Hour 3 - The Chosen One

Ben Maller talks about his takeaways from Victor Wembanyama's NBA debut and gives him a letter grade, how Kristaps Porzingis looked with the Boston Celtics, #AskBen, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number three. Our three is
in the hopper, and here in our number three. What
are your initial takeaways pro bouncy ball with Wemby's debut.
What are your takeaways from Wemby's debut? Also, what is
the Wemby debut report card looking like? We'll go to Boston,

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eshually New York where the Celtics played the Knicks. How
did Chris tops Porzingis look his first run with the
Celtics in a real game? And in baseball, where are
the Yankees talks for a one Soto trade going. We
will talk about all of that and more right now here.
It is give it up for our number three. If

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I just say any previous episode of the show that
we would only have rare and appropriate NBA monologues. We

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did one on the previous show, and we're doing one
now because it is rare and appropriate and our lead
this hour coming from pro Bouncy ball Land, the much
bally hood debut of the next big Thing, the greatest
star since Blank, A star is born in the alumo

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of If you don't know what I'm talking about, because
you haven't watched a basketball game since the nineteen nineties,
if that may or may not be you, maybe you
have missed this. Victor Wemba Nyama has popped his cherry
as an NBA player. Playing his first game with the Spurs, the.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Number one overall pick, Wemby had fifteen points, five rebounds
to assist in his debut.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Scored a few points in the fourth quarter that got
people all horny. They were excited, by the way. Not
that this matters because no one will talk about this,
but Luca Luka Doncik and the Mavericks, playing no defense,
rallied from twelve down at one point to come back,
and he had a big stat line Luca and beat

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San Antonio. So the Mavericks spoiled the party and they
get the win there by seven points. So let us
discuss the question. Don't bear the lead, Mama, ND that's
not the question. What are your initial takeaways? What are
your initial takeaways from Wemby's first act as an NBA player.

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I've got DC Comics, Crystal Ball, and wreck It Ralph,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make noodles and noodles, which is
what Victor Webbanyama will never have to eat because he
is loaded.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
He is loaded.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Financially without even doing anything. In the NBA, you are
paid on what you may do, not what you are
going to do. Anyway, First of all, the hype, the
hype of this guy has reached Taylor Swift level in
the basketball world. The atmosphere in San Antoni. I watched

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this game because I'm a glutton for punishment. The atmosphere
was it looked like a religious revival, like the Spurs
franchise was coming back from the dead, the phoenix rises
in San Antonio, the Great Savior, the Great Messiah, Wemby
walking out there on the court. And we have been fed,
those of us that pay attention to this stuff, whether
it's because of our professional choice or we just happen

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to like it, we have been fed a studied diet
of hyperbole. And the NBA marketing department is working overtime
sensory overload. It's gotten to the point that the Wemby story.
When I turned on the TV to watch Wemby play

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for San Antonio, it it was like DC Comics. Faster
than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able
to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Look up
in the sky, is it a bird? Is it a plane?
It's Wemby Man Up, up and away. I think that's it.

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But I'm not gonna sit here and waste your time
any more of your time than just to say that
we'll keep it real.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
He didn't live up the hype.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
It's only one game, that's all. We do the show today.
We don't do the show tomorrow. We don't do the
show the next day of the day after. I'm doing
this show today. I have to form an opinion today.
Today's opinion that's stunk. That's the opinion. Prove me wrong.
I watched it hight So what's the Wemby and Nyama

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report card look like? Well, the Malord report card for Wemby.
He gets the date, not f the date. He gets
the date. Underwhelming would be the word underwhelming was the debut.
It was a bold strategy by the Spurs and coach

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Pop to essentially use one Ba Yama as a decoy
for the first three quarters of the game. It's like
a Mom and Pop pizza shop. There a soft launch
and the other takeaway I have just from the first glance,
and I know he's a kid, give him a chance
and all that. I get it. I get it. Hey,
I'm part of the problem. I got called by my

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friend Darcy Waldergrave. I was on New Zealand radio the
other day. We were talking great Darcy Waldergrave. He's a
big radio muckety muck there in New Zealand Auckland, New Zealand,
and he calls me up every once in a while
to talk basketball. So we were going back and forth
and he want to talk about Wemby, like that's a
big thing. He wanted to talk about what he's going
to do, and that's like a huge deal in freaking

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New Zealand. They were like fired up. But the thing
I took away from just perusing this first game is
where's the alpha? I need the alpha. I didn't see
the alpha. I didn't see it. Demand the ball, hands
on ball, demand the ball. And this game was there,

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it was, It was plumped for the picking right there.
It was. Spurs were leading one, nineteen to one, eighteen
two to nine to go on the game clock, and
from that point forward they were outscored eight to nothing
when Banyama did not get a shot off. Is it
because the Mavericks all of a sudden played great defense? No?

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God No, Now does this mean that that's it turn
out the last the party's over? No, of course not.
And I maintained my position that one ban Yama is
too big to fail, that there's so many people invested
riding the gravy train when Bayama gravy train, that he

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can't screw this up. He's gotta be at least good,
maybe not all time great, but he's got to be
at least good. You've got corporate partners of the NBA.
You have the NBA themselves. Lebron's long in the tooth.
He can only play twenty nine minutes a game. He's
an old, fragile basketball player at this point, Lebron James.
So they've got to find the next big thing and
they're counting on Wemby being part of that. That you

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think about, He's was nineteen years old, so that you
do the math on that. If he's good, he could
play about twenty years, so he would play until twenty
forty three or something like that. Just amazing, amazing stretch
of time. The other thing was how sloppy Wemby was

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in this particular game. He wasn't the alpha. He didn't
demand the ball. But you look at he played web
Ba Nyama. He only played twenty three minutes, so we
didn't play that much. But he had five fouls. Who
was in foul trouble. He had five turnovers, so that
ain't good. That's not good. So this stuff to clean up,

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as you might imagine, but you wouldn't imagine that based
on again the marketing of the NBA and where they
were at with this guy. Now, secondly, we turn now
to Gotham. That is where the Knickerbockers played host to
the Boston Celtics. And how did Chris Stops Porzingis look
for the Green team? How'd that go? Well? The unicorn

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who was born to where a Celtic uniform. He looked
to me like right out of Central casting. That was
my takeaway watching Porzingis. Now, this is a guy that
often gets hurt, another guy that's mister softy and all that,
and you have a lot of injury problems for Porzingis.
That's the reason he's bounced around from team to team.

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The team. He also doesn't play defense for much. That's
also a bit of a problem. It's an issue, but
this was not a problem in the game that was
played last night, and the stat line thirty points great
at top plus minus on the team. So the Celtics
played it better than with any other combination of players.

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They had to have him on the court for the
thirty seven plus minutes almost thirty eight minutes that he played,
but thirty points, he had eight rebounds and no assists.
So it's a black hole once it goes into Porzingis.
There is no passing the ball. But it is interesting
to know that he had a massive start to the game.
He was knocking down jumpers right and left. Porzingis in

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the first quarter of the game at fifteen points on
five of eight floor, and after that he did nothing
for a long stretch of time. When I say he
did nothing, I don't. I'm not exaggerating. He had three
points combined in the second in the third quarter, so

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he was not doing anything. And then in the fourth
quarter he came back out Porzingis and put in twelve points.
And you can do the math on that, and that's
how you get to the point him. So he vanished
for a long stretch of the game. Didn't matter. But
in our crystal ball, in all our crystal ball, we
see Porzingis playing the classical old school Celtic role of

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a heel, big game playoffs, the instigator, the pest. I'm
gonna give an outdated reference here, but it does apply.
Danny Ainge. Danny Ainge was not the top player on
those old school Celtic teams. It was Larry Bird. He
wasn't the second best player. That would be Kevin McHale.

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Probably a third best, give or take some people like
Dennis Johnson. On those Celtic teams, but he wasn't certainly
one or two. But Danny Ainge would irritate, he would infuriate,
he would exasperate the opponent, and he would knock down
cold blooded jump shots that would just rip the heart
out of opposing team's fan bases and all that, and

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Porzingis has that in his future. Now he also has
the path of getting hurt and missing half the season
and being your typical malcontent NBA player. But if you
want to go with door number one, then he can
just quietly stick out there behind the three point line
as the third wheel behind Tatum and Brown and when

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those guys are all cooking, all right, final fun. We
moved to baseball. Now. Am I gonna talk about the
World Series which starts tomorrow? No, because that's kind of boring.
Instead we go to the Bronx. Is it true the
New York Yankees are shopping for a big ticket item

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ahead of the Hot Stove League? Is it also true
that we are told the Bronx Bombers have all read
he already had preliminary conversations with the San Diego Baseball
team regarding a mega trade that would send Juan Soto
out of SoCal and into the Bronx. That's the report.

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So where are the Yankee talks for a Juan Soto
trade going? Where they're at right now? Where are they going?
So I'll tell you where they're going. They're going to
fill up, absolutely, fill up the hot stove, all right.
That's that's it makes sense, right. Brian Cashman is underseige.

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The fact that he kept his job and nobody of
note lost their job with the Yankees tells you that
even though Cashman's failing lately as Yankee GM, that he
has been able to use these Fengali effect on the
Steinbrenner claim in the Spawn of George George George George,

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He's not around, so he's able to fool him, and
so Cashman one sodo would be Mana from Heaven dropping
out of the heavens, right, Mana from Heaven wan soda.
Here's why the Yankees need a spark. They need something
to get the excitement back there. Even though they have
Aaron Judge and John Carlos Stanton, they've lost the muster

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and Brian Cashman call a friend, right, go over to
wreck at Ralph and get fixed at Felix in here,
bring in Juan Sodi bringing soda to New York, create
little bit of buzz coming up not that far away
from free agency. And this guy's a headliner and all that,
and you put him to put a spark out in

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that outfield and the Padres, this is what I've been
hearing for months. The Padres need to move Juan Soto
because the TV deal in San Diego fell apart, the
cable TV deal, and they had budgeted out all these
contracts and including the Wan Soto extension, based on how
much television revenue they were gonna get. That has been

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slashed like the tires on a car and a bad
neighborhood on the wrong side of the tracks. And so
they have to figure out what they're gonna do here.
And the lack of projected revenue would lead you to
believe they're going to make make a Wan Soda treade,
whether it's to the Yankees or the Red Sox or
who knows where, but one of those big market teams.
It is the Ben Mahler Show. As we continue on,

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And here's the Mallar riddle of the day. Veteran NBA
player Kyle Kuzma was recently sued over a blank that

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happened on a flight. Again, NBA player Kyle Kuzma recently
sued over a blank that happened recently on a flight.
That is the Mallor riddle of the day. The answer,
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Kuzma was recently sued over a blank that happened on

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a flight. That is the malor riddle of the day.
And let's see does anyone know the answer? Orange and
Blue Blood Bret says, throwing twinkies the answer. Let's see here,
Alf the Alien ol Piner says he was sued after
an altercation because he exposed his bare feet on the plane.

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Interesting page down selling knockoff odd couple merchandise from the
late night drug tester, Oh, Sam, did you get your
odd couple merch from rob?

Speaker 6 (17:52):
I have purchased two items from Robin for years, and
I don't think I'm gonna be I mean, you know,
I'm good. I'm good, You're good on that. I actually
have an odd couple pullover?

Speaker 1 (18:01):
Oh nice?

Speaker 3 (18:01):
And I have just like a generic Fox Sports radio hoodie.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
I didn't realize you had actually done that. I had
no idea. Fergkat He says, Anna, I know no employee
discount an unwadded membership in the Mile High Club guests
by Ferg Cat Page down, page down, Let's see here.
Polly Be says he needs one more follower right now
because he is at six hundred and sixty six followers.

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That is the sign of the devil cutting his toenails.
Guessed by courtesy flusher Tik talk video from clam page down.
Sean says Kuzma did something with another passenger's kosher meat.
That there was a violation there. Fudgie in Boston going
with the Mile High Club gone wrong. Matt the Warrior

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Raider fan says he lost a bet on the cheating astros.
Who else we have? Robin Minnesota has sued for taking
up both arm rest. Boy, that is a problem. Casey
car Hollis is trying to turn off the plane's engine
wall in flight. That would be no good. Yeah, yeah,
that just happened. Slug Our buddy Slug in Vegas says

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Kyle Kuzma was in trouble for a diarrhea river.

Speaker 6 (19:18):
On a flight. That's the famous flight to Italy. Eddie,
do you have an answer, Eddie? Do you have an answer?

Speaker 5 (19:23):
Yes, his emotional support alligator bit someone.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
Well you're you're actually not far off, Eddie, but not
an alligator. You see, Kyle Kuzma was sued after his
dog bit a man on a flight back in May.
What kind of dog you think it was?

Speaker 3 (19:44):
God so lucky. That's that's like a slam dunk.

Speaker 6 (19:47):
Guaranteed win, right, Yeah, yeah, TMZ has the story at Mittwiler.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
I'm saying this is the dog bit the guy's right arm.
May fourth, near oh near the Van Ey's Airport, which
is right down the street from us here, not far
away the van airport.

Speaker 6 (20:00):
It's only utilized by like cargo planes and the wealthy. Yes, yes,
the people with private planes. Yeah, all the see where
we're located geographically in LA. We are in a neighborhood
called Sherman Oaks, which right above us is like bell Air,
which is one of the most expensive neighborhoods in LA.
And so nobody wants to go to LA. So they

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have small airport and it's all the rich people who
live up in bel Air. They go to that airport
and then they it's real close to their house. I
find myself over there, but not to use the Van
Nys airport, to use the shuttle bus the flyaway, which
is very helpful getting to lax.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
So there's no good way to get there. There's no
way to get out of this. I did not see
the type of dog. I am disappointed. I would like
to know the name of the dog. I do not
believe it was a shit too.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
They're very nice little dogs.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
Usually they're come, let's see. Well, I'm looking at a
photo of a dog. But I don't know. I don't
know the name of the dog. It's like a It
does not look like a vicious dog. This does not
look like a dog that's gonna kill you or even
bite you. It looks like a normal dog to me.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
I don't know what kind of dog Golden Retriever.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
I just said, I don't know what kind of discrete dog.
All right, you know what, I'm gonna send you a
boxy head. Now, this might not be the same dog.
Maybe this is a different dog, because this is a
photo from a couple of years ago. But maybe I'm
gonna send you a photo. Iowa, Sam, hold on a
sec to me because I'm at home. I don't go
to the studio anymore. Why would I go with those losers?
So I do the show from home. Let's see if

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I can send you a text here io, let me
see you. I have to punch your name.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
Is it a small dog?

Speaker 1 (21:35):
A midside?

Speaker 7 (21:35):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (21:36):
You're looking at the photo?

Speaker 7 (21:37):
Right?

Speaker 5 (21:37):
White dog?

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Is so white?

Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (21:38):
A white dog?

Speaker 3 (21:41):
Okay, I have found.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
You found a photo?

Speaker 8 (21:43):
Well, no, but I have found an article from twenty
twenty Kyle Kuzmas shows off his new puppy and it
is a husky.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
Oh, okay, is that is that a Is it a
husky in the picture?

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Because I don't know what picture you're it's hard to tell.

Speaker 5 (21:57):
I would say a husky mix.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, maybe that's just a small hustle.

Speaker 8 (22:01):
Well, and in this interview it says I've wanted a
dog for so many years. So it could be his
only dog, it could be a husband. Yeah, it's white.
Is it white?

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah? So white? I just said, comply.

Speaker 6 (22:12):
Yeah, that's yeah, that's like a majority husky.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah, it's not a vicious dog.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
No, it looks like a really nice dog.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
How much?

Speaker 1 (22:20):
How much Is that worth What do you think that's
not it's not permanent damage, but it's emotional distress. It said,
like a ten thousand dollars payment.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
Is that more more than that?

Speaker 1 (22:28):
More than ten grand?

Speaker 3 (22:29):
No, I think that sounds about right.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
Tend pay medical bills ten grand suffering.

Speaker 6 (22:35):
Gotta get antibodys when you get bit by a dog.
I got bit by a dog.

Speaker 8 (22:39):
Actually, I mean it depends where was the bike was
on the arm right, That's what it said. Because my
sister got bit in the face when she was a kid.
She was doing one of those scavenger hunts for a
party birthday party when you go around and you like
ask neighbors for like a paper clip or whatever.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
She got a surprise.

Speaker 8 (22:56):
Yeah, the toddler opened up the front door, dog ran
out out bitter in the face.

Speaker 6 (23:01):
She got sixty grand for that. So dog, that was
years ago, Yeah it was. But I mean, you know face, yeah,
and it scarred her face.

Speaker 7 (23:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
You know you're gonna affect you know. Yeah, that's an issue.
All right? Here you go ahead, ends the Kyle Kuzman
dog story. And you have thoughts. I was say, I'm
on the dog. You want to break down the dog,
good looking dog. No, you think that dog's a trained assassin.
I don't understand that.

Speaker 6 (23:26):
I see this all the time with pro athletes, Like
they're dogs doing like violent things to either other dogs
or people.

Speaker 3 (23:31):
And I'm like, what's wrong with you?

Speaker 6 (23:33):
Are you trying to train your dog and be like
a junkyard dog, like be mean, because like I don't
want a dog like that.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
I want a nice dog. Well you're not, damn Iowa
saying it's it's kind of cool. You get some cred
when you got a dog that could bite someone's face off,
like people, you know, you get your respect. Kassia and
the media and the women are so impressed by that.
The women, Oh my, I do it for the women.
I'm telling you, it's a women's fault.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
As an athlete.

Speaker 8 (23:53):
You you and you bring your dog out in public,
you're gonna have a lot of strangers approaching you.

Speaker 6 (23:59):
Or just like what we saw Zeke Elliott and Dak Prescott,
his dog got like loose and went off and like
mauled another dog.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
Who let the dogs out? Who let the dogs out?

Speaker 8 (24:08):
There?

Speaker 1 (24:09):
They get these dogs, I don't know, I don't know
what they.

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Speaker 8 (24:59):
Ben.

Speaker 10 (25:00):
Uh. I'm gonna say something because while I'm listening to
you the highlight, you know, I mean, what exactly the
problem can be where you have to have a player
only meeting after the very best game of the season.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yes, then you're talking about the Chicago Bulls. A great
story that the Bulls. The Bulls lost by twenty at home.
They had, Uh, the players only me. I'll tell you what.
I'll tell you what it is. Uh, Vucevich thinks that
the players are are they don't like him. They he
didn't get the ball. They basically iced him out for
big stretches of that game, and he's upset with the coach,

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and so they have to have the basically a hissy
fit in the locker room to try to settle any
Nothing he gets settled in these things. It's just you know,
it's just blowing off steam.

Speaker 10 (25:48):
Yeah. But my thing is, my thing is we couldn't
have something. We didn't see that problem we have, like
the whole preseason.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
Is those guys go through the motions in the preseason.
You know that. Come on, Raphael, they go through the
motions of the regular season. You think they're actually you're
really putting it out there in the exhibition season.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
Come on.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
You know the answer. You're a smart guy, you know
the answer.

Speaker 10 (26:10):
But it was kind of funny.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
Oh, it's great, it's a wonderful story. It's hilarious. This
is the so embarrassing for Billy Donovan, the coach in Chicago,
and and for Vusavish in the entire Bulls organization. The
first game of the year and you're at Loggerheads.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
It's just wonderful.

Speaker 10 (26:28):
But then I got one thing I have to tell you.
One day, one day I catch one of your shows.
You feel up for some minute for somebody? You and Rob,
Oh yeah we did.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
We did a couple of shows.

Speaker 10 (26:42):
Yeah, you two have something special.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Look at that.

Speaker 10 (26:47):
I came to listen to that. Just jump over just
to listen for a few minutes. And next thing, you know,
you guys make me safe forever.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
Oh wow, oh thank you, good job. Well, thank you.
I appreciate that. Every once in a while, throw me
a bone.

Speaker 6 (27:00):
They let me fill in on one of the big
primetime shows here at Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Hey, thanks for listening, Rafael. I gotta go, but thank you,
man the great Raphael from Vermont. He's Arnie Spanier's neighbor.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
There.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Let's say hello to Butch, who's in Germany. Auto bond Butch,
And then we have asked Ben coming up, Hello auto
Bond Butch.

Speaker 7 (27:20):
Hey, everybody, how you doing?

Speaker 1 (27:23):
If I was any better, I would not be asked
how I'm doing every time? But clearly I'm not doing
that good because people keep asking me how I'm doing.

Speaker 7 (27:31):
I know, you know, I just think I could tell
you like a you know, like a greeting thing. Edy
doesn't sound good.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
The flu or Ah, he's always sick with some in
his old age. Eddi's sick all the time. I don't
know what's going on.

Speaker 7 (27:46):
So I have really nothing to say.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Again, you have nothing to say with you. You aren't
you going to brag about some countries you visited? Right,
You've been to Ecuador recently.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
Where have you been?

Speaker 7 (27:58):
I have no no I have I've been to another country.
I think I still called you from ten countries. But
nothing new okay lately. But I'm sitting at home. I
had the day off today. I'm watching the replay of
the nineteen eighty one forty nine Ers Dallas Cowboys that
the white clerk you know, catched the game.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yeah, which would could could have been ruined, could have
been ruined if the Cowboys. If people think that was
the final play of the game, the Dwight Clark touchdown,
it was not. The Cowboys had a chance to come
back down and win the game. They didn't do it.

Speaker 7 (28:33):
It was not at Joe Montana had Joe Montana had
three interceptions and one fumble in that game. I mean
just himself. He had four turnovers.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
But as you know, Bush, that's proof. When the legend
becomes the fact, the legend, you just go with the legend, right.
People don't remember those interceptions, they don't remember the turnovers.
All they remember is the one play, the signature moment
of the game. That's the only thing people remember.

Speaker 7 (28:58):
They remember the win. I have one more thing, this
are out there real quick before you hang up on me?
Is uh uh? Why is Ricky Waters not in the
Hall of Fame?

Speaker 1 (29:07):
Now that's the topic. I need to get into Ricky
Waters hall of Fame like Google, Google is not.

Speaker 7 (29:14):
I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
Okay, I'm just saying, all right, all right, I don't
have time for that. All right, all right, all.

Speaker 7 (29:21):
Right, you give give me ten more seconds. I think, uh,
your NBA monologues boring a ship because I all right,
I mean, what are you dumb?

Speaker 1 (29:35):
I can't say that. I'd rather listen to Polker than you.
Come on Autobahn. You're better than that Autoba. Maybe in
European radio you can say that. Can I say it
in German? That well, you could have said it in German,
but you can't announce You're going to say it in German.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
All right, I don't think. I don't think.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
No, no, you can't if you don't say you're saying it.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (30:00):
Roberto used to dump anytime somebody would call the curse
in Spanish.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Now I'm cursed in Yiddish and it never gets dumped.
You guys don't even know what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (30:10):
But is it the equivalent of something that will be
profane in America?

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Oh yeah, some really nasty things. All right, we gotta
leave time.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
We got a schmuck.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
All right, Well that's a bad word. That means penis.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
That's what that.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
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Speaker 1 (31:04):
Free, weird unless I give it a ten worst possible, Greg,
you would agree with you on that?

Speaker 7 (31:12):
Yes, I would agree. Yes, all right.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Let's star. I love that you agree with me, but
I need it. I got I got a guy. I
want to spark aheads. I wanted to fight, I want
I want to jab a counter punch.

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ever play this again.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
Don't ever play this again.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Sta, this is very weird talking over my freestyle rap. Man,
I'm talking about it. I like it.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
I man, I've never heard this one was this like?

Speaker 5 (32:02):
I haven't either, but it's very distracting to read over.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
Playing some other Yeah, we played this from I can and.

Speaker 5 (32:09):
I did, but it's distracting and there's no need for it.
And let's go back to Ben Maller. Let's do the
ask Ben thing. What are you saying?

Speaker 4 (32:17):
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Speaker 1 (32:21):
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Speaker 3 (32:37):
God, Sam, jeez, what can't play Mallard music? No?

Speaker 1 (32:43):
No, well there there's a full body of work of
Mallard music here and there are supposed to some other
songs that I've I've got an email I missed, so
I gotta send those to you.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
I like that one so well.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Not not good to the questions?

Speaker 4 (32:58):
Please?

Speaker 8 (33:00):
Uh Matt the Warrior Raiders fan, Yeah, he wants to know.
Have any of you ever had an unexpected encounter with
a wild animal?

Speaker 3 (33:10):
If yes, what was the animal?

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Yeah? I used to go hiking around the hills of
l A And not a coyote. I've seen a few
of those, bobcat but they're a little they're like a
little but that's about it. Never seen a bear. I've
been to the forest. I'd love to see a bear.
I never see a bear. How about you ready?

Speaker 7 (33:29):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (33:30):
Yeah, we have various critters running around our neighborhood. We
have a park nearby, so it's not unusual. I've seen
coyotes and whatnot.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
I've seen a raccoon.

Speaker 5 (33:38):
But yeah, I came one time.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
I was.

Speaker 5 (33:40):
I came home and on my front porch were two
raccoons and I stopped with way up the walkway and
looked at him, and they both turned around and looked
at me, and I said, you know what, I'll go
through the garage.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
You know what I did when I saw two raccoons,
his and hers, and they were walking across the street.
So I flashed the lights at him. I was driving,
and they looked at me. They turned slowly, very slowly,
they turned and looked at me, and then they turned
forward and just kept walking like they didn't care.

Speaker 6 (34:09):
It's like they're being domesticated by the minute. I'll steal
your wallet.

Speaker 5 (34:14):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
I Sam, you're from Iowa around wild.

Speaker 6 (34:19):
Oh yeah, well this is actually gonna We're gonna go
to the ocean. I was snorkeling in Iowa. No, this
is in the this is in uh Caribbean.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Oh, the Caribbean.

Speaker 6 (34:28):
Snorkeling in about four feet of water, and I was
going through a school of fish. It was very dense,
couldn't see anying in front of me. All of a sudden,
they part the school of fish parts and I'm like
six inches away from a sting ray and it's about
the scariest thing I've ever encountered. I stood up in
the water and I galloped out like.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
You were well, Irwin stat When I was in Hawaii,
I swam with like three hundred pound turtles.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
That was the turtle. Turtles are passive.

Speaker 6 (34:55):
They're not gonna r with teenage ninja turtles.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
I like turtles too.

Speaker 6 (34:59):
If a sticker six inches away from you, you're gonna
be like, whoa, that's.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
All right, you're ball guarding the segment.

Speaker 8 (35:06):
No, not really, I mean it never goes outside. I
mean it's like coyotes records. I've seen all that. Obviously.
I was in a National park and I saw like,
you know, bison, but I don't know, I don't know
if that's.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Their count because you're in their world.

Speaker 6 (35:22):
Right, Yeah, exactly, That's what I was thinking. And I
was in a car. Also, when I was a kid
in Orange County. They had an amusement park you could
go through, and they had lions and tigers you could
drive through, and wild animals, wild safari.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Or something like that.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
It was crazy.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
What is nexus, asked Ben, Your questions are answers to
the rest of the hour.

Speaker 8 (35:44):
Jed, who fled, would like to know, in the event
of a dying Earth, would any of y'all volunteer to
go on the initial trip to colonize another planet?

Speaker 1 (35:53):
We would send you, Jed, We would send you on that.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
Well, think of the.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
Language they would speak. Jed went on that, No, I
don't have any interest in that. I was born on Earth.
I'll die on Earth, and then said what about you, Eddie.

Speaker 5 (36:07):
Yeah, I'll just go ahead and call it a day.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
Then I guess check out right exit stage left.

Speaker 6 (36:13):
I was saying, no, no, okay, I'll die in the volcano.
I would go on the second trip. Yeah, yeah, once
they build the houses and have running water and toilets.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
Right in the sun rooms, greenhouses, completely understandable.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
Yeah, all right. What is next year? Is ask Ben?
Your questions? Our answers is our commitment to you. Send
those questions in hashtag ask Ben on x as we
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Speaker 3 (36:43):
There are a lot of candy related questions.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
Halloween's coming up.

Speaker 8 (36:46):
Yes, of course, Alf the Alien Opiner would like to
know Alf better. Candy pixie sticks or fun dip? Fun dip,
not even close. Fun dip that was a big thing
back in the day. Fun dip.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
You get the little sugar stick and you dip perfect. Eddie,
it's kind of the same thing, Edie. That's not the same,
Eddie answered.

Speaker 6 (37:05):
Both sugar and then around.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
Fun dip because you got like four options, little.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
Podcast purple is good.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
You can eat the stick fun when you're done.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
That's a bonus Cope.

Speaker 6 (37:21):
I liked them both, but I went Pixi Sticks. I
prefer that it was just it was more, it was
more sour. I don't know, I like it all right.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
Next, what's next?

Speaker 6 (37:30):
Let's see Cat wants to butter finger baby.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
Ruth my favorite candy. What's next?

Speaker 3 (37:36):
Will you be giving out candy or going trigger treating
this Halloween?

Speaker 1 (37:39):
Well, I have been. I have not been. My wife
as invited to some Halloween party that I we're not hosting.
But I think I'm being dragged to that.

Speaker 6 (37:47):
So we're going to Halloween party, but I will be
handing out candy, preparing Mallard monologues to little kids, little
critters in the neighborhood that come by, Eddie, candy guy,
your candy guy, of.

Speaker 5 (37:58):
Course I am, But for this particular HALLOWE mean, uh,
no trick or treating. We'll be sleeping because we're getting
up really early in the morning.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
Come on, what about the kids? What about the children?

Speaker 6 (38:10):
Know to both No, you just gonna want to trigger treating. Man,
you should go trigger treating. That'd be funny as thirty
shows up the trick or.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
Treats thirty plus some years.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
Yeah, all right, what about you? Cool?

Speaker 6 (38:25):
I will be handing out candy, all right, I'm the
candy guy too, candy man. Quick, we do a quick question.
What's a quick one?

Speaker 8 (38:31):
Orange and Blue Blood Bratt wants to know what movie
have you guys watched the most.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
I'd say Good Fellas. It's my favorite mob movie. I
watched that probably more time than anything. What about you, Eddie?

Speaker 6 (38:41):
When I was a kid, I watched Star Wars like
every other day. I was saying Batman forever on VHS. Okay,
cooloo pulp fiction. Oh that's not a bad one. Bad
are there?

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Just asked man, Your questions are answers. Thank you very much,
good job by you.