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June 7, 2024 35 mins

Ben Maller talks about the Celtics crushing the Mavs in Game 1 of the NBA Finals and who deserves the blame for Dallas, which Celtics player is breathing the biggest sigh of relief, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, It's our.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Nume Burn, our one of the original Recipe podcast. This
is the Friday Pod, the seventh day of the month
of June, and we look back at last night's NBA
Finals game. We stayed up all night to record this podcast,
so you have fresh audio content on demand, and as

(00:23):
an added bonus, we go back into the audio dojo
later today for the fifth Hour podcast.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
We will also have new material.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
I'll tell you about some of the things I've been
up to the last couple of weeks i didn't talk
about on the radio show, involving someone who has become
a friend over the years, and so we'll have that
for you and some other stories that have not been
told before on the Fifth Hour podcast, available wherever you
get your podcast, So please give that a listen. Myself
and Danny g are together on that podcast. Here in

(00:56):
our number one, it was a beat down in Beans
as the Boston Celtics jumped out to a seventeen point
lead and never really looked back. A day of reckoning
for the mav Rex who gets the blame Texas toast
for the Dallas basketball team's performance in Game one? What
happened to the Boston Hecklers, motivating Kyrie Irving, who stunk

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at a time you can't think? And which green teamer
is breathing the biggest sigh of relief that Boston won
even though they didn't play that well.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
And how big a deal.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Is Game one of the Finals for the Celtics will
answer all those questions and more. Right now, give it
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Speaker 1 (02:28):
Masshole.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Mickey tells me that's almost as many points as the
Celtics won by tire rack dot Com. The way tire
buying should be and our lead this I think you
know what the lead is. There's some nights you just
kind of know what the lead is. Play the hits,
my man, play the hits. Okay, all right, we will.
We'll talk about the Green Goblins, our lead this hour

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from the Promised Land. After a three month hiatus, it
was three months, right, it felt like three months.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
It had to be three months.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yes, Well, after that long gap, we actually have a
game to talk about.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
You and I. I know it's exciting.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
The Madvericks paying a visit to Boston for a playdate
with the Celtics.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
In got a little bit of attention. If you saw
this or not, maybe not, maybe you weren't watching. Don't worry.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
We watched so you would not have to. It's our
good mitzvah of the day. And I'd like to report
you did not miss much. You did not miss much.
You didn't miss a choke job. You did not miss
a missed game winning shot. You didn't make you didn't
get anybody making a game winning shot. Jalen Brown had
a mellow twenty two points, Chris stops partzingis from the

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bench with twenty points, and the Boston basketball team Patty
Whack the Dallas basketball team one oh seven to eighty
nine in a game that was played there Thursday night
at Gotti and Derek White. He had fifteen for the Seas.
They led by as many as twenty nine points in
the first half. All those losers, they were like, oh,

(04:03):
the Mavericks. The Celtics knocked down sixteen to three pointers.
Of course they took seven hundreds, so you'd hope they'd
make some of those as.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
They power play their.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Way to a game one win, three wins away from
number eighteen for the franchise. But the better story to
start with is in the losing locker room. That is
where the drama is, and that is where we begin
as we discuss the question.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Blame.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Who gets the blame? Texas toast for the mav Rex performance.
What a pathetic bunch that team is in Game one
of the NBA Finals. So I've got the crying game,
Irish spring and all you can eat buffet, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are

(04:55):
going to make a nice trip to King Kun, which
is what the Mavericks are headed towards the way this
is going, and not a celebratory trip to cant couh
and just a trip to CanCon to try to get
out of the country, to get.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Away from the noise. Now, a the sound you heard.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
If you're listening closely, the sound you heard with about
four minutes and ten seconds on the clock in the
second quarter.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Was a guffaw. It was a belly laugh.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Because over eighty five percent of the bets, not only
from the public but from the Sharps were on Dallas.
There was a consensus that the Mavericks were the right
side here, and that's what you wanted to be. And
as we have preached on the TV show Benny Versus
the Penny and this radio program over the years, if

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the public is one way, you want to go the
other because more times than not you're gonna win. Doesn't
always work out, but more times than not, you're going
to win. And there's another example of that in Game
one of the finals. The Mavericks, there's really no other
way to say, they were guilty of absenteeism. In Game one,
they were meleid at the beginning of the game. And
you could also call this the crying game, right they

(06:09):
cry The Celtics cried Uncle, as in Uncle Drew.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
What happened to that career renaissance, He's a new man.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Kyrie Irving, Well, Kyrie was not only a basketball player.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
He was terrible. Okay, I no way to say it.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
And as we'd like to say in these parts, it
wasn't a specific kind of suck. It was an all
encompassing type of suck, is what it was. Kyrie Irving
took nineteen shots. He only made six of them.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Six of night.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
That's thirty one percent. How about the three point shots.
I probably made a couple of those. He took five
of them.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Made none.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
He made as many as you and I Twelve points
on nineteen shots and a plus minus of minus nineteen,
which I believe was the worst in the game. What
happened to the Boston hecklers motivating Kyrie Irving? Remember when
some of the talking heads were like, oh you you
Boston fans, you better not boom Kyrie.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
You don't want you do not want angry Kyrie? No, no, no,
where's Kendrick Perkins right now? Spoably eating?

Speaker 3 (07:13):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (07:13):
But also luka doncik. Let's not forget Loua.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
He gets some Texas toast blame as well, and a
lot of dumb people who clearly.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Did not watch the game. We call them idiots. They're well,
look at his fun We had thirty points. Come on,
we had thirty points. What's what we do? Okay?

Speaker 2 (07:32):
So while Dallas was drowning they needed a lifeguard. They
fell behind by twenty nine points. In that stretch, Luka
Doncik was three of nine from the floor for eight
points minus eighteen while Dallas was down by twenty nine. Then,
in what Marv Albert used to call garbage time the
old broadcaster, how do you do?

Speaker 1 (07:55):
How about this? Luca twenty two points, eight rebounds.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Think Kyrie Luca partnership combined to have three assists. Luca
had won, Kyrie had two. They combined for seven turnovers
in game one of the funs.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Now, I never played in the NBA, but I don't
think that's good. Maybe I'm wrong on that.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
I don't think you're looking for your top two players
to have seven turnovers and three assists. Now, Page two
was the Celtics win all about Christops? Per zingis as
many many in the media are claiming right now. Now,
I will preface this by saying the Unicorn was great,
clearly for one night.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
It appears the pundits got it right for one night.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
We maintain our position, very stubbornly, that Boston is so
much better than Dallas from top to bottom, that they
would have won this game even without the twenty points
from Christops Porzingis. And they can say that and I'm
not wrong because you don't know, and I don't know
because they played the game with them, But you don't know.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
What would happened.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Other people would have had the opportunity to step up
and get those twenty points. Now, the other question here
is which Green teamer is breathing the biggest sigh of
relief from Game one's victory, and that one's rather easy. JT,
not JT. The brick Jason Tatum. This victory was a
bar of Irish spring soap for Tatum. It helped cover

(09:25):
up the stank of Jason Tatum. And had this game
ended differently and could have in another dimension, but the
dimension were in it ended with Boston winning comfortably. Jason
Tatum had sixteen points on sixteen shots.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Methinks that's bad. He did have eleven rebounds, but he.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Had six turnovers as well, just pretty much taken up space.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
The way it works, though, and this is.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Why we almost always start in the losing locker room.
When you win, all your sins are forgiven in victory,
when you lose, not so much. All right, last word here,
all right, you only get one chance to make a
first impression. You probably heard that from your parents or
whoever helped raise you. Right, one chance to make a
good first impression. Pretty important. So how big a deal

(10:13):
is Game one for the Celtics? And you can look
at history. Historically, the team that gets first blood in
the NBA Finals has gone on to win the championship
seventy percent of the time, seventy percent, and when it's
the home team, we are told it's seventy nine percent.
Boston setting the mood, little mood lighting. They lit the candles,

(10:38):
a romantic night there, playing footsie with the victory.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
So they're off to a great start. Round one knockout,
as that was it? Who would about Dallas? They got
back within eight? What pdam do? Did you really think
the Mavericks are going to come back and win the game?

Speaker 2 (10:54):
I didn't, And if you did, you're probably wearing your
Dallas Mavericks onesie right now. You got your pajamas on,
and you're very excited. But I'm not going to be
a prisoner, a prisoner of the moment. I have learned
my lesson over the years. Stats tell you what has
happened that's going to happen.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
And this is a very.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Small sample size one, dame, it's all we have to
base this on. But the Celtics on my scorecard, they
did what they were supposed to do. They were the
better team.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
We all know that.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Anyone knows basketball knows they're the better team here and
they they win.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
So you don't get flowers for that. I mean, I
don't give you give flowers. I don't. I don't give
flowers that.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
And now, over the next couple of days, because you've
got a couple of day gap before Game two of
the finals, the Celtics will be fed and all you
can eat buffet of rat poison, put on a pedestal
surrounded by those media siicaphans who will genuflect with their
knee pads on a mob of brown nosers and boot

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liquors who will give them manny petty treatment to the
Celtic players, and the advice, which goes back forty years.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Don't eat the cheese, it's poison. Don't eat the cheese.
We'll see you.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Gotta think it's gonna be a closer game too. In
this series, it is the Ben Mahlor Show. If you
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That means to sit back, speak easy. You don't need

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Speaker 1 (12:47):
If you would like to be part of the radio program.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
So Kyrie Irving on the court, it was pretty bad
off the court. He has gone DreamWorks. What is that
all about? What does that even mean? We'll get to
that and we will do it.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
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Speaker 4 (13:07):
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Speaker 1 (14:15):
It's Ben Mallor, game one of the finals in the books.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
As Boston gets off to the good start there, the
Mavericks have some work to do. They got something explaining
to Doe after they get punched early and turn at
the least's the parties over Jason in Kansas City, right sing,
he says ten out of ten on the opening Mallor monologue.
Dallas is looking to do the Texas two step by

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losing embarrassingly in both the NBA and NHL playoffs. Kyrie
Irving look like a fish out of water in Boston,
Berg Doog says, to all the doubters of the outcome
of the verbal octagon powers to determine who will win
the NBA Finals.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
What do you have to say? Now? They're awfully quiet,
aren't they. Ben?

Speaker 2 (15:07):
That's right, Fergie, absolutely correct, Fergie, one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
It's embarrassing. It's absolutely embarrassing. Oh it doesn't mean anything.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
Well, blind Scott knocked out Texas Jack and the Octagon,
and look at us now, midnight Walker's back. Where's the
midnight Walker been? Has he been on vacation? The Midnight Walker?

Speaker 1 (15:27):
I don't know. I have no idea midnight Walker says.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
The boys from Beingtown took Game one and the Mavericks
looked like a joke. But fear not, MAVs fans, there's
plenty of time for Jason Tatum to choke. Okay, thank you,
midnight Walker. Now digital space monkey being a douche Canoe

(15:55):
is ripping me for using He says, I use the
wrong oji for the Eagles. We're gonna talk about the
Eagles coming up later in the show, and he says
that I should have used the eagle emoji. But let
me explain something to you, digital space money monkey. There's
this thing called comedic value, and the way the Philadelphia

(16:17):
Eagles played at the end of the season a historical
fall from grace for the Philadelphia football team until further notice.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
They're the parrots. Okay, they're the parrots.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Do I have to explain everything? Are people that stupid?
Is this guy that dumb? I have to explain everything?
Is that where we're at right now? Shane from The
Mornin says, Ben, I love you and the show. But
all right, so we all know in conversation when someone
throws the word butt in everything they say before, the
word butt is a lie. So when Shane and de
Moin writes and says Ben, I love you and the show,

(16:52):
but it's a lie, he says, I miss the racist drop.
I hear it in my en in places. I wish
it was played on the show. I guess that's a.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Me problem racist, Well, I don't know what to tell you. Loraina.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
She's not here tonight. She doesn't like doing drops. I
guess she doesn't just do any of them.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
I don't know why. Hopefully she will come around and
do the drops. She does some of them, but not many,
and not.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
A lot of the classic ones that we were hoping for.
So but she's new and so it'll take a little
time and hopefully she'll.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Want to do it. I mean, we can't force you
to do something she doesn't want to do it. It's
not clear.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Not into it, masshole Mickey Wright since says amazing first
hour monologue all the gas bags and blowhard said, Oh,
Celtics haven't faced any tough competition, but Dallas, they haven't
played a team like the Seas the Seas in five,
says masshole Mickey hl right, sinceys I lost interest in

(17:48):
the game, Just like the Celtics in.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
The third quarter.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
They did one thing to the Mavericks. They took the
game away and then gave it back to the MAVs.
They gave them hope and then crushed them. Like Luca
looked like he was embarrassed as he walked off the court. Yeah,
Mike Breen had an orgasm on television because Dallas, you know,
he thought he was just gonna have a blowout, and

(18:13):
then Dallas got back within aid and then immediately the
Celtics won on an eleven to nothing run at that point,
which I don't think is what Jason Kidd wanted.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
I don't want to speak for Jason Kidd.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
It's possible that is not not true he actually did
want that, and that he will use this as some
kind of positive situation.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
I have no idea we will. We will find out.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
We'll see how this this plays out, and we will
take your phone calls if you want to hit us
up on x though at Ben Mahllor, that is at
Ben Mallor.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Let's go to the Bay Area.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
When you want to break down the NBA Finals, you
go to northern California and we say hello to Connor, Hello, Connor.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
Hey, how's it going? Uh? Big? Ben Maller A big fan.
Thank you your show.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah, I love you too, Connor. And if I was
any better, I'd be a Maverick. But not Kyrie Irving
because he was terrible.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
Oh my gosh. Six of nineteen not the way you
want to go. Is it? That is some god awful
shooting right there, and not.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
Even in garbage time, because at least Luca. For the
people that didn't watch the game, they just look at
the boxer.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
Oh yeah, thirty points. Okay, well you didn't watch the
What are you calling up to talk about a game
you did watch?

Speaker 7 (19:30):
I have a good what were you doing?

Speaker 1 (19:32):
What we want?

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Well?

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Why would you call it talk about a game you
didn't watch? What were you doing?

Speaker 3 (19:37):
I could still give you a good breakdown. So my
mom got hurt, So okay.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
Well that's okay, all right, now you're making me feel bad.
Now you're making mom.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
I'm gonna give you a good breakdown. I could still
give you a good breakdown.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Oh you're gonna give.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Me a break I have to be able to, have
to be able to because I want to do what
you do.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
So I actually watched the game, though Connor like I didn't.
I mean I wish I hadn't. I wasn't very entertaining.
I it was over after the first quarter. Yeah, all intensive, person, I.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Think the series is over. I'm just gonna be honest
with you.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
I don't believe it's over now.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
I think it's over.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
No, no, no, no, it's not it's not it's not over.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
They got three more games to play, Connor, they got
her at least three more games to play.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
I'm telling you it's over. It's over.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
ABC is gonna lose a lot of money if they
don't have three more games.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
Yeah, this is not this is gonna Connor.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
This is not the NCAA tournament. It is not single elimination.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
Yeah. I still I still think it's over. And and
the reason that is is because, first of all, here's
a good stat for you. And I'm saying this off
the top of my head, so hopefully I get it right.
Seventy percent of the time teams win at home in
the first game win the series. Seventy percent of the time.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Well, that's right.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
It's a great tribute to my monologue because I use
that stat my monologue.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
Thank you for listening.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
It's actually seventy nine percent, it's actually seventy and win game.
But as you know, Connor, when you become a talk
show someday, that tells you what has happened, not what's
going to happen.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
Exactly, but it's probably what also tells you, like the
chances of what will happen. And I'm saying they're pretty high.
Definitely more than fifty percent, so more than half way.
It definitely leans Stores and Celtics, and Celtics are just
a better team in general.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Well that is true. But here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
And I tried to explain this to Eddie over there,
mister hockey, who keeps spitting loogies at my Edmonton Oilers.
But the better team does not always win. See that's
the everyone's a other better team. Yeah, the better team
wins most of the time, but not always. Otherwise, what's
the point of watching these games? If the better team
just wins? Then who why would we bother watching?

Speaker 3 (21:44):
By the way, support the Oilers.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
You're on the right side of history. You're on the
right side, unlike Eddie over there. Unlike Eddie's playing for
a team from South Florida. How embarrassing is that this country? No,
South Florida is not part of this country. There's a
different country in South Florida. It's like the Bahamas because.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
They got Tom David and Tanner has my name.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
So yeah, Connor's becoming a man each call he makes
for the show.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
You got a problem with that? No, No, I'm here
the guy.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
I dare you all right? I hope your mom's okay.
Car go take care of your mom. You could not
have been more dismissive of your mom getting hurt. Connor, Yeah,
she's fine.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
See that right? There would be a good drop.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
That would be a good drop we talk about, you know,
Eddie's favorite sport, women's basketball.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
We could play that drop.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Let's say hello to Big Sean, who's become a regular
after vanishing for several years.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
Big Sean is back. Hello Sean, what's going on?

Speaker 7 (22:47):
Ben Maler, a longtime listener, third time caller to finally
be on.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
It's been so long since we last spoke, at least
a couple of days.

Speaker 7 (22:57):
Yeah, you know, but the reason you're reading for my call,
besides to get on these air ways, is to say,
what a marvelous coaching job Joe Missoula did. I think
he kind of proved you wrong, he said, I think somebody.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
On the home coaching did not stop stop shine, read
up what's wrong with you?

Speaker 8 (23:21):
Into Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
You know what I really loved about Joe Missoula that
fourth quarter coaching decision that he made. Oh my god,
what a brilliant coaching move in the fourth quarter that
turned the game upside down. Oh my god, Oh yeah,
j kid, Yes, coaching matters.

Speaker 7 (23:40):
I tried to tell you the other day. He proved
it with the way he inserted, the way he used
for zingis the unicorn, the way he is.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Your last name, Missoula? Is this Sean Missoula? Are you
Sean Missoula?

Speaker 2 (23:51):
By chance?

Speaker 1 (23:51):
Is that your surname? Missoula?

Speaker 2 (23:54):
What do you when do you go get a room
and you can massage? Give him a shoulder massage. How
about that? Give Missoula's shoulder massage.

Speaker 7 (24:00):
Big Sean stud around my way, And I just wanted
to tell you that he's proved.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
Oh no, no, there's like five coaches that matter. Everyone
else is just there taking up space.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
That's it. That's all.

Speaker 7 (24:13):
Is Jason Tatum or Jalen Brown the best players in
the NBA either one of them? Are they either one
of them? Are they number one in NBA?

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Collectively? They're wonderful.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
That's what matters collective, not because of the coach. All right,
You're so wrong about this, like the worst take you've
ever had. Keep doubling down on it. If you put wait, wait,
hold on, if you put Joe Missoula in Charlie to
coach the Woebegone Hornets right North Carolina. You think the
Hornets would be that much better? No, because he doesn't

(24:46):
make a difference. He hadn't move the needle.

Speaker 7 (24:48):
We wouldn't know that because we couldn't get back.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
We do know that.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
The only reason he's there is because the previous coach
was stooping one of the secretaries for the Celtics.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
That's the only reason. And he's there. That's it.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
He wouldn't have the coaching job, he'd be the sistant,
or he'd be somewhere else.

Speaker 7 (25:05):
Hey, that's that's clear. It doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
This is that he wasn't the one doing it. The
other guy was out coaching the rocket over. May you
doke over?

Speaker 7 (25:14):
He took it over. He put his own schemes in,
he put his own Yeah. He's in the finals and
he's got one game.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yeah, and he's he's hanging on for dear life. Riding
the coattails of the players is what he's doing. Absolutely,
all right, you're annoying me. I'm going to hang up
on you.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
Go away. Hey, I don't have to talk to you
all weekend. That's good, all right, I don't have to
worry about that.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
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Speaker 6 (25:43):
Now, if I told you Delonte West was in the news,
what would you think was?

Speaker 1 (25:46):
Probably what?

Speaker 3 (25:47):
He was?

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Probably in the news for something bad, in fact, dating
Lebron or something bad he wishes.

Speaker 7 (25:53):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (25:54):
The former NBA guard arrested and jailed in Virginia early
Thursday morning on misdemeanor charges of violating the conditions of
his release and resisting the rest. What was he what
was his what was he out for? What was he
in forward to begin with?

Speaker 3 (26:05):
Then?

Speaker 1 (26:05):
What did he violate? He's the weed Man.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
Yes, he's got a few issues, Eddie, A few things
that are that's unfortunate.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
He's way more messed up than weed Man.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Well, weed Man, I got an update on weed Oh
well maybe wait do you hear this coupe?

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Maybe? Maybe me? We want to hold onto that opinion.
What's the update?

Speaker 2 (26:24):
I called weed Man Hippie's phone to check in with
him because I hadn't heard from him for a while,
and someone else answered the phone and said, who the
hell is this?

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Why are you calling my number. So I don't have
his number anymore.

Speaker 3 (26:36):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
I don't know what happened.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
I don't think I stole his phone or if weed
Man's back in jail, or if he lost his phone
or he changed he must have changed the number if
he's out.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
But yeah, I don't know. I'm pretty sure he will
not be on Lame Jokes of the Week this week
in hour three.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
So, yeah, Dellante West has been like living as a
homeless guy by choice.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
He's dealing with bipolar issues, I believe. Yeah, yeah, all right,
thank you for that, Eddie. You want a fun fact?
Of course? Do we have the fun fact? Sound? But
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Mark, Mark the Shark is ready to go with the
fah Man, I'm gonna hug you, Mark. That's so good.
So I didn't think we were gonna get that. I'm
not kidding. So the Boston Celtics have played five games
in the playoffs with Jason Tatum shooting below forty percent.
So this postseason, five games Jason Tatum has shot below
forty percent. The Celtics record in those five games five

(27:33):
and oh hello they are five and of they have
not lost a single game with Jason Tatum being a
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(27:55):
at Express. Check out expresspros dot com to find your location.
That's Express Pros dot Come. Kyrie Irving had El Stinko
on the cord for the Dallas basketball team and he
went DreamWorks after the game as in trolls. He was
trolling the Celtic fan base there after the Celtics got

(28:19):
the win. He said, Kyrie, he thought it was going
to be a little louder at the guarden.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
He thought it would be a little louder.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
I had several of our listeners in the Commonwealth in
that area who sent me messages, including a video of
the fans in Boston channing Kyrie sucks.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Kyrie sucks.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
And then after the game there was a chant that
was outside the arena of f Kyrie.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Except they didn't say just f they added three more letters.
I don't know which ones in there.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
It was a frosty return to Boston for Kyrie, and
the fans were mocking him.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
There were the chants.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Somebody even had a blow up doll for some reason there,
so they they were going all in the Boston fans.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
And we were told by Kendrick.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Perkins, who supposedly claims to know Boston, that Kyrie would.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Respond and you don't want to do that. You don't
want to poke the bear.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
They poked the bear, and the bear took a nap
and started hibernating, is what happened. So that's that's pretty
much how that went down. Let's get back to the
phones on a wonderful, wonderful Friday for most still out
late in the West, it's still still Thursday. Let's say
hello to tiger Man, who's in Utah. Hello, tiger Man.

Speaker 3 (29:41):
What's up.

Speaker 8 (29:42):
I hope you're having a good day. Didn't want to
change the subject too too much on you, but something,
you know, watching the Dodgers game today, and I guess
I had a question about O'tani. Two questions really. One,

(30:02):
you know he's doing really well this season, obviously hitting.
Do you think that it's possible that the Dodgers tell
him that he can never really pitch again? And two?

Speaker 1 (30:13):
No, hold on, hold, let is good. One at a time.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
No, the reason Otani got the money is because the
Dodgers are selling him and they're making money from the
people of Japan.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
That's the most important thing.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
But number two, he got that contract because of the
fact he can pitch and hit. If he was just
a designated hitter or an outfielder of first baseman, he's
not getting that contract. I'll give you an example, Pete Alonzo,
who's having a bad.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
Year for the Mets. But Alonzo is going to be
a free agent at the end of the year. Peter A.
Lonso's going to sign a big contract.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
He's not getting anything close to Otani because he doesn't
have the Japanese audience, but also because he doesn't pitch.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
All right, what's your other question?

Speaker 8 (30:58):
Well, my other question was, you know Tani doesn't I
guess continue on this track. Can you see his not
his scandal, but his translators scandal somehow connect to him,
you know, further down the line where he can't get
in trouble for that.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Well, yes, because Major League Baseball didn't really investigate O'tani.
They were like, okay, the police said he didn't do anything,
he didn't do anything, and they didn't really dig around.
They can't dig around because they have no subpoena power.
And so absolutely you know that there's someone that's going
to try to make their name and they're working on
it right now, trying to dig up some dirt on Otani.

(31:40):
All right, it is the Ben Mahler Show. Look at
the time, time now for the who am I?

Speaker 1 (31:45):
Game?

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Here it is Jalen Brown of the Boston Celtics became
the first player since me to have three blocks and
three steals in Game one of an NBA Finals. Again,
Jalen Brown and the Celtics the first player since me
with three blocks and three deals in game one of
the NBA Finals.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
Who am I? That's the question? The answer. We'll get
to it next.

Speaker 4 (32:05):
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Speaker 1 (32:37):
It's Ben Malor.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
Time out for the who Ami game Payoff payoff. Jalen Brown.
That's a basketball player for the Boston basketball team. He
is the first player since me to have three blocks
and three steals.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
In game number one of the NBA Finals. Who am I?

Speaker 2 (32:56):
That is the question? What is the answer to this seed?
Does anyone know the answer? We go to the interweb
to see if anyone knows the answer. Who else do
we have?

Speaker 1 (33:06):
Page down? Marlon Perkins of Mutual Mutual of Omaha from
Andy lion Ole. I don't know? Uh, Ferg remember him?
I remember him?

Speaker 2 (33:17):
The Picasso of Emoji's Ben Maller from Ferg.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
I am pretty good to my emoji game is strong.
I'm better instead of the Eagle that was the Proper
Wives mocking the Eagles.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Now, yeah, you you made a mistake when you picked
against the Edmonton Oilers. Alf Alien old Pliner, says Lebron
James stepfather.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
Wow, looking good.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Who else do we have double O Mexican in Sandyego
says fat Lever one of the great names, Fat Lever,
back when people had good nicknames. Nothing fat about Fat Lever.
Wouldn't that be great? A fat I haven't seen a
photo of fat Lever in a while. What if he's
fat now?

Speaker 1 (33:54):
It'd be awesome. Short for Lafayette Eddie. Oh my god? Yeah, King,
I mean God.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Shaquille O'Neill guessed by King Roy. That's his answer. Jerry
Cease Thing. There's a good name. Shane from Portland came
up with that. Danny Mendick from Paully d of the
Chicago White Sox. Is that your favorite player? Mark, Danny Mendick,
you're number twenty in year program at number one in.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Your heart now? I would say no, okay. Andrew going
with Sean Bradley as his answer.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
Jombo Elliott from Patrick Bimbo Coles.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
What is that short for Eddie Bimbo Coles. That's some
Sean Wow.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Shawn in Arizona Dinner Bell Mel Turpin. That's another good name,
Dinner Bell Mel from Rich Spud Webb. These are classic names.
Rob in Minnesota. Who else do you have? Page down?
Page down? The Pirate parrot emoji for the Eagles. That's blasphemy,
says Digital Space Monkey. Guess we should finger I'm holding
up big rig Rob here is a blast in the past.

(35:01):
He used to be a big part of the show.
He's kind of vanished over the years, he says. Chuck
Norris is the answer. WNBA superfan Eddie Garcia guess by
James Sam Cassell from our friend Nick in Wisconsin and
Twine Jamison the Cockroach from Mason and Huntington Beach.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
What say you, Eddie?

Speaker 6 (35:19):
Quickly, Eddie, I want to say it's Ben's favorite WNBA player.
Cheyenne Parker Tias.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Wow, you are addicted to the WNBA. We need to
have an intervention, is what we need to have? The
correct answered Eddie is a man who is ahead of
his time. Tim Duncan Donuts in twenty three Omber twenty
years ago.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
Tim Duncan the Answer Game one
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