RIP Jeanie in Medford

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Rockets who are coming apart at the seams. What happened
to the Rockets. Remember the beginning of the year, when
the Rockets were the talk of the town winning all
these games. I realized James Harden's out, But the Rockets
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the postgame or the off the court becoming more relevant
than the on the court. Now, before we get into this,
there will be a an announcement that we're gonna make
coming up here in a little bit about one of
the regular members of our show here. So we'll do
that in a little bit. But I wanted to start
with the sports angle, of course, because that's that's how
we roll. And we will begin with the Clipper Rockets game,

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which nobody we'll be talking about what actually happened on
the court, The fact that the Clippers played another marvelous
game and Blake Griffin was majestic with twenty nine points
and ten rebounds. He got ejected at the end of
the game, and it dust up. Sweet Lou Williams my
choice for MVP in the NBA with thirty one points,

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certainly the player of the Month in the in the
NBA for the month of January, and an All Star
Sweet Lou Williams of the Clippers. So the Clips are
playing some good ball. Hey won eleven or the last fourteen,
But that is not what people are going to be
talking about. Instead, the discussion will be about what apparently
went down, not apparently it did go down in the

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locker room, the postgame breuhaha, the hullabaloo in the hallway
at Staples Center. Now Here is what we know. Here
is what we know about what went down at Staple Center,
the information that we have obtained. Shall we say that

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the Rockets were upset with a several of the Clipper players,
Blake Griffin, Austin Rivers. There was a lot of bad blood.
And unlike unlike many many a time we talked about
these things, this seemed more real. This seemed more real,
this bad blood. It got personal, and when things get personal,

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you often do irrational things. And the Rockets did something
that I think the word for this is astonishing, breathtaking
what the Rockets decided to do. These knuckleheads got together
in the locker room after the game they had just
lost to the Clippers. Now there's a cooling down period
in the NBA. You're supposed to cool down, right, cool
on down ten minutes or so, and then they let

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the unwashed media come in and ask annoying questions, and
then you give cliches, and then you shower and you
go home. That's how it works. Well, turns out that
we've learned within the last last few minutes here details
on this that Rocket players including James Harden who was
not playing because he's hurt, Trevor Ariza who got kicked out,

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Gerald Green, who's barely a Rocket, he's been all over
the places, a journaman player in the NBA. They they
took a battering ram, if you will, to the Clipper
locker room. They pushed and shoved their way to the
Clipper locker room, and they wanted some FaceTime with Austin
Rivers and the security, a gaggle of red coats. They

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were there because the security there, the red coats at
Staple Center legendary and they put a human wall in
front of the Rocket players. There's a lot of money,
James and Trevor, well, just James Harden alone, James Harden
and anyone else. It's it's a lot of money. It's
a lot of money. And we're told from various sources

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here that the players not only wanted to get a
little FaceTime with Austin Rivers, they wanted a pow wow
with Blake Griffin. And all of this is because Chris
Paul is a jerk, all right, That's what it gets
down to. The word is also that the word here,
The term is happy days. And even though the Clippers

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from a talent standpoint are not as talented as they
have been in recent years, with the players on the roster,
these are happy days. The players are are very pleased
that Chris Paul's gone. He was seen as a bad guy,
as a just I can't say, well, I don't think
what can I say? Pussy willow? Can I say that?
I guess that's the word I'm allowed to say. Yeah,

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he just not not real popular. So the Clippers, even
statistically and talent wise, they're not that great. They're half.
They liked the fact that Chris Paul has left and
that you know, this was an emotional scene and all
that because it was his comeback game to play the Clippers,
and he had played in some some big moments with

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the Clippers and usually either hurt his hand or didn't
get the job done with the Clippers. He was a
failure at the end, and the Clippers won the trade.
I think watching Lou Williams player could be the MVP
in the NBA's my MVP. The Clippers won the trade,
so so again the Rocket players came storming into the
Clipper locker room. There's a there's a back hallway. There's

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a series of hallways. There's one big hallway though, underneath
Staples Center in Los Angeles, where there's a training room
and players from both teams will go back and they
can walk through. And it's also used by guys to
avoid avoid having to to talk to certain members of
the media. Or there's the back way out. You know

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you're gonna sneak through the tunnel and you don't want to,
God for you're such a big celebrity. God forbid. Yeah,
you go and walk around regular people. So Chris Paul
Gerald Green that and Trevor A Reason and James Hart.
There's a report that Chris Paul was also part of this,
but apparently there was just a lot of a lot

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of words. So nobody took a billy club. There was
none of that. Nobody took a machette, but a lot
a lot of trash. Thought, well, this is what a
great night this this is even better night for the Clippers.
Not only did they beat the Rockets, they're in the
Rockets head. They're in the Rockets head the Shenanigans of

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the NBA. I can't think of a better way to
celebrate Martin Luther King Day than to have these guys
want to kill each other. I think that is a
completely sensible, reasonable reactor. No, no, no, no, that's not
uncomplicated here. This is very This is very uh, this
is very simple. No, no complex layers to this at all.

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Chris Paul is not liked by the Clipper players. They
they were enjoying the moment. They were clearly enjoying the moment. There.
Let's let's go to the audio though, just to give
you some flavor for this. What it was like at
the game which ended not that long before our show starter.
Here here's the call from the Rocket side of things.
Blake Griffin ejected from the game, and there was some

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words exchange with Mike D'Antoni and Trevor A reason got
kicked out. A whole lot of stuff happen. Oh now
in a reason and Blake Griffin and Blake Griffin's been
tossed out of the game, they go nose to nose.
You know, A Resa's not gonna take now, A reason's
going at the Clippers bench. Areasa has words with the
Clippers bench and Blake Griffin after being objected on his

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way back for the Clippers locker room, trying to fire
up the crowd and is successful in doing so. There
is not much love lost between these two basketball teams.
It has been a shippy night. That's Craig Ackerman, friend
of the show, who has admitted to listening to our show.
And so I like Craig Ackham. He's a good man,

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and very few people admit to actually listening to our show,
and Craig Ackerman, the voice of the Rockets, is one
of those people that has not shied away from the
fact that he does actually listen to the show. So
I appreciate that, But this is not about Craig Ackham,
the voice of the Rockets, not about that at all. Instead,
this is about Chris Paul and Blake Griffin, and they're

(09:29):
bad blood. Chris Paul talking to reporters. Now, do you
think he's gonna take blame on some of this, because
clearly this goes back years of resentment towards Paul on
the Clipper locker room. Or is Chris Paul going to
blame Blake Griffin? Let's find out. Coach told me he
elbowed him, you know what I mean. So I've seen
him talking crazy to coach. So I always gonna coach back,

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always gonna have coaches back. Now, keep in mind some
of the latest reports indicate that the Los Angeles Police
Department was called to the locker room after all of
this went down, that the LAPD got a phone call
of unrest in an NBA locker room and had to
come over and be the mediator between these knuckleheads as

(10:16):
they were going at it. Again, the report just a
lot of words. It's kind of like a baseball fight
you see in baseball season where they everyone runs out
of the bullpen and they and they're all yelling at
each other and screaming and and or a better analogy,
because we were talking about basketball, would be a classic
Kevin Garnett move where you instigate a fight and then

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you wait for your teammates to stand in front of you,
and then you again look like you want to rip
the other guy's head off. It's called being a fake
tough guy, is what it is. That's the that's the
clinical term for this. But the clash of former Clipper
and current Clipper and supposedly Mike D'Antoni was caught on

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video on the TNT cameras. They're yelling fu as Blake
Griffin walked off the court victorious, and then D'Antoni blaming Griffin.
There's gonna be video walls. I would assume that Blake
Griffin in an arena where there's ten cameras at least
and a bunch of people standing ut thousands of people there.

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That if Blake Griffin, in the words of Mike Da
Tony hit hit D'Antoni, there's video of that somewhere. Here's
more from Chris Paul here, and he talked about words, words, words, words,
I don't know. You probably got it ain't. I'm telling
all the cameras in there now, you know what I mean.

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You probably can tell me what I said better than
I did. Whatever it was. I'm sure my MoMA gonna
tell me to wash my mouth now. Austin Rivers is
he's the guy that he's ain't playing either. He isn't
playing a while. He's out. He's got all kinds of
bodily issues, so he wasn't playing. You've got James Harden

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who wasn't. This is what, this is what Austin Rivers
is good at. Guy. I gotta tell you, he is
better at bleep talking than he is playing basketball. This
is good. I like this. See, unlike other people, I
enjoyed the nuance of trash talk, and I understand that
it's part of athletic competition, mental warfare. And clearly the
Clippers won this that it wasn't the Clipper players that

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were going to the Rockets locker room. It was the
Rocket players that we're trying to get some FaceTime in
the Clipper locker room. Let's hear it from Blake Griffin.
None of these guys are gonna say anything, right, but
let's listen. Anyway, we have the sound. That's where we're
gonna play the editing department busting their ass to get this,
and we must play this. Here's Blake Griffin. You'll hear
the question and the answer about a police incident involving

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NBA players. Blake, two part question. First one, what did
you and dan Tony setting with each other? And then
what happened? I couldn't see the board, I only I
only saw him. But what did you say? Well? After
he said what he said, I said the same thing back, okay, well,
and then second part, what were you and Trevor saying

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to each other? They're tapping At the end, he asked
me if I was still coming to his birthday party,
and I said, yeah, I'm gonna try all right. So
it was clearly these guys have a mutual hostility. I
like that though, So now who said the first F you?
Was it Blake F you? Or was it Dantoni f you?

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Because the rebuttal if it was Dantoni saying f you,
And then Griffin came back and said, we no F
you more. You know, It's like it's another January disagreement
in the NBA. I like I like the the Vendetta

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clearly a personal vendetta the Clippers Afric Chris Paul. I
think it's the word is refreshing. It's refreshing. And will
anything come of this? There'll be a lot of state
and declarations and we can't have that in our league. No, no, no, no,
no no. But if you look at this objectively, h

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Chris Paul is on the back nine. He's passed his
prime and the Rockets know that. They know that, and
Lou Williams is balling. By the way this guy is,
I thought it was a bum. I'm not gonna lie.
I did think he was that good. But he has
played like an All Star with the Clippers. So do
they play one more time? At least one more time,

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so there'll be one more awkward, uncomfortable situation and they
could play in the playoffs. The Clippers now have because
they've won eleven of fourteen, are now a playoff a
playoff team at this moment, they're a playoff team. That's right.
I'm I'm I We'll bringing Edmund Dallas steamboat really Garcia.

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But I also want to point out here, Eddie that
that one of the things I enjoyed about this particular
story in addition to everything else, was during the game itself,
some of the trolls that are p one trolls that
try to get under my skin. They were trying trying
to talk smack prematurely, of course, because early on the
Rockets had the lead. They blew it and then they
played like fertilizer the rest of the way, and the

(15:15):
Clippers taking advantage of that, flushing the fecal matter down
the toilet and winning the game. Uh and but some
of the guys were trying to talk trash talk, and
they mentioned Chuck the Condor, well, the Chuck the Condor
Twitter account, which I'm sure the guy in the mascot
costume runs for the Clippers was. He responded, Yeah, much
to the much to the dismay. That was almost as

(15:38):
uncomfortable as the Rockets storming in trying to the insurgency
into the Clipper locker room by the Rocket players. Yeah,
I was. I was in here with in the newsroom
with the Coop de Loop here and we were watching
the T and T boys as this story was developing,
and Shaq was in tears. They were talking about the

(16:02):
Rockets string to get into the Clippers locker room and
how absurd that is, and then of course the report
of the police being called took it to another level.
So uh yeah, yeah, real, uh real tough times there
at Stable Center Tonight's uh yeah, thank god, nothing nothing
serious went down. It sounded really really intense. Okay, what

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I loved it. I wish punches had been thrown. I
think we've been even better if somebody had thrown up.
I think the point is that these guys don't really
want to throw punches. They just well, but they just
want to act like they're tough. What were the Rockets
hoping to accomplish? Like I understand, Like here's the thing, Like,
I know this was spur of the moment. Wasn't planned
out right, it wasn't premeditate. How about this wasn't premeditated, right,
you know, and you're talking about committing a crime. Was

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it premeditated? Wasn't It wasn't premeditated with the Clipper players
day to here or the Rocket players rather, but this
had to happen quick. Like they're in the locker room,
they're upset, they're pissed off, they've just lost the game, right,
they're angry, and who the guy that says, you know,
what we're gonna do. I got a good idea. Why
don't we go get him? I know we'll do. We'll

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run down the hallway here. I know how to get
in the Clipper locker room. Let's get a piece of them. Well,
you would think Chris Paul would know the back ways
into the locker room. Aresa played for the Lakers, That's true.
A lot of those guys have bounced around. But I
would think James Harden was a little upset that. You know,
he wasn't on the floor. He couldn't get involved. He couldn't.
You're putt you're putting hardened out there. I like that. Ye,

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like he's involved in this. It wasn't Harden involved in
that with Moses Malone's kid in Houston, right, there was
an incident that where he apparently alleged, I don't allegedly.
Was there a conviction on this, I don't know. Yeah, well,
the the person who you know roughed up, Yeah it
was was convicted and put in jail. But I don't
think there was ever a solid link to James Harden,

(17:50):
and it was just kind of well, no that Harden
had sent in right, right, guy, he's sending the sending
the goons. Yeah, like a hockey move. Uh. And but Ben,
you're missing the best part of the story. The best part.
What's the best part of the story. The best part
of the story is how much of a little bitch
Blake Griffin is not at all. He was wonderful. That's

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just goes out there throwing cheap elbows, and then when
somebody comes to confront him, he calls the cops because
he's scared. Didn't call the cops. You're assuming he call
call the cops. That's what I was laughing at. Shack
And and Charles Barkley were clowning him. I actually it
was it was great. I went, I went and grabbed
you know, I had the the our great editing department,

(18:33):
grabbed the audio because it was it was so hilarious.
You know what I was laughing at actually was watching
the Lakers get punked. That's not my word, Red Herring,
that's Red Luke Walton's term. Uh. Nice nice day in
Memphis for the Lakers. Good effort. I know you want
to talk about the Clippers, and I listen, they're much
much better. Of course, that's that's the topic. He started
the show with the Clippers. That's what we're talking about.

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You've talking about the Lakers. Guys that throw elbows. You
don't like those. So you don't like Kobe Bryant because
he threw a lot of cheap elbows. So you don't
like Kobe. You don't like Larry Bird did that back
in the day. You don't think he's good. I mean,
the legends do that. I know, you know, Lakers don't
have any legends right now, but this and the legends,
that's what the legends do. They throw, They throw up.
They're chippy, that's what they Yeah, but Kobe never backed

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down after throwing an elbow. He didn't blake. Thisn't blake.
Griffin leaves and called the police because he was scared
of getting beat up again, having having spent a lot
of time over the past twenty years just about its
Staples Center. The security staff that the first side of trouble.
They run the other direction. Okay, they are like the

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red coats, They run the other directions. So I'm assuming
they're the ones that called the police, because remember when
when Staple Center first opened. True story, I took a
soda out of Staplesent, I walked out of the press
room whom I walked down. Then it wasn't called whatever
Chickkerns Street or whatever the hell it was. I walked
out the little side street. I got chased by red

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coats because I wasn't supposed to take the soda out
of the arena. So there now, ye don't get me
started on that. I can I can do five hours
on that. But anyway, all right, so the Ben Mallor
Show off Fox. We got a big an asks were
coming up later. We'll do a special tribute to a
listener coming up in a bit, this Blake Griffin rocket story. Though,
should we push back the tribute? Should we write this
and push back to No, ill will not do that.

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All right, We'll get your phone calls. The lines are
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the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios it's Ben Maller. I'll
tell you a phone call and we'll get to our
our special tribute here on the Ben Maller Show. But
the story to Night in the NBA is the police
being called because James Harden, Trevor a Reason, Gerald Green,
and apparently Chris Paul attempted to take over the Clipper

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locker room. For lack of a better term here, they
wanted a piece of Blake Griffin in Austin Rivers. There's
also some reports out here that the Rockets actually planned
this out, well it wasn't premeditated, but that they sent
one of their guys to the front of the Clipper
locker room to try to get in, so they were there.
There's only a front and back entrance. There's two ways

(21:28):
in the front and the back of the Clipper locker room.
So they they they attempted to like the swat team,
they wanted to cover all sides. Just uh, well, it's
got to be embarrassing for Chris and Heughson. Chris, You're embarrassed. Yeah,
so this is humiliating for you. Your team's your team
lost a bunch of a bunch of cowards. We won't

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the man you just lost. You lost to that flake?
Is what you did? You lost? Are you? Are you
guys gonna have him plade like UCF? No, we have
y'all beat the best teams in the in the Western
Conference list. The Clippers are a hungry dog and they
are fasting. I hope so too, because Blake Griffin will

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be Blake Griffin will be running over the dead carcass
of Chris Paul, who will be hurt by then I'll
be wonderful. Yes, he'd be running down La La sunts.
That will be running down You will be running and man,
and you can keep saying that. But if he's a flake,
why your guys trying to get a piece of him
in the locker room? Why do you got what? You

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know what? You don't want to pay because because he's
in there ahead, because your your team is mentally weak.
That's why it is mental warfare. He's mental war and
he's with head and James James Harden's head. He's in
Chris Paul's head, Blake Griffin, and you know what he is.

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He's like a Buddhist monk. The man's amazing. This man. Yes, hey,
y'all feel a man from three years ago we took
out that three one when your whole life was devastated. Yes,
just like the AFRO devastated, y'all to being so you
bring it up the Houston, Yes, this is this is
not a night to brag about Houston sports. This could
be the lowest moment in Rockets history. This could be

(23:23):
the lowest moment the exactly, So, what do you care
what Blake Griffin has to say? What do you You're
supposed to be better than that? Who can't you? Everyone
tells me, Everyone tells me, Everyone tells me how irrelevant
the Clippers are, how they don't matter, they are, they
sucked at the junior varsity, and yet everyone reacts. Everyone

(23:46):
reacts because they matter, because they Cleveland Browns and six
I go away. It's very wendy there, all of us.
Thank you, all right, several people reacting. Cooper, who trying
to bring Kobe Bryant into the conversation, justin points out
that Coop keeps talking about Blake Griffin calling the cops,

(24:07):
but didn't Kobe's victim in Colorado also call the cops.
That is accurate. Just that is accurate. Kobe Paint a
lot of money to get out of that, and he
was able to do it because he had. You brought
up Kobe because you're a huge Kobe fan. You think
he's better than anyone on the Clippers ever will be.
You've said it yourself. And also you agree that a

(24:28):
giant lead. You would agree the woman in Colorado did
call the police on Kobe. Though Kobe didn't call the
police and say something happened here, the woman called the police,
you'd agree with, man, what's your point? Yes or no? Sure? Okay,
thank you very nice? All right, Well, I have a
special tribute, a special tribute here to a friend of
our show. We're gonna get to that here and that'd

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be the rest of the hour. We'll get back to
the Clipper rocket hullablue at Staples Center in La. Clippers
winning tonight. What a perfect ending to a holiday day
of n behave basketball, just what they wanted. We'll get
to all that and yeah, you're not gonna want to
miss it. But right now, Eddie Garcia is here with
the latest. Well, Ben, we started the NBA and always

(25:11):
interesting when the teams that have met in the last
three NBA finals get together. They did that in Cleveland
where the Cavaliers were hosting the Warriors. Cleveland led by
seven at a half, but they lose by ten at
the end of the game one eighteen one oh eight
Golden State. With the victory, they now at league best
thirty six and nine on the earlier led by Kevin
Durand who at thirty two points, Steph Gray twenty three points.
Cleveland has now dropped eight of its last ten games.

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Clippers beat the Rockets one thirteen to one O two,
and Chris Paul's returned to LA. This was a chippy game.
We saw Blake Griffin and Trevor Areza boat ejected, and
then there was a report that several members of the
Rockets tried to get into the Clippers locker room after
the game. Will it be turned away by arena security?
Hawks over the Spurs one O two ninety nine six
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a free raid quote. So there's no good way to
say this now. I got a message after the show yesterday.
I went to the gym. I came back after the gym,
and I was told from our friend Tammy and Montana,
who's been just an absolute saying here, that one of
the great callers on the show in my time since

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I've been here has passed. A Genie in Medford passed
away yesterday. Enough, you've listened for some time here, you've
heard Genie's calls. She is quite the character, and I
got it all over me. There she is beyond beyond sad,
here beyond sad that Genie has been very sick. And
we're gonna give a special six line tribute to Genie

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in Medford, which is the highest honor you can possibly do. Here.
And every phone line is filled up here, So these
will be the people that will be a part of
this year. And I didn't want to announce it on
Twitter or I don't know. I'm not good at the
stuff anyway. Who's good at this No one's good at
this stuff. But on the Ben Maller Show, when someone

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who is famous or has touched my life in one
way or another, we try, when time permits, to give
them what we think is the highest possible honor you
can do in radio. And certainly Genie and Medford more
more than qualifies here. And a Genie apparently passed away
yesterday right about the time our show ended, just about

(28:06):
the time our show ended, and uh, she had been
ill for a good amount of time here living in Medford, Oregon.
And well, I don't know all the details. I know
some of the details, and it's not really important to details,
but she had been very sick for some time, and
she had had to stop calling our show. And she

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really loved being part of this nonsense. And she she
would call every single night for a stretch for years.
Sometimes we were we wouldn't even take her calls because
she was on so much. It was it was over,
it was overkilled. We're like, no, no, no, no, no,
no no. But she has not called for several months,
as I said, because she lost her ability to talk

(28:48):
that distinctive voice which we love so much, which is
just insane. Uh. And she'd been been getting some medical
treatment whatnot. And uh, you know, we love Genie to death,
and she she didn't believe in moderation. I think that's
that's one way you can say, Uh, there's just some
up Genie that she h She lived a life of

(29:11):
boozing and smoking, and she did all that and she
did it right almost to the end. But if you're
new to our show, you're not a regular. Genie had
become such a staple of the regular people that call
this show. Most of the time. Here we have newbie night,
we have new voices. Everyone wants a while a new
voice would come on and break through. But we do

(29:32):
have a group of regular callers that have become part
of the show. Part of the show, right, Well, I
yap about something whatever it is annoying me that day,
and I'll yap about it, and then we'll have some
of the regular people that seem to call up. We
want new people to call up, but the same regular
people all we seemed to call up. And so these
people call up, and Genie was was at the top

(29:52):
of the list in that particular category. And to give
you an idea of what it was like at you
know you months back and even the last couple of years,
when I would go out, I'd meet people that listen
to the show, and almost always the question they always
wanted to ask me about was Genie and Medford. It
wasn't about any of the things I had said about

(30:14):
sports or you know, Eddie or Danny Gee or Cooper Loop.
It was what's Genie in Medford? Like? Do you know her?
Do you know what she looks like? Is she real?
I had a guy a couple of years ago that
I had an email exchange, this old dude who lives
in Pennsylvania, and this guy was convinced that we were
paying someone to do Genie and Medford. That This was

(30:37):
to do the voice of Genie medfor this was in morning.
I'm not gonna and I went back and forth. I'm like,
I barely make any money doing this. I'm not I
can't afford it. I'm not a morning show that hires
voice characters. A lot of your local morning shows, at
least they used to. I don't know if they still do,
but they would hire people to do voices. It would
be fake callers. We don't do Genie. Genie just kind

(30:58):
of dropped into our lap and it was just a
gift here, and she started calling me. I don't know
the exact period when Genie and Medford started calling our show,
but it was over a decade ago. It had to
be over a decade ago. And I gotta be honest
with you. I didn't think she was real either. I
thought I was getting punked. I was convinced. You go

(31:20):
back in Miranda Marino and some of the other producers
I had back in those days. I told them, I
think this is a fraud. I was convinced that this
was Pete in Pittsburgh who used to call up and
do these fake voices. I said, there's no way this
can't be real. And I took the calls, and for
a while I stopped taking the calls because I was
so confident that I was being punked, that this person

(31:43):
was not a real person. And it turned out that
that she's absolutely it was a real person and not
a cartoon character at all. And and you know, I
don't know how much of what Genie said was true
and how much of it was embellished, but she certainly
appeared from what she had said with us, that she

(32:04):
lived in interesting life. It could have been puffery or whatnot,
but she said that. And she always she like knew
every every town and whatnot. She knew every every town
around the country. And yeah, it was. It was in
wild stories which might have been enhanced by alcohol. I
don't know who am I to judge. I'm just listening.

(32:25):
I just listened, right do the Overnight show. It certainly
helps those long overnight shifts when you hear Jeanie tell
the story. And I don't think i've I might have
told this story in the past. I don't know if
I've said it on the air. I know I've told
people in the hallways. Here. I learned the reason that
Genie and Medford started calling her show, and I think
it's the perfect It sums up everything that we're about here,

(32:45):
and I feel like it's today is the perfect day
to start to talk about this with me and you
here on the radio. So I learned somewhat early on,
once I realized that Genie and Medford was a real person,
all right, I did some instigate and I learned that
our favorite caller we'd lover to death, Genie and Medford,

(33:05):
who's just passed away here. But I learned that Genie
had been arrested, and and then I learned a little
backstoreum Genie had been calling in Medford. She'd called the
nine one one operator and and I guess she just
wanted someone to talk to and she was just harassing
nine one one in Medford. But it's just because from

(33:28):
the story that I heard, was it just because she
wanted someone to talk to She was lone, right, And
so what we believe happened here was the police said, listen,
you keep calling nine to one one, you're going to
get arrested every time. Here. Just call a radio show.
And so she scanned the the AM dial in Medford
and she found our show. And it wasn't just right,

(33:49):
I mean, she called a bunch of other show. We
kind of became synonymous with us, but she called some
other shows, uh, back in the back in the day.
She kind of stumbled in into all of this. But
it's it was a very nice run and we're all
gonna miss Jennie and she was just a fun part
of what we do here. And it's it's at anytime

(34:10):
someone passes away and Genie, we kind of saw this
coming for a while. Those of us that knew the situation,
we kind of had a feelings was gonna happen. So
it's not like we're totally blindsided by this. But it
doesn't change. You know, it's when someone's sick, you know,
you have a relative, that's that's ill. You know the
end is gonna happen. We're all gonna be there at
some point, but you still, you still it sucks. So

(34:31):
anyone you guys want to saything, We're gonna give the
six line tribute here in the next segment. So if
anybody wants to say thing among the crew here, I
know you guys, you don't have to if you don't
want to know that's I mean, I'll say something. Just
I mean I don't know that. And you've been doing
this a lot longer than I haven't. You obviously are
more familiar with your callers than I have been, But

(34:51):
I don't know that there's been a more uh unique,
uh interesting, um well known caller in your history that
Genie and Medford. I would do that. Yeah, she's she's
at the top of the mountain, and uh, I would
hope and then again, you know, whatever happens happens. But
I would hope to hear from some long time Ben

(35:14):
mallor show listened. Maybe if you're listening and you haven't
called in for a long time, we've got those people.
It would be cool to hear from some people we
haven't heard from in a long time, just call in
and uh give their you know, pay their respects and
maybe give a Genie story or something like that. That
would be that would be cool. But to sap, I mean, listen,
Genie was not about that. Genie was not in your

(35:35):
face and all that. But yeah, absolutely as a tribute,
no no question. I'm really happy Ben that she found
this program because you know, we put a lot of
what we call drops into the computer system, and none
of the drops were as fun to record in more
than Genie's right, there's there's uh twenty five thirty of

(35:55):
them right in front of me. And I'm glad you
pointed out how long she's been and calling the show
because I found one and Cooper and I were listening.
Look listen, how young how much younger she sounds right here?
Red violence are blue? Your texture a dreg and so
are you. And it's crazy. If we did the same

(36:16):
thing with you, with your update thing, you you could
tell the person is ten years younger from the voice,
and that's what we are on the radio's voices. All right,
We're gonna have Coop you give your tribute on the
other side, because we're looking at the clock here, so
we'll have Coop give his, and then we'll have the
six line tribute here for our friend calling to the
show here, Genie in Medford. She passed away on Martin
Luther King Day, So we'll give our tribute. We'll get

(36:38):
back to the regular stuff next hour, but a six
line tribute for Genie and Medford. We'll get to that.
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All right, So a lot of great tributes coming in.
I know we're doing things a little different here, but
our friend, a regular caller, Genie and Medford, passed away.
It's a big part of our show here. And I
looked at the clock here ready, I have to term it.

(37:18):
We're gonna We're gonna extend this. I don't usually do
this kind of stuff, but we're gonna extend it in
the next hour and Genie and Medford will have the
actual six line tribute will be next hour. So all
those guys and women who are on hold that are
gonna be part of that. A lot of legends, a
lot of p one legends good that are on hold here,
they're gonna be part of this. So you guys, you
kind of hanging on a little bit longer. Coop, you
wanted a system where's you got close to Genie you

(37:40):
talked to her a lot. You'd probably talked to her
more than I did, because you'd have off the air
conversations with Genie and med. Yeah, I'll just expand on
something I wrote on Twitter. I started producing your show first,
you know, for the first time around on the on
the weekends, probably about five years ago or so. It
was my first shot at produced, saying they, you know,

(38:01):
had finally let me, you know, move on from the
edit room and get a shot at producing. And and
you know, ironically, it was the show that I wanted
to produce. I was, I was stoked on it. And
Genie was the first regular, the first like mallar militia
member that I feel really brought me in and accepted
me as part of you know this this you know,

(38:21):
crazy family that you've got going on here. And talking
to her off the air, you know, I always got
the the vibe that you know, while while she's a
real character, I do feel that, you know, she she
definitely enjoyed being that character on the show, and and
and played it up at times. And I do believe

(38:43):
most of the stories that she told because she would
tell me, you know, she would expand on them off
the air and and go into such great details. That
was the thing, Like she tells stories about places that
I had been and she knew like the name of
the streets and stuff. Yeah, and she doesn't strike me
as the kind of person that was on the internet,
so you know what I mean, Like, definitely not she
She didn't even have a s you think she said

(39:05):
she dated a Pittsburgh Steeler back in the day. We
never found out who though she was. She was married
and had kids with a like a boxer, like a
famous boxing championship boxer. Yeah, she's she had an insane,
crazy life and she was one of the coolest people.
I consider her a friend. And she's gonna be missed. Yeah,

(39:25):
she will be missed. And a couple of people have
been asking me on twitterlet what are you? What are you?
The two things you remember most well? I just remember
like the daily conversations as far as like highlights though,
the all female verbal octagon with Jeanie and Tammy. Uh
that was amazing and shew thee in Yeah she said
no Moss pretty much and and Tammy one that was
a shocking upset. We were all floored by that. As

(39:47):
Jeannie was an overwhelming favorite in that, but she's like, no,
I don't want to do this. Uh. And then you
guys don't remember this, but there was a battle with
Pete and Pittsburgh. I had I mentioned that I thought
this guy used to call me Pete and Pittsburgh was
a legend as well. I thought that Pete was Genie,
and so I had set up to have both of
them on the air at the same time to prove
my point. And I thought what Pete was doing was

(40:09):
just going from phone to phone. So this is how,
you know, messed up my head is. So I put
them on both at the same time, and I tried
to get them and talk at the same time, figuring, well,
I'll get him. You know, they can't talk at the
same time. And it was the most bizarre night because
Jeanie started talking like a gangster and it was it
was the most it was the most absurd thing that

(40:31):
I had ever been a party too, and it was
so ridiculous. I didn't even know what to think. At
the end of that night, I was like I was
I remember driving away from the radio station. I was like,
what the hell just happened there? I don't it makes
no sense. Oh, Ben she was from Compton and Jeanie.
I used to flirt and talking about canodling all the time.

(40:52):
She was so upset when I got married. She was
devastated when I got there. She was so bummed out
that I would get married. And then she remember, she
turned her attention to you, Coop. She turned her attention
to the couple. All right, So our six line tribute
to our not our late friend Genie and Medford. We
will get to that as we'll continue. We'll do it next.
It is our seal of approval here to a job

(41:14):
well done. We'll say goodbye to one of our favorite
callers here and also yap about all that is, including
some NFL Melo drama as we get ready for Championship
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(41:39):
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If you're just picking up the show this hour. Welcome.
There was an interesting night in the NBA last night
between the Clippers and Rockets. We get to all that
the police were involved. It will be the story that

(42:01):
is dissected for the first part of the day on Tuesday.
But we are in the middle of our appreciation given
to our friend Genie and Medford. If you're just turning
on the radio in the middle of this. We gave
some in some salutes last hour. We have a six
line tribute that we do, which is the the honor,

(42:24):
the ultimate honor when someone passes away. Here, it's our
way to pay our respects here and we have six lines.
They're all filled up here with people that want to
be part of this and want to give their condolences
to our friend, our caller, Genie and Medford. So let's
get to this right now, and we'll start with Tammy
and Montana. Because Tammy has She's been like a saint here.
Tammy and Montana, she has been great. She's reached out

(42:47):
to Genie, was she was able to get a hold
of Genie. I called the Genie several times over the
last couple of weeks and she just would not accept
calls here. The last certainly the last ten days or so,
it was very difficult to get hold of her, but
Tammy and Montana, Hello, Tammy, Hey Ben, Yes, great sadness

(43:08):
with learning yesterday that Jeanie had passed. She's the reason
why I started listening to your show. I turned on
and you and her were on, and the friendly banter
just made me laugh so much that I knew that
that was the show I wanted to listen to. And
we had a friendly banter and complete respect for each

(43:31):
other even after the verbal octagon. She was complete class,
the one of the original p ones and you the
crew put Everything that you said was so eloquent and
so wonderful. I know she's smiling about it, and I
was very honored that she put me on her contact list.
So I did call her. She did pick up the

(43:54):
phone while the nurse gave her the phone, And she
did know how much she meant to all of us.
And I did make sure on numerous occasions that she
knew that she was loved and appreciated and only her
that you can laugh with tears when I hear her drops,
and that drop with Coop being branded as her man,

(44:16):
that was her telling me that Cooper Loop was her man.
Nest my man. Well, Originally I was her first man
I love, and then she moved over to coop after
I got I got married. All right, well, thank you
Tammy were great and uh and I also ended up
on Jeannie's contact list, so we were able to converse

(44:37):
a few times there over the holidays. All right, thank you, Tammy.
Give be my line. Tammy would be my line one.
We have Blind Scott, the former Call of the Year.
Blind Scott himself with a big resume on our show
and Boston. Hello blind Scott. Yeah. Me and Jeannie called
around the same time. I was actually the number one

(44:58):
person on the Peach Cobbler list. I was going to
get a peach cover. We were big drinkers, me and Genie.
We drank a lot on the show. I had a
stop drinker for health reasons. I encourage other listeners to stuff.
But people don't find the show for the reason of
real success. It's people with real problems that don't work
third shift that listen to this show. You know, people difficulties, sleeping,
people with emotional problems. We all bond that way, you know.

(45:20):
But hey, I'll tell you something. I was sad about
this and I was crying. But if real talk wants
to take me in the verb octic gun. I've been
calling them out and that guy's a punking boom boom
boom bom boom and my peach is he challenging real talk?
All right? All right? Uh well here real talk there

(45:41):
he is real talk. You're my line three? Real talk?
Are you there? Real talking New York? Well, well you know,
but also real thing. You know, I can see, like
you know, I was making my man cut justin Cooper,
like you know, you really feel on it. And I
had a hell of for Jennie because she's one of
those callers that was how unslappable you know what I'm saying,
Like I remember you put me on the phone with her,
and I was trying to tease her like, yeah, what's

(46:02):
up with the black guys? You're like black guys who
got Compton in one day and off the other. She
started talking about something else out hell love with her
alsome real and also real some then it's just a
real call the year to talk about the man who's
the call the year, not that sake aus Boser blind cat.
Also really I turned on in this come down real talk.

(46:27):
Don't nobody hang up. You're my line three, So Real
talk to my line. You got Tammy on one, blind
Scott on two, Real talked on three. And who else
is Anthony? And Anaheim is going to be part of this?
Hello Anthony. Hello, I'm very sad to hear that Jeanie passed.
When I first started listening to you on the weekends
when you would uh or sometimes you'd fill in for JT.

(46:48):
And the very first time I heard Jeannie, I also
thought she was fake until I got the pleasure of
talking to her in the studio one time on the phone.
And I also want to just thank you Tammy for
everything that she's done. And uh, everybody ate absolutely. Tammy
has been wonderful. She's been just great. We couldn't find Genie.

(47:09):
We lost contact with Jennie for a while. She stopped
calling our show, and we were like, we wouldn't she
want answer the phone. We had a number four, but
she wouldn't answer her phone, and we we were we
couldn't figure it out, and then we're not that bright.
And then Tammy was on the case and within like
a day she had or a couple of days, she
had tracked down Genie in Bedford where she was what

(47:31):
was going on with her the whole thing, all right,
So who do we have? My line five is gonna
be weed Man Hippie, Hello weed Man, Hippie in South
Beach Man, I'd love you, Hello weed May all right. Yeah,
So I started listening to radio when I was a
little kid. My mother would wash dishes and listen to radio.

(47:55):
And that's when I realized, you really know someone by
their voice. You don't have to see them. In fact,
it's better that your mind imagines and personalities. Your show
is the greatest show because I don't want to hear
the regular Adam chef against Paul and screw that they

(48:17):
warn me your people I love and I'm happy to
be a member of his family and grateful. I'm a doctor,
Genie that made me less. When we die it birth
is more of a shock than death. At death, we
are free from the limitations and pain of the physical body, honestly.

(48:40):
And Genie's happy right now, and Jane's feeling love right now,
and Genie, we all love, Yeah, we hope. So we're
gonna miss her, all right, And I got my line six.
My line six is gonna be a Redbeard, Hello, Redbeard,
Big Bend. The guru who won't screw you? You? What's up?

(49:01):
Big Ben? Hello, Red Beard, You're you're gonna be my
line six here? Red Beard? You want to say anything
about Genie and Medford? Man? You know, I know I'm
a new caller, and you think I'm a new listener.
That's not right. I'm a longtime listener. The first time
I listened to your show, Genie and Medford was on
and I thought, this is awesome radio three o'clock in

(49:21):
the morning. There's nothing else I'd rather be doing than
listening to these characters. It was awesome, and I've been
hooked ever since. That was four and a half years ago,
and in in Genie's honor, I'm gonna work my way up.
But Ben Mallard Militia Mountain as I'm a call every day,
five times a day. No, no, no, no, I'm going

(49:44):
to drink. Can possibly handle? All right? Alright? All right?
So everyone's there. We got we cleared all six lines.
We've all six got all six of our people there
part of this tribute here, they've all had their chance
to say something. Now this is the part if again
to explain what we're doing here. If you're just turning
on the radio. Our caller Genie Medford, she passed away

(50:06):
on Monday, and this is our tribute on the show
and she now joins other legends if you've been with
me a long time callers that have passed away, including Spokane,
Gary Rick and Boston Mister Main Event passed away last year, Boardwalk, Bob,
Jimmy Ray from Tampa Bay who was quite the character,
Money Evans, one of our kid callers, even Otto the

(50:26):
drinking Dog on the other legendary caller list there that
have moved on to that other dimension. So Genie and
Medford has joined them. And the use of gun salutes,
as we point out for military occasions, it goes all
the way back to the early warriors who demonstrated their

(50:47):
peaceful intentions by placing their weapons in a position where
they would be ineffective, right, so you won't have to
worry about being shot. And we in sports radi our
bosses we keep asking can we bring guns in and
they keep telling us no, you're not allowed to bring
guns and you can't do it, cannot do it. So
instead instead we use you, We use Tammy and Montana,

(51:08):
Blind Scott, Real Talk, Red Beard, Weed Man, Hippy Anthony.
All these guys, we use you, the callers that have
called up here to pay our respects in this case,
to Genie and Medford. So we cleared all the lines.
Everyone's on there. They've all said their peace about Genie
in Medford, and I'm gonna put everyone on the air
at the same time, and then on the count of three,
we're all gonna say rest in peace Genie and Medford,

(51:30):
and that will be the conclusion of our tribute to
Genie in Medford. Okay, So I'll put everyone on. Tammy
and Montana You're my line one. Are you there? Tammy?
All right? Tammy is there? Blind Scott in Boston? Blind Scott?
Are you there? Yeah? You don't think it about Moonshine Mark. Oh,
that's that's right. Moonshine Mark as well passed away. Uh boy,

(51:52):
this is show is not good for your health. All right?
Line to Real Talk? Are you there? Real Talk today?
All right? Hold on on, okay, hold on a second.
There's a real Talks there, and we also have who's next? Oh,
Anthony and Anaheim? Anthony and Anaheim's my line for Anthony.
Are you there, Anthony? I got it all over me?
All right? All right, Well we'll see now, Real Talk

(52:13):
hung up my line two, hung up my line two on.
So now I need a line too. Now I need
a line too. I'm not gonna do it till we
get a line too. Eight seven seven ninety nine. I
need a new line too, Real Talk. I told him
not to hang up young up? Did I hang up on?
I didn't hang up on him, did I? All right,
we'll get a new line too. Line two is calling
up a weed man, hippie line four. Weed many there,

(52:33):
weed Man, I love you, I love all right, all right,
all right, calm down, all right, to hold on there
you're on the air. And red Beard in Nashville. Red Beard,
are you there? You're my line six, red Beard? The
red Beard is standing by. All right, red Beard is there.
I'm waiting for my line to. Line two is go
online too. Oh you're online too. I'm well no, no, oh, yeah,

(52:56):
you're on line I'm like line three. Real Talks on.
So I I gotta get a line three. I'm gonna
sit here and i'ma read the phone book until they
don't even make phone books anymore. Until I get a
line for I'm not gonna do anything. We're just sit here.
I'm gonna wait for a line three. That's what we're
gonna do, Ben while we wait for that. One of
the last memorable phone calls from Genie. She was having
a big house party. Remember oh this, and that led

(53:19):
to one of the great drops that we've been playing
the past year or so. Here's a thirteen second clip
of that. That's Joe. That's Joe. They're having a party
in Medford and then listening to our show, it's a
party in Medford. Hello Joe. Hi, I like to saint.

(53:40):
That was Genie's neighbor. That was Genie's neighbor. That was
part of all right. I got my line, I got
my line three, my line three, And that's Rachel in Matabello.
Hello Rachel and Matabello. Hi, guys, I I am just
so my heart is so heavy when I heard the
Genie had passed. She's a gin, she's my idol. I

(54:02):
don't know how we'll go on, but we're going to
have to go on without her. Yeah, we will, we will,
and and listen, we honored her. She was a big
part of our show, and she wants us to go on.
A life goes on. We will go on. We will
honor her memory was what a lovely lady, you know
what character. I feel a little bit sad because all

(54:23):
my purse were not answered. Um. I prayed so hard.
I thought it was she was going to pull through. Um.
I feel very like I failed. Yeah, well no you didn't.
I mean, it's your time. It's your time. We all
have an expiration date. Unfortunately for Jeannie, hers was a
little earlier than we wished. But all right, everyone's online here.
I got everyone there one more time. Then we do

(54:43):
the role call, just to make sure everyone's there. No
one's hung up. Line one, Tammy, Are you there? Tammy? Tammy? Yes,
I know how to do it. Are you if you've not? Yeah,
a good job by you. Blind Scot's there, yes, Blind Scott.
Did I forget anyone else that died? Blind Scott Moonshine?
I forgot about anyone else that's passed away? No, I
just love with that. My line is open. I could
have said whatever I wanted to. Yeah, and you didn't.

(55:03):
Thank you for that, you schmuck. All right, A line three,
that's that's Rachel's my new line three. Hello, Rachel, you're there? Right? Yes?
All right? Rachel didn't hang off, and then my line
for is Anthony and Annaheim. Anthony, are you there? Anthony?
All right, you're in Tempe or whatever? Alright? And line
five weed man, hippies in Miami. Weed Man, Rachel, I
love you, alright, not the time to flip for all right?

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A red Beard, Yes, red Beard, Yes, Oh my god,
everyone's here. It's a great mitcha all right, everyone at
the same time. In the counter, I'll say one, two
or three, we all say rest in peace Genie in Medford,
and then we'll get back to regular program. All right,
one two, three, rested, We love you. Research has shown

(55:56):
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(56:16):
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tribute is coming into our French Geniu metfor we want
to work in some other things as well here and

(56:40):
because if we don't do that, you'll be doing a
tribute to my career soon enough. You know what I'm saying. Yeah,
you're feeling me on that. Yeah you can. You can
understand what's going on here? Yes, all right? Anyway, I
did want to address the Tennessee Titans who are no
longer full of Malarkey. What was it? Eight days after
a vote of confidence Mike Malarkey given as walking papers.

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If you were not paying attention, you might have missed
that story. But a couple of days after the Titans
stumbled and bumbled in Foxborough, they claimed a mutual parting
of the ways with their head coach, and that caught
my attention. I wanted to talk about that now. The
way I would describe this because I we have a

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lot of regular listeners in Nashville when it's an interesting story.
Anytime an NFL coach gets read or loses his job,
it's it's an intriguing thing. But my thoughts on this,
even though there was the the vote of confidence that
Malarkey was going to be back, because the Titans had
beaten Kansas City. My thoughts on Malarkey's removal, this was inevitable,

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completely understandable conditions. And I would also throw in that
this is exciting. I don't kind of unscrambled. It's not.
First of all, if you watched the Titans play much
this year, you knew that this was inevitable. Mike Malarkey
must be quite the charmer. This guy has coached three

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different NFL franchises. Now they're not they're not the sexy franchises.
But Malarkey was the head coach in Buffalo, he was
hired as the head coach in Jacksonville. He lost. He
lasted one year, and he got the head coaching job,
originally as an interim coach, but he got the head
coaching job in Nashville with the Titans. He got He's
had three head coaching jobs. I've never thought he was

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that great a coach. I just I don't understand other
than the fact that he's he's just a smooth talker.
Other than that, I mean, he must be good at something.
But he didn't do a great job anywhere he's been,
and certainly in the postseason. You look at the Fluke
postseason win against Andy Reid's Kansas City Chiefs that did

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not stop the floodwaters from a rising. There. Tennessee should
have been better. They should have been better. That is
the perception. I believe that is the reality that even
though this team made the playoffs, the Titans, and even
though they won a playoff game, that they underachieved. So
it's understandable that this took place. It was cliche and

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it was also sloppy of ownership to give the vote
of confidence like this is so ridiculous that I thought
we were past this. You don't give a vote of
confidence just to give a vote of conference. I thought
we'd moved beyond that. Apparently that's not the case. When
you peel back the onion with the Tennessee Titans, you
look at that situation. There was a clearly a divide

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between the layers of bureaucracy in that organization. You had
ownership that made the public declaration that Malarkey was going
to be the coach, but the front office, at least
a couple people in the front office said no, no, no,
And so without knowing for sure, just playing the speculation
game and spitball in I believe I'm onto something here,

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because here's what I think happened. Ownership made their statement
that Malarkey was gonna be back. A couple of big
shots in the front office was like, oh, new, new, new, new,
that's not gonna happen. And so there were some unreasonable
requests that were made, Like ownership said, work out a
contract with Malarkey, and so the front office is like, okay,
we'll work out a contract with Malarkey, and they offered

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him a deal that had a very small chance of
being accepted that there were conditions. Conditions, right, we'll bring
you back, but we're gonna either cut your salary or
not give you a race. But well, we'll give you
a new contract. We're not gonna give you a race.
We'll cut your salary. How about that? Or in addition to,

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we're gonna gut the coaching staff like a flounder. We're
gonna get rid of the offensive coordinator, Terry Robiski. He't
even Dick lebal who's a million years old. We'll get
rid of Dick LeBeau. He is gone. The whole Chevan.
We get rid of all these guys. But we'll bring
you back. You get to come back, yeah, yeah, sure.
And Malarkey a proud football man, So rather than get

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rid of key members of his coaching staff, he exited
stage right. And it's a vagabond coaching life. He's onto
the next job, Malarkey, and he'll bounce around. And the
last thing on the Titans here that Tennessee is now
on the coaching carousel, right. The Titans are on the
coaching carouself. They're not They're not going to get someone

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with a great track record. Instead, they're going to have
to play a version of powerball. We often mentioned how
the draft is lottery tickets, and you're hoping that the
scratcher ticket pays off for you when you draft someone, well,
when you hire coaches, and you're not getting someone with
a great track record, even when you do get somewhere
with a great track record, but certainly when you don't,

(01:01:54):
you are making a game. You're hoping the right combination
of lottery numbers come off up the ping pong balls
and then you get a better football team. But it
is essential, essential that they whoever they hire, squeezes more
out of the offense. And the usual suspects have been mentioned.
They're mentioned for all these jobs names is like Mike Vrabel,

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the Texans defensive coordinator, Frank Reich the Eagles offensive coordinator,
Jim Schwartz the Eagles defensive coordinator. My recommendation, though, is
none of those guys. My recommendation for the Titans. Jim
Bob Cooter. Jim Bob Cooter. Now he has just as
much a chance to succeed as any of those other bozos.

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He's thirty three years old. Jim Bob Cooter. He's a
young coach. He's exciting, creative with the Lions. He's gotten
Matthew Stafford to improve his performance in recent years, even
though the Lions did not make the playoffs this year.
But that's the way things are going. You're looking for
the younger coach. He's already worked this guy, Jim Bob

(01:03:02):
Cooter for the Colts, the Chiefs, the Broncos in addition
to his time with the Lions. And the name fits.
Jim Bob Cooter was given the name to coach a
football team in Tennessee. Now, it'd be better if he
was coaching college football or just football in the Southeastern
Conference in general, but it's appropriate its name appropriation that

(01:03:24):
Jim Bob Cooter coached the Tennessee Titans. I'm all for it.
I give it the Mallard Seal of approval, and why not.
He's got again just as much a chance to succeed
as any of those other whackadoodles that are being tossed
around for the gig se Ben Mallers Show on Fox
on Fox, and we're gonna get to Mallard to the

(01:03:47):
third degree here in a little bit right about now, though,
Eddie Garcia is gonna give you the latest Eddie. All right, Ben,
let's start with the night in the NBA, and an
interesting night. First off, we had a rematch of the
two teams that have met the last three NBA finals.
That would be, of course, the Warrior has taken on
the Cavaliers. They met in Cleveland. Cavs at a seven
point lead at the half, they end up losing by ten, one,

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eighteen to one, O eight to final. Kevin Durant thirty
two points to lead Golden State as they improved to
a league best thirty six and nine. For Cleveland, they've
now dropped eight of their last ten games. Clippers hosted
the Rockets and Chris Paul's first game back in La
Clippers go off for the one thirteen one oh two victory.
There were some ejections and some finger pointings, some trash talking.
In this one, some technical finals passed out. Blake Griffin

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of LA and Trevor Rees of Houston both ejected, and
there were reports that afterwards several members of the Rockets
tried to get into the Clippers locker room for a confrontation,
but were turned away by security. Hawks over the Spurs
one o two ninety nine Sixers beat the Raptors one
seventeen two one eleven. In the NFL, the Tennessee Titans,
as you mentioned, have said goodbye to head coach Mike Mularkey,

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and there are reports that Tennessee Vince, according to Mike Grave,
will be interviewing for that now vacancy in Tennessee. This
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(01:05:12):
Francisco Giants acquired outfielder Andrew mccutcheen in your trade with
the Pittsburgh Pirates. McCutcheon, the former NLMVP and five time
All Star, is the second acquisition of note by the
Giants offseason, as they also picked up former American League
Rookie of the Year and three time All Star Evan Longoria,
who came over in a trade. You know what that
in Tampa Bay, desperation is what it is. Desperation for

(01:05:33):
the Giants. They sucked. They were terrible last year and
they well I'm gonna rant more about that later, but well,
let me just say as a Steelers and Pirates fan,
great timing by the Pirates to announce that one day
after the Yes Steelers kicked their fans on the balls,
they let go of one of the most popular players
the Pirates have had in recent history. And pitchers and

(01:05:56):
catchers will report the spring tray. You're very excited about that.
You won't know who of them are, but they will
report to Speen training them on. You'll need not a scorecard,
you go, You're gonna need. You need more than that
to figure out who the hell they are. I'm sure
these prospects they picked up are gonna turn out to
be wonderful players. As they all happens all the time.
Prospect is a future star. Of course, they never fail.

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They're great, they're no suspects at all. Just does not
happen that way anyway. It's the Ben Mather Show. We're
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We'll get to Mallard to the third degree in a moment.

(01:06:39):
Right now, six some phone calls, and let's go to AJ.
Who's the great AJ Sloan, who's coming up? He always
wants his name, he wants his whole name pronounced AJ.
What's going on? No funny man is just fine? Benim
will lay it straight out. It's a day of shutdowns.

(01:07:00):
Shut down. John Hayman today told him you wanted to
buy him a cake? Okay? Who No, I'm sorry John,
Remembering the Twitter today you when John Aman said said
grow up, Yeah, well that's on my list. I'll get
to it. Okay, I'm gonna address that first shutdown all right.
I think it should be another shutdown blind stop for

(01:07:20):
I'm a caller of the year. Okay against the caller
of the year. Now, in memory of the Genie who
is a member of the Rubble Atagon, it needs to
go down to night first Rubble Antagon of the year,
dus talk who hung up one call to I tried
to get in on time. It needs to go down. Then,
it needs to go down. I'm all for it. If

(01:07:41):
these guys who want to do it, we can do
it tonight. I like to promote these kind of things.
I like to celebrates. Right now it needs to happen
tonight in memory of Genie. And I'm gonna tell you
I didn't. I thought I was the only one, but
evidently Genie popped a lot of cherries. So because the
Genie six years ago, and now it's time in memory
of Gene, Cammy buddy's listening, let's do it. Let's do it.

(01:08:04):
Let's do it. There we go, all right, thank you, Ah,
get back to Twitter. I need to read your tweets.
My day is not complete without your tweets. Neil is
in in in the end. This is our guy back
from back in the day. Can't close deal, can't close
the deal? Meal, Hello, Neil, oh Ben, It's terrible gd died.
I'm so upset. An't know. Oh you sound like no listen,

(01:08:27):
I uh you know, I mean we're all we're all
sad here. I mean we we're gonna miss her. He
was a big part of what we do well. When
I when I heard the terrible news, I thought I
wanted to call in and talk to you guys again,
because I would talk to you in a while. Uh.
You know, I've been working the day shift, but I no, No,
you didn't say that, right, Neil, You've been working in
the dreaded day shift. I didn't say that properly. Yeah, yes,

(01:08:47):
the dreaded day shift. But I broke my ankle on
Christmas Eve, so I've been kind of on the d
L lately. Congratulate your right your right or left ankle?
My right? And how long are you on the disabled list?
Fort March the twentieth, So Mark, is that retroactive to
the date that you were heard or when you were

(01:09:08):
placed on the age of the Uh, that's what I
was told that I'm my uh to go back to
work date. So so you you have your can you
move around? Could you go on vacation? That's a good
amount of time off that's uh, well, actually i'd kind
of like all a walker right now. So okay, I
get I get my staples taken out tomorrow morning. Yeah,
go to the Bahamas so I not enjoy yourself. Get

(01:09:30):
out of there. Yeah yeah, But I just wanted to
say a couple of things about Genie. Boy. She used
to really make us laughed all night shift when I
worked nights. And uh, we used to have a big stereo.
We listened to the Ben Mallar Show on, so everybody,
whether they liked it or not, got to hear your show.
And whenever it sounds like it sounds like torture, all right,
so they were forced to listen, and they all everyone

(01:09:51):
you couldn't help but laugh when you heard Genie talk.
You couldn't help but laugh when she'd call it oh
oh absolutely. And uh. One of my favorite moments was
when you and her were bantering back and forth and
she was going on about her favorite jobs, and she's
all of a sudden randomly said Tom Looney, And you
told her, you said, you said, you said, Genie, this

(01:10:12):
is the worst call I've ever taken. You gotta make
it better. And I tell you I just about died laughing.
It was pretty good. She was. I don't need to
play that, but yes, since she she will be missed,
all right, And Neil, I'm glad, well, I'm glad you
broke your ankle because you're listening again and alive and
that's good for our show and your ankle will he
all right, you'll be fine and a few months you'll

(01:10:34):
be okay. Yeah, you'll be back. You'll be out of
that rocker. You'll return when you're old to the rocker.
But you'll be old. You're supposed to have a rocker
when you're you know, a walker when you're old. So
all right, thank you, Neil. There you go. There's a
can't close the deal and Neil, thank you. There he
goes where he goes. No one nos zar, Let's get
to it. Here we go, let's do it. It's how

(01:10:55):
about that? To the third degree is one grilled and
we bring in the Coop Bill Loop Justin Cooper with
a sedition of Mallard the thirty. Bennett appears as if
the New England Patriots will lose both their offensive coordinator
Josh McDaniels and their defensive coordinator Matt Patricia. Patricia has

(01:11:16):
been rumored to be taking the Detroit Lions head coaching position,
and McDaniels has been named the Colt's head coach. So, Ben,
I've got to ask you, which of the two coordinators
can Bill Belichick least afford to lose. Yeah, I'm gonna
go none. I'm gonna go none of the above. All right,
I'm gonna go none of you about my position on this,
You know, I am a beloved Boston media figure. Now,
as you know, two days a week, I'll be back

(01:11:37):
on the radio waxing poetic only in Boston on Tuesday night.
But none of the above. Hey, Tom Brady runs the offense.
Bill Belichick runs the defense. I believe Matt Patricia, if
you put a gun to my head, Matt, Matt Patricia
will be the better coach than Josh McDaniels. So I
will go with Patricia. B This is more of a

(01:12:01):
nuisance for Bill Belichick. We assume that he'll stay with
the Patriots because then he has to figure out do
I want to run the defense just and not have
anyone else? Do I want to be the defensive coordinat
I'm the de facto defensive coordinator anyway? Do I want
to promote someone from within. Do I want to hire
a coach from outside? Much like the Patriot roster, Bill

(01:12:21):
Belichick has always had a next man up mentality with
his coaching staff, so I would assume this will be
a small blip on the radar for the Patriots. He
will bring in some new coordinators. The problem is if
Belichick leaves and Brady leaves, then it's Cleveland Brown territory.
My conspiracy theory has been the last couple of weeks

(01:12:42):
that Bill Belichick would like to groom one of his
kids as a future Patriot head coach. If I'm right,
then eventually they have to end up as a coordinator.
So keep an eye on that as they move up
the coaching depth chart on his kids next. Now, Ben,
I am old that you've touched on this yesterday. Okay,
But Jalen Ramsey of the Jaguars has not been shy

(01:13:04):
throughout this season about opening his mouth. Yeah, we played
that a lot, he called. He talked about bitches. Yeah yeah,
I guess the rally he said, We're gonna win that bitch. Yeah. Solid.
So talking about the Super Bowl, of course, Ramsey also
said after the game that he felt the Jack should
have blown the Steelers out. Benns has been going on
all season long. Are you a fan of Ramsey's constant

(01:13:25):
trash talk. Yes, of course, I'm a fan of this.
I love it. It's wonderful. Number one, there's an art
two trash talking. Jalen Ramsey is like a fully automatic
AK forty seven. He is NonStop, over the top, in
your face. Bombastic brilliance is what he is. Jalen Ramsey
has verbal diarrhea. It is underutilized, it is underappreciated. Because

(01:13:48):
he plays in Jacksonville. This is his week to shine
with the BS. I'm sure he will. He will not
hold back at all. And number two, anyone who works
in media that complains about blabbermouth football players or coaches
like Jalen Ramsey who talk talk talk talk talk, these
people are frauds. We need to encourage, not discourage, this

(01:14:12):
kind of flowery language because it moves the conversation here
and it works. Studies have shown historically that players that
dabble and trash duck get that mental edge over their opponents.
So it's it's a good job by Ramsey, all right. Next,
it's been by Now everybody's as seen the Minneapolis Miracle

(01:14:35):
Stefan Diggs last second touchdown to win the game. Now,
one of the more intriguing parts about it was all
of the videos that surfaced online of the reaction by fans.
You know, you had the over the top excited Vikings
fans super jubilant, and then the Saints fans that were
really dejected. And one fan stood out the most as
a Saints fan decided to throw his sixty five inch

(01:14:57):
TV off of his balcony. And Ben and I, we
all know that you're a loyal fan in sports other
than football. Yeah, have you ever gotten so upset that
you actually threw something? Well, there have been three games,
three games that I can remember that stand out more
than the other games. All Right, the one I brought

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all these up. You listen a lot, you know what
I'm gonna bring up here. I mean, you can read
my mind. The first one is the Music City Miracle,
which was a forward pass by Frank Whicheck to Kevin
dison Ida. I might or might not have had a
wager on the game, and I might or might not
have been making a phone call to trash talk the
other person there. But the officials botched that call. The

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Titans should not have been given that win. That should
have been a win for Brad Johnson, Wade Phillips and
the old Buffalo Bills from back in the day. And
then secondly, the Clippers, who had beaten the Spurs beaten
the big bad Greg popovit Spurs in the first round
of the playoffs, and I was leaving Staples Center in
the second round they were playing the Rockets. People that

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I had known for years that worked at the arena
in downtown LA were congratulating me like somehow I had
played in the game, that the Clippers were going to
the Western Conference finals, that they had done it, they
had won two rounds in the NBA playoffs and they
were gonna have a chance to get to the NBA Finals.
And I left And in the fourth quarter when I left,
the Clippers were up by like fifteen points, and they

(01:16:21):
were up by thirteen at the end of the fourth quarter.
They got outscored by twenty five points in the fourth quarter. Yes,
uh that I that was not the best of nights.
And then the game I was at in person, I
was also at the Clipper game, but this this Game
seven of the World Series. When you Darvish publicly defecated
all over the mound of Dodger Stadium, and the game
seven was over in the second inning. That was that

(01:16:45):
was something to cause me to want to vomit all
over the place. So those are the three games where
I definitely did throw an object. After the Titans game,
I wanted I wanted to throw a lot of things
off the building. After the Clipper game and the Dodger game,
I just wanted to punch someone. So all right, there
it is Mallard of the third degree. How did we do, Penn?

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You passed this edition? That's winter all right, very good.
We'll have the instant trivia, will have the NBA pick him. Also,
we'll do the instant tribute. Time shifted it because of
our tribute to our friend, the late Genie in Medford.
But here's the instant trivia. In nineteen seventy one, the
Patriots changed their name to the Base City Patriots, their

(01:17:32):
city affiliation from the Boston Patriots to the Base City Patriots.
Why did the new name only last one month? They
only work called the Base City Patriots for one month.
Why did it only last one month? That's the instant trivia.
The answer next. We do things a little differently than
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It's Ben Maller. All right, here's the instant trivia. I'll
get to the NBA pick up coming up in a moment.
And here it is. In nineteen seventy one of the
Patriots changed their name to the Base State Patriots. I
think I might have said base City. I meant Base State,

(01:18:15):
Base State Patriots. Why did the new name last only
one month? One month they changed their name? Let's see here.
Stoner Marvin said Boston Bombtokers was their first choice to
Quiva Man, blaming the British. Eke said the Chowdaheads revolted.
Justin says clearly Donald Trump had something to do with it.

(01:18:38):
Will says a lawsuit. Mcguel's going Miguel on fire says
it's because because of Aaron Hernandez in nineteen seventy one. Yes,
Alex Guerrero is being blamed by Iguappo. That's his answer.
All right, Well the answer did you have an answer
any why THET had something to do with it? Blind Scott, Well, no,

(01:19:00):
this is actually great. The reason the Patriots were forced
to change their name twice in a year, they went
from the Boston Patriots to the Base State Patriots to
the New England Patriots. The first of all, the NFL
had a problem with it, but the main issue was
the media in Boston when they would write stories about
the Patriots the Base State Patriots to save space in

(01:19:23):
the newspapers back when they really mattered in those days
before the internet, they wrote BS Patriots, and so the
owner of the Patriots was like, wow, this is not good.
They shortened Base State to BS and thus that in
the NFL pushback, so they became the New England Patriots.
So the answer is that that is why the bas Patriots. Yeah,

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February of nineteen seventy one they changed their name, and
then on March twenty second they changed their name again.
So in a month and a half they were like, ah,
we're good, we're gonna change it again. And the legend
was born. As they say, and let's get two our
legends are born here, it's the NBA. Pick them our

(01:20:09):
daily Fantasy game. Coopa Lou Boos going first. Well, then,
I should note that we've had technical difficulties, so I
was not able to add up yesterday's picks. So I'm
just doing a I'm just doing a random ortor I
guess Eddie was the winner of the NFL pick him,
so he'll go. He'll go first. Are we on the live?
Are I believe we are? Okay? Good? Go ahead there, Eddie.
Let's go with DeMarcus Cousins. All right, DeMarcus Cousins is gone.

(01:20:32):
I'll stay with the Pelicans. I'll take Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis,
Cooper Loop, I will go with Carl Anthony Towns. Like
the board has held Danny g on the NBA pick
him our daily Fantasy game. Give me Kyrie Irving. So
my whole board has held before. Yes, go ahead, and
I'll go with another Minnesota player, Jimmy buck Man. I

(01:20:55):
do I know the NBA. The top five picks are
all my top five picks. Oh, same here, Cooper Loop.
I will go with Nicola yokich O. Interesting, all right,
I will be back. I will go with thank give
me Damian Lillard of the Blazers. Eddie, I'll take Devin
Booker right. CJ McCollum, CJ McCollum. Okay, back to me, boy.

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This is where it gets tough. You who'd you take? Coop?
Who's your pick? Nicola Yo, I'll take Yusuf Coop? Who
you got up? I will go with Jeff t Danny,
Jason Tatum. We got it in. We got to pick
him in a battle in the locker room turn into
a battle of memes in the overnight hours. It's the

(01:21:40):
absurdity that is the NBA and Cutch no more in Pittsburgh.
We'll discuss welcome in the beginning of another hour. It's
the Ben Mallers Show. We are in the air everywhere
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the story that developed late into the night on Monday,
and we'll be talked about through much of the early
part of the day on Tuesdays not an NFL story.
It involves a random NBA game between the Houston Rockets

(01:22:23):
and the Los Angeles Clippers, who got together in Los Angeles.
Chris Paul playing his old team for the first time.
He lost, Clippers won the game. Very few people will
talk about that. Instead, the discussion will focus on what
happened after the game when a group of Houston Rocket

(01:22:44):
players were so triggered they didn't have their safe room
to have their glass of milk and their blankie, so
instead they decided to storm into the Clipper locker room
that you had a player used as a diversion Capella
was used as a diversion run of a Clipper locker room.
This happened very quickly after the game, but the reports

(01:23:04):
were getting are that after the Clippers had beaten the Rockets,
there was some bad, bad blood. At the end of
the game, Blake Griffin got ejected, there were words exchange
with Mike D'Antoni and the Rockets coach, and so then
they go to the locker rooms. There's a cooling down period.
I do not believe the NBA memo says during the
cooling cooling down period, it's a good idea to try

(01:23:27):
to jump the other team. I don't think that's in
the memo from the NBA, but James Harden and a
bunch of his team. His Harden was not playing in
the game, he was hurt, but a bunch of the
year the guys of the Rockets CP three, a Resa Hardened,
Gerald Green all attempted to get in through the back

(01:23:48):
tunnel at Staples Center into the back entrance to the
Clipper locker room to get a piece of both Austin
Rivers who's hurt, and get a little a little slice
of Blake Griffin. So this is this is the riding.
The Rockets have won a bunch of games, You've got
a great season and all that, and it's the clown show.

(01:24:09):
It's it is the and I love this, don't get
me wrong. But clearly the Clippers not only won the game,
they've won the mental battle. And so that's where we
stand right now. Now. The latest is within the last
hour or so, while we were doing our tribute to
our friend Genie and Medford. While we were doing that,
there was a whole lot of stuff, a whole lot

(01:24:30):
of stuff going down. You had Blake Griffin channeling the
Joker with a meme he put up which is gone
over pretty well. There mocking, Yes, mocking. The incident that
happened between the Clippers and the Rockets failed attempt to
get a piece get a piece of Austin Rivers. This

(01:24:52):
incident resulted in the police department in La being contacted
because of securities and competence to keep the Rockets players
out of the Clippers locker room. You also had Austin Rivers,
who he because we want to hear what he has
to say. Oh, he's enjoying all of this. Why not

(01:25:13):
he said, some of these memes and the gifts and whatnot?
Right now he had Then he had the laughing emoji.
He says, I don't even play. I didn't even play
to night. I was the guy with the boot the cast.
And but wait, there's more. You had Daryl Morey, the
stat nerd driven general manager of the Rockets, trying to

(01:25:36):
throw some shade the direction of Blake Griffin. I would
assume this is to Blake Griffin. He sent out a
picture of Paul Pierce in a Clipper uniform and said,
still putting on his shoes, Still putting on his shoes.
It's from is that Morey's attempt to to break into
the Clipper locker room is what a bunch of mental

(01:25:58):
midgets with a bunch of absolute mental midges there. All right,
let's let's hear from Mike D'Antoni on this the Rockets coach. Now,
if you missed this part of it, we mentioned it.
But D'Antoni and Blake Griffin were involved in an incident
that involved the F word. Blake Griffin says, D'Antoni started it,
he responded to it. But here's d'antoni's version of all

(01:26:21):
of this, the events that took place there, on what
happened in the postgame locker room. Bruhaha, I don't know.
I just know boys all this kind of little hated
and I'm sure you know whatever. Let me you mean
after him, oh you hit him, appreciate him. But other

(01:26:41):
than that, it's good. We're good. Isn't Mike dan Tonali
like a tough Italian guy? He's he's worried about Blake Griffin?
Was he gonna file assault charges against Blake Griffin? Here?
Come on? Really, I like that, Tony, But you gotta
be kidding me that hell's wrong with you? What do

(01:27:03):
you is a bare knuckle boxing event here? It's just ridiculous.
It's it's so this whole thing is so stupid, and
it's a great testimonial to how important the Clippers are
to the NBA. The Clippers are saving the NBA right now,
and the Rockets are a joke. They look they look
like they got a glass chin. Here do they not
look like they have a glass jaw? The Rockets they

(01:27:25):
lose the game. They've got a great record, they're gonna
finish way ahead of the Clippers and the standings, and
here they are. They can't let it go. They cannot
let it go. They end up trying to you know,
they're in shambles after the game, right there's a disaster
area and they want it's so pathetic there. And they're
also sloppy and clumsy because they were unable to complete

(01:27:48):
the mission. You know, if you're gonna go through this
kind of mission, that's a bad swat team. I do
like how they use diversionary tactics though, I appreciate that
where they you know, they send a player to the
front of the locker room, but we're gonna go through
the back. We'll get them on both It's like I
used to watch, you know, those the police shows, like swat.
You know, they planned everything, got work. We're gonna surround
the house. Here's a map of the house. Here's here's

(01:28:09):
all the entry points. Here's where they could escape, like
the rockets. In the span of like five minutes, they
were able to do all this. They're like, Okay, I
know it's not that complicated because there's only two ways
in one one way you know, the front, one way
in the back. But still, come on, but the report
says a lot of barking, a lot of barking going on.

(01:28:31):
They the dog were barking and uh CP three still
not quite found that rhino skin in Houston. I thought
all these winds would help him out. Apparently that's not
the case. A little problem there, all right, So the
Ben Mathers Show on Fox to Meanwhile, we had a mild, mild,

(01:28:51):
I want to say, mild transaction. But anytime a former
Most Valuable Player is traded, it's it's a pretty big deal, right,
And there's only so many guys that have won the
MVP award in the history of baseball, and when one
of them changes teams, that's newsworthy and certainly worthy of
some conversation on the radio. Nine seasons in Pittsburgh no more.
There will not be a tent. Andrew mc cutcheon is

(01:29:14):
changing laundry. That's right, if you do not pay attention
to baseball transactions. The Giants have acquired Andrew mc cutcheon,
longtime Pirate, for straight cash, homey, a couple of low
rated minor league players, and five hundred thousand dollars of
international bonus pool money. I just know, when I'm looking

(01:29:35):
to make a transaction, I try to get that international
bonus pool money. That's what I want. But let's discuss
the Pirates. Taking a page out of the Derek Jeter playbook,
a late winter flea market. If you would like a
Pirate player, contact the front office. You can get them
for pennies on the dollar. So Pittsburgh will actually be
paying some of Andrew McCutcheon's salary for the twenty eighteen season.

(01:29:59):
They'll be paying him to play in San Francisco, and
they get a player slotted as a setup guy slash
mid reliever, and a minor league outfield that was playing
a ball last year. That's what they get in return
the Pirates. Now remember the Golden rule. Prospects are just
suspects until proven otherwise. The question here is does Andrew

(01:30:22):
McCutcheon being dropped into the Giant lineup make San Francisco
a contender for the postseason in twenty eighteen. The answer,
which is the easy answer, it's also the right answer,
is no. My viewpoint on this now, as far as
the trade is concerned, it was grand larceny. But you've

(01:30:44):
also got middle age and a herculean task, and I'll
line all these things up and I'll knock them down
like dominos. The first thing here in terms of just value,
then yes, the Giants are the winners. San Francis sent
very little of substance back to Pittsburgh. You know an

(01:31:05):
outfielder who's you know, number four outfielder, a ball you
can go either way in able. You guys put up
a lot of numbers in the Cal League or whatever
league this guy was playing. I think it was in
the Cow League. And they sometimes they get better, sometimes
they don't. And that relief pitcher was in the big
leagues last year, but he's he's like the wild thing.
So it essentially is addition for the Giants with no

(01:31:27):
subtraction grand larcity. So why am I a skeptic? While
I'm a skeptic that Andrew mccutche will make much of
a difference. Much like in Pittsburgh, there's a lot, a
lot of missing stuff around Andrew McCutcheon. Now, the Higantes
are banking on not only McCutcheon but Evan Longoria late
of the Tampa Bay Rays to help them escape the

(01:31:50):
sewer of Major League Baseball where they reside in US
ninety eight games last year. And I'm looking at the
Giant depth chart here with a month ago before spring training,
and there's still some players that are out there, a
lot of players that are out there. But as it
currently stands at this moment, with the information we have,
the intel that we have right now, the Giant team
that's going to take the field when they report to

(01:32:11):
the Cactus League looks like a five hundred team, and
it looks like about a five hundred team that should
not get you into the playoffs. It might get you
infringe playoff contention, but it's not going to get you
to the playoffs. The second thing the Giants are, they're
not going to be the old geezers of baseball. That's
the wrong way to describe this. However, they are going

(01:32:32):
to have a midlife crisis of you will in their
careers because the Giant roster, they've collected a gaggle of
players who are in the middle or the end of
their prime years. And it's an interesting mix because there's
a lot of players that are closer to the end
of their baseball primes than the beginning, and baseball the

(01:32:52):
pendulum has shifted the last couple of years to a mix.
You've got to have more of a mix up, a
lot of young guys mixed with a couple of the
older players. The Gens just have a lot of middle
aged guys. Buster Posey's thirty years old. He's got a
lot of miles on the odometer. Brandon Crawford is also thirty.
Andrew mccutcheons thirty one. He'll turn thirty two during the
next baseball season. Evan Longoria is thirty two. That's past

(01:33:16):
your prime. One hundred pence is thirty four years old.
So that's a lot over the course of one hundred
and sixty two professional baseball games. The breaking down of
baseball players, a lot of those guys are going to
end up on the disabled list. That's just how that's
going to work. Do the Giants have enough depth to
overcome that unlikely? And you're trying to catch the Dodgers.

(01:33:40):
The Dodgers have a mix, even though they've done nothing,
they have a mix of old and young players. And
so for the Giants, you look at their pitching and
Madison bum Gardener, as long as he stays off dirt bikes,
will be back. Johnny Quato will be back, Jeff's Marjah's
back as well, which sounds like, hey, three solid starting pitchers.
The results though, you know, even bum Gardener, who's been

(01:34:00):
amazing in the postseason, has been the greatest postseason pitcher ever.
Even he is, you know, it's something like the Giants
win every one of his starts, even when they were
better teams in San Francisco a couple of years back.
So the final thing on this, it is going to
be a herculean task for Andrew McCutcheon to walk into
the Giant locker room and end up in the postseason.

(01:34:22):
You wonder how you're going to adjust the assimilation to
a new team. The West Coast. The whole thing unhitter
friendly ballpark in San Francisco, and also the division they
do have course field in Denver, but San Diego Dodgers Stadium.
San Francisco are not great hitters ballparks. Arizona's pretty good,
and Colorado's a pretty good hitters ballpark. And yeah, the

(01:34:43):
Dodgers people have saying, well, the Dodgers haven't done anything. Yeah,
I get it. They've hibernated, They've hibernated. The front office
is very confident, you can say, also arrogant, that they
are the smartest guys in the room and that they
don't need to make major roster improvements because they are
just obsessed with their minor leag league players. And they're convinced,
partly because of what happened last year with Bellinger coming

(01:35:05):
in and being amazing, that the Dodgers are convinced that
they don't have to get these veteran players. They'll sign
a couple of guys before it's been training, but they're
very confident that the players that you haven't heard much
about are going to end up making big contributions once
the regular season begins. All right, So the Ben Maller
Show on Fox Edmund Dallas steamboat, Willie Garcia right over

(01:35:28):
there hanging, well, it is rare you will get a
Pittsburgh Pirates fan perspective on things, because there's not many
of us out there, and those who are out there,
are you a yinser. You're not a real yinser. You're
you're kind of in between windsor a yinzer or a windsor.
I don't know what that means, but I know what
that is. I have to be a native of Pittsburgh
to claim that that's what I was told on the internet,

(01:35:50):
then I am not. But I have been a Pirates
fan for my whole life, and I have seen some
really really bad baseball. And well, that's not true. Actually
you're lying because when the Pirates got really bad, you
stopped watching. Well that's true. Yeah, so you haven't really
seen really bad you just turn them off. That's true.
And and that's my policy when you know, because I

(01:36:10):
I posted about my displeasure about the recent trades with
the Pirates on Twitter and a lot of fans are
out there being, you know, very very nice. So I
could come over here and be this fan, be a
fan of this team, be a fan of that team. No,
I'm not going to do that. I'm not. I've never
been one of those fans. I'm not going to switch teams,
but I will put my fandom on pause. What would
it take for you to switch teams? Eddie relocation relocation. Yeah,

(01:36:34):
if they if they left Pittsburgh for I don't know, Montreal,
then that would be that I would consider looking for
another team. But as as I my policy is, uh,
when they start carrying, I'll start caring. When when they
when they act like they want to put a team
on the field that people can you know, invest their

(01:36:55):
time in and their money. If you live in Pittsburgh,
then that's when I'll start caring about the most about
the minor league system. Don't you care? They're developed, they're rebuilding,
don't you like? I heard that for twenty years. I'm
glad you're between like ninety two and twenty twelve something
like that. They were doing that and uh, twenty years
of nothing. So like I said, yeah, when they start carrying,

(01:37:16):
I'll start caring. So Cooper be excited. I'll be catching
up on my Netflix viewing during the baseball season. And
there you go, all right, very good. It is the
The Ben Mallers Show on Fox, and it is bizarre.
I don't like Dodgers. I can't remember the last time.
They did nothing, like they've done nothing. Am I wrong?
Am I did I miss something? They've done nothing. They've

(01:37:37):
done nothing like nothing nothing. I guess they were kind
of in on the tawny right a little bit, but
they didn't get him. Yeah, No, they haven't get They've
they've kicked the tires here and there, but but haven't
haven't changed any tires. It's saying nothing. There's a lot
of free agents that haven't signed in baseball. It's like
there's a lot of guys that who's out there that

(01:37:58):
we might be interested in. Well, as a last week,
there's of the top eleven free agent, well JD. Martinez, Right,
he hasn't signed with anybody. The guy hit didn't get
fifty home runs or whatever very well for Arizona. Yeah,
he hasn't signed with anyone. The Red Sox are desperately
trying to I say desperately, but they were desperate. They
would already signed him, right, they haven't. They haven't gone that.
They're not that desperate to sign him. But a baseball prospectus,

(01:38:19):
they had their top fifteen free agents, and of the
top fifteen as of last week, there were still eleven
that were unsigned. As of last week. It's uh, it's
when did you say? Pictures and catchers are mid February?
So it's about a month from now. Wow, yeah, about
a month from now. I liked that we get excited

(01:38:40):
when people report to work. Some people like I did.
I used to get really excited about evacuate. Yeah, because
all baseball starting. This is cool. I baseball is gonna
be here. It's wonderful. But then then you become a bitter,
jaded Uh, got like us? And when don't you like
to tweet out? I've just ordered to the Fox Sports

(01:39:01):
Radio Geico Studios. I'm not reporting to work. Here are
some of the free agents. Eric Hasmearetti hasn't signed, Lorenzo Kane,
Alex Cobb, Jake Arietta, lance Lynn, Mike Mustakis, Jay Bruce
did sign last week. I think I believe Todd Dodd
Frazier hasn't signed with anybody. Greg Holland, the relief pitcher,
hasn't signed. You Darvish, he's he doesn't signed. These are

(01:39:24):
all free agents still available. They can be yours if
the price is right. Well, I know you were hoping
the Dodgers bringing Hugh Darvish back that's for sure. I
pray every night that he signs with someone else. I
will do a dance. I will light a candle when
Darvish signs with someone else. That is what I will do,
all right, So the Ben malla Show again, your phone
calls eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven
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(01:39:46):
super Bowl winning coach on the hot seat. We will
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(01:40:06):
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(01:40:27):
the hot seat. We'll get to that coming up in
a moment. To the phones. We go though, and we
say Hi to Mike in Boston, who's on Fox Sports Radio. Hello, Mike,
big Ben Maller. They're Rayning defending heavy right champion of
sports talk. Lady, what up? Well? Are we on better
terms today? Michael? I feel I feel like we had

(01:40:48):
an issue yesterday. It was you didn't tell me died
and I was playing basically around the radio. That was one.
It's like a little bad off. She hadn't died yesterday,
she died after the shows. Oh so, I So are
you saying I killed it with my phone call? Is
that saying factor? You know? Oh yeah, blame it on me,
just like you do everything else. Yep, like me has

(01:41:09):
always Big Ben Malla yep. Yeah, Well you're my fall guy.
I need a good fall guy. Oh thanks, thanks, Chris
Carter want to be that's not that's not someone I
want to be. But yes, that's uh that I was
stealing that line. Yes I am, Yes to me. One
of the best calls that Jeanie ever had was early
on in her calling career when she would call up
and try and and get with the Big Ben Maller

(01:41:32):
and Ben wasn't having it. It was always, uh, you're
a little too old for me, you're old enough to
beat my mother, and then you tried one of the
greatest things e were You tried to hook her up
with Cowboy and Windsor. Oh yeah, I remember remember that. Yeah,
that's what about as well as everything else that we
do here that uh yeah, everything was going good until
we all found out that Cowboy and Windsor, who sounds

(01:41:54):
like the whitest guy in radio history, ended up being
a black man? Was that when Cowboy revealed that he was,
and then he wanted he changed his name Cowboy. I
hope of he calls up later on, but Cowboy that
he's gone with a couple of different names, like the
Cowboy John, he's Cowboy in winds It of me. I've
been calling you since Cowboy was a caller, and not
just your your golden ticket at the end of the night,

(01:42:16):
but my closer, my closer. Hey, we haven't even had
Cowboy call up much lately, hasn't been part of the show.
I hope he calls up tonight. But yeah, is he
still alive? I believe, I don't Yeah, I don't know.
I'm looking at a T shirt that I paid seventeen
ninety ninety four and six dollars shipping about eight years ago. Yeah,
and there's maybe three of us better alive on that.

(01:42:38):
I have that same shirt there this it's uh, yeah,
you know who I blame. I blame Miranda Marino. That's
who I blame. It's clearly your fault. Fox on Fox
Sports Radio. It's probably your producer back in the day,
saying Jeff de Ran. Yeah, oh hey, hey, Jeff Whore's
a good name. I haven't heard that name in a while.
All Right, Mike, are very good. Hold on, hold on,

(01:43:01):
you missed the dead call earlier. No, I got I
got rid of who did I forget? That's done? It
was a top ten call of all time. Do you
not remember PFC then the guy who called you before
he called his family when he came back from two
tours in the Afghanic thing. Yeah, I don't know. I
don't I've forgotten that. Yeah, that was and you were

(01:43:23):
saying that Spokene Gary's dead. All right, I gotta thank you, Mike.
All right, Yeah he is. Spokene Gary passed away. Couple
a kind of called the show back in the day.
He was one of the originals. All right, The Ben
Mallers Show on Fox on Fox, and we'll get to
that Super Bowl winning coach on the hot seat. Is

(01:43:45):
he heading into a one and done situation? We'll get
to that now. It's not Bill Belichick. Also later on,
we got Mallor's mounting money right now, though, Eddie Garcia
is here and he will give you the latest Eddie.
All right, Ben, Let's start in the NBA, where he
had some interesting games, including a rematch of the two
teams that have battled in the last three NBA finals,
with the Warriors going to Cleveland and beating the Cavaliers

(01:44:06):
one eighteen to one O eight. Kevin Durant at thirty
two point Steph Curry twenty three points says the Warriors
rallied down seven points of a half to get the
ten point victory and improved to a league best thirty
six and nine on the year. Cleveland has now lost
eight of ten. Clippers beat the Rockets one thirteen to
one oh two and Chris Paul's first game back in LA.
This one was a very chippy game. We had a

(01:44:26):
couple of ejections with Blake Griffin and Trevor Ariza being
tossed in this game late and then after the game
there were reports that several members of the Rockets actually
got into the Clippers locker room to try and continue
the hostilities from the court off the court, but the
security was stopped police. Yes, was very interesting there after

(01:44:48):
the game at the Staples. If James Harden had been
arrested for trespassing after the game, that would have been awesome.
That would have been noteworthy for sure. Cliper should have
pressed charges, send the aucus to jail. It's nothing like
creating more bad blood between those two times they did trespass.
They're not allowed in the Clipper locker room. They should

(01:45:10):
have been arrested for that sited at least, that seems
a little excessive, seems reasonable. Hawks beat the Spurs one
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(01:45:32):
experience and news from the NFL, where the Tennessee Titans
and head coach Mike Malarkey have mutually agreed to part with.
Is such a losing when people say they mutually decided
a divorce, no one for someone has to first bring
that to the table. Well, such a fraudulent statement. We
mutually decided. Well, they had said during the postseason that
Malarkey would be back, and then there was talk that

(01:45:54):
well maybe they wanted him to make some coaching change.
Wasn't mutual? They fired his ass. Just own it. What
a bunch of pussy willows or pussycats they wouldn't just
admit it. Well, Tennessee, I don't have to throw another word.
Texans defensive coordinator Mike Rabel reporter, they're going to interview
for that now, Titans head coaching vagency. Anybody but Malarkey,

(01:46:16):
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free rate quote. Interesting story out of Seattle, The Seahawks
have molded their coaching staff. They made a number of
changes to their coaching staff and The word on the

(01:46:38):
street is that if this does not go well, if
things go sideways again in the Pacific Northwest and Seattle
does not qualify for the postseason, that Pete Carroll could
be coaching his final season with the Seahawks. He's got
two years left on his contract, and the assumption is
that Carroll will move to a on office slash ambassador role.

(01:47:03):
He is the oldest coach in the NFL, right there
with Bill Belichick, and that if this does not go
well in twenty eighteen, there will be a change of
the guard in Seattle. Pete Carroll no longer coaching the
Seahawks in a potential situation where he's got to make
the playoffs to keep his job. All right, So the
Ben Maller show, the chances that Pete Carroll actually is

(01:47:26):
in his last year in twenty eighteen coaching the Seahawks,
it's actually better than you think. I buy into the
conspiracy talk. I would say Pete's a pretty youthful looking guy,
although he started to show his age a little bit
the last year and a half or so. I'm gonna
say there's a thirty five percent chance that's accurate, like
a three fifty hitter in baseball, which you feel pretty confident.

(01:47:48):
If you have a three fifty hitter at the plate,
you think you're gonna get a hit, and you're gonna
get a guy on bass. You're feeling pretty good about that.
Andrew is in southern California, in the community of West
Covina in southern California, and he is on Fox Sports Radio.
Hello Andrew, Hello Ben Um. I heard the bad news

(01:48:09):
about Genie tonight, Yes, and I almost fell out of
my chair. It was like a big shock. Is I remember?
I think, one time, what a time for the phone
to stop working? I think, one time, what are you?
What was Andrew gonna say? I think, Oh, there he goes.

(01:48:31):
Call back, Andrew, callback come on in there, hanging on
your every word eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
Josh in Minneapolis is next on Fox Sports Radio, Hello Josh,
Hey Ben. Obviously I haven't been listening to the show
for a while. I've been calling a couple of months.
But from what I've heard about Genie, she sounds like

(01:48:53):
a legend in the mad militia. UM real quick question.
Though the Paul Allen called the game that final play,
I'd say it goes up there with do you Believe
a Miracles? Car? I was just for you, for you
you're a Viking man. Listen to Paul Allen call we
played at a bunch. I don't usually play by I

(01:49:14):
don't usually play play by play cuts much on this show.
We did yesterday. We played the Paul Allen call several
several times. It was great for two reasons. Number one,
he didn't eff it up. Uh. And we've heard guys
in that situation, big moment the pressure gets to him
play by play guys, they screw up the call, he
miss speak. Paul Allen didn't miss speak, and as he

(01:49:37):
usually does, because he's a Viking homer, you could you
could hear the the the just pure bliss in his voice.
Do we have that, Danny? Can we play that Paul
Allen clip that the Josh is referring to for those
that have not heard it there, because it's uh, it's
it is pretty good and if you're a Viking fan,
it's Viking porn. It's audio part for now. If you're

(01:50:01):
having a bad day as a Viking fan, just play that.
That's all you have to play, and it's like, hey,
I feel better now, I'm you know, I'm I've got
a more pep in my step here. I'm good to
go better though than that? Do you believe the miracles? Call? Well, no,
because it's not going to be outside of me. For
you in Minnesota, it might be. But like outside of
Minnesota though, like the al Michaels, that's that's an all timer.

(01:50:22):
Although even that's I guess the drive the nation together
truly with that one. I guess, yeah, jobs the nation whatever.
But Paul Allen did a good job. He didn't the
moment wasn't too big. He didn't fff it up. And
there was a lot of stuff going on when the
Vikings scored that touchdown, a lot of stuff going We
have the audio on that we have all right, let's listen.
Here we go, case on a deep drop, steps up

(01:50:44):
in the pocket, he'll fire to the right side. Stay, Oh,
oh my god, are you kidding? Steps Leans Saints. It's

(01:51:05):
a sixty one yard miracle. Yeah, it was good, it
was great. But all right, here's one more thing for
you about you wanted me to talk more about this?
I mean, how much we how much we wanna break
down a play by play cut? When were we gonna
do it. No, I'm willing to take the fall and
be your blame guy if I can get a golden ticket. Yeah,
you know, I don't like begging for golden things. I

(01:51:26):
like you and you you have ability as a caller.
But I can't just be handed you know, I don't.
It's not Halloween. I don't just hand out these golden tickets.
They're very valuable. They're very value valuable. People are trading this. Yes, exactly,
I gotta go. Thank you, Josh, keep working on that.
Like weed Man, how much would you pay weed Man
hippie for a golden ticket? What's the what? What value
would you put on him to play? Yeah? I'm asking

(01:51:52):
the one guy that doesn't want to pay for anything
you gave. You gave me a golden ticket, Remember, I
gotta gold I want to use it right now? What No,
you've already stayed on a hold for a while. Why
would you want to? Yeah? But but but why would
Why would you not save that? Like we've got weed men?
Are you gonna do the Mallard marathon tomorrow? Because the

(01:52:12):
Mallard marathons back? Are you? You are? So? So? Why
don't you? Why don't you save why didn't you save
the golden ticket for tomorrow and then you can use
it tomorrow. Why would you want to use it right now? Okay, okay, okay, okay,
all right, there he there, he goes. You wanted to

(01:52:33):
use it? We're all right. Here's the deal. We are
gonna have Mallard's Mountain of Money. And that's a chance
to win a golden ticket. You have to beg for it.
So that guy in Minnesota calls back, he can play.
I need two contestants, Mallard's Mountain of Money. We're gonna
get to that. And if you want to play eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine

(01:52:56):
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(01:53:21):
All right, let's get back to it. It's Mallard's Mountain
of Money. Time a special extra special edition of Malor's
Mountain of Money. We get to it right now, here
we go, now Mallor's Mountain of Money. Heney, do you
have what it takes to get to the top? Probably not?
All right, here we go. It is now Mallards Mountain

(01:53:44):
of Money. The Genie in Medford editions. We pay our
respects our eulogy here our tribute to Genie and Medford
who passed away yesterday. One of our regular callers, she
will be based. All right, let's welcome in our contestants,
and we say hello to a soprano. Is that a Cipriano?

(01:54:05):
Excuse Cipriano. Hello Cipriano, Hello Cipriano. You are in Flagstaff, Arizona. Yes, sir,
all right? What do you what do you do for
working Flagstaff, Arizona? Cipriano? You are really you have the
cleanest commode in Flagstaff. Oh I don't clean those, but

(01:54:25):
uh no, what do you clean? What are you? What
do you work on your in the cleaning room? In
a cleaning room? Okay, alright, if I just basically take
out trash and got you, you you gotta sell it better,
like sip Are you married? Are you a single guy?
What are you got going there? You're married. I didn't
have to worry about it that you're already married, But
if you were single, you'd have to enhance it and
embellish it, you know. Definitely. Yeah, you're you're married, so

(01:54:46):
you don't have to do that anymore. Done. Yeah, you're done, exactly,
I got you. We're all done, all right. Hold on, Cipriano,
hold on, There is a Cipriano and Dylan in Austin. Hello, Dylon, Hello,
my friend. Hello? What's what are you doing Austin there? Dylan?
Uh well, I'm an international man of mystery. You are
all right? How long have you been running from the law?

(01:55:08):
About fifteen years now and I'm only thirteen, So amazing
you're thirteen years old? Is that? You're not thirteen years
are you? Liar? All right? How old are you? I'm
actually twenty four and I'm a bartender. You are. First off,
you're a bartender at twenty four. Shouldn't you be drinking
in the bar and not being the bartender? You should
be boozing it up in the bar. No, they pay me,

(01:55:29):
I'll they pay you. Okay, all right, that's good, smart man.
All right, you go to enjoy the bar atmosphere and
get a check. Yeah, so we're to do it all right?
Hold on, Dylan, So what's the genie in Medford edition? Cipriano?
Who do you want to partner up with? I want
to go with you big all right, good job by you.
We were gonna win this, and we are going to
clean up, is what we're gonna do. Just like you

(01:55:50):
clean up. We are going to clean up. And Dylan,
who do you want to partner up with? Dylan? Dylan,
let me see. Yeah, I'm gonna leave that. I'm gonna
leave that up to you because I'm gonna win either way.
That means he doesn't know who else is on the show.
That's a bad sign, uh, Dylan, Can you name another
person that works on the show? Go ahead, your producer?

(01:56:12):
Jesus Ah, that's that's Scoop's name. Huh. You know what
that means? Sometimes that is Coop's name. We gotta go
to weed man Hippy. He's in the bullpen. He's in
the bullpen. No, weed Man, Hippie, Coop Cooper Coop on

(01:56:33):
the other line, you brother, and let me see who's
calling on this line? Now? Cool? Know we gotta get
to the game. We gotta get to the game, right, sir,
stop Coop and weed Man a play, go ahead, here
we go, weed Man, weed Man only, oh God, weed
Man only speaking spoken to start the game. Start the game.

(01:56:56):
This game is over before he starts. All right. The
genieu of Medford a dish in category one, Category two.
I'm a doctor, Category three, voice of an angel. We're
category four. I've got a satin nightgown on. Quiet down,
weed Man. Cipriano, you're on the line first. You get
to pick first. I'm a doctor. Okay, very good, and

(01:57:18):
weed Man. That leaves you with Oregan voice of an angel,
or I've got a satin nightgown on. All right? All right,
all right, gentlemen, tend at one hundred on the board.
We need the first and last name of these sports figures.
Weed Man, be quiet until it's your turn. Here you
all right, Cipriano, Here we go. I'm a doctor. These

(01:57:41):
are some of the most durable athletes of all time.
They don't need a doctor here, Ben, forty five seconds
go all right, all time leading rush. You're in NFL history.
Played for the Cowboys in the ninety that's correct. Wide receiver.
Played with the Cowboys, forty nine, Ers, and Eagles. That's
my quarterback, he cried a lot. Correct. Uh. Notice the
QB killer defensive play for Tampa Bay won the Super

(01:58:01):
Bowl with the Bucks back in the in the in
the that is correct. All time leading receiver for a
tight end former Chiefs tight end, Falcons tight ends. Correct.
Wide receiver for the Steelers in the two thousands, he
won two Super Bowls out of Georgia. Uh from he
was bid? Yeah, good job. Former Jets Patriots running back
in the in the nineties and the two thousands. I

(01:58:23):
think he's third or fourth all time in rushing yard
Martin correct. Uh, safety for the Eagles, Number twenty, played
with the Broncos as well. Impress Friano, good job job,
by the way. All right, all right, Billy, let's do this. Yeah,

(01:58:49):
just focus, Yes, let's do it. I'll make it easy
for you. Let's do it. Wed Man, all right, I've
got a sad night count on. These athletes have hot waves,
all right, listen, all right, he's the quarterback for the

(01:59:09):
Dolphins this year. He used to be the quarterback for
the Bears. Yes, okay, the quarterback that he replaced for
the Dolphins. Yes, um number three. He follows le bron
James everywhere he goes. He's got Gabrielle Union as his wife. Yes, yes, um,

(01:59:32):
wide receiver for the He used to be the wide
receiver for the Patriot, slot receiver for the Broncos. Also
he he he used to be a wide receiver for
He used to be a wide receiver for the Broncos.
Now he's on the Jets and the Titans. He went
from the Give him that one. There's no sense of merchancy.

(02:00:04):
There's no sense of weed Man's like la la la man,
no chit chatting. We got even got to get through
through quickly. Okay, three sixty but still it's all right,
all right, here we go voice of an angel or organ?
Are he man? No weed man? Okay, he's trailing all right.

(02:00:26):
These sports figures were all known to be heavy smokers
at one time. Or okay, weed man, let's chit chat
this time. Are you ready to help? Go? All right?
He's with j Lo right now, full name, full name, okay, yes, uh,
Wide receiver for the Viking way back in the day.

(02:00:47):
He mooned everybody. He smokes a lot of weed. Jesus,
he's got he's got an alfro or he had an afro.
Jesus Christ. He caught passes from Dante Colepepper, Yes, yeah, yeah,
the Big two, the Big two coach. Yes, golfer that

(02:01:12):
smokes and drinks all the time. Since he was not
the bad guy he has anyway, why not? All right? Uh?
What's the school that was one hundred points to sixty
to three? Forty? Am, you're bad at back sipp get

(02:01:40):
pretty good though, pretty si gi Yeah he was better, Cipriotie.
Everybody gets to go. I like the game. Everybody gets
a golden take it. It is the talk of the town.
The reaction continues to stun me, and we'll talk about
the fallout from the fallen member of the New Orleans Saints.

(02:02:03):
Welcome in the beginning of another hour. It's the Ben
Maller Show. We are in the air everywhere. The vast
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(02:02:28):
Miracle continues to be the focus of much conversation. The
NFL Echo Chamber. Now case Keenum play that has been
talked about a bunch over the last forty eight hours
or close to it coming up, a case Keenum hitting
Stefan Diggs for the game winning touchdown with no time
left and the Vikings go on to the NFC title game. Now,

(02:02:50):
much of the chatter has been about the guy that
didn't make the play. We're talking about Marcus Williams, the
safety of the Saints. We talked about him a lot yesterday,
and he delivered the whiff on the tackle and then
looked like a bowling ball hitting pins as he took
out the only other guy in his Saints uniform that
could have bailed him out. And so Williams talked about

(02:03:13):
the bonehead play. He talked about it again on Monday,
and you might not have seen what he had to say.
Maybe you had the Martin Luther King Junior holiday off,
or maybe you were working and didn't You didn't get
check it out. So he talked on social media and
Marcus Williams thanked his friends, his real fans, his family,
and team standard stuff. Standard stuff, and then the goat

(02:03:40):
and I don't mean it in a positive way. Then
the Saints Goat added on that he won't let one
play define the type of man or player that he
is or will be. And that's the part that I
wanted to get into. So the question is this, what
are the chances that Marcus Williams will not be defined

(02:04:04):
by missing a tackle that gave the Vikings a trip
to the NFC Championship Game. The chance is zero percent?
All right, none, Gonzo, You're living in an alternative planet
if you think that's the case. If you think any
other than zero percent, my thoughts on this. You've got

(02:04:26):
a legacy play, a seat at the table, and the
rules of engagement tie all these things together. Now, Number one,
I have no doubt that Marcus Williams did not intend
to f up the divisional playoff game for New Orleans.
But that doesn't matter much like the difference. It's it's
it's layers, right you have. If you commit a crime

(02:04:49):
like murder, I'll tell you there's premeditated murder, and then
there's you know, all the way on to manslaughter, or
you didn't intend it, you didn't intend to do it,
but it happened. You still got to be punished for
It's exactly now you only get using Mallard math, you
only get a handful of games in your career if

(02:05:09):
you're lucky, that are memorable games, that are signature games,
that are defining games. It's not a fair statement. I
believe that is a fair statement that there's a lot
of games that in Week five, Saints Falcons' nothing memorable
is likely going to come from. But a divisional playoff
game where it's in the prime television window on Fox.

(02:05:32):
Everyone's watching that cares about football's checking this out. That matters,
that absolutely matters, and it was a legacy play and
he whipped on it. Now, to his credit, Marcus Williams
has continued to take accountability. He said, I screwed up,
I apped up, I made the mistake, which is all true,

(02:05:55):
absolutely true. There's a lot of Knights in Shining Armor
that are trying to run around and and blame other people,
which I find fascinating. It's clearly some people with flawed
thinking on this. But good luck, good luck in this
particular battle to not have this define your football career

(02:06:15):
because it's not gonna happen. Right, Williams can play fifteen
more years in the NFL, which he won't, can make
ten or fifteen Pro Bowls, and when his career is over,
if they even write about his career, they will put
in the first paragraph, he's the guy that missed the

(02:06:36):
tackle that could have sent the Saints to the NFC
Championship Game and then conceivably the Super Bowl, because remember,
New Orleans would have been favored if they had won
this game, even on the road in Philadelphia, they would
have been favored. Number two. Some of the easily triggered
folks with keyboard outrage here trying to defend Marcus Williams

(02:06:56):
that I really get a kick out of. Deal with it, right.
For those that think that Williams did not cost New
Orleans and as a result, Drew brees another another trip
to again a Super Bowl. We know for sure the
championship game in the NFC. You are misguided, right, and
instead of going for the tackle, just the basic tackle

(02:07:18):
which would have ended the game altogether or at least
forced Minnesota into a pressure field goal kick to win
the game. We know how kickers in the NFL have
done with pressure kicks. Generally doesn't go well. At best,
it's a fifty fifty shot, even if it's an easy
field goal. The longer the field goal is. It's certainly
not it's not even a fifty fifty shot. But Marcus

(02:07:42):
Williams went human torpedo and he attempted to decapitate Stefon
Diggs and then he was able. While he was thinking,
I'm gonna take this guy's head off, he then changed,
he changed the flight pattern because he was worried about
a penalty. And the result was a football catastrophe, is
what it was. And for the Saints, not for the

(02:08:02):
Vikings Man. They'll talk about this for thirty five forty years.
And now Marcus Williams he can take his seat at
the table with other NFL players who were defined by
bonehead plays. Ernest Byner comes to mind. Ernest Binner was
a two time Super Bowl winner. He was an All
Pro running back years ago, back in the Stone Age.

(02:08:25):
But if you ask guys that are old enough in
Cleveland the name Ernest Binner, and they will say two words.
The fumble. That's what they will say, because he fumbled
in an AFC title game against le Broncos, which is
one of those great moments in Cleveland sports history. How
about this one. I heard about this guy when I
was growing up is Jim Marshall, Right, Jim Marshall. The

(02:08:47):
only reason I know about Jim Marshall. This guy was
a four time Pro Bowl defensive tackle, was an NFL
champion the days before the Super Bowl with the Vikings.
The only reason he is known to me because I
had a football coach that told me the story of
wrong Way. Jim Marshall. He's the guy that got confused

(02:09:08):
and picked Remember this play, he picked the football, he
recovered a fumble and he ran the wrong direction thinking
he had scored a touchdown. He ran sixty six yards
I believe was the number, and he ended up with
a safety. But he gave he scored a safety a
sixty six yards? Yeah, go on. Scott Norwood's another one.
How about more recently, Mark Sanchez. Mark Sanchez, you can

(02:09:31):
say he sucked in the NFL. I wouldn't push back
on that, but he did get to two AFC title
games with the Jets. He's the butt fumble guy. He's
known for the butt fumble. That's what he's known for.
The last thing here. Much like you don't come up
with your own nicknames unless you're Kobe Bryant, you can
call yourself a black Mamba. You don't get to decide
what you're remembered for the rules of engagement are. That's

(02:09:54):
how it works. You can go on. There's other guys too,
And now that these are off the field incidents, Barrett
rob comes to mind. The Raiders offensive lineman who decided
to go on a siesta in Mexico before the Super
Bowl never showed up. Stanley Wilson did a little coke
cocaine mountain in the hotel before a Bengal Super Bowl.

(02:10:14):
How about Eugene Robinson. He was named an NFL Man
of the Year and then he decided he wanted to
get a hooker. He got arrested for it. And these
are the things you remember for this kind of stuff. Now,
those are off the field things as opposed to an
on the field thing. But on the field it works
the same way, So stop trying to pretend that that's
not the case. It's very annoying and it's also wrong,

(02:10:34):
and it's embarrassing to those that they're trying to continue this.
Now it is the Ben Mallers show on Fox Edmund
Dallas Steamboat. Willie Garcia is here should also point out
that I got dragged into some of this when I
sent out a brilliant tweet after the the Viking Saints

(02:10:58):
game on Sunday and then on Monday morning. Usually tweets last.
They have a very short lifespan. The people don't go
back and look at old tweets. It's kind of like
a radio show. Most people don't go back and listen
to a radio show I did four years ago, or
even you know, two weeks ago. But anyway, so, uh,
did you hear about this? Eddie? I saw the tweet.
I was like, what, okay, Wow, I was minding my

(02:11:21):
own business, you know, I was doing my own thing whatever,
and I got blindsided by one of these MLB insider types.
Baseball insiders all upset with me, and I sent out
a tweet about Marcus Williams. And the tweet was I've
sent out much worse things than this. Uh yeah, all right,

(02:11:42):
I mean it was I think I think it was
like football malpractice for Marcus Williams. You know, I used
to wear the Dunce cast. I guarantee you plenty of
people said a thousand times worst things, poor Marcus Williams.
I mean that was like big deals, harmless. John Hayman, though,
who works for something called fan Rack. I don't even
know what that is. I know the name, I've never heard,

(02:12:05):
but anyway, he uh, I mean his name, not the
name of that thing. Okay, And he works for the
state run MLB network. Yeah, I actually know John Hayman
in real life, which makes it all the more bizarre,
which makes it all the more ridiculous. But then he
came back and I haven't talked to him in a while.
He lives on the East Coast. He lives in Miami,
and he pretends like he's in New York a lot. Whatever.

(02:12:25):
He's got his own deal, that's his own problem. He's
got to deal with it. But but Haymon, like he said,
I was rude and it was unfunny and all that.
So then I I counterpunched Eddie and I say, well,
it's also accurate, which I believe it is accurate. Right,
it is accurate. He you know, that's football moult practice.
He didn't make it. Supposed to make the tackle. He
didn't make the tackle. And I quoted John Tortorell Eddie.

(02:12:46):
I quoted Torts because I saw your favorite quote. Yeah,
he sucked at a time he should not have sucked.
Which is the perfect quote, and I will use it
for the rest of my living days here and I
just think it's wonderful. Then Hayman shot back, should really
grow up? And then I thought I dropped. I might
drop to Mike malmoin Eddie, Yeah, because I said, you
know what, I've had enough of this. Okay, you're a

(02:13:07):
pain in my head. When when Hayman worked at Newsday
in New York and I was running the rumors side,
he used to you know, we had a connection. I
would use his stuff. He wanted me to use his
stories to help enhance him and his profile and all that.
And now he's become a national baseball right. It does
a pretty good job at it. But I mean, he's
pushing back on this. What an ultimate jock sniffer. But

(02:13:28):
my my comeback, which I'm very proud of, was this
guy bends his adult life talking about baseball trade rumors
and he's giving me a lecture about growing up. That
was it. Didn't you say something about you want to
buy him a piece of cake? Oh? Yeah, that was
one of my other Yeah, yeah, I said you want
to buy him buy him a cake? Yeah, that was

(02:13:48):
earlier on Well, I'm gonna guess he regretted going after
you for for something that was very nocuous. Yeah, but
from what I understand, uh, blind Scott went after him.
But it wasn't just Blind Scott. I mean I am, oh,
I'm sure, I'm like a proud pop up because my

(02:14:09):
my guys, the the bulldogs, uh in the in the
Mallard Militia, the senior members of the Mallar Militia, who
are just looking for a fight. I mean, these guys
are just looking for someone who dares dares a step
on our toes here. And so there was like a
calling calling together a flash meeting of the Mallard Militia.

(02:14:30):
There the p ones defending the good honor of the show.
Yeah exactly. And so they were all excited like, well,
everyone's been blocked by William Shatner, so let's try to
take on John Hayman. Uh. And and they were going
for it. I mean, there was a call like a
Twitter meeting that took place there. We had I want
to get everyone's name in here. That was part of this.

(02:14:50):
But there was it was like an endless number of
guys that were just going for it. Um and some
of the guys even suspended our friend from Nashville who's
banned from the show. He was, Uh, he was very
active blind Scott as you mentioned. Uh has anyone been
blocked him? And I don't think he blocks people. I
think he just ignores him. I don't do we know?
Do we know why? Like what? Well, that is a mystery.

(02:15:12):
I don't know what what? Why this set him off?
Yeah it wasn't. I don't know. I mean maybe he
like he feels like he knows me a little bit.
I shoot, I'm like above that. I don't know, not
above that. Obviously, he obviously knows you at least a
little bit, because I was reading one of his responses.
He doesn't deserve unfunny people who aren't from New Orleans
and aren't Saints fans. But who lost a bet whining

(02:15:33):
about it? I mean, I didn't lose a bet. I
pushed on the bet, so I didn't lose a bet.
All right, I got my money back. It's not about that.
It's not about it if I lose a bet. I'm
still upset about the Music City miracle. Okay, that happened,
what twenty years ago? I'm still upset about that. I'm
still bitter about that. You look like a big fat clown.

(02:15:55):
I guess he's just a Saints fan. Maybe no, he's not.
He's like a New York guy. And he lives and
I think he was in Miami last I heard he
lives in Miami. But so strange, So so it does
this end here? Is this just a one day thing
us in John Hayman? Or are we gonna here? You
don't want it to end here? You enjoy this year.

(02:16:16):
But again, much like William shat I want you to
know here my hands my hands dirty in anyway here.
All my job is to opine on these different stupid
sporting events. I was doing my job. I didn't direct
this at John Hayman. He came after me, much like
a Shatner when we were having a Shatner was so
dumb on Twitter. He didn't know he was including me

(02:16:38):
in these uh these tweets that he was sending out.
And then we started. I started responding to him because
he kept showing up my my timeline. Well, that was
your bad. You asked him about hockey, I asked him,
he liked it. He's Canadian. I asked a Canadian guy
who was gonna win the Stanley Cup between was a
lightning and the black Hawks. I think was that the
was that the matchup? I think so was that the

(02:16:59):
Ben big Hip Die Die die ariha that could have
been it was that it Eddie, Yeah, yes, but that
didn't really happen. That did happen. It did not. It
absolutely did happen. Checkmate, all right, But just Josh and
a bunch of the other guys were were just just
absolutely marvelous. So but thank you guys. I've got my
own I'm like the Rockets man, I'm like Chris Paul.

(02:17:22):
I got my guys that are going to run into
the other locker room to protect my good name. Here, Eddie,
your hit squad, my social media bully squad or hit squad, yeah,
whatever you want to whatever you want to call it there,
but there was it was a calling of the guard
there and uh and Hayman was like he was responding,
he's he's got a good thing going. He's on television.
You know he makes you know, either makes up these

(02:17:43):
rumors or done. I don't know how what the hell
he does. Nobody throws a lot of crap out there
against the wall, hoping that some of it would would stick.
But he was like getting into he was like responding.
Justin really upset him. Justin really got upset. You got
him upset. So so it was it was good, all right.
So the Ben Mallers Show on Fox. We'll take some
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(02:18:49):
for you, it will have at some point here some
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calling it. Right now, to the phones we go, and
let's see here. I think Andrew called back. Is this
our friend Andrew and Southern California, West Kovina. Hello Andrew, Yeah,
I have a government phone, so you have to I apologize.

(02:19:12):
Let's blame the government. That's everyone else is why not? Yeah?
I think the Chinese cut me off. Yeah, clearly clearly racist.
I think you met the North Koreans or the Russian. Yeah,
the North Koreans. I'm sorry that job about you? Yeah,
sorry about that. Um, I'm I'm sorry about Jeanie from Nedford.

(02:19:34):
I uh, when I first started listening to your show,
I do remember a number of her calls, and the
one call I do remember was her calling up and
she was trying to get her cat. I believe that
she had a cat. Well, not only not only yeah, yeah,
yeah I remember. No, yeah, that's not only did she

(02:19:56):
have a cat. A cat was named Bubby, and he
was so upset that the damn cat would not make
any noise that she grabbed the tail of the cat
and pulled the tail of the cat. So the cat screamed,
oh no. And that's the sound actually that we played
that we we play I believe that's the bite that's

(02:20:16):
from that not that that was that was that was
That was Genie pretending to be the cat. That was
what that was? Uh, that's a good that's a good memory, Andrew,
I forgot about that one. Yeah, and I remember yelling
at Genie like, what the hell are you doing? You
can't be grabbing the cat's tail like that out there? Well,
I have a dog and and he doesn't even bark

(02:20:36):
heat kind of yodels yodels really, yeah's that? What's that
sound like? What's it sound like? Give me, give me
little sun. It's hard to describe. We recreated. Well, I'll
try to give a sound. Well, I want you to
do I don't want to I want to hear what
it sounds like. Your perspective, man, You know what, I

(02:20:58):
still got a little bit of brond I just I
can't really imitate him right now. Sorry about that. Yeah,
you need more women callers, and no, no, no, women
listen to the show. We have Barbara Tammy uh and
the celebrity couple and Rachel and that's it. That's it.

(02:21:21):
That's the only one. Andrea the psyche all right there,
that's a lot of women. I just need a bunch
of women to listen to the show there or call in. Yeah,
maybe somebody will call in, all right, I thank you,
go go to bed. Thank you. All right, let's go
to Neil, who's in Saugust on Fox Sports Radio. Hello Neil,

(02:21:44):
Hello man Um, I called to h hopefully exchange a couple.
Make a comment on Jeanie Um who's passing. I'm I'm
sorry about and to you and especially Justin. I extend
my condolences. Now, why did you say especially Justin? You know, well,
because of what you said earlier in the show just

(02:22:05):
about well you've said it for a long time. But anyway,
just how close Uh he was on the contact list?
I realized you were No I was on I was no, No,
he wasn't. I was on the contact list. He wasn't
on the contact Oh okay, well I stand corrected. Then.
At any event, I know you both liked her and
I I liked her too, And if if anything, I

(02:22:27):
was a bit surprised at my reaction. Has been kind
of a bad week for me. My father who was
very old. But anyway, he died a week ago, and
thank you, thank you, Ben and Jeanie. What surprised me
was kind of the depth of my my sadness. I've
listened to her since she called a long, long time

(02:22:47):
listener talked to you once before, and you know, not
part of the militia or anything. But I listened to
you nightly. You know you're not. And I just was
kind of surprised at myself because I I feel like
I lost a really dear friend. She was really a
genuine person. She was kind of a closet philosopher to

(02:23:07):
a degree. She was not dumb anyone who assumed that
despite her being a little little on occasion, no, not
on occasion, no, no, no, on on occasion. There were
a few times she called up when she was completely
sober and we were like, we were like shocked. We
were like, what happened? What happened to our genie? Yeah,
that's not our that's not we thought. In fact, I

(02:23:29):
remember I thought this is not I thought, this is
the real genie. This is like an imposter. But it
was just because she wasn't on the sauce, you know,
that was that was it? Yeah, Well until to night,
I didn't know the your extent of figuring that Pete
from Pittsburgh or whoever was imating. Oh no, no, I was.
I was convinced I had. I was bragging to the

(02:23:49):
people that worked on the show. At that time, I said,
I'm gonna get her. I'm gonna I'm gonna get Pete. Rather,
I'm gonna get it, and uh yeah I didn't. I
didn't quite work out. All right, Well, nole's my condolences. Man,
you're gonn through a lot. Man. Oh, thank you very much, Bend.
All right, there he goes and love you too. All right.
He probably said I love the show. He didn't love me,
but he loves the show, all right. Very nice. No

(02:24:12):
condom Carl is next. Hello, No condom, Carl. Good morning, Ben. Hello.
It's very sad about hearing the passing a Genie. Um.
Genie's like customers that I have on my paper route.
I have probably over the last dozen years, a handful
of individuals that would be waiting there at the door

(02:24:36):
because you were the somewhat highlighted the day because they
didn't have a lot of social interactions outside of their home.
And it was very, very enjoyable. You're always smiling when
you're listening to her, and it's it's gonna be a
big loss. Yeah, Listen, we were gonna miss a Genie.
It was a big part of us. She had me
him a call in a while she passed away yesterday.

(02:24:57):
If you just turned on the radio, one of our
regular regular callers and uh and and she she's touched
a lot of people. And I told our friend Tammy
and Montana, who had been been talking to Genie as well.
I really hope that she's aware of this. I think
she was. And according to UH, to Tammy and whatnot,
she was able. And I told her too. When I
talked to Genie the last time I spoke with her,

(02:25:19):
I told her there were a lot of people who
were very upset that she couldn't call the show anymore. So, yeah,
and it's sad because I hear a lot of your
callers over the years, and all of a sudden they
just disappear. You don't know what happened to him. And
it's as sad as it is passing. It's nice to
know the uh. You know. Well, let me let me

(02:25:42):
point out most of the people that stopped calling don't die.
They changed shifts. We got a lot of people that
work the day shift. You know, this is a unique situation.
So that's what no, no, no, I understand that. Yeah,
very sad day. All right, be safe out there. What's
the weather like what's the weather. It's about nine degrees
right now, perfect perfectly to open your window and throw newspapers.

(02:26:06):
It's perfect weather to be the paper boys, security guards
and drivers. Yeah. She ran down the list of everyone
that listens to the show. She did, all right, thank you,
no condom? Carl? All right? Yes, so Eddie, how you there? Yes,
I'm just getting ready. You want to say something? All right? Anyway,

(02:26:26):
we will have Eddie here and also delightfully uninformed. We'll
get to that we have later in the hour. Here
site The Bite, the great sports radio mystery site, The Bite.
Right now though, Eddie Garcia to give you the latest
on Fox Eddie. Oh, have been an interesting night in
the NBA. We will start with the matchup that we've
seen in the last three NBA finals, Warriors taken on
the Cavaliers. Always an interesting matchup, and that one Cleveland

(02:26:47):
at home led by seven and a half, but they
could not hold it in the second half. It was
all Warriors, who end up winning by ten one eighteen
to one oh eight. Golden State, where the victory is
the improved to a league best thirty six and nine
on the here. They were led by Kevin Durant, who
had thirty two points, and Steph Curry, who had twenty
three points. Cleveland has now lost eight of ten. Clippers
beat the Rockets one thirteen to one, out two and
Chris Paul's return to LA. This one was a spirit affair,

(02:27:11):
with the Blake Griffin of LA and Trevor Reas of
Houston being ejected late in this one. There are also
words between several players, and even players and coaches accused
Blake Griffin of intentionally making contact against Yeah, they they
exchanged pleasantries, you might say, on the in the game. Yeah,

(02:27:31):
uh so. But then after the game, apparently it's being
reported that several Rockets players not apparently it happened went
into the Clippers locker room and security had to call
the police. Yeah, the police were called it. So certainly
bad blood. There very professional reaction by the Rockets to lose.
I'm gonna guess that the NBA will be looking into that,

(02:27:53):
and uh, you know the word some sort of punishment.
The word is level level headed. Yeah, level ended. It's
a later earlier anyway, Hawks beat the Spurs one O
two ninety nine. It was the Sixers over the Raptors
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stick with the NBA for our final story. I'm sure
are well aware of this, but there's ongoing drama beef,
if you will, between the NBA players and some of
the referees. What happened last night in Oklahoma City's not
going to help that. Russell Westbrookby, reigning league MVP for

(02:28:38):
the Thunder, went up for a shot, was hit, came
down with the ball holding his face, and was called
for traveling. He then was immediately called for two technicals
for arguing with the referee and ejected from the game.
He did not speak to reporters afterwards, and Karmel Anthony, though,
did speak with him, saying that basically he's done with

(02:29:00):
the referees in this league, so oh really, yeah, that'll
work out well. I'm sure, I'm sure that is. That's
been a consistent they always complaining about the official in
the NBA. That is a standard standard operating situation. All right,
So the Ben Mallis Show, We're coming in from the
Geico Fox Sports Radio studios. I'm predicting at the All
Star Break, which will be in LA coming up in February,

(02:29:22):
an intervention by Adam Silver, that the commissioner will that's
what he's been talking about it. Yeah, he's summit between
them a little pow wow. They're in LA or some
other exotic location and they will tell on they take
like two weeks off at the All Star break now
in basketball because the guys can't handle planes. They gotta
take like a tropical vacation of the Yeah, come on,

(02:29:43):
all right, So I got three stories here. I will
get to sec the bite a little bit later here,
but three wonderful stories. Three three stories I love very
much and I want to do all of them. Number One,
many of our friends in Minnesota have have sent this
the Skull Account to Anders and many other people here
are desk trying to get us to talk about what
Sean Payton did. And on the Daily Norseman. Do you

(02:30:05):
ever read the Daily Norseman every morning? Dot com? They
have the story up there. But it's wonderful and it's
got photos of what Sean Payton was doing. This is
not maybe it is a good look. So twenty seconds
twenty five seconds left in the divisional playoff game and
Will Lutts he had hit a field goal. The Saints

(02:30:26):
were up twenty four to twenty three, and Sean Payton
then went over to the stands. Over near the stands,
it appears he took at least a couple of steps
and he decided then to mock a group of Viking
fans that were sitting behind with the Saints bench there,
and he did the skull clap, the infamous Viking clap

(02:30:50):
there right now. Yeah, pretty good, look right now. Would
have been fine if they had won the game, but
they would have laughed and said, oh and he won
the game. Look at the it's just Sean pay Remember
earlier this year he did the choke sign. Yes I do. Yeah,
it's quite the character he's you know, he's in the
locker room dancing with the broom. That was broom was good.

(02:31:14):
The broom was really good. I liked that. That was
that was solid. So a good job by Sean pay
Sure that will not be brought up ten years from
now and all that if he's still coaching the NFL.
All right, so I got two So that good job
there and whoever found that, thank you guys who afforded
that on us. And the other story. I got two
other stories. Uh, did you see what Chris Paul said after?

(02:31:36):
We have audio on this? Chris Paul after the game
last night the Rockets and Clippers had a kri fluffle
and Chris Paul, this is classic passive aggressive behavior, classic class.
Just just Truman. He listened to him praise the Clippers
go to guy on the clip. Do we have the

(02:31:56):
audio on this? Here's here's Chris Paul. I don't know.
You know, they got lou Will. You know what I mean.
Lou Will is the guy, you know what I mean,
that's the go to guy, the guy that they should
played through and stuff like that. He having a great
year and he's tough, he's tough man. But they played
the right way. They shared a ball, they moved the ball,
and uh, it's a good team over there. Yes. Uh.

(02:32:17):
The reason that, yeah, well, the reason he said that
is because he didn't want to say two words Blake Griffin.
He didn't want to say that, so instead he threw
lou Williams out there, which is that's passive aggressive, was like, well,
I don't want to I don't really like Blake Griffin,
so I'm not gonna say his name. So that was
That was nice of Chris Paul the weasel. Uh. And

(02:32:39):
then the other one, which is probably my favorite sound
by Eddie is this is just marvelous, delightfully uninformed. Louisiana State,
better known by their initials LSU has a new offensive coordinator.
Did you did you hear about this? Eddie Sir doesn't
really make national news. We wouldn't typically talk about LSU
hiring he knew all offensive coordinator, if you know, if

(02:33:01):
it had been maybe I don't know, some NFL coach
or something like that like that back in the day,
we would have brought it up. But this is just marvelous.
So the the new LSU offensive coordinator is introduced, and uh,
let's just say when it comes to media, he is
delightfully uninformed. Listen to his analysis of modern media. I

(02:33:24):
don't read the damn paper, I don't read Twitter, I
don't go on Facebook, you know what? And I tell
my family stay off of it, you know what, because
you know what, all I can do is what I
can do. You know what. I can't let any outside
inform say hey, well you're not good enough or you
you can't do this. Okay, this is His name is

(02:33:44):
Steve Innsenminger. I believe that's how you pronounce his name.
And he was the tight end coach Coach oh promoted
him to the offensive coordinator. They have like a cartoon
character staff in bad time, rude like coach looks like
Fred Flintstone. You got this guy as the offensive coordinator. Listen, Mattie, now, Matine.

(02:34:06):
I would think every single player that LSU recruits, when
they're not playing football, they're on Instagram, whether they're posting
stuff or checking out booty models, whatever they're doing. They're
on Facebook, they're on Twitter, they're on all that snapchat
snap And here's the guy. Here's the guy that's gonna
try to relate to those players and go to their
homes and try to bring them to Louisiana State, to

(02:34:27):
LSU to play football. Listen to this guy. I don't
read a damn paper, I don't read Twitter, I don't
go on Facebook, you know, and I tell my family
stay off of it. You know what, because you know what.
All I can do is what I can do. You
know what I can't. You know what at any outside
influence say hey, well you're not good enough or you
can't do this. Vote funny though, that's pretty good. I

(02:34:50):
like that, all right. It's the Ben Mallers Show on Fox.
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(02:35:13):
it right, you'll get your own golden ticket, your own
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(02:35:36):
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(02:36:08):
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It's Ben Maller, Yes, exactly. Gene's right. We have to

(02:36:33):
get to this. We got a lot of stuff to
you do. We had a couple of guys that want
to say a word about Genie and I'll let them
keep their golden ticket because they're not gonna be on
very long because we got to get to this. We'll
say hi to Justin and Cincinnati. Just obviously thought some
prayers to Jeannie her drops will live and in for me,
uh glad to have the energy back. And yes, John
Hayman did block me. Good you got blocked by John Hayman. Yeah,

(02:36:55):
just oh he's blocking John Hayman's blocking people. He's blocking
people you know that. And now that you said that,
oh boy, all right, Well, some of the members of
the Most sho if you want to say hi to
John Haymans, just to tell him. Ben Maller's show says hello,
feel free. You know if he wants to play that
you don't be blocking Justin and Cincinnat. What did Justin doo?

(02:37:16):
He's a good guy, all right? And Ryan in Portland
wanted to say a word about Genie. Ryan in Portland, Hey, Ben,
born and raised Oregony and Janie. Genie is by far
my favorite caller on your show. If you've been to
Medford once, you would know that she is not She's
obviously a real caller. Well they're all little goofy, but
that got big heart. And my favorite call from her

(02:37:38):
was when her friend took the phone said I'm a
Saints fan. That was a tremendous moment. That was not
that was quite the plot twist. We did not see
that one coming. Hey, thank you, Ryan, good job. All right,
Just so Ryan important, Let's get to the Let's get
to the game. Genie would want to see where we
play random generic SoundBite, you know, in a sports and

(02:38:01):
entertainment cliche spoken by so called experience. You trying to
tell us who's doing the talking. All right, let's do it.
Here we go. It is time now for sight to
bite the audio mystery. Blah blah blah blah ba. All right,
here's the summer. Here, this week's summer. I don't know.
It's someone from the world of sports, a player, a coach,

(02:38:22):
a prominent media member. Can you tell who it is?
Played again? I don't know. Will anyone get it right?
I will go with caller five because the Genie was
She's in my top five all time callers, so I
put her in the top five. I'm going with number five.
Eddie also five, all right, Danny gee Ben. I'm very
scientifical when it comes to this game. Genie had five cats,
including Bubby. Caller five's gonna be the big winner. That's

(02:38:45):
a lot you made that up, Koba Loop. I'm gonna
go with call her number five. Alright, good, all right,
very good. Here it is again. If you want to
play eight seven, seven ninety nine of Fox Golden Ticket
on the line one more time, I don't know, all right,
the guy that loves this game more than life itself,
mister Moose in May mister Moose, what's the answer? Good morning?
First off, my condolences to Genie in Medford. He was

(02:39:09):
an icon. All right now, ben, I believe in behalf
of Genie and her two kids from a boxer's father.
Would that be Tommy the hit Man? Herner? Is that
Tommy the Hitman? Hearns? No? All right, bow mister mister

(02:39:33):
Moose wants to be blown up. Scott in Saint Paul
is my caller too? Hello? Scott, Hey there, hi buddy.
What's the answer, Scott? I think it's got in honor
of the Vikings. It's Stephane Diggs. Is that Stefon Diggs,
the hero for the Vikings? No, no, sorry, that's Deefon Diggs.

(02:39:53):
That's a loss for the Vikings. All right, Time for
our first clue. It's not some Fon Diggs or Tommy
the Hitman. Hearns this person and was only the third
rookie to record a triple double within his first four games. Again,
he was only the third rookie to record a triple
double within his first four games. I don't know. Yeah,

(02:40:16):
I think that SoundBite was recorded while he was on
the toilet. It's interesting. I don't know. Dropping a douce
and we had a microphone right there. We have Mike's everywhere.
It's very powerful, the company that I worked for. Let's
see who's next. We have a Stevo in Utah. You
are my caller number three? Stevo? Is it a ball
kid from the Lakers. Uh? What's this? What's his full name? Uh?

(02:40:40):
I got him all mixed up? Yeah, they're all mixed up. Yeah,
the ball is it? Is it? The ball kid? Is it? Now?
It's not the ball kid? But yeah, we do love
balls around you. Thank you, Stevo. A site to bite
the great sports radio mystery Caller number four. Caller number
four in Minneapolis, we say hello to Paul trying to
win a golden ticket. Paul, you're my caller number four

(02:41:04):
was the first clue. Was only the third rookie to
record a triple double within his first four games. Oh
well that doesn't help me one bit. Um. Let's go
with Chris Dunne. Chris Donne. Is that Chris Dunna, the
t wolf back in the day. No, it's incorrect. Thank you, then,
thank you for playing them. Here we go all right,

(02:41:24):
time for one more good look Eddy. This person scored
the most points for an LSU team since Shaquille O'Neill.
He was only the third rookie to record a triple
double within his first four games. AJ in Georgia for
the win, AJ, Ben Simmons, Ben Simmons, that's all right

(02:41:47):
because I said number five for Jenny. Congratulations. I have
the most wins of all time at this Congratulations. AJ,
you get a golden tach get you got it in
your radios turned up him all ride. You gotta golden
decade there it is. Congratulations AJ, and Georgia you get
your own golden ticket. It was Ben Simmons playing again.

(02:42:08):
Ben Simmons are the seventy six ers. I don't know,
all right. A tremendous job out kick is warming up
in the bullpen here and I listen. I thank you all.
It's been a wonderful tribute to our friend Genie and
Medford mission rest in piece a fun part of our show.
We will always remember the fun that Genie brought to
our show.

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