July 17, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about Bradley Beal signing with the Clippers and why he rejected the Lakers, Adam Silver breaking his silence on the NBA betting scandal saying the league is not shutting down the gambling market because of a few bad actors, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, Shaka laka. It's our numb bird two. Our number
two is ready for you. Talking basketball. Well, we talked
basketball and we discussed Bradley Beal. Does this Bradley Beal
signing move the needle for the Clippers?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
He's headed to La.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Why did Bradley Beal reject the Lakers before joining the
People's Team? And Commissioner Adam Silver half Man half Alien
broke his silence on the NBA betting scandal, saying the
league is not not shutting down the gambling market because
of a few bad actors.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
That's what he implied. So where is your.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Brain wave on this one? We'll get to all of that.
It is our first port of call here this hour.
It's our number two, traveling down Beal Street. Welcome in
the beginning of another.
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this hour is from Pro boundcy Ball. We have some
movement on the High Speed Sports Wire. NBA player on
the Move sharpshooter Bradley Beal.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
We talked about this in a previous episode of the show.
It had been a rumor. Well it is now fact.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Bradley Beal and the Phoenix basketball team agreed to a
massive buyout the two years two years remaining on his
Contractveal giving back thirteen point nine million. He will still
walk away with about ninety six million dollars give or
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take prior to taxes, so he's got a lot of
dough on his way. But he gives up thirteen point
nine million that the Phoenix basketball team owed him, and
that allows the Suns financial flexibility, which of course is
code for you.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
We think you blow and we want someone else there
on our roster.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Now he's already found a new employer. Bradley Beal has
already found a new employer.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Did you see this? Maybe not? Maybe you tuned out.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Now we are told that Bradley Beal who everybody wanted.
For some reason, everybody wanted Bradley Beal, and he has
signed a two year, eleven million dollars deal with.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
The Clippers.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Wheez going to the Clippers that includes a player option
after he clears waivers. So let us discuss the question,
does this Bradley Beal signing does it move the needle
for the Clippers. So I've got Spanish Vegas, lounge at
and Tropicana, and we will combine all of these things
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together and we are going to make a peanut butter
and jelly sandwich of PB and J is what we're
gonna make.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
So my first point here.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Number wa, I said, Number WA. Yeah, Femi loves when
we do that. So Bradley Beal is a Clipper. Does
that move the needle? Was the question, And listen, I'm
gonna I'm not gonna talk in hyperbole. It moves the
needle absolutely about an inch. It moves it about an
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inch the Clippers. Maybe you draw a little bit of
blood there, like the same thing applies, right. There is
enough talent there, there's a championship roster. Until Kawhi Leonard
Strain's a nostril, then what happens. But we are pragmatic
on this one, Like I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Love the player.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
He's got to prove that he's not just a stat
bandito and a guy that put up numbers in DC
on morbidly bad Washington teams. And he's got to prove
he can actually put up some numbers on.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
A good team. He hasn't done it yet. Had a
couple of opportunities the Suns were supposed to be good.
He didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
And I use the word pragmatic. I think that's the
proper word. Let's be clear, this is a low risk,
high reward move. If Bradley Beal is just half the
player he had been with the old Washington Bullets or Wizards. Uh,
that's fine. He's not the savior. I mean, he is
a risk. He's made out of glass and he's like
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a glass cannon, and you know he's got all kinds
of issues going into TSA right, sets off soft tissue
alarms and all that. But Bradley Beal is owed more
cash than the GDP of many small island nations out there.
It's insane, ninety plus million dollars. But that's the Sun's problem.
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That ain't my problem, it's not your problem. And for
the Clippers, he chose the Clippers, right. Bradley Beal had options.
You believe the chatter there were double digit playoff worthy
teams that all flirted played foot see with Bradley Beal,
double digit teams and he picked in the and he
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picked the people's team. And so let that marinate. I
know Rick Oh is having a tough time dealing with
and there's a lot of other people that are. I
don't understand why would anyone would pick the Clippers. But
Bradley Beal saw something and with Steve Balmers essentially running
a rehab clinic or down trodden basketball players, and sometimes
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it works. Sometimes it doesn't, but they've They've had a
whole host of players come through. Ben Simmons was on
the team at the end of last year.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Russell west Brick was there.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
And the difference here and maybe it's your delusion and
all that, but Balmer has so much money he was
able to use a laser printer and chat GPT and
quietly bring back the famous Spanish explorer Ponstelyon as the trainer.
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So if anyone can unlock Bradley Beal, it is Ponstellione,
the new lead trainer of the Clippers, and Bill he's
still trying to find that fountain of youth. He's not
that old, but his body looks old and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
And so the Clippers have this really good cryo chamber,
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
And it's just another former All star mercenary who goes
to the Clippers.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Now, page two, let's get into the nitty gritty here.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
What do you say, why did Bradley Beal reject the Lakers?
The Lakers they were all horny to get Bradley Beal
over there in Lakerland and he said no. He joined
the Clips. So why would you go to the people's
team when Lebron is out to get you. So this
is more direct evidence that the Lakers, who people at
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one time described as the jewel of basketball royalty. That's
why they wear parpole, the arrogance of the Lakers. But
they are a team right now of not a lot
of status, right, players mostly politely decline.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
It's like when you're kind of weird uncle invites you
to dinner and I don't really want to see my uncle.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I'm not going to go to dinner with my uncle. Like,
guy's a loser.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Bradley Beal had again ten twelve playoff teams that were
texting him and calling him, and then the dust settles
and he picked Kawhi Leonard and the Beard, James Harden.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
He took the clips. Now, meanwhile, Acrosstown at the Church
of Lebron, right, the Church of Lebron, the.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Pews are getting pretty empty over there in terms of
the new players added, the Lakers are now the equivalent
of that fading Vegas lounge act.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
You know, it's funny when I'm driving around on the
weekends with the wife and we drive by the Indian
casinos and we see the bands that are performing and
the comedians.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I always say, well, you're at that.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Point in your career where you're now doing you're doing
the casinos circuit at the Indian casinos. You've now reached
that point, right, It's like a Vegas residency. In this case,
it's more like a Vegas lounge.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Act where you're.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Running out of encores and all that and oxygen and
just a bad Vegas lounge act. But even the Hookah Luca,
even his fat ass, can't save the Lakers on this one.
Luka Doncik could not close the deal with Lebron all right.
Bradley Beal rejected Luca, and Lebron didn't even hesitate.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
He could have taken the exit right there at figure Row,
gotten down a skid row where the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Play waring that purple and gold, and rubbed elbows with
Lebron and Luca. Ever, he didn't do it. Why did
he do it? Well, the Lakers aren't cool, they don't matter.
They're mostly hospice for fading fading stars and all that's
like a retirement villa, nice retirement.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Villa and all that.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
The Lakers, they're kind of becoming like the Knicks haven't
won a championship since Kobe. They are all about the
marketing and that's about it.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Good marketing.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I'll give him credit on that. They talk to talk,
they don't walk to walk. And Bradley Beal, he was
at a fork in the road.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
At a fork in the road, which direction am I
going to go?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Bradley Beal saw the future and he had two la
options and he said, I want to.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Go in the hood in Inglewood.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Where the Clippers play, and I don't want to go
to skid Row, And so he chose Top, the team
that has a pulse.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Now, a lot of things have to go right.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
For the Clippers to win the championship, but for any
team to win the championship, a lot of things have
to go right. I believe in the multiverse, the Mallard multiverse,
and in the Mallard multiverse, there is a dimension where
Kawhi Leonard stays healthy and James Harden doesn't take two
games off in the playoffs, and Bradley Beal turns out
to be the player that he had been.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
In Washington and can do it on a good team.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
And all of a sudden, you got the ras Mataz right,
you got the Razzle Dazzle. Now final point. So we
turn the page now to gambling. Now, as you know,
I enjoyed, I enjoy gambling. I'm not a degenerate. I
enjoy gamb as the FEDS continue to poke and prod
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at this particular point with the prop bet shenanigans going on. Now,
this is a baseball story. It's a basketball stories. It
affects pretty much everything, everything in professional sports and in
college sports.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
But we're gonna talk about the basketball part of it.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Because Commissioner Adam Silver, the half man, half alien. What
planet does the lizard person Adam Silver come from? So
Adam Silver broke his silence about the NBA and the
betting scandal, saying that the league is not not shutting
down gambling.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
They're not getting out of the gambling.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Business because they have a few bad actors, is essentially
what he implied. So where is your brain wave on
this one, Adam Silver, who did address the issue, And
it's like, well, that's pretty much said, just a couple
bad actors. So I turned to the mall Rosetta Stone
for guidance. The Mallow Rosetta Stone never wrong, and it
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translated what Adam Silver said. It said, yes, we know
gambling is somewhat compromising the underbelly of our business, the
credibility of our sport, and for some eroding the trust
of a percentage of fans and those our customer and
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it may even be influencing many more bets.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Than we would like to admit.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
However, as they say at Tropicana, the juice, my.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Friends, is worth the squeeze. And here's why.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Because the gambling money is a pot of gold, and
the house always wins.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
The house does not lose.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Right now, you say, well, sometimes the house loses, but
in the end they always win.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
And if you're just getting money.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
From gambling and you're not the ones either taking the money,
you're putting the bets down, you always So let's be
very clear. The NBA isn't just tolerating gambling. It's now
intertwined in the business of basketball. Gambling companies sponsor the
broadcast and I don't have an issue with it, but
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it's just the way it is.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
It's not going away.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
They own ad space on the court and some of
these gymnasiums. They even have official partnerships with the league.
Now the referees. They don't have any gambling logos on
the shirts. I know Tim Dominiy probably wishes he did
have one, but you know it, just don't worry about that, right,
I'm sure the algorithm is somehow working on that. And
by the way, the implication that it's just a few
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bad actors, that is a phrase that you always use
when you're in the soup.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
You always use it.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Remember I mentioned Tim Donnie when Tim Donnie he was
involved in that.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I think it was not just a few bad actors.
I think it was a lone wolf. That was the
one they used, the lone wolf. But we hear that
phrase a.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Few bad actors in Wall Street, politics, big pharma, all
of those things. And it's never they never say it's systemic.
They never want to say it's systemic. It's never the
structure of the foundation. It's just some cosmetic things. It's
just a rogue ref over here, it's a crooked coach
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over there, or it's some player that you had some
kind of weird thing on his phone. He's got a
got a code and he started a gambling account.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
It's never ever the leagues, Faul, have you noticed that?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Have you noticed it's never leaves the sports leagues, they
love to brag about how they monitor these these gambling places,
and they do.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
There's a lot of checks and balances.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
And the main reason there's a lot of checking balances
is not because of the leagues. It's because the people
that run the gambling houses have skin in the game,
right they as I've been told, I got some friends
that have listened to the show who are in that
business in the gambling world, work at sports books and whatnot.
They've told me kind of how it works and what
they look for and what things set off alarm bells.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
And of course now everything's it's a lot easier.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Now with AI and monitoring things and Big Brother watching
and everything being done on the phones and all that.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
But as I understand it, you know, what do I know?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
But as I understand it, the main reason these guys
get caught is because of two things. Loose lips and
they can't control themselves if they stop chatting, because they
love to brag. Gamblers love to brag.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
We need more.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
If you're an introvert, you don't brag, right, you just
kind of keep to yourself.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
It's extroverts who are like.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Hey, I got this guy in the Cleveland Guardians and
he's in the tank, all right, So they love the
brag about how I got this guy he's gonna throw
a ball on a prop bet and then we're gonna
win the prop bet. Or I got this basketball player
for the Miami Heat and he's gonna miss this many
shots and all that stuff, So.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
They love the brat. That's the first problem.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
The second problem is they simply bet too much, and
because they try to get the.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Quick score, right, they want that quick score.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
If you just bet a nominal amount, it does not
raise red flax. Like there was a guy, the most
famous example recently this Jibebroni on the He was on
the Toronto Raptors, right, so he's playing for the Toronto
Raptors and he ends up getting caught. But the main
reason he got caught he talked about it. Right, The
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loose lips sank gambling ships. The other problem was people
were betting ridiculous amounts of money because he.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Was telling people and they were telling other people. They
were betting massive amounts of money.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Like it's an obvious reflect You don't need AI, you
don't need some kind of supercomputer to know if.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Nobody on the.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Toronto Raptors is getting more action than Lebron James on
a prop. Chances are there's some funny business going on.
I'm just saying, right, And so.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
That's the thing.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
These guys are always looking for the big payday. But
there is a world where you don't tell anybody and
you kind of keep it on the down low, and
you bet a nomenal amount and you win every single
time that person takes the court.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
You don't win a lot, but you win a little
and it adds up. It's study gains. But these losers,
they won't even do that.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
They have to go for the big score, and that's
how they end up getting caught, and they will continue
to get caught because of human nature and they people
can't help themselves.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
They want that big pay day. They want. We all
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Late Night Drug tester says, no surprise, the Clippers are
getting the latest free agents. They have stable ownership, a
great arena, not like the Lakers with a building in
a dangerous neighborhood and constantly changing ownership exactly. Let's see Bill,
who's your Bill says he's in the mouth. Is he
in there by the way go?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
He says he's in.
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Who's your Bill says he's in the mall oft palooza.
I don't know if he has a slot or not,
no idea. Tony says, you're absolutely right, Ben, the Clippers
are locked and loaded. Look at Tony locked and loaded.
Normally don't expect those kind of compliments from Tony. He's
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a Laker lapdog. But there is Bill Whosia. Bill also says,
been you're a little young. Do you remember the nineties
NBA ref scandal they were selling their first class tickets?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yeah, well, I like that you think I'm a little young.
That's good. I'd like to be continued to think that.
You to think that I'm a little young.
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I may in another life have been on radio talking
about that. If you remember, the umpires in baseball were also.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Part of that.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Wasn't just the NBA referees, because all those referees talk
to each other. They were making bank man, so they
had deals. As I remembered. As I understand the story,
it was years ago, the thirty years ago. But the
referees in basketball and the umpires and baseball and all that,
and I think it was football too.
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It was across the board.
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So they had in their union contracts they were given
first class tickets. So what they would do is they
would sell the first class tickets and take a coach
ticket and then and save the extra money. Natron writes
in says, hey, Ben, I guess he wants to touch
up my work. He says Kobe was not on the
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twenty twenty Laker team. Well, that's true, Kobe was not.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
On the twenty twenty Laker team.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
But that's that team didn't didn't win, that doesn't count.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
And so.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
That's that's why the last.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Legitimate championship was the Kobe team. And that's not my opinion,
that's Alex Caruso's opinion, who pointed out when the Thunder
won the championship this summer, he said, now I got
a real one, because he knew that was a Mickey
Mouse ring. And then everyone got upset, so we had
to try to correct it and walk it back.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
As the people were hurt because he said the truth.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
And let's say hello to hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Hello hollering James, Hello James, I am sleeping.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I don't hear him sleeping though. All right, we'll hang
up on him. Let's go to Tony in the Bay Area.
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
If he's not going to sleep with's no point Hello
Tony the Bay Area.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Hey man, I got two things. One is is when
you say the Bears King Kong and got s on you.
And also, because of Chris Farley, George Went and Joel Montagna,
when people run into me when I'm wearing my Bears
gear and they acknowledge it, I can only say one thing, Bears.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Thank you. Tony. What do you think Tony looks like?
You know, I've tried to play this game with other people,
and it's really hard to guess what people look like.
It is.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I think Tony's either kind of a tall, skinny guy
or a shorter, fat guy.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I don't think there's like a middle ground there with Tony.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Maybe I'll meet him that our buddy there Alameda. Lou
is trying to get us to go to the Bay
Area do a malad meet and greet in Oakland, the
mean streets of Oakland, and you know, Lorain, that's gonna
have to be a daytime Malla, meet and greet.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
We go to Oakland. Yes, you don't want to be
in Oakland at night. You can only be there during
the day. You do not want to be it? Well,
no you won't. I don't think I I think i'd
be at more at risk of that.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Let's go to James, hollering James, who called right back? Hello,
Hollering James, Hey, I'm by I'm back.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
Then you know why somehow my boom gonna cheated it?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
All right, you're wasting time, James, Well, what is that movie?
Speaker 3 (28:42):
I got it?
Speaker 6 (28:43):
I got it. I got a take for you.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Okay, hold on a sec. We'd like to alert all
the affiliates. Hollering James has a take.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
We will will who's there? We will will? No, my
cake is serious. My cake is the tim said it's
gonna be better. The Twins are gonna come back to
the second half of the season, and you watch out
for Byron Buckston. He got a nice double that squared
run any quarter.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Run, James, You lied to me?
Speaker 6 (29:15):
What did he do? No?
Speaker 2 (29:17):
You lied to me, James. You said you had a
good take. You said you had a good take. You
said you had a good take. That was not a
good take. Are we friends for life?
Speaker 7 (29:27):
Now?
Speaker 2 (29:27):
James, me and you?
Speaker 6 (29:30):
We got a bond.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Well, there's a bond, right, there's a there's a there's
a kinchen. We're like comrades, me and you. Right, there's
a In fact, there's a there's a brotherhood that we have.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
We're friends.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
We are am I am I your best friend, James,
am I your best friend.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
I adopted that relationship to be best friends. To take
the Maler Militia, and I'm ready to take it now.
Let me repeat that to you.
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You've already taken the oath.
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Oh my gosh, it's like a wedding anniversary after.
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All right? Oh man, we've not had this.
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I jus A marriage James.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
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You, Hey, Ben, I want to thank you for that.
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You you know you should thank Major League Baseball for
not having any games.
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That's what you said. Thank you.
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All right, go ahead, let's say hello Andre in the Commonwealth.
Hello Andre, welcome.
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And could be with you?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yeah, do is dog Willis Andre? And is dog? Willis
right there.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
Willis is up.
Speaker 7 (33:05):
He was resting. Uh you had a caller who was resting,
and then they got back up. But Willis was resting.
But he was just as inspired as I was by
the recitation, uh you know, of swearing.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
Allegiance to the Malan Militia.
Speaker 7 (33:24):
Willis is up. We'll see for how how fired up
he gets. We gotta we gotta get him some snacker ruse.
Uh you know, but he he's up and he's he's engaged.
Ben Bett. But that was some powerful stuff. And I
think we're going to be hearing from Willis who prepares
himself for the Palosa. You got some some headliners lined up.
So Willis is not going to disappoint. Not to say
that he is going to steal the show, but he wants.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
To hold his well hold on now.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Uh Andre, Willis does have an advantage because people love pets.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
People love pets.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
And Willis, to my knowledge, is the only only animal
act in the show. So that there was a huge
advantage that Willis has. If Willis does not get stage fright,
that's the concern.
Speaker 7 (34:07):
I'll get stage fright. Willis is the dog of the people. Okay,
he loves folks. You know he's coming from uh.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Oh, there he is.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
I just love how Willis is like. It's like Willis
went through dog puberty. Willis used to be the quietest
dog around. Now all of a sudden, every time you talk,
Willis is making noise. He's like your hype man. And
there's Willis again. Look at that unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
You know, he's all about heeling again. He loved the people.
Speaker 7 (34:32):
He loves the people again. His roots he was, you know,
a rescue dog from down in Georgia, you know, so
he's got the good hunting root malin all and h
and shepherd mixed. So when we go for our walks,
you know, he so inspiring was the reaffirmation of allegiance
to the Mala militia.
Speaker 6 (34:50):
I do believe we.
Speaker 7 (34:51):
Are going to have to be going for a walk.
I was on the fence, but we're definitely getting out
there and going to move and groove. But he's always
sniffing things, making sure things are safe in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
So yeah, I think Willis.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
I don't want to speak for Willis, but I believe
Willis is upset with me because I feel like I'm
delaying the walk, and Willis is upset with me because
Willis knows it's walk, it's go time, and you're doing
a talk radio call and the dog would like to walk.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Do you speak dog, Ben? And that seems very accurate.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Well, I do hang out with the dog most hours
of the day. My dog Moxie. I have a great
Moxie story. I'm gonna save it for the podcast those weekend.
I has a wonderful story about my dog Moxie.
Speaker 7 (35:27):
But yeah, so bet we walked during the show. You know,
I got the phone in my pocket. I'm listening. I'm
gaining inspiration and motivation and insight from the other callers.
And then sometimes, you know, while I'm on the walk,
you know, I get on the other time, I had
to put my flash light down, you know, so I
could so I could take the call. And we went
back and got the flash flight and we kept it moving.
(35:47):
So it's a beautiful thing to the specifics in terms
of what's going on in La, you know, and Daddy
warp Bucks, that's mister Steve Bomber swooping in and stealing
Bradley Beale from the Lakers if they didn't have their
own soap proper, the unnecessary soap opera going on with
Lebron and all this conjecture about him leaving. He's going nowhere. Okay,
this side shows spin that keeps him keeps some trending,
(36:09):
but it's not good for business, frankly, because he ain't leaving.
He's not leaving the warm weather. He's not leaving being
a media mogul. He's not leaving playing with a generational player.
So we can stop it. But it prevented them from
getting Bradley Beal. Now look the Clippers good leadership. We
talked about Daddy Warbucks, who spends built into a dome,
which the state of the art in terms of how
it's constructed. And then you got great people on that staff,
(36:30):
but they're all about the reclamation project spin. So that's
why I think, you know, Bradley Beal, he's kind of
on the fritz, but he goes to the Clippers. I
think they'll get him trending in the right direction. And
they're starting five is kind of dangerous. Now we never
know with Kawhi, but you got my man at Vodka. Okay,
the center at Vodka, Kawhi at the four deal at
the three. Uh, they got to the leaper Jones and
then Harden at the one. You know.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
So the start, it looks no, you wonder what it
looks like though by the time they get to the playoffs. Yeah,
at the beginning of the year, no one says healthy,
I gotta let you go. But enjoy the walk to
the walk and talk with your dog.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Willis. Next time we hear.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Willis, we'll likely be in the Mallard Palooza coming up
this weekend. Straight ahead, we are going to have this
is big.
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Big time. We're gonna have Mallard of the thirty Gore.
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That to the third degree. This is one big Ben
gets grilled.
Speaker 9 (39:35):
So it seems that Randy Moss is making the rounds
this time. In a radio interview, Moss was asked where
he'd ranked Tyreek Hill in the Pantheon of receivers. Moss said,
He's nowhere all time, but top five in today's game.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Ben, is that harsh. No, that's reality. Listen, that's the
way it is.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
I mean, it has been amazing wide receivers in NFL history,
and Tyreek kills a good player in this generation. He's
got some really solid numbers and all that, but he's
not as good as Isaac Bruce or Marvin Harrison or
I mean there's a bunch of them from the old
school days, Calvin Johnson, Chris Carter, I.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Can go on and on, Tim Brown, Larry.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Fitzgerald, and Jerry Rice the greatest of all time too,
not close.
Speaker 9 (40:16):
Next, Auburn coach You Freeze said at SEC Media Day
on Tuesday that he truly believes that Auburn will be
in the mix for the College football playoff.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Ben.
Speaker 9 (40:24):
Auburn has an eleven and fourteen record in two years
under Freeze. How long of a leash do you think
he has?
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Well, Auburn has very passionate boosters and they have a
lot of money. And if Nick Saban wants to come back,
not that he would go to Auburn, right, he would
never go to Auburn. But no, he's not long, And
I like you Freeze, I think he knows what he's doing.
But you know, they're not a contender, and I don't
buy it. You got to show me something, and they
haven't shown me anything in the last couple years.
Speaker 9 (40:51):
Next, Victor wenbin Yama said over the weekend that it
is his dream to spend his entire career with the
San Antonio Spurs.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Ben.
Speaker 9 (40:59):
Do you think wembyc like the one team your whole
career type?
Speaker 2 (41:03):
No? I don't.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
That's that's Wemby, the Parisian prodigy, speaking at the age
of twenty one. Let's see what Wemby says when he's
twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine, he'll be singing a
different song. Now, there have been guys that have stayed
in San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
I would bet against it. In the modern game, how
did we do?
Speaker 2 (41:23):
You passed? Oh? I won't another one. Put her on
the board, burg Dolf put her on the forward, Burgate
put it on
Boom, Shaka laka. It's our numb bird two. Our number
two is ready for you. Talking basketball. Well, we talked
basketball and we discussed Bradley Beal. Does this Bradley Beal
signing move the needle for the Clippers?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
He's headed to La.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Why did Bradley Beal reject the Lakers before joining the
People's Team? And Commissioner Adam Silver half Man half Alien
broke his silence on the NBA betting scandal, saying the
league is not not shutting down the gambling market because
of a few bad actors.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
That's what he implied. So where is your.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Brain wave on this one? We'll get to all of that.
It is our first port of call here this hour.
It's our number two, traveling down Beal Street. Welcome in
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this hour is from Pro boundcy Ball. We have some
movement on the High Speed Sports Wire. NBA player on
the Move sharpshooter Bradley Beal.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
We talked about this in a previous episode of the show.
It had been a rumor. Well it is now fact.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Bradley Beal and the Phoenix basketball team agreed to a
massive buyout the two years two years remaining on his
Contractveal giving back thirteen point nine million. He will still
walk away with about ninety six million dollars give or
(02:56):
take prior to taxes, so he's got a lot of
dough on his way. But he gives up thirteen point
nine million that the Phoenix basketball team owed him, and
that allows the Suns financial flexibility, which of course is
code for you.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
We think you blow and we want someone else there
on our roster.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Now he's already found a new employer. Bradley Beal has
already found a new employer.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Did you see this? Maybe not? Maybe you tuned out.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Now we are told that Bradley Beal who everybody wanted.
For some reason, everybody wanted Bradley Beal, and he has
signed a two year, eleven million dollars deal with.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
The Clippers.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Wheez going to the Clippers that includes a player option
after he clears waivers. So let us discuss the question,
does this Bradley Beal signing does it move the needle
for the Clippers. So I've got Spanish Vegas, lounge at
and Tropicana, and we will combine all of these things
(04:05):
together and we are going to make a peanut butter
and jelly sandwich of PB and J is what we're
gonna make.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
So my first point here.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Number wa, I said, Number WA. Yeah, Femi loves when
we do that. So Bradley Beal is a Clipper. Does
that move the needle? Was the question, And listen, I'm
gonna I'm not gonna talk in hyperbole. It moves the
needle absolutely about an inch. It moves it about an
(04:38):
inch the Clippers. Maybe you draw a little bit of
blood there, like the same thing applies, right. There is
enough talent there, there's a championship roster. Until Kawhi Leonard
Strain's a nostril, then what happens. But we are pragmatic
on this one, Like I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Love the player.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
He's got to prove that he's not just a stat
bandito and a guy that put up numbers in DC
on morbidly bad Washington teams. And he's got to prove
he can actually put up some numbers on.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
A good team. He hasn't done it yet. Had a
couple of opportunities the Suns were supposed to be good.
He didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
And I use the word pragmatic. I think that's the
proper word. Let's be clear, this is a low risk,
high reward move. If Bradley Beal is just half the
player he had been with the old Washington Bullets or Wizards. Uh,
that's fine. He's not the savior. I mean, he is
a risk. He's made out of glass and he's like
(05:40):
a glass cannon, and you know he's got all kinds
of issues going into TSA right, sets off soft tissue
alarms and all that. But Bradley Beal is owed more
cash than the GDP of many small island nations out there.
It's insane, ninety plus million dollars. But that's the Sun's problem.
(06:02):
That ain't my problem, it's not your problem. And for
the Clippers, he chose the Clippers, right. Bradley Beal had options.
You believe the chatter there were double digit playoff worthy
teams that all flirted played foot see with Bradley Beal,
double digit teams and he picked in the and he
(06:26):
picked the people's team. And so let that marinate. I
know Rick Oh is having a tough time dealing with
and there's a lot of other people that are. I
don't understand why would anyone would pick the Clippers. But
Bradley Beal saw something and with Steve Balmers essentially running
a rehab clinic or down trodden basketball players, and sometimes
(06:46):
it works. Sometimes it doesn't, but they've They've had a
whole host of players come through. Ben Simmons was on
the team at the end of last year.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Russell west Brick was there.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
And the difference here and maybe it's your delusion and
all that, but Balmer has so much money he was
able to use a laser printer and chat GPT and
quietly bring back the famous Spanish explorer Ponstelyon as the trainer.
(07:18):
So if anyone can unlock Bradley Beal, it is Ponstellione,
the new lead trainer of the Clippers, and Bill he's
still trying to find that fountain of youth. He's not
that old, but his body looks old and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
And so the Clippers have this really good cryo chamber,
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
And it's just another former All star mercenary who goes
to the Clippers.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Now, page two, let's get into the nitty gritty here.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
What do you say, why did Bradley Beal reject the Lakers?
The Lakers they were all horny to get Bradley Beal
over there in Lakerland and he said no. He joined
the Clips. So why would you go to the people's
team when Lebron is out to get you. So this
is more direct evidence that the Lakers, who people at
(08:07):
one time described as the jewel of basketball royalty. That's
why they wear parpole, the arrogance of the Lakers. But
they are a team right now of not a lot
of status, right, players mostly politely decline.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
It's like when you're kind of weird uncle invites you
to dinner and I don't really want to see my uncle.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I'm not going to go to dinner with my uncle. Like,
guy's a loser.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Bradley Beal had again ten twelve playoff teams that were
texting him and calling him, and then the dust settles
and he picked Kawhi Leonard and the Beard, James Harden.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
He took the clips. Now, meanwhile, Acrosstown at the Church
of Lebron, right, the Church of Lebron, the.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Pews are getting pretty empty over there in terms of
the new players added, the Lakers are now the equivalent
of that fading Vegas lounge act.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
You know, it's funny when I'm driving around on the
weekends with the wife and we drive by the Indian
casinos and we see the bands that are performing and
the comedians.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I always say, well, you're at that.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Point in your career where you're now doing you're doing
the casinos circuit at the Indian casinos. You've now reached
that point, right, It's like a Vegas residency. In this case,
it's more like a Vegas lounge.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Act where you're.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Running out of encores and all that and oxygen and
just a bad Vegas lounge act. But even the Hookah Luca,
even his fat ass, can't save the Lakers on this one.
Luka Doncik could not close the deal with Lebron all right.
Bradley Beal rejected Luca, and Lebron didn't even hesitate.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
He could have taken the exit right there at figure Row,
gotten down a skid row where the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Play waring that purple and gold, and rubbed elbows with
Lebron and Luca. Ever, he didn't do it. Why did
he do it? Well, the Lakers aren't cool, they don't matter.
They're mostly hospice for fading fading stars and all that's
like a retirement villa, nice retirement.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Villa and all that.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
The Lakers, they're kind of becoming like the Knicks haven't
won a championship since Kobe. They are all about the
marketing and that's about it.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Good marketing.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I'll give him credit on that. They talk to talk,
they don't walk to walk. And Bradley Beal, he was
at a fork in the road.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
At a fork in the road, which direction am I
going to go?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Bradley Beal saw the future and he had two la
options and he said, I want to.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Go in the hood in Inglewood.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Where the Clippers play, and I don't want to go
to skid Row, And so he chose Top, the team
that has a pulse.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Now, a lot of things have to go right.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
For the Clippers to win the championship, but for any
team to win the championship, a lot of things have
to go right. I believe in the multiverse, the Mallard multiverse,
and in the Mallard multiverse, there is a dimension where
Kawhi Leonard stays healthy and James Harden doesn't take two
games off in the playoffs, and Bradley Beal turns out
to be the player that he had been.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
In Washington and can do it on a good team.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
And all of a sudden, you got the ras Mataz right,
you got the Razzle Dazzle. Now final point. So we
turn the page now to gambling. Now, as you know,
I enjoyed, I enjoy gambling. I'm not a degenerate. I
enjoy gamb as the FEDS continue to poke and prod
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at this particular point with the prop bet shenanigans going on. Now,
this is a baseball story. It's a basketball stories. It
affects pretty much everything, everything in professional sports and in
college sports.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
But we're gonna talk about the basketball part of it.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Because Commissioner Adam Silver, the half man, half alien. What
planet does the lizard person Adam Silver come from? So
Adam Silver broke his silence about the NBA and the
betting scandal, saying that the league is not not shutting
down gambling.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
They're not getting out of the gambling.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Business because they have a few bad actors, is essentially
what he implied. So where is your brain wave on
this one, Adam Silver, who did address the issue, And
it's like, well, that's pretty much said, just a couple
bad actors. So I turned to the mall Rosetta Stone
for guidance. The Mallow Rosetta Stone never wrong, and it
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translated what Adam Silver said. It said, yes, we know
gambling is somewhat compromising the underbelly of our business, the
credibility of our sport, and for some eroding the trust
of a percentage of fans and those our customer and
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it may even be influencing many more bets.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Than we would like to admit.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
However, as they say at Tropicana, the juice, my.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Friends, is worth the squeeze. And here's why.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Because the gambling money is a pot of gold, and
the house always wins.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
The house does not lose.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Right now, you say, well, sometimes the house loses, but
in the end they always win.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
And if you're just getting money.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
From gambling and you're not the ones either taking the money,
you're putting the bets down, you always So let's be
very clear. The NBA isn't just tolerating gambling. It's now
intertwined in the business of basketball. Gambling companies sponsor the
broadcast and I don't have an issue with it, but
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it's just the way it is.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
It's not going away.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
They own ad space on the court and some of
these gymnasiums. They even have official partnerships with the league.
Now the referees. They don't have any gambling logos on
the shirts. I know Tim Dominiy probably wishes he did
have one, but you know it, just don't worry about that, right,
I'm sure the algorithm is somehow working on that. And
by the way, the implication that it's just a few
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bad actors, that is a phrase that you always use
when you're in the soup.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
You always use it.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Remember I mentioned Tim Donnie when Tim Donnie he was
involved in that.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I think it was not just a few bad actors.
I think it was a lone wolf. That was the
one they used, the lone wolf. But we hear that
phrase a.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Few bad actors in Wall Street, politics, big pharma, all
of those things. And it's never they never say it's systemic.
They never want to say it's systemic. It's never the
structure of the foundation. It's just some cosmetic things. It's
just a rogue ref over here, it's a crooked coach
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over there, or it's some player that you had some
kind of weird thing on his phone. He's got a
got a code and he started a gambling account.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
It's never ever the leagues, Faul, have you noticed that?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Have you noticed it's never leaves the sports leagues, they
love to brag about how they monitor these these gambling places,
and they do.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
There's a lot of checks and balances.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
And the main reason there's a lot of checking balances
is not because of the leagues. It's because the people
that run the gambling houses have skin in the game,
right they as I've been told, I got some friends
that have listened to the show who are in that
business in the gambling world, work at sports books and whatnot.
They've told me kind of how it works and what
they look for and what things set off alarm bells.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
And of course now everything's it's a lot easier.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Now with AI and monitoring things and Big Brother watching
and everything being done on the phones and all that.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
But as I understand it, you know, what do I know?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
But as I understand it, the main reason these guys
get caught is because of two things. Loose lips and
they can't control themselves if they stop chatting, because they
love to brag. Gamblers love to brag.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
We need more.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
If you're an introvert, you don't brag, right, you just
kind of keep to yourself.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
It's extroverts who are like.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Hey, I got this guy in the Cleveland Guardians and
he's in the tank, all right, So they love the
brag about how I got this guy he's gonna throw
a ball on a prop bet and then we're gonna
win the prop bet. Or I got this basketball player
for the Miami Heat and he's gonna miss this many
shots and all that stuff, So.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
They love the brat. That's the first problem.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
The second problem is they simply bet too much, and
because they try to get the.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Quick score, right, they want that quick score.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
If you just bet a nominal amount, it does not
raise red flax. Like there was a guy, the most
famous example recently this Jibebroni on the He was on
the Toronto Raptors, right, so he's playing for the Toronto
Raptors and he ends up getting caught. But the main
reason he got caught he talked about it. Right, The
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loose lips sank gambling ships. The other problem was people
were betting ridiculous amounts of money because he.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Was telling people and they were telling other people. They
were betting massive amounts of money.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Like it's an obvious reflect You don't need AI, you
don't need some kind of supercomputer to know if.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Nobody on the.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Toronto Raptors is getting more action than Lebron James on
a prop. Chances are there's some funny business going on.
I'm just saying, right, And so.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
That's the thing.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
These guys are always looking for the big payday. But
there is a world where you don't tell anybody and
you kind of keep it on the down low, and
you bet a nomenal amount and you win every single
time that person takes the court.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
You don't win a lot, but you win a little
and it adds up. It's study gains. But these losers,
they won't even do that.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
They have to go for the big score, and that's
how they end up getting caught, and they will continue
to get caught because of human nature and they people
can't help themselves.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
They want that big pay day. They want. We all
try to find a short cut in anything. It is
the Ben Mahler Show.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
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Is which is pretty good. It's some big time acts,
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We mentioned her. She's in there.
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He seems like.
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All the great Rachel a Mote does the uptakes, not anymore.
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It is Rascal with the band and his eye Bill Miller.
That's an example. The rascu is a minute soda, don't
He also quit the show.
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I don't know what happened to him. He was listening
for a couple of years.
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And like most people that work the overnight, they go
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I don't know if that's the case, but Ras some
great names alf in there to get some one at Skittish.
I understand car Oh he's there. Jo might be British
show kind of man. Don't don't oh wait, I forgot
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the oh he didn't call it anymore. Ossie momentum about
Ozzie wa. This one is best.
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All right, that's it the Ras quit the band. It
is the Ben Mallord Show. But listen, we have the
Mallet Palooza. Now, that's a really good song. That's an
original song that wasn't done.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
By a I.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
That was just Ras, a super f of the show
and very talented musician, and he wanted to send that in.
So you can send a song in like that. You
can perform live, you can record it pre recorded. Mallard
Palouz is coming up wild this weirdest, wackiest night in
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number of slots available. There's gonna be very short Mallard monologues.
All the other bits are gone that night. It's all performances.
We'll judge the performances. We're going to have our friend
Inka Terror back as our celebrity judge.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
He'll be back in the not in studio, but he'll
be on the phones.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
He'll stay up all night with us. He's a classically
traded musician. He's performed in Russia and venues.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
All over the world, all over the world.
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And he'll be be guiding us as a professional of entertainment.
And so we're very excited about that bad singing, weird
comedy and personations, all that, the bizarre and the beautiful.
It's this Sunday night in the Monday morning, one night,
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Speaker 2 (23:00):
Do more than one night we'll lose our jobs.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
The Mallard Palooza it's right here on the Ben Mahlor shown.
Good luck to all that entered. Our buddy mister Irrigation
has said, hey, I'm gonna take care of you. I
got some I got some bling blink. So we'll see
how that turns out. But that's not gonna be ready
right away. All right back to it we go. And uh,
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let's see page Nan, you'll skip over over that one
Jay Scoop says, the best part of talent shows is
the variety.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
We've got plenty of singers and musicians. Let's go. I'm
calling out all of.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
You impersonators, belchers, pig snorters, you who take the show
to the next level. Head you are the people that
take the show to the next level. I want to
hear Willis bark out the alphabet. Yeah, No, I agree
with Jay Scoop.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
I love Jay Scoop. He's been a loyal minion for
this show many many years. He's the guy that put
together the Mallard meet and greet we did in Seattle
and wait, right before COVID in twenty nineteen, we had
a big get together there in Seattle, which was awesome,
and he put that together.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
And he's been a big supporter. But he's right.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I mean, the things that stand out are the Boston Belcher,
the Boston Belcher, the guy from Iowa who would would
talk as a pig, you know, and sing.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
That was great.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Late Night Drug tester says, no surprise, the Clippers are
getting the latest free agents. They have stable ownership, a
great arena, not like the Lakers with a building in
a dangerous neighborhood and constantly changing ownership exactly. Let's see Bill,
who's your Bill says he's in the mouth. Is he
in there by the way go?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
He says he's in.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Who's your Bill says he's in the mall oft palooza.
I don't know if he has a slot or not,
no idea. Tony says, you're absolutely right, Ben, the Clippers
are locked and loaded. Look at Tony locked and loaded.
Normally don't expect those kind of compliments from Tony. He's
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a Laker lapdog. But there is Bill Whosia. Bill also says,
been you're a little young. Do you remember the nineties
NBA ref scandal they were selling their first class tickets?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yeah, well, I like that you think I'm a little young.
That's good. I'd like to be continued to think that.
You to think that I'm a little young.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I may in another life have been on radio talking
about that. If you remember, the umpires in baseball were also.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Part of that.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Wasn't just the NBA referees, because all those referees talk
to each other. They were making bank man, so they
had deals. As I remembered. As I understand the story,
it was years ago, the thirty years ago. But the
referees in basketball and the umpires and baseball and all that,
and I think it was football too.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
It was across the board.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
So they had in their union contracts they were given
first class tickets. So what they would do is they
would sell the first class tickets and take a coach
ticket and then and save the extra money. Natron writes
in says, hey, Ben, I guess he wants to touch
up my work. He says Kobe was not on the
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twenty twenty Laker team. Well, that's true, Kobe was not.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
On the twenty twenty Laker team.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
But that's that team didn't didn't win, that doesn't count.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
And so.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
That's that's why the last.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Legitimate championship was the Kobe team. And that's not my opinion,
that's Alex Caruso's opinion, who pointed out when the Thunder
won the championship this summer, he said, now I got
a real one, because he knew that was a Mickey
Mouse ring. And then everyone got upset, so we had
to try to correct it and walk it back.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
As the people were hurt because he said the truth.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
And let's say hello to hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Hello hollering James, Hello James, I am sleeping.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I don't hear him sleeping though. All right, we'll hang
up on him. Let's go to Tony in the Bay Area.
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
If he's not going to sleep with's no point Hello
Tony the Bay Area.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Hey man, I got two things. One is is when
you say the Bears King Kong and got s on you.
And also, because of Chris Farley, George Went and Joel Montagna,
when people run into me when I'm wearing my Bears
gear and they acknowledge it, I can only say one thing, Bears.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Thank you. Tony. What do you think Tony looks like?
You know, I've tried to play this game with other people,
and it's really hard to guess what people look like.
It is.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I think Tony's either kind of a tall, skinny guy
or a shorter, fat guy.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I don't think there's like a middle ground there with Tony.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Maybe I'll meet him that our buddy there Alameda. Lou
is trying to get us to go to the Bay
Area do a malad meet and greet in Oakland, the
mean streets of Oakland, and you know, Lorain, that's gonna
have to be a daytime Malla, meet and greet.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
We go to Oakland. Yes, you don't want to be
in Oakland at night. You can only be there during
the day. You do not want to be it? Well,
no you won't. I don't think I I think i'd
be at more at risk of that.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Let's go to James, hollering James, who called right back? Hello,
Hollering James, Hey, I'm by I'm back.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
Then you know why somehow my boom gonna cheated it?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
All right, you're wasting time, James, Well, what is that movie?
Speaker 3 (28:42):
I got it?
Speaker 6 (28:43):
I got it. I got a take for you.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Okay, hold on a sec. We'd like to alert all
the affiliates. Hollering James has a take.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
We will will who's there? We will will? No, my
cake is serious. My cake is the tim said it's
gonna be better. The Twins are gonna come back to
the second half of the season, and you watch out
for Byron Buckston. He got a nice double that squared
run any quarter.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Run, James, You lied to me?
Speaker 6 (29:15):
What did he do? No?
Speaker 2 (29:17):
You lied to me, James. You said you had a
good take. You said you had a good take. You
said you had a good take. That was not a
good take. Are we friends for life?
Speaker 7 (29:27):
Now?
Speaker 2 (29:27):
James, me and you?
Speaker 6 (29:30):
We got a bond.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Well, there's a bond, right, there's a there's a there's
a kinchen. We're like comrades, me and you. Right, there's
a In fact, there's a there's a brotherhood that we have.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
We're friends.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
We are am I am I your best friend, James,
am I your best friend.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
I adopted that relationship to be best friends. To take
the Maler Militia, and I'm ready to take it now.
Let me repeat that to you.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
You've already taken the oath.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
I want to take deals again. I want to re
establish my my, my, my militia.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Oh my gosh, it's like a wedding anniversary after.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Okay, here I so you want to affirm okay, so
we can do that romantic this is great?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
All right? Oh man, we've not had this.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
I mean normally people only do it one time, the oath,
and but you haven't done it in many years. So
you would like to affirm your allegiance to the Malord militia.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
I would what you say to the Malard Militia and
I want.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
To okay, all right, all right, shut up, shut up,
We'll do it right now.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Repeat after me. Are you ready, hollering James? I am ready,
set and go Okay. I state your name.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
I jus A marriage James.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Yes, right, hollering, James, do solemnly affirm.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
Solemnly refirm.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I said affirm, not refirm, affirm.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
I could affirm refirm.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Let's start over. I state your name.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
I Jayson, marriage color, and.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
James do solemnly affirm.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Do solemnly affirm.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
That I will support and defend the Ben Malor Show.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
That I will support and defend the Ben Butler's Show
against all enemies.
Speaker 6 (31:29):
Amongst all enemies, foreign and.
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Domestic porn and domestics, And that I will obey the orders,
and I remain in order one more time on that one,
and then I will obey the orders, and I will
the orders.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
All right to peacefully fight back.
Speaker 8 (31:55):
To peacefully fight back against hostile attacks of your hostile
attacks from rival sports, gas bags and blowhards from.
Speaker 6 (32:07):
Lola's, plus steaks and blowhearts.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
What do you say, Loreena h about cheap steaks and blowhearts? Okay,
so help, so help me, God, So help me God, by.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
The powers vested in me by the state of the
Ben Maler show, I now pronounce you a sworn member
of the Malord Militia. Congratulations, yet again you reaffirmed.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
Or affirmed reaffirmed, Lorena.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
The best way you could jam. Yes, okay, thank.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
You, Hey, Ben, I want to thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
You you know you should thank Major League Baseball for
not having any games.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
That's what you said. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
All right, go ahead, let's say hello Andre in the Commonwealth.
Hello Andre, welcome.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
And could be with you?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yeah, do is dog Willis Andre? And is dog? Willis
right there.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
Willis is up.
Speaker 7 (33:05):
He was resting. Uh you had a caller who was resting,
and then they got back up. But Willis was resting.
But he was just as inspired as I was by
the recitation, uh you know, of swearing.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
Allegiance to the Malan Militia.
Speaker 7 (33:24):
Willis is up. We'll see for how how fired up
he gets. We gotta we gotta get him some snacker ruse.
Uh you know, but he he's up and he's he's engaged.
Ben Bett. But that was some powerful stuff. And I
think we're going to be hearing from Willis who prepares
himself for the Palosa. You got some some headliners lined up.
So Willis is not going to disappoint. Not to say
that he is going to steal the show, but he wants.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
To hold his well hold on now.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Uh Andre, Willis does have an advantage because people love pets.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
People love pets.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
And Willis, to my knowledge, is the only only animal
act in the show. So that there was a huge
advantage that Willis has. If Willis does not get stage fright,
that's the concern.
Speaker 7 (34:07):
I'll get stage fright. Willis is the dog of the people. Okay,
he loves folks. You know he's coming from uh.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Oh, there he is.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
I just love how Willis is like. It's like Willis
went through dog puberty. Willis used to be the quietest
dog around. Now all of a sudden, every time you talk,
Willis is making noise. He's like your hype man. And
there's Willis again. Look at that unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
You know, he's all about heeling again. He loved the people.
Speaker 7 (34:32):
He loves the people again. His roots he was, you know,
a rescue dog from down in Georgia, you know, so
he's got the good hunting root malin all and h
and shepherd mixed. So when we go for our walks,
you know, he so inspiring was the reaffirmation of allegiance
to the Mala militia.
Speaker 6 (34:50):
I do believe we.
Speaker 7 (34:51):
Are going to have to be going for a walk.
I was on the fence, but we're definitely getting out
there and going to move and groove. But he's always
sniffing things, making sure things are safe in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
So yeah, I think Willis.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
I don't want to speak for Willis, but I believe
Willis is upset with me because I feel like I'm
delaying the walk, and Willis is upset with me because
Willis knows it's walk, it's go time, and you're doing
a talk radio call and the dog would like to walk.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Do you speak dog, Ben? And that seems very accurate.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Well, I do hang out with the dog most hours
of the day. My dog Moxie. I have a great
Moxie story. I'm gonna save it for the podcast those weekend.
I has a wonderful story about my dog Moxie.
Speaker 7 (35:27):
But yeah, so bet we walked during the show. You know,
I got the phone in my pocket. I'm listening. I'm
gaining inspiration and motivation and insight from the other callers.
And then sometimes, you know, while I'm on the walk,
you know, I get on the other time, I had
to put my flash light down, you know, so I
could so I could take the call. And we went
back and got the flash flight and we kept it moving.
(35:47):
So it's a beautiful thing to the specifics in terms
of what's going on in La, you know, and Daddy
warp Bucks, that's mister Steve Bomber swooping in and stealing
Bradley Beale from the Lakers if they didn't have their
own soap proper, the unnecessary soap opera going on with
Lebron and all this conjecture about him leaving. He's going nowhere. Okay,
this side shows spin that keeps him keeps some trending,
(36:09):
but it's not good for business, frankly, because he ain't leaving.
He's not leaving the warm weather. He's not leaving being
a media mogul. He's not leaving playing with a generational player.
So we can stop it. But it prevented them from
getting Bradley Beal. Now look the Clippers good leadership. We
talked about Daddy Warbucks, who spends built into a dome,
which the state of the art in terms of how
it's constructed. And then you got great people on that staff,
(36:30):
but they're all about the reclamation project spin. So that's
why I think, you know, Bradley Beal, he's kind of
on the fritz, but he goes to the Clippers. I
think they'll get him trending in the right direction. And
they're starting five is kind of dangerous. Now we never
know with Kawhi, but you got my man at Vodka. Okay,
the center at Vodka, Kawhi at the four deal at
the three. Uh, they got to the leaper Jones and
then Harden at the one. You know.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
So the start, it looks no, you wonder what it
looks like though by the time they get to the playoffs. Yeah,
at the beginning of the year, no one says healthy,
I gotta let you go. But enjoy the walk to
the walk and talk with your dog.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Willis. Next time we hear.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Willis, we'll likely be in the Mallard Palooza coming up
this weekend. Straight ahead, we are going to have this
is big.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Big time. We're gonna have Mallard of the thirty Gore.
Here's the insta Trivia.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Despite a decorated career in the big leagues, Blank ranks
just one hundred and fifty fifth in baseball in sweet
spot percentage. According to the Nerds, Blank ranks just one
hundred and fifty fifth in baseball in sweet spot percentage.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
That is the Insta Trivia The answer next.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
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Speaker 2 (38:04):
Again, just search Ben Maller wherever you get your podcast.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
You'll find the latest episode and a best of version
posted right after we get off the air. Back to
it Ton now quickly for the Insta trivia, and here
it is. Despite a decorated career, Blank ranks just one
hundred and fifty fifth in Major League Baseball this season
(38:32):
in sweet spot percentage. That is, the question what is
the answer alf the Alien opinter going with Wally the
Green Monster Charlie in Dallas guessed by just Josh Yeah,
what happened to Charlie in Dallas? Brett Goldstein is forty
five today from Late Night drug tester Stanley Shakespeare from
(38:52):
Stevie Meatballs, Padres manager Mike Schilt from Malard prop Guy
Charlie Brown, guests by King Roy Mickey Hatcher in his
oversized Glove. They had that at the All Star Game.
That's from Donkey Sausage, Sweet Lou Whittaker from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Who else do we have? Lee Lacy from Manuel and Guardiana?
What say you, Laredo?
Speaker 3 (39:11):
George Foreman?
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
No correct answer is cheating Astro Jose Alboom, Jose albo Bright.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Let's go here, we go, here, we go here.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
That to the third degree. This is one big Ben
gets grilled.
Speaker 9 (39:35):
So it seems that Randy Moss is making the rounds
this time. In a radio interview, Moss was asked where
he'd ranked Tyreek Hill in the Pantheon of receivers. Moss said,
He's nowhere all time, but top five in today's game.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Ben, is that harsh. No, that's reality. Listen, that's the
way it is.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
I mean, it has been amazing wide receivers in NFL history,
and Tyreek kills a good player in this generation. He's
got some really solid numbers and all that, but he's
not as good as Isaac Bruce or Marvin Harrison or
I mean there's a bunch of them from the old
school days, Calvin Johnson, Chris Carter, I.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Can go on and on, Tim Brown, Larry.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Fitzgerald, and Jerry Rice the greatest of all time too,
not close.
Speaker 9 (40:16):
Next, Auburn coach You Freeze said at SEC Media Day
on Tuesday that he truly believes that Auburn will be
in the mix for the College football playoff.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Ben.
Speaker 9 (40:24):
Auburn has an eleven and fourteen record in two years
under Freeze. How long of a leash do you think
he has?
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Well, Auburn has very passionate boosters and they have a
lot of money. And if Nick Saban wants to come back,
not that he would go to Auburn, right, he would
never go to Auburn. But no, he's not long, And
I like you Freeze, I think he knows what he's doing.
But you know, they're not a contender, and I don't
buy it. You got to show me something, and they
haven't shown me anything in the last couple years.
Speaker 9 (40:51):
Next, Victor wenbin Yama said over the weekend that it
is his dream to spend his entire career with the
San Antonio Spurs.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Ben.
Speaker 9 (40:59):
Do you think wembyc like the one team your whole
career type?
Speaker 2 (41:03):
No? I don't.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
That's that's Wemby, the Parisian prodigy, speaking at the age
of twenty one. Let's see what Wemby says when he's
twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine, he'll be singing a
different song. Now, there have been guys that have stayed
in San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
I would bet against it. In the modern game, how
did we do?
Speaker 2 (41:23):
You passed? Oh? I won't another one. Put her on
the board, burg Dolf put her on the forward, Burgate
put it on
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