July 2, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller opens hour 2 of the show reacting to reports that four different teams have reached out to Rich Paul for a potential LeBron James trade. Then, he gets into the news that Brook Lopez is signing with the Clippers, choosing them over the Lakers. Plus, Mike the Leprechaun joins the show live in-studio!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ding Dong.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our number two. Our number two is ready for
you and the Hour of Lebron at least at the beginning.
How do you process the report that says four teams
have contacted agent Rich Paul for a Lebron James trade
from the Lakers. Also, why would Brook Lopez pick the
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Clippers over the Lakers? It makes no sense according to
some of these Laker historians. And Kevin Durant goofed on
Dorian Finney Smith during Lebron's podcast. How awkward are things
going to be for Durant and Dorian Finney Smith when
they are now teammates with the Rockets. We'll talk about
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that and more right now here. It is our number two.
It is the Lebron life. Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Get away from me.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Even when it shouldn't be about Lebron, it is about Lebron.
Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Show.
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Show b So later this hour we will have a guest.
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He's given me this he wants to I'm not gonna
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Speaker 1 (02:07):
He'll be in. It's like a clown. He'll be in
here later this hour.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
But our lead is from La La Land And another day,
another wrinkle in the Lebron drama orama you've not been following,
perhaps not now. I do get paid to follow this.
I don't know that I would pay this close attention
if I didn't have this job. In fact, I would
guarantee I wouldn't. But I have the job, and I
do find it interesting. So Lebron's agent, the person that
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Lebron buddied years ago, that has been writing Lebron James
cotails all these years, Rich Paul. So, Rich Paul says
that as many as not one, not two, not three,
but four four NBA teams have already inquired about trading
for Lebron from the Lakers. Course they've gone to Rich Paul,
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because you don't negotiate a trade with Lebron unless unless
Rich Paul says it's okay. So that comes amid reports
that Lebron has given a hostage note to the Lakers,
hostage note about if you don't make the roster the
way I want the roster, you're out of here.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I'm gone. I'm gonna seek a trade. Now.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
He did pick up his fifty two million dollar player
option to return plausibly to the Lakers, but that has
not stopped the rumor orama from picking up steam here
that he's gonna change teams, he's gonna go somewhere else,
and all this stuff. So let us discuss the question,
how do you process? All right, how do you process
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supposedly four teams contacting Rich Paul for a Lebron James trade.
So on this one, I've got Flair, gun Feather and
Applebee's and we will combine all of these things together,
and we are gonna make some lucky charms, like a
leprechaun would have a lucky term. Now, number one, I said,
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number one, Yeah, get out the old magnifying glass.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I did.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I got the magnifying glass out on this one. So
this is what's known as vague headline harvesting. It is
vague headline harvesting, no names, no offers, no actual news.
It wasn't like the Knicks, the Timberwolves, the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
The you know, the Rockets.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
It was just four teams, and it's not four out
of thirty because it's twenty nine other teams other than
the Lakers, And you immediately eliminate the Charlotte Hornets, the
Brooklyn Nets, teams that aren't even trying to feel the
competitive team. But it's just enough, just enough bait that
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it'll feed the content cycle for a day, and you
take the hook on that and you kind of run
with it. And it's not like it's the twenty ten
We're not going back fifteen years the decision by Lebron
at a boys and girls club in Connecticut.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
We're not doing that.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
And so this is not really so much as a
report if you will. It is more of like a
flare gun by Rich Paul. If you imagine Rich Paul
is shooting up a flare from the top of Clutch Mountain,
beautiful Clutch Mountain, and signaling to the NBA world that
Rich Paul is still calling the shots, that Rich Paul
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is still in charge both on and off the court,
and if you want a meeting with the King, you
have to visit Rich Paul. Now, I maintain my take.
I have not altered my take from the previous edition
of the show. Lebron is not going anywhere. He's not
unless unless he wants to go somewhere.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Ron doing right now through Rich Paul is just keeping
his name talked about. That's it, right.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
If Lebron got to the point where he actually wanted
a trade, Rich Paul would have shams in one ear
and he'd have Adam Silver in the other before skinny jeans.
Rob Polinka could even boot up the trade machine on
the Internet and see what he could get for Lebron.
So forget about that, and you can bet the phrase
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four teams. I saw that a lot Rich Paul. Four teams.
Four teams picked very carefully right, not several not multiple teams.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
It was four.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
That sounds surgical, an exact number, four teams, not five,
not six, not seven, right strategic suggesting what suggesting? Something
simmering And again my position, Spider of Art, nothing simmering.
There's nothing on the back burner at all. We're supposed
to believe that contenders are lining up to trade for
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a forty year old Lebron James with more miles than
a rental car and massive salary. I believe his salary
fifty three million is the g DP the domestic product
there of like Micronesia.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I believe. I'd have to go check.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
But all because Rich Paul said, you said something to
a few NBA insiders and then they repeated it, and
that led to the internet doing its thing and we're
off to the races and all that because Lebron's not
just your run of the mill older player.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Lebron's going to control everything. Like one of the theories is.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
The reason Lebron's grumbling is because now he's no longer
the king of the team.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
That Luca.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
It's like lucas the center of the universe in Lakerland,
and that's bothering Lebron, Like Lebron's like, no, I'm king
King Lebron. Where would he go? You're gonna go back
to Cleveland. I don't think he's going anywhere. I mean,
this is the Lebron Show, and Rich Paul is the
executive producer of The Lebron Show. And I'll believe it
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when Lebron goes somewhere else. I don't believe these initial
round of rumors. Although it is good engagement. It's good
engagement for me.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Meanwhile, turning the page, So the Lakers, who had a
very embarrassing week here we're into early July, but the
start of NBA free agency, the Lakers wanted to add
a center. Many believe they had circled the wagons for
brook Lopez, who had been a free agent from the
Milwaukee Bucks, played with the Lakers in the past, then
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went back to Milwaukee, and that was the guy they wanted.
That was the centerpiece, and he is bringing his towns
to Los Angeles. But brook Lopez will be a Clipper,
not a Laker. So why why would brook Lopez pick
the Clippers over the Lakers? Explain that to me, Like,
(08:59):
I'm five years old, So I'll explain it to you
in forwards.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
You ready, here they are.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
It's hip two clip boom, drop the mic, hit the clip.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yep, that's right, thank you. There you go. Yeah, it's
hip the clip. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Another feather in the cap of the Clipper ship there
and a swing batter, a whiff for skinny jeans, Rob
Polinka another whiff there. Also more on Dorian Finney Smith,
who the Lakers had and wanted to keep. He also
left to go play for the Roquets to hang out
with mister Irrigation in Houston. But the Lakers they cannot close.
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It's been a problem. It's been an ongoing problem here.
And listen, Lopez said, well, some people say, well he's old.
You know what do you want a guy like that?
He's an older player. But make no mistake, brook Lopez
still is able to defend the rim and those three
point shots, the moneyball from brook Lopez like a stretch four.
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Pretty pretty good from brook Lopez. And it's it's not
a minor move. It's not a major move. It's not
a minor move. It's in the middle and it's a
savvy strategic addition by the people's team and a front
office the Clippers that unlike.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
The Purple and Gold, where they love to tell you
how great they are. Right, they go around, they leak.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Every negotiation, everything is out there, you know, whether it's
shams or somebody else, and they scream about how great
their culture is, and you know, the pride of the
all the bull crap with the Lakers and all this stuff,
and people buy into it. Low information fans buy into it.
It's a failure. The Clippers saw a need and they
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they filled it. And Brook Lopez will player a fair
amount of minutes until he gets hurt because he's older
and all that stuff. And meanwhile, the Lakers, though they
were in the mix. I love that in the mix,
and that's been a status they've had for a lot
of the players they've wanted to get in recent years.
In the mix, on the radar. They're on the radar,
the finalist until they're not. And what Rob Polenka needs
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skinny jeans, Rob Blinka, is he needs another assist from
Nico Harrison. Is there any way that Nico Harrison and
Adam Silver can just give some more good players to
the Lakers, Because without the help, without the push from
the NBA and Nico Harrison to bail him out on
his own devices. It has not gone well for Skinny
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G's and Brook Lopez clearly has more confidence the Clippers
will make a further run than the Lakers. Otherwise the
money be about to say he would have gone to
the Lakers. And so we'd rather play with Kawhi Leonard
and James Harden than the Pillsbury dough boy, Houka Luka
and Lebron who's playing a foot set with leaving, even
though we don't think he actually will leave. All right now,
Final point, new team, Same old KD, Same old KD.
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Some internet investigators had a field day because it turns
out that if you didn't see this. In a recent
guest appearance on Lebron's podcast, Kevin Durant spoke at length
about a number of basketball related issues, including shot selection
and when to give up the ball and when not
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to give up the ball and all that stuff. So
one of the things he said was how Kevin Durant
said he would rather the ball be in the best
player's hands than to pass it to someone like Dorian
Finney Smith with the clock winding down.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
The reason this is interesting is because not only did
Kevin Durant end up on the Rockets, but also his
new teammate is Dorian Finney Smith.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Ding ding ding ding ding.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah, Durant didn't just say I prefer to take the
last shot. No, no, no, He went next level. So how awkward?
How awkward are things going to be for Kevin Durant
and Dorian Phinney Smith now that they will be brothers
in arms, they will be comrades with the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
So again, the fact that Durant didn't keep this vague,
and I'm happy he didn't.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
In his wildest dreams, he clearly did not imagine a
world where he would have a teammate named Dorian Phinney
Smith and they'd be playing together. But here you are,
right here you are, and so the normal response is
I just prefer to take the last shot.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
He didn't say that, though.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Again he basically said, why in the world would I
pass to that guy who happens to be his teammate now?
And man, it's going to be fun. I'm not a
big chemistry guy. You can't hate each other though. You
can't go.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Into it hating each other.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
And you got Durant already calling out teammates No, he
didn't didn't work with the rockets.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
He wasn't a rocket when he recorded this.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
But the fact that he said it and he named
the name, he named him, he said the name, he
said it. How great is that first get together going
to be like they have the team meeting, they have
the first team then they go out to an Applebee's, Yeah,
and they're they're ordering and then do they sit Dorian
Finney Smith at the kiddie table? Does he sit at
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the kids table? Is he allowed with the rest of
the team there. And it's not even about his skill set,
not only he's an average NBA player. I think Dorian
Finney Smith is an average NBA player. He's like roster fillers.
Sometimes he'll be okay, most of the time, you don't
notice he's there. Sometimes he's terrible. He's he's just there
and but very awkward, very very awkward. And it's it's
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an equivalent of like over the weekend. You come into
the office on a Monday, You show up to work
on a Monday, and you find out that the boss
was trying was just ripping you a new one, trash
talking you at happy hour on a Saturday, and some
of you coworkers were there and they like they heard stuff,
and it's we're not even close to this time where
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they get together.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
The season starts really in October.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Training camp will begin and the season will begin at
the end of October, and all this stuff, and we've
got the drama. Who's got the drama. They've got the drama.
So maybe Dori and Phinney Smith comes in there and
just shrugs it off, and at least that's what we
do publicly.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
It'll inspire him to play better. It'll feel them, give
him some jet fuel.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Maybe he will knock down a bunch of three point
shots and they'll hang out.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Durant and.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Finny Smith will be buddy buddy, right, they'll sen Kumbaya
and roast marshmallows and all that stuff. But this is
the NBA twenty twenty five, and you hear everything, You
read every comment, and you hear and know about everything,
and you see everything that's out there. It is the
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In studio and we'll do it. We will do it next.
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And now back to it. We go, all right, and
back to it.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
And we have in studio here. I promised this guy
a couple of months ago. I said, if you come
to LA, we'll have you in here and we'll turn
your mic hold. Here there's the voice of Mike the Leprecaun.
Look at this guy, Ben, Thank you for giving me
the VIP tripment. Mary already won the She already won.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
A prize fifth place. But that's her bonus from management. Yes,
where's Bill? Where's Bell? Bill Miller?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Well, Bill, you can't see him, but you know he's here.
I know he's So here's the thing, Mike the leprecaun.
So we had agreed that you were going to come
in here. You tried to invite yourself for two days, right,
you tried to. We have very strict rules here at
the company who can come in here and who can't
come in here. So I'm mining my own business. I'm
I'm like, I'm not harming anyone. I didn't even do
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the show last night. Something else I had going on.
I couldn't be at the show last night, by the way,
Well congratulations. So so then my phone starts like I'm
getting messages during the day. I like, what what happened?
I didn't do anything. I went even in the building
last night, And so I get these this message for
management that that someone was one of my visitors was
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at the building during the day trying to get into
the building. And I'm like, well, I work at night.
I don't work during the day. There's daytime people don't
know nighttime people. Michael Upper have I not told you?
But what were you doing here during the day.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I My hotel is five minutes down this tree. I understand,
but this is a major. You can't just walk into
a major like there's a big radio company here. You
can't just walk in that. I was improded. I took
pictures of Seacrest's sign, but then congratulations, but it's a
good sign. It's a great, solid sign. Solid. Did you
see that there's a Coast to coast sign up? Did
you take a photo over that? I took?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
What about what other signs are out there? If Steve
Harvey Sin's still out there?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
This is his old studio, okay, in his own So anyway,
you just wanted to see You were so excited you
wanted to come here.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
When I go to a news just say yes, yes,
you were excited because you wanted to be here and
see the studio.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Yes, and know where it was because if I drove
it would take me ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
And you have to understand, Okay, my we do a
different show. The daytime shows are like normal. They don't
understand the people that listen to the show. Have I
gotten into arguments with management, So we're just like we
hide out in the night and when you show up
during the day, it's like they've seen a monster.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Or something like that.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
The reaction of the daytime people that work here. Whether
the security guard was a monster or not, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Listen, I'm actually happy.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
We've had some security guards that just sleeped all the time,
so I'm actually happy they actually the security guard was
paying it.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
They walk me off the property.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
But you seem like a very nice person. I don't
know why they would have this reaction. I've been nothing
but nice. You've been here a little bit, right, You've
been in the building.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
So let me tell you what he said. He said,
I'm I told him I'm coming on Ben Mallor tonight,
and he said, who's Ben Maller. Well, he knew Ben Mallo.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
You know you are the daytime guy, knew who I was.
He knew Lorena. But Lorena's not here. She's not here.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
But then I said, and then he said, you can't
be possibly going to Ben Mallor because you don't have
his cell phone number.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
And I said, well, Bill Maller, and I did. I
don't give out my number because you call me.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Well, I called you after I got management at the
company upset. The one thing I try to avoid, michel
Leprechaun is management even knowing I exist, and you come
in here like a wrecking you like the kool Aid.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Man breaking your Yeah, that's why you get paid the
big bucks. Paul, Sure, yes, let me tell you. Okay. Anyway,
so you're here, now, I'm here, and you're a big
fan of the show. You love the show. My goal
for the week is not to get arrested by Okay, Okay,
I think you're okay.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I think you're all right, although you almost did already
get arrested for trying to enter the building.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Guy he was going to call the cops. I know. Well.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
The good thing is in l A, you call the cops,
it takes two days for them to show up, so
you don't have to worry about that. You're probably fine
by the time you leave go back to Boston. They'll
they'll show up.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
But anyway, you're here, now, I am here. You have
a whole bunch of material.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
You have a notepad full of material, you have shtick,
you have things planned, you have you have what do
you have that you have?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
The your chicken?
Speaker 6 (22:25):
There?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
You have you have for blind Scott Bland Scott was illegal? Okay?
Would you would you like to have a full bank
of calls?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Would you like to talk to anyone on hold, you
want to take a call or do you would you
want to do your material?
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Like what do you know?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Oh no, no, Bland Scott tell him that this is
really right, blind Scott. Michaelleperkhn wants you to know that
he's got a real chicken.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Here, blind, real plastic chicken. I don't here, are you there,
blind Scott.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
The thing the thing with Michael Eipkon is he's been
a fifth grade teacher. He has no self awareness how
to act around adultsy things. Because he's a fifth grade teacher.
You can just stroll into the place like it's a
fifth great classroom.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Didn't ye it was a place of business, Michael Leprechaun.
I mean kind of. We talk about sports all. That's
fairly management.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
I've talked I've talked to management before, but not about
Ben's show, and they have talked back to me, and
they have thanked me for my contribution to Ben's show.
They said, thank you for all your hard work and contributions.
Because I'm a respectful person I have managed. I don't
tell woman. I don't. Mike.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
You told.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Mike, you told the Rainy you were gonna she really
rose your boat now she is all the way in
Oregon now because you, dude, you you were just the
biggest con ever.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Dude, you should What do you have to say, Blind Scott,
he's making serious accizations.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Here at michael Leprechaan Rather, what do you have to say?
Mike Goose has a common first, But blind Mike, you.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Have Mike, you don't even have a radio voice.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
Dude, you came here, come to then Irish?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
This color broke. You're not just getting ugly here?
Speaker 5 (23:55):
This is this is what I got an Irish accent too.
I went to you have an Italian? I got that Austin.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
No, you guys are you guys are both from the
Commonwealth here and you're fighting it at them.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
This is very ugly. I will bring you to the
two men.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Get near dude, I'm not coming near you, all right.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
He's very very up So why is just so upset
with you? Michael leprecun I don't understand one word jealous?
He's jealous, all right, Blind Scott? Are you jealous?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Is that true? Blind Scott? Are you jealous of the
celebrity of Michael Leprechaun?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
I wouldn't be jealous of a guy that walks around
with squeaky toys and talks. He lived off his parents' money.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
From Oh no, is that true. It's a terrible accusation.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
He told us how much money is in his bank account.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
All right, we don't people, Okay, what are we doing?
Speaker 8 (24:42):
Hey, I gotta got it what I'm in a comment? Yeah,
we're all talking a microphone. Yes, I grew up in
poverty in Irelands. I made my millions in America.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
All right, take that blind now, Mike, Like, why do
we have to know how much money you?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
All right? Nobody cares? Listen? All right, do you want
to take another call? You have? Somebody else you have?
What do you have? You want to pick a call?
Everyone's here? Can I do my jokes?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
The other day? Well do I have a choice? I mean,
I feel like, you know, you brought a bunch of gifts.
That's a good way by the kids. Get you know
what you should have done. Let me tell you them
next time. First of all, nobody's gun. Let's calm down.
But but when you when you run into a security guard.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I was just give him a gift. You didn't give
him a gift. I gave him. The key to life
is to just you know, give gifts.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
How many gifts I gave you today? I mean there's
a ton I don't even you got it in the fridge.
I will put it in the rain and Cooper not
here and they won't be here till next week. But I,
uh yeah, I have a few jokes though, Just do
just do one. I gotta take a call eight seven
seven ninety down off. I sorry, but this is Mike
the Leprechaun. He's in studio. He's wearing the world's tallest
Leprechaun shirt, He's got an Ireland hat on. He's covered
(25:54):
in tattoos. Unbelieve you got the red all this Boston
sports teams tattooed on your body? You got me see
the red Sox. Hold on me see your arm? There
you got the uh oh, there's the oh that's that's
that's not the Celtics Leprechaun. Well there's the Celtic logo.
You got the Patriots and then the Bruins over here
and a bunch of other that is that an Olympic
thing here? Like the Olympic tattoo? Oh, the Olympic rings.
(26:16):
I was the remember look at that. Okay, I'll do
your little dad joke. Then we'll take it. It's a
one dad joke, one dad joke.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Here. This is for one of the other construction workers.
Do you want to hear a construction joke? Ben?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Sure, sure, Mike the Leprechaun. Sorry, I'm still working on it.
Oh there you go? All right? Uh pick pick your poisoning?
Where do you want to go?
Speaker 7 (26:36):
Pick a?
Speaker 2 (26:37):
We got a full board of calls here, Where do
you want to go? This is Mike the Leprechaun. He's
he's analyzing all the names you want to go. Hollering James.
All right, you've made his dreams come true. Hollering James
in Minnesota. My god, what an exciting moment. Two legends
talking to each other. Here we've got Mike the Leprechaun
and hollering James. Hello, Hollering James in Minneapolis, minnesot Oh,
(27:02):
you'd say, why do you like taking.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Me kind of phone call?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
These guys are never sold. Wow.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Okay, so you're you're calling Mike the Leprecaun and imbeciles.
How are you calling him James?
Speaker 7 (27:15):
I am flowing him out as a membles because you
don't know the meanings from human beings.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
And your climb and beans.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
You make coffee, James.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Can you pretend to be sleeping? Your calls are better
when you're sleeping. Can you pretend to be sleeping, James,
I'm your friends.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I like you.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Yeah, you kind of ripped him, hollering James. He chose
you that if I got a full Baker calls. He
chose you, hollering James over all these other calls.
Speaker 7 (27:39):
I'm sorry, Mike, let me read.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
This is one of the few people that actually like you.
The worst. The worst I could have done was callin
marcelle is marcell and Holt. No, No, he only calls
the last hour you got.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
You got me holler James right here?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
How many.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
Tell you this? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Pretty good?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Thank you well, James. I loved the song about you,
the thirty six Pills of the Day, that's right, thirty
six pers. No, we can't play it because nobody puts
in the system. These guys are so lazy.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Amas over there, well, Coop's supposed to put in the system.
He's very lazy.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
He doesn't do it, and then Larida doesn't put it
in the system, and neither one's there anyway. So the
only way we can play it is one of them
was here, but they're not here. So Mary can it
was beil Miller because it's not Bill Miller is here.
Don't dare you talk trash on Bill Miller? All right, James,
anything else for please? I have one more comment for him? Yes,
does he know Murphy's Law? Hollering James, You know Murphy's Law?
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Murphy's law, and it is gonna happen.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
It will happen.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
You're close. It's no what could go That's not what
I mean. It's what what will go wrong? Sorry? What
could go wrong? Will go wrong? So you better go
back to snoring. All right, thank you, James. Are that's hollering? James?
God two legends on the radio. It's the Ben Mathers Show.
(29:03):
We're rolling on.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
We've got Mike the Lepreca on here. He's in studio.
He's demanded, what do you want to talk to the
black irishman?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Really talked him?
Speaker 2 (29:11):
You've never spoken to the black Irishman. Well, you're, of
course an Irishman. You're reading in the island. That's appropriate
eight seven seven ninety nine of fives. Well, the malt
Palooza is coming up. I know you'll be entering that
as well. Yes, in mid July.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Very bad rookie this year anymore? Right, Well, you can't generally,
you can't be Marceal. It won't be Martal is a duck, Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Kid's going down annoying me with that stupid duck. Let's
go to the Black Irishman. Here.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
You're listening to our live coverage. Very rare in studio guests.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
A man that's already gotten me in trouble with management,
Mike the Leprechan Hello, black irishman.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Hey killing me, Black irishman, you're on, Hold on, sire,
on with you're on with the I mean, everybody needs
to relax, relaxed, chill dude.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
Heymen, I won't say me. I don't like to apologize
something he didn't know if I ever send anybody you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
You're very chill. No one knows who you are. Don't
worry about that, please, I won't say.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
You know amen, your voices like it's like, well, the
two irishmen just tonguing out to you.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
But you're a black one. You know what their most
black Irish people are. It's a Jamaica.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
That's me.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
No, not just calm down. Uh now, Black irishman, your
daughter is away for the summer, is that correct? Your daughters? Man,
normally she's playing video games while you know, he calls in.
Speaker 7 (30:30):
Man.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
She actually you know she's a smart one, was a
smart well, young lady. Me, No, me not. You don't
like the leopard I didn't bring. I'm gonna win it
when I go to Boston. So you're in the Boston,
you're a leper.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Gunt.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
You got to make sure they pick up the TV show.
So I'll come to Boston right now. No, I'm worried.
This is a Brooklyn dodgery.
Speaker 7 (30:49):
Like I geez, please for hey, man, I was gonna
say you made the Seahawks sleeper team.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
This year Michael lepergun with his Seahawks take from the
Black Irishman.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
They got they got my boy. What's his name? Quarterback?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah, quarterback Tom Brady. Last year, Leper says, Tom Brady
is the Seahawks quarter that that's what he is.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
No man, what's his name?
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Yeah, Jimmy Buffalo? Donald Donald, Yes, Donald, let me tell
you about the Seahawks. You it's like it's like a
boat that's gonna sink. It's fair it's more like the
Dodo boot. It's like a do extinct.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
How you get on the damn game before you play,
it's like okay a player, Okay, they won't mean what
to score one touchdown? I ain't got to score nothing.
I could just a bit. How it's.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Again, before I hang up on you, I want to
thank you for that damn game. That hat.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
I want to thank you for the hat that you
sent me, very nice, Creighton blue the Creighton Blue Jay hat.
Speaker 7 (31:51):
Hell, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Can I say, I can't say that word. I mean,
I know he's you're at that right, Yes, well he
said the effort. Jeez, you hear it on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Can I say a shout out to weed men?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
We don't do shout at well, No, I love with men.
You're like the Irish weed man. I feel like you're
the Irish. Passed a few homeless people today, shocking in
l A you'd pass homeless people, Well, not so many here,
but trust me, they're out there.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
And in my hotel there's a There was a conference
today of lawyers from Dallas, and they gave me a
whole bunch of nonsense about the Dallas teams. There's a
Cleveland person. So I lived down like anyway.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
But you're staying saying. I'm saying it's a hotel. You know,
you can't say that you're living there because you but
for the week for weed Man. So I'm going to
say about all homeless people. And that's a genuine Jesus
struggled to make in his meat as well. And weed
Man is a very nice man.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
We love weed Man. Weed Man's heart. He was armless.
All right, you want to take one more call here?
Who's on the media.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
We got we got well Vanned, It says Ben on there,
but it's Van, the one legged man, Bama Man. He
had his leg bitten off by an alligator. We have
Lee in Toronto.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Who do you see here? I still well, he's still there.
You won't hang up? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
You want me to hang up on him? You want
me you want to go back to him blind Scott? Yeah,
Leper says hello to you again, Blind Scott.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
Why didn't le me go with him to Los Angeles?
He talks about homeless people like his mother Teresa. He's flying, dude.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Yeah, why didn't you bring blind Scott with you? You
guys could have traveled together. Amazing.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Can I educate you there? Blind Scott. She was born
in Albania, went to college, you know everything, and stopped.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Let's take another call. Let's go to Lee in Toronto.
I just want to talk to a nice Canadian fellow.
Hello Lee and Toronto, Welcome Lee. Hello, Lee, Man, this
is not This is not Lee in Toronto. This is
something else? Is somebody else?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Are you and Roddy? You got by Halloween? James, Holloween James,
all right, one, I have something for you. Hollering James.
There you go enjoy that sneaky. That was sneaky, all.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Right now, I'm I'm afraid because he's here. I don't
know if any of these guys are who they say.
I like that guy Uhler and James is sneaky. He
disguised his voice pretty.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
He's not sneaky. You know I've met him. There's nothing
sneaky about Holloween James.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
James.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
He's the size of job of the Hut from the
old Star Wars movies. Let's go to uh very large Anthony.
I think this is probably I think everyone's a phony
phone call. Now hello Anthony, Hello, Hello, Oh this is
You're from Louisiana, right, yeah, oh I remember this is
this is.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
A fun guy, Anthony, like a girl. But no, no,
this is no. Don't say that. How dare you?
Speaker 2 (34:48):
This is a very masculine man, Anthony. I'm surprised you
called Lorraina's not here, Anthony, you want to say how
to marry?
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Hey?
Speaker 5 (34:55):
May?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Mary is dressed like a bumblebee? Hello Mary? Hey? How
you doing? How are you?
Speaker 4 (35:02):
May?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
I hope you have a heavy food to last?
Speaker 4 (35:06):
I know?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
How about it? Too? Happy for to July?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
You're not you're not working here Mary on the fourth
or actually, oh you are on the night or during
the day, on the night.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Really that's myth. And out on a party.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
I'm going to well I won't be, but I'm going
to be watching Joey Chests doing the evening hot Dog.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
So, Anthony, you're in louis What part of Louisa is it?
Street Port? Where are you a Louisiana Greenwood, Louisiana? Okay, Greenwood?
Very nice?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
And you're on with Mike the Leprechaun. This is a
the world's tallest leprechaun. He lives in the Massazona. Since
he's visiting us, here in l A.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
And I'm so pleased to meet you. What's your name again, Anthony? Anthony, Anthony.
That's a great name, but you should change it. But
that's no, No, he's a wonderful name. There. I love
this you ever call Tony. He's one of my favorite callers,
this guy anything. I like that. And uh, Justin doesn't
call anymore. He's retired. He couldn't take it. He gave
up call anyway. So what do you want to talk about? Anthony.
(35:58):
I'm having a great time, let me tell you.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
But l A.
Speaker 6 (36:01):
The moon, that's a beautiful mew when this guy Andrea
would be proud. The rules are brilliant and like the
Boston potholes, palm trees are blower. And that's fast food,
fast women, and fast something else.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
You got a note fat he's reading off of fast.
Speaker 6 (36:18):
Food, fast women, and fast something, not fast cars because
fast fancy cars.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Oh my god, the cars the cars are nice. But hello,
she ran, huh hello ran? Now yeah, okay, she's not.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Here, But Anthony, we love you, Anthony, and I love
that you just called in to say hello and checking
me call more often and maybe next time I have
something to say.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Okay, all right, be good, there's Anthony. All right, very good. Uh,
we will pause for gout.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
And normally at this point in the show we would
we would do Mallard of the third degree. But I
think because you're here and you're only here till the
end of the hour, will time shift mallardly third degree.
But here's the ins of Tribune. So the Red Sox
in anter of you, mikeel Leprecawn the Red Sox William
Abray became the first player to hit a grand slam
in an inside the park on the same game.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Since Blake, Yes, since Blake, don't answer it, do not
answer it. You have to answer it. All next at
Ben Maller, that's the Insta Trivia.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
The Answer and more of these riveting phone calls with
Mike the Leprechaun who got me in trouble with management
in studio.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
All right, turn your mica all.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill
Miller and you.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
It is the Bain Mallard Show.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
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after the Ben Mallor Show, podcasts will be going up.
Missed any of the overnight show, be sure to listen
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(38:01):
and get back to it. Back to it and Mike
the Leprekahn is hanging out with us for a few
more minutes and then he'll go back and do what
leprechauns do. But time now to pay off the insta
trivia and here it is The Red Sox Will your
bray you? Earlier this week became the first player to
hit a Grand Slam and inside the park home run
(38:21):
in the same game.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Since blank, that is the question? What is the answer?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Alf the alien opiner adjacent to Springfield Matts says the
dog willis is the answer? Scrooge says, Humanity's worst Mike
the Leprekhon?
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Is that true? Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Bob Yucker guest by Andy and Lino Lakes, Minnesota. Got
to turn your your Mike on there Fergduck says Mike
the LEPrecon the best in studio guest ever. According to
Ferg Dog Mike the poper Kahn from Ozzi waz U.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
I don't know why I hate you. I know he's
just seemed like a nice guy.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Femi says Magic Mike is the answer Blind Scott Guess
by Freddie Thomas Jefferson from King Rory the Great Pitching Coach,
Dick Pole from Donkey Sausage?
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Do we have Ugh Sausage?
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Nature Boy says the Sherman Oaks Homeless Guy is the answer?
All right, h do we have your John McGuinness. According
to JT that's Michael Epreconn's favorite player, John McGinnis.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Is that true?
Speaker 4 (39:21):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
I love ginness.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Okay, all right, the I answered, do you have an answer?
By the way, Michael leprecron to the.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Question, I don't even know. I just hit the question.
I was doing right here.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
I was doing the Red Sox William b who became
the first player to hit a Grand Slam inside the
park home run the same game since play Okay, but
I know yeh up nineteen fifty one. I said no, no,
that not since the name of nineteen fifty eight. It
was Roger Mary Harris. Roger there, Roger Merris. All right, quickly,
(39:52):
you want you have the harmonica, You want to play
a couple of bars on the harmonica.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Very up here. This is Michael Leprecaun. Wrong side and
that's the wrong side, and it's get the right side there.
Don't take my la Raine. She's already gone. She's she's left.
She's not here because of you. She's not not here. Well,
Mary is better anyway, So we love Mary may he
is the.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Greatest and all that stuff. All right, well, so thanks
for coming by, Michael Leprecaunt. And I make a comment
about he was Ozzie was you want to rip him?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
You have one minute? You want to rip wat death
by a thousand cuts? Is as he was really paper cuss,
paper cuss. And Marcel yeah, help, I have fallen and
I can't get up. That's Marcel's call. That's Marcel's.
Speaker 6 (40:35):
And finally there was a diverse in the news today.
Trump and Elon musk.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Oh Is that right? Oh yeah, Okay.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
The gunshots are your final your final bombs, your final bomb.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
No no, so Ben keep Truss. Keep the glass half full,
not half empty.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Really, he's your bomb. You're bombing, is what you're doing,
like the bo I'm just trying not to get arrested
while you're here. Okay, Hey, I have a five minute
walk to my hotel, five minute walk to his hotel.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
And you're gonna keep listening, right you're calling later the
last hour I had done my radio, but I'll go back,
all right.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
iHeartRadio right there there, Mike Cleprecaun. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
It's you to thank you. Thanks for coming in here, Mike,
Ding Dong.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our number two. Our number two is ready for
you and the Hour of Lebron at least at the beginning.
How do you process the report that says four teams
have contacted agent Rich Paul for a Lebron James trade
from the Lakers. Also, why would Brook Lopez pick the
(00:22):
Clippers over the Lakers? It makes no sense according to
some of these Laker historians. And Kevin Durant goofed on
Dorian Finney Smith during Lebron's podcast. How awkward are things
going to be for Durant and Dorian Finney Smith when
they are now teammates with the Rockets. We'll talk about
(00:42):
that and more right now here. It is our number two.
It is the Lebron life. Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Get away from me.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Even when it shouldn't be about Lebron, it is about Lebron.
Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Show.
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Speaker 2 (02:00):
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say it is that's that's a clue.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
He'll be in. It's like a clown. He'll be in
here later this hour.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
But our lead is from La La Land And another day,
another wrinkle in the Lebron drama orama you've not been following,
perhaps not now. I do get paid to follow this.
I don't know that I would pay this close attention
if I didn't have this job. In fact, I would
guarantee I wouldn't. But I have the job, and I
do find it interesting. So Lebron's agent, the person that
(02:36):
Lebron buddied years ago, that has been writing Lebron James
cotails all these years, Rich Paul. So, Rich Paul says
that as many as not one, not two, not three,
but four four NBA teams have already inquired about trading
for Lebron from the Lakers. Course they've gone to Rich Paul,
(02:57):
because you don't negotiate a trade with Lebron unless unless
Rich Paul says it's okay. So that comes amid reports
that Lebron has given a hostage note to the Lakers,
hostage note about if you don't make the roster the
way I want the roster, you're out of here.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I'm gone. I'm gonna seek a trade. Now.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
He did pick up his fifty two million dollar player
option to return plausibly to the Lakers, but that has
not stopped the rumor orama from picking up steam here
that he's gonna change teams, he's gonna go somewhere else,
and all this stuff. So let us discuss the question,
how do you process? All right, how do you process
(03:44):
supposedly four teams contacting Rich Paul for a Lebron James trade.
So on this one, I've got Flair, gun Feather and
Applebee's and we will combine all of these things together,
and we are gonna make some lucky charms, like a
leprechaun would have a lucky term. Now, number one, I said,
(04:08):
number one, Yeah, get out the old magnifying glass.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I did.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I got the magnifying glass out on this one. So
this is what's known as vague headline harvesting. It is
vague headline harvesting, no names, no offers, no actual news.
It wasn't like the Knicks, the Timberwolves, the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
The you know, the Rockets.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
It was just four teams, and it's not four out
of thirty because it's twenty nine other teams other than
the Lakers, And you immediately eliminate the Charlotte Hornets, the
Brooklyn Nets, teams that aren't even trying to feel the
competitive team. But it's just enough, just enough bait that
(04:56):
it'll feed the content cycle for a day, and you
take the hook on that and you kind of run
with it. And it's not like it's the twenty ten
We're not going back fifteen years the decision by Lebron
at a boys and girls club in Connecticut.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
We're not doing that.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
And so this is not really so much as a
report if you will. It is more of like a
flare gun by Rich Paul. If you imagine Rich Paul
is shooting up a flare from the top of Clutch Mountain,
beautiful Clutch Mountain, and signaling to the NBA world that
Rich Paul is still calling the shots, that Rich Paul
(05:37):
is still in charge both on and off the court,
and if you want a meeting with the King, you
have to visit Rich Paul. Now, I maintain my take.
I have not altered my take from the previous edition
of the show. Lebron is not going anywhere. He's not
unless unless he wants to go somewhere.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Ron doing right now through Rich Paul is just keeping
his name talked about. That's it, right.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
If Lebron got to the point where he actually wanted
a trade, Rich Paul would have shams in one ear
and he'd have Adam Silver in the other before skinny jeans.
Rob Polinka could even boot up the trade machine on
the Internet and see what he could get for Lebron.
So forget about that, and you can bet the phrase
(06:28):
four teams. I saw that a lot Rich Paul. Four teams.
Four teams picked very carefully right, not several not multiple teams.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
It was four.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
That sounds surgical, an exact number, four teams, not five,
not six, not seven, right strategic suggesting what suggesting? Something
simmering And again my position, Spider of Art, nothing simmering.
There's nothing on the back burner at all. We're supposed
to believe that contenders are lining up to trade for
(07:03):
a forty year old Lebron James with more miles than
a rental car and massive salary. I believe his salary
fifty three million is the g DP the domestic product
there of like Micronesia.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I believe. I'd have to go check.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
But all because Rich Paul said, you said something to
a few NBA insiders and then they repeated it, and
that led to the internet doing its thing and we're
off to the races and all that because Lebron's not
just your run of the mill older player.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Lebron's going to control everything. Like one of the theories is.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
The reason Lebron's grumbling is because now he's no longer
the king of the team.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
That Luca.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
It's like lucas the center of the universe in Lakerland,
and that's bothering Lebron, Like Lebron's like, no, I'm king
King Lebron. Where would he go? You're gonna go back
to Cleveland. I don't think he's going anywhere. I mean,
this is the Lebron Show, and Rich Paul is the
executive producer of The Lebron Show. And I'll believe it
(08:11):
when Lebron goes somewhere else. I don't believe these initial
round of rumors. Although it is good engagement. It's good
engagement for me.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Meanwhile, turning the page, So the Lakers, who had a
very embarrassing week here we're into early July, but the
start of NBA free agency, the Lakers wanted to add
a center. Many believe they had circled the wagons for
brook Lopez, who had been a free agent from the
Milwaukee Bucks, played with the Lakers in the past, then
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went back to Milwaukee, and that was the guy they wanted.
That was the centerpiece, and he is bringing his towns
to Los Angeles. But brook Lopez will be a Clipper,
not a Laker. So why why would brook Lopez pick
the Clippers over the Lakers? Explain that to me, Like,
(08:59):
I'm five years old, So I'll explain it to you
in forwards.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
You ready, here they are.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
It's hip two clip boom, drop the mic, hit the clip.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yep, that's right, thank you. There you go. Yeah, it's
hip the clip. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Another feather in the cap of the Clipper ship there
and a swing batter, a whiff for skinny jeans, Rob
Polinka another whiff there. Also more on Dorian Finney Smith,
who the Lakers had and wanted to keep. He also
left to go play for the Roquets to hang out
with mister Irrigation in Houston. But the Lakers they cannot close.
(09:45):
It's been a problem. It's been an ongoing problem here.
And listen, Lopez said, well, some people say, well he's old.
You know what do you want a guy like that?
He's an older player. But make no mistake, brook Lopez
still is able to defend the rim and those three
point shots, the moneyball from brook Lopez like a stretch four.
(10:07):
Pretty pretty good from brook Lopez. And it's it's not
a minor move. It's not a major move. It's not
a minor move. It's in the middle and it's a
savvy strategic addition by the people's team and a front
office the Clippers that unlike.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
The Purple and Gold, where they love to tell you
how great they are. Right, they go around, they leak.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Every negotiation, everything is out there, you know, whether it's
shams or somebody else, and they scream about how great
their culture is, and you know, the pride of the
all the bull crap with the Lakers and all this stuff,
and people buy into it. Low information fans buy into it.
It's a failure. The Clippers saw a need and they
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they filled it. And Brook Lopez will player a fair
amount of minutes until he gets hurt because he's older
and all that stuff. And meanwhile, the Lakers, though they
were in the mix. I love that in the mix,
and that's been a status they've had for a lot
of the players they've wanted to get in recent years.
In the mix, on the radar. They're on the radar,
the finalist until they're not. And what Rob Polenka needs
(11:16):
skinny jeans, Rob Blinka, is he needs another assist from
Nico Harrison. Is there any way that Nico Harrison and
Adam Silver can just give some more good players to
the Lakers, Because without the help, without the push from
the NBA and Nico Harrison to bail him out on
his own devices. It has not gone well for Skinny
(11:38):
G's and Brook Lopez clearly has more confidence the Clippers
will make a further run than the Lakers. Otherwise the
money be about to say he would have gone to
the Lakers. And so we'd rather play with Kawhi Leonard
and James Harden than the Pillsbury dough boy, Houka Luka
and Lebron who's playing a foot set with leaving, even
though we don't think he actually will leave. All right now,
Final point, new team, Same old KD, Same old KD.
(12:05):
Some internet investigators had a field day because it turns
out that if you didn't see this. In a recent
guest appearance on Lebron's podcast, Kevin Durant spoke at length
about a number of basketball related issues, including shot selection
and when to give up the ball and when not
(12:26):
to give up the ball and all that stuff. So
one of the things he said was how Kevin Durant
said he would rather the ball be in the best
player's hands than to pass it to someone like Dorian
Finney Smith with the clock winding down.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
The reason this is interesting is because not only did
Kevin Durant end up on the Rockets, but also his
new teammate is Dorian Finney Smith.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Ding ding ding ding ding.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah, Durant didn't just say I prefer to take the
last shot. No, no, no, He went next level. So how awkward?
How awkward are things going to be for Kevin Durant
and Dorian Phinney Smith now that they will be brothers
in arms, they will be comrades with the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
So again, the fact that Durant didn't keep this vague,
and I'm happy he didn't.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
In his wildest dreams, he clearly did not imagine a
world where he would have a teammate named Dorian Phinney
Smith and they'd be playing together. But here you are,
right here you are, and so the normal response is
I just prefer to take the last shot.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
He didn't say that, though.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Again he basically said, why in the world would I
pass to that guy who happens to be his teammate now?
And man, it's going to be fun. I'm not a
big chemistry guy. You can't hate each other though. You
can't go.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Into it hating each other.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
And you got Durant already calling out teammates No, he
didn't didn't work with the rockets.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
He wasn't a rocket when he recorded this.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
But the fact that he said it and he named
the name, he named him, he said the name, he
said it. How great is that first get together going
to be like they have the team meeting, they have
the first team then they go out to an Applebee's, Yeah,
and they're they're ordering and then do they sit Dorian
Finney Smith at the kiddie table? Does he sit at
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the kids table? Is he allowed with the rest of
the team there. And it's not even about his skill set,
not only he's an average NBA player. I think Dorian
Finney Smith is an average NBA player. He's like roster fillers.
Sometimes he'll be okay, most of the time, you don't
notice he's there. Sometimes he's terrible. He's he's just there
and but very awkward, very very awkward. And it's it's
(14:45):
an equivalent of like over the weekend. You come into
the office on a Monday, You show up to work
on a Monday, and you find out that the boss
was trying was just ripping you a new one, trash
talking you at happy hour on a Saturday, and some
of you coworkers were there and they like they heard stuff,
and it's we're not even close to this time where
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they get together.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
The season starts really in October.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Training camp will begin and the season will begin at
the end of October, and all this stuff, and we've
got the drama. Who's got the drama. They've got the drama.
So maybe Dori and Phinney Smith comes in there and
just shrugs it off, and at least that's what we
do publicly.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
It'll inspire him to play better. It'll feel them, give
him some jet fuel.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Maybe he will knock down a bunch of three point
shots and they'll hang out.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Durant and.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Finny Smith will be buddy buddy, right, they'll sen Kumbaya
and roast marshmallows and all that stuff. But this is
the NBA twenty twenty five, and you hear everything, You
read every comment, and you hear and know about everything,
and you see everything that's out there. It is the
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Kahn logic, and while I was startled in the middle
of my day because of a Leprechaun, we'll get to
the bottom of that.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
In studio and we'll do it. We will do it next.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
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Speaker 1 (18:05):
And now back to it. We go, all right, and
back to it.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
And we have in studio here. I promised this guy
a couple of months ago. I said, if you come
to LA, we'll have you in here and we'll turn
your mic hold. Here there's the voice of Mike the Leprecaun.
Look at this guy, Ben, Thank you for giving me
the VIP tripment. Mary already won the She already won.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
A prize fifth place. But that's her bonus from management. Yes,
where's Bill? Where's Bell? Bill Miller?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Well, Bill, you can't see him, but you know he's here.
I know he's So here's the thing, Mike the leprecaun.
So we had agreed that you were going to come
in here. You tried to invite yourself for two days, right,
you tried to. We have very strict rules here at
the company who can come in here and who can't
come in here. So I'm mining my own business. I'm
I'm like, I'm not harming anyone. I didn't even do
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the show last night. Something else I had going on.
I couldn't be at the show last night, by the way,
Well congratulations. So so then my phone starts like I'm
getting messages during the day. I like, what what happened?
I didn't do anything. I went even in the building
last night, And so I get these this message for
management that that someone was one of my visitors was
(19:21):
at the building during the day trying to get into
the building. And I'm like, well, I work at night.
I don't work during the day. There's daytime people don't
know nighttime people. Michael Upper have I not told you?
But what were you doing here during the day.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I My hotel is five minutes down this tree. I understand,
but this is a major. You can't just walk into
a major like there's a big radio company here. You
can't just walk in that. I was improded. I took
pictures of Seacrest's sign, but then congratulations, but it's a
good sign. It's a great, solid sign. Solid. Did you
see that there's a Coast to coast sign up? Did
you take a photo over that? I took?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
What about what other signs are out there? If Steve
Harvey Sin's still out there?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
This is his old studio, okay, in his own So anyway,
you just wanted to see You were so excited you
wanted to come here.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
When I go to a news just say yes, yes,
you were excited because you wanted to be here and
see the studio.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Yes, and know where it was because if I drove
it would take me ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
And you have to understand, Okay, my we do a
different show. The daytime shows are like normal. They don't
understand the people that listen to the show. Have I
gotten into arguments with management, So we're just like we
hide out in the night and when you show up
during the day, it's like they've seen a monster.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Or something like that.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
The reaction of the daytime people that work here. Whether
the security guard was a monster or not, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Listen, I'm actually happy.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
We've had some security guards that just sleeped all the time,
so I'm actually happy they actually the security guard was
paying it.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
They walk me off the property.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
But you seem like a very nice person. I don't
know why they would have this reaction. I've been nothing
but nice. You've been here a little bit, right, You've
been in the building.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
So let me tell you what he said. He said,
I'm I told him I'm coming on Ben Mallor tonight,
and he said, who's Ben Maller. Well, he knew Ben Mallo.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
You know you are the daytime guy, knew who I was.
He knew Lorena. But Lorena's not here. She's not here.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
But then I said, and then he said, you can't
be possibly going to Ben Mallor because you don't have
his cell phone number.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
And I said, well, Bill Maller, and I did. I
don't give out my number because you call me.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Well, I called you after I got management at the
company upset. The one thing I try to avoid, michel
Leprechaun is management even knowing I exist, and you come
in here like a wrecking you like the kool Aid.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Man breaking your Yeah, that's why you get paid the
big bucks. Paul, Sure, yes, let me tell you. Okay. Anyway,
so you're here, now, I'm here, and you're a big
fan of the show. You love the show. My goal
for the week is not to get arrested by Okay, Okay,
I think you're okay.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I think you're all right, although you almost did already
get arrested for trying to enter the building.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Guy he was going to call the cops. I know. Well.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
The good thing is in l A, you call the cops,
it takes two days for them to show up, so
you don't have to worry about that. You're probably fine
by the time you leave go back to Boston. They'll
they'll show up.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
But anyway, you're here, now, I am here. You have
a whole bunch of material.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
You have a notepad full of material, you have shtick,
you have things planned, you have you have what do
you have that you have?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
The your chicken?
Speaker 6 (22:25):
There?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
You have you have for blind Scott Bland Scott was illegal? Okay?
Would you would you like to have a full bank
of calls?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Would you like to talk to anyone on hold, you
want to take a call or do you would you
want to do your material?
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Like what do you know?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Oh no, no, Bland Scott tell him that this is
really right, blind Scott. Michaelleperkhn wants you to know that
he's got a real chicken.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Here, blind, real plastic chicken. I don't here, are you there,
blind Scott.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
The thing the thing with Michael Eipkon is he's been
a fifth grade teacher. He has no self awareness how
to act around adultsy things. Because he's a fifth grade teacher.
You can just stroll into the place like it's a
fifth great classroom.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Didn't ye it was a place of business, Michael Leprechaun.
I mean kind of. We talk about sports all. That's
fairly management.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
I've talked I've talked to management before, but not about
Ben's show, and they have talked back to me, and
they have thanked me for my contribution to Ben's show.
They said, thank you for all your hard work and contributions.
Because I'm a respectful person I have managed. I don't
tell woman. I don't. Mike.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
You told.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Mike, you told the Rainy you were gonna she really
rose your boat now she is all the way in
Oregon now because you, dude, you you were just the
biggest con ever.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Dude, you should What do you have to say, Blind Scott,
he's making serious accizations.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Here at michael Leprechaan Rather, what do you have to say?
Mike Goose has a common first, But blind Mike, you.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Have Mike, you don't even have a radio voice.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
Dude, you came here, come to then Irish?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
This color broke. You're not just getting ugly here?
Speaker 5 (23:55):
This is this is what I got an Irish accent too.
I went to you have an Italian? I got that Austin.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
No, you guys are you guys are both from the
Commonwealth here and you're fighting it at them.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
This is very ugly. I will bring you to the
two men.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Get near dude, I'm not coming near you, all right.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
He's very very up So why is just so upset
with you? Michael leprecun I don't understand one word jealous?
He's jealous, all right, Blind Scott? Are you jealous?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Is that true? Blind Scott? Are you jealous of the
celebrity of Michael Leprechaun?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
I wouldn't be jealous of a guy that walks around
with squeaky toys and talks. He lived off his parents' money.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
From Oh no, is that true. It's a terrible accusation.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
He told us how much money is in his bank account.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
All right, we don't people, Okay, what are we doing?
Speaker 8 (24:42):
Hey, I gotta got it what I'm in a comment? Yeah,
we're all talking a microphone. Yes, I grew up in
poverty in Irelands. I made my millions in America.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
All right, take that blind now, Mike, Like, why do
we have to know how much money you?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
All right? Nobody cares? Listen? All right, do you want
to take another call? You have? Somebody else you have?
What do you have? You want to pick a call?
Everyone's here? Can I do my jokes?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
The other day? Well do I have a choice? I mean,
I feel like, you know, you brought a bunch of gifts.
That's a good way by the kids. Get you know
what you should have done. Let me tell you them
next time. First of all, nobody's gun. Let's calm down.
But but when you when you run into a security guard.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I was just give him a gift. You didn't give
him a gift. I gave him. The key to life
is to just you know, give gifts.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
How many gifts I gave you today? I mean there's
a ton I don't even you got it in the fridge.
I will put it in the rain and Cooper not
here and they won't be here till next week. But I,
uh yeah, I have a few jokes though, Just do
just do one. I gotta take a call eight seven
seven ninety down off. I sorry, but this is Mike
the Leprechaun. He's in studio. He's wearing the world's tallest
Leprechaun shirt, He's got an Ireland hat on. He's covered
(25:54):
in tattoos. Unbelieve you got the red all this Boston
sports teams tattooed on your body? You got me see
the red Sox. Hold on me see your arm? There
you got the uh oh, there's the oh that's that's
that's not the Celtics Leprechaun. Well there's the Celtic logo.
You got the Patriots and then the Bruins over here
and a bunch of other that is that an Olympic
thing here? Like the Olympic tattoo? Oh, the Olympic rings.
(26:16):
I was the remember look at that. Okay, I'll do
your little dad joke. Then we'll take it. It's a
one dad joke, one dad joke.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Here. This is for one of the other construction workers.
Do you want to hear a construction joke? Ben?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Sure, sure, Mike the Leprechaun. Sorry, I'm still working on it.
Oh there you go? All right? Uh pick pick your poisoning?
Where do you want to go?
Speaker 7 (26:36):
Pick a?
Speaker 2 (26:37):
We got a full board of calls here, Where do
you want to go? This is Mike the Leprechaun. He's
he's analyzing all the names you want to go. Hollering James.
All right, you've made his dreams come true. Hollering James
in Minnesota. My god, what an exciting moment. Two legends
talking to each other. Here we've got Mike the Leprechaun
and hollering James. Hello, Hollering James in Minneapolis, minnesot Oh,
(27:02):
you'd say, why do you like taking.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Me kind of phone call?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
These guys are never sold. Wow.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Okay, so you're you're calling Mike the Leprecaun and imbeciles.
How are you calling him James?
Speaker 7 (27:15):
I am flowing him out as a membles because you
don't know the meanings from human beings.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
And your climb and beans.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
You make coffee, James.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Can you pretend to be sleeping? Your calls are better
when you're sleeping. Can you pretend to be sleeping, James,
I'm your friends.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I like you.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Yeah, you kind of ripped him, hollering James. He chose
you that if I got a full Baker calls. He
chose you, hollering James over all these other calls.
Speaker 7 (27:39):
I'm sorry, Mike, let me read.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
This is one of the few people that actually like you.
The worst. The worst I could have done was callin
marcelle is marcell and Holt. No, No, he only calls
the last hour you got.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
You got me holler James right here?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
How many.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
Tell you this? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Pretty good?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Thank you well, James. I loved the song about you,
the thirty six Pills of the Day, that's right, thirty
six pers. No, we can't play it because nobody puts
in the system. These guys are so lazy.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Amas over there, well, Coop's supposed to put in the system.
He's very lazy.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
He doesn't do it, and then Larida doesn't put it
in the system, and neither one's there anyway. So the
only way we can play it is one of them
was here, but they're not here. So Mary can it
was beil Miller because it's not Bill Miller is here.
Don't dare you talk trash on Bill Miller? All right, James,
anything else for please? I have one more comment for him? Yes,
does he know Murphy's Law? Hollering James, You know Murphy's Law?
Speaker 5 (28:38):
Murphy's law, and it is gonna happen.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
It will happen.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
You're close. It's no what could go That's not what
I mean. It's what what will go wrong? Sorry? What
could go wrong? Will go wrong? So you better go
back to snoring. All right, thank you, James. Are that's hollering? James?
God two legends on the radio. It's the Ben Mathers Show.
(29:03):
We're rolling on.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
We've got Mike the Lepreca on here. He's in studio.
He's demanded, what do you want to talk to the
black irishman?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Really talked him?
Speaker 2 (29:11):
You've never spoken to the black Irishman. Well, you're, of
course an Irishman. You're reading in the island. That's appropriate
eight seven seven ninety nine of fives. Well, the malt
Palooza is coming up. I know you'll be entering that
as well. Yes, in mid July.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Very bad rookie this year anymore? Right, Well, you can't generally,
you can't be Marceal. It won't be Martal is a duck, Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Kid's going down annoying me with that stupid duck. Let's
go to the Black Irishman. Here.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
You're listening to our live coverage. Very rare in studio guests.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
A man that's already gotten me in trouble with management,
Mike the Leprechan Hello, black irishman.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Hey killing me, Black irishman, you're on, Hold on, sire,
on with you're on with the I mean, everybody needs
to relax, relaxed, chill dude.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
Heymen, I won't say me. I don't like to apologize
something he didn't know if I ever send anybody you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
You're very chill. No one knows who you are. Don't
worry about that, please, I won't say.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
You know amen, your voices like it's like, well, the
two irishmen just tonguing out to you.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
But you're a black one. You know what their most
black Irish people are. It's a Jamaica.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
That's me.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
No, not just calm down. Uh now, Black irishman, your
daughter is away for the summer, is that correct? Your daughters? Man,
normally she's playing video games while you know, he calls in.
Speaker 7 (30:30):
Man.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
She actually you know she's a smart one, was a
smart well, young lady. Me, No, me not. You don't
like the leopard I didn't bring. I'm gonna win it
when I go to Boston. So you're in the Boston,
you're a leper.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Gunt.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
You got to make sure they pick up the TV show.
So I'll come to Boston right now. No, I'm worried.
This is a Brooklyn dodgery.
Speaker 7 (30:49):
Like I geez, please for hey, man, I was gonna
say you made the Seahawks sleeper team.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
This year Michael lepergun with his Seahawks take from the
Black Irishman.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
They got they got my boy. What's his name? Quarterback?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah, quarterback Tom Brady. Last year, Leper says, Tom Brady
is the Seahawks quarter that that's what he is.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
No man, what's his name?
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Yeah, Jimmy Buffalo? Donald Donald, Yes, Donald, let me tell
you about the Seahawks. You it's like it's like a
boat that's gonna sink. It's fair it's more like the
Dodo boot. It's like a do extinct.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
How you get on the damn game before you play,
it's like okay a player, Okay, they won't mean what
to score one touchdown? I ain't got to score nothing.
I could just a bit. How it's.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Again, before I hang up on you, I want to
thank you for that damn game. That hat.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
I want to thank you for the hat that you
sent me, very nice, Creighton blue the Creighton Blue Jay hat.
Speaker 7 (31:51):
Hell, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Can I say, I can't say that word. I mean,
I know he's you're at that right, Yes, well he
said the effort. Jeez, you hear it on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Can I say a shout out to weed men?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
We don't do shout at well, No, I love with men.
You're like the Irish weed man. I feel like you're
the Irish. Passed a few homeless people today, shocking in
l A you'd pass homeless people, Well, not so many here,
but trust me, they're out there.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
And in my hotel there's a There was a conference
today of lawyers from Dallas, and they gave me a
whole bunch of nonsense about the Dallas teams. There's a
Cleveland person. So I lived down like anyway.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
But you're staying saying. I'm saying it's a hotel. You know,
you can't say that you're living there because you but
for the week for weed Man. So I'm going to
say about all homeless people. And that's a genuine Jesus
struggled to make in his meat as well. And weed
Man is a very nice man.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
We love weed Man. Weed Man's heart. He was armless.
All right, you want to take one more call here?
Who's on the media.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
We got we got well Vanned, It says Ben on there,
but it's Van, the one legged man, Bama Man. He
had his leg bitten off by an alligator. We have
Lee in Toronto.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Who do you see here? I still well, he's still there.
You won't hang up? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
You want me to hang up on him? You want
me you want to go back to him blind Scott? Yeah,
Leper says hello to you again, Blind Scott.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
Why didn't le me go with him to Los Angeles?
He talks about homeless people like his mother Teresa. He's flying, dude.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Yeah, why didn't you bring blind Scott with you? You
guys could have traveled together. Amazing.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Can I educate you there? Blind Scott. She was born
in Albania, went to college, you know everything, and stopped.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Let's take another call. Let's go to Lee in Toronto.
I just want to talk to a nice Canadian fellow.
Hello Lee and Toronto, Welcome Lee. Hello, Lee, Man, this
is not This is not Lee in Toronto. This is
something else? Is somebody else?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Are you and Roddy? You got by Halloween? James, Holloween James,
all right, one, I have something for you. Hollering James.
There you go enjoy that sneaky. That was sneaky, all.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Right now, I'm I'm afraid because he's here. I don't
know if any of these guys are who they say.
I like that guy Uhler and James is sneaky. He
disguised his voice pretty.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
He's not sneaky. You know I've met him. There's nothing
sneaky about Holloween James.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
James.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
He's the size of job of the Hut from the
old Star Wars movies. Let's go to uh very large Anthony.
I think this is probably I think everyone's a phony
phone call. Now hello Anthony, Hello, Hello, Oh this is
You're from Louisiana, right, yeah, oh I remember this is
this is.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
A fun guy, Anthony, like a girl. But no, no,
this is no. Don't say that. How dare you?
Speaker 2 (34:48):
This is a very masculine man, Anthony. I'm surprised you
called Lorraina's not here, Anthony, you want to say how
to marry?
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Hey?
Speaker 5 (34:55):
May?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Mary is dressed like a bumblebee? Hello Mary? Hey? How
you doing? How are you?
Speaker 4 (35:02):
May?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
I hope you have a heavy food to last?
Speaker 4 (35:06):
I know?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
How about it? Too? Happy for to July?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
You're not you're not working here Mary on the fourth
or actually, oh you are on the night or during
the day, on the night.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Really that's myth. And out on a party.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
I'm going to well I won't be, but I'm going
to be watching Joey Chests doing the evening hot Dog.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
So, Anthony, you're in louis What part of Louisa is it?
Street Port? Where are you a Louisiana Greenwood, Louisiana? Okay, Greenwood?
Very nice?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
And you're on with Mike the Leprechaun. This is a
the world's tallest leprechaun. He lives in the Massazona. Since
he's visiting us, here in l A.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
And I'm so pleased to meet you. What's your name again, Anthony? Anthony, Anthony.
That's a great name, but you should change it. But
that's no, No, he's a wonderful name. There. I love
this you ever call Tony. He's one of my favorite callers,
this guy anything. I like that. And uh, Justin doesn't
call anymore. He's retired. He couldn't take it. He gave
up call anyway. So what do you want to talk about? Anthony.
(35:58):
I'm having a great time, let me tell you.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
But l A.
Speaker 6 (36:01):
The moon, that's a beautiful mew when this guy Andrea
would be proud. The rules are brilliant and like the
Boston potholes, palm trees are blower. And that's fast food,
fast women, and fast something else.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
You got a note fat he's reading off of fast.
Speaker 6 (36:18):
Food, fast women, and fast something, not fast cars because
fast fancy cars.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Oh my god, the cars the cars are nice. But hello,
she ran, huh hello ran? Now yeah, okay, she's not.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Here, But Anthony, we love you, Anthony, and I love
that you just called in to say hello and checking
me call more often and maybe next time I have
something to say.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Okay, all right, be good, there's Anthony. All right, very good. Uh,
we will pause for gout.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
And normally at this point in the show we would
we would do Mallard of the third degree. But I
think because you're here and you're only here till the
end of the hour, will time shift mallardly third degree.
But here's the ins of Tribune. So the Red Sox
in anter of you, mikeel Leprecawn the Red Sox William
Abray became the first player to hit a grand slam
in an inside the park on the same game.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Since Blake, Yes, since Blake, don't answer it, do not
answer it. You have to answer it. All next at
Ben Maller, that's the Insta Trivia.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
The Answer and more of these riveting phone calls with
Mike the Leprechaun who got me in trouble with management
in studio.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
All right, turn your mica all.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill
Miller and you.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
It is the Bain Mallard Show.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
We are up all night, every single night, and right
after the Ben Mallor Show, podcasts will be going up.
Missed any of the overnight show, be sure to listen
to the pod. Just search Ben Maller wherever you get
your podcast. Be sure to follow and review the podcast
rated five stars. Again, just search Ben Maller wherever you
get your podcast to find the latest episode and a
best off version posted right after we get off here
(38:01):
and get back to it. Back to it and Mike
the Leprekahn is hanging out with us for a few
more minutes and then he'll go back and do what
leprechauns do. But time now to pay off the insta
trivia and here it is The Red Sox Will your
bray you? Earlier this week became the first player to
hit a Grand Slam and inside the park home run
(38:21):
in the same game.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Since blank, that is the question? What is the answer?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Alf the alien opiner adjacent to Springfield Matts says the
dog willis is the answer? Scrooge says, Humanity's worst Mike
the Leprekhon?
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Is that true? Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Bob Yucker guest by Andy and Lino Lakes, Minnesota. Got
to turn your your Mike on there Fergduck says Mike
the LEPrecon the best in studio guest ever. According to
Ferg Dog Mike the poper Kahn from Ozzi waz U.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
I don't know why I hate you. I know he's
just seemed like a nice guy.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Femi says Magic Mike is the answer Blind Scott Guess
by Freddie Thomas Jefferson from King Rory the Great Pitching Coach,
Dick Pole from Donkey Sausage?
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Do we have Ugh Sausage?
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Nature Boy says the Sherman Oaks Homeless Guy is the answer?
All right, h do we have your John McGuinness. According
to JT that's Michael Epreconn's favorite player, John McGinnis.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Is that true?
Speaker 4 (39:21):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
I love ginness.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Okay, all right, the I answered, do you have an answer?
By the way, Michael leprecron to the.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Question, I don't even know. I just hit the question.
I was doing right here.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
I was doing the Red Sox William b who became
the first player to hit a Grand Slam inside the
park home run the same game since play Okay, but
I know yeh up nineteen fifty one. I said no, no,
that not since the name of nineteen fifty eight. It
was Roger Mary Harris. Roger there, Roger Merris. All right, quickly,
(39:52):
you want you have the harmonica, You want to play
a couple of bars on the harmonica.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Very up here. This is Michael Leprecaun. Wrong side and
that's the wrong side, and it's get the right side there.
Don't take my la Raine. She's already gone. She's she's left.
She's not here because of you. She's not not here. Well,
Mary is better anyway, So we love Mary may he
is the.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Greatest and all that stuff. All right, well, so thanks
for coming by, Michael Leprecaunt. And I make a comment
about he was Ozzie was you want to rip him?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
You have one minute? You want to rip wat death
by a thousand cuts? Is as he was really paper cuss,
paper cuss. And Marcel yeah, help, I have fallen and
I can't get up. That's Marcel's call. That's Marcel's.
Speaker 6 (40:35):
And finally there was a diverse in the news today.
Trump and Elon musk.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Oh Is that right? Oh yeah, Okay.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
The gunshots are your final your final bombs, your final bomb.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
No no, so Ben keep Truss. Keep the glass half full,
not half empty.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Really, he's your bomb. You're bombing, is what you're doing,
like the bo I'm just trying not to get arrested
while you're here. Okay, Hey, I have a five minute
walk to my hotel, five minute walk to his hotel.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
And you're gonna keep listening, right you're calling later the
last hour I had done my radio, but I'll go back,
all right.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
iHeartRadio right there there, Mike Cleprecaun. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
It's you to thank you. Thanks for coming in here, Mike,
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