Voyeurs Anonymous

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It was a gala night of NBA awards being handed out,
and it ended with a dud. It did, and a
great lesson has been learned about how naive many people
are that claimed to be experts at watching the NBA.
Will explain what I mean by that. Welcome in the

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beginning of what will be a lively edition of the
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dot com for a free rate quote. It was a
rather long drawn out night of nonsense the NBA's debut.
They broke their chair, they popped their cherry an Academy
Awards style gala event to hand out awards, and it
reached its crescendo about fifteen twenty minutes after it was

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supposed to have already ended, at least on my television.
They had they had a lot of two hours for
this awards show, and it was at the two hour
and fifteen minute markers so that the MVP Award was
handed out and I can't I'm still studied. Russell Westbrook

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won the MVP of the NBA over James hard Now
I don't vote for the MVP. If I had voted,
I would have, of course voted for James Harden. That's
who should have won the MVP award. But I wanted
to talk about this and the questions, what do you
make of someone who clearly manipulated his stats taking home

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the MVP honors. That's what Russell Westbrook did. There's no
debating this, there's no counter argument to it. And so
we've been talked talking about this a lot over the
past handful of months, not so much recently, but at
the end of the NBA regular season this was a

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talking point where he got into it quite a bit.
And now that the vote is in and it was
a landslide win for Russell Westbrook, I have two thoughts. First,
one's stat stuffing and the second one is a farce.
I mean, those are the two things that stand out
to me and will begin with Russell Westbrook. The entire

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MVP campaign was choreographed. It was like a Broadway show.
When you pull out the microscope and analyze what happened
this year, it was manufactured, statistical dominance. There was a point.
This is another example of how things have changed. There
was a point back in the Stone Age where if

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this happened, you would say that's not right, that that
shouldn't be rewarded. In the olden days, it was called
stats stuffing. Now you get the MVP for and we
can break it down point by point here, but the
glaring example for those that are unsophisticated with basketball, those
that are in the camp and in the tank for

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Russell Westbrook, and clearly my only responses you must just
not know basketball. Anyway that knows basketball would say, well, yeah,
he's stuffed the stats, he's not the MVP. But if
you look at the rebounding, there are plenty of videos
chronicling what was going on here. Westbrook was averaging in
the neighborhood of eight uncontested rebounds per game. In fact,

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he finished over eight uncontested rebounds. It led the NBA
in that category. Keep in mind the thunder with players
like Steven Adams and others who are known as pretty
good rebounders. They allowed Russell Westbrook, a guard, to lead
the NBA and uncontested How did that happen? This is
not brain surgery. It's basketball, Russell Westbrooks teammates were conceding

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rebounds that they could have gotten so Westbrook could stuff
his statuet and it worked. The gullible masses bought into it.
So congratulations, it absolutely did work. Russell Westbrook was last
in the NBA at contesting perimeter jump shots among all

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those players that averaged thirty minutes or more per game.
Why does that matter, Well, it matters because he was
more concerned about his stats and he didn't contest perimeter
jump shots because he wanted to get back and get
that extra rebound, because he knew his teammates were going
to be in cahoots and help him out. Kind of

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a red flag, yes, but there's more than just that.
I mean, you can analyze it. The year Westbrook had
at the end of games that Lee ten games coring
to Basketball Reference, where he had Tennis's ten rebounds in
the final three minutes of a game where Oklahoma City
led by at least ten meaning in basketball pilots, it's

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the equivalent of hitting a home run when your team
is ahead by eight runs in the ninth inning. At
the end of the year, it looks pretty good. You're like, oh,
it's a nice home run, and then you realize, well,
it didn't really mean that much. It's stat padding in
football terms. We've talked about this in the past, but
Jay Cutler was famous for this with the Chicago Bears.
Where the Bears would be down twenty one points, he'd

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throw a touchdown and the several quarterbacks who are still playing,
Jay's not playing. He's now part of the Fox broadcasting crew.
Blake Bortles comes to mind. In Jacksonville. A fourth quarter
touchdown passes very impressive, and then you realize, well, Jacksonville
is the game's over at halftime most of the time
when the Jags are playing. But Russell Westbrook set new

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record ords for usage. No player had as many possessions
to work with in NBA history, and the volume of shots,
the fact that he shot forty two percent from the
field thirty four percent from three point range. How bad
is that there were two hundred and ninety players in
the NBA that shot a better field goal percentage than

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Russell Westbrook. Coin to NBA dot Com, Westbrook was tied
with Joe Harris of Brooklyn, who I don't even know
who that is, and Jaron Grant of the Bulls, who
I don't think I know who that is either. What
about three point shooting? Westbrook was two hundred and fifth
in three point field goal percentage, tied with the great
James Young who played some games with Boston Celtics, and

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we can go on. And he averaged more shots per
game Westbrook did than anyone else and by a wide margin,
like three shots a game more a per contest than
the next closest player, which was Damarta Rose. And the
shooting efficiency was so bad for your MVP in the NBA,

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it was so bad compared to the other candidates that
it's not even the same galaxy. He was second. I
believe he was second or first in turnovers. He was
second in total turnovers per one hundred possessions. Believe he
led the NBA and overall turnovers and break it down
point by point here. But all of that is irrelevant

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because the Rubes who decide who wins this are like, yeah,
we love it, man, he led the NBA and triple doubles.
That's the coolest thing in the world. Man. You don't
know what you're talking about. Yeah, shut up, shut up now.
In addition the fact that Russell Westbrook won the Most

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Valuable Player award is a total farce, not just because
of the stats that I gave you that back up
the argument, but James Harden was better when you consider
the fact that he wasn't stuffing his stats, his teammates
weren't in cahoots, he didn't get the benefit of teammates

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that were conceding rebounds, so he could pat his stats
and the Rockets had a better record. And when you
look at the regular season, it's not a postseason award.
Harden was better than Westbrook there as well. His team
advanced in that head to head match and Westbrook disappeared
at the end. Again, so it's not about the playoffs.
Is a regular season award, but the manipulated stat sheet

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for Russell Westbrook, it's absurd and it shows you the
lesson here is that the people at vote for the
MVP award and these other awards, they don't do their homework.
They're lazy. Basketball media is lazy. And I gave him
the benefit of the doubt. I assumed that they would
actually do their job and look at the numbers and

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break it down and realize what was going on here.
And if you had done ten minutes, just ten minutes,
you would not have been such an easy mark. And
these guys are suckers. It's like they're blind, death and
dumb when it comes to this. They didn't do any
kind of research here. They would have realized if you,
if you did your due diligence, you would have realized

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what was going on. Clearly they didn't now the final
observations we yapp on Fox Sports Radio, Russell Westbrook is
living proof that when the legend becomes the fact, you
go with the legend, the legend of triple doubles. No
one's talking about the legend of a guy shooting forty
two percent leading the NBA and turnovers and his teammates

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getting out of the way so he can get eight
rebounds a game, eight and a half rebounds per game
uncontested because his teammates are allowing him to get many
of those rebuk So, now, don't get me wrong, I'm
not gonna lose any sleep on my beautiful sleep number
bed over this not. I don't know Russell Westbrook, I
don't know James Harden. I'm not in the tank for

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the Rockets or the Thunder. I just know that this
is a farce and that the Lowe for nation sports
fan eats this kind of stuff up and they love
it because they see the triple double stat and they
don't spend any kind of time looking at how he
got there, and it's a it's a wonderful lesson for
other people. You can win the MVP the Russell westbrookway.

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You can. He's the second player to win on a
team that won less than fifty games, the forty two,
shooting from the floor, being a ball hog, getting your
teammates to encourage that stat padding, all of that is
the way it works. Russell Westbrook benefited from a very
slick social media campaign. He won Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter,

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and a lot of gullible basketball scribes swallowed a hole
and they're like, yeah, I'm I'm pretty cool with this.
I like the fact that Russell Westbrook was two hundred
and ninety first in field goal percentage. Let's give him
the MVP. Two hundred and fifty three part percentage, a
turnover machine. Just glories, Absolutely wonderful. So the Ben Mallers

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(11:24):
Willie this year, as well as The Navigator. Way through
the overnight hours, I actually thought, I actually thought that
James Harden should have been the MVP as well. And
if you'd have told me before the season started that
Russell Westbrook was going to average a triple double, something
no one had done since the sixties. On face value,

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that sounds pretty impressive and you're like, Okay, that's that's
gonna be an MVP award winner. But when when you
get James Harden transforming his game to make his team
much better and he still puts up big time numbers,
I thought that was the deciding factor and why he
would win. It just shows you these guys don't even
pay attention. It's it's just a throwaway vote. It's they

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don't care. But at this I mean, if it was
like a fan vote thing, I could get it. But
I mean, aren't these people supposed to like look beyond
just kind of a highlight reel. They clearly didn't. If
they had, they wouldn't have. There's no way you vote
for Westbrook if you actually look at what he did.
You don't. This just does not I understand the low

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information fan, the rube that just looks at the highlights
and they're like, oh, man, did you see that he
broke some record and then they go crazy the triple
double contingent. I understand that, But that's the low information
sports fan. The people that understand unless you look further,
that aren't supposed to be blissfully ignorant. They're the ones

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that have to own this. But hey, listen, time will
go on and people will forget about all this. They'll
move on. They'll only remember the triple double stat they
won't remember how he got there, and that We'll see
what happens next year. I'll tell you what. If I'm
the Brooklyn Nets, I try to get any team could
do this right. You play a guy enough minutes, he
takes enough shots, Well, he does still have to be
a pretty good player. It's not like you can just

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turn anybody into this. Even if you go to great
links to do it, they still have to be a
pretty You could get eight and a half rebounds if
you do what Russell rest. But he got eight and
a half uncontested rebounds. But he also averaged thirty one
points a game. Yes, he shot forty two and a
half percent, literally made more. She took more shots than
anyone else. But you buy a wide march. You're not
saying he's just an average player, right, I'm saying he

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filled the stat sheet up. Okay, now he got there.
They still have to be pretty good. But if you shoot.
But if you shooting forty two and a half percent
and you take enough shots, you're going to score thirty
one points a game, You're going to get there. The
math works out that way. If you take enough shots,
you're gonna get to that point total. Who won the
Style Award? I wasn't. I think I was watching that crap.

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I didn't want to watch that. I gotta know who
won the Style of Cooper watched Style. I don't want.
I was just terrible. I watched like five seconds of
the show and it sucked, and I was like, all right,
I don't need I don't need. So I don't know
who was a ghost writing Drake's jokes, but I didn't.
I'm good. I'm out of there. I'm not watching Danny g.
You're at NBA. You're talking about it was terrible. Uh, Eddie,

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I only watched the MVP. Oh my god. If you
guys aren't watching it, then who is this other stuff?
I would rather watch a boring baseball game some random
teams I don't even care about than that. Drec Uh,
No no interest at all at all. All right. Ben
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(14:47):
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(15:07):
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I'm att Eddie on Fox. Shout out Westbrook, here we go. Yeah,
and I'll live from the Geico Fox Sports Radio studios.
It's Ben Maller. So the NBA got it wrong. They

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gave Russell Westbrook, who should not have won the MVP,
the the award, but the life will go on. I
believe it will will continue. This is not the end.
I don't believe it is the end. You can join
us though, if you want, give us buzz. Also on
Twitter at Ben Maller, someone named the Subconscious Mind rights
in says, take Russ off the Thunder and they have

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the first pick. Take James off the Rockets and they
make the eight seed most Valuable Player. Yes, that's sound logic.
That's that's probably a logic. It was used by these
dopey basketball media guys to give him the MVP. Maybe
this guy's a basketball writer. You think there's a chance
he's a It's kind of logic. The basketball writers the

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credo of the basketball media. So yeah, that makes sense.
So sure, First of all, I don't even know if
that's true, because hey, here's an idea. If Russell Westbrook
wasn't on the Thunder, some of those other guys would
have taken shots and they would have gotten rebounds. It's
amazing that how that hall works. I know that's too
much for your mind to understand. I get that, but

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just just to understand that's actual, actual, accurate analysis, and
you know how bad or good the Rockets would be.
The Rockets. You take James Harden away from the Rockets,
they're not going to make the playoffs in the West.
Not gonna happen. All Right, to the phones we go.
Mike is in La on Fox Sports Radio. Hello, Mike, Hello,
Big Ben, Just so I want to call in it.

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I agree with you with the Westbrook not gaining our
winning the MVP. I think that they got it wrong. Um,
James Harden, they want eight more games then the Thunder.
He shot better, he was more efficient, and he was
only two two rebounds away from not averaging a triple double.
So I mean, I just don't understand. You know why

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he wasn't. You know, Yeah, they gotta, they gotta. You're
trying to say, Mike, You're not saying it eloquently, but
that you're you're trying to point out this is wrong,
this is not right here, and that people are giving
If Westbrook did not average a triple double, if he
had not been the Thunder had not been complicent in
giving him all those extra rebounds, and he, let's say
he averaged a double double and like seven rebounds a game,

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he wouldn't win the MVP. He won the MVP based
on stat stuffing, and that's what you're trying to say it.
Harden didn't do that. If Harden had done that and
gotten those uncontested rebounds like Westbrook, then he could have
averaged a triple double point. Exactly. Yeah, all right, it's
a brilliant point. Thank you. All right, let's go do

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is this is this the real hot nuts or the
fakes I was told to put on the screen? Okay,
I was told to put straight out of the mean
streets of Mesa Hot nuts jet fuel? George fired up? Okay,
I don't know what that means, but let's find out.
There's a great mystery here. But whoever this is hot

(18:21):
nuts want to be jet fuel? George wanna be? You
are on Fox Sports Radio. It's the Ben Mathers Show.
I'm backing on Proud No. Oh, this is our Are you?
Are you off home? Arrested? Are you? Are you? Wait?
Before we get in the all in it, let me
get a shot out to Danny g He's still kicking
on the bottom. Is this mister tib Yes, mister you

(18:50):
didn't recognize his voice. He's America's Peeping Tom. He's calling
it right now. I know you guys don't believe me
when I gave you my last episode. I know you
google up mister Tibbs Brock Martin Tibbs to find out
if I was real or not, if I was telling
you the truth, if I was putting you on and
you couldn't find me. That's the cause. That's my pseudonym.

(19:13):
Oh okay, you know you know Holler and James is
not his real name. Jet Field George is not his
real name. Hotel Ryan is not his real name. Nude,
I go on, we know Genie and Meth, but it's
not her real name. Because I went to mid for
looking Virginie. I checked every nursing home up there and
could not find it. Well, that is Genie's real name, actually,

(19:34):
but she's not in the nursing home. Well, she's not
a nursing home, and she's got some other names as well.
That's just one of her many names. But we won't
get into that. Ye's time you and I conversated, Ben Teller. Yes,
we got into it, much heated discussion and all because
I disagreed with you on who was going to be
the MVP. Yeah, you was banking on James Harden and

(19:58):
I called and told you that it was all hyped.
Remember those famous words, And I said, Jane, I said,
Westbrook had already wanted, it was already decided, and the
rest of it was night. You you squashed me like
a bug to my showla and blah blah blah blah.

(20:19):
You still put your foot on my throat and whipped
my heart out. Then you kick me to the curve
by never mentioning, never mentioning me again. In three months.
You never once mentioned one call. You mentioned everybody. You
did not bring my name up one time watched. Yeah,
that's okay. I don't call your shot for notoriety. I

(20:42):
don't want recognition. I just want to be but myself
and tell you I calmed down that your diet tried
was still wrong. It was no, no, no, no no.
Listen to me, all right, listen to me. I think
there was Russian hacking that was involved in this. I
believe the Russian hackers got in. That's what my friends

(21:03):
at Cianna reporting, So I'm gonna go with that. Uh.
And I did the math, mister Tibbs. I gave you
the mathematic equation, and it all adds up. You do
the calculation yourself. This is not algebra calculus. You put
the numbers together. And Westbrook's not the MVP. This is
trigonometry exactly. This is cheapest. Yes, I'm a talk show host.

(21:34):
I don't let anyone speak other than me. I'm a
talk show host. That's what we all do. We're all
blowhards and gas backs. You know that, mister Tibbs. You
know that you still call the show now. I want
to know about you, and you didn't care. No, I
did care. But you're a well, you're an occasional caller
though you don't call. Some of these people call every night.

(21:54):
I know, I'm gonna talk to Mark, the full name guy,
five nights a week. He's gonna be on hold. He
calls every night. I know that. And these some of
these other people call every single life. You call once
every month or two. I try to call when I
have something to say. I don't call just to be
that's a novel idea for your time, Yah malicious. That
is absolutely correct here, And you've showed more emotion mister Tibbs,

(22:17):
than Mitchell who won a golden ticket yesterday. At the
end of the show in this conversation. You know what,
I'm gonna give you a golden takeles, I'm getting you
get it, You're getting it. Wait, all right, fine, just
before you go to collboy and win. Alright, I'm long.

(22:39):
The guy doesn't want a golden ticket, all right, I'm
not gonna give you a golden ticket. That's fine. That's
the first time that's happened. You don't get a golden ticket,
mister ticket. Wait, here's what I want to know. What's
going on with you? Are you able to leave your home?
Are you still? Wait? Man? Wait, let me let me
explain that I'm going to rehab now. Oh, you know what?
They branded me in labor. I've never heard this word before.

(23:02):
So if you've heard it, you away. You're smarter than
I am. They I'm a voyor. But anyway, there's rehab
for being a voyor. Oh. They got people in my
class that are ethics for cigarette action. Six guy in
there and a woman too that like sex so much
they say they're added to it. I need to go then,
because I love sex. Isn't that a category now, mister Tipps.

(23:27):
Not that I'm an expert on this, but I have
done some research. I believe voyeurism is a category in
the porn sights. I think you can type that in there.
Oh no, I don't even have the Playboy channel, you know. Okay, no,
look at live action. You know what I'm saying. And
you like to see the real thing that you know?
You do your own thing the neighbor next door, you like,

(23:47):
I have a satten nights jown on. All right, well,
mister Tipps, good luck with whatever real I don't even
know what that is. Voy Is there such a thing
as voyor rehab? Is that this first time I've heard
of it too? Yeah, but I'm addicted to Yeah, well
aren't we all addicted to naked? Most of us? Are?

(24:09):
We start that way? We leave so many drops here, Danny,
I'm telling you, this is wealth of drops. He didn't
want to golden ticket. Eddy. I tried to give the
guy a golden ticket. Mister Tipps says, I don't need
your golden ticket. You don't want can wait? All right? Well,
mister Tibbs, I love you, man, I'm a bad man. Yeah,
try that again, because you screwed my name of Can
you do that again? Yeah? Alright? Well not all right?

(24:32):
Thank you all right, I gotta go, Thank you, mister Tipps. Sorry,
there he goes where he goes. No one knows. That
was a nice surprise, unexpected when mister Tibbs calls in.
Do we need to give some more random shout outs
to mister Tibbs just to encourage him to call the show?
Is that what we have to do? Now? Well, in
all fairness, you did give him a shout out on
our periscope last week, remember, Yeah, we were trying to
figure out I'm guessing he didn't watch Paris. Yeah, I

(24:54):
think he watching other things. There's no naked people on
our periscope feed. There's no boobies on the pair uscop feed, unfortunately.
All right, we will get to is he staying or
is he going? And some nuggets of advice. We'll get
to all that. We'll do it in sixty seconds, no
long commercial break. But first let's find out what's trending.

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back to Ben Maller Russell Westbrook is the MVP of
the NBA as silly as that is, he did win
the awards shooting forty two percent and getting all those

(25:36):
uncontested rebounds clearly paid off. And is he gonna leave
or is he gonna stay Oklahoma City will depending on
who you believe. It is expected that Russell Westbrook is
going to stay in Oklahoma City, which will break the
heart of many Laker historians who were convinced that Russell

(25:59):
Westbrook was going to leave Oklahoma City and take his
forty two point five percent field goal percentage to the Lakers.
But it would appear that is not going to happen.
That he is going to pick money over a championship. Right,
Oklahoma City is never going to win with Russell Westbrook.

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They be a fringe playoff team and he'll put up
great stats until his body wears down in a couple
of years. But we are hearing that Westbrook is going
to get a contract over two hundred million dollars over
the next five seasons to stay in Oklahoma City. It's
a team that is compliant to him. They have facilitated

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this activity and two hundred million dollars in Oklahoma city.
He can own the like half the state. He can
literally own for two hundred million dollars. I said, you
don't have to worry about By the time Westbrook's five
year contracts up, the gas tax in California will be
seventeen dollars a gallon seven. It's not like that in Oklahoma.

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So it would appear that he's going to to stay.
And as Kevin Durant posted anything, as he had any
shots at Westbrook, I have not followed Durant there on
on social media. I'll have to. I'll have to check
into that. So Westbrook's twenty I think he's twenty eight,
and so five years from now he'll be past his prime.

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After this extension, he'll be on the tail end of dominance.
Actually he'll be past that because the prime years end
at age thirty two. All right, So the Bemaller Show
on Fox, a lot of reaction to mister Tibbs, who
just called in here. People very excited, some people agreeing,

(27:52):
some disagreeing with mister Tibbs. Boston Davis's mister Tibbs returns
with a fire. He points out other people saying more
mister Tibbs, more, mister tipps. And then we've got random
people tweeting saying that uncontested rebounds is not a thing?
How is it not a thing? The NBA's own propaganda arm,

(28:13):
their website has a category for uncontested rebounds and Russell
Westbrook led that category. There are videos documenting what went
on here. It's this is not that difficult. I know
for some people, it's very difficult and they can't figure
this out, and it's just it's very tough for them

(28:35):
to adapt to this argument and embrace what this is
all about. But trust me, trust me, you're on the rocks.
If you don't think that's a thing. That is absolutely
a thing. All right. Meanwhile, now we have a follow
up to a story that we talked about on a
previous edition of The Ben Maller Show. It involves a

(28:59):
fantasy track. That's the time of just throwing everything against
the wall and going for it. And typically with these things,
you have to follow the money. When trades are discussed
and where players end up, it's usually all about the money.
That's what it comes down to. In the case of
the Cleveland Cavaliers, they really want to get Paul George, right,

(29:22):
They really, really really really want to get Paul George.
The problem is they have to convince it would appear
two other teams to get in on a trade for
Paul George because Indiana doesn't want what Cleveland has. At
least that's what the scuttle budd is if you believe
what is being fed to us in the gossip middle

(29:44):
of the NBA that the Pacers do not want to
get into the Kevin Love business. And so the Cavaliers,
who don't have a GM wink wink Lebron, they still
have to figure out a way to try to acquire
Paul George. Chauncey Billups as yet to agree. And at
this point, if you're the Cavaliers, don't you tell Chauncey
to go pound saying somewhere and it's like, hey, listen,

(30:04):
give how much time do you need? Either you want
the job or you don't want the job. It shouldn't
take that long to decide. You can continue to bore
people on television, or you can take the job and
get paid to do nothing as the gem of the Calves.
And if Lebron James leaves, will let you go and
we'll pay you for three years, pay a ton of money.
But anyway, get to the point. Please. The point is

(30:25):
it's an odd sentiments because the Denver Nuggets, who were
supposed to be the third team in this hypothetical trade
which would involve George going to the Cavaliers and Kevin
Love going to Denver and some other players you've never
heard of going to the Pacers. Well, now the word
is that the Nuggets really want to get Kevin Love.

(30:48):
They'd like to have him and bring him to Denver.
But the Pacers don't seem to be all that interested
in the direc that the Nuggets were going to send
to Indian Apples. That is a problem. The old piece
of poop in the punch bowl there, And so the
Cavaliers now are scouring around. They're like, well, this could

(31:08):
be a much bigger situation, right, because if you're the Cavaliers,
let's say you trade Kevin Love to the Nuggets for
some players, but then you have to get those players
and trade them to another team, and you have to
then get players from that other team that you can
then send to Indiana to get Paul George. So this

(31:30):
is like this instead of just being like a two
team or a three team trade. This could be like
a four teams trade. Well, you just start moving people
around and sending them all over God's green Earth, and
then eventually you could get enough players where the pacers
are like, all right, we'll do that. We'll sign off
on that. Why not, let's do it. So the Ben

(31:51):
Maller Show on Fox, Terry says, mister Tibbs is looking
at you naked when you go to the toilet stall.
He would rather give you a golden blank than the
golden tickets. All right, thank you for that. But other
people seemingly enjoying the conversation from mister Tipps all right,

(32:15):
Ben Maller Show on Fox, and get asked at Ben
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for the who am I? Game? Now? The who am I?
Game is a blatant attempt to get you to listen
for a couple of minutes longer who exactly I pretend
to be somebody else. I give you who I am,

(32:39):
but I don't give you my name, and you have
to figure out who I am based on the clue.
There's a lot of great guessing that goes on a
lot of googling, a lot of cheating and corruption that
have taken place. But here's the who am I game
for today? I had the highest single season batting average
for any player listen with two hundred were more strikeouts?

(33:02):
Again who history of baseball? I had the highest single
season batting average for any player with two hundred or
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(33:25):
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pick them daily fantasy fun. We'll get to that coming
up in a couple of minutes of time. And later on,
if you're with us for the long haul, and that

(33:46):
means you either have a real serious sleep problem or
you are forced to be working these ungodly hours will
have Mallard to the third degree. Later Mallard's Mountain of Money.
I just try to get my name and everything incite
the bite. We'll have site to fight coming up. A
little bit later as well, and I'm happy to report
the studios were renovated last week. They have not been

(34:09):
trashed yet. There is not food stained all over the
walls here, and the animals that work here have been
pretty good. But it's only been four or five days
since this took place, so it's there's still plenty of time.
I remember years ago when the original studios were built,

(34:31):
and you know, with much fanfare and much excitement, and
then we had a series of people that would come
in and just throw coffee against the walls and just
destroy destroy the carpeting and everything else. It was just
a bunch of hoodlums that worked here at Fox Sports
Radio over the years. But now we have respectful people,

(34:52):
and fortunately many of them don't even work out of
the studios. So were good. All right, very very good.
Let's let's get to the who am My game? Right now?
I had the highest single season batting average for any
player with two hundred or more strikeouts. That's the question.
What is the answer, And if you know the answer,
you should have already sent it in on Twitter at

(35:13):
Ben Maller. Rod is going with Tim Tebow as his answer. Taptain,
Tommy says Pete Incavilla. The rooster says, gotta be nick punto.
So did Jerry Bones, the Great former saddleback outre Mark
Reynolds guest by Rod the Bambino Babe Ruth thrown out

(35:33):
by Mike Attila in parts unknown, going with Dave Parker,
see can't read that? Can't read that? All right? Do
you have an answer? Eddie? Is not Hank Killer Brew
or Harmon kill a Brew for that matter, mister a
nice guy and Ernie. Yeah, Ben, I'm gonna go with
West Chamberlain, West, the Great West Chamberlain. Is it West

(35:54):
Chamberlain No, Philadelphia, Philly back in the day, yes, amongst others. Yes,
I remember him with the Phillies. Mike from THEBC got
this right, clearly cheating the correct answer. This happened just
a couple of years ago for the Baltimore Orioles Chris Davis.
Chris Davis batted two sixty two in Baltimore, and that

(36:19):
was in twenty fifteen, so a couple of seasons ago.
And he is the highest batting average in baseball history
for anyone that hit or struck out two hundred times.
Tim Tebow's on pace to strike out eight hundred times.
If he gets enough at bats, Tebow's gonna strike out
eight hundred times. If you are a Tebow lapdog, if

(36:40):
you are in the tank for Tebow, you need two
things to happen. You need Tebow to hit a few
home runs in Advanced A Ball, and you need the
Mets to lose almost every game, because if the Mets
lose almost every game, there ain't gonna be nobody at
Mets games at the end of the year. And if

(37:00):
you want to sell tickets for the side show for
the Novelty Act, then there's a shot that Tim Tebow
can get called up. It's gonna be hard to call
him up, though. If he's batting one ninety with no
home runs in Advanced A Ball and a bunch of strikeouts,
that's that's gonna be hard. We have an update, Coop,
We have an update on this. Yeah, well it's not
it's not on this. Actually it's about the studio. About

(37:21):
the update studio. Yes, I just got a call on
the hotline. Yeah, I found out who threw the coffee
against the wall. Oh you did, Yeah, I think I
know who did. It wasn't me. I don't drink coffee.
It was none other then Tom Looney. Wasn't Tom. He
just called and admitted it. Well, Tim usually just leaves

(37:42):
the coffee on the table, you know, all over the place.
All right, let's get to this. Here we go. It's
time now for this the mlfee pick Um Daily Fantasy Fun.
We're each gonna pick three players, and then whoever gets
the highest total of Fantasy po points, well we will
declare that person the winner. And let's get to it.

(38:04):
We're short on time, Coop, So who's gonna go first?
That would be Eddie Garcia. All right, all right, Eddie,
you've got the first pick. Well, he took the collar
last night, so I'm sure he's doing for a big game.
Cody Bellinger Bellinger is off the board, Coopolo, I will
go with Jake Lamb What Aaron Judge, Aaron Judge, Danny

(38:26):
g the back to back. I'm gonna go with Goldie
Paul Goldschmidt, all right, and Brian Dozer. Brian Doger's gone
give me Salvador Perez, Salvador Perez, Coop, Marcel Ozuna, you're
gonna have him, Eddie the back to back on the
MLB pick, I'm gonna go with Elvis Andrews, and Andrews

(38:46):
and Carlos Gomez. Okay, sound excited about that? Coop, Kyle Sieger,
Kyle Seeger, DJ Lemayu of the Rockies, and the final
pick Danny g Radio the irrelevant pick. The Royals are
finally playing like an average baseball team. Eric Hosmer actually
playing better than that. Ela, They've been good. One of

(39:07):
the great thespians of our time on display love a Ball,
making his professional wrestling debut, trying to get you to
pay fifty dollars for a T shirt. There he was
at Staples Center in La Monday Night, the big event.
The miss was there, everyone was there. We got your cover.

(39:30):
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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(39:52):
Geico dot com for a free rate quote. It was
an invasion, an attack. It was LaVar Ball, the Big
Baller brand colliding with the global brand of professional wrestling.
Monday Night Raw, and there he was LaVar Ball showing up,

(40:14):
and so I watched it. And I don't typically watch
Monday Night Raw. Why. I don't really know why. I
just don't, just not in my rotation. I don't typically
watch it. Every once in a while, I'll check out
friend of the show, the Great Russef and watch some
of his activities, but on a day to day basis
or a week to week basis, and it's not something
I go out of my way to watch. I don't.

(40:37):
But there when I found out LaVar Ball was gonna
be part of this, I said, I gotta check it out.
I have got to see what this is all about.
I'm part of the Big Ball of brand. I am
a fan. I love this guy, and so I checked
it out and I watched enough. You did not see
this if you were out doing something or you just
didn't have enough interest to track it down on the

(40:58):
USA Network. We have some audio for you of what
it sounded like. But it's uh, the the Mis doing
a little talk show. Everyone wants to do a talk show,
and the miz decided what a great get to get
LaVar Ball. Here's how it's center now. LaVar introduced, He's
there with two of his three kids. One they left home.

(41:20):
But here's the Miz making the big introduction. Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome LaVar and remember of the two thousand nineteen
New Cla recluding class lamello. Bah all right. So then
there's the big introduction. And then he came running out there.

(41:42):
And I love how LaVar walks. He's got that cock
sure walk to him. You know, he's he's strutting out there.
It's just wonderful. He's got that down. I don't know
where he learned that, but that's awesome. When he's walking
out to the ring there and he's like, ah, you
can't touch me. It's a it's a wonderful walk. It's
just great. And uh but it continued. Here's more from

(42:06):
LaVar and the Miz and the whole thing, big ball
of brand in the house. This do I got one
more funny one more. He's not even out here again.
Not only is he the face or the big ball

(42:26):
of brand, look, but the face of the Lakers, who's
gonna come down and get it right. I welcome to
no further ado, big balls, pretty sun not so book,

(42:50):
all right, So Alonzo made of the appearance there that
sounded like booing. I thought that was the Lakers home
arena there booing the balls. What's up with that? Well,
let listen lov oar balls playing the role. Uh here
is uh here's let's play the clip. Now. This this
final the clip that we have here. This is the crescendo.

(43:12):
This is the build up to the climax, what I
consider the climax because it involves nudity. It ends with nudity.
Now you can't see that on the radio. So mister Tipps,
calmed down. I know you're listening. Mister Tips, calm down.
But there's a person without the two people without their
shirt on by the end of this, so just imagine that.
But here's the back and forth the miss and love

(43:35):
our ball. I understand that you are in a w
w E ring with the Michael Jordan of WWE What
handle my light? Wait? Handle? Mellow's laughing at this point.
Oh we are you gonna unleash all the balls on me?
He's fifteen? That was a ball joke? Did you get that.

(43:59):
I don't want to want to do with your kids mouth.
I want to deal with you because you do a
lot of this and all I want you to do
is prove it or you better stay in your lane
or what LaVar and you to pray? You want that? Bill? Oh,

(44:25):
he's taking shirt. He's taking the shirt. Oh my god,
put some clothes back on. Man. There he goes and
there he there goes the shirt. Uh for LaVar ball
all right, So let's let's break this down now. Having
watched and uh the LaVar was doing the hole. He

(44:46):
was moving his arms and if you took the shirt off,
he's great. Isn't that a sign you're about to lose
a fight if you take your shirt off? Isn't that
like street code? The first person to take their shirt
off has lost the fight. Isn't that how that works?
Am I wrong on that? The coat of the street
Like if you if you're gonna get into a dust

(45:06):
up with somebody and they take their shirt off, isn't
that a sign there that they don't have much in
the skill of boxing, that they're gonna lose the fight. Well,
on a scale of one to ten from an entertainment
value standpoint, what am I gonna give this? I'm gonna
give it a seven. I needed a little bit more.

(45:29):
A couple of thoughts. Number one LaVar is as I expected,
a wonderful evildoer in wrestling parlance, a pretty good villain.
He's got the gift of gab. He's very loquacious, so
I enjoyed that. And number two marketing genius LaVar Ball, Right,

(45:49):
this guy will he will go anywhere. He'll do anything
to sell fifty dollars T shirts. He will absolutely do
that where whatever it takes to move the product, my guy,
LaVar Ball, will do it. And he is a natural
at wrestling. He has been living the Misses life in
real life or interviews going on several months now, probably

(46:14):
a lot longer than that. We've only become aware of
the magic of LaVar Ball in recent years, but I
gotta think he ends up doing some more stuff for
professional wrestling, although there can be no appearance by the
Balls without controversy. Did you hear about an apology that

(46:37):
was issued by Professional Wrestling because of that appearance. I
just learned about this recently. But while LaVar Ball was
doing his stick with Lonzo and Lamello part of the
festivities there, the WWE, just before he came on the air,

(46:58):
issued a prepared stay and they addressed something that I
did not catch. How did I miss this? Apparently fifteen
year old LaMelo Ball. When I saw him, he was
just laughing hysterically. He used a racial slur, which I missed.
I love when I hear a good racial slur, but

(47:20):
I missed its. Unfortunately. I'm sure Angry Bill will call
up and give us that that slur later on. But
apparently it happened when LaVar was running around the ring.
They're going crazy. He took his shirt off and the
Miz was there and LaMelo said the magic word, which
we believe is the N word. We think that's the word.

(47:41):
He said it twice into a microphone at Staples Center,
but he was laughing. That's what I remember him, laughing hysterically.
But apparently on social media somebody is said, oh my god,
he said that I got a freaking out here, and
they went they went nuts. But I think we can
get a copy. We'll try to get a copy of

(48:02):
the word here. I think I think I can get
access to this within the next next few minutes here,
So we'll try to get a copy of that. But
the wwe issuing a prepared statement saying that the inappropriate
language used by a guest during the miss TV segment
was not scripted nor reflects the WWE's values. Well, we know, yeah,

(48:31):
Are they gonna kick LaMelo out of the WWE now
like the Hulk Holgan? Are they gonna kick Lame? Is
he out? Now? Is that it? Brother? Is haulk back
into He's not part of wrestling? He kicked him out?
Is he still out? They didn't allow him back in?
Is he? I don't know how that works anyway. So
that's the latest on the balls and there in their situation.

(48:52):
How many T shirts do you think he's sold? Did
you sell any did? They had the mannequins up with
the Big Baller Brand shirts there there were four mannequins
in the ring and they had different items that fifty
dollars T shirts and all that, and they were pretending
like there was going to be this big partnership between
the Big Ball of Brand and the BIZ. But I

(49:14):
saw one of the matches, I think it was after
one of the wrestlers was wearing the Big Ball of
Brand shirt. He had that on Edmund Dallas Steamboat Willie Garcia.
Were you one of the people that called the ww
and complained you were offended by the racial slur used
by fifteen year old LaMelo Ball. Were you bothered? Uh, well,

(49:38):
I didn't know about it. I didn't even know about
LaVar Ball being Uh we talked about it last night.
Eddy his name. I kind of just zone out. I
just have no interest in anything he does or says. Wow,
all right, there you go. I enjoyed it. Minutes are
about up hopefully. Yes, no, no, not at all. He's
an international celebrity now ww is worldwide Global. Well, his

(50:02):
performance sounded incredible there. I'm sure he's got a career advance.
When I made my weekly appearance, my sojourn to radio
Sport in Auckland, New Zealand, where they won the America's Cup, Eddie,
America lost. New Zealand wins the America's Cup the right,
that's what they call it. The New Zealand boating team

(50:22):
much better than the American boating team, and so we lost.
Eddie were losers, and I had with much game. I
had to go on the radio in New Zealand and
take my medicine. But we we did talk about LaVar Ball.
He's known in New Zealand. He's people know who he
is now in New Zealand. Eddie's unfortunate. What do you

(50:43):
have against it? He's he's nobody. That's that's what. Everyone's
a nobody. You want to break it down, everyone is nobody.
Pretty much, everyone's a nobel, I think everyone. What has
he done to garner this attention? Produced the child? His seed?
The child, Yes, that magical seed, Eddie, for many other

(51:05):
people would pick in the draft, right. Yes, he speaks
things into existence, Eddie. He says it, and it happens.
Coop's all in on the ball family now he's all in. Yeah,
I might have to change my position on the bar.
If Coop's all I might have to do a one
eighty and go to the other direction. No, he's great,

(51:26):
he's fantastic. Laker's gonna make the playoffs this year. Well,
that's not gonna happen. He said it. It's gonna happen.
Hundred bucks on that not at this time. Microphone apparently
will pause there. All right, anyway, So Ben Mallers show
on Fox. You know the number, This is the time
to get in here. Top of the hour. People freak out,

(51:48):
they can't handle it. So you are part of the
fish dibies. What did I see the guy? I think
we talked about this on when I was on the
New Zealand Thing earlier. This guy Larry Ellison, the billionaire
who bankroll the America's Cup team, which we should not
spend more than five seconds on. But I just wanted
to mention this because I found it interesting. He is
an American. Yeah, he's worth fifty eight billion. Two days

(52:11):
last week his value went up five billion dollars. In
two days, his net worth went up five billion dollars
or something. No, don't bring up the big Come on,
some knucklehead. I was at Martin. Somebody sent me a

(52:32):
story side I saw it. I mean, really, Eddie, I mean,
you know it's an open wound. What am I gonna do?
You know? We make decisions. Just think though I had
done that, I would not be here right now. I
would be living in Kawaii. I would be sitting on
a beach. I would be enjoying myself, having a wonderful time.

(52:55):
But instead because of a decision that I made. I
can't blame Tom Looney for that one. I can blame
him for the house that's underwater, but I can't blame
him for that. I was my own doing on that. Well,
the story the story, which I guess you don't know
about you listening, is a Martin sent a story about
a kid who bought how many of like a ton
of this the bitcoin things? He invested all this money

(53:17):
that were they twelve dollars each or something like that
at that time? The kids now a millionaire. He's twelve dollars,
it says in bitcoins. High school dropout who invested in bitcoins. Yeah,
at twelve dollars. Yeah, it's now a millionaire. And he's
what is he eighteen or something like that? He doesn't
have to go to college now because you go to

(53:39):
college too, you know. Yeah, he's eighteen years old. Yeah, billionaire.
Four hundred and three bitcoins. That's it, four hundred and
three bitcoins. You're you're a millionaire? Is that? Man? All right?
It's the Ben Maller Show on Fox. Will take your
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(54:26):
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It's the Coop de Loupe Justin Cooper and he's at you,
h bronco fan. I went to I went to school
dressed up as a as a giant tampon and a

(54:47):
live from the guy coo Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's
Ben Maller. Jared right soon, he says, Ben, there you go.
You were making fun of Tim Tebow and the radio
went quiet. You think that's a coincidence or you think

(55:08):
there might be more to it that we were doing
some conversation about Tim Tebow and the radio just gave out.
You knocked his affiliate off the air. The power of
the microphones of Fox Sports Radio. A guy named Q
writes in says that LaVar Ball learned the pimp walk
in the hood. That's that's from Q. I don't know

(55:31):
where he learned it from, but that's pretty good. Franco says,
that's that Ball actually lifted his walk from Vince McMahon. Yeah,
that looks very similar the video that you posted there,
Franco Vince McMahon, that's very similar to LaVar's walk. Mister
nice guy says Ben. It's hard to understand what you're

(55:52):
saying because you've got LaVar Ball's toes in your mouth.
I can't understand what. Please stop. I know you're jealous,
you're upset because of the celebrity of LaVar Ball, bothers
troubled by this. Lamont says, WWE dropped the ball and
hopefully he will be bounced from ever appearing again on

(56:16):
WWE programming. While the manthis says that professional wrestling now
that operation WW is a publicly traded company. They're a
PG rated company now, and they apologize for everything. That's
not how they got that big. I know that. I
remember the old days. There was all kinds of shenanigans
going on with professional wrestling. All right, to the phones

(56:38):
we go and we say hello to helmet Man. He's
here to save the day. Hello, Helmet Man, you're on
the Ben Maller Show. I'm actually on the live air. Yes, yes,
long term. It has been a while. Helmet Man last
week on in the background. Last we spoke, helmet man
had bonded with his family. Your family was back in

(57:01):
the picture, helmet man. That's the last we talk. Oh yeah,
I just finally found them. They was worried about me.
They ain't here for me, And over thirty years. I
can't imagine why they would be worried if they hadn't
heard of you in thirty years. Helmet man eight years old,
Rosa Lee. Helmet Man, you told me, she told me.

(57:25):
I asked, So, what advice could you give me and us, Uh,
you know, my brothers and sister. She said three things.
Be kind to yourself, be kind to others, and be
kind to your family. And be fourth, she told me,
be patience for nothing. Be patient for nothing. So, how

(57:46):
how do you go? That means don't be in a
rush for uh, you know, be patient for regardless of
what area in life. That's what you make some great
motherly advice. No, how does one and I don't want
to get in your personal business? Why I kind of do? Actually,
how does one go thirty years where they don't talk
to their their family? That's a very long time, helmet man.

(58:08):
That's yeah, the number moved around change where I used
to get my mail, okay, took me out of the
system and uh disabled and a veteran's place where I
used to I'm not a veteran, but that's where I
got my mail, okay, because over the years I got
kind of like disabled. All right, we seem fine, man.

(58:29):
I saw Aaron Rodgers's Saturday night at the Bar and
Grill in Hollywood. Oh, we have an Aaron Rodgers and
helmet man sighting in the same spot. Where was the
Eddie Games in Hollywood? Yeah? And Salma in Colanga about
two thirty in the morning. I was heading down to
a real warwing club on Sunset and Wilcox. I took

(58:50):
the shop, okay, all right, we don't need a street
and I ran and I ran into him, but he
was getting in the uber with his friends with him,
Aaron Rodgers's. Oh he waved it. Okay, did you try
to sit, try to sell? But he was in a harry.
He was in a hurry. He didn't listen to your mom.
Your mom said not to be in a hurry, though.
Did you tell him your mom's advice not to be

(59:10):
in a hurry? Well, no, she said, be patient, be patient. Yeah,
being patience for nothing, don't be that means don't be
in a harry for anything. You should have told Aaron
Rodgers don't be in a hurry. Man. My mom's eighty eight.
She told me not to be in a hurry. You
should be in a hurry. So he was with some
other He was with a bunch of dudes. Is that
was who he was with? No women or anything like that. No,

(59:32):
he was with us friends. That was about having a
good time, you know, like just like everybody else. Sure,
that's absolutely of course that was waiting on an uber.
Have you had any other celebrity studies other than Aaron Rodgers?
Oh no, just Pamela Boss. She said she was gonna
pay to get one of my toothpicks. She was, she

(59:56):
was she was gonna pay for a toothpick, No, one
of my teeth. She saw me smile and she saw
one of my two You want to pay you for
tea tooth? Yeah? Because she brought a lot of stuff
from me one night. Okay, I get I think two
hundred and Sutton Donald's worth for stuff. Did she actually
follow through on that or you know, no, yeah, yeah

(01:00:19):
she did. Okay, all right, we're very good. Well, helmet man,
don't be a stranger. Helmet man. We're glad you called.
I mean, we liked. I'll still be listening. Yeah, you
want to talk about the Orioles. Yeah, you know they
ain't gone on a bath up and down when here
and lose dead Louise dead. Not very good. Yeah, I
hear you. All right, Well, thank you, helmet man. I

(01:00:40):
gotta go, but thank you man. All Right, there you go, okay,
top of the evening, top of the evening, there he goes,
helmet me. If only there had been a conversation that
had been longer between a helmet man and it had
been cool, if helmet man would have said, hey, are
and I don't talk to my family either. He should
have been like, hey, Aaron, I went thirty years. How

(01:01:03):
long are you gonna make it without top mom? Yeah? Scoreboard, Yeah,
we should go have a beer together. Buy me a
new tooth. Jeez, But he said toothpick at first. Then
on some level that's mildly rude. I think that isn't it.
He's like, I'm gonna buy you a new tooth. You

(01:01:24):
don't hear every day? Be patient for no tooth? Yeah.
I was watching the other day. I know it's probably
an old episode, but the Hoff was on that that
fish Tank show Tank you watch that show? Is that
where they make the customer. Yea, it's like it's like
my Animals, ever green, clean programming, and there's never it's

(01:01:46):
never bad, but it's never good. It's one of those
you know, it's I kind of right in the middle. Yeah,
they've had Marshawn Lynch on there, they had Check on there,
they had Aaron not Aaron Rodgers, but but Hoff was
on there. So that was that was exciting. But he's
not with that woman anymore. That the cowboy or not
cowbo it the helmet man ran into all right, So
Ben Maller Show on Fox. We'll get to the Mellow,

(01:02:09):
the mind of Mellow Mallard of the third degree, more
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(01:02:31):
rate quote and now here's Ben Maller. We'll have Mallard
of the third degree coming up. Mallard to the third Degree.
In a little bit. Monachum is on Fox Sports Radio.
Hello Monocham, Hi Ben, it's first time caller, four time
listener four. I believe you listen. You've listened four times?

(01:02:51):
Is that what you said? Four times? Yes? Yes? Why
not five times? Why? Four? Oh? Why? Because I don't know.
I mean basically a little bit about me, because I
love the Dodgers and I like to listen to your
show because you make me. You make me laugh a lot.
Oh well, I really really I appreciate that. I really
really appreciate it a lot because recently I was affected

(01:03:15):
with um something that made me lose my vision and
it really helps to make me laugh. I really. Oh well, Mac,
I'm glad that you found the show. I'm sorry about that.
But if you you've heard the guy Blind Scott that
calls the show, Yeah, he also had something where he
lost his vision and he is one of our celebrity

(01:03:36):
Callersnacum he going the club, Yes, you can. You can
absolutely join the club. There, there's no question about it.
All right, So let's talk about the Dodgers who took
it on the chin. Cooper Loop was walking like LaVar
ball around here when he came in. He had Coop
never says Coop never says a lot of any of us,

(01:03:58):
but except on this night, because the Angels beat the Dodgers,
and Scoop was walking around like he was the greatest
guy in the world, like he somehow played in the game,
you know, because the Dodgers had the pleasure of losing tonight,
you know. And I get to go to games every
so often, for lack of better words, and my big
thing at games for people who may know me personally,

(01:04:19):
and hopefully one day I get to whatever and meet you.
But I get to get on the big screen there.
You know. They oh you do they put you on
the scoreboard. Well, yeah, I dance. I dance. I dance.
I also do private parties. Ha, No, but I dance.
You give lap dances. Yeah, I should go to club
saying you get half off you know. All right, Well

(01:04:40):
that's that's good. I dance at the games. Yeah. I
have videos of me on YouTube, but whatever, that's all right.
Well you're you're a celebrity. Look at you. Yeah, if
you run into Aaron Rodgers at a bar in Hollywood,
like our last caller. No, no, not like helmet man.
Not yet, but then I know exactly what you look like,
you Betty for this. I'm a beautiful man. Yes, the
photos are misleading, they clearly Okay, Yes, it's your tall

(01:05:05):
and handsome that is accurate. Yes, I am a lady killer,
is what I am. But ladies, I am taken. Unfortunately,
I am off the market. I know that's a great
loss to the female gender, but that's the way it is. Yeah,
it's awesome. All right, Well Monoga, listen. I'm glad you
can't you call the show. You've listened four times, you've
called one time, and you have the telephone number is

(01:05:27):
very easy to find. You got to use your head
to get that, that's right, And you were able to call.
I don't I don't give out the number anymore. And
you were still able to call, so you clearly want
to call because you made the effort. Yeah, all right,
you're more than welcome. All right, thank you, Ben? All
right there you hey Ben, real quick. You're talking about
being photogenic. Did you get your did you get your

(01:05:49):
head shots? I hate them? I cannot stand them. Not.
I look horrible, applied, I had makeup. I just don't
like it. It's disgusting. I don't like any of them.
You're gonna go with the photos from the studio that
our program director. I'm not go with those either. Why

(01:06:10):
not just have me be a man of mystery? Why
why do I need my photo out there? No one
wants to look at me. I don't need my photo
out there. I'd rather be anonymous. How about that I
drink yourself away? You can just guess what I look like.
There's that kid in Washington, DC. His dad, his old
man listens a show the security guy, and his kid
has these wonderful drawings of me. Yes, he has his kid.

(01:06:35):
He writes little drawings with what I look like. I
think it's wonderful. Why don't we put that on the
company website? No one wants to look at me. Who
wants to look at I don't want to look Did
you like your photos? Any you approve of your photos?
Do you think, boy, I'm a good looking man? No?
Not really? Yeah? I mean my boss is like all excited.
He sends this email. Here, your your your your your

(01:06:56):
photos have a ride, and I'm like and they asked
me to pick which one I liked. Oh did he say, yeah, yeah,
I said, they didn't ask you to do that. I
didn't even I just say I clicked on the link
and I was like, oh, this is not good. This
is not good. It's just like awkward, awkward photos. But

(01:07:17):
one of them will pop up, I'm sure, on the
on the website and then all the other websites all over. iHeartMedia.
We'll get to that photo will be everywhere. That'll be
the photo record, Eddie, which I hate the photo record.
I'm gonna hate. I already hate it. Sorry to hear that. Yeah, no,
these see Danny, she didn't have to worry about that.
Coop didn't have to worry about that. They didn't have

(01:07:38):
to worry about that. They're good me. I gotta worry
about all right, let's get to that. Enough of that,
let's get to the let's get to the bed. Here
we go, let's dazzle you. It'ller. How about that to
the third degree. This is one big Ben gets grilled man.
We bring in the coop no loop. Bennett was reported

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over the weekend that the Rockets have quote a serious
chance at landing. Chris Paul and free agency. Now, to me,
this would be an interesting move because James Harden just
put up what was undoubtedly his best season and according
to you, an MVP caliber season as an NBA player
after being switched over to point guard in Mike d'antoni's system. Now, Ben,

(01:08:20):
would it be stupid for More to bring in CP three, Well,
it would be good drama if that happened, right, If
I am running the Rockets, if you made me the
executive in charge in Houston, I would stay away from
Chris Paul. Not that he's not a great player, because
Chris Paul is still a great player, but I would
stay away. And the reason why, First of all, Houston

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would have to play with at least three basketballs on
the court to make that where Chris Paul part of
his success. He is a volume dribbler, all right. He
is going to dribble the ball a lot until he
finds someone that's opened for an assist. And so if
you play alongside Chris Paul, you have to be able
to concede the basketball to him. And James Harden last

(01:09:05):
year and even before last year, but last year in particular,
he was the ballhawk in Houston. So the idea that
Harden and Paul could assimilate together. That would go about
as well as eating pickled flavored ice cream. You know,
you could get pickled flavored ice cream, but would you
really want to eat pickled flavored ice cream? I don't

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think so. And secondly, my advice to Chris Paul is
very simple. If I'm the agent for Chris Paul, the
only move here is to stay with the Clippers. You
get an extra fifty million dollars. You're gonna get paid
ridiculous money when you no longer can play at age
thirty seven, when his contract would have run out. I mean,
other than that, if you're gonna cherry pick, you're gonna

(01:09:47):
leave the Clippers, all right. You got to go to
a team that you were guaranteed of being in the
NBA Finals. There are only two teams that are guaranteed
of being in the NBA Finals, the Golden State Warriors,
who I don't believe are interested, and the Cleveland can Ears,
who don't appear to be in the picture either because
of salary cap reasons. So if it's not gonna be
the Warriors, and it's not gonna be the Calves, going

(01:10:08):
to Houston is a lateral move. You'll make less money
now from a talk show standpoint, you put Chris Paul,
Mike D'Antoni, and James Harden in the same locker room.
That is a tinderbox of great conversation on the radio.
But no, it's not going to happen, all right. Next,
Another rumor floating around the NBA this weekend is that

(01:10:28):
the seventy six ers are getting ready to offer Joel
Mbead a contract extension now. Although Embiad was on pace
to be Rookie of the Year before getting injured, he's
only played thirty one career games over a possible three
year span. Ben, do you think Embead has shown enough
to warrant an extension only for Instagram? If you could
pay him for his social media accounts? Absolutely? I would

(01:10:51):
give him Bead a max extension if that was the case.
There's a couple of things with this number One. Joel
Embiad has the kind of engaging personality. He's like Charles Barkley,
except he's not a good basketball player because he doesn't
play right. He's engaging, he's entertaining. I find him amusing.
Joel Embiid, He's all of that. But he's also got

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to play, and that's the problem. I mean, he's good
for the seventy six ers from a marketing standpoint, and
that's great and all that, but Embiid needs to be
part of the progression of the team by playing. And
the second part of this, if you are objective and
you look at this, I would say, hey, I'll give
you a contract. Go out there and play. The only

(01:11:36):
way Joel Embiad gets a new contract without playing is
if I'm imbibing in Scotch, whiskey and bourbon and I'm
out of my mind and I'm all boozed up. You
got to earn that contract. Joel Embiad has played thirty
one out of a possible two hundred and forty six games.
He has missed eighty seven percent of the games in Philadelphia.

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That is reg Odin, that is Brandon Roy. That is
not good. All right. Next, Kim Newton said over the
weekend that there is only one thing missing from his
life a Super Bowl ring. Ben, What is the one
thing missing from your life? Ridiculous clown money. That's the
one thing missing from my life, Coop. Now, I've told

(01:12:20):
the story many times and I won't bore you with
the whole thing. But I am of the same LA
radio class. When I started in doing local radio in
Los Angeles a million years ago, the way it worked,
you had Ryan Seacrest and Jimmy Kimmel, who were my
contemporaries at that time, back a long time ago, I
was doing mid days on Extra Sports eleven fifty, the

(01:12:43):
big sports talker in Los Angeles, the top rated sports
station at that time. Ryan Seacrest was the afternoon jock
at Star ninety eight point seven in LA. He was
the afternoon Get Your Home DJ. Jimmy Kimmel didn't even
have his own show. He was the morning sports guy
on Kevin and Bean, which is still on the air
in LA. Here we are twenty years later. Coopolou and

(01:13:05):
I did the math on this. I looked it up.
Jimmy Kimmel's net worth the host of late night TV
thirty five million. Ryan Seacrest net worth three hundred and
thirty million dollars. My net worth minus minus ten thousand

(01:13:26):
dollars is my net worth. I get paid to talk
to people at homeless shelters in Santa Barbara. That's where
I am right now. Okay, understand my position. So the
thing missing in my life is what these other people got,
ridiculous clown money not to have to worry about paying
my credit card bill, or my car payment or my

(01:13:46):
house and none of that stuff. All right, there it
is Mallard of the third degree? How did we do?
Look a big fat clown? Ben? You pass this edition?
That's sitter by, it's wrong with you? Time Now for
the instant trivia. I thought we'd change it up here.

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I always like these were there's no obvious answer. All right,
So there's this old school broadcaster named Harry Hartman. Doesn't
that sound like a fake name? Who? Harry Hartman? Them
no relation to Steve Hartman, I don't believe. So this
old school broadcaster Harry Hartman became the first to use
blank as a catchphrase during a baseball game. Again, broadcaster

(01:14:31):
Harry Hartman became the first to use blank as a
catchphrase during a baseball game. That's the instant trivia. The
answer next. The Ben Maller Show has been called the
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(01:14:53):
live from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller.
We'll go all in. Coming up in a moment, we'll
get to that give out a winner. Maybe it's been
a bad couple of days in that department. The instant

(01:15:13):
tribute here it is broadcaster Harry Hartman became the first
person to use blank catchphrase during a baseball All right,
so we're looking for the name of that catchphrase. And
let's see here Jeopardy all's going with Martini's ate my
brain as the catch phrase. He could go all the way.

(01:15:35):
That's from the New York Bozo Mike from the LBC.
Clearly cheating, got it right? How bad? You're just blatant
with the Google. The rooster says, peanuts and cracker jacks
and trucker. Mike, No, I'm not going there, JJ Google
that he got it right. Bad job by you, mister

(01:15:57):
nice guy says, no, no, I'm not. I'm not gonna
read that either. All right, and do you have an answer?
Red Circle Army said, take that for data as the catchphrase.
Rod got it right. The ambassador. Do you know, I'm
totally gonna just guess he said, touch him all, touch
them all No. Harry Hartman was a broadcaster for the

(01:16:19):
Cincinnati Reds. In nineteen twenty nine, he became the first
baseball announcer to say going going gone. And my favorite
part of this story, the reason I bring it up,
it was fevery Harry Hartman stole that he had been
he'd gone to auctions, and he stole that from auctioneers.

(01:16:40):
Auctioneers would say when they were getting risk, I'm going
going gone at an auction. He ripped that off and
used it as his home run calling baseball. And now
a bunch of people do that. Let's get to it.
Here we go all in, Yes, sir, Yes, it's Ben
Mahler and he's going, Oh, I'm gonna go all in,

(01:17:01):
all in. It is our tribute to sports wagering. And
we are back at it again, the Cooper loopra How
did we do yesterday? I was the only winner? Ben?
All right? Boy? The Rockies blow, don't they? By half
a run? Ben? It's just terrible. All right, let's go
back at it. The Nationals they speaking of blowing. The

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Nationals have been urinating all over the schedule. They've been
just terrible. But I will take Max Scherzer and some
Latitude against the Cubs. Eddie Mexican Baseball League Action the
Vera Cruz Red Eagles against the Mexico Red Devils. We
all know Red Devils are better than Red Eagles, so
give me the Red Devil's minus a run and a half.
Elder Danny j Big Ben Angels at Dodgers for Game

(01:17:48):
two of this freeway series. Over unders eight and a half.
Some suspect pitching in Game two, So I'm gonna take
the over. You don't like Kenta Maita? How about Jesse Chavez,
former Dodger closer now pitching the Angels? All right, Cooper Loop,
who you got? I'm also gonna take an over, but
I'm gonna go to the Atlanta Bravesen San Diego, padres
It said, it's only seven and a half. I'm all

(01:18:08):
in on the over gives in San Diego. Thought of
Brooklyn in the house. Welcome in the beginning of another hour.
It's the Ben Maller Show. We are in the air
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a night that saw Russell Westbrook steal the MVP Award
You should not have won. The stats stuffing paid off
that campaign successful and LeVar Ball taking the headlines at

(01:18:51):
Monday night raw his appearance with the ww There's other
stuff going on, including the introduction inductory news conference of
D'Angelo Russell that happened on Monday, the newest member of
the Brooklyn Nets. One of the big NBA trades that
involved two of the bottom feeding teams, the Lakers and

(01:19:12):
the Nets, and so D'Angelo Russell. He made his way
to Brooklyn the prize of the lottery a couple of
years ago, now beginning over and what will likely be
a nomadic journey around the world of basketball. In his
last hurrah in LA, his last moment as a Laker,
even though he'd already been traded, was a lamb bas

(01:19:32):
thing by Magic Johnson, who tried to compliment D'Angelo Russell
and then unloaded on him in a news conference at
the end of last week, and the news are of
the Lakers. Have you missed that? We've talked about a
little bit, but you might not have been listening So
Magic Johnson said that LaVar Ball not LaVar Ball, that

(01:19:53):
that D'Angelo Russell who's being replaced by Lonzo Ball. It's
all connected. That D'Angelo Russell was not only and teammates
didn't like playing with him, and so shots fired. Well, de'
angelo responded to those claims. Did you hear about this?
Did you hear what de' angelo said? Do you think
he said, no comment, I will use this as inspiration.

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What do you think he said? Well, the Angelo Russell
said that Magic Johnson's criticism of his leadership was irrelevant.
He used the word irrelevant. So I wanted to talk
about this for a few minutes. The question is this
is D'Angelo Russell right? Is it irrelevant what Magic Johnson
has to say? Now? My response is the answer of

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D'Angelo Russell and does he have a point? Not a
good one. Those criticisms by Magic Johnson, I would think
are going to be both motivational and inspiring to de'angelo Russell.
And I'll explain why Number one's kind of obvious, right,
D'Angelo has He's been nothing special this entire episode. When

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when he was with the Lakers it didn't work out,
It was a disaster. The expectation level and the reality
just another failed lottery tick lottery picks. So this should
be motivational. This should be motivational. And it was an
amazing opportunity and he dropped, He literally dropped the ball.

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He got replaced by a ball. That's how bad D'Angelo
Russell was. Now you can say that he's been an
a scapegoat if you're a big D'Angelo Russell guy like him,
and you know he's he's being thrown under the bus
by Magic Johnson. But he never took the opportunity. Seriously,
the team stunked, that's true, and that's fair, that's not

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it's not wrong to bring up the Lakers were terrible
and his rookie year, it was all about Kobe Bryant
this and Kobe Bryant that, and feed Kobe Bryant the ball,
and really the first couple of years of D'Angelo Russell's career,
that's what it was all about. But he missed so
many shots, he made poor decisions on and off the
court that this trade to Brooklyn, you would think, in

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those comments by Magic Johnson, that should be a motivational situation.
And number two D'Angelo Russell, I would assume, is going
to take Magic Johnson's words as constructive criticism right and
an inspiring mult Remember, Magic's judgment of talent is severely flawed.

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When he was a broadcaster and working NBA games, he
celebrated a laundry list of players as being wonderful and
they all sucked, including Brandon Knight, who Magic Johnson said
he would have taken with a number one pick in
the draft. How's that working out? Michael Carter Williams, Magic

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called him the next Jason Kidd, And when Dion Waiters
was traded to Oklahoma City, Magic said, that is exactly
what the Thunder needed. Except that's not exactly what the
Thunder needed. Is they quickly got rid of Dion Waiters
and it goes on and on and on. So we
know that Magic Johnson is not the greatest judge of

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basketball talent, but he's not wrong right now with his
comments on D'Angelo Russell. D'angel's now off the grid. When
you play for the Brooklyn Nets, it is as close
as you can get to being in the D League.
Nobody is going to notice unless you are amazing. And
I realize that it's the New York market. Trust me,

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Nobody in the New York market cares about the Brooklyn Nets.
There's a very small group of people that pay any attention.
So the spotlight is off the New York's other team.
The Nets are supposed to stink. The Knicks aren't supposed
to stink, but they've stunk for a while now, And
so D'Angelo Russell will have the freedom in Brooklyn to

(01:23:59):
potentially block. He's not gonna have the excuse of all expectations.
There are no expectations. There's none anyway. The bottom line here,
de'angelo Russell is going to be compared to Lonzo Ball
the rest of his career because he's the guy that
replaced him. Now because Magic traded Russell to create a

(01:24:19):
spot to draft Lonzo Ball point guard. These two are
tied together. So might as well stop the pouting, the sulking,
the whining and all that. And I would think play
with a chip on his shoulder, although I don't know
if d'angel's got that in him. All right's the Ben
Mather Show on Fox. Now me while we take you
to the National Football League, and with much fanfare of

(01:24:42):
the propaganda arm of the NFL, The state run NFL
Network revealed number one, the number one name on the
NFL network's Top one hundred list, and who is the
number one player as a ledge voted by their peers
in the annual top one hundred list that comes out.

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Have you heard this yet? Number one is not a
Cleveland Brown. It is not a Cleveland Brown number and
not a Los Angeles Ram, not an LA Ram, not
an LA Charger, not a forty niner number one. But
this is a talking about drama. The number one player
in the National Football League forty the propaganda arm or

(01:25:28):
the NFL Tom Brady, I don't want anyone touching the
balls after that. I don't want anyone rubbing him. To me,
those balls are perfect him a Patriots quarterback. He was
already number one back in twenty fifteen. And I didn't
leave with this. The reason I didn't lead with it

(01:25:48):
is because I am skeptical about the authenticity of this.
Plus Tom Brady is forty years old. Now. I saw
von Miller was second on that list, and after von
Miller they said that Julio Jones is the third best

(01:26:09):
player in the NFL and Tony o' brown was on
the list at the top. Khalil Mack of the Raiders
was number five on this particular list. And with all
the controversy and all that going around, Tom Brady number
one in the NFL. If you, if you could pick
any player, any player at all, to be your number

(01:26:32):
one pick in like this fantasy hypothetical draft, would you
pick Tom Brady? I bet you most people wouldn't pick
Tom Brady because he's gonna be forty years old and
the clock is a ticking on Brady. And if you
had to pick a quarterback, most people would not pick Brady.
To pick Aaron Rodgers ahead of Tom Brady or Matt
Ryan because he puts up great fantasy numbers in Atlanta.

(01:26:55):
But Aaron Rodgers not number one. Rodgers was what was he?
He was in the top ten? Where was he on
this list? Rogers was sixth. If you care about Eddie Garcia,
do you care about the top one hundred list? Does
this fascinate you? Are you interested? Are you analyzing who
made it and who didn't make it? I wouldn't go

(01:27:17):
so far as to say fascinates me. No, I'm mild interested.
Mild interest, dude, Okay, And these are voted on by
the players because they say and then but there are
some players that say that that it's all ragged and
that some committee at the NFL put together. Really, yes,
there have been those conspiracy theories out there, Eddie, that

(01:27:38):
there's some funny business, some favoritism that goes on. But Ben,
on the show, they show the players filling out their cards. Yes,
that doesn't mean they actually yes, yeah, you're a very
good well, good point. Well that answered at all. Right,
there you are correct, Dannie, you are correct. So that's
a very exciting I'm sure that that is an authentic vote.

(01:28:00):
The players take it very seriously. They do much like
the NBA writers in the NBA media that voted Russell
Westbrook the MVP when he shot from the floor, led
the NBA in turnovers and was filling the stat sheet
because of some manipulation, but they gave him the MVP.
So it's the same concept, right, Why not works? Okay,

(01:28:23):
nothing to say. Let's go to the phones. I will
say hello to Angry Bill. Maybe he's got something to say.
Angry Bill. You are on Fox Sports Radio. Hello, Angry Bill.
What about a nine year old girl? Bet? I know
you love talking about of our ball because he's interesting
and did he do something to talk about? But I

(01:28:43):
ran him size Foller and yeah, went to prison for it,
size poll. But it was all adults involved of our ball.
There's nothing but a pimp. And he sticks his hands
right in his son's pockets. He is a pimp, but

(01:29:04):
he's timpting young men, boys, his sons. He is a pimp. Well,
that's one way to look at it, angry Bill, or
you could say, hey, this is a guy who's promoting
his kids, and he's a father that's very involved and
he's engaging in their life, and this is not a
bad thing to have your father around. Come on, pimping

(01:29:24):
signs with the Lakers. How far he sticks his hands
in his son's pocket. Well, you don't know that. You're assuming.
You don't know how that's gonna work out. You're making
some assumption. Oh, it's guarantee, and how are you going
to practice? How are you going to prove this? Last
night chaff a Lonzo balls and a Lonzo Balls an
adult and he can make his own decisions. Watch watch

(01:29:45):
when he signs, and then watch when things start happening.
That's going to require money. Where are you gonna going
to come from Santa Claus. Well, LaVar Ball's got his
own thing going on now. He's pop up on any
TV channel he wants. He's been on late night TV,
he's been on the daytime TV talk shows. He's got
his own media persona that he's created here. He's a pimp.

(01:30:08):
You don't like him. Ah, he's a pimp because you
don't like him and you're jealous of his success. I understand. Jus, Yes,
I'm jealous of that guy. You're very also of a
guy that has to hold his pants up with his hand. Yeah,
you really, you're very You're very concerned, angry Bill, So
you're you're calling a radio show to complain about it.
Why didn't Vince McMahon put you on Monday Night Raw? Why?
Why didn't you get up? Why did you Why didn't

(01:30:30):
you go on Monday Night Raw? Why? Why didn't we
see you get out there and go with the maz
Why weren't you one sitting with Jimmy Kimmel Right now,
I'm not sitting with Jimmy kil I get this. I
get to sit with you and talk to criminals like you.
That's what I get paid to do. Well, that's pretty
damn stupid. Then I agree, clearly something went wrong somewhere

(01:30:52):
along the way. Obviously, Yes, that's pretty pathetic. You got
that right. So you want, I want to get this straight.
I want on your rap sheets. So you've been to
jail robbing a bank and also a massage parlor, an
illegal massage parlor. You did that as well? All right,
what else have you been to jail for? Go ahead?
That's it, that's it, just two things, two simple things. Ok.

(01:31:12):
At least at least I was providing a service to adults.
I'm not kids. Yes, it's a big difference. You can't
believe that didn't work out for you. How long did
you get away with it? Oh? Good year and a half.
Good year and a half. You saved some money from that?
Or did you blow all the money? Well? Consider I
was on the streets in Jackson, all I thought. I
guess you didn't say much too. Yeah, all right, very good,

(01:31:34):
All right, Well thank you, Angry Bill. Fascinating as always. Yes,
and you didn't curse one time. Very exciting. You have
a great night, there, he goes. Angry Bill believes that
LaVar Ball is a pimp and he's an evil person. Apparently,
according to the words of wisdom from one angry Bill,
hurt yourself away the Bemout Show on Fox. We'd love

(01:31:56):
to have you and you can be part of the show.
You can find the number, give us a buzz. We'll
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Later this hour, we will have Mallard's Mountain of Money.
We'll have that for you coming up in a little bit.
And hey, we have a I think this person is

(01:32:20):
a distant relative of a caller named Helmet Man. We'll
get to that. It's a very bizarre story. We'll get
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(01:33:03):
we don't do shoutouts on the show, so we wire
we won't do that because it's inappropriate to do shout outs.
It's but if we did, yeah, do shout outs, he
might say hello to the Great Russef. P one Russef
driving around the mean streets of Los Angeles listening to
our show, the great studio. It's a great wrestling star.
And you like him Eddie because he likes hockey and

(01:33:24):
he's a fan of the Nashville Predators, but the wrestling
circuit in town in La and Russef very kind. He
tweeted out with much fanfare that he's listening to the show,
so very very cool. We're very proud of Russef. He's
done a great job and he represents the show so
well and has had a very successful career in professional wrestling.
All right, it's the Ben Maller Show on Fox. Now.

(01:33:47):
The Carmelo Anthony story, which we were gonna get to
last start, we did not get to it's a bad
job by us. Carmelo Anthony. Everyone's trying to figure out
where he's gonna go. They're reading the tea leaves and
where Mellow is going to go. Now, as a Clipper Apol,
I don't want this guy with the Clippers. I want
to keep this guy away from the Clippers. And I

(01:34:07):
have this recurring nightmare that the Clippers in a desperate move,
they're gonna lose either Blake or Chris Paul. One of
them will stay, one of the will go, and then
this desperate move to get another player they will reach
to try to get Carmelo Anthony. I pray that that
does not happen. But people are trying to figure out
where Carmelo's gonna go. He's still under contract for two years.

(01:34:29):
There's some believing that Melo will take a buyout to
go somewhere else because he's not wanted with the Knicks.
And we've learned that last season Carmelo Anthony had let
some people know that he would be willing to be
traded to two different teams, and the two teams were
the Washington Wizards and the Philadelphia seventy sixers. Now, at

(01:34:51):
this moment, you would think that the seventy sixers are out.
They're stacked with players that haven't proven themselves. These all
these blue chip lottery picks. Some of them hurt most
of the time. Other guys just whatever. So so the
Sixers seem like they're out. What about the Wizards though,
that seems like a Wizard's type move. They don't really

(01:35:13):
need Carmelo Anthony and Carmelo would likely not help them
that much, but that seems like the kind of move
they would make, So keep an eye on that. And
then if he has bought out, Carmelo could go, could
go anywhere. To the phones, we go and we say
hello to Cowboy Tom, who's on Fox Sports Radio. Hello

(01:35:35):
Cowboy Tom, Hello, Big Ben there he is so interesting
talk tonight. Yeah yeah, it's sorry. Hey, you know, I think, um,
stop right there, that's do we have any kind of fanfare?
Cowboy Tom was thinking, congratulations, helloa, that is put that

(01:36:04):
on the Fox Sports Radio Twitter feed. Cowboy Tim thinking
first time, that's we're delight. Did that's happened a cowboy time? Congratulations,
that's a great mitzvah. Well, you know, to listen to you,
it takes a lot of thinking this is a very
deep show. We're very nuanced here at the other show. Wrong,

(01:36:25):
you know, I was just wondering, Oh, here we go.
Oh yeah, you're not even gonna build up to it.
You're just gonna go right to it. Go ahead. Yeah,
just wondering that you know since nineteen sixty that no
one else pulled this, this big scheme that you said
that Russell Westford pulled the average a triple double. I mean,

(01:36:47):
if it was so easy, why didn't anyone else do it?
Since the nineteen sixty year? Well, the last player to
average a triple double, Oscar Robertson, didn't win the MVP.
Where do you finished third? So in olden times people
didn't they weren't rewarded for this kind of activity, But
cowboy Tom Russell Westbrook has been rewarded. I know you're
okay with it. You're one of the global people. No,

(01:37:09):
you know, he's apparently going to sign a five year contract. Dope,
all rights? Hey, you know, isn't that where everything comes from? Sources?
Isn't that usually how it works? All right? All right?
Am I wrong on that? My incorrect? Lebron does not
want to play for the Clippers. Well, actually, he doesn't

(01:37:30):
want to play in LA. He wants to stay in
the Eastern Conference. I think I was the first to report,
but not for the Clippers. Are they gonna get a
third team in LA? Is that where they're gonna move
the Cavaliers to LA? As I was gonna have? That's
so weak? How's that week? That's week? How's that week?
He's not He's not going to let'sen me very cool.

(01:37:53):
Why would he want to go to the Lake? He's
played for the Miami Heat, who had no history before
where he got there. Realistically, they won one championship, and
he's played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, who had no history.
Why would he go play for the Lake? He's not,
That's not who he is. He's want to be part
of that. He wants to create his own history. What
a legacy would be that would subment, That would absolutely

(01:38:18):
subment Lebron. If he goes to the Clippers and wins
a championship with the Clippers, that is the all times
to accomplishment. No, no, no, seriously, I'm not I'm not pannering.
I'm not panning to Lebron. But but if you here's
the difference. You don't understand this. You're not that bright
if you go to the Lakers, and if you go
to the Lakers and win a championships like okay, fine,
you go to the Clippers though, that's an accomplishment. Lebron's

(01:38:40):
all about legacy and building something up. The person that's
responsible for the Clippers winning will be one of the
great human human beings of all time. Do you understand this?
So the Clippers are gonna lose either Griffin or CP
three And what about J. J. Reddick? According to you,

(01:39:03):
according to U Cowboy Tim, According to U Cowboy Time,
it was never good anywhere. Well, you told me, you
told me two years ago there wasn't any good. So
they were ambassed. So by your logic, this is a
good thing. You should you should actually be concerned about
this because of the Clippers, Clippers, with the Clippers anything,

(01:39:27):
all right, cal we're time. I know it's gonna be
hard for you understand because again you know you're a
little slow. That's all right. We talked to slow people
all the time. It may be very clear the Clippers,
even if they lose Blake Griffin and Chris Paul are
still closer to a championship than the Lakers are because
they've got Jerry West. He builds winners. The man's a winner.
And they have the top owner in all the professional sports,

(01:39:49):
a man with a boatload of money, the richest owner
in American sport, the great Steve Ballmer, who's got truckloads
and bucket fulls of cat ash to hand out. He
owns the Golden Goose. You know that trade that Magic
made is terrible. First trade, it's a disaster. Yes, First

(01:40:10):
of all, they got a guy who averaged twenty points
a game and he has only one year left on
his contract. So not only did you're rid of Mosgow's contract,
you're excited about you're excited about salary, kept space when
most free agents won't even talk to the Lakers, like
Kevin Durant, who want to know part of kers. Yes,
George is going to be a Laker. He's a Laker fish.

(01:40:32):
I hope he goes there's that he's not that good.
So I approve George. I know, all right, keep going. Yes,
they're all going, all right, keep your drugs, keep your
drugs going. Thank you, cowboy. All right, So the Ben
Mallers show on Fox, We've got a distant relative of
helmet Man, and we will get to Mallor's Mountain of Money.

(01:40:56):
If you want to play Mallard's Mountain of Money, this
is your opportunity. Give us a buzz right now. We'll
get a couple of contestants from Mallor's Mountain of Money.
This is a metal event. It is also an event
where a golden ticket we'll be given out. I try
to give a golden ticket out earlier to mister Tibbs.
He declined. First time in the history of the show

(01:41:16):
someone has said I don't want your golden tike. It happened.
But we'll get to Mallar's Mountain of Money and that
wacky story as well about the helmets. We'll get to
all that in sixty seconds. No long commercial break. But
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through all the contestants. We'll get a couple of people
lined up. We'll do that here Momentarily, I think we've

(01:41:57):
found a distant relative of helm Man. Now, before I
provide you this story, I hope this is fake, but
I don't think it is fake. I think it's Legitimate's
starting to pop up around around the around the way
here and involves a Miami Dolphins super fan. A Miami

(01:42:18):
Dolphins superfan who got married over the weekend and wore
a Miami Dolphins helmet while saying his IDUs. Now the
photo making the rounds. This guy, his name is Lee.
I believe he does not live in the United States.

(01:42:41):
I was looking at the guy's Twitter feed. It's Lee
l Ee. Top landing on Twitter is the guy's account.
It looks like he lives in in Europe somewhere, because
he's got some BBC photos and things like that. Maybe
it was just on a vacation there. I don't know.
There's a photo of what appears to be his wedding

(01:43:02):
and there's is bride in him standing in front of
the the wedding cake, and even the wedding cake topper
has a little Miami Dolphins helmet on it. It's got
the Dolphins helmet going there, and it's it's quite the
quite the photo. This guy's all in. That's got to
be like a third cousin of helmet man, that that
a groom would wear a Miami Dolphins helmet. And he

(01:43:25):
claimed it was because of his bride that the woman
there thought, well, this is a good idea, and she
went out and bought him a Dolphins h That's love,
that's what that's That's a relationship that's gonna last a
long time until well, it might not. I mean, there's
always a chance he does. I mean these things. The
divorce rate is very high. But she's clearly okay with

(01:43:47):
him watching the Miami Dolphins there, she's good with it.
All Right's the Ben Maller Show on Fox. Buddy Russef
listening to the show. We think he still might be listening.
He's driving around LA. He's got some roots in southern California.
It stays at a lot of hotels, Russef traveling. You're
an arrest. I've talked to him before, We've exchange emails

(01:44:08):
about this. In the Life of a WWE superstar and
you're on the road all the time and it's exciting
and stuff and he loves it. But he's sleep in
a lot of hotel rooms and that means a lot
of bad beds, a lot of bad beds. Unfortunately, my
man Russef can't take a sleep number bed with him
on the road, just cannot do it. You've heard me
talk about my sleep number bed and how well I sleep.

(01:44:31):
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Ben Maller sent you. Now, Maller's mounting of money? Do

(01:46:25):
you have what it takes to get to the top? Probably? Not,
all right, It's gonna be Maller's Mounting of money. And
I guess we only have one contest in coop. How
did this happen Coop one contest. All right, so I
guess people who want to play the game, we don't
have to play the game then, right, Yes, if people
what happened Coop Hello Jeremy in Kansas, Your morning, Jeremy,

(01:46:50):
you're the only one that won. Should we cancel Maller's
mounting of money? Maybe we should cancel the game? Jeremy,
You're the only one that wants to play. Jeremy, we
had some other callers on him, but they had literally
just played within the last couple So there's like five
people that want to play this game. There's not enough,
and we should get rid of Maller's amount of money. Well,
this is the first time I've ever gotten in I know,

(01:47:12):
and you're the only one that depends on all these
other guys keep the game show hawks that call up
and they want to play all the games, and they
don't want to do anything other than play the game.
They're the game whors is what they are. Jeremy. You know,
I don't like that. I don't allow them on. I
put a stop to that. I appreciate that. Yeah, all right,
so we'll just talk to you, Jeremy. Who's the other

(01:47:34):
person on the line. Oh he's not. He didn't call
to play the game. We're not gonna allow him to play.
What are you doing in Kansas, Jeremy, Well, I and
worked for the United States Post Office, and I'm up
early this morning delivering newspapers. Oh you are You must
know Andy Furman. I'm sure that is a complete load
of crap. Are you a big fan of Andy Furman? Jeremy? No,

(01:47:56):
all right, Well he does keep you employed. But that's OK. Yeah,
that's a reference to a guy who still doesn't show.
He doesn't show on the weekend. Still any right, Still
I think I don't know. I believe he does. All right,
hold on, Jeremy, some other people have y'all called in.
T Rex is gonna play? Hello t Rex? Hello Ben? Hello?

(01:48:23):
All right, I kind of want to cancel. I want
to cancel the game, but you want to play? Why not? Yeah?
All right, that's not a big endorsement, you know, I
was looking for a little more excitement. Hey, Ben, we
got this. Let's do it. Oh you're gonna play with me?
All right? Well, that's up to Jeremy. It's the first shot. Jeremy,

(01:48:43):
who would you like to partner up with? On Mallard's
mounting of money. The I don't want to play. Addition,
I want to team up with Big Ben Mallard. All right, Jeremy,
all right, I can't participate with everyone, so t Rex, unfortunately,
I've been stolen away by Jeremy. But you got to
play with somebody else. You can play with Eddie, Danny

(01:49:05):
g or the Coop the Loop me all right, The
Coop de Loop is in another week where Eddie will
not get to play and he will not win the game.
So well, I've been doing very well lately. All right,
all right, gentlemen, t Rex and Jeremy. It's gonna be
Jeremy and Ben versus t Rex and Coop. This is

(01:49:27):
the Tool Edition, the band Tool Coop. Just saw them
in concert this past weekend. Category one, Sweat, Category two, Sober,
Category three, Eulogy or category four the pot all song titles.
All right, Jeremy, where do you want to what's your category?
Do you want? I think we'll go with sweat, okay, Jeremy,
all right, and t Rex. That leaves you with sober,

(01:49:49):
eulogy or the pot Um give me the first one? Oh,
that would be sober? Okay, all right, here we go.
Jeremy and Ben are gonna be up first sweat. These
athletes all have insane work ethic. All right, guys, ten
to one hundred on the board. We need the first

(01:50:11):
and last name of these sports figures. Forty five seconds
on the clock for you, Ben, Are you ready? Let's
do it go? All right? Star for the Lakers, just
retired a couple of years ago, were number twenty four.
That's correct. Wide receiver for the forty nine ers and
the eighties. Considered the greatest receiver of all time. That's accurate.
Chicago Bulls player just traded to the Timberwolves last week
at the NBA Draft. That is accurate tight end for

(01:50:35):
the Cowboys. Tony Romo's favorite receiver. That is correct. A
wide receiver for the Raiders out of Alabama's got a
first name. Sounds like a high end bag my past
number ninety two for the Pittsburgh Steelers defensive player. That
is accurate. Picture for the Braves and the nineties. Not Smallts,

(01:50:56):
not Glavin, but that is accurate. All right, receiver to
Alabama for the Raiders. I forget what number, it doesn't matter,
all right. Amari Cooper from Love Obama, right, that's a
high end bag. He just picked up the newest a
Mari for your wife? Was close? Why not for Jeremy

(01:51:23):
and Ben? Alright, good job by you, Jeremy. Yoh, here
we go, t Rex. Let's do this sober. These these
athletes all went to rehab forty five seconds on the close.
Should be right up. Coops out, Coop, yes go war
number four quarterback for the Packers. Yes, wide receiver for
the Cowboys. He liked cocaine. Yes, um. This guy probably

(01:51:48):
likes cocaine too. He played football for Texas A and
M and he was drafted by the brown Yes. Uh.
The worm played for the for the Bulls problem. Yes um.
Another guy that likes cocao was a Giants linebacker. He
broke Joe thisman's leg and half a mark last name? Yes,

(01:52:11):
okay um. He was a picture for the Mets. Also
likes cocaine. Yeah um. And then this picture for the Pirates.
He supposedly pitched a no hitter on LSD. That's gonna hurt.
Just ran out of time there for doc Ellis. Doc
Ellis answer, all right, we got a good We got
a good one. After having a nightmare at the beginning,

(01:52:33):
we got a good one. And what is the score.
Let's take your time, Benny, what's the score? Let me
see here, I'll I'll have it for you after the break.
Good job, t Rex. Well we're well, I know we're
in the lead. Ben and Jeremy and the lead and
it's Coop and t Rex and we will have the
conclusion of Mallar's Mounting of Money. We'll get to that.
We'll do it next. A night without the Ben Mallers

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Ben mall and back to Mallard's Mountain of Money, the
Tool edition of Mallard's Mountain of Money. We got a
good one. Two eighty for Jeremy and Ben, two forty

(01:53:14):
for t Rex and Coop. All right, so we got
a forty point lead. And it's the final round, the
final round, and t Rex is trailing right, So yep,
so t Rex, you get to go first hear eulogy
or the pot? The pot shocking right. I got excited.
Cooper is, yeah that you did not get the hundred

(01:53:40):
point question, Ben did. Yeah, that's all right, it's cool.
We're gonna take the lead right here. You're gonna lose,
all right, t Rex. These athletes have gotten into trouble
with guns. No, I'm sorry, that's that's ultimate written. They
like smoo Blooper Cooper Booper, and they like to smoke
mare one. All right, so these are weird heads. Allegedly

(01:54:04):
forty five seconds on the clock. Are you ready? Of course? Go?
He is about to fight Floyd Mayweather. Yes. He is
the running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yes. Uh. The
head coach for the Golden State Warriors, Steve Kerr, Yes,
uh the answer Alan Iverson yes uh uh. Luke's dad.

(01:54:31):
He played for the Trailblazers, yes, um uh. Quarterback for
the Bears, the eighty five Bears Jim mcmahn Yes, and
quarterback for the Broncos. He was also an Arizona Cardinals quarterback. Yes.
Who did not think you were gonna get Plumber? All right?

(01:54:52):
That was a clean sweep. That's right, all right, here
we go, let's do it, Jeremy. That's right. That's bringing
home Jeremy, Let's bring it home. Okay, Jeremy, your categories eulogy.
These athletes died too soon. Forty five seconds o'clock. Ben,
you ready, Let's do it go? All right? The macho
man that is accurate, known as the intimidator NASCAR driver,

(01:55:14):
the number three cars that is correct. A number fifty
five linebacker for the Chargers in the nineties that is accurate. Uh,
Marlin's pitcher died in a boating accident in Miami. Last
that is accurate. Puerto Rican outfielder number twenty one died
in a plane crash in the nineteen seventies out of
Puerto Rico. All right, pass Celtics draft pick nineteen eighty six.

(01:55:39):
He died of a that is accurate. Redskins safety number
twenty one. He was murdered in a burglary attempt in Miami.
You got say, yeah, we can't pass. You gotta get
that same. I think he was gonna swear enough, well,

(01:56:01):
Jeremy didn't get out there and Cooper are your winners.
Of course, he did have a podcategory kind of his
his m all, but that's fine. He had a contestant
chosen congratulations Team five Age of four sixty in the
final sport Jeremy, it was Sean Taylor was murdered in
his home in the burglary. And you did not get

(01:56:22):
Roberto Clemente, with the legendary great Puerto Rican outfielder for
the Pirates, who died on a charity plane flight. But
the clues where I gave were great. I did not
work out for you, but thank you for playing there,
and t Rex, you get to win. Nice job as
a late villainy Rex. Yes, a we I think we

(01:56:44):
should get rid of this game. I think well, I
mean it was a great game. Like four people that
call to play the game we need we need more
people than that. I mean, the whole point of this
is those people. But if not even no one wants
to play other than the same four people, what's the
the ruling has come down. Did Michael Floyd and the

(01:57:07):
Minnesota Vikings find a gullible judge who bought into the
kombucha t defense? We have the answer. Welcome in the
beginning of another hour. It's the Ben Maller Show. We
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rate quote. As Russell Westbrook takes home, the MVP should
not have been the MVP. You go back and hear
the monologue from earlier. But I laid out in my case,

(01:57:50):
and I understand that popular opinion is one thing, but
if you actually do any kind of due diligence as
an NBA award voter, you would not have voted for us.
So Westbrook, you would have said, well, here's the guy
that's filling out his stat sheet with artificial numbers. This
has been a manufactured situation. Should not have won the MVP.
But he did, and years from now people forget about

(01:58:13):
the nuance of it and they'll only remember that, hey,
he won. You're not going to go back twenty years
from now and said, oh wait a minute, he only
shot forty two percent. He led the NBA and uncontested
rebounds his teammates got out of the way allowed him
to get rebounds that they could have gotten. And really
the only reason that Restbrook won the MVP was based

(01:58:34):
on the triple double stats that were manipulated. The rebounding
totals in particular that were manipulated. You can go back
and hear more of that on the podcast, which you
should already be downloading on iTunes and all the other
podcast platforms, but especially on iTunes five Stars. The Ben
Maller Show podcast is there. Tom Brady has been named

(01:58:55):
the top player in the NFL by the marketing arm
of the league on the NFL Network. But all of
that's good, All that's great, wonderful. Michael Floyd, though, something
that we've talked about off and on here, a noble effort,
but it appears that Michael Floyd came up shore. He's

(01:59:16):
not played a game yet for the Vikings, but he
is on their roster. Michael Floyd, the judge decided he's
not gonna buy the She's not gonna buy the kombucha
t defense. Floyd has been sentenced to one day in jail.
In fact, he's in jail right now. Hi. Michael in
Arizona in Scottsdale, sentenced to one day in jail for

(01:59:40):
violating the terms of his house arrest. Let's get into
it now. Floyd is not allowed to drink alcohol because
he got arrested, passed out drunk the whole thing, so
he can't drink any alcohol, and he almost made it
all the way through his house arrest. But it turns

(02:00:03):
out that well, he didn't. Five different tests Michael Floyd
failed not one, not two, not three, five And that
led to one of the more amusing, one of the
more comical defenses I've ever heard in the history of
yapping about sports. Here Floyd blamed Kombuchati for his troubles.

(02:00:29):
Turns out the judge isn't as gullible as some of
the people that call this show and didn't buy it
and realize, well, wait a minute, this is ridiculous. So
the question is this is this a fair outcome or
not a fair outcome considering the facts of this particular case.
I will say this, Michael Floyd, My position is is lucky. Right,

(02:00:51):
He's like, this is not even really a slap on
the rest. Now, I know, if I went to jail
for a day, I'd be freaking out. But you know,
Michael Floyd, I assume spending the night there. He reported
at six o'clock on Monday night, and he'll get out
at what six o'clock tonight, He'll be out of jail
in Arizona, and then he'll be done with that and

(02:01:11):
he's got a few more days of house arrest. But
a couple of thoughts ay this, this is one of
the silliest defense strategies in my life, and it just
happens to be a sports story. But I would put
this in the same category as the twinkie defense. There
was a mass shooting years ago where someone blamed McDonald's

(02:01:31):
food as the reason that they committed that particular crime.
Those are ridiculous and absurd, and this is a football
thing and it's a little different. Clearly it's not as important,
but we pointed out Michael Floyd would have had to
have consumed anywhere depending on your source, anywhere between thirty

(02:01:53):
two plus to fifty bottles of kombuchati in a very
small all amount of time for his blood alcohol level
to have spiked up enough where he would have been
in some trouble consuming that amount of liquid. It's very important,
and the judge bought into this. Consuming that amount of
liquid would have likely killed Michael Floyd. Can't drink that

(02:02:17):
much in that small amount of time. And one of
the more amazing parts of this story we had several
people call up that we're taking the Kombuchati defense, and
they were like, yeah, that makes sense. I like it.
I buy that now. Unfortunately for Floyd, none of them
happened to be the judge in the state of Arizona.

(02:02:41):
And this does qualify, though is extremely light. In one
night in jail, small potatoes. He could have gotten a
lot more time in jail. I have a feeling if
Michael Floyd was not a football player and was not
good at catching passes, that he would have gotten a
lot more than one night in jail for a probation violation.

(02:03:04):
But he is a football player, and he's someone that
has some celebrities, got good attorneys, and so he was
able to get only one day for violating his agreement.
Now part B of this, will the Vikings continue to
employ Michael Floyd? Considering the heartfelt release the press release
from the Vikings, I would say yes, a endorsement by

(02:03:27):
Rick Spielman, although I will say a tepid endorsement from
the Minnesota Vikings general manager. Floyd has only been part
of the Vikings for less than fifty days. He was
signed forty eight days ago, so it's not like Minnesota's
in this long term relationship where he's a franchise icon.
Even with that lack of connection, Spielman, the GM said,

(02:03:51):
the organization quote believes in Michael Floyd. What is there
to believe it? I mean, he hasn't done anything for
you anyway, Spielman said, The Vikings believe in Michael Floyd,
and he will remain on the roster and report the
training camp in mid July. He will be there with
the rest of the Jamox that will be wearing Minnesota

(02:04:13):
Vikings uniforms. And here's the thing, here's the word belief believes.
Beliefs have been known to change. They have been known
to change. I remember that Floyd, with this Vikings deal,
he's not guaranteed to make the final fifty three man
roster coming out of camp, and even if he does

(02:04:35):
make the team, it is likely that he's going to
have a secondary role, that he's a bit player for
the Vikings outside of several other players ahead of him
getting injured. And then there's the elephant in the room.
I know we have the new Happy Go Lucky, shake
your ass in the air everywhere, Roger Goodell that he's

(02:04:55):
trying to become cool and hip and all that and
wants people to like him. But Roger Goodell l could
also suspend Michael Floyd. In fact, it's almost a certainty
that there'll be a league mandated punishment coming down from
the Commissioner's office. So Floyd, that's say he makes the Vikings,
he's gonna miss You would think at least one game.

(02:05:17):
Is that an accurate prediction on what's going to happen
to Floyd when he gets punished by the NFL. So
the last thing here, the party shot Michael Floyd one
day for this let's live in a charmed life. He
is going to have a chance when he reports the
training camp. He plays well to reinvent himself. He fell
out of favor with the Cardinals, didn't do anything with

(02:05:38):
the New England Patriots of note, and the Vikings show
yet again, this is the lesson. It's very important in
life and people talk about doing the right thing and
all this stuff. And I know this is not the
crime of the century. I get that, but as long
as you are talented, you can get away with a
lot of stuff. And if the Vikings did not believe

(02:05:58):
that there was something in Michael Floyd that they could
get to help their football team, they would not be
doubling down clearly on it. Now. I do not drink
kombucca T. I don't. The fermented products do not do
much for me. But if I'm the agent for Michael Floyd,
I call the people up. There's got to be like
a mass, mass promotion for this kombucca T. I'm like, hey,

(02:06:22):
I got the perfect guy to do commercials. My guy
went to jail for kombucca t. Okay, this guy went
to jail for a night because of your tea. He
should do some commercials. He should do some kind of
advertising for these people. All right, So the Ben Maller
Show on Fox. You can be part of this. You
know the number. We'd love to have you and also

(02:06:43):
available on Twitter at Ben Mallery. We've had a feisty night.
We had mister Tibbs call up earlier in the show,
one of our favorites. We had not heard from mister
Tibbs in some time. He's going to voyeurism therapy. I
got from We don't even know what that is. We
don't even know what voyeurism therapy is, but we do

(02:07:05):
know that mister Tipps claimed, likely erroneously, that he's he's
going to it's very exciting and outside of that, now,
I did want to get to the yac l page story.
We bring Eddie in on this. But Ken Rosenthal had
a report where some of the Dodger players, of course

(02:07:29):
and not putting their name on it, because that's not
how you do these things. But according to Rosenthal, several
players on the Dodgers consider ya Cel Puigue as an annoyance,
and nobody, according to Rosenthal, would be disappointed if ya
Cel Puige is traded ya Cel Puige from the Dodgers. No,

(02:07:51):
I don't know if that's true or not. Rosenthal, couldn't
you say that about a couple of guys on every team?
I mean, yeah, a couple of guys that just aren't
that well liked. Yeah. I mean the question is, doesn't
matter that Puigue is seen as an annoyance? I would say, no,
it's the same old sorty, much like with Michael Floyd.
If Michael Floyd, if the Vikings think he can't catch
passes anymore, they'll get rid of him. If the Dodgers

(02:08:13):
are convinced that Yacio Puig stinks, all of a sudden
they won't keep him around, they'll get rid of him.
He's actually bounced back and he's been he's become He's
not a centerpiece for the Dodgers, but he's hitting in
this seventh or eighth spot most of the time, and
he's on pace to hit around thirty home runs. That's
pretty good production from a number seven or number eight hitter.

(02:08:34):
And so Puig's done that. And the other argument Rosenthal
kind of contradicts himself because he also reported recently that
one of the theories as to why the Giants blow
chunks and have been a disaster in the National League
West is because they got rid of Angel Pagan. Now

(02:08:55):
why does that matter, Well, according to that report, Pagan
was buys by some of his teammates, but they miss
having him in the locker room because he stirred things
up and a lot of the guys didn't like Angel Pecan.
So it's okay that Pagan's gone, and now the Giants
are blaming him as a scapegoat because they didn't bring
him back as to why they stink. But the Dodger

(02:09:16):
players are upset with Puigue and they figure he's an
annoyance and they want to get rid of him. Those
those things contradict themselves, right. I know there's two different teams,
but those are contradicting positions. Yeah, I would say. I mean, look,
as you said, if we continues to it's all about expectations.
I mean, we all thought he was gonna be the
next great player. Maybe he's not going to be that,
but he's still a guy who can contribute. He's still

(02:09:37):
a guy who in any giving it back and hit
one out of the park. He's still got the big arm,
and he's still a guy who's pretty pretty valuable. Yeah,
and he's he's hitting some home runs. He's not hitting
for much average, but he's sitting some home runs. He's
on pace to drive in around ninety runs this year
for the Dodgers. So yeah, that's I like that kind
of annoyance. I like him and my number eight hit
or hitting thirty home runs, that's my kind of annoyance.

(02:09:59):
He used to just have a strong arm. Now it's accurate.
Did you see that throw he made the third base
to cut Cole Calhoun last night Dodder Angel game. That
was the lone highlight for the Dodgers that in Jock
Peterson not being able to hit a baseball with the
bases loaded. Hey, what's going on with Terry Francona? Is
he is? He? Is this something or nothing? He seems
to have a lot of these medical issues, does he not?

(02:10:21):
I mean, yeah, he left the game last night in Cleveland,
which was his donculus comeback by the Indians. They were
down what were they down? Seven runs? Seven runs? They
came back in one against the Rangers. Good pitching by
the Rangers. But Francona left that game and nobody seems
to know why. No one, I'm sure someone. He wasn't
feeling well, whatever that means. And it could be a

(02:10:41):
lot of things. But isn't one of Baseball's like one
of those jobs when you're not feeling well, you still
gotta kind of sit through it, right, Isn't that usually
how that works? You can't know there's another game tomorrow.
It's not a big deal if you miss one. But
it's not like football. But he missed the game last
season because he had chest paint. Yeah, he's fifty seven,
and my man, fan con let's just say he's not
a new age hippie when it comes to health, right,

(02:11:04):
and he's not eating kale he's not eating a lot
of kale and broccoli things like that. Yes, I know,
he famously quit, you know, the chewing tobacco. But he's
done a lot of other things that kind of make
up for you know what I mean, like his you know,
his diet's not that good. Drinking a lot of coffee
and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, he's told to

(02:11:26):
kind of replace one thing with another, you know what
I mean. Well, he ate forty four dollars worth of
ice cream at three thirty in the morning. Yeah, that's
probably not a good idea. One of my favorite real
health one of my favorite Terry fran Cona's stories is
he powered through because that's what you gotta do. Maybe
not when you're in your yeah, mid to late fifties.
I don't know if that's a good idea. But and Ben,

(02:11:48):
I'm sorry if I missed. Did you did you mention
the last time that he was at the doctors? Well, yeah,
he had chest pain's last year, right right? Well, and
actually I think it was just a week or so ago.
He ate a chili dog. That debt did not do it? Man. Yeah,
so you're not kidding about the non kale diet. Yeah,
I mean this might be nothing, but Frank Colin and

(02:12:08):
you keep having health maybe Bocci Miss Bochi's missed some
time with the Hagantes recently because of some health stuff
that's popped up. How many chili dogs would it take
for you to call in sick? Well, it depends on
the Vegas chili dogs? Is it like the buffet chili dogs?
What are we talking about here? Because I I'm not
a big chili dog guy. There like round La. We

(02:12:31):
have Tommies. You don't like Tommy's chili dogs and one
one or two every once in a while, but not
not too often. You a chili burger guy, what do you?
What do you? I like chili just on its own.
I don't want to need it on on anything else,
you know, stacked chili table. Coop puts it on fruit.

(02:12:51):
You know, I'm gonna guess that Coop's hit that Tommy's
in Hollywood. You've been over there Coop three in the morning.
I'm I'm not a huge fan of Tommy is. I
prefer chili fries and chili cheese. He's got a chili
spot he talks about often called the hat right, Oh yeah,
the hats chili fries are I've been to the hat

(02:13:13):
the hats, the hats for real, but I also enjoy
cupids chili dogs. Those those are really good. Upis no,
it's it's a famous like southern California. It's you know,
old school. And then Pinks is pretty good too, little little,
little overrated, but it still pix is a tourist trap. Yeah,
I don't really care for you like that snap when

(02:13:36):
you eat the hot dog. Yes, I do you do
like you? Yes, But I mean, Eddie, You're you're missing out.
Chili's great on everything. Back in the old days, Eddie,
when I was single, I would I would drive home
from here and there was a Tommy's I used to
live in Hollywood. It was right off the freeway in Hollywood,
and I would go. It was over twenty four hours

(02:13:57):
and I would get chili, cheese, fries and a triple
cheese Jesus, yes, at three thirty the morning, and I
would doubt the biggest, the biggest Doctor Pepper thing I
could get go to sleep. I didn't sleep to the
sound of that. That's how I wanted to sleep. That
was the sound as I was. Yeah, I've not anymore though,

(02:14:20):
I've not been to Tommy's Cheeseburger. Chili Cheeseburger plays in
a while. Let's get chili cheese fries. Guys. That sounds
so good. Coops like, yeah, what doesn't sound good to you? Coop?
Is that place you like? Coop? That restaurant open? Oh yeah,
I was gonna ask you the fact they keep they
keep like delaying it. I don't know how on the
table again for that one. Yeah, it's it's it's been

(02:14:41):
a long time. I'm waiting. You know. They've got chili
cheese fries too. I just did all right. Uh. Coop
just goes behind like stares at it. Take that for data.
All right, we will get to thirty five seconds. We'll
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Use your social media pages to show your support for
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Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller. Mister nice guy says,
what company would not want a spokesperson who's been convicted
of severe dui? Another brilliant Mallard maneuver. We're talking about

(02:15:24):
Michael Foot. Well, I'll push back on that, mister nice guy,
and I will present to you two examples of athletes
that have been popped for DUI. It did not matter.
They got endorsements after that. One of them Michael Phelps,
the Olympic swimmer. He pled guilty to DUI years ago,
and I think I think it happened twice to him,

(02:15:44):
and he's still got a bunch of endorsements over the years.
And then the current quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, Dak Prescott,
who got popped for DUI. He's not hurting in this department.
He's very popular right now, Dak Prescott getting new endorsement opportunity.
So in your face? How about that? In your face?
Let's say hello to Len who's in Washington on Fox

(02:16:06):
Sports Radio. Hello, Len, Hello, how are you doing? Man?
If I was any better, I'd be a Floyd. But
not Michael Floyd because he had too much kombucca ti. Oh. Yeah,
he was celebrating his release a little too early, little premature. Yes,
Now what's on your mind there? Len? Oh? Westbrook winning

(02:16:28):
the MVP. Very happy for you? Why are you happy
for me? Over for okay, see over, okay, see why
are you happy for okay? See aren't you a Sonics fan? Yeah,
that's something that they can celebrate instead of our seventy
nine nineteen seventy nine championship. All right, all right, but

(02:16:48):
they just had an Durrant won an MVP. There, they've
had individual awards. It's it's not unusual. Yeah, well yeah,
all right, it's just that they couldn't keep that team together.
Durant Westbrook, I'm aware. I've heard about that. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

(02:17:08):
What else is going on with you and everything? All
right with you? Yes? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm just
out here barbecuing up. I'm looking for some chilie because
I'm out here. You're barbecuing at two thirty in the morning. Yes,
wash it off at midnight, man, I barbecue every night.
You're not gonna let societal rules stop you from barbecuing.

(02:17:29):
Oh yeah, I like that about you. You're a Rebel's
what you are. You're like, Hey, listen, if I want barbecue,
I work a weird schedule, and I'm not gonna be angry.
I'm not gonna be annoyed by this. I am going
to have a damn barbee. Now are you? Are you
surrounded by people or you have like a lot of
land so it doesn't really matter. Well, I'm sitting on
six acres, okay, oh yeah, then you can do whatever

(02:17:50):
you want. Yeah, yeah, I got a version all of that.
And I've already say hey, you know, yeah, I'm usually
up late and I'm gonna have lights on and I'm
all right, I was. I'm listening to Ben Maller. So
you're what are you barbecuing some chili? Is that what
you're gonna make? I'm making some hot dogs. I'm making
h This is great. We're learning about lens barbecue taste

(02:18:13):
like a touchdown in your mouth. I'm working on it, man,
I know, I know you are listen. Collaboratory, Man, I
got you. I am the doctor after midnight and you
need to get like one of those not slow cookers,
but one of those smokers. Put some brisket in there,
smoked that thing up, put that on the barbecue after you.

(02:18:34):
That's the way to do it. Ben, you are talking
my language. I'm going to work on getting one of those. Yeah,
that's the goal. Now I try to do a little
smoking on my gas grill too. Yeah, that's that's been working.
Any other cooking tips you want to pass online, You've
called the right show. It's the cooking show here. I
know how to grill up hot dogs. Those Finway dogs,

(02:18:57):
the monster dogs, those things were cooked to profect. I
should work at Fenway Park. When I lose this job,
which will probably happen pretty quick after this call, I'll
go work at Fenway and I'll cook hot dogs that
in Boston. That'll be my move. No, man, you will
be always doing this on the radio. Do you think so?
I think so? Yeah? Yeah, I love you, well, thank you.

(02:19:17):
I love you too. All Right, I gotta go, But
good luck with the barber. You don't burn those hot dogs, Len,
Actually actually you should burn them a little bit, but
not all right, thank you. Cooking with Lenn. You save
any of those Fenway Monster dogs for Fourth of July?
Are they all gone? Well, that's a that's a controversial statement, Eddie,
that you just brought up there. Controversial. Yeah, I'll explain

(02:19:40):
on the other side. But something happened at the Mallard
mansion which did involve potential damage to the dogs. Oh no,
And will I be eating more more of the hot dogs?
I will explain my predicament. We'll get to that, and
also we will get to site the bite and that
thirty five seconds story. We'll get to all that in

(02:20:02):
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(02:20:26):
up momentarily, we'll get to site the bite. The great
sports radio mystery, we've got that. We also have this
a former heavyweight boxing Kempion of the World, Tyson Fury.
He has given his hot take on the Floyd Mayweather
Connor McGregor fight. And shockingly so this is this is

(02:20:48):
a quite the hot take. Tyson Fury says that the
fight will last thirty five seconds. It's gonna last thirty
five seconds, and Connor McGregor will be knocked out within
thirty five seconds. And so's he's calling his shot there.

(02:21:09):
That actually said Connor mcgrey will. He said he will
be thirty five second fight and McGregor will be the
one that does the does the damage. He says, McGregor's
gonna knock out may Does this guy hate Mayweather? Is
that what this is all about? Is is there a
history that we don't know about, some kind of incident
in the past. I am unaware. I am also I

(02:21:31):
would think that the fight will go more than thirty
five seconds. I would think so because if it goes
thirty five seconds, there will be no other fight, no one.
Plus Floyd doesn't knock anybody out, not typically. All right,
So the hot dog story, Eddie, Yeah, this listener in Boston,
very generous sent us hot dogs twice because the first
shipment was destroyed by the mail department here at Fox

(02:21:52):
Sports Radio, who didn't get us to us in time.
So I had the dogs in the freezer. About a
week ago, I started no noticing the ice machine in
my refrigerator was melting, and I thought, well, this is
very weird. It's not you know why it's broke, what's
going on? I couldn't figure it out. I was like,
it's very odd that the ice machine was melting. And

(02:22:13):
so this went on for like a day and a half,
and then I realized that somehow the refrigerator had been
sent into demo mode. Like I didn't even know that
was a thing, but like at the store, if you
go to buy a refrigerator, they have it on demo
mode where it kind of looks like it's on, but
it's not. It's saving energy and so it's not really

(02:22:35):
keeping anything cold. That's a slight problem. Um and so
so anyway, fortunately, thank god for the Internet, I was
able to find the code to turn it back on
after calling out to have a code. No, there's no switch.
There's you gotta hit buttons as certain where there's like
three buttons you've got to hit. You hit the first

(02:22:57):
one once, the second one twice, and then another button
on on the like the front of the refrigerator. Anyway,
so I did it. It turned it back on, but
everything had kind of melted, and so now I don't
know what everything's frozen again, do I risk it? Those
are great hot dogs and the way bring them over
this way and the way I look at the I

(02:23:18):
cook these things so thoroughly. I burned the dogs. I
believe there's very little health risk other than burning the
hot dogs and eating them that way. But like from
the The concern if food becomes warm is that there's
some kind of disease that will get in the food. Right,
But I cook it so much, I'll kill the disease.
I'll burn the disease out of the dogs. I think

(02:23:40):
they're fine. You think I think they're Okay. I'm gonna
go with that too. Now, the other stuff that was
like that became liquid, I can't. I had to throw
that away like there was some other items. Yeah, that's
that's a tough one. So I assume we will be
having some hot dogs. But I'm working the fourth July,
and yeah, I will be here slaving on the actual

(02:24:03):
day of the fourth. You're gonna be here, Yes, I
will be here. Well, I will be honoring America by
talking into a mics. No, that's what I will be doing. Blosphemy.
Am I heathen for doing that? Yes, yes you are. I,
on the other hand, will be taking my first ever
paid vacation. Ah, look at you, big time now you

(02:24:27):
taking the full weekend coop? Are you taking two days
or only one? Just one? Yeah? All right, that's very danny. Gee,
what about you? You will be here taking big Ben.
It's gonna be you and me here eating those Boston
Red Sox dogs. All right, it's very exciting. Maybe I
will bring some hot dogs in here. Clifford, the Big

(02:24:47):
Red Dog is on Fox Sports Radio, and then we
will get to site the Bite, the great sports radio
mystery site The Bite Ben give morning. Hey, um, I
was just curious what do you think the rest of
the Oklahoma City players might be doing in their next
contract talks with maybe possibly other owners. Like let's say

(02:25:09):
the owner says, yeah, I was watching tape of you,
and you didn't seem too hungry to go after their
loose rebounds, and it seemed like we were giving them
all to Russell. And I'm not going to give you
so much money because you don't play as hard as
I thought you could. Yet, does that make sense that

(02:25:30):
other players would just give up rebounds and not play
as hard just so Russell could get I agree, I
completely just very bizarre that they would do that, but
they did. There's no other way to look at it
other than that there plenty of video. Do you think
those videos are made up? Well, there's people that have
a oh here it comes to cliche, a nose for

(02:25:51):
the ball. Yes, and there are other people that get
out of the way and let someone else come in
and get the rebounds. Yes, well those people shouldn't play
on on another team that that might Well, maybe maybe
that'll happen. Maybe Steven Adams and these other guys will
not be allowed they'll be blackballed out of the NBA,
they won't be allowed to play anymore. Because I know,

(02:26:13):
I know, I know, Clifford, it's too hard for you.
You're you're a big red dog. It's very difficult for
a big red dog to understand what happened here. But
I assure you, Clifford, the big red dog, that that
is exactly what happened. This was a choreographed situation, and
Russell Westbrook, to his credit, took advantage. He led the

(02:26:34):
NBA and uncontested rebounds. Do you agree or disagree with
that he did lead? He did? He did, all right?
That is an accurate statement. And you would agree also
that the main point of Westbrook's campaign to win the
MVP was he averaged a triple double. Right, So if
Westbrook didn't get those rebounds, he didn't get those uncontested rebounds,

(02:26:57):
he would not have averaged a triple double. Therefore, he
would not have won the MVP. Yes, yes, so all right,
that's all right. Put that for data. Let's get Thank you, Clifford.
All right, let's get to this. Here we go. It's
time now to site bite bite, where we play random

(02:27:17):
generic sound bites. You know, in a sports and entertainment cliche,
spoken by so called experts. You try to tell us
who's doing the talking. Let's do it this site to
bite the great sports Radio Mystery. We gotta fly and
let's find out who this week's mystery voice is. Who

(02:27:38):
we want to be, who we want to be? Who
we want to be? That's who we want to be?
Five words, that's five words, who we want to be?
I use some mallar math on that. All right? Will
anyone get this right? I'll go first. I will say
we've taken see your five. I have good calls. I'm

(02:28:00):
gonna go with calling number five. Eddie. I'm not very
scientifical about this band. Uh five words were uttered by
that unknown person, So I'll go caller five, all right,
stealing my answer, Danny Gee big bend. I'm very scientifical
when it comes to this game. As you know, in
this past weekend, I was at Dodgers Stadium. My Tenderoni
had the nerve to wear a purple Rocky shirt. She did.

(02:28:22):
I had the last laugh, though, as the Dodgers sent
the Rockies reeling with their fifth straight loss. In honor
of that fifth straight loss, Caller five is definitely gonna win.
Did you stay for five innings and you left? Oh?
I stayed for the whole game? Cooper loop, Yeah, he's
screening calls. All right, Coopers, he's out on this. Coop's
gonna pick number three, all right, number three showing five fingers.

(02:28:43):
He set number three, whisper. There's five words in the
sound bite. So I'm gonna go with caller number five. Okay, Well,
let's get played again. I forgot the sound bite already,
go ahead, played again. Who want to be? Okay, that's
kind of creepy a little bit. Who we want to be?
Let's start out with Justin and Sinnati batting leadoff on
site to bite only eight people get the guests. You

(02:29:05):
can play the home or the car version as you
travel around and navigate your way through the streets and
the highways and byways. All right, justin, what's the answer?
I got it? It is it Donald Trump's travel band?
Is that the Donald Trump Travel Band. No, but thank you,

(02:29:25):
Yes you do. That is correct site to bite the
great sports radio mystery. Let's say hello to Real Talk.
Who's going to give it a guess? Hello, Real Talk?
You know what's up? Man? I just got you know.
I've been listening to your show all night. I'm gonna
take the shot every time you tease the teeter, Dude,
you won't pay off the thirty five pounds, dude, I

(02:29:46):
am trash. Wow, this is I did. I just paid
off to tease I thirty five second ties. I paid
off all day. I paid off the tease? Is the
answer that teaser? Is that? The answer? Oh? It is not?

(02:30:07):
Matt in Indy? Is next one? Oh? Actually, we gotta
give a clue. Hold on a second, Matt. It's interesting
hearing Real Talk. I'll licker it up all right. Here
we go a site to bite this particular person War
number thirty one at Zionsville Community High School in honor
of Reggie Miller, who we want to be. It is

(02:30:28):
not a teaser or Donald Trump's travel ban and Matt
in Indie? What is the answer your caller? Number three? Matt?
Is that a Phoenix Sun legend? Wesley Pearson. Is that
Wesley person? No, but thank you. It's a good name.
I've heard that name in a while. It's Site to Bite,

(02:30:49):
the great sports radio mystery. Big D is caller number four?
Keep calling? People are hanging up Big D. It is it?
I guess we now know that Big D's the Donald
Duck guy? Is it Donald Duck? No? Thank you, all right,
go back to sleep, Big D. There you go, of course,

(02:31:11):
Big D in Anaheim. Yeah, that's that's not it at all.
All right, it's it's the Ben Mallor Show. It's Site
to Bite. Let's play it again here. Now we're closing
in on caller number five. The next caller we take
is gonna be caller number five. Can you figure out
who this person is? I'm gonna give you another clue
right now. There's a golden ticket on the line. Who

(02:31:32):
we want to be? All right, here's your your next clue.
This person is the youngest coach in NCAA history to
reach two final fours. Who we want to be? Youngest
coach in NCAA history to reach two final fours. He
wore number thirty one at Zionville Community High School in

(02:31:52):
honor of Reggie Miller, And we've got five words to
work with. Who we want to be? Kevin in the
Indie is next? Kevin? You are caller number five. Kevin, Oh,
number five. Let's a lot of pressure. Five. You're gonna
get it right, Kevin. You're gonna be gonna say Magic Johnson,

(02:32:12):
Magic Johnson. I remember when Magic was a little boy
to be Kenny. That makes sense that Magic would want
to honor Reggie Miller, who was born after him. I'm
sure that that makes sense. Yes, is it? Is it
Magic Johnson? Hang up on your side, right? Thank you? Kevin? Yes,
it makes all the sense in the world. All right,

(02:32:36):
we gotta get the caller number six. It is not
Magic Johnson. Caller six is Lan in Washington is calling back? Lan?
What's the answer? Lane? Gut william Is it Gus Williams?
Lenn is obsessed with the old Sonics. Man, he was
all about those old Sonics. All right, No, it's not
it's not him, all right, Caller number seven? And who

(02:32:58):
is that that is going to be? Mister Moose? Mister
Moose in Maine. What's the answer? Good morning, Ben? I
believe it is that Soupy Sales. That's a great guest. No,
that's a relevant guest. No, I know it's a shame,
all right, not soupy sales time for we have. It'll

(02:33:21):
give you a couple of clues. Here can close it
out with this, all right, coach the Eastern Conference All
Stars this past season, and he just led the Boston
Celtics to the number one seed this past year. Golden
ticket on the line, and Paul in Minneapolis to win
that golden ticket. I'll go with Brad Stephens. Is it

(02:33:42):
Brad Stevens? That's all I can feel the raw motion.
You are overwhelmed. This is a big moment in a
man's life. You have been able to win site to bike. Congratulations, Paul,
all you get yourself a golden tickets. All right, we'll

(02:34:04):
try to get to fuck the world. Probably not, we'll
do that next. There's a world within an excitement going
on around our show reddit page. Search for our subreddit
Ben Maller Show and get the latest authentic listener generated
content about the Mallard Militia. Now live from the Guico
Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller Ay a very

(02:34:24):
brief fuck the world Edywell, bounce it right back to you.
It's a slap shot for it. Well. We had two
drafts in the NHL this week. First, the Expansion Draft,
Las Vegas Golden Knights select one player from each of
the thirty teams. They ended up with fourteen forwards, nine defenceman,
three goalies. The highlight was getting three times Stanley Kip
Whinny goaling mark Andre Fleury from the Pittsburgh Penguins. A
few days later, with the NHL Entry Draft, who would

(02:34:46):
it be first? Would it be Canadian star Nolan Patrick
or Swiss star Nico Cresher. The New Jersey Devils went
with Hesher. He's the first player from Switzerland to be
picked number one overall. Patrick goes to the Philadelphia Fires
are number two. Big changes to the Arizona Counties. They
fired their head coach Day picked Dave Tippet. They then
traded their number one goalie, Mike Smith. The Calgary then

(02:35:08):
made a trade for Derek step On, an Anti ranter
from the Rangers, Nicholas Chalmerson from the black Hawks. Speaking
to the black Hawks, forward Marianhosa, who many fields a
Hall of Fame player, will not play next season because
of a skin disorder. The condition developed because of an
allergic reaction to his hockey equipment. And that's your puck
the world. I pla right abbreviated as thank you, Eddie.
I know you're very upset with that. Do you think

(02:35:30):
there's anything of this anonymous reports making the rounds on
the Internet that they're going to announce that they've NASA
has found they've found alien life, Eddie? You buying that
stories out there? It's all over the internet, some some
scandalous war. I now that's more's George Norri stuff. Probably not.
I think there might be something. I listen. I think

(02:35:50):
the math. I'm a big math guy, and I think
the chances are pretty good that there is life a
lot of life out there. There's even life on this show.
Out kicked the coverage with Clay Travis warming up right
now in the Fox Sports bullpen.

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