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June 10, 2024 39 mins

Ben Maller talks about Dan Hurley saying that he is "seriously weighing" the Lakers head coaching position, LeBron James unfollowing Kendrick Perkins on social media, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our nu bird too. We hop
on the coaching carousel, Dan Hurley. That's the Yukon coach
seriously weighing the Laker head coaching position. He did not
take the job. He's going to decide later today on
this Monday. How do you unravel these latest developments? Also

(00:24):
talk about Kendrick Perkins here Kendrick Perkins unfollowed by Lebron
James from social media. How should Kendrick feel about that?
And is the Caid Cunningham speculation really real? Is Detroit
Pistons guard Caid Cuttingham a max player? He's supposedly going

(00:44):
to get a max contract from the Detroit basketball team.
We'll talk about that as well. All of it's coming
your way right now here. It is our number two,
making him sweat a little bit. Welcome. In a begining
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hour from basketball, but not the NBA Finals. Not much
of a talker. Two games into the finals, Boston clearly

(01:54):
the better team, and Dallas has bout out the first
two games, and and we'll see what happens in game three.
But our lead from the coaching carousel of the NBA
is the weekend is coming gone.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
You might remember when we last talked to you on
the Original Recipe Show, not the podcast which I did
all weekend, but on the Original Recipe Show, the talk
was all about Lakerland. What's going on in Lakerland. They
were reaching for the stars, trying to find their new
head coach. Did you hear the latest on this? Perhaps

(02:29):
not so, Dan Hurley. Did he take the job, No,
he didn't take a job. Did he reject job? No,
he didn't reject the job. So Dan Hurley made some
comments of the week and said the Lakers made a
quote compelling case and presented a compelling vision for him
to become their next head coach, but that he loves

(02:50):
what he has built in Connecticut and plans to decide
on his future later today. This being Monday, the day
of June, so decision day for Dan Hurley. We are
told that the Laker job is his if he wants it.

(03:11):
The sign on the dotted line. The question is does
he wanted? So let us discuss the question. Dan Hurley
seriously weighing the Laker head coaching job. How do you
unravel where this story is right now? So I've got
cracker barrel, puffy sticker, and needle point and we will

(03:35):
combine all of these things together and we will make
a headache. Is what you get when you hear a
certain person give certain scores on this show. So number
one all right, So Genie Buss, the bus goes round
and round. The wheels on the bus go round, end round,
and so do the Laker coaching search round en round.

(03:56):
So Geenie Buss and the Lakers rolled out the Red
carb VIP meet and greet with Dan Hurley over the weekend.
He flew out Thursday night, landed in la on Friday morning,
and spent all Friday being whined and dined by Laker
big shots and being indoctrinated with Laker propaganda. Historians love

(04:20):
to talk about the good old days of the franchise.
They've been in a dark time lately, flying through some
dark clouds. So that was on Friday, and then very
public courtship, very public courtship, and Saturday morning, Dan Hurley
was wheels up gone. All of this a sales pitch
to try to convince and persuade Hurley to leave Stores,

(04:43):
Connecticut with a population of less than sixteen thousand, a
sleepy college town in Connecticut, to head to the La
Basin with a population o over ten million men, women,
and children. And based on the early returns, it ain't
looking good for the Lakers. It's not looking good right
now at this hour, barring some kind of change in Lakerland.

(05:06):
Dan Hurley is having a nice breakfast at the Cracker Barrel.
He's having the breakfast special, which is waffles, meaning he's waffling.
He's waffling. Why the man even bothered to go meet
with the Lakers is beyond me, other than maybe he
can use that as a feather in recruiting. But the
fact that he left LA on Saturday morning without agreeing

(05:27):
to a contract indicates it's highly unlikely that he's going
to leave Connecticut because then he'd have to fly back
three thousand miles to a close to three thousand miles
to the West coast. The only reason there's only one
to take the Laker job it's money. The team's not
very good, the fan base is irrational and unstable, the

(05:50):
owner is poor compared to other owners in that particular sport.
The arenas in skid row. Who would want that job?
Not a good job. The Laker job is not a
good job, and Dan Hurley knows that, but he would
take it because he knows he could go there and
the Lakers would fire him in two years like every
other coach, and then he can go back to Connecticut

(06:12):
or somewhere else and get a college job. At I'm
almost noticed, it's generational wealth. From what I understand, he'd
be making three times the money that he's making it Connecticut,
and he just got a bunch more money from Connecticut.
So take the money. It's all guaranteed, and then you
can go back in two years, go back to college
if that's what you like. But it sounds like he's
not gonna do that now. Page two. Here we move

(06:34):
away from that because there is some other things that
caught my attention to some other stuff at TV Land
over the weekend, Lebron James decided he was so upset
with a certain NBA commentator that he unfollowed this particular
person on X and that got some attention Kendrick Perkins

(06:55):
perk very large man, Kendrick Perkins. This comes after Perkins
lamb based Lebron for inserting himself squarely in the NBA
Finals dialogue. You might remember the two months off we
had between the conference finals ending and then the NBA
Finals beginning, and Kendrick Perkins took some shots at Lebron

(07:17):
for making it all about him and not letting Kyrie
Irving have his own moment. So how should Kendrick Perkins
handle Lebron James unfollowing him on the social on the
social media. So if you're Kendrick Perkins, you got to
pump your chest out and I go to Costco. Eat
the entire banana cream pie from Costco. It's like seventeen bucks.

(07:41):
Eat the whole thing and enjoy every delicious bite. Because
this is wonderful. You are not genuflecting to Lebron, and
Lebron clearly expected you to do that. That's a reaction
of someone that's hurt that. How dare you? What's wrong
with you? This is a contemporary who played against and

(08:02):
I believe with Lebron in Cleveland. They're Kendrick Perkins. They
were together, and you gotta pump your chest out a
little bit and say, hey, this is someone Kendrick Perkins
who earned his stripes. Good job by you. He's not
like your standard media hack that gives the manny and
the petty to Lebron James. He's not doing that in

(08:22):
this case. Kendrick Perkins, in my book, gets a puffy sticker,
and as an added most not just a puffy sticker
near his name, he gets one of those bright Neon
colored erasers. So good job by you. I don't think
it was tough love. It was just like it was ridiculous.
Lebron made sure that he wanted everyone to talk about him,
and everyone did talk about Lebron James, but it was
rather ridiculous the way it all all went about, and

(08:45):
Kendrick Perkins touched a nerve otherwise Lebron would not have
done what he did. All right, final point, We head
now to Motown. Normally a team we don't talk about
this time of the years during the NBA Finals, but
the Piston's making some headlines in NBA his circles. The
word on the street is, and we've heard this from
multiple people, that someone named Cad Cunningham that's a player

(09:09):
for the Detroit basketball team. Caid Cunningham is ninety nine
point nine percent likely to sign a max contract extension
with the Pistons this offseason. Detroit can offer Cunningham a
five year deal worth up to two hundred and twenty
five million Dead Presidents for Cave Cuttingham. Okay, so this

(09:33):
is the first time he is eligible for said contract
on his rookie deal. Is the Pistons Caid Cuttingham a
worthy max player? Is he a worthy max player? And
shaking my head, No, this is not that hard. It's
not my money, you know, so I get it. You know, hey,
spend money how you want. You want to burn money,

(09:55):
have a big bonfire somewhere in Detroit and burn all
the money. But it's really needle point. I look at
this like needle point and Kate Cuttingham does not budget
the needle. And in order to be a max player,
there's two things that I have for Critter. You got
to do one of the two to be a max player.
You've either got to move the needle or you got
to win at a high level. And this guy ain't it.

(10:18):
Cad Cuttingham is not that guy. You're not that guy, Pal,
You're not that guy. He's not all right to rephrase this,
Kid Cuttingham, who's been in the NBA for several years now,
is averaging in his career twenty points per game, six
and a half assists, and five or six a half,
is says five rebounds. He's a career forty three percent shooter.
It's just true. Run of the mil Diamond does an

(10:39):
NBA player, he is not a difference maker. He has
not been a difference maker, and he doesn't make a
difference in winning. It's not like he sells a lot
of tickets. It's he's not box office. So if the
guy doesn't sell tickets and he doesn't help you win,
what are you doing? What are you doing? He's played

(11:00):
one hundred and thirty eight games in Detroit. Kid Cunningham,
he missed most of one season with injury and cuttingham.
While he's been on the court, in games he's played
on he has played one hundred and thirty eight games.
The Pistons have won thirty two of the one hundred
and thirty eight games that he's played in. That's a
two thirty two winning percentage. That's a max player, my ass.

(11:22):
That's a max player. And the Pistons were middling team
attendance wise, It's not like they were able to pack
the house home or row. They're right in the middle.
It is the Ben Mahler Show. If you'd like to
come out on any of that, you are more than welcome.
Speak easy rules are in effect. We will take your
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(11:44):
is at Ben Mahler if you'd like to be part
of the program. Certainly seems like Curly is not going
to take the Laker job at this point based on
the clues that we have. Is there another stealth candidate
out there that the Lakers could turn to. Do they
go back to the annoying JJ Reddick and save the
American people by getting Reddick off television? That would be nice.

(12:07):
We'll give you the latest on that we'll get to it,
and we will do it next.

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Speaker 1 (13:43):
Malor coming up later to the sura of Mallardy third
degree as we roll off starting a brand new week
of programming. Let's see you're in. I don't know if
I want to read that on there. Bill writes and

(14:03):
says if Lebron spent the same effort getting back on defense,
especially when he jacks up thirty two footers as he
spent unfollowing Kendrick Perkins, the Lakers would have won a
real ring. Did Kendrick eliminate the Lakers and the playoffs?
Kyrie more sane, focused and still playing. Let that sink in,

(14:28):
says Bill on the commentary. Very impressive. Let's go allle
of foons. We'll say hello to Jed who fled? Who's
in the Sunshine State? Hello?

Speaker 7 (14:37):
Jed inevitability is being awake in the first and second
shift hours now, I have no morals, no need from
mole conference. How do we?

Speaker 2 (14:48):
How do we?

Speaker 7 (14:49):
What? What times? What times?

Speaker 2 (14:50):
Life?

Speaker 7 (14:51):
Do you prefer? In vesketball? Post world? And do you
mind if a false flag attacked one of the your
coasts one of your your fellow's post work cradio hosts?
What what I'm saying?

Speaker 2 (15:02):
What? What?

Speaker 1 (15:02):
What are you? What are you talking about?

Speaker 7 (15:04):
What I'm talking about? Like, I don't know how I'm
gonna get the code to Colin Cown hurts s UV,
but I'm saying planting smart monics in there, And all
of a sudden, it's an open time slot, and hey,
maybe you're maybe you're there in the middle of the day,
just sarcastic shenanigans in the in the noon hours. I've
had way worse ideas. Don't don't doubt that. Don't doubt that.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
That's a pretty bad idea. It's a very bad idea.
It's a terrible idea. Shame on you.

Speaker 7 (15:28):
Let's try to make it okay, let's make it better.
Let's make it worse.

Speaker 8 (15:31):
How do we do that?

Speaker 2 (15:32):
We could give Colin cow more of your time.

Speaker 7 (15:34):
That's how we make the worse. We double yeah, all.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
Right, we have you? Have you been what?

Speaker 4 (15:38):
What?

Speaker 1 (15:38):
What? What have you been doing here? What do you
want me to say? What do you what do you want?
I'm I'm confused.

Speaker 7 (15:44):
Kenny Rogers like I am the greatest? Oh stubbed them all? Yeah,
I'll frame cow Hurst.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
Okay, thank you appreciate that. So glad I took that
phone call. We're all stupider for taking that phone call.
King Rory writes, and he says, do you think that
when Dan Hurley rejects the Lakers offer is because he
would rather coach the people's team instead? No, it's even
want to coach. What's the point, NB. He's got a
great thing going in Connecticut. Stay there and then eventually

(16:14):
they'll fall apart and they'll have some bad teams and
at that point you can go somewhere else. It's the way. Yeah, Malay,
prop guy says, which of the proposed losing wager payments
by Mallard would you like to see? He says, where
a WNBA hat for five shows, Where a WNBA had
in a RAMS game, both of the above, Well, none
of the above. I mean, I'm gonna lose my job

(16:37):
because of Eddie ruining the show and he doesn't seem to.
It doesn't seem to. Everything's I'm kidding around here. I mean,
there's a bad valuable airtime. I'm getting people from our
affiliates complaining Eddie's not giving baseball scores. He's given every
WNBA score. Let's go to Joe in Oregon. What's going on,
Joe man?

Speaker 9 (16:55):
You guys anyway, I'm curious, Okay, when you get down
to it, and this is football when you get down
to it, though, Russell Wilson or Sean Payton, will's a
real problem because I mean, the team's been there for
it three years and he still ain't done nothing. And
do you think he can do something with bo Nicks?

Speaker 7 (17:13):
Thank you?

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Oh look at it. You're taking your call off here.
That's old school. Let me take my call off here.
Would you please converse about the Denver Brock. No, Sean
Payton didn't do a good job. Russell Wilson's done. He
was done his last year in Seattle. He's now had
three coaches the last three years, and he has been
the common denominator Russell Wilson and the Broncos. The thing
I love about the Broncos last year and watching them

(17:36):
play and doing the TV show and all that and
handicapping the games, is Sean Payton was playing hide the
quarterback with Russell Wilson, and so Russell's numbers didn't look
all that bed. It was an elementary offense that the
Broncos were running last year because Sean Payton knew that
Russell Wilson couldn't play, and so they were trying to
hide him as much as they could. And it worked

(17:59):
for a while. How the numbers looked okay, And then
every once in a while they would ask Russell Wilson
to do a little more, and he inevitably would would
fall down and be covered in mud and pooh because
he couldn't get the job done. And he won't get
the job done in Pittsburgh, and I would think the
Steelers will do the same thing that the Broncos did
last year, really tried to hide Russell Wilson all of

(18:20):
his shortcomings. That's usually what you do anyway. But at
some point you're going to need performance, and there's not.
As far as the team in Denver, though, it doesn't
really matter whether Sean Payton's the God's gift a quarterback
or not, because they're not going to be very good.
The Broncos are going to fish in last place in
the AFC West, whether they have Bo Nicks and he

(18:42):
plays well or not. They're the last place team in
the division. That's how that's going to go anyway. It
is the Ben Malors Show. I mentioned this earlier. I
got to pay if you tease, you got to pay
it off, my man, We'll pay it off. So a
lot of chatter about Dan Hurley certainly seems like he's
not going to take the Laker job, but nothing official yet.

(19:03):
That announcement will come out when the sun rises in
the East a little bit later here on Monday. But
where will the Lakers go if not Dan Hurley? Do
they go back to JJ Reddick? Is there a mystery candidate.
Do do do do do do mystery candidate? Yes, there is.

(19:26):
In fact, I was chatted about in hush tones over
the weekend that a former successful college basketball coach also
is under consideration. If, as expected, Dan Hurley rejects the Lakers,
that would be former Villanova head coach Jay Wright. Say

(19:50):
why yeah, Jay Wright has been mentioned the Lakers, it seemed,
were feeding the content machine, and that seemed they were
their right hand man, Sham Sharania, who has the same agents,
works for the same company that Lebron James agent works for. Anyway,
JJ Reddick. They were feeding all these stories about JJ Reddick.

(20:11):
And they made a massive offer to Dan Hurley over
the weekend, and again, looks like he's gonna turn that down.
And so Jay Wright, who was coaching at Villanova for
over twenty years and he quit he couldn't handle it
anymore in twenty twenty two and won a couple of
championships near the end of his run at Villanova, and

(20:35):
he's just kind of hanging out collecting money. He's like
an advisor for the school and all that. And so
Jay Wright, his name has been mentioned. I don't buy
that either. That would be a debacle. Can they bring
back Rudy tom Donovich? I saw him at the NBA Finals.
They were giving him some Lifetime Achievement award, which means
you're about to die, right when you get a lifetime

(20:55):
achievement award. They don't give those two people that are
are young Rudy teelor right though, he was out there
doing his thing, having a fine, fine time being celebrated
at the NBA Finals. But that was a debacle when
they hired him, and he actually had success when the
Lakers hired him. Prior to that as as head coach,
he'd had some some good, good numbers. Now, Jed who

(21:18):
Fled's calling back. He's using a golden ticket. Is this
an authentic golden ticket? I don't know that he actually
has a golden ticket. I feel like this is a
fake golden ticket. I feel like this is a fraudulently
golden ticket. Coops just staring at me, Jed who Fled?
I guess cooped, Yes, Jed who Fled? You're your back.
You're caching a golden ticket. There'd be a sound effect,

(21:38):
but apparently it's not being played right now.

Speaker 7 (21:40):
Yes, if I could figure gets Ben Malley and against
just you know, I've got a golden ticket that's just guaranteed. Now,
my phone screen when I turned it on, dude, it's
like me it's like prison. But I mean even touching
it's like vibrating back board. It's very very I didn't
I didn't go and paint it. I didn't mean to
call you. But when he was going ticket a knee
Ania phone. You've offered reemn be a million phones, million phones.

(22:01):
I need a plane, I need a malon militia plans
on how to take this because the drugs, the drugs
were my desides wads.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
Okay, so here's what you do. Get Get one of
those Obama phones. That's what weed Man has hollering, James,
I think has an Obama phone. Get one of the
Obama phones. Don't give me to anybody.

Speaker 7 (22:15):
Now, you're a five days away from the fundamental transformation
of cellular Americas. I'm not so those are the worst
phones on earth, man, I'm so those are the worst
phones on earth.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
But you can't beat the you can't beat the you're
not paying for them. You're not paying for so care.
You're not the one paying for them.

Speaker 7 (22:30):
Yeah, taxpayers taxpayers. That's not that actually not me.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
You're right, you haven't paid taxes since you I don't
think you've ever paid tax Do.

Speaker 7 (22:38):
You have like tree top flyer, which is Steven Steeles,
you know, he's like, uh, I could be from anywhere
at the seven dollars, never paid tax because I never
found Yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
How many more golden takes? How many? How many more
golden ticket?

Speaker 2 (22:49):
Do you have?

Speaker 7 (22:51):
No gods? Like it's like it's like I've used it
part right now, just don't make that.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Get the ride.

Speaker 7 (22:55):
I'm just staying right now. I got seventeen.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
No, you don't have seventeen.

Speaker 7 (22:58):
I'm an alchemist, dude, I'm an alchemist.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
You're an optimist. I got you all right, And you
don't have any no meetings with your probation officers. You'll
be calling all.

Speaker 7 (23:06):
Week, dude. I was in there the day for over
an hour. Over an hour I went. I told my ride.
I was like, I'm going to jail. Don't know why,
but I'm going to jail. Hey, it was not me,
it was the person in front of me. So I
was like start up an hour. I had to yearn it.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
I had to hear it.

Speaker 7 (23:20):
He's like what. I was like, sir, Yes, He's like, no,
I'm just kidding. Come back in todays. So I found
out the whole the whole journey of the say, not
even that big deal, not even hard and fast. That'd
be forty eight x hours.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
Okay, all right, that's great. Can I go? I'm done,
I gotta go. Thank you? All right, wonderful.

Speaker 6 (23:38):
Is there a limit on the number of golden tickets
you can use in a show?

Speaker 1 (23:41):
Technically there is no limit. Boy, if he calls again,
we will put a limit on on that.

Speaker 10 (23:47):
That'll that'll be that it doesn't actually have seventeen golden tickets.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
Just feels like he is seventeen. He does ten minutes
of content in forty five seconds. Ten minutes of content
and forty five seconds from that guy, unreal, un leaping reel.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maler
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 6 (24:10):
NFL Giants and former Raiders tight end Darren Waller announces
his retirement at the age of thirty one. He walks
away from ten point five million dollars for the upcoming season.
He cited a health scare from last season, as to
why he had helped decide to hang it up. He
had a pair of thousand yard seasons when he was
playing for the Raiders.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Well that was not fun, but this is fun. Here
we go, fun fact fun alright, fun facts. So a
lot of chatter about the future of Dan Hurley. So
how did he contemplate? How did he spend his weekend
contemplating what was going to happen in his coaching career?
Is gonna make an announcement later on Monday?

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Here?

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Well, Dan Hurley, what was he doing? He took a
red eye flight Thursday late, flew in Friday morning, met
all day with the Lakers, then on Saturday morning, took
a flight back to the East Coast, and he was
spotted by the paparazzo at Madison Square Guarden, the mecca,
the world's most famous arena. What was he doing? He

(25:11):
and his wife were watching a Billy Joel concert at
MSG in Manhattan. Does that seem like a guy that's
planning on leaving now? Does that seem like a guy
that's worried? No, that seems like a guy's like, hey,
I had to get back, sorry man. Tickets to Billy
Joel I don't care about the Lakers. Who cares about
the Lakers? I want to go to Billy Joel concert
at Madison Square guard doesn't he have like a residency thing?

Speaker 11 (25:33):
I think he does forms there quite often. I think
it's supposed to be his his final concerts. But they
say that like boxers. They say that and then they
bands come back.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
And doesn't he take a copy door? He lives on
Long Island. Does he take a helicopter?

Speaker 6 (25:48):
I'm not aware of that. He may be right, I
do not know.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
I thought I read that somewhere they takes a helicopter
into Manhattan, performs and then helicopters.

Speaker 6 (25:56):
Oh way, when we were in New York during during
during the fall, Yeah, they did have I saw it,
you know, ads for it, you know the final you know,
final set of concerts at Mattith Square Garden for Billy Joel.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
So we should do that. This is my final week
of shows. This is it, the final week of shows,
and then the following week is I'm back and then
and then wait, like two months my final month of shows.
Wouldn't that be great? All those music hacks, all the
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The only thing that's been worse than the Mavericks this
week was Texas Jack and the Octagon. And he's calling back.
Hello Texas Jack, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello Texas Jack. If

(26:53):
I was any better, I'd be a Maverick. But now
at Dallas Maverick is there down?

Speaker 8 (26:57):
Oh two, Hey, we got what we want them. It's
time for the epic comeback exactly Jack.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
You don't believe that?

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Oh yes, I believe it.

Speaker 8 (27:14):
It will happen.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
Well, maybe next year they can beat the Celtics next year,
play them a couple of times.

Speaker 8 (27:19):
If we had somebody that could play besides Luca maybe Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
Kyrie Irving. The media told me Kyrie's back. He's God's
gift of basketball.

Speaker 8 (27:29):
He's lacking some confidence when it comes to the Celtics.
I don't know what it is thinking.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
Wallburg crowd, Yeah, he's going. You ever had a Wallburg?
The Wallburger is pretty good, though, Those Wallburgers aren't bad.
You had one of them?

Speaker 8 (27:48):
They yeah, pretty good, They are pretty good.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yeah, they saw a lot of it. One in Vegas
we don't have We.

Speaker 8 (27:54):
Don't have them in Texas, but I come and Omaha
was pretty good.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
They have a place in Vegas. I don't know they're
around here. Are they around here?

Speaker 8 (28:01):
No?

Speaker 12 (28:01):
But I've walked past that one right by the Horseshoe Casino,
I believe, but I've never never gone in and tried it.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Well, now you have to. Maybe when we have the
Malor Meet and Greet in early August, you can have
and have one. Well, Jack, you're not making a very
compelling argument. You sound like a You sound like a
beaten man. Jack.

Speaker 8 (28:19):
I'm just woke up and I'm wounded.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
I feel bad.

Speaker 8 (28:22):
I stayed up to watch a game.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Now, what was worth Texas, Jackie Mavericks losing the first
two games of the finals or your performance against Blind
Scott and the Octagon?

Speaker 8 (28:32):
I was I thought it was going to be a
civilized debate, which sadistics and.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
You did have one of these before. Apparently not, but
you did have the platform, you had airtime to yourself.
It was only the final. The final round was when
it was all you know, it was.

Speaker 8 (28:51):
I acted like Kyrie, I got all nervous. I couldn't
do it.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Sorry, okay, And now your Mavericks are acting like you
and they can't do it either.

Speaker 8 (28:59):
So it's unfortunately, no, I guess I guess I needed
a little mass that they're not going to talk on
Jed who flared.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
We don't encourage that. Maybe some fentanyl coop says not
to do that either, So yes, all right, well hang
in there, Jack, all right, we'll see what happens Wednesday. Now,
you got a lot of time before Wednesday, though, a
lot of time before all right, I know there you go,
all right, hang up, go away. It's pretty beaten at

(29:25):
least he called up, though, I'll give him credit. Like
there's other guys not so much expanding your horizons. Bronni James,
remember the story a couple of weeks ago. Bronnie James
is only going to work out for the Lakers and Sons.
That's it. Well, now, on second thought, there's some chatter
over the weekend that he will absolutely work out for
a few other teams. Now the teams we do not know.

(29:48):
I assume that will be coming out here shortly. But
Bronni James. Does this mean that if the Lakers hire
a college coach, Lebron is not going to stay in
LA He's gonna leave and go somewhere else, And the
phoenix thing is not a guarantee. Inquiring minds would like
to know Hello to Jerome and Charleston. Bring it home, Jerome.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Bringing home Dan, bringing home Dan. Hey that Jay Wright.
He's a good looking guy too. Maybe you go between
him and Jay and the other been looking pretty guy
JJ Reddick. Maybe the coup I mean the liquors are
come up with a coach. Huh? Maybe I mean he
looks mean nothing in this world, right? Absolutely? Just look
at TV. What do you see not but pretty people?

(30:30):
Pretty people, pretty people?

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Oh, couts, I'm beautiful. I'm beautiful. What are you talking
about it? You go go update your WNB and scoreboard. Dady,
leave me out of your mouth. Don't put my name
in your mouth.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
By the way, I saw Will Smith or TV, and
I immediately change the challenge because of the day. I'm
not watching that dirt bag anymore. You slap a guy
and you like you promoting the movie, I'm not going
to that movie and I'm not watching him and not
only that he had on some shoes upping that on
on on your Buddy Salad show. Looked like girl's shoes.

(31:05):
Where did the man become so seminin? Okay, wearing shoes
like girls?

Speaker 1 (31:12):
I didn't see it. What kind of shoes was he?
What was he wearing? I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
Shoes got like platform shoes, you know?

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Did he have high heels on.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
That he was he like?

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Was he like Oscar wearing lingerie on TV? Was he
doing that?

Speaker 4 (31:29):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (31:29):
Look here, you better be glad he didn't slapped you
like that, because you know what, we'd be fighting till
eternity was over.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Okay, he'd kick your ass, Come on, he's young. He'd
kick your skitty little rose slip. Yeah right, ah, yeah,
he'd he'd used that neuralizer. He used that man in
black neuralizer on you, and you forget everything.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
He picture on. The guy five seventy wears ninety pounds.
He's a real tough guy. Oh yeah, right. By the way,
you know what, the more I listened to talk, I'm
trying to decide. I need you're helping deciding something. Who's
dumber to cot your host? Bud the athletes.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
No, no, no, no, none of noting about the callers
are the dumbest. They're the stupidest. Not that the host
of the athletes the call it.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
They're discussing who's gonna be the MVP who gives an
ass the mall and the gamers make warning plays to
help you win the game, which is what Jasons Tatum
did tonight.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Okay, he was off, but hey, are you are you
defending Jason Tatum shooting as the face of the Boston Study.
Do you think he's done a good job offensively in
this series?

Speaker 2 (32:38):
I don't look at those clouds because they've never played.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
How about you use your eyes? How about how about
you use your eyes and get some facts? How about that?
All right? Are your ears? If you can't see, I
don't know. Maybe you're blind like everyone else that calls
the show.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
You know what obur teams trying to Okay, they're not
gonna just let him fashgent and that is true all night.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
Okay, that's true. Irrelevant because every great player in the
finals the other team also they get paid as well,
and the greats of the greats step up paving.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
The object is to make an impact to help you
win the game.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
They're not paying him. They're not paying him for they're
not paying him to shoot thirty percent or whatever, thirty
five percent, whatever it is from before, they're not He's
very what man?

Speaker 2 (33:25):
So what? Oh?

Speaker 1 (33:25):
It ain't easy? Oh my god, what are you up?
You're a you know what you are, Jerome? You're a
jock sniffer, Jerome, Jerome. Jock sniffer Jerome. That's your new nickname,
jock sniffer Jerome.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Look, I'll tell you what I want your Dodgers over
the game. If they don't want to tell you, gonna
be doing some jock sniffers because I'm not doing it.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
They won this series against the Big bat in New
York Yankees, and Yankees didn't look very good to me
at all. If I was a Yankee fan right now,
I'd be freaking out. My team's overrated, the New York Yankees.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
The season is not over yet.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
Okay, you better, obviously, But we have a show to
do your day, Jerom, do I have to explain this
to the show is today. We're not waiting till it's
over to form opinions.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Yeah, but the season's not over yet, Okay.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
Jerome obviously, Captain obvious. We know that drop. Oh my god,
you're you're repeating yourself. That's your new nickname, Jock Sniffer, Jerome.
That's his new nickname, Jock Sniffer Jerome. Oh little Team's Troy. Okay, god, pathetic.
Come on, you're better than that, Jerome. I know you're

(34:33):
better than that. That was weak. It's wrong with you.
But I'll give you credit because at least you did
not mention the name of someone you've mentioned the last
three or four times you've called the show. So you're
finally over that. You've gotten rid of that Michig Gossen.
Now you've moved on to something else. So for that
we thank you. All Right, straight ahead, we have Mallard

(34:54):
of the third degree. Here's the inch to trivia, and
we'll go to hockey. Sergei Bobrovski, it's a goalten for Florida.
He had thirty three saves on Saturday. Blank holds the
record for the most in a Stanley Cup Final Game
one shutout. The Oilers took it on the Chimpigal bounce back.

(35:14):
It will be a better story when they come back
and win Lord Stanley Cup. But Sergei Babrowski for the
Florida Panthers. He had thirty three saves on Saturday. Blank
though holds the all time record for the most saves
in a Stanley Cup Final Game one shutout. That's the
insta tribua the answer. We'll get to it, We'll do
it next.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
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Speaker 1 (36:02):
It's Ben Maller and here is the Insta trivia. Sergei
Bobrovski of Florida thirty three saves on Saturday and Blank
holds though the record for the most saves in a
Stanley Cup Final Game one shutout. That is the question.

(36:22):
What is the answer? Does anyone know? The answer the
Mala Militia with many wonderful names, Donkey Sausage going with
Gump Worsley as his answer. Mister nice guy says Dave Berba,
former pitcher for the Mariners with the Big boss Man
guest by Rob in Vegas. Who else do we have?
Page now? Tim Thomas from alf the Alien opiner a

(36:47):
Mormon on prom Night from ferg Dog Our lame jokes
are on Friday? What's wrong with you? Derek Lee Oiler,
the University of Finley's official mascot, Derek the Oiler from
Art Puffin. That's his answer? J d In Austin says,
is that Tim Thomas? Is that the answer? Who else
do we have? Page down? Peter Griffin from courtesy Flusher

(37:08):
Paige downmost skip over that one, Patrick Waugh from or
Eddie from Jeff in Tulsa, Oklahoma Skip Holtz I guess
by King Rory Eddie. Do you have an answer? Eddie?

Speaker 6 (37:24):
Let's go with Andre Vassilevski of the tamp day Lightning.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
That is a fin answer, but that is incorrect. The
correct answer most saves, most saves in a game, one
shutout in Stanley Cup Final history, Robert ol the one
goal in twenty eleven where the Van Cooper Canucks didn't
work out so well, it's maller how about that?

Speaker 3 (37:47):
To the third degree, this is one gets in Big
Cooper loud justin Booby.

Speaker 12 (37:55):
Over the weekend, Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler sent social media
into a frenzy when he was interviewed while attending a
Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Sparks game the WNBA team.

Speaker 12 (38:03):
Yes, he said, for some reason, twenty two looks good
in purple and gold. Now Sparks player came in brinkwears
twenty two, but so does Butler. Do you think he
was hinting at a potential trade to the Lakers or
are people looking too much into this?

Speaker 1 (38:16):
He didn't seem like an LA guy. But Butler does
know that in order to get more money out of
the Heat or someone else, he has to like throw
it out there. So I don't think he plans on
playing for the Lakers. No, I think there's people who
are banding over backwards, reading too much into the story. Anyway,
Jimmy Butler was at that game, apparently, what was he

(38:37):
doing there? Was he paid to be there?

Speaker 10 (38:39):
He was wearing like Sparks gear?

Speaker 1 (38:41):
Yeah, oh, man, go out and get a life.

Speaker 9 (38:43):
Next.

Speaker 12 (38:44):
There was also a big debate on social media about
Kaitlin Clark being left off.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
What are you any coming up with his questions here, Coop?

Speaker 10 (38:51):
The last one was an NBA question.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
Oh, you referenced the LA Sports. It's the WNBA team.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
I did.

Speaker 10 (38:56):
It's the hot thing on social media right now. Ben,
that's whatever it is.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
We don't live on social media. We live in the
real world, Coop. A looted to see the real world.

Speaker 10 (39:02):
Social media is kind of a gauge of what people are.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
Talking about, not a real one, not when I meet listeners,
and nothing like.

Speaker 10 (39:07):
Social media anyway.

Speaker 12 (39:09):
They left Kaitlyn clarkoff team say Some support the move,
saying she's not one of the best twelve players in
the country, while others say that she would grow interest
in the sport and it's dumb for them to leave
her off the team.

Speaker 10 (39:18):
Ben was leaving her off the team a bad move.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
I think it's great, just like Eddie should leave the
WNBA scores out of his news updates. How about that? Next?

Speaker 12 (39:26):
During it part of a pregame show on Saturday, David
Ortiz asked Alex Rodriguez when the Yankees would be retiring
his number. Arod replied that Ortiz has a better chance
at getting his number retired by the Yankees than he
does Ben.

Speaker 10 (39:36):
Do you think the chances are really that low.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yeah, unless he played in the WNBA and then you
and Eddie would retire his number. Then, but ay Rod
didn't play in the WNBA, so you fail. That is
a win. You fed two WNBA references. You're a failure.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
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