July 5, 2025 • 48 mins
Big Ben opens the week talking about LeBron James picking up his player option, what’s Rich Paul really trying to say about LeBron's future with the Lakers & the Trail Blazers parting ways with Deandre Ayton, then listener Mike "The Leprechaun" stops by to hang out with Ben and the crew + Lame Jokes of The Week!
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another weekend and we have now made it to the
brand new week whoo. All right, so our lead, there's
a lot of moving parts going on in We love transactions.
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I always love the transaction. Now I like the rumor.
I like the rumor more than the transaction. I like
what might happen rather than what has happened. Now that
being said, we have a mix of what has happened
and what is going to happen. But our lead this
hour is from Pro Bouncy Ball the Kingdom as it's
the King James Kingdom of Basketball, filling the content machine,
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yet again, filling the content machine. So over the weekend,
Lebron James decided that he wanted to stay with the
Lakers kind of fifty million dollars, got it, fifty two
zero point six million dollar player option, Just to click
that box right there and you do the DOCU sign
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and then you're on your way. And so instead of
signing a new max extension, Lebron's to take the contract
that he had signed in a previous deal. So we
are told Lebron could have made an extra one point
five million one point five million by signing the new
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max at thirty five percent of the cap and a
lot of gibberish in that contract. Ad chose not to
do that, and so Lebron gets one extra year. And
then you have the commentary of Lebron James agent Rich
Paul is right hand man, is intermediary between the media
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and whatnot. Anyway, Rich Paul issued a clear statement, I
don't if you saw this or not. Maybe maybe you
missed it. So I'll give you the highlights on this.
I'm not going to be the whole thing. I'll give
you the highlights. So Lebron wants to compete for a championship.
Rich Paul snickered. He knows the Lakers are building for
the future. Yes, yes, the Lakers are building for the
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taking for draft picks. Rich Paul continues, says, Lebron understands that,
but he values a realistic chance of winning it all.
Rich Paul pumped his chest out and said, we meaning
Rich Paul and Lebron, we do want, do want to
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evaluate what's best for Lebron at this stage in his
life and career. He wants to make every season he
has left count close quote. So that is Rich Paul
his commentary on the status of Lebron. So let us
discuss the question for the Esteem panel. Can you please
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decode decode the message from Rich Paul on Lebron, James
and his future with the Lakers. So I've got prenup, Home, depot,
and verdict, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are gonna make the Gabba ghul. We're
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gonna make the Gabba goal to start the week. That's
what we're gonna do. So first of all, look, King James,
the opt in. I liked that Lebron's camp's trying to
paint this as some kind of heroic act by Lebron
that he could have gotten more money. You talk about hutzba,
as my grandfather used to say, that's hootsba you guys
getting fifty two point six million dollars and wants you
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to believe this is some kind of Robin Hood situation.
So that's my first thought on this as I decode
the life and times of Lebron and rich Ball. So
the other thought, which is rather obvious, I'm sure you
thought the same thing. I don't know how you could
have come into any of the conclusion. This is like
a hostage note by Rich Ball. It's like, listen, it's
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disguised as some kind of news release or whatever, but
it's a hostage letter by Rich Paul for Lebron James.
You build a contender for Lebron or else, which is
code for it's never Lebron's fault. It's just the players
around Lebron are not that good. That's what Rich Paul saying.
He's like, listen, if we don't win, it's on you.
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If we win, it's Lebron. That's it, period, stop now
or else? What else is? There's Lebron gonna film another
crappy space jam movie or something like that during the season.
I don't know, Baby, they'll make another one what the hell,
and they'll do it during the season, and that'll be that.
It'll be wonderful. Now, once again, we find ourselves in
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sports gas baggery land. You and I. We find ourselves
trapped in the never ending docu drama The Life and
Times of Lebron James Lebrand Lebron the brand, not the
basketball player. No, No, it's really about the brand. It's
all about the brand. That's what it's about. It's about
the brand. Now, this is not so much a renewal
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of vowels, right, It's not like they're renewing their vows here.
The Lakers Lebron, this is a prenup agreed to buy
Lebron and file the media. It's a leverage play. It's
a leverage play, is what it is. And so for
the Lakers, they must use every possible trade asset they have.
I don't think they even a draft pick til like
twenty fifty. But they got to trade those right and
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build a championship contender or else we're breaking up with you.
We're gonna find it's not you, it's somebody else. And
that's it. And a trade, of course, becomes far easier
to facilitate based on the contract Lebron opted into. So
he does clear the way for him to be traded
somewhere else easier. Of course, if Leron wants to be traded,
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it'll be traded. It doesn't matter what the contract is.
They'll work it out. They'll finagle the rules to make
sure Lebron goes where Lebron watched the oh and so
It's the classic play by Lebron James where you opt
in with one hand and then keep your finger on
the eject button with the other says I'm in, but
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I could get good get out of here. See you now,
I don't believe Lebron wants to leave. He loves I'll
tell you why. He loves everything that comes with being
in Los Angeles, those Hollywood Knights, hanging out with all
those Hollywood f's, those fake people in LA. He loves
it right. He can't get enough of those people, that
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whole lifestyle. That's why Lebron came to LA. He didn't
come to LA for basketball. He hasn't won as a
Laker's been an abject failure as a Laker. He came
for Hollywood. Now business wise and entertainment, Lebron's done very well.
That's why he came to Lakers. So in terms of winning,
he's winning the Hollywood game entertainment. Now basketball not not
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if you want to win, you don't go to the Lakers.
Not now. Not on her Genie Boss and she's selling
the team. But the team's been been terrible since she
took control of the team. But it's all about Hollywood.
If you look at Lebron's time with the Lakers, he
has a fail rate of over seventy one percent. Seventy
one percent of the time Lebron James has failed. And
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there's no if sands or butts about it. That's it.
I'll get no pushback. You can't push back. That's a fact.
It's a fact. Now, what's my math? How did I
get to seventy one point four percent? That is the
rate Lebron has either missed the playoffs. Lakers have missed
the playoffs multiple times with Lebron James, or one and done,
bumped out of the playoffs in the first round. Right,
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and again, not my opinion, it's not I'm not giving
some kind of opinion. This a fact. It is a fact.
Seven seasons with the Lakers, the Lakers missed the playoffs twice.
They got bumped in the first round three times Suns, Nuggets,
and then this past year by the Minnesota ten Wolves
three times first round and out. And the Lakers have
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not won a championship that matters since Kobe Bryant, and
Kobe's not walking back through that door. Okay, And that's
that's not my adding commentary. I've now that has been validated.
That is hot take validation. That take validated by Alex
Caruso in a moment of clarity. He took some truths
from them called alcohol, and he said the quiet part
(10:09):
out loud. Alex Caruso said after Oklahoma City won, he
said that that Mickey mouse bubble ring not a real one,
and that now he had a real one, which is
what all of us knew all along, but somebody on
the team finally had the balls to say it. So
Lebron hasn't won as a Laker, and he's making some
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kind of the myth because again, it's not gonna be
about Lebron not being good enough. It's gonna be a
bad well the other players on the team weren't that
good enough. Eta. Meanwhile, to Minnesota, a team that beat
the Lakers and Lebron in the playoffs in the first round,
and they have made a roster move, although not official official,
the teas must be crossed, the daw the eyes dotted.
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We're hearing now that Julius Randall, vagabond NBA player Julius
Randall has agreed to re sign with the Timber Puffs
and he'll stay there in Minnesota, three years, one hundred
million dollars. Does that signing move the needle? Does that
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move the needle at all? So I'll answer this first
because you're not here, so I'll go first. Does this
move the needle? Sure, it moves the needle due south
at least come May, when you get into the meat
and potatoes of the playoffs, you move the needle south.
So you know what to do. Our guys in Minnesota.
You buckle up, right, it's a roller coaster, you buckle up.
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That's it. And of course Julius Randall in many ways
is your standard mid level star player in the NBA,
where he's the roller coaster that breaks down right before
the big drops, similar to this, and James Harden does
the same thing. You go down. You know, there's plenty
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of players like that that just vanish in key moments.
Karl Anthony Towns, who played in Minnesota, is traded for Jewis.
Randall's another guy like that you can't depend on. And
Julius Randall's got a blind spot, clearly not a blind
spot that will cost him any money. One hundred million
dollars over three years, I mean, my god, so so
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good for him, and he's like Randall's like Houdini with
a headband because he's out there in the Abrica dabraa
hocus focus and not a big game player, not a
big game player. Now, during the regular season, there are
nights that Randall looks like a world beater and he'll
get you twenty five points and ten rebounds, no problem,
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and look like he can do it every game. Twenty
five points, ten rebounds. He'll be physical, he'll be aggressive.
During the regular season, all fine attributes, and at times
he'll look unstoppable, and then the calendar will flip over
to April and pressed down. Suddenly, what happens. He's serving
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up more bricks than the loading at home depot. You
get a brick, you get a brick, you get a break.
Sometimes he didn't even make he didn't take many bricks
because he doesn't shoot. He becomes passive two for eleven
or one for eight or something like that. In the playoffs,
and then the fourth quarter, forget about it. In the
fourth quarter, come on, fourth quarter, you gotta leave early,
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beat the traffic. Normally, when you play for the team,
you're not supposed to leave early to beat the traffic.
But it happens. Those those demons they come back. They
haunt you like Hayzan Minnesota haunt you. They just kind
of haunch you, they do. And so good luck, good
luck to ant Man. This is your running mate, this
is your sidekick. Now Anthony Edwards has some issues too.
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I meant, there's some games I recall where he didn't
didn't do much. So now they're together again. Back to
back final four appearances for the Timberwolves, and they are
locking in Julius rand All. Right, now, final thought. We
go down to the Pacific Northwest, where the other is
good most of the time. Terms you like fresh air
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and all that stuff, and rain and sports they suck.
Now there used to be two teams, actually there used
to be three teams at one point in the Pacific Northwest.
Now there's only one. That's the Portland Trailblazers. Now the
Trailblazers we learned over the weekend plan to buy out,
to spend millions of dollars to buy out center DeAndre Ayton.
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Here you going, he's about to hit the market. He'll
go to the highest bidder in free agency. So what
stands out? What stands out about the bitter end of
DeAndre Ayton and him hitting the market here via a
buyout from the Trailblazers, and there'll be a lot of
talk in the coming days about teams fighting to get
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their hands on DeAndre Eighton. So the Trailblazers, the fact
that they are paying him to go away like that
is a massive thing. I don't think you can undersell
the fact that they're paying him to go away. Let
that marinate for a moment. This guy was the number
on an overall pig in the NBA draft a number
of years ago. They're not trading him for assets. They're
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not trading him for draft picks or some young up
and coming players. They're not attaching him to a bad
contract to get rid of the player and clear out
the roster. They're not doing that. They're not trying to
rehab his value. They've given up on that. No, no, no,
Like all of those things are things that you would
think teams would do a player like that has some value. Still,
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you'd say, Okay, I'm gonna try to sugarcoat this and
we're gonna try to put some good stories out there
and make it seem like this guy's turned things around
and all that stuff. No, they are at the point
now they are cutting their losses. They're like this guy blows, there,
she blows, We're better off without him. We are better
off without now. How did they come to that conclusion?
(15:52):
How did Chauncey Billups and the team in Portland come
to that decision? Because, for of all portlandt really want
they got him in that it was that weird Damian
Lillard multi team thing, and they moved everyone around and
ate and became part of the trade and all that stuff.
But he arrived when he arrived in Portland just like
when he arrived in Phoenix. He's got all the size
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and the athletic ability, He's got that pedigree to be
a dominant big man and all that. And you saw
some highlights on Instagram, You're like, wow, he looks good
and all that stuff, and then you had to watch
him play, and then you had to watch him play,
and when the game started, the one word we all
had watching DeAndre Eaton play was eh man. He was eh,
(16:33):
you know, it's like whatever, right now. He put up
some numbers. They were empty number stat banddto what do
we always talking? We talked about Dak Prescott. We talked
about some of his elia stat Bandito's where he has
some double doubles, but they're empty double doubles. It's empty
stat long rebounds. No one can tested right. Things like
that points when the game's already decided either for or
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against your team, And so the numbers like, oh, you know,
the low information fan, the dumb fans, they're like, oh,
this guy's pretty good. Look at the numbers. Look at
the stats. Right, box score readers of Chris the box
were lied. It lied, And then the real ones know.
And so the jury has made its ruling. The jury
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has made its ruling, and the experiment is over. You're
a loser. You wear the scarlet letter the L for loser,
and the buff's been called by the Trailblazers, and the
verdict is in. The verdict is clear from the jury,
and DeAndre Ayton is a losing player. That's what they're saying.
The guy's a loser, and that's just the way it is.
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He doesn't impact winning. He didn't do it in Phoenix,
he didn't do it in Portland, and he's not going
to do it where he goes next. And I will
laugh at the bidding war that will take place for
DeAndre Ayton as he'll try to sit on the bench
somewhere on a good team and piggy back his way
to some playoff success here, and so let him go
(17:58):
to the Lakers. So I'd love that that would be
so good a loser like DeAndre eight on the Lakers.
I hope that happened. All the wars, it doesn't matter,
and the same thing's gonna happen. He's not gonna change
all of a sudden. It's one of those things in life.
And there's a lot of things like this in life
where he sounds better in theory than reality. Right, it
sounds better in theory than reality. And there's a lot
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of things like that in life. In sports there's things
like that also, and DeAndre eight would be an example
where if you look at the SISO and I know,
going back my entire time just as an adult, but
around basketball in particular, in all sports. But I remember
years ago when I was I was doing stuff every
day at team events and practices, and there'd always be
guys that could not just didn't get it, but teams
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would keep giving them opportunities because they thought every coach
is like I'm gonna turn this guy around. I have
the code to unlock the safe. They all, all coaches
are wired that way. They all think, oh man, we
just get this guy going watch out. And ninety eight
point seven percent of the time that does not happen.
That is one percent. People bring up the one percent.
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to that time. But the rest of the time, forget
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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 on said here there's the voice of
Mike the Leprica. Look at this guy, and thank you
for giving me the VIP trippment.
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Mary already won the She already won the prizes, well
fifth place, but that's.
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Her bonus from management. Yes, where's Bill? Where's Bell? Bill Miller? Well, Bill,
you can't see him, but you know he's here.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I know.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
So here's the thing, michel 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 minding my own business. I'm I'm like, I'm
not harming anyone. I didn't even do the show last night.
I had something else I had going on. I couldn't
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be at the show the way, Well, congratulations. So so
then my phone starts like, I'm getting messages during the day.
I like, 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 at the building during the day
(21:47):
trying to get into the building. And I'm like, well,
I work at night. I don't work during the day.
The daytime people don't know nighttime people. Michael leppergunt have
I not told you? But first of all, what were
you doing here during the day. 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
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big radio company here. You can't just walk in that.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
I was improded. I took pictures of Seacrest's sign, but.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Then congratulations, that'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? No?
What about what other signs are out there? Just Steve
Harvey Sigin's still out there. 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. When
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I go to a news and say yes, yes, you
were excited because you wanted to be here and see
the studio.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Yes, and know where it was because if I drove
it would take me ten minutes and have.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
To have 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. I've
gotten into arguments with management. So we're just like we
high out in the night and when you show up
during the day, it's like they've seen a monster or
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something like that. The reaction of the daytime people that
work here. Well, the security guard was a monster, But well,
I do not I don't know. Listen, I'm actually happy.
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. They walked me off the property. But you
seem like a very nice person. I don't know why
they would have this reaction. I've been nothing but nice.
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You've been here a little bit, right, You've been in
the building.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
So let me tell you what they said. He said,
I'm I told him I'm coming on Ben Mallor tonight,
and he said, who's Ben Maller.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Well, he knew Ben mall you are the daytime guy.
I knew who I want. He knew Lorena. But Lorena's
not here. She's actually not here.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
But then I said, and then he said, you can't
be possibly going to Ben Mallor because you don't have.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
His cell phone number. And I said, well, Bill Maller,
and I did. I don't give out my number because
you call me, because well I called you after I
got management at the company upset. The one thing I
try to avoid, Mike the Leprechaun is management even knowing
I exist, and you come in here like a wrecking
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but you like to kool aid 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 ice. Okay, Okay, I think
you're okay. I think you're all right, although you almost
did already get arrested for trying to enter the building.
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Guys said he was going to call the cops. I know. Well.
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. But anyway, you're here, now, I am here.
You have a whole bunch of material. You have a
notepad full of material, you have shtick, you have things planned,
you have you have what do you have? You have
your chicken?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
There?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
You have you have for bland Scott. Bland Scott was illegal. Okay,
would would you like to have a full bank of calls.
Would you like to talk to anyone on hold? You
want to take a call, or you would you want
to do your matil? Like what do you know? Oh no, no,
Bland Scott tell him that this is really it's a
blind Scott. Michael Leprecaun wants you to know that he's
got a real chicken here, blind real plastic chicken. Are
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you there, blind Scott?
Speaker 5 (25:13):
The thing?
Speaker 6 (25:13):
The thing with Michael Epcoon is he's been a fifth
grade teacher. He has no self awareness how to act
around adults. He thinks, because he's a fifth grade teacher,
you can just stroll into the place like it's a
fifth grade classroom.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Didn't. Yeah, it was a place of business. Michael Leprecaun,
I mean kind of we talk about sports all that.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Management I talked.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
I've talked to management before, but not about Ben's show.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
And they have talked back to me, and.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
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 I don't Mike you. Mike, you told the Rainy
you were gonna she really rows your boat. Now she's
all the way in Oregon now because you, dude, you
(25:58):
you were just the biggest con every dude should.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
What do you have to say, Blind Scott, he's making
serious accizations here about Michael leprechan Rather, what do you
have to say? My goose has a common first, But blind.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
You have Mike you don't even have a radio voice.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Dude, you came in to.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Come to the ten Irish al in this color broke
just getting ugly here?
Speaker 6 (26:18):
This is this is what I got an Irish accent to.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
I went to, No, you have an Italian you guys
are you guys are both from the Commonwealth here and
you're fighting it. Adam, this is very ugly guy. I
will bring you to the two men.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Dude, I'm not coming near you, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
He's very very up So why is just so upset
with you? Michael leprecun I don't understand the one word jealous.
He's jealous, all right, Blind Scott? Are you jealous? Is
that true? Blind Scott? Are you jealous of the celebrity
of Michael Leprechaun? I want to be.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Jealous of a guy that walks around with squeaky toys
and he lifts off his parents' money from.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh no, is that true. It's a terrible accusation.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
He told us how much money is in his back.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
All right, we don't people. Okay, what are we doing? Okay,
I got a comment. I'm in a comment. Yeah, we're
all talking into a microphone.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Yes, I brought poverty in Irelands.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I made my millions in America. There you go. All right,
take that point, Mike.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Why do we have to know how much money you have?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
All right? Nobody cares? Listen? All right, do you want
to take another call? You have somebody else you have
to do what you have? You want to pick a call?
Everyone's here? Can I do my jokes 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 that gun. Let's calm down. But
but when you when you run into a security guard,
(27:47):
I was just give him a gift. You didn't give
him a gift. I give him. The key to life
is to just, you know, give gifts. How many gifts
I gave you today. I mean there's a ton I
don't even get in the fridge. I 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. Just do just do one. I gotta
(28:07):
take a call. Eight seven seven ninety nine 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 in tattoos. Unbelieve you got the
red all this Boston sports teams tattooed on your body?
You guys. You see the Red Sox. Hold on, you
see your arm there? You got the h Oh, there's
the oh that's that's that's not the Celtics Leprechaun. Well
(28:29):
there's the Celtic logo. You got the Patriots and then
the Bruins over here and a bunch of other Is
that is that an Olympic thing here? Like the Olympic tattoo? Oh,
the Olympic rings. I was there, remember right, look at that. Okay,
I'll do your little dad joke then we'll take it.
It's a one rad joke. I got one dad joke here.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
This is for one of the other construction workers. Do
you want to hear a construction joke?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Ben?
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
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? Pick at? We got
a full border calls here. Where do you want to go?
This is Mike the Leprechaun. He's analyzing all the names.
Holler James, you want to go? Hollering James. All right,
you've made his dreams come true? Hollering James in Minnesota.
(29:13):
My god, what an exciting mom of two legends talking
to each other. Here we've got Mike to Leprecaun and
hollering James. Hello, hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Hollering Jews. Let's say, why do you like taking these
kind of phone call? These guys are never sold.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Wow. Okay, so you're you're calling Mike the Leprecaun and imbeciles?
How are you calling him? James?
Speaker 5 (29:37):
I am flowing him out as a mesaul because you
don't know the meanings from human beings.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
And your clime and beans you make coffee.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
James, Can you pretend to be sleeping? Your calls are
better when you're sleeping. Can you pretend to be sleeping, James,
I mean your friends. I like you. Yeah, you kind
of ripped him, hollering James, he chose you. If I
got a full banker calls, he chose you. Hollering James,
were all these other callers.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
I'm sorry, Mike, let me read.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
This is one of the few people that actually like you.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
The worst, the worst I could have done was called
Marcelle is Marcella.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
No, no, he only calls the last dollar you got me?
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Holler James is right here?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
How many?
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Let me tell you this that pretty good?
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Sometimes? Thank you well, James. I loved the song about you,
the thirty six Pills of the Day.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
That's right, thirty six pers. No, we can't play it
because nobody puts in the system. These guys are so
lazy and having each other's over there. Well, Coop's supposed
to put in the system. He's very lazy. He doesn't
do it, and then Larida doesn't put it in the system,
and neither one is there anyway. So the only way
we can play it is one of them was here,
but they're not here. So Mary was beil Miller because
it's not Bill Miller is here. Don't dare you talk
(30:50):
trash on Bill Miller? All right, James, anything else for please?
I have one more comment for him? Yes, guess he
know Murphy's law. Hollering James, you know Murphy's Law.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Murphy it is happen, It will happen.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
You're close. It's no what could go that's not it's
what what will go wrong? Sorry?
Speaker 4 (31:13):
What could go wrong? Will go wrong? So you better
go back to snoring.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
All right, thank you, James. Allry, that's hollering James, bohy God.
Two legends on the radio. It's the Ben Mathers Show.
We're rolling on. We've got Mike the leprech on here.
He's in studio. He's demanding, what do you want to
talk to the black Irishman? Really never talked to him?
You've never spoken to the black Irishman. Well, you're, of
course an irishman. You're reading in the island. That's appropriate
with the mallet Pellusa at eight seven seven ninety nine
(31:42):
of fives. Well, the Mallet Palooza is coming up. I
know you'll be entering that as well. Yes, in mid
July rookie this year anymore? Right, well, you can generally
you can't be marcell. It won't be Marcell Is at Duck, Tennessee.
He's going down. You're annoying me with that stupid duck.
Let's go to the Black Irishman. Here. You're listening to
our live coverage. Very rare in studio guests. A man
(32:02):
that's already gotten me in trouble with management. Michael Leprechaun. Hello,
Black irishman. Hey, you're killing me, Black irishman. You're on,
hold on, you're on with You're on with the I
mean everybody needs to relax, relaxed, chill dude.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Amen, I won't say me I like to apologize for
something he didn't. If I send anybody, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
You're very chilled. No one knows who you are. Don't
worry about that.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
Please, I won't say you know, Amen.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Your voices like relaxed. It's like two irishmen just out
to you. But you're a black man. You know what
their most black Irish people are. It's a Jamaica.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
That's me.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
No, not calmed down now, Black Irishman. Your daughter is
away for the summer. Is that correct? Your daughter, man,
normally she's playing video games while you he calls.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
In the man, she actuallytes you know.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
She's a smart one, a smart young lady. Me. No,
me not. You like the leopard I didn't bring, I'm
gonna win it when I go to Boston. So you're
the Boston You're a leper Gun. You got to make
sure they pick up the TV show so I'll come
to Boston right now. No, I'm this is a brook
and dodgery.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Geez, please for as hey, man, I was gonna say,
you made the Seahawks sleeper.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Team this year, Michael Lepergun you with his Seahawks take
from the Black Irish.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
But they got they got my boy. What's his name?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Quarterback?
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Yeah, quarterback Tom Brady for Minnesota last year.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Leper Con says, Tom Brady is the Seahawks quarterack. That's
what he is.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
No man, what's his name?
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Yeah, Jimmy Buffalo Donald Donald, Yes, Donald, Let me.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
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 Dodo extinct.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
How you go on the damn game. Before you play,
it's like, okay, have a player. Okay, they want me
to what to score one touchdown. I ain't got to
score nothing.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I could just again, before I hang up on you,
I want to thank.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
You for that that hat.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
I want to thank you for the hat that you
sent me, A very nice my Creighton blue the Creighton
Blue Jay hat. Are Can I say, I can't say
that word? I mean, I know he's you got that right? Yes,
well he said the effort. Hey, jeez, you hear it
on the podcast. Can I say a shout out to
weed men? We don't do shoutouts? Well, no, I love
(34:30):
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. I
know that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
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 1 (34:56):
But you don't live your staying. I'm saying it's a
whole tell you know, you can't say that you're living
there because you can't for the week for anyway.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
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 (35:14):
Oh we love weed Man. Weed Man's heart he was less.
All right, you want to take one more call here?
Who's on the media. We got we got well vaned
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 and Toronto. Who do
you see here? I still Scott? Well, he's still there.
He won't hang up. I don't know you want me
(35:35):
to hang up on him? You want me? You want
to go back to him Blind Scott? Yeah, leper Con
says hello to you again. My blind Scotty didn't.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
Go with him to Los Angeles. He talks about homeless
people like his mother Teresa. He's flying dude.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yeah, why didn't you bring blind Scott? What do you
guys could have traveled together? Amazing?
Speaker 4 (35:55):
Can I educate you there? Blind Scott's she was born
in Albania, went to college.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
You know everything. Stop, 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,
wee man. This is not this is not Lee in Toronto.
This is something else? Is somebody else?
Speaker 3 (36:21):
All right?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
He and Ronnie, you got punked by holloween James. Holloween James.
All right, that's a good one. Holler I have something
for you. Hollering James. There you go. Enjoy that sneaky.
That was sneaky. All 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. Uh And
James is sneaky. He disguised his voice for He's not sneaky.
(36:43):
You know I've met him. There's nothing sneaky about Halloween James.
Nothing like James. 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 called now hello Anthony, Hello,
what the hello? Oh this is You're from the Louisiana. Right, yeah, oh,
(37:05):
I remember this is this is a fun guy, Anthony,
like a girl. But no, no, this is no don't
say that. How dare you this is a very masculine man. Okay, Anthony,
I'm surprised you called the Raina's not here, Anthony. You
want to see how to marry? Hey Mary? Mary is
dressed like a bumblebee? Hello Mary? Hey? How you doing chill?
How are you Mary's? I hope you haven't heavy for
(37:28):
to last?
Speaker 3 (37:29):
I know?
Speaker 1 (37:30):
How about it? Too? Happy for July? 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. Really, that's missing out on a party.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
I'm going to well I won't be, but I'm going
to be watching Joey Chests.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Doing the evening hot dog. Yeah. So, Anthony, you're in
Louisan What part of Louisa is it? Street Port? Where
are you at Louisiana? Greenwood, Louisian Okay, Greenwood? Very nice?
And you're on with Mike the Leprechaun. This is a
the world's tallest leprechaun. He lives in the Massabon. Since
he's visiting us, here in l A. And I'm so
pleased to meet you. What's your name against Anthony? Anthony, Anthony.
(38:04):
That's a great name, but you should change it. But
that's no. He's a wonderful name. There. I love this
you ever called Tony. He's one of my favorite callers.
This guy anything I like. And Justin doesn't call anymore.
He's retired.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
He couldn't take it. He gave up call anyway. So
what do you want to talk about, Anthony. I'm having
a great time. Let me tell you about l A.
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 there's fast food,
fast women, and fast something else.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
You got a note fat he's reading off.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Of fast food, fast women, and fast something, not fast
cars because fast fancy cars.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Oh my god, the cars. The cars are nice. But well, hello,
she she ran on hello ran now yeah, okay, she's
not here, but we love you, Anthony, and I love
that you just called in to say hello and checking
me and callmore often. Maybe next time I have something
to say. Okay, all right, be good there's Anthony. All right,
(39:09):
very good. We will pause for us. 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 Mallard of the third degree. But here's
the Insta trivia. So the Red Sox in honter of you,
Mike del Leprecan the Red Sox. William Abra became the
first player to hit a grand slam in an inside
(39:30):
the park on the same game. Since Blake, Yes, since Blake,
don't answer it, do not answer it. You have to
answer it all x at Ben Mallor that's the Insta Trivia,
the answer and more of these riveting phone calls with
Mike the leprecaon who got me in trouble with management?
In studio.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app Knock Knock.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Who's there? Blame Week, Blame Week? Who It's Big Ben's
lame Joke of the Week. These are actual jokes by
actual listeners of the show. And even on a holiday.
Do we have to pay this guy time and a half?
Weedman hippie in Miami? Hello Weedman, hippie.
Speaker 5 (40:16):
Yeah, aamy.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Weed man, A hero to children, especially in Minnesota. They
look up the weed Man. I don't know that that's
good or bad, but here here he is, the great
weed Man hippie. All right, these are actual jokes. Are
you ready, weed Man? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (40:33):
I love you name there.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
All right? What are you doing for the fourth today?
You have big plans.
Speaker 5 (40:38):
I want to see fireworks.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
You might have to leave your apartment to see fireworks. Yeah,
all right, Well, here we go and you can send
jokes in care of Benmahlor Show at gmail dot com.
Ben Maler Show at gmail dot com. Why did weed
Man quit his job at Goodyear? Why it was tiring?
(41:04):
Surfer Todd, Surfer Todd the comedian. I just realized you
are getting up there in age, weed Man. I'm old. Yeah, yeah,
you're a little long in the gums at long birday eight.
That's hurt from you. Are you looking for a birthday
shout out? By the way, July twenty eighth, eight twenty
(41:25):
eighth is coming up here. What day of the week
is that are you gonna have to work on your birthday? No,
your birthday is on a that's a Monday, Monday night, right,
Monday night?
Speaker 6 (41:34):
All right?
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Yeah, very nice, everyone sent weed Man. Remember when people
were you had to PayPal me money thing and people
were sending you one cent? That was that. Yeah, some
of the a holes that listen to the show weed
Man would be like, PayPal me money, and some of
these schmucks would send. He'd be all excited and he'd
open up his PayPal and it'd be like, you know,
(41:57):
ten cents. Heyea very funny. What was wrong when weed
Man woke up in a puddle of mud? What it wasn't? Mud?
Was not mud. That's another one from Surfer Todd, the comedian.
What do weed Man and a laundromat and Lebron have
(42:20):
in common? We met at We met at a laundromat
and Lebron? What are they have in common? What? Load management?
Load management? Eric Eric in Kansas a prolific joke writer.
Eric doesn't write jokes every week, but when he does,
he's good for seven or eight jokes a week, and
he sends them the right format. He knows the format
(42:43):
of the jokes. He knows do the Q and A jokes.
Why did weed Man get excited during Blair's most recent call.
Why because he wants an appearance fee to go on
Blair and Maine's new podcast. Right, weed Man, you'll go
on there if he pays you. That's a that's Eric
in Kansas. Well, weed Man, what should you say to
(43:06):
kids who look up to you? What tell them to
lay off the crack? That's Tony in the in the
Bay Area. It's Big Ben's lame jokes of the week.
What do DeAndre Ayton of the Lakers and weed Man's
last relationship have in common? What the hontingmoon will be
(43:27):
over before two years? Yeah, that's right. How's Lisa? How's
Lisa doing? By the way, how's Lisa?
Speaker 5 (43:37):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Lisa happy? Happy? For Oh? Look at that there she is?
What a What a romance? What a romance these two
have all these years? Every night Lisa's on the phone
with weed Man. That's a that's a dedicated loyal woman.
All right. What do you call a whimpering timber pup
with its tail between its legs? What gunner from the
(44:00):
Walmart in Northern Minnesota. That's a we haven't heard from
him in a while, Tony in the Bay Area. What
do Mike the leper Kahn and weed Man have in common?
What getting escorted out of places by security? Uh? Yeah,
it's Big Ben's lamb jokes of the league. What do
(44:21):
Mike the leper Kahn and weed Man have in common?
I already did that one, didn't I? Yes? All right, Oh,
here's the next one we've met. What does Robbie the
Mariner fan think of Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen? What? He's
a big, beautiful bill is what he thinks. That's Robbie
from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Which city does Poppy in
(44:44):
San Diego want the Ohio mallor meet and greet to
be in? What mentor? Ohio? That's Eric Eric in Kansas.
What is the name of blind Scott's dog? What blind
Spot is the name of his dog? That's a surfer,
(45:04):
Todd Surfer, Todd the Comedian. What is wrong with lizz
O licking her chops before eating?
Speaker 5 (45:11):
What?
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Well, she's actually licking her pork chops? Weed Man, her
pork chops. That's from the Great Surfer Todd the Comedian.
It would be great weed Man if you and surfer
Todd the comedian hung out. I think you guys would
be immediate friends if you guys ever got together. That
would be so nice. All right, great? Yeah? Yeah? Are
you going to show up? Weed man? There's rumors that
(45:33):
are going to show up to the mallor meet and
greet in Vegas? Is there any truth to that? Wow?
Speaker 5 (45:38):
I wish I hit loo?
Speaker 1 (45:39):
Did I come okay? Because of the woman? The women
rather upsetting him with the nudity on the apps? What
app is? Whoopee pie Blair joining? Now? Which one grinder? Uh? No,
come on, that's uh that's Noah in Austin. Who sent
that one? And out? Day? Why does Mike the Leprecaun lose?
(46:03):
Why does Michael eleprecun lose at the casinos? Why? Because
he always keeps dublin down. He's doublin downread mare. So
that's Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. These are actual jokes by
actual listeners. If you want to send a joke in
in a future episode of the show, send it care
(46:23):
of Ben Mahler Show at gmail dot com. Put jokes
in the headlines Benmaller Show at gmail dot com, and
we move on. Buttermilk Chavo sent this one in. What
do you call an angry leprechaun that doesn't realize he
is cursing on the air? What a hot Mike? A hot?
(46:48):
All right? Why? Why did Mike the Leprechaun cross the road?
Why to get on Lorena's bad side? It's buttermilk Chavo there.
What nickname is Mike the Leprecaun responsible for what? Lorena?
Who fled? That's from Chip in May. Yeah, she was
(47:09):
not here, not here with Mike the Leprechaun. What do
you call unscreened cocaine? What do you call that? The
instant advice line? That's Kurt from Earth who sent that
one there? What was the best thing about Mike the
Leprechaun's studio visit? What it made? The cockroaches seem less? Annoying?
(47:34):
That's from Chip and made last one. How can Mike
the lepreca How can Mike the Leprechaun stop stop bringing
it being Lorena's enemy? How can that happen?
Speaker 6 (47:44):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (47:46):
Give her a pot of acapuco gold. That's buttermilk, Chabo.
I know you want that also, weed Man, have a
great fourth Enjoy that fireworks, weed Man all over Miami
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another weekend and we have now made it to the
brand new week whoo. All right, so our lead, there's
a lot of moving parts going on in We love transactions.
(02:04):
I always love the transaction. Now I like the rumor.
I like the rumor more than the transaction. I like
what might happen rather than what has happened. Now that
being said, we have a mix of what has happened
and what is going to happen. But our lead this
hour is from Pro Bouncy Ball the Kingdom as it's
the King James Kingdom of Basketball, filling the content machine,
(02:29):
yet again, filling the content machine. So over the weekend,
Lebron James decided that he wanted to stay with the
Lakers kind of fifty million dollars, got it, fifty two
zero point six million dollar player option, Just to click
that box right there and you do the DOCU sign
(02:51):
and then you're on your way. And so instead of
signing a new max extension, Lebron's to take the contract
that he had signed in a previous deal. So we
are told Lebron could have made an extra one point
five million one point five million by signing the new
(03:13):
max at thirty five percent of the cap and a
lot of gibberish in that contract. Ad chose not to
do that, and so Lebron gets one extra year. And
then you have the commentary of Lebron James agent Rich
Paul is right hand man, is intermediary between the media
(03:38):
and whatnot. Anyway, Rich Paul issued a clear statement, I
don't if you saw this or not. Maybe maybe you
missed it. So I'll give you the highlights on this.
I'm not going to be the whole thing. I'll give
you the highlights. So Lebron wants to compete for a championship.
Rich Paul snickered. He knows the Lakers are building for
the future. Yes, yes, the Lakers are building for the
(04:00):
taking for draft picks. Rich Paul continues, says, Lebron understands that,
but he values a realistic chance of winning it all.
Rich Paul pumped his chest out and said, we meaning
Rich Paul and Lebron, we do want, do want to
(04:20):
evaluate what's best for Lebron at this stage in his
life and career. He wants to make every season he
has left count close quote. So that is Rich Paul
his commentary on the status of Lebron. So let us
discuss the question for the Esteem panel. Can you please
(04:42):
decode decode the message from Rich Paul on Lebron, James
and his future with the Lakers. So I've got prenup, Home, depot,
and verdict, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are gonna make the Gabba ghul. We're
(05:03):
gonna make the Gabba goal to start the week. That's
what we're gonna do. So first of all, look, King James,
the opt in. I liked that Lebron's camp's trying to
paint this as some kind of heroic act by Lebron
that he could have gotten more money. You talk about hutzba,
as my grandfather used to say, that's hootsba you guys
getting fifty two point six million dollars and wants you
(05:24):
to believe this is some kind of Robin Hood situation.
So that's my first thought on this as I decode
the life and times of Lebron and rich Ball. So
the other thought, which is rather obvious, I'm sure you
thought the same thing. I don't know how you could
have come into any of the conclusion. This is like
a hostage note by Rich Ball. It's like, listen, it's
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disguised as some kind of news release or whatever, but
it's a hostage letter by Rich Paul for Lebron James.
You build a contender for Lebron or else, which is
code for it's never Lebron's fault. It's just the players
around Lebron are not that good. That's what Rich Paul saying.
He's like, listen, if we don't win, it's on you.
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If we win, it's Lebron. That's it, period, stop now
or else? What else is? There's Lebron gonna film another
crappy space jam movie or something like that during the season.
I don't know, Baby, they'll make another one what the hell,
and they'll do it during the season, and that'll be that.
It'll be wonderful. Now, once again, we find ourselves in
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sports gas baggery land. You and I. We find ourselves
trapped in the never ending docu drama The Life and
Times of Lebron James Lebrand Lebron the brand, not the
basketball player. No, No, it's really about the brand. It's
all about the brand. That's what it's about. It's about
the brand. Now, this is not so much a renewal
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of vowels, right, It's not like they're renewing their vows here.
The Lakers Lebron, this is a prenup agreed to buy
Lebron and file the media. It's a leverage play. It's
a leverage play, is what it is. And so for
the Lakers, they must use every possible trade asset they have.
I don't think they even a draft pick til like
twenty fifty. But they got to trade those right and
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build a championship contender or else we're breaking up with you.
We're gonna find it's not you, it's somebody else. And
that's it. And a trade, of course, becomes far easier
to facilitate based on the contract Lebron opted into. So
he does clear the way for him to be traded
somewhere else easier. Of course, if Leron wants to be traded,
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it'll be traded. It doesn't matter what the contract is.
They'll work it out. They'll finagle the rules to make
sure Lebron goes where Lebron watched the oh and so
It's the classic play by Lebron James where you opt
in with one hand and then keep your finger on
the eject button with the other says I'm in, but
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I could get good get out of here. See you now,
I don't believe Lebron wants to leave. He loves I'll
tell you why. He loves everything that comes with being
in Los Angeles, those Hollywood Knights, hanging out with all
those Hollywood f's, those fake people in LA. He loves
it right. He can't get enough of those people, that
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whole lifestyle. That's why Lebron came to LA. He didn't
come to LA for basketball. He hasn't won as a
Laker's been an abject failure as a Laker. He came
for Hollywood. Now business wise and entertainment, Lebron's done very well.
That's why he came to Lakers. So in terms of winning,
he's winning the Hollywood game entertainment. Now basketball not not
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if you want to win, you don't go to the Lakers.
Not now. Not on her Genie Boss and she's selling
the team. But the team's been been terrible since she
took control of the team. But it's all about Hollywood.
If you look at Lebron's time with the Lakers, he
has a fail rate of over seventy one percent. Seventy
one percent of the time Lebron James has failed. And
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there's no if sands or butts about it. That's it.
I'll get no pushback. You can't push back. That's a fact.
It's a fact. Now, what's my math? How did I
get to seventy one point four percent? That is the
rate Lebron has either missed the playoffs. Lakers have missed
the playoffs multiple times with Lebron James, or one and done,
bumped out of the playoffs in the first round. Right,
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and again, not my opinion, it's not I'm not giving
some kind of opinion. This a fact. It is a fact.
Seven seasons with the Lakers, the Lakers missed the playoffs twice.
They got bumped in the first round three times Suns, Nuggets,
and then this past year by the Minnesota ten Wolves
three times first round and out. And the Lakers have
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not won a championship that matters since Kobe Bryant, and
Kobe's not walking back through that door. Okay, And that's
that's not my adding commentary. I've now that has been validated.
That is hot take validation. That take validated by Alex
Caruso in a moment of clarity. He took some truths
from them called alcohol, and he said the quiet part
(10:09):
out loud. Alex Caruso said after Oklahoma City won, he
said that that Mickey mouse bubble ring not a real one,
and that now he had a real one, which is
what all of us knew all along, but somebody on
the team finally had the balls to say it. So
Lebron hasn't won as a Laker, and he's making some
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kind of the myth because again, it's not gonna be
about Lebron not being good enough. It's gonna be a
bad well the other players on the team weren't that
good enough. Eta. Meanwhile, to Minnesota, a team that beat
the Lakers and Lebron in the playoffs in the first round,
and they have made a roster move, although not official official,
the teas must be crossed, the daw the eyes dotted.
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We're hearing now that Julius Randall, vagabond NBA player Julius
Randall has agreed to re sign with the Timber Puffs
and he'll stay there in Minnesota, three years, one hundred
million dollars. Does that signing move the needle? Does that
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move the needle at all? So I'll answer this first
because you're not here, so I'll go first. Does this
move the needle? Sure, it moves the needle due south
at least come May, when you get into the meat
and potatoes of the playoffs, you move the needle south.
So you know what to do. Our guys in Minnesota.
You buckle up, right, it's a roller coaster, you buckle up.
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That's it. And of course Julius Randall in many ways
is your standard mid level star player in the NBA,
where he's the roller coaster that breaks down right before
the big drops, similar to this, and James Harden does
the same thing. You go down. You know, there's plenty
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of players like that that just vanish in key moments.
Karl Anthony Towns, who played in Minnesota, is traded for Jewis.
Randall's another guy like that you can't depend on. And
Julius Randall's got a blind spot, clearly not a blind
spot that will cost him any money. One hundred million
dollars over three years, I mean, my god, so so
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good for him, and he's like Randall's like Houdini with
a headband because he's out there in the Abrica dabraa
hocus focus and not a big game player, not a
big game player. Now, during the regular season, there are
nights that Randall looks like a world beater and he'll
get you twenty five points and ten rebounds, no problem,
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and look like he can do it every game. Twenty
five points, ten rebounds. He'll be physical, he'll be aggressive.
During the regular season, all fine attributes, and at times
he'll look unstoppable, and then the calendar will flip over
to April and pressed down. Suddenly, what happens. He's serving
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up more bricks than the loading at home depot. You
get a brick, you get a brick, you get a break.
Sometimes he didn't even make he didn't take many bricks
because he doesn't shoot. He becomes passive two for eleven
or one for eight or something like that. In the playoffs,
and then the fourth quarter, forget about it. In the
fourth quarter, come on, fourth quarter, you gotta leave early,
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beat the traffic. Normally, when you play for the team,
you're not supposed to leave early to beat the traffic.
But it happens. Those those demons they come back. They
haunt you like Hayzan Minnesota haunt you. They just kind
of haunch you, they do. And so good luck, good
luck to ant Man. This is your running mate, this
is your sidekick. Now Anthony Edwards has some issues too.
(13:41):
I meant, there's some games I recall where he didn't
didn't do much. So now they're together again. Back to
back final four appearances for the Timberwolves, and they are
locking in Julius rand All. Right, now, final thought. We
go down to the Pacific Northwest, where the other is
good most of the time. Terms you like fresh air
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and all that stuff, and rain and sports they suck.
Now there used to be two teams, actually there used
to be three teams at one point in the Pacific Northwest.
Now there's only one. That's the Portland Trailblazers. Now the
Trailblazers we learned over the weekend plan to buy out,
to spend millions of dollars to buy out center DeAndre Ayton.
(14:23):
Here you going, he's about to hit the market. He'll
go to the highest bidder in free agency. So what
stands out? What stands out about the bitter end of
DeAndre Ayton and him hitting the market here via a
buyout from the Trailblazers, and there'll be a lot of
talk in the coming days about teams fighting to get
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their hands on DeAndre Eighton. So the Trailblazers, the fact
that they are paying him to go away like that
is a massive thing. I don't think you can undersell
the fact that they're paying him to go away. Let
that marinate for a moment. This guy was the number
on an overall pig in the NBA draft a number
of years ago. They're not trading him for assets. They're
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not trading him for draft picks or some young up
and coming players. They're not attaching him to a bad
contract to get rid of the player and clear out
the roster. They're not doing that. They're not trying to
rehab his value. They've given up on that. No, no, no,
Like all of those things are things that you would
think teams would do a player like that has some value. Still,
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you'd say, Okay, I'm gonna try to sugarcoat this and
we're gonna try to put some good stories out there
and make it seem like this guy's turned things around
and all that stuff. No, they are at the point
now they are cutting their losses. They're like this guy blows, there,
she blows, We're better off without him. We are better
off without now. How did they come to that conclusion?
(15:52):
How did Chauncey Billups and the team in Portland come
to that decision? Because, for of all portlandt really want
they got him in that it was that weird Damian
Lillard multi team thing, and they moved everyone around and
ate and became part of the trade and all that stuff.
But he arrived when he arrived in Portland just like
when he arrived in Phoenix. He's got all the size
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and the athletic ability, He's got that pedigree to be
a dominant big man and all that. And you saw
some highlights on Instagram, You're like, wow, he looks good
and all that stuff, and then you had to watch
him play, and then you had to watch him play,
and when the game started, the one word we all
had watching DeAndre Eaton play was eh man. He was eh,
(16:33):
you know, it's like whatever, right now. He put up
some numbers. They were empty number stat banddto what do
we always talking? We talked about Dak Prescott. We talked
about some of his elia stat Bandito's where he has
some double doubles, but they're empty double doubles. It's empty
stat long rebounds. No one can tested right. Things like
that points when the game's already decided either for or
(16:55):
against your team, And so the numbers like, oh, you know,
the low information fan, the dumb fans, they're like, oh,
this guy's pretty good. Look at the numbers. Look at
the stats. Right, box score readers of Chris the box
were lied. It lied, And then the real ones know.
And so the jury has made its ruling. The jury
(17:15):
has made its ruling, and the experiment is over. You're
a loser. You wear the scarlet letter the L for loser,
and the buff's been called by the Trailblazers, and the
verdict is in. The verdict is clear from the jury,
and DeAndre Ayton is a losing player. That's what they're saying.
The guy's a loser, and that's just the way it is.
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He doesn't impact winning. He didn't do it in Phoenix,
he didn't do it in Portland, and he's not going
to do it where he goes next. And I will
laugh at the bidding war that will take place for
DeAndre Ayton as he'll try to sit on the bench
somewhere on a good team and piggy back his way
to some playoff success here, and so let him go
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to the Lakers. So I'd love that that would be
so good a loser like DeAndre eight on the Lakers.
I hope that happened. All the wars, it doesn't matter,
and the same thing's gonna happen. He's not gonna change
all of a sudden. It's one of those things in life.
And there's a lot of things like this in life
where he sounds better in theory than reality. Right, it
sounds better in theory than reality. And there's a lot
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of things like that in life. In sports there's things
like that also, and DeAndre eight would be an example
where if you look at the SISO and I know,
going back my entire time just as an adult, but
around basketball in particular, in all sports. But I remember
years ago when I was I was doing stuff every
day at team events and practices, and there'd always be
guys that could not just didn't get it, but teams
(18:41):
would keep giving them opportunities because they thought every coach
is like I'm gonna turn this guy around. I have
the code to unlock the safe. They all, all coaches
are wired that way. They all think, oh man, we
just get this guy going watch out. And ninety eight
point seven percent of the time that does not happen.
That is one percent. People bring up the one percent.
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Oh yeah, it happened this time. Okay, yeah, it happens
to that time. But the rest of the time, forget
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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 on said here there's the voice of
Mike the Leprica. Look at this guy, and thank you
for giving me the VIP trippment.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Mary already won the She already won the prizes, well
fifth place, but that's.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Her bonus from management. Yes, where's Bill? Where's Bell? Bill Miller? Well, Bill,
you can't see him, but you know he's here.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I know.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
So here's the thing, michel 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 minding my own business. I'm I'm like, I'm
not harming anyone. I didn't even do the show last night.
I had something else I had going on. I couldn't
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be at the show the way, Well, congratulations. So so
then my phone starts like, I'm getting messages during the day.
I like, 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 at the building during the day
(21:47):
trying to get into the building. And I'm like, well,
I work at night. I don't work during the day.
The daytime people don't know nighttime people. Michael leppergunt have
I not told you? But first of all, what were
you doing here during the day. 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
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big radio company here. You can't just walk in that.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
I was improded. I took pictures of Seacrest's sign, but.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Then congratulations, that'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? No?
What about what other signs are out there? Just Steve
Harvey Sigin's still out there. 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. When
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I go to a news and say yes, yes, you
were excited because you wanted to be here and see
the studio.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Yes, and know where it was because if I drove
it would take me ten minutes and have.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
To have 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. I've
gotten into arguments with management. So we're just like we
high out in the night and when you show up
during the day, it's like they've seen a monster or
(23:05):
something like that. The reaction of the daytime people that
work here. Well, the security guard was a monster, But well,
I do not I don't know. Listen, I'm actually happy.
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. They walked me off the property. But you
seem like a very nice person. I don't know why
they would have this reaction. I've been nothing but nice.
(23:25):
You've been here a little bit, right, You've been in
the building.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
So let me tell you what they said. He said,
I'm I told him I'm coming on Ben Mallor tonight,
and he said, who's Ben Maller.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Well, he knew Ben mall you are the daytime guy.
I knew who I want. He knew Lorena. But Lorena's
not here. She's actually not here.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
But then I said, and then he said, you can't
be possibly going to Ben Mallor because you don't have.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
His cell phone number. And I said, well, Bill Maller,
and I did. I don't give out my number because
you call me, because well I called you after I
got management at the company upset. The one thing I
try to avoid, Mike the Leprechaun is management even knowing
I exist, and you come in here like a wrecking
(24:08):
but you like to kool aid 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 ice. Okay, Okay, I think
you're okay. I think you're all right, although you almost
did already get arrested for trying to enter the building.
(24:29):
Guys said he was going to call the cops. I know. Well.
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. But anyway, you're here, now, I am here.
You have a whole bunch of material. You have a
notepad full of material, you have shtick, you have things planned,
you have you have what do you have? You have
your chicken?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
There?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
You have you have for bland Scott. Bland Scott was illegal. Okay,
would would you like to have a full bank of calls.
Would you like to talk to anyone on hold? You
want to take a call, or you would you want
to do your matil? Like what do you know? Oh no, no,
Bland Scott tell him that this is really it's a
blind Scott. Michael Leprecaun wants you to know that he's
got a real chicken here, blind real plastic chicken. Are
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you there, blind Scott?
Speaker 5 (25:13):
The thing?
Speaker 6 (25:13):
The thing with Michael Epcoon is he's been a fifth
grade teacher. He has no self awareness how to act
around adults. He thinks, because he's a fifth grade teacher,
you can just stroll into the place like it's a
fifth grade classroom.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Didn't. Yeah, it was a place of business. Michael Leprecaun,
I mean kind of we talk about sports all that.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Management I talked.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
I've talked to management before, but not about Ben's show.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
And they have talked back to me, and.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
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 I don't Mike you. Mike, you told the Rainy
you were gonna she really rows your boat. Now she's
all the way in Oregon now because you, dude, you
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you were just the biggest con every dude should.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
What do you have to say, Blind Scott, he's making
serious accizations here about Michael leprechan Rather, what do you
have to say? My goose has a common first, But blind.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
You have Mike you don't even have a radio voice.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Dude, you came in to.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Come to the ten Irish al in this color broke
just getting ugly here?
Speaker 6 (26:18):
This is this is what I got an Irish accent to.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
I went to, No, you have an Italian you guys
are you guys are both from the Commonwealth here and
you're fighting it. Adam, this is very ugly guy. I
will bring you to the two men.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Dude, I'm not coming near you, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
He's very very up So why is just so upset
with you? Michael leprecun I don't understand the one word jealous.
He's jealous, all right, Blind Scott? Are you jealous? Is
that true? Blind Scott? Are you jealous of the celebrity
of Michael Leprechaun? I want to be.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Jealous of a guy that walks around with squeaky toys
and he lifts off his parents' money from.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh no, is that true. It's a terrible accusation.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
He told us how much money is in his back.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
All right, we don't people. Okay, what are we doing? Okay,
I got a comment. I'm in a comment. Yeah, we're
all talking into a microphone.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Yes, I brought poverty in Irelands.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I made my millions in America. There you go. All right,
take that point, Mike.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Why do we have to know how much money you have?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
All right? Nobody cares? Listen? All right, do you want
to take another call? You have somebody else you have
to do what you have? You want to pick a call?
Everyone's here? Can I do my jokes 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 that gun. Let's calm down. But
but when you when you run into a security guard,
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I was just give him a gift. You didn't give
him a gift. I give him. The key to life
is to just, you know, give gifts. How many gifts
I gave you today. I mean there's a ton I
don't even get in the fridge. I 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. Just do just do one. I gotta
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take a call. Eight seven seven ninety nine 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 in tattoos. Unbelieve you got the
red all this Boston sports teams tattooed on your body?
You guys. You see the Red Sox. Hold on, you
see your arm there? You got the h Oh, there's
the oh that's that's that's not the Celtics Leprechaun. Well
(28:29):
there's the Celtic logo. You got the Patriots and then
the Bruins over here and a bunch of other Is
that is that an Olympic thing here? Like the Olympic tattoo? Oh,
the Olympic rings. I was there, remember right, look at that. Okay,
I'll do your little dad joke then we'll take it.
It's a one rad joke. I got one dad joke here.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
This is for one of the other construction workers. Do
you want to hear a construction joke?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Ben?
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
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? Pick at? We got
a full border calls here. Where do you want to go?
This is Mike the Leprechaun. He's analyzing all the names.
Holler James, you want to go? Hollering James. All right,
you've made his dreams come true? Hollering James in Minnesota.
(29:13):
My god, what an exciting mom of two legends talking
to each other. Here we've got Mike to Leprecaun and
hollering James. Hello, hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Hollering Jews. Let's say, why do you like taking these
kind of phone call? These guys are never sold.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Wow. Okay, so you're you're calling Mike the Leprecaun and imbeciles?
How are you calling him? James?
Speaker 5 (29:37):
I am flowing him out as a mesaul because you
don't know the meanings from human beings.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
And your clime and beans you make coffee.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
James, Can you pretend to be sleeping? Your calls are
better when you're sleeping. Can you pretend to be sleeping, James,
I mean your friends. I like you. Yeah, you kind
of ripped him, hollering James, he chose you. If I
got a full banker calls, he chose you. Hollering James,
were all these other callers.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
I'm sorry, Mike, let me read.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
This is one of the few people that actually like you.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
The worst, the worst I could have done was called
Marcelle is Marcella.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
No, no, he only calls the last dollar you got me?
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Holler James is right here?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
How many?
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Let me tell you this that pretty good?
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Sometimes? Thank you well, James. I loved the song about you,
the thirty six Pills of the Day.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
That's right, thirty six pers. No, we can't play it
because nobody puts in the system. These guys are so
lazy and having each other's over there. Well, Coop's supposed
to put in the system. He's very lazy. He doesn't
do it, and then Larida doesn't put it in the system,
and neither one is there anyway. So the only way
we can play it is one of them was here,
but they're not here. So Mary was beil Miller because
it's not Bill Miller is here. Don't dare you talk
(30:50):
trash on Bill Miller? All right, James, anything else for please?
I have one more comment for him? Yes, guess he
know Murphy's law. Hollering James, you know Murphy's Law.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Murphy it is happen, It will happen.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
You're close. It's no what could go that's not it's
what what will go wrong? Sorry?
Speaker 4 (31:13):
What could go wrong? Will go wrong? So you better
go back to snoring.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
All right, thank you, James. Allry, that's hollering James, bohy God.
Two legends on the radio. It's the Ben Mathers Show.
We're rolling on. We've got Mike the leprech on here.
He's in studio. He's demanding, what do you want to
talk to the black Irishman? Really never talked to him?
You've never spoken to the black Irishman. Well, you're, of
course an irishman. You're reading in the island. That's appropriate
with the mallet Pellusa at eight seven seven ninety nine
(31:42):
of fives. Well, the Mallet Palooza is coming up. I
know you'll be entering that as well. Yes, in mid
July rookie this year anymore? Right, well, you can generally
you can't be marcell. It won't be Marcell Is at Duck, Tennessee.
He's going down. You're annoying me with that stupid duck.
Let's go to the Black Irishman. Here. You're listening to
our live coverage. Very rare in studio guests. A man
(32:02):
that's already gotten me in trouble with management. Michael Leprechaun. Hello,
Black irishman. Hey, you're killing me, Black irishman. You're on,
hold on, you're on with You're on with the I
mean everybody needs to relax, relaxed, chill dude.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Amen, I won't say me I like to apologize for
something he didn't. If I send anybody, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
You're very chilled. No one knows who you are. Don't
worry about that.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
Please, I won't say you know, Amen.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Your voices like relaxed. It's like two irishmen just out
to you. But you're a black man. You know what
their most black Irish people are. It's a Jamaica.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
That's me.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
No, not calmed down now, Black Irishman. Your daughter is
away for the summer. Is that correct? Your daughter, man,
normally she's playing video games while you he calls.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
In the man, she actuallytes you know.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
She's a smart one, a smart young lady. Me. No,
me not. You like the leopard I didn't bring, I'm
gonna win it when I go to Boston. So you're
the Boston You're a leper Gun. You got to make
sure they pick up the TV show so I'll come
to Boston right now. No, I'm this is a brook
and dodgery.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Geez, please for as hey, man, I was gonna say,
you made the Seahawks sleeper.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Team this year, Michael Lepergun you with his Seahawks take
from the Black Irish.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
But they got they got my boy. What's his name?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Quarterback?
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Yeah, quarterback Tom Brady for Minnesota last year.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Leper Con says, Tom Brady is the Seahawks quarterack. That's
what he is.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
No man, what's his name?
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Yeah, Jimmy Buffalo Donald Donald, Yes, Donald, Let me.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
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 Dodo extinct.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
How you go on the damn game. Before you play,
it's like, okay, have a player. Okay, they want me
to what to score one touchdown. I ain't got to
score nothing.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I could just again, before I hang up on you,
I want to thank.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
You for that that hat.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
I want to thank you for the hat that you
sent me, A very nice my Creighton blue the Creighton
Blue Jay hat. Are Can I say, I can't say
that word? I mean, I know he's you got that right? Yes,
well he said the effort. Hey, jeez, you hear it
on the podcast. Can I say a shout out to
weed men? We don't do shoutouts? Well, no, I love
(34:30):
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. I
know that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
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 1 (34:56):
But you don't live your staying. I'm saying it's a
whole tell you know, you can't say that you're living
there because you can't for the week for anyway.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
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 (35:14):
Oh we love weed Man. Weed Man's heart he was less.
All right, you want to take one more call here?
Who's on the media. We got we got well vaned
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 and Toronto. Who do
you see here? I still Scott? Well, he's still there.
He won't hang up. I don't know you want me
(35:35):
to hang up on him? You want me? You want
to go back to him Blind Scott? Yeah, leper Con
says hello to you again. My blind Scotty didn't.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
Go with him to Los Angeles. He talks about homeless
people like his mother Teresa. He's flying dude.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Yeah, why didn't you bring blind Scott? What do you
guys could have traveled together? Amazing?
Speaker 4 (35:55):
Can I educate you there? Blind Scott's she was born
in Albania, went to college.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
You know everything. Stop, 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,
wee man. This is not this is not Lee in Toronto.
This is something else? Is somebody else?
Speaker 3 (36:21):
All right?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
He and Ronnie, you got punked by holloween James. Holloween James.
All right, that's a good one. Holler I have something
for you. Hollering James. There you go. Enjoy that sneaky.
That was sneaky. All 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. Uh And
James is sneaky. He disguised his voice for He's not sneaky.
(36:43):
You know I've met him. There's nothing sneaky about Halloween James.
Nothing like James. 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 called now hello Anthony, Hello,
what the hello? Oh this is You're from the Louisiana. Right, yeah, oh,
(37:05):
I remember this is this is a fun guy, Anthony,
like a girl. But no, no, this is no don't
say that. How dare you this is a very masculine man. Okay, Anthony,
I'm surprised you called the Raina's not here, Anthony. You
want to see how to marry? Hey Mary? Mary is
dressed like a bumblebee? Hello Mary? Hey? How you doing chill?
How are you Mary's? I hope you haven't heavy for
(37:28):
to last?
Speaker 3 (37:29):
I know?
Speaker 1 (37:30):
How about it? Too? Happy for July? 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. Really, that's missing out on a party.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
I'm going to well I won't be, but I'm going
to be watching Joey Chests.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Doing the evening hot dog. Yeah. So, Anthony, you're in
Louisan What part of Louisa is it? Street Port? Where
are you at Louisiana? Greenwood, Louisian Okay, Greenwood? Very nice?
And you're on with Mike the Leprechaun. This is a
the world's tallest leprechaun. He lives in the Massabon. Since
he's visiting us, here in l A. And I'm so
pleased to meet you. What's your name against Anthony? Anthony, Anthony.
(38:04):
That's a great name, but you should change it. But
that's no. He's a wonderful name. There. I love this
you ever called Tony. He's one of my favorite callers.
This guy anything I like. And Justin doesn't call anymore.
He's retired.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
He couldn't take it. He gave up call anyway. So
what do you want to talk about, Anthony. I'm having
a great time. Let me tell you about l A.
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 there's fast food,
fast women, and fast something else.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
You got a note fat he's reading off.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Of fast food, fast women, and fast something, not fast
cars because fast fancy cars.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Oh my god, the cars. The cars are nice. But well, hello,
she she ran on hello ran now yeah, okay, she's
not here, but we love you, Anthony, and I love
that you just called in to say hello and checking
me and callmore often. Maybe next time I have something
to say. Okay, all right, be good there's Anthony. All right,
(39:09):
very good. We will pause for us. 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 Mallard of the third degree. But here's
the Insta trivia. So the Red Sox in honter of you,
Mike del Leprecan the Red Sox. William Abra became the
first player to hit a grand slam in an inside
(39:30):
the park on the same game. Since Blake, Yes, since Blake,
don't answer it, do not answer it. You have to
answer it all x at Ben Mallor that's the Insta Trivia,
the answer and more of these riveting phone calls with
Mike the leprecaon who got me in trouble with management?
In studio.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app Knock Knock.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Who's there? Blame Week, Blame Week? Who It's Big Ben's
lame Joke of the Week. These are actual jokes by
actual listeners of the show. And even on a holiday.
Do we have to pay this guy time and a half?
Weedman hippie in Miami? Hello Weedman, hippie.
Speaker 5 (40:16):
Yeah, aamy.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Weed man, A hero to children, especially in Minnesota. They
look up the weed Man. I don't know that that's
good or bad, but here here he is, the great
weed Man hippie. All right, these are actual jokes. Are
you ready, weed Man? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (40:33):
I love you name there.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
All right? What are you doing for the fourth today?
You have big plans.
Speaker 5 (40:38):
I want to see fireworks.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
You might have to leave your apartment to see fireworks. Yeah,
all right, Well, here we go and you can send
jokes in care of Benmahlor Show at gmail dot com.
Ben Maler Show at gmail dot com. Why did weed
Man quit his job at Goodyear? Why it was tiring?
(41:04):
Surfer Todd, Surfer Todd the comedian. I just realized you
are getting up there in age, weed Man. I'm old. Yeah, yeah,
you're a little long in the gums at long birday eight.
That's hurt from you. Are you looking for a birthday
shout out? By the way, July twenty eighth, eight twenty
(41:25):
eighth is coming up here. What day of the week
is that are you gonna have to work on your birthday? No,
your birthday is on a that's a Monday, Monday night, right,
Monday night?
Speaker 6 (41:34):
All right?
Speaker 1 (41:36):
Yeah, very nice, everyone sent weed Man. Remember when people
were you had to PayPal me money thing and people
were sending you one cent? That was that. Yeah, some
of the a holes that listen to the show weed
Man would be like, PayPal me money, and some of
these schmucks would send. He'd be all excited and he'd
open up his PayPal and it'd be like, you know,
(41:57):
ten cents. Heyea very funny. What was wrong when weed
Man woke up in a puddle of mud? What it wasn't? Mud?
Was not mud. That's another one from Surfer Todd, the comedian.
What do weed Man and a laundromat and Lebron have
(42:20):
in common? We met at We met at a laundromat
and Lebron? What are they have in common? What? Load management?
Load management? Eric Eric in Kansas a prolific joke writer.
Eric doesn't write jokes every week, but when he does,
he's good for seven or eight jokes a week, and
he sends them the right format. He knows the format
(42:43):
of the jokes. He knows do the Q and A jokes.
Why did weed Man get excited during Blair's most recent call.
Why because he wants an appearance fee to go on
Blair and Maine's new podcast. Right, weed Man, you'll go
on there if he pays you. That's a that's Eric
in Kansas. Well, weed Man, what should you say to
(43:06):
kids who look up to you? What tell them to
lay off the crack? That's Tony in the in the
Bay Area. It's Big Ben's lame jokes of the week.
What do DeAndre Ayton of the Lakers and weed Man's
last relationship have in common? What the hontingmoon will be
(43:27):
over before two years? Yeah, that's right. How's Lisa? How's
Lisa doing? By the way, how's Lisa?
Speaker 5 (43:37):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Lisa happy? Happy? For Oh? Look at that there she is?
What a What a romance? What a romance these two
have all these years? Every night Lisa's on the phone
with weed Man. That's a that's a dedicated loyal woman.
All right. What do you call a whimpering timber pup
with its tail between its legs? What gunner from the
(44:00):
Walmart in Northern Minnesota. That's a we haven't heard from
him in a while, Tony in the Bay Area. What
do Mike the leper Kahn and weed Man have in common?
What getting escorted out of places by security? Uh? Yeah,
it's Big Ben's lamb jokes of the league. What do
(44:21):
Mike the leper Kahn and weed Man have in common?
I already did that one, didn't I? Yes? All right, Oh,
here's the next one we've met. What does Robbie the
Mariner fan think of Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen? What? He's
a big, beautiful bill is what he thinks. That's Robbie
from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Which city does Poppy in
(44:44):
San Diego want the Ohio mallor meet and greet to
be in? What mentor? Ohio? That's Eric Eric in Kansas.
What is the name of blind Scott's dog? What blind
Spot is the name of his dog? That's a surfer,
(45:04):
Todd Surfer, Todd the Comedian. What is wrong with lizz
O licking her chops before eating?
Speaker 5 (45:11):
What?
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Well, she's actually licking her pork chops? Weed Man, her
pork chops. That's from the Great Surfer Todd the Comedian.
It would be great weed Man if you and surfer
Todd the comedian hung out. I think you guys would
be immediate friends if you guys ever got together. That
would be so nice. All right, great? Yeah? Yeah? Are
you going to show up? Weed man? There's rumors that
(45:33):
are going to show up to the mallor meet and
greet in Vegas? Is there any truth to that? Wow?
Speaker 5 (45:38):
I wish I hit loo?
Speaker 1 (45:39):
Did I come okay? Because of the woman? The women
rather upsetting him with the nudity on the apps? What
app is? Whoopee pie Blair joining? Now? Which one grinder? Uh? No,
come on, that's uh that's Noah in Austin. Who sent
that one? And out? Day? Why does Mike the Leprecaun lose?
(46:03):
Why does Michael eleprecun lose at the casinos? Why? Because
he always keeps dublin down. He's doublin downread mare. So
that's Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. These are actual jokes by
actual listeners. If you want to send a joke in
in a future episode of the show, send it care
(46:23):
of Ben Mahler Show at gmail dot com. Put jokes
in the headlines Benmaller Show at gmail dot com, and
we move on. Buttermilk Chavo sent this one in. What
do you call an angry leprechaun that doesn't realize he
is cursing on the air? What a hot Mike? A hot?
(46:48):
All right? Why? Why did Mike the Leprechaun cross the road?
Why to get on Lorena's bad side? It's buttermilk Chavo there.
What nickname is Mike the Leprecaun responsible for what? Lorena?
Who fled? That's from Chip in May. Yeah, she was
(47:09):
not here, not here with Mike the Leprechaun. What do
you call unscreened cocaine? What do you call that? The
instant advice line? That's Kurt from Earth who sent that
one there? What was the best thing about Mike the
Leprechaun's studio visit? What it made? The cockroaches seem less? Annoying?
(47:34):
That's from Chip and made last one. How can Mike
the lepreca How can Mike the Leprechaun stop stop bringing
it being Lorena's enemy? How can that happen?
Speaker 6 (47:44):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (47:46):
Give her a pot of acapuco gold. That's buttermilk, Chabo.
I know you want that also, weed Man, have a
great fourth Enjoy that fireworks, weed Man all over Miami
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