May 16, 2024 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Jayson Tatum dodging a question about him being overlooked for MVP honors, who the fall guy is for the Cavaliers demise in the playoffs, how the Cavs should handle Donovan Mitchell, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our name Bird two talking basketball
Jason Tatum. That's a basketball player in Boston. Celtics won
they eliminated the Cleveland basketball team. Jason Tatum dodging a
question about him being overlooked for MVP honors because the
Celtics are too good? Can you unscramble that? Also, who's
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the fall guy for the Calves playing like the cadavers
in this series in their demise? And how should the
Calves handle Donovan Mitchell's situation. He's got a wandering eye,
it would appear. I'll discuss that as well. All of
it's coming your way right now. Original recipe Our two
A bunch of green literally all over the place. Welume.
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In the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mallord Show.
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shure be in our lead. This hour from the Commonwealth
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Eastern Semi Finals, Game five, Celtics playing host to the Calves,
chance to close it out. This was the early game
on the card. Do you watch? No, you didn't not,
you were not partaking. It's a bad job by you.
So I watch. I got nothing else going on. Jason Tatum,
people say he's pretty awesome. He had twenty five points,
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ten rebounds as Boston beat Cleveland by fifteen. I mentioned
Blake and Arkansas RP one. This guy's a business mogul,
This guy Blake, and he had sent a message on
on X. I didn't see it until a little bit
later once the game had started, but he had the
Calves plus sixteen and it was nip and talk at
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the end, but he ended up winning. But the Celtics
win by fifteen and they advanced to the Eastern Conference
Finals for the third straight season. Al Horford now brief
moonlighted on some other sports talk station in Boston, and
at that time al Horford his nickname was average Al
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and he's still known as average Out and for the
most of the time this playoff he's been just kind
of taking up space, but not. In the game that
was played on Wednesday night, al Horford had twenty two points,
fifteen rebounds, and six moneyballs. The Celtics had nineteen to
three pointers, which sounds impressive until you consider they shoot
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the three point shot pretty much every time down. And
so the Celtics win their third consecutive game in the series,
and they get a four to one series win, and
now Boston will sit back and eat donuts and they'll
wait to play the winner of the matchup between the
Knickerbockers and the Pacers. New York leading that series three
games two, they Cataliers. If you didn't watch, you probably didn't.
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They were extremely, extremely battle scarred, short handed, however you
want to say it. They didn't have Donovan Mitchell out
with a calf injury, Jarrett Allen the center rib injury,
and Kris LeVert had a bum knee. Now, since the
game was a dud, not a milk dud, just a dud,
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the content machine was filled by Jason Tatum. There were
no pins and needles moments unless you happen to have
a wager on the game. But the outcome was not
in debate by about that's it. About the nine minute mark,
the Celtics put on a burner and that was it.
But following the victory, TNT interviewed Jason Tatum and they
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asked Jason Tatum whether the Celtics consistency over the last
couple of seasons has caused voters to overlook him when
it comes to ors, mainly the Most Valuable Player award,
which went to Nicole Jokic. Well, we have the audio tape,
so let's go to the audio tape. Here's what Jason
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Tatum said as he responded to that question about the
Celtics being so good that Tatum gets overlooked. Let's go
to the audio tape.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Oh man, that's a lot of things I wish I
could say, but you know that's not for me to decide.
You know, everybody has their job. The voters in both
who they think Showa MVP. Yogi's rightly deserved that this year.
You know, right now, at this point of the season,
Auto awards are voted on the only thing that matters is,
you know, getting that big trophy. So we could worry
about the individual awards played it down my career, but
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this year to trying to get the championship.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Okay, so let's discuss Jason Tatum. You heard it. He
played a little dodgeball on that question about whether or
not he's being overlooked for MVP honors. Can you unscramble that?
So I've got dog whistle, greyhound, bus, and camper. We'll
combine all of these things together and will make fighting words,
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all right. Number I would also like to leader all
your filiates, Lorana has eaten the number chicken wing if
she has consumed the number one a chicken wing. So
to answer the question, Jason Tatum dodging the question about
whether or not he's being overlooked for these awards because
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the Boston basketball team is good the way I interpret it,
and I'm never wrong about these things. Jason Tatum gave
a passive, aggressive, diplomatic answer. Does that make sense? Does
that work for you? Like he didn't bite the cheese,
but he kind of did. He nibbled on it. He
didn't bite it, but he nibbled it, and he let
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his true feelings come out. He used coded language that
opening line, dead do what? Dead did what? When Jason
Tatum said, there's a lot of things I wish I
could say, but anytime you put butt in there, that's
a lot, right. He wants to say it, but he
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knows he can't say it, so he didn't say it,
but he wants to say it, so he used a
dog whistle. He is contankers. He expected the basketball scribes
to vote for him and to give him a special
order from one eight hundred flowers, and instead he got
a lumpical. So reading the fortune cookie for Jason Tatum,
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all things are difficult before they are easy. Meanie, meanie.
For those of you a little slow, maybe Tommy and
Atlanta there driving his truck around. It means that if
the Celtics do what they're supposed to and win the
Bling Bling, Jason Tatum, Jasentatum will be put on a
pedestal and then the awards will come flowing towards him.
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You can wave a magic wand and all of a
sudden you get an award. You get an award, and
you get an opportunity to get an award, and all
that now Page two, flip side. Cleveland was absolutely flummixed
in the late stage of this game and they have
now been excommunicated from the playoffs. Who's the fall guy
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for the cadavers and their demise? So there are going
to be multiple changes. But we are hearing that coach JB. Bickerstaff,
who is related to former NBA coach Bernie Bickerston. But JB.
Bickerstaff's job is in serious jeopardy despite back to back
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playoff appearances, including their first playoff series win without Lebron
since nineteen ninety three. Someone is going to be a
human sacrifice win in doubt. Throw the coach out, Get
out of here, Get out of here. So what's gonna happen?
Since the Cavs were missing in action many of their
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top players there chose not to compete. You're gonna send
Bernie bicker Staff a nice gift package. Inside the gift
package with the ball on it will be a Greyhound
bus ticket. He will then go to the Greyhound bus
station and you will be giving him a one way
ticket out of Dodge. See you later, Goodbye to the land,
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the mistake by the lake. You're out here. It is
a players league, we're told all the time. Coaches are disposable,
and especially a guy like Dan Gilbert, the owner of
the Cleveland basketball team, who has no patience, I know,
patients on the cutting edge at all times. Now, final
point with bickers Staff hanging on by a thread by
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the skin on his chinny chin chin, likely to be fired.
Another prominent Cleveland puzzle piece is said to be dabbling
in some old fashioned window shopping. Yes, the plot thickens
around the Cavaliers. You know what happens every summer. Every summer,
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one or two big names has a hissy fit and
they want out of the city they're in. They want
to they want nothing to do with the team they're
playing with and they want to go somewhere else. Happens
every summer, and we're heading into that period now with
teams eliminated, we're almost down to the final four in
the NBA. So how should the Cavaliers handle Donovan Mitchell's situation?
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Because that's who. This is about Donovan Mitchell and his predicament.
So my advice is to prepare for divorce court. I
know the song said that breaking up is hard to do.
Boots on the ground have been whispering in hush tones
that Donovan Mitchell is a camper, not the kind of
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camper that's going to go to a national park. Donovan
Mitchell is a camper, as in an unhappy camper. He
never wanted to go to Cleveland. He wanted to go
to the Knicks, but from what I I've heard, he
didn't even want to play for the Knicks anymore because
that's now Jalen Brunson's team, and even if Donovan Mitchell
went there, it would still be Jalen Brunson's team because
the fan base is falling in love with Jalen Brunson,
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even though he's from that part of the country. So
he wants brighter lights, he wants a bigger stage, and
I almost puked in my mouth. But everyone that I've
reached out to says Tinseltown that he wants to join
the elite elitism of the Lakers. And so if not
La laland watch out for something perceived to be more
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glamorous than Cleveland. So we'll see see what happens to that.
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it true an NBA coach gave a star player on
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Speaker 3 (12:29):
Do it.
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It's Ben Maller, King Rory, the King Roy writes in
he says, since this is not a Morning Zoos show
and you do not do shout outs, I will not
mention that today is the ninth wedding anniversary with my
lovely wife.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Otherwise, another great monologue as usual, eleven out of ten
and he thumbs up. Well, King Roy, we are not
a Morning Zoos show. If you want to shout out
and go on cameo and I'll do a cameo for you.
And that's kind of a shout out. And and by
the way, that's that's like a bogus thing because if
she's your wife and you're the king, she's the queen.
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So I don't know if I buy that. Now, Alf
the Alien opiner says, you want to read a fortune cookie,
He's an actual fortune. Here's an actual fortune I received,
and he sent me a photo of a fortune that
said some fortune cookies contain no fortune. He says that
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that was his, and if that's true, that means that
would be his what appears to be his thumb. I
could see his Alf's I didn't know Alf had a thumb,
but it appears that he does have a thune, which
is good and also tells me that whoever is writing
the fortunes in the fortune cookies ran out of ideas.
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All right, we'll just put in some fortune cookies contain
no fortune. We'll get rid of one. Good dam. Shane
of des Moines writes in he says, has anyone heard
from Sir scratch Off lately? We may need to do
a wellness check on him. I have not. I've not
heard from Sir scratch Has anyone Coop, has Sir Scratchoff
called in recently? As he checked in? Has he called
(15:33):
in at all? He is not all right? If anyone
knows what has happened to our friend Sir scratch Off, us.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Know, maybe he won the scratch Off lottery Ben and
he's off on a vacation somewhere.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
It's possible. It's also possible that he would call up
if he actually did win, to brag about it. Right,
I see, I guess he's taking a break from the show.
Something sad happened and he doesn't feel like calling the show.
Either that or he got thrown off social media and
(16:11):
he's huffing and puffing and angry and that's why he's
not taking part in the program. So either one either
one of those things. That's that's what I'm going with.
By the way, want to point out Lorena is honoring
Rush Limbaugh. If you know the history of the studio.
(16:32):
We redid the Fox Sports Radio compound, the iHeartMedia building
in La La Land, and we took at one point
Steve Harvey, that's a game show host, a very good one,
did his morning show and they built a studio for him.
And then the other half of the studio was Rush Limbaugh,
talent on loan from God. A Rush such a big
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star for the Premiere Networks that he had his own
studio in Los Angeles and he only did like one
or two weeks a year from La mostly he was
in Florida.
Speaker 8 (17:06):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
But he was such a big deal of his own
private studio. No one was allowed in there. And then
when he when Rush. I remember when Rush would show
up and it was like God was arriving. The red carpet,
the Limo security, they actually asked people to take showers.
It was it was wild. It was absolutely wild. But
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the reason she's Chandling rush Limbaugh is because she's eating
chicken wings with one hand tied behind her back, just
to make it fair, because Lauren, you do not want
to damage. You don't not want to get the grease
from the wings on the very expensive equipment that you're
standing in front of. Is that correct?
Speaker 8 (17:45):
Absolutely correct?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Ben?
Speaker 8 (17:46):
Okay, all right, extra precaution.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I understand. Are you right handed or the left hand?
Speaker 8 (17:51):
I am right handed.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
You're right handed, so you assume you're eating with your
right hand.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
I'm eating with my left hand.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Oh okay, yes.
Speaker 8 (17:58):
Running to and fro from the board as needed.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
You know what's funny though, I used the word amed
extras today because I was watching that one game, that
one basketball game tonight between the little case and.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
We're watching that, I know, I know, crazy.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
And then did you see when the guy went with
his left hand and he was like loop and it
went into the hoop? Anyways, I was like, he must
be ambedextros and I look at me.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Look at that. Now, there have been some baseball players
that were there. They haven't been very good, but they
had the ability to throw right and left handed, and
you'd think that would be the perfect baseball player. Right,
because you could throw.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
Right right, like who could beat you? If your one
arm feels bad, It's okay, I can throw with my
other one.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I know.
Speaker 10 (18:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
But they still they were never never been that good.
They were like relief pictures. I have Red Sox had
a guy back in the nineties that was maybe early
two thousands, Harris, I think it was his name, but
he was he was alright, But most of these guys
have been there. And I gotta tell you, I'm amberdexterous
is if that's the term I am As a talk
shows I can talk out of my right side of
my mouth and the left side of my mouth.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Bad, Yeah, impressive. Now what kind of chicken wings we
are we eating here? What do we got?
Speaker 7 (19:13):
I got half lemon pepper and half of their Hawaiian
lemon pepper.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Lou Williams. Lou Williams who broke out of the COVID
compound there in Orlando to eat chicken wings in Atlanta.
They're that good. He and Lou goes to the place
Rob Parker goes to. Was it Magic City? Is that
the name of the place he goes to. I think
that's the name of the place in Atlanta.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
How many wings do you think you can get down
in one sitting.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I'm not a wing guy. I'm a chicken finger guy.
I don't like the I'm not I do not like
the bones. I gotta tell you, I'm not a bone
bone person, all right, I mean I could eat endless
amounts of chicken fingers, the chicken wing. No, how many?
Speaker 5 (19:49):
If you have your honey mustard though, right.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Well yeah, no ranch honey mustard. I could.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
I was going to say, if you had to go
to a number two, what would it be?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
It would be barbecue, that would go. Barbecue be the
way to do it. But that's it's about it. You
get a ten pack of wings, Lorena, what do you got?
Speaker 8 (20:06):
Only a six piece?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
A six piece? Man? Now, do you know the history
of the chicken wing?
Speaker 8 (20:14):
No? Yeah, there's like actual history.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, like originally if I remember hearing this story years
ago that the chicken wing was not popular because there
wasn't a lot of meat on it, right, and and
then I forget exactly I could I could go back
in my archive. I have this somewhere. But now everyone
eats chicken wings. I'm I'm an outlier. I'm I'm an
ugly red at StepShot because I I don't like the
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chicken wing, but they still like a you know, a
billion plus two billion chicken wings a year. People love them,
but there was a point people didn't like them because
I think they were like thrown away with hawkstail. And also,
isn't that lobster was like prison food because it was
hard to eat and they would serve to the prisoners
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because I see now it's like an elitist food lobster.
That's food fun facts for you. Let's go to the
phones and eenie meanie miney mo. Let's say hello to
hollering James. He has hung up, all right, Hollering James
is sung up, So we'll sa hello to Mason the Millennial. Hello,
Mason the Millennial. Welcome, Hey Ben, how are you doing?
Speaker 11 (21:25):
Thanks for putting me on pack to back nights. Man,
I'm blessed to be on your show. I'm glad to
be able to talk with you and the crew. I'm
I'm just happy right now. Man, it's a good night.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Sounds like he's happy. Yeah, you're on the Happy Happy
Sauce tonight, aren't you, Mason?
Speaker 11 (21:41):
Well, yeah, you know it's my birthday. So oh congratiation
nine minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Happy birthday. I can't say happy happy birthday because that
would be a shout out. I can say happy birds,
but I can't say happy happy birthday.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Felice.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
What number? What number are we at here? Mason? What
number birthday are we at?
Speaker 11 (22:06):
Day?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Say?
Speaker 11 (22:07):
Thank you?
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Say that's twenty six for everyone who doesn't know, thank.
Speaker 11 (22:13):
You, Lorena, Right, okay, thank you say yeah, so that's
what I'm at right now, thank you, Lorena. So yeah,
I know it's been kind of debated whether I'm a
millennial or not, but I don't care what the haters say.
You know, I don't care at all completely what I
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identify as.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Oh well it's twenty twenty four, you know, can identify
as a tennis ball who cares?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
All?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Right, Well, very exciting. How are you celebrating your birthday, Mason?
What do you got big plans? You can get all
those free birthday foods at the restaurants that offer free
things on your birthday.
Speaker 11 (22:51):
Yeah, We're gonna hit up Starbucks and all the whatever
you call it. And uh, you know, I got family.
I'm going golfing later today. I'm about to start my
summer golf tour with my family members, so we're going
to kick that option off. But I hit up the
I told you last night, we end up the Giants
Dodgers game, and that was well, you know, it didn't
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go the way you would like it, but I thought
it was really cool with seeing that spotlight come out
with Camille Duvall. Like I read earlier this year that
the Times are the only team that have the spotlight,
you know, going on at their stadium. So I guess
that's cool. But it really was cool. It was special,
And I mean I was heckling so Hey all night.
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I was heckling James outman. Every time he got out,
I said, hey, James, you're out man. And I know.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
That he's never heard that one before. That's that's pretty good. Yeah, probably,
I know he probably looked at you said, oh boy,
that's very creative. That's solid. Of course, the way he's in,
he will be out. He'll be in the mind the
leagues he's been playing. Uh yeah, that's uh, that's good.
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This yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 11 (24:09):
The Giants fans enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
We have a beautiful ballpark there. It's one of the
great ballparks I've been to. And just wonderful.
Speaker 11 (24:17):
Yeah, by no means am I a giant fan?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
But I kind of like.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
You sound like you were for the night. It sounded
like you were.
Speaker 11 (24:26):
I wanted to see Showy belt one so bad, man.
It would have been like a birthday come true.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
But you bet the under on hits. So that's why
our home runs.
Speaker 11 (24:36):
You bet a lot of people, did I hear?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I got you? I gotta go, thank you. I'm hanging
up on you. Go have another drink, have a cocktail,
have a which kind of drink should he have? I
don't know my tie? Whatever, he's your birthday, Do whatever
the hell you want.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
I've been craving a mohito lately, Ben.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Want would you like a listener to get you a mohito?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Is?
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Yeah? All right. Well if you want to hook Lorrena up,
you can do that. David the fry Daddy from Pennsylvania says,
who cares about sir idiot? Let a sleeping dog lie?
You know, he's the only person that has called your
show that gets under my skin. I don't understand why,
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says David in Pennsylvania. I'm not worried about Sir skatch
Off yet. Now, if we don't hear from him in
like the next week. I mean, we're not paying him
to call the show. He's not on the payroll. He's
not on the payroll. He's he's just not.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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Speaker 5 (25:44):
More from the NFL schedule release schedule. Some interesting matchups
of note. Week one you will have we assume number
one overall bick Caleboy is making his NFL debut. The
Bears will host the Titans. Week two, Steers and quarterback
Russell Wilson going to Denver to take on his old team,
the Broncos. That's on September the fifteenth. Week seven Eagles
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are in New York to face the Giants. Running back
Sakwon Barkley returning to New York with Philadelphia. That's October
the twentieth. Week fourteen Falcons and quarterback Kirk Cousins will
be in Minnesota to face his old team, the Vikings.
That's on December the eighth. And of course we do
have Week twelve the Harbor Ball John and the Ravens
in La to face Jim and the Chargers. That is
Monday Night Football, November the twenty fifth.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
All right, and it's bottom of the already, so that
means I think you know what that means, hit the
malor fun fact, that's right, fun fun fun. Now, the
Philadelphia Phillies are baseball's best team, and beest means as
good as all the rest. But they have the better
record than anyone else right now. But the Philadelphia Phillies
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have played the hostess schedule ding Dong's cupcakes and fruit pies,
my maths wreck. The Phillies have played how many games
against teams with a winning record? Do do do Do
Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do
Do Do do do do do do do do do
do do do do do do do do do do
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do all right, tens down, tens down, the fighting Phills.
The Philadelphia Phillies a team that has a very very
sexy record this year, top record in baseball to start
the year, the Philadelphia Phillies have played a grand total of,
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by maths correct year, three games against teams that have
a winning record. That's it, as in three, uh, they
are thirty and eleven against teams that have a losing record,
and they have a losing record against teams that have
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have a winning record. That is insane. It all evens
out on the end. Don't worry, but that is that
not a fun? Come on, that's fun? Is that not fun?
That's fun? You know what that is. It's like a
football team that we see this every couple of years
in the NFL that'll get off to like a seven
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and one start and you look at their schedule and
they played the tomato soup and they played chicken soup
and all that. Well, the Phillies are thirty one and
thirteen have a losing record against teams with a winning record.
They've only played three games, and they have played forty
one games, forty one out of the fifty four games
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that they have played. Me, do the man actually has fifty? Now, yeah,
forty one of the they said there would be, so
forty one of the forty four games that they play.
That's right. That's the math on that. That's my fun
fact at the bottom of the hour end. Since we
put the fun in fun, let me point out this
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is very important. Probably Lorraina thinks this is the most
important part of what we're doing here. What I'm about
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Understand Yeah, very good, big snack guy. We got a
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big snack guy in the NFL, and a guy that's
gonna be very good for what we do here. His
name is Keon Coleman. He plays for Andy the Comic
Book Guy and Bill's Mafia. Right there now, Bill's rookie.
Keon Coleman did a recent interview where he he revealed
that he loves a snack. He loves snacking. He was
(30:05):
asked the list his top three snacks. Here's what he named.
He named sour punch straws, sweet tart ropes, and skittles.
But then he said, wait a minute, hold on a sec.
He said, you gotta give me five. You can't just
give me three. So then he added on laughy taffy
now and later and airhead extremes, and then he pointed
(30:29):
out that was actually six not three, and he went
into great detail. You have a scouting report on which
flavors he likes and the ones that he goes for
the most. There that is Keon Coleman, who is going
to be a I believe, a starting wide receiver for
the Buffalo Bills this season. If you look at that
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depth chart, and who doesn't like looking at depth charts?
Here the Buffalo Bills have a void at the wide
receiver position for Josh Allen to throw the ball to.
But Kean Coleman is listed on the depth chart as
a starter with Curtis Samuel, the ex Washington football player,
and the great Khalil Shaker is the other starting wide
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receiver with a backup they did. They just signed Marcus
Valdez scantly. He went to Buffalo. The only people who
go to Buffalo signed with the Bills because why else
would you go to Buffalo? And Mac Hollins also part
of that deal. He's also like a backup receiver because
that's the content you're looking for, very important content. Indeed,
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do we have this audio? I want to play this
on it? So this is Michael Malone. Michael Malone is
the head coach of the Denver basketball team, and Michael
Malone was asked a bunch of questions about Luka Doncik,
not Luca. I got my European players mixed up. Nikola
Jokich would be the guy he was asked about. Why
would he be asked about Luka donche so he did
(31:56):
about Nicola Jokic. And listen to the head coach of
the Denver basketball team. Give Nicola Jokic a tongue bath.
Let's go to the audio tape. You know, he's his
IQ is off the charts.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
You know, uh, he probably belongs to MENSA.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
He probably doesn't even know what MENSA is, but he is.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Uh, all quiz guys throughout the series about play calls
about personnel, tendency, is about game plan and you know, Nicole,
he's he's ahead of everybody. He just knows everything.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
So he qualifies for MENSA. And then he then he said,
he know what MENSA is, and I believe that you
have to be in the top two percent to qualify
for membership into MENSA. In terms of IQ, he's a
mission test and whatnot. You know, the standardized IQ test
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and all that, and you have to first of all,
you have to get a qualifying score this how I
understand it, have your qualifying score on one of the
regular general population standardized IQ tests. Then you have to
take a MENSA qualifying exam, and once you meet that criteria,
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you then have to pay the annual dues to become
a member.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Yeah, so yeah, that's that's how. That's how that works. Now.
My favorite story that I laughed my ass off at,
involving the joker was from one of the parody websites.
Not it's a it's actually a social media feed which
is hilarious. So they I think they're using AI on this.
(33:43):
I believe they're using AI. It's a rip off on
a very popular basketball account, which is NBA Central, very
popular account on x so it's a parody account and
they have been hornswaggling people for a good period of time.
I don't have time to get in right now. I'm
gonna get in a little bit. I'm gonna save it
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because after that leave some time. We have Mallard of
the third degree, and I am on time. Mallard by
the clock four the clock plausably all about the clock.
So we'll get to that coming up in a minute.
But time now for the Insta trivia. The oldest players
in NBA playoff history to have a twenty point fifteen
rebound game are Lebron, James al Horford, who did it
in the game last night, and Blank. That's the Insta trivia.
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The answer Mallard of the thirty degree. Next.
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Time. Now for the install trivia. And here it is
a blatant and rather pathetic attempt to get you to
listen a little bit longer. It appears that it has
worked in we'll get to Mallard of the third degree.
Here we go, the oldest player in NBA Playoff history
to record a twenty plus point fifteen plus rebound performance
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in a game. Are the old players are Lebron, James Al,
Horford average al who did it for the Celtics last night?
And Blank? That is the question. What is the answer?
And we go to the Malard militia to see if
anybody knows the answer, and go page down here page
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dwn Fonzarella from Ponsie from Cowboy Killer. Who else do
you have? Patrick Mahomey from King Rory Robert Parrish unless
it's not from Rod the Ambassador of Bakersfield Poppy also
known as schlep Rock from Art Puffin, Todd Stuttlemyer Guess
by mister nice Guy Paige Down actual member of Mensa,
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Ben Maler, Guess by Ferguck Very kind for Doug Janet
Jackson who's fifty eight today? Guests by the Late Night
Drug Tesser, George the Animal Steal from Robin Vegas, who
I did a wrestling event with years ago. I don't
have time to get into it now, Eddie, do you
have an answer? It's not Floyd Banister, guess by Robin Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (36:28):
Oh, that's a silly answer. I'm gonna go with former
San Diego Padre Champ Summers.
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Is it Champ Summers? No, the correct answer is Kareem
Abdul Jabbar. Got that to the third degree.
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This is one big event gets grilled approval.
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Reports this week claim that coach K is a quote
respected unofficial resource for the Lakers in their coaching search, Ben,
do you think the supporting signals JJ Reddick will be
the next coach of the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Let's see here, who is one of JJ Reddick's mentors,
who was coach one of Coach K's favorite players, Ding
Ding Ding Ding Ning Yet, So what I've heard is
Lebron wants Reddick, and the Lakers have to pacify Lebron
otherwise he's going to opt out of his contract. And
they're all paranoid over there in Lakerland. If Lebron leaves,
almost good. If Lebron leaves, that looks bad for the Lakers.
(37:24):
So if he wants JJ Reddick, JJ Reddick will be
a Laker coach and good luck that swarmy, arrogant sob
who never made a shot in Key malmonson playoff games
walla Clipper. Next.
Speaker 10 (37:37):
One NFL network analyst recently claimed that the Pittsburgh Steelers
actually have the best chance at supplanting the Ravens in
the AFC North this season. Ben, is that crazy talk?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
No, because Mike Tomlin actually sent me an email. They
bought a time machine to go back when Russell Wilson
was actually an effective NFL quarterback. So as long as
that thing works, Coop, the Steelers are golden Man. They're
going to be great. They're going to get the Russ
from that Seattle days back when he was good.
Speaker 10 (38:01):
Next, Jared Goff is the latest quarterback to get a
contract extension. Who do you think will be the next
to at taga by Lola or Trevor Lawrence?
Speaker 1 (38:09):
So if they're smart, all things being equal, who knows
whether that's true or not, it should be Tua. Even
if the Dolphins Nickel and diamond I still don't trust
Tua can stay healthy. And it's not like he's skyrocketed
in the playoffs in that cold weather in Kansas City.
He looks like your standard jag, just a guy at quarterbacks.
(38:30):
So if I see him, I would take the money
and run from Miami. If they offer him a contract,
how do we do cope he passes editions, that is
a league. You could put it on the buck cut change,
check change, chick change
Hello and welcome. It's our name Bird two talking basketball
Jason Tatum. That's a basketball player in Boston. Celtics won
they eliminated the Cleveland basketball team. Jason Tatum dodging a
question about him being overlooked for MVP honors because the
Celtics are too good? Can you unscramble that? Also, who's
(00:23):
the fall guy for the Calves playing like the cadavers
in this series in their demise? And how should the
Calves handle Donovan Mitchell's situation. He's got a wandering eye,
it would appear. I'll discuss that as well. All of
it's coming your way right now. Original recipe Our two
A bunch of green literally all over the place. Welume.
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In the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mallord Show.
We are in the air every Wear talk Mates, as
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in Arkansas, who was very lucky. I don't know if
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Eastern Semi Finals, Game five, Celtics playing host to the Calves,
chance to close it out. This was the early game
on the card. Do you watch? No, you didn't not,
you were not partaking. It's a bad job by you.
So I watch. I got nothing else going on. Jason Tatum,
people say he's pretty awesome. He had twenty five points,
(02:24):
ten rebounds as Boston beat Cleveland by fifteen. I mentioned
Blake and Arkansas RP one. This guy's a business mogul,
This guy Blake, and he had sent a message on
on X. I didn't see it until a little bit
later once the game had started, but he had the
Calves plus sixteen and it was nip and talk at
(02:49):
the end, but he ended up winning. But the Celtics
win by fifteen and they advanced to the Eastern Conference
Finals for the third straight season. Al Horford now brief
moonlighted on some other sports talk station in Boston, and
at that time al Horford his nickname was average Al
(03:10):
and he's still known as average Out and for the
most of the time this playoff he's been just kind
of taking up space, but not. In the game that
was played on Wednesday night, al Horford had twenty two points,
fifteen rebounds, and six moneyballs. The Celtics had nineteen to
three pointers, which sounds impressive until you consider they shoot
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the three point shot pretty much every time down. And
so the Celtics win their third consecutive game in the series,
and they get a four to one series win, and
now Boston will sit back and eat donuts and they'll
wait to play the winner of the matchup between the
Knickerbockers and the Pacers. New York leading that series three
games two, they Cataliers. If you didn't watch, you probably didn't.
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They were extremely, extremely battle scarred, short handed, however you
want to say it. They didn't have Donovan Mitchell out
with a calf injury, Jarrett Allen the center rib injury,
and Kris LeVert had a bum knee. Now, since the
game was a dud, not a milk dud, just a dud,
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the content machine was filled by Jason Tatum. There were
no pins and needles moments unless you happen to have
a wager on the game. But the outcome was not
in debate by about that's it. About the nine minute mark,
the Celtics put on a burner and that was it.
But following the victory, TNT interviewed Jason Tatum and they
(04:45):
asked Jason Tatum whether the Celtics consistency over the last
couple of seasons has caused voters to overlook him when
it comes to ors, mainly the Most Valuable Player award,
which went to Nicole Jokic. Well, we have the audio tape,
so let's go to the audio tape. Here's what Jason
(05:06):
Tatum said as he responded to that question about the
Celtics being so good that Tatum gets overlooked. Let's go
to the audio tape.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Oh man, that's a lot of things I wish I
could say, but you know that's not for me to decide.
You know, everybody has their job. The voters in both
who they think Showa MVP. Yogi's rightly deserved that this year.
You know, right now, at this point of the season,
Auto awards are voted on the only thing that matters is,
you know, getting that big trophy. So we could worry
about the individual awards played it down my career, but
(05:36):
this year to trying to get the championship.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Okay, so let's discuss Jason Tatum. You heard it. He
played a little dodgeball on that question about whether or
not he's being overlooked for MVP honors. Can you unscramble that?
So I've got dog whistle, greyhound, bus, and camper. We'll
combine all of these things together and will make fighting words,
(06:01):
all right. Number I would also like to leader all
your filiates, Lorana has eaten the number chicken wing if
she has consumed the number one a chicken wing. So
to answer the question, Jason Tatum dodging the question about
whether or not he's being overlooked for these awards because
(06:22):
the Boston basketball team is good the way I interpret it,
and I'm never wrong about these things. Jason Tatum gave
a passive, aggressive, diplomatic answer. Does that make sense? Does
that work for you? Like he didn't bite the cheese,
but he kind of did. He nibbled on it. He
didn't bite it, but he nibbled it, and he let
(06:44):
his true feelings come out. He used coded language that
opening line, dead do what? Dead did what? When Jason
Tatum said, there's a lot of things I wish I
could say, but anytime you put butt in there, that's
a lot, right. He wants to say it, but he
(07:05):
knows he can't say it, so he didn't say it,
but he wants to say it, so he used a
dog whistle. He is contankers. He expected the basketball scribes
to vote for him and to give him a special
order from one eight hundred flowers, and instead he got
a lumpical. So reading the fortune cookie for Jason Tatum,
(07:27):
all things are difficult before they are easy. Meanie, meanie.
For those of you a little slow, maybe Tommy and
Atlanta there driving his truck around. It means that if
the Celtics do what they're supposed to and win the
Bling Bling, Jason Tatum, Jasentatum will be put on a
pedestal and then the awards will come flowing towards him.
(07:51):
You can wave a magic wand and all of a
sudden you get an award. You get an award, and
you get an opportunity to get an award, and all
that now Page two, flip side. Cleveland was absolutely flummixed
in the late stage of this game and they have
now been excommunicated from the playoffs. Who's the fall guy
(08:14):
for the cadavers and their demise? So there are going
to be multiple changes. But we are hearing that coach JB. Bickerstaff,
who is related to former NBA coach Bernie Bickerston. But JB.
Bickerstaff's job is in serious jeopardy despite back to back
(08:34):
playoff appearances, including their first playoff series win without Lebron
since nineteen ninety three. Someone is going to be a
human sacrifice win in doubt. Throw the coach out, Get
out of here, Get out of here. So what's gonna happen?
Since the Cavs were missing in action many of their
(08:55):
top players there chose not to compete. You're gonna send
Bernie bicker Staff a nice gift package. Inside the gift
package with the ball on it will be a Greyhound
bus ticket. He will then go to the Greyhound bus
station and you will be giving him a one way
ticket out of Dodge. See you later, Goodbye to the land,
(09:17):
the mistake by the lake. You're out here. It is
a players league, we're told all the time. Coaches are disposable,
and especially a guy like Dan Gilbert, the owner of
the Cleveland basketball team, who has no patience, I know,
patients on the cutting edge at all times. Now, final
point with bickers Staff hanging on by a thread by
(09:42):
the skin on his chinny chin chin, likely to be fired.
Another prominent Cleveland puzzle piece is said to be dabbling
in some old fashioned window shopping. Yes, the plot thickens
around the Cavaliers. You know what happens every summer. Every summer,
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one or two big names has a hissy fit and
they want out of the city they're in. They want
to they want nothing to do with the team they're
playing with and they want to go somewhere else. Happens
every summer, and we're heading into that period now with
teams eliminated, we're almost down to the final four in
the NBA. So how should the Cavaliers handle Donovan Mitchell's situation?
(10:28):
Because that's who. This is about Donovan Mitchell and his predicament.
So my advice is to prepare for divorce court. I
know the song said that breaking up is hard to do.
Boots on the ground have been whispering in hush tones
that Donovan Mitchell is a camper, not the kind of
(10:50):
camper that's going to go to a national park. Donovan
Mitchell is a camper, as in an unhappy camper. He
never wanted to go to Cleveland. He wanted to go
to the Knicks, but from what I I've heard, he
didn't even want to play for the Knicks anymore because
that's now Jalen Brunson's team, and even if Donovan Mitchell
went there, it would still be Jalen Brunson's team because
the fan base is falling in love with Jalen Brunson,
(11:13):
even though he's from that part of the country. So
he wants brighter lights, he wants a bigger stage, and
I almost puked in my mouth. But everyone that I've
reached out to says Tinseltown that he wants to join
the elite elitism of the Lakers. And so if not
La laland watch out for something perceived to be more
(11:33):
glamorous than Cleveland. So we'll see see what happens to that.
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it true an NBA coach gave a star player on
his team a very public tongue bath. We've got the
audio evidence on that. We'll get to it and we will.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Do it.
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Speaker 1 (14:08):
Otherwise, another great monologue as usual, eleven out of ten
and he thumbs up. Well, King Roy, we are not
a Morning Zoos show. If you want to shout out
and go on cameo and I'll do a cameo for you.
And that's kind of a shout out. And and by
the way, that's that's like a bogus thing because if
she's your wife and you're the king, she's the queen.
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So I don't know if I buy that. Now, Alf
the Alien opiner says, you want to read a fortune cookie,
He's an actual fortune. Here's an actual fortune I received,
and he sent me a photo of a fortune that
said some fortune cookies contain no fortune. He says that
(14:50):
that was his, and if that's true, that means that
would be his what appears to be his thumb. I
could see his Alf's I didn't know Alf had a thumb,
but it appears that he does have a thune, which
is good and also tells me that whoever is writing
the fortunes in the fortune cookies ran out of ideas.
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All right, we'll just put in some fortune cookies contain
no fortune. We'll get rid of one. Good dam. Shane
of des Moines writes in he says, has anyone heard
from Sir scratch Off lately? We may need to do
a wellness check on him. I have not. I've not
heard from Sir scratch Has anyone Coop, has Sir Scratchoff
called in recently? As he checked in? Has he called
(15:33):
in at all? He is not all right? If anyone
knows what has happened to our friend Sir scratch Off, us.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Know, maybe he won the scratch Off lottery Ben and
he's off on a vacation somewhere.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
It's possible. It's also possible that he would call up
if he actually did win, to brag about it. Right,
I see, I guess he's taking a break from the show.
Something sad happened and he doesn't feel like calling the show.
Either that or he got thrown off social media and
(16:11):
he's huffing and puffing and angry and that's why he's
not taking part in the program. So either one either
one of those things. That's that's what I'm going with.
By the way, want to point out Lorena is honoring
Rush Limbaugh. If you know the history of the studio.
(16:32):
We redid the Fox Sports Radio compound, the iHeartMedia building
in La La Land, and we took at one point
Steve Harvey, that's a game show host, a very good one,
did his morning show and they built a studio for him.
And then the other half of the studio was Rush Limbaugh,
talent on loan from God. A Rush such a big
(16:56):
star for the Premiere Networks that he had his own
studio in Los Angeles and he only did like one
or two weeks a year from La mostly he was
in Florida.
Speaker 8 (17:06):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
But he was such a big deal of his own
private studio. No one was allowed in there. And then
when he when Rush. I remember when Rush would show
up and it was like God was arriving. The red carpet,
the Limo security, they actually asked people to take showers.
It was it was wild. It was absolutely wild. But
(17:27):
the reason she's Chandling rush Limbaugh is because she's eating
chicken wings with one hand tied behind her back, just
to make it fair, because Lauren, you do not want
to damage. You don't not want to get the grease
from the wings on the very expensive equipment that you're
standing in front of. Is that correct?
Speaker 8 (17:45):
Absolutely correct?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Ben?
Speaker 8 (17:46):
Okay, all right, extra precaution.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I understand. Are you right handed or the left hand?
Speaker 8 (17:51):
I am right handed.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
You're right handed, so you assume you're eating with your
right hand.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
I'm eating with my left hand.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Oh okay, yes.
Speaker 8 (17:58):
Running to and fro from the board as needed.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
You know what's funny though, I used the word amed
extras today because I was watching that one game, that
one basketball game tonight between the little case and.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
We're watching that, I know, I know, crazy.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
And then did you see when the guy went with
his left hand and he was like loop and it
went into the hoop? Anyways, I was like, he must
be ambedextros and I look at me.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Look at that. Now, there have been some baseball players
that were there. They haven't been very good, but they
had the ability to throw right and left handed, and
you'd think that would be the perfect baseball player. Right,
because you could throw.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
Right right, like who could beat you? If your one
arm feels bad, It's okay, I can throw with my
other one.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I know.
Speaker 10 (18:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
But they still they were never never been that good.
They were like relief pictures. I have Red Sox had
a guy back in the nineties that was maybe early
two thousands, Harris, I think it was his name, but
he was he was alright, But most of these guys
have been there. And I gotta tell you, I'm amberdexterous
is if that's the term I am As a talk
shows I can talk out of my right side of
my mouth and the left side of my mouth.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Bad, Yeah, impressive. Now what kind of chicken wings we
are we eating here? What do we got?
Speaker 7 (19:13):
I got half lemon pepper and half of their Hawaiian
lemon pepper.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Lou Williams. Lou Williams who broke out of the COVID
compound there in Orlando to eat chicken wings in Atlanta.
They're that good. He and Lou goes to the place
Rob Parker goes to. Was it Magic City? Is that
the name of the place he goes to. I think
that's the name of the place in Atlanta.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
How many wings do you think you can get down
in one sitting.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I'm not a wing guy. I'm a chicken finger guy.
I don't like the I'm not I do not like
the bones. I gotta tell you, I'm not a bone
bone person, all right, I mean I could eat endless
amounts of chicken fingers, the chicken wing. No, how many?
Speaker 5 (19:49):
If you have your honey mustard though, right.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Well yeah, no ranch honey mustard. I could.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
I was going to say, if you had to go
to a number two, what would it be?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
It would be barbecue, that would go. Barbecue be the
way to do it. But that's it's about it. You
get a ten pack of wings, Lorena, what do you got?
Speaker 8 (20:06):
Only a six piece?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
A six piece? Man? Now, do you know the history
of the chicken wing?
Speaker 8 (20:14):
No? Yeah, there's like actual history.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, like originally if I remember hearing this story years
ago that the chicken wing was not popular because there
wasn't a lot of meat on it, right, and and
then I forget exactly I could I could go back
in my archive. I have this somewhere. But now everyone
eats chicken wings. I'm I'm an outlier. I'm I'm an
ugly red at StepShot because I I don't like the
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chicken wing, but they still like a you know, a
billion plus two billion chicken wings a year. People love them,
but there was a point people didn't like them because
I think they were like thrown away with hawkstail. And also,
isn't that lobster was like prison food because it was
hard to eat and they would serve to the prisoners
(21:00):
because I see now it's like an elitist food lobster.
That's food fun facts for you. Let's go to the
phones and eenie meanie miney mo. Let's say hello to
hollering James. He has hung up, all right, Hollering James
is sung up, So we'll sa hello to Mason the Millennial. Hello,
Mason the Millennial. Welcome, Hey Ben, how are you doing?
Speaker 11 (21:25):
Thanks for putting me on pack to back nights. Man,
I'm blessed to be on your show. I'm glad to
be able to talk with you and the crew. I'm
I'm just happy right now. Man, it's a good night.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Sounds like he's happy. Yeah, you're on the Happy Happy
Sauce tonight, aren't you, Mason?
Speaker 11 (21:41):
Well, yeah, you know it's my birthday. So oh congratiation
nine minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Happy birthday. I can't say happy happy birthday because that
would be a shout out. I can say happy birds,
but I can't say happy happy birthday.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Felice.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
What number? What number are we at here? Mason? What
number birthday are we at?
Speaker 11 (22:06):
Day?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Say?
Speaker 11 (22:07):
Thank you?
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Say that's twenty six for everyone who doesn't know, thank.
Speaker 11 (22:13):
You, Lorena, Right, okay, thank you say yeah, so that's
what I'm at right now, thank you, Lorena. So yeah,
I know it's been kind of debated whether I'm a
millennial or not, but I don't care what the haters say.
You know, I don't care at all completely what I
(22:34):
identify as.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Oh well it's twenty twenty four, you know, can identify
as a tennis ball who cares?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
All?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Right, Well, very exciting. How are you celebrating your birthday, Mason?
What do you got big plans? You can get all
those free birthday foods at the restaurants that offer free
things on your birthday.
Speaker 11 (22:51):
Yeah, We're gonna hit up Starbucks and all the whatever
you call it. And uh, you know, I got family.
I'm going golfing later today. I'm about to start my
summer golf tour with my family members, so we're going
to kick that option off. But I hit up the
I told you last night, we end up the Giants
Dodgers game, and that was well, you know, it didn't
(23:14):
go the way you would like it, but I thought
it was really cool with seeing that spotlight come out
with Camille Duvall. Like I read earlier this year that
the Times are the only team that have the spotlight,
you know, going on at their stadium. So I guess
that's cool. But it really was cool. It was special,
And I mean I was heckling so Hey all night.
(23:37):
I was heckling James outman. Every time he got out,
I said, hey, James, you're out man. And I know.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
That he's never heard that one before. That's that's pretty good. Yeah, probably,
I know he probably looked at you said, oh boy,
that's very creative. That's solid. Of course, the way he's in,
he will be out. He'll be in the mind the
leagues he's been playing. Uh yeah, that's uh, that's good.
(24:06):
This yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 11 (24:09):
The Giants fans enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
We have a beautiful ballpark there. It's one of the
great ballparks I've been to. And just wonderful.
Speaker 11 (24:17):
Yeah, by no means am I a giant fan?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
But I kind of like.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
You sound like you were for the night. It sounded
like you were.
Speaker 11 (24:26):
I wanted to see Showy belt one so bad, man.
It would have been like a birthday come true.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
But you bet the under on hits. So that's why
our home runs.
Speaker 11 (24:36):
You bet a lot of people, did I hear?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I got you? I gotta go, thank you. I'm hanging
up on you. Go have another drink, have a cocktail,
have a which kind of drink should he have? I
don't know my tie? Whatever, he's your birthday, Do whatever
the hell you want.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
I've been craving a mohito lately, Ben.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Want would you like a listener to get you a mohito?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Is?
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Yeah? All right. Well if you want to hook Lorrena up,
you can do that. David the fry Daddy from Pennsylvania says,
who cares about sir idiot? Let a sleeping dog lie?
You know, he's the only person that has called your
show that gets under my skin. I don't understand why,
(25:21):
says David in Pennsylvania. I'm not worried about Sir skatch
Off yet. Now, if we don't hear from him in
like the next week. I mean, we're not paying him
to call the show. He's not on the payroll. He's
not on the payroll. He's he's just not.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
More from the NFL schedule release schedule. Some interesting matchups
of note. Week one you will have we assume number
one overall bick Caleboy is making his NFL debut. The
Bears will host the Titans. Week two, Steers and quarterback
Russell Wilson going to Denver to take on his old team,
the Broncos. That's on September the fifteenth. Week seven Eagles
(26:07):
are in New York to face the Giants. Running back
Sakwon Barkley returning to New York with Philadelphia. That's October
the twentieth. Week fourteen Falcons and quarterback Kirk Cousins will
be in Minnesota to face his old team, the Vikings.
That's on December the eighth. And of course we do
have Week twelve the Harbor Ball John and the Ravens
in La to face Jim and the Chargers. That is
Monday Night Football, November the twenty fifth.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
All right, and it's bottom of the already, so that
means I think you know what that means, hit the
malor fun fact, that's right, fun fun fun. Now, the
Philadelphia Phillies are baseball's best team, and beest means as
good as all the rest. But they have the better
record than anyone else right now. But the Philadelphia Phillies
(26:54):
have played the hostess schedule ding Dong's cupcakes and fruit pies,
my maths wreck. The Phillies have played how many games
against teams with a winning record? Do do do Do
Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do
Do Do do do do do do do do do
do do do do do do do do do do
(27:15):
do all right, tens down, tens down, the fighting Phills.
The Philadelphia Phillies a team that has a very very
sexy record this year, top record in baseball to start
the year, the Philadelphia Phillies have played a grand total of,
(27:36):
by maths correct year, three games against teams that have
a winning record. That's it, as in three, uh, they
are thirty and eleven against teams that have a losing record,
and they have a losing record against teams that have
(27:57):
have a winning record. That is insane. It all evens
out on the end. Don't worry, but that is that
not a fun? Come on, that's fun? Is that not fun?
That's fun? You know what that is. It's like a
football team that we see this every couple of years
in the NFL that'll get off to like a seven
(28:18):
and one start and you look at their schedule and
they played the tomato soup and they played chicken soup
and all that. Well, the Phillies are thirty one and
thirteen have a losing record against teams with a winning record.
They've only played three games, and they have played forty
one games, forty one out of the fifty four games
(28:41):
that they have played. Me, do the man actually has fifty? Now, yeah,
forty one of the they said there would be, so
forty one of the forty four games that they play.
That's right. That's the math on that. That's my fun
fact at the bottom of the hour end. Since we
put the fun in fun, let me point out this
(29:01):
is very important. Probably Lorraina thinks this is the most
important part of what we're doing here. What I'm about
to tell you the most important part. The thing that
you need to listen closest for is the bottom of
the hour Live Read my God. A Thoroughbred Racing has
(29:22):
a new independent regulator HAISA that is implementing comprehensive reforms,
and the sport is combining hands on care with cutting
edge technology to help keep its athletes safe. To learn more,
visit safetyeruns first dot com at Safety runs first dot com.
Understand Yeah, very good, big snack guy. We got a
(29:43):
big snack guy in the NFL, and a guy that's
gonna be very good for what we do here. His
name is Keon Coleman. He plays for Andy the Comic
Book Guy and Bill's Mafia. Right there now, Bill's rookie.
Keon Coleman did a recent interview where he he revealed
that he loves a snack. He loves snacking. He was
(30:05):
asked the list his top three snacks. Here's what he named.
He named sour punch straws, sweet tart ropes, and skittles.
But then he said, wait a minute, hold on a sec.
He said, you gotta give me five. You can't just
give me three. So then he added on laughy taffy
now and later and airhead extremes, and then he pointed
(30:29):
out that was actually six not three, and he went
into great detail. You have a scouting report on which
flavors he likes and the ones that he goes for
the most. There that is Keon Coleman, who is going
to be a I believe, a starting wide receiver for
the Buffalo Bills this season. If you look at that
(30:50):
depth chart, and who doesn't like looking at depth charts?
Here the Buffalo Bills have a void at the wide
receiver position for Josh Allen to throw the ball to.
But Kean Coleman is listed on the depth chart as
a starter with Curtis Samuel, the ex Washington football player,
and the great Khalil Shaker is the other starting wide
(31:14):
receiver with a backup they did. They just signed Marcus
Valdez scantly. He went to Buffalo. The only people who
go to Buffalo signed with the Bills because why else
would you go to Buffalo? And Mac Hollins also part
of that deal. He's also like a backup receiver because
that's the content you're looking for, very important content. Indeed,
(31:36):
do we have this audio? I want to play this
on it? So this is Michael Malone. Michael Malone is
the head coach of the Denver basketball team, and Michael
Malone was asked a bunch of questions about Luka Doncik,
not Luca. I got my European players mixed up. Nikola
Jokich would be the guy he was asked about. Why
would he be asked about Luka donche so he did
(31:56):
about Nicola Jokic. And listen to the head coach of
the Denver basketball team. Give Nicola Jokic a tongue bath.
Let's go to the audio tape. You know, he's his
IQ is off the charts.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
You know, uh, he probably belongs to MENSA.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
He probably doesn't even know what MENSA is, but he is.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Uh, all quiz guys throughout the series about play calls
about personnel, tendency, is about game plan and you know, Nicole,
he's he's ahead of everybody. He just knows everything.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
So he qualifies for MENSA. And then he then he said,
he know what MENSA is, and I believe that you
have to be in the top two percent to qualify
for membership into MENSA. In terms of IQ, he's a
mission test and whatnot. You know, the standardized IQ test
(32:51):
and all that, and you have to first of all,
you have to get a qualifying score this how I
understand it, have your qualifying score on one of the
regular general population standardized IQ tests. Then you have to
take a MENSA qualifying exam, and once you meet that criteria,
(33:12):
you then have to pay the annual dues to become
a member.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Yeah, so yeah, that's that's how. That's how that works. Now.
My favorite story that I laughed my ass off at,
involving the joker was from one of the parody websites.
Not it's a it's actually a social media feed which
is hilarious. So they I think they're using AI on this.
(33:43):
I believe they're using AI. It's a rip off on
a very popular basketball account, which is NBA Central, very
popular account on x so it's a parody account and
they have been hornswaggling people for a good period of time.
I don't have time to get in right now. I'm
gonna get in a little bit. I'm gonna save it
(34:04):
because after that leave some time. We have Mallard of
the third degree, and I am on time. Mallard by
the clock four the clock plausably all about the clock.
So we'll get to that coming up in a minute.
But time now for the Insta trivia. The oldest players
in NBA playoff history to have a twenty point fifteen
rebound game are Lebron, James al Horford, who did it
in the game last night, and Blank. That's the Insta trivia.
(34:25):
The answer Mallard of the thirty degree. Next.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
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(35:00):
it's Ben Maller.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Time. Now for the install trivia. And here it is
a blatant and rather pathetic attempt to get you to
listen a little bit longer. It appears that it has
worked in we'll get to Mallard of the third degree.
Here we go, the oldest player in NBA Playoff history
to record a twenty plus point fifteen plus rebound performance
(35:27):
in a game. Are the old players are Lebron, James Al,
Horford average al who did it for the Celtics last night?
And Blank? That is the question. What is the answer?
And we go to the Malard militia to see if
anybody knows the answer, and go page down here page
(35:48):
dwn Fonzarella from Ponsie from Cowboy Killer. Who else do
you have? Patrick Mahomey from King Rory Robert Parrish unless
it's not from Rod the Ambassador of Bakersfield Poppy also
known as schlep Rock from Art Puffin, Todd Stuttlemyer Guess
by mister nice Guy Paige Down actual member of Mensa,
(36:12):
Ben Maler, Guess by Ferguck Very kind for Doug Janet
Jackson who's fifty eight today? Guests by the Late Night
Drug Tesser, George the Animal Steal from Robin Vegas, who
I did a wrestling event with years ago. I don't
have time to get into it now, Eddie, do you
have an answer? It's not Floyd Banister, guess by Robin Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (36:28):
Oh, that's a silly answer. I'm gonna go with former
San Diego Padre Champ Summers.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Is it Champ Summers? No, the correct answer is Kareem
Abdul Jabbar. Got that to the third degree.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
This is one big event gets grilled approval.
Speaker 10 (36:51):
Reports this week claim that coach K is a quote
respected unofficial resource for the Lakers in their coaching search, Ben,
do you think the supporting signals JJ Reddick will be
the next coach of the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Let's see here, who is one of JJ Reddick's mentors,
who was coach one of Coach K's favorite players, Ding
Ding Ding Ding Ning Yet, So what I've heard is
Lebron wants Reddick, and the Lakers have to pacify Lebron
otherwise he's going to opt out of his contract. And
they're all paranoid over there in Lakerland. If Lebron leaves,
almost good. If Lebron leaves, that looks bad for the Lakers.
(37:24):
So if he wants JJ Reddick, JJ Reddick will be
a Laker coach and good luck that swarmy, arrogant sob
who never made a shot in Key malmonson playoff games
walla Clipper. Next.
Speaker 10 (37:37):
One NFL network analyst recently claimed that the Pittsburgh Steelers
actually have the best chance at supplanting the Ravens in
the AFC North this season. Ben, is that crazy talk?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
No, because Mike Tomlin actually sent me an email. They
bought a time machine to go back when Russell Wilson
was actually an effective NFL quarterback. So as long as
that thing works, Coop, the Steelers are golden Man. They're
going to be great. They're going to get the Russ
from that Seattle days back when he was good.
Speaker 10 (38:01):
Next, Jared Goff is the latest quarterback to get a
contract extension. Who do you think will be the next
to at taga by Lola or Trevor Lawrence?
Speaker 1 (38:09):
So if they're smart, all things being equal, who knows
whether that's true or not, it should be Tua. Even
if the Dolphins Nickel and diamond I still don't trust
Tua can stay healthy. And it's not like he's skyrocketed
in the playoffs in that cold weather in Kansas City.
He looks like your standard jag, just a guy at quarterbacks.
(38:30):
So if I see him, I would take the money
and run from Miami. If they offer him a contract,
how do we do cope he passes editions, that is
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