Speaker 1: Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes
Speaker 1: a week was enough, I 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 the Clearinghouse of
Speaker 1: Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller starts right now. That it does. We
Speaker 1: are in the air everywhere, spanning the globe with podcasting,
Speaker 1: marginal podcasting, this podcast because four hours are not enough
Speaker 1: on the overnight. We do this eight days a week,
Speaker 1: eight days a week, obviously spin off of the radio
Speaker 1: show you know all that. And on this the Sunday
Speaker 1: Sunday Sunday Funday edition of the podcast, we have a giant,
Speaker 1: oversized stuff to the gills version of the mail bag.
Speaker 1: A lot of questions in the mailbag, and we also
Speaker 1: have to be or not to be. And right over there,
Speaker 1: David Gagon, effectually known by his code name Gascon, Loud
Speaker 1: and Proud, in the Geko Fox Sports Radio studios, where
Speaker 1: you have not been for the last six months and counting,
Speaker 1: Ben Mallery. I went in there pick up my mail,
Speaker 1: picking up your mail is not really working and spending
Speaker 1: time with your colleagues. I had to go in one
Speaker 1: time because the equipment didn't work right, and so I
Speaker 1: had to drive in there and I spent about three
Speaker 1: hours there was enough, so I've been there. Very considered
Speaker 1: you to pass on by during your vacation stay at home.
Speaker 1: I make sure to go when you're not there though.
Speaker 1: That's what I do. That's not true. You came in
Speaker 1: one time when I was here and you popped in
Speaker 1: the studio to say, mistake, there's a mistake. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was a mistake that you went in the opposite direction.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's good though. It's got a very
Speaker 1: cool hat. This week listener or Aaliyah in Maine, and uh,
Speaker 1: she's a big fan. I met her at the Mallard
Speaker 1: meet and greet in Boston, and uh, Leah and Paul there,
Speaker 1: Paul's big super fan also. And what kind of hat? Oh,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a Portland's Sea and they sent me
Speaker 1: to Portland's Sea dogs hats and I wore one. These
Speaker 1: are cool. I love minor league baseball hats. They're pretty net,
Speaker 1: it's good looking logo, it's got the p there with
Speaker 1: the dog coming out of the p there with his
Speaker 1: head peeking out. It's a good look, good logo. Has
Speaker 1: Has anyone gotten you a a new but old school
Speaker 1: version of the San Diego Padres brown. No, that's a
Speaker 1: good looking hat too. I like that Padre hat, you know.
Speaker 1: And and people complain because I wear like the Iowa
Speaker 1: Hawkeyes hat. I wore that the other day, and they're
Speaker 1: these idiots in Minnesota. Listen, that hat was sent I
Speaker 1: I have no affiliation with the University of Iowa. But
Speaker 1: Chris and de Moine, he said, you listen, you got
Speaker 1: a size eight hat. I'll send you the hat whatever.
Speaker 1: And I'm open if somebody wants to send me a
Speaker 1: Minnesota Golden Golfers hat, I'll wear the I'll wear the
Speaker 1: damn Minnesota Golden Golfers. I got no problem with that.
Speaker 1: But I got a big and that's a problem and
Speaker 1: all that. I don't expect anyone to send me anything,
Speaker 1: but some some super fans like to do it. But
Speaker 1: if you have a problem, I'll wear it. I'm a
Speaker 1: billboard with these these dumb videos I gotta do on
Speaker 1: YouTube for the show. I'll put it out there. Why
Speaker 1: not people just want to complain. Speaking of complaining, did
Speaker 1: you hear about this? Uh? Podcast is starting to go downhill?
Speaker 1: Is that right? According to Colin in Denver, at first,
Speaker 1: this was one of the best sports podcast I'd ever heard.
Speaker 1: Ben and Gascon had a great back and forth and
Speaker 1: actually occasionally different on some issues. The past few months
Speaker 1: have been rough in all caps. Rather than a few
Speaker 1: good interviews here and there, this podcast has become a joke.
Speaker 1: They can't be too many era. There can't be too
Speaker 1: many podcasts spreading more off base conservative propaganda than this one.
Speaker 1: Every show is now a misguided adventure through the current
Speaker 1: events of the day. And what's this guy's name? Uh?
Speaker 1: Colin in Denver? Colin, and he says almost every guest
Speaker 1: is brought on dispute the same nonsense, and Gascott now
Speaker 1: exists to lick Ben's toes and agree with whatever he says,
Speaker 1: literally everything Republican garbage. This is getting bad, regardless of
Speaker 1: which side of the four oh five you are on. Boo, wow,
Speaker 1: guess God, listen, this is more. This is more an
Speaker 1: example of uh, you know that guy's got issues or whatever.
Speaker 1: But I got plenty of email. Look at this one.
Speaker 1: I'll you wanted to be in for Yang Rick from
Speaker 1: San Moro, a San Ramon. He's a p one, he says,
Speaker 1: Ben and Ben and Dave. Your interview with Dave Ruben
Speaker 1: was a ten. I follow him on Twitter I normally
Speaker 1: and normally his takes are spot on. I wish people
Speaker 1: would educate themselves and stop being intimidated by the social
Speaker 1: justice warriors. Keep up the great work. So from from Rick,
Speaker 1: who enjoyed the hell out of it and was a
Speaker 1: was a big fan. And and then there's a bunch
Speaker 1: of other ones. Uh, this guy Steven san Diego. He says, Hey,
Speaker 1: my Aime is Steve. I listened to your radio show
Speaker 1: in the Fifth Hour podcast. I wanted to say thank
Speaker 1: you for not bowing to the current world group think
Speaker 1: and expressing sane opinions on the absurdity that's going on
Speaker 1: with athletes and the world. We need more voices like yours,
Speaker 1: how about that to speak up? And he said, also
Speaker 1: like the Jerry Callahan podcast from Boston. Dave Ruben, he
Speaker 1: said he enjoyed those episodes. And he says he's gonna
Speaker 1: subscribe to their stuff as well because of our podcast
Speaker 1: that he will now be a fan of theirs and
Speaker 1: listen to their material. That's good. Now, Steve Dave Rubens
Speaker 1: off social media. I think for a month. He's taken
Speaker 1: a nice little sabbatical. Um, we need to get him back.
Speaker 1: We need to get Leo Terrell back in. Those guys
Speaker 1: are a lot of fun. So some of the radio guys,
Speaker 1: hacks All was was good and I'd like to branch
Speaker 1: out and John Stossel. We did a whole thing about
Speaker 1: John Stossel. I love his his material. I would like
Speaker 1: to get him on. And at some point there we
Speaker 1: should get Corolla. Adam Corolla has got some book to remote.
Speaker 1: We should get Corolla on here. Yeah, he's he takes
Speaker 1: a blowtorch to everything though, too, doesn't he. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: had a really offend. Colin in Denver so did give
Speaker 1: us three stars. So we're at least batting about two
Speaker 1: fifty two seventy five right now. Okay, I'll take that. Well,
Speaker 1: in fairness, we had four months with no sports, so
Speaker 1: we change it up a little bit. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: we had and then we had sports of politics. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: mean everything in sports is political. Now they've decided to
Speaker 1: politicize sports, and so that's blame must blame Adam Silver
Speaker 1: and uh the other commissioners of sports who have decided
Speaker 1: Roger Goodell this is this is good. I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not buying, though I know Clay has been sending out
Speaker 1: all these ratings about how they're down and all that.
Speaker 1: I need more of a sample size. Yeah, it's only
Speaker 1: been a little bit, and it would be fascinating though.
Speaker 1: If that actually data at the bottom line, you would
Speaker 1: see a lot of those messages vanish and the you'd see,
Speaker 1: like I I predict if that does happen, when the
Speaker 1: ratings continue to go down to the NBA, you will
Speaker 1: see a statement from Adam Silver. We made our point
Speaker 1: on social justice. We want to since it's the playoffs,
Speaker 1: we want to get back to just basketball. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna take the messages off the jerseys and that kind
Speaker 1: of thing. Well, I think the true test of all
Speaker 1: this will be when the NFL starts scrambling around, if
Speaker 1: they lose viewership based on like name usage and decals
Speaker 1: on their helmets and patches on their uniforms, Like, I
Speaker 1: think that will be the true test. I mean, NFL
Speaker 1: is king anyway. So I think when the NFL now
Speaker 1: pushes what their social justice causes. I think that's the
Speaker 1: true test. Because NBA ratings that can gone down annually.
Speaker 1: N h L is not strong. Major League Baseball's regional sport.
Speaker 1: So I think the NFL because it is king and
Speaker 1: they have a lot to lose. Yeah, there's no question
Speaker 1: that that is the reality. Uh people because of the
Speaker 1: way we're consuming television, not not everyone's got cable. A
Speaker 1: lot of people got rid of cable, satellite television. Um,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of streaming. You should never watch illegal streams,
Speaker 1: guest gun, that's wrong. You should never do that. You
Speaker 1: should never go to some of the great websites that
Speaker 1: have every single game you want for free. That would
Speaker 1: not be right. I should not do that, that would
Speaker 1: be inappropriate. But of course, if you're a T mobile customer,
Speaker 1: you can get the MLB package for free. Is that right? Yes? Yes,
Speaker 1: Bill Benson, and one of your producers told me because
Speaker 1: we're T mobile subscribers, and he said, yeah, like last
Speaker 1: year he was able to watch all the Dodger games
Speaker 1: for free on his mobile device. So he's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you just call it T Mobile, they'll hook you up.
Speaker 1: It's an MLB active code that you can watch on
Speaker 1: an iPad, on a smartphone or Android device. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: do that. I have my ways to watch. I know.
Speaker 1: I'm still waiting for those links appreciate. Oh yeah, well
Speaker 1: I was gonna give it to you, but you did not.
Speaker 1: You did not treat me with the proper respect. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Not really better than the old world mafia. You have
Speaker 1: to genuinelect is what you have to do. That's a
Speaker 1: bad job by you, all right, B. Or not to
Speaker 1: be here we go, man, Yes, God's baby. B or
Speaker 1: not to be so exciting. Oh my god, I'm so exciting.
Speaker 1: This is a joy across the world and an ode
Speaker 1: to the Babylon B, which is a prominent figure on
Speaker 1: social media, in particular Twitter. One that Ben introduced me
Speaker 1: to Ben. These are stories. We gotta find out if
Speaker 1: they're actually true stories or if they're from the Babylon B,
Speaker 1: which is based on parody and satire. Yes, these are
Speaker 1: five titles that did not make the cut for them.
Speaker 1: First one, Trump estimates that it could take four more
Speaker 1: years to accurately count all votes. Alright, so note to
Speaker 1: what's going on in New York right now? How about
Speaker 1: this one? Democrats proposed creation of national Trump voter registry.
Speaker 1: That's like trace tracking, right, and you want to shame
Speaker 1: some of that voted republic in or Trump, you could
Speaker 1: do that. Third story that did not make the cut,
Speaker 1: Chinese government lays off entire propaganda team as American media
Speaker 1: doing their job for them. Ah, there you go, that's funny.
Speaker 1: Shout out in New York Times on Washington Post Lebron
Speaker 1: James is a media mogul's advising everyone how to deal
Speaker 1: with the Chinese people. How about this one? Experts now
Speaker 1: recommend taking up vaping to increase social distancing. Oh there
Speaker 1: you go. I don't get did not make the cut
Speaker 1: them did not make to make the be or not
Speaker 1: to be? And last, but not least, will end this
Speaker 1: one on on a on a high note, woke polar
Speaker 1: Bear apologizes for being white? Is that to lead on CNN? Oh,
Speaker 1: it's hilarious. That's good, all right? Did you see the one? Uh?
Speaker 1: The l A Times wrote this is actually the only
Speaker 1: time not bad. But they wrote a column sad because
Speaker 1: Trader Joe did not bow down. They were they were
Speaker 1: like they broke our heart, broke our heart because like
Speaker 1: seven people on the signed a petition to get rid
Speaker 1: of from the names of products. I'm gonna actually shop
Speaker 1: at Trader Joe's more. I don't usually go to Trader
Speaker 1: Does that often, but I'm gonna go there more to
Speaker 1: support Trader Joe's for actually having the balls to stand
Speaker 1: up to these idiots. Good job by them. What you
Speaker 1: should do is you should go to Trader Joe's and
Speaker 1: then buy Goya products. Yeah, that's exactly what you should do.
Speaker 1: Exactly Why not. I gotta get my collection of Anthrew
Speaker 1: Mima and Uncle Ben's Rise and Escobo pies before those
Speaker 1: go off the shows, and they're not off the shelves yet.
Speaker 1: I think they're still around. You know. What you should
Speaker 1: do is you should do it. A lot of people
Speaker 1: like I have cousins that have done this. Is like
Speaker 1: back in the day g I Joe Transformers, they'd buy
Speaker 1: all those collectible toys, or they buy all those toys
Speaker 1: and not take them out of the package, and so
Speaker 1: now they're valuable collectibles. Yeah, you should get for Jemima, though, like,
Speaker 1: could you imagine the price? How long would that syrup blasts?
Speaker 1: I know honey lasts forever, but I'm assuming at some
Speaker 1: point that product would go back Eskimo pies you could
Speaker 1: just leave in the freezer if you got space in there.
Speaker 1: I think the and the actually the Uncle Ben's rice
Speaker 1: rice last a long time, so all those items you
Speaker 1: could last. Yeah, it's actually not a bad idea. All right,
Speaker 1: So here we go. Last week you went five for five,
Speaker 1: so yeah, I was on fire. Greatest week in the
Speaker 1: history of beer or not to be. Yeah, So we
Speaker 1: gotta get tougher with us, and so stra off with
Speaker 1: a really tough one high scale about a nine point
Speaker 1: five a right new Google technology Auto correcx users thoughts.
Speaker 1: All right, so put big tech, the oligarchs and big
Speaker 1: tech have been doing a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff where they block out You see
Speaker 1: that video the the woman who had a video about
Speaker 1: the actual stats on crime and police and all that
Speaker 1: YouTube pulled it because she was she was giving government
Speaker 1: facts and they pulled and pulled the video that it
Speaker 1: was was offensive and you have to have an age.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Um, you know, I'm gonna say that's true.
Speaker 1: It sounds like something Google would do, right. The people
Speaker 1: at Google kind of take their playbook from China. I
Speaker 1: think that's true. Ben, You're oh for one, so already
Speaker 1: better from last week, so worse than last week. Doesn't
Speaker 1: that seem like something like the algorithms on Google though,
Speaker 1: that that is something they could absolutely do. Is they say, no,
Speaker 1: you know you said this, but that's offense if you
Speaker 1: really meant this, this is what you meant, because didn't
Speaker 1: we have it was a professor, it was it was
Speaker 1: a It was a hardcore democratic professor that voted for
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton back in two thousand and sixteen. He testified
Speaker 1: that Google manipulated their figures and what they put out
Speaker 1: there for publication because it manipulated people on how they
Speaker 1: were voting in the election. Ah. So he talked about
Speaker 1: that a lot. I mean they've they've done some pieces
Speaker 1: on it on Netflix to um. Second, one governor signs
Speaker 1: legislation to allow ice cream made with liquor. Uh, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say that's a that's a B story, all right, Ben,
Speaker 1: you are officially oh for two to space right now.
Speaker 1: You didn't say it, right, it's altboo bay. So this
Speaker 1: is a special nut to your brother. New York Governor
Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo last week sign an executive order align the
Speaker 1: sale of liquor infused ice cream in his state. Now
Speaker 1: the kicker on all of this is the liquor infused
Speaker 1: desserts will only be allowed to contain a limit of
Speaker 1: up to five percent of alcohol by volume, and we'll
Speaker 1: have similar labels of that with wine, beer and other
Speaker 1: alcoholic beverages. Wow wow wow wow wow wow. That's crazy right. Well,
Speaker 1: New York's crazy, man, that is, And they're stuck with
Speaker 1: that de Blasio guy for another year unless they impeach him.
Speaker 1: But he's his term is gonna be up in so
Speaker 1: there's another year that New York is gonna be like
Speaker 1: the fifth Ring of Hell. And by the time the
Speaker 1: Blasio gets done, who the hell I mean, they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to bring in somebody with a big cleanser to
Speaker 1: clean up New York City because that what a rat
Speaker 1: hole that place. It's morphing. Back when I first went
Speaker 1: to New York, it was like it was horrible. At times,
Speaker 1: Square was a cesspool and it was like debauchery and
Speaker 1: peep shows and nudy bars and all that and crime
Speaker 1: people getting mugged. And it's starting to more turn back
Speaker 1: into that. It sucks, it's bad. How about this, what's next?
Speaker 1: Earl for two right now? Can you go one for three,
Speaker 1: three thirty three batting appams. If I go one for three,
Speaker 1: that's a good batting app get you in the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame. Uh. Public school teachers continue to insist their
Speaker 1: jobs are non essential. Um. Let's see, so there's been
Speaker 1: a lot of teachers who have been complaining about they
Speaker 1: don't want to teach, they don't want to go back.
Speaker 1: They're freaking out about the kids giving them the corona.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that, but I'm gonna say this is
Speaker 1: the Babylon bie. I'm gonna go with the Babylon bie.
Speaker 1: Is that your final answer? That's Ben, you're batting three.
Speaker 1: We go private school teachers. They think they're central public
Speaker 1: not so much. Shout out to the union. Um story
Speaker 1: number four for four. All right, that's a five hundred
Speaker 1: batting average. I get this right, that's great. Let's right.
Speaker 1: Actor pretends to not know head of company that is
Speaker 1: marking up cost of ventilators. Alright, so let's see actor
Speaker 1: does not I did see. There was a story about
Speaker 1: ventilators that took ace this week. The over charging of
Speaker 1: that Uh Babylon b Ben Ben yes name Ben? Yes?
Speaker 1: What you are? One for four? Crap? You should have
Speaker 1: stuck with your inclination. The actor Billy Zane. Do you
Speaker 1: remember Billy Zane not really didn't have too many good movies.
Speaker 1: He was in the Titanic. But Billy Zane is pushing
Speaker 1: away from a company that has led by a good
Speaker 1: friend of his, that is selling venerate ventilators marked up
Speaker 1: six hundred percent all in all the costs should be
Speaker 1: for these hundred and fifty thousand dollars for sixty ventilators.
Speaker 1: That would break down to about a cost These sixty
Speaker 1: ventilators ben were sold for seventeen thousand dollars each, totally
Speaker 1: over one million dollars. Wow, that what kind of an
Speaker 1: My favorite, My favorite part of these type of stories
Speaker 1: is there's always that douche bag in the back of
Speaker 1: the room thinks this is acceptable. Yeah right, there's always well,
Speaker 1: medical companies have to make their money back somehow, and
Speaker 1: so and so I don't see a problem with this.
Speaker 1: Don't you know how to punch those people right between
Speaker 1: the eyes, right in the schnazola, just bam, right like that,
Speaker 1: Give my haymaker, give my money maker. All these opportunitists, man,
Speaker 1: all right, so last one, this will this will help
Speaker 1: salvage a one for four performance to make it two
Speaker 1: for five, two for five, four batting average. I have
Speaker 1: to get you in the Hall of Fame. Ted Williams
Speaker 1: called me the splendid splinter if I get it right.
Speaker 1: All right, well, we'll see. This one's challenging too because
Speaker 1: of what's going on down south Texas construction border wall
Speaker 1: to keep out unwanted refugees from California. All right, so
Speaker 1: this is Texas goofing on California and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: which we all know. There's a rivalry there, there's bad blood.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna say this is the B Babylon B.
Speaker 1: Is that your final answer? Yes, Benjamin Maller, you were
Speaker 1: two for five. Ye that that's better than well last
Speaker 1: week five for five. But you know you go five
Speaker 1: for five and the next day you go to for five.
Speaker 1: That's a good day. That's a good that's a good
Speaker 1: couple of days for you're still batting seven. So that's
Speaker 1: the job all done? Okay, there you go. You ready
Speaker 1: for the email bag? You want to put on your
Speaker 1: has Matt suit for this email bag. It can't be
Speaker 1: that toxic Canada. Well, no, this most people are pretty nice.
Speaker 1: There's always the douche bags to get in there, but
Speaker 1: most people are pretty cool, alright, fair enough. Be sure
Speaker 1: to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show week
Speaker 1: days at two am Eastern eleven p m Pacific. All right,
Speaker 1: these are actual questions sent in by actual listeners, and
Speaker 1: we thank you guys have been great. I put it
Speaker 1: up late after got on Facebook this week. I put
Speaker 1: it up a little late, but you guys hooked this
Speaker 1: up and that was it was pretty neat alright, So
Speaker 1: you can email us too. I got some of these
Speaker 1: questions from email. Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Remember to review
Speaker 1: us on the podcast right in five stars, five stars.
Speaker 1: We like seven to to acid washed. That Colin guy
Speaker 1: it doesn't like the podcast. Well he give us a
Speaker 1: three though it wasn't a one. I need a five, alright,
Speaker 1: five or nothing? Five or nothing? Fair enough? All right?
Speaker 1: Dan and Durham, North Carolina writes and has have either
Speaker 1: of you ever had a close encounter with a shark, tornado,
Speaker 1: or any other deadly force of nature? All right, well, Dan,
Speaker 1: I've never been with the shark. I've never swam with
Speaker 1: a shark, although I in Hawaii, I swam with some
Speaker 1: giant sea turtles and some seals and that was pretty wild. Uh, Tornado, No,
Speaker 1: don't live in Tornado country. I've been in some bad
Speaker 1: storms on the East Coast, but not a hurricane. I
Speaker 1: guess the biggest force of nature living in California is
Speaker 1: the earth earthquake. Yeah, and I've experienced several of those
Speaker 1: big earthquakes over the years, the big north Ridge quake
Speaker 1: back in the day, and a couple of other tremors.
Speaker 1: So that's the one you guess on Yeah, nothing with
Speaker 1: the Shark earthquake is probably the closest, um kind of
Speaker 1: a blizzard. I was in Tahoe once, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: like it cut the power to the entire city for
Speaker 1: like ten days. Um, but it wasn't. It wasn't deadly
Speaker 1: like we were able to drive and get out to
Speaker 1: where we were. But yeah, no, nothing, nothing of a
Speaker 1: natural disaster and they had to worry about so not yet.
Speaker 1: Any knock on wood. Well, you're living through an apocalypse
Speaker 1: right now, that's true. Put that in your book Apocalyse.
Speaker 1: I survived apocalypse. Yes, let's see who's next. John from
Speaker 1: Vermont Right soon, He says, if someone gave you a
Speaker 1: million dollars on the condition that you could never watch
Speaker 1: or listen to sports again. Would you do it? All? Right? John?
Speaker 1: A couple of questions. Number one is that after taxes.
Speaker 1: So I've already paid my taxes. I have a million
Speaker 1: dollars capital I don't have to pay taxes on. That's
Speaker 1: important because you start paying taxes on a million dollars,
Speaker 1: that becomes a problem. But if it is after taxes
Speaker 1: a million dollars, I could do it. I could. We've
Speaker 1: just gone four months without watching sports, so that yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I wouldn't I wouldn't like it. It would
Speaker 1: be an adjustment and I'd have to find other stuff
Speaker 1: to do. But I did for the last four months.
Speaker 1: So yeah, what about you guys? Yeah absolutely. I mean
Speaker 1: we can go in so many different directions with that too,
Speaker 1: because you want to watch something on television or on
Speaker 1: your computer, you can go to like movies or shows. Um.
Speaker 1: You could of course travel, Um, you know, make some
Speaker 1: transactions in real estate. Um. Yeah, I'm invest in some
Speaker 1: Apple stock before you can do that, or some Tesla
Speaker 1: maybe if you would afford it. Yeah, so's tests are
Speaker 1: gonna split? Why don't they split? I don't know if
Speaker 1: Elon Musk is going to do that. We'll wait and
Speaker 1: see if he moves one of his factors down to
Speaker 1: Texas to Alright, a doctor Goopy from Main Rights in
Speaker 1: one of our favorites, he says, Ben, if you were
Speaker 1: offered a primo spot on Fox Television, would you leave
Speaker 1: radio forevermore? Let me let me answer that fu, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he would. Well, I did television and radio at the
Speaker 1: same time. It was a part time RAI television contributor. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, TV pays better. It's just the reality of
Speaker 1: the economics of it. I've always thought it would be
Speaker 1: cool to just put the overnight show on television, like
Speaker 1: although I think radio should just be radio. I've I've
Speaker 1: said that, I've advocated for that a lot. But a
Speaker 1: lot of these radio shows are simulcast on television. It's
Speaker 1: easy to do, it's cheap. You just put a camera
Speaker 1: in the studio and you have like one person put
Speaker 1: it all together. They're in real time, and and that
Speaker 1: that's an easy way to do it and then get
Speaker 1: double your money, double your pleasure. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: if somebody offered me an amazing television job and like
Speaker 1: a five year contract for dunculous money where I wouldn't
Speaker 1: really have to work for years after that. Why would
Speaker 1: I not do it? Yeah? I love radio though, I
Speaker 1: feel like a better at radio than anything. But but
Speaker 1: you know, so what, Yeah, but radio prepares you too
Speaker 1: for television because in radio you're always doing shipped by yourself,
Speaker 1: or in television you'd have like five six seven producers.
Speaker 1: You'd have a makeup artist, you'd have someone do in
Speaker 1: your hair, you have someone dressed you like, you'd have
Speaker 1: all that stuff, like your fingertips. So yeah, but it
Speaker 1: was an adjustment, like because I am used to doing
Speaker 1: a lot of things really by myself. The content on
Speaker 1: the show is all put together by by me U
Speaker 1: unless it's not. Uh, and then then the problem when
Speaker 1: you go to television. You got all these production meetings
Speaker 1: and you've got every block is planned out, the block,
Speaker 1: the B block, the C block, the D block. You're like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, there's too many blocks. You know. Sometimes
Speaker 1: we'll plan out like we have certain bits that we do,
Speaker 1: but there's open segments where just fill it with random,
Speaker 1: random stuff whatever comes into her head. Matt in Rochester,
Speaker 1: New York, right since says, if you guys were to
Speaker 1: skip a day of healthy eating. What would your go
Speaker 1: to be for an unhealthy breakfast, lunch, and dinner? All right,
Speaker 1: So breakfast, I would have like a nice French toast,
Speaker 1: a stack a mile high of pancakes. I'd have those
Speaker 1: breakfast biscuits with the gravy. I'd have some of those.
Speaker 1: I'm going all carb all the time there, Uh maybe
Speaker 1: a little turkey bacon or something like that. I'd have that. Uh. Lunch,
Speaker 1: Philly cheese steak, Philadelphia Philly cheese steak with the pro bolone.
Speaker 1: I do that nice big fat pretzel also from Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: just the kind that Fats sent in the in the
Speaker 1: mail a few months back. And then for dinner I
Speaker 1: would have I would I mean, I think a big
Speaker 1: plate of of chicken, fingers and fries piled to the heavens,
Speaker 1: piled to heavens. And then aside, i'd have a grilled
Speaker 1: not a grilled I'd have a barbecued burger, triple stack
Speaker 1: cheeseburger with the onions, the cheese on top, there, the garlic,
Speaker 1: all that, and then I also finish it off a
Speaker 1: three course meal. I'd have the mallard pizza oversized pizza
Speaker 1: pie thick crust, garlic, onion, bell pepper. Uh and uh
Speaker 1: and I do that? What about Uh? If we're going,
Speaker 1: no worry about the diet. I'm going breakfast. It has
Speaker 1: to be a giant breakfast burrito, bacon, sausage, hash browns,
Speaker 1: no sausa. I'd be chasing that either with a mimosa
Speaker 1: or with a bloody Marry Um breakfast. From that, I
Speaker 1: go to lunch. Lunch I'm definitely doing. I'm definitely doing
Speaker 1: a pizza. I'm doing like deep dish meat lovers or
Speaker 1: thin crusts, one of those nature's but definitely doing pizza
Speaker 1: at twelve o'clock, one o'clock. And then for dinner, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go out the reservation here. I'm gonna go like
Speaker 1: a nicety Tomahawks stick medium done. Men, you gotta burn
Speaker 1: that mashed potatoes side of noki. Uh. Probably some some
Speaker 1: sweet potato fries. I chase that bit with a scotch.
Speaker 1: And then I would definitely have like I don't know,
Speaker 1: like cranbrule or like some kind of like chocolate ice
Speaker 1: cream cake, like some kind of awesome dessert. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that's how I'm done. You're done. I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of hungry. Yeah. Uh, let's see. Jason in our
Speaker 1: Rocky Mountain, Virginia says, I was wondering your opinions on
Speaker 1: if the NFL should try to do a bubble situation
Speaker 1: like the NBA and the NHL, or do you think
Speaker 1: the NFL players can be disciplined enough to do it
Speaker 1: like um baseball? Well, Jason, do I think the NFL
Speaker 1: players are going to be able to handle it? No?
Speaker 1: Of course not, because you're talking about se players. Plus
Speaker 1: in the NFL baseball they don't have as many players
Speaker 1: as the NFL does. And the only difference with the
Speaker 1: NFL is the road trips are not like baseball where
Speaker 1: you're on the road for a week and you're you've
Speaker 1: got a lot of downtime to leave the hotel. Now
Speaker 1: they bann you from leaving the hotel and you get
Speaker 1: called out for that and could be suspended. Different in football,
Speaker 1: especially with the teams that are all bunched up on
Speaker 1: the East Coast. They're talking about having teams fly out
Speaker 1: on a Sunday morning and play that afternoon. Uh, And
Speaker 1: so that limits the amount of time you would have
Speaker 1: obviously to go out and have debauchery and excess and
Speaker 1: and all that, But I don't think the bubble is necessary.
Speaker 1: NASCAR has been able to pull it off, and it
Speaker 1: seems like a little too much overkill. But for some
Speaker 1: people that are freaking out about this, like if you
Speaker 1: want to have the hotel bubble like the Saints or
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers, fine, but it is required. No, I think
Speaker 1: it's a lot more challenging. But don't forget if these
Speaker 1: guys break the bubble, then they're losing their salary, so
Speaker 1: too if it comes into play here. But I do
Speaker 1: think if you want to make this cost effective and
Speaker 1: to limit any kind of exposure, I think a bubble
Speaker 1: would be great. If you just use Los Angeles for
Speaker 1: an example, l A can get away with it. The
Speaker 1: reason why we had the Colosseum, we had the Rose Bowl,
Speaker 1: we have so Far Stadium now uh and we have
Speaker 1: Stubbub Center. And even if you want to go down south,
Speaker 1: we got Petco Park and uh Quacom Stadium, so you've
Speaker 1: got those two ballparks there too. So if you want
Speaker 1: to move the entire NFL the California, no, but if
Speaker 1: you did one division, like you can do the a
Speaker 1: f C West here in Los Angeles or the NFC
Speaker 1: West in Los Angeles. Yeah, I mean you could conceive
Speaker 1: what we do something like that, but you'd have to
Speaker 1: put astro turf or whatever they call it field turf. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but don't they have destroy I thought they had the
Speaker 1: retractable turf though, right for so Fi and for uh yeah,
Speaker 1: for so far Stam. Don't they have the retractable turf?
Speaker 1: Now do they? I don't know, so, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'd be kind of down for that, but I have
Speaker 1: to go out. I have an immedia privileges Gascon. I'm
Speaker 1: you have to go out and see the Rams Cowboys
Speaker 1: that first game of the year because it's closed to
Speaker 1: the public. But I'm gonna media elite, so I might
Speaker 1: have to go out there. Call me up and I'll
Speaker 1: drive you over there. You want to go to the game? You, yeah,
Speaker 1: i'd go. I didn't put it in for credentials, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm done. Well, I haven't done it yet. We have
Speaker 1: time to do that, but maybe there must be plenty
Speaker 1: of media seating. There's no you know, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: like there's no there's no fans at all. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe we'll do that. How about that? And I'm also
Speaker 1: I have not been to a sporting event, and even
Speaker 1: though media can go to these things, but I will.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna break my silence. Dodgers Astros, Dodger Stadium going
Speaker 1: one of those games. I'm gonna be at one of
Speaker 1: those games. Am I gonna get in trouble? The players
Speaker 1: will hear me If I boo the Astros like I'll
Speaker 1: tube comes up and I yell out bo bay, They'll
Speaker 1: be able to hear it because there's no one else
Speaker 1: in the ballpark. I'll get kicked out, but I don't care.
Speaker 1: I'm a rebel. Come on, who cares? Alright? Phil from
Speaker 1: us Awego, New York says, what is the ultimate pizza topping?
Speaker 1: My answer is pepperoni and sausage. But I get to
Speaker 1: pick two options because I have become a big tub
Speaker 1: of goo since the apocalypse. Well good for you, Phil,
Speaker 1: letting yourself go during the apocalypse could probably enjoy the
Speaker 1: hell out of that. I love multiple toppings on my pizza.
Speaker 1: The traditional mallard pie I just gave it is the garlic, onion,
Speaker 1: the bell pepper. That's the mallard pie. But if I
Speaker 1: had to pick one topping, it's a toss. I gotta go. Garlic.
Speaker 1: Roasted garlic on top of pizza is really just wonderful.
Speaker 1: What about you, guys? Got um? I think Canadian bacon
Speaker 1: is good. Canadian bacon, yeah, nobody picks Canadian baker, but
Speaker 1: everything else. Would you pick Canadian bacon because everyone else
Speaker 1: is gonna pick pepperoni or sausage. Those are the big
Speaker 1: those are the big thing. My dad's a free he
Speaker 1: likes the mushroom pizza. But everyone, come on listen. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna pick pineapple. That's one thing I will not pick.
Speaker 1: So a pineapple pie. Yeah, I can't do that, man,
Speaker 1: You can't do the pineapple. Can't do it to a pizza.
Speaker 1: Kevin from Minnesota says, should I kick the dog off
Speaker 1: the bed when I'm done listening to the last hour
Speaker 1: of your show? Well that's a personal decision, Kevin. I
Speaker 1: don't know if i'd actually physically kicked the dog off
Speaker 1: the bed. I might throw the dog off the bed.
Speaker 1: But you know, I know what the Mallard Mansion, Bella,
Speaker 1: she's in that bed all day. She's there, right there,
Speaker 1: no matter what we're there, she's there. That's how she operates.
Speaker 1: She's a diva dog valls fan Jimmy writes and says
Speaker 1: Fate from Fayetville, Tennessee. He says, Ben, if you won
Speaker 1: the lottery, would you continue to work? What would you
Speaker 1: do for your crew? Including Mr West of the four
Speaker 1: oh five? Well, listen, I would continue to work. I
Speaker 1: don't know that i'd work as much. I would cut
Speaker 1: some things out so I have a little more me time.
Speaker 1: I do that, And what I would do for the
Speaker 1: crew is continue to engage them in witty branter on
Speaker 1: the on the audio channels that were on there, and
Speaker 1: give them some advice and tell them what it's like
Speaker 1: when you win the lottery. I do some of that.
Speaker 1: I'd probably make sure that you got fired. How would
Speaker 1: I get fired? I don't know. I'd do something to
Speaker 1: make sure that you got fired. Well, I think you're
Speaker 1: trying to do that on a weekly basis on this part.
Speaker 1: But this is a little bit different. This would be
Speaker 1: for you, not because of you. Uh, you know, Like,
Speaker 1: then you can get some peaceful sleep, then you can
Speaker 1: have less stress, and then you can travel a little
Speaker 1: bit and not worry about the bullshit air that It's true.
Speaker 1: I don't need to worry about the crap that goes
Speaker 1: on behind the scenes that we don't third round, my man,
Speaker 1: don't go on the third rail. Rachel in the Alamo
Speaker 1: rights in. She says, hey, y'all, that proves she's from Texas.
Speaker 1: She said, y'all take a shower with me every morning,
Speaker 1: Like it or not, I love it, And she says
Speaker 1: thoughts on the San Antonio Spurs, Well, Rachel, I have
Speaker 1: not spent too much time talking about or thinking about
Speaker 1: the San Antonio Spurs since Tim Duncan exited stage right,
Speaker 1: But I know Joe and san Antonio, some of our
Speaker 1: listeners there, Chris and san Antonio all about that Spurs action.
Speaker 1: They're like this weird transitional phase where they're not terrible,
Speaker 1: but they're not great. They're just kind of mediocre. Where
Speaker 1: the Spurs are right now and the next couple of
Speaker 1: years because Popovich he's near the end of the road
Speaker 1: there and it's it's gonna be similar to what happened
Speaker 1: with the Patriots with Belichick, Like when Belichick leaves and
Speaker 1: he's his time is coming up in the next couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, Oh, let's what happened they fall apart.
Speaker 1: Are the Spurs gonna completely Vanish and there's so many
Speaker 1: disciples of Popovitch that are coaching around the NBA, and
Speaker 1: that'll be interesting. But that I don't have any real
Speaker 1: thoughts on this, Sirs Carlos in Houston, right, and says,
Speaker 1: what's the origin story on Dick in Dayton. He also
Speaker 1: says the worst caller of the year has to be
Speaker 1: Chris in San Antono. Okay, uh, well, you had another
Speaker 1: guy from Houston who called in the other night that
Speaker 1: was pretty bad with his girlfriend all hammered and all that.
Speaker 1: But Carlos Dick and Dayton is a professional radio caller.
Speaker 1: He's been calling Fox Sports Radio since I began. He's
Speaker 1: one of the original callers with Cowboy John Brad Doc
Speaker 1: Mike in Chicago. These guys have been with us for many,
Speaker 1: many years, decades calling the radio show. Um, and I
Speaker 1: don't know too much about Dick and Dayton other than
Speaker 1: the fact he calls a lot of radio shows and
Speaker 1: I've learned a little bit from just talking to him.
Speaker 1: But I have traveled around the country and I'm a
Speaker 1: radio nerd. So when I drive around late at night,
Speaker 1: you know, driving through Pennsylvania or upstate New York or whatever,
Speaker 1: I'll have the radio, scan the dial and I'll hear
Speaker 1: Dick and Dayton. He just randomly calls his shows. And
Speaker 1: it's great because he doesn't actually watch sports and he
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to know a lot about anything, but he
Speaker 1: always he loves being on the radio. He works at
Speaker 1: Low's in Beaver Creek, Ohio. We've had super fans of
Speaker 1: the show that have gone to meet Dick and Dayton.
Speaker 1: He is actually in the Cattering Banjo Society. It's a
Speaker 1: real thing. It's not made up. I've seen photos. They've
Speaker 1: written stories about him, and the newspaper, the Dayton Daily
Speaker 1: News and some of the other papers they were in
Speaker 1: Ohio written stories about him. And he's just a nice,
Speaker 1: harmless guy that loves sports radio. And the great thing
Speaker 1: about Dick and Dayton, whatever I say, he'll agree with, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right, Ben. And I'd said the most ridiculous thing,
Speaker 1: and he'll I bet. The funniest thing we did a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago was Uh, that picture for the Indians?
Speaker 1: Is that Shane Bieber? Uh? And then we were talking
Speaker 1: about the Indians and I said, boy, the Indians. I
Speaker 1: really liked this justin Bieber and Uh and in the
Speaker 1: rotation and dicks up. Yeah, that's right. Really like that,
Speaker 1: Justin Bieber. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am eastern pm Pacific.
Speaker 1: Pretty funny, Greg and Iowa writes and it says, have
Speaker 1: you ever been in a situation where you're watching the
Speaker 1: game with a group of other people, the game is
Speaker 1: between two rival teams and you're stuck in verbal arguments
Speaker 1: between fans of both teams and trying to stay neutral. Um? Well,
Speaker 1: I don't usually try to stay neutral. Greg. One of
Speaker 1: one of the things with the job is most people
Speaker 1: know my opinion on a lot of this stuff, so
Speaker 1: I don't recall being in that situation. I've been in
Speaker 1: that situation more or like. We talked about it earlier
Speaker 1: with politics, where uh, this weekend we talked you know
Speaker 1: your name, You're at a social event and you gotta
Speaker 1: be able to read the room and know who's you
Speaker 1: know who's on which team and all that that becomes
Speaker 1: a problem. But I don't remember any specific situation where
Speaker 1: you had to rival fans and you had no skin
Speaker 1: in the game. But anyway, Ah, here's the one from
Speaker 1: Mason the Millennial from the Bay Area. Love the content,
Speaker 1: he says, he Mason the millenial, a big fan. This
Speaker 1: is my question, is what is your most feared injury?
Speaker 1: For example, mine is breaking my collar bone, which I
Speaker 1: think David did also sounds like a complete nightmare. What
Speaker 1: would it be for you guys. I'm not gonna answer
Speaker 1: this because last time I answered the question like this
Speaker 1: had happened to me, So I'm gonna refrain. You got
Speaker 1: Guesscan you wanna? Yeah? I turned my road tury cup twice.
Speaker 1: But I think the one that I fear the most,
Speaker 1: just because we saw a couple of days ago with
Speaker 1: Atlanta Um, I think the Achilles rupture is probably the
Speaker 1: one thing I fear the most in there. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's just like you got shot and it's the smallest
Speaker 1: part of your body for the most part, and you
Speaker 1: just dropped like a bag of rocks. I mean, I
Speaker 1: tore my a couple of days ago. I was running.
Speaker 1: I tore a portion of my hamstring, like running on
Speaker 1: the down near the beach, and I popped the ship
Speaker 1: out of it. But I popped it and torn in
Speaker 1: two spots. And the guy that was working on me
Speaker 1: do an ultra sound. He was like, yeah, I just
Speaker 1: did that with my calf and it was above like
Speaker 1: barely above his achilles tendons and as achilles tendon and
Speaker 1: I said, hey, did you fall? He's like yeah, as
Speaker 1: soon as that happened, I just dropped. And what were
Speaker 1: you doing? He said, I was climbing upstairs. It's like,
Speaker 1: that's horrible. And he's like thirty years old, so he's young.
Speaker 1: And you know, I mean that's a sign, gas Gun,
Speaker 1: that you were one step closer to a convalescent home,
Speaker 1: that you were your head towards residential care. That it's
Speaker 1: it's autumn. You're in the final years here. You have
Speaker 1: the tail in you in the twilight. Listen as old
Speaker 1: as the hills. Man, my money falling apart. My medical
Speaker 1: chart looks like it's spread and prayed with all kinds
Speaker 1: of bandages. So turn the road, tearra cuff twice, bust
Speaker 1: the sept um busted, wrists, broken toes. So you are
Speaker 1: really the radio version of Cavity, Sam, Maybe yeah, but
Speaker 1: I have a lot of arelier with Cavity saying I am.
Speaker 1: But still that's just don't game operation, don't don't don't
Speaker 1: don't try to bless me with early dirt nap. If
Speaker 1: you will know, I'm not saying you're gonna die. You're
Speaker 1: just gonna be living in a convalescen, which is the
Speaker 1: safe thing. You got a hitch in your guinea up
Speaker 1: you got you got atle hitch in your getty up there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you're a salesman for toilet paper, but
Speaker 1: you have you have considered Charman ultrasoft. You have them
Speaker 1: sitting in at some point along the way. All right,
Speaker 1: what is next? Year? Matt and Grand Rapids. Michigan says,
Speaker 1: the episode where you recounted You're excremental misfortune is still
Speaker 1: one of my all time favorites. Maxins says, I find
Speaker 1: myself going back for a listen whenever I'm having a
Speaker 1: bad day or just need a good laugh. I'm glad you.
Speaker 1: That's called shot in Freud and Matt. You're taking joy
Speaker 1: out of my ship. It's a bad job by you.
Speaker 1: If you missed it. I didn't. I I had my
Speaker 1: gallbladder taken out last year, and one of the side
Speaker 1: effects is that if you fast and then you eat
Speaker 1: a meal, or if you eat fried foods or really
Speaker 1: heavy foods, it runs right through you. You you literally
Speaker 1: get the runs, you get the Tennessee Trots. And I
Speaker 1: had eaten the meal, and I was driving into the
Speaker 1: studio and I had not given it enough time to unload,
Speaker 1: and I parked, and I was trying to make it
Speaker 1: to the bathroom, and I got into the elevator, I
Speaker 1: got upstairs, and as I was running down the hall
Speaker 1: to the bathroom, I could see the finish line and
Speaker 1: the ship just came raining out of my ass and uh,
Speaker 1: and it was. It was a nightmare. And I did.
Speaker 1: I did do the show, and like, I like less
Speaker 1: than ten minutes, less than ten minutes to a clean
Speaker 1: up operation, recovery mission, and then go do the show.
Speaker 1: If you want to go back to that episode, it's
Speaker 1: on February one, then titled Eloquently Poop Festival. If only
Speaker 1: the apocalypse had happened earlier than that, then I would
Speaker 1: not have happened because I would have been home. I
Speaker 1: would have been right here in the bathroom right there,
Speaker 1: no problem. Yeah, but this just shows like you still
Speaker 1: have it when you need to get when you need
Speaker 1: to bear down, you're like Game seven, you only have
Speaker 1: your fastball left. You found a way to get to
Speaker 1: the bathroom. There you go. Uh. Matt also said. He says,
Speaker 1: I I came upon the review section of sugar Free
Speaker 1: Ummy Bears on Amazon, and once I stopped laughing, I
Speaker 1: wondered if there was a connection for your incident. Maybe
Speaker 1: you've been blaming your gallbladder all this time, and sugar
Speaker 1: Free Gummy Bears are the real culprits. He sent me
Speaker 1: a link here. Ah, yeah, I know. Listen, I would
Speaker 1: like to blame gummy bears. I don't think I've eaten
Speaker 1: gummy bears in a long time, so that wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: be I wish it was Pierre in Springfield Rights, and
Speaker 1: there's many Springfields. I don't know which one. I'm assuming Springfield, Missouri,
Speaker 1: but maybe Springfield, Illinois. Pierre says, what is your opinion
Speaker 1: on burner accounts? I miss Ernie, the great old Piner,
Speaker 1: but do very much enjoy the muppet militia who seemingly
Speaker 1: have taken out Ernie. And he says, can you follow
Speaker 1: me on Twitter? I'm not following on Twitter. There you go. Uh, well, Pierre, listen,
Speaker 1: here's the deal, all right, we miss Ernie. Ernie was
Speaker 1: great for the show. He had a meltdown. He couldn't
Speaker 1: handle the muppet militia and he quit the show, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the twitter mob got Ernie. People were jealous
Speaker 1: of Ernie being the person that Robin Vegas is in
Speaker 1: many ways replaced Ernie as the guy that immediately gives
Speaker 1: me feedback on the monologues. But there's other people that
Speaker 1: do it as well. Moving Man Matt from Boston writes
Speaker 1: and says, why haven't you done a deep dive interview
Speaker 1: with the Moving Man on the podcast? It's two fold.
Speaker 1: It's a victory for you. At number one, you get
Speaker 1: blow by blow details on the Mallard food marathon that
Speaker 1: is true, he's done it twice, and guests gon will
Speaker 1: be annoyed. Matt, this is a great idea. Why don't
Speaker 1: we book Moving Man Matt for next weekend's podcast about that?
Speaker 1: We'll put him on there. We'll do a little deep
Speaker 1: dive on that would be great. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: get annoyed. What do you do get annoyed? I did
Speaker 1: not by acting like you're not annoyed, you're annoyed. No, definitely,
Speaker 1: everyone can tell you. You You know your West of the
Speaker 1: four or five. You're pretentious, that's how you operate. No, no,
Speaker 1: I just to handle with pretentious people. You are you are,
Speaker 1: you are the company that you keep. You're a prima donna.
Speaker 1: You're self absorbed, you are all of that. You and
Speaker 1: you and Tom Luney are rubbing off on me. Apparently,
Speaker 1: then you put up this facade. It's not even a facade,
Speaker 1: it's real, alright. This is Veneer West of the four
Speaker 1: oh five. Well, listen, I'm just trying to give you
Speaker 1: the greener side of the grass because I know most
Speaker 1: of the stuff that you're walking on is usually dead.
Speaker 1: So I've brotten you from the terrestrial days of radio
Speaker 1: to the digital realm of a new world again. I
Speaker 1: hang out with a working class. You don't even go
Speaker 1: to work. What are you talking about? You do not
Speaker 1: go to work, morning, noon and night. I work more
Speaker 1: now than I've ever worked. To work studio, a professional
Speaker 1: grade broadcast studio in the Mallard mansion. I bring my
Speaker 1: lunch pail here, I get my hands dirty. How many
Speaker 1: have to turn on the microphone and the equipment, plug
Speaker 1: the headphones in. I'm tough, minded, gritty, scrappy. How many
Speaker 1: so operate? How many employees have technical equipment sent to
Speaker 1: their house. I don't know. I built this myself the
Speaker 1: w e I, So this was a homemade studio when
Speaker 1: I was doing shows for Boston and w E I.
Speaker 1: I built all this equipment here and I was actually
Speaker 1: my wife's maybe we should get rid of it because
Speaker 1: they did not do the Fox show from here. And
Speaker 1: then we started the podcast, but that wasn't I'm gonna
Speaker 1: getting paid anything really for that. So that what am
Speaker 1: I doing? And uh, and it worked out. Lien, you're
Speaker 1: you're over. You're the white caller guy, right, You're the
Speaker 1: non manual labor. You're the quarter office elitist. That's who you.
Speaker 1: People curls in front of the mirror, arrogant, shameless, unembarrassed,
Speaker 1: all of that, brazen, pampered. I wouldn't say pampered nobody paper.
Speaker 1: Definitely pampered, not taking care of that. It's definitely not
Speaker 1: true at all. Fussy baby, no, definitely not complained. Bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you think a bit, and I don't think you know.
Speaker 1: What you do is you grumble. You're a grumbler. Maybe
Speaker 1: you grumble, but I'm not full bitch. But you grumble.
Speaker 1: I'll be a better grumbler when I'm fifty already crossed
Speaker 1: that rubicon. Moving on here, Matt, I'll think about next
Speaker 1: weekend if you're available when we record the podcast for
Speaker 1: the weekend. Sue in Round Rock, Texas. Right sin. It
Speaker 1: says if the team's stopped playing the national anthem, would
Speaker 1: people start watching the NBA and NFL p g A
Speaker 1: doesn't play it and the ratings are through the roof,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't miss it if it went away. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there are some people that if you don't
Speaker 1: play in the Nashal anthem, you're bowing down your genuine
Speaker 1: flecting to the to the protesters. They were considering twenty
Speaker 1: years ago getting rid of the national anthem in the
Speaker 1: early two thousands, like two thousand year, two thousand into
Speaker 1: two thousand one, and then this thing called nine eleven
Speaker 1: happened and everyone started saying, wait a minute, we need
Speaker 1: the national and them more than ever, and so they
Speaker 1: But there were guys back then that they did not
Speaker 1: stand for the national anthem. Mak Mud abdul Rauf of
Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets was one Brian Williams who had changed
Speaker 1: his name to bison Dale, the late Bison Daily at
Speaker 1: the Clippers In fact, the buddy of mine noticed that
Speaker 1: Brian Williams or bison Dale was not standing for the
Speaker 1: Nashal anthem and and he told he talked about it
Speaker 1: on the radio, and the Clipper PR people they were
Speaker 1: so upset. Oh my god, really upset that he talked
Speaker 1: about it. This is deplorable. How could you talk about it?
Speaker 1: Oh my god. But no, I mean so, yeah, they
Speaker 1: they're gonna get rid of it. That is a solution. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know when I when I not watched because they
Speaker 1: got rid of it. No, but there would be some
Speaker 1: people that will be like, I'm not gonna watch. But
Speaker 1: you gotta look at the majority. You can't make make
Speaker 1: based decisions on the smaller group that is voting. You
Speaker 1: to make decisions on the larger group. Marco from Oakdale
Speaker 1: writes in Oakdale, California Whole Team question, favorite adult beverage,
Speaker 1: favorite weed strain? All right, I'll do the adult beverage.
Speaker 1: I like that root beer beer. You do the weed.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, guest. Don't smoke weed. You don't smoke weed.
Speaker 1: That on the air, you don't smoke in air quotes
Speaker 1: smoke weed, period. Scott writes and says, why doesn't Bella
Speaker 1: serve you breakfast in bed Belgian waffles and fresh fruit smoothie.
Speaker 1: Because that dog is like half the size of his foot.
Speaker 1: That's C. Scott is giving me a tribute. That's from
Speaker 1: a great commercial that we did. We had a radio
Speaker 1: commercial and I tossed out Belgian waffles and fresh fruit smoothie.
Speaker 1: Oh boy was my touch on the commer That was
Speaker 1: I ad libbed that dude. That was an ad lible. Alright,
Speaker 1: last one Mark in Sun diego right sit He says, Ben,
Speaker 1: if you got called up from the Miners to pitch
Speaker 1: against the Stros, would you buzz the Astros hitters heads?
Speaker 1: Even though you might get suspended or lose your spot
Speaker 1: on the team. You'd be a hero to the fan
Speaker 1: for sure. But it's your career. Mark Absolutely, mark list.
Speaker 1: It's hypothetical and a hypothetical situation. Absolutely like because the
Speaker 1: chance that this is a chance to be remember Joe
Speaker 1: Kelly is gonna be remembered by Dodger fans for generations
Speaker 1: because of this, and the Squeaky Wheel gets the grease right,
Speaker 1: You're going just something your legendary. You're memorable. That's an act.
Speaker 1: Imagine first game called up for the mile leagues and
Speaker 1: you drill Bragman just between the numbers on his back,
Speaker 1: or are you hit out Toba on the arm and
Speaker 1: you you know, shatter his wrist or something like, oh
Speaker 1: man man, would that be something? Of course, the other
Speaker 1: part of that is the quacking duck gets shot, right,
Speaker 1: isn't that the other part of that? Yeah, yeah, it
Speaker 1: does work, doesn't work both ways? Or anything else to
Speaker 1: promo out here, Gascon, any other funny business anything at all. No,
Speaker 1: but just a further reminder to continue to rate and
Speaker 1: review five stars. Of course, Um, that's important podcast. It'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see the ratings on how the Looney
Speaker 1: podcast does, because if it doesn't do well, I will
Speaker 1: make sure to let Looney know that he was not
Speaker 1: successful and not as good as hacks are Jerry Callaghan
Speaker 1: or Mike North to these other great radio professionals, legends
Speaker 1: of radio that we've had on the podcast. Yes, we
Speaker 1: go from legends to a hack. Uh. Next weekend, the
Speaker 1: Moving Man Met podcast could be on the area. It
Speaker 1: might happen by Yeah, we'll put anyone on this podcast. Well, jealous, jell,
Speaker 1: We're still We're supposed to put christ in Houston, but
Speaker 1: Chris is so far up the Astros took us, I
Speaker 1: don't think we can put him on becaues he call anymore?
Speaker 1: At least uh Yeah, he conveniently did not call after
Speaker 1: the Dodgers swept the Astros. Somehow. I guess he was
Speaker 1: on vacation. The phone stopped working even though he was
Speaker 1: tweeting the show. Yeah, convenient never fails. Alright, have a
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