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Hour 1 - The Winds of Change · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 2: Welcome, it's our number one. Happy hump Day. It is
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Speaker 2: the fourth day of June. Here on this Wednesday, and
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Speaker 2: here in our number one, it is all about the
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Speaker 2: big shakeup and pro bouncy ball. Did the Knickerbockers do
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Speaker 2: coach Tom Thibodeaux dirty handing him a pink slip after
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Speaker 2: the Knicks made the final four? Who actually pulled the
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Speaker 2: trigger on this move? There are three possibilities. You make
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Speaker 2: the call. Who's the one that made the ultimate final
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Speaker 2: edit on Coach Tibbs. Also, where do the Knicks go
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Speaker 2: to replace Tom Thibodeaux as they have a job opening
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Speaker 2: in Gotham. We'll talk about all that and more right now,
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Speaker 2: the show. The biggest story play The Hits, mall Man Play,
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Speaker 2: The Hits pro Bouncy Ball, Noda Na da da Hey,
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Speaker 2: good Bye, fresh off the Upstart Playoff Run, the toast
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Speaker 2: of the NBA. Overcoming demons of years gone by, the
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Speaker 2: New York Knickerbockers said bye bye to their head coach.
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Speaker 2: They shot their shot. This is so great, this is outstanding. This,
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Speaker 2: it is such incompetence. It is malfeasance. So if you
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Speaker 2: haven't heard by now and what are you doing, it's
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Speaker 2: a bad job by you, so we learned in the
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Speaker 2: afternoon hours the Knickerbockers had decided to paull axe their
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Speaker 2: head coach, Tom Thibodeau. He going bye bye. He's out
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Speaker 2: of there now. This is a one year after signing
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Speaker 2: a three year big money extension with New York, Thibodeau
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Speaker 2: is kicked out of Gotham, get out of here. So
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Speaker 2: New York, New York will be looking for a new
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Speaker 2: voice to bark underneath Penn Station there try to get
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Speaker 2: over the hump five years of coach Tibbs and no more.
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Speaker 2: The Knickerbockers say bye bye. Still trying to win a
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Speaker 2: championship for the first time in over fifty years since
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Speaker 2: the early seventies, which was before the Internet. We know
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Speaker 2: that it was before cable television existed. In fact, in
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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy three, more people were listening to radio than
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Speaker 2: we're watching even television. It was a crossover point back then,
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Speaker 2: but there were radio was much more popular even than television.
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Speaker 2: So it's been a minute, so let us discuss the
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Speaker 2: question did the Knicks do coach Tom Thibodeau dirty? Did
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Speaker 2: they do him dirty? With this pink slip? So I've
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Speaker 2: got infomercial, Sesame Street, and iPad and we will combine
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Speaker 2: all of these things together, and we were going to
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Speaker 2: make a nice trip to can Kun. Tom Tibodau does
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Speaker 2: not appear to be the kind of guy that would
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Speaker 2: go to Cankun, but he can, he can afford it,
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Speaker 2: and he's got plenty of free time. Plenty of free time.
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Speaker 2: So my first thought here, as I learned from one
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Speaker 2: of my teachers as a kid, that my with named
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Speaker 2: Doctor Seuss. I think that Doctor Seuss got canceled somewhere
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Speaker 2: along the way, but you know, not in my world.
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Speaker 2: So doctor Seuss taught me when I was a child
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Speaker 2: that sometimes in life the questions are complicated and the
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Speaker 2: answers are simple, and this would be one of those times.
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Speaker 2: The answer to the question that we posed whether or
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Speaker 2: not the Knicks did Tom Thibodeau dirty, is apse of
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Speaker 2: freaking loutely that is the answer here. We're talking about
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Speaker 2: a basketball travesty. Of course, no, it's just basketball. What
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Speaker 2: is that from a pure just hoop head perspective? Right now,
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Speaker 2: we can question how much coaches matter and all that stuff,
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Speaker 2: and why do you even need a coach? That aside
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Speaker 2: that conversation. We've had that conversation, you and I, but
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Speaker 2: that aside, just talk about from the basketball side. What
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Speaker 2: are you doing here? Seriously, what are you doing? You know,
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Speaker 2: watching Tom Thibodeau coach the Knicks over the last five years.
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Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of infomercials on his little kid
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Speaker 2: I you know, I hang out at night watching infomercials
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Speaker 2: back in the old days, and I love infomercial I
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Speaker 2: remember it was one infomercial that was very popular, old
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Speaker 2: school infomercial. It was the Jack Lalane. Most people don't
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Speaker 2: even know who that is anymore. He's gone, but Jack
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Speaker 2: Lane Power Juicer was a very popular infomercial. And I
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Speaker 2: was singing about that when I was watching the fallout
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Speaker 2: from the coaching change in New York. Because coach Tibbs
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Speaker 2: squeezed every ounce of talent, every ounce of talent out
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Speaker 2: of that roster, that locker room, however you want to
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Speaker 2: say it. And it was like he was taking a
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Speaker 2: rock and juicing a rock and he got something out
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Speaker 2: of it. He did. They had back to back fifty
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Speaker 2: win regular seasons. Well it doesn't matter, it's the regular season, Okay,
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Speaker 2: back to back fifty win seasons, Eastern Conference finals for
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Speaker 2: the first time in a generation, a bleeping generation, and
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Speaker 2: doing that while looking like a swamp donkey coaching the Knicks.
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Speaker 2: I mean, his whole life dependent on every game. He
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Speaker 2: was bedraggled. He just did not care about his appearance.
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Speaker 2: He just was trying. He was a coach and that's it.
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Speaker 2: Big Apple Fashion Week in Manhattan, and he's out there
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Speaker 2: like a slob because he's just a coach. He's just
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Speaker 2: grinding away every single game and all that stuff. And
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Speaker 2: he helped it wasn't the only reason. Wasn't even the
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Speaker 2: main rees. The players are the ultimately the ones that matter.
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Speaker 2: But that being said, Tom Thibodeau took over a team
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Speaker 2: that was a laughing stock. Everyone would point their finger
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Speaker 2: and say haha, like Nelson from The Simpsons, and it
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Speaker 2: turned that into a team that would punch back and
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Speaker 2: did punch back and professionally. Let me, let me be clear,
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Speaker 2: you've got two dimensions at the same time, because you've
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Speaker 2: got the professional dimension from a again hoops standpoint, May
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Speaker 2: in that blows, BOYD does that blow. And then on
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Speaker 2: the other side you've got the personal side of it
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Speaker 2: and financially in that dimension. This is a wonderful mitzvah
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Speaker 2: for Tom Thibodeau because the Knicks, if my mal or
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Speaker 2: math is correct, the Knicks have to pay him thirty
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Speaker 2: million dollars to do nothing. He doesn't have to work again.
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Speaker 2: He can go move to Key West and you know,
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Speaker 2: smoke weed all day and all night and all that
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Speaker 2: and just knock himself out, go play pickleball, sit on
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Speaker 2: He's sit on a sofa for the next several years
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Speaker 2: and just watch TikTok videos. And the Knicks got to
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Speaker 2: pay him thirty million. I mean, my god, what is
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Speaker 2: wrong with that? But but yeah, you've got two different
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Speaker 2: things going on. It does not appear that coach Tibbs
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Speaker 2: is hardwired to be that guy who's just like, hey,
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Speaker 2: I don't really care about whether I work or not.
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Speaker 2: It seems like a guy that actually likes his job,
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Speaker 2: takes pride in his work doesn't cut corners things like that.
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Speaker 2: Now page two. So the question is who done it? Oh,
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Speaker 2: it's a great mystery, it's just sports radio. But so
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Speaker 2: who done it? This is not the kind of a
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Speaker 2: move that is normally made. You overcame the odds, the Knicks.
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Speaker 2: We're not supposed to even get to the final four
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Speaker 2: of the NBA this year, and they did. So who
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Speaker 2: pulled the trigger? Who's the one that's fingerprints are on
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Speaker 2: the trigger there to move to change coaches for the Knickerbockers.
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Speaker 2: So there is this great debate. There are a couple
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Speaker 2: of camps here that have there's three possibilities, like Triangle,
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Speaker 2: there's three possibilities. I'm gonna give you the possibilities A, B,
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Speaker 2: and C, and then you make the call. But I'm
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Speaker 2: actually gonna make the call first because I have the
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Speaker 2: bully pulpit, So I'm going to make the call before you.
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Speaker 2: So the top you always start out with the disgruntled
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Speaker 2: star player, because that's what usually happens in that business.
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Speaker 2: Lebron snaps his fingers, coach gets fired a right, that's
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Speaker 2: normally how that works. Nikole Jokic has a problem with
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Speaker 2: Michael Malone he gone, doesn't matter three days before the
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Speaker 2: three games before the end of the season. Coach it's
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Speaker 2: called the coach killer. I don't get the sense that's
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Speaker 2: going on here. Not to say that Jalen Brunson and
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Speaker 2: Tom Thibodeau were sitting around the campfire and smoking and
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Speaker 2: singing Kumbaya and all that. I don't think that was
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Speaker 2: going on. Uh, there was a pretty good relationship. Jalen
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Speaker 2: Brunson fully blossomed under the guidance or the tutelage or
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Speaker 2: just the freedom to play from Tom Thibodeau and became
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Speaker 2: an All NBA level player where you know, the hot
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Speaker 2: take artists or like, hey, wait a minute, this guy
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Speaker 2: is like in the same category of this guy and
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Speaker 2: that guy. I'm blah, just like now we believe they
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Speaker 2: had a sincere bond and maybe we're gullible. It's possible,
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Speaker 2: you know, what do we know? It's just I don't
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Speaker 2: get the sense, and I'm I'm not great at the
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Speaker 2: English language. I don't really know much. You know, I
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Speaker 2: know some weird and random words from different languages around
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Speaker 2: the world. But body language, oh man, that's my wheelhouse.
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Speaker 2: I know the body language and right there, right so
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Speaker 2: it's not the player. Well then you go, well, what
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Speaker 2: about the executive? Was their bad blood? And Leon Rose
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Speaker 2: was the executive? The President of Basketball Operation, I believe
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Speaker 2: is the official title. So was it Leon Rose? What
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Speaker 2: about the owner James Dolan? So I have looked at
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Speaker 2: the available evidence. I have deliberated in the jury room.
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Speaker 2: I do not believe it was Leon Rose. I don't.
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Speaker 2: I do not think it was Leon Rose. Leon Rose
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Speaker 2: before he came to the next was the agent for
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Speaker 2: who Tom Thibodeau. Yes, they were, buddy leon Rose calling
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Speaker 2: me even gotta hire this guy higher TIBs. Okay. So
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Speaker 2: I don't buy that. Now, agents are slime balls and
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Speaker 2: sleeves balls. I have had agents, and they're generally losers.
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Speaker 2: They're just bad people. So it's conceivable, like maybe like
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Speaker 2: two percent, that Leon Rose is just a snake and
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Speaker 2: he didn't. But I don't buy that. I don't buy that.
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Speaker 2: I look at Sesame Street. I look at Sesame Street
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Speaker 2: and a cookie monster who lives on Sesame Street. And
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Speaker 2: you follow the cookie crumbs, and when you follow the
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Speaker 2: cookie crumbs, they lead back to James Dolan. The plot thickens.
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Speaker 2: James Dolton had his hand in the cookie jar. And
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Speaker 2: that's where I'm going. The Knicks were the popular pick
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Speaker 2: by popular people. Once they upset the Celtics, you had
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Speaker 2: a celebration through the Canyon of Heroes. You had the
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Speaker 2: fans throwing trash and celebration. Everyone was saying, Oh, the
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Speaker 2: Knicks got this, they got home court at the Garden.
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Speaker 2: They're playing the Hicks from Indiana. There's no way they're
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Speaker 2: going to lose that series of the Pacers. Are you
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Speaker 2: kidding me? It is a layup. And if we saw
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Speaker 2: that crap, I'm pretty confident that James Dolan going to
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Speaker 2: his Hampton hodown and schmoozing and drinking those Moscow mules
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Speaker 2: and the Long island ized teas, hanging out with Olive
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Speaker 2: arks and aristocrats and all the things that rich people do.
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Speaker 2: The of the one percent, they were all, Oh, you
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Speaker 2: got this, Dollan, this is great. You're ready to go.
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Speaker 2: Way to go, James doll Oh my god, this is amazing.
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Speaker 2: And so they they were quick. Also. The other thing,
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Speaker 2: even if you don't believe that I'm right, the thing
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Speaker 2: that is the dead give way, the using useful idiots
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Speaker 2: in the media, their bodies behind paywalls. The Knicks made
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Speaker 2: sure to say that it was leon Rose's decision. They
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Speaker 2: leak that. Now, what does that tell us? That tells
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Speaker 2: us it wasn't leon Rose's decision. That tells us that
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Speaker 2: he was not the one that made the call. That
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Speaker 2: he is being propped off as the fall guy. He's
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Speaker 2: they got to blame somebody because it's not a popular move,
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Speaker 2: so he gonna blame him. It was an irrational move
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Speaker 2: by Dolan, the owner of the team. The Knicks had
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Speaker 2: a plumbing issue. Think of it this way. You got
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Speaker 2: a problem with your plumbing and instead of saying I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna call like Rodo Ruter or whatever, I'm gonna call
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Speaker 2: some plumber. Instead of calling by go to the website
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Speaker 2: sending an email getting the plumber. James Dolan determined that
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Speaker 2: the best solution to the plumbing problem, to the leaky
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Speaker 2: faucet was to burn the house down. Hey, there's the
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Speaker 2: the fastest league of a bit, So let's burn the
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Speaker 2: damn thing down. Let's do it. Which is I think
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Speaker 2: I believe the word is beta. That is a beta move.
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Speaker 2: By doing now the last word, quick right, the last
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Speaker 2: word here? Where do the Knickerbockers go? Now to replace
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Speaker 2: Tom Thibodeau, Like, what's the chess move here? Now? You
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Speaker 2: got the gambling market. The gambling market, they immediately said,
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Speaker 2: X Knicks associate coach Johnny Bryant. You don't really know
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Speaker 2: who that is, but apparently he's the darling, the next
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Speaker 2: big thing in coaching, Johnny Bryant. Bryant has been with Cleveland.
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Speaker 2: He is a finalist for the Phoenix Sun's job. Some
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Speaker 2: saying the reason the Knicks fired Thibodeaux when they did
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Speaker 2: is because they want that guy, and to get that guy,
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Speaker 2: they had to do this because otherwise Bryant would go
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Speaker 2: coach the Suns and he'd be out in the in
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Speaker 2: the desert hanging out with cactus, and they didn't want that.
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Speaker 2: And all that stuff, and the other read on the
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Speaker 2: amily market. You got Kenny Atkinson, who's the second choice,
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Speaker 2: and he's the coach of the year who lost to Indiana,
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Speaker 2: so he knows a thing or two about that in
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Speaker 2: the playoffs. And then you've got the usual rejects like
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Speaker 2: Frank Vogel and Budenhozer and the names like that. And
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Speaker 2: then further page down, Pat Strake, Ewing, Mark Jackson, long shots,
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Speaker 2: unrealistic options, unrealistic options. And so now we do not know,
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Speaker 2: We do not know. Our crystal ball is not working
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Speaker 2: right now. We do not know who the next coach
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Speaker 2: or the Knicks is going to be, but we do
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Speaker 2: know what they're going to be like. And I will
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Speaker 2: gare Untie the profile. You know how the FBI does
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Speaker 2: profiling of what they think some wack adoodle is like,
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Speaker 2: what they're like. So here's the profile of the next
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Speaker 2: Knicks coach. Okay, the next Nick coach will be an innovative,
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Speaker 2: offensive mind players coach who likes drinking oat milk and
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Speaker 2: hanging out doing hot yoga, drawing up plays on his
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Speaker 2: iPad while doing hot yoga. That'll be the next coach, right,
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Speaker 2: the coddle coach, because you go from a hard ass
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Speaker 2: coach like Tom Thibodeaux, and the hard ass is relative.
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Speaker 2: It's you know, it's not that it's not a drill
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Speaker 2: sergeant at Marine boot camp, but it's it's like it's
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Speaker 2: my NBA standards. So you have a coddle coach who
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Speaker 2: drives the mister softy truck. You've got that. And that'll
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Speaker 2: be somebody that comes in here and like rub shoulders
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Speaker 2: with you know, people hanging out those art galleries over
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Speaker 2: over and soho, you know, the art gallery crowd, and
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Speaker 2: it goes to fashion Week, you know, and dresses up
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Speaker 2: as you know, Fashion East and all that stuff. Just
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Speaker 2: everything that Tom Thibodeau isn't like. He didn't Thibodau didn't
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Speaker 2: care about all that crap. He's just worried about coaching
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Speaker 2: and obviously doesn't take any pride in his personal appearance.
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Speaker 2: He looks like Shrek and the next coach will not
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Speaker 2: the Instagram page where people are a little nicer, just
21:11
Speaker 2: a little nice. All right, we'll get to that, but
21:13
Speaker 2: right now, back to the show. All right, back to
21:15
Speaker 2: what we go. And we started with a Nick heavy
21:19
Speaker 2: Mallard monologue to begin the night and a lot of
21:23
Speaker 2: reaction to that. To that, Ferg Dog did not want
21:26
Speaker 2: to talk about that. He says, Hey, Ben, did you
21:28
Speaker 2: catch any of the la thrilling xtratings?
21:31
Speaker 4: Win?
21:31
Speaker 2: Chris Taylor had a couple of web gems. Ken Lee
21:35
Speaker 2: Janssen pitched a scoreless inning and Mike Trout was on
21:38
Speaker 2: the field. Add it all up, you get another halo victory.
21:41
Speaker 2: Aren't you supposed to say, Ferg Dog, light up the halo?
21:43
Speaker 2: Isn't that the line light? Do they still do that?
21:45
Speaker 2: Or did Artie Marina lose so much money he can't
21:46
Speaker 2: afford to pay the electric bills so they don't even
21:48
Speaker 2: like the halo up anymore? I don't know. You only
21:51
Speaker 2: have to do it a few times a year, so
21:53
Speaker 2: it's not that bad. Doesn't happen that often? Yeah, Late
21:55
Speaker 2: Night drug Tessa says Tibbs had to deal with plenty
21:58
Speaker 2: of crap and made it present bowl, which is amazing
22:01
Speaker 2: since the circus hasn't been at Madison Square Garden for
22:06
Speaker 2: almost a decade. Yeah, the Wolkesters killed the circus, right,
22:08
Speaker 2: didn't The Wolkesters killed that? And they can't have any
22:11
Speaker 2: animals in the circus and just to have the humans,
22:14
Speaker 2: that's it. Jason in Kens City, who I hung out with,
22:18
Speaker 2: He sat at the head table there at the Malor
22:20
Speaker 2: meet and greet we did at the landing in Liberty, Missouri.
22:23
Speaker 2: He's up late with us, he says eight out of
22:25
Speaker 2: ten on the Mallard monologue. And Jason is a show legend.
22:30
Speaker 2: He had the Ben Mallar chicken figures. He says, Men,
22:32
Speaker 2: I agree that Tibbs did a great job of turning
22:35
Speaker 2: around the Knicks, but I think he had some problems
22:38
Speaker 2: with the players. I think a certain kitty cat had
22:42
Speaker 2: a major saying getting him fired. That's from Jason in
22:45
Speaker 2: Kansas City. Well, I don't buy that because Karl Anthony
22:49
Speaker 2: Towns is the number two behind Jalen Brunson. And yeah,
22:56
Speaker 2: we all know what you do with the number to
22:58
Speaker 2: you just flush it down as well. You have number two,
23:00
Speaker 2: you flush at, you wipe. If you have a bidet,
23:02
Speaker 2: you clean up a little bit. Daniel White, Spock's Weed
23:05
Speaker 2: writes and says, great monologue. He's on the Oregon Trail. However,
23:09
Speaker 2: I do think the instigator of the Hatcher job is Cat.
23:12
Speaker 2: He's you guys think Carl Anthony Towns, who's been in
23:17
Speaker 2: a Nick uniform for a season, has that kind of influence.
23:21
Speaker 2: All right, Inka Terror, who lives in New York, although
23:26
Speaker 2: he lives in Rochester, the Flower City, says Benny, Whatever
23:29
Speaker 2: happened to the real mister Tibbs, the one eyed peeping
23:32
Speaker 2: Tom of the mal Or Militia. Yeah, that's a great name,
23:37
Speaker 2: InKo Terror. You go way back with the show, and
23:39
Speaker 2: he was one of the wonderful characters that we had.
23:42
Speaker 2: Mister mister Tibbs would call up and he had some
23:46
Speaker 2: issues there, some legal issues, and I don't know what happened,
23:49
Speaker 2: and he finally ended up going to the Gray Bar
23:52
Speaker 2: Hotel if he had some health problems. I have no idea.
23:56
Speaker 2: These people just come and go there. Maybe he'll catch
23:58
Speaker 2: up with you, now, Uh, well, I don't don't. I
24:01
Speaker 2: don't think so. I don't know. I've heard from him
24:03
Speaker 2: in probably fifteen years or something. It's been a while.
24:07
Speaker 2: I don't even know if he's still around. I have
24:09
Speaker 2: no idea what these guys every era of the show.
24:11
Speaker 2: I was talking to some of the fans and the
24:13
Speaker 2: malor meat greet some of the p ones at the
24:15
Speaker 2: meet and greet in Vancouver, and it's like the callers
24:19
Speaker 2: only it's very difficult to have staying power as a caller.
24:23
Speaker 2: There's a lot of dedication, you know, if you have
24:26
Speaker 2: a family and a job, it's very difficult to keep
24:30
Speaker 2: the level of talent, the effort that is required to
24:35
Speaker 2: be a regular caller on the show. And so many
24:38
Speaker 2: callers flame out. They go there for a little bit.
24:41
Speaker 2: It's like going to college. You go to college, you're
24:42
Speaker 2: not supposed to be in college. Eight ten years you
24:44
Speaker 2: call the show. You're a star caller. And it happens
24:47
Speaker 2: to even the legend Pete and Pittsburgh Show legend flamed out.
24:52
Speaker 2: Couldn't handle it the tension, the drama of overnight talk
24:56
Speaker 2: radio calling. So he only asks a little bit and
24:59
Speaker 2: he last the longer than most. We had. Troy the
25:03
Speaker 2: gambling Man from Nashville, great caller in the early days.
25:06
Speaker 2: He flamed out MotorCity Mike in Detroit. These guys last
25:09
Speaker 2: a couple of years and then they move on, and
25:11
Speaker 2: there's always somebody else right behind him, like Charlie. Charlie
25:14
Speaker 2: a young, young, upstart caller. But even before Charlie, we
25:18
Speaker 2: had a kid caller years ago from the Bay Area
25:20
Speaker 2: who beat Justin in Cincinnati back when you Justin's a
25:24
Speaker 2: great example. Justin still kind of hides behind his phone.
25:27
Speaker 2: He didn't call anymore of he's past that. He can't
25:29
Speaker 2: really handle the calling. But Justin used to be a
25:32
Speaker 2: regular call used to play all the trivia games, and
25:35
Speaker 2: he stopped doing that, and he still kind of occasionally contributes,
25:39
Speaker 2: So there's a lot. So it's it's one of these things.
25:42
Speaker 2: He just lasts as long as he can and then
25:43
Speaker 2: you fade away into oblivion, like mister Tibbs Cowboy when
25:47
Speaker 2: Windsor is the only one who have stood the test
25:48
Speaker 2: of time. Cowboy has been with us Cowboys, one of
25:51
Speaker 2: the original callers when Fox Sports Radio was on in Binghamton,
25:55
Speaker 2: New York and Pittsburgh are a couple of our first
25:58
Speaker 2: markets when they launched the network and we were all
26:01
Speaker 2: on a few stations. It was they were doing some
26:02
Speaker 2: beta testing with the network and we were only on
26:04
Speaker 2: a few places, and Cowboy called up. And he's still
26:07
Speaker 2: calling twenty five years later, he's still calling. And Blind
26:12
Speaker 2: Scott's been calling a long time, but not not since
26:15
Speaker 2: the beginning, not since the very beginning, anyway. King Roy
26:19
Speaker 2: writes and says, I thought Sesame Street was defunded and
26:21
Speaker 2: shut down. On a semi serious note, Thibodeau joins a
26:25
Speaker 2: long list of recent Coach of the Year winners to
26:27
Speaker 2: be fired a few years after winning the award. Is
26:31
Speaker 2: this just a kwinkie dink or a sign that their
26:35
Speaker 2: days are of coaching are number Well, it's one of
26:38
Speaker 2: the reasons I've not really wanted to get that Marconi Award,
26:41
Speaker 2: because I think that'll be the end and of me
26:43
Speaker 2: try to avoid that. Chip and the q's rites In
26:45
Speaker 2: says Hey Plus on the Mallet monologue. I wonder if
26:48
Speaker 2: TV will try to make Tibbs into a basketball analyst.
26:52
Speaker 2: They'll have to get him to get in touch with
26:55
Speaker 2: a fashion consultant. Yeah, I don't think that's that's gonna happen.
26:59
Speaker 2: Trucks fungus rites In. He says he wants to let
27:03
Speaker 2: the Mallard Militia know he's spending the night in dal Hart, Texas, Texas.
27:09
Speaker 2: Dot is thick on fifty six south to I forty.
27:15
Speaker 2: I'm a bit overweight. I ain't leaving till it's clear,
27:20
Speaker 2: he says, all right, So what we do here. We
27:23
Speaker 2: have a lot of truck drivers that are fans of
27:24
Speaker 2: the show, and they're driving the highways and byways of Americans.
27:28
Speaker 2: So I would argue that truck Stop Fungus has moved
27:31
Speaker 2: up the ranks in terms of callers to the show.
27:34
Speaker 2: So now we have to look up Dalhart, Texas. Where
27:38
Speaker 2: is Dalhart, Texas? So we've done a little keyboard green search.
27:42
Speaker 2: I've never heard of it. Dalhart, Texas is It's a
27:48
Speaker 2: town of eighty four hundred and forty seven. It's very
27:52
Speaker 2: the very northern part of Texas, right below Oklahoma. It
27:57
Speaker 2: was in the center. Here's a fun fact. You want
27:59
Speaker 2: to fund act on Dalhart, Texas. Where our buddy truck
28:02
Speaker 2: Stop Fungus. No one fact, Dalhart, Texas was in the
28:05
Speaker 2: center of the dust bowl. That's right back. Historically, one
28:10
Speaker 2: of the great periods, well not for most people in America,
28:14
Speaker 2: but during the nineteen thirties, dust storms during the Great Depression,
28:20
Speaker 2: and that was right there. You know, it sounds like
28:23
Speaker 2: that could be the name of a Super Bowl. Bend
28:25
Speaker 2: the dust Ball, the dust Bowl, come to the dust
28:28
Speaker 2: Bowl could be one at all. Sounds fun. Yeah, I
28:31
Speaker 2: don't think there's much fun going on here in Dalhart, Texas.
28:34
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's a great little hotel and one or
28:37
Speaker 2: two restaurants where truck stop Fungus is doing his thing.
28:41
Speaker 2: You always say, well, anybody famous come out of Dalhart, Texas?
28:45
Speaker 2: In every town. I have a theory that every town,
28:47
Speaker 2: even small towns, there's one or two people that came
28:50
Speaker 2: out of your town that's famous, and somebody from the
28:55
Speaker 2: town that went out and whether it's in the arts
28:58
Speaker 2: or politics or me the whatever, it might became a
29:02
Speaker 2: famous person. And I don't see anyone from Dalhart, Texas.
29:07
Speaker 2: They do have a municipal airport which looks like it's
29:11
Speaker 2: just a strip of concrete and there's like one building.
29:14
Speaker 2: That's what it looks like. Anyway, let's go to the
29:15
Speaker 2: phones and we'll say hello to Brett, who's in the
29:18
Speaker 2: music city. Hello Brett, welcome, you are on the Ben
29:21
Speaker 2: Malor Show.
29:23
Speaker 4: Hey Ben, how's it going Man, it's been a while.
29:26
Speaker 4: I think it's been like a year since I got
29:28
Speaker 4: through to talk to you. But I'm still in this prison, man,
29:30
Speaker 4: where the inmates have access to tablets but the nurses
29:35
Speaker 4: have no access to the computers. So I've still been
29:38
Speaker 4: listening to your show religiously. And there is a to
29:42
Speaker 4: help the night pass. And there's the real talents in
29:45
Speaker 4: giving news in an entertaining way to somebody about a
29:50
Speaker 4: sport they really don't care about, like baseball. And I still,
29:55
Speaker 4: even though I could kill a crap about baseball, when
29:58
Speaker 4: you give the news about baseball, all right.
30:01
Speaker 2: Well, it's a tremendous endorsement that you can at least
30:04
Speaker 2: listen even when it's something you hate.
30:07
Speaker 4: I'll tell you, man, Sunday suck because there's no you.
30:11
Speaker 1: Man.
30:12
Speaker 4: I get infommercials and I got I got all sorts
30:16
Speaker 4: of stuff. But I didn't want to ask you something.
30:17
Speaker 4: What was the best food you had when you were
30:19
Speaker 4: in Vancouver?
30:21
Speaker 2: Uh, it was a lot of good food. I had
30:24
Speaker 2: a lot of poutine, which I posted some photos about,
30:26
Speaker 2: which was great. I had a good once of the
30:27
Speaker 2: top burger place in Vancouver had It was a nice
30:30
Speaker 2: breakfast place. That I went to. It was kind of
30:32
Speaker 2: boogie or whatever. It wasn't that boogie, but yeah, I
30:34
Speaker 2: mean I did need that much when I was there
30:36
Speaker 2: because we were only there a few days. But it
30:38
Speaker 2: was it was good. The food was was solid and everything.
30:41
Speaker 2: Because of the difference in the American dollar versus the
30:44
Speaker 2: Canadian dollar, everything was like twenty seven percent cheaper for
30:48
Speaker 2: US because we have the American dollar. So it was
30:51
Speaker 2: it was great and it was fun. Fun town had
30:53
Speaker 2: a good time.
30:54
Speaker 4: It's always nice from the currency exchange rates in our favorite.
30:57
Speaker 2: Yeah. Like I I was like, I'm actually, what country
31:00
Speaker 2: we get the most bang for your buck and just
31:02
Speaker 2: start traveling? I know why some people do. I'm not.
31:04
Speaker 2: I've not really traveled outside of the US much at all.
31:07
Speaker 4: So well, my wife and I are twenties coming up,
31:10
Speaker 4: and we're looking into Thaighland for that very reason. They
31:13
Speaker 4: say it's like a guilt free trip, like once you
31:15
Speaker 4: pay for airfare. I saw a hotel room there where
31:19
Speaker 4: a lady actually had a pool in it and it
31:21
Speaker 4: was like two hundred a night.
31:23
Speaker 2: Is that right?
31:24
Speaker 3: Yeah?
31:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to be careful. Some of those massage
31:26
Speaker 2: parlors can get you in trouble yet, you know, yeah,
31:32
Speaker 2: yeah you might, you want to as long as you
31:33
Speaker 2: avoid those. I think you're I think you're okay. Yeah,
31:37
Speaker 2: all right, Well that's big twenties coming up. Huh. That's
31:39
Speaker 2: you better not screw that one up, right, that's a
31:42
Speaker 2: big one. We love round numbers. We don't celebrate nineteen,
31:45
Speaker 2: we don't celebrate twenty one, but twenty that's huge.
31:48
Speaker 4: Right one, yes, sirry, yes, sair. And you don't get
31:51
Speaker 4: to twenty by going to the massage parlors. You can't
31:53
Speaker 4: do that.
31:53
Speaker 2: Generally, not and if you, if you do, it's you're
31:56
Speaker 2: in a pretty pretty kinky relationship, you know what I'm saying.
32:00
Speaker 2: Freaky you know. Yeah? All right, Well, thank you for listen.
32:03
Speaker 2: I'm glad you were able to call in. And what
32:05
Speaker 2: happens if the Wi Fi shuts down at the prison?
32:07
Speaker 2: What happens?
32:09
Speaker 4: Well, see, the thing is we don't have I don't
32:12
Speaker 4: have access to the computers as a nurse. The corrections
32:15
Speaker 4: officers do, and like I said, ironically, the inmates have tablets,
32:19
Speaker 4: but they just don't have internet. If that happens, we're
32:21
Speaker 4: on a paper charting system, so most of our stuff paper.
32:25
Speaker 2: Still still using paper. You're holding on to the paper.
32:28
Speaker 2: I don't know. Do you have typewriters? Also? Do you
32:32
Speaker 2: got that?
32:33
Speaker 4: No? No, no time?
32:35
Speaker 2: All right, well, thank you, all right, thanks for listening.
32:37
Speaker 2: I'll talk to you. I'll talk to you in twenty
32:39
Speaker 2: twenty six. Okay, all right, all right? There there he
32:44
Speaker 2: goes where he goes only he knows. All right, it
32:47
Speaker 2: is the Bane Mallard show. Well, here's appears to be
32:50
Speaker 2: a blast in the past. I was, I was debating.
32:54
Speaker 2: I should probably stop talking for a second, but I
32:56
Speaker 2: see this name. Man, I'm sure this guy will hang
32:58
Speaker 2: up if I don't go to right now. Is this
33:00
Speaker 2: the real mister Smooth? Let's see if this is the
33:03
Speaker 2: real mister Smooth. Hello, mister Smooth.
33:06
Speaker 1: Good morning, Ben, shout out, Danny g Wow, and good
33:12
Speaker 1: morning to all my fellas across the nation.
33:16
Speaker 4: Ben.
33:16
Speaker 1: I've always called to help out my fellas with their
33:18
Speaker 1: relationships as we did back in the day, and I
33:22
Speaker 1: still have one for him right now that I can
33:24
Speaker 1: give you while I'm on my way. So, fellas, here's
33:28
Speaker 1: what you want you to remember. Sometime today, when you're
33:31
Speaker 1: with your lady, I want you to tell her this. Well,
33:36
Speaker 1: I was out and about today in my day's activities,
33:39
Speaker 1: I stopped into a retail outlet and I found out
33:42
Speaker 1: something about you. Yes, I found out that Sugar and
33:47
Speaker 1: Honey have petitions out against you because you're so sweet.
33:52
Speaker 1: I'm mister smooth.
33:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm man. That is a throwback name. Pipe,
34:00
Speaker 2: same delivery, same lines. Are I want to call more often?
34:04
Speaker 2: Mister Smooth? There he hangs up the great mister Smooth
34:08
Speaker 2: and Dallas Smooth. It goes back a long time, and
34:11
Speaker 2: he's got the he's got the pipes he does, he's
34:13
Speaker 2: got the delivery the whole day, mister Smooth. You never
34:16
Speaker 2: know who's listening. You never know who's listening. All right,
34:20
Speaker 2: is the Ben Mahlor Show. So the Knicks looking for
34:23
Speaker 2: a coach, and the chatter is the Knicks would like
34:25
Speaker 2: to talk with They want permission to talk with Jason
34:30
Speaker 2: Kidd of the Mavrack. So you gotta think wants to
34:33
Speaker 2: leave Dallas and e May Udoka of the rock Cast. Now,
34:37
Speaker 2: why would you want to leave the rock Cats if
34:38
Speaker 2: your emay Udoka the old Celtic coach. Stay tuned on that.
34:43
Speaker 2: But those are the couple of names that are popping
34:46
Speaker 2: up in the backfence chatter about the New York Knickerbockers
34:52
Speaker 2: and bleeding some cash and hey do I know you?
34:56
Speaker 2: I think I know you? Bleeding cash? All that, here's
34:58
Speaker 2: the who am I? Game? Who the thunders? Shay Jogis
35:03
Speaker 2: Alexander has a chance to become the first player to
35:06
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35:10
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35:16
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35:29
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35:38
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35:41
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36:27
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36:30
Speaker 2: somebody else? That's the who am I? Game? So the
36:32
Speaker 2: Thunders SGA has a chance to become the first player
36:37
Speaker 2: to win an NBA scoring title and a championship in
36:40
Speaker 2: the same season. Since me, who am I? That is
36:46
Speaker 2: the question? What is the answer? Courtesy Flusher says that
36:50
Speaker 2: schmuck Bill Miller is the answer. Milkman Mike in Colorado
36:55
Speaker 2: says Popeye, the Sailor Man, Eat your spinach. Malaprop Guy
37:02
Speaker 2: says the inevitable mister Smooth. Great to hear from mister Smooth.
37:07
Speaker 2: That's a blast from the past. He was a regular caller.
37:11
Speaker 2: We smoked him out. Mister nice guy going with Brewer's
37:13
Speaker 2: legend Dale Swain as the answer, the Rifleman Chuck Connors
37:18
Speaker 2: from our buddy Alf the Alien Opiner Late Night Drug
37:22
Speaker 2: Test says you are Angelina Jolie, who is fifty today?
37:25
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's old. Who else to have? Moses
37:27
Speaker 2: Malone from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Iggy Pop from Donkey Sausage.
37:34
Speaker 2: That's the answer there, Kobe Bean Bryant, guess my Mark
37:38
Speaker 2: from Queen's lagoona Hills, San Diego, Tucson and Arlington, as
37:45
Speaker 2: he's one step ahead of the law. Who else do
37:48
Speaker 2: you have? Be Page Dan, Let's see. Terry in England says,
37:52
Speaker 2: is it Robbie's favorite kid caller? Is that the answer? See?
37:57
Speaker 2: Shannon Moyne says Kelly in de Moo lover Michael Cole,
38:02
Speaker 2: all right, I might want to contact her about that.
38:06
Speaker 2: Who else you have? Nick the Wendy's guys up in
38:08
Speaker 2: Minnesota listening, I'll say the muffin Man who lives on
38:11
Speaker 2: Drewy Lane is the answer. Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota says,
38:16
Speaker 2: who am I? It's got to be the Hulkster brother
38:20
Speaker 2: and that's the answer. Supermarket Steve who's always wrong but
38:23
Speaker 2: keeps trying, says, I believe the answer is Stephen Curry.
38:27
Speaker 2: He was the one to do it. George Kirby from
38:30
Speaker 2: Robbie the Mariner fan, Mahmoud abdul Rauf from Andrew in
38:36
Speaker 2: the Bay Area, mister irrigation's going with Toronto legend Grady
38:40
Speaker 2: Dick as his answer, Sebastian Telfair only he had made
38:45
Speaker 2: it from James who else? Do we have? The Greek
38:47
Speaker 2: freak from Josh the disgruntled Bears fan in Nebraska. Chris
38:51
Speaker 2: Caman the Caveman from sewn and Portland says, so that's
38:55
Speaker 2: Shawn and Portland. Nialls Crane guess by far out Dave,
38:58
Speaker 2: that's his answer. Wilt Chamberlain from HL Dino Cisseiarelli from
39:05
Speaker 2: Big Rig Rob checking in all right, Jim Rongway Marshall
39:11
Speaker 2: rest in piece from Larry d a football legend. Absolutely
39:16
Speaker 2: all right, spots Weed says Berry White. The real mister
39:19
Speaker 2: smooth is the answer our truth? From Kelly. We have
39:24
Speaker 2: the baby draft from JJ Tommy Tippitoe from Brian. All Right, Lorraine,
39:31
Speaker 2: do you have an answer? Lorraine? Yes, I believe it's
39:33
Speaker 2: pac Man Ben is it pac Man Joe. No, the
39:37
Speaker 2: correct answer. You gotta go back a generation, back to
39:39
Speaker 2: the year two thousand. I was actually there. That's how
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Speaker 2: long I used to go to these games. Shaquille O'Neill
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Speaker 2: in ninety nine, two thousand with the Lakers the last
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Speaker 2: to do it. SGA can do it if the Thunder
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Speaker 2: win this year.