WEBVTT - Flood Gates Busted 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:05.440 Boom. If you've got more hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.120 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.400 of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.440 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:20.160 rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:24.040 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:30.240 Maller starts right now in the air everywhere a holiday 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:35.240 weekend in the fifth Hour is fluviating the time away. 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:37.639 We thank you for spending some time with us, because hey, 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.640 clearly not enough time on the overnight show. And so 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:44.360 here we are back at it here eight days a week. 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:46.599 This would be the eighth day of the week. So 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.720 you do the math on this. And if you're if 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:51.680 you're on the East Coast, which is where most people live, 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:57.560 you get this show every day of the week, either 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:00.720 the radio show or the podcast. You get two shows 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:06.800 on Friday, and I guess technically two shows if you're 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:08.720 on the West Coast is two on Sunday, but it's 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:13.120 it's a total of eight shows a week spread out 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:15.760 over seven days. But the way it works with the 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.560 it's a very confusing. Anyway, West of the four oh 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:29.319 five is here David when his own sound effects going 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:31.720 can sound effects to love to love, You get this 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.120 day over with. I got some beers to drink and 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:37.479 some women to look at in this mail bag edition 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:41.200 is awfully shitty. No, it's a great male bag. I 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:42.640 love it, and you know I don't like to waste time. 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:44.400 I love the mail bag. It's one of my my 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:47.000 favorite things of the week. Answering the questions I like 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:50.200 the unwashed a little bit difficult for you. A little 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.680 ball washing from Pierre, more ball washing from Pierre, and 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:56.600 then something else from saying, you're so jealous of Pierre, 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.160 the relationship that me and Pierre had, You're so jealous 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:03.000 of that nausea. Uh, and this is very uncomfortable for you. 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.720 You do not handle this, which is odd because you're 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:08.720 west of the four h five where all the heartless 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.080 people to uh and and here you are not able 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:16.040 to to put up with some some banter, some friendly banter. 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.440 It's a nuisance for you. The good for you. The 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:20.440 good news is, though, is west of the four oh 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:27.320 five you can get yourself ben mallor a tent from dollars. 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:29.399 So we do everything west of the four h five. 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.480 There you go. Listen, you got to live more like 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.080 east of the four oh got to soften you people 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.440 up over there west of the four oh five, like 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.000 some of the homeless. You know, you don't have to 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.560 push all your homeless people east of the four oh five. 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.320 You can carry around some of your your own homeless people. 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:48.519 I have heard I've not been to Venice Beach. I 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:50.639 used to love going to Venice and people watching, But 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.200 I have heard from people that have been there that 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:55.840 it bears no resemblance to the old Venice Beach. It 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.840 is over the top. It's like a homeless shanty town. Now. 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.080 It reminds me of when I was in college going 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.639 down to t J. That's what it reminds me of. 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.600 It does I should you not. It's just it's awful. 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:13.680 It's a demilitarized zone. Is that what you're saying? Whatever 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:17.359 that ship was? Yeah? Yeah, and seeah you were you 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:21.320 were a citizen of chaz weren't right. You like living 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:25.160 in places that are in shambles. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:26.919 what we're doing. So the real question with this is 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:29.919 like how how bad does it have to get for 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:32.959 the voters to then vote out the dumb dumbs that 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.560 are allowing it to happen. They would have to get 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:39.680 to their front porch. Okay, that's what Well, it's and 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.000 it's funny because those people on the and you're referring 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:46.400 to a story in l A where some politician thought, well, 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:48.840 let's put homeless people on on the park in the 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:52.080 parking lots of the beaches, you know, why not. And 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.080 so then then all these people that didn't give a 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.240 ship about homeless people being you know, downtown and all 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.320 over l A, all of a sudden are like, oh wait, 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.880 we got a problem here. Uh, this is this? We 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.760 kind allow this, you know. Jeez. Hey, let's get to 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:09.120 the mailback. So we have Greg from West Saint Paul, Minnesota. 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:13.800 He asked a question which was similar to Todd in Omaha, Nebraska. 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.240 Greg asked, how old were you when you got your 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:18.440 first job? He says, I was twelve. He got a 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:23.200 paper route or root. Uh. Todd in Omaha says, now 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.479 we're adults. What jobs did you start with? He says 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.839 he was a dishwasher at an Italian restaurant. My first 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:33.119 job I delivered the newspaper for the Irvine World News, 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:37.440 which I don't think exists anymore. It was a weekly newspaper. 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.320 It came out on Thursday, and I was a newspaper 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.240 delivery person. I I really wanted to get promoted to 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.480 the Orange County Register because that was more money of 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.920 the l A Times, but I never made it. I 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:49.840 just stuck to the Irvine World News for a brief 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:51.960 amount of time. And I also became very lazy, so 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:55.360 it ended up me preparing the papers and my mom 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.680 driving around so I could throw the papers. So that's 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:00.680 how that went. And then I worked at my mom 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.960 my family family business. My my mom started her own 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:07.680 mailing service like bulk mail kind of stuff, junk mail 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.320 for realtors and things like that before the Internet took off, 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:12.960 and so I prepared a lot of the mail and 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.760 I did that and she'd pay me a couple of 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:19.479 bucks now and again. So those are my first first jobs. 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:23.160 Family business and delivering the newspaper. What about you guess 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:28.280 guy stock groceries overnight for for local grocery store. That'd 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.560 be a good job. That sucked. Why don't you gonna 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.120 listen to the radio You can put It's not like 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.359 I don't think it's that stressful. When when you're in college, 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:39.520 the last thing you want to do is work overnight. 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.240 You want to be partying. So that's how I quit. 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:45.159 So you had that West of the four oh five mentality. Yeah, 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:50.240 even back then, eight ten years old, young, you know, spry, 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.200 some of us started working. Some of us rolled up 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.760 their sleeves, got their hands dirty at age nineteen, while 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.720 some of us weren't playing college football either, So you're 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:04.000 not athletes. Make that in the NFL everybody, No, No, 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:06.160 but I tried. Yeah, he tried. I gotta try. I 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.400 had that work out for you. Yeah, shoulder was a 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:12.600 little banged up. Matt from Elmira, New York's his big bat. 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:16.160 What the hell's that? That's where Tom Looney's from Elmira, 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:19.800 New York. It's an upstate Okay, Matt says. When I 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:23.880 was young, Mike Tyson was a larger than life superhuman fighter, 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:27.120 and I remember vividly being heartbroken when he lost a 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:30.320 Buster Douglas. Now, being older, I find myself wondering if 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.559 Tyson was really all that great as he struggled against 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:37.080 the tougher competition, and if he was just more entertaining 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:41.760 against lesser opponents than he was a skilled boxer regardless, 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.000 he's a legend. But I'd love to hear your thoughts. 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.400 I love the show, Matt in Elmira, Well, thanks for 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:49.840 loving the show, Matt. Yeah, I was. I was in 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:51.520 awe of Mike Tyson too. I don't know if we're 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.080 around the same age. Probably are, but the legend of 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:58.040 Mike Tyson and the baddest man on the planet and 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:02.760 the folklore around Tyson and I recall the Buster Douglas 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:04.800 fight happened like in the middle of the night on 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:07.159 the weekends. It was an odd time, as I remember, 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.080 and it was when news started filtering out, and that 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:14.160 was in the days before the interweb had had taken off, 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:16.680 and so it was like shocking. It was like, did 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:20.320 that really happen? What? What? No, there's no way, you know. 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.680 As as far as the reality of Tyson, I have 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:28.000 not studied it. I have to go back and look. 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:33.400 But I do remember Tyson fighting Tomato Cans and just 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:38.080 pummeling him into submission. That's my memory of Tyson watching 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.440 some of those fights as a kid and they're like, whoaly, 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:42.920 crap man. I wouldn't want to get into a street 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:46.160 fight with this guy. I can't remember a bigger upset 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.200 outside of the nauseating Game seven that we were at 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.440 Astros and Dodgers. Well, that was that was a sham though, 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:57.160 That was a cheating. I just I could not. Tyson 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:00.960 was kid dynamite. He was he was invincible, he was bulletproof. Yeah, 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:04.480 he was so intimidating two with those eyes. They say 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.880 styles make fights, guest gun and when you don't prepare, 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:10.120 that's the style and you get your ass kicked. H man, 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:14.760 it was and the other I love the boxing cliches 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:16.640 and know I was like, well, a good boxer always 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.120 beats a good puncher. Well are you are we gonna 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.040 say Buster Douglas is a good boxer. I wouldn't say that. 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.000 He just happened to take advantage of Tyson, who was 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:30.240 clearly not ready to fight. It wasn't didn't prepare and 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.959 you know Buster Douglas after that, that was it. That 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:35.800 was just you know he would talk about one hit 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:42.079 wonders right and jump right there. Yeah, that was it. 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.520 We need we need some good fights boxing, not the 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:50.000 celebrity boxing crap. I'm not really into that. But we 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:51.719 used to have a couple of big fights a year, 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:56.280 get back to that. Bring bring back the sluggers. The uh, 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.440 the swarmers bring up, bring those guys back, the brawlers. Yeah, 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.559 the brawlers, bring them, bring him back, bring him out there. 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:07.040 Let's see here, what is next page? Then we're done. 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.880 We're done. Yes, no, no, no, no no no. Jason 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.559 from Rocky mountin Virginia says, for both of you, have 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:15.439 you ever ridden a motorcycle or an a t V? 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:20.000 If so, when and where? Also, Ben, your hat should 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:21.679 be there whenever you check your mail. Thank you you 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:27.840 got you a hat? Did I misspeak? I'm reading the email. 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:32.760 I was kind of hoping he's said, both of you guys, 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.080 he sent you a hat. You don't need a hat. 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.760 You don't even wear hats. I'm wearing a hat right now. No, 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.440 you're not wearing a hat. A hat. Looking I'm looking 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.679 at you. You don't have The sun is bright. I 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:44.760 need the hat to cover my face. I don't see. 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:49.640 I don't see a hat. I have never ridden a motorcycle. 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:52.160 I'm too fat for that. But I have been on 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:58.280 an a t V in Hawaii, Hawaii and quiet. We 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:02.199 had to take a t V S two. There was 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:07.440 a thing you can go to the Indiana Jones Swing. 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.400 Remember that scene in Indiana Jones where he's getting chased 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:12.959 by the natives and he runs down and he jumps 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:16.400 on the rope and into the water to the plane. Yeah, 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:20.000 they that's I was filmed in Kauaii. And you can 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:22.520 do uh a toy They can take it like waterfalls 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:24.719 and things like that, and you have to drive in 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.320 a TV to get there. That's pretty cool. Yeah, I drove. 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:29.520 I drove a dirt bike in an a t V 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:31.959 on the desert. I have a few buddies that have 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:36.040 toy boxes and dune buggies and a t V s 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.520 and UH dirt bikes. I actually on the same day 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.640 I crashed both of them. Actually flipped the a t 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.400 V two. I was at a buddy of mine that 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:50.360 dared me to go up this massive dune and I 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:52.719 could not go up it. It was my first time 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.240 riding his and he actually said he flipped his brakes. 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.880 So the front brakes were on the left, No, the 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:01.559 front brakes from the right side I think it was, 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.520 and the back brakes from the left. Yeah, and I 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.560 hit the wrong one as I was going back down, 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.920 so I accidentally hit the front brake and I flipped 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:13.560 over the the a t V and the TV rolled 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.840 over me. Everyone thought I was dead, like they broke 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:20.160 my neck. Yeah, you know, I'm a little freaked out 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:22.760 our our former colleague. I don't know if you were 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:24.400 here when she was here, but Amy van Dyken, the 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:28.640 Olympic gold medal swimmer record breaker, she was on an 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:30.440 a t V and she got in a big accident, 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:36.040 right and she ended up paraplegic. But I mean that's, 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.480 you know, like she had a curb curb or something 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.480 like that. I forget exactly what happened with something that 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:42.760 happened in Arizona, but yeah, that gave me. And I'm 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.840 pretty convinced if I drove a motorcycle, be unbelievably fun 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:50.120 and I'd crash, and those two things would don't They 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:53.080 don't cross each other out, and they don't. I crashed 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:58.560 everything I drive, boat, a TV, dirt bike, car. Yeah, 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:00.559 some people are motorcycle guys. What I gotta tell you. 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.160 When I'm on the highways around l A here and 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.840 I see people who and they cut through the lanes, 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:09.040 you know you're allowed to. I mean that it's like 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:12.599 having a death wish to me. When you do that, 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.200 I see people get I've seen several times over used 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.320 motorcycle guys laying on the on the freeway because they've 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.840 just been dinged from someone who crossed over a little 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.480 bit while they were driving between the lanes. Can't do it, man. 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.240 And the other thing that I hate about motorcycle people 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.360 is when I don't mind it as much if you're 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.800 kind of lean and mean on the motorcycle, but those 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:36.199 massive Harley's that look like there are many cars that 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:38.439 drive try to drive between lanes. I think that's a 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:43.120 little much, little much. Bill writes in says, would you 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:49.560 ever take a morning drive gig? If offered um? Well, 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.360 as I said on a previous episode, guess I. My 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.480 belief is, uh, everyone's got a price, the magic Christian right, 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.520 Everyone's got a price, and if if they reach that price, 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.920 I would leave. I love my job. I like to 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:04.640 do this for many, many more years. But if somebody 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.480 comes and makes it rain and it would have to 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:10.120 be game changing money, but I would certainly do it 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:11.599 if I could pay my bills off and live a 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:13.199 very comfortable life and not have to worry about a 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.040 lot of the financial stuff, and and get a real salary, 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.040 not an overnight Sorry, I'd be be good with that. 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:22.679 What happens if I deliver that for you? It's highly unlikely. Well, 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.920 you kid die. I'm pretty sure brought a lot of 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.640 things to your table that weren't there before. I don't 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:33.160 know about that. John the jailer says, Ben and Gascon, 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.760 I'm having a Memorial Day party and you're invited pizza 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:39.040 and wings or burgers and dogs. Both burgers and not 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.959 what burgers and dogs? I just love my pizza. I 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.440 love my pizza, but holiday weekend burgers and dogs? Now? 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.959 Do you also go potato or eggs salad? Too? Uh? No, 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:54.000 I don't believe any salad, So what's wrong with you? Salad? Potail? Salad? 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:57.440 Always do? I don't like potato cheese burgers, A hot 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.720 dog with barberships, I do hip, I do the chips. 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.600 I do the potato chips, Friedo's. I like the FreeDOS 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:07.800 Finway Monster Dog, the greatest hot dog out there, wonderful. 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.480 Cliff in Nashville had a similar question. He says, Ben, 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.680 what's your Memorial Day barbecue go to? Uh? He says, 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:19.320 I know it's not the Tomahawk. Fuck you it's not 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:27.080 very nice say that to Cliff Wow. Kevin in Kansas writes, 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.000 since says, hey, Ben and David, I wrote you this winner, 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:34.640 commending the podcast for keeping me informed and entertained while 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:36.920 I jogged. Now the same thing is happening. Is I 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:40.000 mow yards? I was wondering if either of you mode 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:44.080 yards as youngsters, or what similar chores were you assigned. 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.960 I love the show, well, Kevin, Yeah, I was a lawnmower. 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.720 I vacuum That was my my chores at the house. 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:54.440 I was a vacuum cleaner guy, and I would occasionally 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:57.320 mow the lawn and my older brother were rotate. But 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:02.280 this is back in the bron age because my I 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:04.680 tried to find it when my pops passed away. This 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:11.120 lawnmower was the worst freaking lawnmower. It was a manual lawnmower, 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:15.120 and the blades, once they became dull, it really didn't 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.600 cut the grass very well at all. It was horrific 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.720 compared to the lawnmowers they have today. It was a 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:25.560 freaking nightmare and it took us forever and we ended 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.040 up it kept getting jammed. The thing it had these 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:32.400 these large long metal blades that would rotate as you 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:36.120 rolled the thing. It was like out of I mean 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.680 I was out of a colonial times or something like that. 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.320 It was insane. But yeah, I did mow of the lawn. 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.640 Are attempted to as a kid. What about you get? Yeah, 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:49.240 I did mowing the lawn. Um. I would paint at 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:54.320 the sands. Sometimes I'd have to uh with the floors, 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:56.400 like tiles on the floors as I put that down, 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.400 and then the sprinkler system did that installed that with 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:06.240 my pop. Yea, so did a bunch of things. David 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:11.400 in Simpsonville, South Carolina. Right, since for both of you, 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:15.280 what's the greatest athlete you have met or interviewed and 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:21.360 were they? Were they decent or addict to you? Uh? Well? 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:26.760 As a autograph hound, I don't know if I'm I. 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:30.120 I stocked Joe di Maggio. I saw the side in 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.160 the back of Joe di Maggio at a hotel in 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.960 San Diego. I don't really didn't meet him. Nolan Ryan 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.520 George Brett. I had a great memory of George Brett. 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.120 We were in high school. We followed George Brett to 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:45.840 a bar in Anaheim. George was drinking with his brother 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:48.120 Ken Brett, who was a broadcaster for the Angels at 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:52.680 the time, and we had been tipped off that Brett 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.480 was at this bar, so all those high school kids 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:59.440 went is on the weekend and it's like, you know, 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.480 two in the morning, closing time, and the Brett brothers 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:07.239 come stumbling out of the bar, and we were all 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:09.720 waiting for the autographs George Brett for you gonna be 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.520 a three thousand hit guy, gonna be a Hall of Famer, 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:13.680 the greatest Kansas City royal of all time. So we're 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.600 like waiting for George Brett and he comes out of 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:22.640 the bar completely hammered, it appeared, and he starts cursing 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.080 at us, like what are your kids doing here? You know, 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:27.840 like but then he signed everything, but the whole time 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:29.879 he was like giving. He was busting our balls, cursing 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.200 like well you shouldn't you guys be sleeping, And it 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:37.399 was hilarious. Uh, Ben, I think the greatest athlete I 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:40.399 ever met was actually probably one of the greatest of 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.720 all time. I actually met Gretzky a couple of times, 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:47.240 but the most recent encounter was gosh, I want to 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.600 say it was like nine ten years ago. I actually 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:54.520 met him in Vegas at a blackjack table and a 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.520 buddy of mine spotted him and says that gret Sky 0:17:57.600 --> 0:17:59.760 over there. And he was at a table with his agent, 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.240 I think was the general manage at the time, Michael Barnett, 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:06.440 of the of the Coyotes, and they were playing blackjack together, 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:08.639 but just the two of them, and the stakes on 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:10.679 the table weren't that high, and he had a lot 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:13.280 of chips that were obviously out there. But I thought, 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:14.800 fuck it, I'll go play with the great one. I 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:16.840 was a little soft, so I sat down with him, 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:20.000 and he was the biggest dick. He proceeded to lose 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:24.240 his fucking ass. It was. It was chips getting taken 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:26.920 on top of chips getting taken, and and I just 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.520 made a comment to my buddy because he was like, Hey, 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:31.200 is that Gretzky And I said, yeah, that's a great 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:32.840 one right there, and I kind of pointed to him, 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:36.159 and he's just like, nothing great about me, and like 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:39.920 just lost another stack of chips and then just walked off, 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:46.399 say you lose all the bet you don't make. Now 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:48.840 that it's over at TNZ, be sure to catch live 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.239 editions of the Ben Maller Show week days at two 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:54.440 am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Be sure to catch live 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:56.840 editions of The Ben Maller Show week days at two 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:00.520 am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports It's Radio 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.840 and the I Heart Radio app. But in the media, 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:05.240 I was telling the story about when I was a 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:08.040 kid getting autographs and meeting some of the players, the 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:11.359 old baseball players. But as in the media like I've 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:14.240 been pretty like like Jordan's John, I didn't even John 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:19.239 Wooden coach k Tony Gwynn, Mr podre back in the day. 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:21.479 What a cool what a cool guy. Tony gwyn was man, 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:25.280 so nice, the most down to earth superstar I had 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:28.840 ever met, And still to this day, Tony Gwynn like 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:31.919 just just the coolest guy. Uh. And then I got 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:33.200 a lot of the guys in l a shock. I 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:35.560 was around Kobe before he became Kobe, when he was 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:38.600 a rookie with the fro and yeah, and he would 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:40.800 hang out and uh, you know, he'd shoot the ship 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:43.840 with the radio guys, and he was a buddy, buddy, 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:47.000 my my buddy. He's a boxing reporter now from Israel, 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:51.040 and uh, and he was because Kobe's you know it 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:53.200 was an international guy. He became friends with him, and 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:56.840 it was it was cool. Uh, And I obviously I 0:19:56.920 --> 0:19:58.679 love the broadcaster. So I got to meet a lot 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:01.320 of my heroes in podcasting, people I looked up to 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:05.879 from Afar when I was a kid, like Harry Carey. Um, uh, 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:10.360 you're down the list, the old Phillies broadcaster Harry Callius, 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.399 who I loved us, the voice of NFL films, and 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:17.680 I'm trying to think, the old Tiger broadcaster. What was 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:20.199 the guy's name, Ernie Harwell, Ernie harr I met him. 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:22.879 A lot of these guys they've moved on, but uh, 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:27.280 you know Vince Gully chickern Ralph Lawler, people like that. 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:30.200 So a lot of cool, cool things, all right. Next 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:34.800 up Pierre from Springfield, mass Pro Basketball Hall of Fame, 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:40.160 down the street from where Muffett McGraw is enshrined and says, 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:43.200 refresh my memory, bend. Didn't you have a caller years 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:47.200 ago from New Orleans that said that they were writing 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:51.640 a book about the show and the militia? Yes? Yes, 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:55.639 great show knowledge by you, Pierre, Good show knowledge by you, Pierre. 0:20:55.760 --> 0:21:01.080 So what happened, uh, was so this guy would call 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:03.320 up sporadically from New Orleans. He was a little out 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:06.240 there and he always would he would would would say, 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:07.800 I'm writing a book, and he give us a little 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:10.680 taste of the chapter that he was working on, and 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:14.480 the book never it was he was pulling our chain 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:16.760 and there's no book, right And then I think guy 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:19.000 hasn't called in a long time. I don't know what 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:22.560 happened to him. He kind of vanished there. But the yeah, 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:25.760 we he used to say that, and I flirted around 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:28.959 with some people about writing a book, but nothing's ever materialized. Uh, 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:30.960 and Gascon says, I shouldn't be allowed to write a 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:33.520 book till I'm almost dead. So he said, I never 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:35.400 said that, But if you didn't say that, if you're 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:37.840 gonna do it, you should. You should really lay it 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:40.080 all out. And I don't think you can right now. 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:44.359 I believe I am held back by the man. Is 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:45.800 that what you're saying. Well, I just think you're in 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:47.400 the prime of your career. I don't think you want 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:50.560 to step on your dick at this moment. There's things 0:21:50.600 --> 0:21:52.399 you can write about that you don't have to do that. 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:57.720