Hour 2 - Allegheny Aaron

Ben Maller talks about Aaron Rodgers finally signing a one-year deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers, if critics are being too harsh on Rodgers, how the relationship will go between Rodgers and Mike Tomlin, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dingo. It's our num ber to our number two and
one of the great offseason storylines has come to an
end today as Aaron Rodgers taking his talents to Pittsburgh.
What's the temperature around Aaron Rodgers as he finally goes
to the Steelers? Our critics being too harsh on Aaron

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Rodgers as he goes to the land of the Insurer?
Or is the scrutiny justified? And Aaron Rodgers is the
Power Hour of Aaron Rodgers? With how does this relationship
go between Rogers and Mike Tomlin. We'll cover it all.
It's the Aaron Rodgers Power Hour, the hour you did
not ask for, but you're going to get and you're

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going to listen to it right now. It's our number two.
Call him alleghany Aaron welmeme. In the beginny of another
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nightmare is now over. Dateline, Western Pennsylvania. After months and
months of a very public courtship between Aaron Rodgers and
Mike Tomlin, we now have a endpoint. No more will
he or won't he speculation. We assume that you've heard

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by now, unless you've been living by a rock down
by the river. Maybe not. But Aaron Rogers has decided
he will take his talents to Mike Tomlin and the
Pittsburgh Steelers, letting Tomlin know that he intends to join
the team for the twenty twenty five season. And the
Steelers had put a full court press, a full court

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press on the now ex jet, but the ex jet
has landed at a new airport in Pittsburgh, so that move.
According to the Pittsburgh football team, all that is required
is a physical. Now, you know the way this works.
If the team wants you to play for the team,
they will find a doctor to pass you, or they'll

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just give the old wink and a nod to the
doctor who is employed by the team. And so it's
very difficult to not pass a physical if the team
wants you to pass physical. Right, yeah, exactly. So at
age forty one, air and Rogers is going to be
hanging out at the confluence. What a beautiful city, Pittsburgh
is the mononga HeLa, the Alleghany rivers there, they get together,

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they have a baby, and that's called the Ohio River.
And man, is that neat really cool? If you've never
been there. I was there of years ago. I got
to get back. I've not been to Pittsburgh in a minute,
so let us discuss the question what is the temperature
around air? And Rogers finally going to the Steelers, So
what is the temperature in the room. So I've we've
got foreigner screenplay and quirky, and we will combine all

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of these things together and we are going to throw
some fries on top of our sandwich as we hydrate
and kind of get get her blood going a little bit.
So again we got foreigner screenplay and quirky. Number. I said, number,

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the average body temperature is ninety eight point six degrees.
Now you knew that, right, fahrenheit ninety eight point six.
You learned that when you were younger. So I checked
the thermometer in the room. The thermometer in the room,
we took we took a look at it. What does
the thermometer in the room say when Aaron Rodgers is involved?

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It is always a high grade fever. Keep an eye
on it. You may have to go to the emergency room.
Why is that Aaron Rodgers is a firebrand with a
capital F firebrand. I get a kick out of Rogers.
I don't have as big an issue as some of
you do. I get these long manifesto emails every once

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in a while from someone, and they often start I
used to like Aaron Rodgers when he played for the Packers,
and now I can't support him anymore, Okay, And they
have like the Packer logos. They're avvy, they're avatar, right.
But the soundtrack, the soundtrack of Aaron Rodgers is from

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the band Foreigner. It's Agent Provocateur. That's Aaron. Aaron Rodgers
is an agent provocateur. He's also a foreigner in Pittsburgh.
He's an outsider. He's a mercenary. He provokes a reaction,
he ignites rage, and that's good for what I do.
Some people get the heb gbs. It's good good for

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talk radio. People are ignited into rage and about everything. Right.
I'll give an example. So one of the stories, the
working hypothesis on Rogers and why he waited until the
first week in June to sign. One of the popular
opinions by popular people is that Rogers was annoyed at

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the way the media attacked him for going to see
the Pyramids in Greece and skipping out on the jets
and some practices in the off season. So he determines like, well,
I'm gonna wait and I'm gonna enjoy my off season.
I'm not gonna sign. Therefore, no one can goof on
me for not signing. And so he waited to take

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his talents to Alleghany County and he wanted to enjoy
traveling around and hanging out with his buddy Joe Rogan
and all the podcast the dopes that he does, and
so he thought, hey, i'll avoid criticism. You can't rip
me if I don't sign. I'm not under nfl umbrella.
I can do whatever I want. Yeah. Oh, there's a

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blast in the past. But here's the he didn't miss
any OTAs. So of course Rogers decides that's what I'm
gonna do. I'm not gonna sign. I'm gonna wait until
the last minute. I'm gonna sign a contract. And the
Steelers were perfectly okay with this. They rubber stamp it.
They gave the okay and Rogers has been getting roasted
like a pig at a traditional Hawaiian luau. He's selfish

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as an egomaniac. Oh my god. Yeah, I'll tell you
this much. Rogers will be motivated. You're getting a motivated
player to prove that he can still play. To motivate
it also mainly to prove that it wasn't It wasn't him,
It was the Jets. He's not the reason that his
career is in a ditch on the side of the road.

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It was the Jets, and they have a mandatory mini
camp coming up next week. So Rogers decided, all right,
this is as long as I can wait. I can't
wait no more. I gotta do it now. The question becomes,
even if you're motivated, is the car running on empty?
Is there any gas left in the tank? Is there?
Rogers has not looked like an elite NFL quarterback since

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prior to COVID, and I would argue a couple years
prior to that because even his last year at lombeau
Field he was not doing the Lambeau leap very often.
It was not a good season for Rogers if you
actually watch the games. Now, if you look at the
Pro Football Reference page and you're a low information fan,
you just read the box score. Oh, it was the

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same hold on Rodgers. No, it wasn't right. That's one
of the reasons the Packers were not too worried about
letting Rogers go. They saw a declining player and that
continued with the Jets and he got hurt and all
that stuff. So you know, he can go there and
eat the go back to Wisconsin and eat the cheese skirts.
But Pittsburgh fans now they will boo you. They're gonna

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boo your ass, is what they're going to do into
the next week. When you start floating those little screen
passes and instead of completing them and getting the first down,
you throw it over the head or it bounce it.
You're gonna hear about it now. Page two. Are the
critics of the quarterback? Are the critics being too harsh

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on Aaron Rodgers or is this scrutiny justified? Rogers been
around for a while and it's mentioned the temperatures at
a fever pitch for Aaron Rodgers. But is this justified
or is this just a bit too much? So I
would argue this is the nature of the beast, nature

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of the beast. When you are high profile, and also
when you go around acting like Socrates with a spiral,
you're going to get scrutiny. It's in the recipe for
the cake. It's baked into the cake. There and Pittsburgh
is a legacy franchise, it's appropriate because this is a
legacy saving situation for Rogers. I've already read the advanced screenplay.

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I have a copy of it. When you do overnight
talk radio, it's one of the perks that you get.
So I've read the screenplay. It's like a Hollywood script.
It's Aaron Rodgers trying to rewrite the narrative yet again.
It's the old Cinderella Rise, Fall, Rise again. And there
is a dimension. There is a dimension in the multiverse

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where Aaron Rodgers goes out there and teta he gets
it done. He won in Green Bay, he fizzled in Jersey.
He then rises again in Pittsburgh. Now there is an
alternative reality also, and the alternative reality is that Aaron
Rodgers has nothing left. That Aaron Rodgers is dun skies.

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There's nothing there. The tank is on empty. And Rogers
ends up meditating on Mount Washington in Pittsburgh and gets
abducted by UFOs while meditating on Mount Washington and has
never heard from again. And the next time Rodgers has
talked about is over with our buddy George Norri on
coast to coast, And that's where that's where it is,

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all right now, final point, So how does this relationship
between Mike Tomlin and Aaron Rodgers work out in Pittsburgh.
Now I'm fascinated by this because these are two gigantic,
egoed human beings, and we love Mike Tomlin. Mike Tomlin
has been so good, so good for what we do.

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At least two or three times during the NFL season,
Mike Tomlin will say some hokey thing like our windshield
is bigger than our rear view mirror, and then we'll
do ten minutes on Mike Tomlin some something, you know,
he says, I want volunteers, not hostages. There's all these
Tomlin tomlinisms that are out there, and I'm fundamentally against comfort.

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I'm trying to remember some of these things off the top,
off the top of my head. But it's great, you know,
trying to get my mojo back. I mean, it's endless,
it's endless, all these little lines, and so we get
to see that dynamic and it's it's gonna get off
to a fine So I think there's a honeymoon period.
Rogers is gonna show up. He's gonna have his church

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clothes on, He's gonna say all the right things, He'll kiss.
I'll probably kiss a baby wrapped in a terrible towel
to show everyone that he loves Pittsburgh. The real moment
where this gets interesting is like week four or five,
when the rubber meets the road. Can't wait, yeah, Rogers.
At that point, Aaron will be visiting the Speak Easy
over in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and he'll be at a at

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a bar, the speakeasy bar there with Fry Daddy, and
he'll be drinking shots of ayahuasca. And he'll be bemoaning
to Fry Daddy in Harrisburg, blaming the offensive line for
the misalignment of the energy. And he needs some more
essential oils to turn things around. And that's just the

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way it is. But I'm ready for that. I'm ready.
I'm good to go. This is his handpicked for Mike Tomlin,
his handpicked quarterback. Be careful what you ask for. They've
had a very quirky bromance. Mike Tomlin is one of
the few coaches that can command enough riespect, enough respect

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to manage all the personality quirks that come with the
all inclusive Aaron Rodgers experience. Now, this only works if
Rogers has something left and buys it.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Now.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
I think he's gonna buy it emotionally. I believe he'll
buy it. Physically, that's the question. He's in his forties.
Usually you start sucking as an athlete at that time,
and there have been exceptions to that, but for the
most part, they just they don't happen often, and Pittsburgh
has been stuck in this transitional cycle at quarterback ever

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since Ben Roethlisberger walked away after the twenty twenty one season.
Rogers will be the fifth different week number one quarterback
in as many seasons, so five years in a row,
new quarterback, and despite that, Pittsburgh has reached the playoffs
four times in the last five seasons, only to be

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vaporized in the postseason in lopsided losses. Uncompetitive, like they
don't even belong, Like they're just a tomato can that
somehow accidentally got to the playoffs. Now other than Rogers,
other than Rogers, they've got Mason Rudolph. They took a
late round flyer, not a Daton flyer, but they took

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a late round flyer on Ohio State quarterback Will Howard.
So Will Howard is the other option in the quarterback Room,
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Aaron Rodgers, and back to it we go a little hot.
Aaron Rodgers talk as he joins the Pittsburg Steelers. Oh yay,

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oh yay, oh yay, oh yay. All right, very nice,
Daniel Wright, since says he thinks Tom Brady, Tiger Woods,
Michael Jordan, Gretzky, and o'tani the greatest players to ever
play their sport, all within the last couple of decades.
He says, in fifty years, will all their names stand.
I don't see how they don't. Well, do not be

(18:42):
a prisoner of the moment. Now, yeah, in our lifetime,
we'll all be dead by the time someone else comes
along better. And it depends how old you are, but
there's always someone better, right, And remember when when Jordan's
started going bonkers, there were people saying, well, he's good,
but he's not as good as Elginlor believe it or not,
Elgind Baylor. There was a guy that worked here, Dave Stone,

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Rest in peace, Dave Stone. He was a huge Elgin
Baylor guy. Elgind's better than Jordan and all that. You're
going on and on about him. And there's always someone
in your generation that's great, Always someone in your generation
that's great, and you have to figure out whether they're
an all time great. You say championships, unbreakable records, Well,
they're going to add more games in the NFL, so

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those some of those individual records will will change and
Otani's wonderful and great for the Dodgers, But is he
going to have the kind of staying power to put
up all time career great numbers. We'll see, we'll find out.
That's why we watched the games. That's why we watched
the games. All right, Let's see what do we have here,
Jim and the Hughes says A plus on the mal monologue.

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I get the feeling the Steelers signed Air and Rogers
so they can tank next season and somehow beat out
the Colts for the right to draft Arch Manning. Now
there's a hot internet conspiracy we'll get to later in
the show that now that Jim Irsey has died, the
Colts are deciding they want to drive a tank. They
want to go full tanky mctank. That's what they want,

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one hundred percent. All right, we have the fun fact
of the hour, the fun fact as provided by Alf
the Alien Opiner, The big fun Fact Fun Fact fun fact. So,
Kevin Yuculus, the Greek god of walks in Major League
Baseball four thousand, four hundred forty four played appearances, and

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when he had a three to zero pitch, he swung
zero times. Four thousand, four hundred and forty four played
appearances where he had a chance to swing at a
three to zero pitch and he did not swing at
that three tozero pitch. That seems rather outrageous. That's like
a crazy, crazy statistic, right, That's just completely bonkers, is

(20:58):
what it is. Shannon. He says, man fraud should be
the bring the Expos back to baseball, and then shut
his idiotic mouth. A random non sequitor yet again from
Shane in des Moines, ranting and raving. Very nice. Let's
go to the phones and let's who do we have here?
Page Paige dan Oh. By the way, Mike writes and

(21:20):
says he's upset with the I was I was quoting
the other guy's take. That was not my take, he
I was just quoting his take. I was shadow quoting
the guy's take. And now this guy, Mike's upset with
me because I quoted the other take. And and he's like, well,
I like that take, and he's complaining. And his complain
is he says Bonds and Lebron are two the two
greatest players of their sport. Well, no, Michael Jordan is

(21:43):
light years ahead of Lebron. I think anybody knows Ball
knows that, and Barry bonds. Listen, he's the greatest steroid
hitter of all time. No debate. You know, you know
you can. All those guys were on steroids when he
was playing, for the most part, and he was. He
was at the very very top, the very top of
the mountain. I say, some calls, and who do we

(22:04):
have about this guy hasn't called in a long time.
There's a couple of names out here that have not
called in a long time. Let's go to Jerome in Charleston.
I wonder what happened to Jerome and Charleston. He vanished
from the show. Hello, Jerome and Charleston, bring it home, Jerome.

Speaker 4 (22:19):
Hey, I'm just taking my time trying to figure out
what I'm gonna talk about. I have to get my
thoughts together. But what a funnish to what is Oh
my goodness, oh my, it's not about the skill band.
That's about the will. They will themselves to Game one win,
and now game two. I can't wait to see what happens. Oh,

(22:42):
I cannot wait because that place was silent. Boy, you
gotta hear a beddrop. I can't wait to see what
happens in game two. I can't wait. I just I
don't know what I'm gonna do for the next couple
of days with my shelf.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
Man, I know what you get. What you're gonna, You're gonna,
You're gonna, You're gonna eat, You're gonna sleep, You're gonna
go to the bathroom. You're gonna watch television and listen
to radio. That's what you're going to do.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
You're gonna do no, no, no, no, no no, maybe
not no.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
You're not. You just gonna sit there? Are you gonna
sit there and stare at the wall? Is what you're
gonna do. Listen and as as much as you want
a wax poetic. And the Pacers won the game, and
that's great, And they made some shots. In order for
that to happen. Oklahoma City had to get into the
fetal position and start sucking their thumb to close the game.
In the final nine minutes and forty something seconds, they

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shot twenty five percent. Like, that's hard to Indiana is
not a good defensive team. That's hard to do. They
were missing easy shots.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
Yeah, and the Zebras were trying to hand. They were
trying to hand the game to Oklahoma City. Okay, a
couple of those calls with that doors Bert with the
rule of Berta Chalfi, No, that's a damn foul back
and you know I knocked them over while he was

(24:04):
trying to get them ball. That's a damn foul. Okay.
I don't give a damn what people say. Look, whenever
I talk about officiating, there's a guy you never says
that's what's wrong with people like me? What's wrong with
this turnkey? No? I see it a lot of rules, Okay,
I believe in the rules. It's a foul. That's a problem.

(24:25):
I don't care if it's on the Moon. I don't
care if what's on Mars. It's a foul. Call it, okay, yeah,
oh yeah, you.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
Now you you actually mentioned something that I had on
my big board. I haven't gotten to it yet. You
mentioned Rick or Doris Burke. Right, So Rick Carlyle, Well,
she's in trouble because he's not good at her job,
and so there's rumors that're gonna get rid of her.
She's not very popular, she's not a great you know,
he's pretty dull as a broadcaster. And so Rick Carlyle

(24:53):
like a knight in shining armor, came out and said,
it's very sad to see these reports leaked about how
Doris Burke is in in danger as a broadcaster. Why
is that she's a woman like that male bro Mark
Jackson was hearing he was going to lose his job
in the finals. But that's allowed. This is I don't
I don't get it, like you know, It's like, this

(25:14):
is when you're a high level broadcaster or a public
figure and you're not good at your job, or even
if you are good at your job, these things are
that's part of the deal. It goes with the territory.
So why is it Why is it sad to see
that means she's at the top, the pinnacle of broadcasting.
People think she's terrible and they want to replace her,
and it sounds like ESPN is considering doing it.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
You know my problem with women broadcasters. They try to
come off not to die all the time. Okay, start
with my problems with them.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
All right, I didn't I didn't ask you, I didn't ask.

Speaker 4 (25:47):
You got more than I do. Okay, that's what my
problem with women?

Speaker 1 (25:55):
How much? How much? How much testosterone do you have? Jerome?
Do you have a a lot of Not much? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Are you saying some of these broad these women broadcasters
may have more testosterone than you. Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 4 (26:16):
They try to come off like a guy, you know,
like I know more about you guys, dude.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Well, and that's a that is a let me piggyback
off that take. That's a good take. Let me piggy
tiggyback off that because what I look for and who
am I you know, but I'm watching I want entertainment.
Charles Barkley knows a crap ton about the NBA, but
you never get that from watching Barkley because Barkley is entertaining.
He's a showman, and that's what it's about. It's not

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about your basketball knowledge or your ex's and o's. Nobody cares, Okay,
It's a making someone smile at the end of the day.
They've worked all day whatever at making them happy and making.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
And he lost twenty five million dollars gamblers. I'm not
listening to him, okay.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
Okay, Well that you do, you, Jerome. I'll listen to
him and I'll enjoy my life because he's entertaining, and
you listen to whoever you want to listen to. And
you'll be bored out of your mind. But they didn't
have a gambling problem, and they you know, they were
in shape and all that stuff, and you'll be happy. Okay.

Speaker 4 (27:21):
By the way, Olden Polony, he's overrated too, Okay, thank you.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Overrated. I don't think he's overrated. Nobody. No one said
he's great, Olden Polonies. Okay, no one said he's great.
He's he was a journeyman NBA player who's got the
gift a gap. That's why he's doing this job. Okay,
I get out here anyway. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
As we worked our way through the overnight hours. In
another blast from the past, the Tuna in Laguna, Hello,

(27:48):
Tuna in Laguna, Welcome Big Ben.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
First off, Olden Polonese was not over redy. He's one
of the greatest average rated random basketball players of all time.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
And he was he not traded for Scottie Pippen. Wasn't
he part of the draft question somewhere?

Speaker 2 (28:08):
But all I'm saying is I said at the bar,
good sir, and I took bets all day on everyone who.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
Is just plus ken. Are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 (28:18):
We're in the finals here and Everyone's like, I'm taking
okayc minus ten.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
I was like, are you kidding me? This is like
two JV.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
Teams playing basketball. You're gonna give me ten points. I'm
gonna take the fucking paper, all right, right, I know,
I know, I'm gonna take the Pacers money line. I'm
gonna take him hot.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
I'm gonna take him easy, and you get plus six hundred.
And you can.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
Still get them right now plus three hundred.

Speaker 4 (28:46):
It's still easy money. How was this hold on?

Speaker 1 (28:50):
That's not that's not overreacting. Oklahoma's gonna have their moments
in this series. I did think that line was a
little ridiculous. The amount of propaganda for Oklahoma City. There
are so many national basketball broadcasters and media people that
have Oklahoma City knee pads. One knee pad says okay, see,
the other says thunder. I mean, my god, I mean,

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come up for a breath. What are you doing? I mean,
guess what what come?

Speaker 4 (29:18):
You don't think this is Pacers and six easy? Clean?

Speaker 1 (29:23):
I don't know, but easy. I'd like to see Indiana win.
I like the way they play. It's fun.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
I agree with you, couple agree with me.

Speaker 4 (29:29):
I agree with you.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
Ninety nine percent of the time. But this you come on, what.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Do you disagree? I said, I don't want to see
Indiana win. You can't disagree. I just don't think it's
gonna be easy. I don't think I believe it's gonna
be You think it's gonna be easy. They were down
ninety nine point nine percent of the game. They only
had to lead with point three seconds left. That was
not easy.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
Well, I'm not saying easy.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
I'm just saying clean.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
You said the E word. You said easy, You said it.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
I meant l clean clean.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
I don't think that's a I think is a sea clean.
I think you've mean with a sea there. All right,
I gotta go. Uh you misspell You're so drunk you
don't even know. You definitely were the bar. That's tune
in Laguna. Like, I'm gonna go out get hammered for
three hours during an NBA game and then I'm gonna
call Mallor at night. I'm gonna I'm gonna ran to Mallor.

(30:20):
That's my night. What a perfect night, that is my God?
All right, it is the Ben Mahler shaw Well, changing
the socks, changing the laundry. It's going to happen supposedly. Oh,
it's not gonna happen for several years. But the Chicago
White Sox, the Chicago White Sox, there is celebration on

(30:41):
the South side of Chicago's the reign of Jerry Reinsdorf
will slowly come to an end and agonizingly pathetic ending
here as they have signed papers to begin the process
of selling the team that they are gonna move Vaughn Reinsdorf,
who's you know he's got He's kind of looking at

(31:03):
real estate behind the pearly gates at this point, and
they sent out a news release saying that the White
Sox Jerry Reinstorf and someone named Justin Ishbia, who yes,
is the brother of the owner of the Suns. How's
that working out? And yeah, so he will be the
new White Sox own. I guess this guy's a Chicago guy.

(31:24):
I read a little bit about him. He worked for
a business. How about that two brothers both make so
much money they can buy professional sports franchises. I think
Justin Ishbia, Yeah, he's uh, he's a owner of this.
He owns part of the Sons in the Mercury's brother,
Matt Ishbia is the primary owner. So there you go. Mark,

(31:48):
you excited? You're a White Sox fan, Marked, are you
excited about this? Does this get you you know, warm
and fuzzy? Uh, just a warm not fuzzy, not fuzzy
yet you want to see what they actually do right,
because you know who cares is consistently win games. Please
like try to win rather than whatever they're doing right now,
better effort like catch the ball, throw the ball, making out. Yeah, yeah,

(32:12):
those are all things. Sure. The White Sox have had
two World Series in one hundred and six years? Two two?
How many of those years were spent rebuilding.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
That?

Speaker 1 (32:27):
How about to go ninety years of that was rebuilding
and had that work out? Time Now for the Insta
trivia and we'll get to Mallard of the third degree.
But here's the insta trivia. Ok sees Jalen Williams became
the first player to be an All Star All NBA,
on All NBA Team, All Defensive Team selection, and play

(32:47):
in the NBA Finals, all of that in the same
season in his third year or earlier. Since blank there's
a lot of variables. There's a lot of variables to that.
But Oklahoma Cities Jalen Williams becoming the first player to
be an All Star, All NBA Team Guy, All Defensive
Team selection and play in the NBA Finals in the
same season in his third year or earlier. Since blank.

(33:11):
That is the Insta trivia the answer. We'll get to it,
and we will do it next.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
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(33:51):
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never miss the best Mallard monologues and Fox Sports Radio
videos on the YouTube. Back to it we go. Time
now for the payoff on the Insta Trivia, and then

(34:12):
we're gonna have Mallor to the third degree o cases.
Jalen Williams one of the guys that vanished at the
end of that game, as Oklahoma City wrote the vomit comment,
losing at home blowing a fifteen point fourth quarter lead.
What an embarrassment. But anyway, Jayalen Williams, he did become
the first player to be an NBA All Star, All
NBA Guy, All Defensive Team selection and play in the

(34:35):
NBA Finals in the same season in his third year
or earlier. Since blank. Now, there's a lot of variables
on that. There's a lot of variables on that. So
that is the question. What is the answer alf the alien?
Opiner says, it's Mario Mario. I didn't stutter Mario and
Luigi's last name is Mario. Oh, I did not know that.

(34:58):
So it is Mario and Mario and Mario Luigi Mario.
Mary lou Renton from courtesy Flusher ferg Dog says the
goat guaranteed the last the test of time. Ben Maler,
you're buttering my biscuits the Wonder Twins from Donkey Sausage.
That's his answer. Tony Coo, coach from EKE in Roseville, Minnesota.
There's a good photo there. Hey, Buddy Stevie meat Balls

(35:21):
is with it. I love Stevie meat Balls. They going
to that big blind convention in Cleveland, he says. Walter
Abercrombie is the way to go. Who else do we
have page down can't read that the inflatable Molly Ringwald
of Oregon from Ribman No clue guessed by Justin in Cincinnati.
Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota says it's got to be

(35:43):
Draymond Green kicking a guy in the nuts or stopping
a guy in the chest. Monte Ellis from Shane in
Des Moines, Elgin Baylor guests by Robin Minnesota. I see
what you did there. Slim Tim who's on the cheesehead
schedule there he's a proud chief, he said. He's going
with Cliff Levingston, NBA legend from back in the day,

(36:04):
Kobe Bryant just by Sean in Portland. Who else do
we have? Hank Finkel from bp MJ by Johnny Q.
It's Randy who is not in Norman, Oklahoma from Trucker Joe,
the Great Randy in Norman, Oklahoma. That's so upset because
of pro bouncy Ball, which was in a copy it
was in some copy and he got upset and he

(36:25):
stopped stopped calling the show. All right, let's see the
correct answer again. Okay, So he's Jalen Williams, the first
player to be an All Star, All NBA Team Guy,
All Defensive Team selection play in the NBA Finals same
season in his third year or earlier. Since blank. The
answer Bill Walton is the answer from the Portland Trailblazers,

(36:46):
the big redhead former Clipper Bill Walton. Rest in peace, Bill?
How about that?

Speaker 3 (36:53):
To the third degree? This is when Big Ben gets grilled.
All right?

Speaker 1 (37:00):
Cool? Reggie Bush is on the warpath again.

Speaker 5 (37:03):
In a recent interview, he said that the NFL Players
Association needs to make playing surfaces a top priority, and
it's negotiations with owners. He said a lot of leg
injuries are tied back to the surface plate on and
that grass should be the only one used in the NFL. Ben,
do you think the NFLPA will ever make this a priority?

Speaker 1 (37:20):
Well, they can make it a priority, but unless they're
going to spend the money to build stadiums where some
of these theim you can't even have grass because they're
indoor only facilities. It's impossible. I know in Arizona, whether
it's warm, they can take the turf, they have it
en rollers, they take it outside the stadium. Well, what
are you supposed to do in the Superdome in New Orleans,
for example, and in several other stadiums where you're in

(37:42):
cold weather, you can't do it. So even if you
make it a priority, you're you're screwed. There's no way
to get it done because of the environments where the
teams play in the stadiums. So it's a nice thought,
but it's not gonna happen next.

Speaker 5 (37:58):
The Phoenix Suns still planning to trade Kevin Durant this offseason,
and a recent report from Shams says that there will
be a quote robust market for Durant, with up to
six teams interested. Ben, are you surprised that there's still
that much demand for Durant?

Speaker 1 (38:11):
No, because he still box office. Most of these people
watch these games, they don't really pay that close attention.
They see Durant. He's a big name, they know who
he is. He's a Hall of Famer, He's had a
decorated career. And the fact that he might suck or
you know how he sucks, he's just not as good.
He's a diminishing asset. People don't care. So you get him,
You create some buzz, you sell a few tickets, and

(38:34):
everyone's happy, and you know, it doesn't really help you
as much as he would five years ago. But that's
fine next so tonight.

Speaker 5 (38:39):
Notwithstanding, there are some NBA analysts out there that believe
the Thunder are set up for a decade long run
of championship contention, Ben, do you think the window is
that large for Okissy?

Speaker 1 (38:49):
No? No, no, no, no, It's ridiculous the I read
those same stories here, shoulder massage, neck massage, wet kisses
for the Thunder. My god, I have not seen that
kind of ball washing since I was watching something else
back in the day. It's insane. How do we do, Koop?
You pass this edition?

Speaker 5 (39:07):
There?

Speaker 1 (39:07):
It is he that was the old Hawk tour right there,
that a hot tour.