June 9, 2026 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about OKC Thunder GM Sam Presti defending SGA with a rant against social media, if LeBron James avoided the Knicks because the lights are too bright, how Wemby should feel about getting profane rhythmic chanting from Knicks fans, Maller's Mountain of Money: Kanye Edition, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lights, camera action.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our number three, our number three, ready to go,
and we head back the pro bouncy Ball, not the
NBA Finals where san Antonio gets into the win column.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
There will not be a sweep. There will not be
a sweep in the NBA Finals. We're not talking about
that though. Where did Oklahoma City GM Sam Presty's rant
about social media and in how it was affecting SGA?
How did that land with you? And he was defending SGA.
We'll talk about that. Also, did Lebron James avoid the
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Knicks because the lights are too bright? One of the
celebrities saying that's why Lebron didn't come to the next
And how should Wenby feel about getting the profane rhythmic
chanting treatment from the Knicks fans as they were giving
it to them. We'll talk about all that and more
right now. Settle in. It's our number three. Blame it
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Bouncy Buy. Now we will get in a moment. We
will work our way back to the NBA Finals. There's
something we did not address earlier.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
We'll get to.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
However, we begin with this our lead from Oklahoma City.
Now the thunder from down Under. They're like, well, wait
a minute, we're gonna be right there. We're gonna be
the mix of this. And they thought they would be
in the NBA Finals. Obviously they weren't, and we san
Antonio was the GM though Sam Presty at the end
of season exit, we sucked.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
We didn't win.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
News conference thing, Sam Presty strongly defended Shaye Jjogis Alexander,
and he defended him against what was described as online
criticism and also old school media criticism, but mostly online,
the narrative that he is a foul merchant draws fouls
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and so this was the theme of the end of
season news conference. Now, I don't know if you heard
it or not, perhaps not. Presty said, quote, SGA is
playing against six people. He's got five defenders, and the
sixth defender is social media. So that is a good
jumping off point. Let us discuss the question where did
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the Thunder General manager Sam Presty's rant about social media
in his defense of SGA and saying, well, they're attacking SGA,
they're defending him. It's six defenders against SGA because of
social media.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Where did all this land with you?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
So I've got King Cobra, common denominator and baptized and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to have a wonderful time with the checkered flag.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
We're gonna go with the checkered flag.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
So first of all, this landed like a giant yawn
and a stretch anything.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
You wake up your yawn.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
And then you stretch your arms out. You're like, all right,
I'm starting the day. Make sure my arms move. I'm
doing that. There we go, all right. So the Thunder
general manager, what he is doing here is he's got
a deck and he's playing the victim cards from the
bottom of the deck. The bottom of the deck a shister.
He's acting like Shay is suffering in the dust bowl.
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The media is out to get him. Social media is
out to get him like he's battling the tabloids back
in the old days in New York. And unfortunately he's
in TV market SGA is in TV market number forty five.
Not exactly the Big Apple. Not exactly the Big Apple. Now,
Oklahoma City is not the center of the basketball universe.
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Even when they won the championship, they were not. The
noise in comparison is a gentle breeze. That's what is
a gentle breeze. Now that the idea, the concept that
somehow the victim, because everyone loves playing a victim, right,
Everyone wants to claim that.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
You were mean to me, I'm a victim. That's how
they do. That's how they sound too.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
They have this very weird voices, a cartoonish voice, and
I was not raised that way. And you have to
get some criticism, that's part of the deal. And I
find it adorable. And we're supposed to feel bad for Strea.
I'm sure he's being held back winning multiple MVP awards.
He's fighting for his life. Unless he's not fighting for
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his life. And this great oppression is x Twitter. That's
the oppression there. I think we all kind of understand
as humans. If you come across a king cobra or
a black mamba. You don't stop and try to pet it.
If it's a problem, you don't stop and try to
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pet it.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
You don't. So the message is the same message we
always have. If you can't handle the noise, you just
log off, you delete the apps, and boom goes to dynamite.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
The problem is solved. A revolutionary concept. Nobody else is
smart enough to come up with this concept. People are mean, okay,
then just don't look. Who cares? It's you don't have
to partake. It is possible to not partake. There's a
whole big world. I did enjoy during the NBA Finals.
I don't know if you saw the commercial. They had a
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commercial encouraging people to go outside and live their lives,
and you know, this whole thing about how people used
to live without social media.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And then it was for Pinterest, which I believe is
a social Is that not a social media platform? All right?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I thought, I thought, well, that's a great I didn't
know what I didn't know what it was for. I
was like, well, that's a really good commercial. And then
I saw at the end of it, like, oh, holy crap,
they just want you to get off X and Instagram
and TikTok.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
And go to go to Pinterest is what they want.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I was like, okay, by some spots here, I think
our audience the boys love Pinterest, right, No they don't.
Not a big crossover. That's more for the ladies. Okay,
I got you. Anyway, listen. So Sam Presty, you know,
he's spinning stats like it's a draidal. He came up
with his stats saying that Shay Drew I think he
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said four hundred and fifteen fouls and only four were overturned.
And so he said, well, I see the calls were
right and only four were overturned and all that. Unfortunately,
the problem that Sam Presty has is social media has
their own receipts and they show a lot of clips
online of him being a foul baiter. I'm sure I
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said that, probably a foul baiter, and that is an
accurate observation.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
That is an art form that is shamed on. It
is you look down upon when you do that. It's
not harassment, though there's no harassment here Presty. You're supposed
to stand by your man, defend your superstar, and he's
trying to build a moat with crocodiles around around his player.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
All right.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Now, Secondly, we go to New York where Tracy Morgan
is feeding the content machine. Yep, that guy, Tracy Moore.
He's still around a big Knicks fan. He didn't barfit
the garden, right, there was no over. I remember during
the season he puked. Remember that, yeah, big Knicks fan there.
He was out hanging out, the hanging out with all
the one percenters. Now, he recently said that Lebron James
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could not handle playing in New York because the lights
are too bright and quote we too rowdy, meaning the
Knicks fans. So I don't know if you saw it now,
a diehard Nick apologist, Tracy Morgan made the comments. He
made the comments while hyping up the atmosphere at Madison
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Square guard. He says, New York, that's why Lebron can't
play here. He said, because the the light's too bright,
we too rowdy. Okay, question, do you think Lebron James
avoided the Knicks because the quote Tracy Morgan, the lights
are too bright?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Act to Mecca.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
So listen, this is I know he's just joking around,
and I'm shaking my head. No, no, Tracy Morgan, believe
it or not, has me? I guess defending Lebron is
that what I'm doing. I'm defending Lebron James. I don't
want to defend Lebron Jibs. Why am I defending Lebron Jim?
It's proper like? How dare you? Tracy Morgan? That take
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was so bad?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
How bad?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Was it?
Speaker 6 (10:39):
So?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Going?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Right to take jail? Right to hot take jail? And
if you want to know what jail's like, ask for adult.
He's been there. He's been there. So it's not the
Knick supporters, obviously, And I would argue Laker fans and
Nick fans are equally annoying in a different way. The
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like her historians love to tell you about the glory
days and all that. Of course they have one since Kobe,
and then the Nick fans. They haven't won since cable television.
People were using rotary phones last time, the next one,
and yet they want you to know how great they
are and all that. Historically, Lebron has dominated at Madison
Square Garden. In fact, he has treated it like his
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personal Airbnb when he's gone in there with these different
teams as a twenty three to nine record, So that's
a seven seventy one percent winning percentage. If the lights
were too bright, you most likely that I'm gonna go
you wouldn't have that record. I'm gonna go out and
limbs that you would not have that record. Now, the truth,
and we are in pursuit of the truth. The truth
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is Lebron does not pick teams based on the normal criteria.
He picks amenities. Lebron's a big amenity guy. He likes
the bells and whistles. He's all about that. And he's
always chased the easy road with creature comforts, and sometimes
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he goes a little more towards the creature comforts than
the easy road. He loves when you can get both.
That's the sweet spot. You want to get both, that
would be the way to do it. Every franchise he's joined,
if you look at the life and times of Lebron James,
every team that Lebron has joined has rolled out the
red carpet and vacuumed it twice for Lebron. Pat Riley
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right in Miami, they brought in they already had Dwayne Wade,
they brought in Chris Bosh and all that, and they
looked out for Lebron, and then Riley got upset. And
when that stopped, and Riley became a bit of a
douche and didn't treat Lebron and kiss his ass all
the time, what did Lebron do? He skid daddled out
of Miami and ran back to Ohio so the Calves
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could kiss his ass. And that would go on. And
he never chose New York not because of the Nick fans.
It was because of James Dolan that I believe. That's
why if twenty ten, way back in twenty ten, twenty eleven,
that period of time, the Knicks, they had an opportunity
that meetings with Lebron, and then at one point the
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favorite was the Knicks for Lebron, and they did this
like weird Sopranos thing. The Sopranos were a popular show
back then. This thing on HBO's Mob Show. They did
a video that supposed he didn't go well. Then in
twenty eighteen, he had an opportunity to go to the Knicks,
and he chose the Knicks were terrible. He chose to
go to the Lakers because he wanted to hang out
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with a bunch of Hollywood losers, and so that's what
he did. The common denominator though, and Lebron met with
the Knicks twice in twenty ten, twenty eleven, twenty eighteen.
The common denominator is James Dole. That's it, like he's
he's got that Lebron bugspray and refused to give Lebron
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all the trimming. So Lebron said, I'm good, I'm out
of here. I never been the mecca of management. It's yeah,
So there you go, all right, it is the Bedmas Show.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
Now.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
The final thought was speaking of New York, the very
rowdy fans at MSG for the finals game, as you
might imagine, even though they are the one percenters, the
cheapest ticket to get I guess the upper row in
the very back at Massive Square Garden you get a
ticket for five thousand for five thousand. So anyway, the
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game last night there was rhythmic chanting. Now, we would
like to play the rhythmic chant on the air. Unfortunately
we are told we cannot play it due to guidelines
from the federal government. The chant was f you Wemby,
F you Webby, F you Webb.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
They didn't say, just f I don't know. They said fun.
I think it was fun, fun you Wemby.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
No.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
So that happened during Game three. It happened late in
the second quarter when Hello, Kenny, Karl Anthony Towns was
at the foul line. The profane chant was loud. How
loud was it? It was so loud that I heard
it on my TV. He was on the ABC broadc tests.
They tried to mute out some of the bad words.
(15:17):
I noticed on my feed. There were some moments the
audio went mute, which tells you there was some really
dirty words that were being said. They're dirty, dirty, dirty,
the dirty bird. So when asked after the game if
being vilified was a compliment or not, Wemby had a
zinger lined up in his back pocket. He said, quote,
(15:38):
I guess I'm nowhere near Trey Young level.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Though close. Quote little tip of the.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Cap to Trey Young, who for two years two games
was the villain at Madison Square Guarden that he had
to have a game winning basket at the end of
the game where he played very well.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
And then there's another moment there.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Anyway, the point of all that, the question is how
should Wemby feel about getting that profane rhythmic chanting treatment
from the Nick fan Game.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Three, and not just your regular Nick fan.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
These are the elite Nick fans, the ones that either
have really wealthy friends or themselves are.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Really really wealthy.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
So if Nick fans are chanting bad words at you,
which is what happened in Game three of the finals,
it's rather obviously your congratulations. Come on down. You have
been baptized. You have been baptized Wemby, by the world's
angriest church. They have baptized you, and Victor Wamba Yama
should not be offended at all by the profane ranting
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and raving, the rhythmic chanting raining down from the upper
upper levels of Madison Square Garden the rafters there.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And it is an honor. I believe it truly is
an honor.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I love MSG gave him the f bomb symphony. It's
like the New York pops just raining down. It's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
It's like it's a Hall of Fame level moment.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
When you're doing that. And Wemby did not get rattled.
He got a little serenade. It's a very nice thing
to serenade him. You can feel the energy. Now, that
was not just a chant. That was essentially the standing
ovation in the New York dialect. There's the standing ovation there,
F you WEMBYF you Wemby. Now in that city, they
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don't boo nobody's, they don't chant nobody's. There was mister October.
Reggie Jackson famously said back in his day, in his
salad days in New York, and there is this strange,
beautiful I don't if you don't call it poetry or not.
You've got a twenty two year old kid from France
who looks like he's big bird and instantly becomes the
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villain of Manhattan because he's the biggest name obviously on
the Spurs.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
And that's it.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
So Wemby again, I dont think he's upset. It shouldn't
be upset, shouldn't be upset by this. In fact, I
would recommend when this is over, if the Spurs do
come back, and they should, they're the better team, he
should send the garden a thank you card. And it's like, Hey,
this is it. I thought I had arrived, but this
is the moment, this is the moment I arrived. Eight
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But right now the riddle of the day, and here
it is New York Knicks coach Mike Brown said that
Mitchell Robinson gets his calm demeanor from Blank.
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Knicks coach Mike Brown said that Mitchell Robinson, who's the
worst foul shooter in NBA Finals history, gets his calm
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I did see the I guess somebody interviewed President Trump
and he denied that he was booed by the nick fans,
and I claimed it was mostly mostly cheers there at
the guard.
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Which will say he didn't take a nap either.
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Try to drive the people nuts when they're the crowd.
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of the day. Knicks coach Mike Brown said that Mitchell Robinson.
(22:24):
The reason that Mitchell Robinson gets his he gets his
comdemeanor from blank.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Again, let me I screwed that up.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Knicks coach Mike Brown said that Mitchell Robinson gets his
calm demeanor from Blank. So that is the Mallard riddle
of the day. And let's see, does anyone know the answer?
He gets his comm from Aaron Rodgers. His com demeanor
us Kathy in Madison, the lovely and Talented hey mona
(22:50):
woman analog al says rotary phone using a rotary phone.
Femi in Minnesota says from Barney the purple die, which
I don't think is a thing anymore.
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Fly fishing from.
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Rob the goat man in des moines his parole officer
from Alf the alien old piter. Look you got some
got some tattoos while you're in jail. Look at that
unbelievable What.
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Else do we have? Let's see fer Dog says that
the answer is from the rain is terrific sense of humor.
She's so funny, that's why. All right, what else do
we have? Page Dan? I don't think I'm going to
read that one.
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Eeke in Roseville, Minnesota from chewing crushed ice guess by
the late night drug tester hol Let me.
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shows and make sure they are on hold there.
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All right, what else do we have? Let's see?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Uh, Stevie Meatball says he gets his calm demeanor from
hollering James.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
His biological father. Is that true? Interesting?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Mallard prop guy says, from listening to the Ben Malers
Show podcast asked and the Fifth Hour podcast, guys get
the headphones on at the foul line playing volleyball from
Donkey Sausage. What else do we have? Mister irrigation is
going with Jack Nicholson. I cleaned that up for you.
What else do we have? Eileen in San Francisco says
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he gets his calm demeter from Ginger and Mary Anne
and the Skipper too, or probably not the Skipper. He
what have Trucker Joe says from buying his cars extended
warranty and that the great scam, right, the extended warranty scam.
What else fentanyl was guessed by Johnny Q from Fishing
from rob our Buddy Rob in Minnesota. George Carlin from
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Piller Up Phil that's his answer.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Who else? Do you have aage?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Down?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Country music? From Boso the District Attorney. JT.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
The Wingman from Tennessee says his gasoline scented air freshener, Yum, yum.
Timmy from Busco, Indiana says that the NBA player named
Mitchell Robinson gets his calm demeanor from a combination of
Xanax and red wine. Interesting, all right, Lorena, do you
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have an answer?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Lorena? I was gonna go with puppy therapy.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Puppy therapy, all right? Is that correct? Let's see you're
not right the correct answer. According to Mike Brown, I
said that his player Mitchell Robinson gets his calm demeanor
from country music. Country music, Yeah, I would say that
(25:36):
the percentage of NBA players that like country music is
less than five percent going to be my guests, gotta
be less than five percent. There are some less than
five percent. That's a very small group of people that
love the country music. Let's say hello to metaglass Kyle,
who is somewhere out in the desert somewhere. Hello metaglass Kyle.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Many off.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
First off, First off, let me let me can I
can I say two things before I get into the
NBA topic. Number one is, hey, Scott, here's a black
man that called up that's not trying to hit on Lorena.
Number two, my question for all three of y'all, are
you a AC and the winter time person or a
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blanket and the summertime person.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
I'm AC year round. I like to be cold. I
want to be frozen when I sleep, and so I
like to be cool.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Be hot, so I AC all the time, all the time, Lorena.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I hate being frozen. I'm a blanket even if it's
hot kind of girl.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
And if it's air conditioned inside, I will even have
a jacket on, Like, do not mess.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Up, all right, coop a acyar blanket?
Speaker 7 (26:55):
I like, I mean, I'm I'm cheap, so I don't
really put on the AC very much, but I would
if if if money was no object, I would have.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
It set to like sixty five. Well, I'm cheap. Also,
what I got is a room air conditioner.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Yeah, okay, I'm on one of those about one of
those as scene on TV, those arctic Arctic coolers where
you just put the ice in the road. Trade is
actually fan worse than ac.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
No, it didn't that work, Yeah it doesn't. It didn't
look like yeah if it that.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Was the worst buy. Billy May sold me on that
years ago.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Billy.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Yeah, But anyways though, and then look, hey, part one
of our dreams come true. It might actually come true.
Then then what we said they didn't need the game
three uh heroics from the Knicks, so we can go
ahead and pull off this four game in a row
win streak. You know that they're gonna do uh presumptively,
(27:53):
We're gonna say presumptly. But no, all around, it was
a classic game. Just didn't did not agree with what
Mike Brown did. He had one of those system overload
type of deals where he was looking on the flout
Longe scratching his head like you I actually got to
start a coach. I think Rick Brunson coaches that team. Honestly,
I don't think Mike Brown. I think Mike Brown is
(28:13):
just to face. You see more of Rick Brunson than
you do with Mike Brown on the sideline or going
to the well.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
But yeah, Rick Brunston does run out a lot and
anything evolving his son, his son, obviously he's running over there.
How about the people that bought tickets out of Game
four thinking the Knicks we're gonna win and then win
the championship. Did you see this the tickets as of
like during the game, they were going for like twelve
thousand dollars the minimum get in for Game four, And
(28:40):
now that the Knicks lost on Monday, you can get
in for a reasonable four thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Yeah, and speak and what you said though, with the
charity buying those two million dollar seats that nobody sat in,
You're gonna let Chaul Oakland sit in wine those seats
for crime?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Well, no, he'd be arrested if he entered the arena,
he'd be arrested.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
Do it.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Listen, listen, listen. We got guys out here that are
actually doing real dumb stuff, right, like real dumb stuff.
This man literally was one of your better guys during
the time. Get a man the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Listen, I understand he is suing the massive square.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Trump was sitting next to Dolan, and it wasn't Oakley
and Trump and Ewing and all those guys buddies back
in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
So Trump, negotiate a peace deal.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
You the president, get a peace deal for Charles Oakley
back at the guard exactly.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
He now, before before I let you go, you know,
Trump was going to turn that into it. They weren't
boring me. They were mooing me. Trump.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Well, he did say that, he said, he said it
was mostly uh cheers or what.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
I don't know who cares. I thank you, Kyle Medaglass.
Kyle there he is big star meda glass Kyle. We'll
see him in Vegas when we do the Mallard Meet
and Greek hopefully soon in Vegas sometime in August. Mike
the Lepreconn. Then we've got to get to Mallard's amount
of money. Hello, Mike the Leprica on.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
There, Good morning man, How are you Peach?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
If I was any better, I'd be doing the Fifth
Hour podcast. But I did that already on Sunday with you.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Yes, that was great, that was really fun. Yes, all right,
So anyway, I do want to give not a shout out,
but crazy Joeke from Chicago. He's my neighbor and anyway,
that's my not shout out. I have a couple of jokes,
but I'm not going to tell him today. I'm going
to keep him for Friday.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Thank you, man, God bless you. Could I do the game?
Speaker 3 (30:31):
No, we are You're my backup. Holy you'll be my
backup if these guys are bad, and we'll go to you.
Let's welcome in archnitestas we have Andy in Venice Beach,
Beautiful Venice Beach. I spent many a day in Venice
back in the day. Hello, Andy, welcome.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
What's going on? Man? Are you nearing me? Loud and clear? There?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
All right, this is very exciting. It sounds like you're driving,
which means you're not in Venice Beach, You're going somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Yes, somehow you've pinpointed my location leaving Guardena heading to
Venice Beach.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
And that is a very.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Accurate, okay description of me driving.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
I hope you can find parking in Venice. This is
a little rocky around it. All right, Well, you're gonna
play the game. Who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Andy?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Got me Ben Lorena or Coop. Okay, all right, hold
on a second.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
So Andy, he's driving through Guardena making his way to
Venice Beach. Now, let's say hello to Austin, who's in
in the field in Bakersfield.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Hello, Austin, Welcome, and Ben I a going.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
If I was any better, I would be a blaze,
but not a Bakersfield blaze. Because that's the minor league
baseball team that left Austin. We closed that team down.
We threw out the first pitch there years ago, and
that team went bankrupt. They had been there for one
hundred years, Austin, one hundred years in bakers.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Stop telling that, who do you want to partner up with? Austin?
Who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Lorena?
Speaker 1 (32:04):
All right, Lorena, you got picked? Lorena? Excit excited? Yeah,
I can't. I don't want you to lose. All right,
I'm your partner, Austin.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
The people get so upset, I don't ye because you're
trying to cheat again, not trying to cheat.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
Mallard's Mountain of Money. This is the Kanye West edition.
He turned forty nine on Monday.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
What an old part. Yes.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
The categories are family, Business, Touch, the Sky Homecoming and
thirty Hours.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Andy, you were on first, which category would you like?
Touch the Touch the Sky? All right? And Austin, how
about you.
Speaker 7 (32:42):
The category family Business Homecoming or thirty hours Homecoming?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
All right, all right, very good? Everyone, hold on, hold
the line, Hold the line. The cougars are coming. The
cougars are coming. Okay, very good. So that'll that'll be
the matchup.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
We have Andy, assuming he doesn't hang up on his
way to Venice Beach, and Austin is in Bakersfield. It's
me Ben with Andy and Coop and Austin will have
in its entirety Mallard's Mountain of Money. We'll get to
that and we will do it.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
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Speaker 1 (33:23):
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Speaker 3 (33:24):
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Speaker 1 (34:00):
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Mountain of Money.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
Hell, do you have what it takes to get to
the top. Probably not.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Let's so here we go. We welcome in our contestas
we have Andy, who's heading to Venice Beach. He's I
should be almost there.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
And Austin in Bakersfield and he's with Coop and I'm
with Andy.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Are you there, Andy, I'm here? Okay, very exciting.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Let's get started here, Andy, and you're gonna play the
game we have.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
But what do we have here? We have touch the sky?
Touch this guy. These athletes are so tall. How tall
are they?
Speaker 3 (34:41):
They're so tall they can seemingly touch the sky. Do
you understand the concept? Andy, I'm ready to win this
amount of money.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Okay, down, here we go. It's fake money. Here we go.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Give me forty five seconds on the clock. We need
the first and last name, and we're on our way
go center for the San Antonio Spurs. Right now, center
for the Spurs, right now from France. Yeah, the captain
of the Yankees, number ninety nine, Carlo Stanton. No, the
(35:23):
big unit for the Seattle Mariners. Pitcher Brandy Gartin.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Yes, football player in the nineteen seventies for the Cowboys,
nickname too tall.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
What's his first name? Yeah, that's correct. All right, center
from Purdue. He's plays for the Memphis Grizzlies. He won
the Wooden Award. He's an NBA player, seven foot four guy.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Yeah, good job, baby, that was one hundred pointer. All right, Austin,
we have homecoming? How many we get?
Speaker 7 (35:55):
Lard on twenty Austin Homecoming. These athletes all returned to
their original team. Are you ready, Austin? All right, forty
five seconds, let's begin. He's the King. He's on the
Lakers right now. Yes, this guy was the tight end
for the Denver Broncos. He won Super Bowls with John Elway.
He's on TV's got a horse face. Yes, this guy
(36:19):
was the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks. He's one
of the best point guards of all time. Yes, this
guy's nickname was the Professor pitcher for the Cubs. Carry No,
all right, uh this one. Uh. This was a defensive
end for the Dolphins. He was bald. He's in the
Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Taylor.
Speaker 7 (36:41):
Yes, this guy was a slugger for the Nationals and Yankees.
He was like a five tool player.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
He was. That was a tough one.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
That was.
Speaker 7 (36:53):
Alright, Austin, alright, Greg Maddox, he was who were missing there?
You want to just give up, Austin? Do you want
thirty hours or family business?
Speaker 4 (37:05):
Thirty hours?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Thirty hours? All right?
Speaker 7 (37:07):
These athletes all war or war number thirty forty five seconds.
Next begin splash brother on the Warriors right now. Yes,
this guy was the running back for the Denver Broncos
John Elway. Yes, this guy is the all time strikeout
king in baseball.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
I mean Joel Ryan.
Speaker 7 (37:27):
Yes, this guy was a running back for the Saint
Louis Rams and the La Rams. His nickname, his last
name's kind of feminine. Wow, that's offensive.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
All right.
Speaker 7 (37:39):
This guy was a power forward for the Blazers and
the Pistons. He's a tech tech king. Yes, this guy
was a scoring leader for the Knicks back in the
day in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
I don't know. All right, this guy was this bastealer.
He loved cocaine. Three quoes, okay, Tim round two forty together,
Tim Rains, Bernard King. What else?
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Todd Gurley, number thirty, Todd Gurley.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
All right, well, well we still have to go, Andy.
We have a family business, I believe. Yes, all right, Andy,
these sports figures have all followed in their father's footsteps. Okay,
are you ready?
Speaker 4 (38:21):
Andy, I'm going through the pch.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Tunnel now, so all right, let's get let's get let's
get going. All right.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
He's the head coach of the forty nine ers right now.
His dad coach the Broncos.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
And the Raider. Yeah, there you go. That's a winner.
We'll keep going. Broadcaster for the Saint Louis Cardinals. And
his son is the broadcaster on what was on Fox?
He's on ESPN right now. No, that is completely wrong,
Raiders star. Howie's son he played for the Bears. Off.
(38:56):
Oh I know that his son. No, I we've already
won the game. It's a it's a it's already run.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
It go all right?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Well, Andy, you get a golden ticket, You get a
gold tell the wing for me, Coop.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
You lost the game coop again, one in a week
all time win King Baby
Lights, camera action.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our number three, our number three, ready to go,
and we head back the pro bouncy Ball, not the
NBA Finals where san Antonio gets into the win column.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
There will not be a sweep. There will not be
a sweep in the NBA Finals. We're not talking about
that though. Where did Oklahoma City GM Sam Presty's rant
about social media and in how it was affecting SGA?
How did that land with you? And he was defending SGA.
We'll talk about that. Also, did Lebron James avoid the
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Knicks because the lights are too bright? One of the
celebrities saying that's why Lebron didn't come to the next
And how should Wenby feel about getting the profane rhythmic
chanting treatment from the Knicks fans as they were giving
it to them. We'll talk about all that and more
right now. Settle in. It's our number three. Blame it
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Bouncy Buy. Now we will get in a moment. We
will work our way back to the NBA Finals. There's
something we did not address earlier.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
We'll get to.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
However, we begin with this our lead from Oklahoma City.
Now the thunder from down Under. They're like, well, wait
a minute, we're gonna be right there. We're gonna be
the mix of this. And they thought they would be
in the NBA Finals. Obviously they weren't, and we san
Antonio was the GM though Sam Presty at the end
of season exit, we sucked.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
We didn't win.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
News conference thing, Sam Presty strongly defended Shaye Jjogis Alexander,
and he defended him against what was described as online
criticism and also old school media criticism, but mostly online,
the narrative that he is a foul merchant draws fouls
(03:52):
and so this was the theme of the end of
season news conference. Now, I don't know if you heard
it or not, perhaps not. Presty said, quote, SGA is
playing against six people. He's got five defenders, and the
sixth defender is social media. So that is a good
jumping off point. Let us discuss the question where did
(04:16):
the Thunder General manager Sam Presty's rant about social media
in his defense of SGA and saying, well, they're attacking SGA,
they're defending him. It's six defenders against SGA because of
social media.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Where did all this land with you?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
So I've got King Cobra, common denominator and baptized and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to have a wonderful time with the checkered flag.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
We're gonna go with the checkered flag.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
So first of all, this landed like a giant yawn
and a stretch anything.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
You wake up your yawn.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
And then you stretch your arms out. You're like, all right,
I'm starting the day. Make sure my arms move. I'm
doing that. There we go, all right. So the Thunder
general manager, what he is doing here is he's got
a deck and he's playing the victim cards from the
bottom of the deck. The bottom of the deck a shister.
He's acting like Shay is suffering in the dust bowl.
(05:25):
The media is out to get him. Social media is
out to get him like he's battling the tabloids back
in the old days in New York. And unfortunately he's
in TV market SGA is in TV market number forty five.
Not exactly the Big Apple. Not exactly the Big Apple. Now,
Oklahoma City is not the center of the basketball universe.
(05:49):
Even when they won the championship, they were not. The
noise in comparison is a gentle breeze. That's what is
a gentle breeze. Now that the idea, the concept that
somehow the victim, because everyone loves playing a victim, right,
Everyone wants to claim that.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
You were mean to me, I'm a victim. That's how
they do. That's how they sound too.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
They have this very weird voices, a cartoonish voice, and
I was not raised that way. And you have to
get some criticism, that's part of the deal. And I
find it adorable. And we're supposed to feel bad for Strea.
I'm sure he's being held back winning multiple MVP awards.
He's fighting for his life. Unless he's not fighting for
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his life. And this great oppression is x Twitter. That's
the oppression there. I think we all kind of understand
as humans. If you come across a king cobra or
a black mamba. You don't stop and try to pet it.
If it's a problem, you don't stop and try to
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pet it.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
You don't. So the message is the same message we
always have. If you can't handle the noise, you just
log off, you delete the apps, and boom goes to dynamite.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
The problem is solved. A revolutionary concept. Nobody else is
smart enough to come up with this concept. People are mean, okay,
then just don't look. Who cares? It's you don't have
to partake. It is possible to not partake. There's a
whole big world. I did enjoy during the NBA Finals.
I don't know if you saw the commercial. They had a
(07:27):
commercial encouraging people to go outside and live their lives,
and you know, this whole thing about how people used
to live without social media.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And then it was for Pinterest, which I believe is
a social Is that not a social media platform? All right?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I thought, I thought, well, that's a great I didn't
know what I didn't know what it was for. I
was like, well, that's a really good commercial. And then
I saw at the end of it, like, oh, holy crap,
they just want you to get off X and Instagram
and TikTok.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
And go to go to Pinterest is what they want.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I was like, okay, by some spots here, I think
our audience the boys love Pinterest, right, No they don't.
Not a big crossover. That's more for the ladies. Okay,
I got you. Anyway, listen. So Sam Presty, you know,
he's spinning stats like it's a draidal. He came up
with his stats saying that Shay Drew I think he
(08:19):
said four hundred and fifteen fouls and only four were overturned.
And so he said, well, I see the calls were
right and only four were overturned and all that. Unfortunately,
the problem that Sam Presty has is social media has
their own receipts and they show a lot of clips
online of him being a foul baiter. I'm sure I
(08:41):
said that, probably a foul baiter, and that is an
accurate observation.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
That is an art form that is shamed on. It
is you look down upon when you do that. It's
not harassment, though there's no harassment here Presty. You're supposed
to stand by your man, defend your superstar, and he's
trying to build a moat with crocodiles around around his player.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
All right.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Now, Secondly, we go to New York where Tracy Morgan
is feeding the content machine. Yep, that guy, Tracy Moore.
He's still around a big Knicks fan. He didn't barfit
the garden, right, there was no over. I remember during
the season he puked. Remember that, yeah, big Knicks fan there.
He was out hanging out, the hanging out with all
the one percenters. Now, he recently said that Lebron James
(09:32):
could not handle playing in New York because the lights
are too bright and quote we too rowdy, meaning the
Knicks fans. So I don't know if you saw it now,
a diehard Nick apologist, Tracy Morgan made the comments. He
made the comments while hyping up the atmosphere at Madison
(09:54):
Square guard. He says, New York, that's why Lebron can't
play here. He said, because the the light's too bright,
we too rowdy. Okay, question, do you think Lebron James
avoided the Knicks because the quote Tracy Morgan, the lights
are too bright?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Act to Mecca.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
So listen, this is I know he's just joking around,
and I'm shaking my head. No, no, Tracy Morgan, believe
it or not, has me? I guess defending Lebron is
that what I'm doing. I'm defending Lebron James. I don't
want to defend Lebron Jibs. Why am I defending Lebron Jim?
It's proper like? How dare you? Tracy Morgan? That take
(10:36):
was so bad?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
How bad?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Was it?
Speaker 6 (10:39):
So?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Going?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Right to take jail? Right to hot take jail? And
if you want to know what jail's like, ask for adult.
He's been there. He's been there. So it's not the
Knick supporters, obviously, And I would argue Laker fans and
Nick fans are equally annoying in a different way. The
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like her historians love to tell you about the glory
days and all that. Of course they have one since Kobe,
and then the Nick fans. They haven't won since cable television.
People were using rotary phones last time, the next one,
and yet they want you to know how great they
are and all that. Historically, Lebron has dominated at Madison
Square Garden. In fact, he has treated it like his
(11:23):
personal Airbnb when he's gone in there with these different
teams as a twenty three to nine record, So that's
a seven seventy one percent winning percentage. If the lights
were too bright, you most likely that I'm gonna go
you wouldn't have that record. I'm gonna go out and
limbs that you would not have that record. Now, the truth,
and we are in pursuit of the truth. The truth
(11:44):
is Lebron does not pick teams based on the normal criteria.
He picks amenities. Lebron's a big amenity guy. He likes
the bells and whistles. He's all about that. And he's
always chased the easy road with creature comforts, and sometimes
(12:05):
he goes a little more towards the creature comforts than
the easy road. He loves when you can get both.
That's the sweet spot. You want to get both, that
would be the way to do it. Every franchise he's joined,
if you look at the life and times of Lebron James,
every team that Lebron has joined has rolled out the
red carpet and vacuumed it twice for Lebron. Pat Riley
(12:26):
right in Miami, they brought in they already had Dwayne Wade,
they brought in Chris Bosh and all that, and they
looked out for Lebron, and then Riley got upset. And
when that stopped, and Riley became a bit of a
douche and didn't treat Lebron and kiss his ass all
the time, what did Lebron do? He skid daddled out
of Miami and ran back to Ohio so the Calves
(12:47):
could kiss his ass. And that would go on. And
he never chose New York not because of the Nick fans.
It was because of James Dolan that I believe. That's
why if twenty ten, way back in twenty ten, twenty eleven,
that period of time, the Knicks, they had an opportunity
that meetings with Lebron, and then at one point the
(13:10):
favorite was the Knicks for Lebron, and they did this
like weird Sopranos thing. The Sopranos were a popular show
back then. This thing on HBO's Mob Show. They did
a video that supposed he didn't go well. Then in
twenty eighteen, he had an opportunity to go to the Knicks,
and he chose the Knicks were terrible. He chose to
go to the Lakers because he wanted to hang out
(13:30):
with a bunch of Hollywood losers, and so that's what
he did. The common denominator though, and Lebron met with
the Knicks twice in twenty ten, twenty eleven, twenty eighteen.
The common denominator is James Dole. That's it, like he's
he's got that Lebron bugspray and refused to give Lebron
(13:51):
all the trimming. So Lebron said, I'm good, I'm out
of here. I never been the mecca of management. It's yeah,
So there you go, all right, it is the Bedmas Show.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
Now.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
The final thought was speaking of New York, the very
rowdy fans at MSG for the finals game, as you
might imagine, even though they are the one percenters, the
cheapest ticket to get I guess the upper row in
the very back at Massive Square Garden you get a
ticket for five thousand for five thousand. So anyway, the
(14:27):
game last night there was rhythmic chanting. Now, we would
like to play the rhythmic chant on the air. Unfortunately
we are told we cannot play it due to guidelines
from the federal government. The chant was f you Wemby,
F you Webby, F you Webb.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
They didn't say, just f I don't know. They said fun.
I think it was fun, fun you Wemby.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
No.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
So that happened during Game three. It happened late in
the second quarter when Hello, Kenny, Karl Anthony Towns was
at the foul line. The profane chant was loud. How
loud was it? It was so loud that I heard
it on my TV. He was on the ABC broadc tests.
They tried to mute out some of the bad words.
(15:17):
I noticed on my feed. There were some moments the
audio went mute, which tells you there was some really
dirty words that were being said. They're dirty, dirty, dirty,
the dirty bird. So when asked after the game if
being vilified was a compliment or not, Wemby had a
zinger lined up in his back pocket. He said, quote,
(15:38):
I guess I'm nowhere near Trey Young level.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Though close. Quote little tip of the.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Cap to Trey Young, who for two years two games
was the villain at Madison Square Guarden that he had
to have a game winning basket at the end of
the game where he played very well.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
And then there's another moment there.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Anyway, the point of all that, the question is how
should Wemby feel about getting that profane rhythmic chanting treatment
from the Nick fan Game.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Three, and not just your regular Nick fan.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
These are the elite Nick fans, the ones that either
have really wealthy friends or themselves are.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Really really wealthy.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
So if Nick fans are chanting bad words at you,
which is what happened in Game three of the finals,
it's rather obviously your congratulations. Come on down. You have
been baptized. You have been baptized Wemby, by the world's
angriest church. They have baptized you, and Victor Wamba Yama
should not be offended at all by the profane ranting
(16:39):
and raving, the rhythmic chanting raining down from the upper
upper levels of Madison Square Garden the rafters there.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And it is an honor. I believe it truly is
an honor.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I love MSG gave him the f bomb symphony. It's
like the New York pops just raining down. It's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
It's like it's a Hall of Fame level moment.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
When you're doing that. And Wemby did not get rattled.
He got a little serenade. It's a very nice thing
to serenade him. You can feel the energy. Now, that
was not just a chant. That was essentially the standing
ovation in the New York dialect. There's the standing ovation there,
F you WEMBYF you Wemby. Now in that city, they
(17:28):
don't boo nobody's, they don't chant nobody's. There was mister October.
Reggie Jackson famously said back in his day, in his
salad days in New York, and there is this strange,
beautiful I don't if you don't call it poetry or not.
You've got a twenty two year old kid from France
who looks like he's big bird and instantly becomes the
(17:52):
villain of Manhattan because he's the biggest name obviously on
the Spurs.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
And that's it.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
So Wemby again, I dont think he's upset. It shouldn't
be upset, shouldn't be upset by this. In fact, I
would recommend when this is over, if the Spurs do
come back, and they should, they're the better team, he
should send the garden a thank you card. And it's like, Hey,
this is it. I thought I had arrived, but this
is the moment, this is the moment I arrived. Eight
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Your comments can and will be used against you in the.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Court sports radio pay off. The Mallard Riddle of the day.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I did see the I guess somebody interviewed President Trump
and he denied that he was booed by the nick fans,
and I claimed it was mostly mostly cheers there at
the guard.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Which will say he didn't take a nap either.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Try to drive the people nuts when they're the crowd.
It's he's really good at poking people because they oh,
you were booed, Oh my god, you were booed, Oh
my god. All right time, Now for the Mallar Riddle
of the day. If you don't want to play Malleard's
amount of money, start calling for Mallorer's amount of money.
I need two people for Mallar's amount of money. So
(22:04):
if you want to play, and let's try to get
some new people. Not that I don't love the same
two people to play every frickin' game. Can we get
some new people? Please my God? And that means you
have to call up get if your fat asked eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox, here's the Mallor riddle
of the day. Knicks coach Mike Brown said that Mitchell Robinson.
(22:24):
The reason that Mitchell Robinson gets his he gets his
comdemeanor from blank.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Again, let me I screwed that up.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Knicks coach Mike Brown said that Mitchell Robinson gets his
calm demeanor from Blank. So that is the Mallard riddle
of the day. And let's see, does anyone know the answer?
He gets his comm from Aaron Rodgers. His com demeanor
us Kathy in Madison, the lovely and Talented hey mona
(22:50):
woman analog al says rotary phone using a rotary phone.
Femi in Minnesota says from Barney the purple die, which
I don't think is a thing anymore.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Fly fishing from.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Rob the goat man in des moines his parole officer
from Alf the alien old piter. Look you got some
got some tattoos while you're in jail. Look at that
unbelievable What.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Else do we have? Let's see fer Dog says that
the answer is from the rain is terrific sense of humor.
She's so funny, that's why. All right, what else do
we have? Page Dan? I don't think I'm going to
read that one.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Eeke in Roseville, Minnesota from chewing crushed ice guess by
the late night drug tester hol Let me.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Put these guys on hold.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
I just ask people to call up for the game
shows and make sure they are on hold there.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
All right, what else do we have? Let's see?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Uh, Stevie Meatball says he gets his calm demeanor from
hollering James.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
His biological father. Is that true? Interesting?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Mallard prop guy says, from listening to the Ben Malers
Show podcast asked and the Fifth Hour podcast, guys get
the headphones on at the foul line playing volleyball from
Donkey Sausage. What else do we have? Mister irrigation is
going with Jack Nicholson. I cleaned that up for you.
What else do we have? Eileen in San Francisco says
(24:17):
he gets his calm demeter from Ginger and Mary Anne
and the Skipper too, or probably not the Skipper. He
what have Trucker Joe says from buying his cars extended
warranty and that the great scam, right, the extended warranty scam.
What else fentanyl was guessed by Johnny Q from Fishing
from rob our Buddy Rob in Minnesota. George Carlin from
(24:40):
Piller Up Phil that's his answer.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Who else? Do you have aage?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Down?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Country music? From Boso the District Attorney. JT.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
The Wingman from Tennessee says his gasoline scented air freshener, Yum, yum.
Timmy from Busco, Indiana says that the NBA player named
Mitchell Robinson gets his calm demeanor from a combination of
Xanax and red wine. Interesting, all right, Lorena, do you
(25:12):
have an answer?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Lorena? I was gonna go with puppy therapy.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Puppy therapy, all right? Is that correct? Let's see you're
not right the correct answer. According to Mike Brown, I
said that his player Mitchell Robinson gets his calm demeanor
from country music. Country music, Yeah, I would say that
(25:36):
the percentage of NBA players that like country music is
less than five percent going to be my guests, gotta
be less than five percent. There are some less than
five percent. That's a very small group of people that
love the country music. Let's say hello to metaglass Kyle,
who is somewhere out in the desert somewhere. Hello metaglass Kyle.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Many off.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
First off, First off, let me let me can I
can I say two things before I get into the
NBA topic. Number one is, hey, Scott, here's a black
man that called up that's not trying to hit on Lorena.
Number two, my question for all three of y'all, are
you a AC and the winter time person or a
(26:23):
blanket and the summertime person.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
I'm AC year round. I like to be cold. I
want to be frozen when I sleep, and so I
like to be cool.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I don't want to.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Be hot, so I AC all the time, all the time, Lorena.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I hate being frozen. I'm a blanket even if it's
hot kind of girl.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
And if it's air conditioned inside, I will even have
a jacket on, Like, do not mess.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Up, all right, coop a acyar blanket?
Speaker 7 (26:55):
I like, I mean, I'm I'm cheap, so I don't
really put on the AC very much, but I would
if if if money was no object, I would have.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
It set to like sixty five. Well, I'm cheap. Also,
what I got is a room air conditioner.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Yeah, okay, I'm on one of those about one of
those as scene on TV, those arctic Arctic coolers where
you just put the ice in the road. Trade is
actually fan worse than ac.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
No, it didn't that work, Yeah it doesn't. It didn't
look like yeah if it that.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Was the worst buy. Billy May sold me on that
years ago.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Billy.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Yeah, But anyways though, and then look, hey, part one
of our dreams come true. It might actually come true.
Then then what we said they didn't need the game
three uh heroics from the Knicks, so we can go
ahead and pull off this four game in a row
win streak. You know that they're gonna do uh presumptively,
(27:53):
We're gonna say presumptly. But no, all around, it was
a classic game. Just didn't did not agree with what
Mike Brown did. He had one of those system overload
type of deals where he was looking on the flout
Longe scratching his head like you I actually got to
start a coach. I think Rick Brunson coaches that team. Honestly,
I don't think Mike Brown. I think Mike Brown is
(28:13):
just to face. You see more of Rick Brunson than
you do with Mike Brown on the sideline or going
to the well.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
But yeah, Rick Brunston does run out a lot and
anything evolving his son, his son, obviously he's running over there.
How about the people that bought tickets out of Game
four thinking the Knicks we're gonna win and then win
the championship. Did you see this the tickets as of
like during the game, they were going for like twelve
thousand dollars the minimum get in for Game four, And
(28:40):
now that the Knicks lost on Monday, you can get
in for a reasonable four thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Yeah, and speak and what you said though, with the
charity buying those two million dollar seats that nobody sat in,
You're gonna let Chaul Oakland sit in wine those seats
for crime?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Well, no, he'd be arrested if he entered the arena,
he'd be arrested.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
Do it.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Listen, listen, listen. We got guys out here that are
actually doing real dumb stuff, right, like real dumb stuff.
This man literally was one of your better guys during
the time. Get a man the opportunity.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Listen, I understand he is suing the massive square.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Trump was sitting next to Dolan, and it wasn't Oakley
and Trump and Ewing and all those guys buddies back
in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
So Trump, negotiate a peace deal.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
You the president, get a peace deal for Charles Oakley
back at the guard exactly.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
He now, before before I let you go, you know,
Trump was going to turn that into it. They weren't
boring me. They were mooing me. Trump.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Well, he did say that, he said, he said it
was mostly uh cheers or what.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
I don't know who cares. I thank you, Kyle Medaglass.
Kyle there he is big star meda glass Kyle. We'll
see him in Vegas when we do the Mallard Meet
and Greek hopefully soon in Vegas sometime in August. Mike
the Lepreconn. Then we've got to get to Mallard's amount
of money. Hello, Mike the Leprica on.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
There, Good morning man, How are you Peach?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
If I was any better, I'd be doing the Fifth
Hour podcast. But I did that already on Sunday with you.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Yes, that was great, that was really fun. Yes, all right,
So anyway, I do want to give not a shout out,
but crazy Joeke from Chicago. He's my neighbor and anyway,
that's my not shout out. I have a couple of jokes,
but I'm not going to tell him today. I'm going
to keep him for Friday.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Thank you, man, God bless you. Could I do the game?
Speaker 3 (30:31):
No, we are You're my backup. Holy you'll be my
backup if these guys are bad, and we'll go to you.
Let's welcome in archnitestas we have Andy in Venice Beach,
Beautiful Venice Beach. I spent many a day in Venice
back in the day. Hello, Andy, welcome.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
What's going on? Man? Are you nearing me? Loud and clear? There?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
All right, this is very exciting. It sounds like you're driving,
which means you're not in Venice Beach, You're going somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Yes, somehow you've pinpointed my location leaving Guardena heading to
Venice Beach.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
And that is a very.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Accurate, okay description of me driving.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
I hope you can find parking in Venice. This is
a little rocky around it. All right, Well, you're gonna
play the game. Who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Andy?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Got me Ben Lorena or Coop. Okay, all right, hold
on a second.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
So Andy, he's driving through Guardena making his way to
Venice Beach. Now, let's say hello to Austin, who's in
in the field in Bakersfield.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Hello, Austin, Welcome, and Ben I a going.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
If I was any better, I would be a blaze,
but not a Bakersfield blaze. Because that's the minor league
baseball team that left Austin. We closed that team down.
We threw out the first pitch there years ago, and
that team went bankrupt. They had been there for one
hundred years, Austin, one hundred years in bakers.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Stop telling that, who do you want to partner up with? Austin?
Who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Lorena?
Speaker 1 (32:04):
All right, Lorena, you got picked? Lorena? Excit excited? Yeah,
I can't. I don't want you to lose. All right,
I'm your partner, Austin.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
The people get so upset, I don't ye because you're
trying to cheat again, not trying to cheat.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
Mallard's Mountain of Money. This is the Kanye West edition.
He turned forty nine on Monday.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
What an old part. Yes.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
The categories are family, Business, Touch, the Sky Homecoming and
thirty Hours.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Andy, you were on first, which category would you like?
Touch the Touch the Sky? All right? And Austin, how
about you.
Speaker 7 (32:42):
The category family Business Homecoming or thirty hours Homecoming?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
All right, all right, very good? Everyone, hold on, hold
the line, Hold the line. The cougars are coming. The
cougars are coming. Okay, very good. So that'll that'll be
the matchup.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
We have Andy, assuming he doesn't hang up on his
way to Venice Beach, and Austin is in Bakersfield. It's
me Ben with Andy and Coop and Austin will have
in its entirety Mallard's Mountain of Money. We'll get to
that and we will do it.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
Neck be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Mallor Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Bill Miller and you.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
It is the Bain Mallor Show. You are never that
far away from the Ben Malor Show. You should always
listen on your local radio station. However, sometimes you're traveling
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(33:46):
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all available.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
For you on the iHeart app. Thank you now, Nailer's
Mountain of Money.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
Hell, do you have what it takes to get to
the top. Probably not.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Let's so here we go. We welcome in our contestas
we have Andy, who's heading to Venice Beach. He's I
should be almost there.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
And Austin in Bakersfield and he's with Coop and I'm
with Andy.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Are you there, Andy, I'm here? Okay, very exciting.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Let's get started here, Andy, and you're gonna play the
game we have.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
But what do we have here? We have touch the sky?
Touch this guy. These athletes are so tall. How tall
are they?
Speaker 3 (34:41):
They're so tall they can seemingly touch the sky. Do
you understand the concept? Andy, I'm ready to win this
amount of money.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Okay, down, here we go. It's fake money. Here we go.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Give me forty five seconds on the clock. We need
the first and last name, and we're on our way
go center for the San Antonio Spurs. Right now, center
for the Spurs, right now from France. Yeah, the captain
of the Yankees, number ninety nine, Carlo Stanton. No, the
(35:23):
big unit for the Seattle Mariners. Pitcher Brandy Gartin.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Yes, football player in the nineteen seventies for the Cowboys,
nickname too tall.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
What's his first name? Yeah, that's correct. All right, center
from Purdue. He's plays for the Memphis Grizzlies. He won
the Wooden Award. He's an NBA player, seven foot four guy.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Yeah, good job, baby, that was one hundred pointer. All right, Austin,
we have homecoming? How many we get?
Speaker 7 (35:55):
Lard on twenty Austin Homecoming. These athletes all returned to
their original team. Are you ready, Austin? All right, forty
five seconds, let's begin. He's the King. He's on the
Lakers right now. Yes, this guy was the tight end
for the Denver Broncos. He won Super Bowls with John Elway.
He's on TV's got a horse face. Yes, this guy
(36:19):
was the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks. He's one
of the best point guards of all time. Yes, this
guy's nickname was the Professor pitcher for the Cubs. Carry No,
all right, uh this one. Uh. This was a defensive
end for the Dolphins. He was bald. He's in the
Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Taylor.
Speaker 7 (36:41):
Yes, this guy was a slugger for the Nationals and Yankees.
He was like a five tool player.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
He was. That was a tough one.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
That was.
Speaker 7 (36:53):
Alright, Austin, alright, Greg Maddox, he was who were missing there?
You want to just give up, Austin? Do you want
thirty hours or family business?
Speaker 4 (37:05):
Thirty hours?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Thirty hours? All right?
Speaker 7 (37:07):
These athletes all war or war number thirty forty five seconds.
Next begin splash brother on the Warriors right now. Yes,
this guy was the running back for the Denver Broncos
John Elway. Yes, this guy is the all time strikeout
king in baseball.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
I mean Joel Ryan.
Speaker 7 (37:27):
Yes, this guy was a running back for the Saint
Louis Rams and the La Rams. His nickname, his last
name's kind of feminine. Wow, that's offensive.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
All right.
Speaker 7 (37:39):
This guy was a power forward for the Blazers and
the Pistons. He's a tech tech king. Yes, this guy
was a scoring leader for the Knicks back in the
day in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
I don't know. All right, this guy was this bastealer.
He loved cocaine. Three quoes, okay, Tim round two forty together,
Tim Rains, Bernard King. What else?
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Todd Gurley, number thirty, Todd Gurley.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
All right, well, well we still have to go, Andy.
We have a family business, I believe. Yes, all right, Andy,
these sports figures have all followed in their father's footsteps. Okay,
are you ready?
Speaker 4 (38:21):
Andy, I'm going through the pch.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Tunnel now, so all right, let's get let's get let's
get going. All right.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
He's the head coach of the forty nine ers right now.
His dad coach the Broncos.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
And the Raider. Yeah, there you go. That's a winner.
We'll keep going. Broadcaster for the Saint Louis Cardinals. And
his son is the broadcaster on what was on Fox?
He's on ESPN right now. No, that is completely wrong,
Raiders star. Howie's son he played for the Bears. Off.
(38:56):
Oh I know that his son. No, I we've already
won the game. It's a it's a it's already run.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
It go all right?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Well, Andy, you get a golden ticket, You get a
gold tell the wing for me, Coop.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
You lost the game coop again, one in a week
all time win King Baby
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