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Speaker 1: If you thought more hours a day, minutes a week
Speaker 1: was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants of
Speaker 1: the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
Speaker 1: crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich
Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes,
Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller starts right now that it does in the air everywhere,
Speaker 1: as we are back at it on a Sunday Sunday Sunday,
Speaker 1: A mail bag kind of a day. Glad you have
Speaker 1: found your way to the pod cast on the Sunday
Speaker 1: as we wrap up the weekend with the mail Bag,
Speaker 1: always popular. I love the mail Bag. And again, if
Speaker 1: you're new to the show, if you've just stumbled on
Speaker 1: the podcast, maybe you're one of the radio listeners and
Speaker 1: you've never heard the Fifth Hour podcast every Sunday. What
Speaker 1: we do here is a version of Ask Ben that
Speaker 1: we do during the week on Thursdays, Wednesday and the
Speaker 1: Thursday on the radio show we do ask Men. But
Speaker 1: there on this we do the mail bag, which is
Speaker 1: the same concept, just random questions and we add answers
Speaker 1: many of them as we can in the course of
Speaker 1: the mail bag. And that's how we roll and from
Speaker 1: west of the four oh five, making it all the
Speaker 1: way through the weekend. David, Uh say, it's it's gonna
Speaker 1: be here despite the fact that I had a wake
Speaker 1: up early this morning. They call another game in Germany
Speaker 1: which is going good. Thanks for asking um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm here now, and uh go from one thing to another.
Speaker 1: It's nice And who do you call the games? Whether
Speaker 1: you buy yourself when you're I actually had a Ben
Speaker 1: Mallard moment last weekend. I was in the middle of
Speaker 1: the first quarter with the Leipzig Kings, driving at the
Speaker 1: twenty yard line of Berlin. All of a sudden, house
Speaker 1: goes pitch black. Oh, the lights went out on the
Speaker 1: entire city. I had to drive to a friend's house
Speaker 1: at six thirty of the morning, banging on the door
Speaker 1: second callis game remotely. It was so tragic. But the
Speaker 1: cool thing is is that the network that I do
Speaker 1: it for, they have three broadcasters, so one's in English,
Speaker 1: one is typically in German, and any other one's in
Speaker 1: the native tongue of the team, so Polo or Spanish
Speaker 1: or another German. So yea um, but yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was pretty bad. Standby, we have technical difficult technical
Speaker 1: different awful sucks. I drove thell from I drove from
Speaker 1: my house in Pedro to Long Beach in twelve minutes.
Speaker 1: It was pretty awesome. I must have had I could
Speaker 1: have gotten at least like five or six tickets. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well you know that time. They're not really writing tickets
Speaker 1: that time in the morning. No, no, yeah, you're good
Speaker 1: to go, sleepy, drink up Starbucks. Well let's get into
Speaker 1: the minil back. So, if you want to send a
Speaker 1: message for a future edition of the mail Bag, obviously
Speaker 1: we do not have your message for today. But there
Speaker 1: are multiple ways, multiple ways you can do this. You
Speaker 1: can send an email send it to Real fifth Hour
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Speaker 1: usually in the morning on the show Facebook page, Bett
Speaker 1: maller Show, and I'll say, hey, I need questions name
Speaker 1: in city, and everyone ignores that and just sends their
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Speaker 1: They can always if they want to have another email
Speaker 1: read um out loud or privately. You can also just
Speaker 1: request me on cameo and if you do that then
Speaker 1: I can provide you with plenty of answers in entertainments
Speaker 1: on a cameo and be easy. You could do that.
Speaker 1: That's all about Ben Maller On can come on, get
Speaker 1: me on there, dance and do a little top dance,
Speaker 1: tap dancing, Mini Mallar monologue, the whole thing. Yeah, dreams
Speaker 1: can come true. Your dreams can come true. Are you
Speaker 1: want to punt on this edition of the mail Box?
Speaker 1: I feel like it's not a good weekend to talk.
Speaker 1: I think this is a great, great opportunity. I football
Speaker 1: ran around the corner. We should be talking about the
Speaker 1: teach skin. I did. I did announce. I did announce
Speaker 1: that you were back in Facebook post and that led
Speaker 1: to a lot of vitriol. Uh. People were very upset
Speaker 1: and they did not have peace of mind. Did not
Speaker 1: have peace of mind. The news that you were coming back,
Speaker 1: and so I just I hope you're prepared. So these
Speaker 1: are actual messages by actual listeners of the show. We
Speaker 1: call it the mail bag. It's a jumbled up collection
Speaker 1: of these messages and the tour the force of the podcast.
Speaker 1: So the first one comes from Brian parts unknown. He says,
Speaker 1: on the news of Gascon's return, can you please get
Speaker 1: rid of him permanently? That was his response. James writes
Speaker 1: and says, hey, Ben, sometimes sometimes some of Gascon's comments
Speaker 1: were a little assholary. That was from James. Kevin says,
Speaker 1: when finding out about Gascon's return, that sucks. That was
Speaker 1: his quote. Eric with the case says, can I hear
Speaker 1: the gagon drop? M hm? Eric, you can make Eric
Speaker 1: happy if you want to play the gag on drop.
Speaker 1: I could drop something on Eric if you'd like. Yeah. Interesting.
Speaker 1: So those are the first four messages. I got a
Speaker 1: Tony in Oakland, he says, Ben, you finally got a loyal,
Speaker 1: dedicated sidekick in Ryan McBain, and now you were forced
Speaker 1: to work with that pompous West of the four of
Speaker 1: five a hole. Does management hate you? Yes? Yes, they
Speaker 1: said that show is going too good. Let's mess it up.
Speaker 1: That shows you know, Ryan's doing his thing. He's doing
Speaker 1: pretty well there. So let's punt on that and bring
Speaker 1: guests gone back. Yes, yeah, that's that's what happened. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: that was the consultation. Mark in Ottawas is welcome back.
Speaker 1: Gag on how was your maturnity leave? And what did
Speaker 1: you and Brian Finley name the child? Anyone in Canada
Speaker 1: doesn't have to. Uh, I don't think anyone in Canada
Speaker 1: has the right to talk about masculinity or here in
Speaker 1: this this part of town. Ben, onwards and upwards we go,
Speaker 1: Pino says, I hope we can get the truth on
Speaker 1: why he abandoned you, Ben. What the hell? Pinot, don't
Speaker 1: let him off the hook. His name is Pino, that's
Speaker 1: what it says here, p I n o Pino? What
Speaker 1: kind of funked up name is that? It's a great name?
Speaker 1: What's wrong with that? An original name? How many people
Speaker 1: have you ever met named Pino? None? Yeah? Well there
Speaker 1: you go. Finally a guy named Pino. Richard from Edowah,
Speaker 1: Tennessee says, why in the fuck is that gas bag
Speaker 1: coming back? Is he done in Germany? Are you done
Speaker 1: in Germany? No? I got five more weeks left and
Speaker 1: then playoffs and championship game five more weeks. How many
Speaker 1: freaking games are they playing in Germany? Twelve games? Twelve games? Crap? Wow, uh,
Speaker 1: let's see here. I can't read that. Richard can't read that.
Speaker 1: Richard says, uh, because I can't spe spelling. Some of
Speaker 1: these are terrible. It's that like from guy from Arizona
Speaker 1: that can't spell you have such a such a just taste.
Speaker 1: Relieve he's like sixty years old. They can't spell cat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, well you're you're you're like fifty years old
Speaker 1: and you can't show up to work everywhere you pick
Speaker 1: and choose your battle. Yeah. Uh, he says. What do
Speaker 1: you big Ben think about the college football playoff expanding
Speaker 1: with Oklahoma and Texas coming to the SEC? I have
Speaker 1: no issue with the college football is pretty much the
Speaker 1: SEC and everyone else is like a backseat to the
Speaker 1: Southeastern Conference Eastern Conference. So like this is the future
Speaker 1: the future is going to be. They'll be like instead
Speaker 1: of the big five power conferences, they'll be like the
Speaker 1: Big three power conferences. You're gonna have like the Big ten,
Speaker 1: the SEC, and then some hybrid pack twelve Big twelve
Speaker 1: combo and then that'll be it. The landscape has changed
Speaker 1: in college college football, so that's I'm fine with that.
Speaker 1: And and they're not the last teams that are gonna
Speaker 1: join the SEC. There. I wouldn't be stunned at off Clemson.
Speaker 1: I know the rumors were Clemson in Florida State, some
Speaker 1: other combination of Clemson somebody else joining the Southeastern Confers.
Speaker 1: That's where the money is, that's where you want to be.
Speaker 1: Those are the cool kids. Yeah, if you're if you're
Speaker 1: on the wrong side of the tracks, you want to
Speaker 1: live on that side of the track. So that's what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. But don't forget, with all due respects, since
Speaker 1: you are a minor league baseball fan, you cannot discount
Speaker 1: and disregard the MAC Tuesday Wednesday football randomly the maction. Baby,
Speaker 1: I'm all about the MAX, So I gotta give a
Speaker 1: two thumbs up to the MAC. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: just kind of goes to prove right that the whole
Speaker 1: SCC is the most dominant conference has been manufactured by ESPN.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's years that USC was smashing everybody in
Speaker 1: the SEC, whether it was Arkansas, it was l S
Speaker 1: U and Auburn they got the better of and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, these fake sanctions come down. They
Speaker 1: throw the they throw the entire book at Southern cal
Speaker 1: and then usc Is is left for dead. The SEC
Speaker 1: rise is and now it's like full steam ahead Southern
Speaker 1: Fried football. You gotta have that Southern front froom. Have
Speaker 1: you been to an SEC game? Uh? No, I've never
Speaker 1: been to and have you No? No, it's it's a
Speaker 1: bucket list thing. Be sure to catch live editions of
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Speaker 1: I've been to Oklahoma. That's just I've been a Norman.
Speaker 1: That was the craze. I was an Oklahoma Nebraska game
Speaker 1: when that was still a big game. This was at
Speaker 1: the end like Nebraska had just like somebody at quarterback. Now,
Speaker 1: this is when Josh Hype was the quarterback in Oklahoma
Speaker 1: and that that first Bob Stoop steam the championship in
Speaker 1: two thousand yeah, and then they gets smashed by USC
Speaker 1: I think in the Orange Bowl the next year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they won that they won that first year and
Speaker 1: everyone's going crazy as chasing White at quarterback. I think, Man,
Speaker 1: how was that? Was it? Funny? Norman? That was awesome? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a great environment. It was. It was cool,
Speaker 1: like the Nebraska fans cruising down and all their RVs
Speaker 1: and all that, and that was a that what's his name?
Speaker 1: The elite Corso and those clowns where they were doing
Speaker 1: their college pregame show. So it was quite quite the scene.
Speaker 1: That was the food good. Uh yeah, I mean they
Speaker 1: treated us very well. I I remember being at this
Speaker 1: the Switzer Center there the the practice facility, and um,
Speaker 1: they just rolled out the pr staff for Oklahoma, like
Speaker 1: rolled out the red carpet. I was doing sidelines on
Speaker 1: that game, and so they just whatever we needed. We
Speaker 1: were hanging out. We had a meeting with Stoops raining too,
Speaker 1: Barry Switzer who was there for some reason in the
Speaker 1: hallway walking around and that was cool. What did you
Speaker 1: do a day game or was it a night game?
Speaker 1: For you? It was a day gay game, say on
Speaker 1: syndicated radio. And you know it was a good time,
Speaker 1: although my mike, my handheld mike stopped working a problem. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And we went to the radio station. I had to
Speaker 1: do do a like a half hour college football show,
Speaker 1: so we went to the radio station to record it.
Speaker 1: And the radio station it was like this small little
Speaker 1: like uh, how would I describe it? It was like
Speaker 1: a you know how you were in school and they'd
Speaker 1: add extra classrooms in the back. It was like a
Speaker 1: mobile home to thing. Yeah, it was like kind of
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, and then I'm behind it was the
Speaker 1: actual transmitter. Yeah, and we we don't have that like
Speaker 1: radio stations in in l A. And radio what I'm
Speaker 1: used to is, you know, the transmitters somewhere else like
Speaker 1: in l A. There on a hill Mount Wilson is
Speaker 1: where the transmitters are they because they boomed down into
Speaker 1: the valley, but that was it's flat there. So to
Speaker 1: put them right behind the radio station and then you're
Speaker 1: on your way. Uh So, all right, Greg, and Iowa's
Speaker 1: is for gascon, gag on and gas can. How was
Speaker 1: witness protection like? And how long until you return to
Speaker 1: witness protection? Man? I was bored out of my mind.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. I had three auditions with some networks.
Speaker 1: I booked a national commercial, which was awesome. Um, I
Speaker 1: started taking some finance classes, so I was busy. Then
Speaker 1: it wasn't bad at all. It was a vacation. You're
Speaker 1: describing a vacation. I was bored. I like to be
Speaker 1: out and about. I'm an extrovert. Is that is that true?
Speaker 1: I'm an introvert, so I am the opposite of that?
Speaker 1: All right? What is next year? On the mail back Kevin,
Speaker 1: Kevin writes and says, is the only way you guys
Speaker 1: get a vacation over there is to do something to
Speaker 1: get suspended on a company. Yeah, I mean vick shooting
Speaker 1: constitutes paid time off. I don't get paid time off. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: And you don't take vacation I don't. I don't. You
Speaker 1: don't take holidays off either. So I believe in work.
Speaker 1: I am a I am a worker. That's what I am.
Speaker 1: What is next year? Let's see any meny mighty mo,
Speaker 1: let's see your page down? Page down? All right? This
Speaker 1: is a travel log from Adrian in the Mile High City.
Speaker 1: You've been away for a while, but Adrian took the
Speaker 1: family to Disneyland and we were trying to get together
Speaker 1: logistically it would not work. But he brought the kids
Speaker 1: and the wife, everyone that came out to California from Denver,
Speaker 1: and we're hanging out and he's giving the Disneyland l
Speaker 1: a report card, and so let me get right to it,
Speaker 1: he says. The first thing my wife and I noticed,
Speaker 1: he said, it was all the trash scattered alongside of
Speaker 1: the highway, even the four oh five. Why so much garbage,
Speaker 1: Adrian asked, aren't there highway clean up cruise that can
Speaker 1: help contain some of that? That was his first question. Uh,
Speaker 1: he says. On our first day we were there, we
Speaker 1: drove from Anaheim to Hollywood to see the Walk of Fame,
Speaker 1: and as we approached the l a Hollywood area, we
Speaker 1: could not believe all the homeless tents set up on
Speaker 1: the sides of the highway and the bridges. We thought
Speaker 1: Denver was bad for homelessness. What a sad situation. He's
Speaker 1: not kidding, he says. It was cool to see the
Speaker 1: Walk of Fame and Hollywood. Adrian says, but the Hollywood
Speaker 1: Boulevard area is a ship hole. I thought I was
Speaker 1: in San Francisco for a minute because of the real
Speaker 1: piles of ship along the Walk of fame. Not sure
Speaker 1: if they were piles of dogshit or human ship regardless
Speaker 1: of the family, and I dodged all the landmines. Welcome
Speaker 1: to l ah It, says the family. And I love
Speaker 1: the in and out burn three times. Says that double
Speaker 1: double no onion is something special. No, no, you get
Speaker 1: double double, but you get the grilled onions. Not no onion. No,
Speaker 1: I don't get the raw onion, but I get the
Speaker 1: grilled on You you gotta ask for that. Ask for
Speaker 1: the grilled onions. Will put grilled onions on there, and
Speaker 1: you gotta get the fries animal style. He says they're
Speaker 1: building an in and out Burger in the city he
Speaker 1: lives in, Colorado, and it should be completed in the
Speaker 1: coming months. He's excited about that, so that's that's good news.
Speaker 1: He says that the kids love Disneyland and the Mickey
Speaker 1: Mouse pretzel. That's a solid move by the kids. The
Speaker 1: Mickey Mouse pretzel one of the great items. It's over
Speaker 1: priced like everything else at disney Land, but that's a solid,
Speaker 1: solid pretzel with the Mickey Mouse ears on uh. And
Speaker 1: also the ice cream. The ice cream. I love that.
Speaker 1: What if you went to my favorite ice cream shop.
Speaker 1: The gear of Delis is in Downtown Disney, not Downtown Disney,
Speaker 1: it's in the California Adventure. That place is great, says
Speaker 1: the wife. And I had to stop for a Mallard
Speaker 1: dessert State. Oh yeah, there you go. This is the
Speaker 1: next the chocolate chip cookie ice cream Sunday good. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: keep breathing. Uh, And he talks about me and Ryan.
Speaker 1: We were discussing Disneyland prices. It was expensive, but worth it,
Speaker 1: he said. For the kids, especially at their ages, it's
Speaker 1: a trip. We hope they'll always remember. Out of the
Speaker 1: out of state prices for Disney and California Adventure. Two
Speaker 1: parks in three days. Oh boy, two hundred thirty five
Speaker 1: dollars aged ten and over two d aged three to
Speaker 1: nine bucks if you're below the age of ten. Man,
Speaker 1: I thought the last time I was there was a
Speaker 1: hundred dollars a ticket. Now it's fucking double that. Well,
Speaker 1: that's out of California prices. They they're trying to discourage
Speaker 1: people from out of California to come. Bad job, says.
Speaker 1: Huntington Beach was great, Adrian said. Kids love putting their
Speaker 1: feet in the water. They had never seen the ocean before.
Speaker 1: Couldn't we leave all the water. That's pretty cool. Orange County,
Speaker 1: The o C says, the California Venture Cars ride was awesome.
Speaker 1: The roller coaster style hills at the end were a
Speaker 1: cool surprise. Kids loved it. Blah blah blah. Then he
Speaker 1: named some of the restaurants he ate at and he
Speaker 1: enjoyed the Embassy Sweets. I like the Embassy Sweets. I
Speaker 1: like to stay there. It's a nice hotel, good hotel, said,
Speaker 1: wonderful breakfast spread every morning six to nine, he says,
Speaker 1: the they'll stay there again. That's a shocker, having a
Speaker 1: breakfast spread with the pandemic going on. COVID. Yeah. Lastly,
Speaker 1: I made the mistake of filling up the rental car
Speaker 1: for return at a Sinclair near l Ax Do you
Speaker 1: want to take a guess? He paid four nine a
Speaker 1: gallon for regular unleaded. That's the travel log from Adrian,
Speaker 1: our buddy in the Mile High City. He had a
Speaker 1: Mallard shirt on Gascon when he was at Disney. Lady
Speaker 1: sent a photo along and had the Mallard name on it.
Speaker 1: Custom made shirts. The job by Adrian Man, He's gonna
Speaker 1: be back. That's cool. Enjoy La but more so Orange County. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is I opening if you have not seen the
Speaker 1: amount of just it looks like, um, like a third
Speaker 1: world country in parts of l A right now, with
Speaker 1: all the homeless people piled up on top of each
Speaker 1: other on the side of the road there. It's craziness. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's brutal. It is as bad as I've ever seen it.
Speaker 1: I've never seen it worse than this. It's embarrassing, it is,
Speaker 1: and the political people don't do anything. They make laws
Speaker 1: to make it easier to have more people coming. I
Speaker 1: feel bad for the homeless, but unfortunately a lot of
Speaker 1: the homeless, it seems, are okay being homeless. I don't
Speaker 1: really mind it, you know, as it's frustrating, frustrating problem.
Speaker 1: I think if you're homeless, there are places you can
Speaker 1: go to get help and get a place to stay,
Speaker 1: get your your feet back underneath you. Yeah, they're homeless shelters. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well not just that. I mean there's program from homeless,
Speaker 1: but a lot of from what I understand, maybe I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: but from what I've been told, a lot of the
Speaker 1: people just like they don't want they don't want to
Speaker 1: have a job, they don't want to have responsibility. I
Speaker 1: don't want to have any report to anybody. They love
Speaker 1: living on the streets. And there's also obviously the drug problem,
Speaker 1: which is a big reason that that's the way it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no family, no structure, also impacting uh Steve right, so,
Speaker 1: and he says, what's the best advice you ever received
Speaker 1: and who gave it to you? Hm, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean my mom gave me a lot of wisdom
Speaker 1: over the years, and my grandfather and my dad, everyone
Speaker 1: in my village gave me something. I often bring up
Speaker 1: the Code of the West, So I guess that that
Speaker 1: would be something that is the most You did not
Speaker 1: learn the Code of the West, right, I guess when
Speaker 1: you were a kid. You're not. That's not something that
Speaker 1: I think learned. The best piece silence, best piece of
Speaker 1: advice I ever got, well, and this in history, was
Speaker 1: never say no to an opportunity. Um, you know I
Speaker 1: I did hear a great quote by Steve Harvey wants.
Speaker 1: He said, whatever someone thinks of you is none of
Speaker 1: your business. Another one is, don't you don't have to
Speaker 1: share your business with everybody? Yeah, if you share secrets,
Speaker 1: they're no longer secrets. Yeahs I do try to tell him.
Speaker 1: My wife loves to share every detail I try to
Speaker 1: I have pointed out to her. I've been like, you know,
Speaker 1: you don't really don't need to share everything. There's some
Speaker 1: some things that are better left unsaid. She's the extrovert,
Speaker 1: but he want talker. I'm like, I don't really, you know,
Speaker 1: they don't need to know that, which is weird because
Speaker 1: both of you talk for a living. But you're an introvert.
Speaker 1: She's an extrovert. Well, no, because I don't like the
Speaker 1: way I live my life. I don't need to get
Speaker 1: into everyone's personal business. Everyone. Every family has got drama.
Speaker 1: Everyone's got stuff. They're not happy about our stuff that's
Speaker 1: awkward and things like that and my that stuff. You
Speaker 1: can deal with it on your own. I can deal
Speaker 1: with my stuff. And we don't need to you know,
Speaker 1: change exchange dirty laundry. We don't. We don't have a
Speaker 1: clothes line anymore. We have a dryer, clothes line clipper.
Speaker 1: You know, I got you. Carlos in Bang Bang Houston, Texas,
Speaker 1: says Man. I will be quitting the show to work
Speaker 1: on my mental health. Maybe I'll get a documentary. Also,
Speaker 1: how long will these athletes be using the mental health
Speaker 1: card as an excuse. That's from Carlos Well. As long
Speaker 1: as it'll work, it's the perfect, perfect get out of
Speaker 1: I didn't play good jail card, I didn't perform well.
Speaker 1: It's like this, of course, much like when everyone cries racism,
Speaker 1: it ruins when there's actual racism. When people mental health
Speaker 1: and there's not actual mental health, it's just you. You're
Speaker 1: uncomfortable because you got booed. Then it's the same concept.
Speaker 1: You've messed things though, Same with the me too movement. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly uh same same Dar R R. Pierre in Springfield,
Speaker 1: mass just down the street from the Pro Basketball Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame or Muffett McGraw and the home of vaccine mandates.
Speaker 1: This question may be irrelevant since you've already revealed that
Speaker 1: Mr West of the four oh five is back from
Speaker 1: time out, but here goes. I may have read in
Speaker 1: the trade papers that Bella and Mrs Maller have been
Speaker 1: tapped to replace the aforementioned Mr Gascon as executive producer
Speaker 1: on Benny Versus the Penny for the upcoming NFL season. Ben,
Speaker 1: would you or your sidekick care to confirm or deny?
Speaker 1: And secondly, has Mr Gascon provided you with the negative
Speaker 1: COVID test in order to return to the podcast. That's
Speaker 1: from Pierre in Springfield. I found this out. Did you
Speaker 1: know that if you test for COVID and you come
Speaker 1: up positive, you could actually have it show up on
Speaker 1: a test nine to ten weeks later. Yeah. So apparently
Speaker 1: the dead microbes in your in your nasal cavity stay
Speaker 1: there for a long period of time and you can't
Speaker 1: even irrigate it out, so they just stay there until
Speaker 1: they eventually fall out. But people can get retested and
Speaker 1: retested and it can continue to show up positive even
Speaker 1: though you have no symptoms, no signs, and don't even
Speaker 1: have it. Yeah, we have we have seen that, right,
Speaker 1: we have seen that with the uh John Rohm, Right, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: There's been a few people that have tested positive like
Speaker 1: a week after they were tested negative and in the Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we've seen athletes do that also. It's crazy. Someone's
Speaker 1: making a fortune, Ben, Uh, there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: making a fortune. Who's paying for these tests? Who's the
Speaker 1: government's paying? No? I was told that's free, Well, yeah, free.
Speaker 1: I was told our vaccines are free. Well, someone's paying
Speaker 1: for it. But during is getting what like fifteen dollars,
Speaker 1: and I think Fiser's shot his nineteen fifty pop. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm making some coin man. Yeah, money, money and
Speaker 1: money out. You gotta buy that fightser stock in that.
Speaker 1: I'm on I'm on Roku right now, I'm on Boeing,
Speaker 1: I'm on Square, which is on fire. I'm doing well.
Speaker 1: I've been doing a lot. I saw the robin Hood
Speaker 1: went on the market and that the first day it
Speaker 1: did not do well, and then it shot up like
Speaker 1: thirty bucks or something like that within a couple of days. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did very well, Joe writes an Ak. The bread
Speaker 1: Man in Pittsburgh. The bread Man in Pittsburgh, Yeah, this
Speaker 1: guy's a legend. He's one of the original o G
Speaker 1: callers the early days of the Mallee Militia. Is he
Speaker 1: baked bread or does he make bread? Well, I don't.
Speaker 1: He's not a bread man anymore, but he was when
Speaker 1: he listened to the show. He was the bread man.
Speaker 1: He delivered bread around pick I don't know that anyway.
Speaker 1: He's says, he sent me a hat. I thank you
Speaker 1: for that. I do appreciate it. Bread man, very kind
Speaker 1: of you. And then he said yes, he says, maybe
Speaker 1: I can come on the fifth hour sometime and shoot
Speaker 1: the ship. There you go. So he's inviting himself on
Speaker 1: the podcast and and bred Man would like to hang
Speaker 1: out with it. So you know, on a ride along
Speaker 1: you're gonna get great stories from police officers and firefighters.
Speaker 1: But do you think of bread man has good stories?
Speaker 1: Mm hm m hmm. The debatable. I would say, like
Speaker 1: the mailman, for sure, mailman has good stories. I would
Speaker 1: bet car repair people surprisingly have good stories. I've heard.
Speaker 1: I've talked to some of those guys in the past
Speaker 1: that have shared some pretty interesting offers that have been
Speaker 1: made to them to get cars repaired or stripped down.
Speaker 1: Pool cleaning people people that would clean pools. Uh. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know about a bread man though it's a
Speaker 1: milk man. Maybe the milkman okay, but a bread man
Speaker 1: in his part of town I think probably got some
Speaker 1: good juice. In what part? What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Like in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and like those parts of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: Why would that be just because the city is so
Speaker 1: lively if there's always ship going on, a stuff happening, yeah,
Speaker 1: good or bad? Yeah, it depends what part of town.
Speaker 1: But bread Man, we will will put that on the
Speaker 1: list of possibilities, possibilities to have the bread Man on.
Speaker 1: He's all grown up now. I hung out with him,
Speaker 1: Pete and Pittsburgh the dough Boy when I went to
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh years ago and we met at Primani Brothers, the
Speaker 1: twenty four hour location in the Steel District, and it
Speaker 1: was all I was like one in the morning. I
Speaker 1: rolled in. I had driven from Philly and we drove across.
Speaker 1: We got there much later than we thought. I didn't
Speaker 1: realize how big it is in Pennsylvania, and uh drove
Speaker 1: across the state and then we hung out a couple
Speaker 1: of hours, spent a night in Pittsburgh and walked around
Speaker 1: the ballparks there, the stadiums in downtown was beautiful, and
Speaker 1: continued on up to Buffalo. So wonderful, wonderful trip back.
Speaker 1: I think we stopped the reason that we were late.
Speaker 1: We stopped in Gettysburg along the way, and that messed
Speaker 1: us up. That's great, though. Did you do that during
Speaker 1: the day or did you do that at night? It
Speaker 1: was in the evening as the you know, just it
Speaker 1: was like that twilight period. It was pretty cool. We
Speaker 1: kind of latched on. There was a walking tour, and
Speaker 1: we kind of overheard some of the they were saying
Speaker 1: that they don't know exactly where President that Lincoln gave
Speaker 1: the Gettysburg addressed, but they think it was here. And
Speaker 1: then the bodies were down there, and then they were
Speaker 1: like like describing what what was going on. So it's cool.
Speaker 1: And the guy that was doing it looked like he
Speaker 1: had fought in the Civil War. He was a very
Speaker 1: old guy, and he just got like he thought maybe
Speaker 1: there was some kind of time warp and he was
Speaker 1: he was there and he actually had been there at
Speaker 1: the Civil Wars. Kevin in Kansas says, welcome back, David.
Speaker 1: Finally a positive message for you, Ben and David. As
Speaker 1: I get ready to go back to school, what are
Speaker 1: some of the back to school rituals you remember? Was
Speaker 1: it buying school supplies, getting new shoes? I remember it
Speaker 1: was always a big deal. Get a new backpack. That
Speaker 1: was always every big, big deal. Picking out the right
Speaker 1: backpack because as a kid, you throw your backpack around.
Speaker 1: I would destroy my backpack, but that was always the
Speaker 1: big thing. Remember the backpack. Going out to get pencils
Speaker 1: and pens and erasers, notebooks for me. I remember the
Speaker 1: lunch box too. That was when I was in elementary school,
Speaker 1: those cool metal lunch boxes with the cartoon characters on them.
Speaker 1: You gotta make sure you had a good haircut too.
Speaker 1: You can't go day one with I didn't give a
Speaker 1: shit a about that, but my mom, mom did. But
Speaker 1: I didn't give a crap about the haircut at all. Uh,
Speaker 1: new shoes. I just remember the backpack, the lunchbox, and
Speaker 1: my mom making this is trying to make it a
Speaker 1: big deal to get me excited to go back to school.
Speaker 1: But it didn't really work. Remember that it was it
Speaker 1: was didn't really get me excited. Queen rocks in right soon,
Speaker 1: She says, Ben, did you let David come back because
Speaker 1: the listenership was failing? Uh no, No, Actually the last quarter,
Speaker 1: which you were not part of. Um, we we had
Speaker 1: the highest listenership we've ever had for the pot and
Speaker 1: you're welcome and uh and guess Gon was gone for
Speaker 1: two weeks twelve No, you were gone for four four
Speaker 1: shows I think, so, yes, not a lot in the
Speaker 1: quarter you were. You were gone a while and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: so the listenership is higher than ever. So I had
Speaker 1: nothing to do with guests had all people love Ryan
Speaker 1: McMahon except in Boston they hated him. Other than that,
Speaker 1: they loved him. Fred in Spring Texas rights this. Did
Speaker 1: either of you play youth, high school or college sports?
Speaker 1: If so, what sports, what position, etcetera. I played high
Speaker 1: school football. I did actually play basketball for one year
Speaker 1: in high school, so that's when they called me moneyball
Speaker 1: mallar back in the day. But yeah, I was there.
Speaker 1: I was the you know, you know six guy, six
Speaker 1: man of the year uh in high school. And I
Speaker 1: played football is on the offensive line, also played on
Speaker 1: goal line defense. I was the guy they put in
Speaker 1: the middle there to shove up and clog up the
Speaker 1: middle so you couldn't run up the middle. And my
Speaker 1: job was to take out the center and one of
Speaker 1: the guards if I can, and that that was that
Speaker 1: was my my job. I played little league baseball, but
Speaker 1: I never played high school baseball. Guest on you were
Speaker 1: you were like Al Bundy of your high school was
Speaker 1: a multi support authlete, played football, baseball, basketball, and hockey.
Speaker 1: But I played baseball and football into college. But football's
Speaker 1: sport number one. I should have played baseball. I'm left
Speaker 1: handed and I was a picture played first base um,
Speaker 1: but I didn't have good control and then college football
Speaker 1: wise that played tight end. Should have could have would have? Right,
Speaker 1: you know, man, what could have been? What could have been?
Speaker 1: What could have been? Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia, she wrote
Speaker 1: a note very nice. She was in l A last
Speaker 1: week and she wanted to, you know, do a meet
Speaker 1: and Greek couldn't do it. Wasn't here long enough. I
Speaker 1: didn't get an email about this. Yeah, she had nothing,
Speaker 1: nothing to do with you, nothing to do with you. Well,
Speaker 1: you've been going out of sight, out of mind. And
Speaker 1: she pointed out she came to l A for two
Speaker 1: days that she's in lives in Virginia, Richardond, Virginia's a
Speaker 1: long trip to come from Richmond, Virginia l A for
Speaker 1: two days on the weekend. That's not normally a weekend trip. No, no, no, anyway,
Speaker 1: she she put, this is a great story. So she uh,
Speaker 1: she took the trip out because her her son had
Speaker 1: the opportunity. Her son wants to work for it, wants
Speaker 1: to be an animator and work for DreamWorks, and so
Speaker 1: there was a an opportunity to to meet and network
Speaker 1: with one of the big movie producers and some of
Speaker 1: the writers and animators for DreamWorks, and so they flew
Speaker 1: out and went to this thing and she took her
Speaker 1: kid out to meet the people from DreamWorks and apparently
Speaker 1: it went pretty well. And uh so this is this
Speaker 1: was cool. That was very that was very nice. Man,
Speaker 1: that's a kick. Ask mom, that's what I'm saying, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, your kid wants to be working for DreamWorks
Speaker 1: and you you fly three thousand miles or whatever it
Speaker 1: is and just for a couple of days just to
Speaker 1: get a little FaceTime. But apparently it worked. Like the person,
Speaker 1: she said, was genuinely impressed and said that the kid
Speaker 1: could have a future. That is sucking awesome. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: I know a lot of these networks like CBS does it,
Speaker 1: and I think NBC they offer mentorship programs. They are
Speaker 1: not internships for students and just you know, obviously young individuals. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that was pretty cool. So she says she
Speaker 1: will be back. She was upset because we last weekend
Speaker 1: the podcast was riveting. We did a bunch of favorite
Speaker 1: restaurants in l like Tito's Tacos and the different places,
Speaker 1: and unless she Jennifer was upset because by the time
Speaker 1: she heard the podcast, she had had gone back to Richmond, Virginia.
Speaker 1: But she will be back and she can eat it
Speaker 1: all all those fine places and have a wonderful time.
Speaker 1: The last one from Greg in West St. Paul, Minnesota,
Speaker 1: nice and says Ben and David. I was watching a
Speaker 1: baseball game and the batter's helmet had some black stuff
Speaker 1: on it. It looked like black tar. What is it
Speaker 1: and what's the purpose of it? That's from Greg. I
Speaker 1: feel like this could have been a Google. This could
Speaker 1: have been a Google. You know what I'm saying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this didn't need to be sent, but I kind of answer.
Speaker 1: It's obviously who was the player that had the most
Speaker 1: pine tar? Remember George Brett's the one that comes to
Speaker 1: my mind. Oh now that was on the bat. But
Speaker 1: the helmet, Manny Ramirez a Manny on the back just
Speaker 1: taking b G O is he did he have a lot?
Speaker 1: I think Justin Turner had a lot because he'd get
Speaker 1: his the back of his jersey would get dirty between
Speaker 1: the numbers. Well that was because of his bat. He
Speaker 1: was from the pine tar from the bat. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm talking about the helmet um the helmet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's some guys that have had like just covered in
Speaker 1: pine tar. Of course they do that because they can
Speaker 1: rub their hand on the on the helmet and then
Speaker 1: take some of the pine tar off and then on
Speaker 1: their batting glove to hold the bats. Little cheek coat.
Speaker 1: I have pine tar on the microphone, so I have
Speaker 1: a firm grip on the microphone. I do do not
Speaker 1: want to drop the microp little gross. It's just how
Speaker 1: I roll. That's how I operate here. I want to
Speaker 1: point that out. All right, that's it. Well, we'll get
Speaker 1: the heck out of here. Have a great rest of
Speaker 1: your Sunday. If you're listening live on you know, live
Speaker 1: to the podct to live where I live, but on
Speaker 1: the podcast on Sunday. I understand a lot of people
Speaker 1: listen to this on Monday and Tuesday, and it's a
Speaker 1: timeless podcast. It's a timeless podcast. Yeah, alright, I have
Speaker 1: a great rest of the Sunday. We'll be back on
Speaker 1: I will Sunday Night in the Monday as the NFL
Speaker 1: takes center stage all the big moves of the weekend,
Speaker 1: and we'll have all of that for you on the
Speaker 1: next Ben maur Show eleven PM Sunday Night in the West.
Speaker 1: That is, of course, do the math on that that
Speaker 1: is two am in the East on Monday morning. We'll
Speaker 1: catch you then