Hour 1 - The Running of the Bulls

Ben Maller talks about how bleak things are looking for Billy Donovan after getting eliminated from the Play-In, if Tyler Herro's performance for the Heat was a "stepping stone" for his career, what the future holds for Domantas Sabonis and the Kings after getting blown out by the Mavs, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He we go. Welcome, it's our numb burwe our one
of the original Recipe podcast, and a happy Thursday to you.
We have made it to the seventeenth day of the
month of April, and here in our number one, it's
all about those playing games. How bleak are things looking for?

(00:21):
Billy Donovan Chicago Bulls. They were eliminated and it wasn't
even closed. They did not even have a lead against
Miami in their game last night and truer false Tyler Heroes,
big night for the Heat, a stepping stone in his career.
And what does the future hold for Demontes Sabonis and

(00:44):
the Kings as they were blown out by the Mavericks
in their game. We'll talk about all that and more
right now here. It is our number one. It was
the running of the Bulls. Well, they didn't run. It
was more like a slow walk type situation. Welcome in

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and our lead this hour. Our lead this hour is

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from night two of the playing tournament. Now, why are
we talking about this Because it's on the schedule, that's why.
And we have a talk show to do right now,
not an hour from now, not two hours right now.
Well actually we'll be doing it two hours from now also.
But double barrel Action. Now, I'm not going to tell

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you this was compelling. I'm not going to tell you
this was muss C TV. What but we watched So
you had the Heat that's a basketball team from South
Florida visiting the Bulls. That is a team that plays
in Chicago. That was the Eastern matchup. And then the
mav Rex. What a hot mess that team was taking
on the Kings in the Western matchup. So I don't

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know even watch any this. You might have missed all
of it, and consider yourself lucky. Perhaps you missed everything,
but we we took the hit. It's our good mits
for the day, and we're gonna start out in the
Windy City as we navigate through the highways and byways
of the playing tournament. So Tyler Hero went bonkers thirty

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eight points, thirty eight points, and he was here, there
and everywhere, especially at the start of the game. The
Miami Heat boat race, they did the old Harvard boat
race over the I don't know if we should call
them the Bulls. How about the Baby Bulls? My god?
One in a game that was not that close on

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a Wednesday night in the playing tournament, the game featured
zero lead changes. There were no lead changes. Miami led
by as many as twenty five points. They never trailed
that's the Harvard boat race. You jump out in front
and you never trail, and the heat knocked out the
If you feel like you've seen this before in the
playing tournament, third year in a row, it's a deja

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vu situation. And they will play at Atlanta on Friday night,
and I am not. I am not on the watchtower
Friday night, so you let me know how that game goes.
I ain't watching. I ain't watching. You can watch. I'm not.
But the winner of that game will have a chance
to meet the top seeded Cleveland basketball team to seemingly

(04:27):
be annihilated. Though who knows Cleveland? Are they real? Are
they phony? Only time will tell. But that's the first
round matchup, so either Atlanta or Miami will be going
to Cleveland. And that one. The better story, though, is
in the losing locker room, so let us discuss. We'll
start with that. We'll work our way through the question though,
how bleak are things looking for Billy Donovan and his

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Chicago Bulls. That's the coach, Billy Donovan. So I've got
my thoughts on this. I have Paul Simon, Twilight and
Marshmallows and we'll ring the bell we'll we'll put all
these things together and we're gonna make deep dish Chicago pizza,
which is one of the great treats you can have.
It's one of the reasons to stay alive, just to
eat more Deep dish Chicago pizza. So a, the Bulls

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franchise is currently locked in a never ending asteroid feel. Okay,
they they they can't get out of their own shadow.
The Eastern Conference is as if Hillary Clinton was commenting,
she'd say, a basket of deplorables, and the Bulls are
like the star of the deplorables. Right that the Bulls

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aren't even good enough to punch their ticket to go
to the basketball version of the prom, which is the playoffs.
It's a masculate and it's time to redo the old
Paul Simon song and update missus Robinson. Where have you gone,
Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen. A Bulls nation turns its

(05:55):
lonely eyes to you. These are not your daddy chicag
These are more like your granddaddy's Chicago Bulls because other
than the Jordan years, the Bulls blew and man, they
are a bunch of castaways. The Chicago bulls here stuck
on a dinghy with a broken down motor. At this
particular point, they're just a bunch of dinghies and they're

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not bad enough. You don't want to be in the middle,
and they're in the middle, right. You're not bad enough
to really have a legitimate chance of getting the number
one overall number one, and they're not good enough to
really do anything. They can't even make the playoffs. And
so here's where the bulls find themselves. Good luck. Now

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we turned the page to the winning locker room. We're
gonna do a little true or false. You want to
play true or false, Let's play true or false. So
the statement is Tyler Heroes big night, thirty eight points.
This was a stepping stone, a stepping stone game in
his Miami Heat career. Is that true or false? So

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after a minutes long, Matthew, we're voting false. Okay, that
is a false statement. Now keep in mind Tyler Hero
If you saw the game, you probably didn't. I think
I was the only one watching. Tyler Hero was electric.
I think he hit something like his first eight shots.
I didn't write it down, but he finished up thirteen
of nineteen from the floor and was the player that

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pat Riley thought he was going to become when they
got rid of Jimmy Butler. But it was only slight progress.
I'm only gonna move it a little bit. It does
not count as a stepping stone. That's too dramatic. And
here's why it is impossible. In the court of malor.
It is impossible to have such a thing as a
springboard game in a play in game. The playing we

(07:46):
in here talking about the play in not a real
playoff game. No, the play in playing. Yeah, that's what
we're talking about. It is an empty wasteland. They are
played in the twilight or go light zone. Imagine if
you will, a world where the stats vanish into thin air.
They're neither regular season stats nor postseason stats. It is

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an alternative reality that only last a couple of games
in between the regular season and the playoffs. Now we
know from years gone by that legends are born. Legends
are born in the in the playoffs, in the playoffs, right,
but not whatever this watch your McCalla. It is right,

(08:32):
not the watching McCalla. It now, Tyler Hero does have
a chance. He does have a shot. If play the
if game, ifs and butts were candy and nuts, right,
But if Miami can do this again and beat Atlanta
and take down the Hawks on Friday, and normally heat
will burn a Hawk. So if that happens, and then

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he gets on the big stage, and if there's an
eight seed one seed, which is really not an eight
seed because the or lower than that, they were down
there at the very bottom. So if the Heat can
then go into Cleveland and not only make some noise,
but actually when we can revisit this conversation. But I
know the hot take artists and how this works. I

(09:17):
have a study the ancient art of the hot take.
And there's this overreaction. Oh my god, I can't but
it's so amazic, it's so oh man. All right, now
the last word. Let's go over to the Western Conference
side of the play in whatever this thing is, and
Klay Thompson caught the bug for one quarter. It was

(09:39):
vintage Klay Thompson in Sacktown. As Clay had sixteen of
his twenty three points in the second quarter. And if
you saw the game, that's all you needed to watch.
That was it. That was not an ey go bye,
say bye bye to Sacramento bye bye. Yes, he had

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an absolute dud a year ago, which was brought up
many times on the television broadcast, but to this time,
wearing the mav Rec uniform, Andy Surprise did not see
this one come. He thought Dallas would be meekly eliminated
from the playoffs. But that's why they play their games.
So Klay Thompson went big in the Dallas basketball team,

(10:21):
proving Nico Harrison a genius with an easy win. So
they advanced in the playing tournament and now they will
take on Memphis for a chance to get into the
playoffs and take on Oklahoma City. So that's the next matchup.
But a year ago, Klay Thompson, in what was his
final game with Golden State, had the worst possible final game.
You remember he took ten shots? You remember how many

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he made? How about none er for ten in that
loss a year ago for Klay Thompson's last moment as
a Golden State Warrior. But in this game he had
four to three points, Dallas put up forty four points.
Do you understand how incompetent the Kings have to be
to allow a team in a twelve minute quarter to

(11:04):
score forty four points? How I don't give an f
the mantra must be for that team. Now, the better
story here is in the losing locker room. And we
don't spend a lot of time talking about the team
in Sacramento. Why would we. It's broadcasting, not narrow casting.
But this is rare and appropriate, and rare and appropriate.
We're allowed to do it. We're allowed to do it.

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So what does the future hold for Demontes Sibonis and
the Kings? What does the future hold here in sack Down?
So my advice to the Kings and to Demonta Sabonis
is to go out and go to Walmart. Get some marshmallows.
Get some marshmallows. If I could talk to that, get

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some marshmallows, right, Get the marshmallows. Because the Kings are
going to have a bonfire. There's already talked there. They're
going to bring in a new GM and a new
broom sweeps clean. And so they got rid of Mike
Brown during the season. They whacked him. They traded away
dearon Fox. It was the face of the franchise until

(12:06):
they traded him. So expect the urge to purge, the
urge to purge. I'm talking and everything must go liquidation
situation here? You want Demonisa bonus? How about Demarta Rosen?
Do I hear anything for Tomarto Rosen? Can I get
an offer for zach Levine? Anyone wants zach Levine, make
sure to use that coupon code and you'll say if

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it's a red tag sale in store and online. Now
the Kings have this, this kind of dopey mascot. I
think they should change their mask. I believe here as
this franchise continues to be in limbo, the Kings, where
have you gone? Peiserstoyakovitch?

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Right?

Speaker 1 (12:44):
The King's spirit animal is a chicken, Mike, the headless chicken.
Because they are stuck in this cycle of that. They
use the word rebuilding, which is a it's a sports term.
It's a politically correct sports term, rebuilding. It's it's synonyms

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are suck and blow, because that's what the Kings are.
They suck and they blow every year, every year, right,
every year, the same thing. They're bottom feeders, and it
just keeps going on and on, and they'll get rid
of these guys and then they'll they'll be terrible for
several more years, and then they'll get a few they'll
stumble onto a few players that actually turn out to
be halfway decent, and then the same thing will happen.

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It is a never ending cycle, never but they pay
pretty well so they can hire people. They pay pay
decent money and all that. Anyway, it is the Ben
Mahler Show. We are just getting the party started, and
I have determined that tonight. Why is this night different
than all other nights. It is a new Bye night,
a new Bee night, and I've been saying for the

(13:49):
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back to it all, right, back to it we go.
Started with some pro bouncy ball and truck stop Fungus
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roast was my dinner tonight, and boy was that some
good eating c plus on the mall of monologue. Get
that lush Bill Miller to do it next time, Well tomorrow,

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maybe tomorrow Ben will be late, go to concert or something.
They'll take over to the monologue. Mister Luciano writes in
says ten out of ten on the Mallard monologue. Benjamin
great to see that these Sacramento queens are eliminated. Furthermore,
the next California team is going to be eliminated. Are
the Golden State Warriors, says mister Luciano. That is correct.
I think the Lakers also could be eliminated. Anthony and Anaheim,

(18:13):
says Big Ben Mallard, what is up. That's not how
this works, Anthony. It's a newbie night. Although Anthony's like
a retired caller. Anthony sold out. He had a family
and kids, and so he used to be very active
on the show, but he sold out for that, for
that life. So he's not an active member of the
militia anymore. He's retired at this point, but occasionally he
checks in. Occasionally he checks in. King Roy writes and says,

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don't look now, but the Dallas Mavericks have all the
momentum heading into Memphis that clinch the eighth seed in
the West. Can you imagine the Mavericks getting further in
the playoffs than the Lakers. Who knows they could possibly
repeat Western Conference champion. King Roy. Put the mini bar down.
Just put the mini bar down, King Roy? Please, what

(18:58):
are you doing?

Speaker 2 (19:00):
Sire?

Speaker 1 (19:00):
But Ja Morant? Now I do not have sources close
to the situation, but sources close not close to the situation,
say that Ja Morant is planning a complete arsenal for
the game upcoming between Dallas and Memphis. He will pull
out the atomic Wedgie. It's gonna have. He's gonna have
the atomic Weggie in that game. Also a fake flame thrower.

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He'll have an imaginary crossbow. He will have a special
blowtorch which is not real to fake blow torch. And
there's some internet chatter that he's gonna have the astro blaster,
that he's got the astro blaster, the fake astro blaster.
And if that doesn't work, he's gonna drop an imaginary
piano on the Dallas Mavericks. So he's gonna have all

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the weaponry right there, all the weaponry right there. Late
Night drug Tester says, I was surprised that Anthony Davis
survived the NBA injury. Bingo also if Clay can win
Friday Night, will Clay will play in be added to
the list of nicknames Play In Clay, he would only

(20:06):
be about forty five behind your list of nicknames. Well,
I do have the most nicknames, as you know, in
all of all the radio. In fact, I have been
called I feel like that's a request. I have been
called the Baron of Balderdash, Big gall Bladder, Ben Is
the Menace, Benny beat Down, Captain knee Jerk, the Duke
of the north Woods, General of Degenerates, Taykoot of T's,

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the Master of Disaster, the hustler of filibuster, night Light
of Nightlife, the pummeler of producers. Benny Brightside, the manatee
of insanity. Marconi Maller, money Line, Mallard Masshole Mouth that
was given to me by the late Masshole Mickey, emissary
of Embellish night Windbag, the Wizard of Wacky, the slayer

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of naysayers, the Grand Goober of gab, the Oligarch of dark,
the Dower of babbel On, Honest to Donnis, Senator of Sarcasm,
Nocturnal Colonel, the underdog of monologue, and the Holy Pope
of the slippery slope. And that's only part. That's only
part of the nicknames. But that by request from Late

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Night drug tester oh Malibert, Rubin writes and says, as
much as you can bet the NBA rent on sack Town,
underachieving or flat out sucking, you can count on a
Miami heat postseason. The play in ensures the heat, the
heat their playoff run, even in a down seasons such

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as this, look at Hero and company to boat race
Atlanta and then take down Cleveland. I don't know about that.
I have no idea, no idea about that. Let's see
who else do we have? Page down? Can't read that
on the who else do we have to see? We'll
skip over that one. Random Ryan writes in and says, hey, Bill,

(21:57):
the Dodgers went from the hottest team in baseball to
losing to the Nationals and almost blowing a seven to
one lead to the Rockies. Looks like they're not built
for the postseason. An anonymous GM says, yes, Random Ryan
is an anonymous GM of his Rotisserie baseball team, and
he made that that particular statement clearly, clearly, clearly, clearly.

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What else do we have? But go skip over that
one arfle text calls it is a newby Night, all
new cars and coming up a little bit later this
hour because you need it. You don't think you need it,
but you do need it. Like a snapping turtle, Like
a snapping turtle. We'll get to that coming up here
in a little bit on a newby Night at eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven

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nine nine six six three sixty nine. I saw Jonathan
in Delaware. He wrote in and he say he's very
very happy it is a newby Night. He's excited about that.
And Jonathan's been with the show on I He didn't
even call the show. He calls every once in a while,
and he's not even really on I know he's on
X anymore, but he used to used to be part
of the thing back in the day. Oh, let's go

(23:07):
to the phones and we'll say hello to any meenie
miney moe. Who do we have you? Let's see who
do I want to start with. Let's go to Big
j Mojo in Seattle. Hello, Big Jay Mojo on a
Newbie Night. It's Newbie night. He was uh.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
One TI, I'm listening first time calling baby oh.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
Man, you sounded like Scott Farrell. For a second, I
thought I was talking to Farrell on the bench.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
Now, absolutely, you.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Don't even do you even know? Do you even know
who that is? You don't even know who that is?

Speaker 3 (23:42):
Do you? Morrill?

Speaker 2 (23:45):
No?

Speaker 1 (23:45):
No, I don't. All right, how soon we forget he
was a big radio star back in the day. But
all right, well it's on your mind, big Jay? Hey,
what's what's your ton on the draft?

Speaker 3 (23:56):
When it comes to the Seattle Seahawks going for in
the first.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
Two picks, the first two not just the first pick,
the first two picks. So I did a wholegue about
I did a whole model about basketball, and you want
to do Seattle Seahawks talk? Is that what you want
to do? You do not care about basketball?

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Well, you know that's a bunch of pre Madonna's on
the NBA.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
No, No, it's Premadi.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
So you do not want the Seattle SuperSonics to come back?
You're anti Seattle SuperSonics, Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 3 (24:29):
Well, I absolutely want the songs come.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Back, but they're all Prima Donna. Why would you want
to come back? They're all they're all Prima Donnas. Why
would you want to come back. If they're all prima donnas,
well I got nobody to root for. All right, So
about based on a minutes long review just watching the
Seahawks last year, I'm gonna go out and limb and
say they're going to draft some three hundred pound guy

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no one's ever heard of on the offensive line. How
about that that they're just gonna whoever the top offensive line?
I think what they have the eighteenth pick. I only
worry about the first ten picks of the draft. I
don't worry about after that. But they'll draft an offensive
lineman because they that Gino Smith could and I know
he's not there anymore, but he had all kinds of
issues at getting rid of the football and covering for

(25:12):
his offensive line. And guess what, Sam Darnold has those
same issues. He's got the same whatever that pooties thing
that that Gino had. Sam Donald's got the same thing.
So they'll draft an offensive lineman and then after that,
who knows? All right, thank you riveting first call, hot
Seahawk talk. And that's how newby Night begins. That's how

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we begin this journey. Who do we have? Who's there?
Let's go to Jet let's go to Tree. Rather, let's
go to Tree Trees in Chicago. Now he has called,
but he's not a regular. Tree is not a regular
on the show, so he's allowed to call on a
newby night.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
Hello Tree and man bless has been a big, big
tab listener. Man, I love you, Cooper Lorrena may be
having you cracking up their word man, So thanks for
having me.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
Man, thank you for what kind of work do you do?
What are you up to?

Speaker 3 (26:03):
I drive track the trailers for ups.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Okay, and you're just all over this Chicago and all
that very nice.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm not over the road. I go,
I go, yeah, go home every day. Man. So I
started working right around one o'clock, which is, uh, you know,
one one o'clock here when you got start. So I
listened to the whole show, man, I left the whole
four hours. Man.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
All hey, and what what can Brown do for you?
That's uh question? Yeah, I got you a coultree. So
are you a Bulls fan?

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (26:36):
Man, so dal hard Bulls, Cubs and Bears. But I
called a day man because uh uh, you talked about
my boy Billy Donovan. Man, I think you gotta remember
being We were nice when we first got him and
we had Lonzo Ball. We finally brought in dul Rolls
and we had Levigne. We had a real system, we

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had a real point guard that was really leading way.
We were the number one team of the year. Than
when Laza went down, it just like everything blew up.
Like the rest of the guys just wanted to shoot.
Everybody was looking for scoring. Somebody could get hot. That's
when Levine was like, Okay, I haven't touched the ball
in a while, and then stuff would just get chaotic.
But when Lazo Ball was healthy with us, you saw

(27:20):
how well that Billy Donovan could be. Man. But every
since then, every year, every year injuries, they know that
the fans are going to show up no matter what.
And Ryan's goof He's just a terrible owner. So until
we get some more people coming, Man Donovan is a
good coach. Man. I like them a lot. Man, I
like them a lot.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
I don't think these coaches really matter that much in
the NBA. I think we've we've seen that tree these guys.
Denver got rid of their coach three games before the playoffs.
Memphis got rid of that. They don't care about it
the coaches no matter that said, listen, it is a
you would admit that this is a dark spot the
Bulls are in right now right because they're just kind
of stuck in this bottom of the Eastern Conference. And

(28:00):
unless they are able to get a big free agent,
I don't really think there's anyone out there, like Who's
who are they gonna go out and get that's gonna
save the franchise and make them at least relevant. I
don't Other than that, there were some rumors about Zion Williamson,
but he's he's a he's a guy that doesn't show
He's I'm a lingerer. He didn't show up. Yeah, so
good luck on that. When he plays, he plays well.

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But he didn't play that much.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
So I got I gotta give you this. As nobody
jumps off the table, I'll tell you this. You know,
if you remember this Billy Donovan's first year in the NBA,
do you remember what he did?

Speaker 1 (28:34):
What did they do?

Speaker 3 (28:36):
So the OKAC done that? We would They were three
to one against to go to State Warriors the seventy
three and ninety and the rant and Westbrook fumbled the
bag Man. That was his first year in the NBA
was about to go to the NBA Finals, gets hurt.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
I blocked that all out. I've already blocked that. All right,
we'll treat be safe, be saved man. All right, hey guys,
the great Tree. That's a solid Newby. That's a good
Newby right there. Absolutely correct, Terry. Yeah, oh, I see
what you did. Three is blossoming. You're growing whatever. So

(29:14):
Terry in England has made he's made me a doll
action figure that's actually better, uh, Terry, than the last
one that you made. Although for some reason, for some
for some reason, you put a giant's hat in there.
I don't I don't understand that. And there's no clipper hat.
That's a bad job by you. So change that up.

(29:34):
And uh yeah, so it's and then that that book
is ridiculous. The outfits, that's that's what I had to
wear the first season of the TV show every week.
That was my uniform for the TV show. That the
blue pull over, the quartersip pull over, the hat, and
then the glasses. And so you get a little better.

(29:55):
I know, you have a little toy over there. You
have a lot of free time, Terry in England. You
got you know what's going on I Got you, I
got you, I understand, I hear is the Ben Males Show.
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(30:40):
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I'll lead a college football reporter Jenny taff will have
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(31:01):
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So the NFL Draft coming up there next and who
do we have you this see page down. We'll skip over.
That is a newbie night. I got to pay off
the teas, I teas, I gotta pay this up. So

(31:23):
the snapping turtle, like a snapping turtle. Now, we talked
about these playing games and just uncompetitive that there were
four playing games so far. One of them was was good.
One of them that was Memphis Golden State. Otherwise snooze,
snooze time. So the playing tournament Eastern Conference, the Miami

(31:43):
Heat put the whooping, put just a total whooping on
the Chicago Bulls and dominated them, led for the entire
game in a win or go home, single elimination situation.
So despite the Big three, the head coach Eric spolsterra
coach Spoe of Miami was he was a little prickly

(32:08):
after the game. He did not want to engage and
he snapped like a snapping turtle at a question he
was asked postgame. He was asked what the message was
to his squad, which is always a great generic question
to ask coach, what was your message to your team? Uh,
And he responded by saying, quote, none of your business,

(32:35):
he said, And then he said, unfortunately, I think there's
a camera in there. It was a great message. We're
halfway there, he said, Yeah, there's always a camera. There's
always a camera no matter what. And whether you win, well,
when you lose, there's not as much video of it, right,

(32:56):
there's not that much video when you lose. But anyway,
it is new being. We'll take some more of these
new calls at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox
Time Now for the who Am I Game? And this
is where we pretend to be somebody else. Let's we
call it the who am I? Game? Mariner catcher Cal Raley,
aka the Big Dumper, join me as the second player

(33:19):
in Major League Baseball history to homer from both sides
of the plate in the same game to record his
one hundredth career home run. Again, the Mariners catcher Cal Raley,
known as the Big Dumper, he joined me as the
second player in baseball history to homer from both sides
of the plate in the same game that they recorded

(33:42):
their one hundredth home run in their career in did
you get all that? Are right?

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Who?

Speaker 1 (33:48):
If you know the answer, hit me up on AX
at Bean Mallard, that's at Ben Malor. We'll get to
that and we will do it neck.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Be sure to catch live edition so the Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill.

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(34:48):
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and back to a Newbie Knight. That's right, Bill, it
is a newby Knight, all new callers all the time.
By request, We're off to a flying start on the

(35:10):
newbie Night. More newbies to come. You give us ten minutes,
We'll give you at least a couple newbies. That's the
plan anyway outside of the mallor monologue. And here is
the who am I? Game? This is what we pretend
to be somebody else? Le's we call it. You see
the who am I? Game? That's the bit, the who
am I? Game? And here it is Mariners catcher Cal Raley,

(35:31):
a big dumper, join me as the second player in
baseball history to homer from both sides of the plate
in the same game they recorded their one hundredth career
home run in That is the question. What is the answer?
And let's see does anyone know the answer? In the
Malor militia will go to the great unwashed here on

(35:54):
a newbie night, And let's see here Russ Stop from
I forty Ian and who else? Do we have? Private
sham from Big Greg and Iowa Roman Reigns from mister
Luciano who's counting down to his Warriors being eliminated from

(36:15):
the playoffs. Rooney Marra, who is forty today? From Late
Night Drug Tester Page Down, s'mores flavored schnapps from King Rory.
Who else? Ben's big beautiful board from Fergo that's good
use of AI, good use of AI. James Earl Jones
from Scrooge in northern California. Charlie in Wisconsin says, is

(36:40):
it Bill Miller Ben's ugly brother? What else do we have?
Page down? You are the new Sacramento Kings GM, the
Royal Ralpher from Malibu, Rubin, that's his answer, Big Lou.
He's on number two and he's going to Vancouver with us.
Malar Meet and Greek coming up Malard Meet and greet

(37:02):
in the month of May. A little over a month
from now. We'll be in Vancouver, Ah, come in British Columbia,
hanging out with you and more details to come, more
details to come, but Big Blue will be there all
And he says, Baby Jordan Harold Minor is the answer.
Alf the alien O Pine are going with former Fox

(37:22):
Sports radio morning host Mark Patrick MBOs the great Mark
Patrick on sports and that is one of my favorite
radio stories. Mark Patrick was our morning guy. He was
a big star. He's retired now, but he's a big
star in Indiana like Indianapolis and Mark, we would correspond
and he'd say, hey, you know, my kid's pretty good
at baseball. You know. He'd send me clips of his

(37:42):
kid and his son actually ended up as a Major
League baseball closer for the Washington Nationals. His kid made
it in the big leagues, a morning radio guys. Son
became a major league pitcher, had a couple of really
good years, a couple of really good years in the
major leagues. Who else do you have? Mark from Queens
says Thurman Munson is the well I'm not see that's

(38:04):
too soon to do an aviation joke. We're not doing that.
That's a bad job by you. Andy and Lino Lakes,
Minnesota says the answer to whom my game has got
to be switch hitting Adrian Peterson. That that's the answer.
Brady Kachuk from Shane in Des Moines. Who else do
we have? Page down? Let's see here? Super Market Steve says,

(38:25):
you are the last caller tree Ball. He must be
related to Lonzo because nobody has praised that guy in
this decade, says Supermarket Steve. Rick Smith's guessed by Slim
who him the proud cheesehead? Slim Tim Paige down, Let's
see here. Berggog says, thanks for mentioning me with the

(38:48):
butt wipes. Absolutely whatever you need for they got that
dollar shaved clubs the way to go app Absolutely all right, Lorraine,
do you have an answer, Lorraine, Nick Dirty Martini, Nick
thirty Martin. Is that the answer? Let's see you know
that is not the answer. Cal Rawley, the big dumper
joining me, second player baseball history, the homer from both

(39:08):
sides of the plate, same game to get the one
hunt of the career home run. The answer, Todd Hundley.
Todd Hundley, who also was a catcher, not a good one.
And I did it back in the day Todd Hungley,
nineteen ninety seven. That's a long time ago.