Hour 3 - Picture Imperfect

Ben Maller talks about a viral photo of Trey Lance & Patrick Mahomes where both athletes were criticized (Lance for his hairline & Mahomes for his gut), #AskBen, and much more!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our name ar three and here
an hour number three, we dust off the mather microscope.
A listener requesting a thorough investigation by our show on
a viral photo of Trey Lance, forty nine ers quarterback

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and his hairline and Patrick Mahomes and what appears to
be a beer belly. This photo has gone viral recently.
What is your reaction to this hullabaloo from the social
media posting of Trey Lance and Patrick Mahomes looking rather
out of sorts? Should Chief fans be worried about Mahomes

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getting fat and happy after the latest Lombardy And what
is the lesson from the viral photo. We'll discuss that
as well. Here it is our number three. It's what
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little different. Our lead this hour comes from the social networks,

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like send an email by a listener asking for a
Maller investigation, and I said, you know what, This actually
something that caught my attention, So I think I'll do this.
So to set this up, a couple of NFL quarterbacks
have been dragged through the online mud over a viral photo.

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Was this a compromising photo? No, not really a compromising photo.
So I don't know if you saw it not. Maybe
you're one of our blind listeners. You can't see it,
So let me paint the picture for you. Some NFL
fans that were whooping it up over a photo of
Patrick Mahomes Mahomie, the Chiefs quarterback, and Trey Lance, the

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forty nine er failed draft pick at least so far.
But there was a photo taken at a gymnasium. I'm
working out a little photo there. The image was posted
by a UCLA quarterback, someone named Dante Moore on Instagram
We're not sure who that is, but he posted the
photo standing in between a couple of NFL quarterbacks. They

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appeared to be in a weight room. And who cares
about that? Why would you do a monologue about a photo? Well,
here's why. In the image, it appears that Patrick Mahomes,
fresh off winning the Super Bowl back in February, has
been doing nothing but eating. His belly is protruding over

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his shorts in the photo, it appears and Trey Lance
looks absolutely disheveled, his hairline vanishing like a rabbit in
a hat. So let us discuss the question, what is
your reaction to the hullabaloo from the social media backlash

(03:39):
Trey Lance and Patrick Mahomes have gotten. I've got Polar Bear,
church and teen comedy, and we'll combine all of these
things together and we are going to make the Bend
Mallard chicken fingers, which are only available the official Ben
Mallar chicken fingers in the Greater Kansas City area. So
when you're in that area, go to the land. Now,

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First of all, never underestimate the vermin on social media.
That's the story on this one. There's there's always somebody
on the prowel. You gotta have your head on a swivel, right,
you got you gotta have you it's gotta be on
a swivel like that. Looking for weaknesses people, people are
always looking for me is quickly this image goes out

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and and I've been asked to put it on the microscope. Well,
other people already put it on the microscope. There's an
old ad slogan that goes back many many years, and
it's the slogan is one picture is worth a thousand
negative comments. I think that might be the slogan. But
this photo for the online community is like throwing blubber

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into a Polar Bears cage. The Cyper Warriors, they've analyzed this.
It was not a good look for Trey Lance. It
was not a great look for Patrick Mahomes, and that
of course said office wildfire. Boo, you got booing, you
got hissing, you've got ridicule, random cyber shouting matches from

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the upper balcony. Now we are not going to sit
here and pretend that this was a harmless situation. Right
for those that are looking to tear things down, this
was an empty net in an NHL game, and you
are Connor McDavid. That's what there's even hobgoblins. We're having

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a field day, those amateur trolls. This is the easiest
attack of them all, because the insufferable dopes go towards vanity,
the cyber trolls who think they have anonymity, the smartphone
tough guys, lonely souls looking for online validation. Now, secondly,

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let's address though the belly in the room, shall we say, well,
phrase it this way, the question should Chiefs fans be
alarmed about Patrick mahomes belly? What appears to be a
fat Patrick Mahomes in the photo? Are they concerned because

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he's getting fat and happy? So I am I'm shaking
my head, No, shaking my head. No here now, I
would love to sound the alarm bells, to hit the button,
sound the alarm bells, because that's good talk radio. But
this is a premature panic partee. There is no doubt

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that Patrick Mahomes has been enjoying himself and as you should,
you win a Super Bowl, paint the town red, enjoy
the fruits of your labor, basking in the afterglow of
the success against the Eagles. But this is I'm looking
at this, and I'm like, well, is this a GPS issue?
That Mahomes has been spending too much time at church?

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But unfortunately the GPS is sending him to church's chicken.
He's eating too much chicken fried chicken. I don't know
what's going on, but something's going on. Now. I'm gonna
hold off the full condemnation and all that, because I
don't think we need to send Mahomes to a fat farm.
It's possible he just wore the wrong combinational clothes. He
might have just had lunch in his belly was bloated.

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The calendar is, obviously the ally. Mahomes has until what
mid July when training camp begins for the Chiefs, and
he can show up and get all his ducks lined
up in a row. There's plenty of jumping jack's, push ups,
burpies and things like that that he can do. All right,
final thought on this, what is the lesson? What is
the lesson from the latest viral photo condemning a couple

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of NFL quarterbacks? Well, you could argue that the quarterback
for the forty nine ers, Trey Lance, ought to take
a page out of my book and get a nice
hat collection, go down to the haberd haberdashery and get
some hats. But I would use the phrase situational awareness
is the way I would phrase it. Just about everyone

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has their phone or camera out these days, and you
want to document everything. You're a public figure, always stay alert,
right and aware of your surrounding. Patrick Mahomes and Trey
Lance foolishly in this instance, they both let their guard down.
They were unable to call an audible And here's how

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I actually relate to the story. The reason, the main
reason I thought this was a good story to do
a monologue about it was not just because a listener
recommended it, but I actually relate to this story years ago.
If you've been with the show a long time, you
know that I got absolutely burned by one of my
co workers. I was the Mahomes, I was the trait
more of the tray lance of that incident. So years ago,

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I was the victim of friendly fire in a cyber attack.
And I will not name the person that did this,
but their initial are EG. Their initials are EG. And
let's just say that this person took the worst photo
I've ever taken humanly possible of me. And that's saying

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something because I fell out of the ugly tree and
hit every branch. And then this person again I will
not say their name, but their initials are eg gleefully
posted the image online very similar to this UCLA quarterback
Dante More. It is an act of betrayal. It is
crossing boundaries when you do that. So my theory are

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there are two types of people who post these type
of images. You have evil infidels who are not friends.
They're frenemies. They're not friend they're frenemies who are mistakenly
put in the friend category. But when you post a
photo like that, you're not a friend. You're a friend
of me. Or there are those that are living like

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an old school nineteen nineties comm clueless and either one.
Either one. The lesson, though, is if you're gonna get
a photo taken, even if you're a public figure, you're
gonna pause and smile for a photo, you better say, hey,
let me check that out before you post it. Let

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me check that out before you post that, or else
you're a douche Don't be a douchebag. And I gotta
take another I gotta approve all photos. I gotta take
another photo. I gotta do it. It is the Ben
Mallers Show. If you'd like to comment on that, you
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(10:39):
you're still on there, you can follow me along at
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of the program and we may read your comments on
the air. I know you're excited about that. I mentioned this, Earli.
I don't think I've paid it off, that job by me.
So the Zion Williams story has taken it turned to

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the dark side. The New Orleans Pelicans losing in the
Bayou to O Kasee and the Natives are restless on
the shores of the Mississippi River. The person being blamed
for that loss. It was a close loss, New Orleans,
lad It was a close game for most of the game.
New Orleans did lead for a chunk and they ended
up losing late. So the Pelican fans, all seven of them,

(11:23):
have turned their daggers towards Zion Williamson. He is the
one getting the blame. They are blaming him for the
loss as he was unable to play, because you know
he wants to wait, and he wants to He wants
to wait till he feels like Zion it wants to
feel like that. But and I totally agree with the fans.

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If you ask me, what's your takes? This fair or unfair,
it's absolutely fair. Zion is a zero, but he's not available.
He will not play until he feels perfect. That's not
what adults do. And I promise you, whatever you do,
when you're a truck driver or a security guard, or

(12:04):
you're working in a restaurant, or a police officer or
a criminal, you, whatever it is, we are good guys
in back. Guess whatever you're doing, there are days you
do it when you don't feel great. Any job, this job.
I have a great job. I've done radio. I've had laryngitis, laryngitis.
The only thing that can take you off a radio
show is laryngitis. I've had laryngitis. I've still worked because

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my bosses don't often listen and they don't know. I
get away with it. But you can't. That's no way
to be a professional. You can't. You cannot only work
when you're feeling one hundred percent. And that's Zion Williamson
he's a flower. He's a puss. A willow is what
he is. But I digress, I diegress. Time now for

(12:48):
the Maller Riddle of the day, the Maller riddle of
the day, And here it is. This is it's one
of our better Maller riddles of the day. I think
I think you'll agree. I think you'll agree. So here
we go. San Francisco Giants pitcher Taylor Rogers, he had
a tough outing and as he was walking off the field,

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he made sure to toss blank into the trash can.
Taylor Rogers, pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, did not
have a good outing, and as he was walking off
the field, he tossed blank into the trash can. That
is the Maller riddle of the day. The answer and

(13:31):
more of your calls. We'll get to that and we
will do it next. I always like to monitor meat
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(14:14):
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It's Ben Maller with Ask Ben coming up later in
the hour. But here is the Maller Riddle of the day.
The Mallor Riddle of the day. San Francisco Giants pitcher
Taylor Rogers he walked off the mound and tossed blank

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into the trash net is the riddle of the day.
Let's see if anybody knows the answer. Furg Dog says
that Taylor Rogers tossed a used syringe left behind by
the Oracle Park Homeless encampment. Wow, shots fired. Who else
do we have? Page down? Page down? See here, I see,

(15:18):
Sir scratch Off, says Ben Jed got that police hair
just rolls up and stops. I don't even know, Sir
scratch Off. You gotta work on your spelling. There's some
words that are not supposed to be there, that are there.
Milkman Mike and Colorado says championship belt. I think is

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what he was getting at here. Page down, A page down.
Late Night drug tester says he threw away the souvenir
Covino and rich nerf ball. Shane from Des Moines says
the answer is a hot dog. I think that's what
he meant to say. Tuna fish sandwich guess by Sean

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and Portland mc yell on fires going with pine tar
and a jar of pine tard. Donkey Sausage says a jockstrap.
Dante is going with his underwear Callighan, Tim and Michigan
says lipstick is the answer. A McDonald's pizza guess by
Alf the alienal Pineer and if you know about when

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McDonald sold pizza, you are old. What else do we have?
Page down? Page down? He threw himself into the trash,
According to just Josh in Cincinnati, Richard says that the
Giant pitcher through the entire cheating a stros into the trash. Eddie,
do you have an answer, eddie? He threw a Rosin

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bag into the a rosenbag, a financewer, Eddie. That is incorrect,
sorry when the prize. Also malaprop Gay says he threw
away his baseball for dummies how to guide for pitching
also unfortunately not correct. Giants pitcher Taylor Rogers, Tom and
by the way, Andrew got this right. She's still listening,
she calls off. Was she's still listening. There the sports sorcers.

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But Taylor Rogers, the Giants pitcher, tossed his glove into
the trash can as he got to the dugout and
then repeatedly slammed his fist into the Giants bench. Didn't
learn anything from the Timberwolves guy. Come on, no, the
bench was padded though. At least you know, you know

(17:25):
how much of those gloves called major league gloves, like
a four or five hundred dollars glove. Last I checked.
It might be worth more than that these days. Yeah,
it depends though usually the Wilson is more expensive than
the Rawlings, but they're at least yeah from the company. Later, Yeah,
get his own gloves for free from Wilson. Yeah. And

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here's how I relate to that. When I have a
bad segment, Eddy, I throw my headphones in the trash.
That's what I do. I throw my headphones in the trash.
I walk off and I and then I end up
hitting the padded wall that we have the soundproof wall
in the studio on my way out. That's how I.
I don't think you do that, although you do. I
do believe you when you say that you pound the

(18:07):
table when you have the gremlins attack and why not?
I believe that's probably I'm not lying. I totally do
that sometimes when things are going on on the air,
I do that. I just like like that. I'll just say,
oh see, I hit the thinking my mic phone. Let's
go to the phones and we'll say hello to any
meany miney moll. Let's say hello to angry Billy. What

(18:29):
about a nine year old garryl angry Bill? What about
a nine year old girl answer that question. There's only
one nine year old girl. Just remember that. Okay, I've
been we gotta do some homework here. A week or
so ago, I got a call from a very very
nice young lady from your office about the podcast. She says,

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on a Monday or Tuesday, she says, on Friday, I'll
give you a call, we'll set it up and we'll
go on a podcast on Saturday. No phone call, no podcast.
What kind of Mickey Mouse operation are you running? Well,
you might want yourself a contact Cooper loop. There. He's
the he's the big producer. He's the producer right there.
He's talking about that. He's talking about the Mallardtown podcast. Oh,

(19:13):
the Mallardtown podcast. Oh you were gonna go on the
Mallardtown podcast? Is that right? I don't know which one was. Oh,
I know someone that she called and said, you like
on the podcast. It was that Queen Rocks. Had had
to be it had to be Queen Rocks. And she's
the female presence on that podcast. I don't have anything
to do with that podcast. I like those guys and

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Robbie the Mariner fan, Ozzy guys on there, and Jay
Scoop makes appearances from the Ukraine. But I can't wait
to hear that podcast. That'll be an award winning podcast.
Angry Bill on a podcast I can't imagine. I explained
to you. You don't, you're donna listen. She didn't call
me on Friday and I didn't go on it on Saturday.

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All right, we'll calm down. There's other they don't do
one podcast. They can have you on at another point. Okay,
let me let me and go throw slow again, because
you know you're challenged. She said she'd call me on
Friday and we go on the podcast on Saturday. Did
she say which? Did you say? Did she say which? Friday? Yeah? Friday,

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just as we were talking. So it's impossible Friday. It's
impossible for you to go on. It's impossible for you
to go on any other podcast other than because she
didn't call you. So that's it. It's over. No. The
point is, if somebody says they're gonna call you, they
should call you. You understand that. It's Angry Bill. Welcome
to show business. You know many times I've been up

(20:34):
for jobs. Oh yeah, we'll call you. Oh yeah, yeah,
well we'll hire you. Yeah, and they never call it
happens all you. It was you. It was an angry Bill,
do that. Oh oh, it's it's different because your your
angry Bill from Nutley, New Jersey. So nobody can mess
with angry Bill if you tell no mess just you're
gonna say, you're gonna call call that's all. I agree.

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I agree. The world would be a much better place
if people said they were gonna do something and they
do it. If they it's called following through. But call
me out and say Bill. You know Bill, we're not
gonna we're not gonna go on Saturday. We don't need you,
we don't watch it. Hold on, do we have that
tiny violin? Roberto? Can we play the tiny violin? It's
a sob story? Is that a Greek tragedy? Go ahead,
Angry Bill, repeat your story again. What happened? I guess

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Roberto whipped out his tiny violins? What about your tiny violin? Roberto?
Thank you for that, Angry Bill, appreciate that violin? Too long?
Too long? Wait, too long? How am I response? I

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have nothing to do with that podcast. I know it's
called the Mallardtown Podcast, but it's it's I'm no, that's
a that's a spin off of this show, which occasionally
talks about the show, and they talk about things that
are going on in their lives and all that I
have nothing to do with it. Stay in your lane.
Stay in your lane, is what I say. Bella show

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on FUS. How about this story out of Toronto? See this.
The only reason this is a thing is because this
woman somewhat attractive. So a young lady who's I guess
a she does her own podcast. Everyone's got a podcast.
There's three point nine million podcasts. But this woman in Canada,
she did a Blue Jay game and she went viral.
On opening day, the home opener for the Blue Jays,

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she said that she would eat a poutine hot dog
for every Blue Jay home run. So I'll go eat
It's a new item, which makes me want to go
to Toronto just to eat it at a poutine hot
dog sounds amazing to me. So this this young lady,
she said, I'll eat one of these things. And so
she she says, all right, she's of course recording everything

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for the internet. You want to tell you a guess
how many home runs the Toronto Blue Jays hit on
their home opener this week? Not one? Not two, not three,
not four. Five. That is a franchise record five home runs,
a Blue Jay home opener, franchise record five home runs.

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And let's just say this woman's not a fat ass.
She's not used to eating that much food, apparently, And
so she actually said no moss or no poutine, and
she gave up by the last home run, and she
said she just donated money to charity. Couldn't eat five
poutine hot dogs in a nine inning game, and that's
because of the clock. If the game was slower, she

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would be able to enjoy the poutine hot dogs. I'm
watching her eat the hot dog right now. She's yeah, right,
she's she's struggling, and she she's she's she's not she's
a tiny little girl there. I mean, that's what I'm saying.
She's not for you and me. Eating five poutine hot
dogs would not be a big deal. For back in
the day, that would be nothing. If I was her age,

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at her age, I eat more than that. I probably
did eat more than that. At dog. It looks good, though,
looks good. The poutine hot dogs is solid looking dog.
It is be sure to cat live editions of The
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What do you get when you combine a three time
Manager of the Year at a three time National Sports

(24:11):
Writer of the Year. It's the Book of Joe podcast. Hey,
this is Tom Verducci from Fox Sports, MLB Network and
Sports Illustrated, and I'm Joe Madden, and we're going to
be around to talk a little bit about manager real decisions,
playoff games, and what may have accredited the dugout maybe
in the nineteen eighties. I can't wait for this, Joe.
We're going to dive into what goes on in the
dugout and behind the scenes in Major League Baseball, cars, wind,

(24:32):
whatever else we want to talk about. Listen to the
Book of Joe podcast on the iHeartRadio app, on Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts. When you think baseball,
do you think Utah? Well, a Salt Lake City consortium,
which is a really great word to use, led by
the former sortium. Yeah, good sortium, that's what I said.

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I'm led by the former owner of the Utah Jazz,
planning to pursue a Major League Baseball franchise as they
are looking for an expansion team now we've heard about
Vegas from maybe the beginning of the Oakland as in Vegas,
but Salt Lake City throwing their ring in the uh
in the Major League Baseball business there they want a
team in Salt Lake City? Is it true that they

(25:16):
have a very good chance of getting a professional baseball team.
Here's what needs to happen for Salt Lake City to
get a team. They need the A's to leave Oakland
and go to Vegas. They need the Rays to go
to Nashville. So that clears out those two markets. And
you look around the other cities that have been mentioned.
You've got Montreal, Mexico City, Portland, Oregon in Salt Lake

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so they would have a fifty percent chance of getting
one of the teams using my mallor math, my back
of the napkin mallor math. Are you ready for my
fun fact Eddie? No, yes, way, by the way, I
think I think I'm gonna need to find that picture
and repost it because no, no, no, no, since you
brought it up, I would never bring that up. But
since you brought it up, you know, there's a lot

(26:01):
of new listeners. They don't know about it. Now they
don't need to see that. Nobody, nobody needs that. Photo
has been deleted and no one, no one has that
right now and photo does not exist, you douche. So
here's my fun fact. Josh Giddy the greatest Australian player

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in the NBA. Not that stiff Ben Simmons. Josh Giddy
the Kangaroo became the youngest player in NBA history score
at least thirty points in a play in or playoff
game in age and a number of days. He barely
got past the record. The previous record was held by
d Rose. Derek Rose of the Chicago Bulls had the

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previous record, but Josh Giddy, at age twenty and one
hundred and eighty four days, twelve days younger than Derek Rose,
the youngest player in the NBA to have at least
thirty in a play in slash playoff game. And is
that not the most fun fun fact you've heard all day? Actually,
last hour was a better fun fact. But next hour
I've got to have even better fun fact. I gotta

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be honest with you, I never heard of that guy
in my life before last night's game. Well, you're not
watching Oklahoma City back, no, and I it is on
in the Update studio here, the game is on, and
they just showed the coach Pro CLUBA City. I'm like,
who the hell is this guy? You ever heard of
Josh Giddy? No, I never heard Josh Giddy before. Get
Giddey with it. That's where that comes from. Giddy with it.

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Never heard of him. He's been he's been breaking records.
That's a pretty good play here in Oklahoma. City is
not even trying to win. They're just waiting for first
round picks. They're waiting to get their big savior in
the first round of the draft. Meanwhile, they seem to
have a team that's at least got a little little
bit of fighting them which is which is what you
want to see, what you want to see. Ben Mallas

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Show on Fox. Let's go speaking of expansion in baseball expansion,
let's go to Nick in Portland, Oregon. Nick, what's going on? Nick?
You're on Fox Sports Radio. It's the Ben Maler Show.
They how's it going to? Like? I just wanted to
first off say that I think you guys are the
best radio show in the nation. Put that in your piprids,
make out a promo. Come on, yeah, I mean he

(28:12):
loves the show. Can't Jim Rome can't compete with you
guys either, calling coward either. Yeah, take that Cowherd, you
little Herd and you Jim Red Jungle take take that.
Never heard of him? Yeah, I'm also a big Eddie
Garcia fan. I think he does a great job too.
He had to spoil the call. You had to spoil
the call with that. There's no need to spoil. And

(28:34):
I'm a bigg I'm also a big Ben Mallor fan too. Okay,
now you've saved the call. Good job by You's all right?
Good job. Also, just real quick, a quick shout out.
I want to say, you know what's Brian No up
to these days? He was a local Portland guy for
a while. Yeah, the No Show, he did the afternoon show.
But did you know that I got offered years ago?

(28:54):
I got offered an afternoon show in Portland, many many
years ago. I did not take. I did not take.
I think it was the one that No actually ended
up working at. But it was long long ago. Oh nice,
you know you know you could? You should really be
a guest on a rip city or radio in Portland
with a Chad Doing and Dwight Jeans local and Portland

(29:15):
six twenty am RIP City Radio Afternoon three to six.
You should be a guest looking. That's a nice smooth
plug that you did. And I have been on that
station before. When my guy Wheels Portland legend, the former
voice of the Trailblazers, Brow Wheeler, who's still a good
friend of mine, and Wheels hosted Wheels is Wonderful Boomshaka
Laca and he hosted that show we Gotta Get Wheels

(29:37):
back in the NBA. We Gotta Get That was called
Wheels at Work. Yeah, the afternoon show. Yeah, look at you.
You know you're a big radio guy. I like that. Oh,
I love I love sports talk radio. My cousin is
TV guy in Portland. Now we're just gonna drop now,
Eddie's gotta now it's like a urinating con. Eddie's got
a whoop me. Wayne Garcia Fox twelve in organ Never,

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I know him too. Yeah, that's my cousin. This guy
knows everybody, he knows everybody important. This guy Nick. Yeah,
he's my cousin. That's cool, but a small world. I
know him. Yeah, I know him too. Yeah, there's a
joke that we didn't know to deal with your cousin.
That's that's that's cool. I'm not gonna make that joke
because I don't believe in that joke. I got in

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reading of the questions. A man who has one foot

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out the door ready to go on vacation the coop Loup.
He'll be at Finnway. Which red sock game are you
going to? That's my first question on Ask Ben? Which
red sock Angel? Game. Are you going through coop Sunday?
Sunday Sunday is at an afternoon game. It is one
thirty five pm. Beautiful, should be good, weather nice. It

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will be a high of fifty three degrees. Oh really,
I thought it was gonna be the eighties in Boston
this weekend. It's gonna be. It's gonna be it's eighty five.
High of eighty five today, high of eighty on Friday,
and then it drops to fifty nine and then fifty three. Oh,
you'll be really sick by the time you get back
to LA. That'll be good. You'll need some medication. That

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reminds me when I years ago I covered the World
Series in Cleveland and it's snowed, and then we went
to Miami and it was eighty five degrees and I
got so freaking sick after that, the taint that I
wasn't used to the change in temperature. Anyway, what do
we have is ask Ben your questions are answers for
the rest of the hour. All right, We're gonna start
off with a question that we've had many times, and

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oh good, a repeat question. That's a great way to start. Well,
you know, I'm not sure if you know this, Ben,
But the listeners change all the time, and people that
several years ago don't listen now. And you know, we've
got new listeners all the time. I used to work
with a guy named Bob Page who told me that
people listen from the beginning to the end of the
show and they write down everything you say. Oh okay, well,

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I honestly can't remember what you said about this, but good,
I'll change my answer. Then Kathleen would like to know
I Kathleen, and this is I believe this is uh,
this is the famous Kathleen. Oh is that right? Yes,
of the mandolinist. Okay, of you know, Dick and Dayton
and Kathleen fame. She wants to know. In that's right,

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she says, She says, Say Ben, what's your middle name? Oh? Yeah,
I never used my middle name. I never used my name.
I will tell you that my middle name. I've said
it before in the past, you have, I have, well
say it now. No, I don't feel like do you
know what it is? No? I don't. It starts with

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an S. So my my initials are BS. My first
appropriates And remember when I when it's stuff years ago
around baseball, the east to bust my balls because Ben
mall are the initials of that or BM, and then
so I see I'm either BM or BS. Sampson very
similar to Sampson as you know Coople Oopen, Sebastian, Kathy

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and and Eddie Edie. Eddie's Judas. If you want to
know you guys know you know my middle name. You've
said it before. Your name is Judas? You your real
I just kid around and say Dallas. I'm definitely gonna
find that picture now, okay, Judas? Okay, all right, what's next?
What do we have? I hate that you didn't answer
that question. I did. I said it started with it

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as My middle name starts with as. Yeah. Okay, Um,
some people know. I bet you Alfiano Piner knows. I
bet you there's a few other all right, all right,
all right Calligan. Tim wants to know. Uh he's now.
He says, what do you have as your screensaver on
your phone? I think he means background? So what is
the background on you? Okay? So on my phone, I

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have a photo of Kawaii like the screensavers of Kawai
the beach. What's he? This is the one that takes
no days off the beach in Hawaii. Did you say
every day doesn't believe in load management? So I have that,
And then in my computer in the studio here, I
have a photo of the Sequoia National Forest, those giant,

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beautiful trees. Uh, in the I went, I was walking
through the giant forest years ago and I took this
great photo of this fallen tree. And so that's my
my screensaver that I look at most of the time,
although it's usually covered up with crap in front of it.
What about you, Eddie, So we're talking about the background coop. Yeah,
it's not that hard. It's not that hard, Eddie. It
is the h It is the Fresno State mascot. Uh.

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What you know, like the bulldog? Yeah, what's the bulldog's name, Eddie? Well,
the actual walking around mascot is named time Out. Oh?
Was this the furry costume one? Is that the one? Yeah? Okay,
Timeouts the name of that's his name? Time Out? Wow? Roberto. Uh,
make sure my daughter when she was getting ready for

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her tryouts for for baseball for the first time. Oh,
you're the only one so far that has someone in
your life that you love. I be at Eddie. The
bad people. We have random things. What about you, Kobaloo?
Mine is a picture of one of my cats, Piper.
How many do you have? Two coops? A cat person? Oh,

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that is true, he's a feline lover. What's next? What
do we have? All right? Uh? Black Steve the Second,
not to be confused with Black Steve the First or Black.
He wants to know have you ever been robbed? I
know your answer, Ben, But well I've my paycheck is
robbed by the government every month. But but no, I
don't know what That's not true. What are you talking about?

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Didn't didn't you come back to your car one time? Oh? Yeah,
but I wasn't at the like I think a robbery,
I think of like I ugged. Yeah, like I've had. Yes,
I've had my car broken into multiple times. I think
that counts as being robbed. Okay, then I've been robbed.
I Christmas Day Lakers Blazer's Staples Center. Uh yeah, I

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got robbed. Then I was on a road trip with
the Dodgers. I got back to La my car been
broken into. So good times, good times. What about you, Eddie? Yeah,
I've had my car broken into once. But that's it
all right? I don't think that is that robber. It's burglary,
not robbery. I what about you, Robert too, Yeah, I
got robbed in the neighborhood in some bad California. Look

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by the local video store back in the day. That
Coople Loop. Yeah, somebody. Uh. I left my garage door
open while I was having a poker game in my house.
It was a crime of opportunity, and somebody went into
my car in the garage, yeah, and ransacked my car.

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Did they take any good stuff out of it? Um weed? Yes?
There weed in their coop, Yes, there was, Coop Loop.
Next question, No, we're out of time, Coop. You're saved
by the bell. Coop, I'm saved by the bell. That's
the guy after he got out of Coop's car, right,