Hour 1 - Luka the Lemon

Ben Maller talks about how concerned the Lakers should be after their loss to the lowly Hornets with another poor performance from Luka Doncic, Giannis shooting down the notion that he would request a trade from the Bucks, the All-Star Game TV ratings, and more!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, It's our number one, our number one.
In this hour, we start out with little pro bouncy
ball as the night in the NBA. Just one island
game in the NBA on this now Thursday, that was
back on Wednesday night. How concerned should the Lakers be
they lost to the lowly Hornets, and how concerned should

(00:24):
they be with Luca and another bad performance by the Savior,
the Messiah of the Lakers. Also Giannis Adenta Kumbo shooting
down the notion that he would request a trade from
the Buck, saying that they would have to kick me out.
Do you believe him? Also, the NBA All Star Game
ratings tanked, they had the second lowest on record, and

(00:49):
he advised to Adam Silver. We'll get to that and
much more right now. Buckle up, as we're on a roll.
We awaken a sleeping giant here an hour number one. Well,
you can't spell loser without an L and you can't

(01:11):
spell Luca without an L either. Wel come in the
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bouncy Ball. Now. I was debating. I was like, I
was trying to figure out I want to go with
some football stuff, and I thought, well, this is such
a nice, juicy story. I gotta go with it. I
gotta go with it. It wasn't much going on, like
random college basketball games in mid February. So our lead
is from the NBA and it was a soft launch

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to the second half of the pro Bouncy Ball season.
An island game. Now, this was not supposed to be
an island game. It had been scheduled that the night
would be dark. In the NBA, no games were supposed
to be played on Wednesday night, but then the city
of Los Angeles burned down or at least part of
it a couple weeks back, and because of that, the

(02:58):
Lakers had to cancel some games, so the Clippers. But
this is a makeup game. The Lakers had a playdate
with the Hornets, and so the Hornets haven't had an
Island game since I think like the nineties or something
like that. But anyway, how did that go? Did you
watch the game? Probably not. I don't know if you
had a chance to watch it or how you could
have watched it. But we watched it so you would

(03:20):
not have to Miles Bridges, he said some issues. Twenty
nine points, the mellow ball. It was a ball night.
He had twenty seven points. And the lowly Drek of
the NBA, the Charlotte pro Bouncy Ball Team KOed Lebron
and Luca with a one hundred and ninety seven come

(03:43):
from behind victory right there on skid Row at the
Crypto Arena there just skid Row adjacent as the Lakers,
yet again playing like fakers, and so let us discuss. Now,
don't bury the lead, my man, all right, We're not
going to bury the lead. So the lead's all about Luke.
So he had a bunch of time off over the

(04:05):
All Star break to get locked in and how did
that go? Well? Not so good? So how concerned here's
the question? How concerned should the Lakers be with Luka
Luka Doncika's performance? Here as yet another game where he
didn't play well and the team lost. So I've got Ghana,

(04:27):
has Bro and Jump the Shark, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make inroads. And we're gonna put the biscuit in the basket,
is what we're going to do. We're gonna put the
biscuit in the basket. I know it's exciting, all right,
So Nu Burn, that's right, I said, num Burn, all right.

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On the Malor scale of concern, really, the only metric
that is needed, at least here on overnight radio is
the Malord scale of concerns. So the Malard scale of
concern one to ten. And I am I wanna be
level headed here. I'm not gonna be a shock jock.
I'm at an eight. I am at an Open your

(05:14):
bleeping eyes, open your eyes, listen. If the eyes show
you believe them. Even our blind listeners know what's going
on here. Now. Some will say, well, it's a small
sample size, but I have to do the show today.
I do the show today, and I do the show
right now. And what I have seen is the Lakers

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win one game against the Utah Jazz with Luca and
lose a game to the suck bag Jazz and the
Charlotte Hornets. And speaking of suck, Luca sucked at a
time you cannot suck. Another clunker for the prodigy from Dallas. Somewhere,
Nico Harrison was aroused watching Luca try to run up

(06:00):
down the court. Here another piss poor performance by the
star that everyone's been talking about. This trade five of
eighteen against one of the worst dollar for dollar teams
in pro bouncy ball, the Charlotte Hornets. Luca was five
of eighteen. That's less than thirty percent. My computer, like
brain tells me now he's one of the all time
great three point shooters for a player at his position.

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He was one of nine, many of those wide open,
many of those wide open three point shots. One of
nine had fourteen points and six turnovers in thirty three minutes.
Luca was so bad. How bad was he? He was
so bad? I thought I was watching the Mayor of
Los Angeles and he was on a trip to Ghana

(06:44):
while the game was being played. He went to Ghana
and the game burned up right a Dodchik looked chubby,
he looked slow. The numbers back up the eyeball test
Luca with the Lakers averaging less than fifteen points a game,
seven rebounds, five assists, shooting just thirty six percent. That
blows from the floor, twenty one percent from three point ranch.

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He's not even making foul shots. And with Luca, the
Lakers have lost two of three games to ping pong teams,
to ping pong teams, the Jazz and Hornets. I don't
know that you understand. Listen, I watched the NBA. We
don't talk about it that much here. We'll talk about
it more now that football season's over, and we'll work

(07:29):
it into the conversation. But I have paid attention. And
Charlotte and Utah are more worried about Cooper flag of
Duke in the lottery than they are about winning games,
and yet both of them were able to slay the
dragon Luke. Here's a Luca commenting postgame as the Lakers

(07:52):
lost to Charlotte. Here's Luca commenting on the many mistakes
that took place in that game.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Take a listen, obviously, you know he's going to take
a little time. I'll be able today. A lot of
restin us for my part. So started a game with
like four fast turnovers that can't happen. So it's got,
I know, play them basketball the right way.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Okay, well the right way. You're not playing the right way,
playing the left way, playing left handed. There was also
a comment I watched the Luca postgame and one of
the reporters asked Luca, like, if he spent the All
Star break like learning the playbook, locking in, you know,
those kind of things, And Lucas said, now, I wanted
to get away from the game. These guys played late.

(08:36):
At that point, he had played two games since Christmas.
He's like, I wanted to get away from the game.
I think you've been away from the game, Luca. I
believe you've been away from the game for a fair
amount of time. Now, Lucas got to do better. He's
got to be better. But let's not dismiss Lebron, who
also was manure Lebron James. He's going to get a

(08:57):
pass year because it's all about Luca. But Lebron was
garbage in the third quarter. If I'm not mistaken, if
my lying eyes are accurate here, he was shut out
in the third quarter. The Lakers at one point were
outscored twenty four to one. And let me put that
in perspective. So they were outscored by Charlotte twenty four

(09:19):
to one. Larry Johnson, Alonzo Morning and Muggsy Bogues none
of them scored, none of them. They were all shut out.
And still the Hornets got horny and went on a
twenty four to one run. Wow, all right, now turning
the page. So page two. While speaking to Greek reporters,
the player that goes by the moniker, the Greek freak,

(09:40):
Giannis Adentacumbo shot down the idea that he would request
an exit from Milwaukee from the box. So not if
you saw it or not, but let's discuss I. He said, quote,
I don't think that I would ever text or ask
for a trade. This is a quot from a Greek

(10:02):
TV report. Yanna said, I don't think I would ever
text or ask for trade. I'm not this kind of
a guy. They would have to kick me out, he said,
so Jiannas and Enderkombo shooting down the idea that he
would request a transaction out of a Bucks uniform. Do
you believe him? Do you believe him? So on this one,

(10:26):
I'm gonna channel Hasbro because I believe this is a
Transformer story. It's more than meets the eye, and I'm
on this one going to be the newest Transformer for
modern times. Skepticist Maximus, I am a skeptic to the max.
On this one. It's really a game of samantas. Because
Jana said, I'm not gonna send a text. Does that

(10:47):
mean he's gonna call somebody with the Bucks, some executive there,
or maybe meet face to face for coffee and ask
for an accident? Or does he deputize Does Luca deputize
one of his subordinates to do the dirty work, one
of his henchmen? Because all these guys, when you make
that kind of money, you've got like a team of

(11:08):
people that ride your coattails. They're the caboose on the
train trying to get some of that money on the
gravy train. And so again, I just I've seen it
so many times like why is he going to be different?
And in recent years, even though this comment says, hey,
he wants to stay in Wisconsin, Giannis has certainly sent
mixed messages. He's starting to starting to fall a little

(11:28):
bit on his hardline position about ever playing for the Bucks.
He had been now this comment would indicate he's planning
on staying and all that. But knowing how the NBA
for my entire life has funneled the star players to
glamour teams outside of you know, outside of John Stock.
Even Karl Malone, who was a great player back in

(11:49):
his era year years ago, he went to the Lakers
at the end of his career. But that's how Johnson
I'm trying to think of, Like who else, Like one
team that's it, And it wasn't a glamour team, Tim
dunk In, but they won a lot in San Antonio.
That would be when Tony Parker played for the I
think he was a superstar, but he played for the
Charlotte Hornets at the end of his career. That's not

(12:11):
a glamour team. But anyway, I leaned towards that direction.
It's good for the business of basketball, it's good for
the Business of Basketball and a final point NBA report card,
NBA report card, All Star editions. So the All Star
Game ratings are in and they were bad to the bone,
bad bad, bad bad, bad to the bone the All

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Star Game ratings tank. In fact, they had the second
lowest rating on record. Wow, what is your advice to
Adam Silver in the NBA? So I have activated the
Mallard think Tank in an effort to expedite help for

(12:55):
Adam Silver, and the Malard think Tank is recommending that
Adam Silver get on on his phone and download the
Southwest Airlines app and get one of those I want
to get away tickets right now. Now, it's not all
on Adam so right, Ultimately, he's such a softy as
a commissioner. He was a hardline commissioner, things would be different.

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But he's a walk over. He's essentially like a doormat.
You walk over him, and he's a mister soft ye.
And the NBA really needs a commissioner that's got a backbone,
and Adam Silver doesn't have a backbone. That's the problem, right,
that's the problem. Players walked all over the employees in
the NBA held a wildcat strike that's exactly what they did.

(13:38):
It's not approved by anybody. They just decided we're going
to treat the All Star Game like it's a nuisance,
little to no effort in the All Star Game, and
that will be a continuation of what we do most
nights in the regular season. So Adam Silver, rather than
hold the players responsible and get them to actually give
an honest effort, instead, instead Adam Silver just kind of said, please, guys,

(14:03):
can you please help us out? And I'll just add
an extra tournament and I'll put some more gimmicks to
save the All Star Game because that's what we need,
more gimmicks. That was an epic fail. How bad was it?
Says the person in the back of the room. Here's
how bad the twenty twenty five NBA All Star Game
had if I've read this right, they had a million

(14:24):
last viewers. Then the latest episode of Judge Judy You're
losing to Judge Judy or whatever his wor show is
called now, and we even had a jump the Shark moment,
which was not getting beat one on one by Judge Judy,
who I've seen in person. She's about four foot two.

(14:45):
Uh yeah. In fact, if they did a remake of
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. I believe she'd be
eligible to be one of the one of the Dwarfs anyway,
but hey, she's a lovely lady. My apologies tour, but
we had a jump the Shark moment, which, as I said,
not the judge judty th Adam Silver in a league
that loves to brag about the star power, Global Ambassadors

(15:07):
headliners everywhere, in a league filled with megastars, Adam Silver
in the NBA, in an effort to drum up interest,
turned to a YouTube influencer to save the day. Mister Beast,
the Beast of Burden and mister Beast he was the

(15:28):
big shot there that how'd that turn out? Wellkno, get
now they're talking about doing a one on one tournament.
How the mighty have fallen? And wait till the NBA
goes full NFL imagine if you will, a world where
Stephen Curry is chanting one, two, three, four, I declare
a thumb more that's coming to an All Star game

(15:48):
near you. How about Nikola Jokich and Luka Dancik in
a beer drinking contest sponsored by Budweiser, who says no
to that. Can I get Jason Tatum and Anthony Edwards
in a potato sack race? Yeah, Idaho Potatoes can sponsor
that few more of these All Star Games, and that
stuff's gonna be happening. And just for the record, I

(16:09):
see Jalen Brunson winning the NBA sanctioned water balloon Toss.
Jalen Brunson of the Knickerbockers gonna win the All Star
water balloon Toss. When that comes in like twenty twenty
seven or twenty twenty eight, it is the Ben Mahlers Show. Again.
The headline here, Luka Lakers probably wish they had made

(16:30):
that trade instead of with the Mavericks. To the car
dealership in southern California and Orange. You won't get a lemon.
They got element so far, they got a lemon. Luca's
a lemon, Luca the Lemon. Is that his new nickname,
Luca the Lemon? Oh? That could be his new nickname,
Luca the Lemon. You won't get em. They got elevet.
They got elevet eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox

(16:53):
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(17:13):
in life, every once in a while, things imitate other things,
and we've had some of that recently, and I want
to explain that. So we'll call this life imitating art.
Life imitating art. It has happened. And boy, once you

(17:35):
see this, you can't you can't get it out of
your head. And it is true life. It really copies
art far more often than art imitates life. We'll get
to that and we will do it next.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
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Speaker 1 (17:57):
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(18:22):
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If you don't know how to spell Ben, you're stupid
and Lorena FSR tech clean you can find her on
social media. She loves Disney merch. What else do you like, Lorena?

Speaker 4 (18:42):
There's nothing I don't like, Bill.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Okay, so take care of Lorena. Well, you guys are
already taking care of Lora. I think she's good. Cooper
Loop Coop would like Bronco memorabilia, and I don't think
he wants anything of the Angels. But you can find
him at all Bronco. That's a Bronco fan. And now

(19:04):
back to the talk. Yes, so a lot of talk there, Bill,
lot a lot of talk. Absolutely, malaprop Guy writes in
says another ten out of ten Mallard monologue by your
alter ego, Skepticus Maximus. They go Fergdog says the Lakers

(19:25):
with fat Luca and le Grahams are burnt toast. If
you want to watch a competitive, warm, buttery basketball team
in La Man, the Intuitome is the only choice. Late
Night drug Tester says starting with NBA talk is a mistake.

(19:45):
When two thirds of North America are talking about the
four Nations Championship game, Well, that hasn't been played. Late
night drug Tester that that game is on Thursday night.
It's Thursday overnight into Thursday morning, so we're gonna talk
about a game that has been played no now late night.

(20:05):
Joe Tester does say that he will give us a
sympathetic a for the monologue because of the hot Luca talk.
King Rory writes and says, as a Milwaukee Bucks fan,
I believe Yannis that he would never demand to be traded. Now,
could I see the Bucks trading him to get something
in return instead of just letting him walk away? Yes?

(20:26):
Remember though, any teams trying to acquire Giannis have to
sign his brother as well. Gunner, who works at the
Walmart in Northern Minnesota. Northern Minnesota, and he knows bad basketball.
He says, the Lakers suck and they're not as good

(20:46):
as the Clippers. That is right, Gunner, The Clippers. One
thing you've shocked, the one thing you've gotten, Right, Gunner.
The Clippers own La. They got the better arena, the
richer owner, and they don't have old man Lebron and
fat Luca. You won't get a Lemon Luca, the Lemon Luca,
the Lemon, three games in Luca of the Lemon.

Speaker 5 (21:05):
That'd be funny, Ben, Yes, if they expected that Luca
was going to save and rename the Lakers, but in
all reality, he bombs them and the Clippers become the
new LA team.

Speaker 4 (21:17):
Well, lo, Loraina, we're talking about sports.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
No, no, she's.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
Are you telling me to be quiet?

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Wow? Coop? You know what you are? Your sexist? Coop? Wow? What?

Speaker 4 (21:28):
Yeah you are?

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Are you come on me and Loreno, We're just gonna
We're gonna talk sports without you.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
It has nothing to do with her being a woman.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
No, no, he does.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
I think you just said that specifically you.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Did because he's a woman, because you said.

Speaker 4 (21:41):
You said, this is sports talk, Lorena.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yeah, yeah, we're breaking it down. Me and you know what.

Speaker 4 (21:46):
Don't watch sports, Lorrain, And do watch sports?

Speaker 1 (21:49):
Loraina?

Speaker 6 (21:49):
You know ball I watched more basketball than you this year, exactly.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
So you know what I did?

Speaker 4 (21:55):
I did? How many times did you come in? I said, hey, Coop,
did you watch the game?

Speaker 3 (21:59):
No?

Speaker 1 (21:59):
You didn't watch the game?

Speaker 4 (22:00):
How much watching the game did you actually do? Were
you all of it? All right?

Speaker 1 (22:05):
Every second of it? Every single second? She breaks it down.

Speaker 4 (22:10):
You name one player from the games that you watch
besides the Laker game. I don't watch, she doesn't watch.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
He's a real bet.

Speaker 4 (22:16):
Then why are you talking about it.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
He knows the Hornets watching the Okay, you know I
do exactly, Lono, that's right? Or lamellow Ball.

Speaker 5 (22:33):
Jaylen Brown, Anthony Davis.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
You want to keep on naming things very well from the.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Really tall one. Yes on Charlotte now, that is correct. Listen,
do not question her basketball pedigree. Do not do that. Please?
There what else do we have? Let's see if did
I read this from Fat Daddy? He praised me, so
I should read this again. One of the best monologues
big men on point and silver. He needs to go

(23:02):
back to being an alien out there in outer space.
Maybe they'll have a flag basketball game. Boy Trucker Joel
writes in, says, more people watch the Daytona five hundred.
Then they did the NBA garbage All Star Game. That
is true, and now more people watch the Daytona five hundred.

(23:22):
It was they had a weather problem, right, That usually
screws up the TV ratings because of the weather. And
it still worked out all right. Bill writes in, says,
welcome to the NBA. I said weeks ago Luca wears
underwear with a blank in them. The Lakers got clowned.

(23:45):
The Lakers got clowned. He said, there you go. Parto's
also said that some kind of package has arrived for Lorraine.
Well pretty much, if there's a day that ends, and
why there's a package waiting for Lorrain, that's what he said.
Chalkup in the mail some kind of food item or
something like that. I'm I'm fastening, so h your Femi

(24:05):
writes in from sweet Home Chicago at I gotta, you know,
I gotta make I make pizza, but I don't make
deep dish pizza. I got to make a deep dish
pie at home that I'm gonna work on that deep
dish pizza. I gotta. I gotta do that. That's my
next thing, pizza. I gotta work. I mean that's a
lot of word. I mean you got to cook the
thing for like an hour and there's a lot of

(24:26):
prep in it. But I got to make the deep dish.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
I've never made a deep dish pizza.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Neither of I. I've made the traditional New York style pizza,
but I've not made I call it the Kirkland Rand pizza.
Yeah no, no, because my you know, my brother lives in
New York, so I go back there every couple of
years to Manhattan, and we go over to Brooklyn because
that's supposedly the mecca of pizza, these Brooklyn pizzerias, and
and so we went to all of the highest rated pizzerias,

(24:51):
and this couple years ago went to the highest rated
pizzerias in Brooklyn. And I'm telling you, Lorena, Kirkland Brand
pizza is better.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
That is shocking.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
Yeah, my brother got kind of upset and people were
upset with me, but that's true. I tasted them all.
I went to all three of the big ones and
right near the Brooklyn Bridge there at the end, and
one was further in Brooklyn. And Kirkland Ram pizza better.
Yaphimi says a plus on the Alien NBA Commissioner monologue.

(25:19):
The FSR check cleared, so I am able to contribute
to the live show today, third Rail. I'm on my
m third rail today. Well for him it was Nick, Well,
you know we paid. No one actually listened to the
show if they didn't get paid or contribute. Nick writes
and says, well, I'm still Nick, the Wendy's guy. Thank god.
Apparently they sent my application to a different Walmart, and

(25:42):
I called that Walmart fifteen times with no answer ticked
the f off n The Windys go, well, Nick, you
just keep making those square burgers and you do it, Okay,
come on, Spacoli writes and says, it's a winter wonderland
here in Columbus, Ohio, and the truck stops had core dogs,
but no no one out of four on the corn dogs.

(26:06):
I believe that's what he meant on his way to
Detroit detroed Buddies Detroit style pizza, and then home to
surprise his mom. All right, I guess your mom must
not listen to the show. What's that I don't know
about that pizza place. There's a one in Detroit that
I heard is really supposed to be good, but I

(26:27):
think it's only open on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, like
on the weekends. It's like Freddie Freddy's Pizza or something,
Freddy the Pizza Man. Anyone ever heard of that?

Speaker 4 (26:40):
No, No, I've never heard of it.

Speaker 6 (26:42):
I think that's the name of it, but I honestly
hate somebody says they do not let me eat there
on specific days.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Oh really, Yeah, yeah, I think it's called I've never
been there, but I've heard from people boots on the
ground that that's supposedly the place, but I don't know.
Maybe that's just internet buzz and my friends are full
of it. But supposedly this guy he owns like a
small pizza place and he runs he makes all the
pizzas like by himself. And that's all. I mean, that's

(27:09):
all the guy does. I mean pizza. But he's only
opened a few days a week, and that's it. Anyway,
it is the Ben Mahlor Show as we are working
our way through the overnight hours, and glad you have
chosen to spend some time with us. Let's go now
to a guy that for so many years was a
star caller on the show when he was in Venice,
and then he had a couple of years stay at
the Gray Bar Hotel. But now he's out and he's

(27:32):
out in Koreatown now in La. Hello to Bill. What's
going on? Bill?

Speaker 6 (27:40):
Bill?

Speaker 3 (27:40):
It's me so.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
No, no, no, I'm Ben. Bill Miller does the ins
and outs and then I'm Ben, and then your your bill.
But you might be taking a pill. Some people call
me chill. Also, really who are those people called?

Speaker 4 (28:00):
I don't know, but I would just your show is great, man.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
I love I love your show. Too, Bill, I'm a
big fan.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
M I just want to lowood.

Speaker 7 (28:13):
Can we describe what Lorraine looks like?

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, she looks like a woman. You know what a
woman looks like?

Speaker 5 (28:25):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
I never knew. I was just funny Lorraine. I had
no idea that that would be. Of all the jokes
I've told, no one laughed at, that's the one that
got the most laughs at. Wow.

Speaker 7 (28:37):
Okay, why why why?

Speaker 3 (28:40):
Why?

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Why?

Speaker 7 (28:42):
Uh up and Lorraine?

Speaker 1 (28:45):
Why they have against one another? I want to why
don't you ask them? Do you think there's some tension
between here and angst? I think is what. I didn't
say that, but he said a different words.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
Well, I figured it out.

Speaker 6 (28:59):
I think it's be because I kicked Coop in the
shin when I dissed his lakers about losing Los Angeles.
I think it obviously, you know, pricked him in his side,
because he's not usually mean to me.

Speaker 8 (29:09):
He's I think Larina actually doesn't know anything that she's
talking about and is purposely saying it to put a
thorn in my side and annoy me because she knows
maybe he shouldn't be so irritable Coop.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yeah, yeah, chill out, Yes, yes, Bill.

Speaker 7 (29:29):
I'm on your side.

Speaker 4 (29:30):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
You want to you want to be on the right.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
The listeners are always on my side.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
You want to be on the side of the aisle
with Bill is where you want to be? Right there?
A great Bill. When are you coming down to hang
out with us? Bill, you've never met you. You've been
listening for many years. Well, which game are you going to?
There's a bunch of games. Which which one are you going?
Really you're going, You're gonna You're gonna start walking Arizona?

(30:00):
Is that what you're doing. I'm gonna listen to them
on the radio, our flagship flagship radio station in La.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
Yeah, first pitch you said, twelve thirty.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
You better go to bed. It's going to get laid here.
You better go to bed. It's always important to win
that first spring training game, or else your season goes
to crap. Yeah, I used to. I used to ditch
school for spring training, like the first spring training game.
I was such a loser when I was a kid,
Like I was such a big deal here then here
the baseball's awesome. All right, I feel like you're out

(30:39):
of material, Bill, Thank you. Bill. All right, there he
goes there's Bill, Now Laurna, you did not hear Bill's
work years ago when he lived in Venice. You think
Bill's crazy? Now you should have heard vintage Bill in
Venice and there's another guy. Now. Bill had some issues

(30:59):
with the authorities, shall we say, and he gave us
the play by play, much like our buddy in Utah
gave us the play by play as he had court
dates and he was trying to bite the man.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
I saw him tweet recently, by the way.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
Yeah, yeah, I think he's got to take like drug
tests and alcohol tests, so he's not calling the show
until he can get liquored up again. I think that's
my theory. I don't know. I might be making that up,
but yeah, he's not in jail. But but but Bill
and Venice was giving us play by play about I
got a court day and I was and then he
just stopped calling because he was in jail for like years.

(31:36):
He was in jail years. Yeah, he was away for
a while and he got out and he still remembered
us though. I'm so honored. You know, it warms my
heart when these guys, these fellows go to jail for
a while and they get out and they still remember
the show.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
They were thinking about you the whole time.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Yeah, I mean, well, hopefully they were thinking about other
things in me. But how dare you? I think a
lot of them keep listening when they're in jail, and
then they get out and they still want to, you know,
want to be part of the show and all that stuff.
We've got a few people that have called up like
their first call out of jail, which I would think
would be like your you know, your family or your
you know girlfriend or something like that, but no, they
call the show their first call out of jail. Let's

(32:14):
say hello to Sean who is in North Dakota. What's
going on? Sean? Welcome?

Speaker 7 (32:21):
Hey, how's it good?

Speaker 1 (32:23):
Uh? I was worried that you were falling asleep there
it's all. We're alive, and well, Shaan, how can we
help you? You know?

Speaker 7 (32:30):
I just I wanted to say that they keep talking
about the ratings for the NBA All Star Game, and
like I heard somebody compare it to the Super Bowl,
and now you're comparing it to the but that really
is the race. That race is their super Bowl for
the season, so like it should get better ratings than
the All Star Game.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
So you you think it's okay that the NBA product
is bad and that we're being mean picking on the NBA.

Speaker 7 (32:57):
I don't know if you're being mean. They don't put
it on team free TV, so I didn't get to
watch it, or I totally would have watched it, but.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Well, most sporting events are not on free TV anymore.

Speaker 7 (33:09):
You had the majority.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
Yeah, you're right, so you probably don't watch much much sports, right,
other than football.

Speaker 7 (33:16):
I listened to Fox Sports Radio all day and all night.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
So you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna put a
gold star near your name. You get a gold star
near your name for absolutely you know what, and because
I like you, Sean puffy sticker about that puffy smell?
Snick you can scritching? Was it scratch and sniff?

Speaker 4 (33:37):
Puff?

Speaker 1 (33:38):
You want to scritch and snaff in there? All right, Sean,
thank you, st you're defending the NBA All Star Game.
There you go? All right, very good. It's Adam Silver's
son lives in North Dakota calling the show. Who knew?
All right? It is the Ben Mahler Show. So in life,
I think it was Oscar Wilde who said life imitates

(33:59):
art for far more than art imitates life, and I
bring this up because the way Luca has looked in
a Laker uniform, he just looks like he's got a lot.
He's like, he does look fat. I don't know if
it's just because the Mavericks kept telling everyone he's fat
and all that stuff. He looks chubby as a Laker.

(34:20):
And several of you idiots have sent me the video
from years ago. I think this goes back five six
years when at halftime, a guy that hosted a late
night to I don't think he does this anymore, the
Late Late Show with that it was hosted by James
Gordon over on CBS, and he did a bit where
he danced with the Laker girls. And when you I

(34:44):
think Gronkowski was part of that. But when you look
at the clip, it looks like Luca, Like Luca looks
like a middle aged late night TV talk show host
and he's playing for the Lakers. It's fascinating. I'm telling you.
If you if you even blind, Scott thinks it's crazy.
When you look at the video James Corden with the
Laker girls and it's from six years ago. It's on

(35:08):
the YouTube. You can find it and all that. I'm
telling you dead ringer, dead ringer, dead ring all right.
Time now for the who am I? Game? And this
is where we pretend to be somebody else. You have
to try to figure it out in a blatant attempt
to get you to listen a little bit longer to
the show. You can answer this on x at. Ben
Mallard answered on x at Ben Maller. Make sure to

(35:30):
tag me in that or I will not see the answer.
So we'll go to pro bouncy Ball. Hornet center Yusuf
Nurkic had eight rebound, seven assists, two blocks, but no points.
I was the last player to get to those numbers
and have zero points in an NBA game. Again, the Hornets,

(35:50):
Yusif Nurkic had eight rebound, seven assists, two blocks, no
points in the upset of the Lakers. I was the
last player to reach those numbers with zero points in
the NBA Who Am I? The answer, I'll tell you.
We'll get to that. We'll do it next.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
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(36:35):
enjoying their stay there at the Gray Bar Hotel. You
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(36:58):
nice community of people unlike X who actually have friends
and are kind and all of that. And now back
for the big payoff on the who am I? Game?
And Bill, you didn't say my name? It's Ben, I
host the show. And here's the who am I? Game?

(37:22):
A blatant attempt to get you to listen a little
bit longer. And here it is Hornet Center Yusuf Nurkic.
He had eight rebounds, seven assists, two blocks in the
upset of the Luca Lakers, Luca the Lemon or Lemon
Luca and the Lakers. There I was the last player
to have those numbers but have zero points in an

(37:44):
NBA game. Who am I? That is the question? What
is the answer, and let's see does anyone know the answer?
Nick is going with spud Web as his answer. The
Great malor prop Guy checks in with hollering James, the
King of No Point Phone Calls says, who else? Do

(38:06):
we have a page down? Milkman Mike says, who is Diddy?
In the All News Scared Straight series on Prime Andy,
Andy and lion O Lakes, Minnesota says the Great George
the Animal Steel fun fact, Andy and I don't have
time to get into it here, but I didn't even
fun fact. Oh. I can't give you the whole story

(38:27):
now because of time reasons, but I did do a
wrestling event with George the Animal Steel years ago. I
shared the locker room at a cheesy WWE wrestling promotion
WOW with George the Animal Steel on the icons if
you're of my age, Polly d going with Yusuf Nurkic

(38:47):
as the answer. A sleepy Floyd from mister nice Guy.
I did see the video. I have not clicked on
it yet, though, mister nice guy, the Lego Guy, mister
knice Guy should change his name the Lego Guy. Who
else do we have? Olivia Rodrigo, who's twenty two today, man,
she's old? Now how she get so old? Who else
do you have? Page down? We Willie Keeler hit him

(39:12):
where they ain't wee Willie Keeler from I forty Ian
Timothy from Northern Kentucky says the one and only Lafayette
fat Lever, good name. Steve the misplaced San Diego going
with Grandville Waiters ro that's I'm one of the iconic

(39:32):
NBA players Grandville Waiters. Fargo Pete says, debtlift Shrimp is
the answer. Craig's going with Draymond Green. Who else do
we have? Page down? Can't read that? Spox Weed says
Anthony Davis or Elon Musk is the answer? Red Hulk
from Shane in de Moine, Jesus Shuttleworth from on the Grind, JB.

(39:57):
Eric Montrose us some good names from James. All right,
do you have Do you have an answer? Lorraine?

Speaker 5 (40:05):
Yes, the classic Larry Bird Ben the Birdman.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
The bird is the word. The bird is the word,
but not the answer. Unfortunately what we're looking for. Yusuf
Nurkic the first player to reach those numbers eight rebound seven.
It's just two blocks with no points since the John
Day Murray in twenty eighteen, seven years ago. John de
Murray