Hour 1 - Turbulent Waters

Ben Maller talks about the Clippers dropping Game 2 to the Dallas Mavericks and who deserves the blame with LA, if there is cause for concern for Doc Rivers and the Bucks after they drop Game 2 against the Pacers, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome It's our number one, the original
recipe podcast with no added fillers at all, And we
stumbled into the pro Bouncy Ball playoffs, the Clippers and
the Mavericks dooking it out in Los Angeles and the

(00:20):
Dallas basketball team beat the LA basketball team. Who gets
to wear the kick me signed for the Clippers after
the defeat? How satisfying is this victory for Jason Kidd
and the Mavericks. We'll talk about that. Also, the Pacers
ran the court with the Bucks. Is their cause for
concern with Doc Rivers and the Bucks. We'll talk about

(00:40):
all that and more. Right now make way for this Wednesday,
April twenty fourth edition our number one. Some turbulent waters,
but everything's okay. Everything's fine here enough you to see
Welcome in. Actually there's nothing to see. It's radio. There's

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no pictures. It's only radio. That's all we have. As
we begin anew I know, I know you're excited, the
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down the road from where we broadcast from an overhill,
and then you've got to go on another road and
then eventually he'll get to where the game was played.
But it was game two, Game two between the People's
Team and the mav Rex, coming off an embarrassing, gutless
performance Dallas in game one when they were run off

(02:28):
the court by the superior Clipper team going into game
two here. So I don't know whether or not you
were engaged in this based on the feedback I was
getting on social media before the game. You were asking
me to watch. You did not want to watch this game,
so I did. I got hemorrhoids sitting on my ass
watching this game. But get to the point, please, So

(02:48):
the activity on the court, the way I would describe it,
it was a clunker. It was a clunker of a game.
Luka Doncik is getting all the nobody sucks toes better
than the NBA media, and they are all over Luca.
So Luka Donchek thirty two points, Kyrie Irving the anti

(03:11):
Semite had twenty three, and Dallas pulls out a photo
finish a three point win over the Clippers. So the
series now tied one to one and they head to
the Lone Star State for games three and four. Now,
the better store is in the losing locker room, and

(03:34):
that's where we're going to go first here. So let
us discuss the question as we get into game two,
who gets to wear the proverbial kick me sign for
the Clippers as they lose at home? And the series
doesn't start till the team loses at home. Well, the
series has now started, as the Clippers go down there
on skid row to the Mavericks. So I've got tractor

(03:57):
supply ritz and nineteen eighties infomercial and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make cowboy boots, which you'll see a lot of if
you go to game three, not game two, but game
three back in Texas. So a on the Clipper side

(04:19):
of the ledger. Here, there's plenty, plenty of blame to
pass around here, and you can point the finger here, there,
and everywhere in this particular game. The game was one
of those games. It was like left for the Clippers
in the free library box. They didn't deserve it. They

(04:39):
had no business having a chance to win this game.
The fact that they had a lead is a going
to the fourth quarter. Now, that was granted. It was
because Luca is a knucklehead and got called for a
technical foul with less than a second ago. But they
still had a lead, a one point lead going to
the fourth quarter. The way the Clippers played in the
first half, I was texting a friend of mine, They're
gonna lose by twenty five points. They should be down

(05:02):
by twenty five points. I don't know why they're not
down by twenty four points. It makes no sense. And
yet still in the end they fetched around, and the
Clippers decided they did not want to open that little
library box with the free books and all that and
in terms of the individual players, because we named names here,
that's what we do behind the microphone, the bully pulpit.

(05:23):
We named names. So I've told the Clippers have this
Hall of Fame trio with James Harden, Paul George and
Kawhi Leonard, and collectively they were mid They was just
middle of the road. There was nothing spectacular. Nobody stepped up.
They all had opportunities on the launching pad in the

(05:43):
fourth quarter to take over the game, and none of
them had the ability on that night to take over
the game in the fourth quarter. To give you an idea,
zubots he led the team that's going in the fourth quarter.
Now he's he didn't do much in the first half
and all that, and that's nice that he led the
team in scoring in the fourth quarter. But that's not

(06:05):
how it's supposed to go. That's not how it's supposed
to go. And we must circle. And I did circle.
I wrote it. I circle Kawhi Leonard's name because Kawhi
Leonard made its much bally hood return. Be careful what
you wish for. So Kawhi Leonard back after missing nine games,
missing nine games, and while his final numbers were not terrible.

(06:30):
They weren't horrible. Was all right, it's passable. He did
not make enough impact plays. You're not paying Kawhi Leonard
to be a jag just a guy. You're paying him
to take over games that are closed in the fourth quarter.
Otherwise you can get some guy out of the European
Basketball Association that can can put up mid numbers. You

(06:53):
don't need to pay and put all the effort and
massage the shoulders of Kawhi Leonard if he's not going
to take over games at the end, he didn't take
over the game. The game was right there. He didn't
do it. It's a bad job by him. And so
most of the time he didn't even play in these
playoff games. The fact he actually played is amazing. He
usually misses him. But tylu, here's the advice Tylou from

(07:15):
the Malard think tank. Tyl Lou needs to go to
Tractor Supply Company and get one of those fifty five
pound drums of w D forty and work away the
rust before Game three because what I'm seeing like the
Clippers are a better team. They should win this series,
but you got to win the close ones. Yeah, you
guys make the plays at the end based on the

(07:38):
first two games. That's the analysis. I don't know how
you can disagree with that. Now, turning the pitch from
the Dallas side, how satisfying is this game two victory
for the Mavericks? And on the Malord scale of satisfaction,
the arrow on this one is pointing to not very
Let me explain make my elevator pitch why they should

(08:00):
not be very satisfying. It would be inaccurate to say
that the Mavericks played a good game, that they played well.
I don't think they did. Both teams were playing hot potato.
You remember when you were a kid played a game
of hot potato, And when the music stopped, the Clippers
were the ones holding the bean bag, and if you
know how it works, I mean, you hold the beam bag,

(08:21):
you're out. And so they had to go to the
penalty box and they lose the game. But it was
a room service situation, like room service at the Ritz.
And the way the Clippers played again, I thought they
would be down by twenty five. I thought they should
have been down by twenty five the way they played.
Yet they still watchedot in the fourth quarter to win
the game and that's a testimonial to the Mavericks, and
they're incompetence there because the Clippers room service delivery Mavericks

(08:46):
opened the door. All they had to do was pushed
the card in, and they almost tipped the whole card over,
and the spaghetti and the meat balls were gonna fly everywhere,
and then the last minute they saved it. The Clippers
were dining on kivels and bits in this particular name,
and yet again they had the lead going to the
fourth quarter. Explain that it makes no sense. Jason Kidds

(09:07):
team overall first two games. Not impressed. I am not impressed.
We have seen from doubts. Everything I read was how
dominant this Maverick team is and how they're invincible. Nobody
can stop them. I haven't seen that. Have you seen that.
I haven't seen that. I have not seen that bad
perimeter defense. Clippers didn't shoot the ball well. They were
missing wide open pre boy shots. If anything, it was

(09:28):
the air conditioning system at the crypt that was keeping
the ball from going in. It wasn't because of any
Maverick defense. I didn't see any. Did you. Maybe you've
got better eyesight than me. But and the Mavericks Again.
I go back to the point. They failed to capitalize
on the shoddy offense by the Clippers, and they should
have blown the Clippers off the court. The fact that

(09:50):
they didn't should be a point of positivity for the Clippers.
They played a terrible game. I don't know they can
play much worse, and they still had a shot to
win the game in the fourth quarter. All right, last
word here, we had quickly to Milwaukee. Back in the day,
Doc Rivers was the coach of the Lob City Clippers.
Now he's ruining the childhood of young fans in Milwaukee

(10:12):
who worshiped the Bucks. So Pascal Siakam, I gotta be
careful how I say that name. Our favorite player on
the show collectively is Pascal Siakam. So he painted a
masterpiece in this game. Thirty seven points, eleven rebounds, six assists.
And I'm not gonna lie that that in Minnesota, Phoenix. Hem,

(10:34):
we'll get to that later. That game was not that close.
I turned over to the Indiana game, and I enjoyed that.
I enjoyed every second of it, as Indiana did not
fear the deer at all. Beating the Bucks with ease
led by as many as twenty three points. They win
going away. The Pacers have now even up the series

(10:54):
one to one, and they head back to the Hoosier
State Game three.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Later in the week.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Drama is on the Milwaukee side. We're all about the drama.
This is like an old school radio drama. Rama is
what this show is. So the dramas in Wisconsin. And
there is there cause for concern. This is it right
to It is their cause for concern for Doc Rivers
and the Bucks. And I'm nodding my head. Yes, this

(11:23):
was a vintage performance. I have studied the career of
Doc Rivers as a coach. He's coached almost every team
in the NBA, and this was a vintage Doc Rivers
coach team performance. And if your ownership in Milwaukee, I
hope you enjoyed that. This should be an illumination situation

(11:44):
as you're now witnessing firsthand why Doc Rivers keeps getting
fired everywhere he goes. It's not because he's not a
nice guy. It's not because he's not great with the media. Right, debonair, Doc,
but don't ask him to coach up a team in
the playoffs. Playoffs. Yeah, Yeah, And here's the thing. If

(12:05):
you expect Doc Rivers to roll up his sleeves and
make some kind of brilliant strategic move in game adjustments,
they're called you are a fool? You are. Doc Rivers
is the epitome of an old school nineteen eighties infomercial clapbog,

(12:26):
clap off the clapper you watched. He reminds me of
the old Cowboys coach. He's standing on the sidelines. The
Milwaukee Bucks are being run off the court by the
Indiana Pacers, and Doc Rivers is standing there and he's clapping,
and it was theater of the absurd. Not that I
haven't seen it with the Clippers and in our friends
in Philly who are listening saw it. And our buddies

(12:48):
in Boston they saw it too. Everywhere he goes, it's
the same act. It's the same act, right, And Pascal
Siakam is literally cooking the bucks on his Abaci is
batchy girl. He's cooking the bucks. And Doc is doing
one of two things. Either he's clapping, come on, boys,
come out, come out, play batter, come out. Yeah, he's

(13:11):
doing that, or he is He's standing there bemused, bewildered
and bedeviled by what's going on, and that means he
has his hands in his pockets and he's giving the
Elmo you know that Elmo gift with the shoulder shrug. No,
no adjustments, right, no adjustments. Buckle up. Now, I realize

(13:33):
that I have trash coaches for years in the I mean,
I do believe of all the professional sports, NBA coaches
matter the least. But if you're bad at your job
and you do nothing other than you're good with the media,
I don't know how that there there there can be
a positive, There can be something other than I'm the
motivational guy. So that is a preview. If you're you're

(13:56):
listening to Milwaukee or anyone there likes the bucks Buck Country,
if that's a thing, I don't know if that's Maybe
that's not a thing, But watch out because the Pacers
will be enjoying some venison several more times here in
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(14:40):
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(15:00):
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Eddie, I thought you were.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
I am not at l.

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I from the Tyraq dot Com Fox Sports Radio Studios.
It's Ben Mallor, who is black.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yes I am. And well we're in radio, so where
everything we have no color. In radio, we're all blind.
The great thing about radio, everyone's blind. And let me
tell you I'm good looking. If you could see man
on radio, really good looking, really good looking for a
face for radio. I'm been told that for many, many,

(16:46):
many many years. Yeah, Matt, the Warrior Raider fan says,
I'm shocked you didn't go with your first chance to
roast Doc Rivers this postseason. Well, yes I did, Matt.
I just had to. I had to get through the
Clipper game. But I clearly you said that prematurely because
I did attack Doc Rivers. I had to do a
couple of minutes on the Clippers of the maverage, and

(17:07):
I did that. I got through that. It wasn't easy,
but I'm a professional. I got through that crap. And
then I went to the main event, Doc Rivers. Doc
Rivers sitting there clapping while Pascal Siakam is throwing Malotov
cocktails at the Milwaukee Bucks roster and he's going hip

(17:28):
pay is what he's doing. David says, you are right,
Luca and the Mavericks not that impressive. Clippers will take
home court back in Texas. That is correct, David, Good
job by you on that analysis. Spock's Weed writes in
he says it was brutal, and again, Doc Rivers, start

(17:49):
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(18:57):
remember that I saw this from Ozzie Wah in Western
Australia says, I know it was a couple of days ago,
but the new New South Wales Blue Rugby League team
has a cockerroach as a mascot, while the Queensland Maroons
team had cane toad for the State of Origin or

(19:21):
State of Origin series, So he sent me a shot
of the mascot for New South Wales. Here the cockerroach
fighting the cane toad. Now, Ozzie was I want you
to do some research on this. Is there a cockroach hat?
Can you get a hat with the cockroach?

Speaker 4 (19:43):
No?

Speaker 1 (19:43):
We should get them.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
No, I will not wear a cockroach hat.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
What are you a woos swung with you? No? I
have class, But that's the mascot of Fox Sports. We
live with cockroaches here at work anything not by choice.
There are massive cockroaches all over this place and I'm
not having this. I'm an infestation for twenty years. You
know what. I blame Denny's. I blamed there used to
be a Denny's here, and they still think the Denny's
is gonna come back. And we have one bad show,

(20:09):
maybe the deniers will come back. I don't know, no idea.
Sometimes if I sniff the walls real close, I can
still smell the bacon.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Yeah, yeah, Ran, what are you doing sniffing the walls
real close?

Speaker 1 (20:20):
She's a sniffer ly she likes to sniff. Don't judge her.
Come on, don't judge me. Come on, what's wrong.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
She's a sniffer.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
Okay, yeah, well I'm a sniffer also, I like to
as you said, I have. I have a tremendous You
don't need.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
To go to the wall and sniff. You can sniff
from several feet away because you have a sensitive sniffer.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yes, I asked what you gave me that nickname Eddie.
You added to my nickname collection. I appreciate that for
you adding to my collection of nicknames, because I hadn't
gotten one in a while. So I do appreciate that.
So thank you Ozzie Wis for that. HL right, since
says a plus plus on the opening Mallard monologue, Doc rivers,
I don't get how he keeps getting hired his coach

(21:01):
in the NBA, the Pacers or the dark horse in
the playoffs. Let's suck. Let's not get crazy with the
Pacers or the dark horse in the in the playoffs,
because I don't. I don't believe that at all. Uh,
that was a debacle for the Bucks. But it's inconclusive
whether the Pacers can go on a run. I would

(21:22):
I would bet against that and say I still think
as bad as Doc Rivers is, I still think the
Bucks should end up winning this serious. I know that's
crazy to say, but the reason Doc keeps getting hired.
He's very charismatic. He's debonair, he's charming, he's a He's
a guy that people like to hang out with. He's
got this magnetic personality. I've seen it. I have friends

(21:45):
in the basketball media I've known for years who will
never say anything bad about Doc Rivers. They think I'm
a schmuck, which I probably am, but they think I'm
a schmuck for ripping Doc Rivers. Well, here's the name
I haven't seen in the past many been a long time.
MGM John, Hello, MGM John.

Speaker 6 (22:01):
Poke Poke Pokemonter, Ben Maller, the people seeing Ben Maller
a tragic loss to these phony maver breaks. I could
not believe that the rest supported Luka Doncic the NB
eight Golden Boy. The worst thing I've ever seen is
Dang Garden being plainly young by by Luca. It is

(22:22):
a horrible feeling.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
Ben Mallor, did you watch the same game I watched?
I was the same game.

Speaker 6 (22:29):
Why was Russy PG was not playing right? And why
is tyleru a Lebron guy. By the way, let me
tell you he was. He is a Lebron guy you
cannot trust.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
Well, well, the reason he's well, I know, the reason
he's got the job is because he was riding the
coattails of Lebron James. I know that, I understand.

Speaker 6 (22:46):
I can tell you one thing.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
You know, you know what, MGM John, MGM John. I
just had this amazing hot take I'm facilitating now. So
is it true that the real reason tyleru has this
run of coaching is because Draymond Green kept kicking guys
in the nuts and he got suspended And then the
Warriors gagged the NBA Finals to the Cadavers, and so

(23:08):
Cleveland won and Tyler happened to be the coach, and
because of that, Tyler was continued on here. But if
Draymond Green doesn't, you know, kick guys and keeps his
hands to himself, does does this happen in an ulterior world?
That does not happen?

Speaker 6 (23:24):
I can tell you one thing that ev Draymond Green
did not kick wasnt kicked Steven Adams in the nuts.
I'm pretty sure or never got to spend it. He
will never get the job.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
You just repeated my tag, you that you just hijacked
my tank.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
That was my tag.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
You just stole my tank right in front of me.
Your feef. You're you're a take feet That was my
take and you just stole my take and you repackaged
my take. You can't steal another man's take. What's wrong
with you?

Speaker 6 (23:53):
I wouldn't take it?

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Why that sounded Loraina? Did that? That sounded like a
theft to me? Did that sound like a take theft
to you? I would punish him for it, all right?
You know I'm gonna punish you. MGM, John, you don't
what to do. I'm going to force you to talk
to Marcel later. That's what I'm gonna force you. Yeah,
Marcel and Brooklyn.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Dude.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah, he's a big fan of Pascal Siakam, big fan.

Speaker 6 (24:18):
I thought he's a fan of a Kawani Leonard.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Well that was another one. But once he said Pascal
Siakham's name, that was it. That won the cake, That
was the winner. Well where were you being? John? I
know you're you're bouncing around Vegas, but around.

Speaker 6 (24:32):
Vegas I'm not part of I'm not into like fort betting.
Now I'm now trying to make my own, my own
name in the business, trying to be what they what
they call it sharps oh.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Sharp, All right, well good, you gotta go against the
mainstream there, you gotta go against the mason. Well, let's know,
if you make, you make a lot of money, remember us.

Speaker 6 (24:48):
Okay, yeah, I'll remember you when I'm when I'm famous,
i will I will reference to this show.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
All right.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
If you lose everything, don't remember us. But if you're
if you're successful, remember us. Okay, yep, okay, all right,
thank you, go away. There's our friend.

Speaker 6 (25:01):
MGM.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
John called the show for a long time, although he
hasn't called the show in that long but he used
to be a regular. Contributed mostly on we used to
call Twitter. They changed the name to x. We used
to call it Twitter back in the old days.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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Speaker 2 (25:21):
We had the.

Speaker 5 (25:22):
NBA releasing a two minute report two minute report in
the final moments of the game against the Knicks and
the seventy six ers, and they admitted there were some
errors made by the officials. The league admitting that the
officials should have called multiple fouls on the Knicks, which
caused a turnover by Tyrese Maxi, and the league said
that seventy Seiers head coach Nick Nursed should have been

(25:43):
granted a timeout as the team tried to inmount the
ball with twenty seven second.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Stop so say something. The NBA said, my bad, but
screw you. So that's what they Who cares. They're not
going to replay the game? So who cares? That's it.

Speaker 5 (25:56):
I guess it gives us something to talk about against people,
something to complain about.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
I don't live in the past, Eddie. I don't live
in the past. No, I'm all about the future. That's
what I'm about. That's what I stand for. This principle,
it's one of the pillars of this show. It is
the Ben Malor Show. As we continue on through the
overnight hours, Shane and de Moine, who hates everyone who

(26:22):
calls the show now he's upset with Kelly in Nashville,
does not enjoy her work, compared her to Sir scratch
Off and Jed who fled. He wants us, he wants
a new me night. Yeah, I actually super market. Steve says.
The Clippers go down to the Mavericks. Good job by

(26:45):
you only spending half the monologue on it. It's only
one game, no big deal, and Clippers will bounce back
and Dallas will thank you Supermarket Steve for that commentary.
Milkman Mike in Colorado says electrifying opening monologue on the delusion.
He says, if the legend of the Doc the legend
of the Doc, I guess he can label this season

(27:08):
as buck around and lose out now. Casey Carr Holler says,
the mystery isn't why Doc gets fired, it's how he
keeps getting hired. He's gotten more juice out of that
one ring than Aaron Rodgers. That is accurate. Midnight Walker
from Syracuse says the curse of Doc Rivers is something

(27:30):
to fear. He's now in Milwaukee infecting the deer. Ignore
the past, and the past will repeat, And now Doc
is leading the Bucks to.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
Defeat good poetry. I like that.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
King Rory says, I am not concerned with my Bucks
because any dummy knows how Doc Rivers coaches, So this
loss comes as no surprise. The Bucks are giving the
Pacers a false sense of hope, and I am still
confident that the Bucks will sneak into the next round
of the playoff. All right, very nice on that, So

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put a name on it. We go now to the NHL,
and it's not been decided the name of the NHL team,
but there is a chance that it will be the
Yetti and so Ryan Smith, the guy that owns the
Utah NHL team to be named later, has announced that
they are going to decide the name of the team

(28:27):
based on a bracket. Not Benny's bracket. They're going to
have their own bracket. He announced. The the goal is
to have everyone involved there in Utah, so some kind
of March madness type bracket, which is which is always dangerous.
Now what I believe is going to happen here is

(28:49):
the NHL will vet all thirty two. So they because
not only you have to have the trademarks for all
these names, you have to be able to you have
to get the websites. It's a big pain in the end,
and almost all the good names are taken. Somebody's sitting
on them. They're hoarding the good name. They yet to
spend money to get them. This guy, Ryan Smith's very wealthy,

(29:10):
so he can afford to spend some of that money.
And I know in Seattle they had the Seattle Kraken.
I believe that was a team fan base generated nickname
which is original and cool and not another Bulldogs or Wildcats.
So that's kind of neat. And I don't I think

(29:32):
Golden Knights. I don't think it's a good name. I
think that's kind of stupid. But you know, the colors
will likely be the same as the Utah Jazz if
that does anything for you, But you gotta get YETI
in there. If Yet, if Yeti's in the final big board,
they'll be called the YETI. Nothing's gonna beat the YETI like,
I know some people on the internet are like call

(29:53):
them the storm and Mormons. I don't think that's going
to happen, though, these Storm and Mormons, I do not
believe they will go with that particular their name.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
I don't think that's.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
That's going up. Let's go to Texas Jack. Hello, Texas Jack,
you are on whow What the hell was that man?

Speaker 4 (30:09):
Now?

Speaker 1 (30:10):
Did he hang up right when I went That was crazy?
It's like he used a shotgun and shot right into
the phone. That hurt my rights. Hey Texas Jack, I'm
wearing headphones dope. What are you doing?

Speaker 6 (30:24):
Man?

Speaker 1 (30:25):
You can't do that? What's wrong with you?

Speaker 3 (30:28):
Me?

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Anyway, the pigskin panhandling story, I wanted to give you
that because this always infuriates me. The Chicago Bears, that's
a football team and they're attempting to stay in Chicago.
So they want to build, you know, your normal fixer
upper stadium, you know, they want to of course renovate.
They want a four point six billion dollars stadium project.

(30:54):
Let me repeat that for those of you a little slow.
At four point six billion dollar project, they would build
an enclosed stadium on the Lake Michigan, right in front
of the Lake Michigan there where fans will be able
to come in there and it'll be just like going
to a Vikings game or a Lions game. It doesn't
matter if it's twenty degrees and snowing, it'll be perfect

(31:17):
conditions inside the stadium there. So the team is asking
the taxpayers, the public of Illinois to spend two point
three billion dollars for the Chicago Bears to play eight
or nine home games a year.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
You've got to be kidding me.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Now. The good thing is Chicago has solved the homeless problem.
They've solved the crime problem. The roads are great in Chicago.
The public transportation is wonderful all over the state of Illinois.
So they really have nothing to spend that money on.
So thank god they've solved It's utopia in Chicago. They've
solved every problem. Knows that. Eugene in Chicago. All you

(32:02):
guys in Chicago, you know, everything's perfect in Chicago. So
that works out to me an idea, how much per man, woman,
and child, Well, the children don't really pay taxes, but
the men and women, the grownups, that'll be one hundred
and eighty three dollars per Illinois resident. So the Chicago
Bears can put a sucking quarterback out there and break

(32:25):
your heart if you care about the Bears. Now, this
always annoys me because I was I love sports, obviously,
I've worked in sports media my entil life. But most
people in Illinois don't like sports. They don't, all right,
so why are you going to force them to pay
for a stadium. It's not like and I've said this
over the past, and I believe it. It's not like Costco.

(32:46):
You pay for a membership at Costco, you go to
the food court, a hot dog and a drink or
a dollar fifty, the same price it's been since Costco
opened a dollar fifty. You think these sports teams are like, Hey,
we're taking all this public money, keep the prices down. Well,
I don't want to. I don't want to price gouge
the people because we're taking their tax money. So we're
gonna keep the tickets affordable. The hot dogs, the popcorn,

(33:08):
the nachos, the garlic fries, the the drinks, everything's gonna
be affordable because we don't want to gouge the customer
because we took all this tax money. Now it's a
double gouge. It's a it's double your pleasure, double your fund.
They stick it to you with the tax money, and
then they stick it to you if you actually pay
money to go to the games. And do you really

(33:29):
need four point six billion dollars to build a stadium? Yeah,
that would be the second most expensive stadium in the
history of sports, behind Sofi Stadium. However, Sofi Stadium was
funded by Stan Krocky. It was privately funded. He didn't

(33:49):
ask the people of California. Of course they've offered you.
You see how much money they lost on the homeless
in California. That's that is insane. It's just burning money
tax dollars. So I can said burner on the stadium.
But the same in LA was built with Stan Crocky's
money because he married into the Walmart money. So people
that buy frozen food at Walmart are paying for the

(34:10):
SOFI stadium experience. It is the Ben Mahler Show. Time
now for the who Am I? Game?

Speaker 2 (34:17):
And here we go.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
Pascal Siakam has seventy three points so far in this
series for Indiana. That is the second most points in
the first two playoff games with a new franchise in
NBA history. I hold the record for the most all
time most points over the first two games with a
new franchise in NBA playoff history. Who Am I? The answer? Next?

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Speaker 1 (35:16):
I I missed it, and I see the TNT post game.
I was here messing around, but I guess Charles Barkley,
my friend Sports with Coleman, sent me the clip here.
They had a skit on the TNT post game where
Barkley punched he was boxing a photo of Kendrick Perkins.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
Which is which is just wonderful. It's great, great television,
really good.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
I thought. I laughed, I chuckled. I thought that was
pretty pretty funny. Let's see, who do we have?

Speaker 2 (35:43):
Does he and Perk have beef Eddie? Yeah, it's I
don't follow the NBA, Ben, just no help me out here.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yeah. Perkins claimed think his last week that Barkley and
Shack don't actually watch the games, which I don't think
they do. I don't care, that's what. That's how bad.
Kendrick Perkins is a commentator. He actually watches the games,
and he's so boring, Like I would rather have Charles
Barkley read a book and eat a cheese steak and
then talk about a game he didn't watch. Then Kendrick

(36:11):
Perkins talk about a game he watched and took notes on.
He's that dull. So anyway, I'm a big Barkley guy,
So all right, I would agree with you. Yeah, he's amazing.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
I mean, I don't even like the NBA, and I'll listen.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
To Yeah, I don't tune in for the NBA on
that show. I tune in for the jokes. Spock's weed
writes in he says he's up listening to the show.
He's doing it the right way. He's got cigarettes he's smoking,
and some bush Mills the original uh, and he's got
a beer there also, so he's he's really going for it,
enjoying the show. Many people requesting the nickname run Down.

(36:43):
I will get to that. We do not have that,
Patricia and and our friend in Vegas Rob right now.
I don't have time for it. Yeah. Mallard prop guy says,
is Mike Harmon filling in on the Mallor show. I
keep hearing people the stealing hot takes. Yeah, there was
some fevery by MGM. John that did happen? Time Now

(37:04):
for the who am I? Game? Pascal siakam seventy three
points so far in this series for Indiana. That is
the second most points in the first two playoff games
with a new franchise in NBA history. I hold the
record for the most all time over the first two games.
Who am I? That is the question? Does anyone know

(37:27):
the answer? Mallard prop guy says, moneyball, Mallard, King of points,
King of points? Who else do we have? Page down?
Andrew in the Bay Area going with Bison Day the
late Yeah, I knew him. I covered him with the Clippers.
He was known as Brian Williams then. And why he
got murdered that's nuts. Man on a boat, that's wild.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
It was his brother.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Yeah yeah, he killed him and his lady friends. He
tossed him in the ocean.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Yeah, awful.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Wild. He played for the Clippers, the Pistons and some
other teams. Yafimi says, the Grifting Bears owner the McCaskey family.
Abdullah the Butcher from rob in Vegas. That's a good name,
that's a legend, that's a not living but Abdullah the
Butcher all time great Larry Wayne Shipper Jones, who is
fifty two years young today from the Late Night drug

(38:22):
tester Matt the Warrior Raider fan says, Kawhi Leonard is
the answer. Vinnie del Negro from Trucker Joe the Costco
Dog with Mustard, and relish from the American Therapist Eddie,
do you have an answer? I need an answer, Ada.

Speaker 5 (38:37):
I'm gonna go with former Bucks legend Ulysses lead junior bridgeman.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
Oh I remember a junior bridgeman played for the Clippers
also back in the day in the Bucks. That is incorrect,
though the correct answer ready Shakiel O'Neil with the Lakers
Shack