Speaker 1: Boom. If you've got more hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes,
Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller starts right now in the air everywhere a holiday
Speaker 1: weekend in the fifth Hour is fluviating the time away.
Speaker 1: We thank you for spending some time with us, because hey,
Speaker 1: clearly not enough time on the overnight show. And so
Speaker 1: here we are back at it here eight days a week.
Speaker 1: This would be the eighth day of the week. So
Speaker 1: you do the math on this. And if you're if
Speaker 1: you're on the East Coast, which is where most people live,
Speaker 1: you get this show every day of the week, either
Speaker 1: the radio show or the podcast. You get two shows
Speaker 1: on Friday, and I guess technically two shows if you're
Speaker 1: on the West Coast is two on Sunday, but it's
Speaker 1: it's a total of eight shows a week spread out
Speaker 1: over seven days. But the way it works with the
Speaker 1: it's a very confusing. Anyway, West of the four oh
Speaker 1: five is here David when his own sound effects going
Speaker 1: can sound effects to love to love, You get this
Speaker 1: day over with. I got some beers to drink and
Speaker 1: some women to look at in this mail bag edition
Speaker 1: is awfully shitty. No, it's a great male bag. I
Speaker 1: love it, and you know I don't like to waste time.
Speaker 1: I love the mail bag. It's one of my my
Speaker 1: favorite things of the week. Answering the questions I like
Speaker 1: the unwashed a little bit difficult for you. A little
Speaker 1: ball washing from Pierre, more ball washing from Pierre, and
Speaker 1: then something else from saying, you're so jealous of Pierre,
Speaker 1: the relationship that me and Pierre had, You're so jealous
Speaker 1: of that nausea. Uh, and this is very uncomfortable for you.
Speaker 1: You do not handle this, which is odd because you're
Speaker 1: west of the four h five where all the heartless
Speaker 1: people to uh and and here you are not able
Speaker 1: to to put up with some some banter, some friendly banter.
Speaker 1: It's a nuisance for you. The good for you. The
Speaker 1: good news is, though, is west of the four oh
Speaker 1: five you can get yourself ben mallor a tent from dollars.
Speaker 1: So we do everything west of the four h five.
Speaker 1: There you go. Listen, you got to live more like
Speaker 1: east of the four oh got to soften you people
Speaker 1: up over there west of the four oh five, like
Speaker 1: some of the homeless. You know, you don't have to
Speaker 1: push all your homeless people east of the four oh five.
Speaker 1: You can carry around some of your your own homeless people.
Speaker 1: I have heard I've not been to Venice Beach. I
Speaker 1: used to love going to Venice and people watching, But
Speaker 1: I have heard from people that have been there that
Speaker 1: it bears no resemblance to the old Venice Beach. It
Speaker 1: is over the top. It's like a homeless shanty town. Now.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of when I was in college going
Speaker 1: down to t J. That's what it reminds me of.
Speaker 1: It does I should you not. It's just it's awful.
Speaker 1: It's a demilitarized zone. Is that what you're saying? Whatever
Speaker 1: that ship was? Yeah? Yeah, and seeah you were you
Speaker 1: were a citizen of chaz weren't right. You like living
Speaker 1: in places that are in shambles. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what we're doing. So the real question with this is
Speaker 1: like how how bad does it have to get for
Speaker 1: the voters to then vote out the dumb dumbs that
Speaker 1: are allowing it to happen. They would have to get
Speaker 1: to their front porch. Okay, that's what Well, it's and
Speaker 1: it's funny because those people on the and you're referring
Speaker 1: to a story in l A where some politician thought, well,
Speaker 1: let's put homeless people on on the park in the
Speaker 1: parking lots of the beaches, you know, why not. And
Speaker 1: so then then all these people that didn't give a
Speaker 1: ship about homeless people being you know, downtown and all
Speaker 1: over l A, all of a sudden are like, oh wait,
Speaker 1: we got a problem here. Uh, this is this? We
Speaker 1: kind allow this, you know. Jeez. Hey, let's get to
Speaker 1: the mailback. So we have Greg from West Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Speaker 1: He asked a question which was similar to Todd in Omaha, Nebraska.
Speaker 1: Greg asked, how old were you when you got your
Speaker 1: first job? He says, I was twelve. He got a
Speaker 1: paper route or root. Uh. Todd in Omaha says, now
Speaker 1: we're adults. What jobs did you start with? He says
Speaker 1: he was a dishwasher at an Italian restaurant. My first
Speaker 1: job I delivered the newspaper for the Irvine World News,
Speaker 1: which I don't think exists anymore. It was a weekly newspaper.
Speaker 1: It came out on Thursday, and I was a newspaper
Speaker 1: delivery person. I I really wanted to get promoted to
Speaker 1: the Orange County Register because that was more money of
Speaker 1: the l A Times, but I never made it. I
Speaker 1: just stuck to the Irvine World News for a brief
Speaker 1: amount of time. And I also became very lazy, so
Speaker 1: it ended up me preparing the papers and my mom
Speaker 1: driving around so I could throw the papers. So that's
Speaker 1: how that went. And then I worked at my mom
Speaker 1: my family family business. My my mom started her own
Speaker 1: mailing service like bulk mail kind of stuff, junk mail
Speaker 1: for realtors and things like that before the Internet took off,
Speaker 1: and so I prepared a lot of the mail and
Speaker 1: I did that and she'd pay me a couple of
Speaker 1: bucks now and again. So those are my first first jobs.
Speaker 1: Family business and delivering the newspaper. What about you guess
Speaker 1: guy stock groceries overnight for for local grocery store. That'd
Speaker 1: be a good job. That sucked. Why don't you gonna
Speaker 1: listen to the radio You can put It's not like
Speaker 1: I don't think it's that stressful. When when you're in college,
Speaker 1: the last thing you want to do is work overnight.
Speaker 1: You want to be partying. So that's how I quit.
Speaker 1: So you had that West of the four oh five mentality. Yeah,
Speaker 1: even back then, eight ten years old, young, you know, spry,
Speaker 1: some of us started working. Some of us rolled up
Speaker 1: their sleeves, got their hands dirty at age nineteen, while
Speaker 1: some of us weren't playing college football either, So you're
Speaker 1: not athletes. Make that in the NFL everybody, No, No,
Speaker 1: but I tried. Yeah, he tried. I gotta try. I
Speaker 1: had that work out for you. Yeah, shoulder was a
Speaker 1: little banged up. Matt from Elmira, New York's his big bat.
Speaker 1: What the hell's that? That's where Tom Looney's from Elmira,
Speaker 1: New York. It's an upstate Okay, Matt says. When I
Speaker 1: was young, Mike Tyson was a larger than life superhuman fighter,
Speaker 1: and I remember vividly being heartbroken when he lost a
Speaker 1: Buster Douglas. Now, being older, I find myself wondering if
Speaker 1: Tyson was really all that great as he struggled against
Speaker 1: the tougher competition, and if he was just more entertaining
Speaker 1: against lesser opponents than he was a skilled boxer regardless,
Speaker 1: he's a legend. But I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Speaker 1: I love the show, Matt in Elmira, Well, thanks for
Speaker 1: loving the show, Matt. Yeah, I was. I was in
Speaker 1: awe of Mike Tyson too. I don't know if we're
Speaker 1: around the same age. Probably are, but the legend of
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson and the baddest man on the planet and
Speaker 1: the folklore around Tyson and I recall the Buster Douglas
Speaker 1: fight happened like in the middle of the night on
Speaker 1: the weekends. It was an odd time, as I remember,
Speaker 1: and it was when news started filtering out, and that
Speaker 1: was in the days before the interweb had had taken off,
Speaker 1: and so it was like shocking. It was like, did
Speaker 1: that really happen? What? What? No, there's no way, you know.
Speaker 1: As as far as the reality of Tyson, I have
Speaker 1: not studied it. I have to go back and look.
Speaker 1: But I do remember Tyson fighting Tomato Cans and just
Speaker 1: pummeling him into submission. That's my memory of Tyson watching
Speaker 1: some of those fights as a kid and they're like, whoaly,
Speaker 1: crap man. I wouldn't want to get into a street
Speaker 1: fight with this guy. I can't remember a bigger upset
Speaker 1: outside of the nauseating Game seven that we were at
Speaker 1: Astros and Dodgers. Well, that was that was a sham though,
Speaker 1: That was a cheating. I just I could not. Tyson
Speaker 1: was kid dynamite. He was he was invincible, he was bulletproof. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was so intimidating two with those eyes. They say
Speaker 1: styles make fights, guest gun and when you don't prepare,
Speaker 1: that's the style and you get your ass kicked. H man,
Speaker 1: it was and the other I love the boxing cliches
Speaker 1: and know I was like, well, a good boxer always
Speaker 1: beats a good puncher. Well are you are we gonna
Speaker 1: say Buster Douglas is a good boxer. I wouldn't say that.
Speaker 1: He just happened to take advantage of Tyson, who was
Speaker 1: clearly not ready to fight. It wasn't didn't prepare and
Speaker 1: you know Buster Douglas after that, that was it. That
Speaker 1: was just you know he would talk about one hit
Speaker 1: wonders right and jump right there. Yeah, that was it.
Speaker 1: We need we need some good fights boxing, not the
Speaker 1: celebrity boxing crap. I'm not really into that. But we
Speaker 1: used to have a couple of big fights a year,
Speaker 1: get back to that. Bring bring back the sluggers. The uh,
Speaker 1: the swarmers bring up, bring those guys back, the brawlers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the brawlers, bring them, bring him back, bring him out there.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, what is next page? Then we're done.
Speaker 1: We're done. Yes, no, no, no, no no no. Jason
Speaker 1: from Rocky mountin Virginia says, for both of you, have
Speaker 1: you ever ridden a motorcycle or an a t V?
Speaker 1: If so, when and where? Also, Ben, your hat should
Speaker 1: be there whenever you check your mail. Thank you you
Speaker 1: got you a hat? Did I misspeak? I'm reading the email.
Speaker 1: I was kind of hoping he's said, both of you guys,
Speaker 1: he sent you a hat. You don't need a hat.
Speaker 1: You don't even wear hats. I'm wearing a hat right now. No,
Speaker 1: you're not wearing a hat. A hat. Looking I'm looking
Speaker 1: at you. You don't have The sun is bright. I
Speaker 1: need the hat to cover my face. I don't see.
Speaker 1: I don't see a hat. I have never ridden a motorcycle.
Speaker 1: I'm too fat for that. But I have been on
Speaker 1: an a t V in Hawaii, Hawaii and quiet. We
Speaker 1: had to take a t V S two. There was
Speaker 1: a thing you can go to the Indiana Jones Swing.
Speaker 1: Remember that scene in Indiana Jones where he's getting chased
Speaker 1: by the natives and he runs down and he jumps
Speaker 1: on the rope and into the water to the plane. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they that's I was filmed in Kauaii. And you can
Speaker 1: do uh a toy They can take it like waterfalls
Speaker 1: and things like that, and you have to drive in
Speaker 1: a TV to get there. That's pretty cool. Yeah, I drove.
Speaker 1: I drove a dirt bike in an a t V
Speaker 1: on the desert. I have a few buddies that have
Speaker 1: toy boxes and dune buggies and a t V s
Speaker 1: and UH dirt bikes. I actually on the same day
Speaker 1: I crashed both of them. Actually flipped the a t
Speaker 1: V two. I was at a buddy of mine that
Speaker 1: dared me to go up this massive dune and I
Speaker 1: could not go up it. It was my first time
Speaker 1: riding his and he actually said he flipped his brakes.
Speaker 1: So the front brakes were on the left, No, the
Speaker 1: front brakes from the right side I think it was,
Speaker 1: and the back brakes from the left. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: hit the wrong one as I was going back down,
Speaker 1: so I accidentally hit the front brake and I flipped
Speaker 1: over the the a t V and the TV rolled
Speaker 1: over me. Everyone thought I was dead, like they broke
Speaker 1: my neck. Yeah, you know, I'm a little freaked out
Speaker 1: our our former colleague. I don't know if you were
Speaker 1: here when she was here, but Amy van Dyken, the
Speaker 1: Olympic gold medal swimmer record breaker, she was on an
Speaker 1: a t V and she got in a big accident,
Speaker 1: right and she ended up paraplegic. But I mean that's,
Speaker 1: you know, like she had a curb curb or something
Speaker 1: like that. I forget exactly what happened with something that
Speaker 1: happened in Arizona, but yeah, that gave me. And I'm
Speaker 1: pretty convinced if I drove a motorcycle, be unbelievably fun
Speaker 1: and I'd crash, and those two things would don't They
Speaker 1: don't cross each other out, and they don't. I crashed
Speaker 1: everything I drive, boat, a TV, dirt bike, car. Yeah,
Speaker 1: some people are motorcycle guys. What I gotta tell you.
Speaker 1: When I'm on the highways around l A here and
Speaker 1: I see people who and they cut through the lanes,
Speaker 1: you know you're allowed to. I mean that it's like
Speaker 1: having a death wish to me. When you do that,
Speaker 1: I see people get I've seen several times over used
Speaker 1: motorcycle guys laying on the on the freeway because they've
Speaker 1: just been dinged from someone who crossed over a little
Speaker 1: bit while they were driving between the lanes. Can't do it, man.
Speaker 1: And the other thing that I hate about motorcycle people
Speaker 1: is when I don't mind it as much if you're
Speaker 1: kind of lean and mean on the motorcycle, but those
Speaker 1: massive Harley's that look like there are many cars that
Speaker 1: drive try to drive between lanes. I think that's a
Speaker 1: little much, little much. Bill writes in says, would you
Speaker 1: ever take a morning drive gig? If offered um? Well,
Speaker 1: as I said on a previous episode, guess I. My
Speaker 1: belief is, uh, everyone's got a price, the magic Christian right,
Speaker 1: Everyone's got a price, and if if they reach that price,
Speaker 1: I would leave. I love my job. I like to
Speaker 1: do this for many, many more years. But if somebody
Speaker 1: comes and makes it rain and it would have to
Speaker 1: be game changing money, but I would certainly do it
Speaker 1: if I could pay my bills off and live a
Speaker 1: very comfortable life and not have to worry about a
Speaker 1: lot of the financial stuff, and and get a real salary,
Speaker 1: not an overnight Sorry, I'd be be good with that.
Speaker 1: What happens if I deliver that for you? It's highly unlikely. Well,
Speaker 1: you kid die. I'm pretty sure brought a lot of
Speaker 1: things to your table that weren't there before. I don't
Speaker 1: know about that. John the jailer says, Ben and Gascon,
Speaker 1: I'm having a Memorial Day party and you're invited pizza
Speaker 1: and wings or burgers and dogs. Both burgers and not
Speaker 1: what burgers and dogs? I just love my pizza. I
Speaker 1: love my pizza, but holiday weekend burgers and dogs? Now?
Speaker 1: Do you also go potato or eggs salad? Too? Uh? No,
Speaker 1: I don't believe any salad, So what's wrong with you? Salad? Potail? Salad?
Speaker 1: Always do? I don't like potato cheese burgers, A hot
Speaker 1: dog with barberships, I do hip, I do the chips.
Speaker 1: I do the potato chips, Friedo's. I like the FreeDOS
Speaker 1: Finway Monster Dog, the greatest hot dog out there, wonderful.
Speaker 1: Cliff in Nashville had a similar question. He says, Ben,
Speaker 1: what's your Memorial Day barbecue go to? Uh? He says,
Speaker 1: I know it's not the Tomahawk. Fuck you it's not
Speaker 1: very nice say that to Cliff Wow. Kevin in Kansas writes,
Speaker 1: since says, hey, Ben and David, I wrote you this winner,
Speaker 1: commending the podcast for keeping me informed and entertained while
Speaker 1: I jogged. Now the same thing is happening. Is I
Speaker 1: mow yards? I was wondering if either of you mode
Speaker 1: yards as youngsters, or what similar chores were you assigned.
Speaker 1: I love the show, well, Kevin, Yeah, I was a lawnmower.
Speaker 1: I vacuum That was my my chores at the house.
Speaker 1: I was a vacuum cleaner guy, and I would occasionally
Speaker 1: mow the lawn and my older brother were rotate. But
Speaker 1: this is back in the bron age because my I
Speaker 1: tried to find it when my pops passed away. This
Speaker 1: lawnmower was the worst freaking lawnmower. It was a manual lawnmower,
Speaker 1: and the blades, once they became dull, it really didn't
Speaker 1: cut the grass very well at all. It was horrific
Speaker 1: compared to the lawnmowers they have today. It was a
Speaker 1: freaking nightmare and it took us forever and we ended
Speaker 1: up it kept getting jammed. The thing it had these
Speaker 1: these large long metal blades that would rotate as you
Speaker 1: rolled the thing. It was like out of I mean
Speaker 1: I was out of a colonial times or something like that.
Speaker 1: It was insane. But yeah, I did mow of the lawn.
Speaker 1: Are attempted to as a kid. What about you get? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did mowing the lawn. Um. I would paint at
Speaker 1: the sands. Sometimes I'd have to uh with the floors,
Speaker 1: like tiles on the floors as I put that down,
Speaker 1: and then the sprinkler system did that installed that with
Speaker 1: my pop. Yea, so did a bunch of things. David
Speaker 1: in Simpsonville, South Carolina. Right, since for both of you,
Speaker 1: what's the greatest athlete you have met or interviewed and
Speaker 1: were they? Were they decent or addict to you? Uh? Well?
Speaker 1: As a autograph hound, I don't know if I'm I.
Speaker 1: I stocked Joe di Maggio. I saw the side in
Speaker 1: the back of Joe di Maggio at a hotel in
Speaker 1: San Diego. I don't really didn't meet him. Nolan Ryan
Speaker 1: George Brett. I had a great memory of George Brett.
Speaker 1: We were in high school. We followed George Brett to
Speaker 1: a bar in Anaheim. George was drinking with his brother
Speaker 1: Ken Brett, who was a broadcaster for the Angels at
Speaker 1: the time, and we had been tipped off that Brett
Speaker 1: was at this bar, so all those high school kids
Speaker 1: went is on the weekend and it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: two in the morning, closing time, and the Brett brothers
Speaker 1: come stumbling out of the bar, and we were all
Speaker 1: waiting for the autographs George Brett for you gonna be
Speaker 1: a three thousand hit guy, gonna be a Hall of Famer,
Speaker 1: the greatest Kansas City royal of all time. So we're
Speaker 1: like waiting for George Brett and he comes out of
Speaker 1: the bar completely hammered, it appeared, and he starts cursing
Speaker 1: at us, like what are your kids doing here? You know,
Speaker 1: like but then he signed everything, but the whole time
Speaker 1: he was like giving. He was busting our balls, cursing
Speaker 1: like well you shouldn't you guys be sleeping, And it
Speaker 1: was hilarious. Uh, Ben, I think the greatest athlete I
Speaker 1: ever met was actually probably one of the greatest of
Speaker 1: all time. I actually met Gretzky a couple of times,
Speaker 1: but the most recent encounter was gosh, I want to
Speaker 1: say it was like nine ten years ago. I actually
Speaker 1: met him in Vegas at a blackjack table and a
Speaker 1: buddy of mine spotted him and says that gret Sky
Speaker 1: over there. And he was at a table with his agent,
Speaker 1: I think was the general manage at the time, Michael Barnett,
Speaker 1: of the of the Coyotes, and they were playing blackjack together,
Speaker 1: but just the two of them, and the stakes on
Speaker 1: the table weren't that high, and he had a lot
Speaker 1: of chips that were obviously out there. But I thought,
Speaker 1: fuck it, I'll go play with the great one. I
Speaker 1: was a little soft, so I sat down with him,
Speaker 1: and he was the biggest dick. He proceeded to lose
Speaker 1: his fucking ass. It was. It was chips getting taken
Speaker 1: on top of chips getting taken, and and I just
Speaker 1: made a comment to my buddy because he was like, Hey,
Speaker 1: is that Gretzky And I said, yeah, that's a great
Speaker 1: one right there, and I kind of pointed to him,
Speaker 1: and he's just like, nothing great about me, and like
Speaker 1: just lost another stack of chips and then just walked off,
Speaker 1: say you lose all the bet you don't make. Now
Speaker 1: that it's over at TNZ, be sure to catch live
Speaker 1: editions of the Ben Maller Show week days at two
Speaker 1: am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Be sure to catch live
Speaker 1: editions of The Ben Maller Show week days at two
Speaker 1: am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports It's Radio
Speaker 1: and the I Heart Radio app. But in the media,
Speaker 1: I was telling the story about when I was a
Speaker 1: kid getting autographs and meeting some of the players, the
Speaker 1: old baseball players. But as in the media like I've
Speaker 1: been pretty like like Jordan's John, I didn't even John
Speaker 1: Wooden coach k Tony Gwynn, Mr podre back in the day.
Speaker 1: What a cool what a cool guy. Tony gwyn was man,
Speaker 1: so nice, the most down to earth superstar I had
Speaker 1: ever met, And still to this day, Tony Gwynn like
Speaker 1: just just the coolest guy. Uh. And then I got
Speaker 1: a lot of the guys in l a shock. I
Speaker 1: was around Kobe before he became Kobe, when he was
Speaker 1: a rookie with the fro and yeah, and he would
Speaker 1: hang out and uh, you know, he'd shoot the ship
Speaker 1: with the radio guys, and he was a buddy, buddy,
Speaker 1: my my buddy. He's a boxing reporter now from Israel,
Speaker 1: and uh, and he was because Kobe's you know it
Speaker 1: was an international guy. He became friends with him, and
Speaker 1: it was it was cool. Uh, And I obviously I
Speaker 1: love the broadcaster. So I got to meet a lot
Speaker 1: of my heroes in podcasting, people I looked up to
Speaker 1: from Afar when I was a kid, like Harry Carey. Um, uh,
Speaker 1: you're down the list, the old Phillies broadcaster Harry Callius,
Speaker 1: who I loved us, the voice of NFL films, and
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, the old Tiger broadcaster. What was
Speaker 1: the guy's name, Ernie Harwell, Ernie harr I met him.
Speaker 1: A lot of these guys they've moved on, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know Vince Gully chickern Ralph Lawler, people like that.
Speaker 1: So a lot of cool, cool things, all right. Next
Speaker 1: up Pierre from Springfield, mass Pro Basketball Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: down the street from where Muffett McGraw is enshrined and says,
Speaker 1: refresh my memory, bend. Didn't you have a caller years
Speaker 1: ago from New Orleans that said that they were writing
Speaker 1: a book about the show and the militia? Yes? Yes,
Speaker 1: great show knowledge by you, Pierre, Good show knowledge by you, Pierre.
Speaker 1: So what happened, uh, was so this guy would call
Speaker 1: up sporadically from New Orleans. He was a little out
Speaker 1: there and he always would he would would would say,
Speaker 1: I'm writing a book, and he give us a little
Speaker 1: taste of the chapter that he was working on, and
Speaker 1: the book never it was he was pulling our chain
Speaker 1: and there's no book, right And then I think guy
Speaker 1: hasn't called in a long time. I don't know what
Speaker 1: happened to him. He kind of vanished there. But the yeah,
Speaker 1: we he used to say that, and I flirted around
Speaker 1: with some people about writing a book, but nothing's ever materialized. Uh,
Speaker 1: and Gascon says, I shouldn't be allowed to write a
Speaker 1: book till I'm almost dead. So he said, I never
Speaker 1: said that, But if you didn't say that, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna do it, you should. You should really lay it
Speaker 1: all out. And I don't think you can right now.
Speaker 1: I believe I am held back by the man. Is
Speaker 1: that what you're saying. Well, I just think you're in
Speaker 1: the prime of your career. I don't think you want
Speaker 1: to step on your dick at this moment. There's things
Speaker 1: you can write about that you don't have to do that.
Speaker 1: In tribute to the great Mr Moose Pierre from Springfield,
Speaker 1: says Mr Moose, remain what be possible to rename site
Speaker 1: the Bite to Mr Moose's memorial Site the Bite or
Speaker 1: something in that vein, Well, it would be possible, but
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I think we better off
Speaker 1: Mr Moose giving an award at the Benny's if we
Speaker 1: can figure out where we have the Genie and Medford
Speaker 1: Memorial Caller of the Year Awards, the greatest caller in
Speaker 1: the history of sports radio, Genie and Medford, and we
Speaker 1: do that, we honor Genie's memory. So I think something
Speaker 1: at the Benny's we could do that. I think that
Speaker 1: would be good. But I don't know. But that's too
Speaker 1: wordy and I'll site the bites at Boom Site the Bite.
Speaker 1: All Right, Valls Fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee Falls fan
Speaker 1: Jimmy called up this week and he sounds just like
Speaker 1: you would imagine Valls Fan Jimmy to sound like, all right,
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Sounds like authentic Tennessee.
Speaker 1: And he's not a fake fraud Tennessee. And he's not
Speaker 1: one of these Californians that moved to Tennessee. This guy
Speaker 1: is authentic. You cut him open and volunteer. Blood is
Speaker 1: gonna come out anyway. He said, what kind of person
Speaker 1: wears long sleeve shirts with shorts in California? Does the
Speaker 1: sun bother you that much? Snowflake? Yeah, So I went
Speaker 1: to Palm Springs last weekend Guesscon and I had some photos.
Speaker 1: And of course I always tell the wife, I say,
Speaker 1: whatever I wear, I will be mocked for and it
Speaker 1: happens ad percent of the time. Vanity people love to
Speaker 1: attack your vanity. But yeah, I was in Popsting. It
Speaker 1: wasn't actually all that hot. It was only like in
Speaker 1: the low eighties or the mid eighties and Palm Springs,
Speaker 1: which is not hot. For Palm Springs. I've been out
Speaker 1: there when it's a hundred and twenty and so it
Speaker 1: wasn't that hot. And uh yeah, I mean we uh
Speaker 1: you wore the shirt and I had some shorts on
Speaker 1: and we went around, took a bunch of photos and
Speaker 1: all that. So uh interesting, What else do we have?
Speaker 1: Let's see page down here. Neil from Miami says, God
Speaker 1: Sad interview was awesome. You are now one degree away
Speaker 1: from Joe Rogan. I used to see doctor Sad on
Speaker 1: Rogan all the time before Rogan got is one million
Speaker 1: dollars and disappeared off YouTube. I am a Ukrainian Jew
Speaker 1: escape ee from the Soviet Union. How about that moment?
Speaker 1: At that I grew up in a town designated as
Speaker 1: a Jewish ghetto during the World War two period by
Speaker 1: Germans as liquidation ghetto for East Romanian Jews. Wow about
Speaker 1: that one my grandparents, Neil says, I lived through the Holocaust. Obviously,
Speaker 1: since I am typing here concentration camps. Uh paternal side
Speaker 1: saw his family killed. Uh in a mass grave. My
Speaker 1: paternal grandfather and his brother pretended to be dead in
Speaker 1: mass graves and then ran away from the town where
Speaker 1: I grew up. That would have been a hell of
Speaker 1: a story to hear. Holy sh it hid there for
Speaker 1: a while. Um, But we're found anyway. But many of
Speaker 1: us immigrants, immigrants and Jews from the Old Country or
Speaker 1: Middle East are not fans of identity politics and totally
Speaker 1: behind reasonable intellectuals like Gad Sad who are fighting from
Speaker 1: behind enemy lines. That's quite the story, Neil, Uh and
Speaker 1: I did well. I didn't. The family did the DNA
Speaker 1: test and my A lot of my ancestors are from
Speaker 1: the Ukraine that area. But it was Russia when they
Speaker 1: lived there, and I imagine the timeline on that they
Speaker 1: moved because of because of the World War two and whatnot.
Speaker 1: But then some of my family was here before World
Speaker 1: War Two. But yeah, and then I had a grandmother
Speaker 1: on my mom's side who was born in Chernobyl. I
Speaker 1: can't really go back there. I can't go back there
Speaker 1: to Chernobyl. I can't go back and see the old house.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not not not allowed. Yeah. I I
Speaker 1: don't get the the identity politics thing either. It just
Speaker 1: blows my mind. I I don't know how we've we've
Speaker 1: gotten to that point. But hopefully it's just a phase.
Speaker 1: We hope it's just a phase and the dumb people
Speaker 1: will not be listened to. Uh, let's see you. Neil
Speaker 1: also says big men, what happened to your documentary recommendation?
Speaker 1: Your tip on Operation Odessa was awesome. My family actually
Speaker 1: knew the guy. We grew up near real Odessa, Ukraine.
Speaker 1: We went to his restaurant a few times here in
Speaker 1: Sunny Aisles. He lives a mile from it now in Miami.
Speaker 1: My aunt went there, went to the dude's wife's funeral, etcetera. Wow,
Speaker 1: says I'm watching Fall of the Cabal. Not easy to find.
Speaker 1: What is your pick? Uh? Well, yeah, I can give
Speaker 1: you the standard documentary the Big Board of documentaries, because
Speaker 1: I do have some of my favorite documentaries guests on that.
Speaker 1: I I don't often go back and watch them and
Speaker 1: all that. But my favorite documentary operational odessa uh this
Speaker 1: super Mensch super mench that's several years old supersize me too.
Speaker 1: We talked about that on this show. The Dark Side
Speaker 1: documentary very good about doping in sports. I also we
Speaker 1: like that Make Millions one that was on not that
Speaker 1: long ago. That was very good as well. Those are
Speaker 1: my favorite was that three four? Is that five? I
Speaker 1: think his operational deaths Superman's Superman supersize Me two? Oh
Speaker 1: not six? Actually, I think is it now? It's five point?
Speaker 1: They said there would be no Man operational. That's a
Speaker 1: supermnch supersize me two. That's three dark Side and mcmillions
Speaker 1: that's five. There you uh, let's see here. Uh So
Speaker 1: this is also I think from Neil says Gascon. Given
Speaker 1: your connection to the military in the so Cal area,
Speaker 1: you told the story of your birthday bash. But what's
Speaker 1: your favorite related war story for Memorial Day weekend. I
Speaker 1: spent nearly five years, and I spent year the five
Speaker 1: years in San Diego, Oceanside Carlsbad area thousand two as
Speaker 1: I was stationed at Camp Pendleton and would love to
Speaker 1: relive some stories of Pacific Beach, t J gas Lamp,
Speaker 1: etcetera wants he wants some gascon stories. I can only
Speaker 1: give you one bat on, so I guess I'll give
Speaker 1: it to you. Um. When I lived down in San Diego,
Speaker 1: I kind of met my way into a bunch of
Speaker 1: guys that were in the military. A lot of them
Speaker 1: were Navy rats, and they were all um, they're all discharged,
Speaker 1: so now they were all working in different lines of work,
Speaker 1: and there was about twelve of us. And typically in
Speaker 1: San Diego it's either Mission Valley that people go to
Speaker 1: downtown or Pacific Beach. If you're older, you go to
Speaker 1: obi Um. But during the holidays or during special events
Speaker 1: in Pacific Beach, there's a main street called Garnet and
Speaker 1: they would just block off that entire street because all
Speaker 1: it was filled with was bars and and shops. And
Speaker 1: so they used to have an event annually called the
Speaker 1: PB Block Party, and they'd bring the vendors into the
Speaker 1: middle of the streets for beer, food, drinks, anything else
Speaker 1: that you wanted, candy, all the other stuff. And so
Speaker 1: I went down there with with all these guys. There
Speaker 1: was like probably ten or eleven of us, and we
Speaker 1: were drinking the entire day. But after the p B
Speaker 1: block party was broken up, we split for some reason,
Speaker 1: Like a couple of guys went with some girls. A
Speaker 1: couple of guys went to want to go to a bar,
Speaker 1: and I went with a buddy of mine and I
Speaker 1: think one other dude and we went to his sister's
Speaker 1: um a house party. This house party was massive, a
Speaker 1: lot of things going on. People are drinking all over
Speaker 1: the place, but with alcohol rising and tensions getting kind
Speaker 1: of high, um there was some There were some guys
Speaker 1: there that were were acting tough and acting big and
Speaker 1: brave and talking ship and my buddy sister or I
Speaker 1: wanted to kick them out. So she tried kicking It
Speaker 1: was all outside, but she wanted to kick them off
Speaker 1: the property. And so she went up to one of
Speaker 1: the guys. It was like, you need to leave, and
Speaker 1: the guy was a total dick to her, and she
Speaker 1: snapped at him and she's like, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: fuck you you short ship or something like that. And
Speaker 1: the guy was short and obviously a small man complex
Speaker 1: he you know, he's like, fuck you can't. And he
Speaker 1: had a beer and and he threw a punch at her.
Speaker 1: And as soon as he threw a punch, I was
Speaker 1: right next to him. I threw my beer on him,
Speaker 1: and then I jumped on top of him and I
Speaker 1: tried kicking his ass. All of a sudden, I got
Speaker 1: on top of him, I got gang tackled by a
Speaker 1: bunch of dudes, was put into a choke called nearly
Speaker 1: a knocked unconscious um beaten down, and I was by myself.
Speaker 1: It turned out like my buddy and the other guys
Speaker 1: were kind of near the scene, but they weren't in
Speaker 1: the middle of the rap, and so I was just
Speaker 1: getting pummeled while I'm holding on this one guy and
Speaker 1: hitting him. And then the fight was over. I'm like
Speaker 1: a bloody mess. And it turned out that these dudes
Speaker 1: were all in Bud's training. They were all in training
Speaker 1: to be Navy's seals, and they were a couple of
Speaker 1: them were like hanging around the property. But the one
Speaker 1: guy that hit my buddy's sister a cop rolled up
Speaker 1: a female cop like half of our size. That ship
Speaker 1: you not. He tried taking her down because he was hammered,
Speaker 1: and she ducked a punch and then dropped him with
Speaker 1: an elbow and then arrested him. The worst part was
Speaker 1: all these guys got detained, and then twenty minutes later,
Speaker 1: like a sergeant or a captain showed up and uncuffed
Speaker 1: all of them and they all left. How to go
Speaker 1: to the hospital get stitches and all we gotta pick
Speaker 1: up the pace. Guess I got a limited time. It's
Speaker 1: a great story. You want to pick at the pace now?
Speaker 1: I mean we're getting the full dance remix there. I mean,
Speaker 1: my god, how dare you? How about brevity? Jeez? Alright? Uh?
Speaker 1: Blind Seahawk fan Emmett and Olympius says, what's the most
Speaker 1: awkward situation you guys have been put into on radio?
Speaker 1: I interviewed a guy that the producer told me that
Speaker 1: the wrong name of the guest. Didn't know that until
Speaker 1: that happened. I've also had alcohol consumption on the air.
Speaker 1: That's odd. There's been a lot of odd things. Ross
Speaker 1: writes in says love the show. I am a day
Speaker 1: walker and listen to the Overnight Show via podcast daily
Speaker 1: along with this dedicated program. The two of you are
Speaker 1: the pencil hole of light in the dark tunnel of
Speaker 1: woke cancelation. There you go. That's good, that's poetry. Ross says,
Speaker 1: whatever you do, don't freaking stop. One request for gascon
Speaker 1: please in the name of the Holy Trinity and Commander
Speaker 1: Gascon Effort. The greatest college football radio announcer in the
Speaker 1: modern era, Eli Gold, the voice of the Alabama Crimson Tie. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like to talk to Eli Gold. He's good. That
Speaker 1: guy is good. I love people that are good at
Speaker 1: their jobs. Uh. He says. I was a journalist in
Speaker 1: the past life men and interviewed him several times. That
Speaker 1: you won't be disappointed for lack of content that you go.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Ross, I appreciate that. Here's one from Allen
Speaker 1: in Tulsa, Oklahoma's has been you need to come here
Speaker 1: to see the Drillers, which is an l A Dodger
Speaker 1: franchise minor league team, and see the ballpark which has
Speaker 1: huge pictures of divers that made it from there, or
Speaker 1: he said, divers that even Dodgers. It says divers here.
Speaker 1: David keeps giving you a hard time about working from home,
Speaker 1: and this is about it's gonna get good. So it
Speaker 1: says guscon gives you a hard time about working home.
Speaker 1: But the other night when Jason Smith said to him
Speaker 1: that he might split time when all is back to normal,
Speaker 1: there was no argument, like with you. Interesting, I didn't
Speaker 1: push back against Jason Smith. Huh. You're okay with Jason
Speaker 1: Smith working from home but not me? Huh, Well, I
Speaker 1: mean it's his show. It's a little bit different. I
Speaker 1: I only fill in on that show sometimes I'm not
Speaker 1: here on the podcast, or I'm here on the podcast
Speaker 1: all the time. Ye know what. I think the plan
Speaker 1: will be eventually to have a split situation. That'll be
Speaker 1: the plan going forward. We'll see that what goes on,
Speaker 1: says Ben. Also, Alan says Ben, you you should get
Speaker 1: uh any agger? Is that how I say your name
Speaker 1: on your podcast? She does funny football zoom call sketches.
Speaker 1: I don't know who that is. Do you know who
Speaker 1: that is? But Tulsa's college football team is pretty good too. Yeah?
Speaker 1: What else do we have? Let's see here? Sarah in
Speaker 1: Minnesota's I really enjoyed the interview with the Dr Sad
Speaker 1: A breath of fresh air. Like all your shows, I've
Speaker 1: been trying to review. I've googled how to review. You've
Speaker 1: described how to review. Just go to Apple podcast, The
Speaker 1: Real Fifth Hour, et cetera. Have you actually tried to
Speaker 1: do this? It doesn't work for me. I have an
Speaker 1: Apple iPhone eleven. I think you should just have Sarah
Speaker 1: email me directly and we can talk and I'll walk
Speaker 1: her through the Wow Bill Cosby over there, she says,
Speaker 1: talk to me like, I'm five years old, so I
Speaker 1: have a five in my age, but there might be
Speaker 1: an extra digit. Uh so go ahead there, guess help
Speaker 1: her out. Just YouTube it. She did some some screen
Speaker 1: captures here. She says, Uh, we're listening on I Heart,
Speaker 1: but to try to review. I listened on Apple podcast.
Speaker 1: See the screen capture there, and there's some photos. I
Speaker 1: don't think we have time to get into this right now.
Speaker 1: But what what you you have access to the email?
Speaker 1: Why don't you write back? She wrote to the show
Speaker 1: email Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. A little,
Speaker 1: you know, a little tied up when I read those interesting? Interesting, interesting? Interesting?
Speaker 1: What else do we have here? This is from Helen
Speaker 1: and Stu and Palmetto Bay Retired Transplants from n y
Speaker 1: C and your new biggest podcast fans in Miami. How
Speaker 1: about that? Thank you, Helen and stew looks like we're
Speaker 1: out of time on this podcast. Wrap this up? What
Speaker 1: do you say? A lha spreading the good Oh, this
Speaker 1: is the one you're up to, spreading the good word
Speaker 1: for both shows in the air everywhere. I saw David's
Speaker 1: actor profile online and I was shocked but not surprised
Speaker 1: that he named badminton as an athletic skill. As Stu laughed,
Speaker 1: no real man west of the four oh five with
Speaker 1: a man card would list badminton as a sport. Listen,
Speaker 1: what kind of dipship would not acknowledge the other things
Speaker 1: I identified as more disturbing, more combat chemo sabi, more disturbing.
Speaker 1: When asked on his profile if he would appear nude
Speaker 1: in his scene, David checked yes, Yes. Ben, Nobody, including
Speaker 1: including David's dad, wants to see David naked. Wow, you
Speaker 1: get a few female listeners that wouldn't mind question. In
Speaker 1: order to keep his job as your Fifth Hour co host,
Speaker 1: will guest gon Val to never appear nude in a scene. Helen,
Speaker 1: just a heads up if you are shirtless in a
Speaker 1: scene that's considered nudity. Jesus. She also said grocery shopping,
Speaker 1: I walked by the little smokey section and immediately thought
Speaker 1: of David gascon on your undersized fifth hour cost or,
Speaker 1: as my husband and his golf pal say, the mench
Speaker 1: and the stench. That is a great line, the mench
Speaker 1: and the stench. If we were like Barstool and we
Speaker 1: made T shirts, that would be like a perfect T shirt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: wouldn't that be great? Something tells me I'd give her
Speaker 1: the best five minutes she's had in quite a while. Wow,
Speaker 1: look at that, you're gonna still come on, man, come on?
Speaker 1: Helen's like she please Carlos and Bang Bang Houston says,
Speaker 1: I know they lovely. Tammy Montana is the mother Teresa
Speaker 1: the Ben Maller Show. I see it's time for her
Speaker 1: to do a wellness check on helmet man. It's been
Speaker 1: a while, and I hope he's doing okay. Also, if
Speaker 1: you're not planning on eating that steak and your freezer,
Speaker 1: can you send it to Marcel and Brooklyn does. My
Speaker 1: question for you guys is what's the longest drive you
Speaker 1: guys have made. I think we've answered that right we've
Speaker 1: like San Francisco or Phoenix or someone like that for us. Yeah. Uh,
Speaker 1: David writes and says, whatever happened to Spokane Gary? Is
Speaker 1: he still around listening to your show? I came across
Speaker 1: some of Pittsburgh Pete or Pete and Pittsburgh's clips thought
Speaker 1: about the old days. Uh yeah, Well some sad news, David.
Speaker 1: Our our guy Spokane Gary, who used to call up
Speaker 1: and bust my ball, saying Dale Murphy for the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame. Uh. Gary passed away a couple of years back.
Speaker 1: I got a message from one of his relatives, and
Speaker 1: he was quite a character. And Spokane Gary. You talk
Speaker 1: about the pillars of the Ben Mallow Show. In the
Speaker 1: early days, it was Pete and Pittsburgh, Spokane Gary. These
Speaker 1: were my guys, uh and Troy the gambling Man, MotorCity
Speaker 1: Mike Uh. We had Jehadas John in in Michigan. These
Speaker 1: these were guys that were really the backbone of what
Speaker 1: became the Mallard militia. But we we did lose Spokane
Speaker 1: Gary a couple of years ago. He was quite the
Speaker 1: quite the character on the show. We miss him. Barry
Speaker 1: in Nashville rights and says Yo Yo Ma Benny, I
Speaker 1: should have explained that yo yo ma is my greeting
Speaker 1: and salutations. It means great show, love listening, hope you're
Speaker 1: doing well. Rush Limball had ditto. To save time, I
Speaker 1: think you need a greeting from all the callers so
Speaker 1: they don't waste time saying how you doing and then
Speaker 1: the awkward pauses that come about after they say yo
Speaker 1: yo ma. They go right into their call. He says,
Speaker 1: I'm sleeping when you take a live calls, Hopefully someone
Speaker 1: in the Malla militia steps up and gets the ball rolling. Well,
Speaker 1: if people want to embrace that yo yo ma, you know,
Speaker 1: there you go. I would it would be okay with that,
Speaker 1: you know, No, not a bad idea. You don't seem
Speaker 1: excited about that. I'm not usually awake from that show.
Speaker 1: But well, John is not happy though, John. This guy
Speaker 1: John in St. Louis says, I'm a big fan of
Speaker 1: your show, probably your most loyal listener in St. Louis.
Speaker 1: But you're ready. Yeah, I wish you would dial down
Speaker 1: the political stuff, the wocal roddy or how you don't
Speaker 1: really think COVID is that serious? Did I ever say
Speaker 1: COVID is not that serious? That I say that, and
Speaker 1: it's not as serious that the media is making it
Speaker 1: out to be right, I mean out of context quotes
Speaker 1: last night, he said, quoting me from the show, says,
Speaker 1: last night, yeah, you said the media fact checks Trump
Speaker 1: but not Biden. It's the same principle when I go
Speaker 1: to a bar in public um here to watch a
Speaker 1: game and he's upset that I, well, am I wronging up?
Speaker 1: But didn't the Washington Post to have a fact checker
Speaker 1: for Trump, but they got rid of it for Biden. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I I'm not making that up. I mean, you
Speaker 1: might like to hear that jump, but I'm not making
Speaker 1: it up. I think it's the equivalent of you speed
Speaker 1: dialing somebody and someone just dialing the number by hand,
Speaker 1: right like eric code telephone number. There is fact checkers
Speaker 1: that were there all the time for Trump and for Biden.
Speaker 1: They literally circle back anyway, So John Lissen, I hope
Speaker 1: you listen to the show, John, But that's it. We
Speaker 1: gotta get out of here, guest, and I got things
Speaker 1: to do, places to go see. All right, we'll take here.
Speaker 1: Have a great rest of your Sunday. I'll be on
Speaker 1: tonight on the Overnight even though it's a holiday, I
Speaker 1: will be slaving away over the microphones. Will catch you
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