February 11, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about Luka Doncic's debut with the Lakers and how he looked in the game, if this duo of LeBron & Luka will work in the playoffs, what Mavs fans can take away from Dirk Nowitzki attending Luka's debut with the Lakers, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, It's our number one, our one
of the original Recipe podcast. Glad you're here on this
eleventh day of February. Happy Tuesday to you. And Louca
made his much anticipated Laker debut. They gave t shirts
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out to everyone in the crowd. How did Luka Dancik
look in his first appearance as a Laker? Also, well,
these ingredients with Luca and Lebron work when we get
to the playoffs for the Lakers. And we'll also talk
about what the Maverick fans can take away from Dirk
Novitsky attending Luca's debut in La The Maverick legend was there.
(00:45):
We'll talk about that as well. All of it coming
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So now that that Super Bowl is over and what
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a great game it was, unless it wasn't, we can
turn our attention to other things. For example, I'm told
this is a big deal. I'm told this is very important.
So our lead story this hour is from skid Row.
That's where the Lakers played. Believe they play in skid Row,
Yes they do. It's a dump down there, but that
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was where the big night game was in the NBA
oh Man Ball Night. It was ball Night. The story
of the night told very important, very very important that
we talk about this. So here we are you and
I together talking about this. Everyone hyped off the much
bally hood beginning of theca Donzik era with the Lakers. Now,
(02:39):
will it be a long term relationship that blossoms into
glorious moments or will it be a cautionary tale where
people say the Mavericks were right, the crazy wackadoodle Mavericks
were right about Luca All along. If you were betting,
you'd likely bet on the Mavericks not being right based
(03:00):
on history. But let us discuss so. I don't know
if you saw the game or not. It was broadcast nationally.
It was a late pickup. Normally the Lakers and Utah
Jazz not there. You'd rather watch an actual jazz band
than the Utah Jazz at this point in fact, I
think if you put an actual jazz band on the court,
(03:21):
they would be more competitive than the NBA variety of
the jazz. So he had the usual Hollywood f's out there,
will Ferrell Adele. I guess she's engaged to Lebron's agent.
What about that? Yeah, she's all about that action Adele.
So there are a bunch of other people. I don't
even know who these people are anymore, but they were
all hanging out watching and Luka, how did he do?
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Did he score fifty points? Did he have the greatest
Laker debut of all time?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Did he score thirty points and have like seventeen rebound? No?
How about twenty five points? Did Lucas score twenty five
points his late against Jazz?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
How about twenty He had to get twenty? Right? Come
on twenty points. You do that blindfolded? He got twenty? No,
oh my god, how about fifteen? Did Luca get fifteen points? No?
Fourteen points? Fourteen points? All these people dressed up, they
gave out T shirts for a guy wh scored fourteen points.
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Four t shirt night, fourteen points twenty three minutes. The
Lakers end up vaporizing the once proud Utah Jazz, Karl
Malone and John Stockton not walking through that door there.
Lakers led by as many as thirty four points in
a game that was much like the Super Bowl over
at halftime. No need to watch the second half, So
(04:46):
let us discuss how did Luka How did Luca Doncik
look in his Laker debut? So I've got Catwalk, Morgana,
the Kissing Bandit, and Morton's Kosher Salt, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a migraine headache, which the hardy and loyal
(05:10):
minions of the Dallas basketball team are likely suffering from
a migraine headache. So as far as they answer the
question how did Luca look, You've got the micro and
the macro in the micro in the moment he looked wobbly.
He did. He didn't shoot the ball with Gusto. He
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was five of fourteen. Really, what stood out was how
bad he was from three point range, one of seven.
One of the all time great three point shooters, Luca
one of seven from three point range. Most of those
shots were wide open. Mind you, maybe they cranked up
the ac at the crypt where the Lakers play, but
the Jazz weren't playing much defense. They never played defense.
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That's why they blow. They're terrible. And then you got
the podcaster JJ Reddick, the coach there, who put Luca, oh,
this is great on a minute's restriction? Is there anything
stupider than a minute's restriction in the NBA? Isn't that
one of like the five stupidest things you can possibly do?
And I know the podcast is not that bright, mister Reddick,
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but podcaster Reddick probably doesn't realize this. You're feeding the
narrative that Luca needs to go to a fat farm,
that he can't play more than an X number of minutes.
I mean, he was now watching him on the court.
He was strutting like he was going down the catwalk
there and he did a pirouet in his new laundry,
and it did look and this always is the case
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when you know someone in one uniform and then they
switch uniform. It looked like a glitch in a video game.
So I remember Tom Brady put on a buccaneer uniform
for the I'm not comparing Luca to Tom Brady, but
just we're used to seeing Luca in the Mavericks laundry
and then you see him in that Laker uniform, like
that doesn't seem right. And it's like you watch these
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people in certain uniforms and then they switch it up,
You're like, well, what's going on with that. It's not
the same when O'tani went from the Angels to the Dodgers,
although not many people watching him with the Angels, but
it's still odd when you switch, when you switch uniforms.
But as far as the overall game, opening night here
and you talk about a soft launch the Lakers, and
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they did it right. They knew there was no chance
of losing that game. That was a show up, collect
a win type game. They were dining al fresco at
a mom and pop PiZZ area, a startup where there
was just nobody there. I mean, the jazz are everyone's
homecoming opponent in the NBA. And yet again that's the
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way it turned out. And where have you gone? Thorough
Bailey and greg oaster tag, They're not walking through that door.
Now turn the page. Will these ingredients? Will these ingredients
with Luka and Lebron work when we get to the playoffs,
which I think it will start in like seven months.
The NBA playoffs season goes on forever. So will Luca
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and Lebron work for the Lakers in the playoffs and
in twenty twenty five? My vote is no, it will
not work. You're asking me today. We do the show today. Now,
do I think at some point it's going to work? Sure?
But today ask me this year, I don't see it.
The Lakers will be one of these teams that's gonna
score a bunch of points, and they'll have great offensive numbers,
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and they'll beat a bunch of tomato cans up and
all that. But I'm gonna use the analogy here. It's
a data analogy, so you're gonna have to google it.
And the Lakers are built right now like Morgana the
Kissing Bandit. They're top heavy, and they know that they
tried to correct that problem. They attempted to correct that issue.
They tried to get a center, and then that that
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went sideways because they know they're not good enough. And
Lebron and Luca are designated hitters and they don't play defense.
Lebron will do one or two defensive plays a game,
so he gets some the highlights, but the rest of
the time he's just kind of lolligag on defense. So
neither one of those are defensive dynamos. And when they're
both on the court at the same time, you have
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a tremendous liability. You will be on the power play
on offense, you will be shorthanded on defense at two positions.
So the only way that would work is if Lebron
and Luca can combine for ninety to ninety five points
a game, which is not realistic on a regular basis
in a seven game playoff series. It's not sustainable. Therefore,
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the long term or ice short term in this case,
this year does not look particularly promising. Where are You at?
Also on the chatter here that the Lakers cowtowed to
Luca that he hand picked Hornet center Mark Williams, that
Luca wanted the Lakers to trade for Mark Williams, and
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then the trade ended up being rescinded. But that came
directly from the mouth of Luca, So it's not that shocking.
I believe all right. My first thought is I believe it.
My second thought is this again confirms our suspicions that
Rob Polinka doesn't really do anything. He just is a
middle manager, Rob Polinka, and he's a sock puppet for
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whoever the Lakers choose to make the decisions, whether it's
you know it was Lebron James, I guess they've now
pivoted to Luca and they get Luca dropped in in
Polenka's life. Do you think that was some kind of
amazing GM work by Rob skinny suit, skinny jeans Polinka.
I don't think it was that at all. I think
what happened is whether it was Adam Silver if you
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buy into the grand NBA conspiracy that phone calls were made,
or whether the Mavericks ownership wants to move to Las
Vegas and they want to undermine the fan base in Dallas,
one of those two, or maybe a combination of both.
But it wasn't like Rob Polinka just massage Nico Harrison
and that is what led to that particular transaction, and
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it just dropped like manna from heaven dropped into their lap.
And so Rob Polenka he had Lebron as the GM
by proxy, and now you've got the shadow GM Luka
Doncik making moves here and the trade for Williams was rescinded.
Although apparently there's more to that story. That story is
(11:19):
not over yet. Now, last word. So what can the
Dallas Maverick fan? I would say fans, but I think
we're down to one. I think there's one fan left
that likes the Mavericks. So the Dallas Maverick fan, what
can the Dallas Maverick fan take away from Dirk Nowitzki
attending Luca's debut with the Lakers. It's a couple of things.
(11:44):
If you're the ownership in Dallas, you would look at
that as treason, wouldn't you? If I'm not mistaken. The
street outside the Mavericks Arena is named Nowitzki Way. He's
the franchise legend and he was at A four the road.
He's royalty for the Mavericks. The city honored him by
renaming one of the streets outside the arena in his
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name and Dirk in a moment of weakness at a crossroads.
The Mavericks were playing their own game on Monday, believe,
but Dirk was not there at the American Airlines Center. Instead,
he was in La watching Luca. So nowhisky, what he
did is on he went to the airport. Then he
got into La and he stopped by There's a grocery
(12:27):
store near Lax. He went there and he bought some
Morton's Kosher salt and he poured the salt in the
open wound. Is what he did. Standing with the insurgency,
the uprising of the fan base, and you juxtapose the
Lukka debut with it being announced that Anthony Davis is
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not out a couple of days, He's not out a
couple of weeks. He's out indefinitely. That Luca, the guy
he was traded for Anthony Davis, has been KOed. He
is out indefinitely. After his Maverick debut, he talked about
twisting the knife. That is a knife twist situation. We'll
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the darnedest things. Another chat during their story. NBA fans
do the darness things. We'll get to that and we will.
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talk about Luca and his Laker debut, not much, not
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Dog Show in New York City since it's on Fox. Oh,
I want to put that on one of the TVs.
Can I do it? Well? My old colleague Chris Myers
(17:35):
is you know he's doing the play by play at
the dog Show. That's not as cool. He's the play
by play announcer. I'd rather it's that Super Ball of Dogs.
Do you think we could get the winner to come
in here? It's the Super Ball of Dogs. I want
their dog in the studio. Ben, Did you saw the
old Dog Show movie at Best Best in Show or
whatever it was called years ago? The Dog Show? When
you never saw that. It's a great movie. Watch it
(17:58):
probably dated now, but it was a great movie. People
that go to the dog Show in New York?
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Will you put it on?
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Yeah? Put it on one of the TVs there now, Chris,
it's the Dog Show. They's probably rebrought. It's on FS one, right,
they're probably rebroadcasting it. It's a big deal, my man
Chris Myers. He said he posted photos he was wearing
like a tuxedo. Yeah, craziness anyway, eight seven, seven ninety
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So nationally televised game, Luca making his debut. Also NBA
fans do the darnedest things. We will get to that
coming up here in a couple of minutes, but let's
go to the phones right off the top. We'll say
hello to Mike in La. What's going on? Mike, Welcome,
You're on Fox.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Hey, malar man, you delusional Clipper fans once again, don't
get it the thank kick the cap to the incompetent
morons in Dallas giving us this gift. Lakers are back.
We have no direction with bron coming to the end
and out of this that Pelinka fleecees those morons.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Do you think Rob Polinka had anything to do with that?
You're calling me, you're calling me names, and you think
Rob Polinka, mister skinny suit, Rob Polinka, who's never done
a damn thing, is life. You think Rob Polinka is
some kind of maestro? Are you out of your bloody mind? Yes, yes,
you are out of your You're out of your bloody mind,
you are, okay?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Answer, So let me ask you if you if you.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Have halise, So you have a player who's like almost
twenty six years old, and you don't see what you
can get from the entire league. You limit it to one.
It's like having a house and not putting it on
the market and only say, oh, he didn't convince, and
you are so you are so dumb. How are you
able to dial in? How are you able to call in?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Come on? Now? He thought Anthony Davis is as great
as Luca is.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I don't believe I believe that. I don't believe that
to be true. I don't. I don't think he believes
that at all. I think you believe that. I don't
think he believes.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
That in the Western Offers because Oklahoma City, as great
as they are, Luca owns them like any other team.
As you saw last year.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Oh yeah, Luca owns them. Yeah, I remember Luca losing
the Clippers two years in row in the playoffs. I
don't know how great Luca is in the playoffs. All right,
calm down there.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
He's got brought to take the pressure off him. The
Rockets sit back, allow Luca to take over dominate games. Yeah,
he can come in to stretches and when.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
They need we listen. I don't I know I know
how this works. You'll not get when the Lakers losing
the playoffs, You're not gonna call up. So that's fine.
Have your little fun there. It feels good right now.
You will You're not going to call back, just like
all those Chiefs fans didn't call back.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
You're not going to call back For the next decade.
The Lakers are gonna dominate that.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yes, just like the Dallas Mavericks with Luca dominated the NBA. Yes,
there's no stopping the Lakers because Luca dominated the NBA
in Dallas and got to the finals with Oh he
didn't win it, though, Coop, you gotta don't you have
to win it? I mean I thought you have to
win it. Wasn't that you're you're the one that says
you're gonna win it.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Well, yeah, but now he's on the Lakers team that
wins championship. You know, seventeen of them. They haven't won
since Kobe Bryant died. So I don't know, I haven't
zero championships.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
You guys broken down Kawaii.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Why well, I got the richest owner in basketball. Listen,
I mean I clear.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Yeah, that's done. You great things got you a bunch
of toilets. You congratulations. Yeah, and you guys play on
skid Row congratulates. I would rather go to a Clipper
game that down where the Lakers play.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
My got your car will be broken into his feces
all over the streets is a great area? Is a dump.
That is a dump. Skid Row, the LA politicians, skid
Row has moved over there. It's a disaster. It's an
absolute disaster, is what it is. And you know it.
You wouldn't go down there your car get broken into time,
(21:41):
No you don't. You're a liar. You haven't been down
there in years. Nature Boy writes in says that I
have the dog winner right here. Yeah. Now, Chris says,
good job by you been pointing out JJ Redick is
a podcaster. Yeah, that's right, that's what he is. He's
a podcasting coach. I saw a stat over the weekend.
Buddy sent me that another podcaster, Paul George, has uploaded
(22:06):
more clips of his podcast online than he has. I
think Fueld goals made for the Sixers, So good god,
what a league he got a podcaster coach because he's
buddies with Lebron. You got podcast p What an operation
they got over there? What an absolute does debacle, that is,
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King Roy writes and says no one should be surprised
the Lakers are easing in Luca with the All Star break.
I'm sure he'll do everything in his power to be
what he once was. Here you go. This is besides
LA fans can't wait for Ben Simmons to make his
Clipper debut.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Yes, I think it's just it's hilarious. How upset you are?
Speaker 1 (22:52):
That upset in the.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Tops the show in Glee about the guy that scored
fourteen points in his first game Christmas.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I was total. He was Jesus H christ Is? I mean,
it are so mad are the again? I don't know
what he gives a crap about. It'll be great when
the Lakers losing the playoffs and all you idiots is, oh,
next year will be better next year if they are
allowed that Williams trying to happen. Oh, yeah, I know
(23:21):
I know how it goes. I know you losers, you historians.
I know that's fine. All I know. Again, since Kobe
Bryant stopped playing unfortunately died, but no championships for Lakers,
zero zippo. Yeah, that's really funny when you say that. Well,
it's accurate. It's an accurate analysis. Uh you feed me
in Chicago, rights since, says Malor A plus and two
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the Malad monologue. Listening to the show while on vacation,
Freddie is in Sydney, Australia. Well, thank you, Freddie. Now
we do well in Australia, but we do really well
in Perth. So you got to go over to Perth.
You know, Sydney's where a lot of the Americans go.
That famous it's had like an opera house there, the
famous building in downtown. But yeah, we kill in Perth.
(24:23):
And I was actually on the radio over across the
way there a few hours away in New Zealand, just
about an hour ago or so, my friend Darcy Walder
gave that was on a big news talk station, the
number one station in Auckland, New Zealand, and they put
me on there to some basketball. Femi rights in from
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of the best ever. I was so tired from over excitement.
I slept off before the Malord show. I guess you
fell asleep there the Eagles save football? Yeah. Have we
done a wellness check on weed Man? Because weed Man
was convinced there was going to be a religious new
religion born if the Chiefs had won. Yeah. Kelly, formerly
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known as Donut Kelly, now she's known as des Moines.
Kelly says, so does Eli Manning Kicking a perfect field
goal in the Kick of Destiny helps Hall of Fame case, Sure,
why not? What the f? What the f? Go for it? Yes,
Nature Boy says I know the MORGANA reference. Can you
(25:31):
say Fluffy Pillows? I think I just did there you go?
Absolutely yes, Spacoli writes in from Chapel Hill, North Carolina's
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monologue on Cam Newton calling his team his team a
locker room full of losers and Steve Smith taking that personally. Yeah,
(25:53):
I do. I really want to do a monologue about
Cam Newton and a Carolina pans at their locker room
from years ago. Is that compelling? I mean maybe if
I poked my eyeballs out with a knife, maybe that
would be better than that. Possibly, possibly, possibly possibly.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Yeah, anyway, all right, Yeah, it is the Ben Mahler Show.
Let's get back to the calls, and let's say hello
to ed in Arlington. Look at that was spring trainings underway.
So Editing Arlington's call him back up? Hello, Edward? Welcome?
No boy? Did that already fall asleep? And the show
(26:37):
has only been on for like half an hour? Did
you wake up? Ed You only called like five minutes.
I know what happened? He No, he's not asleep. It
must be a bad connection or something. We'll hang up
on him. All right. That was a solid phone call anyway,
So we have the the fun fact of the hoye
do we have the fun facts? Maybe the fun fact
(26:59):
of the hour?
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Fun fact?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
You talk about Luca, He's already making history. I know
people say I'm negative towards the Lakers, but he's Yeah,
I got a positive for you. Congratulations. As Luca scored
fourteen points in his debut, he is now tied with
Bronnie James on the all time scoring list in Laker history.
So wow, right, come on the spawn of bron the
(27:27):
netbo baby. So Luca has all right. I wonder if
Lebron's upset by that that Bronnie James has already been
tied by Luca. Shocking man, But that there it is.
Fourteen points. Now. Next up for Luca is somebody named
Billy McGill, Billy the Hill McGill, who scored fifteen points
(27:48):
for Lakers. And then here's a name that I remember
from years ago, the great j R. Smith who Jr. Smith,
who played for a bunch of different team Jared Smith. Well,
you know, he's an old school NBA j R. Smith,
but he scored seventeen points in a Laker uniform. So
that's what's up next for Luca. Now I'm already here.
(28:09):
My guys out who cover the Lakers. They're saying that
it sounds like Luca might not play in the next game.
You can't make this stuff up, dude. You can't Lakers
play the Jazz again. So another Tomato can match up,
and it sounds like Luca may not play in that game,
(28:30):
So get a rest up. For the All Star break.
You don't want to work too hard. That's so great.
What an operation they got, Jr. Now you remember j R.
Smith's most famous moment in the NBA Finals. Do you
remember what happened Calves and Warriors? Do you remember? Yeah,
he played the clock out in a tie game. He
(28:54):
played the clock out. Normally you try to win the game.
But Jr. Said, nam, I'm good. I still remember what
a night that was. Cavs had a chance to win
Game one of the NBA Finals in twenty eighteen, and
my man j R. Smith dribbled out the clock in
(29:16):
a tie game. That's look great. It's been a few years,
but I still still laugh thinking about how everyone loves
to talk about high basketball IQ and all that. Man alive, Man,
man alive. Let's see here page down. Terry in England writes,
(29:37):
and he says, I've got to agree about the Lakers.
Man sad to see a once great franchise reduced to
an offshoot of clutch sports. There you go, Nature boy says,
I thought the Lakers had a better team with Anthony
Davis if he was healthy. There you go? Who else?
Malor prop guy says, is it true that Bob Polinka
(30:01):
hypnotized Nico Harrison with a downtown Los Angeles bacon wrapped
hot dog, the La Dog, and convinced him to make
the trade. So, according to Malapropka, we can investigate that. God,
it's good. Should we send that out on social media?
That that's a possibility. I think that's a very valid possibility. Ben, Yeah,
(30:26):
those bacon wrapped hot dogs, the smell of them. Seriously,
like it's okay that there's homeless people on every corner
because the smell of bacon wrapped hot dogs makes it
worth it. Now. I had a guy tell me a
while back that it's actually a racket that there's a
family like the cartel of bacon wrapped hot dogs, and
(30:47):
they send the people out. They have the whole schedule
of all the big events and stuff, and so these
people are actually part of a big cartel of bacon
wrapped hot dogs. Yeah, the weenie cartel is what it is.
And they send these people out, and so you think
you're just helping out someone down on the luck that
happens to have a little cart with that aluminum foil
(31:08):
on it where they cooked the bacon wrapped hot thoughts
because it come out like cockroaches after dark. Yes, where
did they even come from? Well, that's actually where they store.
They store the hot dogs in the cockroaches, with the cockroaches. Actually,
you can get that. That's a little extra add on.
If you want little crunch your your bacon wrapp hot dog,
you put a couple of cockroaches in there, and yeah, yummy. Absolutely.
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Malapropka also says, regarding Lucas scoring fourteen points and tying
Bronni James debut, Mark, you know who had Luca removed
from the game tonight so he didn't surpass that total
though it wasn't the listed coach. Oh, well, that's a
good conspiracy by Malapropka that Lebron actually said, Hey, we
got to get Luca out of there because we do
(31:49):
not want him to end up with more points than
the kid, So we got to get him out of there.
And then the podcast Reddick podcast, Coach Reddick was like,
all right, I don't do that, why not? What the hell,
I'll go for it. So NBA fans do the darness things.
We love these stories and I enjoyed the raw emotion,
(32:09):
the raw emotion of defeat when your team does the thing.
They can't do it at the time, they can't do it.
So the latest chapter in NBA fans do the darness things.
The Mavericks played a game on Monday, The Dallas Mavericks
played the Sacramento Kings. They went to overtime in that game,
(32:31):
and the Sacramento Kings won that game by one point.
One point. They won, and so it was a big
night for DeMar Dea Rosen and forty two points for Sacramento.
But who cares about that? That secondary So during the
Mavericks game, they have all those dopey in arena things
that every team does, and they had a karaoke cam.
(32:53):
And during the karaoke cam, a fan you don't have
to be very good at lip reading. I think even
blind Scott probably say the Maverick fan got on the
karaoke cam and shouted fire Niko. You could clearly see it.
But wait, there's more. The insurgency continued, the uprising, the
civil unrest among the Maverick fan base. As a pair
(33:15):
of Maverick fans one held up a sign that said fire,
the other held up a sign that said Nico, and
they were escorted out by some security thugs At the
Arena in Dallas. They were escorted out of the arena
for their protest because apparently you cannot say fire Nico.
That is offensive language, that is hurtful language, and that
(33:37):
will get you kicked out of a Maverick game. That's
that's enough. That's it, You're done. You get it kicked
out right there. Somebody asked me if when we will
hear I got an email from somebody who's a fan
of just said, when do you think Keg drinking Brian Steve?
Keg drinking Steve? Beer drinking Brian who's dead? And then
we have Keg drinking Steve. So when do you think
(33:59):
Keg drinking Steve? The chiefs Homer is going to call in,
and I said it's gonna be a while. I wrote back,
I say it's gonna be a while, and then I
just said that, you know, I sign my name because
normally what happens is these guys go into hiding, like
Alameda Lou. When the forty nine Ers lost the Super Bowl,
Alameda Lou was nowhere to be seen for months. He
(34:21):
completely managed Bill's mafia. When the Buffalo Bills lost in
the playoffs, all these Bills Mafia guys needed therapy, they
needed like a support animal, and they would tell they
were it and it was over. So it's gonna be
a while. All these chiefs guys are not and they
can't handle it. It's tough. And that's what happens in
(34:44):
the competitive arena of overnight talk radio. People call up
and they brag and the very braggadocius, and then they
hide when something goes wrong. They're nowhere to be seen.
And if their team had won, they would have been
calling up. And I did check in with Fats in
philadelph if your Fats did pass out from he was
too schnockered, he was too hammered. He was going to
(35:05):
be our boots on the ground in Philadelphia, And as
I imagined, Fats could not handle his liquor, even though
he's Fats and So's He apologized to the militia. He
said he had every intention of being part of the show,
and then he kept drinking and drinking and drinking.
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Way up, Blake, and I am gonna keep it.
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Game?
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Super Bowl and be victorious. Who am I? That is
the question. The answer. We'll get to it and we
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I am believed to be the first quarterback ever to
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There have been plenty of quarterbacks that have warned visors,
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but I was the first one ever to win the
Super Bowl wearing advisor? Who am I? Mal prop guy
says v Stiviano A legend from years gone by. Very
few people know who that is, but she is a legend.
Alex Murphy guests by Milkman Mike. Who else do we have?
David Lee Roth from Chris in Des Moin, Nick Foles
guest by Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. John Elways rented private
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jet from random Ryan Jake the Snake Roberts from Robin Vegas,
Phil Coke from mister nice guy. Who else do we have?
Page Dan? I can't read that on there, Soupy Sales.
This is not a dated reference at all from I
forty ian. That's not dated at all. Tim's going with
Jim McMahon Cobra Commander. There's a good one from alf
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the Alien Opiner, Scott Zolac from Andrew in the Bay Area.
Y A tittle guest by Steve. He says Eli Ram.
Steve says, y a tittle. Colin Kaepernick guest by Miguel
on Fire Very funny, and Alex Ovechkin from Legally Blind,
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Christopher dark Helmet from og the Great Art puffin Friend
of the Show, Steve Spurrier from Luke, Brian Barrard from
Big Lou. He's on number two. Forrest Gump guessed by
Andy in lion O Lakes. All right, what say you? Lorraine?
Speaker 5 (38:19):
Oh this is so hard, but I'm gonna go with
Gino Smith.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
A fine answer, of course, unless you're completely ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
I know.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
The correct answer was actually the quarterback that started the
game on Sunday, and that would be none other than
the quarterback of the Eagles the Super Bowl NVP. Jalen hurts,
that's the answer, Jalen hurts, Right, Doc Mike is somewhere
in Arizona. What's going on? Doc? You got that doc
locked and loaded? Doc, pick up the damn phone. Doc.
(38:53):
Come on, don't big time. I just screened the call.
At least pick up the phone. Doc out there, if
you're on speakerphone. Doc, don't big time the show. How
dare you what.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
The military phone?
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Why are you on a military phone? You're not in
the military. It's oh you have a burner phone? Or
who are you hiding from?
Speaker 3 (39:17):
I don't want any of these pharmaceutical companies where I'm at.
I'm stopping the money.
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Train, the money train. I want to stop the money train.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Jail.
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I went to jail twice. I know you were two
years he went to jail. That's why you're sending me
messages on my phone here.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
And I want to send the goa ahead to that
local lady.
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All right, Lorenda, would you like a goat heead in
the mail from Doc Mike. He sent me goatheads in
the past, Miranda, my old producer got a bloody goat heead.
You want a GoAhead? You know I've always dreamed of
getting a goatthead. But no, no, you want it? And Doc,
make sure there's no blood in the box, like, okay, Red,
we got in trouble when you I couldn't get mail
for six months because there was blood dripping out of
(39:59):
the box. So no blood in the box, okay.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
Or maybe wrap it in plastic so it doesn't well,
he had it in plastic, but it like melted coming
from Chicago or Iowa or wherever it was from.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
So yeah, the greatest of them.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
All. Oh, look at you, Doc, Come visit us, Doc
Mike and get a get a better phone. No, no,
Doc's a legend. Yeah, I've met him multiple times at
Mallard meet and greets. O. Yeah, he's on the spectrum,
but he's fun, you know,
Here we go. Welcome, It's our number one, our one
of the original Recipe podcast. Glad you're here on this
eleventh day of February. Happy Tuesday to you. And Louca
made his much anticipated Laker debut. They gave t shirts
(00:20):
out to everyone in the crowd. How did Luka Dancik
look in his first appearance as a Laker? Also, well,
these ingredients with Luca and Lebron work when we get
to the playoffs for the Lakers. And we'll also talk
about what the Maverick fans can take away from Dirk
Novitsky attending Luca's debut in La The Maverick legend was there.
(00:45):
We'll talk about that as well. All of it coming
up right now here. It is our number one, the
grand debut. We come up of another night of the
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So now that that Super Bowl is over and what
(01:53):
a great game it was, unless it wasn't, we can
turn our attention to other things. For example, I'm told
this is a big deal. I'm told this is very important.
So our lead story this hour is from skid Row.
That's where the Lakers played. Believe they play in skid Row,
Yes they do. It's a dump down there, but that
(02:14):
was where the big night game was in the NBA
oh Man Ball Night. It was ball Night. The story
of the night told very important, very very important that
we talk about this. So here we are you and
I together talking about this. Everyone hyped off the much
bally hood beginning of theca Donzik era with the Lakers. Now,
(02:39):
will it be a long term relationship that blossoms into
glorious moments or will it be a cautionary tale where
people say the Mavericks were right, the crazy wackadoodle Mavericks
were right about Luca All along. If you were betting,
you'd likely bet on the Mavericks not being right based
(03:00):
on history. But let us discuss so. I don't know
if you saw the game or not. It was broadcast nationally.
It was a late pickup. Normally the Lakers and Utah
Jazz not there. You'd rather watch an actual jazz band
than the Utah Jazz at this point in fact, I
think if you put an actual jazz band on the court,
(03:21):
they would be more competitive than the NBA variety of
the jazz. So he had the usual Hollywood f's out there,
will Ferrell Adele. I guess she's engaged to Lebron's agent.
What about that? Yeah, she's all about that action Adele.
So there are a bunch of other people. I don't
even know who these people are anymore, but they were
all hanging out watching and Luka, how did he do?
(03:44):
Did he score fifty points? Did he have the greatest
Laker debut of all time?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Did he score thirty points and have like seventeen rebound? No?
How about twenty five points? Did Lucas score twenty five
points his late against Jazz?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
How about twenty He had to get twenty? Right? Come
on twenty points. You do that blindfolded? He got twenty? No,
oh my god, how about fifteen? Did Luca get fifteen points? No?
Fourteen points? Fourteen points? All these people dressed up, they
gave out T shirts for a guy wh scored fourteen points.
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Four t shirt night, fourteen points twenty three minutes. The
Lakers end up vaporizing the once proud Utah Jazz, Karl
Malone and John Stockton not walking through that door there.
Lakers led by as many as thirty four points in
a game that was much like the Super Bowl over
at halftime. No need to watch the second half, So
(04:46):
let us discuss how did Luka How did Luca Doncik
look in his Laker debut? So I've got Catwalk, Morgana,
the Kissing Bandit, and Morton's Kosher Salt, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a migraine headache, which the hardy and loyal
(05:10):
minions of the Dallas basketball team are likely suffering from
a migraine headache. So as far as they answer the
question how did Luca look, You've got the micro and
the macro in the micro in the moment he looked wobbly.
He did. He didn't shoot the ball with Gusto. He
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was five of fourteen. Really, what stood out was how
bad he was from three point range, one of seven.
One of the all time great three point shooters, Luca
one of seven from three point range. Most of those
shots were wide open. Mind you, maybe they cranked up
the ac at the crypt where the Lakers play, but
the Jazz weren't playing much defense. They never played defense.
(05:51):
That's why they blow. They're terrible. And then you got
the podcaster JJ Reddick, the coach there, who put Luca, oh,
this is great on a minute's restriction? Is there anything
stupider than a minute's restriction in the NBA? Isn't that
one of like the five stupidest things you can possibly do?
And I know the podcast is not that bright, mister Reddick,
(06:13):
but podcaster Reddick probably doesn't realize this. You're feeding the
narrative that Luca needs to go to a fat farm,
that he can't play more than an X number of minutes.
I mean, he was now watching him on the court.
He was strutting like he was going down the catwalk
there and he did a pirouet in his new laundry,
and it did look and this always is the case
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when you know someone in one uniform and then they
switch uniform. It looked like a glitch in a video game.
So I remember Tom Brady put on a buccaneer uniform
for the I'm not comparing Luca to Tom Brady, but
just we're used to seeing Luca in the Mavericks laundry
and then you see him in that Laker uniform, like
that doesn't seem right. And it's like you watch these
(06:55):
people in certain uniforms and then they switch it up,
You're like, well, what's going on with that. It's not
the same when O'tani went from the Angels to the Dodgers,
although not many people watching him with the Angels, but
it's still odd when you switch, when you switch uniforms.
But as far as the overall game, opening night here
and you talk about a soft launch the Lakers, and
(07:16):
they did it right. They knew there was no chance
of losing that game. That was a show up, collect
a win type game. They were dining al fresco at
a mom and pop PiZZ area, a startup where there
was just nobody there. I mean, the jazz are everyone's
homecoming opponent in the NBA. And yet again that's the
(07:36):
way it turned out. And where have you gone? Thorough
Bailey and greg oaster tag, They're not walking through that door.
Now turn the page. Will these ingredients? Will these ingredients
with Luka and Lebron work when we get to the playoffs,
which I think it will start in like seven months.
The NBA playoffs season goes on forever. So will Luca
(07:58):
and Lebron work for the Lakers in the playoffs and
in twenty twenty five? My vote is no, it will
not work. You're asking me today. We do the show today. Now,
do I think at some point it's going to work? Sure?
But today ask me this year, I don't see it.
The Lakers will be one of these teams that's gonna
score a bunch of points, and they'll have great offensive numbers,
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and they'll beat a bunch of tomato cans up and
all that. But I'm gonna use the analogy here. It's
a data analogy, so you're gonna have to google it.
And the Lakers are built right now like Morgana the
Kissing Bandit. They're top heavy, and they know that they
tried to correct that problem. They attempted to correct that issue.
They tried to get a center, and then that that
(08:44):
went sideways because they know they're not good enough. And
Lebron and Luca are designated hitters and they don't play defense.
Lebron will do one or two defensive plays a game,
so he gets some the highlights, but the rest of
the time he's just kind of lolligag on defense. So
neither one of those are defensive dynamos. And when they're
both on the court at the same time, you have
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a tremendous liability. You will be on the power play
on offense, you will be shorthanded on defense at two positions.
So the only way that would work is if Lebron
and Luca can combine for ninety to ninety five points
a game, which is not realistic on a regular basis
in a seven game playoff series. It's not sustainable. Therefore,
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the long term or ice short term in this case,
this year does not look particularly promising. Where are You at?
Also on the chatter here that the Lakers cowtowed to
Luca that he hand picked Hornet center Mark Williams, that
Luca wanted the Lakers to trade for Mark Williams, and
(09:51):
then the trade ended up being rescinded. But that came
directly from the mouth of Luca, So it's not that shocking.
I believe all right. My first thought is I believe it.
My second thought is this again confirms our suspicions that
Rob Polinka doesn't really do anything. He just is a
middle manager, Rob Polinka, and he's a sock puppet for
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whoever the Lakers choose to make the decisions, whether it's
you know it was Lebron James, I guess they've now
pivoted to Luca and they get Luca dropped in in
Polenka's life. Do you think that was some kind of
amazing GM work by Rob skinny suit, skinny jeans Polinka.
I don't think it was that at all. I think
what happened is whether it was Adam Silver if you
(10:36):
buy into the grand NBA conspiracy that phone calls were made,
or whether the Mavericks ownership wants to move to Las
Vegas and they want to undermine the fan base in Dallas,
one of those two, or maybe a combination of both.
But it wasn't like Rob Polinka just massage Nico Harrison
and that is what led to that particular transaction, and
(10:58):
it just dropped like manna from heaven dropped into their lap.
And so Rob Polenka he had Lebron as the GM
by proxy, and now you've got the shadow GM Luka
Doncik making moves here and the trade for Williams was rescinded.
Although apparently there's more to that story. That story is
(11:19):
not over yet. Now, last word. So what can the
Dallas Maverick fan? I would say fans, but I think
we're down to one. I think there's one fan left
that likes the Mavericks. So the Dallas Maverick fan, what
can the Dallas Maverick fan take away from Dirk Nowitzki
attending Luca's debut with the Lakers. It's a couple of things.
(11:44):
If you're the ownership in Dallas, you would look at
that as treason, wouldn't you? If I'm not mistaken. The
street outside the Mavericks Arena is named Nowitzki Way. He's
the franchise legend and he was at A four the road.
He's royalty for the Mavericks. The city honored him by
renaming one of the streets outside the arena in his
(12:06):
name and Dirk in a moment of weakness at a crossroads.
The Mavericks were playing their own game on Monday, believe,
but Dirk was not there at the American Airlines Center. Instead,
he was in La watching Luca. So nowhisky, what he
did is on he went to the airport. Then he
got into La and he stopped by There's a grocery
(12:27):
store near Lax. He went there and he bought some
Morton's Kosher salt and he poured the salt in the
open wound. Is what he did. Standing with the insurgency,
the uprising of the fan base, and you juxtapose the
Lukka debut with it being announced that Anthony Davis is
(12:49):
not out a couple of days, He's not out a
couple of weeks. He's out indefinitely. That Luca, the guy
he was traded for Anthony Davis, has been KOed. He
is out indefinitely. After his Maverick debut, he talked about
twisting the knife. That is a knife twist situation. We'll
(13:11):
take your calls on any of this, or if you
want to still rehash the god awful Super Bowl. What
a poop show that was Super Bowl fifty nine will
not be remembered by many, and it's now done. It's
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another chapter in our never ending story. NBA fans do
(13:57):
the darnedest things. Another chat during their story. NBA fans
do the darness things. We'll get to that and we will.
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talk about Luca and his Laker debut, not much, not
much going on with that random Ryan in Carolina, right
since his A plus and a portion of eastern North
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quite lululand yet, says Random Ryan. Like North Carolina barbecue.
(17:13):
I have had North South Carolina barbecue. I prefer Kansas
City barbecue. But don't tell me that. Late Night Drug
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Dog Show in New York City since it's on Fox. Oh,
I want to put that on one of the TVs.
Can I do it? Well? My old colleague Chris Myers
(17:35):
is you know he's doing the play by play at
the dog Show. That's not as cool. He's the play
by play announcer. I'd rather it's that Super Ball of Dogs.
Do you think we could get the winner to come
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their dog in the studio. Ben, Did you saw the
old Dog Show movie at Best Best in Show or
whatever it was called years ago? The Dog Show? When
you never saw that. It's a great movie. Watch it
(17:58):
probably dated now, but it was a great movie. People
that go to the dog Show in New York?
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Will you put it on?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah? Put it on one of the TVs there now, Chris,
it's the Dog Show. They's probably rebrought. It's on FS one, right,
they're probably rebroadcasting it. It's a big deal, my man
Chris Myers. He said he posted photos he was wearing
like a tuxedo. Yeah, craziness anyway, eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox. Your instant reaction, the pulse of the people.
(18:23):
So nationally televised game, Luca making his debut. Also NBA
fans do the darnedest things. We will get to that
coming up here in a couple of minutes, but let's
go to the phones right off the top. We'll say
hello to Mike in La. What's going on? Mike, Welcome,
You're on Fox.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Hey, malar man, you delusional Clipper fans once again, don't
get it the thank kick the cap to the incompetent
morons in Dallas giving us this gift. Lakers are back.
We have no direction with bron coming to the end
and out of this that Pelinka fleecees those morons.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Do you think Rob Polinka had anything to do with that?
You're calling me, you're calling me names, and you think
Rob Polinka, mister skinny suit, Rob Polinka, who's never done
a damn thing, is life. You think Rob Polinka is
some kind of maestro? Are you out of your bloody mind? Yes, yes,
you are out of your You're out of your bloody mind,
you are, okay?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Answer, So let me ask you if you if you.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Have halise, So you have a player who's like almost
twenty six years old, and you don't see what you
can get from the entire league. You limit it to one.
It's like having a house and not putting it on
the market and only say, oh, he didn't convince, and
you are so you are so dumb. How are you
able to dial in? How are you able to call in?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Come on? Now? He thought Anthony Davis is as great
as Luca is.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I don't believe I believe that. I don't believe that
to be true. I don't. I don't think he believes
that at all. I think you believe that. I don't
think he believes.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
That in the Western Offers because Oklahoma City, as great
as they are, Luca owns them like any other team.
As you saw last year.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Oh yeah, Luca owns them. Yeah, I remember Luca losing
the Clippers two years in row in the playoffs. I
don't know how great Luca is in the playoffs. All right,
calm down there.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
He's got brought to take the pressure off him. The
Rockets sit back, allow Luca to take over dominate games. Yeah,
he can come in to stretches and when.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
They need we listen. I don't I know I know
how this works. You'll not get when the Lakers losing
the playoffs, You're not gonna call up. So that's fine.
Have your little fun there. It feels good right now.
You will You're not going to call back, just like
all those Chiefs fans didn't call back.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
You're not going to call back For the next decade.
The Lakers are gonna dominate that.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yes, just like the Dallas Mavericks with Luca dominated the NBA. Yes,
there's no stopping the Lakers because Luca dominated the NBA
in Dallas and got to the finals with Oh he
didn't win it, though, Coop, you gotta don't you have
to win it? I mean I thought you have to
win it. Wasn't that you're you're the one that says
you're gonna win it.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Well, yeah, but now he's on the Lakers team that
wins championship. You know, seventeen of them. They haven't won
since Kobe Bryant died. So I don't know, I haven't
zero championships.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
You guys broken down Kawaii.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Why well, I got the richest owner in basketball. Listen,
I mean I clear.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Yeah, that's done. You great things got you a bunch
of toilets. You congratulations. Yeah, and you guys play on
skid Row congratulates. I would rather go to a Clipper
game that down where the Lakers play.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
My got your car will be broken into his feces
all over the streets is a great area? Is a dump.
That is a dump. Skid Row, the LA politicians, skid
Row has moved over there. It's a disaster. It's an
absolute disaster, is what it is. And you know it.
You wouldn't go down there your car get broken into time,
(21:41):
No you don't. You're a liar. You haven't been down
there in years. Nature Boy writes in says that I
have the dog winner right here. Yeah. Now, Chris says,
good job by you been pointing out JJ Redick is
a podcaster. Yeah, that's right, that's what he is. He's
a podcasting coach. I saw a stat over the weekend.
Buddy sent me that another podcaster, Paul George, has uploaded
(22:06):
more clips of his podcast online than he has. I
think Fueld goals made for the Sixers, So good god,
what a league he got a podcaster coach because he's
buddies with Lebron. You got podcast p What an operation
they got over there? What an absolute does debacle, that is,
(22:32):
King Roy writes and says no one should be surprised
the Lakers are easing in Luca with the All Star break.
I'm sure he'll do everything in his power to be
what he once was. Here you go. This is besides
LA fans can't wait for Ben Simmons to make his
Clipper debut.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Yes, I think it's just it's hilarious. How upset you are?
Speaker 1 (22:52):
That upset in the.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Tops the show in Glee about the guy that scored
fourteen points in his first game Christmas.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I was total. He was Jesus H christ Is? I mean,
it are so mad are the again? I don't know
what he gives a crap about. It'll be great when
the Lakers losing the playoffs and all you idiots is, oh,
next year will be better next year if they are
allowed that Williams trying to happen. Oh, yeah, I know
(23:21):
I know how it goes. I know you losers, you historians.
I know that's fine. All I know. Again, since Kobe
Bryant stopped playing unfortunately died, but no championships for Lakers,
zero zippo. Yeah, that's really funny when you say that. Well,
it's accurate. It's an accurate analysis. Uh you feed me
in Chicago, rights since, says Malor A plus and two
(23:41):
dollars for a dollar McDonald's two apple McDonald's apple pies.
On the monologue, be sure to lock in that plus
four thousand Bears super Bowl bet. While on yet again,
are we doing this again? You see me every year?
The Bears got Freddie writes in and says Ozzy Ozy.
He says, oh y o YOI a plus plus on
(24:03):
the Malad monologue. Listening to the show while on vacation,
Freddie is in Sydney, Australia. Well, thank you, Freddie. Now
we do well in Australia, but we do really well
in Perth. So you got to go over to Perth.
You know, Sydney's where a lot of the Americans go.
That famous it's had like an opera house there, the
famous building in downtown. But yeah, we kill in Perth.
(24:23):
And I was actually on the radio over across the
way there a few hours away in New Zealand, just
about an hour ago or so, my friend Darcy Walder
gave that was on a big news talk station, the
number one station in Auckland, New Zealand, and they put
me on there to some basketball. Femi rights in from
the Twin City, says Ben, the Super Bowl was one
(24:46):
of the best ever. I was so tired from over excitement.
I slept off before the Malord show. I guess you
fell asleep there the Eagles save football? Yeah. Have we
done a wellness check on weed Man? Because weed Man
was convinced there was going to be a religious new
religion born if the Chiefs had won. Yeah. Kelly, formerly
(25:10):
known as Donut Kelly, now she's known as des Moines.
Kelly says, so does Eli Manning Kicking a perfect field
goal in the Kick of Destiny helps Hall of Fame case, Sure,
why not? What the f? What the f? Go for it? Yes,
Nature Boy says I know the MORGANA reference. Can you
(25:31):
say Fluffy Pillows? I think I just did there you go?
Absolutely yes, Spacoli writes in from Chapel Hill, North Carolina's
neighbors with Bill Belichick. He says, I need a Mallard
monologue on Cam Newton calling his team his team a
locker room full of losers and Steve Smith taking that personally. Yeah,
(25:53):
I do. I really want to do a monologue about
Cam Newton and a Carolina pans at their locker room
from years ago. Is that compelling? I mean maybe if
I poked my eyeballs out with a knife, maybe that
would be better than that. Possibly, possibly, possibly possibly.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Yeah, anyway, all right, Yeah, it is the Ben Mahler Show.
Let's get back to the calls, and let's say hello
to ed in Arlington. Look at that was spring trainings underway.
So Editing Arlington's call him back up? Hello, Edward? Welcome?
No boy? Did that already fall asleep? And the show
(26:37):
has only been on for like half an hour? Did
you wake up? Ed You only called like five minutes.
I know what happened? He No, he's not asleep. It
must be a bad connection or something. We'll hang up
on him. All right. That was a solid phone call anyway,
So we have the the fun fact of the hoye
do we have the fun facts? Maybe the fun fact
(26:59):
of the hour?
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Fun fact?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
You talk about Luca, He's already making history. I know
people say I'm negative towards the Lakers, but he's Yeah,
I got a positive for you. Congratulations. As Luca scored
fourteen points in his debut, he is now tied with
Bronnie James on the all time scoring list in Laker history.
So wow, right, come on the spawn of bron the
(27:27):
netbo baby. So Luca has all right. I wonder if
Lebron's upset by that that Bronnie James has already been
tied by Luca. Shocking man, But that there it is.
Fourteen points. Now. Next up for Luca is somebody named
Billy McGill, Billy the Hill McGill, who scored fifteen points
(27:48):
for Lakers. And then here's a name that I remember
from years ago, the great j R. Smith who Jr. Smith,
who played for a bunch of different team Jared Smith. Well,
you know, he's an old school NBA j R. Smith,
but he scored seventeen points in a Laker uniform. So
that's what's up next for Luca. Now I'm already here.
(28:09):
My guys out who cover the Lakers. They're saying that
it sounds like Luca might not play in the next game.
You can't make this stuff up, dude. You can't Lakers
play the Jazz again. So another Tomato can match up,
and it sounds like Luca may not play in that game,
(28:30):
So get a rest up. For the All Star break.
You don't want to work too hard. That's so great.
What an operation they got, Jr. Now you remember j R.
Smith's most famous moment in the NBA Finals. Do you
remember what happened Calves and Warriors? Do you remember? Yeah,
he played the clock out in a tie game. He
(28:54):
played the clock out. Normally you try to win the game.
But Jr. Said, nam, I'm good. I still remember what
a night that was. Cavs had a chance to win
Game one of the NBA Finals in twenty eighteen, and
my man j R. Smith dribbled out the clock in
(29:16):
a tie game. That's look great. It's been a few years,
but I still still laugh thinking about how everyone loves
to talk about high basketball IQ and all that. Man alive, Man,
man alive. Let's see here page down. Terry in England writes,
(29:37):
and he says, I've got to agree about the Lakers.
Man sad to see a once great franchise reduced to
an offshoot of clutch sports. There you go, Nature boy says,
I thought the Lakers had a better team with Anthony
Davis if he was healthy. There you go? Who else?
Malor prop guy says, is it true that Bob Polinka
(30:01):
hypnotized Nico Harrison with a downtown Los Angeles bacon wrapped
hot dog, the La Dog, and convinced him to make
the trade. So, according to Malapropka, we can investigate that. God,
it's good. Should we send that out on social media?
That that's a possibility. I think that's a very valid possibility. Ben, Yeah,
(30:26):
those bacon wrapped hot dogs, the smell of them. Seriously,
like it's okay that there's homeless people on every corner
because the smell of bacon wrapped hot dogs makes it
worth it. Now. I had a guy tell me a
while back that it's actually a racket that there's a
family like the cartel of bacon wrapped hot dogs, and
(30:47):
they send the people out. They have the whole schedule
of all the big events and stuff, and so these
people are actually part of a big cartel of bacon
wrapped hot dogs. Yeah, the weenie cartel is what it is.
And they send these people out, and so you think
you're just helping out someone down on the luck that
happens to have a little cart with that aluminum foil
(31:08):
on it where they cooked the bacon wrapped hot thoughts
because it come out like cockroaches after dark. Yes, where
did they even come from? Well, that's actually where they store.
They store the hot dogs in the cockroaches, with the cockroaches. Actually,
you can get that. That's a little extra add on.
If you want little crunch your your bacon wrapp hot dog,
you put a couple of cockroaches in there, and yeah, yummy. Absolutely.
(31:29):
Malapropka also says, regarding Lucas scoring fourteen points and tying
Bronni James debut, Mark, you know who had Luca removed
from the game tonight so he didn't surpass that total
though it wasn't the listed coach. Oh, well, that's a
good conspiracy by Malapropka that Lebron actually said, Hey, we
got to get Luca out of there because we do
(31:49):
not want him to end up with more points than
the kid, So we got to get him out of there.
And then the podcast Reddick podcast, Coach Reddick was like,
all right, I don't do that, why not? What the hell,
I'll go for it. So NBA fans do the darness things.
We love these stories and I enjoyed the raw emotion,
(32:09):
the raw emotion of defeat when your team does the thing.
They can't do it at the time, they can't do it.
So the latest chapter in NBA fans do the darness things.
The Mavericks played a game on Monday, The Dallas Mavericks
played the Sacramento Kings. They went to overtime in that game,
(32:31):
and the Sacramento Kings won that game by one point.
One point. They won, and so it was a big
night for DeMar Dea Rosen and forty two points for Sacramento.
But who cares about that? That secondary So during the
Mavericks game, they have all those dopey in arena things
that every team does, and they had a karaoke cam.
(32:53):
And during the karaoke cam, a fan you don't have
to be very good at lip reading. I think even
blind Scott probably say the Maverick fan got on the
karaoke cam and shouted fire Niko. You could clearly see it.
But wait, there's more. The insurgency continued, the uprising, the
civil unrest among the Maverick fan base. As a pair
(33:15):
of Maverick fans one held up a sign that said fire,
the other held up a sign that said Nico, and
they were escorted out by some security thugs At the
Arena in Dallas. They were escorted out of the arena
for their protest because apparently you cannot say fire Nico.
That is offensive language, that is hurtful language, and that
(33:37):
will get you kicked out of a Maverick game. That's
that's enough. That's it, You're done. You get it kicked
out right there. Somebody asked me if when we will
hear I got an email from somebody who's a fan
of just said, when do you think Keg drinking Brian Steve?
Keg drinking Steve? Beer drinking Brian who's dead? And then
we have Keg drinking Steve. So when do you think
(33:59):
Keg drinking Steve? The chiefs Homer is going to call in,
and I said it's gonna be a while. I wrote back,
I say it's gonna be a while, and then I
just said that, you know, I sign my name because
normally what happens is these guys go into hiding, like
Alameda Lou. When the forty nine Ers lost the Super Bowl,
Alameda Lou was nowhere to be seen for months. He
(34:21):
completely managed Bill's mafia. When the Buffalo Bills lost in
the playoffs, all these Bills Mafia guys needed therapy, they
needed like a support animal, and they would tell they
were it and it was over. So it's gonna be
a while. All these chiefs guys are not and they
can't handle it. It's tough. And that's what happens in
(34:44):
the competitive arena of overnight talk radio. People call up
and they brag and the very braggadocius, and then they
hide when something goes wrong. They're nowhere to be seen.
And if their team had won, they would have been
calling up. And I did check in with Fats in
philadelph if your Fats did pass out from he was
too schnockered, he was too hammered. He was going to
(35:05):
be our boots on the ground in Philadelphia, And as
I imagined, Fats could not handle his liquor, even though
he's Fats and So's He apologized to the militia. He
said he had every intention of being part of the show,
and then he kept drinking and drinking and drinking.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Way up, Blake, and I am gonna keep it.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Yeah. Time now for the who am I? Game? This
is where I pretend to be somebody else else. We
call it the who am I?
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Game?
Speaker 1 (35:29):
You can answer this on x at Ben Mahler. That's
at Ben Mahler. If you'd like to be part of
the program. Here it is. I am believed to be
the first quarterback to wear advisor in the Super Bowl
and win the Super Bowl. It's only in one I
guess I don't know the one, but the first quarterback
ever to wear a visor on their helmet in the
(35:52):
Super Bowl and be victorious. Who am I? That is
the question. The answer. We'll get to it and we
will do it next.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Little Blondie, it is Bill Miller and you The Ben
Mahler Show rolling on all night every night. Follow the
show on Facebook at Ben Mahler's Show. You'll see exclusive
behind the scenes videos, photos of the life of malor
also on Instagram much of that content. Ben Maller on Fox,
(36:28):
and add that you're already on there anyway, Facebook, so
you can keep track of your aunt and your uncles
and all that.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Thank God for the Internet.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Ben Maller Show on Facebook, Instagram, Ben Maller on Fox.
It'll change your life in amazing ways. Unless it does
in time now for the who am I? Game? Then
we go over to Ben. That's right, Bill, don't try
to bogarnt my time. Here's the who am I? Game?
I am believed to be the first quarterback ever to
wear advisor in the Super Bowl and actually win the game.
There have been plenty of quarterbacks that have warned visors,
(36:56):
but I was the first one ever to win the
Super Bowl wearing advisor? Who am I? Mal prop guy
says v Stiviano A legend from years gone by. Very
few people know who that is, but she is a legend.
Alex Murphy guests by Milkman Mike. Who else do we have?
David Lee Roth from Chris in Des Moin, Nick Foles
guest by Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. John Elways rented private
(37:19):
jet from random Ryan Jake the Snake Roberts from Robin Vegas,
Phil Coke from mister nice guy. Who else do we have?
Page Dan? I can't read that on there, Soupy Sales.
This is not a dated reference at all from I
forty ian. That's not dated at all. Tim's going with
Jim McMahon Cobra Commander. There's a good one from alf
(37:41):
the Alien Opiner, Scott Zolac from Andrew in the Bay Area.
Y A tittle guest by Steve. He says Eli Ram.
Steve says, y a tittle. Colin Kaepernick guest by Miguel
on Fire Very funny, and Alex Ovechkin from Legally Blind,
(38:02):
Christopher dark Helmet from og the Great Art puffin Friend
of the Show, Steve Spurrier from Luke, Brian Barrard from
Big Lou. He's on number two. Forrest Gump guessed by
Andy in lion O Lakes. All right, what say you? Lorraine?
Speaker 5 (38:19):
Oh this is so hard, but I'm gonna go with
Gino Smith.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
A fine answer, of course, unless you're completely ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
I know.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
The correct answer was actually the quarterback that started the
game on Sunday, and that would be none other than
the quarterback of the Eagles the Super Bowl NVP. Jalen hurts,
that's the answer, Jalen hurts, Right, Doc Mike is somewhere
in Arizona. What's going on? Doc? You got that doc
locked and loaded? Doc, pick up the damn phone. Doc.
(38:53):
Come on, don't big time. I just screened the call.
At least pick up the phone. Doc out there, if
you're on speakerphone. Doc, don't big time the show. How
dare you what.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
The military phone?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Why are you on a military phone? You're not in
the military. It's oh you have a burner phone? Or
who are you hiding from?
Speaker 3 (39:17):
I don't want any of these pharmaceutical companies where I'm at.
I'm stopping the money.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Train, the money train. I want to stop the money train.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Jail.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
I went to jail twice. I know you were two
years he went to jail. That's why you're sending me
messages on my phone here.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
And I want to send the goa ahead to that
local lady.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
All right, Lorenda, would you like a goat heead in
the mail from Doc Mike. He sent me goatheads in
the past, Miranda, my old producer got a bloody goat heead.
You want a GoAhead? You know I've always dreamed of
getting a goatthead. But no, no, you want it? And Doc,
make sure there's no blood in the box, like, okay, Red,
we got in trouble when you I couldn't get mail
for six months because there was blood dripping out of
(39:59):
the box. So no blood in the box, okay.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
Or maybe wrap it in plastic so it doesn't well,
he had it in plastic, but it like melted coming
from Chicago or Iowa or wherever it was from.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
So yeah, the greatest of them.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
All. Oh, look at you, Doc, Come visit us, Doc
Mike and get a get a better phone. No, no,
Doc's a legend. Yeah, I've met him multiple times at
Mallard meet and greets. O. Yeah, he's on the spectrum,
but he's fun, you know,
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