October 23, 2024 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about the start of the NBA season with LeBron James & Bronny James becoming the first father-son duo to play together in NBA history during the Lakers win over the T-Wolves, the Celtics' dominating win over the Knicks, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our nbird IWO, so large it
can be seen from outer space. Our number two. It's
all about pro bouncy ball. We start with that. The
doubleheader opening night in the NBA, the Wolves and the Lakers.
Where were you mesmerized by Lebron James and Brownie playing together? Also,
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where do you have this year's Lebron Lakers? The Knicks
got run off the court by the Celtics. Opening impressions
of Carl Anthony Towns and Reggie Miller says the Knickerbockers
are the NBA's second best team behind the Celtics. How
does that one hit you? We'll talk about all that
and more right now. It's our number two. It's all
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about the baby, the net Bo baby. Wel gub in
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at the beginning of the days. I love basketball is
the big Soy pro bouncy ball, and that got upstags
by the passing the death of Fernando Valenzuela. But the
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curtain did go up on the seventy ninth season of
NBA basketball, and I'd like to alert all the affiliates
that we'll talk some basketball about games the first couple
of nights and that's about it. There'll be some stories
that pop up that get my attention, but it's just
not a compelling product. It's not a good product. But
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over the next one hundred and seventy three days between
now and mid April, thirty teams will play eighty two
games each. They will complain about how grueling it is draconian.
There will be many injuries, there will be lots of
drama players that ask to be traded. There will be
coaches that are fired. But it all began with a
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twin bill on a random Tuesday in October, the Knickerbockers
and the Celtics. Now was the early game, the Wolves
and Lakers in the nightcap, and we will start with
the Lake game because that happened sooner and you probably
were not watching. This was not the most compelling television
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Anthony d remember him, the Uni Brown. Yeah, well he
went out and with all the pop and circumstance about
his teammates, he had thirty six points, sixteen rebounds, four assists,
and he partriyed in a pear tree as the Lakers
were never really in danger in the second half a
bad opening act for Minnesota, a Lakers win by seven.
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The subplot got all the talk, and that is where
we will talk here with you, Lebron James. Not that
this has been played for months, but Lebron and Bronny.
He spawned a bron Lebron James kid. Bronny James, the
NEPO baby became the first father and son duo to
play in the NBA at the same time, let alone
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on the same team. So let us discuss the question
were you mesmerized were you mesmerized by lebron and Bronny
playing together? So my thoughts on this, I've got Phantom
of the Opera, Courthouse Square, and Magic Dragon, and we
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will tie all of these things together, and we're gonna
tie some loose ends. So my first thought here, I
would not use the word mesmerized to describe my reaction
watching lebron and Bronnie play. I believe that this whole
thing is bull pucky. Now you can say I'm dancing
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at the hater's ball all you want, but I'm gonna
tell you why. Watching all of this play out over
the last couple of months, and this is really a
couple of months since the NBA Draft, and even before
the NBA Draft, I feel like I'm on Broadway and
it's like an old showing of Phantom of the Opera.
The choreography that went into this next level. They should
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win a Tony Award. It was not organic, it was
scripted reality. Did Andrew Lloyd Weber do the musical score
for this game? I mean this was schedule, it was playing,
and it happened. It was reported It's gonna happen in
the second quarter, and on two you had thirty nine
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year old Lebron and twenty year old twenty year old
son the NEPO baby, who played all most two and
a half minutes together late in the first half, and
that was it. That was Brownie's debut. They spawned Lebron. Now,
how did Scrownie James do? Some people are ripping Lebron's kid,
Bronnie James. I'm gonna I'm gonna praise him because it's
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very hard to have a triple zero in your NBA debut,
and he did it. He pitched a shutout, very rare
to have a shutout. He did it. No points, no rebounds,
no assist, oh for one shooting. I think the kids
call that a cardio game, although he didn't get much
cardio because he wasn't in the game very long. The
whole thing, though, it isn't my position, and you judged
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the pose. What happened with they had Griffy Junior and
his old man were there. I'm told for a Nike commercial.
This whole thing was for a Nike commercial. The whole
event was for a Nike commercial. But Bronni did not
earn this. He was given this because of his daddy.
And I saw Lebron interviewed after the game and he
he thanked the man upstairs. I think he was talking
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about Adam Silver for going along with his plan. I
think that's what he was talking about now. Page two.
So as far as the game on the court, where
do you have this year's vintage of the Lebron Lakers.
So they won the first game of the year, but
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ultimately they are a middleweight. So do not get hornswaggled
by the wind lackluster effort by Minnesota. There if you
go up to a plane thirty thousand feet in the
sky and you look at the Purple and Gold, they
are stuck in this mass gridlock of teams that are
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right in the middle. You got the snarl of flawed teams.
Golden State used to be good, but they're a fraud.
The Clippers have the Curse of Kawhi Leonard, but they've
got a lot of urinals, so they've got that going
for him. The Suns you don't really take seriously. The Mavericks.
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They were in the finals, but does anyone think they'll
get back. Probably not. And then you have a team
like Denver that won a championship a couple years ago.
They have the top player in the NBA, the Kolejokic,
and yet everyone's forgetting about them. But all of these
teams are bunched up, but the Lakers in particular are
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like it's like Courthouse Square on the back lot at
Universal Studios. It is a facade in terms of being
a championship team. Reality is much different their phony. The
verdict is they are a foll contender going into the season.
Now that's my Evans. You've got father time knocking on
the door. Lebron turns forty in late December. He'll be
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forty by next postseason. I don't care what kind of
magic beans he's taking. He's forty. Anthony Davis, while he
played well in the opener, continues to be a paper
mache player. You don't trust him. He missed so many
games for so long. I don't who He played a
lot of games. Plus you, I don't care. The Lakers
are a joke. They hired a podcaster as their coach.
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That tells you they're not trying to win. That douche canoe,
JJ Reddick. You just want to see a guy like
that fail, don't you. You just hope that JJ Reddick
fails miserably. You really want that to happen. That would
be some good karma. And they drafted Lebron's kid, who
was a backup on a bad usc basketball team for
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a Nike commercial. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, unless it's not
all right. Last word, We're gonna go to the early
game in Boston. That's where Jason Tatum poured in thirty
seven points, made eight of the Celtics' record time twenty
nine to three pointers, tied the Bucks for the all
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time record. I'm surprised the record isn't forty or fifty
three point shots as often as these teams shoot three pointers.
But Boston humiliated the Knickerbockers won thirty two to one
oh nine. On opening night. They raised their most recent
eighteenth championship banner. Now crowd went wild, but Boston, they
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led by as many as thirty five points, and it
was so funny in the fourth quarter. The game was
over about halftime, but in the fourth quarter, Kevin Harlan's
doing the play by play on Turner and the Celtics
knew they needed one more three pointer. They had a
bunch of scrubs and they need one more three pointer
to set the record, so they took thirteen three point shots.
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It was Papa shot. It was like being at Dave
and Busters playing Papa shot trying to break the record
and Clank Brick was hilarious. As far as the Knicks
are concerned, you'll answer the question about the Knicks and
what was going on with that the Knickerbockers. Your early
impressions on the Knicks, Well, my impression on the Knicks
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not ready for prime time. The Knicks played like old
fashioned potato salad. They were creamy and soft, no perimeter defense,
no attention to detail. Normally, Tom Thibodeau teams have defense
and attention to detail. And Karl Anthony Towns that was
the guy that people goofed on in Minnesota for being passive,
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and he'll get his numbers on random nights, but he
just wasn't there all around the Knickerbockers, a smoldering pile
of turds is the way they played in this particular game.
And don't tell me the Celtics are just that much better.
If you play some defense, you're gonna be in position
to not lose by thirty plus points. You'd be down
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by thirty five points. Now TNT's Reggie Miller. If you're
watching this game, Reggie Miller announced that on his big board,
the Knickerbockers are the NBA's second best team behind the Celtics.
So how does that one hit you? So it hits
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me like what was hitting Reggie Miller and likely somewhere
in his body puffed the magic dragon. In terms of
hyping up the knickerbocker there's some players in the Knicks
that we like. We like Jalen Brunson, we like Tom
Timoda the coach, for example. But if you look at
the Knickerbockers, you can't trust Carl Anthony Towns. It's a blueprint,
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is what it is. It's not a finished product, and
so it's a premature take. Carl Anthony Towns is he's
a dog, but not a dog, right. He's a dog
with fleas, he's a dog with you need dog dawg,
and he's dog often right, And so it's a bit
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of a toss up. The NIXT will win a bunch
of games because it's a regular season all about what
you do from mid April until the end of the
NBA Finals sometime in I don't know. The following year
when the NBA playoffs and it is The Ben Mahlor Show.
Also talking about the passing the death of Fernando valenzuela
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baseball bigger than life guy, not a Hall of Famer,
but the heck of a run with the Dodgers back
in his day. Fernando dying at the age of sixty three.
On Tuesday nights, we'll have some more memories about Fernando's
we go through the overnight. We'll take your calls at
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want to be part. It's all about the product placement
and a very expensive pet wolf. What is that all about.
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
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Speaker 1 (13:53):
It's Ben Mallor, late night drug tester writs SSR. Sorry,
I did not catch the NBA opening night. I was
busy watching the NHL. Put put in more effort in
one night than the NBA will the whole next eight months.
All right, uh, well that's good for you, although apparently
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not the La Kings. Everyone else puts some effort in,
but not not Damn Shane in the morning right since
says he says, who wins a three point shootout today?
Ben Maller, Ben Simmons or Bronnie James. Come on, you
know the answer, Shane moneyball Mallard for the win, for
the win. Let's set up right now, any court anywhere,
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may it app all right, may it happened. We'll fix
some calls. Talking about the start of the NBA season,
David in Pennsylvania, the Fried Daddy says, Hey, Ben Brownie
James that he really sucks. It's unbelievable. There's no team
in the NBA that would have drafted the kid if
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it wasn't wasn't Lebron's kid. I don't even watch the NBA,
but I checked out the low lights. I don't think
he will ever have a ten point night, never knowing
garbage time. Any people do improve, but the fact that
he's in the NBA, he has no business being in
the league other than he won the genetic lottery being
Lebron James Kidd. So congratulations on that. Let's go to
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the phones and we'll say hello to any meenie MINEU mall.
Let's saylo to Chris, who's in Cincinnati. Hello, Chris, welcome.
Hmm is Chris awake? Here's sound? But I don't know shoring.
Maybe you fell asleep. But he has unlike everyone else
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that calls the show, he does not have to sleep, happeny,
so it's possible that he there's no hollering James effect
at all. Well, thank you for that. Chris. Let's go
do Jerome in Charleston. We'll find out what he wants
to complain about. Hello Jerome and Charleston.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I just wanted to say, man, I'm here for you.
As long as I'm around, I'm going to always be
here for you. But you need to stold me, o kid,
lay off the man's kids. Okay, Look, look is what
I wish for you? Are you?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Are you related? Are you related to Lebron James? Why
he's a professional athlete? I get paid to talk about
professional athletes? Stupid? What's wrong with you? Are you an idiot?
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Different?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Are you a moral? He's not your kid, He's not
my kid. He's a professional athlete.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
He's fair game until you have children.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
You know what I wish.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I wish you do have children? Man?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
You you don't?
Speaker 5 (16:37):
You do?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
You do not know what you're talking about your own?
Trust me, you don't know what you're talking about your own.
You do not. You do not understand your own what
you're talking about. So I'm not allowed. Let me let
me let me get this straight here. Every one of
these guys we talk about your own? Is this every
one of these idiots that we talk about is a
son of somebody? Right, you can't be in the world
this year, so by your by your logic, so stupid.
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We're not supposed to rip anybody, you know. You rip
Pat mcat, You rip Pat McAfee all the time. He's
got a father, He's got a father. What about his father.
You don't understand he's got a father. What about his father?
You're an idiot. You just admit you're an idiot. This
is the dumbest take. This is the dumbest take you've
ever had. This is the dumbest take you've ever had.
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But it doesn't matter. He's got a father, he's got
a father. She should you should not be mean. You
shouldn't be mean. He's a man, he's a human being.
He's a human being. Okay, so we're supposed to give
him wouldn't Jerome je Joe hold On said Trump, wouldn't
this be Would it be racist to treat him differently
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than I treat every every other professional athlete? Wouldn't that
be wrong? Jerome? Wouldn't that be inappropriate? Wouldn't that be
giving him special treatment? Coddling Bronnie James? Why would I
coddle Bronnie James. Why in what rule would I call
why what? He has been coddled? He was literally he
was literally born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
Do you understand that he won the lottery? He's not
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from the mean streets. He grew up in a mansion
with maids. All right, he's not okay? So why why
are you so worked up about defending him? I don't
get it.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
You can, but just.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Let me say this. You know, kids and home. For
him to fail, that's from losing deal. Man.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
It's not hoping. He's a failure. It's not hoping, Jerome.
Listen again, you don't know what you're talking about. Jerome.
I can't get her to do it now, but you
don't know what you're talking about. But here's the thing, Jerome, Okay,
it's not a matter of me pulling for him to fail.
He's a failure. The only reason he's in the NBA
he is a product. It is nepotism. He was a
backup on a bad pack twelve basketball team and he's
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in the NBA because Lebron wanted him. Nike wants to
do a commercial. I'm sure he'll be up. Pobby's up now,
Ruth the Griffies and Lebron and his kid. It's a
it's a marketing opportunity. That's why he's in the India.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
I understand all of that, but look, I don't the
man because he loves his children. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Look here, well, don't most people love their children, Jerome?
Is it? Isn't that? Isn't that? Isn't it normal to
love your children, wouldn't it benormal? Not? It would be
unnormal not to love your children, wouldn't it?
Speaker 4 (19:21):
What he doing? Is that messing with your life? FAM's
hurt you?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yes, because I have to talk about this stupid crap
and I don't want to talk about it. Okay, that's
it's ridiculous. It is. It is choreographed like a Broadway show, Drew.
It is you fake people say sports people. Well, most
most people love their children, so we should never rip
anyone because most people, most people come from families that
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are lucky enough to have parents that love them. That's
normally how it works. When you don't, that's unfortunate. Yeah,
here we go again, Joe, Here we go again.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Yeah, told me that, but I didn't listen to them.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
I promise you you're that will not be the case.
I promise he's Rome. I do not think about you
that much, but thank you. I have other things to
think about Jerome, not you. God. So we're not allowed
to rip Roni because Lebron loves him, but by that standard,
we're not supposed to rip anyone. Do you really how
dumb that is? I mean, am I the only one?
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Like?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
How ridiculous to defend my father? I mean it's like, really,
I don't know. It's it's the basketball equivalent of the
executive at the fortune five hundred company that the kid
not that good but gets an executive vice president job
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just because the dad happens to be the CEO of
the company.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Well, you can even keep it in the sports world
with these owners handing down these teams to their sons
who have done nothing to you know, earn owning a
professional sports franchise, and then you can't criticize them because
that's their kid.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
And how's that work out? Like Mark Mark Davis? Is
he doing good? Is he as good as Al Davis
with the Raiders? For Sam? Probably not? Because he got
a rebound? Okay, did you really yes?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Congratulation?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I thought you had one? Turno. I did not see
a rebound. He had a rebound. Yeah, he had one rebound.
I thought he had a triple zero. I thought he
when I was one. Does that make him a professional?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Technically?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
He's getting paid and we can't rip him because he's
got a father, so that loves him and that's important.
Berg Dog Rights since says, when did the NBA partner
with the Make a Wish Foundation? Bronni must be suffering
from a life threatening illness to get on the court.
It's the only explanation I can think of. Sure, why, yes,
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just wild the whole thing. And and then you had
the uh as somebody pointed out to me a very
influential person, how upset was Lebron that Fernando had to
die on the night This was supposed to be all
about Lebron and his kid upstaging Lebron, Right, because Fernando's
no matter what Lebron does, Fernando's more important in LA
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than Lebron James and Fernando dying is a bigger story
than him and his nepo baby playing in the NBA
fir father son. Oh and they had the little video
they put online of this see the end see the
rookie hazing video and you'd see that there they.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Did?
Speaker 5 (22:20):
You like that?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
They filled up? I filled up. I love how Bronnie
James's drive. Was he some kind of high end BMW
or something?
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
They filled it up with boxes of fruity pebbles. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I enjoyed the fruity pebbles when I was when I
was a lad.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
It would have been funny if it was real. I know, right,
it's the whole thing. It's just like and I guess
I'm in the minority. I think a lot of people
are just they like this crap, and I hope not.
I think he's right. That's I think they do. Otherwise,
why would they continue to do it like it's the
whole They just get into it. They liked the whole thing.
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It's so dumb.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
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Speaker 1 (23:03):
And we are rolling on through these overnight hours. Talk
about falling upwards, Rudy Gobert. Do you see this? And
now Rudy Gobert wins a lot of defensive awards and
all that he can't do anything on offense. Gobert is
a center for the Minnesota basketball team in the NBA.
He declined his forty six point six million dollar player
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option for next imagine turning down forty six point six
million dollars, but guy would never I know, well, here's
the deal. Minnesota felt bad for him, so the Timbles said,
you know what we're gonna do. We're gonna give you
a three year, one hundred and ten million dollar contract.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
So they gave him.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
A new deal. He then went out and got stomped
on by Anthony Davis in the first game of the
NBA season.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
It was.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Intriguing. You had that, then you had you had mckill bridge,
who was the new Nick, one of the new Nick pickups,
right Bridges. And he changed his shot in the off season,
and everyone said the same thing. He wasn't a bad
shooter last last couple of years, but he's like, I'm
gonna changed my shot now. See he looks like if
you're old enough to remember Bill Cartwright, he kind of
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looks like Bill Cartwright when he's shooting the mckilber no,
and it's not it wasn't very effective either, kind of.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Like a push shot. As I remember, he kind.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Of there's a lot of elbow push elbow. It's not
not a good look. That almost looks like a dance move. Eddie,
do you like that arena? Yeah, that's good, but what
kind of dance move would that be called?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Eddie's a big fan of Dancing with the Stars. He
likes that, and so you watch it every week, right,
dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Heinesward baby, my favorite NFL player, once, once a champion.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
My wife is I've been in the room. She's had
it on I I I saw a little bit of
this year. Is Dwight Howard? Has you been voted out yet?
Dwight Howard? He's in there.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Well, you need to know about how big of a
fan I am. Dancing with the Stars, my favorite all
time NFL player was a part of it, and I
didn't watch one.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Second of it, so the I know, right, that's a
that's your curmudge. We'll say hello to eating Angry Bill.
That'll be quick, Hello Angry Bill in Florida.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
How you doing, everybody? Ben, I'm let's switch gears a
little bit because this one really bugs me. You know
how you you know, you have your thing with the
Houston Astros and all that and I agree with you, Okay,
it was bad, well, this scam for the NBA object
to any reporting on it whatsoever. It's a scam, and
(25:41):
I can't believe you guys would even you know, you
don't want to talk about Cayton Clark. You don't want
to talk about this, but you want to talk about
this scam. It's number the unbelievable scam. Okay, it's a joke.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
It's beyond a joke.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
It's I put in the classy cheeting. Okay, Ben, So
what are your thoughts?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
What do you what do you talking? We talked about
the fact this whole thing is ridiculous, But what more
do you.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Want us to sayous don't report on it.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
It doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
I'm not reporting. I'm just talking about what you know
we talk about.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
It's called don't bring up his name?
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Don't don't you know your name and a toilet.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Bowl belong in the same blow, But angry Bill. He's
got a father though, according to Jerome and Charleston, he's
got a father, So.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
We can't you know, can't you want anything to do
with his father? I don't want to know all you
don't know what I know? What you think you don't
have to say. The great thing is you've called the
show so many years. I know exactly what you think. Okay,
I'm full aware of your belief on Lebron I know.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Okay, it's.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
And for you to record on it, give scores on it,
do anything on it.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
That's a scam you're doing.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
We're we are part of a scam. Yeah, well I
am doing it for I get paid to do the show.
It's not it's not a pro bono situation. I get
paid your man, Okay, I will make sure to call
up though he's a jackass. Uh send that, Uh learn
all management, you're jackwagons. Let him know right, thank you?
All right? I appreciate that. Uh. Mark and Santa Monica.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Know that I.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Father.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah, Jerome my god. Mark and Santa Monica sist by
Jerome's theory. You cannot rip anyone who has a father.
That is true. But as much as science, I say science,
So you know whacker doodles who claim to be scientists
claim you don't need a mother and a father, you
kind of do. It's kind of part of the deal. Yeah,
whether they're in your life for whether they're bad fathers
(27:45):
or bad mothers. You do need them at the point
of conception, you do. Daniel Wright Sen says, I cannot
believe Brownie is even a thought on your radio show.
The kid is irrelevant. The more media mentions he gets,
it justifies him beings drafted, says Dan. Okay, so everyone's upset.
Now we're the bad guys, Eddie, because we're talking about Brownie.
(28:08):
We're the bad guys. Let's say hello now, speaking of
bad guys, Sir scratch Off is in Arkansas. Hello, Sir
scratch Are you going over to Kansas City, Sir scratch
Off for the mall or Mountain greed? November?
Speaker 6 (28:19):
Hey, man, let's get something out of the way real quick.
Give me something. You're gonna be there November the eleventh,
on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Right, No, it's November ninth on a Saturday.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
Okay, my bad. Okay? Something about today? What we do? Okay?
What time when you go to these meeting? Great? What
time do you usually like start doing whatever you're doing?
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Will you be there all night?
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Night?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Well, I'm not gonna be there all I'm not gonna
be there all night. It'll be in the afternoon. I
don't have the exact time yet. We're working that out
with our friends at the fan in Kansas City, my
guy Bob Fesco. So once I get the time, i'll
let you know, but it'll be in the probably late afternoon.
I would imagine that's usually when we do these two
five something like that. Yeah, somewhere in that time period.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Sure, yeah, because that's close. That's a close one you had,
you know. But you're gonna come by yourself. You're not
bringing any your sound up stuck coming, So you're just
gonna come by yourself.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Right, Uh well yes, I yeah, it's a Mallard meet
and greet. They are welcome to join me. I'd love
to have them, but they they will not be there.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
No, I got you, Okay, now do their thing. Everybody's
talking about Ronnie. Okay, you know I've already heard. Just
my my son's been driving. He didn't hear a Nigga college.
He had good grades. He plays a lot of softball
for eleven years that he played baseball all the way
through school. But now they say to him driving like
your father. No, Josh doing that because he enjoys doing that.
He makes over one hundred grand a year. He went
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to driving a truck making that kind of money.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Well, yeah, be careful because you're going to become a
truck driver coop here.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
I mean, you know, that's all kind of his money.
He got two boys to raise a five and three.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
But then, well I'm I'm the same ways for scratch up.
My dad was a great hand radio operator, and I
went into radio, and people said, oh, you're just trying
to be like your dad. I said, well, you know
a dad, I like the job. I'm in restrial radio.
He's in ham radio back in the day, and so
that's that.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Yeah, yes, I agree, I agree with you, and I
would be honestly, I've heard you said before. What I forgot.
It's not my dad, you know what him and my
two brothers do. I didn't want to be a preacher
because they'd have thrown me how to pool it because
I don't believe in this new world. Okay, y yes, sirt.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah, but I could I could see you as a
preacher because you talk a lot. I can see you
giving a sermon. No, I could see you as you're
like a cult leader. Ben you think, wow, a cult leader.
Look at that. Lorena took a shot at he was
a cult leader. It's a compliment.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
I like the writers, you get the rights, you can
do that. But anyway, let's talk about Bronnie. Okay, Ronnie's
doing something he don't.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Don't don't be mean. He's got a father. Don't be mean.
He's got a father.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
No, okay, but well let me finish. Okay, But what
everybody's trying to say, I'm hearing this racist and on
his crap. You know, it ain't nothing about racist. He's
just wanted to play basketball if he wants to play
like his dad.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Racist.
Speaker 6 (30:58):
Okay, Well, let's don't trash kid until we find out
really down the road what he's going to be like.
You know, but lebroad Day's been transferred a lot of
years because he's really good. But he's a crime. Maybe
at times hung up?
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Yeah I did, no, not yet, but I will. I'm
about to like that, right. I love that you just
assumed I hung up at you because I didn't I
talk over you. So it's like, oh, you must have
hung up. Yeah, well now I hung up on that.
Now he's gone boy all right?
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Man?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Uh Chip and Q says pro bono, is that some
relative of Sonny Bono? Yes, there is a statue of
Sonny Bono and Palm Springs Chip. If you ever want
to head out to California and see a statue of
the old mayor of Palm Springs right there, wonderful or
Palm Desert, whatever it was, it is the Ben Maller
Sho're gonna have mallardly third degree. That is warming up.
(31:52):
We'll get to that coming up momentary time. Now for
the instant trivia, Patrick Maholmes has joined Peyton, Manning and
Blank as the only quarterback since nineteen eighty to win
their first six starts of a season while throwing more
interceptions than touchdowns. That is the Instra Trivia. The answer next.
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Speaker 1 (32:45):
Rest in peace. Fernando Valenzuela died on Tuesday Night. Fernando
a baseball legend if you're of the age to have
watched the pitch, even if not the legend of Fernando
the Great Fernando. This song actually predates Fernando Mania, but
did get played a lot when Fernandomania was going on
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time out. For the Insta trivia, Patrick Mahomes joined Peyton,
Manning and Blank as the only quarterbacks since nineteen eighty
to win their first six starts of his season while
throwing more interceptions than touchdowns. That is the Insta trivia.
What is the answer? Let's see, does anyone know? We
have Mallard of the third degree, which is currently warming
(33:28):
up in the oven. Pickles McGee guests by Matt the
Warrior Raider, Tom Brady Rose Fan because he doesn't know
the answer, he couldn't cheat on this one, Uncle Phil
from Milkman Mike who else? We have the Hoff Yes
by Cowboy Killer Bug, Daddy Cool Diesel from Robin Vegas,
Bobby Abear from Alf the Alien, Opiner, Lyle Overbay from
(33:52):
Mister Nice Guy. Random form Blue Jay Nick Bosa, who
was twenty seven today from the Late Night Drug Tester.
Who else do we have? Page down? Mister Unlimited from
Andy from Lionel Lakes in Minnesota. P t Willis from
g Man's Joe Webb guessed by Rob in Minnesota, Tyrod
(34:13):
Taylor from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Coop's favorite bronco, Jay Cutler.
What's that you na?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Former Dolphins legendary quarterback David Woodley.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
No, that is incorrect. Correct answer in La Ram legend
from the nineteen eighties out of the Canadian Football League.
Deeter Brock is the Peter bro What a list, Dieter Brock?
How about hey Man, your degree? And Patrick ball is
(34:43):
one big event? Gets grailled Cooper.
Speaker 8 (34:47):
Brian dave All explained to the media on Monday that
he benched Daniel Jones in an attempt to provide a
spark for the offense when they were down twenty eight
to three in the fourth quarter. However, he did say
that Jones will be the starter moving forward. Ben do
you think Jones finishes the season as QB one?
Speaker 2 (35:03):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
I don't. However, what a referendum on Drew Locke, the
backup he must really blow if the Giants aren't going
to turn to Drew Locke after the way Daniel Jones
has played recently. The way this plays out, though, once
we get late in the season and the Giants have
officially been eliminated from playoff contention, they will shut Daniel
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Jones down because they don't want to get hurt. There's
some language offset language in the contract. If he gets hurt,
he gets certain amount of guaranteed money, So they'll shut
him down late in the year. But for now, I
guess they want to make their fans suffer some more.
Speaker 8 (35:40):
Next, Antonio Piers told the media that the Raiders are
not tanking and that they are trying to be the
best team they can.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Really, it doesn't look like it.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Ben.
Speaker 8 (35:48):
Do you think that this means Max Crosby isn't going anywhere?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Well, no, I mean the trade deadline is November fifth.
There's some kind of election that day as well. But
the simple truth is it's up to Max Crosby. He's
from Michigan, he said, family wants him to play for
the Lions and all that. He's been getting texts and
people from other fan bases have been reaching out to
him on the surface. He's the perfect Raider. He should
(36:14):
be a lifetime Raider. But if Max Shrosby goes to
the Raiders and says, you know, I think I should
play somewhere else. I don't want to be here anymore,
then what are they gonna do. They're gonna trade him,
So it's up to him next.
Speaker 8 (36:25):
Former All Star Baron Davis said in a recent interview
that he thinks that this will be a bounce back
season for the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Ben do you think he's right? Well? I think that
he works on a podcast for Draymond Green. I believe
he was hired, wasn't he? Is it Draymond Green's podcast?
He was hired as a co host, and he is
a former Golden State Warrior player. So I take everything
he says. We're the grand AsSalt. I look at Golden
State and the naked truth is they're about where they
(36:52):
were last year without Klay Thompson. He sucked last year.
They're a fringe playoff like playing type team. That's where
Golden State it is. And there it is Mallard of
the third degree, how did we do? He passed? Edition?
That is a win? And the buzzer who
Hello and welcome. It's our nbird IWO, so large it
can be seen from outer space. Our number two. It's
all about pro bouncy ball. We start with that. The
doubleheader opening night in the NBA, the Wolves and the Lakers.
Where were you mesmerized by Lebron James and Brownie playing together? Also,
(00:20):
where do you have this year's Lebron Lakers? The Knicks
got run off the court by the Celtics. Opening impressions
of Carl Anthony Towns and Reggie Miller says the Knickerbockers
are the NBA's second best team behind the Celtics. How
does that one hit you? We'll talk about all that
and more right now. It's our number two. It's all
(00:46):
about the baby, the net Bo baby. Wel gub in
the begandick of another hour of the Ben Malor Show.
We are in the air, evy, where's we try to
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at the beginning of the days. I love basketball is
the big Soy pro bouncy ball, and that got upstags
by the passing the death of Fernando Valenzuela. But the
(01:55):
curtain did go up on the seventy ninth season of
NBA basketball, and I'd like to alert all the affiliates
that we'll talk some basketball about games the first couple
of nights and that's about it. There'll be some stories
that pop up that get my attention, but it's just
not a compelling product. It's not a good product. But
(02:15):
over the next one hundred and seventy three days between
now and mid April, thirty teams will play eighty two
games each. They will complain about how grueling it is draconian.
There will be many injuries, there will be lots of
drama players that ask to be traded. There will be
coaches that are fired. But it all began with a
(02:36):
twin bill on a random Tuesday in October, the Knickerbockers
and the Celtics. Now was the early game, the Wolves
and Lakers in the nightcap, and we will start with
the Lake game because that happened sooner and you probably
were not watching. This was not the most compelling television
(02:59):
Anthony d remember him, the Uni Brown. Yeah, well he
went out and with all the pop and circumstance about
his teammates, he had thirty six points, sixteen rebounds, four assists,
and he partriyed in a pear tree as the Lakers
were never really in danger in the second half a
bad opening act for Minnesota, a Lakers win by seven.
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The subplot got all the talk, and that is where
we will talk here with you, Lebron James. Not that
this has been played for months, but Lebron and Bronny.
He spawned a bron Lebron James kid. Bronny James, the
NEPO baby became the first father and son duo to
play in the NBA at the same time, let alone
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on the same team. So let us discuss the question
were you mesmerized were you mesmerized by lebron and Bronny
playing together? So my thoughts on this, I've got Phantom
of the Opera, Courthouse Square, and Magic Dragon, and we
(04:06):
will tie all of these things together, and we're gonna
tie some loose ends. So my first thought here, I
would not use the word mesmerized to describe my reaction
watching lebron and Bronnie play. I believe that this whole
thing is bull pucky. Now you can say I'm dancing
(04:30):
at the hater's ball all you want, but I'm gonna
tell you why. Watching all of this play out over
the last couple of months, and this is really a
couple of months since the NBA Draft, and even before
the NBA Draft, I feel like I'm on Broadway and
it's like an old showing of Phantom of the Opera.
The choreography that went into this next level. They should
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win a Tony Award. It was not organic, it was
scripted reality. Did Andrew Lloyd Weber do the musical score
for this game? I mean this was schedule, it was playing,
and it happened. It was reported It's gonna happen in
the second quarter, and on two you had thirty nine
(05:12):
year old Lebron and twenty year old twenty year old
son the NEPO baby, who played all most two and
a half minutes together late in the first half, and
that was it. That was Brownie's debut. They spawned Lebron. Now,
how did Scrownie James do? Some people are ripping Lebron's kid,
Bronnie James. I'm gonna I'm gonna praise him because it's
(05:35):
very hard to have a triple zero in your NBA debut,
and he did it. He pitched a shutout, very rare
to have a shutout. He did it. No points, no rebounds,
no assist, oh for one shooting. I think the kids
call that a cardio game, although he didn't get much
cardio because he wasn't in the game very long. The
whole thing, though, it isn't my position, and you judged
(05:59):
the pose. What happened with they had Griffy Junior and
his old man were there. I'm told for a Nike commercial.
This whole thing was for a Nike commercial. The whole
event was for a Nike commercial. But Bronni did not
earn this. He was given this because of his daddy.
And I saw Lebron interviewed after the game and he
he thanked the man upstairs. I think he was talking
(06:20):
about Adam Silver for going along with his plan. I
think that's what he was talking about now. Page two.
So as far as the game on the court, where
do you have this year's vintage of the Lebron Lakers.
So they won the first game of the year, but
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ultimately they are a middleweight. So do not get hornswaggled
by the wind lackluster effort by Minnesota. There if you
go up to a plane thirty thousand feet in the
sky and you look at the Purple and Gold, they
are stuck in this mass gridlock of teams that are
(07:04):
right in the middle. You got the snarl of flawed teams.
Golden State used to be good, but they're a fraud.
The Clippers have the Curse of Kawhi Leonard, but they've
got a lot of urinals, so they've got that going
for him. The Suns you don't really take seriously. The Mavericks.
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They were in the finals, but does anyone think they'll
get back. Probably not. And then you have a team
like Denver that won a championship a couple years ago.
They have the top player in the NBA, the Kolejokic,
and yet everyone's forgetting about them. But all of these
teams are bunched up, but the Lakers in particular are
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like it's like Courthouse Square on the back lot at
Universal Studios. It is a facade in terms of being
a championship team. Reality is much different their phony. The
verdict is they are a foll contender going into the season.
Now that's my Evans. You've got father time knocking on
the door. Lebron turns forty in late December. He'll be
(08:09):
forty by next postseason. I don't care what kind of
magic beans he's taking. He's forty. Anthony Davis, while he
played well in the opener, continues to be a paper
mache player. You don't trust him. He missed so many
games for so long. I don't who He played a
lot of games. Plus you, I don't care. The Lakers
are a joke. They hired a podcaster as their coach.
(08:30):
That tells you they're not trying to win. That douche canoe,
JJ Reddick. You just want to see a guy like
that fail, don't you. You just hope that JJ Reddick
fails miserably. You really want that to happen. That would
be some good karma. And they drafted Lebron's kid, who
was a backup on a bad usc basketball team for
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a Nike commercial. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, unless it's not
all right. Last word, We're gonna go to the early
game in Boston. That's where Jason Tatum poured in thirty
seven points, made eight of the Celtics' record time twenty
nine to three pointers, tied the Bucks for the all
(09:14):
time record. I'm surprised the record isn't forty or fifty
three point shots as often as these teams shoot three pointers.
But Boston humiliated the Knickerbockers won thirty two to one
oh nine. On opening night. They raised their most recent
eighteenth championship banner. Now crowd went wild, but Boston, they
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led by as many as thirty five points, and it
was so funny in the fourth quarter. The game was
over about halftime, but in the fourth quarter, Kevin Harlan's
doing the play by play on Turner and the Celtics
knew they needed one more three pointer. They had a
bunch of scrubs and they need one more three pointer
to set the record, so they took thirteen three point shots.
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It was Papa shot. It was like being at Dave
and Busters playing Papa shot trying to break the record
and Clank Brick was hilarious. As far as the Knicks
are concerned, you'll answer the question about the Knicks and
what was going on with that the Knickerbockers. Your early
impressions on the Knicks, Well, my impression on the Knicks
(10:21):
not ready for prime time. The Knicks played like old
fashioned potato salad. They were creamy and soft, no perimeter defense,
no attention to detail. Normally, Tom Thibodeau teams have defense
and attention to detail. And Karl Anthony Towns that was
the guy that people goofed on in Minnesota for being passive,
(10:44):
and he'll get his numbers on random nights, but he
just wasn't there all around the Knickerbockers, a smoldering pile
of turds is the way they played in this particular game.
And don't tell me the Celtics are just that much better.
If you play some defense, you're gonna be in position
to not lose by thirty plus points. You'd be down
(11:05):
by thirty five points. Now TNT's Reggie Miller. If you're
watching this game, Reggie Miller announced that on his big board,
the Knickerbockers are the NBA's second best team behind the Celtics.
So how does that one hit you? So it hits
(11:25):
me like what was hitting Reggie Miller and likely somewhere
in his body puffed the magic dragon. In terms of
hyping up the knickerbocker there's some players in the Knicks
that we like. We like Jalen Brunson, we like Tom
Timoda the coach, for example. But if you look at
the Knickerbockers, you can't trust Carl Anthony Towns. It's a blueprint,
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is what it is. It's not a finished product, and
so it's a premature take. Carl Anthony Towns is he's
a dog, but not a dog, right. He's a dog
with fleas, he's a dog with you need dog dawg,
and he's dog often right, And so it's a bit
(12:11):
of a toss up. The NIXT will win a bunch
of games because it's a regular season all about what
you do from mid April until the end of the
NBA Finals sometime in I don't know. The following year
when the NBA playoffs and it is The Ben Mahlor Show.
Also talking about the passing the death of Fernando valenzuela
(12:32):
baseball bigger than life guy, not a Hall of Famer,
but the heck of a run with the Dodgers back
in his day. Fernando dying at the age of sixty three.
On Tuesday nights, we'll have some more memories about Fernando's
we go through the overnight. We'll take your calls at
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want to be part. It's all about the product placement
and a very expensive pet wolf. What is that all about.
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
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Speaker 1 (13:53):
It's Ben Mallor, late night drug tester writs SSR. Sorry,
I did not catch the NBA opening night. I was
busy watching the NHL. Put put in more effort in
one night than the NBA will the whole next eight months.
All right, uh, well that's good for you, although apparently
(14:16):
not the La Kings. Everyone else puts some effort in,
but not not Damn Shane in the morning right since
says he says, who wins a three point shootout today?
Ben Maller, Ben Simmons or Bronnie James. Come on, you
know the answer, Shane moneyball Mallard for the win, for
the win. Let's set up right now, any court anywhere,
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may it app all right, may it happened. We'll fix
some calls. Talking about the start of the NBA season,
David in Pennsylvania, the Fried Daddy says, Hey, Ben Brownie
James that he really sucks. It's unbelievable. There's no team
in the NBA that would have drafted the kid if
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it wasn't wasn't Lebron's kid. I don't even watch the NBA,
but I checked out the low lights. I don't think
he will ever have a ten point night, never knowing
garbage time. Any people do improve, but the fact that
he's in the NBA, he has no business being in
the league other than he won the genetic lottery being
Lebron James Kidd. So congratulations on that. Let's go to
(15:20):
the phones and we'll say hello to any meenie MINEU mall.
Let's saylo to Chris, who's in Cincinnati. Hello, Chris, welcome.
Hmm is Chris awake? Here's sound? But I don't know shoring.
Maybe you fell asleep. But he has unlike everyone else
(15:41):
that calls the show, he does not have to sleep, happeny,
so it's possible that he there's no hollering James effect
at all. Well, thank you for that. Chris. Let's go
do Jerome in Charleston. We'll find out what he wants
to complain about. Hello Jerome and Charleston.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I just wanted to say, man, I'm here for you.
As long as I'm around, I'm going to always be
here for you. But you need to stold me, o kid,
lay off the man's kids. Okay, Look, look is what
I wish for you? Are you?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Are you related? Are you related to Lebron James? Why
he's a professional athlete? I get paid to talk about
professional athletes? Stupid? What's wrong with you? Are you an idiot?
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Different?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Are you a moral? He's not your kid, He's not
my kid. He's a professional athlete.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
He's fair game until you have children.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
You know what I wish.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I wish you do have children? Man?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
You you don't?
Speaker 5 (16:37):
You do?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
You do not know what you're talking about your own?
Trust me, you don't know what you're talking about your own.
You do not. You do not understand your own what
you're talking about. So I'm not allowed. Let me let
me let me get this straight here. Every one of
these guys we talk about your own? Is this every
one of these idiots that we talk about is a
son of somebody? Right, you can't be in the world
this year, so by your by your logic, so stupid.
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We're not supposed to rip anybody, you know. You rip
Pat mcat, You rip Pat McAfee all the time. He's
got a father, He's got a father. What about his father.
You don't understand he's got a father. What about his father?
You're an idiot. You just admit you're an idiot. This
is the dumbest take. This is the dumbest take you've
ever had. This is the dumbest take you've ever had.
(17:26):
But it doesn't matter. He's got a father, he's got
a father. She should you should not be mean. You
shouldn't be mean. He's a man, he's a human being.
He's a human being. Okay, so we're supposed to give
him wouldn't Jerome je Joe hold On said Trump, wouldn't
this be Would it be racist to treat him differently
(17:47):
than I treat every every other professional athlete? Wouldn't that
be wrong? Jerome? Wouldn't that be inappropriate? Wouldn't that be
giving him special treatment? Coddling Bronnie James? Why would I
coddle Bronnie James. Why in what rule would I call
why what? He has been coddled? He was literally he
was literally born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
Do you understand that he won the lottery? He's not
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from the mean streets. He grew up in a mansion
with maids. All right, he's not okay? So why why
are you so worked up about defending him? I don't
get it.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
You can, but just.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Let me say this. You know, kids and home. For
him to fail, that's from losing deal. Man.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
It's not hoping. He's a failure. It's not hoping, Jerome.
Listen again, you don't know what you're talking about. Jerome.
I can't get her to do it now, but you
don't know what you're talking about. But here's the thing, Jerome, Okay,
it's not a matter of me pulling for him to fail.
He's a failure. The only reason he's in the NBA
he is a product. It is nepotism. He was a
backup on a bad pack twelve basketball team and he's
(18:50):
in the NBA because Lebron wanted him. Nike wants to
do a commercial. I'm sure he'll be up. Pobby's up now,
Ruth the Griffies and Lebron and his kid. It's a
it's a marketing opportunity. That's why he's in the India.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
I understand all of that, but look, I don't the
man because he loves his children. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Look here, well, don't most people love their children, Jerome?
Is it? Isn't that? Isn't that? Isn't it normal to
love your children, wouldn't it benormal? Not? It would be
unnormal not to love your children, wouldn't it?
Speaker 4 (19:21):
What he doing? Is that messing with your life? FAM's
hurt you?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yes, because I have to talk about this stupid crap
and I don't want to talk about it. Okay, that's
it's ridiculous. It is. It is choreographed like a Broadway show, Drew.
It is you fake people say sports people. Well, most
most people love their children, so we should never rip
anyone because most people, most people come from families that
(19:45):
are lucky enough to have parents that love them. That's
normally how it works. When you don't, that's unfortunate. Yeah,
here we go again, Joe, Here we go again.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Yeah, told me that, but I didn't listen to them.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
I promise you you're that will not be the case.
I promise he's Rome. I do not think about you
that much, but thank you. I have other things to
think about Jerome, not you. God. So we're not allowed
to rip Roni because Lebron loves him, but by that standard,
we're not supposed to rip anyone. Do you really how
dumb that is? I mean, am I the only one?
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Like?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
How ridiculous to defend my father? I mean it's like, really,
I don't know. It's it's the basketball equivalent of the
executive at the fortune five hundred company that the kid
not that good but gets an executive vice president job
(20:40):
just because the dad happens to be the CEO of
the company.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Well, you can even keep it in the sports world
with these owners handing down these teams to their sons
who have done nothing to you know, earn owning a
professional sports franchise, and then you can't criticize them because
that's their kid.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
And how's that work out? Like Mark Mark Davis? Is
he doing good? Is he as good as Al Davis
with the Raiders? For Sam? Probably not? Because he got
a rebound? Okay, did you really yes?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Congratulation?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I thought you had one? Turno. I did not see
a rebound. He had a rebound. Yeah, he had one rebound.
I thought he had a triple zero. I thought he
when I was one. Does that make him a professional?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Technically?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
He's getting paid and we can't rip him because he's
got a father, so that loves him and that's important.
Berg Dog Rights since says, when did the NBA partner
with the Make a Wish Foundation? Bronni must be suffering
from a life threatening illness to get on the court.
It's the only explanation I can think of. Sure, why, yes,
(21:39):
just wild the whole thing. And and then you had
the uh as somebody pointed out to me a very
influential person, how upset was Lebron that Fernando had to
die on the night This was supposed to be all
about Lebron and his kid upstaging Lebron, Right, because Fernando's
no matter what Lebron does, Fernando's more important in LA
(22:02):
than Lebron James and Fernando dying is a bigger story
than him and his nepo baby playing in the NBA
fir father son. Oh and they had the little video
they put online of this see the end see the
rookie hazing video and you'd see that there they.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Did?
Speaker 5 (22:20):
You like that?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
They filled up? I filled up. I love how Bronnie
James's drive. Was he some kind of high end BMW
or something?
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
They filled it up with boxes of fruity pebbles. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I enjoyed the fruity pebbles when I was when I
was a lad.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
It would have been funny if it was real. I know, right,
it's the whole thing. It's just like and I guess
I'm in the minority. I think a lot of people
are just they like this crap, and I hope not.
I think he's right. That's I think they do. Otherwise,
why would they continue to do it like it's the
whole They just get into it. They liked the whole thing.
(22:56):
It's so dumb.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
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Speaker 1 (23:03):
And we are rolling on through these overnight hours. Talk
about falling upwards, Rudy Gobert. Do you see this? And
now Rudy Gobert wins a lot of defensive awards and
all that he can't do anything on offense. Gobert is
a center for the Minnesota basketball team in the NBA.
He declined his forty six point six million dollar player
(23:23):
option for next imagine turning down forty six point six
million dollars, but guy would never I know, well, here's
the deal. Minnesota felt bad for him, so the Timbles said,
you know what we're gonna do. We're gonna give you
a three year, one hundred and ten million dollar contract.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
So they gave him.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
A new deal. He then went out and got stomped
on by Anthony Davis in the first game of the
NBA season.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
It was.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Intriguing. You had that, then you had you had mckill bridge,
who was the new Nick, one of the new Nick pickups,
right Bridges. And he changed his shot in the off season,
and everyone said the same thing. He wasn't a bad
shooter last last couple of years, but he's like, I'm
gonna changed my shot now. See he looks like if
you're old enough to remember Bill Cartwright, he kind of
(24:18):
looks like Bill Cartwright when he's shooting the mckilber no,
and it's not it wasn't very effective either, kind of.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Like a push shot. As I remember, he kind.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Of there's a lot of elbow push elbow. It's not
not a good look. That almost looks like a dance move. Eddie,
do you like that arena? Yeah, that's good, but what
kind of dance move would that be called?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Eddie's a big fan of Dancing with the Stars. He
likes that, and so you watch it every week, right,
dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Heinesward baby, my favorite NFL player, once, once a champion.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
My wife is I've been in the room. She's had
it on I I I saw a little bit of
this year. Is Dwight Howard? Has you been voted out yet?
Dwight Howard? He's in there.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Well, you need to know about how big of a
fan I am. Dancing with the Stars, my favorite all
time NFL player was a part of it, and I
didn't watch one.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Second of it, so the I know, right, that's a
that's your curmudge. We'll say hello to eating Angry Bill.
That'll be quick, Hello Angry Bill in Florida.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
How you doing, everybody? Ben, I'm let's switch gears a
little bit because this one really bugs me. You know
how you you know, you have your thing with the
Houston Astros and all that and I agree with you, Okay,
it was bad, well, this scam for the NBA object
to any reporting on it whatsoever. It's a scam, and
(25:41):
I can't believe you guys would even you know, you
don't want to talk about Cayton Clark. You don't want
to talk about this, but you want to talk about
this scam. It's number the unbelievable scam. Okay, it's a joke.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
It's beyond a joke.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
It's I put in the classy cheeting. Okay, Ben, So
what are your thoughts?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
What do you what do you talking? We talked about
the fact this whole thing is ridiculous, But what more
do you.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Want us to sayous don't report on it.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
It doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
I'm not reporting. I'm just talking about what you know
we talk about.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
It's called don't bring up his name?
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Don't don't you know your name and a toilet.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Bowl belong in the same blow, But angry Bill. He's
got a father though, according to Jerome and Charleston, he's
got a father, So.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
We can't you know, can't you want anything to do
with his father? I don't want to know all you
don't know what I know? What you think you don't
have to say. The great thing is you've called the
show so many years. I know exactly what you think. Okay,
I'm full aware of your belief on Lebron I know.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Okay, it's.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
And for you to record on it, give scores on it,
do anything on it.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
That's a scam you're doing.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
We're we are part of a scam. Yeah, well I
am doing it for I get paid to do the show.
It's not it's not a pro bono situation. I get
paid your man, Okay, I will make sure to call
up though he's a jackass. Uh send that, Uh learn
all management, you're jackwagons. Let him know right, thank you?
All right? I appreciate that. Uh. Mark and Santa Monica.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Know that I.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Father.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah, Jerome my god. Mark and Santa Monica sist by
Jerome's theory. You cannot rip anyone who has a father.
That is true. But as much as science, I say science,
So you know whacker doodles who claim to be scientists
claim you don't need a mother and a father, you
kind of do. It's kind of part of the deal. Yeah,
whether they're in your life for whether they're bad fathers
(27:45):
or bad mothers. You do need them at the point
of conception, you do. Daniel Wright Sen says, I cannot
believe Brownie is even a thought on your radio show.
The kid is irrelevant. The more media mentions he gets,
it justifies him beings drafted, says Dan. Okay, so everyone's upset.
Now we're the bad guys, Eddie, because we're talking about Brownie.
(28:08):
We're the bad guys. Let's say hello now, speaking of
bad guys, Sir scratch Off is in Arkansas. Hello, Sir
scratch Are you going over to Kansas City, Sir scratch
Off for the mall or Mountain greed? November?
Speaker 6 (28:19):
Hey, man, let's get something out of the way real quick.
Give me something. You're gonna be there November the eleventh,
on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Right, No, it's November ninth on a Saturday.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
Okay, my bad. Okay? Something about today? What we do? Okay?
What time when you go to these meeting? Great? What
time do you usually like start doing whatever you're doing?
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Will you be there all night?
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Night?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Well, I'm not gonna be there all I'm not gonna
be there all night. It'll be in the afternoon. I
don't have the exact time yet. We're working that out
with our friends at the fan in Kansas City, my
guy Bob Fesco. So once I get the time, i'll
let you know, but it'll be in the probably late afternoon.
I would imagine that's usually when we do these two
five something like that. Yeah, somewhere in that time period.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Sure, yeah, because that's close. That's a close one you had,
you know. But you're gonna come by yourself. You're not
bringing any your sound up stuck coming, So you're just
gonna come by yourself.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Right, Uh well yes, I yeah, it's a Mallard meet
and greet. They are welcome to join me. I'd love
to have them, but they they will not be there.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
No, I got you, Okay, now do their thing. Everybody's
talking about Ronnie. Okay, you know I've already heard. Just
my my son's been driving. He didn't hear a Nigga college.
He had good grades. He plays a lot of softball
for eleven years that he played baseball all the way
through school. But now they say to him driving like
your father. No, Josh doing that because he enjoys doing that.
He makes over one hundred grand a year. He went
(29:37):
to driving a truck making that kind of money.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Well, yeah, be careful because you're going to become a
truck driver coop here.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
I mean, you know, that's all kind of his money.
He got two boys to raise a five and three.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
But then, well I'm I'm the same ways for scratch up.
My dad was a great hand radio operator, and I
went into radio, and people said, oh, you're just trying
to be like your dad. I said, well, you know
a dad, I like the job. I'm in restrial radio.
He's in ham radio back in the day, and so
that's that.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Yeah, yes, I agree, I agree with you, and I
would be honestly, I've heard you said before. What I forgot.
It's not my dad, you know what him and my
two brothers do. I didn't want to be a preacher
because they'd have thrown me how to pool it because
I don't believe in this new world. Okay, y yes, sirt.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah, but I could I could see you as a
preacher because you talk a lot. I can see you
giving a sermon. No, I could see you as you're
like a cult leader. Ben you think, wow, a cult leader.
Look at that. Lorena took a shot at he was
a cult leader. It's a compliment.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
I like the writers, you get the rights, you can
do that. But anyway, let's talk about Bronnie. Okay, Ronnie's
doing something he don't.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Don't don't be mean. He's got a father. Don't be mean.
He's got a father.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
No, okay, but well let me finish. Okay, But what
everybody's trying to say, I'm hearing this racist and on
his crap. You know, it ain't nothing about racist. He's
just wanted to play basketball if he wants to play
like his dad.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Racist.
Speaker 6 (30:58):
Okay, Well, let's don't trash kid until we find out
really down the road what he's going to be like.
You know, but lebroad Day's been transferred a lot of
years because he's really good. But he's a crime. Maybe
at times hung up?
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Yeah I did, no, not yet, but I will. I'm
about to like that, right. I love that you just
assumed I hung up at you because I didn't I
talk over you. So it's like, oh, you must have
hung up. Yeah, well now I hung up on that.
Now he's gone boy all right?
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Man?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Uh Chip and Q says pro bono, is that some
relative of Sonny Bono? Yes, there is a statue of
Sonny Bono and Palm Springs Chip. If you ever want
to head out to California and see a statue of
the old mayor of Palm Springs right there, wonderful or
Palm Desert, whatever it was, it is the Ben Maller
Sho're gonna have mallardly third degree. That is warming up.
(31:52):
We'll get to that coming up momentary time. Now for
the instant trivia, Patrick Maholmes has joined Peyton, Manning and
Blank as the only quarterback since nineteen eighty to win
their first six starts of a season while throwing more
interceptions than touchdowns. That is the Instra Trivia. The answer next.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
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Speaker 1 (32:45):
Rest in peace. Fernando Valenzuela died on Tuesday Night. Fernando
a baseball legend if you're of the age to have
watched the pitch, even if not the legend of Fernando
the Great Fernando. This song actually predates Fernando Mania, but
did get played a lot when Fernandomania was going on
(33:06):
time out. For the Insta trivia, Patrick Mahomes joined Peyton,
Manning and Blank as the only quarterbacks since nineteen eighty
to win their first six starts of his season while
throwing more interceptions than touchdowns. That is the Insta trivia.
What is the answer? Let's see, does anyone know? We
have Mallard of the third degree, which is currently warming
(33:28):
up in the oven. Pickles McGee guests by Matt the
Warrior Raider, Tom Brady Rose Fan because he doesn't know
the answer, he couldn't cheat on this one, Uncle Phil
from Milkman Mike who else? We have the Hoff Yes
by Cowboy Killer Bug, Daddy Cool Diesel from Robin Vegas,
Bobby Abear from Alf the Alien, Opiner, Lyle Overbay from
(33:52):
Mister Nice Guy. Random form Blue Jay Nick Bosa, who
was twenty seven today from the Late Night Drug Tester.
Who else do we have? Page down? Mister Unlimited from
Andy from Lionel Lakes in Minnesota. P t Willis from
g Man's Joe Webb guessed by Rob in Minnesota, Tyrod
(34:13):
Taylor from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Coop's favorite bronco, Jay Cutler.
What's that you na?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Former Dolphins legendary quarterback David Woodley.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
No, that is incorrect. Correct answer in La Ram legend
from the nineteen eighties out of the Canadian Football League.
Deeter Brock is the Peter bro What a list, Dieter Brock?
How about hey Man, your degree? And Patrick ball is
(34:43):
one big event? Gets grailled Cooper.
Speaker 8 (34:47):
Brian dave All explained to the media on Monday that
he benched Daniel Jones in an attempt to provide a
spark for the offense when they were down twenty eight
to three in the fourth quarter. However, he did say
that Jones will be the starter moving forward. Ben do
you think Jones finishes the season as QB one?
Speaker 2 (35:03):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
I don't. However, what a referendum on Drew Locke, the
backup he must really blow if the Giants aren't going
to turn to Drew Locke after the way Daniel Jones
has played recently. The way this plays out, though, once
we get late in the season and the Giants have
officially been eliminated from playoff contention, they will shut Daniel
(35:27):
Jones down because they don't want to get hurt. There's
some language offset language in the contract. If he gets hurt,
he gets certain amount of guaranteed money, So they'll shut
him down late in the year. But for now, I
guess they want to make their fans suffer some more.
Speaker 8 (35:40):
Next, Antonio Piers told the media that the Raiders are
not tanking and that they are trying to be the
best team they can.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Really, it doesn't look like it.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Ben.
Speaker 8 (35:48):
Do you think that this means Max Crosby isn't going anywhere?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Well, no, I mean the trade deadline is November fifth.
There's some kind of election that day as well. But
the simple truth is it's up to Max Crosby. He's
from Michigan, he said, family wants him to play for
the Lions and all that. He's been getting texts and
people from other fan bases have been reaching out to
him on the surface. He's the perfect Raider. He should
(36:14):
be a lifetime Raider. But if Max Shrosby goes to
the Raiders and says, you know, I think I should
play somewhere else. I don't want to be here anymore,
then what are they gonna do. They're gonna trade him,
So it's up to him next.
Speaker 8 (36:25):
Former All Star Baron Davis said in a recent interview
that he thinks that this will be a bounce back
season for the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Ben do you think he's right? Well? I think that
he works on a podcast for Draymond Green. I believe
he was hired, wasn't he? Is it Draymond Green's podcast?
He was hired as a co host, and he is
a former Golden State Warrior player. So I take everything
he says. We're the grand AsSalt. I look at Golden
State and the naked truth is they're about where they
(36:52):
were last year without Klay Thompson. He sucked last year.
They're a fringe playoff like playing type team. That's where
Golden State it is. And there it is Mallard of
the third degree, how did we do? He passed? Edition?
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