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Big Ben talks about the Nuggets firing Michael Malone right before the playoffs, if there's even a question that Jurickson Profar ripped off the Braves, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!

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with that. Who cares Lakers as as we thought frauds
lost to Oklahoma City and free falling in the Western
Conference standings and cannot wait. I've actually marked the date
on my iPhone the day we will do the funeral

(02:06):
for the Lakers. That'll be fun the downfall when they
are eliminated, and all you losers will say, well, it's
only year one. Everything's gonna be okay, Yeah, okay, text time,
yeah okay. But our lead is from a team that
did win a legitimate championship a couple of years ago
in pro bouncy ball and have decided to clean house.

(02:29):
See you later. Another one bites the dust, Another one
bites the dust, and that would be a head coach
and a general manager, a two for one special in
the NBA. If you have not heard, I assume you've
heard by now, but maybe not. We learned that the Nuggets,
the Chicken Nuggets, have sacked head coach Michael Malone here

(02:50):
going and I'll bet you a nine out of ten
casual observers didn't even know the name of the general
manager of the Denver basketball team, Calvin Booth. He was
also poll axed from Denver just days before the regular
season ends, like this weekend, it's over, and here we are. Here,

(03:11):
we are the coaching change someone named David Adelman. I
used to interview his old man, who never did much,
coached a lot of teams, didn't really win anything, Rick Adelman.
But that's the spawn of Rick Adelman. So another another
coach who is a neo baby, another neo baby in sports.

(03:31):
As David Adalman takes over, and so don't bury the
lead mam man. Who cares about the GM, who cares
about the interim coach? That's not the story. The story
here is Michael Malone, who has been with the Denver
basketball team for a decade and was there when they

(03:53):
won the championship. He was on the sidelines calling up
the plays and all that. And now he is persona
non grata. He has been given the pink slip see
you later. So let us discuss the question why why
did the Nuggets make the decision to whack Michael Malone.

(04:16):
Now the postseason is looming, Like this is even more
bizarre than Memphis. Like Memphis is thought, well, they're not
really going anywhere, and there's some issues with John Morant
that was eleven days prior, and the Grizzlies they decided
to maul their head coach. But this is supposedly a

(04:36):
Denver team that, even though they were not playing great
in the moment, was a contender because of the joker
in the middle. So I've got disco paper plates and vultures,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we will provide a nice, sparkling new hat, which you know,

(04:58):
Lorraina gets a lot of fo and stuff over there,
she gets a lot of good See, this is a
new hat. This is a Buffalo Bison hat. It's a
solid looking hat. Right, It's a good hat fits could
solid hat. So that's what we're gonna make that all right.
So my first thought answering the question, why why did
the Denver basketball team eliminate the coach and the GM

(05:19):
with the postseason looming in the horizon. So this is
a Red Bull special. This is a Red Bull special
trying to give a little bit of a jolt to
the roster and looking to wake up a team that
has been napping since the All Star break. However, if
you dig a little deeper, there's this weasel, your little weasel.

(05:44):
As a certain MMA guy used to say, Josh Kronky,
who you talk about winning the genetic lottery. Josh Kronkie
is in the Kronky family, and they have all the
money in the world. I mean, they are are just loaded.
So Josh Croncky won the genetic lottery and so as

(06:04):
a result he gets to run a sports team. And
so Joshua Krocky, the son I believe of the owner,
said in the future, the immediate expectations, immediate expectations for
the Nuggets following the coaching change. He said all of
five words. He said, play hard and have fun. Play

(06:27):
hard and have fun. That's the money quote. You know
what that also is? Say it with me now, dead
give way? That is a dead giveaway. Yeah, captain obvious.
What does that tell you? Okay, now you are the investigator,
you are analyzing that quote. What does that quote tell
you? You play talk radio host? What does that quote tell you?

(06:50):
I know what to tell I know on this side,
what about you? So to me, it don't change your
answer to me. It tells you that the Denver Nuggets
were A not playing hard and B we're not having fun.
They were not having fun, Okay, So that's what that
tells you. Otherwise you wouldn't need to encourage the team

(07:12):
to play hard and try to have fun. If they're
already having fun and playing hard. It doesn't matter. You
don't need to say it. You're just it's obvious now
after the fact. I love the after the fact breathless reporting. So,
Michael Malone is a popular figure with the Denver basketball

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team and someone that is beloved by many in the
basketball media. So when you get rid of someone who
is deemed popular, you then need to turn to character assassination,
which is what the Denver Nuggets are doing, trying to
bury Michael Malone on his way out of Colorado. And
it's exactly what's happening here, this breathless reporting that there

(07:54):
was a civil war going on between Michael Malone and
the GM Calvin Booth. They weren't even talking to each other.
They hated each other's guts, and Malone was upset because
he didn't like the way the roster was built. They
got a bunch of suck bag young players on the bench.
It's not a championship bench. And Malone was annoyed by that.
And there was also some debates about certain guys were

(08:18):
playing that the GM wanted other people to play, and
so they paint the picture that Malone was just a
king of all a holes and that's why he was like. Oh,
and of course the Nuggets, the ownership group of the
executives there, what happens is they leak stories. There's a
story leak that Malone was giving preferential treatment and this

(08:41):
is going to blow you. In the NBA. They never
do this in the NBA, giving special star treatment to
Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray. O MG, can you imagine
that star players in basketball would be treated special? That's ay,
yet it's unbelievable. I mean, I know here that like

(09:01):
myself and my colleague Colin Cowherd are treated exactly same,
other than the extra zeros on his contract and the
people that follow him around in case there's any crumbs
that drop down from his mouth and they're there to
clean it up. Other than that, very similar, very very similar,
very similar lives. Mean, you know my teammate because there's

(09:22):
no star system. We don't have a star Everyone has
a star system. You maron what's wrong with you? It's
a nice spin, But my breakdown on this is pretty simple.
So night out on the town. It is a visit
to the disco. It is panic at the disco is
what it is. Now. This is turning into a total boondoggle,

(09:43):
and I'm there for it. I'm there a big bucket
up buttered popcorn. Denver is eleven and thirteen since the
All Star break. It is a desperation play by the Nugget.
It's a total desperation play. It's a little caffeine, little
red bull. They're trying to jump start things and trying
to squeeze one more, one more playoff run with some

(10:06):
no name assistant coach and hoping beyond hope, which I
don't think hope is a great strategy. I don't think
that they tell you that that's the way to turn
to hope doesn't usually go so well. Now page two here,
So what does this particular move by the Nuggets say
about Michael Malone's value, Because there's the public perception and

(10:33):
then there's the private perception, right, So publicly, as we
talked about here, Malone is considered one of the upper
echelon head coaches in the NBA. This guy is prepared,
He is methodical with his work. He is someone that
lives breeze, eats, sleeps basketball and puts the work in
and all that. But then you realize privately in the

(10:58):
bowels of the facility there where the Nuggets hold down
the fort, that they are really just whistling Dixie is
what they're doing there. It's a reminder that Michael Malone
and all NBA coaches are like those Dixie paper plates, disposable, right,
Everyone's disposable. You know, the average tenure, the average tenure

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of an NBA coach is about two and a half seasons.
That's it, two and a half seasons.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
It is a merry go round, round and round and
round and round on the merry go round, and it
spins fast and you better be careful and you're be
thrown off it.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
It's a whirlwind situation. So the Nuggets ownership, though, I
will point out years ago when I used to go
to those NBA games and then back in the good
old days, and I believe it. I even went to
like Laker games and Phil Jackson was the coach of
the Lakers and he ranted, which was amusing because Phil
lasted in Chicago in LA for a long time. But

(12:02):
Phil used to preach the and I guess the Nuggets
are really following the Zen philosophy. But Phil Jackson preached
that a coach's message grows stale the longer they stay
in one outpost. And he was an advocate that you
had to change and go to different locations because the
players tune out that the more the team becomes a customed.

(12:25):
And he also said you had to change the roster
a lot because guys do get comfortable and once they
get comfortable, they put on the earmuffs and they're like, hey,
we're good. We're out on that. And so Malone was
there ten years and he ends up getting decommissioned. Our
last word here, Now we go to the Komodo Dragon

(12:46):
in the room. Now what is the Komodo Dragon room?
With Michael Malone dispatched from Denver? How does this impact
Nikola Jokic and his law long term future with the Nuggets.
So Jogic, by all accounts, is a top twenty all
time NBA player already, even if he retired today, be

(13:09):
a top twenty all time NBA player, probably top ten
based on his accomplishments. He doesn't get the credit because
he isn't playing a big market and so people dismiss him.
But he's been amazing. He's been absolutely amazing for the
Nuggets and all that stuff. However, my default position is
no different on this than it was on John Morant
in Memphis. My position is that NIKOLEA. Jokicch was fully

(13:32):
aware that this was an option, and he did not
put his foot down and use his star influence to
keep Michael Malone as coach of the Nuggets. If Nikola
Jokicch truly had an issue that he I'm sure he
likes Michael Malone personally, but if he wanted him professionally
to be the coach of the Nuggets, still Malone would
still be the coach of the Nuggets. They would have

(13:53):
gotten rid of the GM, they would have kept Michael Malone.
You in that business, It has been this way as
my entire life in the NBA. Right, I find it
impossibly that this was not greenlit by by Nicola Jokic
that you know, chatter was now there's stories being thrown
out that he was frustrated with the Nuggets defense, And

(14:16):
of course I'm sure a lot of people were frustrated.
The team blows right now, they're not playing very well.
And so you also have the the vultures now who
are circling overhead and in you got that ominous music playing,
and so trying to poach talent, trying to get some
some talent. And I said, well, there's no way the

(14:36):
Nuggets would ever trade NICOLEA. J Okic. This guy's a
nugget for life. Well he said the same thing about
Luca and and how that workout. So if you follow
the gambling market, I don't think I need to tell
you who the favorite is to acquire to acquire these
services of the Joker. Yeah, that's a team that the

(14:56):
NBA rigs for everyone to go to over the course
of their care if they're halfway decent. That ugly purple
and Gold team now followed by jokis. The other option
would be Jokic leaving the NBA altogether, leaving not just
the Nuggets but the NBA and going and playing for
one of the teams in his homeland there in Serbia

(15:17):
and just saying I'm out. That's it, see you later.
I'm done. I'm gonna get out of here and I
go back to my old life. I'm gonna drink three
leaders of Coca Cola every day and I'll live my
greatest life. Some of the other teams mentioned, you've got
the usual suspects, the Warriors, the Clippers, and the wild card,
the Toronto Raptors. They were tossed out there as well.

(15:40):
And for the Lakers here, they got to hope that
Nico Harrison gets fired and then he gets hired by Denver,
and then his first move would be like you know,
I remember Jokic was a fattie coming into the NBA,
so I'm worried he might become a fatty against So
we'll give him to the Lakers. And we need like
a like ax of sand, and that's I think we

(16:03):
need one other little shar of glass and we're good,
and that would be an even trade.

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Speaker 1 (16:17):
So our lead This hour's from Baseball'll get back to
the hot, spicy basketball talk later on, but this hour
we're gonna focus in on a little baseball. There's a
developing story that continues to have legs. I didn't think
it was gonna have legs, but it's got legs. And
we're talking about the wretched start of the Atlanta Beroaves. Now,

(16:40):
the Braves did win, so they're two and eight, now
two and eight. They won a game over the weekend
one here, so they're two and eight on the season,
and a lot of noise, a lot of noise on
the one that they got that they wished they hadn't gotten.
So a mallor show, mallor show follow up, follow up,

(17:00):
if you have not been paying attention, the Atlanta Braves
are without their left field and they went out and
spent some money. They signed Jerkson Profar. You might remember
we talked about this in a previous episode of the show.
He had been whacked eighty game suspension for putting his
hand in the ped cookie jar and he got caught.

(17:24):
He got caught. Well, now, a couple of new developments now,
one of them a longtime baseball scrub. And you understand
these baseball writers. It's the fraternal order of baseball. They're
in the inner circle. They almost never crossed the line
to criticizing players because they need to have access to

(17:50):
the players. And you start criticizing players, it becomes a problem,
so it affects your career. So they're normally wearing knee
pads for the players. So when someone crosses the rubicon,
I feel like that's interesting. I feel like there's something there.
So we have that longtime baseball scribe, Bob Nightingale, who

(18:12):
I knew him back when he was a Dodger beat
writer a million years ago. But Bob Nightingale went on
the record on the record writing that the Atlanta Braves
were essentially scammed by Jerks and Profar. Now he's not alone.
There have been some former players that have said this.
Have been a number of big shots, if you will,

(18:35):
in the baseball world that have come out and said, listen,
this is dirty. What happened here is dirty. So let
us discuss the question at this point, based on all
these circumstantial evidence, is there even a question? Is there
even a question if the Braves were ripped off by
Jerkson Profar in the offseason. So I've got ozone, layer,

(18:56):
Farmers Almanac, and chainsaw, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make gringo tacos,
the crunchy taco, my favorite kind of taco. They the
crunchy taco the way to go there. All right, So,
first of all, the answer the question, is there any
kind of question whether or not the braves were ripped off?

(19:18):
So on this side of the microphone, it says clear
as vodka. Okay, it says clear as vodka. Yeah, there's
no debate on this side. Now, you gotta understand what
this guy pulled off. Jerkson Profar is a modern day
lufs Tanza heist. You know that they made multiple movies
about that heist of the cargo at the airport in

(19:40):
New York. And I looked it up because I've seen
a number of those movies. So the Luftanza heist was
five point eight million in nineteen seventy eight. Now I
pulled out my friend, the the inflation calculator. So I
went to the inflation calculator and I did the map.

(20:00):
So five point eight million in nineteen seventy eight in
today's money is twenty eight point three million. So if
you say that famous heist at the airport in New
York was twenty eight million dollars. You say, oh my god,
makes sense why they've made movies. Well, Jerkson profar who
appears to be a total fraud. His contract is forty

(20:21):
two million. So this is a bigger heist than the
Luftanza heist of years gone by forty two million, forty
two million dollars. And how did he get away with it? Now,
that's the other wrinkle which is fascinating. And the way
that he was able to get around the mistake, I

(20:43):
think you'll agree, is rather interesting. So if you haven't
heard about this, maybe maybe not. From what we understand,
there is a hole in the ozone layer. Whoa what who? Yeah,
the chain of command. So, as we understand it, player
gets tested, all right, player submits the test, the the

(21:05):
PP test there to figure out whether you got the
bad stuff in your body. And then there's radio silence.
So you've submitted the sample. It's gone to the lab
and the late night drug testers examining things. The league
and the players Association. They then get word, hey, here's
what's going on that player X, who's a free agent,

(21:28):
has tested positive for the magic beans. So player EX
is tested positive, Player X is dirty, dirty, dirty dirty.
The team does not know. So that is what's known
as a blind spot. So you got a hole in
the o's on the lad there's a blind spot. So
now that being said, I do not want to totally
absolve the Atlanta Braves from their level of incompetence, Like

(21:53):
what kind of Dodo birds do they have in the
front office. I know they're all nerds and all that stuff.
But Jerkson Profar was a mediocre major league baseball player.
Everyone can agree on that. He then has this late
in his prime career renaissance with the Padres. Oh and

(22:14):
by the way, his workout buddies, one of his workout
buddies is that dirty dog, another dirty dog by the
name of Fernando Tatist Junior and his famous ringworm medication.
So it's killed by association. The math ain't mathing on that,
And so now most assumed the team from Atlanta will

(22:38):
be left with a mediocre, fringe utility type baseball player
that they'll be paying forty two million dollars to and
he got away with it all right now. Secondly, so
the baseball season still we're still in early kind of
getting too mid April, so it's still early in the
game in baseball and watching these games. Bit of the

(23:00):
Red Sox Blue Jays game last night slipping around. I
had the Mets game on a bit, had the Dodgers
and the Nationals. That one much of a game. Dodgers,
I guess they hung over from visiting the White House.
So I've watched a few of the games and the
one constant was it's a winter wonderland. It's a winter wonderland,

(23:21):
and it's all over. It's just the time of the year.
In fact, the game time temperature for the Cleveland team
formerly known as the Indians for their home opener the
Guardian's home opener was thirty two degrees right. I ran
up thirty two degrees for the beginning of that game.
So we have seen frigid conditions all over baseball. Anyone

(23:42):
that plays east of the Mississippi or right at that
point has had very cold weather. And this has led
to a number of people complaining. This has led to
people saying it's unbelievable that baseball plays in these games.
They've got to do something about this. I've heard every
kind of theory from hey, they've got to play only
in West Coast teams early in the year, or domes

(24:03):
to they should just not start the season until sometime
in May, and all kinds of fugazy ideas. So let's
activate the Malard think tank question. What is the solution
to Major League Baseball's cold weather dilemma? Which has popped
up here yet again. But there was a scene in

(24:24):
the Blue Jays Red Sox game where it looked like
we were back in COVID times. Everyone had like the
ski mask on. It was either COVID or they were
getting ready to rob some banks, one of those two things.
All right, So my answer is no answer. There's no
need to fix this. They have been playing baseball in

(24:45):
April since what the eighteen hundreds. It's just part of
the delio. It's part of the delio. And the great
thing is that, well, baseball is considered America's pastime, at
least it was back in the day. I would argue
that the NF America's pastime. But the second pastime behind
sports is complaining. There is nothing that the human being

(25:08):
loves more than then complain your job's not good enough,
you don't make enough money. The food you eat sucks,
your house blows, your car is terrible. We love to complain,
and so it's good that baseball plays cold weather games.
It gives you something to complain about, something to bach
about and say, oh, it's not right. Boo hoo hoo.

(25:29):
Now spoiler alert. I have a small addendum to add
to this. Baseball players we know they play in all weather.
That that's just the way it is. Mother Nature is
not on the payroll, not available. So you've got that
going on. And I would advise you to suck it up, Buttercup,
that would be my advice, professional advice. Here's what you

(25:51):
need to do. You take out and dust off the
Farmer's Almanac. You study the Farmer's Almanac and plan according
You know that in these early season games most of
the stamps were empty. Anyway, I don't blame people for
not going. But if you do go, get out the
wool socks, get out the fleece jacket, get out the turtleneck,

(26:14):
and you have layers of close and you gotta prepare yourself.
And before long, your outfit's gonna change. If you go
to baseball games, you're gonna be wearing tank tops and
sandals and will be one hundred and forty degrees hotter
than the surface of the sun. That's right around the corner.
So be prepared, all right. Now, final thought to a

(26:34):
developing story here involving memorabilia. Say what now the memorabilia.
There's some dude, his name's not important, don't know who
his anyway, So this guy in southern California built a
very profitable business hawking memorabilia, celebrity memorabilia, sports memorabilia. They said, oh, okay,

(26:58):
that's fine. I'm sure a lot of people do that. Well,
now the guy's admitted the jig is up. He's admitted
the entire operation was phony, maloney. It was all deception.
It was all deception. In fact, the guy pled guilty
this week in court, one count of mail fraud. They
always get you on the mail fraud. A authorities uncovered

(27:20):
a almost decade long scam. This guy was forging autographs,
a lot of them, and some of the biggest names
in entertainment, in sports, including Kobe Bryant not available to
sun his autograph anymore, and the Kardashian family, among others.

(27:40):
And it's actually the Kardashian family, one of the fake
autographs there that got him in trouble with that, But
according to the Feds, he falsely claimed the items were
authentic and sometimes even would fabricate the certificate of authenticity,
which I know, if you're in that racket, that's a
big deal. You gott have that. That's a hustle too. Man.

(28:01):
There's a place in southern California they charge a fortune,
arm and a leg as the line goes, to get
that stuff authenticated, and it's really you have to do it.
But even then you're like, is it really? Is it
really legit? And so this cat of course left Southern
California and fleed to Mexico. But he has confessed to
defrauding collection. How much do you think those autographs were worth?

(28:23):
How about between two hundred fifty thousand and five hundred
and fifty thousand. That's a lot of money. That's a
fair amount of money in forged memorabilia. Man, he now
faces up to twenty years up to his weasel turm,
he's not getting twenty years, but he's gonna go to
jail for a little bit. Sensing hearing's gonna be scheduled

(28:45):
for August. So has got a few more months to
go with the sports memorabilia market booming right boom boom
boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom
boom boom boom boom boom boom boom, yes boom. So
what is the takeaway from this latest scan at? These
things pop up every every other month. It's a it's

(29:06):
a regular current. So my latest advice I advice. I
think you should know this by now if you're in
that world. And I know, it's really cool to have
sports memorabilia. And I when I was in high school,
I fetched around and was in that racket to make
extra bucks. I would go around as an autograph hound

(29:29):
to get autographs and then I sold them for straight
cash homie, and so I know, I mean back in
those days, I'd sit outside Nolan Ryan would sign autographs
the last day. Everyone knew the hotels the team stayed at,
and he'd sign autographs at the hotel the last day.

(29:49):
Sometimes you do it in the stadium, and so you'd
go there and get the audiothing to sell it for
a few bucks, and then the person that you sold
it to would sell it for more money. And all
that stuff but this is just the tip of the iceberg. Okay,
it just Fortunately, unless you physically are in the room
and you hand the item to the person or you
see it being handed over and they sign it, you

(30:12):
don't really know. You don't know what, you don't know. Right,
you're in the danger zone. It's kind of like juggling
chainsaws in the air. Everywhere you're juggling chainsaws and then
you mix a machete in there. You're juggling macheti and chainsaws,
and then you add on, just for kicks, a live
hand grenade and you do that all at the same time.

(30:32):
And that's that's it. It's risky. It's risky business is
what it is. And the sports memorabilia business is over
sixteen billion in the United States. That's not a mom
and pop operation. And we know, and I know firsthand.
I mean, people are willing to pay big bucks to
get a little slice of something that is historic. And

(30:53):
these charlatans men, they'll take advantage of you. They will
stick it to you. So word to the wise.

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Speaker 4 (31:06):
The third.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
This is one thing that gets great.

Speaker 5 (31:12):
Well, apparently there's still a debate going on about whether
or not to allow NFL players to play in the
Olympics the flag football. Now, apparently the league office they
really wanted to happen. Owners of teams that are not
so sure they are worried about their you know, players
getting hurt. Now, one suggestion has been made that letting

(31:34):
a crop of freshly retired NFL players do the flag football.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
Ben, how do you feel about this retired guys doing it? No,
it's dumb. You know, you got the act and then
there's no real pushback. Jerry Jones is all for it.
Put the players out there. The players want to do it.
It's flag football. It's for uses. Put them out there,
put them out there. It's so stupid, bunch of belod
you put the active players out there. And the whole

(31:59):
point is try to get young people to play flag football.
So why are you gonna put a bunch of fifty
year olds out there playing flag football? Makes no sense.

Speaker 5 (32:05):
Next, Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles was asked about his
preferred strategy for the draft later this month, and Todd Bowles,
who was a defensive coordinator, surprisingly said, I never want
to buy pass a good offensive player to satisfy defensive needs.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
Ben, do you agree with him on that? First of all,
I like Todd Bowles. Todd Bowles does not play all
the media games and all that stuff. He doesn't put
forward the narratives, he doesn't say what he's supposed to
say and all that stuff. I like it. No, there's
a great offensive player and you're a defensive coach, you
take the great offensive player. This is not that difficult.

(32:40):
This is not brain surgery. Most of these guys are
going to stink anyway, right. I mean, I've spent hours
of my life I'll never get back reading these fugazy
draft guys, and most of them are just complete fiction. Okay,
it's just been making crap up. It's a fairy tale.
So you take the player you think is gonna be great,
whether it's you know, the offense are not next.

Speaker 5 (33:01):
For all intents and purposes, we know who's going to
be in the playoffs in the Western Conference.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
We just don't know which order.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Now.

Speaker 5 (33:07):
When it comes to the play in, everybody says it
doesn't really matter that it's gonna be the Memphis Grizzlies
and the Minnesota Timberwolves that advance.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
The Kings and the Mavericks have no chance. Are you
agreeing with that? No, because you are a well placed
knee injury or a twisted ankle away from the lesser
team winning. That's why you play the games. Cool and
there it is malt of the thirtyree? How did we
do you pass on the bar? I won the light up?

(33:35):
You're impressed?

Speaker 4 (33:36):
Right?

Speaker 1 (33:37):
I can't hear you. I cannot very impressed. Thank you.
That sounded very masculine.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
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Speaker 1 (33:52):
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Speaker 6 (34:17):
You heard the man. It's time for love here on
the Ben Mallard Miller The Bill Miller Mallard Show.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
Not as me, It's I'm Ben, this is Ben, is
your show, this is.

Speaker 6 (34:31):
Your Showrena show, Lorena show.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
I'm gonna go out and have a smoke and you
take care of it.

Speaker 6 (34:37):
Just make sure you wash your hands before you come in.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
I hate that smile. Yeah, all right, so we have questions, Yeah,
they do. Late night drug tester writes in y'all need help, bro,
He says, when going in for an STD test, what
is a good fake name to use?

Speaker 6 (34:54):
Oh goodness, I would use your brother's name. Always start
with your closest relatives. I for your best friend that
you don't like anymore.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
I like the name Ron Mexico. That was what Michael vigers,
Ron Mexico. That's a good name. Yeah, solid, let's see.
Ferkdock says, is it wrong to only date women based
on cup size? Which coup are we talking about?

Speaker 5 (35:17):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Wow, unbelievable. Wow.

Speaker 6 (35:21):
No, But if you have specific preferences that you like,
if you like someone who's more well endowed, goes for
women as well, you are allowed to be picky and
what you want.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
You need to be happy. And if you're not happy,
what does that lead to? Ben problem? Fidelity problem? Yes,
all right, very nice and basketball Jerry writes, and he says,
what is the nicest way to break up with your
girlfriend because she doesn't know what position players are?

Speaker 4 (35:50):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (35:51):
Well, have you told her that that is a a
make or break thing for you? Because you've got to
make sure you communicate that. Other than that, throw it
to the curb, throw the side.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
Wow. Alright, well here's one from Bobby and Florida. You
try to clean it up for the radio, he says, Lorena,
how do you ask a woman, uh not to take
the kiddy to the groomer? He says apparently he oh, okay,

(36:23):
you like more natural women? Oh? Natural? Yeah, you call
that seventies style. I think back, and then so Coop
told me, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (36:31):
Once again, communication is key here.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
Women want to please you.

Speaker 6 (36:35):
So at the end of the day, if you communicate hey,
you don't have to shave as much as you are,
they might actually be thankful. Razor burn those bumps and
grown hairs, they're just the worst thing ever.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
So if you tell the girl to go all natural.

Speaker 6 (36:49):
I don't know if she's going to necessarily fight it.
She'll probably still keep it up up like clean and everything,
you know, updated.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
But you can have preferences, you know what.

Speaker 6 (36:58):
Moved to Europe and go get some Actually, Harry went.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
There, you go. They don't even have razors in Europe.
Let's say hello to keg drinking Steve. What's up, Steve?

Speaker 4 (37:14):
I was. I was reading in the news that remember
friend Dresser for the nanny.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
Yes, I love her.

Speaker 4 (37:22):
Oh man, this is she great? She was she had
like she has a man for every day of the
week that she goes and gets gets pleasure from How old?
How old is too old to be hooking up with
with random with random guys? That voice that that voice

(37:44):
has got gotta be gotta be a deal breaker.

Speaker 6 (37:48):
Well, you know what's funny is I doubt they're random guys.
I bet these are people that she's had long term
relationships with. Also, Friend Dresher is fine. She is a
fine fox, even at her ripe age. I'm not sure
how old she is, early sixties, probably coople.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
You google that for me.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
She is fine.

Speaker 6 (38:05):
And you know what if she if she has not
decided to settle down with someone and she wants to
live her best life, then she's.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
Got to do what she's got to do. Isn't there
a point that I've heard stories like the older you
get like, so if you're if you're a guy, most
guys died before women. But if you're an old guy
and you make it to like the retirement home, like
you're the king of the castle, right, you're getting you know,
if you're into that, there's a lot. There's a lot
going on. Yes, all right, anything any other relevant questions

(38:35):
other than fran Dresser. Thank you.

Speaker 4 (38:37):
I'm just saying, you know, fran Dresser is great, but
come on, I mean's she's got a had a certain
we don't care.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
I think he's jealous. I think he's jealous. He would
love to have multiple partners. Great. JT the Wingman, We've
met him at a Mallard meet and greed. He says,
is it okay to ride a tandem bicycle for a
first date so I can just see her backside in spandex?
There's some JT. Well, GT, you have to you have
to lead the bike.

Speaker 6 (39:07):
I think if you start out in the back of
the bike, that's gonna give a very bad impression.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
No, you don't want to you take the d how
to take the lead? Okay? Okay? Shane and the Moine writes,
since says, if Manuel and Guardina beast her fiance twice
at Mallards amount of money, do you still have to
respect your sports knowledge that that's a hard one. That's
a hard one.

Speaker 6 (39:30):
And don't forget she's got your baby so you got
to make sure the baby knows sports.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
Okay, you guys can do like whatever kind of trigger.
All right, what else do we have? Let's see page
then U I can't read that one on the air.
Uh ferk Dog says, do women enjoy Ben's nickname rundown?
I know that men do. Oh yeah, we love it.
It's absolutely it's it's definitely a ton it is actually

(39:58):
I mean women have said lovely. Yeah. Women not a
last Loraina, it is not a board. Be right, right right.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
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Let's walk in our contentents. We have the Roadrunner from Davenport. Hello,
hello Roadrunner, Oh man, look at you? Who do you

(40:49):
want to partner up with?

Speaker 2 (40:50):
You?

Speaker 1 (40:50):
Got me?

Speaker 4 (40:50):
Ben?

Speaker 1 (40:50):
You got Lorena or Kooper loop? Oh boy, Roadrunner, Well
I can sense a win coming. Uh and we have
Mark on the north. Then Mark, you're on. Who do
you want to partner up with on pass word? The
word Game of the Stars.

Speaker 4 (41:05):
Well, but I'll go with Coop. I want to mission
nominated for penning a worker.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
I look at this guy's got He's got his eye
on the prize. He wants that nomination. Hardy. Let's go
all right, we'll play the game. All right, let me
get this guy, road Runner. We have a list of
words one to ten. Please pick a number. We need
a what do you say? Three? Number? Three? All right,

(41:33):
let's go with let's see here. I don't want to
be careful. How I uh think this word? Yeah? Who
put that on there? Coop? You're getting get us in trouble.
How about migrant migrant m I G R A N

(41:54):
T migrant work? What do you say? He's a worker?
A worker? Okay, No, all right, I was gonna let you,
but no, go ahead, cool. Uh let's go with alien?

Speaker 2 (42:10):
Uh visitor?

Speaker 1 (42:13):
No, No, how about newcomer?

Speaker 5 (42:20):
Oh my god, it stop it, Mark traveler, traveler. Yeah,
it's all goes together.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
Oh my god, Oh my god, we're not gonna get
one grade.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
What are we doing?

Speaker 1 (42:43):
The work was immigrant Max. Oh my god, is that
gonna be a Benny of the Year moment Worst moment
on a game show by The road Runner. Congratulations road Runner.