July 3, 2024 • 42 mins
Ben Maller talks about NBA Free Agency activity up till now with the Lakers not doing anything, the 76ers signing Paul George, and even OKC getting Isaiah Hartenstein.
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We will not shut the hell up here in our.
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Number two as we react to the big news of
the day and that coming out of pro bouncy ball,
what is the lack of activity like nobody who you've
ever heard of joining the team? Say about the Lakers
and Lebron James. Also, will the seventy six ers end
up regretting the Paul George contract? And in addition to
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all that, we'll go to Oklahoma. How does Isaiah Hartenstein,
a mid level NBA player get eighty seven million over
three years in Okase? We'll tell you about that as well.
All of it's coming your way right now here. It
is our number two. The rejection letter is.
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Yeah, sorry, Lead this hour from Tinseltown adjacent, we should say,
from up the hill. From up the hill from where
we broadcast from, there's a very richy neighborhood called bell Air.
Bron spent a lot of time there. Over the years,
the Lakers continue to be the laughing stock of the NBA.
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It just gets better by the day. Not only did
the franchise that once prided themselves on winning hire a
podcaster as their head coach, they drafted the washed up
star Players kid, the NEPO kid, Scronnie Browny in the
second round and everyone's laughing. But have you heard the
latest on this gets even better? The plot thickens in
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Lakerland if we missed it so. At the start of
free agency, Lebron James, through his useful idiots his cronies
in the media, wanted every one of us know you
and I and everyone else to know that he was
going to take a massive pay cut. Lebron was going
to take a pay cut to help the Lakers, and
he had his eye on the prize. There were three players,
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three players Lebron wanted, James Harden, Clay Thompson, and Jonas Valentiunis.
That's the list, period stop. And if one of those
players comes to the Lakers, Lebron would take a sizeable
pay cut. Well, one by one, they have all decided
to give Lebron the old poke in the eye the
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cold shoulder. All is quiet on the western front in Lakerland.
So let us discuss the question what does this lack
of activity by the Lakers say about the leadership of
Lebron James. So I've got elementary school fairy tale and
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Jigsaw puzzle, and we will combine all of these things
together and we're going to make an episode of the Office.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Which for some reason is right right in front of me.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
All right, So, Na, all those old dusty trophies and
all the commercials and endorsements Lebron James has gotten over
the years, and the opportunity to play in La in
front of all those woke celebrities in Hollywood and it's
not a big enough calling card. What does that say
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my entire life? The Lakers have always gotten the top
players whoever they wanted, they got. Not right now, No,
it's not happening anymore. Have the mighty fallen all of
a sudden. It does appear when you dig a little
deeper and you look at what's going on in Lakerland.
This is such an embarrassment. Lebron has yet to win
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anything as a Laker. The Lakers have regularly been an
embarrassment with Lebron James on the roster, and he is
the owner by proxy and the GM by proxy of
the team. Genie Buss has raised the the white flags.
She's just giving up. She says, I can't handle it anymore.
Do whatever you want, Lebron. You want to hire your
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little podcast buddy, Okay, we'll do that. You want a
draft your kid who can't play, Okay, well draft your kid,
no problem, no problem at all. But that's one thing
he said, Well, anybody can coach. It's not that hard
to coach in the NBA. Right, There's some real stiffs
that have coached in the NBA. And second round pick.
You can say, well, so second round pick, and who
cares about a second round pick? Okay, but Lebron was
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given the elbow room to improve the roster and make
any moves his heart desired. And if you look at
the scoreboard, there's a lot of goose eggs on the scoreboard.
There's a lot of goose eggs on the scoreboard. And
this does not whisper. It screams, is what it does.
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That Lebron and the Lakers have lost the rasthma task.
They're frazzled. Lebron is frazzled. At this particular point, Lebron
James has been diagnosed. Doctor Mallard, that would be me,
has diagnosed Lebron James with an elementary school playground illness.
Lebron's got the cooties. Lebron has the couse Now what
is my evidence? Three players? There were three guys Lebron
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was willing to take a pay cut for and he
made sure to leak this assuming one of them would
come to the Lakers. The three players who turned down
the Lakers and Lebron James Harden, Now that's understandable. Harden
wanted to play for the glamour team in Los Angeles,
the people's team. You can't really be upset by that.
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Why would you want to play for the Lakers when
you play for the Clippers? Right, they got the taj
Mahal of Arenas, better owner, better fan base, real authentic fans,
not fraudulent, fake phony fans like the Lakers have. So
they have historians, as we like to point out, So
that's understandable. He can't really rip Lebron for Harden not
wanting to play for the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Why would you? Right then you've got Yonis Valentutis. Now
this is a.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Body blow, body blow, body blow because Valentnis, who's getting
a little along with too, he picked wizardry and living
in DC on a bottom feeding franchise rather than play
for the Lakers. That is a kick to the nuts,
is what that is. Now, that's not the most embarrassing though,
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the most embarrassing. And there's no way to spin this,
there's no way to spend this is Clay Thompson, who
grew up around the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
His father played for the team.
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I love the Lakers growing up, has connections to the franchise.
His father is a mouthpiece, a propaganda arm of the
Laker propaganda machine as a broadcaster for the team.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
And yet he said, I want nothing to do with you.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I want to go eat tex mex and live in
the Dallas area and that's what I'm going to do.
So screw you. I don't want to play for your team.
You talk about a body blow, body blow, body blow,
That is a body blow. Now the makers are trying
to salvage things with Demarta Rosen, who is soon to
be thirty five years old next month turns thirty five.
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One trick pony, mid range jump shot, no defense. That's
the Marta Rose and you can trade a bunch of
random spare pieces to get him.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Good luck.
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Now page two. Here we circle back. Now, circle back
to Philadelphia. Consumed a lot of media content so you
would not have to about Paul George by George podcast
p heading to the Delaware Valley to hang out with
Fats and Philly and all our friends in the greater
Philadelphia area and southern New Jersey and so the Sixers.
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Here's the question, will the Sixers end up regretting the
Paul George contract?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
And I'm not in my head. Yes you can't see me,
but I'm not in my head. Yes. PG.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Thirteen is the epitome of damaged goods, not quite to
the degree.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Of Klay Thompson.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
We talked about Klay Thompson in a previous hour and
how he has just lost it.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
So he's not that bad, but there.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Are the telltale signs of trouble on the horizon and
that mushroom cloud you see out in the distance problematic, problematic.
Klay Thompson has his own issues. But Paul George, I'll
give you some numbers to back this up here. So now,
last year, Paul George, in a year where he knew
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he was going to opt out of his contract, he
played in over seventy games. He was relatively healthy. But
the four previous years prior to that, Paul George appeared
in less than sixty games. In fact, if you look
at the side by side with Kawhi Leonard, who is
the personification of lackadaisical and Kawhi Leonard just load management
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doesn't give a damn would rather hang out at his
casa in San Diego than play basketball during the season.
So and Paul George, the games missed within the same
zip code. Now, Kawhi's missed more, but not by that many,
not by that many, and another player who is rapidly
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aging in Paul George and the Sixers overpaid for a
guy who is a glorified part time player who vanishes
in big moments and is another one of these players
that is living off past accolades. This is a big
infestation around the NBA, right past accolades. He left his
hometown team, the glamour team in LA, the Clippers, playing
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a chance to play at the taj Mahall with the
richest owner in sport. He left outside of the soudiast,
but he left that team, right, He left that team,
And every man, woman and child knows how this fairy
tale ends. Once upon a time, a long long time ago,
Paul George turns into a giant, feather fire breathing albatross,
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A giant albatross?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
What could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go wrong?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
All? Right?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Now? Final point?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
We pivot to a bizarre transaction that Mike from Oklahoma
City requested that I at least mentioned this.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
She said, you never talk about this team, and why
do you talk about the thunder? What's wrong with you?
You're on the radio here, Okay, calm down, so I
will pacify you, I will appease you. We pivot to.
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The dust bowl. A big deal in the Sooner State.
A big deal here. How does on God's Green Earth,
former Knickerbocker center Isaiah Hartenstein get eighty seven million over
three years in Okay, see how does that happen? So
it's to me this is not that complicated. Isaiah Hartenstein
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is a medium level player. He's an average NBA players,
not roster spam. Roster spam can't play. He can play,
but he's not the center of the universe by any means.
He's a player that you like to have on your team,
and he played well for the Clippers a couple years
ago going to the Knicks. But the thing here, you
heard this when you were a kid. It's all about timing.
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It's all about timing. And if you look at the
jigsaw puzzle and okay, see, they were a fraudulent team.
They had a great regular season record, they were exposed
in the playoffs. We all saw that they were a
joke in the playoffs. But the Thunder had money to
burn because all they've been doing is hoarding draft picks
over the years, and these big extensions haven't really kicked
in other than shake yogis Alexander who was not a
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draft pick. That was a Clippers draft pick, so they
had money to burn. They had a clear and obvious
need in the middle, and so they think that Isaiah
Hartenstein will be the missing jigsaw puzzle piece that will
push them where they need to go. And so they're
willing to start a bonfire and pay a guy who's
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a mid level NBA player at best and likely a
backup on a good team, and they're going to pay
him almost thirty million dollars a year. Now, keep in
mind he averaged about eight points a game and eight
rebounds a game, and that's wheth thirty million dollars to
Oklahoma City thirty million dollars. A role player who fills
out the roster and doesn't suck when he's on the court,
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but doesn't dominate at all. Thirty million dollar player, thirty
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So I got a text from my buddy Jay, who
i've old newspaper guy, and he sends me a text.
You say, He says, I'm in the parking lot at
the iHeart Building. So what are you doing in the
freaking parking lot? I mean, he just showed up, and
so he gave me some magnets and some stickers from
the from the show.
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But Jay was they're kind of cool, you know, from
from what he just had them. He had them made
like through AI. These are made by AI.
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Oh, he fucks around with AI and this is this
is how they designed the logo for the Mallard Militia
and the show.
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So it was kind of cool.
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But he drove up to Santa Barbara from LA to
see the SpaceX rocket launch, except there was no They
canceled it the last minute.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
He drove all the way.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
So he said he had to do the drive of
shame back from Santa Barbara because if he's mess around photography,
he takes photos and things.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Of where did they launch from? I don't even know, just.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Above Santa Barbara? And it Vandenburg is that the name
of it. Yeah, it's not far.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Yeahanderburg Air Force Base is still an air force base.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I just say they launched north of Santa Barbara. And
I've seen it driving in here at night.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
So he was on his way back from the Catchel,
he stopped by.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
He doesn't look far from here, so he stopped by,
and he was very kind of him to do that.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Vandenberg Space Force Bace, Hawthorne, California.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Oh that's not it. Then it's not in Hawthorne.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Hawthorn's in the South Bay, right, this is uh, what's
north of Santa bar I see, now we're gonna have
to see. This is gonna screw us up. I knew
this was gonna happen, but they launched in the Santa
barber So anyway, I will figure that out.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Let's go call the phones.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Will say hello to Andre, who's in the commonwealth. Hello, Andre, Well.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Good evening, it's good to be with you. You opened
up the show talking about a little bit of free
agency and what's kind of going on some of these
unseen things that are happening right within the team. You know,
So the world isn't It's not greed that makes the
world go around, they say, Right, Ben, it's more envy. Right,
It's more envy that kind of looking out of the users.
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Decide your eye and attle be a little jealousy, a
little covetousness, if I can use that word. But Ben,
I think that's what's at the heart of what we
see in terms of Paul George going to Philly. Right,
I'm going to show these clippers, what's what you know?
What I mean?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
No, No, that's the worst take ever, Andre. That's that
you're inna take jail Andre with that day. No, Paul
George said, I want to get not a single dollar less.
I don't care whether I win or not. He knows
Philadelphia's knocking. When Joel and b doesn't have any guts
in big games, he's going to disappear, not gonna win anything.
Chance the clip, he'll be shut. You don't know about
You're standing at the w NBA, Eddie, you're the w
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NBA guy. Leave the basketball to do, Austin. I'm guy
because you're annoying because I see you, even though you
were across the room for me. Because there are now
three cameras in front of me. That is, why are
there three cameras in front of me? I don't understand.
I'm in a radio station.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Does can you explain that? Andre Ben?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
You're the man at traction first of all, and we
already talked about this year you power over.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Rob Barker came traveling around Robin's on vacation right now.
But listen, the point is, Paul Georgian can go to
Philadelphia to win. He went there because they offered him
the most money. He's in his mid thirties. He figured
this is my last chance to truly cash in, although
I don't even know if it's his last chance to
cash in because everyone's getting paid. You know what, I
blame inflation. It's all because of inflation. Andre The price
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of everything's going up. If Isaiah Hartenstein is a thirty
million dollars a year player, almost Holy crap, Isaiah Hartenstein
on here is getting almost a year.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Thirty million for Hartenstein, I really don't know who that
is here with grosspick here, the owner of the Celtics,
he wants to cash in based on the TV money
that's paid, that that's about to come in the sport.
You know, the rising tide never ends.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Get all.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I get all that then, But back to my point
about MV, I do have to say Klay Thompson choosing
the Dallas Mavericks over to La Lakers, that does have
to do with sticking it to Golden State and wanting
to win a championship and wanting to show his value
a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Paul George, I disagree also respectively, Andre, because if I'm
Klay Thomps, if you really want to stick it to
the Warriors, you go to the Lakers, because the Warrior
fans don't hate the Mavericks, but.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
They do hate the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
So if you want to get back, you want to
stick it to the to the Warriors, you go there.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
And play great.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
But he knows he's not going to play that great
and so he took the money and went to Dallas.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
They'll play pretty good with Jason Kidd as his leader,
but I don't know how he's gonna do with a
fourth grade AAU coach a guide in the ship with Lakers.
So I think that had something to do with him
also going to Dallas JJ Reddick for as much profanity
as he can spew to get clicks in his interview.
I don't know what's going to happen the Lakers finally
hit Rocky hit some tough seeds, which they're going to do,
and if he's going to be able to guide them.
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But Ben as always, thanks for taking the cut time,
and I'm going to get up on my economics to
know what's going on with this in place here.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Thanks taking the time, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I just want you to know that, well, the price
of everything's gone up. We here are holding our own
here in radio.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Right Eddie. We are not We are not forcing management
to pay us more money, right. I mean we don't want.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I mean we could demand more money, but we're like, no,
we don't want. We want to help the company out.
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We're getting out.
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We give the hometown discount. It is what we do
year after year twenty plus years of hometown discounts. That's
a lot of discounts city. We've given a lot of
good discounts. Let's sale o to eeny meenie money. Let's
sail it to Avery, who's in Vegas. And we have
not promoted this enough. People have to make travel plans.
But the Malord Meet and Greed is coming up in
early August. We are now in huge July. We're a
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little over a month away from the Malor Meet and
greet in Lost Wages, Nevada. All the information available on
the social media channels. It's all pinned to the top
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and on Instagram, Ben Mallor on Fox. It's all available
to and Avery will be in attendance at that event.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
He will be there.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I know you're excited, Calm down, but Avery's good. You're
going to meet Avery, who cares about us. You get
to meet Avery, but he'll be one of the big
celebrities there. That's August third, It's scheduled for three to five,
but we'll probably stay a lot longer than that. I
always schedule short in case no one shows up and
then I can leave right away, so I always schedule
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less than I plan on spending there. But it'll be
at the Stakeout Bar and Grill the Maryland Parkway locations
near UNLV and our buddy Slug is the hostess with
the most Everybody. Yes, Slug is Vegas is the guy,
and we're just gonna hang out and we're all gonna
be there. I believe I'm there. Eddie's agreed to show up.
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Lorrain Ah will be there.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I think Coop might be there as well, but he's
going to be there.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Okay, Well, we'll all be hanging out there, and there's
already some boys planning a post game party. I don't
think the minor league game is gonna happen. Nobody really
jumped at that opportunity to sit in a hundred degree
weather with Big Lou in a luxury box at the
minor league game. But there's some postgame celebrations post mallard
meet and greet parties planned by some So LORRAINA, yes, do.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
You think there will be lovely malor ladies there. I
want to go and get Martini's with all them.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
You want to go with the ladies?
Speaker 5 (23:50):
All right? Well yeah, well if Jay Dot's not in jail,
his girlfriend will probably show up.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yes, that's why that's one. So that's true. And I
think Akathy. I don't think Kathy, but Avery will. Oh uh,
what's that.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Our donut lady in Tennessee. I think it's going to try.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
It'll be nice. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Normally what happens is the guys forced the girl friends
to show up, right, That's normally what happens.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
And against they sell it as a weekend in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, it's like you made me go to that whatever,
So you have to go to this type situation.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
So that's normally what wincycle. Regina, you never know.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
She's over in Colorado, so that's not that far away.
It's a couple of states over for her to drive.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Over color.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Saying something about our friend that you'd like to talk
to a class about there.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Wow, man, jeez, are you there? Avery?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Am I just talking to myself? I'm all right, Hello, Avery?
What's going on?
Speaker 7 (24:48):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
What's up? Speaking of what's everybody's drink of choice?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Ed you want to get plastered on the malam and
greet theready.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Yeah, you can buy me a drink if you want.
I'm I'm not piggy. Well, you drink anything pretty much. Really,
it's got you know. You don't like everything.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Do you like fruity drinks?
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (25:09):
All right, Well it depends on how schmooth. Did I
want to get?
Speaker 7 (25:14):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (25:15):
So I do?
Speaker 6 (25:16):
I do like a filthy martini with blue cheese olives,
But I also love a miskall a mescal in pineapple.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
The opposite of me. I'll drink whatever. She's very specific, yea.
Even the olives have to be a certain thing.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
You guys had mescal though, like that smoky tequila. I
like miss Skall with pineapple with if your.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
This is your fault, Avery, this is your fault, you
starting you open Pandor's box.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Avery.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
See you don't understand Lora at these things. I've done
a number of in the over the years. The one
in Boston was completely off, but people kept buying me,
buying me beer, uh and.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Like it was your birthday?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, and I don't. I don't drink that much, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I'm an occasional like social once a month sometimes I
go months without drinking and and this guy I did
it for mahlor Wayne from Southee, and he kept buying
me beer and it was it was crazy.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I got completely wasted that night. That's weird.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
That's not See, that's the other guy. That's the Miami.
He can't afford to buy me beer. See he can't.
The other guy, Wayne from Southee, he could anyway. Listen, Avery,
We'll have a great time. I can't wait. Month away,
month away.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
Yes, sure.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
A man, thank you, this is the great Avery. He'll
be there and he is bringing his lady friends, so
she there will be at least one lady there. Yay.
Any chance Queen Rocks Anne will make an appearance from
Colorado Walls not.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
No, haven't heard her mer in a while.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah, she works with the dreaded day shift. Now we
lose a lot of good people, a lot of good
soldiers to the day shift. They leave us.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
They still listen to the podcast, but it's not the same.
It's not the same as when they listen live NERD.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Christina showed up to a minor league game one time.
I heard from her in a long time.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yes, I think she's married now I think so we'll
probably never hear from her again. Probably not. Yeah, that's
usually what happens, works both ways, men and women. They
get married, that's it. Game over, lights out, all.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I too good for reality, and the overreaction will go
there as well.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
We also have Mallard of the third degree. But right now,
let's get you caught up.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
On everything going on in the overnight and we say
hello too. The cabana boy. This guy is so boogie.
He goes to NFL games and sits in a cabana.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
Eddie Garcia, I was actually told earlier today there will
be a return visit.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
To the seasoned.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Are you gonna be on CBS every game again like
you were the last couple of years.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I don't know who's on TV more.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
You were.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Parker the snow Dog.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Oh, Parker the snow Dog, every game.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
B roll the snow Dog, b roll always.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
We start with news from the NBA, where the Boston
Celtics to start Jason Tatum reportedly gree on the richest
contract in league history, five years and three hundred and
fourteen million dollars. Is after Tatum helped the Celtics to
their eighteenth NBA title this past season. He overtakes teammate
Jalen Brown, who had the richest deal with the total
value of two hundred and eighty five million dollars. Former
longtime Warriors guard Klay Thompson's a great and a three
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year deal worth fifteen million dollars to join the Dallas Mavericks.
The deal was a sign in trade. It also required
the Mavericks to ship out swing man Josh Green to
the Charlotte Hornets and two second round picks head to
Golden State. NHL news the National Predators are the big
winners on Day one of free agency. They signed two
times Stanley Cup winner and former Tampa Bay Lightning captain
Steven Stamkost. They signed former Stanley Cup winner Jonathan Marciso
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playoff MVP from the Vegas Golden Knights, and also coveted
defenseman Brady Shay, and they resigned their goalie uc Saros
to an eight year deal. Soccer Copa America USA is
shut out by Uruguay. Won nothing. US beat Bolivia in
their opening year, but then they lost to Panama. That
put him in a must win situation against Uruguay and
obviously they lost, so they were eliminated before the knockout
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stage in a tournament where they were the host country.
In baseball, we had the Astros beating the Blue jay
Is three to one. Houston has won ten of eleven.
They're now three back of Seattle for first in the
Al West. Breweries fall to the Rockies eight to seven,
Colorado with the walkoff victory, and the Mets scored six
runs in the tenth beat the Nationals in DC eleven
to seven in ten innings. Those the only three Major
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League Baseball games on the day.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Well, because I'll tell you why Thursday, why, you don't
have to say it like that.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
So the way that the schedule works, Thursday is normally
the travel day for a lot of teams, but everyone's
got to play on the fourth of July. So instead
they moved, they fetched around with the schedules, so more
teams had days off on Monday. I see, that's what
I was told. There's a certain that they have an
agreement with the union where they have to have a
certain number of days off and travel days and whatnot,
(29:45):
and so they messed with the schedule so they would
have more I think everyone's playing, if I'm not mistaking
everyone's playing on the fourth of July.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Are you gonna mention this John Gruden story?
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I will, yes, I mean, can you can touch on
it now if you want, but I we'll talk about
John Gruden getting a big l Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
Former NFL coach John Gruden losing his bid for the
Nevada Supreme Court to reconsider whether a contract interference in
conspiracy law city filed against the league after he was
let go there by the Raiders because he heard in
the courts or in private arbitration that they said no.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
So the NFL was able to get some friendly judges
and for now make that story go away. And John Gruden,
We're not sure if he can appeal higher up or
that's it, but at this point it appears that it's
it's all over it.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
You know what we need right now?
Speaker 5 (30:37):
A fun fact?
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Fun fact?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I think we need two fun facts.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Aaron Judge the last fifty games for the New York Yankees.
Aaron Judge hitting three ninety eight for the Yankees over
the last fifty games. His ops that's on base plus
slugging percentages one one four to three nine. That's one
thousand and four and three thirty nine. That is the
highest ops over a fifty game span by a right
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handed hitter ever in the history of baseball, the greatest
fifty game stretch. Now, Eddie, before he got into radio,
used to work a job where they would just create
a stat out of anything. And this this next I
got a bonus fun I hit hit it again, hit
it again? Yeah, hit me twice, hit.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Me a guy.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Fun fact.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
So this is the kind of stat that you just
make up out of thin air, because you need to
come up with a stat. So players in Major League
Baseball history to hit a home run on their twenty
fifth birthday and thirty eighth birthday, twenty fifth and thirty
eighth birthday, Charlie Blackman, who did it on Monday. And
the other player to do it, you know it is Eddie.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
No, you don't know who it is.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
No, I don't know Todd Helton, both Rockies, both Colorado Rockies.
So isn't that rather meaningless and random and a waste
of everyone's time and energy and brain cells?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
And all right? Yes, But someone who gets paid a
lot of money to come up with a.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Stat a lot of money, Well, okay, they get paid, Okay,
they get paid. It's a living wage, I think, and
they came up with that stat They typed a few
things into the supercomputer, and that's what they came up with.
Let's take that for data exactly. Let's say hello to John,
who's in Reno. Hello John, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (32:24):
My man?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Living the dream? John? One hot take at a time?
Speaker 3 (32:30):
We're doing with food drivers against this hole.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Oh look at that. Every night the bar is open
at John's house every night.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Hey, it's always open. I don't know why you would
ever want to close the bar?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I know, are you too good for reality? I saw?
I saw Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
You see this.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Travis Kelcey turned down an opportunity to be in that
Netflix docu series and he says he's way over the reality.
Blank is what Travis kelsey said. But you know, John,
even though you're drinking those screwdrivers, you know that Travis
kelce eight years ago was on a dating show. He
was on a reality TV dating show. So any would
(33:10):
now these stooping the most famous woman in the world
all of a sudden he's too good for reality.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Both and then we're we're backing it up with fireball tonight.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Do okay? You just chime in what you're drinking. How
about this one?
Speaker 2 (33:25):
You talk about an over reaction machine, John drinking screwdrivers
in Reno.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
The Philadelphia seventy six.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Ers at one of the big gambling houses, have the
second best odds of winning a championship because of Paul George.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
By George, what is up with that?
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Ben? When you're down there in Vegas, try a nice
Cadillac margarita. They're refreshing. They got plenty of hoots in them.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Now, John, are you going to be driving down as a.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Hoos term there a while?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
That's old school?
Speaker 8 (34:01):
Yeah, but yeah, but don't dump is not familiar with
the Hoos trip down to the Vegas.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
It's too hot down there.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Baby, you're not going to be indoors. I mean I'll be.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
I'll be I'll be hanging up at Tahoe or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
All right, So you use used whosh, you use barbituates
as well? Is that a term you use? Is that's
an outdated term?
Speaker 5 (34:25):
Right?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Barbituates?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
I haven't. I haven't had any of them. My little
slip Bill slip.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Someone slip someone a mickey.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
That's an old term too, right, That's what Bill Cosby did,
didn't that Cosby did.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Yeah, that's yeah, that's the Bill Cosby drink.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Okay, all right, well thank you. It's a great conversations.
I get back to your screwdrivers.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
All right there, he goes, h just great, just wonderful.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Cash the Profit says he enjoys the show. He is
terrified to all in because he thinks I'll cook him.
I won't cook you. I might microwave you, but I
won't cook you.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Super Marcus Steve, we are hungry for more.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Super Marcus Steve says, don't forget about missus, Supermarket Steve,
my wife Jessica, who will be joining us at the
Mala Meet and Greet in Vegas. Supermarket Steve will be there.
Will they bring Tierra Massou?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
They did at the Southern California Meet and greet we
did a while back. And super Marcus Steve, now you
boys that show up to the Malor Meet and greet
in Vegas. Super Marcus Steve is the guy. He's the
buggy whisper. He's the guy that has worked in the
grocery business for years, and he's the person that advised
me to not put the cart back. Most controversial take
(35:43):
of the year most you talk about. Nothing has been
more controversial on this show than that. And I stand
with him. The Sour Jay Daddy writes, and he's a
Celtic Fantas says, watching the Lakers implode is quite hilarious.
Regardless of Lakers bring in this offseason, Lebron will be
competing for the D season Tournament and play in tournament.
(36:07):
That's about right, That's about where we are right now.
Late night drug Tests this says, I disagree. I think
Genie Buss is doing great. Let the Lakers tank under Lebron,
then swoop in as the hero and turn around the
franchise after he retires. The Grill Sergeant checks and says
eight plus plus plus on the Malay monologue, I should
have been born thirty years later and be about a
(36:28):
foot and a half taller. I'd be making bank.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Yeah, absolutely, all.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Right, straight ahead, we're gonna have mallor to the third degree.
Here's the insta trivia. Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson parting ways,
but they both made a three pointer in seven hundred
and thirty seven games together. That's including the playoffs with
Golden State. Blank is the next closest duo in NBA
(36:54):
history for most games as teammates making three point shots
that we're looking for two names here, that's the Insta trivia.
The answer, We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
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Speaker 5 (37:16):
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Speaker 2 (37:40):
And here is the Insta Trivia. Stef Curry and Klay Thompson.
They both made a three pointer in seven hundred and
thirty seven games together playing in the Bay Area that
includes the playoffs with Golden State. Blank is the next
closest duo in NBA history, with both acting on a
three point shot. That is the question. What is the answer?
(38:03):
Robin Vegas going with the game triple H is his answer.
Kurt Warner and Kurt Warner from Art Puffin. I see
what you did there, mister nice guy, going with Abbott
and Costello as his answer. Alf the Alien Opiner saying,
AOC and Bill Clinton.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
That's pretty funny. Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Late Night trug Tester says, you are Larry David and
jose Canseco, who are seventy seven and sixty today? Yeah,
Larry David, final season of Kurby, Your enthusiasm shows over
with now?
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Who else we have?
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Steve Francis and Katino Mobley from Fields of Green, the
Texas Outlaws, Dusty Rhodes and Dick Murdoch from King Rory.
That's his answer. Who else we have page down. I
can't read that on the air see Eddie esenof Do
you have an answer, Eddie? I need an answer.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
SuperSonics legendary duo Gary Payton and Debt lift shrim.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
I thought you might throw Nate McMillan in there, but
that's incorrect, Eddie, it's wrong. The correct answer second to
Curry and Thompson for both making a pre pointer in
NBA games as teammates Dame Lillard daytime and see J McCollum,
what the Trailblazers boom.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Shock a lock up? It's mallard? How about that?
Speaker 4 (39:21):
To the third degree? This is one big. Ben gets quilled.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
And we bring in and Patrick in the producing chair.
Speaker 7 (39:30):
Hello Patrick, Hello, Hello Ben? Well, Ben, I got a
couple of questions for you.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
You better, I'm so you're not gonna be back?
Speaker 5 (39:38):
All right? Well, Ben, let's start with the first one.
Speaker 7 (39:40):
The Warriors plan the retire Klay Thompson's number eleven Jersey
when he retires.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
Are you actually okay with this?
Speaker 4 (39:47):
Well, no, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
He Are you hoping to be against Clay Thompson at
his number tired? I don't think anyone should have their
number retired. I've taken this position. I will die on
this mountain. What you do is you have a ring
of all you celebrate the person's name, not their number.
That's what I That's what you do, all right. It's
so stupid to retire that numbers. If you want to
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give him a statue, you can make it like a
mausoleum like they have in downtown LA at that arena,
the Lakers play all right next?
Speaker 1 (40:18):
All right?
Speaker 7 (40:19):
Oklahoma's athletic director Joe Castiglioni took a shot at USC's
Lincoln Riley, saying, all the coaches are excited about the
move to the SEC.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
The ones that weren't aren't here anymore.
Speaker 7 (40:31):
Oh Ben, is that foul or fair?
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Now? That's a fair ball and you don't need to
go to instant replayed. Here's why. All right, this is
what you do when you're in the Southeastern Conference. You've
got to.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Crank up the rhetoric. And Oklahoma's now an SEC team,
so that's what you do. But even if that wasn't
the case, Lincoln Riley burned Oklahoma. They thought he was
there forever coach and the only way he was gonna
leave Norman Oklahoma was go to the NFL. They did
not anticipate him going to what they deemed to be
a lower school in the University of Southern California USC
(41:07):
to coach the Trojans. But there is a little bit
of what's the word I'm doing The pain is still there,
that the wound is still open, even though Lincoln Riley
has been gone for years.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Next.
Speaker 7 (41:19):
All right, Jake Paul says he'll go for the world
title in twenty twenty five after boxing Iron Mike Tyson DC.
Paul is a legit contender, Ben.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
God, I hope not.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
I know boxing's terrible, and professional boxing's a joke in
this country and around the world and all that. I
get a UFC's where the cool kids are, but you
come on, No, this is a sideshow. But there's enough
alphabet soup championships in boxing that I could see him.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Winning one of those. But he's a YouTuber.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
God, no, no, stop a right there, it is Mallard
of the third degree?
Speaker 1 (41:56):
Patrick, How did wait down? Preno? Ben three?
Speaker 7 (42:00):
Now let's go Kaffin. He's just
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our numb bird two piping hot original recipe.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
We will not shut the hell up here in our.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Number two as we react to the big news of
the day and that coming out of pro bouncy ball,
what is the lack of activity like nobody who you've
ever heard of joining the team? Say about the Lakers
and Lebron James. Also, will the seventy six ers end
up regretting the Paul George contract? And in addition to
(00:32):
all that, we'll go to Oklahoma. How does Isaiah Hartenstein,
a mid level NBA player get eighty seven million over
three years in Okase? We'll tell you about that as well.
All of it's coming your way right now here. It
is our number two. The rejection letter is.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
In the mail. Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
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Speaker 2 (01:42):
Remember that guy Dad Gummett that used to call the
show back in the day before he retired from calling
the show.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
He likes that number ten thousand.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, sorry, Lead this hour from Tinseltown adjacent, we should say,
from up the hill. From up the hill from where
we broadcast from, there's a very richy neighborhood called bell Air.
Bron spent a lot of time there. Over the years,
the Lakers continue to be the laughing stock of the NBA.
(02:10):
It just gets better by the day. Not only did
the franchise that once prided themselves on winning hire a
podcaster as their head coach, they drafted the washed up
star Players kid, the NEPO kid, Scronnie Browny in the
second round and everyone's laughing. But have you heard the
latest on this gets even better? The plot thickens in
(02:34):
Lakerland if we missed it so. At the start of
free agency, Lebron James, through his useful idiots his cronies
in the media, wanted every one of us know you
and I and everyone else to know that he was
going to take a massive pay cut. Lebron was going
to take a pay cut to help the Lakers, and
he had his eye on the prize. There were three players,
(02:57):
three players Lebron wanted, James Harden, Clay Thompson, and Jonas Valentiunis.
That's the list, period stop. And if one of those
players comes to the Lakers, Lebron would take a sizeable
pay cut. Well, one by one, they have all decided
to give Lebron the old poke in the eye the
(03:22):
cold shoulder. All is quiet on the western front in Lakerland.
So let us discuss the question what does this lack
of activity by the Lakers say about the leadership of
Lebron James. So I've got elementary school fairy tale and
(03:44):
Jigsaw puzzle, and we will combine all of these things
together and we're going to make an episode of the Office.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Which for some reason is right right in front of me.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
All right, So, Na, all those old dusty trophies and
all the commercials and endorsements Lebron James has gotten over
the years, and the opportunity to play in La in
front of all those woke celebrities in Hollywood and it's
not a big enough calling card. What does that say
(04:21):
my entire life? The Lakers have always gotten the top
players whoever they wanted, they got. Not right now, No,
it's not happening anymore. Have the mighty fallen all of
a sudden. It does appear when you dig a little
deeper and you look at what's going on in Lakerland.
This is such an embarrassment. Lebron has yet to win
(04:44):
anything as a Laker. The Lakers have regularly been an
embarrassment with Lebron James on the roster, and he is
the owner by proxy and the GM by proxy of
the team. Genie Buss has raised the the white flags.
She's just giving up. She says, I can't handle it anymore.
Do whatever you want, Lebron. You want to hire your
(05:05):
little podcast buddy, Okay, we'll do that. You want a
draft your kid who can't play, Okay, well draft your kid,
no problem, no problem at all. But that's one thing
he said, Well, anybody can coach. It's not that hard
to coach in the NBA. Right, There's some real stiffs
that have coached in the NBA. And second round pick.
You can say, well, so second round pick, and who
cares about a second round pick? Okay, but Lebron was
(05:28):
given the elbow room to improve the roster and make
any moves his heart desired. And if you look at
the scoreboard, there's a lot of goose eggs on the scoreboard.
There's a lot of goose eggs on the scoreboard. And
this does not whisper. It screams, is what it does.
(05:48):
That Lebron and the Lakers have lost the rasthma task.
They're frazzled. Lebron is frazzled. At this particular point, Lebron
James has been diagnosed. Doctor Mallard, that would be me,
has diagnosed Lebron James with an elementary school playground illness.
Lebron's got the cooties. Lebron has the couse Now what
is my evidence? Three players? There were three guys Lebron
(06:11):
was willing to take a pay cut for and he
made sure to leak this assuming one of them would
come to the Lakers. The three players who turned down
the Lakers and Lebron James Harden, Now that's understandable. Harden
wanted to play for the glamour team in Los Angeles,
the people's team. You can't really be upset by that.
(06:31):
Why would you want to play for the Lakers when
you play for the Clippers? Right, they got the taj
Mahal of Arenas, better owner, better fan base, real authentic fans,
not fraudulent, fake phony fans like the Lakers have. So
they have historians, as we like to point out, So
that's understandable. He can't really rip Lebron for Harden not
wanting to play for the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Why would you? Right then you've got Yonis Valentutis. Now
this is a.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Body blow, body blow, body blow because Valentnis, who's getting
a little along with too, he picked wizardry and living
in DC on a bottom feeding franchise rather than play
for the Lakers. That is a kick to the nuts,
is what that is. Now, that's not the most embarrassing though,
(07:16):
the most embarrassing. And there's no way to spin this,
there's no way to spend this is Clay Thompson, who
grew up around the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
His father played for the team.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I love the Lakers growing up, has connections to the franchise.
His father is a mouthpiece, a propaganda arm of the
Laker propaganda machine as a broadcaster for the team.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
And yet he said, I want nothing to do with you.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I want to go eat tex mex and live in
the Dallas area and that's what I'm going to do.
So screw you. I don't want to play for your team.
You talk about a body blow, body blow, body blow,
That is a body blow. Now the makers are trying
to salvage things with Demarta Rosen, who is soon to
be thirty five years old next month turns thirty five.
(08:08):
One trick pony, mid range jump shot, no defense. That's
the Marta Rose and you can trade a bunch of
random spare pieces to get him.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Good luck.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Now page two. Here we circle back. Now, circle back
to Philadelphia. Consumed a lot of media content so you
would not have to about Paul George by George podcast
p heading to the Delaware Valley to hang out with
Fats and Philly and all our friends in the greater
Philadelphia area and southern New Jersey and so the Sixers.
(08:42):
Here's the question, will the Sixers end up regretting the
Paul George contract?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
And I'm not in my head. Yes you can't see me,
but I'm not in my head. Yes. PG.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Thirteen is the epitome of damaged goods, not quite to
the degree.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Of Klay Thompson.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
We talked about Klay Thompson in a previous hour and
how he has just lost it.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
So he's not that bad, but there.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Are the telltale signs of trouble on the horizon and
that mushroom cloud you see out in the distance problematic, problematic.
Klay Thompson has his own issues. But Paul George, I'll
give you some numbers to back this up here. So now,
last year, Paul George, in a year where he knew
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he was going to opt out of his contract, he
played in over seventy games. He was relatively healthy. But
the four previous years prior to that, Paul George appeared
in less than sixty games. In fact, if you look
at the side by side with Kawhi Leonard, who is
the personification of lackadaisical and Kawhi Leonard just load management
(09:53):
doesn't give a damn would rather hang out at his
casa in San Diego than play basketball during the season.
So and Paul George, the games missed within the same
zip code. Now, Kawhi's missed more, but not by that many,
not by that many, and another player who is rapidly
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aging in Paul George and the Sixers overpaid for a
guy who is a glorified part time player who vanishes
in big moments and is another one of these players
that is living off past accolades. This is a big
infestation around the NBA, right past accolades. He left his
hometown team, the glamour team in LA, the Clippers, playing
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a chance to play at the taj Mahall with the
richest owner in sport. He left outside of the soudiast,
but he left that team, right, He left that team,
And every man, woman and child knows how this fairy
tale ends. Once upon a time, a long long time ago,
Paul George turns into a giant, feather fire breathing albatross,
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A giant albatross?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
What could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go wrong?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
All? Right?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Now? Final point?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
We pivot to a bizarre transaction that Mike from Oklahoma
City requested that I at least mentioned this.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
She said, you never talk about this team, and why
do you talk about the thunder? What's wrong with you?
You're on the radio here, Okay, calm down, so I
will pacify you, I will appease you. We pivot to.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
The dust bowl. A big deal in the Sooner State.
A big deal here. How does on God's Green Earth,
former Knickerbocker center Isaiah Hartenstein get eighty seven million over
three years in Okay, see how does that happen? So
it's to me this is not that complicated. Isaiah Hartenstein
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is a medium level player. He's an average NBA players,
not roster spam. Roster spam can't play. He can play,
but he's not the center of the universe by any means.
He's a player that you like to have on your team,
and he played well for the Clippers a couple years
ago going to the Knicks. But the thing here, you
heard this when you were a kid. It's all about timing.
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It's all about timing. And if you look at the
jigsaw puzzle and okay, see, they were a fraudulent team.
They had a great regular season record, they were exposed
in the playoffs. We all saw that they were a
joke in the playoffs. But the Thunder had money to
burn because all they've been doing is hoarding draft picks
over the years, and these big extensions haven't really kicked
in other than shake yogis Alexander who was not a
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draft pick. That was a Clippers draft pick, so they
had money to burn. They had a clear and obvious
need in the middle, and so they think that Isaiah
Hartenstein will be the missing jigsaw puzzle piece that will
push them where they need to go. And so they're
willing to start a bonfire and pay a guy who's
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a mid level NBA player at best and likely a
backup on a good team, and they're going to pay
him almost thirty million dollars a year. Now, keep in
mind he averaged about eight points a game and eight
rebounds a game, and that's wheth thirty million dollars to
Oklahoma City thirty million dollars. A role player who fills
out the roster and doesn't suck when he's on the court,
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but doesn't dominate at all. Thirty million dollar player, thirty
million dollar year player. Almost It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
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From the Tirack dot Com Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's
Ben Maller.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
So I got a text from my buddy Jay, who
i've old newspaper guy, and he sends me a text.
You say, He says, I'm in the parking lot at
the iHeart Building. So what are you doing in the
freaking parking lot? I mean, he just showed up, and
so he gave me some magnets and some stickers from
the from the show.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
But Jay was they're kind of cool, you know, from
from what he just had them. He had them made
like through AI. These are made by AI.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Oh, he fucks around with AI and this is this
is how they designed the logo for the Mallard Militia
and the show.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
So it was kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
But he drove up to Santa Barbara from LA to
see the SpaceX rocket launch, except there was no They
canceled it the last minute.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
He drove all the way.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
So he said he had to do the drive of
shame back from Santa Barbara because if he's mess around photography,
he takes photos and things.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Of where did they launch from? I don't even know, just.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Above Santa Barbara? And it Vandenburg is that the name
of it. Yeah, it's not far.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Yeahanderburg Air Force Base is still an air force base.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I just say they launched north of Santa Barbara. And
I've seen it driving in here at night.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
So he was on his way back from the Catchel,
he stopped by.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
He doesn't look far from here, so he stopped by,
and he was very kind of him to do that.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Vandenberg Space Force Bace, Hawthorne, California.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Oh that's not it. Then it's not in Hawthorne.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Hawthorn's in the South Bay, right, this is uh, what's
north of Santa bar I see, now we're gonna have
to see. This is gonna screw us up. I knew
this was gonna happen, but they launched in the Santa
barber So anyway, I will figure that out.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Let's go call the phones.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Will say hello to Andre, who's in the commonwealth. Hello, Andre, Well.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Good evening, it's good to be with you. You opened
up the show talking about a little bit of free
agency and what's kind of going on some of these
unseen things that are happening right within the team. You know,
So the world isn't It's not greed that makes the
world go around, they say, Right, Ben, it's more envy. Right,
It's more envy that kind of looking out of the users.
(18:29):
Decide your eye and attle be a little jealousy, a
little covetousness, if I can use that word. But Ben,
I think that's what's at the heart of what we
see in terms of Paul George going to Philly. Right,
I'm going to show these clippers, what's what you know?
What I mean?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
No, No, that's the worst take ever, Andre. That's that
you're inna take jail Andre with that day. No, Paul
George said, I want to get not a single dollar less.
I don't care whether I win or not. He knows
Philadelphia's knocking. When Joel and b doesn't have any guts
in big games, he's going to disappear, not gonna win anything.
Chance the clip, he'll be shut. You don't know about
You're standing at the w NBA, Eddie, you're the w
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NBA guy. Leave the basketball to do, Austin. I'm guy
because you're annoying because I see you, even though you
were across the room for me. Because there are now
three cameras in front of me. That is, why are
there three cameras in front of me? I don't understand.
I'm in a radio station.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Does can you explain that? Andre Ben?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
You're the man at traction first of all, and we
already talked about this year you power over.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Rob Barker came traveling around Robin's on vacation right now.
But listen, the point is, Paul Georgian can go to
Philadelphia to win. He went there because they offered him
the most money. He's in his mid thirties. He figured
this is my last chance to truly cash in, although
I don't even know if it's his last chance to
cash in because everyone's getting paid. You know what, I
blame inflation. It's all because of inflation. Andre The price
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of everything's going up. If Isaiah Hartenstein is a thirty
million dollars a year player, almost Holy crap, Isaiah Hartenstein
on here is getting almost a year.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Thirty million for Hartenstein, I really don't know who that
is here with grosspick here, the owner of the Celtics,
he wants to cash in based on the TV money
that's paid, that that's about to come in the sport.
You know, the rising tide never ends.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Get all.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I get all that then, But back to my point
about MV, I do have to say Klay Thompson choosing
the Dallas Mavericks over to La Lakers, that does have
to do with sticking it to Golden State and wanting
to win a championship and wanting to show his value
a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Paul George, I disagree also respectively, Andre, because if I'm
Klay Thomps, if you really want to stick it to
the Warriors, you go to the Lakers, because the Warrior
fans don't hate the Mavericks, but.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
They do hate the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
So if you want to get back, you want to
stick it to the to the Warriors, you go there.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
And play great.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
But he knows he's not going to play that great
and so he took the money and went to Dallas.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
They'll play pretty good with Jason Kidd as his leader,
but I don't know how he's gonna do with a
fourth grade AAU coach a guide in the ship with Lakers.
So I think that had something to do with him
also going to Dallas JJ Reddick for as much profanity
as he can spew to get clicks in his interview.
I don't know what's going to happen the Lakers finally
hit Rocky hit some tough seeds, which they're going to do,
and if he's going to be able to guide them.
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But Ben as always, thanks for taking the cut time,
and I'm going to get up on my economics to
know what's going on with this in place here.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Thanks taking the time, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I just want you to know that, well, the price
of everything's gone up. We here are holding our own
here in radio.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Right Eddie. We are not We are not forcing management
to pay us more money, right. I mean we don't want.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I mean we could demand more money, but we're like, no,
we don't want. We want to help the company out.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
We're getting out.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
We give the hometown discount. It is what we do
year after year twenty plus years of hometown discounts. That's
a lot of discounts city. We've given a lot of
good discounts. Let's sale o to eeny meenie money. Let's
sail it to Avery, who's in Vegas. And we have
not promoted this enough. People have to make travel plans.
But the Malord Meet and Greed is coming up in
early August. We are now in huge July. We're a
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little over a month away from the Malor Meet and
greet in Lost Wages, Nevada. All the information available on
the social media channels. It's all pinned to the top
on all the social media pages Ben Mallor on X
if you want to see right there on the X page,
which we use a lot during the show, you can
check that out. Also on the Facebook page Ben Mallor Show,
(22:22):
and on Instagram, Ben Mallor on Fox. It's all available
to and Avery will be in attendance at that event.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
He will be there.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I know you're excited, Calm down, but Avery's good. You're
going to meet Avery, who cares about us. You get
to meet Avery, but he'll be one of the big
celebrities there. That's August third, It's scheduled for three to five,
but we'll probably stay a lot longer than that. I
always schedule short in case no one shows up and
then I can leave right away, so I always schedule
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less than I plan on spending there. But it'll be
at the Stakeout Bar and Grill the Maryland Parkway locations
near UNLV and our buddy Slug is the hostess with
the most Everybody. Yes, Slug is Vegas is the guy,
and we're just gonna hang out and we're all gonna
be there. I believe I'm there. Eddie's agreed to show up.
(23:13):
Lorrain Ah will be there.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I think Coop might be there as well, but he's
going to be there.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Okay, Well, we'll all be hanging out there, and there's
already some boys planning a post game party. I don't
think the minor league game is gonna happen. Nobody really
jumped at that opportunity to sit in a hundred degree
weather with Big Lou in a luxury box at the
minor league game. But there's some postgame celebrations post mallard
meet and greet parties planned by some So LORRAINA, yes, do.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
You think there will be lovely malor ladies there. I
want to go and get Martini's with all them.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
You want to go with the ladies?
Speaker 5 (23:50):
All right? Well yeah, well if Jay Dot's not in jail,
his girlfriend will probably show up.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yes, that's why that's one. So that's true. And I
think Akathy. I don't think Kathy, but Avery will. Oh uh,
what's that.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Our donut lady in Tennessee. I think it's going to try.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
It'll be nice. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Normally what happens is the guys forced the girl friends
to show up, right, That's normally what happens.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
And against they sell it as a weekend in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, it's like you made me go to that whatever,
So you have to go to this type situation.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
So that's normally what wincycle. Regina, you never know.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
She's over in Colorado, so that's not that far away.
It's a couple of states over for her to drive.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Over color.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Saying something about our friend that you'd like to talk
to a class about there.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Wow, man, jeez, are you there? Avery?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Am I just talking to myself? I'm all right, Hello, Avery?
What's going on?
Speaker 7 (24:48):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
What's up? Speaking of what's everybody's drink of choice?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Ed you want to get plastered on the malam and
greet theready.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Yeah, you can buy me a drink if you want.
I'm I'm not piggy. Well, you drink anything pretty much. Really,
it's got you know. You don't like everything.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Do you like fruity drinks?
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (25:09):
All right, Well it depends on how schmooth. Did I
want to get?
Speaker 7 (25:14):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (25:15):
So I do?
Speaker 6 (25:16):
I do like a filthy martini with blue cheese olives,
But I also love a miskall a mescal in pineapple.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
The opposite of me. I'll drink whatever. She's very specific, yea.
Even the olives have to be a certain thing.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
You guys had mescal though, like that smoky tequila. I
like miss Skall with pineapple with if your.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
This is your fault, Avery, this is your fault, you
starting you open Pandor's box.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Avery.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
See you don't understand Lora at these things. I've done
a number of in the over the years. The one
in Boston was completely off, but people kept buying me,
buying me beer, uh and.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Like it was your birthday?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, and I don't. I don't drink that much, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I'm an occasional like social once a month sometimes I
go months without drinking and and this guy I did
it for mahlor Wayne from Southee, and he kept buying
me beer and it was it was crazy.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I got completely wasted that night. That's weird.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
That's not See, that's the other guy. That's the Miami.
He can't afford to buy me beer. See he can't.
The other guy, Wayne from Southee, he could anyway. Listen, Avery,
We'll have a great time. I can't wait. Month away,
month away.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
Yes, sure.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
A man, thank you, this is the great Avery. He'll
be there and he is bringing his lady friends, so
she there will be at least one lady there. Yay.
Any chance Queen Rocks Anne will make an appearance from
Colorado Walls not.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
No, haven't heard her mer in a while.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah, she works with the dreaded day shift. Now we
lose a lot of good people, a lot of good
soldiers to the day shift. They leave us.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
They still listen to the podcast, but it's not the same.
It's not the same as when they listen live NERD.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Christina showed up to a minor league game one time.
I heard from her in a long time.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yes, I think she's married now I think so we'll
probably never hear from her again. Probably not. Yeah, that's
usually what happens, works both ways, men and women. They
get married, that's it. Game over, lights out, all.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I too good for reality, and the overreaction will go
there as well.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
We also have Mallard of the third degree. But right now,
let's get you caught up.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
On everything going on in the overnight and we say
hello too. The cabana boy. This guy is so boogie.
He goes to NFL games and sits in a cabana.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
Eddie Garcia, I was actually told earlier today there will
be a return visit.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
To the seasoned.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Are you gonna be on CBS every game again like
you were the last couple of years.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I don't know who's on TV more.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
You were.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Parker the snow Dog.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Oh, Parker the snow Dog, every game.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
B roll the snow Dog, b roll always.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
We start with news from the NBA, where the Boston
Celtics to start Jason Tatum reportedly gree on the richest
contract in league history, five years and three hundred and
fourteen million dollars. Is after Tatum helped the Celtics to
their eighteenth NBA title this past season. He overtakes teammate
Jalen Brown, who had the richest deal with the total
value of two hundred and eighty five million dollars. Former
longtime Warriors guard Klay Thompson's a great and a three
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year deal worth fifteen million dollars to join the Dallas Mavericks.
The deal was a sign in trade. It also required
the Mavericks to ship out swing man Josh Green to
the Charlotte Hornets and two second round picks head to
Golden State. NHL news the National Predators are the big
winners on Day one of free agency. They signed two
times Stanley Cup winner and former Tampa Bay Lightning captain
Steven Stamkost. They signed former Stanley Cup winner Jonathan Marciso
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playoff MVP from the Vegas Golden Knights, and also coveted
defenseman Brady Shay, and they resigned their goalie uc Saros
to an eight year deal. Soccer Copa America USA is
shut out by Uruguay. Won nothing. US beat Bolivia in
their opening year, but then they lost to Panama. That
put him in a must win situation against Uruguay and
obviously they lost, so they were eliminated before the knockout
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stage in a tournament where they were the host country.
In baseball, we had the Astros beating the Blue jay
Is three to one. Houston has won ten of eleven.
They're now three back of Seattle for first in the
Al West. Breweries fall to the Rockies eight to seven,
Colorado with the walkoff victory, and the Mets scored six
runs in the tenth beat the Nationals in DC eleven
to seven in ten innings. Those the only three Major
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League Baseball games on the day.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Well, because I'll tell you why Thursday, why, you don't
have to say it like that.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
So the way that the schedule works, Thursday is normally
the travel day for a lot of teams, but everyone's
got to play on the fourth of July. So instead
they moved, they fetched around with the schedules, so more
teams had days off on Monday. I see, that's what
I was told. There's a certain that they have an
agreement with the union where they have to have a
certain number of days off and travel days and whatnot,
(29:45):
and so they messed with the schedule so they would
have more I think everyone's playing, if I'm not mistaking
everyone's playing on the fourth of July.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Are you gonna mention this John Gruden story?
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I will, yes, I mean, can you can touch on
it now if you want, but I we'll talk about
John Gruden getting a big l Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
Former NFL coach John Gruden losing his bid for the
Nevada Supreme Court to reconsider whether a contract interference in
conspiracy law city filed against the league after he was
let go there by the Raiders because he heard in
the courts or in private arbitration that they said no.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
So the NFL was able to get some friendly judges
and for now make that story go away. And John Gruden,
We're not sure if he can appeal higher up or
that's it, but at this point it appears that it's
it's all over it.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
You know what we need right now?
Speaker 5 (30:37):
A fun fact?
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Fun fact?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I think we need two fun facts.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Aaron Judge the last fifty games for the New York Yankees.
Aaron Judge hitting three ninety eight for the Yankees over
the last fifty games. His ops that's on base plus
slugging percentages one one four to three nine. That's one
thousand and four and three thirty nine. That is the
highest ops over a fifty game span by a right
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handed hitter ever in the history of baseball, the greatest
fifty game stretch. Now, Eddie, before he got into radio,
used to work a job where they would just create
a stat out of anything. And this this next I
got a bonus fun I hit hit it again, hit
it again? Yeah, hit me twice, hit.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Me a guy.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Fun fact.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
So this is the kind of stat that you just
make up out of thin air, because you need to
come up with a stat. So players in Major League
Baseball history to hit a home run on their twenty
fifth birthday and thirty eighth birthday, twenty fifth and thirty
eighth birthday, Charlie Blackman, who did it on Monday. And
the other player to do it, you know it is Eddie.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
No, you don't know who it is.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
No, I don't know Todd Helton, both Rockies, both Colorado Rockies.
So isn't that rather meaningless and random and a waste
of everyone's time and energy and brain cells?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
And all right? Yes, But someone who gets paid a
lot of money to come up with a.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Stat a lot of money, Well, okay, they get paid, Okay,
they get paid. It's a living wage, I think, and
they came up with that stat They typed a few
things into the supercomputer, and that's what they came up with.
Let's take that for data exactly. Let's say hello to John,
who's in Reno. Hello John, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (32:24):
My man?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Living the dream? John? One hot take at a time?
Speaker 3 (32:30):
We're doing with food drivers against this hole.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Oh look at that. Every night the bar is open
at John's house every night.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Hey, it's always open. I don't know why you would
ever want to close the bar?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I know, are you too good for reality? I saw?
I saw Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
You see this.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Travis Kelcey turned down an opportunity to be in that
Netflix docu series and he says he's way over the reality.
Blank is what Travis kelsey said. But you know, John,
even though you're drinking those screwdrivers, you know that Travis
kelce eight years ago was on a dating show. He
was on a reality TV dating show. So any would
(33:10):
now these stooping the most famous woman in the world
all of a sudden he's too good for reality.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Both and then we're we're backing it up with fireball tonight.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Do okay? You just chime in what you're drinking. How
about this one?
Speaker 2 (33:25):
You talk about an over reaction machine, John drinking screwdrivers
in Reno.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
The Philadelphia seventy six.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Ers at one of the big gambling houses, have the
second best odds of winning a championship because of Paul George.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
By George, what is up with that?
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Ben? When you're down there in Vegas, try a nice
Cadillac margarita. They're refreshing. They got plenty of hoots in them.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Now, John, are you going to be driving down as a.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Hoos term there a while?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
That's old school?
Speaker 8 (34:01):
Yeah, but yeah, but don't dump is not familiar with
the Hoos trip down to the Vegas.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
It's too hot down there.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Baby, you're not going to be indoors. I mean I'll be.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
I'll be I'll be hanging up at Tahoe or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
All right, So you use used whosh, you use barbituates
as well? Is that a term you use? Is that's
an outdated term?
Speaker 5 (34:25):
Right?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Barbituates?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
I haven't. I haven't had any of them. My little
slip Bill slip.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Someone slip someone a mickey.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
That's an old term too, right, That's what Bill Cosby did,
didn't that Cosby did.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Yeah, that's yeah, that's the Bill Cosby drink.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Okay, all right, well thank you. It's a great conversations.
I get back to your screwdrivers.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
All right there, he goes, h just great, just wonderful.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Cash the Profit says he enjoys the show. He is
terrified to all in because he thinks I'll cook him.
I won't cook you. I might microwave you, but I
won't cook you.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Super Marcus Steve, we are hungry for more.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Super Marcus Steve says, don't forget about missus, Supermarket Steve,
my wife Jessica, who will be joining us at the
Mala Meet and Greet in Vegas. Supermarket Steve will be there.
Will they bring Tierra Massou?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
They did at the Southern California Meet and greet we
did a while back. And super Marcus Steve, now you
boys that show up to the Malor Meet and greet
in Vegas. Super Marcus Steve is the guy. He's the
buggy whisper. He's the guy that has worked in the
grocery business for years, and he's the person that advised
me to not put the cart back. Most controversial take
(35:43):
of the year most you talk about. Nothing has been
more controversial on this show than that. And I stand
with him. The Sour Jay Daddy writes, and he's a
Celtic Fantas says, watching the Lakers implode is quite hilarious.
Regardless of Lakers bring in this offseason, Lebron will be
competing for the D season Tournament and play in tournament.
(36:07):
That's about right, That's about where we are right now.
Late night drug Tests this says, I disagree. I think
Genie Buss is doing great. Let the Lakers tank under Lebron,
then swoop in as the hero and turn around the
franchise after he retires. The Grill Sergeant checks and says
eight plus plus plus on the Malay monologue, I should
have been born thirty years later and be about a
(36:28):
foot and a half taller. I'd be making bank.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Yeah, absolutely, all.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Right, straight ahead, we're gonna have mallor to the third degree.
Here's the insta trivia. Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson parting ways,
but they both made a three pointer in seven hundred
and thirty seven games together. That's including the playoffs with
Golden State. Blank is the next closest duo in NBA
(36:54):
history for most games as teammates making three point shots
that we're looking for two names here, that's the Insta trivia.
The answer, We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
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Speaker 5 (37:16):
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Speaker 2 (37:40):
And here is the Insta Trivia. Stef Curry and Klay Thompson.
They both made a three pointer in seven hundred and
thirty seven games together playing in the Bay Area that
includes the playoffs with Golden State. Blank is the next
closest duo in NBA history, with both acting on a
three point shot. That is the question. What is the answer?
(38:03):
Robin Vegas going with the game triple H is his answer.
Kurt Warner and Kurt Warner from Art Puffin. I see
what you did there, mister nice guy, going with Abbott
and Costello as his answer. Alf the Alien Opiner saying,
AOC and Bill Clinton.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
That's pretty funny. Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Late Night trug Tester says, you are Larry David and
jose Canseco, who are seventy seven and sixty today? Yeah,
Larry David, final season of Kurby, Your enthusiasm shows over
with now?
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Who else we have?
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Steve Francis and Katino Mobley from Fields of Green, the
Texas Outlaws, Dusty Rhodes and Dick Murdoch from King Rory.
That's his answer. Who else we have page down. I
can't read that on the air see Eddie esenof Do
you have an answer, Eddie? I need an answer.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
SuperSonics legendary duo Gary Payton and Debt lift shrim.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
I thought you might throw Nate McMillan in there, but
that's incorrect, Eddie, it's wrong. The correct answer second to
Curry and Thompson for both making a pre pointer in
NBA games as teammates Dame Lillard daytime and see J McCollum,
what the Trailblazers boom.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Shock a lock up? It's mallard? How about that?
Speaker 4 (39:21):
To the third degree? This is one big. Ben gets quilled.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
And we bring in and Patrick in the producing chair.
Speaker 7 (39:30):
Hello Patrick, Hello, Hello Ben? Well, Ben, I got a
couple of questions for you.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
You better, I'm so you're not gonna be back?
Speaker 5 (39:38):
All right? Well, Ben, let's start with the first one.
Speaker 7 (39:40):
The Warriors plan the retire Klay Thompson's number eleven Jersey
when he retires.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
Are you actually okay with this?
Speaker 4 (39:47):
Well, no, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
He Are you hoping to be against Clay Thompson at
his number tired? I don't think anyone should have their
number retired. I've taken this position. I will die on
this mountain. What you do is you have a ring
of all you celebrate the person's name, not their number.
That's what I That's what you do, all right. It's
so stupid to retire that numbers. If you want to
(40:11):
give him a statue, you can make it like a
mausoleum like they have in downtown LA at that arena,
the Lakers play all right next?
Speaker 1 (40:18):
All right?
Speaker 7 (40:19):
Oklahoma's athletic director Joe Castiglioni took a shot at USC's
Lincoln Riley, saying, all the coaches are excited about the
move to the SEC.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
The ones that weren't aren't here anymore.
Speaker 7 (40:31):
Oh Ben, is that foul or fair?
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Now? That's a fair ball and you don't need to
go to instant replayed. Here's why. All right, this is
what you do when you're in the Southeastern Conference. You've
got to.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Crank up the rhetoric. And Oklahoma's now an SEC team,
so that's what you do. But even if that wasn't
the case, Lincoln Riley burned Oklahoma. They thought he was
there forever coach and the only way he was gonna
leave Norman Oklahoma was go to the NFL. They did
not anticipate him going to what they deemed to be
a lower school in the University of Southern California USC
(41:07):
to coach the Trojans. But there is a little bit
of what's the word I'm doing The pain is still there,
that the wound is still open, even though Lincoln Riley
has been gone for years.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Next.
Speaker 7 (41:19):
All right, Jake Paul says he'll go for the world
title in twenty twenty five after boxing Iron Mike Tyson DC.
Paul is a legit contender, Ben.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
God, I hope not.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
I know boxing's terrible, and professional boxing's a joke in
this country and around the world and all that. I
get a UFC's where the cool kids are, but you
come on, No, this is a sideshow. But there's enough
alphabet soup championships in boxing that I could see him.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Winning one of those. But he's a YouTuber.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
God, no, no, stop a right there, it is Mallard
of the third degree?
Speaker 1 (41:56):
Patrick, How did wait down? Preno? Ben three?
Speaker 7 (42:00):
Now let's go Kaffin. He's just
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