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Speaker 1: Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, eight
Speaker 1: days a week, although there is some talk it will
Speaker 1: not be eight days a week after after this week,
Speaker 1: but who knows. We are in to Sunday, Sunday Sunday.
Speaker 1: That will be very interesting. All right now, this is
Speaker 1: a test, and I'm gonna explain why this Sunday podcast
Speaker 1: is a test in a moment. But we are here.
Speaker 1: You know you've you've found the show. We thank you
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Speaker 1: are joined yet again for better or worse by David Gascon,
Speaker 1: who's right over there here, I'm here. It's it's the
Speaker 1: day before the rest of the Denver Broncos roster falls
Speaker 1: onto I. R. Well, that's your mistake for picking the
Speaker 1: Broncos as your team. Bad job by you, man, Jamon.
Speaker 1: You should be a l A Rams fan opening up
Speaker 1: a brand new billion dollars stadium with nobody in the crowd.
Speaker 1: That's why you build a billion dollars day. They could
Speaker 1: have been playing in an empty field somewhere, but they'll
Speaker 1: play the Cowboys tonight, tonight tonight. And I heard a
Speaker 1: dirty rumor and it was from an old colleague of
Speaker 1: ours who said to me in confidence that a certain
Speaker 1: company that he used to work for, that white we
Speaker 1: might be affiliated with, has a nice luxury box suite.
Speaker 1: Is that true? Well, oh, you know what that person
Speaker 1: might or might not have text me and I said
Speaker 1: I do not know. Yeah, I said, I do do
Speaker 1: not know. And uh so that is true. There's a nice,
Speaker 1: big luxury suite. But but but that's not gonna be used though, right,
Speaker 1: that's not gonna be No. But you know you were
Speaker 1: you were wrongfully rejected last season by them for credentials,
Speaker 1: and I'm hoping that you can get on the good
Speaker 1: graces this year for them and maybe you know, kind
Speaker 1: of squeeze us through the Uh yeah, you know. It's
Speaker 1: it's crazy because this this weekend, I was supposed to
Speaker 1: go to watch the Dodgers and the Astros, right right,
Speaker 1: and uh, so had plans on Saturday. I thought the
Speaker 1: Dodgers were playing on Friday night against the Astros. They
Speaker 1: were not usually always play on Friday, but this is
Speaker 1: a wonky and so they had the day off as
Speaker 1: a traveled eggs. They were traveling by stagecoach back from
Speaker 1: from Arizona, UM and all that. So, uh I would
Speaker 1: have gone on Friday. I had no planned Saturday. I
Speaker 1: had plans with the wife, and then Sunday I was
Speaker 1: gonna go. But the problem, the problem here, it turned
Speaker 1: out that the NFL is starting obviously today, So it's
Speaker 1: like I can't do that. I gotta I gotta watch football.
Speaker 1: That's where the bread is buttered here. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: brand new year, you got. We had Mahomes and your
Speaker 1: Boy to Shaw wantson on Primetime Thursday night, and uh man,
Speaker 1: I it just it sucks for watching college football yesterday,
Speaker 1: because you know, you got to two fifths of the
Speaker 1: conferences in the Power five not playing in the Big ten,
Speaker 1: and they packed twelve. But at least that the NFL
Speaker 1: at his full speed ahead with thirty two teams going
Speaker 1: at it warp speed, warp speed, and the Big ten
Speaker 1: st here. And we'll talk about this, I know, and
Speaker 1: we talked about a lot, the health check on the NFL.
Speaker 1: What will the ratings be today, the first Sunday of
Speaker 1: the NFL season. Will the ratings go up? Will they
Speaker 1: stay the same? Will a flatline? Will they go down? Um?
Speaker 1: And whatever the result of that is will be spin
Speaker 1: spin spin spince. If the ratings go up, they'll be
Speaker 1: the I told you so. See it doesn't matter. Nobody
Speaker 1: cares about the activism. See the ratings are up. Football's bulletproof.
Speaker 1: If the ratings stay the same, they'll say, well, see,
Speaker 1: none of this really hurt the NFL. They've got the
Speaker 1: same audience they had before. And if the ratings go down,
Speaker 1: all then it's on. All right, then it's on if
Speaker 1: the ratings go down. So, with you being a huge
Speaker 1: football fan and this being part of our occupation, let's
Speaker 1: just say, for example, you're a director. If you're a director,
Speaker 1: how do you navigate your your your videographers and your
Speaker 1: camera crew. Do you have them looking at any kind
Speaker 1: of activism or do you have them shoot away from
Speaker 1: any of that stuff immediately? Well listen, Uh, if I
Speaker 1: was doing it, I would ignore all of it. But
Speaker 1: the people that work in television your profession guest on, Uh,
Speaker 1: my sense of TV people is they will focus on
Speaker 1: they will look for that. They'll tell their the director
Speaker 1: will tell the camera people all right, if you see
Speaker 1: anyone makes some kind of gesture or you know, we
Speaker 1: need that, we need that shot. You know, you've got
Speaker 1: to get that shot. Like I just imagine watching it.
Speaker 1: It's like watching the NBA on TV. Like ESPN is
Speaker 1: worse than t N T with the activism coverage, but
Speaker 1: t NT does it too, But ESPN is just NonStop
Speaker 1: with it. When you watch the NBA and you try
Speaker 1: to avoid that, they just you know, when there's a
Speaker 1: lull in the broadcast, what do they do, they talk
Speaker 1: about the activism stuff. So we'll see what it'll be. Baseball,
Speaker 1: I thought it's done a pretty good job. I watched
Speaker 1: a lot of the baseball games, different teams around the country,
Speaker 1: and I flip around, and I haven't heard too much
Speaker 1: of it in baseball so and certainly on radio that
Speaker 1: like the local radio broadcast. They're just talking about the game.
Speaker 1: They're not worried about any of that stuff. So that's
Speaker 1: that's that's cool. But yeah, network TV, man, it's been
Speaker 1: over the top. Well because you went on a trip
Speaker 1: a week or two ago. But do you listen to
Speaker 1: any radio broadcast outside the Dodgers. I do. It's harder now.
Speaker 1: I I used to have an app that had all
Speaker 1: the games and I could just flip around. It's more
Speaker 1: difficult now because you you know, there's pay walls and
Speaker 1: things like that. But uh, but I still found a way. Yea.
Speaker 1: You know there are where there's a will, there's a way. Uh,
Speaker 1: if you want to hear something, So I have. I've
Speaker 1: heard some, but I've not heard as many as as
Speaker 1: I had in years past. But I still I still listen.
Speaker 1: And actually a lot of it is on television also,
Speaker 1: So well, good U, good news for you, and good
Speaker 1: news for me. Um had a nice, lovely letter that
Speaker 1: was sent to me the other day. It says, uh,
Speaker 1: the fifth that with Ben Maller one star, great content,
Speaker 1: horrible sound. I know. Yeah, yes, now we should have
Speaker 1: addressed this earlier, but we had big name guests on
Speaker 1: and other things that we were getting to. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to thank you, Guess because you know, one
Speaker 1: of my goals is when I do the show. I
Speaker 1: was just like, all right, I want to have a
Speaker 1: smooth show when I do a radio show. Don't want
Speaker 1: the boss calling, right, don't want the boss calling. Don't
Speaker 1: want that wake up call when I'm trying to sleep.
Speaker 1: Hey Ben, when you get up, give me a call.
Speaker 1: We've got to talk about something. Don't want that, right.
Speaker 1: And then I love when you come in here and
Speaker 1: you do the podcast and you're slaving away for several hours.
Speaker 1: You do the podcast, and then you know, the podcast
Speaker 1: airs and you go and check your your inbox and
Speaker 1: it's hey, I couldn't hear I couldn't hear you. You
Speaker 1: sounded like, yeah, you had like some kind of metal
Speaker 1: clanking or what I mean. It's NonStop, NonStop, And it
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, you know they were killing you,
Speaker 1: guess gun. They were just out there get you. But
Speaker 1: it was it was brutal, Yeah, it was. It was amazing.
Speaker 1: I you know, I don't correct me if I'm wrong
Speaker 1: on this, But if you're If you have a problem
Speaker 1: with your car or your cell phone, for example, and
Speaker 1: there's something not right with it, you take it to
Speaker 1: a mechanic or a technician. You usually say, hey, there's
Speaker 1: something wrong with this. Can you can you do me
Speaker 1: a favorite? Can you look at this? And can you
Speaker 1: can you diagnose the problem and fix it for me?
Speaker 1: You don't go into the mechanics shop or into the
Speaker 1: technician's workplace and just say I can't hear anything. What
Speaker 1: the fund is this? There's something wrong with this? Your job?
Speaker 1: You know, like if you want something, I think it's
Speaker 1: more civil just to acknowledge, Hey, you have a potential problem.
Speaker 1: You might want to look at this, Like like j
Speaker 1: Scoot for example, great guy set me a d M.
Speaker 1: It was like, hey, just a heads up, there's something
Speaker 1: wrong with with Ben's audio. You might want to look
Speaker 1: at it. And I said, not a problem, and so
Speaker 1: like are like once we load up audio, it goes
Speaker 1: into the ether. But then there's you've got the back
Speaker 1: channels which handle all of this. So like emp preason
Speaker 1: before you know, there's a lot of filters. Also, there's uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: we we actually sound very high pitched without the filters. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a little bit difference. So people were taking things out
Speaker 1: of the studio and I was, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: running with one leg at a time. Hold. I was like, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: let me get my my violin out here so I
Speaker 1: can play some some music. No, but I'm saying that
Speaker 1: impacted your sound so well. Well, at just one point,
Speaker 1: I use the same I'm in the remote studio here,
Speaker 1: so I have the same equipment that I used for
Speaker 1: the radio show that I used to the podcast. It's
Speaker 1: no different. I come into the same studio, I turned
Speaker 1: the same equipment on. I have to you know, the
Speaker 1: same routine, and that's it. So I it's nothing. I
Speaker 1: don't touch any of these. I got a bunch of
Speaker 1: knobs and a bunch of buttons and all this crap.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what half this this ship, but
Speaker 1: I don't touch it. Don't. I never touch it because
Speaker 1: I don't. I want the same sound. It's set up
Speaker 1: the right way, and so I just leave it. So
Speaker 1: this was on the processing in yes, because all your
Speaker 1: audio gets processed here and then it gets filtered into
Speaker 1: some some software for recording purposes. So when they pull
Speaker 1: that stuff out, but I can't do shit about it.
Speaker 1: In fact, when we were recording last week, in fact,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember this, but my microphone
Speaker 1: died because a processor burned out. Well that's actually because
Speaker 1: the mic realized that you were from west of the
Speaker 1: four oh five, and the MIC's like this, this guy,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can really tell what the
Speaker 1: four oh five is anymore. It's covered in nash. But
Speaker 1: stop listen. How about those of us that live closer
Speaker 1: to the actual belly of the beast with the fire?
Speaker 1: I mean, don't start with that. If you took a
Speaker 1: red marker and you decided to tag California with fires,
Speaker 1: the entire state would be just covered in red marker. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's so bad. How bad is it? It's small
Speaker 1: so bad that I believe Smokey the Bear is quitting.
Speaker 1: He's just overwhelmed. Smokey the Bear is overwhelmed and he's
Speaker 1: ready to just quit. He's I can't handle it anymore.
Speaker 1: When you posted that picture the other day about your
Speaker 1: car being covered in ash, it was I could imagine
Speaker 1: like if that's no joke, because then you go outside
Speaker 1: and you smell it and you can't get away from it. Well, no,
Speaker 1: I said the other day on the radio, like I
Speaker 1: get up, I have my routine. I get up and
Speaker 1: I go. You know, I've called you sometimes. I'm on
Speaker 1: this long walk around, you know, like urban hiking or whatever.
Speaker 1: And uh, I go out every day when I wake up.
Speaker 1: And the other day I couldn't. I couldn't. It was
Speaker 1: I could see the thick pieces of ash raining down.
Speaker 1: I it was wild, and uh, the whole the ground
Speaker 1: looked like there was confetti, black and gray and white
Speaker 1: confetti all over the place. The car was completely covered.
Speaker 1: So you know what I'm gonna do when this ends,
Speaker 1: I'm going to home depot or low. Maybe I'll go
Speaker 1: to the Lows in Beaver Creek, Ohio, and I'll get
Speaker 1: one of those you know those electric air blowers. You know,
Speaker 1: I've always wanted to have one of those anyway, And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna buy one, and I'm just gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put all the ash. I'm gonna blow it all away
Speaker 1: off off the that's my I'm excited about that. Actually,
Speaker 1: of course, the fires might end by maybe December if
Speaker 1: I'm lucky, because it never rains in California, so we
Speaker 1: don't have that to look forward. So here's the thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the fires will be gone, but then we'll have no water,
Speaker 1: so we'll be in a drought because we used all
Speaker 1: of our water up in the state. Perfect. Hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's well, it doesn't matter because the state's not never
Speaker 1: gonna be open, as the babylon Be said, until they
Speaker 1: find a cure for death. Yes. I did see though,
Speaker 1: that restaurants in New York are opening up again at
Speaker 1: the end of the month. Does that mean California is
Speaker 1: gonna open up? I don't know. Yes, de Blasso got
Speaker 1: overruled by Governor cump Cuomo regards the restaurants, because you
Speaker 1: want to keep those closed until at least the summer
Speaker 1: of that. Really wow. And then there are articles that
Speaker 1: stated that that city mandated gems that were used for
Speaker 1: municipal workers were open, but not public gems. Interesting. Interesting.
Speaker 1: So I know you've got the governor here that has
Speaker 1: his wand reopen. You got Speaker of the House who
Speaker 1: has her slant open privately for her Yes, but no know,
Speaker 1: she got good. She was she was set up, you know,
Speaker 1: just like the when the police do the same thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: sting operations. They imagine that does that defense work? Judge,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Remember Marian Barry, he probably not the mayor
Speaker 1: of Washington, d C. He got caught the same way
Speaker 1: a sting operations, smoking crack cocaine. And uh yeah, I
Speaker 1: was a set up here, you know, come on, called
Speaker 1: it entrapman, right, Oh, that is wild Nancy Pelosi. I
Speaker 1: give her, she's so over the top man. And they
Speaker 1: don't even ask her. And she does the interviews, they
Speaker 1: don't even bring it up. It's like she just just
Speaker 1: misses them. I appreciate your question, but that's not something
Speaker 1: that's important to me right now. That's great idiots for
Speaker 1: voting for these people anyway, speak for yourself. Hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: both sides of that matter, all right. Anyway, we have
Speaker 1: the mail bag. Yes, are we ready for the mail bag?
Speaker 1: These are actual listener questions you guys have been great
Speaker 1: on on the Facebook page Ben Maller Show. Also you
Speaker 1: can email us at Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: And so let's go quickly, guests, because we have a
Speaker 1: ton of questions here. We have more and more every
Speaker 1: week the podcast getting popular, which I guess is good
Speaker 1: for us. I mentioned though before I get into the
Speaker 1: mail bag. So This is a test, right. We do
Speaker 1: it eight days a week now, but we were thinking
Speaker 1: because of the NFL, the downloads are not going to
Speaker 1: be great on Sunday. So if they're not great, why
Speaker 1: would we do it, you know, because if people are
Speaker 1: busy watching football and they're not gonna be listening to
Speaker 1: the podcast, asked, So we're gonna We're gonna test this
Speaker 1: out and see what the numbers are. And if the
Speaker 1: numbers do go down dramatically for the Sunday podcast, then
Speaker 1: we will just do Friday and Saturday, and you know,
Speaker 1: we'll we'll do Benny versus the Penny on the on
Speaker 1: the YouTube, which we've got, which we're excited about and uh,
Speaker 1: and we'll keep that and then we'll after football we'll
Speaker 1: bring back the Sunday podcast. So it's really depending on
Speaker 1: if the downloads either stay the same or go up.
Speaker 1: If they go down, then we'll pull the plug. Yes,
Speaker 1: and don't forget though, because people that email you do
Speaker 1: so on the Facebook page. We're actually gonna have a
Speaker 1: link for the YouTube show on the Facebook page as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'll tweet it out. We'll have it on I
Speaker 1: don't know how to put it on Instagram. Can we
Speaker 1: put it on Instagram? I'll I'll try to put it
Speaker 1: on all the different platforms so you can you can
Speaker 1: check that if you miss the show on Friday in future,
Speaker 1: we said, and we've we've settled in at five thirty
Speaker 1: Eastern to thirty Pacific, Is that right, guest? But but
Speaker 1: you know and watch it live where you can watch
Speaker 1: the rebroadcast, which is the cool thing about the internet.
Speaker 1: So whenever it'll be up after the show, quickly after
Speaker 1: the show ends, right, yes, we week choose the only
Speaker 1: one that I we can't do at that time because
Speaker 1: I got called into the studios here get go Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. But outside that, yes, two thirty is uh wait,
Speaker 1: so we're not doing it in a week? Two we're
Speaker 1: not doing it. We are just not not too thirty. Well,
Speaker 1: what time are we doing on it? We'll do it,
Speaker 1: uh whenever I get home, so like an hour after that? Oh, man,
Speaker 1: I mean that's my schedule. Are you gonna you're gonna
Speaker 1: screw up my schedule? Cowboy? My boss is called the
Speaker 1: what do you want? I mean, what about me? Man?
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, can't you do multitask and do
Speaker 1: two things at the same time? You got, you got
Speaker 1: belly to keep your company for a good hour. The bells,
Speaker 1: hell's bells, I got it ready. Can you even walk
Speaker 1: her outside right now with the state on fire? No? No,
Speaker 1: I don't usually walk her. She she we got a
Speaker 1: dog edoor, so she goes out the dogs sometimes, but
Speaker 1: that takes care of her basiness. Sorry, let's get to
Speaker 1: the mail bag. Carlos in Bang Bang, Houston, Texas right soon?
Speaker 1: He says, did you shed a tear when Blair was
Speaker 1: singing you that song? Don't lie, Carlos says, And what
Speaker 1: is the origin story of the great Genie in Medford? Well,
Speaker 1: Carlos good questions. First of all, I was taken aback
Speaker 1: by Blair. Blair did decide to do some acapella singing
Speaker 1: for me. It's his final It was his final week
Speaker 1: calling the show. I believe he will pop up from
Speaker 1: time to time. I think Blair will come back to
Speaker 1: the show at some point. I don't think he's gone forever.
Speaker 1: He'll check in and say, hey, I'm still here in
Speaker 1: Pete and Pittsburgh. Quit the show years ago, but he
Speaker 1: still calls like once every six months when he goes
Speaker 1: out on a bender, and he'll call up and give us,
Speaker 1: give us an update and things. So but yeah, it was,
Speaker 1: it was and the Genie and Medford. Uh the story
Speaker 1: has been well documented here, but she's the greatest caller
Speaker 1: in the history of sports talk radio the Overnight and
Speaker 1: she started calling the show because she got in trouble.
Speaker 1: She got arrested for calling nine one one and she
Speaker 1: just wanted someone to talk to. She was lonely, and
Speaker 1: she called the nine one one operator in Medford, Oregon,
Speaker 1: and they were annoyed, so they called, you know, they
Speaker 1: were their places, and they called the cops out and
Speaker 1: arrested her for whatever. And uh so they told her, listen,
Speaker 1: if you're alone, call call the radio. They're people there
Speaker 1: at the radio station. They'll take your call. So she
Speaker 1: somehow found our show on the radio there in Medford, Oregon,
Speaker 1: and she started calling and she called for probably around
Speaker 1: ten years, maybe the less than that. But yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the legend of Genie and Medford. I thought she was
Speaker 1: I didn't think she was real. I thought she was
Speaker 1: she was fake, But she's real. Brian and Boston writes
Speaker 1: and says, if it had worked out at w E
Speaker 1: I and Boston, would you have moved here you and
Speaker 1: Callahan would have been awesome. Well, uh, Brian, thank you.
Speaker 1: I did have an offer from w E I, but
Speaker 1: it didn't work out. The financials didn't work out. And
Speaker 1: um also the wife, she has a good job in
Speaker 1: in California, so we were looking at that and uh,
Speaker 1: it didn't work out. But I love Boston and I
Speaker 1: would love to work in that market at some point here.
Speaker 1: So you never know. Down the line, things change, and
Speaker 1: if California keeps going the way it's going, I think
Speaker 1: my wife will be more willing to relocate. So so
Speaker 1: I guess, Brian, cheer for the continued downgrade of California
Speaker 1: and then I can convince her to go to a
Speaker 1: place like Boston and and do that. But but yeah,
Speaker 1: that they were great to me, the I and I'd
Speaker 1: still be working there doing some shows remotely if it
Speaker 1: hadn't been, you know, for the Sports Hub picking up
Speaker 1: the Overnight show. I think if you're migrating anywhere, I
Speaker 1: think you're going to Florida next. Why Florida. I just
Speaker 1: see you going there. No state income tax. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would say Texas or Florida, Like man, Massachusetts. I love
Speaker 1: Boston too, but damn you go well no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: My guys that e I were telling me you live
Speaker 1: in Vermont or New Hampshire. That's the move. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the move. That's a that's a workaround for the taxes.
Speaker 1: All right, yeah, yeah you know no. Uh. Several of
Speaker 1: the guys that e I were telling me when I
Speaker 1: was back there, they were like, hey, yeah, I know
Speaker 1: we live over here. I drive in. It's not that
Speaker 1: bad a community. If you're off hours, it's not that bad.
Speaker 1: And the taxes are amazing compared to to Massachusetts. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I would not live in Massachusetts. I would live some
Speaker 1: out in the sticks and then drive in. That would
Speaker 1: be That would be my John the jailer rights and
Speaker 1: from Allentown, Pennsylvania's has been and guestcon would you rather
Speaker 1: be pete, pooped or vomited on? Alright? Guess your thought.
Speaker 1: I know you've had all three in your life, but
Speaker 1: which one was your favorite? Yeah, I've I've vomited on myself.
Speaker 1: I think you'd have to go with the less toxic.
Speaker 1: I think you have to go with urine. Right, I
Speaker 1: would agree with you, and I think for most most
Speaker 1: people at some point you've had issue was when you
Speaker 1: were potty training as a kid, you probably urinated on
Speaker 1: yourself anyway. Well, he probably pooped on yourself anyway. Else
Speaker 1: But I would say, uh, the lesser of the three
Speaker 1: evils would be I hope Doc Mike doesn't hear this.
Speaker 1: The urine, so that would be the problem. Billy from
Speaker 1: Las Vegas slash Chicago, Louisville, Charlotte who was born in
Speaker 1: Virginia Beach. He says, I'm the guy who calls in
Speaker 1: from time to time who's grinding hard to get into
Speaker 1: the sports media industry. I know who you are, Billy.
Speaker 1: I love your passion. Man. You've been calling me up.
Speaker 1: Your hustling. You're you're willing to relocate, move all over,
Speaker 1: pack your stuff up, be a vagabond radio hobo to
Speaker 1: try to make it in the business. And I respect
Speaker 1: the hard work man. That's a good job by you,
Speaker 1: all right. So he says, what's the hardest part of
Speaker 1: preparing for a radio show? Have you ever not prepared
Speaker 1: for a show and one on live? If so, how
Speaker 1: did the show turn out? Uh? Well, Billy, to me,
Speaker 1: the hardest part is the preparation for the show, though
Speaker 1: the show itself is actually pretty easy. Um comparison, I
Speaker 1: I'm obsessive. I learned from We've had hacks On a
Speaker 1: couple of times. I learned from hacks On how to
Speaker 1: prepare her radio show. And I do spend a lot
Speaker 1: of time, and the hardest part for me is to
Speaker 1: try to find I try to do each hour different.
Speaker 1: A lot of guys do one hour and they're lazy
Speaker 1: and these to repeat the one hour and they get
Speaker 1: away with it and people like it. What I try
Speaker 1: to do each hour different, try to mold it differently,
Speaker 1: and so I try to find four things that interested
Speaker 1: me that are worthy of a monologue, like I can
Speaker 1: riff for ten minutes or so on. And that, to
Speaker 1: me is the hardest part because it's I usually will
Speaker 1: find two or three. It's that last one that I
Speaker 1: often have a problem with, like because I wanted to
Speaker 1: be good and I and I was like, I can't
Speaker 1: find something like uh so I know I'm good for
Speaker 1: two or three a day, but that last one seems
Speaker 1: to be a problem. And as far as showing up
Speaker 1: and doing the show without preparation, I have done it
Speaker 1: a few times over the years because of a family
Speaker 1: commitment or I was called in at the last minute,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, it's surprisingly I thought they were. They
Speaker 1: were okay. I just think they can be better, you know,
Speaker 1: I think they can be better. And so if somebody,
Speaker 1: as I've often said, one of the mantras here not
Speaker 1: to be a blowhard is that if somebody gives you
Speaker 1: their time to listen to the show, they could listen
Speaker 1: to a bunch of other stuff, especially now with all
Speaker 1: these podcasts and music and all that. If they're gonna
Speaker 1: give you their attention, if you're you listening, then I
Speaker 1: want to do a good show. I don't want to
Speaker 1: do a half as show. I don't want to roll
Speaker 1: out of bed, And a lot of these guys will
Speaker 1: read whatever is on ESPN dot COM's front page or whatever,
Speaker 1: and they they'll roll with. I don't want to be
Speaker 1: that guy, but my life would be a lot easier
Speaker 1: if I was that guy. So uh Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: Right soon, he says, who is the biggest narcissist? Gag
Speaker 1: On or Brian Finley? He said, last time I checked,
Speaker 1: it's the Ben Maller Show or The Fifth Hour with
Speaker 1: Ben Maller. If they were a w w E tag team,
Speaker 1: they'd be known as the hijackers, that's all. This is
Speaker 1: a great way Gagon or Finley, who is the bigger narcissist? Well,
Speaker 1: congratulations that David Gascon, you win. You beat out locally
Speaker 1: docally do Brian Finley? So can you win the Golden ticket? Congratulations?
Speaker 1: How is that even possible? Well, you're well, you're both well. Actually,
Speaker 1: Finley's from San Diego, so he's not west of the
Speaker 1: four oh five because the four or five ends before
Speaker 1: San Diego. But he has a lot he does, I think,
Speaker 1: live west of the four or five when he's in
Speaker 1: l A. He's got a place that he stays at.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean you're the bigger You're the much
Speaker 1: bigger narcissist. You are, But you both hijacked the show,
Speaker 1: that's true. Do you think I hijack your show? Yeah? Really? Yeah?
Speaker 1: The cook the steak, what's up with that? You know?
Speaker 1: All the all the things you do to annoy me,
Speaker 1: that's a long list. You're getting rather annoyed pretty fast
Speaker 1: over some stupid ship. I don't know what you're talking about,
Speaker 1: no idea what you're talking about? All right, Sir scratch
Speaker 1: Off writes in from Arkansas, says, why don't they let
Speaker 1: Eddie do the show when you're on vacation. There you go.
Speaker 1: Good question. Uh, well, there's a couple of things I
Speaker 1: can say, sir, scratch that. First of all, I appreciate
Speaker 1: you giving me the title as the executive program director
Speaker 1: of Fox Sports Radio. That's actually Scott Shapiro that has
Speaker 1: that title. I do not have that title. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then I don't make those decisions when I'm not on
Speaker 1: the schedule. I have nothing to do with who's on
Speaker 1: the air. I have zero to do. I wish I did.
Speaker 1: That would be nice, but I don't. And I think
Speaker 1: also Eddie would probably have to be proactive on that, right.
Speaker 1: I guess gon that you have to say, hey, I'd
Speaker 1: like to do this, and then they have to approve
Speaker 1: it and all that. Yeah, that's a good question. That's
Speaker 1: not one that I'd be able to answer. Do you
Speaker 1: do you advocate for anyone to fill in for you? Uh?
Speaker 1: If I'm asked, Yeah, if I and they say, hey,
Speaker 1: I got a you know, a couple of options here,
Speaker 1: I'll say, oh, yeah, I'd like rather have this person.
Speaker 1: But they don't ask They almost never asked no. No,
Speaker 1: I can't remember the last time they asked, Hey, would
Speaker 1: you rather work with this person? No? No, let's just
Speaker 1: put the schedule out and they know I'll usually do
Speaker 1: it no matter why. I'm not gonna complain. Uh. Jesse
Speaker 1: from Pomona rights in in so Cal. He says, my
Speaker 1: question this week is easy. Would you rather have the
Speaker 1: Lakers never win another championship again? Or the Major League
Speaker 1: Baseball Commissioner's strip the Astros of their tainted championship and
Speaker 1: give it up to the Dodgers' question? This is a
Speaker 1: Sophie's choice situation. All right, So here's the way I'm
Speaker 1: gonna answer this now. In the moment, you have the
Speaker 1: micro in the macro. So, first of all, in the micro,
Speaker 1: I would obviously say I'd rather have the Astros championship pulled,
Speaker 1: the tainted championship, the dirty championship. But if you look
Speaker 1: at the macro, the rest of my life, which I
Speaker 1: hope is a fair amount of time, all of these
Speaker 1: people that are like Gascon over there, Laker fan boys,
Speaker 1: the historians to never see them enjoy another championship, and
Speaker 1: I'm guessing the clips of winning at least one or
Speaker 1: two the rest of my life. So, uh, that would
Speaker 1: be awesome that I would take that. No more Laker
Speaker 1: championship now, because the way I look at the Dodgers
Speaker 1: are gonna win the World Series. Also, they're gonna win one,
Speaker 1: and I can continue to bash the Astros, which is
Speaker 1: great material for the radio show. So that's a win win.
Speaker 1: So Jesse, you probably thought I was gonna take the Astros,
Speaker 1: but no, if you can guarantee me right now the
Speaker 1: Lakers never win another championship, I mean, sign me up
Speaker 1: for that. Where do I sign the paperwork? Let's cross
Speaker 1: the tea's dot the i's right now, come on. Plus,
Speaker 1: you don't want to take a title from from somebody else.
Speaker 1: You don't want how to strip exactly. That's a good point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you'd rather just void I. I don't need the Dodgers
Speaker 1: should be given the title, but they should be. It
Speaker 1: should be voided. Yeah, you just have it, bla. It
Speaker 1: would be like if Vince Young won the Heisman Trophy
Speaker 1: after you know, Reggie Bush had it stripped from him.
Speaker 1: Like I wouldn't want that, would you know? You know,
Speaker 1: retroactively bullshit is what it is. Yeah, all right, Jason
Speaker 1: in Rocky Mountain, Virginia Rights and he says, Big Ben,
Speaker 1: can you now admit that you, Darvish is an excellent picture.
Speaker 1: Fuck unbelievable, Jason listen. I'm happy you Darvers has pitching
Speaker 1: well for the Chicago Cubs. He has been amazing. Good
Speaker 1: for him, uh, And I do feel somewhat um. I
Speaker 1: don't know the guilt is the right word. I don't
Speaker 1: think guilt's the right word. But I realized that when
Speaker 1: I was at Game seven and you dar Wish uh
Speaker 1: pooped pooped the bed, that there were reasons he pooped
Speaker 1: the bed. I do believe the Astros were stealing signs
Speaker 1: home and wrote home and wrote, I believe that to
Speaker 1: be true. Um in Baseball did a shoddy investigation and
Speaker 1: only went halfway with the information that they had. They
Speaker 1: had more, they chose not to go with it. I
Speaker 1: imagine that will come out in the years to come.
Speaker 1: But anyway, nonetheless, I digress. Uh, you Darvis has pitched
Speaker 1: very well, and he's gotta he's gotta be the favorite
Speaker 1: with a like twenty days to go for this gazy
Speaker 1: cy Young Award. So I can't excellent. And he's had
Speaker 1: a good year, but it's not even a full year.
Speaker 1: And if you had a full year, then it's a
Speaker 1: more legit year. But he's played well, Like Jake Arietta
Speaker 1: won the cy young that one year. It was like
Speaker 1: was two thousand and six team when he had a
Speaker 1: good half season, took it away from Kershin Granky, who
Speaker 1: were both pitching for the Dodgers half of seasons three months.
Speaker 1: This is two months. But he's been pretty fucking good.
Speaker 1: He's been dominant. No, he's been great. Hey, listen, I've
Speaker 1: won some money with you, Darvish. I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: gonna complain. I'm not. I ripped the guy at that
Speaker 1: blew him to Smith of Reens uh years ago. But
Speaker 1: we move on, all right, Chris and Michigan, He says,
Speaker 1: which league will be the first to have their TV
Speaker 1: deal revisited by their network partner? Interesting to see which
Speaker 1: leagues are being forced to take a haircut based on
Speaker 1: their latest ratings and advice. All right, So that's from Chris. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, that's a that's a tough one because the
Speaker 1: TV business is seemingly in in lockstep. A lot of
Speaker 1: the people work in television or lockstep with this. So
Speaker 1: but but you do have bills to pay, and you
Speaker 1: have agreements, and you know, it's kind of like when
Speaker 1: you buy a house and you pay too much money
Speaker 1: for it, and then the price tanks and then you're
Speaker 1: still paying the price. The houses underwater. These TV deals.
Speaker 1: If this continues with a global recession, these TV deals
Speaker 1: become underwater. Now. I remember I used to have a
Speaker 1: friend of mine who was a big guy at ABC
Speaker 1: years ago, and they had Monday Night Football, and he
Speaker 1: would always say that the network looked at that they
Speaker 1: didn't make money on Monday Night Football. This is before ESPN.
Speaker 1: The games went to ESPN and and there was a
Speaker 1: siml caisse, but it was just on on ABC and
Speaker 1: his They argument, they said, was it was a lost leader,
Speaker 1: but it helped their prime time ratings and it helped
Speaker 1: the whole network ratings, So that's why they were willing
Speaker 1: to take the hit because it helped everything else. The
Speaker 1: question becomes like, for basketball, if your TNT does this
Speaker 1: help and maybe it will? Does this continue to help
Speaker 1: the rest thing that you have and all these other
Speaker 1: properties that you have on t N? T Uh. You
Speaker 1: know ESPN is gonna do it no matter what because
Speaker 1: they need programming. So it'll be interesting. Though. I guess
Speaker 1: I go NBA because they're so over the top, like
Speaker 1: the other sports leagues are a little bit. We'll see
Speaker 1: what the NFL, you know, this weekend, how it goes.
Speaker 1: But but like the NBA has they got they got
Speaker 1: symbols on the jerseys. Uh. They can't even say we're
Speaker 1: not being political. It says vote you know on the jersey,
Speaker 1: which is a political act. Uh, and all this and
Speaker 1: and so I'd say the NBA is the most that's
Speaker 1: in the in the weeds on this, especially because of
Speaker 1: the international money that comes in from China. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, well that that's another element that I
Speaker 1: am really brought up is we've seen how Hollywood we've
Speaker 1: has cows out to China, and if you know, China says,
Speaker 1: you know what, we'll let you, We'll let our brought
Speaker 1: your broadcast back on. That's actually another interesting thing because
Speaker 1: if if the Darryl moriy deal hadn't happened, you could
Speaker 1: make the argument that this activism would not be taking
Speaker 1: place in the NBA because China would have said, we're
Speaker 1: not going to broadcast games with Black Lives Matter on
Speaker 1: the court and the jerseys and all that, because you know,
Speaker 1: that doesn't fit with our communist agenda here in China.
Speaker 1: And uh, and so we're not gonna do it. And
Speaker 1: then the NBA would have they would have, you know,
Speaker 1: bowed down, right, they would have bowed down taking her
Speaker 1: knee for China. So that's another if if China says,
Speaker 1: are we'll put the games back on, but you gotta
Speaker 1: do X, Y and Z, Wow, what would the NBA
Speaker 1: do They had all that money that carried at the
Speaker 1: end of the stick. Yeah, that's a puzzling thing because
Speaker 1: obviously you can target Europe, you can go Europe, you
Speaker 1: can go South America, but a bulk of their money
Speaker 1: comes from the from the Chinese. Yeah. And you know
Speaker 1: if magic the NBA took a stand against the China
Speaker 1: y oh yeah, yeah right uh Lee and Phoenix right
Speaker 1: scene says when you go to Costco, do people ask
Speaker 1: for pictures? Yes, all the timely all the time, although
Speaker 1: not as much since they got rid of the samples.
Speaker 1: Eric in Binghamton as good at at least allowed at
Speaker 1: least an old overnight caller, but he moved to the
Speaker 1: dreaded day shift. Eric in Binghamton, New York rights and
Speaker 1: he says, being that he is west of the four
Speaker 1: oh five, does David believe in going to your beloved
Speaker 1: Costco gas. Are you a Costco guy? Yeah, And they
Speaker 1: have the cheapest gas that I can get here in
Speaker 1: in southern California. Like it's tough, especially like you know drive,
Speaker 1: if you drive anywhere near the four oh five, especially
Speaker 1: L A X, you're getting raped on gas. Yes, all
Speaker 1: those rental car places, although no one's rerunning cars now,
Speaker 1: but they still have the price of gas obscene. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're usually at least a dollar maybe even like a
Speaker 1: dollar fifty more than anywhere else like Inner City. But
Speaker 1: Costco is a ship and the sample samples are great
Speaker 1: no matter where you go. I've had the pizza, which
Speaker 1: is good, but I don't go anywhere else out because
Speaker 1: you don't You do like corn dogs and hot dogs too, Ben,
Speaker 1: Now I don't have corn dogs, they have hot dogs.
Speaker 1: I do. My My big order would be the hot dog.
Speaker 1: I get the slice of the cheese pizza, and then
Speaker 1: I'd get the berry Sunday and that was That's the
Speaker 1: perfect meal. But the the veteran move at Costco. You
Speaker 1: order the hot dog and the pizza. You then go
Speaker 1: back in line or do the kiosk and order the
Speaker 1: Barry Sunny because you don't want it to melt. You
Speaker 1: don't want it to melt while you're eating the pizza
Speaker 1: and the hot dog. And some people just eat it
Speaker 1: all together. But I like to have it as my
Speaker 1: dessert at the very end. And I'm jealous because like Costco.
Speaker 1: I know, we've had listeners in Vancouver that have sent
Speaker 1: me photos of the food court at Costco and they
Speaker 1: have chicken fingers. There's a place, I think it's in Toronto.
Speaker 1: The Costco in Toronto has poutine. Oh man, ye yeah right, yes,
Speaker 1: I can imagine the Costco in Vancouver or Toronto looking
Speaker 1: like the Whole Foods. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: I want to go to Vancouver in Toronto, not to
Speaker 1: see those cities, which are beautiful, just to experience Costco
Speaker 1: poutine and Costco chicken fingers. Man, that's a game change.
Speaker 1: I might not eat anywhere else. That might be the
Speaker 1: only place I eat. That would be my my restaurant orning,
Speaker 1: noon and night at least, you know, would be on
Speaker 1: a on a good quality budget, that's true. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: cost effective. I tell my my dad's on a budget.
Speaker 1: You know, he's retired and he's got he's got no
Speaker 1: money or whatever. Because it would have happened. But I
Speaker 1: always telling me, I said, go to Costco buy a
Speaker 1: large pizza because he didn't eat that much, you know,
Speaker 1: the older guy now, and uh, that thing will last
Speaker 1: like four days. You know, there's there's so many pieces
Speaker 1: of pizza there. You just get that thing for four days,
Speaker 1: four meals out of it, and save yourself a bunch
Speaker 1: of money. Matt from Dallas, that was fort Worth. Since
Speaker 1: I only recently learned that there's a black nashalanthem, I
Speaker 1: am wondering if there's a Mallard national anthem. All right, Matt,
Speaker 1: this is a great question. So um the answer is yes,
Speaker 1: although not official. So a couple of years back, several
Speaker 1: p One's brigadier generals Rod the Ambassador of Bakersfield and uh,
Speaker 1: I think it was Tammy and Montana. They teamed up
Speaker 1: and made a really cool song, which unfortunately it was
Speaker 1: before Roberto was on the show. So like Danny, g
Speaker 1: is part of it. And Roberto doesn't know about anything
Speaker 1: that happened before. Roberto I love him, but he doesn't know,
Speaker 1: so he doesn't play any of those sound bites. Everything
Speaker 1: he plays is from when he joined the show, and
Speaker 1: that was before Roberto was part of it. So if
Speaker 1: somebody wrote a song now and included Roberto, then I
Speaker 1: have a feeling it would get a lot of airplay.
Speaker 1: But but that was one. We've got a couple of
Speaker 1: songs that were like the Mallard and Nashal Anthem that
Speaker 1: was a Mallard related show song. But that's a little gimmick.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like Adam Sandler doing a Honikah song
Speaker 1: because he knows that I'll get played, and or writing
Speaker 1: a Christmas song. In general, every holiday radio stations play
Speaker 1: nothing but holiday music, and so like, if you do
Speaker 1: a song about people on the radio, they're gonna play it,
Speaker 1: and they're probably gonna play it a lot. So just
Speaker 1: just point that little little life pack if you're a
Speaker 1: struggling musician. Kentucky Tay and Jay right in from Scottsville, Kentucky,
Speaker 1: and they say, first, first off, thanks for referring to
Speaker 1: my wife and I as a power couple. Jay says,
Speaker 1: I got so excited we about crashed our car during
Speaker 1: the drive. How about that gas gun? When did you
Speaker 1: refer to them as a power couple? Thanks for listening?
Speaker 1: It was yeah when they were because the email they
Speaker 1: send in every week. They're they're almost religiously part of
Speaker 1: this and uh, here's anyway, So can they can they
Speaker 1: bring or can they ship off some some bourbon from
Speaker 1: their from their parts of town? Are you begging for
Speaker 1: a freebee guest gun? Is that what you're doing? Yes? Yes,
Speaker 1: I know it's beneath you. But how about a little taste,
Speaker 1: a little something here on the west side? How about
Speaker 1: some bathtub jim bathtub? What do you call it? Moonshine? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Have you ever had wonshine? Well? Yeah, because our guy
Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania made something. Yeah, yeah, I have a little
Speaker 1: left if you want. You want it? Did you vomit? No?
Speaker 1: I as you haven't had it yet because I was
Speaker 1: gonna have it at the holiday party. We didn't get
Speaker 1: to it. It's it's sitting right over here. I have
Speaker 1: it's right in my studio. So I hope, I hope
Speaker 1: our trucker friend appreciates that I still have it. I haven't.
Speaker 1: I had no idea. I'll save it for you for
Speaker 1: you all right? Yeah, for years ago, when we in
Speaker 1: the early days of Foxborstradi, I remember a guy from
Speaker 1: like Chattanooga, Tennessee, who had this thick Tennessee accident. You know,
Speaker 1: sounded like the cliche of somebody from Tennessee. And he
Speaker 1: used to tell me, Oh, bat, I'm gonna make you
Speaker 1: the moonshine. You know, he never did, but but this
Speaker 1: guy in Pennsylvania did. So that's I think it was Trucker,
Speaker 1: Joe Truck or Joe all right us? But anyway, Uh,
Speaker 1: the Tay and j question. You're out camping and you
Speaker 1: only have one rifle and thirty bullets or a fishing
Speaker 1: pole with land full of natural bait. What are you
Speaker 1: gonna choose to use to supply food? Wall strained? I
Speaker 1: say this, you only have thirty bullets, but that would
Speaker 1: seemingly be a more effective way of getting food. Right,
Speaker 1: if you find something, you can shoot, But if you
Speaker 1: miss and you run out of bullets, I'd go fishing.
Speaker 1: If you have a full natural landscape of bait, I
Speaker 1: would go fishing. I don't really like seafood. Can you
Speaker 1: even fish? Yeah? How hard is it? You throw the
Speaker 1: damn thing in the water and sit there? How hard? Difficult?
Speaker 1: Is that? You're not really athletic? How the how the
Speaker 1: fund do you have to be athletic as a fisherman?
Speaker 1: You're gonna show some balance. You're gonna have a good
Speaker 1: cast away. Stop. Man. I go to the beach every
Speaker 1: once in a while. I see these people. They're drinking beer,
Speaker 1: sitting down with their you know, they're big, oversized hats on,
Speaker 1: and they got their fishing rod on the side of
Speaker 1: the dock and they're not even paying any attention to it.
Speaker 1: Are you talking about? You nuts? You lost your freaking mind?
Speaker 1: All right, Scott the water Boy writes in from Starks, Mississippi,
Speaker 1: I believe, he says, or Maine. I don't know, Uh,
Speaker 1: Mr Ben Wagner, do you know of any NBA teams
Speaker 1: in search of a high quality water distribution engineer? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Guess you know any of the teams
Speaker 1: that want a water boy? No? No, all right, sorry,
Speaker 1: I can't help you. I'm Att from Tuscaloosa. Is Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard the greatest basketball player in the past ten years? Matt,
Speaker 1: that's a great question. Check back in about a month.
Speaker 1: Check back in about a month. If Kawhi Leonard does
Speaker 1: what he's about to do, the answer is apps a
Speaker 1: bleep and lutelee. I mean, he's right there, outside of
Speaker 1: an outside of a miss free throw against the Miami Heat.
Speaker 1: He's there. He to win. If you can win the
Speaker 1: first championship for Toronto and the Clippers back to back
Speaker 1: after winning in San Antonio, He's better than Jordan's, He's
Speaker 1: better than Lebron, He's better than all of them. That Trump's,
Speaker 1: any of those other accomplishments, any of those other company
Speaker 1: that Kawhi Leonard becomes the face of the NBA and
Speaker 1: nobody can disagree with that. If you disagree with that,
Speaker 1: you're dope. You're dope, You're a moron, you're a boob.
Speaker 1: It's just unfortunately he's not charismatic. Like if he was charismatic,
Speaker 1: this thing would I think this thing would be full
Speaker 1: tilt Kawa I love affair. Yeah, And he's not good
Speaker 1: for the gossip part of basketball. He doesn't move the
Speaker 1: needle with anything other than his play. Uh. John from Omaha,
Speaker 1: Nebraska writes in he says, name a word that begins
Speaker 1: with F and ends with U c K. Can you
Speaker 1: do that, guest? Go No, fund Ruckers, Well that doesn't
Speaker 1: really know. A row By food isn't nice. Uh, they're
Speaker 1: still open. I thought they went out of business. They did,
Speaker 1: but so how are they still open. There's one I
Speaker 1: know it was running Burbank I used to go to. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: there's one in Torrents. That drove by it. It's closed,
Speaker 1: but I drove by it. I was like, I used
Speaker 1: to love Food Rutgers because I go in there as
Speaker 1: a kid and they'd have the whole like side of cow,
Speaker 1: like in the butcher shop and it's like the coolest,
Speaker 1: Like wait a minute, well that's the burger before it
Speaker 1: gets to your plate. What the fund is that? I
Speaker 1: was like, you gotta be kidding me out? And they
Speaker 1: weren't they synonymous with the fat fries? Like, yeah, they
Speaker 1: had good I really liked Food Rutgers. I don't know
Speaker 1: what happened, but they I guess they screwed up financially,
Speaker 1: couldn't make it, but I loved it. Yeah what sucks? Yeah? Uh,
Speaker 1: you know recently there was up until about a year ago,
Speaker 1: there was a sizzler right near me, like the last sizzler.
Speaker 1: Is there any sizzlers around? You know? There's Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is like the last one and it's finally closed up,
Speaker 1: finally closed up shop and all that. All right. Rucker Joe,
Speaker 1: we just mentioned him, Chucker Joe in Pennsylvania writes in
Speaker 1: he says, who's on your list for top five comedians?
Speaker 1: All right, we'll chucking Joe off the top of my head.
Speaker 1: The greatest of all time for me, the late great
Speaker 1: George Carlin. George Carlin is good, awesome. Um may he
Speaker 1: rest in PI so though he didn't believe in that.
Speaker 1: So he's just you know, he's he's an atheist. But
Speaker 1: uh Carlin, Uh, Richard Pryor, uh Seinfeld doing stand up comedies, great,
Speaker 1: Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Sa, Louis c K. I know
Speaker 1: you can't say that because oh he's a taboo. He
Speaker 1: did the sex thing. Louis Black. I think he's pretty
Speaker 1: good too. I mean, there's a bunch of those. Are
Speaker 1: my top five. I gave you like ten of them
Speaker 1: under the radar. I don't know if you've watched them
Speaker 1: at all. But Tom Wilson is really good. And if
Speaker 1: you don't know, Tom Wilson is out there. Tom Wilson
Speaker 1: played Biff in Back to the Future. He's really fucking good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know who is? Also? He died years ago. In fact,
Speaker 1: I think he took his own life. But he was
Speaker 1: a great comedian. Richard Jenny Jenny, and he's probably been
Speaker 1: dead for over ten years. But he I thought he
Speaker 1: was so good and I could never figure out why
Speaker 1: he didn't become bigger. I always laughed my ass off
Speaker 1: when he Some of his stuff still on YouTube. But
Speaker 1: Richard Jenny j e n I if you have no
Speaker 1: idea who that guy is. But I thought he was
Speaker 1: so good and he never really got that big break
Speaker 1: and took it to become the you know, the next
Speaker 1: you know, big star. But Steve Martin was like that
Speaker 1: too before he popped. Yeah, Steve Martin's funny. Brodie Stevens
Speaker 1: took his life. Oh yeah, Brody was great. He was
Speaker 1: a Malley militia guy, Brodie, and he was He sent
Speaker 1: me messages on Twitter. He's listen to the show all
Speaker 1: the time. And he was a guy that all the
Speaker 1: comedians loved because he was always at the l A
Speaker 1: comedy clubs. They loved him. Everyone loved the guy. The
Speaker 1: great Brandy just unfortunately was depressed. And it sucks. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's see a few more here. Rick Hardo from Fred
Speaker 1: is No. He says, how many malanmobiles have you had
Speaker 1: and which one is or was your favorite? I've had several.
Speaker 1: Ricardo started out with the Valari, which was my grandfather's car.
Speaker 1: What color was it? Brown? Brown? Had a bench seat
Speaker 1: in the back. Did you like back there? Uh no, No,
Speaker 1: I I had a when I was in high school.
Speaker 1: I got my my mom had this idea. She was
Speaker 1: very paranoid about be driving, so she said, I always
Speaker 1: gotta drive a truck or a van because that way,
Speaker 1: if you getting a wreck, you have a better chance
Speaker 1: to survive. So so I had this. I got this
Speaker 1: like old Dodge I think it was a Dodge van.
Speaker 1: It had no seats in the back, no seats in
Speaker 1: the back and uh and it just had, you know,
Speaker 1: the two seats in the front, and all the guys
Speaker 1: in the football team like I gotta borrow your carpet,
Speaker 1: I gotta bart you know, the whole thing. It was
Speaker 1: like the most popular for some reason. I don't know
Speaker 1: why it was so popular guest con, but they loved
Speaker 1: the idea. And they just had like carpeting in the back.
Speaker 1: That was it. That's to get have like wood paneling
Speaker 1: on the sides. And uh, I had that. I had
Speaker 1: an F one fifty I drove for a long time. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a gas guzzler had a ford edge I like,
Speaker 1: but that's also a bit of a gas guzzler. I
Speaker 1: like the car. I had an electric hybrid thing that
Speaker 1: I liked until it turned out to be a Lemon.
Speaker 1: I can't afford a Tesla. I'd like to get one,
Speaker 1: I can't afford one, so nice man, Yeah, I want
Speaker 1: to wait until I feel like, in the next couple
Speaker 1: of years the mileage I need the mileage to get up.
Speaker 1: Right now, you can go like to seventy I think
Speaker 1: on those electric cars on a charge, I needed to
Speaker 1: get up to like four hundred and then I'm good.
Speaker 1: Does the state of California also give you tax credits
Speaker 1: for driving those electric cars? Uh? Yeah. My wife a
Speaker 1: lot of people she works with have Tesla's and they
Speaker 1: I guess they it goes like the cars like forty
Speaker 1: five thousand if you buy it new, they'll chop ten
Speaker 1: thousand off or something like even thirty five thousand, something
Speaker 1: along those lines. So yeah, you get like a bunch
Speaker 1: of reba. That's one of the reasons some of the
Speaker 1: stock people are like, well once once those rebates and
Speaker 1: Tesla is gonna be in trouble, because that's why a
Speaker 1: lot of people buy the cars because they get thousands
Speaker 1: of dollars back in in the benefits. So all right, uh,
Speaker 1: let's see who else do we have here? Any me?
Speaker 1: Any money? Mo? Kyle from Sane and Tonio the Alamo
Speaker 1: says which sports league will be the first to re
Speaker 1: shut down due to the OsO scary pandemic? I don't.
Speaker 1: I'll Pack twelve if they ever started, I'll go to
Speaker 1: Pack twelve. And they seemed like the biggest scarity cats
Speaker 1: out there, so I'll go to the Pack twelve. Right?
Speaker 1: Why not? I also say college football? But yeah. Chris
Speaker 1: in Americaked, Iowa. Uh he says a farmer needs to
Speaker 1: get a fox, a chicken, and a bag of grain
Speaker 1: across the river, but can only take one thing at
Speaker 1: a time in the boat. How does he do it
Speaker 1: so nothing gets eaten? All right? Well, I think the
Speaker 1: obvious answer would just take the bag of grain across, right, No,
Speaker 1: because then if you take one of the other animals
Speaker 1: over and you go back, they'll eat the grain. Does
Speaker 1: a fox eat grain? It might open the bag up,
Speaker 1: But you know what, chicken will? Yes? All right, so
Speaker 1: then you take the chicken. Yeah, but then you have
Speaker 1: to worry about the chicken, either egg getting away or
Speaker 1: the fox eating the chicken. So what's the fucking answer
Speaker 1: that I don't know? He didn't give the answer. That's good.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned for next week, Chris, that's a follow up,
Speaker 1: and then you'll know the rest of the story, the
Speaker 1: rest of the stories, Paul Harvey would saying. Jean and
Speaker 1: lis Bon Maine writes, and he says, whatever happened to JT?
Speaker 1: The break and Tom Ludi? Well, Jean, they are part
Speaker 1: of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association. I think they
Speaker 1: do a podcast together. We had Luney on, which no
Speaker 1: one listened to when he was on our podcast, but
Speaker 1: we had luneyen and Luny is doing stuff. I think
Speaker 1: JT is doing a local Raiders radio show in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: He's on the Raider's payroll there, I believe, and he's
Speaker 1: I think he's doing a show. It's serious, I think
Speaker 1: at night. So he's got some stuff going on. But
Speaker 1: uh yeah, they're still still working, just not at Fox anymore.
Speaker 1: So they're doing their thing hustling, hustling and the radio business.
Speaker 1: Marking Ottawa writes in says, if you could go back
Speaker 1: in time and become the number one athlete in any sport?
Speaker 1: Which sport would you pick? I think we've had this before.
Speaker 1: I think we've had this before. And you said, well,
Speaker 1: like baseball player, you know, Yankee Star back in the
Speaker 1: day would be big or quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: one of those things we get all the attention and
Speaker 1: all the glory and all that. But I guess NBA
Speaker 1: star would be the biggest thing because he's NBA. Guys,
Speaker 1: it's all about damn so like ahead of everyone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking money wise, and money wise, you go baseball,
Speaker 1: but if you go notoriety, you go football. Right, Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean a bit a bit. Uh that's for sure.
Speaker 1: All right, we we only have time for a few more.
Speaker 1: Any meny miny mo? What shall we do here? Let's
Speaker 1: say boil Mark and Soku named one team in each
Speaker 1: of the four major sports that should vanish. All right,
Speaker 1: Baseball Miami Marlins, no one goes to the games? Uh done? Uh?
Speaker 1: NFL that's harder. But I get rid of the Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: Who cares about them? Jacksonville nah? Um? NHL, Ottawa suck NBA.
Speaker 1: We got seven NHL teams. I don't know. Put a
Speaker 1: team somewhere else then U N B A. I don't know, Memphis,
Speaker 1: how about that? Yeah, that's good? Or Charlotte. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: like the Hornets logo though. All right, well let's that's it, Guesco.
Speaker 1: We must move on here, we must move on, and
Speaker 1: we put the baby to bed. By the way, I
Speaker 1: did do a a cameo for the Tomahawks steak that
Speaker 1: I was requested. You didn't actually complete the objective, but
Speaker 1: that's fine. Well, no, I held up the steak to prove,
Speaker 1: should I fucking frozen Tomahawks steak when the request was
Speaker 1: to actually barb the request was for the steak, and
Speaker 1: I held the steak up to the microphone, and I
Speaker 1: said that steak is fine. And as I pointed out,
Speaker 1: by not actually cooking the steak, I am elongating the
Speaker 1: life of the Tomahawks steak. So it's a win win situation,
Speaker 1: is not. This is not nineteen o eight, This is
Speaker 1: not the Chicago Cubs. You don't want the story to continue, alright, alright,
Speaker 1: knock it off, knock it off. All right, listen, have
Speaker 1: a great day to day, and uh, we'll see how
Speaker 1: the ratings go there. The ratings are good. The numbers
Speaker 1: are good, we'll keep the podcast going eight days a week.
Speaker 1: If not, we'll just do it seven days a week
Speaker 1: and then we'll figure out the rest. But anyway, have
Speaker 1: a great day, enjoy the NFL, and we'll catch you
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