May 28, 2024 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about the passing of Bill Walton and how he will be remembered, who is responsible for getting Walton into broadcasting, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Welcome, it's our name, ber two, our two ready to go,
and we pay our respects to a basketball legend, someone
that made being a sports fan fun. Bill Walton died
on Monday. How are you gonna remember the life and
times of Bill Walton? Who had many chapters to his book,
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Great athlete at UCLA, NBA MVP, although he missed a
lot of time with injury. Beloved broadcaster. Who's responsible for
Bill Walton's second act as a microphone Maven? And what's
the lesson of Bill Walton broadcasting basketball? What's the lesson
of his style of broadcasting? We'll talk about that as well.
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It's all coming your way right now in our number two.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Here it is.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
We lost one of the good guys in the little
sporting world we all hang out in. We'll talk about that.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
In the beginning of another hour of the Ben Malors Show.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
We are in the air everywhere you.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Listen, and we talk kicking ass for the working class
unless we're not coast to coast, border to border and
beyond on the mast and excessively powerful microphones of fsre
emmating live from the flight a flight of imagination, hanging
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out with you. Celtics are into the NBA Finals. In
our lead this hour from the OVID pitch, the sports
were losing someone who the way to describe, I mean,
usually there's a douchebag factor with these guys in sports,
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some of them bigger a holes than others. But this
is a guy Bill Walton. If you didn't hear by now,
assuming you've heard Bill Walton, the announcement coming down that
he had died. And I don't know anybody that had
a bad thing to say about Walton. I'm sure there's
somebody out there. I bet his ex wife probably hates him.
But other than that, nobody but Bill Walton an icon.
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You see la part of the Glory Days, the Wizard
of Westwood John Wooden won an NBA MVP Award, Hall
of Fame career, reinvented himself as a broadcast. A lot
of people that never saw Walton, even as an old,
fragile player playing in the NBA, but they know Bill
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Walton from being a goofball on TV. Walton died of cancer.
His family was around him there. The end had been
been on the horizon for some time.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Here.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
This is not something that was a surprise seventy one
years old, the tributes coming all over the place. Adam Silver,
the Commissioner, issued a prepared statements that Bill Walton was truly.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
One of a kind.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And Walton was there at UCLA back in the seventies
and was the number one overall pick of the Portland
Trailblazers nineteen seventy four NBA Draft. He played with the Blazers,
the Clippers, the Celtics ten seasons. However, five seasons he
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missed entirely because of various injuries. He had a lot
of foot problems. Playing with the Trailblazers, he sat out
an entire year. He blamed the medical staff in Portland
for screwing up his foot. He sat out a year,
and then he ended up signing with the then San
Diego Clippers. But let's discuss the question. Bill Walton dead
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at age seventy one, how are you going to remember
Bill Walton as a consumer of the product of sports?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
How are you gonna remember Bill Walton?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
So I've got peacock, slurpee, and doctor Seuss, and we
will combine all of these things together and we will
give a great tip of the cap, tip of the
headphone to Bill Walton for a life well lived. So
my first thought here is the the memories of Big
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Red I have of him as a player were when
he was very brittle, very brittle. I did also make
one of the worst basketball card trades of all time
involving Bill Walton, and this goes back to my days
as a Clipper fan growing up, and there were some
we were trading cards because I grew up in the
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Stone Age, and that's what we did and made a trade.
I needed a Bill Walton card with the powder blue
Clipper San Diego Clipper uniform, and I traded a second
year Jordan card for Bill Walton. And that was a
bad trade on my end. But listen, I love to
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love Walton. He wasn't as a Clipper. It was not
particularly great, but he went to the Celtics and they
won championship. Is part of that Larry Birds Celtic team.
But I fondly recall my memories of Bill Walton are
that of a broadcaster and not the guy that did
the college games on ESPN or the network games. Now,
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I remember Bill Walton as a Clipper broadcaster. He was
there and I was lucky enough I started as a
radio stringer. Walton was calling the games for the Clippers,
and he was there for thirteen seasons, toiling behind the
microphone for the people's team. And I was this bright eyed,
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bushy tailed radio stringer and it's like, oh man, Bill Walton.
And they played at the LA Sports Arena, which is
no longer around. They took a wrecking ball to it
years ago. There's a soccer stadium now. It was a
back in the dark ages. It was terrible. The franchise sucked.
And Bill Walton, what he did doing local broadcast for
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the Clippers was akin to Charles Barkley what he is
today on TNT. He was Barkley before Barkley, Bill Walton
on the local level and it's like that peacock slogan
must see TV. He absolutely was Walton who had this
effervescence about him. He had the gift for gad but
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the tongue in cheek repartee, like a child like repartee.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
When he was doing the games.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I vividly remember Bill Walton getting into trouble. Now I
know this because of working in the media, but he
got into trouble. The Clippers were on a road trip
to the Northeast and they got absolutely smoked against somebody.
I don't remember who they were playing, but they got smoked.
And Walton was very critical of the Clippers, believe it
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or not. I mean, Bill never was critical of anybody,
but he was. He was critical of the way they
were playing, the effort the team had, and some executive
for the Clippers was offended by this. So Bill Walton
got the talk. They had a little talk and they said, Bill,
you can't do that. You you got to be more positive.
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I mean, you're the Clipper broadcaster. You can't you know,
what are you doing? And so what Bill Walton did,
I'll never forget. I had to be watching this game.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
He was so good. It was so good.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Some some executive with a stick up his bananka don
yells at Walton or gives him a stern talk. And
Walton the next game, they were playing the new Jersey nets.
That's that's how long goes with New Jersey nets. And
Bill Walton talked about that Clipper nets rivalry said it's
just like the Lakers and the Celtics. It's actually better
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than the Lakers and the Celtics. That's how the broadcast began.
And I think this was the game. There's a famous
story where Bill Walton absolutely slobbered all over Michael Oldowick Candy.
You probably don't know who that is. He was the
number one overall pick in the draft in the late
nineties and could not play.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
He sucked.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
My god, was he terrible. But Bill Walton had had
a talk. Somebody talked to him and said, you got
to be positive. So Michael ol' candy, hand of God,
I'm not making this up. Ralph Lawler, the play by
play guy, can confirm it. So Michael Allocandy got a rebound,
and Bill Walton proudly says that's why the Clippers drafted
at number one overall. Ralph and Ralph the play by
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play for the for the Clippers play by play guy says, well, Bill,
it's the fourth quarter and that's his first rebound.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Oh it was. It was wonderful.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Now page two years we remember the life in times
of the late Bill Walton. So who is responsible for
Bill Walton having that second act as a broadcaster?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Who is it?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
He didn't go into broadcasting right after he retired from
the Celtics and left the NBA.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
He didn't go right into it. He had a gap.
So what happened.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Now, Ultimately you say, well, Walton's responsible. He made the
decision to do it, but he did have a little
help from his friends. He has a famous story and
it's actually in a book, although I heard it before
before it was in the book. But if you guessed,
bingo Ralph Lawler, who is the Hall of Fame play
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by play guy for the Clippers who retired a number
of years ago, the old.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Voice of the Clippers.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
So the way the story goes, as I recall the story,
the play by play guy Ralph Lawler was a casual
acquaintance of Bill Walton, but Walton was living in San Diego.
The Clippers had moved to La Bill played for the
La Clippers briefly, and Ralph was with his wife, the
play by play guy for the Clippers, and they were
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wandering around San Diego. So it's like the late nineteen eightes,
so we're going way back. And Bill Walton's not playing
in the NBA, is retired from the NBA's living out
of the spotlight, just hanging out, living in San Diego,
probably surfing every day, listening to The Grateful Dead, doing
all that, and Ralph Wailer, the play by play guy
for the Clippers, wanders in with his wife to a
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seven to eleven. Maybe they wanted that slurpee right there,
they need a slurpe. So they walked into a seven
eleven in Pacific Beach in San Diego. If you're in
San Diego, no what I'm talking about, walked in there
and it was one of these serendipitous moments. The Clippers
were looking for someone to commentate on their TV games.
There was like a package of thirty five games and
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Ralph's like, hey, Bill, how would you like to do
some TV? And apparently Walton was like, he was interested,
but he wasn't convinced he wanted to do it, and
he actually even though Ralph planted the seed, Bill Walton
on his own. The legend is he was intrigued enough
where he did some games for free. He went to
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the Continental Basketball Association, which was the minor leagues, and
Bill Walton called games just to see if he could
do it. And there's this other thing, which is the
Kmodo Dragon Larom. When you talk about the life of
Bill Walton and his career in broadcasting.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
So he got the bug, right.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You get the bug either like this kind of work,
or you don't you think this is great, or you think, man,
is that stupid?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I don't want to do this.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Well, he had the bug, he got his hands dirty,
but he spent hours and hours overcoming a handicap as
a broadcast. He had a stutter, a massive stutter. And
I remember when he started out with the Clippers, it
would pop up. He spent hours and hours with coaches
voice classes. And that was before you can just go
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on YouTube and figure stuff out. Like he had to
go and physically see someone about his speech impediment.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
But he spent the time.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
He got through it, and he started out eventually did
the Clipper games, and then that led to years and
years and he did stuff on the network at NBC,
and then he also did stuff at T and T
briefly as well. He bounced all over the place. But
what a what a broadcasting ran. If things hadn't lined up.
Does Bill Walton end up going into broadcasting if he
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doesn't happen to be at a convenience store at the
same time that this guy Ralph Lawler was, You don't know.
But in this dimension, that's how it played out, all right,
final part of this what's the lesson, if there is one,
what's the lesson of Bill Walton's broadcasting style. So I
would say the lesson is to unbutton the shirt a
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little bit and when you get handed the crayons, you
don't have to color inside the lines. You can color
outside the lines. In my life, there have been a
handful of people that had the Gennis aquah of Bill Walton.
I've told the story before. There was a boxing promoter
who's still alive. He's really old now.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Don King.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Don King made you feel pretty good as a radio
hank back in the day when he was promoting a
fight and he'd go around, He's, oh, you're the greatest
gas bag of all time, and he need to say
all these big words make you feel good.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Well, Bill Walton had that.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Same ability to make you feel more important than you were,
and he did not follow the script. There was a
lot of improv, a lot of improv with Bill Walton
and P. T.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Barnum is a great quote from P. T. Barnum.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
We said, no one ever made a difference by being
like everyone else.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Right.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
It's like you hear a lot of any form of
media and there's a lot of people that sound exactly
the same, and it's just so painful you want to
bang your head against the wall. And you look at
most of the jocks that go into broadcasting and they're
heart oh's and they're just terrible. But there's one in
a million, and I would say Bill Walton was one
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in a million. Charles Barkley's one in a million that
stand out from the crowd. And I keep going back
to the word effortlessent, but just this goodness. Kill him
with kindness and he followed. There's also words of wisdom
from Doctor Seuss where you know, why fit in when
you were born to stand out?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Right? Bill Walton stood.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Out as a player and then as a broadcaster, and
it's wild.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
He's seventy one years old.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
There's people that they weren't even born when he started
as a broadcaster. They know him from that, but they
see the stories the highlights of Bill Walton as a player.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
If you want to chime in on this, you are
more than welcome.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I was debating, I can't do a six line tribute
anymore because we have the new phone system. We cannot
put six people on the air at the same time.
So I was thinking, like three by two I could
do like three by two and then put quads or
pods of listeners stuff. I don't know if that would work.
I've considered that, but if you want to chime in
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on this, you are more than welcome. Speakeasy rules are
in effect also on X at Ben Maller if you'd
like to chime in, that's at Ben Mallor. He can
be part of the talk fest.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Well.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Have some more tales.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
From the life of Bill Walt, and we'll talk about
that as we go through the night. Also, the Battle
of Egos will go there as well, and we will
do it next.
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Two dedicated beginning here to the life and times memory
of Bill Walton, past await age.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Seventy one.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Late night drug tester says never saw Walton play, but
hearing his broadcast made me wonder. Am I high on something?
It's your high? You're high on life. You're high on life.
Unless that's not the case, Shane and moy says, hollering
James at T wolves Takes just won him the job
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replacing Ernie Johnson on T n T. There's a passionate
debate on cinnamon rolls. It's going on right now. We
will not engage in that debate because I'm on the
right side and these other idiots are on the wrong side.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
And I was.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I mean, I have a nice sweet treat here that
I brought in, But I mean, you guys are I
don't know that you deserve that. I don't know that
you deserve the cookies. I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Well, yes, I don't see why we wouldn't hold on.
I didn't hear the first part. Why don't we deserve cookies.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Because we don't agree with the donut.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
You don't understand a cinnamon roll. No, no, this is
the most wrong you've ever been about any take.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
That's incorrect. It's it's absolutely correct. Now, if you google
is a cinnamon roll a donuts. I don't live in Google.
I live in the real world.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
To anybody in the real world, I go to a
donor shop, I want a sinnrol.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Do I have a Yes, you have a sinroll? Yeah,
it's a a donut shop. That's where. That is the
most ridiculous logic I've ever heard.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
The donut shop I go to sells sandwiches donut.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
That's your issue. I'm just going it's not your issue everywhere.
That's literally your explanation time. Every time I want a
cinnamon roll, I go to a donut shop and they
because it's a donut, they sell it at a donut chop.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Every Time somebody in Boston wants a coffee, they go
to Dunkin Donuts.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Are they buying? Are they drinking a donut? That's a
different conversation. That's a.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
That's a liquid, but they sell a donut donut.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I'm literally using what you said. Excuse me, fellas, Might
I just introduct for a second. I looked up what
is a cinnamon roll made of?
Speaker 8 (18:37):
Because I want to know what the bread is, right like,
that's what makes a donut made up of.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Deliciousness is what it's made up. But listen, delicious I
might justify you here, keep talking.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
Go ahead.
Speaker 9 (18:48):
A cinnamon interested consists of a rolled sheet of yeast
leaving dough. It's down I which a cinnamon and sugar
mixture is raised and sprinkled over a coat of butter.
The dough is then rolled out and cut into individual
portions and.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Baked and baked and baked. It doesn't it doesn't matter.
Doughnuts are fried. Stop when you're not a cook. I'm
a cook. I cook.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
Yeah, well obviously not very well. Doughnuts are fried, Simon,
Rolls are baked.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Loraina, if you want to come in here and take
a cookie, I will allow you to have. These guys
are not getting cookies. No, no cookies for them?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
See that. What kind of cookies are that? You don't
get it? It doesn't matter what kind of right, it doesn't matter.
Lorena is getting them. Are they chocolate chip? Lorena is
getting them. I'll eat it in front of you, coop. Yeah,
are they chocolate chip? It's not important. It is important.
I want to know. It's not important. It's very important.
Chocolate chip?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Well, why what do you have a problem with chocolate chip?
Will you have an issue?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Because I think that's your worst cookie. So if the
chocolate chip that I'm not even upset about it, that's fine.
That you don't need.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
You don't need the cookie, then you don't get the cookie.
You don't you're not gonna have any of the cookie,
and that's extra.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
That's extra for Lorraine.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Maybe it's not chocolate chip. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Maybe it identifies as something other than chocolate chip. It
might not be the chip.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Maybe it's something totally. Maybe it's a donut, definitely not
a donut. But why not.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
It's not a donut, it's not What if they sold
it in a donut shop.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Well, they don't, Eddy, that's that's not funt.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I've never seen a chocolate chip any donut, Chop, And
I've eaten my shared donuts. You knew me, Eddie back
in the day. I've eaten my shared donuts and I've
never seen this at a donut shop.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Is a croissant a donut? What's that? Is a croissant?
I'm not worried about that. That's you. They sell those
at donut shops.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
You know what you're doing, Coop? What about is you're doing?
What about it?
Speaker 10 (20:34):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
That's took.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
I took the literally using your reasoning for why cinnamon
roll a donut and using it against you.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
A cup of coffee.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
But the only explanation you have for why a cinnamon
roll as a donut is because they sell it at
a donut shop.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
What about it? Listen, you lost this argument. It's okay,
take the hou.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
It wasn't even a game. It wasn't even competitive.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Let's say, I know it was out sweet. I think
you're the the Celtics and yet who fled?
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Jay?
Speaker 11 (21:05):
How do you keep the cheese from slipping off my people?
Google respond with glue. Glue was like a sponsor. You
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always trusted, always trusted is mister is Russell Wilson called
mister unlimited because he gets the limited cookies from Sierra.
Do you think because I said it's cool into the
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other Internet? I think dolls of the internet, dude. Otherwise
I I's just well it's Internet. Do you see whatever
you want to say?
Speaker 4 (21:35):
So?
Speaker 11 (21:36):
Did seem.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Drop the golden sign?
Speaker 11 (21:42):
I don't want to hear what?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Why why are you looking that way?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Ben?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Why are you looking that way?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I don't understand anything, he says.
Speaker 10 (21:49):
I know.
Speaker 11 (21:50):
I mean, just you got thirty in your wallet? How
many dollars does that make?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Well?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Dollars to donuts. That's thirty. But they don't charge a
dollar for it down it anymore.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
So it's not dollars to do is a work for deer.
Speaker 11 (22:04):
It is a female deer. Can you not be kind
of a work? Like the verbiage? And what kind of
don't hurt? Is the sediestant person? Don't animals is earning
to be hurt out there in America Florida gators can't.
It's down now the John Smith, that person who enjoyed
smelly crotches or who as like, wha time, damn dog,
you smell good?
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Which?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
What do you think? Are you done?
Speaker 11 (22:28):
I'm not a stage stick a fork in me. I'd
like to ask a conversation. You know the pru Isn't
it still be like they've been They've been stuper super
superent stupid, But I'm like, fun stupid, just stupid, stupid.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Jay, when's the last time you ate a cinnamon roll?
Speaker 11 (22:43):
It's called of molly, ask to seek it's cinnamon's flavor.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
A little different. Yeah, all right, all right, thank you,
I'm gonna I'm gonna go. That was peak jedhuo flat
right there. It's h he must not have a probation
hearing anytime soon. He doesn't have to check in with
this probation officer for a little urine sample at all,
anytime soon. He is free to roam and go around
and do whatever you want. All right, anyway, it is
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the Ben Mallor Show. As we press on here, Dan Wright,
sin says, longtime listener, first time responded, How about that?
First time responder says, great summary and tribute to Bill
Walton as a broadcaster and a player of these seven
eleven stories, priceless. I'm old enough to remember as UCLA days,
he says, I'm over sixty. I thought your summary on
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that was the best.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It's a great story. In fact, Ralph Lawler, I should
get him on my podcast. He was supposed to come on,
but he actually wrote a book, Ralph, I think last year,
and he goes into great detail about his interactions.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
With Bill Walton.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
And there was no bigger cheerleader for Ralph Lawler when
he went into the Hall of Fame than Bill Walton.
Loved it, loved it, loved it, love it, Fred writs,
and Fred's upset. He says, of course Lorrain is going
to agree with you about cinnamon rolls the queen kiss ass?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Do you now, Loraena? How do you feel about that?
You know what gues? Who's going to be eating a cookie? Huh?
That's right?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Not you, Fred, you get you get all none for
any either.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
You get all the cookies.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
So cookies for you, Lorena has evolved.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Do you want to tell you?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Though?
Speaker 8 (24:25):
Every time I drive back from Oregon, I get the
best cinnamon rolls. It's called Heaven on Earth. It's the
place to buy them at and they are so big
they even have the sticky button runs.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
So I'll bring one a coach.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
You guys can I'm in You got not for them
because they don't get anybody.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I'm the I'm the connoisseur of the cinnamon. Bring you
the doughnuts.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Back in the old country, we call them sticky buns.
They call them stick.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Sticky buns are specific.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
They used to have in in Anaheim back in the
day at the Big A when I was there, a
lot they had. They don't have this anymore. I was
there last year. They had sinmon rolls and they had
pecans like a pecan, which a simmer roll with the pecan,
which is like a next level cinerole unless you're allergic
to nuts, and then you'll go to the hospital and
you'll die.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yes, you'll it'll kill you. They have those that cinnamun.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
No, I'm talking about. The Big A was like a local,
just an Anaheim Stadium. It was like the only good
place they had back.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
In the day at the Big A in Anaheim to
get food. I'm looking at these Heaven on Earth cinemon
roles and they look fantastic. Too bad you don't get
you found the place.
Speaker 9 (25:22):
They have a website.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, that makes sense. It is twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yes, welcome to the new world.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
It's the World Order, guys.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
Like it's literally in the middle of nowhere. They might
not even have internet service.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
There is it in the Sticks of Oregon?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Is in California's very southern sticks of Oregon? Okay, in Azalea, Oregon.
I read I was gonna ring this upone.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I read that they are people in Oregon that want
to succeed. They want to leave the state of Oregon.
They want to have their own state.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Now that's pretty well, yeah, the eastern side.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Yeah, yeah, we haven't had Why have we not had
a new state since the last state was Hawaii.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
Because everyone's content. Changes are only made when people make noise.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
But we can't have just one new state. We'd have
to have two, right, you can't have you don't want
to have an odd number. You want to even try
to make Puerto Rico estate for forever. Yeah, I'm down
with Porto Rico. Yeah, but then their taxes will go
up though. That's the problem.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
The don't want They don't want to deal with that now.
They don't. They don't want them to, you know, I
don't know. It has to do with politics. Yes, yeah,
who wants fifty one state? No, I'm saying that's what
I say. You gotta have to You could do Puerto.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Rico, you could, you know, cut up Oregon if you
want California.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I don't care. Just cut cut everything up. Chop it up,
chop chop, chomp, chump chump.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
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Speaker 6 (26:36):
We have an NFL player being accused of a crime.
That would be Commander's Kicker, Brandon McManus. Last year was
with the Jaguars. He has been accused of sexual assault
in a wild one.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Eddie was on a flight to London, a team flight
to London.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Jaguars were going over there London to play in a
game last September, and apparently he uh rubbed up on somebody.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Who Yeah, that's the accusation there in the plane.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
You think he.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Makes the Washington football team roster this year? It's just
an accusation. Do you think they're gonna stand by their
idiot kicker?
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Probably not?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Probably not right. He's been around the NFL for a
long time. But you can't accuse anyone of anything at
any time.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
That's in a lawsuit. It's not a criminal case. It's
a lawsuit. So we'll see what happens with that. But
that's not fun, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
This is fun.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Fact.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Do you remember.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
August of twenty twenty three when Jose Ramirez, that's a
baseball player for the Cleveland baseball team mollywopped absolutely just
laid out Tim Anderson.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Remember that.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Great moments in baseball history. Well, read this. It must
be true on the interweb that since that incident, since
Jose Ramirez gave the old haymaker to Tim Anderson, who
was then with the White Sox, he's now on the
Miami baseball team in two hundred and seventy at bats.
Since he got laid out, Tim Anderson has not hit
(28:08):
a home run since then, not a single home run
in two hundred and seventy five at bats. Now he
never hit a lot of homes, but no home runs.
You are the week is Jose Ramirez punched the power
out of Tim Anderson in that violent confrontation. All right,
spend all the show. Let's go now to Let's go
to Andrey and she's she's got some astrology with Bill
(28:31):
Walton passing Hello Andrea, welcome.
Speaker 10 (28:33):
Hello Ben, how are you I am?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
If I was any better, I'd be a cinema role.
But no, I wouldn't because that's one of the great desserts,
the cinnamon, the center role.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
It's wonderful.
Speaker 10 (28:44):
I know, I heard all that. It was taking me hungry.
I grew up with Duncan Donuts in New York.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Yeah, Well, in Boston, our guy JD says I cannot
drive ten minutes without passing at least one Dunkin Donuts
says there's four within three miles of me in either direction.
Speaker 10 (29:00):
Interesting, I don't think they have them here. Maybe they
had them in Berkeley for a couple of Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
They're there, they Yeah, they're in California again and there
they came back dunking donuts, but not a lot like no, no, no,
nothing can match. Right, there's a great there's a great
donut documentary speaking of don't know about the donut I
think it's called Donut King or something like that. It's
about the in southern California, the takeover of the donut community.
Speaker 10 (29:27):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Yeah, yeah, it's pretty I'll look up the name of it.
But you didn't call up about that. Share some some
astrology on Bill Walton.
Speaker 10 (29:36):
Yeah, I know. I was just going down memory Lane
and I had the pleasure to meet Bill Walton. The
Giants have their annual Grateful dead Night and he was there.
I got into a special benefit at Triples Alley and
he was there and I talked with him about his astrology.
He's a Scorpio who was totally open to it, and
(29:58):
I said, you know, you're an intro ration of transformation
with all your injuries and all the things that you've
worked through, and he was just very humble about it.
And he actually had a book. I went to his
book Shining. Later, back from the Dead. Have you heard
of that?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
I have not, tell me about it.
Speaker 10 (30:17):
Yeah. He also wrote a book about his experience in basketball,
his injuries being in an announcer. So he wrote a
book called Back from the Dead and you can still
buy that. And obviously he's a huge deadheadh.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
A legendary dead head. Oh yeah, stories about him going
all over the place. This goes back when he was
playing he was taking time off. Like Dennis Robin would
go to Vegas, Bill Walton would go wherever the dead
were he was.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
He would follow him around.
Speaker 10 (30:45):
It's totally cool. ESPN just had a special rerun of
the thirty for thirty on Bill Walton and his wife
seemed really cool. She's like, well, you know, Bill turned
our house into a grateful dead shine ger law, so
here it is. But he was just really, really neat
and again this November fifth, nineteen fifty two, he was
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born near the dragon, so very very powerful astrology charts
to begin with and scorpios about transformation and moon cancer
cancer rising, triple water signed, very intuitive, very psychic, and
would always say he's like the luckiest person in the world.
He just like was very humble about things and had
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Mars and super ambitious Capricorn, so he didn't rest on
his Laurels, who was always like more to do and
more to explore, and he was just raising a lot
for charity when he comes.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Yeah, yeah, it's like that old I don't know who
said it. I probably did know at some point I
don't remember right now. There that famous quote about you know,
it's not the and he lived seventy one, which is nice,
run and all that. You probably want more than that,
but it's not the amount of time you live, it's
what you pack in. He packed a lot in Bill
Walton in his time. A lot of packed in there.
Speaker 10 (32:01):
Yes, so good way to put it. And you know
social media, you know, he would say he's the luckiest
guy in the world, and everyone reacted and just said
how he transcended, you know, his injuries and the sport
and he was a Hall of Famer and you know
just really had a lot of accolades, but was just
you know, really down to earth, eccentric person. And I
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always admired that he was just like a legend. But
he always like came to the you know giants game,
ungrateful dead Jerry Garcia and I and did as much
as he could for charity. And you know, and I
can tell you more about the book that he wrote.
I can let you know the name and stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
All right, Well, Verry Gool, thank you, Andrea. I appreciate that.
We'll talk to you. I'm sure later in the week.
The Great Andrea.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
There virgo in service.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Thank you, miss star lady there she goes that documentary
about donuts.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
If you're bored, Donut King, the Donut King is.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
It's about the the king of the donateye Kimbo refugee
who built a multi million dollar empire.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
The guy in Gondora.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
No, it's there. It is a donut and this guy's
actually it was in Orange County. But there's my favorite story.
I believe I saw it in there. If not, I
read it on the internet. But that donut shop is
why we have pink boxes for donuts. Because I don't
have time to get to the story now.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
But there's a great story.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
But I told on my podcast it's one of my
favorite donut stories. To save a few bucks, they used
pink boxes and that became the staple for quality baked
goods and everyone else around the country picked up on it,
and thus we have pink boxes used to be the
boxes were white. That was baked goods were in white boxes.
And because of this one donut guy it trying to
(33:44):
save a couple of bucks, it became the pink the
pink box. All right, anyway, we will press on. We
have the Insta trivia, I have Mallard of the thirty degree.
Here's the intra trivia. Boston's Joel Mizzoula is the youngest
head coach to reach the NBA Finals since blank. Again,
Boston Joe Mizula the youngest head coach to reach the
NBA Finals since blank. That's the Insta Triviua the answer.
(34:05):
We'll get to it. We will do it next.
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Speaker 7 (34:42):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Don't have time to get into it now, but big
shout out to all our listeners in LA who are stuck.
If you're in the San Fernando Valley there there's a
street takeover, literally right across the street in the intersection
right near Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
The kids have taken over.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
I can now hear the screeching of the tires.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I've been here my entire adult life. I've seen a
lot of crazy things. That's a new one. That's a newbie.
I've never seen that before. We'll talk more about it
next how I we don't have time for it right now.
But here's the Insta trivia. Boston's Joe Missoula the youngest
head coach to reach the NBA Finals since blank. That
is the question. What is the answer? Unlet's see does
(35:22):
anyone on the answer? Donut eating Champ Joey Chestnut from
Art puffin who else do we have? Porky Pig from
The Cowboy Killer?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Who Else?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Page down? Christopher Bess from malaprop Guy, Jimmy Anvil Needhart
from Donkey Sausage, The Big Red Machine Cane from Rob
in Vegas. Page down, Doctor Robo says it has to
be a cine and roll to a donut from Doctor Rob.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Who else?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Charlie Kerfeld the fat Tub of Goo guessed by mister
nice guy. That's his answer? Richie Adobado, good name, Maverick
Legend from Late Night Drug Tester.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Who Else?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Andy from Lion o' Lakes, Minnesota says the answer is
the Marlboro Man.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Where have you gone?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Marlboro Man? Fred the Baker from Fred the Baker. If
you're a fan of Dunkin Donuts, you know Fred the
Bakers from Alf the Alien Opiner.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Who else do we have? Page now?
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Wally and Florida's going, pat Riley Dick Harder from Mayor
Parker the snow Dog and Eddie do you have an answered?
Speaker 1 (36:26):
I need an answer?
Speaker 5 (36:28):
Is it? Eric Spolstra?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Eric Spolster?
Speaker 2 (36:31):
That is incorrect? Eddie the correct answer? Bill Russell, who
is playing and coaching for the Celtics in nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Here we got Smeller. We got to the third degree.
This is one gets Cooper Loop what do we got here?
Speaker 5 (36:50):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Coop?
Speaker 2 (36:51):
By the way, we went outside and least he looked
at the bar and locked himself out.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
We'll tell the story next hour. Nobody else has that content.
Go ahead.
Speaker 7 (36:58):
Tom Brady's at Jordan lest behind Aaron Rodgers was the
best type of training, Ben, Do you agree with him?
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Well?
Speaker 1 (37:03):
No, you know that, Coop.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
I have talked every year about do you learn by
watching or do you learn by doing? I am hey,
you learn by doing, Guy. I don't agree with Tom Brady.
How could you disagree with Tom Brady's the greatest quarterback
of all time?
Speaker 1 (37:17):
I don't agree with him.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
You learn by getting your hands dirty and getting out
there and doing the job. I watched a lot of
people do talk radio. I didn't learn how to do
it until I did it on my own and made
my own mistakes.
Speaker 7 (37:29):
Next, Lamar Jackson downplayed the Ravens opening the NFL schedule
with the Chiefs, saying he didn't really care.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Ben, what do you make of Lamar's attitude? Great attitude?
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Lamar way to sell the product, A made for TV
matchup the Ravens and the reigning back to back champion Chiefs,
a rematch of the AFC playoffs, and Lamar's like.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
I don't really care. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
I don't care about it. What do you care about that?
I don't care about that, at least pretend. I guess
you can give him credit for being honest. He doesn't care.
They got to play seventeen games. He didn't care who
they playing all that. What's next?
Speaker 7 (38:02):
The Red Sox reportedly planned to deal ken Lee Jensen
by the by the deadline.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Yeah bet, how much value does he have? Now? Well,
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
If I'm a team in contention and we pick up
ken Lee Jansen, I'm gonna have hertburn. I want nothing
to do, nothing to do with ken Lee Jansen in
a in a big spot. By the way, Coop's putting
his jacket on. He wants to go. Are still outside? Uh?
Speaker 1 (38:26):
How did I do? Kooper? Remember, I'm a guy that
told you about the thing out there? You pass that
a way?
Speaker 7 (38:34):
No way for me.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Just say no to ken Lee Jansen. Just say no.
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Welcome, it's our name, ber two, our two ready to go,
and we pay our respects to a basketball legend, someone
that made being a sports fan fun. Bill Walton died
on Monday. How are you gonna remember the life and
times of Bill Walton? Who had many chapters to his book,
(00:24):
Great athlete at UCLA, NBA MVP, although he missed a
lot of time with injury. Beloved broadcaster. Who's responsible for
Bill Walton's second act as a microphone Maven? And what's
the lesson of Bill Walton broadcasting basketball? What's the lesson
of his style of broadcasting? We'll talk about that as well.
(00:45):
It's all coming your way right now in our number two.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Here it is.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
We lost one of the good guys in the little
sporting world we all hang out in. We'll talk about that.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
In the beginning of another hour of the Ben Malors Show.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
We are in the air everywhere you.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Listen, and we talk kicking ass for the working class
unless we're not coast to coast, border to border and
beyond on the mast and excessively powerful microphones of fsre
emmating live from the flight a flight of imagination, hanging
(01:26):
out with you. Celtics are into the NBA Finals. In
our lead this hour from the OVID pitch, the sports
were losing someone who the way to describe, I mean,
usually there's a douchebag factor with these guys in sports,
(01:49):
some of them bigger a holes than others. But this
is a guy Bill Walton. If you didn't hear by now,
assuming you've heard Bill Walton, the announcement coming down that
he had died. And I don't know anybody that had
a bad thing to say about Walton. I'm sure there's
somebody out there. I bet his ex wife probably hates him.
But other than that, nobody but Bill Walton an icon.
(02:11):
You see la part of the Glory Days, the Wizard
of Westwood John Wooden won an NBA MVP Award, Hall
of Fame career, reinvented himself as a broadcast. A lot
of people that never saw Walton, even as an old,
fragile player playing in the NBA, but they know Bill
(02:32):
Walton from being a goofball on TV. Walton died of cancer.
His family was around him there. The end had been
been on the horizon for some time.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Here.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
This is not something that was a surprise seventy one
years old, the tributes coming all over the place. Adam Silver,
the Commissioner, issued a prepared statements that Bill Walton was truly.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
One of a kind.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And Walton was there at UCLA back in the seventies
and was the number one overall pick of the Portland
Trailblazers nineteen seventy four NBA Draft. He played with the Blazers,
the Clippers, the Celtics ten seasons. However, five seasons he
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missed entirely because of various injuries. He had a lot
of foot problems. Playing with the Trailblazers, he sat out
an entire year. He blamed the medical staff in Portland
for screwing up his foot. He sat out a year,
and then he ended up signing with the then San
Diego Clippers. But let's discuss the question. Bill Walton dead
(03:41):
at age seventy one, how are you going to remember
Bill Walton as a consumer of the product of sports?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
How are you gonna remember Bill Walton?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
So I've got peacock, slurpee, and doctor Seuss, and we
will combine all of these things together and we will
give a great tip of the cap, tip of the
headphone to Bill Walton for a life well lived. So
my first thought here is the the memories of Big
(04:10):
Red I have of him as a player were when
he was very brittle, very brittle. I did also make
one of the worst basketball card trades of all time
involving Bill Walton, and this goes back to my days
as a Clipper fan growing up, and there were some
we were trading cards because I grew up in the
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Stone Age, and that's what we did and made a trade.
I needed a Bill Walton card with the powder blue
Clipper San Diego Clipper uniform, and I traded a second
year Jordan card for Bill Walton. And that was a
bad trade on my end. But listen, I love to
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love Walton. He wasn't as a Clipper. It was not
particularly great, but he went to the Celtics and they
won championship. Is part of that Larry Birds Celtic team.
But I fondly recall my memories of Bill Walton are
that of a broadcaster and not the guy that did
the college games on ESPN or the network games. Now,
(05:13):
I remember Bill Walton as a Clipper broadcaster. He was
there and I was lucky enough I started as a
radio stringer. Walton was calling the games for the Clippers,
and he was there for thirteen seasons, toiling behind the
microphone for the people's team. And I was this bright eyed,
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bushy tailed radio stringer and it's like, oh man, Bill Walton.
And they played at the LA Sports Arena, which is
no longer around. They took a wrecking ball to it
years ago. There's a soccer stadium now. It was a
back in the dark ages. It was terrible. The franchise sucked.
And Bill Walton, what he did doing local broadcast for
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the Clippers was akin to Charles Barkley what he is
today on TNT. He was Barkley before Barkley, Bill Walton
on the local level and it's like that peacock slogan
must see TV. He absolutely was Walton who had this
effervescence about him. He had the gift for gad but
(06:17):
the tongue in cheek repartee, like a child like repartee.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
When he was doing the games.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I vividly remember Bill Walton getting into trouble. Now I
know this because of working in the media, but he
got into trouble. The Clippers were on a road trip
to the Northeast and they got absolutely smoked against somebody.
I don't remember who they were playing, but they got smoked.
And Walton was very critical of the Clippers, believe it
(06:42):
or not. I mean, Bill never was critical of anybody,
but he was. He was critical of the way they
were playing, the effort the team had, and some executive
for the Clippers was offended by this. So Bill Walton
got the talk. They had a little talk and they said, Bill,
you can't do that. You you got to be more positive.
(07:05):
I mean, you're the Clipper broadcaster. You can't you know,
what are you doing? And so what Bill Walton did,
I'll never forget. I had to be watching this game.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
He was so good. It was so good.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Some some executive with a stick up his bananka don
yells at Walton or gives him a stern talk. And
Walton the next game, they were playing the new Jersey nets.
That's that's how long goes with New Jersey nets. And
Bill Walton talked about that Clipper nets rivalry said it's
just like the Lakers and the Celtics. It's actually better
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than the Lakers and the Celtics. That's how the broadcast began.
And I think this was the game. There's a famous
story where Bill Walton absolutely slobbered all over Michael Oldowick Candy.
You probably don't know who that is. He was the
number one overall pick in the draft in the late
nineties and could not play.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
He sucked.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
My god, was he terrible. But Bill Walton had had
a talk. Somebody talked to him and said, you got
to be positive. So Michael ol' candy, hand of God,
I'm not making this up. Ralph Lawler, the play by
play guy, can confirm it. So Michael Allocandy got a rebound,
and Bill Walton proudly says that's why the Clippers drafted
at number one overall. Ralph and Ralph the play by
(08:21):
play for the for the Clippers play by play guy says, well, Bill,
it's the fourth quarter and that's his first rebound.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Oh it was. It was wonderful.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Now page two years we remember the life in times
of the late Bill Walton. So who is responsible for
Bill Walton having that second act as a broadcaster?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Who is it?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
He didn't go into broadcasting right after he retired from
the Celtics and left the NBA.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
He didn't go right into it. He had a gap.
So what happened.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Now, Ultimately you say, well, Walton's responsible. He made the
decision to do it, but he did have a little
help from his friends. He has a famous story and
it's actually in a book, although I heard it before
before it was in the book. But if you guessed,
bingo Ralph Lawler, who is the Hall of Fame play
(09:17):
by play guy for the Clippers who retired a number
of years ago, the old.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Voice of the Clippers.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
So the way the story goes, as I recall the story,
the play by play guy Ralph Lawler was a casual
acquaintance of Bill Walton, but Walton was living in San Diego.
The Clippers had moved to La Bill played for the
La Clippers briefly, and Ralph was with his wife, the
play by play guy for the Clippers, and they were
(09:44):
wandering around San Diego. So it's like the late nineteen eightes,
so we're going way back. And Bill Walton's not playing
in the NBA, is retired from the NBA's living out
of the spotlight, just hanging out, living in San Diego,
probably surfing every day, listening to The Grateful Dead, doing
all that, and Ralph Wailer, the play by play guy
for the Clippers, wanders in with his wife to a
(10:06):
seven to eleven. Maybe they wanted that slurpee right there,
they need a slurpe. So they walked into a seven
eleven in Pacific Beach in San Diego. If you're in
San Diego, no what I'm talking about, walked in there
and it was one of these serendipitous moments. The Clippers
were looking for someone to commentate on their TV games.
There was like a package of thirty five games and
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Ralph's like, hey, Bill, how would you like to do
some TV? And apparently Walton was like, he was interested,
but he wasn't convinced he wanted to do it, and
he actually even though Ralph planted the seed, Bill Walton
on his own. The legend is he was intrigued enough
where he did some games for free. He went to
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the Continental Basketball Association, which was the minor leagues, and
Bill Walton called games just to see if he could
do it. And there's this other thing, which is the
Kmodo Dragon Larom. When you talk about the life of
Bill Walton and his career in broadcasting.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
So he got the bug, right.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You get the bug either like this kind of work,
or you don't you think this is great, or you think, man,
is that stupid?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I don't want to do this.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Well, he had the bug, he got his hands dirty,
but he spent hours and hours overcoming a handicap as
a broadcast. He had a stutter, a massive stutter. And
I remember when he started out with the Clippers, it
would pop up. He spent hours and hours with coaches
voice classes. And that was before you can just go
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on YouTube and figure stuff out. Like he had to
go and physically see someone about his speech impediment.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
But he spent the time.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
He got through it, and he started out eventually did
the Clipper games, and then that led to years and
years and he did stuff on the network at NBC,
and then he also did stuff at T and T
briefly as well. He bounced all over the place. But
what a what a broadcasting ran. If things hadn't lined up.
Does Bill Walton end up going into broadcasting if he
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doesn't happen to be at a convenience store at the
same time that this guy Ralph Lawler was, You don't know.
But in this dimension, that's how it played out, all right,
final part of this what's the lesson, if there is one,
what's the lesson of Bill Walton's broadcasting style. So I
would say the lesson is to unbutton the shirt a
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little bit and when you get handed the crayons, you
don't have to color inside the lines. You can color
outside the lines. In my life, there have been a
handful of people that had the Gennis aquah of Bill Walton.
I've told the story before. There was a boxing promoter
who's still alive. He's really old now.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Don King.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Don King made you feel pretty good as a radio
hank back in the day when he was promoting a
fight and he'd go around, He's, oh, you're the greatest
gas bag of all time, and he need to say
all these big words make you feel good.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Well, Bill Walton had that.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Same ability to make you feel more important than you were,
and he did not follow the script. There was a
lot of improv, a lot of improv with Bill Walton
and P. T.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Barnum is a great quote from P. T. Barnum.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
We said, no one ever made a difference by being
like everyone else.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Right.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
It's like you hear a lot of any form of
media and there's a lot of people that sound exactly
the same, and it's just so painful you want to
bang your head against the wall. And you look at
most of the jocks that go into broadcasting and they're
heart oh's and they're just terrible. But there's one in
a million, and I would say Bill Walton was one
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in a million. Charles Barkley's one in a million that
stand out from the crowd. And I keep going back
to the word effortlessent, but just this goodness. Kill him
with kindness and he followed. There's also words of wisdom
from Doctor Seuss where you know, why fit in when
you were born to stand out?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Right? Bill Walton stood.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Out as a player and then as a broadcaster, and
it's wild.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
He's seventy one years old.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
There's people that they weren't even born when he started
as a broadcaster. They know him from that, but they
see the stories the highlights of Bill Walton as a player.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
If you want to chime in on this, you are
more than welcome.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I was debating, I can't do a six line tribute
anymore because we have the new phone system. We cannot
put six people on the air at the same time.
So I was thinking, like three by two I could
do like three by two and then put quads or
pods of listeners stuff. I don't know if that would work.
I've considered that, but if you want to chime in
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on this, you are more than welcome. Speakeasy rules are
in effect also on X at Ben Maller if you'd
like to chime in, that's at Ben Mallor. He can
be part of the talk fest.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Well.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Have some more tales.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
From the life of Bill Walt, and we'll talk about
that as we go through the night. Also, the Battle
of Egos will go there as well, and we will
do it next.
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Speaker 2 (16:31):
Two dedicated beginning here to the life and times memory
of Bill Walton, past await age.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Seventy one.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Late night drug tester says never saw Walton play, but
hearing his broadcast made me wonder. Am I high on something?
It's your high? You're high on life. You're high on life.
Unless that's not the case, Shane and moy says, hollering
James at T wolves Takes just won him the job
(16:59):
replacing Ernie Johnson on T n T. There's a passionate
debate on cinnamon rolls. It's going on right now. We
will not engage in that debate because I'm on the
right side and these other idiots are on the wrong side.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
And I was.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I mean, I have a nice sweet treat here that
I brought in, But I mean, you guys are I
don't know that you deserve that. I don't know that
you deserve the cookies. I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Well, yes, I don't see why we wouldn't hold on.
I didn't hear the first part. Why don't we deserve cookies.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Because we don't agree with the donut.
Speaker 7 (17:31):
You don't understand a cinnamon roll. No, no, this is
the most wrong you've ever been about any take.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
That's incorrect. It's it's absolutely correct. Now, if you google
is a cinnamon roll a donuts. I don't live in Google.
I live in the real world.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
To anybody in the real world, I go to a
donor shop, I want a sinnrol.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Do I have a Yes, you have a sinroll? Yeah,
it's a a donut shop. That's where. That is the
most ridiculous logic I've ever heard.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
The donut shop I go to sells sandwiches donut.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
That's your issue. I'm just going it's not your issue everywhere.
That's literally your explanation time. Every time I want a
cinnamon roll, I go to a donut shop and they
because it's a donut, they sell it at a donut chop.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Every Time somebody in Boston wants a coffee, they go
to Dunkin Donuts.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Are they buying? Are they drinking a donut? That's a
different conversation. That's a.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
That's a liquid, but they sell a donut donut.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I'm literally using what you said. Excuse me, fellas, Might
I just introduct for a second. I looked up what
is a cinnamon roll made of?
Speaker 8 (18:37):
Because I want to know what the bread is, right like,
that's what makes a donut made up of.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Deliciousness is what it's made up. But listen, delicious I
might justify you here, keep talking.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
Go ahead.
Speaker 9 (18:48):
A cinnamon interested consists of a rolled sheet of yeast
leaving dough. It's down I which a cinnamon and sugar
mixture is raised and sprinkled over a coat of butter.
The dough is then rolled out and cut into individual
portions and.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Baked and baked and baked. It doesn't it doesn't matter.
Doughnuts are fried. Stop when you're not a cook. I'm
a cook. I cook.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
Yeah, well obviously not very well. Doughnuts are fried, Simon,
Rolls are baked.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Loraina, if you want to come in here and take
a cookie, I will allow you to have. These guys
are not getting cookies. No, no cookies for them?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
See that. What kind of cookies are that? You don't
get it? It doesn't matter what kind of right, it doesn't matter.
Lorena is getting them. Are they chocolate chip? Lorena is
getting them. I'll eat it in front of you, coop. Yeah,
are they chocolate chip? It's not important. It is important.
I want to know. It's not important. It's very important.
Chocolate chip?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Well, why what do you have a problem with chocolate chip?
Will you have an issue?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Because I think that's your worst cookie. So if the
chocolate chip that I'm not even upset about it, that's fine.
That you don't need.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
You don't need the cookie, then you don't get the cookie.
You don't you're not gonna have any of the cookie,
and that's extra.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
That's extra for Lorraine.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Maybe it's not chocolate chip. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Maybe it identifies as something other than chocolate chip. It
might not be the chip.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Maybe it's something totally. Maybe it's a donut, definitely not
a donut. But why not.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
It's not a donut, it's not What if they sold
it in a donut shop.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Well, they don't, Eddy, that's that's not funt.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I've never seen a chocolate chip any donut, Chop, And
I've eaten my shared donuts. You knew me, Eddie back
in the day. I've eaten my shared donuts and I've
never seen this at a donut shop.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Is a croissant a donut? What's that? Is a croissant?
I'm not worried about that. That's you. They sell those
at donut shops.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
You know what you're doing, Coop? What about is you're doing?
What about it?
Speaker 10 (20:34):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
That's took.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
I took the literally using your reasoning for why cinnamon
roll a donut and using it against you.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
A cup of coffee.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
But the only explanation you have for why a cinnamon
roll as a donut is because they sell it at
a donut shop.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
What about it? Listen, you lost this argument. It's okay,
take the hou.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
It wasn't even a game. It wasn't even competitive.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Let's say, I know it was out sweet. I think
you're the the Celtics and yet who fled?
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Jay?
Speaker 11 (21:05):
How do you keep the cheese from slipping off my people?
Google respond with glue. Glue was like a sponsor. You
need to eat at least one rocket day because they
got minerals and nutrients. I trust the Google response, always
always trusted, always trusted is mister is Russell Wilson called
mister unlimited because he gets the limited cookies from Sierra.
Do you think because I said it's cool into the
(21:27):
other Internet? I think dolls of the internet, dude. Otherwise
I I's just well it's Internet. Do you see whatever
you want to say?
Speaker 4 (21:35):
So?
Speaker 11 (21:36):
Did seem.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Drop the golden sign?
Speaker 11 (21:42):
I don't want to hear what?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Why why are you looking that way?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Ben?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Why are you looking that way?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I don't understand anything, he says.
Speaker 10 (21:49):
I know.
Speaker 11 (21:50):
I mean, just you got thirty in your wallet? How
many dollars does that make?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Well?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Dollars to donuts. That's thirty. But they don't charge a
dollar for it down it anymore.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
So it's not dollars to do is a work for deer.
Speaker 11 (22:04):
It is a female deer. Can you not be kind
of a work? Like the verbiage? And what kind of
don't hurt? Is the sediestant person? Don't animals is earning
to be hurt out there in America Florida gators can't.
It's down now the John Smith, that person who enjoyed
smelly crotches or who as like, wha time, damn dog,
you smell good?
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Which?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
What do you think? Are you done?
Speaker 11 (22:28):
I'm not a stage stick a fork in me. I'd
like to ask a conversation. You know the pru Isn't
it still be like they've been They've been stuper super
superent stupid, But I'm like, fun stupid, just stupid, stupid.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Jay, when's the last time you ate a cinnamon roll?
Speaker 11 (22:43):
It's called of molly, ask to seek it's cinnamon's flavor.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
A little different. Yeah, all right, all right, thank you,
I'm gonna I'm gonna go. That was peak jedhuo flat
right there. It's h he must not have a probation
hearing anytime soon. He doesn't have to check in with
this probation officer for a little urine sample at all,
anytime soon. He is free to roam and go around
and do whatever you want. All right, anyway, it is
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the Ben Mallor Show. As we press on here, Dan Wright,
sin says, longtime listener, first time responded, How about that?
First time responder says, great summary and tribute to Bill
Walton as a broadcaster and a player of these seven
eleven stories, priceless. I'm old enough to remember as UCLA days,
he says, I'm over sixty. I thought your summary on
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that was the best.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It's a great story. In fact, Ralph Lawler, I should
get him on my podcast. He was supposed to come on,
but he actually wrote a book, Ralph, I think last year,
and he goes into great detail about his interactions.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
With Bill Walton.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
And there was no bigger cheerleader for Ralph Lawler when
he went into the Hall of Fame than Bill Walton.
Loved it, loved it, loved it, love it, Fred writs,
and Fred's upset. He says, of course Lorrain is going
to agree with you about cinnamon rolls the queen kiss ass?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Do you now, Loraena? How do you feel about that?
You know what gues? Who's going to be eating a cookie? Huh?
That's right?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Not you, Fred, you get you get all none for
any either.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
You get all the cookies.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
So cookies for you, Lorena has evolved.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Do you want to tell you?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Though?
Speaker 8 (24:25):
Every time I drive back from Oregon, I get the
best cinnamon rolls. It's called Heaven on Earth. It's the
place to buy them at and they are so big
they even have the sticky button runs.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
So I'll bring one a coach.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
You guys can I'm in You got not for them
because they don't get anybody.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I'm the I'm the connoisseur of the cinnamon. Bring you
the doughnuts.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Back in the old country, we call them sticky buns.
They call them stick.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Sticky buns are specific.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
They used to have in in Anaheim back in the
day at the Big A when I was there, a
lot they had. They don't have this anymore. I was
there last year. They had sinmon rolls and they had
pecans like a pecan, which a simmer roll with the pecan,
which is like a next level cinerole unless you're allergic
to nuts, and then you'll go to the hospital and
you'll die.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yes, you'll it'll kill you. They have those that cinnamun.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
No, I'm talking about. The Big A was like a local,
just an Anaheim Stadium. It was like the only good
place they had back.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
In the day at the Big A in Anaheim to
get food. I'm looking at these Heaven on Earth cinemon
roles and they look fantastic. Too bad you don't get
you found the place.
Speaker 9 (25:22):
They have a website.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, that makes sense. It is twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yes, welcome to the new world.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
It's the World Order, guys.
Speaker 8 (25:30):
Like it's literally in the middle of nowhere. They might
not even have internet service.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
There is it in the Sticks of Oregon?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Is in California's very southern sticks of Oregon? Okay, in Azalea, Oregon.
I read I was gonna ring this upone.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I read that they are people in Oregon that want
to succeed. They want to leave the state of Oregon.
They want to have their own state.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Now that's pretty well, yeah, the eastern side.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Yeah, yeah, we haven't had Why have we not had
a new state since the last state was Hawaii.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
Because everyone's content. Changes are only made when people make noise.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
But we can't have just one new state. We'd have
to have two, right, you can't have you don't want
to have an odd number. You want to even try
to make Puerto Rico estate for forever. Yeah, I'm down
with Porto Rico. Yeah, but then their taxes will go
up though. That's the problem.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
The don't want They don't want to deal with that now.
They don't. They don't want them to, you know, I
don't know. It has to do with politics. Yes, yeah,
who wants fifty one state? No, I'm saying that's what
I say. You gotta have to You could do Puerto.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Rico, you could, you know, cut up Oregon if you
want California.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I don't care. Just cut cut everything up. Chop it up,
chop chop, chomp, chump chump.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
We have an NFL player being accused of a crime.
That would be Commander's Kicker, Brandon McManus. Last year was
with the Jaguars. He has been accused of sexual assault
in a wild one.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Eddie was on a flight to London, a team flight
to London.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Jaguars were going over there London to play in a
game last September, and apparently he uh rubbed up on somebody.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Who Yeah, that's the accusation there in the plane.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
You think he.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Makes the Washington football team roster this year? It's just
an accusation. Do you think they're gonna stand by their
idiot kicker?
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Probably not?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Probably not right. He's been around the NFL for a
long time. But you can't accuse anyone of anything at
any time.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
That's in a lawsuit. It's not a criminal case. It's
a lawsuit. So we'll see what happens with that. But
that's not fun, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
This is fun.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Fact.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Do you remember.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
August of twenty twenty three when Jose Ramirez, that's a
baseball player for the Cleveland baseball team mollywopped absolutely just
laid out Tim Anderson.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Remember that.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Great moments in baseball history. Well, read this. It must
be true on the interweb that since that incident, since
Jose Ramirez gave the old haymaker to Tim Anderson, who
was then with the White Sox, he's now on the
Miami baseball team in two hundred and seventy at bats.
Since he got laid out, Tim Anderson has not hit
(28:08):
a home run since then, not a single home run
in two hundred and seventy five at bats. Now he
never hit a lot of homes, but no home runs.
You are the week is Jose Ramirez punched the power
out of Tim Anderson in that violent confrontation. All right,
spend all the show. Let's go now to Let's go
to Andrey and she's she's got some astrology with Bill
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Walton passing Hello Andrea, welcome.
Speaker 10 (28:33):
Hello Ben, how are you I am?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
If I was any better, I'd be a cinema role.
But no, I wouldn't because that's one of the great desserts,
the cinnamon, the center role.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
It's wonderful.
Speaker 10 (28:44):
I know, I heard all that. It was taking me hungry.
I grew up with Duncan Donuts in New York.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Yeah, Well, in Boston, our guy JD says I cannot
drive ten minutes without passing at least one Dunkin Donuts
says there's four within three miles of me in either direction.
Speaker 10 (29:00):
Interesting, I don't think they have them here. Maybe they
had them in Berkeley for a couple of Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
They're there, they Yeah, they're in California again and there
they came back dunking donuts, but not a lot like no, no, no,
nothing can match. Right, there's a great there's a great
donut documentary speaking of don't know about the donut I
think it's called Donut King or something like that. It's
about the in southern California, the takeover of the donut community.
Speaker 10 (29:27):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Yeah, yeah, it's pretty I'll look up the name of it.
But you didn't call up about that. Share some some
astrology on Bill Walton.
Speaker 10 (29:36):
Yeah, I know. I was just going down memory Lane
and I had the pleasure to meet Bill Walton. The
Giants have their annual Grateful dead Night and he was there.
I got into a special benefit at Triples Alley and
he was there and I talked with him about his astrology.
He's a Scorpio who was totally open to it, and
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I said, you know, you're an intro ration of transformation
with all your injuries and all the things that you've
worked through, and he was just very humble about it.
And he actually had a book. I went to his
book Shining. Later, back from the Dead. Have you heard
of that?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
I have not, tell me about it.
Speaker 10 (30:17):
Yeah. He also wrote a book about his experience in basketball,
his injuries being in an announcer. So he wrote a
book called Back from the Dead and you can still
buy that. And obviously he's a huge deadheadh.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
A legendary dead head. Oh yeah, stories about him going
all over the place. This goes back when he was
playing he was taking time off. Like Dennis Robin would
go to Vegas, Bill Walton would go wherever the dead
were he was.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
He would follow him around.
Speaker 10 (30:45):
It's totally cool. ESPN just had a special rerun of
the thirty for thirty on Bill Walton and his wife
seemed really cool. She's like, well, you know, Bill turned
our house into a grateful dead shine ger law, so
here it is. But he was just really, really neat
and again this November fifth, nineteen fifty two, he was
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born near the dragon, so very very powerful astrology charts
to begin with and scorpios about transformation and moon cancer
cancer rising, triple water signed, very intuitive, very psychic, and
would always say he's like the luckiest person in the world.
He just like was very humble about things and had
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Mars and super ambitious Capricorn, so he didn't rest on
his Laurels, who was always like more to do and
more to explore, and he was just raising a lot
for charity when he comes.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Yeah, yeah, it's like that old I don't know who
said it. I probably did know at some point I
don't remember right now. There that famous quote about you know,
it's not the and he lived seventy one, which is nice,
run and all that. You probably want more than that,
but it's not the amount of time you live, it's
what you pack in. He packed a lot in Bill
Walton in his time. A lot of packed in there.
Speaker 10 (32:01):
Yes, so good way to put it. And you know
social media, you know, he would say he's the luckiest
guy in the world, and everyone reacted and just said
how he transcended, you know, his injuries and the sport
and he was a Hall of Famer and you know
just really had a lot of accolades, but was just
you know, really down to earth, eccentric person. And I
(32:23):
always admired that he was just like a legend. But
he always like came to the you know giants game,
ungrateful dead Jerry Garcia and I and did as much
as he could for charity. And you know, and I
can tell you more about the book that he wrote.
I can let you know the name and stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
All right, Well, Verry Gool, thank you, Andrea. I appreciate that.
We'll talk to you. I'm sure later in the week.
The Great Andrea.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
There virgo in service.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Thank you, miss star lady there she goes that documentary
about donuts.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
If you're bored, Donut King, the Donut King is.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
It's about the the king of the donateye Kimbo refugee
who built a multi million dollar empire.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
The guy in Gondora.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
No, it's there. It is a donut and this guy's
actually it was in Orange County. But there's my favorite story.
I believe I saw it in there. If not, I
read it on the internet. But that donut shop is
why we have pink boxes for donuts. Because I don't
have time to get to the story now.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
But there's a great story.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
But I told on my podcast it's one of my
favorite donut stories. To save a few bucks, they used
pink boxes and that became the staple for quality baked
goods and everyone else around the country picked up on it,
and thus we have pink boxes used to be the
boxes were white. That was baked goods were in white boxes.
And because of this one donut guy it trying to
(33:44):
save a couple of bucks, it became the pink the
pink box. All right, anyway, we will press on. We
have the Insta trivia, I have Mallard of the thirty degree.
Here's the intra trivia. Boston's Joel Mizzoula is the youngest
head coach to reach the NBA Finals since blank. Again,
Boston Joe Mizula the youngest head coach to reach the
NBA Finals since blank. That's the Insta Triviua the answer.
(34:05):
We'll get to it. We will do it next.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
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Speaker 7 (34:42):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Don't have time to get into it now, but big
shout out to all our listeners in LA who are stuck.
If you're in the San Fernando Valley there there's a
street takeover, literally right across the street in the intersection
right near Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
The kids have taken over.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
I can now hear the screeching of the tires.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I've been here my entire adult life. I've seen a
lot of crazy things. That's a new one. That's a newbie.
I've never seen that before. We'll talk more about it
next how I we don't have time for it right now.
But here's the Insta trivia. Boston's Joe Missoula the youngest
head coach to reach the NBA Finals since blank. That
is the question. What is the answer? Unlet's see does
(35:22):
anyone on the answer? Donut eating Champ Joey Chestnut from
Art puffin who else do we have? Porky Pig from
The Cowboy Killer?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Who Else?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Page down? Christopher Bess from malaprop Guy, Jimmy Anvil Needhart
from Donkey Sausage, The Big Red Machine Cane from Rob
in Vegas. Page down, Doctor Robo says it has to
be a cine and roll to a donut from Doctor Rob.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Who else?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Charlie Kerfeld the fat Tub of Goo guessed by mister
nice guy. That's his answer? Richie Adobado, good name, Maverick
Legend from Late Night Drug Tester.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Who Else?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Andy from Lion o' Lakes, Minnesota says the answer is
the Marlboro Man.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Where have you gone?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Marlboro Man? Fred the Baker from Fred the Baker. If
you're a fan of Dunkin Donuts, you know Fred the
Bakers from Alf the Alien Opiner.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Who else do we have? Page now?
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Wally and Florida's going, pat Riley Dick Harder from Mayor
Parker the snow Dog and Eddie do you have an answered?
Speaker 1 (36:26):
I need an answer?
Speaker 5 (36:28):
Is it? Eric Spolstra?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Eric Spolster?
Speaker 2 (36:31):
That is incorrect? Eddie the correct answer? Bill Russell, who
is playing and coaching for the Celtics in nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Here we got Smeller. We got to the third degree.
This is one gets Cooper Loop what do we got here?
Speaker 5 (36:50):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Coop?
Speaker 2 (36:51):
By the way, we went outside and least he looked
at the bar and locked himself out.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
We'll tell the story next hour. Nobody else has that content.
Go ahead.
Speaker 7 (36:58):
Tom Brady's at Jordan lest behind Aaron Rodgers was the
best type of training, Ben, Do you agree with him?
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Well?
Speaker 1 (37:03):
No, you know that, Coop.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
I have talked every year about do you learn by
watching or do you learn by doing? I am hey,
you learn by doing, Guy. I don't agree with Tom Brady.
How could you disagree with Tom Brady's the greatest quarterback
of all time?
Speaker 1 (37:17):
I don't agree with him.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
You learn by getting your hands dirty and getting out
there and doing the job. I watched a lot of
people do talk radio. I didn't learn how to do
it until I did it on my own and made
my own mistakes.
Speaker 7 (37:29):
Next, Lamar Jackson downplayed the Ravens opening the NFL schedule
with the Chiefs, saying he didn't really care.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Ben, what do you make of Lamar's attitude? Great attitude?
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Lamar way to sell the product, A made for TV
matchup the Ravens and the reigning back to back champion Chiefs,
a rematch of the AFC playoffs, and Lamar's like.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
I don't really care. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
I don't care about it. What do you care about that?
I don't care about that, at least pretend. I guess
you can give him credit for being honest. He doesn't care.
They got to play seventeen games. He didn't care who
they playing all that. What's next?
Speaker 7 (38:02):
The Red Sox reportedly planned to deal ken Lee Jensen
by the by the deadline.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Yeah bet, how much value does he have? Now? Well,
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
If I'm a team in contention and we pick up
ken Lee Jansen, I'm gonna have hertburn. I want nothing
to do, nothing to do with ken Lee Jansen in
a in a big spot. By the way, Coop's putting
his jacket on. He wants to go. Are still outside? Uh?
Speaker 1 (38:26):
How did I do? Kooper? Remember, I'm a guy that
told you about the thing out there? You pass that
a way?
Speaker 7 (38:34):
No way for me.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Just say no to ken Lee Jansen. Just say no.
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