WEBVTT - Family Conflict 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:05.280 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, hundred minutes 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:09.120 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.400 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.440 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:19.560 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The clearing house of 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:23.400 hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:33.000 with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:38.120 the vast power of my heart, the global reach of podcast. 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:42.839 And you have stumbled upon another edition of The Fifth 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:45.760 Hour with Ben Mather And for that we thank you. 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:49.839 Because four hours a night are not enough. We do 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:53.720 this eight days a week, eight days a week. As 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:56.520 you know, if you are a loyal minion and supporter, 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.960 we thank you. And tell a friend, Tell a friend, 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.480 this is a secret cheap code. And I boy, if 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:05.240 you did this, you make my day. And I'm hearing 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:07.520 reports of people that found the podcast because of this 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:12.480 word of mouth advertising. If everyone listen, you and the 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:16.560 other people listening to this podcast, get one person, friend, 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:23.680 co worker, relative to download this podcast. We will immediately 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:27.920 in the battom an eye double the podcast numbers, which 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.440 would be great to make the bosses happy and all 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.800 that stuff. So and and also, I'm not opposed. I've 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.480 said this in the past. I'm not opposed. Grandpa and 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.120 Grandma have a smartphone. They're not that tech savvy. If 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:42.360 you happen to borrow their phone and subscribe them to 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.280 the podcast I for automatic download, I don't think they'd 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:47.520 be upset by that. I don't think that's illegal. Maybe 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:49.240 I'm wrong on that. If they let you borrow the 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:53.040 phone or whatever. We are joined West of the four 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:57.480 oh five sas Shane his way down the catwalk doing 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:11.320 a pirouet. Mr look it me man, David guess I 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.720 feel very honored to be introduced like that. I don't 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:15.639 know if I had an entrance like I was a 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.640 w w F wrestler, would it be more like like 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:24.040 Rick Rude or Mr Perfect? Trying to figure that out. Well, 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:26.320 you you would be the heel. I think we all 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.480 know that they were both heels. No, but you you 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.480 there's no on this show. You You are the bat 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:36.280 You're like a low level batman villain on this show. Right, 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:42.200 you have you have nefarious intent, you are you're menacing 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:46.120 against the Mallard militia. Now you're like You're like the 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:50.680 perfect gargoyle. You're like a fake tough guy. You know, 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:56.880 it's love gargoyles. That's a drop, that's I love. You 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:03.840 said it. You also love Lucifer. Lucifer. You were you were? 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:05.480 You a fan of Batman back in the day as 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:09.800 a kid, the show I did I Love? You know, 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:11.960 the TV when I was a kid was terrible and 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:14.320 we didn't have the Internet, so I watched like the 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:18.320 they still were showing the Batman, the TV show Batman reruns. 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:22.320 I was a big fan of that. Yeah, it was 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:27.200 so corny. Yeah, I gotta watched some really crappy, like Chips, 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.440 the TV show Chips. I wanted to be high. I 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:34.080 wanted to be in the California Highway Patrol. Don't forget 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:39.800 Dick's the Hazard bad but Chips. It was funny because 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.280 when I first started in the in the radio, and 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:43.960 I was in San Diego, and then I got I 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.360 got the reporting job, so I'd go into l A 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:50.880 and I remember I'm making the turn from the ten 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:55.360 to the one ten going to the sports arena, and 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.960 you drive in that circle, you drive right past the 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:03.120 California high Away Patrol headquarters in downtown which is where 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.760 they filmed you know, Chips the show, and so I 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.200 got so excited by that, and I was like, oh man, 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:13.720 that's where Poncerello was that, you know. And then and 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:17.040 I also I love there was a show called Emergency. 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:22.080 Oh yeah, William Shatner was the host of that one, right, no, no, no, no, 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.839 it was it was like an ambulance like fire station 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:30.000 show and stuff, and it's like cheesy nineteen seventies early 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:34.640 eighties television, and it was like Station fifty one. They 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:38.440 made up this fake fire station and I watched that 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.360 a lot because I was on TV in the afternoon 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:45.000 when I got home from school and I drove by. Unfortunately, 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.920 that fire station was it's a real fire station. It's 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.080 actually west of the four oh five. It's over in 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:53.760 your territory, which is unfortunate. But they they did film 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:55.440 that show there. So some of the some of the 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:59.680 shows I watched, I'm looking at the cast. Yeah, William 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.520 shat Or did Rescue nine one one, but yeah, Emergency, 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:06.479 I'm looking at that nineteen seven two s it. Yeah, yeah, 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:08.600 it was off the year by the time I started 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:10.799 really getting into TV. But they still, you know, reruns, 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:13.120 they didn't have anything. They were still showing I love 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.400 Lucy reruns and Three Stooges and you know, stuff like 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:20.520 that was still getting regular play on television. So and 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:25.560 Archie Bunker. I don't think they'll even broadcast anymore. I 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:27.920 guess I'm old. I don't know what happened, but it's 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:32.200 crazy anyway. We have the mail bag, Gascon, your favorite podcast, 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.680 my favorite podcast. I know you're not just sending. I 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:37.599 know you're not supposed to look forward to look you 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:39.960 know you look back a little bit. But I'm I'm 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:44.279 eagerly awaiting the mail bag for next week for some reason. 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:50.680 Just put that right, yeah, interest just I just have 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:52.800 a feeling they'll be a handful of people that start 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:57.159 whining and complaining about certain kind of audio that is 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:02.880 being bled into their ears. But well, listen, that is 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:08.400 your doormain. You are the engineer producer of the Fifth Hour. 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:12.719 So if there's any problems, any complaints, you can direct 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:17.680 those to David J. Gascon to send those in. So, 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.440 al right, here we go this email bag. The first 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:27.320 ones from Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts. He says, being the 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:32.240 prestigious and wealthy radio personalities that you are have you 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.800 ever had ad copy cross your desk that you flat 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.760 out rejected and told the company that you wouldn't read 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:42.400 or endorse. It's not like either of you would endorse 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:46.960 just anything, say like in a rectile dysfunction, aid, I 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.840 absolutely endorse that. In fact, maybe I do. Uh In 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:53.480 that vein, Pierre says, have you ever had a dust 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:57.200 up with an employer over something that you said we're 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:01.760 done on the air? Well, of course that's happened a time. Um. 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.840 We actually, me and Looney, we had one of our 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:10.040 sponsors was a bacon company, right, and I had made 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:13.120 a joke on the air, you know, trying to we 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.680 were trying to add lib and improvise the copy to 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:20.440 get you to buy this unique brand of bacon. And 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:24.800 I said, this bacon so good even Jews eating right 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:28.440 like that? Now, I thought, being Jewish, I'd be able 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:30.640 to get away with that. But this was several years ago, 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.280 and I got in trouble for so some guy was listening. 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:35.320 Some guy was listening and complained, and I was like, 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:37.200 I thought I had the exemption. You know. It's like 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.400 it's like when you know, black guys do jokes about 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:42.520 black people, you were allowed to do it. I thought 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:46.400 that was the rule, but I guess, I guess not so. 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:50.480 But what about you guess? Have you gotten any trouble 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.880 with any of this stuff? No, I've never gotten in trouble, 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:55.360 but I've never had. Most of the copy that I 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.200 get is just it's like one or two lines outside 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:02.320 of like a discover card read but nothing ever to 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:04.720 that point, I haven't gotten Have you gotten a woke 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:09.200 copy yet? I haven't got any woke copy. I've gotten 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.360 some with like woke phrases that I've tried to work around. 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:17.000 But yeah, Hey, we're as John Sterlings told us, we're 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:19.480 here to sell the soup. That's right, We're here to 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.960 sell the soap. Now it's a little bit different because 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.280 we work on the national level. Where the national level 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:28.120 we don't get paid to read copy um regional and 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:30.720 unless you have a special unless you have a special 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.800 side deal, then you'll get paid to recover. Usually we 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:38.560 don't get paid extra for the commercial commercial endorsements. Yeah, 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:43.319 that is that is accurate, alright, Chad from Champagne Illinois 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:46.640 Rights and he says, hey, Bett, have you actually counted 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.200 or have a rough estimate on how many hats you 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.839 own today. We've actually talked about this, Chad. I don't 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.400 have a number. I think I want to say the 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:58.360 numbers like thirty or forty, but I think it might 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:00.720 be even higher than that. He says, you have a 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.840 room of just hats on display at the Mallard mansion. 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.120 Where do you put them all? Well, actually have them 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:09.280 right now. I have these big hat bags because I 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:11.520 have noticed if you if you leave your hats out, 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.959 there's this thing called dust that gets all over the 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.679 hats and it becomes problematic, and so I keep them 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:21.160 in these air tight um plastic hat bags, which are 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.679 specially designed to store hats. So that's where I keep 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:26.480 them most of the time, which does the only problem 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.000 with that is I can't see everything. So sometimes I 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.800 have a rotation of hats that I try to go through. 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:33.839 But sometimes I'll forget a hat and then it will 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:35.280 be kind of be lost in one of the bags, 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.520 and so then I have to go back and and 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.120 go through it. But that's that's the hat deal. Chat 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.880 g O writes in he says, do you enjoy doing 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:47.959 the live radio show or the podcast? I like both. 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:51.320 I prefer radio. I prefer radio. I've done that a 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.120 lot longer. I like that we can say whatever we 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:58.840 want on the podcast. Like I feel like podcasting is great. 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:03.199 It's more narrow though the the audience is less than radio. 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.800 There's still a lot of people that don't listen to 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:10.520 podcast Podcasts have become very big, and much bigger than 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:14.400 they were when they started, obviously, but there's always that 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:19.160 magic of radio where people driving across the country stumble 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:23.320 upon the radio and they're lonely or whatever. You don't 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.720 get that with the pipes. You have to want to 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:30.360 listen to this podcast. You don't stumble upon this podcast. Yeah, 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:33.120 it's safe to say. And then on top of that, 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.760 just the I mean you mentioned it in past episodes 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.559 with people and being able to rate it and comment 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:41.720 on it. People just can't access it all the time. 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:45.040 I did find out that some of the some of 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:48.920 the platforms too, aren't always updating content to like Apple 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:53.439 iTunes at times, or even i heeart won't automatically refresh 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.560 or update content on the regular like it didn't in 0:10:56.640 --> 0:11:01.640 the weeks past. So kind of curious about that. Interesting 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:07.040 on our podcast or it's podcast in general, podcasts in general? Yeah, okay, okay, 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:10.920 all right, um, Bill in Los Angeles rights, and he says, 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:15.840 if there are a hundred legs on a centipede and 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:19.640 a thousand legs on a millipede, how many stamps are 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:23.720 in a stampede? And then he said this for you, 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:27.640 guess if a wood chuck could chuck wood? How much 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:31.080 could a wood chuck chuck if it hired a bunch 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:37.960 of guys from home depot. It's a good question. He 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:43.240 wants to know what time is it in Brisbane, Australia. Um, 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.480 what do they like? Are they like a twelve hour 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.920 difference from us? Now, they've got to be more. New 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:52.160 Zealand's like nine, eighteen or nineteen hours, depending on the 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.160 time of the year. So I assume Australia's Are they 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:56.840 on the same time on this New Zealand or is 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:59.680 it like an hour difference? I think it might be 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:01.319 an our difference or some of that. So I think 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.320 there are twenty hours. They're fourteen, oh the fourteen hours 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.880 ahead of New York, so seventeen hours to us. Yeah, 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:14.679 I'm worried about us. Yeah, yeah, because I know because 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.280 I go on in New Zealand every Friday and that's 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.680 a nineteen hour gap from West Coast Time. Oh yeah 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.760 with Darcy, right, yeah, Darcy Walder GiB said, I actually 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.680 go on Friday afternoon in l A. I go on 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.080 my my hit time I call Time. Is it like 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:34.640 one one twenty roughly between one I'm supposed to go 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:38.920 on and but that is Saturday morning. It is the 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:43.760 most listen to Saturday morning like show in New Zealand. 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.079 They don't have a lot to pick from, but they 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.640 love love that show. It's like a news show. It's 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:50.960 not even a sports show. They might just love you 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:56.760 for your accent, my weird Yankee accent. Yeah, your Yankee accent? 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:01.000 All right. David in Toronto's Hey Ben, why don't we 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.520 just allow pictures to pitch with a tool belt on 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:08.240 their hip? Well, that's essentially what Pete Alonso said, right, 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.800 didn't Pete Alonso say that this week that we talked about. 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:12.600 They did a monologue on and he's like, I don't 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.360 care what they're used. Let him have all that behind 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:19.800 them out they can do whatever they want. I feel 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:26.480 bad for Dave in Toronto, really in Toronto, because that 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:30.679 country is that country is lost right now. Man. People 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:33.640 aren't going out, kids aren't going back to school. It 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:37.800 is just lockdown Central. It's wild, like a family living 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:41.720 not in Toronto but in Canada. It's just awful, wild 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:45.320 and crazy. And they have bagged milk also. But the 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:50.600 poutine is good if they can get to it. Teen's wonderful. Alright. 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:55.160 Michael has a Gascon list question for both of us. 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:59.400 He says, ranked the cheaters, Lance Armstrong, Garrit Cole, steroid guys, 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:04.360 rash Can and Buzzer cheats in Houston. All right, So 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:08.960 on my my big board here, I've got number four 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:12.839 on the list. I am going to put Garrett Cole. 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:16.000 Not that I'm dismissing what Garritt Cole is doing, but 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.400 I'm gonna put him last on this list. The Yankee 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:24.240 picture using spider tack to doctor the ball. Uh, then 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:27.640 I would put the steroid guys ahead of Garret Cole, 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:32.400 so their number three on the list. Now number two 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.560 is a toss up. I'm gonna give number two to 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:41.680 Lance Armstrong and number one the Astros, the cheating Astros 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:48.200 edging out that scoundrel Lamps Armstrong who hornswaggled. Although to 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:52.160 be fair Armstrong in the in the big picture, that charity, 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:56.480 that cancer charity which was taking money for cancer awareness 0:14:56.480 --> 0:15:00.240 and not really cancer research, which is bullshit. It's would 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.520 be number one. But I have a beef with the astros. 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:06.680 But in society, you would say, in the general population 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:10.760 Lance Armstrong because of the charity stuff and and also 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.680 just lying and all that. But it's cycling, so it's 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:15.360 not to me, it's not that big a deal because 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.840 I don't really follow cycling the sports part of it. 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:22.480 I'm going the opposite way. I will go Lance Armstrong 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:26.080 as number one, Astro's number two. And don't forget he 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:28.720 didn't win just one Tour de France. He wanted to run, 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:33.760 and the ability for him to have that blood cycled 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:39.040 in and cycled out, beat all those tests, to do 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:42.200 it with one testicle, and then at the same time 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.600 just absolutely crush. His relationship with Cheryl Crowe. I think 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:47.080 they were I think I don't know if they were 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:51.640 married or dating at the time. Um, but he was encompassing, 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:57.440 like the United States as just that American bread. He 0:15:57.520 --> 0:15:59.800 was that symbol, right, he was like he was Rocky 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.360 in Rocky four. He was he was our white Knight. 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:07.440 And the fact that he went internationally and cheated the 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:10.600 entire system. I know Obviously cycling is full of cheats, 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:12.880 but for him to do that on such a national stage, 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.560 and don't forget, like the money is one thing. The 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:19.240 prize money is one thing, but the endorsement money is 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:24.040 a completely other thing. And he raped in thousands and 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:27.400 millions of dollars and you know, had a double middle 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.800 finger to everybody, and uh, and it goes on TV 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.400 and his act to contrition was so small. I didn't 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:35.680 believe one ounce of it at all. But you know, 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.640 the woe was me and the victim card to Lance 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.960 Armstrong's the top dog on that for me. Yeah, he's 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.480 a dude. He lied. I mean there were people he 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:46.200 won a loss. It that's like you know, you talking 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.720 about lawsuits and winning and losing. He won a lawsuit 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:53.680 against someone that said he cheated while he was cheating. 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:57.920 He it was it was one of the testing It 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.120 was one of the delivery guys, right, I think is 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.760 one of the delivery guys that was delivering or transporting 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:07.080 um the blood samples from one center to another. I 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:09.840 think that's what it was. And he got fired. Well 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.000 that was the Ryan bron thing. Was that the lanser 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:18.399 I'm showing, right, Ryan Bron accused that, and I remember, 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.040 like all these athletes, of course, the dumb athletes, the 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:24.000 dumb jocks are like, oh no, Ryan Bron, never remember 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:30.120 Aaron Rodgers an you with check or something on that. Yeah, 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:34.040 so funny. It's these guys are such dopes, all right. Anyway, 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:38.840 Moving on, Mark in Ottawa, another fine Canadian lad says, 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:48.240 what is David's favorite thing? The gag on the Ottawa Senators? Okay. 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.840 Ricardo from Fresno says, Ben, how many callers do you 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:55.760 have on the payroll? That's a good question. Well, right 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:59.280 now on the payroll, we've got Marcel in Brooklyn, Pierre 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.440 beer Ding. You know, Pierre don't called beer drink, He's 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:05.040 he's on the Twitter payroll. That's a different, different part. 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.960 We have. Who else we have beer drinking, Brian half Point, 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:11.960 Christ and m Chris and Houston has been on the 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:15.679 payroll for a while. Regina in Minnesota, Hollereen James in 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.840 Minnesota were very big Haze in Minnesota. We pay a 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:21.760 lot of our callers from Minnesota. Their characters on the show, 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:24.399 their voice actors. They actually appear on a lot of 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:28.640 radio shows. Um, we've had good out of the list here. 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.280 Of course, in Maine, we have Blair in Maine, we 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:35.480 actually changed his character. He originally was Blair in California. 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:38.160 We changed his character. We paid him in the Lestra 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:42.320 money to pretend to be Blair. In Maine, we did that. 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:47.560 Blind Scott, Blind Emmett, the Seahawks fan, he's a new character. 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.199 That's we have a big budget on this show. We 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:52.800 pay a lot of a lot of random people. Jed 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:56.240 who fled the the guy that pretends to be a 0:18:56.280 --> 0:19:02.200 methodic on the show. He's a popular character on there. Yeah, 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:05.600 we Fats in Philadelphia, you know, the cliche trope of 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.560 a fat Philadelphia sports fan that lights himself on fire 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:10.720 and excuse my name. That cost a lot of money 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:13.760 because he got a Daredevil rate guest gun when he 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:15.600 lit himself on fire during the draft. We had to 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:18.720 pay him Daredevil money. Fats. That cost us a lot 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:20.919 of a lot of move on. And then we have 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.560 like people we pay on you know, we pay on Twitter, 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:27.120 like you know Justin and Cincinnati, just Josh, Jay Scoop, 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:31.679 Queen Rocks and uh, you know goat Man. You know, 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.360 we have joke writers that it's a very expensive show. 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.760 There's a big budget operation here. That's a great question, Ricardo. 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:39.560 We pay a lot of people. It's very kind of 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:42.160 you to actually pay some money to Justin and Cincinnati. 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:43.440 I know he's been out of work for the last 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:46.680 two years because he's a dumbass, So congratulations, good job. 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:49.720 At this point, I don't think he's out of work. 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:51.720 I think he's retired. I don't think he can say 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:53.680 he's out of work. He hasn't really wanted to work. 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:58.440 I mean, he can't even figure out which bodies which 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:03.360 you know, it's amazing. Kevin in Kansas rates and he says, 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:06.200 dear Ben, and David is a high school teacher. I 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:09.760 like to hear where my former students have ended up 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:12.720 as they move on in their life. Do you ever 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:16.320 hear from former teachers who are proud when they hear 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:22.119 that you're on a national radio You know, I have 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:28.840 not directly heard for many teachers. I have heard through associates. 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:31.639 There's a few people I talked to from high school 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:36.480 or elementary school. Actually, there's one person who's still friends 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:41.280 with our elementary school teacher, Ms Cleman, and she's retired. 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:43.480 You know, she's just you know, he's older. At this point, 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:46.840 obviously because she's a lot older than I am. And yeah, 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:50.480 she's she's aware and supposedly very proud, So that's cool. 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:51.840 But yeah, if I was a high school teacher, that 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:54.080 would be like the coolest part, Like to see what happens, 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:57.240 what these these pupils go out and do. I think 0:20:57.280 --> 0:20:59.520 that's that's pretty what about you, guess on any teachers 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:01.960 reach out to you. I've had coaches. I've had a 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:06.760 couple of coaches that have reached out listening to the podcast, 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:14.440 and I just I'm like, man, why listen to the podcast? Yeah, 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:16.840 because it's so different. You know, people will say, man, 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:20.280 you sound drastically different on the air than you do 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:22.560 in person. And part of it is because you know 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:25.560 how I am or you know how I talk in 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:28.520 person is uh, you know, probably a little bit more 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:32.320 r rated compared to on television or radio. But I 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:34.480 used to get that a lot when I was doing 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:37.240 stuff back in the Dodger days because the guys on 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:39.920 the team and I was in the locker room a 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:41.800 lot hanging out with those guys, and I was, you know, 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:45.439 have a good time, and the guys would be like, 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:47.920 you know, you're like a total introvert. You don't see 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:49.560 anything when you're around us, and then you get on 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:53.480 the radio and you won't stop telling me, like what 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:55.280 is that? You know they're giving me a hard time. 0:21:55.440 --> 0:21:57.000 And I was like, yeah, if I if I get 0:21:57.000 --> 0:21:59.000 on the radio and I'm an introvert, I don't say anything, 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:02.280 I won't be in radio. I have to talk. Yeah, yeah, exactly. 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:05.320 It's a great crazy dynamic. Yes, it's it's not that 0:22:05.400 --> 0:22:07.359 hard to figure out the arithmetic on that. It's not 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:10.679 that hard. This job is not that easy, all right. 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:13.720 As a young man dating in your teens and young 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:18.360 adults years, did you ever a balls fan? Jimmy in Fayetteville, 0:22:18.400 --> 0:22:23.640 Tennessee has got that nice volunteer accent. He says, Uh, 0:22:23.760 --> 0:22:26.800 you know, young guys, did you ever get caught red 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:31.760 handed busted cheating on your girlfriend or boyfriend? For both 0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:35.119 of you? Uh? No, that the answer is no. I 0:22:35.280 --> 0:22:39.680 had such a struggle dating. I was in no position 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:43.560 like I probably would have if I had the opportunity, 0:22:43.840 --> 0:22:45.640 But I didn't have the opportunity, so it was never 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:48.240 an option. It was never a card that I had 0:22:48.920 --> 0:22:51.520 because it was it was a struggle to get second date. 0:22:51.640 --> 0:22:54.520 So I mean the idea that I would be cheating 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:57.960 on someone. Uh seen preposters, what now, I guess Scott. 0:22:57.960 --> 0:23:01.959 I've heard you're a playboy. I've heard you've you've been 0:23:02.040 --> 0:23:04.760 chastised by some women there, You've had a wandering on high. 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:07.040 Is that accurate? Yeah? But I've never been caught, and 0:23:07.040 --> 0:23:10.000 I've never been caught red handed with my my handed 0:23:10.520 --> 0:23:15.520 jar yeah, I never never. Yeah, I've never been caught. 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:20.119 More about circumstantial evidence that has led me on the 0:23:20.160 --> 0:23:26.359 out and out, but never never red handed, thankfully. So 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:28.760 I was able to maneuver and talk my way out 0:23:28.760 --> 0:23:32.320 of some traffic at times. Yeah. But they do say though, 0:23:32.359 --> 0:23:35.760 the more you talk, the more it's an indication you're lying. Right, Yeah, 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:37.879 But when you're younger, you're more likely to believe some 0:23:37.920 --> 0:23:40.439 of the ship that's out there. So I had the 0:23:40.480 --> 0:23:43.840 gift to gap early on. And you know, don't forget 0:23:43.920 --> 0:23:47.320