Speaker 1: Ka boom. If you thought more hours a day dred
Speaker 1: minutes a week was enough, think again. He's the last
Speaker 1: remnants of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness.
Speaker 1: He treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as
Speaker 1: the rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of
Speaker 1: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere.
Speaker 1: Happy Sunday, Sundays Sunday, We're back at it eight days
Speaker 1: a week. This would be the eight day of the
Speaker 1: week here a spinoff of the Overnight Show. And I
Speaker 1: am always excited about the Sunday podcast, which has surprisingly
Speaker 1: done very well. Head to head. We've had interview podcast,
Speaker 1: we shoot the Shoot the crap Olver there on Saturday.
Speaker 1: But the mail Bag podcast a staple of the weekend,
Speaker 1: a tradition unlike any other, and it's done very well.
Speaker 1: We are joined yet again from West of the four
Speaker 1: h five, a man who on my birthday called me
Speaker 1: a piece of ship. David gas guy doing uh, doing
Speaker 1: God's work on your birthday. As I might add, the
Speaker 1: production value for your virtual digital birthday cards was tremendous.
Speaker 1: It was it was Oscar Worthy. I like to give
Speaker 1: a speech as soon as the Bennies are around and
Speaker 1: I accept my award for the best villain. Um, so
Speaker 1: brighter days are certainly ahead. But yeah, it was. It
Speaker 1: was a day under the sun that you got to
Speaker 1: celebrate your birthday and happy about that. But I am
Speaker 1: in a bad mood, Ben Malley, Well, why would you
Speaker 1: be in a bad mood. There's nothing to be in
Speaker 1: a bad mood about. We We are no longer perfect. Um.
Speaker 1: Some fucking asshole or assholes decided to take their act
Speaker 1: to Apple iTunes and our our perfect rating of a
Speaker 1: five point oh is no longer Oh it was right,
Speaker 1: We were down to a four point eight on reviews.
Speaker 1: How did that happen? I don't know, But your fault
Speaker 1: probably had to do with the fact that I wasn't
Speaker 1: around a couple of weeks ago and the production value
Speaker 1: turned to ship and well that is your fault though,
Speaker 1: So it is your fault. That was correct. Man, You
Speaker 1: were not here and it's your You are responsible for
Speaker 1: the person that he did not tell them properly how
Speaker 1: to do the podcast. And you know I can't tell
Speaker 1: a twenty year veteran how to do his job. But
Speaker 1: you know, people don't want to listen. Make sure listen
Speaker 1: when you're away. You've got to make sure the people
Speaker 1: that are in for you know how to do it,
Speaker 1: how to do the job. And I think it figured
Speaker 1: it out. I figured it out. That was pretty good
Speaker 1: at that. But that's whatever. So I noticed that you're
Speaker 1: not really talking about many of the reviews here that
Speaker 1: I I've seen here, some of the more recent reviews.
Speaker 1: The great work, gentlemen, keep the good work, enjoy the questions,
Speaker 1: love the podcast since the beginning. As long as you
Speaker 1: keep myself and under compete, gag On under control. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the funk that means. I'm not
Speaker 1: like a wild dog or some ship like that. I'm
Speaker 1: just loose a little bit and a little bit outside
Speaker 1: the beaten path. But it's fine. But the voice of
Speaker 1: the people, about that John the jailer people, that's one
Speaker 1: of my favorites. Is he talking about you? There's not
Speaker 1: talking about you, he said, Ben Maller is the voice
Speaker 1: of the people. My ear just yelling into my ear.
Speaker 1: He didn't listen. I had to you. It's not enjoyable
Speaker 1: when you don't listen. It's by you unbelievable. How about
Speaker 1: this one? I think we talked about us a while back,
Speaker 1: but this one still stands out. The one star review.
Speaker 1: Too much repetition? What do we what? What? That's the
Speaker 1: one thing you can You can criticize me for anything.
Speaker 1: It's fair. But that's the one thing I don't repeat myself.
Speaker 1: Like I've been told other radio shows they will do
Speaker 1: one monologue and just repeat it every hour. I've never
Speaker 1: been that guy. With with rare exception, when there's a
Speaker 1: huge story, I might do the same story, but I'll
Speaker 1: try to do a different angle on the you know,
Speaker 1: the topic trees what we call it, But no, I
Speaker 1: have attention definity disorder. I will go on and on,
Speaker 1: you know, every hour, on something else with the occasionally
Speaker 1: I will strict. Yeah, but the idea of a podcast
Speaker 1: or a show is to make sure that you set
Speaker 1: the expectations, and I think we do that. Friday is
Speaker 1: typically with a guest, Saturday is not so much. Then
Speaker 1: Sunday's all dedicated to the listeners with mailbags that is.
Speaker 1: I guess that's like structured in such a way that
Speaker 1: it feels repetitious. But so what do we have to
Speaker 1: do to get more reviews we have to offer, like money,
Speaker 1: Karen on a stick here, Like, I mean, you get
Speaker 1: a few stragglers every week or every other week that
Speaker 1: will post a review. Yeah, but what is it gonna take.
Speaker 1: I considering how many people actually listen to the podcast
Speaker 1: and how many people have actually bothered to review it,
Speaker 1: it's like point you know, two point zero zero zero
Speaker 1: point two percent of the actual people that listen to
Speaker 1: the post. Well, I think the challenging part in all this,
Speaker 1: And you would know because a lot of your listeners
Speaker 1: have been with you for for this is where you're
Speaker 1: gonna take a shot at the people that are fans
Speaker 1: of the show. God, get myself ready for this one. Um.
Speaker 1: I think it's challenging when you have listeners that can't read,
Speaker 1: and so when you can't read, you can't rate. And
Speaker 1: if you can't rate, then we don't get those reviews.
Speaker 1: And so when you can't type, you can't put out
Speaker 1: words out there. It gets a little challenging. So I
Speaker 1: think that's the dilemma that we're running into, is that
Speaker 1: the audience is just not up to stuff. Like if
Speaker 1: we had guys like I'm a pilot across the board
Speaker 1: five stars, we probably would be here right now. We'd
Speaker 1: bea in Hawaii somewhere shooting the ship. Five stars, multiple
Speaker 1: six figure income salaries because podcast production. The reviews are great,
Speaker 1: and the adience would love us, but we don't have
Speaker 1: that kind of demographic here. It's a little bit different,
Speaker 1: and uh, we have to make with what we got.
Speaker 1: So I think that we're limited in terms of the
Speaker 1: areas that we can get reviews and and comments on.
Speaker 1: And this is just another textbook example. Was that a
Speaker 1: good show of why David Guascon does not relate to
Speaker 1: the common man. I feel like the working class like
Speaker 1: Dave Parker right now. I feel like that it's big
Speaker 1: strong taking my hacks. Yeah, the white Cobra. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is why we get one star reviews right there, comments
Speaker 1: like that. In fact, i'd encourage you to give a
Speaker 1: one star review to the podcast because of what gasct
Speaker 1: just said. He just said, you're illiterate, you're a loser,
Speaker 1: and I think you should give a negative review of
Speaker 1: the podcast. I haven't called anyone toothless today, for the record, Yeah,
Speaker 1: not yet. Typical west of the four or five, the
Speaker 1: lower lower you know what do they call the lower order? Right?
Speaker 1: The sharecroppers, a bunch of barbarians. You should go into
Speaker 1: the mailbox. I'm gonna go check my credit score right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm good. What are you gonna But that's your
Speaker 1: your debt score. I wouldn't be bragging about your debt score,
Speaker 1: you know, debt score, que ratings, the whole nine yards.
Speaker 1: What do we got? What do we got? The mailbox?
Speaker 1: So this week, all right, let's get right to it.
Speaker 1: We do have to get to the mail bag. These
Speaker 1: are actual questions by actual listeners sent in via Facebook
Speaker 1: and the Mallard Show email bag. In the bag, In
Speaker 1: the bag we go? Where to start? Any menim anymore? Alright?
Speaker 1: Pierre in Springfield? Great way to start, Pierre in Springfield.
Speaker 1: This guy gets it, all right, this guy gets it,
Speaker 1: He says, since you've been dropping breadcrumbs for the past
Speaker 1: few weeks, any truth to the rumor that you've decided
Speaker 1: to sell off the original and the current Mallard mansions
Speaker 1: to relocate on the other side of the four oh
Speaker 1: five with Gagon and the rest of the one per centers.
Speaker 1: Uh no, no, I will not be moving west of
Speaker 1: the four oh five. H There is something percolating, but
Speaker 1: I am not allowed to disclose that is not for
Speaker 1: public fodder at this particular time. So you've got to
Speaker 1: you gotta to that in. But thank you for your concern.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Uh. Let's see. This is from Scott,
Speaker 1: the chef in Knowledge in the Biou. He says, at
Speaker 1: fifty three, I finally decided to learn how to scuba
Speaker 1: dive during the pandemic. Now I'm addicted, and I'm considering
Speaker 1: other adventure sports. Are there any adventure sports that you
Speaker 1: guys see yourself trying but gingerly taking into account you're
Speaker 1: advancing years, especially that flabby, frail old man gag On.
Speaker 1: I think I think with Scott, I think he had
Speaker 1: to get a certification to for that. I think you're
Speaker 1: to scuba dive, Yeah you do. You have to get
Speaker 1: a license because if anything goes wrong, you're done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it, game over, lights out, exit stage right. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of tempted to do some skydiving. I'd like to
Speaker 1: You should do that and I'll be on the ground. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've jumped out of all the planes I want to
Speaker 1: jump out of. No, what about parasailing it? Would you
Speaker 1: ever consider doing that? Or hang gliding? Hang gliding over
Speaker 1: an ocean. Yes, yeah, I could do that. Yeah, in
Speaker 1: Hawaii going I think that would be cool. Yeah. Have
Speaker 1: you ever done bungee jumping? No, I would never do
Speaker 1: bungee jumping that you don't be in a rubber band. No.
Speaker 1: I'm a friend of heights anyway, so skydiving would would
Speaker 1: scare the ship out of me. But my a cousin
Speaker 1: of mine he went on a bachelor party about a
Speaker 1: decade ago, and he went, I think they went past
Speaker 1: Lake Elsinore, I think, And he said that when they
Speaker 1: went out, it was early in the morning, like eight
Speaker 1: nine o'clock in the morning. They went out to jump,
Speaker 1: and he said that the adrenine rush was so high
Speaker 1: and his adrenaline was just shot through the roof that
Speaker 1: when they when they eventually landed and touchdown, they grabbed
Speaker 1: a beer at the local bar, and then he slept
Speaker 1: the rest of the day. That's how shot he was
Speaker 1: from the drop. Yeah. Be sure to catch live a
Speaker 1: dish so the Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am
Speaker 1: Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Be sure to catch live editions
Speaker 1: of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
Speaker 1: eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio app. Jason writes, and he says, Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: so I'm graduating from college this year. Congratulations. Uh. And
Speaker 1: I got to leave a personal message for the ceremony
Speaker 1: this year. Anyway, I will attach a picture of the messages.
Speaker 1: I think you'll both really appreciate it. Thank you, Signed
Speaker 1: Jason from parts of We don't know what college, and
Speaker 1: we don't know much more than that. But did you
Speaker 1: see the photo of you? Are you looking at here?
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not what he wrote here. I didn't
Speaker 1: cheat my way through college like the Astros cheated to
Speaker 1: win the World Series. Good job by you, Jason. Look
Speaker 1: at that. See that's a that's a legitimate diploma there.
Speaker 1: You're not like the Astros. Where you it's a tarnished
Speaker 1: just a little piece of paper? Is what would be
Speaker 1: if you cheated like that? How dare all right? What
Speaker 1: do we have near here? Let me see? I don't
Speaker 1: think I put the name on this one. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: a long one. It's let's see any MENI monumo? Oh
Speaker 1: this is from I'm a pilot. Oh maybe we should
Speaker 1: skip that way. Yeah, let's just skip it. Uh, he
Speaker 1: says during my early morning I'll just read the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he wants me to read the
Speaker 1: whole thing. He didn't say not to read whole thing,
Speaker 1: he says during my early morning Tokyo jawg. I just
Speaker 1: finished listening to this week's fifth hour podcast shows, and
Speaker 1: comparing and compared to the dreck of the previous week,
Speaker 1: one can only conclude that David Gascon is crucial to
Speaker 1: the show. Much like a solid foundation on which the
Speaker 1: Acropolis in Athens and the Pyramids of Giza have stood
Speaker 1: for centuries, so too is the work of one David J. Gascon.
Speaker 1: This must be your burner account, right, good man, This
Speaker 1: gotta be your burner account. Look at I mean, he
Speaker 1: has commas in the right place, his periods, he capitalizes,
Speaker 1: he has all the words spelled out. And this is
Speaker 1: a white collar type of guy. This is the guy
Speaker 1: that we need here for your audience to grow this
Speaker 1: fucking show. Well it says here I I feel, as
Speaker 1: over a ten year listener to your show and self
Speaker 1: appointed counsel for David Gascon, the malfeasance accused by you
Speaker 1: upon him must be debunked again. This is a burner
Speaker 1: account for Guescon. I wonder if we could prove me wrong.
Speaker 1: I wonder if we can bribe I'm a pilot to
Speaker 1: bring back some Japanese wag ou. He's in Tokyo, he said,
Speaker 1: was email continues in said Mallard. Show guide Books section
Speaker 1: seven subsections seven A is incorrect, said fill in Big
Speaker 1: Mike is solely accountable for their own production, and liability
Speaker 1: does not fall upon Gascon, who was not available nor
Speaker 1: had any way to correct or control the shitty production.
Speaker 1: A waiver and release. Let's pause right there, let's at
Speaker 1: the pause. But that's not true, all right. The way
Speaker 1: this works here, when you are lazy and you don't
Speaker 1: show up to work, you are supposed to tell the
Speaker 1: person filling in how to properly do their job. And
Speaker 1: if you do not do that and that didn't happen here,
Speaker 1: then you are responsible. That's like you going to call
Speaker 1: on Calahert telling him how to do his job or
Speaker 1: vice versa. No, no, if the difference if Cowherd filled
Speaker 1: in for me and I didn't tell him how our
Speaker 1: show works, that would be maufiss. No, wouldn't he just
Speaker 1: t It would absolutely be Maufie's how hard is it
Speaker 1: for you to just go on the air talk and
Speaker 1: then lean on callers for another hour or two. Well,
Speaker 1: according to you, they can't read, so how could I
Speaker 1: lead on them? I mean they're illiterate. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: I guess all right, it is up to the marquee name.
Speaker 1: I'm a pilot says, to fully vest the validity and
Speaker 1: ability of fill ins to not only produce, but manage
Speaker 1: discrepancies to mark He's names satisfaction. Well, that's actually not true.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. Some people think, well, hey,
Speaker 1: why don't you have so and so fill it? And
Speaker 1: and here's the thing. If you think I had any
Speaker 1: kind of leeway at the company, any kind of power,
Speaker 1: and I wielded a powerful, powerful hammer, do you think
Speaker 1: i'd have David Guesscon on the podcast. Do you think
Speaker 1: I would have Brian Finley no step in when Eddie's away? Maybe?
Speaker 1: Of course not no, no, no, no no no. You
Speaker 1: have to fill in then for Eddie if if he
Speaker 1: was not around, well, anybody but Finley a b F
Speaker 1: whether that's wreck Itt Ralph to Seger, who I don't
Speaker 1: think will work on our show anymore. I don't know
Speaker 1: any of these guys. I would have them or probably myself,
Speaker 1: not you, and I did not have you on that list.
Speaker 1: You just complain it's too late. I can't stay up.
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta go east to the four old
Speaker 1: five boo boom. Anybody can regurgitate updates for seven hours
Speaker 1: during that time slot. Well, yeah, you update, guys, do
Speaker 1: one update and just repeat it over and over again.
Speaker 1: It's fascinating. The work ethic involved in rewriting. I remember
Speaker 1: when I started, they gave this book. I still have
Speaker 1: it somewhere. It's in the in the shed somewhere, but
Speaker 1: it's it was the guide book to doing news updates
Speaker 1: at Fox Sports Radio, and it was like, yeah, rewrite
Speaker 1: every hour and uh you know, rephrase and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh no, that doesn't happen anymore. That ship is left
Speaker 1: the port. It's wild. What else do we have. He'd
Speaker 1: made some comment about the Dodgers who cares a five
Speaker 1: tool players such as David J. Gas up with this
Speaker 1: guy really wants to have your child there. Hey, you
Speaker 1: two should get a room. We should first class, first
Speaker 1: class cabin. I'm a pilot, says David J. Gascon needs
Speaker 1: an apology, no apology. A man who has had his
Speaker 1: hand in radio, TV, cinema, social media and literature does
Speaker 1: not wait for nobody right. Much like all the superheroes
Speaker 1: of our time, Mr Gascon goes where he is called
Speaker 1: and needed most. I need to take a shower after
Speaker 1: reading this. David Gascon's most recent display of genius may
Speaker 1: have been recently when producing your regular show. His acute
Speaker 1: sense of screening callers and promptly ending them at the
Speaker 1: perfect time was nothing short of miraculous. I can only
Speaker 1: imagine what I'm a Pilot thought of David Gascon on
Speaker 1: my birthday calling me a piece of ship. I probably
Speaker 1: thought that was really good as well. One can only
Speaker 1: ascertain I'm a Pilot says that he is one of
Speaker 1: the main reasons why the show consistently ranks in the
Speaker 1: top five. I think we all agree that we need
Speaker 1: more David Gascon in our life's good and you, you see,
Speaker 1: here's the thing you accuse me of having. Like Pierre
Speaker 1: and Springfield, guys like that suck up to me. They
Speaker 1: have never written a love note that guy like this
Speaker 1: from I'm a Pilot. As they can't write, they can't
Speaker 1: articulate it. In the fashion that he has done that.
Speaker 1: I mean he's not done, but he's not done. I
Speaker 1: believe a public apology, and I'm a pilot, says for
Speaker 1: your alleged mouthfeasance against him would end our grievance and
Speaker 1: we would consider this matter close. On another note, I
Speaker 1: noticed you have been talking about sprucing up the house
Speaker 1: and uh and all that. Immediately my spider's senses begin
Speaker 1: to twitch, and it can mean two things, he says.
Speaker 1: As a father of twin girls five years old, I
Speaker 1: know this trend. Either Mrs Maller may be pregnant and
Speaker 1: you are waiting until the first trimester, or you are
Speaker 1: setting and moving to west of the four oh five.
Speaker 1: Neither of those things. All these guys trying to figure
Speaker 1: out what's going on, all all these private eyes here
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what's going on. Uh, there is
Speaker 1: nothing I can reveal at this time, but I promise
Speaker 1: you I will not be living west of the four
Speaker 1: oh five. Never going to happen. No, No, it bothers me.
Speaker 1: When I go west to the four or five, I
Speaker 1: try to go to the beach where the four oh
Speaker 1: five ends, because I don't want to go west of
Speaker 1: the four or five. So I'll just go to like,
Speaker 1: I'll go all the way down to the Laguna Beach
Speaker 1: because that's there's no four oh five down there. We're
Speaker 1: all go up north to central California, or I'll go
Speaker 1: to Ventura or somewhere like that where there's no no
Speaker 1: four oh five. Fru. This is arguably you're the best
Speaker 1: caller that you have on your show. He doesn't even call,
Speaker 1: he does no. No, he's not a call. He's an
Speaker 1: email writer. He's a Twitter guy. He's not a call.
Speaker 1: He's the best personnel that you have amongst your followers.
Speaker 1: Great guy. I mean, obviously he's working part of the
Speaker 1: working class, but he's elite and there's a whole lot
Speaker 1: of reasons why. All right, calm down? Uh, he has
Speaker 1: a question also, but this thing goes on forever. How
Speaker 1: about brevity. I'm a pilot. How about a flight to Tokyo?
Speaker 1: What do you Yeah, but we don't have a fourteen
Speaker 1: hour podcast? Maybe not you alway is gonna wrap it up?
Speaker 1: I'll be wrap it up. I gotta go. I got
Speaker 1: things to do. I can't I can't be here forever.
Speaker 1: Yea NonStop I got these Well, you're going. I'm like,
Speaker 1: there's no clock on a podcast. We can do whatever
Speaker 1: we want. There's no clock on a pocket. No, No,
Speaker 1: I got things to do. Leave me alone. Blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. As you used to say back in
Speaker 1: the day. Get to the point. Get to the point. Please.
Speaker 1: Here's the question from I'm a pilot. What is something
Speaker 1: you did that was really out of your comfort zone?
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be the scariest, but something you
Speaker 1: didn't want to do but ended up kind of enjoying.
Speaker 1: And he listed a couple of options. Eating something weird. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think eating the bull testicles was probably the biggest
Speaker 1: thing I did. I did not enjoy it though, the
Speaker 1: Rocky Mountain oysters. I've never done horseback riding. I did
Speaker 1: go to the ballet. My wife she wanted to go
Speaker 1: to the ballet, So I went to the ballet and
Speaker 1: so a lot of dudes walking around with cod pieces.
Speaker 1: That was awkward and uh yeah, that was not really
Speaker 1: my my jam. I went to a Beauty and the
Speaker 1: Beast musical at the Hollywood Bowl great spot. Sorry, I
Speaker 1: don't like that stacked parking over there, but I've done that.
Speaker 1: I've never we talked about certain I've never done skydiving school,
Speaker 1: I've done snorkeling, not scuba diving. Ballroom dancing I've never done,
Speaker 1: never done that. I would say the thing that was
Speaker 1: really out of my comfort zone was getting married and uh,
Speaker 1: and I did do that. There you go. So I'm
Speaker 1: a pilot with the never ending letter who someday, Gascon
Speaker 1: you will look back at your life and you say,
Speaker 1: who said the nicest thing about me in my life?
Speaker 1: And it would be I'm a pilot. Right there, it
Speaker 1: goes one and then definitely not to you at number two.
Speaker 1: So I will answer this question. I think I've had
Speaker 1: cow tongue before. That was kind of awkward and uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: I do hear you like tongue and um, who doesn't
Speaker 1: like a little tongue? Um? And I think the I
Speaker 1: think the acting for me doing that is um out
Speaker 1: of my comfort zone too. The acting. Yeah, well you
Speaker 1: missed the podcast every other week because of the acting.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1: But it's different when you're doing live radio or live television.
Speaker 1: You're flying without a parachute, so you're your pot committed.
Speaker 1: You don't have time to think about it. But when
Speaker 1: you are on a set and you're shooting, you've got
Speaker 1: people looking at you, judging you. And then of course
Speaker 1: you have a director that and an editor that will
Speaker 1: make or break you. They can capture whatever you put
Speaker 1: out there and either cut it or emphasize it. And
Speaker 1: then on top of that, you're just trying to portray
Speaker 1: something and someone else. And well you should do the
Speaker 1: curb your enthusiasm type acting where you don't have lines.
Speaker 1: You know, there's some things you have to say, but
Speaker 1: you can add live, right you can. Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: the kind of acting that I would want to do
Speaker 1: improv But yeah, yeah, But when you're going on these
Speaker 1: on these films or these shows, they want you to
Speaker 1: be word perfect and buy the book. So if you're
Speaker 1: not word perfect, they say it's an insult to the
Speaker 1: to the writer and they have written Dad bullshit. I know.
Speaker 1: It's all about Hyden Deliver, who was the old actor
Speaker 1: that had the supposedly had the earpiece in because he
Speaker 1: could never remember his lines. I thought, was Marlon Brando?
Speaker 1: Is it Marlon Brando? It might be Marlon brand Yeah,
Speaker 1: the legendary Hollywood story. He was such a such a
Speaker 1: stumble bum and such a he could not remember his lines,
Speaker 1: so they had to put an earpiece in and in
Speaker 1: that way he would be told what to say and
Speaker 1: just repeat it. Yeah. Or they'd have flash cards are
Speaker 1: almost like a billboard below. His partner has seen partners
Speaker 1: like Breastplate, so he would go off the copy off
Speaker 1: of that when they're saying, yeah, it's like David Letterman
Speaker 1: or the old the late night shows when he used
Speaker 1: to watch those, and they'd have the Q cards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carson let around all those guys. Johnny Carson, Jimmy's brother,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carson played for l A Kings. I do remember
Speaker 1: I named Carson that played for the Kings. Queen Roxanne
Speaker 1: in I'm just going back to back with a love affair.
Speaker 1: I love. Is this your birthday or my birthday weekend? Well,
Speaker 1: it can't be my birthday. We can you call me
Speaker 1: a piece of ship, so it can't be my birthday
Speaker 1: week Queen Roxanne and Colorado rights and says, where is
Speaker 1: the first vacation you'll be taking since the country seems
Speaker 1: to be opening up. As far as a plane, I've
Speaker 1: been around California. Don't tell anybody that. But I've gone
Speaker 1: all over the Golden State here during the last year,
Speaker 1: but I haven't gone anywhere outside of California like weekend
Speaker 1: road trips. In fact, I was just in Santa Barbara recently.
Speaker 1: I love Santa Barbara Salvang That part of California is
Speaker 1: very cool go for a weekend hang out. But I
Speaker 1: do do have some plans I'd like to, as I
Speaker 1: said earlier, either today or yesterday, I gonna go back
Speaker 1: to Wisconsin visit my brother in Appleton. So I'll go
Speaker 1: to Chicago and then up to Appleton and maybe I'll
Speaker 1: I gotta get to Minnesota, and I'll be in Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: which is right you know, past Minnesota. So I should
Speaker 1: probably stop in Minnesota, and then I gotta get to Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Have some Skyline chili with just Josh and Justin and Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bros and all that. Yeah, what would be
Speaker 1: a meal of choice in Cincinnati? Are we talking brought
Speaker 1: worst here? Well, the Cincinnati is known as the Well
Speaker 1: Minnesota is the juicy Lucy. That's what I want to
Speaker 1: have a juicy Lucy in Minnesota. But in Cincinnati there
Speaker 1: the dish I always heard was the Skyline chili. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the chili on top of spaghetti. Isn't that what
Speaker 1: they do? I think that's what. But you're you're allergic
Speaker 1: to hot sauce, aren't you? No? No, I mean I
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I've got a white guy tolerance to
Speaker 1: hot sauce. But I I I think I I like
Speaker 1: hot sauce more than I do. But as I've gotten older,
Speaker 1: like I used to never eat the peppers on the pizza,
Speaker 1: but I love to put extra pepper on the pizza.
Speaker 1: On that so I'm all about it? All right? Fair enough?
Speaker 1: Rick from San Ramon writes in and No Cal He says,
Speaker 1: Ben and Gascon, I really enjoyed your interview with Ryan Leaf.
Speaker 1: It changed my opinion of the guy because he actually
Speaker 1: acknowledged his immaturity when he was younger. I'm sure his
Speaker 1: time and custody provided him with a chance to take
Speaker 1: stock of his mistakes. Rick points Ricks points out the
Speaker 1: funniest part of the interview was Gascon's conversation with Leif
Speaker 1: about Colin Kaepernick talk about biting your tongue. That conversation
Speaker 1: could have deteriorated quickly. He says, great stuff, keep it up. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that and also don't discount Rick when I just as
Speaker 1: a throwaway comment, pointed out to Ryan Leaf that we
Speaker 1: used to play his knock It Off sound bite ad
Speaker 1: nauseum on the radio and that he got really upset
Speaker 1: and he got angry. I got angry, Ryan Leaf, and
Speaker 1: that was unexpected. That was awkward. I thought he was just,
Speaker 1: you know, have a good sense of humor about it. No,
Speaker 1: he didn't have a good sense of humor about it,
Speaker 1: not at all. I wasn't gonna counts out to him
Speaker 1: about his because he likes Colin Kaepernick, and that's that's fine.
Speaker 1: I mean, I liked him when he planned it in Nevada.
Speaker 1: But you know, certain things that he said, we just
Speaker 1: obviously didn't agree with that. Yeah, we have fundamental disagrees
Speaker 1: with Colin Kaepernick, but you're not gonna not I don't know,
Speaker 1: is that a battle you want to get into at
Speaker 1: that point? Maybe maybe it is. But Ryan Leaf is
Speaker 1: a He answered every question we asked and he didn't
Speaker 1: shy away from anything either, Like he was pretty candid
Speaker 1: with every response he gave us. Yeah, no, that's true,
Speaker 1: that's true. Yeah. Yeah, I thought Leaf was good. I
Speaker 1: thought he was good. And uh, the next next draft.
Speaker 1: I think next year we're gonna have to have JaMarcus Russell.
Speaker 1: That'd be fun. We should track him down. I wonder
Speaker 1: what he's doing. Oh man, curious, Like what do you
Speaker 1: do when you wanted the great busts of all time?
Speaker 1: But we know what Ryan leaves up to? What's he
Speaker 1: What if we can get Ontario Smith on, I'll talk
Speaker 1: about the Wisonator, it'd be great, good. Yeah, we should
Speaker 1: do that. We should just like it's a podcast. We
Speaker 1: know where we want, but how do we track these
Speaker 1: guys down? That's the thing. Wisonators and Purple Drank. You know.
Speaker 1: I'd like to get on Richie Incognito boy, that guy,
Speaker 1: oh man, man, he'd talked about what happened with the
Speaker 1: Dolphins and that whole I think that was a bull crap. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's like me, He's like Jeremy Turley on steroids. That
Speaker 1: would be a that would be a good one. You know.
Speaker 1: I really want to get on and I know he
Speaker 1: would do it. Is Terry Bratch. I worked with Terry
Speaker 1: on radio. We gotta get I see the problem with
Speaker 1: Terry is you gotta like go through publicists and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. But we could play that game, right, you
Speaker 1: can play that game. We could Bradshaw on here alright,
Speaker 1: Neil writes in on the mail bag, he says, big man, Oh,
Speaker 1: big Ben, I've been listening to your show, your voice
Speaker 1: on radio for a decade and a half. Holy crap,
Speaker 1: that's a long time. So a huge fan of yours. However,
Speaker 1: the episodes with Big Mike was not just a disaster
Speaker 1: because of audio quality, but Big Mike is a big
Speaker 1: band boot liquor and has the charisma of a Biden
Speaker 1: Staff There you go, which is a super cringe lick
Speaker 1: fest type show. Going from Gascon to Big Mike is
Speaker 1: like going from a Portion nine eleven to a Toyota camera.
Speaker 1: How dare you use a car analogy like I've done? Neil,
Speaker 1: You schmuck? How dare you another suck up? You know?
Speaker 1: Neil gets a golden ticket, Steve gets a golden ticket.
Speaker 1: Miss the Gascon banter. So glad your sidekick. That's the
Speaker 1: meaning good Jeff by you in the air high five
Speaker 1: to Neil giving you an air high five. He called
Speaker 1: your side so happy your sidekick came back. He is
Speaker 1: like Steve Williams the caddy to you Tiger Woods without
Speaker 1: the Caddy, you know what happened to tigers, so be
Speaker 1: kind to Gascon. The key to your your masters is
Speaker 1: is my sidekick and Caddy, I need a book deal now.
Speaker 1: That is so good. Caddy and the sidekick and tell
Speaker 1: all book. Uh, he says, for the mailbag, your mallarm
Speaker 1: monalogue on Lebron his disgusting police tweet and Adams scarecrow
Speaker 1: silver was epic. Well, thank you for that, Neil. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you enjoyed that. Always fun to take pot shots
Speaker 1: at the god's gift to humanity. Who's gonna fix the
Speaker 1: world unless you actually ask him to do something, Lebron James,
Speaker 1: and then he will run and hide and turtle up
Speaker 1: with our as we said earlier, with our guy Leo Terrell,
Speaker 1: who the great Leo Terrell, who tried to hey, Lebron,
Speaker 1: you got a problem with cops. I got a black
Speaker 1: police office here. Would like to have a conversation with you.
Speaker 1: Figure out what we can do. Nothing, absolutely nothing. Uh.
Speaker 1: He says, though, Neil that he finds the baseball monologues
Speaker 1: that we do the best. He says, I don't even
Speaker 1: watch baseball, and I don't even care about baseball. Uh.
Speaker 1: If you were to pick one sport to watch for
Speaker 1: the rest of your life, would it be baseball, the NFL.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing it's not. The dumpster fire, n b A
Speaker 1: is the is you know, the NBA, the the New NHL,
Speaker 1: and viewership he's as well. Yeah, it would definitely be
Speaker 1: a toss up between baseball and football. From a radio perspective,
Speaker 1: football is much more important. But I loved baseball. Baseball
Speaker 1: was my first love when I was a kid. I
Speaker 1: played it all the time, played hours and hours of
Speaker 1: stickball in the neighborhood. I would you know, I was
Speaker 1: the kid that had no friends, so I just throw
Speaker 1: the tennis ball against the garage door, and I thought
Speaker 1: I was the greatest defensive player of all time. And
Speaker 1: I I just have fun members on the batting cages
Speaker 1: and all that. But I wouldn't have a problem just
Speaker 1: watching football the rest of my life because football is
Speaker 1: actually the perfect sport to have a life if you
Speaker 1: only watch the games because they only play once a week.
Speaker 1: It's although now it's like Thursday, Sunday, Monday, but you
Speaker 1: don't have to watch every game. So yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: it's a toss up, But I wouldn't have no problem
Speaker 1: with baseball or fooball. I guess if you put a
Speaker 1: gun to my head, I'd picked baseball, but I'd be
Speaker 1: fine with football. Well, on top of that, you have
Speaker 1: a hundred sixty two games, a lot more content for
Speaker 1: you as opposed to just the sixteen seven two weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and baseball you're not supposed to watch every game. You're suppose.
Speaker 1: It's one of those things, as you know it's there.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a good parent, right, good parent.
Speaker 1: You know you don't need your parents every day, but
Speaker 1: it's good to know they're there if you need them. Right.
Speaker 1: It's good to know that if you're really getting a
Speaker 1: tough spot in your life, you can call up. Whether
Speaker 1: maybe it's not your parent, maybe it's an uncle or nan,
Speaker 1: or a grandparent or a cousin or something. But to
Speaker 1: know you've got that person in your life that in
Speaker 1: case things go bad, you can call them up and
Speaker 1: they'll help you out. It's important to have that person.
Speaker 1: Whoever that person is all right, he says, but it's
Speaker 1: another long email from Neil, he says, regarding the Friday
Speaker 1: interview show, the interview with Ryan Leaf was out of
Speaker 1: the box and really good. To continue the out of
Speaker 1: the box thinking, I know you are not keen on
Speaker 1: YouTube work. Well that's not true, Neil. I watch a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff on the weekends on on YouTube. I've
Speaker 1: said that YouTube to me is is they have just
Speaker 1: better content. It's harder to find, it's harder to find,
Speaker 1: but it's better content than Netflix. Like I think Netflix
Speaker 1: has gone way down. I think YouTube, which I don't
Speaker 1: pay for it, don't pay for YouTube, but I think
Speaker 1: it's better stuff. But I've found some really good YouTube
Speaker 1: channels that I watch travel logs and things like that
Speaker 1: on the weekends, which are pretty good. He says. Uh.
Speaker 1: He says, I know you're not keen on YouTube work
Speaker 1: and a big fan of radio guests, but wouldn't you
Speaker 1: be able to book some YouTube folks that cover the
Speaker 1: third route with zeal There are only a few of
Speaker 1: you out there that call I'll call out all the hypocrisy,
Speaker 1: bigotry and racism, and it would be interesting how conversations
Speaker 1: would go. We've done that. We've had Leo Terrell as
Speaker 1: uh as we mentioned him. We've had him on. Dave
Speaker 1: Rubin has been on multiple times, a political pundit um,
Speaker 1: and we've tried to get some other guys on. Didn't,
Speaker 1: so we say who we try to get on some
Speaker 1: former baseball players who we've been efforting but have been
Speaker 1: unable to book for the podcast. Yeah, We've trying to
Speaker 1: get Kurt Schilling on Aubrey Huff. Yeah, we thought it
Speaker 1: would be great. I mean, these guys are you talk
Speaker 1: about lightning rods and polarizing and all of that. We
Speaker 1: thought it would be fun to have those guys on
Speaker 1: and create at bit of a firestorm. And but we've
Speaker 1: been unable to book them. So yeah, because that would
Speaker 1: ignite stuff. People become hysterical your opinions that they don't
Speaker 1: agree with, It just become fanatical. Oh, I can't believe.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like that Will Ferrell line of point.
Speaker 1: That escalated quickly. And then see when we have if
Speaker 1: we had Aubrey Huff or Chilling on, and I've interviewed
Speaker 1: Chilling when I was doing Boston stuff, I had Chilling on.
Speaker 1: But if if you had those guys on, it would
Speaker 1: be the usual email and it's it's like a boiler
Speaker 1: plate at this point. I've gotten so many times over
Speaker 1: the years. You know, I used to like your show
Speaker 1: and I listened for X number of years, but since
Speaker 1: you had Blank on, I can no longer listen because
Speaker 1: you do not agree with my political ideology and blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah. I uh, I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: maybe we should go and try to enquire about someone
Speaker 1: from CNN. What if we got Jim Acosta on? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would that would be That would be good. I
Speaker 1: would I would talk to any of those guys. I'm
Speaker 1: not obviously I lean more to the right, but I
Speaker 1: would be I don't care if it's good audio. You know,
Speaker 1: I'd love to have Joe Biden on. He probably wouldn't
Speaker 1: remember it if he did it, but I any president,
Speaker 1: I always believe that, you know, it was Trump, Biden, Obama,
Speaker 1: whoever the president is. I think that's awesome. I'm still
Speaker 1: impressed that that Clay on his show had Donald Trump
Speaker 1: as a sitting president call into a morning sports radio show.
Speaker 1: To me, that's awesome. So yeah, he says he names
Speaker 1: some people you know who? Any of these people are
Speaker 1: Ryan and Jeremy at Sports Wars. Are you familiar with them? No,
Speaker 1: John Matrix and Rhodes rants Black and White Sports. Are
Speaker 1: you familiar with them? No? Yeah, I don't. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not. Maybe, I'm sure they're probably good. I just don't.
Speaker 1: That's not in my my wheelhouse. He said. Those guys
Speaker 1: had under a thousand subscribers a year ago to they
Speaker 1: are nearing a hundred thousand. There you go, sports Wars
Speaker 1: a hundred one thousand subscribers. Good for them, uh, he says,
Speaker 1: they're making a living on the third rail. Mam my own.
Speaker 1: There you going? He says, if not, what about out
Speaker 1: kicked the coverage with Clay Travis as a Friday guest. Well,
Speaker 1: we're trying to get Clay on, but he's Clay's big time.
Speaker 1: He won't come on the podcast. Ye see, these guys
Speaker 1: do the stuff on YouTube though, so I know you
Speaker 1: don't like you doing YouTube. So it's well, I've said, listen.
Speaker 1: My position is if there's a nice big check coming in,
Speaker 1: then okay, you know, I'm I'm fine. But if there's
Speaker 1: not that nice big check, then it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: the motivation. There you go? Uh. He says, I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to the weekend shows with my favorite Caddy Gascon's
Speaker 1: what is this? Back to that emails and being a
Speaker 1: Caddy that was the same email. Blind Seahawk fan Emmett
Speaker 1: in Olympia, Washington says, this is for you and west
Speaker 1: of the four oh five day b Gagon, what was
Speaker 1: the most pain you have been through? This is uh
Speaker 1: for Mallard, what is your issue with people west of
Speaker 1: the world five? So I guess you wants to know
Speaker 1: the most pain you've been through. You've told this story before.
Speaker 1: You've complained about the pain, the agony. I want to
Speaker 1: repeat that for Emmet who might not have been listening
Speaker 1: back then. I mean, I've torn my road to the
Speaker 1: cuff twice and I was an agonizing pain and uh
Speaker 1: physically and emotionally because it was my sophomore year of
Speaker 1: college and I was playing football at Iles. I thought
Speaker 1: I was on my way to getting a Division one
Speaker 1: scholarship and uh, I was alighted team captain and uh,
Speaker 1: I was on all the conference tight end. Tore my
Speaker 1: road turn the cuff and a scrimmage against U C.
Speaker 1: L A. As a second time, I tore it in
Speaker 1: a three years span, and I was done and uh
Speaker 1: and I knew it, and uh, yeah, I think my
Speaker 1: life would be drastically different if my body didn't if
Speaker 1: I didn't fail my body or my body didn't fail
Speaker 1: me would have been drastically different. So you where would
Speaker 1: you have gone to college? Who were you thinking you
Speaker 1: were gonna play football? Well? I was getting I was
Speaker 1: getting letters of inquiry from like Arizona State, cal Oregon,
Speaker 1: San Diego State, Arizona, and Washington State. Yeah. I was
Speaker 1: gonna bring it up last week with Ryan Leaf. I
Speaker 1: actually took a recruiting trip up to see Mike Price,
Speaker 1: who was the head coach. You went to the polouse, Yeah,
Speaker 1: went to Wazoo. Yeah that's tipping cow countries with that
Speaker 1: pullman man. But but yeah, it was. It was a
Speaker 1: great experience. And yeah, I had an opportunity. I was
Speaker 1: an all conference tight end at junior college and I
Speaker 1: had three receptions all year and two receptions all year
Speaker 1: for three yards. And but I hit like a hammer.
Speaker 1: And our our college was top three amongst the biggest
Speaker 1: recruiting UH venues throughout the United States. So I had
Speaker 1: a chance. I had a real good chance, and uh
Speaker 1: it was crippling. So yeah, it's like when I was
Speaker 1: up for the l A Clippers halftime show and I
Speaker 1: didn't get it. I didn't get it. I can't tell
Speaker 1: you why I told you off the year why I
Speaker 1: didn't get that job. It might be in my book someday.
Speaker 1: Let's just say I was ahead of my time. That
Speaker 1: something happened to me. That is commonplace these days, but
Speaker 1: but back then it was. Yeah, I feel like I
Speaker 1: was a trail not a Portland trailblazer, especially considering what
Speaker 1: a lapdog I've been for the Clippers over the years.
Speaker 1: That was really that was that would have been a
Speaker 1: big one. And uh, yeah, I don't know that what
Speaker 1: it was. The other quae, well, why do I hate
Speaker 1: people west of the four or five? Because I've met them,
Speaker 1: you know, That's why. No, I just don't like pretend.
Speaker 1: I mean, I live in in l a here, man.
Speaker 1: I know you're in Washington. It's a little different vibe
Speaker 1: in Olympia Washington. You're a young guy, you're in high school,
Speaker 1: and you'll, I mean, you'll figure this out. But I
Speaker 1: mean there's certain I'm sure there's certain parts of the
Speaker 1: area you live in where there's people. I just don't
Speaker 1: like elitist, that nonsense. I don't like that. I you know,
Speaker 1: I like, I like to relate. I don't care whether
Speaker 1: you're a milkman to me. Everyone's I tried to treat
Speaker 1: everyone the same. Maybe I don't do it, but people
Speaker 1: west of the four oh five, there's a whole class structure.
Speaker 1: If you run a movie studio, if you're this, that
Speaker 1: or the other thing, you've got some status to you,
Speaker 1: they treat you differently. And I try to treat everyone
Speaker 1: the same. And I I can meet just as fascinated
Speaker 1: talking to a guy, this guy Hayes, who's been calling up,
Speaker 1: who washes bodies for a living as I can. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this guy in Minnesota, he does he work at a morgue. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: and he sounds like a guy who would work at
Speaker 1: a morgue. He's got this very slow delivery to him.
Speaker 1: But I'm fascinated by his life, Like, how does someone
Speaker 1: end up in that job? Nobody, nobody is a little kid.
Speaker 1: I would say nobody. It's always the exception of the rule.
Speaker 1: But nobody starts out as a kid. Said point, I
Speaker 1: want to wash bodies, dead bodies when I become a
Speaker 1: grown up. It's a very important thing. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: all gonna die, we all have loved ones that are
Speaker 1: gonna die, and we need you know, you need to
Speaker 1: treat the body. I believe the body is even you know,
Speaker 1: after you're gone, you gotta respect that with the proper honor,
Speaker 1: but still actually do it. Um so like a guy
Speaker 1: like that. I'm fascinating Doc Mike loony Tune. I love
Speaker 1: Doc Mike, But a lot of people in our business
Speaker 1: and partaking radio looked out upon these people that a
Speaker 1: lot of won't even take calls and they'd rather just
Speaker 1: lick the toes of some hack former athlete because they
Speaker 1: had status and they played professional sports. To me, oftentimes,
Speaker 1: not always, but oftentimes these guys that were, you know,
Speaker 1: just have regular gigs truck drivers. And I've had a
Speaker 1: great conversations moving man Mad from Boston. He hates your guts,
Speaker 1: by the way, but you know he's had a very
Speaker 1: interesting life and things that have happened to him. So
Speaker 1: what what what was that? Ted? Wow? Tired alright? Moving on?
Speaker 1: Kevin in Kansas writes and he says, Hey, Ben and
Speaker 1: David as hosts and creators are the most fun and
Speaker 1: fascinating podcast out there. Do you have any plans to
Speaker 1: tweak anything? Every episode seems fresh, timely, and informative about
Speaker 1: that's Kevin, You should write this email in a review
Speaker 1: on the Apple podcast page is what you should do.
Speaker 1: Just cut and paste, Boom done. He says, I know
Speaker 1: that good artists are always looking for ways to make
Speaker 1: the good stuff even better. Keep up the good work,
Speaker 1: A great work, he said, Uh don't. I mean there's
Speaker 1: all ms people proachas all the time. Who knows. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the future holds, guest, go on, I
Speaker 1: have no idea. I wonder where he is in Kansas.
Speaker 1: Have you been to Kansas before? I have, But I've
Speaker 1: just been to the part near Kansas City, which doesn't
Speaker 1: really count. But I've been to Kansas City. I actually
Speaker 1: stayed in Kansas City, Kansas, which is just separated by
Speaker 1: some train tracks. Yeah, it's a sister city of Kansas City, Missouri.
Speaker 1: But you get a cheaper hotel room in Kansas. So
Speaker 1: I stayed in Kansas because the hotel rooms were cheaper
Speaker 1: than Kansas City, Missouri. And I figured, like it's two
Speaker 1: miles away, So what's the big freaking deal. David from Simpsonville,
Speaker 1: South Carolina rights in He's says David. David's dad is
Speaker 1: a hero. Has he ever or would he ever? Run
Speaker 1: for office? All right, your pops, old man, the chief
Speaker 1: who we've had on the podcast. Guy ran the l
Speaker 1: a p D. David Gascon was on television every night
Speaker 1: around the world during the o J situation back in
Speaker 1: the day. As your dad ever considered getting into politics, No, no,
Speaker 1: but he I mean he did not, as he told you.
Speaker 1: Why not, Well, he did try to run for for
Speaker 1: chief of police for the l a p D. He
Speaker 1: would have been the first Latino ever in the department
Speaker 1: to be the chief of police. But yeah, the police department,
Speaker 1: the police chief, those guys are more yes men nowadays
Speaker 1: than they are their own men. And the political sphere
Speaker 1: is just it's just dark and decrepit now you think
Speaker 1: about it doesn't matter if you're right or left. These
Speaker 1: people all have the interests of themselves. Now, what would
Speaker 1: your dad be interested in replacing George Gascon as the
Speaker 1: district attorney? Gascon for Gascon, But he would, he would
Speaker 1: crush it. But no, there's no chance. He's doing a
Speaker 1: lot right now for the United States Olympic Committee. He's
Speaker 1: doing stuff on the US diving team, he did stuff
Speaker 1: on the handball team. He does consulting. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: would imagine once you run the l a p D,
Speaker 1: you can always have consulting work for police, right, I
Speaker 1: mean that's kind of a big Even outside of that, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he's doing work for the United States Olympic Committee,
Speaker 1: Like how do you go from thisforcement to that? And
Speaker 1: he does? He transitioned. What are the perks on that?
Speaker 1: Do you get to go to like the Olympics wherever? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's supposed to be going to uh took your Japan
Speaker 1: this year, but that's not gonna be the case, I
Speaker 1: don't think. But yeah, he goes to the Pan end
Speaker 1: games that take place. He's gone to Canada when they've
Speaker 1: had some of the North American Games being played up there.
Speaker 1: He travels, travels the world. But it does a lot
Speaker 1: of fundraising too. So a lot of these athletes, if
Speaker 1: you're not on the basketball team or maybe the baseball teams,
Speaker 1: you're not getting top dollar at all. Even gymnasts and divers,
Speaker 1: they don't get any kind of money. So a lot
Speaker 1: of fundraising being done and he's helped out Mark in Ottawa,
Speaker 1: right said he says for Gagon when cuddling with Brian Finley,
Speaker 1: do you enjoy being the big spoon or the little spoon?
Speaker 1: Great question? Mark, Yeah, let's say, Hey, Mark, mark. Last
Speaker 1: time the Ottawa Centers were worth the ship was back
Speaker 1: in the sixties. And the lift time your shitty country
Speaker 1: want to stay in the Cup was in ninete. So
Speaker 1: kind of goes sit on a bike seat with no seat.
Speaker 1: What about Justin Trudeau, you're Prime minister there, Yes, Mr
Speaker 1: black faces wokey mcwoke. It's as people in Ontario that
Speaker 1: cannot leave their house for like two weeks because the country. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know the hockey. We talked about this. We Eddie
Speaker 1: got all upset. I loved my instant conspiracy theory that
Speaker 1: just add water that the the you saw hockeys like
Speaker 1: the Canadian governors like because you're not gonna allow crossing
Speaker 1: the border and all that, and there's gonna be you know,
Speaker 1: to like June. And so my theory was this is
Speaker 1: a way to Jerry rig the NHL playoffs where there
Speaker 1: it's just the winner of the Canadian part it takes
Speaker 1: on the winner of the US right, And of course
Speaker 1: Eddie immediately piste all over my parade here and said, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't put it past that guy Justin Trudomon. That
Speaker 1: guy is a little bit of a weasel, right, not
Speaker 1: a little bit a lot of it. I mean from
Speaker 1: what I read about it. I don't know the guy,
Speaker 1: but from what I read, it's not very very flattering
Speaker 1: at all. Stick of Butter from California. How about that
Speaker 1: he writes and says, when are you going to pay
Speaker 1: off your bull testicle? Bet? Well, I did actually go back.
Speaker 1: It's on Instagram. It's on Facebook if you scroll back,
Speaker 1: page down, page down, page down, page down, bull testicle,
Speaker 1: jerky disgusting ate it because the Clippers took it on
Speaker 1: the chin against the Denver Nuggets. Jason from Rocky Mount,
Speaker 1: Virginia says, hey, Bat, I'll be sending you a hat
Speaker 1: next week. Well, thank you, Jason. What I was wondering,
Speaker 1: how many hats do you think you own? And the
Speaker 1: same for Gagon, Well, Jason, I am a I am
Speaker 1: the Emelda Marcos of hats. Is that's an outdated reference
Speaker 1: Gascon look it up, google it. But yeah, I love
Speaker 1: hat and I have I picked up a few every year.
Speaker 1: I'm getting up there now. I just had a birthday,
Speaker 1: so I probably have in my main rotation. Well available
Speaker 1: in my main rotation, I got I don't know, five
Speaker 1: to thirty. I would say maybe, maybe, a few more,
Speaker 1: maybe a few less. I haven't really counted them. Um,
Speaker 1: but somewhere in there. What about you guess how many
Speaker 1: hats do you have? I'm the mad Hatter of sports tader,
Speaker 1: so I have to have a fair amount of hat
Speaker 1: I couldn't even have. It might be a closer to fifty.
Speaker 1: Do you count beanies his hats or no? No, I'm
Speaker 1: talking to just baseball hats like that that I do
Speaker 1: these dopey monologues that he got to record me for
Speaker 1: the stupid YouTube. And I wear hats, and so I
Speaker 1: rotate the hat every night. I try to have a
Speaker 1: different hat. Man, I only have four of them. I
Speaker 1: have a Dodger's hat. I have an odd couple hat.
Speaker 1: I have a Team USA has. Rob Parker gave you
Speaker 1: the odd cup, Yeah you didn't, and then guy said
Speaker 1: I should still sell some Mallard Malicious Swag got called
Speaker 1: up in Colorado. Wanted some shirts and some hats of stuff.
Speaker 1: Rob hustles, I mean he put Yeah, Rob, I give
Speaker 1: Rob crap man. Rob's got all his on line of merchandise.
Speaker 1: He's got the barbershop. We gotta get robbed back on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll be done for that. Especially the baseball season two.
Speaker 1: He's got he's got this website called MLB bro which
Speaker 1: is dead a kid towards African American baseball players, you know,
Speaker 1: with obviously with Parker yesterday. Dave Parker mentioned that yesterday,
Speaker 1: with limited amount of African Americans, like Rob goes all
Speaker 1: the way back to the Negro leagues into where the
Speaker 1: athletes are now and and does some some good stuff
Speaker 1: on it. So before yeah, it's cool, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: it's a weird conundrum move. I touched on it with
Speaker 1: Dave Parker, but I know for twenty years, probably longer
Speaker 1: than that, the RBI program. I think it's called in
Speaker 1: the Inner City. Yeah, and I mean it try. I mean,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Right? Kids don't want to
Speaker 1: play because it's not cool, or they don't think they
Speaker 1: can make it. It's harder to make it in baseball
Speaker 1: than it is in football or basketball. It's a it's
Speaker 1: a tough nut to crack. I mean, there's ways to
Speaker 1: do it, and they can figure it out, but I
Speaker 1: think what they really need to do is and then
Speaker 1: Dave Parker touched on this on Friday. Is one of
Speaker 1: the problems baseball has is it does not lends itself,
Speaker 1: lend itself to the debate. You know, one of the
Speaker 1: reasons it does not get talked about a lot on
Speaker 1: sports radio is because most of what sports radio is
Speaker 1: is there's a controversy to agree with them, to disagree
Speaker 1: with Baseball doesn't do that, right, there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of that. We had some of that type of content
Speaker 1: with Fernando Tatisse Junior and the Dodgers when they were playing,
Speaker 1: but it's not a sport that usually does it. But
Speaker 1: if you know sports radio and debate show, sports Debate
Speaker 1: TV can talk about it, then that becomes a better
Speaker 1: thing and it creates makes it seem cooler, right, And
Speaker 1: I think the problem is is well twofold. One is
Speaker 1: you're not doing a good job of marketing and two
Speaker 1: you don't allow pictures to throw up an end anymore
Speaker 1: on these guys without benches being cleared and umpires giving
Speaker 1: out warnings to both benches. I think that's a problem.
Speaker 1: You're protecting these guys way too much as opposed to
Speaker 1: letting them run and discipline and placed the game themselves
Speaker 1: like they did back in the day. So the Inner
Speaker 1: City program I at Compton College. I was coaching junior
Speaker 1: college football there in the in the early two thousand's,
Speaker 1: the Inner Cities program that was developed by Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1: They had two gorgeous diamonds on Compton College in the
Speaker 1: city of Compton, Ben. I mean, you could have eaten
Speaker 1: off the grass. It was so fine. It looked like
Speaker 1: it was a putting green. And yeah, you'd have you'd
Speaker 1: have some little league teams that would go out there,
Speaker 1: some junior college teams, and some other high school programs
Speaker 1: that would play out there. But yeah, like my problem
Speaker 1: is is that the thought process from football. You know this.
Speaker 1: You go to college, you go to the NFL. You
Speaker 1: don't worry about the minor league system. We're in Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball. You could scuttle around, you know, high A
Speaker 1: double A, triple A and never get a crack at
Speaker 1: the show. And you have all the talent in the world,
Speaker 1: but you're just buried on a roster because you have
Speaker 1: a twenty five or forty man roster and then you
Speaker 1: have the triple A, the double A and of course
Speaker 1: the general manager and whoever he picked up in the draft.
Speaker 1: So you're you're buried unless unless you're obviously a shoe
Speaker 1: in as a as a top five pick. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: bringing up Compton. I've been to Compton, believe it or
Speaker 1: not a few times, and there's actually some really nice
Speaker 1: areas in Competon, which is shocking when you think about
Speaker 1: the reputation of Compton. What is the city next to it?
Speaker 1: That to me, that's worse than common Watts No, not Watts,
Speaker 1: Um God, what is the name of it? I can't
Speaker 1: or is the artija is that I forget? I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it was to me, it was much worse than coming.
Speaker 1: As far as the baseball thing, do you do you
Speaker 1: buy into the grand conspiracy on why baseballs in the
Speaker 1: spot it is with the lack of black players that
Speaker 1: it's because for years, when when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: you had so many big star players who were black
Speaker 1: in baseball, Ozzie Smith and Darryl Strawberry and Eddie Murray
Speaker 1: and like the biggest stars in the game. But then
Speaker 1: baseball shifted their focus to the Dominican Republic, right in
Speaker 1: Latin America. Yeah, and they really drove try to get
Speaker 1: as many Latin players as they could because you know,
Speaker 1: there's this great ballplayers in Latin America and it was
Speaker 1: they could get these guys in and pay them peanuts
Speaker 1: and all that, and and they kind of went away
Speaker 1: from focusing on going out and scouting in the inner
Speaker 1: cities and all that, and then it just kind of
Speaker 1: led to where we are where now. They once you,
Speaker 1: once you lose it, you can't get it back. But
Speaker 1: I don't buy that, because you know this when you
Speaker 1: when you get up, when you sign a player internationally,
Speaker 1: especially overseas in Japan, you're still paying the international cost
Speaker 1: to sign his rights, so you have the first acquire
Speaker 1: those rights, and then you signed him to a contract.
Speaker 1: Like why wouldn't you do that in house anyway in
Speaker 1: the United States. I'm not buying that one bit. I mean,
Speaker 1: I grew up just like you, Griffy, Kirby Puckett, Eddie Murphy,
Speaker 1: like all these guys were fantastic. Eddie Murphy was good
Speaker 1: on television and movies. But Eric Davis was good back
Speaker 1: in the day. Now he played the Dodgers, played with
Speaker 1: the Red Zoll on the World Series back in nine.
Speaker 1: Either there was Darryl Strawberry, Like the list goes on
Speaker 1: and on and on. I like, I don't buy that
Speaker 1: argument one bit, but you do find sweet for the
Speaker 1: Detroit Tux But I mean Dave Parker, Dave Winfield, Tony Gwynn. Well,
Speaker 1: now we're just trying. We're gonna pissing match to any
Speaker 1: more black players. What I'm saying, like you, but you do,
Speaker 1: you have to admit this. You do find a rapid
Speaker 1: base of baseball fans in the Dominican Republic. Down in
Speaker 1: South America, Mexico. There are some big baseball fans, fanatics,
Speaker 1: and they love the game of baseball, and they're on
Speaker 1: display in Major League Baseball. They don't discriminate one bit.
Speaker 1: I'm not buying it at all. Yeah, I know. I
Speaker 1: don't think they discriminate. I think baseball would love to have.
Speaker 1: If you're a talented player and you can, they can
Speaker 1: sell you. Uh you know. They're in the business of
Speaker 1: selling talented players to make money. So why would they
Speaker 1: not want players. It's not like there's some grand conspiracy.
Speaker 1: I don't buy that. The last one, last one here,
Speaker 1: we didn't mention Bo Jackson. That's a bad job by us.
Speaker 1: Holy fuck, Bo knows no puck but Bo knows man.
Speaker 1: I think we should not focus on the star black players.
Speaker 1: I think we should focus on the like the secondary
Speaker 1: players like Ramon Martinez, like Alvin Davis. Alvin Davis of
Speaker 1: the Seattle Mariners. You know he doesn't get talked about
Speaker 1: enough on radio. What Dave Stewart. How about Mike Devereaux?
Speaker 1: I remember Mike Devereaux out feel it for the Orioles
Speaker 1: and uh and and how about Bill Madlock, He was
Speaker 1: actually pretty What about Franklin Stubbs. Franklin Stubbs was going
Speaker 1: to be a star. He and Gregg Brock big stars.
Speaker 1: Couldn't hit, couldn't hit. How about cal Daniels? Remember Calboski Daniels,
Speaker 1: a d H who played in the nationally the Knees
Speaker 1: of a ninety year old always Mr Podray, Tony Gwen.
Speaker 1: Did we mentioned Tony Pip Roberts. How about Bi Roberts,
Speaker 1: little bit Roberts running around great Ricky Henderson, Tony Phillips. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and keep we can keep going here, you want to
Speaker 1: keep going, keep going, We can go on all the
Speaker 1: Jesse Barfield on Lloyd Moseby old Toronto Blue Jays back
Speaker 1: in the day. Man. See now you ain't going too
Speaker 1: far in the pack. Yeah, Jackie Robinson, Boom, Mike Drop,
Speaker 1: I win, all right, Adrian my high City says, been
Speaker 1: in Gascon once again. I have to give credit where
Speaker 1: it's due. Please bring back the pompous west of the
Speaker 1: four oh five guy. That big Mike character sucks. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's a shot. That's management. How dare you? Uh? Was
Speaker 1: was he in charge of producing editing the podcast recently?
Speaker 1: All three of them sounded like dogshit. Yeah, we've already
Speaker 1: been over that. He says. On a more positive note,
Speaker 1: I finally got to listen to a live Ben Mallller
Speaker 1: show midnight to four am Tuesday morning here local time.
Speaker 1: Normally I'm a podcast listener, but with my job, I
Speaker 1: was out plowing snow overnight in April and got to
Speaker 1: listen live here in Denver on Outtitude Sports Radio nine
Speaker 1: on the A M dial. He says. Also, from what
Speaker 1: I understand, the Disneyland will reopen to California residents. I
Speaker 1: think it's already opened. By the way. He sent this
Speaker 1: email a few days ago, I says, My kids are ten,
Speaker 1: nine and five, and my wife and I have been
Speaker 1: wanting to make the trip with them. Do either of
Speaker 1: you have any advice or tips for when the park
Speaker 1: opens to everyone? Hotels, fast passes, tickets, parking, et cetera. Man,
Speaker 1: I do not. My My family went to Disney World
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago. That's obviously in Florida. But
Speaker 1: Disneyland I do not know. Um well, I I like
Speaker 1: going to Disneyland. I grew up. I used to have
Speaker 1: a pass. When I was in high school. We had passes.
Speaker 1: It were cheap if you lived in californ One. It's
Speaker 1: like a hundred bucks. You gotta past the Disneyland. Now
Speaker 1: it's like six hundred bucks or whatever is But yeah,
Speaker 1: I downtown Disney is pretty cool. Could vibe over there.
Speaker 1: I think the key I learned from some savvy Disney
Speaker 1: people is you've got to just take it. Get up early,
Speaker 1: and whatever the hot ride of the day is. I
Speaker 1: guess the Star Wars thing is still popular. Um, you've
Speaker 1: got to make a mad dash, be one of the
Speaker 1: first people get there when the park opens. You'll stand
Speaker 1: online and then just sprint because most people don't get there.
Speaker 1: I've been there a few times when the park opens
Speaker 1: and you make the run and it's, uh, it's it's
Speaker 1: pretty it's pretty cool. Record Ralph actually gave me some advice.
Speaker 1: He's he's a Disney expert record Ralph of all people,
Speaker 1: what is your what's your protocol for desserts of Disneyland?
Speaker 1: Like do you go do you go chocolate cover banana
Speaker 1: with nuts on them? Or do you go ice cream sandwich? No,
Speaker 1: I don't even do that. I go in not Disneyland
Speaker 1: proper California's adventure they had. I don't know if they
Speaker 1: still do. They have a what's that Northern California chocolate
Speaker 1: place starts with the g you know what I'm talking about? No,
Speaker 1: you don't know, I do not. No, you know in
Speaker 1: in l A we have Sees Candy Southern California, but
Speaker 1: in Northern California they have oh not Gared Delhi's. Is
Speaker 1: that it? I think it's cured Deli's, is it? Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 1: So this is actually one of my favorite things in live.
Speaker 1: I've never had a Gara Delis you've remember had Well,
Speaker 1: there's actually a place in Hollywood they have a shop there,
Speaker 1: but Gara Deli Chocolate at the place at Disneyland, they
Speaker 1: have a Cookie Sunday, which is uh it is. It
Speaker 1: is amazing. It's one of the great things I've ever had,
Speaker 1: just cookie madness. It is amazing, amaze easing amazing. Now
Speaker 1: do you have it cold or do you have it
Speaker 1: hot or warm? No? No, I have it. It's it's
Speaker 1: just like I don't know if Sundays is describing it right.
Speaker 1: It's like a big bowl filled with vanilla ice cream
Speaker 1: and cookies, all different cookies. It's awesome. Yeah. In fact,
Speaker 1: I think that's one of the you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: cheat a little bit on my diet and uh partake
Speaker 1: in a cookie Sunday. I'm gonna go over to Hollywood
Speaker 1: in the wood in Hollywood and and have that. So's
Speaker 1: it's really good? All right? That's it, guest on another
Speaker 1: weekend is then we will be back. I will be
Speaker 1: back on the radio to night to break down all
Speaker 1: that has happened, the good moves, the bad moves, what
Speaker 1: we love, what we don't love about the n f
Speaker 1: L draft. So we have that to look forward to.
Speaker 1: So have a great day. If you missed the Dave
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