November 7, 2023 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about James Harden's debut for the Clippers as they lose to the Knicks, what the future looks like with Harden on the Clippers, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number two, Hour two. Ready
to go. The Clippers and the Knickerbockers. Why are we
talking about a regular season Monday Night NBA game. I'll
tell you why. Cause the beard a cometh. How do
you dissect James Harden's opening act with the People's Team?
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What does the future look like for the Clippers with
James Harden? And is it possible, as we pivot away
from the James Harden story, is it possible that Isaiah Thomas,
the nineteen eighties NBA legend, really had no clue that
Michael Jordan loathed him until the documentary The Last Dance
popped up a couple of years ago. We'll talk about
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that and much more right now here. It is our
number two. It is not the system, it is a system.
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Speaker 2 (01:47):
Me.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Sorry lead this hour coming from Gotham, not Jersey, where
that dreadful Monday night game was played. My god, was
that terrible man alive? But we're gonna go to Midtown Manhattan,
And by request, if I had not done a maled
monologue on this, the email would not stop. So we'll
do it right now, right above Penn Station there in Manhattan.
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That is where James Harden and the People's Team, really
America's team at this point paid a visit to play
the Knickerbockers in a random Monday night early season NBA game.
But this game different than all other early season Monday
night NBA games. Why the much anticipated debut of a
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man whose nickname is facial Hair, Dug Beard. Now, if
you didn't watch, I had both games when Now, the
NBA game started earlier, about forty minutes before the Monday
Night game, so I had the NBA game on the
big TV, and then I flipped it to the small
TV at the forty minute mark, so it was on
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the small TV for the second half, but the first
half was on the big TV. And James Harden, how
did he do? How did James Harden do? Not great?
Seventeen points, six assists, three rebounds in a rather quiet
thirty one minutes of game action in the Knicks in
a tie game, early fourth quarter, delivered the knockout blow
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in the opening minutes of that fourth quarter, the slumping
Julius Randall, who couldn't hit the broadside of a barn,
we were told, certainly in this game he hit a
lot of nets, a lot of bottom of nets for
the Knickerbockers there as New York gets the victory. So
let us discuss the Knicks aren't the story. Who wants
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to talk about the Knicks? They're boring the Clippers of
the team everyone's talking about. So we'll start with the Clippers.
A better story in the losing locker room anyway, So
how do you dissect James Harden's opening act with the Clippers.
I've got Stone, London and Babyface, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
(03:59):
make a blooney sandwich is what we're gonna make. Because
there's a lot of blogoney flying when you talk about
James Harden. So number one, Yes, this what's what's known
in the restaurant business as a soft opening. You open
a diner, you don't open it up at the lunch
(04:21):
rush hour, the breakfast rush hour. You say the restaurant's
gonna be opening up on like a Friday, and you
actually open up on a Monday for friends and family,
so the kitchen staff can work out things, and the
wait staff can work out things. The bartenders know what
they're doing. So I consider this more of a soft
opening because it's Monday night, there was an NFL game
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going on, it's early NBA season, and all that. My
expectations were muted, and I was not disappointed. I was
not disappointed. James Harden says he's a system. That was
the famous quote from last week from Harden. I'm not
a system player, I am a system. That system malfunctioned
in the fourth quarter of this game, the Clippers fell
(05:04):
into a booby trap situation. Early fourth quarter tie game.
The Knicks and Clippers going back and forth as they
were jabbing each other, and then the first five minutes
of the fourth quarter the Knicks outscored the Clippers by
sixteen points. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night in
terms of winning that game. James Harden was on the
court for all of that. So I have a theory.
(05:27):
I have a theory. I activated the mal think tank,
and after activating the math of think tank. My theory
is the reason the Clippers imploded early in the fourth
quarter was because of the quote that we just played
from James Harden. That quote about the system is why
the thing went to hell in a handbasket early fourth court.
(05:50):
It is. Let me explain I beginning of the fourth ord,
Clippers had all of the big guns on the court,
all the big stars and all that, and they needed
somebody to go next level. I got four guys that
can go next level. He got Kawhi, Leonard, Paul, George, Harden,
and Westbrook. At any given time, they could go bananas
and score a bunch of points and go bonkers and
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all that. But they were all trying to accommodate each
other so that none of them was the alpha. They
were all the omega because they didn't want to step
on anyone's toes, and Harden in particular, it was passive.
It was supposed to be big game James Harden. Right,
well he's never been big James game Harden. But anyway,
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it is a reminder for Tylou what he needs on
his Christmas wish list is a stone. And I'm talking
about a Rosetta stone because it's gonna take a little while.
The Clippers have some of the guys on the team
speaking Portuguese, some are speaking Russian, others are speaking Chinese.
There's some Arabic speakers there, there's some people speaking Hebrew.
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They're all over the place, but they're not speaking the
same language. Nor did you expect them to speak the
same language in the first game. But you also did
not expect the collapse the way it did at the
start of the fourth quarter. That was a disappointing, disappointing
stretch of basketball. Now page two here, all right, so
what does the future look like? What does the future
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look like for the People's team here with James Harden.
So we've talked about this. Now we've seen Harden play
and we'll reanalyze the James Harden experience. So right now,
if you ask me in this moment, we do the show.
In this moment, the Clippers are in London, as in
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the London Fog, there's a bit of fog. But the
good news is the NBA doesn't really matter until April.
These are all exhibition games. Nobody gives a rats ass
about the NBA until April, so you have plenty of
time to mold the playto and to turn it into
something where I would say, we are at a fork
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in the road for the clip, and I am choosing
to be mister positive. I'm choosing to be Benny Brightside.
You can be mister negative. I want this to work.
I would like this to work. I will try to
speak it into existence. Do I think it's gonna work. No,
But I'm gonna try to be Benny Brightside. Okay. And
I am a believer in the sci fi theory of
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life that we are almost all certainly living in a
computer simulation, that we're in a computer simulation. So if
we are in a computer simulation, what does that mean?
That means this will play out? There is a simulation
where the La Clippers gel together and they smoke the
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piece pipe and they sing kumbai Ya and hoist up
the championship trophy to move in to the Intuit Dome,
the Palace, the new mecca of the NBA, next sea,
with a nice dusty trophy they can put in that
that fine new venue in the hood in Inglewood. Now,
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there is also a simulation where this all goes to
hell and Harden is traded away, Westbrook is released, Paul
George is traded away. It just goes there. James Harden.
Under the positive simulation, James Harden goes out there and
cooks up a master class on big time basketball. Everything
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snaps into place, All the legos snap into place, and
the Clippers are able to square the circle. Very hard
to square the circle, but they could square the circle
and be great. And I hope that's the dimension. I
don't want to be in the dimension where you hit
the iceberg and you sink down to the bottom. And
we've already seen how that plays out many many times.
But the one thing I know for sure, the trolls
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are almost never right, right. The trolls are almost never right.
So the more noise I hear about Harden, you know,
sucks and this, that and the other thing, the more
confident I am in the Clippers because in my years
of doing talk radio, the people that barked the loudest,
the biggest trolls, know nothing. They're the low information fan.
They're the uneducated fan. And I get it. You just
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want to bust balls. But listen, the Clippers will play
this out. Things will be okay now. Final point headline
from Old Timer's Day in the NBA. Say what there's
no Old Timers Day in the NBA. Well, interesting story
here involving Isaiah Thomas. Yeah, old school NBA. So Isaiah Thomas,
the Pistons legend from two generations ago. Isaiah Thomas discussed
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Michael Jordan during some kind of summit. Sure what this is?
He was some summit in Atlanta. We don't know what
the hell that was about, but the issue came up
and Isaiah Thomas said he was unaware of any bad
blood with his airness until three years ago in twenty twenty,
during the global pandemic, when the Last Dance documentary aired
(11:07):
All of It, All of It Now. Thomas also said
he does not hate anyone and would be open to
an honest conversation with Michael Jordan. The question is it possible?
Is it possible? That Isaiah Thomas had no clue, not
a single clue that Michael Jordan hated him until a
(11:30):
random documentary popped up three years ago. And the answer
to that is, come on, please please. The answer is
it's impossible. Okay. It was an open secret. I knew
about it. Who am I? I'm a loser? I do
an overnight SHOWE I knew about it. If I knew
(11:52):
about it, what he was talked about when I started
covering the NBA as a radio stringer million years ago,
there's an open converse. Jordan was still playing, Isaiah was
no longer playing, but it was an open conversation because
of one of the iconic moments in that era of
the NBA. And are we supposed to sit here and
believe behind these microphones that I had more information than
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Isaiah Thomas, who was part of the story. Come up.
It's all manufactured drama and all that. It's the age
old battle good and bad, and documentary makers like that
as well because it makes for good storytelling. And people
love stories. Human beings love stories.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
We all are.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Wired the same way. I don't care where you're from,
what your background is. We all love stories. We learn
from stories, And so the story was you had this
up and coming player and Michael Jordan and a rival
with Isaiah Thomas. And Jordan was the good guy and
Isaiah Thomas was the villain in the mj story. And
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it's like wrestling, You've got the babyface and the heel, right,
but in this case, Isaiah Thomas was the baby faced heel.
He's got that smile, that smirk on his face, Isaiah Thomas.
But you know he's conniving and he's up to no good.
You know that, right, He's the kid, like the kid
on the playground has got that f you grin, you
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know that that's Isaiah Thomas. And so Jordan, if you
don't know the story, I don't know how you couldn't
know the story. But Jordan held a grudge against Isaiah
Thomas since the bad Boy, bad Boy, bad Boy Pistons
played the Chicago Bulls and the Eastern Conference playoffs, and
the Bulls were going to eliminate the Pistons, and so
Isaiah Thomas led a stampede of the star players of
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the Detroit Pistons. They walked off the court without shaking
hands with the Chicago Bulls and they were still time remaining.
This goes back to nineteen ninety one. That's how long
ago this is. And we're still talking about it to
this day because Isaiah Thomas wants you to believe that.
Oh no, I had no idea, and I get what
Isaiah is doing. Isaiah's like, hey, listen, Jordan's a bigger
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deal than me. I'm gonna try to fight this with charm.
And that's how Isaiah Thomas became a head coach and
a GM of multiple NBA teams, running them into the ground. Also,
there was this Continental Basketball Association, which was the minor
leagues of the NBA. You probably don't know about that
because it doesn't exist. Isaiah Thomas ran that into the
ground as well. But Isaiah's try to take the high
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high road here, So I tracked the high road. Good luck.
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There is a line open. We would love to schmooze
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Speaker 1 (15:50):
Later this hour. Mallard of the Third Degree and I
for an I plus the NBA minute as we began
with a pro bouncy ball theme. Mallard model aw James
Harden made his debut with the Clippers. It's fine for
three quarters and they had to play the fourth didn't
go so well. Kevin right Since says, hey, big Ben,
(16:12):
it's my birthday today. Can I get a lifetime supply
of nothing and a trip to nowhere? Well, Kevin, as
you know, even though you're in Blaine, Minnesota, we do
not give birthday shout outs. It's not a Morning Zoos show.
We don't get paid like a Morning Zoos show, we
don't get treated like a Morning Zoos show, so we
don't do Morning Zoos show things. Unfortunately, we cannot wish
(16:32):
you a happy birthday. I certainly cannot give you a
lifetime supply of nothing and a trip to nowhere, as
much as you would want those things. But maybe maybe
if you've been really naughty, Santa will give you a
lifetime supply nothing and a trip to nowhere. That could happen.
That could happen, Big Greg and Iowa, says the Clippers.
(16:56):
After James Harden is done with him, then he's got
the pirate gift there. Very nice chip and the Q
says a plus on the mall of monologue. Harden is
washed up. He's good once every four or five fifth
game nowadays. There you go, well, that's fine, though, see
what you don't understand. There's a flaw in your analysis. Chip.
(17:18):
The Clippers have four bona fide stars, well really three.
I don't consider Westbrook because he can't shoot, so I
don't put him on that list. But he's like a
secondary guy. But he's been better as a Clipper than
they're playing for that dog food franchise, that minor league
outfit in Las. Now he's in the big leagues with
the Clips. But the thing about the Clippers, You've got Kawhi,
who can take it, you know, take the game over
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games one and two. Then you've got Paul George for
games three or four, and then game five is the
Harden game. So that's the Harden game. So boom together,
the collective works out. That's the way to do it. Absolutely,
that is the way to do it all. I see
what else we have page down here? Uh, let's see here.
(18:01):
With Poppy's record of handicapping games, we should call his
segment poverty with Poppy. Yeah, I don't know, probably over Poppy.
I think we're good taking his calls. I think we've
taken way too many of his phone calls. Let's go
to the phones, and I think my board is still
the same. Let's go to Mark the full name guy
(18:24):
who is hanging out in Medford, Oregon. I hear something
moving around. Hello, Mark the full name guy.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Hello Ben Mallor you know when is the last time
dwy Leonard took over a game?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
It was a playoffs last year.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
And how many? For how many games was he able
to do that?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
He was the best player on the court against the
Phoenix Suns in their playoff series before he left with
an injury.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
But oh well, I don't mean to laugh of his ingery,
but he is not exactly in what the Clippers have
paid him to be.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
That is, Oh no, But he's got he's got a
great he's got a great house in San Diego. He's
got a cosser in San Diego. He's got a beach cabana.
I'm told it's better than some of the hotels in Vegas.
That his pool is a resort style pool, like it's
as good as the MGM Grand in Vegas. That Kawhi's pool.
Is that good?
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yeah, Well I did some work on Gary Payton's pool
in Oakland. Well, he was busy playing for the Dream
Team in Spain.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Did you did you pee in his pool?
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I did not, you did not. No, we were doing
some concrete work there.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah, you're you're you were doing concrete work back in
the day.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Back in the day. Yes, I got hired by this
foreman to help out. Here's some concrete work on Gary
Peyton's pool in the Oakland Hills. Beautiful house, beautiful pool,
The lighting is incredible.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
You're telling me that, you're telling me that an NBA
player has a beautiful pool. That's shocking. I thought I
thought he would have. Like, I thought he'd have the
kind of pool you get at Walmart where you have
to like inflate it. That's what I thought.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
You one of those waiting pools.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, yeah, the waiting pools that are like, yeah, they'll
kill they kill the Yeah, they'll kill the grass. If
you have like grass and your lawn, they'll kill the grass.
That wonderful.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
No, it was a real swimming pool.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Well you were, And yet again, Mark, this is why
you're one of the great callers. And talk radio. You're
on the pulse of what the listener wants to hear.
You want to hear about Gary Payton's pool, And you
knew the consumer to the overnight show needed to hear
details about Gary Payton's pool from what what are we
looking at? The nineties? I guess the nineties? All that?
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Well?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Who cares? I could talk about I could talk about
l Jim Baylor was the first basketball player I ever
saw on TV, and I was extremely impressed with him
as a player. He was a great player. It's too
bad he wasn't actually a part of the Lakers championship much.
(21:15):
He was injured at the end of his career when
they finally won a championship. What a great player he was.
Didn't get along well with your Clipper management though, did he?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Well, he was the Clippers management. Yeah, yeah. For twenty
plus years, he had top five picks in the lottery
every year and could not have picked a player. I
think he was drafting tennis players and racquetball players as
Clipper GM. I think that's what he was doing.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
All right.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I gotta go, I gotta move on. Thank you, I'm
hanging up on you. Let's go to keg drinking Steve,
who is up next? I hear him moving around?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Hello, man, can you hear me now?
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Now I'm called I forgot. I forgot to ask you
about Travis Chelsea the other night man. You know he's
going to Argentina. He's chasing it all over the world. Man,
and Nick Lowry the kicker. He says that he shouldn't
be doing all this stuff. You know, that's a hot
that's a hot take there, Mannick Nick Lowry coming out
(22:18):
on on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
And spanking that another thing I did not have on
my Bengo card. Breaking down a Nick Lowry take on
Travis right up there with Gary Payton's pool. This is great.
This is why we do amazing talk radio here in
the middle of the night.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah, that's a hall of fame kicker man, that guy, Wait,
where do you?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Where do you live? Kick drinking Steve? I was almost
called you, Brian. That's a Freudian slipt beer drinking Brian.
Are you related to beer drinking Brian at all?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
No? No, no.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
I shot shots man shots, green tea shot.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Is that what you call it? Green tea? Tell that
to the judge.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Yes, let me let me tell you green teens gotta
east the going to Argentina's like Mickey and Rocky. It's
not good for the leg man. She's only really a six.
She's like an LA six. You gotta find a homely girl.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Man, you gotta fight. So your advice to Travis Kelsey
is to stop stooping with the rock star and go
find the girl next door. That's your advice.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Well, she's in LA six, but she's really kind.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Of Chelsea's in Kansas City though, So for Kansas City
is Taylor Swift? Is she like a seven or eight
in Kansas City? I don't know.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Let me tell the young guys, the secret to life
is fighting. The three or four was a good attitude.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Man.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
Tom Brady bent over backwards for that supermodel and took
off work.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Per day and she ran off with the yea yes yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Let me tell you you're young. You young boys, when
you're starting your life and you're starting to look for
somebody to spend your life with, you should take advice
from keg drinking Steve on who.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
The exactly you got it? There's a three year of
four who can cook?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
What about a solid? What about a five or six?
Why a three or four why not a.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Five or listen Kelsey's got listened and all that makeup
and everything else. Man, Taylor Swift is is a is
a five?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Or no?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
But look, I see you're you're looking at the wrong way.
Like Travis Kelsey's got a decent amount of money. He's
made good money in the NFL, but he ain't at
that level financially. If they were to get together, Taylor
Swift and Travis Kelcey and they break up and she
writes some song ripping Kelsey, she also has to cut
him a check or there will be some massive prenup
and he'll get a massive pile of pesos out of that.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Dad, you gotta.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Understand this chick is this chickens are freaking cat lady,
all right?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I know you don't.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
He's not your type. But she's not my type either.
I think I think she needs to eat a couple
of cheeseburgers, fattening it up a little bit. But that's
fine whatever.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
Nick kenn didn't get didn't get any preduptional for Ma Carey.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
He is my hero.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
He winning How many kids? Is Nick Canaan? What are
we up?
Speaker 2 (25:04):
God?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Bless him?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
No, No, isn't he trying to populate all of the
Southern hemisphere?
Speaker 6 (25:10):
I think giving him.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Any Are you repeting yourself? I gotta go hang up
on you go away? There we go. What's going on
with you?
Speaker 7 (25:23):
L A six Huh, I don't know. I think she's
pretty good looking. I don't even think she's in l
A six. I think she's probably like A four l A.
There's many more beautiful people in LA. They're all fake.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
But yeah, I mean Taylor Switch is quite attractive. That's
a wild take. She's too thin. He is, He's a
little too thin. Gotta fat her up, slender It looks
like slender woman, you know. It's like.
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So my spidy like sense is tell me that Michigan
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has gone to the Eye for an eye strategy to
fight back as the vultures are circling over Jim Harbaugh's
program reported Signs Stealing Michigan planning to dig in and
battle lines have been drawn as they're going to fight
the Big ten and they are threatening to take legal
action and we'll likely have to take legal action to
(27:18):
block in season suspensions over the sign scandal. The Signs
stealing scandal, but that isn't even the story here. The
eye for the eye part of it is a story
that the Associated Press had reported claiming there's a wild
story here that a Big Ten employee stated that he
(27:41):
was once tasked with stealing signs from the Michigan football team.
Say what yes, former employee the Big tenscording to the
Associated Press, the wire service of record, claims this person
that it was his job to steal signs and he
was given details from multiple league schools to compile a
(28:01):
spreadsheet of play calling signals used by Michigan last season.
The employee said he recently shared the documents, which showed
the wolverine signs and corresponding plays, as well as the
screenshots of text message exchanges with staffers at other Big
Ten schools with Michigan, and he said, we know, of
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course on another person's name. They spoke on the condition
of anonymity. But that is bouncing around. So that is
an eye for an eye. And you want to burn
my house down, I am going to burn your house down.
That is the plan, and that is how we're going
to get it done. That's what's going on in that story.
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There were some rumors that over the weekend that the
punishment would come down on Monday. It did not happen.
As far as the NBA minute, Humpty dumpty is at
it again. Anthony Davis a hip injury. Expect him to
miss some time. He says he won't, but he's soft.
Jamal Murray's going to be out for the Nuggets and
he's got a hamstring injury. Keep in mind, the NBA
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has been playing for a couple of weeks and already
they're dropping like flies. What a bunch of weak ass
NBA players we have? Huh God it these guys are
so soft in the NBA. Man, what else do we have?
Robert Williams, the guy from the Celtics who got traded
out to the Oregon Trail to Portland. He's gonna get
(29:30):
knee surgery, likely will end his season in Portland. He
got now. One legitimate injury that happened over the weekend.
CJ McCollum, former Trailblazer now with the New Orleans Pelicans,
has been diagnosed with a collapse long and there is
no timeline. Is out. He is out indefinitely. That's a
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legitimate injury. Unlike so many of these NBA and injuries
which are not legitimate, but that is a legitimate injury.
And Victor Wembanyama was back to sucking for the San
Antonio Spurs after that mammoth performance in the Valley of
the Sun. He did zero zero three of twelve. That
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is dreadful shooting zero for the guy that's supposed to
be the cheat code of the NBA, Victor wm Byama.
In a game the Spurs gave up one hundred and
fifty two points to the Indiana Pacers. It is the
Ben Malors Show. As we continue on and we go
to the phones, we'll say hello to say hi to
Jed who fled? Who's in the Sunshine State? Hello, Jed
(30:35):
who fled?
Speaker 3 (30:37):
You always gotta pay homage to the ones that came
before you. So in air, Bud Lulu's a donkey like
Buddy Hollywood flick with a with a whale scout involved
with a you know, I know something about blowing and
that prospect blows whale wise obviously within FCC regulations, Kay,
will you put your stamp up a rival on this?
(30:59):
Also when that when that when the donkey plays a
position better for it to play quarterback, than the position
of center, because he's like, what dumb mass would put
their hands under that ass's ass? You know what I mean?
I mean because because about.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
This j what about doing the toush push with a donkey,
an actual donkey on.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
The and the way he's de telling whether you're gonna
go to the left side of the right side, It
is like, because that's what dash words he.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Meant, that's what the fake you're you know what I'm
gonna I'm gonna put a donkey at quarterback and we're
gonna make you the offensive coordinator.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
We could call him, we could call him Peyton Manning Ben.
We could have him cheat to get all the records
that he take, you know, and we could have people
fall for him. And even though he has a Christina,
are you.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Saying, are you saying that Donkey's gonna have a wife
who's a drug mule? Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 3 (31:51):
And whenever he whenever they call it, they call it
dang what was it? Oh man, I can't my brain, dude.
It's like one of them sing alongs whenever you watch
the kids movie in the bar bounces along. And I
used to kick conjure words at that speed and now
it's just like a lot of blank spaces. But whenever
you do a tea bag and dude, you know the
tea bag and that he did, you know that he
did that the time.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
I'm so glad you were able to come up with
that word. I'm glad that you cooked that word up.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Well.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Usually, I didn't know you were a tea drinker. I
thought you liked the hard stuff. I had no idea
you were a teetotaling guy. All Right, I think, all right,
I gotta go. Thank got a murder.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
I gotta go.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
I'm gonna been that rada so dumb ass.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
That's right time. Nowt for the instant trivia. One of
the great disasters of the NFL in recent years. Bryce Young.
This guy is terrible and he became the fourth quarterback
in Panthers history to throw multiple pick sixes in a game.
Blank was the last Carolina quarterback to do it prior
to Bryce Young. Again, Bryce Young, in that game against
a mediocre Indianapolis team, became the fourth quarterback in Panthers
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history to throw multiple pick sixes in the game. Blank
was the last Carolina quarterback to do it before Young.
That is the it Triviua the answer, We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.
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Speaker 1 (33:41):
The answer tribute. Bryce Young, who by any measurement is bad,
became the fourth quarterback in Panthers history to throw multiple
pick sixes in a game. Blank was the last Panthers
quarterback to do it before Bryce Young? On Sunday, that
is the question, what is the answer? Listen? Does anyone
in the Mallard Militia?
Speaker 3 (34:02):
No?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
The answer page down Neo guest by Cowboy Killer Ross
Grimsley from Mister Nice Guy. Page down Jake Delome from
Matt the Warrior Raider Fan Blake Brockermeyer from Late Night
Drug Tester Woke Sam guest by Paully b. Marge Simpson
(34:26):
from Ferg Dog not to be confused with Ferg Cat.
Frank Reich from Eke and Roso Minnesota. Carry Collins guest
by Rory Jimmy Clauson tossed out by Chipping the Ques
Mark Messier from Shane and des Moines. Baker Mayfield guess
by just Josh Sonny Jurgensen, The great Carolina Panther quarterback
back in the day from Timmy Toledo. Who else we
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have page down? The answer is Benny Hill guess by
the ace man cometh No. The correct answer Bryce Longing
the fourth coquarterback in Panthers history through multiple pick sixes
in the game. Brian Saint Pierre in twenty ten was
the last Carolina quarterback to do it before Bryce Young.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Over the weekend, it's Meller. How about that to the
third degree, This is one big Ben gets grailed Coop Dellu.
Speaker 10 (35:24):
After the loss to the Vikings, Falcons head coach Arthur
Smith said he wasn't going to name a starter for
next week. And that he'd have to evaluate. Ben, what's
the move here?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
They lost to a guy that had been with the
team for five days. There's nothing to evaluate right that
At this point you're polishing turds if you're Arthur Smith.
The coach Atlanta, Taylor Heineke is bad. But he's actually
about the same as Desmond Ritter, who's the other option
at quarterback. The other quarterback is Logan Woodside, late Tennessee
(35:53):
Titan quarterback. But there's the dungeon of doom the Titans
quarterback room there and Atlanta. Should you know what they
had to do is they had to cover their eyes
and play any meanie miney mo and then pick a
quarterback each week. That way, next.
Speaker 10 (36:07):
Daniel Jones towards acl on Sunday early in the loss
against the Raiders. Ben, do you think Jones ever starts
for the Giants again?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Should he start?
Speaker 2 (36:16):
No?
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Will he start? Yes? He will start again. And here's
the problem. The Giants have boxed themselves into a quarner.
I am a salary cap truther, or you can get
out of any contract you want. But the Giants don't
operate like I do. They believe the salary cap is legit,
and so Daniel Jones contract, the new deal he signed,
he can't. They can't get out of it till twenty
(36:37):
twenty five. There there's not an escape clause that opens
up until twenty twenty five. So Daniel Jones is going
to be on the roster and he will likely start
a game once he's able to come back, probably by
week seven or eight of next year, he will play
another game. It's terrible.
Speaker 10 (36:54):
Next Pud Rodriguez spoke with TMZ over the weekend and
called Bruce Bochi the best big game manager of all time?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Is he right? Well, he told TMC it must be true. No, listen,
I love Bochie, but that's hyperbole. Bochie is wonderful, He's great,
and all of those nice accolades for this generation, but
it just depends on what generation. I remember years ago,
everyone would suck the toes of Tony LaRussa and say
how great Larusa was. He was the greatest big game
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manager of juggling the bullpen. Bochie's wonderful. I'm sure there
are guys before I was alive that were great, but
in his generation we can only judge him off his generation.
Bochie from when he managed the Padres, Giants and Rangers
is at the very top. There it is Mallard of
the third degree. How did we know that is a win?
Speaker 4 (37:43):
Put it on the mall who
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Won the game again again I won the game.
Hello and welcome. It's our number two, Hour two. Ready
to go. The Clippers and the Knickerbockers. Why are we
talking about a regular season Monday Night NBA game. I'll
tell you why. Cause the beard a cometh. How do
you dissect James Harden's opening act with the People's Team?
(00:22):
What does the future look like for the Clippers with
James Harden? And is it possible, as we pivot away
from the James Harden story, is it possible that Isaiah Thomas,
the nineteen eighties NBA legend, really had no clue that
Michael Jordan loathed him until the documentary The Last Dance
popped up a couple of years ago. We'll talk about
(00:43):
that and much more right now here. It is our
number two. It is not the system, it is a system.
Well come, in the beginning of another hour of The
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Me.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Sorry lead this hour coming from Gotham, not Jersey, where
that dreadful Monday night game was played. My god, was
that terrible man alive? But we're gonna go to Midtown Manhattan,
And by request, if I had not done a maled
monologue on this, the email would not stop. So we'll
do it right now, right above Penn Station there in Manhattan.
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That is where James Harden and the People's Team, really
America's team at this point paid a visit to play
the Knickerbockers in a random Monday night early season NBA game.
But this game different than all other early season Monday
night NBA games. Why the much anticipated debut of a
(02:33):
man whose nickname is facial Hair, Dug Beard. Now, if
you didn't watch, I had both games when Now, the
NBA game started earlier, about forty minutes before the Monday
Night game, so I had the NBA game on the
big TV, and then I flipped it to the small
TV at the forty minute mark, so it was on
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the small TV for the second half, but the first
half was on the big TV. And James Harden, how
did he do? How did James Harden do? Not great?
Seventeen points, six assists, three rebounds in a rather quiet
thirty one minutes of game action in the Knicks in
a tie game, early fourth quarter, delivered the knockout blow
(03:16):
in the opening minutes of that fourth quarter, the slumping
Julius Randall, who couldn't hit the broadside of a barn,
we were told, certainly in this game he hit a
lot of nets, a lot of bottom of nets for
the Knickerbockers there as New York gets the victory. So
let us discuss the Knicks aren't the story. Who wants
(03:36):
to talk about the Knicks? They're boring the Clippers of
the team everyone's talking about. So we'll start with the Clippers.
A better story in the losing locker room anyway, So
how do you dissect James Harden's opening act with the Clippers.
I've got Stone, London and Babyface, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
(03:59):
make a blooney sandwich is what we're gonna make. Because
there's a lot of blogoney flying when you talk about
James Harden. So number one, Yes, this what's what's known
in the restaurant business as a soft opening. You open
a diner, you don't open it up at the lunch
(04:21):
rush hour, the breakfast rush hour. You say the restaurant's
gonna be opening up on like a Friday, and you
actually open up on a Monday for friends and family,
so the kitchen staff can work out things, and the
wait staff can work out things. The bartenders know what
they're doing. So I consider this more of a soft
opening because it's Monday night, there was an NFL game
(04:43):
going on, it's early NBA season, and all that. My
expectations were muted, and I was not disappointed. I was
not disappointed. James Harden says he's a system. That was
the famous quote from last week from Harden. I'm not
a system player, I am a system. That system malfunctioned
in the fourth quarter of this game, the Clippers fell
(05:04):
into a booby trap situation. Early fourth quarter tie game.
The Knicks and Clippers going back and forth as they
were jabbing each other, and then the first five minutes
of the fourth quarter the Knicks outscored the Clippers by
sixteen points. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night in
terms of winning that game. James Harden was on the
court for all of that. So I have a theory.
(05:27):
I have a theory. I activated the mal think tank,
and after activating the math of think tank. My theory
is the reason the Clippers imploded early in the fourth
quarter was because of the quote that we just played
from James Harden. That quote about the system is why
the thing went to hell in a handbasket early fourth court.
(05:50):
It is. Let me explain I beginning of the fourth ord,
Clippers had all of the big guns on the court,
all the big stars and all that, and they needed
somebody to go next level. I got four guys that
can go next level. He got Kawhi, Leonard, Paul, George, Harden,
and Westbrook. At any given time, they could go bananas
and score a bunch of points and go bonkers and
(06:13):
all that. But they were all trying to accommodate each
other so that none of them was the alpha. They
were all the omega because they didn't want to step
on anyone's toes, and Harden in particular, it was passive.
It was supposed to be big game James Harden. Right,
well he's never been big James game Harden. But anyway,
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it is a reminder for Tylou what he needs on
his Christmas wish list is a stone. And I'm talking
about a Rosetta stone because it's gonna take a little while.
The Clippers have some of the guys on the team
speaking Portuguese, some are speaking Russian, others are speaking Chinese.
There's some Arabic speakers there, there's some people speaking Hebrew.
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They're all over the place, but they're not speaking the
same language. Nor did you expect them to speak the
same language in the first game. But you also did
not expect the collapse the way it did at the
start of the fourth quarter. That was a disappointing, disappointing
stretch of basketball. Now page two here, all right, so
what does the future look like? What does the future
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look like for the People's team here with James Harden.
So we've talked about this. Now we've seen Harden play
and we'll reanalyze the James Harden experience. So right now,
if you ask me in this moment, we do the show.
In this moment, the Clippers are in London, as in
(07:39):
the London Fog, there's a bit of fog. But the
good news is the NBA doesn't really matter until April.
These are all exhibition games. Nobody gives a rats ass
about the NBA until April, so you have plenty of
time to mold the playto and to turn it into
something where I would say, we are at a fork
(08:03):
in the road for the clip, and I am choosing
to be mister positive. I'm choosing to be Benny Brightside.
You can be mister negative. I want this to work.
I would like this to work. I will try to
speak it into existence. Do I think it's gonna work. No,
But I'm gonna try to be Benny Brightside. Okay. And
I am a believer in the sci fi theory of
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life that we are almost all certainly living in a
computer simulation, that we're in a computer simulation. So if
we are in a computer simulation, what does that mean?
That means this will play out? There is a simulation
where the La Clippers gel together and they smoke the
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piece pipe and they sing kumbai Ya and hoist up
the championship trophy to move in to the Intuit Dome,
the Palace, the new mecca of the NBA, next sea,
with a nice dusty trophy they can put in that
that fine new venue in the hood in Inglewood. Now,
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there is also a simulation where this all goes to
hell and Harden is traded away, Westbrook is released, Paul
George is traded away. It just goes there. James Harden.
Under the positive simulation, James Harden goes out there and
cooks up a master class on big time basketball. Everything
(09:31):
snaps into place, All the legos snap into place, and
the Clippers are able to square the circle. Very hard
to square the circle, but they could square the circle
and be great. And I hope that's the dimension. I
don't want to be in the dimension where you hit
the iceberg and you sink down to the bottom. And
we've already seen how that plays out many many times.
But the one thing I know for sure, the trolls
(09:54):
are almost never right, right. The trolls are almost never right.
So the more noise I hear about Harden, you know,
sucks and this, that and the other thing, the more
confident I am in the Clippers because in my years
of doing talk radio, the people that barked the loudest,
the biggest trolls, know nothing. They're the low information fan.
They're the uneducated fan. And I get it. You just
(10:14):
want to bust balls. But listen, the Clippers will play
this out. Things will be okay now. Final point headline
from Old Timer's Day in the NBA. Say what there's
no Old Timers Day in the NBA. Well, interesting story
here involving Isaiah Thomas. Yeah, old school NBA. So Isaiah Thomas,
the Pistons legend from two generations ago. Isaiah Thomas discussed
(10:40):
Michael Jordan during some kind of summit. Sure what this is?
He was some summit in Atlanta. We don't know what
the hell that was about, but the issue came up
and Isaiah Thomas said he was unaware of any bad
blood with his airness until three years ago in twenty twenty,
during the global pandemic, when the Last Dance documentary aired
(11:07):
All of It, All of It Now. Thomas also said
he does not hate anyone and would be open to
an honest conversation with Michael Jordan. The question is it possible?
Is it possible? That Isaiah Thomas had no clue, not
a single clue that Michael Jordan hated him until a
(11:30):
random documentary popped up three years ago. And the answer
to that is, come on, please please. The answer is
it's impossible. Okay. It was an open secret. I knew
about it. Who am I? I'm a loser? I do
an overnight SHOWE I knew about it. If I knew
(11:52):
about it, what he was talked about when I started
covering the NBA as a radio stringer million years ago,
there's an open converse. Jordan was still playing, Isaiah was
no longer playing, but it was an open conversation because
of one of the iconic moments in that era of
the NBA. And are we supposed to sit here and
believe behind these microphones that I had more information than
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Isaiah Thomas, who was part of the story. Come up.
It's all manufactured drama and all that. It's the age
old battle good and bad, and documentary makers like that
as well because it makes for good storytelling. And people
love stories. Human beings love stories.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
We all are.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Wired the same way. I don't care where you're from,
what your background is. We all love stories. We learn
from stories, And so the story was you had this
up and coming player and Michael Jordan and a rival
with Isaiah Thomas. And Jordan was the good guy and
Isaiah Thomas was the villain in the mj story. And
(12:55):
it's like wrestling, You've got the babyface and the heel, right,
but in this case, Isaiah Thomas was the baby faced heel.
He's got that smile, that smirk on his face, Isaiah Thomas.
But you know he's conniving and he's up to no good.
You know that, right, He's the kid, like the kid
on the playground has got that f you grin, you
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know that that's Isaiah Thomas. And so Jordan, if you
don't know the story, I don't know how you couldn't
know the story. But Jordan held a grudge against Isaiah
Thomas since the bad Boy, bad Boy, bad Boy Pistons
played the Chicago Bulls and the Eastern Conference playoffs, and
the Bulls were going to eliminate the Pistons, and so
Isaiah Thomas led a stampede of the star players of
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the Detroit Pistons. They walked off the court without shaking
hands with the Chicago Bulls and they were still time remaining.
This goes back to nineteen ninety one. That's how long
ago this is. And we're still talking about it to
this day because Isaiah Thomas wants you to believe that.
Oh no, I had no idea, and I get what
Isaiah is doing. Isaiah's like, hey, listen, Jordan's a bigger
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deal than me. I'm gonna try to fight this with charm.
And that's how Isaiah Thomas became a head coach and
a GM of multiple NBA teams, running them into the ground. Also,
there was this Continental Basketball Association, which was the minor
leagues of the NBA. You probably don't know about that
because it doesn't exist. Isaiah Thomas ran that into the
ground as well. But Isaiah's try to take the high
(14:23):
high road here, So I tracked the high road. Good luck.
It is the Ben Mahlor Show. If you would like
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There is a line open. We would love to schmooze
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(14:43):
but if there's something that we didn't talk about that
we should have talked about. You're more than welcome to
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The whole thing also on X at Ben Mahlor. That
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Speaker 1 (15:50):
Later this hour. Mallard of the Third Degree and I
for an I plus the NBA minute as we began
with a pro bouncy ball theme. Mallard model aw James
Harden made his debut with the Clippers. It's fine for
three quarters and they had to play the fourth didn't
go so well. Kevin right Since says, hey, big Ben,
(16:12):
it's my birthday today. Can I get a lifetime supply
of nothing and a trip to nowhere? Well, Kevin, as
you know, even though you're in Blaine, Minnesota, we do
not give birthday shout outs. It's not a Morning Zoos show.
We don't get paid like a Morning Zoos show, we
don't get treated like a Morning Zoos show, so we
don't do Morning Zoos show things. Unfortunately, we cannot wish
(16:32):
you a happy birthday. I certainly cannot give you a
lifetime supply of nothing and a trip to nowhere, as
much as you would want those things. But maybe maybe
if you've been really naughty, Santa will give you a
lifetime supply nothing and a trip to nowhere. That could happen.
That could happen, Big Greg and Iowa, says the Clippers.
(16:56):
After James Harden is done with him, then he's got
the pirate gift there. Very nice chip and the Q
says a plus on the mall of monologue. Harden is
washed up. He's good once every four or five fifth
game nowadays. There you go, well, that's fine, though, see
what you don't understand. There's a flaw in your analysis. Chip.
(17:18):
The Clippers have four bona fide stars, well really three.
I don't consider Westbrook because he can't shoot, so I
don't put him on that list. But he's like a
secondary guy. But he's been better as a Clipper than
they're playing for that dog food franchise, that minor league
outfit in Las. Now he's in the big leagues with
the Clips. But the thing about the Clippers, You've got Kawhi,
who can take it, you know, take the game over
(17:39):
games one and two. Then you've got Paul George for
games three or four, and then game five is the
Harden game. So that's the Harden game. So boom together,
the collective works out. That's the way to do it. Absolutely,
that is the way to do it all. I see
what else we have page down here? Uh, let's see here.
(18:01):
With Poppy's record of handicapping games, we should call his
segment poverty with Poppy. Yeah, I don't know, probably over Poppy.
I think we're good taking his calls. I think we've
taken way too many of his phone calls. Let's go
to the phones, and I think my board is still
the same. Let's go to Mark the full name guy
(18:24):
who is hanging out in Medford, Oregon. I hear something
moving around. Hello, Mark the full name guy.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Hello Ben Mallor you know when is the last time
dwy Leonard took over a game?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
It was a playoffs last year.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
And how many? For how many games was he able
to do that?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
He was the best player on the court against the
Phoenix Suns in their playoff series before he left with
an injury.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
But oh well, I don't mean to laugh of his ingery,
but he is not exactly in what the Clippers have
paid him to be.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
That is, Oh no, But he's got he's got a
great he's got a great house in San Diego. He's
got a cosser in San Diego. He's got a beach cabana.
I'm told it's better than some of the hotels in Vegas.
That his pool is a resort style pool, like it's
as good as the MGM Grand in Vegas. That Kawhi's pool.
Is that good?
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yeah, Well I did some work on Gary Payton's pool
in Oakland. Well, he was busy playing for the Dream
Team in Spain.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Did you did you pee in his pool?
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I did not, you did not. No, we were doing
some concrete work there.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah, you're you're you were doing concrete work back in
the day.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Back in the day. Yes, I got hired by this
foreman to help out. Here's some concrete work on Gary
Peyton's pool in the Oakland Hills. Beautiful house, beautiful pool,
The lighting is incredible.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
You're telling me that, you're telling me that an NBA
player has a beautiful pool. That's shocking. I thought I
thought he would have. Like, I thought he'd have the
kind of pool you get at Walmart where you have
to like inflate it. That's what I thought.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
You one of those waiting pools.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, yeah, the waiting pools that are like, yeah, they'll
kill they kill the Yeah, they'll kill the grass. If
you have like grass and your lawn, they'll kill the grass.
That wonderful.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
No, it was a real swimming pool.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Well you were, And yet again, Mark, this is why
you're one of the great callers. And talk radio. You're
on the pulse of what the listener wants to hear.
You want to hear about Gary Payton's pool, And you
knew the consumer to the overnight show needed to hear
details about Gary Payton's pool from what what are we
looking at? The nineties? I guess the nineties? All that?
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Well?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Who cares? I could talk about I could talk about
l Jim Baylor was the first basketball player I ever
saw on TV, and I was extremely impressed with him
as a player. He was a great player. It's too
bad he wasn't actually a part of the Lakers championship much.
(21:15):
He was injured at the end of his career when
they finally won a championship. What a great player he was.
Didn't get along well with your Clipper management though, did he?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Well, he was the Clippers management. Yeah, yeah. For twenty
plus years, he had top five picks in the lottery
every year and could not have picked a player. I
think he was drafting tennis players and racquetball players as
Clipper GM. I think that's what he was doing.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
All right.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I gotta go, I gotta move on. Thank you, I'm
hanging up on you. Let's go to keg drinking Steve,
who is up next? I hear him moving around?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Hello, man, can you hear me now?
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Now I'm called I forgot. I forgot to ask you
about Travis Chelsea the other night man. You know he's
going to Argentina. He's chasing it all over the world. Man,
and Nick Lowry the kicker. He says that he shouldn't
be doing all this stuff. You know, that's a hot
that's a hot take there, Mannick Nick Lowry coming out
(22:18):
on on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
And spanking that another thing I did not have on
my Bengo card. Breaking down a Nick Lowry take on
Travis right up there with Gary Payton's pool. This is great.
This is why we do amazing talk radio here in
the middle of the night.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah, that's a hall of fame kicker man, that guy, Wait,
where do you?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Where do you live? Kick drinking Steve? I was almost
called you, Brian. That's a Freudian slipt beer drinking Brian.
Are you related to beer drinking Brian at all?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
No? No, no.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
I shot shots man shots, green tea shot.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Is that what you call it? Green tea? Tell that
to the judge.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Yes, let me let me tell you green teens gotta
east the going to Argentina's like Mickey and Rocky. It's
not good for the leg man. She's only really a six.
She's like an LA six. You gotta find a homely girl.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Man, you gotta fight. So your advice to Travis Kelsey
is to stop stooping with the rock star and go
find the girl next door. That's your advice.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Well, she's in LA six, but she's really kind.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Of Chelsea's in Kansas City though, So for Kansas City
is Taylor Swift? Is she like a seven or eight
in Kansas City? I don't know.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Let me tell the young guys, the secret to life
is fighting. The three or four was a good attitude.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Man.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
Tom Brady bent over backwards for that supermodel and took
off work.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Per day and she ran off with the yea yes yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Let me tell you you're young. You young boys, when
you're starting your life and you're starting to look for
somebody to spend your life with, you should take advice
from keg drinking Steve on who.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
The exactly you got it? There's a three year of
four who can cook?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
What about a solid? What about a five or six?
Why a three or four why not a.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Five or listen Kelsey's got listened and all that makeup
and everything else. Man, Taylor Swift is is a is
a five?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Or no?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
But look, I see you're you're looking at the wrong way.
Like Travis Kelsey's got a decent amount of money. He's
made good money in the NFL, but he ain't at
that level financially. If they were to get together, Taylor
Swift and Travis Kelcey and they break up and she
writes some song ripping Kelsey, she also has to cut
him a check or there will be some massive prenup
and he'll get a massive pile of pesos out of that.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Dad, you gotta.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Understand this chick is this chickens are freaking cat lady,
all right?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I know you don't.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
He's not your type. But she's not my type either.
I think I think she needs to eat a couple
of cheeseburgers, fattening it up a little bit. But that's
fine whatever.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
Nick kenn didn't get didn't get any preduptional for Ma Carey.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
He is my hero.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
He winning How many kids? Is Nick Canaan? What are
we up?
Speaker 2 (25:04):
God?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Bless him?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
No, No, isn't he trying to populate all of the
Southern hemisphere?
Speaker 6 (25:10):
I think giving him.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Any Are you repeting yourself? I gotta go hang up
on you go away? There we go. What's going on
with you?
Speaker 7 (25:23):
L A six Huh, I don't know. I think she's
pretty good looking. I don't even think she's in l
A six. I think she's probably like A four l A.
There's many more beautiful people in LA. They're all fake.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
But yeah, I mean Taylor Switch is quite attractive. That's
a wild take. She's too thin. He is, He's a
little too thin. Gotta fat her up, slender It looks
like slender woman, you know. It's like.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
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Speaker 1 (25:55):
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Want Your Flex. Twice a week, every Tuesday and Friday,
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So my spidy like sense is tell me that Michigan
(26:55):
has gone to the Eye for an eye strategy to
fight back as the vultures are circling over Jim Harbaugh's
program reported Signs Stealing Michigan planning to dig in and
battle lines have been drawn as they're going to fight
the Big ten and they are threatening to take legal
action and we'll likely have to take legal action to
(27:18):
block in season suspensions over the sign scandal. The Signs
stealing scandal, but that isn't even the story here. The
eye for the eye part of it is a story
that the Associated Press had reported claiming there's a wild
story here that a Big Ten employee stated that he
(27:41):
was once tasked with stealing signs from the Michigan football team.
Say what yes, former employee the Big tenscording to the
Associated Press, the wire service of record, claims this person
that it was his job to steal signs and he
was given details from multiple league schools to compile a
(28:01):
spreadsheet of play calling signals used by Michigan last season.
The employee said he recently shared the documents, which showed
the wolverine signs and corresponding plays, as well as the
screenshots of text message exchanges with staffers at other Big
Ten schools with Michigan, and he said, we know, of
(28:26):
course on another person's name. They spoke on the condition
of anonymity. But that is bouncing around. So that is
an eye for an eye. And you want to burn
my house down, I am going to burn your house down.
That is the plan, and that is how we're going
to get it done. That's what's going on in that story.
(28:48):
There were some rumors that over the weekend that the
punishment would come down on Monday. It did not happen.
As far as the NBA minute, Humpty dumpty is at
it again. Anthony Davis a hip injury. Expect him to
miss some time. He says he won't, but he's soft.
Jamal Murray's going to be out for the Nuggets and
he's got a hamstring injury. Keep in mind, the NBA
(29:09):
has been playing for a couple of weeks and already
they're dropping like flies. What a bunch of weak ass
NBA players we have? Huh God it these guys are
so soft in the NBA. Man, what else do we have?
Robert Williams, the guy from the Celtics who got traded
out to the Oregon Trail to Portland. He's gonna get
(29:30):
knee surgery, likely will end his season in Portland. He
got now. One legitimate injury that happened over the weekend.
CJ McCollum, former Trailblazer now with the New Orleans Pelicans,
has been diagnosed with a collapse long and there is
no timeline. Is out. He is out indefinitely. That's a
(29:52):
legitimate injury. Unlike so many of these NBA and injuries
which are not legitimate, but that is a legitimate injury.
And Victor Wembanyama was back to sucking for the San
Antonio Spurs after that mammoth performance in the Valley of
the Sun. He did zero zero three of twelve. That
(30:14):
is dreadful shooting zero for the guy that's supposed to
be the cheat code of the NBA, Victor wm Byama.
In a game the Spurs gave up one hundred and
fifty two points to the Indiana Pacers. It is the
Ben Malors Show. As we continue on and we go
to the phones, we'll say hello to say hi to
Jed who fled? Who's in the Sunshine State? Hello, Jed
(30:35):
who fled?
Speaker 3 (30:37):
You always gotta pay homage to the ones that came
before you. So in air, Bud Lulu's a donkey like
Buddy Hollywood flick with a with a whale scout involved
with a you know, I know something about blowing and
that prospect blows whale wise obviously within FCC regulations, Kay,
will you put your stamp up a rival on this?
(30:59):
Also when that when that when the donkey plays a
position better for it to play quarterback, than the position
of center, because he's like, what dumb mass would put
their hands under that ass's ass? You know what I mean?
I mean because because about.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
This j what about doing the toush push with a donkey,
an actual donkey on.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
The and the way he's de telling whether you're gonna
go to the left side of the right side, It
is like, because that's what dash words he.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Meant, that's what the fake you're you know what I'm
gonna I'm gonna put a donkey at quarterback and we're
gonna make you the offensive coordinator.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
We could call him, we could call him Peyton Manning Ben.
We could have him cheat to get all the records
that he take, you know, and we could have people
fall for him. And even though he has a Christina,
are you.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Saying, are you saying that Donkey's gonna have a wife
who's a drug mule? Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 3 (31:51):
And whenever he whenever they call it, they call it
dang what was it? Oh man, I can't my brain, dude.
It's like one of them sing alongs whenever you watch
the kids movie in the bar bounces along. And I
used to kick conjure words at that speed and now
it's just like a lot of blank spaces. But whenever
you do a tea bag and dude, you know the
tea bag and that he did, you know that he
did that the time.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
I'm so glad you were able to come up with
that word. I'm glad that you cooked that word up.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Well.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Usually, I didn't know you were a tea drinker. I
thought you liked the hard stuff. I had no idea
you were a teetotaling guy. All Right, I think, all right,
I gotta go. Thank got a murder.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
I gotta go.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
I'm gonna been that rada so dumb ass.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
That's right time. Nowt for the instant trivia. One of
the great disasters of the NFL in recent years. Bryce Young.
This guy is terrible and he became the fourth quarterback
in Panthers history to throw multiple pick sixes in a game.
Blank was the last Carolina quarterback to do it prior
to Bryce Young. Again, Bryce Young, in that game against
a mediocre Indianapolis team, became the fourth quarterback in Panthers
(32:53):
history to throw multiple pick sixes in the game. Blank
was the last Carolina quarterback to do it before Young.
That is the it Triviua the answer, We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
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Speaker 5 (33:17):
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You'll help this over Nightdingy, stay afloat and annoy the
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(33:38):
to Big Ban, here's.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
The answer tribute. Bryce Young, who by any measurement is bad,
became the fourth quarterback in Panthers history to throw multiple
pick sixes in a game. Blank was the last Panthers
quarterback to do it before Bryce Young? On Sunday, that
is the question, what is the answer? Listen? Does anyone
in the Mallard Militia?
Speaker 3 (34:02):
No?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
The answer page down Neo guest by Cowboy Killer Ross
Grimsley from Mister Nice Guy. Page down Jake Delome from
Matt the Warrior Raider Fan Blake Brockermeyer from Late Night
Drug Tester Woke Sam guest by Paully b. Marge Simpson
(34:26):
from Ferg Dog not to be confused with Ferg Cat.
Frank Reich from Eke and Roso Minnesota. Carry Collins guest
by Rory Jimmy Clauson tossed out by Chipping the Ques
Mark Messier from Shane and des Moines. Baker Mayfield guess
by just Josh Sonny Jurgensen, The great Carolina Panther quarterback
back in the day from Timmy Toledo. Who else we
(34:49):
have page down? The answer is Benny Hill guess by
the ace man cometh No. The correct answer Bryce Longing
the fourth coquarterback in Panthers history through multiple pick sixes
in the game. Brian Saint Pierre in twenty ten was
the last Carolina quarterback to do it before Bryce Young.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Over the weekend, it's Meller. How about that to the
third degree, This is one big Ben gets grailed Coop Dellu.
Speaker 10 (35:24):
After the loss to the Vikings, Falcons head coach Arthur
Smith said he wasn't going to name a starter for
next week. And that he'd have to evaluate. Ben, what's
the move here?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
They lost to a guy that had been with the
team for five days. There's nothing to evaluate right that
At this point you're polishing turds if you're Arthur Smith.
The coach Atlanta, Taylor Heineke is bad. But he's actually
about the same as Desmond Ritter, who's the other option
at quarterback. The other quarterback is Logan Woodside, late Tennessee
(35:53):
Titan quarterback. But there's the dungeon of doom the Titans
quarterback room there and Atlanta. Should you know what they
had to do is they had to cover their eyes
and play any meanie miney mo and then pick a
quarterback each week. That way, next.
Speaker 10 (36:07):
Daniel Jones towards acl on Sunday early in the loss
against the Raiders. Ben, do you think Jones ever starts
for the Giants again?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Should he start?
Speaker 2 (36:16):
No?
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Will he start? Yes? He will start again. And here's
the problem. The Giants have boxed themselves into a quarner.
I am a salary cap truther, or you can get
out of any contract you want. But the Giants don't
operate like I do. They believe the salary cap is legit,
and so Daniel Jones contract, the new deal he signed,
he can't. They can't get out of it till twenty
(36:37):
twenty five. There there's not an escape clause that opens
up until twenty twenty five. So Daniel Jones is going
to be on the roster and he will likely start
a game once he's able to come back, probably by
week seven or eight of next year, he will play
another game. It's terrible.
Speaker 10 (36:54):
Next Pud Rodriguez spoke with TMZ over the weekend and
called Bruce Bochi the best big game manager of all time?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Is he right? Well, he told TMC it must be true. No, listen,
I love Bochie, but that's hyperbole. Bochie is wonderful, He's great,
and all of those nice accolades for this generation, but
it just depends on what generation. I remember years ago,
everyone would suck the toes of Tony LaRussa and say
how great Larusa was. He was the greatest big game
(37:23):
manager of juggling the bullpen. Bochie's wonderful. I'm sure there
are guys before I was alive that were great, but
in his generation we can only judge him off his generation.
Bochie from when he managed the Padres, Giants and Rangers
is at the very top. There it is Mallard of
the third degree. How did we know that is a win?
Speaker 4 (37:43):
Put it on the mall who
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Won the game again again I won the game.
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