April 26, 2023 • 36 mins
Ben Maller talks about a Premier League soccer team that offered to issue refunds to fans that traveled to see them lose in a 6-1 blowout, what it would take for an American team to do this, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number three, Hour three from
the new Studio, which legends like Rush Limbaugh and Steve
Harvey used to working back in the day, and we
are christening the new studio with a soccer monologue. Say what, well,
it's a good story. So what do you think of
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the English soccer team offering refunds to their fans because
they played so terribly and they give up five goals
in like twenty one minutes of game time?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I believe it was.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
And also, why is that such a special thing in
modern sports? What would it take for a legacy sports
league to offer refunds for poor performances? They won't even
give you a refund in the NBA because of load management.
We'll talk about all that and more, plus Mallard of
the third degree time shifted for ratings purposes here in
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our number three. It is all about the pitch. It
is all about the pitch.
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So our lead this hour we figured since it's a
new night in a new studio, we can change things
up a little bit. Our lead comes from soccer. Say what, No,
this is a good one though. This is a good story.
This is a good story here. So if you're probably
thinking right now, you've lost your bloody mind. Now there's
no calls, the computer is not working right now, you're
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doing you're talking soccer. What you can be doing A
WNBA monologue next there no no. So there's a story
that costs my cross my radar and I thought, man,
that's a really good story. So it involves one of
the better English soccer teams that was so demoralized, was
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so emasculated by a recent loss over the weekend that
they're doing something that is so foreign to the industrial
complex globally of sport that it caught my attention and
I feel like it's worthy of a Mallard monologue because
it's an issue that we've dealt with a lot on
our show, and fans being treated like dirt. And so
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let me give you the base. If you didn't hear
about it, it's my favorite story of the day, and
maybe you missed it and you didn't follow along. So
there's a soccer club named Tottam and the players on
that team issued a prepared statement and they were very upset.
I'm sure they had written that statement wasn't written for them,
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but nonetheless, so the players for Tottenham they issued a
statement that they will reinburse all of the fans who
purchased tickets and traveled to see their match against Newcastle
over the weekend, a game in which they lost six
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to one. Which is the equivalent of seventy two to
seven in American football. And how bad was it? They
allowed five goals in the opening twenty one minutes of
the game. Now, I'm not a soccer guy, but I
know that sucks. And the prepared statement they said, as
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a squad, we understand your frustration, your anger. The player's statement,
the Tottenham players statement said Sunday wasn't good enough. We
know words aren't enough in situations like this, but believe us,
a defeat like this hurts. So how many people are
we talking about It's a great question. So from what
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I have been able to decipher, we are talking about
roughly three thousand visiting fans who will have the cost
of their ticket fully reimbursed by the players on the
Tottenham team. They said on their website that they have
a refund policy that's in place here. It's going to
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be completed within twenty four hours. And they said, we
know this does not change what happened, blah blah blah
blah blah. But they said this is the part that
I thought, well, that'd be nice if a team in
America said it. They said that your support will mean
everything to us. They said together, and only together can
we move things forward. The defeat was also troubling for
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Tottenham because they had a chance. There was a lot
on the line. I'm not a European soccer guy, but
from what I was reading here, Newcastle was in third
place out of twenty teams in the English Premier League
and Tottenham was fifth with roughly one month remaining in
the season. So the top four teams will be invited
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to a big global tournament, the Champion League tournament, and
so that's affecting that. But let us discuss all right,
let's discuss the situation here, the question what do you
think of Tottenham's soccer team offering refunds to the fans
over almost three thousand roughly give or take that travel
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the game? So I loved it, I that thumbs up.
By give it a thumbs up, I've got Shakespearean, pond, scum,
and fire brand. And we will combine all of these
things together. Now, first of all, knowing that I have
no rooting interest in this, I have no skin in
the game. Soccer is not a sport that moves the needle.
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When you do this kind of job. In American sports radio,
we talk about soccer when the World Cup's going on,
and if there's some scandal. But I say bravo is
what I say. I say Brabo. I loved it. And
how did we get to this point? Well, it's interesting
to note that there was a grassroots movement by a
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bunch of people upset online and they were hooting and
hollering and they were complaining and throwing cyber raspberries, very restless,
the hot Spur fans, that's the nickname of the team,
the Hotspurs, and they demanded a pound of flesh after
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a completely gutless performance, and the team actually listened. The
team listened, attempting to restore harmony in the community, and
Tottenham worked as essentially sheepherders as they attempted to control
what had become an unruly online mob. And so the
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team issued a peace offering. It is it's a token gesture.
Thirty pounds. That's what they call them money thirty pounds
times three thousand. So using my computer like brain, that's
how much. From what I understand. I've never been to
a Premier League match, but from what I ams nep
Terry and England can back me up on this. One
of our UK listeners. But from what I understand, that
is the cap. So if you go to a road game,
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they charge you thirty bucks. Doesn't matter how close it
is or how far away it is. Thirty dollars is
how much they charge you go to a road game.
So it works out to ninety thousand pounds or Lizzo
actually lame jokes on Friday, but it's ninety thousand pounds
one hundred and eleven thousand dollars, a little over that,
almost one hundred and twelve thousand dollars. And it is appropriate,
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it is the appropriate, it's the right thing to do.
It's the right thing to do. And the club is
named I had not really heard of this team. I
don't really follow. There's a few teams in the Premier
League that I know, this is not one of them.
So Tottenham is a team that is named after the
aversion of a Shakespearean character, Henry Hotspur. Normally, when I
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know a little about Shakespeare, but most of what I
learned is as an adult. When I was a kid,
and if I was in school and the teacher started
talking about Shakespeare, you don't want to know what I did.
I sounded like hollering James, I was like, oh yeah,
but as an adult, I've learned a little bit about it,
and so anyway, it wasn't just the reimbursement. This was
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such a terrible loss that the football club had heads rolling,
heads were rolling, The coach was excommunicated, they fired the
coach given high exit velocity after the loss. Now, secondly,
when you talk about this soccer team giving reimbursements in
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England outside London, so why is this such a special thing,
Why is it why is it rise up to the
level of a Malard monologue because it is almost exclusively
something that happens in Europe. It almost never happens in
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American sports, certainly not like this. It doesn't happen that way.
And the only this is the second time, at least
the second time it's happened involving a soccer club that's
offered a refund because of a gutless performance by their players.
But the only way you're going to get a refund
in American sport is when the team has no other option.
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And we've had stories, We've had listeners who have taken
kids traveled across state lines to see an NBA game
and the kid's favorite NBA player I remember was our
buddy in Arkansas. He took his son's big Steph Curry fan,
and he took his kid to go see Steph Curry
and the Warriors played the Grizzlies. He got drove all
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the way from decent distance in Arkansas, cross over to Memphis,
and he got there. About the tickets they were pretty pricey,
and Steph Curry didn't play. Was he hurt, No, he
wouldn't hurt. What is he traded? No, he was not traded.
He just didn't feel like playing because of load management,
so they gave him the night off. And we see
those kind of stories now in Broadway plays. If you
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pay money for a Broadway show and the head liner
for the show is not there, the understudies there, you
are entitled to a refund. That's how they do it
on Broadway, But in the NBA and the other sports
leagues in America, they don't do it. The only way
you get a refund is if there's an act of God,
and sometimes even then, depending on which act of God,
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you don't get a refund. And if there's a weather event,
you might get a rain check, you may get a
rain check. So these teams will begrudgingly issue a give
back on the advice of legal counsel. They will give
you a little bit back, but to give money back
as a team lost because they played pathetic and they
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didn't show up like this soccer teams no, no, magine
some of these NFL teams like they are Houston Texans,
the Chicago Bears, the Cleveland Browns for the better part
of twenty years, and they know they don't have to
do it. And of course the difference also is there's
so many hidden fees when you buy tickets. Most people
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don't buy tickets from the team website. You buy them
from a second hand operator, and so that becomes problematic
because you're not going to get those fees back and
it's essentially just a case. I saw this story, I
was like, well, that's that's the right thing to do.
And it's not, you know, thirty bucks to say well
it's thirty pounds and whoopee damn doing all that, but
it's at least an effort to say, hey, we don't
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think of you like pond scum, like happens so often
here in the States, and you're not just some greenish
algae that is is there in the pond. And most
of these teams treat the fans like suckers. That's just
the way. Sorry, final thoughts, So last thing on this.
What would it take for a legacy sports league to
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offer refunds for a bad performance? Not to rain now,
not some kind of weather event, but to have Again,
it's been NFL games moved from Buffalo because of Lake
effect blizzards and they moved to Detroit or whatever. But
just for a rotten per, just for a terrible performance,
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what would it take for a team to give a refund?
So there would have to be what we call the
great awakening that eureka, mall mean, it is possible, but
things have gone one hundred and eighty degrees the opposite direction.
Fans have been indoctrinated into trust the process and all
that nonsense. Trust the process, and this infestation very popular,
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very very popular. It blows my mind every time I
hear some dope call into this show back when we
used to take calls, or somebody that would send a
message on Twitter, so oh ow, my team losers every
game so I can get a number one pick in
the draft. You are such a dope. You are such
a dope, right, celebrating losers. It's all about the lottery balls, right,
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picking up extra picks at the loser's ball. It's all
about that. How pathetic is that? And they would have
if they had this pathogen in European soccer, they certainly
wouldn't give refunds. But the great thing about that, we
mentioned it from time to time. They have this thing
called relegation, which they will never have ever. Otherwise the
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Chicago Bears would be in the Canadian Football League right
now as they'd be relegated, and then you would be
bringing in who at the Winnipeg Bloe Bombers or somebody
like that from the Canadian Football League. But I don't
have to worry about that because in America and so
there's no relegation can be terrible, and you've convinced a
lot of idiots among your fan base that that's the
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way to go. It's the only way to salvation is
to be terrible. But in my crystal ball, I do
see a scenario where an American owner would go rogue.
And how would that work? How would that look? Well,
it would have to be a revolutionary troublemaker. Type owner
of fire Brand as an owner, and the one I
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have circled here is Stephen Cohen, the owner of the Metropolitans.
I could see a scenario where the Mets get to
a big game, like a Game seven of the League
Championship Series of the World Series, and they take a
ride on the Vomit Comet and they're just terrible, and
the Mets, whoever the picture is, undergoes spontaneous human combustion
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and they turn into a human fireball on the mound.
And then Cohen's like, oh man, you know I'm a
Mets fan. I feel terrible handout money, you get money,
I'll give you some money back. The problem is, of course,
as we said, it's not the same. There's not a
flat fee that every fan's paying.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
And it's a.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Big, big issue. It is the Ben Maler Show. We're
gonna have coming up time shifted for ratings purposes. Not
right now, No calm down, Robert, but we are going
to have Mallard to the third degree, and that'll be
Coop will be earning his money. This is gonna be
have a long segment. Coopy, you want to do extra
questions best of five if you want we can do that.
I mean, we're fine with that. No calls. We've decided
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new show, new studio, new show, no calls. But you format, yeah,
new format where we decided. Management finally heard the show.
They heard how bad the calls are and they said,
all right, no more calls, so screw you and all that.
Either that or or somebody goofed up.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Either one.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I don't know. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Maybe just wait untill they come back and say, this
is the highest rated show we've.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Loads of all time. So anyway, we will have Mallard
of the third degree. We will get to that and
we will not take your calls, but we have we
do have Mallard of third deg So we'll get to
that coming up. But it is time.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Let me see I can find it. We have the
mallor Riddle of the Day, the mallor Riddle of the day,
which is very important, and it's here somewhere. I'm gonna
find it right here, the mallor Riddle of the day.
This is where we attempt to get you to listen
a little bit longer. We call it the mallor Riddle
of the Day. And let's see here the Mallord Riddle
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of the day today. What is it you ask? Page
down here, page down here. That's that's not it, that's
not it? All right, the Mallor Riddle of the day.
We go to the NBA, the National Basketball Association, and
the other night the Milwaukee Bucks were playing the Miami Heat.
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It's like whatever, just another night in the NBA. Meyers
Leonard of the Milwaukee Box, Milwaukee Box, he had quite
an embarrassing moment when he did blank on the bench.
Meyers Leonard of the Milwaukee Box had an embarrassing moment
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when he did blank on the bench accidentally. That is
the Mallar riddle. Well that that could be it, But
that is the Mallory riddle of the day. The answer
get to that and we will do it next.
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And we've got Cooking with Roberto coming up, and you
never know, it could be the last Cooking with Roberto.
Who knows.
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Just like the other night we took our last call
on the show, a lot of people didn't know that.
Who was the last I didn't even know.
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We didn't know it. You gotta you gotta appreciate these
things while they're here.
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You gotta live in the moment, and you never know
when your last show is gonna happen. You never know.
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Sports Radio Studios, it's Ben Mallor.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Time nofter the mallet Riddle of today. We are gonna
have coming up in a little bit, time shifted for
ratings purposes, a mallor to the third degree. I'm gonna
melk this. I'm gonna melk this. But we we went
a little long, so we'll get back on track with
the clock. But here's the malar riddle today, Meyers Leonard
was so confused on the Milwaukee Bucks bench that he
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he had an embarrassing moment he accidentally blanked. That is
the Mallor riddle of the day. Le's see if anybody
on the Twitter machine knows the answer, and we will
go a page down, a page down. Let's see, does
anyone know the answer? I can't read that on the air.
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Saw Man says he tipped his chair over. That that
is the answer. Bean boot Maker Bob says he said
something with his pooper was messed up. There he ate
some stale popcorn guests by the courtesy flusher. It's the
mallord riddle of the day. Donkey Sausage says that Meyers
Leonard forgot where the bathrooms are and that's what he did.
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Page down the page down. Mal the prop guy says
he celebrated a Brian Finley podcast. I don't even know
what that is. The Grill Sergeant says he accidentally butt
dialed the show only to find out you are not
taking calls. Boy, that would be that would be devastating.
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The funhouse accounts said something to do with a menstrual cycle.
If that is the answer. Ferg dog, says Meyers Leonard,
while on the bench needed help getting out of the
Chinese finger trap. Have they changed the name of that
or is that what they still call? I remember an
old thing back in the day. Uh, mister wonderful, and
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several other people saying somebody with a Nazi salute. But
that is not, unfortunately, not the answer that would have
made national news. Eddie, do you have an answer to
the Mallard riddle of the day.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
Uh, he forgot his teammate's name.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
He forgot his teammate's name, Eddie. That is incorrect, but
surprisingly not far off. Meyers Leonard, while wearing a Milwaukee
Bucks uniform for a moment, forgot what team he was on.
He cheered when the Miami Heat a three point shot,
and he put his arms up in the air to celebrate.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Nice shot.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
A guy named Caleb Martin hit a three pointer for
the Heat and he stood off. Ah yeah, And then
he realized I don't play for the Heat anymore. I
played for the Bucks. So he he did that awkward
sit back like the only little airline commercially want to
get away. It was one of those want to get away.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Moments you should have acted like, Oh, I'm just stretching.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, I'm just stretching.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Oh it's fun.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
It was so funny.
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And we had a rare suspension in the NHL rare
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at the time, but Avalanche star Kill mccarr has been
suspended for Game number five of their series against the
Kraken with that series tied to two too. He was
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Year all kinds of hardware, but had a very very
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so even though he wasn't it with a major penalty
in the game, the NHL reviewed it and said that
was illegal, that was excessive, and it caused an injury,
and you are suspended for one game.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I missed the old days, Eddie, when they wouldn't suspend people.
They just say, don't do that again. No, too much suspension,
too many suspensions. It's the good old days, all right.
It is the Ben Malache from my fun Fact of
the Hour. How many more starts will Noah Cindergard get
as a Dodger? As he went fours, gave up nine
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hits and seven runs against Pittsburgh and he's unable to
get the ball back. He can't strike anybody. Yeah, yeah,
I think he had two strikeouts in this game. But
when he came into the big leagues with the Mets,
he's able to strike people out. He could overpower certain
number of hitters. But he has none of that. And
that's true Noah Cinderguard. If you look at his numbers here,
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three of the five outings this year, he's He's actually
had a technically a quality start, which is really not you.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
He doesn't know how to pitch. He lost his fastball,
he doesn't know how to pitch major League Baseball game.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
His urn run average. As we this is his final start.
I believe in the month of April he might get
one more start, but six point five eight e r
A to begin the year for Noah Cinderguard, the former
prodigy with the Mets, who's bounced around and been bad, bad, bad,
bad bad. We got Mallard of the third degree. We'll
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It's maller. How about that?
Speaker 7 (25:42):
To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets
quilled and now.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Man who'll be earning his money for the first time
all night the cubo who lost.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
In all the news and playoff action. On Monday, it
was announced that Ka will be taking over as head
coach for the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Hide the women in Children.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
That's well, there's there's no kind of you know, activity
to take part of in Houston, not at all.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
You know, this is not known for the ballet in Houston. No,
But his problem was not going to the ballet. It
was going to the front office. That was.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
That's true, the cafeteria, the traveling secretary. He's looking for
a ride, all right, Yes, Ben, how long do you
think it takes Udoka to turn the franchise around?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
So you're assuming he is actually going to turn the
franchise around, which is a big assumption. And I will
let you know after the draft lottery. I will let
you know the Rockets have a fourteen percent chance of
winning the lottery. They have tanked the last couple of years,
but this last year twenty two wins. They've got the
same chance of as the Pistons, the Spurs, and the
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Hornets for the top pick. So they get the number
one overall pick, the Parisian prodigy, a great victor when
Ba Yama. If they get him and he's supposed to
be as good as advertised, and usually these guys are
pretty close to that these days in the NBA, then
the Rockets will be back. They'll be relevant next year. Otherwise,
maybe they make the play in tournament. You really got
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to try not to make the play in tournament in
the NBA. And this rumors James Harden's gonna go back
to Houston. So I will say that if they win
the lottery, that will immediately become relevant, if not three years,
and he'll be fired next.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
Alan Robinson gave an interview earlier this week when he
said that the Rams used him as a spoon when
he's really a fork. Ben was the problem with Robinson's
la tenure that he just was being used wrong.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
No, it's a dumb take by Alan Robinson. You know
what you need to be a spork A spork KFC.
They made the spork Fames, that's the spoon and the
Ford spark. Who doesn't like when you're a kid and
you get the spork, it blows your mind the first
time as a child, Like Roberto, if you showed your daughter,
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it would be amazing, right yeah, yeah, yeah, oh my god.
But yeah, so you gotta be the sport now, Alan Robinson.
He was bad the last year in Chicago. My friends
who were Bears fans were like, everything would be okay?
Are they? They were warning me? I should say I
said everything would be okay. And if you can't play
in a Sean McVay offense, that's on you, all right.
So I don't know, this guy's got nothing these two
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bad years in a row. That's why he was traded
for a seventh round pick. It has nothing to do
with the type of cutlery that we're talking about, all right.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
Next, During yesterday's monologue, you covered the losing locker room
and talking about the Cavaliers.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Yeah, I like to do that, Coop. I enjoy the
losing locker room.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Yeah, you know, sometimes we get audio from the losing
locker room.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Really sometimes that's back in the old studio.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
What are you talking about? Don't get crazy, Ben. How
about the Knicks though? How deep can they go in
this postseason?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
All right, So the Knicks have a path to get
to the Eastern Conference Finals here. If you look at
the East bracket, the Knicks are they're the five seed.
If they can exterminate the Calves here and not play
around like the Celtics are doing with Atlanta, they will
play the winner of the Bucks Heat. So either they
play the Bucks with a dinged up Giannis and Atakombo,
or they play the Heat and then they would have
(29:17):
home court advantage and they'd have the extra game at
the Mecca Madison Square Garden there in midtown Manhattan, So
they would either way, they're in decent shape in that matter.
If they play Miami, they'd be favored. I would think
to win round two, and then they either play the
Sixers with an injured Joel Embiid, or they would play
the Celtics who just messed around and lost the game
(29:40):
they should have won against the Atlanta. I don't think
Atlanta's gonna come back and beat the Celtics. But so
they're actually in decent shape to get to the conference finals.
But I don't think any further than that. There it
is Mallard to the third degree, time shifted for ratings
purposes from the New Studio. How did we do? I'm undefeated.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I've defeated in.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
The New Studio all time wins game. Take that. You know,
Rush Limbaugh worked in this studio. Never one Mallard of
the third degree. Steve Harvey never won Mallad of the
third degree in the studio, none of them. I went
cooking with Roberto is straighted. Where are we making today?
Roberto my French toes recipe? French toast, all right? That's ah, yes,
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it's like amazing.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
To give it out once a year and so this
is my fids all right. It's not nobody else can
make French toes like me.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Yeah, no, this is a this is authentic French toast
that you're not. You might think I've had French toast.
What's so special? No, no, no, this is this is
gonna blow your mind. Okay when you hear this, You're
gonna be making this immediately. You'll be buying the items
and you'll make it right away. So I have cooking
with Roberto. We'll get to that. We'll do it next.
Speaker 7 (30:48):
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dot Com. In the kitchen we go. Now a man
that did not go to some culinary school.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
No, that's right.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
He learned the old fashioned way, and he's presenting you
every week.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
Neither did I come to practice on this board during
the week when when I'm sleeping because I don't need to.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Yeah, just come in and wing a baby.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
And your MIC's over modulated, which is great. We love
that and sounds great, and it sounds wonderful and less
it does not. But that is the voice of cooking
with Roberto. We'll see if we can understand Roberto. Yeah, baby,
cooking with Roberto. And what are we making today, Roberto?
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Today we're gonna make French toast, baby.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
A classic Mexican dish French exactly, yes, yes, absolutely, all right,
this is my French toast recipe.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
All right, Okay, what do we need?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
We need toast a.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Slice of the Brios bread.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Oh, the Brios. That's good bread bread. I want to
cuddle with the Brios is what I want to do.
Speaker 8 (32:43):
To have good French toast. You gotta have Brios bread, baby,
all right? Man four large, four large eggs. Have a
cup of heavy whipping cream. Gotta have heavy whipping cream.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
We're talking lizo sized heavy. We're talking big heavy, heavy, heavy,
head heavy heavy.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
You gotta have whipping crea al right, heavy whipping cream.
Speaker 8 (33:01):
One tablespoon of sugar, one tablespoon of pure vanilla extract,
pure vanilla extract.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
I think he's expensive, right, I get mine of cost codes.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
They give you, like the probably a gallon of that,
give you a costco. Everything is big there, large, jumbo
size and all that Sam's Club, something like that.
Speaker 8 (33:19):
One teaspoon of ground cinnamon, A quart of teaspoon of
ground nutmeg, very little nutmeg.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Allright, I'm not making cinnamon. I'm a max. You don't
need a lot. It goes along with right, it goes.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
The nut make also just a little bit, a little bit.
Speaker 8 (33:35):
Tablespoons of butter or or pam cooking spray, pinch of salt,
powdered sugar, and some maple syrup.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
All right, okay, very simple stuff. You got that? Mixed
it all all right?
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I mean you play on the song.
Speaker 8 (33:48):
Here in a large mixing bowl, we will whist together
the eggs, heavy whipping cream, vanilla extract the sugar, the cinnamon,
the nut, make and the pinch of salt.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
All right, makes that all together, and you.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Gotta mix that, mix that up. Get that elbow going,
get that elbow, move that elbow, move.
Speaker 8 (34:06):
The out ball a little bit, get a word, baby,
come on, all right, and in large scale it over
meeting heat. Add some panma cooking spray, Add some pan
cooking spray, or melt or melts or melt the butter
easing cookie spray.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
What tastes better is it is the butter. The I
think the butter, the butter.
Speaker 8 (34:22):
Go butter, come on. But the butter tends tends to
burn faster. Sometimes you can get a little Oh that's
no good. Yeah, so it's up up to you. Whatever
you want to make sure it doesn't burn. Keep an
eye on it.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Keep your eye on that bad boy, keep an.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Eye on it. Won't burn.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
The cook The pan.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Cooking spray is like a little cheat code, you know.
All right.
Speaker 8 (34:40):
Oh yeah, so working in batches, we're gonna coat the
bread with egg.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
With the egg cream mixture.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Makes it fully engulf the bread, Yeah, you do fully.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
And drown the bread boy.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
All right, you've gotta you gotta put its whole head underwater.
That yeah, it's like it's being baptized. You gotta everything underwater.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
The egg cream mixture is gonna be delicious baby, all right.
Speaker 8 (35:00):
So working back to this, coat the bread with the
egg cream mixer and placing it and then heated skillet.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
All right, yeah, bay bay.
Speaker 8 (35:11):
And we're gonna cook until each side is golden, about
two to three minutes per side. All right, Okay, very
simple stuff there, all right. So when serving, sprinkle some
powdered sugar on each piece of French toast, add some
butter maple syrup, and enjoy. Just like that, you got
(35:32):
some homemade French toast that's gonna be better than and.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
A fun factory. But a lot of people don't know this.
They think of French toast as being from France, but
it's really from Mexico. It was just soldn by the
people over in France. But because they were able to
market it better than the guy in Mexico, they came
up with it.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Right during that the war. It was a water during
the French and the Mexicans.
Speaker 8 (35:54):
The Mexicans won that war, that's right, said well, you know,
we'll give you the French toast.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
We'll put your name on that.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
That boy, and people were blown away when they found
out that taco is actually a dish from.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
France and then French toast from Mexico.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
They were like, wait a minute, are you kidding? You
want this so you can download
Speaker 8 (36:13):
The podcast the podcast into it, over and over a
gig
Hello and welcome. It's our number three, Hour three from
the new Studio, which legends like Rush Limbaugh and Steve
Harvey used to working back in the day, and we
are christening the new studio with a soccer monologue. Say what, well,
it's a good story. So what do you think of
(00:21):
the English soccer team offering refunds to their fans because
they played so terribly and they give up five goals
in like twenty one minutes of game time?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I believe it was.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
And also, why is that such a special thing in
modern sports? What would it take for a legacy sports
league to offer refunds for poor performances? They won't even
give you a refund in the NBA because of load management.
We'll talk about all that and more, plus Mallard of
the third degree time shifted for ratings purposes here in
(00:53):
our number three. It is all about the pitch. It
is all about the pitch.
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So our lead this hour we figured since it's a
new night in a new studio, we can change things
up a little bit. Our lead comes from soccer. Say what, No,
this is a good one though. This is a good story.
This is a good story here. So if you're probably
thinking right now, you've lost your bloody mind. Now there's
no calls, the computer is not working right now, you're
(02:30):
doing you're talking soccer. What you can be doing A
WNBA monologue next there no no. So there's a story
that costs my cross my radar and I thought, man,
that's a really good story. So it involves one of
the better English soccer teams that was so demoralized, was
(02:52):
so emasculated by a recent loss over the weekend that
they're doing something that is so foreign to the industrial
complex globally of sport that it caught my attention and
I feel like it's worthy of a Mallard monologue because
it's an issue that we've dealt with a lot on
our show, and fans being treated like dirt. And so
(03:18):
let me give you the base. If you didn't hear
about it, it's my favorite story of the day, and
maybe you missed it and you didn't follow along. So
there's a soccer club named Tottam and the players on
that team issued a prepared statement and they were very upset.
I'm sure they had written that statement wasn't written for them,
(03:41):
but nonetheless, so the players for Tottenham they issued a
statement that they will reinburse all of the fans who
purchased tickets and traveled to see their match against Newcastle
over the weekend, a game in which they lost six
(04:03):
to one. Which is the equivalent of seventy two to
seven in American football. And how bad was it? They
allowed five goals in the opening twenty one minutes of
the game. Now, I'm not a soccer guy, but I
know that sucks. And the prepared statement they said, as
(04:23):
a squad, we understand your frustration, your anger. The player's statement,
the Tottenham players statement said Sunday wasn't good enough. We
know words aren't enough in situations like this, but believe us,
a defeat like this hurts. So how many people are
we talking about It's a great question. So from what
(04:45):
I have been able to decipher, we are talking about
roughly three thousand visiting fans who will have the cost
of their ticket fully reimbursed by the players on the
Tottenham team. They said on their website that they have
a refund policy that's in place here. It's going to
(05:06):
be completed within twenty four hours. And they said, we
know this does not change what happened, blah blah blah
blah blah. But they said this is the part that
I thought, well, that'd be nice if a team in
America said it. They said that your support will mean
everything to us. They said together, and only together can
we move things forward. The defeat was also troubling for
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Tottenham because they had a chance. There was a lot
on the line. I'm not a European soccer guy, but
from what I was reading here, Newcastle was in third
place out of twenty teams in the English Premier League
and Tottenham was fifth with roughly one month remaining in
the season. So the top four teams will be invited
(05:55):
to a big global tournament, the Champion League tournament, and
so that's affecting that. But let us discuss all right,
let's discuss the situation here, the question what do you
think of Tottenham's soccer team offering refunds to the fans
over almost three thousand roughly give or take that travel
(06:17):
the game? So I loved it, I that thumbs up.
By give it a thumbs up, I've got Shakespearean, pond, scum,
and fire brand. And we will combine all of these
things together. Now, first of all, knowing that I have
no rooting interest in this, I have no skin in
the game. Soccer is not a sport that moves the needle.
(06:37):
When you do this kind of job. In American sports radio,
we talk about soccer when the World Cup's going on,
and if there's some scandal. But I say bravo is
what I say. I say Brabo. I loved it. And
how did we get to this point? Well, it's interesting
to note that there was a grassroots movement by a
(06:57):
bunch of people upset online and they were hooting and
hollering and they were complaining and throwing cyber raspberries, very restless,
the hot Spur fans, that's the nickname of the team,
the Hotspurs, and they demanded a pound of flesh after
(07:19):
a completely gutless performance, and the team actually listened. The
team listened, attempting to restore harmony in the community, and
Tottenham worked as essentially sheepherders as they attempted to control
what had become an unruly online mob. And so the
(07:41):
team issued a peace offering. It is it's a token gesture.
Thirty pounds. That's what they call them money thirty pounds
times three thousand. So using my computer like brain, that's
how much. From what I understand. I've never been to
a Premier League match, but from what I ams nep
Terry and England can back me up on this. One
of our UK listeners. But from what I understand, that
is the cap. So if you go to a road game,
(08:03):
they charge you thirty bucks. Doesn't matter how close it
is or how far away it is. Thirty dollars is
how much they charge you go to a road game.
So it works out to ninety thousand pounds or Lizzo
actually lame jokes on Friday, but it's ninety thousand pounds
one hundred and eleven thousand dollars, a little over that,
almost one hundred and twelve thousand dollars. And it is appropriate,
(08:27):
it is the appropriate, it's the right thing to do.
It's the right thing to do. And the club is
named I had not really heard of this team. I
don't really follow. There's a few teams in the Premier
League that I know, this is not one of them.
So Tottenham is a team that is named after the
aversion of a Shakespearean character, Henry Hotspur. Normally, when I
(08:50):
know a little about Shakespeare, but most of what I
learned is as an adult. When I was a kid,
and if I was in school and the teacher started
talking about Shakespeare, you don't want to know what I did.
I sounded like hollering James, I was like, oh yeah,
but as an adult, I've learned a little bit about it,
and so anyway, it wasn't just the reimbursement. This was
(09:11):
such a terrible loss that the football club had heads rolling,
heads were rolling, The coach was excommunicated, they fired the
coach given high exit velocity after the loss. Now, secondly,
when you talk about this soccer team giving reimbursements in
(09:32):
England outside London, so why is this such a special thing,
Why is it why is it rise up to the
level of a Malard monologue because it is almost exclusively
something that happens in Europe. It almost never happens in
(09:52):
American sports, certainly not like this. It doesn't happen that way.
And the only this is the second time, at least
the second time it's happened involving a soccer club that's
offered a refund because of a gutless performance by their players.
But the only way you're going to get a refund
in American sport is when the team has no other option.
(10:13):
And we've had stories, We've had listeners who have taken
kids traveled across state lines to see an NBA game
and the kid's favorite NBA player I remember was our
buddy in Arkansas. He took his son's big Steph Curry fan,
and he took his kid to go see Steph Curry
and the Warriors played the Grizzlies. He got drove all
(10:34):
the way from decent distance in Arkansas, cross over to Memphis,
and he got there. About the tickets they were pretty pricey,
and Steph Curry didn't play. Was he hurt, No, he
wouldn't hurt. What is he traded? No, he was not traded.
He just didn't feel like playing because of load management,
so they gave him the night off. And we see
those kind of stories now in Broadway plays. If you
(10:56):
pay money for a Broadway show and the head liner
for the show is not there, the understudies there, you
are entitled to a refund. That's how they do it
on Broadway, But in the NBA and the other sports
leagues in America, they don't do it. The only way
you get a refund is if there's an act of God,
and sometimes even then, depending on which act of God,
(11:17):
you don't get a refund. And if there's a weather event,
you might get a rain check, you may get a
rain check. So these teams will begrudgingly issue a give
back on the advice of legal counsel. They will give
you a little bit back, but to give money back
as a team lost because they played pathetic and they
(11:38):
didn't show up like this soccer teams no, no, magine
some of these NFL teams like they are Houston Texans,
the Chicago Bears, the Cleveland Browns for the better part
of twenty years, and they know they don't have to
do it. And of course the difference also is there's
so many hidden fees when you buy tickets. Most people
(11:58):
don't buy tickets from the team website. You buy them
from a second hand operator, and so that becomes problematic
because you're not going to get those fees back and
it's essentially just a case. I saw this story, I
was like, well, that's that's the right thing to do.
And it's not, you know, thirty bucks to say well
it's thirty pounds and whoopee damn doing all that, but
it's at least an effort to say, hey, we don't
(12:20):
think of you like pond scum, like happens so often
here in the States, and you're not just some greenish
algae that is is there in the pond. And most
of these teams treat the fans like suckers. That's just
the way. Sorry, final thoughts, So last thing on this.
What would it take for a legacy sports league to
(12:41):
offer refunds for a bad performance? Not to rain now,
not some kind of weather event, but to have Again,
it's been NFL games moved from Buffalo because of Lake
effect blizzards and they moved to Detroit or whatever. But
just for a rotten per, just for a terrible performance,
(13:02):
what would it take for a team to give a refund?
So there would have to be what we call the
great awakening that eureka, mall mean, it is possible, but
things have gone one hundred and eighty degrees the opposite direction.
Fans have been indoctrinated into trust the process and all
that nonsense. Trust the process, and this infestation very popular,
(13:27):
very very popular. It blows my mind every time I
hear some dope call into this show back when we
used to take calls, or somebody that would send a
message on Twitter, so oh ow, my team losers every
game so I can get a number one pick in
the draft. You are such a dope. You are such
a dope, right, celebrating losers. It's all about the lottery balls, right,
(13:50):
picking up extra picks at the loser's ball. It's all
about that. How pathetic is that? And they would have
if they had this pathogen in European soccer, they certainly
wouldn't give refunds. But the great thing about that, we
mentioned it from time to time. They have this thing
called relegation, which they will never have ever. Otherwise the
(14:14):
Chicago Bears would be in the Canadian Football League right
now as they'd be relegated, and then you would be
bringing in who at the Winnipeg Bloe Bombers or somebody
like that from the Canadian Football League. But I don't
have to worry about that because in America and so
there's no relegation can be terrible, and you've convinced a
lot of idiots among your fan base that that's the
(14:35):
way to go. It's the only way to salvation is
to be terrible. But in my crystal ball, I do
see a scenario where an American owner would go rogue.
And how would that work? How would that look? Well,
it would have to be a revolutionary troublemaker. Type owner
of fire Brand as an owner, and the one I
(14:59):
have circled here is Stephen Cohen, the owner of the Metropolitans.
I could see a scenario where the Mets get to
a big game, like a Game seven of the League
Championship Series of the World Series, and they take a
ride on the Vomit Comet and they're just terrible, and
the Mets, whoever the picture is, undergoes spontaneous human combustion
(15:22):
and they turn into a human fireball on the mound.
And then Cohen's like, oh man, you know I'm a
Mets fan. I feel terrible handout money, you get money,
I'll give you some money back. The problem is, of course,
as we said, it's not the same. There's not a
flat fee that every fan's paying.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
And it's a.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Big, big issue. It is the Ben Maler Show. We're
gonna have coming up time shifted for ratings purposes. Not
right now, No calm down, Robert, but we are going
to have Mallard to the third degree, and that'll be
Coop will be earning his money. This is gonna be
have a long segment. Coopy, you want to do extra
questions best of five if you want we can do that.
I mean, we're fine with that. No calls. We've decided
(16:02):
new show, new studio, new show, no calls. But you format, yeah,
new format where we decided. Management finally heard the show.
They heard how bad the calls are and they said,
all right, no more calls, so screw you and all that.
Either that or or somebody goofed up.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Either one.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I don't know. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Maybe just wait untill they come back and say, this
is the highest rated show we've.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Loads of all time. So anyway, we will have Mallard
of the third degree. We will get to that and
we will not take your calls, but we have we
do have Mallard of third deg So we'll get to
that coming up. But it is time.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Let me see I can find it. We have the
mallor Riddle of the Day, the mallor Riddle of the day,
which is very important, and it's here somewhere. I'm gonna
find it right here, the mallor Riddle of the day.
This is where we attempt to get you to listen
a little bit longer. We call it the mallor Riddle
of the Day. And let's see here the Mallord Riddle
(17:03):
of the day today. What is it you ask? Page
down here, page down here. That's that's not it, that's
not it? All right, the Mallor Riddle of the day.
We go to the NBA, the National Basketball Association, and
the other night the Milwaukee Bucks were playing the Miami Heat.
(17:25):
It's like whatever, just another night in the NBA. Meyers
Leonard of the Milwaukee Box, Milwaukee Box, he had quite
an embarrassing moment when he did blank on the bench.
Meyers Leonard of the Milwaukee Box had an embarrassing moment
(17:46):
when he did blank on the bench accidentally. That is
the Mallar riddle. Well that that could be it, But
that is the Mallory riddle of the day. The answer
get to that and we will do it next.
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Boopy Pie Want Boope Pie.
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And we've got Cooking with Roberto coming up, and you
never know, it could be the last Cooking with Roberto.
Who knows.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Just like the other night we took our last call
on the show, a lot of people didn't know that.
Who was the last I didn't even know.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
We didn't know it. You gotta you gotta appreciate these
things while they're here.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
You gotta live in the moment, and you never know
when your last show is gonna happen. You never know.
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True that at outlive from the Tirack dot Com Fox
Sports Radio Studios, it's Ben Mallor.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Time nofter the mallet Riddle of today. We are gonna
have coming up in a little bit, time shifted for
ratings purposes, a mallor to the third degree. I'm gonna
melk this. I'm gonna melk this. But we we went
a little long, so we'll get back on track with
the clock. But here's the malar riddle today, Meyers Leonard
was so confused on the Milwaukee Bucks bench that he
(19:32):
he had an embarrassing moment he accidentally blanked. That is
the Mallor riddle of the day. Le's see if anybody
on the Twitter machine knows the answer, and we will
go a page down, a page down. Let's see, does
anyone know the answer? I can't read that on the air.
(19:53):
Saw Man says he tipped his chair over. That that
is the answer. Bean boot Maker Bob says he said
something with his pooper was messed up. There he ate
some stale popcorn guests by the courtesy flusher. It's the
mallord riddle of the day. Donkey Sausage says that Meyers
Leonard forgot where the bathrooms are and that's what he did.
(20:18):
Page down the page down. Mal the prop guy says
he celebrated a Brian Finley podcast. I don't even know
what that is. The Grill Sergeant says he accidentally butt
dialed the show only to find out you are not
taking calls. Boy, that would be that would be devastating.
(20:41):
The funhouse accounts said something to do with a menstrual cycle.
If that is the answer. Ferg dog, says Meyers Leonard,
while on the bench needed help getting out of the
Chinese finger trap. Have they changed the name of that
or is that what they still call? I remember an
old thing back in the day. Uh, mister wonderful, and
(21:02):
several other people saying somebody with a Nazi salute. But
that is not, unfortunately, not the answer that would have
made national news. Eddie, do you have an answer to
the Mallard riddle of the day.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
Uh, he forgot his teammate's name.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
He forgot his teammate's name, Eddie. That is incorrect, but
surprisingly not far off. Meyers Leonard, while wearing a Milwaukee
Bucks uniform for a moment, forgot what team he was on.
He cheered when the Miami Heat a three point shot,
and he put his arms up in the air to celebrate.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Nice shot.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
A guy named Caleb Martin hit a three pointer for
the Heat and he stood off. Ah yeah, And then
he realized I don't play for the Heat anymore. I
played for the Bucks. So he he did that awkward
sit back like the only little airline commercially want to
get away. It was one of those want to get away.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Moments you should have acted like, Oh, I'm just stretching.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, I'm just stretching.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Oh it's fun.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
It was so funny.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
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And we had a rare suspension in the NHL rare
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at the time, but Avalanche star Kill mccarr has been
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Kraken with that series tied to two too. He was
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(23:13):
Year all kinds of hardware, but had a very very
late hit on Jared McCann of the Seattle Krackt and
so even though he wasn't it with a major penalty
in the game, the NHL reviewed it and said that
was illegal, that was excessive, and it caused an injury,
and you are suspended for one game.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I missed the old days, Eddie, when they wouldn't suspend people.
They just say, don't do that again. No, too much suspension,
too many suspensions. It's the good old days, all right.
It is the Ben Malache from my fun Fact of
the Hour. How many more starts will Noah Cindergard get
as a Dodger? As he went fours, gave up nine
(23:52):
hits and seven runs against Pittsburgh and he's unable to
get the ball back. He can't strike anybody. Yeah, yeah,
I think he had two strikeouts in this game. But
when he came into the big leagues with the Mets,
he's able to strike people out. He could overpower certain
number of hitters. But he has none of that. And
that's true Noah Cinderguard. If you look at his numbers here,
(24:15):
three of the five outings this year, he's He's actually
had a technically a quality start, which is really not you.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
He doesn't know how to pitch. He lost his fastball,
he doesn't know how to pitch major League Baseball game.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
His urn run average. As we this is his final start.
I believe in the month of April he might get
one more start, but six point five eight e r
A to begin the year for Noah Cinderguard, the former
prodigy with the Mets, who's bounced around and been bad, bad, bad,
bad bad. We got Mallard of the third degree. We'll
(24:47):
get to that, but right now, hey, be sure not
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It's maller. How about that?
Speaker 7 (25:42):
To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets
quilled and now.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Man who'll be earning his money for the first time
all night the cubo who lost.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
In all the news and playoff action. On Monday, it
was announced that Ka will be taking over as head
coach for the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Hide the women in Children.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
That's well, there's there's no kind of you know, activity
to take part of in Houston, not at all.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
You know, this is not known for the ballet in Houston. No,
But his problem was not going to the ballet. It
was going to the front office. That was.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
That's true, the cafeteria, the traveling secretary. He's looking for
a ride, all right, Yes, Ben, how long do you
think it takes Udoka to turn the franchise around?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
So you're assuming he is actually going to turn the
franchise around, which is a big assumption. And I will
let you know after the draft lottery. I will let
you know the Rockets have a fourteen percent chance of
winning the lottery. They have tanked the last couple of years,
but this last year twenty two wins. They've got the
same chance of as the Pistons, the Spurs, and the
(26:54):
Hornets for the top pick. So they get the number
one overall pick, the Parisian prodigy, a great victor when
Ba Yama. If they get him and he's supposed to
be as good as advertised, and usually these guys are
pretty close to that these days in the NBA, then
the Rockets will be back. They'll be relevant next year. Otherwise,
maybe they make the play in tournament. You really got
(27:16):
to try not to make the play in tournament in
the NBA. And this rumors James Harden's gonna go back
to Houston. So I will say that if they win
the lottery, that will immediately become relevant, if not three years,
and he'll be fired next.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
Alan Robinson gave an interview earlier this week when he
said that the Rams used him as a spoon when
he's really a fork. Ben was the problem with Robinson's
la tenure that he just was being used wrong.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
No, it's a dumb take by Alan Robinson. You know
what you need to be a spork A spork KFC.
They made the spork Fames, that's the spoon and the
Ford spark. Who doesn't like when you're a kid and
you get the spork, it blows your mind the first
time as a child, Like Roberto, if you showed your daughter,
(28:05):
it would be amazing, right yeah, yeah, yeah, oh my god.
But yeah, so you gotta be the sport now, Alan Robinson.
He was bad the last year in Chicago. My friends
who were Bears fans were like, everything would be okay?
Are they? They were warning me? I should say I
said everything would be okay. And if you can't play
in a Sean McVay offense, that's on you, all right.
So I don't know, this guy's got nothing these two
(28:25):
bad years in a row. That's why he was traded
for a seventh round pick. It has nothing to do
with the type of cutlery that we're talking about, all right.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
Next, During yesterday's monologue, you covered the losing locker room
and talking about the Cavaliers.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Yeah, I like to do that, Coop. I enjoy the
losing locker room.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Yeah, you know, sometimes we get audio from the losing
locker room.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Really sometimes that's back in the old studio.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
What are you talking about? Don't get crazy, Ben. How
about the Knicks though? How deep can they go in
this postseason?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
All right, So the Knicks have a path to get
to the Eastern Conference Finals here. If you look at
the East bracket, the Knicks are they're the five seed.
If they can exterminate the Calves here and not play
around like the Celtics are doing with Atlanta, they will
play the winner of the Bucks Heat. So either they
play the Bucks with a dinged up Giannis and Atakombo,
or they play the Heat and then they would have
(29:17):
home court advantage and they'd have the extra game at
the Mecca Madison Square Garden there in midtown Manhattan, So
they would either way, they're in decent shape in that matter.
If they play Miami, they'd be favored. I would think
to win round two, and then they either play the
Sixers with an injured Joel Embiid, or they would play
the Celtics who just messed around and lost the game
(29:40):
they should have won against the Atlanta. I don't think
Atlanta's gonna come back and beat the Celtics. But so
they're actually in decent shape to get to the conference finals.
But I don't think any further than that. There it
is Mallard to the third degree, time shifted for ratings
purposes from the New Studio. How did we do? I'm undefeated.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I've defeated in.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
The New Studio all time wins game. Take that. You know,
Rush Limbaugh worked in this studio. Never one Mallard of
the third degree. Steve Harvey never won Mallad of the
third degree in the studio, none of them. I went
cooking with Roberto is straighted. Where are we making today?
Roberto my French toes recipe? French toast, all right? That's ah, yes,
(30:24):
it's like amazing.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
To give it out once a year and so this
is my fids all right. It's not nobody else can
make French toes like me.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Yeah, no, this is a this is authentic French toast
that you're not. You might think I've had French toast.
What's so special? No, no, no, this is this is
gonna blow your mind. Okay when you hear this, You're
gonna be making this immediately. You'll be buying the items
and you'll make it right away. So I have cooking
with Roberto. We'll get to that. We'll do it next.
Speaker 7 (30:48):
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Speaker 1 (31:26):
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dot Com. In the kitchen we go. Now a man
that did not go to some culinary school.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
No, that's right.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
He learned the old fashioned way, and he's presenting you
every week.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
Neither did I come to practice on this board during
the week when when I'm sleeping because I don't need to.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Yeah, just come in and wing a baby.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
And your MIC's over modulated, which is great. We love
that and sounds great, and it sounds wonderful and less
it does not. But that is the voice of cooking
with Roberto. We'll see if we can understand Roberto. Yeah, baby,
cooking with Roberto. And what are we making today, Roberto?
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Today we're gonna make French toast, baby.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
A classic Mexican dish French exactly, yes, yes, absolutely, all right,
this is my French toast recipe.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
All right, Okay, what do we need?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
We need toast a.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Slice of the Brios bread.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Oh, the Brios. That's good bread bread. I want to
cuddle with the Brios is what I want to do.
Speaker 8 (32:43):
To have good French toast. You gotta have Brios bread, baby,
all right? Man four large, four large eggs. Have a
cup of heavy whipping cream. Gotta have heavy whipping cream.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
We're talking lizo sized heavy. We're talking big heavy, heavy, heavy,
head heavy heavy.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
You gotta have whipping crea al right, heavy whipping cream.
Speaker 8 (33:01):
One tablespoon of sugar, one tablespoon of pure vanilla extract,
pure vanilla extract.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
I think he's expensive, right, I get mine of cost codes.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
They give you, like the probably a gallon of that,
give you a costco. Everything is big there, large, jumbo
size and all that Sam's Club, something like that.
Speaker 8 (33:19):
One teaspoon of ground cinnamon, A quart of teaspoon of
ground nutmeg, very little nutmeg.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Allright, I'm not making cinnamon. I'm a max. You don't
need a lot. It goes along with right, it goes.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
The nut make also just a little bit, a little bit.
Speaker 8 (33:35):
Tablespoons of butter or or pam cooking spray, pinch of salt,
powdered sugar, and some maple syrup.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
All right, okay, very simple stuff. You got that? Mixed
it all all right?
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I mean you play on the song.
Speaker 8 (33:48):
Here in a large mixing bowl, we will whist together
the eggs, heavy whipping cream, vanilla extract the sugar, the cinnamon,
the nut, make and the pinch of salt.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
All right, makes that all together, and you.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Gotta mix that, mix that up. Get that elbow going,
get that elbow, move that elbow, move.
Speaker 8 (34:06):
The out ball a little bit, get a word, baby,
come on, all right, and in large scale it over
meeting heat. Add some panma cooking spray, Add some pan
cooking spray, or melt or melts or melt the butter
easing cookie spray.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
What tastes better is it is the butter. The I
think the butter, the butter.
Speaker 8 (34:22):
Go butter, come on. But the butter tends tends to
burn faster. Sometimes you can get a little Oh that's
no good. Yeah, so it's up up to you. Whatever
you want to make sure it doesn't burn. Keep an
eye on it.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Keep your eye on that bad boy, keep an.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Eye on it. Won't burn.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
The cook The pan.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Cooking spray is like a little cheat code, you know.
All right.
Speaker 8 (34:40):
Oh yeah, so working in batches, we're gonna coat the
bread with egg.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
With the egg cream mixture.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Makes it fully engulf the bread, Yeah, you do fully.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
And drown the bread boy.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
All right, you've gotta you gotta put its whole head underwater.
That yeah, it's like it's being baptized. You gotta everything underwater.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
The egg cream mixture is gonna be delicious baby, all right.
Speaker 8 (35:00):
So working back to this, coat the bread with the
egg cream mixer and placing it and then heated skillet.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
All right, yeah, bay bay.
Speaker 8 (35:11):
And we're gonna cook until each side is golden, about
two to three minutes per side. All right, Okay, very
simple stuff there, all right. So when serving, sprinkle some
powdered sugar on each piece of French toast, add some
butter maple syrup, and enjoy. Just like that, you got
(35:32):
some homemade French toast that's gonna be better than and.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
A fun factory. But a lot of people don't know this.
They think of French toast as being from France, but
it's really from Mexico. It was just soldn by the
people over in France. But because they were able to
market it better than the guy in Mexico, they came
up with it.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Right during that the war. It was a water during
the French and the Mexicans.
Speaker 8 (35:54):
The Mexicans won that war, that's right, said well, you know,
we'll give you the French toast.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
We'll put your name on that.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
That boy, and people were blown away when they found
out that taco is actually a dish from.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
France and then French toast from Mexico.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
They were like, wait a minute, are you kidding? You
want this so you can download
Speaker 8 (36:13):
The podcast the podcast into it, over and over a
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