October 8, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Giannis Antetokounmpo flirting with the New York Knicks this summer and if the Knicks should make a deal for the Greek Freak, LeBron James "Decision 2.0" turning out to be a booze ad, Too Much or Not Enough, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, and more!
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Boom Shaka Laca. It's our number three, our number three.
The rare inappropriate pro bouncy ball mald monologue. The rare
and appropriate pro bouncy ball Malard monologue. So we discuss
the big news of the day. How do you process
Giannis A Dentacumbo flirting with the Knicks this summer? The
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story came out that the only team he wanted to
play for other than Milwaukee was the New York Knickerbockers.
Should the Knicks bite the cheese? See what I did
there and make a deal for the Greek free we'll
analyze that. And what is your verdict on Lebron James
teasing retirement and then doing a commercial to sell booze.
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A lot of people very upset with Lebron James over that.
It's not out of character. This is what Lebron does.
We've been trying to tell you about that for a
long time. But here it is our number three. Also
the Queen of Hearts with Lorana here in our number three.
Time to get freaky. Yeah, that's right, We're gonna get freaky.
Welcome in the beginning of another hour of The Ben
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So we go to Wisconsin, Wisconsin, we go the land
of Cheese and the Soso Sports. But Yannis Adenta Kombo,
a name so long with so many letters, you have
to win an MVP award for us to learn how
to pronounce your name. But he did so. Jannis and
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Natakombo is back. He's back with the Milwaukee Bucks. However,
there is much more to the story if you have
not been following along here behind the scenes, the chatter
picking up that the Milwaukee Bucks had engaged in trade
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conversations this offseason, and this did not pop up at
the time it was going on. However, they're not shutting
the door to trade conversations. And if you have not
been following, we're told that Jannis and his underlings, his todies,
they've been fielding trade interest since the NBA Draft combine
that was back in mid May. In mid May, here
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we are in October doing homework on possible destinations around
the association. Okay, so that's the story. Multiple franchises said,
we would like to have that particular player, we would
like to acquire that player's services. And so the team
for the Greek Freak went around and around, they looked
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at everything, and they said that there's only one team
outside outside of the land of the Derry. There's only
one team that Jannis would want to play for. Now,
if you didn't pay attention to this, you might have
seen it. That one team that would be the New
York Knickerbuckers, the Knicks. That's right, the Knicks, the only team,
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their number one, the only one that Jannis is desiring
outside of Milwaukee in the off season. Shams Sharania giving
us the inside skin out. It's skinny. So let us
discuss the question on this one. How do you process
or process depending where you got your education, how do
you process Giannis Adentakoombo flirting with the Knicks this summer
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and this apparently a very real possibility of still happening.
So I've got Tomlin, Footsie and voiceover work, and we
will combine all of these things together. Everything together, and
we're gonna make buttered popcorn. Delicious buttered popcorn is what
we're going to make.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Me.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, it's really good, really bad for you, but man
does it bad for your teeth. It's bad for your guts,
But man does it smell good and it tastes good.
So to kick off here the Yannest story. You know
what it is. Wild fire, it's a wildfire. The Greek freak.
He's got more than a wandering eye. And this is
the guy that's changed. I remember years ago, I didn't
want to play. I remember, be honest. We talked about
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him in monologues, how he didn't want to play in
LA or New York. He didn't want to go to
a big city. He loved that he was in Milwaukee.
And everything's a little slower in Milwaukee, and it's just
a nice Midwestern town. You don't have to deal with
all the fakeness of New York in LA and all
that stuff. And so I guess he wants some gaba ghoul.
He might. I can go hang out in Jersey and
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play for the next live in Jersey. All the gobba
ghul I want. But the Greek face got, as we say,
he's got more than a wandering eye on this one. Like,
we're talking about a guy who essentially has told the Bucks.
The way I understand the story, the way I understand
the story is Giannis is essentially told the Bucks. Listen,
I am filing for a divorce. I haven't hired a
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divorce attorney yet, but I file. I'm going to file
for a divorce. I just haven't done the paperwork. And
that's just the way it is. And and he didn't
do it this privately. The fact that it got out
now was strategic. And I'll tell you what I believe
that means in a minute. But he aired out his
dirty laundry through schams Sean. He would have used Woj.
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Unfortunately Woj is no longer in the insider business. He
retired from that. He weaponized the NBA insider. I'm talking
about gianisident to Koombo as a therapist couch. Tell me
what's wrong today, Okay, I'll tell you what's wrong. And
then he started talking. All right, And now there's conflicting
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reports here. The one story said this was I believe
from international media that his wife had relocated to Athens.
That you know nothing says Hey, I'm committed to a
team in Wisconsin than enrolling kids into a kindergarten in Greece.
That's a decent sized commute. I know they have yellow
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school buses. I don't know if they have yellow school planes.
I don't. I guess Jannis posted something in his native tongue,
and unfortunately I did not put it into Google Translate,
and I don't speak the native tongue in Greece, so
I don't know exactly what he said, but it appeared
he said that's not true. But then I didn't really
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answer the question. He talked about being a public figure.
So there's a lot of stuff going on, and you know,
it does appear this is more like Aaron Rodgers or
Lebron James, where you do this kind of passive aggressive stuff,
the strategic media leaks and whatnot. So my theory on
the media leaks is that this was attempted internal. I'm
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gonna make my elevator pitch on this. Tell me if
you agree with me on that. So my theory on
why this came out now is they tried to sort
this out without it going public, and the Bucks did
not trade Jannis. He didn't get what he wanted. So
now he's like, I gotta go back to Bucks training
camp these exhibition games, and so now he's like, all right,
I'm gonna crank it up a couple of notches like
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a celebrity chef and bam, I'm gonna go to Shams
and I'm gonna I'm gonna put it out there and
and that's it. But it does sound like this has
all the indications of somebody that's already checking out of Milwaukee.
You know, this guy like I al ready's gonna miss
training camp with some phantom injury or something like that.
And uh, you know, there's been there has been an
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expectation for a good amount of time that Yannis his
days in Milwaukee were number people say always too good
for He's not gonna last there. And it's not even
whether he wanted to stay in Milwaukee. When you get
to that level of celebrity, there's so many hangars on
that are making their money based on you. They're the caboose.
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You're the locomotive and they're the caboose and they make
all their money as they are your toadies and your
posse and all that stuff. And so so that's kind
of where it was, and so he's like he was
gonna leave anyway at some point, and he's like, well,
everyone's pretending it's business as usual. He's gonna go through
the season. Palais poly not business as usual. And Milwaukee's
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sitting there. They were trying to excite the fan base, right,
you hold the balloon up. Oh, we're gonna be good
this year we had we don't have Damian Little but
he's gone. But we're gonna be good. Ever're gonna be fine,
don't worry about that. And then Giannis took a giant
oversized pin. Pop goes the balloon, Pop goes the balloon
just like that, all right, and popped it. Put the
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pin right in it there just before the season begins.
Not that anyone pays attention to the NBA until like,
I don't know, April anyway, everyone on their phones waiting now,
waiting for the other shoe to drop. And as Mike
Tomlin so famously said in Pittsburgh years ago, he said,
we want volunteers, not hostages. And so the Bucks ultimately
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have no choice. It is the player empowerment era in sports,
and especially in basketball. They run the show. That's why
the regular season is unwatchable. The players just don't care.
It's a terrible product, and that's because of the player empowerment.
But anyway, nonetheless, so he wants out, and okay, he's
gonna get what he wants. The Bucks have no choice.
You can't keep a superstar who's mailing it in and
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you either get ahead of it or you get left
holding the bag. What's in the bag? Nothing, It's an
empty bag. You're holding an empty bag. You're a dummy,
You're holding an empty bag. So Yannis lit the fuse
and he out now. Furthermore, the New York state of
Mind is an interesting part of this story. At the
New York state of Mind, So the question is should
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the Knickerbockers bite the cheese? Should they bite the cheese
and make a deal for the Greek free He wants
to play there, and they already have a team that's
pretty good, not championship level, but close with Jalen Brunson.
Would Jalen Brunson and Giannis work well together? Can you
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trade everything else? And would you? Would you even really
have to trade everything else? Could you keep a good
chunk of the team? I keep a good chunk of
the team and then just trade. You know, they don't
have any draft picks, so that's the issue. And these
teams love, they get all horny for the draft picks.
They get all excited for that. That's the that's about.
But in terms of the question, should the Knicks make
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the deal for Giannis, Uh, yeah, I'm gonna nod my
head yes, I'm nodding my head yes on this. Why not?
And he's already played foot seed publicly with you, and
when you play foot sea in public, you got to
go to that next level there and you hang out.
I'm not sure whether he's given the bedroom eyes to
the Wall Street tycoons, the robber barons of business there
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in New York. You can have a garden party with
Spike Lee. So the Knicks, they can cobble together a
trade offer. It's not even great. They can cobble together
a trade offer. And as I was told by a
sports executive many years ago, he said, Ben, some of
these deals we make are because we're in show business.
They're not great sports trades, but they're for show business
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and we're in the entertainment business. And so if it's
show business down there, then it's not show friends, it's
show business and all that. You honest, would be a
headliner on Broadway and they'd sell out. Not that they
need to sell tickets. No matter how bad the Knicks are,
They've always sold out Madison Square Garden. So he's a
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global icon and all that stuff. But let's not pretend
that whether it's the Knicks or the Warriors or whoever Giannis,
it's not all pa and cream, even though that's the
Cream City, It's not all peaches and cream with you.
I know, why isn't that? Because even though he's got
all of these accolades, and he's won a championship, and
he's got all these big awards and all that stuff,
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let's not pretend that his skill set is not lacking
some parts of it which are piecemeal. You're not supposed
to say that is still not a great foul shooter,
barf City. On the foul shooting, his jump shot is inconsistent, unpredictable,
and will often break your heart. And he continues to
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live off the overwhelming gift from the gods that he
was given with his athleticism and a tremendous drive, fire
in his belly will power, and that works when you're
twenty five or twenty six or twenty seven. Once you
get in your thirties at that level, going down to
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the YMCA, you'll do pretty good, right, And so that's
where we are. Something something's going to give here soon.
These things normally don't linger very long in the NBA.
All right, last thing, we now go to the Kingdom.
That's right, the Kingdom. So some of you were upset.
I mentioned this in a previous episode of the show.
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Some of you sending me nasty emails. We are you
not talking about Lebron James, the greatest NBA player of
all time, and he's about to retire and you're not
going to talk about it. I don't understand. Well, buddy,
you call yourself a sports talk show host. Okay, Yeah,
So Lebron sent out some posts on social media. It
was going to be decision two point oh. This became
a big talking point. He teased the big announcement for
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a day on social media and there it was right there.
It was the big announcement early in the day, and
it happened while I was sleeping, And what was the decision? Well,
it turns out that the aging, aging Lebron James his
latest decision was in fact a commercial now the ad.
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I don't know how much Labron got paid for, but
he parodied the twenty ten decision when he left Cleveland
to go to Miami. That was so insane. I was
at a Dodger game that night. They put it on
the scoreboard. They stopped batting practice in twenty ten at
Dodger Stadium to put on the scoreboard Lebron James announcement.
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But anyway, this was an advertisement for liquor. Yeah, so
they wanted to promote the liquor. If they want us
to promote the liquor, we have a sales department. I'm
not giving out free commercials. So if they want do
enough commercials. So if they want to buy a spot,
we'll be happy to name the product and do all that. Otherwise,
go pound sand We're in the advertising business here. So
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the question is, what is your verdict? What is your
verdict on Lebron james retirement only to sell you booze?
So do we have a new nickname here? The bartender?
Is that his new nickname? The bartender?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
No? Okay? So he teased retirement knowing that there's a
lot of delicate little flower fans and he's just slinging firewater,
is what he's doing. Okay, And of course the worst
part is the gullible fanboys fell for it, hook line
and sinker. The global fanboys they did. You had the
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secondary market. The Lakers last home game in the regular
season is against the Utah Jazz. Okay, the Jazz are unwatchable.
They're horrific. There's no reason to watch the Utah Jazz
play basketball. They are just bad all the way through,
just a terrible product. And so imagine how bad they're
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going to be at the end of the season. Once youon,
they play half the year, trade whoever's good on the team,
and then they just played direk the rest of the year.
So people lined up drove up the price of tickets
on the secondary market. It's the old pump and dump situation.
And yeah, and when I say pump it up, these
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tickets went from eighty two dollars to five hundred and
eighty dollars because Lebron teased the fact that he was
supposed to retire and he was going to play the Jazz,
which are like a traveling AAU team, and that was it.
So this is essentially Lebron what he's doing here, he's
doing voiceover work like justin Timberlake in that movie The Trolls,
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Remember the movie Trolls. Back in the day, King James
is trolling his own fan base. Now, normally they tell
you not to do that. They say that's a bad
thing and you offend the customer. You're not supposed to
do that. It's bad job by But he did it
for clicks and for bottle sales. Is he a bottle
girl now too? Is that what he's doing? So very cringey,
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very cynical. But the ethos of Lebron James, is it not?
Like when you think of the greatest hits album of
Lebron James, there are so many. Doing a talk show
his entire career, going back to the time he showed
up with the autobiography of Malcolm X and was asked
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about the book and Lebron gave us the uh, you know.
He was asked, what do you know about Malcolm X?
And he said, well, he's just a very powerful man. Okay.
He claimed that he predicted that Kobe Bryant was going
to score eighty one points in a game. He told
I said somebody on a podcast that was the case.
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My favorite Lebron ism from the Greatest Hits album of
Lebron James is the Godfather movies that he claimed to
watch in the zero dark thirty when he was getting
ready for the playoffs or whatever that was, and he'd
be like, oh, yeah, I watched the Godfather movies. And
so of course a international reporter said, Lebron, what's your
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favorite Godfather quote or part of the movie, And Lebron
could not name a single scene, not the horse's head
in the bed, and not any of it right, take
the take the Canoli's leave the gun, none of those
things just couldn't couldn't come up with any So the
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self proclaimed world's greatest storyteller, Lebron James, except every story
is often just kind of about himself and who could
forget the aforementioned back to the decision when he went
from Cleveland to Miami and it's just so good the
stage with the smoke though, the whole thing, and not one,
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not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, six,
not seven, not eight, and blah blah blah blah. So
now he's from I guess he was the chosen one
now he's the chosen spokes mon Is that how that works?
I guess the bartender the spokesmand Lebron James. And he
wants again, if he wants us to promote moonshine. We
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have a great sales department here at Fox Sports Radio.
Call him up, I'll name the product. I'll do spots otherwise,
so we don't hand out free publicity. So that's it.
But it's all about the the spectacle. It's all about
the spectacle, clearly right. So it's a burning man for
the low information fan, is what it is?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
There?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Burn? Maybe burn? It is the Ben Mahler Show. We'll
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Also this hour we have too Much or Not Enough
that'll be coming up a little bit later. We have
the Queen of Hearts with Loraina hashtag Queen of Hearts.
Straight ahead though the mallor Riddle of the day. And
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here it is racing legend. Dale earnhardtz best friend shot
his pet blank without permission because he claimed it attacked him. Again,
Dale Earnhardt best friend shot his pet blank without permission
after he claimed it attacked him. That is the mallor
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love the day the answer. We'll get to it. We
will do it next.
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We go back to it, and I still need a
game show contestant. So you guys don't want us to
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play the game, we won't. But if you want to
be part of the game, which will be coming up
in a few minutes, call right now eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox will have too much or not
enough just a few minutes away. Got to play off
the malor riddle of the day Dale Earnhardt, Dale Earnhardt's
best friend and shot his pet blank without permission after
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it attacked him. That is the question. What is the answer?
Just Josh going with his pet Rhino. Ralph Irvin it's
a Fox Sports Radio alumni member, Ralph Irvin who now
lives in Vegas. Bobby in Florida says, trouser, trouser snake. Interesting.
I see your pet planton from Lady Sideburns prized pig
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from ferg Dog. He shot his pet Smurf without permission.
According to Alf the alien Opiner Freeman cheated and got
it right bad up by him? Who else do you have?
Page down? Jay Dot, who's always the life of the party,
says he shot Mike the Leprechaun's chicken. According to Jay Dot,
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there his pet Heela Monster from Rob in Minnesota. Friend
Ricky Bobby shot his spider monkey with a rubber band
from Monkey Biz Dog in South Korea, his pet Rock
from Donkey Sausage, His art vark a fine animal name
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the art vark from Eke and Rosewa, Minnesota.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Did you know the artvark is the same as an anteater?
Speaker 8 (24:15):
What?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
What's the whether? They don't look to say. I think
the ant eater is much bigger, uh and uh and
has a kind of a furry type of thing like
the ardvark has no real uh says Ardvarks and anteaters
are distinct, unrelated mammals with different appearances. Sorry, lard, I
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thought for a minute, I actually you fooled me. I thought, oh, man,
what is it? After all these shows together, I finally
found your expertise ardvarks and no, apparently not okay? Uh
manh j T. The wingman said, lemur is the answer? Uh,
Roy said, uh paperboar boy who wanted two dollars. Wow, uh,
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let's your side check from truck or Joe pet bed
bug from courtesy Flusher Mindset.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
It's the same. The ard bark is also called an anteater,
not to be confused with the South American anteater.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Just saying we moved on.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
I'm not because I'm not wrong, moved on the not wrong.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Okay, take a breath. Do you have an answer the Rno?
Would you you want to go with that disease?
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I was, I'm gonna go with his pet schaaha pet Chiahua.
All right? Uh, I know there's incorrections out Dale Earnhardt's
best friend shot his pet deer. He had a pet deer. Now,
I've always been raised that that deer, their rats with
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hooves are deer. I didn't know you could have a pet.
I guess well in some states you can. Let's say
hello to Mike in Lancaster and we're gonna get to
the game coming up here in a minute. Hello, Mike, Welcome,
what's going on?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Mike Man? Good morning, good.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning. What's
on your mind? Ben, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Guess what day is?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
See? What day is it? It is hump Day. It's Wednesday,
It's Humpday.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Yes, sir, you started my hope day.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Sir, that's a little personal. I don't know about that,
you know, just saying.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
All right, let's not read into it, but check it out.
I am the black Leprecaun to be known as that.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Moving forward, now, you don't understand we already have a Leprechaun. Uh,
what makes you? Hold on? So let me check. Hold on, Sike, Mike,
Mike the Leprecaun? Are you black?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Mike?
Speaker 8 (26:58):
Hold on?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Hold on? Hold I touched the wrong line up. Hold on,
Mike the leprecun Are your black? Mic?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I'm red sometin, I'm white and Caucasians, and I know
my I've worked for my daters.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
How is he tan if he wears so much sunblock?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
On? No, Mike, Mike the leprit. We have a we
have Mike who wants to be known on the show
as Mike that you said the black Leprecaun. Is that
what you said?
Speaker 7 (27:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yes, I am black and Irish and I am a Leprecaun.
But I'm black.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Okay. So, so we had a guy, who's the guy
that calls from Omaha? Uh, what's his name?
Speaker 3 (27:33):
The black Irishman?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yeah, the black the black Irishman. We we already we
have a black irishman the culture. Do we have room
for two black Irishmen? Do we have?
Speaker 3 (27:40):
So?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Did you like a deal?
Speaker 8 (27:42):
Do you have a deal?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Do you have room for two lepricauns? Hey man, you
might not notice, but I'm black.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
That was one of the all time great calls. I
think it was l A. Matt. I don't know what
happened to him. That was years ago, but he's sent
That was great. He just throw these random lines out.
Cowboy did that one time. Cowboy and Winds. I don't
know if you know this, but I'm black the same
thing anyway. All right, So Mike, listen, we want to
we want everyone in the mall or militia. If that's
your stick, you're more than welcome to participate where we're
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there for it.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Okay, Okay, that's wonderful. I didn't want to just splurge in,
especially with these well known callers who have you know,
created No.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
No, I don't worry about They're all losers. I don't
worry about them. And listen, you could kick Mike the
lepre contest. Mike almost got me fired. Just promise, if
I ever meet you when you come to the studio,
don't show up twelve hours early. Please, all right, I promise,
all right.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I just want to let you guys know this morning
that I am eating Neapalitan ice cream, drinking Hennessy ah well,
panting sand Well but perfect.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
It's a perfect I can't think of a better Wednesday.
Lebron approves this message. Thank you. There he goes Mike
and Lancaster. All right, let's get to the game. Here
we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here we go,
Here we go, Here we go, here we go here
too much or not enough enough?
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Already?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Hello to Ted in Vermont. He is our contestant. Hello Ted,
welcome it see land for our purposes, the land of
Arnie Spanier, who works here on the weekends. The Is
he the most famous person other than Bernie Sanders from Vermont?
Speaker 8 (29:19):
H No, I'd probably say fish the bad fish is probably.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Oh really is fish from Vermont?
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (29:26):
Right from Burlington?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Uh? Interesting, I didn't see.
Speaker 8 (29:30):
Wet we met Ernie on the local radio up here.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah, well we love Arnie and yeah I miss I
missed him too. I actually saw. I don't need to
tell my whole Vermont story every time someone from Vermont calls.
I don't need to do that, and I won't do that.
I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna bore you.
But we're gonna play the game, Ted, What do you
do there in Vermont?
Speaker 3 (29:51):
As little as possible?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Okay, you're on the down low, just like that. Live
in the trees or something like that, A lot of
trees in Vermont. Yeah, all right, Well let's do this here, Ted,
good luck to you. You gotta get three right to
win the game. Question number one, and all the answers
are too much or not enough? Christian McCaffrey has the
most receptions by our running back this season, with thirty five.
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Is that too much or not enough?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Too much?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
All right? Let's see here is Ted Wright. No, you're
not right, not enough? He has thirty nine receptions this season.
Devon ah Chan with a second with twenty five, so
he's got fourteen more.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
All right?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Question number two. Heading into Week six, which begins on Thursday,
with a Eagle Giant game. Heading into Week six, there
are six teams in the NFL with a point differential
of minus fifty or worse. Is that too much or
not enough? For Ted and vermont that's too much, so
(30:57):
it's very confidently too much. You're right now, that's correct
that there are only four the Browns, Raiders, Titans, and Bengals.
The Bengals a r at minus seventy one. And we
learned Ted, when you're minus seventy one, you trade for
Joe Flacco. That's what we want. Yeah, all right. Question
number three, you're one in one. Last week, Jamiir Gibbs
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and David Montgomery both scored touchdowns in the same game
for a record twelve time. Is that too much or
not enough? The Lions dynamic duo?
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Not enough?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
All right? He says, not enough. Let's find out. Hey,
look at that unbelievable You gotta right again.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Not enough?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
You both scored touchdown same game for the fourteenth time.
You get this right this next question, you will be
the winner. Ted, You'll win a golden ticket which you
will not use, but I'll give it to you anyway.
Here we go. Question number four. Aaron Judge now has
four home runs when facing elimination with the Yankees. Is
that too much or not enough for the el Capitan
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of the Yankees? Come on, you sure about that?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:05):
But okay, I've noticed human nature. Have you noticed the srena?
When men and women are incorrect, they will double down
on the answer. If they're not sure, let's find out
that maybe you're right.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Here we go now you're wrong? Not enough? He has
six home runs when facing elimination, tied with Big Poppy
for the most in postseason. Ted, unfortunately you did not
win the game. But we do have a nice party
give We have a trip to nowhere. So if you
want to go nowhere, we'll send you nowhere if you want.
If you want nothing, we will give you nothing. A
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lifetime supply nothing, Ted. So when you want nothing, you
contact the Ben Malors Show. You say, hey, Ben, can
you send me nothing? I'll say yes, Ted, I will
send you nothing. And for the rest of your life,
where birthdays, weddings, big events in your life. And you
call me up you say, hey, Ben, I want can
I get that little bit of nothing? I'll say yes, absolutely, Ted,
(33:04):
I'm going to send you nothing, and I hope you
enjoyed that. Well, thank you, Ted, thanks for listening. I
appreciate that he have a wonderful day. All right, there's
Ted and we're going to have the Queen of Hearts.
Now you want calls? You want to just do questions
on the internet. What do you want to do it?
Speaker 7 (33:16):
Oh yeah, if they want to call, feel free play
it on the line.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Let's see if family's got big balls. Twitter to big
Balls to call in here and Doctor Lorraina on the
air eight seven seven ninety nine five. Maybe a woman
will call you never know. I love good Heaven eight
seven seven nine nine six six three six y nine.
Also hashtag Queen of Hearts, hashtag a Queen of Hearts.
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
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You heard the man, and it is time for love
here on the Ben Malice Show.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Yeah, no opening I have.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
I have no opening.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
I thought preparing.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
No, no, no, It's not that there was no preparation.
Speaker 7 (35:14):
There's usually something dramatic of love that happens in the
week that inspires me to be like, hey, don't do
this in your relationship.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
You know, everything happened, everything's been really smooth.
Speaker 7 (35:27):
So I'm assuming most people's lives and relationships are pretty
smooth right now.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
They're gonna tell me I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
So let's hear what they got, all right, Mike writes
in he says, should I judge my girlfriend who doesn't
know the difference between animal species like ardvark versus ant eater,
cat versus dog, alligator, crocodile.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
Well, you see, depending on where they live, they could
have different ideas, you know, like a bison is a buffalo,
and then ardvark is an ant eater and you know,
I'm not going to say the last one, but a
man could think he's a leprechaun too, and you just
got to deal with it.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Interesting or kick him out? Interesting? Take bird Dog writes,
and he says, is it true that going to see
a movie on a first date is a horrible idea?
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Kind of.
Speaker 7 (36:16):
It's not bad if you go to dinner first or
go to a park or something, But the point of
going on a date is to get to know each
other and talk. And if you're watching a movie, you
don't really get that chance to dive. You can the
things you can fondle and kiss and you know, get
kicked out of a movie theater. But also, are you
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a teenager do you really want to be that person
or do you have a.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
House that you can take in the back of the
upper back row? Grow up a jade dot from Utah?
Who's he's all grown up? I've met him multiple times,
good man in Utah. He says. It's a little drink. No,
no's he's a lightweight, he says. How do I break
the ice with a girl that I work with that
I have strong, long feelings for and tell her that
(37:02):
I love her? That's a big don't you have to
like first dater before? It's kind of a dramatic, well
you know.
Speaker 7 (37:08):
What they say, Ben, that'll love at first sight thing.
But also if you've been working with her for a while,
you could know that you actually love her. When you
work together, you have an even closer relationship, right, I could.
But a great way to break the ice, I would say,
get like an ice pick maybe.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Yes, a Louisville Slugger's always nice.
Speaker 7 (37:31):
Yeah, And you know, if you really want to smooth
the ice out, you can get her on one of
those things that they use on NHL court.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
What are those the bambinos?
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (37:41):
What are those things called? You know what I'm talking about, Ben?
Speaker 3 (37:44):
What are.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
I'm just gonna move on. Let's say hello to we
I have a call for you, Blind Scott from the
North end of Boston. Hello Blind Scott.
Speaker 8 (37:57):
Hi, everybody, it's on October eighth. Great to talk to you, y'all.
I'm currently participating in October and it's you know, just
been like a stressful time and it's been a joy
at the same time. But my girlfriend lives in Oklahoma,
so you know, there's October. There's no nuts in November.
I'm thinking about manling my keys to Oklahoma. But the
problem is if I don't have the keys for the Loctober,
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then I can't unlock myself and I'll have to go
to the hospital. I'm just wondering if this is recommended
by the Queen of Hearts. I just wanted to see
what he said.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
I don't understand where the lock is.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
You don't know.
Speaker 8 (38:33):
You know October, it's called October. It's highly covered in
the October community. You locked yourself in chess.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
I've never locked myself down for it's a real downer
for Halloween.
Speaker 8 (38:48):
What about no nuts in November. You don't know, no
nuts in November.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Yeah, I have heard that. I don't know many men
who have accomplished said goal.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Well, some have done it, but not by choice. There's
no shame, no shave. November has no options, so they
just canna go too, you know. All right, Well, I.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Think it sounds like a very dry time.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Do you have a fake girlfriend in Oklahoma? I'm glad
that you bet.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
I bet she's beautiful, yea lovely woman and plastic.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Because you think Scott loves people from Oklahoma? Clearly, all right?
BP wrights and says, shoulder massage.
Speaker 7 (39:19):
Or foot massage cherry for me or someone else.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
That's just that. Bob asked the question.
Speaker 7 (39:26):
I think massage would be nice, but I actually very
ticklish feet too, so that can go.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
What is your better style of vehicle for a good
makeout session? Conversion van or convertible?
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Oh, oh gosh, conversion van.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Right, yeah, that's an easy one.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
The blow Up Mattress put it in the past.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
The Wingman JT. The Wingman set that
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The rare inappropriate pro bouncy ball mald monologue. The rare
and appropriate pro bouncy ball Malard monologue. So we discuss
the big news of the day. How do you process
Giannis A Dentacumbo flirting with the Knicks this summer? The
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story came out that the only team he wanted to
play for other than Milwaukee was the New York Knickerbockers.
Should the Knicks bite the cheese? See what I did
there and make a deal for the Greek free we'll
analyze that. And what is your verdict on Lebron James
teasing retirement and then doing a commercial to sell booze.
(00:43):
A lot of people very upset with Lebron James over that.
It's not out of character. This is what Lebron does.
We've been trying to tell you about that for a
long time. But here it is our number three. Also
the Queen of Hearts with Lorana here in our number three.
Time to get freaky. Yeah, that's right, We're gonna get freaky.
Welcome in the beginning of another hour of The Ben
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to keep you awake. We'll try to keep you awake.
So we go to Wisconsin, Wisconsin, we go the land
of Cheese and the Soso Sports. But Yannis Adenta Kombo,
a name so long with so many letters, you have
to win an MVP award for us to learn how
to pronounce your name. But he did so. Jannis and
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Natakombo is back. He's back with the Milwaukee Bucks. However,
there is much more to the story if you have
not been following along here behind the scenes, the chatter
picking up that the Milwaukee Bucks had engaged in trade
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conversations this offseason, and this did not pop up at
the time it was going on. However, they're not shutting
the door to trade conversations. And if you have not
been following, we're told that Jannis and his underlings, his todies,
they've been fielding trade interest since the NBA Draft combine
that was back in mid May. In mid May, here
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we are in October doing homework on possible destinations around
the association. Okay, so that's the story. Multiple franchises said,
we would like to have that particular player, we would
like to acquire that player's services. And so the team
for the Greek Freak went around and around, they looked
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at everything, and they said that there's only one team
outside outside of the land of the Derry. There's only
one team that Jannis would want to play for. Now,
if you didn't pay attention to this, you might have
seen it. That one team that would be the New
York Knickerbuckers, the Knicks. That's right, the Knicks, the only team,
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their number one, the only one that Jannis is desiring
outside of Milwaukee in the off season. Shams Sharania giving
us the inside skin out. It's skinny. So let us
discuss the question on this one. How do you process
or process depending where you got your education, how do
you process Giannis Adentakoombo flirting with the Knicks this summer
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and this apparently a very real possibility of still happening.
So I've got Tomlin, Footsie and voiceover work, and we
will combine all of these things together. Everything together, and
we're gonna make buttered popcorn. Delicious buttered popcorn is what
we're going to make.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Me.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, it's really good, really bad for you, but man
does it bad for your teeth. It's bad for your guts,
But man does it smell good and it tastes good.
So to kick off here the Yannest story. You know
what it is. Wild fire, it's a wildfire. The Greek freak.
He's got more than a wandering eye. And this is
the guy that's changed. I remember years ago, I didn't
want to play. I remember, be honest. We talked about
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him in monologues, how he didn't want to play in
LA or New York. He didn't want to go to
a big city. He loved that he was in Milwaukee.
And everything's a little slower in Milwaukee, and it's just
a nice Midwestern town. You don't have to deal with
all the fakeness of New York in LA and all
that stuff. And so I guess he wants some gaba ghoul.
He might. I can go hang out in Jersey and
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play for the next live in Jersey. All the gobba
ghul I want. But the Greek face got, as we say,
he's got more than a wandering eye on this one. Like,
we're talking about a guy who essentially has told the Bucks.
The way I understand the story, the way I understand
the story is Giannis is essentially told the Bucks. Listen,
I am filing for a divorce. I haven't hired a
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divorce attorney yet, but I file. I'm going to file
for a divorce. I just haven't done the paperwork. And
that's just the way it is. And and he didn't
do it this privately. The fact that it got out
now was strategic. And I'll tell you what I believe
that means in a minute. But he aired out his
dirty laundry through schams Sean. He would have used Woj.
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Unfortunately Woj is no longer in the insider business. He
retired from that. He weaponized the NBA insider. I'm talking
about gianisident to Koombo as a therapist couch. Tell me
what's wrong today, Okay, I'll tell you what's wrong. And
then he started talking. All right, And now there's conflicting
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reports here. The one story said this was I believe
from international media that his wife had relocated to Athens.
That you know nothing says Hey, I'm committed to a
team in Wisconsin than enrolling kids into a kindergarten in Greece.
That's a decent sized commute. I know they have yellow
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school buses. I don't know if they have yellow school planes.
I don't. I guess Jannis posted something in his native tongue,
and unfortunately I did not put it into Google Translate,
and I don't speak the native tongue in Greece, so
I don't know exactly what he said, but it appeared
he said that's not true. But then I didn't really
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answer the question. He talked about being a public figure.
So there's a lot of stuff going on, and you know,
it does appear this is more like Aaron Rodgers or
Lebron James, where you do this kind of passive aggressive stuff,
the strategic media leaks and whatnot. So my theory on
the media leaks is that this was attempted internal. I'm
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gonna make my elevator pitch on this. Tell me if
you agree with me on that. So my theory on
why this came out now is they tried to sort
this out without it going public, and the Bucks did
not trade Jannis. He didn't get what he wanted. So
now he's like, I gotta go back to Bucks training
camp these exhibition games, and so now he's like, all right,
I'm gonna crank it up a couple of notches like
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a celebrity chef and bam, I'm gonna go to Shams
and I'm gonna I'm gonna put it out there and
and that's it. But it does sound like this has
all the indications of somebody that's already checking out of Milwaukee.
You know, this guy like I al ready's gonna miss
training camp with some phantom injury or something like that.
And uh, you know, there's been there has been an
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expectation for a good amount of time that Yannis his
days in Milwaukee were number people say always too good
for He's not gonna last there. And it's not even
whether he wanted to stay in Milwaukee. When you get
to that level of celebrity, there's so many hangars on
that are making their money based on you. They're the caboose.
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You're the locomotive and they're the caboose and they make
all their money as they are your toadies and your
posse and all that stuff. And so so that's kind
of where it was, and so he's like he was
gonna leave anyway at some point, and he's like, well,
everyone's pretending it's business as usual. He's gonna go through
the season. Palais poly not business as usual. And Milwaukee's
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sitting there. They were trying to excite the fan base, right,
you hold the balloon up. Oh, we're gonna be good
this year we had we don't have Damian Little but
he's gone. But we're gonna be good. Ever're gonna be fine,
don't worry about that. And then Giannis took a giant
oversized pin. Pop goes the balloon, Pop goes the balloon
just like that, all right, and popped it. Put the
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pin right in it there just before the season begins.
Not that anyone pays attention to the NBA until like,
I don't know, April anyway, everyone on their phones waiting now,
waiting for the other shoe to drop. And as Mike
Tomlin so famously said in Pittsburgh years ago, he said,
we want volunteers, not hostages. And so the Bucks ultimately
(10:17):
have no choice. It is the player empowerment era in sports,
and especially in basketball. They run the show. That's why
the regular season is unwatchable. The players just don't care.
It's a terrible product, and that's because of the player empowerment.
But anyway, nonetheless, so he wants out, and okay, he's
gonna get what he wants. The Bucks have no choice.
You can't keep a superstar who's mailing it in and
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you either get ahead of it or you get left
holding the bag. What's in the bag? Nothing, It's an
empty bag. You're holding an empty bag. You're a dummy,
You're holding an empty bag. So Yannis lit the fuse
and he out now. Furthermore, the New York state of
Mind is an interesting part of this story. At the
New York state of Mind, So the question is should
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the Knickerbockers bite the cheese? Should they bite the cheese
and make a deal for the Greek free He wants
to play there, and they already have a team that's
pretty good, not championship level, but close with Jalen Brunson.
Would Jalen Brunson and Giannis work well together? Can you
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trade everything else? And would you? Would you even really
have to trade everything else? Could you keep a good
chunk of the team? I keep a good chunk of
the team and then just trade. You know, they don't
have any draft picks, so that's the issue. And these
teams love, they get all horny for the draft picks.
They get all excited for that. That's the that's about.
But in terms of the question, should the Knicks make
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the deal for Giannis, Uh, yeah, I'm gonna nod my
head yes, I'm nodding my head yes on this. Why not?
And he's already played foot seed publicly with you, and
when you play foot sea in public, you got to
go to that next level there and you hang out.
I'm not sure whether he's given the bedroom eyes to
the Wall Street tycoons, the robber barons of business there
(12:06):
in New York. You can have a garden party with
Spike Lee. So the Knicks, they can cobble together a
trade offer. It's not even great. They can cobble together
a trade offer. And as I was told by a
sports executive many years ago, he said, Ben, some of
these deals we make are because we're in show business.
They're not great sports trades, but they're for show business
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and we're in the entertainment business. And so if it's
show business down there, then it's not show friends, it's
show business and all that. You honest, would be a
headliner on Broadway and they'd sell out. Not that they
need to sell tickets. No matter how bad the Knicks are,
They've always sold out Madison Square Garden. So he's a
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global icon and all that stuff. But let's not pretend
that whether it's the Knicks or the Warriors or whoever Giannis,
it's not all pa and cream, even though that's the
Cream City, It's not all peaches and cream with you.
I know, why isn't that? Because even though he's got
all of these accolades, and he's won a championship, and
he's got all these big awards and all that stuff,
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let's not pretend that his skill set is not lacking
some parts of it which are piecemeal. You're not supposed
to say that is still not a great foul shooter,
barf City. On the foul shooting, his jump shot is inconsistent, unpredictable,
and will often break your heart. And he continues to
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live off the overwhelming gift from the gods that he
was given with his athleticism and a tremendous drive, fire
in his belly will power, and that works when you're
twenty five or twenty six or twenty seven. Once you
get in your thirties at that level, going down to
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the YMCA, you'll do pretty good, right, And so that's
where we are. Something something's going to give here soon.
These things normally don't linger very long in the NBA.
All right, last thing, we now go to the Kingdom.
That's right, the Kingdom. So some of you were upset.
I mentioned this in a previous episode of the show.
(14:17):
Some of you sending me nasty emails. We are you
not talking about Lebron James, the greatest NBA player of
all time, and he's about to retire and you're not
going to talk about it. I don't understand. Well, buddy,
you call yourself a sports talk show host. Okay, Yeah,
So Lebron sent out some posts on social media. It
was going to be decision two point oh. This became
a big talking point. He teased the big announcement for
(14:41):
a day on social media and there it was right there.
It was the big announcement early in the day, and
it happened while I was sleeping, And what was the decision? Well,
it turns out that the aging, aging Lebron James his
latest decision was in fact a commercial now the ad.
(15:11):
I don't know how much Labron got paid for, but
he parodied the twenty ten decision when he left Cleveland
to go to Miami. That was so insane. I was
at a Dodger game that night. They put it on
the scoreboard. They stopped batting practice in twenty ten at
Dodger Stadium to put on the scoreboard Lebron James announcement.
(15:31):
But anyway, this was an advertisement for liquor. Yeah, so
they wanted to promote the liquor. If they want us
to promote the liquor, we have a sales department. I'm
not giving out free commercials. So if they want do
enough commercials. So if they want to buy a spot,
we'll be happy to name the product and do all that. Otherwise,
go pound sand We're in the advertising business here. So
(15:54):
the question is, what is your verdict? What is your
verdict on Lebron james retirement only to sell you booze?
So do we have a new nickname here? The bartender?
Is that his new nickname? The bartender?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
No? Okay? So he teased retirement knowing that there's a
lot of delicate little flower fans and he's just slinging firewater,
is what he's doing. Okay, And of course the worst
part is the gullible fanboys fell for it, hook line
and sinker. The global fanboys they did. You had the
(16:35):
secondary market. The Lakers last home game in the regular
season is against the Utah Jazz. Okay, the Jazz are unwatchable.
They're horrific. There's no reason to watch the Utah Jazz
play basketball. They are just bad all the way through,
just a terrible product. And so imagine how bad they're
(16:57):
going to be at the end of the season. Once youon,
they play half the year, trade whoever's good on the team,
and then they just played direk the rest of the year.
So people lined up drove up the price of tickets
on the secondary market. It's the old pump and dump situation.
And yeah, and when I say pump it up, these
(17:19):
tickets went from eighty two dollars to five hundred and
eighty dollars because Lebron teased the fact that he was
supposed to retire and he was going to play the Jazz,
which are like a traveling AAU team, and that was it.
So this is essentially Lebron what he's doing here, he's
doing voiceover work like justin Timberlake in that movie The Trolls,
(17:44):
Remember the movie Trolls. Back in the day, King James
is trolling his own fan base. Now, normally they tell
you not to do that. They say that's a bad
thing and you offend the customer. You're not supposed to
do that. It's bad job by But he did it
for clicks and for bottle sales. Is he a bottle
girl now too? Is that what he's doing? So very cringey,
(18:05):
very cynical. But the ethos of Lebron James, is it not?
Like when you think of the greatest hits album of
Lebron James, there are so many. Doing a talk show
his entire career, going back to the time he showed
up with the autobiography of Malcolm X and was asked
(18:26):
about the book and Lebron gave us the uh, you know.
He was asked, what do you know about Malcolm X?
And he said, well, he's just a very powerful man. Okay.
He claimed that he predicted that Kobe Bryant was going
to score eighty one points in a game. He told
I said somebody on a podcast that was the case.
(18:46):
My favorite Lebron ism from the Greatest Hits album of
Lebron James is the Godfather movies that he claimed to
watch in the zero dark thirty when he was getting
ready for the playoffs or whatever that was, and he'd
be like, oh, yeah, I watched the Godfather movies. And
so of course a international reporter said, Lebron, what's your
(19:08):
favorite Godfather quote or part of the movie, And Lebron
could not name a single scene, not the horse's head
in the bed, and not any of it right, take
the take the Canoli's leave the gun, none of those
things just couldn't couldn't come up with any So the
(19:32):
self proclaimed world's greatest storyteller, Lebron James, except every story
is often just kind of about himself and who could
forget the aforementioned back to the decision when he went
from Cleveland to Miami and it's just so good the
stage with the smoke though, the whole thing, and not one,
(19:53):
not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, six,
not seven, not eight, and blah blah blah blah. So
now he's from I guess he was the chosen one
now he's the chosen spokes mon Is that how that works?
I guess the bartender the spokesmand Lebron James. And he
wants again, if he wants us to promote moonshine. We
(20:14):
have a great sales department here at Fox Sports Radio.
Call him up, I'll name the product. I'll do spots otherwise,
so we don't hand out free publicity. So that's it.
But it's all about the the spectacle. It's all about
the spectacle, clearly right. So it's a burning man for
the low information fan, is what it is?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
There?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Burn? Maybe burn? It is the Ben Mahler Show. We'll
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Also this hour we have too Much or Not Enough
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Straight ahead though the mallor Riddle of the day. And
(20:56):
here it is racing legend. Dale earnhardtz best friend shot
his pet blank without permission because he claimed it attacked him. Again,
Dale Earnhardt best friend shot his pet blank without permission
after he claimed it attacked him. That is the mallor
(21:18):
love the day the answer. We'll get to it. We
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Speaker 4 (21:23):
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We go back to it, and I still need a
game show contestant. So you guys don't want us to
(22:42):
play the game, we won't. But if you want to
be part of the game, which will be coming up
in a few minutes, call right now eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox will have too much or not
enough just a few minutes away. Got to play off
the malor riddle of the day Dale Earnhardt, Dale Earnhardt's
best friend and shot his pet blank without permission after
(23:03):
it attacked him. That is the question. What is the answer?
Just Josh going with his pet Rhino. Ralph Irvin it's
a Fox Sports Radio alumni member, Ralph Irvin who now
lives in Vegas. Bobby in Florida says, trouser, trouser snake. Interesting.
I see your pet planton from Lady Sideburns prized pig
(23:27):
from ferg Dog. He shot his pet Smurf without permission.
According to Alf the alien Opiner Freeman cheated and got
it right bad up by him? Who else do you have?
Page down? Jay Dot, who's always the life of the party,
says he shot Mike the Leprechaun's chicken. According to Jay Dot,
(23:48):
there his pet Heela Monster from Rob in Minnesota. Friend
Ricky Bobby shot his spider monkey with a rubber band
from Monkey Biz Dog in South Korea, his pet Rock
from Donkey Sausage, His art vark a fine animal name
(24:08):
the art vark from Eke and Rosewa, Minnesota.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Did you know the artvark is the same as an anteater?
Speaker 8 (24:15):
What?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
What's the whether? They don't look to say. I think
the ant eater is much bigger, uh and uh and
has a kind of a furry type of thing like
the ardvark has no real uh says Ardvarks and anteaters
are distinct, unrelated mammals with different appearances. Sorry, lard, I
(24:39):
thought for a minute, I actually you fooled me. I thought, oh, man,
what is it? After all these shows together, I finally
found your expertise ardvarks and no, apparently not okay? Uh
manh j T. The wingman said, lemur is the answer? Uh,
Roy said, uh paperboar boy who wanted two dollars. Wow, uh,
(25:03):
let's your side check from truck or Joe pet bed
bug from courtesy Flusher Mindset.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
It's the same. The ard bark is also called an anteater,
not to be confused with the South American anteater.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Just saying we moved on.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
I'm not because I'm not wrong, moved on the not wrong.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Okay, take a breath. Do you have an answer the Rno?
Would you you want to go with that disease?
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I was, I'm gonna go with his pet schaaha pet Chiahua.
All right? Uh, I know there's incorrections out Dale Earnhardt's
best friend shot his pet deer. He had a pet deer. Now,
I've always been raised that that deer, their rats with
(25:50):
hooves are deer. I didn't know you could have a pet.
I guess well in some states you can. Let's say
hello to Mike in Lancaster and we're gonna get to
the game coming up here in a minute. Hello, Mike, Welcome,
what's going on?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Mike Man? Good morning, good.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning. What's
on your mind? Ben, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Guess what day is?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
See? What day is it? It is hump Day. It's Wednesday,
It's Humpday.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Yes, sir, you started my hope day.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Sir, that's a little personal. I don't know about that,
you know, just saying.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
All right, let's not read into it, but check it out.
I am the black Leprecaun to be known as that.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Moving forward, now, you don't understand we already have a Leprechaun. Uh,
what makes you? Hold on? So let me check. Hold on, Sike, Mike,
Mike the Leprecaun? Are you black?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Mike?
Speaker 8 (26:58):
Hold on?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Hold on? Hold I touched the wrong line up. Hold on,
Mike the leprecun Are your black? Mic?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I'm red sometin, I'm white and Caucasians, and I know
my I've worked for my daters.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
How is he tan if he wears so much sunblock?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
On? No, Mike, Mike the leprit. We have a we
have Mike who wants to be known on the show
as Mike that you said the black Leprecaun. Is that
what you said?
Speaker 7 (27:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yes, I am black and Irish and I am a Leprecaun.
But I'm black.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Okay. So, so we had a guy, who's the guy
that calls from Omaha? Uh, what's his name?
Speaker 3 (27:33):
The black Irishman?
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yeah, the black the black Irishman. We we already we
have a black irishman the culture. Do we have room
for two black Irishmen? Do we have?
Speaker 3 (27:40):
So?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Did you like a deal?
Speaker 8 (27:42):
Do you have a deal?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Do you have room for two lepricauns? Hey man, you
might not notice, but I'm black.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
That was one of the all time great calls. I
think it was l A. Matt. I don't know what
happened to him. That was years ago, but he's sent
That was great. He just throw these random lines out.
Cowboy did that one time. Cowboy and Winds. I don't
know if you know this, but I'm black the same
thing anyway. All right, So Mike, listen, we want to
we want everyone in the mall or militia. If that's
your stick, you're more than welcome to participate where we're
(28:15):
there for it.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Okay, Okay, that's wonderful. I didn't want to just splurge in,
especially with these well known callers who have you know,
created No.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
No, I don't worry about They're all losers. I don't
worry about them. And listen, you could kick Mike the
lepre contest. Mike almost got me fired. Just promise, if
I ever meet you when you come to the studio,
don't show up twelve hours early. Please, all right, I promise,
all right.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I just want to let you guys know this morning
that I am eating Neapalitan ice cream, drinking Hennessy ah well,
panting sand Well but perfect.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
It's a perfect I can't think of a better Wednesday.
Lebron approves this message. Thank you. There he goes Mike
and Lancaster. All right, let's get to the game. Here
we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here we go,
Here we go, Here we go, here we go here
too much or not enough enough?
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Already?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Hello to Ted in Vermont. He is our contestant. Hello Ted,
welcome it see land for our purposes, the land of
Arnie Spanier, who works here on the weekends. The Is
he the most famous person other than Bernie Sanders from Vermont?
Speaker 8 (29:19):
H No, I'd probably say fish the bad fish is probably.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Oh really is fish from Vermont?
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (29:26):
Right from Burlington?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Uh? Interesting, I didn't see.
Speaker 8 (29:30):
Wet we met Ernie on the local radio up here.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah, well we love Arnie and yeah I miss I
missed him too. I actually saw. I don't need to
tell my whole Vermont story every time someone from Vermont calls.
I don't need to do that, and I won't do that.
I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna bore you.
But we're gonna play the game, Ted, What do you
do there in Vermont?
Speaker 3 (29:51):
As little as possible?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Okay, you're on the down low, just like that. Live
in the trees or something like that, A lot of
trees in Vermont. Yeah, all right, Well let's do this here, Ted,
good luck to you. You gotta get three right to
win the game. Question number one, and all the answers
are too much or not enough? Christian McCaffrey has the
most receptions by our running back this season, with thirty five.
(30:15):
Is that too much or not enough?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Too much?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
All right? Let's see here is Ted Wright. No, you're
not right, not enough? He has thirty nine receptions this season.
Devon ah Chan with a second with twenty five, so
he's got fourteen more.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
All right?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Question number two. Heading into Week six, which begins on Thursday,
with a Eagle Giant game. Heading into Week six, there
are six teams in the NFL with a point differential
of minus fifty or worse. Is that too much or
not enough? For Ted and vermont that's too much, so
(30:57):
it's very confidently too much. You're right now, that's correct
that there are only four the Browns, Raiders, Titans, and Bengals.
The Bengals a r at minus seventy one. And we
learned Ted, when you're minus seventy one, you trade for
Joe Flacco. That's what we want. Yeah, all right. Question
number three, you're one in one. Last week, Jamiir Gibbs
(31:19):
and David Montgomery both scored touchdowns in the same game
for a record twelve time. Is that too much or
not enough? The Lions dynamic duo?
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Not enough?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
All right? He says, not enough. Let's find out. Hey,
look at that unbelievable You gotta right again.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Not enough?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
You both scored touchdown same game for the fourteenth time.
You get this right this next question, you will be
the winner. Ted, You'll win a golden ticket which you
will not use, but I'll give it to you anyway.
Here we go. Question number four. Aaron Judge now has
four home runs when facing elimination with the Yankees. Is
that too much or not enough for the el Capitan
(32:00):
of the Yankees? Come on, you sure about that?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:05):
But okay, I've noticed human nature. Have you noticed the srena?
When men and women are incorrect, they will double down
on the answer. If they're not sure, let's find out
that maybe you're right.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Here we go now you're wrong? Not enough? He has
six home runs when facing elimination, tied with Big Poppy
for the most in postseason. Ted, unfortunately you did not
win the game. But we do have a nice party
give We have a trip to nowhere. So if you
want to go nowhere, we'll send you nowhere if you want.
If you want nothing, we will give you nothing. A
(32:42):
lifetime supply nothing, Ted. So when you want nothing, you
contact the Ben Malors Show. You say, hey, Ben, can
you send me nothing? I'll say yes, Ted, I will
send you nothing. And for the rest of your life,
where birthdays, weddings, big events in your life. And you
call me up you say, hey, Ben, I want can
I get that little bit of nothing? I'll say yes, absolutely, Ted,
(33:04):
I'm going to send you nothing, and I hope you
enjoyed that. Well, thank you, Ted, thanks for listening. I
appreciate that he have a wonderful day. All right, there's
Ted and we're going to have the Queen of Hearts.
Now you want calls? You want to just do questions
on the internet. What do you want to do it?
Speaker 7 (33:16):
Oh yeah, if they want to call, feel free play
it on the line.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Let's see if family's got big balls. Twitter to big
Balls to call in here and Doctor Lorraina on the
air eight seven seven ninety nine five. Maybe a woman
will call you never know. I love good Heaven eight
seven seven nine nine six six three six y nine.
Also hashtag Queen of Hearts, hashtag a Queen of Hearts.
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
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Dear r.
Speaker 7 (34:59):
You heard the man, and it is time for love
here on the Ben Malice Show.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Yeah, no opening I have.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
I have no opening.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
I thought preparing.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
No, no, no, It's not that there was no preparation.
Speaker 7 (35:14):
There's usually something dramatic of love that happens in the
week that inspires me to be like, hey, don't do
this in your relationship.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
You know, everything happened, everything's been really smooth.
Speaker 7 (35:27):
So I'm assuming most people's lives and relationships are pretty
smooth right now.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
They're gonna tell me I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
So let's hear what they got, all right, Mike writes
in he says, should I judge my girlfriend who doesn't
know the difference between animal species like ardvark versus ant eater,
cat versus dog, alligator, crocodile.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
Well, you see, depending on where they live, they could
have different ideas, you know, like a bison is a buffalo,
and then ardvark is an ant eater and you know,
I'm not going to say the last one, but a
man could think he's a leprechaun too, and you just
got to deal with it.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Interesting or kick him out? Interesting? Take bird Dog writes,
and he says, is it true that going to see
a movie on a first date is a horrible idea?
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Kind of.
Speaker 7 (36:16):
It's not bad if you go to dinner first or
go to a park or something, But the point of
going on a date is to get to know each
other and talk. And if you're watching a movie, you
don't really get that chance to dive. You can the
things you can fondle and kiss and you know, get
kicked out of a movie theater. But also, are you
(36:36):
a teenager do you really want to be that person
or do you have a.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
House that you can take in the back of the
upper back row? Grow up a jade dot from Utah?
Who's he's all grown up? I've met him multiple times,
good man in Utah. He says. It's a little drink. No,
no's he's a lightweight, he says. How do I break
the ice with a girl that I work with that
I have strong, long feelings for and tell her that
(37:02):
I love her? That's a big don't you have to
like first dater before? It's kind of a dramatic, well
you know.
Speaker 7 (37:08):
What they say, Ben, that'll love at first sight thing.
But also if you've been working with her for a while,
you could know that you actually love her. When you
work together, you have an even closer relationship, right, I could.
But a great way to break the ice, I would say,
get like an ice pick maybe.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Yes, a Louisville Slugger's always nice.
Speaker 7 (37:31):
Yeah, And you know, if you really want to smooth
the ice out, you can get her on one of
those things that they use on NHL court.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
What are those the bambinos?
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (37:41):
What are those things called? You know what I'm talking about, Ben?
Speaker 3 (37:44):
What are.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
I'm just gonna move on. Let's say hello to we
I have a call for you, Blind Scott from the
North end of Boston. Hello Blind Scott.
Speaker 8 (37:57):
Hi, everybody, it's on October eighth. Great to talk to you, y'all.
I'm currently participating in October and it's you know, just
been like a stressful time and it's been a joy
at the same time. But my girlfriend lives in Oklahoma,
so you know, there's October. There's no nuts in November.
I'm thinking about manling my keys to Oklahoma. But the
problem is if I don't have the keys for the Loctober,
(38:19):
then I can't unlock myself and I'll have to go
to the hospital. I'm just wondering if this is recommended
by the Queen of Hearts. I just wanted to see
what he said.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
I don't understand where the lock is.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
You don't know.
Speaker 8 (38:33):
You know October, it's called October. It's highly covered in
the October community. You locked yourself in chess.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
I've never locked myself down for it's a real downer
for Halloween.
Speaker 8 (38:48):
What about no nuts in November. You don't know, no
nuts in November.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Yeah, I have heard that. I don't know many men
who have accomplished said goal.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Well, some have done it, but not by choice. There's
no shame, no shave. November has no options, so they
just canna go too, you know. All right, Well, I.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Think it sounds like a very dry time.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Do you have a fake girlfriend in Oklahoma? I'm glad
that you bet.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
I bet she's beautiful, yea lovely woman and plastic.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Because you think Scott loves people from Oklahoma? Clearly, all right?
BP wrights and says, shoulder massage.
Speaker 7 (39:19):
Or foot massage cherry for me or someone else.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
That's just that. Bob asked the question.
Speaker 7 (39:26):
I think massage would be nice, but I actually very
ticklish feet too, so that can go.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
What is your better style of vehicle for a good
makeout session? Conversion van or convertible?
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Oh, oh gosh, conversion van.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Right, yeah, that's an easy one.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
The blow Up Mattress put it in the past.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
The Wingman JT. The Wingman set that
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