July 14, 2023 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about reports that James Harden is "determined" to be traded to the Los Angeles Clippers, how imminent a Damian Lillard trade is, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb to a hoopy, hoopy
hoopy hour, not poopy hoopy hour two talk pro basketball.
What are the odds that James Harden ends up with
the Clippers? We're hearing whispers that Harden would really like
to play for the people's team. Can't blame them, can't
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blame him. How imminent is a Blazer's Dame Lillard trade?
Some more information on that as we live on the grid,
not off the grid, and we will cheer you up
with a Knickerbocker story. Are the Knicks? Are the Knicks
really afraid of Karl Anthony Town's contract? Is that why
they didn't trade for Karl Anthony Towns. We'll talk about
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that and much more right now here. It is our
number two. A relocation situation, maybe maybe a relocation situation.
Welne and beginning of another hour of the Ben Malors Show.
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This hour, We're gonna go over to pro bouncy Ball.
Why because there's some things that caught my attention, some
new developments from Philadelphia involving the silly season eight disgruntled
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NBA star. I've been doing this job a few years now,
and every summer we are guaranteed the gift, the gift
of disgruntled fill in the blank. It's wonderful it is.
There has never been a year where there haven't been
multiple disgruntled NBA players, or NFL players or baseball players.
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It's the gift that keeps giving. So I assume you
know where I'm going with this, But perhaps you have
not paid attention at all. You have been living in
a shoe box. So we have learned that James Harden
has not has not changed his mind about being traded
from the seventy six Ers buried behind a paywall over
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at the Athletic which is owned by the New York Times.
They tell us that James Harden has his eye on
the people's team, that James is still determined to start
next season in that iconic Clippers jersey. Now he's an
LA guy, Harden. He knows that the Clippers are the
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only team that matter in LA. These days they run LA. However,
there's a speed bump. You see. Philadelphia has apparently had
a change of heart. This is where the drama orama
comes in. We love the drama orama in the NBA.
So the Sixers have had a change of heart. Daryl
Moray has a bromance with James Harden. He's the long
time NBA executive who sent out the comment about loving
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and supporting a country that China does not like and
that did not go so well for him, but he
kept his job. He had a change jobs. But anyway,
so Darryl Morey is the executive in Philadelphia and he's like,
you know what, we think we'd like to keep you.
So essentially, Philly is calling the bluff, if you will,
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of the player known as the Beard. So let us
discuss the question what are the odds that James Harden
ends up with the Clippers. So I'm gonna set the
Malard Sportsbook odds at minus one point fifty. That implies
if you're not good with math, that implies a sixty
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percent chance that his wish will be the Sixers command,
his wish will be granted. I've got barber shop, blue Lagoon,
and hob Goblin, and we will combine all of these
things together, and we are going to make a dipsy
new is what We're gonna make. Number number. James Harden
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knows the cheat code true or false. I say true.
I don't mean about bang bang, fastball, whistle whistle, curveball. No,
when James Harden wants something, he knows how to get it.
In the NBA, remember when James Hardener, You old nuns
to remember when Harden was unhappy in Houston. He was
tired of living next to our our old caller, Chris
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and Hughes who sold out to go to the day shift.
And Harden's I don't want to live near Chris in
Houston anymore. Get me out of here. And the Rockets
they wanted to keep him around, and he pulled their rebellion,
he staged a slow down strike you ever showed up.
He was out of shape to the rockets facility. He
then spread bacteria all over the building, caused so much
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friction that Houston excommunicated him. Now Harden is only older
and more stubborn now, and I respect that because I'm
a Taurus. I'm stubborn too, so I understand being stubborn.
But he will take the sixers to the barber shop
and will shave them, not his beard. He's gonna shave
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them if this is what he truly wants. And I
don't know Harden personally, I assume you don't know him either.
I'm pretty sure he's not listening. So here's my position
on this. I have a bunch of people sending men email.
How didn't you see the story about Harden? You to
talk about it? Listen? I have one word for James
Harden coming to the Clippers. At this point, I am
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numb to James Harden. I have ranted about Harden for
years that he is an enigma. He's a Hall of
Fame player who vanishes into thin air at odd times
without explanation, typically playoff games. And I look at that
Clipper roster, and I say they got our They already
got enough of those guys. Ye Kawhi Leonard sitting in
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his casa and San Diego laying by the pool having
a cocktail while the Clippers play in the playoffs podcast
pe making a new podcast while the Clippers are falling apart.
So they already have enough of that. What are we
doing all right? Now? Page two, Let's go to the
Oregon Trail time now for our obligatory Mallard monologue on
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Dame time. Now we are told the Trail Blazers and
the Heat are getting close, getting close to a trade.
Where have we heard this before? Which it would send
Dame Lizard to South Florida hang out with the guy
that calls up for lame jokes, weed man, hippie. Now
the two sides are trying to figure out still the details.
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They put the framework together. They have the basic framework
together on what the Blazers want in terms of draft compensation.
But now the Heat are still trying to figure out
how to close the divide. Ooh, this is exciting. You're
not excited. It's wrong with you, all right? So the
Heat are offering not one, not two, but three three
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first round picks and Tyler Hero plus roster filler and
some other young player that has yet to be publicly identified.
So let's talk about this how I how imminent is
a Dame Lillard trade from the Blazers to the Heat.
So I have this not on the front burner, not
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on the back burner. It's right in the middle, in
between on the stovetop. It's a big stove. It's simmering,
it's floating. Also, it's floating on the blue lagoon, the
blue lagoon, meaning it's not moving very fast. It's like
pond water on the blue lagoon. And here's why. As
we understand, Portland has zero interest in hero Ball. They
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are not not inclined to bring on the Great White
Hope for Miami. So if that is true, that means
Miami is gonna have to play flip flip, flip flip
and say goodbye to Tyler Hero and then get another
first round pick, a fourth first round pick to flip
and give to the Trailblazer. Are you keeping track? At
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this point, no one is going gaga for Tyler Hero
in the NBA pipeline, So the weight continues, even though
this report made it seem like the sides have gotten
closer to a Trontok schawn. All right, final point, let's
go to the Big Apple, New York City. Carl Anthony
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Towns has been linked to the Knicks in trade rumors
that's been going on for many, many months, possibly years,
from Minnesota to the Big Apple. But the messaging now
is that the Knickerbockers have gotten cold feet. Why they
are turned off a big buzzkill the contract that Karl
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Anthony Towns has. A recent report says the Knickerbockers think
that Karl Anthony Towns is making too much money. It's
too big a financial burden and would hurt the Knicks
down the line. So question, are the Knicks really afraid
of Carl Anthony Towns contract? Is that why they're supposedly
gun shy? And the answer on this one is ITX
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nay on the afraid of contract A. That is what's
known as a cover story. It's an alibi. No officer,
I I wasn't at the scene of the crime. I
was at the laundry mat, is what I was doing. Yes,
I was watching laundry my underwear. So Kat is signed
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and is just starting a five year contract that goes
through twenty twenty eight. It pays two hundred and seventy
million buckeroos. That's a lot. That's a fair amount. Not
as much as the lotteries this weekend, but anyway, and
remember if you win the lottery, remember your favorite nocturnal
radio show. Anyway, an average of fifty four million per
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year for Karl Anthony Towns, peaking at sixty four million
in twenty twenty eight. And my rebuttal to the report
that the Knicks are upset about that, it's it's bull crap.
The market rate for a headliner in the NBA is
going up. It's the Putin price hike. It's inflation. So
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that's the market rate for a headliner. If you could
be a fly on the wall in the Big Apple,
you'd see a lot of rats scurring around. Now, I
was just in New York a couple weeks ago and
I went around. I was walking around. I told the
story on the On the Fifth Hour podcast, But I
was walking around New York at night and I was
kind of wandering around. It was kind of a warm night,
and the number of rats. I saw more rats than
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they did homeless people. And I want you to know.
In Los Angeles they have more homeless people than rats,
so at least the the balance is a little more even.
But at the point is if you were flying the wall,
you would hear the knickerbocker brass grumbling. Not about the money.
It's never about the money. If the players worth the money.
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It's about the DNA, And if you look at the DNA,
it reads like pussy willow is what it reads, right,
the flower. He's got flower. DNA's a pussy willow flower
and a lot of hobgoblin in the genetics. The issue
is that Karl Anthony Towns is craft, but not the
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kind of crafty that you like. He's like craft, the
original cool rip. He's like coolhip. He plays like coolwhip.
He's he's been a bipolar player for Minnesota. He has
periods of complete uselessness followed by periods of abnormally great play.
He's extremely erratic. And that's Carl Anthony Towns in a nutshell.
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So that's that's my take on the Knicks supposedly saying
it's it's the money. It's all about the money they're
leaking to their friends in the media. Well, this is
all about the money. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
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In fact, it might have already closed. I have to
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It's Ben mallor.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
The Hips Don't Lie. We'll get to that coming up.
Mom will tell you back the calls in a minute.
We began here with some pro bouncy ball talk this hour,
and we'll get your Riokhan to all that is going
on in the wacky, wacky world of sports right now.
At eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox, Ferg Dog
says I'd only allow James Harden to come to the
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Clippers under one condition. He says, shave off that stupid beard.
Ferg Dog. Have you seen the photo of James Harden
when he was at Arizona State without the beard? So
quite the photo. Quite the photo. Art Puffin says, hellthough
(14:39):
he won't win, I'm rooting for the nose trumpet, dude.
Not only was the initial act without the initial act,
but he set the bar. I'm not taking any away
from Pam and Seattle, but I got to give it
to the schnaz Trumpet guy. So that's Art Puffin commenting
on what we have twenty minutes left. Twenty minutes left
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to decide the pulse of the people and who will
win the final vote, which means coming up at the
top of next hour, we can reveal for those that
are not on Twitter, which is most people, we will
reveal who the public vote went to for the malord Paloose.
Of course, we had our own vote here on the show,
and we decided who we voted for in studio. So
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there is that eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox,
also on Twitter at Ben Mallor. And let's go to
the phones now and we will say hello to picking
with Poppy. I mean, we've talked to him this week.
He's been missing an action, laying off calling show. He's
a YouTuber now, he's an influencer now, so he doesn't
(15:46):
need to call the show anymore. Hello, Poppy, Hey.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Back, Okay, what's up sad here. You can know I
was busy. I went to the Summer League. I was
in Vegas. It was amazing, it was amazing. I was
the first man of militia of see Wemba and on
day one, the tickets were sold down. I had one
of my first I had one of my friends spent
two hundred and forty dollars. But you know what Boppy
(16:12):
did the good all pin all mallards saving money. So
I went to the parking lot and I thought some
guy uh walking out his torn I was like, you
gotta take it. I need to take it. You gotta
take it and go. Yeah, actually do And I was like,
so how much do you want?
Speaker 6 (16:27):
He's uh?
Speaker 5 (16:28):
I just reached out. My son couldn't come, and I
was like, well, don't worry, I'm not gonna let you down.
I will go in there. And I went in there.
I paid the guy inside. Of course when I got
in and it was a great dollar.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah all yeah, yeah, how how much do you How
much did you end up paying the Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Actually I paid the guy reached out. He told me
he wanted a sixty dollars and those tickets were going
over three hundred dollars. Fans no lie that then with
the sun me you sit anywhere. So I was there
in like three walls and you can hear me. I
won the game two with.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
One, but so at the end of the game.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
You're on me getting the whole crowd and things, see fence,
see fence.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
It was a bread experience.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
And then I wound up.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Man.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
I thought, I'm gonna take deep breath, and he started
taking deep breaths and isn't it too poppy? And someone
in the crowd said, hey, you're the curse. You're the coach,
and I said, of course I'm the coach. Talking about
the the met top of it. I was talking of
pop of Itch on game one. He was right there
box and uh, Ben Maller gets who I saw a
veggage on.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yes, he's getting a haircut right now.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
You know what I met, Ben Maler. I talked to
Adam Silver actually took a picture and met Adam and
I saw them to give me something that give me
three tickets in the midsummer on the mid tournament teas
in the mid tournament.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah, I think he's actually flying a plane, Papa. He's
putting pesticide on some some corn right now, flying one
of those propellant back crop duster. Uh. So, Poppy, this
entire phone call is just a humble brag about Poppy.
You've just called up. It's like Poppy's travelogue.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Well, you know what I thought, I would do that.
It's not something New York.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
What you should have what you should have done, Poppy,
is you should have asked Adam Silver if you he
can take you to the planet he comes from, because
he is a lizard person, so he could take you
out to his home planet.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
You know what, You're right?
Speaker 5 (18:34):
When I saw him that, I left hen that ball
head and it was shining, and I was like, man,
I hope no extra to getting me in alien. I
was keeping a knife with Adams.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yeah, Poppy, listen, good job by you getting into the
Wemby game there and not paying a ridiculous amount of money.
You saved a couple of bucks, So that was good.
And I'm surprised you didn't see Danny g was there
from the pop guess he was hanging out all weekend
in Vegas. They threw him in to record. He was
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at that NBA con.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
The microphone.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
The microphone throttler, Yeah there is right there. Yeah, that's
what he sounds like. Yeah, he hung out with Chuck
the Condor. I think. So yeah, all right, Poppy, are
you done any more stories? You want to drop any
more names? Or you're done dropping names?
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Guys want to hear.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Oh stop stop, stop stop stop. I thank you all right,
by bye bye, bye bye. Let's say hello to Mark
the full name guy who is hanging out in Medford, Oregon.
Of all the cities in the United States, the one
that has produced the most regular callers and musicians, Mark
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the full name guy, our friend from Yeah, well I'm
talking here Genie and Medford, the late Genie in Medford
from there as well.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Yes, Mark, So you know I'm worried about Scoop. You know,
I mean, being an agent for the NATO sacred servious Agency.
That's pretty dangerous work there. I guessed today maybe he
has tapped it into some of that money Biden sent
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to Zeleski.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
He did tell me, though, Jay Scoop did tell me
that he doesn't listen. Mark, hold on, come down, all right,
Take a breath, Take a breath. So Jay Scoop told me,
if you like to save a couple of bucks, I
like to save a couple of bucks. He said. Most
things are very cheap in the Ukraine. So if you
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want to get a good deal, you'll be living in
a military, like a live war zone. But you can
get really good deals on stuff, very fun.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
In a live military war zone. Wow, you know, I
thought I grew up in the live military war zone.
You don't.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Quite But when's the last time I went back? When's
the last time you went back to Brooklyn?
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Not quite extreme is where wants to be.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
But Mark, when's the last time? When's the last time
you went back to Brooklyn? He doesn't listen. He just
the whole time he's talking. It's unbelievable. You don't listen
at all. You just talk. You just talk the whole time.
Blah blah, blah blah blah. Mark, when's the last time
you were in Brooklyn?
Speaker 6 (21:32):
Oh? Man? A million years ago?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Yeah, I was just in Brooklyn a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
It's yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I wasn't in all of Brooklyn. Brooklyn was pretty big,
but the part of Brooklyn I was in. Nothing but hipsters.
Nothing but hipsters in Brooklyn.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Well, I don't know what you're calling hipsters, but you mean, man.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I am talking musicians, artists, struggling artists, musicians.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Those Yeah, Like, where were you like Brooklyn High Park
Slope around there?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah, I went to a couple of restaurants.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Guys that play the boondos and coffee shop and exactly
instead of applaud Yes, exactly, houdget.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
I know he didn't get it from you.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I have no idea what you just said. What did
you say?
Speaker 6 (22:30):
It's better notet.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, that's true, Eddie. How did you become such a curmudgeon?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I'm leaving goodbye.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Yeah, okay, see.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Okay. I like to use his own intro and extra
exit music that he provides. Thank you. Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
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Speaker 4 (23:33):
Well, as you said, Ben, I am looking for some
games of note. How about some CFL action.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
We had the all come.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
The Hamilton Tiger Cats were victorious over the Edmonton Elks
thirty seven to twenty nine. And why is that interesting that? Well,
according to Front of the Show Tim mcdarby, congratulations to
the Edmonton Elks, they have tied the longest home losing
streak in all of the Big four sports in North America.
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They have now lost twenty straight home games. Congratulations Edmonton Elks.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I'm old school, Eddie. I I'm old school. I still
think of them as the Eskimos. That's what I know.
You do I do in my heart of the Eskimos. Yeah,
I'm sorry. Yeah, I like the Eskimo like the Eskimo pie. Yep,
I used to I got fat on Eskimo pies back
in the day. Cleveland Indians. What else?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
So?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Who was the Washington Redskins? I like all the names. Cancel.
I used to eat pancakes, Ansermima, my friend, Anterermima delicious,
my favorite rice. My uncle Ben? Yeah true, yeah, Ben,
you were named after him, that's right. I looked at him. Yes,
all right, it is the Ben Mallor Show. As we continue,
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The tabloids blowing up, blowing up with reports that the
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legendary award winning Grammy Award winning singer who made that
line famous, Shakira Shakira, Shakira, Shakira spotted on a dinner
date with an NBA player. Ooh, tabloid fodder. Apparently, Shakira
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was at a restaurant in London earlier this week and,
according to Page six, was having a low key dinner
date with Jimmy Buckets. The rumors were true, the rumors
weren't true. From the NBA Finals, Shakira showed up to
some heat games during the playoffs. Remember, people were like, ah,
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they're dating and all that, and I don't really give
a rats ask who's dating who, but I just think
it's hilarious. The coverage, the breathless, blow by blow coverage,
of a date at Nova Cough restaurant I have I
don't know, Nova Cough Restaurant and bar after ten pm.
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They try to keep away from the paparazzo there they entered.
It's a Asian and Italian diner. That's kind of an
odd mix, isn't it most at least tier It seems
like most restaurant. I guess that's a fusion restaurant. I
don't know. I'm picky. I want to when I go
to Italian restaurant, I just want just Italian, and if
I go to an Asian restaurant, I just want Asian. Anyway,
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So they were there for like three and a half hours,
and they say that what do they say? They say
they the NBA player Jimmy Butler had security with him.
How about that got you dels with security? That must
cost him a fortune? Right, And Shakira left in a
chauffeur driven car out the fire exit from the restaurant.
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Isn't it great? You become a celebrity and you walk
through kitchens and fire exits and things like that to
avoid the public. It's a fascinating life. Good for them.
Shakira's much older than Jimmy Butler too right, She's she's
around my age, and Butler's in his mid thirties. So
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have any a grand old time, wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 7 (27:38):
She looks ooh fine for her age.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
No, no, I listen, she's does she look fine?
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Or does she look fine?
Speaker 1 (27:47):
She looks fantastic. What was the photo? I saw some
woman one of the she was like in her fifties,
and she looked amazing. It was a photo bouncing around
an actress.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Can you be more specific?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
No, I don't know. I just saw her. Somebody sent
me the photo, and she's like fifty. She has had
her fifty first birthday, and she looks like she's in
her like late thirties or maybe mid thirties. No, you
guys don't follow like the pop culture stuff, so.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Not like not like you. That's I do.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Listen. I read the tabloids.
Speaker 8 (28:17):
I do.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I read TMZ Radar online.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
I do.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
There are a ton of fifty plus year old actresses.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Somebody will help you out. Somebody somebody's listening, will help
me out. Jonathan and Delawares's hot CFL Talk. I can
just hear the ratings going through the roof. Well Eddie's
on the pulse of the people. Speaking of the tabloids,
there's a photo here we go, boys. You see the
photo of Tom Brady and Kim Kardashian partying. I mean
the rumors they're dating. Oh my god, tabloid fludder, Yeah,
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the Daily Mail. That's the tabloid in London. Great newspaper.
There's not a lot of great newspapers left. The Daily
Mail amazing, absolutely amazing. So there's a photo of these two.
Although the funny thing about the photo is you cannot
actually see Kim Kardashian. You can only see her tookas.
You can see the back of Tom Brady and the
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tukas of Kim Kardashian. And that's it. I have my
knowledge of anything. What's that? So that's identifying enough.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
I know.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I mean, I would say most people say that. Most
dudes would be like, I don't really need to see
her face. I think that's the that's what she's made
her money on. So you know that and some other things.
Good for them. Let's go to ed in Arlington. Hello,
ed in Arlington, Hey Ben, Hey ed.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
So we we got the final you know, for the
season left in baseball, and I was just warning your
audience to cheering cheering the Rangers though.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
They may not.
Speaker 8 (29:57):
Let don't get I'm not get too excited about that.
I think the Rangers are going to fade down such.
I think they'll probably be good enough to qualify for
the playoffs, but for them to stay in the in
the division lead against the Astros is expecting a bit much.
I think.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
That's a defeatist attitude edon Arlington. We the American people
need the Texas Rangers to win the American League West.
They are America's team. We are all pulling for Bruce
Bochi and the Rangers. I liked that they already made
a move the Rangers way before the trade line and
getting Chapman to help the bullpen. I like that. I'd
like to see another couple moves. I would like to
see some more time on the deadline.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
From Pittsburgh better. But that's Chapman's a good star.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Well, they're not going to trade him, my guys from
the Pirates told me, because he's still I think he's
not even arbitration eligible yet, so they're not going to
trade him. Because he's locked. He can't go anywhere for
several years, not.
Speaker 8 (30:53):
Without having to give up a bunch of talent in return.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
So ye, who wants to give up a bunch of
talent in return?
Speaker 6 (30:59):
Right?
Speaker 8 (31:01):
But so you know the your audience may have been
cooling itself off during the All Star Games, but from
all the fans from coming from the Ranger batters there,
the contingent went I think over twelve during the All
Star Game.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Yeah, they had some great seafood in Seattle, so at
least they had that, right. There's some great seafood restaurants there.
The farmers market there, the seafood market beautiful.
Speaker 8 (31:31):
Well, I know, it's like, who cares about baseball when
you're in Seattle?
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Let's go eat.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
That's why the Mariners have been so bad for so long.
The players eat too much and they don't concentrate on
hitting the curveball.
Speaker 8 (31:43):
I think you're onto something there.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
All right, give me one guy I got and this
but ed, give me one guy you want to see
the Rangers get in case we don't talk to you
before the trade deadline. Who do you want to see him?
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Get?
Speaker 8 (31:53):
Go ahead, Lucas with the White Sox.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
That's your guy, all right? I saw his name floated there,
the White socks are gonna have a big going out
of business sales soon. So all right, thank you. Ed,
be good man, my guy Ed in Arlington, he's my
baseball guy. All right, thank you. So I'd like to
thank multiple people here, crazy Tanker Guy, Crazy Tanker Guy
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and Evan the depressed Mariner fan, who have both reminded
me even though I forgot the woman's name, Salma Hayak.
Have you seen the photo of Sema Hike? Have you
seen that?
Speaker 7 (32:26):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yeah, yeah, she looks good. Right, yeah, she looks great. Yeah.
Somebody pointed out Sophia Vigera that she also turned fifty
recently apparently is doing good for herself. So that's good.
There you go better than me. All right. It is
the Ben Malard show we're gonna have coming up here,
Mallard of the third degree, here's the Insta trivia, and
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here we go. Blank was third in the NFL third
in the NFL for effective yards with five thousand, two,
one hundred and eighty two last season, ranking behind only
Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady's according to the nerds over
there at Football Outsiders, but Blank was third in the
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in the entire NFL for effective yards with five and
eighty two, ranking behind only Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady.
According to Football Outsiders, that's the insta trivia, the answer
and Mallard of the third degree. We'll get to it,
we will do it next.
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And here is the Insta trivia. Here we go. Blank
was third in the NFL for effective yards with fighty two,
ranking behind only Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady. According to
Football Outsiders, last football season, that is the question, what
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is the answer. Let's see does anyone in the Malard
militia know the answer, and we have Mallard of the
third degree coming up here. Mal montarily, let's see your
page down page. Dan can't read that. A lot of these.
I don't think I can read this. Click refresher on this,
and let's see. We have Tyler Hero guess by Milkman
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Mike and Colorado Scott and Rhode Island's going with his cat.
Uh see. Eddie Garcia says the answer is Pam the
real winner of the Mallard Palooza. Fog Horn Leghorn from
The Cowboy Killer, Fran Tarkington tossed out by Midnight Walker
Philly Rob tribute to count going with Chuck Taylor. Raider
(35:10):
Freaks is my paranoia says it's George Norri doing coast
to coast down the hall. Who else do we have?
Amateur pilot Poppy guess by Matt the Warrior Raider A's fan.
I can't read that. We'll skip over that. Sean Salisbury
morning Man in Houston from Kyle. We've got the half
pint tossed out by Malard prop guy. That is half pint.
(35:35):
She looks like although she's driving in a car there
and you gotta put her on a tractor. That's what
you gotta do. Fields of Green going with Bubby Brister
as the answer. Who else we have? Polly d got
it right, bad job by him, Matt Carrau guess by
Sean in the Valley of the Sun. Don Juan says,
it's Kirk Cousins. Justin Herbert guess by Johnny Ray, David
(35:57):
Hasselhoff from Freudian Grip. Chris Sabo tossed out by Elizabeth
Who could anybody's old enough? Who could not love Chris
Sabo and those ugly goggles that he wore? Jebediah Springfield
from Callaghan Tim Natron means tossed out by Rob in Minnesota,
Dan Fouts from the Art of Sports Talk, Max Strong
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from Art puffin Van a White guessed by Alf the
Alien Opiner. Do you have an answer, Eddie? Please?
Speaker 4 (36:25):
Yeah, I'm gonna go with former Atlanta Falcons quarterbacks Steve Bartkowski.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Is it Steve Bartkowski? Is that the correct answer? The
correct answer is Jared Goff. Jared Goff of your Detroit Lions,
his third behind mahomes him Brady in effective Yard.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
It's Mallard.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (36:49):
To the third degree. This is one big fan gets grill.
Speaker 7 (36:57):
Tony Clark, head of the Major League Baseball Players at
the UCIATION, told the media that players have been lobbying
for a few extra seconds added to the pitch clock
for the postseason. Ben, do you think MLB will acquiesque?
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Yeah, so we mentioned this the other day. It's a
zero sum game for baseball. Baseball has they've trimmed about
twenty six minutes per game, give or take, because they
have the pitch flock, and if they add five seconds
five seconds to each scenario, there are three hundred pitches
in a game that would get to twenty five extra
minutes if they If five seconds are used on every pitch,
(37:31):
so around twenty five minutes would be added in theory,
so you would wipe out all of the games that
you've had. So that said, I think they will actually
add some more time to pacify the players, as long
as TV is okay with it.
Speaker 7 (37:46):
Next, it's being reported that Ed Ordron has interest in
the now vacant head coaching position at Northwestern, Ben, do
you think coach oh will get another shot at being
a head coach?
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Well, not at Northwestern that has been debunked, but yes,
I if you want to. He's got a lot of money.
Now he ain't gonna he's not gonna play in the
Big ten. Coach. Oh, he's gonna have to avoid the
Big ten and really just stick to the Deep South
or the West. He could have been the USC coach.
We got that Cache and Fred Flintstone thing. But yeah,
(38:16):
he's been in the fraternity. He's like a cockroach coach. Oh,
he'll land on his feet, he'll survive. The nuclear winner next.
Speaker 7 (38:22):
It was announced on Wednesday that Dwayne Wade will have
Alan Iverson present him at his Hall of Fame induction. Ben,
if you were to be inducted into the Radio Hall
of Fame, who would you have present you?
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Well, very kind of you to put my name in
the Hall of Fame there. And the only the only
I'll get in the Hall of Fame is this if
Alfie alien Opinter puts me in the Hall of Fame.
But I would go with somebody like Hollering James, or
Pete and Pittsburgh or Blind Scott or Marcel in Brooklyn.
Can you imagine those guys bobbing and weaving on the stage.
How did we do fail? This edition? That'd choose any
(38:56):
of your coworkers. No, none of you guys. Callers lose
good Dacer
Hello and welcome. It's our numb to a hoopy, hoopy
hoopy hour, not poopy hoopy hour two talk pro basketball.
What are the odds that James Harden ends up with
the Clippers? We're hearing whispers that Harden would really like
to play for the people's team. Can't blame them, can't
(00:21):
blame him. How imminent is a Blazer's Dame Lillard trade?
Some more information on that as we live on the grid,
not off the grid, and we will cheer you up
with a Knickerbocker story. Are the Knicks? Are the Knicks
really afraid of Karl Anthony Town's contract? Is that why
they didn't trade for Karl Anthony Towns. We'll talk about
(00:43):
that and much more right now here. It is our
number two. A relocation situation, maybe maybe a relocation situation.
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This hour, We're gonna go over to pro bouncy Ball.
Why because there's some things that caught my attention, some
new developments from Philadelphia involving the silly season eight disgruntled
(02:01):
NBA star. I've been doing this job a few years now,
and every summer we are guaranteed the gift, the gift
of disgruntled fill in the blank. It's wonderful it is.
There has never been a year where there haven't been
multiple disgruntled NBA players, or NFL players or baseball players.
(02:23):
It's the gift that keeps giving. So I assume you
know where I'm going with this, But perhaps you have
not paid attention at all. You have been living in
a shoe box. So we have learned that James Harden
has not has not changed his mind about being traded
from the seventy six Ers buried behind a paywall over
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at the Athletic which is owned by the New York Times.
They tell us that James Harden has his eye on
the people's team, that James is still determined to start
next season in that iconic Clippers jersey. Now he's an
LA guy, Harden. He knows that the Clippers are the
(03:07):
only team that matter in LA. These days they run LA. However,
there's a speed bump. You see. Philadelphia has apparently had
a change of heart. This is where the drama orama
comes in. We love the drama orama in the NBA.
So the Sixers have had a change of heart. Daryl
Moray has a bromance with James Harden. He's the long
time NBA executive who sent out the comment about loving
(03:29):
and supporting a country that China does not like and
that did not go so well for him, but he
kept his job. He had a change jobs. But anyway,
so Darryl Morey is the executive in Philadelphia and he's like,
you know what, we think we'd like to keep you.
So essentially, Philly is calling the bluff, if you will,
(03:51):
of the player known as the Beard. So let us
discuss the question what are the odds that James Harden
ends up with the Clippers. So I'm gonna set the
Malard Sportsbook odds at minus one point fifty. That implies
if you're not good with math, that implies a sixty
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percent chance that his wish will be the Sixers command,
his wish will be granted. I've got barber shop, blue Lagoon,
and hob Goblin, and we will combine all of these
things together, and we are going to make a dipsy
new is what We're gonna make. Number number. James Harden
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knows the cheat code true or false. I say true.
I don't mean about bang bang, fastball, whistle whistle, curveball. No,
when James Harden wants something, he knows how to get it.
In the NBA, remember when James Hardener, You old nuns
to remember when Harden was unhappy in Houston. He was
tired of living next to our our old caller, Chris
(04:59):
and Hughes who sold out to go to the day shift.
And Harden's I don't want to live near Chris in
Houston anymore. Get me out of here. And the Rockets
they wanted to keep him around, and he pulled their rebellion,
he staged a slow down strike you ever showed up.
He was out of shape to the rockets facility. He
then spread bacteria all over the building, caused so much
(05:21):
friction that Houston excommunicated him. Now Harden is only older
and more stubborn now, and I respect that because I'm
a Taurus. I'm stubborn too, so I understand being stubborn.
But he will take the sixers to the barber shop
and will shave them, not his beard. He's gonna shave
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them if this is what he truly wants. And I
don't know Harden personally, I assume you don't know him either.
I'm pretty sure he's not listening. So here's my position
on this. I have a bunch of people sending men email.
How didn't you see the story about Harden? You to
talk about it? Listen? I have one word for James
Harden coming to the Clippers. At this point, I am
(06:03):
numb to James Harden. I have ranted about Harden for
years that he is an enigma. He's a Hall of
Fame player who vanishes into thin air at odd times
without explanation, typically playoff games. And I look at that
Clipper roster, and I say they got our They already
got enough of those guys. Ye Kawhi Leonard sitting in
(06:27):
his casa and San Diego laying by the pool having
a cocktail while the Clippers play in the playoffs podcast
pe making a new podcast while the Clippers are falling apart.
So they already have enough of that. What are we
doing all right? Now? Page two, Let's go to the
Oregon Trail time now for our obligatory Mallard monologue on
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Dame time. Now we are told the Trail Blazers and
the Heat are getting close, getting close to a trade.
Where have we heard this before? Which it would send
Dame Lizard to South Florida hang out with the guy
that calls up for lame jokes, weed man, hippie. Now
the two sides are trying to figure out still the details.
(07:09):
They put the framework together. They have the basic framework
together on what the Blazers want in terms of draft compensation.
But now the Heat are still trying to figure out
how to close the divide. Ooh, this is exciting. You're
not excited. It's wrong with you, all right? So the
Heat are offering not one, not two, but three three
(07:33):
first round picks and Tyler Hero plus roster filler and
some other young player that has yet to be publicly identified.
So let's talk about this how I how imminent is
a Dame Lillard trade from the Blazers to the Heat.
So I have this not on the front burner, not
(07:56):
on the back burner. It's right in the middle, in
between on the stovetop. It's a big stove. It's simmering,
it's floating. Also, it's floating on the blue lagoon, the
blue lagoon, meaning it's not moving very fast. It's like
pond water on the blue lagoon. And here's why. As
we understand, Portland has zero interest in hero Ball. They
(08:20):
are not not inclined to bring on the Great White
Hope for Miami. So if that is true, that means
Miami is gonna have to play flip flip, flip flip
and say goodbye to Tyler Hero and then get another
first round pick, a fourth first round pick to flip
and give to the Trailblazer. Are you keeping track? At
(08:42):
this point, no one is going gaga for Tyler Hero
in the NBA pipeline, So the weight continues, even though
this report made it seem like the sides have gotten
closer to a Trontok schawn. All right, final point, let's
go to the Big Apple, New York City. Carl Anthony
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Towns has been linked to the Knicks in trade rumors
that's been going on for many, many months, possibly years,
from Minnesota to the Big Apple. But the messaging now
is that the Knickerbockers have gotten cold feet. Why they
are turned off a big buzzkill the contract that Karl
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Anthony Towns has. A recent report says the Knickerbockers think
that Karl Anthony Towns is making too much money. It's
too big a financial burden and would hurt the Knicks
down the line. So question, are the Knicks really afraid
of Carl Anthony Towns contract? Is that why they're supposedly
gun shy? And the answer on this one is ITX
(09:50):
nay on the afraid of contract A. That is what's
known as a cover story. It's an alibi. No officer,
I I wasn't at the scene of the crime. I
was at the laundry mat, is what I was doing. Yes,
I was watching laundry my underwear. So Kat is signed
(10:10):
and is just starting a five year contract that goes
through twenty twenty eight. It pays two hundred and seventy
million buckeroos. That's a lot. That's a fair amount. Not
as much as the lotteries this weekend, but anyway, and
remember if you win the lottery, remember your favorite nocturnal
radio show. Anyway, an average of fifty four million per
(10:34):
year for Karl Anthony Towns, peaking at sixty four million
in twenty twenty eight. And my rebuttal to the report
that the Knicks are upset about that, it's it's bull crap.
The market rate for a headliner in the NBA is
going up. It's the Putin price hike. It's inflation. So
(10:57):
that's the market rate for a headliner. If you could
be a fly on the wall in the Big Apple,
you'd see a lot of rats scurring around. Now, I
was just in New York a couple weeks ago and
I went around. I was walking around. I told the
story on the On the Fifth Hour podcast, But I
was walking around New York at night and I was
kind of wandering around. It was kind of a warm night,
and the number of rats. I saw more rats than
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they did homeless people. And I want you to know.
In Los Angeles they have more homeless people than rats,
so at least the the balance is a little more even.
But at the point is if you were flying the wall,
you would hear the knickerbocker brass grumbling. Not about the money.
It's never about the money. If the players worth the money.
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It's about the DNA, And if you look at the DNA,
it reads like pussy willow is what it reads, right,
the flower. He's got flower. DNA's a pussy willow flower
and a lot of hobgoblin in the genetics. The issue
is that Karl Anthony Towns is craft, but not the
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kind of crafty that you like. He's like craft, the
original cool rip. He's like coolhip. He plays like coolwhip.
He's he's been a bipolar player for Minnesota. He has
periods of complete uselessness followed by periods of abnormally great play.
He's extremely erratic. And that's Carl Anthony Towns in a nutshell.
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So that's that's my take on the Knicks supposedly saying
it's it's the money. It's all about the money they're
leaking to their friends in the media. Well, this is
all about the money. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
If you would like to be part eight seven seven
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In fact, it might have already closed. I have to
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The Hips Don't Lie. We'll get to that coming up.
Mom will tell you back the calls in a minute.
We began here with some pro bouncy ball talk this hour,
and we'll get your Riokhan to all that is going
on in the wacky, wacky world of sports right now.
At eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox, Ferg Dog
says I'd only allow James Harden to come to the
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Clippers under one condition. He says, shave off that stupid beard.
Ferg Dog. Have you seen the photo of James Harden
when he was at Arizona State without the beard? So
quite the photo. Quite the photo. Art Puffin says, hellthough
(14:39):
he won't win, I'm rooting for the nose trumpet, dude.
Not only was the initial act without the initial act,
but he set the bar. I'm not taking any away
from Pam and Seattle, but I got to give it
to the schnaz Trumpet guy. So that's Art Puffin commenting
on what we have twenty minutes left. Twenty minutes left
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to decide the pulse of the people and who will
win the final vote, which means coming up at the
top of next hour, we can reveal for those that
are not on Twitter, which is most people, we will
reveal who the public vote went to for the malord Paloose.
Of course, we had our own vote here on the show,
and we decided who we voted for in studio. So
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there is that eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox,
also on Twitter at Ben Mallor. And let's go to
the phones now and we will say hello to picking
with Poppy. I mean, we've talked to him this week.
He's been missing an action, laying off calling show. He's
a YouTuber now, he's an influencer now, so he doesn't
(15:46):
need to call the show anymore. Hello, Poppy, Hey.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Back, Okay, what's up sad here. You can know I
was busy. I went to the Summer League. I was
in Vegas. It was amazing, it was amazing. I was
the first man of militia of see Wemba and on
day one, the tickets were sold down. I had one
of my first I had one of my friends spent
two hundred and forty dollars. But you know what Boppy
(16:12):
did the good all pin all mallards saving money. So
I went to the parking lot and I thought some
guy uh walking out his torn I was like, you
gotta take it. I need to take it. You gotta
take it and go. Yeah, actually do And I was like,
so how much do you want?
Speaker 6 (16:27):
He's uh?
Speaker 5 (16:28):
I just reached out. My son couldn't come, and I
was like, well, don't worry, I'm not gonna let you down.
I will go in there. And I went in there.
I paid the guy inside. Of course when I got
in and it was a great dollar.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah all yeah, yeah, how how much do you How
much did you end up paying the Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Actually I paid the guy reached out. He told me
he wanted a sixty dollars and those tickets were going
over three hundred dollars. Fans no lie that then with
the sun me you sit anywhere. So I was there
in like three walls and you can hear me. I
won the game two with.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
One, but so at the end of the game.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
You're on me getting the whole crowd and things, see fence,
see fence.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
It was a bread experience.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
And then I wound up.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Man.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
I thought, I'm gonna take deep breath, and he started
taking deep breaths and isn't it too poppy? And someone
in the crowd said, hey, you're the curse. You're the coach,
and I said, of course I'm the coach. Talking about
the the met top of it. I was talking of
pop of Itch on game one. He was right there
box and uh, Ben Maller gets who I saw a
veggage on.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yes, he's getting a haircut right now.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
You know what I met, Ben Maler. I talked to
Adam Silver actually took a picture and met Adam and
I saw them to give me something that give me
three tickets in the midsummer on the mid tournament teas
in the mid tournament.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah, I think he's actually flying a plane, Papa. He's
putting pesticide on some some corn right now, flying one
of those propellant back crop duster. Uh. So, Poppy, this
entire phone call is just a humble brag about Poppy.
You've just called up. It's like Poppy's travelogue.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Well, you know what I thought, I would do that.
It's not something New York.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
What you should have what you should have done, Poppy,
is you should have asked Adam Silver if you he
can take you to the planet he comes from, because
he is a lizard person, so he could take you
out to his home planet.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
You know what, You're right?
Speaker 5 (18:34):
When I saw him that, I left hen that ball
head and it was shining, and I was like, man,
I hope no extra to getting me in alien. I
was keeping a knife with Adams.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yeah, Poppy, listen, good job by you getting into the
Wemby game there and not paying a ridiculous amount of money.
You saved a couple of bucks, So that was good.
And I'm surprised you didn't see Danny g was there
from the pop guess he was hanging out all weekend
in Vegas. They threw him in to record. He was
(19:05):
at that NBA con.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
The microphone.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
The microphone throttler, Yeah there is right there. Yeah, that's
what he sounds like. Yeah, he hung out with Chuck
the Condor. I think. So yeah, all right, Poppy, are
you done any more stories? You want to drop any
more names? Or you're done dropping names?
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Guys want to hear.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Oh stop stop, stop stop stop. I thank you all right,
by bye bye, bye bye. Let's say hello to Mark
the full name guy who is hanging out in Medford, Oregon.
Of all the cities in the United States, the one
that has produced the most regular callers and musicians, Mark
(19:52):
the full name guy, our friend from Yeah, well I'm
talking here Genie and Medford, the late Genie in Medford
from there as well.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Yes, Mark, So you know I'm worried about Scoop. You know,
I mean, being an agent for the NATO sacred servious Agency.
That's pretty dangerous work there. I guessed today maybe he
has tapped it into some of that money Biden sent
(20:21):
to Zeleski.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
He did tell me, though, Jay Scoop did tell me
that he doesn't listen. Mark, hold on, come down, all right,
Take a breath, Take a breath. So Jay Scoop told me,
if you like to save a couple of bucks, I
like to save a couple of bucks. He said. Most
things are very cheap in the Ukraine. So if you
(20:46):
want to get a good deal, you'll be living in
a military, like a live war zone. But you can
get really good deals on stuff, very fun.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
In a live military war zone. Wow, you know, I
thought I grew up in the live military war zone.
You don't.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Quite But when's the last time I went back? When's
the last time you went back to Brooklyn?
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Not quite extreme is where wants to be.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
But Mark, when's the last time? When's the last time
you went back to Brooklyn? He doesn't listen. He just
the whole time he's talking. It's unbelievable. You don't listen
at all. You just talk. You just talk the whole time.
Blah blah, blah blah blah. Mark, when's the last time
you were in Brooklyn?
Speaker 6 (21:32):
Oh? Man? A million years ago?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Yeah, I was just in Brooklyn a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
It's yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I wasn't in all of Brooklyn. Brooklyn was pretty big,
but the part of Brooklyn I was in. Nothing but hipsters.
Nothing but hipsters in Brooklyn.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Well, I don't know what you're calling hipsters, but you mean, man.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I am talking musicians, artists, struggling artists, musicians.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Those Yeah, Like, where were you like Brooklyn High Park
Slope around there?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Yeah, I went to a couple of restaurants.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Guys that play the boondos and coffee shop and exactly
instead of applaud Yes, exactly, houdget.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
I know he didn't get it from you.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I have no idea what you just said. What did
you say?
Speaker 6 (22:30):
It's better notet.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, that's true, Eddie. How did you become such a curmudgeon?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I'm leaving goodbye.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Yeah, okay, see.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Okay. I like to use his own intro and extra
exit music that he provides. Thank you. Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
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Speaker 4 (23:33):
Well, as you said, Ben, I am looking for some
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Speaker 1 (23:39):
We had the all come.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
The Hamilton Tiger Cats were victorious over the Edmonton Elks
thirty seven to twenty nine. And why is that interesting that? Well,
according to Front of the Show Tim mcdarby, congratulations to
the Edmonton Elks, they have tied the longest home losing
streak in all of the Big four sports in North America.
(24:03):
They have now lost twenty straight home games. Congratulations Edmonton Elks.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I'm old school, Eddie. I I'm old school. I still
think of them as the Eskimos. That's what I know.
You do I do in my heart of the Eskimos. Yeah,
I'm sorry. Yeah, I like the Eskimo like the Eskimo pie. Yep,
I used to I got fat on Eskimo pies back
in the day. Cleveland Indians. What else?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
So?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Who was the Washington Redskins? I like all the names. Cancel.
I used to eat pancakes, Ansermima, my friend, Anterermima delicious,
my favorite rice. My uncle Ben? Yeah true, yeah, Ben,
you were named after him, that's right. I looked at him. Yes,
all right, it is the Ben Mallor Show. As we continue,
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The tabloids blowing up, blowing up with reports that the
(25:19):
legendary award winning Grammy Award winning singer who made that
line famous, Shakira Shakira, Shakira, Shakira spotted on a dinner
date with an NBA player. Ooh, tabloid fodder. Apparently, Shakira
(25:40):
was at a restaurant in London earlier this week and,
according to Page six, was having a low key dinner
date with Jimmy Buckets. The rumors were true, the rumors
weren't true. From the NBA Finals, Shakira showed up to
some heat games during the playoffs. Remember, people were like, ah,
(26:02):
they're dating and all that, and I don't really give
a rats ask who's dating who, but I just think
it's hilarious. The coverage, the breathless, blow by blow coverage,
of a date at Nova Cough restaurant I have I
don't know, Nova Cough Restaurant and bar after ten pm.
(26:25):
They try to keep away from the paparazzo there they entered.
It's a Asian and Italian diner. That's kind of an
odd mix, isn't it most at least tier It seems
like most restaurant. I guess that's a fusion restaurant. I
don't know. I'm picky. I want to when I go
to Italian restaurant, I just want just Italian, and if
I go to an Asian restaurant, I just want Asian. Anyway,
(26:49):
So they were there for like three and a half hours,
and they say that what do they say? They say
they the NBA player Jimmy Butler had security with him.
How about that got you dels with security? That must
cost him a fortune? Right, And Shakira left in a
chauffeur driven car out the fire exit from the restaurant.
(27:13):
Isn't it great? You become a celebrity and you walk
through kitchens and fire exits and things like that to
avoid the public. It's a fascinating life. Good for them.
Shakira's much older than Jimmy Butler too right, She's she's
around my age, and Butler's in his mid thirties. So
(27:33):
have any a grand old time, wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 7 (27:38):
She looks ooh fine for her age.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
No, no, I listen, she's does she look fine?
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Or does she look fine?
Speaker 1 (27:47):
She looks fantastic. What was the photo? I saw some
woman one of the she was like in her fifties,
and she looked amazing. It was a photo bouncing around
an actress.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Can you be more specific?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
No, I don't know. I just saw her. Somebody sent
me the photo, and she's like fifty. She has had
her fifty first birthday, and she looks like she's in
her like late thirties or maybe mid thirties. No, you
guys don't follow like the pop culture stuff, so.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Not like not like you. That's I do.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Listen. I read the tabloids.
Speaker 8 (28:17):
I do.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I read TMZ Radar online.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
I do.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
There are a ton of fifty plus year old actresses.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Somebody will help you out. Somebody somebody's listening, will help
me out. Jonathan and Delawares's hot CFL Talk. I can
just hear the ratings going through the roof. Well Eddie's
on the pulse of the people. Speaking of the tabloids,
there's a photo here we go, boys. You see the
photo of Tom Brady and Kim Kardashian partying. I mean
the rumors they're dating. Oh my god, tabloid fludder, Yeah,
(28:47):
the Daily Mail. That's the tabloid in London. Great newspaper.
There's not a lot of great newspapers left. The Daily
Mail amazing, absolutely amazing. So there's a photo of these two.
Although the funny thing about the photo is you cannot
actually see Kim Kardashian. You can only see her tookas.
You can see the back of Tom Brady and the
(29:09):
tukas of Kim Kardashian. And that's it. I have my
knowledge of anything. What's that? So that's identifying enough.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
I know.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I mean, I would say most people say that. Most
dudes would be like, I don't really need to see
her face. I think that's the that's what she's made
her money on. So you know that and some other things.
Good for them. Let's go to ed in Arlington. Hello,
ed in Arlington, Hey Ben, Hey ed.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
So we we got the final you know, for the
season left in baseball, and I was just warning your
audience to cheering cheering the Rangers though.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
They may not.
Speaker 8 (29:57):
Let don't get I'm not get too excited about that.
I think the Rangers are going to fade down such.
I think they'll probably be good enough to qualify for
the playoffs, but for them to stay in the in
the division lead against the Astros is expecting a bit much.
I think.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
That's a defeatist attitude edon Arlington. We the American people
need the Texas Rangers to win the American League West.
They are America's team. We are all pulling for Bruce
Bochi and the Rangers. I liked that they already made
a move the Rangers way before the trade line and
getting Chapman to help the bullpen. I like that. I'd
like to see another couple moves. I would like to
see some more time on the deadline.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
From Pittsburgh better. But that's Chapman's a good star.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Well, they're not going to trade him, my guys from
the Pirates told me, because he's still I think he's
not even arbitration eligible yet, so they're not going to
trade him. Because he's locked. He can't go anywhere for
several years, not.
Speaker 8 (30:53):
Without having to give up a bunch of talent in return.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
So ye, who wants to give up a bunch of
talent in return?
Speaker 6 (30:59):
Right?
Speaker 8 (31:01):
But so you know the your audience may have been
cooling itself off during the All Star Games, but from
all the fans from coming from the Ranger batters there,
the contingent went I think over twelve during the All
Star Game.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Yeah, they had some great seafood in Seattle, so at
least they had that, right. There's some great seafood restaurants there.
The farmers market there, the seafood market beautiful.
Speaker 8 (31:31):
Well, I know, it's like, who cares about baseball when
you're in Seattle?
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Let's go eat.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
That's why the Mariners have been so bad for so long.
The players eat too much and they don't concentrate on
hitting the curveball.
Speaker 8 (31:43):
I think you're onto something there.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
All right, give me one guy I got and this
but ed, give me one guy you want to see
the Rangers get in case we don't talk to you
before the trade deadline. Who do you want to see him?
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Get?
Speaker 8 (31:53):
Go ahead, Lucas with the White Sox.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
That's your guy, all right? I saw his name floated there,
the White socks are gonna have a big going out
of business sales soon. So all right, thank you. Ed,
be good man, my guy Ed in Arlington, he's my
baseball guy. All right, thank you. So I'd like to
thank multiple people here, crazy Tanker Guy, Crazy Tanker Guy
(32:17):
and Evan the depressed Mariner fan, who have both reminded
me even though I forgot the woman's name, Salma Hayak.
Have you seen the photo of Sema Hike? Have you
seen that?
Speaker 7 (32:26):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yeah, yeah, she looks good. Right, yeah, she looks great. Yeah.
Somebody pointed out Sophia Vigera that she also turned fifty
recently apparently is doing good for herself. So that's good.
There you go better than me. All right. It is
the Ben Malard show we're gonna have coming up here,
Mallard of the third degree, here's the Insta trivia, and
(32:50):
here we go. Blank was third in the NFL third
in the NFL for effective yards with five thousand, two,
one hundred and eighty two last season, ranking behind only
Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady's according to the nerds over
there at Football Outsiders, but Blank was third in the
(33:10):
in the entire NFL for effective yards with five and
eighty two, ranking behind only Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady.
According to Football Outsiders, that's the insta trivia, the answer
and Mallard of the third degree. We'll get to it,
we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
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(34:00):
Tirack dot Com Fox Sports Radio Studios, It's Ben Malor.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
And here is the Insta trivia. Here we go. Blank
was third in the NFL for effective yards with fighty two,
ranking behind only Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady. According to
Football Outsiders, last football season, that is the question, what
(34:27):
is the answer. Let's see does anyone in the Malard
militia know the answer, and we have Mallard of the
third degree coming up here. Mal montarily, let's see your
page down page. Dan can't read that. A lot of these.
I don't think I can read this. Click refresher on this,
and let's see. We have Tyler Hero guess by Milkman
(34:47):
Mike and Colorado Scott and Rhode Island's going with his cat.
Uh see. Eddie Garcia says the answer is Pam the
real winner of the Mallard Palooza. Fog Horn Leghorn from
The Cowboy Killer, Fran Tarkington tossed out by Midnight Walker
Philly Rob tribute to count going with Chuck Taylor. Raider
(35:10):
Freaks is my paranoia says it's George Norri doing coast
to coast down the hall. Who else do we have?
Amateur pilot Poppy guess by Matt the Warrior Raider A's fan.
I can't read that. We'll skip over that. Sean Salisbury
morning Man in Houston from Kyle. We've got the half
pint tossed out by Malard prop guy. That is half pint.
(35:35):
She looks like although she's driving in a car there
and you gotta put her on a tractor. That's what
you gotta do. Fields of Green going with Bubby Brister
as the answer. Who else we have? Polly d got
it right, bad job by him, Matt Carrau guess by
Sean in the Valley of the Sun. Don Juan says,
it's Kirk Cousins. Justin Herbert guess by Johnny Ray, David
(35:57):
Hasselhoff from Freudian Grip. Chris Sabo tossed out by Elizabeth
Who could anybody's old enough? Who could not love Chris
Sabo and those ugly goggles that he wore? Jebediah Springfield
from Callaghan Tim Natron means tossed out by Rob in Minnesota,
Dan Fouts from the Art of Sports Talk, Max Strong
(36:18):
from Art puffin Van a White guessed by Alf the
Alien Opiner. Do you have an answer, Eddie? Please?
Speaker 4 (36:25):
Yeah, I'm gonna go with former Atlanta Falcons quarterbacks Steve Bartkowski.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Is it Steve Bartkowski? Is that the correct answer? The
correct answer is Jared Goff. Jared Goff of your Detroit Lions,
his third behind mahomes him Brady in effective Yard.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
It's Mallard.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (36:49):
To the third degree. This is one big fan gets grill.
Speaker 7 (36:57):
Tony Clark, head of the Major League Baseball Players at
the UCIATION, told the media that players have been lobbying
for a few extra seconds added to the pitch clock
for the postseason. Ben, do you think MLB will acquiesque?
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Yeah, so we mentioned this the other day. It's a
zero sum game for baseball. Baseball has they've trimmed about
twenty six minutes per game, give or take, because they
have the pitch flock, and if they add five seconds
five seconds to each scenario, there are three hundred pitches
in a game that would get to twenty five extra
minutes if they If five seconds are used on every pitch,
(37:31):
so around twenty five minutes would be added in theory,
so you would wipe out all of the games that
you've had. So that said, I think they will actually
add some more time to pacify the players, as long
as TV is okay with it.
Speaker 7 (37:46):
Next, it's being reported that Ed Ordron has interest in
the now vacant head coaching position at Northwestern, Ben, do
you think coach oh will get another shot at being
a head coach?
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Well, not at Northwestern that has been debunked, but yes,
I if you want to. He's got a lot of money.
Now he ain't gonna he's not gonna play in the
Big ten. Coach. Oh, he's gonna have to avoid the
Big ten and really just stick to the Deep South
or the West. He could have been the USC coach.
We got that Cache and Fred Flintstone thing. But yeah,
(38:16):
he's been in the fraternity. He's like a cockroach coach. Oh,
he'll land on his feet, he'll survive. The nuclear winner next.
Speaker 7 (38:22):
It was announced on Wednesday that Dwayne Wade will have
Alan Iverson present him at his Hall of Fame induction. Ben,
if you were to be inducted into the Radio Hall
of Fame, who would you have present you?
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Well, very kind of you to put my name in
the Hall of Fame there. And the only the only
I'll get in the Hall of Fame is this if
Alfie alien Opinter puts me in the Hall of Fame.
But I would go with somebody like Hollering James, or
Pete and Pittsburgh or Blind Scott or Marcel in Brooklyn.
Can you imagine those guys bobbing and weaving on the stage.
How did we do fail? This edition? That'd choose any
(38:56):
of your coworkers. No, none of you guys. Callers lose
good Dacer
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