August 1, 2024 • 38 mins
Big Ben talks about Joel Embiid getting benched for Team USA's most recent game, a former MLB exec saying that Jazz Chisholm's honeymoon phase with the Yankees won't last, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and more!
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listening to the live show? So our lead this hour,
we're gonna start in PERI are we gonna do another
malle monologue about swimming in pool? Now? Although I did
enjoy the photos, and I know our blind listeners couldn't
see them, but everyone else the photos of the triathlon athletes.
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There was one in particular that is a iconic photo
of the woman getting out of the river there in Paris,
and you it looks like you could see the pooh.
It was wild. Oh, just amazing. Anyway, our lead is
from the Olympics, but it's about pro bouncy ball Olympics
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style as bam out A Bio had a game high
eighteen points off the benchmind you, and the US took
care of South Sudan. They didn't cover the spread, but
they won the game. But if you bet on South Sudan,
you won the bet on that. The game itself not
much of a talker, as yet again, it was not
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in up for grabs up for debate. It was. It
was over pretty much at halftime. But you know what,
was a pretty good talker. Maybe not that would be
the decision by coach Steve Kerr to bench a former MVP.
Now Jason Tatum played. I think he had four points,
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didn't make an impact. But I just came on in
the background. I was daylighting and so I had this
on the background, So I was like checking it out
every so often. I wouldn't watching every second of the game.
But Joel Ebiid, an MVP, a former MVP, did not play,
and Steve Kirr claimed it was because of matchup issues, okay, saying,
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essentially trust the process that his lateral movement could not
match up with that vaunted South Sudan team embiid gets
in line. He now joins Jason Tatum and Tyrese Halliburton
among all star level players who have been hog tied
to the bench in the first couple of games of
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the Olympic competition. The basketball media, how do you think
they spun this? You know how they spun it? Right?
Oh yeah, they put sugar all over it. They put
some frosting. Oh my, it's so good. The basketball media
gushing over they use the buzz term adaptability was the
term they used adaptability for the US Hoop squad. That
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they can nix and max the players and that's how
it works. So let us discuss the question Joella Embiid
clearly benched by Team usay Steve Kerr saying it was
for strategic reasons, former MVP for the Sixers. Is this
wonderful adaptability or is it something else? So I've got
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Ross Dresser, less Scientifical and masquerade ball, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a delicious pastry which I might have when
we go to Vegas. We're doing the Mall of Meet
and greet this weekend, so I might have to break
the diet for a day something like that. That really
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won't count, right, Calories don't count in Vegas. What happens
in Vegas stays in Vegas. Is that true anyway? So
a let's start with this. I am not going to
go with adaptability. I'm gonna go with something else. I'm
gonna go with door number two. Adaptability is a cute
little story and it's nice and it reads pretty well.
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It sounds good when you say it, and I'm not
gonna say it's not part of this. But as the
radio legend when I was a kid, Paul Harvey would say,
that's not the entire story. Now you're about to get
the rest of the story. Don't be gullible. Don't be
a rube. Do not be a rube. Are we supposed
to believe that Joel Embiide is not good enough to
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get five minutes of playing time against South Sudan. You
gotta be joking, right, There's something else in play here,
and I believe as I put my tinfoil hat on,
there's something more nefarious going on when I look around
and I do a psycho analysis of what's happened here.
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Joel Ebiid is joining as we mentioned earlier here Jason
Tatum and Tyree Saliburton. He's getting the Ross dress for
less treatment. Now you might not be familiar with that store,
but if you go into that store, it's like a
discount clothing store, and the first person you see when
you walk into that store is lost prevention, lost prevention, right.
Try to get people not to steal stuff, very popularly
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these days, to steal things that aren't yours or go though,
in this case, it's not lost prevention because you're worried
about somebody stealing clothes. It's loss of pride, all right,
that you'd rather play zero minutes then come in in
garbage time and play five minutes. Does that make any sense?
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Am I making sense? That it's bad for your brand?
It's bad for your brand if you're the mop that
comes in and cleans up Aisle seven in garbage time
because you've got business. Does Jason Tatum's got to sell
you potato chips, and he's got to sell you sneakers
and other things. And Joel Embian's got all his endorsements,
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and so you got products you gotta sell. You're not
nearly as cool. You don't have the same panache if
you're the guy that comes in in garbagee as opposed
to sitting out the entire game because of you in
strategic reason or whatever. But how do you like Dan Apples?
Now we're gonna go off the reservation for a moment. Here,
We're gonna go to boxing for a second. But not
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boxing like MMA or like real boxing. No, no, no,
billionaire Elon Musk. Remember last year he was gonna fight
the Facebook guy. Now he's at it again. Elon Musk
says he's accepted not a fight with another internet provider,
but instead, Elon Musk has accepted a very bizarre challenge
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from the President of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro. I believe is
his name. If you didn't see this one during a
national television appearance and I didn't see it. I don't
live in Venezuela. But the president of that country challenge
the guy that sits on his phone all day sending
out comments on X Elon Musk to a fight. After this,
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after Elon Musk claimed that the election in Venezuela the
results were fraudulent and there were a bunch of videos
I guess posted of people who live in that country
who were protesting the election. So okay, fine, Well, Elon
Musk accepted the proposed fight from the President of Venezuela again,
this guy, Nicholas Maduro. So since we're here and we're
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all gathered together the powers of radio, who would win
the fight? Seriously? Who would win that fight? Elon Musk
against the president of Venezuela. Now, normally you would say
you always bet against the rich guy, because rich people
generally don't do well in sports because they're they're happy
people that want to make a lot of money. That's
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a general rule of thumb in sports. People that that
don't have a lot of money try to be you know,
they work a little harder. Elon Musk is rich, He's
filthy rich. He's like one of the richest people in
the entire world. So is he gonna have the same oldrich? Now?
I understand the president because of corruption. The President of
Venezuela has a lot of money as well. But if
you look at the tail of the tape here, it's
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surprisingly close. Both of these pugilists are of a similar height.
When you break down a fight, you look at the
you look at the age, you look at the height,
you look at the weight. All of that, the height
and the weight. There's a slight difference in the measurements.
But we'll start with the President of Venezuela. He's six
foot three. He weighs one hundred and eighty nine pounds.
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Elon Musk is six foot two. So the President of
Venezuela's got one inch on him and two pounds. But
Elon Musk, I bet you he goes out and has
a good weekend eating in like Paris or something, he
can gain a couple of pounds real quick. The age
is the big advantage for Elon Musk because the president
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of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro, is sixty one. Musk is fifty three.
So that's plus eight in favor of the X guy.
So X marks the spot. We're gonna go with Musk.
And the main reason also is it's scientifical. Right, after
all is said and done, more is said than done,
and boxing is a sweet science. I was told that
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my entire life growing up. So Elon Musk, when he's
not fussing around on X, I think he's a rocket scientist, right,
He's an amateur rocket scientist. He's a renaissance man, all
that stuff, and so yeah, that's where our money is now.
The chances this happens, I think there's a better chance
that he fights Zuckerberg from Facebook than the guy from Venezuela.
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But I'm there for all this. I mean, how about
a back to back fight weekend where in the morning
time or as Rick and Maryland says, morning time, how
about morning fight between Elon Musk and he can go
against Zuckerberg and then at night in prime time you
can go against the guy from Venezuela. Done all right,
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last stop, our final stop. Here in this mal monologue,
we go to Lincoln, Nebraska, where the corn is good
in the football's mediocre. But this is the first time
I mentioned Nebraska Cornhusker football in years. Why would I
do that? What happened, Well, there was a viral photo
that made the rounds from Cornhusker land five star Nebraska quarterback.
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I think that wasn't this guy supposed to go to
Georgia or I don't know. I remember seeing his name,
Tidy dre Anyway, Dylan Riola, whose father played in the NFL.
He showed up to Nebraska's training looking exactly like Patrick Mahomes.
In fact, I woke up and I saw this, and
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I thought, wow, that's kind of weird that Mahomes is
working out at Nebraska. So wow, that's while, I mean,
doesn't he have enough to do on us? His plates
kind of full with the chiefs? Now, the question is
the photo. There's a great debate was this accidental or
was this intentional? So after a minutes long ballot of investigation,
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I've determined there's no way that this was accidental. It's
the spinning image of the Chiefs quarterback, the Nebraska kid.
He's a kid arreola. I would say he's guilty of
a party foul, visiting the masquerade ball, doing cosplay and
all that. Now, supposedly he knows Mahomes quarterback coach, and
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has met Mahomes and done some stuff with him over
the years, the last couple of years, and he patterns
his game after Mahomes. That's all great, good, wonderful. Why
wouldn't you Mahomes is the top quarterback in football by
a country mile. He's secretariat way to go right, and
the Nebraska quarterback. Where's the same number. But he had
the same sunglasses, he's got the same hairstyle. That's not accident,
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that's not right. So yeah, do your own thing, stay
in your light. As LeVar Ball would say, and as
I learned as a kid from the great Doctor Seuss,
that be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter
don't mind. But be yourself, don't be somebody else. Right,
And this was total doppelganger. It's like one of my
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mentors was this guy, Lee Hacksaw, Hamilton in San Diego.
But they didn't try to dress like him. You know
what I'm saying. I didn't wear the same outfit, and
all that didn't go down that road.
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The way tire buying should be. Mic in the Mountains
made me want to puke in my mouth ten thousand times.
He sent me a picture of like a corn dog
with a pickle wrapped around it, Like that's like probably
poorn for alf the alien opiner, but not for me
and not for Eddie, because we don't want to see
that kind of crap. Mic in the Mountains, bad job
by you. But early this hour is from baseball. The
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flea market closing the other day, no more trades. The
musical chairs has ended for twenty twenty four, and now
it is time to evaluate what happened and time to
let your play do the talking. And nobody, nobody has
had a better couple of days since the trade deadline,
and he had traded a couple of days before. Then.
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A guy the Yankees got ex Miami Marlin Jazz Chisholm
Junior has been balling in the Bronx so they hadn't
played a game yet at Yankee Stadium, his debut against
the Red Sox, and now in Philadelphia, the Pride of
the Bahamas off to an electrifying start, bringing thunder and
lightning to the Pinstripes. But not everyone is drinking the
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kool eighth as they are comparing the beginning of Jazz
Chisholm Junior's career with the Yankees to all time greats. Now,
if you didn't see this, perhaps not. We heard that
former Marlin's executive turned talking head David Simpson is working
as a truth teller, saying it won't be long before
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Jazz Chisholm's magic carpet ride comes to an end. And
here's why he said. Quote, he's average. The former Marlins
executive said, he's not the star. He's not the center
of attention. Close quote Okay, pretty straightforward. Not a lot
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to pick a part part on that. So let us
discuss the question the former Major League Baseball executive David
Sampson saying that Jazz Chisholm Junior's hunting moon phase will
not last with the Yankees. He's average. Does he have
a point? So I've got Aristotle Farmstead and Conan the Barbarian,
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and we will combine all of these things together and
we are gonna make hay while the sun doesn't shine.
So num burm. Now the casual will say, well, this
is just sour grapes. This is just sour grapes from
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a guy that used to work for the Marlins. I'm
not gonna go there because it's been a while since
he worked for the team. He's been in the media
David Sampson for a while, collecting checks to give hot takes.
Generally speaking, I agree with his premise the former executive
because Jasism has been an absolute spark plug for the Yankees.
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He's playing above his me so far wearing the Yankee uniform.
He's playing at a level that he's never performed at consistently.
There have been a few bumps where he's played at
this level, but not consistently. So why all of a
sudden he is going to go do it now? Well,
what abouter and judging one? So okay, I get people
that do approve improve I just don't believe that you
can make that bold the statement right now. Because he's
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been around for a few years, he's established a type
of ballplayer he is, and as the Great Aristotle stated,
water seeks its own level and data evens out. Extreme
outcomes are followed by more moderate ones. We call it
regression to the mean, and we'll find out over the
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next month or so. That's when the rubber meets the
road and jazz. Chisholm, remember, was voted the most overrated
overrated player in the Big Leagues a couple months ago
in a survey of his peers. He also took a
shot at a dodge a former teammate, claiming he was
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interfering with him becoming a leader. But he's a firebrand,
and so this when things go sideways, and they will
go sideways, nothing lasts forever. This is going to become
a tinderbox, which will be great for people that do
guess baggery like me. I can't wait for it. Now
we head to sweet home Chicago, the land of losers,
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and like a fly to poop, we continue to be
attracted to teams that blow, like the White Sox, who
have been playing baseball on the South side of Chicago,
the baddest part of town, since nineteen oh one. The
White Sox have been playing on the South side of
Chicago and that is this season the worst product they
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have ever rolled out on the field. Never had a
team like this back in the old days at Kamiski
Park or the new ballpark they've had for many many
years now, and so this is it, this is rock Box.
After losing to the Royals on Wednesday, the Paleholes have
lost a team record seventeen straight. They're closing in on
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the all time record for futility. And I told Mark Now,
Mark was in earlier they got, you know, from Chicago,
Mark the board up. I was telling them. I was like,
I want to see the White Sox get the record.
You're so close, you might as well get the record.
And fans have been goofing on Baseball scribe Jeff Passing
because his old take started making the rounds back in
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twenty twenty. He's sang the praises of the Chicago White Sox.
He bragged about how they had signed all of their
young core players and they had a very bright future
because they were doing things the right way. So is
that fair or foul? The people goofing on that take,
and it's not just Jeff Passing. There's a bunch of
people that thought that as well, so I say it's
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a fair ball. Now. At the time Jeff Passon said it,
it seemed like a great take. But this is one
of the fatal flaws in baseball and one of the
things I have not fallen victim to in many many years.
But so many baseball reporters fall victim to it. They're pollyannas.
They are convinced that every prospect is going to live
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up to the scouting report, and every top one hundred
minor league player is going to be a good player,
maybe an all star player, and spinal Alard, ninety five
percent of the time, the scouting report is embellished, poppycock.
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It's poetry, is what it is. It wishful thinking, it's Shakespearean,
and it's all those things. And I have maintained for
many many years that the prospect is a suspect until
proven otherwise. And this is also a reminder, it's a
teachable moment. As they say on the farmstead, just because
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the chicken has wings does not mean that said chicken
can fly right. And they still have to play the games.
They still have to play the games. And the White
Socks have proven that abject failures. Of course, you can
never blame the players. So a lot of people are well,
they didn't have good management. The manager's the reason. Okay, yeah,
that's it. That's it. The player's blowing has nothing to
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do with it. It's if they had a better manager
putting the lineup card together, then they'd be good. Okayr
final point. We head now to the Pacific Northwest where
Mariners infielder JP Crawford said something that caught my attention.
It hasn't made the rounds yet, but I thought it
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was interesting, so I wanted to talk about it with
you for a minute or two. So JB. Crawford, an
infielder for the Mariners, revealed on an on field interview
that he does not think the thing that you and
I both have in common, and every man, woman and
child has in common is what we think it is.
So JP Crawford of the Mariners does not think the
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Earth is flat. However, he wants you to know he
does not think it's round either. So it's not flat,
it's not round. What is it? He said? Our planet
is not a sphere, but it's not flat either. He says,
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I'm a big firmament guy, is what he said. Your thoughts.
So my guy JP Crawford, who I never spent a
second thinking about, he should have a pow wow with
Kyrie Irving. They can get together, have lunch, have a
good time there. And he brought up My favorite part
of this is he brought up JP Crawford the movie
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four as a reference. He said, as I mentioned, he's
a big firmament guy, but he indicated that he thinks
the planet looks like if you remember what the planet
looked like in the Thor movies, the Marvel movies. So
I guess Chris Hemsworth is a scientist apparently, So hey,
I can play that game. If he's gonna quote the
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movie four to say the planet is like that, then
I can say, hey, I believe that JP Crawford could
be reptilian. Why if you watch the I think it
was the original con Conan of the Barbarian many many
years ago. He if I remember correctly, he got revenge
against a snake cult. So it's conceivable that JP Crawford
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is a reptilian person. He's a lizard person, and that's
why he's trying to spend spread propaganda of the Earth
is not flat or round, It is more like the
movie four. So how do you like them apples? They
taste good, they crunchy, yeah, solid. It is the Ben
Mallard Show. If you'd like to comment on any of that,
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Read a lot of comments. Just keep it somewhat broadcast
friendly and as long as we don't have to edit
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it too much. You're in good shape. You're you're doing okay,
You're doing fine, So way to go.
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It is the Ben Mallor Show. Speaking of where's the beef,
Let's get to the beef right now, here we go
beef time. It's Mallard. How about that to the third degree?
This is one big Ben gets grilled. I'll make sure
to get lorain in those smelling salts. But in the meantime,
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the Cooper little with Mallard. The third degree.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
To be fair. It wasn't weird toss. I wasn't sure
what horrible toss.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
All I was trying to get to is quick is possible?
I don't know what you want me to do? What
beef Time? I said, where's the beef Mallard of the
third degree? Cooper Loo? All right?
Speaker 5 (26:10):
John Elways said during a podcast appearance this week that
his is because.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
He just got to pay attention, that's all. It's not
that hard.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Yes, go ahead this, I don't know what beef time is.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
As big as mistakes, Broncos GM was not drafting Josh Allen,
then do you agree with him?
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Well, I don't have a big board of John Elway's
mistakes as Bronco GM, but he was overseeing the team
when they brought in Peyton Manning and all that, and
then once Peyton Manning fell apart, they won that that
Luke super Bowl where Maning was like pushed across the
finish line in a hospital journey. The Broncos have become
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like the Cleveland Browns. In fact, they're worse than the
Cleveland Browns the last couple of years. So there's like
it's not just Josh Allen. There's a ton of hindsight
mistakes that you can make. But it's it's not just Josh.
I mean there's free agent signings that were disaster, coaching
hires that were a joke. It's all inclusive with john
that way.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Right next, a NFL insider recently said that a DeVante
Adams trade is not on the horizon and the only
chance of it happening is right before the deadline. If
the Raiders season is already circling the drain, then are
you buying this report?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Well, yeah, it hits the bullseye because the Raiders think
they're going to be a contender. They think they're gonna
be a compended for a while cart spot in the AFC.
So once that has been evaporated and the Raiders end
up on the side of the road, then they could
trade Devonte Adams to the Jets or whoever. But until then,
there's no reason for trade. And they got to see
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what they've got this year with my guy Gardner, Minshew
or O'Connell, and then they can can revisit that. Right next. CJ. Gardner.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Johnson was livid this week when Matden twenty five tweeted
out the list of the top ten safeties in the game,
and he was not on the list. Gardner Johnson even
specifically called out in the choice is a Tyron Matthew
and Kevin Byer the third?
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Do you think he should be in the top ten?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
It's a list? Who cares? It's a video game list, Like,
I don't understand. This is one of those things I
do not understand. Like they come out every year with
the top sports radio host and every once in a
while I make the list, usually near the end, and
a lot of the people that are the top I've
heard their shows. They suck at radio, They're terrible. So
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it's just one person's opinion. Who cares. I don't get
worked up over it. I don't even worry about it
most of the time. So it's irrelevant to me, and
it should be irrelevant to CJ. Gardner Johnson. So like,
what are we doing here? That's it? Mallard of a
third degree? How did we do pass this edision? That
is a way we put on the board here? You
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got it? All right? We press on.
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It's now time for time for horry Ask Ben, Twitter said,
is your questions on Twitter now? And way we go,
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of the questions to be coop a loop. You can
still get questions in hashtag ask Ben. Hashtag ask Ben.
I still see questions coming in the last minute. But
let's get over to the Kooper loop.
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All right, We're gonna start off with a question from
the King Rory. He wants to know what's the best
kind of gum.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Well, when I was a kid, I used to go
to this place called Toys r Us and they had
the fruit stripe gum and I love that. That was
my go to gum, all the different flavors of gum.
So that was as a child, That's what I love.
I don't really chew gum as an adult, so I was.
I guess that was a double mint guy for a while,
but then I stopped.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
What about you, Eddie, Uh Back in the day, I
used to like juicy fruits.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yeah, also big League two. I had that for a
while when I was a kid. Yeah, Big League two
was big.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
I would think like the was like Hubba Bubba or
Bubbashes were kind of the ones that seemed like they
lasted the longest. The flavor I do. Actually, we take
we always have gum when we go to Disneyland.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Like you're a gum guy because he keeps you from eating.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Well no, but it's like, you know you don't want to.
It's so expensive to buy a soda at Disneyland. If
you're kind of a little bit thirsty, just you get
pump some gum in there. It'll take care of me
for a little while.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Oh okay, well life hack Lorrain who also goes to Disneyland.
You gefy people.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
Yeah, I'm I don't chew a lot of gum, but
I do like doublemint, like that classic green doublemint gum.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
I guess you're.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
A tourist when it comes to the gum.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Yeah, it's so nostalgic. I love that flavor.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
All right, what about you, Koble Loup, what's your go
to gum? I'd say probably five gum.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
It's like I don't shoo a lot of gun either,
but if I if I do, that's probably.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
It's called five gum. Yes, I never heard of it.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
The number five.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
It's supposed to last the longest. It does last pretty long.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
That's a marketing slogan, so it works. But anyway, what
is next is ask Ben your questions are answers or
the rest of the hour?
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Rob in the three two one, he wants to know
what is your high game in bowling?
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I'm bowled in years either. I didn't get a perfect game,
but I was like too off of a perfect game.
I had a couple of screw ups back in the day.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
What does too off? Meaning?
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Meaning I two of the uh what do you call?
Speaker 6 (31:39):
You had?
Speaker 5 (31:40):
You had a h a strike the entire but no,
there was every frame except for two.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Uh. Yeah. I used to be really good at bowling.
I was a I I got it's like muscle memory
once you learn how to like roll the ball, and
I couldn't do it now because I was young. But
we used to go bowling with my parents or whatever.
And then eventually I just stopped bowling and played video
games at the arcade. The bowling Ali. But yeah, it's
pretty good for a while.
Speaker 6 (32:07):
I was, what about you, Eddie, I've been in the
load two hundreds a couple of times. I can't remember
the exact score, but you know, somewhere in the low
two hundreds.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
All right, what about you, Lorraina, Well, I don't know
if you guys deserve to know this, but I'm a
professional bowler, well a professional user of the bumpers, so
I get I get pretty good scores.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
I don't actually keep talking about that. Yeah, with the
with the bumpers.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yes, isn't there for children?
Speaker 6 (32:36):
As though they do little kids?
Speaker 7 (32:38):
It helps me draw on the lines, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Okay, we should have a bowling night. I beat all
of you.
Speaker 7 (32:44):
You said it because when I gave ideas, no one
wants to do it. So yay, Ben saiday, wow, they won't.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
They won't it only if it's in their backyard they'll
do it. What about you? Cool?
Speaker 4 (32:53):
I think like one eighty something is my high score?
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Very good? What is next? It's ask Ben your questions,
our answers. Who's the hashtag? Ask Ben for the rest
of the hour, the reading of your questions. Don't forget
you can meet us all Malard Meet and greet coming
up Saturday, a couple of days away in Vegas. We're
doing Vegas. Details on social media three o'clock till five o'clock,
(33:19):
but we'll probably stay longer than that, and some of
the fans of the show, we're gonna have an after party.
What's next.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Fird Dog wants to know.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Are you okay with Del Taco being voted twenty twenty
four's best fast food chain.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
No, it's blasphemy. It's full crap. I mean, there's there's
and I don't have anything against Del Taco, but there's
like ten different fast food places that are better than
Del Taco. So that's a joke, and that's a bogus list,
and that's why lists suck, and and that whole thing
blows like raising canes puts them to shame. I'm not
(33:52):
a huge as big an in and out guys a
lot of the people around here, but in and out
it's better you this, like, there's so much even Chick
fil a better. Your joke is what it is? It is?
What about you, Ddie?
Speaker 6 (34:06):
I would agree with you. Del Taco is a place
you go if you have like no other options at
two in.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
The morning, it's not bad. Or if you're like on
the way to Vegas and barstow. They have the original
Barstow Taco at Del Taco, the bigger taco. You'd go there, Lorena.
Speaker 7 (34:21):
I love Del Taco and I love that it's gaining popularity.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
I think it deserves it.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
I love their fresh cheese, Oh my gosh, it's the
best fresh shreaded cheese you could put on a taco.
And they have those caramel cheesecake bites that are fire,
Oh my gosh, and they're crinkled cut fries.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Will you be will you be stopping at the your
driving to Vegas? We'd be stopping at the Barstow Del Taco.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
We might.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
I've never been in the Barstow one. That might be
actually fun.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
No, they have the bar. You got to go get
the Barstow Taco. That's what they're known for. Heck yeah, yeah,
all right, put on your list, Corilla.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
Is it okay to mention this?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (34:56):
Lorena and Cooper carpooling to Vegas?
Speaker 1 (35:00):
That ye? How many times are they gonna stop for
food on the way Vegas?
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Sleep once?
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Yeah, I'll stop and uh, let's see here, how many
stops are you stopped? Well before they even get out
of l A, they'll probably stop once for food. Then
you gotta get snack. Got when you get over the hill,
it's Victorville Apple Valley. That is, he'll stop there. Then
you've got was it Barstow Baker? You gotta go to
(35:27):
the Mad Green.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
We better not stop that many times.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
And then that's that's in your moo in you and
then you go to Vegas. But you gotta stop in
prim at Whiskey Beats. So there's a lot of stops.
You gonna enjoy the journey.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
I'm with you, Ben. That's uh, it's blasphemy.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Taco Bell is way better than Del Taco, so Del
Taco should not be number one. Mike in the Mountains
wants to know. Hi, Mike, when was the last time
any of you went camping, like putting up a tent
and sleeping under the stars.
Speaker 6 (35:59):
I answer that immediately. Never in my life, nor will
I ver if I have my choice.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
I did as a kid my parents we would go
camping all the time. And I my wife really wants
to go camping. And I said, the reason I worked
these crazy hours because I can afford a hotel. I
don't need to camp. Okay, I'm good. So I like
going to the outdoors, but I like going back to
my hotel room. So I do not. I do not
(36:24):
camp as an adult.
Speaker 6 (36:26):
Fortunately, my wife has no interest in camping either, so
we're good.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Well, my wife wants to camp, that's the problem.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
What about you heard that?
Speaker 7 (36:32):
Well, Raina, Well, you know I'm an Oregon baby, Ben,
I've camped my whole life. I'm a camper through and through.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
You're a tree hugger I am, and.
Speaker 7 (36:39):
The mosquitoes love me too. Wow, it's just my own
tent and everything.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Sound like you're from Texas or Tennessee. What about you? Koubaloup?
Speaker 4 (36:48):
Same answer as Eddie?
Speaker 1 (36:49):
No, no, no, no no. What is next to ask? Ben?
Your questions are answers?
Speaker 5 (36:56):
Cowboy Killer wants to know Mick rib yeay or nay nay, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (37:02):
I'm like you with coffee. Then, I've never had it,
which is shocking considering all the garbage I've eaten in
my lifetime. And at this point I kind of it's
almost like a badge of water that I've never had it.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
So here you go. What about the problem is I
saw with the big rip looks like when it's naked,
doesn't look good. I don't care about that. Yeah, it's
like great, what about you? Arena.
Speaker 6 (37:26):
Is that your answer?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Okay, make me cute?
Speaker 6 (37:30):
I like it?
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Okay, quickly one more one quick.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
One equals to know if you can have an endless
supply of something for the rest of your life, excluding
money and gas, what.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Would it be? Chicken fingers, Eddie gold bars is out.
Speaker 7 (37:42):
Of money, Shoes, baby shoes.
Speaker 6 (37:47):
Shoes meld Marcos.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
That's an outdated wreckord I know. I bet she doesn't
even know what that is. What about you?
Speaker 4 (37:53):
Time?
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Time?
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (37:54):
All that that's a great one. That's the most that's
the most valuable thing. Time. Wouldn't it be great if
you go down time, I'll be awesome.
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we're gonna start in PERI are we gonna do another
malle monologue about swimming in pool? Now? Although I did
enjoy the photos, and I know our blind listeners couldn't
see them, but everyone else the photos of the triathlon athletes.
(02:03):
There was one in particular that is a iconic photo
of the woman getting out of the river there in Paris,
and you it looks like you could see the pooh.
It was wild. Oh, just amazing. Anyway, our lead is
from the Olympics, but it's about pro bouncy ball Olympics
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style as bam out A Bio had a game high
eighteen points off the benchmind you, and the US took
care of South Sudan. They didn't cover the spread, but
they won the game. But if you bet on South Sudan,
you won the bet on that. The game itself not
much of a talker, as yet again, it was not
(02:45):
in up for grabs up for debate. It was. It
was over pretty much at halftime. But you know what,
was a pretty good talker. Maybe not that would be
the decision by coach Steve Kerr to bench a former MVP.
Now Jason Tatum played. I think he had four points,
(03:05):
didn't make an impact. But I just came on in
the background. I was daylighting and so I had this
on the background, So I was like checking it out
every so often. I wouldn't watching every second of the game.
But Joel Ebiid, an MVP, a former MVP, did not play,
and Steve Kirr claimed it was because of matchup issues, okay, saying,
(03:29):
essentially trust the process that his lateral movement could not
match up with that vaunted South Sudan team embiid gets
in line. He now joins Jason Tatum and Tyrese Halliburton
among all star level players who have been hog tied
to the bench in the first couple of games of
(03:51):
the Olympic competition. The basketball media, how do you think
they spun this? You know how they spun it? Right?
Oh yeah, they put sugar all over it. They put
some frosting. Oh my, it's so good. The basketball media
gushing over they use the buzz term adaptability was the
term they used adaptability for the US Hoop squad. That
(04:15):
they can nix and max the players and that's how
it works. So let us discuss the question Joella Embiid
clearly benched by Team usay Steve Kerr saying it was
for strategic reasons, former MVP for the Sixers. Is this
wonderful adaptability or is it something else? So I've got
(04:39):
Ross Dresser, less Scientifical and masquerade ball, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a delicious pastry which I might have when
we go to Vegas. We're doing the Mall of Meet
and greet this weekend, so I might have to break
the diet for a day something like that. That really
(05:01):
won't count, right, Calories don't count in Vegas. What happens
in Vegas stays in Vegas. Is that true anyway? So
a let's start with this. I am not going to
go with adaptability. I'm gonna go with something else. I'm
gonna go with door number two. Adaptability is a cute
little story and it's nice and it reads pretty well.
(05:21):
It sounds good when you say it, and I'm not
gonna say it's not part of this. But as the
radio legend when I was a kid, Paul Harvey would say,
that's not the entire story. Now you're about to get
the rest of the story. Don't be gullible. Don't be
a rube. Do not be a rube. Are we supposed
to believe that Joel Embiide is not good enough to
(05:43):
get five minutes of playing time against South Sudan. You
gotta be joking, right, There's something else in play here,
and I believe as I put my tinfoil hat on,
there's something more nefarious going on when I look around
and I do a psycho analysis of what's happened here.
(06:04):
Joel Ebiid is joining as we mentioned earlier here Jason
Tatum and Tyree Saliburton. He's getting the Ross dress for
less treatment. Now you might not be familiar with that store,
but if you go into that store, it's like a
discount clothing store, and the first person you see when
you walk into that store is lost prevention, lost prevention, right.
Try to get people not to steal stuff, very popularly
(06:26):
these days, to steal things that aren't yours or go though,
in this case, it's not lost prevention because you're worried
about somebody stealing clothes. It's loss of pride, all right,
that you'd rather play zero minutes then come in in
garbage time and play five minutes. Does that make any sense?
(06:46):
Am I making sense? That it's bad for your brand?
It's bad for your brand if you're the mop that
comes in and cleans up Aisle seven in garbage time
because you've got business. Does Jason Tatum's got to sell
you potato chips, and he's got to sell you sneakers
and other things. And Joel Embian's got all his endorsements,
(07:07):
and so you got products you gotta sell. You're not
nearly as cool. You don't have the same panache if
you're the guy that comes in in garbagee as opposed
to sitting out the entire game because of you in
strategic reason or whatever. But how do you like Dan Apples?
Now we're gonna go off the reservation for a moment. Here,
We're gonna go to boxing for a second. But not
(07:29):
boxing like MMA or like real boxing. No, no, no,
billionaire Elon Musk. Remember last year he was gonna fight
the Facebook guy. Now he's at it again. Elon Musk
says he's accepted not a fight with another internet provider,
but instead, Elon Musk has accepted a very bizarre challenge
(07:52):
from the President of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro. I believe is
his name. If you didn't see this one during a
national television appearance and I didn't see it. I don't
live in Venezuela. But the president of that country challenge
the guy that sits on his phone all day sending
out comments on X Elon Musk to a fight. After this,
(08:15):
after Elon Musk claimed that the election in Venezuela the
results were fraudulent and there were a bunch of videos
I guess posted of people who live in that country
who were protesting the election. So okay, fine, Well, Elon
Musk accepted the proposed fight from the President of Venezuela again,
this guy, Nicholas Maduro. So since we're here and we're
(08:39):
all gathered together the powers of radio, who would win
the fight? Seriously? Who would win that fight? Elon Musk
against the president of Venezuela. Now, normally you would say
you always bet against the rich guy, because rich people
generally don't do well in sports because they're they're happy
people that want to make a lot of money. That's
(09:01):
a general rule of thumb in sports. People that that
don't have a lot of money try to be you know,
they work a little harder. Elon Musk is rich, He's
filthy rich. He's like one of the richest people in
the entire world. So is he gonna have the same oldrich? Now?
I understand the president because of corruption. The President of
Venezuela has a lot of money as well. But if
you look at the tail of the tape here, it's
(09:22):
surprisingly close. Both of these pugilists are of a similar height.
When you break down a fight, you look at the
you look at the age, you look at the height,
you look at the weight. All of that, the height
and the weight. There's a slight difference in the measurements.
But we'll start with the President of Venezuela. He's six
foot three. He weighs one hundred and eighty nine pounds.
(09:44):
Elon Musk is six foot two. So the President of
Venezuela's got one inch on him and two pounds. But
Elon Musk, I bet you he goes out and has
a good weekend eating in like Paris or something, he
can gain a couple of pounds real quick. The age
is the big advantage for Elon Musk because the president
(10:05):
of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro, is sixty one. Musk is fifty three.
So that's plus eight in favor of the X guy.
So X marks the spot. We're gonna go with Musk.
And the main reason also is it's scientifical. Right, after
all is said and done, more is said than done,
and boxing is a sweet science. I was told that
(10:27):
my entire life growing up. So Elon Musk, when he's
not fussing around on X, I think he's a rocket scientist, right,
He's an amateur rocket scientist. He's a renaissance man, all
that stuff, and so yeah, that's where our money is now.
The chances this happens, I think there's a better chance
that he fights Zuckerberg from Facebook than the guy from Venezuela.
(10:49):
But I'm there for all this. I mean, how about
a back to back fight weekend where in the morning
time or as Rick and Maryland says, morning time, how
about morning fight between Elon Musk and he can go
against Zuckerberg and then at night in prime time you
can go against the guy from Venezuela. Done all right,
(11:10):
last stop, our final stop. Here in this mal monologue,
we go to Lincoln, Nebraska, where the corn is good
in the football's mediocre. But this is the first time
I mentioned Nebraska Cornhusker football in years. Why would I
do that? What happened, Well, there was a viral photo
that made the rounds from Cornhusker land five star Nebraska quarterback.
(11:33):
I think that wasn't this guy supposed to go to
Georgia or I don't know. I remember seeing his name,
Tidy dre Anyway, Dylan Riola, whose father played in the NFL.
He showed up to Nebraska's training looking exactly like Patrick Mahomes.
In fact, I woke up and I saw this, and
(11:54):
I thought, wow, that's kind of weird that Mahomes is
working out at Nebraska. So wow, that's while, I mean,
doesn't he have enough to do on us? His plates
kind of full with the chiefs? Now, the question is
the photo. There's a great debate was this accidental or
was this intentional? So after a minutes long ballot of investigation,
(12:17):
I've determined there's no way that this was accidental. It's
the spinning image of the Chiefs quarterback, the Nebraska kid.
He's a kid arreola. I would say he's guilty of
a party foul, visiting the masquerade ball, doing cosplay and
all that. Now, supposedly he knows Mahomes quarterback coach, and
(12:39):
has met Mahomes and done some stuff with him over
the years, the last couple of years, and he patterns
his game after Mahomes. That's all great, good, wonderful. Why
wouldn't you Mahomes is the top quarterback in football by
a country mile. He's secretariat way to go right, and
the Nebraska quarterback. Where's the same number. But he had
the same sunglasses, he's got the same hairstyle. That's not accident,
(13:02):
that's not right. So yeah, do your own thing, stay
in your light. As LeVar Ball would say, and as
I learned as a kid from the great Doctor Seuss,
that be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter
don't mind. But be yourself, don't be somebody else. Right,
And this was total doppelganger. It's like one of my
(13:26):
mentors was this guy, Lee Hacksaw, Hamilton in San Diego.
But they didn't try to dress like him. You know
what I'm saying. I didn't wear the same outfit, and
all that didn't go down that road.
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The way tire buying should be. Mic in the Mountains
made me want to puke in my mouth ten thousand times.
He sent me a picture of like a corn dog
with a pickle wrapped around it, Like that's like probably
poorn for alf the alien opiner, but not for me
and not for Eddie, because we don't want to see
that kind of crap. Mic in the Mountains, bad job
by you. But early this hour is from baseball. The
(15:28):
flea market closing the other day, no more trades. The
musical chairs has ended for twenty twenty four, and now
it is time to evaluate what happened and time to
let your play do the talking. And nobody, nobody has
had a better couple of days since the trade deadline,
and he had traded a couple of days before. Then.
(15:49):
A guy the Yankees got ex Miami Marlin Jazz Chisholm
Junior has been balling in the Bronx so they hadn't
played a game yet at Yankee Stadium, his debut against
the Red Sox, and now in Philadelphia, the Pride of
the Bahamas off to an electrifying start, bringing thunder and
lightning to the Pinstripes. But not everyone is drinking the
(16:11):
kool eighth as they are comparing the beginning of Jazz
Chisholm Junior's career with the Yankees to all time greats. Now,
if you didn't see this, perhaps not. We heard that
former Marlin's executive turned talking head David Simpson is working
as a truth teller, saying it won't be long before
(16:31):
Jazz Chisholm's magic carpet ride comes to an end. And
here's why he said. Quote, he's average. The former Marlins
executive said, he's not the star. He's not the center
of attention. Close quote Okay, pretty straightforward. Not a lot
(16:52):
to pick a part part on that. So let us
discuss the question the former Major League Baseball executive David
Sampson saying that Jazz Chisholm Junior's hunting moon phase will
not last with the Yankees. He's average. Does he have
a point? So I've got Aristotle Farmstead and Conan the Barbarian,
(17:16):
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are gonna make hay while the sun doesn't shine.
So num burm. Now the casual will say, well, this
is just sour grapes. This is just sour grapes from
(17:36):
a guy that used to work for the Marlins. I'm
not gonna go there because it's been a while since
he worked for the team. He's been in the media
David Sampson for a while, collecting checks to give hot takes.
Generally speaking, I agree with his premise the former executive
because Jasism has been an absolute spark plug for the Yankees.
(17:58):
He's playing above his me so far wearing the Yankee uniform.
He's playing at a level that he's never performed at consistently.
There have been a few bumps where he's played at
this level, but not consistently. So why all of a
sudden he is going to go do it now? Well,
what abouter and judging one? So okay, I get people
that do approve improve I just don't believe that you
can make that bold the statement right now. Because he's
(18:21):
been around for a few years, he's established a type
of ballplayer he is, and as the Great Aristotle stated,
water seeks its own level and data evens out. Extreme
outcomes are followed by more moderate ones. We call it
regression to the mean, and we'll find out over the
(18:42):
next month or so. That's when the rubber meets the
road and jazz. Chisholm, remember, was voted the most overrated
overrated player in the Big Leagues a couple months ago
in a survey of his peers. He also took a
shot at a dodge a former teammate, claiming he was
(19:03):
interfering with him becoming a leader. But he's a firebrand,
and so this when things go sideways, and they will
go sideways, nothing lasts forever. This is going to become
a tinderbox, which will be great for people that do
guess baggery like me. I can't wait for it. Now
we head to sweet home Chicago, the land of losers,
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and like a fly to poop, we continue to be
attracted to teams that blow, like the White Sox, who
have been playing baseball on the South side of Chicago,
the baddest part of town, since nineteen oh one. The
White Sox have been playing on the South side of
Chicago and that is this season the worst product they
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have ever rolled out on the field. Never had a
team like this back in the old days at Kamiski
Park or the new ballpark they've had for many many
years now, and so this is it, this is rock Box.
After losing to the Royals on Wednesday, the Paleholes have
lost a team record seventeen straight. They're closing in on
(20:10):
the all time record for futility. And I told Mark Now,
Mark was in earlier they got, you know, from Chicago,
Mark the board up. I was telling them. I was like,
I want to see the White Sox get the record.
You're so close, you might as well get the record.
And fans have been goofing on Baseball scribe Jeff Passing
because his old take started making the rounds back in
(20:31):
twenty twenty. He's sang the praises of the Chicago White Sox.
He bragged about how they had signed all of their
young core players and they had a very bright future
because they were doing things the right way. So is
that fair or foul? The people goofing on that take,
and it's not just Jeff Passing. There's a bunch of
people that thought that as well, so I say it's
(20:52):
a fair ball. Now. At the time Jeff Passon said it,
it seemed like a great take. But this is one
of the fatal flaws in baseball and one of the
things I have not fallen victim to in many many years.
But so many baseball reporters fall victim to it. They're pollyannas.
They are convinced that every prospect is going to live
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up to the scouting report, and every top one hundred
minor league player is going to be a good player,
maybe an all star player, and spinal Alard, ninety five
percent of the time, the scouting report is embellished, poppycock.
(21:36):
It's poetry, is what it is. It wishful thinking, it's Shakespearean,
and it's all those things. And I have maintained for
many many years that the prospect is a suspect until
proven otherwise. And this is also a reminder, it's a
teachable moment. As they say on the farmstead, just because
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the chicken has wings does not mean that said chicken
can fly right. And they still have to play the games.
They still have to play the games. And the White
Socks have proven that abject failures. Of course, you can
never blame the players. So a lot of people are well,
they didn't have good management. The manager's the reason. Okay, yeah,
that's it. That's it. The player's blowing has nothing to
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do with it. It's if they had a better manager
putting the lineup card together, then they'd be good. Okayr
final point. We head now to the Pacific Northwest where
Mariners infielder JP Crawford said something that caught my attention.
It hasn't made the rounds yet, but I thought it
(22:39):
was interesting, so I wanted to talk about it with
you for a minute or two. So JB. Crawford, an
infielder for the Mariners, revealed on an on field interview
that he does not think the thing that you and
I both have in common, and every man, woman and
child has in common is what we think it is.
So JP Crawford of the Mariners does not think the
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Earth is flat. However, he wants you to know he
does not think it's round either. So it's not flat,
it's not round. What is it? He said? Our planet
is not a sphere, but it's not flat either. He says,
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I'm a big firmament guy, is what he said. Your thoughts.
So my guy JP Crawford, who I never spent a
second thinking about, he should have a pow wow with
Kyrie Irving. They can get together, have lunch, have a
good time there. And he brought up My favorite part
of this is he brought up JP Crawford the movie
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four as a reference. He said, as I mentioned, he's
a big firmament guy, but he indicated that he thinks
the planet looks like if you remember what the planet
looked like in the Thor movies, the Marvel movies. So
I guess Chris Hemsworth is a scientist apparently, So hey,
I can play that game. If he's gonna quote the
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movie four to say the planet is like that, then
I can say, hey, I believe that JP Crawford could
be reptilian. Why if you watch the I think it
was the original con Conan of the Barbarian many many
years ago. He if I remember correctly, he got revenge
against a snake cult. So it's conceivable that JP Crawford
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is a reptilian person. He's a lizard person, and that's
why he's trying to spend spread propaganda of the Earth
is not flat or round, It is more like the
movie four. So how do you like them apples? They
taste good, they crunchy, yeah, solid. It is the Ben
Mallard Show. If you'd like to comment on any of that,
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it too much. You're in good shape. You're you're doing okay,
You're doing fine, So way to go.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
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Speaker 1 (25:27):
It is the Ben Mallor Show. Speaking of where's the beef,
Let's get to the beef right now, here we go
beef time. It's Mallard. How about that to the third degree?
This is one big Ben gets grilled. I'll make sure
to get lorain in those smelling salts. But in the meantime,
(25:49):
the Cooper little with Mallard. The third degree.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
To be fair. It wasn't weird toss. I wasn't sure
what horrible toss.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
All I was trying to get to is quick is possible?
I don't know what you want me to do? What
beef Time? I said, where's the beef Mallard of the
third degree? Cooper Loo? All right?
Speaker 5 (26:10):
John Elways said during a podcast appearance this week that
his is because.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
He just got to pay attention, that's all. It's not
that hard.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Yes, go ahead this, I don't know what beef time is.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
As big as mistakes, Broncos GM was not drafting Josh Allen,
then do you agree with him?
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Well, I don't have a big board of John Elway's
mistakes as Bronco GM, but he was overseeing the team
when they brought in Peyton Manning and all that, and
then once Peyton Manning fell apart, they won that that
Luke super Bowl where Maning was like pushed across the
finish line in a hospital journey. The Broncos have become
(26:48):
like the Cleveland Browns. In fact, they're worse than the
Cleveland Browns the last couple of years. So there's like
it's not just Josh Allen. There's a ton of hindsight
mistakes that you can make. But it's it's not just Josh.
I mean there's free agent signings that were disaster, coaching
hires that were a joke. It's all inclusive with john
that way.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Right next, a NFL insider recently said that a DeVante
Adams trade is not on the horizon and the only
chance of it happening is right before the deadline. If
the Raiders season is already circling the drain, then are
you buying this report?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Well, yeah, it hits the bullseye because the Raiders think
they're going to be a contender. They think they're gonna
be a compended for a while cart spot in the AFC.
So once that has been evaporated and the Raiders end
up on the side of the road, then they could
trade Devonte Adams to the Jets or whoever. But until then,
there's no reason for trade. And they got to see
(27:41):
what they've got this year with my guy Gardner, Minshew
or O'Connell, and then they can can revisit that. Right next. CJ. Gardner.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Johnson was livid this week when Matden twenty five tweeted
out the list of the top ten safeties in the game,
and he was not on the list. Gardner Johnson even
specifically called out in the choice is a Tyron Matthew
and Kevin Byer the third?
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Do you think he should be in the top ten?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
It's a list? Who cares? It's a video game list, Like,
I don't understand. This is one of those things I
do not understand. Like they come out every year with
the top sports radio host and every once in a
while I make the list, usually near the end, and
a lot of the people that are the top I've
heard their shows. They suck at radio, They're terrible. So
(28:27):
it's just one person's opinion. Who cares. I don't get
worked up over it. I don't even worry about it
most of the time. So it's irrelevant to me, and
it should be irrelevant to CJ. Gardner Johnson. So like,
what are we doing here? That's it? Mallard of a
third degree? How did we do pass this edision? That
is a way we put on the board here? You
(28:48):
got it? All right? We press on.
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Speaker 1 (29:05):
It's now time for time for horry Ask Ben, Twitter said,
is your questions on Twitter now? And way we go,
trying to avoid all the potholes. It's ask Ben your questions,
our answers for the rest of the hour. The reading
(29:25):
of the questions to be coop a loop. You can
still get questions in hashtag ask Ben. Hashtag ask Ben.
I still see questions coming in the last minute. But
let's get over to the Kooper loop.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
All right, We're gonna start off with a question from
the King Rory. He wants to know what's the best
kind of gum.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Well, when I was a kid, I used to go
to this place called Toys r Us and they had
the fruit stripe gum and I love that. That was
my go to gum, all the different flavors of gum.
So that was as a child, That's what I love.
I don't really chew gum as an adult, so I was.
I guess that was a double mint guy for a while,
but then I stopped.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
What about you, Eddie, Uh Back in the day, I
used to like juicy fruits.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yeah, also big League two. I had that for a
while when I was a kid. Yeah, Big League two
was big.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
I would think like the was like Hubba Bubba or
Bubbashes were kind of the ones that seemed like they
lasted the longest. The flavor I do. Actually, we take
we always have gum when we go to Disneyland.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Like you're a gum guy because he keeps you from eating.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Well no, but it's like, you know you don't want to.
It's so expensive to buy a soda at Disneyland. If
you're kind of a little bit thirsty, just you get
pump some gum in there. It'll take care of me
for a little while.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Oh okay, well life hack Lorrain who also goes to Disneyland.
You gefy people.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
Yeah, I'm I don't chew a lot of gum, but
I do like doublemint, like that classic green doublemint gum.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
I guess you're.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
A tourist when it comes to the gum.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Yeah, it's so nostalgic. I love that flavor.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
All right, what about you, Koble Loup, what's your go
to gum? I'd say probably five gum.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
It's like I don't shoo a lot of gun either,
but if I if I do, that's probably.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
It's called five gum. Yes, I never heard of it.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
The number five.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
It's supposed to last the longest. It does last pretty long.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
That's a marketing slogan, so it works. But anyway, what
is next is ask Ben your questions are answers or
the rest of the hour?
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Rob in the three two one, he wants to know
what is your high game in bowling?
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I'm bowled in years either. I didn't get a perfect game,
but I was like too off of a perfect game.
I had a couple of screw ups back in the day.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
What does too off? Meaning?
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Meaning I two of the uh what do you call?
Speaker 6 (31:39):
You had?
Speaker 5 (31:40):
You had a h a strike the entire but no,
there was every frame except for two.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Uh. Yeah. I used to be really good at bowling.
I was a I I got it's like muscle memory
once you learn how to like roll the ball, and
I couldn't do it now because I was young. But
we used to go bowling with my parents or whatever.
And then eventually I just stopped bowling and played video
games at the arcade. The bowling Ali. But yeah, it's
pretty good for a while.
Speaker 6 (32:07):
I was, what about you, Eddie, I've been in the
load two hundreds a couple of times. I can't remember
the exact score, but you know, somewhere in the low
two hundreds.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
All right, what about you, Lorraina, Well, I don't know
if you guys deserve to know this, but I'm a
professional bowler, well a professional user of the bumpers, so
I get I get pretty good scores.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
I don't actually keep talking about that. Yeah, with the
with the bumpers.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yes, isn't there for children?
Speaker 6 (32:36):
As though they do little kids?
Speaker 7 (32:38):
It helps me draw on the lines, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Okay, we should have a bowling night. I beat all
of you.
Speaker 7 (32:44):
You said it because when I gave ideas, no one
wants to do it. So yay, Ben saiday, wow, they won't.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
They won't it only if it's in their backyard they'll
do it. What about you? Cool?
Speaker 4 (32:53):
I think like one eighty something is my high score?
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Very good? What is next? It's ask Ben your questions,
our answers. Who's the hashtag? Ask Ben for the rest
of the hour, the reading of your questions. Don't forget
you can meet us all Malard Meet and greet coming
up Saturday, a couple of days away in Vegas. We're
doing Vegas. Details on social media three o'clock till five o'clock,
(33:19):
but we'll probably stay longer than that, and some of
the fans of the show, we're gonna have an after party.
What's next.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Fird Dog wants to know.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Are you okay with Del Taco being voted twenty twenty
four's best fast food chain.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
No, it's blasphemy. It's full crap. I mean, there's there's
and I don't have anything against Del Taco, but there's
like ten different fast food places that are better than
Del Taco. So that's a joke, and that's a bogus list,
and that's why lists suck, and and that whole thing
blows like raising canes puts them to shame. I'm not
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a huge as big an in and out guys a
lot of the people around here, but in and out
it's better you this, like, there's so much even Chick
fil a better. Your joke is what it is? It is?
What about you, Ddie?
Speaker 6 (34:06):
I would agree with you. Del Taco is a place
you go if you have like no other options at
two in.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
The morning, it's not bad. Or if you're like on
the way to Vegas and barstow. They have the original
Barstow Taco at Del Taco, the bigger taco. You'd go there, Lorena.
Speaker 7 (34:21):
I love Del Taco and I love that it's gaining popularity.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
I think it deserves it.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
I love their fresh cheese, Oh my gosh, it's the
best fresh shreaded cheese you could put on a taco.
And they have those caramel cheesecake bites that are fire,
Oh my gosh, and they're crinkled cut fries.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Will you be will you be stopping at the your
driving to Vegas? We'd be stopping at the Barstow Del Taco.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
We might.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
I've never been in the Barstow one. That might be
actually fun.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
No, they have the bar. You got to go get
the Barstow Taco. That's what they're known for. Heck yeah, yeah,
all right, put on your list, Corilla.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
Is it okay to mention this?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (34:56):
Lorena and Cooper carpooling to Vegas?
Speaker 1 (35:00):
That ye? How many times are they gonna stop for
food on the way Vegas?
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Sleep once?
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Yeah, I'll stop and uh, let's see here, how many
stops are you stopped? Well before they even get out
of l A, they'll probably stop once for food. Then
you gotta get snack. Got when you get over the hill,
it's Victorville Apple Valley. That is, he'll stop there. Then
you've got was it Barstow Baker? You gotta go to
(35:27):
the Mad Green.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
We better not stop that many times.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
And then that's that's in your moo in you and
then you go to Vegas. But you gotta stop in
prim at Whiskey Beats. So there's a lot of stops.
You gonna enjoy the journey.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
I'm with you, Ben. That's uh, it's blasphemy.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Taco Bell is way better than Del Taco, so Del
Taco should not be number one. Mike in the Mountains
wants to know. Hi, Mike, when was the last time
any of you went camping, like putting up a tent
and sleeping under the stars.
Speaker 6 (35:59):
I answer that immediately. Never in my life, nor will
I ver if I have my choice.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
I did as a kid my parents we would go
camping all the time. And I my wife really wants
to go camping. And I said, the reason I worked
these crazy hours because I can afford a hotel. I
don't need to camp. Okay, I'm good. So I like
going to the outdoors, but I like going back to
my hotel room. So I do not. I do not
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camp as an adult.
Speaker 6 (36:26):
Fortunately, my wife has no interest in camping either, so
we're good.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Well, my wife wants to camp, that's the problem.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
What about you heard that?
Speaker 7 (36:32):
Well, Raina, Well, you know I'm an Oregon baby, Ben,
I've camped my whole life. I'm a camper through and through.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
You're a tree hugger I am, and.
Speaker 7 (36:39):
The mosquitoes love me too. Wow, it's just my own
tent and everything.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Sound like you're from Texas or Tennessee. What about you? Koubaloup?
Speaker 4 (36:48):
Same answer as Eddie?
Speaker 1 (36:49):
No, no, no, no no. What is next to ask? Ben?
Your questions are answers?
Speaker 5 (36:56):
Cowboy Killer wants to know Mick rib yeay or nay nay, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (37:02):
I'm like you with coffee. Then, I've never had it,
which is shocking considering all the garbage I've eaten in
my lifetime. And at this point I kind of it's
almost like a badge of water that I've never had it.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
So here you go. What about the problem is I
saw with the big rip looks like when it's naked,
doesn't look good. I don't care about that. Yeah, it's
like great, what about you? Arena.
Speaker 6 (37:26):
Is that your answer?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Okay, make me cute?
Speaker 6 (37:30):
I like it?
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Okay, quickly one more one quick.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
One equals to know if you can have an endless
supply of something for the rest of your life, excluding
money and gas, what.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Would it be? Chicken fingers, Eddie gold bars is out.
Speaker 7 (37:42):
Of money, Shoes, baby shoes.
Speaker 6 (37:47):
Shoes meld Marcos.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
That's an outdated wreckord I know. I bet she doesn't
even know what that is. What about you?
Speaker 4 (37:53):
Time?
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Time?
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (37:54):
All that that's a great one. That's the most that's
the most valuable thing. Time. Wouldn't it be great if
you go down time, I'll be awesome.
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