June 6, 2024 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Jayson Tatum saying criticism from pundits gets old and he just changes the channel, Kristaps Porzingis saying he has "no ill will towards the Mavs and Luka," Texas Jack vs. Blind Scott in the Verbal Octagon, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Welcome, It's our numb burn, one of the original Recipe podcast.
As we ruffle some feathers here at our number one,
talking about the NBA Finals which begin later today, actually tonight,
it's a garden party.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Celtics star Jason Tatum said.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
At the Media Day festivities yesterday that the criticism he
gets some pundits gets old and that he changes the channel.
How do you interpret that? Chris tops Porzingis is pouring
ice water on reports that say he has a beef
with Luka Doncic.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
He says it's all just noise. Do you agree with him?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And what level of villain are the Luca Mavericks in
these NBA Finals.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We'll discuss that and who knows what else?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
From here to a million miles away, it's our number one.
You gotta talk talk talk before you walk, walk walk.
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That's how it always goes right.
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Speaker 1 (02:09):
It's a big night on the show, the return of
an old friend.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
We will tell you who's gonna win the NBA Finals
because we open up the verbal Adegan every man, woman
in child fun for all ages. The verbal loch Togon
will be coming up at the bottom of the hour,
as we have scheduled a representative of the Boston Celtic
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Marching in Chowder Society on one side, and then a
cowboy boot wearing ten gallon hat Totin Dallas Maverick face.
So we have this schedule, we'll see if both can
batt ands. I don't even mention their names because if
one of them doesn't show up, it's it's false advertising.
But listen I'm looking forward to this. And if one
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of them bails, will just go to the phones and
we'll get somebody else to come in. Understand, and we've
done this off and on over the years, and we'll
make an argument here. Each side will make an argument.
You will be the jury, and you will decide who
makes the more compelling argument, who deserves a medal, who
wins the.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Great debate, if you will.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
But our late this hour is from pro Bouncy Ball.
It was a lazy media day, lazy media hump day.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
There no real fireworks. We didn't get pyrotechnics.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
The brightest star for Boston if you watch television commercials
Madison Avenue, who thinks this guy's the brightest star? He
did leave a little meat on the bone. There was
a little meat on the bone. So if you didn't
hear about this, perhaps not Jason Tatum. That's the guy,
Jason ta So, Jason Tatum was asked about the media
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scrutiny that he is facing, and he gave a rather
longated response. He said, it's a long break without basketball, which.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It is right, there's no no games here for a
while in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
He went on to say, so they meaning the punnits
had to overanalyze every little thing to have something to
talk about. And he said, did it get old? He
asked himself for a rhetorical question. He said, yes, but it's
the finals, and then he patted himself on the back,
saying they would not talk about me if I wasn't good,
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Tatum stated. He then said he tries to take some
positives out of it and then changes the channel. He said,
I didn't say that, He said, head, he changes the channel.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Celtics star Jason Tatum revealing on the eve of the
NBA Finals that the criticism from the many talking heads
the pundits that he does consume me and then he
changes the channel.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
So how do you interpret this quote.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I've got the US Bureau of Economic Analysis sandbox and
press your luck and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make a smiling.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Emoji is what we're going to make. So a we'll
start here.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Jason Tatum not a very good poker player, not a
great poker face for Jason Tatum. Now that was a
relatively large admission that he is in that Lebron James
slash Kevin Durant class.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
There was a time.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Maybe this is I'm just dating myself, but there was
a time athletes would never admit to consuming media that
was below them.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
They were above consumption of media content.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
However, that is not what is going on here, Jason Talslay, Yeah,
you know, on this one, I turned to the US
Bureau of Economic Analysis consumer spending. Jason Tatum is spending
the single most valuable resource that he has. It's the
same single most valuable resource that we all have, and
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he's spending it consuming NBA chatter, which is just filler
until the games continue. And we're talking about time, right,
I mean, time is the most valuable commodity. It is
the most freshest thing that you have. You can't buy anymore.
I can't buy anymore. What do you buy? Time can't buy?
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I mean, by watch, you can't buy time. And once
you lose it, you can never get it back. Right,
You're done, that's it, lights out, and you don't know
how much you have left in the tank.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
That's time. And Jason Tatum, we'd like to welcome him
to the Mall of Milities. Likely up right now, he
has insomnia, and he's uplistening, biting his fingernails in a tizzy,
worried about what's going to happen later on Thursday night.
And Jason, you are welcome to call. All the lines
are open right now. So if Jason Tatum wants to
call in and just get a rant going, you're more.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Than welcome now. Page two.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Here another highlight from media Day. The unicorn speaks me.
He probably thought unicorns weren't real, and certainly if they
were real, they couldn't talk.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Well.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Surprise, surprise, the door opened up and in walked the unicorn.
Chrisps Porzingis. We should do a pool on which game
Porzingis will get re injured in?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Can we do that? We alle?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I used to do that with NASCAR with which Lapp,
with Danica Patrick Rekin, and then we had to get
rid of that because I had a producer that get
all freaked out. But Christops Porzingis was asked a loaded question.
A lot of chatter, some of it coming from former
NBA players raining down pitchforks here that there was some
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bad blood between Christops Porzingis and Luka Danchi Porzingis. For
what it's Worth said that he has quote no ill
will towards Luka. Of course, there are many reports that
that is. That is the opposite. He said, it's all Christops, It's.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
All noise, just noise. Do you agree?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Do you agree that all of this chatter about disagreement
between Luca and Chris Tops is just noise? So I'm
shaking my head.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
No.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
In the public sandbox, which is what we're talking about. Yeah,
Luca and Porzingis are playing nice. I wouldn't push back
on that. Is this a full throated ceasefire in the media, Yeah, sure, sure.
Is it a temporary peace treaty probably, But when you
peel back the onion, the animosity is still there. There's
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still at Loggerheads. And here's why humans gone a human.
Human's got a human and Christops Worzingis and Luca were
a partnership that failed.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
It was an abject failure.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
The Mavericks were supposed to go to the NBA Finals
with Porzingis and Luca side by side and together they
couldn't handle the bright lights. They they went blind and
it worked. It worked out like he ever had diarrhea
and been stuck in an elevator. That's not a good combination. Well,
Porzingis and Luca also not a great combination on the
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steamy side, but not the good kind of steamy. So
now now they can settle the scores as Wow, Luca's
much better than Porzingis.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Well, okay, I wouldn't push back on that.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
However, However, Porzingis is on the better team.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
So if they get it done it, whether he plays.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
All the games or not, we don't think he will
be a huge upset of he plays all the games,
the way he's talking, the noise around the Celtics and
all that.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
But either way, he's gonna get one of those little
trinkets that they give out when you win.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Going forward, all right, last word here, so what level
villain are the Luca Donzik Mavericks in these NBA finals?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Now you have to have good versus evil.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
It's a staple of watching athletic competition, any kind of
endeavor like this. You have good guys and bad guys.
That's how it works, much like professional wrestling. So what's
the level of villain of the Luka Doncic Mavericks in
these finals? So they are actually sneaky good bad guys?
Does that make sense? They're sneaky, good bad guys. And
here's why. It's like an episode of a iconic game
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show from a different generation.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Press your luck.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
The Mavericks have the double whammy, no wammy, wamy, double whammy,
double whammy because on one hand, you've got Kyrie Irving,
who is not the most polarizing player in basketball. That's
Lebron James. But next to Lebron James, Kyrie Irving's right there.
And Kyrie's polarizing for different reasons. He has become over
the last couple of years, the really prominent face of
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anti Semitism in sport. I'm sure he's proud of that.
Maybe he is, and he refused to Apolgiz. Remember he
did not apologize until the Nets suspended him indefinitely during
that little episode back in the I guess we're supposed
to all forget about that.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
The NBA marketing people have done a.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Really bango job trying to pump the tires on Kyrie. Then,
on the other side, you also have another reason to
hate the Mavericks, which is not related to Kyrie Irving
at all.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
It's the big, big.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Building block that Dallas was rewarded for tanking all right,
people forgotten, But the NBA fined the Mavericks seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars for conduct detrimental to the league,
and they issued a mean statement after the Mavericks intentionally.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Lost multiple games.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
In an era of sports wagering, they tanked to get
a higher draft pick, and those ill begotten gains are
The first round pick was Derek Lively, the seven to
one center who has occasionally made big impacts.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
On what Dallas has been doing on the court.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
So the Mavericks are a team that was built on
tanking and they have a Looney tune in Kyrie Irving
as one of their top players. That's reason enough to
put a curse, put my own whammy on Dallas as
the Celtics will end up winning the championship. Not that
the Celtics are that great either, because the two top
guys with the Celtics, Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum, are
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disciples of Kyrie Irving. So it's like they're they're not
quite to that level, they haven't reached that advanced level,
but they're not far away.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
They're not far away.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
We're going to add the verbal octagon later in the
hour We are going to set that up coming up
here in a couple of minutes. The Verbal Octagon must
listen radios. It is the single greatest thing that we do,
other than the other great things that some people think
we do. You'll have to decide about all that, but
we will have the verbal Lockdown coming up later this
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hour and some Texas sized hyperbolee, some texasized hyperbolee.
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What is that all about? Will get to it and
we will do it.
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Speaker 1 (14:33):
Big Night the Octagon.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I have been told by boots on the ground that
both our combatants are in their dressing room right now
preparing last minute preparation before we go inside the rumble
that will be taking place here to decide in this
Rebel Octagon who is going to win the NBA Championship
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as the NBA Finals beginning here on Thursday night, and
we will have a representative from Boston and a representative
of the Dallas Mavericks, and they will duke it out.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
It is audio blood.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
That's what it is though, and you will be one
of the judges. We will have an online vote, you
will be able to help decide. We will have the
in studio vote we have the postgame show. I was
talking to Lorraina in our production meeting about how much
the company spends to buy the rights to these octagons.
It is insane the amount of money that we invest in.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Everyone wants it, you know, ESPN wants it.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
They can't have it right, NBC can't have it, CBA, no,
CBS Canada. We've got it right here. We own the
verbal octagons. And we will have another doozy coming up
later this hour. But we had a Mallord monologue regarding
those NBA finals and Tony says, Mahler, Amigo, Kyrie ain't
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gonna be able to hand that smoke from Beantown in
the finals. Tony says, yeah, well, he could make it
through a game or two. But if this thing goes
long and it gets back to those late games in Boston, that's.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
When the meltdown's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yafimi writes in from the Windy City, says, Hey, malar
a plus and a Checkers Burger in Fries on the
Malam Lague. Cubby's swept the White Sox and all is
right in the Chicago baseball scene. You congratulations of the
White Sox thirteen losses in a.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Row, very impressively.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
King Roy writes in, says, I cannot wait for tomorrow's
octagon verbal fight to see who will win the Stanley Cup.
I hope weed Man Hippie can defend the honor of
the Florida Panthers get them to Victor.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Well.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Eddie's going to actually cover that on his podcast this weekend.
He'll have weed Man Hippie and the guy from Edmonton
that called up and said that the entire town will
be off from work for a week if the Oilers,
or I should say, when the Oilers win the title.
Shane from the Moines says a plus to the newbies
last night. He says, big fan of the the newbies.
Mark the full Name Guy says, why were the Philadelphia
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seventy six ers not fine for tanking? The seventy six
ers flop for like three years a I think it
was more than three years, and b there was a
hostile takeover with the Sixers front office.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Remember, I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
There was the the NBA intervened, They meddled, They forced
the Sixers to get rid of trust the process. They
forced it right, that little weasel Sam Hinkey that that
oh what a plague? What a plague sam Hinkey? He
was the GM in Philadelphia. Trust the process right, respect
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the process.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Organic tanking.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, okay, anyway, Matt the Warrior Raider fan says Boston
has won enough to last a lifetime, and they have
the most obnoxious fans in sports. Most decent Americans would
be rooting for the Mavericks because it's really funny when
Boston teams lose words of wisdom from mattew.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Warrior and Raider fan. Who else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
The Clapper writes, and he says, Hey, Mallard, I once
had a steamy diarrhea on the tilta World at the
Minnesota State Fair.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I really left my mark with that. Carney.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Well, if you listen to my podcast, you know a
couple of years ago, I had a situation that I
would like to not talk about here on the I
don't think I can talk about it.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
It was like a.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Crime scene involving something that went haywire, went to real estate.
And I think that's still the most downloaded edition of
The Fifth Hour.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I don't even know what it was. It was a
couple years ago, sorryed three or four years ago.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Gagon was on with me and he retired to Florida.
He's eating the early Bird special noun Florida.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
He's retired, he's out of there. He's gone.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
But that was with him on the podcast back in
the day. So we're gonna get to the octagon in
a moment. I did want to mention this though, as
we set up the octagon, we are in the Texas
sized hyperbole.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Part of the story.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Jason Kidd, who played with some pretty good players in
his time, including a pretty good player there in Dallas
that has a street named after him. But Jason Kidd comment,
he's the coach who he's slightly compromised. But he was
talking about Luca and what happens if the unthinkable, the
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unimaginable happens and Dallas ends up beating the Celtics in
the finals, and he said Luka Doncik could be the
greatest Maverick player. Ever, if they win the finals, now
could is a weaselter and it is, as.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
You know, a subjective debate. It is a subjective debate
to see who do you like. It goes by generations
like the Jordan Lebron thing. But this is just a.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Dallas specific debate. But I would say that one championship
does not does not trump, does not trump what Dirk
Novitsky did in Dallas. You could say it's neck and
neck at that point, but no, because the win that
Dallas had with Dirk was more impressive. Even if the
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Mavericks end up sweeping the Boston Celtics, that was a
bigger deal when Dirk won.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
And I think you would know why, but let me
spell it out for you.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
There was a certain team from Florida that was participating
in that particular NBA finals.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
That was the talk. They would just assume they would
never lose. It was.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
It was just a layup line. They're gonna win every championship.
There's no way they could possibly lose. The greatest team
of all time in the Miami Heat with Lebron, James
was in Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh and that series
went six games, so that in terms of cachet by
Dirk is much more impressive than anything Luca can do
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against the Celtics. Even though the Celtics are a good team,
they're not a forever team like that Miami Heat team
was when Lebron was.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
There with all the guys back back in the day.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
And the other quote which is getting a lot of
attention from Drew Holliday who was asked about how to
stop the aforementioned the aforementioned Kyrie Irving, and Drew Holliday said, pray,
He said, just prayer, divine intervention. That's all you need. Oh,
good luck, Maybe that'll work. How about you get some
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prayer beads? Would that be good?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
That would no anyway.
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Speaker 7 (21:57):
And we did have this I saw from the NBA.
I'm not sure if you're going to talk about this
coming up later on, but JJ Reddick, the soon to
be Lakers head coach, certainly by all accounts, was asked
about you know, are you gonna be the next coach
of the Lakers. He said, I am focused on the
NBA Finals, but he did say that once the season
is over, he will address Sham Sharania.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yes, I know you don't listen to when I talk
for whatever reason, but I've been saying for two weeks
here that it's the the TV people had a deal
with the NBA that even Reddick can't leave until after
the finals.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
He can't. So it's it's this has been the way
it is. It's not.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
This is not breaking news, Eddie, like once Doc Rivers
left and the people. I've been saying this for two
weeks because Sham Sharani said, who the hell Sham Sharani?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
He is a fraud? That guy?
Speaker 7 (22:52):
This is h is JJ gonna throw down with Shams.
We're gonna have What is this? It's like a veiled
threat to a member of the media. What is it?
What is he talking about?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I will address this when the season is over.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Let me tell you, JJ Reddick could get in a
fight with a lamp post and the lamp post would win. Okay,
do you understand that the guy was JJ Reddicks was
He's a rich.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Spoiled schmock is what he is. But I wish him
the best, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Nothing person, nothing to do with him missing nothing, nothing
to do with him missing every He's.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
The reason they did He's the reason they didn't win.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
People blame Chris Paul and Blake Griffin And how many
fourth quarter jump shots did jj Reddick have to go
brick house? And finally Doc even admitted he end a
bench Reddick in the fourth quarter because the guy suffered
from tight Tuckers syndrome.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
She's trying to get me worked up. It's not working, Eddie.
I'm not getting worked up at all. I'm not gonna
fall into your little trap there. Okay, I'm not. I'm
not doing it, Eddie. I'm not gonna play.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
Getting the Octagon.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I am fired up for the Octagon. I'm excited about it.
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Here we go into the octagon, Into the octagon we go.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Here we go.
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Hit the button there big professional radio introduction, the rumble
in the audio jungle, caller versus caller fisticuffs, not real fisticuffs,
imagined hypothetical fisticuffs.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
It's verbal boxing on the radio.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
No hold bar, no holds part a brew haha. A
couple of guys that are at Loggerheads today we will
decide who wins the championship and the twenty twenty five
NBA Finals. The Octagon is never wrong. The octagone is
never wrong. And now making.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Their way into the ring.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Hailing from the North End the mean streets of Boston.
A caller who once famously sat on a plunger and
talked about on the show. A guy that has sent
me eight page manifestos saying how big a schmuck I
am and that he's never calling the show ever again,
(25:31):
But yet he does. He lives over the iconic Bova's
Bakery on the North End of Boston. He goes to
bed to the smell of Canoli's, and he's battled Pete
and Pittsburgh. Marked a full name guy in just about
every legend. He's also appeared at multiple mallor meet and greets,
including one where his dog his old dog Kramer attacked
(25:53):
a waitress at a pizzeria in Boston while I was there,
and Scott did nothing to stop it because he couldn't see.
He can say it making his way into the octagon.
Let's hear it for blind Scott.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
Van Yell Big James today, I'm glad the Celtic coprid
of Marcus Malcolm Prague that those guys really shucked.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Come down, We're not doing it yet. Come down, Come down,
Come down.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
He's jumping the gun here now making their way into
the ring on the other side. A nuby to the octagon,
but not a nuby to getting his knee pads out.
He's got one green and one blue for the Dallas Mavericks.
A man that completely buys into the dogma. If Mark
Cuban takes a dump, this guy will wipe his took us.
(26:41):
That's how much he loves the Dallas basketball team. He's
seen all of America, the highways and byways, driving his
truck across the lands of America, and now he's here
to defend the honor of the Dallas Pro bouncy ball team.
Put your hands together for ten Texas Jack, Hello Texas Jack, Hello.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Welcome in Texas.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Ack.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
All right, gentlemen, listen, this is a battle of blowhards.
Although Texas Jack, I mean, this is a tough matchup.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Jack. You're a big underdog. Are you concerned going into this? Jack?
You're a big underdog with the points spread? People, Oh, we.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Should be big underdogs. They were the best team in
the NBA all year.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Now I'm talking about you. I'm not talking about the mattericks.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I'm talking about you, all right, anyway with a square
ball dude.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
All right, all right, Cop, comp down, Scott, Scott, comp down.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Scott's like Mike Tyson is gonna bite Texas Jack's ear off.
All right, listen, As you guys know, or maybe not,
the verbal octagon is a staple. It is a pillar
of the Ben Malor Overnight radio show. We've had legends,
the Late Genie of Medford, Tammy and Montana. We've had
Pete and Pittsburgh. Uh so many Jetu fleds bailed on
(27:58):
this multiple times, but you're gift for gab.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
We'll decide who wins.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Right.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
We have in studio judges myself, Eddie, Coop, Lorena. We'll
go to the judges scorecards. Now, barring a knockout. We
will go three full rounds. Round one, each of you
on for ten seconds. In round one, Round two a
rebuttal twenty seconds each, and then round three you are
both on the air at the same time, and that'll
(28:24):
be twenty five seconds.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Now, do you have one golden rule?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Here?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Cut that. We have one golden rule.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
If you, guys, curse points are deducted if you curse
multiple times.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Whoever's the first one to curse multiple.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Times is disqualified and you lose outright, doesn't matter what
the judges say.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Are we ready?
Speaker 4 (28:51):
All right?
Speaker 8 (28:51):
Jackas Jackets and Hillbilly all right?
Speaker 2 (28:54):
No, all right, judges, discount that line. Let's put blind
Scott by himself in the octagon.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
He's the one that wanted this.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Ten seconds on the clock, Blind Scott, round one, you're
on your way.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Go Yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:10):
The Toepics is one of the greatest franchise of all time, Dallas.
Nobody's ever even heard of that they played basketball with
the square ball down there. Texas Jack is a tuck driver.
It's like a labor who got hit over the head
with the two bye boy. That's why he's got nothing
to say. Their team's way.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
In spirit of all right, all right, cut him off,
cut him off right At ten seconds, he said a
few things that were somewhat interesting. I thought he used
a lot of better material before before the round. But
let's get over to the other side. Round one making
his way now in to duke it out with Blin
Scott ten seconds on the clock, representing the Mavericks, Texas jack.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
You got me going up against the blind guy? Are
you kidding me? Their best player chokes in the crunch time,
Jason Potato, head come, they got a parking. They can't
even build a poor correctly. Ah, all right, all right,
all right, all right.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I like that Wallburg line though. That was good at
the end there the Wallburgers kind of like Jason Potato. Yeah,
that was not bad either.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
All right, Well, we're off to a good start, and
I sometimes we go to the judges scorecards early, but
I think we should go back to let's go to
round two. That was a kind of a feeling out
process for blind Scott. He came out of the gates
and then we put the rope on him, and then
he calmed down. Let's see what he's got in round now.
In round two, since Texas Jackas went we'll go back
(30:33):
to blind Scott. Blind Scott, you have twenty seconds of
unedited airtime. Round two of the Octagon, Blind Scott Boston
to decide the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
You're on the air.
Speaker 8 (30:44):
Go Texas Son. They have Texas suchus. They have no
public transfisation. Jason Kidd is a white beater. We got
rid of m massagyn ast the coach, and hied Joe Mazzulo,
the best youngest coach of all time. I love doctor Pepper.
This guy bought from Los Angeles to coming to bar
the King's announcer and everybody aboves Boston.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Dude, you're trash.
Speaker 8 (31:03):
That's why you're a hillbilly.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Right next with not hit all right, all right, all right,
all right, all right, calm there. That's round two for
blind Scott. Let's go to round two. Now making his
way back into the ring. A man that gave us
Jason potato head and ripped the the wallburger. We bring
in Texas Jack. You're into twenty seconds, Texas.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
Jack, go god.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
I'm going in on bit half black now, can't standing
jessin Pedroia. They can go the heck uh ah, I
fell down. I lost it.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Oh no, oh no, Eddy, oh no. He was doing
so well with that bad half black dustin Pedroia. And
then he oh my god, he was he was.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
He was a little stammered. He stammered right there. Wow,
now he hesitated, you cannot hesitate.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
Well he's saved by the so he was group for
the final round.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
All right, But it was like he planted his leg
and then then al.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Wow, all of a sudden he becomes mumble mouthed. All
of a sudden, he had nothing to say. Okay, there's
still time, Texas Jack and blind Scott. This is the
final round.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
This is it.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
This is the bloody knuckles. Both you knuckleheads will be on.
We're good for twenty five seconds on the clock. This
is your last chance. You gotta use all your I'm
proud of you for not Christy. By the way, so
far I watched God twenty five seconds, go go go, go,
go on the air, go ahead session.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Just I love Mark like crap.
Speaker 8 (32:44):
Dude's the Celtics, big big cheap the Crammers. I could
never figure out why I hate doctor so much, but
big big glare guys.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Dude.
Speaker 8 (32:56):
One other thing too. Jleb Brown is the best Celtics
plant anybody. He's gonna win at the skate.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
That's it, that's it, that's it, all right, all right?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Ever, all right, well what we will have the the
postgame show and we'll go to the judges scorecards. I
think you kind of know which way this is going,
but maybe not. Maybe we'll get a surprise with the
judges scorecards. But that is the verbal octagon Texas Jack
(33:26):
and Blind Scott, and we will have the judges scorecards.
We'll have the postgame show, have the post fight interviews
with these two gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Unless they hang up, then we won't talk to them ever. Again.
We'll get to that, the post game of the Octagon.
We'll get to it. We'll do it.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
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Speaker 1 (34:19):
Normally we do the who am I? Game? But this
night different. We just had the verbal octagon. You can
vote on that.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
I sent out a message on X my X feed
at Ben Mahler and you can vote on who you
thought one.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
But we'll go to the judges scorecards and who wants
to go first here? I guess you want me to
go first. I can go first. I don't care. It's
my new first, all right.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
So three rounds now around one. I thought that Scott
was going to come out here like in just attack,
and he was. He was cautious.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
He used some of his good.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Material prior to even getting into the octagon, so that
was a misstep, and then he repeated some of his
opening material even though he wasn't yet in the octagon.
He did have the square ball line. I thought the
funnier lines that he had though were prior to getting
on the air.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
In round one, the square ball line was prior to
the start of the Yeah, yeah, but I know any
but he repeated it in the Octopus. We'll give him
credit for that.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
But then Jack came out and you could tell Jack
had prepared, he was ready for this at the beginning. Anyway,
he had the potato headline. He took a shot at
the Wallburger and the family there and all that, and
so those were some solid lines, and that was I
gave round one to Texas Jack, and I didn't even
(35:50):
think it was that close. And then in round two,
Scott he brought up the wife beater thing with Jason
Kidd for some reason, he said he loves doctor Pepper.
I think he meant to say he hates doctor Pepper
because that's from from Texas, right, and that I think
that was a misstep by blind Scott. And I was
gonna I was gonna give the edge in round two
(36:13):
to Texas Jack. And then Texas Jack had flop sweat
and it was a debacle. Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
He just he lost it.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
I mean he had he took a shot at Ben
Afflack and Dustin Pedroia and that was good and then
he stopped. So I mean, I can't I cannot give
you the win. If you don't finish the round, you
got to finish the race to get the medal. So
that and then round three, uh well, let's just not
talk about round three there. That was a ride of
(36:44):
a vomit comet, uh clear. And I didn't even think
Scott was that great in round three, right, I think
he was amazing. He did like a hillbilly joke or
something like that. But yeah, I scored this fight ten eight,
ten to eight in favor of the winner on my scorecard,
Blind Scott. Eddie, let's go to the judge's score cards.
(37:06):
How did you score the fight? Yeah, I saw it
much the way you did as well.
Speaker 8 (37:09):
Ben.
Speaker 7 (37:10):
I thought that Texas Jack, you know, coming out as
the challenger, showed us some nice verbal blows there early on.
I did, like the potato head thing and the wallburger
and all that. But so I gave him the first round.
But second round, as you mentioned, he just he just
ran out of material or just the bright lights were
(37:32):
too much for it and he melted. So I had
to give Scott the second round. And then in the
third round it was just a melee of punches from
from blind Scott that the compu box numbers were heavily
in favor of blind Scott, with just the number of
verbal jabs thrown. So in the end I got it
two rounds to one in favor of Scott.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
We don't have a lot of time, Coop, Hot, real quick,
how'd you see a fight? Coop ten nine, Jack ten eight,
Scott ten nine Scott. So two rounds to one in
favor of Scott. All right, Scott, you won, And Lorraine,
I know you're a big boxing.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Fan and all that, and so yeah, Bran Scott the
winner and the champion of the Verbal Octagon.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
The Celtics are winning the championship. It's guaranteed now
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
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As we ruffle some feathers here at our number one,
talking about the NBA Finals which begin later today, actually tonight,
it's a garden party.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Celtics star Jason Tatum said.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
At the Media Day festivities yesterday that the criticism he
gets some pundits gets old and that he changes the channel.
How do you interpret that? Chris tops Porzingis is pouring
ice water on reports that say he has a beef
with Luka Doncic.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
He says it's all just noise. Do you agree with him?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And what level of villain are the Luca Mavericks in
these NBA Finals.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We'll discuss that and who knows what else?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
From here to a million miles away, it's our number one.
You gotta talk talk talk before you walk, walk walk.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
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Speaker 1 (02:09):
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Speaker 2 (02:12):
We will tell you who's gonna win the NBA Finals
because we open up the verbal Adegan every man, woman
in child fun for all ages. The verbal loch Togon
will be coming up at the bottom of the hour,
as we have scheduled a representative of the Boston Celtic
(02:35):
Marching in Chowder Society on one side, and then a
cowboy boot wearing ten gallon hat Totin Dallas Maverick face.
So we have this schedule, we'll see if both can
batt ands. I don't even mention their names because if
one of them doesn't show up, it's it's false advertising.
But listen I'm looking forward to this. And if one
(02:55):
of them bails, will just go to the phones and
we'll get somebody else to come in. Understand, and we've
done this off and on over the years, and we'll
make an argument here. Each side will make an argument.
You will be the jury, and you will decide who
makes the more compelling argument, who deserves a medal, who
wins the.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Great debate, if you will.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
But our late this hour is from pro Bouncy Ball.
It was a lazy media day, lazy media hump day.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
There no real fireworks. We didn't get pyrotechnics.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
The brightest star for Boston if you watch television commercials
Madison Avenue, who thinks this guy's the brightest star? He
did leave a little meat on the bone. There was
a little meat on the bone. So if you didn't
hear about this, perhaps not Jason Tatum. That's the guy,
Jason ta So, Jason Tatum was asked about the media
(03:49):
scrutiny that he is facing, and he gave a rather
longated response. He said, it's a long break without basketball, which.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It is right, there's no no games here for a
while in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
He went on to say, so they meaning the punnits
had to overanalyze every little thing to have something to
talk about. And he said, did it get old? He
asked himself for a rhetorical question. He said, yes, but it's
the finals, and then he patted himself on the back,
saying they would not talk about me if I wasn't good,
(04:27):
Tatum stated. He then said he tries to take some
positives out of it and then changes the channel. He said,
I didn't say that, He said, head, he changes the channel.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Celtics star Jason Tatum revealing on the eve of the
NBA Finals that the criticism from the many talking heads
the pundits that he does consume me and then he
changes the channel.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
So how do you interpret this quote.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I've got the US Bureau of Economic Analysis sandbox and
press your luck and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make a smiling.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Emoji is what we're going to make. So a we'll
start here.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Jason Tatum not a very good poker player, not a
great poker face for Jason Tatum. Now that was a
relatively large admission that he is in that Lebron James
slash Kevin Durant class.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
There was a time.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Maybe this is I'm just dating myself, but there was
a time athletes would never admit to consuming media that
was below them.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
They were above consumption of media content.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
However, that is not what is going on here, Jason Talslay, Yeah,
you know, on this one, I turned to the US
Bureau of Economic Analysis consumer spending. Jason Tatum is spending
the single most valuable resource that he has. It's the
same single most valuable resource that we all have, and
(06:04):
he's spending it consuming NBA chatter, which is just filler
until the games continue. And we're talking about time, right,
I mean, time is the most valuable commodity. It is
the most freshest thing that you have. You can't buy anymore.
I can't buy anymore. What do you buy? Time can't buy?
(06:25):
I mean, by watch, you can't buy time. And once
you lose it, you can never get it back. Right,
You're done, that's it, lights out, and you don't know
how much you have left in the tank.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
That's time. And Jason Tatum, we'd like to welcome him
to the Mall of Milities. Likely up right now, he
has insomnia, and he's uplistening, biting his fingernails in a tizzy,
worried about what's going to happen later on Thursday night.
And Jason, you are welcome to call. All the lines
are open right now. So if Jason Tatum wants to
call in and just get a rant going, you're more.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Than welcome now. Page two.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Here another highlight from media Day. The unicorn speaks me.
He probably thought unicorns weren't real, and certainly if they
were real, they couldn't talk.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Well.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Surprise, surprise, the door opened up and in walked the unicorn.
Chrisps Porzingis. We should do a pool on which game
Porzingis will get re injured in?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Can we do that? We alle?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I used to do that with NASCAR with which Lapp,
with Danica Patrick Rekin, and then we had to get
rid of that because I had a producer that get
all freaked out. But Christops Porzingis was asked a loaded question.
A lot of chatter, some of it coming from former
NBA players raining down pitchforks here that there was some
(07:43):
bad blood between Christops Porzingis and Luka Danchi Porzingis. For
what it's Worth said that he has quote no ill
will towards Luka. Of course, there are many reports that
that is. That is the opposite. He said, it's all Christops, It's.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
All noise, just noise. Do you agree?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Do you agree that all of this chatter about disagreement
between Luca and Chris Tops is just noise? So I'm
shaking my head.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
No.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
In the public sandbox, which is what we're talking about. Yeah,
Luca and Porzingis are playing nice. I wouldn't push back
on that. Is this a full throated ceasefire in the media, Yeah, sure, sure.
Is it a temporary peace treaty probably, But when you
peel back the onion, the animosity is still there. There's
(08:36):
still at Loggerheads. And here's why humans gone a human.
Human's got a human and Christops Worzingis and Luca were
a partnership that failed.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
It was an abject failure.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
The Mavericks were supposed to go to the NBA Finals
with Porzingis and Luca side by side and together they
couldn't handle the bright lights. They they went blind and
it worked. It worked out like he ever had diarrhea
and been stuck in an elevator. That's not a good combination. Well,
Porzingis and Luca also not a great combination on the
(09:12):
steamy side, but not the good kind of steamy. So
now now they can settle the scores as Wow, Luca's
much better than Porzingis.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Well, okay, I wouldn't push back on that.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
However, However, Porzingis is on the better team.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
So if they get it done it, whether he plays.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
All the games or not, we don't think he will
be a huge upset of he plays all the games,
the way he's talking, the noise around the Celtics and
all that.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
But either way, he's gonna get one of those little
trinkets that they give out when you win.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Going forward, all right, last word here, so what level
villain are the Luca Donzik Mavericks in these NBA finals?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Now you have to have good versus evil.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
It's a staple of watching athletic competition, any kind of
endeavor like this. You have good guys and bad guys.
That's how it works, much like professional wrestling. So what's
the level of villain of the Luka Doncic Mavericks in
these finals? So they are actually sneaky good bad guys?
Does that make sense? They're sneaky, good bad guys. And
here's why. It's like an episode of a iconic game
(10:22):
show from a different generation.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Press your luck.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
The Mavericks have the double whammy, no wammy, wamy, double whammy,
double whammy because on one hand, you've got Kyrie Irving,
who is not the most polarizing player in basketball. That's
Lebron James. But next to Lebron James, Kyrie Irving's right there.
And Kyrie's polarizing for different reasons. He has become over
the last couple of years, the really prominent face of
(10:47):
anti Semitism in sport. I'm sure he's proud of that.
Maybe he is, and he refused to Apolgiz. Remember he
did not apologize until the Nets suspended him indefinitely during
that little episode back in the I guess we're supposed
to all forget about that.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
The NBA marketing people have done a.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Really bango job trying to pump the tires on Kyrie. Then,
on the other side, you also have another reason to
hate the Mavericks, which is not related to Kyrie Irving
at all.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
It's the big, big.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Building block that Dallas was rewarded for tanking all right,
people forgotten, But the NBA fined the Mavericks seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars for conduct detrimental to the league,
and they issued a mean statement after the Mavericks intentionally.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Lost multiple games.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
In an era of sports wagering, they tanked to get
a higher draft pick, and those ill begotten gains are
The first round pick was Derek Lively, the seven to
one center who has occasionally made big impacts.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
On what Dallas has been doing on the court.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
So the Mavericks are a team that was built on
tanking and they have a Looney tune in Kyrie Irving
as one of their top players. That's reason enough to
put a curse, put my own whammy on Dallas as
the Celtics will end up winning the championship. Not that
the Celtics are that great either, because the two top
guys with the Celtics, Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum, are
(12:20):
disciples of Kyrie Irving. So it's like they're they're not
quite to that level, they haven't reached that advanced level,
but they're not far away.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
They're not far away.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
We're going to add the verbal octagon later in the
hour We are going to set that up coming up
here in a couple of minutes. The Verbal Octagon must
listen radios. It is the single greatest thing that we do,
other than the other great things that some people think
we do. You'll have to decide about all that, but
we will have the verbal Lockdown coming up later this
(12:51):
hour and some Texas sized hyperbolee, some texasized hyperbolee.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
What is that all about? Will get to it and
we will do it.
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of reason, your news guy, You're announcer guy. I'm at
(14:14):
Eddie on Fox and of the final hour of tonight's show,
a Stanley Cup Final edition of Puck the World. It's
worth sticking around the whole four hours for and now
live from the tire rac dot Com Fox Sports Radio Studios,
It's Ben Malor.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Big Night the Octagon.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I have been told by boots on the ground that
both our combatants are in their dressing room right now
preparing last minute preparation before we go inside the rumble
that will be taking place here to decide in this
Rebel Octagon who is going to win the NBA Championship
(15:00):
as the NBA Finals beginning here on Thursday night, and
we will have a representative from Boston and a representative
of the Dallas Mavericks, and they will duke it out.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
It is audio blood.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
That's what it is though, and you will be one
of the judges. We will have an online vote, you
will be able to help decide. We will have the
in studio vote we have the postgame show. I was
talking to Lorraina in our production meeting about how much
the company spends to buy the rights to these octagons.
It is insane the amount of money that we invest in.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Everyone wants it, you know, ESPN wants it.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
They can't have it right, NBC can't have it, CBA, no,
CBS Canada. We've got it right here. We own the
verbal octagons. And we will have another doozy coming up
later this hour. But we had a Mallord monologue regarding
those NBA finals and Tony says, Mahler, Amigo, Kyrie ain't
(15:59):
gonna be able to hand that smoke from Beantown in
the finals. Tony says, yeah, well, he could make it
through a game or two. But if this thing goes
long and it gets back to those late games in Boston, that's.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
When the meltdown's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yafimi writes in from the Windy City, says, Hey, malar
a plus and a Checkers Burger in Fries on the
Malam Lague. Cubby's swept the White Sox and all is
right in the Chicago baseball scene. You congratulations of the
White Sox thirteen losses in a.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Row, very impressively.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
King Roy writes in, says, I cannot wait for tomorrow's
octagon verbal fight to see who will win the Stanley Cup.
I hope weed Man Hippie can defend the honor of
the Florida Panthers get them to Victor.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Well.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Eddie's going to actually cover that on his podcast this weekend.
He'll have weed Man Hippie and the guy from Edmonton
that called up and said that the entire town will
be off from work for a week if the Oilers,
or I should say, when the Oilers win the title.
Shane from the Moines says a plus to the newbies
last night. He says, big fan of the the newbies.
Mark the full Name Guy says, why were the Philadelphia
(17:13):
seventy six ers not fine for tanking? The seventy six
ers flop for like three years a I think it
was more than three years, and b there was a
hostile takeover with the Sixers front office.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Remember, I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
There was the the NBA intervened, They meddled, They forced
the Sixers to get rid of trust the process. They
forced it right, that little weasel Sam Hinkey that that
oh what a plague? What a plague sam Hinkey? He
was the GM in Philadelphia. Trust the process right, respect
(17:47):
the process.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Organic tanking.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, okay, anyway, Matt the Warrior Raider fan says Boston
has won enough to last a lifetime, and they have
the most obnoxious fans in sports. Most decent Americans would
be rooting for the Mavericks because it's really funny when
Boston teams lose words of wisdom from mattew.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Warrior and Raider fan. Who else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
The Clapper writes, and he says, Hey, Mallard, I once
had a steamy diarrhea on the tilta World at the
Minnesota State Fair.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I really left my mark with that. Carney.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Well, if you listen to my podcast, you know a
couple of years ago, I had a situation that I
would like to not talk about here on the I
don't think I can talk about it.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
It was like a.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Crime scene involving something that went haywire, went to real estate.
And I think that's still the most downloaded edition of
The Fifth Hour.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I don't even know what it was. It was a
couple years ago, sorryed three or four years ago.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Gagon was on with me and he retired to Florida.
He's eating the early Bird special noun Florida.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
He's retired, he's out of there. He's gone.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
But that was with him on the podcast back in
the day. So we're gonna get to the octagon in
a moment. I did want to mention this though, as
we set up the octagon, we are in the Texas
sized hyperbole.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Part of the story.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Jason Kidd, who played with some pretty good players in
his time, including a pretty good player there in Dallas
that has a street named after him. But Jason Kidd comment,
he's the coach who he's slightly compromised. But he was
talking about Luca and what happens if the unthinkable, the
(19:31):
unimaginable happens and Dallas ends up beating the Celtics in
the finals, and he said Luka Doncik could be the
greatest Maverick player. Ever, if they win the finals, now
could is a weaselter and it is, as.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
You know, a subjective debate. It is a subjective debate
to see who do you like. It goes by generations
like the Jordan Lebron thing. But this is just a.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Dallas specific debate. But I would say that one championship
does not does not trump, does not trump what Dirk
Novitsky did in Dallas. You could say it's neck and
neck at that point, but no, because the win that
Dallas had with Dirk was more impressive. Even if the
(20:23):
Mavericks end up sweeping the Boston Celtics, that was a
bigger deal when Dirk won.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
And I think you would know why, but let me
spell it out for you.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
There was a certain team from Florida that was participating
in that particular NBA finals.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
That was the talk. They would just assume they would
never lose. It was.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
It was just a layup line. They're gonna win every championship.
There's no way they could possibly lose. The greatest team
of all time in the Miami Heat with Lebron, James
was in Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh and that series
went six games, so that in terms of cachet by
Dirk is much more impressive than anything Luca can do
(21:13):
against the Celtics. Even though the Celtics are a good team,
they're not a forever team like that Miami Heat team
was when Lebron was.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
There with all the guys back back in the day.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
And the other quote which is getting a lot of
attention from Drew Holliday who was asked about how to
stop the aforementioned the aforementioned Kyrie Irving, and Drew Holliday said, pray,
He said, just prayer, divine intervention. That's all you need. Oh,
good luck, Maybe that'll work. How about you get some
(21:45):
prayer beads? Would that be good?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
That would no anyway.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
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Speaker 7 (21:57):
And we did have this I saw from the NBA.
I'm not sure if you're going to talk about this
coming up later on, but JJ Reddick, the soon to
be Lakers head coach, certainly by all accounts, was asked
about you know, are you gonna be the next coach
of the Lakers. He said, I am focused on the
NBA Finals, but he did say that once the season
is over, he will address Sham Sharania.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Yes, I know you don't listen to when I talk
for whatever reason, but I've been saying for two weeks
here that it's the the TV people had a deal
with the NBA that even Reddick can't leave until after
the finals.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
He can't. So it's it's this has been the way
it is. It's not.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
This is not breaking news, Eddie, like once Doc Rivers
left and the people. I've been saying this for two
weeks because Sham Sharani said, who the hell Sham Sharani?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
He is a fraud? That guy?
Speaker 7 (22:52):
This is h is JJ gonna throw down with Shams.
We're gonna have What is this? It's like a veiled
threat to a member of the media. What is it?
What is he talking about?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I will address this when the season is over.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Let me tell you, JJ Reddick could get in a
fight with a lamp post and the lamp post would win. Okay,
do you understand that the guy was JJ Reddicks was
He's a rich.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Spoiled schmock is what he is. But I wish him
the best, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Nothing person, nothing to do with him missing nothing, nothing
to do with him missing every He's.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
The reason they did He's the reason they didn't win.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
People blame Chris Paul and Blake Griffin And how many
fourth quarter jump shots did jj Reddick have to go
brick house? And finally Doc even admitted he end a
bench Reddick in the fourth quarter because the guy suffered
from tight Tuckers syndrome.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
She's trying to get me worked up. It's not working, Eddie.
I'm not getting worked up at all. I'm not gonna
fall into your little trap there. Okay, I'm not. I'm
not doing it, Eddie. I'm not gonna play.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
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Speaker 2 (23:56):
I am fired up for the Octagon. I'm excited about it.
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Speaker 2 (24:18):
Here we go into the octagon, Into the octagon we go.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Hit the button there big professional radio introduction, the rumble
in the audio jungle, caller versus caller fisticuffs, not real fisticuffs,
imagined hypothetical fisticuffs.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
It's verbal boxing on the radio.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
No hold bar, no holds part a brew haha. A
couple of guys that are at Loggerheads today we will
decide who wins the championship and the twenty twenty five
NBA Finals. The Octagon is never wrong. The octagone is
never wrong. And now making.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Their way into the ring.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Hailing from the North End the mean streets of Boston.
A caller who once famously sat on a plunger and
talked about on the show. A guy that has sent
me eight page manifestos saying how big a schmuck I
am and that he's never calling the show ever again,
(25:31):
But yet he does. He lives over the iconic Bova's
Bakery on the North End of Boston. He goes to
bed to the smell of Canoli's, and he's battled Pete
and Pittsburgh. Marked a full name guy in just about
every legend. He's also appeared at multiple mallor meet and greets,
including one where his dog his old dog Kramer attacked
(25:53):
a waitress at a pizzeria in Boston while I was there,
and Scott did nothing to stop it because he couldn't see.
He can say it making his way into the octagon.
Let's hear it for blind Scott.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
Van Yell Big James today, I'm glad the Celtic coprid
of Marcus Malcolm Prague that those guys really shucked.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Come down, We're not doing it yet. Come down, Come down,
Come down.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
He's jumping the gun here now making their way into
the ring on the other side. A nuby to the octagon,
but not a nuby to getting his knee pads out.
He's got one green and one blue for the Dallas Mavericks.
A man that completely buys into the dogma. If Mark
Cuban takes a dump, this guy will wipe his took us.
(26:41):
That's how much he loves the Dallas basketball team. He's
seen all of America, the highways and byways, driving his
truck across the lands of America, and now he's here
to defend the honor of the Dallas Pro bouncy ball team.
Put your hands together for ten Texas Jack, Hello Texas Jack, Hello.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Welcome in Texas.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Ack.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
All right, gentlemen, listen, this is a battle of blowhards.
Although Texas Jack, I mean, this is a tough matchup.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Jack. You're a big underdog. Are you concerned going into this? Jack?
You're a big underdog with the points spread? People, Oh, we.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Should be big underdogs. They were the best team in
the NBA all year.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Now I'm talking about you. I'm not talking about the mattericks.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I'm talking about you, all right, anyway with a square
ball dude.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
All right, all right, Cop, comp down, Scott, Scott, comp down.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Scott's like Mike Tyson is gonna bite Texas Jack's ear off.
All right, listen, As you guys know, or maybe not,
the verbal octagon is a staple. It is a pillar
of the Ben Malor Overnight radio show. We've had legends,
the Late Genie of Medford, Tammy and Montana. We've had
Pete and Pittsburgh. Uh so many Jetu fleds bailed on
(27:58):
this multiple times, but you're gift for gab.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
We'll decide who wins.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Right.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
We have in studio judges myself, Eddie, Coop, Lorena. We'll
go to the judges scorecards. Now, barring a knockout. We
will go three full rounds. Round one, each of you
on for ten seconds. In round one, Round two a
rebuttal twenty seconds each, and then round three you are
both on the air at the same time, and that'll
(28:24):
be twenty five seconds.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Now, do you have one golden rule?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Here?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Cut that. We have one golden rule.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
If you, guys, curse points are deducted if you curse
multiple times.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Whoever's the first one to curse multiple.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Times is disqualified and you lose outright, doesn't matter what
the judges say.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Are we ready?
Speaker 4 (28:51):
All right?
Speaker 8 (28:51):
Jackas Jackets and Hillbilly all right?
Speaker 2 (28:54):
No, all right, judges, discount that line. Let's put blind
Scott by himself in the octagon.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
He's the one that wanted this.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Ten seconds on the clock, Blind Scott, round one, you're
on your way.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Go Yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:10):
The Toepics is one of the greatest franchise of all time, Dallas.
Nobody's ever even heard of that they played basketball with
the square ball down there. Texas Jack is a tuck driver.
It's like a labor who got hit over the head
with the two bye boy. That's why he's got nothing
to say. Their team's way.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
In spirit of all right, all right, cut him off,
cut him off right At ten seconds, he said a
few things that were somewhat interesting. I thought he used
a lot of better material before before the round. But
let's get over to the other side. Round one making
his way now in to duke it out with Blin
Scott ten seconds on the clock, representing the Mavericks, Texas jack.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
You got me going up against the blind guy? Are
you kidding me? Their best player chokes in the crunch time,
Jason Potato, head come, they got a parking. They can't
even build a poor correctly. Ah, all right, all right,
all right, all right.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I like that Wallburg line though. That was good at
the end there the Wallburgers kind of like Jason Potato. Yeah,
that was not bad either.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
All right, Well, we're off to a good start, and
I sometimes we go to the judges scorecards early, but
I think we should go back to let's go to
round two. That was a kind of a feeling out
process for blind Scott. He came out of the gates
and then we put the rope on him, and then
he calmed down. Let's see what he's got in round now.
In round two, since Texas Jackas went we'll go back
(30:33):
to blind Scott. Blind Scott, you have twenty seconds of
unedited airtime. Round two of the Octagon, Blind Scott Boston
to decide the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
You're on the air.
Speaker 8 (30:44):
Go Texas Son. They have Texas suchus. They have no
public transfisation. Jason Kidd is a white beater. We got
rid of m massagyn ast the coach, and hied Joe Mazzulo,
the best youngest coach of all time. I love doctor Pepper.
This guy bought from Los Angeles to coming to bar
the King's announcer and everybody aboves Boston.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Dude, you're trash.
Speaker 8 (31:03):
That's why you're a hillbilly.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Right next with not hit all right, all right, all right,
all right, all right, calm there. That's round two for
blind Scott. Let's go to round two. Now making his
way back into the ring. A man that gave us
Jason potato head and ripped the the wallburger. We bring
in Texas Jack. You're into twenty seconds, Texas.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
Jack, go god.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
I'm going in on bit half black now, can't standing
jessin Pedroia. They can go the heck uh ah, I
fell down. I lost it.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Oh no, oh no, Eddy, oh no. He was doing
so well with that bad half black dustin Pedroia. And
then he oh my god, he was he was.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
He was a little stammered. He stammered right there. Wow,
now he hesitated, you cannot hesitate.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
Well he's saved by the so he was group for
the final round.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
All right, But it was like he planted his leg
and then then al.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Wow, all of a sudden he becomes mumble mouthed. All
of a sudden, he had nothing to say. Okay, there's
still time, Texas Jack and blind Scott. This is the
final round.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
This is it.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
This is the bloody knuckles. Both you knuckleheads will be on.
We're good for twenty five seconds on the clock. This
is your last chance. You gotta use all your I'm
proud of you for not Christy. By the way, so
far I watched God twenty five seconds, go go go, go,
go on the air, go ahead session.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Just I love Mark like crap.
Speaker 8 (32:44):
Dude's the Celtics, big big cheap the Crammers. I could
never figure out why I hate doctor so much, but
big big glare guys.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Dude.
Speaker 8 (32:56):
One other thing too. Jleb Brown is the best Celtics
plant anybody. He's gonna win at the skate.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
That's it, that's it, that's it, all right, all right?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Ever, all right, well what we will have the the
postgame show and we'll go to the judges scorecards. I
think you kind of know which way this is going,
but maybe not. Maybe we'll get a surprise with the
judges scorecards. But that is the verbal octagon Texas Jack
(33:26):
and Blind Scott, and we will have the judges scorecards.
We'll have the postgame show, have the post fight interviews
with these two gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Unless they hang up, then we won't talk to them ever. Again.
We'll get to that, the post game of the Octagon.
We'll get to it. We'll do it.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
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Speaker 1 (34:19):
Normally we do the who am I? Game? But this
night different. We just had the verbal octagon. You can
vote on that.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
I sent out a message on X my X feed
at Ben Mahler and you can vote on who you
thought one.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
But we'll go to the judges scorecards and who wants
to go first here? I guess you want me to
go first. I can go first. I don't care. It's
my new first, all right.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
So three rounds now around one. I thought that Scott
was going to come out here like in just attack,
and he was. He was cautious.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
He used some of his good.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Material prior to even getting into the octagon, so that
was a misstep, and then he repeated some of his
opening material even though he wasn't yet in the octagon.
He did have the square ball line. I thought the
funnier lines that he had though were prior to getting
on the air.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
In round one, the square ball line was prior to
the start of the Yeah, yeah, but I know any
but he repeated it in the Octopus. We'll give him
credit for that.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
But then Jack came out and you could tell Jack
had prepared, he was ready for this at the beginning. Anyway,
he had the potato headline. He took a shot at
the Wallburger and the family there and all that, and
so those were some solid lines, and that was I
gave round one to Texas Jack, and I didn't even
(35:50):
think it was that close. And then in round two,
Scott he brought up the wife beater thing with Jason
Kidd for some reason, he said he loves doctor Pepper.
I think he meant to say he hates doctor Pepper
because that's from from Texas, right, and that I think
that was a misstep by blind Scott. And I was
gonna I was gonna give the edge in round two
(36:13):
to Texas Jack. And then Texas Jack had flop sweat
and it was a debacle. Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
He just he lost it.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
I mean he had he took a shot at Ben
Afflack and Dustin Pedroia and that was good and then
he stopped. So I mean, I can't I cannot give
you the win. If you don't finish the round, you
got to finish the race to get the medal. So
that and then round three, uh well, let's just not
talk about round three there. That was a ride of
(36:44):
a vomit comet, uh clear. And I didn't even think
Scott was that great in round three, right, I think
he was amazing. He did like a hillbilly joke or
something like that. But yeah, I scored this fight ten eight,
ten to eight in favor of the winner on my scorecard,
Blind Scott. Eddie, let's go to the judge's score cards.
(37:06):
How did you score the fight? Yeah, I saw it
much the way you did as well.
Speaker 8 (37:09):
Ben.
Speaker 7 (37:10):
I thought that Texas Jack, you know, coming out as
the challenger, showed us some nice verbal blows there early on.
I did, like the potato head thing and the wallburger
and all that. But so I gave him the first round.
But second round, as you mentioned, he just he just
ran out of material or just the bright lights were
(37:32):
too much for it and he melted. So I had
to give Scott the second round. And then in the
third round it was just a melee of punches from
from blind Scott that the compu box numbers were heavily
in favor of blind Scott, with just the number of
verbal jabs thrown. So in the end I got it
two rounds to one in favor of Scott.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
We don't have a lot of time, Coop, Hot, real quick,
how'd you see a fight? Coop ten nine, Jack ten eight,
Scott ten nine Scott. So two rounds to one in
favor of Scott. All right, Scott, you won, And Lorraine,
I know you're a big boxing.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Fan and all that, and so yeah, Bran Scott the
winner and the champion of the Verbal Octagon.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
The Celtics are winning the championship. It's guaranteed now
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