June 30, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller opens the week talking about LeBron James picking up his player option and what’s Rich Paul really trying to say about LeBron's future with the Lakers, is there any impact of Timberwolves F Julius Randle staying with the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Portland Trail Blazers are saying adios to former first overall pick DeAndre Ayton + a new edition of the Who Am I Game!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, it's our number one, back at it,
a brand new week slaving away the hot microphones of
Fox Sports Radio. If you missed any of the Fifth
Hour podcasts, go back and check those out. The final show,
the final show for the month of June.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Right here in our number one.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Lebron James picking up a fifty two million dollar player option.
Can you please decode the message given by Rich Paul
on behalf of Lebron James and his future with the Lakers.
We'll talk about that also, the very inconsistent forward Julius
Randall has agreed to re sign with the Timberwolves on
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a three year, one hundred million dollar contract. Does this
signing move the needle for you? And what stands out
about DeAndre Ayton getting a buyout?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
He's going to hit the market.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
The Trailblazers are paying him to go away from Portland.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
What is that say to you? We'll talk about that
as well.
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Give it up for our number one. Sticking around, well,
kind of sticking around. Welcome, in the beginning of another
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love transactions. I always love the transaction. Now I like
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the rumor. I like the rumor more than the transaction.
I like what might happen rather than what has happened.
Now that being said, we have a mix of what
has happened and what is going to happen. But our
lead this hour is from pro bouncy ball the Kingdom
as it's the King James Kingdom of Basketball, filling the
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content machine, yet again, filling the content machine. So over
the weekend, Lebron James decided that he wanted to stay
with the Lakers kind of well, fifty million dollars, got
fifty two point six million dollar player option, just to
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click that box right there, and you do the docu.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Sign and then you're on your way.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
And so instead of signing a new MAX extension, Lebron
decides to take the contract that he had signed in
a previous deal. So we are told Lebron could have
made an extra one point five million one point five
million by signing the new MAX at thirty five percent
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of the cap and a lot of gibberish in that contract.
Ad chose not to do that, and so Lebron gets
one extra year. And then you have the commentary of
Lebron James agent Rich Paul, his right hand man, his
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intermediary between the media and whatnot. Anyway, Rich Paul issued
a clear statement if you saw this or not, maybe
maybe he missed it. So I'll give you the highlights
on this. I'm not gonna give you the whole thing.
I'll give you the highlights. So Lebron wants to compete
for a championship. Rich Paul snickered. He knows the Lakers
are building for the future. Yes, yes, the Leakers are
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building for the taking for draft picks. Rich Paul continuous
says Lebron understands that, but he values a realistic chance
of winning it all. Rich Paul pumped his chest out
and said, we meaning Rich Paul and Lebron, we do want,
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do want to evaluate what's best for Lebron at this
stage in his life and career. He wants to make
every season he has count close quote. So that is
Rich Paul his commentary on the status of Lebron. So
let us discuss the question for the Esteem panel. Can
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you please decode, decode the message from Rich Paul on Lebron,
James and his future with the Lakers. So I've got prenup,
home depot, and verdict, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are gonna make the Gabba gool.
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We're gonna make the Gobba gool to start the week.
That's what we're gonna do. So, first of all, look,
King James, the opt in I liked that Lebron's camps
trying to paint this as some kind of heroic act
by Lebron that he could have gotten more money. You
talk about hutzba, as my grandfather used to say, that's
hootsba you guys getting fifty two point six million dollars
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and wants you to believe this is some kind of
robin Hood situation. So that's my first thought on this
as I decode ode the life and times of Lebron
and Rich Paul. So the other thought, which is either obvious,
I'm sure you thought the same thing. I don't know
how you could have come to any conclusion. This is
like a hostage note by Rich Pall. It's like, listen,
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it's disguised as some kind of news release or whatever,
but it's a hostage letter by Rich Paul for Lebron.
Gaym you build a contender for Lebron or else, which
is code for it's never Lebron's fault. It's just the
players around Lebron are not that good. That's what Rich
Paul saying. Is like, listen, if we don't win, it's
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on you. If we win, it's Lebron. That's it.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Period. Stop now or else.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
What else is there's Lebron gonna film another crappy space
jam movie or something like that during the season.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I don't know, Baby, we'll.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Make another one, what the hell, and they'll do it
during the season, and that'll be that.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
It'll be wonderful.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Now, once again, we find ourselves in sports gas baggery land.
You and I we find ourselves trapped in the never
ending docu drama The Life and Times of Lebron James.
The brand, Lebron, the brand, not the basketball player. Not no,
it's really about the brand. It's all about the brand.
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That's what it's about. It's about the brand. Now, this
is not so much a renewal of vowels, right, It's
not like they're renewing their vows here the Lakers Lebron.
This is a prenup agreed to buy Lebron and filed
through the media. It's a leverage play. It's a leverage play,
is what it is. And so for the Lakers, they
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must use every possible trade asset they have. I don't
think they'ven a draft pick til like twenty fifty, but
they got to trade those right and build a championship
contender or else we're breaking up with you. We're gonna
find it's not you, it's somebody else, and that's it.
And a trade, of course, becomes far easier to facilitate
based on the contract Lebron opted into. So he does
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clear the way for him to be traded somewhere else easier.
Of course, if Lebron wants to be traded, he'll be traded.
It doesn't matter what the contract is. They'll work it out.
They'll finagle the rules to make sure Lebron goes where
Lebron wants. The oh and so it's the classic play
by Lebron James where you opt in with one hand
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and then keep your finger on the eject button with
the other says I'm in, but I could could get
out of here, see you later. Now. I don't believe
Lebron wants to leave. He loves I'll tell you why.
He loves everything that comes with being in Los Angeles,
those Hollywood Knights, hanging out with all those Hollywood f's,
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those fake people in LA. He loves it right. He
can't get enough of those people, that whole lifestyle. That's
why Lebron came to LA. He didn't come to LA
for basketball. He hasn't won as a Lake He's been
an abject failure as a Laker. He came for Hollywood.
Now business wise and entertainment, Lebron's done very well. That's
why he came to Lakers. So in terms of winning,
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he's winning the Hollywood game entertainment now basketball. No, No,
if you want to win, you don't go to the Lakers.
Not now, not on her Genie boss as she's selling
the team, but the team's been been terrible since she
took control of the team. But it's all about Hollywood.
If you look at Lebron's time with the Lakers, he
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has a fail rate of over seventy one percent. Seventy
one percent of the time Lebron James has failed and
there's no if, sands or.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Butts about it.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I'll get no pushback. You can't push back. That's a fact.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
It's a fact. Now, what's my math? How did I
get to seventy one point four percent? That is the
rate Lebron has either missed the playoffs. Lakers have missed
the playss multiple times with Lebron James, or one and
done bumped out of the playoffs in the first round and.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Again, not my opinion.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
It's not I'm not giving some kind of opinion.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
This a fact. It is a fact.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Seven seasons with the Lakers, the Lakers missed the playoffs twice.
They got bumped in the first round three times Sons Nuggets,
and then this past year by the Minnesota Tenwolves three
times first round and out. And the Lakers have not
won a championship that matters since Kobe Bryant. And Kobe's
not walking back through that door. Okay, and that's not
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my adding commentary. I've now that has been validated. That
is hot take validation. That take validated by Alex Caruso
in a moment of clarity. He took some truths fromm
called alcohol and he set the quiet part out loud.
Alex Caruso said after Oklahoma City won, he said that
that Mickey mouse bubble ring not a real one and
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that now he had a real one, which is what
all of us knew all along, but somebody on the
team finally had the balls to say it. So Lebron
hasn't won as a Laker, and he's making some kind
of them because again, it's not gonna be about Lebron,
not being good enough, it's gonna be a bad well,
the other players on the team. Weren't that good enough?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
You said.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Meanwhile, to Minnesota, a team that beat the Lakers and
lebron in the playoffs in the first round, and they
have made a roster move. Although not official official, the
teas must be crossed, the daw the eyes dotted. We're
hearing now that Julius Randall, vagabond NBA player Julius Randall,
has agreed to re sign with the Timber Puffs as
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he'll stay there in Minnesota three years, one hundred million dollars.
Does that signing move the needle? Does that move the
needle at all? So I'll answer this first because you're
not here, so I'll go first. Does this move the needle? Sure,
it moves the needle due south at least come May,
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when you get into the meat and potatoes of the playoffs,
you move the needle south. So you know what to do,
our guys in Minnesota. You buckle up, right, it's a
roller coaster, you buck up.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
And of course, Julius Randall in many ways is your
standard mid level star player in the NBA, where he's
the roller coaster that breaks down right before the big
drops similar to.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
This, and James Harden does the same thing. You go down.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
You know, there's plenty of players like that to just
vanish in key moments. Karl Anthony Towns, who played in Minnesota,
was traded for Jewish. Randall's another guy like that you
can't depend on. And Julius Randall's got a blind spot,
clearly not a blind spot that will cost him any money.
One hundred million dollars over three years. I mean, my god,
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so so good for him. And he's like Randall's like
Houdini with a headband because he's out there in the
Abrica dabraajocus pocus and not a big game player, not
a big game player. Now, during the regular season, there
are nights that Randall looks like a world beater and
he'll get you twenty five points and ten rebounds, no problem,
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and look like he can do it every game. Twenty
five points, ten rebounds. He'll be physical, it'll be aggressive.
During the regular season, all fine attributes, and at times
he'll look unstoppable, and then the calendar will flip over
to April and pressed down. Suddenly, what happens. He's serving
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up more bricks than the loading dock over at home depot.
You get a brick, you get a brick, you get
a break. Sometimes he didn't even make he didn't take
many bricks because he doesn't shoot. He becomes passive two
for eleven or one for eight or something like that.
In the playoffs, and then the fourth quarter, forget about it.
In the fourth quarter, Come on, fourth quarter. You gotta
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leave early, beat the traffic. Normally, when you play for
the team, you're not supposed to leave early to beat
the traffic. But it happens. Those those demons they come back.
They haunt you like Hayzan Minnesota haunt you. They just
kind of haunch you.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
They do.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
And so good luck, good luck to ant Man. This
is your running mate, this is your sidekick. Now Anthony
Edwards has some issues too. I meant, there's some games
I recall where he didn't didn't do much. So now
they're together again, back to back final four appearances for
the Timberwolves, and they are locking in Julius rand. All right, now,
final thought. We go down to the Pacific Northwest, where
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the weather is good most of the time. Terms you
like fresh air and all that stuff. And rain and sports.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
They sucked.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Now there used to be two teams, actually, there used
to be three teams at one point in the Pacific Northwest.
Now there's only one. That's the Portland Trailblazers. Now, the Trailblazers,
we learned over the weekend, planned to buy out, to
spend millions of dollars to buy out center DeAndre Ayton. Here,
he's about to hit the market. He'll go to the
highest bidder in free agency. So what stands out? What
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stands out about the bitter end of DeAndre Ayton and
him hitting the market here via a buyout from the Trailblazers.
And there'll be a lot of talk in the coming
days about teams fighting to get their hands on DeAndre
eight and so the Trailblazers, the fact that they are
paying him to go away like.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
That is a massive thing.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I don't think you can undersell the fact that they're
paying him to go away. Let that marinate for a moment.
This guy was the number one overall pick in the
NBA draft a number of years ago. They're not trading
him for assets. They're not trading him for draft picks
or some young up and coming players. They're not attaching
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him to a bad contract to get rid of the
player and clear out the roster. They're not doing that.
They're not trying to rehab his value. They've given up
on that. No, no, no, Like all of those things
are things that you would think teams would do a
player like that has some value. Still, you'd say, Okay,
I'm gonna try to sugarcoat this, and we're gonna try
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to put some stories out there and make it seem
like this guy's turned things around and all that stuff. No,
they are at the point now they are cutting their losses.
They're like, this guy blows there, she blows. We're better
off without him. We are better off without Now. How
did they come to that conclusion? How did Chauncey Billups
and the team in Portland come to that decision? Because
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for all portlandt really want DeAndre Ayton. They got him
in that it was that weird Damian Lillard multi team thing,
and they moved everyone around and ate and became part
of the trade and all that stuff. But he arrived
when he arrived in Portland, just like when he arrived
in Phoenix. He's got all the size and the athletic ability.
He's got that pedigree to be a dominant big man
and all that. And you saw some highlights on Instagram,
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You're like, wow, he looks good and all that stuff,
and then you had to watch him play, and then
you had to watch him play, and when the game started,
the one word we all had watching DeAndre Ayton play
was eh man, it was eh. You know, it's like
whatever he put up some they were empty number stat
bandto what do we always talking?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
We talked about Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
We talked about some of his stat Bandito's where he
has some double doubles, but they're empty double doubles. It's
empty stat long rebounds, no one can test it, right.
Things like that points when the game's already decided, either
for or against your team, and so the numbers like, oh,
you know, the low information fan, the dumb fancies that
they're like, oh, this guy's pretty good, right, look at
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the numbers, look at the stats. Right, box score readers, Chris,
the box were lied. It lied, and and then the
real ones know. And so the jury has made its ruling.
The jury has made its ruling, and the experiment is over.
You're a loser. You wear the scarlet letter, the l
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for loser, and the buff's been called by the Trailblazers.
And the verdict is in. The verdict is clear from
the jury. And DeAndre Ayden is a losing player. That's
what they're saying. The guy's a loser, and that's just.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
The way it is. He doesn't impact winning.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
He didn't do it in Phoenix, he didn't do it
in Portland, and he's not gonna do it where he
goes next.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
And I will laugh at the bidding war that will.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Take place for DeAndre eight and as he'll try to
sit on the bench somewhere on a good team and
piggy back his way to some playoff success here. And
so let him go to the Lakers. So I'd love
that that would be so good. A loser like DeAndre
eat on the Lakers. I hope that happened. All the wars,
it doesn't matter, and the same thing's gonna happen. He's
not gonna change all of a sudden. It's one of
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those things in life. And there's a lot of things
like this in life where he sounds better in theory
than reality, right, it sounds better in theory than reality.
And there's a lot of things like that in life.
In sports, there's things like that also, And DeAndre eight
would be an example where if you look at the
SISO and I know, going back my entire time just
as an adult, but around basketball in particular, in all sports.
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But I remember years ago when I was doing stuff
every day at team events and practices, and there'd always
be guys that could not just didn't get it, but
teams would keep giving them opportunities because they thought. Every
coach is like, I'm gonna turn this guy around. I
have the code to unlock the safe. They all all
coaches are wired that way. They all think, oh man,
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we just get this guy going watch out.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
And ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Point seven percent of the time that does not happen.
Now that's one percent. People bring up the one percent.
Oh yeah it happened this time. Okay, yeah, it happens
to that time. But the rest of the time, forget
about it. All right, If you would like to comment
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As we work our way through the overnight and.
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Next hour we'll have some fun and Mallard of the
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and then later on we'll have the instant of ice
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our way through the overnight. So what is the price?
What is the green price for a start hasn't been
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supposedly being traded. We'll get to that. We'll take your calls,
the whole thing, and we will do it.
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a P one update. P one update. The Great Uncle
Ma friend of the show, the Great Uncle Mal from Brooklyn.
I understand now in Jersey he is relocated to the
state of New Jersey. Big news there, but he'll always
be Uncle Mal from Brooklyn on this show. Once you move,
you have to keep the city Monika. Once you're known.
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It's like Anthony and Anaheim used to call the show
as Anthony Anaheim and he didn't live in Anaheim anymore,
but he's Anthony from Anaheim. You can't change the moniker
once you're known. Like Doc Mike who started calling I
haven't heard from Doc, and WHI I started calling me
over the weekend. Well as I thought we were done.
I thought maybe Doc retired from the talk radio wars.
And Doc started calling me something about the Cubs. He
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was ranting about the cubs and there's they're falling apart
and going on and on all that stuff. So he's back,
but Doc, he's he's hardly in Chicago. He was.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
He would call me up from Ecuador. Half the year.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
He was doing some nefarious things in Ecuador, and then
he got banned from going there, and so he's just
doing like barnstorming around the country, Doc Mike, and he'll
but he's still Doc Mike from Chicago. Because once you
get known by that, you just that's the way it is.
You can't change it. Josh Wright, since says Ben, why
not worry about James Harden opting out, re signing for
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more money and disappearing in the playoffs, Kawhi Leonard and
James Harden brought the Clippers?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
What there you go?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Uh? That's from Josh. Well, we'll get to that later. Josh,
I have a four hour talk show. I don't need
to talk about that right now. But I'm glad you're concerned.
If you would like to program my work here, you
can apply for a job. You can contact iHeartRadio and
Fox Sports Radio and see if they can hire you.
Until then, shut up, You're a loser. Ben rights In,
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says Malor spot on on King James as a total failure.
Ben says this other guy Ben known as the Bison
something there on X total failure with the Lakers. He
did go to LA for Hollywood. I think that's what
this guy was trying to say. It certainly seems that way.
Ferg Dog writes and says, any luck tracking down Lorraina
(24:25):
is missing pizza? I heard it was delicious by the way, No, no, yeah,
what happened there? Like?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
I don't know, Ben don't have gremlins in the studio
between three and six am?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Did you did you contact management and demand that they
end up? By the way, who's who's resetting the phone? Bray?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
What are you doing over there? What is going on?
You're hitting a lot of buttons.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Things are going away the callers on our end.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
So I'm wondering if you want to try to punch
one up and see what happens and maybe you'll have.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Lu Are we doing caller free radio again? Is this
my lot in life?
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Here?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Is the company trying to make sure voice is shredded chicken?
Is that what they're trying to do? Don't call him,
he doesn't know how to fix anything. Let's let's see here.
I'll just put a ram now Art Bell useduld do
West of the Rockies. East of the Rockies, rely on
coast to coast, you do like unscreened, you'd be like
West of the Rockies used to the Rockies, like Roulette.
Caller A caller one, Hello, caller, you're on the air,
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caller number one.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Look at that as Emmett the Blind Sea Hawk fan
right there.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
What do I win a million dollars? I don't have that.
Maybe I'll have him want.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
You We'll just do caller free radio.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
This is are not call screen or free radio.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I like this idea. What a disaster that will be
the same five people will call over and over again.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Holy crap.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
That's where iPhone kind of you know, you can just
sam the call and you can get on as much
time as you wants. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Because I was,
I was like, no way, the phones broke a gang.
So I talked to Breed and then it dropped me.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Like, well there was none of the me explained. So
what happens on the weekends here? It's it's like animal
house around here. There's all kinds of stuff that goes on.
I can only imagine the animal that work here on
the weekend. So the total pigs that work here and
destroy the equipment, the food all a couple of these pigs. Yeah,
honestly they smell. Yeah, there's like food all over the floor.
(26:12):
They trash around. It's like a third world country. I
blame Bernie Frattle, That's who I blame. Yeah, I blame Bernie.
But so Steff doesn't work, and like it worked fine.
I was in here at the end of the week.
It worked fine, and then the weekend comes and all
of a sudden everything, So the phones were not working
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on my end. So I told Brie, I said, Brie,
do you know how to reset the phone? She said,
I don't know how to reset the phone. But the
great thing about Brie is she'll try to do it.
So she went and found some Bo. Well, well she
didn't turn the whole network off. That's Bob Garra, wrong button, Bob.
Bob Garrett turned the entire network of the other day.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
With kelvin Washington.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
By the way, is that right?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I didn't hear that, but good for Enid.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
But anyway, no, so he turned the whole network off
and kept the shop. So it was wild because I
asked him. I asked Bob Geary, I said, reset my computer.
And to reset the computer you had to go into
the rack room, which is down the hall, and that's
where all the brains of the operation are, like all
the important computers and the satellites and all that stuff.
(27:16):
And for some reason, the very back there was there
was a button you pressed, and you reset my computer.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
So I told him to do that.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
He went back there and he pressed the button and
the entire network went off. Here.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
Yeah, yeah, great story. That's like one of the best
stories in FSR history.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
But before I know, the fact that he kept his
job is even better though, because he shut the whole
network off.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
Not only did he keep his job, this man got
a bunch of promotions in the time.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
So that's a nuclear op.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Well, I got promoters. He's good. That's why he got promoted.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
They said, one time mess up, we'll give you a
second chance. That they're probably not going to do for
Justin Tucker, who knows. But before I get into Lebron,
I just got to say, Ben, and I don't think
you're aware of this, but the only shows that take
calls on the network, like during the weekends are shows
that Brianna works on.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
So are you are you claiming and that Breeze somehow
does not have the Midas touch, he has the Sadom touch. No,
that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
I didn't you know, I didn't blame her. I thought
it was just you know, the crappy phones being the
crappy phone. So you're making it sound like it's someone
who works there though, that's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Well, I'm saying that in the past this has happening.
You normally just reset it and it's fine. And we've
tried resetting it on both sides and it's not fine.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
I don't care. Listen, it doesn't matter. The working talking
obviously's working. I'm talking to you.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
It just yeah, back, you know. But Bree's gonna get paid.
You can go smoke some STIGs in the back, you know.
You know she's fine.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Okay, So about Lebron, this man is a fraud because
fifty two million dollars and then he comes down and
complains about oh, the Lakers. You know, if they don't
do the right things, I'm gonna leave. I'm gonna do
all this, like basically hold them hostage, like you said.
And the thing with it is fifty two million dollars
for you, forty year old Lebron when the Lakers only
have five million dollars in salary.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Well, I'm not gonna rip Lebron for that. The Lakers
make tons of money, and they make a lot of
it because of Lebron.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
James.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
If you take away like so you go thirty five
million a year for one year, okay, that's seventeen million
extra dollars that you could have to get.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Your Yeah, I don't play that.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I don't play that.
Speaker 6 (29:07):
Who's going to play defense for him? Go get Jawn
from Dominoes down the street.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Well I'm not here. I'm not going to go there.
I mean, you know you go there.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Well, sure everyone should take play for peanuts by that,
by your standard, but what brought you?
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Know?
Speaker 6 (29:19):
How much money? Lebron's mad like, I feel like it's different.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I understand, but I don't want anyone touching my money.
I don't want to buy you. I don't care how
much money you have. You don't want people taking your money.
Do you want people taking your money? You get rich,
your podcet, you become the Joe Rogan a blind podcast,
and you want someone to take your money nah, But
I mean that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
Man, that's a different comparison, because you know.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
No, I say, you get super red. Say, everyone listens
to your podcast. You got a little podcat Listen, the
thing blows up, right, everyone's listening, and you get offered
a big money deal. Somebody offers you tons of money, right,
you doing it for a while, and then you get
another contract. You said, well, we want you know, we
want to you know, we want to save money and
buy some other podcasts or whatever.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Are you going to give him a discount?
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Here's what I say. So if you're going to take
my money away, at least pay the people behind the scenes.
And if you can't do that, then we're done.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
All right, Well you say that, now, check back with
me in ten years. Check back with me in ten years.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
How about that?
Speaker 6 (30:11):
Yeah, my producer sucks and the answer would change.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
But you know, all right, all right, I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Thank you. It's blind them.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Let's see I know a great producer.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Yeah it was it. Let's see here. Let me see
if I can let's let's uh, let's go to uh.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
He's like pointing at me.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Okay, call her. Yeah, you're on the air, there's we're doing.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Oh my god, here we go, here we go. I'm
putting you on hold, go away, all right, random caller
on line three.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
It's like a grab bag here. This is wonderful.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
What's I said, Benjamin? My brother?
Speaker 6 (30:46):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
If I was any better, I would be having the
phones work. They're not working. So I'm taking random phone
calls here.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
That's what I'm.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
Doing, dude.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
So I was actually going when you answered.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
You're like, oh, lay lay lay, because my natural I
see are in the thirteen game winning for unbeaten street.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Let's go. Would you like me to say, oh, ho
ho ho ho everybody?
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Now?
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Are you happy?
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Now? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (31:20):
I am?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
But have you been man?
Speaker 6 (31:21):
I mean other than the phone's not working because I
got hung up on three times?
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Yeah? No, I mean, it's right, it's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Very quick weekend the podcasting weekend. Danny G was unable
to do the podcast this weekend, so I slaved away
by myself three extra shows.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Uh and I I mean I love that.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
I love when I get done with the podcast and
my voice after doing the show all week is just shredded.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
My vocal courts are shredded.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
There's nothing I like more than that feeling that I
have nothing left in a vocal department. I love that,
and so does the company, by the way, because I
think they're trying to get me to do that.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Yes, why I.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Just just something popped up, Because this.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
Is three blind collars in a row.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
You one day, you should put all three of us
on at the same exact time.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Well, you're like a semi retired blind caller, though you'd
admit right, Blind Sea Bass is not a You're not
a regular caller, although this is your second call, Blind
Sea Bass. Is it bad that I recognize everyone's freaking
voice that calls? Is there anyone that I don't recognize
that calls the damn show? Anyone? It's impressing.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
How do I know every stupid person that calls the show?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
It's ridiculous for your blind colors. Well, without the blind,
that that is the base. You know you talk about
talk about Team Red, Team Blue. The base for this
show is the blind. I'd have no one listening without
the blind, no one, the most the most loyal listeners
of the blind. All Right, people talk about people people
with vision suck. I can't stand people that can see.
(32:49):
I need the blind I stand for the blind all right, brother.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
Yeah, good night man, and I always remember don't forget
to uh swample fighting alley.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yes, all right, thank you, all right, go away. There's
a blind sea bass from from Nashville. Sounds like he's
doing better. He was having some issues. Is he famous?
Speaker 5 (33:10):
But sounded like she knew him.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
I hadn't heard him in a while. Yeah, he stopped
calling the show for a couple of years, and they
started calling recently.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Uh, yeah, he was.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
There was a famous thing like he he was going blind.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
He wasn't yet blind. He lost his vision.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
He became blind, and then he was having some difficult
This you might imagine that would be a very difficult
transition if you've seen and then you become blind. Blind
Blind Scott at the same thing appened, so blind Scott
was trying to advise him. Of course, like everything with
blind Scott, it turns into a fireball and uh, just
a disaster. And then they all start fighting with each
other and it's, you know, a hole to do, a
(33:47):
hole to do anyway, all right. The green price tag,
the green price tag. That would be the cost of
Derek White. Now, so others having traded Derek White, or
or Jalen Brown. Some chatter after they said bye bye
to Drew Holliday traded him to the Trailblazers and Christop
toward Zingis to the Atlanta Hawks that they'd be making
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another trade.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Well, the chatter is that in order.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
To trade Derek White, they need a McHale Bridges type
trade package for that to happen. So they've received a
lot of offers. Now that McHale Bridges trade is infamous.
New York gave up five first round picks, five first
round picks, and that's what the Celtics are looking for
a legend. Of course, I have no problem trading first
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round picks.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
I don't care. I'm over it. I'm a grown up.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
I know most of those first round picks will not
turn out to be anything, maybe one out of the five.
So you're essentially trading proven commodity for maybe one out
of the five turns out to be okay. And you
look at that Bridge's trade. I don't don't have time
to get to it right now, but if you look
at who the Knicks gave up, like, are any of
(34:58):
those guys that great yet? I know it's been a
couple of years Bridges has been with the Knickerbockers. We'll
take a look at that. We'll continue here. The phones
are kind of working. We're just doing a grab bag
edition of the phones, which is somewhat exciting.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
List it's not.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
King Roy writes and says it sounds like Lebron James
would make a great politician, claiming his deal will save money,
but in reality we'll cost the Lakers more in the
long run. Maybe once Lebron finally retires, he will run
for mayor, governor or even president of the United States
of America.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Well, anyone can run. Just you just have to.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Tell people, dumb people that they'll you'll give them everything, right,
just tom oh, yeah, we'll give you free food, we'll
give you free housing. And dumb people love that and
they think it's going to happen, and they vote for that.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
That's normally how that works.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Just it doesn't matter what party you're just promise a
bunch of free stuff, and that's that's the way the words.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Parito writes in says, here's what really happened.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Laflopper wanted another two year deal with an option on
the second year, and Mark Walter said no, not this time,
so he opted in and puts out the statement to
save face, I say trade Bronnie to Toronto, Charlotte or
the Brooklyn Nets. Lditty will be upset and bye bye.
So Parido wants lebron Gonzo.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Here you go? All right?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
People excited also about the blind takeover of the show.
There you go, Scrooge, says Ben. You would not know
my voice if I called, yes, cause you never call
the show. You hide behind your phone. That's why I
would know who you are.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
You hide. You're a hider.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Time now for the who am I?
Speaker 5 (36:30):
Game?
Speaker 2 (36:30):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
After signing with the Commanders this offseason, I've gotten my
twenty fifth gig with a pro football team. I have
been signed by fourteen different NFL teams. I've also played
for leagues like the UFL, AAF, the XFL as well.
Who am I? That is the question. What is the answer.
(36:53):
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill
Miller and you.
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Back to it, back to what we go, and the
phones have now been fixed. We had some fun there
with random callers, random callers calling show, but I think
we're good. We're good now, so you might have enjoyed
(37:50):
that more than the actual show with regular calls, So
we apologize if that's the case. Time now for the
who am I?
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Game? After signing with the Commanders.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Off who I've got my twenty fifth gig, twenty five
with pro football teams. I've been signed by fourteen different
NFL teams, also played in the UFL, the XFL, the AAF.
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Aileen wrights In says Jose Feliciano. Who else we have
(38:23):
a malaprop guy going with Arnie Spanier as his answer.
Ernie Spanier in that photo, he looks like the old
nightly news anchor to me, Frank Dreben Detective Frank Dreben
from Scrooge, Lorena's Pizza Thief and says, Jonas Knox is
his suspect person of interest.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
That's what be saying.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Mister nice guy's going with Dennis Leonard as his answer.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Gumby Daves, says Joe Klopfenstein. Who is I don't know
who that is, but I guess you play for the Rams.
Andy and Lionel Lakes, Minnesota says the answer is Stevie Wonder.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
It's got to be Stevie Wonder.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Al Holland, here's a good name from BA City Tony
Don Johnson from Don Johnson, Junior John from Domino's Guests
by Just Josh in Cincinnati, Mister Drummond from Bobby in Florida,
Francisco Alvarezquez by Sheen in Des Moines, Scrooge Guests by
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Kramer aka Terry in England. Matt Jack's going with the
Zendejas Restaurant dishwasher as his answer Willie Wonka from Johnny Q.
All right, what is the answer here, Loraina?
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Do you haven't?
Speaker 5 (39:36):
Me and Brieth thought really hard about this one.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
We're going with Lee to lap Lee the lap, Well,
Lee's been to twenty five bars, but no, it hasn't
been with twenty five pro football teams. No, that's a
great The correct answer is Josh Johnson, quarterback. Josh Johnson
is the answer, and that leads us. Now just some dramatics.
It is time now for the play of the night,
(39:58):
and there's only one play that stands out, and we
go to baseball now for the amazing, unbelievable, mind blowing
play the day. Take a list the two to one pitch,
Benson rips it down.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
The right field line.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Better ball, that's gonna do it, Pierre Tom's lunts with
the winning run, and the Reds walk off for the series.
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Here we go. Welcome, it's our number one, back at it,
a brand new week slaving away the hot microphones of
Fox Sports Radio. If you missed any of the Fifth
Hour podcasts, go back and check those out. The final show,
the final show for the month of June.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Right here in our number one.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Lebron James picking up a fifty two million dollar player option.
Can you please decode the message given by Rich Paul
on behalf of Lebron James and his future with the Lakers.
We'll talk about that also, the very inconsistent forward Julius
Randall has agreed to re sign with the Timberwolves on
(00:43):
a three year, one hundred million dollar contract. Does this
signing move the needle for you? And what stands out
about DeAndre Ayton getting a buyout?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
He's going to hit the market.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
The Trailblazers are paying him to go away from Portland.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
What is that say to you? We'll talk about that
as well.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Give it up for our number one. Sticking around, well,
kind of sticking around. Welcome, in the beginning of another
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another weekend and we have now made it to the
brand new week Whoo. All right, so our lead there's
a lot of like moving parts going on in We
love transactions. I always love the transaction. Now I like
(02:36):
the rumor. I like the rumor more than the transaction.
I like what might happen rather than what has happened.
Now that being said, we have a mix of what
has happened and what is going to happen. But our
lead this hour is from pro bouncy ball the Kingdom
as it's the King James Kingdom of Basketball, filling the
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content machine, yet again, filling the content machine. So over
the weekend, Lebron James decided that he wanted to stay
with the Lakers kind of well, fifty million dollars, got
fifty two point six million dollar player option, just to
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click that box right there, and you do the docu.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Sign and then you're on your way.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
And so instead of signing a new MAX extension, Lebron
decides to take the contract that he had signed in
a previous deal. So we are told Lebron could have
made an extra one point five million one point five
million by signing the new MAX at thirty five percent
(03:46):
of the cap and a lot of gibberish in that contract.
Ad chose not to do that, and so Lebron gets
one extra year. And then you have the commentary of
Lebron James agent Rich Paul, his right hand man, his
(04:07):
intermediary between the media and whatnot. Anyway, Rich Paul issued
a clear statement if you saw this or not, maybe
maybe he missed it. So I'll give you the highlights
on this. I'm not gonna give you the whole thing.
I'll give you the highlights. So Lebron wants to compete
for a championship. Rich Paul snickered. He knows the Lakers
are building for the future. Yes, yes, the Leakers are
(04:29):
building for the taking for draft picks. Rich Paul continuous
says Lebron understands that, but he values a realistic chance
of winning it all. Rich Paul pumped his chest out
and said, we meaning Rich Paul and Lebron, we do want,
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do want to evaluate what's best for Lebron at this
stage in his life and career. He wants to make
every season he has count close quote. So that is
Rich Paul his commentary on the status of Lebron. So
let us discuss the question for the Esteem panel. Can
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you please decode, decode the message from Rich Paul on Lebron,
James and his future with the Lakers. So I've got prenup,
home depot, and verdict, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are gonna make the Gabba gool.
(05:32):
We're gonna make the Gobba gool to start the week.
That's what we're gonna do. So, first of all, look,
King James, the opt in I liked that Lebron's camps
trying to paint this as some kind of heroic act
by Lebron that he could have gotten more money. You
talk about hutzba, as my grandfather used to say, that's
hootsba you guys getting fifty two point six million dollars
(05:53):
and wants you to believe this is some kind of
robin Hood situation. So that's my first thought on this
as I decode ode the life and times of Lebron
and Rich Paul. So the other thought, which is either obvious,
I'm sure you thought the same thing. I don't know
how you could have come to any conclusion. This is
like a hostage note by Rich Pall. It's like, listen,
(06:14):
it's disguised as some kind of news release or whatever,
but it's a hostage letter by Rich Paul for Lebron.
Gaym you build a contender for Lebron or else, which
is code for it's never Lebron's fault. It's just the
players around Lebron are not that good. That's what Rich
Paul saying. Is like, listen, if we don't win, it's
(06:35):
on you. If we win, it's Lebron. That's it.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Period. Stop now or else.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
What else is there's Lebron gonna film another crappy space
jam movie or something like that during the season.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I don't know, Baby, we'll.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Make another one, what the hell, and they'll do it
during the season, and that'll be that.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
It'll be wonderful.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Now, once again, we find ourselves in sports gas baggery land.
You and I we find ourselves trapped in the never
ending docu drama The Life and Times of Lebron James.
The brand, Lebron, the brand, not the basketball player. Not no,
it's really about the brand. It's all about the brand.
(07:15):
That's what it's about. It's about the brand. Now, this
is not so much a renewal of vowels, right, It's
not like they're renewing their vows here the Lakers Lebron.
This is a prenup agreed to buy Lebron and filed
through the media. It's a leverage play. It's a leverage play,
is what it is. And so for the Lakers, they
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must use every possible trade asset they have. I don't
think they'ven a draft pick til like twenty fifty, but
they got to trade those right and build a championship
contender or else we're breaking up with you. We're gonna
find it's not you, it's somebody else, and that's it.
And a trade, of course, becomes far easier to facilitate
based on the contract Lebron opted into. So he does
(07:59):
clear the way for him to be traded somewhere else easier.
Of course, if Lebron wants to be traded, he'll be traded.
It doesn't matter what the contract is. They'll work it out.
They'll finagle the rules to make sure Lebron goes where
Lebron wants. The oh and so it's the classic play
by Lebron James where you opt in with one hand
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and then keep your finger on the eject button with
the other says I'm in, but I could could get
out of here, see you later. Now. I don't believe
Lebron wants to leave. He loves I'll tell you why.
He loves everything that comes with being in Los Angeles,
those Hollywood Knights, hanging out with all those Hollywood f's,
(08:41):
those fake people in LA. He loves it right. He
can't get enough of those people, that whole lifestyle. That's
why Lebron came to LA. He didn't come to LA
for basketball. He hasn't won as a Lake He's been
an abject failure as a Laker. He came for Hollywood.
Now business wise and entertainment, Lebron's done very well. That's
why he came to Lakers. So in terms of winning,
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he's winning the Hollywood game entertainment now basketball. No, No,
if you want to win, you don't go to the Lakers.
Not now, not on her Genie boss as she's selling
the team, but the team's been been terrible since she
took control of the team. But it's all about Hollywood.
If you look at Lebron's time with the Lakers, he
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has a fail rate of over seventy one percent. Seventy
one percent of the time Lebron James has failed and
there's no if, sands or.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Butts about it.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I'll get no pushback. You can't push back. That's a fact.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
It's a fact. Now, what's my math? How did I
get to seventy one point four percent? That is the
rate Lebron has either missed the playoffs. Lakers have missed
the playss multiple times with Lebron James, or one and
done bumped out of the playoffs in the first round and.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Again, not my opinion.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
It's not I'm not giving some kind of opinion.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
This a fact. It is a fact.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Seven seasons with the Lakers, the Lakers missed the playoffs twice.
They got bumped in the first round three times Sons Nuggets,
and then this past year by the Minnesota Tenwolves three
times first round and out. And the Lakers have not
won a championship that matters since Kobe Bryant. And Kobe's
not walking back through that door. Okay, and that's not
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my adding commentary. I've now that has been validated. That
is hot take validation. That take validated by Alex Caruso
in a moment of clarity. He took some truths fromm
called alcohol and he set the quiet part out loud.
Alex Caruso said after Oklahoma City won, he said that
that Mickey mouse bubble ring not a real one and
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that now he had a real one, which is what
all of us knew all along, but somebody on the
team finally had the balls to say it. So Lebron
hasn't won as a Laker, and he's making some kind
of them because again, it's not gonna be about Lebron,
not being good enough, it's gonna be a bad well,
the other players on the team. Weren't that good enough?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
You said.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Meanwhile, to Minnesota, a team that beat the Lakers and
lebron in the playoffs in the first round, and they
have made a roster move. Although not official official, the
teas must be crossed, the daw the eyes dotted. We're
hearing now that Julius Randall, vagabond NBA player Julius Randall,
has agreed to re sign with the Timber Puffs as
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he'll stay there in Minnesota three years, one hundred million dollars.
Does that signing move the needle? Does that move the
needle at all? So I'll answer this first because you're
not here, so I'll go first. Does this move the needle? Sure,
it moves the needle due south at least come May,
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when you get into the meat and potatoes of the playoffs,
you move the needle south. So you know what to do,
our guys in Minnesota. You buckle up, right, it's a
roller coaster, you buck up.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
And of course, Julius Randall in many ways is your
standard mid level star player in the NBA, where he's
the roller coaster that breaks down right before the big
drops similar to.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
This, and James Harden does the same thing. You go down.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
You know, there's plenty of players like that to just
vanish in key moments. Karl Anthony Towns, who played in Minnesota,
was traded for Jewish. Randall's another guy like that you
can't depend on. And Julius Randall's got a blind spot,
clearly not a blind spot that will cost him any money.
One hundred million dollars over three years. I mean, my god,
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so so good for him. And he's like Randall's like
Houdini with a headband because he's out there in the
Abrica dabraajocus pocus and not a big game player, not
a big game player. Now, during the regular season, there
are nights that Randall looks like a world beater and
he'll get you twenty five points and ten rebounds, no problem,
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and look like he can do it every game. Twenty
five points, ten rebounds. He'll be physical, it'll be aggressive.
During the regular season, all fine attributes, and at times
he'll look unstoppable, and then the calendar will flip over
to April and pressed down. Suddenly, what happens. He's serving
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up more bricks than the loading dock over at home depot.
You get a brick, you get a brick, you get
a break. Sometimes he didn't even make he didn't take
many bricks because he doesn't shoot. He becomes passive two
for eleven or one for eight or something like that.
In the playoffs, and then the fourth quarter, forget about it.
In the fourth quarter, Come on, fourth quarter. You gotta
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leave early, beat the traffic. Normally, when you play for
the team, you're not supposed to leave early to beat
the traffic. But it happens. Those those demons they come back.
They haunt you like Hayzan Minnesota haunt you. They just
kind of haunch you.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
They do.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
And so good luck, good luck to ant Man. This
is your running mate, this is your sidekick. Now Anthony
Edwards has some issues too. I meant, there's some games
I recall where he didn't didn't do much. So now
they're together again, back to back final four appearances for
the Timberwolves, and they are locking in Julius rand. All right, now,
final thought. We go down to the Pacific Northwest, where
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the weather is good most of the time. Terms you
like fresh air and all that stuff. And rain and sports.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
They sucked.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Now there used to be two teams, actually, there used
to be three teams at one point in the Pacific Northwest.
Now there's only one. That's the Portland Trailblazers. Now, the Trailblazers,
we learned over the weekend, planned to buy out, to
spend millions of dollars to buy out center DeAndre Ayton. Here,
he's about to hit the market. He'll go to the
highest bidder in free agency. So what stands out? What
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stands out about the bitter end of DeAndre Ayton and
him hitting the market here via a buyout from the Trailblazers.
And there'll be a lot of talk in the coming
days about teams fighting to get their hands on DeAndre
eight and so the Trailblazers, the fact that they are
paying him to go away like.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
That is a massive thing.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I don't think you can undersell the fact that they're
paying him to go away. Let that marinate for a moment.
This guy was the number one overall pick in the
NBA draft a number of years ago. They're not trading
him for assets. They're not trading him for draft picks
or some young up and coming players. They're not attaching
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him to a bad contract to get rid of the
player and clear out the roster. They're not doing that.
They're not trying to rehab his value. They've given up
on that. No, no, no, Like all of those things
are things that you would think teams would do a
player like that has some value. Still, you'd say, Okay,
I'm gonna try to sugarcoat this, and we're gonna try
(15:59):
to put some stories out there and make it seem
like this guy's turned things around and all that stuff. No,
they are at the point now they are cutting their losses.
They're like, this guy blows there, she blows. We're better
off without him. We are better off without Now. How
did they come to that conclusion? How did Chauncey Billups
and the team in Portland come to that decision? Because
(16:22):
for all portlandt really want DeAndre Ayton. They got him
in that it was that weird Damian Lillard multi team thing,
and they moved everyone around and ate and became part
of the trade and all that stuff. But he arrived
when he arrived in Portland, just like when he arrived
in Phoenix. He's got all the size and the athletic ability.
He's got that pedigree to be a dominant big man
and all that. And you saw some highlights on Instagram,
(16:44):
You're like, wow, he looks good and all that stuff,
and then you had to watch him play, and then
you had to watch him play, and when the game started,
the one word we all had watching DeAndre Ayton play
was eh man, it was eh. You know, it's like
whatever he put up some they were empty number stat
bandto what do we always talking?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
We talked about Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
We talked about some of his stat Bandito's where he
has some double doubles, but they're empty double doubles. It's
empty stat long rebounds, no one can test it, right.
Things like that points when the game's already decided, either
for or against your team, and so the numbers like, oh,
you know, the low information fan, the dumb fancies that
they're like, oh, this guy's pretty good, right, look at
(17:25):
the numbers, look at the stats. Right, box score readers, Chris,
the box were lied. It lied, and and then the
real ones know. And so the jury has made its ruling.
The jury has made its ruling, and the experiment is over.
You're a loser. You wear the scarlet letter, the l
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for loser, and the buff's been called by the Trailblazers.
And the verdict is in. The verdict is clear from
the jury. And DeAndre Ayden is a losing player. That's
what they're saying. The guy's a loser, and that's just.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
The way it is. He doesn't impact winning.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
He didn't do it in Phoenix, he didn't do it
in Portland, and he's not gonna do it where he
goes next.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
And I will laugh at the bidding war that will.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Take place for DeAndre eight and as he'll try to
sit on the bench somewhere on a good team and
piggy back his way to some playoff success here. And
so let him go to the Lakers. So I'd love
that that would be so good. A loser like DeAndre
eat on the Lakers. I hope that happened. All the wars,
it doesn't matter, and the same thing's gonna happen. He's
not gonna change all of a sudden. It's one of
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those things in life. And there's a lot of things
like this in life where he sounds better in theory
than reality, right, it sounds better in theory than reality.
And there's a lot of things like that in life.
In sports, there's things like that also, And DeAndre eight
would be an example where if you look at the
SISO and I know, going back my entire time just
as an adult, but around basketball in particular, in all sports.
(18:54):
But I remember years ago when I was doing stuff
every day at team events and practices, and there'd always
be guys that could not just didn't get it, but
teams would keep giving them opportunities because they thought. Every
coach is like, I'm gonna turn this guy around. I
have the code to unlock the safe. They all all
coaches are wired that way. They all think, oh man,
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we just get this guy going watch out.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
And ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Point seven percent of the time that does not happen.
Now that's one percent. People bring up the one percent.
Oh yeah it happened this time. Okay, yeah, it happens
to that time. But the rest of the time, forget
about it. All right, If you would like to comment
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Speaker 2 (20:15):
As we work our way through the overnight and.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Next hour we'll have some fun and Mallard of the
third degree that'll be coming up next hour on the show,
and then later on we'll have the instant of ice
line and the usual, the usual nonsense as we work
our way through the overnight. So what is the price?
What is the green price for a start hasn't been
traded yet, hasn't been treaded yet, that is this close
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supposedly being traded. We'll get to that. We'll take your calls,
the whole thing, and we will do it.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Next Hi, this is Jay. I'm the producer of the
Paula and Tony Fusco show. Usually in these promos they
ask you to listen to the show. I'm here to
ask you please, don't listen to the show. The hosts
are two absolute morons who have the dumbest takes on sports, imagicable.
Don't listen to the show so it can get camps
the studio.
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Get him pulle that fool.
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Speaker 1 (21:28):
As we roll into the start of the new week.
Here on a Monday, the thirtieth day of June, still
late on a Sunday on the West Coast, you can
interact with the show. You're on the Red Eye flight.
You're here for the next number of hours. Hope to
have a smooth flight, no turbulence until Blind Scott calls.
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But up until then, Hey, hit us up on the
X machine at Ben Malor.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
That's at Ben Mallor.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Inncide to Lorena, the FSR Tech Queen, and in the
producer's chair we have brire Breed in East twenty six.
There you go, your comments can and we'll be used
against you in the court of sports radio. And back
to it. We go right back to it. We have
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a P one update. P one update. The Great Uncle
Ma friend of the show, the Great Uncle Mal from Brooklyn.
I understand now in Jersey he is relocated to the
state of New Jersey. Big news there, but he'll always
be Uncle Mal from Brooklyn on this show. Once you move,
you have to keep the city Monika. Once you're known.
(22:40):
It's like Anthony and Anaheim used to call the show
as Anthony Anaheim and he didn't live in Anaheim anymore,
but he's Anthony from Anaheim. You can't change the moniker
once you're known. Like Doc Mike who started calling I
haven't heard from Doc, and WHI I started calling me
over the weekend. Well as I thought we were done.
I thought maybe Doc retired from the talk radio wars.
And Doc started calling me something about the Cubs. He
(23:02):
was ranting about the cubs and there's they're falling apart
and going on and on all that stuff. So he's back,
but Doc, he's he's hardly in Chicago. He was.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
He would call me up from Ecuador. Half the year.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
He was doing some nefarious things in Ecuador, and then
he got banned from going there, and so he's just
doing like barnstorming around the country, Doc Mike, and he'll
but he's still Doc Mike from Chicago. Because once you
get known by that, you just that's the way it is.
You can't change it. Josh Wright, since says Ben, why
not worry about James Harden opting out, re signing for
(23:36):
more money and disappearing in the playoffs, Kawhi Leonard and
James Harden brought the Clippers?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
What there you go?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Uh? That's from Josh. Well, we'll get to that later. Josh,
I have a four hour talk show. I don't need
to talk about that right now. But I'm glad you're concerned.
If you would like to program my work here, you
can apply for a job. You can contact iHeartRadio and
Fox Sports Radio and see if they can hire you.
Until then, shut up, You're a loser. Ben rights In,
(24:03):
says Malor spot on on King James as a total failure.
Ben says this other guy Ben known as the Bison
something there on X total failure with the Lakers. He
did go to LA for Hollywood. I think that's what
this guy was trying to say. It certainly seems that way.
Ferg Dog writes and says, any luck tracking down Lorraina
(24:25):
is missing pizza? I heard it was delicious by the way, No, no, yeah,
what happened there? Like?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
I don't know, Ben don't have gremlins in the studio
between three and six am?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Did you did you contact management and demand that they
end up? By the way, who's who's resetting the phone? Bray?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
What are you doing over there? What is going on?
You're hitting a lot of buttons.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Things are going away the callers on our end.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
So I'm wondering if you want to try to punch
one up and see what happens and maybe you'll have.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Lu Are we doing caller free radio again? Is this
my lot in life?
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Here?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Is the company trying to make sure voice is shredded chicken?
Is that what they're trying to do? Don't call him,
he doesn't know how to fix anything. Let's let's see here.
I'll just put a ram now Art Bell useduld do
West of the Rockies. East of the Rockies, rely on
coast to coast, you do like unscreened, you'd be like
West of the Rockies used to the Rockies, like Roulette.
Caller A caller one, Hello, caller, you're on the air,
(25:21):
caller number one.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Look at that as Emmett the Blind Sea Hawk fan
right there.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
What do I win a million dollars? I don't have that.
Maybe I'll have him want.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
You We'll just do caller free radio.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
This is are not call screen or free radio.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I like this idea. What a disaster that will be
the same five people will call over and over again.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Holy crap.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
That's where iPhone kind of you know, you can just
sam the call and you can get on as much
time as you wants. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Because I was,
I was like, no way, the phones broke a gang.
So I talked to Breed and then it dropped me.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Like, well there was none of the me explained. So
what happens on the weekends here? It's it's like animal
house around here. There's all kinds of stuff that goes on.
I can only imagine the animal that work here on
the weekend. So the total pigs that work here and
destroy the equipment, the food all a couple of these pigs. Yeah,
honestly they smell. Yeah, there's like food all over the floor.
(26:12):
They trash around. It's like a third world country. I
blame Bernie Frattle, That's who I blame. Yeah, I blame Bernie.
But so Steff doesn't work, and like it worked fine.
I was in here at the end of the week.
It worked fine, and then the weekend comes and all
of a sudden everything, So the phones were not working
(26:32):
on my end. So I told Brie, I said, Brie,
do you know how to reset the phone? She said,
I don't know how to reset the phone. But the
great thing about Brie is she'll try to do it.
So she went and found some Bo. Well, well she
didn't turn the whole network off. That's Bob Garra, wrong button, Bob.
Bob Garrett turned the entire network of the other day.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
With kelvin Washington.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
By the way, is that right?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I didn't hear that, but good for Enid.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
But anyway, no, so he turned the whole network off
and kept the shop. So it was wild because I
asked him. I asked Bob Geary, I said, reset my computer.
And to reset the computer you had to go into
the rack room, which is down the hall, and that's
where all the brains of the operation are, like all
the important computers and the satellites and all that stuff.
(27:16):
And for some reason, the very back there was there
was a button you pressed, and you reset my computer.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
So I told him to do that.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
He went back there and he pressed the button and
the entire network went off. Here.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
Yeah, yeah, great story. That's like one of the best
stories in FSR history.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
But before I know, the fact that he kept his
job is even better though, because he shut the whole
network off.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
Not only did he keep his job, this man got
a bunch of promotions in the time.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
So that's a nuclear op.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Well, I got promoters. He's good. That's why he got promoted.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
They said, one time mess up, we'll give you a
second chance. That they're probably not going to do for
Justin Tucker, who knows. But before I get into Lebron,
I just got to say, Ben, and I don't think
you're aware of this, but the only shows that take
calls on the network, like during the weekends are shows
that Brianna works on.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
So are you are you claiming and that Breeze somehow
does not have the Midas touch, he has the Sadom touch. No,
that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
I didn't you know, I didn't blame her. I thought
it was just you know, the crappy phones being the
crappy phone. So you're making it sound like it's someone
who works there though, that's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Well, I'm saying that in the past this has happening.
You normally just reset it and it's fine. And we've
tried resetting it on both sides and it's not fine.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
I don't care. Listen, it doesn't matter. The working talking
obviously's working. I'm talking to you.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
It just yeah, back, you know. But Bree's gonna get paid.
You can go smoke some STIGs in the back, you know.
You know she's fine.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Okay, So about Lebron, this man is a fraud because
fifty two million dollars and then he comes down and
complains about oh, the Lakers. You know, if they don't
do the right things, I'm gonna leave. I'm gonna do
all this, like basically hold them hostage, like you said.
And the thing with it is fifty two million dollars
for you, forty year old Lebron when the Lakers only
have five million dollars in salary.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Well, I'm not gonna rip Lebron for that. The Lakers
make tons of money, and they make a lot of
it because of Lebron.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
James.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
If you take away like so you go thirty five
million a year for one year, okay, that's seventeen million
extra dollars that you could have to get.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Your Yeah, I don't play that.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I don't play that.
Speaker 6 (29:07):
Who's going to play defense for him? Go get Jawn
from Dominoes down the street.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Well I'm not here. I'm not going to go there.
I mean, you know you go there.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Well, sure everyone should take play for peanuts by that,
by your standard, but what brought you?
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Know?
Speaker 6 (29:19):
How much money? Lebron's mad like, I feel like it's different.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I understand, but I don't want anyone touching my money.
I don't want to buy you. I don't care how
much money you have. You don't want people taking your money.
Do you want people taking your money? You get rich,
your podcet, you become the Joe Rogan a blind podcast,
and you want someone to take your money nah, But
I mean that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
Man, that's a different comparison, because you know.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
No, I say, you get super red. Say, everyone listens
to your podcast. You got a little podcat Listen, the
thing blows up, right, everyone's listening, and you get offered
a big money deal. Somebody offers you tons of money, right,
you doing it for a while, and then you get
another contract. You said, well, we want you know, we
want to you know, we want to save money and
buy some other podcasts or whatever.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Are you going to give him a discount?
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Here's what I say. So if you're going to take
my money away, at least pay the people behind the scenes.
And if you can't do that, then we're done.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
All right, Well you say that, now, check back with
me in ten years. Check back with me in ten years.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
How about that?
Speaker 6 (30:11):
Yeah, my producer sucks and the answer would change.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
But you know, all right, all right, I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Thank you. It's blind them.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Let's see I know a great producer.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Yeah it was it. Let's see here. Let me see
if I can let's let's uh, let's go to uh.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
He's like pointing at me.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Okay, call her. Yeah, you're on the air, there's we're doing.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Oh my god, here we go, here we go. I'm
putting you on hold, go away, all right, random caller
on line three.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
It's like a grab bag here. This is wonderful.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
What's I said, Benjamin? My brother?
Speaker 6 (30:46):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
If I was any better, I would be having the
phones work. They're not working. So I'm taking random phone
calls here.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
That's what I'm.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
Doing, dude.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
So I was actually going when you answered.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
You're like, oh, lay lay lay, because my natural I
see are in the thirteen game winning for unbeaten street.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Let's go. Would you like me to say, oh, ho
ho ho ho everybody?
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Now?
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Are you happy?
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Now? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (31:20):
I am?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
But have you been man?
Speaker 6 (31:21):
I mean other than the phone's not working because I
got hung up on three times?
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Yeah? No, I mean, it's right, it's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Very quick weekend the podcasting weekend. Danny G was unable
to do the podcast this weekend, so I slaved away
by myself three extra shows.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Uh and I I mean I love that.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
I love when I get done with the podcast and
my voice after doing the show all week is just shredded.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
My vocal courts are shredded.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
There's nothing I like more than that feeling that I
have nothing left in a vocal department. I love that,
and so does the company, by the way, because I
think they're trying to get me to do that.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Yes, why I.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Just just something popped up, Because this.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
Is three blind collars in a row.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
You one day, you should put all three of us
on at the same exact time.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Well, you're like a semi retired blind caller, though you'd
admit right, Blind Sea Bass is not a You're not
a regular caller, although this is your second call, Blind
Sea Bass. Is it bad that I recognize everyone's freaking
voice that calls? Is there anyone that I don't recognize
that calls the damn show? Anyone? It's impressing.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
How do I know every stupid person that calls the show?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
It's ridiculous for your blind colors. Well, without the blind,
that that is the base. You know you talk about
talk about Team Red, Team Blue. The base for this
show is the blind. I'd have no one listening without
the blind, no one, the most the most loyal listeners
of the blind. All Right, people talk about people people
with vision suck. I can't stand people that can see.
(32:49):
I need the blind I stand for the blind all right, brother.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
Yeah, good night man, and I always remember don't forget
to uh swample fighting alley.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yes, all right, thank you, all right, go away. There's
a blind sea bass from from Nashville. Sounds like he's
doing better. He was having some issues. Is he famous?
Speaker 5 (33:10):
But sounded like she knew him.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
I hadn't heard him in a while. Yeah, he stopped
calling the show for a couple of years, and they
started calling recently.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Uh, yeah, he was.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
There was a famous thing like he he was going blind.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
He wasn't yet blind. He lost his vision.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
He became blind, and then he was having some difficult
This you might imagine that would be a very difficult
transition if you've seen and then you become blind. Blind
Blind Scott at the same thing appened, so blind Scott
was trying to advise him. Of course, like everything with
blind Scott, it turns into a fireball and uh, just
a disaster. And then they all start fighting with each
other and it's, you know, a hole to do, a
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hole to do anyway, all right. The green price tag,
the green price tag. That would be the cost of
Derek White. Now, so others having traded Derek White, or
or Jalen Brown. Some chatter after they said bye bye
to Drew Holliday traded him to the Trailblazers and Christop
toward Zingis to the Atlanta Hawks that they'd be making
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another trade.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Well, the chatter is that in order.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
To trade Derek White, they need a McHale Bridges type
trade package for that to happen. So they've received a
lot of offers. Now that McHale Bridges trade is infamous.
New York gave up five first round picks, five first
round picks, and that's what the Celtics are looking for
a legend. Of course, I have no problem trading first
(34:34):
round picks.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
I don't care. I'm over it. I'm a grown up.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
I know most of those first round picks will not
turn out to be anything, maybe one out of the five.
So you're essentially trading proven commodity for maybe one out
of the five turns out to be okay. And you
look at that Bridge's trade. I don't don't have time
to get to it right now, but if you look
at who the Knicks gave up, like, are any of
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those guys that great yet? I know it's been a
couple of years Bridges has been with the Knickerbockers. We'll
take a look at that. We'll continue here. The phones
are kind of working. We're just doing a grab bag
edition of the phones, which is somewhat exciting.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
List it's not.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
King Roy writes and says it sounds like Lebron James
would make a great politician, claiming his deal will save money,
but in reality we'll cost the Lakers more in the
long run. Maybe once Lebron finally retires, he will run
for mayor, governor or even president of the United States
of America.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Well, anyone can run. Just you just have to.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Tell people, dumb people that they'll you'll give them everything, right,
just tom oh, yeah, we'll give you free food, we'll
give you free housing. And dumb people love that and
they think it's going to happen, and they vote for that.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
That's normally how that works.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Just it doesn't matter what party you're just promise a
bunch of free stuff, and that's that's the way the words.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Parito writes in says, here's what really happened.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Laflopper wanted another two year deal with an option on
the second year, and Mark Walter said no, not this time,
so he opted in and puts out the statement to
save face, I say trade Bronnie to Toronto, Charlotte or
the Brooklyn Nets. Lditty will be upset and bye bye.
So Parido wants lebron Gonzo.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Here you go? All right?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
People excited also about the blind takeover of the show.
There you go, Scrooge, says Ben. You would not know
my voice if I called, yes, cause you never call
the show. You hide behind your phone. That's why I
would know who you are.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
You hide. You're a hider.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Time now for the who am I?
Speaker 5 (36:30):
Game?
Speaker 2 (36:30):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
After signing with the Commanders this offseason, I've gotten my
twenty fifth gig with a pro football team. I have
been signed by fourteen different NFL teams. I've also played
for leagues like the UFL, AAF, the XFL as well.
Who am I? That is the question. What is the answer.
(36:53):
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill
Miller and you.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
It is the Ben Mahler Show, up all night every night.
The Red Eye Flight to the wee hours of the morning.
Be sure to check out the Fox Sports Radio YouTube channel,
very popular. The blind guys love it. Just search Fox
Sports Radio on YouTube. You'll see a whole bunch of
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All is. You can watch global exclusive Mallard monologues that
(37:25):
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Speaker 2 (37:27):
Be sure to subscribe so you never.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Miss our very best Malle monologues and Fox Sports Radio
videos on the you Tube. Thank god for the Internet.
Back to it, back to what we go, and the
phones have now been fixed. We had some fun there
with random callers, random callers calling show, but I think
we're good. We're good now, so you might have enjoyed
(37:50):
that more than the actual show with regular calls, So
we apologize if that's the case. Time now for the
who am I?
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Game? After signing with the Commanders.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Off who I've got my twenty fifth gig, twenty five
with pro football teams. I've been signed by fourteen different
NFL teams, also played in the UFL, the XFL, the AAF.
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Aileen wrights In says Jose Feliciano. Who else we have
(38:23):
a malaprop guy going with Arnie Spanier as his answer.
Ernie Spanier in that photo, he looks like the old
nightly news anchor to me, Frank Dreben Detective Frank Dreben
from Scrooge, Lorena's Pizza Thief and says, Jonas Knox is
his suspect person of interest.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
That's what be saying.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Mister nice guy's going with Dennis Leonard as his answer.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Gumby Daves, says Joe Klopfenstein. Who is I don't know
who that is, but I guess you play for the Rams.
Andy and Lionel Lakes, Minnesota says the answer is Stevie Wonder.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
It's got to be Stevie Wonder.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Al Holland, here's a good name from BA City Tony
Don Johnson from Don Johnson, Junior John from Domino's Guests
by Just Josh in Cincinnati, Mister Drummond from Bobby in Florida,
Francisco Alvarezquez by Sheen in Des Moines, Scrooge Guests by
(39:21):
Kramer aka Terry in England. Matt Jack's going with the
Zendejas Restaurant dishwasher as his answer Willie Wonka from Johnny Q.
All right, what is the answer here, Loraina?
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Do you haven't?
Speaker 5 (39:36):
Me and Brieth thought really hard about this one.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
We're going with Lee to lap Lee the lap, Well,
Lee's been to twenty five bars, but no, it hasn't
been with twenty five pro football teams. No, that's a
great The correct answer is Josh Johnson, quarterback. Josh Johnson
is the answer, and that leads us. Now just some dramatics.
It is time now for the play of the night,
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and there's only one play that stands out, and we
go to baseball now for the amazing, unbelievable, mind blowing
play the day. Take a list the two to one pitch,
Benson rips it down.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
The right field line.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Better ball, that's gonna do it, Pierre Tom's lunts with
the winning run, and the Reds walk off for the series.
Mctree over the podres here you go. It's the ti
rack Player to night, Will Benson's walk off from run tireback.
Tyrack have been around for forty years. Free road has
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to night right there
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