April 18, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Adam Silver's claim that he was helpless to stop the Luka Doncic trade, Mavericks fans trusting Silver when he says that the team isn't going anywhere, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To the launching pad we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's Our Dumber two, number two of the original Recipe
podcast on this Friday, and we start out with pro
bouncy ball. How do you categorize Adam Silver and his
claim that he was helpless to stop the Luka Donzik trade,
and we'll discuss that. Also, thumbs up thumbs down on
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the Maverick fans trusting Adam Silver when he says the
team is not going anywhere out of Dallas.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And what is the soundtrack of Adam.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Silver's time as commissioner in the NBA Ready Fire and
Aim or something like that. We'll get to all of
those stories right now here. It is our number two,
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Speaker 1 (02:13):
Now. There was no playing.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Basketball on Thursday, nothing to break down. The arenas were dark,
no lights were on anywhere, and then we will resume
activity later on. Today there's double barrel action playing style. Unfortunately,
the commissioner filled the void, filled the void on this stuff.
You didn't didn't hear what he had to say, or
(02:36):
maybe you missed this. The commissioner of the NBA from
another part of the galaxy, I think might be even
way beyond the Milky Way, way out there, Adam Silver.
So Adam Silver decided to address the HeLa monster.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
In the room.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
He said, nothing else going on, I'm gonna talk about
the Helo monster the room so that's exactly what he did.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
He said he did not have any role in the
Luca trade.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
And there are many conspiracy there is that either the
Mavericks owner is trying to move the team to Vegas
and they want to undermine the fan base, or Adam
Silver conspired with TV people who were shocked at how
pathetic the product was and how bad the ratings were
and said we got to spice this up, crank this
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up a couple of notches, and make sure this happened.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
So Adam Silver is hey, listen, I didn't have any
role in it, he said. Quote. The commissioner does.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Not have the right to block a trade, he said,
telling YouTuber Pat McAfee this. Now, Silver has stated in
this interview and at other times that he does not
does not have the authority to veto or to block
a trade between teams. He claims that the bylaws, the
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league rules of the NBA do not grant the commissioners
such powers to intervene in a trade, even if they
are controversial, unless unless they violate the CBA or some
other special regulation. So let us discuss the question for
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the esteem panel, which you are part of, the question,
how do you categorize Adam Silver, the commissioner, making mcclaim
that he was essentially helpless to do anything to stop
the Luca Donzik trade. So my observations on this, I've
got Silver, Bullet, Cult Classic, and Motley Crue, and we
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will combine all of these things together, and we are
going to Bok Bok like a chicken.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
We're gonna bok bok like a chicken.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
All right, So.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Number? Can I get a number? I saw the clip.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
It's making its way around the clip artist, the engagement
artist on social media. So the way I interpreted it's
like fine art. The way I interpreted this clip from
Adam Silver is I wanted to go to my garage
and I wanted to get a shovel, and I then
wanted to fill the shovel with manure, and then I
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would have recreated what I was hearing from Adam Silver.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It's just not true. It's just not true.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
In my humble opinion, if you do your due diligence,
Adam Silver doing a Pinocchio impersonation on this one, he
absolutely could have hit the kill button on the trade. Now,
what is my supporting evidence? My supporting evidence, let's go
way back Donald Sterling, a notorious figure in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Donald Sterling.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Over ten years ago, Donald Sterling was taken down by
Adam Silver. The NBA took the clippers away from Donald Sterley.
And how did the commissioner, Adam Silver do that? Do
you remember it? Because I remember he used what is
the NBA Commissioner's silver bullet aka Article twenty four?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Article?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Do it?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Google it?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Article twenty four? Now Article twenty four of the NBA Constitution.
It is known in the colloquial sense as the best
interest of the association clause.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
And what does that mean? It grants the.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Commissioner bad authority to act when a situation arises that
is not covered by the league's constitution and bylaw. So
you said, well, this is covered by the rules of
the NBA and the bylaw.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
So you're wrong, Ben, You don't know what you're talking about. Okay, dummy,
Read the fine print.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Read the fine print because Article twenty four could have
been applied since the tray if you look at the
language here, harmed the integrity of the NBA and hurt
public confidence in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Does anyone, does.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Anyone anywhere think this trade did not hurt the integrity
of basketball, and it was such a terrible trade. Public
confidence in the product is gone. It was such a ridiculous, atrocious,
lopsided transaction. The league has lost credibility, and a real
commissioner with balls, a real commissioner, would have done something
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about it. And Adam Silver clearly lost his balls somewhere
along the way.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Maybe he can go buy some basketballs.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
He didn't do that, and that is the kind of
thing that feeds the conspiracy theory that oh, I couldn't
do it, that he was complicit, that he he didn't
stop it. You know, if you're in a situation where
everyone agrees that something is completely ridiculous and broken, you
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might want to do a double check on that because
it might be you know, if you're in something where
it's just so over the top. Now Adam Silver additionally,
he admitted that Luka dancc trade drove up NBA ratings
this season, right, which also kind of feeds into that
narrative that the NBA powerbrokers behind the scenes were encouraging
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this to happen and he didn't stop it. Why didn't
he stop it? He could have stopped it. Article twenty
four The commissioner didn't stop it. Could it be because
he was encouraging it to happen behind the scenes like
the puppet Master now Patton. As for the relocation chatter,
the commissioner Adam Silver explained, he said the Mavericks quote
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aren't going anywhere, is what he said.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Aren't going anywhere. Those are his words, not mine.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
His words, because they are trying to build a new
arena in Dallas and there were quote no ulterior motives,
no ulterior motives behind the transaction to give away the
family jewels for a broken down basketball player and that's it.
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So thumbs up or thumbs down. Thumbs up, thumbs down
on the mavreck fans being able to trust Adam Silver
when he says that the Mavericks aren't going anywhere. So
this is a rather easy thumbs down thumbs down on
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this side. Thumbs down. Here's why think of the cult classic.
Brad Pitt was in it. Cult classic from Hollywood back
when they used to make decent movies.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Welcome to fight Club. The first rule, you know what
it is, the first rule of fight Club. You do
not talk about fight Club. You don't do it. You
don't do it.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
The second rule of fight club is you don't talk
about fight club. Historically, my entire life, there have been
teams that have moved all over since I was a
little boy watching sports, and the one constant historically has
been the commissioners of the sports league.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
They always put on their tap dance shoes.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
They sidestep confirmation, They claim that there is no funny
business going on. They don't do any of that until
the deal. Until the deal's done, they don't talk about
it until it's all finalized. I'll give you an example,
Roger Goodell. Everyone and their uncle knew that the Raiders
were done in Oakland.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
They were moving to Vegas.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
You remember, this is going back a few years twenty seventeen,
back when the Astros were cheating in baseball. But Roger
Goodell was very vague when everyone was aware the Raiders
are going to be leaving to Nevada from northern California
until it became official. And then when it became.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Official, all of a sudden, you know, there you go.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And so guys like Adam Silver, they always prioritize I
get it, diplomacy.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Ray, you don't want to fan the flames.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
You talk about these conversations like their ex orations, and
there's nothing's probably gonna happen, and these are business decisions
and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
And then you allow whoever the owner is to take
the trapnel.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
And the pattern is not just a basketball story or
a football story.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
It is across the board, across the board. You do
not admit intent. You don't admit it.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Do not admit intent early on, because you don't want
to alienate people and complicate things and things like that.
Right now, Finne pot So, looking down on the rain
of Adam Silver, what is the soundtrack? I think the
soundtrack is of Adam Silver and his time as.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Commissioner, Mister commissioner.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
So at this point, I know there's a lot of
basketball media that get down and pray at the altar
of Adam Silver. But on this side of the microphone,
the soundtrack of Adam Silver's time as commissioner is a
Motley Cruz song doctor feel good Like He's the one
that makes you feel good, Adam Silver. Right the players,
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Adam Silver is a pushover. He's like a doormat. Everyone
walks over Adam Silver. The NBA is suffering from a
blank spot. A theoretical mass.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
In the Commissioner's office at this particular point, where have
you gone, David Stern?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
A basketball nation turns its lonely eyes to you. Unfortunately,
David has moved on. He's been traded behind the pearly gates.
He's not coming back. But David Stern. I was thinking
about this when I was walking into the studio to
do the show, like, David Stern is really the last
commissioner that had machismo? Is that a fair statement or
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not a fair statement? That may make my elevator pitch,
And I'll give you my supporting evidence why I believe
David Stern was the last commissioner that actually had balls.
Because David Stern was willing to make bold, polarizing moves.
He was willing to upset people who played in the NBA.
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He was willing to upset teams in the NBA. You
remember the malice at the Palace, the punishment to my
former colleague here at Fox Sports Radio, Rod our Tests,
who worked here. There was the dress code enforcement when
David Stern went nuts because people were freaking out because
the players were wearing clown costumes on the court with
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the shorts. Are getting upset by that and then to me,
the biggest sign that David Stern was the last commissioner
that had balls was the whole load management era and
the foresight that David Stern had. He knew right away
this is poison. This is poison. And it's much like
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when you get cancer. You got to get the cancer
out of your body. Right you have a dead wood,
you get cut the dead wood out. And right away
David Stern said, oh my god, this is going to
kill our business.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
And what does a real boss do. A real boss does.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Something, right, They put on their big boxer shorts on,
they go out there and they do something.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
And David Stern he knew.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
The San Antonio Spurs brought the poison to the NBA.
They contaminated the NBA and the Spurs they sent home.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
They're playing in Florida.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
They sent home four key players and I think most
of them are all of them if I remember the story,
They flew home on Southwest Airlines and it was for
a nationally televised game, and David Stern.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Just lost it. He fined the Spurs two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. He bemoaned this, and since he left
you know a million years ago as commissioner, but.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Adam Silver replaced him. Under Adam Silver's watch, well he's
been in the big chair. The infestation that David Stern
tried to stop of load management has gotten so bad?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
How bad is it gotten?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
In a league with four hundred and fifty plus players
and the bare minute you gotta play sixty five games
certain minute requirements.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Out of four hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Players, only eighty four of them had enough guts to
actually play sixty five games and be eligible for awards.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
And David Stern knew that was coming. He knew that
was coming. He tried to stop it.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
And Adam Silver has essentially been a matador olole. He's
like the guy at the NASCAR race waving the white
flags and here we go, boys, let's get going. No
more alpha commissioners. Every commissioner is a beta. Every single
commissioner is a is a beta at this point, I mean,
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go down list like Roger Goodell at one point used
to punish players.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
He hadn't do it anymore.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
He didn't know everyone you know brought Cadell just Tody,
that's all he is. And rob manfraud. He had a
team cheating. The commissioner of baseball under his nose, caught
red handed, and he then protected them, didn't punish them.
And when people said, hey, you should take that trophy
at to Bogus Troke, it's just a hunk of metal.
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Every team at baseball is playing for a hunk of
metal because you have the Omega commissioner there.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Oh my god, it just it is wild the era
that we're in right now.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
We need someone to take over that actually has a
backbone as a commissioner.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
We really do.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
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We'll get to all that, but right now, back to it.
Go back to it, Bill, And it's me Ben here
hanging out as we have a grand old time, a
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grand old time with you as we chill here the
overnight hours. A late night drug tester says, of course,
Adam Silver doesn't have a spine or balls. If you
watched the Alien Autopsy documentary, you would have already known that.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
It's a fair point. Who else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Mallard prop guy says Ben, May I submit for your
consideration a new nickname.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
If so, how about backbone Benny? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I like that's good art, by the way, Mallard, Mallard
prop guy, I save that.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
That's very nice. Look at that cartoon art. That's a
comic book image. Click on that. I clicked that right there.
Very nice, Uh, backbone Benny. I love that form of
flattery that he What are you talking about? That he sent?
He sent the AI version of.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
The much thought into that.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
It's pretty cool, though, is you have you seen I
don't if you've seen this one, but it's pretty it's
pretty neat, right true, Alpha commissioner, backbone Benny and load
management to.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
All that stuff. Yeah, pretty good. I'd be a little
concerned if I worked in the art world. But you
know what you gonna do. Let's see your page down.
I can't read that.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Man Justin in Cincinnati says he wants us to see this.
He said, an eighty year old woman fell from a
balcony on the sixth floor onto the roof of a
car while she was allegedly cleaning, and she survived.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
She walked away as if nothing happened. Wow, And there's
video of it. That is nuts, that's wild.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Oh the girl who was trying to propel down like Rapunzel.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
No, this is in Russia, in some town in Russia,
and Justin sent the link. It's it's nice, gonna rast's
been seen millions of times. But this the story is
an eighty year old woman fell from a balcony on
the sixth floor onto the roof of a car.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
And then she was supposed to cleaning, and she she.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Just walked away. She got up and went, how's that possible?
Come on, miracle man, All right, let's see if she
can do it again.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
What do you think one more time to go back up?
And yeah, we'll see what happened. I guess it's the
phrase it's not your time would apply.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Alf the alien Will Piner right, Sin says great hour two.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Monologue and all.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
But I'm just lying here wondering when and if the
cat lady will call back. Yeah, a lot of love
for the cat lady in Colorado. People say that cat lady.
She's got every day, every day ability, every day ability.
She's excited about that. Go to the phones and we'll
say hello to Aenie meenie miney mo h. Let's say
hello to John, who's in Seattle. What's going on?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
John? Welcome John, John is gone.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Bad Timing Award goes to John Clo to laker Ol, Hello,
laker Ol.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Welcome laker Ol.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Big Ben Mautam Champagne and guy Rags Ben.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Oh, I remember, I remember you, Laker Where the hell
have you been?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Hey? Man, I ain't o MA, I'm gonna I'm a
YouTube guy. Man, I'm still love YouTube. But I'm here
at night now. Man, I'll be here with John righton
because you know I'll work at night.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
So I'm here, Laker Those YouTubers are sleeping there. We're
actually awake at this hour, you know.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Man, I wish you.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
I wish you by hey man, your show got me
all over the road, all over America. Man, So I
appreciate you man to find out too still here, Hey man,
I'm I'm thrilled. He was telling my girl KK watch
them as OKK, my girl, many.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Love God, we love KK and she's she's great and
and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I think the company is actually shocked. I'm still here too,
So don't don't let him know. They might that might
change that.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
So don't let them come.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Man, you become a fixture.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
You a fixture.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
I don't know what they're gonna do without too out there. Man,
you run the whole shelf.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Man. So yeah, wow, look at that.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
You're buttering me up. Lake are out buttering me up.
After all these years.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
It's been you and my guy. I ain't a lot
of these, you know. I'm a call right now to
talk about my Lakers a little bit and how I
felt so I felt like garbage all season long. I'm
not gonna lie, man. Ever since we got rid of
street clothes, it's been like a breath of fresh air.
That has come over to the city and we got action, baby,
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we got big action this year. I haven't felt this
good man about my boys in a long time, man,
And I'm gonna be honest with you. I think not
only does Lucas just make Lebron better, He's extended Lebron's
career a whole lot more. Man. So uh, you like
your haters? Get ready for number eighteen. We about Tiele
seltics up, man, and there's no way to sell repeat.
(24:00):
I just want you to know that too, Man.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I hate well, it's good to know, Laker ol you
are still feeding Laker propaganda after all these many many years,
you're still giving out Laker propaganda.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
But just fine, don't be upset. I know you won't
call when the Lakers lose. We won't talk toet, but
I'll be.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Will And one more thing, you know, I live in
wood Boy the stadium, so oh man, every charge of
the Rams game I can go to.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Man.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
I was about ten of the gear man, so nice
charge of man fan. That's my boys.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
All right to go out there. I gotta gotta meet
you at some point there, lakerl I'll have to go.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Out You.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Got the hook up, man, all.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Right, man, I got a spot all shout out to
all you guys. Man you lay I'm sorry, I don't
know your name, you know, but I'm gonna be listening
to you and I'm gonna get to know you a
lot better.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Enjoy those cookies, all right, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Laker Ol, the great Laker ol Man. That's old school
Laker Ol back in the day. And see, I got that,
I get I get the uh. I like that guy
because I got a lot of Laker people. You're a hater,
you should embrace my position. It enhances your experience, and
Laker al has always embraced my position obody.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
It doesn't change the fact that you are a hater.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
No. I but I'm I'm admitting I I don't like
the Lakers. I hate the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I hope the Lakers lose. I'm a Minnesota fan. Me
and Gunner, my guy Gunner in Minnesota, the YouTuber Gunner,
and we're like, here we go, come on. You know
it's I got econ Roseville. I got all my guys
in Minnesota. They're all they're all with me on this.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
This is big. So let's go to Darryl who's in
the Ozarks.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Now, Darryl, I met this cat by the way the
mal of Meat and Green, and he drove all the
way over to Kansas City to hang out.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
What's going on, Darryl. Welcome, big Ben.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
This is my first time calling. How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
This is your first time calling of You're breaking right now,
you're breaking through. You hide behind the veil of email.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Dude twenty years. Yes, but I gotta I gotta tell you.
You have not told Cooper that you are actually a
Lakers fan and you have a Lakers.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I do, I do.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
You did provide me, but not see it's missed. I
did not say that on the air, You're correct, But
you did give me some merch as I met you
in Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
And fifth Hour you might have said it once on
the fifth Hour.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah, but I didn't say Coop doesn't listen to the
Fifth Hour. But but yeah, so, uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
You you did hook me up with some some nice
merch there, and I have that in the in the
Malor Mallard mansion closet right now.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
It's it's a it's I don't. I don't really wear it.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
You can't must it out, you can't. It's not like
a mucky shirt. You can't just wear it on the weekends.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Well, it's one of those things I gotta wear, like
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I can't take it out of the house because then
people will say, what's going on in a whisper, those
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is what you said.
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Yeah, and there there it was right there and ugly, ugly. Yeah.
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the Liberty Landing at the Liberty Landing, Yes, and you are.
You are an official Missouri Mallar.
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Okay, I like that.
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Butter, because you can't get butter from a bull. If
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want that. You don't want to eat that.
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And then leading into your draft, your draft talk, Travis Hunter,
isn't he worth two picks if he plays both ways?
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
No, only if he's good, only only if he's great
both ways. I think it's like, you know, how like
a Tony's an amazing offensive player, but he's not a
great pitcher. He's a really good offensive player, and and
he's an okay pitcher.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
But that gives you another reliever you could put in
your in your bullpen.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Well, yeah, Tony's a starter and all that.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
So but yeah, I like I like the player Travis Hunter,
and I would the two guys that at the top
ten picks. The two guys that I think are are
great are Abdul Carter and Travis Hunter. And I'm never
wrong about these things, Darryl, I'm never wrong.
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Exactly, all right. But how you doing? You're doing all right?
There you're hanging in there.
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Man, I'm hanging and this is my first weeknight off
in a long time. So all right, the chilling listening
to you guys live for the first time in a
long time. I appreciate your work. Hyl Rena.
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There you go.
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Now I got to hang up on him.
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I have bad opinions now.
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Daryl's great.
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Darryl and his dad came town from the Ozarks and
very nice to meet them.
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They've been listening for many, many years. They beautiful, beautiful,
The Ozarks are beautiful and got a nice place there
and I was great. I thank you, dear. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
It is the Ben Maler Show, so honest Al, not
Laker Al. That would be Al Michaels. He said it.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Of the possibility of having a farewell tour, most people
seem to think this is me Al's last year. To
an NFL, Al said it would be embarrassing to have
a farewell tour.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Bravo.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
But I completely agree with Al Michaels. One of the
more absurd things that we have is the farewell tour.
It's so so hokey and so stupid and all that. Now,
I also mentioned a sportscaster has an Otani type deal,
and that would be Joe Rogan.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
You know how Joe Rogan is like a UFC guy
and all that stuff. That's his bread and butter.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
And Otani's got a clause in his contract where if
the general manager or Dave Roberts, any of the big
shots with the Dodgers leave, he can then opt out
of his contract. Well, Joe Rogan has review that if
Dana White walks away from the UFC, Joe Rogan can
then say bye bye, I'm out of there.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Let me thinks he's not.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Gonna do that because he loves it and it's his hobby.
I mean, he even does a bunch of those. I
guess his podcast dedicated. I don't think Ione listens to
them to the UFC, but he that's his passion.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
So I do not believe there's any danger. But he
does have the clause in his contract, So I thought
that was that was somewhat intriguing. Shall we say, somewhat intriguing?
Shall we say?
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I thought this one was interesting. We'll see if you
can can figure it out.
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I don't really have the music gene, but I found
this question and I thought it would work for the show.
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A lot of you love your music, so here it is.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Blank is the most popular walk up song by Major
League Baseball players here In the twenty twenty five season,
Blank the most popular walk up song by Major League
Baseball players.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
In the twenty twenty five season.
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And time to pay off the Insta trivia and we'll
get to Mallard of the third degree and one of
the more unique questions that we've had. I thought this
would work for the show, and here it is. Blank
is the most popular walk up song by Major League
Baseball players here in the twenty twenty five season. Blank
is the most popular walk up song by Major League
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Baseball players here in the twenty twenty five season. That
is the question? What is the answer? Lindsey, Does anyone
know the answer? Big Greg and Iowa says Beck's loser,
alf the Allen o'piner going with the Chicken Dance as
the answer. Donkey Sausage says Sonny James, A little.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
South of Saskatoon is the answer. That song that's that solid.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Robbie the Mariner fan was answered randomly by Scrooge Mom's
Basement by Dylan Owen from ferg Dog Page Down Vanessa Kirby,
Who's thirty seven a day?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
From Late Night? Drug tester King Roy says, it's raining men?
Is the answer? Hit Me Baby one more time? From Dante?
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Who else do we have? Yak Andy Sacks by Boots
Randolph Road was guessed by Ike and Roseville, Minnesota, Eat
It by Milkman Mike and Colorado, Kathy and Madison said
John Fogerty's center Field the classic song Roberto the bus Driver.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
He's up late, He's going to bad Bunny, Hi, Roberto?
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Alan Jackson's a little bitty from Desperate Minnesota Fan? Who
else do we have? Nothing funnier than a fart? From
Ozzie Waz that's his answer. It's Old McDonald had a
Farm by Marcella and Brooklyn from j T. The Wingman,
U Don't Dream. It's over by crowded House from Big
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Rig Rob Chiptoe through the Tulips from Johnny Q. That's
funny A lot of It's raining men?
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Who else do we have? Can't read that page down? Here?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
My Little Pony from Adrian The theme from that baby Shark,
guessed by DJ Spin in San Diego, Mark in Santa Monica,
going with Albert Einstein as his answer.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Let's see here justin in Cincinnati. Very funny. All right,
do you have an answer, Lorraine.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
We're looking for the name of the most popular walk
up song in Major League Baseball this season.
Speaker 6 (36:30):
So many good options here, Ben, I'm gonna go with
Katy Perry's Firework.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Firework, all right? That is in answer.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Chris Stapleton White Horse is number one, number two on
the big board, Johnny Cash, number two, Johnny Cash, And
that's God's gonna cut you down.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go. How
about that degree?
Speaker 4 (37:02):
This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 6 (37:06):
Google Loop and the New York Giants general manager told
reporters in a pre draft news conference that the team
has received the number of calls from other teams about
the number three overall pick. He would not rule out
trading down in the draft for the right deal. But
would you be surprised if the Giants traded away the
number three No.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Because they don't want a quarterback. There's really no quarterback
to take. The consensus is cam Ward's gonna be number one. Overall,
and then after that there's gonna be a big gap
between quarterbacks being picked, or at least there should be.
It sounded to me listening between the words that Joe
Shane was trying to speak a trade into reality that
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he's trying to he said, we maybe won't we won't
draft a quarterback, and that's because the player that might
be there is up Dual Carter, and so they figured
somebody might be willing to trade up to get up
Dual Carter.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
So that's the guy they'll be willing to trade next.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
Trade rumors around TJ. Watt continue to heat up the
longer he and the Steelers go without reaching an extension agreement. However,
one Steeler's insider said this week that they're just isn't
much of a market for a one hundred and sixty
million dollars thirty one year old ben Do you agree, Well, any.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Player with that kind of money is not going to
have a huge market. But all it takes is one aristocrat,
one robber baron owner to say all right, this is
the guy we want, and that that kind of player
gets traded via an owner. That's not a trade that
happens based on like some nerd that went to Yale
or Harvard that is in the front office.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
So yeah, it's a small market, but it's not just
because of the age.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
It's like everything together and it's like there's a lot
of money. It's like guys get hurt all the time
to even TJ. Watt's gotten hurt quite a bit. And
the Steelers are so buttoned up, unstealer, like you're traded next.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Fox Sports radio um Jim Bowden insinuated this week that
Orioles manager Brandon Hyde is already on the hot seat
and could be gone by the All Star break without
a major turnaround in Baltimore. Ben, are things already that serious?
Speaker 2 (38:59):
The Oriols are a bad baseball team, and they had
a terrible offseason. And I've watched a few of their
games and they have looked like they haven't practiced at all.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
And there's a.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Yeah, I think he's been there a long time. They
did they haven't won in the playoffs. There's absolutely Brandon Hyde.
I'd buy it he's not long for that job.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
How do we do? You passed this edition? That is
a weird cutter on.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
The go.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
The team the game.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
So I won I to win. I won the game.
I won the game.
To the launching pad we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's Our Dumber two, number two of the original Recipe
podcast on this Friday, and we start out with pro
bouncy ball. How do you categorize Adam Silver and his
claim that he was helpless to stop the Luka Donzik trade,
and we'll discuss that. Also, thumbs up thumbs down on
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the Maverick fans trusting Adam Silver when he says the
team is not going anywhere out of Dallas.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And what is the soundtrack of Adam.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Silver's time as commissioner in the NBA Ready Fire and
Aim or something like that. We'll get to all of
those stories right now here. It is our number two,
sounding like a wooden puppet well gum in the beginning
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Speaker 1 (02:13):
Now. There was no playing.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Basketball on Thursday, nothing to break down. The arenas were dark,
no lights were on anywhere, and then we will resume
activity later on. Today there's double barrel action playing style. Unfortunately,
the commissioner filled the void, filled the void on this stuff.
You didn't didn't hear what he had to say, or
(02:36):
maybe you missed this. The commissioner of the NBA from
another part of the galaxy, I think might be even
way beyond the Milky Way, way out there, Adam Silver.
So Adam Silver decided to address the HeLa monster.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
In the room.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
He said, nothing else going on, I'm gonna talk about
the Helo monster the room so that's exactly what he did.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
He said he did not have any role in the
Luca trade.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
And there are many conspiracy there is that either the
Mavericks owner is trying to move the team to Vegas
and they want to undermine the fan base, or Adam
Silver conspired with TV people who were shocked at how
pathetic the product was and how bad the ratings were
and said we got to spice this up, crank this
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up a couple of notches, and make sure this happened.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
So Adam Silver is hey, listen, I didn't have any
role in it, he said. Quote. The commissioner does.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Not have the right to block a trade, he said,
telling YouTuber Pat McAfee this. Now, Silver has stated in
this interview and at other times that he does not
does not have the authority to veto or to block
a trade between teams. He claims that the bylaws, the
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league rules of the NBA do not grant the commissioners
such powers to intervene in a trade, even if they
are controversial, unless unless they violate the CBA or some
other special regulation. So let us discuss the question for
(04:17):
the esteem panel, which you are part of, the question,
how do you categorize Adam Silver, the commissioner, making mcclaim
that he was essentially helpless to do anything to stop
the Luca Donzik trade. So my observations on this, I've
got Silver, Bullet, Cult Classic, and Motley Crue, and we
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will combine all of these things together, and we are
going to Bok Bok like a chicken.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
We're gonna bok bok like a chicken.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
All right, So.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Number? Can I get a number? I saw the clip.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
It's making its way around the clip artist, the engagement
artist on social media. So the way I interpreted it's
like fine art. The way I interpreted this clip from
Adam Silver is I wanted to go to my garage
and I wanted to get a shovel, and I then
wanted to fill the shovel with manure, and then I
(05:23):
would have recreated what I was hearing from Adam Silver.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It's just not true. It's just not true.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
In my humble opinion, if you do your due diligence,
Adam Silver doing a Pinocchio impersonation on this one, he
absolutely could have hit the kill button on the trade. Now,
what is my supporting evidence? My supporting evidence, let's go
way back Donald Sterling, a notorious figure in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Donald Sterling.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Over ten years ago, Donald Sterling was taken down by
Adam Silver. The NBA took the clippers away from Donald Sterley.
And how did the commissioner, Adam Silver do that? Do
you remember it? Because I remember he used what is
the NBA Commissioner's silver bullet aka Article twenty four?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Article?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Do it?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Google it?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Article twenty four? Now Article twenty four of the NBA Constitution.
It is known in the colloquial sense as the best
interest of the association clause.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
And what does that mean? It grants the.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Commissioner bad authority to act when a situation arises that
is not covered by the league's constitution and bylaw. So
you said, well, this is covered by the rules of
the NBA and the bylaw.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
So you're wrong, Ben, You don't know what you're talking about. Okay, dummy,
Read the fine print.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Read the fine print because Article twenty four could have
been applied since the tray if you look at the
language here, harmed the integrity of the NBA and hurt
public confidence in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Does anyone, does.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Anyone anywhere think this trade did not hurt the integrity
of basketball, and it was such a terrible trade. Public
confidence in the product is gone. It was such a ridiculous, atrocious,
lopsided transaction. The league has lost credibility, and a real
commissioner with balls, a real commissioner, would have done something
(07:31):
about it. And Adam Silver clearly lost his balls somewhere
along the way.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Maybe he can go buy some basketballs.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
He didn't do that, and that is the kind of
thing that feeds the conspiracy theory that oh, I couldn't
do it, that he was complicit, that he he didn't
stop it. You know, if you're in a situation where
everyone agrees that something is completely ridiculous and broken, you
(08:00):
might want to do a double check on that because
it might be you know, if you're in something where
it's just so over the top. Now Adam Silver additionally,
he admitted that Luka dancc trade drove up NBA ratings
this season, right, which also kind of feeds into that
narrative that the NBA powerbrokers behind the scenes were encouraging
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this to happen and he didn't stop it. Why didn't
he stop it? He could have stopped it. Article twenty
four The commissioner didn't stop it. Could it be because
he was encouraging it to happen behind the scenes like
the puppet Master now Patton. As for the relocation chatter,
the commissioner Adam Silver explained, he said the Mavericks quote
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aren't going anywhere, is what he said.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Aren't going anywhere. Those are his words, not mine.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
His words, because they are trying to build a new
arena in Dallas and there were quote no ulterior motives,
no ulterior motives behind the transaction to give away the
family jewels for a broken down basketball player and that's it.
(09:09):
So thumbs up or thumbs down. Thumbs up, thumbs down
on the mavreck fans being able to trust Adam Silver
when he says that the Mavericks aren't going anywhere. So
this is a rather easy thumbs down thumbs down on
(09:30):
this side. Thumbs down. Here's why think of the cult classic.
Brad Pitt was in it. Cult classic from Hollywood back
when they used to make decent movies.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Welcome to fight Club. The first rule, you know what
it is, the first rule of fight Club. You do
not talk about fight Club. You don't do it. You
don't do it.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
The second rule of fight club is you don't talk
about fight club. Historically, my entire life, there have been
teams that have moved all over since I was a
little boy watching sports, and the one constant historically has
been the commissioners of the sports league.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
They always put on their tap dance shoes.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
They sidestep confirmation, They claim that there is no funny
business going on. They don't do any of that until
the deal. Until the deal's done, they don't talk about
it until it's all finalized. I'll give you an example,
Roger Goodell. Everyone and their uncle knew that the Raiders
were done in Oakland.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
They were moving to Vegas.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
You remember, this is going back a few years twenty seventeen,
back when the Astros were cheating in baseball. But Roger
Goodell was very vague when everyone was aware the Raiders
are going to be leaving to Nevada from northern California
until it became official. And then when it became.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Official, all of a sudden, you know, there you go.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
And so guys like Adam Silver, they always prioritize I
get it, diplomacy.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Ray, you don't want to fan the flames.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
You talk about these conversations like their ex orations, and
there's nothing's probably gonna happen, and these are business decisions
and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
And then you allow whoever the owner is to take
the trapnel.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
And the pattern is not just a basketball story or
a football story.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
It is across the board, across the board. You do
not admit intent. You don't admit it.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Do not admit intent early on, because you don't want
to alienate people and complicate things and things like that.
Right now, Finne pot So, looking down on the rain
of Adam Silver, what is the soundtrack? I think the
soundtrack is of Adam Silver and his time as.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Commissioner, Mister commissioner.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
So at this point, I know there's a lot of
basketball media that get down and pray at the altar
of Adam Silver. But on this side of the microphone,
the soundtrack of Adam Silver's time as commissioner is a
Motley Cruz song doctor feel good Like He's the one
that makes you feel good, Adam Silver. Right the players,
(12:09):
Adam Silver is a pushover. He's like a doormat. Everyone
walks over Adam Silver. The NBA is suffering from a
blank spot. A theoretical mass.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
In the Commissioner's office at this particular point, where have
you gone, David Stern?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
A basketball nation turns its lonely eyes to you. Unfortunately,
David has moved on. He's been traded behind the pearly gates.
He's not coming back. But David Stern. I was thinking
about this when I was walking into the studio to
do the show, like, David Stern is really the last
commissioner that had machismo? Is that a fair statement or
(12:50):
not a fair statement? That may make my elevator pitch,
And I'll give you my supporting evidence why I believe
David Stern was the last commissioner that actually had balls.
Because David Stern was willing to make bold, polarizing moves.
He was willing to upset people who played in the NBA.
(13:11):
He was willing to upset teams in the NBA. You
remember the malice at the Palace, the punishment to my
former colleague here at Fox Sports Radio, Rod our Tests,
who worked here. There was the dress code enforcement when
David Stern went nuts because people were freaking out because
the players were wearing clown costumes on the court with
(13:31):
the shorts. Are getting upset by that and then to me,
the biggest sign that David Stern was the last commissioner
that had balls was the whole load management era and
the foresight that David Stern had. He knew right away
this is poison. This is poison. And it's much like
(13:52):
when you get cancer. You got to get the cancer
out of your body. Right you have a dead wood,
you get cut the dead wood out. And right away
David Stern said, oh my god, this is going to
kill our business.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
And what does a real boss do. A real boss does.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Something, right, They put on their big boxer shorts on,
they go out there and they do something.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
And David Stern he knew.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
The San Antonio Spurs brought the poison to the NBA.
They contaminated the NBA and the Spurs they sent home.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
They're playing in Florida.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
They sent home four key players and I think most
of them are all of them if I remember the story,
They flew home on Southwest Airlines and it was for
a nationally televised game, and David Stern.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Just lost it. He fined the Spurs two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. He bemoaned this, and since he left
you know a million years ago as commissioner, but.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Adam Silver replaced him. Under Adam Silver's watch, well he's
been in the big chair. The infestation that David Stern
tried to stop of load management has gotten so bad?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
How bad is it gotten?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
In a league with four hundred and fifty plus players
and the bare minute you gotta play sixty five games
certain minute requirements.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Out of four hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Players, only eighty four of them had enough guts to
actually play sixty five games and be eligible for awards.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
And David Stern knew that was coming. He knew that
was coming. He tried to stop it.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
And Adam Silver has essentially been a matador olole. He's
like the guy at the NASCAR race waving the white
flags and here we go, boys, let's get going. No
more alpha commissioners. Every commissioner is a beta. Every single
commissioner is a is a beta at this point, I mean,
(15:53):
go down list like Roger Goodell at one point used
to punish players.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
He hadn't do it anymore.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
He didn't know everyone you know brought Cadell just Tody,
that's all he is. And rob manfraud. He had a
team cheating. The commissioner of baseball under his nose, caught
red handed, and he then protected them, didn't punish them.
And when people said, hey, you should take that trophy
at to Bogus Troke, it's just a hunk of metal.
(16:22):
Every team at baseball is playing for a hunk of
metal because you have the Omega commissioner there.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Oh my god, it just it is wild the era
that we're in right now.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
We need someone to take over that actually has a
backbone as a commissioner.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
We really do.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
It is the Ben Mahlor Show as we are continuing
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Speaker 1 (17:18):
Say what? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Somebody in sports media with a show, Hey o Tani
like deal. We'll get to those stories. Got a lot
to get to take your calls as well. You don't
have to be a regular. You can be a newbie
and call up. We'll get to all that, and we will.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Do it.
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Next.
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Speaker 2 (17:41):
Bell Miller and You. It is the Ben Maller Show.
Hanging out together on the third shift.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Good to have you. If you're working with us or not.
If you're just driving along some dusty country road somewhere.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Maybe you are working while you're driving. I know my
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Say hello to Ben at Ben Mahler. That's at Ben Mahler, Lorraina.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Who's in a cookie coma?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Say hello to Lorenas, don't talk to me FSR Tech Queen,
FSR Tech Queen and Cooper Loop. Uh Bronco fan, that's
uh Bronco fan. And you can be put of the
live show. Don't forget coming up next hour Big Ben's
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Lame Jokes of the Week. Later this hour, have a
riveting edition, A riveting edition this hour. Uh, that's right,
Mallor to the third degree, Malard to the third degree.
We'll get to all that, but right now, back to it.
Go back to it, Bill, And it's me Ben here
hanging out as we have a grand old time, a
(19:02):
grand old time with you as we chill here the
overnight hours. A late night drug tester says, of course,
Adam Silver doesn't have a spine or balls. If you
watched the Alien Autopsy documentary, you would have already known that.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
It's a fair point. Who else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Mallard prop guy says Ben, May I submit for your
consideration a new nickname.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
If so, how about backbone Benny? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I like that's good art, by the way, Mallard, Mallard
prop guy, I save that.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
That's very nice. Look at that cartoon art. That's a
comic book image. Click on that. I clicked that right there.
Very nice, Uh, backbone Benny. I love that form of
flattery that he What are you talking about? That he sent?
He sent the AI version of.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
The much thought into that.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
It's pretty cool, though, is you have you seen I
don't if you've seen this one, but it's pretty it's
pretty neat, right true, Alpha commissioner, backbone Benny and load
management to.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
All that stuff. Yeah, pretty good. I'd be a little
concerned if I worked in the art world. But you
know what you gonna do. Let's see your page down.
I can't read that.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Man Justin in Cincinnati says he wants us to see this.
He said, an eighty year old woman fell from a
balcony on the sixth floor onto the roof of a
car while she was allegedly cleaning, and she survived.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
She walked away as if nothing happened. Wow, And there's
video of it. That is nuts, that's wild.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Oh the girl who was trying to propel down like Rapunzel.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
No, this is in Russia, in some town in Russia,
and Justin sent the link. It's it's nice, gonna rast's
been seen millions of times. But this the story is
an eighty year old woman fell from a balcony on
the sixth floor onto the roof of a car.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
And then she was supposed to cleaning, and she she.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Just walked away. She got up and went, how's that possible?
Come on, miracle man, All right, let's see if she
can do it again.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
What do you think one more time to go back up?
And yeah, we'll see what happened. I guess it's the
phrase it's not your time would apply.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Alf the alien Will Piner right, Sin says great hour two.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Monologue and all.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
But I'm just lying here wondering when and if the
cat lady will call back. Yeah, a lot of love
for the cat lady in Colorado. People say that cat lady.
She's got every day, every day ability, every day ability.
She's excited about that. Go to the phones and we'll
say hello to Aenie meenie miney mo h. Let's say
hello to John, who's in Seattle. What's going on?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
John? Welcome John, John is gone.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Bad Timing Award goes to John Clo to laker Ol, Hello,
laker Ol.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Welcome laker Ol.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Big Ben Mautam Champagne and guy Rags Ben.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Oh, I remember, I remember you, Laker Where the hell
have you been?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Hey? Man, I ain't o MA, I'm gonna I'm a
YouTube guy. Man, I'm still love YouTube. But I'm here
at night now. Man, I'll be here with John righton
because you know I'll work at night.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
So I'm here, Laker Those YouTubers are sleeping there. We're
actually awake at this hour, you know.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Man, I wish you.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
I wish you by hey man, your show got me
all over the road, all over America. Man, So I
appreciate you man to find out too still here, Hey man,
I'm I'm thrilled. He was telling my girl KK watch
them as OKK, my girl, many.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Love God, we love KK and she's she's great and
and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I think the company is actually shocked. I'm still here too,
So don't don't let him know. They might that might
change that.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
So don't let them come.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Man, you become a fixture.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
You a fixture.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
I don't know what they're gonna do without too out there. Man,
you run the whole shelf.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Man. So yeah, wow, look at that.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
You're buttering me up. Lake are out buttering me up.
After all these years.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
It's been you and my guy. I ain't a lot
of these, you know. I'm a call right now to
talk about my Lakers a little bit and how I
felt so I felt like garbage all season long. I'm
not gonna lie, man. Ever since we got rid of
street clothes, it's been like a breath of fresh air.
That has come over to the city and we got action, baby,
(23:40):
we got big action this year. I haven't felt this
good man about my boys in a long time, man,
And I'm gonna be honest with you. I think not
only does Lucas just make Lebron better, He's extended Lebron's
career a whole lot more. Man. So uh, you like
your haters? Get ready for number eighteen. We about Tiele
seltics up, man, and there's no way to sell repeat.
(24:00):
I just want you to know that too, Man.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I hate well, it's good to know, Laker ol you
are still feeding Laker propaganda after all these many many years,
you're still giving out Laker propaganda.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
But just fine, don't be upset. I know you won't
call when the Lakers lose. We won't talk toet, but
I'll be.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Will And one more thing, you know, I live in
wood Boy the stadium, so oh man, every charge of
the Rams game I can go to.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Man.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
I was about ten of the gear man, so nice
charge of man fan. That's my boys.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
All right to go out there. I gotta gotta meet
you at some point there, lakerl I'll have to go.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Out You.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Got the hook up, man, all.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Right, man, I got a spot all shout out to
all you guys. Man you lay I'm sorry, I don't
know your name, you know, but I'm gonna be listening
to you and I'm gonna get to know you a
lot better.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Enjoy those cookies, all right, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Laker Ol, the great Laker ol Man. That's old school
Laker Ol back in the day. And see, I got that,
I get I get the uh. I like that guy
because I got a lot of Laker people. You're a hater,
you should embrace my position. It enhances your experience, and
Laker al has always embraced my position obody.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
It doesn't change the fact that you are a hater.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
No. I but I'm I'm admitting I I don't like
the Lakers. I hate the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I hope the Lakers lose. I'm a Minnesota fan. Me
and Gunner, my guy Gunner in Minnesota, the YouTuber Gunner,
and we're like, here we go, come on. You know
it's I got econ Roseville. I got all my guys
in Minnesota. They're all they're all with me on this.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
This is big. So let's go to Darryl who's in
the Ozarks.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Now, Darryl, I met this cat by the way the
mal of Meat and Green, and he drove all the
way over to Kansas City to hang out.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
What's going on, Darryl. Welcome, big Ben.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
This is my first time calling. How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
This is your first time calling of You're breaking right now,
you're breaking through. You hide behind the veil of email.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Dude twenty years. Yes, but I gotta I gotta tell you.
You have not told Cooper that you are actually a
Lakers fan and you have a Lakers.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I do, I do.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
You did provide me, but not see it's missed. I
did not say that on the air, You're correct, But
you did give me some merch as I met you
in Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
And fifth Hour you might have said it once on
the fifth Hour.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah, but I didn't say Coop doesn't listen to the
Fifth Hour. But but yeah, so, uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
You you did hook me up with some some nice
merch there, and I have that in the in the
Malor Mallard mansion closet right now.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
It's it's a it's I don't. I don't really wear it.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
You can't must it out, you can't. It's not like
a mucky shirt. You can't just wear it on the weekends.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Well, it's one of those things I gotta wear, like
around the house, Daryl, You know I gotta wear I can't.
I can't take it out of the house because then
people will say, what's going on in a whisper, those
kind of things.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I remember when I when I gave you that jersey,
you just said, please don't let it say Lakers. That
is what you said.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Yeah, and there there it was right there and ugly, ugly. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Yeah, I do have two things for you, all.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Right, one, yes, number one. Number one.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
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How amazing is that?
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That's I can't believe it.
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Speaker 2 (27:56):
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Speaker 1 (28:13):
All right, what you got here? Give me give me
the goods here, Darryl, give me good.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Real quick, real quick. So, first of all, you have
a new nickname. It's Missouri Mallar because you've been to
the Liberty Landing at the Liberty Landing, Yes, and you are.
You are an official Missouri Mallar.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Okay, I like that.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
And then you're also bull butter Mallar.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Bull butter, bull.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Butter, because you can't get butter from a bull. If
you do, it's it's not the good butter.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
That's a good that's a good point. Yeah, you don't
want that. You don't want to eat that.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
And then leading into your draft, your draft talk, Travis Hunter,
isn't he worth two picks if he plays both ways?
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
No, only if he's good, only only if he's great
both ways. I think it's like, you know, how like
a Tony's an amazing offensive player, but he's not a
great pitcher. He's a really good offensive player, and and
he's an okay pitcher.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
But that gives you another reliever you could put in
your in your bullpen.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Well, yeah, Tony's a starter and all that.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
So but yeah, I like I like the player Travis Hunter,
and I would the two guys that at the top
ten picks. The two guys that I think are are
great are Abdul Carter and Travis Hunter. And I'm never
wrong about these things, Darryl, I'm never wrong.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Ever, your your record is infectable.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Exactly, all right. But how you doing? You're doing all right?
There you're hanging in there.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Man, I'm hanging and this is my first weeknight off
in a long time. So all right, the chilling listening
to you guys live for the first time in a
long time. I appreciate your work. Hyl Rena.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
D be nice to Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Now I got to hang up on him.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
I have bad opinions now.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Daryl's great.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Darryl and his dad came town from the Ozarks and
very nice to meet them.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
They've been listening for many, many years. They beautiful, beautiful,
The Ozarks are beautiful and got a nice place there
and I was great. I thank you, dear. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
It is the Ben Maler Show, so honest Al, not
Laker Al. That would be Al Michaels. He said it.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Of the possibility of having a farewell tour, most people
seem to think this is me Al's last year. To
an NFL, Al said it would be embarrassing to have
a farewell tour.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Bravo.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
But I completely agree with Al Michaels. One of the
more absurd things that we have is the farewell tour.
It's so so hokey and so stupid and all that. Now,
I also mentioned a sportscaster has an Otani type deal,
and that would be Joe Rogan.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
You know how Joe Rogan is like a UFC guy
and all that stuff. That's his bread and butter.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
And Otani's got a clause in his contract where if
the general manager or Dave Roberts, any of the big
shots with the Dodgers leave, he can then opt out
of his contract. Well, Joe Rogan has review that if
Dana White walks away from the UFC, Joe Rogan can
then say bye bye, I'm out of there.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Let me thinks he's not.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Gonna do that because he loves it and it's his hobby.
I mean, he even does a bunch of those. I
guess his podcast dedicated. I don't think Ione listens to
them to the UFC, but he that's his passion.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
So I do not believe there's any danger. But he
does have the clause in his contract, So I thought
that was that was somewhat intriguing. Shall we say, somewhat intriguing?
Shall we say?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
All right, here's the Ben Maller show we're gonna have
coming up here mallardly third degree. Time Now for the
Insta Trivia, and here is the Insta Trivia.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I thought this one was interesting. We'll see if you
can can figure it out.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
I don't really have the music gene, but I found
this question and I thought it would work for the show.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
A lot of you love your music, so here it is.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Blank is the most popular walk up song by Major
League Baseball players here In the twenty twenty five season,
Blank the most popular walk up song by Major League
Baseball players.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
In the twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
That is the insta trivia the answer.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
We'll get to it, and we will do it next.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
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That's our path.
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That's twenty five thousand dollars ol path you moment.
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That's a plump pussy right there. Cut that me. Oh yes, yes, yes,
my lover balls. It is I Bill Miller and you.
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Speaker 1 (33:22):
Show, the weekend Fifth Hour podcast.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
With the new episode dropping on the pod today as
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the Ben Malorshow, Fox Sports Radio and the Fifth Hour Podcast.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
And now back to it. We go, well, back to
it and it is me Ben as we are rolling
through the overnight.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
And time to pay off the Insta trivia and we'll
get to Mallard of the third degree and one of
the more unique questions that we've had. I thought this
would work for the show, and here it is. Blank
is the most popular walk up song by Major League
Baseball players here in the twenty twenty five season. Blank
is the most popular walk up song by Major League
(34:19):
Baseball players here in the twenty twenty five season. That
is the question? What is the answer? Lindsey, Does anyone
know the answer? Big Greg and Iowa says Beck's loser,
alf the Allen o'piner going with the Chicken Dance as
the answer. Donkey Sausage says Sonny James, A little.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
South of Saskatoon is the answer. That song that's that solid.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Robbie the Mariner fan was answered randomly by Scrooge Mom's
Basement by Dylan Owen from ferg Dog Page Down Vanessa Kirby,
Who's thirty seven a day?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
From Late Night? Drug tester King Roy says, it's raining men?
Is the answer? Hit Me Baby one more time? From Dante?
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Who else do we have? Yak Andy Sacks by Boots
Randolph Road was guessed by Ike and Roseville, Minnesota, Eat
It by Milkman Mike and Colorado, Kathy and Madison said
John Fogerty's center Field the classic song Roberto the bus Driver.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
He's up late, He's going to bad Bunny, Hi, Roberto?
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Alan Jackson's a little bitty from Desperate Minnesota Fan? Who
else do we have? Nothing funnier than a fart? From
Ozzie Waz that's his answer. It's Old McDonald had a
Farm by Marcella and Brooklyn from j T. The Wingman,
U Don't Dream. It's over by crowded House from Big
(35:53):
Rig Rob Chiptoe through the Tulips from Johnny Q. That's
funny A lot of It's raining men?
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Who else do we have? Can't read that page down? Here?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
My Little Pony from Adrian The theme from that baby Shark,
guessed by DJ Spin in San Diego, Mark in Santa Monica,
going with Albert Einstein as his answer.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Let's see here justin in Cincinnati. Very funny. All right,
do you have an answer, Lorraine.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
We're looking for the name of the most popular walk
up song in Major League Baseball this season.
Speaker 6 (36:30):
So many good options here, Ben, I'm gonna go with
Katy Perry's Firework.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Firework, all right? That is in answer.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Chris Stapleton White Horse is number one, number two on
the big board, Johnny Cash, number two, Johnny Cash, And
that's God's gonna cut you down.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go. How
about that degree?
Speaker 4 (37:02):
This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 6 (37:06):
Google Loop and the New York Giants general manager told
reporters in a pre draft news conference that the team
has received the number of calls from other teams about
the number three overall pick. He would not rule out
trading down in the draft for the right deal. But
would you be surprised if the Giants traded away the
number three No.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Because they don't want a quarterback. There's really no quarterback
to take. The consensus is cam Ward's gonna be number one. Overall,
and then after that there's gonna be a big gap
between quarterbacks being picked, or at least there should be.
It sounded to me listening between the words that Joe
Shane was trying to speak a trade into reality that
(37:42):
he's trying to he said, we maybe won't we won't
draft a quarterback, and that's because the player that might
be there is up Dual Carter, and so they figured
somebody might be willing to trade up to get up
Dual Carter.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
So that's the guy they'll be willing to trade next.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
Trade rumors around TJ. Watt continue to heat up the
longer he and the Steelers go without reaching an extension agreement. However,
one Steeler's insider said this week that they're just isn't
much of a market for a one hundred and sixty
million dollars thirty one year old ben Do you agree, Well, any.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Player with that kind of money is not going to
have a huge market. But all it takes is one aristocrat,
one robber baron owner to say all right, this is
the guy we want, and that that kind of player
gets traded via an owner. That's not a trade that
happens based on like some nerd that went to Yale
or Harvard that is in the front office.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
So yeah, it's a small market, but it's not just
because of the age.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
It's like everything together and it's like there's a lot
of money. It's like guys get hurt all the time
to even TJ. Watt's gotten hurt quite a bit. And
the Steelers are so buttoned up, unstealer, like you're traded next.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Fox Sports radio um Jim Bowden insinuated this week that
Orioles manager Brandon Hyde is already on the hot seat
and could be gone by the All Star break without
a major turnaround in Baltimore. Ben, are things already that serious?
Speaker 2 (38:59):
The Oriols are a bad baseball team, and they had
a terrible offseason. And I've watched a few of their
games and they have looked like they haven't practiced at all.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
And there's a.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Yeah, I think he's been there a long time. They
did they haven't won in the playoffs. There's absolutely Brandon Hyde.
I'd buy it he's not long for that job.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
How do we do? You passed this edition? That is
a weird cutter on.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
The go.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
The team the game.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
So I won I to win. I won the game.
I won the game.
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