June 26, 2024 • 41 mins
Big Ben talks about executives around the NBA praising Bronny James ahead of the draft, J.J. Redick already having to issue a public denial of accusations, Maller to the Third Degree, Queen of Hearts w/ La Reina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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The Silly Season cranking up. Should be a big day
for the Silly Season. Should be. The NBA Finals ended
a few days ago. They had a massive parade in Boston.
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That's what you do when you win. And now the
curtain has gone up on the job fair, the basketball
job fair. If you're looking for work, you've missed the
cutoff to get employment, it'll be a two day job fair.
You're on Wednesday night, you've got the first round and
then they've turned this into a two day event. It's
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actually texting somebody from the NBA world and we're like, boy,
I bet the NBA wishes they could go back to
when they had an eight round draft, or at least
a four round draft, so they could melk this into
a three day event because the NFL does three days.
The NFL Draft is three days. This is the first
time the NBA has gone to the two day format.
They have the first round and then they have the
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second round, but used to the draft used to go
on the draft was so long in the NBA. How
long was it? It was so long that teams would
like draft relatives. I'm not kidding. They would try to
draft relatives and celebrities because they didn't have anyone else
to draft, and so it was ridiculous. Anyway, two day affair,
and in the lead up to the Baffosako event, much
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of the noise, much of the noise has been about
the spawn of bron The spawn of bron Now. I
don't know if you've been paying any attention to this.
I don't know how you could have avoided it if
you're consuming sports content, which you clearly are at this time,
but maybe you missed it. So Bronni James continues to
be the most interesting man in the world, at least
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in the eyes of many. He's someone that is in
the spectrum of notability because a lot of these guys
you don't know who they are. But if you look
around and on the big board, the big board, you
look around the big board. His name is primarily mentioned
in all these mock drafts, all of them, which is
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wild when you consider he's a bit player. He's too
small for the NBA. He averaged less than five points
a game at SC in the old Pac twelve last year.
There is nothing that Uza's saying draft this guy. In fact,
the only thing that would tell you to draft this
guy is his DNA. That's it, period, stop, that's all.
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And he's the bell of a ball, or is he?
So I did some research. Some call it due diligence,
and I was digging around. I have nothing but time,
and I was digging around and I saw the latest
comments by the Toronto basketball team, the Raptors, who said
that they have interest in Bronnie James. And I have
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yet to find anyone on the record, any team, anyone
who works for a team that has gone on the
record to say negative stuff and put their name on
it about lebron James kids. So let us discuss the
question why are so many who are employed in the
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NBA either praising Bronnie James draft status or just saying
nothing at all, which is akin to praising. So I've
got Reynolds, rap six pack and agricultural and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make some some cookies. Because I made cookies. So
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that's why, all right, now, A I know this from
watching mob movies over the years, many of them. They
don't make them as much now as they used to it,
but back in the day they're very popular mob movies.
I know from my experience watching mob movies. You're never
supposed to publicly trash the mob boss and Lebron in
this little story, this little ditty, if you will. Lebron
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James is the dawn of the league, and you cannot
point out the flaws of the godfather and that his kid,
his DNA, is not going to be a prodigy and
shouldn't even be drafted. I mean, that's the realaction. Should
not even betted here, And it goes against the decorum
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of the NBA to point this out. Now, what a
quagmire you've got. So instead, what ends up happening here
when people are talking about Bronnie James, You get the
Reynolds wrap, you know, the aluminum foil that has the tool,
the middle part there.
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The role.
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It's hollow, right, they put the foil around it. They
wrap the foil around it. It's hollow nonsense, is what
it is. You whisper sweet nothings publicly? Oh we really
lyng Drew. He's compared to Drew Holliday. I think it'd
be like Drew Holliday. That was one of the comparaives.
There's been a bunch of other ridiculous comparisons that have
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been out there. Everything has, every word, every word has
been sugarcoated about Scrownie Bronni and you point that out.
It is the paragot of nepotism that we're even having
this conversation on the eve of the NBA Draft that
Bronnie James in a just world where you're if you're
just judged off the body of your work and your
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skill set, you're not drafted. Brinnie James is not drafted.
But you think Bronnie James is going to not be
drafted because I don't. I hope I'm wrong, but I
believe he's gonna get drafted in round one. I think
in the end of round one, someone's gonna take Bronnie James,
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and if not, he'll definitely be picked in the second round,
because he better be picked in the second round because
if he's not picked, Lebron will turn into a fire
breathing dragon. You better not embarrass Lebron James, and King
James will make some phone calls and if you embarrass him,
watch out right, watch out, He'll bring in the goons.
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You don't want to mess with him right now, page two,
Here we open up the trading post. We had a
first trade. First trade went down on Tuesday night the
Brooklyn basketball team. The Nets sent MCA Bridges across the
Williamsburg Bridge to Manhattan to join the Knickerbockers. That's convenient,
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you don't have to move. I think he stays there
during the offseason, though, so I'll stay in the New
York area. Bridges goes across oh he might take to
George Washington Bridge, but I would think the Williamsburg Bridge
would be the way to go into Manhattan. Now, the
Nets in return got Bojan Bogdanovich. He goes to Brooklyn
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and a grab bag of scratcher tickets. You just hold
one of them. Hits grab bag of scratcher tickets including
four unprotected first round picks, a pick swap, and a
partridge in a paar tree. And with that as the backdrop,
which veteran players, Which veteran players do you expect to
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be moved between now and the end of the weekend. Now,
the draft goes today. Here on This is Our Wednesday
show and then also on Thursday. But there'll be more
wheeling and dealing throughout the week and so on Big
Ben's Big Board. To answer the question, I have a
six pack, a six pack of players that are going
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to be moved now, Karl Anthony Towns after the end
the meek ending for the Minnesota basketball team. That is
expected to be a move. That's not an outrageous position
that Karl Anthony Towns can be yours if the price
is right. Trey Young, the Hawks who have the number
one overall pick. The Atlanta also looking to deal Trey Young.
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The thing that would be interesting if he went to Orlando,
Like I could see that working out pretty well because
Orlando as a team, they're they're on the come, as
they say in gambling, they're not quite there. And then
Trey Young good offensive player. Although coach killer Jimmy Butler,
Jimmy Buckets his name also will be tossed about in
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trade speculations. My guy, Paul George, by George and some
of you have been emailing music or you're gonna be
really concerned. Paul George is gonna request I'm not concerned.
Steve balmer will replace him with someone who's about as good,
if not better. So when you have the richest owner
in basketball, you don't worry about a guy who hasn't
gotten it done leaving Who cares Donovan Mitchell I still
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believe there's a world where he gets traded out of
Cleveland brandon Ingram will also most likely say bye bye
to the buyo. And so those are players that have
some brand value. We know who they are, and I
expect at least two of those players out of the
six pack to enter the transfer port go somewhere else,
all right, now, last word, we go to the wide
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angle lens, as we are known to do heading into
round one of the draft. Give me your give a
crap meter? What is your give a crap meter? On
the twenty twenty four NBA Draft the mather give a
crap meter. So I'll tell you this. If I was
working as a truck driver, if I was working as
a dishwasher, if I was making donuts, if I'm working security,
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my give a crap meter on this would be off
the charts. As in or go, I would rather sit
on the throne. If I had a job like that,
I would rather sit on the throne with hemorrhoids and
try to empty the bowl. Okay at that, But that said,
I don't do that. I don't have those jobs. I
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have a job behind a microphone. I have the tools
of ignorance of microphone headphones and an on air light.
And for some reason, even though I'm doing talk radio,
camera's in here, so my give a crap meter. I
look at this like agriculture, all right, agriculture, because when
you're in my position, what you're doing, to quote JJ Ruddick,
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you're doing engagement farming, which is what you're supposed to do. Right.
I'm in the farming industry, the engagement farming industry, and
this is an important crop, very important. A lot of
Euros I've never heard of are going to be drafting
the lottery. I've watched some of these YouTube videos, read
some of the scouting reports. Not that interesting, don't recommend it,
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pretty boring. So I've studied up on the draft. But
in terms of the names, we want to see the names.
You have to be relatable. So the people that we
kind of know either because of their family or whatnot.
We mentioned Brownie James, And as far as the other draft,
the only other player that I'm really mildly interested in
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is a John R. Wooden Award voter over the years.
Here is Zach Edy from Purdue. Will he end up
saying oh coda? As he is from Canada? And the
Raptors are said to be interested in the Giant Center
from Purdue sick and tired of losing at Purdue. Any
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All the trades, also all the Trades.
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but our lead this hour from La La Land. If
you thought the JJ Reddick era in Lakerland would be
smooth sailing, you are a loser. It's the hush hush
story of the day, and what is it? Have you heard?
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Maybe not? Laker head coach JJ Reddick already embroiled in controversy,
some say, out of thin air. Out of thin air,
Reddick and his reps flat out denying the claims made
by a random woman who said that Reddick used the
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N word. He dropped the N word, while a member
of the Duke men's basketball team a million years ago
said the interaction never happened. A spokes hack for Reddick
claim now, the random, faceless woman dropped into the chat,
if you will, proverbally speaking, and she said that back
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in the day, she's a Duke alum. She's I guess
now an author. I don't know who she is speaker.
I never heard of her. Anyway, This nondescript person dropped
the bombshell allegation on social media, claiming, quote, I've only
been called the N word to my face by a
white man once in my life, and it was on
the campus of Duke University while I was doing work
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with the basketball team. And today that he didn't say
the name, but he was named the new head coach
of the Lakers. She said, what a world so a
spokeshack for Reddick, told the TMZ Harvey Levin and Friends, quote, no,
it never happened. Close quote. So let us discuss the question,
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how do you classify JJ Reddick's first full day on
the job as Laker coach, which included a very public denial,
very public denial. So I've got the Carnival Midway, the Rubicon,
and neuroscience, and we will combine all of these things
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together and we are going to make an empty TV.
So like I got a bunch of these TVs. We
do radio, but there's like TVs in front of me,
and there's one rate in front of me that is blank.
It's on the I don't know why that is. Do
we now know how to turn the channel to something else?
Not that there's anything on really at this hour, I
don't know anyway. So number to answer the question, how
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do you classify JJ Reddick's first to his Laker coach
having to issue a public denial perfection, chef's kiss is
what I say, hitting the bullseye. All of that, JJ
Reddick is getting the red carpet welcome. You're not in
Kansas anymore, No you're not. And right away he is
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slap with a she said, he said situation. Some random
woman making the ultimate crime against the language that JJ
Reddick used an n bomby dropped it out of the
plane or in this case, out of the top rope. Reddick,
he's settling in to the carnival midway. I hope he
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enjoys the show. It's circus circus. Make your way around
the mezzanine. You've got jugglers over there to the right.
You've got trapeze artists to the left end right in
the middle of their center stage, the human cannon ball.
Enjoy all the fun. Now ask for the crux of
the matter. If you think critically. We point this out
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with lawsuits all and this is not a lawsuit, but
it's the same concept. You can accuse anyone of anything.
And unless this woman, who I've never heard of, has
some what's known as supporting evidence. This is a burger,
it's not cheeseburger, it's not a vegan burgers, it's a
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nothing burger. Right, you can't. This is so long ago.
You have to have something else to back it up.
And I don't know if you know this, but Duke
University does have a history of some false claims being
made at that school. You might want to look that up.
And don't get me wrong, I hope JJ Reddick is
as bad as I believe he will be. And I
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think there's a little chance that he's going to win.
His persnickety, he's pretentious, he's a smug guy. He's just
the kind of person that you want to see fail,
the person that talks down to you, that thinks he's
better than you because he played bouncy ball as a
grown up and all that. And so I'm going to
keep this on the backburn. I don't think this story
is gonna be much of anything unless there's audio video
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something along those lines that pops up. But outside of that, eh,
this fades away. Now page two, we go to Boston,
where the reigning champions of the NBA have their own issues.
What do you make of chatter that the Celtics did
not did not invite a Kendrick Perkins to the parade,
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even though other members of the OA team were there.
The very public figure who does local television in Boston
and also does the stuff at that small network out
of Bristol, Connecticut, Kendrick Perkins. So there's conflicting reports on this.
Some claim that Perkins was uninvited because he called Joe
Missoula a Dodo bird and Jason Tatum's panties were in
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a bunch because of things that Kendrick Perkins had said
on television about him. Now others are claiming it's just
a benign situation, it's a scheduling issue. Now I point
that out because I am told by some of our
p ones in Boston that Brian Scalabrini, who is so
far up the lucky the Leprechauns took us that his
nose is green. Brian Scalabrini, that's how far up lucky
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the Leprecauns took us he is. But anyway, so Scalabrini,
I guess it tossed out that Perkins was not invited.
He implied that was the case. This led to a
war of words, where again I'm told from some of
our p ones that listen to us on our home
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in Boston on the Sports Up, that Perkins called into
the local show with Felger and maz and I believe
called called Scalabrini a coward for not returning his phone calls.
So the question comes down to this, what do you
make of it? So I think there's something to it.
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And having been around people in professional sports for a
long time, they're very thin skinned. Not as thin skinned
as like Kevin Durant because that's like the stream, but
they're very sensitive. They should have had Kendrick Perkins sitting
on a throne on like the biggest duck boat at
that parade, because if you watched the postgame festivities in
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Boston when the Celtics beat the Mavericks and they had
all the players come out and give stas, every single
one of those players was like, well you didn't think
we could do it. We proved the haters wrong. Nike
ran the commercial for Jason Tatum proving the doubters wrong. Well,
who's a bigger doubter of Jason Tatum and the Celtics?
And then Kendrick Perkins who questioned them, but the Celtics,
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that's a bad I don't know why you would bring
back the old players anyway. Move on, Okay, it's not
about them. It's not about the O eight Celtics. That's
a different conversation. Like this is the year of twenty
twenty four. It's it's for these players. It's not for
the old players. And you want to drag out Paul
Pierce and put his ass on a duck boat, that's fine.
But I actually think for Kendrick Perkins, this is a
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feather in the cap and he gets a ribbon. He
gets a good job ribbon because he's crossed the rubicon.
And I'll give him credit. And I don't give a
lot of pro athletes credit because a lot of them
are yes man, and they're terrible at radio and television
because they just are part of the fraternal Order of
athletes and jockspeak and they just suck up to the
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teams they played for the people that they know, and
it's just horrible. I don't know how you people listen
to them. But that said, okay, Kendrick Perkins, much like
Charles Barkley, has crossed the rubicon. Perkins is willing to
throw haymakers. He's not your standard ball washing ex jock
that gets into media and whether it's radio, television or podcasting. Instead,
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he's willing to throw some body blows. So good job
by him. All right. A final point, and it isn't
newby Night, but we'll stop off in TV land. The
aforementioned TV land because the round mound of rebound. Is
he already already walking back, walking back his very famous
announcement near the end of the NBA Finals. TNT's Kenny
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Smith did a recent interview. Kenny Smith said he has
not heard directly from Charles Barkley that Barkley is retiring
from television. Kenny Smith said, a nondescript we'll see. He
pointed out though, that at least this is what he said.
Kenny Smith that he had not been told. Ernie Johnson
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Shaquille O'Neil had not been informed by Charles Barkley that
he was indeed stepping away. Asked about the situation, so
how do you decode the latest developments on the Charles
Barkley status after he announced he's retiring. He's so broken
and beaten from TNT losing the NBA, which isn't even
official yet, they haven't announced it. TNT could get some
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NBA games, they can match the streaming deal. I think
Apple had one of the streaming services. I forget. But
my reaction to the Barkley thing and what Kenny Smith
had to say, it's neuroscience, right, It's Barkley's brain. It's
Charles Barkley's brain. He let the emotion get the best
of it, the emotion of it all, and he foe retired.
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He was asked, and one thing about Barkley, I know
some people that are in his circle. Barkley will do
just about any interview. There are sports radio people call
him up and he's got like five minutes. He'll talk
to just about anybody if you get his number. And
so he'll do that. And he kept doing these interviews,
and he was asked over and over about TNT and
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he just finally had enough. He so that's it. I'm retiring.
I'm not leaving. I'm done. That's all, leave me alone.
So he fake retired. And when he realizes how much
money goes out every time he goes to the casino
and how much money he needs to continue to live
his lifestyle, then we expect him to do the old
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one eighty. The U turn there and say, yeah, I
was just joking. I was just joking.
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There we go, how about that to the third degree,
and we don't know who he is?
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This is one.
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I know, yeah, Google, There's some suggesting that the Clippers
could give Paul George a no trade clause in an
effort to sway him to stay in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Ben, do you think this would be a bad idea
by the Clippers? Well, first of all, I am a
numb to Paul George. If he comes back, fine, if
he leaves, I don't have a problem with that. Number two,
no trade claw should be for the top one percent
of players. He ain't in the top one percent of players.
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Next, backup Texans quarterback Case Keenum recently spoke with the
media and said that it looked like Stefan Diggs hasn't
lost a step.
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In fact, he may be better than ever. Oh stop, Ben,
do you expect an awakening for Diggs in Houston? What
is he? The hype man for Stefan Diggs. That's what's
known as offseason fluff fluffy, fluffy fluffy. No, Stefan Diggs
will do what he always does. He'll have some really
good games and then he'll fade away. At some point.
There'll be some kind of whether it's real or contrived controversy.
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It happened in Minnesota. It happened in Buffalo. It'll happen
in Houston. That is what he does. But there will
not be a great awakening of Stefan Diggs. I don't
buy that. Next.
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The forty nine ers so far have been hesitant to
pay Brandon Ayuk despite saying that they want him back,
and now some are worried that the same scenario will
play out with Brock Purty.
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Do you think it will No. I believe they'll pay
Brock Party. They've got a lot of money to burn.
Although I will tell you from what I've heard the
forty nine er people, they they think that it's their system.
They don't think it's Brock Party. They think it's the
genius of Shanahan and they can put any quarterback out there.
But they'll end up paying them. They have to. How
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did we know you pass? That? Is away? I want?
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I won the game? WHOA?
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Ben Mallard Show.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Who's doing the honors tonight. Ferg Dog, that's it? Leading off,
Ferg Dog says, is using a dog to pick up chicks?
Fair or foul? This is a great question. A lot
of guys, you know, it's some people say it's contraband,
it's it's illegal. Guys don't even like dogs, Lorena, but
they'll get a cute dog because they think women like that.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
It's so true too, because we'll run go, oh my gosh,
can we pet your dog?
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Like?
Speaker 7 (28:37):
It totally works. But you can't be a creeper, right,
So don't be like you.
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Repet my dog? Hey like my dog? The dog park, Lorena,
that's a big spot there. The dog park's good. Yeah,
you might meet your love there.
Speaker 7 (28:50):
You ever watch one hundred one Dalmatians? You know how
their owners?
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Yeah hate spaghetti. No, that's dog's that's lady in the tramp, Oh,
leading in the tramp. I mixed up my dog movies
on you, Ben, fail on you. All those dog movies
are the same. Yeah, use a dog, I like that JT.
The Wingman says, do you think it's okay to have
his and her toilets for a good relationship?
Speaker 7 (29:15):
Yes, I think having two bathrooms is absolutely essential in
a house, to be honest with you. Yeah, because and
then also what like when Lee goes to the bathroom
and absolutely explodes it, no one wants to go in
after that. Two bathrooms is good for the relationship.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Well, you actually are part of the segregation of bathrooms, Lorraine. Yes,
I respond, before you worked here, we did have when
I started, we had men's and women's bathrooms. And then
they're like, well, let's have bathrooms, you know, we don't
see gender. And then you came in here and you're like, no,
we need segregation of toilets. Yay. So that's you your
(29:49):
work there. Congratulations, very impressive. What else do we have?
Let's see page down here. Let's take a call about Okay, JC,
who is like outside the building here where we broadcast
from in southern California? Is he one of the homeless? No?
I don't think. I don't know. Maybe he is, I
don't I don't think he's.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
J C.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
What's going on, JAC, you're on with HIV? Yeah, By
the way, I did like three bucks from her from
here on. Oh yeah, come come by. That means he's
not homeless. Yeah, that means he's very.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
That's right, summer off, I could listen.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
Oh very nice.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
What kind of questions you got today, Lorena? First of all,
you've been a great addition to the show. No need
to suck I don't need to suck up jac Okay.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
I have a dilemma.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
I'm a single party.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Is that the time? And I have a crush on someone? Okay?
Speaker 7 (30:54):
And when do you know?
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Like I have? So I don't know when is the
right time? Right?
Speaker 7 (31:03):
So you don't want to introduce too soon, or you.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Have your daughter get expectations too early.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
You know, I don't want you.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
To put too much pressure on it. You got to
take your time and really figure it out. I don't
let my daughter meet anyone unless I've been seeing them
for a longiod of time, because once again, I just
I don't like the in and out of relationships.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
So I'd feel it out.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
Write it out, and see how serious it is, and
then once it's serious, maybe you know you can move
into that meeting Greek.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
How many months, Lorena? What are we looking at it?
Really depends.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
It really depends.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Be well, I've seen her.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
I've seen her, but I've known her for like the
last ten years.
Speaker 7 (31:39):
Oh so you could do it so super easy to like,
maybe just go to the zoo or something, bowling, go bowling,
or run into each other and oh my gosh, it's
so funny running into you here. This is my daughter.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Maybe it's your golf. You could do that.
Speaker 7 (31:53):
I like that too, got lots of options.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Just take your time. Good luck, Jac, There he goes JC.
That's go to Gode. Doug is in Houston for Lorraine.
I Doug, what's new and exciting life? What's your love question?
I'm a dedicated Cowboys fan, me too. You got socks,
(32:17):
Mike indolences. The problem is it seems to turn the
girls off, and I.
Speaker 6 (32:27):
Just wondered, I need you know, what should I.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Do about this? Well, it is a big problem Loraine
and women. Are you drive a giant oversized truck? Yeah,
so let me guess. Do you have a star logo
on the back of it? That Cowboys star logo on
the back of your truck? Are you trying to make
fun of me?
Speaker 5 (32:48):
No?
Speaker 7 (32:48):
But if you do, that means you need to be
dating a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. Okay, that means you're not
dating in your range. You need to up your arms.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
I'm sure he would like to do that. Loraino do that?
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Do you wear shirts that are too small for you?
Speaker 4 (33:04):
The thing is, I'm I'm in Houston.
Speaker 7 (33:05):
Should I change to the Texans?
Speaker 1 (33:07):
No? No, nobody want the women. Women are really offended
by Texans fans. Come on, now, that's outrageous matter. We
gotta go by there you go. I'm not going anywhere,
La Ray and I'm sitting you. I get another hour
to do with the show. Lay.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
and the password.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Is password, you idiot. Password the word Game of the Stars.
Here's Ben Meller and right to the game we go.
Let's walcome in our contestants. We have Jimbo in Missouri. Hello, Jimbo.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Hey, good for Ben Mallard.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
I know I don't care how you doing, but he'd
be in the Hallmark channel. Yeah, we don't. We don't
want that. We definitely don't want that. All right, Well, Jimbo,
what are you doing Missouri. Sir, uh sir?
Speaker 4 (33:59):
How am I adamant Chiefs fan?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
And I guarantee you Travis Cholcon will put the ring
on the finger.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
In the Super Bowl as you. You're calling your shot
right now, Jimbo, that the Chiefs will win again and
there'll be a postgame ring ceremony. Okay, all right, hold
on a second. Who do you want to play with, Jimbo?
But who do you want to partner up with? By
the way, you got me Eddie, Lorena or kool Oh?
(34:27):
He's a late available Lorena. Yes, she is available. She
has a very interesting technique when she plays the game,
so you'll you'll play with her? Very nice and we
have let's say hello to Earl, who's in Oregon? Hello Earl?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Hey, how's the wong?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Welcome in Earl? Password the word Game of Stars? Who
would you like to partner up with? Earl?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
I don't play with you.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Man, Okay, we will play the game. Say that didn't cheap, Jimo?
That was on the air, Jimbo.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
I don't I love your show?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
All right, let's row I'm offended by Jimbo.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Well, don't be, don't be.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
All right, let's play it. We have a list of words.
You see the list. You're cheating. Don't cheat like Jimbo
is about to do. Okay, we'll start out with Jimbo
and Lorraine. Jimbo picked a number one to ten.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Yeah, let's still with eight.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Eight. Very random that you were picked number eight, but
you have picked number eight. Okay, speak, I apologize. Speak?
Speaker 7 (35:42):
Was that your guess?
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
I couldn't hear her the work?
Speaker 1 (35:46):
I'm sorry? Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Now?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Wow? Okay? My clue is speak.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
Voice?
Speaker 1 (35:54):
No? Wow? All right, I mean you're great. She does
not believe that. Let's go with the chatter, Earl. Fuck, yeah,
you go. That's how you do it. Ahead, How smart
(36:16):
is Earl? My god, you're the smartest guy in the world.
All Right, and we're back up, Earl. This is the
this is the turning point. We blow out the team.
We're playing against the rain and Jimbo pick a number
one to ten, but not eight. We're playing password the
word Game of the stars.
Speaker 8 (36:31):
Alright, one number, all right, let's go with Oh boy,
how about novice novice.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Amateur? No tonight?
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Wow? Whoa wow.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
Night?
Speaker 1 (36:56):
It's right now. No, that's that's the that's the arena.
Lorena read my book, know thy audience, Larada, that's not
my book. All right, let's go. We're back up. How
about h I said, I said, Novice. How about collar?
(37:21):
Oh gosh, color, what did you say? Nick?
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Nick?
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Yes, like nick right, a collar around a nick. Oh no,
that's not it, all right, different kind of caller. Well,
some would say it's tough. Others woulday it's very easy.
Oh Lorena, Oh my gosh, fresh. I don't know if
(37:53):
you guys are gonna get this one.
Speaker 7 (37:54):
I don't think they will.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Should Okay, So the where we were looking for very difficult.
What what is the bit we're doing on the show tonight?
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Do you know what the bit is that we're doing
on the show tonight? The show tonight, Tonight's show? What
kind of night is it? Show?
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Or?
Speaker 2 (38:15):
All right?
Speaker 1 (38:15):
You guys are such newbies. It's such newbies. Yes, the
word was newbie. The word is newbies. And so while
we call it talk radio, not listen radio, these guys
are not paying attention. All right, we'll keep going here. Jimbo,
your back up, Jimbo pig a number one to ten,
but not one and not eight two number two. That's
(38:38):
a tough. All ah, wager ish wager, wager bet no
ah about boy? Uh option? Oh god, now that's for earl.
Speaker 6 (39:11):
Fraud no, he said, He.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Said, fraud. Okay, I got one. I got one. I
got one convinced it's not gonna work. Convince convinced. I'll
pay you ten dollars if he gets to worry. How
about that? That's how confident I am. Are you gonna
I will pay you? He said? All right, this is
(39:36):
a hard word. I don't know why I put this is.
I said corruption? How about uh payment payment.
Speaker 7 (39:46):
Earl?
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Yeah? Yeah, I'm thinking earl, come on transaction.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
That was actually a really good to That's that's come bob. Yeah,
I mean, why why are we bothering? Oh my god?
All right, we ant throw that one out too, Coop.
I guess now you actually you run it around? That
should have they should have got a corruption? What is corruption?
Is a payment? A corruption payment? It is a bride right,
(40:16):
it is a next earl, your back up earl? Pick
a number. I don't even know. One to ten, but
not eight, not one and not to whatever? Too perfect?
Why are you laughing, Lorena? Why why do you think
that's funny?
Speaker 7 (40:36):
Trying to think I would just collored.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
No, how about how about isolated? Isolated Earl? I don't know,
but answering, why are you both playing? Go ahead, Lorena, boy,
this is great. Get this right. You tie the game,
Lorena with Jimbo. Got earl in Oregon. Jimbo is in Missouri.
(41:02):
He's a chief fan. Deserted.
Speaker 6 (41:05):
Oh jeez, no, earl, earl friendless, friendless, friendless, alone, yes.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Alone, lonely.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
The world was lonely. Thank you for putting Thank you
for helping me a little right, un Wow, that was terrible.
My god, did that suck
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The Silly Season cranking up. Should be a big day
for the Silly Season. Should be. The NBA Finals ended
a few days ago. They had a massive parade in Boston.
(01:58):
That's what you do when you win. And now the
curtain has gone up on the job fair, the basketball
job fair. If you're looking for work, you've missed the
cutoff to get employment, it'll be a two day job fair.
You're on Wednesday night, you've got the first round and
then they've turned this into a two day event. It's
(02:20):
actually texting somebody from the NBA world and we're like, boy,
I bet the NBA wishes they could go back to
when they had an eight round draft, or at least
a four round draft, so they could melk this into
a three day event because the NFL does three days.
The NFL Draft is three days. This is the first
time the NBA has gone to the two day format.
They have the first round and then they have the
(02:41):
second round, but used to the draft used to go
on the draft was so long in the NBA. How
long was it? It was so long that teams would
like draft relatives. I'm not kidding. They would try to
draft relatives and celebrities because they didn't have anyone else
to draft, and so it was ridiculous. Anyway, two day affair,
and in the lead up to the Baffosako event, much
(03:02):
of the noise, much of the noise has been about
the spawn of bron The spawn of bron Now. I
don't know if you've been paying any attention to this.
I don't know how you could have avoided it if
you're consuming sports content, which you clearly are at this time,
but maybe you missed it. So Bronni James continues to
be the most interesting man in the world, at least
(03:23):
in the eyes of many. He's someone that is in
the spectrum of notability because a lot of these guys
you don't know who they are. But if you look
around and on the big board, the big board, you
look around the big board. His name is primarily mentioned
in all these mock drafts, all of them, which is
(03:46):
wild when you consider he's a bit player. He's too
small for the NBA. He averaged less than five points
a game at SC in the old Pac twelve last year.
There is nothing that Uza's saying draft this guy. In fact,
the only thing that would tell you to draft this
guy is his DNA. That's it, period, stop, that's all.
(04:09):
And he's the bell of a ball, or is he?
So I did some research. Some call it due diligence,
and I was digging around. I have nothing but time,
and I was digging around and I saw the latest
comments by the Toronto basketball team, the Raptors, who said
that they have interest in Bronnie James. And I have
(04:30):
yet to find anyone on the record, any team, anyone
who works for a team that has gone on the
record to say negative stuff and put their name on
it about lebron James kids. So let us discuss the
question why are so many who are employed in the
(04:53):
NBA either praising Bronnie James draft status or just saying
nothing at all, which is akin to praising. So I've
got Reynolds, rap six pack and agricultural and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make some some cookies. Because I made cookies. So
(05:18):
that's why, all right, now, A I know this from
watching mob movies over the years, many of them. They
don't make them as much now as they used to it,
but back in the day they're very popular mob movies.
I know from my experience watching mob movies. You're never
supposed to publicly trash the mob boss and Lebron in
this little story, this little ditty, if you will. Lebron
(05:41):
James is the dawn of the league, and you cannot
point out the flaws of the godfather and that his kid,
his DNA, is not going to be a prodigy and
shouldn't even be drafted. I mean, that's the realaction. Should
not even betted here, And it goes against the decorum
(06:04):
of the NBA to point this out. Now, what a
quagmire you've got. So instead, what ends up happening here
when people are talking about Bronnie James, You get the
Reynolds wrap, you know, the aluminum foil that has the tool,
the middle part there.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
The role.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
It's hollow, right, they put the foil around it. They
wrap the foil around it. It's hollow nonsense, is what
it is. You whisper sweet nothings publicly? Oh we really
lyng Drew. He's compared to Drew Holliday. I think it'd
be like Drew Holliday. That was one of the comparaives.
There's been a bunch of other ridiculous comparisons that have
(06:40):
been out there. Everything has, every word, every word has
been sugarcoated about Scrownie Bronni and you point that out.
It is the paragot of nepotism that we're even having
this conversation on the eve of the NBA Draft that
Bronnie James in a just world where you're if you're
just judged off the body of your work and your
(07:04):
skill set, you're not drafted. Brinnie James is not drafted.
But you think Bronnie James is going to not be
drafted because I don't. I hope I'm wrong, but I
believe he's gonna get drafted in round one. I think
in the end of round one, someone's gonna take Bronnie James,
(07:24):
and if not, he'll definitely be picked in the second round,
because he better be picked in the second round because
if he's not picked, Lebron will turn into a fire
breathing dragon. You better not embarrass Lebron James, and King
James will make some phone calls and if you embarrass him,
watch out right, watch out, He'll bring in the goons.
(07:45):
You don't want to mess with him right now, page two,
Here we open up the trading post. We had a
first trade. First trade went down on Tuesday night the
Brooklyn basketball team. The Nets sent MCA Bridges across the
Williamsburg Bridge to Manhattan to join the Knickerbockers. That's convenient,
(08:07):
you don't have to move. I think he stays there
during the offseason, though, so I'll stay in the New
York area. Bridges goes across oh he might take to
George Washington Bridge, but I would think the Williamsburg Bridge
would be the way to go into Manhattan. Now, the
Nets in return got Bojan Bogdanovich. He goes to Brooklyn
(08:27):
and a grab bag of scratcher tickets. You just hold
one of them. Hits grab bag of scratcher tickets including
four unprotected first round picks, a pick swap, and a
partridge in a paar tree. And with that as the backdrop,
which veteran players, Which veteran players do you expect to
(08:49):
be moved between now and the end of the weekend. Now,
the draft goes today. Here on This is Our Wednesday
show and then also on Thursday. But there'll be more
wheeling and dealing throughout the week and so on Big
Ben's Big Board. To answer the question, I have a
six pack, a six pack of players that are going
(09:09):
to be moved now, Karl Anthony Towns after the end
the meek ending for the Minnesota basketball team. That is
expected to be a move. That's not an outrageous position
that Karl Anthony Towns can be yours if the price
is right. Trey Young, the Hawks who have the number
one overall pick. The Atlanta also looking to deal Trey Young.
(09:34):
The thing that would be interesting if he went to Orlando,
Like I could see that working out pretty well because
Orlando as a team, they're they're on the come, as
they say in gambling, they're not quite there. And then
Trey Young good offensive player. Although coach killer Jimmy Butler,
Jimmy Buckets his name also will be tossed about in
(09:54):
trade speculations. My guy, Paul George, by George and some
of you have been emailing music or you're gonna be
really concerned. Paul George is gonna request I'm not concerned.
Steve balmer will replace him with someone who's about as good,
if not better. So when you have the richest owner
in basketball, you don't worry about a guy who hasn't
gotten it done leaving Who cares Donovan Mitchell I still
(10:19):
believe there's a world where he gets traded out of
Cleveland brandon Ingram will also most likely say bye bye
to the buyo. And so those are players that have
some brand value. We know who they are, and I
expect at least two of those players out of the
six pack to enter the transfer port go somewhere else,
all right, now, last word, we go to the wide
(10:41):
angle lens, as we are known to do heading into
round one of the draft. Give me your give a
crap meter? What is your give a crap meter? On
the twenty twenty four NBA Draft the mather give a
crap meter. So I'll tell you this. If I was
working as a truck driver, if I was working as
a dishwasher, if I was making donuts, if I'm working security,
(11:05):
my give a crap meter on this would be off
the charts. As in or go, I would rather sit
on the throne. If I had a job like that,
I would rather sit on the throne with hemorrhoids and
try to empty the bowl. Okay at that, But that said,
I don't do that. I don't have those jobs. I
(11:26):
have a job behind a microphone. I have the tools
of ignorance of microphone headphones and an on air light.
And for some reason, even though I'm doing talk radio,
camera's in here, so my give a crap meter. I
look at this like agriculture, all right, agriculture, because when
you're in my position, what you're doing, to quote JJ Ruddick,
(11:48):
you're doing engagement farming, which is what you're supposed to do. Right.
I'm in the farming industry, the engagement farming industry, and
this is an important crop, very important. A lot of
Euros I've never heard of are going to be drafting
the lottery. I've watched some of these YouTube videos, read
some of the scouting reports. Not that interesting, don't recommend it,
(12:11):
pretty boring. So I've studied up on the draft. But
in terms of the names, we want to see the names.
You have to be relatable. So the people that we
kind of know either because of their family or whatnot.
We mentioned Brownie James, And as far as the other draft,
the only other player that I'm really mildly interested in
(12:31):
is a John R. Wooden Award voter over the years.
Here is Zach Edy from Purdue. Will he end up
saying oh coda? As he is from Canada? And the
Raptors are said to be interested in the Giant Center
from Purdue sick and tired of losing at Purdue. Any
(12:52):
All the trades, also all the Trades.
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but our lead this hour from La La Land. If
you thought the JJ Reddick era in Lakerland would be
smooth sailing, you are a loser. It's the hush hush
story of the day, and what is it? Have you heard?
(15:10):
Maybe not? Laker head coach JJ Reddick already embroiled in controversy,
some say, out of thin air. Out of thin air,
Reddick and his reps flat out denying the claims made
by a random woman who said that Reddick used the
(15:33):
N word. He dropped the N word, while a member
of the Duke men's basketball team a million years ago
said the interaction never happened. A spokes hack for Reddick
claim now, the random, faceless woman dropped into the chat,
if you will, proverbally speaking, and she said that back
(15:57):
in the day, she's a Duke alum. She's I guess
now an author. I don't know who she is speaker.
I never heard of her. Anyway, This nondescript person dropped
the bombshell allegation on social media, claiming, quote, I've only
been called the N word to my face by a
white man once in my life, and it was on
the campus of Duke University while I was doing work
(16:19):
with the basketball team. And today that he didn't say
the name, but he was named the new head coach
of the Lakers. She said, what a world so a
spokeshack for Reddick, told the TMZ Harvey Levin and Friends, quote, no,
it never happened. Close quote. So let us discuss the question,
(16:42):
how do you classify JJ Reddick's first full day on
the job as Laker coach, which included a very public denial,
very public denial. So I've got the Carnival Midway, the Rubicon,
and neuroscience, and we will combine all of these things
(17:03):
together and we are going to make an empty TV.
So like I got a bunch of these TVs. We
do radio, but there's like TVs in front of me,
and there's one rate in front of me that is blank.
It's on the I don't know why that is. Do
we now know how to turn the channel to something else?
Not that there's anything on really at this hour, I
don't know anyway. So number to answer the question, how
(17:26):
do you classify JJ Reddick's first to his Laker coach
having to issue a public denial perfection, chef's kiss is
what I say, hitting the bullseye. All of that, JJ
Reddick is getting the red carpet welcome. You're not in
Kansas anymore, No you're not. And right away he is
(17:48):
slap with a she said, he said situation. Some random
woman making the ultimate crime against the language that JJ
Reddick used an n bomby dropped it out of the
plane or in this case, out of the top rope. Reddick,
he's settling in to the carnival midway. I hope he
(18:11):
enjoys the show. It's circus circus. Make your way around
the mezzanine. You've got jugglers over there to the right.
You've got trapeze artists to the left end right in
the middle of their center stage, the human cannon ball.
Enjoy all the fun. Now ask for the crux of
the matter. If you think critically. We point this out
(18:32):
with lawsuits all and this is not a lawsuit, but
it's the same concept. You can accuse anyone of anything.
And unless this woman, who I've never heard of, has
some what's known as supporting evidence. This is a burger,
it's not cheeseburger, it's not a vegan burgers, it's a
(18:55):
nothing burger. Right, you can't. This is so long ago.
You have to have something else to back it up.
And I don't know if you know this, but Duke
University does have a history of some false claims being
made at that school. You might want to look that up.
And don't get me wrong, I hope JJ Reddick is
as bad as I believe he will be. And I
(19:16):
think there's a little chance that he's going to win.
His persnickety, he's pretentious, he's a smug guy. He's just
the kind of person that you want to see fail,
the person that talks down to you, that thinks he's
better than you because he played bouncy ball as a
grown up and all that. And so I'm going to
keep this on the backburn. I don't think this story
is gonna be much of anything unless there's audio video
(19:40):
something along those lines that pops up. But outside of that, eh,
this fades away. Now page two, we go to Boston,
where the reigning champions of the NBA have their own issues.
What do you make of chatter that the Celtics did
not did not invite a Kendrick Perkins to the parade,
(20:03):
even though other members of the OA team were there.
The very public figure who does local television in Boston
and also does the stuff at that small network out
of Bristol, Connecticut, Kendrick Perkins. So there's conflicting reports on this.
Some claim that Perkins was uninvited because he called Joe
Missoula a Dodo bird and Jason Tatum's panties were in
(20:28):
a bunch because of things that Kendrick Perkins had said
on television about him. Now others are claiming it's just
a benign situation, it's a scheduling issue. Now I point
that out because I am told by some of our
p ones in Boston that Brian Scalabrini, who is so
far up the lucky the Leprechauns took us that his
nose is green. Brian Scalabrini, that's how far up lucky
(20:51):
the Leprecauns took us he is. But anyway, so Scalabrini,
I guess it tossed out that Perkins was not invited.
He implied that was the case. This led to a
war of words, where again I'm told from some of
our p ones that listen to us on our home
(21:12):
in Boston on the Sports Up, that Perkins called into
the local show with Felger and maz and I believe
called called Scalabrini a coward for not returning his phone calls.
So the question comes down to this, what do you
make of it? So I think there's something to it.
(21:33):
And having been around people in professional sports for a
long time, they're very thin skinned. Not as thin skinned
as like Kevin Durant because that's like the stream, but
they're very sensitive. They should have had Kendrick Perkins sitting
on a throne on like the biggest duck boat at
that parade, because if you watched the postgame festivities in
(21:55):
Boston when the Celtics beat the Mavericks and they had
all the players come out and give stas, every single
one of those players was like, well you didn't think
we could do it. We proved the haters wrong. Nike
ran the commercial for Jason Tatum proving the doubters wrong. Well,
who's a bigger doubter of Jason Tatum and the Celtics?
And then Kendrick Perkins who questioned them, but the Celtics,
(22:18):
that's a bad I don't know why you would bring
back the old players anyway. Move on, Okay, it's not
about them. It's not about the O eight Celtics. That's
a different conversation. Like this is the year of twenty
twenty four. It's it's for these players. It's not for
the old players. And you want to drag out Paul
Pierce and put his ass on a duck boat, that's fine.
But I actually think for Kendrick Perkins, this is a
(22:41):
feather in the cap and he gets a ribbon. He
gets a good job ribbon because he's crossed the rubicon.
And I'll give him credit. And I don't give a
lot of pro athletes credit because a lot of them
are yes man, and they're terrible at radio and television
because they just are part of the fraternal Order of
athletes and jockspeak and they just suck up to the
(23:02):
teams they played for the people that they know, and
it's just horrible. I don't know how you people listen
to them. But that said, okay, Kendrick Perkins, much like
Charles Barkley, has crossed the rubicon. Perkins is willing to
throw haymakers. He's not your standard ball washing ex jock
that gets into media and whether it's radio, television or podcasting. Instead,
(23:25):
he's willing to throw some body blows. So good job
by him. All right. A final point, and it isn't
newby Night, but we'll stop off in TV land. The
aforementioned TV land because the round mound of rebound. Is
he already already walking back, walking back his very famous
announcement near the end of the NBA Finals. TNT's Kenny
(23:49):
Smith did a recent interview. Kenny Smith said he has
not heard directly from Charles Barkley that Barkley is retiring
from television. Kenny Smith said, a nondescript we'll see. He
pointed out though, that at least this is what he said.
Kenny Smith that he had not been told. Ernie Johnson
(24:10):
Shaquille O'Neil had not been informed by Charles Barkley that
he was indeed stepping away. Asked about the situation, so
how do you decode the latest developments on the Charles
Barkley status after he announced he's retiring. He's so broken
and beaten from TNT losing the NBA, which isn't even
official yet, they haven't announced it. TNT could get some
(24:32):
NBA games, they can match the streaming deal. I think
Apple had one of the streaming services. I forget. But
my reaction to the Barkley thing and what Kenny Smith
had to say, it's neuroscience, right, It's Barkley's brain. It's
Charles Barkley's brain. He let the emotion get the best
of it, the emotion of it all, and he foe retired.
(24:56):
He was asked, and one thing about Barkley, I know
some people that are in his circle. Barkley will do
just about any interview. There are sports radio people call
him up and he's got like five minutes. He'll talk
to just about anybody if you get his number. And
so he'll do that. And he kept doing these interviews,
and he was asked over and over about TNT and
(25:18):
he just finally had enough. He so that's it. I'm retiring.
I'm not leaving. I'm done. That's all, leave me alone.
So he fake retired. And when he realizes how much
money goes out every time he goes to the casino
and how much money he needs to continue to live
his lifestyle, then we expect him to do the old
(25:39):
one eighty. The U turn there and say, yeah, I
was just joking. I was just joking.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
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Speaker 1 (25:51):
There we go, how about that to the third degree,
and we don't know who he is?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
This is one.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
I know, yeah, Google, There's some suggesting that the Clippers
could give Paul George a no trade clause in an
effort to sway him to stay in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Ben, do you think this would be a bad idea
by the Clippers? Well, first of all, I am a
numb to Paul George. If he comes back, fine, if
he leaves, I don't have a problem with that. Number two,
no trade claw should be for the top one percent
of players. He ain't in the top one percent of players.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Next, backup Texans quarterback Case Keenum recently spoke with the
media and said that it looked like Stefan Diggs hasn't
lost a step.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
In fact, he may be better than ever. Oh stop, Ben,
do you expect an awakening for Diggs in Houston? What
is he? The hype man for Stefan Diggs. That's what's
known as offseason fluff fluffy, fluffy fluffy. No, Stefan Diggs
will do what he always does. He'll have some really
good games and then he'll fade away. At some point.
There'll be some kind of whether it's real or contrived controversy.
(26:53):
It happened in Minnesota. It happened in Buffalo. It'll happen
in Houston. That is what he does. But there will
not be a great awakening of Stefan Diggs. I don't
buy that. Next.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
The forty nine ers so far have been hesitant to
pay Brandon Ayuk despite saying that they want him back,
and now some are worried that the same scenario will
play out with Brock Purty.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Do you think it will No. I believe they'll pay
Brock Party. They've got a lot of money to burn.
Although I will tell you from what I've heard the
forty nine er people, they they think that it's their system.
They don't think it's Brock Party. They think it's the
genius of Shanahan and they can put any quarterback out there.
But they'll end up paying them. They have to. How
(27:32):
did we know you pass? That? Is away? I want?
Speaker 6 (27:36):
I'm a winner, ALRIGHTA?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I won the game? WHOA?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
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That's right.
Speaker 7 (28:07):
It's Tom for the Queen of Hearts here on the
Ben Mallard Show.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Who's doing the honors tonight. Ferg Dog, that's it? Leading off,
Ferg Dog says, is using a dog to pick up chicks?
Fair or foul? This is a great question. A lot
of guys, you know, it's some people say it's contraband,
it's it's illegal. Guys don't even like dogs, Lorena, but
they'll get a cute dog because they think women like that.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
It's so true too, because we'll run go, oh my gosh,
can we pet your dog?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Like?
Speaker 7 (28:37):
It totally works. But you can't be a creeper, right,
So don't be like you.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Repet my dog? Hey like my dog? The dog park, Lorena,
that's a big spot there. The dog park's good. Yeah,
you might meet your love there.
Speaker 7 (28:50):
You ever watch one hundred one Dalmatians? You know how
their owners?
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah hate spaghetti. No, that's dog's that's lady in the tramp, Oh,
leading in the tramp. I mixed up my dog movies
on you, Ben, fail on you. All those dog movies
are the same. Yeah, use a dog, I like that JT.
The Wingman says, do you think it's okay to have
his and her toilets for a good relationship?
Speaker 7 (29:15):
Yes, I think having two bathrooms is absolutely essential in
a house, to be honest with you. Yeah, because and
then also what like when Lee goes to the bathroom
and absolutely explodes it, no one wants to go in
after that. Two bathrooms is good for the relationship.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Well, you actually are part of the segregation of bathrooms, Lorraine. Yes,
I respond, before you worked here, we did have when
I started, we had men's and women's bathrooms. And then
they're like, well, let's have bathrooms, you know, we don't
see gender. And then you came in here and you're like, no,
we need segregation of toilets. Yay. So that's you your
(29:49):
work there. Congratulations, very impressive. What else do we have?
Let's see page down here. Let's take a call about Okay, JC,
who is like outside the building here where we broadcast
from in southern California? Is he one of the homeless? No?
I don't think. I don't know. Maybe he is, I
don't I don't think he's.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
J C.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
What's going on, JAC, you're on with HIV? Yeah, By
the way, I did like three bucks from her from
here on. Oh yeah, come come by. That means he's
not homeless. Yeah, that means he's very.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
That's right, summer off, I could listen.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
Oh very nice.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
What kind of questions you got today, Lorena? First of all,
you've been a great addition to the show. No need
to suck I don't need to suck up jac Okay.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
I have a dilemma.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
I'm a single party.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Is that the time? And I have a crush on someone? Okay?
Speaker 7 (30:54):
And when do you know?
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Like I have? So I don't know when is the
right time? Right?
Speaker 7 (31:03):
So you don't want to introduce too soon, or you.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Have your daughter get expectations too early.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
You know, I don't want you.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
To put too much pressure on it. You got to
take your time and really figure it out. I don't
let my daughter meet anyone unless I've been seeing them
for a longiod of time, because once again, I just
I don't like the in and out of relationships.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
So I'd feel it out.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
Write it out, and see how serious it is, and
then once it's serious, maybe you know you can move
into that meeting Greek.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
How many months, Lorena? What are we looking at it?
Really depends.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
It really depends.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Be well, I've seen her.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
I've seen her, but I've known her for like the
last ten years.
Speaker 7 (31:39):
Oh so you could do it so super easy to like,
maybe just go to the zoo or something, bowling, go bowling,
or run into each other and oh my gosh, it's
so funny running into you here. This is my daughter.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Maybe it's your golf. You could do that.
Speaker 7 (31:53):
I like that too, got lots of options.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Just take your time. Good luck, Jac, There he goes JC.
That's go to Gode. Doug is in Houston for Lorraine.
I Doug, what's new and exciting life? What's your love question?
I'm a dedicated Cowboys fan, me too. You got socks,
(32:17):
Mike indolences. The problem is it seems to turn the
girls off, and I.
Speaker 6 (32:27):
Just wondered, I need you know, what should I.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Do about this? Well, it is a big problem Loraine
and women. Are you drive a giant oversized truck? Yeah,
so let me guess. Do you have a star logo
on the back of it? That Cowboys star logo on
the back of your truck? Are you trying to make
fun of me?
Speaker 5 (32:48):
No?
Speaker 7 (32:48):
But if you do, that means you need to be
dating a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. Okay, that means you're not
dating in your range. You need to up your arms.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
I'm sure he would like to do that. Loraino do that?
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Do you wear shirts that are too small for you?
Speaker 4 (33:04):
The thing is, I'm I'm in Houston.
Speaker 7 (33:05):
Should I change to the Texans?
Speaker 1 (33:07):
No? No, nobody want the women. Women are really offended
by Texans fans. Come on, now, that's outrageous matter. We
gotta go by there you go. I'm not going anywhere,
La Ray and I'm sitting you. I get another hour
to do with the show. Lay.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
and the password.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Is password, you idiot. Password the word Game of the Stars.
Here's Ben Meller and right to the game we go.
Let's walcome in our contestants. We have Jimbo in Missouri. Hello, Jimbo.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Hey, good for Ben Mallard.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
I know I don't care how you doing, but he'd
be in the Hallmark channel. Yeah, we don't. We don't
want that. We definitely don't want that. All right, Well, Jimbo,
what are you doing Missouri. Sir, uh sir?
Speaker 4 (33:59):
How am I adamant Chiefs fan?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
And I guarantee you Travis Cholcon will put the ring
on the finger.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
In the Super Bowl as you. You're calling your shot
right now, Jimbo, that the Chiefs will win again and
there'll be a postgame ring ceremony. Okay, all right, hold
on a second. Who do you want to play with, Jimbo?
But who do you want to partner up with? By
the way, you got me Eddie, Lorena or kool Oh?
(34:27):
He's a late available Lorena. Yes, she is available. She
has a very interesting technique when she plays the game,
so you'll you'll play with her? Very nice and we
have let's say hello to Earl, who's in Oregon? Hello Earl?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Hey, how's the wong?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Welcome in Earl? Password the word Game of Stars? Who
would you like to partner up with? Earl?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
I don't play with you.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Man, Okay, we will play the game. Say that didn't cheap, Jimo?
That was on the air, Jimbo.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
I don't I love your show?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
All right, let's row I'm offended by Jimbo.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Well, don't be, don't be.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
All right, let's play it. We have a list of words.
You see the list. You're cheating. Don't cheat like Jimbo
is about to do. Okay, we'll start out with Jimbo
and Lorraine. Jimbo picked a number one to ten.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Yeah, let's still with eight.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Eight. Very random that you were picked number eight, but
you have picked number eight. Okay, speak, I apologize. Speak?
Speaker 7 (35:42):
Was that your guess?
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
I couldn't hear her the work?
Speaker 1 (35:46):
I'm sorry? Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Now?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Wow? Okay? My clue is speak.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
Voice?
Speaker 1 (35:54):
No? Wow? All right, I mean you're great. She does
not believe that. Let's go with the chatter, Earl. Fuck, yeah,
you go. That's how you do it. Ahead, How smart
(36:16):
is Earl? My god, you're the smartest guy in the world.
All Right, and we're back up, Earl. This is the
this is the turning point. We blow out the team.
We're playing against the rain and Jimbo pick a number
one to ten, but not eight. We're playing password the
word Game of the stars.
Speaker 8 (36:31):
Alright, one number, all right, let's go with Oh boy,
how about novice novice.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Amateur? No tonight?
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Wow? Whoa wow.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
Night?
Speaker 1 (36:56):
It's right now. No, that's that's the that's the arena.
Lorena read my book, know thy audience, Larada, that's not
my book. All right, let's go. We're back up. How
about h I said, I said, Novice. How about collar?
(37:21):
Oh gosh, color, what did you say? Nick?
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Nick?
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Yes, like nick right, a collar around a nick. Oh no,
that's not it, all right, different kind of caller. Well,
some would say it's tough. Others woulday it's very easy.
Oh Lorena, Oh my gosh, fresh. I don't know if
(37:53):
you guys are gonna get this one.
Speaker 7 (37:54):
I don't think they will.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Should Okay, So the where we were looking for very difficult.
What what is the bit we're doing on the show tonight?
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Do you know what the bit is that we're doing
on the show tonight? The show tonight, Tonight's show? What
kind of night is it? Show?
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Or?
Speaker 2 (38:15):
All right?
Speaker 1 (38:15):
You guys are such newbies. It's such newbies. Yes, the
word was newbie. The word is newbies. And so while
we call it talk radio, not listen radio, these guys
are not paying attention. All right, we'll keep going here. Jimbo,
your back up, Jimbo pig a number one to ten,
but not one and not eight two number two. That's
(38:38):
a tough. All ah, wager ish wager, wager bet no
ah about boy? Uh option? Oh god, now that's for earl.
Speaker 6 (39:11):
Fraud no, he said, He.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Said, fraud. Okay, I got one. I got one. I
got one convinced it's not gonna work. Convince convinced. I'll
pay you ten dollars if he gets to worry. How
about that? That's how confident I am. Are you gonna
I will pay you? He said? All right, this is
(39:36):
a hard word. I don't know why I put this is.
I said corruption? How about uh payment payment.
Speaker 7 (39:46):
Earl?
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Yeah? Yeah, I'm thinking earl, come on transaction.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
That was actually a really good to That's that's come bob. Yeah,
I mean, why why are we bothering? Oh my god?
All right, we ant throw that one out too, Coop.
I guess now you actually you run it around? That
should have they should have got a corruption? What is corruption?
Is a payment? A corruption payment? It is a bride right,
(40:16):
it is a next earl, your back up earl? Pick
a number. I don't even know. One to ten, but
not eight, not one and not to whatever? Too perfect?
Why are you laughing, Lorena? Why why do you think
that's funny?
Speaker 7 (40:36):
Trying to think I would just collored.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
No, how about how about isolated? Isolated Earl? I don't know,
but answering, why are you both playing? Go ahead, Lorena, boy,
this is great. Get this right. You tie the game,
Lorena with Jimbo. Got earl in Oregon. Jimbo is in Missouri.
(41:02):
He's a chief fan. Deserted.
Speaker 6 (41:05):
Oh jeez, no, earl, earl friendless, friendless, friendless, alone, yes.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Alone, lonely.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
The world was lonely. Thank you for putting Thank you
for helping me a little right, un Wow, that was terrible.
My god, did that suck
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