February 17, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about Draymond Green saying the All-Star Game format on a scale of 1-10 is a 0 while Charles Barkley said they are doing this because of Draymond's generation, Adam Silver shooting down the Luka trade conspiracy theory, and much more!
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Here we go. Welcome, It's our naber one on the
seventeenth day of February. Happy President's Day. Yeah, we're doing
this show. We'll do it live. We'll do it live
on President's Day. And there were six presidents that were
named James, Madison, Monroe, Polk, Buchanan, Garfield, and Carter. There's
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my presidential fun fact of the hour. But here an
hour number one. It's all about the All Star brew Haha.
Draymond Green says the All Star Game format on a
scale of one to ten is a zero. He did
this while broadcasting the All Star Game. Well, Charles Barkley says,
they're doing this because of Draymond's generation. You make the call.
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Whose side are you on? Will Adam Silver recently shot
down conspiracy theories around the Mavericks decision to give away
Luka Doncik in order to relocate the franchise to Vegas.
Does that end the storyline? And seventy six er star
Paul George went viral as his wife posted photos from
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PG thirteen's tropical All Start Break vacation. That is blank,
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from San Francisco. That was the scene of a starry night.
The NBA's mid It's not Midsummer Midwinter Classic, the All
Star Game or whatever that was this round robin. It
was like an AAU tournament, but it was all Stars.
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We do you watch any of this? Were you captivated
by the All Star Game? They played a mini tournament
between four teams. This is to avoid anyone scoring two
hundred points in the All Star Game. Just cap each
team at forty points first to forty and that's it.
But if you did not watch, and you probably didn't,
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perhaps you missed it. They had comedian Kevin Hart was
the MC of the event. And you know, you need
a stand up comedian to host your All Star Game
because you don't have big enough stars to carry the event.
And we found out a few hours before the game
that the event was not worthy of Lebron James Lebron
deciding to tap out of the All Star Game, ending
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a twenty year streak of All Star performances. Coop has arrived.
By the way, Steph Curry. Steph Curry took home the
Kobe Bryant All Star NVP honors. Who yes, he had
a way listen. It was in the Bay Area. You
got to give the local guy the All Star Game MVP.
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A twenty year streak of an All Star Game. Steph Grez,
I've been twenty years, but he's been there a lot
most of the last twenty years. And Steph Curry was
a Team Shack, the ogs of Team Shack. They called
me a team shack O G's beat Team Chuck. That
would be Charles Barkley in the final of the first
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of forty first of forty point tournament in the All
Star Game. Now for me and I watched this, I
was not captivated. This is not really for me. I'm
not sure who this was for. I don't really know.
It certainly wasn't for me, But I did enjoy the
back and forth with Draymond Green, who was not playing
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in the All Star Game, was not selected to the
All Star Team. But Draymond Green was working the studio
set for TNT and he was asked on a scale
of one to ten how much he liked the new
format of the All Star Game, and he responded with
a zero as his response. He had thought it was
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a zero. That was it. Now Charles Barkley, who was coaching,
as we mentioned, and also commentating the game that he
did not coach in. Charles Barkley responding to Raymond Green,
and he said, the reason the NBA is doing what
they're doing to the All Star Game is because of
Raymond Green's generation of players in the NBA that have
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destroyed the All Star Game. So that was Barkley's response.
Some saucy commentary. The commentary more worthy of conversation than
the game itself. That is the NBA All Star experience
in a nutshell. So let us discuss the question. We'll
go back and forth here. Draymond Green again. Draymond Green
was asked on a scale of one to ten what
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he thought of the new All Star format while plausibly
being paid to commentate on the All Star Game, and
Draymond said it was a zero, while Charles Barkley, who
was being paid to participate as a sham coach in
said All Star Game, says that the reason they're doing
this is because of Draymond Green's generation. You make the call,
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whose side are you on? Whose side are you on?
So I've got bastardized hotel, Pitchman and Wizard of Oz
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice night taking a nap.
That's what we're gonna make because there's not much going on.
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Let's you like college basketball, not much going on. Like
it's a little hockey. Get a little hockey, all right.
So again, I've got bastardized hotel, Pitchman and Wizard of
Oz and we'll combine all these things together. So num burn,
I said, Na Burn, My answer is, am I gonna
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go a Draymond Green or B Charles Barkley. My answers
actually see all the above. I'm gonna go see all
no lies detected. The All Star Game round robin tournament
was capitol l lame, capital l lame. It just was right.
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And when your customers, the most passionate people for your business,
your product, have to google the rules on what the
f is going on, you've done something wrong. And Draymond
was complaining about the fact that the team from the
Saturday Rookie or Young Stars of the Amba, whatever they're
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calling it, got to participate because they needed a fourth team.
They had to get a fourth team in there. So
like Dalton Connect of the Lakers who was traded to
the Hornets and then he came back to the Lakers,
he's kind of a nomad's he was on one of
the teams of the Future Stars that was playing in
the All Stars Saturday or also Sunday tournament from Saturday.
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So I would have chosen to go with the kiss method,
keep it simple, stupid, The NBA chose to crank it
up a couple of notches and they decided to bastardize
the All Star Game. It's lower in quality now. It's
been unwatchable for years, so it's just a different kind
of unwatchable. But Draymond is correct, Now, how did we
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end up here? Well, that's the part where Charles Barkley
enters the chat. Charles Barkley is also spot on. No
lies detected from Sir Charles, because it's Draymond Green's generation
of grab Ass and Huggy Huggy during the All Star
Game that created the mess that we have today now.
To be fair in all sports, the All Star Game sucks.
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One thing's changed in my lifetime. Used to be a
highlight of the year to see all the great players
united together, and it was wonderful. Now it blows. But
in the NBA game in particular, and there's different theories
the AAU tournament. All these guys know each other from
the time they're first tag for greatness, and they all
hang out together at the same tournaments and travel the
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same circuit and so they all know each other. So
they don't really have any competition with any of these
people because they're all buddy buddy and they're all filthy
rich in the NBA. But what has happened to the
bug ridden NBA All Star Game? It has affected all
of the All Stars right. The contaminations is widespread contamination.
It's highly infectious. And the headliners, they make so much
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money in the professional ranks that they cannot be troubled
to provide a proper night of effort and focus and
have that competitive spirit. They just can't. And this is
a result. You play stupid games and win stupid prizes.
So in a perfect world for me, it will never
likely happen this way. But you go back old school
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style where I first when I love watching basketball, when
I was younger, back in my day, it was East
versus West. It's going to shock you. What I'm about
to say is a boomer take East versus West teams
wearing their home uniforms, meaning that if you weigh wear
a Celtic uniform, you're wearing your Celtic uniform during the
All Star Game or a Sixers or Bowls or Sons
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or whoever you got your home uniform on. And that's it.
And then the Shenanigans and you actually put some effort
into that, and that's too much to ask. It's way
too much asking, all right now, Page two to the
trade that still has legs. The trade that still have legs.
A few weeks after the Dallas Mavericks landed Luca and
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traded him, they said, we're gonna trade Luca. We're gonna
land him in La They traded him to the Lakers
on a silver platter. The Commissioner over the weekend addressed
the chatter. Adam Silver over the weekend, shooting down the
widespread conspiracy theories that the Mavericks decision to give away
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Luca hold on a Signey put, this decision to give
away Luka to the to the Lakers is to move
the franchise to Las Vegas. Right. The people that own
the Mavericks now are gambling people. They thought they were
going to get a law passed in Texas to allow
sports wagering and casinos, and they wanted to build an
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areno at the casino and all that stuff. But Adam
Silver's shooting down that conspiracy theory that the Luca trade
was to upset the fan base so much so they
could relocate the franchise to Vegas. Does this end the storyline?
So I'm shaking my head. No, not by a long shot.
And my response is the hotel pitchman. My response is
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the hotel pitchman here, Captain obvious. Remember those commercials from
years ago, Captain Obvious, what did you expect, Adam Silver? Si?
Can you imagine if the commissioner had gotten up there
and said, but by the way, yeah, we absolutely, we
hope the franchise will move to Las Vegas. We want
to leave Dallas and we want to go to Vegas
because of the gambling money in Vegas. Of course, he's
not going to say that. You can't admit that. He
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would never admit that there's something that just doesn't smell
right about the whole situation, no matter what Adam Silver says.
And the fact that Adam Silver gave his blessing here
on the trade, which makes you believe that Adam Silver,
the commissioner of the NBA, either orchestrated that Luca ends
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up with the Lakers. The heist is allowed, or either
orchestrated or allowed it to happen. But either way, he's
the commissioner of the NBA, and this is a conspiracy theory.
Unlike the NFL's fixing games for the Chiefs. This is
one I can get behind. Either Adam Silver, the NBA
is like, well, listen, we got to get a bigger
start Lebron's hold. We need the Lakers to have a
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star at all times. That's the way we've done business
for the past fifty years in the NBA. So we've
got to keep that streak going. And we've got to
make sure we get a star with the Lakers. And
so we'll have Luca go there and TV you'll be happy.
Either that or the Mavericks want to relocate to Las Vegas.
But back when the NBA had a commission with hair
on his chain, and back when they had a man
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that wasn't from somewhere else out in the cosmos in
the Milky Way as commissioner, a real commissioner in the
late David Stern. That was when Commissioner Stern stepped in
and vetoed lopsided trades, at least one in particular, that
Chris Paul trade. He put his foot down, said, no, Moss,
Chris Paul, you're not getting traded. That's a giveaway trade.
You're not going to the Lakers now. Silver never, it
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says he never considered such a move claim that they
they have the power to do that, even though it
has happened in the past. Now, as far as the
idea that the Mavericks would would never be allowed to
relocate to Nevada, of course, the Maps have admitted they've
They've never or at least they say they never shopped
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Luke around. They only wanted to give him the Lakers.
It's not trade. A trade is when you see what
the item is worth, you put it up forbid at
an auction, even if it's a silent auction, and see
what you can get, and then you give the item
to the highest bidder. That was not what happened. But
the idea that the NBA would not ever allow a
team leaving a bigger market for a smaller market is fugazi.
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And here's why. It has happened in other sports multiple
times in recent years and over the last like thirty
five years, it's happened many times. There were teams that
left Los Angeles in the NFL for smaller markets, mainly
the Rams who left for Saint Louis years ago, and
then they came back to LA. The Raiders left LA
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went to Oakland. They then left Oakland a bigger market,
the San Francisco Bay Area for Las Vegas, a smaller market.
The Athletics and Major League Baseball have also done that
as they went to a smaller TV market. The San
Francisco Bay Area market number six in the United States
and the city of Las Vegas market number believe it's
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number forty two now Dallas is the fifth biggest media
market in the United States. So you'd move from number
five to number forty two, but you'd make for that
in gambling revenue. And don't be naive to think that
that will not be allowed to happen right now. Final point,
as the All Star festivities continue to fill at Delphia,
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we go some social media posts going viral. Several of
you sent me this over the weekend as the All
Star Game played out in San Francisco. A non All
Star star, A fledgling podcaster, Paul George, Bye George, Bye
Bye George, Paul George of your Philadelphia seventy six ers.
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When viral, his wife did posting photos on the social
media of a nice tropical All Star break vacation. So
Paul George's wife posting photos of the All Star tropical
beachside vacation is blank. So my word is obtuse. My
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word is ubtuse. The look it up bt usc up too.
I look at this. I'm so glad he's not a clipper.
Thank god I get rid of that guy. But it's
like the Wizard of Owz, like Paul George the Scarecrow.
If I only had a brain, If I only had
a brain, that's the amazing thing. Like I would be
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so embarrassed if I was Paul George, the guy scored
two points in a game for Philly before the All
Star Break against a dog food team, the Brooklyn Nets,
I would be posting photos of anything. I'd be posting
photos of me taking jump shots in an empty gymnasium
somewhere in the Delaware Valley. But no, Paul George is
out there with his beautiful stripper wife there, I believe,
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on the beach there, somewhere in a tropical location. You'd
think he would be cognizant of how bad that looks.
And even if his wife's posting photos, maybe not be
in the photos. Say hey, let's do me a solid
on that. I don't need to be in those those photos.
But instead instead of putting up jump shots. He was
putting on suntan lotion at the each and then did
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not lock himself in the gym. Instead of holding a basketball,
he was holding a margarita and it would appear in
his hands. And so there you go. All right, it
is the Ben Mahlor Show. If you would like to
be part of you can, Jeorge, what did you think?
Did you like the new All Star format? Did you watch?
Did you consume any of it? Or did you stare
at a wall, a blank wall and just not worry
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at all about any of that? Eight seven seven ninety
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at Ben Mahllor pulling out all of the stops, pulling
out all those stops. Fact, the NBA went full beast mode,
which upset many people, full beast mode at the All
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Star Game. We'll explain it with that's all about, we'll
get to it.
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now back to the nonsense. Well's actually it's back to
the to the Ben. My show were talking about the
NBA All Star Game, which was not an All Star game.
It was a round robin tournament. The NBAL Star Game
bastardized as they desperately attempt to keep people watching and
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try to save it. You know, it's not good. I
mentioned this on my podcast The Fifth Hour, which Bill
Miller just mentioned over the weekend. The story that happened,
I think it was on Friday that Adam Silver and
then the head of the NBA's players Association had to
have a come to Jesus meeting with the star players
to say, hey, we kind of need you to try
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a little bit.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Thank you Jesus.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, I mean you kind of embarrassed us. It's really
not good. Nobody wants to watch this direct that you've
been putting out in the court the last couple of years.
So signs your business is not going that well when
you have to convince your employees to actually take your
event seriously. But that's where the NBA finds itself at
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the All Star Game here in twenty twenty five, begging
the employees to put an effort out on the court,
which does not seem like a great way to do business.
But what the heck, why not just go for it?
Just go for Jordan writes in He says, the NBA
blows talk about Ryan Priest doing a backflip in the
Daytona five hundred instead, did I miss the boat that
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I've led with the daytone of five hundred? Did I
miss out on this? Bugge bugg bugg bugg bugg bugger
a supermarket? Steve Wrights and says Adam Silver isn't worried
about the owners of the Mavericks. He's worried about that
his assistant Darryl Armstrong, who assaulted someone with a gun. Well,
it was accused of assaulting someone with the gun. Whether
or not the charges hole will find out. But he
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spent his All Star weekend in jail. Fergdog says, do
not be ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Man.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Nobody would rather stare at a wall than watch the
NBA All Star Game. If you had said watch paint
try or a pot boil, now that I would believe that.
I would believe. There you go. Shanon Mooy says, if
Kelly and I fly to l A, the three of
you and the two of us would be an all
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wedding party. All the wedding party we need about that.
Kelly wants Coop to be her witness made of honor,
and I want Loraina to be my witness best man
with Big Man as our officiant. There you go, Iowa,
Sam and Eddie are welcome to this. Does that mean
I get to wear a suit a suit? I don't, Well,
it's their wedding. Get to be the best man. You're
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the best, You're the best man, witness, well, witness best man.
All right, so I wear the suit and you wear
the dress.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Coop.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yeah, that's sure. Why not where we get married at?
What are we looking at? Like? We can't go to
the palace? Is anywhere? That burned up? The La Fire Department,
the city of La could not keep the fire down.
I can't go there. I have to find a spot
to go to. Well, that's an interesting idea. I like
the the Malord show them wedding though, where we have
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all the listeners meet in des Moine and we have
the blind table, we have the drunk table. I think
that would be dinner table, right, that would be a fun,
fun event. Well, I beat the head table, you know,
I'd writing I would be near the briden groom. I
would be near the cake.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
I think you should be right in the middle of
the bride and groom because you brought them together.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Are they blue in the middle cheese? No, No, not
at all. I would I would feel awkward in between
these two lovebirds. But maybe change on your lap. No, no,
not at all. Know how dare you? But we'll bring now.
I have done a wedding before. We in Minnesota. We
did a full wedding between Doc Mike and Regina, and
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that was quite the event there at the Mermaid in Minnesota.
So this is not this is although I don't think
they actually got married. This would be more of a
legitimate marriage situation. Terry in England rights and he says,
I don't have any interest in the no ball action
children's game band any football going on. Maybe a J
Brown bouncy ball is coma inducing terry in England, says
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g Man. In Chicago, rights and says, I can't believe
the NBA allows players to sit out an All Star game.
A slap in the face to their fans again on
the court and make me money clowns. Benito, long stuffering
cowboy fan says the All Star Game was, in one word,
ass is. When Benito says of the All Star Game,
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all right, random Ryan in Carolina says, Bill, I was
tied to my television watching cars driving in Central Florida.
I'm unaware of basketball happenings. Did the NBA do a
flag football version of the All Star Game this evening? Yeah,
well in a flag football thing, but it was it
was not great. Now a bunch of people upset with
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the NBA because they you know, things are not going well,
when you have to beg your players to participate. They
also went to mister Beast. They turned to mister Beast's
beast at the All Star Game, the All Star Mister
Beast Challenge. Did you see this? Yeah, a lot of
people were up in arms over this. What was the challenge?
They had to eat as many chocolate bars of his
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that they could No, no, no, no no. But the
NBA marketing people trying to get those influencers out, you know,
because they the NBA is convinced that social media is
real and it's not. I'm of the mindset. Maybe I'm wrong,
maybe they're right, but I'm of the mindset it's more
like the matrix. You take the blue pill, you take
the red pill. Which one do you take? I don't.
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I think a lot of it is manipulation and whatnot.
But nonetheless, the NBA is all in on their social media.
So they had the YouTuber Mister Beast hosted in on
court shooting contest in between the round robin All Star games.
And this is after Team Chuck beat Team Smith at
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be Kenny Smith in the first game of the four
team round robin All Star tournament. There, mister Beast came
out and one fan and Dame Lillard side by side.
There it was the Mister Beast Challenge, one hundred thousand
dollars challenge for the fan to make a three point
shot from the logo before Lillard made three shots from
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the same spot and this went on. Now the fan
actually did hit a shot and he won one hundred
thousand dollars. It took about it was a little over
six minutes by the time. Yeah, so one hundred thousand
and many people were like what are they doing here? Like,
what is what is going on here watching Mister Beast
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at the All Star Game. I'm not I guess he's
very popular. I don't know. Are you a big Mister
Beast fan there, Lorena? Do you love the Mister best?
Speaker 5 (25:35):
I wouldn't say I love him.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I don't know him, but I do like what he
does with his money, do you. I think he's very
generous and does okay. So he promotes his charity, which
I think right off the top. If that's the case,
I do not like that because charity should not be promoted.
You should do charity without promoting it. But he does
do charity with his own money. But if you promote it.
You're doing it for promotion, so people like you will say, hey,
I like, what did you see it as like spreading kindness?
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And no, I see it. I see this aritable marketing.
As This is one of Ben's worst takes. Now that's
one of my all time great takes because I was
raised properly. If you do charity, you do charity for
the charity, not to promote yourself doing the charity.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Yes, if there's someone that promotes charity to give more
to charity, balter, he doesn't present himself and then he
doesn't make more money.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Could not be more wrong. Coop Listen, It's like when
you go to a grocery store. You don't need to
check out this. Would you like to donate two dollars
to charity or around up?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
No?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
No, of course not, because you do it on your own.
You don't need to give them the money to donate
your money for them to charity. If you want to
donate money to charity, do it yourself. But you don't
do it for promotion. If you do it for promotion,
you're a bad person. So mister Beast is a bad person.
Boom awful take. Agree, But I hear you. No, no, listen.
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If you do charity, do it, that's fine, that's great,
but don't do it for promotion. The moment you do
it for promotion, you're cheapening the act of charity. It
is ridiculous. It is tough. You shouldn't know about it. Listen,
not get there now. Ben would rather the people not
get there.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
You know their blindness, you know corrected, and he would
just rather than not get the money at all.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Here's why listen, listen. I look at guys like Russell.
Give example, Russell Wilson shows up to Children's hospital like
every month with a makeup person, a camera crew, a
sound guy, and idiots are like, oh, it's so great.
He shows up with a full team of people to
record everything because it's social media, is trying to get
attention to make himself look good. If you show up
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without all those people, I respect you. If you just
do it. We found out, ill give an example. We
found out when Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash
right next to our studio, crash into a mountain. Dead.
We found out that he'd go to Children's hospital all
the time. Guess what without a camera crew, didn't announce it,
didn't post it on social media. We found out after
he was dead. We couldn't join him. No, no, no,
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it was the better way to do Agree, that's the
better way to do it. But it's better than not
doing it at all. Well, why do you have to
get publicity for it? That's the whole point, because some
people are very look at me, That's why. That's what
I'm saying. It's ridiculous as I don't support that. I
agree with you, but I don't think it negates the charity.
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It does. If you're doing it for attention, it negates
the charity. It absolutely does. You're making it all about you.
It's not about it. If you're if you're willing to
give back and donate money, that's fine, that's great, But
you shouldn't do it for publicity. And according to you,
lean mister beast does it for publicity because you know
about it. But he is an influencer though, so I
expect it exactly. Its influencing. Well, he has a lot
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of followers. Are they real? How many of them are real?
Let me go look up his follower How many of
them they are actually legitimate?
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Probably a lot?
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Yeah, I mean, he's the most followed person on YouTube
besides Gomez.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Ok. But how much of that is like, how does
that transit? You think the All Star Game ratings went
up because mister Beast was there? Does that he has
sixty six point one million? Okay? And ayea, but do
you think that that audience, if that's real, then people
should have tuned in to watch the All Star Game
because he was going to be there.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
You think, I don't think there's a lot of crossover
between NBA fans and mister Beast fans.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Well, yeah, that's my point.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
The other thing about this, and I've had many talks
with friends of mine in the radio business and people
in television over the years, like the whole the social
media thing is a fascinating a dynamic. I've been very
fortunate over the years. I've gone out met listeners at
different events in different states, around the country and all
over the place, and what I see is totally different
than social media. And now maybe that's just this show
and the audience for this show, and it's not a
(29:34):
great reference point, but I look at it like the
NBA was bragging about how much social media interaction they had,
They claimed All Stars Saturday night, they were bragging about
their engagement. They were flexing over the weekend, said Friday
and Saturday night, they had one billion views up seventeen
(29:54):
percent according to the NBA, across all platforms on all accounts.
What does that mean? Just not the engage exactly one
billion views they say does not include engagement on non
league accounts. But my point is, like people get upset
with me a lot. I'm not on social media much
during the day. I use it during the show. It's
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a tool for the show because I don't get paid
to do social media. Like I don't make any money
off social media. I'm not an influence or anything like that.
Like I get paid to do a show at Fox
Sports Radio. I got paid by NBC to do a
TV show for NBC. I that's that's Those are my employers.
Like to me, there's no correlation. Like people even people
will look at clips online. I to me, they're not
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supporting your business because the NBA doesn't make money. They
don't make any real money off social media. The revenue
streams for the NBA are television advertising and in arena advertising,
and those are the agreements of the deals they have
with Nike and other businesses, and so to me, there's
no correlation between that and social media. I don't think
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there is. The NBA loves to brag about it, but
they ultimately get paid based on how many people are
watching their product on TV and all these other leagues
as well. It's like, you know, it's great to have
a bunch of people watch clips on TikTok or whatever,
but that those aren't going to pay your bills. That's
my argument. So anyway, well that was a long range.
That was a very long rate. Let's go to the
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phones and we'll say hello to eeny meenie miney mo.
Let's go to real talk. Who's in New York? Get
that dump button ready, it's President's Day. Hello, Real Talk.
Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom m
did Real Talk fall asleep? I don't hear Real Talk.
Oh you know, I think line too might be broken.
(31:41):
It's line too. Hold, there he is there, I think
I hear about Well, there he is line two. I
I panicked there for a second. Real Talk now I
think it was faint.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Yeah, what's up? How you doing? Ben Man? What's up?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I'm celebrating our great presidency here. What a wonderful day,
and you got the crew all with you.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Ben.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
What's something? That's what's something?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
You know?
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Ben? I feel like I owe you an apology because
like last week on the podcast, you seem like you
were upset with me because you know, I get dumped,
not knaughty words, but like, dude, you know, if that
makes you upset, I can always stop doing that. You
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
If you get well, I'd like you to change it up.
How about like every once in a while you mix
in because I have figured out real talk your formula.
I have figured out your Your formula is you call
up and you do a bit. And I do like
the fact that you're prepared. I like the fact that
you prepare for the call. You have material, you have shtick.
That's a good thing, right, But it's always you do
(32:46):
the bit and then at some point you run out
of material and then you drop an F word or
a C word or f FM word. It's like.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
No, no, you know everything. You know, Like I like
to kind of use bad words because I think it's funny,
and it's funny right here on the podcast. But Ben
I can always push up my style. But you may
not know this, but I am an educated, collegiate gentleman,
and I can always adapt to the situation.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
I understand. You're like you're like a chameleon. You can
adapt to your environment.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Yes, something like that, you know. But Ben, like, I
got to get into something. I really got to talk
about something because I don't know what it is. But
Lorena has got all my bells and whistles buzzing and popping.
I mean, I don't know what it is. I was
looking at pictures of Lorena on the website, and like,
Loraina gives this like I think there's two sides of Lorraine.
Like one minute, she gives off this like cute and
it's in ninive side. But like when I look at her,
(33:41):
there's something super sexy and sensual about Lorraine. I just
can't put my finger on that. And you know, I
could be right, I could be wrong. But then there's
only one real way to find out what Lorraine is
all about, Okay, and that's with a quick round of ben.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Okay, all right, people, President's Day addition, All right, here
we go. This is exciting. Here are you ready, Lorena, man,
We're gonna learn all about Loraino. You have to play well,
you don't have to every one.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Let's let's let's first respect the lady Lorena. You do
not have to do it. If you don't want to
do it, it won't be too nassy. But I'm just
trying to get into it, get to know you better
if you're down, So if you want, let's do it.
If not, we'll just move on to the next thing.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
All right, consent today, all right, here we go. We're
gonna have some fun here.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
All right now, Ben, you now, Ben, this is your
show and he's the boss. So I would never make
you answer questions about Lorena. I wouldn't want you to comfortable,
but I have no problem. I'd ask you questions. It's
like it's like I want you looking at Lorena while
you answer the question. So are you what you for?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
A quick round of all right? This is exciting everyone.
Turn up the radio a little bit.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Here a and I'm staring directly at her, but it's
making me uncomfortable.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
So question number one. So my wife, she's really into PDA.
She loves like kissing me and holding me and hugged me.
I think Lorena is like super into pedia, justin, but
what what do you think You think Lorena is kissing
hugging out outside doors or she's more inside the door
kind of holding and touching kind of girl.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
I think she is into out out in public.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
Nothing nothing crazy like she's not she's not like making
out in public, but she's you know, she's doing uh
you know, holding hair?
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Yeah, all about that?
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Okay, Lorena, you're the PDAs.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Oh she's a buzzer.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
No, oh, come on, you hands with my boyfriend in
public because there's too many one might see it. Whoa, Okay,
So about the time that we went to Vegas and you,
oh and you were holding locking arms with maybe all right,
all right, all right, you have to be honest here, Lorena.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Short on top. Please we must move on next question. Please.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Oh yeah, dude, Lorena has like the prettiest lift. I
would swear Lona is a great kisser. But if that's
not the case, it's okay, okay, okay. Some women, some
women like them, some women just tolerate them for the men,
and some women's thinkings are completely off the table. Justin.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Wow, this is hr violation. That's not too crazy, that's crazy,
pretty wild here, spankings right, No, no, I think he meant.
I don't know. I can't, I can't tapping out, he's
(36:45):
tapping out on that. Now we're going into dangerous territory
to break Lorena.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
I've seen you and gee, you're you're definitely got you
definitely got a b BL.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Yeah, he's I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Oh, that's it is that it? That's all all right,
Real Talk saved by the bell. Unfortunately Real Talk did
not get the curse. But call back next time, Real Talk,
so you can drop a bad word there. It is okay,
and that's Benny and the people. All right, de very
good time. Now for the who Am I?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Game?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Stephen Curry is the oldest guard in NBA history With
All Star Game MVP. Curry is also the second oldest
player ever win the award. I am still the oldest
to win All Star Game MVP honors. Who Am I?
The answer? We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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Here's the who am I?
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Game?
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Steph Curry the oldest guard in NBA history to win
an All Star Game if you want to call it
that what That bastardized event was on Sunday in San Francisco.
Curry also the second oldest player ever to win the
All Star Game MVP honors. I am still the oldest
player to win All Star Game MVP. Who am I?
(38:37):
That is the question? What is the answer? And Grandpa
Buff the b twenty nine guests by Big Greg in Iowa,
mister nice guy going with the Minnesota twin legend Roy
Smalley who who was actually smally? Who else do we have?
Paris Hilton who was forty four today from Late Night
drug tester that Maverick distant coach Guest by Robbie the
(39:02):
Mariner Fan Andy in Line o' Lakes, going with Bill
Cosby as his answer. B J and the Bear from
Alf the Alien Opiner Captain Planet guest by King Rory Washington,
Husky Legend Sonny A six Killer from Spacoli in Chapel Hill,
North Carolina, home of Bill Belichick, Bill, Bob Cosby, Coosy
(39:24):
Pop Cooozy from Eke. He's for me to say? In Roseville, Minnesota,
I forty in going with Sister Jean as her answer.
Charity Historian. I guess by Kramer aka Terry in England.
Who else do we have? Page down stuck in Sacramentos
as the oldest is Joe, catch me if I fall?
(39:46):
Biden one hundred and five years young the there you go.
That's from the man from Sacramento as he likes to call.
Who else? Larry Wilkins from War Eagle that's his answer.
Ozzie was going with Michael Jordan. Paul d got it right.
He obviously cheated Del Curry guessed by Lawson Preler is
(40:07):
going with Darryl Armstrong, who had a big weekend. They're
the Maverick assistant coach who was popped there in jail,
john going with Magic Johnson the mail Man, Karl Malone
from Johnny Q former talk show host here in La
back in the day, many years ago. Let's see here
the main events guest by Rob in Vegas, Samaki Walker
(40:32):
from Malibu, Rubin that's his answer, and Lorraine, Ah, do
you have an answer?
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Lorrainer, Yes, Ben, I'm somewhere between Shack and Lebron James.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Okay, well, only one answer, so we're gonna go with
Lebron James, which is wrong. The correct answer is Shaquill o'deal.
You should have gone with Shaquille O'Neil. Bad job by you. No, No,
you are with two. You can't. If you go with
two answers, you only get one. And I was the
wrong one. But Curry is the second oldest, and it's
only by one week, one week Shack one week at
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the time they won the award. Shack did it exactly
one week older than Stephen Curry of the Golden State Wars.
But no, maontter how many minutes they actually played. They
played until forty minutes. It was not enjoyable. Now, I
did it because I got paid to watch it. But
if I wasn't getting paid to watch it. I would
not have watched the All Star game at all.
Here we go. Welcome, It's our naber one on the
seventeenth day of February. Happy President's Day. Yeah, we're doing
this show. We'll do it live. We'll do it live
on President's Day. And there were six presidents that were
named James, Madison, Monroe, Polk, Buchanan, Garfield, and Carter. There's
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my presidential fun fact of the hour. But here an
hour number one. It's all about the All Star brew Haha.
Draymond Green says the All Star Game format on a
scale of one to ten is a zero. He did
this while broadcasting the All Star Game. Well, Charles Barkley says,
they're doing this because of Draymond's generation. You make the call.
(00:45):
Whose side are you on? Will Adam Silver recently shot
down conspiracy theories around the Mavericks decision to give away
Luka Doncik in order to relocate the franchise to Vegas.
Does that end the storyline? And seventy six er star
Paul George went viral as his wife posted photos from
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PG thirteen's tropical All Start Break vacation. That is blank,
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it's our number one. A starry night kind of welcome
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he would not have to and our lead this hours
from San Francisco. That was the scene of a starry night.
The NBA's mid It's not Midsummer Midwinter Classic, the All
Star Game or whatever that was this round robin. It
was like an AAU tournament, but it was all Stars.
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We do you watch any of this? Were you captivated
by the All Star Game? They played a mini tournament
between four teams. This is to avoid anyone scoring two
hundred points in the All Star Game. Just cap each
team at forty points first to forty and that's it.
But if you did not watch, and you probably didn't,
(03:08):
perhaps you missed it. They had comedian Kevin Hart was
the MC of the event. And you know, you need
a stand up comedian to host your All Star Game
because you don't have big enough stars to carry the event.
And we found out a few hours before the game
that the event was not worthy of Lebron James Lebron
deciding to tap out of the All Star Game, ending
(03:32):
a twenty year streak of All Star performances. Coop has arrived.
By the way, Steph Curry. Steph Curry took home the
Kobe Bryant All Star NVP honors. Who yes, he had
a way listen. It was in the Bay Area. You
got to give the local guy the All Star Game MVP.
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A twenty year streak of an All Star Game. Steph Grez,
I've been twenty years, but he's been there a lot
most of the last twenty years. And Steph Curry was
a Team Shack, the ogs of Team Shack. They called
me a team shack O G's beat Team Chuck. That
would be Charles Barkley in the final of the first
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of forty first of forty point tournament in the All
Star Game. Now for me and I watched this, I
was not captivated. This is not really for me. I'm
not sure who this was for. I don't really know.
It certainly wasn't for me, But I did enjoy the
back and forth with Draymond Green, who was not playing
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in the All Star Game, was not selected to the
All Star Team. But Draymond Green was working the studio
set for TNT and he was asked on a scale
of one to ten how much he liked the new
format of the All Star Game, and he responded with
a zero as his response. He had thought it was
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a zero. That was it. Now Charles Barkley, who was coaching,
as we mentioned, and also commentating the game that he
did not coach in. Charles Barkley responding to Raymond Green,
and he said, the reason the NBA is doing what
they're doing to the All Star Game is because of
Raymond Green's generation of players in the NBA that have
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destroyed the All Star Game. So that was Barkley's response.
Some saucy commentary. The commentary more worthy of conversation than
the game itself. That is the NBA All Star experience
in a nutshell. So let us discuss the question. We'll
go back and forth here. Draymond Green again. Draymond Green
was asked on a scale of one to ten what
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he thought of the new All Star format while plausibly
being paid to commentate on the All Star Game, and
Draymond said it was a zero, while Charles Barkley, who
was being paid to participate as a sham coach in
said All Star Game, says that the reason they're doing
this is because of Draymond Green's generation. You make the call,
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whose side are you on? Whose side are you on?
So I've got bastardized hotel, Pitchman and Wizard of Oz
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice night taking a nap.
That's what we're gonna make because there's not much going on.
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Let's you like college basketball, not much going on. Like
it's a little hockey. Get a little hockey, all right.
So again, I've got bastardized hotel, Pitchman and Wizard of
Oz and we'll combine all these things together. So num burn,
I said, Na Burn, My answer is, am I gonna
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go a Draymond Green or B Charles Barkley. My answers
actually see all the above. I'm gonna go see all
no lies detected. The All Star Game round robin tournament
was capitol l lame, capital l lame. It just was right.
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And when your customers, the most passionate people for your business,
your product, have to google the rules on what the
f is going on, you've done something wrong. And Draymond
was complaining about the fact that the team from the
Saturday Rookie or Young Stars of the Amba, whatever they're
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calling it, got to participate because they needed a fourth team.
They had to get a fourth team in there. So
like Dalton Connect of the Lakers who was traded to
the Hornets and then he came back to the Lakers,
he's kind of a nomad's he was on one of
the teams of the Future Stars that was playing in
the All Stars Saturday or also Sunday tournament from Saturday.
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So I would have chosen to go with the kiss method,
keep it simple, stupid, The NBA chose to crank it
up a couple of notches and they decided to bastardize
the All Star Game. It's lower in quality now. It's
been unwatchable for years, so it's just a different kind
of unwatchable. But Draymond is correct, Now, how did we
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end up here? Well, that's the part where Charles Barkley
enters the chat. Charles Barkley is also spot on. No
lies detected from Sir Charles, because it's Draymond Green's generation
of grab Ass and Huggy Huggy during the All Star
Game that created the mess that we have today now.
To be fair in all sports, the All Star Game sucks.
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One thing's changed in my lifetime. Used to be a
highlight of the year to see all the great players
united together, and it was wonderful. Now it blows. But
in the NBA game in particular, and there's different theories
the AAU tournament. All these guys know each other from
the time they're first tag for greatness, and they all
hang out together at the same tournaments and travel the
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same circuit and so they all know each other. So
they don't really have any competition with any of these
people because they're all buddy buddy and they're all filthy
rich in the NBA. But what has happened to the
bug ridden NBA All Star Game? It has affected all
of the All Stars right. The contaminations is widespread contamination.
It's highly infectious. And the headliners, they make so much
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money in the professional ranks that they cannot be troubled
to provide a proper night of effort and focus and
have that competitive spirit. They just can't. And this is
a result. You play stupid games and win stupid prizes.
So in a perfect world for me, it will never
likely happen this way. But you go back old school
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style where I first when I love watching basketball, when
I was younger, back in my day, it was East
versus West. It's going to shock you. What I'm about
to say is a boomer take East versus West teams
wearing their home uniforms, meaning that if you weigh wear
a Celtic uniform, you're wearing your Celtic uniform during the
All Star Game or a Sixers or Bowls or Sons
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or whoever you got your home uniform on. And that's it.
And then the Shenanigans and you actually put some effort
into that, and that's too much to ask. It's way
too much asking, all right now, Page two to the
trade that still has legs. The trade that still have legs.
A few weeks after the Dallas Mavericks landed Luca and
(10:30):
traded him, they said, we're gonna trade Luca. We're gonna
land him in La They traded him to the Lakers
on a silver platter. The Commissioner over the weekend addressed
the chatter. Adam Silver over the weekend, shooting down the
widespread conspiracy theories that the Mavericks decision to give away
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Luca hold on a Signey put, this decision to give
away Luka to the to the Lakers is to move
the franchise to Las Vegas. Right. The people that own
the Mavericks now are gambling people. They thought they were
going to get a law passed in Texas to allow
sports wagering and casinos, and they wanted to build an
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areno at the casino and all that stuff. But Adam
Silver's shooting down that conspiracy theory that the Luca trade
was to upset the fan base so much so they
could relocate the franchise to Vegas. Does this end the storyline?
So I'm shaking my head. No, not by a long shot.
And my response is the hotel pitchman. My response is
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the hotel pitchman here, Captain obvious. Remember those commercials from
years ago, Captain Obvious, what did you expect, Adam Silver? Si?
Can you imagine if the commissioner had gotten up there
and said, but by the way, yeah, we absolutely, we
hope the franchise will move to Las Vegas. We want
to leave Dallas and we want to go to Vegas
because of the gambling money in Vegas. Of course, he's
not going to say that. You can't admit that. He
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would never admit that there's something that just doesn't smell
right about the whole situation, no matter what Adam Silver says.
And the fact that Adam Silver gave his blessing here
on the trade, which makes you believe that Adam Silver,
the commissioner of the NBA, either orchestrated that Luca ends
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up with the Lakers. The heist is allowed, or either
orchestrated or allowed it to happen. But either way, he's
the commissioner of the NBA, and this is a conspiracy theory.
Unlike the NFL's fixing games for the Chiefs. This is
one I can get behind. Either Adam Silver, the NBA
is like, well, listen, we got to get a bigger
start Lebron's hold. We need the Lakers to have a
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star at all times. That's the way we've done business
for the past fifty years in the NBA. So we've
got to keep that streak going. And we've got to
make sure we get a star with the Lakers. And
so we'll have Luca go there and TV you'll be happy.
Either that or the Mavericks want to relocate to Las Vegas.
But back when the NBA had a commission with hair
on his chain, and back when they had a man
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that wasn't from somewhere else out in the cosmos in
the Milky Way as commissioner, a real commissioner in the
late David Stern. That was when Commissioner Stern stepped in
and vetoed lopsided trades, at least one in particular, that
Chris Paul trade. He put his foot down, said, no, Moss,
Chris Paul, you're not getting traded. That's a giveaway trade.
You're not going to the Lakers now. Silver never, it
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says he never considered such a move claim that they
they have the power to do that, even though it
has happened in the past. Now, as far as the
idea that the Mavericks would would never be allowed to
relocate to Nevada, of course, the Maps have admitted they've
They've never or at least they say they never shopped
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Luke around. They only wanted to give him the Lakers.
It's not trade. A trade is when you see what
the item is worth, you put it up forbid at
an auction, even if it's a silent auction, and see
what you can get, and then you give the item
to the highest bidder. That was not what happened. But
the idea that the NBA would not ever allow a
team leaving a bigger market for a smaller market is fugazi.
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And here's why. It has happened in other sports multiple
times in recent years and over the last like thirty
five years, it's happened many times. There were teams that
left Los Angeles in the NFL for smaller markets, mainly
the Rams who left for Saint Louis years ago, and
then they came back to LA. The Raiders left LA
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went to Oakland. They then left Oakland a bigger market,
the San Francisco Bay Area for Las Vegas, a smaller market.
The Athletics and Major League Baseball have also done that
as they went to a smaller TV market. The San
Francisco Bay Area market number six in the United States
and the city of Las Vegas market number believe it's
(14:49):
number forty two now Dallas is the fifth biggest media
market in the United States. So you'd move from number
five to number forty two, but you'd make for that
in gambling revenue. And don't be naive to think that
that will not be allowed to happen right now. Final point,
as the All Star festivities continue to fill at Delphia,
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we go some social media posts going viral. Several of
you sent me this over the weekend as the All
Star Game played out in San Francisco. A non All
Star star, A fledgling podcaster, Paul George, Bye George, Bye
Bye George, Paul George of your Philadelphia seventy six ers.
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When viral, his wife did posting photos on the social
media of a nice tropical All Star break vacation. So
Paul George's wife posting photos of the All Star tropical
beachside vacation is blank. So my word is obtuse. My
(15:54):
word is ubtuse. The look it up bt usc up too.
I look at this. I'm so glad he's not a clipper.
Thank god I get rid of that guy. But it's
like the Wizard of Owz, like Paul George the Scarecrow.
If I only had a brain, If I only had
a brain, that's the amazing thing. Like I would be
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so embarrassed if I was Paul George, the guy scored
two points in a game for Philly before the All
Star Break against a dog food team, the Brooklyn Nets,
I would be posting photos of anything. I'd be posting
photos of me taking jump shots in an empty gymnasium
somewhere in the Delaware Valley. But no, Paul George is
out there with his beautiful stripper wife there, I believe,
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on the beach there, somewhere in a tropical location. You'd
think he would be cognizant of how bad that looks.
And even if his wife's posting photos, maybe not be
in the photos. Say hey, let's do me a solid
on that. I don't need to be in those those photos.
But instead instead of putting up jump shots. He was
putting on suntan lotion at the each and then did
(17:01):
not lock himself in the gym. Instead of holding a basketball,
he was holding a margarita and it would appear in
his hands. And so there you go. All right, it
is the Ben Mahlor Show. If you would like to
be part of you can, Jeorge, what did you think?
Did you like the new All Star format? Did you watch?
Did you consume any of it? Or did you stare
at a wall, a blank wall and just not worry
(17:21):
at all about any of that? Eight seven seven ninety
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at Ben Mahllor pulling out all of the stops, pulling
out all those stops. Fact, the NBA went full beast mode,
which upset many people, full beast mode at the All
(17:45):
Star Game. We'll explain it with that's all about, we'll
get to it.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
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now back to the nonsense. Well's actually it's back to
the to the Ben. My show were talking about the
NBA All Star Game, which was not an All Star game.
It was a round robin tournament. The NBAL Star Game
bastardized as they desperately attempt to keep people watching and
(19:05):
try to save it. You know, it's not good. I
mentioned this on my podcast The Fifth Hour, which Bill
Miller just mentioned over the weekend. The story that happened,
I think it was on Friday that Adam Silver and
then the head of the NBA's players Association had to
have a come to Jesus meeting with the star players
to say, hey, we kind of need you to try
(19:27):
a little bit.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Thank you Jesus.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, I mean you kind of embarrassed us. It's really
not good. Nobody wants to watch this direct that you've
been putting out in the court the last couple of years.
So signs your business is not going that well when
you have to convince your employees to actually take your
event seriously. But that's where the NBA finds itself at
(19:50):
the All Star Game here in twenty twenty five, begging
the employees to put an effort out on the court,
which does not seem like a great way to do business.
But what the heck, why not just go for it?
Just go for Jordan writes in He says, the NBA
blows talk about Ryan Priest doing a backflip in the
Daytona five hundred instead, did I miss the boat that
(20:14):
I've led with the daytone of five hundred? Did I
miss out on this? Bugge bugg bugg bugg bugg bugger
a supermarket? Steve Wrights and says Adam Silver isn't worried
about the owners of the Mavericks. He's worried about that
his assistant Darryl Armstrong, who assaulted someone with a gun. Well,
it was accused of assaulting someone with the gun. Whether
or not the charges hole will find out. But he
(20:37):
spent his All Star weekend in jail. Fergdog says, do
not be ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Man.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Nobody would rather stare at a wall than watch the
NBA All Star Game. If you had said watch paint
try or a pot boil, now that I would believe that.
I would believe. There you go. Shanon Mooy says, if
Kelly and I fly to l A, the three of
you and the two of us would be an all
(21:04):
wedding party. All the wedding party we need about that.
Kelly wants Coop to be her witness made of honor,
and I want Loraina to be my witness best man
with Big Man as our officiant. There you go, Iowa,
Sam and Eddie are welcome to this. Does that mean
I get to wear a suit a suit? I don't, Well,
it's their wedding. Get to be the best man. You're
(21:24):
the best, You're the best man, witness, well, witness best man.
All right, so I wear the suit and you wear
the dress.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Coop.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yeah, that's sure. Why not where we get married at?
What are we looking at? Like? We can't go to
the palace? Is anywhere? That burned up? The La Fire Department,
the city of La could not keep the fire down.
I can't go there. I have to find a spot
to go to. Well, that's an interesting idea. I like
the the Malord show them wedding though, where we have
(21:52):
all the listeners meet in des Moine and we have
the blind table, we have the drunk table. I think
that would be dinner table, right, that would be a fun,
fun event. Well, I beat the head table, you know,
I'd writing I would be near the briden groom. I
would be near the cake.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
I think you should be right in the middle of
the bride and groom because you brought them together.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Are they blue in the middle cheese? No, No, not
at all. I would I would feel awkward in between
these two lovebirds. But maybe change on your lap. No, no,
not at all. Know how dare you? But we'll bring now.
I have done a wedding before. We in Minnesota. We
did a full wedding between Doc Mike and Regina, and
(22:33):
that was quite the event there at the Mermaid in Minnesota.
So this is not this is although I don't think
they actually got married. This would be more of a
legitimate marriage situation. Terry in England rights and he says,
I don't have any interest in the no ball action
children's game band any football going on. Maybe a J
Brown bouncy ball is coma inducing terry in England, says
(22:56):
g Man. In Chicago, rights and says, I can't believe
the NBA allows players to sit out an All Star game.
A slap in the face to their fans again on
the court and make me money clowns. Benito, long stuffering
cowboy fan says the All Star Game was, in one word,
ass is. When Benito says of the All Star Game,
(23:18):
all right, random Ryan in Carolina says, Bill, I was
tied to my television watching cars driving in Central Florida.
I'm unaware of basketball happenings. Did the NBA do a
flag football version of the All Star Game this evening? Yeah,
well in a flag football thing, but it was it
was not great. Now a bunch of people upset with
(23:40):
the NBA because they you know, things are not going well,
when you have to beg your players to participate. They
also went to mister Beast. They turned to mister Beast's
beast at the All Star Game, the All Star Mister
Beast Challenge. Did you see this? Yeah, a lot of
people were up in arms over this. What was the challenge?
They had to eat as many chocolate bars of his
(24:02):
that they could No, no, no, no no. But the
NBA marketing people trying to get those influencers out, you know,
because they the NBA is convinced that social media is
real and it's not. I'm of the mindset. Maybe I'm wrong,
maybe they're right, but I'm of the mindset it's more
like the matrix. You take the blue pill, you take
the red pill. Which one do you take? I don't.
(24:23):
I think a lot of it is manipulation and whatnot.
But nonetheless, the NBA is all in on their social media.
So they had the YouTuber Mister Beast hosted in on
court shooting contest in between the round robin All Star games.
And this is after Team Chuck beat Team Smith at
(24:44):
be Kenny Smith in the first game of the four
team round robin All Star tournament. There, mister Beast came
out and one fan and Dame Lillard side by side.
There it was the Mister Beast Challenge, one hundred thousand
dollars challenge for the fan to make a three point
shot from the logo before Lillard made three shots from
(25:05):
the same spot and this went on. Now the fan
actually did hit a shot and he won one hundred
thousand dollars. It took about it was a little over
six minutes by the time. Yeah, so one hundred thousand
and many people were like what are they doing here? Like,
what is what is going on here watching Mister Beast
(25:28):
at the All Star Game. I'm not I guess he's
very popular. I don't know. Are you a big Mister
Beast fan there, Lorena? Do you love the Mister best?
Speaker 5 (25:35):
I wouldn't say I love him.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I don't know him, but I do like what he
does with his money, do you. I think he's very
generous and does okay. So he promotes his charity, which
I think right off the top. If that's the case,
I do not like that because charity should not be promoted.
You should do charity without promoting it. But he does
do charity with his own money. But if you promote it.
You're doing it for promotion, so people like you will say, hey,
I like, what did you see it as like spreading kindness?
(25:57):
And no, I see it. I see this aritable marketing.
As This is one of Ben's worst takes. Now that's
one of my all time great takes because I was
raised properly. If you do charity, you do charity for
the charity, not to promote yourself doing the charity.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Yes, if there's someone that promotes charity to give more
to charity, balter, he doesn't present himself and then he
doesn't make more money.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Could not be more wrong. Coop Listen, It's like when
you go to a grocery store. You don't need to
check out this. Would you like to donate two dollars
to charity or around up?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
No?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
No, of course not, because you do it on your own.
You don't need to give them the money to donate
your money for them to charity. If you want to
donate money to charity, do it yourself. But you don't
do it for promotion. If you do it for promotion,
you're a bad person. So mister Beast is a bad person.
Boom awful take. Agree, But I hear you. No, no, listen.
(26:47):
If you do charity, do it, that's fine, that's great,
but don't do it for promotion. The moment you do
it for promotion, you're cheapening the act of charity. It
is ridiculous. It is tough. You shouldn't know about it. Listen,
not get there now. Ben would rather the people not
get there.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
You know their blindness, you know corrected, and he would
just rather than not get the money at all.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Here's why listen, listen. I look at guys like Russell.
Give example, Russell Wilson shows up to Children's hospital like
every month with a makeup person, a camera crew, a
sound guy, and idiots are like, oh, it's so great.
He shows up with a full team of people to
record everything because it's social media, is trying to get
attention to make himself look good. If you show up
(27:32):
without all those people, I respect you. If you just
do it. We found out, ill give an example. We
found out when Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash
right next to our studio, crash into a mountain. Dead.
We found out that he'd go to Children's hospital all
the time. Guess what without a camera crew, didn't announce it,
didn't post it on social media. We found out after
he was dead. We couldn't join him. No, no, no,
(27:54):
it was the better way to do Agree, that's the
better way to do it. But it's better than not
doing it at all. Well, why do you have to
get publicity for it? That's the whole point, because some
people are very look at me, That's why. That's what
I'm saying. It's ridiculous as I don't support that. I
agree with you, but I don't think it negates the charity.
(28:15):
It does. If you're doing it for attention, it negates
the charity. It absolutely does. You're making it all about you.
It's not about it. If you're if you're willing to
give back and donate money, that's fine, that's great, But
you shouldn't do it for publicity. And according to you,
lean mister beast does it for publicity because you know
about it. But he is an influencer though, so I
expect it exactly. Its influencing. Well, he has a lot
(28:36):
of followers. Are they real? How many of them are real?
Let me go look up his follower How many of
them they are actually legitimate?
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Probably a lot?
Speaker 5 (28:43):
Yeah, I mean, he's the most followed person on YouTube
besides Gomez.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Ok. But how much of that is like, how does
that transit? You think the All Star Game ratings went
up because mister Beast was there? Does that he has
sixty six point one million? Okay? And ayea, but do
you think that that audience, if that's real, then people
should have tuned in to watch the All Star Game
because he was going to be there.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
You think, I don't think there's a lot of crossover
between NBA fans and mister Beast fans.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Well, yeah, that's my point.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
The other thing about this, and I've had many talks
with friends of mine in the radio business and people
in television over the years, like the whole the social
media thing is a fascinating a dynamic. I've been very
fortunate over the years. I've gone out met listeners at
different events in different states, around the country and all
over the place, and what I see is totally different
than social media. And now maybe that's just this show
and the audience for this show, and it's not a
(29:34):
great reference point, but I look at it like the
NBA was bragging about how much social media interaction they had,
They claimed All Stars Saturday night, they were bragging about
their engagement. They were flexing over the weekend, said Friday
and Saturday night, they had one billion views up seventeen
(29:54):
percent according to the NBA, across all platforms on all accounts.
What does that mean? Just not the engage exactly one
billion views they say does not include engagement on non
league accounts. But my point is, like people get upset
with me a lot. I'm not on social media much
during the day. I use it during the show. It's
(30:15):
a tool for the show because I don't get paid
to do social media. Like I don't make any money
off social media. I'm not an influence or anything like that.
Like I get paid to do a show at Fox
Sports Radio. I got paid by NBC to do a
TV show for NBC. I that's that's Those are my employers.
Like to me, there's no correlation. Like people even people
will look at clips online. I to me, they're not
(30:38):
supporting your business because the NBA doesn't make money. They
don't make any real money off social media. The revenue
streams for the NBA are television advertising and in arena advertising,
and those are the agreements of the deals they have
with Nike and other businesses, and so to me, there's
no correlation between that and social media. I don't think
(30:59):
there is. The NBA loves to brag about it, but
they ultimately get paid based on how many people are
watching their product on TV and all these other leagues
as well. It's like, you know, it's great to have
a bunch of people watch clips on TikTok or whatever,
but that those aren't going to pay your bills. That's
my argument. So anyway, well that was a long range.
That was a very long rate. Let's go to the
(31:20):
phones and we'll say hello to eeny meenie miney mo.
Let's go to real talk. Who's in New York? Get
that dump button ready, it's President's Day. Hello, Real Talk.
Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom m
did Real Talk fall asleep? I don't hear Real Talk.
Oh you know, I think line too might be broken.
(31:41):
It's line too. Hold, there he is there, I think
I hear about Well, there he is line two. I
I panicked there for a second. Real Talk now I
think it was faint.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Yeah, what's up? How you doing? Ben Man? What's up?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I'm celebrating our great presidency here. What a wonderful day,
and you got the crew all with you.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Ben.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
What's something? That's what's something?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
You know?
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Ben? I feel like I owe you an apology because
like last week on the podcast, you seem like you
were upset with me because you know, I get dumped,
not knaughty words, but like, dude, you know, if that
makes you upset, I can always stop doing that. You
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
If you get well, I'd like you to change it up.
How about like every once in a while you mix
in because I have figured out real talk your formula.
I have figured out your Your formula is you call
up and you do a bit. And I do like
the fact that you're prepared. I like the fact that
you prepare for the call. You have material, you have shtick.
That's a good thing, right, But it's always you do
(32:46):
the bit and then at some point you run out
of material and then you drop an F word or
a C word or f FM word. It's like.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
No, no, you know everything. You know, Like I like
to kind of use bad words because I think it's funny,
and it's funny right here on the podcast. But Ben
I can always push up my style. But you may
not know this, but I am an educated, collegiate gentleman,
and I can always adapt to the situation.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
I understand. You're like you're like a chameleon. You can
adapt to your environment.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Yes, something like that, you know. But Ben, like, I
got to get into something. I really got to talk
about something because I don't know what it is. But
Lorena has got all my bells and whistles buzzing and popping.
I mean, I don't know what it is. I was
looking at pictures of Lorena on the website, and like,
Loraina gives this like I think there's two sides of Lorraine.
Like one minute, she gives off this like cute and
it's in ninive side. But like when I look at her,
(33:41):
there's something super sexy and sensual about Lorraine. I just
can't put my finger on that. And you know, I
could be right, I could be wrong. But then there's
only one real way to find out what Lorraine is
all about, Okay, and that's with a quick round of ben.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Okay, all right, people, President's Day addition, All right, here
we go. This is exciting. Here are you ready, Lorena, man,
We're gonna learn all about Loraino. You have to play well,
you don't have to every one.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Let's let's let's first respect the lady Lorena. You do
not have to do it. If you don't want to
do it, it won't be too nassy. But I'm just
trying to get into it, get to know you better
if you're down, So if you want, let's do it.
If not, we'll just move on to the next thing.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
All right, consent today, all right, here we go. We're
gonna have some fun here.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
All right now, Ben, you now, Ben, this is your
show and he's the boss. So I would never make
you answer questions about Lorena. I wouldn't want you to comfortable,
but I have no problem. I'd ask you questions. It's
like it's like I want you looking at Lorena while
you answer the question. So are you what you for?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
A quick round of all right? This is exciting everyone.
Turn up the radio a little bit.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Here a and I'm staring directly at her, but it's
making me uncomfortable.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
So question number one. So my wife, she's really into PDA.
She loves like kissing me and holding me and hugged me.
I think Lorena is like super into pedia, justin, but
what what do you think You think Lorena is kissing
hugging out outside doors or she's more inside the door
kind of holding and touching kind of girl.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
I think she is into out out in public.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
Nothing nothing crazy like she's not she's not like making
out in public, but she's you know, she's doing uh
you know, holding hair?
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Yeah, all about that?
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Okay, Lorena, you're the PDAs.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Oh she's a buzzer.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
No, oh, come on, you hands with my boyfriend in
public because there's too many one might see it. Whoa, Okay,
So about the time that we went to Vegas and you,
oh and you were holding locking arms with maybe all right,
all right, all right, you have to be honest here, Lorena.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Short on top. Please we must move on next question. Please.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Oh yeah, dude, Lorena has like the prettiest lift. I
would swear Lona is a great kisser. But if that's
not the case, it's okay, okay, okay. Some women, some
women like them, some women just tolerate them for the men,
and some women's thinkings are completely off the table. Justin.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Wow, this is hr violation. That's not too crazy, that's crazy,
pretty wild here, spankings right, No, no, I think he meant.
I don't know. I can't, I can't tapping out, he's
(36:45):
tapping out on that. Now we're going into dangerous territory
to break Lorena.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
I've seen you and gee, you're you're definitely got you
definitely got a b BL.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Yeah, he's I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Oh, that's it is that it? That's all all right,
Real Talk saved by the bell. Unfortunately Real Talk did
not get the curse. But call back next time, Real Talk,
so you can drop a bad word there. It is okay,
and that's Benny and the people. All right, de very
good time. Now for the who Am I?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Game?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Stephen Curry is the oldest guard in NBA history With
All Star Game MVP. Curry is also the second oldest
player ever win the award. I am still the oldest
to win All Star Game MVP honors. Who Am I?
The answer? We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
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back to the talk Talk Talk Talk, Talk Talk Talk.
Here's the who am I?
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Game?
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Steph Curry the oldest guard in NBA history to win
an All Star Game if you want to call it
that what That bastardized event was on Sunday in San Francisco.
Curry also the second oldest player ever to win the
All Star Game MVP honors. I am still the oldest
player to win All Star Game MVP. Who am I?
(38:37):
That is the question? What is the answer? And Grandpa
Buff the b twenty nine guests by Big Greg in Iowa,
mister nice guy going with the Minnesota twin legend Roy
Smalley who who was actually smally? Who else do we have?
Paris Hilton who was forty four today from Late Night
drug tester that Maverick distant coach Guest by Robbie the
(39:02):
Mariner Fan Andy in Line o' Lakes, going with Bill
Cosby as his answer. B J and the Bear from
Alf the Alien Opiner Captain Planet guest by King Rory Washington,
Husky Legend Sonny A six Killer from Spacoli in Chapel Hill,
North Carolina, home of Bill Belichick, Bill, Bob Cosby, Coosy
(39:24):
Pop Cooozy from Eke. He's for me to say? In Roseville, Minnesota,
I forty in going with Sister Jean as her answer.
Charity Historian. I guess by Kramer aka Terry in England.
Who else do we have? Page down stuck in Sacramentos
as the oldest is Joe, catch me if I fall?
(39:46):
Biden one hundred and five years young the there you go.
That's from the man from Sacramento as he likes to call.
Who else? Larry Wilkins from War Eagle that's his answer.
Ozzie was going with Michael Jordan. Paul d got it right.
He obviously cheated Del Curry guessed by Lawson Preler is
(40:07):
going with Darryl Armstrong, who had a big weekend. They're
the Maverick assistant coach who was popped there in jail,
john going with Magic Johnson the mail Man, Karl Malone
from Johnny Q former talk show host here in La
back in the day, many years ago. Let's see here
the main events guest by Rob in Vegas, Samaki Walker
(40:32):
from Malibu, Rubin that's his answer, and Lorraine, Ah, do
you have an answer?
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Lorrainer, Yes, Ben, I'm somewhere between Shack and Lebron James.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Okay, well, only one answer, so we're gonna go with
Lebron James, which is wrong. The correct answer is Shaquill o'deal.
You should have gone with Shaquille O'Neil. Bad job by you. No, No,
you are with two. You can't. If you go with
two answers, you only get one. And I was the
wrong one. But Curry is the second oldest, and it's
only by one week, one week Shack one week at
(41:08):
the time they won the award. Shack did it exactly
one week older than Stephen Curry of the Golden State Wars.
But no, maontter how many minutes they actually played. They
played until forty minutes. It was not enjoyable. Now, I
did it because I got paid to watch it. But
if I wasn't getting paid to watch it. I would
not have watched the All Star game at all.
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