June 30, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller starts off hour 3 discussing James Harden agreeing to a new deal to stay with the Clippers and if it’ll truly make an impact on their championship chances next season, then analyzes the rumors that the "Point God" CP3 wants to have a reunion with the Suns or Clippers to end his career & dives into the news of the Malik Beasley gambling scandal + a new edition of Insta-Advice Line!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fear the beard. Welcome, it's our number three, our number three.
Give me the pros and cons on the Ben Mahler Show.
In hour three of this James Harden extension with the
Clippers as he'll stick around. Also, the Clippers and Sons
are reportedly considering a reunion with Guard Chris Paul. Can
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you unscramble what this means? Paul's forty years old now?
Also NBA crime Drama O rama. What stands out about
the Detroit Pistons Malik Beasley involved in a gambling investigation.
We'll talk about that as well. Right now, say hello
to my little friend. It's our number three. Into the
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barber shop we go. Well come, in the beginning of
another hour of the Ben Mahler Show. We are in
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late night chicken run, coast to coast or the border
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He hides on social media, but he's always on for
our show. Danny from Nashville. He's the guy that famously
stood outside the studio and hid in the bushes. He
came to La to visit La and he hid in
the bushes outside the studio. We're still not sure why
he did that, but he did. He did all right anyway.
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the Day, also the instant Advice Line, but we begin
with an extra spicy hot Mallard model pro bouncy Ball.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Earlier we ranted and raved about Lebron James and his situation.
But our lead this hour a busy day on the
transaction wire, and we're going to go to the barber shop.
If you will the Beard. The Beard has been very busy,
very very busy. Here. If you've been following the scuttle
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butt around pro bouncy Ball, you've heard, maybe not, perhaps
you missed it. So James Harden rejected a thirty six
point three million dollar contract. He said, I don't want
that contract. I'm leaving the People's team. And then he
said a minute later, psych, I'm coming back baby. So
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we are told that James Harden has a verbal deal.
It's not signed yet, but James Arden there goes that man.
As Mark Jackson will say, James Harden gets an extension
with the Clippers, and it's eighty one and a half
million over two years. Now, the second year is a
player option, partially partially guaranteed, partially guaranteed. So let us
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discuss the question for the esteem panel. Give me the
pros and give me the cons. The pros and the
cons of this James Harden extension with the Clippers. So
I've got penn and teller, compression sleeves and knuckle sandwich,
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and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to give you a migraine headache. Unless
we don't. We're going to try not to give you
a migraine headache. So a James Harden settling into his
cabin on the good ship clip right, the clipper ship.
There he is, James Harden settling in there. He's a
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native of LA. He lives in Houston in the offseason.
He's a mansion and he made his fame with the Roquettes.
Obviously he lives in Houston the offseason, but he's in
LA during the basketball season and he is absolutely loving it.
It's like McDonald's old slogan, I'm loving it. Steve Baumer
and his generosity, and Steve Baumer who's got more money
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than any owner in the NBA and continues to lock
up players like James Harden. Now, in terms of the
actual meat and potatoes, the pros and the cons of
the James Harden deal. On my note card, I wrote
down BO times two BO time students, not what you think,
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because the BO means box office in terms of that,
and then the other part of the BO is body owner.
So it is what you mean what you thought I met.
But there are there are certain things in life that
are guaranteed. When you talk about James Harden and the
way that he plays basketball, all right, You're guaranteed that
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in random arenas around the NBA, like on Tuesday Night,
let's say it's October or November. Random night, Tuesday Night, Sacramento,
Kawhi Leonard load managing, James Harden will be out there
and he'll he'll play, and there'll be a lot of
people there and it'll be great, and he'll pack the
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house box office right in November, and then by May
you'll be wondering why you signed him because he is
box office in terms of as a future Hall of
Famer and all that stuff, and then the popcorn stale.
But Harden will be out there and he'll put up
numbers he did this past year. Harden is a step
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back savant, much like me when I was, when I
was moneyball Maller out there playing basketball back in the day.
Harden led the NBA with one hundred and twenty nine
step back three pointers. I'm told that's pretty good. I'm
told that's pretty good. And he averaged almost twenty three
points per game and almost nine assists per game. And
the Clippers were not supposed to be very good. They
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won fifty games, took Denver to seven games, Harden played
seventy nine games, something that he has not done, I
believe since Obama was in the White House back in
the day. So it's been a minute. Now come playoff time,
the man turns into a Penn and Teller stage show
at the Rio Hotel in Casino in Las Vegas. Now
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you see him, now you don't? Right? For example, Game
seven in Denver, Clippers and Nuggets separated by a couple
of hairs. Everyone all hands on deck, got to play well, right,
have a chance to win a game on the road,
advanced to the second round of the playoffs, could play
Oklahoma City. Everyone knows Clips would have beaten Oklahoma City.
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They weren't that good. So what happened? James Harden went
out there and suffered from extreme tight took his syndrome.
He had seven points seven seven, seven seven in a
game seven seven, So I guess if it had been
game nine, he would have had nine points. The Clippers
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needed to be game sixty. They needed sixty points. Harden
only took eight field goal attempts, most of them after
the game was already decided in Game seven. And that
is not a stat line. That is a cry for help.
That is a cry for some kind of intervention, is
what I mean. It's it's embarrassing and Harden, we did
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the math before the players. About ten percent of the time,
James Harden is completely useless in the playoffs. His postseason resume,
James Harden's postseason resume is like a Greek tragedy. There's
some brilliant acts and fatal flaws and they're side by side, right,
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and the third act is almost always a collapse, almost
always a collapse, and it's very predictable. It's kind of
when you go and watch a Marvel movie. You know
it's coming up, right, whether you've seen it before or not,
you know what's likely going to happen. It's not that deep.
And James Harden is the anti hero if you will,
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because yet again you say, well, it's sports. And if
James Harden just win one championship with the Clippers, then
all of his past performances will be forgotten, meaning he's
flawed because he's got this glitch in the playoffs. But
yet it's fascinating to think about if you can go
on that one playoff run that you just sustain your success.
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And that's the one plot twist and then you're on
an island, redemption island. If you can only do it, now,
do I would I bet on James Harden? No, I
would not bet on James Harden. I would not. And
the Clippers can win with SAMs Harden, but they need
about twelve other things to work right for them to win.
And so that's the problem. Twelve other things have to
work right. And then they finally figured out Kawhi Leonard
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could stay healthy and they still lost all right now,
page two, So the Clippers and the Sons, if you
believe the Echo Chamber, are very much alive, very much alive.
They're both considering a reunion, a family reunion with CP
three Chris Paul, the Guard Chris Paul. So a lot
of chat over the week, and Chris Paul is deciding
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does he want to go to the Suns? Does he
want to stay in La go to the Clippers? So
can you unscramble why the Sons and Clippers would be interested.
It's one thing for Chris Paul to say I want
to play for the Clippers. I want to play for
the Suns again. But Chris Paul, can we all agree
he's washed? I th't were gonna agree he's washed off.
He's hanging on at this point. He's a bit player
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in the NBA. He's at the end of the road.
It's the bottom of the ninth inning. And I don't
know how many other ways I can say it, but
it's not lob City where he's passing the ball to
Blake Griffin for hammer Dunks in twenty thirteen. We're not
at that part part of the movie. We've moved on
from that part of the movie. It's the end of
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the road and the end of the road here. And
he's not even the guy that was a mirage and
was exposed for the Suns when they had that fluke
Finals run against the Milwaukee Bucks and all that. So
the Age Game is real. The Age Game is legit.
And so Chris Paul's like, he's he just wants to
play close to his home. He's not like his family
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doesn't want to leave La. They love the La lifestyle
and all that, and it's great when you have a
lot of money in LA and Chris Paul knows a
lot of rich people and famous people, and so that's great.
And so he wants to be in La because his
family doesn't want to leave LA And so that's where
we are. And Chris Paul's considered NBA royalty is the
point god and all that. And he's in that same
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conversation when you talk about Isaiah Thomas and John Stock
than in the great point guards of previous generation. And
so you know, it's where we at now. Where we
at now, it's the back nine. It's if you signed
Chris Paul, his legs he doesn't really have him doesn't
scare defense. It's not going to blow pass defensive players anymore.
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His mid range jump but he can still make mid
range jump shots and all that stuff, and until his
legs start barking, and then that won't be there. And
defensively a guy that led the NBA, it seemed like
every year with the Clippers and Steals, you know, not
quite that guy. You're not that guy, Pal, You're not
that guy. So why are the Clippers and sons peaking
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back down memory lane seeing what's down there? So he
is a coach essentially, he's a coach on the court,
but he's wearing compression sleeves. If you signed Chris Paul,
you're like, this is a coach on the court. He's
a mentor. Now, who exactly he would be mentoring. I
don't know, because the Clippers, in particular have a pretty
old rock the Sun's. They traded Durant. They're gonna try
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to trade Bradley Beal, but he's got a no trade cause.
So good luck on that.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Maybe Chris Paul has a little bit of gas left,
you know, me a little bit uh and and then
eventually the rims will start to wabble and he'll say, oh,
you know, no moss uh snap, crackle pop, and that's
gonna happen. And so it's not really a comeback. He
played a lot of games. He actually played quite a bit.
I think he played every game for the Spurs last
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year were close to it. So he just wants to
keep playing, and they want to rip the They're gonna
have to rip the uniform off. And as long as
someone's dumb enough to give him a job, he'll hang
around and it'll play and they'll get hurt and that'll
be that all right Now. The last word, we open
up the trauma O rama from Motown Federal authorities, the
Feds investigating a NBA player that we have heard it now.
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The last time we heard of this guy. He was
fumbling the ball at the end of the Pistons Knickerbocker's
playoff series. We're talking about Malik Beasley. Down goes Beasley.
Well not yet, no, yeah, no. Malik Beasley's been around
for a number of years, passed around the NBA. He's
got journeyman status at this point, many many, few. So
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he is facing allegations of gambling, yes, gambling related allegations
on NBA games involving prop best. Now this goes back
to his days in Milwaukee, in the Cream City. The
allegations from twenty January of twenty twenty four. It's played
for the Bucks and as I understand it, as I
understand it, Beasley played for the Bucks and one of
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the major sports books. They didn't name the sports book,
but one of the sports books red flag they Malik
Beasley game. And the reason they red flagged it they
detected some funny business going on. There was a large
amount of wagers that was pressed down on this particular sportsbook,
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heavy betting interest on a prop, a single prop in
a random game. In January of twenty twenty four, So
the US Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of New York.
They don't mess around, they're poking around. They're trying to
get to the bottom of this. So what stands out
about this? There are no charges, there's just an investigation.
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What stands out about this Malik Beasley gambling investigation. So
it is the sandwich. It is the knuckle sandwich is
what this is. Because the game in question that the
sportsbook red flagged, would you believe Malik Beley, Malik Beasley
overperformed that game. So the line was two and a half,
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meaning over under two and a half rebounds for Malik Beasley.
He had six rebounds in the game, thinking well, people
must have bet the over on that, But as I
understand it, that was not the case. They were betting
him to not get over two and a half rebounds
per game. So not only not only is this cat
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under investigation from the FEDS, he's also apparently really bad
at fixing games, doing if you're gonna fix the game,
should you at least not get the two and a
half rebounds and not go over that? So that's the
double knucklehead sandwich is what that is?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
There?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Uh. Now, Beasley's attorney pointed out a investigation is not
a charge, which is accurate, right, is that he's right
be investigated and not charged with a crime. For example,
I'm pretty sure there was an investigation. I don't think
Scary Terry has been charged with anything, and he was
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there was an investigation former Celtic who's found around playing
Charlotte Miami and some other places. So the problem the
Pistons have is the court of public opinion and the
optics always matter. So the story is the Pistons were
about to sign Malik Beasley to a forty two million
dollar contract extension and then they hit the pause button.
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They said, I will grab the remote with the pause button.
So now Beasley is in this weird holding pattern because
the Feds told the Pistons like, hey, what's going on.
So the Pistons are cooperating even though this happened with
the Milwaukee Bucks, and so what's going to happen? Those
resources will be allocated to some other players and then Beasley,
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even if he did nothing worthy of being charged with
a crime, Beasley is still going to end up losing
out financial Now I have been told and who knows
if this is true or not, but a buddy of
mine who seems to know a lot about these things
indicated that this is still tied to that original investigation.
John Tey Porter, I believe is the guy's name was
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with the Toronto Raptors and he was kicked out, banned
for life. He's been charged. I think he's agreed to
some kind of deal as far as punishment for that.
And so they're still going through the phones on that,
Like there were multiple players involved in it, so we'll
see what happens. But this is all part of it.
And the NBA, and I mentioned optics and all that stuff,
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and so the NBA is they've got this dance and
I'm all for legalized gambling and all that stuff, but
it's this weird dance with the devil because it's so easy,
so easy to bet on your phone and all that stuff.
But if you're a player legalized gambling, it is the
ultimate dance with the devil because it's a revenue stream
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for the NBA. It's good for engagement, and it'll get
you to watch a game on a Monday night when
you really don't care about the two teams, Like, you know,
let's say it's a random Monday night and the Charlotte
Hornets are playing the New Orleans Pelicans. You like, I
don't really care about the game, but if I bet
on the over under, I might watch right. And it
really is a modern necessity. You can't unring the bell.
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You cannot run ring the bell, which is part of
the problem. And so it's but it's also a minefield.
It's also minefield. You know, every time a player's name
gets tossed into this, there's some credibility and integrity of
the game issues that come up on all that stuff.
And so it's possible that Beasley did nothing here and
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that people were mentioning his name saying that they knew
something that was gonna happen that didn't happen. But if
there's fire, if there's smoke, there's probably fire. If there's
fire there, then it's not just gonna be a small fire.
It's not gonna be a dumpster fire. It's gonna be
a five alarm blaze, is what's going to be. That
is the ban Malord Show. As we work our way
through the overnight, will take a big block of phone
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calls here. Also we have the instant advice line that
is coming up unscreen calls from the Wackerdoodles But time
now for the malor the day, the Mallard Riddle of
the day. So, somebody named Jamie Lamb revealed that she
missed out on an interview with NBA legend Michael Jordan
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for GQ magazine because of blank. Again, Jamie Lamb is
the woman's name. She said that she missed out on
a one on one interview with Michael Jordan for GQ
Magazine because of blank. That is the Mallard Riddle of
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the day. The answer, We'll get to it. We'll do
it next.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
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twenty six. Because I allot as only Frank Sinatra could
sing your comments, cannon will be used against you in
the court of sports radio. Back to it we go.
I never met Frank Sinatra, as you might imagine, but
I did did enter the same room as Frank Sinatra.
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When I was a young radio lad Sinatra was friends
with Tommy Lasorda, who was the Dodgers manager, and there
was a day game. It's like a Thursday afternoon and Sinatra,
he used to be like a regular Dodger Stadium semi
regular back in the day, had a place in Palm
Springs and I remember it was like a big deal
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because he hadn't been to the ballpark in a while.
This is probably early mid nineties, and Sinatra he showed
up to a game and it was like the Pope.
Like everyone, like the Dodger people was like this was
still when they were owned by the O'Malley family. It
was like the Pope was there.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
You know, it was like the Alley Cat.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Something like that. Yes, and so yeah, I remember that
they have even they had helicopters tracking the limo carrying
Sinatra to the ballpark. It was like that big a deal.
And yeah, he was like the king of Palm Springs
and he and the Sorda would hang out and that
would be that. That's the only it was there. The
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same same room came in there and because he couldn't
get near him because you know, he's Frank Sinatra, So
you can't be the same anyway. Time. Now for the
mallor riddle of the day, the malleor riddle of the today.
This is where we try to give you a brain
twister and see if you can figure out who this
mystery person is. And here is the mallor riddle of
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the Do not cheat, Alf, do not do it. Do
not cheat here it is so. Someone named Jamie Lamb
revealed that she missed out on an interview with NBA
legend Michael Jordan for GQ magazine because of blank. Because
of blank, that is the riddle of the day. What
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is the answer? Let's see because mj was busy working
with his mentee. According to Mallard prop guy, let's see
who else? Page down a case of swamp ass from
Stevie Meatballs. That's his answer. Ferg Dog says, because his
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airness does not talk to women unless his wife is present.
Who else do we have about? Page Nan her Wig
was coming off from Scrooge. She got the flu from
the pizza guy from Alf the alien opineer Justin and Cincinnati,
quoting an iconic nineteen eighties movie something involving Butterfinger from
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Far Out Dave, she was getting her car washed. According
to Donkey Sausage explosive diarrhea from Tom in can City, Missouri,
not to be confused with Kansas City, Kansas, which is
literally next door. Eke in Roseville, Minnesota says she was
drinking tequila. Joe the Ghost Hunter says the woman was
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wearing lebron shoes. That's why, who else? Paige down I
can't read that. We'll skip over that one, all right,
list enough, do you have an answer, Lorraine?
Speaker 7 (24:51):
We think it's because that she was getting many petties, getting.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
The manny and the petty, and she could not interview
Michael Jordan.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
No.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Turns out, the woman Jamie Lamb, revealed she missed out
missed out on an exclusive interview with NBA legend Michael
Jordan for GQ magazine because she was stuck on the
poop Cruise.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
How about that?
Speaker 7 (25:14):
Did you watch that?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I did?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I did? I watched it. I watched it this weekend.
What's that? And?
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
It was?
Speaker 5 (25:24):
It was good.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I thought they did a good job making.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
Why wouldn't you just poop in the bags?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Well, yeah, the red bags, the bio hazard. Did you
watch the poop Cruise? On Netflix. Oh, this is a
real thing. Yeah, you didn't watch this weekend? I did?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Know?
Speaker 5 (25:39):
What is this?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
There is the number one show on Netflix this week
number two shows. Sounds like, Oh, they all were very funny.
How dare you no? Yeah, so this this happened in
twenty thirteen. They just made a documentary and it was
like the girl was like twelve, but she's all grown
up now, she's an adult. Yeah, she's in her dad's
acting traumatized. Yeah. Yeah, the dad's acting traumatized. And they
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had the that three women that were on like a
bachelorette party, they were all together and then they were
like they had some of the people that were on
the cruise and then they didn't watched it.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I've never been on a cruise and I will never
go on a cruise. Well, it's funny.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
My cousin is on one right now, the same Carnival
cruise right now. And I was like, I was like,
when did you watch this before you left? She's like, no, no,
I did not, and I made sure not to.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah, and have you been on a cruise? Have you?
Speaker 7 (26:23):
I have, yes, And I can only do like three
days tops, anything longer than that.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Was that was only supposed to be a three day cruise. Yeah,
and then like a week I'm just reading about it.
You're gonna watch the documentary. The thing that is great.
I love that. It was okay until they towed it
and then things started shaking and when it started shaking
and the yurine went sliding down press Oh man, I
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read about it after I watched. I think they said
some of the documentary. But they cleaned it. They changed
the name, just changed the name of the burn this ship. No,
don't use it again. Cleaned up your expensive those ships
are come on burn it. It's a Russia into an iceberg.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
On the back of the ticket, it says we are
not responsible for any unsanitary living conditions while you're on
this boat, so no one could sue.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah, they did settle with some people, but yeah, yeah, yeah,
they did that cheesy ambulance chasing. Lawyer was in there, right,
you like that guy to get He was holding the cigar,
you know, you know, look like a character from the Simpsons.
He was on there. Anyway, I enjoyed that, so I
started looking this the people up. I was like, I
want to learn more about these people that were in
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the documentary and Jamie Lamb was the blonde woman of
the three women. She was like I guess, and she
was the one who was supposed to interview Michael Jordan,
but she was part of that bachelorette party on the
cruise ship and she ended up like she ghosted it.
But she couldn't get a hold of them because the
phones weren't working on the boat. So that's wild. There
you go. All right, let's go to the phones and
let's hello to Paul in Ottawa. Let me see, as
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I wonder if I know this guy, Paul. Hello, Paul
in Ottawa.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Hey man, I thought i'd give you a shout since
I've got insomnia. So I had an observation about Lebron James.
I don't know if you remember a show called The
McLaughlin Group Friday Nights on TBS.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I do, I do.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
It was a panel show and at one time he
had a topic which was enough Already, and then the
panelists would give their take on who should qualify for
enough Already. And I think that Lebron James is kind
of a good candidate for that. Maybe Aaron Rodgers too,
like they just sort of like to have a lot
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of attention on themselves, and as far as Lebron, I
would say, once you get a little humility and gratitude
for the life you have, maybe I'll start listening to you.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
So look at that. I did not have MacLaughlin group
on my big board of topics. But that show's been
off the air for five ten years now, right, yeah,
oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
He died a number of years ago. And I have
two memories of Dave Parker. One was the biggest swing
and miss I ever saw. He took a swing at
a ball that would have just kept going if he
had connected, but he missed, and the momentum of the
swing was so great that he spun around a few
times and almost fell. I don't think he hit the ground.
(29:27):
You think he used his bat to protect him. But
I'd never seen a swing quite like that.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
That was that at the end of his riple, because
he did play very bat. He played with the Blue
ja Wait, he played with the Blue Jays. His last
team was the Blue Jess.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Which is ironic because my other memory is that when
he was playing against the Blue Jays, probably in eighty nine,
in the playoffs, in order to get to that World Series,
he hit a home run and he was rounding the
basis and Kelly Gruber, Toronto's third Basement, he complained to
somebody that Parker was running too around the basis. And
(30:02):
what I loved was when it got back to Parker,
you know, what do you think about Kelly Gruber saying
you shouldn't have run so slow around the bases. And
he just said, referring to Goober, he said, he means
very little to me. That was it.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
He did have a great mullet, though, Kelly Gruber, he
had a good mullet when he was playing for the
for the Blue Jays back in the day. Yeah. All right,
well there you thank you, Paul. Good memories. Uh, get
some get some rest, but you have insomnia, so you're
not going to get any rest. Let's go to America's
favorite drag queen caller for Lexus, who is in Buffalo. Hello,
flexis welcome.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Then Hi Lorena, how America? Well then let me tell
you something. You've got an idiot that a call here
last week and picked them poro holler and James. Well,
I want a verbal anti god against who.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
You want to be. All right, hold on this sec here,
hold on a Seke, blind Scott, this guy Felexus would
like to challenge you to the octagon.
Speaker 8 (31:08):
Your thoughts, Yeah whatever, I'm going to get one of
my own Netflix documentaries, like The Poop Cruise. I heard
that documentary right away and I went after the people
who made the documentary on social media.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
All right, Felexis, it sounds like he's deferring. He does
not want to take you on in the octagon.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Well, you know what, then, let me tell you some
of bron Scott's parents. You know how they use to
punish him. They would put a plunger in a store
of it.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
All right, see here, blind Scott, According to Filexis, your
parents would punish you by putting a plunger in the toilet.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
Felexus, You've been punishing us for years with this wicked,
bad drag queen actor literally doing agp over the air.
You're disgusting, You're so.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Ugly, all right, Felexus. Blind Scott questioned your your looks.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
How does he know? I'm he can't see?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
All right, blind Scott. Felexis points out that you have
no idea what Felexis looks like because you're blind.
Speaker 8 (32:09):
Here it's Pride Month and the whole drag string is
a little political protest. And then you come on.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
This all right, is that a political protest? You've been
doing this before it was cool. Flexis, you'd admit that. Yes,
you know what, Brian.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Scott, the only color you are is green because they're
to met seen you or wan throw up?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
All right, boy, that's a that's a solid put down, dude,
you win.
Speaker 8 (32:32):
Hollering James and Tammy, you guys can all get a
run together and stop playing out your fantasies.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
All right, James, you've been hollering. James, you've been brought
into this your thoughts hollering James, my glass.
Speaker 8 (32:44):
Blind Scott needs to take a bag seat, all.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Right, Scott, you need to take a back seat. Scott.
Speaker 8 (32:51):
Hey, hollering James, why don't you just jump on a
treadmill and not get off at polite?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
All right? Would you thought? Have you thought about jumping
on a treadmill? Hollering James?
Speaker 8 (32:59):
Right, you have to me, I'd run over you and
blind Scott.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Okay, that's a terrible line. Felexus, your thoughts all right? Uh,
blind Scott, Felexis says, ha ha ha.
Speaker 8 (33:14):
I'll always be a star with these people next to me.
They make me look good. I look so good, like
I couldn't like I look like the biggest supermodel in
the world next to them, like I look like the
most feminine model.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
All right, uh, hollering James, do you believe blind Scott
is a feminine model?
Speaker 8 (33:31):
Blind Scott, Let's make a blob.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Oft all right, Scott, According to James, you look like
a blob of Snott.
Speaker 8 (33:42):
Well, I heard that it was Tarmy that fondled you.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
All right, please uh flexus.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Blind Scott looks like something they threw off the cruise
of the poop Cruise.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
All right, Scott? Is it true that you were you
were used in the poop cruise floating down the aisles
in the cruise ship?
Speaker 8 (34:02):
Oh yeah, Well I have that fetish where I actually
you know, I smelled it and I put my mouth
all right, all right?
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Any final thoughts for Alexis? Please?
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Oh god, do I have to touch that one? I mean,
who wants here?
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Okay? I had no final thought, hollering James, Any final.
Speaker 8 (34:21):
Thoughts, bar scat you have urine bread?
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Okay, ish my fault. I went back to Let's go
now to a woman who'll class up the show. She'll
get her star charts out right now. She's the astrology insider.
We're going out of Berkeley. She can see all the
stars and the skies and she knows what they mean
because of the Farmer's Almanac and her ability. Our friend, Andrea,
(34:48):
Oh man, how are you, Andrea? If I was any better,
I would not have taken those last three calls, but
I did.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
I like what you said. I can class up the joint.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Yes, please help us out. We need some help. You
might want to hose down the phone. I don't know.
It's gotten out of control here.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Yeah. I know, Mercury's not even retrograde, but there's some
funky stuff going on. I'll have to look.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Could it be retrocheade or something like that. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Oh, that's great. You learn that term when mercury two
weeks yes, two weeks after you.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
That's right, that's from you. Tell you're my teacher, you're
my professor.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Oh well, you're a good student. You learn that fact,
and it's a good one to learn.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
So now I understand you have information about Lebron James
very accurate.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Yes, it's really interesting. He just typifies Capricorn energy. He's
December thirtieth, nineteen eighty four. And Capricorns are really into
money basically, and you know, just being attaining and successful
and accomplishing, just really super ambitious and materialistic. Here's the thing.
(36:01):
You know, when they're maturialistic and calculating an opportunistic, they
are over ambitious and self seeking. So you know, you
can have the good with the bad. But Capricorn is
one sign that kind of goes in the direction of
money and finances and accumulating a fortune as they can.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Yeah, well Ron's already got a fortune. He's not trying
for a second third fortune and trying to pile on money.
Well they say money makes money, Yeah, so I don't
have to worry about that because I don't have a
lot of that, So I don't worry about money making money.
But interesting, all right, Well, very good Andrew, And people
can get a hold of you on the X machine
and virgo in service. Yes, you'll help them out a
(36:48):
little bit.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Oh yes, and talking about helping out real fast, the
Metropolitans use some help.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Yes, you might want to. You might be managing the match.
If they keep going this way, they'll call you up
to manage the team because what they're doing now is
not working.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Yes, lind Or, just so you know. November fourteen, nineteen
ninety three. And I know Lorena would appreciate this. He's
a Scorpio and he's had the closed door meeting, so
I you know that was a good idea, Lorena.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Are you gonna call it closed door meeting here for
the Scorpions for our show? I don't know. All right,
thank you, Andrew verg all right, there she goes, Andrew,
you too. We'll talk to you later this week. Andrea
Virgo in service straight ahead the install advice line on
Screen Radio. We'll get to that. Will do it next.
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Hold that thun No one's paid attention to me for
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our advice? The New York Mets. They blow. They've lost
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Your advice to the Mets. Line one, you're live on
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That was our friend from the Bay Area. You're on
their advice Please to the Mets.
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Just think about the slave shit.
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Wow, that's dramatic. Rick in Maryland Morning Time Line five,
you're on the Airline five. We're giving advice to the
New York Match League got swept by the pirates over
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Speaker 8 (39:08):
How come you have so many blind callers and no
death callars?
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to rip the death they cannot hear us. Line six,
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Stealing your piece of the rain. If it's any constellation,
I can tell you how it tasted.
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I don't know what that was. Line two you're on
the airline too. Hello, Oh that's Sean, the hood guy.
You're on the air incident advice line for the Mats.
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Hello, oh hang on, hang on to that bag.
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Fear the beard. Welcome, it's our number three, our number three.
Give me the pros and cons on the Ben Mahler Show.
In hour three of this James Harden extension with the
Clippers as he'll stick around. Also, the Clippers and Sons
are reportedly considering a reunion with Guard Chris Paul. Can
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you unscramble what this means? Paul's forty years old now?
Also NBA crime Drama O rama. What stands out about
the Detroit Pistons Malik Beasley involved in a gambling investigation.
We'll talk about that as well. Right now, say hello
to my little friend. It's our number three. Into the
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Speaker 2 (02:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Earlier we ranted and raved about Lebron James and his situation.
But our lead this hour a busy day on the
transaction wire, and we're going to go to the barber shop.
If you will the Beard. The Beard has been very busy,
very very busy. Here. If you've been following the scuttle
(02:46):
butt around pro bouncy Ball, you've heard, maybe not, perhaps
you missed it. So James Harden rejected a thirty six
point three million dollar contract. He said, I don't want
that contract. I'm leaving the People's team. And then he
said a minute later, psych, I'm coming back baby. So
(03:07):
we are told that James Harden has a verbal deal.
It's not signed yet, but James Arden there goes that man.
As Mark Jackson will say, James Harden gets an extension
with the Clippers, and it's eighty one and a half
million over two years. Now, the second year is a
player option, partially partially guaranteed, partially guaranteed. So let us
(03:28):
discuss the question for the esteem panel. Give me the
pros and give me the cons. The pros and the
cons of this James Harden extension with the Clippers. So
I've got penn and teller, compression sleeves and knuckle sandwich,
(03:48):
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to give you a migraine headache. Unless
we don't. We're going to try not to give you
a migraine headache. So a James Harden settling into his
cabin on the good ship clip right, the clipper ship.
There he is, James Harden settling in there. He's a
(04:09):
native of LA. He lives in Houston in the offseason.
He's a mansion and he made his fame with the Roquettes.
Obviously he lives in Houston the offseason, but he's in
LA during the basketball season and he is absolutely loving it.
It's like McDonald's old slogan, I'm loving it. Steve Baumer
and his generosity, and Steve Baumer who's got more money
(04:29):
than any owner in the NBA and continues to lock
up players like James Harden. Now, in terms of the
actual meat and potatoes, the pros and the cons of
the James Harden deal. On my note card, I wrote
down BO times two BO time students, not what you think,
(04:51):
because the BO means box office in terms of that,
and then the other part of the BO is body owner.
So it is what you mean what you thought I met.
But there are there are certain things in life that
are guaranteed. When you talk about James Harden and the
way that he plays basketball, all right, You're guaranteed that
(05:11):
in random arenas around the NBA, like on Tuesday Night,
let's say it's October or November. Random night, Tuesday Night, Sacramento,
Kawhi Leonard load managing, James Harden will be out there
and he'll he'll play, and there'll be a lot of
people there and it'll be great, and he'll pack the
(05:34):
house box office right in November, and then by May
you'll be wondering why you signed him because he is
box office in terms of as a future Hall of
Famer and all that stuff, and then the popcorn stale.
But Harden will be out there and he'll put up
numbers he did this past year. Harden is a step
(05:54):
back savant, much like me when I was, when I
was moneyball Maller out there playing basketball back in the day.
Harden led the NBA with one hundred and twenty nine
step back three pointers. I'm told that's pretty good. I'm
told that's pretty good. And he averaged almost twenty three
points per game and almost nine assists per game. And
the Clippers were not supposed to be very good. They
(06:16):
won fifty games, took Denver to seven games, Harden played
seventy nine games, something that he has not done, I
believe since Obama was in the White House back in
the day. So it's been a minute. Now come playoff time,
the man turns into a Penn and Teller stage show
at the Rio Hotel in Casino in Las Vegas. Now
(06:37):
you see him, now you don't? Right? For example, Game
seven in Denver, Clippers and Nuggets separated by a couple
of hairs. Everyone all hands on deck, got to play well, right,
have a chance to win a game on the road,
advanced to the second round of the playoffs, could play
Oklahoma City. Everyone knows Clips would have beaten Oklahoma City.
(06:57):
They weren't that good. So what happened? James Harden went
out there and suffered from extreme tight took his syndrome.
He had seven points seven seven, seven seven in a
game seven seven, So I guess if it had been
game nine, he would have had nine points. The Clippers
(07:19):
needed to be game sixty. They needed sixty points. Harden
only took eight field goal attempts, most of them after
the game was already decided in Game seven. And that
is not a stat line. That is a cry for help.
That is a cry for some kind of intervention, is
what I mean. It's it's embarrassing and Harden, we did
(07:41):
the math before the players. About ten percent of the time,
James Harden is completely useless in the playoffs. His postseason resume,
James Harden's postseason resume is like a Greek tragedy. There's
some brilliant acts and fatal flaws and they're side by side, right,
(08:01):
and the third act is almost always a collapse, almost
always a collapse, and it's very predictable. It's kind of
when you go and watch a Marvel movie. You know
it's coming up, right, whether you've seen it before or not,
you know what's likely going to happen. It's not that deep.
And James Harden is the anti hero if you will,
(08:24):
because yet again you say, well, it's sports. And if
James Harden just win one championship with the Clippers, then
all of his past performances will be forgotten, meaning he's
flawed because he's got this glitch in the playoffs. But
yet it's fascinating to think about if you can go
on that one playoff run that you just sustain your success.
(08:47):
And that's the one plot twist and then you're on
an island, redemption island. If you can only do it, now,
do I would I bet on James Harden? No, I
would not bet on James Harden. I would not. And
the Clippers can win with SAMs Harden, but they need
about twelve other things to work right for them to win.
And so that's the problem. Twelve other things have to
work right. And then they finally figured out Kawhi Leonard
(09:10):
could stay healthy and they still lost all right now,
page two, So the Clippers and the Sons, if you
believe the Echo Chamber, are very much alive, very much alive.
They're both considering a reunion, a family reunion with CP
three Chris Paul, the Guard Chris Paul. So a lot
of chat over the week, and Chris Paul is deciding
(09:31):
does he want to go to the Suns? Does he
want to stay in La go to the Clippers? So
can you unscramble why the Sons and Clippers would be interested.
It's one thing for Chris Paul to say I want
to play for the Clippers. I want to play for
the Suns again. But Chris Paul, can we all agree
he's washed? I th't were gonna agree he's washed off.
He's hanging on at this point. He's a bit player
(09:52):
in the NBA. He's at the end of the road.
It's the bottom of the ninth inning. And I don't
know how many other ways I can say it, but
it's not lob City where he's passing the ball to
Blake Griffin for hammer Dunks in twenty thirteen. We're not
at that part part of the movie. We've moved on
from that part of the movie. It's the end of
(10:13):
the road and the end of the road here. And
he's not even the guy that was a mirage and
was exposed for the Suns when they had that fluke
Finals run against the Milwaukee Bucks and all that. So
the Age Game is real. The Age Game is legit.
And so Chris Paul's like, he's he just wants to
play close to his home. He's not like his family
(10:35):
doesn't want to leave La. They love the La lifestyle
and all that, and it's great when you have a
lot of money in LA and Chris Paul knows a
lot of rich people and famous people, and so that's great.
And so he wants to be in La because his
family doesn't want to leave LA And so that's where
we are. And Chris Paul's considered NBA royalty is the
point god and all that. And he's in that same
(10:56):
conversation when you talk about Isaiah Thomas and John Stock
than in the great point guards of previous generation. And
so you know, it's where we at now. Where we
at now, it's the back nine. It's if you signed
Chris Paul, his legs he doesn't really have him doesn't
scare defense. It's not going to blow pass defensive players anymore.
(11:19):
His mid range jump but he can still make mid
range jump shots and all that stuff, and until his
legs start barking, and then that won't be there. And
defensively a guy that led the NBA, it seemed like
every year with the Clippers and Steals, you know, not
quite that guy. You're not that guy, Pal, You're not
that guy. So why are the Clippers and sons peaking
(11:40):
back down memory lane seeing what's down there? So he
is a coach essentially, he's a coach on the court,
but he's wearing compression sleeves. If you signed Chris Paul,
you're like, this is a coach on the court. He's
a mentor. Now, who exactly he would be mentoring. I
don't know, because the Clippers, in particular have a pretty
old rock the Sun's. They traded Durant. They're gonna try
(12:03):
to trade Bradley Beal, but he's got a no trade cause.
So good luck on that.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Maybe Chris Paul has a little bit of gas left,
you know, me a little bit uh and and then
eventually the rims will start to wabble and he'll say, oh,
you know, no moss uh snap, crackle pop, and that's
gonna happen. And so it's not really a comeback. He
played a lot of games. He actually played quite a bit.
I think he played every game for the Spurs last
(12:32):
year were close to it. So he just wants to
keep playing, and they want to rip the They're gonna
have to rip the uniform off. And as long as
someone's dumb enough to give him a job, he'll hang
around and it'll play and they'll get hurt and that'll
be that all right Now. The last word, we open
up the trauma O rama from Motown Federal authorities, the
Feds investigating a NBA player that we have heard it now.
(12:57):
The last time we heard of this guy. He was
fumbling the ball at the end of the Pistons Knickerbocker's
playoff series. We're talking about Malik Beasley. Down goes Beasley.
Well not yet, no, yeah, no. Malik Beasley's been around
for a number of years, passed around the NBA. He's
got journeyman status at this point, many many, few. So
(13:18):
he is facing allegations of gambling, yes, gambling related allegations
on NBA games involving prop best. Now this goes back
to his days in Milwaukee, in the Cream City. The
allegations from twenty January of twenty twenty four. It's played
for the Bucks and as I understand it, as I
understand it, Beasley played for the Bucks and one of
(13:41):
the major sports books. They didn't name the sports book,
but one of the sports books red flag they Malik
Beasley game. And the reason they red flagged it they
detected some funny business going on. There was a large
amount of wagers that was pressed down on this particular sportsbook,
(14:03):
heavy betting interest on a prop, a single prop in
a random game. In January of twenty twenty four, So
the US Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of New York.
They don't mess around, they're poking around. They're trying to
get to the bottom of this. So what stands out
about this? There are no charges, there's just an investigation.
(14:25):
What stands out about this Malik Beasley gambling investigation. So
it is the sandwich. It is the knuckle sandwich is
what this is. Because the game in question that the
sportsbook red flagged, would you believe Malik Beley, Malik Beasley
overperformed that game. So the line was two and a half,
(14:52):
meaning over under two and a half rebounds for Malik Beasley.
He had six rebounds in the game, thinking well, people
must have bet the over on that, But as I
understand it, that was not the case. They were betting
him to not get over two and a half rebounds
per game. So not only not only is this cat
(15:15):
under investigation from the FEDS, he's also apparently really bad
at fixing games, doing if you're gonna fix the game,
should you at least not get the two and a
half rebounds and not go over that? So that's the
double knucklehead sandwich is what that is?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
There?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Uh. Now, Beasley's attorney pointed out a investigation is not
a charge, which is accurate, right, is that he's right
be investigated and not charged with a crime. For example,
I'm pretty sure there was an investigation. I don't think
Scary Terry has been charged with anything, and he was
(15:57):
there was an investigation former Celtic who's found around playing
Charlotte Miami and some other places. So the problem the
Pistons have is the court of public opinion and the
optics always matter. So the story is the Pistons were
about to sign Malik Beasley to a forty two million
dollar contract extension and then they hit the pause button.
(16:17):
They said, I will grab the remote with the pause button.
So now Beasley is in this weird holding pattern because
the Feds told the Pistons like, hey, what's going on.
So the Pistons are cooperating even though this happened with
the Milwaukee Bucks, and so what's going to happen? Those
resources will be allocated to some other players and then Beasley,
(16:38):
even if he did nothing worthy of being charged with
a crime, Beasley is still going to end up losing
out financial Now I have been told and who knows
if this is true or not, but a buddy of
mine who seems to know a lot about these things
indicated that this is still tied to that original investigation.
John Tey Porter, I believe is the guy's name was
(16:58):
with the Toronto Raptors and he was kicked out, banned
for life. He's been charged. I think he's agreed to
some kind of deal as far as punishment for that.
And so they're still going through the phones on that,
Like there were multiple players involved in it, so we'll
see what happens. But this is all part of it.
And the NBA, and I mentioned optics and all that stuff,
(17:21):
and so the NBA is they've got this dance and
I'm all for legalized gambling and all that stuff, but
it's this weird dance with the devil because it's so easy,
so easy to bet on your phone and all that stuff.
But if you're a player legalized gambling, it is the
ultimate dance with the devil because it's a revenue stream
(17:43):
for the NBA. It's good for engagement, and it'll get
you to watch a game on a Monday night when
you really don't care about the two teams, Like, you know,
let's say it's a random Monday night and the Charlotte
Hornets are playing the New Orleans Pelicans. You like, I
don't really care about the game, but if I bet
on the over under, I might watch right. And it
really is a modern necessity. You can't unring the bell.
(18:06):
You cannot run ring the bell, which is part of
the problem. And so it's but it's also a minefield.
It's also minefield. You know, every time a player's name
gets tossed into this, there's some credibility and integrity of
the game issues that come up on all that stuff.
And so it's possible that Beasley did nothing here and
(18:26):
that people were mentioning his name saying that they knew
something that was gonna happen that didn't happen. But if
there's fire, if there's smoke, there's probably fire. If there's
fire there, then it's not just gonna be a small fire.
It's not gonna be a dumpster fire. It's gonna be
a five alarm blaze, is what's going to be. That
is the ban Malord Show. As we work our way
through the overnight, will take a big block of phone
(18:48):
calls here. Also we have the instant advice line that
is coming up unscreen calls from the Wackerdoodles But time
now for the malor the day, the Mallard Riddle of
the day. So, somebody named Jamie Lamb revealed that she
missed out on an interview with NBA legend Michael Jordan
(19:12):
for GQ magazine because of blank. Again, Jamie Lamb is
the woman's name. She said that she missed out on
a one on one interview with Michael Jordan for GQ
Magazine because of blank. That is the Mallard Riddle of
(19:33):
the day. The answer, We'll get to it. We'll do
it next.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
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twenty six. Because I allot as only Frank Sinatra could
sing your comments, cannon will be used against you in
the court of sports radio. Back to it we go.
I never met Frank Sinatra, as you might imagine, but
I did did enter the same room as Frank Sinatra.
(21:39):
When I was a young radio lad Sinatra was friends
with Tommy Lasorda, who was the Dodgers manager, and there
was a day game. It's like a Thursday afternoon and Sinatra,
he used to be like a regular Dodger Stadium semi
regular back in the day, had a place in Palm
Springs and I remember it was like a big deal
(22:01):
because he hadn't been to the ballpark in a while.
This is probably early mid nineties, and Sinatra he showed
up to a game and it was like the Pope.
Like everyone, like the Dodger people was like this was
still when they were owned by the O'Malley family. It
was like the Pope was there.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
You know, it was like the Alley Cat.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Something like that. Yes, and so yeah, I remember that
they have even they had helicopters tracking the limo carrying
Sinatra to the ballpark. It was like that big a deal.
And yeah, he was like the king of Palm Springs
and he and the Sorda would hang out and that
would be that. That's the only it was there. The
(22:40):
same same room came in there and because he couldn't
get near him because you know, he's Frank Sinatra, So
you can't be the same anyway. Time. Now for the
mallor riddle of the day, the malleor riddle of the today.
This is where we try to give you a brain
twister and see if you can figure out who this
mystery person is. And here is the mallor riddle of
(23:02):
the Do not cheat, Alf, do not do it. Do
not cheat here it is so. Someone named Jamie Lamb
revealed that she missed out on an interview with NBA
legend Michael Jordan for GQ magazine because of blank. Because
of blank, that is the riddle of the day. What
(23:25):
is the answer? Let's see because mj was busy working
with his mentee. According to Mallard prop guy, let's see
who else? Page down a case of swamp ass from
Stevie Meatballs. That's his answer. Ferg Dog says, because his
(23:47):
airness does not talk to women unless his wife is present.
Who else do we have about? Page Nan her Wig
was coming off from Scrooge. She got the flu from
the pizza guy from Alf the alien opineer Justin and Cincinnati,
quoting an iconic nineteen eighties movie something involving Butterfinger from
(24:13):
Far Out Dave, she was getting her car washed. According
to Donkey Sausage explosive diarrhea from Tom in can City, Missouri,
not to be confused with Kansas City, Kansas, which is
literally next door. Eke in Roseville, Minnesota says she was
drinking tequila. Joe the Ghost Hunter says the woman was
(24:36):
wearing lebron shoes. That's why, who else? Paige down I
can't read that. We'll skip over that one, all right,
list enough, do you have an answer, Lorraine?
Speaker 7 (24:51):
We think it's because that she was getting many petties, getting.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
The manny and the petty, and she could not interview
Michael Jordan.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
No.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Turns out, the woman Jamie Lamb, revealed she missed out
missed out on an exclusive interview with NBA legend Michael
Jordan for GQ magazine because she was stuck on the
poop Cruise.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
How about that?
Speaker 7 (25:14):
Did you watch that?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I did?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I did? I watched it. I watched it this weekend.
What's that? And?
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
It was?
Speaker 5 (25:24):
It was good.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I thought they did a good job making.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
Why wouldn't you just poop in the bags?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Well, yeah, the red bags, the bio hazard. Did you
watch the poop Cruise? On Netflix. Oh, this is a
real thing. Yeah, you didn't watch this weekend? I did?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Know?
Speaker 5 (25:39):
What is this?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
There is the number one show on Netflix this week
number two shows. Sounds like, Oh, they all were very funny.
How dare you no? Yeah, so this this happened in
twenty thirteen. They just made a documentary and it was
like the girl was like twelve, but she's all grown
up now, she's an adult. Yeah, she's in her dad's
acting traumatized. Yeah. Yeah, the dad's acting traumatized. And they
(25:59):
had the that three women that were on like a
bachelorette party, they were all together and then they were
like they had some of the people that were on
the cruise and then they didn't watched it.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I've never been on a cruise and I will never
go on a cruise. Well, it's funny.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
My cousin is on one right now, the same Carnival
cruise right now. And I was like, I was like,
when did you watch this before you left? She's like, no, no,
I did not, and I made sure not to.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah, and have you been on a cruise? Have you?
Speaker 7 (26:23):
I have, yes, And I can only do like three
days tops, anything longer than that.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Was that was only supposed to be a three day cruise. Yeah,
and then like a week I'm just reading about it.
You're gonna watch the documentary. The thing that is great.
I love that. It was okay until they towed it
and then things started shaking and when it started shaking
and the yurine went sliding down press Oh man, I
(26:54):
read about it after I watched. I think they said
some of the documentary. But they cleaned it. They changed
the name, just changed the name of the burn this ship. No,
don't use it again. Cleaned up your expensive those ships
are come on burn it. It's a Russia into an iceberg.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
On the back of the ticket, it says we are
not responsible for any unsanitary living conditions while you're on
this boat, so no one could sue.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah, they did settle with some people, but yeah, yeah, yeah,
they did that cheesy ambulance chasing. Lawyer was in there, right,
you like that guy to get He was holding the cigar,
you know, you know, look like a character from the Simpsons.
He was on there. Anyway, I enjoyed that, so I
started looking this the people up. I was like, I
want to learn more about these people that were in
(27:40):
the documentary and Jamie Lamb was the blonde woman of
the three women. She was like I guess, and she
was the one who was supposed to interview Michael Jordan,
but she was part of that bachelorette party on the
cruise ship and she ended up like she ghosted it.
But she couldn't get a hold of them because the
phones weren't working on the boat. So that's wild. There
you go. All right, let's go to the phones and
let's hello to Paul in Ottawa. Let me see, as
(28:04):
I wonder if I know this guy, Paul. Hello, Paul
in Ottawa.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Hey man, I thought i'd give you a shout since
I've got insomnia. So I had an observation about Lebron James.
I don't know if you remember a show called The
McLaughlin Group Friday Nights on TBS.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I do, I do.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
It was a panel show and at one time he
had a topic which was enough Already, and then the
panelists would give their take on who should qualify for
enough Already. And I think that Lebron James is kind
of a good candidate for that. Maybe Aaron Rodgers too,
like they just sort of like to have a lot
(28:44):
of attention on themselves, and as far as Lebron, I
would say, once you get a little humility and gratitude
for the life you have, maybe I'll start listening to you.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
So look at that. I did not have MacLaughlin group
on my big board of topics. But that show's been
off the air for five ten years now, right, yeah,
oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
He died a number of years ago. And I have
two memories of Dave Parker. One was the biggest swing
and miss I ever saw. He took a swing at
a ball that would have just kept going if he
had connected, but he missed, and the momentum of the
swing was so great that he spun around a few
times and almost fell. I don't think he hit the ground.
(29:27):
You think he used his bat to protect him. But
I'd never seen a swing quite like that.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
That was that at the end of his riple, because
he did play very bat. He played with the Blue
ja Wait, he played with the Blue Jays. His last
team was the Blue Jess.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Which is ironic because my other memory is that when
he was playing against the Blue Jays, probably in eighty nine,
in the playoffs, in order to get to that World Series,
he hit a home run and he was rounding the
basis and Kelly Gruber, Toronto's third Basement, he complained to
somebody that Parker was running too around the basis. And
(30:02):
what I loved was when it got back to Parker,
you know, what do you think about Kelly Gruber saying
you shouldn't have run so slow around the bases. And
he just said, referring to Goober, he said, he means
very little to me. That was it.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
He did have a great mullet, though, Kelly Gruber, he
had a good mullet when he was playing for the
for the Blue Jays back in the day. Yeah. All right,
well there you thank you, Paul. Good memories. Uh, get
some get some rest, but you have insomnia, so you're
not going to get any rest. Let's go to America's
favorite drag queen caller for Lexus, who is in Buffalo. Hello,
flexis welcome.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Then Hi Lorena, how America? Well then let me tell
you something. You've got an idiot that a call here
last week and picked them poro holler and James. Well,
I want a verbal anti god against who.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
You want to be. All right, hold on this sec here,
hold on a Seke, blind Scott, this guy Felexus would
like to challenge you to the octagon.
Speaker 8 (31:08):
Your thoughts, Yeah whatever, I'm going to get one of
my own Netflix documentaries, like The Poop Cruise. I heard
that documentary right away and I went after the people
who made the documentary on social media.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
All right, Felexis, it sounds like he's deferring. He does
not want to take you on in the octagon.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Well, you know what, then, let me tell you some
of bron Scott's parents. You know how they use to
punish him. They would put a plunger in a store
of it.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
All right, see here, blind Scott, According to Filexis, your
parents would punish you by putting a plunger in the toilet.
Speaker 8 (31:42):
Felexus, You've been punishing us for years with this wicked,
bad drag queen actor literally doing agp over the air.
You're disgusting, You're so.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Ugly, all right, Felexus. Blind Scott questioned your your looks.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
How does he know? I'm he can't see?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
All right, blind Scott. Felexis points out that you have
no idea what Felexis looks like because you're blind.
Speaker 8 (32:09):
Here it's Pride Month and the whole drag string is
a little political protest. And then you come on.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
This all right, is that a political protest? You've been
doing this before it was cool. Flexis, you'd admit that. Yes,
you know what, Brian.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Scott, the only color you are is green because they're
to met seen you or wan throw up?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
All right, boy, that's a that's a solid put down, dude,
you win.
Speaker 8 (32:32):
Hollering James and Tammy, you guys can all get a
run together and stop playing out your fantasies.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
All right, James, you've been hollering. James, you've been brought
into this your thoughts hollering James, my glass.
Speaker 8 (32:44):
Blind Scott needs to take a bag seat, all.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Right, Scott, you need to take a back seat. Scott.
Speaker 8 (32:51):
Hey, hollering James, why don't you just jump on a
treadmill and not get off at polite?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
All right? Would you thought? Have you thought about jumping
on a treadmill? Hollering James?
Speaker 8 (32:59):
Right, you have to me, I'd run over you and
blind Scott.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Okay, that's a terrible line. Felexus, your thoughts all right? Uh,
blind Scott, Felexis says, ha ha ha.
Speaker 8 (33:14):
I'll always be a star with these people next to me.
They make me look good. I look so good, like
I couldn't like I look like the biggest supermodel in
the world next to them, like I look like the
most feminine model.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
All right, uh, hollering James, do you believe blind Scott
is a feminine model?
Speaker 8 (33:31):
Blind Scott, Let's make a blob.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Oft all right, Scott, According to James, you look like
a blob of Snott.
Speaker 8 (33:42):
Well, I heard that it was Tarmy that fondled you.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
All right, please uh flexus.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Blind Scott looks like something they threw off the cruise
of the poop Cruise.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
All right, Scott? Is it true that you were you
were used in the poop cruise floating down the aisles
in the cruise ship?
Speaker 8 (34:02):
Oh yeah, Well I have that fetish where I actually
you know, I smelled it and I put my mouth
all right, all right?
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Any final thoughts for Alexis? Please?
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Oh god, do I have to touch that one? I mean,
who wants here?
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Okay? I had no final thought, hollering James, Any final.
Speaker 8 (34:21):
Thoughts, bar scat you have urine bread?
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Okay, ish my fault. I went back to Let's go
now to a woman who'll class up the show. She'll
get her star charts out right now. She's the astrology insider.
We're going out of Berkeley. She can see all the
stars and the skies and she knows what they mean
because of the Farmer's Almanac and her ability. Our friend, Andrea,
(34:48):
Oh man, how are you, Andrea? If I was any better,
I would not have taken those last three calls, but
I did.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
I like what you said. I can class up the joint.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Yes, please help us out. We need some help. You
might want to hose down the phone. I don't know.
It's gotten out of control here.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Yeah. I know, Mercury's not even retrograde, but there's some
funky stuff going on. I'll have to look.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Could it be retrocheade or something like that. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Oh, that's great. You learn that term when mercury two
weeks yes, two weeks after you.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
That's right, that's from you. Tell you're my teacher, you're
my professor.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Oh well, you're a good student. You learn that fact,
and it's a good one to learn.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
So now I understand you have information about Lebron James
very accurate.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Yes, it's really interesting. He just typifies Capricorn energy. He's
December thirtieth, nineteen eighty four. And Capricorns are really into
money basically, and you know, just being attaining and successful
and accomplishing, just really super ambitious and materialistic. Here's the thing.
(36:01):
You know, when they're maturialistic and calculating an opportunistic, they
are over ambitious and self seeking. So you know, you
can have the good with the bad. But Capricorn is
one sign that kind of goes in the direction of
money and finances and accumulating a fortune as they can.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Yeah, well Ron's already got a fortune. He's not trying
for a second third fortune and trying to pile on money.
Well they say money makes money, Yeah, so I don't
have to worry about that because I don't have a
lot of that, So I don't worry about money making money.
But interesting, all right, Well, very good Andrew, And people
can get a hold of you on the X machine
and virgo in service. Yes, you'll help them out a
(36:48):
little bit.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
Oh yes, and talking about helping out real fast, the
Metropolitans use some help.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Yes, you might want to. You might be managing the match.
If they keep going this way, they'll call you up
to manage the team because what they're doing now is
not working.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Yes, lind Or, just so you know. November fourteen, nineteen
ninety three. And I know Lorena would appreciate this. He's
a Scorpio and he's had the closed door meeting, so
I you know that was a good idea, Lorena.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Are you gonna call it closed door meeting here for
the Scorpions for our show? I don't know. All right,
thank you, Andrew verg all right, there she goes, Andrew,
you too. We'll talk to you later this week. Andrea
Virgo in service straight ahead the install advice line on
Screen Radio. We'll get to that. Will do it next.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
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Speaker 5 (38:12):
Hey you sports figure, guy or girl?
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Who here?
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Were you talking to?
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Songs?
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Here some intertent advice?
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Hold that thun No one's paid attention to me for
ten whole seconds.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
And if you don't like it, all right? Who needs
our advice? The New York Mets. They blow. They've lost
thirteen of the last sixteen games. Got swept by the
lowly Pirates over the weekend, outscored by twenty six runs.
Your advice to the Mets. Line one, you're live on
the air eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Hello,
Line one, David Lorena is game all right? Thank you
(38:45):
your next caller for you're on the air. Hello advice please.
That was our friend from the Bay Area. You're on
their advice Please to the Mets.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
I look at it a few centuries back.
Speaker 6 (38:56):
Just think about the slave shit.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Wow, that's dramatic. Rick in Maryland Morning Time Line five,
you're on the Airline five. We're giving advice to the
New York Match League got swept by the pirates over
the weekend.
Speaker 8 (39:08):
How come you have so many blind callers and no
death callars?
Speaker 1 (39:11):
I think to be funny, Supermarket Steve, we are allowed
to rip the death they cannot hear us. Line six,
you're on the airline six. Hello, talry about.
Speaker 8 (39:22):
Stealing your piece of the rain. If it's any constellation,
I can tell you how it tasted.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
It's a ferg dog. Line one you're on the airline one. Hello,
I don't know what that was. Line two you're on
the airline too. Hello, Oh that's Sean, the hood guy.
You're on the air incident advice line for the Mats.
Speaker 8 (39:41):
Hello, oh hang on, hang on to that bag.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Okay, yeah, there you go. Do one more, one more
only Brat Peggott last call number one, go ahead the
match line one. All right there, mister met right there.
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