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July 4, 2023 41 mins

Ben Maller gives his take on Draymond Greens recent comments about never wanting to chase the 73 wins record ever again. Ben also goes into depth on Draymond's comments of Wembanyama's All-Star Hype and Chris Paul's impact on the young players in Golden State. Plus, we have some more fun with Maller to The 3rd Degree!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number to the hour of
Draymond an hour two and what do you make of
Draymond Green saying that he never even wants to attempt
being on a team that chases the wins record again. Also,
Draymond believes that people have set Victor Wembanyama of the

(00:22):
Spurs the number one pick up for failure with all
the rookie All Star hype? Do you feel bad for Wemby?
And Draymond Green also believes that Chris Paul will quote
completely unlock the Warriors. Jonathan Kuminga, Is it really that simple?
We'll talk about that as well a whole lot more here.

(00:44):
It is our number two. It is a green light.
Go well come in the beginning of another hour of
the Ben Malors Show, doing it live on the July
unless we're not. We are in the air everywhere as

(01:05):
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(01:29):
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(01:51):
can't think of anything more patriotic than doing sports talk
radio in the middle of the night on the fourth
of July. But here we are. How lucky are we
to be united here? And we'll do it live and
so our lead this hour coming from the spirit animal
of Golden State. Draymond Green, has been very generous on

(02:12):
this birthday for America. Draymond Green is a chirping and
when Draymond chirps, we sometimes listen, especially in the month
of June or July. That is very good for what
we do. So thank you Draymond for helping us out. Now.
If you didn't hear this, maybe not Draymond Green talking

(02:34):
about a gaggle of topics during an appearance on the
Fledgling podcast p that is apparently a podcast by Paul George.
I wonder if he takes podcasts off to rest up
load management. He can't do Back to Back podcast because
he might heard a vocal coreter is not only basketball

(02:55):
he can't do. I don't know. I've never heard the
Paul George podcast. Have you? Probably not? Anyway, So d
get to the point. Play. So Draymond Green, who was
part of the twenty fifteen twenty sixteen Golden State team
that won an NBA record seventy three games during the
regular season and also lost lost in the NBA finals,

(03:24):
and he stated, Draymond Green that he never wants to
go through this experience again. That's what he said, not
my words, his words. He says, if you told me today,
y'all can win seventy three games next year and actually
close the deal and win a championship, I may say no,
I'm cool, Green announcing why, Well, here's why, Draymond saying,

(03:49):
because the price to pay to actually get through that,
I'm not sure it's worth it. Not sure it is
worth it to try to win all of your games. Okay,
that's that's good attitude. Green complained about being thrust into

(04:09):
a playoff environment every game when you're trying to set
a record, and he moaned about the toll that it takes.
Oh the toe what a toe it is, and on
and on and on. So let us discuss the question
on this one. What do you make of Draymond Green

(04:29):
saying that he never even wants to attempt chasing the
seventy three win record again, does not want to be
part of a team that does that. So I've got
Russian ballet, locomotive, and the law, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to

(04:51):
make a nice, nice punching the schnas is what we're
gonna make. So number one, number one, Draymond Green. Good news, Draymond,
you will not have to ever worry about being on
a team to challenge the all time wins record, as
that ship has left the port and it ain't coming back.

(05:13):
But really, what Draymond's doing here, Draymond is selling Apple
sauce eyewash on this one. I don't get the logic.
Maybe I'm missing something. I'm not that bright. I do
the Overnight Show around here. But Raymond making it seem
like the chase to get the record for regular season
wins is similar to a Greek tragedy. I am I wrong,

(05:39):
That's what it sounds like. Oh the horror, Oh the
horror of trying to win all of your games. The
drama queen is singing, singing, singing Now, spoiler alert, Draymond Green.
We believe in truth and broadcasting. Draymond Green. The real
reason he does not want to chase the wins record

(06:01):
and said that it's too taxing, taxing is because Draymon
is the reason that was a failure. He was the
reason that was a failure and he cracked under the pressure.
Don't bear the lead, ma myn heart, We're not bearing
the lead. If you are old enough to remember that

(06:21):
Golden State run when they won the seventy three games
and got to the playoffs and all that, Draymond Green
was the saboteur for the Warriors. He turned the postseason
into the Russian ballet, a classic of the ballet get
your cod piece out because the nutcracker that was Draymond Green.

(06:43):
And I don't know that this came up in conversation
on the podcast Fee Show. I'd have to listen for that.
But anyway, the point is that Draymond Green. For those
of us that did pay attention to know that Draymond
is responsible for the Warriors gagging, congratulates he was at
an A's game with Marshawn Lynch for Game five of

(07:04):
that NBA Finals, if I remember correctly, Golden State was
up three to one. They were one win away from
dispatching Lebron and the Cadavers in that NBA Finals of
twenty sixteens. Raymond, though, was suspended for Game five because
he used his hand to strike the junk of Lebron

(07:26):
James in Game four. You might remember that postseason if
you're old enough to remember. He also kicked Steven Adams,
who was playing for Oklahoma City the key we Steven
Adams kicked him in the Twigg and Berries there earlier
in the postseason. So that was like his kinky fetish Draymond.
That was his taboo, hitting guys in the male and

(07:50):
neither regions there and just going for it. And so
green he was absent from the Warriors to the latrine,
hanging out over there the A's games back when the
A's well, nobody went to A's games then either, but
right across the parking lot back when the Warriors played
in Oakland. And then he the whole I remember the
whole plan, right. We were doing the show here the

(08:12):
plane at the time was that he'd be at the
A's game, the Warriors would win the championship, and then
as soon as the game ended, Draymon could enter the
arena and celebrate with the Warriors. Except they never won
another game in that NBA Finals, and that was it.
Now page two here, Draymond had some other things to say.

(08:33):
He also discussed the number one overall pick Victor Wembanyama
and said he believes. Raymond Green believes that the projections
that have wem Banyama as an All Star as a
rookie are going to harm him. Quote, I think people
are setting him up for failure, like, oh, he's going

(08:56):
to be an All Star next, Draymond opining. Then he
moaned about how hard it is to be an All
Star and on and on. So Draymond Green believes people
have set Victor Wembanyama up for failure with all the
rookie hype, the All Star speculation and all of that.

(09:18):
Do you feel bad for Wemby? Do you feel bad
for Wemby? Draymond says he's being set up for failing. Now.
While I have said, and I do believe that the
hype is rat poison, other people have pointed that out,
and who make more money than me? That being said,
in this case, I do not agree with Draymond Green.

(09:40):
I think he's dead wrong on this. And I'll tell
you why I disagree with Raymond because this could not
be a better mitzvah for Victor Wembanyama. And here's why.
Even if this guy goes out there and can't even
dribble a basketball, the only dribbling he does is mucus
coming out of his nose in dribbling down his face

(10:02):
and going down his chin. If that's the only dribbling
that happens for Victor Wembanyama, it doesn't matter because of
the hype we live in the world now. It has
been this way for a number of years, where you
get paid on hype. You don't get paid all on
what you actually do. You get paid on what people
think you're going to do. In professional sports, I wish

(10:25):
it worked like that in radio. It does not, But
that's the reality of the situation. And so he's laughing
all the way to the bank. He's got the rookie
contract at fifty four million, wem Banyama, he's going to
get one hundred million dollars shoe deal. So that's one
hundred and fifty four million. He's gonna get minimum ten
million from Fanatics on a sports memorabilia deal, probably a

(10:46):
lot more than that. We're low balling that plus all
of the other fortune five hundred companies that are trying
to get in on the Wemby hype. So you do
the arithmetic on this, and it doesn't matter whether he's
a stiff or not. He is getting paid Wemby based
on what people think he's going to do. He don't

(11:07):
have to make an All Star team. He could be
in the G League. He can be playing at the
local YMCA down the street. Knock yourself out there at
the Why and have a fine time. But you're gonna
get paid any either way. It's not guaranteed money. He
is projected to be one of the most commercially successful
athletes in the history of not just North America, the world.

(11:32):
All right, final point, So Draymond Green also, wait, there's more.
He was singing the praises of an old Lob City Clipper,
Chris Paul, selling the impact of Chris Paul with Golden State,
and he thinks Draymond Green said that he thinks CP
three will aid the development of Jonathan Kuminga coming. Green

(11:56):
is saying that Chris Paul adds another dimension to the
Golden State offense, okay, and will quote completely unlock Jonathan
Kaminga and his growth. So that's the money, quote completely unlocked.
Draymond Green saying Chris Paul will completely unlock his teammate

(12:16):
Jonathan Kaminga. Is it really that simple? No, No, I
don't buy this either. I'm not in agreement. I'm sorry,
not sorry. CP three. The only way that scenario works
is where you go into some kind of time portal

(12:40):
and you go back in time. Chris Paul is past
the expiration date on dominance. He was washed up in Arizona,
he will be washed up in San Francisco. I do
not believe you will find the Garden of Eden in
San Francisco. And I don't think cons deli. We'll be

(13:00):
leaving Florida to go to northern California to help him out.
He's a shell of what he had been. And Draymond
is also forgetting the law and what is the law
the law of unintended consequences? Where if Chris Paul were
to truly be in position to unlock Jonathan Kaminga. What
would have to happen. What would have to happen, I'll

(13:21):
tell you. It would mean that he would have to
be a ball hog. He would have to control the
ball CP three, which then means the trickle down effect
is that Steph Curry is no longer controlling the basketball,
which changes the entire dynamic on how the Warriors had
played basketball for the better part of a decade now
in Northern California. And so you'd bump Steph Curry down

(13:46):
so Chris Paul could get a lot of the control
of the offense to unlock completely Jonathan Kaminga. And that
would be something that many people will be doing today
playing with firecrackers. But you're not supposed to do that,
right as tell you, oh, don't play with the firecrackers.
It is the ban Malor Show. As we continue, if
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(14:09):
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Speaker 2 (14:28):
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(15:42):
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Yes, at Sweekyp that is sw e e kyp.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
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Speaker 1 (16:03):
That wasn't your nickname back in the day, Eddie Swiakip.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
Now they called me Eddie Spaghetti.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
They called you ed.

Speaker 5 (16:09):
It wasn't even my nickname in the pag You.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Just made it up. Did you make your own nickname?
You're not.

Speaker 5 (16:14):
No, it wasn't my nickname. It was just my Twitter handle.
You guys can give me a nickname all you want, though,
well Ben's not.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
Very good it give me got nicknames.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
I have more n one names in the history of radio.
I have the most nicknames of all time. I've given
Eddie too many nicknames. Though he's getting a big head
over there, so I can't. I can't do that. But
if you're around more, we'll give you a nickname. Patrick
Will You're gonna be around more than a couple of
shows before you get the official that's like the big step.
That's like the ceremony when you become a knight. There's

(16:42):
a lot involved in that when you get the nickname.
And I of course have fifty over fifty nicknames now
that I have picked up, I have been called, among
other things, nobody asked for that, Well, you brought it up.
Eddie the spin master, banning broadcaster, the Beethoven of bs,
the crew Mudgin of commentary. I've been called the Chasm

(17:04):
of sarcasm, the Tzar of Zanny, the dark Knight of
weeknight sports radio, the Mogul of mischief, Benny the Brazen,
the King of zing, Moneyball Mallard, Benny the Bopper. And
that's my baseball nickname. Jackass, Facetius Fox, the Sultan of insulting,
the Shaman of shadenfreude, the jumping Jack of wisecrack, the

(17:28):
insight of overnight medicine, Man Mallard, the Naybob of negativity,
the Sage of outreach, the Pinnacle of cynical the Prince
of preposterous, Professor of propaganda, Hazzar of hyperbole, and the

(17:49):
mad Hatter of sports chatter. And those are only half
my nicknames. I have other nicknames, but I will not
I will not vulgar time here. Let's go to the
phones and we'll say hello to Alexis, who's in New York. Hello, Alexis. Well,

(18:10):
this is the part you talk so here here's something.
Was you sleeping? Is that a snore? Like a light
snore or just breathing? What do you think that is?

Speaker 3 (18:31):
I don't know what that is.

Speaker 5 (18:33):
Maybe he's underwater. It kind of sounds like it. Maybe
there's been a big flood and we didn't know about it.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
Well, that would be unfortunate. His phone probably wouldn't work underwater.
I wouldn't think though.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Mightbe a special phone. Maybe it does work underwater. All right, Well,
that's ribbiting ready, Thank you, Thank you for that. All right,
we'll hang up on you. Eight seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox is the number. Let's say hello to a
fan favorite, Andre in the Commonwealth.

Speaker 6 (19:00):
Hello Andre, Hello Ben, good evening. Great to be with you.
You know who else would I rather talk to On
the fourth of July? What are you talking about? Folks
out here on a holiday? That's the perfect time to
connect with the all those great means.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
Fun fact. By the way, here's a fun fact for you.
It is estimated that today one hundred and fifty million
pounds of hot dogs will be consumed. Fun fact indeed,
I will not be eating any hot dogs. Are you
eating hot dogs today?

Speaker 3 (19:34):
Absolutely?

Speaker 1 (19:35):
You are right? Yes, all right? Anybody else Hebrew Nationals, baby,
Oh look at your kosher? Yeah, how about that? No,
I have no hot dogs plan today.

Speaker 6 (19:44):
I have a couple of hot dogs. Ben gonna go
check out a Cape League game home game for the
Hyenas Harbor Hawks, who I support. But I can't get
down with the competition Joey Chestnutt and his fierce rival
whose name escapes me. That's not not my cup of I.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
Wash your mouth out with soap and water. Andre, what's
wrong with you? It does not get any more American
than gluttony. It's wrong with you.

Speaker 6 (20:10):
But I can't. I can't be a uh you know,
had the close up be right there for that context
where I can't.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Think about the physical toll on the human body. We've
all eaten too much. Maybe we had one one too
much piece of pie or something like that with Thanksgiving
or whatever, too much stark. We've all been there, right,
We've all done that. You know how you feel. Put
that on steroids or in this case, on fifty hot
extra hot dogs.

Speaker 6 (20:36):
Indeed, I'll tip my hat those guys there. But Ben,
if I want to know that greed is good, I'll
sit down and I'll watch Wall Street. Okay, I'll watch.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
Well, that's a different kind of greed though. This is
a This is a whole new The fact that Joey Chestnut,
this guy's a millionaire and all he does is eat?
How great is that? I eat too? I'm not a millionaire?
Are you? Are you a millionaire? Andre? You eat?

Speaker 6 (20:56):
I'm not a millionaire. Actually, I owe some debt to
notable radio personalities like yourself. The things that I said about.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
The That is right, your love of DeShawn, your love
of Deshaun Watson has come back to haunt you. There.
Deshaun Watson support did not work out so well in
your favor.

Speaker 6 (21:15):
It didn't work out well at all. I'm gonna I'm
gonna hitch my wagon into the the New York Jets
this year. That's gonna be my team, my sleeper team
that I think is gonna redeem me with Robert Sala
and Aaron Rodger. But I'm gonna conclude with this. Then
you mentioned co Coke gaw and you know that the
untimely first round exit at that tennis event Cocoa walk
is a ranked number seven in the world. Okay, so

(21:36):
she had Yeah, she's number seven in the world. You
can't be losing in the first round ranked number seven.
So she's an up and comer. But she hasn't quite
gotten over that that uh the mountain yet to get
a Grand Slam championship. But she's holding her on at
number seven. But Venus Williams you know much uh, you know,
later on in her career. So Venus is just kind
of doing it, you know, just as you know exercise

(21:57):
and you know me, you know, for the comraders. Venus
has already won. Venis has already won her Grand Slam championships.
But Cocoa goff seven in the world. We're hoping that
you can recover and do much better Ben at the
US Open later on this summer summer. But I'm tuning
in no place. I'd rather be in a holiday. I
hope you had a good, good vacation. Ben. I've been
looking for you, but you've been off on vacation and

(22:17):
joining yourself, so that was wonderful. But now you're back
in his saddle. I'm glad that you're giving me a
couple of minutes of time on the airway. Thanks taking
a question.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
All right, there he goes Andre checking in from the Commonwealth.
Got a big Fourth of July celebration, and that's that's
where it all began, right, Massachusetts the first state to
make July fourth an official state holiday. Allegedly, that's what
I heard years ago. Let's see here, you can't read that.

(22:46):
Adam says, what did I just witness? Malor with the
most epic intro. There you go, Ferk Doug says, good
nickname Rundown. Now Patrick has something to aspire to. Yeah,
well he's come on, guys own nickname, he says. You
said it's not a nickname, though, you just that's a
Twitter handles, not a nick.

Speaker 5 (23:04):
Doesn't that it's just a Twitter handle? Yeah, that's not
my nickname. Kind of seems like a nickname though, I mean,
we listen. If it's now willed into a nickname, then
it's a nickname.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
And I'm gonna go out on a limb based on
I walked in the parking lot. You had that ugly
Laker logo on your car that you might have been
a fan of a certain basketball player that inspired that
that nickname.

Speaker 5 (23:28):
Yes, may oh like swaggy pel Well, where else would
it come from? I mean that's that is also fair.
I mean you can call me whatever Big Mike in
the office calls me. Gave me a nickname when we
hired me, Big Mike, give you a nickname? Yeah, he
called me a sweepy.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
Did you immediately go to HR and file a complaint?

Speaker 5 (23:49):
I may have, I may not have. Let's keep that anonymous,
shall we?

Speaker 1 (23:54):
Well? HR is in like five states away, so I
don't think you can actually reach them anyway. It is
the Band Mallards showh As we press on, Justin's asking
my boss. He says, can we please demand Ben gives
these damn nicknames every single show. Please make them happen.
If you want, Justin, I will give you more nicknames.

(24:14):
You give us twenty one minutes and we'll give you
all of the nicknames, all of the nicknames. Promise, promise,
promise promise. All right, it is the Ben Malo Show.
As we continue on, and we will get to the
nerd Workout Warrior and the all the expenses paid trip.
But right now, let's get you caught up on everything

(24:36):
going on in the overnight. And we say, he loo
to gaslight Garcia, all right, thank.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
You, Ben. We'll start with major League baseball games. Of note,
the Braves have made it nine wins in a row
after a four to two win over the Guardians. They
are now at major league best fifty seven and twenty seven.
Michael Harris the second couple of homers in the winn
and Ronald Accuna Junior gets a stolen base and becomes
the first player in major league history to have twenty homers,
forty steals and fifty RBI before the All Star Break.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
Do you know what he's on pace for?

Speaker 3 (25:08):
No, what is he on pace for?

Speaker 1 (25:09):
He's on pace for a lot of RBIs, a lot
of home runs and a lot of the actual the
actual numbers, Eddie, Because I'm a numbers guys. You know
I'm a stat guy. He is projected Ronald Lacuna Junior
to have one hundred and four RBIs, forty one home runs,
forty six doubles this season. And I don't know this
stolen based projection, but he's got Obviously he's double the numbers.

(25:31):
He's on pace to play every game this season. He's
played every game so far for the Bravos.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
Is he the leading candidate for the National League MVP.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Well, you'd have to go to my big board, Eddie
and look at my National League MVP. But he's right
up there, Freddie Freeman from the Doyers, and there's a
couple other guys. But yeah, a Kuna Junior would be
be at number one. But it's he's not getting as
much felicity as sho Heo Tani and I am I'm
sensing sho Hao Tani fatigue games that there are people

(26:00):
now who are starting to turn on Shojo Tom. That's
how it works, that he's getting too much love.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
Is this the Nicola jokicch effect?

Speaker 1 (26:06):
Like guys like Colin Coward who don't even they pretend
like baseball doesn't exist, but they'll talk about they'll talk
about shoe Heel tany and all that. Yeah, there is
a point where you get too much hype and like
people like root against you. Yeah, like I hope that
guy faked.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
Yeah, you do that a lot.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
I do absolutely.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
Twins beat the Royals eight to four, Minnesota regaining sole
possession of the first place in the Al Central. There
are a game up on Cleveland Red's knock off the
Nationals three two Breweries down six to nothing, rally back
for an eight to six win over the Cubs. So
it's Milwaukee and Cincinnati still tied for the top spot
in the NL Central Slugfest in Arlington, with the Astros
beating the Rangers twelve to eleven. Kyle Tucker a grand
slam for Houston, Jose Brao a homer, four RBI, Travis

(26:45):
Jankowski had a home run, drove in five for Texas
and the loss Rangers. Now they're on top of the
AL West, but their lead is down to three on Houston.
In the division. Padres beat the Angels ten to three,
Angels all Star Mike Trout leaving the game with a
wrist injury after a I'll pitch in the eighth inning.
No word on X rays, but I'm pretty sure he
won't play in the All Star Game now. The Orioles

(27:05):
lose to the Yankees six to three. New York started
Dimingo Herman, you might remember, perfect game in his last outing,
this time four and a third to earned nine hits.
He gets a no decision. Dodgers beat the Pirates five
to one.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
Of those unbreakable records right back to back. No Van
back in the day, that will not happen again.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
Dodgers beat the Pirates five to two, beating All Star
pitcher Mitch Keller for Pittsburgh. Meanwhile, the Dodgers All Star
pitcher Clayton Cart Clayton Krushaw Yeah, put on the injured list.
Uh and he's out of the All Star Game.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
It would be selfish of him to play in the All.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
Star Well, yes, no doubt about that. Marlins beat the
Cardinals five to four, and the Mariners beat the Giants
six five, despite the best efforts of Blake Sable for
San Francisco, who had two home runs and drove in
all five for the Hegantes, but in a losing effort,
not enough. He needed one more at least. NBA News
Minnesota Timberwolves and All Star Anthony Edwards agree in a

(28:00):
five year MAX extension worth up to two hundred and
sixty million dollars. And in tennis, they wanted Wimbledon winners
of note included men's number two seed Novak Djokovic, women's
number one seed Igaswan Tech coming up, actually growing up
about later American women, Cocoa golf and Venus Williams out.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Are you excited, Eddie because you get to update tennis.
There's actually live sports going on here in the overnight.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
I would I think excited would be over selling it
a little bit.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
You just ignore the Wimbledon, Like when we have a
golf major in Ireland or something like that and there's
stuff going on and you're like, yeah, I'll wait till later.

Speaker 7 (28:35):
No.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
I mean there's usually none of them. Like at least yesterday,
none of the matches were over by the time I
was out of here, so they were starting in progress,
so I had no finals to report. And I really
only care if there as like an upset.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
You know, you're very selfish with that.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
Well, I think people only really, you know, in the
early rounds of a tennis match, and I don't think
people really caring less there's like an upset somebody gets
knocked out.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
That guy golf Brian whatever his name is, used to
work here, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
I don't know who you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
I don't think he works anymore.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
I don't know what he's up to. Not in tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
By the way, for me, I saw that, Yeah, yeah,
surprise about that. What's going on because some of the
other guys that have they usually start at the very
bottom of the bench. Have we thinned out our bench here?

Speaker 3 (29:19):
Ready?

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Do we have We don't have any. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
I saw that got an old veteran filling in for
me tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
A shocker. Yeah, I think maybe in the last six years,
once he's worked on the show. I think in the
last six years.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
What a special treat for him.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
You know, he's really excited. Is blind Emmett the Seahawks
fans gonna have to update his graph. He's got a
graph on who works on the show. And really, yeah,
he doesn't actually like Blind Emmett the people that actually
host the shows. He just likes the people that fill
in on the show.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
Interesting.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
Yeah, Like he's had an orgasm the whole time because
Cook's been away and Roberto quit the show. So he's
like excited.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
I'm still getting tweets where's ROBERTA?

Speaker 1 (29:59):
I know, I literally I did a podcast. This is
a so I do a mail bag on the podcast. Now.
I had Roberto on the podcast talk about how it
was coming to school. I still get mess every week.
I get messages from people saying, where's Roberto for the podcast?
So they listen to the podcast that I do on
the weekends in addition to the show, and they still

(30:22):
somehow missed the one where Roberto was on talking about
him leaving. That's wild, the wild and crazy. It is
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phones and we'll say hello to Van, the one legged
Bama Man, a man who had his leg bitten off
by an alligator. Hello, Van, what's that named?

Speaker 3 (31:05):
Be?

Speaker 7 (31:06):
Any boy?

Speaker 1 (31:07):
Have you had that? Have you had that eye procedure done?

Speaker 7 (31:10):
I did? I did? I had it last Wednesday Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
On a scale of one to ten, the pain level
from having something poked behind your eye would be a what.

Speaker 7 (31:28):
Compared to all the injuries I've had, it's over one.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
This guy's a tough guy. This guy's a tough guy.

Speaker 7 (31:36):
Yeah, burnie, you know your eyes burn? They stayed bloodshot
for a week and then other than that, there is
one strange after a face. He put a standard release
steroid medicine in there, and this black line will be
out in front of my face. You know it's actually

(31:56):
in my eyes.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
Sir, you're on steroid. You're on steroids right now. So
I can't take this call, man, because your performance enhance,
your calls enhanced now, so I can't take this call.
How dare you well well.

Speaker 7 (32:05):
And enhanced my eye? That has nothing to do with audio,
does it.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Did you immediately go to the batting cage to see
if you could hit the home run at the battle couch?
Did you see it?

Speaker 7 (32:14):
Well, now, I didn't go to the dark board and
see if I could hit the ball.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Unfortunately, you have super.

Speaker 7 (32:22):
Have you ever heard of Tony Acarno?

Speaker 1 (32:25):
What's the context? It does not ring a bell with Okay.

Speaker 7 (32:29):
He was the head of the Chicago outfit for forty
years and he happens to be the great grandfather of
the Boser Brothers.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Play Oh okay, yeah, well I've heard of them.

Speaker 7 (32:41):
Sure, and I had. I had an uncle that was
supposedly in the Southern Mafia back in the early fifties.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
You don't hear a lot about the Southern Mafia. They
did not have good They didn't have good marketing like
the Chicago Mafia, the New York Mafia, they had great.
The Southern Mafia really struggled with marketing. Have you ever
seen a Southern Mafia movie. Maybe I don't. I don't
recall one.

Speaker 7 (33:05):
You can see, you can see some documentaries about it.
They weren't like the Italians. They weren't like a close
knit but.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
They were a sloppy mafia.

Speaker 7 (33:15):
Yeah. But there was a town Being City, Alabama, back
in the fifties that was run by them and their
main source of income right across the river in Fort Benning, Georgia.
The soldiers and they controlled the town. They controlled the cops,
the mayor, all the politicians. But then uh, guy got

(33:39):
got elected attorney general, a lawyer there, and they murdered him.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
And uh, that's not very nice.

Speaker 7 (33:47):
I seen in the National Guard. I mean, this town
was just it was wicked. They had brothels, they had
gambling all this.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
It does not get anymore. It does not get any
more American than brothels and gambling halls and the mob.
That's Americana and the mob.

Speaker 7 (34:04):
But they just they just moved moved away. They went
up toward the Tennessee Georgia line and moved it moved
the other areas. Bloxi Baluzzi was a big mafia town,
for they had all the casinos down there, Mississippi.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
You listen to our live coverage here our fourth of
July show. We're doing mob talk.

Speaker 7 (34:23):
Now, yeah the radio, no mob talk, mobby talk.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yes, your favorite mobster of all time is at Alcopone.
Who's your Who's your favorite mobster?

Speaker 7 (34:34):
I would have to go with the Lucky Luciana.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Oh, Lucky Luciano famous story. I was, I had a
car that was a Lemon, so I returned the car
to you know, you got some money for it. They
didn't give me what I the car was actually worth.
But the guy that I had to fill the paperwork
out with claimed that he was the Sun or the

(34:58):
I think it was the grandson. No, I think he
said he was the son of Lucky Luciano who had
an affair with his mom, who was like a maid
at the house. And yeah, this guy, this guy was
a trip. He pulled out a photo of Lucky Luciano
and he held it up near his face. He says,
see the resemblance, you know, like that, I'm like, I

(35:20):
just want my money for the car. I don't really,
I don't care. Oh he was very excited. Oh yeah,
I mean the guy was like beaming. You could tell
he had told the story. He might have been full
of crap. I don't know. He probably was, but it
was quite a story. All Right, I gotta go. But
thank you Van, you're the man. All right, Bud, happy forth,
There you go, Van, the one legged Vama Man. As

(35:41):
we continue on, we're gonna have Mallard to the third degree.
Mallard of the third degree. That is right around the corner.
We've got the nerd workout Warrior. We'll get to that. Also,
all expenses paid. We'll do all of that. We will
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Speaker 4 (35:55):
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(36:23):
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It's Ben Mallor.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
And we will have coming up here Malor to the
third degree. Justin says, I think you forgot something the
answer trivia? No, no, no, have Bernie do that for
you there, Justin, He'll take care of that for you. Milkman,
Mike says the answer to the answer trivia, which was
not given his van after the eye surgery. I like
that certain people send answers in when the question is
not even asked. Which does that mean that they have

(36:55):
those odd program that they're sent out their time tweets
or they're just ran sending them out not listening at all,
And either one of those things is possible. But anyway,
enough of that, let's get to it right now. Here
we go.

Speaker 4 (37:10):
It's smeller. How about d to the third degree? This
is one big Ben gets grilled.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
Man, a man who is not swaggy p No, No,
he's a different kind of pee Patrick.

Speaker 5 (37:24):
All right, all right, Ben, we'll Chargers. Offensive coordinator Kellen
Moore said the Cowboys Dak Prescott is the best leader
I've ever been around, easily. Now, Ben, what do you
make of Kellen Moore's praise of Dak?

Speaker 1 (37:37):
So this is what's known Patrick as damage control. Kellen
Moore was literally sucking the toes of Justin Herbert a
month ago. We talked about it on the show and
he said how magical his new quarterback was, and those
comments were seen as a shot at Dak Prescott when
he talked about how Herbert can do things that Prescott

(38:00):
can't do. More is trying to put the toothpaste back
in the two.

Speaker 4 (38:06):
That's what he's doing here.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
Listen when he says Dak Prescott's a great leader. He's
a great leader right up until he plays a good team,
or in the playoffs and plays a good team, and
then he's like General Custer at Little Big Horn. That's
the kind of leader he is leading his men right
in there to Little Big Horn. And how'd that work out? Next?

Speaker 5 (38:27):
Next up, the Cubs have decided not to offer Marcus
Stroman a contrast extension before the trade deadline? Ben, is
this savvy or silly for the Cubbies?

Speaker 1 (38:37):
Well, it is the only thing to do, so they
don't want to pay him, so they're gonna trade him.
Why would you sign him to an extension and then
trade him. That doesn't make any sense, so it's a
savvy thing to do. Marcus Stroman has thrown the ball
very well this season as the Cubs blow, but they
could still make the playoffs because of the division they're in.
They're not a legitimate contender, not a threat to the

(38:57):
Braves of the Dodgers in the nash League. But Stroman
has enhanced his value as a rental on the trade
market and the Cubs. I love these teams that have
it all figured out. The Cubs know, well, we're not
that good, but maybe three years from now will be good.
But by then Marcus Stroman'll be washed up and he

(39:17):
won't be any good anymore. He'll be past his point
of usage, and so they're trying to time it up,
which is what the Cubs did at Wrigley for one
hundred plus years and it never worked out. So they're
back to their old Shenanigans now in Chicago, which I
know makes Mark very happy because he's a White Sox fan,
so he's glad the Cubs stink. All right?

Speaker 5 (39:37):
Next, all right, next NBA Hall of Famer and China's
basketball legend, Yao Ming, went unrecognized by some fans as
he recently walked through an airport. Ben how is this possible?

Speaker 1 (39:51):
So I saw the video and he was surprising. There
were people like, well, who's that tall person? I don't
know who that person. So my theory on this is
rather simp that it's the first people are like, not
sports people. But then the other thing is that flame
or fame, I should flame. Flames are fleeting also, but

(40:12):
fame is fleeting, and the people must have thought Yao
Ming was like from the Ripley's Believe It or Not museum.
Because it's the video. If you've not seen it, Yao
Ming's like seven foot six or something ridiculous like that,
and he's walking through this airport somewhere I assume it's
in China, and he's surrounded by half a dozen police

(40:32):
officers who were all about five to two. It was
quite the visual and it's just strolling along la la
la la la la. But yeah, it's people. And he
hadn't played in a decade, Yao Ming, so it's been
a while since he played in the NBA, and all that.
So that's how that happens there. It is Mallard of
the third degree. How did we do?

Speaker 5 (40:52):
He won me over with Dax.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
So you bad say when you could put it on
the board, Chut chang chut, changing judging whoa
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