April 18, 2024 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Raptors F Jontay Porter getting a lifetime ban for gambling on basketball, if there is a lesson to be learned from this NBA gambling scandal, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our number two, Hour two.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
You can bet on it, but not if you're Johntay Porter.
The NBA has given the former Raptors Forward a lifetime
banishment for gambling. How do you react to that news? Also,
what do you surmise led Johntay Porter to a ride
on the dark side? And is there a lesson to
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be learned from this NBA gambling scandal? In depth team
coverage that you can rely on and you can wager
on on the big gambling scandal. Be smooth sailing for
us here. It is our number two. The final bet
you make is a losing bet.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Well gum in not beginning of another hour of the
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the sportsbook. This would be a much bigger story if
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it was about someone we've heard of. It's not. But
there is a pro bouncy ball bombshell scandal. And you
know how this works. We put a full court press,
we have in depth team coverage of scandal radio. There's
nothing we like more than a nice scandal. So if
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somehow you have missed it and you have not been
paying attention, it is conceivable that you actually have things
going on and you were not paying attention. So if
you missed it. NBA commissioner from somewhere outside the cosmos,
Adam Silver. Adam Silver has given the career death penalty
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to John tay Porter. That's a basketball player, not a
good one, not a good one, but a basketball player.
He gets a lifetime ban for breaking the cardinal rule
of professional sports. You don't bet on the sport that
you play in. You can't do it. It's taboo. Now
the league was able to collaborate those early Internet reports
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that we had talked about in previous episodes of the
show that he was on the Internet giving out picks
to people on discords. Wild right, he was actually doing
it now. Porter gave certain gamblers confidential information on Wall Street.
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They call it insider trading. It is kind of odd, though,
because the way it works on Wall Street. If you're
if you're just a regular person and you get insider information,
you go to jail for it. But if you're in
Congress you get rich from it. It's odd, very odd anyway.
So this kat por Porter, Jontay Porter, had been on
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Games even a team. He was associated with the Toronto Raptors.
He bet on the Raptors to lose Smart Man. All right,
so let us discuss the question you're unfamiliar. The an
b A has given Raptors forward John Tay Porter a
lifetime ban for gamling. How do you react to this news?
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So I've got Billy Madison, Kamakazi and Orwellian and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a slot machine, which is what John
day Porter can now play. He can play the penny
slots because he ain't gonna be making any money anytime soon.
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So number why all right, here we go lock these
things all together like a fourteen parlay. So full disclosure here,
full disclosure. As we had mentioned, we have never heard
or we had never heard of Johntay Porter before this
episode and reading the details of this pretty good reading,
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pretty good reading. He's got to be on the spectrum,
right what a pea brain? Porter giving better betters, random
betters information about his health prior to games. The eighty
thousand dollars bet was the Waterloo momentt So some jamoke,
some random dude bet eighty thousand dollars on John Day
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Porter that he would not reach his his statistics for
that game. The prop bets for that game and set
him in parlays through an online sportsbook. Didn't name the
sports book, but that bet would have won one point
one million dollars. I say would have because that was
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the game where Porter conveniently took himself out of the
game after only a few minutes, claiming illness, and none
of the stats met the totals that were required, so
the parlay would have won the bet, though they did
not cash the ticket because the people with the gambling
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house said wait, a minute, somebody bet eighty thousand dollars
on John day Porter. That must be somebody that knows
John day Porter, and so the bet was frozen and
not paid out. Back in the old days they used
to circle games. The game was circle, they'd limit how
much you could better. But that bet was frozen. And
at that moment, from what we understand, the gambling outfit
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contacted the NBA and said, hey, we we got something
that doesn't smell right here and something's not right, And
so the NBA started an investigation, but they actually started
it because of the gambling people, not because of their
own inside information, and that has led to the current
excommunication from the Church of pro Bouncy Ball. So John
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day Porter guy's twenty four years old, the young cat
twenty four years old, he placed at least thirteen bets.
I'm gonna say that he placed many more bets on
random NBA games using someone else's account, So at least
he attempted to hide it a little bit. But then
you see that he won on a discord and was
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giving out information about him when everyone else probably on
that discord, had no idea who he was. The bets
he made. This is the thing that pulls me. He
made bets ranging from fifteen dollars to twenty two thousand.
All together, the wagers, the thirteen wagers, he bet fifty
four thousand, ninety four dollars at least that's according to
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the story that's going around, and that generated a payout
of seventy six thousand dollars a little over that. So
he actually won twenty one thousand, nine hundred and sixty
five dollars. But the further you go down the rabbit hole,
this is a Billy Madison special. It is one of
the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard or read.
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John tay Porter earned four hundred and fifteen thousand dollars
this season to be a two way player. Let me
rebeat that for those of who have got four hundred
and fifteen thousand dollars. Where I come from your rich
at four hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. And in his
NBA career he has made almost three million dollars with
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Memphis and Toronto, and he flushed all of it away
to win twenty one almost twenty two thousand dollars. So
again I'm just in mal math here, but I don't
make It'm wrong. If you have a career that'll pay
you two point eight million. He probably could have hung
around for another two or three years and made another
four five hundred thousand dollars a year. So that's another
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million and a half dollars to do nothing, And instead
he was betting fifteen dollars one hundred dollars a couple
thousand dollars. He did win twenty one thousand, But if
you're gonna lose your entire career, shouldn't you bet more?
At no point did he have any rational thought? And
maybe I should get out of us. Everyone in the
room is now dumber for having heard about this. And
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as they said in Billy Madison, I ward you no
points you and may God have mercy on your soul.
Now page two here, as we continue in depth team coverage,
what do you surmise leg Johntay Porter on a ride
to the wild side or the dark side?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Here? So what?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Maybe he was a huge Pete Rose fan? Could he
have been buddies with Otani's interpreter. Is his favorite NFL
player a certain wide receiver that likes betting on parlays?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I'm just asking now. It is more likely than that,
based on what I know about gambling, that he's been
betting for a long time, and it's highly doubtful that
he just started betting when he got to the NBA.
I find that hard to believe. Now. Listen, obviously, these
people that have issues. You can get addicted to gambling,
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just like you can get addicted to alcohol, any kind
of vice. I was addicted to food. You can be
addicted to anything. A lot of human beings are prone
to and we're all wired the same way when it
comes to that. And so betting on the NBA, though,
while playing in the NBA is a mortal city. It's
a Kamakazi mission, is what it is. You know how
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it's going to end. It's like the meme and you
can get that chart out, f around and find out
completely unnecessary. Right, most people that are Jones and the gamble,
and I'm a gambler. It's about the action. Michael Jordan
was a prolific gambler. We believe he was suspended from
the NBA and sent to Birmingham to play baseball in
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the minor leagues because of his gambling problem. By David Stern,
but they hit it and it went to the grave.
With David Stern, that's a different conversation. But John day
Porter here if you're into it for the action, it
is allowed. NBA players and employees of the NBA are
allowed to bet on other sports outside the NBA if
it's legal where you are and so you can get
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your fixed. You can bet during basketball season. You can
bet on hockey games. You can bet on NFL games,
college football, you can bet on Major League Baseball games.
But if you bet on the NBA, you're a dumb ass.
Okay and listen. Igh like gambling. I have a TV show.
I had a TV show last year. Hopefully'll be back
this year. I don't know yet about gambling. We've talked
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a lot of gambling the show. I support it, But
I don't bet on Fox Sports Radio. I don't bet
against Fox Sports Radio. I don't bet on sports radio.
I don't. I've never placed a bet on the Sports
Hub in Boston, or the Fan in New York, or
AM five seventy in LA, or any of these stations.
I No, I don't bet on them.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
No.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I could bet a three team parlay, right, I could
bet a three team parlay on all these different affiliates
that we have around around the country, but no final point.
So is there a lesson to be learned from this
NBA gambling scandal. Of course there is. It's not going
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to be learned, but it is a teachable moment. The
NBA already mandates gambling training for all of their employees,
which is one of those corporate bull crap things. So
we don't want to get sued and we can say, hey,
we forced you to get training and you didn't do
what you were supposed to do and all that, but
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you can't sue us because we told you to do it.
But yeah, this is clearly a teachable moment. It is
Orwellian one oh one, Orwellian one o one in all
walks of life, Big brother is watching you. The PSA
copy that I've done over the years is right. They'll
see you before you see them. Sports gambling is no
different sports gambling companies. And they're great advertisers here and
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we love them. But they spend a lot of money,
right with surveillance monitoring everything, and they're watching for squiggly lines,
shall we say, they're they're looking for unusual things that
pop up on their computer screens, like, for example, somebody
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betting eighty thousand dollars on Johntay Porter on a random
Wednesday night. They're looking at things like that. And again,
in case you've lived in a shoe box your entire life,
they spend a ton of mucho to Naro to prevent
insider trading you see in the gambling world. And even
though I love to bet, the house usually wins, right,
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that's the frustrating part. The house usually wins. But they're
guaranteed solid profits just based on the juice the big
they're guaranteed pretty good profits. The only way they don't
get that is if things are crooked. If things are crooked,
the whole house of cards comes falling down. They fall
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into oblivion, kind of like Johntay Porter is going to
fall into oblivion oblivion at this particular point. It is
the Ben Malord Show. As we press on, you want
to talk about that good story there, Well, not for
Johntay Porter or the Porter family. For us, it's a
good story, and we'll take your call. Speakeasy rules in effect,
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there's a line opening on to grab it. It's got
your name on it. Just figure out how to call,
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And I pity the kitty pooh foo. I pity the
kitty poo foo. We'll get to that and we will.
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It's the Coop the Loop Justin Cooper, and he's at
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Speaker 1 (15:40):
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It's Ben Mallor, Markram Mike in Colorado. Right, Sandy says,
great second hour monologue seeing Adam Silver's minions actually punish
someone's Actually, he says, refreshing is the word he uses here,
Milkman Mike. Of course, he's also getting his orders from
his home planet. And I also had this epiphany when
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I was walking into the studio. I was like, if
this had been a medium to big name would have
gotten away with it, would have gotten away with it
because most of the name brand players have a fair
amount of action that are bet on their props each night.
But when you're John tay Porter, no one is betting
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on your props. So when somebody does bet eighty thousand dollars,
which in the big picture you're a major gambling house,
that's not that much money, but it raises a red flag, right,
You're like, well, wait a minute here, that doesn't smell right.
Ferg Dog says, take it from me. You don't need
to join a secret discord server to make money gambling. Now,
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he says, all I did was watch Benny Versus the Penny,
and I built myself a nice little nest egg. Thanks Ben,
I'm very kind of you for Dog, and I did
much to the dismay of the producers of Benny Versus
the Penny beat the Penny on that show down goes
to Penny. It took though to the final couple weeks,
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and I was getting I was getting my ass kicked
at one point by the penny. Mallard prop guy writes,
and he says, thank you for another great mala mologue
regarding industry bands for gambling within the industry. Have you
had any Malard militia members banned over the years because
of insider information training trading? Which of your militia leaders
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exempt from this style of punishment? And then he sends
a clue on who that might be. Yeah, we might
have just mentioned the the person's name. We've only issued
one lifetime ban. We didn't plan on it being a
lifetime ban at the time. But there's one person that
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was banned for life. Flash. Do you remember who Eddie
we banned turned out first wife?
Speaker 9 (18:15):
Yeah, guy that called up from New York quite a bit.
But he's not calling anymore.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Homer, he calls, he writes it. He says, if John
day Porter had saved any money, I don't think he'd
be gambling on NBA games. This smells of desperation, especially
with the chump change. He used to place bets. I seldom, seldom,
he says, play the daily four numbers. But when I do,
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I places an off. So in the minute chance, my
new chance I win. It's fifty thousand dollars. Yeah, but remember, Homer,
as you know with the lottery, when you bet and
win fifty thousand dollars, you are immediately giving half that
back to Uncle Sam. So that's that's what you got
YOUAPHEMI in Chicago says, got to be hard not to
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bet on sports radio. I would be betting on a
host that you're very familiar with to have the stupid
take of the day, especially with insider information. Yeah right,
there's a lot of people who are in the running
for worst takes, and normally what happens. The worse your
take is, the better it is for you, the more
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publicity that you get. There is clout in the bad take.
There is clout in the bad take. Let's call the phones.
We'll say hello to Norman, the nomad in the great
state of Maine. Hello Norman.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Well, hello, and my name is not Blair. Let's make
that you know what. I just spent five years in
jail and I've been money on the phone for two hours.
Is the longest two hours of my life?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Wait? Wait, wait, you know in jail. It was a
long time in jail for five years.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Let me tell you. Let me tell you something, Ben Maurf.
You you wanted to save it for all the people
up in there. Man. You know what, We.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Listened to you every night by thanks, well, thank you.
I listen, and I want the record to show. In
the radio business, you know, I don't know who the
most listened to person in radio right now, sports radio.
Maybe it's Colin cow Heard. I don't know somebody else,
but do we not, Norman dominate the prison cells. Right,
we're the king of the prison yard. I could go
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into any prison, Norman and uh and the boys would
treat me like a king. You see, Eddie, I don't
have to worry about dropping the soap because everyone will
be like your gud. We like that.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
But we know.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
What he said.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
He said that Cooper was a liar, liarer of pants
on fires.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
No, yeah, well watch out now, Norman, because Coop will
give you the claw and you don't want the claw,
all right, because no one survives the call.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Don't give you a car.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
So so, Norman, you were you in jail in Maine
or some other.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Place, don't you worry about it?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Okay, I will not worry about at all. But you're
out now, are you? Are you planning on staying away
from the Great Bar Hotel? That's okay. I think he's
gonna be back. I think I think you'll be back. Yeah,
or anything else you want to say, You're you were
on hold for a while, or anything else you want
to say.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
But yeah, you know what, I could be violent. But
because they just shave up from the various.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
People and the U M yeah, yeah, very yeah, exactly.
You got jokes Norman, Norman and Norman. Are you gonna
stay in Maine? You're gonna go somewhere. So none of
my business, right, none of my business.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
I'm an know man, all right.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Lorena has a question. She wants to know what you're
in for. What you're in jail for.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
I'm a thief.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Oh you're a thief. Yeah, I thought they don't.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
You should go to California. They don't arrest people this
steal stuff in California. You can just get right back out.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Well, I've been in May and streets take you out
and it's just like a bottle of whisky or something.
You know.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Oh really, Oh you could go to call you to California.
You go into a petty off. Come on, come to California, sir.
You can literally steal anything you want in these stores
of the malls and they don't care. They just walk
out with the stuff. You're good. Yeah, they don't care anymore. Uh. No,
Eddie's got a place you want to stay with Eddie. Eddie,
you got a room right at Cossa Garcia. Nope, this
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guy seems pretty good. There's a really nice bench out front.
There's a nice bench. Oh yeah, there you go. All right,
all right, well no, you seem like a fun guy.
Thanks for remembering me when you got out of jail
there and then try not to go back.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Let me tell you, guys man bugging you know what
you guys do will Man?
Speaker 10 (23:07):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Oh, thank you, Norman. I appreciate it. I knew an this.
I appreciate that. Hey, we're we're on in the middle
of Lized. Anybody that's listening. I mean, I know, guys
make mistakes in life, and uh, you know, as long
as you don't keep doing it, we're good. You're doing
your time, you're paying your price, get out, you know,
don't don't f up, treat other people nicely and all that.
We're good. That's that's all I'm saying. Anyway, that reminds
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me we we had a guy from Charlotte. Thing was
it last week? I think it was last week you
got out. I'll say a big thing. First thing you
do when you get out of jail, you call the
mallor show. That's the first thing. Well, there's probably something
else you do in between. But then then then after
you do that, then you called the show. It's very important,
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very very important. It is the Ben Malor Show. As
we can do, we do have to ask Ben coming
up next hour. So if you want to send a
question in right now, just use the hashtag as Ben
on x and we will possibly use your question all
the year. Who knows, we might we might not.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
Saw this story from college football. Steve Sarkisian, the head
football coach at the University of Texas, revealed that he
did consider replacing Nick Saban in Alabama. He says for
about sixty seconds. Then he realized he had unfinished business
there in Texas and wanted to continue with the Longhorns.
So I'm reading this story and I'm waiting for the
part that says that he was actually offered the job,
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and I never saw that he was actually offered the
job by Alabama. So apparently he turned down a job
that he was never offered, which is really, really, really
amazing of him to do such a thing.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
You know how these things work, Dye that usually they
go through back channels and they say, if we were
to offer you the job, would you take the job
because they don't like to be embarrassed when people turn
them down. So fun fact, Eddie, when I was at
the Great Saddleback College on the Mighty KSBR, which no
longer really exists anymore because it's teamed up with the
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cal State North Roote radio station. But what yeah, they
partnered up years ago. But when I was there, it
was his own standalone radio station. And so I did
the football games for the for the station, and we
did a game at El Camino College and the quarterback
for El Camino College was Steve Sarkisian. There's a fun fact.
Speaker 8 (25:29):
Well, I'm when I was at Fresno State. He was
the quarterback at BUYU when they played the Bulldogs at.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
The Bulldogs Stadiums World. It's a small throw the old
pig skin around. Oh look at that, Eddie connected. There's
a connection there. It is the Ben Mallor Show as
we roll on through these overnight hours, and oh what
a story it is. Did you see Jason Kelsey, that's
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the less famous of the Kelsey brothers. He's not the
one stooping the rock star. So Jason Kelsey says that
he lost his Super Bowl ring. Did you see where
he lost the super Bowl ring? Eddie, did you see?
Speaker 8 (26:06):
I did not?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
He lost his super Bowl do you think? Let me
just ask you where do you think he lost the
super Bowl ring?
Speaker 8 (26:12):
He left it at a restaurant.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
It's something that could happen. Did anyone else see the story?
Did any of you want to play? Loraina? I want
to guess that he lost it while dumpster diving. That's good.
A lot of football players like to dive in dumpsters.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
Like with their super Bowl rings on.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yes, that is that's usually what happened. Coop, you want
to take a shot at this? Here I saw this. Oh,
Coop's out all right, So he's out. So Jason Kelsey
lost his super Bowl ring in a kiddie pool filled
with Skyline chili for a podcast stunt that they were doing,
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and he's he has not been able to find it.
He believes the super Bowl ring was taken to a landfill.
So there's something about this story that does not make
sen I agree. Right, if you lost your super Bowl
ring and you know you lost it in a bowl
of chili, the chili, but yes, a big kiddie pools
(27:10):
like a big bowl of chili. What kind of party
is he at? Well, it was they were doing a podcast.
You know, these are the old things we seen in
the radio at remotes back in the old days. We
do these dopey things that we used to. So you
have also been in a pool of chili, Ben No,
I have dressed in a toga on Westwood Boulevard. I
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interviewed the people at a Jiffy Lube, which is a
in the pit of a Jiffy Lube while they were
repairing a car. I did that for a remote mechanical
bowl on the Sunset Strip. I forget the name. I
think that place is still there.
Speaker 9 (27:47):
Actually, it's a mechanical bull at one of the bars
on the Sunset Strip in La I did some crazy
crap back in the day.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
But anyway, so they did. But if you lost the
super Bowl ring and you're aware, Hey, you're you're cognizant.
I lost the super Bowl ring and you know it's
in the kiddie pool of chili. You know, if you
don't get a metal detective, you'll boom, You'll get it right.
Speaker 8 (28:07):
Yes, of course, it doesn't seem that hard to find
a super Bowl ring. And he even a giant bowl of.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Chili roll again, idiot.
Speaker 8 (28:14):
Plus, what is he doing wearing a Super Bowl ring?
Speaker 10 (28:17):
I know.
Speaker 8 (28:17):
I mean we've been around athletes who have had Super
Bowl rings. They don't wear them unless they're going to
some fancy place to show it off.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
One of my memories on that Phil Jackson. I used
to go out, believe it or not, I went the
Laker games when Phil Jackson was coaching the Lakers, and
Phil used to complain when they were winning championships. And
this goes back to his day in Chicago. He said,
these things, the rings were so big you can't wear them,
and everyone wants to win a championship ring. And then
they sit in a safety deposit box, which is where
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most people and they bring them out for like rare
and appropriate occasions and if you come back to an
alumni night or something, you'll you'll wear the ring. But
this guy, he only has one ring too. Well, they
don't give you two. Well, I mean he's only one
one super Bowl, right yeah, with the Eagles with Nick Foles. Right, Well,
that was the one. I think that's the old They
didn't win any other one, correct, Yeah they lost. Wow. Yeah,
(29:09):
He's been to a couple, but that was the one
that they want, but they can. They can remake it.
They know how to make it. They can. They can
slip it together anyway. It is the Ben Marshall. Let's say, hello,
speaking of a guy that's a prison expert. And one
thing about this show, you got to have an expert
in every field. We have a prison expert. Jed who
fled and Jed. This guy called us right when he
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got out of jail, and he's still calling us all
these years later. Hello, Jed who fled in Florida.
Speaker 10 (29:35):
Man, I'd like to hear I'd like to hear the
apology of jail in prison.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I know, I know, I know you. I know you've.
Speaker 10 (29:45):
Got You've got to learn the jailed individual showers than
prison not so much. Okaya believe he might be a restrictibus.
I I'm thinking he might be going back. And if
I heard earlier, dude was saying that the human beings
(30:05):
are predisposed on this art to addictions. I just right
with a stunter to me, dude, I just want to
figure out there struggling with that. Dude, that's embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yeah, well, Je, you have embraced your addiction and you
are writing the title wave of your addiction on a
nightly basis.
Speaker 10 (30:20):
Ben, You know, I listen to your show. I mean,
you know what the root board of addiction is right there.
I mean, just like the first that letter, you're you're, you're,
you're just studily at that. You don't like you don't
like gambling, then you love gambling. Think about the callers
you put on your show and that which determines your livelihood.
I mean, that's that's what's amazing. You got like stuck
a bit, like trying to get what Marcelle eats or
that sort of thing, or if Eddie gonna go shoat
(30:43):
this week on the game, or if I'm gonna show
up to knock the guns, and those are those that.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Yeah, yeah, that is true. There's a lot of prop
bets on the show. The boys like them. The guys
in prison love them. Not jail because jail. Ye as
you said, you're only in jail for a short amount
of time. With the prison, we do, we do well
in the prisons.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
It is much.
Speaker 10 (31:00):
I will say that everybody in jail was always like
I can't wait get the prison. I'm like what, but
like you get drugs in there and stuff like that.
I'm like y'all are way way too you're too much,
you know, keen on. You know that you're gonna spend
a lot of your chuge of times in cars radio,
and I don't think that's a good thing. Lorena, Lorena Loretto,
I can't ever remember it with ourselves. Where can we
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find archives?
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I want to do.
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We need to be able to find the Ben Malase
Show musical archives because she doesn't know how talented is
like Eminem's but you stand up with.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Real Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I don't know where
it is. We got to find it for and she's
got to want to play it. But we do have
so many songs. I don't want those songs to go away.
So I want to make sure we play at least
one a night, and maybe we'll do some you know
this is great? How about theme nights?
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I love theme nights. That's hokey radio. That's cheese ball
cornball radio.
Speaker 10 (31:48):
How about theme knights? And then I love fem knights.
Right after dude, You're you're dead?
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Who playing?
Speaker 10 (31:51):
You're answering your own questions without drugs? That's not good.
I think we should do a new Secret Agent man,
but just in a says to that, You're like, there's
a man who lives a life of anger.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Oh yeah, you gotta have crug. Just Justin's not come down.
Speaker 10 (32:06):
You're going on.
Speaker 9 (32:08):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Justin's not angry. That's just that he's got one default
position and he he goes at it like a buzzsaw.
That's what he does. And that's it, like just a
buzz saw. So OJ, it appears that he he did
what I thought he did and what I'd heard he
(32:30):
was going to do. U. He before he died, he
moved all of his money elsewhere. Uh, the tabloids say O. J.
Simpson died with less than five figures in his bank
account and the estate the executor of the estate, they're
claiming less than five figures, less than a million dollars
(32:52):
if you look at the real estate and all that.
So the rumor was that he had moved. He was
in hospice for the last couple months, and he before
he really got bad, really bad, he moves dis suppose
he moves some money around. OJ will not be coming back.
He has been cremated. TMZ had that great story to
have there on TMZ And there will be no public
(33:13):
memorial for OJ, so you will not be able to
go out and mourn publicly. The loss of of OJ devastating.
We got Mallard of the third degree. That's warm it up.
Time now for the instant trivia. The Red Sox ten
Or Hawk became the first big league pitcher to toss
(33:33):
a nine plus strikeout they call a Mattox nine plus
innings complete game shutout under one hundred pitches in one
fifty or less. That's an hour and fifty minutes or less.
Since blank, Again a lot of moving parts. Red Sox
pitcher ten Or Hawk became the first big league pitcher
to toss nine or more strikeouts have nine or more
strikeouts in a Mattix second nine plus innings complete game
(33:54):
shutout under one hundred pitches in an hour and fifty
or less. Since blank. That's the instant trivia, the answer
and Maler to the third degree next.
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And time now for the Insta trivia. The Red Sox
pitcher tenor how you became the first big league pitcher
to toss a nine plus strikeout Matt X. That's nine
or more innings, complete game, shutout, under one hundred pitchers
in an hour and fifty or less since blank. That
is the Insta trivia. What is the answer? With mal
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to the third degree? Warming up in the bullpen right
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Go to see Scott back. Randy Jones from Double O Mexican. Eddie,
do you have an answer at a No? The last
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person to do it?
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Why?
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Greg Maddis himself back in ninety five. I wasn't even
alive in nineteen ninety five. That's amazing. Here we go,
Here we go, Heller, how about that? To the third degree?
This is one big gets grilled coop Dalu.
Speaker 11 (36:19):
According to reports, the NBA is considering using the in
season tournament as the first tiebreaker for playoff seeding next year. Ben,
how'd you feel about this idea?
Speaker 1 (36:29):
All right? So I put this in the same category
with when Bud Celix said this time it counts for
the All Star Game. It's so stupid, it's so dumb.
You know, the nd season tournament is lame. You're you're
trying to give it some substance when it shouldn't. It
shouldn't even exist. It's so ridiculous. In the in the
Annals of bad Ideas, Adam Silver is like the king
(36:51):
of a bad idea. Just stop stop.
Speaker 11 (36:55):
Next, Lebron James revealed on the most recent episode of
his HBO show that he is still salty about not
getting an NBA Defensive Player of the Year award in
his career, and he said that he should have got
it in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Is he right? Ben? Well, Coop, as you know it's
twenty twenty four. You want me to go back and
watch every game of twenty thirty thirteen. No, here's my memory. Okay,
here's my memory of Lebron in that era. As a defender,
he was a selectively good defender. There are a lot
of the game, a lot of the game he would
just kind of lag, and then their select plays he
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would make amazing plays at highlight plays that he would
end up on Sports Center back where people used to
watch that. But I don't ever remember him a consistently
great shutdown defender. So I'm gonna say Lebron's full of crap.
Speaker 11 (37:40):
Next, the NBA media is upset that they were unable
to vote for Nick s gard Dante Devincenzo for the
most Improved Player because he was ineligible. Even though Devincenzo
played in eighty one games, many of those that he
played were less than twenty minutes, which is apparently the
minimum requirement for the game to count towards that threshold.
Then is this something that needs to be tweaked?
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Oh, I mean, it's great he played anyone games, but
if you're if you're playing less than twenty minutes a game,
there's forty eight minutes in the game, so you're not
even playing half the game.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Like what are we doing here? Like what what the
hell are we doing here? And how do we don't
come out?
Speaker 1 (38:15):
You failed this edition? What are you talking about? For
what reason? Your last two answers sucks? They were great
At Lebron was a selective defender.
Hello and welcome.
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It's our number two, Hour two.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
You can bet on it, but not if you're Johntay Porter.
The NBA has given the former Raptors Forward a lifetime
banishment for gambling. How do you react to that news? Also,
what do you surmise led Johntay Porter to a ride
on the dark side? And is there a lesson to
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be learned from this NBA gambling scandal? In depth team
coverage that you can rely on and you can wager
on on the big gambling scandal. Be smooth sailing for
us here. It is our number two. The final bet
you make is a losing bet.
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it was about someone we've heard of. It's not. But
there is a pro bouncy ball bombshell scandal. And you
know how this works. We put a full court press,
we have in depth team coverage of scandal radio. There's
nothing we like more than a nice scandal. So if
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somehow you have missed it and you have not been
paying attention, it is conceivable that you actually have things
going on and you were not paying attention. So if
you missed it. NBA commissioner from somewhere outside the cosmos,
Adam Silver. Adam Silver has given the career death penalty
(02:43):
to John tay Porter. That's a basketball player, not a
good one, not a good one, but a basketball player.
He gets a lifetime ban for breaking the cardinal rule
of professional sports. You don't bet on the sport that
you play in. You can't do it. It's taboo. Now
the league was able to collaborate those early Internet reports
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that we had talked about in previous episodes of the
show that he was on the Internet giving out picks
to people on discords. Wild right, he was actually doing
it now. Porter gave certain gamblers confidential information on Wall Street.
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They call it insider trading. It is kind of odd, though,
because the way it works on Wall Street. If you're
if you're just a regular person and you get insider information,
you go to jail for it. But if you're in
Congress you get rich from it. It's odd, very odd anyway.
So this kat por Porter, Jontay Porter, had been on
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Games even a team. He was associated with the Toronto Raptors.
He bet on the Raptors to lose Smart Man. All right,
so let us discuss the question you're unfamiliar. The an
b A has given Raptors forward John Tay Porter a
lifetime ban for gamling. How do you react to this news?
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So I've got Billy Madison, Kamakazi and Orwellian and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a slot machine, which is what John
day Porter can now play. He can play the penny
slots because he ain't gonna be making any money anytime soon.
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So number why all right, here we go lock these
things all together like a fourteen parlay. So full disclosure here,
full disclosure. As we had mentioned, we have never heard
or we had never heard of Johntay Porter before this
episode and reading the details of this pretty good reading,
(04:52):
pretty good reading. He's got to be on the spectrum,
right what a pea brain? Porter giving better betters, random
betters information about his health prior to games. The eighty
thousand dollars bet was the Waterloo momentt So some jamoke,
some random dude bet eighty thousand dollars on John Day
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Porter that he would not reach his his statistics for
that game. The prop bets for that game and set
him in parlays through an online sportsbook. Didn't name the
sports book, but that bet would have won one point
one million dollars. I say would have because that was
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the game where Porter conveniently took himself out of the
game after only a few minutes, claiming illness, and none
of the stats met the totals that were required, so
the parlay would have won the bet, though they did
not cash the ticket because the people with the gambling
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house said wait, a minute, somebody bet eighty thousand dollars
on John day Porter. That must be somebody that knows
John day Porter, and so the bet was frozen and
not paid out. Back in the old days they used
to circle games. The game was circle, they'd limit how
much you could better. But that bet was frozen. And
at that moment, from what we understand, the gambling outfit
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contacted the NBA and said, hey, we we got something
that doesn't smell right here and something's not right, And
so the NBA started an investigation, but they actually started
it because of the gambling people, not because of their
own inside information, and that has led to the current
excommunication from the Church of pro Bouncy Ball. So John
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day Porter guy's twenty four years old, the young cat
twenty four years old, he placed at least thirteen bets.
I'm gonna say that he placed many more bets on
random NBA games using someone else's account, So at least
he attempted to hide it a little bit. But then
you see that he won on a discord and was
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giving out information about him when everyone else probably on
that discord, had no idea who he was. The bets
he made. This is the thing that pulls me. He
made bets ranging from fifteen dollars to twenty two thousand.
All together, the wagers, the thirteen wagers, he bet fifty
four thousand, ninety four dollars at least that's according to
(07:27):
the story that's going around, and that generated a payout
of seventy six thousand dollars a little over that. So
he actually won twenty one thousand, nine hundred and sixty
five dollars. But the further you go down the rabbit hole,
this is a Billy Madison special. It is one of
the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard or read.
(07:51):
John tay Porter earned four hundred and fifteen thousand dollars
this season to be a two way player. Let me
rebeat that for those of who have got four hundred
and fifteen thousand dollars. Where I come from your rich
at four hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. And in his
NBA career he has made almost three million dollars with
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Memphis and Toronto, and he flushed all of it away
to win twenty one almost twenty two thousand dollars. So
again I'm just in mal math here, but I don't
make It'm wrong. If you have a career that'll pay
you two point eight million. He probably could have hung
around for another two or three years and made another
four five hundred thousand dollars a year. So that's another
(08:34):
million and a half dollars to do nothing, And instead
he was betting fifteen dollars one hundred dollars a couple
thousand dollars. He did win twenty one thousand, But if
you're gonna lose your entire career, shouldn't you bet more?
At no point did he have any rational thought? And
maybe I should get out of us. Everyone in the
room is now dumber for having heard about this. And
(08:57):
as they said in Billy Madison, I ward you no
points you and may God have mercy on your soul.
Now page two here, as we continue in depth team coverage,
what do you surmise leg Johntay Porter on a ride
to the wild side or the dark side?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Here? So what?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Maybe he was a huge Pete Rose fan? Could he
have been buddies with Otani's interpreter. Is his favorite NFL
player a certain wide receiver that likes betting on parlays?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I'm just asking now. It is more likely than that,
based on what I know about gambling, that he's been
betting for a long time, and it's highly doubtful that
he just started betting when he got to the NBA.
I find that hard to believe. Now. Listen, obviously, these
people that have issues. You can get addicted to gambling,
(09:51):
just like you can get addicted to alcohol, any kind
of vice. I was addicted to food. You can be
addicted to anything. A lot of human beings are prone
to and we're all wired the same way when it
comes to that. And so betting on the NBA, though,
while playing in the NBA is a mortal city. It's
a Kamakazi mission, is what it is. You know how
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it's going to end. It's like the meme and you
can get that chart out, f around and find out
completely unnecessary. Right, most people that are Jones and the gamble,
and I'm a gambler. It's about the action. Michael Jordan
was a prolific gambler. We believe he was suspended from
the NBA and sent to Birmingham to play baseball in
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the minor leagues because of his gambling problem. By David Stern,
but they hit it and it went to the grave.
With David Stern, that's a different conversation. But John day
Porter here if you're into it for the action, it
is allowed. NBA players and employees of the NBA are
allowed to bet on other sports outside the NBA if
it's legal where you are and so you can get
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your fixed. You can bet during basketball season. You can
bet on hockey games. You can bet on NFL games,
college football, you can bet on Major League Baseball games.
But if you bet on the NBA, you're a dumb ass.
Okay and listen. Igh like gambling. I have a TV show.
I had a TV show last year. Hopefully'll be back
this year. I don't know yet about gambling. We've talked
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a lot of gambling the show. I support it, But
I don't bet on Fox Sports Radio. I don't bet
against Fox Sports Radio. I don't bet on sports radio.
I don't. I've never placed a bet on the Sports
Hub in Boston, or the Fan in New York, or
AM five seventy in LA, or any of these stations.
I No, I don't bet on them.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
No.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I could bet a three team parlay, right, I could
bet a three team parlay on all these different affiliates
that we have around around the country, but no final point.
So is there a lesson to be learned from this
NBA gambling scandal. Of course there is. It's not going
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to be learned, but it is a teachable moment. The
NBA already mandates gambling training for all of their employees,
which is one of those corporate bull crap things. So
we don't want to get sued and we can say, hey,
we forced you to get training and you didn't do
what you were supposed to do and all that, but
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you can't sue us because we told you to do it.
But yeah, this is clearly a teachable moment. It is
Orwellian one oh one, Orwellian one o one in all
walks of life, Big brother is watching you. The PSA
copy that I've done over the years is right. They'll
see you before you see them. Sports gambling is no
different sports gambling companies. And they're great advertisers here and
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we love them. But they spend a lot of money,
right with surveillance monitoring everything, and they're watching for squiggly lines,
shall we say, they're they're looking for unusual things that
pop up on their computer screens, like, for example, somebody
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betting eighty thousand dollars on Johntay Porter on a random
Wednesday night. They're looking at things like that. And again,
in case you've lived in a shoe box your entire life,
they spend a ton of mucho to Naro to prevent
insider trading you see in the gambling world. And even
though I love to bet, the house usually wins, right,
(13:27):
that's the frustrating part. The house usually wins. But they're
guaranteed solid profits just based on the juice the big
they're guaranteed pretty good profits. The only way they don't
get that is if things are crooked. If things are crooked,
the whole house of cards comes falling down. They fall
(13:48):
into oblivion, kind of like Johntay Porter is going to
fall into oblivion oblivion at this particular point. It is
the Ben Malord Show. As we press on, you want
to talk about that good story there, Well, not for
Johntay Porter or the Porter family. For us, it's a
good story, and we'll take your call. Speakeasy rules in effect,
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there's a line opening on to grab it. It's got
your name on it. Just figure out how to call,
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It's Ben Mallor, Markram Mike in Colorado. Right, Sandy says,
great second hour monologue seeing Adam Silver's minions actually punish
someone's Actually, he says, refreshing is the word he uses here,
Milkman Mike. Of course, he's also getting his orders from
his home planet. And I also had this epiphany when
(16:17):
I was walking into the studio. I was like, if
this had been a medium to big name would have
gotten away with it, would have gotten away with it
because most of the name brand players have a fair
amount of action that are bet on their props each night.
But when you're John tay Porter, no one is betting
(16:40):
on your props. So when somebody does bet eighty thousand dollars,
which in the big picture you're a major gambling house,
that's not that much money, but it raises a red flag, right,
You're like, well, wait a minute here, that doesn't smell right.
Ferg Dog says, take it from me. You don't need
to join a secret discord server to make money gambling. Now,
(17:04):
he says, all I did was watch Benny Versus the Penny,
and I built myself a nice little nest egg. Thanks Ben,
I'm very kind of you for Dog, and I did
much to the dismay of the producers of Benny Versus
the Penny beat the Penny on that show down goes
to Penny. It took though to the final couple weeks,
(17:25):
and I was getting I was getting my ass kicked
at one point by the penny. Mallard prop guy writes,
and he says, thank you for another great mala mologue
regarding industry bands for gambling within the industry. Have you
had any Malard militia members banned over the years because
of insider information training trading? Which of your militia leaders
(17:47):
exempt from this style of punishment? And then he sends
a clue on who that might be. Yeah, we might
have just mentioned the the person's name. We've only issued
one lifetime ban. We didn't plan on it being a
lifetime ban at the time. But there's one person that
(18:07):
was banned for life. Flash. Do you remember who Eddie
we banned turned out first wife?
Speaker 9 (18:15):
Yeah, guy that called up from New York quite a bit.
But he's not calling anymore.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Homer, he calls, he writes it. He says, if John
day Porter had saved any money, I don't think he'd
be gambling on NBA games. This smells of desperation, especially
with the chump change. He used to place bets. I seldom, seldom,
he says, play the daily four numbers. But when I do,
(18:42):
I places an off. So in the minute chance, my
new chance I win. It's fifty thousand dollars. Yeah, but remember, Homer,
as you know with the lottery, when you bet and
win fifty thousand dollars, you are immediately giving half that
back to Uncle Sam. So that's that's what you got
YOUAPHEMI in Chicago says, got to be hard not to
(19:04):
bet on sports radio. I would be betting on a
host that you're very familiar with to have the stupid
take of the day, especially with insider information. Yeah right,
there's a lot of people who are in the running
for worst takes, and normally what happens. The worse your
take is, the better it is for you, the more
(19:26):
publicity that you get. There is clout in the bad take.
There is clout in the bad take. Let's call the phones.
We'll say hello to Norman, the nomad in the great
state of Maine. Hello Norman.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Well, hello, and my name is not Blair. Let's make
that you know what. I just spent five years in
jail and I've been money on the phone for two hours.
Is the longest two hours of my life?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Wait? Wait, wait, you know in jail. It was a
long time in jail for five years.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Let me tell you. Let me tell you something, Ben Maurf.
You you wanted to save it for all the people
up in there. Man. You know what, We.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Listened to you every night by thanks, well, thank you.
I listen, and I want the record to show. In
the radio business, you know, I don't know who the
most listened to person in radio right now, sports radio.
Maybe it's Colin cow Heard. I don't know somebody else,
but do we not, Norman dominate the prison cells. Right,
we're the king of the prison yard. I could go
(20:33):
into any prison, Norman and uh and the boys would
treat me like a king. You see, Eddie, I don't
have to worry about dropping the soap because everyone will
be like your gud. We like that.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
But we know.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
What he said.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
He said that Cooper was a liar, liarer of pants
on fires.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
No, yeah, well watch out now, Norman, because Coop will
give you the claw and you don't want the claw,
all right, because no one survives the call.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Don't give you a car.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
So so, Norman, you were you in jail in Maine
or some other.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Place, don't you worry about it?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Okay, I will not worry about at all. But you're
out now, are you? Are you planning on staying away
from the Great Bar Hotel? That's okay. I think he's
gonna be back. I think I think you'll be back. Yeah,
or anything else you want to say, You're you were
on hold for a while, or anything else you want
to say.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
But yeah, you know what, I could be violent. But
because they just shave up from the various.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
People and the U M yeah, yeah, very yeah, exactly.
You got jokes Norman, Norman and Norman. Are you gonna
stay in Maine? You're gonna go somewhere. So none of
my business, right, none of my business.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
I'm an know man, all right.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Lorena has a question. She wants to know what you're
in for. What you're in jail for.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
I'm a thief.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Oh you're a thief. Yeah, I thought they don't.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
You should go to California. They don't arrest people this
steal stuff in California. You can just get right back out.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Well, I've been in May and streets take you out
and it's just like a bottle of whisky or something.
You know.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Oh really, Oh you could go to call you to California.
You go into a petty off. Come on, come to California, sir.
You can literally steal anything you want in these stores
of the malls and they don't care. They just walk
out with the stuff. You're good. Yeah, they don't care anymore. Uh. No,
Eddie's got a place you want to stay with Eddie. Eddie,
you got a room right at Cossa Garcia. Nope, this
(22:48):
guy seems pretty good. There's a really nice bench out front.
There's a nice bench. Oh yeah, there you go. All right,
all right, well no, you seem like a fun guy.
Thanks for remembering me when you got out of jail
there and then try not to go back.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Let me tell you, guys man bugging you know what
you guys do will Man?
Speaker 10 (23:07):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Oh, thank you, Norman. I appreciate it. I knew an this.
I appreciate that. Hey, we're we're on in the middle
of Lized. Anybody that's listening. I mean, I know, guys
make mistakes in life, and uh, you know, as long
as you don't keep doing it, we're good. You're doing
your time, you're paying your price, get out, you know,
don't don't f up, treat other people nicely and all that.
We're good. That's that's all I'm saying. Anyway, that reminds
(23:30):
me we we had a guy from Charlotte. Thing was
it last week? I think it was last week you
got out. I'll say a big thing. First thing you
do when you get out of jail, you call the
mallor show. That's the first thing. Well, there's probably something
else you do in between. But then then then after
you do that, then you called the show. It's very important,
(23:51):
very very important. It is the Ben Malor Show. As
we can do, we do have to ask Ben coming
up next hour. So if you want to send a
question in right now, just use the hashtag as Ben
on x and we will possibly use your question all
the year. Who knows, we might we might not.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
Saw this story from college football. Steve Sarkisian, the head
football coach at the University of Texas, revealed that he
did consider replacing Nick Saban in Alabama. He says for
about sixty seconds. Then he realized he had unfinished business
there in Texas and wanted to continue with the Longhorns.
So I'm reading this story and I'm waiting for the
part that says that he was actually offered the job,
(24:37):
and I never saw that he was actually offered the
job by Alabama. So apparently he turned down a job
that he was never offered, which is really, really, really
amazing of him to do such a thing.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
You know how these things work, Dye that usually they
go through back channels and they say, if we were
to offer you the job, would you take the job
because they don't like to be embarrassed when people turn
them down. So fun fact, Eddie, when I was at
the Great Saddleback College on the Mighty KSBR, which no
longer really exists anymore because it's teamed up with the
(25:09):
cal State North Roote radio station. But what yeah, they
partnered up years ago. But when I was there, it
was his own standalone radio station. And so I did
the football games for the for the station, and we
did a game at El Camino College and the quarterback
for El Camino College was Steve Sarkisian. There's a fun fact.
Speaker 8 (25:29):
Well, I'm when I was at Fresno State. He was
the quarterback at BUYU when they played the Bulldogs at.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
The Bulldogs Stadiums World. It's a small throw the old
pig skin around. Oh look at that, Eddie connected. There's
a connection there. It is the Ben Mallor Show as
we roll on through these overnight hours, and oh what
a story it is. Did you see Jason Kelsey, that's
(25:54):
the less famous of the Kelsey brothers. He's not the
one stooping the rock star. So Jason Kelsey says that
he lost his Super Bowl ring. Did you see where
he lost the super Bowl ring? Eddie, did you see?
Speaker 8 (26:06):
I did not?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
He lost his super Bowl do you think? Let me
just ask you where do you think he lost the
super Bowl ring?
Speaker 8 (26:12):
He left it at a restaurant.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
It's something that could happen. Did anyone else see the story?
Did any of you want to play? Loraina? I want
to guess that he lost it while dumpster diving. That's good.
A lot of football players like to dive in dumpsters.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
Like with their super Bowl rings on.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yes, that is that's usually what happened. Coop, you want
to take a shot at this? Here I saw this. Oh,
Coop's out all right, So he's out. So Jason Kelsey
lost his super Bowl ring in a kiddie pool filled
with Skyline chili for a podcast stunt that they were doing,
(26:49):
and he's he has not been able to find it.
He believes the super Bowl ring was taken to a landfill.
So there's something about this story that does not make
sen I agree. Right, if you lost your super Bowl
ring and you know you lost it in a bowl
of chili, the chili, but yes, a big kiddie pools
(27:10):
like a big bowl of chili. What kind of party
is he at? Well, it was they were doing a podcast.
You know, these are the old things we seen in
the radio at remotes back in the old days. We
do these dopey things that we used to. So you
have also been in a pool of chili, Ben No,
I have dressed in a toga on Westwood Boulevard. I
(27:31):
interviewed the people at a Jiffy Lube, which is a
in the pit of a Jiffy Lube while they were
repairing a car. I did that for a remote mechanical
bowl on the Sunset Strip. I forget the name. I
think that place is still there.
Speaker 9 (27:47):
Actually, it's a mechanical bull at one of the bars
on the Sunset Strip in La I did some crazy
crap back in the day.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
But anyway, so they did. But if you lost the
super Bowl ring and you're aware, Hey, you're you're cognizant.
I lost the super Bowl ring and you know it's
in the kiddie pool of chili. You know, if you
don't get a metal detective, you'll boom, You'll get it right.
Speaker 8 (28:07):
Yes, of course, it doesn't seem that hard to find
a super Bowl ring. And he even a giant bowl of.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Chili roll again, idiot.
Speaker 8 (28:14):
Plus, what is he doing wearing a Super Bowl ring?
Speaker 10 (28:17):
I know.
Speaker 8 (28:17):
I mean we've been around athletes who have had Super
Bowl rings. They don't wear them unless they're going to
some fancy place to show it off.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
One of my memories on that Phil Jackson. I used
to go out, believe it or not, I went the
Laker games when Phil Jackson was coaching the Lakers, and
Phil used to complain when they were winning championships. And
this goes back to his day in Chicago. He said,
these things, the rings were so big you can't wear them,
and everyone wants to win a championship ring. And then
they sit in a safety deposit box, which is where
(28:45):
most people and they bring them out for like rare
and appropriate occasions and if you come back to an
alumni night or something, you'll you'll wear the ring. But
this guy, he only has one ring too. Well, they
don't give you two. Well, I mean he's only one
one super Bowl, right yeah, with the Eagles with Nick Foles. Right, Well,
that was the one. I think that's the old They
didn't win any other one, correct, Yeah they lost. Wow. Yeah,
(29:09):
He's been to a couple, but that was the one
that they want, but they can. They can remake it.
They know how to make it. They can. They can
slip it together anyway. It is the Ben Marshall. Let's say, hello,
speaking of a guy that's a prison expert. And one
thing about this show, you got to have an expert
in every field. We have a prison expert. Jed who
fled and Jed. This guy called us right when he
(29:29):
got out of jail, and he's still calling us all
these years later. Hello, Jed who fled in Florida.
Speaker 10 (29:35):
Man, I'd like to hear I'd like to hear the
apology of jail in prison.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I know, I know, I know you. I know you've.
Speaker 10 (29:45):
Got You've got to learn the jailed individual showers than
prison not so much. Okaya believe he might be a restrictibus.
I I'm thinking he might be going back. And if
I heard earlier, dude was saying that the human beings
(30:05):
are predisposed on this art to addictions. I just right
with a stunter to me, dude, I just want to
figure out there struggling with that. Dude, that's embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yeah, well, Je, you have embraced your addiction and you
are writing the title wave of your addiction on a
nightly basis.
Speaker 10 (30:20):
Ben, You know, I listen to your show. I mean,
you know what the root board of addiction is right there.
I mean, just like the first that letter, you're you're, you're,
you're just studily at that. You don't like you don't
like gambling, then you love gambling. Think about the callers
you put on your show and that which determines your livelihood.
I mean, that's that's what's amazing. You got like stuck
a bit, like trying to get what Marcelle eats or
that sort of thing, or if Eddie gonna go shoat
(30:43):
this week on the game, or if I'm gonna show
up to knock the guns, and those are those that.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Yeah, yeah, that is true. There's a lot of prop
bets on the show. The boys like them. The guys
in prison love them. Not jail because jail. Ye as
you said, you're only in jail for a short amount
of time. With the prison, we do, we do well
in the prisons.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
It is much.
Speaker 10 (31:00):
I will say that everybody in jail was always like
I can't wait get the prison. I'm like what, but
like you get drugs in there and stuff like that.
I'm like y'all are way way too you're too much,
you know, keen on. You know that you're gonna spend
a lot of your chuge of times in cars radio,
and I don't think that's a good thing. Lorena, Lorena Loretto,
I can't ever remember it with ourselves. Where can we
(31:23):
find archives?
Speaker 5 (31:23):
I want to do.
Speaker 10 (31:24):
We need to be able to find the Ben Malase
Show musical archives because she doesn't know how talented is
like Eminem's but you stand up with.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Real Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I don't know where
it is. We got to find it for and she's
got to want to play it. But we do have
so many songs. I don't want those songs to go away.
So I want to make sure we play at least
one a night, and maybe we'll do some you know
this is great? How about theme nights?
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I love theme nights. That's hokey radio. That's cheese ball
cornball radio.
Speaker 10 (31:48):
How about theme knights? And then I love fem knights.
Right after dude, You're you're dead?
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Who playing?
Speaker 10 (31:51):
You're answering your own questions without drugs? That's not good.
I think we should do a new Secret Agent man,
but just in a says to that, You're like, there's
a man who lives a life of anger.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Oh yeah, you gotta have crug. Just Justin's not come down.
Speaker 10 (32:06):
You're going on.
Speaker 9 (32:08):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Justin's not angry. That's just that he's got one default
position and he he goes at it like a buzzsaw.
That's what he does. And that's it, like just a
buzz saw. So OJ, it appears that he he did
what I thought he did and what I'd heard he
(32:30):
was going to do. U. He before he died, he
moved all of his money elsewhere. Uh, the tabloids say O. J.
Simpson died with less than five figures in his bank
account and the estate the executor of the estate, they're
claiming less than five figures, less than a million dollars
(32:52):
if you look at the real estate and all that.
So the rumor was that he had moved. He was
in hospice for the last couple months, and he before
he really got bad, really bad, he moves dis suppose
he moves some money around. OJ will not be coming back.
He has been cremated. TMZ had that great story to
have there on TMZ And there will be no public
(33:13):
memorial for OJ, so you will not be able to
go out and mourn publicly. The loss of of OJ devastating.
We got Mallard of the third degree. That's warm it up.
Time now for the instant trivia. The Red Sox ten
Or Hawk became the first big league pitcher to toss
(33:33):
a nine plus strikeout they call a Mattox nine plus
innings complete game shutout under one hundred pitches in one
fifty or less. That's an hour and fifty minutes or less.
Since blank, Again a lot of moving parts. Red Sox
pitcher ten Or Hawk became the first big league pitcher
to toss nine or more strikeouts have nine or more
strikeouts in a Mattix second nine plus innings complete game
(33:54):
shutout under one hundred pitches in an hour and fifty
or less. Since blank. That's the instant trivia, the answer
and Maler to the third degree next.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
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Speaker 8 (34:14):
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Speaker 1 (34:37):
And time now for the Insta trivia. The Red Sox
pitcher tenor how you became the first big league pitcher
to toss a nine plus strikeout Matt X. That's nine
or more innings, complete game, shutout, under one hundred pitchers
in an hour and fifty or less since blank. That
is the Insta trivia. What is the answer? With mal
(35:00):
to the third degree? Warming up in the bullpen right
now and Bob Costas is the guest by Cowboy Killer
Shane Doan of the Coyotes from Late Night Drug tester
Ben Sheets with mister Niska All Ben Rotation, Ben Sheets,
Ben McDonald, you can go back. There's a lot of Ben's.
(35:21):
Who else? We have JD in Boston going with the
soup Nazi as his answer. Esteban Yon from Fields of
Green alf the alien Opiner going for the Arby's beef
and cheddar, but only when it's on the two for
six menu.
Speaker 5 (35:36):
Yell me.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Rick Mahler from Paul d. Pete Harnish from Chris and
des Moines. It's a solid name. Dennis tankers Lee from Malibu,
Ruben Angry Grandma from my buddy Scott in Rhode Island.
Go to see Scott back. Randy Jones from Double O Mexican. Eddie,
do you have an answer at a No? The last
(35:58):
person to do it?
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Why?
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Greg Maddis himself back in ninety five. I wasn't even
alive in nineteen ninety five. That's amazing. Here we go,
Here we go, Heller, how about that? To the third degree?
This is one big gets grilled coop Dalu.
Speaker 11 (36:19):
According to reports, the NBA is considering using the in
season tournament as the first tiebreaker for playoff seeding next year. Ben,
how'd you feel about this idea?
Speaker 1 (36:29):
All right? So I put this in the same category
with when Bud Celix said this time it counts for
the All Star Game. It's so stupid, it's so dumb.
You know, the nd season tournament is lame. You're you're
trying to give it some substance when it shouldn't. It
shouldn't even exist. It's so ridiculous. In the in the
Annals of bad Ideas, Adam Silver is like the king
(36:51):
of a bad idea. Just stop stop.
Speaker 11 (36:55):
Next, Lebron James revealed on the most recent episode of
his HBO show that he is still salty about not
getting an NBA Defensive Player of the Year award in
his career, and he said that he should have got
it in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Is he right? Ben? Well, Coop, as you know it's
twenty twenty four. You want me to go back and
watch every game of twenty thirty thirteen. No, here's my memory. Okay,
here's my memory of Lebron in that era. As a defender,
he was a selectively good defender. There are a lot
of the game, a lot of the game he would
just kind of lag, and then their select plays he
(37:28):
would make amazing plays at highlight plays that he would
end up on Sports Center back where people used to
watch that. But I don't ever remember him a consistently
great shutdown defender. So I'm gonna say Lebron's full of crap.
Speaker 11 (37:40):
Next, the NBA media is upset that they were unable
to vote for Nick s gard Dante Devincenzo for the
most Improved Player because he was ineligible. Even though Devincenzo
played in eighty one games, many of those that he
played were less than twenty minutes, which is apparently the
minimum requirement for the game to count towards that threshold.
Then is this something that needs to be tweaked?
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Oh, I mean, it's great he played anyone games, but
if you're if you're playing less than twenty minutes a game,
there's forty eight minutes in the game, so you're not
even playing half the game.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Like what are we doing here? Like what what the
hell are we doing here? And how do we don't
come out?
Speaker 1 (38:15):
You failed this edition? What are you talking about? For
what reason? Your last two answers sucks? They were great
At Lebron was a selective defender.
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