July 11, 2025 • 45 mins
Big Ben talks about reports that NBA owners actually like the 2nd apron of the salary cap, a tribute to former Cubs manager Lee Elia after his passing on Thursday, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, and more!
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Double dip here and our lead this hour Begin the
Night is from pro Bouncy Vault. But I'm not gonna
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start with that. I'm not all right you think I'm
starting with I'm gonna keep you off balance. So a
lot of chatter in the last couple of weeks, really
since the NBA Finals when we had that dud of
an NBA Finals with OKC and Indiana, a bit of
poison for pro basketball. So a lot of noise about
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the salary cap and it's not right. They gotta change it.
It's ugly and they gotta do something this hardline cap.
So I was somewhat recently contacted by someone who knows
a thing or two about the workings of the business
of basketball and very knowledgeable in that department.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
They know what they're talking about.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And of course they know a thing or two because
they've seen a thing or two. And this particular person,
we'll just say, has given me some good intel in
the past. Now, this person does not beat a thousand. However,
if they were a baseball player, they'd be like mister
Podre Tony Gwinn, so pretty good batting average. Get to
the point, please, all right, So let me boil this down.
The word on the street is that despite the public
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opinion that the big market teams like the Celtics and
the Lakers and the Clippers and the next teams like
that Warriors, despite the the buzz that the big market
owners do not like this, they're trying to change the
salary cap because it is so aggressive towards.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Teams that spend a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Well, it turns out, according to my insider, that the
owners actually love the hardcap, the hard line cap. They
like the apron, and the reason they like that is
it gives them a for something like we have an archwer,
the golden ticket. If you will to keep calls down right,
you get a golden ticket. So let us discuss the
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question with these whispers that NBA owners actually love the
second apron of the salary cap and they have no
serious plans to dramatically change it, despite speculation to the contrary.
Do you buy or sell this, You buy or sell this.
So I've got my observations on this. I've got loaded dice, Gumbo,
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and Coachella, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a brick house,
is what we're going to make.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
So number why, I said number why. That's right. So
I am buying this. I'm not selling it.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I'm buying it, and I believe the fix is in,
if you will. Not to be too dramatic, but the
NBA's Billionaire Boys Club, the owners of the NBA are
grinning from ear to ear. They have a cheshire cat smile.
Just can't get enough of this. And the reason why,
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the secret on this is the as we talked about,
the owners like it that the cap is the built
in get out of jail free card. It's kind of
like if you're in high school and you're you know,
one of your parents is a cop and you're getting trouble, say, oh, yeah,
my so and so is a cop.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I give you a break on this, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And so the oligarchs and the aristocrats are popping champagne
over the second apron chokeold right, you talk about paying dividends. Uh,
And they don't get to keep everything, but they get
to keep a lot more, right, and their wallets fatter
and all that stuff. So I'd buy this conspiracy. I
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would say, don't be hornswaggled by all the rhetoric that
the NBA owners toss out and the friends of the
league in the media about competitive balance. They give these
sermons about that and the brutal penalties. And there are penalties,
a loss of draft picks, no mid level exception, things
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like that, and not to get into the minutia.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
But the trade market is limited. But this is all
about the.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Green but not the green team, the green Backs, And
it's not about winning, not about that.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
You know what it is.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
It's a classic sports radio caller to this show from
about twenty years ago. A guy named Zigzag used to
call the show. One of my regular callers. One of
the great characters on the show, Zigzag, and then unfortunately
he grew up and no longer was Zigzag. But this
is a misdirection play, right. The NBA owners are playing
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with loaded dice. The dice are loaded, the robber barons
set the rules, and if you cross this magic line,
I think it's like one hundred and ninety something million
dollars or whatever.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Then all of a sudden there's like alarm bells that
go off, and that all it.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
And now for some owners they don't give a crap,
like Steve Balmer, he goes to the bathroom, his morning
bowot movement, and he makes enough money to cover all
of the fees and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And Joe lacub with the Warriors doesn't seem to care
too much.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
He's not really sweating, and so they've got all the
cash they could possibly want.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
However, for the others, if they want.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
If they choose to play this card, they can dump players,
avoid big signings, like for example, the Boston Celtics are
doing that right now.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
And at the same time they can cry wolf.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
It's just unsustainable the salaries, polaise, I say, Polaise.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
They are pocketing massive profits.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
And the owners, you know, they're having a yacht party
and they're laughing at all the commoners. Right, they get
the private jets all that, and they've got the money.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Good for them. And we want to keep the players.
Oh yeah, we want to keep that player.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
But I'm sorry, that's actually more of an asset than
a player. And everyone wants to play the victim. They
all play the victim. Players want to play the victim.
Owners want to play the victim. But in terms of
the owners spoiler alert, they are the architects of this
and they've done this to inflate the profit margin and
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also give them plausible deniability when they get rid of
a player deemed popular. All right now, page two to
La La Land we go.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
A big story. The last couple of weeks in.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
The NBA malcontent overrated stiff DeAndre Ayton joining the Lakers
after being fired by the Portland Trailblazers and dumped by
the Phoenix Suns. So DeAndre Ayton was recently asked if
he had heard from Lebron James or Luca Dancik, and
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he revealed, Well, let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Here's what DeAndre had to say. Take a list. Hey DeAndre,
have you have you spoken to Lebron?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Have you spoken to Luca?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Not really yet, but I've definitely got a text from Luca.
I know how to off season go. You know, this
is not my first rolio. People are probably busy and
you know, training then even times with their families. But
I'm just waiting. I'm just really just trying to I
did to great myself with the team and get to
know everybody.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
All right.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
That was I think that was our buddy Sadana right,
used to work here Fox Sports Radio alumni guys, Sadana
the seven to ten over there, all right. So he said,
if you didn't understand what DeAndre Aton said, he said, listen,
I'm still waiting on Lebron. Lucas sent a text though,
and then DeAndre made a bunch of excuses about the
off season and all that.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
So that's a great jumping off point. That is a
great jumping off point.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
So DeAndre Ayton says he still hasn't spoken with Lebron James,
but Luca text him after his Laker agreement there, so.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
What do you read into this? What are you reading this?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
So if you cut through the Hayes, people in La
call it Hayes, other people call it smog.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
But if you cut.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Through that, Luca the he's the new golden boy, right,
Lucas the new golden boy for the Lakers and all that.
And so he found time to tap tap tap a text. Meanwhile, Lebron,
he's so busy in his offseason he cannot be bothered
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to send a measly emoji. So we all know it
takes a lot of time to grab your phone. You
gotta futs around with your phones. You gotta go to
the message thing, you gotta find the number, and then
you got to click the proper emoji to you, the
smiley emoji, do you do?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
The crying emoji?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Like, which emoji do you do? And then you've got
to click send on it. And that's a lot of work.
That is a lot of work for Lebron. I understand,
the man's in his forties now, he could injure a
fingernail and we don't want that.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
We do not want that, all right, So here's the deal.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
That is not obviously an oversight after several minutes of deliberation.
That is a statement by Lebron James. Now, the rumor
has it that Lebron not exactly doing cartwheels about the
possibility of playing with DeAndre Ayton. And as I learned
years ago when I first got into the radio world,
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that the silence is golden, but not if you're doing
a talk show. It suggests that Lebron's not buying in.
But it's also bigger than that. If you think of
it in terms of gumbo. Think of it in terms
of gumbo. So the word on the street is King
James is still stewing like gumbo over.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
The cloud that he still has some.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
But not that much, and that the Lakers it's like
they started dating the new girl, the new hot girls,
Luca and he's the old woman, you know. And then
he's like, well, I've been around for a while, but no, no,
we like Luca. Luca's hotter, and lucas the one has
now got the keys.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
So this is the theory. And so Lebron's like, ah,
this is this blows and it feels like a.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Rental car and the Lakers are Luca's team, and Lebron
he's not Blind Scott or inca Terror, Blind Emmett or
Stevie Meatballs or any of the other blind listeners. So
he sees the writing on the wall and the writing
is in Slovenian, and it's like, the Lakers are so
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into Luca at this moment. I wouldn't be shocked if
Luca does a podcast with somebody. The Lakers fire JJ
Reddick and hire whoever Luca gets the host of podcasts
with him, because that's what they did with JJ Reddick, right.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
So file this at this point.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
File this as a quiet protest against the Laker front
office and the shifting in allegiances and lebron he's got
the pep right, He's pouting and plotting.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
He's pouting and plotting at this point. Stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
More developments to come in the off season soap opera
from pro pouncy Ball. All right, now, final point. So,
I got a bunch of emails, I say a bunch.
I got three emails.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
You're going to start to show oh with that game
in Vegas. I know you are no. Uh no.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
In fact, I didn't evenally want to talk about this,
but I will address it, and I will address the
question of why we did not begin this extra spicy
Mallard monologue with the let me check my notes here
Summer League matchup between Cooper Flag of the mav Recks
and Bronnie James the NEFO Baby.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
So why did we not begin the night with that?
So the reason we did not my belief.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
And I've been to the Summer League. It used to
be in LA I was in Irvine at one.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Plas a long beach.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
So I've been to the Summer League in years past,
many years ago, the NBA Summer League is the equivalent
of trying to pass off a night like a Friday
night karaoke as going to Coachella.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
It's the same thing.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
You know, it's the saying they're just doing lip syncing,
but it's the say, you know, you drink beer, it's cheaper,
there's no dirt. It's like going to Coachella. I mean,
come on, and we're talking about in the summer league
that the dudes who won't most of them won't make
the rotation, most will never sniff any meaningful minutes in
the NBA. Half of them won't even make an NBA roster.
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Maybe they'll play in Europe, or they'll be selling real
estate before the next NBA season. It's amateur out. You
know where the megastars are in the NBA. They're either
golfing in Lake Tahoe or they're getting sun tan lotion
on and they're eating appetizers and drinking cocktails on mega
yachts in the South of France. And now other people, wow,
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it's player development.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Ben, You just don't get it. And to that, I say,
it's nonsense.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Right, if we wanted to watch the developmental project? Then
would they sell tickets to go to like a middle
school science fair or something like that. And if you
if you watch it, if you watch it, enjoy it, fine,
do whatever.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
You gotta do. I just don't believe it's worthy of
breaking it down a full fledged Mallard.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Monologue on the bully pulpit that we have here and
we don't even talk I was thinking about this earlier.
We don't even talk about the NBA regular season games
until it used to be Christmas. We used to always kid, wow,
don't we don't talk basketball till Christmas, like the games
because nobody pays attention. But now we've moved all the
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way past, all the way past New Year's we're now
about Valentine's Day. It's like the Valentine's Day massacres, like, well,
we'll talk about it Valentine's Day.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
And why is that? Well load management.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
And these games are glorified cardio games before that, So
we're not going to talk about regular season, regular season
NBA games, then why would we talk.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
About a knockoff version.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
It's like back in the old days, you'd come across
if you're of a certain age, you know, what I'm
about to say here, you'd come across a bootleg DVD
that you'd find in a parking lot at a quickie mart.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
You know He's okay.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
If you want me to break a break down something
in Vegas, I would much rather talk about the fact
that Penn and Teller are able to sell, sell tickets
and make illusions in their seventies.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
They have a stage show Invage.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
How about Caratop who has continued to sell tickets doing
prop comedy and has his own Vegas residencies, had it
for years. Right, So to recap, we do not do
full malle monologues on the Vegas Summer League because we
respect your time and the value and the power the
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almighty microphones of FSR.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
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is from a story that we knew was gonna happen
sooner than later, and of all the days to happen,
it just happened to take place on Thursday.
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So it's a.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Baseball story, but we paused the standard Major League baseball
chatter for something a little bit different. And people talk
about legends of the game and who's the greatest the
goat talk. But if you haven't heard what we're gonna
play here in a couple of minutes, then you really
don't know who the goat of the tire rad is.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
You might not know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
But there's a gentleman who managed the Cubs and the
Philadelphia Phillies named Lee.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Ilia, and Lee Ilia died this week. He was eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
News came out, News came out yesterday. And if you're
of a certain age, you might not know that name.
You probably don't know that name. Maybe you've heard it
a little bit if you've been listening to any sports radio.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
But Lee Ilia.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
We mentioned he managed the Cubs very briefly, very briefly,
over forty years ago. He then got another job in
Philadelphia in nineteen eighty seven, and so he had a
couple of jobs. He had a losing record, he never
made the playoffs as a manager. And yet the day
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that he dies, everyone has a story about Lee Ilia.
Everyone wants to talk about Lee Ilia. So why is
everyone talking about this guy? Well, because Lee Ilia gave
the world a gift. He left the world a gift
that will live.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
On long after Lee passed away for many many years.
And this is the standard. This is the gold standards.
So let's take you back to April.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Twenty ninth, nineteen eighty three, Wrigley Field, Chicago. The Cubs
were playing the Dodgers, and the Dodgers won the game.
The Cubs were off to a terrible start, miserable baseball.
And in those days, it was a mom and pop
operation at Wrigley Field. So these ballparks were all crap holes.
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And so the Doug, the clubhouse for the Cubs, was
in center field.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
It was down in the outfield.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
So after you lost the game, you had to leave
the dugout at Wrigley and you had to walk out
to the clubhouse in center field, and the bleacher bumps
in Chicago started throwing trash at the Cub players. Well,
that led to then Cub manager Lee Ilya letting the
world know what he thought of the Cub fans and
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what he thought of people that go to Wrigley Field.
Take a listen, let's go to the audio tape. We
got it.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
All these so called freaking fans that come out there,
Cup fans that are supposed.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
To be behind you, ripping every seacking thing you do.
I'll tell you one second thing.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I hope we get seaking.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
Hotter and get it just to stuff it up them
three thousand freaking people that show up every freaking day,
because if they're the real Chicago fucking fans, they can
kiss my seaking ass.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Right downtown and print it.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
They're really really behind you around.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Here, my sacking ass, and nobody's going work because.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
You guys are written good.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
What the fuck am I supposed to do?
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Go out there and letting my fucking players get destroyed
every day and be quiet about it. For the fucking
Nickel dyin people to show up.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
The motherfuckers don't even work.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
They why you're out at the fucking game.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
They'll goad and get a fucking.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
Job and find out what it's like to go out
there in a fucking living.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Eighty five percent of the fucking world's working.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
The other fifteen come out here a fucking playground for the.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Rip that mother.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
Like the players. People pooh, and that's the Cubs my ass.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
All right. He actually went on even longer than that.
But that is art. What you heard. There is art,
That is magic, that is audio gold. So let us discuss.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
What are your reflections on the passing of former Cub
manager Lee I what are your reflections on his life
in baseball?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
So I've got Michael Angelo.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Taste buds, and cheerleading, and we'll combine all of these
things together and we'll have a deep dish Chicago pizza.
So a Lee Ilia, while he wore a baseball uniform,
was like Robin Williams or Dave Chappelle. He made people smile,
he made people laugh. Very rarely does one reach perfection
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in life. People always strive for perfection. You often come
up just a little bit short. But on that day,
in nineteen eighty three. In April of nineteen eighty three,
Lee Elia gave the world the magnum opus. It was
his magnum opus and we all get to enjoy it.
There have been many great rants by coaches and people
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in sports over the years, and I know later on
on the Fifth Hour podcast, I'll talk about some of
my favorites. But whether it's Tommy Lasorda, or Dennis Green,
or Bobby Knight or so many others, all.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Of them were good. None of them.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
None of them can match what you heard moments ago
from Lee Ilia. What Lee Elia did is the Michelangelo.
He's the Michelangelo of the Meltdown. It wasn't just a rant,
It was more than that. It was painting the Sistine.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Chapel with words, with audio.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Every sentence that I heard, there was a brushstroke of
greatness right every syllable perfection.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
It was raw, it was unfiltered emotion.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Gotta remember, in those days, Wrigley Field did not have lights.
Every one of the Cub home games was a day game.
So he essentially said anyone that came to watch Cubs
baseball didn't have a job.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
He said, the entire fan base didn't have a job.
He didn't just call out the fans.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
He excommunicated the entire Chicago cub fan base.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
He called them nickelin dime people.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Eighty five percent of the world's work, the other fifteen
percent come out here.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
It's a playground for the blank blanks.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
And he didn't just defend his players, he canonized them.
I mean, I just can't tell you enough how great
that was and how we'll likely never get that in
our lifetime. Maybe somewhere down the line or time goes
on forever, some generation will get someone that will top that.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
But I won't be around and you won't be around.
Lee Elia etched his name in the Book of Legends.
He said, well, who's the greatest quarterback?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
People say, well, Tom Brady, who's the all time greatest
NBA player? The real ones will say Michael Jordan, Right,
Michael Jordan, who's the greatest baseball player? Most people say
Babe Ruth right, who gave us the greatest coaching meltdown?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Lee Ilia? Period. Stop. That's it. Now.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
In Cub history, lee Ilia is somewhere like near bart
Man and Billy the Billy Goat Curse and all that stuff.
But it is one of the most endearing works of
art that here we are over forty years later, and
we still play it, we still smile.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
New generations are introduced to this audio.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
I was lucky enough years ago my travels to meet
Les Grobstein, who was the one that recorded that. Was
a radio man in Chicago actually did the overnights at
the score for years. Lee Less actually passed away a
couple years back. But rest in peace to the goat,
and make sure this weekend you pour one out for
our homie of the coaching tirade, the greatest of all time,
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Lee Ilia. And remember eighty five percent of the world's work.
The other fifteen percent come out to Wrigley Field. It's
a playground for the blank blanks, all right. Meanwhile, we
go now to the A t L. Why a lot
of social media chatter, a lot of social media chatter
that the Bravos could say bye bye to star Ronald
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Acuno Jr. So a lot of chatter that he's on
the trading block. Is that fair.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Or foul? Is it fair or foul?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
So, despite popular opinion by the people who are insiders,
it's a fair.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Ball fair ball.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Now some of the baseball media elites have come out here,
the guardians of the game, and they are dismissing the
very notion that Ronald Lacuna Jr. Could be available preposterous.
It's just click bait, right, they talking. I know better
than you call me a sucker, but I buy it.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
I do.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
I believe it's it's in play. I'm not say he's
gonna be traded. I believe there are conversations. If it's
so laughable that the Braves would trade Ronald Lacuna Jr.
Why does the rumor persist. I'll tell you why, because
there's some truth to it, right, And remember, taste budgs change.
You probably like stuff you didn't like when you're eight
(28:40):
years old, and if you're eight years old, you shouldn't
be listening.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
So who cares this?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
This is his his stick, you know, his act Ronald
Lacuna Junior is it is an acquired taste taste budge change, right,
and he's put up good numbers offensively there. But there
are factions in Atlanta. There are factions that I ask guy,
you know, the stopping and the bat flipping and the
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check me out jogs around the bases he's got when
he hits a home run, Now he's got a different
celebration for every ten feet around the base. So that
has a limited shelf life if you're always getting hurt.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
And that's the that's the rub on this.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
For all of the grand standing and all of the
swag walking, Kuna is made out of paper mache. Should
have been a basketball player. With all of the injuries
and since debuting in twenty eighteen, he has had not
one but two torn acls, one on each each knee.
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He's had the following injuries. He's missed games because of
a groin injury, quad, hammy, wrist, back, foot, all of
it in Atlanta. Having a tough time this week in
Oakland or not in Oakland. There's a Freudian been Sacramento
or not just Sacramento, West Sacramento. But the Braves are
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a middling team and it makes you wonder. I like
the whispers continue out there that they're listening. They're not
actively trying to get rid of the player, but they're listening,
and it's I think it's more than just tabloid nonsense.
And they also some smoke. There a little smoke, there's gas,
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there's smoke. There's probably some fire, and the Braves will
never admit it. If the Red Sox called the Atlanta
Braves up and said, we'll send you Jaron Duran and
a couple of our top minor league pitchers and we'll
throw some other stuff in there, would the Braves make
that deal the Angels?
Speaker 3 (30:45):
They need all kinds of help, right.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Would the Angels trade some players to Atlanta and the
Angels and Braves, that's essentially all they do is trade
players to each other. How about a team like the Tigers,
who are the top team in baseball this year, they
want to make another big splash move before the July
thirty first trade deadline. Inquiring minds would like to know
all right now, last word, we go down to New
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York where New York Metropolitan out thea there, Brandon Nemo.
Doesn't that sound like a Disney ride? Brandon Neimo.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
He thinks that Major League Baseball needs to change a rule.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
That's right, Brandon Nimo believes that it's it's time to
forget this. Every team gets an All Star rep rule
says it's broken.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Brandon Nimo.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Because we really care what Brandon Nimo has to say,
he says it should only be the best players, not
the best players on every team.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
So are you on board? Are you on board with this?
So I am not.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
I am not that this is mostly Brandon Nemo cheerleading
for his homie Juan Soda.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Now, as for the meat of the map on this one.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Like we've gone back and forth on this over the
years and today, my position is that they should keep
it the way it is.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
The rule exists for a reason. You're supposed to grow
the game.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Baseball has continued to be for probably thirty years now.
It's been a regional sport. It's been a regional sport,
and there are so many teams that blow, like the
Pirates and the Rockies and the White Sox, and you
want people that like those teams for some reason.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
To watch.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
And if their team's got nobody in the game, either
they're not going to watch or they're flipping over to
Netflix by the second inning. Now, for me, it's nostalgic
because I remember back in the day, there was a
time the Dodgers sucked, right, they were a bad team,
they didn't have good players. There was one it was
actually a couple of years they only had one All Star.
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The most famous year in Dodger history, though in modern
times there was I think it was the early nineties.
They had one All Star. It was Mike Sharperson, the
late Mike Sharperson. It's like, man, that's things are not
going well for the Dodgers. But I remember watching I
was like, I was hoping he would get into the
game and listen. I get the fact that the Yankees
and the Dodgers have all the top If you said
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only the top player is going to be and it'd
be mostly Yankees and Dodgers, a few Red Sox and
you know a couple of other teams.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
The Tigers would obviously be in there. But the players don't.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Even like the All Star games. It's a nuisance. The
All Star Game is a nuisance for the players. They
don't like it. They're not fans of it. So anyway,
those are my thoughts on the All Star Game. It's
just just an exhibition. It did matter for a little bit,
not just an exhibition.
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This is one Big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 8 (33:59):
They report on the TJ. Watt situation with the Steelers.
Insists in that Pittsburgh has no intention of trading Watt. Ben,
how do you think this stalemate ends?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
So you always say you're not going to trade the player.
You don't say you're going.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
To trade the player because you lose leverage, so it
doesn't matter. They say they're should.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
However, that being said, I believe they will agree to
a contract within the next two weeks. Training camp starts
next week for most NFL teams.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
TJ.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Watt will stay in Pittsburgh. They'll reach a compromise. He
will not be leaving the Steelers next.
Speaker 8 (34:30):
Jared Goff said on the Netflix series Quarterback that he
felt betrayed by the Rams when they traded him, and
that it was the fact that they didn't even have
a conversation with them. He didn't even know they were
planning to move on Ben. Did the Rams do golf dirty?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
No, that the Jared Goff should be sending flowers and
chocolates to Sean McVay.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
The Rams.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Jared Goff, I'm told by our listeners in Detroit, he's
on like every other commercial on local TV. He's a
beloved member of the sports community.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
He was never that.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
He never would have been that with the Rams, Matthew
Stafford won a Super He's not as beloved as Jared
Goff is in Detroit as Stafford is in La Now.
He didn't think he was gonna get moved because of
his contract, but he should be happy.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
That was a great thing for Jared Goff.
Speaker 8 (35:13):
Next there was There are three reported front runners to
sign Damian Lillard. Those are the Celtics, the Warriors, and
the heat Ben. Could you see him making a meaningful
impact on any of those teams?
Speaker 1 (35:23):
I love Dame time the guys in his mid thirties
coming off of popt achilles.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
I don't see it. I hope I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
He didn't want to play for Miami, so why wouldn't
he want to play for Miami now?
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Maybe because they suck? How did we do you pass
this edition?
Speaker 5 (35:38):
I am.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Another way for golf. Add that to my total for golf.
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It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week. Let's do
it lame jokes.
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Okay, yeah, he's already begging. He's already begging. All right,
I'm sure he'll take care of you. But you you
can also enter the malor Palooza and win one. You
could do that. You could do that. All right, let's
get to.
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Well you you lost it because you had a hoarding problem.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Anyway, all right, here we go here, Yes, all right?
Have you cleaned up your actors? Your place a mess?
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Okay, good, okay, Well these are actual jokes by actual lists.
What is the difference between David Vasse and weed Man
after bouncing off a wall? What weed Man wouldn't roll
around crying like a little girl? What is weed Man's
favorite part of the football field? What the hash marks
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big fan of? That's Dan Dan in South Carolina. Why
does weed Man avoid atm machines?
Speaker 5 (37:42):
Why?
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Well, besides being broke, he's terrible at withdrawals.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
That's Drew in Minnesota. All right, Uh, what do you
call it when you see weed Man having an unfortunate
seizure in the bathtub?
Speaker 3 (38:00):
What do you do? Well? You throw? Are You're throwing
a load of his laundry? Is what you do? If
you see that in the abato?
Speaker 5 (38:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Did you hear that weed Man's call for love advice
to Lorena earlier this week?
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Hear about that?
Speaker 5 (38:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Yeah, yeah, Well a lot of people missed it. But
she told weed Man the meeting with.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
His parole officer and social worker at the same time
was not actually a thropple. That's a Joe in Virginia
Beach there, Thank you, Joe. What did Lisa? What did
Lisa do when weed man fell off a boat. What
she drove the boat away?
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Is what she?
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Eric?
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Eric?
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Eric in Kansas. It's the Big Ben's lame jokes. A week,
Eric sent another one. Did you hear that weed Man?
Weed Man is starting a.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
New magazine dedicated to the homeless? Wow? Cool? Yeah, yeah,
it's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
It's called no homes and sleeping in gardens is what
it's called. That's not that's not nice. What do blind
Scott and weed Man have in common? What? They don't
work and are really obnoxious? That's Eric again, like that
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Big Ben's lame jokes of the week. What does poppy
have in common with a poppy seed?
Speaker 5 (39:27):
What?
Speaker 8 (39:29):
Well?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
They can both make you positive on a drug test.
That's Drue in Minnesota, Rob and the three two one sentence.
What does Shane and des Moine and the scent of
a new car have in common?
Speaker 3 (39:44):
What? Nothing? People will always love the smell of a
new car. There you go are Did you hear that.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Blind Scott asked out a girl in Braille?
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Yeah? Yeah, she left him on felt is what? That's uh?
That's Noah in Austin.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
What did I say to Mike the Leprecaun when he
said he listens to every episode of the Ben Malor Show.
What I said, I respect that I rishpec guy surfer
Todd the comedian.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
What does P did he? What does P? Did he say?
He will do as soon as he gets out of prison?
Speaker 2 (40:28):
What?
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Well, he didn't get into specifics, but he said he
has big plans for.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
The weekend, is what he said.
Speaker 8 (40:34):
There's uh server.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Todd the comedian. Let's see what do we have here?
What do you call an extortion attempt from Mike the leprecaun?
What a shamrock shakedown?
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Is?
Speaker 3 (40:48):
What you call it?
Speaker 8 (40:49):
Air?
Speaker 5 (40:51):
What?
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What?
Speaker 1 (40:52):
What does Loraina and the FSR security guard have in common?
What they both don't have the time of day for?
That's Michael epercun Why why shouldn't blind Scott be allowed
to drive a forklift at costco?
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Why he might run over Loraina and Holler and James
at the food court and on their blind date? All right,
beg you as Mike as well, beg you weed man.
All right, there you go, and now we get over
the coop A loop for the coop scoop on entertainment.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
Here we go, Ray for Holly, Ray for how.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
All right? Ben?
Speaker 8 (41:31):
Just a few things this week, but they are some exciting,
you know, a few exciting things. First, in theaters, we
have Superman. That's right, the new Superman.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Movie from They've never made those before.
Speaker 8 (41:44):
No, but this is the first one in the new
DC Studios, the first feature film from DC Studios.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
Where are the DC studio.
Speaker 4 (41:53):
That's a good question. I'm not sure.
Speaker 8 (41:55):
But it's from director James Gunn and is in the
newly imagined DC universe, and it stars David corn Sweat
as Superman.
Speaker 4 (42:08):
Name, yeah, Koran Sweat.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
He's okay because he's Superman. He probably got picked on
in second grade though.
Speaker 4 (42:14):
I know right.
Speaker 8 (42:15):
It also stars Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Holt, and Anthony Kerrigan
who you may know from Barry Fame.
Speaker 3 (42:22):
And it's just a racing movie thing.
Speaker 4 (42:24):
Is that f one?
Speaker 3 (42:26):
Yeah, I've been I've been told I need to see
that this weekend. My wife wants to see. Is any good?
Have you seen it?
Speaker 8 (42:30):
I have not seen it because racing movies do not
interest me.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
But I didn't say it interests me either, I was asked.
Speaker 8 (42:40):
It does have great reviews. It is from Apple. It
is actually a yeah in Apple movie, and it is
I don't think so, but it is so far it
is their their most successful film to date.
Speaker 4 (42:57):
And uh yeah, so.
Speaker 8 (42:59):
It's both the critics and it's actually got a higher
audience score than the critics. Critics given an eighty three
percent and audience scores ninety seven percent.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
So I will make my own decision if I am
forced to go see it.
Speaker 8 (43:10):
Yeah, let me know and then and then maybe I
might watch it. I guess F one's like the coolest
kind of racing that you could pick right.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Yes, it's the It's kind of like in America people
don't ready watch F one, but around the world it's
like soccer.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Nobody in America really watches it, but around the world
it's very popular.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
Yes, exactly, all right.
Speaker 8 (43:29):
Moving over to television, we have the return of Dexter. Yes,
the the serial killer who only kills other killers is
back in Dexter Resurrection. Now. The first two episodes are
available to stream on Paramount Plus right now. It'll air
on regular cable on Showtime this Sunday, and all of
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the characters you know, Michael C. Hall is returning as
Dexter and all of the other actors who are still
alive in that storyline will be making their return as well.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
And even the ones that are dead are going to
be back to the amazing.
Speaker 4 (44:06):
Well, I mean they can bring him back season kind of.
Speaker 8 (44:11):
I mean, like you know, spoiler alert, spoiler alert if
you haven't watched the original Dexter show, he dies at
the end of it. So they're bringing him back.
Speaker 3 (44:23):
So that's good. Yeah, it was just they're gonna make
it a dream sequence.
Speaker 8 (44:28):
I think it's gonna be like, you know, we never
actually saw him die. We just saw him get shot
in the chest and so he somehow survives that.
Speaker 4 (44:39):
Yeah. But there are some big names guest.
Speaker 8 (44:41):
Starring this season, including Uma Thurman, Peter Dinklage, Kristin Ritter,
Neil Patrick Harris, and Eric stone Street, among others. And
moving on, the last thing that I want to point
out is a new documentary you know, the train Wreck
series on Netflix. I recently mentioned the Poop Cruise edition
(45:02):
of the train Wreck series on Netflix. I did watch
that documentary special. It was quite interesting. But this Tuesday
will be train Wreck Balloon Boy documentary special that I
don't know if you remember when the Hot Air balloon
was or the it was like, oh.
Speaker 3 (45:18):
Yeah, I do remember that.
Speaker 8 (45:20):
It wasn't even a hot air balloon. It was like
a weather balloon. And they and it was a hoax.
They said that their kid was in there.
Speaker 4 (45:25):
And then he wasn't I do remember that.
Speaker 8 (45:29):
What is that on That is on Netflix, train Wreck,
balloon Boy and that is it for Koop scoopler Nament
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Double dip here and our lead this hour Begin the
Night is from pro Bouncy Vault. But I'm not gonna
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start with that. I'm not all right you think I'm
starting with I'm gonna keep you off balance. So a
lot of chatter in the last couple of weeks, really
since the NBA Finals when we had that dud of
an NBA Finals with OKC and Indiana, a bit of
poison for pro basketball. So a lot of noise about
(02:18):
the salary cap and it's not right. They gotta change it.
It's ugly and they gotta do something this hardline cap.
So I was somewhat recently contacted by someone who knows
a thing or two about the workings of the business
of basketball and very knowledgeable in that department.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
They know what they're talking about.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And of course they know a thing or two because
they've seen a thing or two. And this particular person,
we'll just say, has given me some good intel in
the past. Now, this person does not beat a thousand. However,
if they were a baseball player, they'd be like mister
Podre Tony Gwinn, so pretty good batting average. Get to
the point, please, all right, So let me boil this down.
The word on the street is that despite the public
(03:04):
opinion that the big market teams like the Celtics and
the Lakers and the Clippers and the next teams like
that Warriors, despite the the buzz that the big market
owners do not like this, they're trying to change the
salary cap because it is so aggressive towards.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Teams that spend a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Well, it turns out, according to my insider, that the
owners actually love the hardcap, the hard line cap. They
like the apron, and the reason they like that is
it gives them a for something like we have an archwer,
the golden ticket. If you will to keep calls down right,
you get a golden ticket. So let us discuss the
(03:46):
question with these whispers that NBA owners actually love the
second apron of the salary cap and they have no
serious plans to dramatically change it, despite speculation to the contrary.
Do you buy or sell this, You buy or sell this.
So I've got my observations on this. I've got loaded dice, Gumbo,
(04:11):
and Coachella, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a brick house,
is what we're going to make.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
So number why, I said number why. That's right. So
I am buying this. I'm not selling it.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I'm buying it, and I believe the fix is in,
if you will. Not to be too dramatic, but the
NBA's Billionaire Boys Club, the owners of the NBA are
grinning from ear to ear. They have a cheshire cat smile.
Just can't get enough of this. And the reason why,
(04:51):
the secret on this is the as we talked about,
the owners like it that the cap is the built
in get out of jail free card. It's kind of
like if you're in high school and you're you know,
one of your parents is a cop and you're getting trouble, say, oh, yeah,
my so and so is a cop.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I give you a break on this, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And so the oligarchs and the aristocrats are popping champagne
over the second apron chokeold right, you talk about paying dividends. Uh,
And they don't get to keep everything, but they get
to keep a lot more, right, and their wallets fatter
and all that stuff. So I'd buy this conspiracy. I
(05:30):
would say, don't be hornswaggled by all the rhetoric that
the NBA owners toss out and the friends of the
league in the media about competitive balance. They give these
sermons about that and the brutal penalties. And there are penalties,
a loss of draft picks, no mid level exception, things
(05:51):
like that, and not to get into the minutia.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
But the trade market is limited. But this is all
about the.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Green but not the green team, the green Backs, And
it's not about winning, not about that.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
You know what it is.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
It's a classic sports radio caller to this show from
about twenty years ago. A guy named Zigzag used to
call the show. One of my regular callers. One of
the great characters on the show, Zigzag, and then unfortunately
he grew up and no longer was Zigzag. But this
is a misdirection play, right. The NBA owners are playing
(06:25):
with loaded dice. The dice are loaded, the robber barons
set the rules, and if you cross this magic line,
I think it's like one hundred and ninety something million
dollars or whatever.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Then all of a sudden there's like alarm bells that
go off, and that all it.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
And now for some owners they don't give a crap,
like Steve Balmer, he goes to the bathroom, his morning
bowot movement, and he makes enough money to cover all
of the fees and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And Joe lacub with the Warriors doesn't seem to care
too much.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
He's not really sweating, and so they've got all the
cash they could possibly want.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
However, for the others, if they want.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
If they choose to play this card, they can dump players,
avoid big signings, like for example, the Boston Celtics are
doing that right now.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
And at the same time they can cry wolf.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
It's just unsustainable the salaries, polaise, I say, Polaise.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
They are pocketing massive profits.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
And the owners, you know, they're having a yacht party
and they're laughing at all the commoners. Right, they get
the private jets all that, and they've got the money.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Good for them. And we want to keep the players.
Oh yeah, we want to keep that player.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
But I'm sorry, that's actually more of an asset than
a player. And everyone wants to play the victim. They
all play the victim. Players want to play the victim.
Owners want to play the victim. But in terms of
the owners spoiler alert, they are the architects of this
and they've done this to inflate the profit margin and
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also give them plausible deniability when they get rid of
a player deemed popular. All right now, page two to
La La Land we go.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
A big story. The last couple of weeks in.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
The NBA malcontent overrated stiff DeAndre Ayton joining the Lakers
after being fired by the Portland Trailblazers and dumped by
the Phoenix Suns. So DeAndre Ayton was recently asked if
he had heard from Lebron James or Luca Dancik, and
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he revealed, Well, let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Here's what DeAndre had to say. Take a list. Hey DeAndre,
have you have you spoken to Lebron?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Have you spoken to Luca?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Not really yet, but I've definitely got a text from Luca.
I know how to off season go. You know, this
is not my first rolio. People are probably busy and
you know, training then even times with their families. But
I'm just waiting. I'm just really just trying to I
did to great myself with the team and get to
know everybody.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
All right.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
That was I think that was our buddy Sadana right,
used to work here Fox Sports Radio alumni guys, Sadana
the seven to ten over there, all right. So he said,
if you didn't understand what DeAndre Aton said, he said, listen,
I'm still waiting on Lebron. Lucas sent a text though,
and then DeAndre made a bunch of excuses about the
off season and all that.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
So that's a great jumping off point. That is a
great jumping off point.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
So DeAndre Ayton says he still hasn't spoken with Lebron James,
but Luca text him after his Laker agreement there, so.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
What do you read into this? What are you reading this?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
So if you cut through the Hayes, people in La
call it Hayes, other people call it smog.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
But if you cut.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Through that, Luca the he's the new golden boy, right,
Lucas the new golden boy for the Lakers and all that.
And so he found time to tap tap tap a text. Meanwhile, Lebron,
he's so busy in his offseason he cannot be bothered
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to send a measly emoji. So we all know it
takes a lot of time to grab your phone. You
gotta futs around with your phones. You gotta go to
the message thing, you gotta find the number, and then
you got to click the proper emoji to you, the
smiley emoji, do you do?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
The crying emoji?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Like, which emoji do you do? And then you've got
to click send on it. And that's a lot of work.
That is a lot of work for Lebron. I understand,
the man's in his forties now, he could injure a
fingernail and we don't want that.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
We do not want that, all right, So here's the deal.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
That is not obviously an oversight after several minutes of deliberation.
That is a statement by Lebron James. Now, the rumor
has it that Lebron not exactly doing cartwheels about the
possibility of playing with DeAndre Ayton. And as I learned
years ago when I first got into the radio world,
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that the silence is golden, but not if you're doing
a talk show. It suggests that Lebron's not buying in.
But it's also bigger than that. If you think of
it in terms of gumbo. Think of it in terms
of gumbo. So the word on the street is King
James is still stewing like gumbo over.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
The cloud that he still has some.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
But not that much, and that the Lakers it's like
they started dating the new girl, the new hot girls,
Luca and he's the old woman, you know. And then
he's like, well, I've been around for a while, but no, no,
we like Luca. Luca's hotter, and lucas the one has
now got the keys.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
So this is the theory. And so Lebron's like, ah,
this is this blows and it feels like a.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Rental car and the Lakers are Luca's team, and Lebron
he's not Blind Scott or inca Terror, Blind Emmett or
Stevie Meatballs or any of the other blind listeners. So
he sees the writing on the wall and the writing
is in Slovenian, and it's like, the Lakers are so
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into Luca at this moment. I wouldn't be shocked if
Luca does a podcast with somebody. The Lakers fire JJ
Reddick and hire whoever Luca gets the host of podcasts
with him, because that's what they did with JJ Reddick, right.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
So file this at this point.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
File this as a quiet protest against the Laker front
office and the shifting in allegiances and lebron he's got
the pep right, He's pouting and plotting.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
He's pouting and plotting at this point. Stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
More developments to come in the off season soap opera
from pro pouncy Ball. All right, now, final point. So,
I got a bunch of emails, I say a bunch.
I got three emails.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
You're going to start to show oh with that game
in Vegas. I know you are no. Uh no.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
In fact, I didn't evenally want to talk about this,
but I will address it, and I will address the
question of why we did not begin this extra spicy
Mallard monologue with the let me check my notes here
Summer League matchup between Cooper Flag of the mav Recks
and Bronnie James the NEFO Baby.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
So why did we not begin the night with that?
So the reason we did not my belief.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
And I've been to the Summer League. It used to
be in LA I was in Irvine at one.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Plas a long beach.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
So I've been to the Summer League in years past,
many years ago, the NBA Summer League is the equivalent
of trying to pass off a night like a Friday
night karaoke as going to Coachella.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
It's the same thing.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
You know, it's the saying they're just doing lip syncing,
but it's the say, you know, you drink beer, it's cheaper,
there's no dirt. It's like going to Coachella. I mean,
come on, and we're talking about in the summer league
that the dudes who won't most of them won't make
the rotation, most will never sniff any meaningful minutes in
the NBA. Half of them won't even make an NBA roster.
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Maybe they'll play in Europe, or they'll be selling real
estate before the next NBA season. It's amateur out. You
know where the megastars are in the NBA. They're either
golfing in Lake Tahoe or they're getting sun tan lotion
on and they're eating appetizers and drinking cocktails on mega
yachts in the South of France. And now other people, wow,
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it's player development.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Ben, You just don't get it. And to that, I say,
it's nonsense.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Right, if we wanted to watch the developmental project? Then
would they sell tickets to go to like a middle
school science fair or something like that. And if you
if you watch it, if you watch it, enjoy it, fine,
do whatever.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
You gotta do. I just don't believe it's worthy of
breaking it down a full fledged Mallard.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Monologue on the bully pulpit that we have here and
we don't even talk I was thinking about this earlier.
We don't even talk about the NBA regular season games
until it used to be Christmas. We used to always kid, wow,
don't we don't talk basketball till Christmas, like the games
because nobody pays attention. But now we've moved all the
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way past, all the way past New Year's we're now
about Valentine's Day. It's like the Valentine's Day massacres, like, well,
we'll talk about it Valentine's Day.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
And why is that? Well load management.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
And these games are glorified cardio games before that, So
we're not going to talk about regular season, regular season
NBA games, then why would we talk.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
About a knockoff version.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
It's like back in the old days, you'd come across
if you're of a certain age, you know, what I'm
about to say here, you'd come across a bootleg DVD
that you'd find in a parking lot at a quickie mart.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
You know He's okay.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
If you want me to break a break down something
in Vegas, I would much rather talk about the fact
that Penn and Teller are able to sell, sell tickets
and make illusions in their seventies.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
They have a stage show Invage.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
How about Caratop who has continued to sell tickets doing
prop comedy and has his own Vegas residencies, had it
for years. Right, So to recap, we do not do
full malle monologues on the Vegas Summer League because we
respect your time and the value and the power the
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almighty microphones of FSR.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
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.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Hey what's up everybody?
Speaker 6 (17:04):
It's me three time pro bowler LeVar Arrington, and I
couldn't be more excited to announce a podcast called up
on Game?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
What is up on Game? You ass?
Speaker 6 (17:13):
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only name a show with that type of talent on it.
Up on Game We're going to be sharing our real
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Speaker 1 (17:44):
The Goat of Goats crossing the pearly Gates. Welcome in
the beginning up yet another hour of the Ban Malor Show.
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is from a story that we knew was gonna happen
sooner than later, and of all the days to happen,
it just happened to take place on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
So it's a.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Baseball story, but we paused the standard Major League baseball
chatter for something a little bit different. And people talk
about legends of the game and who's the greatest the
goat talk. But if you haven't heard what we're gonna
play here in a couple of minutes, then you really
don't know who the goat of the tire rad is.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
You might not know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
But there's a gentleman who managed the Cubs and the
Philadelphia Phillies named Lee.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Ilia, and Lee Ilia died this week. He was eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
News came out, News came out yesterday. And if you're
of a certain age, you might not know that name.
You probably don't know that name. Maybe you've heard it
a little bit if you've been listening to any sports radio.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
But Lee Ilia.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
We mentioned he managed the Cubs very briefly, very briefly,
over forty years ago. He then got another job in
Philadelphia in nineteen eighty seven, and so he had a
couple of jobs. He had a losing record, he never
made the playoffs as a manager. And yet the day
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that he dies, everyone has a story about Lee Ilia.
Everyone wants to talk about Lee Ilia. So why is
everyone talking about this guy? Well, because Lee Ilia gave
the world a gift. He left the world a gift
that will live.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
On long after Lee passed away for many many years.
And this is the standard. This is the gold standards.
So let's take you back to April.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Twenty ninth, nineteen eighty three, Wrigley Field, Chicago. The Cubs
were playing the Dodgers, and the Dodgers won the game.
The Cubs were off to a terrible start, miserable baseball.
And in those days, it was a mom and pop
operation at Wrigley Field. So these ballparks were all crap holes.
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And so the Doug, the clubhouse for the Cubs, was
in center field.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
It was down in the outfield.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
So after you lost the game, you had to leave
the dugout at Wrigley and you had to walk out
to the clubhouse in center field, and the bleacher bumps
in Chicago started throwing trash at the Cub players. Well,
that led to then Cub manager Lee Ilya letting the
world know what he thought of the Cub fans and
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what he thought of people that go to Wrigley Field.
Take a listen, let's go to the audio tape. We
got it.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
All these so called freaking fans that come out there,
Cup fans that are supposed.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
To be behind you, ripping every seacking thing you do.
I'll tell you one second thing.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I hope we get seaking.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
Hotter and get it just to stuff it up them
three thousand freaking people that show up every freaking day,
because if they're the real Chicago fucking fans, they can
kiss my seaking ass.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Right downtown and print it.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
They're really really behind you around.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Here, my sacking ass, and nobody's going work because.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
You guys are written good.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
What the fuck am I supposed to do?
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Go out there and letting my fucking players get destroyed
every day and be quiet about it. For the fucking
Nickel dyin people to show up.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
The motherfuckers don't even work.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
They why you're out at the fucking game.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
They'll goad and get a fucking.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
Job and find out what it's like to go out
there in a fucking living.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Eighty five percent of the fucking world's working.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
The other fifteen come out here a fucking playground for the.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Rip that mother.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
Like the players. People pooh, and that's the Cubs my ass.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
All right. He actually went on even longer than that.
But that is art. What you heard. There is art,
That is magic, that is audio gold. So let us discuss.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
What are your reflections on the passing of former Cub
manager Lee I what are your reflections on his life
in baseball?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
So I've got Michael Angelo.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Taste buds, and cheerleading, and we'll combine all of these
things together and we'll have a deep dish Chicago pizza.
So a Lee Ilia, while he wore a baseball uniform,
was like Robin Williams or Dave Chappelle. He made people smile,
he made people laugh. Very rarely does one reach perfection
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in life. People always strive for perfection. You often come
up just a little bit short. But on that day,
in nineteen eighty three. In April of nineteen eighty three,
Lee Elia gave the world the magnum opus. It was
his magnum opus and we all get to enjoy it.
There have been many great rants by coaches and people
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in sports over the years, and I know later on
on the Fifth Hour podcast, I'll talk about some of
my favorites. But whether it's Tommy Lasorda, or Dennis Green,
or Bobby Knight or so many others, all.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Of them were good. None of them.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
None of them can match what you heard moments ago
from Lee Ilia. What Lee Elia did is the Michelangelo.
He's the Michelangelo of the Meltdown. It wasn't just a rant,
It was more than that. It was painting the Sistine.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Chapel with words, with audio.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Every sentence that I heard, there was a brushstroke of
greatness right every syllable perfection.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
It was raw, it was unfiltered emotion.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Gotta remember, in those days, Wrigley Field did not have lights.
Every one of the Cub home games was a day game.
So he essentially said anyone that came to watch Cubs
baseball didn't have a job.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
He said, the entire fan base didn't have a job.
He didn't just call out the fans.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
He excommunicated the entire Chicago cub fan base.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
He called them nickelin dime people.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Eighty five percent of the world's work, the other fifteen
percent come out here.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
It's a playground for the blank blanks.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
And he didn't just defend his players, he canonized them.
I mean, I just can't tell you enough how great
that was and how we'll likely never get that in
our lifetime. Maybe somewhere down the line or time goes
on forever, some generation will get someone that will top that.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
But I won't be around and you won't be around.
Lee Elia etched his name in the Book of Legends.
He said, well, who's the greatest quarterback?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
People say, well, Tom Brady, who's the all time greatest
NBA player? The real ones will say Michael Jordan, Right,
Michael Jordan, who's the greatest baseball player? Most people say
Babe Ruth right, who gave us the greatest coaching meltdown?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Lee Ilia? Period. Stop. That's it. Now.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
In Cub history, lee Ilia is somewhere like near bart
Man and Billy the Billy Goat Curse and all that stuff.
But it is one of the most endearing works of
art that here we are over forty years later, and
we still play it, we still smile.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
New generations are introduced to this audio.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
I was lucky enough years ago my travels to meet
Les Grobstein, who was the one that recorded that. Was
a radio man in Chicago actually did the overnights at
the score for years. Lee Less actually passed away a
couple years back. But rest in peace to the goat,
and make sure this weekend you pour one out for
our homie of the coaching tirade, the greatest of all time,
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Lee Ilia. And remember eighty five percent of the world's work.
The other fifteen percent come out to Wrigley Field. It's
a playground for the blank blanks, all right. Meanwhile, we
go now to the A t L. Why a lot
of social media chatter, a lot of social media chatter
that the Bravos could say bye bye to star Ronald
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Acuno Jr. So a lot of chatter that he's on
the trading block. Is that fair.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Or foul? Is it fair or foul?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
So, despite popular opinion by the people who are insiders,
it's a fair.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Ball fair ball.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Now some of the baseball media elites have come out here,
the guardians of the game, and they are dismissing the
very notion that Ronald Lacuna Jr. Could be available preposterous.
It's just click bait, right, they talking. I know better
than you call me a sucker, but I buy it.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
I do.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
I believe it's it's in play. I'm not say he's
gonna be traded. I believe there are conversations. If it's
so laughable that the Braves would trade Ronald Lacuna Jr.
Why does the rumor persist. I'll tell you why, because
there's some truth to it, right, And remember, taste budgs change.
You probably like stuff you didn't like when you're eight
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years old, and if you're eight years old, you shouldn't
be listening.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
So who cares this?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
This is his his stick, you know, his act Ronald
Lacuna Junior is it is an acquired taste taste budge change, right,
and he's put up good numbers offensively there. But there
are factions in Atlanta. There are factions that I ask guy,
you know, the stopping and the bat flipping and the
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check me out jogs around the bases he's got when
he hits a home run, Now he's got a different
celebration for every ten feet around the base. So that
has a limited shelf life if you're always getting hurt.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
And that's the that's the rub on this.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
For all of the grand standing and all of the
swag walking, Kuna is made out of paper mache. Should
have been a basketball player. With all of the injuries
and since debuting in twenty eighteen, he has had not
one but two torn acls, one on each each knee.
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He's had the following injuries. He's missed games because of
a groin injury, quad, hammy, wrist, back, foot, all of
it in Atlanta. Having a tough time this week in
Oakland or not in Oakland. There's a Freudian been Sacramento
or not just Sacramento, West Sacramento. But the Braves are
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a middling team and it makes you wonder. I like
the whispers continue out there that they're listening. They're not
actively trying to get rid of the player, but they're listening,
and it's I think it's more than just tabloid nonsense.
And they also some smoke. There a little smoke, there's gas,
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there's smoke. There's probably some fire, and the Braves will
never admit it. If the Red Sox called the Atlanta
Braves up and said, we'll send you Jaron Duran and
a couple of our top minor league pitchers and we'll
throw some other stuff in there, would the Braves make
that deal the Angels?
Speaker 3 (30:45):
They need all kinds of help, right.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Would the Angels trade some players to Atlanta and the
Angels and Braves, that's essentially all they do is trade
players to each other. How about a team like the Tigers,
who are the top team in baseball this year, they
want to make another big splash move before the July
thirty first trade deadline. Inquiring minds would like to know
all right now, last word, we go down to New
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York where New York Metropolitan out thea there, Brandon Nemo.
Doesn't that sound like a Disney ride? Brandon Neimo.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
He thinks that Major League Baseball needs to change a rule.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
That's right, Brandon Nimo believes that it's it's time to
forget this. Every team gets an All Star rep rule
says it's broken.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Brandon Nimo.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Because we really care what Brandon Nimo has to say,
he says it should only be the best players, not
the best players on every team.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
So are you on board? Are you on board with this?
So I am not.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
I am not that this is mostly Brandon Nemo cheerleading
for his homie Juan Soda.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Now, as for the meat of the map on this one.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Like we've gone back and forth on this over the
years and today, my position is that they should keep
it the way it is.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
The rule exists for a reason. You're supposed to grow
the game.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Baseball has continued to be for probably thirty years now.
It's been a regional sport. It's been a regional sport,
and there are so many teams that blow, like the
Pirates and the Rockies and the White Sox, and you
want people that like those teams for some reason.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
To watch.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
And if their team's got nobody in the game, either
they're not going to watch or they're flipping over to
Netflix by the second inning. Now, for me, it's nostalgic
because I remember back in the day, there was a
time the Dodgers sucked, right, they were a bad team,
they didn't have good players. There was one it was
actually a couple of years they only had one All Star.
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The most famous year in Dodger history, though in modern
times there was I think it was the early nineties.
They had one All Star. It was Mike Sharperson, the
late Mike Sharperson. It's like, man, that's things are not
going well for the Dodgers. But I remember watching I
was like, I was hoping he would get into the
game and listen. I get the fact that the Yankees
and the Dodgers have all the top If you said
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only the top player is going to be and it'd
be mostly Yankees and Dodgers, a few Red Sox and
you know a couple of other teams.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
The Tigers would obviously be in there. But the players don't.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Even like the All Star games. It's a nuisance. The
All Star Game is a nuisance for the players. They
don't like it. They're not fans of it. So anyway,
those are my thoughts on the All Star Game. It's
just just an exhibition. It did matter for a little bit,
not just an exhibition.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Here we Go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here we go.
This is one Big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 8 (33:59):
They report on the TJ. Watt situation with the Steelers.
Insists in that Pittsburgh has no intention of trading Watt. Ben,
how do you think this stalemate ends?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
So you always say you're not going to trade the player.
You don't say you're going.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
To trade the player because you lose leverage, so it
doesn't matter. They say they're should.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
However, that being said, I believe they will agree to
a contract within the next two weeks. Training camp starts
next week for most NFL teams.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
TJ.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Watt will stay in Pittsburgh. They'll reach a compromise. He
will not be leaving the Steelers next.
Speaker 8 (34:30):
Jared Goff said on the Netflix series Quarterback that he
felt betrayed by the Rams when they traded him, and
that it was the fact that they didn't even have
a conversation with them. He didn't even know they were
planning to move on Ben. Did the Rams do golf dirty?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
No, that the Jared Goff should be sending flowers and
chocolates to Sean McVay.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
The Rams.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Jared Goff, I'm told by our listeners in Detroit, he's
on like every other commercial on local TV. He's a
beloved member of the sports community.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
He was never that.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
He never would have been that with the Rams, Matthew
Stafford won a Super He's not as beloved as Jared
Goff is in Detroit as Stafford is in La Now.
He didn't think he was gonna get moved because of
his contract, but he should be happy.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
That was a great thing for Jared Goff.
Speaker 8 (35:13):
Next there was There are three reported front runners to
sign Damian Lillard. Those are the Celtics, the Warriors, and
the heat Ben. Could you see him making a meaningful
impact on any of those teams?
Speaker 1 (35:23):
I love Dame time the guys in his mid thirties
coming off of popt achilles.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
I don't see it. I hope I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
He didn't want to play for Miami, so why wouldn't
he want to play for Miami now?
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Maybe because they suck? How did we do you pass
this edition?
Speaker 5 (35:38):
I am.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Another way for golf. Add that to my total for golf.
Come on.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
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Speaker 8 (36:00):
Who's there?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Blame Week blame week.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week. Let's do
it lame jokes.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
These are actual jokes by actual listeners, sent in care
of Benmahler Show at gmail dot com at.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Benmaller Show at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
The comedy Club has open every Friday at this time
when our bosses are sleeping.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Weed Man Hippie has been.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
My hole, hurt, ho hoort, unpaid, underappreciated. He does it
for the love of radio. Did you ever think you'd
have your own weekly bit on the radio weed Man
back in the day.
Speaker 5 (36:37):
No, I love you Ben hurting Miss irrigation.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Please send me another ding.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Okay, yeah, he's already begging. He's already begging. All right,
I'm sure he'll take care of you. But you you
can also enter the malor Palooza and win one. You
could do that. You could do that. All right, let's
get to.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
The butt for I know, kenby wy it was beautiful.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Eye yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Well you you lost it because you had a hoarding problem.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
Anyway, all right, here we go here, Yes, all right?
Have you cleaned up your actors? Your place a mess?
Speaker 5 (37:08):
Now?
Speaker 4 (37:09):
No?
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Not pretty great? It's not there.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Okay, good, okay, Well these are actual jokes by actual lists.
What is the difference between David Vasse and weed Man
after bouncing off a wall? What weed Man wouldn't roll
around crying like a little girl? What is weed Man's
favorite part of the football field? What the hash marks
(37:35):
big fan of? That's Dan Dan in South Carolina. Why
does weed Man avoid atm machines?
Speaker 5 (37:42):
Why?
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Well, besides being broke, he's terrible at withdrawals.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
That's Drew in Minnesota. All right, Uh, what do you
call it when you see weed Man having an unfortunate
seizure in the bathtub?
Speaker 3 (38:00):
What do you do? Well? You throw? Are You're throwing
a load of his laundry? Is what you do? If
you see that in the abato?
Speaker 5 (38:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Did you hear that weed Man's call for love advice
to Lorena earlier this week?
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Hear about that?
Speaker 5 (38:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Yeah, yeah, Well a lot of people missed it. But
she told weed Man the meeting with.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
His parole officer and social worker at the same time
was not actually a thropple. That's a Joe in Virginia
Beach there, Thank you, Joe. What did Lisa? What did
Lisa do when weed man fell off a boat. What
she drove the boat away?
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Is what she?
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Eric?
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Eric?
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Eric in Kansas. It's the Big Ben's lame jokes. A week,
Eric sent another one. Did you hear that weed Man?
Weed Man is starting a.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
New magazine dedicated to the homeless? Wow? Cool? Yeah, yeah,
it's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
It's called no homes and sleeping in gardens is what
it's called. That's not that's not nice. What do blind
Scott and weed Man have in common? What? They don't
work and are really obnoxious? That's Eric again, like that
(39:22):
Big Ben's lame jokes of the week. What does poppy
have in common with a poppy seed?
Speaker 5 (39:27):
What?
Speaker 8 (39:29):
Well?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
They can both make you positive on a drug test.
That's Drue in Minnesota, Rob and the three two one sentence.
What does Shane and des Moine and the scent of
a new car have in common?
Speaker 3 (39:44):
What? Nothing? People will always love the smell of a
new car. There you go are Did you hear that.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Blind Scott asked out a girl in Braille?
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Yeah? Yeah, she left him on felt is what? That's uh?
That's Noah in Austin.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
What did I say to Mike the Leprecaun when he
said he listens to every episode of the Ben Malor Show.
What I said, I respect that I rishpec guy surfer
Todd the comedian.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
What does P did he? What does P? Did he say?
He will do as soon as he gets out of prison?
Speaker 2 (40:28):
What?
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Well, he didn't get into specifics, but he said he
has big plans for.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
The weekend, is what he said.
Speaker 8 (40:34):
There's uh server.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Todd the comedian. Let's see what do we have here?
What do you call an extortion attempt from Mike the leprecaun?
What a shamrock shakedown?
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Is?
Speaker 3 (40:48):
What you call it?
Speaker 8 (40:49):
Air?
Speaker 5 (40:51):
What?
Speaker 3 (40:51):
What?
Speaker 1 (40:52):
What does Loraina and the FSR security guard have in common?
What they both don't have the time of day for?
That's Michael epercun Why why shouldn't blind Scott be allowed
to drive a forklift at costco?
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Why he might run over Loraina and Holler and James
at the food court and on their blind date? All right,
beg you as Mike as well, beg you weed man.
All right, there you go, and now we get over
the coop A loop for the coop scoop on entertainment.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
Here we go, Ray for Holly, Ray for how.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
All right? Ben?
Speaker 8 (41:31):
Just a few things this week, but they are some exciting,
you know, a few exciting things. First, in theaters, we
have Superman. That's right, the new Superman.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Movie from They've never made those before.
Speaker 8 (41:44):
No, but this is the first one in the new
DC Studios, the first feature film from DC Studios.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
Where are the DC studio.
Speaker 4 (41:53):
That's a good question. I'm not sure.
Speaker 8 (41:55):
But it's from director James Gunn and is in the
newly imagined DC universe, and it stars David corn Sweat
as Superman.
Speaker 4 (42:08):
Name, yeah, Koran Sweat.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
He's okay because he's Superman. He probably got picked on
in second grade though.
Speaker 4 (42:14):
I know right.
Speaker 8 (42:15):
It also stars Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Holt, and Anthony Kerrigan
who you may know from Barry Fame.
Speaker 3 (42:22):
And it's just a racing movie thing.
Speaker 4 (42:24):
Is that f one?
Speaker 3 (42:26):
Yeah, I've been I've been told I need to see
that this weekend. My wife wants to see. Is any good?
Have you seen it?
Speaker 8 (42:30):
I have not seen it because racing movies do not
interest me.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
But I didn't say it interests me either, I was asked.
Speaker 8 (42:40):
It does have great reviews. It is from Apple. It
is actually a yeah in Apple movie, and it is
I don't think so, but it is so far it
is their their most successful film to date.
Speaker 4 (42:57):
And uh yeah, so.
Speaker 8 (42:59):
It's both the critics and it's actually got a higher
audience score than the critics. Critics given an eighty three
percent and audience scores ninety seven percent.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
So I will make my own decision if I am
forced to go see it.
Speaker 8 (43:10):
Yeah, let me know and then and then maybe I
might watch it. I guess F one's like the coolest
kind of racing that you could pick right.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Yes, it's the It's kind of like in America people
don't ready watch F one, but around the world it's
like soccer.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
Nobody in America really watches it, but around the world
it's very popular.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
Yes, exactly, all right.
Speaker 8 (43:29):
Moving over to television, we have the return of Dexter. Yes,
the the serial killer who only kills other killers is
back in Dexter Resurrection. Now. The first two episodes are
available to stream on Paramount Plus right now. It'll air
on regular cable on Showtime this Sunday, and all of
(43:53):
the characters you know, Michael C. Hall is returning as
Dexter and all of the other actors who are still
alive in that storyline will be making their return as well.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
And even the ones that are dead are going to
be back to the amazing.
Speaker 4 (44:06):
Well, I mean they can bring him back season kind of.
Speaker 8 (44:11):
I mean, like you know, spoiler alert, spoiler alert if
you haven't watched the original Dexter show, he dies at
the end of it. So they're bringing him back.
Speaker 3 (44:23):
So that's good. Yeah, it was just they're gonna make
it a dream sequence.
Speaker 8 (44:28):
I think it's gonna be like, you know, we never
actually saw him die. We just saw him get shot
in the chest and so he somehow survives that.
Speaker 4 (44:39):
Yeah. But there are some big names guest.
Speaker 8 (44:41):
Starring this season, including Uma Thurman, Peter Dinklage, Kristin Ritter,
Neil Patrick Harris, and Eric stone Street, among others. And
moving on, the last thing that I want to point
out is a new documentary you know, the train Wreck
series on Netflix. I recently mentioned the Poop Cruise edition
(45:02):
of the train Wreck series on Netflix. I did watch
that documentary special. It was quite interesting. But this Tuesday
will be train Wreck Balloon Boy documentary special that I
don't know if you remember when the Hot Air balloon
was or the it was like, oh.
Speaker 3 (45:18):
Yeah, I do remember that.
Speaker 8 (45:20):
It wasn't even a hot air balloon. It was like
a weather balloon. And they and it was a hoax.
They said that their kid was in there.
Speaker 4 (45:25):
And then he wasn't I do remember that.
Speaker 8 (45:29):
What is that on That is on Netflix, train Wreck,
balloon Boy and that is it for Koop scoopler Nament
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