WEBVTT - Maller Mailbag 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:05.480 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:09.280 week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.880 the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.800 crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.880 pill poppers in the penthouse. The clearing House of Hot 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.639 takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:32.320 Ben Maller starts right now Sunday. That's right, hey, you 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:35.000 you've tuned in on a Sunday, a day of rest, 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:39.600 to the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and not David 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:44.159 Gascon because four hours a night on the overnight clearly 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:49.040 not enough. Eight days a week, eight days a week, 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:51.320 and this would be the eighth day of the week, 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:54.880 a double dose. Not only do you get the Fifth 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.800 Hour podcast right now, assuming you're listening on Sunday, but 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:03.040 also we have live radio program in the overnight starting 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:07.400 at eleven o'clock in the West at two am in 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.960 the East on a Sunday morning. But this is all 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:13.360 about the mail. And if you didn't hear listener mail, 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:15.200 I love this is my favorite podcast the way I 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.120 love the Friday one doing the conversations, and I put 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:21.120 up with the Saturday podcast, but the Sunday mail Bag 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.960 always love it. It's a spinoff of Ask Ben on 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:27.200 the radio show. And we are joined yet again if 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:31.119 you missed Saturday. Big Mike a Fox Sports Radio icon 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:37.040 who's been at the company for seventeen years. Seventeen years, 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.040 and he is with us again. So Big Mike. Now 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.000 the way this is gonna work. These are all actual 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:46.640 questions sent in by actual consumers of the Fifth Hour 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.840 podcast and Fox Sports Radio and and we will just 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:52.520 randomly ask me. There's some sports questions, a lot of 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.920 non sports questions. There's a lot of people that fought 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:58.520 Gascon was gonna be here, clearly not realizing the Gascon 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:01.720 takes off every other weekend. So you're in the gascon, 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.080 not in the Gascon chair as you told us, because 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.440 you're you don't want that chair has been silly, but 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:08.880 you're in the gascon roles. So you have to try 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.760 to answer either as Gascon or as Big Mike, whatever 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.720 whatever you choose, whichever mood strikes me. I mean, let's 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.520 do it all right, here we go. First question is 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.520 from Matt in Elmira, New York. By the way, these 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:24.120 questions all set via the show Facebook page. Ben Mallers 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:28.240 Show or Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Real 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:32.079 fifth Hour at gmail dot com. So Matt in Elmira, 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:36.040 New York says Ben and a gascon slash Big Mike, 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:39.120 Big Mike's name, I would like to know your personal 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:44.040 opinions regarding NBA players resting well not injured. I understand 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.960 the disappointment of road fans once, for example, the Nets 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:50.919 come to town, Matt says, and Kyrie and Harden sit 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:55.680 out for rest. Tickets are wildly expensive for all sporting 0:02:55.680 --> 0:03:00.919 events anymore. Uh, and you have a right to be irritated. Uh. 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.960 To that, some say, why don't these players rest during 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:08.480 home games instead? But that seems foolish, disrespect your hometown fans. 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:12.560 So he's going back and forth on this, and uh, 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.280 he said, you know, people bring up Jordan played all 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.520 eighty two games at forty years old. Uh, that was 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:21.400 that side of the aisle. And he says, I understand 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:24.200 players health. This is a very long, winning question for 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.880 Matt and Olmira, New York. Uh, he says, I just 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.440 don't know exactly where I stand on the issue. I'd 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:31.760 love to hear your thoughts, all right, Matt, I will 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:34.680 go first I hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it, 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:38.960 hate it, hate it. Do not like it. Uh. And 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:43.760 I believe that if you're healthy, you should play. And 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:47.480 I'm also maybe I'm completely wrong on this, but I 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:53.520 don't think you can correctly predict when he's you played 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.000 x number of minutes or x number of games, your 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:58.880 body's gonna break down. Right, So not always in North 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:02.920 I the wage medical gurus who seemed convinced, you know, 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:04.920 if you play a certain number of back to back 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.720 games in the NBA, you're not gonna be healthy and 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.880 your your body's gonna break down. I think it's voodoo medicine. 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:15.720 I don't buy it. Everyone's different and what they what 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:17.520 they can take and what they can't take is different. 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:20.280 And the other thing too, is you know, it's one 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.320 of those things that's changed where it used to be 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.640 a badge of all you. You would feel shame and 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.960 you'd feel guilt if you didn't play. We'd hear that. 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.800 You know, my teammates need me, the fans need me. 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:32.640 I know, I gotta be out there. I gotta play. 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.560 Now it's the opposite. We've done a one eighty and 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.000 now it's like, well, it doesn't really matter you. People 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.320 get offended when they're when they're expected to play and 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.880 and and coaches are shamp For example, Tom Thibodeau, the 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:48.480 coach of the Knickerbockers, when he was in Chicago and 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.080 he had his guys play, he really pushed them to 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.359 play a lot of minutes. And the media, the basketball media, 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:58.280 the softies in the basketball media, killed Tom tibodoz Well. 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:00.960 He's like a despot because he wants to he wants 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:02.760 his guys to play. He plays him a lot of minutes, 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.480 and he doesn't have load management and all that, and 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:09.520 he got very upset. But I think it's ridiculous. I 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:11.640 I think it's embarrassing. And I like what they used 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:13.520 to do in the olden days, because you know, I 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.040 was back in my day when I was a kid. 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.880 What they would do is they'd have they wouldn't give players, 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.920 as I remember, a full game off. They'd only play them. 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.080 And if they played like thirty five minutes a game, 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.200 they play him fifteen or they play him ten. But 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:30.320 they play a little bit. So the fans on the 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.080 road got to see the star players. Because a big 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.039 part I'm going along here myself, but a big part 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:41.400 of the NBA marketing is to sell the stars, not 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:45.279 even the teams. It's it's come out and watch Steph 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:48.000 Curry and the Golden State Warriors, come out and check 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.400 out Jason Tatum and the Celtics. Well, if you go 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.919 to a game, you pay money, you're being sold that 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.320 you're going to see those guys. And I understand if 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.840 they're hurt, that's fine. But if if they're not hurt 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:02.800 and they just they feel like playing because you know 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:06.960 they they're delicate little flowers, that's bull crap. How do 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:10.320 you how do you stand? I'm with you, Uh, most 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:12.880 of the way through all of that, I agree. I 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:18.120 also think that part of winning a championship is durability, 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:22.680 and it's unfair if while you know some players are 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.680 playing every game for the whole season, they are obviously 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:27.960 going to take on more wear and terror than the 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:30.320 guys who are taking it. Gives you an unfair advantage 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.040 if you're deciding to take games off. And it's not 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.039 truly about what a champion is. The champion is the 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.520 guy who can you know, the team that can get 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.920 through all that without you know, breaking down and still 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:45.320 has enough horses. And you get into the bench and 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:47.640 you see, you know, well, do you have the guys 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:50.520 if you lose somebody or if somebody's not you know, 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.640 able to perform, do you have somebody on the bench 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:55.520 that could step in and fill in. I mean, that's 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.520 part of being a champion is being able to get 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:02.520 past all that sort of stuff. And on top of that, like, 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.080 if you want to arrest your players, you know how 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:07.880 remember how the Showtime Lakers used to do it. They'd 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.040 blow doors and by the third quarter they'd be up 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:11.960 by twenty points and they take all the starters out 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.440 and they never played the fourth quarter. So if you 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.760 really want to arrest your guys, I think that that's fine. 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.320 Do it. Like you said, if you place thirty five, 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.600 you only play him twenty because you're blowing doors on 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:25.960 guys anyway. I mean, pick your spots to give your 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:30.600 guys rest when you've already performed, you know. Yeah, yeah, 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:34.080 you know. It's like the term and it's a political term, 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:37.960 but it's jerrymandering, right you read draw That's pretty much 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:39.920 what these these teams have done. It. It's not just 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.680 the NBA, but the NBA. It's more obvious where you 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.120 people don't like it in politics when you change it 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:49.200 so you can't lose the election. But there it's supposed 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.760 to be, at least I was raised as a sports fan. 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.120 It's supposed to be a war of attrician right and 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:57.320 and the team that wins the championship has survived all 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:00.320 of that and played and put their best it forward. 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.840 So that's where I stand up. And the only problem, 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.200 the real problem is the motivation for the franchises, for 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:10.480 those teams to rest their players, because the franchises do 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:14.520 better when they win championships. So they're going to bend 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.000 as many of these rules as they can to get 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:20.960 that ring. They're not thinking about the fan every day 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.840 that's coming to this to the stadium to watch. They 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:27.440 just want they just want that championship, so they don't 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.080 you know, teams have a real motivation to do this, 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.720 and until the NBA can figure out a way to 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:36.880 remove that ability, they're they're just gonna keep doing it. Well. 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.000 The other thing too, is obviously the money. Right. These 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.880 guys that used to be athletes. I don't want to 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.480 say they were disposable, but they were replaceable. And now 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:49.520 with the amount of money uh that is is especially 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.760 like baseball. Basketball players make it, the star guys make 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:55.360 it time. But baseball pitchers the baby. We're gonna eventually. 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.240 We saw it last year. But they will get rid 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:03.000 of pitchers Haiti, because there's a couple of pictures every 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.440 year they get hurt, either getting hit by a pitch 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.040 or running the bases, and they just don't want to 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:11.079 go in random question, what are the stats as far 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:15.080 as complete games pitched anymore? Well, forget about that. Can 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.160 we ever get a complete game anymore? No, you can't 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.839 get that unless you've got one hitter or no hitter going. 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:23.560 They're gonna yank you. Yeah, And who's the genius. Who's 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.960 the mensa that decided your arm's gonna fall off after 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.720 a hundred pitches? Like who decided that that the human 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.079 body can only handle a hundred pitches? Because you hear 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:37.280 stories like in the old days of Lavon Hernandez pitching 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:42.920 in Cuba throwing three pitches, or Fernando Valenzuela in in Mexico, 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:45.760 you know two hundred eighty. Hell, even in the early 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.880 days when Fernando is with the Dodgers, you know, Tommy 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.000 Losorda would leave him in there and they didn't care 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.600 about pitch counts in those days, but it's like they 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:55.960 just arbitrary number. Well, you get through a hundred pitchers, 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:58.040 you've gotta start warming somebody up in the bullpen because 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:00.840 they can't handle. It's like, come on, I don't like 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:05.320 it all right. J Bone from Portland, Maine writes into 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:08.720 the fifth hour he says, who is the dude who 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:12.640 does the voiceovers for the game shows, the Third Degree, etcetera? 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.120 Have you ever met him? No? J Bone, I have 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:17.360 not met him. The only voiceover guy that I've met 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:22.640 was the original voice of Fox Sports Radio, who's a 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:26.160 really cool guy. Met him at the Fox lot and boy, 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:27.760 I'm forgetting his name, but he's actually the voice that 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.160 I think. He's the voice of ESPN now. But he 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.000 he did movie trailers. Like guy was like a d 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:36.760 J in Minnesota, and he had a very interesting story 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:40.400 how he got into the voiceover stuff. But yeah, I 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:43.400 have not met the voice of Fox Sports Raid. I 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.000 don't even know what. I don't know where the guy lives. 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:46.839 I know that he's on there a lot doing the 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:51.640 voiceover stuff. Yeah, I know Bob, You know Bob. Where's 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:54.800 he at? He is? Uh? He does most of his 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:58.439 work out of the heart Burbank Studios. Okay, so it's 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:00.480 just a local guy in l A here, guy in 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:03.160 l A here. He works with our our imaging department 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:05.800 as well. I think he also does work for a 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:09.680 local affiliate here in Los Angeles. So okay, and he's 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:14.120 a really good guy. Yeah, well that's a racket man. 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:17.520 The voiceover stuff, that's the way to go. Yeah. Actually 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.160 very talented because not only is Bob the voice, but 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.160 he's also the producer of a lot of those uh 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.480 those bits. So he is uh, he has a sound wizard. 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:32.440 One man band. That's good alright. Glenn in Chicago writes 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:34.559 that he says, who would you rather have filling in 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.800 on your show? Fake news or gag on? Or should 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:40.680 I say which is worse for the show? Well that's 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:42.880 you know, that's like Sophie's choice. You know, there's no 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:47.240 right choice there with that. Each bring their own set 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:52.400 of problems. Um, Brian friendly, Uh, who I have had 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.320 on the show. He's like the go to filling guy. See. 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.200 The thing with Brian is he thinks he's funny and 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:00.679 he never stops talking, which is problematic. And then a 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:04.960 gas gun. Uh he thinks he's better than all the 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:06.960 people that call up and then hangs up on people 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.560 and sometimes doesn't even screen the call. So there's issues 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.280 with both. So I did pick your poison, but some 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:13.960 of you idiots. He here's the thing, big Mike. Some 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.439 of these guys are like, oh, I like I like chaos, 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.240 and so they like when Brian or Gascons in there 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:21.839 because it drives me nuts. And I mean the lot, 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.199 I mean the Loody bin, but not the Tom Loody bin, 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:28.000 and they get very upset with me. Well, I would 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:33.000 if I had to pick, I'd probably go with fake news. 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:37.400 I mean friendly is uh. Look, he may talk too much, 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:41.680 but man, his voice is so smooth. It's like it's 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:45.600 like having a warm cup of hot cocoa poured in 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:50.840 your ear hole. You know. It's just yeah for me, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:54.040 It's kind of like getting a boiling pot of McDonald's 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.079 coffee and pulling in your lap, you know, and then 0:12:56.120 --> 0:13:02.920 you can see and alright. Glenn also had a suggestion 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:04.600 for a bit on the show. He says, how about 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:08.559 take a Regina spin cycle Regina call and have her 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:13.000 give life advice to callers. Advice from spin cycle, Regina, 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:15.080 I actually like that. That's a good idea for a bit, Glenn. 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.280 I'll have to wait for a slow day in sports. 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:19.920 I hope we don't have any of those. I hope 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.080 it's not like last year where everything shuts out. But 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:23.600 I mean it could be a funny bit for a 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.840 few minutes. Here have Regina give advice out. Be sure 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.600 to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:34.480 at two am Eastern. Chad from Champagne, Illinois at the 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.960 home of a fighting a line I he says here proudly, 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.600 Hey Ben and Gascon. Of course Gascon is not here. 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:46.240 What is the weirdest or most craziest thing you have 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:50.800 ever seen while driving to and or attending a sporting event? Okay, 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.559 I'm glad you asked this question, Chat. I have one 0:13:53.600 --> 0:14:01.760 of the most surreal, riduculous stories about this, and I 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:04.559 believe that my story is in the top three all 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.720 time stories of things you've seen on the way to 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.840 a sporting event. So let's flashback million years ago spring 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:15.800 training covering the Dodgers in the Grapefruit League. Uh, and 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:19.800 the Dodgers had a game in Jupiter. So we're going 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:24.640 from Vero Beach down the Highway One there to to 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.560 Jupiter for the spring training game. I think that's how 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:29.520 we went. I don't remember. We had to use maps 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.080 back in those days. So I'm driving down Highway One 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.200 trying to get to the Cardinals spring training facility. I 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.520 think they're still in Jupiter. At that time. It was 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.920 the Cardinals and the Montreal Expos that were the team. Anyway, 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.600 So I'm I'm driving down and uh, there was a 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.880 a bottleneck. There was a bunch of traffic on the highway, 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.520 and we were like, what's going on? And we got 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.880 up to where there had been an accident, and it 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:56.600 was one of the most insane things I had ever seen. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.920 In fact, it was so crazy. Well I'm about to 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.760 know you that I thought it was like a TV 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:07.760 show or a movie or it was like an episode 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:12.400 of those punked type shows. Hand the God, I'm driving 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.640 down the highway going to the spring training game. The 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:19.760 accident takes place. It was a hearse that was turning 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:24.280 left and got hit like kind of head on, and 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:28.400 somehow the back of the hearse had opened up and 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:32.720 the casket had it didn't completely fall out, and it 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.800 just kind of moved back, but I think it stayed closed, 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:40.160 which I was concerned about. But all these people were 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.080 standing around like they didn't really know like what to 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:46.600 do because like you know, it's a proper way you 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:48.680 have to move the casket and all that. It was 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:52.280 very It was unreal, man, it was. And it's one 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.840 of those images that I can close my eyes right now, 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:58.400 Big Mike, and I can see the image as I 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:02.880 drove past. It was to forget. Yeah. It was insane, man. 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.160 Any anything you've got, you anything like, yeah, but anything 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.440 that you remember going or coming from a game. The 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.120 craziest thing that ever happened to me go into a game. 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:16.760 I was heading to see Peyton Manning of the Tennessee 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:20.440 Volunteers play against U C. L A and the Rose 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:26.360 Bowl regular season matchup. And uh, on the freeway on 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:29.280 the way to the Rose Bowl. Uh. Yeah, I I 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:32.880 took the bird to the windshield like kill the bird. 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.800 Oh oh, destroyed the bird, like crack my windshield all 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.320 the way across spider web the whole thing. I had 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:42.520 bad guts, like in front of my face the whole time. 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:44.240 I had to kind of drive with my head to 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.760 the side because I couldn't see from all the bird 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:49.280 guts that were still on my windshield. It was nasty. 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:55.600 But you know that I was at that game too, 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.200 He at the same games. Not like a gunshot when 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.560 that stupid bird it too. Man, it was loud. Well, 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:04.840 I think the bird had it was on a coma 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:09.040 Kaze suicide mission. That's what I think he had a coming. Yeah, 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:12.000 at one time I was was driving down the down 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.800 the road and a rabbit ran in front of my car. 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.080 And I'm convinced the rabbit had a death wish and 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:19.800 got it got what it wanted there. But I've never 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:21.920 I've never had a bird that would Boy, that would 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:23.960 freak you out. Yeah, it was a little freaking because 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.439 it hit right in front of my face, like it 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:30.040 that's where bird guts. Bird guts stuck in the windshield. 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.760 And how do you how do you handle the insurance 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:34.760 on that? How do you explain to you say, why 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:38.440 is a bird hit my windshield? And yeah, well when 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.560 the guy came out to replace the windshield, that's not 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:43.080 like he couldn't tell that a bird hit my windshield. 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.520 And yeah, I wouldn't know how to go about doing 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:50.080 that on purpose. If I could Yeah, that's reminiscent of 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:56.280 Eddie hit a boat on the freeway. He got in 0:17:56.359 --> 0:18:00.320 an accident and hit a boat. Yeah, I guess the 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.520 guy's boat had come off the hitch and was on 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:07.720 the four oh five and kaboom. I guess it's better 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.000 than hitting a boat with your car while you're on 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:13.800 the water. That's good point. Yeah, that would be Yeah, 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:17.320 I see what you did there, Pierre. In Springfield, Massachusetts, 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:20.520 home of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame, says Ben 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:24.119 and Gascon. As a youth, I was introduced to the 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:28.040 strat o Matic baseball board game. Have either of you 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.719 ever had the pleasure to play any of these strat 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:35.560 o Matic products. I've played all the major sports versions 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:39.080 except football. They're great for stat nerds and introduced me 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:43.240 to many players of the past from the nineteen thirties 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:46.760 to present. Now I am aware of the strat o 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:51.120 Matic brand. Pierre, I never played. I when I got 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:56.760 into fantasy, it was it was called rotissary baseball. Listen. Yeah, 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:58.720 that's what I got really into, and that's what I 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:04.000 became obsessed with, like stats and and all that, and yeah, 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:06.280 it wasn't the story. It started at a place the 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:09.400 guys got together and they created Fantasy Baseball at a 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:12.359 rotisserie Chicken place in New York, and so they just 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:14.800 called it Rotisserie Baseball because that was like the name 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.000 of the restaurant. I think that was a story, but 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:19.120 I don't use anymore. It's now saw fantasy and all that. 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.439 But you knew the strato matic ether big Mike. I 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:24.159 did not. I had. I had a buddy who had 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:26.640 a big, giant poster board up in his bedroom and 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:28.960 he would, you know, get the paper and read the 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:32.240 stats and and chalk him up. Uh. And then at 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:34.320 the end of the season we'd all we don't sit 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:39.520 down and and add everything up and figure out who won. Yeah, 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:42.920 we're dinosaurs. It was important. It was like Sporting News 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:45.000 had all the stats and that was a big thing. 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:47.399 And then I do. I'd get them from the Times, 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.520 just from the sports page, just go straight to the 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:53.520 box scores. Yeah, not so much anymore now now they're 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:55.920 in your phone. You got him right now, anything you need, 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:58.080 any statu you passed me? Hey, I was I blind 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:00.199 him at the Seahawk fan from a limp be all 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:03.120 Washington rights and says, this is both of you. If 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:06.440 you could have a town named after you. What would 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:13.280 it be and where would it be? Like a Mallarville, Mallarburg. Uh, No, No, 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:15.879 what we should have is Mallard stand. How about that? 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:21.920 Wouldn't that be good? Mallerstan Yeah, Mallar stand. Yeah, you know, 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:25.399 because stand, you know standards of I didn't know this 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:27.680 when I was younger, but I learned this watching a documentary. 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:30.520 I think most people know this, but I didn't. I'm dumb. 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:35.720 Stand just means land, So Afghanistan, whatever, Tobekistan. It's just 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:39.800 that's just land. That's how they say land. So Mallard stand. 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:42.840 We would have to be in a place where there's 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:44.640 a lot of people because I want publicity, and we'd 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:47.520 have to have like sports teams and you know, nice 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:51.040 infrastructure and all that. I think you know that that 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:55.760 corridor that's where most of the population is. What about 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:58.800 you if there was a big Mike town, what do 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:01.560 you like? What place called the city? And have you know? No? 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:03.760 I think I go the opposite. I think my town 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:06.359 is uh is probably up in the mountains somewhere very 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:10.360 few people. Probably most of the population would be wildlife. 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:15.199 I don't I don't like people so I think I 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:17.640 think my town is just gonna be pretty much me 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:20.560 and my wife and a few people. I like, we'll 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:25.880 call it like ling Guardia, Lingardia. I like that, Linguardia. Yeah, 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:30.600 with the Buffalo Row, you absolutely will need an invitation 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:33.720 and a passport to get in. So and you'll have 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:38.840 like watch towers and guys with guns and whoa, whoa. 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:42.000 I don't know about the guns. No, no guns country. Yeah, 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:44.720 but we'll definitely have security perimeter though. I need to 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:47.280 know who's coming in and if you, uh, if you 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:50.040 break any of the laws, which will all be you know, 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:53.199 made by me, you'll be escorted from ling Guardia with 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:57.000 a quickness. So Lingardia sounds like Dubai to me, sound 0:21:57.040 --> 0:22:02.120