Hour 2 – What’s The Deal With Beal

Ben Maller begins hour 2 talking about the Phoenix Suns and Bradley Beal being at an impasse on what to do with his contact, which NBA players Kentavius Caldwell-Pope does not consider Super Stars & more!  

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. It's our number two. Happy fourth of
July here and our number two. A lot of pro
bouncy ball talk here, as we asked the question where
does Bradley Beal go at the fork in the road
that he's having with the Suns. Also, are you picking
up what Kentavious calledwell Pope is putting down on what

(00:24):
makes a superstar? We'll discuss that. And does Jonas Valancunis
have ulterior motives by threatening to leave the NBA, never
play for the Nuggets after he was traded this week
and go playing grease. We'll go there as well. It's
all coming your way right now here. It is our
number two. It is not Veal, it is Beal. Welcome

(00:49):
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is from the Valley of the Sun and a big shakeup.

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Now it hasn't happened yet, big shakeup though on tap,
allegedly in the Grand Canyon State, like a monsoon coming
in this time of the year. If you have not
been paying attention to the scuttle but perhaps not, we
have learned that the once proud Sons basketball team discussing

(02:42):
a potential massive buyout of Bradley Beal. It would be
by buy Beal is what it would be now if
you have not paid attention, Bradley Beal's time in Phoenix
has been the daily double. It has been injuries and
underwhelming performers. Now since Bradley Beal is one of only

(03:03):
two two players in the entire NBA with a no
trade clause. You know who the other one is. It's
not Bronnie No, it's not Bronnie j No, not Luca No,
not Jason Table, not Steph Curry, Lebron Yeah. So Bradley
Beal and lebron the only players with no trade clause
is now. Beal has been incredibly difficult for the Suns

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to handle because he's bad at basketball right now and
they can't get rid of him. So if he accepts
a buyout that if he does that, he would have
to give up his no trade class because he wouldn't
be able to contract anymore. He would also be an
unrestricted free agent allowed to roam around the NBA. I
know you're very concerned about where he ends up in
the United States or Canada once he clears waivers. Now

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Phoenix will need Bradley Beal to leave a good chunk
of money on the table. Now, per the rules, not
to get the manu sha, but per the rules, the
amount of salary the sons have finagled the books. Now
I'm a salary cap truther. I'm a salary cap truther.
But they cannot exceed fifteen percent of the salary cap

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the salary they stretch out. So it's I'm not an
accountant either of you, I assume. So let us discuss
the question where does Bradley beal go. He's at a
fork in the road. Where does Bradley beal go at
this fork in the road with the suns. So I've
got quantum leap, inflation crisis, and one legged duck quack

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quack quack quack will combine all of these things together,
and we are going to make a delicious cheese steak sandwich,
which hot take better than a hot dog, better than
a burger. The cheese steak sam properly may properly may
proper amount of cheese, proper amount of steak, and then

(05:02):
a proper amount of onion pepper. All that all right?
So number wa, I said, number Wa, Bradley beer. What
he's trying to do here is a hoodini. He's trying
to Hoodeni his way out of the gilded cage covered
in gold, And he's the one that built the gilded cage?

(05:24):
Right will he or won't he? So right now, oh
the drama, Bradley Beal is staring down a desert mirage
there in Arizona. It's the ghost of his own past
and his past decisions, and so he's like, what am
I going to do? Well, it's right there in front.

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It's like a heatstroke hallucination over the valley of the Sun.
Now he's taken since he put on that Sun's uniform,
he has taken part and a very public quantum leap.
He has gone from underrated stars stuck in DC right
with ostrich Ant Washington played basketball and nobody else and

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you know, all boohoo, Bradley Beal good play on a
bad team, if only he played on a good team.
And then he went to a team that was supposed
to be good. And now he's changed his identity. Bradley
Beal now identifies as overpaid bust with a no trade falls.
That's his new identity. So that's a quantum leap. And
so he's not just trying to leave Phoenix. He's trying

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to rewrite the narrative, assuming he cares about that before
it fossilizes, and that's it. Bradley Beal needs to agree
to give up a large amount of the one hundred
and ten point eight million in guaranteed salary remaining on
his contract for all of that to take place. So

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it's an easy move.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Here.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
The Malord think tank has been activated. Here's the advice,
unsolicited overnight talk radio advice to Bradley Beial. You give
up twenty point eight million of the one hundred and
ten point eight million. You give up twenty point eight million.
That gets you down to ninety million dollars. And if
you can't make ends meet on ninety million dollars, you've

(07:17):
done something terribly wrong. It is still larger. Ninety million
dollars is larger than the lottery payout in pretty much
every state right now in these United States on the
fourth of July for reference, Lotto Texas the jackpot is
thirty three and a half million, the New York Lottery
fifteen point three million. How about Mega Millions, which is

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in a number of states across the country sixty million dollars.
So Bradley Beal, if he gave up twenty point eight,
he would still have thirty million dollars more coming to
him than the current jackpot in the Mega millions. And
you can make that money back. And what do you do?
You get into it the into It Dome in the

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Hood and Inglewood. That's where Steve Balmer's Clippers play in
LA and Balmer not only owns the Clippers, he's also
been running a reputation rehab where he brings in troubled
NBA players, much to my dismay, like Ben Simmons and
a couple of years back, Russell Westbrook. If you're on
the NBA scrap heap made a lot of money and

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used to be good, the Clippers will take you, no
questions asked, no questions asked, and Bradley Meal come on down,
all right. Meanwhile, we now go to the words of KCP,
not KFC KCP. That's Kentavious Caldwell Pope, not a real pope.

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He's a journeyman guard. So he recently explained in a
podcast interview that both Tyrese Haliburton and Donovan Spider Mitchell
are not superstars o MG. Now for Kentavious Callwell Pope,
he says a superstar must be held to a higher standard,

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and he believes that it's the consistency that sets apart
the best of the best. That was his argument, he says.
He mentioned Lebron and Sga and Nicole jokichen Giannis who
almost always complete the deal. They don't disappear in playoff
games and all that, and they contribute to the box score.

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He has a lot of people get stats in basketball
and low information fans think they're better than they are.
So question, are you picking up what Conavious colboll Pope
is trying to put down here on what makes a superstar?
So on this one, after a minutes long Mallard deliberation,
I am nodding my head. Yes, Kentavious decided to light

(09:53):
a match on the fourth of July. Well it was
actually earlier on that, but light a match under the
what he believes is the myth of Tyrese Haliburton and
Donovan Mitchell and their stardom. So I would like to
rephrase the argument because I think I can phrase it better.
So I'd like to rephrase it the NBA. What he's
saying to me, this is how I interpret it. Like

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fine art. The NBA has a superstar inflation crisis, a
superstar inflation crisis. And what he's saying is everyone who
has a jump shot and you know, some kind of
signature shoe and a sizzle reel on social media is
knighted like they're the reincarnation of Air Jordan. You might

(10:38):
remember during the the finals, SGA was being compared to
Michael Jordan, who goofed. I've got to know so anyway,
col Wo Pope, he didn't mince his words. He called
Haliburton a fifty to fifty guy and said he would
not build the team around Spider Mitchell. Why because he
said the superstars they don't just fill the statue, they win,

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they elevate their teams and all that. He show up
in the on the big stage. All those cliches, right,
all those cliches, and the reference was to Halliburton, who
made several game winning shots in the playoff, like that
shot at Madison Square Garden one of the great postseason
shots that I've seen in a long time in my life.

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It's got to be top five playoff shot. Most of
the other ones are mister big Shot, Robert Orri but
Halliburton made several big shots. He also had four points
and was oer of six. Remember that playoff game, but
it was game five of the finals against against okay See.
Had four points and no field goals made, no field

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goals made. Now, Spider Mitchell is the NBA's version in Cleveland,
and he was the same way in Utah. He's the
summer blockbuster that never gets any oscar buzz because it's
got cartoon characters in it. It's loud, you know, a
lot of explosions, it's flashy, and then yeah, I kind
of forget about it, and by the time the buttered

(12:02):
popcorn has left the bucket, you've moved on to something else.
But a superstar isn't just someone who gets the baskets right,
someone who changes the temperature the room. And so I
would combine what he said he being the aforementioned Kentavious
called Will Pope with what Magic Johnson said. We talked

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about this in a previous episode of So Magic's on
a yacht right now with Rodney Pete somewhere in Europe.
But Magic Johnson said that a true superstar doesn't just dominate,
they fill the arena. Now, he also talked about inspirational that,
but I box office like, that's a big part of it.
And are people going out of their way to buy
tickets to watch Spider Mitchell eh no sga eh now

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all right, final point, developing drama, developing weekend drama, Mile
High City. The Nuggets made a move which is not
official yet as the teas have not been crossed and
the eyes have not been dieted dotted. The newest addition
to the Nuggets, Yonas Valentunis, great name, great regular season player,

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limited in the playoffs. Limited in the playoffs. So Yonas
Valentiunis was traded from Sacramento to Denver's not official yet.
He may never play for the Nuggets. May never play
for the Nuggets. After all, He's thirty three years old
from Lithuania and the reports we're hearing now he's close
to accepting an offer from a Greek powerhouse team in

(13:37):
Athens to move to Athens and play there. Valentunas could
soon sign a three year contract twelve million dollars. There's
a problem, he's currently under contract with the Sacramento Kings.
That contract is going to be transferred to the Denver
Nuggets for ten point four million for one year, So

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that NBA contract includes a team option to extend him
for another year. It's beginning to look to some as
low Valenternists would actually prefer to play overseas. And so
that news comes just a couple of days after that
trade was announced. Not a major trade, but people are
getting all horny because the Nuggets improve their bench and

(14:23):
Valenteris is supposed to be part of that. Denver unloaded
one of their bad contracts to get Valenteers. So the
question does Yonas Valentnis have ulterior motives by threatening to
leave the NBA before he ever wears a Nuggets uniform
and go play for a team in Greece? So does

(14:45):
he have ulterior motives? Does a one legged duck swimming
circle bingo? Right? And this is not about I want
to be clear, this is not where he actually wants
to play for the team in Greece. I don't buy that.
This is not Wonder Lost or anything like that. It
is a contract negotiation with a side of sauce, Suzeki sauce.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
Right.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
I mean this is a classic euro I'm dangling this
European contract and everyone knows the playbook. We've seen this before.
It hasn't been used that often recently, but Valentis is like, listen,
I'm gonna go play for the Nuggets. You're gonna have
me as a backup, which means my stats aren't gonna
be that good. I'm thirty three. By the time I'm
up for my next contract, i'll be thirty four years old,

(15:32):
and nobody's gonna pay me the amount of money I want.
So give me another year or guarantee you're gonna buy
out my contract and I'll be able to be a
free agent at the end of the year. Right, So
he's essentially he's looking at his money. He realizes he's
passed his prime. Valentiunis. He's like, all right, I'll take

(15:53):
my hammer and I'll crack open the piggy bank and
I'll hornswoggle the Nuggets to pay me to be a backup,
and I'll squeeze a few more shekels out of the
Denver Nuggets or else I'll go eat. I'll eat some
great food in Athens, you know, seven days a week,
and I'll be loving that, just having a grand old time,

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We'll get to it and we will do it next.

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will get to that coming up. And also evidence you
are definitely getting old. You are definitely getting old. We
have the evidence. We will give you that. I don't
care if you're young, you think you're young, You're getting old.
There you go. Shanon de Moynes says Bradley Beal sucks.
But I'm forty two years old and never had a
Philly cheese steak, so maybe I suck too. There you go, Yeah,

(20:47):
you probably do. Now I would not buy in Philly
this call the steak sandwich, but I would not. Fat's
in Philly taught me that, and also a soft pretzel. Philadelphia,
one of the great food towns in America, is the
steak sandwich. And then they've also got the pretzel. The
modern American soft pretzel originated from German immigrants in the

(21:08):
Philadelphia area. That's the fun fact of the hour anyway. Yeah,
go to go to Philly someday, Shane, you know, take
the woman formerly known as Donut Kelly and knock yourself out. Yeah,
there you go. What else do we have? Listen? Page down?
Can't read that on the air, Mike the Leprechaun is

(21:30):
sending some random video that he's taking on his trip
around La. All right, enough of that, let's go to
the phones. Who do we have you? Let's see Eenie Meanie,
Mighty Moe. Let's go to Max, Mad Max, who's in Pennsylvania? Hello,
Mad Max, Welcome Ben Mahllor.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
I'm dying to know how you're doing.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
Today, Ben Max? If I was any better, what part
of Pennsylvania you're from? Max?

Speaker 3 (21:59):
Actually, I'm on the and I'm actually from Massachusetts. I'm
now in New Jersey.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
You're in Jersey. Okay, so you're from Massachusetts. So if
I was any better, I'd be a Bruin, but not
a Boston Bruin because they suck. How about that? Does
that work?

Speaker 3 (22:12):
Quite a big hockey guys then, but well neither am I.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
But I just trying to find, you know, trying to find.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yeah, I'm actually not a huge Boston sports but anyways,
first time caller, long time podcast listener.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
Now, yes, say, first time caller, a longtime podcast listener.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Yeah, I know, I know how you love both of
those things, so I do start with that.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
I've been listening to your show on podcasts about fourteen
years now. Wow, I used to listen on the weekends.
I have a nice shift job when I was in college,
and now I'm married with three kids and just still
listening to the podcast.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
Weoh, look as you're all growing up now, you're making
big money attention advertisers. You probably run a four in
five hundred company, don't you, Max, You're a big shot.
You're a big deal. Come on, Max, don't he's downplaying it.
Don't downplay at Max.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
Come on, I'm just im easily electrician.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
You make good money, right and you probably you don't
have did you You don't have student debt you have
to pay off? Or did you go to college?

Speaker 3 (23:17):
Oh yeah no, I went to you mask for oh man,
I got I got some debt.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Okay, all right, but you'll be able to pay that
because you had a good job. Is it a union job? Yeah? Oh,
there you go.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
You're red red breast. Paul be very excited about that.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Oh yeah, Paul. But Paul stopped. He's retired. He only
calls like once every two months when he gets completely hammered,
but not hammered enough where he falls asleep before the
show starts. So yeah, that's an odd thing. Yeah, sure.
And where are you are you? Are you going on
vacation or somewhere? You're driving down on Actually.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
Yeah, I'm actually driving. I'm actually I'm seventy eighty eight,
so I'm driving, I mean about ten and a half
hours into a four ten hour drive from Noxville, Tennessee
to my home and sprinkled mass.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Okay, all right, very cool. It's a good time to dry.
It's probably not. It's not too bad right now because
most people are already where they're at right by now, not.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
That at all. So I'm just trying to stay awake
and your your show is providing safe passage in the
safe harbor for my life. And three kids.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Are they Are they in the car with you? Are they? Yeah? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (24:22):
They're all asleep.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Oh, don't don't talk too loud. I don't want them
to wake up. Where are you on the phone? Well, dad,
why are you? Where are we there yet? Why are
you in the phone? What's wrong with.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
My right hand? Was getting to work out, eating sunflower seats,
trying to stay awake here And then I figured I
called the show for the first time. Why the heck not?

Speaker 1 (24:41):
I've never Yeah, what a great look at this, unbelievable mark.
We're popping this guy's cherry. Unbelievable here the first time ever,
Max Is called the show. This is amazing. You always
remember your first call to talk radio. That's an amazing thing. Here,
what a great thing. And now now you'll be able
to play this on the podcast and you'll you're wife
will say, what did you do that? I mean, what

(25:02):
do you call it? Stupid show? I don't understand.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
My God, she's in the background, she's awake. Before I go,
Can I get up? Can I give you a preview
of lame jokes? How about that?

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Okay, yes, this is a preview. We'd like to alert
all the affiliates down the line. This is longtime listener Max,
first time caller, longtime podcast listener Max, who is now
going to preview lame jokes, which are about an hour
from now.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
All right, go ahead, Yeah, and what is the difference
between a lentil and a chick peat?

Speaker 1 (25:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
No one tastes lentil in their face.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
All right, thank you, Hang up on that. You're the
right do the right thing. Hang up on yourself. All right.
There he goes Max, making his way through beautiful New Jersey. Yea,
all right, that's actually better than most of the jokes
we're going to get. Uh, you know some of them.

(26:00):
I see, well, some of them are. Okay, I see
some legends. I'm compiling the jokes still. I'm putting them
together for next hour as we're I'm multitasking also, so
I see we do have some legends that wrote jokes.
Eric in Kansas, Chip and Maine is a legend.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
I'm not the surfer guy.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yeah, Todd, you met him, right, he did meet him?
Very nice. Is awesome dude, quite the couple. Uh and
surfer Todd. He always if you ever meet surf for
Todd and a mallor meet and greet h he'll be
the guy that stands out. He'll be the guy that
wears the amazing costume. He's like the surfing weed man.
Hippie is what he is. He's a real character. His

(26:40):
wife's a great character too, and he always loves to
tell me the story that he got arrested surfing. I
think it was during the La riots years ago that
there was like a curfew and he got arrested surfing,
and it like made the local newspaper, and he had
the photo of him in the in the newspaper. I

(27:01):
think I've got that right. I'm probably get butchering the story.
But he showed me a news story of him getting
arrested for surfing, of all things. Yeah. Now, I know
that became hip during the pandemic when people were getting
arrested for stuff like that, But but back then that
was like what are you doing? I am my god?
All right, let's go back to the phones and let's
say hello to Let's say hello to Andre, who is

(27:24):
in the Commonwealth. It's Andre and his dog Willis.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
What's going on, Ben.

Speaker 4 (27:32):
Happy fourth of July, the fourth that's made.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
It to the left coast.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
Willis and I we've been enjoying the fourth for a
couple of hours. Went went for our walk. Uh yeah,
Willi's see he's spirited.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
Now. How crazy is it? Andre? You are in one
of the great vacation destinations where you live here. Willis
is really excited.

Speaker 4 (27:53):
He's ready. Man, it's four.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
Forget the fireworks we got will you listen, this is Willis.
Look at this. This is the dog Willis. Willis. Calm down, Willis,
down down, boys, he's ready to get This is the
most excited I've ever heard Willis. Willis is a holiday dog.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
You got to close the door now, man. We got
neighbors that are sleeping. They're gonna be up bright and early.
I don't know if I'll be up early. It'll be right,
but I don't know how early it'll be when I
when I get up, but I have to get out
because it's going.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
To start fast.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
You know, the fourth it's a beautiful thing. So to
your point about what it's like here in tourist town.
And I respect the fact the previous caller, Ben, you
didn't say the great state of New Jersey, the land
of my birth.

Speaker 5 (28:33):
Okay, But they're just Andrew.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
He's just driving through New Jersey. He just he's getting
back to where you are in the Commonwealth. But he
has to go of course through New Jersey and then
New York and Connecticut and all that stuff.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
So yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:46):
He's on the New Jersey Turnpike, long and straight okay,
you know, nice, you know, straight shot, you know, and
I'll hit the GW Bridge. Hopefully he avoids the tolls.
You know, they got to hit you with the toll,
and then he'll be on ninety five North and he'll
be year you know, probably like four and a half
five hours.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
We'll be looked forward to seeing him like that sounds
like a man that has made that drive many times.
That is a sid, a veteran driver who's made the
drive down to Jersey. I got you, yeah, so yeah,
I was, I was interrupted. But how crazy is it? Because,
as I was mentioning, you live in a place where
there's tons of people that go there on the fourth

(29:22):
of July, right, it's one of the great vacation destinations
where you're at there.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
It's the beginning of the summer and it's the height
of the summer. So you know you got to make
hay while the sunshine. I mean obviously July and August,
you know, we got plenty of summer and sunshine left.
But this this weekend is when everybody wants to be here,
the fourth of July, New England, Massachusetts, first in Freedom,
the whole nine plus the centennial. So it's going to
be bonkers, you know, uh looking, you know, so you're

(29:48):
just taking in as much as you can. Again, we're
seasonal economy, so once the summer is over, people don't
realize we have to put up smoke signals to communicate.
You know, it gets so quiet around here once so
all of the pop and circumstance and so.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
Two sides of the coin.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
But right now it's sunny, so you take it in
with a grain of salt. But Ben, I know you
got other calls specific. Listen, mister Bradley Bill, the situation
that's going going on here in Phoenix. Okay, as you said,
a little bit of sense, take the money. Okay, take
the buyout, right, go be with Daddy Warbucks in the
clippers Land or whatever whoever will take you to add
on to the money that the Phoenix Suns give you,

(30:24):
all right, and then just both sides can can get
a win win out of this, rather than you're holding
the Phoenix Suns toss if they don't know what they're
gonna do. I mean, matt Ishpia comes in full of
smitten vinegar. He's a billionaire. He's gonna make the team
win immediately.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
I e.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
Mchel broke rough tried this with the Brooklyn Nets. He
didn't seem to learn that it takes time when you
do these things. And now he's in a situation he's luck.
You know, he's beholden to Bradley Beal to help him
to get his franchise back. So for Beal's sake, to
take your money and you can move on and be successful.
But in terms of matt Ishpia, he's talking about giving
Bradley Bial one hundred and fifty million dollars over two years,

(30:57):
you know, just throwing the bag at Bradley, essentially begging
Radlely be able to stay so we can have somewhat
of a respectable franchise. So it's a lot of wildness
going on in the Valley of the Sun. Hopefully it's
able to be resolved. Everybody gets their money, everybody moves
on to greener pastures and maybe learn a little bit
from what we're doing on the cake before I kick it.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
Over.

Speaker 4 (31:13):
You know, a little bit of a little bit of
common ground.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
Right. We got people from all over the place here.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
You know, they don't know how to drive in a rotary.

Speaker 5 (31:19):
They're filling up my back roads.

Speaker 4 (31:20):
But we're gonna make it work. We're gonna do it together.
And happy fourth from me to you again, Amazar, i'lera
everybody else.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
But there you go, all right there, Yeah, there you go.
I'll tell she's not here, Loraina, I'll tell Bree happy
fourth is your live. Yeah, that's so, that's what Andre.
And then Mark, Happy fourth of July. Mark, thanks so much.
There you go. You can tell the joy and Mark's
voice there, he's very excited. It's the fourth of the
end is there. It's just dripping out of the microphone,

(31:48):
it really is. Let's go to sir, scratch off from
the highways. We go from the Commonwealth to the state
of Arkansas.

Speaker 5 (31:57):
Well, man, you's still some good uh phone people over
that bre she won my favorite. He can't got that
good personality.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah, she's very positive. We like that. There's not a
lot of positive people in radio. So honestly will eventually
we'll we'll beat her down and she will no longer
be positive, but I'm surprised at my right.

Speaker 5 (32:19):
She pick take your contract? Brother, she runs this show,
she pick take your contract Shes gonna be in your chair.
So you gotta keep it warmed up out there, brother,
Yes she does. You know what killed mosquitoes?

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Congratulation?

Speaker 5 (32:33):
And two was male?

Speaker 1 (32:35):
How do you? How do you know?

Speaker 3 (32:37):
Well?

Speaker 5 (32:37):
Big three was on the phone and two was on.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
The promote the trol. Okay, very funny, but that's all
I'm saying about that, right, Okay?

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Tell you is that your preview of lame jokes? Is
that what you called up? I mean, there's a there's
a guy right now, Max, who's got his wife and
his kids. He's driving in New Jersy and he's trying
to stay awake, and I don't know that that's gonna
keep him awake. You're gonna put that guy to bed.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
Well, I tell you what you do, I'll wake him
up for you.

Speaker 5 (33:09):
Okay, pull up, pull away from here phone for a second.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
What his name his name is? Max?

Speaker 3 (33:14):
All right?

Speaker 5 (33:15):
Ready?

Speaker 3 (33:17):
Wake up? There you go? How's that?

Speaker 1 (33:20):
Yeah? Now he's gonna have nightmares, so thank you.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
Okay, Now you got to do something.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
You got don't put that preser, I gotta go to Memphis.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
Now, you got got to Memphis.

Speaker 5 (33:33):
Now I do see Jimmy today, Jimmy Kavin Jones bro
Day because he comes under every year afore the fuck
that July and they do this thing a a a
fire I mean they got fireworks stands everywhere.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
There's like a full arm sent mark up on fireworks
like auto parks.

Speaker 5 (33:50):
But uh, but he said he'll even come with which
I know Jimmy Hale's and I called Jimmy, I mean, uh,
oh my god, uh Hale's and he's gonna come with
him and we can have a good meeting. Nowhere at
the casino, they us called the dolls cracks, but they
said that was hard on the dogs. Say put brother
than the dolls. So now just casino kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
I go over a lot hearing a weekend. You know. Yeah,
we get you down to Memphis.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
Okay, Alra, well, I'll add that to my list. Do
not hold your breath, you might die. I thank you.
There's a sir scratch off what a special holiday is,
and you can join the fund. We have Malardly third
degree coming up. So this Netflix docuseries, I guarantee they're
going to make a DOCU series on this wild story.
Wild story. So Jake Paul, who my opinion, can't sue

(34:39):
me my opinion, I think is a shyster. Right, these
these fights, I I'm my opinion, I think they're bull crap,
most of them, if not all of them. So he
fought recently, Julio Caesar Chavez Junior. Do you see what
happened to this guy? So he fought him? I guess
in Anaheim a few days back, and U now he

(35:00):
has been the man that he bought fought Jake Paul's
opponent there, Julio Caesar Chavis Junior, has been detained by
Ice and is facing deportation back to Mexico because he's
allegedly tied to the cartel. They're claiming he's tied to
the cartel, which is wild on many levels. If if true, man,

(35:26):
what a yeah, what a crazy thing. Man? That's uh,
you know what we need and I gotta get this drop.
We should see if you a final remember that Trump drop.
It's fed up behind beyond belief. He said that the
other day. We gotta get that as a draw. That'd
be a solid D because that's a guy that's like
an f up story beyond belief. I mean, who knows

(35:48):
what that's true or not. We'll find out now now
to prove moving on from that, I now will prove
you're getting old. So the Washington Nationals have a player
named James Have you seen this guy, James Wood. You've
heard about him. He's been hitting the you know what
out of the ball, doing very well for the Nationals.

(36:09):
And the reason he's doing very well James Wood, is
because he's got n attitude. That's why he's got a lot
of nattitude. He was drafted by the Padres in the
second round originally from I was born in Maryland, went
to a high school, one of those baseball academies and
all that. But he's drafted out of high school. And
so he was part of the one Soto trade to

(36:31):
the Nationals. And this guy has been balling. I think
he's got twenty plus home runs now and sixty plus RBIs.
He's doing really well. So he's going to be in
the home run Dirt might have heard that mention, right,
Brie and others have mentioned that. So James Wood going
to be the home run Derby, And he said he

(36:54):
was asked about the Home Run Derby, Like, what's your
favorite moment in the home run Derby? The one that
stands out? And James Wood said he fondly remembers as
a child, as a kid watching Bryce Harper win the
home run derby in Washington, DC, as a kid. That

(37:16):
was twenty eighteen. Okay, twenty eighteen, which does actually make
sense if you do the math on this. You do
the math on this. So James Wood was born in
September of two, so he was in high school, right,
he was like fifteen years old in twenty eighteen. So

(37:37):
that's the one that stands out. And now you should
feel really old, really really old. We're gonna have mallor
to the third degree. We are time shift that for
ratings purposes. Here's the inch to trivia. So Billy Hunter
was the last living member of the Blank died on

(37:59):
a Thursday afternoon, ninety seven years old. Billy Hunter, the
last living member of the Blank, died on Thursday afternoon
at the age of ninety seven. That's the answer, tribute
the answer next.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
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the overnight. We have time shifted Mallor to the third

(38:58):
degree for ratings purposes. It is not It is not
because the clock was butchered justin in Cincinnati. It was
not because of that. This is so exciting, Very rarely
do we move Mallard to the third Degree's such an
iconic bit. We're gonna time shift that till likely after
next hour's Malard monologue. Will keep you updated on that

(39:20):
as developments warrant. But big news. There time to pay
off the install trivia, and here it is Billy Hunter,
the last living member of the Blank died on Thursday.
Made it all the way to age ninety seven. And
that is the question. What is the answer? Let's see

(39:41):
does anyone know the answer? Big Greg in Iowa said Powder?
Eileen says, the last living member of the Partridge family. Wow,
Nature Boy says, the last living member of the Three Stooches.
Shane in the Moynes, going with the Finley finantal as

(40:01):
the answer. Mike the Leprecaun from Boston. But he's in
La La Land right now, says a member of the
Secret Leprechaun. Wanna be Club is the answer? Who else
do we have? Page down Lollipop League from Eke and
Rose Woom Minnesota, Captain America from Milkman Mike, uh all right,
very funny from Willie Paul Patrol guests by JT. The Wingman. Lorainer.

(40:24):
Do you have an answer, Lorraine?

Speaker 2 (40:25):
Or no?

Speaker 1 (40:25):
Lorain? Oh my god, Breed do you have an answer
that you're even here? Bree? Do you have an answer?
The last of the Mochicans Ben very funny. No, the
last living member of the Saint Louis Browns. That's a
baseball team that became the Baltimore Oriole