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Speaker 1: of the four oh five. David Gascon is like here,
Speaker 1: hide ball, I'm feeling good. Three weeks into the NFL
Speaker 1: regular season. Is this new week is upon us? Obviously
Speaker 1: Thursday night football with a dreadful game, But hopefully we
Speaker 1: don't get too many like that the rest of the way. Well,
Speaker 1: there'll be plenty more like that. It's they they have
Speaker 1: to put every team in prime time, so that means
Speaker 1: all the crappy teams play at some point on Monday
Speaker 1: night or Thursday night. They usually put them on those
Speaker 1: nights because they never play on Sunday night because that's
Speaker 1: the primo television window, and so the crappy teams they
Speaker 1: patronize by putting them on prime prime time TV. Every
Speaker 1: team has to be on prime time either Sunday or
Speaker 1: Monday or Sunday, Sunday, Monday or Thursday at one point
Speaker 1: or another. So anyway, it's just the mailbag podcast, guess scout.
Speaker 1: I just want to point out before we start. I
Speaker 1: like the crowd applause that I get better than Europe.
Speaker 1: Like see that's more authentic, that's more real than than yours,
Speaker 1: which is just ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous. The radios for right, No,
Speaker 1: not at all. You have to be authentic, you have
Speaker 1: you have to be authentic, okay, and and I have
Speaker 1: authentic sound effects. I do, clearly, man. I haven't bet
Speaker 1: to talk about a long time. I think I've divorced
Speaker 1: Taco Bell ever since they ditched the double decker. Not
Speaker 1: gonna lie. So you've taken an active protest against Taco Bell,
Speaker 1: but they changed their menu all the time, right, they've rotating.
Speaker 1: Not been to Taco Bell in a long time either,
Speaker 1: but they loved to put new exotic them and Jack
Speaker 1: in the box and KFC don't don't. And I guess
Speaker 1: a lot of these fast food places do because their
Speaker 1: gimicks they bring people lane and all that. But Taco
Speaker 1: Bell is crazy enough. KFC always throws wild stuff out.
Speaker 1: There are different weird things to try to get you
Speaker 1: to go and buy some frad Chicken frad. When's the
Speaker 1: last time you get at KFC. It's been a while,
Speaker 1: It's been a long time. I did go to because
Speaker 1: I call games that you see Irvin and they have
Speaker 1: a Chick fil A right next to campus, and I
Speaker 1: go there after every game. It is that's perfect. I
Speaker 1: mean to chicken sandwiches, one spy must crispy. You must
Speaker 1: not do any games on Sunday. No, don't. Well I do,
Speaker 1: but I don't go there on Sundays obviously because they're closed.
Speaker 1: But there's this notice. Chick fil A has almost every
Speaker 1: Chick fil A I've been to. There's an in and
Speaker 1: out Burger in California, right next to it. That's right.
Speaker 1: That's exactly it Ya, that's exactly. There's like this, there's
Speaker 1: just plaza that's right next to it. It's all connect
Speaker 1: And I've also seen a lot of raising canes pop
Speaker 1: up around Chick fil A and in and out Burger,
Speaker 1: and it's brilliant. If you were starting a restaurant and
Speaker 1: you needed locations, wouldn't you peggy back off the market
Speaker 1: research from in and Out, Um, Chick fil A, these Starbucks, McDonald's,
Speaker 1: these companies spend a fortune on where to put locations
Speaker 1: that will get the most bang for their buck. So
Speaker 1: if you're a similar restaurant, I mean, it's it's a
Speaker 1: great move. You just you know enough to be from
Speaker 1: the academia world to know that you just piggyback what
Speaker 1: they're doing. You're like, all right, I'll get the leftovers
Speaker 1: and the raising canes. One is really smart because there
Speaker 1: are fried chicken shop and they know if they are
Speaker 1: down the street from Chick fil A. There's the people.
Speaker 1: Even though Chick fil has been around for years, there's
Speaker 1: certain people that show up on Sunday thinking they want
Speaker 1: their fried chicken from Chick fil A and they can't
Speaker 1: get it and they want their fried chicken and they said,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, oh there's a raising keynes. Let me
Speaker 1: give that a try, And then they fall in love
Speaker 1: with raising canes and you've got a customer. It's a
Speaker 1: brilliant marketing strategy. Yeah, there's two. So there's one in Coasta,
Speaker 1: Mesa that's about five miles away from u C Irvine.
Speaker 1: There's one in Hunton Beach, which is like seven miles
Speaker 1: away from campus. So you're talking about what raising keynes
Speaker 1: or raising canes. Yeah, there's there's a few. There's not
Speaker 1: that many. They're still expanding as they get their tentacles
Speaker 1: all over the country. But you know what that reminds me.
Speaker 1: Have you been to North Italia? It's a restaurant like
Speaker 1: kind of like, uh, I don't know how describe it.
Speaker 1: It's not like a full blown restaurant, like it's an
Speaker 1: indoor outdoor cafe. Also like a little bit of a
Speaker 1: ball in Irvine anytime, A Yeah, I have I have
Speaker 1: been to that. Actually I just went there the other day. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I went there. They claim to make everything from scratch.
Speaker 1: Is that there? I tell you what. There's one in
Speaker 1: Manhattan Beach that I've gone to. But I went to
Speaker 1: the one in Irvan for the first time last weekend
Speaker 1: next to campus. Yeah, and um yeah, it's what you'd
Speaker 1: call a target rich environment. Now I feel I feel
Speaker 1: comfortable about relocating to the Irvan area now. But after
Speaker 1: going there, as you do, you like the views you're
Speaker 1: a fan of. Yeah, I mean yesterday we talked about
Speaker 1: beach front property and I thought this is fitting to
Speaker 1: carry on over to to today. That location is right
Speaker 1: near the Newport Beach border, like Newport Beach a couple
Speaker 1: of miles down the road, so you get the Newport
Speaker 1: crowd and the rich, the rich people in that part
Speaker 1: of Orange County. So yes, yeah, that those are your
Speaker 1: people right there. Those are the the name top is,
Speaker 1: the stuff shirts, the Braggart's, the nicky. Listen if you
Speaker 1: are if you are a single male during Christmas in
Speaker 1: the holiday seasons, everybody knows the mall to go to
Speaker 1: is the is the South Coast Plaza Mall. That is
Speaker 1: Um that's like you know, that's that's like hunting with
Speaker 1: with dynamite. It is. Uh, it's loaded with talents. So
Speaker 1: you know it's just down the street and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's perfect, little little dine in, they'll dine out, and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I mean you should appreciate that you're back
Speaker 1: in your heyday. At least. I never did well in
Speaker 1: that environment. Did not. But my wife always says that
Speaker 1: guys should go to on Saturday morning like World Market
Speaker 1: and stores like that that has because women go there
Speaker 1: and shop on you know, it's your over when the
Speaker 1: numbers game is in your favor. Yeah, buying things for
Speaker 1: the house. All right, let's can we get to the mailbag? Please? Yes, yes, all,
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Speaker 1: love love the song very good. Uh. First email comes
Speaker 1: from Blake in Arkansas. He says, boys, I am en
Speaker 1: route to mail the hats, he says, Ben, I am
Speaker 1: including a b Negro League hat for your collection. However,
Speaker 1: I don't have a sing go one that is made
Speaker 1: for a basketball. Oh, he's upset with my head. He says,
Speaker 1: you have to for a razorback hat. H David, when
Speaker 1: I go back to my storage, I will grab you
Speaker 1: a couple more, he says. There. And he then sent
Speaker 1: a photo and very very kind here Blake in Arkansas. Uh,
Speaker 1: he says, Ben. I hope by the time that this airs,
Speaker 1: the Hogs beat A and m and Ben, you can
Speaker 1: be the first on the van wagon to air next
Speaker 1: week with the new hat. Until next time, whoa pig?
Speaker 1: So there you're gonna send a photo of the hats
Speaker 1: and uh, very nice and mrs he sent something for everybody,
Speaker 1: some hats for you Gascon Uh, the Mexican Roberto there,
Speaker 1: it says, the pothead uh, and the hockey dork, all
Speaker 1: of them right there. So that's that's pretty cool. So
Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm looking forward to this. Uh, You've got
Speaker 1: a couple of nice looking hats that that you accordingly,
Speaker 1: so he said they don't just said in the email
Speaker 1: they will not fit like the what the Arkansas hat
Speaker 1: will fit. The other two are just looking. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: like the Arkansas hat. He's gonna force you to go
Speaker 1: down there and watch a game with the razorback community,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. I go down and I watched the
Speaker 1: Arkansas game when they played Texas. It looked like a
Speaker 1: great environment for college football. They were fired up. Remember
Speaker 1: a few years back when Arkansas had some good teams.
Speaker 1: It's been a while. Yeah, nothing wrong with that. Uh well,
Speaker 1: thank you very much, Blake. I appreciate very kind of you.
Speaker 1: Those hats are not cheap, and I do thank you.
Speaker 1: I think everyone over the years that has been a
Speaker 1: hat benefactor and sent that in and I'm the beneficiary
Speaker 1: of that, all right. Next the email comes from Pierre
Speaker 1: in Springfield, mass He says, bend time to fess up.
Speaker 1: What is the real reason behind your brevity on benny
Speaker 1: versus the penny? You were like a kid in a
Speaker 1: candy store when you discovered the chat room, and now
Speaker 1: it's more like you've got dinner in the oven and
Speaker 1: you're raising back the kitchen if yours was done. He says,
Speaker 1: I'm guessing that Mr. Four oh five has a reasonable
Speaker 1: answer to this. Alright, guess would you like to answer
Speaker 1: that question. Yeah, the reasonable answers that we've been told
Speaker 1: and advised by numerous people is that individual's attention span
Speaker 1: is short lived, and so when you're creating a product
Speaker 1: like this, whether it's live or on demand, short and concise, succinct,
Speaker 1: those are all important things to adhere to as opposed
Speaker 1: to having something that's long and dragged out, because people
Speaker 1: can come and go into these kind of things, and
Speaker 1: you know, the digital world that we live in right now,
Speaker 1: obviously all this stuff is online, so people can pick
Speaker 1: and choose what they want to listen to your watch,
Speaker 1: and the longer the videos, the shorter the attention span,
Speaker 1: and the lower downloads. So we want to make sure
Speaker 1: that it's short, clean, and right to the point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So you can blame consultants people. We we had met
Speaker 1: with several people about putting Benny Versus the Penny on
Speaker 1: different platforms and they were interested, and then they they
Speaker 1: said we were too long winded and that I was
Speaker 1: one of the criticisms there, that the meandering nature of
Speaker 1: the Benny Versus the Benny. So we have decided to
Speaker 1: use economy of language, as you use the word brevity.
Speaker 1: Alf the alien opine or a k a. Pierre Springfield, brevity.
Speaker 1: It's a good words. A good word. Uh yeah, there's
Speaker 1: Is there one word for the opposite of that? Like
Speaker 1: long winded is two words, so that's not one word. Tiresome,
Speaker 1: tedious Maybe tedious would be the Is that the word?
Speaker 1: Can you stay elongated? Yeah? I could say elongated. Um. Rambling, Yeah,
Speaker 1: rambling works. Rambling. Okay, we've just said it on rambling,
Speaker 1: so brevity or rambling as we shout from the bully pulpit,
Speaker 1: as we ramble from the black Yeah. But Pierre, I listen.
Speaker 1: You know, you know me, Peter, You've been listening to
Speaker 1: a long time, and you know that I do love
Speaker 1: the chat. I could go I could do that for
Speaker 1: three hours. I could just sit there and go back
Speaker 1: and forth with the dumb dumbs in the chat. I'm
Speaker 1: a big fan. We we do have little chat breaks,
Speaker 1: much like the Arizona Cardinals have cell phone brakes during
Speaker 1: bandy versus the Penny. Randomly, after every two or three games,
Speaker 1: I will I will gaze the chat and I will
Speaker 1: evangelize on some of the things I see in there.
Speaker 1: But I love it, and I've noticed a lot of
Speaker 1: the guys are just talking to each other in the
Speaker 1: chat and they're having a good time there. So I'm
Speaker 1: not I don't want to discourage you from being in
Speaker 1: the chat, and I do look at it. But we
Speaker 1: have to we have to be concise, is what we
Speaker 1: have to be, all right. Harlos in Houston, Texas, Bang
Speaker 1: Bang says, what are the chances that Ilo gets up? Benny?
Speaker 1: This great question. Carlos did a terrible question. Zero should
Speaker 1: not even be on the radar for a Benny. No, No,
Speaker 1: he stepped in, didn't complain one time about the overnight hours,
Speaker 1: didn't complain about that, didn't try it out bogart the show.
Speaker 1: Like the people that have filled in on that show
Speaker 1: when Eddie's away, they either try to hijack the show
Speaker 1: and think it's the It's Chuckles Comedy Club and they're
Speaker 1: at the open mic and it's all it's all about them.
Speaker 1: They hijacked the show, or they just sit there and
Speaker 1: fish and complains it whoe is me, it's overnight, I
Speaker 1: can't work their shift, blabah. The way he didn't complain
Speaker 1: one time he had comedy, he was prepared, changed it up.
Speaker 1: Uh And and Ilo was a pretty serious guy, and
Speaker 1: I put him in the hard old category. But he
Speaker 1: was he was kidding around, he was having fun with us.
Speaker 1: So that shows you that he is able to be versatile.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe he has sex before he came on the show. Wow,
Speaker 1: it's always a possibility. Very nice, very nice. Uh, Carlos
Speaker 1: all said, So he's a hard oh like you. Even
Speaker 1: he's uptight. He's like that. He realized when in Rome
Speaker 1: act like a Roman went on the Mallard Show. Don't
Speaker 1: act like a hard oh, Carlos says, how do you?
Speaker 1: He also says, how do you come up with your
Speaker 1: openings before your monologue? I'm not sure what you mean.
Speaker 1: Maybe the very top of the each hour. Uh. So
Speaker 1: of those have been sent in by listeners that have
Speaker 1: some I came up with some of the well that
Speaker 1: started actually with that vagrant in Miami who used to
Speaker 1: say magic radio box and then so then I, initially
Speaker 1: as a tribute, I used it. Now it's to pour
Speaker 1: salt on his wound because he he was panhandling and
Speaker 1: got fired from the show. But yeah, if you want
Speaker 1: to recommend something, Carlos, you can send that in and
Speaker 1: I might I may use it. Vahed Rights in from
Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints Country where every year they get hit
Speaker 1: by a hurricane, seems. He says, I know that you
Speaker 1: had questions to choose between Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Angelina
Speaker 1: Jolie in the past, But here's the question for both
Speaker 1: of you, Ben and David. What about Julia Roberts and
Speaker 1: Angelina Jolie. Which one would you pick? All right? So,
Speaker 1: I after doing some research here, looking at some some photogos,
Speaker 1: I think we're both going prime Prime, Angelina Jolie Prime,
Speaker 1: Julia Roberts. I'm going to Angelina Julie. I'm going to
Speaker 1: Angelina Julie. I guess. So if we're only going prime,
Speaker 1: then I will I will concur or I will go
Speaker 1: with you and Angela and Jolie. If we're going longevity, though,
Speaker 1: I'm going Julia Roberts. Yeah, Angelina Jolie has had some
Speaker 1: wear and tear. Life has been tough on her, and
Speaker 1: I mean, she's not disgusting anything like that, but you know,
Speaker 1: I lost a lot for fact. Yeah, she's got a
Speaker 1: lot of over overhead too, with all these kids. Julia
Speaker 1: Roberts not so much, not really, because she can afford them.
Speaker 1: It's only overhead if you can't afford him. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: they're getting the way. They're get in the way of me. No,
Speaker 1: I don't she has like seven thousand. I'm I'm assuming.
Speaker 1: I don't know, But as I understand it, she has
Speaker 1: a million nannies and people to watch the kids, and
Speaker 1: she's she's Most of these celebrities are around the kids
Speaker 1: when it's convenient and when it's not convenient, and other
Speaker 1: people raise the kids. That's usually how that works. Isn't
Speaker 1: it wrong? Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. That's why
Speaker 1: I always understand it. Um Kevin in Kansas says, Hey, Ben,
Speaker 1: I like your references to Rod Sterling and The Twilight Zone.
Speaker 1: I use episodes in my classroom Kevin's teacher. Of course,
Speaker 1: he says, did you or David have teachers who used
Speaker 1: that series or some like it when you were in school? Now, Kevin,
Speaker 1: I don't remember a teacher ever showing The Twilight Zone
Speaker 1: when I was in school. But when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: it was on reruns a lot. There wasn't a lot
Speaker 1: of quality programming, and occasionally in the afternoons coming back
Speaker 1: from school, and I would be looking for something to
Speaker 1: watch and I'd stumble into it my My father and
Speaker 1: mother actually liked the show, so they had become fans
Speaker 1: of the show, and so then I kinda and I
Speaker 1: kind of got into it a little bit. There were
Speaker 1: a few episodes, and the one I remember most when
Speaker 1: I was a kid was there's these I forget what
Speaker 1: the name of the episode. There. There were a couple
Speaker 1: that stood out, but there was the one where the
Speaker 1: kids were swimming in the pond and there was like
Speaker 1: a a portal in the pond that went took them
Speaker 1: to another dimension. Yeah, and that was pretty cool. I
Speaker 1: remember that because every time I'd go swimming in the
Speaker 1: pool after that for a few years, I thought, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna try to find the portal and I want to
Speaker 1: go to a different dimension, and you know, traveling through
Speaker 1: another dimension, a dimension, you know, blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: There's that. And then there was the one where the
Speaker 1: town was deserted. Did you ever watch the Twilight Zone
Speaker 1: guest on or not? Very very little? Okay, there was
Speaker 1: the one where he was like the only person in
Speaker 1: the town. I remember that, And then there were a
Speaker 1: couple of other episodes. But yeah, and I had teachers.
Speaker 1: I remember they showed documentaries when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: like on different things to teach us about different things
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, and that that was that
Speaker 1: was always cool because it felt like half a day
Speaker 1: because you just had to watch watch the TV. And
Speaker 1: that was always neat. That's a good way to teach
Speaker 1: it is good job by you. Kevin Jason in Rocky Mount, Virginia,
Speaker 1: rights In says in I know you're busy with the
Speaker 1: remodel of the Mallard Mansion, So do you feel like
Speaker 1: it will be totally ready for an epic ugly sweater
Speaker 1: party in December? I don't think. I don't think you
Speaker 1: could have an ugly sweater party at this place. I
Speaker 1: think it would do a disservice to it. Really, you
Speaker 1: think we should have no party? No? I think I
Speaker 1: think that I think you should encourage the wife to
Speaker 1: partake in a masquerade party, a masquerade ball. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean you guys wanted the chandelier. I think this kind
Speaker 1: of fits right into it. Yeah, but we're known for
Speaker 1: the ugly sweater party. If you change it up, then
Speaker 1: what do you mean? This is that's our thing, the
Speaker 1: ugly sweater party? Yeah, but that was that the old
Speaker 1: mansion now you've upgraded, and so now you're gonna upgrade
Speaker 1: the party team. We're also even further away, so I
Speaker 1: don't know how many people are going to show up
Speaker 1: because it's I don't even care if I'm the only
Speaker 1: one there. I will owever, you'll be there with bells
Speaker 1: and whistles on absolutely listen addressing zip code much change,
Speaker 1: but you'll be on the prow You will be on
Speaker 1: the prowl Yes, uh, hear you, hear you? Uh To
Speaker 1: answer a question, Jason, I don't think it will be done.
Speaker 1: I don't think it will ever be done. My wife
Speaker 1: thinks it will be done by Halloween, which is gonna
Speaker 1: be here before, you know, a little over a month away,
Speaker 1: so she thinks it will all be done by Halloween.
Speaker 1: I am not as optimistic, not nearly as optimistic, because
Speaker 1: I'm here all the time. I'm doing the show from here.
Speaker 1: I have my studio I hang out in. That's pretty
Speaker 1: much the only room I hang out in the house
Speaker 1: other than when I go to bed. And it seems
Speaker 1: like nothing's getting done. Like most of the days the
Speaker 1: contractors are doing other stuff, they're not on the house,
Speaker 1: so it's hard to finish. If you don't actually work
Speaker 1: on the house. So then but we'll see. Maybe I'm
Speaker 1: wrong on that. I hope I am. I hope they
Speaker 1: get it done quick. Eric in Omaha rites Sin says,
Speaker 1: what is the best streaming service for documentaries? Well, Eric,
Speaker 1: he there is no one streaming service for documentaries. The
Speaker 1: way the streaming services work, you have to rotate. You
Speaker 1: have to be able to adapt to what's what's they
Speaker 1: change it? I mean Netflix every month they have different things,
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime. I'll tell you a sneaky good place to
Speaker 1: find documentaries YouTube for free on the YouTube. You don't
Speaker 1: have to pay for YouTube. There is a pay platform
Speaker 1: on YouTube, but you can get a bunch of documentaries
Speaker 1: on there that are buried because there's so many videos
Speaker 1: on YouTube. Let me let me give you a website.
Speaker 1: Hold on a sec. You see, I can find the
Speaker 1: website to go through my my list of bookmarks here,
Speaker 1: because there there is a website that lists Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think this is it. Maybe not. I'm gonna click un
Speaker 1: right here. Yeah, it's called top Documentary Films dot com.
Speaker 1: Top Documentary Films dot com. And this has doesn't have
Speaker 1: new documentaries per se. Usually within you know, five six, seven,
Speaker 1: eight nine, ten years old within the last decade. There
Speaker 1: are some older ones on there, but it provides you
Speaker 1: descriptions and links to the documentaries, and it goes by category.
Speaker 1: They have a list of featured documentaries, but they have
Speaker 1: different categories like I like my favorite h my favorite
Speaker 1: documentary usually biography. I like to learn about people, or
Speaker 1: at least the bullshit version of people's lives. But they
Speaker 1: have different categories. You can you can go on there
Speaker 1: and check out their sports. Uh, there's science, religion, politics, philosophy,
Speaker 1: performing arts, mystery like They've got all those different categories.
Speaker 1: So whatever you know, whatever tickles your your fancy, you
Speaker 1: can find it. And I don't. I don't work for
Speaker 1: the website. I have nothing to do with the website.
Speaker 1: I found the website a few years ago. I do
Speaker 1: check it out. Um. And then there's there's obviously just
Speaker 1: scanning what's coming out on Netflix and Amazon Prime and
Speaker 1: and and all those Apple and all the different services.
Speaker 1: But Top Documentary Films dot com that is the recommendation,
Speaker 1: and a lot of those links, I think pretty much
Speaker 1: all of them are on YouTube. So I'll give you
Speaker 1: an example here. Uh, let's see any of things put
Speaker 1: up the website here at the top. As I'm doing this,
Speaker 1: they list the top documentary featured is called Consumed. It's
Speaker 1: from and it's the Possible. It's as possible, the most
Speaker 1: possibly the most unthinkable story of the last million years
Speaker 1: is the rise of the modern human culture, the cities
Speaker 1: we populated in the lives that we need. It is
Speaker 1: the environment that our children won't inherit. And then it
Speaker 1: goes on and on and on. But that's from twenty seven.
Speaker 1: So you click on that it asked you from, So
Speaker 1: you click on that, and then an addle pop up,
Speaker 1: because of course why not, And then it has a
Speaker 1: link and this one is actually it is on YouTube,
Speaker 1: so it is a YouTube link. But it's hard to
Speaker 1: find these things on YouTube without knowing where to look. Um.
Speaker 1: So that's that's the website for you. Eric and Omaha
Speaker 1: Pat in Winter Park, Florida says, I watched a little
Speaker 1: of the Peyton and Eli show, and this past week
Speaker 1: Eli and Gronk are buffoons. What is the cancelation date?
Speaker 1: Uh No, ESPN loves Peyton Manning. That is the network
Speaker 1: of ball washing athletes lick lick, scrub scrub, so that
Speaker 1: that show is not going anywhere and the reason the
Speaker 1: ratings went up last week is because the game was
Speaker 1: a blot. If you actually want to watch the game
Speaker 1: and pay attention to the game, you cannot watch Peyton
Speaker 1: and Eli talk. They're doing a talk show and the
Speaker 1: game is just backgrounds. It's unwatchable if you're actually concerned
Speaker 1: about the game. Now they benefited in the second half.
Speaker 1: The Lions fell apart compliments of Jared Goff, and the
Speaker 1: people tuned over because hey, the game was a blowout
Speaker 1: and you don't want to watch the game, so listen
Speaker 1: to the bullcrap from Peyton and Eli. I'm just fascinating
Speaker 1: these guys can't do it on their own, that they're
Speaker 1: not talented enough. Peyton and elis you just do it
Speaker 1: without having a revolving door of guests, which are a
Speaker 1: crutch to fill the time. It's fascinated to me. I
Speaker 1: thought Peyton was such a great talker and Eli that
Speaker 1: they would be fine without needing all of these crutches.
Speaker 1: But someone can Someone can make the same comment about
Speaker 1: the Ben Mallor Show. With all the callers that come
Speaker 1: on every single night, Really, how many guests go through
Speaker 1: the go through the list of the guests m hmmm.
Speaker 1: See if weed Man you have marked the full name
Speaker 1: Guy you have um uh Pete and Pittsburgh you have
Speaker 1: been Carlos. What do they all have in common? They
Speaker 1: don't call the show anymore. You're you're big dummy. That's wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm never await during that time anyway, I understand. And
Speaker 1: some hours we don't take any calls. Some hours we
Speaker 1: just you know, march On, don't take any calls. But
Speaker 1: we have no guests. I've I've not had a guest
Speaker 1: on that show since Fred Dryer came on, and now
Speaker 1: he's a friend of the show. But it is embarrassing
Speaker 1: for Peyton Eli. They're so unentertaining without having you know,
Speaker 1: Gronk or Ray Lewis or Brett far Van, it's pretty embarrassing.
Speaker 1: R J in San Antonio says, what baseball stadium would
Speaker 1: you want to go visit that you haven't been to yet?
Speaker 1: For I been asked this question, Well, what's old is
Speaker 1: new again? I've been to most of the the old.
Speaker 1: I've been to Finway, I've been to Wrigley Field, the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh I didn't go to a game there. I walked
Speaker 1: through the stadium. The Pirates were not playing when I
Speaker 1: was in Pittsburgh. In San Francisco, San Diego, Arizona, I've
Speaker 1: been to most. I haven't been to coors Field. I've
Speaker 1: missed coors Field in Denver to check that out. Have
Speaker 1: the Ben Mallard Food Tour in Denver, you know, I
Speaker 1: mean I don't. There's nothing that really pops that I
Speaker 1: have to see. Most of these stadiums are relatively new,
Speaker 1: so I don't need to go see. I'm in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: I've been to the link That Complex in Philly and
Speaker 1: the Phillies Ballpark right next door. Uh. Nothing that I'm
Speaker 1: jones and to get to. I'd like to go to
Speaker 1: all of all parks, but it's not realistic. I don't
Speaker 1: have the time nor the money. Fred in Spring Texas says,
Speaker 1: what's your go to home cooked meal. I'd love to
Speaker 1: cook anything, Fred, But yeah, pizza's a staple, usually Tuesday's
Speaker 1: or Pizza Day, the Mallard pizza, the garlic onion, bell
Speaker 1: pepper pizza, the mallard pie that keeps vampires away. I
Speaker 1: am excited. We will cook, you know, on the weekends. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'll cook all kinds of stuff, Mexican food, fajita's tacos,
Speaker 1: Philly cheese steak. You know, died of a of a
Speaker 1: ten year old, But I love it all. Pasta, a
Speaker 1: lot of pasta, chicken palm, make a mean chicken palm
Speaker 1: at the Mallard Mansion, and pretty much anything one. I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to making monkey bread, that cinnamon monkey bread
Speaker 1: I've made that in a long time, have made anything
Speaker 1: a long time. So pretty much all of the above
Speaker 1: fred And it's unlike gascn It's not covered in broccoli
Speaker 1: and all that bullshit that so I don't cover any
Speaker 1: of my food into that. I do. I do like
Speaker 1: to go to the well for breakfasts with eggs and
Speaker 1: sweet potatoes. It's kind of a regular one. I need it.
Speaker 1: And that doesn't have to be in the morning time.
Speaker 1: It could be the middle of the day in the afternoon,
Speaker 1: so you still get hornswaggled into the whole breakfast thing
Speaker 1: that marketing campaign. No, I just I just like breakfast.
Speaker 1: I mean I don't eat breakfast per se, but I
Speaker 1: do eat the type of food that you'd get for breakfast.
Speaker 1: Like I could eat French toast for lunch or dinner,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. I could eat waffles for dinner. Um,
Speaker 1: how many go to I know we talked about this
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, but how many how many
Speaker 1: marketing phrases have turned into culture of human beings like
Speaker 1: the way human beings are. Why it's fascinating to me
Speaker 1: every time I see people I gotta eat breakfast, people
Speaker 1: that have to eat breakfast, and I'm like, wow, all
Speaker 1: because of the Kellogg brand. It's wild they came up
Speaker 1: with that marketing. So look at breakfast is the most
Speaker 1: important meal of the day to try to promote the
Speaker 1: sales of breakfast cereal because people weren't eating breakfast, you know,
Speaker 1: they were eating leftovers for breakfast, or sometimes they wouldn't
Speaker 1: even eat breakfast because they just didn't care. And all
Speaker 1: because of that marketing slogan, generation after generation, we have
Speaker 1: to eat breakfast, you know, even if it's Tony the
Speaker 1: Tiger or Captain Crunch or don't you know you can
Speaker 1: bring in the you know, Snaggle Puss Cereal or whoever,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, Klondike, Pete, bring him on, come on,
Speaker 1: the choice of a new generation. Yeah, just do it, Nike.
Speaker 1: So al right, what is next year? Boston fan Paul
Speaker 1: writes in on the mail bag, He says, why is
Speaker 1: it a field goal is measured where it is kicked,
Speaker 1: but a punt is measured from the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: That's a great point, Paul, I haven't thought of. I've
Speaker 1: not thought of and I don't have the answer to that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, usually punt about seven eight yards behind the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. Typically you kick a field goal seven
Speaker 1: yards behind the line of scrimmage, they attack on seven
Speaker 1: teen yards to the the field goal. Why don't they?
Speaker 1: Here's what they should do for field goals. Remember the
Speaker 1: old days of football, they had the goal post right
Speaker 1: at the goal line. With technology, couldn't you have the
Speaker 1: goal post move during the game. Wouldn't it be rather
Speaker 1: simple to spend the money? And so when it's a
Speaker 1: kicking situation, you have the goal post at the goal line,
Speaker 1: and then when it is not a kicking situation, you
Speaker 1: have the goal post back behind where it is right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: post though I don't think you would. They have stadiums
Speaker 1: that open up the dome, stadiums that you know will
Speaker 1: open up in just a couple of minutes. There's any
Speaker 1: problem with that. It's great patting myself, I'm patting myself
Speaker 1: on the back here. Why not? How come nobody else
Speaker 1: has thought about I'm an answer this guy, Tony and
Speaker 1: Milwaukee says, since your brother lives in Appleton, in the
Speaker 1: Appleton area, and there's a big minor league baseball team here,
Speaker 1: why haven't you shown up? Why haven't you come to
Speaker 1: town brought the show? Well, Tony in Milwaukee, would you
Speaker 1: drive up, Tony, up to Appleton. If I come to
Speaker 1: the Holy Land of Wisconsin and and be part, I'd
Speaker 1: like to do it. I'm gonna get to Appleton, I
Speaker 1: keep saying that. And now football seasons started, so I'm
Speaker 1: not going anywhere during football season. But that is the goal.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you this, Tony, how about this reach
Speaker 1: out to the minor league team if you want to
Speaker 1: do some legwork for me, do some groundwork, see if
Speaker 1: they're interested. And if they're interested, well that'll mean that
Speaker 1: I'll have to go during baseball season. And I we
Speaker 1: can have like a Mallard Knight at the ballpark. That
Speaker 1: would be great. We can invite listeners down, have a
Speaker 1: fine time. Do the thing that we did out here
Speaker 1: in California where threw out the for Is pitch. And
Speaker 1: that goes also hacking. I know in Minnesota. I gotta
Speaker 1: get over to you right next to Wisconsin there in
Speaker 1: Minnesota and go to the Twin Cities. Are these St.
Speaker 1: Paul Saints affiliated with anybody? Are they still an independent operation?
Speaker 1: That minor league team in St. Paul. I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's a good question. I think they're still independent. Have
Speaker 1: to check it out. But Tony loved there that says
Speaker 1: they're an affiliate of the Minnesota Twins. Okay, so they're
Speaker 1: no longer independent. Balls fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee, says,
Speaker 1: for both of you, what was the most trouble you
Speaker 1: got into in school and that you got in trouble
Speaker 1: with at home? Uh, well, that's I was a terrible
Speaker 1: I was terrible about going I hated going to school.
Speaker 1: I was not a morning person. I didn't like going up.
Speaker 1: My biggest problem in fact, I Uh, I ended up
Speaker 1: bouncing around schools a bit because I just could not
Speaker 1: wake up. I stayed up late even as a kid.
Speaker 1: It's helped me as an adult in radio. But when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, I just couldn't get up. I
Speaker 1: wasn't a morning person and I missed a lot of school.
Speaker 1: So that caused me problems, and that cost me problems
Speaker 1: at home because my mom was frustrated and all that
Speaker 1: stuff that I skipped so much school, But it wasn't
Speaker 1: like I was skipping school to do you know, lines
Speaker 1: of coke. I was skipping school because I couldn't get up.
Speaker 1: And then when it felt weird showing up to school
Speaker 1: after you missed the first two hours of school, you
Speaker 1: feel like you can't show up after that. And so
Speaker 1: I just watched reruns of Twilight Zone, prices right with
Speaker 1: Bob Barker. I remember Monty Hall, Let's make a Deal,
Speaker 1: all the TV game shows of the day and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. So what about you, guesscot Man. On my
Speaker 1: uh my senior year of high school, we had a
Speaker 1: with a welcome freshman dance. And before that dance, like
Speaker 1: a bunch of us guys and girls went to a
Speaker 1: friend's house for like a little pre party, and um,
Speaker 1: one of the girls got insane and talks caated, and
Speaker 1: so at the said dance, she um, she got loose
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden she started throwing up.
Speaker 1: So we all left a dance early. Obviously, they like
Speaker 1: get away from the scene of the crime and like
Speaker 1: three weeks later, after they were finished investigating and someone
Speaker 1: basically ratted us out. We got me and like two
Speaker 1: other guys, we got suspended and uh we got suspend
Speaker 1: it from school for a week. And to top it off,
Speaker 1: like my name was in the like my name was
Speaker 1: in the local paper because I was the star football player.
Speaker 1: And yeah, basically that aired out for for not being available.
Speaker 1: So it was not good. And uh, you never find
Speaker 1: out did you find out who the tattle tale was? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah I knew who it was. So um one of
Speaker 1: the one of the girls crumbled under pressure she thought
Speaker 1: would get caught one way or another. So and I
Speaker 1: was the first person because obviously I had a lot
Speaker 1: of steak and I told everyone like, deny everything, Like,
Speaker 1: deny that you were there, deny anything. They can't prove
Speaker 1: it unless they have someone that says that they were there.
Speaker 1: So they were good for three weeks and then someone
Speaker 1: broke and then we all got broken off. So it sucked.
Speaker 1: It is the same theory I have that most games
Speaker 1: are lost, they're not one. Most crimes are solved because
Speaker 1: people admit to the crimes right or they they are
Speaker 1: sloppy about the crime. And all that stuff. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was good. I I covered everything up. I was I
Speaker 1: was efficient because you didn't cover everything up because some
Speaker 1: motor mouth, some loose tongue girl there went yak at
Speaker 1: the yak. I thought it was good until three weeks
Speaker 1: later she crumbled, So yeah, it was not good. They
Speaker 1: say that the perfect crime is a crime that is
Speaker 1: done by one person that doesn't tell anyone else about
Speaker 1: the crime. Right, that would be the perfect crime. But
Speaker 1: it's impossible to have the perfect crime these days because
Speaker 1: there's cameras everywhere and DNA technology. You cannot have the
Speaker 1: perfect crime. There is no such thing. It does not exist. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Bob the Bears fan, right, since as you and David
Speaker 1: should switch it up and talk about some crazy, outlandish
Speaker 1: ship and call it the third rail on my end podcast,
Speaker 1: that's what Bob wants. We almost had that, Bob, a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, but we had an issue that
Speaker 1: that podcast did not air. But we we almost went
Speaker 1: there a couple of weeks, right, we did. There's enough
Speaker 1: content out there for people to consume. I'm still astonished
Speaker 1: that we have numbers like we do now because there's
Speaker 1: just so many things out there. In the podcasting role,
Speaker 1: for people to uh to spend their time on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's see old Yogi Bearer quote. I'm gonna butcher the
Speaker 1: Yogi bearra quote. But it's something along the line. There's
Speaker 1: there's so many podcasts. Nobody listens to any of them.
Speaker 1: You know it's there, right, It's like, you know, the
Speaker 1: restaurant is so busy, nobody goes there anymore. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: are endless amounts of podcast but we do pretty well
Speaker 1: in the podcast game. We're in the top percentile of podcasts,
Speaker 1: and we thank you for that. Brandon in Michigan says,
Speaker 1: when you drink, or if you drink, are you right
Speaker 1: out of the bottle or the can? Or do you
Speaker 1: pour it into a glass? Are you that type of
Speaker 1: drink or not? I'm right out of the bottle. I
Speaker 1: don't need to pour into a glass. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: and no and no. That's that's busy body work. I
Speaker 1: don't need a glass. I just have I have a
Speaker 1: beer bottle. I'm gonna drink it out of the beer bottle.
Speaker 1: What do I want to put it in the glass for?
Speaker 1: Then you gotta wash the glass. No, I don't need that.
Speaker 1: I don't even like when I go to a restaurant.
Speaker 1: If I have a drink and they put it into
Speaker 1: the glass, I don't need that. Yeah, leave it there
Speaker 1: with you. Although I've ditched, I've ditched drinking out of
Speaker 1: cans nowadays, I've I've ditched the consumption of anything in
Speaker 1: a can. For what happened a littminum? Okay, got all right,
Speaker 1: Joe in Richmond, Virginia. The r v A says, if
Speaker 1: you were to travel to the eastern part of the
Speaker 1: United States in an RV and planned planned to stay
Speaker 1: off the grid for one week, where would you spend
Speaker 1: that week? That's a good question. I would like to
Speaker 1: explore some of the national parks, uh in in the
Speaker 1: eastern part of the United States. Or you're not like
Speaker 1: one of the mountains that the Smoky Mountains, you could
Speaker 1: do that. Uh, there's there's a couple of different But
Speaker 1: I guess if you want to go off the grid
Speaker 1: just away from people, from what I've seen, I've not
Speaker 1: been two parts of North Carolina, um Tennessee. I've been
Speaker 1: to Tennessee, but there's a lot of open land, like
Speaker 1: there's just nothing, there's nothing for miles, so you can live.
Speaker 1: But that was that guy that that blew up the
Speaker 1: abortion clinic and was living in the woods. Remember that, guys,
Speaker 1: still they'ren catch them for years. He was just camping
Speaker 1: out in the woods of the Carolinas. I think it
Speaker 1: was Georgia, no matter, I don't know. It was somewhere
Speaker 1: in the south. And and that guy like he was
Speaker 1: living in like a tent somewhere in the middle of
Speaker 1: the fourth They didn't find that guy for for for years.
Speaker 1: He was able to do that. I got a heax
Speaker 1: hang out in Gettysburg for a little bit, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've been there before. Gettysburg is awesome. I've been to Gettysburg.
Speaker 1: I'd like to go back. I was only there briefly
Speaker 1: that out. What about Lexington? Have you been there? I
Speaker 1: have not. I have not been to Lexington. Have you've
Speaker 1: been in any of these places? I have not. I
Speaker 1: need to go, although I gotta be down for the
Speaker 1: fried food too. I think I'd be consuming so much
Speaker 1: fried food I'm out there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: I mean there's like, there's an island that is a
Speaker 1: national park. The whole island is a National park. That
Speaker 1: would that's you know, that's an off key West. Have
Speaker 1: you seen that? No? Although where did Jonas work? Joonas
Speaker 1: was like in Charleston, South Carolina. Have you been there?
Speaker 1: That's from my niece. I need to go there. My
Speaker 1: niece goes to college in Charleston, so she's there. She's yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my brother New York drives down there. He he
Speaker 1: loves it so much. He's like, maybe we should buy
Speaker 1: a house here and move here. Charleston, South Carolina. I
Speaker 1: heard Savannah, Georgia is awesome during holiday it's especially St.
Speaker 1: Patrick's Day. Um, yeah, I don't know. How about that
Speaker 1: Hot Springs National Park? You ever been there? No? Never
Speaker 1: in Arkansas? No, you've never never been avery good things
Speaker 1: about that in the Central Garland County, Arkansas. The Hot
Speaker 1: Springs right in the middle of Arkansas. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: that I have the ever Glades. I've driven through that
Speaker 1: in Florida. That that I don't really need. That that
Speaker 1: didn't really wow me. What else? I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: of some other places. There's a bunch, but I'd go
Speaker 1: to national park. Maine has one. Isn't there a big
Speaker 1: national park in Maine? Do they think it's not that big?
Speaker 1: I don't know it's Maine, but yeah, here it is
Speaker 1: it's bar Bar Harbor, Maine, A Katie, I think that's
Speaker 1: i Sit National Park. It's one of the most picture
Speaker 1: esque scenic parks in the entire country. The park boasts
Speaker 1: some of the best of foliage on the East Coast
Speaker 1: and uh, camping, cycling, hiking, all that have a Cadillac
Speaker 1: Mountain feet high. It's the highest mountain on the East coast.
Speaker 1: Did you know that the highest mountain on the East
Speaker 1: coast in Maine? Who knew? I do need to go
Speaker 1: to the Naval Academy Museum up in Rhode Island. I
Speaker 1: want to go to that area Rhode Island Way. Yeah
Speaker 1: you can, that's easy. You go to you can do
Speaker 1: the NT corridor right, go through then do that whole thing.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, so so, Joe, There's a bunch of places
Speaker 1: that I would love to check out that I have
Speaker 1: not checked out. The Shenandoah National Park, right, that's that's
Speaker 1: outside d C in Virginia. That's supposed to be one
Speaker 1: her full there's and then there's others in that region Maryland, Virginia,
Speaker 1: that area. Uh what else? A cliff from Nashville says, Ben,
Speaker 1: have you or Gascon ever seen a baby pigeon escon. No, No,
Speaker 1: I have not either. Alan and Akron says, now that
Speaker 1: you live deep in the north woods, are you at
Speaker 1: risk from forest fires that seem to ravage California every year. Well,
Speaker 1: living in California, you're never that far away from a wildfire.
Speaker 1: It is the most left up situation. The the hippies.
Speaker 1: I love trees, my favorite place. I was very concerned
Speaker 1: because the giant forest almost burned up It's Sequoia National
Speaker 1: Park this week and they were able to dodge that.
Speaker 1: But it's because the the environmentalist in California will not
Speaker 1: allow the controlled burns, and so the trees grow two
Speaker 1: points that they cannot be controlled. It is a ship
Speaker 1: show and there's no end in sight. It's wild forest management.
Speaker 1: And then they blame global warming as to why there
Speaker 1: are so many wildfires. The wildfires are a direct result
Speaker 1: of not managing the forest properly. If you manage the
Speaker 1: forest properly, you're not gonna have as many wildfires. I
Speaker 1: know I'm going off on a tangent here, Gascon, but
Speaker 1: it's every time during the year I watch I watched
Speaker 1: the fires and it's not even part of your It's
Speaker 1: a year round there's fires in California, and I just
Speaker 1: shake my head. I'm like, really, I mean, you know
Speaker 1: why why you don't have to do it like that.
Speaker 1: You can manage the force to have controlled burns. There
Speaker 1: are ways to do it to limit the damage, but
Speaker 1: they don't do that. It's annoying. It's a third rail
Speaker 1: on man. I'm just pointing that out. My wrong gascon
Speaker 1: am I wrong. No, if you're not wrong. But it's
Speaker 1: the same thing with up and down the state too.
Speaker 1: So I mean it's evident clearly, especially up near uh
Speaker 1: Napa Valley and Sonoma and those parts of California that
Speaker 1: you know, most people feel at the most, you know,
Speaker 1: the hardest because of all the investments and the wineries
Speaker 1: and the exotic cottages, the golf courses and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean people say that stuff from afar
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you're knee deep in it.
Speaker 1: You're like, wait a minute, they're not taking care of
Speaker 1: the of the state first of all, before it gets
Speaker 1: to where it is. Yeah, I spent some time my
Speaker 1: my brother got married, my younger brother got married in
Speaker 1: Grass Valley, uh, you know, in between Sacramento and San
Speaker 1: Francisco out there and in the in the sticks, and
Speaker 1: I mean it's just forest land as far as you
Speaker 1: can see, and it burns up every every couple of years. Alan.
Speaker 1: That was Alan in Akron, Dave and Mill Valley, California.
Speaker 1: Speaking of trees, he says, what is your favorite drop? Also,
Speaker 1: could you please not sing over Kathleen's classic Hey Mona?
Speaker 1: The delicate nuances are lost when you do that. All right, Sorry, Dave,
Speaker 1: I'll try not to do that. I have to add on.
Speaker 1: I like to add on to these things. What is
Speaker 1: my favorite drop? Well, that is a revolving, revolving situation.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you one that doesn't get played that much
Speaker 1: because it's an Eddie drop. When he was doing the
Speaker 1: update and he was giving the hockey scores and he said,
Speaker 1: the Canadians beat the Canadians to meet that that is
Speaker 1: simple and hilarious. I laugh every time. It reminds me
Speaker 1: of an old Saturday Night Live skit. He's not wrong
Speaker 1: because it's Canadian players playing Canadian players. It was just
Speaker 1: the way that he he delivered that line was also
Speaker 1: Eddie when he when he butchered the Fab five and
Speaker 1: that was that was outstanding too, but there's a much
Speaker 1: I like the old Genie Medford Genie from Medford drops.
Speaker 1: Those don't get played a lot because Roberto wasn't around
Speaker 1: when Genie was on the show. Um, Doc, Mike's got
Speaker 1: a bunch of good ones. I mean there's there's a lot.
Speaker 1: So we we we are, we are very rich in drops.
Speaker 1: We are. I'm a pilot rights in. He says, Hey, Ben,
Speaker 1: I know you've got plenty of recipes, but from someone
Speaker 1: from Texas, if you want one that works. You're talking
Speaker 1: about mosquitoes here, hear me out, and then he gives
Speaker 1: me the mosquito recipe he named per methram s f R.
Speaker 1: Does that ring a bell with your guests? Gun? No,
Speaker 1: he says, you can buy this stuff. I'm a pilot
Speaker 1: at a tractor supply store. He says. A bottle cost
Speaker 1: like twenty dollars. Buy a gallon sprayer it's about twelve bucks.
Speaker 1: I looked it up. Is actually more than that here
Speaker 1: in California. Put two ounces per gallon and spray it everywhere,
Speaker 1: he says, Spray it everywhere on ground, bushes, patio. It's safe,
Speaker 1: it's for all bugs. Spray it like once a week.
Speaker 1: He says he sprays it all the time. It really
Speaker 1: helps out bugs and mosquitoes. He says, he sprays it
Speaker 1: all over the place. Is the same as those companies
Speaker 1: like Mosquito Joe use and whatnot, So so I guess
Speaker 1: he says, that's the same stuff. Now my only question,
Speaker 1: and I don't want Bella to get killed from spraying
Speaker 1: pesticide all over the place, so that is my concern.
Speaker 1: But I'm assuming I'm a pilot, you have kids, You
Speaker 1: probably have a dog or a cat or something like that,
Speaker 1: so this can you right back, I'm a pilot, and
Speaker 1: let me know that this is not going to damage
Speaker 1: my dog, because I don't want to. There's the dog,
Speaker 1: and then I'll have a different problem. But I looked
Speaker 1: up this crap and according to the Internet, this is
Speaker 1: what they use, what I'm a pilot uses, and what
Speaker 1: he claims these mosquito companies use is a medication used
Speaker 1: to treat headlights. Tiny insects that fest and you know,
Speaker 1: get on your scalp and all that. So that's kind
Speaker 1: of cool. So if if you can put this on
Speaker 1: your scalp, I would think it would be okay for
Speaker 1: for a dog. But what do I know, I'll have
Speaker 1: to investigate that more, but thank you. I'm a pilot.
Speaker 1: That doesn't seem like it's that much. If it's thirty
Speaker 1: dollars for a canister of this crap and you only
Speaker 1: use two ounces per gallon of water, uh, that does
Speaker 1: sound that bad. Sounds pretty good, Ben and gascon and
Speaker 1: or co host. When you first meet someone, this is
Speaker 1: from John to Jeller. When you first meet someone and
Speaker 1: you don't want to intimidate them because you're a big
Speaker 1: time radio personality, what do you tell them that you
Speaker 1: do for a living? John, great question, and my go
Speaker 1: to in the past was, I was I worked on
Speaker 1: a blog. I was I was a internet writer because
Speaker 1: I had Ben Mallard dot com. I don't do that anymore.
Speaker 1: So now I say I work in sales, because I
Speaker 1: do work in sales. Radio is sales, were audio sales.
Speaker 1: The most important part of DIO is when I do
Speaker 1: a commercial for DraftKings or I do a spot for
Speaker 1: you know, any of our sponsors. Gonna go down the
Speaker 1: list there. We have Lost Vegas, visit Las Vegas. They're
Speaker 1: a new sponsor. But so I always say sales, and
Speaker 1: I'm in the sales business because Normally people don't ask
Speaker 1: like too many questions. They might ask what you sell,
Speaker 1: and I'll be like, well, I sell I sell fantasy
Speaker 1: football or you know, I said, or whatever the product
Speaker 1: I'm selling at the time. So that's it. There you go.
Speaker 1: Look at that kists, gun bells and whistles going off.
Speaker 1: It's fascinating. All right, What about you, guest? Gun do
Speaker 1: you tell? You? Probably just tell people I work in
Speaker 1: radio and television and all that stuff, right, No, no, um, wait, no,
Speaker 1: I tell my du voice over stuff. There you go.
Speaker 1: I hit this wrong button here and it all all
Speaker 1: hell broke loose all of a sudden, so I gotta
Speaker 1: hit this button over here. Well s, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: over here. Let me do this right now. Feel free.
Speaker 1: I could not hear you for a second. I hit
Speaker 1: the wrong button, but go ahead, yesca, Oh no, I said,
Speaker 1: I tell my due voice over work voice safer that way, yes,
Speaker 1: Rick from San Ramon right. Since it's Ben and David,
Speaker 1: what in the wild wild world of sports has happened
Speaker 1: to the audio feed of the Fifth Hour podcast. Whenever
Speaker 1: the two of you are talking at the same time,
Speaker 1: Ben's Ben's audio sounds like he's talking underwater, and it
Speaker 1: also happens when Ben plays his drops. I'm assuming I'm
Speaker 1: not the only person hearing this, but just in case, uh,
Speaker 1: you're the only one, Rick, I've not gotten any other complaints,
Speaker 1: I guess, Gana, is this an issue that we need
Speaker 1: to know about? Here? Is Rick the only one that's
Speaker 1: hearing this? Could be the only one, although there are
Speaker 1: times when we talk over each other, and I'll just
Speaker 1: blame that to your bad hearing, So I will blame
Speaker 1: that on your bad timing. Okay. John in Colorado says,
Speaker 1: have you ever crop dusted a grocery store aisle? Or
Speaker 1: do you suffer until you're in the parking lot? No? John, No,
Speaker 1: no no. What you do is you try to walk
Speaker 1: away from a busy part of the grocery store. What
Speaker 1: you attempt to do. My move is I will go
Speaker 1: to the aisle with the trash bags because there's normally
Speaker 1: a lot of not a lot of people on the
Speaker 1: aisle with the trash bags. And and then you let
Speaker 1: it rip, You let her rip, You keep walking, never
Speaker 1: look back. Net when you crop dust, you never look back.
Speaker 1: You keep walking, and you might even have to walk
Speaker 1: down the aisle again to appreciate what you've done to
Speaker 1: the store, but I I do not do not go
Speaker 1: out to the the parking lot. The one we brought
Speaker 1: this up before in the past. The issue that I
Speaker 1: annoys me is the the hotel. When you're in a
Speaker 1: hotel room and when you're dating. And you know, I'm
Speaker 1: married now, so I don't care. But when I was
Speaker 1: dating and if you had to let it rip right,
Speaker 1: let U got big gass fart out, I didn't want
Speaker 1: to do that, you know, because you don't want to
Speaker 1: fart around the other person. So I would I would.
Speaker 1: I said, I have to go down to the lobby
Speaker 1: to get something, So I would go all the way
Speaker 1: down to the lobby and walk around the casino floor
Speaker 1: like in Vegas, and then fart there or use the
Speaker 1: bathroom down there. That would be mine booth. But in
Speaker 1: the grocery store, yeah, I don't really, I don't really
Speaker 1: mind you. I think the best or my favorite is
Speaker 1: when you're either in a bar or a lounge or
Speaker 1: a club, because you're protected with the music. Yes, background
Speaker 1: noise is essential, yes, and so that's the that's the
Speaker 1: best because sometimes you can just let it marinate for
Speaker 1: a hot minute and then bolt. Yeah, but obviously have
Speaker 1: you ever had have you ever had this instant a
Speaker 1: guesscount in the bathroom where it's appropriate to let her
Speaker 1: rip in the bathroom. But if you're in there and
Speaker 1: there's another person in the stall next to you, and
Speaker 1: you're the only two people in the bathroom, and you
Speaker 1: let her rip, right if they get out a little
Speaker 1: bit before you and then you get out, they then
Speaker 1: they give you that that evil eye, you know, that
Speaker 1: look like. I think you have to treat it like
Speaker 1: a horn, right Like if you have if you have
Speaker 1: a powerful horn on your car, you can let that
Speaker 1: thing go as long as possible. But if you have
Speaker 1: a weak horn, you don't want to use it, like,
Speaker 1: you want to be very very cautious on how you
Speaker 1: deploy it. So I think it's the same thing, right Like,
Speaker 1: if you're in a stall like that, If it's if
Speaker 1: it's with power enthusiasm, you wear that thing loud and proud.
Speaker 1: But if it's not, if it's like weak and limp,
Speaker 1: you want to just you know, kind of tucktail and run. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I try not to spend too much time. Now. What
Speaker 1: I have done in that situation is I've been in
Speaker 1: that spot before I have. This is so stupid. I
Speaker 1: have prematurely flushed the toilet trying to drown out the
Speaker 1: sound of the fart I have. Yeah, everyone does that.
Speaker 1: I thought I thought I was special. I'm not special,
Speaker 1: all right, Seattle Sammy writes in he Is It Is It?
Speaker 1: He's a sports question, He says, Man, if you were
Speaker 1: given the opportunity to consult the Seattle Manners management, what
Speaker 1: advice would you give them? As you probably know, the
Speaker 1: Mariners have not made the postseasons since they have the
Speaker 1: longest postseason drought in North American sports today, Seattle Sammy asked, Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: the biggest problem for teams like the Mariners and the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Timberwolves is they have no no gumption to stick
Speaker 1: with the plan. There's two problems. They hire the wrong
Speaker 1: people and then and then they get as soon as
Speaker 1: one thing goes wrong, they immediately get antsy and have
Speaker 1: to make a change. So it is a revolving door.
Speaker 1: It's a never ending cycle of futility for those those franchises.
Speaker 1: It's bad, bad, bad, bad, bad bad bad. But the
Speaker 1: answer to Seattle's problem is to hire theo Epstein. You
Speaker 1: hire theo Epstein you're gonna win. He's available, he's working
Speaker 1: for Major League Baseball. Not convincing him to take the
Speaker 1: Maritage job is a different conversation, right. Last one, Lord
Speaker 1: Goofa rites in and he has a story to share
Speaker 1: about his own d n A And it came up
Speaker 1: on the show and he used the twenty three and
Speaker 1: Me website to find his biological father and he sent
Speaker 1: the whole story here. I don't know that we have
Speaker 1: time to get to it all right now, but so
Speaker 1: I read it and it's it's quite the story. He
Speaker 1: was born in nineteen eighty back in Ohio to a
Speaker 1: single mother an unknown father, and it wasn't he said,
Speaker 1: just that he wasn't in the picture. No one knew
Speaker 1: his name, And so Lord Goofer shares the story, says
Speaker 1: that his mom told him that when you know, she
Speaker 1: was dating this guy who had cheated on her, so
Speaker 1: she decided to get back at him, and she cheated
Speaker 1: on him and that one night stand turned out to
Speaker 1: be Lord Goufa. How about that? That's wild, um, she
Speaker 1: said she allegedly she allegedly got black out drunk, does
Speaker 1: not remember any details surrounding the events of the night
Speaker 1: of my conception. Wow, that's wild, um, he said, Lord goofer.
Speaker 1: There were a couple of suitors that were tested via
Speaker 1: old school blood testing, a very flawed method of determining
Speaker 1: paternity that can only exclude people, and all were excluded.
Speaker 1: The method likely resulted in tens of thousands of false positives.
Speaker 1: But that's another story anyway. So moving on, So he
Speaker 1: goes through a whole bunch of backstory, you know, the
Speaker 1: efforts back in the eighties and nineties couldn't find anything.
Speaker 1: Fast forward, he says he was thirty four years old,
Speaker 1: happily married, two kids, all that great stuff, and he
Speaker 1: talks about submitting about DNA online DNA. He went to
Speaker 1: a couple of sites or his service, rather his service,
Speaker 1: and he says, in layman terms, he says, I need
Speaker 1: not bother with there's a big word here that I
Speaker 1: don't know how to uh to say uh as this
Speaker 1: was passed down by mothers. Anyway, it didn't work. It
Speaker 1: didn't work, and he had grown tired, and I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a long, long story here, guests, gun, but let
Speaker 1: me give you the in the terms of brevity, because
Speaker 1: I know we gotta we gotta wrap this thing up.
Speaker 1: So Eventually he found his way on a group on
Speaker 1: to twenty three and me and his wife, I guess
Speaker 1: found it and asked if he'd be interested and in
Speaker 1: giving d n A another shot. And he was skeptical
Speaker 1: because it hadn't worked in the past and he still
Speaker 1: hadn't seen anything closer on ancestry dot com or anything
Speaker 1: like that. So anyway, uh it it, It happened, It happened.
Speaker 1: Uh they signed up for it, and initially, you know,
Speaker 1: it didn't didn't really work out, and then he had
Speaker 1: the Eureka moment and he tells the story here he
Speaker 1: was able to track down his father because of d
Speaker 1: n A and it's a great story, Lord Goofer, thank
Speaker 1: you for sending you know, I appreciate, wish we had
Speaker 1: more time to to give the whole thing here, but
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. He says. He was he was driving
Speaker 1: around March of nine in a showered made breakfast, normal
Speaker 1: day with his wife, his kids. Wife took off to
Speaker 1: take the youngest child, uh to two work to school,
Speaker 1: to the high school, and then off to work. And
Speaker 1: he said he was in the car with his oldest
Speaker 1: and message popped up on his phone and that was
Speaker 1: the message that they had found found his dad. So
Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. It has a happy story. Man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's great. That's what that must have been tough as
Speaker 1: a kid, right, not knowing anything about your father. I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people go through that, but man,
Speaker 1: oh man, oh man. All right, very good listen, have
Speaker 1: a great rest of your Sunday. I know we went
Speaker 1: along on the mail bag. We will catch you next
Speaker 1: week on the podcast and if all goes well, big name,
Speaker 1: big name, hopefully good guests. Big name scheduled for the
Speaker 1: Friday podcast was supposed to be on the podcast this
Speaker 1: past week canceled. We'll see if it happens this week.
Speaker 1: Looking forward to have a great Sunday, enjoy the NFL
Speaker 1: games back on the radio tonight and we'll catch you
Speaker 1: in