Hour 3 - Too Much Play for Mr. Gray

Ben Maller talks about Knicks starter Mikal Bridges revealing that he asked coach Tom Thibodeau to reduce his minutes and Thibodeau denying it, LeBron James leaving the Lakers road trip early, the idea that teams don't respect the Thunder, #AskBen, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Knock, knock, Who's there. It's our number three of the
Ben Malers Show on this Thursday, the thirteenth day, Thursday,
the thirteenth of the month of March. And here in
our number three pro bouncy ball. Great story out of
New York. Now, mckal bridges hit the Dagger Bang Bang
to win for the Knicks last night in Portland. But

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prior to that, mckel bridges revealed that he asked his
coach Tom Thibodeau to reduce nick starters minutes, saying they're
playing too much. Apparently, his coach denied that conversation happen.
It's a he said, He said. Situation will unpack this
one for you. Also in pro bouncy Ball, Lebron James

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has deserted the Lakers. He's left their road trip. How
do you react to Lebron James leaving the Lakers road
trip early amidst reports of a groin injury? Also, what
do you make of the consensus around the league that
the NBA players don't respect Shaye Yogis Alexander's Thunder as
legit contenders in the twenty twenty five playoff bracket. Okay,

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see did beat the Celtics in their game on Wednesday night.
We'll talk about that and more right now here. It
is our number three. Too much play for mister Gray.
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show because of his evil boss, loves the number ten thousand.
Met Tommy at the Mallard Meet and Greet in Charleston
last year tire rack dot Com the way tire buying
show be. Was it last year too? I don't know.
Time just like runs together. I don't even know. Was
it a year ago, was it two years ago? I
have no idea. It just seems like it was a
few days ago. I'm pretty sure it was not a

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few days ago. I don't think it was a few
days ago. Anyway, our lead this hour is from the
Big Apple, but really it's the Knicks traveling circus as
they made a stop on the Oregon Trail. I actually
watched this game. Why there was nothing else on? No,
I did. I did watch it. I watched the MSG feed.
Mike Breen and Jamal Crawford were calling the game there

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on MSG and the game was actually surprisingly good. It's
amazing you take away Jalen Brunson. The Knicks can barely
beat the Trailblazers. What an ending, though, mckal bridges the
story of the day in the NBA. Mckayl Bridges hit
a game winning buzzer beater, a three ball in overtime
to slay the Trailblazers, and it was a day of

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content provided by McHale Bridges. The Knicks traded like eighteen
draft picks. I'm exaggerating to get mckial bridges a lot
of manufactured dropping. So if you didn't see this, let
me give you the mallord notes version, the thumbnail recap
of what happened. So mckel bridges claimed that he had
asked Tom Thibodeau to reduce the minutes that starters for

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the Knickerbockers were playing. The coach, Tom Thibodeau denied. He
denied publicly that that conversation ever took place. That Bridges
said during the morning shoot around that he talked with
Thibodaux about giving the bench a disi deserving opportunity. He
said the proposal would mean lesser minutes for the starters,

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and Bridges, a guard who would go on to win
the game that night, said sometimes it's not fun on
the body, he said, but you want that as a coach,
and also talk to him a little bit. Bridges said,
knowing that we've got a good enough team where our
bench guys can come in and we don't need to

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play forty eight minutes or forty seven, et cetera, et cetera,
just helps just keeping fresh bodies out there, all right.
So Thibodeau, when I asked about this, he countered by saying,
the knixt coach, we never had a conversation about it.
He said, Okay, let us discuss this is right in
my wheelhouse. This is red meat in the lions Den.

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So basketball player McHale Bridges, revealing that he asked coach
Tom Thibodeau to reduce the starters minutes. The coach denied
that it happened. You know what that means. This is
a he said, He said, situation, someone is lying, someone
is lying. Can you unpack this one? So I've got

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Public Square computer video game, and Rick Flair and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make some delicious Canadian ships. Which we are
very wealthy in Canadian ships thanks to our great friend

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there in Vancouver, Nico, who hooked us up. So my
first thought though, when I saw this story, I mean, oh,
this is so good. I had a cheshire cat smile
from ear to ear when I saw It's hilarious. So,
Michail Bridges, who is relatively respected around the NBA, he
goes on the record, this is not an anonymous source.

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Normally these type of reports are an unnamed nick starter
says the starters are playing too much. Went to the
coach and then what do people say, Well, they didn't
put their name on it, so it doesn't matter. He
put his name on it. He put it, he tattooed
this as his own. He spilled his guts to the
beat writers for the Knicks, and then hours later Tom

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Thibodeaux he just kind of shrugged his shoulders and he
had that old shaggy tune. Wasn't me, wasn't me? You know, hey,
we never had that conversation about that never happened. Yes,
how great is it? So I have a theory on this.
Having been to a to a barbecue or two in

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the past, it's not my first barbecue. So my theory
is simple. I want to run this by my elevator
pitch tell me if you agree with me or not.
So my theory on this is Michail Bridges went to
Tom Thibodeau. He pleaded his case and he didn't like
what he heard that he was shot down by the coach,
and the coach is like, I'm assuming. Thibodeau, who's kind

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of an old school hardline guy, said listen, I'm gonna
do what I want to do and this is my job.
You do your job and we'll be fine. So Bridges
had his plan shot down. So then he popped the
bubble of trust. He broke the wall between the locker
room and the media, and he decided to go public

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in the public Square and make this a spectacle? Did
it on the road if Yeah, we're out out in Oregon,
We're far away from the bright lights of Manhattan. But
the thing with the internet, everything's blowing up. But the
Knicks are on the road until this weekend anyway, so
by the time they get back to New York things
will have died down. But clearly this hit a nerve

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with Tom Thibodeau, the coach who over the years, the
one consistent criticism. He's had some good regular season teams
in Chicago. Didn't do anything in Minnesota. But other than
that New York they've had some good teams. Tom Thibodaux
has been called out. He's like a drill sergeant, right, He's, Oh,
what are you doing? You're playing them to the minster
soft nerds in the basketball riding community. Oh, I can't

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believe it. Oh my god, despotic, despotic, so Thibodeau. And
I wasn't there, but just from what I read. Thibodeau
then launched into an animated defense of how he coaches.
He pointed out that Jalen Brunson is averaging I think
just nineteenth and average minutes. Karl Anthony Towns is twenty third.
Of course, those guys have have missed some games. Now,

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it's not a great look for Bridges, it's not a
very good look for Tom Thibodau. There are no winners
in this. Mckail went out though, and you talk about
dotting the ie, he went out and hit that moneyball
dagger to win the game for the Knickerbockers in Portland.
Played forty one minutes. He's the NBA's iron man, he's
the minutes leader, and he's also apparently complaining. So there's

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a lot a lot to that story. Now. Secondly, the
sky is falling in Lakerland. The sky is falling the Lakers,
the coldest team in the NBA, and this week back
to back losses to the Cells and the lowly Brooklyn Nets.
They're just coming apart of the Seams. That's all over all,
that goodwill's done the Lakers. I don't know if they're
gonna win another game this year. They just are terrible.

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And now Lebron James is jumping ship. Did you see this? No,
we've learned that Lebron James is deserting the Lakers. He's
leaving the road trip and going back to La la
Land allegedly he has a phantom, well timed groin injury,
a phantom well timed groin injury, And of course this

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happened to be well timed because the schedule the toughest
part of the schedule for the Lakers most games. They're
playing six games in eight days coming up here, so
it's gridlock and he's just gonna leave the road trip.
So how do you react? How do you react to
Lebron James saying bye bye to the Lakers as they're

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falling apart and he bails on them, claiming he has
to get treatment for his groin injury. So my reaction
to this, Lebron is playing an old computer video game,
Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? In this case,
where in the world is Lebron? He has gone a
wall in a way. I said he's leaving the team,

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but he still deserted his teammates, and we know that
he's not fond of Milwaukee, where the Lakers play tonight.
He doesn't really like going to Denver that much because
of the altitude. Now, there is a conspiracy theory that
while Lebron will eventually end up back in Los Angeles,

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that the Lakers were on the East Coast and that
Lebron actually took a flight over the Atlantic and went
to some secret, clandestine trip to clinic somewhere I don't know,
in Germany or whatever. The internet conspiracy, not my opinion,
just an internet conspiracy that Lebron went overseas to get

(10:53):
some special treatment. Because I'm debating whether or not this
the whole groin injury is legit or this is just
their way of doing load management. Lebron doesn't want to
say load management, so they came up with this Bugaysey
groin injury. You know, we go to Germany, you get
some of that Schnitzel flavored magic mushroom stuff into pretzel,
and then all of a sudden, you're good. All right,

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final thought, so what are the other stories in the NBA?
A bigger matchup. I know, it's a regular season game,
so you don't make too much of it because the
regular seasons kind of goes on forever and all that. However,
they did play it, and the Boston Celtics sent out
Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown against Oklahoma City. It's just

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a preview of the NBA Finals. This summer. I know
the league office hopes that's not a preview of the
NBA Finals. Not really excited. I know, I don't apologize
to Kyrie there in OKC, but they're, you know, not
that gung ho about Oklahoma City being in the finals.
But they have been great, wonderful during the regular season.
So they went out and they played the Boston Celtics

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in a showcase game on a random Wednesday night. And
how did that turn out? Well, I'm glad you asked
the team from Oklahoma They won, and they had another
big game from shake Yogas Alexander. He continues to play

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very well, very well this year. MVP. We've talked a
lot about that. But Alexander had thirty four points and
seven assists and five rebounds, and Oklahoma City won the game.
There were ten lead changes and they ended up winning
the game in the fourth Covers tied going to the
fourth quarter, and they won. But the Celtics played Jalen Brown,

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they played Jason Tatum, Derek White played Drew Holliday, like
the key guys for the Celtics for the most part,
were out there and the game went in favor of
the team from Oklahoma And I bring this up because
one of the conversations, one of the talking points in
the NBA is that the consensus among NBA players is

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there is no riespect, no respect. They don't respect shake
Yogas Alexander's thunder as a legitimate threat in the twenty
twenty five playoff bracket. So what do you make of that?
What do you make of the chatter even after Oklahoma

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beats Boston that they're not legit. So it is not surprising.
It's not surprising because shake Yogas Alexander, as good as
he is, Oklahoma City is kind of like a They're
like a high school team. The way they approached it,
like the whole it's they're not a professional team, right,
They're like, it's very bizarre. They do this weird thing

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where they do postgame interviews, the whole team's out there.
It's like they're a high school team. It's not professional,
it's amateur. They act like amateurs in Oklahoma City. So
it's not surprising, and they haven't done anything in the
in the playoffs. Of note, and the way it works
is normally nobody in modern NBA basketball gets excited for

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regular season success because so many of the star players
treated as an inconvenience. So Oklahoma City obviously has to
change the narrative and they need the follow the map now.
Rick Flair the Nature Boys said it best. In order
to be the man, you've got to beat the man. Now,
they went out in Oklahoma City beat the man, the
reigning champions of the NBA and the Boston Celtics. But

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they got to do it down the line in the playoffs,
and legends, true legends in basketball and any sport, are
born in the postseason. So run the gauntlet in a
playoff environment, play the Nuggets and beat him, you know,
shut up Lebron and the Lakers and the Celtics as well.
Do all of that and then it'll change, all right.

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Aaron Donald, great defensive player on the all time greats
in the NFL. He's retired now, but he made a
make a wish recipient blank. That is the riddle of
the day. The answer right now? And what do we
have here? Timothy in Northern Kentucky said, ah, No, I

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can't read. That was something to do with a picnic table,
a late night drug tester, he said, picnic table? Who
else do we have? He made them go to shake
Shack to grab some lunch from Alf the alien ol
Pinter for him world famous air Friar stuffed pickles. That
would be That sounds horrible. That is I want to

(19:04):
puke in my mouth right now. That's what I would
like to do. What else do we have? Page down?
Can't read that on the air Jean Jean, the dancing
machine who died ten years ago today from Donkey Sausage,
he says, that is the answer. Berg Dog said, Aaron
Donald made the make a wish kid go to a
Clippers game and they had a great time because everyone

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has a great time at a Clipper game. Cooper Loop,
by the way, sending me a hat that I'm gonna
my new Clipper hat that I'm going to get here.
It's pretty cool. Be the coolest hat in my collection
for now. Milkman Mike and Colorado says he made them
share pizza with Gunner Macaroni and cheese pizza. What a
nightmare that would be. JT the Wingman says Aaron Donald

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made the make a wish kid an Afghan blanket. Yeah.
Chris from Kentucky says Aaron Donald made them recite the
mal or Militia oath. That is not that easy. Grilled
the kid a stake from Steve the Misplaced San Diegan.
Chris and Kent Washington said pay for his autograph. Gunner

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said he forced the kid to be a Timberwolves fan.
Now you're that would be terrible or even worse the
Carolina Panther fan. Gunner the Grill Sergeant says, the answer
is to clean his pool or what else do we have?
Page down? I don't know about that one. All right,
you have an answer, Lorraine yes, he made them miss

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their flight. S Ben miss their flights all right? That
is incorrect. According to Matthew Stafford, Aaron Donald made a
make a wish kid throw up in the RAM weight
room from working out with Aaron Donald. They worked out
together and Aaron Donald worked out the kids so much.
The kid far at the RAM facility new you want

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to work out with Aaron Donald, it won't work you out?
Barf right there? You getting your knees and barf in
a trash can. That's what's gonna happen. That sounds like
a Saturday Night Live skit to me. Let's go to
the phones. It is an interactive show and let's say
hello to any meaning miney mon. Let's go to Sean,

(21:20):
who's in Colorado. Hello Sean, welcome and is the the
Ben Malor show up all night, every single night. Hello
Sean A man for a.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
Early long time now thirteen years. Actually, I used to
listen very regularly when he started up. Till twenty twelve.
I was doing over my pizza delivery and Boulder John Tullis,
and then I got a day job.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
No, no, what are you doing now?

Speaker 3 (21:46):
She was currently driving a semi over the Mountains in
Colorado on I seventy.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
Oh, well that's cool. How's the weather.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
Tonight. It's great, it's clear sky the morning. Super This
is my favorite time to drive when it's like this,
you know, off the show, I don't even really need
my headline.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
That's awesome. Look at that. We me and you, we
go way back, Sean, me and you, we go back decade. Unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
I was super happy to hear you were snow on
the air and they get to listen to you a
couple of nights a week, and I want to shout
out to Poop for being a Broncos fan.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
And there's no need. Yeah, there's no need to compliment them.
You can just compliment me. You don't need to compliment them.

Speaker 4 (22:33):
Where they get enough winners of the off season, they've
done it.

Speaker 5 (22:35):
They've done an A plus job.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yeah, when's your parade? One of the one of the
Broncos having a parade? Are you going to Denver for
the parade?

Speaker 5 (22:42):
It'll probably be next February. Next February, that's right after
they win the Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
All right, I went to the first three.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, well, hey, the broncoes out Honor Park of the
snow Dog is what they ought to do. They put it.
They should put a patch on their jersey to honor
Park of the Ship who we lost, the great Park
of the snow Dog. But anyway, well, Sean, I'm glad
you found me. I'm shocked. I'm still here too. They
did get rid of me actually in nine and then.
But that's like I.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
Remember that it was some dark days there overnight when.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
You were Yeah, it was it was six months and
twenty six days, not that I was counting, but other
than that, I've been here since the year two thousand,
end of two thousands, so it's been a long time.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yeah, that's crazy for the very regularly, and you know,
called occasionally.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
I'm glad, I'm glad you're I'm glad you're I'm glad
you're back. Sean. I'm glad that you found the show
and we're still here and you're there now we're all older.
You know, that's fine. It's good BC the Alternative, So
it's a good thing. All right, Thank you, Sean. Be
safe out there driving around. Colord. I grew up with
that guy. We're like, we're like fraternity brothers. We grew

(23:52):
up together.

Speaker 5 (23:53):
That's so cool.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah, it's amazing. It's a small world, after all, it's
a small all small world. That's hello to Andrea in Berkeley. Now,
I had one of my New York minion who claimed
that Andrea popped up on the iconic WFAN in Manhattan.

(24:18):
Is that true?

Speaker 5 (24:19):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (24:19):
Yeah, yeah, it sure was. I was doing Jerry Cole
sports astrology, the fellow Virgo Yankees pitcher who needs Tommy
John surgery?

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Okay, and what show did you call up?

Speaker 6 (24:35):
I've been on their show before, Boomer and Geo.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Oh okay, yeah, very nice. Well the vo I have
never met him, but were like indirect radio friends. He
used to work in Pittsburgh. He is the morning show WFN.

Speaker 6 (24:48):
I and Boomer and you know, he's former football players,
he's an aries. He has a TV so also, so yeah,
you know they're pretty open to astrology, not as and
is you in California? Bless your heart?

Speaker 1 (25:03):
No, No, we're the kings of astrology. Yeah, because of you.
And did you did you brag that you were the
female call of the Year on a national radio show.

Speaker 6 (25:11):
No, I didn't have a chance to me with a
lot of questions about Geo getting his teeth done and
what I thought about that and when would the time be?
But next time I'll be more than happy to share
that accolade.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
Very important in front of my mind. It's the one
thing they want to know. I'm sure, But you didn't
call about that. So what what what do we have today?

Speaker 6 (25:32):
What someone mentioned that? That's really cool and I'll try
to put a clip of it on Twitter or Facebook.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
There are people my my malad militia, people who are
always listening, Andrea, I always get reports when you guys
call other shows, I get reports. People let me know. Yeah, yeah,
you call someone else when hollering James or Blind Scott
or Marcel when Marcel's on the big Jab there in Maine,
I find out about it. Or Blair has always let
me know what's going on.

Speaker 6 (26:03):
Yeah, no, I'm happy to you know, mention the Ben
Maller Show and being this. I used to be, oh,
the sports sorceress.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah that's right. Now you're the astrology anybody, Yeah, but yeah,
still the sports sorceress as well. All right, so what
do we got today?

Speaker 6 (26:16):
What do we Well, we got mercury retrograde on the horizon.
That was what I was talking about. And Aaron Rodgers
quote being Aaron Rodgers. There was this article I just
saw and basically he's delaying whether the Steelers are going
to sign him because he's taking quote his good old
time to make a decision. And mercury is on the

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cusp of retrograde. There's March fourteenth to April seventh, and
there's a shadow period which we're in now where you
already feel it's flowing down. He's a kind of funky,
so he's not any rush to make a decision, but
that's kind of infuriating people. And then you have the
full moon lunar eclipse. So he's an into astrology. His

(27:00):
birth time December second, nineteen eighty three, Chico, California to
fifty pm. My colleague is his astrologer, so he's totally
into it. So I think he's tuning in and delaying things.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Uh now, isn't mercury in retrograde for a long time?
So yeah, no, yeah, you can't. You can't wait three weeks,
that's impossible there.

Speaker 6 (27:23):
But he's feeling the vibe now and he's like, hmmm,
let's not jump into anything, you know, you know, do
something in Hayes to repent in leisure, So in other words,
he's gonna, you know, take some time. And it said
in the article the hold up has nothing to do
with money, so they don't quite understand why he's taking
his time, but I sure do.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
So. Uh look at that send that out coop from
the sports Sorceress, the astrology lady. It is a cosmic
event that is delaying Aaron Rod.

Speaker 6 (27:54):
Yes, and it'll be you know, delaying all of us
a bit. Just so you know, March fourteen into April seven,
mercury retrograde, full moon, lunar eclipse March fourteenth, So a
lot happening in the next couple of days.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yeah, for sure, for sure. And if you want to
find more about that, they can follow you on x
and say hello you virgo in service.

Speaker 6 (28:17):
Yes, thank you, Ben, I appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
All right, all right, that's there, she goes Andrea. So
my mole was correct, And Andrea did call up on
wf AN there the other day. Yeah, I actually broadcast
from the when I was doing local radio in La
I did a show from WFN the back studio there

(28:40):
when they were in they're in Manhattan now, but they
were in Queens and it was it was really odd
because they were in a movie studio in Queens in
the middle of like this neighborhood and they were in
the basement. And this is back when they had this
guy named don Imus who was the morning guy. And
it was a really crappy radio station. And I didn't

(29:02):
even know there was a movie studio in Queens as
this is years ago, and I remember trying to find
the station. I found it, and that's where they did
like the I don't know I should say this, the
Bill Cosby Show and some whatever shows were in New
York they would film and in Queens they were doing
that show at the time. But I remember I found
it and I did show in the back like a
production studio, and the board op at the fans like

(29:26):
he's like, you got to get out of here before
Imus gets here, because because I miss you know, like
you known, like weird people in the building. He'll make
a big deal about it. So I just sneak out
the back. I remember that that that tale. Let's go
to who do we have? Let's go to Blind Scott,
who I'm told has his own radio gig later today.
Is that correct, Blind Scott? Am I hearing this properly?

(29:46):
That you have your own radio appearance today. Later on
at eight a m.

Speaker 7 (29:50):
I'll be on the sports I call him a Boomer
and G two I'm Brett and mont Island on that station.
I call that station.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Why do you why do you call us that name?
Why do you use that name?

Speaker 7 (29:59):
Because they bust is blind Scott because they know blind
Scott's like a prankster, so you can't. Blind Scott sucks.
I hate blind Scutt, you know, like people hate blind Scout.
I don't like him. But dude, so I'm gonna be
a Boomer I mean not boomers. They're okay. I've been
to Boomer a science and meet and.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
That he's overrated.

Speaker 7 (30:16):
Man, I wish he'd take his time. So but anyways, dude,
I'm gonna be on eight am. I think so I
called in. I'm a big friend Toucher super fan on
the sports tub. You know, I love the guy and
I know everything about him. I'm hoping they can think
maybe maybe they'll give me a hair transplant because they
have a hair transplant sponsor. You don't have a hair
transplant sponsor, Ben, like you need to one, you know

(30:36):
what I mean. So there's gonna be a Ben mallor
meet and greeting. You know, a couple of people offered
to punch me in the face, and I need a
nose job actually, so I like, you know, somebody to
bust my notes and I won't have to pay for it.
My insurance will pay for you know, you fight back
and forth on this stuff. I got like one hundred
and fifty stitches in my head from here to hear.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Dude.

Speaker 7 (30:55):
One of your fans grabbed a hold of me on
the streets today. It was scary. You know, I'm unapproachable
on the streets.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
Dude.

Speaker 7 (31:01):
So they had a problem with this bos of monologue
you did, like, oh okay, let me go. Let him
know that they did. You stink? Then that bos monologue
was terrible. It's a total bogus take. You have no
idea what it was?

Speaker 1 (31:15):
A wonderful take. That was a wonderful What are you
talking about? It was outstanding table he decided to take
five million dollars more to go to Buffalo than play
with his brother.

Speaker 7 (31:26):
Yeah, they said it was terrible. It was like the
worst thing they ever heard.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
Like, you're making that up. I don't believe you all.
No one cares that much about Joey bo said to
complain about it.

Speaker 7 (31:34):
Email you one of your followers. He even told me
like that, you know, they're real wealthy and they want
to even buy a home like up in the north
Woodsend area. And I emailed you by it, and I
knew you probably him think I was serious. But dude,
so many people harassed me on the streets from this show,
and like.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
I, well, you should just stay home then, and then
no one. If you just stay in your home, no
one can harass you. Right, if you're in your home,
you don't walk around the North End.

Speaker 7 (31:58):
It's just being blinded living in the North End, the
North Sends. Think, Hey, this Paul Revere house, I was looking.
You know, they got like a base in there with
three million. I might just run through the door and
grab it, and then I'm gonna yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Gate, I'm sure. I'm sure they don't have anything. I've
been to the Paul Revere House. I don't think they
have any there.

Speaker 7 (32:14):
Well, I mean I don't want to give any tips
or anything, you know, but I know of a coast
and oast. Right. You know you were talking about Italy earlier.
You never want to go to the Mediterranean in the
in the summertime. Man, it's the Mediterranean and this building
was built in the eighteen hundreds. I live and there's
tons of ghosts in it, you know what I mean? Hey,
can I stand on hold?

Speaker 1 (32:33):
I got Are you friendly? Are you friendly with anything
to go? Oh? Yeah, I'll put you on all I'm
done talking to here. I'll put you. I'll go back
to you later, I don't know, and I'll keep you
on hold. You won't send me ten million emails during
the show because you can't email while you're on hold.
Thank god. All right, anyway, it is the Ben Malord Show.
We are working our way through the overnight hours here

(32:55):
and oh what fun it is. And like basketball, which
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(33:16):
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out here. Ask Ben your questions, our answers hashtag ask

(33:39):
ban hashtag ask band, can ask me Loreina coop questions.
We'll get to that. We will do it next.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
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(34:17):
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By the way, I'm not just saying this, I actually
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(34:41):
Hour podcast in the iHeart app and it will always
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time for.

Speaker 5 (34:50):
Her as Twitter.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Send is your questions on Twitter.

Speaker 8 (34:55):
Now anyway we go, it is asked bad Your questions
are answers for the rest of the hour, and now
for the reading of the questions.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
All right, Ben, We're gonna start off with a question
from ferg Dog. Hi Fergie, he wants to know would
you ever date a stripper?

Speaker 1 (35:19):
Well, I'm married. My wife might have a problem with it,
but if you were single, yeah, yeah, I would. Uh my, yeah,
when I was younger, anybody I was. I also have
issues with dating, so yeah, I probably would have when
I was younger, but uh no, I never did. I
had a buddy of mine that dated a stripper. She

(35:39):
always had a lot of cash. But that's about it.
What Lrenda, would you dad a stripper? Lorena?

Speaker 9 (35:47):
I hate strippers, Ben, really? Oh yeah, strippers absolutely no.
All of my brothers is just nasty. Well, so I
will never data stripper.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
Interesting Cooper Loop who says I haven't Oh, unbelievable. Nice, Yeah,
I went to. It was what was the name of
the place, the Hollywood Tropicana not there anymore, and with
a buddy of mine and the stripper like I was
kind of I thought she was, and she was hitting

(36:22):
on my buddy. That pissed me off. I was upset
by that. All right, what's the next coop? What do
we have?

Speaker 4 (36:27):
All Right, we've got a question from the King. Rory, Hi, Rory.
He would like to know what is your favorite fruit?

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Well, I like banana cream pie, but bananas are fine,
I guess if I in a pinch, the go to
is the red delicious apple. That's been my go to
over the years. The one I've eaten the most of
is the red delicious apple. So I go Red delicious,
but strawberries. It depends on my mood, but overall red delicious.
What about you, Lorena?

Speaker 5 (36:58):
I like caramel apples ben.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
That's covered in sugar, that's not.

Speaker 9 (37:03):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 5 (37:04):
I also like candied apples. I like the ones with
the cinnamon.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
Hard cooked apple.

Speaker 5 (37:08):
Is your favorite fruit? Yes? Wow, you both covered caramel
apple so boring. Strawberry is good and you can dip
it in sugar.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
Tell that to Johnny Apple see you think that's boring?
All right? Your schmuck apple keeps the doctor away. What
do you like? What do you like? Kiwi?

Speaker 5 (37:28):
No, I would go with mango.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
Bargle.

Speaker 5 (37:33):
He had to google his favorite fruits there. What are
the best fruits?

Speaker 1 (37:37):
You know? What is also good is pineapple? Solid? But
I've eaten mostly the apple. I like the pineapple which
has apple in it. That's pretty good in a really
hot day. Watermelon, oh man on a hot day, wonderful. Next,
what do we got?

Speaker 5 (37:53):
Timothy would like to know Timothy from n k Y.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
North that's Northern Kentucky Coop because that's my guy, Timothy.

Speaker 5 (38:00):
He wants to know what is your favorite flavor?

Speaker 1 (38:03):
Cake? Yes? So, to me, the most important thing about
cake is the frosting. I generally go like a white cake.
There's this blue cake, this smurf cake that this local
bakery has, which I love, and it's got the blue
cake with the white frosting, and it's just my go
to for cake when I have birthdays or whatever. So

(38:24):
that's my favorite. What about you to rate it?

Speaker 5 (38:26):
Oh, this is a really hard one, Ben. There's so
many cakes in those but you can only have one.
I'll tell you my least favorites German chocolate cake.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
I didn't ask your least favorite. I want to know
your favorite.

Speaker 5 (38:38):
Maybe carrot cake.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
Oh my god, that is my least favorite. That's the
worst answer you could.

Speaker 5 (38:45):
I love the cream cheese frosting on top.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
It makes me but the carroty burry up.

Speaker 4 (38:52):
Turn the mic off that I'm gonna go. Yellow cake
chocolate frosting not bad, but I like.

Speaker 1 (38:59):
The white cake or the blue cake white frosty. Next. JT.

Speaker 4 (39:03):
The Wingman wants to know what was your favorite color
crayon in the Crayola sixty four color crayon set.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
Well, the one I ate the most of as a
child was the blue one. I ate the blue crayon
the most, and then I used to eat the crayons
when I was in kindergarten. But I green or blue?
What about you, Lorena?

Speaker 9 (39:21):
Oh, there was this one specific pink and I can't
remember the first word of it, but it was a
pink for sure.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
All right, cool.

Speaker 5 (39:27):
My favorite color is orange, but my favorite crayon is
Hunter green.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
Oh you're so cool, Hunter Green, Hunter. I remember the
names of the crayons. Yeah,