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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom shaka Laca.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our number to our number two is ready for you.
It's the hour of Lebron. Where do you stand on
the Mavericks as the betting favorite, the new betting favorite
for Lebron James? Also, what makes the most sense for
Lebron at this point? Forget the gambling market? And how
would the Lakers spin a Lebron James trade? And why
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must this trade be a package deal?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
We'll explain.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
We'll get to all of that and more right now here.
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we'll get back to the baseball. I know some of
you guys are hanging on. You want to yap about that.
The All Star Game went to a swing off while
Show healed and Aaron Judge made a mad dash.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
They were like speedy.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Gonzales trying to get out of there and get the airports,
get the hell out of Atlanta. Very reminiscent of All
Star Games gone by. The game came down to it.
It was a tie because the Nationalague All Stars suck
and blew a six run lead, so the al came.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Back tied it. Kyle Swarber ended up winning it.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
He was your All Star MVP as he won the
first ever not home run derby swing off, not home
run derby swing off. More on that later, but our
lead this hour is from the chatterbox. We have a
update update. The King malcontent, a pro bouncy ball making
headlines yet again, Lebron James.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
That's right, Lebron James.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
So feeding the content machine over the Baseball All Star
Break and of course making it all about Lebron, all
about Lebron, just the way he likes it, just the
way he likes it. So the gambling market has checked
in on this, They have entered the ring, and they
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have updated, updated the odds on this. A new betting
favorite has emerged for Lebron James.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
And if you didn't see this, and perhaps you're not.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
A degenerate gambler and you don't keep track of these things,
So the gambling market says, the new favorite to land
Lebron James is, you know, no, the Dallas Mavericks Holy
Cowboy Boots Batman. Yeah, the Mavericks and the new betting
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favorites to land Lebron James. Of course, everything is bigger
in Texas. Dallas listed at plus one twenty five. The
Miami Heat are number.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Two behind.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Behind the Mavericks, followed by the Cadavers from Cleveland and
the Goldens the Warriors who are also listed, then the Knicks.
So Dallas, which I think if I'm not mistaken, gave
away the keys to the franchise. They dumped Luca Hookah
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Luca for some stale popcorn, and they are now the
betting favorite for Lebron. It's a small world, after all.
It's a small small world. So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
For the esteem panel.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Where do you stand on the mav Rex as the
betting favorite for Lebron James that Dallas is the betting
favorite for Lebron?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Where do you stand on that?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So I've got Quentin Tarantino, Happy Place and packaged deal
in this hour of Lebron, We'll put all these things
together and make a giant sized ego which cannot match.
As big as we make it cannot match the ego
of Lebron James. So, first of all, you talk about
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bizarro world, and I don't think I'm just bringing King
of hyperbole here. Lebron under this scenario, and I do
believe in the multiverse, But in this portion of the multiverse,
Lebron would rejoin Anthony Davis again, reunited and it feels
so good, and they'd play together in Big d this
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time side by side, while Hooka Luca plays Hollywood Hero
and Lebron and Anthony Davis would go from Taco Tuesday
to tex Mex Monday. So no more Taco Toos, but
tex Mex Monday they would go for now. Unfortunately, the
Mexican food is better in La than it is in Texas,
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so that's a downgrade for Lebron. But it's like watching
if you Will Quentin Tarantino and the remake of the Decision.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Where is Jim Gray?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Is there a boys and girls club in Connecticut where
Lebron can pop in and decide where he's going to
take his talents? But imagine if Kyrie gets looped in.
Kyrie is always hurt, but he's also on the Mavericks
and if he.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Lands in this.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
If you put Kyrie out there with Lebron and Anthony Davis,
this is like one big ayahuasca trip and you're going
to never Never Land.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Is what you're doing there. It's the headline.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Imagine that Lebron, Kyrie and Anthony Davis side by side,
the three headed fire breathing dragon. It's like the NBA's
version of the modern rat pack of the NBA and
the Mavericks. Now, I'm old enough to remember when they
could not convince top level players to go to Dallas.
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They couldn't get him. They offered him a stake, dinner
and a Cuban cigar. It didn't matter. And I'm not
talking about a Mark Cuban cigar. I'm talking about a
literal Cuban cigar. It wouldn't matter. And so now they're
the darlings of the Betty market to get Lebron James,
the Elder Statesman and pro bouncy ball. Now, I would
say forget the Heat because Lebron still got his panties
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in a bunch over pat Riley and didn't really like
Eric Spolstra. Last I checked, they're still with the Heat,
so I would dismiss them. I don't see the Warriors.
I'm not gonna dismiss Golden State, but I don't see that.
I'd forget about the Knickerbockers. Lebron's had multiple opportunities to
go to Gotham, and he wants nothing to do with
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New York City, nothing to do with that, running from
the grind of the Big Apple. So forget that possibility.
And so you're you're looking around and what else is
going on?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Now?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I'm just not feeling the Mavericks. I'm not and it's
I've got the microphone, I've got the headphones, the tools
of ignorance here. So I'm just not feeling it. I
like the storylines, it's just not there now.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I have my.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Spidy senses tingling and not in a away with his story,
not in a good way with the story like Lebron
with the Mavericks. It just doesn't connect. The jigsaw puzzle
piece to me doesn't fit.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Secondly, what makes the most sense as we psychoanalyze Lebron James.
So let me point that the I want to get
this right out of the way. We have long said
the gambling market is a pretty good indicator. Generally speaking,
it is a solid indicator of what's going to happen.
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The reason is they have some skin in the game,
they have financial liability.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
At the same time, there are.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Times where the gambling market will change some things up
because they know they can get some dumb money and
they love dumb money, and people react. And just by
me talking about this or seeing somewhere on the interweb
that the Mavericks are the betting favorite for Lebron, some
of that dumb money I better bet on the Mavericks.
They're the favorite and all that stuff. So well, it
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is a touchstone that we use. It's not the only
thing that we use then, and you have to use
your own intelligence when you look at these kind of things.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
And so regardless, I just have it sideways on this one.
I do. Now. Lebron he's got a no trade clause.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
He's one of two people in the NBA that have
a no trade class, Bradley Beal and Lebron who doesn't
belong anyway. So that means that he's got the Lakers
by the balls, okay, And if he wants out, it's
his call. He'll hand pick the team, and then the
Lakers will have to be the Dallas Mavericks in that trade.
They're the ones that are gonna get bent over and
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if you know what I mean, they're gonna have to
get nothing, nothing in return. And so if Lebron wants out,
it's going to be his call. He's gonna say bye
bye and then step right into the portal. Now for me,
and if I'm putting my money down, I am betting
on Cleveland, the mistake by the Lake. That's where I'm betting.
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By my The Calves are the team that makes the
most sense. If Lebron leaves the Lakers, it makes the
most sense. Right.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Good.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I'm not gonna go great roster. Some people say great roster.
I don't think it's a great roster. I'm gonna say good.
Lebron's heart from Akron, which is not Cleveland, but close enough,
the closest NBA team, Lebron's heart is still there.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Now, what is my evidence? Let me make my evidence here.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
So Lebron, he's still interacting, he said. We talked about
this in a previous episode of the show. Lebron just
sent out a congratulatory message on social media to some
Cavalier executives. It's like he's ready. He's like, Hey, congratulations.
By the way, can I get the locker next to
Evan Mobley? By the way, can I get that? Yeah,
he didn't send that on X, but he thought about it.
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He's in recent weeks been spotted working out at the
Cavaliers facility.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Hello. Yes, he has worn back in Ohio a.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Welcome hole, welcome home hat, and so he's done that.
He's essentially leaving Neon breadcrumbs like that old old game,
the old the movie Tron from back in the day. Right,
if you're into nostalgia, he's leaving Neon breadcrumbs around. And
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so the cavaliers are quietly looking there at plus five
point fifty on the updated gambling market. And if you
think Lebron does not know, does not know exactly what
he's doing here, and he's just going to drag this
thing out as long as he can, then eventually he'll
hit the button and he's got the code. He's got
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the nuclear code. You just have him been paying attention.
And so again, while the Mavericks waldb Mavericks. Maybe the
bookies picked. They may be the books pick. I would
not bet the mortgage on any of these teams. I
certain wouldn't better on Dallas. Lebron's bunker is in Cleveland.
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It's in Ohio. Not Cleveland is an acrid, but.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
That is his happy place.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
That is his happy place, and that's where the wine flows.
And he goes down memory Lane like, oh man, memories
are alive.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Man.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I love that town. And it's got statues everywhere. Probably
it's a statue there.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
All right?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Now? Final thought?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
So, how would the Lakers end up spinning a Lebron
James trade? Like, how do you end up spinning this.
What's the move if you end up trading Lebron? So
you bring in here, what you do is you bring
in Star Jones. You know Star Jones, right, she's I
think she's still on Divorce Court. Last night watched that
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show a while back. She was on there, So I'm
gonna say that that she's still on there. And you know,
thirty minute episode of Divorce Court and the Lakers come
out and say, oh, he had a great relationship. It
was really good, it was wonderful. We didn't win a championshi,
we just got that Mickey Mouse ring, but we're happy
with that. We pretend that's a real championship from that
bogus bubble the resort in Orlando. So you celebrate that,
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celebrate the good times, and you thank Lebron and you
just say, listen, you tell Star Jones in that Divorce Court,
like many relationships, he reconcilable differences. That's it. Put that
check that box. And the differences, of course, are that
Luca is now the bell of the ball and there's
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no joy on skid row where the Lakers play, right,
So it does get old dicey, it does get a
little bit dicey because the Lakers have a lot of deadweight.
It's the family business, and that's no one's talking about this.
We're the only ones bringing this up. No one else
is bringing this up. If you get rid of Lebron James,
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it has to be a package deal.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
It's got to be a package. What do I mean
by that?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Any Lebron James trade, you have to include Bronnie James.
Bronnie James and Lebron must be traded together. It's like
a complimentary item when you go to Jack in the
Box and you want to upgrade to a combo meal. Right,
So it's a combo meal. It's like going to Mickey
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D's or a Harte's or Chick fil It. You want
a combo meal. If you're the Lakers, you have to
include Bronnie Jims. Now, why do you have to include
Bronnie James. It would be malfeasance if you don't include it.
Because Bronnie James he has to exit stage right now.
He might be able to exit stage. Look, but he's
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got to be gone. If Lebron's gone, Bronnie is only there.
He's a marketing mascot. He's a great tribute to Lebron
and the powers of persuasion by Lebron James, he gets
to play dress up. It's like make a wish, you
get to be on the Lakers. You're an emotional support
player for Lebron James, your daddy, congratulations. Right without Lebron,
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Without Lebron, Bronnie James is not even sniffing a summer
league opportunity.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
The guy can't play.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
It's fascinating that there are dumb people that think he
can play. Right, he'd be sitting courtside maybe if Lebron
bought tickets, if Lebron didn't pull strings to get him
on the Lakers. And so the statuet reads okay, the
stat sheet reads with brownie. It reads like a witness
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protection profile, like barely they're hoping not to be noticed.
When you look at the stats of Bronnie James, there
the spawn of le Bron, the spawn Lebron. Now, maybe
one day, Bronnie, I'm not gonna be completely negative.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
I'll be Benny Bright's side.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
There is a possibility in the multiverse that one day
Bronnie James becomes a serviceable rotation guard. Of course that'll
be in Serbia. Or in Russia or China, but it
ain't gonna be in the NBA right right now, he
is a member of the International International Union of Bricklayers.
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It is always a brick house with Bronnie James there,
So cut the court. If you're gonna get rid of Lebron,
you gotta get rid of Bronnie James and they can
ride off into the sunset together because when Lebron's out
of the NBA, Broni's.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Gonna be out of the NBA.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Now, maybe they can do a podcast together, right to
a podcast? Who's Lebron doing a podcast with? Somebody said,
I've not listened to Lebron's podcast. Somebody said he's doing
one with Steve Nash. Does that mean Steve nashill replace
Jason Kidd as the coach of the Mavericks, Because that's.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
How you do it, right, Lebron.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Whoever's doing the podcast with Lebron, they get to coach Lebron, right,
I mean, that's how JJ Reddick got the job. He
didn't know he's doing and he's pretending to be a
Laker coach. Wild it is the Bain Maler Show. We'll
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Ben, thank you so much for for for having me
on myself myself. You know, Willis, we are looking forward.
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I'm not have a good old time?
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Negative? Ben? That actually got the treats here?
Speaker 7 (22:45):
You know what I mean? So I go out and
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Here, you know, lined up, Willis.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
He's athletic, you know, so he'll you know, he's got
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rubs in the wrong way. But he's all, it's all good.
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And well, you know we got to spread it out
to be eight about an hour or so ago. Well
we'll go for a walk, you know, maybe in another
half an hour so that the weather is Good's beautiful
thing right now in the case, you know, it's like
eighty degree or seventy five whatever, superhuman. So if it's
nice out there, we'll get it. We'll get it moving
and grooving. But Ben, he looks in Las Vegas is
already kind of put their two cents in this Lebron situation.
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So I liked what you were saying in terms of
Dallas being a favorite in Miami second and Cleveland kind
of in the mix. Now, we do know this is
all for show and Lebron's not going anywhere, right, Okay,
we know this.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Is I don't know that the you who knows Lebron
wake up tomorrow and say I want out.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
He's been, He's probably decided where he wants to go.
It's nice.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
It's not zero chance that he wants to leave. It
seems odd you would want to leave when you get
to play with Luca. Everyone says how great Luca is,
and why would you want to leave that? If you're
a Lebron, you're an old player, why would you want
to go.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Away from that?
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Yeah, but he's having he's having a mid life Ben.
I'm not gonna call it a it's a midlife event, okay,
because the fact of the matter is, for all the greatness,
all the NBA you know, all NBA stuff, and he
still has gas in the tank. But for the rest
of his career, including this year, he's Robin. His Batman
days are over bent. And that is the real crux
of the matter. That's who he's having a difficult time understanding.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Now.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
For me, listen, it's no shame in being Robin to
Luka Doncic, who is twenty six years old, right, a
decade plus younger than you and a generational play there's
no shame in that. And the fact of the matter
that this is the best opportunity, pairing with Luca adding
some pieces. I know the West is a gauntlet, but Lebron,
are you gonna Are you gonna run your media empire
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from that distant outpost in Cleveland? Is that where you're
running a metera empire from. Let's go to Dallas, you know,
not even the largest city in the lone star state. Okay,
you got some stuff going on there, but are you
gonna run your media empire from there? Never mind the
fact just fort one hundred million dollar house in Brentwood. Okay,
So the bottom line for me, Lebron, you are the guy,
a billionaire, so on and fourth, but you're really the
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real clucks. The matter is the Lakers and Jennie bust
you know, is serious and always robbed Linka. They just said,
we're running this thing through, We're looking towards the future.
It doesn't mean Lebron Bronny you want to bring in
Bryce next year. That's making money too, So everybody's making
money here. It's just that you don't call the shots,
or the perception that you call the shots is not there.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
That's why I think he's upset so.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
These other teams.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
It's you know, it's going to leave the news cycle,
and it's very exciting. But don't forget that he's under
contract for another year.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
So the way that doesn't he come on now? You know, Andre,
you've been around the block here. You know, though it
doesn't matter if Lebron wants to he wakes up, he says,
I want to play for the Charlotte Hornets because I
like Gricks. They'll find a way to get him on
the Charlotte Hornets. Those doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
He can go anywhere he wants, but any team he
wants that that that's irrelevant, doesn't matter. He's got no
trade cause.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
But if he says I don't want to play for
you anymore, they'll commodate him.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
Sure, and Gritszard delicious bend. All I'm saying is that
other team is going to have to give pieces and acts.
It's not going to be a fire shale. It's not
going to be this Milwaukee situation where oh, we'll just
wave you pay you pay you to play somewhere else
and you can quietly walk off into the sunset. Canie
Bus rops Lincoln, though, we need something back, and I
think that's where the rubber is going to meet the road,
you know. Okay, Cleveland, go to Cleveland, Hey we need
Evan Mobley, you know.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Go to Dallas.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
Youre obviously not.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
They'll say, go Pound saying you're gonna get you.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Go to Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
We'll give you some water from Lake Erie, and we'll
give you some old potatoes that we found somewhere out
in the in the sticks.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
They better be able to make the potato chips out
of those potatoes. But the Lakers are going to have
to get something back, and that would take these teams,
i e. Particularly Cleveland that's trying to build something towards
the championship. You're gonna have to reconfigure what's already working.
And that's where I think the deal is. Gonn is
going to hit the bricks Dalla the same thing. They're
building it around Cooper or Miami. They're not really competitive,
and I think they have their eyes on Ja Moran
(26:56):
and Jan Fancy Coople. So bottom line, I know you
got other callers me and Well, we're thrilled about the
Mallard palooza. But again, it's not a mid life crisis, Lebron.
It's have been life Levnce. Okay, but everybody plays the
fool sometimes. Okay, there's no shame Lebron in being rocking. Okay,
you can still make your money and have a great
time in Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
But it's come to that.
Speaker 7 (27:16):
And I know it's a shock to your system because
you're the chosen ones. Okay, but Robin had some good roles,
you know what I meaning? Once in Emmy, you can
shine in that role. Ben, thanks to much for taking
the time.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
See there you go is Andre and his dog Willis,
who have they've entered?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Andre not in it, but Willis is in the Malor
Palooza this weekend, so very exciting. Let's go now to
the man that has vote been voted the worst caller
on the Ben Maler Show.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Will he keep that title?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
We go to San Diego where the San Diego Padre
Bulpen vomited all over the mound the vomit comet, and
we sailo to Poppy in San Diego. Hello Poppy, Hey,
you know, yeah, that'd be great great, Uh you know,
shound effects right.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
There with and on the board. Wow, my skills, yeah, yeah,
my pleasure, you know, and you know I like those
skills and uh, you know you were talking about Lebron, Like,
I'm getting tired of Lebron James. He didn't go in
the first Summer League.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
I was right there in Las Vegas and he.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Was nowhere to be found when his son was right
there going against Cooper Flaggny Airball that break City, Like
he wasn't there. That shows me Lebron James is a
horrible horbo father. Like, I'm getting tired of this Lebron James.
I know the previous color said midlife crisis. Of course
you get your mid life crisis after forty and look
(28:38):
at him. Yeah, I think that's a great idea. Ben Malor,
you know, I got I got the inside school.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
You were right about that.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
You're like, I'm gonna confirm her here.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
I'm the NBA.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Google Steve Nash did do a podcast with Lebron James,
and that was that was done in the fanatics over
there in New York City, you know where people tell
trading cards and stuff like that. He did a podcast.
So yeah, I wouldn't be the price.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
He would be the next coach.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
But you know, I mean, do I care about Lebron?
Speaker 2 (29:07):
You're talking about Lebron. I know you are a Summer
League OFFICI or not?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
You are, aren't you? Is it true? Is it true?
Is it true, Poppy that you are friends with Adam Silver?
Is that true?
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Actually? Yes, I am a close friends with Adam Silverler.
And I do know that Adam Silver does listen to
the show and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Of course he does. And do you know what planet
Adam Silver is from?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Do I know? A plant? Not? Not from this world obviously?
Oh yeah, not in that movie, from that world.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
He's from that world? Is he a lizard person?
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Well, you know what, I'm not going to confirm or
deny that. You know that we have a problem.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Is it true he does not Adam Silver? Is it
true that he does not believe the Earth is flat?
But he does believe the earth is hollow because he
comes from the hollow Earth?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Is that true?
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
He believes in a lot of stuff, you know, matter,
But I do I do know what it is true?
Benny Versus a Penny third season is going to be
coming on there.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
You know what, don't don't you jinks that?
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Man?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I'll kick your ass. I will kick your ass.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
I'm gonna be happy because what do you think about
bet Ben Maller Ben Maller and the penny versus a
paesel like you know, the paesel like me against me
mentor versus are you.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Trying to get ice called?
Speaker 5 (30:21):
Let me wow.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Wowlreen, calm down over there, let's see here, let me
let me let's see here. Yeah, thank you for that, Poppy.
Let's go to Tony in the Bay Area. Hello, Tony,
what's going on?
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Tony?
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Hey man? When is it okay to poke a beer?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I don't know when.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
When the bear is Veronica wil And I'm doing the pokeing? Okay,
Denver Broncos, get your own have been colors, Denver Broncos.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Okay, your phone? I noticed I think it might be
a line too. Yeah, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (30:54):
I think line two is not doing good? Yeah, I've
noticed that the phones like it. Mister Irrigation was online too,
Toning the Bay Area was online too. I think we
have an issue with line too.
Speaker 8 (31:08):
I like your investigative skills.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
I should be an engineer, So fire off an email
to Curis. He'll ignore it and then send another one
a couple of days later, and then eventually we'll you know,
it'll be fixed.
Speaker 8 (31:20):
You know who has a really solid line that could
call and we can put them online too and chet
into that someone.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I feel like they just both had a bad phone. No,
it just sounded exactly the same. That tells me it's
the line.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
It's not the phone, it's the line.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
So if you're somebody online too, I see see line
two is ringing right now. So we'll check line too,
and we'll put that person on the air right away
because that's the new line too, and that'll be our test.
See about line too. Let's go to Filexus in Buffalo. Felexus,
you're online too? Hello, Fulllexis.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Oh man, are it sounds crystal clear? I don't know
about that. Let's see keep talking there, Flexis, keep going.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
You sound like a gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
That doesn't sound that great to me? Are you talking
about that? Sounds? It doesn't sound perfect, doesn't sound it's
not doing what the other ones are doing.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Flexis has not sounded perfect since like twenty seven. Okay,
I understand that.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
No, definitely is the same sound it was. He's not
cutting out, go ahead, Flexis. No, it's cutting out. What's
not you're talking? Just cut out? I just absolutely cut out.
Speaker 9 (32:37):
He doesn't cut out a single time, Flexus.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Are we.
Speaker 9 (32:44):
Hed you?
Speaker 5 (32:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
It was not.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
That was a That was the phone that was not Flexi.
Flexis has a lot of issues.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Stuttering is not one of them.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
I think.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Me that it's easy. He's speaking pig Latin.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Felexis is now speaking pig Latin in Buffalo. Oh my god,
Oh my god, Too is possessed by the demons, said,
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
The demons have taken over Line too.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Yes, the demons are taking over for.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Coming to get you.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Well, you are Felexus, the thing of nightmere fuel. So
all right, where is this?
Speaker 7 (33:34):
My god?
Speaker 1 (33:37):
All right, thank you. I'm going to hang up on you.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
There's Felexus proving Line Too is clearly clearly messed up.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Beyond a any and we can't be fixed. We just
have to get a new line too.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Well.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Left on the cutting room for if you watch the All.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Star game, you noticed that the announcer Joe Davis was
talking about Padre player Fernando with to Ts his career,
big start, big contract.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
He mentioned that the tease missed the season and with
a suspension.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
However, left on the cutting room floor left out of
the All Star broadcast was the part where Tatise was
suspended for let me check my notes.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Here performance and hitching drugs.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
That's right, Fernando Tatis steroid chait. Yeah, I did not
mention ringworm medication. Did not mention that at all. That's
what now, that's supposedly he said. He did not know
that the ring worm medication had steroids in it. That's
what he claimed. Also, as far as the Cirque de
Sole with cleats, instead of having the All Stars as
(34:36):
they normally line up on the foul ones, if you
watched the pregame for the All Star Game, they were
introduced as they were introduced normally, they're just they line
up along the first and third base line. Instead, they
walked to a four level red podium that stretched across
the infield dirt. They had flashing lights, smoke, a DJ,
(35:00):
and chicks dancing is what they had at the All
Star Game. Yeah, and the podium looked like it was
something that they might maybe the NFL bought it on
offer up. I think it was like Rihanna used it
in an old Super Bowl halftime show or something like that.
Like her, I think it was like the same thing.
So so there was that it was nice that they
(35:20):
wore the actual team uniforms and if you noticed there
was no advertising patches on the jerseys because that costs more.
That costs more for the All Star Games, so they
didn't have those on there. There was no helmet ads.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Anyway, it is the Ben Mathers Show. Time now for
the Insta trivia. Pittsburgh's Paul Skens became the first pitcher
to start the All Star Game in each of his
first two big league seasons. He's the first player at
any position to do it since blank. That's the Insta
Trivia The answer.
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where we go and here is the insto trivia Pittsburgh's
Paul Skens becoming the first pitcher to start in the
All Star Game in each of their first two Big
league seasons. He's the first player from any position to
do it since blank. That is the question. What is
(36:49):
the answer, Cobra Commander, I guess by Alf the alien
Opiner Bobby and Florida, says Charles Nelson Riley.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Who else do we have blind Lowell.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Palmer from Atomic Asphalt? Yes, Carl Yastreevsky from eg Yaz
looks different.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
There from who else do we have? Blind?
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Scott and Mike the Leprechawn having dinner from Milkman Mike
in Colorado. Paige down page down, Line two which is
clearly busted from Ferg Dog JT. The Wieman says line two.
Phone hacker online two Shane and Moyes says the late
Great Boston Hater is the answer. Let's see here. Page down.
(37:31):
Kelly Leak of the Bad News Bears from Viva Los
VICKI uh Paige dwn Mark and Queen says felexis bat
phone line two.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Do you have an answer there? Lorena, Oh my gosh,
so many good ones.
Speaker 8 (37:44):
I'm gonna go with Ronald Acuna Jr.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Ronald Acuna Junior. Let's know that's incorrect.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Correct answer each Chiro Suzuki back with the Seattle Mariner.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
To the third degree. This is one big event gets grilled,
all right, cool? What do we got?
Speaker 9 (38:08):
It was reported on Monday that breakout forty nine Ers
receiver Juwan Jennings wants a new contract from the forty
nine ers or to be traded. Ben, what's the most
likely outcome here?
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Yeah, so they can't pay everyone the Niners obviously, if
they've given out a lot of money, the salary cap
is uh fugezy. But they've already paid brockberdy Kittle, They've
paid Warner on defense, big money, got Brandon Ayuck recovering.
They have a second year receiver, Ricky Piersoll. So Jennings
(38:38):
is replaceable, so he's not gonna. He's not gonna. He's
a one year wonder. If he did it for more
than one year, he was good. Last year he stepped
up with guys getting hurt. He's not someone that you're
going to pay a lot of money too because he's
only done it for one year and you've got other players.
Speaker 9 (38:56):
Next, a recent survey of NFL league executives, coaches, and
scouts ranked Baker Mayfield as the tenth best quarterback in
the NFL.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
How do you feel about that ranking? It doesn't seem
legit to me. And and Baker played well in Tampa. It's
a scheme. He's a scheme guy. He's scheme dependent, and
he's he's been a roller coaster. Baker Mayfield with Cleveland,
good rookie year, a radic up and down injury, sucked
in Carolina, Okay with the Rams for like two games,
(39:23):
and then he's become okay in Tampa. I just don't
trust him, and he he still throws a lot of interceptions.
Speaker 9 (39:29):
Next, Johnny Manziel said in a recent interview that if
nil had existed back when he was playing at Texas
A and M, he would have been taking a pay
cut to play in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Yeah, Bennessee, right, Yeah, that's not hyperbole, it's not I mean,
they raised over four hundred million in booster money for
the stadium because of Johnny Manziel. He would have been
making twelve million dollars a year at Texas A and M,
which is more than he would have made as a
rookie in the end, but how did we know he pass?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
I run, I'm a winner, foregone. I won for goode