April 14, 2026 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about Lakers fans being upset about Luka Doncic falling one game short of the 65 game threshold to be eligible for awards, if the NBA is sabotaging it's own product by enforcing a rule that sidelines it's biggest names from award races, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, Shaka laka. It's our number two, Hour two, and
the Ben Malors Show begins with grumbling Laker historians. Is
this really complicated? The league said you gotta play sixty
five games to win these Fulgaese awards. Luka Doncik didn't
hit the sixty five game mark. What is the debate? Also?
(00:24):
Is the NBA sabotaging their own product by enforcing said rule,
the sixty five game rule that sidelines many of the
biggest names from the award season, And is Shaquille O'Neill
basically telling the world that the Knicks star Karl Anthony
Towns is a big mister softy. We'll discuss that as well.
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Now?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
How about the Trailblazers and the Suns. No, well that's
what's on the menu. So instead of talking about those
games just to be coming up on Tuesday night, instead
we discuss the grumble grumble, grumble, And a number of
Laker historians are not happy because lukea is ineligible for
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the NBA Postseason Awards. He missed too many games, so sorry,
can't do it now. If you didn't see this, the
complaints and people angry and all that, maybe you missed it.
So the Luca marching and shout of society. They point
out that Luca led the NBA in points scored, he
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had the second most points and a combined, and he
was in the top forty in minutes played this season.
Yet he is ineligible for any of the postseason awards,
the All NBA, the MVP. The league has a sixty
five game rule, sixty five game rule. He did not
meet that threshold, miss it by one game. So that
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is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the
question now with all these people complaining about Luca. Is
not fair, not fair. Luca can't win his little trophy,
is not fair. So is this really that complicated? The
league said sixty five games to win an award, everyone
knew it, and Luca didn't get to the sixty fifth game.
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So what exactly is the debate here? So I've got
wild Rivers, We've got Wild Rivers, FedEx and San Diego Zoo,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to give you the alphabet ABC. We'll
start with that number A stop. So this is not complex.
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Most of these arguments are not complex. It is kindergarden
level malar math, kindergarten lever level malar math with a
max contract attached to it. So the NBA drew They
took a bright red sharpie and with that bright red sharpie,
they drew a line. And it's the threshold. It's at
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sixty five games. That's what they determined, and Luca showed
up sixty four games. You see, he didn't make the
sixty five, so it's sixty five and above. So this
is not some kind of grand conspiracy. Of course, the
NBA could still change their mind and say, oh, insight,
we're gonna allow him to be eligible. As of the
time of this monologue, that is not the case. That
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is not the case. So the Laker historians who are crying, listen,
Luca missed the card. That's it. That's all. This is right,
and you're crying in your statues, but look at the stats.
Go go f your stats, your stat effort, go after
your stats. Right, you're treating us like it's a courtroom drama,
but your honor, look at the totals. Look at the totals. Okay, points, rebounds, assist,
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a statistical buffet. Great, you don't want to do for you,
I'm gonna give you a puffy sticker, little puffy sticker. Congratulations,
that's right. Not you did not earn a scratch and
sniff sticker, just a puffy sticker. So I'm sorry, But regardless,
Luca did not meet the minimum requirement. I know, the
last number of years we've been lowering standards on everything,
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but this is the bare minimum. This is the participation
trophy generation crashing into reality the last couple of years
since the NBA put this rule in. So it's not
that hard if you want to win the MVP or
be on the All NBA team and all that stuff.
If you want to travel down glory road, travel down
glory road. The clock is rather simple, all right. You
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got to put time in on the clock. So the
malor verdict in the judges chambers, the malar verdict on this.
This isn't some part time summer job. You're eighteen years old.
You're working at the Wild Rivers water Park. It is
supposed to be a full season grind. But it's not right.
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Oh my god, this gun's might get a boom boo. Okay,
I love that, like all these young guys who are like, oh,
we're so much tougher, we're so much better than it
used to be. And yet those guys in the past
traveled by commercial airline, not chartered flights, and occasionally played
three games in a row. And these guys back to back,
(07:52):
you might as well be sent to Guantanamo Bay, back
to back, right, these guys lose their mind over that.
But then they have all the chefs and the trainers
and all that, and yet can't show up the work.
And then when you call them on that, you say, well,
you're supposed to be, you're supposed to be have there
planings like you're not working at Wild Rivers. Well, well no,
we're working at Lazy River. It's a different spinoff. So
the rule was clear. Here's the thing I don't understand.
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So the rule was clear, the number was out there.
The outcome if you didn't make the number was also clear.
No loopholes, no exceptions, no violin music, and it's simple
malormth If you get to sixty four, that's not sixty five.
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Case closed, all right now, Page two, Continuing the theme
though of this hour, so only of the entire NBA,
they were roughly five hundred and eighty players that appeared
in at least one game in the NBA. Know, a
lot of those guys only played in a couple of games.
The vast majority, you know, thirty teams. You can do
the math on that. Each team, I'm about fifteen players,
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and of those fifteen, eight to ten rotation players, so
somewhere in that department, so you can you can do
the mass. So you say, well, just we'll say that
teams have a long, long, deep bench. So if that's
the case, so we'll do the mouth of math. So
we determine there's thirty teams, so if ten, and then
you just do the times of thirty there and you
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do the male of the mouth, and so that's that's
three hundred, but it's actually more than that. But either way,
So out of those players in the NBA, how many
players in the NBA reached the threshold to be eligible
for all NBA and MVP and all the other let's
pat you on the back awards. You want to take
a guess, you got it? You got a number? Okay? Good?
(09:37):
The answer out of around five hundred plus total players
in the NBA, eighty six players is the number eighty
six across the entire league, eighty six players met the
eligible threshold, the eligibility threshold for end of season awards
eighty six and the entire NBA. How for embarrassing is
(10:01):
that for the NBA? Seriously, So let's do the math
on that, So eighty six and then you divide that
by by thirty. That means if you just do the
look ahead, it's like less than three players per team
qualified out of thirty teams, less than two point eight
out of the thirty teams qualified. So the question is
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the NBA sabotaging like some of you Knuckleeger are saying,
are they sabotaging their own product by enforcing the rule,
the sixty five game rule that sidelines the biggest names
in the sport, many of them from these races to
win the various awards. So is this an act of
sabotage by the NBA? To that, I say, poppy cock,
(10:48):
capital p. This is not sabotaging anything. It's like this.
In fact, this is actually the NBA admitting something that
we've all known. It's been abbi for years that they
got a problem. Now, just because you admit you have
a problem does not mean that you're gonna be able
to fix that problem. The product was getting watered down,
(11:10):
beyond water down. And because the stars they weren't showing up,
they were not showing up. The league did not create
the problem, all right, it responded to it. Now, the
league was a little lax in not keeping track of
what was going on Adam Silver was asleep at the switch,
but it was the teams and they hired a bunch
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of dorks who have figured out, well, if you play
thirty three minutes, you're going to have an injury. If
you play thirty one and a half minutes, you're gonna
be perfectly fine. It's voodoo medicine. And there's a lot
of people that are stupid that work in pro sports
and they buy this crap and so they be it.
They believe it, and they did it for years and
it kept getting It was the boiling frog theory. Little
(11:53):
by little more of this dogma got into the NBA
year by year, and before you know it, we were
on full skullduggery and that's where we are and that's
why the sixty five game rule took place and the
league is trying to fix it. And by the way,
let me point out this is very important. The NBA
Players Association, they co authored, as I understand the rule, like,
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they signed off on it, they stamped it, they notarized it,
they went to FedEx and they sent the thing. And
so all you dumb dumbs in outrage army who were
upset because of Luke and some of these other guys
who aren't eligible to win awards. If you can't hit
sixty five games out of eighty two, why would you
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even be in the conversation for the MVP right now.
The reason you have to have the rule is because
there's some wokesters who vote for these awards. Well, I
don't care that Joe Blow only played thirteen games. He's
my envp Okay, you loser, So you gotta put the
rule in there because he's idiots will take advantage of it.
But production and availability kind of a big deal. Both matter,
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both matter, and it's not a sob story. The players
were tougher before and despite all these critics, Oh, you're
playing against a bunch of plumbers and all that. Well, No,
at age thirty nine, Michael Jordan played eighty two games.
Why would you do that? What is wrong when you
he was playing for the Washington Wizards, a joke of
a franchise, and he played eighty two games. No load management,
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no maintenance days, No I need the day off. I'm
getting a manny and a petty like we have today.
We didn't get that, And this rule exists because the
players stop showing up the work that's it, right, that's
the real story. You want the award, you punch the clock.
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If you are gonna miss almost twenty percent of the season,
whatever it is, there, you're out. End of discussion. That's
it now. Meanwhile, we go to the Big Apple and
every year we get the same story. The Knicks are
in the playoffs. In the way in the last few
years Knicks are in the playoffs. Is this the year
the Knicks have not won a championship in over fifty years?
(14:07):
Is this going to be the year that the Knickerbockers
wake up the echoes of Walt Clyde Fraser and Willis
Reid and get it done well anyway. Shaquille O'Neal commenting recently,
Shaq commenting about Carl Anthony Towns of New York in
the upcoming playoffs, Shaq said, you know what scares me
(14:30):
about the Knicks? I think you know he says, he said,
it's kitty cat Carl Anthony Towns. This says, am I
going to get tiger or a pussy cat? Is what
Shaq said about Carl Anthony town So the question on
this one is Shaquille O'Neal basically telling the world you
and me and the world. That Nick star Carl Anthony
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Towns is a mister softy. Is that what he's saying.
So I am nodding my head, Yes, I am nodding
my head. Yes, that is the case here. So Shaquille
O'Neal is not just sending a message. It's not a
message in a bottle, it's a message in a podcast.
But he's he's handing out for Karl Anthony Towns the
jet puffed marshmallow certificate. Congratulations. You can pick that up
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on your way out, but you get the jet puffed
marshmallow certificate. When a Hall of Fame center, Shaquille O'Neil
questions your competitive DNA. Of course, remember Shack took time
off because he got hurt on company time. He wanted
to rehab on company time. That's a different conversation. But
the comments that Shack made, the comments that Shack made
(15:41):
about Karl Anthony Towns not a pep talk. It's not
a pep talk. It's an indictment. It's not wrong either.
Like the Knick's going into the playoffs, the Nicks know
that they're gonna get an honest night's work from Jalen Brunson. However,
Karl Anthony Towns, it's like the ultimate Amazon mystery box.
(16:04):
What's in the box, Well, we don't know. We haven't
opened the box. We don't know what's in the box.
One night you open that box up and it's high
end electronics and you're like, WHOA, that's great, I got
what is awesome? The next ten nights in a row,
it's just packing peanuts and bubble wrap and disappointment. That's
all it is. And well, he has not quite Karl
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Anthony Town's reached Playoff Hardened level. It'd be almost impossible
to reach the level of Playoff Harden, that level of infamy.
And my condolence is to Strip Club John Ohio al
and all our guys in Cleveland who have that to
look forward to as your dreams will be broken yet
again by Playoff Harden. That's coming up just next level.
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Karl Anthony Towns. It seems like most of the time
he's daydreaming. We're not sure what he's daydreaming about, and
why would you daydream at night? But he does it
on the court and he has the raw aggressiveness. Karl
Anthony Towns, like, if you were to go to the
San Diego Zoo and get your binoculars out and look
at the koalas who are in the trees getting high
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on the eucalyptus. That's essentially what Karl Anthony Towns is
in a playoff game. And so New York, New York
betting their entire season on essentially a moon ring. Well,
what color is it gonna be? Is it gonna be violet?
That's good, he'll play well. No, no, it's gray. Oh
oh it's black? Oh no, is it okay? He's good,
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he's good. All right. So in the middle of April
now here we are playoffs about to begin. Now, the
Knicks don't play till this weekend because they're not in
that fugazy playing thing. This weekend, the playoffs will get
going and the Knicks second option. It's like the TV
show I did Benny Versus Depending. That's essentially what is
It's Benny versus Depending. Shaq is not motivating anybody, he's not.
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He's exposing the structural flaw that the concrete was not
made properly, and everything's starting to crack there. And once
the playoffs get a little hot and they'll be why
I'll tell you what's gonna happen to you. There'll be
one game where Anthony plays well and says, Boom, I
told you I'm so good, and then the next couple
(18:21):
of games will suck. That's happened before as well. You
got to follow the Malor wisdom on this, the Malor wisdom.
If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. The
key to life is to expect nothing, and if anything
happens in a positive my god, that's great. What a
wonderful thing that is. And just don't be surprised. In
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this case, don't be surprised when the lights turn up
and Karl Anthony Towns is hanging out with his friend
Garfield eating lasagna or some other cartoon cat, whoever you like.
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It's a big man, and he.
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Never ever forgets to bring along. Yeah, well not always
in Cincinnati, they're not going, Oh we lost Ddy too,
got whacked? Oh he's still working hockey podcast? Whatever is
I Bill Miller? Another original Mallard Tuna Classic. We're not
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that far away from the next big event on the
Ben Mallor Show, the Mallord Palooza. He's gonna be here
before you know it. Well, it's only April, depends how
old you are. Time just flies by before you before
we go a couple of blinks, and then all of
a sudden, we'll be into July and the Mallard Palooza
is gonna take place. It's gonna be great. In the meanwhile,
we have the Meet and Greet season, and the first
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Mallard Meet and Greet will be taking place upcoming a
week from Saturday. Man, that's coming. That's sneaking up on me. Wow.
All right, so hanging out. It'll be in the Cincinnati area,
the Mallard Meet and Greet. Hopefully if you're in that area,
you can if you've been a supporter of the show
over the years and hold the line. April twenty fifth,
(22:05):
two to five pm. Two pm to five pm, the
Cincinnati area mallor meet and greet will take place at
Strong's Brick Oven Pizzeria. This place looks great. By the way,
the's a couple of locations, so make sure you go
to the right one. It's in Newport, Kentucky, right across
about a mile away from where the Reds play, and
we're thinking about going out to that game that night.
Might sneak over there.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Wait, so the Cincinnati meet and greet isn't even in Ohio.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Coop, you don't understand geographies. You don't understand geography. I
understand that it's not.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
It's the same thing.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
It's a mile away.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
From the Ohio River, so it's Kentucky meeting Ohio.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
It's a Cincinnati meeting. Great. It is a mile away
from the freaking Reds ballpark. We could walk, Me and
Robbie will walk. We'll both die by the time we
get there, but we'll walk to the ballpark. What states
it in though it doesn't make It's whatever state you
want to be in. And I am concerned whether or
not Dick and Dayton will be allowed to leave Ohio.
(23:03):
I'm can you imagine if I travel all the way
to hang out with him and he can't make it
because he's not allowed to leave the state. I don't
have a passport to leave the state of a while. Anyway,
Dick and dateon his scheduled to perform with Ohio. We
did a whole podcast on this, the Fifth Hour Podcast
back on Friday, so check it out, and we'll have
legendary members of the mall or militia that live in
(23:23):
that area that are scheduled to be there. I have
not heard from Justin and Cincinnati, but I know just
Josh is going to be there, and Robbie the Mariner
fan flying in and Joe the ghost Hunter is going
to drag his wife. So check that out. Coming up
April twenty fifth, two to five. First malard Meat great
of the year the Cincinnati area Malard Meat greet there
at Strong Brick Oven Pizzeria right right one mile from
(23:45):
the Reds Ballpark, right down from the Ohio River there.
Check it out in Newport, Kentucky. All right, on that note,
oh yeah, yay, uh see, what do we have here
aeny meenie miney mone a'thing worthy of being read. Uh
let's see here. Yeah, people pointing out, where's weed Man?
(24:07):
I don't know, he's not. I guess he forgot his
job already. Right, this is the weed Man segment, and
there is no weed Man. You think he got arrested again? No, no,
he's so tame these days. Yeah, Well, whatever happened with
that trip to Boston thing did? Is that why he's
not calling? Because that's what I was gonna say. Oh,
(24:28):
I mean I don't know. Uh, okay, yeah, I could
call him right now while we're on the air hold
on saying you see, you guys might have to talk here.
I'm gonna I blocked my number because I don't I'm
gonna call him here live.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Well, I think last last that happened with all of that,
with him coming to meet and greet, I said that
I would that we would give his number to Oh
you got that one. We haven't heard from him since that.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Oh really, okay, So I'm calling right now. You can't
hear because I get the phone on my my right here.
My headphones are make the boops sounds calling. Uh, you know,
like hey, we made he did answer the phone. So
there's this segment you have every week, weed Man, where
you you answer callers questions and you're not on the phone. Yeah,
(25:21):
he's going, oh, hold on, hold on, we mat, hold
on a second, let me see here. We Man. Don't
put you on the air, So don't don't curse or anything.
We man, Why why are you not here? Weed Man?
We Man? All right, I didn't see what time he
was were you were you sleeping? Well no, I don't sleep,
but I know what you weren't doing. You weren't listening
(25:42):
to the show. No, I was watching YouTube. All right,
we'll call in, all right, calling hanging up on there.
It's gonna know. He's a loyal minion to the show.
He's alive. He didn't get arrested. Didn't get arrested, right there. Uh,
I told you he's tame. He's so tame. He is
(26:02):
a night in with a YouTube on. That's good, all right. Jill,
the Yankee fan, long suffering Yankee fan there in New
York City or she's in Minnesota, actually says Shaq is
never ever going to praise Carl Anthony Towns. He doesn't
like the way he plays this is not new. No,
I know, but it's good talk radio. It's always good
talk radio. Doug in South Korea says Luca missing out
(26:23):
on the MVP for not hitting the game the game's
played minimum is like me losing the lottery because I
didn't bother matching all the numbers. Uh, it's about right,
it's about right, all right. I guess weed Man's called it.
Are you there? Weed Man? Hello? Weed Man?
Speaker 6 (26:40):
Yeah, you're not.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I'm not feeling in love. I'm not. I mean, he
broke my heart here. Well, you got two things to
do every week? How dare you? I know? I know,
I know. He blew me off, all right, and you
won't even listening to the show. It's a bad job
by man alive. All right, anyway, listen, we are you
gonna go to Boston? I don't know? Well why why not?
(27:08):
Well what's the what's the problem?
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Well, I don't have any money.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Well you've never had any money?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Right, right?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
But aren't you gonna meet Lisa? Like Lisa has money?
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Right?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
No, Lisa having money?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
But she got more than you though? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Probably?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Yeah, all right, I'm in Florida.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
No, I know, but I don't know how it's gonna work.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Well, it's not that All the trains you can take it.
I've taken the train from New York to Boston. It's
not that bad a train, right, you can drive. If
she's got a car, she can drive up there. It's
no big deal, easy, easy peasy.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
You fly from New.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
York, Yeah, from New York.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Yeah yeah, yeah, but you fly. They have the scenes
called airports. You ever flowing? We'd man, You ever been
in the plane?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Yeah, yeah, okay, I got to it. Seems like you're
not interested in You went to Maui. Yeah, all right,
Uh well, we have some questions for you, weed Man.
Alf the alien opinter says it's going to be eighty
degrees here in the Commonwealth this week. Is that warm
enough for you? Weed Man?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah, oh so you go with that. You're okay with that?
All right, Let's let's take some calls here. And what
is the purpose of this segment?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Advice. I'm gonna give people advice and we're going to
change the world in this segment.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Yeah, all right, And I'm gonna give you advice that
when it's your segment, call in all right, ferg Dog
And by the way, hashtag. Ask we ask weed man,
Ask a weed man, Ask ask a weed man. Ferg
Dog says, what's your least favorite smell? Weed man? Poop?
(28:58):
Really no, no, But there's different levels of poop. Right,
There's there's poop and then there's walking by a sewer,
you know what I'm talking about, or a porta potty
that's been sitting there all weekend. And there's different layers
to poopage your Feeme and Chicago writes in He says,
if you had to choose between getting your life back
(29:20):
before books a million stock you know your stocks were
all ruined and all that, or world peace forever, what
would you choose? All right, So we mean you could
get your old life back. You were very successful, you
ran a toy store in New York.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I want my own life.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I want my own life. So you're just admitting now
you're not really worried about world peace. If you had to,
if you can only do one, either you get your
life back or world peace, you would pick get your
life back.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I want my life back more than evening.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yeah, all right, I understand, I understand. All right. Well,
let's take a call here. Let's say hello to Kyle
who's in Vegas? What's going on? Kyle? I think this
is Google glass Kyle? If I remember correctly, Hello Kyle,
welcome is meda first off? Oh that's right? Excuse me,
I have to add meta glass meda glass, that's right?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
First of all.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Uh No, So look, I ain't got no questions for
we man, we man.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
This guy has no questions for you. Meda glass, Kyle
has no questions. How do you feel about that?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
I think that's sample. I'll come up with, sus what
is medaglass?
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Meda glasses are like AI for your face? Okay, do
you know what?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Do you know what AI is? Is not A? What's that?
Speaker 6 (30:43):
And it's not Alan Iverson and Joe Helly Osman isn't
in this one either.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah, I got you, I got you?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
All right?
Speaker 1 (30:50):
What do you want to talk about? Your listen?
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Listen? Listen.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
You you made the comment earlier about the NBA players
playing eighty two games. Do you actually know how many
players actually played all eighty two games this season?
Speaker 3 (31:02):
This year?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
I did see that number. I don't remember off the
top of my head, but it was it was a few,
not very many.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
Well, Rano, do you have an answer?
Speaker 1 (31:11):
You have an answer, No, four four players this season?
Speaker 6 (31:17):
Do you know how many players?
Speaker 5 (31:20):
No?
Speaker 2 (31:21):
What do you?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
What do you getting?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
What do you?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
What are you getting?
Speaker 6 (31:24):
What that is is that this league is soft there,
they're charm and soft. If only four players could actually
play all eighty two games, why aren't. I don't care
if it's a Jared Allen, I don't care if it's
Michel Bridges. These guys should be nominated for MVP. They
played all eighty two games. They did something that over
(31:44):
three hundred players couldn't do.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
You know, hey, listen, I like people that show up
to work.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
They did their job. And then then the other thing
is your analogy. I was kind of following it, but
wasn't following it. It would be like the kids that
go to school every day, and then the kid that
gets your school at least twice a month, and then
when all the honors awards come out, they don't get
nominated for nothing. And know like the parents are arguing,
well we excuse the absences. Perfect attendants is perfect attendant?
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Are you touching up my analogy? I believe you're touching
up my analogy? How darey?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I am?
Speaker 6 (32:18):
Hy Lorena?
Speaker 5 (32:19):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
All right? Kyle. We love you, man man, weed Man.
What's strange you guys?
Speaker 6 (32:29):
So what what's the best strain you have?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Train? Like the marijuana strain? Now he gets excited. Now
weed Man's excited.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
I do I really did weave here?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Yeah? I get really I don't know shame by.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Yeah, you don't even know you're weed man. You don't
even know what you do. Just he just smokes it.
He calls it Mary Jane Man. That's what he does.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
I got something before on the chicken and waffles.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
What's that I got something for?
Speaker 6 (33:00):
I'm called chicken and walk.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
There you go, chicken when you come to Vegas?
Speaker 6 (33:03):
Come brother?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
All right, thank you Kyle. There's Kyle here. Let's say
hello to Lucky, who's in San Francisco. Lucky wants to
talk to weed Man. Hello Lucky, Hello, Ben.
Speaker 6 (33:14):
Malan, what's up, weed Man? How you guys doing?
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Man? Hey, Lucky?
Speaker 6 (33:18):
What a name? All right?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Well?
Speaker 6 (33:21):
I did have a question, we man, we man.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Did you forget the last time that Lucky called in
to talk to you? Did you forget that?
Speaker 6 (33:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Okay, because it wasn't that long ago. I remember, Lucky,
but you don't. Right, go ahead, lucky Man.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
That's a typical stoner man. You know, you get to
let's be h you know, hear something. Yeah, weed Man,
what are you going to do for four twenty? Man?
That's the big question?
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Man?
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Are you ready?
Speaker 5 (33:49):
I am ready?
Speaker 2 (33:50):
I am.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
That's for I believe lucky for weed Man. Every day
is that day? I think Yeah, I'd say it's like
New Year's is for amateurs. If you're a big party person.
New Year's is like who cares about that?
Speaker 6 (34:05):
You know? And I want to ban alson, want to say,
of course, you know, hello to Misslarina and you know
to my Pelton too.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Man.
Speaker 6 (34:12):
I hope you guys have a good week.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Well you too, Thank you, Lucky, thanks for listening. I'll
be safe out there. All right, there's the great Lucky.
It's Lucky from Samray, San Francisco, both of the district attorney,
says hays, weed Man ever worked eighty two days in
a year, that's a great question. I'm gonna go know,
(34:34):
weed Man, you ago, I know, but that's a that's
a long time ago. That's yeah, yeah, all right. Uh
here's another one from the alien O'ponteter says, I'm sure
weed Man is thrilled that you ripped him away from YouTube.
For Kyle's segment, he said, Tree from the seven seven
(34:58):
three rights in he wants to know what was your
favorite continent to visit? Weed Man? My favorite, by the way,
these seven seven threes in that is in the of course, Chicago,
because that is our buddy Tree, that's our guy who
was in studio here. How many continents do you think
(35:19):
weed Man could name? Oh? Yeah, oh man, how many?
How many do you think there are? Let's have Loraina,
don't cheat Loraina? All right, but you think there's seven Loraina.
How many continents do you think there are? I think
there's five? Five? All right, well, weed Man wins that.
(35:44):
But can you name the continents? How many continents can
you name? Weed Men?
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Go ahead, shot America, NCA, Asia, Africa.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Greenland, Greenland. Wow, Greenland is not. You were doing very well,
weed Man. There's only a couple that you didn't get.
You didn't get Antarctica and Australia. That's the one I meant. Yeah,
all right, I gotta go, weed Man. You're gonna go
to the detension. I hope you understand. You relate to
your segment, So you go to detension. Okay, I'm sorry.
(36:22):
I'm gonna force you to watch bad YouTube videos right now.
Did you subscribe to the Ben Mallor Show channel on YouTube?
Speaker 6 (36:28):
Yeah? How come, there's no calls on this?
Speaker 1 (36:31):
All right, don't there's weed man, hippie, our friend. We'll
press on. We've got the Insta Trivia and then we'll
get to Mallard of the third Degree. So Mavericks guard
Ryan Nembhard finished with twenty three assists in the final
regular season game for Dallas, tied for the fourth most
by a rookie in NBA history. Blank holds the all
(36:52):
time record for the most assist in a single game
by a rookie. That's the Insta Trivia, the answer, and
Mallard of the third Degree. We'll get to that. That
will do it next.
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Back to it.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Quickly. Here's the Insta trivia Mavericks guard Ryan Nemhard, whose
brother plays for the Pace A brother. I think brother cousin.
I don't know anyway. Ryan Nebhard finished with twenty three
assists in his regular season finale, tied for the fourth
most by a rookie in NBA history. Blank holds the
record for the most assist in a single game by
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a rookie. That is the question. What is the answer?
Let's see does anyone know the answer? Scrooge is going
with easy E very funny, Alf says lamar odom is
the answer? Beer drinking Brian from you, feme, I don't
know what happened to beer drinking? Brian, but I had
one too many beers. Duncan Robinson from Shane and Moy
and Drew Holliday from Ekeon, Roseville, Minnesota. Who else we have?
(38:42):
Lester U Banks from Analog? Al Parito went with you
fat as the answer as his guest, there's the great Perrito,
Steve McQueen from j T the Wingman. Who else? Slimer
from King Roy? What say you, Lorraine Hank the tank? Hank?
Is it Hank the Tank? No, that is incorrect, the
(39:03):
corrector saying we were taking two answers. Either one would
have worked. The correct answers are none other than Ernie
d Rigorio of the Buffalo Braves and Nate McMillan will
be eighty seven super Sonics. Here we go. It's maller.
How about that? To the third degree?
Speaker 3 (39:20):
This is one Big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Crublo.
Speaker 5 (39:25):
Patriots quarterback Drake May was interviewed at the Masters over
the weekend, where he said, quote, everybody's got the same
goal this time of the year, to get back to
that game. As of today, the Patriots are only tied
for the fifth best odds to get to the Super Bowl, Ben,
do you think the odds should be better for them?
Speaker 1 (39:39):
No, that's about right. They played a bunch of cupcakes
last year. They didn't play anybody. Although I look at
the schedule this year, Mike, it doesn't seem that much
harder than me. But yeah, they have to prove it
they're legit because they played a very weak schedule and
so people don't take them seriously. So that seems about
right where they should be. They have to validate that
last year was not just a product of the schedule.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
New Browns head coach Todd Munkin was asked recently what
he can do to change the perception that things always
go wrong for the Browns. Monkin said, winning changes everything.
Then how much winning and for how long would it
take to change the narrative around the brands.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Well, they did have one year where they want a
playoff game. Pittsburgh gave that game away. It didn't change anything.
So they'd have to have sustained success for three to
five years. And you might want to show up to
the coach's photo. Remember Todd Mounkin was getting a nice
haircut and forgot to go. That's not a good look,
all right, Next been The playing tournament starts Tuesday. Which
are the four teams involved?
Speaker 5 (40:33):
Do you think has the best chance to not only
make it to the actual playoffs, but potentially advanced past.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
The first round?
Speaker 6 (40:37):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (40:38):
I love this. Who's gonna make some noise? I'm gonna go.
I'm gonna go with Charlotte. I like the Hornets, con
Canipple and Alonzo Ball, those two guys back and forth.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
And then also I think the Clippers in the West.
For those of you, how do we do you pass?
I said? I said,
Boom, Shaka laka. It's our number two, Hour two, and
the Ben Malors Show begins with grumbling Laker historians. Is
this really complicated? The league said you gotta play sixty
five games to win these Fulgaese awards. Luka Doncik didn't
hit the sixty five game mark. What is the debate? Also?
(00:24):
Is the NBA sabotaging their own product by enforcing said rule,
the sixty five game rule that sidelines many of the
biggest names from the award season, And is Shaquille O'Neill
basically telling the world that the Knicks star Karl Anthony
Towns is a big mister softy. We'll discuss that as well.
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Settle in. It's our number two. Let the gripes begin.
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of games. You joned up for the Hornets and the heat.
Does that get you all excited?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
How about the Trailblazers and the Suns. No, well that's
what's on the menu. So instead of talking about those
games just to be coming up on Tuesday night, instead
we discuss the grumble grumble, grumble, And a number of
Laker historians are not happy because lukea is ineligible for
(03:37):
the NBA Postseason Awards. He missed too many games, so sorry,
can't do it now. If you didn't see this, the
complaints and people angry and all that, maybe you missed it.
So the Luca marching and shout of society. They point
out that Luca led the NBA in points scored, he
(03:57):
had the second most points and a combined, and he
was in the top forty in minutes played this season.
Yet he is ineligible for any of the postseason awards,
the All NBA, the MVP. The league has a sixty
five game rule, sixty five game rule. He did not
meet that threshold, miss it by one game. So that
(04:19):
is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the
question now with all these people complaining about Luca. Is
not fair, not fair. Luca can't win his little trophy,
is not fair. So is this really that complicated? The
league said sixty five games to win an award, everyone
knew it, and Luca didn't get to the sixty fifth game.
(04:43):
So what exactly is the debate here? So I've got
wild Rivers, We've got Wild Rivers, FedEx and San Diego Zoo,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to give you the alphabet ABC. We'll
start with that number A stop. So this is not complex.
(05:10):
Most of these arguments are not complex. It is kindergarden
level malar math, kindergarten lever level malar math with a
max contract attached to it. So the NBA drew They
took a bright red sharpie and with that bright red sharpie,
they drew a line. And it's the threshold. It's at
(05:31):
sixty five games. That's what they determined, and Luca showed
up sixty four games. You see, he didn't make the
sixty five, so it's sixty five and above. So this
is not some kind of grand conspiracy. Of course, the
NBA could still change their mind and say, oh, insight,
we're gonna allow him to be eligible. As of the
time of this monologue, that is not the case. That
(05:55):
is not the case. So the Laker historians who are crying, listen,
Luca missed the card. That's it. That's all. This is right,
and you're crying in your statues, but look at the stats.
Go go f your stats, your stat effort, go after
your stats. Right, you're treating us like it's a courtroom drama,
but your honor, look at the totals. Look at the totals. Okay, points, rebounds, assist,
(06:21):
a statistical buffet. Great, you don't want to do for you,
I'm gonna give you a puffy sticker, little puffy sticker. Congratulations,
that's right. Not you did not earn a scratch and
sniff sticker, just a puffy sticker. So I'm sorry, But regardless,
Luca did not meet the minimum requirement. I know, the
last number of years we've been lowering standards on everything,
(06:43):
but this is the bare minimum. This is the participation
trophy generation crashing into reality the last couple of years
since the NBA put this rule in. So it's not
that hard if you want to win the MVP or
be on the All NBA team and all that stuff.
If you want to travel down glory road, travel down
glory road. The clock is rather simple, all right. You
(07:07):
got to put time in on the clock. So the
malor verdict in the judges chambers, the malar verdict on this.
This isn't some part time summer job. You're eighteen years old.
You're working at the Wild Rivers water Park. It is
supposed to be a full season grind. But it's not right.
(07:29):
Oh my god, this gun's might get a boom boo. Okay,
I love that, like all these young guys who are like, oh,
we're so much tougher, we're so much better than it
used to be. And yet those guys in the past
traveled by commercial airline, not chartered flights, and occasionally played
three games in a row. And these guys back to back,
(07:52):
you might as well be sent to Guantanamo Bay, back
to back, right, these guys lose their mind over that.
But then they have all the chefs and the trainers
and all that, and yet can't show up the work.
And then when you call them on that, you say, well,
you're supposed to be, you're supposed to be have there
planings like you're not working at Wild Rivers. Well, well no,
we're working at Lazy River. It's a different spinoff. So
the rule was clear. Here's the thing I don't understand.
(08:13):
So the rule was clear, the number was out there.
The outcome if you didn't make the number was also clear.
No loopholes, no exceptions, no violin music, and it's simple
malormth If you get to sixty four, that's not sixty five.
(08:33):
Case closed, all right now, Page two, Continuing the theme
though of this hour, so only of the entire NBA,
they were roughly five hundred and eighty players that appeared
in at least one game in the NBA. Know, a
lot of those guys only played in a couple of games.
The vast majority, you know, thirty teams. You can do
the math on that. Each team, I'm about fifteen players,
(08:55):
and of those fifteen, eight to ten rotation players, so
somewhere in that department, so you can you can do
the mass. So you say, well, just we'll say that
teams have a long, long, deep bench. So if that's
the case, so we'll do the mouth of math. So
we determine there's thirty teams, so if ten, and then
you just do the times of thirty there and you
(09:16):
do the male of the mouth, and so that's that's
three hundred, but it's actually more than that. But either way,
So out of those players in the NBA, how many
players in the NBA reached the threshold to be eligible
for all NBA and MVP and all the other let's
pat you on the back awards. You want to take
a guess, you got it? You got a number? Okay? Good?
(09:37):
The answer out of around five hundred plus total players
in the NBA, eighty six players is the number eighty
six across the entire league, eighty six players met the
eligible threshold, the eligibility threshold for end of season awards
eighty six and the entire NBA. How for embarrassing is
(10:01):
that for the NBA? Seriously, So let's do the math
on that, So eighty six and then you divide that
by by thirty. That means if you just do the
look ahead, it's like less than three players per team
qualified out of thirty teams, less than two point eight
out of the thirty teams qualified. So the question is
(10:21):
the NBA sabotaging like some of you Knuckleeger are saying,
are they sabotaging their own product by enforcing the rule,
the sixty five game rule that sidelines the biggest names
in the sport, many of them from these races to
win the various awards. So is this an act of
sabotage by the NBA? To that, I say, poppy cock,
(10:48):
capital p. This is not sabotaging anything. It's like this.
In fact, this is actually the NBA admitting something that
we've all known. It's been abbi for years that they
got a problem. Now, just because you admit you have
a problem does not mean that you're gonna be able
to fix that problem. The product was getting watered down,
(11:10):
beyond water down. And because the stars they weren't showing up,
they were not showing up. The league did not create
the problem, all right, it responded to it. Now, the
league was a little lax in not keeping track of
what was going on Adam Silver was asleep at the switch,
but it was the teams and they hired a bunch
(11:31):
of dorks who have figured out, well, if you play
thirty three minutes, you're going to have an injury. If
you play thirty one and a half minutes, you're gonna
be perfectly fine. It's voodoo medicine. And there's a lot
of people that are stupid that work in pro sports
and they buy this crap and so they be it.
They believe it, and they did it for years and
it kept getting It was the boiling frog theory. Little
(11:53):
by little more of this dogma got into the NBA
year by year, and before you know it, we were
on full skullduggery and that's where we are and that's
why the sixty five game rule took place and the
league is trying to fix it. And by the way,
let me point out this is very important. The NBA
Players Association, they co authored, as I understand the rule, like,
(12:16):
they signed off on it, they stamped it, they notarized it,
they went to FedEx and they sent the thing. And
so all you dumb dumbs in outrage army who were
upset because of Luke and some of these other guys
who aren't eligible to win awards. If you can't hit
sixty five games out of eighty two, why would you
(12:37):
even be in the conversation for the MVP right now.
The reason you have to have the rule is because
there's some wokesters who vote for these awards. Well, I
don't care that Joe Blow only played thirteen games. He's
my envp Okay, you loser, So you gotta put the
rule in there because he's idiots will take advantage of it.
But production and availability kind of a big deal. Both matter,
(13:01):
both matter, and it's not a sob story. The players
were tougher before and despite all these critics, Oh, you're
playing against a bunch of plumbers and all that. Well, No,
at age thirty nine, Michael Jordan played eighty two games.
Why would you do that? What is wrong when you
he was playing for the Washington Wizards, a joke of
a franchise, and he played eighty two games. No load management,
(13:24):
no maintenance days, No I need the day off. I'm
getting a manny and a petty like we have today.
We didn't get that, And this rule exists because the
players stop showing up the work that's it, right, that's
the real story. You want the award, you punch the clock.
(13:44):
If you are gonna miss almost twenty percent of the season,
whatever it is, there, you're out. End of discussion. That's
it now. Meanwhile, we go to the Big Apple and
every year we get the same story. The Knicks are
in the playoffs. In the way in the last few
years Knicks are in the playoffs. Is this the year
the Knicks have not won a championship in over fifty years?
(14:07):
Is this going to be the year that the Knickerbockers
wake up the echoes of Walt Clyde Fraser and Willis
Reid and get it done well anyway. Shaquille O'Neal commenting recently,
Shaq commenting about Carl Anthony Towns of New York in
the upcoming playoffs, Shaq said, you know what scares me
(14:30):
about the Knicks? I think you know he says, he said,
it's kitty cat Carl Anthony Towns. This says, am I
going to get tiger or a pussy cat? Is what
Shaq said about Carl Anthony town So the question on
this one is Shaquille O'Neal basically telling the world you
and me and the world. That Nick star Carl Anthony
(14:54):
Towns is a mister softy. Is that what he's saying.
So I am nodding my head, Yes, I am nodding
my head. Yes, that is the case here. So Shaquille
O'Neal is not just sending a message. It's not a
message in a bottle, it's a message in a podcast.
But he's he's handing out for Karl Anthony Towns the
jet puffed marshmallow certificate. Congratulations. You can pick that up
(15:18):
on your way out, but you get the jet puffed
marshmallow certificate. When a Hall of Fame center, Shaquille O'Neil
questions your competitive DNA. Of course, remember Shack took time
off because he got hurt on company time. He wanted
to rehab on company time. That's a different conversation. But
the comments that Shack made, the comments that Shack made
(15:41):
about Karl Anthony Towns not a pep talk. It's not
a pep talk. It's an indictment. It's not wrong either.
Like the Knick's going into the playoffs, the Nicks know
that they're gonna get an honest night's work from Jalen Brunson. However,
Karl Anthony Towns, it's like the ultimate Amazon mystery box.
(16:04):
What's in the box, Well, we don't know. We haven't
opened the box. We don't know what's in the box.
One night you open that box up and it's high
end electronics and you're like, WHOA, that's great, I got
what is awesome? The next ten nights in a row,
it's just packing peanuts and bubble wrap and disappointment. That's
all it is. And well, he has not quite Karl
(16:27):
Anthony Town's reached Playoff Hardened level. It'd be almost impossible
to reach the level of Playoff Harden, that level of infamy.
And my condolence is to Strip Club John Ohio al
and all our guys in Cleveland who have that to
look forward to as your dreams will be broken yet
again by Playoff Harden. That's coming up just next level.
(16:49):
Karl Anthony Towns. It seems like most of the time
he's daydreaming. We're not sure what he's daydreaming about, and
why would you daydream at night? But he does it
on the court and he has the raw aggressiveness. Karl
Anthony Towns, like, if you were to go to the
San Diego Zoo and get your binoculars out and look
at the koalas who are in the trees getting high
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on the eucalyptus. That's essentially what Karl Anthony Towns is
in a playoff game. And so New York, New York
betting their entire season on essentially a moon ring. Well,
what color is it gonna be? Is it gonna be violet?
That's good, he'll play well. No, no, it's gray. Oh
oh it's black? Oh no, is it okay? He's good,
(17:34):
he's good. All right. So in the middle of April
now here we are playoffs about to begin. Now, the
Knicks don't play till this weekend because they're not in
that fugazy playing thing. This weekend, the playoffs will get
going and the Knicks second option. It's like the TV
show I did Benny Versus Depending. That's essentially what is
It's Benny versus Depending. Shaq is not motivating anybody, he's not.
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He's exposing the structural flaw that the concrete was not
made properly, and everything's starting to crack there. And once
the playoffs get a little hot and they'll be why
I'll tell you what's gonna happen to you. There'll be
one game where Anthony plays well and says, Boom, I
told you I'm so good, and then the next couple
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of games will suck. That's happened before as well. You
got to follow the Malor wisdom on this, the Malor wisdom.
If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. The
key to life is to expect nothing, and if anything
happens in a positive my god, that's great. What a
wonderful thing that is. And just don't be surprised. In
(18:43):
this case, don't be surprised when the lights turn up
and Karl Anthony Towns is hanging out with his friend
Garfield eating lasagna or some other cartoon cat, whoever you like.
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It's a big man, and he.
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Never ever forgets to bring along. Yeah, well not always
in Cincinnati, they're not going, Oh we lost Ddy too,
got whacked? Oh he's still working hockey podcast? Whatever is
I Bill Miller? Another original Mallard Tuna Classic. We're not
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that far away from the next big event on the
Ben Mallor Show, the Mallord Palooza. He's gonna be here
before you know it. Well, it's only April, depends how
old you are. Time just flies by before you before
we go a couple of blinks, and then all of
a sudden, we'll be into July and the Mallard Palooza
is gonna take place. It's gonna be great. In the meanwhile,
we have the Meet and Greet season, and the first
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Mallard Meet and Greet will be taking place upcoming a
week from Saturday. Man, that's coming. That's sneaking up on me. Wow.
All right, so hanging out. It'll be in the Cincinnati area,
the Mallard Meet and Greet. Hopefully if you're in that area,
you can if you've been a supporter of the show
over the years and hold the line. April twenty fifth,
(22:05):
two to five pm. Two pm to five pm, the
Cincinnati area mallor meet and greet will take place at
Strong's Brick Oven Pizzeria. This place looks great. By the way,
the's a couple of locations, so make sure you go
to the right one. It's in Newport, Kentucky, right across
about a mile away from where the Reds play, and
we're thinking about going out to that game that night.
Might sneak over there.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Wait, so the Cincinnati meet and greet isn't even in Ohio.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Coop, you don't understand geographies. You don't understand geography. I
understand that it's not.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
It's the same thing.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
It's a mile away.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
From the Ohio River, so it's Kentucky meeting Ohio.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
It's a Cincinnati meeting. Great. It is a mile away
from the freaking Reds ballpark. We could walk, Me and
Robbie will walk. We'll both die by the time we
get there, but we'll walk to the ballpark. What states
it in though it doesn't make It's whatever state you
want to be in. And I am concerned whether or
not Dick and Dayton will be allowed to leave Ohio.
(23:03):
I'm can you imagine if I travel all the way
to hang out with him and he can't make it
because he's not allowed to leave the state. I don't
have a passport to leave the state of a while. Anyway,
Dick and dateon his scheduled to perform with Ohio. We
did a whole podcast on this, the Fifth Hour Podcast
back on Friday, so check it out, and we'll have
legendary members of the mall or militia that live in
(23:23):
that area that are scheduled to be there. I have
not heard from Justin and Cincinnati, but I know just
Josh is going to be there, and Robbie the Mariner
fan flying in and Joe the ghost Hunter is going
to drag his wife. So check that out. Coming up
April twenty fifth, two to five. First malard Meat great
of the year the Cincinnati area Malard Meat greet there
at Strong Brick Oven Pizzeria right right one mile from
(23:45):
the Reds Ballpark, right down from the Ohio River there.
Check it out in Newport, Kentucky. All right, on that note,
oh yeah, yay, uh see, what do we have here
aeny meenie miney mone a'thing worthy of being read. Uh
let's see here. Yeah, people pointing out, where's weed Man?
(24:07):
I don't know, he's not. I guess he forgot his
job already. Right, this is the weed Man segment, and
there is no weed Man. You think he got arrested again? No, no,
he's so tame these days. Yeah, Well, whatever happened with
that trip to Boston thing did? Is that why he's
not calling? Because that's what I was gonna say. Oh,
(24:28):
I mean I don't know. Uh, okay, yeah, I could
call him right now while we're on the air hold
on saying you see, you guys might have to talk here.
I'm gonna I blocked my number because I don't I'm
gonna call him here live.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Well, I think last last that happened with all of that,
with him coming to meet and greet, I said that
I would that we would give his number to Oh
you got that one. We haven't heard from him since that.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Oh really, okay, So I'm calling right now. You can't
hear because I get the phone on my my right here.
My headphones are make the boops sounds calling. Uh, you know,
like hey, we made he did answer the phone. So
there's this segment you have every week, weed Man, where
you you answer callers questions and you're not on the phone. Yeah,
(25:21):
he's going, oh, hold on, hold on, we mat, hold
on a second, let me see here. We Man. Don't
put you on the air, So don't don't curse or anything.
We man, Why why are you not here? Weed Man?
We Man? All right, I didn't see what time he
was were you were you sleeping? Well no, I don't sleep,
but I know what you weren't doing. You weren't listening
(25:42):
to the show. No, I was watching YouTube. All right,
we'll call in, all right, calling hanging up on there.
It's gonna know. He's a loyal minion to the show.
He's alive. He didn't get arrested. Didn't get arrested, right there. Uh,
I told you he's tame. He's so tame. He is
(26:02):
a night in with a YouTube on. That's good, all right. Jill,
the Yankee fan, long suffering Yankee fan there in New
York City or she's in Minnesota, actually says Shaq is
never ever going to praise Carl Anthony Towns. He doesn't
like the way he plays this is not new. No,
I know, but it's good talk radio. It's always good
talk radio. Doug in South Korea says Luca missing out
(26:23):
on the MVP for not hitting the game the game's
played minimum is like me losing the lottery because I
didn't bother matching all the numbers. Uh, it's about right,
it's about right, all right. I guess weed Man's called it.
Are you there? Weed Man? Hello? Weed Man?
Speaker 6 (26:40):
Yeah, you're not.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I'm not feeling in love. I'm not. I mean, he
broke my heart here. Well, you got two things to
do every week? How dare you? I know? I know,
I know. He blew me off, all right, and you
won't even listening to the show. It's a bad job
by man alive. All right, anyway, listen, we are you
gonna go to Boston? I don't know? Well why why not?
(27:08):
Well what's the what's the problem?
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Well, I don't have any money.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Well you've never had any money?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Right, right?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
But aren't you gonna meet Lisa? Like Lisa has money?
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Right?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
No, Lisa having money?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
But she got more than you though? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Probably?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Yeah, all right, I'm in Florida.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
No, I know, but I don't know how it's gonna work.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Well, it's not that All the trains you can take it.
I've taken the train from New York to Boston. It's
not that bad a train, right, you can drive. If
she's got a car, she can drive up there. It's
no big deal, easy, easy peasy.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
You fly from New.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
York, Yeah, from New York.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Yeah yeah, yeah, but you fly. They have the scenes
called airports. You ever flowing? We'd man, You ever been
in the plane?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Yeah, yeah, okay, I got to it. Seems like you're
not interested in You went to Maui. Yeah, all right,
Uh well, we have some questions for you, weed Man.
Alf the alien opinter says it's going to be eighty
degrees here in the Commonwealth this week. Is that warm
enough for you? Weed Man?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah, oh so you go with that. You're okay with that?
All right, Let's let's take some calls here. And what
is the purpose of this segment?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Advice. I'm gonna give people advice and we're going to
change the world in this segment.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Yeah, all right, And I'm gonna give you advice that
when it's your segment, call in all right, ferg Dog
And by the way, hashtag. Ask we ask weed man,
Ask a weed man, Ask ask a weed man. Ferg
Dog says, what's your least favorite smell? Weed man? Poop?
(28:58):
Really no, no, But there's different levels of poop. Right,
There's there's poop and then there's walking by a sewer,
you know what I'm talking about, or a porta potty
that's been sitting there all weekend. And there's different layers
to poopage your Feeme and Chicago writes in He says,
if you had to choose between getting your life back
(29:20):
before books a million stock you know your stocks were
all ruined and all that, or world peace forever, what
would you choose? All right, So we mean you could
get your old life back. You were very successful, you
ran a toy store in New York.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I want my own life.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I want my own life. So you're just admitting now
you're not really worried about world peace. If you had to,
if you can only do one, either you get your
life back or world peace, you would pick get your
life back.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I want my life back more than evening.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yeah, all right, I understand, I understand. All right. Well,
let's take a call here. Let's say hello to Kyle
who's in Vegas? What's going on? Kyle? I think this
is Google glass Kyle? If I remember correctly, Hello Kyle,
welcome is meda first off? Oh that's right? Excuse me,
I have to add meta glass meda glass, that's right?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
First of all.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Uh No, So look, I ain't got no questions for
we man, we man.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
This guy has no questions for you. Meda glass, Kyle
has no questions. How do you feel about that?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
I think that's sample. I'll come up with, sus what
is medaglass?
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Meda glasses are like AI for your face? Okay, do
you know what?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Do you know what AI is? Is not A? What's that?
Speaker 6 (30:43):
And it's not Alan Iverson and Joe Helly Osman isn't
in this one either.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yeah, I got you, I got you?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
All right?
Speaker 1 (30:50):
What do you want to talk about? Your listen?
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Listen? Listen.
Speaker 6 (30:53):
You you made the comment earlier about the NBA players
playing eighty two games. Do you actually know how many
players actually played all eighty two games this season?
Speaker 3 (31:02):
This year?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
I did see that number. I don't remember off the
top of my head, but it was it was a few,
not very many.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
Well, Rano, do you have an answer?
Speaker 1 (31:11):
You have an answer, No, four four players this season?
Speaker 6 (31:17):
Do you know how many players?
Speaker 5 (31:20):
No?
Speaker 2 (31:21):
What do you?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
What do you getting?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
What do you?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
What are you getting?
Speaker 6 (31:24):
What that is is that this league is soft there,
they're charm and soft. If only four players could actually
play all eighty two games, why aren't. I don't care
if it's a Jared Allen, I don't care if it's
Michel Bridges. These guys should be nominated for MVP. They
played all eighty two games. They did something that over
(31:44):
three hundred players couldn't do.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
You know, hey, listen, I like people that show up
to work.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
They did their job. And then then the other thing
is your analogy. I was kind of following it, but
wasn't following it. It would be like the kids that
go to school every day, and then the kid that
gets your school at least twice a month, and then
when all the honors awards come out, they don't get
nominated for nothing. And know like the parents are arguing,
well we excuse the absences. Perfect attendants is perfect attendant?
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Are you touching up my analogy? I believe you're touching
up my analogy? How darey?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I am?
Speaker 6 (32:18):
Hy Lorena?
Speaker 5 (32:19):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
All right? Kyle. We love you, man man, weed Man.
What's strange you guys?
Speaker 6 (32:29):
So what what's the best strain you have?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Train? Like the marijuana strain? Now he gets excited. Now
weed Man's excited.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
I do I really did weave here?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Yeah? I get really I don't know shame by.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Yeah, you don't even know you're weed man. You don't
even know what you do. Just he just smokes it.
He calls it Mary Jane Man. That's what he does.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
I got something before on the chicken and waffles.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
What's that I got something for?
Speaker 6 (33:00):
I'm called chicken and walk.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
There you go, chicken when you come to Vegas?
Speaker 6 (33:03):
Come brother?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
All right, thank you Kyle. There's Kyle here. Let's say
hello to Lucky, who's in San Francisco. Lucky wants to
talk to weed Man. Hello Lucky, Hello, Ben.
Speaker 6 (33:14):
Malan, what's up, weed Man? How you guys doing?
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Man? Hey, Lucky?
Speaker 6 (33:18):
What a name? All right?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Well?
Speaker 6 (33:21):
I did have a question, we man, we man.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Did you forget the last time that Lucky called in
to talk to you? Did you forget that?
Speaker 6 (33:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Okay, because it wasn't that long ago. I remember, Lucky,
but you don't. Right, go ahead, lucky Man.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
That's a typical stoner man. You know, you get to
let's be h you know, hear something. Yeah, weed Man,
what are you going to do for four twenty? Man?
That's the big question?
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Man?
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Are you ready?
Speaker 5 (33:49):
I am ready?
Speaker 2 (33:50):
I am.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
That's for I believe lucky for weed Man. Every day
is that day? I think Yeah, I'd say it's like
New Year's is for amateurs. If you're a big party person.
New Year's is like who cares about that?
Speaker 6 (34:05):
You know? And I want to ban alson, want to say,
of course, you know, hello to Misslarina and you know
to my Pelton too.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Man.
Speaker 6 (34:12):
I hope you guys have a good week.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Well you too, Thank you, Lucky, thanks for listening. I'll
be safe out there. All right, there's the great Lucky.
It's Lucky from Samray, San Francisco, both of the district attorney,
says hays, weed Man ever worked eighty two days in
a year, that's a great question. I'm gonna go know,
(34:34):
weed Man, you ago, I know, but that's a that's
a long time ago. That's yeah, yeah, all right. Uh
here's another one from the alien O'ponteter says, I'm sure
weed Man is thrilled that you ripped him away from YouTube.
For Kyle's segment, he said, Tree from the seven seven
(34:58):
three rights in he wants to know what was your
favorite continent to visit? Weed Man? My favorite, by the way,
these seven seven threes in that is in the of course, Chicago,
because that is our buddy Tree, that's our guy who
was in studio here. How many continents do you think
(35:19):
weed Man could name? Oh? Yeah, oh man, how many?
How many do you think there are? Let's have Loraina,
don't cheat Loraina? All right, but you think there's seven Loraina.
How many continents do you think there are? I think
there's five? Five? All right, well, weed Man wins that.
(35:44):
But can you name the continents? How many continents can
you name? Weed Men?
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Go ahead, shot America, NCA, Asia, Africa.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Greenland, Greenland. Wow, Greenland is not. You were doing very well,
weed Man. There's only a couple that you didn't get.
You didn't get Antarctica and Australia. That's the one I meant. Yeah,
all right, I gotta go, weed Man. You're gonna go
to the detension. I hope you understand. You relate to
your segment, So you go to detension. Okay, I'm sorry.
(36:22):
I'm gonna force you to watch bad YouTube videos right now.
Did you subscribe to the Ben Mallor Show channel on YouTube?
Speaker 6 (36:28):
Yeah? How come, there's no calls on this?
Speaker 1 (36:31):
All right, don't there's weed man, hippie, our friend. We'll
press on. We've got the Insta Trivia and then we'll
get to Mallard of the third Degree. So Mavericks guard
Ryan Nembhard finished with twenty three assists in the final
regular season game for Dallas, tied for the fourth most
by a rookie in NBA history. Blank holds the all
(36:52):
time record for the most assist in a single game
by a rookie. That's the Insta Trivia, the answer, and
Mallard of the third Degree. We'll get to that. That
will do it next.
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Back to it.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Quickly. Here's the Insta trivia Mavericks guard Ryan Nemhard, whose
brother plays for the Pace A brother. I think brother cousin.
I don't know anyway. Ryan Nebhard finished with twenty three
assists in his regular season finale, tied for the fourth
most by a rookie in NBA history. Blank holds the
record for the most assist in a single game by
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a rookie. That is the question. What is the answer?
Let's see does anyone know the answer? Scrooge is going
with easy E very funny, Alf says lamar odom is
the answer? Beer drinking Brian from you, feme, I don't
know what happened to beer drinking? Brian, but I had
one too many beers. Duncan Robinson from Shane and Moy
and Drew Holliday from Ekeon, Roseville, Minnesota. Who else we have?
(38:42):
Lester U Banks from Analog? Al Parito went with you
fat as the answer as his guest, there's the great Perrito,
Steve McQueen from j T the Wingman. Who else? Slimer
from King Roy? What say you, Lorraine Hank the tank? Hank?
Is it Hank the Tank? No, that is incorrect, the
(39:03):
corrector saying we were taking two answers. Either one would
have worked. The correct answers are none other than Ernie
d Rigorio of the Buffalo Braves and Nate McMillan will
be eighty seven super Sonics. Here we go. It's maller.
How about that? To the third degree?
Speaker 3 (39:20):
This is one Big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Crublo.
Speaker 5 (39:25):
Patriots quarterback Drake May was interviewed at the Masters over
the weekend, where he said, quote, everybody's got the same
goal this time of the year, to get back to
that game. As of today, the Patriots are only tied
for the fifth best odds to get to the Super Bowl, Ben,
do you think the odds should be better for them?
Speaker 1 (39:39):
No, that's about right. They played a bunch of cupcakes
last year. They didn't play anybody. Although I look at
the schedule this year, Mike, it doesn't seem that much
harder than me. But yeah, they have to prove it
they're legit because they played a very weak schedule and
so people don't take them seriously. So that seems about
right where they should be. They have to validate that
last year was not just a product of the schedule.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
New Browns head coach Todd Munkin was asked recently what
he can do to change the perception that things always
go wrong for the Browns. Monkin said, winning changes everything.
Then how much winning and for how long would it
take to change the narrative around the brands.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Well, they did have one year where they want a
playoff game. Pittsburgh gave that game away. It didn't change anything.
So they'd have to have sustained success for three to
five years. And you might want to show up to
the coach's photo. Remember Todd Mounkin was getting a nice
haircut and forgot to go. That's not a good look,
all right, Next been The playing tournament starts Tuesday. Which
are the four teams involved?
Speaker 5 (40:33):
Do you think has the best chance to not only
make it to the actual playoffs, but potentially advanced past.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
The first round?
Speaker 6 (40:37):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (40:38):
I love this. Who's gonna make some noise? I'm gonna go.
I'm gonna go with Charlotte. I like the Hornets, con
Canipple and Alonzo Ball, those two guys back and forth.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
And then also I think the Clippers in the West.
For those of you, how do we do you pass?
I said? I said,
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