December 19, 2024 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about Adam Silver acknowledging the NBA's sagging TV ratings but says fan interest is not lacking, a report saying the Celtics net revenue was $465M this past year, a special edition of #AskBen w/ guest J-Scoop, and more!
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Here we go.
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Welcome, Like a fresh biscuit, it's our number three. Now
you can try to bounce a biscuit, but it likely
will not bounce very well. Adam Silver, who runs Pro
Bouncy Ball, has acknowledged that you're not watching his product
as much as he used to. However, he says, don't worry.
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There's nothing to see here. NBA fans are not lacking
the interest, is there? How does this sound to you? Also,
reports out of Boston say the Celtics net revenue was
four hundred and sixty five million dollars this past year.
Do you find that significant one NBA team with net
revenue at four hundred and sixty five million. Also, Charles
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Barkley says he's thinking about bailing on ESPN and going
over to NBC or Amazon. He's at least listening. Could
you see that happening? We'll go there as well. All
of it's coming your way right now here. It is
our numb three, the old alley oop. Not a lot
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of that in basketball these days. Welcome. In the beginning
of another hour of the Ben Maler Show, we are in.
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started the show with a rant by the Tennessee Titans
head coach Brian Callahan. But this hour, upward and onward
we go. Here in our hour was our three my guys,
number three, that's right, Look at that. You know not
a weatherman, but I'll pretend to be a sports talk shows.
So here's the deal. Our lead this hour from pro
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Bouncy Ball. If you're a super fan of the show.
Years ago, there was a commercial that I was asked
to read on Fox Sports Radio that had the word
bouncy in it, and a guy from Norman, Oklahoma called
up very upset. I rate that I said the word bouncing,
So I have used that ever since then as a
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way to mock him. Uh and just I think it
was Randy from Norman if I remember that, this sounds
about right Randy from Norman. Anyway, hydra high drama around
the association, A lot of negative energy around one of
the blue blood sports in America. You got the Big Four,
got the Major League Baseball, the NFL, the NBA, and
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the NHL. Well, things are not going particularly great in
the NBA. They just crowned a champion. It's not even Christmas,
and they handed out their championship trophy, the little Fugaze
Cup in that cute They have a nice little cup.
They gave the cup to the box and so they
had an event in Vegas. There was no excitement, there
was no juice, there was no none of that. So
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with all of these bad vibrations around the sport of basketball,
the person that runs that sport has chimed in on
all this. I don't know if you saw this or
not recently. Maybe you missed it. Maybe you missed it.
So the NBA commissioner Adam Silver, now he acknowledged that
it is true there are less people now watching the
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NBA than there have been in the past. The ratings
are down dramatically this season. They are However, he said,
Adam Silver, the dipsy do the dip dippity dippity, They
do not equate. That does not equate to the interest
in pro bouncy ball being bad. So what so less
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people are watching but the sport is really popular. Yeah, okay,
that's the ticket. Now what did he use as evidence,
Adam Silver, if he saw this or not? What evans
did Adam Silver use to make his case? He said
that he had data points that he brought up, including attendance,
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record setting attendants back to back years and social media engagement.
That's what he said. He said that shows there's not
a lack of interest in the NBA. Silver reference two
years of the highest attendants in league history and social
media fan engagement the highest of any of the major
sports leagues in America. That there are more people engaged
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on the social media and anywhere else. So let us discuss. Now,
Adam Silver again acknowledging he's acknowledging the fact that the
NBA TV ratings are sagging, but says that the NBA
interest from fans is not lacking, despite what you might think.
So how does this sound to you? I've got metallic foil,
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Micronesia and drawing card, and we'll put all of these
things together and we're gonna make buttered popcorn. Delicious buttered
popcorn is what we're going to make. So first of all, listen,
Adam Silver is never going to admit that Adam Silver
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has done a bad job, just like Jerry Jones annoys
the hell out of our friends in Texas because he
refuses to say that he's ever done a bad job
as Jami the Cowboys, and no one is going to
offer that up on their own. That's just human nature.
It's human one oh one. If your boss goes up
to you at your job and says, hey, uh, you know,
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I don't think you're you're doing that, well, you'd be like, well, no,
I'm doing okay, I'm doing all right. I'm working hard.
You know you're not gonna self admit say, oh yeah,
I really just didn't even try that week at work.
No I didn't. So Adam Silver can come out with
all these different numbers and ven diagrams and pie charts
and all that, but he's not going to admit the
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quality is not as good. The quality control is bad.
It's been lax. He's not going to say that that
the NBA sold out to the nerds and the nerds
have ruined the sport. They can't say that. No, no, no, no,
you're just you're just a boomer. Well, apparently the boomers
are the ones that drove the ratings, because the ratings
are down down, down, down, down, down, down, down down
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down down down down down. Now, Adam Silver, I get it.
He makes a lot of money. It's a great job.
You don't really have to work that hard. There's not
a lot of decisions to be made. Anybody could pretty
much run the NBA, clearly Adam Silver, who's half man
half Maybe he's the one, but you think he's behind
the drones. Could it be that Adam Silver is the
one that his people from his planet out there and
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the Cosmos have come back to try to get Adam. So,
I don't know, but either way, Adam likes those nice
parties during the summer in the Hamptons. He likes that
he likes going to the Upper West Side and having
a cup of coffee with some very important people. And
so there's no way he's gonna say, oh yeah, I'm
bad this year. Has somebody else to be the commissioner
that job by me? So instead, what Adam Silver is
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doing is he's holding up those metallic foil pomp pomps.
He's part of the spirit squad for the NBA. The
ratings are down, but everything's fine. How bad are the ratings?
You ask? The viewership of NBA games from the national broadcast,
the most important broadcast on ESPN, ABC and TNT are
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down nineteen percent year to year. So imagine if you
will you run a mom and pop pizzeria and you
sell twenty percent less pizzas than you did the previous year,
you'd be panicked to be like, I gotta find a
reason I need to sell those pizzas. What's up with that?
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And not only do you have that problem, but you
also have the problem that perception is reality, and the
perception is the players in the modern NBA are all
buddy buddy. They don't really care who wins and loses.
They don't even like playing in the regular season. They
like playing in the playoffs, but they don't like the
regular season. It's a pebble in the shoe, is what
it is. It's an inconvenience, it's a nuisance. They have
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to play like that. And as Adam Silver has gone
on as the commissioners beloved by the basketball media, He's
talking about social media engagement though. And I've had this
conversation with my friends in the radio world. We use
social media during the live show and I'll send photos
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out on Facebook and Instagram. Effect later on Jays Scoop's
visiting with us on the Overnight show. He was in
the Ukraine for fifteen months, and I'll put some photos
up of that visit with him, and that'll be during
the day. But we get paid to get people to
listen to the radio or the podcast. We don't get
paid to have people on social media. And spoiler, even
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though the NBA does make some money from social media,
that is very small. It's peanuts compared to what they
make from television. And so the idea that you're promoting
this fact that hey, listen, everything's great. Look at the engagement.
The people watching clips on TikTok and sending nasty comments,
throwing Molotov cocktails verbally of course metaphorically on x are
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not the ones that are paying your bills, they're not
and every man, woman in child they know that the
most important thing is TV. Now TV is changing and
it's going to a stream model, but you still have
to get people to watch the stream. And it's like
the other I have a TV show. Everyone's got a
TV show, even I have one. I got Benny Versus
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the Penny, which we're gonna record later today. And Benny
Versus the Penny is on cable television all over the place,
but it's also now streaming, and that's where everything is moving.
It's moving towards the stream, and so you're trying to
get people to watch it on that as well. Now, secondly,
speaking of the business of basketball, and the reigning champions
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of the NBA, the Boston Celtics, the parquet, the whole thing.
So the Celtics they are getting they're getting their books
opened up for the world. They're essentially naked for the
world to see. The Celtics right now, they're being sold.
And Wick Grossbeck is selling the Boston Celtics. Well he's
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not even the owner. His dad is. Nobody knows whose
dad is, but the family's selling the Celtics. And so
when you sell something, you have to open up the
books for people that want to buy, and so people
are looking at all the numbers and they're analyzing all
the numbers and all this, and so it's an open
book test. It's an open book test. And this this
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is absolutely wild. So sported Code tells us they went
through all the numbers and they crunched the numbers. So
the Celtics net revenue in the last period for the
Boston Celtics, their net revenue four one hundred and sixty
five medion dead presidents, do you find this significant that
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the Celtics net revenue four hundred and sixty five million,
So it is a draw dropping, jaw dropping amount of money,
four hundred and sixty five million dollars. Yeah. So for
some perspective, right, for some perspective here, the Celtics have
more net revenue that price point four hundred and sixty
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five million. The Celtics have more revenue than the gross
domestic product of Micronesia all right, Micronesia was at four
hundred and twenty seven million. They also have more than
the Marshall Islands at two hundred and eighty million. So
the Celtics are doing better than and there's other countries
that you know, I've heard of those. I haven't heard
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of some of these other countries, but they're doing better.
The point is the Celtics are doing better in these
other countries. And Warren Buffett, who's getting up there right.
But one of the famous lines that Warren Buffett had
in terms of financial investment, he says, you buy companies
that an idiot can run. And the Celtics are a
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company that an idiot could run and make a ton
of money. It's just the reality of the situation there.
Their mascot is a golden leprechaun that poops out gold bars.
That's the Celtics mascot. They have a license to print
money and if you look at the portfolio. One other
interesting point here that while most of the money comes
from TV, the Celtics were able to price gouge their
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fans and get the good people of Boston and New
England to spend the ridiculous amounts of money on tickets.
But it's not just the TV, it's the ticket sales.
There a lot of revenue from that merchandise and all
that that is split up. Now, moving on final thought,
sticking with the theme, the boob tube, if you will,
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Charles Barkley has entered the chats or Charles the round
mound of gas Baggerie Charles Barkley. He says that he
has not, despite what you might have read, not agreed
to continue appearing on Inside the NBA, the Iconic Turner
Show when it moves off TNT and over to ESPN.
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Barkley announced that he is considering signing with one of
ESPN's rivals, one of the two new broadcast partners with
the NBA, and he says, quote, I have not decided yet.
He says he's listening to NBC and Amazon. Barkley state,
so he's thinking about making the jump now. Barkley says
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he's he's not sure what's gonna happen yet. He's not
sure if he's gonna bail on the deal. But again,
he's looking at his options and going somewhere else. Could
you see this happening? Could you see this happening? So yes,
although it is a long shot. And here's why, because
even though Barkley will be under the umbrella of ESPN,
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it will be through Turner. The show will continue to
be produced as I've been told out of Atlanta and
it'll just be a partnership, so it'll appear on the
ESPN properties, but it'll be through Turner still. So that
means Barkley will work with the same people, the same crew.
They'll all still be there. Now the reason that you
don't you don't totally dismiss this. Imagine if you will,
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a deck of cards. You got the Ace, you got
the King, you get the Queen, there's some jokers in there,
some twos, whatever. So you look at your deck of cards.
Charles Barkley, which card is he? See? The Ace? No,
he's not the aces, not the King's the Queen. No, No,
he's none of that. He's not the ten, not the nine,
not the eight. No.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
No.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Charles Barkley is the drawing card. And without Charles Barkley,
no one is going to go out of the way
to hear what Ernie Johnson, Shachill O'Neill and Kenny Smith
have to say. And if you believe that is the case,
that I'm wrong, you are delusional. So with Barkley, the
show works. Without Barkley, the House of Cards comes something
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down down down down down down down down down down
down down, And Barkley knows even though he will be
working technically for TNT, it will be under ESPN somewhat,
and which means that inevitably he's going to upset the censors. Now,
I will admit the media landscape has changed to bitten
things that Pat McAfee, for example, is getting away with.
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Back in the old days, you never get away with.
So that's the argument for Barkley not having to worry
about it. But the Mickey Mouse Disney gestapo will the
censorship'll be will be there. So Charles Barkley, he has
enough power if you wanted to, he'd be like, hey,
let's blow this popsicle stand and we'll just go over
to NBC and I'll reunite the entire group and we'll
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put the show together there. Good, absolutely, dude. All right
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We've also got our buddy Jay Scoop who's been hanging
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Jayscoop a long time supporter of the show and he's
won the Talent Show four times. He's been a judge
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for the Malard Palooza and last year we had Inca
terror replace him. But Jay Scoop spent fifteen months in
the Ukraine or Ukraine Shoot Me Jesso Ukraine, and he's
made his way back safely to the US and so
we've been catching up with him. He stopped by to
see us. Time now for the Mallor Riddle of the Day.
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And here is the Mallor Riddle of the day. Falcons
quarterback Michael Pennex Junior said he was about to grab
a blank at Costco when he got the call that
the Falcons were naming him the Starter again. Michael Pennex
Junior said he was about to grab a blank at
Costco when he got the call that the team was
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That's u age Bronco fan, uhe Bronco fan. And Lorena
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who ate too many pieces of chicken and Tony waffles
and so.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
She's Tommy hurts.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yeah, it sounds tough late at night.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
And I'm eating ice cream.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Well, that'll make your stomach feel better. That'll definitely make
it feel better. We're hanging out. He So we have
an update here. This is big news.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
We do have asked Ben coming up later this hour.
So a couple of months ago, we had said, Hey,
I want Lorraina to get prison mail.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
We had said we want you to get prison mail, right,
Remember that, Lorena, and we did the whole bit on
the show. I do remember this well. Good news. I
have received a piece of correspondence, but not for you,
for me, so I did like, this has got to
be tough for you. I mean, usually a woman on
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radio just gets nothing but prison mail. But our friend Charles,
who is he's got a long stay at the Gray
Bar Hotel. There after you've been in there for a while,
you get used to what. I don't know what you're
talking about anyway, Charles, he's written us before. He goes
so far back that Karen Kay I was working with
Karen Ka back in the day and he would send
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letters and he says, there's a lot here. I showed
Jay Scoops hanging out with us from Ukraine. He came,
he's back in the States now, and I showed him here.
There's like both sides when you're in prison. I know
this from the boys in prison. When they write letters,
you got to use every inch of real estate. So
there's one, two, three, there's there's like four pages. Now
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they're out of orders. I just screwed it up. Now
they're but anyway, four pages, and he wrote on both sides,
and there's a lot here. And my man, Charles has
really good cursive writing. But I haven't been in elementary
school in a while, or I don't really it's hard
to read cursive.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Would you like me to decipher it for you?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Bet well, I'm worried you might read some of this.
On the other I don't know that at all is
worthy of their like some of it, he says. Shout
out to your homeboys, he says, Yeah, Josh Marcel, he said,
and then I, oh, I think Cowboy. I think he
mentioned Cowboy and windsor yeah, oh he said Karen. He
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does mention Karen. Kay here, everything's there, you.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
Go, so, but don't forget to he included he laced
one of those papers with something you have to lick it.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Yes, well, I'll let Lorraina handle that. So, so thank
you Charles and all the all the fellas. I think
there's any women in prison listen to the show. So
it's all dudes. But thanks to the guys in prison,
there a captive audience.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
As we like this.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Very nice. Let's go to the phones day, Scoopball Salo. Now,
this guy's a legend. This guy you see online three there.
I don't know if you know his work man, but
that guy wasn't he in Twins? Well he was, and
now he's working as a trash man in Boston. The
Great Danny DeVito joins us here. Hello, Danny, Welcome Danny.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Danny.
Speaker 8 (21:46):
What's going on.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
My friend?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I want you to tell you that, Danny, last week
we were taping the TV show and I mentioned your
name to the producer. He was very impressed that I
know Danny DeVito, very impressed. So yeah, I.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
Actually called in an hour and he threw me off.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
You will call me Dave.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
So well, the reason I was called, the reason I
was calling you David is because it said Dave on
my board. That's why I called you David. I said
Dave on my board. I'm not saying I am not
saying who's guilty. But their initials are JS. That's all
I'm saying, J j C. I screwed that up. Oh man,
damn it. I had a good line and I screwed
it up.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
You know you know where I'm at now, Ben, you
know you know Boston. Well right, I've been been.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
There many been there many times. Where are you at?
Speaker 8 (22:33):
I'm at I'm on Brake, I'm at the South Street.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Okay, South Boston, South Boston, Southie.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Yeah, yeah, wealthy.
Speaker 8 (22:44):
Right now I'm calling. I called in. What are you
like this week?
Speaker 5 (22:48):
You know?
Speaker 8 (22:48):
Are you a serious gamble? You are right, you're pretty serious.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
That I have had a terrible year. I do take
it very seriously. I handicap every game for the TV
show and all that. So, yes, I spend a lot
of my time handicapping the games. What are you getting
at here?
Speaker 4 (23:02):
You got?
Speaker 8 (23:04):
I want you know all these these games? What is
your best bet? What's your best bet?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
So you'll have to watch the You'll have to watch
the TV show which will be on starting all right,
We'll good. How about this for you? I will mention
during the show the game I like the most. How
about that for you?
Speaker 8 (23:24):
I believe, yes, sir, I'll be I'll be watching that
all right.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
There you go, look at that. That's a way the forest, dandy.
What are you eating at the diner? By the way,
what do you what are you going?
Speaker 4 (23:36):
I got a burger cheeseburger.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
You can't go You can't go wrong with a cheeseburger,
they say the experts. When you go to a restaurant,
it's chicken fingers or a cheeseburger.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
What I'm doing over here?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
All right?
Speaker 8 (23:50):
I thought there all the time.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Where's the truck? Would you park the truck out in front? Oh?
Speaker 8 (23:55):
Yeah, right out front on the side of the street.
Isn't that busy right now? But as you know, lots
will get so right now.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
The thing I've noticed, Danny, is that there's not a
lot of places open all night in Boston. There's a
lot of not a lot of.
Speaker 8 (24:09):
Options, no, exactly right, So this is one of the
only fool places that's open. It's always slammed to get
a lot of business.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah, I think I've actually, I think I've actually eaten
there one of my trips to Boston. Looks for I'm
looking at a photo of it looks familiar. So I
think I think I actually have been there because I
was trying to find someone eat late, and that was
that was what was open. That was all the only
option we had. All right, Well, thank you, Danny. Enjoy
your burger some fries, all right, buddy? All right, said
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he's eating the cheeseburger right now.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
I'm picturing like one of those, you know, old school waitresses,
and they bring out that piece of.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
This is this is a good that's a diner. I'm
showing you.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
But do they have that legendary slice of pie that
they give you, you know that rotates? The pie things rotates.
That's kind of cool. I don't know where you buy that.
Probably my anything online they have like the pie thing
that rotates. Here, I get a whole history of this place.
His place goes back to like the nineteen forties. There
you go, all right, Salo too, Who do you want
to go to? You want to take a call here?
Jays Scoop?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Do you?
Speaker 7 (25:08):
I like, come on, I gotta go, angry Bill, I
want to come on, man.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I mean he just literally called up a second ago.
They're not even done screening his call, Like Coop's having
a conversation with him right now off the air. He's
not even he just literally called up. Pick somebody. All right,
let's go with Alex. Alex is in Salt Lake City.
What's going on? Alex? Welcome the great salt Lake Holy snap.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
Finally it is going good. Ben good to have you
on the line.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Fire, Holy snap, Holy snap, Holy snap. I told my story, Alex.
I stopped at your airport on the way to Kansas City,
and the most depressing place in that airport was the
Utah Jazz Team store. That was the most.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Or in the walk.
Speaker 9 (25:50):
Musty flu Delta, Man, we need a needs a marathon
to get from side to side of Yea, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
We did fly. I did fly Delta. It was a
long haul.
Speaker 9 (25:59):
It was a long yeah, good choice. Hey, well thanks.
I wanted to just say, Jay Scoop, you got some balls, man.
I wanted to help out over there too, but I
ain't got the balls. But still you got Man, that's
epic that you made your way out to Ukraine that
long run.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Thanks.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah. The most important of the important part is you
made it back. I mean we were we were worried
about You got your You get your tags on right there,
You wear your tags right here and look at that. Yeah, yes, sir?
Is that all? Is that all out? You just want
to say a lot of there's more, but wait, but wait,
there's more. We have a lot of you have a
lot of content. You're on a whole for a while out.
(26:40):
You got a lot of content.
Speaker 9 (26:41):
Right, I got a few things, but primarily what I
need to do, Ben, I'm fighting for the championship because
I'm going to get to the best team. The other
two teams are real bad for our fantasy championship, but
me and this team were stacked. But I lost Evan
Ingram earlier this year picked up Brenton Range. But I
(27:01):
got some anxiety though. They're fighting for the worst for
the first draft pick Raiders and Jags. Yeah, do I
play Breton Strange today? I think they're just going to
hand it off three times, punt it and we're just
going to have that kind of game all Gamelong. I'm
having a big anxiety attack about it.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Is this? Is this justified?
Speaker 9 (27:20):
Am I lose? In my mind?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
If you're in my shoes, you're fighting?
Speaker 9 (27:24):
Are you playing anyone on either of them teams this
year in fantasy?
Speaker 4 (27:28):
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Well?
Speaker 4 (27:29):
I do.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I don't play fantasy, so I don't know I'm the
right guy, but I would. I would tell you that
Jacksonville has at least shown a little bit of fight
the last couple of weeks, and I do think they're
going to win that game against the Raiders. But I
wouldn't if I have to pick every game for the
TV show, I wouldn't. I wouldn't actually bet on it
in real life. But I think they're going to actually
win the game.
Speaker 8 (27:49):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
And we're not even sure who's going to play quarterback
for the Raiders, right, So that's advantage, you know, for
the other side there for Jacksonville. But I think he'd
be all right, don't really stop anybody. Uh, you know,
they're kind of pretty weak on defense. I think I
wouldn't be excited about playing Brenton Strange, but it wouldn't
be like the the worst thing in the world.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
Imagine your fate being decided by a jack or just
a game like that matchup.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
No, No, a Jacksonville tight end playing out the string.
And you know, with three weeks ago in the season
against the Raiders in a game that seven people are
gonna watch. What a life? What a the life of
fantasy football? Alex, that's the life.
Speaker 9 (28:30):
It's him or it's Kyle Pitts. If we follow any football,
we know what's been going on there.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Well, yeah, that's yeah. Kyle Pitts looks like a Donas
but does not play like a Donas. And they do
you know who knows? That is a wild card too,
because Atlanta with Michael Pennix junior, and who knows if
he can play right away? Normally you don't hit the
ground running, and then you're playing the Giants who are terrible.
So there's a lot going on with that. All right, well,
good luck, Alex. All right, man, we'll keep you there.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
You go.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Now we'll go to Angry Bill. And I'm annoyed because
I like to keep him on hold for a long time,
and when we went right to him Angry Bill only
because Jay Scoop likes you, Angry Bill.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Well, that's that's It's nice to know somebody likes me.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
He's the only he's the only person, the only person
that likes it.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
You can give me an answer on this possibly, what
your thoughts are? Not not your red, red and blue thing?
What do you think? What kind of Bellinger are we
going to get for the Yankees? What are we really
going to get? We're gonna get the one that played
for the Dodgers for a couple of years, or we're
gonna get one that's played maybe the last couple of years, or.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
We're gonna get the yeah, yeah, yeah, he'll like to
know what kind of Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
I'm amazed. That doesn't bother me that he's making that
kind of money he makes, But how he ever got
up to twenty five million dollars is beyond me. They
had it because of the dumb bow Dodgers giving him money.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Now not a Cubs gave the money. The Dodgers didn't.
He was an MVP for the Dodgers. They and he
sucked after he won the MVP. Had a couple years
where he was terrible, like so bad. He should have
been in the minor leagues. He didn't. Wasn't the major
league baseball player. He claims he was hurt. But I
you're gonna get you know, someone around twenty five playt
Yankee Stadium about twenty five home runs back to forty.
(30:12):
He'll have one month where he doesn't hit it at
all and they're ready to run him out of the
Bronx because he sucks for an entire month. He's real streaky.
That's the problem.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
So good Luck was like twelve elsewhere gone.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
That is correct. No, I'm not saying he's going to
be good. I'm not saying he's going to be good.
I'm just telling you what you can expect. That's the
kind of player that he's going to be. He'll hit
some doubles or whatever, but he's not. He's a He's
an average major league outfield. That's about it.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
And that's funny thing that I read about when I
didn't I didn't know this at all, was that him and.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
John Carlos, Stanton.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Danton, Stanton and him have swapped the love boxes.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Well, I don't know that they swapped it. I think
I think there was a John Carlo was was done
with the one and then he moved Bellinger then kind
of moved in. He slid over there.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
How funny is that going to be in the locker room.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
That's your fault, Jason. That's what I was waiting for.
There you go the famous any anyway, it is the
Ben Mallard Show. As we work our way through, I
realized I got to pay off the Mallard riddle of
the day. I got so excited I forgot to pay
off the mallet of the day. And people are very
upset with me in the Raina that they didn't pay
off the mallddle.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Well, you do have a very special guest today, Ben,
excuse all.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Right, So Falcons quarterback Michael Pennix Junior was about to
grab a I have a guess I haven't finished about
to grab a blank at Costco when he got the call.
The team was naming him the starting quarterback. That is
the Mallard Riddle of the day. Ika Tara pointing out
you shifted it for ratings purposes? That is correct. Who
(31:59):
else do we see page down? People? Very I do
this just to make sure people listening. King Roy says,
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A pizza wrapped hot dog from the food court from
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Christmas present Little Debbie Christmas cakes from Milkman Mike in Colorado.
I can't read that. A case of beer at Costco
for twenty one to ninety nine from Jay Dot in Utah.
A twenty four pack of post it notes from late
night drug tester JT. The wingman got it right. Bad
(32:42):
job by him, Kirkland rand Jeans from Patrick DJ Spin
in San Diego. All right, Lorenda what say you, Well, I.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
Was gonna say a hot dog, Ben Lorena.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Congratulations, you got it right. He got it. He was
going to get a hot dog. Yeah, there is a hotel. Yeah,
you got it right. You gottat it. You pull we
call that the old eddie. You pulled that eddie there.
You're not supposed to get it right. Bad job by you.
Shame on you were They're pretty they're pretty good. We're
gonna have ask Ben for the rest of the hour.
(33:12):
Your questions are answers using the hashtag ask Ben. We'll
get to that and we will do it next.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
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Speaker 3 (34:16):
It's now time for It's a time for how holly wait?
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Ask Ben?
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Twitter said, this is your questions on Twitter now, hey,
where we go hanging out? It is I Ben, not
Bill Miller. It is asked Ben. Your questions are answers
for the rest of the hour and the reading of
the questions of the Koper Loop.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
This is an interesting one and I wonder if you
will have an answer for this, Ben Jay scoops here
as well. Oh yes, cowboy Killer would like to know
my Cowboy Killer, which videos take you down the rabbit
hole via YouTube or TikTok?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
What do you mean down the rabbit hole?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Like?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
What kind of videos do you like to tick on?
Speaker 3 (34:58):
And then all of a sudden you get the next
you know, it's been two hours and you've been watching.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Yeah, yeah, so I love those, like travel vloggers going
to places I'll never go, like eating stuff I'll never eat,
Like I I live my life through them, Like it's
I'd really enjoy. There's a couple of my watch that
are that are really good, Like I'm trying to think
of some names here. I don't even know who they are,
but they're really they're really entertaining, So those are that
(35:23):
would be for me? What about anything you coop? Anything
you got there?
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Reaction videos of people hearing songs for the first time,
certain songs those I get stuck in a rabbit hole.
And then also it sounds weird because it's not. I
don't really agree with a lot of what he says.
But any like Ben Shapiro videos, Oh wow, I just
for some reason, I just I just get trapped watching those.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
All right? Loraining? Okay, Jay Scoop? Anything you watch Jay Scoop?
Speaker 7 (35:58):
What's the one the guy who he kind of narrates
normal fights or whatever, kind of like.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
A ring side. Oh yeah, I've seen that guy all
day long. What's next? Cool?
Speaker 4 (36:08):
What do we have?
Speaker 2 (36:10):
All right? Ask Ben for the rest of the hour.
Here we go, o g art puffin, hi art puffing.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
He wants to know, do you remember the name of
your first childhood.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Crush, like real life or like TV? I would say
real life. Yeah, her name was Jennifer, I do remember. Yeah,
what about what about Jay school first crush?
Speaker 7 (36:34):
I don't remember her name, but she was the first
girl to start to develop.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Oh she was ahead of her time.
Speaker 6 (36:41):
Now, that was my friend Amber shout out amber with
the titties.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Wait a minute, you're on the radio.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Called her tigger?
Speaker 10 (36:53):
All right? Oh whoa?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Okay, coop? Oh what's yours?
Speaker 6 (37:00):
My very first boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Was Clark Clark like Clark? All right, Coop?
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Yes, Kelsey Mulrooney, rest in peace.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Oh she's not with us anymore, that's said. Okay, what
is next year?
Speaker 4 (37:13):
It is?
Speaker 2 (37:13):
I don't know what happened to my first I don't
know what I lost. She wasn't into me.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
The only reason I know, but you know, became a
first because she was she was an actress.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
So I got you. Okay, what is next year? What
do we have here? Is ask Ben? Your questions are answers.
That's a good question, King Ry.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
I think I'll probably skip that one.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
So good. We're not using come on, you know Lorraine
is over there dropping pits on the air, so pits
the podcast. Uh, let's see. Let's go with fir Dog.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
He wants to know it's putting presents in a bag
instead of wrapping them smart or incredibly lazy?
Speaker 2 (37:55):
It is both. It is both incredibly lazy and it
is a is there a bigger waste than wrapping paper?
Speaker 10 (38:03):
Right?
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Is serious. It's it's such a waste. I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
Sometimes the presents are not proper shaped to be wrapped.
It has to be in a box to be wrapped properly.
Other than that it should go in.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
But the whole part of the experience as well, you know,
everyone has it's.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Smart and economical because you can reuse those bags next year.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
But I'm but here's the name about like gifts, like
the part of the gift experience is often the unwrapping
of the gift. Like that's part of the joy of
the gift, is the unwrapping of the gift.
Speaker 6 (38:33):
So make sure you've got paper in it, you know.
Speaker 7 (38:35):
I think that leads into what I was thinking, which
is that experience is more for the kids.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
You know, it's more exciting for them, So for the
kids to give wrap it otherwise put it in a bag. Sorry,
what what is that? Late night drug tester with late
night drug tester?
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Have you ever said to someone that your president is
still being delivered when in fact you haven't shopped for
it yet.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Oh yeah, who hasn't done that? Come on, absolutely working
on it. Yeah, it's not I don't know what happened.
Everything comes the next day. I don't know why I
didn't show up. I've done I've done that. Oh I
left it at home.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
I'm gonna I'll get it to you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (39:10):
Can I ask a quick question? Do you guys ever
feel present guilt? Like, oh, someone told you they got
you a gift and now you have to go buy
them again.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
I hate it. I can't stand that. I hate it.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Also, I wish nobody would give me, would get me gifts.
So that's so I don't have to worry about that.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yeah, it sucks. The quid pro quo is, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (39:28):
Guests should come from the heart. You either want to
get them or not.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
That's fair enough. Well, what is what is next year?
Speaker 4 (39:34):
What do we have?
Speaker 2 (39:35):
It's amazing it's asked Ben. Your questions are answers. We'll
clean up here while I do this.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Well, I guess you know I'm gonna have to repeat
them because you know these people aren't.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
We're not getting enough questions here. We're getting plenty of questions.
There's just there's just terrible Well, give me a terrible question.
I would like a terrible question. Okay, I have the
power to make a terrible question. Good God.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
Yeah, So so wants to know will the lions end
with the one seed in the NFC.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
So, so that's a dumb question. Shrew the life, you know?
I want to see a lion at the zoo and
other animals. What I want to see? Okay, I want
to go out to the Serengetti and are there lions
on the There are lions on the CIA. I want
to watch a lion eat raw flesh out in the serenate.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
That's what I want to watch. Hey, you want to
you want another bad one? Give me a bad one
from Gunner.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Oh, Gunner's gotta be Terry's at the Walmart Northern When
will you visit Northern Minnesota? How about the day after Never?
All right?
Speaker 3 (40:25):
I was in delude.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
You didn't show, Remember Gunner, I invited Gunner. Oh I'm
not gold Oh yoa world. Okay, you didn't show. I
was in your state. I was there. I was in
Lake Superior, I was I was on the water. Shame
on you, Gunner. Get back to work.
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Welcome, Like a fresh biscuit, it's our number three. Now
you can try to bounce a biscuit, but it likely
will not bounce very well. Adam Silver, who runs Pro
Bouncy Ball, has acknowledged that you're not watching his product
as much as he used to. However, he says, don't worry.
(00:21):
There's nothing to see here. NBA fans are not lacking
the interest, is there? How does this sound to you? Also,
reports out of Boston say the Celtics net revenue was
four hundred and sixty five million dollars this past year.
Do you find that significant one NBA team with net
revenue at four hundred and sixty five million. Also, Charles
(00:44):
Barkley says he's thinking about bailing on ESPN and going
over to NBC or Amazon. He's at least listening. Could
you see that happening? We'll go there as well. All
of it's coming your way right now here. It is
our numb three, the old alley oop. Not a lot
(01:04):
of that in basketball these days. Welcome. In the beginning
of another hour of the Ben Maler Show, we are in.
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(02:06):
started the show with a rant by the Tennessee Titans
head coach Brian Callahan. But this hour, upward and onward
we go. Here in our hour was our three my guys,
number three, that's right, Look at that. You know not
a weatherman, but I'll pretend to be a sports talk shows.
So here's the deal. Our lead this hour from pro
(02:30):
Bouncy Ball. If you're a super fan of the show.
Years ago, there was a commercial that I was asked
to read on Fox Sports Radio that had the word
bouncy in it, and a guy from Norman, Oklahoma called
up very upset. I rate that I said the word bouncing,
So I have used that ever since then as a
(02:52):
way to mock him. Uh and just I think it
was Randy from Norman if I remember that, this sounds
about right Randy from Norman. Anyway, hydra high drama around
the association, A lot of negative energy around one of
the blue blood sports in America. You got the Big Four,
got the Major League Baseball, the NFL, the NBA, and
(03:13):
the NHL. Well, things are not going particularly great in
the NBA. They just crowned a champion. It's not even Christmas,
and they handed out their championship trophy, the little Fugaze
Cup in that cute They have a nice little cup.
They gave the cup to the box and so they
had an event in Vegas. There was no excitement, there
was no juice, there was no none of that. So
(03:34):
with all of these bad vibrations around the sport of basketball,
the person that runs that sport has chimed in on
all this. I don't know if you saw this or
not recently. Maybe you missed it. Maybe you missed it.
So the NBA commissioner Adam Silver, now he acknowledged that
it is true there are less people now watching the
(03:57):
NBA than there have been in the past. The ratings
are down dramatically this season. They are However, he said,
Adam Silver, the dipsy do the dip dippity dippity, They
do not equate. That does not equate to the interest
in pro bouncy ball being bad. So what so less
(04:17):
people are watching but the sport is really popular. Yeah, okay,
that's the ticket. Now what did he use as evidence,
Adam Silver, if he saw this or not? What evans
did Adam Silver use to make his case? He said
that he had data points that he brought up, including attendance,
(04:38):
record setting attendants back to back years and social media engagement.
That's what he said. He said that shows there's not
a lack of interest in the NBA. Silver reference two
years of the highest attendants in league history and social
media fan engagement the highest of any of the major
sports leagues in America. That there are more people engaged
(04:59):
on the social media and anywhere else. So let us discuss. Now,
Adam Silver again acknowledging he's acknowledging the fact that the
NBA TV ratings are sagging, but says that the NBA
interest from fans is not lacking, despite what you might think.
So how does this sound to you? I've got metallic foil,
(05:23):
Micronesia and drawing card, and we'll put all of these
things together and we're gonna make buttered popcorn. Delicious buttered
popcorn is what we're going to make. So first of all, listen,
Adam Silver is never going to admit that Adam Silver
(05:45):
has done a bad job, just like Jerry Jones annoys
the hell out of our friends in Texas because he
refuses to say that he's ever done a bad job
as Jami the Cowboys, and no one is going to
offer that up on their own. That's just human nature.
It's human one oh one. If your boss goes up
to you at your job and says, hey, uh, you know,
(06:07):
I don't think you're you're doing that, well, you'd be like, well, no,
I'm doing okay, I'm doing all right. I'm working hard.
You know you're not gonna self admit say, oh yeah,
I really just didn't even try that week at work.
No I didn't. So Adam Silver can come out with
all these different numbers and ven diagrams and pie charts
and all that, but he's not going to admit the
(06:27):
quality is not as good. The quality control is bad.
It's been lax. He's not going to say that that
the NBA sold out to the nerds and the nerds
have ruined the sport. They can't say that. No, no, no, no,
you're just you're just a boomer. Well, apparently the boomers
are the ones that drove the ratings, because the ratings
are down down, down, down, down, down, down, down down
(06:48):
down down down down down. Now, Adam Silver, I get it.
He makes a lot of money. It's a great job.
You don't really have to work that hard. There's not
a lot of decisions to be made. Anybody could pretty
much run the NBA, clearly Adam Silver, who's half man
half Maybe he's the one, but you think he's behind
the drones. Could it be that Adam Silver is the
one that his people from his planet out there and
(07:10):
the Cosmos have come back to try to get Adam. So,
I don't know, but either way, Adam likes those nice
parties during the summer in the Hamptons. He likes that
he likes going to the Upper West Side and having
a cup of coffee with some very important people. And
so there's no way he's gonna say, oh yeah, I'm
bad this year. Has somebody else to be the commissioner
that job by me? So instead, what Adam Silver is
(07:31):
doing is he's holding up those metallic foil pomp pomps.
He's part of the spirit squad for the NBA. The
ratings are down, but everything's fine. How bad are the ratings?
You ask? The viewership of NBA games from the national broadcast,
the most important broadcast on ESPN, ABC and TNT are
(07:54):
down nineteen percent year to year. So imagine if you
will you run a mom and pop pizzeria and you
sell twenty percent less pizzas than you did the previous year,
you'd be panicked to be like, I gotta find a
reason I need to sell those pizzas. What's up with that?
(08:16):
And not only do you have that problem, but you
also have the problem that perception is reality, and the
perception is the players in the modern NBA are all
buddy buddy. They don't really care who wins and loses.
They don't even like playing in the regular season. They
like playing in the playoffs, but they don't like the
regular season. It's a pebble in the shoe, is what
it is. It's an inconvenience, it's a nuisance. They have
(08:38):
to play like that. And as Adam Silver has gone
on as the commissioners beloved by the basketball media, He's
talking about social media engagement though. And I've had this
conversation with my friends in the radio world. We use
social media during the live show and I'll send photos
(08:59):
out on Facebook and Instagram. Effect later on Jays Scoop's
visiting with us on the Overnight show. He was in
the Ukraine for fifteen months, and I'll put some photos
up of that visit with him, and that'll be during
the day. But we get paid to get people to
listen to the radio or the podcast. We don't get
paid to have people on social media. And spoiler, even
(09:22):
though the NBA does make some money from social media,
that is very small. It's peanuts compared to what they
make from television. And so the idea that you're promoting
this fact that hey, listen, everything's great. Look at the engagement.
The people watching clips on TikTok and sending nasty comments,
throwing Molotov cocktails verbally of course metaphorically on x are
(09:47):
not the ones that are paying your bills, they're not
and every man, woman in child they know that the
most important thing is TV. Now TV is changing and
it's going to a stream model, but you still have
to get people to watch the stream. And it's like
the other I have a TV show. Everyone's got a
TV show, even I have one. I got Benny Versus
(10:07):
the Penny, which we're gonna record later today. And Benny
Versus the Penny is on cable television all over the place,
but it's also now streaming, and that's where everything is moving.
It's moving towards the stream, and so you're trying to
get people to watch it on that as well. Now, secondly,
speaking of the business of basketball, and the reigning champions
(10:27):
of the NBA, the Boston Celtics, the parquet, the whole thing.
So the Celtics they are getting they're getting their books
opened up for the world. They're essentially naked for the
world to see. The Celtics right now, they're being sold.
And Wick Grossbeck is selling the Boston Celtics. Well he's
(10:47):
not even the owner. His dad is. Nobody knows whose
dad is, but the family's selling the Celtics. And so
when you sell something, you have to open up the
books for people that want to buy, and so people
are looking at all the numbers and they're analyzing all
the numbers and all this, and so it's an open
book test. It's an open book test. And this this
(11:08):
is absolutely wild. So sported Code tells us they went
through all the numbers and they crunched the numbers. So
the Celtics net revenue in the last period for the
Boston Celtics, their net revenue four one hundred and sixty
five medion dead presidents, do you find this significant that
(11:32):
the Celtics net revenue four hundred and sixty five million,
So it is a draw dropping, jaw dropping amount of money,
four hundred and sixty five million dollars. Yeah. So for
some perspective, right, for some perspective here, the Celtics have
more net revenue that price point four hundred and sixty
(11:53):
five million. The Celtics have more revenue than the gross
domestic product of Micronesia all right, Micronesia was at four
hundred and twenty seven million. They also have more than
the Marshall Islands at two hundred and eighty million. So
the Celtics are doing better than and there's other countries
that you know, I've heard of those. I haven't heard
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of some of these other countries, but they're doing better.
The point is the Celtics are doing better in these
other countries. And Warren Buffett, who's getting up there right.
But one of the famous lines that Warren Buffett had
in terms of financial investment, he says, you buy companies
that an idiot can run. And the Celtics are a
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company that an idiot could run and make a ton
of money. It's just the reality of the situation there.
Their mascot is a golden leprechaun that poops out gold bars.
That's the Celtics mascot. They have a license to print
money and if you look at the portfolio. One other
interesting point here that while most of the money comes
from TV, the Celtics were able to price gouge their
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fans and get the good people of Boston and New
England to spend the ridiculous amounts of money on tickets.
But it's not just the TV, it's the ticket sales.
There a lot of revenue from that merchandise and all
that that is split up. Now, moving on final thought,
sticking with the theme, the boob tube, if you will,
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Charles Barkley has entered the chats or Charles the round
mound of gas Baggerie Charles Barkley. He says that he
has not, despite what you might have read, not agreed
to continue appearing on Inside the NBA, the Iconic Turner
Show when it moves off TNT and over to ESPN.
(13:40):
Barkley announced that he is considering signing with one of
ESPN's rivals, one of the two new broadcast partners with
the NBA, and he says, quote, I have not decided yet.
He says he's listening to NBC and Amazon. Barkley state,
so he's thinking about making the jump now. Barkley says
(14:03):
he's he's not sure what's gonna happen yet. He's not
sure if he's gonna bail on the deal. But again,
he's looking at his options and going somewhere else. Could
you see this happening? Could you see this happening? So yes,
although it is a long shot. And here's why, because
even though Barkley will be under the umbrella of ESPN,
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it will be through Turner. The show will continue to
be produced as I've been told out of Atlanta and
it'll just be a partnership, so it'll appear on the
ESPN properties, but it'll be through Turner still. So that
means Barkley will work with the same people, the same crew.
They'll all still be there. Now the reason that you
don't you don't totally dismiss this. Imagine if you will,
(14:48):
a deck of cards. You got the Ace, you got
the King, you get the Queen, there's some jokers in there,
some twos, whatever. So you look at your deck of cards.
Charles Barkley, which card is he? See? The Ace? No,
he's not the aces, not the King's the Queen. No, No,
he's none of that. He's not the ten, not the nine,
not the eight. No.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
No.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Charles Barkley is the drawing card. And without Charles Barkley,
no one is going to go out of the way
to hear what Ernie Johnson, Shachill O'Neill and Kenny Smith
have to say. And if you believe that is the case,
that I'm wrong, you are delusional. So with Barkley, the
show works. Without Barkley, the House of Cards comes something
(15:26):
down down down down down down down down down down
down down, And Barkley knows even though he will be
working technically for TNT, it will be under ESPN somewhat,
and which means that inevitably he's going to upset the censors. Now,
I will admit the media landscape has changed to bitten
things that Pat McAfee, for example, is getting away with.
(15:49):
Back in the old days, you never get away with.
So that's the argument for Barkley not having to worry
about it. But the Mickey Mouse Disney gestapo will the
censorship'll be will be there. So Charles Barkley, he has
enough power if you wanted to, he'd be like, hey,
let's blow this popsicle stand and we'll just go over
to NBC and I'll reunite the entire group and we'll
(16:11):
put the show together there. Good, absolutely, dude. All right
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We've also got our buddy Jay Scoop who's been hanging
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Jayscoop a long time supporter of the show and he's
won the Talent Show four times. He's been a judge
(16:54):
for the Malard Palooza and last year we had Inca
terror replace him. But Jay Scoop spent fifteen months in
the Ukraine or Ukraine Shoot Me Jesso Ukraine, and he's
made his way back safely to the US and so
we've been catching up with him. He stopped by to
see us. Time now for the Mallor Riddle of the Day.
(17:15):
And here is the Mallor Riddle of the day. Falcons
quarterback Michael Pennex Junior said he was about to grab
a blank at Costco when he got the call that
the Falcons were naming him the Starter again. Michael Pennex
Junior said he was about to grab a blank at
Costco when he got the call that the team was
(17:37):
naming him the starter. That is the malor Riddle of
the day. The answer, We'll get to it and we
will take many of these calls. We'll do it all.
We will do it next.
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That's u age Bronco fan, uhe Bronco fan. And Lorena
(18:50):
who ate too many pieces of chicken and Tony waffles
and so.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
She's Tommy hurts.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yeah, it sounds tough late at night.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
And I'm eating ice cream.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Well, that'll make your stomach feel better. That'll definitely make
it feel better. We're hanging out. He So we have
an update here. This is big news.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
We do have asked Ben coming up later this hour.
So a couple of months ago, we had said, Hey,
I want Lorraina to get prison mail.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
We had said we want you to get prison mail, right,
Remember that, Lorena, and we did the whole bit on
the show. I do remember this well. Good news. I
have received a piece of correspondence, but not for you,
for me, so I did like, this has got to
be tough for you. I mean, usually a woman on
(19:36):
radio just gets nothing but prison mail. But our friend Charles,
who is he's got a long stay at the Gray
Bar Hotel. There after you've been in there for a while,
you get used to what. I don't know what you're
talking about anyway, Charles, he's written us before. He goes
so far back that Karen Kay I was working with
Karen Ka back in the day and he would send
(20:00):
letters and he says, there's a lot here. I showed
Jay Scoops hanging out with us from Ukraine. He came,
he's back in the States now, and I showed him here.
There's like both sides when you're in prison. I know
this from the boys in prison. When they write letters,
you got to use every inch of real estate. So
there's one, two, three, there's there's like four pages. Now
(20:23):
they're out of orders. I just screwed it up. Now
they're but anyway, four pages, and he wrote on both sides,
and there's a lot here. And my man, Charles has
really good cursive writing. But I haven't been in elementary
school in a while, or I don't really it's hard
to read cursive.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Would you like me to decipher it for you?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Bet well, I'm worried you might read some of this.
On the other I don't know that at all is
worthy of their like some of it, he says. Shout
out to your homeboys, he says, Yeah, Josh Marcel, he said,
and then I, oh, I think Cowboy. I think he
mentioned Cowboy and windsor yeah, oh he said Karen. He
(21:04):
does mention Karen. Kay here, everything's there, you.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
Go, so, but don't forget to he included he laced
one of those papers with something you have to lick it.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Yes, well, I'll let Lorraina handle that. So, so thank
you Charles and all the all the fellas. I think
there's any women in prison listen to the show. So
it's all dudes. But thanks to the guys in prison,
there a captive audience.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
As we like this.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Very nice. Let's go to the phones day, Scoopball Salo. Now,
this guy's a legend. This guy you see online three there.
I don't know if you know his work man, but
that guy wasn't he in Twins? Well he was, and
now he's working as a trash man in Boston. The
Great Danny DeVito joins us here. Hello, Danny, Welcome Danny.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Danny.
Speaker 8 (21:46):
What's going on.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
My friend?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I want you to tell you that, Danny, last week
we were taping the TV show and I mentioned your
name to the producer. He was very impressed that I
know Danny DeVito, very impressed. So yeah, I.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
Actually called in an hour and he threw me off.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
You will call me Dave.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
So well, the reason I was called, the reason I
was calling you David is because it said Dave on
my board. That's why I called you David. I said
Dave on my board. I'm not saying I am not
saying who's guilty. But their initials are JS. That's all
I'm saying, J j C. I screwed that up. Oh man,
damn it. I had a good line and I screwed
it up.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
You know you know where I'm at now, Ben, you
know you know Boston. Well right, I've been been.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
There many been there many times. Where are you at?
Speaker 8 (22:33):
I'm at I'm on Brake, I'm at the South Street.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Okay, South Boston, South Boston, Southie.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Yeah, yeah, wealthy.
Speaker 8 (22:44):
Right now I'm calling. I called in. What are you
like this week?
Speaker 5 (22:48):
You know?
Speaker 8 (22:48):
Are you a serious gamble? You are right, you're pretty serious.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
That I have had a terrible year. I do take
it very seriously. I handicap every game for the TV
show and all that. So, yes, I spend a lot
of my time handicapping the games. What are you getting
at here?
Speaker 4 (23:02):
You got?
Speaker 8 (23:04):
I want you know all these these games? What is
your best bet? What's your best bet?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
So you'll have to watch the You'll have to watch
the TV show which will be on starting all right,
We'll good. How about this for you? I will mention
during the show the game I like the most. How
about that for you?
Speaker 8 (23:24):
I believe, yes, sir, I'll be I'll be watching that
all right.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
There you go, look at that. That's a way the forest, dandy.
What are you eating at the diner? By the way,
what do you what are you going?
Speaker 4 (23:36):
I got a burger cheeseburger.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
You can't go You can't go wrong with a cheeseburger,
they say the experts. When you go to a restaurant,
it's chicken fingers or a cheeseburger.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
What I'm doing over here?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
All right?
Speaker 8 (23:50):
I thought there all the time.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Where's the truck? Would you park the truck out in front? Oh?
Speaker 8 (23:55):
Yeah, right out front on the side of the street.
Isn't that busy right now? But as you know, lots
will get so right now.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
The thing I've noticed, Danny, is that there's not a
lot of places open all night in Boston. There's a
lot of not a lot of.
Speaker 8 (24:09):
Options, no, exactly right, So this is one of the
only fool places that's open. It's always slammed to get
a lot of business.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah, I think I've actually, I think I've actually eaten
there one of my trips to Boston. Looks for I'm
looking at a photo of it looks familiar. So I
think I think I actually have been there because I
was trying to find someone eat late, and that was
that was what was open. That was all the only
option we had. All right, Well, thank you, Danny. Enjoy
your burger some fries, all right, buddy? All right, said
(24:37):
he's eating the cheeseburger right now.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
I'm picturing like one of those, you know, old school waitresses,
and they bring out that piece of.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
This is this is a good that's a diner. I'm
showing you.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
But do they have that legendary slice of pie that
they give you, you know that rotates? The pie things rotates.
That's kind of cool. I don't know where you buy that.
Probably my anything online they have like the pie thing
that rotates. Here, I get a whole history of this place.
His place goes back to like the nineteen forties. There
you go, all right, Salo too, Who do you want
to go to? You want to take a call here?
Jays Scoop?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Do you?
Speaker 7 (25:08):
I like, come on, I gotta go, angry Bill, I
want to come on, man.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I mean he just literally called up a second ago.
They're not even done screening his call, Like Coop's having
a conversation with him right now off the air. He's
not even he just literally called up. Pick somebody. All right,
let's go with Alex. Alex is in Salt Lake City.
What's going on? Alex? Welcome the great salt Lake Holy snap.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
Finally it is going good. Ben good to have you
on the line.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Fire, Holy snap, Holy snap, Holy snap. I told my story, Alex.
I stopped at your airport on the way to Kansas City,
and the most depressing place in that airport was the
Utah Jazz Team store. That was the most.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Or in the walk.
Speaker 9 (25:50):
Musty flu Delta, Man, we need a needs a marathon
to get from side to side of Yea, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
We did fly. I did fly Delta. It was a
long haul.
Speaker 9 (25:59):
It was a long yeah, good choice. Hey, well thanks.
I wanted to just say, Jay Scoop, you got some balls, man.
I wanted to help out over there too, but I
ain't got the balls. But still you got Man, that's
epic that you made your way out to Ukraine that
long run.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Thanks.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah. The most important of the important part is you
made it back. I mean we were we were worried
about You got your You get your tags on right there,
You wear your tags right here and look at that. Yeah, yes, sir?
Is that all? Is that all out? You just want
to say a lot of there's more, but wait, but wait,
there's more. We have a lot of you have a
lot of content. You're on a whole for a while out.
(26:40):
You got a lot of content.
Speaker 9 (26:41):
Right, I got a few things, but primarily what I
need to do, Ben, I'm fighting for the championship because
I'm going to get to the best team. The other
two teams are real bad for our fantasy championship, but
me and this team were stacked. But I lost Evan
Ingram earlier this year picked up Brenton Range. But I
(27:01):
got some anxiety though. They're fighting for the worst for
the first draft pick Raiders and Jags. Yeah, do I
play Breton Strange today? I think they're just going to
hand it off three times, punt it and we're just
going to have that kind of game all Gamelong. I'm
having a big anxiety attack about it.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Is this? Is this justified?
Speaker 9 (27:20):
Am I lose? In my mind?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
If you're in my shoes, you're fighting?
Speaker 9 (27:24):
Are you playing anyone on either of them teams this
year in fantasy?
Speaker 4 (27:28):
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Well?
Speaker 4 (27:29):
I do.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I don't play fantasy, so I don't know I'm the
right guy, but I would. I would tell you that
Jacksonville has at least shown a little bit of fight
the last couple of weeks, and I do think they're
going to win that game against the Raiders. But I
wouldn't if I have to pick every game for the
TV show, I wouldn't. I wouldn't actually bet on it
in real life. But I think they're going to actually
win the game.
Speaker 8 (27:49):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
And we're not even sure who's going to play quarterback
for the Raiders, right, So that's advantage, you know, for
the other side there for Jacksonville. But I think he'd
be all right, don't really stop anybody. Uh, you know,
they're kind of pretty weak on defense. I think I
wouldn't be excited about playing Brenton Strange, but it wouldn't
be like the the worst thing in the world.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
Imagine your fate being decided by a jack or just
a game like that matchup.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
No, No, a Jacksonville tight end playing out the string.
And you know, with three weeks ago in the season
against the Raiders in a game that seven people are
gonna watch. What a life? What a the life of
fantasy football? Alex, that's the life.
Speaker 9 (28:30):
It's him or it's Kyle Pitts. If we follow any football,
we know what's been going on there.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Well, yeah, that's yeah. Kyle Pitts looks like a Donas
but does not play like a Donas. And they do
you know who knows? That is a wild card too,
because Atlanta with Michael Pennix junior, and who knows if
he can play right away? Normally you don't hit the
ground running, and then you're playing the Giants who are terrible.
So there's a lot going on with that. All right, well,
good luck, Alex. All right, man, we'll keep you there.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
You go.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Now we'll go to Angry Bill. And I'm annoyed because
I like to keep him on hold for a long time,
and when we went right to him Angry Bill only
because Jay Scoop likes you, Angry Bill.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Well, that's that's It's nice to know somebody likes me.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
He's the only he's the only person, the only person
that likes it.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
You can give me an answer on this possibly, what
your thoughts are? Not not your red, red and blue thing?
What do you think? What kind of Bellinger are we
going to get for the Yankees? What are we really
going to get? We're gonna get the one that played
for the Dodgers for a couple of years, or we're
gonna get one that's played maybe the last couple of years, or.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
We're gonna get the yeah, yeah, yeah, he'll like to
know what kind of Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
I'm amazed. That doesn't bother me that he's making that
kind of money he makes, But how he ever got
up to twenty five million dollars is beyond me. They
had it because of the dumb bow Dodgers giving him money.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Now not a Cubs gave the money. The Dodgers didn't.
He was an MVP for the Dodgers. They and he
sucked after he won the MVP. Had a couple years
where he was terrible, like so bad. He should have
been in the minor leagues. He didn't. Wasn't the major
league baseball player. He claims he was hurt. But I
you're gonna get you know, someone around twenty five playt
Yankee Stadium about twenty five home runs back to forty.
(30:12):
He'll have one month where he doesn't hit it at
all and they're ready to run him out of the
Bronx because he sucks for an entire month. He's real streaky.
That's the problem.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
So good Luck was like twelve elsewhere gone.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
That is correct. No, I'm not saying he's going to
be good. I'm not saying he's going to be good.
I'm just telling you what you can expect. That's the
kind of player that he's going to be. He'll hit
some doubles or whatever, but he's not. He's a He's
an average major league outfield. That's about it.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
And that's funny thing that I read about when I
didn't I didn't know this at all, was that him and.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
John Carlos, Stanton.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Danton, Stanton and him have swapped the love boxes.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Well, I don't know that they swapped it. I think
I think there was a John Carlo was was done
with the one and then he moved Bellinger then kind
of moved in. He slid over there.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
How funny is that going to be in the locker room.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
That's your fault, Jason. That's what I was waiting for.
There you go the famous any anyway, it is the
Ben Mallard Show. As we work our way through, I
realized I got to pay off the Mallard riddle of
the day. I got so excited I forgot to pay
off the mallet of the day. And people are very
upset with me in the Raina that they didn't pay
off the mallddle.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Well, you do have a very special guest today, Ben,
excuse all.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Right, So Falcons quarterback Michael Pennix Junior was about to
grab a I have a guess I haven't finished about
to grab a blank at Costco when he got the call.
The team was naming him the starting quarterback. That is
the Mallard Riddle of the day. Ika Tara pointing out
you shifted it for ratings purposes? That is correct. Who
(31:59):
else do we see page down? People? Very I do
this just to make sure people listening. King Roy says,
some pasta is the answer? Chicken bake from Inkatara. That
was his answer. Who else do we have? Page down?
A pizza wrapped hot dog from the food court from
alf the Alien of Pier, A tray full of samples
from Sean and Portland. Who else do you have? Early
(32:21):
Christmas present Little Debbie Christmas cakes from Milkman Mike in Colorado.
I can't read that. A case of beer at Costco
for twenty one to ninety nine from Jay Dot in Utah.
A twenty four pack of post it notes from late
night drug tester JT. The wingman got it right. Bad
(32:42):
job by him, Kirkland rand Jeans from Patrick DJ Spin
in San Diego. All right, Lorenda what say you, Well, I.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
Was gonna say a hot dog, Ben Lorena.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Congratulations, you got it right. He got it. He was
going to get a hot dog. Yeah, there is a hotel. Yeah,
you got it right. You gottat it. You pull we
call that the old eddie. You pulled that eddie there.
You're not supposed to get it right. Bad job by you.
Shame on you were They're pretty they're pretty good. We're
gonna have ask Ben for the rest of the hour.
(33:12):
Your questions are answers using the hashtag ask Ben. We'll
get to that and we will do it next.
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Speaker 3 (34:16):
It's now time for It's a time for how holly wait?
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Ask Ben?
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Twitter said, this is your questions on Twitter now, hey,
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Speaker 3 (34:40):
This is an interesting one and I wonder if you
will have an answer for this, Ben Jay scoops here
as well. Oh yes, cowboy Killer would like to know
my Cowboy Killer, which videos take you down the rabbit
hole via YouTube or TikTok?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
What do you mean down the rabbit hole?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Like?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
What kind of videos do you like to tick on?
Speaker 3 (34:58):
And then all of a sudden you get the next
you know, it's been two hours and you've been watching.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Yeah, yeah, so I love those, like travel vloggers going
to places I'll never go, like eating stuff I'll never eat,
Like I I live my life through them, Like it's
I'd really enjoy. There's a couple of my watch that
are that are really good, Like I'm trying to think
of some names here. I don't even know who they are,
but they're really they're really entertaining, So those are that
(35:23):
would be for me? What about anything you coop? Anything
you got there?
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Reaction videos of people hearing songs for the first time,
certain songs those I get stuck in a rabbit hole.
And then also it sounds weird because it's not. I
don't really agree with a lot of what he says.
But any like Ben Shapiro videos, Oh wow, I just
for some reason, I just I just get trapped watching those.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
All right? Loraining? Okay, Jay Scoop? Anything you watch Jay Scoop?
Speaker 7 (35:58):
What's the one the guy who he kind of narrates
normal fights or whatever, kind of like.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
A ring side. Oh yeah, I've seen that guy all
day long. What's next? Cool?
Speaker 4 (36:08):
What do we have?
Speaker 2 (36:10):
All right? Ask Ben for the rest of the hour.
Here we go, o g art puffin, hi art puffing.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
He wants to know, do you remember the name of
your first childhood.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Crush, like real life or like TV? I would say
real life. Yeah, her name was Jennifer, I do remember. Yeah,
what about what about Jay school first crush?
Speaker 7 (36:34):
I don't remember her name, but she was the first
girl to start to develop.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Oh she was ahead of her time.
Speaker 6 (36:41):
Now, that was my friend Amber shout out amber with
the titties.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Wait a minute, you're on the radio.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Called her tigger?
Speaker 10 (36:53):
All right? Oh whoa?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Okay, coop? Oh what's yours?
Speaker 6 (37:00):
My very first boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Was Clark Clark like Clark? All right, Coop?
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Yes, Kelsey Mulrooney, rest in peace.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Oh she's not with us anymore, that's said. Okay, what
is next year?
Speaker 4 (37:13):
It is?
Speaker 2 (37:13):
I don't know what happened to my first I don't
know what I lost. She wasn't into me.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
The only reason I know, but you know, became a
first because she was she was an actress.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
So I got you. Okay, what is next year? What
do we have here? Is ask Ben? Your questions are answers.
That's a good question, King Ry.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
I think I'll probably skip that one.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
So good. We're not using come on, you know Lorraine
is over there dropping pits on the air, so pits
the podcast. Uh, let's see. Let's go with fir Dog.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
He wants to know it's putting presents in a bag
instead of wrapping them smart or incredibly lazy?
Speaker 2 (37:55):
It is both. It is both incredibly lazy and it
is a is there a bigger waste than wrapping paper?
Speaker 10 (38:03):
Right?
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Is serious. It's it's such a waste. I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
Sometimes the presents are not proper shaped to be wrapped.
It has to be in a box to be wrapped properly.
Other than that it should go in.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
But the whole part of the experience as well, you know,
everyone has it's.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Smart and economical because you can reuse those bags next year.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
But I'm but here's the name about like gifts, like
the part of the gift experience is often the unwrapping
of the gift. Like that's part of the joy of
the gift, is the unwrapping of the gift.
Speaker 6 (38:33):
So make sure you've got paper in it, you know.
Speaker 7 (38:35):
I think that leads into what I was thinking, which
is that experience is more for the kids.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
You know, it's more exciting for them, So for the
kids to give wrap it otherwise put it in a bag. Sorry,
what what is that? Late night drug tester with late
night drug tester?
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Have you ever said to someone that your president is
still being delivered when in fact you haven't shopped for
it yet.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Oh yeah, who hasn't done that? Come on, absolutely working
on it. Yeah, it's not I don't know what happened.
Everything comes the next day. I don't know why I
didn't show up. I've done I've done that. Oh I
left it at home.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
I'm gonna I'll get it to you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (39:10):
Can I ask a quick question? Do you guys ever
feel present guilt? Like, oh, someone told you they got
you a gift and now you have to go buy
them again.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
I hate it. I can't stand that. I hate it.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Also, I wish nobody would give me, would get me gifts.
So that's so I don't have to worry about that.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yeah, it sucks. The quid pro quo is, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (39:28):
Guests should come from the heart. You either want to
get them or not.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
That's fair enough. Well, what is what is next year?
Speaker 4 (39:34):
What do we have?
Speaker 2 (39:35):
It's amazing it's asked Ben. Your questions are answers. We'll
clean up here while I do this.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Well, I guess you know I'm gonna have to repeat
them because you know these people aren't.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
We're not getting enough questions here. We're getting plenty of questions.
There's just there's just terrible Well, give me a terrible question.
I would like a terrible question. Okay, I have the
power to make a terrible question. Good God.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
Yeah, So so wants to know will the lions end
with the one seed in the NFC.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
So, so that's a dumb question. Shrew the life, you know?
I want to see a lion at the zoo and
other animals. What I want to see? Okay, I want
to go out to the Serengetti and are there lions
on the There are lions on the CIA. I want
to watch a lion eat raw flesh out in the serenate.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
That's what I want to watch. Hey, you want to
you want another bad one? Give me a bad one
from Gunner.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Oh, Gunner's gotta be Terry's at the Walmart Northern When
will you visit Northern Minnesota? How about the day after Never?
All right?
Speaker 3 (40:25):
I was in delude.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
You didn't show, Remember Gunner, I invited Gunner. Oh I'm
not gold Oh yoa world. Okay, you didn't show. I
was in your state. I was there. I was in
Lake Superior, I was I was on the water. Shame
on you, Gunner. Get back to work.
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