June 13, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Knicks kicking the tires on Mike Brown and Taylor Jenkins for their coaching gig, some members of the media being convinced that MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is suffering from fatigue, Lame Jokes of the Week, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dingdong. It's our number three. Ignorance is bliss and the
comedy club opens up in a minute, as we are
ready to go in our number three of the Ben
Maler Show and talk some basketball. What can we take
away from the Knickerbockers kicking the tires on Mike Brown
and Taylor Jenkins now in their coaching search a couple
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of rejected coaches. Also, some in the media are now
convinced that the Thunders MVP Shay Jogas Alexander is suffering
from fatigue. Now he's down playing it. How do you
read the room on this one? People making excuses that
the reason he didn't play well down the stretch is
because he's he's injured. What's your perspective on that? And
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thumbs up or thumbs down to Magic Johnson who says
a superstar is a person who can go to on
the road and sell out the building. We'll talk about
that and more right now here. It is our number three.
It's just a nick. It's it's all it is. It's
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Coaching Debacle, follow up Coaching, Dibaco, follow up Coaching, Carousel,
pro bouncy Ball. After twenty percent, twenty percent of the
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NBA has rejected the phishing efforts by the New York Knickerbockers,
we have had a change of heart, not by one
of the coaches that the Knicks tried to hire something else.
I don't even saw this or not, maybe not. We
are told now that the Knicks are having a change
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in playing. I know you're very concerned about this. The
Knicks for years have had the moral low ground when
it comes to doing the right thing. So the Knicks
are now planning to pursue Mike Brown and Taylor Jenkins
to the sad trombone ye Brown, vagabond coach. Vagabond coach
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who did have some success riding the coattails of Lebron
James with the Cavs and then went to the Lakers
for like a minute and then coached in Sacramento. Now Jenkins,
he was unceremoniously dumped fired by the Grizzlies just before
the playoffs started. They said bye bye and they got.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Rid of him.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Not exactly flying high in Memphis. So let us discuss
the question what can we take away from the Knickerbockers
kicking at tires on guys like Mike Brown and Taylor
Jenkins for their head coaching job. So yeah, I've got
wagou saucy and showbiz. We will combine all of these
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things together, and we're gonna make some fresh produced is
what We're going to make some right off the rack
fresh produce. Absolutely. I know that's a harrowing experience for
some of you to have to eat that. Now, First
of all, it tells me that if you're now considering
Mike Brown and Taylor Jenkins, you're on the ropes. You
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are on the ropes. You are ready to cry uncle, Uncle,
save me uncle. Pivoting from a bevy a bevy of
coaches that are currently employed and being rejected, going up
a blind alley and just being rejected at every opportunity.
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And so now you're looking at these coaches who are
not all that exciting. Going from from TIBs to Mike
Brown or Taylor Jenkins is the equivalent of going out
to a nice meal with some wagou and then instead
of that, you end up at a gas station eating
the sushi at a gas station. Like that's a downgrade,
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not even a downey. That's a disaster, is what that is.
If you're the Nicks. Now, I'm a fan of Tom Thibodeau.
I thought the guy did a good job. He provided
some identity and not the coaches matter all that much.
But he did give a foundation of grit and toughness.
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And whether you like it or not, the garden was rocket.
You know, all those annoying celebrities. They were hanging out
having a grand time there and then it all caved
in against the Pacers. But now now they're looking at what.
So Tom Thibodeau was a very hands on guy. He
incorporated his beliefs into the the machine. And so now
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they're looking at what a corporate traffic cop, some middle
manager without any real power, who's going to be the
new coach of the Knickerbockers. And as we mentioned, Mike
Brown was on the Lebron express train in Cleveland. He
had an old Kobe Bryant with the Lakers. Now, when
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people tell you about Mike Brown and basketball, they say sweetheart, sweetheart,
good man, Mike Brown, big smile, laughs, a lot, good person,
Mike Brown. They don't say great coach, good x's and
o's guy, good locker room guy. They don't say that.
They say sweetheart, good guy, not a great coach. And
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as far as Jenkins, I actually think Jenkins is a
pretty good coach. However, he allowed Ja Morant to run
around like a loose firecracker with no concern under his watch.
And he said, well, John Morant was the star. What's
he supposed to do. Well, you've got to have some
kind of boundaries in there. Now. My advice, unsolicited overnight
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talk radio advice to the Knicks. You go Eminem, you
go M and M. I'm not talking peanut, butter, I'm
not talking peanut. I'm not talking No, I'm not talking regularly, Eminem.
Michael Malone, that's who you call. You go out there
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and have a public courtship with Michael Malone. Now, the
word on the street is he's happy taking the Kronky
family money from the Nuggets, and he's not all that
motivated to come right back into coaching. He wants to
take some time off, enjoy himself, do some more bad television. However,
if you're the Knicks, you go out there and you
play foot see, You play foot see with Michael Malone,
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and you give those puppy dog eyes there and send
a box of chocolates and some fly hours over for
the former Nuggets coach, and Malone would take the job.
He's a native New Yorker, so he's from there. I
think he's from Queens. If I remember, he's got a
pretty good resume. He's also got the kind of gumption
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that would work in Gotham. So that's the move, right,
that's a turning point move. And well, it's a stupid decision.
It was an irrational decision to get rid of Tom Thibodeau,
to bring in Michael Malone. That's about as good as
you can do at this point. Now, secondly, some let's
go to the finals. Because there are some in the media.
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I've been hearing this and reading this here for the
last day or so. Some of the media elites are
convinced that the most valuable player of the NBA for
Oklahoma City, Shay Jugas Alexander, is suffering from fatigue. Now,
he was asked about this, he downplayed it. But how
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do you read the room on this, because there are
some very prominent basketball media dopes that are convinced SGA
is messed up. So here's how I read the room.
One word saucy. Saucy it's weak. Sauce is what it is. Right,
This is crank it up. You got to crank it up.
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You got to crank it up. This is cranking up the
excuse machine. Yet again, the people that carry the water,
or in this case, the kool aid in the media,
are creating reasons why the favorite NBA darling of the
moment wrote the vomit comet in the fourth quarter of
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Game three of the Finals. So now it's fatigue. Really,
boo hoo hoo, is what I sah? He's it's fatigue.
Cut him a brake, So we're playing the he's tired.
Isn't that part of how this works. It's supposed to
be a war of attrition, and if you're wearing down,
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you don't get the big bling bling at the end.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
There.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I don't believe that it is he's fatigued. So in
order for this to be the case, just to set
the record straight, Sga, the MVP, the face of Oklahoma
City Basketball and one of the people the NBA marketing
machine is trying to sell to people that don't want
to buy the product, and is averaging thirty plus points
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a game and all this stuff, and all of a sudden,
now because he plays bad in the fourth quarter, he
gets out played by a backup for Indiana in Matherin,
and so now it's well, he didn't get his flintstone vitamins.
And that's the problem the media lemmings, and I know
some of these people. You build these people up like gods,
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and then the second that things don't go well, the
moment you sign, you sign off on living in Suckville.
It's all. He's exhausted. Give him a break. He's not tired.
He's not. And if he is, he's not that good. Right,
you know what happened. He just got out played. He
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got out play. That's it. It's not that he was fatigued.
He's in play. Well, do better, be better. I don't
want to hear about your fatigue. You know, we want
to see you go out there with some machismo, had
some vimen vigor in the fourth quarter, and get it done.
It's the NBA bleeping Finals. You're not in kindergarten, and
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it's nap time. And then when you wake up, you'll
have your juice box and you'll have your your peanut
butter and jelly sandwich, and then that's it and you'll
watch cartoons. All right, final thought, So we flipped the
page here. Magic Johnson, that's right, that Magic Johnson. He
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did a television interview recently and he was asked what
his definition of a superstar is. Did you see this? No,
you did not. Well, here's the magic quote from Magic Johnson.
He said a quote, a superstar is a person who
can go on the road and sell the building out close.
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Quote that's from Irvin Magic Johnson. That's it. That's the definition,
short and sweet. So let's play the game. Thumbs up
thumbs down on Magic Johnson saying a superstar is a
person who can go on the road and sell out
the building. So am I going thumbs up or thumbs down?
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I'm going sideways thumb. I'm going sideways. That's a curveball.
Sideways thumb is what I'm doing. And here's why, because
I get the the mindset of what Magic is saying.
You know, he's not talking about statistics. He's not talking
about all the nerd stats which are very popular right now,
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the true shooting percentage or any of that stuff. Magic
is merely talking bo not body oder box office. Right.
It's show business and Magic, as much as anyone in
NBA history, is responsible for bringing the glitz and glamour
to the NBA. And that goes back to the early
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nineteen eighties with Magic Johnson and we are looking at
forty five years almost of Magic Johnson and the connection
between entertainment and pro basketball. So if anyone would know
about that, it's magic, it's Magic Johnson, it's show business.
There is something do that and the true superstars like
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Michael Jordan was appointment viewing. And as much as I
loathed Lebron James and we'd like to goof on Lebron, Lebron,
Steph Curry, the late Kobe Brian, those guys, when they
came to your town, it was an event. You couldn't
just buy a ticket the night of the game for
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five dollars on the secondary market, and you just couldn't. Charismatic,
influential are words that come to mind, and you see
them in the building and it's just a little different.
And I know this when I started doing this kind
of stuff and I went to the NBA games and I
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covered some really bad Clipper teams in my twenties, and
I remember the night that like Larry Bird would come
in with the Boston Celtics, there was just a little
more buzz. Everyone knew the Clippers were going to lose,
but there was just a little more buzz when Bird
and McHale and those guys would come in the Chicago Bulls.
It was the same thing as opposed to a different
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night when and I even picture, you know, random when
Reggie THEUS and the Sacramento came came in, or even
the Sonics had some good teams in those years with
the Xavier McDaniel and Tom Chambers and guys like that,
but there was no buzz for those teams when they
would come in. There just wasn't so, you know. And
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and by the way, you can be an MVP and
still not move the needle. Let me give you my
evidence on that. Shay jogis Alexander. He just doesn't have
a presence the NBA and less I like you former
Clipper and all the great player, good ball player, he
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just doesn't have it. And in terms of that, that
Rasmataz and he's trying to prop him up and they're
polishing him, and they're making this big presentation. The people
aren't buying it, right, don't sell the steak, sell the sizzle.
People like the sizzle. Now you gotta have the steak,
but they'd rather go and buy the sizzle. And we
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live in the age of engagement on social media all
that stuff, and you want to see something. You want
to see that that aura, that charisma. Must see, whether
it's television or must see TikTok, you gotta see it.
Seeing is believing, Seeing is believing. It is the Ben
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of the live show. Time now for the malor Riddle
of the Day. And here is the mallor Riddle of
the day. This is where we pretend to be somebody else.
Thus we call it the mallor Riddle of the Day.
And here we go go to the wacky, wacky world
of baseball. The Chicago CULB TV broadcast showed Justin Turner
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wearing blank in the dugout and they named him the
fan of the Day again. Chicago Cubs local TV broadcast
showed veteran Justin Turner, the former Dodger, wearing blank in
the dugout and name him the fan of the day.
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That is the Mallord Riddle of the Day. The answer,
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
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Back to it. We go back to it, and time
now for the insta trivia. I want to thank Robbie,
the Mariner fan who encouraged me to do this. The
Chicago Cubs TV broadcast shows that showed that Justin Turner
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wearing a blank in the dugout and named him the
fan of the day. How great is that to be
the fan of the day for the iconic Chicago Cubs.
What an amazing thing. So that is the mallor riddle
of the day. Let's see, does anyone know the answer?
And Scrooge says Justin in Cincinnati's Sunday church outfit. Yeah,
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that's that's what Justin looks like when he goes to
bed and when he wakes up. That's what he looks like.
That's what I've heard from from Robbie King. Rory writes
and says he was wearing a Bucky's T shirt. Yeah,
I miss I miss BUCkies. We haven't got any Bucky
stuff in a while. We used to get Bucky's. Those
Bucky nuggets were great, and some guys hooked us up
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with that, but I haven't had those. I think I'm
out now, I'm out of my supply. Late night drug
tester says, a beer helmet, that's his answer. A hairy
carry mask from Milkman. Mike and Colorado berg Dog said
he wore a mask to prevent the spread. We must
stay vigilant. Very important. Eloy from Competence says Justin Turner
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showed them the hardest championship ring ever won. Good job
by you, Eloy, that's right, during a global pandemic, baseball's
hardest season, only a sixty game season, much harder. Anything
goes wrong, you're done, and the Dodgers won it. Greatest
worldsare and Justin Turner was part of that. A man
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purse from clam like Lebron Tom in cann City, home
of the Ben Mallard chicken fingers at the Landing in Liberty, Missouri.
I've been there, great restaurant, got the Ben Maller chicken frees.
Tom says, A cockroach on his shoulder. A cockroach on
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his shoulder. Alf the alien o Pineer is going with
a chicken suit, just like the iconic San Diego Chicken
who sold old sold out the old Springfield Civic Center
every year. In my youth, the chicken was big in
the in like the late seventies and the eighties. I
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love the the fact that the Chicken was a radio
station promotion. It was a radio station in San Diego.
That was good promotion. Yeah, it started as a bit
for the radio station and then then became this thing
where everyone loved it. FA City Tony says, the answer
is nick punto there you go? Who else? Page down,
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far out. Dave says that Thong Thong thong is the answer.
Harry styles pay suit from The Nature Boy. Page down,
Harry Carey onesie from Fudgie, Carrie mask from eg A,
Cubby's Bear costume, guest by inco Terror Mark in Santa
Monica says wearing an Aaron Judge Jersey Johnny Q says
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it to to Tom the Plumber going with a poppat
honoring the pontiff and same answer as Mike the Leprekun.
All right, Loraina, do you have an answer to the
Malard riddle of the day. The Chicago Cup television broadcast
this week showed Justin Turner, veteran Major League baseball player,
wearing blank in the dugout and named him the fan
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of the day. Well, since you know Aaron Judge is
his name.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
What if he was wearing one of those old fashioned
white wigs that the judges used to wear.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, that would be funny. But this is Justin Turner.
This is somebody not you know, I don't know. Maybe
he could have warned here's a dated reference a Tina
Turner outfit. Yeah, big wheels, keep on turning, baby. There
you go with the correct answer. Chicago Cup TV broadcast
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showed veteran baseball player Justin Turner wearing a fake test
in the dugout and named him the fan of today.
Yeah he had to that. Well, it's just this is
kink I don't know. It wasn't me. I didn't know
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he had it. Pretty It's pretty funny because the CUB
broadcast shows him and he's he's jumping up and down,
kind of shaking the fake device. And the CUB broadcasters
realized what they had just shown on television, and they
muted their microphones because they I'm assuming they couldn't stop
laughing that. On the Chicago cub owned TV channel, they
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show one of the Cup players in the dugout shaking
his fake just outstanding. That's the Cubs. That is the Cubs.
All right's go to the phones and let's say hello
to Let's go to Mike, who's in San Francisco. Now,
Mike's got a story, and we love stories on this show.
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So Mike's gonna dazzle you with an amazing story. Hello, Mike, Welcome, Ben, Yes, hey, welcome.
What's what's going on?
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Just?
Speaker 6 (24:29):
First off, thank you late night to Light. It's one
my time. I think it's the same for you.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Right, Time is a relative thing? What is time? What
is time? Mike?
Speaker 6 (24:41):
I know? Well, all right, gladly think I don't call
him your shlw to Frank call right. So about ten
years ago, calling into FP Santangelo's show, right, tell him
the Giants dream to win the World Series? He told
me I was drunk. I call him the second time.
He says, hey, it sounds like even having too many
tigers out there at Saint Mary's College. So then I'm like,
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you know what this guy's making me mad? I call
him a third time, I accuse him of using steroids,
and I call it as the alias Papa Frido, And
so then I call it a fourth time as Papa Frido.
I wait forty five minutes in the carpool or the callpool.
He takes me off air. He rips me a new one, says,
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I'll meet you anytime anywhere. I'll whoop you, I'll beat
your who waits forty five minutes on on my callpool
just to talk ish, who are you Papa Frido. I'll
meet you anytime anywhere. So anyways, uh, he ends up
dating one of my sister's friend years later, and I'm like, you.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Know what through that guy?
Speaker 6 (25:49):
But if at DJA Tangel's listening, I'll call it shoes.
I was young. I never called it the Ben Meller
Show to talk any is, but uh, I was just
having fun. So just want to tell that random.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Look at that you got. You got, you got under
his skin. That's awesome. You got so you upset him
so much that he took your call off the air
to rip you a new one. That's outstanding. That's good trolling.
That's a solid troll move by you.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
That was smart because you would have whooped my ass.
But I'm waiting until he's like shifty something. I'm going
to take him up on the offer. Now, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I do that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
No, you should. You should do it now if you can.
If he's like in his late fifties, now you can
kick his ass. Now he's in fifty seven or something
like that, you can.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
He said, yeah, everyone knows that. Oh oh ye hung up,
Oh wow, wow, you know.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
But uh, you know.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
I told him I was a second time car and
he was like, oh, we've never had one of those before.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
All right, that's good. It's a badge of honor. FP.
Santangelo and I have my own. He played for the Dodgers.
When I was doing stuff with him in like the
year two thousand, he was so bad. How bad was he? Oh?
My god, was horrific with the Dodgers, and a buddy
of mine, the late great T. J. Simers columnists used
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to just slay destroyed, destroyed. F P. Santangelo ripped him
a new one every single day back when people read newspapers,
and F. P. Santangelo was so pissed off, so upset
with with him. It was I have some fond memories.
Some of the stuff I don't think I can I
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can see on the air. Anyway, There you go, good
good FP Santangelo story. I did not have that on
my bingo card when I came in, I was I
was lacking that. Let's say hello to who do we
have any medie Moneymoe, Mike the Leprechaun is in Boston.
Hello Mike the leprell Boston adjacent?
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Hello Mike adjacent?
Speaker 6 (27:47):
Flame again was to be precise.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Do I ever get under your skin?
Speaker 6 (27:50):
And got?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
I don't right, No, you get under the skin of Lorrainer.
She's annoyed by you, but I don't.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Cry, come our baby like my fire tailor Sift?
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Are you there?
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Did you see Taylor Swift?
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I left, I'm out. I'm having.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
At the game.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
That guy. Is that really unbelievable? I mean, I mean
that's wild to me. I wonder, I wonder who. I
wonder who mentioned that in the monologue. I don't know
who could have mentioned that monologue.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
I heard it.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
I was up at two o'clock.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Then why would you ask me? Why would you ask
me that question? You?
Speaker 5 (28:27):
I saw it, okay, I was complimenting you on a
great monologue.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Eddie Garcia would be part of you.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Yeah, all right, did you see the tackle yesterday in
the courtroom they took down the the Californian Senator and Compton.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Well there were two, there were two tackles. Yeah, the
Senator that got tackled. And then there was some video
that went viral of some loser who threw some of
the cop at the riot. And then some dude came
over and looked like Ronnie Lott from the forty nine
ers in like nineteen eighty seven and just tackled this guy.
It was vicious. That's a dated reference, but my god,
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it was quite attacking.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Called the lapd.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
How six matters with your phonems and all that.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I can't believe that that Scott.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah, yeah, we'll have more on that developing story on
the Fifth Hour podcast later today.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
I'm sure, I'm sure. I hope I make it to
the lame jokes for the week this time.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Okay, all right, all right, thank you, go away. Josh
writes in for Nebraska. He says Justin Turner was giving
his teammates Suzuki the Balls dance from Major League the movie.
Was that what he's doing? All right? Well, the fact
that it was on camera though? Was can I see
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you ball, sir? I'd like to see it.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Ten out of ten? Ten out of ten is what
that was. I'll say a load to Blind Scott, speak
of the devil, and he shall appear. Hello Blind Scott
on the north end.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Hey, what's up, Ben? I've had some Uh you know,
I don't want to I hate talking politics on the show.
But that guy talked. You know, he got tackled. You
know I've been tackled like that recently on the street.
It really hurts it out. You never you never want
to be walking and have someone tackle you when you
don't expect it. So I'm prepared for it all the time.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
I got my head no, hold on, say it is
it true that you How many times? Ho, let's play
the game? I don't. Did you tell Coop how many
times you called in?
Speaker 2 (30:32):
No? I didn't. I didn't tell.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Okay, all right, let's play the game. All right, stop
stop stops. I know I can't play the game. How
many times did Blind Scott call the Fox Sports radio
calling number to get on the air? Lorena, take a
guess tonight just tonight? Oh gosh?
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Probably Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I'm gonna go with thirty seven times thirty seven.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
That would be a lot, right, thirty seven is a
large number of times to redial. That is a large number. Coop.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Uh, well, I know yesterday it was seventy five and
he got in sooner, So I'm going to go.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
One fifty five, okay, Blind Scott reveal answers. Blind Scott
called like over.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Three hundred and fifteen times.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
No, big, that's a little much, Scott. Don't you think
that's a little much?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Like I actually have multi personality, just sort of so
it brought out this really calm person in me. So
I don't feel like I'll fired fired out, you know,
like I feel like an understanding person who just like
is dealing with issues. So like when I grew up,
I grew up with the police chief of the LAPD
STANMI with Bill Bratton. So I was working on this
with the LAPD. I dropped Bill's name, told him I,
you know, I was a big police family person. So
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we were under the understanding that so many people are
standing outside of the studio, that the lines are being
jammed by the signals of the callers and protesters all
at the same time. It's a big Joye Soro's conspiracy
to try to, you know, suppress the numbers coming into
Fox Sports Radio on the overnight radio in the LAPD
kind of looked into it for me a little bit.
Is there a communion communication truck outside the studio that
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you know that might be there. The thing is, callers
need to call sports radio. If they can't call, there
will be civil unrest. And if you get the sports
radio calls out on the street, you're not gonna You're
not gonna like how they protest. I mean, you get
these trust on babies and these NEPO babies out on
the street right now, there's no big deal. They got
their parents cell phone, their parents' credit card, they got
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nice bosons. You get these sports radio fans out there,
the whole America is gonna get just so so gone
if there's no sports or no sports radio phone calls.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Okay, well, oh you're not done. I thought you I
got the jokes coming up though.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
No, this Justin Turner guy. The Red Sox should have
never got rid of him. He's like a huge humanitarian
is even in the league right now.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
He's like one of the well he's on the Cubs.
He hardly plays, but he's on there. He's on the
I gotta go call three hundred if you call it.
If you get back in, we'll get you on again.
Three call three hundred more times. I'll make a deal
if you if you get back on the phones, we'll
let you back on. Okay, we are you there. Weed Man,
we Man, hippie Miami weed Man. All right, buckle up,
(33:23):
weed man, we are moments. What you know what we
got coming up here in a moment jokes Big Ben's
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Buckle up, buccaroo, we'll get to that. We'll do it next.
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Yeah?
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Make me round, all right, very good, We'll try to
make me laugh. These are actual jokes by actual listeners.
If you'd like to send a joke in Senate care
of Ben Maler Show at gmail dot com. Why does
Weedman wear a mask around his new roommate. Why, Well,
he's afraid that work could be contagious and he doesn't
want to catch it. That's that's that's from Chip in
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Maine and I hear your roommate is awake, weed made correct?
All right, very nice? But why is weed man Hippie
happy that he has a new roommate? Why because weed
Man Hippie found a bigger loser than himself. That's from
John in Youngstown, Ohio. Thank you John. All right? Uh?
(35:49):
What what does weed man have in common with the
word wood wood burning stove?
Speaker 6 (35:56):
What?
Speaker 1 (35:57):
They're both pot bellied? That's air in Kansas. We weed
man hippie claims to be from the New York area.
But where was he born?
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Where?
Speaker 1 (36:12):
That would be Hobo Ken, New Jersey. Hopo. That's Sirfer Todd,
the comedian who sent that one in from SoCal Big
Ben's lame Jokes of the Week, Actual jokes by actual listeners.
What do you call it when weed man is sitting
in his front yard working a crossword puzzle?
Speaker 5 (36:34):
What?
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Thinking outside the box? That's Terry Terry in Saint Paul.
Thank you for that, Terry. Why is weed Man jealous
of whoopee Pie Blair from Maine? Why because weed Man,
or rather because whoopy Pie Blair might actually get money
for working on something? That's Eric in Kansas. Well, I
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don't know if you heard about this week, man, But
this is a big story all over the internet. Have
you heard about the actress Sidney Sweeney who is selling
Horny Dudes soap infused bathwater. She's taking her.
Speaker 7 (37:15):
Bath while Yeah, yeah, Well, weed Man Hippie thought thought
about doing the same thing right, making soap as well
with his bathwater, and then he realized.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
He doesn't bathe, so it's impossible. That's Bobby and Florida.
Thank you for that. Very nice. How do you track
down weed man Hippie? Oh, connect the squats, Connect the squats.
That's Drew Drew's in Minnesota. He sent that one in.
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Why did weed Man Hippie fail his music composition class
in college? Why because his music had no notes, just rest.
That's all just a lot of less, all right. Why
have so many people been burned by blind Scott? Why
(38:07):
they went to his cookout. That's why that's true in Minnesota.
How do you torture blind Scott? Oh, well, you put
him in a round room and tell him that his
meal is in the corner of the room. That's how
you're doing it. Noa Noah in Austin, who is blind
(38:29):
Scott's pick for NBA Finals MVP. Who Pascal can't see it? Come?
That's from Eric in Kansas. Thank you, very funny joke. Eric,
You got any jokes over there, Coop anything at all?
Speaker 3 (38:47):
I got something here? What do nail polish and panties
have in common? No, I've known you both come off
with a little alcohol. That's from Milkman Mike.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
All right. What are you Los Angeles protesters and WNBA
players have in common? What they both get paid to
throw bricks? That's Gordon in Tacoma who sent that one
in very nice. Now that former President Joe Biden is
eighty three years old, what does he call the fourth
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of July? What in depends day is what he calls surf?
For Todd the comedian, what does constipation require? What constantatience? Constantats?
I don't know if you heard this or not, but
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Angel Reeves vows never to get married.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
We've made Wow.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Why she always wants to be a missus? And boy
does she get? George and Uvaldi Texas there sent that
one in very nice.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
There.
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Let's see here, what does Marcel say when he's going
when he's doing his taxes? What let's get into it.
That's Kurt from Earth? Who is who is Diddy rooting
for in the Stanley Cup Final? Who the baby oilers is? Who?
He's a bully? That's Kurt from Earth? What is uh
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this here? What's fat Blue? And cries that be David Vasse,
according to Tony in the Bay Area, bouncing them all.
Thank you weed Man, Bye bye, bye bye
Dingdong. It's our number three. Ignorance is bliss and the
comedy club opens up in a minute, as we are
ready to go in our number three of the Ben
Maler Show and talk some basketball. What can we take
away from the Knickerbockers kicking the tires on Mike Brown
and Taylor Jenkins now in their coaching search a couple
(00:23):
of rejected coaches. Also, some in the media are now
convinced that the Thunders MVP Shay Jogas Alexander is suffering
from fatigue. Now he's down playing it. How do you
read the room on this one? People making excuses that
the reason he didn't play well down the stretch is
because he's he's injured. What's your perspective on that? And
(00:45):
thumbs up or thumbs down to Magic Johnson who says
a superstar is a person who can go to on
the road and sell out the building. We'll talk about
that and more right now here. It is our number three.
It's just a nick. It's it's all it is. It's
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Coaching Debacle, follow up Coaching, Dibaco, follow up Coaching, Carousel,
pro bouncy Ball. After twenty percent, twenty percent of the
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NBA has rejected the phishing efforts by the New York Knickerbockers,
we have had a change of heart, not by one
of the coaches that the Knicks tried to hire something else.
I don't even saw this or not, maybe not. We
are told now that the Knicks are having a change
(02:59):
in playing. I know you're very concerned about this. The
Knicks for years have had the moral low ground when
it comes to doing the right thing. So the Knicks
are now planning to pursue Mike Brown and Taylor Jenkins
to the sad trombone ye Brown, vagabond coach. Vagabond coach
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who did have some success riding the coattails of Lebron
James with the Cavs and then went to the Lakers
for like a minute and then coached in Sacramento. Now Jenkins,
he was unceremoniously dumped fired by the Grizzlies just before
the playoffs started. They said bye bye and they got.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Rid of him.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Not exactly flying high in Memphis. So let us discuss
the question what can we take away from the Knickerbockers
kicking at tires on guys like Mike Brown and Taylor
Jenkins for their head coaching job. So yeah, I've got
wagou saucy and showbiz. We will combine all of these
(04:15):
things together, and we're gonna make some fresh produced is
what We're going to make some right off the rack
fresh produce. Absolutely. I know that's a harrowing experience for
some of you to have to eat that. Now, First
of all, it tells me that if you're now considering
Mike Brown and Taylor Jenkins, you're on the ropes. You
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are on the ropes. You are ready to cry uncle, Uncle,
save me uncle. Pivoting from a bevy a bevy of
coaches that are currently employed and being rejected, going up
a blind alley and just being rejected at every opportunity.
(04:58):
And so now you're looking at these coaches who are
not all that exciting. Going from from TIBs to Mike
Brown or Taylor Jenkins is the equivalent of going out
to a nice meal with some wagou and then instead
of that, you end up at a gas station eating
the sushi at a gas station. Like that's a downgrade,
(05:18):
not even a downey. That's a disaster, is what that is.
If you're the Nicks. Now, I'm a fan of Tom Thibodeau.
I thought the guy did a good job. He provided
some identity and not the coaches matter all that much.
But he did give a foundation of grit and toughness.
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And whether you like it or not, the garden was rocket.
You know, all those annoying celebrities. They were hanging out
having a grand time there and then it all caved
in against the Pacers. But now now they're looking at what.
So Tom Thibodeau was a very hands on guy. He
incorporated his beliefs into the the machine. And so now
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they're looking at what a corporate traffic cop, some middle
manager without any real power, who's going to be the
new coach of the Knickerbockers. And as we mentioned, Mike
Brown was on the Lebron express train in Cleveland. He
had an old Kobe Bryant with the Lakers. Now, when
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people tell you about Mike Brown and basketball, they say sweetheart, sweetheart,
good man, Mike Brown, big smile, laughs, a lot, good person,
Mike Brown. They don't say great coach, good x's and
o's guy, good locker room guy. They don't say that.
They say sweetheart, good guy, not a great coach. And
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as far as Jenkins, I actually think Jenkins is a
pretty good coach. However, he allowed Ja Morant to run
around like a loose firecracker with no concern under his watch.
And he said, well, John Morant was the star. What's
he supposed to do. Well, you've got to have some
kind of boundaries in there. Now. My advice, unsolicited overnight
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talk radio advice to the Knicks. You go Eminem, you
go M and M. I'm not talking peanut, butter, I'm
not talking peanut. I'm not talking No, I'm not talking regularly, Eminem.
Michael Malone, that's who you call. You go out there
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and have a public courtship with Michael Malone. Now, the
word on the street is he's happy taking the Kronky
family money from the Nuggets, and he's not all that
motivated to come right back into coaching. He wants to
take some time off, enjoy himself, do some more bad television. However,
if you're the Knicks, you go out there and you
play foot see, You play foot see with Michael Malone,
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and you give those puppy dog eyes there and send
a box of chocolates and some fly hours over for
the former Nuggets coach, and Malone would take the job.
He's a native New Yorker, so he's from there. I
think he's from Queens. If I remember, he's got a
pretty good resume. He's also got the kind of gumption
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that would work in Gotham. So that's the move, right,
that's a turning point move. And well, it's a stupid decision.
It was an irrational decision to get rid of Tom Thibodeau,
to bring in Michael Malone. That's about as good as
you can do at this point. Now, secondly, some let's
go to the finals. Because there are some in the media.
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I've been hearing this and reading this here for the
last day or so. Some of the media elites are
convinced that the most valuable player of the NBA for
Oklahoma City, Shay Jugas Alexander, is suffering from fatigue. Now,
he was asked about this, he downplayed it. But how
(08:59):
do you read the room on this, because there are
some very prominent basketball media dopes that are convinced SGA
is messed up. So here's how I read the room.
One word saucy. Saucy it's weak. Sauce is what it is. Right,
This is crank it up. You got to crank it up.
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You got to crank it up. This is cranking up the
excuse machine. Yet again, the people that carry the water,
or in this case, the kool aid in the media,
are creating reasons why the favorite NBA darling of the
moment wrote the vomit comet in the fourth quarter of
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Game three of the Finals. So now it's fatigue. Really,
boo hoo hoo, is what I sah? He's it's fatigue.
Cut him a brake, So we're playing the he's tired.
Isn't that part of how this works. It's supposed to
be a war of attrition, and if you're wearing down,
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you don't get the big bling bling at the end.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
There.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I don't believe that it is he's fatigued. So in
order for this to be the case, just to set
the record straight, Sga, the MVP, the face of Oklahoma
City Basketball and one of the people the NBA marketing
machine is trying to sell to people that don't want
to buy the product, and is averaging thirty plus points
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a game and all this stuff, and all of a sudden,
now because he plays bad in the fourth quarter, he
gets out played by a backup for Indiana in Matherin,
and so now it's well, he didn't get his flintstone vitamins.
And that's the problem the media lemmings, and I know
some of these people. You build these people up like gods,
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and then the second that things don't go well, the
moment you sign, you sign off on living in Suckville.
It's all. He's exhausted. Give him a break. He's not tired.
He's not. And if he is, he's not that good. Right,
you know what happened. He just got out played. He
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got out play. That's it. It's not that he was fatigued.
He's in play. Well, do better, be better. I don't
want to hear about your fatigue. You know, we want
to see you go out there with some machismo, had
some vimen vigor in the fourth quarter, and get it done.
It's the NBA bleeping Finals. You're not in kindergarten, and
(11:37):
it's nap time. And then when you wake up, you'll
have your juice box and you'll have your your peanut
butter and jelly sandwich, and then that's it and you'll
watch cartoons. All right, final thought, So we flipped the
page here. Magic Johnson, that's right, that Magic Johnson. He
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did a television interview recently and he was asked what
his definition of a superstar is. Did you see this? No,
you did not. Well, here's the magic quote from Magic Johnson.
He said a quote, a superstar is a person who
can go on the road and sell the building out close.
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Quote that's from Irvin Magic Johnson. That's it. That's the definition,
short and sweet. So let's play the game. Thumbs up
thumbs down on Magic Johnson saying a superstar is a
person who can go on the road and sell out
the building. So am I going thumbs up or thumbs down?
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I'm going sideways thumb. I'm going sideways. That's a curveball.
Sideways thumb is what I'm doing. And here's why, because
I get the the mindset of what Magic is saying.
You know, he's not talking about statistics. He's not talking
about all the nerd stats which are very popular right now,
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the true shooting percentage or any of that stuff. Magic
is merely talking bo not body oder box office. Right.
It's show business and Magic, as much as anyone in
NBA history, is responsible for bringing the glitz and glamour
to the NBA. And that goes back to the early
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nineteen eighties with Magic Johnson and we are looking at
forty five years almost of Magic Johnson and the connection
between entertainment and pro basketball. So if anyone would know
about that, it's magic, it's Magic Johnson, it's show business.
There is something do that and the true superstars like
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Michael Jordan was appointment viewing. And as much as I
loathed Lebron James and we'd like to goof on Lebron, Lebron,
Steph Curry, the late Kobe Brian, those guys, when they
came to your town, it was an event. You couldn't
just buy a ticket the night of the game for
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five dollars on the secondary market, and you just couldn't. Charismatic,
influential are words that come to mind, and you see
them in the building and it's just a little different.
And I know this when I started doing this kind
of stuff and I went to the NBA games and I
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covered some really bad Clipper teams in my twenties, and
I remember the night that like Larry Bird would come
in with the Boston Celtics, there was just a little
more buzz. Everyone knew the Clippers were going to lose,
but there was just a little more buzz when Bird
and McHale and those guys would come in the Chicago Bulls.
It was the same thing as opposed to a different
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night when and I even picture, you know, random when
Reggie THEUS and the Sacramento came came in, or even
the Sonics had some good teams in those years with
the Xavier McDaniel and Tom Chambers and guys like that,
but there was no buzz for those teams when they
would come in. There just wasn't so, you know. And
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and by the way, you can be an MVP and
still not move the needle. Let me give you my
evidence on that. Shay jogis Alexander. He just doesn't have
a presence the NBA and less I like you former
Clipper and all the great player, good ball player, he
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just doesn't have it. And in terms of that, that
Rasmataz and he's trying to prop him up and they're
polishing him, and they're making this big presentation. The people
aren't buying it, right, don't sell the steak, sell the sizzle.
People like the sizzle. Now you gotta have the steak,
but they'd rather go and buy the sizzle. And we
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live in the age of engagement on social media all
that stuff, and you want to see something. You want
to see that that aura, that charisma. Must see, whether
it's television or must see TikTok, you gotta see it.
Seeing is believing, Seeing is believing. It is the Ben
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the day. This is where we pretend to be somebody else.
Thus we call it the mallor Riddle of the Day.
And here we go go to the wacky, wacky world
of baseball. The Chicago CULB TV broadcast showed Justin Turner
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wearing blank in the dugout and they named him the
fan of the Day again. Chicago Cubs local TV broadcast
showed veteran Justin Turner, the former Dodger, wearing blank in
the dugout and name him the fan of the day.
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That is the Mallord Riddle of the Day. The answer,
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
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Back to it. We go back to it, and time
now for the insta trivia. I want to thank Robbie,
the Mariner fan who encouraged me to do this. The
Chicago Cubs TV broadcast shows that showed that Justin Turner
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wearing a blank in the dugout and named him the
fan of the day. How great is that to be
the fan of the day for the iconic Chicago Cubs.
What an amazing thing. So that is the mallor riddle
of the day. Let's see, does anyone know the answer?
And Scrooge says Justin in Cincinnati's Sunday church outfit. Yeah,
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that's that's what Justin looks like when he goes to
bed and when he wakes up. That's what he looks like.
That's what I've heard from from Robbie King. Rory writes
and says he was wearing a Bucky's T shirt. Yeah,
I miss I miss BUCkies. We haven't got any Bucky
stuff in a while. We used to get Bucky's. Those
Bucky nuggets were great, and some guys hooked us up
(20:06):
with that, but I haven't had those. I think I'm
out now, I'm out of my supply. Late night drug
tester says, a beer helmet, that's his answer. A hairy
carry mask from Milkman. Mike and Colorado berg Dog said
he wore a mask to prevent the spread. We must
stay vigilant. Very important. Eloy from Competence says Justin Turner
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showed them the hardest championship ring ever won. Good job
by you, Eloy, that's right, during a global pandemic, baseball's
hardest season, only a sixty game season, much harder. Anything
goes wrong, you're done, and the Dodgers won it. Greatest
worldsare and Justin Turner was part of that. A man
(20:51):
purse from clam like Lebron Tom in cann City, home
of the Ben Mallard chicken fingers at the Landing in Liberty, Missouri.
I've been there, great restaurant, got the Ben Maller chicken frees.
Tom says, A cockroach on his shoulder. A cockroach on
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his shoulder. Alf the alien o Pineer is going with
a chicken suit, just like the iconic San Diego Chicken
who sold old sold out the old Springfield Civic Center
every year. In my youth, the chicken was big in
the in like the late seventies and the eighties. I
(21:33):
love the the fact that the Chicken was a radio
station promotion. It was a radio station in San Diego.
That was good promotion. Yeah, it started as a bit
for the radio station and then then became this thing
where everyone loved it. FA City Tony says, the answer
is nick punto there you go? Who else? Page down,
(21:55):
far out. Dave says that Thong Thong thong is the answer.
Harry styles pay suit from The Nature Boy. Page down,
Harry Carey onesie from Fudgie, Carrie mask from eg A,
Cubby's Bear costume, guest by inco Terror Mark in Santa
Monica says wearing an Aaron Judge Jersey Johnny Q says
(22:19):
it to to Tom the Plumber going with a poppat
honoring the pontiff and same answer as Mike the Leprekun.
All right, Loraina, do you have an answer to the
Malard riddle of the day. The Chicago Cup television broadcast
this week showed Justin Turner, veteran Major League baseball player,
wearing blank in the dugout and named him the fan
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of the day. Well, since you know Aaron Judge is
his name.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
What if he was wearing one of those old fashioned
white wigs that the judges used to wear.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, that would be funny. But this is Justin Turner.
This is somebody not you know, I don't know. Maybe
he could have warned here's a dated reference a Tina
Turner outfit. Yeah, big wheels, keep on turning, baby. There
you go with the correct answer. Chicago Cup TV broadcast
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showed veteran baseball player Justin Turner wearing a fake test
in the dugout and named him the fan of today.
Yeah he had to that. Well, it's just this is
kink I don't know. It wasn't me. I didn't know
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he had it. Pretty It's pretty funny because the CUB
broadcast shows him and he's he's jumping up and down,
kind of shaking the fake device. And the CUB broadcasters
realized what they had just shown on television, and they
muted their microphones because they I'm assuming they couldn't stop
laughing that. On the Chicago cub owned TV channel, they
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show one of the Cup players in the dugout shaking
his fake just outstanding. That's the Cubs. That is the Cubs.
All right's go to the phones and let's say hello
to Let's go to Mike, who's in San Francisco. Now,
Mike's got a story, and we love stories on this show.
(24:17):
So Mike's gonna dazzle you with an amazing story. Hello, Mike, Welcome, Ben, Yes, hey, welcome.
What's what's going on?
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Just?
Speaker 6 (24:29):
First off, thank you late night to Light. It's one
my time. I think it's the same for you.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Right, Time is a relative thing? What is time? What
is time? Mike?
Speaker 6 (24:41):
I know? Well, all right, gladly think I don't call
him your shlw to Frank call right. So about ten
years ago, calling into FP Santangelo's show, right, tell him
the Giants dream to win the World Series? He told
me I was drunk. I call him the second time.
He says, hey, it sounds like even having too many
tigers out there at Saint Mary's College. So then I'm like,
(25:04):
you know what this guy's making me mad? I call
him a third time, I accuse him of using steroids,
and I call it as the alias Papa Frido, And
so then I call it a fourth time as Papa Frido.
I wait forty five minutes in the carpool or the callpool.
He takes me off air. He rips me a new one, says,
(25:27):
I'll meet you anytime anywhere. I'll whoop you, I'll beat
your who waits forty five minutes on on my callpool
just to talk ish, who are you Papa Frido. I'll
meet you anytime anywhere. So anyways, uh, he ends up
dating one of my sister's friend years later, and I'm like, you.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Know what through that guy?
Speaker 6 (25:49):
But if at DJA Tangel's listening, I'll call it shoes.
I was young. I never called it the Ben Meller
Show to talk any is, but uh, I was just
having fun. So just want to tell that random.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Look at that you got. You got, you got under
his skin. That's awesome. You got so you upset him
so much that he took your call off the air
to rip you a new one. That's outstanding. That's good trolling.
That's a solid troll move by you.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
That was smart because you would have whooped my ass.
But I'm waiting until he's like shifty something. I'm going
to take him up on the offer. Now, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I do that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
No, you should. You should do it now if you can.
If he's like in his late fifties, now you can
kick his ass. Now he's in fifty seven or something
like that, you can.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
He said, yeah, everyone knows that. Oh oh ye hung up,
Oh wow, wow, you know.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
But uh, you know.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
I told him I was a second time car and
he was like, oh, we've never had one of those before.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
All right, that's good. It's a badge of honor. FP.
Santangelo and I have my own. He played for the Dodgers.
When I was doing stuff with him in like the
year two thousand, he was so bad. How bad was he? Oh?
My god, was horrific with the Dodgers, and a buddy
of mine, the late great T. J. Simers columnists used
(27:04):
to just slay destroyed, destroyed. F P. Santangelo ripped him
a new one every single day back when people read newspapers,
and F. P. Santangelo was so pissed off, so upset
with with him. It was I have some fond memories.
Some of the stuff I don't think I can I
(27:25):
can see on the air. Anyway, There you go, good
good FP Santangelo story. I did not have that on
my bingo card when I came in, I was I
was lacking that. Let's say hello to who do we
have any medie Moneymoe, Mike the Leprechaun is in Boston.
Hello Mike the leprell Boston adjacent?
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Hello Mike adjacent?
Speaker 6 (27:47):
Flame again was to be precise.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Do I ever get under your skin?
Speaker 6 (27:50):
And got?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
I don't right, No, you get under the skin of Lorrainer.
She's annoyed by you, but I don't.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Cry, come our baby like my fire tailor Sift?
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Are you there?
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Did you see Taylor Swift?
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I left, I'm out. I'm having.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
At the game.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
That guy. Is that really unbelievable? I mean, I mean
that's wild to me. I wonder, I wonder who. I
wonder who mentioned that in the monologue. I don't know
who could have mentioned that monologue.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
I heard it.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
I was up at two o'clock.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Then why would you ask me? Why would you ask
me that question? You?
Speaker 5 (28:27):
I saw it, okay, I was complimenting you on a
great monologue.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Eddie Garcia would be part of you.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Yeah, all right, did you see the tackle yesterday in
the courtroom they took down the the Californian Senator and Compton.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Well there were two, there were two tackles. Yeah, the
Senator that got tackled. And then there was some video
that went viral of some loser who threw some of
the cop at the riot. And then some dude came
over and looked like Ronnie Lott from the forty nine
ers in like nineteen eighty seven and just tackled this guy.
It was vicious. That's a dated reference, but my god,
(29:09):
it was quite attacking.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Called the lapd.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
How six matters with your phonems and all that.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I can't believe that that Scott.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah, yeah, we'll have more on that developing story on
the Fifth Hour podcast later today.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
I'm sure, I'm sure. I hope I make it to
the lame jokes for the week this time.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Okay, all right, all right, thank you, go away. Josh
writes in for Nebraska. He says Justin Turner was giving
his teammates Suzuki the Balls dance from Major League the movie.
Was that what he's doing? All right? Well, the fact
that it was on camera though? Was can I see
(29:50):
you ball, sir? I'd like to see it.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Ten out of ten? Ten out of ten is what
that was. I'll say a load to Blind Scott, speak
of the devil, and he shall appear. Hello Blind Scott
on the north end.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Hey, what's up, Ben? I've had some Uh you know,
I don't want to I hate talking politics on the show.
But that guy talked. You know, he got tackled. You
know I've been tackled like that recently on the street.
It really hurts it out. You never you never want
to be walking and have someone tackle you when you
don't expect it. So I'm prepared for it all the time.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
I got my head no, hold on, say it is
it true that you How many times? Ho, let's play
the game? I don't. Did you tell Coop how many
times you called in?
Speaker 2 (30:32):
No? I didn't. I didn't tell.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Okay, all right, let's play the game. All right, stop
stop stops. I know I can't play the game. How
many times did Blind Scott call the Fox Sports radio
calling number to get on the air? Lorena, take a
guess tonight just tonight? Oh gosh?
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Probably Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I'm gonna go with thirty seven times thirty seven.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
That would be a lot, right, thirty seven is a
large number of times to redial. That is a large number. Coop.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Uh, well, I know yesterday it was seventy five and
he got in sooner, So I'm going to go.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
One fifty five, okay, Blind Scott reveal answers. Blind Scott
called like over.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Three hundred and fifteen times.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
No, big, that's a little much, Scott. Don't you think
that's a little much?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Like I actually have multi personality, just sort of so
it brought out this really calm person in me. So
I don't feel like I'll fired fired out, you know,
like I feel like an understanding person who just like
is dealing with issues. So like when I grew up,
I grew up with the police chief of the LAPD
STANMI with Bill Bratton. So I was working on this
with the LAPD. I dropped Bill's name, told him I,
you know, I was a big police family person. So
(31:53):
we were under the understanding that so many people are
standing outside of the studio, that the lines are being
jammed by the signals of the callers and protesters all
at the same time. It's a big Joye Soro's conspiracy
to try to, you know, suppress the numbers coming into
Fox Sports Radio on the overnight radio in the LAPD
kind of looked into it for me a little bit.
Is there a communion communication truck outside the studio that
(32:14):
you know that might be there. The thing is, callers
need to call sports radio. If they can't call, there
will be civil unrest. And if you get the sports
radio calls out on the street, you're not gonna You're
not gonna like how they protest. I mean, you get
these trust on babies and these NEPO babies out on
the street right now, there's no big deal. They got
their parents cell phone, their parents' credit card, they got
(32:34):
nice bosons. You get these sports radio fans out there,
the whole America is gonna get just so so gone
if there's no sports or no sports radio phone calls.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Okay, well, oh you're not done. I thought you I
got the jokes coming up though.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
No, this Justin Turner guy. The Red Sox should have
never got rid of him. He's like a huge humanitarian
is even in the league right now.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
He's like one of the well he's on the Cubs.
He hardly plays, but he's on there. He's on the
I gotta go call three hundred if you call it.
If you get back in, we'll get you on again.
Three call three hundred more times. I'll make a deal
if you if you get back on the phones, we'll
let you back on. Okay, we are you there. Weed Man,
we Man, hippie Miami weed Man. All right, buckle up,
(33:23):
weed man, we are moments. What you know what we
got coming up here in a moment jokes Big Ben's
lame jokes of the week for the rest of the hour.
Buckle up, buccaroo, we'll get to that. We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
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Speaker 5 (35:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Make me round, all right, very good, We'll try to
make me laugh. These are actual jokes by actual listeners.
If you'd like to send a joke in Senate care
of Ben Maler Show at gmail dot com. Why does
Weedman wear a mask around his new roommate. Why, Well,
he's afraid that work could be contagious and he doesn't
want to catch it. That's that's that's from Chip in
(35:28):
Maine and I hear your roommate is awake, weed made correct?
All right, very nice? But why is weed man Hippie
happy that he has a new roommate? Why because weed
Man Hippie found a bigger loser than himself. That's from
John in Youngstown, Ohio. Thank you John. All right? Uh?
(35:49):
What what does weed man have in common with the
word wood wood burning stove?
Speaker 6 (35:56):
What?
Speaker 1 (35:57):
They're both pot bellied? That's air in Kansas. We weed
man hippie claims to be from the New York area.
But where was he born?
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Where?
Speaker 1 (36:12):
That would be Hobo Ken, New Jersey. Hopo. That's Sirfer Todd,
the comedian who sent that one in from SoCal Big
Ben's lame Jokes of the Week, Actual jokes by actual listeners.
What do you call it when weed man is sitting
in his front yard working a crossword puzzle?
Speaker 5 (36:34):
What?
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Thinking outside the box? That's Terry Terry in Saint Paul.
Thank you for that, Terry. Why is weed Man jealous
of whoopee Pie Blair from Maine? Why because weed Man,
or rather because whoopy Pie Blair might actually get money
for working on something? That's Eric in Kansas. Well, I
(37:01):
don't know if you heard about this week, man, But
this is a big story all over the internet. Have
you heard about the actress Sidney Sweeney who is selling
Horny Dudes soap infused bathwater. She's taking her.
Speaker 7 (37:15):
Bath while Yeah, yeah, Well, weed Man Hippie thought thought
about doing the same thing right, making soap as well
with his bathwater, and then he realized.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
He doesn't bathe, so it's impossible. That's Bobby and Florida.
Thank you for that. Very nice. How do you track
down weed man Hippie? Oh, connect the squats, Connect the squats.
That's Drew Drew's in Minnesota. He sent that one in.
(37:46):
Why did weed Man Hippie fail his music composition class
in college? Why because his music had no notes, just rest.
That's all just a lot of less, all right. Why
have so many people been burned by blind Scott? Why
(38:07):
they went to his cookout. That's why that's true in Minnesota.
How do you torture blind Scott? Oh, well, you put
him in a round room and tell him that his
meal is in the corner of the room. That's how
you're doing it. Noa Noah in Austin, who is blind
(38:29):
Scott's pick for NBA Finals MVP. Who Pascal can't see it? Come?
That's from Eric in Kansas. Thank you, very funny joke. Eric,
You got any jokes over there, Coop anything at all?
Speaker 3 (38:47):
I got something here? What do nail polish and panties
have in common? No, I've known you both come off
with a little alcohol. That's from Milkman Mike.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
All right. What are you Los Angeles protesters and WNBA
players have in common? What they both get paid to
throw bricks? That's Gordon in Tacoma who sent that one
in very nice. Now that former President Joe Biden is
eighty three years old, what does he call the fourth
(39:22):
of July? What in depends day is what he calls surf?
For Todd the comedian, what does constipation require? What constantatience? Constantats?
I don't know if you heard this or not, but
(39:43):
Angel Reeves vows never to get married.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
We've made Wow.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Why she always wants to be a missus? And boy
does she get? George and Uvaldi Texas there sent that
one in very nice.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
There.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Let's see here, what does Marcel say when he's going
when he's doing his taxes? What let's get into it.
That's Kurt from Earth? Who is who is Diddy rooting
for in the Stanley Cup Final? Who the baby oilers is? Who?
He's a bully? That's Kurt from Earth? What is uh
(40:24):
this here? What's fat Blue? And cries that be David Vasse,
according to Tony in the Bay Area, bouncing them all.
Thank you weed Man, Bye bye, bye bye
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