WEBVTT - Party Crashers 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:09.440 Boom. If you thought more hours a day, minutes a 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:13.240 week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:16.919 the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:19.800 crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:24.200 pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of hot takes, 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:28.080 break free or something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:33.159 Maller starts right now that it does as we are 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:36.519 back at it in the Magic Podcast Box, not to 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.479 be confused with the Magic Radio Box, as it is 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.360 a yet another edition of the Fifth Hours. You know 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:45.519 by now because you're listening live. You can hear the 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:49.959 Fifth Hour wherever you get podcasts. It's available there. And 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:52.440 we point out every week that the reason we do 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:55.360 the Fifth Hour is because four hours are not enough, 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:57.280 but really it's just because management wants us to do 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:02.040 the Fifth Hour with me, Ben Maller and the most 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.759 popular man in the mallarw Militia these days, David Gascon. 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.080 I gotta tell you a guest on more people want 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:12.080 to talk about your narcissistic ways than anything else. It 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:16.160 is overwhelming. The questions I get about you and when 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:19.600 I'm gonna fire your ass are fascinating. You can't fire 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:23.360 somebody that's not getting paid. Well, you got some knee 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:26.240 deep losers amongst the mallarw militia. You got some winners, 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.800 you got some overachievers, and then you've got some bona fide. 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:34.640 The word plankton plankton, Yeah, that's that's the word. That's 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.600 a wonderful word if we can use that. Well, at 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.520 least you finally figured out that I sound louder than you. 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:42.800 And that's a good thing. That's a good thing. I'm 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:44.760 supposed to be louder than you. When I used to 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:48.600 be an intern for Lee hack Saw Hamilton's in San Diego, 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.520 and Hacksaw would take a lot of phone calls. He 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:55.240 was the afternoon drive star, and they had a piece 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:56.840 of equipment which is one of the great pieces of 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:58.320 equipment all the time. We don't have it at Fox 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:02.080 Sports Radio, where he would get into these fights with 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.000 like a Raider fan or something like that. Right, they 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:08.120 get into screaming matches, and hack Saw had at the 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.919 old mighty six ninety he had like a gas pedal 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.040 kind of thing, and if he really got into it 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:18.680 and really got heated in in a conversation with the 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:22.520 other caller. He would press his foot on the gas 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:26.040 pedal and it would lower the volume of the caller 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.760 so he could always scream over the call. It was 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.680 a little magic trick that they had, and it was awesome. 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.120 It was great, and uh, we don't have that. Like, 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.079 all we can do when we get into a fight 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.400 with a caller is I can like put him on hold. 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:43.520 That that's about it, Because why I would need the 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:46.399 engineer to be paying attention, which usually doesn't happen. That's 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:50.080 the problem. So a good engineer will know, hey, let 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:52.080 me fade this guy down a little bit, so, but 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:54.520 that usually doesn't happen, and so I just kind of 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:56.720 go with it. And that's that's how that worked. Well, 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.959 fair enough, Why I would appreciate some of the positive 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.480 tweets and messages that you get regarding me, all right, 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:05.360 when I get them, I will put them on the ear. 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:10.920 So far, I'm going page down here, page down, page down. 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:15.400 It's a lot of he's irresponsible, h he's all responsible. 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.160 You're the guy that showed have thirty forty minutes late 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.960 to your own fucking podcast. No, no, no, forty five 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:26.440 minutes late to your own podcast. Anything else? To do today, 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:27.880 and I had to sit and wait for you for 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:29.720 four We have nothing else going on. Let me let 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:31.920 me tell you, Mr deep thinker over there. Okay, uh, 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:36.800 the podcast starts when Mallar shows up. Yeah, okay. Otherwise 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:38.800 you would have done the podcast already and said, well, 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:40.760 you're late. I'm just gonna start without you. But you 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:42.800 didn't do that. You could have started without me and 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.160 done the first thirty minutes and then I could have 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:46.880 come in here and done the rest of it. But 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.240 you had no contingency plan. That's a bad job by you. 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.840 That shows you that the listeners are right here, that 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:58.920 you were your responsible is a good A good podcaster says, 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.360 all right, disaster preparedness, I am ready. Well, a ship 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:06.040 does not set sail without its captain. So, uh so 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.600 you're admitting I'm the captain. Well that's good. Finally, that's 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:12.400 a baby step. You're admitting now that I am al capitan, 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:14.840 and thank you for that. Well, we gotta give you 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.080 at least some kind of accolades for the job not 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:21.719 well done today. That's a fine job. It's a marvelous job. 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.520 And I think I should win a purple heart because 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:29.440 I've been ill all week and here I last week 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:31.880 and then you come in here bitching about you gotta 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.720 show some grit, you gotta show some persons. Right, I'm 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:38.160 I'm here, dumb, dumb. I am here doing the podcast 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:41.400 making it sound beautiful, alright, is what I am doing here. 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:44.880 I am putting bells and whistles on the podcast like 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.840 the Houston Astros did during games. Is what I'm doing. Well, 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:49.600 speaking of bells, what do we got on the menu today? 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:54.320 All right? We have the party planner, Sleepless in Seattle. 0:04:55.360 --> 0:05:00.320 We will also have finger food, study this, grab bad egg, 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.880 and don't stick to sports stories of the week. Those 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.640 are all things coming up here on this edition of 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.160 the Fifth Hour. That's on the menu. So we'll start 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.000 with the party planning this big weekend. As you listen 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.840 to this podcast, depending on when you listen to this podcast, 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:20.919 the idiocy, the ludicrousness will be taking place. It is 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:24.320 going to be quite the hooting nanny. This weekend is 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:28.560 the weekend of the annual Mallard Ugly Sweater Party, a 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:32.000 much talked about event among the Mallard militia uh and 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.800 it is created a mythical kind of cloud around this 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:40.719 event with many former colleagues of Fox Sports Radio past 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:44.120 and my radio career in the past, showing up for 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:49.680 debauchery and excess, and uh, it's just going to be wonderful. 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:53.400 It's just going to be absolutely great, and uh look 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.720 forward to this this this weekend, GASCA. I'm excited about it. 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:58.600 I think it's a little bit of a trek going 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:00.360 from where we are out in the west side of 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:04.640 town to Arizona. But uh, last year was fun. Before 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:06.960 that was pretty fun as well. I'm always curious to 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:10.479 know who the straggler is. There's always that one guy 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:15.080 that's late to the party and then stays obnoxiously late. 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:18.520 You've had one guy in particular, former colleague here. Yeah, 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:20.600 that usually stays until the good morning of like one 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.120 or two o'clock drinking. Well, you're talking about Arty is 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.000 what you're talking about. You know you're afraid to name him. 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.600 I'm not afraid to name already. He already is a 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.040 great friend of mine. I've worked with him for years, 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.400 not not a long time, but I worked in local radio. 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.200 We already worked at Fox Sports Radio. He's over at 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.560 NBC now, but he's a good friend and uh, let 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:43.320 me Tex the life of the party once already shows up. 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.600 He now already pre games. You know you're a professional 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:49.479 party person when you pre game. I don't pre game, 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.640 I don't he pre games. Yeah, I was. I was 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.719 asking the better half of you what I should bring 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.520 for for a cocktail for you, but she saidn't really 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:01.520 have a You put it eloquently, she said, you have 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:05.039 an appetite of a teenager and you have a palette 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:10.480 of a teenager as well. So, um, yeah, I had 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.360 some ideas of what I was gonna bring, and now 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.440 I'm gonna I guess regress back to something. Now. I'm 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:17.400 I'm a simple man. I try to tell you that. 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:18.840 You know, I'm a man of the people. This is 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.480 a difference between you me and you. You're a narcissist, 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.920 all right, everyone knows that. And you're kind of pompous, 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.600 an arrogant West Side of l A kind of guy. 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.920 You got that at dude. I'm I'm the working class guy. 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:37.000 I am the blue collar, lunch pale guy. And I'm 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:41.400 I'm a very simple man, is what I am. And 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:44.240 I have simple needs and wants and all that stuff. 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:47.600 But you wouldn't understand that because you're with hanging out 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:49.880 with intellectuals and all that stuff. But i I'm a 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:53.600 factory worker, is what I am. I'm tough, minded, gritty, 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.480 overachieving h and all that that. That's what I am. 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:02.120 I'm not. I'm not hanging out in some cubicle somewhere. Not. 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.640 That kind of sounds like you're a an employee for 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:10.160 Nikee and those sweatshops back in Asia making shoes for 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:12.920 Lebron James and getting paid a dollar twenty five a day. Well, 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:16.720 I'll see that's you right there, living up to your arrogant, pompous, 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.440 obnoxious reputations. What you're doing a lot, how you put it, 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.000 I mean just being you know, rolling the color up 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.200 and uh, you know, showing that true passion the hard 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.600 hat at the lunch. You gotta get some dirt under 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.560 your fingernails. You gotta do. It's very important there. Whatever, 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:33.760 I'm looking forward to this party, I wouldn't give me fun. 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.040 So now you, I will say, if everyone that goes 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:37.920 to the party, you treat this more like a dating 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.400 event than anything. Most people are just going there having fun. 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.800 But Gascon's on the prowl when he's at this party. Man, 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:47.640 he's looking around, he's observing. He's seeing what's available and 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.959 who's interested. And he's always he's rotating. He's going three 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.199 hundred sixty degrees all over the room. I'd like to 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.800 call it engaged. Part of the reason for that is 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:58.959 because most of the people that we work with staying 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.520 a little buttable or they don't really talk to anyone 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.880 else outside of said bubble. And your wife's friends are 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.679 in the same kind of nature as well. Married, kids, 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:13.079 bad marriage, getting divorced, separated. They just talking about their problems. 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.560 So I like to kind of circulate throughout the room, 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.040 worked the room a little bit, Ben mel I know 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:19.360 you didn't do that back in the day and your 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.640 twenties and thirties or even your forties. Uh. Something I'd 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.360 like to do, like to beat in and out of conversations, 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.920 kind of see what's going on, say hi to everybody, 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:31.240 you know, touch everybody at one time or another, as 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.800 opposed to guys like Tom Loudy, who will show up 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:37.560 and not say goodbye to anybody as he departs into 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:41.400 the good night. Yeah. Well, well Looney believes in the 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:43.800 and I think this is actually right. I've tried to 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:47.600 convince my wife of this because what Looney does, is right. 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:49.480 I'm I'm very excited to see Looney. I've not seen 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:51.280 Louney in a long time since he got whacked by 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:55.520 the company, and uh, I love the guy him. Well, 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:56.880 that's what the last time I saw him though, it's 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.400 but that's that's a while ago. Oh yeah, yeah, I 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.640 mean I don't we We We text all the time, but 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:04.480 I don't, you know, in physical presence, I don't see him. 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.080 So but the great thing about Looney's when he shows up, 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:11.960 it's like bell he like, he like has red carpet 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.600 rolling out, you know, in a DJ like James Harden 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.840 showing up to an NBA game and uh and what's 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:21.199 everyone to say? Looney has arrived, you know, And it's 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.160 like he has the you know in those movies about 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.760 the King and they have this person announcing the King's 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:30.000 about to arrive, and that's Looney when he shows up. 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:32.120 And then when he leaves, you're like, hey, where's Looney? 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:34.679 Did he didn't? You know? It never says goodbye to anybody. 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.120 He just he just gets out. And that's the way 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:38.480 to do it, because like when when I go to 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:42.760 a family functions with my wife, it's it's an extra 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.679 half hour of saying goodbye to everybody at the end. 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.360 You know what I'm saying. It's and I don't mind 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:50.040 saying goodbye him, but it's like you have to tick 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:52.120 about and it's like attacks on an extra half hour 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.360 where we just like slid out the back door and 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.040 be like, where did they go? I don't know where 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.840 they wait? No one would mind. I think that's best 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:00.880 executed too, in correct me if I'm wrong, But I 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:04.679 think that you can execute that to perfection at weddings 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.880 and at funerals, because you never really want to say 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.600 goodbye anybody at a funeral, and usually at a wedding 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:14.559 or wedding reception, having a couple of drinks, and usually 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.760 after that it's whatever you may be doing if you 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:20.560 gotta a partner with you. So those are two legit 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:24.000 reasons to bow out of a of a festival. Uh 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.760 if I might say, as opposed to a I don't 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:28.600 want to say it's a company party because it's not. 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:31.040 But uh no, it's not a company party. There will 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.400 be no management people there, so you don't have to 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.400 worry about that. I know you don't like management, so 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.120 you don't have to worry about running in any of them, 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.520 they will not be at the particular party, and I 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:42.120 don't know who's gonna show up and say. It's one 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:43.320 of those things, kind of like when I go out 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.000 and meet and greet people when I do these stupid 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:49.800 little Mallardmolitia events, because we invited a bunch of people, 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:51.520 but I don't know. Usually it's the same people to 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:53.760 show up every year, and there's like a couple of 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:56.640 other people that will out of curiosity show up. But 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:58.760 we invited a few new people this year, so we'll 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:04.080 see who shows up. Marlin's Man was invited, but unfortunately 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.199 he said some health problems, so he will not be attending. 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:08.520 I thought that would be kind of funny if me 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:10.679 and my buddy marlins Man hung out, you know, and 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.520 everyone could take pictures of him and his Marlins jersey 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:15.960 and it would be be good. But unfortunately can't make it, 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:19.680 so that's not gonna happen. And uh yeah, I think 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:23.520 the biggest celebrity I think will be Lee Kleine, the 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:27.440 Prince of Dark, who will be making his yearly sojourn 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.760 to show up and make offensive jokes to as many 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:33.120 people as you make. But you appreciate you liked it. 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.560 I do. I think Coop is the only guy that 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:37.480 kind of treads that deep end of the pool on 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:41.000 your show with the dark side of jokes, and so 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.040 I appreciate that. And uh, I look forward to a 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.280 lengthy conversation with Lee because the last time we got 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.080 together for tacos, you kind of you kind of broke 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:51.840 up that party as we were getting uh knee deep 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:53.920 into some fun with his his stories and some of 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:55.240 the stuff that you guys used to do back in 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.800 the day of Yeah. Oh yeah, me and Lee Man 0:12:57.840 --> 0:12:59.240 back in the old days. We can get away with 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.160 bloody murder back then in the early days of radio, 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.800 well early days for me of radio. But yeah, we 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:07.200 we had a great time. We used to hang out. 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.240 You know, the Clippers were terrible in the nineties and 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.120 I covered the team for the mighty six nine and 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:15.480 we would hang out at at the sports Arena. I'd 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:17.199 get there like four in the you know, four three 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.840 in the afternoon, and after games games within about ten o'clock, 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.440 we do a post game and I just hang out 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.599 in the parking lot. You know, we would play football 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.040 or whatever, just kind of chill out and uh, you know, 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.640 living the left, go get food or whatever, living the life, 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:35.719 bachelor life and all that for for years with a 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:38.800 morbid uh Clipper team. But as far as the party, 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:40.360 just to put the ball on the party. We'll have 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:43.080 the post game show next week. That'll be the postgame show. 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.440 I know. Excited about that. And it's kind of like 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:49.000 junior high school prom because my wife invites many more 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:51.840 people than I invite because I don't know, I don't 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.040 get along with very many people, so my wife invites 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.640 most of her you know, French. Everyone loves my wife. 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.920 So it's like junior high school prom. There's like a 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.960 or a Mike Tyson fight against France botha there's an 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:08.720 outdated reference. There's like a point of demarcation and there's 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:12.800 like a line and you can't cross the line. Don't 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:16.720 cross the line, as they say, and then that's usually 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:18.840 what happens, and everyone's kind of staring at each other 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:22.040 and yeah, so that's that's where I coming. That's why 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:25.360 I like circulating around the room because you don't know 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.200 these people, and I think it's a lot of fun. 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:29.600 You know, I talk the same We should know him 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:31.960 because you've been coming every year and harassing them, so 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.320 you should know them by now. Coming twice doesn't change 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.800 that much, you know, I think it a little bit older, 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:39.360 so you want to go a little younger. It's all good. 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:41.840 Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:45.440 Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:49.440 Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Wow. Alright, 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:55.240 sleepless in Seattle. We have the proverbial and uh regular 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:57.920 I went to the word I'm looking for here. Uh 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:02.240 the demanded Mallard Militia meet and greet update, which is 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:05.560 coming up later in December. This podcast is for super 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:09.480 fans of the show, the top one percent of the 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:14.720 Mallard Militias of our obligatory Mallard Man March updates coming 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.840 at the end of December. Now, this is really for 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:22.360 our guys in in Seattle, in the Seattle area, but 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.640 it really could be anybody. People have been emailing me 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:30.520 from Vancouver and uh, there's one guy has been listening 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:34.160 for years in Vancouver who's thinking about driving down if 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:37.200 you're anywhere in Washington State, if you you know, I 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.720 don't recommend driving far, but some people said that they're 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:42.800 thinking about making a weekend out of it and coming 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:45.520 and hanging out in Seattle. I don't know how entertaining 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:47.760 I'm gonna be, but it'd be nice to meet you 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.640 if you do show up there. It's not a sanction event. 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.840 This is not some event through KJR, the home of 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:56.680 the Ben Maller Show in Seattle, or Fox Sports Radio. 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:00.080 They want nothing to do with it, so uh, and 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.440 I don't blame them. So this is just me hanging 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:06.120 out with the people, pressing the flesh, having a good time, 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:09.360 telling stories and that kind of stuff. And we have 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:14.320 our senior Mallard Militia Maller Man, March guy Jay Scoop, 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:17.160 who's been working over time. He's already found a restaurant 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:23.160 to hang out with everybody December. And I don't think 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.680 I'm allowed to say the name of the restaurant yet 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:29.400 because for for other reasons, but um, we know the name. 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.800 It looks great. I looked at the menu, looks awesome. 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:36.240 It's it's not that far away from the Seahawks Stadium there, 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.600 so it's it's all everything's right next to each other 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:41.920 there in Seattle. So it's that'll be on Saturday night 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:47.120 about seven thirty in Seattle, me hanging out with like 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:52.960 Jay Scoop and Christina Ed from Spokane. Maybe j J 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.400 and Rent will show up, maybe Dre from Seattle will 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.680 be there, and Lee from Seattle, some of the guys 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.960 that have been supporting the show over the years. So 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:03.840 we'll do that on on Saturday, and I'm just gonna 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:05.639 hang out for a couple of hours, why not. And 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:10.040 then on Sunday the twenty nine, at roughly ten thirty 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:14.520 in the morning, guest on the Mallard Man March begins. 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:18.560 And this is probably at least a one mile march 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:23.680 through the rain soaked streets of Seattle, as we will 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:27.800 lead our way with our fearless leader ed from Spokanan's bullhorn, 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:32.040 a seeing slogans too. People to listen to the show, 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.919 and we'll have signs and it's it's gonna be an 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:39.760 amazing thing. It's it's it's really like a religious revival, 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:41.719 is what it's going to be for the Mallary Militia. 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.160 And so we're gonna march all the way down about 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.640 a mile from some hotel in Seattle, all the way 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:51.600 down to the stadium and then we'll go in and 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:54.479 watch the game. I'm looking forward to it, especially because 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:59.520 that game, if everything stays as is, that game could 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.919 mean either a one or two seed in the NFC 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:06.120 and of course home field advantage throughout the playoffs. Yeah. Yeah, 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:08.080 it's it's got the chance of being an awesome night. 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:10.280 And by the way, if you want more information on that, 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:14.359 instead of contacting me, I'm gonna give you and I'm 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:18.040 gonna give out our friend Jay Scoop's information. Now you 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.080 can contact me. I might or might not get back 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:23.040 to you, but Jay Scoop says, hey, bring it on, 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:25.919 send me messages. I'll tell everyone and he wants to 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:29.120 show up anybody that emails me if I as questions, Uh, 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:32.920 you can do that. It's uh Jesse j E S 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:36.919 s E, c R e A N and that is 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:41.840 the Twitter account at Jesse and then c R E 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:44.199 A and Creane I believe this is the name. But 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.640 you can message him and he has an email which 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:51.679 is just Jesse dot cream at gmail dot com. And 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:53.479 he said, hey, give that out if you want. If 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:55.720 people want to kind of hang out, so we get 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:57.879 an idea of how many people are planning on attending, 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:01.360 as I think. I told Jay Scoop that I've done 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:04.920 these things in Boston and Pittsburgh and uh, you know, 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:10.080 in Buffalo and different random places Kansas City, and usually 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:12.000 there's a lot more people that say they're gonna do it, 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:14.440 and then when they actually have to show up, Oh, 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:16.399 you know, my wife had me, I have I have 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:19.119 someone I have to do or you know, crap happens. 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.280 But we'll see what happens this week. I know we've 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:23.160 got a number of people have already R s V pete. 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:25.240 So it's gonna be fun. And that's at the end 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:28.639 of December again, December, December twenty nine, so we've got 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:30.600 a couple of weeks roughly give or take a little 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:32.960 less than that before this begins. Now, what are you 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:36.159 flying up? Are you flying like Delta? You're United American? 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:37.919 I know you're no, no, no, no no. When you 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:42.080 fly to Seattle, you fly Alaska Airlines. That's that's the airline. 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:45.000 That's a life hack from Jay Scoop. There. You you 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:49.320 fly Alaskan Airlines because that is a hub of Alaskan 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:51.880 airlines and there's tons of flights to choose from. Very 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:54.000 bougie of you. I assume you're flying out of l 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:57.240 A X so it's of course, yes, all right, very 0:19:57.359 --> 0:19:59.600 very bougie of you. Well, I mean that's the I'll 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.119 be dry, mean seven hours to get to the airports, 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:04.680 so and then I have to uh you know, it's 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:06.880 a short flight from l A Seattle and then you're 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:11.040 staying in downtown Seattle to right four star hotel. Uh yeah, 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:14.560 I'm staying at a hotel not far from the stadium, 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:19.560 so probably WiFi in there. Well, I'm assuming there'll be 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:23.360 some WiFi. Mean that's remember, well you're not that you're 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:25.000 not that savvy. But back in the old days, in 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:28.439 the hotel game, back in the old days, they originally 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:30.840 hotel signs to get people to stay there with say 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:37.320 color television. Then then they shifted to HBO or cable television. 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:43.360 Right now, a savvy hotel people don't care about television anymore. 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:48.000 It's all about WiFi and free WiFi, right well, yeah, 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:50.720 especially in Las Vegas, because in Las Vegas, for people 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:53.600 that don't know, they charge you what's called a quote 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:58.120