WEBVTT - Mail Bag 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:05.400 Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.120 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.400 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.440 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:20.160 rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:24.040 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:35.760 Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, never tight lip, 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:41.280 not on the podcast The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:46.000 from the Tabernacle. That's a fun word, right, Tabernacle. That's 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:49.800 actually just the podcast studio at a secret location somewhere 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:53.920 deep in the north Woods. Because four hours a night 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:57.640 during the week or not enough. We must come in 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:02.920 to the Sanctuary a days a week, eight days a 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:09.160 week here bloviating the night away, reminiscing about days of 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.600 yore and days to come as well. And let's not 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:14.840 that's not really what we do here. But this the 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:18.760 Sunday edition of The Fifth Hour, and we thank you 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:22.240 have those that have sent questions in. We will get 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.600 to the many, many questions that have come in for 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:28.240 this week's mailbag. And as I said, if you did 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:34.160 not listen on Saturday. We have no official announcement on 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:38.800 who is replacing Gascon Mr West of the four oh 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:43.000 five as the sidekick on the podcast, but we will 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:47.080 keep you abreast of the situation. Hopefully, if everything goes well, 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:52.920 knock on wood, we will have someone in place by 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:56.760 this coming weekend, assuming we do the podcast. It is 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.920 Thanksgiving weekends, so let me know. Maybe I'll put a 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.840 Twitter pull up here at some point whether or not 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:07.160 you want fresh podcast if you're actually gonna listen to 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.320 them on Thanksgiving weekend, or I should just take the 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.840 Thanksgiving weekend off and avoid doing the podcast stuff. So 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.240 that is yet to be determined. But without further ado, 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:34.840 here we go. They you, Ohio. All these are actual 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.240 listener questions. These are not fake made up questions. These 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:44.840 are questions sending by fellow consumers of the product. Uh. 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.480 They have said, listen, we are here for you. I 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:52.880 got mail, I got mail, I got a lot of mail. 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:56.400 I'm very excited about it. Some of these submitted via 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:02.880 Facebook the Facebook page Ben Mallard Show. All right, Facebook 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:06.639 page Ben Mallard Show. And you can also email your 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:13.400 question in real fifth hour, real fifth hour. Yes we do, 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.480 so we will get to that. Thanks to Ohio Al 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:21.760 for sending in those many, many, many wonderful songs that 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:23.960 he's he's done a us. I think he sent three in. 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:27.320 That's a lot. That's more than I've ever made. But 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:31.760 on with the questions. Alright, come back, it's time from 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:36.480 mail call alright, alright, calm down. So the first message 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:41.120 comes from Kevin in Kansas. He says, dear Bend, besides teaching, 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:45.400 I also mo and clean a lot of yards. With 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.240 the season winding down, it makes me wonder if you 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.680 have time to do your own yard work or are 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:55.240 you one to higher outside help meaning of course a 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:59.320 gardener and all that. Please keep these podcasts going. So Kevin, 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.360 I don't have much of a green thumb. If you've 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.360 listened in previous podcasts, I've told the story. I'm still 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:11.280 working on the yard as it got destroyed in the 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:14.080 home renovation. The home renovation is not completely done. Most 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.720 of it's done, there's still some stuff that needs to 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:21.200 be finished, and the yard needs to be improved. So 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:25.480 I am working on putting the grass down and taking 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.880 care of that. Typically during the week, I don't have 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:30.320 a lot of time and work at night, so I'm 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:34.560 not really awake during the daylight hours when most gardening 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:38.640 work is done. Um, but I do try to trim 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.560 the trees and do some of the the guarding work. 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:43.440 But we do have someone that comes to the house 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:47.440 and takes care of it usually once once a week, 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.160 once every couple of weeks and takes care of it. Uh. 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.760 But that's good hustle by you, Kevin. You know you're 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:57.720 not only teaching, but you're also makeing a electra. I 0:04:57.760 --> 0:04:59.720 assume you're not doing that for free. That's not pro 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.880 Oh no work that you're actually out there and you're 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:04.360 getting paid a little bit of money for it. Good 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.400 job by you, and you're right. In Kansas, you have 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:09.880 to stop doing that. In California, you don't have to 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:13.840 worry about it. There's one season in California it rains 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:18.520 for like two or three weeks, maybe maybe during the wintertime, 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:21.840 and then it gets oppressively hot for part of the 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:23.400 year and the rest of the time it's it's my 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:29.880 old temperatures. Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts, home of the Pro 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:36.360 Basketball Hall of Fame, where the great Muffett mcgrawl is enshrined. 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:39.919 I know you're impressed by that. Fun fact. I know 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:43.719 it is very, very impressive, but listen, we have fun 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:47.039 fact anyway, Pierre a friend of alf the amienal pining. Right, 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.440 since it's been now that we don't have gascon to 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:54.040 kick around anymore, since he took his ball and went home, 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:58.520 are you looking for a yes man that believes in 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:05.200 radio analytic or someone that has a great feel for radio? Alright? 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:10.040 Wonderful question from Pierre. Pierre, you know how I feel 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:14.440 about analytics and stats tell you what has happened, not 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.400 what's going to happen. And they have these these weird 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:22.160 squiggly lines, these squiggly ziggly lines that mess everything up. 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.640 So my preference would be to bring somebody in who 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:30.080 is a radio pro, someone that gets radio. That would 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.479 be the way we are leaning. And we we do 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.560 have someone in mind, and I think everything should be 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.839 good on that to have the announcement, but I have 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:41.560 not been allowed from management to give the green light. 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:45.240 The person we are trying to put in the podcast 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:48.839 is not currently available to do said podcast, and so 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.360 we have to make sure everything is good on that. Uh. 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:55.080 He also says any progress on the outdoor wood or 0:06:55.279 --> 0:07:01.839 gas fired pizza oven, I'm living vicariously through your cooking escapades. 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:06.279 So we have not gone out and gotten the pizza oven. 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.760 The back back of the house there the outdoor area, 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:13.440 outdoor space, whatever you call it. It still needs a 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:15.520 lot of work. We cleaned up a lot of it 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.120 last weekend, I think it was. We did a lot 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.600 of clean up, so a lot of the broken glass 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.840 is all gone. The stuff we could find. I used 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:27.760 a shop back that was missing a wheel to put 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:31.600 everything out there and put everything together. So, uh, we're 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:33.320 not at that point. But you did send me I 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.480 think it was you, Pierre that sent me a nice 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:39.080 link on Amazon. I'm sure that thing's gone up in price. 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:45.120 That an outdoor pizza oven. That wasn't that much. I 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.080 gotta do it. I make the Mallard pizza. I've made 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:49.640 that a few times in the house. I made it 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:55.120 this week. Last weekend we made the rip off Popeye's 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:59.880 Chicken sandwich, a recipe we got off the YouTube, which 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:06.120 is amazing, and it is shocking how little chicken is 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:10.040 actually in the Popeye's chicken sandwich, at least the one 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.320 I made. Because what I do is I get I 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.400 even get a chicken breast and cut it up into 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.160 chicken tender size. Or what I'll do is I'll get 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:20.520 the chicken tenders from like Walmart or whatever, and I'll 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:24.280 just take one chicken tender, pound that thing down, make 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.080 it as flat as you can possibly make it, because 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:29.520 it'll puff back up when you cook it, and it 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:33.720 makes this large chicken sandwich. I should have taken a picture. 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:35.080 Next time I make that, I'm gonna have to take 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.880 a picture. But I will keep you updated, Pierre on 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:42.120 cooking with Benny. We'll have to come up with a 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:45.160 better name than that. Fred in Spring, Texas writes in 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.000 and Fred says, hey, Ben, where did you and your 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:52.920 wife hunting moon? So Fred, back in the day when 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:57.160 I left a bachelorhood behind became an honest man, I 0:08:57.240 --> 0:09:03.079 got married in Hawaii. And when you get married in Hawaii, 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:05.120 you don't need to go anywhere else for your honeymoon. 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.440 So we got married. No family was there, just me 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.560 and my wife, and we got married, and we hung out, 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:14.320 and we went to Hawaii and we hung out on 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:19.360 the Garden Island. And there are a few different islands 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.520 in the Hawaiian Island chain that are part of the 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.760 United States. There's actually I read this the other day 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:28.880 that there's a hundred and thirty two islands that make 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.880 up the Hawaiian island chain, but there's only a few 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:36.480 that are actually part of the United States. Right. It's 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.120 kind of it's kind of crazy when you think about 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:43.160 how many now what they classify as an island. Uh, 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.400 most of us would look at and say, uh, you know, 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.280 there's no there's no one living there, so that's not 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:53.840 really an island. And it's like a little rock popping 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:58.240 up out of the ocean. And but they say that 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.120 there's like a hundred and thirty two of the is 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.400 little little things popping up. Some of the big ones 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:08.000 are part of the United States, Uh, Hawaii on the 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.440 Hawaiian Islands, and the rest they're just kind of there. 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:15.200 All right, you are fake, No, I'm not. That's legitimate 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.640 information that I read on a website. But I loved 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:23.080 I love Hawaii, love Kauai beautiful. If I was really rich, 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:26.000 I would probably buy a house there and live there 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.199 part of the year and have a wonderful time. But 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:32.840 fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your outlook on things, Fred, 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:35.240 I don't have that kind of money, and it's very 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.760 expensive even visit Hawaii. But I've been lucky. I've been 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:39.360 there a number of times. I think I've been there 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:41.680 four or five times in my life when when I 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.120 was a kid with my parents, And it's great. You 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.920 could swim with seat turtles and their seals all over 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:51.640 the place, and the snorkeling and the the water is 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:55.720 just amazing. Oh, it's beautiful, all right, Dave writes in 0:10:55.720 --> 0:11:00.120 in Mill Valley, California. He says, Hey, Bank, why do 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:05.360 you tolerate such insubordination from members of your radio crew 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:10.360 when they ruthlessly and shamelessly heck are you? I'm not 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:15.120 saying you don't deserve it, but still, all right, so 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.160 this gets asked from time to time. And as you know, 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:24.200 this show, the radio show, is much different than any 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.360 other radio just about any other Like most radio shows, 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:30.840 like I often use the analogy Dan Patrick and the 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:36.720 dan Ets Uh, smooch, smooch, love love for Dan, all right. 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.440 They do everything in their power to make Dan look good. 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.120 And it's a good show. And Dan Patrick's a Hall 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:48.360 of Famer on our show. Yeah, it is on and 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:51.600 on like Donkey Kong. And by the end of the show, 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:55.080 normally I am the one standing up the tallest and 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:59.679 the rest of the guys. Yeah, just like in Donkey Kong. 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:04.120 Uh that is it. But uh yeah, for some reason, 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:05.960 I've always had this kind of thing, and I don't 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.640 encourage it. I don't think I encourage it. But we 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.080 like to bust the balls on the show. We we 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.760 goof on the people that call into the show, their 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.160 characters on the show. They're part of the program, and 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.360 they're part of our little dysfunctional family of the Mallar Militia. 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:21.840 And so the guys in the show have taken some 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:26.679 creative license and had a field day with that. All right, 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.560 we do have more mail. Let's go to Jason from 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:33.520 Rocky Mount, Virginia. He says, Ben, throughout your life, have 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:37.680 you ever gotten pretty good at bar or party type 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:45.560 games such as pool, darts, horseshoes, or cornhole? Well, I 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:50.240 have had my moments in cornhole. I've done pretty well. 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:54.480 If that the bean bag tossing game, I've won my share. 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.760 I have. I have won my share the game, and 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:02.560 I don't think it quality fights by your definition, Jason 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:07.000 in Rocky Mount, Virginia of like a party type game, 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.920 but I do it has been like those fund zone 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:15.240 places Ski ball, al right, ski ball. When I in 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:20.120 my youth, I was a hustler at ski ball, back 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:23.920 at at Chuck E Cheese, back in the day. And 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:29.080 it was a domination situation, all right, Yes it was. 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:35.920 I owned. I had great muscle memory doing that. And 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:39.880 it was very very good one a lot of tickets, 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:44.600 won a lot of cheap plastic toys from that little 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:46.880 gift area where you going that. We had a place 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:51.200 called Bullwinkles, which was like a Chucky Cheese competitor, and 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.760 that place was not far from the house, and we 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.880 go in there and it was awesome. And I would 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:01.400 just tell everyone else listen, all right, I'm playing the 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:09.840 game here and you're not winning. Okay, you are not winning. 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.600 Moving on in the mail bag, Who do we have next? 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:17.520 Let's go do Valls fan Jimmy in Fayetteville, Tennessee. He says, 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:21.560 for both of you, have you and are Mr West 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.880 of the four h five ever been in a real knockdown, 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:28.600 drag out fight with anyone? Now? False fan Jimmy. That 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:33.920 tells me you have listened to every podcast unless unless 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:39.360 you have not listened to every podcast, and you somehow forgot, 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:43.480 somehow forgot that Mr West of the four oh five 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:50.600 resigned from the podcast, said I am out of here, 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:57.480 bye bye. Uh yeah, that's it. That's pretty much what 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.520 he said, although he didn't give any money back, so 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:04.960 he's not part of the program, So bad job by you. 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:12.120 But valls fan Jimmy, I will answer the question. Back 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.640 in junior high school, I did get into some dust ups, 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:20.600 playground fights. I am old enough that when I was 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:24.160 a kid that was allowed. You did not end up 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:28.160 getting kicked out of school when that happened, and being 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:32.320 the biggest kid in the school, it was an accomplishment 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.400 to kick the big kid's ass, and so many people 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:40.200 attempted and I had to hold my ground when that 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:45.240 took place. And so that did happen quite a bit. Uh, well, 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:46.800 not quite a bit. I remember junior high I got 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.800 into two fights. I've had in one one fight in 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.320 high school. Be sure to catch live editions of The 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.560 Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:59.720 Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:04.800 I Got mail, na, I got mail. Yeah, we have 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:10.560 more male j Bone from Portland's Main Rights and he says, Ben, 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:15.080 have you ever been thrown out of a game or 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:20.080 anywhere for that matter. So j Bon, I'm trying to 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:23.360 think off the top of my head. I do not 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:27.120 recall every being kicked out of a game. I assume 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:32.400 you're referring to playing in a game like a high 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:36.200 school game or something along those lines. Now, I will 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:40.520 tell you that I did get chased by security at 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:44.480 what is now the Crypto Arena, which was formerly known 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:48.360 as the Staples Center back in the day when it early, 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:51.680 when it opened up in the late nineties there, and 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:55.000 they had the security staff. They still have the Red coats, 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:58.400 they call them the Red Coats, out there doing their thing. 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:03.480 And I left Staples Center and I had in my 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:08.240 hand a carbonated beverage. As I remember, it was a 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:11.320 Dr Pepper. It's possible it was a Pepsi. It's possible 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:14.040 it was a Cherry Coke. But as I remember it, 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.480 it was a Dr Pepper. And so j Bone, I 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:19.600 was leaving. I was covering a Laker game or a 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:21.679 Clipper game or whatever. And I'm walking out a Staple 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:25.320 Center and downtown l A. And it's it's probably eleven 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:27.919 o'clock at night or something like that, and I'm walking out. 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:32.720 I have the carbonated beverage in my hand, and I 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:36.520 walk out of the arena. I get about ten steps 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:41.080 outside the arena and I see a guy on a 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:44.160 walk I see a guy behind me because I turned 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:46.080 around because I heard a kind of kind of a 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.720 how would I describe it? I heard? I heard a 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.119 little noise. There weren't many people around the game and 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:54.920 ended long enough where there weren't a lot of people 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:58.680 outside Staple Center, so there was some kind of conversation happening. 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.520 It turned out it was about me, right, And so 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:04.560 this redcoats on the walkie talk he's saying, hey, some 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.719 he's got he's got a beverage he left. He's walking 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.840 out of the arena right, and I'm like, what are 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:14.399 you talking about? Me? And uh? And next thing I know, 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.399 now I'm pretty fat at this time. I'm a big 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:20.919 I'm a big heifer. I'm Porky the pig. And so 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:22.960 I started going down the street and I'm making my 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:27.119 move whatever, and this guy's following me and he's like 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:30.000 stop stop. I'm like what I'm I'm looking around, like 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:32.080 what the heck did I do? And I'm getting annoyed here, 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:34.520 and so I keep going and I'm like, I don't 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.240 think I said anything. By my head, I'm that's what 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:41.000 I'm thinking, right, So I keep going and then another guy. 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:44.680 There's the two guys chasing me. Granted it's a slow 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:47.560 speed chase, right, it's not. It's not one of these 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:51.480 long term situations. But you know, I'm going down doing 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:55.240 the doing. I'm walking away. And it turned out that, uh, 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:59.800 that I had violated the Staples Center policy. You're not 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:04.040 you were not allowed to take beverages out of Staples Center. 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:08.800 That that was contraband how crazy is that? Right? And 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:10.520 so I got in trouble for that. But I wasn't 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:12.320 like kicked out. I just like it was like a 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:16.040 slow speed chase kind of thing. And I I've left 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:18.680 some movies because the movie wasn't bad. I've walked out. 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:22.000 Doesn't count as being kicked out. I'm trying to think. 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:24.800 There's nothing that pops into my head right now of 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:29.280 getting kicked out. I have been banned, well, yeah, I've 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:33.640 been kicked out of locker rooms, covering locker rooms. That's 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:37.280 happened multiple times. I don't I don't consider that the 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:42.520 same though. I don't think of that as being kicked 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:43.960 out of the game. I was just told like, I'm 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:46.280 not a lout in the locker room because I asked 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.640 questions that were offensive to players and they snapped at 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:53.640 me and said, hey you u s and shocked the 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:57.119 fuck yeah, And and then the next thing I know, 0:19:57.200 --> 0:19:59.720 I had to get out of there, and ID guys 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:01.480 in the days threatened to fight me. We talked with 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:05.679 Jerry Coleman Sports with Coleman on Friday. I could do 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:09.600 an entire podcast going through some of those old locker 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:12.480 room confrontations with players who are all really old now 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:17.840 or dead. I know, right, it's crazy how fast times 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:21.000 go go by, but so, yeah, I guess and that 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:22.960 that would be the closest. And I did get kicked 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:28.840 out of the locker room because of players being offended 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:33.520 by what I said. Who else do we have? Next? Up? Boy? 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:36.159 Who sent this one? I forget? I think this was 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:41.200 from Patricia in Vegas? I think if not, I apologize, 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:45.840 She says, I think Steve de Sager, the update guy, 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:50.080 should be your sidekick. He is very knowledgeable. I like 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:54.760 that he gives extra info on doing the updates. Yeah, 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:59.440 I love Steve Sager is great, had a lot of fun. 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:02.120 We've had Steve. I believe he popped up on this 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:05.800 podcast right at some point we've had him on the podcast. 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:09.040 And me and Steve go way back in the old days. 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:13.040 We had great memories coming games in Anaheim and Dodger Stadium, 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:16.480 and Steve's a lifetime radio guy. I think he's very good. 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:20.560 I I am not sucking up to him, but he's 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:24.480 always been rock solid as a news guy, as a 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:27.679 sports guy. And I remember when Steve Disagreel hosted the 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:33.359 Mighty Duck post game Duck calls million years ago. Alright, 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:36.760 next email, I think if I give you the email 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:38.960 without saying who sent it, you will know if you've 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:43.720 been listening to this podcast that someone who left the 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:51.840 podcast because of Gascon has returned to the podcast. That's right. 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:59.000 Give it up now for Helen and Stu in Palmetto Bay, Florida. 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:06.399 They are back. That's right. Ding Dong the David Gascon 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:12.280 which is gone. Email reads from Helen and Stu. We 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:19.199 have Ben's back, they write, Gascon should have apologized. We 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:30.240 know people, Ding Dong, gascone is gone. Guescon is gone, 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:32.600 but thank you Helen and Stu. I wondered what happened 0:22:32.600 --> 0:22:35.359 you now, you guys had sent me an email. Uh 0:22:35.400 --> 0:22:39.240 And I actually wrote back to one of your last emails, 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:42.040 and I don't think you use that email address anymore 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:44.119 because I never got a response, although it did not 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:48.800 bounce back. I I was checking in on Helen and 0:22:48.880 --> 0:22:51.640 stupid they did not right back. I was very offended, uh, 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:56.760 Andy writes in He's lives in southern California. Andy says 0:22:56.760 --> 0:23:02.760 he still lives near the Tommy's in Hollywood and Hobo Paradise. 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:07.320 Yeah that is I mean, I look around there, and 0:23:07.560 --> 0:23:10.879 what are you doing in my swamp? Yeah, that's a 0:23:10.960 --> 0:23:17.399 swamp of really hard scrabble, hard scrabble territory there. That 0:23:17.560 --> 0:23:22.040 is not not good, not the good at all. Anyway, 0:23:22.080 --> 0:23:25.800 the message continues from Andy. He says, Ben, have you 0:23:25.840 --> 0:23:31.040 considered replacing David Gagon with Penny Hardaway, a Penny Hardaway 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:35.840 style little penny named Little Benny. I like this email 0:23:35.840 --> 0:23:40.560 continues he can co host Benny Versus the Penny the 0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:45.639 Fifth Hour and make occasional appearances on the radio show. 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:51.080 This is a good idea. Who owns little Penny? Somebody's 0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:52.760 got to own the Little Penny. But if I called 0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:57.119 it little Benny, and I said it was satire that 0:23:57.119 --> 0:23:59.159 would be allowed. I think satire is allowed, right, I 0:23:59.200 --> 0:24:01.959 believe that's I'm not lawyer. I play one on the radio. 0:24:02.840 --> 0:24:06.640 I'm pretty sure I'll have to look that up. That 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:08.760 that's a lot. I have to look at that. Uh Andy, 0:24:08.920 --> 0:24:11.639 the email continue says, come on, can't you see it? 0:24:11.680 --> 0:24:15.760 Get a little penny off eBay, change the jersey to 0:24:15.960 --> 0:24:20.480 a Costco flannel at a newsboy hat and glasses and 0:24:20.640 --> 0:24:25.720 higher an intern to handle the voiceover the v O. 0:24:26.560 --> 0:24:30.840 There you go. That's a great idea, Andy, and I 0:24:30.520 --> 0:24:32.479 I should actually look at it. I wonder how much 0:24:32.520 --> 0:24:36.240 it costs to buy a little penny, right, and then 0:24:36.240 --> 0:24:37.720 I of course have to check with the lawyers to 0:24:37.760 --> 0:24:40.160 find out, and then the loyals will say, hey, you're 0:24:40.160 --> 0:24:42.600 not you can't do that. But assuming I could, that's 0:24:42.600 --> 0:24:47.639 a good idea. I'd be a funny bit. Anthony from Manchester, 0:24:47.800 --> 0:24:51.480 New Hampshire, writes in has some radio friends that I 0:24:51.520 --> 0:24:55.920 worked with in Boston that live in New Hampshire for 0:24:56.000 --> 0:25:01.320 financial reasons. Anyway, Anthony says, I want your advice on something. 0:25:01.400 --> 0:25:06.439 My employer has lifted their mask mandate only if you 0:25:06.440 --> 0:25:10.040 are vaccinated, so I have a co worker who now 0:25:10.280 --> 0:25:15.520 doesn't wear a mask and his breath smells like ass. Uh, 0:25:15.560 --> 0:25:20.560 Anthony says personally, would you say something? All right? So, Anthony, 0:25:20.640 --> 0:25:24.000 I am an introvert, So I in my head, I 0:25:24.040 --> 0:25:28.160 would be m effing this particular human being. I would 0:25:28.160 --> 0:25:33.240 be thinking really mean things about this person and would 0:25:33.240 --> 0:25:39.359 be cursing up a storm. But would I actually say 0:25:39.440 --> 0:25:45.040 any of that to them? Uh? No, I would not. 0:25:45.160 --> 0:25:47.520 I'll tell you why. There's a couple of reasons. Obviously. 0:25:47.560 --> 0:25:50.520 The biggest is I'm an introvert, and so I try 0:25:50.600 --> 0:25:53.760 not to engage in any kind of small talk be 0:25:55.600 --> 0:25:59.000 that can backfire you, backfire on you in a very 0:25:59.240 --> 0:26:04.640 ugly way. And you know, and I know, especially in 0:26:04.680 --> 0:26:10.440