Speaker 1: Ka Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes
Speaker 1: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes,
Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
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Speaker 1: one a week. But I'm in here eight days a
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Speaker 1: on the weekends because we know you're looking for good
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Speaker 1: So we are joined by the rare and appropriate appearance
Speaker 1: by David Gaston rust of the four all five lakey
Speaker 1: his way in and do you want to start this
Speaker 1: mailbag session off with some good news or some great news? Uh? Well,
Speaker 1: this must be about you. There must be some something.
Speaker 1: This actually has a little something to do with you. Uh,
Speaker 1: go ahead, go ahead, give me the give me the
Speaker 1: good news, and then we'll save the great news. By
Speaker 1: the end of the fourth quarter of this calendar year.
Speaker 1: You uh, you might have a colleague that is a neighbor.
Speaker 1: Is that right? Are you looking to relocate here? Are
Speaker 1: you coming to Mallard Territory and a secret location in
Speaker 1: the northward? And I don't reveal where I live. Guest,
Speaker 1: you know that I'm bringing my my ox and I'm
Speaker 1: bringing my my axe, my blue ox could be. How
Speaker 1: does that make you feel? Oh, we can hang out
Speaker 1: together now five lives. Probably I don't live west of
Speaker 1: the four oh five. No, but it'll it'll improve the selfies,
Speaker 1: because man, you and Looney just looked disheveled a couple
Speaker 1: of days ago at Dodger Stadium. You guys just looked
Speaker 1: like actor. People say this and say it looks like
Speaker 1: Hobo we got. Let me explain. Let me explain something,
Speaker 1: stupid people. The reason is I wear a bank robber mask,
Speaker 1: the easy mass thing that they have in l A County.
Speaker 1: And so when I go cross enemy lines into Dodger
Speaker 1: Stadium there with the mask mandate. But you've been to
Speaker 1: these games, no one in the crowd is wearing their mask.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just the there's a few sheep that
Speaker 1: are wearing their mask. Most people aren't even wearing their man,
Speaker 1: just walking around having a fine time at the game.
Speaker 1: But it's it's so but that mask makes me look
Speaker 1: like a bump, it does. It's the mask so another
Speaker 1: that I want to point that out. And uh Looney
Speaker 1: looked like a like a weightlifting bum though I didn't
Speaker 1: realize he had a similar shirt that I had on.
Speaker 1: It looked like he had just gone out of like
Speaker 1: uh gold gym from Venice, like just doing like curls
Speaker 1: for the hour hour and a half. So I didn't
Speaker 1: want to credit the Atlanta Brave media though, And I
Speaker 1: told you this guest guy on that Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm part of the Dodger media contingent. Everyone in the
Speaker 1: l A side, you know, wearing their mask. I think
Speaker 1: I saw Plasky with like seven masks on. Everyone's doing
Speaker 1: and uh and uh the Atlanta Atlanta media they were
Speaker 1: they didn't give a crap about the mask that they
Speaker 1: weren't wearing their masks. They're just living living their best
Speaker 1: life there. That's good. It's uh hey man, I am.
Speaker 1: It's it's good to see at least these these games
Speaker 1: being intended by not only the media, but the masses.
Speaker 1: Obviously the Rams and Chargers, the Dodgers. Uh, it's gonna
Speaker 1: get people out and about obviously Staplescent with the Lakers,
Speaker 1: Clippers and the Kings too. So yeah, but yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it could be. Uh it just forewarning though, I mean,
Speaker 1: there could be days where I'm on vacation, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: mounting about. I might just say I need you to
Speaker 1: pick up my my mail, Ben, can you Well, I
Speaker 1: could have you come over and wash my car. The
Speaker 1: mallon won't be you can your car is not gonna
Speaker 1: get dirty. You don't leave the house. No, but I
Speaker 1: don't park it in the garage. I park it outside
Speaker 1: because the garage is filled with ship. So well, I
Speaker 1: can't you know what I can't. I can't. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you heard this or not, but your governor
Speaker 1: said that we need to conserve water. We have a
Speaker 1: drought in California, which is obviously on the edge of
Speaker 1: the Pacific Ocean. Is is in a drought and we
Speaker 1: need to do our best to do all we can.
Speaker 1: So no water usage of the Millar mansion. So you're
Speaker 1: not allowed to wash your car. No, I have a
Speaker 1: timer in the shower. I have a timer at the
Speaker 1: sink when I'm washing my hands, just to recap. In California,
Speaker 1: they don't cut back the forest, so they burn up
Speaker 1: every year because God, for God forbid you do forest
Speaker 1: conservation to prevent large forest fires. They don't do that.
Speaker 1: We save water on that, but then to use the
Speaker 1: water because they all burn up and they have to use,
Speaker 1: you know, the water to stop the fires once they start.
Speaker 1: And you can't wash your car either. Wonderful, what a
Speaker 1: great place we are at here, What a wonderful place,
Speaker 1: my God. All right, are you ready for the mail bag?
Speaker 1: Let's go? Are you sure about that? Now? The way
Speaker 1: the mailbag works? There we go. Thanks to our friend
Speaker 1: Ohio Al for that nice monotone version of the mail
Speaker 1: bag theme. The mail bag theme, so these are actual
Speaker 1: questions guests gone by actual listeners to this podcast, loyal
Speaker 1: minions of this show, and I am excited to go
Speaker 1: into the mail bag. I'm excited to that. So let's
Speaker 1: let's not waste any time. Let's get right to it.
Speaker 1: Glenn in Chicago bats lead off. He says, I think
Speaker 1: the Major League Baseball post season should have a camera
Speaker 1: that has a shot of the catcher going through the
Speaker 1: signals for each pitch, so you can see the signs
Speaker 1: and watch the picture look in. I would call it
Speaker 1: the crop shot cam. Your thoughts, well, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think you can get that on porn hub. I don't
Speaker 1: think you need a baseball game. But he says, also,
Speaker 1: what do you think of these crypto n f T
Speaker 1: Uh these n f T things. Are people really making
Speaker 1: money off a bunch of pixels? Or is this money laundring? Well,
Speaker 1: people a are making money, Glenn off this, uh, this
Speaker 1: n f T thing. And now I've mocked them. I've
Speaker 1: done some monologue, not really monologues, but I've ranted and
Speaker 1: really I did do a monologue on n f T
Speaker 1: s When the NBA started and they were selling Lebron
Speaker 1: James Donk for a hundred thousand or two hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars of some ridiculous things like this. Uh, there's a
Speaker 1: term in Vegas and it's also on Wall Street and
Speaker 1: it applies to the n f T market. In any
Speaker 1: business like Wall Street gambling or in this case n
Speaker 1: f T s, the goal and the singular goal is
Speaker 1: to get dumb money. You want to get dumb money.
Speaker 1: And this is a stupid test. If you are spending
Speaker 1: a ton of money on a bunch of pixels, as
Speaker 1: you said Glenn in Chicago, that's a great way to
Speaker 1: describe it. If you're spending the money on this and
Speaker 1: you can't you don't own it. It's not like if
Speaker 1: you buy a Lebron James Dunk n f T, I
Speaker 1: can then go on the YouTube get the same dunk,
Speaker 1: and I can download it to my phone. And I
Speaker 1: also owned the Lebron James n f T. It's just
Speaker 1: the most ridiculous thing. And uh, it's surprising it's still
Speaker 1: going that it's still a thing. And I thought the
Speaker 1: economy was bad. I know, inflation is through the roof.
Speaker 1: I know every time I go to the store to
Speaker 1: buy bread it costs more, and gasoline and everything is
Speaker 1: more expensive these days under President Joe Biden. But this,
Speaker 1: I mean, my goodness, you gotta there's this many people
Speaker 1: that have all that money to spend on n f
Speaker 1: T S. I don't get it. As far as the
Speaker 1: crotch shot, Baseball will not allow that because they they'll
Speaker 1: say that that is compromising the integrity of the game. Uh.
Speaker 1: Any thoughts on n f T S or cry shot
Speaker 1: cam gascon No. I mean, you hit the nail round
Speaker 1: the head. It's all about the pumping of it. I mean,
Speaker 1: you have to be kind of the first people. It's
Speaker 1: like an I p O. I mean, you have to
Speaker 1: be in initially or early on uh to have any
Speaker 1: kind of significance. Although it was pretty wild. I was
Speaker 1: looking a couple of days ago on on Yahoo Finance
Speaker 1: and I don't know if you noticed it or saw
Speaker 1: it at all, but you know, President Trump had come
Speaker 1: out with a new social media application and yeah, you
Speaker 1: got you get hacked or something. I saw somebody put
Speaker 1: a head hacked. I don't know if they got hacked
Speaker 1: or not, but I I looked at the at the
Speaker 1: application itself and it's called Digital World Acquisition Corp. And
Speaker 1: it was released earlier in the week, like on a
Speaker 1: Tuesday or a Wednesday, and it shot up in value.
Speaker 1: Went I think the stock price was like eighteen or
Speaker 1: twenty dollars, and then on Thursday and Friday it's shot
Speaker 1: up to a hundred and sixty dollars a share. It
Speaker 1: was up a hundred within a couple of days. It's
Speaker 1: pretty crazy. A lot of a lot of pumping stuff.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, you got the funny money is there.
Speaker 1: You just gonna get in early. If you pump, you
Speaker 1: gotta dump, right, That's the key there. So you pump
Speaker 1: it up, you gotta dump it. That's what I do.
Speaker 1: You're gonna hold on to it or no, I hold
Speaker 1: on stuff. But I'm still waiting for doge coin to
Speaker 1: go through the roof. And when it does, guessclleujah, oh boy,
Speaker 1: he was going to take place. Yeah that several people
Speaker 1: text me this week the price of bitcoin went through
Speaker 1: the roof. I'm sure you saw that, guest con new
Speaker 1: record high for bitcoin. And my response to everyone that
Speaker 1: texts me sho the fuck up. Yeah, that's what I
Speaker 1: told them. Anyway. Moving on, Pierre from Springfield, Massachusetts, home
Speaker 1: of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame, where Muffett McGraw
Speaker 1: is enshrined. Pierre says, Ben is your sidekicks, sidekick Sidekicks
Speaker 1: still on the run. Now you see him? Now you don't.
Speaker 1: Early on, during Benny versus the Penny, he appeared as
Speaker 1: if he was being held hostage and was rescued by
Speaker 1: a listener or stalker named Tommy. I think he met Tammy,
Speaker 1: but he said Tommy here. Now, Oh, it's us a
Speaker 1: right now Now, I thought Tammy and Montana. But who Now?
Speaker 1: He seems to be appearing randomly in various safe houses
Speaker 1: throughout the US. What gives? Secondly, can we send smoke
Speaker 1: signals to the patron saint of the Mallemlicia Tammy ocous
Speaker 1: He did see Tammy and ask her to do a
Speaker 1: wellness check on Mallard prop Guy and Manic Mike. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have noticed Mallard prop Guy just kind of went
Speaker 1: away there and this all has happened, and you get
Speaker 1: worried when this stuff happens, Like what that I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's not a job. You don't have to report
Speaker 1: in and write your name in. But when we have
Speaker 1: friends that are part of the show and they're with
Speaker 1: the show for a long time, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, on a dime, they stopped participating in the
Speaker 1: live show. And you don't hear from them, you do
Speaker 1: worry about. So I don't know what's happened to those guys.
Speaker 1: Manic Mike, I think I saw him this week, but
Speaker 1: maybe not, maybe not. And Mallard Prop Guy, I have
Speaker 1: not seen him actively participating. I don't know much about
Speaker 1: these guys. I know Malarprop Guy claims that he traveled
Speaker 1: with like music music groups. He's very good at sports trivia,
Speaker 1: and I know that I and even he upsets me
Speaker 1: because he gets a lot of the who am I
Speaker 1: games and the instant trivia games right, and that always
Speaker 1: annoys me because I try as much as I can
Speaker 1: to make those as impossible as they possibly can be.
Speaker 1: And then I got I got him getting them right.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm Mallard prop Guy. And then also our
Speaker 1: buddy Matt the Warrior Raider, AES fan, does very well
Speaker 1: in that as well. So but if Tammy wants to
Speaker 1: look up and see if she can find Mallarprop Guy
Speaker 1: or Manic Mike, that is a call from our friend
Speaker 1: Pierre in Springfield. Next up, Jason from Rocky Mount, Virginia right,
Speaker 1: Since Ben I was wondering, is there's a lot of
Speaker 1: your Mallard Militia members are wrestling fans, or at least
Speaker 1: old school wrestling fans like myself. Have you ever reached
Speaker 1: out to any wrestlers for the Friday podcast? Perhaps the
Speaker 1: wrestler formerly known as Russef may be interested. Well, Russef
Speaker 1: has been on the actual radio show when he was
Speaker 1: working at the w w E back in the day.
Speaker 1: He was driving to his next gig and he called
Speaker 1: us up from his his automobile there and he is
Speaker 1: a friend of the show and I could absolutely get
Speaker 1: him on. I don't know why we haven't done that.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure why why have we not done that,
Speaker 1: guess guy Russef? Well, I mean because right now it's
Speaker 1: it's the hot point of the NFL and Major League
Speaker 1: Baseball season, so I think everything has been kind of
Speaker 1: geared towards those two events that are going on right now.
Speaker 1: So are you saying that this would be more appropriate
Speaker 1: for spring or something mayor June, something like that mayor
Speaker 1: June type of thing. Yeah, all right, So that answers
Speaker 1: that question. Pierre and or Jason in Rocky Mount of Virginia. Excuse.
Speaker 1: Next up, Kevin in Kansas is dear Ben and Gascon
Speaker 1: or the other guy. Next week is Halloween. I'm looking
Speaker 1: for a good spooky day film to enjoy. Do you
Speaker 1: have a go to favorite to recommend? Great podcast that's
Speaker 1: from Kevin? Any horror movie, any Halloween movie that you
Speaker 1: recommend your gasking on your a movie guy? I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't want to say do I have to a movie?
Speaker 1: Or can I say? Show? Oh? You do show if
Speaker 1: you want? Is it streaming? Can people? Can he watch it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I know that the seasons have kind of been dragged out,
Speaker 1: but the initial season one of the Walking Dead was
Speaker 1: pretty solid. So that's but that. Yeah, what about a movie?
Speaker 1: What about it? Like a traditional like the all the
Speaker 1: movie called Halloween, right, Michael Myers or whatever that was,
Speaker 1: that's one of the great What else? Do you watch
Speaker 1: a lot of horror movies? Oh? I don't, So I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm the wrong person to ask. I don't. I
Speaker 1: usually watch comedies. Well I'm married now, so I get
Speaker 1: rom coms. But like my level and it's not even
Speaker 1: a horror movie. But like, like I think a Halloween movie,
Speaker 1: I think like Beetles Juice has like a Halloween movie,
Speaker 1: which is an old nineteen eighties movie, or the Adams Family,
Speaker 1: something on those lines. But I don't usually go for
Speaker 1: like the Friday the thirteen or that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: I was it was always a big deal when I
Speaker 1: was a kid. Every Halloween, I believe it was CBS
Speaker 1: Channel two in l A. It was a big deal
Speaker 1: to Mallor House on Halloween would carve pumpkins. And then
Speaker 1: that night my mom got so excited because it was
Speaker 1: the Peanuts Gang, the Great It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown,
Speaker 1: and that was a big deal. Gascon Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Charlie Brown there in Linus and all of them waiting
Speaker 1: for the Great Pumpkin Man. That was big. That a
Speaker 1: horror movie, though, unless you look back at it and say,
Speaker 1: my god, that's from like the nineteen sixties, and I
Speaker 1: guess we're no help. Kevin from Rockford, Illinois, writes in
Speaker 1: says Mr Mallor and Mr Gascott. I am currently in
Speaker 1: Orange Beach, Alabama, living my best life out on the beach.
Speaker 1: Have you guys ever been to the beaches of Alabama?
Speaker 1: If not, you should. The beaches are much cleaner than
Speaker 1: the homeless, cigarette and invested infested beaches you all have
Speaker 1: out west damn all. So I would like to have
Speaker 1: a bench press contest against Gascon hundred bucks says I'll
Speaker 1: win Kevin in Rockford, Illinois. I think he would. I
Speaker 1: think he would win too. Really, you're admitting that you're
Speaker 1: not You're not gonna be able to bench it more
Speaker 1: than a random listener in Rockford, Illinois. Probably not. I
Speaker 1: don't bench press that much anymore. I took my road
Speaker 1: to the Cup playing football in my early twenties, and um,
Speaker 1: I don't focus on bench a lot anymore. Part of
Speaker 1: the reasons because you bringer your shoulders past ninety degrees
Speaker 1: and I can't do that. So everything's been at a
Speaker 1: flat and ninety degree angle. So so you're saying you're built,
Speaker 1: you're built for speed, not power. That's true. That's not true.
Speaker 1: I do. I do legs. How about that I squat.
Speaker 1: I'll squat more than him. How about that? Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: he didn't say that. He said bench press. Now, I've
Speaker 1: never been to the beaches of Alabama. It's like me
Speaker 1: arm wrestling somebody. I can't arm wrestle with somebody. I'm
Speaker 1: left handed, have you been to the beaches of Alabama.
Speaker 1: You know what about that in Charleston, South Carolina. Jonas
Speaker 1: lived down there. Those that area is gorgeous, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we've been through this. I need to get to Charleston
Speaker 1: the next couple of years. My your niece, uncle Benny.
Speaker 1: My niece goes to college at one of the universities
Speaker 1: in Charleston. Yeah, and she's doing very well there. She's
Speaker 1: got a thing going on, and so I'd love to
Speaker 1: go down and hang out with her. Um. I went
Speaker 1: to a hotel in St. Petersburg called Donces Are down
Speaker 1: in Florida. It's right next to Tampa Bay. Then the
Speaker 1: beaches are white, like just straight white. And the water,
Speaker 1: the water when you get into it, you get see
Speaker 1: your toes. It was. It's absolutely gorgeous warm water. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's with all the oil spills that we've had in
Speaker 1: the Gulf Coast and the Gulf of Mexico, is that
Speaker 1: still I don't know if you're seeing what's going on
Speaker 1: in like Bolsa Cheek at Huntington Beach, but we're not listen.
Speaker 1: What do you what do you want black water or
Speaker 1: do you what the oil tankers and cargo ships that
Speaker 1: are like docked off. Yeah, you're thinking a perfect California.
Speaker 1: And I go to the beach on the weekends with
Speaker 1: the wife. We like to go to the beach and
Speaker 1: hang out watch the sunset like old people. And we
Speaker 1: go down there and you're looking out. You've got the
Speaker 1: beautiful sand, You've got the water, which from a distance
Speaker 1: the water looks fine. It's when you get closer you
Speaker 1: see how disgusting the water is. But then off in
Speaker 1: the horizon with the sun setting, you see seven or
Speaker 1: eight oil tankers lined up off the coast of California.
Speaker 1: It's just wonderful, and it's it's kind of nice when
Speaker 1: I'll drive through Long Beach to get to uh like
Speaker 1: Belmont Shore, or even just to go down to Huntington's
Speaker 1: Beach and do you take Pacific Coast Highway. But when
Speaker 1: you're driving through Long Beach, there's certain parks that are
Speaker 1: there and and boardwalks that you have guys and grills
Speaker 1: like in these park areas doing like yoga or workout
Speaker 1: outs with from the frisbee and even in the sun
Speaker 1: setting it looks nice. It's just you obviously people out
Speaker 1: there exercising, working out. Gorgeous night and then yeah, over
Speaker 1: the scene you just have ship, ship, ship, oiltaker, cargo ship, everything.
Speaker 1: Just yeah, it sucks. Man. Well. I I love also
Speaker 1: looking and observing the people that visit California, the outsiders,
Speaker 1: Like you go to Venice Beach or Santa Monica, two
Speaker 1: great locations, historic locations in southern California, and you see
Speaker 1: these people that come to town from different parts of
Speaker 1: the country and here they are living their dream. They're
Speaker 1: in a nice vacation, they're visiting the landmarks in California,
Speaker 1: and they get the Venice Beach and they're walking over
Speaker 1: ship and piss uh. Santa Monica. You walk down the
Speaker 1: Third Street promenade, they've gotten rid of some of the
Speaker 1: parking lots now now homeless encampments. You've got. It's unbelievable,
Speaker 1: just insane. It's absolutely saying, and no one who has
Speaker 1: the chance to do something about it will even acknowledge it, right,
Speaker 1: They just they just plast it off and blame it
Speaker 1: on other people. And it's it's just it's crazy town,
Speaker 1: is what it is. It sucks, and God forbid, if
Speaker 1: you do bring it up and try to uh ask questions,
Speaker 1: you're labeled as some kind of uh, some kind of
Speaker 1: racist or some kind of heathen, if you will, just
Speaker 1: trying to attack people because of the living conditions. Well,
Speaker 1: it used to be the way I look at this
Speaker 1: situation like it's like rush hour. When the term rush
Speaker 1: hour was created, it was an ur It was literally
Speaker 1: an hour that people there was an hour in the
Speaker 1: morning when people were rushing to get to work, in
Speaker 1: an hour in the afternoon when they were rushing to
Speaker 1: get home from work from work. And it was called
Speaker 1: Now in big cities like l A, Chicago, New York, Boston, UH,
Speaker 1: San Francisco, places, Houston, it's it's like three hours. In
Speaker 1: l A. It's it's from two o'clock until eight o'clock
Speaker 1: is rush hour. It's the homeless thing is the same thing.
Speaker 1: They used to have these things called skid row. Skid
Speaker 1: Row in l A is everywhere. The skid row in
Speaker 1: downtown l A. There, I know exactly where it is.
Speaker 1: There's a great pastronomy, a French dip place right next
Speaker 1: to skid row over the Alorado. Yeah, I'll go hang
Speaker 1: out there and all that, And so that used to
Speaker 1: be where skid rods skin rolls everyhere. I've been in
Speaker 1: a downtown l A a a lot this last week because
Speaker 1: the dodging games. I was down there and I don't
Speaker 1: spend much time in downtown in l A these days,
Speaker 1: but my god, it's it's it's as bad as it's
Speaker 1: ever been. It's as bad as it's ever been. Crazy,
Speaker 1: it's ghetto. Get all right. Next up, hill Billy Mike writes,
Speaker 1: and he says, got I got two questions for the
Speaker 1: Mallard mail bag. What do you all think is the
Speaker 1: biggest bullshit stat in the NFL? And hill Billy Mike says,
Speaker 1: I think it's yards passing, whether it's most in a game,
Speaker 1: a season, or all time, and most of the yards
Speaker 1: are yak yards after catch and shouldn't be included. A
Speaker 1: quarterback throws a dink and a dunk pass all day,
Speaker 1: but his receivers are racking up the yak. At the
Speaker 1: end of the day, they credit the quarterback with a
Speaker 1: three yard passing day. He didn't have a three d
Speaker 1: fifty yard passing day, maybe fifty yards. It's bullcrap. He says,
Speaker 1: what do you think is the most overrated NFL stat? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the status that gets brought up
Speaker 1: a lot that if you run for a certain amount
Speaker 1: of yards, you're gonna win the game. The team that
Speaker 1: runs for more wins. That is a skewed stat I'll
Speaker 1: tell you why. Typically what has happened. I was changed
Speaker 1: a little bit in recent years with the past happy NFL,
Speaker 1: But when I was a kid growing up, the team
Speaker 1: that had more rushing yards win the game. But the
Speaker 1: way that works is typically when you get a lead.
Speaker 1: And they don't do it quite as much these days,
Speaker 1: but they still a lot of teams. Stood when you
Speaker 1: get a lead, what do you do. You sit on
Speaker 1: the ball, you run the ball, right to run the ball,
Speaker 1: run the clock out. So you're gonna get more rushing
Speaker 1: yards in that situation. So it's a self fulfilling prophecy
Speaker 1: that generally speaking, the team that runs the ball more.
Speaker 1: There are exceptions, Tampa Bay Philadelphia this year, I don't
Speaker 1: even try to run the ball. But for the most part,
Speaker 1: you get a lead, it's the second half you're gonna
Speaker 1: run the ball. You're gonna have more running statistics than
Speaker 1: the other team, and you'll get the win. And then
Speaker 1: people says to you, the team that runs the ball more,
Speaker 1: they end up getting the win. So what what do
Speaker 1: you think here, I guess the biggest BS are overrated stet.
Speaker 1: I think quarterback rating, the quarterback reading. Part of it's
Speaker 1: just because it's the stupid calculation of getting the rating
Speaker 1: is a little bit overblown. I think that's the biggest
Speaker 1: B A stat that we have right now. Why do
Speaker 1: you say that. It's a simple formula, it's as past completions,
Speaker 1: yards gain, touchdowns, interceptions. But yeah, I think it's a BS.
Speaker 1: I think it's a BS statistic based on the fact
Speaker 1: that you can have a perfect quarterback rating. And you
Speaker 1: know this, We've had quarterbacks in the National Football League years,
Speaker 1: year in and year out that are just these dink
Speaker 1: and dunk guys and they'll have completion percentages, play flawless football,
Speaker 1: but they can't drive the football down the field and
Speaker 1: they get nothing in the red zone. It's all like
Speaker 1: field goals, or you know, like a guy like Teddy Bridgewater.
Speaker 1: He could be really good for a short period of
Speaker 1: time and you look at his quarterback right and it's
Speaker 1: off the charts, but they're not putting points on the board.
Speaker 1: So I think that's a little bit overblown. I'd rather
Speaker 1: have a guy that's like twelve of of twenty five
Speaker 1: or twenty six for two hundred yards. But it's got
Speaker 1: three touchdown passes and two of them are like forty
Speaker 1: yards and above. Yeah, to me, the stat that's the
Speaker 1: most important is yards per attempt. Yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: that's the most I didn't ask that question, he'll Billy,
Speaker 1: but that's the one. Like and you you brought up
Speaker 1: Bridgewater in that game the other night on Thursday, when
Speaker 1: Bridgewater completed almost sevent his passes for less than six
Speaker 1: yards in the tempt. And I remember working with football
Speaker 1: coaches over the years at Fox Sports Radio. We you know,
Speaker 1: shoot the shoot the ship off the air, and we
Speaker 1: talked about different things, and it was always that yards
Speaker 1: per pass. You know, the things that are most important
Speaker 1: for a quarterback. Accuracy is the most important thing. But
Speaker 1: it's accuracy and not just throwing it behind the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. A lot of guys will just throw passes
Speaker 1: behind the line of scrimmage and you'll have a very
Speaker 1: accurate quarterback, but it won't be efficient. So you you've
Speaker 1: got to have that Seven is average. If you're at
Speaker 1: seven yards per pass attempt. If you get up about eight,
Speaker 1: you're really good. Anything above eight. My god, are you
Speaker 1: great in that statistic? And so that's that's the big
Speaker 1: one of the I mentioned. The running stat thing is
Speaker 1: is bull crap. I mean, there's several others. Off the
Speaker 1: top of my head here. I think we'll move on
Speaker 1: because they don't. I'm sure I'll remember them in a
Speaker 1: minute from now. But thank you. Hillbilly Mike appreciate that, uh,
Speaker 1: he says. Touchdown passes, he says, are the most overrated staff.
Speaker 1: By the way, touchdown passes just another pass. I know
Speaker 1: you throw out touchdown passes a lot, but it's just
Speaker 1: another pass, says hill Billy Mike. Next up, Valls fan
Speaker 1: Jimmy from Fayetteville says, Ben, I know you love betting
Speaker 1: on sports. Tell us a couple of bad beats you took.
Speaker 1: No missing a field goal at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about an unbelievable bad beat for both of you. Well,
Speaker 1: there have been several bad beats over the years. The
Speaker 1: one I bring up a lot is the Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 1: I've been on the Atlanta Braves in the nineties late
Speaker 1: nineties with Smoltz, Glavin and Maddox. They were playing the St.
Speaker 1: Louis Cardinals, it was the opening round of the playoffs.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals, a rag tag Cardinal team. This was the
Speaker 1: year they had Will Clark. They had gotten Will Clark
Speaker 1: from the Giants or maybe not maybe care for the
Speaker 1: Orioles or the Rangers or whoever, but he was on
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. And I still, I still am trying to
Speaker 1: wrap my head around how the Atlanta Braves lost to
Speaker 1: the St. Louis Cardinals. Uh, Like, it makes no sense,
Speaker 1: It's completely illogical to me. But it happened. It happened,
Speaker 1: It happened. It happened. Uh. And there's been some other
Speaker 1: random football games, the Music City Miracles the gold standard
Speaker 1: for that. Uh. And that was betting Buffalo just on
Speaker 1: the on the money line to win the game with
Speaker 1: Wade Phillips's coach Rob Johnson at quarterback, the Doug Flutie
Speaker 1: Rob Johnson period of Bills football. And to watch that
Speaker 1: illegal forward pass get not get called, and to to
Speaker 1: have that game lose because of that. I was actually
Speaker 1: on the phone. I was dialing up my buddy who
Speaker 1: had told me I was nuts for betting on Buffalo
Speaker 1: and uh, and I was, you know, gonna trash talk him.
Speaker 1: And then as that all went down. I was, holy crap,
Speaker 1: any bad beats guesting and you're not as prolific a gambler,
Speaker 1: but any bad beats that you want to hash up here?
Speaker 1: I I made the cardinal sin of backing a team
Speaker 1: with high juice. I um, I remember this is a
Speaker 1: handful of years ago when they were one of the
Speaker 1: better teams in the Eastern Conference, but I backed Montreal
Speaker 1: in a playoff series. They were up three games to
Speaker 1: one against the Washington Capitals in Washington, Washington, or no,
Speaker 1: excuse me, the other way around. Washington Capitals were were
Speaker 1: the best team in the Eastern Conference. And this is
Speaker 1: when they were going through the run of like choking
Speaker 1: in the first round and Montreal was the eighth seed.
Speaker 1: I believe it was. Washington was up three games to one.
Speaker 1: They piste away games uh five and six, and then
Speaker 1: they were huge favorites. They're like minus three d or
Speaker 1: minus three thirty against Montreal, and I thought, now, there's
Speaker 1: no way Washington's gonna blow this three one lead to
Speaker 1: the Capital or to the Canadians. And I backed the Capitals,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, it was an expensive night with
Speaker 1: that juice. That's it's it was. It was not a
Speaker 1: pleasant site to see. So now, how did your hat feel? After? That? Hat?
Speaker 1: Did not feel well? You know, because you were in
Speaker 1: the Dunce cap. That's why. Yeah, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I was barfing in it? Did you wear the shame
Speaker 1: bell as well? In addition to the Dunce cap? I
Speaker 1: didn't tell anybody about it. I Uh, that's like the
Speaker 1: that's the last time I would ever take a favorite
Speaker 1: with that kind of juice involved. It just so stupid.
Speaker 1: You never take think of something that big, no no,
Speaker 1: and you everyone's gonna learn this lesson who starts gambling
Speaker 1: on sports is these sports books open up state to state.
Speaker 1: I promise you, I gallantee. Everyone who's in the sports business,
Speaker 1: in sports waging business, they they want you to bet
Speaker 1: because they know that you will not know what you're doing,
Speaker 1: bigian garbage out. You're gonna bet on all the big favorites,
Speaker 1: all the you know that the road teams favored by
Speaker 1: five or six points are gonna bet on those teams. Uh,
Speaker 1: And you'll end up crying and you're gonna lose a
Speaker 1: fortune on that. And at some point a certain percentage
Speaker 1: of people will wise up and figure it out. But
Speaker 1: a lot of people won't. Yeah, the herd mentality, but
Speaker 1: not the herd. Not your guy, Colin Coward, the herd mentality. Alright,
Speaker 1: Pete from Main Rights and he says, ben, what is babache?
Speaker 1: I've actually gotten this question a lot gascon believe it
Speaker 1: or not, because I I say the word bob a ganoe,
Speaker 1: A lot people wondering if I want them to send
Speaker 1: me bob a ganoe. I don't. In fact, I've only
Speaker 1: had boba gus one time. I didn't really like it.
Speaker 1: Bobba ganus is a Middle Eastern dish. It is, I believe,
Speaker 1: egg plant with lemon and some other seasonings that are
Speaker 1: all mixed together. And it's just a fun word to say.
Speaker 1: I think bob ganoosh is one of the fun words
Speaker 1: out there. I love fun words, and so that's why
Speaker 1: I say baked the baba ganoos because it's a fun word.
Speaker 1: Where does that run? In contrast to smorgas board, smorgasborg
Speaker 1: is a good word. I like flumm x. I don't
Speaker 1: use that word a slabber knocker, which is a combined word.
Speaker 1: I like slabber knocker. Horn Swoggle is also high on
Speaker 1: the lists. Several of those fun words. We need to
Speaker 1: have more fun words. I'm an advocate of fun words
Speaker 1: to say, and baba ganoos is awesome. It is tremendous fun.
Speaker 1: I thought about that when I did do like the
Speaker 1: rare trip overseas, I actually did enjoy a smorgasbord of
Speaker 1: of meats and fish when I went with a buddy
Speaker 1: of mine to uh to answer that was the first
Speaker 1: time ever. I thought like, oh my gosh, I'm actually
Speaker 1: having a smorgas board of of food. It's like the
Speaker 1: first time ever, like nicely like laid out trey and whatnot.
Speaker 1: So uh yeah, step on it, dude. Get to get
Speaker 1: the babba gan new shout there. Get it out to
Speaker 1: the masses at least somebody. After you've got that wonderful
Speaker 1: display of of rose petals and brownies and muffins earlier
Speaker 1: in the week from one of your your loyalists, Well
Speaker 1: you should have stayed around you. I would have given
Speaker 1: you something. I was passing out brownies. Hopefully those things
Speaker 1: aren't poisoned. I was passing out brownies and cookies to everybody.
Speaker 1: Are they poison or their magic? I don't. I have
Speaker 1: no idea. They were very nice and what a wonderful
Speaker 1: present from Rachel Lamontabello, very kind, lovely Rachel almonta Bello.
Speaker 1: And another fun word is sculled duggery. That's a good word. Also,
Speaker 1: don't what yeah, what a skulled duggery? You've never used
Speaker 1: the word. You've never heard of the words skulled duggery.
Speaker 1: Guess no, never? What is that? College educated? I went
Speaker 1: to saddleback and you went it's It's just it's another
Speaker 1: way of saying, uh, like you're a odd you're up
Speaker 1: to skullduggery, Charlatan, Yeah, you're you're double daling, you know
Speaker 1: something along those lines. That's a good word, skullduggery, solid word, right,
Speaker 1: use these words more. Listen. All we have is words.
Speaker 1: Especially I learned this lesson years ago. I told this
Speaker 1: before on the radio. Like we're all I'm saying the
Speaker 1: same stuff that Cowherd and Patrick and Gottlieb and Jason
Speaker 1: Smith and and all these guys, Jonas Knocks, we're all
Speaker 1: kind of saying the same Mike harm and all these guys,
Speaker 1: we're saying the same thing. So if I can repackage
Speaker 1: it and make it sound a little different, why not.
Speaker 1: And Plus, it's just better. It's good to have these words.
Speaker 1: Some people end up dazed and confused right there, lost
Speaker 1: in a cordon Field maze when they are trying to
Speaker 1: figure out these words. So I enjoyed one of my
Speaker 1: favorite movies, underrated, but it goes right to the point
Speaker 1: on This is a Dead Poets Society with Robin Williams
Speaker 1: a classic yeah and basically said the same thing. All
Speaker 1: you all we have is our words. That's right, yeah, alright.
Speaker 1: Next up, Caleb from Meadville, Pennsylvania says Big Ben, the
Speaker 1: best interview I've ever heard on this podcast was with
Speaker 1: who do you think? Who do you think? Caleb's favorite
Speaker 1: interview was with We've got a lot. We have a
Speaker 1: very eclectic group. We've had We've had scientists, we've had
Speaker 1: media people, my radio friends, we've had old ball players.
Speaker 1: We've had an eclectic group. We've had politicians on the show.
Speaker 1: A chef, we had a yes, right, wonderful chef. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't know, that's a good question when you when
Speaker 1: you moved guest, and I guess we can eat at
Speaker 1: that restaurant, right, we can go that's right, big farm. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, was it Jerome Jerenovitch, j Rome seeing
Speaker 1: it Headline Sports. That was fun. My favorite were part
Speaker 1: of that. It's not Jerome dren my favorite part of Jenna.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind, I've known Jerome casually for fifteen years
Speaker 1: and I had never heard the story how he started
Speaker 1: yelling his name Jerome Jovitch. It's it's one of the
Speaker 1: great broadcasting stories. I put that in the top five,
Speaker 1: with Bob Ross growing his hair out into a perm
Speaker 1: because he couldn't afford haircuts and then that becoming a
Speaker 1: thing and he had his that was his trademark on
Speaker 1: on PBS. But Jerome Duranovitch, they had a automated system
Speaker 1: at CNN Headline News. Did you I don't know if
Speaker 1: you listen to the podcast, nobody Jerome told the story,
Speaker 1: so they had an automated system at CNN, so he
Speaker 1: had I think it was I forget exactly the amount
Speaker 1: of time, but it's like a minute forty seconds and
Speaker 1: then if you if you go over, it cuts off.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like we have the top of the
Speaker 1: hour on the network clock at Fox. If you go over,
Speaker 1: that's it. You're done. They shut you off. And Jerome
Speaker 1: was so paranol about going over they told him, don't
Speaker 1: ever go over, don't ever go over. So he would
Speaker 1: do his update short and then to fill the final
Speaker 1: five seconds or whatever, he would say jarro jach and
Speaker 1: he just melt it right and hit the post. Isn't
Speaker 1: that great? He became known as that guy that became
Speaker 1: his signure thing. People. He was telling the stories that
Speaker 1: he'd go to these parties with with Gretzky and Jordan's
Speaker 1: and all these big people, and they wanted to talk
Speaker 1: to him because they watched CNN and they knew who
Speaker 1: he was because he screamed his name out. But the
Speaker 1: answer to Caleb's question was Lenny distra nails. He says,
Speaker 1: could you please have him on again? Sometime? I was
Speaker 1: glued to my radio when you had him on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd love to have Lenny on. Lenny's a friend of
Speaker 1: the show. Lenny would do it. Problem with this, though,
Speaker 1: is the schedule when we record the podcast, Like, I
Speaker 1: don't want these things to be dated. The podcast got
Speaker 1: to breathe a little bit, and you do. You can't
Speaker 1: do a specific podcast about like the World Series during
Speaker 1: the World Series because it's dated. Like, for example, the
Speaker 1: World Series this week starts on Tuesday and on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: I believe that's the start of the World Series. I
Speaker 1: think I'm correct on that. Uh, first two games, then
Speaker 1: they have a travel day on Thursday, they play. Uh
Speaker 1: they might have a couple of days off, but they
Speaker 1: play over the weekend. So we would if we were
Speaker 1: to do the dicest podcast, we want to talk about
Speaker 1: the World Series match up, and then we would have
Speaker 1: to it would be dated right away because by the
Speaker 1: time it aired to be a game that would have played.
Speaker 1: So but after the World Series, get also, we have
Speaker 1: to get an American hero, the great Rick Monday. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you go. I talked to Rick. Rick said he's he's
Speaker 1: cool to do the podcast at some point, So we'll
Speaker 1: get him on here, the man that saved the American flag.
Speaker 1: And if that happened today, there would have been off
Speaker 1: columnists at CNN and The New York Times that would
Speaker 1: have ripped Rick. Oh yeah, well you know what if
Speaker 1: Rick Monday would have done that today, I bet you,
Speaker 1: I bet you everything I have in the tank that
Speaker 1: even the hacks that the l A Times would would
Speaker 1: trash Rick Monday. Hud that would would happen if that
Speaker 1: if that happened at that happened at Dodgers Stadium and
Speaker 1: the l A Times was there. I guarantee they would
Speaker 1: trash Rick Monday. Oh yeah, oh yeah. The the think
Speaker 1: police would be out there and they'd be doing their
Speaker 1: their nonsense. So uh anyway, Uh, let's see your page down,
Speaker 1: page down, all right. Uh. Next on the mail bag,
Speaker 1: we have Carlos in Houston, Texas. Carlos and Houston, Texas
Speaker 1: has been You have mentioned a few times that you
Speaker 1: got in trouble by Major League Baseball because of the
Speaker 1: cheating scandal. Can you go into detail with what they
Speaker 1: told you? Yeah, Carlos, Unfortunately I am not able to
Speaker 1: talk about that at this time, and for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: I leave Fox Sports Radio and I write a book.
Speaker 1: I promise you there will be a chapter about what
Speaker 1: happened and the phone calls that were made, the emails
Speaker 1: that were made. You know, the story. Guests on you're
Speaker 1: aware of what happened, but unfortunately that is not for
Speaker 1: public consumption at this time. Let's just say, once the
Speaker 1: story comes out, many people will be bug eyed and
Speaker 1: will not believe, will not believe what happened behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: That's all I will says. I think I'm right on
Speaker 1: that right, Yes, yes, wow, all right. He says, also,
Speaker 1: I'm surprised that you haven't done a monologue on the
Speaker 1: Rich Paul versus New Lands. No, well, story, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's kind of it's it's still a story, but it's
Speaker 1: in a in a holding pattern right now. And I
Speaker 1: did consider it, but there was something bigger that happened,
Speaker 1: and so that that was on my What I do
Speaker 1: is I put a list of things I might want
Speaker 1: to do a monologue about. I like, I'll write down
Speaker 1: like maybe i'll do this that, And then I thinned
Speaker 1: the herd and I'll chop it down. And so that
Speaker 1: didn't make the cut because there was something I like
Speaker 1: more that I was more interested in that week that
Speaker 1: story came out. He also says, may I recommend an
Speaker 1: interview Tony Adams, the guy who made the sign Stealing
Speaker 1: scandal dot com website? You ever heard of that guy? Uh? Guess, no,
Speaker 1: sign Stealing scandal dot com. I'm clicking on it right now,
Speaker 1: right when they click on it right now, and uh,
Speaker 1: it appears to be not an actual site, So I
Speaker 1: don't know what he's talking about. Maybe it was at
Speaker 1: one point, Uh, science, I'm looking on. It's not Oh
Speaker 1: wait a minute, it is coming up. Now, now it
Speaker 1: is coming up. I guess I had a bad link.
Speaker 1: It says I'm an Astros fan. They cheated during the
Speaker 1: regular season. The evidence is clear. In an attempt to
Speaker 1: understand the scope of the cheating and the players involved,
Speaker 1: this guy wrote, I decided to listen to every pitch
Speaker 1: from the Astros home games and log any banging noise
Speaker 1: I could detect, and then he gave the results here
Speaker 1: and uh, there's a lot of ven diagrams, pie charts
Speaker 1: and all that. Yeah, I don't know. Would that be
Speaker 1: a good podcast. I don't know about that would be
Speaker 1: an interesting to talk to you now? I think I
Speaker 1: feel like we need visuals to compliment it. Yeah, I'd
Speaker 1: rather get that Mattress Mac guy on in Houston. Get
Speaker 1: that guy on, that'd be good, that'd be that'd be
Speaker 1: fun to talk to him. And if you want to
Speaker 1: recommend anyone, you know, every week we have on Friday,
Speaker 1: we try, unless we we fail, we'll get somebody on
Speaker 1: to talk to. So if there's anybody you want that
Speaker 1: you think is reasonable. And I've tried to get people
Speaker 1: I want to know, some people won't do the podcast.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of these these elites that won't do
Speaker 1: the podcast because we're not big enough names or whatever.
Speaker 1: We don't know. We don't know what it was. That
Speaker 1: guy Mike Row. I really wanted to get mic Row on,
Speaker 1: A big fan of micro and I emailed his publicist
Speaker 1: and they asked for a list of names of people
Speaker 1: we had on the podcast, and I guess we didn't
Speaker 1: make the cut, so mic Row would not do the pocket.
Speaker 1: I'm sure Mike has no idea about this at all,
Speaker 1: by the way that it's people below him and all that.
Speaker 1: It was disappointing. I was, and I he's He's someone
Speaker 1: I think it would have been great for the show
Speaker 1: and talk to and you know, the dirty jobs guy
Speaker 1: Mike Row, And unfortunately I'm not gonna get him on.
Speaker 1: Who else? I was Ron Popeil he's dead now, but
Speaker 1: Ron Popeo. We wanted to get him on and I
Speaker 1: we had him booked and then at the last minute
Speaker 1: Poppel backed out. At the last minute, I thought it
Speaker 1: was a done deal backed out. That that one hurt.
Speaker 1: Trying to feel like we had another athlete that was
Speaker 1: on board, an athlete that backed out that we had
Speaker 1: Why don't we try to get Alec Baldwin on how
Speaker 1: about that? Oh my god, what a story? Holy, how horrible?
Speaker 1: How horrific? Oh, you're in the movie business, guest Scott,
Speaker 1: How the fund does that happen? I know what's happened before,
Speaker 1: but how that you're just a proper business and how
Speaker 1: does that place? That's just gun safety one on one
Speaker 1: on one though, like you just you never point a
Speaker 1: firearm at somebody. You check the chamber. I mean, you
Speaker 1: check to see if it's loaded. Are you blaming Alec
Speaker 1: Baldwin on one thousand, one thousand percent? That's neglig on
Speaker 1: his part. Well, you don't know what happened, all the
Speaker 1: all the details. I don't know what happened, But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give him the benefit of the doubt that he
Speaker 1: he's on set. He thought that was a a prop gun,
Speaker 1: not a not a real gun. Who's who's got a
Speaker 1: live gun laying around like that? Well, I'll put it
Speaker 1: this way, though, if you have any kind of weapon,
Speaker 1: why would you point it at somebody? One? And two?
Speaker 1: Why would you point to somebody that's not even in
Speaker 1: the scene with you? I mean, I could done this
Speaker 1: down if you had a blowhorn. Would you put a
Speaker 1: blowhorn point blank to someone's face or ear? Well, first
Speaker 1: of all, if you knew in your in your head
Speaker 1: that that was not a real you know, you were
Speaker 1: just goofing around, right, it was a it was a
Speaker 1: prop gun. So it's like when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: we had these capo Yeah, they still have those, by
Speaker 1: the way, those done. They do. But I mean even
Speaker 1: if even a BB gun, if you had a b
Speaker 1: B gun, you wouldn't you wouldn't aim that at somebody.
Speaker 1: A paintball gun you wouldn't aim at somebody either. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I know you want to,
Speaker 1: but I'm not a big Alec Baldwin guy, but that
Speaker 1: I don't unless I would have to read more about it.
Speaker 1: Guesscou As I understand it right now. I don't blame him,
Speaker 1: but I mean, that's that is man. If you I
Speaker 1: just I can't think you're thinking you're shooting a toy
Speaker 1: gun and it turns out to be a real gun
Speaker 1: and you've killed someone. I mean, I'll put it this way.
Speaker 1: I hate bringing this up, but Dante Stalworth killed a
Speaker 1: man and it was in the middle of the night.
Speaker 1: The man was crossing the crosswalk. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he was. Yeah, and Stalwarth was he was in toxic kid.
Speaker 1: I mean at worst, I mean not worst, but at
Speaker 1: least he's he's negligent on what he did and he
Speaker 1: needs to be held accountable. Man like that dude needs
Speaker 1: to go to jail. So you think Alec Baldwin should
Speaker 1: go to jail, Yeah, one thousand percent. He needs to
Speaker 1: go to jail. Do you think he will go to jail?
Speaker 1: I say no, no, he will not know he won't
Speaker 1: go to jail. And there's several reasons for that. There's
Speaker 1: I know it's different. But in California, there was an incident,
Speaker 1: uh some we talked about this on the radio. Somebody's
Speaker 1: some famous guy's kid, uh died in an accident with
Speaker 1: a gun on a movie set years ago. I think
Speaker 1: it's in the eighties or the early nineties, and there
Speaker 1: were no criminal charges. Also, the state of New Mexico
Speaker 1: wants more Hollywood productions to come right to the state
Speaker 1: of New Mexico. So that's where that happened. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: they'll probably yeah, you know, it's just an accident and
Speaker 1: we'll move on. But Matthew Broderick killed somebody he didn't.
Speaker 1: I mean Jim Las Jimmy Larritz. I could get him
Speaker 1: on the podcast Yankee Hero, Jim Layriz. I knew him
Speaker 1: when he played with the Dodger a little bit and
Speaker 1: the Angels back in the back in the day. Let's
Speaker 1: see here, Greg and Iowas says, have either of you
Speaker 1: piste on a live electric fence, whether sober or drunk?
Speaker 1: Gascon that's all you. And my wife told me though,
Speaker 1: she works at the police stations, and I one one
Speaker 1: operator that is legal in the state of California to
Speaker 1: ship on the street and to piss on the street
Speaker 1: legal in the state of California. How the fuck has
Speaker 1: that happened? Yeah, like we we mock people in San
Speaker 1: Francisco in l A. San Francisco, in l A, they ship.
Speaker 1: There's piles of human feces in parts of San Francisco.
Speaker 1: In l A. You've got San Francisco, one of you know,
Speaker 1: one of the most beautiful cities in in God's Green Earth.
Speaker 1: On God's Green Earth, you've got these amazing mosaic views
Speaker 1: of the skyline, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Bay Bridge,
Speaker 1: these aws, some boats out in the harbor, and you
Speaker 1: walk over human ship and it's not even against the law.
Speaker 1: It's wild. Don't worry, man, I don't worry. They know better,
Speaker 1: and the people voting for them no better. Well, you're
Speaker 1: moving to a place where it is locally illegal to
Speaker 1: ship and piss. I believe if I don't know where
Speaker 1: you're moving, you haven't told me where you're moving, for sure.
Speaker 1: But if you're moving somewhat in my area out adjacent
Speaker 1: to the north Woods, not legal, not legal to do it.
Speaker 1: They also, amazingly in those places, they actually when they
Speaker 1: is graffiti just gonna blow your mind, guests, Gan, they
Speaker 1: clean it up within forty eight hours. Yes, they don't
Speaker 1: just leave it there as a nice piece of art
Speaker 1: like a Rembrandt or a van Go. They actually get
Speaker 1: rid of it. And then it tells me they don't
Speaker 1: allow robberies to take places like in cvs IS or
Speaker 1: Right Aids, or like beauty stores or you know, best buys,
Speaker 1: things like that. You can't go in with a duffeld.
Speaker 1: I can fill it up and just walk out and
Speaker 1: then nobody cares, all right. Last email question Scott from
Speaker 1: Parts Unknown says Ben and Gascon are there any photos
Speaker 1: of some of the various characters on the show, such
Speaker 1: as Spin Psycho Regina Tammy from Montana. He says, also,
Speaker 1: what is the most embarrassing moment you've experienced on the air?
Speaker 1: I love the show? F al tub Actually we can
Speaker 1: say funk out because that's what he wrote. So Scott,
Speaker 1: first of all, I'm I don't know what spin Psycho
Speaker 1: Regina looks like or Tammy. It's radio. Part of the
Speaker 1: fun for me is it is theater of the mind.
Speaker 1: You can imagine what I look like, what Tammy looks like,
Speaker 1: Spin Psycho Regina, Doc Mike flexis any of these characters
Speaker 1: that call the show and are part of our family,
Speaker 1: But you don't really know. Now with the Internet it's changed.
Speaker 1: But spend Psycho Regina, I've I don't know if she
Speaker 1: looks like. I don't know what Tammy, uh, Doc Mike.
Speaker 1: I've met some of these characters. I've met Lance the
Speaker 1: bus driver. I've met him several times. Jay Scoop had
Speaker 1: a nice meal. We're friends because I had a meal
Speaker 1: with the great Jay Scoop. Helmet but I met Helmet Man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Helmet Man. I knew him before he called the show.
Speaker 1: I hope he's around. I don't know what happened to him.
Speaker 1: He's gone, at least from calling the show. And uh,
Speaker 1: I've seen Cowboy And when there's some of these guys
Speaker 1: are on the internet, Cowboy John Brad. If you do
Speaker 1: a search, I'm sure you rather it sounds like you'd
Speaker 1: rather see the beautiful women in the malle Militia Scott
Speaker 1: then the guys. But Cowboy on the CBC website. My man,
Speaker 1: he was. He was such a prolific hoarder in Canada
Speaker 1: that the Canadian government came and evicted him from his home.
Speaker 1: And I think he called himself the handsome hoarder. But
Speaker 1: if you type in uh, cowboy, John windsor hoarding, some
Speaker 1: combination of those words into Google, you'll find the story.
Speaker 1: And there's a photo of Cowboy John Brad in the
Speaker 1: in the squalor that he was living in in his
Speaker 1: home in Canada. Had the Canadian government had to they
Speaker 1: had to find a new home for him. It's so
Speaker 1: many papers and books and all that, and he is
Speaker 1: his mind. It's fascinating. He does not use computers, he
Speaker 1: doesn't own a computer. He's got this photographic memory. It's wild.
Speaker 1: I got a terrible memory. This guy's got an amazing memory. Uh.
Speaker 1: And as far as the other part of the question,
Speaker 1: there Scott most embarrassing moments on the air? Where do
Speaker 1: where do we begin? Uh? Well, I mean we've had
Speaker 1: I've had guests on. I didn't realize. I thought I
Speaker 1: was talking to player A and I was talking to
Speaker 1: person B. That's been embarrassing. Uh. One time I did
Speaker 1: a show, I was hammered, which is I don't even
Speaker 1: get drunk very often. But this is years ago. I
Speaker 1: was in my twenties. I've told the story before thumbnail version.
Speaker 1: So it was during the Olympics. I was doing a
Speaker 1: night show, local show in l A. We were told
Speaker 1: we weren't gonna be on because of Olympic coverage network
Speaker 1: coverage on the Olympics. The program director says, hey, go
Speaker 1: hang out at a restaurant and stay in the area
Speaker 1: because if the Olympic coverage ends early, we'll put you
Speaker 1: on for like an hour, so we'd have to fill
Speaker 1: an hour. And so okay, So we stayed out. We
Speaker 1: went to this place called Adults in Burbank, which no
Speaker 1: longer exists, and we just watched TV eight chicken fingers
Speaker 1: and drank beer and told radio stories. All night and
Speaker 1: then we get a phone call right when we're getting
Speaker 1: ready just to kind of wander the streets of Burbank
Speaker 1: and try to sober up. And the boss is like, hey,
Speaker 1: we need you. So I went in and I did
Speaker 1: an hour of radio. And when you're inebriated, you curse
Speaker 1: and you don't even realize you're cursing. Like I have
Speaker 1: some filter on the radio. I've developed a bit of
Speaker 1: a filter, which isn't perfect, but it's pretty good. And
Speaker 1: when you're drunk, you don't do that. Uh. The other
Speaker 1: thing along that vein I I this was last Was
Speaker 1: it last year? I guess it was two years ago.
Speaker 1: Guess gun Remember the famous pizza when I burned my mouth?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah? Rams game? Yeah yeah. So I was supposed
Speaker 1: to go to a Rams Bucks game when Jamis Winston
Speaker 1: was with the Bucks in I didn't get my request
Speaker 1: into the Rams soon enough. The Rams would not allow
Speaker 1: me in the stadium, would not allow me in the stadium.
Speaker 1: So I stayed home and I made the Mallard pizza
Speaker 1: garlic onion, bell pepper Mallard pizza. And I was so
Speaker 1: excited and to eat the pizza that I ate it
Speaker 1: before the pizza had cooled down and I burned my
Speaker 1: tongue and for the next week I sounded like Lou
Speaker 1: Holtz had the gods. I sounded like Lou holes I
Speaker 1: had a lisp as I was hemming in on on
Speaker 1: the radio. Is embarrassing. It was the game that it's
Speaker 1: a game that Jared Goff had multiple turnovers and Jamis
Speaker 1: Winston had like what like six touchdowns or something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that was actually I guess that was a a
Speaker 1: preview a four shock of future attractions because that helped
Speaker 1: spur the Ramps to eventually get rid of Jared Goff.
Speaker 1: So that was a big thing. Sold anyway, all right,
Speaker 1: that's it. Anything else, Gaston, I think we're We've run
Speaker 1: through all the emails that I have here. I have
Speaker 1: a stack of emails. Are some other ones, but no, no,
Speaker 1: the hats did come in though a couple of days
Speaker 1: ago was in the studio, so many thanks, and we
Speaker 1: had a couple of emails and trackers. That's a reminder
Speaker 1: so if anyone send anything to you or myself, they
Speaker 1: have to put our names on it, because apparently the
Speaker 1: package with the hats did not have a name on it.
Speaker 1: So the people that were managing the mail for us
Speaker 1: are in a different department, and they were just holding
Speaker 1: onto it because they had no idea who the um
Speaker 1: recipient was of all that stuff. Yeah, so, and I
Speaker 1: will give out the address, not that anyone will write
Speaker 1: it down here Gascon. But if you would like to
Speaker 1: send anything to Gascon or myself, not that you should,
Speaker 1: and not that we were we want you to, but
Speaker 1: actually we do want you to. But if you want
Speaker 1: to be part of it, you can send your your
Speaker 1: package to Ben Mallard show. You gotta put that above
Speaker 1: the address line, Ben mallows Show, Fox Sports Radio one
Speaker 1: five two six oh one Ventura Boulevard. And I believe
Speaker 1: it's sweet five now, Yeah, I believe five hundred Sherman Oaks, California,
Speaker 1: oh three. And that is the address. And we will
Speaker 1: let us know though, so we make sure there's a
Speaker 1: lot of Rush Limbaugh still getting me. I was in
Speaker 1: the other night after the Dodger INDs game, and I
Speaker 1: look around at the stacks of mail looking for stuff
Speaker 1: for me and George nor He's got a bunch of stuff,
Speaker 1: and there's Russia Limbaugh, Cowherd, Steve Harvey, all the big
Speaker 1: stars of the premier networks. And uh, then I'm scrambling
Speaker 1: to try to find stuff for me. So yeah, and
Speaker 1: and then and then just a reminder to piggyback off
Speaker 1: of that. Um, I wear a large T shirt and
Speaker 1: a seven and three size cat. Okay, uh, people know,
Speaker 1: I guess, and I wear a size eight hat. I
Speaker 1: have a big melon, a watermelon head, lemon head, and
Speaker 1: I I generally wear a two X long. I could
Speaker 1: wear an Excel, but I don't like to. I look
Speaker 1: too skinny in that, So I like a too X.
Speaker 1: Let it, let it breathe a little bit, but it
Speaker 1: has to be long because I'm lengthy. I'm nank I
Speaker 1: think would be the term. Anyway. You swim in your clothes?
Speaker 1: Now you do? You swim in your clothes? I like that.
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that because before when I
Speaker 1: originally lost all the weight, I'm a yo yo person.
Speaker 1: I been pretty good with this new intermitute fasting. But
Speaker 1: when I lost the weight before, I gained half of
Speaker 1: it back. I lost over two hundred pounds and I
Speaker 1: gained over a hundred pounds back, and I was so petty.
Speaker 1: I got married. My wife's a great cook, and you know,
Speaker 1: I was the hunting moon phase and I just ate
Speaker 1: everything literally and I get a hundred pounds back. But
Speaker 1: since I've lost the hundred, I've lost five over three
Speaker 1: hundred pounds in the last twelve years or so. But
Speaker 1: but but anyway, so yeah, so that the uh, the
Speaker 1: diet things working out and all that. But I like
Speaker 1: my clothes to be a little loose, just in case
Speaker 1: I gained a little weight back. I still don't feel
Speaker 1: like a big fatty. They do tell you, though, don't they.
Speaker 1: The diet X was tell you to wear jeans because
Speaker 1: you can't cheat in jeans, and if you've gained weight,
Speaker 1: they'll show you won't be able to put those genes
Speaker 1: on anymore. And a lot of you it's the old
Speaker 1: trick we all do as fat people. We just wear
Speaker 1: the gym shorts and the sweatpants and the things that
Speaker 1: you can expand the waste. So if you gain a
Speaker 1: couple of pounds, it's no big deal. We're a lot
Speaker 1: of black, a lot of gray, and a lot of blue. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and do you can dress like me? I have my
Speaker 1: clothing right off skid Row. The aligned from skid Row
Speaker 1: very nice, all right, Thank you gusting on for showing up.
Speaker 1: Will you be how many podcasts next week? One? Two
Speaker 1: or three? What? What's what's the over under? Add is
Speaker 1: it one and a half or two? One and a
Speaker 1: half one and a half. I'll take the d D.
Speaker 1: All right, let's have a great day. We'll be back
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Speaker 1: Monday morning. A feeling You're opening monologue could be something
Speaker 1: Arizona related. It might be baseball related, a rare, a
Speaker 1: rare and appropriate baseball monologue. It could be all right anyway,
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