honey and full Nelson, and we will
combine all of these things together and we will not
be giving you any stock answers. That will not happen.
So on the malor report, because let's get right to
the Malor report card. Not waste any time. We'll start
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with the organization. So the Lakers, they don't get an A,
they don't get a B, they don't get a C,
they don't get an F. I'm not going to give
them an F. I'm not I'm fair. I am. I
have this reputation for not being fair. I'm very fair.
The Lakers on the Malor report card get an E.
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Now not for excellent. He is not for excellent. He
is for emasculating. Because this is a masculating, a pathetic
attempt by the Purple and Goal to play Kate. Lebron.
Just don't leave, Lebron. We need you, Lebron. Don't go, Lebron. Please,
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we'll hire your buddy. You have just embarrassed the once
proud franchise and hired Lebron's podcast Go House. Oh my god.
If I had told this story two years ago, said
or even a year ago, I said, you know, I
think the Lakers, their next coach is going to be
a podcaster, a with no coaching experience and reddick. Anything
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you don't want in a coach. He's got, he's thin skinned,
he's got rabbit ears. That's his skill set. He takes
criticism personally, he's popis persnickety and generally unlikable. Back home,
we call a guy like that a schmuck. You've just
hired a schmuck as your head coach. And yet you
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know the Lakers realize this right deep down. Genie Buss,
the cheap owner of the Lakers and skinny jeans Rob Polinker.
They know. And how do you know they know? Because
they're planting stories with useful idiots in the media, comparing
the podcaster to pat Riley and the latest. I don't
know if you saw this, I did. They planted a
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story that they think that Reddick's like Eric Spolstra, just
like Eric spos Of course Spoe, as I understand it,
in Miami, he worked his way up from like the
video room and paid his dues and then became a coach.
So like, what are we doing now? As far as
the podcaster, I'm gonna give JJ Reddick a B minus.
And here's why this is one of the great hustles
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of all time. It really is. And as many have said,
you don't need a gun or a knife to steal
big money. You just have to hang out with Lebron.
He was able to finagle his way into a job
he does not deserve by opening up essentially a Jupiter
Florida like Orchids of Asia day spa, giving Lebron a
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weekly Manny Petty on his little pod with massages, the facial,
the sea salt scrub, and the happy ending. Reddick was
given the Golden handshake for essentially a no show job.
When you're coaching the Lakers. It's a no show job
for two reasons. Number one, Lebron James does all the
decision making because he's the coach by proxy, so you've
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got that. And then number two, you get a four
year contract and they they fire you after two years,
so you're getting money for nothing. It's a no show
job for two of those. Darvin Ham now he's got
another job in Milwaugie, but he's gonna get paid. It's a
no show job all right. Now page two, there are
reports swirling that the unibrow is not happy. So now
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there are others saying, well, well, wait a minute, the
Lakers prioritized Anthony Davis's voice. I saw that headline, Lakers
prioritize Anthony Davis's voice in their head coaching search where
they came up with the podcaster. Do you believe there's
any truth, even a grain of truth in that story?
So maybe you think I'm more in a dunch cap.
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I'm not. If you think that the unibrow was prioritized
in this decision, then you might as well go over
to McDonald's there, and you might want to ask for
some extra fries because you're a few fries short of
a happy meal with that, With that mindset, this is
Rob Polinka scrambling and the Laker higherarchy to put out fires.
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Unless your name starts with an L, your first name
and your last name starts with a J, you were
not prioritized. Skinny Jeans is simply pouring Minuka honey into
Anthony Davis's ears and just pour the honey in there.
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And Davis, he seems like a pretty mellow yellow guy.
He doesn't really have that killer instinct Anthony Davis, And
they'll get hurt anyway. So the whole idea that players
decide who the coach is, that's an NBA thing anyway,
But just in general, the reporting of like, Wow, the
Lakers prioritized Anthony devis you gotta be kidding. Okay, Now,
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will he ask for a trade. He would have to
care to ask for a trade. He likes the whole
Laker thing and the historians kissing his ass and all that,
and he doesn't really have to show up for most games,
and you can linger and he's okay. You know, the
fans don't really care because they're not real fans. It's
the whole thing's weak. The whole thing's weak. Sauce is
what it is, all right? Now, last word here again
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if you missed it. The Lakers have hired a podcaster
as their new coach with no coaching experience. Is there
a silver lining? Is there a silver lining playbook if
you will for the Lakers hiring the podcaster, JJ Reddick.
So I will be Benny Bright's side on two points.
I'm not all doom and gloom and all. I'm gonna
be Benny Bright's side for a couple of points. It's
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not all bad news. Number one, JJ Reddick, the TV
commentator will now be given radio and TV silence. So
that's good. Hallelujah. B man. Did he suck at that
job right now? To be fair, I didn't spend much
time watching him because I also despised Dorris Burke on
those broadcasts, so I pretty much just hit the mute
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button anyway. But when I have seen him and heard
him on other platforms, man, is he just terrible? God?
Is he bad at broadcasting? And then the entire NBA
came my second point here. The entire NBA community has
essentially given the Lakers what I like to call the
full Nelson ergo Nelson months better known as the Bully
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from The Simpsons, and everyone in Unison giving that signature
mocking laugh and pointing while saying ha ha, so great,
Oh my gott he hired up podcasting. Lebron's podcast Buddy
has been hired as a If you think coaching doesn't
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matter in the NBA, well hello, welcome to this. Right,
don't tell me coaching matters. It doesn't matter. But it's
so embarrassing. It is so embarrassing. At the same time,
it is just so great because they like the illusion
that these guys make a lot of in game decisions
and you gotta be really bright and all that, and
you gotta be likable. There's nothing likable about JJ Reddick,
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There's nothing. He is a very easy to hate, right
I mean, my it's of course sports hate, which is fine.
We like Sports eight. But what a disaster, what an
absolute does it could not happen to a better franchise.
I am so so excited my dreams have come true.
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When I was told about a month ago that Reddick
was legitimately in play right, that this was a legitimate possibility.
The person that told me that, I thought I was
being punked. Okay, I thought the person that informed me
that this is legit, that this is not fake. I said,
there's no way you're pulling my leg here. You want
me to go on the radio and become a jackwagon
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on the radio and say, I mean, of course I did,
because that's why I do. But it happened, so wow,
man alive. All right. It is the Ben Mallor Show.
If you want to comment on any of that, you
are more than welcome to join us. I guess I'm eligible.
Not a coach. I do a podcast on the weekends,
and this show is technically a pot cast in addition
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to a radio show. The podcast goes up. Let me
tell you something. They squeeze every ounce of content out
of the show. We've got video cameras in here to
record the monologues for YouTube. We have our own YouTube channel.
We've got the audio podcast, we've got the live terrestrial
radio show, we got a little bit everything, all right,
a little bit of and the weekend podcast where I
do not allow cameras on the Weekend Podcast studio because
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I do that in my underwear, so I do not
allow cameras in there. But we have that as well,
So anyway, take your call. Speakeasy rules are in effect
also on X at Ben Mallor. It does appear that
our friend weed Man, who is part of Lame Jokes,
the homeless Guy from Miami, is back in jail. We
think he's back in jail, so we'll have to get
a fake weed Man that's not until our three. That
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should not be hard hard to find. Not Mamba approve,
not Mamba approved, and no ball for you, No ball
for you. We'll go there and we'll get to it.
We will do it next.
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Femi in Minnesota said, he says, Hey, I agree with you.
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Ben.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Jj Reddick is the guy one wants to punch in
the face. But does this now mean Lebron will retire
a Laker and Bronni is coming? So the word is
Lebron he's opting out of his contract because he can
get more money either way. But he's gonna wait until
the draft next week and then if the Lakers draft Bronni,
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he'll be back, and if they don't, then he'll consider
he's not gonna leave though, come on, he just hired
his buddy. They hired his buddy. Now, what do you
think the response has been to this Malard monologue? I
just did hear from the historians? Do you think they
have reached out to defend the hire or instead done
what about ism? Ding ding ding ding ding? Yes? What about?
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Is him like Geeja the kid? Rather than defend his squad,
he instead is taking shots at the real team that
runs La the Clippers, and a bad job by him.
And listen, I know it's tough. You'll get over it, right.
JJ will only be there a couple of years and
then he'll go back and do bad podcasting or something
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like that, and you'll move on. Bozo, the district attorney says,
I don't know what he did, but when does the
Mallard militia start marching to free weed man, hippie, Free
weed man, hippie? He says, we might have to rhythmically
chant at the mallor meet and greet in August for
in Vegas. There for weed Man. I get the sense
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that Miami is one of the few cities in the
country that actually is trying to clean up their city,
and so that's a problem for weed Man. He got
to come to LA I just saw this week LA built.
They built a skyrise in skid row. For each units
like six hundred thousand dollars, they're given little nice homeless people.
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I'd like to there. I was thinking, I might as
well be homeless, right, come on, I mean, that's very
generous of the taxpayers of the Los Angeles to give
homeless people six hundred thousand dollars homes. Are you still
homeless if you're living in a six hundred thousand dollars
paid for home. I don't know, but we gotta get
weed Man. One of those places in Ellie's got like
a gym. Did you see It's It's got like a
gym and internet room. They've got a lot of them.
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I lived a couple miles from there, and I did
not have the amenities that that place has. So but
Miami they're like, they don't they really want much to
do with them. Unfortunately, he's been arrested a lot like
every couple of weeks, the man's been getting arrested lately.
Casey Carr Haller says, JJ got the Monty Williams package. No,
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not quite as much, but close in the ballpark, and
he likely will not last just one year, although I
could there is a scenario. There's a dimension in the
multiverse where Reddick only last one year and things go
really bad and he exit stage stage right. Matthew Warrior
Tom Brady roast fan says ten out of ten on
the mall monologue. Now that an iconic Los Angeles franchise
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has turned to a podcaster to coach, perhaps the Dodgers
would look to a fledgling podcaster to take over when
Dave Roberts has finally shown the door. Well, Matt all
I can say is I really liked your comment in
that spot. I really liked your comment in that spot.
That's all I will say about that late night drug
tester from montanas As. I figured the Lakers would have
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reached a little higher for a better podcaster to coach
the team. Where was the call to Danny G Radio.
You'd have to check with him. Maybe we'll bring that up.
We got the podcast this weekend. We'll see if that
comes up. A milkman. Mike in Colorado says happy Hour
level Mallard monologue to start off the Friday morning. Now
that podcaster JJ Reddick has gotten a coaching job, he says,
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it's the Marcel gets his turn to coach the Knicks
as as head coach. Marcella to run the concession stands
at Madison Square Garden and decide what goes in there.
Supermarket Steve, he makes the Tira massoux. He says, the
moon looks pretty full tonight. I'm not sure she we
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should take calls. Yeah, well, on this show, the moon's
full every night. It just gets a little fuller when
it's actually full. If you if you feed me on that,
you feel me on that? It speaking of you feel me?
You feed me?
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
You feed me? In Chicago says a plus and Denny's
original grand slam on the Malar monologue. The Madden video
game is getting extra realistic putting Justin Fields as a
kick returner. Maybe he can run some roots to like
slash two point zero. Yes, I saw that that was
pretty funny. That was good. I'll bet you that somebody
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from Justin Fields camp complains to the people at EA Sports.
You are a business partner. You are a business partner
of the NFL, and you are besmirching the good name
of Justin Fields. How dare you? Because they have no
sense of humor. The NFL in general, they are such
a corporate behemoth. They don't have any sense of humor.
You suck. Remember back in the day they had the
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ambulance would come out in the field and Madden, the
early Madden, one of the early versions, they had the ambulance.
Once this player got hurt, they'd have an ambulance come
out there, and then some of the owners complain, they oh,
there's not right. Uh So they got rid of it.
No fun, can't have it. It's a freaking video game,
you maw Ryan's how dare you? What else do we have?
Page down Fergug says the Lakers response to the Celtics
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winning a title is hiring a podcaster as their head coach.
Instead of playing in that dump Staples Center, they should
play under the Big Top. What a clown show, says Berg.
Dog Art Puffin says E for excellent and a handful
of what you might call it treats. On the opening
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mallad monologue extraordinarily fair and accurate to take on the
hiring of the new and already forgotten Laker head coach.
I should have went with Shae Shay. He's a better podcaster,
Am I right? I've never heard the Shannon Sharp podcast.
I saw clips when he he interviewed that comedian that
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had a meltdown and like accused all these other guy
podcasts as or other comedians like being actors being gay
and I remember what was the name of them. I
don't remember the name of the comedian, but I watched
clips of that. People sent me that and it was interesting. Yeah,
good for that, Good for them, Rob Williams, was it
Kat Williams? Oh, okay, I don't know. Rod, the ambassador
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of Bakersfield says Ben, would you have gotten a better
laugh if the Lakers hired Doc Rivers? Uh, it would
have been about the same. It would have been about
the same. At least Doc Rivers has coached in the NBA.
You just said, well, he's coached not well, not well,
but he's coached in the NBA, and so you could
make that. That would have been great also, though, Rob,
that would have been the same schotenfreude that I'm experiencing
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right now. It would have been even better, though, because
the Lakers, I mean, Lebron his entire career, he's never
wanted a real coach. Coaches in the NBA I don't
really make that much of a difference at all. They don't,
and the Lakers just prove that by hiring JJ Reddick.
But part of that is Lebron I didn't want to
play for anybody. He played for Spolster in Miami, but
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Spolster wasn't yet established, and once he became established, and
and pat Riley, they just didn't want to put up
with Lebron's bull crap. Milkman Mike in Colorado says, I
have a full night of deliveries, but I will try
to fill in for weed Man if you need me. Well,
as far as I know he's not available, I'll check
you again. Maybe he got Really you don't usually release
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guys late at night, so I'm gonna I'm gonna assume
he's not gonna get released until the morning. Usually on
these homeless violations, you go for like a day or
two and then you're back out to get arrested again
and rinse wash, repeat and that whole thing. Mal the
prop guy says, please consider my apology for finding joy
in your increased state of schadenfreude. He says, all right,
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very nice. Who else do you have? Page down? We'll
skip over that. Serious Sean sending more messages about his
busy schedule, which we don't necessarily need. Let's go to Jeff,
who's in Lost Wages, Nevada. Hello, Jeff, welcome, Hi. I
just have one question.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Did Lebron maybe trying to rise up one of your
girlfriends or something?
Speaker 7 (22:30):
What do you have against him? So?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
So bad? I mean, what what what did I What
did I say? That was incorrect? But sir, what did
I say that was incorrect? I'll correct it right now?
What did I say? It's incorrect?
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Spot he didn't want to put hand picks?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
No he didn't. That's a lie. You're lying, and we
won't allow lies. While you go watch him out that
with soap and water.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Jeff, No, that's not a lie.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
You're just making that up. Pat pat Riley picked Eric Spoltster,
not Lebron.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
James.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Now, you're just I don't even know if you know
what you're talking about.
Speaker 8 (23:04):
Jeff, But even I know Ben's right on that one,
and I don't watch the NBA.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Please please please stay away, Jeff from the alcohol, Please
stay away from the alcohol.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Well, I mean that's that's a friend here in lots
of wages.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, but the alcohol is talking. Now You're like, you're
you have you have a problem with what again? I
asked you what I said? You brought up a point.
Your first point was completely wrong? What else did I say?
Speaker 7 (23:27):
It was? All these other coaches that he had picks
are back right?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Name?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Are you a big personality that Lebron has wanted to
play for or played for? Go ahead, I'll wait, Darvin Ham?
Does that count? Is that a big personality? Is that
a like a pat Riley type coaches? That? Does that
count as that? Darvin Ham? Any of the guys in Cleveland,
Any of the guys in Cleveland. You couldn't even are
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any big.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
Name personalities in Cleveland anyway?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Why wouldn't they? That's a job anyone would want to
coach Lebron James Right at that time, people didn't realize
what Lebron was. They thought he was different.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
Okay, how about the draft?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Now?
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Why are people talking about the Timberwolves drafted Brownie James
in the first round.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Oh, let me could could it be that maybe that's
just clickbait because dumb people like you click on that.
Could that be possibly that that's just that's called engagement,
And they the people sending that out know that morons
like you will click on that. Let's wait and see
what happens at the draft.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Then maybe morons like you will figure out that Lebron jameson.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I don't listen. Let me let me know what goes on.
Let me know what goes on the draft, sir. Let
me let me know what goes on in the draft.
If you're watching the draft, then you're admitting that's a
self that's a self tell that you're that's a self
tell that you're you're an absolute moron, sir. But go away.
The alcohol is calling, thank you, sir. All right, it
is the Eddie right now. Get you caught up on
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everything going on. There is a full moon and that
guy ten sheets to the moon. Let's get over to
Eddie right now. Get you cut off on everything. I
love goofing on drunk people, though, it's a lot of fun.
If I were fun on the show, then I mean,
if I were during the day, I would not have
the volume of morons and drunkards that call the show.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
Well, I don't think there's any question about that, right.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I mean, people actually have jobs during the day and
they have a life, and they're not losers.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
Like more those daytime people are too afraid to take
phone calls.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Anyway, That is true. The daytime shows don't take calls.
They have a hard line on that. They they just
want to talk the whole time. Yeah, maybe they're maybe
they're better that way.
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Speaker 5 (25:39):
How about this from college basketball, the n C double
A he said, yeah, presenting a plan to expand the
men's and women's basketball tournaments by four to eight teams.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
That's going to destroy the bracketology. What are they gonna
do with the bracket?
Speaker 8 (25:54):
I don't know. But who is calling for this?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I mean, my god, let me check here, the UH
says here. The calls from.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Nobody, nobody? Nobody is is this just attention to us?
Let's see if we can get some attention by expanding
the field, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
And that's what TV doesn't even want like nobody watches
those playing games.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Yeah, they would have more of those, and they would
have it. Would it be not just in Dayton anymore?
I guess they would have a different venue for.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Something that can only be in day that's Dick and Dayton.
I understand he loves those games at Dayton. He lives
for those games at Dayton.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
I don't know that he does, actually, well he pretends.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yeah, all right, yeah, of course we fun fact, we're
not just a sports show any We can branch out.
We can absolutely branch out. So a woman in Washington,
d C. Was doing some some thrift store shopping Dick
and Dayton. Yes, yeah, she was actually over in Clinton.
Speaker 8 (26:54):
Marylandton, Maryland.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yeah, about a few years back. She a little vase.
She thought it was good. She paid three ninety nine
for that vase a few years back, and pretty much
she thought it was a reproduction of a Mayan vase. Right,
she said, oh, this is pretty cool, did a good job,
and then it turns out that it's not a reproduction.
(27:21):
She bought for three ninety nine a two thousand year
old artifact, a Mayan artifact from a thrift shop in Maryland,
which goes back to between two hundred and eight hundred
a d nearly two thousand years old. So the question
is how how does exactly how does it end up
(27:45):
at the Only thing I could think is that, you know,
certain it got passed through generations and then eventually people
kind of forgot about it. It sat in a garage
or an attic somewhere, and then people died, and then
they just didn't They didn't have anyone to take the stuff,
and then it just ended up up at a thrift shop.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
But that's the dream of those folks, right, Yeah, Yeah,
this is some garage sale or some thrift shop to
find some hidden gym.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Yeah. So the vase sold a different vase that was
last year. Somebody bought a vase for a similar price
that's sold for one hundred and seven thousand dollars. I
assume this one will sell for that as well. And
my theory on this is the same theory I have
of a parlays. So my theory on parlays it's a
(28:31):
suckers bet. I love gambling on sports. I do straight bets,
usually do three at a time, try to win two
out of three, which is hard enough to do. To
win two out of three, But to get all three
right very difficult. Now. I know a lot of the
boys like playing parlays. They bet a little bit. I
get it. I know the gambling companies love when you
bet parlays. But anytime someone wins a parlay and does
happen teams, the teams go their way. They'll win seven
(28:54):
eighteen parlays and they'll win a ton of money. And
the gambling companies love to promote that because because it
encourages other people to bet more parlays, like that guy
Jeff in Vegas, right to bet more parlays and all
that and uh and then they make more money. And
it's like the same thing with thrift shopping. The people
in big thrift is that a term? Even big thrift?
(29:15):
The people in big thrift, they want you to hear
these stories because they keep buying their junk. And then
you know, I actually do like going to thrift stories.
So full disclosure, I don't I like the the hunt.
I like that. I'm told that weed Man has actually
called it. Apparently I was wrong. He is not in jail.
Let's check with weed Man Hippi in Miami. Did I
(29:36):
give erroneous information out weed Man?
Speaker 7 (29:39):
Well, I was in jail, okay.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
So I wasn't wrong. I wasn't wrong because I called
you a couple of times and to check on you,
and you didn't answer your phone. So I assumed when
you don't answer, either your phone got stolen or you're
in jail.
Speaker 7 (29:53):
But I'm here now I want to answer you questions.
Willie nays how many seasons did he play in the
Legal League, because I'm sure he had six hundred and
sixty home runs. I mean, if you add the legal
League home runs, maybe he had seven hundred and something.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Well, they have added the numbers from the negro Leagues.
They just did that a couple of weeks ago. They
announced they were adding those stats.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
So he.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
According to the Interweb, he didn't play many games. He
played at age seventeen. In nineteen forty eight, he played
thirteen games and did not hit a home run, and
he batted two thirty three in the negro Leagues for
the Birmingham Black Bearons. According to is.
Speaker 7 (30:47):
That the only season he played According.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
To his Baseball Reference, yeah, that's the only season he played.
Played thirteen games for them in nineteen forty eighth. Nineteen
fifty one, he went to the giants.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
Wow, you really do that. That's great.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I'm looking at it, weed Man. All right, anyway, I
don't know anything about it, but uh, you're out of jail.
Can you try not to get arrested between now and
lame jokes? Can you please try to avoid being arrested
between now and Joe?
Speaker 7 (31:19):
I love you?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
All right, we'll put you back on and if anyone
any cops give you a hard time to say, listen,
I'm on the radio, and weed Man, we talked about
you earlier. In LA, they're giving people like they're giving
people like you six six hundred thousand dollars homes in
downtown LA. There they built for people like you. So
come to LA. They don't ale to arrest you. You
(31:41):
can steal whatever you want in LA. They don't prosecute you.
It's really wonderful. I wish I was. Yeah, it's uh,
it's like the lawless. You can stay with Eddie for
a while and then uh and then move into the
one of those six hundred thousand units.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
Yeah, all right, I would all right, all right, I
think all right, I'm sure we can get one, right,
be good publicity to have him down there.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
No, I think we should sign a petition. Yeah, board up,
buy him a one way ticket. The people in Miami
might buy him a one way ticket to l A.
I could see him work in Hollywood Boulevard, or I
see him more as like Venice Beach. I think weed man,
Venice Beach, that vibe but tender. I say, oh, yeah,
(32:30):
that's right. You can go down there work at one
of the weed shops. Yeah, I'd imagine going in, walking
in and saying hey to weed man, hippie. He can
walk around as mister weed Vennis Beach. He's perfect for
Venice Beach.
Speaker 7 (32:42):
He is.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
You would smoke the place out of there, out of business.
It's like a bartender can't drink the alcohol, right, You're
not supposed to drink the alcohol if you're a bartender. Well,
if you're selling weed, you probably can't be smoking weed. Anyway.
Here's the who am I game? I am the last
iron Man in Angels French history to play in all
one hundred and sixty two games. Again, I am the
(33:04):
last quote ironman close quote in the Angels franchiseistory, going
back to the La slash California slash Los Angeles slash
Anaheim slash whatever, franchise history to play in all one
hundred and sixty two games. Who am I? That is
the question. The answer, We'll get to it and we
will do it.
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Speaker 1 (34:00):
Time out for the who am I?
Speaker 8 (34:02):
Game?
Speaker 1 (34:02):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else, Thus
we call it the who am I? Game? I am
the last iron Man in air quotes in Angels franchise history.
Last got to play all one hundred and sixty two games,
every single bleeping game of a real Major League baseball season.
That is the question. What is the answer. Let's see
(34:24):
does anyone in the malad militia know the answer? We
go to the Great Unwashed on this wonderful full moon
to see all the great answers Catfish Hunter guests by
the Cowboy Killer. Who else do we have? Anthony il
Rendon from Malard prop Guy five very nice is Al
(34:44):
Oliver from Art Puffin ben Ogilvie from mister Nice Guy.
That's his answer, Hawk Tua from Alf the Alien ol
pier ferg Dog going with Scott Schoenwise as his answer.
Rick Shoe, Now that's a good name, old third baseman
(35:05):
for the Angels back in the Day from Late Night
Drug Tester Danny Glover Angels in the Outfield, King Roy,
that's his answer. Willie Mays Aikens from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota.
Mike Soosha from Rod the Ambassador of Bakersfield. Who else
we have? Page Down, Don Ossi from Mayor Parker, the
(35:28):
snow dog Esteban Eliza from gm ange On's he getting
out of jail a couple more years? Luis Polonia He
also went to jail. I don't know if he's still
in jail. From James that's his answer, Matt the Warrior Raider,
Tom Brady Rose Fan cheated, I got it right. Bad
job by him. In tribute to just Josh Shane from
(35:50):
De Mooines says he's going with Alexa Bliss is his answer?
Who else? We have page down? Donkey Sausage says Tony
Stink is the answer. Sean Figgins from Robin, Minnesota malord
prop guy got this right. Michael Landon from the k
C Carl Haller Ricky Williams was was guessed as well
(36:13):
by the art of sports talk our buddy Vivel. He's
a big media mogul in Minnesota. He went with Gary DiSarcina.
That's also a good name, Gary de Sarcina from back
in the Day. All right, Eddie, do you have an answer?
I'm the last iron Man in Angels franchise is did
to play in all one hundred and sixty two games.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
Let's go with former Angel legend Chilie Davis.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I love Chilie Davis. Chili Davis, good people. Chilie Davis
saved me. I was attacked by Tony Phillips in the
Angels clubhouse when they melted down years ago, and Tony
Phillips wanted to he run to rip my head off.
I was much bigger than him, but Chillie Davis saved that. Anyway,
the answers not Chillie.
Speaker 8 (36:50):
Davis real name for Chilie Davis, not Chili Charles.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Charles. Yeah, I actually knew his brother. I used to
when he played for the Angels to go to the games.
I knew him. Anyway, who cares? The answer is the
guy that won the MVP for the Angels when he
did it, Don Baylor nineteen seventy nine, night last time
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the Angels had a player play every game nineteen seventy nine.
They're the only team that goes back that far that
every other team's had someone sooner that, although the Red
Sox are actually not far not far behind the Angels.
The last Red Sox player to play in every game,
(37:37):
according to what I read earlier, as I understand it
was Bill Buckner, and that was in the early to
mid eighties. Although not known for that, Bill Buckner, funny enough,
not known in Red Sox lore for playing every single game.
There seems to be something else that Bill Buckner did
(37:57):
in Boston that trump the fact that he played every
single game. So just for the record for the most part.
We show up now. We don't just have one hundred
and sixty two games. When you do the overnight radio show,
we have the full monty of games, the full not
like Monty was, but you know a lot of shows.
(38:18):
They never turned the radio station off. I've told him,
why don't turn the station off. They never turned the
station up. It's twenty four hours a day, seven days
a week. But don Bill he passed away a couple
of years. Remember he in the in the late eighties.
He kept making the World Series with different teams, the Twins,
the A's, the Red Sox. Like he's like the good
(38:39):
luck Charm, the lucky Dice.
Here we go. Welcome, it's our number one. The weekend
about to kick off, and welcome to this Friday, the
twenty first day of June. And that means double duty
for me, not only this podcast but the Fifth Hour podcast.
And I'm going to real I'm gonna save this for
the podcast today. The podcasts are big. Now I could
(00:21):
coach the Lakers. So I have the newest hat in
my collection, which is the Mona Lisa of Baseball Caves.
You'll find out why on today's episode of the Fifth Hour.
I'll also explain my unexpected appearance at a recent wedding venue.
I'll explain why I went to that. But here in
(00:41):
hour one, it's all about the podcaster JJ Reddick coaching
the Lakers. What letter grade do you give the higher
for Reddick? And what letter grade do you give the Lakers? Also,
reports say the Lakers prioritized Anthony Davis's voice in the
head coaching search. Do you believe any of that? And
is there a silver lining to the Lakers hiring podcaster
(01:02):
JJ Reddick as their head coach. Will cover all of
that and much more right now here, it is our
number one. No they didn't, Yes they.
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Don't bear the lead, my man, We're not gonna bear
(02:17):
the lead. Pro bouncy ball. After a very public airball,
the Purple and Gold have connected. They have shot their
shot again and this time they have hit the net.
But is that good? Is that bad? Is this like
some kind of weird Carnie game? But if you missed it,
I assume you know by now, but maybe not as
(02:39):
we know it. Podcaster JJ Redick. They hired a podcaster.
They did it. They hired a podcaster to coach the
Dame J. This is so great. JJ Reddick, podcaster has
agreed to a four year deal to become the head
coach of the once proud Lakers. Reddick's name. And we've
(03:00):
talked about this. My people that are in the in
the know have told me for some time that there's
a couple of people over there in Lakerland, one of
them named Lebron another one who has a bug up there,
you know what, for Reddick. So Lakers fired Darvin Ham.
They got rid of him. They usually get rid of
(03:20):
coaches after a couple of years. And the Lakers lost
to the Nuggets, so Darvin Ham was sacrificed after that
playoff loss. And now they hired a podcast so good,
Oh my god, is this great? All right? So let
us discuss the question what letter grade do you give
the hire of podcaster JJ Reddick, and what letter grade
(03:43):
do you give the Lakers. So I've got Jupiter. I've
also got Minooka, Honey and full Nelson, and we will
combine all of these things together and we will not
be giving you any stock answers. That will not happen.
So on the malor report, because let's get right to
the Malor report card. Not waste any time. We'll start
(04:04):
with the organization. So the Lakers, they don't get an A,
they don't get a B, they don't get a C,
they don't get an F. I'm not going to give
them an F. I'm not I'm fair. I am. I
have this reputation for not being fair. I'm very fair.
The Lakers on the Malor report card get an E.
(04:25):
Now not for excellent. He is not for excellent. He
is for emasculating. Because this is a masculating, a pathetic
attempt by the Purple and Goal to play Kate. Lebron.
Just don't leave, Lebron. We need you, Lebron. Don't go, Lebron. Please,
(04:46):
we'll hire your buddy. You have just embarrassed the once
proud franchise and hired Lebron's podcast Go House. Oh my god.
If I had told this story two years ago, said
or even a year ago, I said, you know, I
think the Lakers, their next coach is going to be
a podcaster, a with no coaching experience and reddick. Anything
(05:12):
you don't want in a coach. He's got, he's thin skinned,
he's got rabbit ears. That's his skill set. He takes
criticism personally, he's popis persnickety and generally unlikable. Back home,
we call a guy like that a schmuck. You've just
hired a schmuck as your head coach. And yet you
(05:32):
know the Lakers realize this right deep down. Genie Buss,
the cheap owner of the Lakers and skinny jeans Rob Polinker.
They know. And how do you know they know? Because
they're planting stories with useful idiots in the media, comparing
the podcaster to pat Riley and the latest. I don't
know if you saw this, I did. They planted a
(05:53):
story that they think that Reddick's like Eric Spolstra, just
like Eric spos Of course Spoe, as I understand it,
in Miami, he worked his way up from like the
video room and paid his dues and then became a coach.
So like, what are we doing now? As far as
the podcaster, I'm gonna give JJ Reddick a B minus.
And here's why this is one of the great hustles
(06:15):
of all time. It really is. And as many have said,
you don't need a gun or a knife to steal
big money. You just have to hang out with Lebron.
He was able to finagle his way into a job
he does not deserve by opening up essentially a Jupiter
Florida like Orchids of Asia day spa, giving Lebron a
(06:35):
weekly Manny Petty on his little pod with massages, the facial,
the sea salt scrub, and the happy ending. Reddick was
given the Golden handshake for essentially a no show job.
When you're coaching the Lakers. It's a no show job
for two reasons. Number one, Lebron James does all the
decision making because he's the coach by proxy, so you've
(06:57):
got that. And then number two, you get a four
year contract and they they fire you after two years,
so you're getting money for nothing. It's a no show
job for two of those. Darvin Ham now he's got
another job in Milwaugie, but he's gonna get paid. It's a
no show job all right. Now page two, there are
reports swirling that the unibrow is not happy. So now
(07:18):
there are others saying, well, well, wait a minute, the
Lakers prioritized Anthony Davis's voice. I saw that headline, Lakers
prioritize Anthony Davis's voice in their head coaching search where
they came up with the podcaster. Do you believe there's
any truth, even a grain of truth in that story?
So maybe you think I'm more in a dunch cap.
(07:40):
I'm not. If you think that the unibrow was prioritized
in this decision, then you might as well go over
to McDonald's there, and you might want to ask for
some extra fries because you're a few fries short of
a happy meal with that, With that mindset, this is
Rob Polinka scrambling and the Laker higherarchy to put out fires.
(08:02):
Unless your name starts with an L, your first name
and your last name starts with a J, you were
not prioritized. Skinny Jeans is simply pouring Minuka honey into
Anthony Davis's ears and just pour the honey in there.
(08:23):
And Davis, he seems like a pretty mellow yellow guy.
He doesn't really have that killer instinct Anthony Davis, And
they'll get hurt anyway. So the whole idea that players
decide who the coach is, that's an NBA thing anyway,
But just in general, the reporting of like, Wow, the
Lakers prioritized Anthony devis you gotta be kidding. Okay, Now,
(08:43):
will he ask for a trade. He would have to
care to ask for a trade. He likes the whole
Laker thing and the historians kissing his ass and all that,
and he doesn't really have to show up for most games,
and you can linger and he's okay. You know, the
fans don't really care because they're not real fans. It's
the whole thing's weak. The whole thing's weak. Sauce is
what it is, all right? Now, last word here again
(09:06):
if you missed it. The Lakers have hired a podcaster
as their new coach with no coaching experience. Is there
a silver lining? Is there a silver lining playbook if
you will for the Lakers hiring the podcaster, JJ Reddick.
So I will be Benny Bright's side on two points.
I'm not all doom and gloom and all. I'm gonna
be Benny Bright's side for a couple of points. It's
(09:27):
not all bad news. Number one, JJ Reddick, the TV
commentator will now be given radio and TV silence. So
that's good. Hallelujah. B man. Did he suck at that
job right now? To be fair, I didn't spend much
time watching him because I also despised Dorris Burke on
those broadcasts, so I pretty much just hit the mute
(09:48):
button anyway. But when I have seen him and heard
him on other platforms, man, is he just terrible? God?
Is he bad at broadcasting? And then the entire NBA
came my second point here. The entire NBA community has
essentially given the Lakers what I like to call the
full Nelson ergo Nelson months better known as the Bully
(10:12):
from The Simpsons, and everyone in Unison giving that signature
mocking laugh and pointing while saying ha ha, so great,
Oh my gott he hired up podcasting. Lebron's podcast Buddy
has been hired as a If you think coaching doesn't
(10:32):
matter in the NBA, well hello, welcome to this. Right,
don't tell me coaching matters. It doesn't matter. But it's
so embarrassing. It is so embarrassing. At the same time,
it is just so great because they like the illusion
that these guys make a lot of in game decisions
and you gotta be really bright and all that, and
you gotta be likable. There's nothing likable about JJ Reddick,
(10:56):
There's nothing. He is a very easy to hate, right
I mean, my it's of course sports hate, which is fine.
We like Sports eight. But what a disaster, what an
absolute does it could not happen to a better franchise.
I am so so excited my dreams have come true.
(11:17):
When I was told about a month ago that Reddick
was legitimately in play right, that this was a legitimate possibility.
The person that told me that, I thought I was
being punked. Okay, I thought the person that informed me
that this is legit, that this is not fake. I said,
there's no way you're pulling my leg here. You want
me to go on the radio and become a jackwagon
(11:39):
on the radio and say, I mean, of course I did,
because that's why I do. But it happened, so wow,
man alive. All right. It is the Ben Mallor Show.
If you want to comment on any of that, you
are more than welcome to join us. I guess I'm eligible.
Not a coach. I do a podcast on the weekends,
and this show is technically a pot cast in addition
(12:00):
to a radio show. The podcast goes up. Let me
tell you something. They squeeze every ounce of content out
of the show. We've got video cameras in here to
record the monologues for YouTube. We have our own YouTube channel.
We've got the audio podcast, we've got the live terrestrial
radio show, we got a little bit everything, all right,
a little bit of and the weekend podcast where I
do not allow cameras on the Weekend Podcast studio because
(12:22):
I do that in my underwear, so I do not
allow cameras in there. But we have that as well,
So anyway, take your call. Speakeasy rules are in effect
also on X at Ben Mallor. It does appear that
our friend weed Man, who is part of Lame Jokes,
the homeless Guy from Miami, is back in jail. We
think he's back in jail, so we'll have to get
a fake weed Man that's not until our three. That
(12:44):
should not be hard hard to find. Not Mamba approve,
not Mamba approved, and no ball for you, No ball
for you. We'll go there and we'll get to it.
We will do it next.
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Femi in Minnesota said, he says, Hey, I agree with you.
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Ben.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Jj Reddick is the guy one wants to punch in
the face. But does this now mean Lebron will retire
a Laker and Bronni is coming? So the word is
Lebron he's opting out of his contract because he can
get more money either way. But he's gonna wait until
the draft next week and then if the Lakers draft Bronni,
(14:34):
he'll be back, and if they don't, then he'll consider
he's not gonna leave though, come on, he just hired
his buddy. They hired his buddy. Now, what do you
think the response has been to this Malard monologue? I
just did hear from the historians? Do you think they
have reached out to defend the hire or instead done
what about ism? Ding ding ding ding ding? Yes? What about?
(14:55):
Is him like Geeja the kid? Rather than defend his squad,
he instead is taking shots at the real team that
runs La the Clippers, and a bad job by him.
And listen, I know it's tough. You'll get over it, right.
JJ will only be there a couple of years and
then he'll go back and do bad podcasting or something
(15:15):
like that, and you'll move on. Bozo, the district attorney says,
I don't know what he did, but when does the
Mallard militia start marching to free weed man, hippie, Free
weed man, hippie? He says, we might have to rhythmically
chant at the mallor meet and greet in August for
in Vegas. There for weed Man. I get the sense
(15:38):
that Miami is one of the few cities in the
country that actually is trying to clean up their city,
and so that's a problem for weed Man. He got
to come to LA I just saw this week LA built.
They built a skyrise in skid row. For each units
like six hundred thousand dollars, they're given little nice homeless people.
(15:59):
I'd like to there. I was thinking, I might as
well be homeless, right, come on, I mean, that's very
generous of the taxpayers of the Los Angeles to give
homeless people six hundred thousand dollars homes. Are you still
homeless if you're living in a six hundred thousand dollars
paid for home. I don't know, but we gotta get
weed Man. One of those places in Ellie's got like
a gym. Did you see It's It's got like a
gym and internet room. They've got a lot of them.
(16:22):
I lived a couple miles from there, and I did
not have the amenities that that place has. So but
Miami they're like, they don't they really want much to
do with them. Unfortunately, he's been arrested a lot like
every couple of weeks, the man's been getting arrested lately.
Casey Carr Haller says, JJ got the Monty Williams package. No,
(16:43):
not quite as much, but close in the ballpark, and
he likely will not last just one year, although I
could there is a scenario. There's a dimension in the
multiverse where Reddick only last one year and things go
really bad and he exit stage stage right. Matthew Warrior
Tom Brady roast fan says ten out of ten on
the mall monologue. Now that an iconic Los Angeles franchise
(17:08):
has turned to a podcaster to coach, perhaps the Dodgers
would look to a fledgling podcaster to take over when
Dave Roberts has finally shown the door. Well, Matt all
I can say is I really liked your comment in
that spot. I really liked your comment in that spot.
That's all I will say about that late night drug
tester from montanas As. I figured the Lakers would have
(17:30):
reached a little higher for a better podcaster to coach
the team. Where was the call to Danny G Radio.
You'd have to check with him. Maybe we'll bring that up.
We got the podcast this weekend. We'll see if that
comes up. A milkman. Mike in Colorado says happy Hour
level Mallard monologue to start off the Friday morning. Now
that podcaster JJ Reddick has gotten a coaching job, he says,
(17:55):
it's the Marcel gets his turn to coach the Knicks
as as head coach. Marcella to run the concession stands
at Madison Square Garden and decide what goes in there.
Supermarket Steve, he makes the Tira massoux. He says, the
moon looks pretty full tonight. I'm not sure she we
(18:16):
should take calls. Yeah, well, on this show, the moon's
full every night. It just gets a little fuller when
it's actually full. If you if you feed me on that,
you feel me on that? It speaking of you feel me?
You feed me?
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
You feed me? In Chicago says a plus and Denny's
original grand slam on the Malar monologue. The Madden video
game is getting extra realistic putting Justin Fields as a
kick returner. Maybe he can run some roots to like
slash two point zero. Yes, I saw that that was
pretty funny. That was good. I'll bet you that somebody
(18:53):
from Justin Fields camp complains to the people at EA Sports.
You are a business partner. You are a business partner
of the NFL, and you are besmirching the good name
of Justin Fields. How dare you? Because they have no
sense of humor. The NFL in general, they are such
a corporate behemoth. They don't have any sense of humor.
You suck. Remember back in the day they had the
(19:15):
ambulance would come out in the field and Madden, the
early Madden, one of the early versions, they had the ambulance.
Once this player got hurt, they'd have an ambulance come
out there, and then some of the owners complain, they oh,
there's not right. Uh So they got rid of it.
No fun, can't have it. It's a freaking video game,
you maw Ryan's how dare you? What else do we have?
Page down Fergug says the Lakers response to the Celtics
(19:36):
winning a title is hiring a podcaster as their head coach.
Instead of playing in that dump Staples Center, they should
play under the Big Top. What a clown show, says Berg.
Dog Art Puffin says E for excellent and a handful
of what you might call it treats. On the opening
(19:56):
mallad monologue extraordinarily fair and accurate to take on the
hiring of the new and already forgotten Laker head coach.
I should have went with Shae Shay. He's a better podcaster,
Am I right? I've never heard the Shannon Sharp podcast.
I saw clips when he he interviewed that comedian that
(20:18):
had a meltdown and like accused all these other guy
podcasts as or other comedians like being actors being gay
and I remember what was the name of them. I
don't remember the name of the comedian, but I watched
clips of that. People sent me that and it was interesting. Yeah,
good for that, Good for them, Rob Williams, was it
Kat Williams? Oh, okay, I don't know. Rod, the ambassador
(20:40):
of Bakersfield says Ben, would you have gotten a better
laugh if the Lakers hired Doc Rivers? Uh, it would
have been about the same. It would have been about
the same. At least Doc Rivers has coached in the NBA.
You just said, well, he's coached not well, not well,
but he's coached in the NBA, and so you could
make that. That would have been great also, though, Rob,
that would have been the same schotenfreude that I'm experiencing
(21:02):
right now. It would have been even better, though, because
the Lakers, I mean, Lebron his entire career, he's never
wanted a real coach. Coaches in the NBA I don't
really make that much of a difference at all. They don't,
and the Lakers just prove that by hiring JJ Reddick.
But part of that is Lebron I didn't want to
play for anybody. He played for Spolster in Miami, but
(21:23):
Spolster wasn't yet established, and once he became established, and
and pat Riley, they just didn't want to put up
with Lebron's bull crap. Milkman Mike in Colorado says, I
have a full night of deliveries, but I will try
to fill in for weed Man if you need me. Well,
as far as I know he's not available, I'll check
you again. Maybe he got Really you don't usually release
(21:43):
guys late at night, so I'm gonna I'm gonna assume
he's not gonna get released until the morning. Usually on
these homeless violations, you go for like a day or
two and then you're back out to get arrested again
and rinse wash, repeat and that whole thing. Mal the
prop guy says, please consider my apology for finding joy
in your increased state of schadenfreude. He says, all right,
(22:06):
very nice. Who else do you have? Page down? We'll
skip over that. Serious Sean sending more messages about his
busy schedule, which we don't necessarily need. Let's go to Jeff,
who's in Lost Wages, Nevada. Hello, Jeff, welcome, Hi. I
just have one question.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Did Lebron maybe trying to rise up one of your
girlfriends or something?
Speaker 7 (22:30):
What do you have against him? So?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
So bad? I mean, what what what did I What
did I say? That was incorrect? But sir, what did
I say that was incorrect? I'll correct it right now?
What did I say? It's incorrect?
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Spot he didn't want to put hand picks?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
No he didn't. That's a lie. You're lying, and we
won't allow lies. While you go watch him out that
with soap and water.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Jeff, No, that's not a lie.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
You're just making that up. Pat pat Riley picked Eric Spoltster,
not Lebron.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
James.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Now, you're just I don't even know if you know
what you're talking about.
Speaker 8 (23:04):
Jeff, But even I know Ben's right on that one,
and I don't watch the NBA.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Please please please stay away, Jeff from the alcohol, Please
stay away from the alcohol.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Well, I mean that's that's a friend here in lots
of wages.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, but the alcohol is talking. Now You're like, you're
you have you have a problem with what again? I
asked you what I said? You brought up a point.
Your first point was completely wrong? What else did I say?
Speaker 7 (23:27):
It was? All these other coaches that he had picks
are back right?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Name?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Are you a big personality that Lebron has wanted to
play for or played for? Go ahead, I'll wait, Darvin Ham?
Does that count? Is that a big personality? Is that
a like a pat Riley type coaches? That? Does that
count as that? Darvin Ham? Any of the guys in Cleveland,
Any of the guys in Cleveland. You couldn't even are
(23:54):
any big.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
Name personalities in Cleveland anyway?
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Why wouldn't they? That's a job anyone would want to
coach Lebron James Right at that time, people didn't realize
what Lebron was. They thought he was different.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
Okay, how about the draft?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Now?
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Why are people talking about the Timberwolves drafted Brownie James
in the first round.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Oh, let me could could it be that maybe that's
just clickbait because dumb people like you click on that.
Could that be possibly that that's just that's called engagement,
And they the people sending that out know that morons
like you will click on that. Let's wait and see
what happens at the draft.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Then maybe morons like you will figure out that Lebron jameson.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I don't listen. Let me let me know what goes on.
Let me know what goes on the draft, sir. Let
me let me know what goes on in the draft.
If you're watching the draft, then you're admitting that's a
self that's a self tell that you're that's a self
tell that you're you're an absolute moron, sir. But go away.
The alcohol is calling, thank you, sir. All right, it
is the Eddie right now. Get you caught up on
(24:57):
everything going on. There is a full moon and that
guy ten sheets to the moon. Let's get over to
Eddie right now. Get you cut off on everything. I
love goofing on drunk people, though, it's a lot of fun.
If I were fun on the show, then I mean,
if I were during the day, I would not have
the volume of morons and drunkards that call the show.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
Well, I don't think there's any question about that, right.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I mean, people actually have jobs during the day and
they have a life, and they're not losers.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
Like more those daytime people are too afraid to take
phone calls.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Anyway, That is true. The daytime shows don't take calls.
They have a hard line on that. They they just
want to talk the whole time. Yeah, maybe they're maybe
they're better that way.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
How about this from college basketball, the n C double
A he said, yeah, presenting a plan to expand the
men's and women's basketball tournaments by four to eight teams.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
That's going to destroy the bracketology. What are they gonna
do with the bracket?
Speaker 8 (25:54):
I don't know. But who is calling for this?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I mean, my god, let me check here, the UH
says here. The calls from.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Nobody, nobody? Nobody is is this just attention to us?
Let's see if we can get some attention by expanding
the field, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
And that's what TV doesn't even want like nobody watches
those playing games.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Yeah, they would have more of those, and they would
have it. Would it be not just in Dayton anymore?
I guess they would have a different venue for.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Something that can only be in day that's Dick and Dayton.
I understand he loves those games at Dayton. He lives
for those games at Dayton.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
I don't know that he does, actually, well he pretends.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yeah, all right, yeah, of course we fun fact, we're
not just a sports show any We can branch out.
We can absolutely branch out. So a woman in Washington,
d C. Was doing some some thrift store shopping Dick
and Dayton. Yes, yeah, she was actually over in Clinton.
Speaker 8 (26:54):
Marylandton, Maryland.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yeah, about a few years back. She a little vase.
She thought it was good. She paid three ninety nine
for that vase a few years back, and pretty much
she thought it was a reproduction of a Mayan vase. Right,
she said, oh, this is pretty cool, did a good job,
and then it turns out that it's not a reproduction.
(27:21):
She bought for three ninety nine a two thousand year
old artifact, a Mayan artifact from a thrift shop in Maryland,
which goes back to between two hundred and eight hundred
a d nearly two thousand years old. So the question
is how how does exactly how does it end up
(27:45):
at the Only thing I could think is that, you know,
certain it got passed through generations and then eventually people
kind of forgot about it. It sat in a garage
or an attic somewhere, and then people died, and then
they just didn't They didn't have anyone to take the stuff,
and then it just ended up up at a thrift shop.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
But that's the dream of those folks, right, Yeah, Yeah,
this is some garage sale or some thrift shop to
find some hidden gym.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Yeah. So the vase sold a different vase that was
last year. Somebody bought a vase for a similar price
that's sold for one hundred and seven thousand dollars. I
assume this one will sell for that as well. And
my theory on this is the same theory I have
of a parlays. So my theory on parlays it's a
(28:31):
suckers bet. I love gambling on sports. I do straight bets,
usually do three at a time, try to win two
out of three, which is hard enough to do. To
win two out of three, But to get all three
right very difficult. Now. I know a lot of the
boys like playing parlays. They bet a little bit. I
get it. I know the gambling companies love when you
bet parlays. But anytime someone wins a parlay and does
happen teams, the teams go their way. They'll win seven
(28:54):
eighteen parlays and they'll win a ton of money. And
the gambling companies love to promote that because because it
encourages other people to bet more parlays, like that guy
Jeff in Vegas, right to bet more parlays and all
that and uh and then they make more money. And
it's like the same thing with thrift shopping. The people
in big thrift is that a term? Even big thrift?
(29:15):
The people in big thrift, they want you to hear
these stories because they keep buying their junk. And then
you know, I actually do like going to thrift stories.
So full disclosure, I don't I like the the hunt.
I like that. I'm told that weed Man has actually
called it. Apparently I was wrong. He is not in jail.
Let's check with weed Man Hippi in Miami. Did I
(29:36):
give erroneous information out weed Man?
Speaker 7 (29:39):
Well, I was in jail, okay.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
So I wasn't wrong. I wasn't wrong because I called
you a couple of times and to check on you,
and you didn't answer your phone. So I assumed when
you don't answer, either your phone got stolen or you're
in jail.
Speaker 7 (29:53):
But I'm here now I want to answer you questions.
Willie nays how many seasons did he play in the
Legal League, because I'm sure he had six hundred and
sixty home runs. I mean, if you add the legal
League home runs, maybe he had seven hundred and something.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Well, they have added the numbers from the negro Leagues.
They just did that a couple of weeks ago. They
announced they were adding those stats.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
So he.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
According to the Interweb, he didn't play many games. He
played at age seventeen. In nineteen forty eight, he played
thirteen games and did not hit a home run, and
he batted two thirty three in the negro Leagues for
the Birmingham Black Bearons. According to is.
Speaker 7 (30:47):
That the only season he played According.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
To his Baseball Reference, yeah, that's the only season he played.
Played thirteen games for them in nineteen forty eighth. Nineteen
fifty one, he went to the giants.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
Wow, you really do that. That's great.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I'm looking at it, weed Man. All right, anyway, I
don't know anything about it, but uh, you're out of jail.
Can you try not to get arrested between now and
lame jokes? Can you please try to avoid being arrested
between now and Joe?
Speaker 7 (31:19):
I love you?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
All right, we'll put you back on and if anyone
any cops give you a hard time to say, listen,
I'm on the radio, and weed Man, we talked about
you earlier. In LA, they're giving people like they're giving
people like you six six hundred thousand dollars homes in
downtown LA. There they built for people like you. So
come to LA. They don't ale to arrest you. You
(31:41):
can steal whatever you want in LA. They don't prosecute you.
It's really wonderful. I wish I was. Yeah, it's uh,
it's like the lawless. You can stay with Eddie for
a while and then uh and then move into the
one of those six hundred thousand units.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
Yeah, all right, I would all right, all right, I
think all right, I'm sure we can get one, right,
be good publicity to have him down there.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
No, I think we should sign a petition. Yeah, board up,
buy him a one way ticket. The people in Miami
might buy him a one way ticket to l A.
I could see him work in Hollywood Boulevard, or I
see him more as like Venice Beach. I think weed man,
Venice Beach, that vibe but tender. I say, oh, yeah,
(32:30):
that's right. You can go down there work at one
of the weed shops. Yeah, I'd imagine going in, walking
in and saying hey to weed man, hippie. He can
walk around as mister weed Vennis Beach. He's perfect for
Venice Beach.
Speaker 7 (32:42):
He is.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
You would smoke the place out of there, out of business.
It's like a bartender can't drink the alcohol, right, You're
not supposed to drink the alcohol if you're a bartender. Well,
if you're selling weed, you probably can't be smoking weed. Anyway.
Here's the who am I game? I am the last
iron Man in Angels French history to play in all
one hundred and sixty two games. Again, I am the
(33:04):
last quote ironman close quote in the Angels franchiseistory, going
back to the La slash California slash Los Angeles slash
Anaheim slash whatever, franchise history to play in all one
hundred and sixty two games. Who am I? That is
the question. The answer, We'll get to it and we
will do it.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
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Speaker 1 (34:00):
Time out for the who am I?
Speaker 8 (34:02):
Game?
Speaker 1 (34:02):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else, Thus
we call it the who am I? Game? I am
the last iron Man in air quotes in Angels franchise history.
Last got to play all one hundred and sixty two games,
every single bleeping game of a real Major League baseball season.
That is the question. What is the answer. Let's see
(34:24):
does anyone in the malad militia know the answer? We
go to the Great Unwashed on this wonderful full moon
to see all the great answers Catfish Hunter guests by
the Cowboy Killer. Who else do we have? Anthony il
Rendon from Malard prop Guy five very nice is Al
(34:44):
Oliver from Art Puffin ben Ogilvie from mister Nice Guy.
That's his answer, Hawk Tua from Alf the Alien ol
pier ferg Dog going with Scott Schoenwise as his answer.
Rick Shoe, Now that's a good name, old third baseman
(35:05):
for the Angels back in the Day from Late Night
Drug Tester Danny Glover Angels in the Outfield, King Roy,
that's his answer. Willie Mays Aikens from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota.
Mike Soosha from Rod the Ambassador of Bakersfield. Who else
we have? Page Down, Don Ossi from Mayor Parker, the
(35:28):
snow dog Esteban Eliza from gm ange On's he getting
out of jail a couple more years? Luis Polonia He
also went to jail. I don't know if he's still
in jail. From James that's his answer, Matt the Warrior Raider,
Tom Brady Rose Fan cheated, I got it right. Bad
job by him. In tribute to just Josh Shane from
(35:50):
De Mooines says he's going with Alexa Bliss is his answer?
Who else? We have page down? Donkey Sausage says Tony
Stink is the answer. Sean Figgins from Robin, Minnesota malord
prop guy got this right. Michael Landon from the k
C Carl Haller Ricky Williams was was guessed as well
(36:13):
by the art of sports talk our buddy Vivel. He's
a big media mogul in Minnesota. He went with Gary DiSarcina.
That's also a good name, Gary de Sarcina from back
in the Day. All right, Eddie, do you have an answer?
I'm the last iron Man in Angels franchise is did
to play in all one hundred and sixty two games.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
Let's go with former Angel legend Chilie Davis.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I love Chilie Davis. Chili Davis, good people. Chilie Davis
saved me. I was attacked by Tony Phillips in the
Angels clubhouse when they melted down years ago, and Tony
Phillips wanted to he run to rip my head off.
I was much bigger than him, but Chillie Davis saved that. Anyway,
the answers not Chillie.
Speaker 8 (36:50):
Davis real name for Chilie Davis, not Chili Charles.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Charles. Yeah, I actually knew his brother. I used to
when he played for the Angels to go to the games.
I knew him. Anyway, who cares? The answer is the
guy that won the MVP for the Angels when he
did it, Don Baylor nineteen seventy nine, night last time
(37:16):
the Angels had a player play every game nineteen seventy nine.
They're the only team that goes back that far that
every other team's had someone sooner that, although the Red
Sox are actually not far not far behind the Angels.
The last Red Sox player to play in every game,
(37:37):
according to what I read earlier, as I understand it
was Bill Buckner, and that was in the early to
mid eighties. Although not known for that, Bill Buckner, funny enough,
not known in Red Sox lore for playing every single game.
There seems to be something else that Bill Buckner did
(37:57):
in Boston that trump the fact that he played every
single game. So just for the record for the most part.
We show up now. We don't just have one hundred
and sixty two games. When you do the overnight radio show,
we have the full monty of games, the full not
like Monty was, but you know a lot of shows.
(38:18):
They never turned the radio station off. I've told him,
why don't turn the station off. They never turned the
station up. It's twenty four hours a day, seven days
a week. But don Bill he passed away a couple
of years. Remember he in the in the late eighties.
He kept making the World Series with different teams, the Twins,
the A's, the Red Sox. Like he's like the good
(38:39):
luck Charm, the lucky Dice.
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