May 9, 2025 • 39 mins
Blaming Deion for Shedeur’s slide in the draft is comical and simplistic. Haliburton gets away with his big ball celebration and Paul Pierce cheats in paying off his bet. Plus Maller to the Third Degree.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, Shaka laka. It's our numb bird two, our number two,
and we start out with our in depth team coverage
of the runt of the litter in the NFL draft.
Shouldeur Sanders latest reporting? What intrigues you the most about
the revelations of Dion Sanders hurting Shader Sanders NFL Outlook,
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we'll take a look at that. Also, how surprised are
you that the NBA has allowed the Pacers Tyres Halliburton
to get away unpunished with his big balls dance after
he hit the game winning shot against Cleveland. For years,
the NBA has been gung ho to punish players who
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show they have large testicles when they make a big basket.
And are we jealous that Paul Pierce paid off his
TV bet to walk twenty miles to work or did
he really pay off his bet? A malor show investigation
right now on this ninth day of May. Here it
is our number two. Let's get this.
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this hour is a hybrid. We're gonna go to basketball,
but I wanted to start with something else because this story.
There's a story that caught my attention and it involves
college football. It involves the NFL, and so we're gonna
go there prime time if you will yet again another
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Malard monologue about the life and times of everyone's favorite
fifth round draft picture, dear Sanders. So you might have
seen it, maybe not. There were some clips going around.
Shouldur Sanders showed up with very expensive I guess that
was a backpack. I guess it wasn't a back it
was a bag. It was like a high end designer bag.
As he showed up to Brown's practice, and the chatter
continues about how he got there, regarding how someone who
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got so much attention ended up a fifth round draft pick. Now,
if you've not heard the latest on this, and maybe not,
we are told that multiple NFL executives have come out
and put Dion Sanders on the astro blaster coach pram
time Dion Sanders claiming that his involvement in Shadur Sanders'
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pre draft process played a large part in the massive
free fall down the draft board of Shoulder Sanders. The
money quote money quote from a story in the USA Today,
the paper that has the weather map on the back
that people used to read at hotels back in the day.
I don't know anyone reads it now, But anyway, I
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guess they're still in business. And the quote was I
think his dad's involvement hurt him. A high level NFL
executive said, some of the things, some of the things
that his dad said, I think that weighed on people's minds. Now,
another executive said, I think he he had some bad
advice from his father. He needed a traditional agent like
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other players. All right, so let us discuss the question
what intrigues you the most? What intrigues you the most
about the latest revelations, if you will, of Dion Sanders
Herding Shadar Sanders NFL outlook, and he continues to be
a narrative that is being pressed forward when you see
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these quotes from unnamed NFL sources. So my observations on this,
I've got the King of pop, Supreme Court, and trivial pursuit,
and we will combine all of these things together and
try not to have that sinking feeling. We're gonna try
not to have that sinking feeling because we're gonna make
the Gabba ghoul. And when you make the Gabba gool,
(05:08):
you're not gonna have that sinking feeling. Numb burn can
I get a numb burn. All right, So the passing
the buck part of the story, that is the thing
that stands out. The passing of the buck here. Dion
Sanders being the villain is the word I we use
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is comical. I think it's comical. It's overly simplistic to
blame Dion for this situation. To me, it does not
pass the sniff test. It does not. And I believe
in personal accountability, and so in this one, if you say,
all right, who's really to blame? Is it Dion? Is
it you dure like to me, it's always gonna fall
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on the classic song from the King of Pop, Michael Jackson,
Man in the Mirror. It's the man in the mirror,
and that is Shadura Sanders, the kid. And you said, well,
it's Dion's fault because he's the father, and you know
he raised him, and you know, okay, well, Dian was
also in the NFL media world living his life. I
don't know. I don't know the dynamic there, of the
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family dynamic. But even if you have great parenting, sometimes
the kid just turns out to be a you know,
for years, you know, schmuck and all that, and it
takes time to figure things out in life, and sometimes
it doesn't matter if you've got perfect parents or not.
Kid's gonna be kind of an a hole. And that's
what happened. But to me, it's it's the arrogance of
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Shooter Sanders. It backfired spectacum. The stories were that he
skipped workouts, he was selective in interviews. I thought, with
all that, well, he's not going to fall. I thought
he'd be drafted at the end of the first round
or early in the second round. I don't think he
was drafting the fifth round. Nobody did. But there were
reports that he was a grade AID grade A you know,
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Dingo Berry Schmendrick, and he treated the NFL like they
needed him more than he needed them. He thought that
he was God's gift to the NFL, and he could
not have been more wrong, at least in the draft process.
And that's that's the rub. If he had been the
same way yet had the guaranteed level of success in
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the eyes of the NFL world, it would not have mattered.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
If he was the perfect prospect, then he would have
been drafted in the first round. He would have been
the first quarterback pick. But spoiler alert. He obviously has
many warts and imperfections, and it did not help that
he channeled Cam Newton with the the the chest puffs,
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the pelvic thrust, the arrogance struts that amplified the scrutiny.
And so here we are. They're still blaming Dion and
I'm also annoyed. I know it's a pet peeve of
mine with the people that are convinced you have to
have an agent. And it's I've used the analogy before.
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It's like asking a lawyer if you need legal counsel,
They're going to tell you, of course you need legal
counselor or if it's like do I have a case?
If you ask a lawyer, well yeah, most lawyers are
going to say, yes, you have a case. How much
money do you have? That's how big a case you have?
Now turning the page, I'm gonna go back to pro
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bouncy ball. The Pacers are up two to oh over
the Calves. There was no game in this series last night,
just the Timberwolves beating the Warriors last night. But the
Pacers are up too oh. They win both games in Cleveland,
big road wins like big time, big time wins, so
even on a day off, even on a day off
in this series, they picked up a victory. We have
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learned that ty Reese Halliburton over readed. Tyrese Haliburton is
not going to be fine, was not fine for his
big Balls dan celebration after hitting that game winning dagga
the three pointer against the Cleveland basketball team back in
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Game two of the Eastern Conference semi finals. Remember he
did the big Balls dance and we said, well, that's
a tax deductible donation. Well, the NBA chose to issue
a warning instead of a fine. So question for the
esteem panel, how surprised are you that the NBA overlords
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allowed Tyrese Haliburton a free big balls dance partay, allowed
him to get away with it. So my first thought
is it's abnormal. That's not my opinion, it is in fact,
the Supreme Court of Basketball has overturned the standard. They've
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overturned the president of previous rules. Now, what is my
evidence if you go back to twenty ten, fifteen years ago,
I remember doing monologues right here in twenty ten that
the NBA had said no to big balls. The NBA
had said, we have no room for big balls. You
can't tell anyone you've got big balls, and they've been
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It became taboo. And one of the last ones to
get away with it was Kobe Bryant who did a
big Balls celebration, but it wasn't illegal. It was after
that a year later, in twenty ten, they banned the balls.
So Halliburton himself, there's a quote going around he expected
to get fined. He said, I've been waiting for that.
I'll take the fine gladly close quote. Halliburton said he
(10:36):
was aware of the president. He was aware of the president. Now,
the NBA has a history of fighting players, going back again,
we're talking about fifteen years here for the Serrano from
Major League Baseball. The movie celebration deemed obscene, right, and
the NBA generally finds you between fifteen and twenty five
(10:56):
thousand dollars. So if you do the math on that,
it's like, if it's twenty five thousand dollars, it's twelve thousand,
five hundred dollars. I believe I think the math is
right on there per big ball. So that's an expensive ball,
and it depends on the incident and if you've done
it before. Now, Sam Cassell half man, half alien, if
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you remember him, was the og of this kind of move.
Now more recently, Lebron was fined for this a couple
of years ago. Fred van Vliet was fine when he
was in Toronto. Isaiah Thomas, the Celtics guy, he got
dingg for this. But now it appears the NBA has
decided that they are going to embrace their big balls
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and that the celebration will be adjudicated on a case
by case basis. So okay, you're good to go. You
think that was a side deal with Haliburton's like, hey, listen,
we banned your dad from going to the games, that
you're allowed to do the big balls things. That's the deal,
all right? Final point. We now head to TV Land
where pro bouncy ball haul famer Paul Pierce, a Boston
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Celtics legend, went viral, went viral on Thursday. He walked
approximately twenty miles from his home, which is not far
away from the Fox Sports radio studios, but he walked
from there to the Fox Sports one studios, which are
in West LA, to fulfill at bet he made during
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some show that he does that, like, you know, I
guess people like that. I don't know the name of it.
I don't I've remember seen the show. Anyway, Pierce garon
t He guaranteed that the Celtics were gonna win Game
two of their series with the next season, well, that's it,
We're gonna win. That's it, We're gonna win raw raw
and all that. He stated that he would walk to work,
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which is like fifteen twenty miles something like that, in
his robe and barefoot. That was the bet. I will
walk to work, Paul Pierce said, fifteen twenty miles in
my robe, barefoot.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
If if the.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Celtics lost, well, of course we know they lost. And
so there's video of this, Paul Pierce walking to work,
and several of you knuckleheads, you mouth breathing morons, have
complained to me, well you see, look, look, Paul Pierce
did it. You didn't look to Tucson. You said you're
gonna walked. I ain't you.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
You didn't do it all.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Okay, let me address this. Okay, I would like to
address this. If you've listened for a while, you might
not know this. This wager was made many many, many
many years ago. We're going way back. In fact, I'd
have to go back and look to see exactly what
year this wager has made. It's a long time and
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some of these morons still remember this. So I was
on the air during the NCAA NCAA Men's basketball Tournament Arizona.
This is how long ago. Lude Olsen was the coach.
He's been dead for years, but loude Ole's was coaching
against Illinois and Arizona had a commanding lead in the
final minutes, and I was practicing the ancient art of
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gas baggery and I rant it and I raved and
I said, there's no way that Illinois is going to
win this game. It's in the bag for Arizona. And
if Arizona loses, I will walk to Tucson. From the
Fox Sports radio studios to Tucson. But we know what happened.
We've been through the story a bunch of times. I
went to management. I said I'd like to walk to Tucson.
My boss, the late Great Andrew Ashwood at the time,
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said Ben, you're morbidly obese. You'll die before you get
to Riverside. And I said, I want to do it.
And then we did the math. We determined how many
miles I could walk per day, how many days it
would take. We then looked at the weather at that time.
It was the tournament was in March, so the weather
wasn't too bad, but it was kind of a hot
week the time we were talking about doing it. So anyway,
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it didn't happen. So let's get into this here. Let's
get into it question. Are you jealous that Paul Pierce
paid off his TV bet to walk twenty miles to work?
And people are accusing yours truly of not paying off
the bet. So I'm gonna shake my head no on this.
And by the way, by the way, as the oracle
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of truth, I buy into the tinfoil hat conspiracy. Is
it true that while the illusion was that Paul Pierce
actually walked all the way twenty miles to work, is
it true that he actually did not pay off the wager?
Say what, let me explain. We're gonna call this the
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trivial pursuit. If you listen to the words and you
read the fine print, Paul Pierce failed on a technicality.
He had said very specifically, very specifically, Paul Pierce had
said he was gonna walk to work the fifteen to
twenty miles. Whatever I was in his robe, bear foot,
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bear foot, barefoot, barefoot if they lost. So Pierce got
up early on Thursday, Yeah, got up early, start walking.
He documented everything on Instagram live, and he was wearing
his bathrobe like you said. However, however, he had shoes,
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He had shoes, He had clodhoppers, shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes,
Paul Pierce war shoes. He did not pay off the bet.
That is fraudulent and it's bull crap. It's absolute bull
crap that people said, well, he put it off the bet.
He didn't pay off the bet. He didn't pay off
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the bet. I paid off my bet, my last bet
that I made. I said I was gonna eat Rocky
Mountain oisters. I ate Rocky Mountain oysters. So the move
is yours, mister Pierce. You didn't pay off your bet.
You wore shows. I said I was gonna eat Rocky
Mountain oisters. I ate Rocky Mountain oisters. Done. You, on
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the other hand, did not meet the conditions of the bet.
You didn't do it. It's a bad job by you, and
it's it's you can't trust the media. Another example of
the media giving you fake news that Paul Pierce paid
off the bet. He said, no shows, Paul Pierce war
shows choose ridiculous, don't fall for it. Fake news. It
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That'll be coming up a little bit later this hour.
Next hour, we've got lame jokes of the week. The
comedy club will be open for business. That'll be coming
up next hour. On this particular show, we started with
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a Hodgepodge Mallard monologue. We began ranting there about the
Dion Sanders accusations when no accountability for Shadur Sanders. There
was that also Tyres Halliburton who was allowed to do
the Big Balls dance and the fake news about Paul Pierce.
And he paid off his bet, and he did not
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pay off the bet. He wore shoes and so therefore
he did not pay off the bed ferg Dog Wrtsin
says no lies detected in the malt of monologue. Paul
Pierce is a fraud and you are the man right,
you're a man of your word. Absolutely, Alf the Alien
o'piner points out that that bet, holy crap. That bet
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was made in twenty five. That's twenty twenty years ago.
Holy crap. Wow. And he also quoted a legend that
no longer is a regular member of the Malad militia.
But I hope he's still all right. Rob in belcher Towown.
Rob was a big part of the show for years
and it's kind of faded away. I think he's working
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a different shift or whatever. But God, that's been that
long man. That is a long time. Josh points out Ben,
good job on paying off the bet. That was actual
Rocky Mountain Oysters unlike Paul Pierce, you're not a liar. Well,
thank you, Josh, I appreciate that. Good job by you.
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Mark says, I went to the University of Arizona, so
of course I watched that game because I had to
chew the testicles. Then he names some players that were there.
He said, Darren Williams from the Dallas Fort Worth area
hit the three pointer to tie the game. I think
it was Darren Williams. And was it Luther Head was
on Illinois that year. I think I think that was
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the team there. Yeah, absolutely, truck stop Fungus. Right. Since this,
every time you mentioned Halliburton, I think Dick Cheney and
Weapons of mass Destruction. Yeah, I do. When I see
Halliburton's name, I do also think of the contractor Halliburton.
I do, just is in the back of my head.
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So I was like, is he somehow connected? Like is
that a family name? Is there something going on there?
S box Weed from the Oregon Trail It says, Bill
Handle will tell you you have absolutely no case. Yes,
the great Handle on the law, which I think he's
(23:34):
still doing. Nick the Wendy's Guy writes in says, I
just wanted to say that I've been listening to your
show for a few years.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
You make my drive home from work a little bit
more entertaining. There you go, Well, thank you, thank you,
thank you, and I I do have I was putting
together some notes for the fifth Hour podcast, which will
be coming up later today, and I think there might
be a story about your company there, Nick In in
the pod, So I know that's that's a tease. That
(24:04):
is a tease. Absolutely, absolutely, get back to the calls.
It is an interactive calling show now, Hatch writes, In
says the Wolves are going to win in five Hatch Daddy, Yeah,
he said. Let's go to the phones and we'll say
hello to Enie, Meanie, Mighty Moe. Let's say hello to Jimmy,
(24:30):
who's in Minnesota. Hello Jimmy, Welcome.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Jimmy.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
I didn't mean to say what I said.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Well, you're not Jimmy. Why would you use the name
You're hollowing James. Why are you saying your name is Jimmy.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Let's cut through the tape.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
What are you talking about. Why are you using the
name Jimmy.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
You're hollering James, Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
No, you're not allowed to change your name. You're not.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I can't do the change your venue.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
You're not allowed to change your name. You're known as
Hollering James. That's a great name, that's a famous name.
Why would you want to change the name.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
I can't change the name.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
You're not allowed to change the name. It's ridiculous to
change the name. That is what you're known as.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Like I was in.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
You're Hollering James. He's like, I'll give it a story
years ago that there was this famous painter, one of
the great painters of my life, and his name was
Bob Ross. No Bob Ross. So Bob Ross. He hosted,
He was on a TV show on Public Access TV
and became.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
A viral hit Channel two.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Yeah, Bob Ross. He used to paint these weird, like
not weird photos, but just photos of landscape. So Bob Ross.
To save money, he got his hair in the in
like a perm right. He hated it. He wanted to
change the haircut. They wouldn't let him because that was
what made him unique. So he kept the haircut because
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that's what he was known as. And you're known as
Hollering James. You're not, Damn Jimmys.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
I'll keep the name Hey, but I gotta start for
you too. Now that you're talking about that famous painter.
There's a guy named Tom twos right, and he used
for Jeffrey Lewis. I asked him to bring me a
gold player titanium bracelet. Figure out he brought me a
stalless steel one. This steeling steel bracelet wears ten ounces.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
That's what's known as a non sequitur, hollowing.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
James that I don't even know a big boys like that.
You know, you know what year I graduated high school
and I don't want to know. Nineteen ninety three, the
year I graduated in high school in do you know
what he is? The post graduated into high school?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Oh boy, I took it a long term.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
They pushed me through high school man, like some of
these famous athletes.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Yeh, attention advertisers, you can reach the demographic. Yes, guys
would take twenty years to graduate from high school. Yeah,
all right, all right, I gotta go thank you, all right,
go away? And you used a fake name. You're done
with me, Go away? You used a fake name. What's
wrong with you? Let's go to Stanley, who's in the Commonwealth.
(27:18):
Hello Stanley, welcome, good.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Good morning, on the East Coast at all three hundred
hours or three thirty. Man, my Celtics are starting to
disappoint me, and I think we should talk about it
real quick. I think analytics has ruined the game to
the point where and I even heard it on ninety
five the Sports of the last couple of days that
analytics is, hey, jb keep shooting this threes just to
(27:43):
drive up our numbers. Because as as you know, as
excuse me, as you know, this past year, the subjects
not only made so many threes that during the regular season,
they also attempted the most threes. And for some reason,
Jill Missoula does it know when to attack the basket
when it comes to when they're not making these threes.
(28:04):
So my thing is this upcoming game, either they take
over and actually hold the lead or they're just going
to live and die by the three. And the second
point I'm going to make here is I think Joe
Mazzola is the worst coach when it comes to other
three minutes in the fourth quarter games in the fourth quarter.
And that's like something that's really bothering me as a
SOCC fan.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah, he doesn't really do anything, so he just kind
of lets him do whatever they want.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I just know.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
It's not really coaching. It's like I think you could
probably stand there, Stanley and just kind of look like
you know what you're doing. If we put that that
NBA logo like pullover thing on you and you kind
of stand there like these coaches, you could pretend to
be a coach and just let the players play and
run the same exact play that you ran the previous play.
But it's not going away. I mean, the analytics are
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here and they got all the spreadsheets and you know,
the predictable decisions and all that. It's all data determined,
and that's everyone's doing it. Man, No one's I don't
know anyone who's not playing that way. They're all it's all.
They all went to the same Ted talk and they
figured out this is the only way to do it,
and we're gonna do it this way, and then that's it.
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And the Celtics are going to play this way because
they just assume they'll they'll make their shots on Saturday
against the Knicks and then then that's it and then
they'll win that game and then they're on their way back.
And they just follow the numbers it's paint by numbers essentially,
what it is paint by numbers. You play the percentages.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
So that's the thing.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
Yes, analytics in the last ten years from when I
stopped playing college ball and noticing that analytics is affected
basically like a virus that affected MLB, n B, A
n s L, NHL and MLB. It doesn't It doesn't
work at all. Like I honestly will say, it's called
it should be just common sense. If you can't hit
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the threes, I would.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Argue, you can hold on I mean hold on state.
I mean you could actually do both, right, you could
follow the numbers to a point, but then at the
same time you have to you can't be predictable. Like
that's problem. These analytical based teams are all predictable. You
know exactly what they're gonna do, and they're gonna do
something in the next couple of years. With a three
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point shot. There's too many three point shots the NBA.
I'm not sure what they're gonna do, whether they limit
how many, how many shots or maybe no three point
shots for the first five minutes of every quarter. They're
gonna do something. They're gonna do something to mess with
the three. There's too many. There's too many three point shots.
All right, I gotta go Stanley, but thank you for
tuning in. There sounds like Stanley might have been in
the military because he had military time, you know at
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the beginning there, Yeah, dead giveaway. That is a dead
give way. So Tom Brady, I saw this. I thought
this was interesting. So Tom Brady recently essentially apologize. He
says he's got regrets. He says that he regrets what
to me, this is one of the great things Tom
Brady's done. The Netflix Combody roast. Brady says he has
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regrets now he played the kid cards from the bottom
of the deck. But Brady says he does regret participating
in the roast. This is the worst possible answer by
Tom Brady. And here's why. It is believed that that
is one of the points of demarcation in pop culture
in America. Remember how bad comedy had been, how everyone
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was afraid to say anything, and you had the public
private like privately, people were telling the same offensive jokes
people have always told because people love offensive jokes. But
comedians were worried. There were people getting canceled for jokes,
and it was it was ridiculous. For years it was
like that, and that was seen as a point of
demarcation that Tom Brady roast on Netflix where they just
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let it rip and it absolutely killed and it opened
some things up. It opened comedy up a little bit more.
People were like a little freer after that. That is
a wonderful thing, a wonderful thing. So bad job by
by Tom Brady's saying, Hebert Griss, you played the kid
card and all that. You know, listen, keep your kids
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away from certain things. You're as a parent, you can
do that now the Chicago Cubs quickly, the Cubs are
getting killed here. They were publicly humiliated. They named a
new pope, Pope Leo, and Pope Leo's from Chicago. The
initial story was that even though he grew up on
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the South Side, the baddest part of town, on the
South side of Chicago, that he was a Cub fan.
That's where the rich north siders are in Chicago. Lorena,
you know the north side. Tell me more. Yeah, you'd
be more prone to go that's side of Chicago anyway.
So the Cubs sent out some comments all they're all excited,
like the pope's a Cub fan. Well, then the Pope's
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brother says, no, no, no, no. His mom was a
Cub fan. The Pope's mom was a Cub fan. Check
this out. His mom was a Cub fan. His dad
was a Cardinal fan. So if you put a cardinal
fan and a club fan together, you produce a White
Sox fan and the Pope. And so the Pope's imagine
your brother ends up being the Pope. That's got to
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be wild, right. Can you imagine that you have a
sibling and they become the Pope. That's gotta be nuts.
So anyway, so this guy's a lifelong White Sox fan.
But I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure that Pope Leo
has heard this show. Let me explain. So, when the
White Sox were in the World Series years ago, we
were on the score in Chicago. We were on in
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Chicago overnight sports radio, and I'm gonna assume the Pope
was celebrating. He wasn't the Pope then, but he there's
photos of him at White Sox games. And if your
team wins a championship, you stay up late listening to
overnight radio. You want to soak it all in. So
could it be that Pope Leo is a Malard militia
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member at the Vatican, now developing hot dot dot dot.
All right, time now, time now for the Insta trivia.
We'll get to Mallard of the third degree. I'm gonna
have alf Alf send a letter to the Vatican and
ask the Pope for me. Ask the Pope if the
Pope's a fan of the show. That would be like
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the Pete and Pittsburgh spoke Caanngary era. Blind Scott was
still part of the show back then. But let me know,
all right, here's the Insta trivia. Since twenty thirteen, Draymond
Green has the most technical fouls in the playoffs. Blank
is second to the Warriors Star in terms of technical
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fouls in the playoffs. That's going back to last twelve years.
That is the Insta trivia. We'll get to it and
Mallard to the third degree. We'll get to all of
that and we will do it next.
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Time for the insta trivia. Since twenty thirteen's Raymond Green,
who had an unhinged rant after the game, Raymond Green
has the most technical fouls in the playoffs, blank is
second to the Warriors. Start. That is the question. What
is the answer? In domacn Sue gets by Andy in
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Lionel lakes Lamar Davis from Scrooge. Who else do we have?
Megatron Griffin from courtesy Flusher, the Holy Pope of the
Slippery Slope from Alf the Alien of Pine of very
funny Alf. Who do we have? Fergdog? Says Matt the
Warrior Raider Tom Brady rose Fan rest in PC. Yes,
that was the final act on our show of the
(37:04):
Great Matt the Warrior Raider Tom Brady rose Fan. He
got so upset. I did a monologue about that, Tom
Brady Rose he lost his mind.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
The King the King Diddy, I guess we'll say there
clean that up from Milkman Mike Incredible Hulk guessed by
Big Greg in Iowa as his answer. All right, Lorraine,
Now do you have an answer? Lorraine? It's not David
Exne I guess by mediocre kabuki. Yeah, I think it's
ingis No, it's actually none other than Dwight Howard. Dwight
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Howard Raymond has fifteen more technical fouls, though in that
time than Dwight Howard who was second.
Speaker 7 (37:40):
Here we go, this is one big gets grilled all
right and lead a lot.
Speaker 8 (37:51):
Then Manny Faccio, Manny Pacio will end his nearly for
your retirement to face Mario Barrios for the WC welter
Light Championship on July nineteenth in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Ben, is this a must watch event? And does he
even have a chance? No, this is a money grab.
I guess he's maybe lost some money in the stock market.
Pakio is forty six years old. This is all about nostalgia.
Like the people that were fans of Paci out back
in the day, They're gonna watch the curiosity from people
that maybe were too young and didn't watch Pakia on
(38:22):
his prime. He's definitely not his prime. But no, this
is not must watch now. I might check it out
for content purposes, but am I excited about it?
Speaker 3 (38:30):
No?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Next more bang for your Becker, Ben.
Speaker 8 (38:33):
You could get into Madison Square Garden for four hundred
and seventy nine dollars to watch Game three between the
Nicks and Celtics, Or you could watch the first ever
WNBA showdown between Caitlin Clark and Paige Becker for three
hundred and seventeen dollars.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
What is the most bang for your buck? Well, as
you know, I am a discerning customer and I but
I'm not a customer of the WNBA. That's not something
I pay attention to. So I mean, I am interested
in the NBA, so I would rather I'm not gonna
spend money on either one of them. But if I
if you got into my head, I would take the
NBA game. I would. I'd rather see that next heill Mary.
We talked about it.
Speaker 8 (39:07):
After only two days, the conclave elected the first pope
ever from the United States, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost All
out of South Side of Chicago, now known as Pope
Leo the fourteenth Bend. Will the new Holy Father bring
divine intervention to the Windy City or Villanova?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
I just want to know if he's gonna bring the
Pope Mobile. Isn't that cool? The Pope bring that to America?
Just cruise around stuff? And uh, how much does the
Pope get paid? Do we know that lead? Does the
Pope get a salary or just everything's taken care of.
I will look into that bend. How big is the
Pope's bedroom at the Vaticate. These are things I want
to know he gets good jewelry. Yeah, that's a win.
I won. You didn't answer the last one, Ben I
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did act I answered it with more questions. Hey,
Boom, Shaka laka. It's our numb bird two, our number two,
and we start out with our in depth team coverage
of the runt of the litter in the NFL draft.
Shouldeur Sanders latest reporting? What intrigues you the most about
the revelations of Dion Sanders hurting Shader Sanders NFL Outlook,
(00:22):
we'll take a look at that. Also, how surprised are
you that the NBA has allowed the Pacers Tyres Halliburton
to get away unpunished with his big balls dance after
he hit the game winning shot against Cleveland. For years,
the NBA has been gung ho to punish players who
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show they have large testicles when they make a big basket.
And are we jealous that Paul Pierce paid off his
TV bet to walk twenty miles to work or did
he really pay off his bet? A malor show investigation
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this hour is a hybrid. We're gonna go to basketball,
but I wanted to start with something else because this story.
There's a story that caught my attention and it involves
college football. It involves the NFL, and so we're gonna
go there prime time if you will yet again another
(02:53):
Malard monologue about the life and times of everyone's favorite
fifth round draft picture, dear Sanders. So you might have
seen it, maybe not. There were some clips going around.
Shouldur Sanders showed up with very expensive I guess that
was a backpack. I guess it wasn't a back it
was a bag. It was like a high end designer bag.
As he showed up to Brown's practice, and the chatter
continues about how he got there, regarding how someone who
(03:17):
got so much attention ended up a fifth round draft pick. Now,
if you've not heard the latest on this, and maybe not,
we are told that multiple NFL executives have come out
and put Dion Sanders on the astro blaster coach pram
time Dion Sanders claiming that his involvement in Shadur Sanders'
(03:41):
pre draft process played a large part in the massive
free fall down the draft board of Shoulder Sanders. The
money quote money quote from a story in the USA Today,
the paper that has the weather map on the back
that people used to read at hotels back in the day.
I don't know anyone reads it now, But anyway, I
(04:03):
guess they're still in business. And the quote was I
think his dad's involvement hurt him. A high level NFL
executive said, some of the things, some of the things
that his dad said, I think that weighed on people's minds. Now,
another executive said, I think he he had some bad
advice from his father. He needed a traditional agent like
(04:24):
other players. All right, so let us discuss the question
what intrigues you the most? What intrigues you the most
about the latest revelations, if you will, of Dion Sanders
Herding Shadar Sanders NFL outlook, and he continues to be
a narrative that is being pressed forward when you see
(04:47):
these quotes from unnamed NFL sources. So my observations on this,
I've got the King of pop, Supreme Court, and trivial pursuit,
and we will combine all of these things together and
try not to have that sinking feeling. We're gonna try
not to have that sinking feeling because we're gonna make
the Gabba ghoul. And when you make the Gabba gool,
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you're not gonna have that sinking feeling. Numb burn can
I get a numb burn. All right, So the passing
the buck part of the story, that is the thing
that stands out. The passing of the buck here. Dion
Sanders being the villain is the word I we use
(05:28):
is comical. I think it's comical. It's overly simplistic to
blame Dion for this situation. To me, it does not
pass the sniff test. It does not. And I believe
in personal accountability, and so in this one, if you say,
all right, who's really to blame? Is it Dion? Is
it you dure like to me, it's always gonna fall
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on the classic song from the King of Pop, Michael Jackson,
Man in the Mirror. It's the man in the mirror,
and that is Shadura Sanders, the kid. And you said, well,
it's Dion's fault because he's the father, and you know
he raised him, and you know, okay, well, Dian was
also in the NFL media world living his life. I
don't know. I don't know the dynamic there, of the
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family dynamic. But even if you have great parenting, sometimes
the kid just turns out to be a you know,
for years, you know, schmuck and all that, and it
takes time to figure things out in life, and sometimes
it doesn't matter if you've got perfect parents or not.
Kid's gonna be kind of an a hole. And that's
what happened. But to me, it's it's the arrogance of
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Shooter Sanders. It backfired spectacum. The stories were that he
skipped workouts, he was selective in interviews. I thought, with
all that, well, he's not going to fall. I thought
he'd be drafted at the end of the first round
or early in the second round. I don't think he
was drafting the fifth round. Nobody did. But there were
reports that he was a grade AID grade A you know,
(06:54):
Dingo Berry Schmendrick, and he treated the NFL like they
needed him more than he needed them. He thought that
he was God's gift to the NFL, and he could
not have been more wrong, at least in the draft process.
And that's that's the rub. If he had been the
same way yet had the guaranteed level of success in
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the eyes of the NFL world, it would not have mattered.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
If he was the perfect prospect, then he would have
been drafted in the first round. He would have been
the first quarterback pick. But spoiler alert. He obviously has
many warts and imperfections, and it did not help that
he channeled Cam Newton with the the the chest puffs,
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the pelvic thrust, the arrogance struts that amplified the scrutiny.
And so here we are. They're still blaming Dion and
I'm also annoyed. I know it's a pet peeve of
mine with the people that are convinced you have to
have an agent. And it's I've used the analogy before.
(08:02):
It's like asking a lawyer if you need legal counsel,
They're going to tell you, of course you need legal
counselor or if it's like do I have a case?
If you ask a lawyer, well yeah, most lawyers are
going to say, yes, you have a case. How much
money do you have? That's how big a case you have?
Now turning the page, I'm gonna go back to pro
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bouncy ball. The Pacers are up two to oh over
the Calves. There was no game in this series last night,
just the Timberwolves beating the Warriors last night. But the
Pacers are up too oh. They win both games in Cleveland,
big road wins like big time, big time wins, so
even on a day off, even on a day off
in this series, they picked up a victory. We have
(08:46):
learned that ty Reese Halliburton over readed. Tyrese Haliburton is
not going to be fine, was not fine for his
big Balls dan celebration after hitting that game winning dagga
the three pointer against the Cleveland basketball team back in
(09:06):
Game two of the Eastern Conference semi finals. Remember he
did the big Balls dance and we said, well, that's
a tax deductible donation. Well, the NBA chose to issue
a warning instead of a fine. So question for the
esteem panel, how surprised are you that the NBA overlords
(09:27):
allowed Tyrese Haliburton a free big balls dance partay, allowed
him to get away with it. So my first thought
is it's abnormal. That's not my opinion, it is in fact,
the Supreme Court of Basketball has overturned the standard. They've
(09:48):
overturned the president of previous rules. Now, what is my
evidence if you go back to twenty ten, fifteen years ago,
I remember doing monologues right here in twenty ten that
the NBA had said no to big balls. The NBA
had said, we have no room for big balls. You
can't tell anyone you've got big balls, and they've been
(10:12):
It became taboo. And one of the last ones to
get away with it was Kobe Bryant who did a
big Balls celebration, but it wasn't illegal. It was after
that a year later, in twenty ten, they banned the balls.
So Halliburton himself, there's a quote going around he expected
to get fined. He said, I've been waiting for that.
I'll take the fine gladly close quote. Halliburton said he
(10:36):
was aware of the president. He was aware of the president. Now,
the NBA has a history of fighting players, going back again,
we're talking about fifteen years here for the Serrano from
Major League Baseball. The movie celebration deemed obscene, right, and
the NBA generally finds you between fifteen and twenty five
(10:56):
thousand dollars. So if you do the math on that,
it's like, if it's twenty five thousand dollars, it's twelve thousand,
five hundred dollars. I believe I think the math is
right on there per big ball. So that's an expensive ball,
and it depends on the incident and if you've done
it before. Now, Sam Cassell half man, half alien, if
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you remember him, was the og of this kind of move.
Now more recently, Lebron was fined for this a couple
of years ago. Fred van Vliet was fine when he
was in Toronto. Isaiah Thomas, the Celtics guy, he got
dingg for this. But now it appears the NBA has
decided that they are going to embrace their big balls
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and that the celebration will be adjudicated on a case
by case basis. So okay, you're good to go. You
think that was a side deal with Haliburton's like, hey, listen,
we banned your dad from going to the games, that
you're allowed to do the big balls things. That's the deal,
all right? Final point. We now head to TV Land
where pro bouncy ball haul famer Paul Pierce, a Boston
(12:03):
Celtics legend, went viral, went viral on Thursday. He walked
approximately twenty miles from his home, which is not far
away from the Fox Sports radio studios, but he walked
from there to the Fox Sports one studios, which are
in West LA, to fulfill at bet he made during
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some show that he does that, like, you know, I
guess people like that. I don't know the name of it.
I don't I've remember seen the show. Anyway, Pierce garon
t He guaranteed that the Celtics were gonna win Game
two of their series with the next season, well, that's it,
We're gonna win. That's it, We're gonna win raw raw
and all that. He stated that he would walk to work,
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which is like fifteen twenty miles something like that, in
his robe and barefoot. That was the bet. I will
walk to work, Paul Pierce said, fifteen twenty miles in
my robe, barefoot.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
If if the.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Celtics lost, well, of course we know they lost. And
so there's video of this, Paul Pierce walking to work,
and several of you knuckleheads, you mouth breathing morons, have
complained to me, well you see, look, look, Paul Pierce
did it. You didn't look to Tucson. You said you're
gonna walked. I ain't you.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
You didn't do it all.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Okay, let me address this. Okay, I would like to
address this. If you've listened for a while, you might
not know this. This wager was made many many, many
many years ago. We're going way back. In fact, I'd
have to go back and look to see exactly what
year this wager has made. It's a long time and
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some of these morons still remember this. So I was
on the air during the NCAA NCAA Men's basketball Tournament Arizona.
This is how long ago. Lude Olsen was the coach.
He's been dead for years, but loude Ole's was coaching
against Illinois and Arizona had a commanding lead in the
final minutes, and I was practicing the ancient art of
(14:09):
gas baggery and I rant it and I raved and
I said, there's no way that Illinois is going to
win this game. It's in the bag for Arizona. And
if Arizona loses, I will walk to Tucson. From the
Fox Sports radio studios to Tucson. But we know what happened.
We've been through the story a bunch of times. I
went to management. I said I'd like to walk to Tucson.
My boss, the late Great Andrew Ashwood at the time,
(14:31):
said Ben, you're morbidly obese. You'll die before you get
to Riverside. And I said, I want to do it.
And then we did the math. We determined how many
miles I could walk per day, how many days it
would take. We then looked at the weather at that time.
It was the tournament was in March, so the weather
wasn't too bad, but it was kind of a hot
week the time we were talking about doing it. So anyway,
(14:53):
it didn't happen. So let's get into this here. Let's
get into it question. Are you jealous that Paul Pierce
paid off his TV bet to walk twenty miles to work?
And people are accusing yours truly of not paying off
the bet. So I'm gonna shake my head no on this.
And by the way, by the way, as the oracle
(15:16):
of truth, I buy into the tinfoil hat conspiracy. Is
it true that while the illusion was that Paul Pierce
actually walked all the way twenty miles to work, is
it true that he actually did not pay off the wager?
Say what, let me explain. We're gonna call this the
(15:40):
trivial pursuit. If you listen to the words and you
read the fine print, Paul Pierce failed on a technicality.
He had said very specifically, very specifically, Paul Pierce had
said he was gonna walk to work the fifteen to
twenty miles. Whatever I was in his robe, bear foot,
(16:03):
bear foot, barefoot, barefoot if they lost. So Pierce got
up early on Thursday, Yeah, got up early, start walking.
He documented everything on Instagram live, and he was wearing
his bathrobe like you said. However, however, he had shoes,
(16:25):
He had shoes, He had clodhoppers, shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes,
Paul Pierce war shoes. He did not pay off the bet.
That is fraudulent and it's bull crap. It's absolute bull
crap that people said, well, he put it off the bet.
He didn't pay off the bet. He didn't pay off
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the bet. I paid off my bet, my last bet
that I made. I said I was gonna eat Rocky
Mountain oisters. I ate Rocky Mountain oysters. So the move
is yours, mister Pierce. You didn't pay off your bet.
You wore shows. I said I was gonna eat Rocky
Mountain oisters. I ate Rocky Mountain oisters. Done. You, on
(17:07):
the other hand, did not meet the conditions of the bet.
You didn't do it. It's a bad job by you, and
it's it's you can't trust the media. Another example of
the media giving you fake news that Paul Pierce paid
off the bet. He said, no shows, Paul Pierce war
shows choose ridiculous, don't fall for it. Fake news. It
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do Tom Brady story, and you didn't do the Tom
Brady story. Why would you say you were gonna do
it if you were gonna do it, because I got
carried away and I had to do the play of
the day, and the play of the Day is more
important because it's a sponsored bet, and so instead of
doing the Brady story, I did the Play of the
day because it was sponsored and that's how it works.
But I'll get to the Brady story, Brady regretting one
(18:17):
of the greatest things he ever did. We'll get to that.
And an international story, an international story that everyone in
the world is aware of, and yet a professional sports
team is in the middle of it for all the
wrong reasons, for all the wrong reasons. And there's a
(18:38):
pretty good chance, a pretty good chance that we are
indirectly connected to this particular story. And we'll get into
that as well, and we'll take your calls. Also later
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It's abstract art. And now back to it. Back to
it also, mallardly third degree. Mallard of the third degree.
That'll be coming up a little bit later this hour.
Next hour, we've got lame jokes of the week. The
comedy club will be open for business. That'll be coming
up next hour. On this particular show, we started with
(21:05):
a Hodgepodge Mallard monologue. We began ranting there about the
Dion Sanders accusations when no accountability for Shadur Sanders. There
was that also Tyres Halliburton who was allowed to do
the Big Balls dance and the fake news about Paul Pierce.
And he paid off his bet, and he did not
(21:27):
pay off the bet. He wore shoes and so therefore
he did not pay off the bed ferg Dog Wrtsin
says no lies detected in the malt of monologue. Paul
Pierce is a fraud and you are the man right,
you're a man of your word. Absolutely, Alf the Alien
o'piner points out that that bet, holy crap. That bet
(21:50):
was made in twenty five. That's twenty twenty years ago.
Holy crap. Wow. And he also quoted a legend that
no longer is a regular member of the Malad militia.
But I hope he's still all right. Rob in belcher Towown.
Rob was a big part of the show for years
and it's kind of faded away. I think he's working
(22:12):
a different shift or whatever. But God, that's been that
long man. That is a long time. Josh points out Ben,
good job on paying off the bet. That was actual
Rocky Mountain Oysters unlike Paul Pierce, you're not a liar. Well,
thank you, Josh, I appreciate that. Good job by you.
(22:33):
Mark says, I went to the University of Arizona, so
of course I watched that game because I had to
chew the testicles. Then he names some players that were there.
He said, Darren Williams from the Dallas Fort Worth area
hit the three pointer to tie the game. I think
it was Darren Williams. And was it Luther Head was
on Illinois that year. I think I think that was
(22:53):
the team there. Yeah, absolutely, truck stop Fungus. Right. Since this,
every time you mentioned Halliburton, I think Dick Cheney and
Weapons of mass Destruction. Yeah, I do. When I see
Halliburton's name, I do also think of the contractor Halliburton.
I do, just is in the back of my head.
(23:13):
So I was like, is he somehow connected? Like is
that a family name? Is there something going on there?
S box Weed from the Oregon Trail It says, Bill
Handle will tell you you have absolutely no case. Yes,
the great Handle on the law, which I think he's
(23:34):
still doing. Nick the Wendy's Guy writes in says, I
just wanted to say that I've been listening to your
show for a few years.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
You make my drive home from work a little bit
more entertaining. There you go, Well, thank you, thank you,
thank you, and I I do have I was putting
together some notes for the fifth Hour podcast, which will
be coming up later today, and I think there might
be a story about your company there, Nick In in
the pod, So I know that's that's a tease. That
(24:04):
is a tease. Absolutely, absolutely, get back to the calls.
It is an interactive calling show now, Hatch writes, In
says the Wolves are going to win in five Hatch Daddy, Yeah,
he said. Let's go to the phones and we'll say
hello to Enie, Meanie, Mighty Moe. Let's say hello to Jimmy,
(24:30):
who's in Minnesota. Hello Jimmy, Welcome.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Jimmy.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
I didn't mean to say what I said.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Well, you're not Jimmy. Why would you use the name
You're hollowing James. Why are you saying your name is Jimmy.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Let's cut through the tape.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
What are you talking about. Why are you using the
name Jimmy.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
You're hollering James, Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
No, you're not allowed to change your name. You're not.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I can't do the change your venue.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
You're not allowed to change your name. You're known as
Hollering James. That's a great name, that's a famous name.
Why would you want to change the name.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
I can't change the name.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
You're not allowed to change the name. It's ridiculous to
change the name. That is what you're known as.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Like I was in.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
You're Hollering James. He's like, I'll give it a story
years ago that there was this famous painter, one of
the great painters of my life, and his name was
Bob Ross. No Bob Ross. So Bob Ross. He hosted,
He was on a TV show on Public Access TV
and became.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
A viral hit Channel two.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Yeah, Bob Ross. He used to paint these weird, like
not weird photos, but just photos of landscape. So Bob Ross.
To save money, he got his hair in the in
like a perm right. He hated it. He wanted to
change the haircut. They wouldn't let him because that was
what made him unique. So he kept the haircut because
(26:00):
that's what he was known as. And you're known as
Hollering James. You're not, Damn Jimmys.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
I'll keep the name Hey, but I gotta start for
you too. Now that you're talking about that famous painter.
There's a guy named Tom twos right, and he used
for Jeffrey Lewis. I asked him to bring me a
gold player titanium bracelet. Figure out he brought me a
stalless steel one. This steeling steel bracelet wears ten ounces.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
That's what's known as a non sequitur, hollowing.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
James that I don't even know a big boys like that.
You know, you know what year I graduated high school
and I don't want to know. Nineteen ninety three, the
year I graduated in high school in do you know
what he is? The post graduated into high school?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Oh boy, I took it a long term.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
They pushed me through high school man, like some of
these famous athletes.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Yeh, attention advertisers, you can reach the demographic. Yes, guys
would take twenty years to graduate from high school. Yeah,
all right, all right, I gotta go thank you, all right,
go away? And you used a fake name. You're done
with me, Go away? You used a fake name. What's
wrong with you? Let's go to Stanley, who's in the Commonwealth.
(27:18):
Hello Stanley, welcome, good.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Good morning, on the East Coast at all three hundred
hours or three thirty. Man, my Celtics are starting to
disappoint me, and I think we should talk about it
real quick. I think analytics has ruined the game to
the point where and I even heard it on ninety
five the Sports of the last couple of days that
analytics is, hey, jb keep shooting this threes just to
(27:43):
drive up our numbers. Because as as you know, as
excuse me, as you know, this past year, the subjects
not only made so many threes that during the regular season,
they also attempted the most threes. And for some reason,
Jill Missoula does it know when to attack the basket
when it comes to when they're not making these threes.
(28:04):
So my thing is this upcoming game, either they take
over and actually hold the lead or they're just going
to live and die by the three. And the second
point I'm going to make here is I think Joe
Mazzola is the worst coach when it comes to other
three minutes in the fourth quarter games in the fourth quarter.
And that's like something that's really bothering me as a
SOCC fan.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah, he doesn't really do anything, so he just kind
of lets him do whatever they want.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I just know.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
It's not really coaching. It's like I think you could
probably stand there, Stanley and just kind of look like
you know what you're doing. If we put that that
NBA logo like pullover thing on you and you kind
of stand there like these coaches, you could pretend to
be a coach and just let the players play and
run the same exact play that you ran the previous play.
But it's not going away. I mean, the analytics are
(28:51):
here and they got all the spreadsheets and you know,
the predictable decisions and all that. It's all data determined,
and that's everyone's doing it. Man, No one's I don't
know anyone who's not playing that way. They're all it's all.
They all went to the same Ted talk and they
figured out this is the only way to do it,
and we're gonna do it this way, and then that's it.
(29:12):
And the Celtics are going to play this way because
they just assume they'll they'll make their shots on Saturday
against the Knicks and then then that's it and then
they'll win that game and then they're on their way back.
And they just follow the numbers it's paint by numbers essentially,
what it is paint by numbers. You play the percentages.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
So that's the thing.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
Yes, analytics in the last ten years from when I
stopped playing college ball and noticing that analytics is affected
basically like a virus that affected MLB, n B, A
n s L, NHL and MLB. It doesn't It doesn't
work at all. Like I honestly will say, it's called
it should be just common sense. If you can't hit
(29:51):
the threes, I would.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Argue, you can hold on I mean hold on state.
I mean you could actually do both, right, you could
follow the numbers to a point, but then at the
same time you have to you can't be predictable. Like
that's problem. These analytical based teams are all predictable. You
know exactly what they're gonna do, and they're gonna do
something in the next couple of years. With a three
(30:14):
point shot. There's too many three point shots the NBA.
I'm not sure what they're gonna do, whether they limit
how many, how many shots or maybe no three point
shots for the first five minutes of every quarter. They're
gonna do something. They're gonna do something to mess with
the three. There's too many. There's too many three point shots.
All right, I gotta go Stanley, but thank you for
tuning in. There sounds like Stanley might have been in
the military because he had military time, you know at
(30:36):
the beginning there, Yeah, dead giveaway. That is a dead
give way. So Tom Brady, I saw this. I thought
this was interesting. So Tom Brady recently essentially apologize. He
says he's got regrets. He says that he regrets what
to me, this is one of the great things Tom
Brady's done. The Netflix Combody roast. Brady says he has
(31:02):
regrets now he played the kid cards from the bottom
of the deck. But Brady says he does regret participating
in the roast. This is the worst possible answer by
Tom Brady. And here's why. It is believed that that
is one of the points of demarcation in pop culture
in America. Remember how bad comedy had been, how everyone
(31:24):
was afraid to say anything, and you had the public
private like privately, people were telling the same offensive jokes
people have always told because people love offensive jokes. But
comedians were worried. There were people getting canceled for jokes,
and it was it was ridiculous. For years it was
like that, and that was seen as a point of
demarcation that Tom Brady roast on Netflix where they just
(31:47):
let it rip and it absolutely killed and it opened
some things up. It opened comedy up a little bit more.
People were like a little freer after that. That is
a wonderful thing, a wonderful thing. So bad job by
by Tom Brady's saying, Hebert Griss, you played the kid
card and all that. You know, listen, keep your kids
(32:08):
away from certain things. You're as a parent, you can
do that now the Chicago Cubs quickly, the Cubs are
getting killed here. They were publicly humiliated. They named a
new pope, Pope Leo, and Pope Leo's from Chicago. The
initial story was that even though he grew up on
(32:28):
the South Side, the baddest part of town, on the
South side of Chicago, that he was a Cub fan.
That's where the rich north siders are in Chicago. Lorena,
you know the north side. Tell me more. Yeah, you'd
be more prone to go that's side of Chicago anyway.
So the Cubs sent out some comments all they're all excited,
like the pope's a Cub fan. Well, then the Pope's
(32:52):
brother says, no, no, no, no. His mom was a
Cub fan. The Pope's mom was a Cub fan. Check
this out. His mom was a Cub fan. His dad
was a Cardinal fan. So if you put a cardinal
fan and a club fan together, you produce a White
Sox fan and the Pope. And so the Pope's imagine
your brother ends up being the Pope. That's got to
(33:13):
be wild, right. Can you imagine that you have a
sibling and they become the Pope. That's gotta be nuts.
So anyway, so this guy's a lifelong White Sox fan.
But I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure that Pope Leo
has heard this show. Let me explain. So, when the
White Sox were in the World Series years ago, we
were on the score in Chicago. We were on in
(33:35):
Chicago overnight sports radio, and I'm gonna assume the Pope
was celebrating. He wasn't the Pope then, but he there's
photos of him at White Sox games. And if your
team wins a championship, you stay up late listening to
overnight radio. You want to soak it all in. So
could it be that Pope Leo is a Malard militia
(33:56):
member at the Vatican, now developing hot dot dot dot.
All right, time now, time now for the Insta trivia.
We'll get to Mallard of the third degree. I'm gonna
have alf Alf send a letter to the Vatican and
ask the Pope for me. Ask the Pope if the
Pope's a fan of the show. That would be like
(34:17):
the Pete and Pittsburgh spoke Caanngary era. Blind Scott was
still part of the show back then. But let me know,
all right, here's the Insta trivia. Since twenty thirteen, Draymond
Green has the most technical fouls in the playoffs. Blank
is second to the Warriors Star in terms of technical
(34:37):
fouls in the playoffs. That's going back to last twelve years.
That is the Insta trivia. We'll get to it and
Mallard to the third degree. We'll get to all of
that and we will do it next.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
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Speaker 5 (34:57):
A Lie's a lie, Today's Friday, Today's Friday, Today's Friday.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Don't worry, don't worry. It's just tay the tot.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
How about shut up jerk yourself away?
Speaker 2 (35:13):
I love you.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Cut that me.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Right there, that's outpath. That's twenty five thousand dollars out path.
You gonna make me mine?
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Who is that shirley about yourself? Ben Maller? Right just now,
all man, the show is over.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
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(35:55):
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of your screen. All right back to it we go.
(36:19):
Time for the insta trivia. Since twenty thirteen's Raymond Green,
who had an unhinged rant after the game, Raymond Green
has the most technical fouls in the playoffs, blank is
second to the Warriors. Start. That is the question. What
is the answer? In domacn Sue gets by Andy in
(36:43):
Lionel lakes Lamar Davis from Scrooge. Who else do we have?
Megatron Griffin from courtesy Flusher, the Holy Pope of the
Slippery Slope from Alf the Alien of Pine of very
funny Alf. Who do we have? Fergdog? Says Matt the
Warrior Raider Tom Brady rose Fan rest in PC. Yes,
that was the final act on our show of the
(37:04):
Great Matt the Warrior Raider Tom Brady rose Fan. He
got so upset. I did a monologue about that, Tom
Brady Rose he lost his mind.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
The King the King Diddy, I guess we'll say there
clean that up from Milkman Mike Incredible Hulk guessed by
Big Greg in Iowa as his answer. All right, Lorraine,
Now do you have an answer? Lorraine? It's not David
Exne I guess by mediocre kabuki. Yeah, I think it's
ingis No, it's actually none other than Dwight Howard. Dwight
(37:33):
Howard Raymond has fifteen more technical fouls, though in that
time than Dwight Howard who was second.
Speaker 7 (37:40):
Here we go, this is one big gets grilled all
right and lead a lot.
Speaker 8 (37:51):
Then Manny Faccio, Manny Pacio will end his nearly for
your retirement to face Mario Barrios for the WC welter
Light Championship on July nineteenth in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Ben, is this a must watch event? And does he
even have a chance? No, this is a money grab.
I guess he's maybe lost some money in the stock market.
Pakio is forty six years old. This is all about nostalgia.
Like the people that were fans of Paci out back
in the day, They're gonna watch the curiosity from people
that maybe were too young and didn't watch Pakia on
(38:22):
his prime. He's definitely not his prime. But no, this
is not must watch now. I might check it out
for content purposes, but am I excited about it?
Speaker 3 (38:30):
No?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Next more bang for your Becker, Ben.
Speaker 8 (38:33):
You could get into Madison Square Garden for four hundred
and seventy nine dollars to watch Game three between the
Nicks and Celtics, Or you could watch the first ever
WNBA showdown between Caitlin Clark and Paige Becker for three
hundred and seventeen dollars.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
What is the most bang for your buck? Well, as
you know, I am a discerning customer and I but
I'm not a customer of the WNBA. That's not something
I pay attention to. So I mean, I am interested
in the NBA, so I would rather I'm not gonna
spend money on either one of them. But if I
if you got into my head, I would take the
NBA game. I would. I'd rather see that next heill Mary.
We talked about it.
Speaker 8 (39:07):
After only two days, the conclave elected the first pope
ever from the United States, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost All
out of South Side of Chicago, now known as Pope
Leo the fourteenth Bend. Will the new Holy Father bring
divine intervention to the Windy City or Villanova?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
I just want to know if he's gonna bring the
Pope Mobile. Isn't that cool? The Pope bring that to America?
Just cruise around stuff? And uh, how much does the
Pope get paid? Do we know that lead? Does the
Pope get a salary or just everything's taken care of.
I will look into that bend. How big is the
Pope's bedroom at the Vaticate. These are things I want
to know he gets good jewelry. Yeah, that's a win.
I won. You didn't answer the last one, Ben I
(39:46):
did act I answered it with more questions. Hey,
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