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June 5, 2025 • 39 mins

Ben Maller talks about the Edmonton Oilers taking a 1-0 lead over the Florida Panthers in the Stanley Cup Final after the Panthers blew a 2-goal lead, what Florida needs to do to even up the series in Game 2, Rick Pitino saying he would 'absolutely not' take the Knicks job, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We go welcome.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our numb bur w Our, one of the original
Recipe podcast. And you're not gonna believe what you're about
to hear on this Thursday, the fifth.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Day of June.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
The rare and appropriate, rare and appropriate hockey monologue.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Now, don't tell anyone about this.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
If it does well, we get a lot of downloads,
there'll be more hockey monologue, at least during the Stanley
Cup Final. Game one, though, goes to Edmonton. What stands
out better story losing locker room? What stands out from
Matthew Kachuck's Panthers blowing a two goal lead in game
number one of the Stanley Cup Final? Also, what does
Florida need to do to get back even up in

(00:46):
game two?

Speaker 1 (00:47):
We have some.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Pearls of wisdom unsolicited a device, and we'll also talk
about a developing story where Saint John's coach Rick Patino
says he would quote absolutely not take the knickerbocker head
coaching job. Do you believe him? We'll talk about that
as well. All it's coming your way right now here.
It is on an extra spicy our number one.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Standing around it. It's hard to do when you're on skates.
I think I'm pulled. That's the case.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Well come, in the beginning of another night of the
Ben Mahlor Show, we are in the air everywhere, homeboye
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Be so our lead this hour the rare and appropriate,
rare and appropriate monologue about hockey. Now we have the
Mallard Meet and greet in Vancouver. It was great to
meet many of our fine Canadian lads that listen to
the show, and several of them are like, well, you
need to talk more hockey. And I said, well, when
I talk hockey, you complain that I talk hockey because

(03:05):
you say, well, you know what a hockey guy. And
then if I don't talk about hockey, you bitch about that,
and you say, well you should really talk you know,
you should talk about hockey. So this is a trial run.
We'll see how it does. If it does well, maybe
we'll do more of it. But our lead this hour,
that's right, the rare and appropriate Malard monologue will start
out at the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh God Edmunds.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
There's been a generation since a team from that country.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
One Lord's Stanley Cup and there you go.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
The curtain went up ta Da the twenty twenty five
Stanley Cup final rematch style the reigning champions, the Florida Panthers,
who are in this thing every single year now scanning
against the chosen one.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Connor McDavid and the Oilers.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
There for Lord Stanley's Cup Game one full of fun.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Unless it was well, it was actually not a bad game.
I did watch it.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
A couple of Homeboys friends of the show there, Kenny
Albert and Eddie Oldchuck on the turner call and maybe
he did not watch it. I don't know what else
you were doing. There's some crappy baseball games on Leon Drysdle.
I've heard of him. He was not very effective last
year in the Stanley cupon he was hurt all right, well,
Leon drystyle lighting the lamp. He let the lamp put

(04:28):
the bestket in the basket power play game winner in
the final seconds of the first overtime was turned out
to be the only overtime and the much maligned the
weak Link you are the weak link. Stuart Skinner was
not the week linky at twenty nine saves and Edmonton

(04:48):
down by multiple goals, and generally speaking, when you're down
by multiple goals, you're not normally coming back to win
that game against.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
The quality opponent.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
But that's why they play the games a multi goal deficit.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Edmonton came back so they win the.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Game four to three in Game one and Game two
will be on Friday night.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
We are not in the watchtower. We are not in
the watch tower on Friday.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Night that there'll be somebody else in the chair, so
we don't need to worry about that. And then that
game in Edmonton, then they'll go back to the Sunshine
State for games three and four. And you know the drill,
if you've listened to the show at all, The better
story is where ding ding ding ding. That's right, The
better story is in the losing locker room. And so

(05:37):
that is where we will begin, and that is what
we will discuss. So the question this in depth Mallard
monologue about the puck. What stands out from the flopperoo,
the Matthew Chuck Panthers flopping in game number one, blowing
a two goal lead. So I've got Uncle Mo, red

(05:59):
Bull and politicking, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to take a drive
in the Zamboni. Yeah, a joy ride in the zamboni.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
So number I said, numb burn.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
So the Panthers, to quote one of the great philosophers
of our time and one of the most important orders
and really oracles as well of society. The Panthers sucked
at a time you cannot suck despite having a lead
at the end of the first period and at the

(06:39):
end of the second period, they had been thirty one
to zero in playoff games under their current head coach
Paul Maurice, going back the last.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Couple of years. They couldn't lose in that situation. They
lost that game.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
They blew the two goal there three to one, proving
yet again that at Uncle Mo lives in Brooklyn, but
not in hockey games, there is no such thing as
Uncle Mo. They had all the momentum, they had all
the more mad of you dumb idiot fans say, I
had all the more madam.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
Oh my god? Why would they give that up?

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Why would the Florida Panthers up three to one give
back the momentum. Shouldn't you hold onto the momentum? And
why did you give it up? Did Edmonton steal it?
That's a crime. Arrest them. They stole it?

Speaker 1 (07:29):
So they Florida did not grow the lead.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
And even I a rather novice hockey observer who was
forced to cover hockey in my younger days many many
years back. But the defensive zone breakdowns, and I'll use
an analogy here that I think is more relatable to
the common non hockey fan think of the Florida Panthers
for much of this game like a walrus lying around

(07:56):
and farting on the beach. That's what they did most
of the game. They really only competed in the second period.
It was a domination situation.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
The other way.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Outside of that, Now, outside of that second period, when
Matthew Kachuck's team out shot outshot, the Florida Panthers.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Outshot Edmonton by I think it was nine.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
The rest of the game was thirty eight to fifteen
shots on goal in favor of the Oilers.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
So you were in.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
The dreaded zombie mode, disheveled, and they looked lost. And
I was texting one of the few friends I have
that likes hockey, not Eddie, by the way, and there
were like two or three times in overtime early on
whereas that, well, that should ended the game, and that
should ended the game, and it's general in most sports.

(08:50):
I think you'd agree with my point. I'm about to
make a brilliant point. I'd like to alert all the affiliates.
Were about to make a rare, brilliant point that when
you're watching a game, it doesn't matter what.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
This happens to be a hockey game. But if you're
watching a basketball game.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Football, whatever, in baseball, when you're watching a game, you
can tell which team.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Wants it a little more, the more aggressive team and
the team that's more locked in.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
And nine out of ten times that team is going
to go home with a nice w. It doesn't happen
all the time, but nine out of ten times the
team that just has a little more in there. Now,
how you could be off your bio rhythms off in
a Stanley Cup final game, I don't get that.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
I don't understand it happens. There's human beings involved.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
That eventually there won't be if you give enough time,
they'll just be robots playing robots.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
And then you want to have to worry about that.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
But the Panthers defense in the third period, it's like
they had they decided, we're going to go down to
Dairy Queen, we're gonna get some cones and we'll just
let them melt.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
And there you go.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
And I just completely forgot the rudimentary elements. Yeah, even
I know your need to clear the puck, Yeah I
gotta it. Can't clear the puck, you can't win the game. Now,
Patridio are in depth hockey coverage, So what does Florida
now need to do to get back down one?

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Nothing.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
They it's not the end of the world here, the
big deal. Hockey teams come back from that.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
All the time.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
And the series really hasn't started because the game was
in Edmonton.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
The home team won.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
So, as you know, the rule in all these series
is the series doesn't start until the home team loses
and the road team wins and all that stuff. So
the first thing I would do is I would go
to go down to Walmart and I would buy a
case of Red Bull, and then I'd buy some no
does some caffeine supplements. Combine those things together here in

(10:47):
a near lethal doze. Big advantage, big advantage of you
if you're going into the series.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
What's the advantage? The key advantage was that.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Carolina Carolina, that Florida has a better goaltender than Edmonton.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
It's Sergei Bbrovski's.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Better than Stuart Skinner and all that stuff, and that
that's the advantage. And the stars are on the side
of Edmonton, right. We talked about this in a previous
episode of the show. Another rare and appropriate hockey reference
with the chosen one, Connor McDavid. And this is his
opportunity to check that box that you have to check
and to be part of it and lead the team

(11:24):
to a win and all that stuff. But the advantage
for Florida is, hey, they got a better goalten that.
The kryptonite of Edmonton is they got Stuart Skinner.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
That's your game, right, So how do you take advantage
of that? Now? You know? What do I know? I
just I do the open I show. We rarely talk
about hockey. I normally talk about the plague more than hockey.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
But Stuart Skinner a lightning rod of a player who
had been playing well recently. And in this game he
faced thirty two shots and stopped twenty nine of them.
And that doesn't even tell So, I mean, if the
fans were chanting his name whatever, they're all wearing oilers jerseys,
find that you expect that. But I would argue for

(12:08):
most of the late stages of this game, the third
period and overtime, which I believe the math on that
like thirty forty minutes or something.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
I think it's forty minutes, almost forty minutes.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
The Panthers against the Oilers. The Oilers outshot the Panthers
twenty four to eight.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
So what's going on?

Speaker 3 (12:31):
You know?

Speaker 2 (12:31):
I mean, skinner, he doesn't have to make many saves.
You if you take eight shots the third period in
an overtime combined, then you're you're helping out. I mean,
that's what you want. That's exactly what you would want.
I would assume if you're the team from Edmonton, You're like,
all right, our goaltender blows. So as long as they
don't shoot the bucket him, he doesn't really suck.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Because that's they can't score.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
To my knowledge, and yeah, you know, I'm rudimentary hockey knowledge,
it's very difficult to score, very difficult to score if
you do not put the puck on the net.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
Very difficult to do that.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
All right, Now, final point, We move away from hockey
to a developing storyline in pro bouncy ball. The Saint
John's coach, Rick Patino. He's back in the Sporting News.
Now there is an opening in Gotham. There is an
opening in Gotham. Rick Patino was asked about that job,
and Patino said recently that he would quote absolutely not

(13:31):
take the Knickerbocker head coaching job. Do you believe him?
So I'm going to now quote Rick Patino. He says
he would absolutely not take the Knickerbocker head coaching job,
and I'm going to use the quote absolutely not.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
I don't believe him. Patino is in his early.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Seventies, seventy two, right, so he's past retirement age, and
he knows he's unlikely to get the call.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
So you say, oh, I'm not interested. Absolutely not.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
You say that, however, you and I both know he
would take the job in a heartbeat. He would absolutely
take the job. Man, would he love that job. He's
aroused just thinking about it. Now, Patino has to say
no publicly because he knows it's a long shot. They
won't really talk to him, and you know, if they do,
it's gonna be kind of a courtesy thing and all

(14:13):
that stuff.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
And you got to be loyal to your college job.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
And so privately, though so publicly, you say no, absolutely not.
I've got a great job. I'm not going anywhere else. Privately,
what is going on behind the scenes? What do you
think is going on? Like Patino's a showman, he knows
how to play the media. He's been doing it for
about my entire.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Life, maybe longer than that.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
And I'm not saying that Patino's out there like openly
begging for the job with the Knicks.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
I don't buy that.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
However, would you be shocked because I wouldn't be shocked
if he's quietly politicking through intermediaries and back channels and like, hey,
you know I had this job at one point. We
know Patino's got an ego the size of the Empire
State Building, and you I think he doesn't dream of
walking back in as a pro coach to the garden

(15:05):
and being the guy that dots the eye in championship
and the Knickerbockers win, the crowd goes wild, the parade
through the canyon, the heroes, you fade to black, that's it.
Boom documentary over. And he has said he loved coaching there.
He called the vibration electric when he coached the Knicks.

(15:25):
And he does know a thing or two because he's
seen a thing or two over the years. And he
coached the Knicks in the in the eighties, way back
in the eighties before social media, when people actually went
to games and watched them and didn't hold their phone
up like the Statue of.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Liberty to record everything on videos that no one watches.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
And then Kentucky and Louisville and the Celtics and the
scandal here late night restaurant rendezvous over there, come back, prostitutes,
the whole deal, a little bit of this, a little
bit of that.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
You mix it all together.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Patino's got all of it, and it is the Ben
Mahler Show, which also has all of it as well
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Speaker 2 (16:55):
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Speaker 3 (17:13):
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Back to it.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
Oh all right, we do go back to it and
your commentary. Late Night Drug Tester says, excellent start to
the show with the Stanley Cup final.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Nine out of ten on the monologue, I would.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
Have gotten a perfect score if you had mentioned Canadian
tire instead of Walmart.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Well, I don't even know what that is.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Right. When I think of tires, and when I want tires,
I go to Tyrek.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
That's where I go.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
So I don't know what else You're kind of voodoo
you're trying to put out there. I'm just saying that schmuck,
supermarket Steve Wrights in on cue like these guys are
so dumb. Sometimes I'll wait to send the rundown out
because I know these morons will have a temper tantrum.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Where's the rundown?

Speaker 2 (19:44):
I have to see if you're willing to talk about
the Dodgers losing a series to the New York match,
just like you were bragging about how they beat the
Yankees in their series. Well, a supermarket, Steve, you're a
Yankee fan. You're not a Mets fan. So you're just
a low level troll, is all you are.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
We know that. So that's the first thing.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
Secondly, it is completely irrelevant the Dodgers and the Mets.
The story was the Dodgers beating the Yankees with a
bunch of scrub pitchers, fifteen pitchers on the injured list,
a team that is just total big league overpaid, a
whole syndrome team often just going through the motions, just

(20:25):
going through the motions, the fat cat syndrome. Though the
Dodgers have, they don't have the They got a great
record because they're so talented even the guys that are
out doesn't matter, but.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
They're not locked in.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
The Dodgers are absolutely not locked in, you know that,
and so it's the Mets are supposed to beat the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
The fact that the Yankees that was much more important
that series.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
I know you're not that smart, so of have to
explain to you like you're five years old, ceper Mark, Steve,
but that Yankee Dodgers series is a much bigger series
for the Yankees. And they started Max Freed and he
got lit up up by the Dodgers and a lot
of backups in that Dodger lineup.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Mookie Betts was hurt in that series. That's embarrassing.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
That's a story, and I'd like you to go to
my webinar talk Radio one oh one Supermarket, Steve Well,
I'll teach you what a good story is and what
a bad story is, because you obviously have no.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
Clue what's going on with that. King Rory writes in
he says, you must be a static that.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Your oilers took Game one of the Stanley Cup Final.
The NHL couldn't ask for a more exciting way to
start off the finals. Unfortunately, the NBA will not be
able to capture the same lightning in a bottle for
their finals, and then says NHL over NBA. Yeah, we'll
see about that. We'll see how how that goes. The

(21:45):
NBA is on full on damage control. More on that
as we go through through the overnight. Some interesting comments
will parts the words as the spin is on Spin
Spin Spin, Spin, Spin, Spin Spin, you feeme me in
chick Coago and he says, Hey, Mallard a plus and
a side of child support on the monologue. I've enjoyed
catching up on the podcast while feeling like crap today.

(22:09):
I may still be living in the past, but that
bagg eas the fawn Diggs was definitely had definitely.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
Was not drugs of any kind. It was fun dip.
H Yeah, oh, fun dip was a great candy.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
You know.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
That's what I was thinking Ben.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
On the playground back to it was it was a
solid there's a mic movement there.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
I heard of mic movement, but.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
It's h's a It was a great candy and it
was like the cool kids on the playground had the
fun dep you know, like the cool you were like
you had a little extra pep in your step when
I you know back in the Stone Age when I
went to school, if you had fun dip, like you
were a rich kid, you know, because you had that
little little the white stick of sugar that you dipped
on the other sugar thing the powder, and then it
was the grape.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
Did you go with the grape?

Speaker 2 (22:51):
Had the uh, the blueberry like the raspberry blueberry flavored?

Speaker 1 (22:54):
You go with that and uh, just just wonderful.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
And the blue one would change your count like the
color of your tongue too.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Yeah, they had the could you could combine them and
then that would make green.

Speaker 4 (23:05):
Now you know, I was thinking they were actually being
smart on the boat, because if you're going to take
fun dip on a boat, it can't get wet, right,
so you can't have it in its normal packaging. You
have to put it in like a plastic package. And
as you saw, it had a nice little zip lockee
on the top. Yeah, to keep your fun dip dry.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yeah, they were doing cosplay.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
You know.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Oftentimes you see drugs in those little zip bags.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yes, but that was just part of the active was
illusion and Miami beautiful women in bikinis and they don't
like drugs.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
Like no one likes doing drugs in Miami. No, the
cest places I've ever been exactly.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
You know that whole cocaine cowboy thing that was all
just for stuff? Come on, please, Attila writes, and he says,
excellent synopsis of game number one. Too bad, Eddie isn't
there to agree with you. No, Eddie would not agree
with that, he says. If Patino says no, he means
hell yes. And that's right at till Patino's like, I

(23:57):
don't even need to get picked. Just give me a
lifetime supply of the gobble and I'm there. All I
need is a lifetime supply.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Of the Gabba Ghoul, and I'm right there.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
Nature boy says, enjoying your rare and appropriate hockey take.
For us Kings fans, nothing could be better than to
see the oilers and their obnoxious fans, including the woman
in a silver.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Yes, I.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
Saw that woman, though, What's what's her story here? What's
going on with that woman? There's a lot going on, right?
How do you end up in that spot? How do
you end up where you are? The the fan in
silver with the silver wig.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
On the whole thing, how does that happen? Like? How many?

Speaker 2 (24:36):
How many things have to go certain directions in one's
life where that's where you end up.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Man man, man man our.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
Hugh rights in, and he's a dolphin and red wing
and red fan.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
And he says, uh. He says, malor glad to hear
you talk about hockey. Please keep it up.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
Well, don't get don't get it to the point you're
expecting this, Okay, And we'll see how the numbers do.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
We have the the analytics.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
We'll see if the podcast numbers do well, if people
download it and people engage and all that. We're there.
We're in chipping the queues. Rites in he says, a plus.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
On the malt of monologue.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
Why do I get the feeling that the opening monologue
was about hockey only because the Dodgers got thumped by
the Mets. No, you guys, listen. I like the Dodgers.
I don't the whole Dodger thing. You know, they rubbed
me the wrong way here this last couple of years
since they got Otani, so I like to die.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
Don't listen.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
They'll win, they'll win the World Series and all that.
But we're sitting here in June. So am I supposed
to sit here and break down a June baseball game
when we have a championship round going on? Is that
what you want? This is what I'm talking about. You
guys complain when I talk about hockey and when I
don't talk about hockey, and that loser, Terry Newe. Where's

(25:56):
the show list of items? Malle, You're such a clutch here,
absolute cluts. I got eight million plates I'm spinning here.
It's a one man operation, eight million things I'm doing here,
and I got to worry about a stupid Twitter rundown
or x rue down.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
Truck stop fungus.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Right since says that the old lady drive to El
Paso and San Antonio today, he says, spent the day
in my tighty whities playing MLB twenty five in the sleeper.
Now I'm paying the price for the street tacos I consumed, well,
truck stop fungus. Not only are you paying the price,

(26:34):
your tighty whities are paying the price, and also anyone
else who might come into that sleeper paying the price
as well. That's that's a problem, absolutely all right. It
is the Ben Malor Show. As we are working away
through the overnight. Now as we continue the power hour
of howk it's time now for.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
The play of the night. That's right, the play. I
wonder what that could be.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
You think it's some some random like baseball highlight. You
think it's the ti Iraq play of the day as
a baseball light or could it be overtime final minute?
Edmonton Alberta Oilers and Florida Panthers tied up less.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
Than a minute to go, and then this happened.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
Eugene Hopkins on the left half Hoard's under pressure turns
and gives.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
It up beautiful fast but even in front turns Leon
trisd A life four three.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
So I'm gonna guess that is from the Edmonton radio
call gonna I'm gonna go out on them. I'm pretty
sure that the brony doing the Florida Panthers would not
have been that excited at the Elvis has left.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
The building and all that.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
I'm pretty sure that is the the case there anyway,
that is the ti Iraq play all the Night. For
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(28:15):
dot Com, The Way Tire Buying show B So I
thought it was AI. Now I didn't think it was AI.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
Eventually, everyone's gonna lose their job because of AI. Right,
it's just gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
So just be prepared and enjoy playing video games in
your tidy whities because that's what you'll be doing.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Yeah, there'll be no need for you to do anything.
So I bring this up Rick Carlile.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
That's a basketball coach and he's four wins away from
a championship, Rick Carlisle. So Carlile is coaching the team
that plays in Indianapolis. They call themselves the Pacers, the
Indiana Pacers, And he commented on the poll axing of
Tom Thibodeau as coach of the Knickerbockers, and Carlisle said

(29:04):
he thought the firing of Tom Thibodeau was a fake
ai I thing.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
He said, Now, a couple thoughts on this. First of all,
it technically was.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
A fake story because there is a great parody site.
I'm a big fan of the satire sites on social media.
I think they're hilarious as people fall for these and
every once in a while, I'll get burned by them too.
I'm not above being burned by these things. I do
the discount double check to make sure I don't get burned,
but every once in a while you get burned. So
the NBA parody account NBA Sentel, which is a mock

(29:43):
account and just as hilarious because they end up getting
these like Stephen A.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Smith has red stuff. He makes like thirty million a year.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
He reads these fake stories and repeats them as the
gospel because he is.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
A moron anyway, So these things happen, o.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
They they did a fake story that the Knicks had
let go of Tom Thibodeau on the satire site, and
that was out there and so a lot. No, the
Knicks would never actually do that. I mean, that's why
it's a satire site, and they actually did. This has
happened so many times where Sports Talk Barry or butt

(30:21):
Crack sports or Sentel will send something out which is
so ridiculous you're like, well, that's never happened, and then
two days later it actually happens. So it's like, as
far as the ai thing out about that, but the
fake part of it, absolutely, absolutely the fake thing eight

(30:41):
seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the number. That's
eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three sixty nine.
If you'd like to be part of the program, you
can join the festivus of talk. And let's go to
the phones right now. And I think he's back for
round number two and favorite got some email about this guy?

Speaker 1 (31:03):
Is that guy real? Let's find out.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
Anthony is in the great state of Louisiana and he
is back for another helping of hot overnight sports talk.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Hello, Anthony, Welcome? How you doing Van, Anthony?

Speaker 2 (31:18):
If I was any better, I'd be a panther, but
not a Florida panther because they lost the hockey game.
And I'm gonna guess that you did not watch a
second of that. Yeah, what what sports?

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Are you into?

Speaker 3 (31:33):
Some open.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
So that's your that's your deal, And that's not the
only thing you like football?

Speaker 1 (31:39):
To me? Is college football? You like college football?

Speaker 3 (31:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (31:44):
All right, very good. You're a man of a lot
of words. Yeah, what's on what's on your mind? Anthony?

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (31:51):
What's what's up to?

Speaker 1 (31:53):
What you up to tonight? I'm just sitting back.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
I thought i'd sit in a chair and turn the
lights down and talk to myself for four hours and
that's about it pretty much. Right.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Oh that's why again, here we go, Here we go.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
How you doing?

Speaker 4 (32:13):
You know I'm pretty good?

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Yes, yes, right, I got a joke for you.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
I do love a good joke. Yeah, yeah, not to
get offended, all right? What's go ahead? You got? Is that?
Is that? Is that a joke?

Speaker 2 (32:30):
At the joke?

Speaker 1 (32:32):
Well, you're you're you're fearless?

Speaker 3 (32:34):
Yes, you know.

Speaker 4 (32:37):
You know how many blogs did you take to tag
the light boat?

Speaker 1 (32:40):
How many? Okay, here we go one? You know why? Why?

Speaker 2 (32:45):
That's for directions? Nothing nothing quite nothing, quite like a
blonde joke from Anthony and Louisian.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
And now is it true? Anthony you're a professional comedian?
Is that accurate?

Speaker 3 (32:57):
I got you do?

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (33:00):
You sound like you've got a good sense of humor.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Yeah, Now, don't tell me you're a leprechaun like that
guy from Boston.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
You're not a leprechaun, are you?

Speaker 2 (33:06):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (33:10):
Yeah? Oh you know you listen to the show look
at that, you know, Mike the lepre con.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah yeah, hello, okay, and if you keep calling here,
now this is only your second call, so we can't
do this yet. But if you keep calling like at
some point here, Anthony, we might have to give you
a nickname. So we're gonna have We're gonna have to
learn about Anthony. What makes Anthony tick?

Speaker 1 (33:31):
In Louisiana and Adrian I say hello too, I heard
the one time. Who do I? Who do I have
to say hello to Adrian?

Speaker 3 (33:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (33:42):
I don't know. I know. I don't do shoutouts. I
am on cameo, so I cannot do a shout out.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
I'm not I'm not able to do a shout out
to Adrian now, but on cameo I will do a
shout out.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
All right, okay, all right, well thank.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
You you talk.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Soon now, no bye to me. It's by the Lorena
right there. Here's Anthony.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
Find out more about that guy, and then have the
militia give him a nickname.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
He does have a distinctive cadence, he really does.

Speaker 4 (34:15):
There's a bit of a stutter in there too.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Oh he's nervous talking to a woman like you. I
think that's what's I notice. Not a stutter with.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Me, really, but with you. There's a bit of a stutter.
So I think that's what that's all about. Very good.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
How amazing is that our friend Anthony and interesting character
on the show. We always need more interesting characters. I
talked about this the other day, that there's a lifespan
of a caller. They don't last that long either because
they get sick and die. We've lost a lot of
people do that, or they just tire out, or they
get married, or they have kids, and we've lost a

(34:51):
lot Like Uncle Mo. We lost Uncle Moe. He kept
having kids and he worked a dreaded day shift.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
And he left.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
And so Chris and Houston, No, another one the dust,
Another one bites the dust.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
Time. Now for the who am I? Game? It's where
we pretend to be somebody else? A's We call it
the who am I? Game?

Speaker 2 (35:08):
So Florida is Sam Bennett? In a loss, Sam Bennett
joined me as the only players in NHL history to
score a goal in nine different road games within a
single playoff run. It didn't matter in terms of the
win because they lost the game, But who am I?

Speaker 1 (35:25):
Florida is? Sam Bennett?

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Sam Bennett joined me as the only players in NHL
history to score a goal in nine different road games
within a single playoff run. Who am I? That is
the question?

Speaker 1 (35:37):
The answer. We'll get to it. We'll do it.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
Next, be sure to catch live editions of the Ben
Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Miller and you.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
It is the Ben Malor Show up all night every night.
The Red Eye flight reaching our full altitude still as
we are about an hour in now and you can
stream this show and all the other Fox Sports Radio
gas bags live twenty four to seven. We prove that

(36:09):
doing this late night show. The new and improved iHeartRadio app.
Just search Fox Sports Radio. In the app, you can
stream us live like Enzo and Nico in Vancouver, and
one of the newest features in the app, you can
select Fox Sports Radio the Ben Maler Show in the
Fifth Hour Podcast is some of your presets, just like

(36:30):
the presets on the car radio downs where the radio
jargon P.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
One comes from.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
That's the term P one, So be sure to preset
Fox Sports Radio, Ben Maler Show and Fifth Hour Podcast. Now,
we would not mind if you just put the Ben
Malor Show first, Fifth Hour Podcast and then Fox Sports
Radio third.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
That's not in the copy.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
It's all on the iHeartRadio app will always pop up
the top of your screen.

Speaker 4 (36:54):
Thank God for the Internet.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
And back to whe we go.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
And we must pay off the who am I?

Speaker 1 (37:01):
Game?

Speaker 2 (37:01):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else who
call it the who called the who Am I?

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Game?

Speaker 1 (37:06):
Florida, we'll goll Hockey Florida.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Sam Bennett join me as the only players in NHL
history to score a goal in nine different road games
within a single playoff run.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
There's only been two people to do.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
It, Sam Bennett of Florida, and then one other human being.
And so we're looking for the name of the other
human beings.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
See, that's the exercise here that we're doing. And then
we're going to try to find the answer. We'll see
if and he knows the answer.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
And this is the part where I read a bunch
of silly answers that are not correct, and then I'll
give you the real answer, which plausibly will be correct.
And then that's how the bit goes. If you're new
to the show, like Anthony and Louisiana, who's getting a
lot of interesting feedback on the social media, that's the
way it goes, all right, So on ex at ben
mallor let's see does anyone know the answer? Mallet popcust

(37:59):
says Anthony and Louisiana thinking about Lorena's the answer Butterfly Stance.
Benny from ferg Doug, Marty McSorley, guest by Alf the Alien,
O Piner, Nick the Wendy's Guy, still celebrating his daughter's
graduation from high school, says Matthew Kachuk, Gary Guy Edi
from Robin, Minnesota. Amanda Crue, Who's thirty nine today? From

(38:23):
The Late Night Drug Tester? Tim Tuffle from Mister Nice
Guy Mets nineteen eighties legend?

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Who else do we have?

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Mister Irrigation going with Wacey Rabbit as his answer.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
Who else do we have?

Speaker 2 (38:37):
Page down Timuslani Duck's Legend from Robbie the Mariner Fan,
Reggie Dunlop from from Donkey Sausage, Dan Barrio from Luke
Cajun Man, Anthony the Cajun Man from Milkman, Mike Edmund
Dallas Steamboat, Willie Judas Garcia from Andy and Lino Lakes, Minnesota.

(38:58):
A lot of Anthony and Louisiana reactions. Big Lou who
made it back? I don't know if you ever made
it to Vancouver. He's going with Mighty Dutch Legend. Gordon Bombay,
Darren Pang from Andrew in the Bay Area. Steven meetbaul
is going with Brian boy Toto very funny. Gordy Howe
from Palm Desert Rat what say you, Lorraine up?

Speaker 1 (39:17):
Tyler Dirdin Ben all right.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
No, it is alex Ovechkin, the comrade, Alex O'beshi's Russian.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
He's friends with Fud alex

Speaker 2 (39:26):
Ovechkin, Ovechkin, Ovechkin,
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