Hour 1 - The Winds of Change

Ben Maller talks about the Knicks firing Tom Thibodeau and if he was done dirty by the team, who actually pulled the trigger on this firing, where the Knicks go to replace him, and much more!

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Here we go.

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Welcome, it's our number one. Happy hump Day. It is
the fourth day of June. Here on this Wednesday, and
here in our number one, it is all about the
big shakeup and pro bouncy ball. Did the Knickerbockers do
coach Tom Thibodeaux dirty handing him a pink slip after
the Knicks made the final four? Who actually pulled the

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trigger on this move? There are three possibilities. You make
the call. Who's the one that made the ultimate final
edit on Coach Tibbs. Also, where do the Knicks go
to replace Tom Thibodeaux as they have a job opening
in Gotham. We'll talk about all that and more right now,
give it up for our number one, The Wings of Change.

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of the NBA. Overcoming demons of years gone by, the
New York Knickerbockers said bye bye to their head coach.
They shot their shot. This is so great, this is outstanding. This,
it is such incompetence. It is malfeasance. So if you

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haven't heard by now and what are you doing, it's
a bad job by you, so we learned in the
afternoon hours the Knickerbockers had decided to paull axe their
head coach, Tom Thibodeau. He going bye bye. He's out
of there now. This is a one year after signing
a three year big money extension with New York, Thibodeau

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is kicked out of Gotham, get out of here. So
New York, New York will be looking for a new
voice to bark underneath Penn Station there try to get
over the hump five years of coach Tibbs and no more.
The Knickerbockers say bye bye. Still trying to win a

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championship for the first time in over fifty years since
the early seventies, which was before the Internet. We know
that it was before cable television existed. In fact, in
nineteen seventy three, more people were listening to radio than
we're watching even television. It was a crossover point back then,

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but there were radio was much more popular even than television.
So it's been a minute, so let us discuss the
question did the Knicks do coach Tom Thibodeau dirty? Did
they do him dirty? With this pink slip? So I've
got infomercial, Sesame Street, and iPad and we will combine

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all of these things together, and we were going to
make a nice trip to can Kun. Tom Tibodau does
not appear to be the kind of guy that would
go to Cankun, but he can, he can afford it,
and he's got plenty of free time. Plenty of free time.
So my first thought here, as I learned from one
of my teachers as a kid, that my with named

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Doctor Seuss. I think that Doctor Seuss got canceled somewhere
along the way, but you know, not in my world.
So doctor Seuss taught me when I was a child
that sometimes in life the questions are complicated and the
answers are simple, and this would be one of those times.
The answer to the question that we posed whether or
not the Knicks did Tom Thibodeau dirty, is apse of

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freaking loutely that is the answer here. We're talking about
a basketball travesty. Of course, no, it's just basketball. What
is that from a pure just hoop head perspective? Right now,
we can question how much coaches matter and all that stuff,
and why do you even need a coach? That aside

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that conversation. We've had that conversation, you and I, but
that aside, just talk about from the basketball side. What
are you doing here? Seriously, what are you doing? You know,
watching Tom Thibodeau coach the Knicks over the last five years.
I'm a big fan of infomercials on his little kid
I you know, I hang out at night watching infomercials

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back in the old days, and I love infomercial I
remember it was one infomercial that was very popular, old
school infomercial. It was the Jack Lalane. Most people don't
even know who that is anymore. He's gone, but Jack
Lane Power Juicer was a very popular infomercial. And I
was singing about that when I was watching the fallout

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from the coaching change in New York. Because coach Tibbs
squeezed every ounce of talent, every ounce of talent out
of that roster, that locker room, however you want to
say it. And it was like he was taking a
rock and juicing a rock and he got something out
of it. He did. They had back to back fifty

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win regular seasons. Well it doesn't matter, it's the regular season, Okay,
back to back fifty win seasons, Eastern Conference finals for
the first time in a generation, a bleeping generation, and
doing that while looking like a swamp donkey coaching the Knicks.
I mean, his whole life dependent on every game. He

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was bedraggled. He just did not care about his appearance.
He just was trying. He was a coach and that's it.
Big Apple Fashion Week in Manhattan, and he's out there
like a slob because he's just a coach. He's just
grinding away every single game and all that stuff. And
he helped it wasn't the only reason. Wasn't even the

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main rees. The players are the ultimately the ones that matter.
But that being said, Tom Thibodeau took over a team
that was a laughing stock. Everyone would point their finger
and say haha, like Nelson from The Simpsons, and it
turned that into a team that would punch back and
did punch back and professionally. Let me, let me be clear,

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you've got two dimensions at the same time, because you've
got the professional dimension from a again hoops standpoint, May
in that blows, BOYD does that blow. And then on
the other side you've got the personal side of it
and financially in that dimension. This is a wonderful mitzvah

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for Tom Thibodeau because the Knicks, if my mal or
math is correct, the Knicks have to pay him thirty
million dollars to do nothing. He doesn't have to work again.
He can go move to Key West and you know,
smoke weed all day and all night and all that
and just knock himself out, go play pickleball, sit on

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He's sit on a sofa for the next several years
and just watch TikTok videos. And the Knicks got to
pay him thirty million. I mean, my god, what is
wrong with that? But but yeah, you've got two different
things going on. It does not appear that coach Tibbs
is hardwired to be that guy who's just like, hey,

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I don't really care about whether I work or not.
It seems like a guy that actually likes his job,
takes pride in his work doesn't cut corners things like that.
Now page two. So the question is who done it? Oh,
it's a great mystery, it's just sports radio. But so
who done it? This is not the kind of a
move that is normally made. You overcame the odds, the Knicks.

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We're not supposed to even get to the final four
of the NBA this year, and they did. So who
pulled the trigger? Who's the one that's fingerprints are on
the trigger there to move to change coaches for the Knickerbockers.
So there is this great debate. There are a couple

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of camps here that have there's three possibilities, like Triangle,
there's three possibilities. I'm gonna give you the possibilities A, B,
and C, and then you make the call. But I'm
actually gonna make the call first because I have the
bully pulpit, So I'm going to make the call before you.
So the top you always start out with the disgruntled

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star player, because that's what usually happens in that business.
Lebron snaps his fingers, coach gets fired a right, that's
normally how that works. Nikole Jokic has a problem with
Michael Malone he gone, doesn't matter three days before the
three games before the end of the season. Coach it's
called the coach killer. I don't get the sense that's
going on here. Not to say that Jalen Brunson and

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Tom Thibodeau were sitting around the campfire and smoking and
singing Kumbaya and all that. I don't think that was
going on. Uh, there was a pretty good relationship. Jalen
Brunson fully blossomed under the guidance or the tutelage or
just the freedom to play from Tom Thibodeau and became

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an All NBA level player where you know, the hot
take artists or like, hey, wait a minute, this guy
is like in the same category of this guy and
that guy. I'm blah, just like now we believe they
had a sincere bond and maybe we're gullible. It's possible,
you know, what do we know? It's just I don't
get the sense, and I'm I'm not great at the

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English language. I don't really know much. You know, I
know some weird and random words from different languages around
the world. But body language, oh man, that's my wheelhouse.
I know the body language and right there, right so
it's not the player. Well then you go, well, what
about the executive? Was their bad blood? And Leon Rose

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was the executive? The President of Basketball Operation, I believe
is the official title. So was it Leon Rose? What
about the owner James Dolan? So I have looked at
the available evidence. I have deliberated in the jury room.
I do not believe it was Leon Rose. I don't.

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I do not think it was Leon Rose. Leon Rose
before he came to the next was the agent for
who Tom Thibodeau. Yes, they were, buddy leon Rose calling
me even gotta hire this guy higher TIBs. Okay. So
I don't buy that. Now, agents are slime balls and

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sleeves balls. I have had agents, and they're generally losers.
They're just bad people. So it's conceivable, like maybe like
two percent, that Leon Rose is just a snake and
he didn't. But I don't buy that. I don't buy that.
I look at Sesame Street. I look at Sesame Street
and a cookie monster who lives on Sesame Street. And

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you follow the cookie crumbs, and when you follow the
cookie crumbs, they lead back to James Dolan. The plot thickens.
James Dolton had his hand in the cookie jar. And
that's where I'm going. The Knicks were the popular pick
by popular people. Once they upset the Celtics, you had
a celebration through the Canyon of Heroes. You had the

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fans throwing trash and celebration. Everyone was saying, Oh, the
Knicks got this, they got home court at the Garden.
They're playing the Hicks from Indiana. There's no way they're
going to lose that series of the Pacers. Are you
kidding me? It is a layup. And if we saw
that crap, I'm pretty confident that James Dolan going to

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his Hampton hodown and schmoozing and drinking those Moscow mules
and the Long island ized teas, hanging out with Olive
arks and aristocrats and all the things that rich people do.
The of the one percent, they were all, Oh, you
got this, Dollan, this is great. You're ready to go.

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Way to go, James doll Oh my god, this is amazing.
And so they they were quick. Also. The other thing,
even if you don't believe that I'm right, the thing
that is the dead give way, the using useful idiots
in the media, their bodies behind paywalls. The Knicks made

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sure to say that it was leon Rose's decision. They
leak that. Now, what does that tell us? That tells
us it wasn't leon Rose's decision. That tells us that
he was not the one that made the call. That
he is being propped off as the fall guy. He's
they got to blame somebody because it's not a popular move,
so he gonna blame him. It was an irrational move

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by Dolan, the owner of the team. The Knicks had
a plumbing issue. Think of it this way. You got
a problem with your plumbing and instead of saying I'm
gonna call like Rodo Ruter or whatever, I'm gonna call
some plumber. Instead of calling by go to the website
sending an email getting the plumber. James Dolan determined that

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the best solution to the plumbing problem, to the leaky
faucet was to burn the house down. Hey, there's the
the fastest league of a bit, So let's burn the
damn thing down. Let's do it. Which is I think
I believe the word is beta. That is a beta move.
By doing now the last word, quick right, the last

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word here? Where do the Knickerbockers go? Now to replace
Tom Thibodeau, Like, what's the chess move here? Now? You
got the gambling market. The gambling market, they immediately said,
X Knicks associate coach Johnny Bryant. You don't really know
who that is, but apparently he's the darling, the next

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big thing in coaching, Johnny Bryant. Bryant has been with Cleveland.
He is a finalist for the Phoenix Sun's job. Some
saying the reason the Knicks fired Thibodeaux when they did
is because they want that guy, and to get that guy,
they had to do this because otherwise Bryant would go
coach the Suns and he'd be out in the in
the desert hanging out with cactus, and they didn't want that.

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And all that stuff, and the other read on the
amily market. You got Kenny Atkinson, who's the second choice,
and he's the coach of the year who lost to Indiana,
so he knows a thing or two about that in
the playoffs. And then you've got the usual rejects like
Frank Vogel and Budenhozer and the names like that. And

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then further page down, Pat Strake, Ewing, Mark Jackson, long shots,
unrealistic options, unrealistic options. And so now we do not know,
We do not know. Our crystal ball is not working
right now. We do not know who the next coach
or the Knicks is going to be, but we do

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know what they're going to be like. And I will
gare Untie the profile. You know how the FBI does
profiling of what they think some wack adoodle is like,
what they're like. So here's the profile of the next
Knicks coach. Okay, the next Nick coach will be an innovative,

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offensive mind players coach who likes drinking oat milk and
hanging out doing hot yoga, drawing up plays on his
iPad while doing hot yoga. That'll be the next coach, right,
the coddle coach, because you go from a hard ass
coach like Tom Thibodeaux, and the hard ass is relative.

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It's you know, it's not that it's not a drill
sergeant at Marine boot camp, but it's it's like it's
my NBA standards. So you have a coddle coach who
drives the mister softy truck. You've got that. And that'll
be somebody that comes in here and like rub shoulders
with you know, people hanging out those art galleries over
over and soho, you know, the art gallery crowd, and

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it goes to fashion Week, you know, and dresses up
as you know, Fashion East and all that stuff. Just
everything that Tom Thibodeau isn't like. He didn't Thibodau didn't
care about all that crap. He's just worried about coaching
and obviously doesn't take any pride in his personal appearance.
He looks like Shrek and the next coach will not
be that anyway. It is the Ben Maler Show. If

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at the meeting like, you gotta talk more hockey. I said, well,
I talk hockey. Get you bust my balls. You shouldn't
talk hockey. But then if I don't talk hockey, you
should really talk hockey. So make your bloody mind up anyway,

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straight ahead? Is it true that the New York Knicks
have already put a wish list together and they want
something they can't have on the sidelines, they want something
they can't have, and you are the basketball version of
a system quarterback? What is that all about. We'll get
to it and we will.

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Do it.

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right now, back to the show. All right, back to
what we go. And we started with a Nick heavy
Mallard monologue to begin the night and a lot of

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reaction to that. To that, Ferg Dog did not want
to talk about that. He says, Hey, Ben, did you
catch any of the la thrilling xtratings?

Speaker 4 (21:31):
Win?

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Chris Taylor had a couple of web gems. Ken Lee
Janssen pitched a scoreless inning and Mike Trout was on
the field. Add it all up, you get another halo victory.
Aren't you supposed to say, Ferg Dog, light up the halo?
Isn't that the line light? Do they still do that?
Or did Artie Marina lose so much money he can't
afford to pay the electric bills so they don't even
like the halo up anymore? I don't know. You only

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have to do it a few times a year, so
it's not that bad. Doesn't happen that often? Yeah, Late
Night drug Tessa says Tibbs had to deal with plenty
of crap and made it present bowl, which is amazing
since the circus hasn't been at Madison Square Garden for
almost a decade. Yeah, the Wolkesters killed the circus, right,
didn't The Wolkesters killed that? And they can't have any
animals in the circus and just to have the humans,

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that's it. Jason in Kens City, who I hung out with,
He sat at the head table there at the Malor
meet and greet we did at the landing in Liberty, Missouri.
He's up late with us, he says eight out of
ten on the Mallard monologue. And Jason is a show legend.
He had the Ben Mallar chicken figures. He says, Men,
I agree that Tibbs did a great job of turning

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around the Knicks, but I think he had some problems
with the players. I think a certain kitty cat had
a major saying getting him fired. That's from Jason in
Kansas City. Well, I don't buy that because Karl Anthony
Towns is the number two behind Jalen Brunson. And yeah,

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we all know what you do with the number to
you just flush it down as well. You have number two,
you flush at, you wipe. If you have a bidet,
you clean up a little bit. Daniel White, Spock's Weed
writes and says, great monologue. He's on the Oregon Trail. However,
I do think the instigator of the Hatcher job is Cat.
He's you guys think Carl Anthony Towns, who's been in

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a Nick uniform for a season, has that kind of influence.
All right, Inka Terror, who lives in New York, although
he lives in Rochester, the Flower City, says Benny, Whatever
happened to the real mister Tibbs, the one eyed peeping
Tom of the mal Or Militia. Yeah, that's a great name,
InKo Terror. You go way back with the show, and

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he was one of the wonderful characters that we had.
Mister mister Tibbs would call up and he had some
issues there, some legal issues, and I don't know what happened,
and he finally ended up going to the Gray Bar
Hotel if he had some health problems. I have no idea.
These people just come and go there. Maybe he'll catch
up with you, now, Uh, well, I don't don't. I

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don't think so. I don't know. I've heard from him
in probably fifteen years or something. It's been a while.
I don't even know if he's still around. I have
no idea what these guys every era of the show.
I was talking to some of the fans and the
malor meat greet some of the p ones at the
meet and greet in Vancouver, and it's like the callers
only it's very difficult to have staying power as a caller.

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There's a lot of dedication, you know, if you have
a family and a job, it's very difficult to keep
the level of talent, the effort that is required to
be a regular caller on the show. And so many
callers flame out. They go there for a little bit.
It's like going to college. You go to college, you're
not supposed to be in college. Eight ten years you

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call the show. You're a star caller. And it happens
to even the legend Pete and Pittsburgh Show legend flamed out.
Couldn't handle it the tension, the drama of overnight talk
radio calling. So he only asks a little bit and
he last the longer than most. We had. Troy the
gambling Man from Nashville, great caller in the early days.

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He flamed out MotorCity Mike in Detroit. These guys last
a couple of years and then they move on, and
there's always somebody else right behind him, like Charlie. Charlie
a young, young, upstart caller. But even before Charlie, we
had a kid caller years ago from the Bay Area
who beat Justin in Cincinnati back when you Justin's a
great example. Justin still kind of hides behind his phone.

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He didn't call anymore of he's past that. He can't
really handle the calling. But Justin used to be a
regular call used to play all the trivia games, and
he stopped doing that, and he still kind of occasionally contributes,
So there's a lot. So it's it's one of these things.
He just lasts as long as he can and then
you fade away into oblivion, like mister Tibbs Cowboy when

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Windsor is the only one who have stood the test
of time. Cowboy has been with us Cowboys, one of
the original callers when Fox Sports Radio was on in Binghamton,
New York and Pittsburgh are a couple of our first
markets when they launched the network and we were all
on a few stations. It was they were doing some
beta testing with the network and we were only on
a few places, and Cowboy called up. And he's still
calling twenty five years later, he's still calling. And Blind

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Scott's been calling a long time, but not not since
the beginning, not since the very beginning, anyway. King Roy
writes and says, I thought Sesame Street was defunded and
shut down. On a semi serious note, Thibodeau joins a
long list of recent Coach of the Year winners to
be fired a few years after winning the award. Is
this just a kwinkie dink or a sign that their

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days are of coaching are number Well, it's one of
the reasons I've not really wanted to get that Marconi Award,
because I think that'll be the end and of me
try to avoid that. Chip and the q's rites In
says Hey Plus on the Mallet monologue. I wonder if
TV will try to make Tibbs into a basketball analyst.
They'll have to get him to get in touch with

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a fashion consultant. Yeah, I don't think that's that's gonna happen.
Trucks fungus rites In. He says he wants to let
the Mallard Militia know he's spending the night in dal Hart, Texas, Texas.
Dot is thick on fifty six south to I forty.

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I'm a bit overweight. I ain't leaving till it's clear,
he says, all right, So what we do here. We
have a lot of truck drivers that are fans of
the show, and they're driving the highways and byways of Americans.
So I would argue that truck Stop Fungus has moved
up the ranks in terms of callers to the show.
So now we have to look up Dalhart, Texas. Where

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is Dalhart, Texas? So we've done a little keyboard green search.
I've never heard of it. Dalhart, Texas is It's a
town of eighty four hundred and forty seven. It's very
the very northern part of Texas, right below Oklahoma. It
was in the center. Here's a fun fact. You want

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to fund act on Dalhart, Texas. Where our buddy truck
Stop Fungus. No one fact, Dalhart, Texas was in the
center of the dust bowl. That's right back. Historically, one
of the great periods, well not for most people in America,
but during the nineteen thirties, dust storms during the Great Depression,

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and that was right there. You know, it sounds like
that could be the name of a Super Bowl. Bend
the dust Ball, the dust Bowl, come to the dust
Bowl could be one at all. Sounds fun. Yeah, I
don't think there's much fun going on here in Dalhart, Texas.
I'm sure there's a great little hotel and one or
two restaurants where truck stop Fungus is doing his thing.

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You always say, well, anybody famous come out of Dalhart, Texas?
In every town. I have a theory that every town,
even small towns, there's one or two people that came
out of your town that's famous, and somebody from the
town that went out and whether it's in the arts
or politics or me the whatever, it might became a

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famous person. And I don't see anyone from Dalhart, Texas.
They do have a municipal airport which looks like it's
just a strip of concrete and there's like one building.
That's what it looks like. Anyway, let's go to the
phones and we'll say hello to Brett, who's in the
music city. Hello Brett, welcome, you are on the Ben
Malor Show.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
Hey Ben, how's it going Man, it's been a while.
I think it's been like a year since I got
through to talk to you. But I'm still in this prison, man,
where the inmates have access to tablets but the nurses
have no access to the computers. So I've still been
listening to your show religiously. And there is a to
help the night pass. And there's the real talents in

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giving news in an entertaining way to somebody about a
sport they really don't care about, like baseball. And I still,
even though I could kill a crap about baseball, when
you give the news about baseball, all right.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
Well, it's a tremendous endorsement that you can at least
listen even when it's something you hate.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
I'll tell you, man, Sunday suck because there's no you.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
Man.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
I get infommercials and I got I got all sorts
of stuff. But I didn't want to ask you something.
What was the best food you had when you were
in Vancouver?

Speaker 2 (30:21):
Uh, it was a lot of good food. I had
a lot of poutine, which I posted some photos about,
which was great. I had a good once of the
top burger place in Vancouver had It was a nice
breakfast place. That I went to. It was kind of
boogie or whatever. It wasn't that boogie, but yeah, I
mean I did need that much when I was there
because we were only there a few days. But it
was it was good. The food was was solid and everything.

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Because of the difference in the American dollar versus the
Canadian dollar, everything was like twenty seven percent cheaper for
US because we have the American dollar. So it was
it was great and it was fun. Fun town had
a good time.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
It's always nice from the currency exchange rates in our favorite.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yeah. Like I I was like, I'm actually, what country
we get the most bang for your buck and just
start traveling? I know why some people do. I'm not.
I've not really traveled outside of the US much at all.

Speaker 4 (31:07):
So well, my wife and I are twenties coming up,
and we're looking into Thaighland for that very reason. They
say it's like a guilt free trip, like once you
pay for airfare. I saw a hotel room there where
a lady actually had a pool in it and it
was like two hundred a night.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (31:24):
Yeah, you got to be careful. Some of those massage
parlors can get you in trouble yet, you know, yeah,
yeah you might, you want to as long as you
avoid those. I think you're I think you're okay. Yeah,
all right, Well that's big twenties coming up. Huh. That's
you better not screw that one up, right, that's a
big one. We love round numbers. We don't celebrate nineteen,

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we don't celebrate twenty one, but twenty that's huge.

Speaker 4 (31:48):
Right one, yes, sirry, yes, sair. And you don't get
to twenty by going to the massage parlors. You can't
do that.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
Generally, not and if you, if you do, it's you're
in a pretty pretty kinky relationship, you know what I'm saying.
Freaky you know. Yeah? All right, Well, thank you for listen.
I'm glad you were able to call in. And what
happens if the Wi Fi shuts down at the prison?
What happens?

Speaker 4 (32:09):
Well, see, the thing is we don't have I don't
have access to the computers as a nurse. The corrections
officers do, and like I said, ironically, the inmates have tablets,
but they just don't have internet. If that happens, we're
on a paper charting system, so most of our stuff paper.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Still still using paper. You're holding on to the paper.
I don't know. Do you have typewriters? Also? Do you
got that?

Speaker 4 (32:33):
No? No, no time?

Speaker 2 (32:35):
All right, well, thank you, all right, thanks for listening.
I'll talk to you. I'll talk to you in twenty
twenty six. Okay, all right, all right? There there he
goes where he goes only he knows. All right, it
is the Bane Mallard show. Well, here's appears to be
a blast in the past. I was, I was debating.
I should probably stop talking for a second, but I

(32:56):
see this name. Man, I'm sure this guy will hang
up if I don't go to right now. Is this
the real mister Smooth? Let's see if this is the
real mister Smooth. Hello, mister Smooth.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
Good morning, Ben, shout out, Danny g Wow, and good
morning to all my fellas across the nation.

Speaker 4 (33:16):
Ben.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
I've always called to help out my fellas with their
relationships as we did back in the day, and I
still have one for him right now that I can
give you while I'm on my way. So, fellas, here's
what you want you to remember. Sometime today, when you're
with your lady, I want you to tell her this. Well,

(33:36):
I was out and about today in my day's activities,
I stopped into a retail outlet and I found out
something about you. Yes, I found out that Sugar and
Honey have petitions out against you because you're so sweet.
I'm mister smooth.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Yeah, yeah, I'm man. That is a throwback name. Pipe,
same delivery, same lines. Are I want to call more often?
Mister Smooth? There he hangs up the great mister Smooth
and Dallas Smooth. It goes back a long time, and
he's got the he's got the pipes he does, he's
got the delivery the whole day, mister Smooth. You never

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know who's listening. You never know who's listening. All right,
is the Ben Mahlor Show. So the Knicks looking for
a coach, and the chatter is the Knicks would like
to talk with They want permission to talk with Jason
Kidd of the Mavrack. So you gotta think wants to
leave Dallas and e May Udoka of the rock Cast. Now,

(34:37):
why would you want to leave the rock Cats if
your emay Udoka the old Celtic coach. Stay tuned on that.
But those are the couple of names that are popping
up in the backfence chatter about the New York Knickerbockers
and bleeding some cash and hey do I know you?
I think I know you? Bleeding cash? All that, here's

(34:58):
the who am I? Game? Who the thunders? Shay Jogis
Alexander has a chance to become the first player to
win an NBA scoring title and a championship in the
same season. Since me, Who am I? That is the question?
The answer. We'll get to it. We'll do it next.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
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All right back to where we go. Time now for

(36:27):
the who am I? Games? Where we pretend to be
somebody else? That's the who am I? Game? So the
Thunders SGA has a chance to become the first player
to win an NBA scoring title and a championship in
the same season. Since me, who am I? That is
the question? What is the answer? Courtesy Flusher says that

(36:50):
schmuck Bill Miller is the answer. Milkman Mike in Colorado
says Popeye, the Sailor Man, Eat your spinach. Malaprop Guy
says the inevitable mister Smooth. Great to hear from mister Smooth.
That's a blast from the past. He was a regular caller.

(37:11):
We smoked him out. Mister nice guy going with Brewer's
legend Dale Swain as the answer, the Rifleman Chuck Connors
from our buddy Alf the Alien Opiner Late Night Drug
Test says you are Angelina Jolie, who is fifty today?
Oh my god, that's old. Who else to have? Moses
Malone from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Iggy Pop from Donkey Sausage.

(37:34):
That's the answer there, Kobe Bean Bryant, guess my Mark
from Queen's lagoona Hills, San Diego, Tucson and Arlington, as
he's one step ahead of the law. Who else do
you have? Be Page Dan, Let's see. Terry in England says,
is it Robbie's favorite kid caller? Is that the answer? See?

(37:57):
Shannon Moyne says Kelly in de Moo lover Michael Cole,
all right, I might want to contact her about that.
Who else you have? Nick the Wendy's guys up in
Minnesota listening, I'll say the muffin Man who lives on
Drewy Lane is the answer. Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota says,
who am I? It's got to be the Hulkster brother

(38:20):
and that's the answer. Supermarket Steve who's always wrong but
keeps trying, says, I believe the answer is Stephen Curry.
He was the one to do it. George Kirby from
Robbie the Mariner fan, Mahmoud abdul Rauf from Andrew in
the Bay Area, mister irrigation's going with Toronto legend Grady

(38:40):
Dick as his answer, Sebastian Telfair only he had made
it from James who else? Do we have? The Greek
freak from Josh the disgruntled Bears fan in Nebraska. Chris
Caman the Caveman from sewn and Portland says, so that's
Shawn and Portland. Nialls Crane guess by far out Dave,
that's his answer. Wilt Chamberlain from HL Dino Cisseiarelli from

(39:05):
Big Rig Rob checking in all right, Jim Rongway Marshall
rest in piece from Larry d a football legend. Absolutely
all right, spots Weed says Berry White. The real mister
smooth is the answer our truth? From Kelly. We have
the baby draft from JJ Tommy Tippitoe from Brian. All Right, Lorraine,

(39:31):
do you have an answer? Lorraine? Yes, I believe it's
pac Man Ben is it pac Man Joe. No, the
correct answer. You gotta go back a generation, back to
the year two thousand. I was actually there. That's how
long I used to go to these games. Shaquille O'Neill
in ninety nine, two thousand with the Lakers the last
to do it. SGA can do it if the Thunder

(39:52):
win this year.