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Speaker 1: gascon West of the four oh five as he checks yes, yes,
Speaker 1: loud and proud, happy to report for you, Ben that
Speaker 1: I said a new personal record. Uh. I've took upon
Speaker 1: a liking of of biking now and um took a
Speaker 1: travel a little wander down the boardwalk from South Redondo
Speaker 1: Beach all the way up to Santa Monica and back.
Speaker 1: Um it's not easy, but it was a a pleasant ride.
Speaker 1: Since we can't do too much in terms of working out,
Speaker 1: so I gotta get the cardio in somehow, some way.
Speaker 1: You know, skins, nice and tan beards, vibrant cardio is great. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like the fact that we're not even a minute
Speaker 1: into the the latest podcast and you're already humbling, bragging. God. Great,
Speaker 1: get a chance to talk to often, So I'd like
Speaker 1: to share a few things with you before we ramble
Speaker 1: on amongst this nonsense. So well, I got a big
Speaker 1: mail bag. My mail bag is bigger than your mail bag.
Speaker 1: Big mail bag, but listen, My inbox on Twitter has
Speaker 1: been full of of your listeners that are objecting to
Speaker 1: the content that you have on your show, especially when
Speaker 1: you have updates that take five or ten minutes. You you,
Speaker 1: you are so you've got this neurosis? What No, I
Speaker 1: don't you are so upset? I am not. I am not.
Speaker 1: I am not upset. I'm just looking out for you.
Speaker 1: You're obsessed and I'm obsessed with I mean, the goal
Speaker 1: and the idea is to have not only good shows,
Speaker 1: but to have better shows every day. Right, You're not
Speaker 1: You're as good as your last sale derailed by bullshit.
Speaker 1: I think it's incumbent upon me to let you know that, Hey,
Speaker 1: ship up, ship the funk out well again. I don't hire.
Speaker 1: A lot of people think I run the ship. I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a captain, but I'm not the lead captain.
Speaker 1: There are bosses that hire these people, and clearly the
Speaker 1: management has a great deal of enthusiasm for Brian Finley
Speaker 1: and you of course have a preoccupation with a fascination
Speaker 1: and fixation. But they clearly think he's doing a good
Speaker 1: job because he's might go to go to guy. They
Speaker 1: don't even call anyone else At this point, no one
Speaker 1: else is permitted to step in at the news desk
Speaker 1: other than Finley, Like, you can't do it because you
Speaker 1: can't handle the overnights. De Seger has kind of been
Speaker 1: chased away by the Mallard militias, so he didn't do it.
Speaker 1: And deb obviously works during the day and Buyer would
Speaker 1: never come in and work be overnight unless he was
Speaker 1: forced to. So who else is there? That's pretty much it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it. I mean. So, so he's been delegated as
Speaker 1: the as the go to guy on the overnight and
Speaker 1: he thinks he's funnier than he is Finley, and uh,
Speaker 1: he's telling jokes and all that, and he's trying to,
Speaker 1: you know, chop it up with the guys and it's
Speaker 1: usually awkward and uncomfortable, and that's why he's he's gotten
Speaker 1: a lot of weird nicknames, Finley, and you don't have
Speaker 1: very many nicknames, but he's known as the butcher because
Speaker 1: he butchers the show. Uh, he's noticed ned Flanders locally,
Speaker 1: docally do wonder Bread of Radio and Quaker Oats. Those
Speaker 1: are all nicknames Brian Finley has picked up in recently.
Speaker 1: You can't use Quaker Oats. That's offensive. No, that's his name.
Speaker 1: He's the Quaker Oats. The Quaker Oats has been canceled,
Speaker 1: hasn't it? Not only Goat's been canceled. I thought it
Speaker 1: was an antwer mima and uh Eskimo pie. I was
Speaker 1: always a fan. I was a kid. I knew that
Speaker 1: Eskimo pie was defensive. I knew when I was when
Speaker 1: I used to bite into an Eskimo pie. So this
Speaker 1: is not right, this is not proper. I'm going to hell.
Speaker 1: I'm going to hell. When I saw the little Eskimo
Speaker 1: on the thing, Oh no, no, no, no, no no
Speaker 1: no no no no, say no, just say no. Uh.
Speaker 1: And Uncle Ben, I'm so dumb. When I was a kid,
Speaker 1: my name is Ben. I thought, oh this is cool,
Speaker 1: Uncle Ben Rice. It's my product named after me. Someday
Speaker 1: maybe if my brothers has kids, I'll be an uncle.
Speaker 1: And now I'm an uncle. Now I'm Uncle Ben. But
Speaker 1: now I gotta give her of that too. It's amazing anyway,
Speaker 1: all right? Uh? We have be or not to be? Yes,
Speaker 1: we do a little little parody, a little satire, the
Speaker 1: ode to the Babylon b. This is where I will
Speaker 1: give you, uh five titles, and I need you to
Speaker 1: identify Ben first, if it's real or if it's critic
Speaker 1: is where you You got me in trouble because you
Speaker 1: sent me something from Babylon B. And then that cause?
Speaker 1: All right, go ahead, what do we well? First? Off
Speaker 1: of the five titles that did not make the cut? Uh,
Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants higher Colin Kaepernick as head kneeling coach
Speaker 1: did not make the cut. That's pretty ones out. Progressive
Speaker 1: parents disappointed in how white their children are. That's not
Speaker 1: making the guy did not survive? No, um, how about
Speaker 1: this Chick fil a change his name to gender neutral?
Speaker 1: They file at not making the cut? Facebook to require
Speaker 1: masks in all profile pictures that to not make the cuts.
Speaker 1: And last, but not least, Alexandria Cassio Cortez lectures homeless
Speaker 1: man on how fortunate he is not to have to
Speaker 1: pay rent to evil landlords. Did not make the cuts.
Speaker 1: So we go from those five on the Babylon B two.
Speaker 1: Is this the babel on B? Or is this actual
Speaker 1: real news? Ben? Uh? Disney Plus displays warning label that
Speaker 1: Hamilton's the play may contain positive depictions of founding fathers.
Speaker 1: All right, so you're starting out is a good one,
Speaker 1: all right, because, like you say, anybody with common sense
Speaker 1: would say, well, of course not God, I'd like to
Speaker 1: think I'd like to give Disney the benefit of that
Speaker 1: that they wouldn't do this. But they have about. They've
Speaker 1: taken a knee of the mob. They're part of it.
Speaker 1: They're like hip with it, their hip with the mobs.
Speaker 1: So I think this is I think this is real,
Speaker 1: but unfortunately it is not not real just yet. It
Speaker 1: could be in the future, but it is fake. It's
Speaker 1: courtesy the Babylon be So for one so far? How
Speaker 1: about this one? New York Times accidentally publishes gose Lane
Speaker 1: Maxwell's obituary ahead of schedule. Is that courtesy the Babylon
Speaker 1: b or is that real news? She's the girlfriend of
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein? Uh yeah, I think that's I want to go,
Speaker 1: that's fake. That's that's Babylon all right. You are one
Speaker 1: for two. See at that one? Right? All right? How
Speaker 1: about that? There we go. I'm on fire now. Now
Speaker 1: this one's gonna be a challenge because this comes on
Speaker 1: the heels of our interview a couple of days ago
Speaker 1: with Dave Ruben. Study finds most people are just wearing
Speaker 1: masks to avoid c of of judgmental glares from people.
Speaker 1: Oh so yeah, no, that's that's definitely Babylon B. And
Speaker 1: that's correct. You got two or three that was that
Speaker 1: was easy, and that was that was a layup line.
Speaker 1: That was t ball. All right, that's the one easy
Speaker 1: one for you. How about this one? Okay, ahead, by
Speaker 1: the way, two to one, I'm ahead, that's right. Uh
Speaker 1: TV hosts wife is willing to teach your kids about
Speaker 1: sex by watching porn with them? All right, now, this
Speaker 1: should be a Babylon BE story. But there's a lot
Speaker 1: of whacka doodles in television and in media in general
Speaker 1: who are married and working in the business. So I
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that's legit. I think that's a real
Speaker 1: story that somebody was trying to say. How how I
Speaker 1: don't know, progressive? They were something like that that they
Speaker 1: were they would hold hold there. It's like that that guy,
Speaker 1: what was the guy that would take his teenage daughter
Speaker 1: to the guyda cologists remember the music guy? Oh a couple.
Speaker 1: That was a real story. Uh so I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: this is a real ben You're three for four. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm about fire mallord on fire. Check this out out
Speaker 1: in the first inning. Three hits in a row. Former
Speaker 1: White House Director of Communications George Stephanopolis, who is now
Speaker 1: a host on ABC. He's married to an actress. You're
Speaker 1: correct done that. Her name's Ali Wentworth. She went on
Speaker 1: a podcast a few days ago and said, you certainly
Speaker 1: can't stop kids from watching porn. Parents should consider watching
Speaker 1: it with them to explain what is actually happening. She's
Speaker 1: got two daughters, one seventeen and one fifteen, and she says,
Speaker 1: at least one time she'll why you with them in
Speaker 1: order to explain to them that it's the performance and
Speaker 1: it's not realistic. Wow. Can you imagine when you were
Speaker 1: growing up, when you were learning about sex with most
Speaker 1: of us learned from porn. We were old school. You're
Speaker 1: older than me, guest. We had to go to like
Speaker 1: the liquor store and get the porno magazine. Now you
Speaker 1: can just go on the internet and you're you're just
Speaker 1: rolling around with porno. But imagine how awkward that. I
Speaker 1: can't imagine. I mean, that's that's something you got to
Speaker 1: kind of go on your own on, don't you. You
Speaker 1: got to kind of figure it out for yourself and
Speaker 1: and what you like and what you don't like. You
Speaker 1: can't have your mom there you Oh yeah, oh boy?
Speaker 1: All right, so you're are you're you're batting a crisp
Speaker 1: and cool seven fifty right now, let's see if you
Speaker 1: can go to eight hundred one. Al right. Be sure
Speaker 1: to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays
Speaker 1: at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio and the I Heart Radio app. In an odd
Speaker 1: role reversal, woke executives got fired alright, so uh I woke?
Speaker 1: Oh wait, Let's see, it's very difficult to get fired
Speaker 1: being woke. You get it promoted when you're woke. That's
Speaker 1: the way this works. You get you get extra virtue
Speaker 1: signaling points and things like that, pandering points. Uh. But
Speaker 1: that doesn't seem like strange enough for the Babylon But
Speaker 1: I think the Babylon Bee would be more crazy. I
Speaker 1: want to say that is real, Ben. You are four
Speaker 1: out of five, So someone is pushing back, and that
Speaker 1: somebody is red Bull. Red Bull dissolved. It's so called
Speaker 1: culture teams and two executives responsible for injecting wokeness into
Speaker 1: the company's policies. They have internal culture classes that were
Speaker 1: they're brought in and they put pressure on the teams
Speaker 1: to implement more support for Black Lives Matter and to
Speaker 1: adopt a progressive political stance. Wow, good for them. Can
Speaker 1: they contact the people are red Bull contact the people
Speaker 1: that are running the Seattle government local government there and
Speaker 1: let them know that that's okay? And what about Portland?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Portland's yeah. But I don't know what's going
Speaker 1: on in the Pacific Northwest, man, I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on there. I got friends there, I got people
Speaker 1: I love that live in the Pacific Northwest. Yeah, you've
Speaker 1: got Jay Scoop. Jay Scoop complimented me a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago on a nice Twitter post to add uh
Speaker 1: at the beaches west of the four oh five, and
Speaker 1: I was like, Hey, why don't you get Ben Mallar
Speaker 1: to pay for a first class ticket like he did
Speaker 1: for you? You are so nice? Are you are? I
Speaker 1: just think one favorite deserves another? You do you not
Speaker 1: understand that you were hanging out with the Green Eyed
Speaker 1: Monster is what you're doing? I mean, you have such
Speaker 1: resentment and animosity. Well, I just think that if he
Speaker 1: scratches your back. You should scratches. I mean, these are
Speaker 1: tough economic times and he foregoed money first before no,
Speaker 1: I told well, first of all, uh, he did not
Speaker 1: pay for a first class ticket person. I think he
Speaker 1: might have gotten upgraded to that. But whatever. But here's
Speaker 1: the here's the thing. Like Jay Scoop was such a
Speaker 1: big fan. He wanted this, and I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't do it, I don't need it, but he offered it,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I wasn't gonna go really otherwise,
Speaker 1: And so he wanted me to be in Seattle. We
Speaker 1: hung out together and we had you know, a good time,
Speaker 1: was wonderful and all that. I think you should that.
Speaker 1: This was we are in July. This was eight months ago.
Speaker 1: All right, This is this is the kind of unrational
Speaker 1: whack job Gascon is right, and this is why you
Speaker 1: need therapy and mets. All right, you are so unsounded
Speaker 1: on wise that you can't get this out of your head.
Speaker 1: You're such a nutball that you're delirious and demented because
Speaker 1: of something that happened in December of nineteen before the apocalypse. Alright,
Speaker 1: move on, stop being disturbed. You're sounding deranged, Gascon, is
Speaker 1: what you're sounding you're sounding just deranged. You know, I
Speaker 1: saved my receipts. That's what I do, and so I
Speaker 1: just here, do you know? I mean, you gotta do
Speaker 1: for him what he did for you. So very emotional,
Speaker 1: You're very emotional. Yeah, well, dude, Ben, four out of five.
Speaker 1: That's that's not bad. I gotta get tough for next
Speaker 1: week on you. But good job closing out the Babylon
Speaker 1: B the B or not the B? Yes? All right, well,
Speaker 1: very very exciting here. So moving on, do we haven't
Speaker 1: Don't stick to sports? Or are we just gonna jump
Speaker 1: ahead to the mail bag that was not sticking to sports?
Speaker 1: We had I thought it was be not be or not?
Speaker 1: Are we changed the name of Don't six Sports to
Speaker 1: be or Not? I didn't realize that I didn't get
Speaker 1: the memo. I told you. I told you this two
Speaker 1: weeks ago on the air when we were doing the podcast.
Speaker 1: I said I was making an audible and I was
Speaker 1: looking for the green light from you, and you gave
Speaker 1: me thumbs up, a pound the back. And of course,
Speaker 1: as it sounds now, you're probably just deaf airing me
Speaker 1: and worrying about what you were gonna say on the air.
Speaker 1: All right, well, let's get to the mail bag. Here
Speaker 1: we go. Let's get to the mail bag, and we'll
Speaker 1: see how agitated gascon gets. These are actual questions sent
Speaker 1: in by actual listeners to the show, like yourself. There's
Speaker 1: a couple of ways you can do this. Most we'll
Speaker 1: just post on our Facebook page Wednesday during the week.
Speaker 1: If you follow the show page Ben Maller Show on Facebook,
Speaker 1: I will send out a link. Normally it's in the morning.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I forget it's in the afternoon. Sometimes I really
Speaker 1: forget it's in the evening, and and I just we
Speaker 1: just asked for questions. Good questions, fun questions, interesting questions,
Speaker 1: questions we haven't been asked, original questions. If you if
Speaker 1: you really want to know something kind of about the
Speaker 1: show and you haven't been able to get it figured out,
Speaker 1: I'll try to help you out. We can get that
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Speaker 1: it's pretty simple. It's pretty simple concept. So Facebook page
Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show. But we also have the email address
Speaker 1: guess on which I guess you lost the past word too,
Speaker 1: so I'm the only one that has access to it.
Speaker 1: Thank God for that. I can't believe you would lose
Speaker 1: a password. It's I haven't changed the passwords. Bad job
Speaker 1: by you. But we we have email, and you can
Speaker 1: send me an email Real fifth hour at gmail dot com,
Speaker 1: Real fifth hour at gmail dot com, so you can
Speaker 1: join join the show that way. Any chance I can
Speaker 1: get that password back, then really appreciate it. We'll see
Speaker 1: if you're on your best behavior, possibly we can do that.
Speaker 1: All right, So these questions we start with Jesse for Pomona. Uh,
Speaker 1: he says, first of all, you wanted to compliment me Gascon.
Speaker 1: We're pointing out that Mookie was not going back to
Speaker 1: Boston because there was a rumor a week ago or
Speaker 1: so that that was going to happen, and he's now
Speaker 1: going to be a Dodger for over a decade, and
Speaker 1: he'll get a couple of rings. According to Jesse, I
Speaker 1: don't know how you grade the Dodgers a C minus
Speaker 1: on that transaction. But finally, they were bidding against them,
Speaker 1: So this is what they were doing there, bidding against themselves.
Speaker 1: They could have gotten Mookie bets for even less if
Speaker 1: they had played their cards right. Unless, of course, he
Speaker 1: turns into Manny Ramirez of a few years ago when
Speaker 1: he got white hot with the Dodgers, and Mookie Bets
Speaker 1: bats over four hundred in a sixty game schedule. So
Speaker 1: you're calling Mooki a cheeter, is what you know. I'm
Speaker 1: not calling the cheater. But Many was on. It was
Speaker 1: feminine hormones when he was hitting four hundred. I loved Manny.
Speaker 1: I was, You're not gonna find a bigger Manny Ramirez.
Speaker 1: Fan I. I was in New York visiting my brother
Speaker 1: and I was going into Penn Station when I looked
Speaker 1: on my phone that Manny Ramirez had been traded to
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. I think it was two thousand nine. I
Speaker 1: I screamed with excitement. I said, no fucking way, I said,
Speaker 1: this is great, and man I was so bummed out.
Speaker 1: I was on the East Coast because if I had
Speaker 1: been in l A, I would have been at his
Speaker 1: first game as a Dodger and all that. I didn't
Speaker 1: get to go because I was I was traveling, but
Speaker 1: that would have been cool. But I love Manny, but
Speaker 1: he was changing. He was changing anyway. Get to the
Speaker 1: question from Jesse says, my question is what what is
Speaker 1: with all the drops of all the drops you have
Speaker 1: on the overnight show. What is one drop you wish
Speaker 1: they were delete from the soundboard? All right, So Jesse,
Speaker 1: this is easy, all right. And it's not because it's
Speaker 1: not a funny drop. And it's not because it's it's
Speaker 1: not good for the show. It's because people are pussy Willows.
Speaker 1: So Ed from Spokane called up maybe a year and
Speaker 1: a half, two years ago, and he made I think
Speaker 1: he had said something. And if he's either on Twitter
Speaker 1: or the phones, I forget which one might have been
Speaker 1: on Twitter, but it was something about Phil Niekro and
Speaker 1: Joe Nikro. Okay, so I I had a funny singer,
Speaker 1: had a funny one liner about Phil and Joe Nikro
Speaker 1: and it was cut up and saved posterity sake. And
Speaker 1: every time that that has been played on the air,
Speaker 1: someone who doesn't listen very closely, someone who doesn't apparently
Speaker 1: know the history of baseball and the Necro Brothers right
Speaker 1: doesn't understand that, will inevitably say, oh my god, you're
Speaker 1: a bigot. I cannot believe you said that on the air. Maller,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, we're gonna get you. I'm gonna contact management. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So that's that's the one. That's the one because not
Speaker 1: that I don't think it's funny. I think it's funny.
Speaker 1: I think it's good. But the problem is people don't
Speaker 1: listen in and they only hear a little bit of
Speaker 1: what you say. We've preached about this, I've I've mentioned
Speaker 1: this many times being in in the radio business and
Speaker 1: how people here and they really only remember about seventeen
Speaker 1: of things you say. And you know, so that's that's
Speaker 1: just the reality. And often words only convey about seven
Speaker 1: percent of what you're trying to say. A lot of
Speaker 1: it's through facial expressions, which doesn't work on radio obviously,
Speaker 1: but but tone of your voice. Tone of your voice
Speaker 1: is big. But um, yeah, So that's the one. And
Speaker 1: if people don't believe you, you can always reference television.
Speaker 1: That's the reason why people take cue ratings, and you
Speaker 1: have people that get rated because of their looks. And
Speaker 1: the reason why is because more often than not, people
Speaker 1: are only paying attention to the person on camera, not
Speaker 1: to the message itself. That is true, That is true. Absolutely. Well,
Speaker 1: it's like, remember the political game changed. Richard Nixon, didn't
Speaker 1: he lose the elect to John Kent, John F. Kennedy
Speaker 1: because of the because it was appearance right, that he
Speaker 1: was disheveled and and that was the theory that he
Speaker 1: didn't look good on TV. They people voted for the
Speaker 1: better looking person, which is Kennedy. Be sure to catch
Speaker 1: live editions of The Ben Maller Show week days at
Speaker 1: two am Eastern eleven p m. Pacific. Alright, Kyle in,
Speaker 1: by the way, who's who's better looking? Between Trump and Biden?
Speaker 1: They're both kind of not easy on the eyes there,
Speaker 1: So I think that's a that's a wash, right, Are
Speaker 1: you grading anyone that's past seventy under look? Well, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying though, if that was a factor on what
Speaker 1: people are going to vote for, very people like you
Speaker 1: west of the four oh five that are vain, that's
Speaker 1: a that's a toss. Like Biden's he's a little out there.
Speaker 1: Trump's a little out there. I mean, they're both at
Speaker 1: because they've got nice suits on, they got good ties,
Speaker 1: they got a good approach, and how they're presented on television. Alright,
Speaker 1: Kyle in sun an Tonio in that area, He says,
Speaker 1: I've been listening to show since at least twenty two
Speaker 1: or twenty three. Wow, thank you, Kyle, it's almost twenty
Speaker 1: years of service. Uh, you've had a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: great crew members. I don't know about that, he says,
Speaker 1: excluding the current squad, so as not to hurt anyone's feeling.
Speaker 1: If you had to put together a COVID nineteen emergency
Speaker 1: backup crew, whom would you choose? All Right, So this
Speaker 1: is an interesting question. There's a good question. I would say,
Speaker 1: obviously Looney because I love to just goof on Looney
Speaker 1: and he gets the joke and he goose on me,
Speaker 1: and I think we have a good rat a tat
Speaker 1: tat between us. I put Luney on there. Uh. Former producers.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed working with Miranda Marino. She was fun, she
Speaker 1: was cool. Uh you know, she kind of got it
Speaker 1: and I had a good time as with her and Julio,
Speaker 1: who was one of my producers. Those those guys that
Speaker 1: would probably put it in the part. See now I'm
Speaker 1: offending Bergman and some of these other guys, but I just,
Speaker 1: off the top of my head, that's what I'm going with. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think who else I would throw into
Speaker 1: that that bag. We've had some some real, real characters
Speaker 1: that have been on on the show. But I guess
Speaker 1: that I go, Julio, Miranda, and Looney some combination of that. Yeah. Good.
Speaker 1: You thought I was gonna pick Felix. I love Feelix.
Speaker 1: I don't haven't heard from Felix, and I don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on with him. I thought maybe your technical
Speaker 1: director would be Jake. Oh, stay away with I love
Speaker 1: Jake too, and that's it. I'm done. Yeah, but I see,
Speaker 1: I don't. I still see Jake all the time on
Speaker 1: social media, so for some reason, I still think of
Speaker 1: him like I'm still working with him even though I'm not,
Speaker 1: and I haven't worked with them in a long time.
Speaker 1: But I see when I used to go to games,
Speaker 1: I see Jake's the engineer for the Clippers and the
Speaker 1: Kings and all that, so i'd see him out there,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah. So it's I don't like, I don't
Speaker 1: see Miranda. I don't have any contact with him Randa.
Speaker 1: I guess I do have contact with Looney. So that's
Speaker 1: that's kind of like doesn't really fit with it, but
Speaker 1: that's the answer. R J and San Antonio. We're big
Speaker 1: in San Antonio. Guascar On on the mail bag, he says,
Speaker 1: cake or ice cream? Go ahead, guest on cake or
Speaker 1: ice cream? Ice cream for sure. Wrong answer. It's cake frosting.
Speaker 1: It's cake with good frost moist cake with good frosting,
Speaker 1: ice cream cake, ice cream cake close, but a well
Speaker 1: made cake. I will frosting just melt in your mouth.
Speaker 1: Now you are you are a fan of the especially
Speaker 1: during Thanksgiving Kings Hawaiian Yes, yes, yes, love the Kings
Speaker 1: of Wine rolls. They just put a bunch of sugar
Speaker 1: in the roll. What they do they do make an
Speaker 1: amazing cake. It's called a paradise cake. And they also
Speaker 1: make a paradise cheesecake delicious. What is a paradise cake?
Speaker 1: Is it just bread? Is it just the bread and
Speaker 1: all that I have to go into description filled with
Speaker 1: weed or something like that. Okay, Anthony in Van I
Speaker 1: shout out to the eight one eight says in southern California.
Speaker 1: That's east of the four oh five. By the way, guest,
Speaker 1: so you don't like Anthony because he's east of the
Speaker 1: four or five. I couldn't find it on a map
Speaker 1: if you could drill any s strows player, who where
Speaker 1: and what pitch? All right? So this is obviously you
Speaker 1: think I'd say al Boovea or that guy with the
Speaker 1: punchable face Alex Bregman, but my antswer is not bregmant
Speaker 1: and not out to of a. The guy at the
Speaker 1: top of my list is George Springer because that guy
Speaker 1: hit a couple of dagger home runs while cheating for
Speaker 1: the Stros in the Seen World Series. So I would
Speaker 1: like to drill him right between actually between the numbers,
Speaker 1: but just above the numbers and between the name plate
Speaker 1: on the back of the uniform with a nineties seven
Speaker 1: mile fastball. Bam, just like that. Not him in the head,
Speaker 1: but right there. Boom done. No, I think you go
Speaker 1: the other way. I think you play. If you play
Speaker 1: a nationally park, you dot, you dot justin Verlander in
Speaker 1: the rib cage. Tough to do because there's not a
Speaker 1: designated hitter in the Nationally gets well, yeah, that's just
Speaker 1: for this season. So no, it's gonna be permanent. They're not.
Speaker 1: Pitcher is never going to come back to hitting in
Speaker 1: the Nationally. It is over, don't you. It's like when
Speaker 1: you vote for a limited tax increase, it was ballad.
Speaker 1: They never go away. They never go away there they're
Speaker 1: there forever. That's how it works. But back to your
Speaker 1: point or your question, you dot the guy in the
Speaker 1: rib cage. You turned him into what Hanley Ramrez was
Speaker 1: a few years ago when I think the Dodgers played
Speaker 1: the St. Louis Cardinals and he was hot to end
Speaker 1: the season. All of a sudden he got hit with
Speaker 1: a fastball in the ribs and could not hit his
Speaker 1: weight to save his life because he had bruise ribs. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: I I've actually been told over the years some ballplayers
Speaker 1: that the worst is when you get hit in the
Speaker 1: wrist of the hands you gotta you know, when you're
Speaker 1: swinging the bat, you need your hands and your wrist
Speaker 1: to hold the bat properly, and you're you have no
Speaker 1: power after that, Like you might be able to hit,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna hit singles. You're not gonna be hit
Speaker 1: with any kind of power. You have no slugging ability.
Speaker 1: So if you really want to just hit the hand
Speaker 1: and the wrist there, that will really screw him up.
Speaker 1: So anyway, all right, uh, I'll have a handbook in
Speaker 1: a future podcast on how to damage baseball players with pitches. Alright.
Speaker 1: Pierre from Springfield mass says, Hey, Ben, it has now
Speaker 1: become a parent that Mookie Betts has decided to wear
Speaker 1: Dodger hat at his induction into Cooper's Town. Let's hope
Speaker 1: he does end up in Cooper's town. There. We've been
Speaker 1: plenty of players, Pierre that have started great and then
Speaker 1: fizzled out. We hope that Mookie is not one of
Speaker 1: those players. That being said from Pierre's email, he says, uh,
Speaker 1: he says it's okay. Is it okay to root for
Speaker 1: more than one team? That he says it is okay
Speaker 1: to be for more than one team? A k A.
Speaker 1: Dick and Dayton. Can I order a cardboard cutout of
Speaker 1: myself to ride shotgun on the Dodger bandwagon? And how
Speaker 1: much will it cost? Uh? Well, those are what are they?
Speaker 1: A couple hundred bucks guests going right the Dodger unless
Speaker 1: it's for your dog, and then it's a hundred forty
Speaker 1: nine for your dog. Could you have imagine pissing away
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty bucks for your fucking pet? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they know though, the people that run the Dodgers. No,
Speaker 1: I have a dog. I love my dog, but I
Speaker 1: don't love my dog that much. But some people do.
Speaker 1: And they you know that's you know, if you don't
Speaker 1: have kids, that they're your kids, right, you're part of
Speaker 1: the family, and you're gonna you're gonna treat it like
Speaker 1: your kid, your kids. If your kid had an opportunity
Speaker 1: to have a cardboard cut out of the dodge, again,
Speaker 1: you do it. So if fight Oh has it wants one,
Speaker 1: or you think wants one, you do that as well.
Speaker 1: So they're they're expensive. I can't just imagine, just imagine
Speaker 1: Giscono like a year ago. If you said, all right,
Speaker 1: let's turn on opening day and there's a bunch of
Speaker 1: cardboard cutouts from video game crowd noises, welcome to the
Speaker 1: Twilight Zone. I'd rather be South Korea. Right. Didn't they
Speaker 1: get popped for having sex dolls? Yeah, they had sex dolls.
Speaker 1: They had stuffed animals and all that. All right, Valls
Speaker 1: fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee, writes in says, by and
Speaker 1: if you invited helmet man angry Bill and marked the
Speaker 1: full name guy to your ugly Christmas party, your ugly
Speaker 1: sweater party there for Christmas, who would you worry about
Speaker 1: the most? All right? So this is a good question. Now,
Speaker 1: helmet man, I love he's pretty harmless. I hope he's okay.
Speaker 1: We haven't heard from him in a while with all
Speaker 1: the roaches crawling around and all that stuff. Hey, Ben,
Speaker 1: can I talk about the orioles? I love that um
Speaker 1: Mark the full name guy has threatened me with justifiable homicide.
Speaker 1: He got banned for the show from the show for
Speaker 1: a long time because of that, so that that's not
Speaker 1: not particularly good. So he has actually physically threatened me.
Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna pick him out. He's calmed down,
Speaker 1: he's mellowed out. He moved to Oregon, um and so
Speaker 1: he's I just found a lady friend, So he's more
Speaker 1: like lovey dovey Marked the full name guy now and
Speaker 1: he's got the harmonica, so I think he's pretty harmless. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go angry Bill. Uh, angry Bills. He robbed
Speaker 1: a bank in his past, and he says a lot
Speaker 1: of creepy stuff. And I've never trusted anyone I've met
Speaker 1: from Nutley, New Jersey, So I'm gonna I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: angry Bill on that list. Be sure to catch live
Speaker 1: editions of The Ben Maller Show week day said two
Speaker 1: am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Jason and Rocky Mount Virginia writes,
Speaker 1: and he says a question for David. When Brian Finley
Speaker 1: drives to Montana to get with your girl Tammy, will
Speaker 1: you get revenge and go after his playmate? Mom No,
Speaker 1: I can't do, mom No. If you want to get
Speaker 1: revenge and a guy like Brian Finley, you take his
Speaker 1: dog and you just keep the dog. That's what you
Speaker 1: do because he he is much like you with Bella.
Speaker 1: He absolutely adores that little dog. I think, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what I do. I just keep the dog. Wow, I
Speaker 1: keep the dog. In a angry bill with the dog?
Speaker 1: Is that what you're gonna do? I don't know what
Speaker 1: you're talking about. I'd prefer not to have your elaborate
Speaker 1: on that, but I just keep the dog. Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: that was bad answer. Matt in Mansfield, Texas says a
Speaker 1: great conversation with the legendary Dick Stockton in a recent
Speaker 1: episode of the Fifth Hour, who is the top lead
Speaker 1: television play by play guy, not analysts, not an analyst
Speaker 1: in any sport right now now? He does point out,
Speaker 1: thank you man for not using the term best. He
Speaker 1: said top because best means as good as all the rest.
Speaker 1: So thank you for that, Matt. Good job by you
Speaker 1: to me. This is easy it's al Michael's calling a
Speaker 1: big football game on a Sunday night. Al Michael's it
Speaker 1: just feels like a big game. Now, some of that
Speaker 1: is nostalgia. I still believe al Michaels has a lot
Speaker 1: on his fastball. So I'm gonna go Al Michael's calling
Speaker 1: a big NFL game, you know, Patriots game against too,
Speaker 1: you know, Steelers or something like that, A lot on
Speaker 1: the line. It just means it to me. It means
Speaker 1: that's that's the most important. What about what about you guests? Man?
Speaker 1: I think I'd go away from that and go Kevin Harlan.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a big to Kevin Harlan, especially when it
Speaker 1: comes screaming into the microphone. I just because he's got
Speaker 1: the range two, which is nice. So you can go
Speaker 1: from from football to basketball. Um, I don't care about
Speaker 1: how Michael's did. Baseball is played by play guy for
Speaker 1: the Giants back. I know, just and he used to
Speaker 1: do Sunday night or Monday night baseball. Now Michael's are
Speaker 1: usually original. One of the original voices of that he did?
Speaker 1: Didn't he do the nineteen ninety World Series? I believe
Speaker 1: that is true? Double check, but that sounds right, So
Speaker 1: you're going, I'm going Kevin Harlan. I thought you would
Speaker 1: be a Joe Buck guy. You didn't pick Joe Buck
Speaker 1: And alright, Fats in Philly rights. Since it's Ben being
Speaker 1: a football fan is myself over the years watching football.
Speaker 1: If you were a quarterback with a Swiss Cheese offensive line,
Speaker 1: I like that, what player on defense would you be
Speaker 1: afraid of on a third and long? And he said,
Speaker 1: in no particular order, my list is Greg Lloyd, Charles Haley,
Speaker 1: Reggie White, and lt Well Fats. There's only one acceptable answer.
Speaker 1: I think we're around the same age Fats. That is
Speaker 1: Lawrence Taylor. I was a kid watching a Redskins game.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's offensive. They used to they used to
Speaker 1: be a football team in Washington called the Washington Redskins,
Speaker 1: and they won a bunch of Super Bowls and all that.
Speaker 1: So I was watching the Redskins Giants game. You know
Speaker 1: my mom, I was getting into sports, and my mom would, hey, Ben,
Speaker 1: there's a football game on. I got all excited. I
Speaker 1: got to watch the football game. And I still remember,
Speaker 1: I'm still traumatized, all these years later of seeing the
Speaker 1: image of Joe Fisman's leg twisted into a pretzel by LT.
Speaker 1: So I'm going Lawrence Taylor. I don't think anyone I'm
Speaker 1: with all due respect to Haley and Reggie White was
Speaker 1: the Minister of Defense and all that, it's LT. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's somebody before that, like in the olden
Speaker 1: days that I don't I don't really know. I didn't
Speaker 1: watch I I watched those old NFL films videos and
Speaker 1: they talked about what was the guy, the baddest guy
Speaker 1: in NFL history, the biggest I played for, like the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: you know what? You know what I'm talking about. I
Speaker 1: gotta think I gotta google that now. Yeah, he's an
Speaker 1: old story in the sixties. He's like the dirtiest player
Speaker 1: in NFL history, although some would say the dirtiest player
Speaker 1: in modern NFL story was Rodney Harrison of the when
Speaker 1: he was with the Chargers and the Patriots. But Conrad
Speaker 1: Dobler is the guy's name, Conrad Dobler. You ever heard
Speaker 1: of Conrad Dope? You've never heard of Conrad Dobler. Look
Speaker 1: up his story. The guy would like gouge people's eyes
Speaker 1: out and grab their junk and twist it and like
Speaker 1: just disgusting things. That you're getting a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: trouble for right now. But that was just that was
Speaker 1: just his yam. I didn't play for the the St.
Speaker 1: Louis Cardinals back in the olden days in the NFL,
Speaker 1: but Rodney here's I got a funny Roddy Harrison's story.
Speaker 1: So I had a buddy of mine when I was
Speaker 1: working in San Diego, had a TV guy who would
Speaker 1: hook me up with sideline passes. Now it's very difficult
Speaker 1: to get one of those, and I radio guys are
Speaker 1: not allowed to have them unless you work for the
Speaker 1: team on the broadcast. But I had a sideline PA
Speaker 1: and I had access, full access, full rain, and I
Speaker 1: went to a couple of Chargers games and they were terrible.
Speaker 1: It's like the Ryan Leaf hears of the Chargers and
Speaker 1: I'm on the sidelines. So playing the forty Niners. It
Speaker 1: was Jerry Rice's final road game as a forty Niner
Speaker 1: before he left, and I'm on the forty Niners sidelines
Speaker 1: and the play would end right, it would be like one.
Speaker 1: It was like one, one thousand, two, one thousand through
Speaker 1: in thousand and Rodney Harrison several times like a human
Speaker 1: torpedo after the play it ended, came running in on
Speaker 1: top of the pile and and what was the what
Speaker 1: was the forty Niners coach? There was the guy he's
Speaker 1: on TV now, Steve Marucci was a coach at the time,
Speaker 1: and he was upset. All the Niners were screaming around.
Speaker 1: My god, kick him out, throw a flag, and they
Speaker 1: didn't throw a flag, and he did it like several times.
Speaker 1: He just came in there like a human torpedo. Um.
Speaker 1: But my answer is still Lawrence Taylor. What about you
Speaker 1: guess on anything, just for the sake of being different,
Speaker 1: I'd probably like Bruce Smith or ray Lewis. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: get ray Lewis and he killed somebody or at least
Speaker 1: knows who did and was part of that. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Reggie White though when you looked at old
Speaker 1: tapes of him, the head slap, I mean there were
Speaker 1: there were certainly a lot of guys that when they
Speaker 1: got past the right or left tackle, but head slap
Speaker 1: to get to the quarterback was pretty awesome. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's well. Raider fans by old school Raider fans, uh
Speaker 1: would say it was the guy's name, Remember, well, Jack Tatum, right,
Speaker 1: was Jack Tatum against that Darryl Stingley, one of the
Speaker 1: unfortunate stories in NFL history where he landed that hit
Speaker 1: that paralyzed Darryl Stingley. But Jack Tatum is a little
Speaker 1: before my time. So so there's that. Let's see you
Speaker 1: what else do we have here? Russ in Evansville says,
Speaker 1: since ninety of FBS schools that play football rely on
Speaker 1: that money to support the rest of their athletic budgets,
Speaker 1: or FCS Division one Double A schools who are relying
Speaker 1: on revenue of their one or two games against the
Speaker 1: big boys UH this year do not play and have
Speaker 1: no college football this fall or spring? Do you think
Speaker 1: Ben and guests gone that a number of f c
Speaker 1: S schools that's one Double A and Nonpower five D one,
Speaker 1: non Power five schools like Conference USA and the MAC
Speaker 1: will drop football in two because of this. Alright, So Russ, listen,
Speaker 1: first of all, you're not off base. I mean there
Speaker 1: is going to be collateral damage. There is You mess
Speaker 1: with the money and it's going to have an effect.
Speaker 1: And so I would think that I don't think conferences,
Speaker 1: but there will be school I would say there's gonna
Speaker 1: be multiple colleges that will drop football because of this,
Speaker 1: because of what's going on right now, if they can't
Speaker 1: get those money games. So I'm gonna say yes, I
Speaker 1: don't think it will be an entire conference, but I
Speaker 1: think it will be a couple of teams in multiple
Speaker 1: conferences that will do this. So my prediction is that
Speaker 1: does happen. What about you guess I was gonna say
Speaker 1: with the television money that's available, I don't think it
Speaker 1: will happen with the MAC or Conference USA, especially because
Speaker 1: don't forget, when you get later on the season, you
Speaker 1: get maction. Maction is usually like you know, conference games
Speaker 1: on a Tuesday or a Wednesday night, and that's on
Speaker 1: usually showcased on ESPN. So just for the sake of that,
Speaker 1: with the ESPN money, and don't forget not only to
Speaker 1: get ESPN but ESPN three, so the digital platform, there's
Speaker 1: still money coming out of that that the universities get.
Speaker 1: So I don't think any Division one program is gonna fall.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Division one, double A, yeah, I certainly see
Speaker 1: that there are I think there are six truly independent
Speaker 1: college football teams like Notre Dame is the most famous one,
Speaker 1: but Army b y U is isn't using independent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: New Mexico State, I think is independent schools like that.
Speaker 1: Like if you're New Mexico State, for example on the Yankees,
Speaker 1: what's your move there here? And you're in Las Cruces,
Speaker 1: New Mexico. You don't have any of the money coming in,
Speaker 1: Like what's the move there? You just pull the plug
Speaker 1: or you figure it out? Yeas to one and you
Speaker 1: mask you Mass is another one, like anythink they're on
Speaker 1: that list and anyway we'll find out. We'll find out.
Speaker 1: But I believe there will be some of those schools
Speaker 1: that will go bye bye and uh say audios, Uh,
Speaker 1: let's go. Stacy from Ottawa, Canada are Canadian brothers and sisters, right,
Speaker 1: so and says, if you could be reincarnated after death,
Speaker 1: which pro athlete would you like to be? I think
Speaker 1: we've gotten this question before, but I'll answer it this way, Stacy.
Speaker 1: I I'm going big. I'm going Babe Ruth, which I
Speaker 1: The problem is you gotta live before technology really took
Speaker 1: off in America. So that's a little that sucks. But
Speaker 1: Babe Ruth is like the biggest star and they used
Speaker 1: to write these amazing stories. He was like a mythical figure.
Speaker 1: It was like a lumberjack. Babe Ruth. The way the
Speaker 1: media reported him. And I remember the late great Burt Sugar.
Speaker 1: I love that guy, the boxing historian, but he was
Speaker 1: a sports story and he used to tell stories about
Speaker 1: how when the Yankees would travel by train and the
Speaker 1: media had one car on the train and the players
Speaker 1: were in the rest of the train, and but to
Speaker 1: get to the food car. I believe I'm paraphrasing this,
Speaker 1: so don't hold me to him. But the way that
Speaker 1: Burt Sugar I remember the story is that the food
Speaker 1: car was in front of the media car, so the
Speaker 1: players had to walk through the food to the food car.
Speaker 1: They had to walk through the media car. But on
Speaker 1: one road trip, and who knows who the Yankees were playing,
Speaker 1: Babe Ruth. The legend is either he was being chased
Speaker 1: or he was chasing women, but they were naked. The
Speaker 1: women and him were naked and ran through the media car.
Speaker 1: Not a single member of the media, not a single
Speaker 1: member of the media reported that Story's good. Didn't happen.
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Speaker 1: radio app search f s R to listen live. Have
Speaker 1: here any me any money? Well, I I guess other
Speaker 1: than Babe Ruth thou just the answer Stacy's great, I
Speaker 1: guess modern athlete Tom Brady guy, but he played New
Speaker 1: York City and that you look at his list of
Speaker 1: accomplishments off the field, they are more impressive than his
Speaker 1: accomplishments on the field. Derek Jeter, Yeah, Derek Jeters. Who
Speaker 1: did I say Tom Brady? You did say Tom Brady? Yes, Oh,
Speaker 1: I met Derek Judy. I think if I had to
Speaker 1: do one real quick, I think it would be Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1: Given the fact that NFL players are coddled a lot now,
Speaker 1: they don't have the extensive workout in the off season
Speaker 1: that they have in years pass and you can't hit
Speaker 1: quarterbacks anymore. And this guy, you know, the contract he
Speaker 1: got is one thing, but the content, I think the
Speaker 1: second contract that he gets when they renegotiate this thing
Speaker 1: is going to be enormous. But either way, quarterbacks don't
Speaker 1: get touched nowadays. That is true. Well, yeah, but you're
Speaker 1: hoping that Mahomes is the next Brady, But Brady's already
Speaker 1: been Brady. So you know for sure that you're getting
Speaker 1: the full package. Travis and Roseberg Oregon. Right, so, and
Speaker 1: he says, who wins a West Side Story style dance
Speaker 1: off between the Finley Fanatics and the Muppet Militia. Well, listen,
Speaker 1: the Muppet Militia is real. The Finley Fanatics is a
Speaker 1: figment of Brian Finley's imagination. That being said, I think
Speaker 1: Finley has some mean dance moves. I think he's got
Speaker 1: some mean dance moves. What about you? Guess you wanna?
Speaker 1: I think that I'm not gonna dignify that question. Well
Speaker 1: you don't have a fan club? Are you jealous about that? No?
Speaker 1: I just really finally question offensive, And I think is
Speaker 1: if you're like to cancel the question? Are you that
Speaker 1: that upset with Travis? Is that I just don't think
Speaker 1: it's a good question. I see Brian Finley like if
Speaker 1: they made a remake of Napoleon Dynamite. I see him
Speaker 1: as that kind of danswer, you know, like the goofy,
Speaker 1: nerdy white guy as if yeah, like the white Steve
Speaker 1: le Sure, yeah, alright, Jordan's in, Everett writes, and he says,
Speaker 1: what do you think about high school? Is moving? The fall?
Speaker 1: High school football season to March in April. Um, well,
Speaker 1: we talked about it. You said January, right, January, California,
Speaker 1: Georgia's high school guy. You you know, if you were
Speaker 1: into high school football, that's like in your blood. You know,
Speaker 1: you live and you eat and you breathe it, and
Speaker 1: you know that's yeah. But what if you're what if
Speaker 1: you're one of those kids that played multiple sports, like
Speaker 1: you went football to basketball and then basketball to baseball.
Speaker 1: Now you can't do that anymore. Well, you just played
Speaker 1: basketball on Wednesday, you play football on Friday, and you
Speaker 1: play baseball on something. Maybe they're done there, you go. Uh.
Speaker 1: Andre in Nashville says, hey, Ben and Gascon, would you, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: be in favor of the runner on second rule from
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball if a game goes into extra innings
Speaker 1: for one season and the future. Andre says he loves
Speaker 1: the podcast. Uh, that's what I'm not in favor of.
Speaker 1: I think it's dopey and dumb. It's like a little
Speaker 1: league or softball type thing. I think that's ridiculous. And
Speaker 1: because all you're gonna have is you're gonna have if
Speaker 1: a team doesn't score on the top of the of
Speaker 1: the tenth inning. In the bottom of the tenth inning,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a team attempt to bunt to get
Speaker 1: the run of the third, so there's one out. Then
Speaker 1: the team on the mound is gonna walk the next
Speaker 1: two batters to load the bases. So essentially, you're setting
Speaker 1: up anytime the road team does not score a run,
Speaker 1: you're setting up a situation where you're gonna have bases
Speaker 1: loaded one out, and then that's where the game is
Speaker 1: gonna be decided. Agreed, There's nothing on with a game
Speaker 1: of baseball. When you look at the clock, you see
Speaker 1: the average game time of a game Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1: It's the same with the NFL. It's even it's probably
Speaker 1: even fashion some college football games, since those with commercials
Speaker 1: tend the last three, three and a half or four hours.
Speaker 1: I don't get where people are bitching the moment in
Speaker 1: about Major League Baseball. The lengths. Well. The other thing too,
Speaker 1: that's chicken crap. The other thing that's chicken crap is
Speaker 1: the fact that nobody watches an entire NBA game, nobody
Speaker 1: watches an entire NFL game for that matter of fact.
Speaker 1: The most popular thing now for many people and I'm
Speaker 1: in there is like the red zone. I make my
Speaker 1: own red zone channel. Sorry, Andrews Siciliano, but I make
Speaker 1: my own red zone channel where I kind of do
Speaker 1: my own thing. Uh most of the time. Occasional I'll
Speaker 1: watch his red channel. Uh, you know, whatever is a
Speaker 1: red zone thing. But I I do my own thing.
Speaker 1: But I'm not watching one game from beginning to end,
Speaker 1: right from soup to nuts. I'm not doing that. Yeah, alright. Uh,
Speaker 1: Ross in Michigan says, now, Ben, you say you were
Speaker 1: a big fat guy with no game or money. How
Speaker 1: did you manage to pull down your wife because you
Speaker 1: were really punching out of your weight class. Uh, well,
Speaker 1: that is true, Russ. I don't really know how that happened.
Speaker 1: Clearly it was a moment of weakness by by my
Speaker 1: wife there obviously, But you know, you have to ask
Speaker 1: her that question. I don't. I don't doesn't have any
Speaker 1: real game there when I met her, I didn't tell
Speaker 1: her worked in radio. I think I had the website.
Speaker 1: I had my my rumor blog, Ben Mallard dot com,
Speaker 1: and I was gonna I think I told her I
Speaker 1: did like some internet thing or something like that. Well,
Speaker 1: didn't you say that she also goes to you first
Speaker 1: and then came back later. Yes, yes, I that is true.
Speaker 1: I I had made contact. I wanted to go out
Speaker 1: with her, and she rejected me, and it turned me down.
Speaker 1: And then you know, guess what. Somebody rejects you, all right,
Speaker 1: you you know what you do is you just I
Speaker 1: move on. I'm like, okay, I'm I'm good. Most you know,
Speaker 1: I learned early on. I didn't do that, but I
Speaker 1: at some point I learned, all right, somebody rejects you,
Speaker 1: kind of move on. But she then contacted me like
Speaker 1: she a couple of months later. So then that's how
Speaker 1: I would not have contacted her again, and uh I
Speaker 1: would all right, that's it, you know. And uh so
Speaker 1: it was several months later. I still reminder of that everyone.
Speaker 1: So I said, you know, we could have been married
Speaker 1: longer if you had just you know originally, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: taken my my my move. So but but that's the
Speaker 1: answer to that. Rico from Denver Rico used to call
Speaker 1: the show, but he has not called the show in
Speaker 1: a while. He's a he's a character. When he calls
Speaker 1: Enrico from Denver says, who is willing to sign a release?
Speaker 1: Form to go to sporting events. I know, I am
Speaker 1: Rico says, because I know that COVID is being overhyped
Speaker 1: by the media. Well, Rico, I think to answer your question,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people, more than the media
Speaker 1: would like to believe, would be more than willing to
Speaker 1: sign a release form a waiver. When you go to
Speaker 1: a game anyway, you get a waiver on the back
Speaker 1: of the ticket. You know, you your balls can enter
Speaker 1: the stands and you have to be on your toes
Speaker 1: at all times. And they're not. You know, they rely
Speaker 1: they released the teams from liability. Now those things don't
Speaker 1: always stand up in court. Uh, but yeah, no, absolutely,
Speaker 1: absolutely would. I think a lot of people would. I
Speaker 1: would be willing to go to games. And what about you,
Speaker 1: gasking man, if I was aware of mask in a game,
Speaker 1: that would probably only be for a hockey game or
Speaker 1: for for baseball. Like I prefer watching NBA Action and
Speaker 1: the NFL or college football at home on television. Yeah really, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the football is more at home for sure, because you
Speaker 1: want to watch the other games and all that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in the NBA, just the angles unless your court side
Speaker 1: or you're sitting at half court. I really don't you know.
Speaker 1: The the angles just make it a little awkward. So
Speaker 1: you have a tough time deciphering the the angles and
Speaker 1: how they're shooting from different spots on the court. So
Speaker 1: I'm more of a television guy with the NBA. Each
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Speaker 1: Jeff from Spokean writes and he says, Ben, now what
Speaker 1: goes good with perfectly cooked corn beef hash? And why
Speaker 1: did I capitalize that? There you go? Says, uh, all right,
Speaker 1: so I love corn beef hash. I'm not a big
Speaker 1: breakfast guy. My go to with breakfast foods are normally
Speaker 1: high carb stuff pancakes, waffles, the breakfast potatoes. But corn
Speaker 1: beef hash, I would say with like pancakes, um, like
Speaker 1: a cornbread type thing. You're corn beef hash guy. I
Speaker 1: guess I like it and the perfect the perfect compliment
Speaker 1: to it. Ben, have a fucking Guinness. Oh well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's in any sentence with have a Guinness. That's easy.
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Speaker 1: that is a perfect compliment. Wow, what is up with
Speaker 1: that that? I don't think you're little jealous that you
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