June 21, 2024 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about reports that the 76ers are starting to lose interest in Paul George, Alex Caruso getting traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder for Josh Giddey, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our number too.
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We stay up all night providing you with marginal sports
takes on the overnight show, and then you can listen
during the day. You can stash the podcast away for
the daytime and listen to all the nonsense that happened overnight.
So why are the Sixers? Why are they cooled off
on Paul George? Why has that happened? And is there
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a deeper meaning to you? Donnis Haslam stumbling and bumbling
over his words when asked about Jimmy Butler's status with
the Heat. We'll discuss that. Also, we had a trade
in the NBA Alice Caruso, a guard going to OKAC
for Josh Getty. He's being compared Caruso to andre Iguodala
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when he went to Golden State. How do you assess
that one? We'll go there as well. And all of
it coming your way right now. Give it up for
a bouncy ball Hour number two. It is not all
sunshine and rainbows for the podcasters. Well, come in beginning
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of another hour of the Ben Malor Show.
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this hour. Last hour was about the podcaster who got
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the job in La This hour it's about a different podcaster.
It's all pod all the time. So the silly season
is underway. In pro bouncy ball, we have the draft
next week. Very exciting unless it's not a lot of
musical chairs in free agency on tap, which is often
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more entertaining than the product on the court. The transaction
is a lot of fun. Now, if you haven't heard
the latest Chattern, maybe not, maybe you missed it. So
after months and months of noise, a lot of noise,
we are now hearing that the seventy six ers, they're
much reported interest in Paul George podcast p as He's
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known Paul George. This offseason has waned in recent days.
Now Philly is one of the teams that has a
lot of cash, a lot of dough to spend with
the communist salary cap in the NBA, and even with
the money they have to spend to re sign Tyrese Maxi,
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they still will have a lot to play with. And
Paul George expected to opt out of his contract, and
so the connect the dots was going on. George's name
has come up early and often in Philly, and Joel
en Beid and Paul George sat side by side on
television during the NBA Finals. They did a little TV
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segment together. However, Schams Sharania says that Philadelphia is expected
to be aggressive elsewhere. That's good. They're gonna be aggressive elsewhere.
We eating cheese, steaks, tasty cakes, hanging out with fats
in Philadelphia. So they've got the cap and they say
that the Paul George connection is cap. So let us
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discuss the question why have the Sixers reportedly cooled off
on podcast p Paul George. So, I've got cloud patterns,
my observations here, cloud patterns, bubble gum and the Dragon
and we'll combine all of these things together and we
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are going to speed off on a rocket out to
outer space.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
So number one, the easy answer, which is the stock answer,
is that Philadelphia just did some due diligence.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
And that's it. Paul George is a polarizing player, seeing
him play a lot over the last couple years with
the Clippers, I don't hate him. I don't love him.
He's just kind of there. I have apathy, which you
don't want to have. And the conspiracy theory, which I like.
I love a good conspiracy theory. The conspiracy theory is
that Joel Embiid and Paul George spent some time together
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at the finals, and Joel Embiid, instead of giving it
the green light, said, you know, in second thought, I
don't really something about this guy. Let's give this. Give
this a yellow light or a red light. And so
that scared off the front office. Now, as for the
Sixers themselves, the other thing that's possible is they just
saw the cloud patterns right. It was a sign from
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the universe and abstain from PG. Thirteen. George again very talented, However,
he does not have the mamba mentality. He is lacking
that he has the excuse for everything, which is maddening
mentality his latest I saw this the other day. I
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threw something at my phone, which you shouldn't do. Paul
George blaming the Clippers playoff loss to the Mavericks on
the James Harden tray, saying that the Clippers lost the
glue guys and that's why they lost. Has nothing to
do with Kawhi Leonard yet again getting hurt Polaize Polly's anyway,
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page two, we go to South Beach and this is
not about our favorite homeless guy in South Beach. Instead,
it is about you. Donnas Haslin, who spent an entire
generation with the Miami Heat and still works for the team.
He was making the television rounds mingling, mixing and matching
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with different TV people, so Eudonis Haslam was asked in
one of these interviews recently, whether or not Jimmy Butler
has played his last game with the Heat seems like
a fair question. There's a lot of chatter that pat
Riley is fed up with Jimmy Butler because he gets
hurt and starting to wear down a little bit. Even
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though I'm a big Jimmy Butler supporter, So what did
you Donnas Haslam say? His response, he said, quote, I
can't really comment on that, but if I had to guess,
I don't want to talk about it. He said, I'm
gonna leave that one alone. Okay, close? Quote Is there
(07:14):
a deeper meaning to Eudonnas Haslam stumbling and bumbling over
his words when he was asked pretty simple question was
asked about Jimmy Butler's status. Did he not think that
would come up in the dialogue on the television show
which deals with gossip in the NBA? Who goofed? I've
got to know well whoever was working with Eudonna's Haslm
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so uh To answer the question, is there a deeper
meaning to these comments by Haslam? Yeah, I'm nodding my head, yes.
And this is what's called a bubble gum story. He's
chewing the bubble gum. Haslm knows a thing or two
about the inner workings of the Miami Heat because he's
seen a thing or two about the inner workings of
the Miami Heat. And he's torn because you take a
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few steps back and you Donna's He wants to stay
in the good graces the bubble from the bubble gum.
He wants to stay in the bubble of pat Riley,
but he also at the same time does not want
to lie. So if you listen between the words, it
does not bode well for Jimmy Buckets, who is even
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if you think he might come back, he's on the
endangered species list in terms of the Miami heatls and
that particular roster. Because when he said if I had
to guess, and then said, I don't want to talk
about it, because when people say they they want to guess,
it's they're gonna tell you what's really going on. You know,
It's like those stories where it's like, well, according to
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the league sources, blah blah blah blah blah. Yeah, that's
that's the real story most of the time. Most of
the time, it's the real story. Now, it sounds to
me that pat Riley is preparing to jettison Jimmy Butler
and not bring him back. That is the direction it's
leaning at this time. Subject to change. But Riley crafty
as a fox, even in his old age, So we'll
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see what happens, all right, final point to the dustball
we go where bulls the Chicago Bulls. There was a trade,
not a big name trade. The Bulls traded Alex Caruso.
They said bute bye to Alex Caruso. They traded him
to the Thunder in exchange for Josh Giddy. Get giddy
(09:25):
with it now. Wooje reported that this move is commensurate
to Golden State acquiring andre Iguodala a couple of years back.
So that's the talking point. Alex Caruso been around play
for the Lakers with the Bulls recently traded to Okase.
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Being compared to Iggy from the glory days of the Warriors,
how do you assess this one? How do you assess
this one? So this is a stay at a hotel.
It is the hyperbole hotel. That's a hyperbole hotel. Als crusso.
Not bad serviceable NBA player. He is a glue guy.
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He's a glue guy. But comparing him to Iguodala is
it's like an old Peter Paul and Marry Tune. The
dragon puff the magic Dragon is puffery. Caruso could not
carry Iggy's jockstrap. Andre Iguodala was an all star when
he came into the NBA. He was the featured actor
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he was the go to guy early in his NBA career.
He was a guy that would get you around twenty
points a game and do a little bit of everything.
But Caruso the over the top, breathless reporting. He's a
fine player, but he's not the final piece to the puzzle.
He's not the jigsaw puzzle piece that puts everything together.
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For OKC, I don't buy that at all. Don't buy it.
It is that the Ben Mahler Show. Now I mentioned
this last hour, I didn't get to it. The Lakers
just the laughing stock of basketball. They hired a podcaster
as their coach. I'm not kidding. They hired podcast partner
of Lebron James as their coach and not Mamba approved
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Kobe Bryant right now circling around in his grave that
you talk about good timing, Carmelo Anthony Mello. He told
the story on his podcast because there are way too
many podcasts, but he told the story that Kobe Bryant
could not stand, could not stand JJ Reddick. This goes
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back to the Team USA story. Kobe hated JJ Reddick
and he snapped like a snapping turtle at coach k
who was a big fan of JJ Reddick, and that
interview was done before Reddick was hired as Laker coach,
but it dropped about the same time. That's a lot
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of ball busting. I don't know whether it's true or not,
and there's no way to verify it because Kobe ate
walking back through that door to verify it. But it
is quite the story. It is quite the story, all right.
This is the Ben Maler showed. If you would like
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In the final hour of this show, the Coop Scoop
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And I live from the tire Rock dot Com Fox
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It's Ben Maller.
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You don't have to stick around.
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You have to stick around for that.
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Du How are you gonna figure out what you're gonna
watch on TV over the weekend?
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I mean you could just turn on the TV.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
I mean nobody does that. That's what stupid people do.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Are you calling me stupid? Is that what you're calling me?
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Is that what you do? You just turn on the TV?
And I don't want to do this.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I watch games, That's all I watch. I don't I
don't watch TV. I haven't watched well, I watched documentaries,
but that's it. But I don't watch Like, when's the
last time you watch your regular TV like a sitcom
or something like that. When's the last time you watched that?
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Not in a long long time.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Yeah, you know, I will say, though, I feel like
when you do watch something that's not a game, it's
something that you heard about on coop scoop.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Oh, yeah, because I really haven't been looking for stuff
to watch, so yeah, yeah, documentaries I have.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
Watched, Like did you watch you watched unfrosted, didn't you
I did, Yeah, fun of documentary.
Speaker 9 (15:04):
Yeah I didn't like it.
Speaker 10 (15:06):
I know.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
It wasn't that good. No, it was pretty bad. Like, well,
how did it get made? I think it was Tom Hanks, right?
Was he the one that was behind it? Seinfelder? Seinfeld,
that's right, Seinfeld. That's yeah, so that's why. But yeah,
it was not it's hard to follow anyway. Let's take
a call. It is a full moon kind of a Friday,
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and we will say hello to Andrea. She's hanging out
in Berkeley and she on this show is the Star Goddess.
She's got all the star information Virgo in service.
Speaker 11 (15:41):
Hello Andrea, Hello, man, how are you?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
If I was any better, I would be a Davis,
but not Anthony Davis because he's got to now play
for Lebron's podcast Buddy Slightly awkward.
Speaker 11 (15:56):
His birthday is June twenty four, literally his birthdays in
three days. That's an interesting early birthday present, a little weird.
I'll have to do a little more research on that.
But I like the name Star Goddess. Thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Very nice. And what do you know about the full
moon here? Andrea?
Speaker 11 (16:18):
Yeah, well, you know how much We both like the
Farmer's Almanac.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Love it, love it great. Before the internet, that predates
the Internet, people could actually do stuff without just googling it.
Nobody googled it to put that together.
Speaker 11 (16:32):
Yeah, no, that's our go too. So we have the
summer solstice today and then we have the full moon tomorrow.
So it's quite rare to have a full moon summer solstice.
So that's something. The summer solstice one fifty one pm
this afternoon yesterday, full moon today five o eight pm.
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It's actually in Capricorn, and it's called the strawberry full moon.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Well, I like strawberries. I enjoy strawberries, so I'm happy
with that.
Speaker 11 (17:07):
Why reason it's called strawberry moon then, is because that's
when strawberries are seasonal and ripen this time of years,
the first full moon of summer.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Oh, I have to get some strawberry donuts then to celebrate.
Speaker 11 (17:22):
Oh now we're talking.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, yeah, so that donut man for some strawberry donuts
for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 10 (17:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (17:29):
The Lakota tribes use the name to mark the full
moon to the harvesting of wild strawberries in June, so
we have the strawberry full moon in Capricorn, and it's
larger in the sky, and it's right around the summer solstice.
So it's very unusual to have a full moon and
the summer solstice. So that said, I'm doing my astrology newsletter.
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It has all the mercury retrogade dates, the full moons,
the new moons, so of the your listeners and the
Mala militia with like that. Andre at Virgo Inservice dot com,
Virgo in Service.
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All right, Virgo and Service. You can hit Andrew up
there on on X and you'll you'll put that there.
All right, Well, thank you, Andrew.
Speaker 11 (18:16):
I appreciate that you enjoy the full strawberry moon.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
All right, thank you. There she goes to go back
and work on her on her newsletters. That's what she
does anyway. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. That's what
we do is we just talk talk talk talk talk
talk talk talk blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Uh So not not not cheap. These hot takes. You
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might think these hot takes are cheap, They're not hot.
They're not cheap. You see the story in the the
trade papers, the entertainment papers that our former morning guy
is demanding twenty five million dollars a year to get
hot takes. This is outstanding you talk about. I mean,
(19:05):
good for it. I hope he gets it. But my god,
stephen A Smith, who was our morning guy here at
Fox Sports Radio, got fired by ESPN and he came
here to work and left quite the mark on the company.
But stephen A wants twenty five million dollars annually and
they are offering him. I don't know how he can
(19:26):
can handle how embarrassing this offer is. They're only offering
him eighteen million dollars a year. Just a shocking low
ball offer for a generational talent like Steven A. I mean,
my god, wow, twenty he wants twenty five million dollars
a year. Man, If he's worth twenty five, we need
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a raise. Who's his agent? Do we know whose agent is?
He needs twenty five million because he needs those bodyguards.
I saw him at that right. He showed up to
the Rob Parker event in Vegas, that Rob's birthday party
a couple months back, and he had two security guards
escorting him through the hotel to come to the event,
not one, not one, but two two. That's the royal treatment.
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Those aren't cheap, those around the clock security. You got
to pay for their food, you gotta pay for their lodgings.
That's not a cheap investment at all. So he wants
twenty five million. And when he worked here as our
morning guy, didn't leave much of an impact. Does he
realize that? Do you think he realizes that? Like kind
of what makes him what he is is where he works.
(20:34):
And it didn't really work out when he left the
last time. But hey, you know, maybe a little meat
in the middle you get twenty one million or something
like that. That is pretty crazy. Another crazy story an
NFL player that just randomly cost three hundred thousand dollars
in damage. He's no longer currently an NFL player. The
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Browns Great Moments in Cleveland. Browns Up. All the Browns
are waiving the player after he cost hundreds of thousands
of dollars of damage while driving drunk in Key West, Florida,
not Miami, No, Key West, the end of the United States,
the southernmost point in the United States. Key West, Florida,
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where I've heard wonderful things. I've never been to Key West.
We've had listeners that called in from there, were on
the radio in Key West, but it's I heard. It's
just an amazing place. Anyway, The Cleveland Browns are releasing him.
Defenseman Lonnie Phelps is the guy's name. Never heard of him.
The police say he crashed his suv into a restaurant.
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Fortunately for him, the restaurant was not open, or he
probably would have killed a bunch of people. The owner
of said restaurant said that the place was closed at
the time, and he the estimated damages total over three
hundred thousand dollars. That's a crazy amount of money. Let's
say hello to tiger Man in Utah. Hello tiger Man.
Speaker 10 (22:04):
Hey Ben, you know it was up to me you
would be getting fifty million, but fortunately.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Can you make that happen? Can you you don't have
that park? Can you work on having that kind of power?
Tiger Man? Can you figure that out?
Speaker 10 (22:18):
It will be my life mission. Ben. I know I'm
a daily you know as always, but you've been on
a roll this week. You mentioned less Files, followed by
Jaden Daniels, and you mentioned Purple and Gold tonight. I
don't know what's going on. And I think that you
mentioned the Utah hockey team. So it's been a great
week for you, Ben.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Hitting a lot of the key points. And you send
me that talking points memo before every week, tiger Man
on what content you want me to hit? And I
try to hit all the talking points that you send me,
and I think I've done okay this week.
Speaker 10 (22:51):
I think I have well, you've done amazing. But Ben,
I know you don't give shout outs, and I'm not
going to give one. But my buddy is a big
Villanova basketball fan, so he was very excited about the
prospect that Jay Wright was going to go to the Lakers.
So yeah, I was rubbing in his face that Jay
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Wright could even get another job, you know, a national champion,
but you know, kind of a failure. I guess he
could even get the Lakers job. And seems like anybody
could kind of get that job.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
So well, make sure that you lie by omission, do
not point out, Tiger Man to your buddy that Jay
Wright didn't want the Lakers job. Make sure you don't
point that out. Leave that part out. You leave that
part out, otherwise it's not as good a story. You
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 10 (23:39):
Right, Well, I'm sure there were about twenty million reasons
or war that Jay Wright would have wanted the position.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
But he's comfortable living a quiet Life's still getting paid
by Villanova. They're still paying him, right, they are. He's
on the payroll.
Speaker 10 (23:55):
Well, he wasn't fired, so I don't think so he
just retired. You know, he ain't got that.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
But he's like a goodwill ambassador. He's got one of
those those are no show jobs to where you're a
team ambassador, school ambassador and you get money. Like baseball
teams will bring back old players to sign autographs and
take photos and they'll pay him a salary some of
the a on the payroll for the whole year. So
all right, talker, man, If I keep going at this rate,
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I'm gonna go to Baton Rouge and hang out there.
Speaker 10 (24:24):
Okay, yes, sir, I'll see you August third.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Then you're gonna be there. Oh my god, Tiger Man
is gonna be in Vegas and we're gonna meet tiger Man.
Will you be signing autographs Tiger Man?
Speaker 10 (24:38):
I mean I would like yours first.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Ben, But wow, very kind of you, now, are you
gonna wear full LSU gear so we know it's you.
Are you gonna have full ls your gear on.
Speaker 10 (24:49):
I was just thinking about wearing the name tag. But
but yeah, you can do that.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
And I am told that our our hostess or host
with the mostest slug is going to have name text.
That was a big hit at the Minnesota mallor meet.
Speaker 9 (25:05):
What about a tiger hat well or tiger ears? Do
you have a headband that has tiger ears on it?
That'd be cute.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Tigertail costs money.
Speaker 9 (25:16):
Talks of corn flakes.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
What if you just dressed up as a furry tiger?
What about that? You'd be a furry but as a tiger.
Speaker 10 (25:23):
Oh my gosh, I'll go to good Will. Ben Okay,
all right, thank you tiger man.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Be well, thank you, sir. I appreciate the big weekend
of podcasting for me coming up. And I used to
kind of look down on the podcast that I do
on the weekends. I'm like, wow, why am I doing that?
But now you can get a Laker job. You can
coach the Lakers if you do a podcast. I mean,
it's just great, It's wonderful. Now Reddick got the job
because of Lebron, right, But I do the podcast with
(25:54):
Danny G. So what can Danny G gave me? What
kind of job can I don't know.
Speaker 9 (25:58):
Well, did either of you play in the NBA?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
No, I did. I spent years covering the Clippers with
in the NBA, so I consider that playing in the NBA.
Speaker 7 (26:07):
I don't know that they were really in the NBA
though back then, Oh they were.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
They played, They played Larry Bird, Michael Jordan's he.
Speaker 9 (26:13):
Knows everything there is to know about losing.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
So sound a little hurt, Coop. It's okay. You know
you'll get through it. You're in denial right now. It's
all right.
Speaker 9 (26:22):
I'm not hurt. I just I just think it's funny.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I do.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
I agree with you.
Speaker 10 (26:25):
I do.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
I think it's hilarious that you're like, they hired a
podcaster as if he wasn't an NBA player, For like.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
How does that make you? That's a different skill set, Coop,
It's not doesn't qualify you to be a coach. It's
a totally But he's not.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
It's not. He's not just a podcaster. He played in
the NBA.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
He's a podcaster. That's what he does. He's a podcast
that's his job right now. And now he's the coaching
the Lakers. He went from podcaster to coaching in the NBA.
It is so embarrassing. And and you know, and I know,
if the Clippers had done this, you would have never
let me hear the end, You would have never well
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you played in the NBA.
Speaker 9 (27:03):
What are you talking about.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
The Clippers would never do that because they have a
real owner, so they would never bother doing something so
juvenile as hiring a podcaster as their head coach like
JJ reddi What an embarrassment.
Speaker 9 (27:14):
And I would have never even mentioned the Clippers hiring
anybody because it doesn't move the needle.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Doesn't of course, it moves the needle every time I
bring up JJ Reddick, I got seven bozos doing what about.
Speaker 8 (27:29):
Because he got hired by he got hired by the Lakers.
Nobody cares who gets hired by the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
I just think the Lakers are now hiring Clipper Trash.
The guy was Clipper trash and that's who the Lakers
are hiring. And he's a podcaster. God is embarrassing. It's
so good. It is so good, though it is the
Ben Mahlor Show. As we roll on, but right now
we'll get you caught up on everything going on in
the overnight. We say hello too, Steamboat, Willie, Eddie Garci.
Speaker 7 (27:58):
And hello back to you, Ben Mallar.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
We still friend.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
We start with the news from the NBA that you
and Coop were just jabbering about the LA Lakers agreeing
on a four year deal to hire JJ Reddick as
the twenty second aid coach in franchise history. The Athletic
reporting he'll make around eight million per season. Reddick played
fifteen season in the NBA, has no prior head coaching experience,
takes over a Lakers team that was forty seven and
thirty five last year, advanced out of the playing round.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
Does that be the post.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Sation Doug Gottlieb, who's who also went from broadcasting to coaching,
although he's still broadcasting for now, that Gottlieb had more
coaching experience than JJ Reddick. But that, okay, yeah, he
coached the Israeli team right in the some World game
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thing or something like that. Sure you have no idea,
by you, I don't.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
I'm not following Doug's coaching career closes.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Neither do I? I just I just I just.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Know with his latest job. I know that, but that's
about it.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Lakers swept out of the first round of the playoffs
by the Denver Ruggets. Only once in NBA history is
a former player with no previous head coaching experience guided
the team of the NBA title.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
That was Doc Rivers. Of all people, it.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Was the hardest championship of all time in the NBA,
right with Doc Rivers as your coach. That oay Celtic team, fairpoint.
Very impressive that they were able to overcome the stigma
of Doc Rivers to win that championship.
Speaker 7 (29:22):
I wouldn't disagree with that.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Actually, be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
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Speaker 6 (29:29):
Coop very excited at the news out of the NFL
where the Denver Broncos have hired former Stanford head coach
David Shaw to be a senior personnel executive.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
That's very very exciting news.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
Also in the NFL, you had the Patriots and running
back Ramondre Stevenson reaching an agreement on a four year
extension where thirty six million, seventeen million is guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
That's it. Eddie, that you're done. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Usually when I stopped talking, that means that's it.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Well usually, I mean you used to have these fun
stories that you would put You're making me do all
the work. Now you're getting lazy. You get fun facts,
you're over share, but you're getting lazy. You used to
throw a fun story out. Now you came at fun
right now?
Speaker 7 (30:09):
Sorry, fun fact?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
How am I able to find these fun stories and
you're not able to.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
But you're talking about you like people buying finding vases.
This is I'm not talking.
Speaker 7 (30:20):
About that fun not really.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
There's goofy. There's a fun interesting you don't think. I
mean there's there's all kinds of goofy sports stories. Do
I have to give them to you? Or do I
have to do all the work? How does that work?
I I mean I could do that if you want.
I mean a little work in.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
Go ahead, it's time for the fun fact, mal fun fact.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Getting near the weekend, Eddie's got his feet up, the
last day of school. No, no work, man alive. God
I wish I was wired like that anyway. Yeah, my god,
what's the problem to you? Did I say anything wrong?
You're I mean, I'm I don't think I'm saying anything
wrong here. You didn't come up with a fun story
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you want me to do it.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
I don't come up with fun stories all the time
like you. Sometimes there are just little other facts.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
But you say, there's tons of stuff out there that
you just there's tons of Were you watching the Fox game?
Speaker 11 (31:14):
No?
Speaker 7 (31:14):
I didn't watch that game?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Okay, why would you? Why would you watch a sporting event?
You do a sports radio, I know, and there's nothing
else going on anyway. Barry Bonds gave a very interesting take.
He talked about Satchel Page and he said he would
have hit a home run off Satchel Page. Now, this
is one of those great things, right, there's one of
those great stories where you cannot be proven wrong. You
(31:41):
also cannot be proven correct because there's no way to know.
You can't go back and you know, maybe someday with
the reproductions they can do, but there's no way to
prove that you're wrong. There's no way to prove that
you're right.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
And it's like the guy the picture that was with
the Red Sox who's bounced around there was a relief
picture a couple of years ago, said he would have
struck out Babe Ruth as I would have struck out
Babe Ruth and all that, and yeah, okay, it's great.
I could say also I would have if I had
pitched against Babe Ruth, I would have struck him out.
I would have thrown my lollipop curve and that would
(32:17):
have been it. My ethis pitch. And right there, Babe
Ruth would have frozen, his knees would have buckled, and
I would have struck him out. And you can't prove
I'm wrong, because there's no way to prove I'm wrong. Now,
as far as the fun fact is concerned, the person
that founded the Oakley sunglasses, Are those still a thing?
Those used to be like a really big thing back
(32:38):
in the day. I don't know that there's still a
big thing, but apparently.
Speaker 7 (32:42):
The art comes back at some point so well, they were.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Very popular, like in the nineties. That's a long time
ago though, But anyway, the guy that founded, the founder
of Oakley has sold. The guy named James Gennard. Never
heard of him, but James Gernard sold his home for
two hundred and ten million dollars, the guy that founded Oakley.
(33:05):
That is a new record in the state of California.
The home where is it right on the front of
the ocean, ocean front property in Malibu two hundred and ten. Now,
after taxes and all the real estate fees that you
have to pay, it's you're probably clearing maybe one hundred thousand.
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But that is the most money ever spent for home.
Now he bought the property. He paid only seventy five
million for that piece of property back in twenty twelve. So,
not including the taxes and all that, he's going to
net one hundred and thirty five million dollars in profit.
(33:47):
Let's go to the phones. We'll say hello to Jed
who fled? Hello, Jed who fled? Quickly Jed?
Speaker 10 (33:54):
All I can think of it like only this longest
day of the year.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
The tarsosie, what's up with your aunt? Okay, thank you, Jed,
I appreciate it. Appreciate the phone call. All right. Time
nowt for the instats. All you have to say, here's
the insta trivia, No go, here we go. With the
passing of Willie Mays, Blank is the only living Hall
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of Fame player with both three thousand hits and five
hundred home runs. Again, there's only one left. Blank is
the only living Hall of Famer with both three thousand
hits and five hundred home runs. That is the Inchta trivia.
The answer. We'll get to it, and we will do
it next.
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Speaker 1 (35:09):
I want to get Tony in the Bay Area's attention.
I am told by our music director of Lorena that
this song is hot. I was told this song is hot,
so hot. Here is the Insta Insta trivia. It's sexy two.
Here's the Insta trivia. Blank is the only living Hall
of Fame baseball player left with both three thousand hits
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and five on home runs. After the passing of Willie
Mays this week, there is only one left in the
Hall of Fame with those numbers. Mark see We'll start
with this A Mayor Parker the snow Dog. I like
this name. Ernest Ryles. Good job by Mayor Parker the
snow Dog. Clipper Daryl guests by Cowboy Killer. That's his answer.
(35:55):
Who else do we have? A Larry Bigbie from Mister
Nice Guy Orioles Legend, Christopher Reeves from King Rory, Miguel
Cabrera guests by h L. Saduharu Oh from alf the Alien,
o Piner, Don Knotts tossed out by Mallard prop guy
Chris Pratt, who is forty five today from Late Night
(36:16):
Drug Tester Tory Wilson guests by Rob In Lost Wages,
Nevada Crash Davis from Milkman, Mike in Colorado Art Puffin
going with the iconic Oscar gamble. One of the more
photogenic baseball players of his day, Matt the Warrior Raider
fan cheated, that's why he loves the Tom Brady roast.
(36:38):
Malard prop guy going with the correct answer as well.
He also cheated. He's probably friends. He's buddies with Matt
the Warrior Raider Fan and Wally as well. Who else
we have Jerry Kuzman from Rob in Minnesota, Lakers Star,
Avery Bradley, guest by Shane and Des Moines, DJ spin
Patrick and San Diego going with Miguel Cabrera, the Ambassador
(37:01):
of Bakersfield cheated, He got it right, Mel Ott, Yes
by Richie Michael Jack Schmidt from Bozo the District Attorney
Mark in Santa Monica. Is the answer is some podcaster
with no coaching experience. Oh it's so fun. I am
so happy. How upset the historians are getting, Mark that
(37:22):
they're so annoyed that I'm calling JJ Ready a podcaster.
Speaker 7 (37:25):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Anyway, Eddie, do you have an answer? Eddie? Please? Do
you have an answer?
Speaker 7 (37:30):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (37:30):
Bennett's former White Sox legend Evon Calderone.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Oh good name and he rest in peace. Avon Caldern
is that you know these guys die well? I remember
he passed away few years ago. The correct answer, Eddie
is Orioles legend, Eddie Murray. Eddie Murray, the last one left.
There's a bunch of guys that are alive that had
those numbers, but they're all steroid cheats, and none of
(37:55):
them are in the Hall of Fame, at least not yet. Anyway,
here we go, it's Miller at that to the third degree.
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
This is one thing that gets grilled. Cool.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
What are you laughing?
Speaker 7 (38:09):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Sounds like you're laughing.
Speaker 9 (38:12):
Go ahead, all right, What did I say? Nothing.
Speaker 8 (38:16):
A recent report out of Denver says that Zach Wilson
is in third place in the quarterback competition exiting Mini camp. Ben,
do you think there's a chance that Wilson doesn't make
the team at all?
Speaker 1 (38:26):
No, The Broncos knew he was a piece of horse
manure when they acquired him, so it's not like he's
debunked that. And he can be on your third string quarterback.
You're gonna go through three quarterbacks and all that. And
I just don't think Sean Payton has the ego to
admit that that was a dumb tray. So I think
he will be on the team as the number three
quarterback next.
Speaker 8 (38:47):
A reporter over at the Athletic predicted that CD Lamb
will get a contract from the Cowboys before Dak Prescott
or Micah Parsons. Ben, do you think he's right?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
No, My man Jerry Jones is sequestered on his yacht somewhere.
None of them are getting paid, not a no money
for you, not a dimeback.
Speaker 8 (39:02):
Next, with Jeff Van Gundy joining the Clippers staff as
head assistant. It marks his first coaching job since O seven, Ben,
Do you think this moves signals and eventual return to
a head coaching position.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Yes? This, I love me some Van Gundy. He should
be back on the national TV broadcast. I love the guy. Uh,
not a great NBA coach, but there's some turds coaching
in the NBA. Why not bring Van Gundy back his
head coach? How do we dow?
Speaker 9 (39:26):
I guess you pass?
Speaker 1 (39:27):
That is that's a virtuoso performance. Virtuoso
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our number too.
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We stay up all night providing you with marginal sports
takes on the overnight show, and then you can listen
during the day. You can stash the podcast away for
the daytime and listen to all the nonsense that happened overnight.
So why are the Sixers? Why are they cooled off
on Paul George? Why has that happened? And is there
(00:26):
a deeper meaning to you? Donnis Haslam stumbling and bumbling
over his words when asked about Jimmy Butler's status with
the Heat. We'll discuss that. Also, we had a trade
in the NBA Alice Caruso, a guard going to OKAC
for Josh Getty. He's being compared Caruso to andre Iguodala
(00:48):
when he went to Golden State. How do you assess
that one? We'll go there as well. And all of
it coming your way right now. Give it up for
a bouncy ball Hour number two. It is not all
sunshine and rainbows for the podcasters. Well, come in beginning
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of another hour of the Ben Malor Show.
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the job in La This hour it's about a different podcaster.
It's all pod all the time. So the silly season
is underway. In pro bouncy ball, we have the draft
next week. Very exciting unless it's not a lot of
musical chairs in free agency on tap, which is often
(02:32):
more entertaining than the product on the court. The transaction
is a lot of fun. Now, if you haven't heard
the latest Chattern, maybe not, maybe you missed it. So
after months and months of noise, a lot of noise,
we are now hearing that the seventy six ers, they're
much reported interest in Paul George podcast p as He's
(02:56):
known Paul George. This offseason has waned in recent days.
Now Philly is one of the teams that has a
lot of cash, a lot of dough to spend with
the communist salary cap in the NBA, and even with
the money they have to spend to re sign Tyrese Maxi,
(03:19):
they still will have a lot to play with. And
Paul George expected to opt out of his contract, and
so the connect the dots was going on. George's name
has come up early and often in Philly, and Joel
en Beid and Paul George sat side by side on
television during the NBA Finals. They did a little TV
(03:42):
segment together. However, Schams Sharania says that Philadelphia is expected
to be aggressive elsewhere. That's good. They're gonna be aggressive elsewhere.
We eating cheese, steaks, tasty cakes, hanging out with fats
in Philadelphia. So they've got the cap and they say
that the Paul George connection is cap. So let us
(04:05):
discuss the question why have the Sixers reportedly cooled off
on podcast p Paul George. So, I've got cloud patterns,
my observations here, cloud patterns, bubble gum and the Dragon
and we'll combine all of these things together and we
(04:27):
are going to speed off on a rocket out to
outer space.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
So number one, the easy answer, which is the stock answer,
is that Philadelphia just did some due diligence.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
And that's it. Paul George is a polarizing player, seeing
him play a lot over the last couple years with
the Clippers, I don't hate him. I don't love him.
He's just kind of there. I have apathy, which you
don't want to have. And the conspiracy theory, which I like.
I love a good conspiracy theory. The conspiracy theory is
that Joel Embiid and Paul George spent some time together
(05:08):
at the finals, and Joel Embiid, instead of giving it
the green light, said, you know, in second thought, I
don't really something about this guy. Let's give this. Give
this a yellow light or a red light. And so
that scared off the front office. Now, as for the
Sixers themselves, the other thing that's possible is they just
saw the cloud patterns right. It was a sign from
(05:30):
the universe and abstain from PG. Thirteen. George again very talented, However,
he does not have the mamba mentality. He is lacking
that he has the excuse for everything, which is maddening
mentality his latest I saw this the other day. I
(05:51):
threw something at my phone, which you shouldn't do. Paul
George blaming the Clippers playoff loss to the Mavericks on
the James Harden tray, saying that the Clippers lost the
glue guys and that's why they lost. Has nothing to
do with Kawhi Leonard yet again getting hurt Polaize Polly's anyway,
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page two, we go to South Beach and this is
not about our favorite homeless guy in South Beach. Instead,
it is about you. Donnas Haslin, who spent an entire
generation with the Miami Heat and still works for the team.
He was making the television rounds mingling, mixing and matching
(06:33):
with different TV people, so Eudonis Haslam was asked in
one of these interviews recently, whether or not Jimmy Butler
has played his last game with the Heat seems like
a fair question. There's a lot of chatter that pat
Riley is fed up with Jimmy Butler because he gets
hurt and starting to wear down a little bit. Even
(06:54):
though I'm a big Jimmy Butler supporter, So what did
you Donnas Haslam say? His response, he said, quote, I
can't really comment on that, but if I had to guess,
I don't want to talk about it. He said, I'm
gonna leave that one alone. Okay, close? Quote Is there
(07:14):
a deeper meaning to Eudonnas Haslam stumbling and bumbling over
his words when he was asked pretty simple question was
asked about Jimmy Butler's status. Did he not think that
would come up in the dialogue on the television show
which deals with gossip in the NBA? Who goofed? I've
got to know well whoever was working with Eudonna's Haslm
(07:37):
so uh To answer the question, is there a deeper
meaning to these comments by Haslam? Yeah, I'm nodding my head, yes.
And this is what's called a bubble gum story. He's
chewing the bubble gum. Haslm knows a thing or two
about the inner workings of the Miami Heat because he's
seen a thing or two about the inner workings of
the Miami Heat. And he's torn because you take a
(08:00):
few steps back and you Donna's He wants to stay
in the good graces the bubble from the bubble gum.
He wants to stay in the bubble of pat Riley,
but he also at the same time does not want
to lie. So if you listen between the words, it
does not bode well for Jimmy Buckets, who is even
(08:21):
if you think he might come back, he's on the
endangered species list in terms of the Miami heatls and
that particular roster. Because when he said if I had
to guess, and then said, I don't want to talk
about it, because when people say they they want to guess,
it's they're gonna tell you what's really going on. You know,
It's like those stories where it's like, well, according to
(08:43):
the league sources, blah blah blah blah blah. Yeah, that's
that's the real story most of the time. Most of
the time, it's the real story. Now, it sounds to
me that pat Riley is preparing to jettison Jimmy Butler
and not bring him back. That is the direction it's
leaning at this time. Subject to change. But Riley crafty
as a fox, even in his old age, So we'll
(09:04):
see what happens, all right, final point to the dustball
we go where bulls the Chicago Bulls. There was a trade,
not a big name trade. The Bulls traded Alex Caruso.
They said bute bye to Alex Caruso. They traded him
to the Thunder in exchange for Josh Giddy. Get giddy
(09:25):
with it now. Wooje reported that this move is commensurate
to Golden State acquiring andre Iguodala a couple of years back.
So that's the talking point. Alex Caruso been around play
for the Lakers with the Bulls recently traded to Okase.
(09:46):
Being compared to Iggy from the glory days of the Warriors,
how do you assess this one? How do you assess
this one? So this is a stay at a hotel.
It is the hyperbole hotel. That's a hyperbole hotel. Als crusso.
Not bad serviceable NBA player. He is a glue guy.
(10:09):
He's a glue guy. But comparing him to Iguodala is
it's like an old Peter Paul and Marry Tune. The
dragon puff the magic Dragon is puffery. Caruso could not
carry Iggy's jockstrap. Andre Iguodala was an all star when
he came into the NBA. He was the featured actor
(10:31):
he was the go to guy early in his NBA career.
He was a guy that would get you around twenty
points a game and do a little bit of everything.
But Caruso the over the top, breathless reporting. He's a
fine player, but he's not the final piece to the puzzle.
He's not the jigsaw puzzle piece that puts everything together.
(10:55):
For OKC, I don't buy that at all. Don't buy it.
It is that the Ben Mahler Show. Now I mentioned
this last hour, I didn't get to it. The Lakers
just the laughing stock of basketball. They hired a podcaster
as their coach. I'm not kidding. They hired podcast partner
of Lebron James as their coach and not Mamba approved
(11:17):
Kobe Bryant right now circling around in his grave that
you talk about good timing, Carmelo Anthony Mello. He told
the story on his podcast because there are way too
many podcasts, but he told the story that Kobe Bryant
could not stand, could not stand JJ Reddick. This goes
(11:39):
back to the Team USA story. Kobe hated JJ Reddick
and he snapped like a snapping turtle at coach k
who was a big fan of JJ Reddick, and that
interview was done before Reddick was hired as Laker coach,
but it dropped about the same time. That's a lot
(12:00):
of ball busting. I don't know whether it's true or not,
and there's no way to verify it because Kobe ate
walking back through that door to verify it. But it
is quite the story. It is quite the story, all right.
This is the Ben Maler showed. If you would like
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You don't have to stick around.
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You have to stick around for that.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Du How are you gonna figure out what you're gonna
watch on TV over the weekend?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I mean you could just turn on the TV.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
I mean nobody does that. That's what stupid people do.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Are you calling me stupid? Is that what you're calling me?
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Is that what you do? You just turn on the TV?
And I don't want to do this.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I watch games, That's all I watch. I don't I
don't watch TV. I haven't watched well, I watched documentaries,
but that's it. But I don't watch Like, when's the
last time you watch your regular TV like a sitcom
or something like that. When's the last time you watched that?
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Not in a long long time.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Yeah, you know, I will say, though, I feel like
when you do watch something that's not a game, it's
something that you heard about on coop scoop.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Oh, yeah, because I really haven't been looking for stuff
to watch, so yeah, yeah, documentaries I have.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
Watched, Like did you watch you watched unfrosted, didn't you
I did, Yeah, fun of documentary.
Speaker 9 (15:04):
Yeah I didn't like it.
Speaker 10 (15:06):
I know.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
It wasn't that good. No, it was pretty bad. Like, well,
how did it get made? I think it was Tom Hanks, right?
Was he the one that was behind it? Seinfelder? Seinfeld,
that's right, Seinfeld. That's yeah, so that's why. But yeah,
it was not it's hard to follow anyway. Let's take
a call. It is a full moon kind of a Friday,
(15:28):
and we will say hello to Andrea. She's hanging out
in Berkeley and she on this show is the Star Goddess.
She's got all the star information Virgo in service.
Speaker 11 (15:41):
Hello Andrea, Hello, man, how are you?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
If I was any better, I would be a Davis,
but not Anthony Davis because he's got to now play
for Lebron's podcast Buddy Slightly awkward.
Speaker 11 (15:56):
His birthday is June twenty four, literally his birthdays in
three days. That's an interesting early birthday present, a little weird.
I'll have to do a little more research on that.
But I like the name Star Goddess. Thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Very nice. And what do you know about the full
moon here? Andrea?
Speaker 11 (16:18):
Yeah, well, you know how much We both like the
Farmer's Almanac.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Love it, love it great. Before the internet, that predates
the Internet, people could actually do stuff without just googling it.
Nobody googled it to put that together.
Speaker 11 (16:32):
Yeah, no, that's our go too. So we have the
summer solstice today and then we have the full moon tomorrow.
So it's quite rare to have a full moon summer solstice.
So that's something. The summer solstice one fifty one pm
this afternoon yesterday, full moon today five o eight pm.
(16:57):
It's actually in Capricorn, and it's called the strawberry full moon.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Well, I like strawberries. I enjoy strawberries, so I'm happy
with that.
Speaker 11 (17:07):
Why reason it's called strawberry moon then, is because that's
when strawberries are seasonal and ripen this time of years,
the first full moon of summer.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Oh, I have to get some strawberry donuts then to celebrate.
Speaker 11 (17:22):
Oh now we're talking.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, yeah, so that donut man for some strawberry donuts
for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 10 (17:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (17:29):
The Lakota tribes use the name to mark the full
moon to the harvesting of wild strawberries in June, so
we have the strawberry full moon in Capricorn, and it's
larger in the sky, and it's right around the summer solstice.
So it's very unusual to have a full moon and
the summer solstice. So that said, I'm doing my astrology newsletter.
(17:55):
It has all the mercury retrogade dates, the full moons,
the new moons, so of the your listeners and the
Mala militia with like that. Andre at Virgo Inservice dot com,
Virgo in Service.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
All right, Virgo and Service. You can hit Andrew up
there on on X and you'll you'll put that there.
All right, Well, thank you, Andrew.
Speaker 11 (18:16):
I appreciate that you enjoy the full strawberry moon.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
All right, thank you. There she goes to go back
and work on her on her newsletters. That's what she
does anyway. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. That's what
we do is we just talk talk talk talk talk
talk talk talk blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Uh So not not not cheap. These hot takes. You
(18:43):
might think these hot takes are cheap, They're not hot.
They're not cheap. You see the story in the the
trade papers, the entertainment papers that our former morning guy
is demanding twenty five million dollars a year to get
hot takes. This is outstanding you talk about. I mean,
(19:05):
good for it. I hope he gets it. But my god,
stephen A Smith, who was our morning guy here at
Fox Sports Radio, got fired by ESPN and he came
here to work and left quite the mark on the company.
But stephen A wants twenty five million dollars annually and
they are offering him. I don't know how he can
(19:26):
can handle how embarrassing this offer is. They're only offering
him eighteen million dollars a year. Just a shocking low
ball offer for a generational talent like Steven A. I mean,
my god, wow, twenty he wants twenty five million dollars
a year. Man, If he's worth twenty five, we need
(19:47):
a raise. Who's his agent? Do we know whose agent is?
He needs twenty five million because he needs those bodyguards.
I saw him at that right. He showed up to
the Rob Parker event in Vegas, that Rob's birthday party
a couple months back, and he had two security guards
escorting him through the hotel to come to the event,
not one, not one, but two two. That's the royal treatment.
(20:12):
Those aren't cheap, those around the clock security. You got
to pay for their food, you gotta pay for their lodgings.
That's not a cheap investment at all. So he wants
twenty five million. And when he worked here as our
morning guy, didn't leave much of an impact. Does he
realize that? Do you think he realizes that? Like kind
of what makes him what he is is where he works.
(20:34):
And it didn't really work out when he left the
last time. But hey, you know, maybe a little meat
in the middle you get twenty one million or something
like that. That is pretty crazy. Another crazy story an
NFL player that just randomly cost three hundred thousand dollars
in damage. He's no longer currently an NFL player. The
(20:57):
Browns Great Moments in Cleveland. Browns Up. All the Browns
are waiving the player after he cost hundreds of thousands
of dollars of damage while driving drunk in Key West, Florida,
not Miami, No, Key West, the end of the United States,
the southernmost point in the United States. Key West, Florida,
(21:17):
where I've heard wonderful things. I've never been to Key West.
We've had listeners that called in from there, were on
the radio in Key West, but it's I heard. It's
just an amazing place. Anyway, The Cleveland Browns are releasing him.
Defenseman Lonnie Phelps is the guy's name. Never heard of him.
The police say he crashed his suv into a restaurant.
(21:39):
Fortunately for him, the restaurant was not open, or he
probably would have killed a bunch of people. The owner
of said restaurant said that the place was closed at
the time, and he the estimated damages total over three
hundred thousand dollars. That's a crazy amount of money. Let's
say hello to tiger Man in Utah. Hello tiger Man.
Speaker 10 (22:04):
Hey Ben, you know it was up to me you
would be getting fifty million, but fortunately.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Can you make that happen? Can you you don't have
that park? Can you work on having that kind of power?
Tiger Man? Can you figure that out?
Speaker 10 (22:18):
It will be my life mission. Ben. I know I'm
a daily you know as always, but you've been on
a roll this week. You mentioned less Files, followed by
Jaden Daniels, and you mentioned Purple and Gold tonight. I
don't know what's going on. And I think that you
mentioned the Utah hockey team. So it's been a great
week for you, Ben.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Hitting a lot of the key points. And you send
me that talking points memo before every week, tiger Man
on what content you want me to hit? And I
try to hit all the talking points that you send me,
and I think I've done okay this week.
Speaker 10 (22:51):
I think I have well, you've done amazing. But Ben,
I know you don't give shout outs, and I'm not
going to give one. But my buddy is a big
Villanova basketball fan, so he was very excited about the
prospect that Jay Wright was going to go to the Lakers.
So yeah, I was rubbing in his face that Jay
(23:13):
Wright could even get another job, you know, a national champion,
but you know, kind of a failure. I guess he
could even get the Lakers job. And seems like anybody
could kind of get that job.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
So well, make sure that you lie by omission, do
not point out, Tiger Man to your buddy that Jay
Wright didn't want the Lakers job. Make sure you don't
point that out. Leave that part out. You leave that
part out, otherwise it's not as good a story. You
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 10 (23:39):
Right, Well, I'm sure there were about twenty million reasons
or war that Jay Wright would have wanted the position.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
But he's comfortable living a quiet Life's still getting paid
by Villanova. They're still paying him, right, they are. He's
on the payroll.
Speaker 10 (23:55):
Well, he wasn't fired, so I don't think so he
just retired. You know, he ain't got that.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
But he's like a goodwill ambassador. He's got one of
those those are no show jobs to where you're a
team ambassador, school ambassador and you get money. Like baseball
teams will bring back old players to sign autographs and
take photos and they'll pay him a salary some of
the a on the payroll for the whole year. So
all right, talker, man, If I keep going at this rate,
(24:22):
I'm gonna go to Baton Rouge and hang out there.
Speaker 10 (24:24):
Okay, yes, sir, I'll see you August third.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Then you're gonna be there. Oh my god, Tiger Man
is gonna be in Vegas and we're gonna meet tiger Man.
Will you be signing autographs Tiger Man?
Speaker 10 (24:38):
I mean I would like yours first.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Ben, But wow, very kind of you, now, are you
gonna wear full LSU gear so we know it's you.
Are you gonna have full ls your gear on.
Speaker 10 (24:49):
I was just thinking about wearing the name tag. But
but yeah, you can do that.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
And I am told that our our hostess or host
with the mostest slug is going to have name text.
That was a big hit at the Minnesota mallor meet.
Speaker 9 (25:05):
What about a tiger hat well or tiger ears? Do
you have a headband that has tiger ears on it?
That'd be cute.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Tigertail costs money.
Speaker 9 (25:16):
Talks of corn flakes.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
What if you just dressed up as a furry tiger?
What about that? You'd be a furry but as a tiger.
Speaker 10 (25:23):
Oh my gosh, I'll go to good Will. Ben Okay,
all right, thank you tiger man.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Be well, thank you, sir. I appreciate the big weekend
of podcasting for me coming up. And I used to
kind of look down on the podcast that I do
on the weekends. I'm like, wow, why am I doing that?
But now you can get a Laker job. You can
coach the Lakers if you do a podcast. I mean,
it's just great, It's wonderful. Now Reddick got the job
because of Lebron, right, But I do the podcast with
(25:54):
Danny G. So what can Danny G gave me? What
kind of job can I don't know.
Speaker 9 (25:58):
Well, did either of you play in the NBA?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
No, I did. I spent years covering the Clippers with
in the NBA, so I consider that playing in the NBA.
Speaker 7 (26:07):
I don't know that they were really in the NBA
though back then, Oh they were.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
They played, They played Larry Bird, Michael Jordan's he.
Speaker 9 (26:13):
Knows everything there is to know about losing.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
So sound a little hurt, Coop. It's okay. You know
you'll get through it. You're in denial right now. It's
all right.
Speaker 9 (26:22):
I'm not hurt. I just I just think it's funny.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
I do.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
I agree with you.
Speaker 10 (26:25):
I do.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
I think it's hilarious that you're like, they hired a
podcaster as if he wasn't an NBA player, For like.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
How does that make you? That's a different skill set, Coop,
It's not doesn't qualify you to be a coach. It's
a totally But he's not.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
It's not. He's not just a podcaster. He played in
the NBA.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
He's a podcaster. That's what he does. He's a podcast
that's his job right now. And now he's the coaching
the Lakers. He went from podcaster to coaching in the NBA.
It is so embarrassing. And and you know, and I know,
if the Clippers had done this, you would have never
let me hear the end, You would have never well
(27:02):
you played in the NBA.
Speaker 9 (27:03):
What are you talking about.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
The Clippers would never do that because they have a
real owner, so they would never bother doing something so
juvenile as hiring a podcaster as their head coach like
JJ reddi What an embarrassment.
Speaker 9 (27:14):
And I would have never even mentioned the Clippers hiring
anybody because it doesn't move the needle.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Doesn't of course, it moves the needle every time I
bring up JJ Reddick, I got seven bozos doing what about.
Speaker 8 (27:29):
Because he got hired by he got hired by the Lakers.
Nobody cares who gets hired by the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
I just think the Lakers are now hiring Clipper Trash.
The guy was Clipper trash and that's who the Lakers
are hiring. And he's a podcaster. God is embarrassing. It's
so good. It is so good, though it is the
Ben Mahlor Show. As we roll on, but right now
we'll get you caught up on everything going on in
the overnight. We say hello too, Steamboat, Willie, Eddie Garci.
Speaker 7 (27:58):
And hello back to you, Ben Mallar.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
We still friend.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
We start with the news from the NBA that you
and Coop were just jabbering about the LA Lakers agreeing
on a four year deal to hire JJ Reddick as
the twenty second aid coach in franchise history. The Athletic
reporting he'll make around eight million per season. Reddick played
fifteen season in the NBA, has no prior head coaching experience,
takes over a Lakers team that was forty seven and
thirty five last year, advanced out of the playing round.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
Does that be the post.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Sation Doug Gottlieb, who's who also went from broadcasting to coaching,
although he's still broadcasting for now, that Gottlieb had more
coaching experience than JJ Reddick. But that, okay, yeah, he
coached the Israeli team right in the some World game
(28:43):
thing or something like that. Sure you have no idea,
by you, I don't.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
I'm not following Doug's coaching career closes.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Neither do I? I just I just I just.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Know with his latest job. I know that, but that's
about it.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Lakers swept out of the first round of the playoffs
by the Denver Ruggets. Only once in NBA history is
a former player with no previous head coaching experience guided
the team of the NBA title.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
That was Doc Rivers. Of all people, it.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Was the hardest championship of all time in the NBA,
right with Doc Rivers as your coach. That oay Celtic team, fairpoint.
Very impressive that they were able to overcome the stigma
of Doc Rivers to win that championship.
Speaker 7 (29:22):
I wouldn't disagree with that.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Actually, be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Coop very excited at the news out of the NFL
where the Denver Broncos have hired former Stanford head coach
David Shaw to be a senior personnel executive.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
That's very very exciting news.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
Also in the NFL, you had the Patriots and running
back Ramondre Stevenson reaching an agreement on a four year
extension where thirty six million, seventeen million is guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
That's it. Eddie, that you're done. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Usually when I stopped talking, that means that's it.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Well usually, I mean you used to have these fun
stories that you would put You're making me do all
the work. Now you're getting lazy. You get fun facts,
you're over share, but you're getting lazy. You used to
throw a fun story out. Now you came at fun
right now?
Speaker 7 (30:09):
Sorry, fun fact?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
How am I able to find these fun stories and
you're not able to.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
But you're talking about you like people buying finding vases.
This is I'm not talking.
Speaker 7 (30:20):
About that fun not really.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
There's goofy. There's a fun interesting you don't think. I
mean there's there's all kinds of goofy sports stories. Do
I have to give them to you? Or do I
have to do all the work? How does that work?
I I mean I could do that if you want.
I mean a little work in.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
Go ahead, it's time for the fun fact, mal fun fact.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Getting near the weekend, Eddie's got his feet up, the
last day of school. No, no work, man alive. God
I wish I was wired like that anyway. Yeah, my god,
what's the problem to you? Did I say anything wrong?
You're I mean, I'm I don't think I'm saying anything
wrong here. You didn't come up with a fun story
(31:00):
you want me to do it.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
I don't come up with fun stories all the time
like you. Sometimes there are just little other facts.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
But you say, there's tons of stuff out there that
you just there's tons of Were you watching the Fox game?
Speaker 11 (31:14):
No?
Speaker 7 (31:14):
I didn't watch that game?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Okay, why would you? Why would you watch a sporting event?
You do a sports radio, I know, and there's nothing
else going on anyway. Barry Bonds gave a very interesting take.
He talked about Satchel Page and he said he would
have hit a home run off Satchel Page. Now, this
is one of those great things, right, there's one of
those great stories where you cannot be proven wrong. You
(31:41):
also cannot be proven correct because there's no way to know.
You can't go back and you know, maybe someday with
the reproductions they can do, but there's no way to
prove that you're wrong. There's no way to prove that
you're right.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
And it's like the guy the picture that was with
the Red Sox who's bounced around there was a relief
picture a couple of years ago, said he would have
struck out Babe Ruth as I would have struck out
Babe Ruth and all that, and yeah, okay, it's great.
I could say also I would have if I had
pitched against Babe Ruth, I would have struck him out.
I would have thrown my lollipop curve and that would
(32:17):
have been it. My ethis pitch. And right there, Babe
Ruth would have frozen, his knees would have buckled, and
I would have struck him out. And you can't prove
I'm wrong, because there's no way to prove I'm wrong. Now,
as far as the fun fact is concerned, the person
that founded the Oakley sunglasses, Are those still a thing?
Those used to be like a really big thing back
(32:38):
in the day. I don't know that there's still a
big thing, but apparently.
Speaker 7 (32:42):
The art comes back at some point so well, they were.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Very popular, like in the nineties. That's a long time
ago though, But anyway, the guy that founded, the founder
of Oakley has sold. The guy named James Gennard. Never
heard of him, but James Gernard sold his home for
two hundred and ten million dollars, the guy that founded Oakley.
(33:05):
That is a new record in the state of California.
The home where is it right on the front of
the ocean, ocean front property in Malibu two hundred and ten. Now,
after taxes and all the real estate fees that you
have to pay, it's you're probably clearing maybe one hundred thousand.
(33:26):
But that is the most money ever spent for home.
Now he bought the property. He paid only seventy five
million for that piece of property back in twenty twelve. So,
not including the taxes and all that, he's going to
net one hundred and thirty five million dollars in profit.
(33:47):
Let's go to the phones. We'll say hello to Jed
who fled? Hello, Jed who fled? Quickly Jed?
Speaker 10 (33:54):
All I can think of it like only this longest
day of the year.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
The tarsosie, what's up with your aunt? Okay, thank you, Jed,
I appreciate it. Appreciate the phone call. All right. Time
nowt for the instats. All you have to say, here's
the insta trivia, No go, here we go. With the
passing of Willie Mays, Blank is the only living Hall
(34:16):
of Fame player with both three thousand hits and five
hundred home runs. Again, there's only one left. Blank is
the only living Hall of Famer with both three thousand
hits and five hundred home runs. That is the Inchta trivia.
The answer. We'll get to it, and we will do
it next.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
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Speaker 1 (35:09):
I want to get Tony in the Bay Area's attention.
I am told by our music director of Lorena that
this song is hot. I was told this song is hot,
so hot. Here is the Insta Insta trivia. It's sexy two.
Here's the Insta trivia. Blank is the only living Hall
of Fame baseball player left with both three thousand hits
(35:32):
and five on home runs. After the passing of Willie
Mays this week, there is only one left in the
Hall of Fame with those numbers. Mark see We'll start
with this A Mayor Parker the snow Dog. I like
this name. Ernest Ryles. Good job by Mayor Parker the
snow Dog. Clipper Daryl guests by Cowboy Killer. That's his answer.
(35:55):
Who else do we have? A Larry Bigbie from Mister
Nice Guy Orioles Legend, Christopher Reeves from King Rory, Miguel
Cabrera guests by h L. Saduharu Oh from alf the Alien,
o Piner, Don Knotts tossed out by Mallard prop guy
Chris Pratt, who is forty five today from Late Night
(36:16):
Drug Tester Tory Wilson guests by Rob In Lost Wages,
Nevada Crash Davis from Milkman, Mike in Colorado Art Puffin
going with the iconic Oscar gamble. One of the more
photogenic baseball players of his day, Matt the Warrior Raider
fan cheated, that's why he loves the Tom Brady roast.
(36:38):
Malard prop guy going with the correct answer as well.
He also cheated. He's probably friends. He's buddies with Matt
the Warrior Raider Fan and Wally as well. Who else
we have Jerry Kuzman from Rob in Minnesota, Lakers Star,
Avery Bradley, guest by Shane and Des Moines, DJ spin
Patrick and San Diego going with Miguel Cabrera, the Ambassador
(37:01):
of Bakersfield cheated, He got it right, Mel Ott, Yes
by Richie Michael Jack Schmidt from Bozo the District Attorney
Mark in Santa Monica. Is the answer is some podcaster
with no coaching experience. Oh it's so fun. I am
so happy. How upset the historians are getting, Mark that
(37:22):
they're so annoyed that I'm calling JJ Ready a podcaster.
Speaker 7 (37:25):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Anyway, Eddie, do you have an answer? Eddie? Please? Do
you have an answer?
Speaker 7 (37:30):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (37:30):
Bennett's former White Sox legend Evon Calderone.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Oh good name and he rest in peace. Avon Caldern
is that you know these guys die well? I remember
he passed away few years ago. The correct answer, Eddie
is Orioles legend, Eddie Murray. Eddie Murray, the last one left.
There's a bunch of guys that are alive that had
those numbers, but they're all steroid cheats, and none of
(37:55):
them are in the Hall of Fame, at least not yet. Anyway,
here we go, it's Miller at that to the third degree.
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
This is one thing that gets grilled. Cool.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
What are you laughing?
Speaker 7 (38:09):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Sounds like you're laughing.
Speaker 9 (38:12):
Go ahead, all right, What did I say? Nothing.
Speaker 8 (38:16):
A recent report out of Denver says that Zach Wilson
is in third place in the quarterback competition exiting Mini camp. Ben,
do you think there's a chance that Wilson doesn't make
the team at all?
Speaker 1 (38:26):
No, The Broncos knew he was a piece of horse
manure when they acquired him, so it's not like he's
debunked that. And he can be on your third string quarterback.
You're gonna go through three quarterbacks and all that. And
I just don't think Sean Payton has the ego to
admit that that was a dumb tray. So I think
he will be on the team as the number three
quarterback next.
Speaker 8 (38:47):
A reporter over at the Athletic predicted that CD Lamb
will get a contract from the Cowboys before Dak Prescott
or Micah Parsons. Ben, do you think he's right?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
No, My man Jerry Jones is sequestered on his yacht somewhere.
None of them are getting paid, not a no money
for you, not a dimeback.
Speaker 8 (39:02):
Next, with Jeff Van Gundy joining the Clippers staff as
head assistant. It marks his first coaching job since O seven, Ben,
Do you think this moves signals and eventual return to
a head coaching position.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Yes? This, I love me some Van Gundy. He should
be back on the national TV broadcast. I love the guy. Uh,
not a great NBA coach, but there's some turds coaching
in the NBA. Why not bring Van Gundy back his
head coach? How do we dow?
Speaker 9 (39:26):
I guess you pass?
Speaker 1 (39:27):
That is that's a virtuoso performance. Virtuoso
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