WEBVTT - A Farewell to 2020 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.360 Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:06.840 Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific boom. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:11.280 If you thought more hours a day, minutes a week 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:14.920 was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of the 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:19.120 old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats crackheads 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:21.639 in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich pill 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:26.160 poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, break 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:30.000 free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:38.560 starts right now in the a everywhere booming all over 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:41.840 the podcast world. We woke me in because four hours 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:45.159 a night are not enough eight days a week. This 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.400 would be the eighth day of the week and the 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:53.120 final podcast of twenty at least the final scheduled podcast 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:57.240 or any audio content for that matter of here as 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:00.600 we wind the year down, so much to serve time 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.880 off coming up here over the next couple of weeks, 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:07.240 and we are booming out of the I Heart Podcast now. 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.400 We thank you guys for supporting the podcast year. It's 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:13.240 been great. Do appreciate it. In I will tell you 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:18.640 that coming up on I think it's Christmas Eve into Christmas, 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.480 they're gonna be a bunch of one hour vignettes from 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:25.679 the different shows on Fox Sports Radio will play in 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:28.440 a loop, and we are part of that. So I'm 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:30.840 not sure exactly what hour it's going to air, but 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.679 they're going to put on an hour from each show 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:37.280 some of the highlights of the year, and so we'll 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:41.320 have that for you on Christmas. So that's something to 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:43.119 look forward to. Here. Coming up, we are joined yet 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:45.520 again from West of the four oh five the man 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:50.640 who's relative is destroying Los Angeles as the district Attorney, David. 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:05.480 There's a pressing question that has been served from from 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:08.400 me to to you that we need to acknowledge on 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.200 the air right now on the fifth hour. Oh is 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.320 that right? What would that be? Um? Based on everything 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:18.480 that's gone on in and how the impact of your 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:23.680 show has gone from radio to now radio and digital. Um, 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.519 do I qualify for a Benny because I think I'd 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.520 be the outright leader and winner of one for sure. 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:34.120 Be careful what you ask for. Wait, careful what you 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:37.760 ask why just say it? Be careful what you asked for? 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:43.320 Why there's different categories to the Benny's okay, and uh, 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:47.440 you know you do have a reputation as being overbearing, 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:53.040 overbearing to who, to the listener, pretentious, you know, and 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.920 then those are You've taken some pot shots at the 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.720 Malla militia, so the Malamussa can fight back. But I 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.000 mean you are eligible, you sure me, eligible to win 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:07.000 the most coveted award and Overnight Sports Radio Producer Top Producer. Yeah, 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:09.600 you know. I'm just I'm saying, be careful, all right, 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:13.840 because you think the Malamlitia is gonna shepherd you in. Uh, 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.000 that's not quite how it works. You have people part 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.160 of the militia that actually call Fox Sports Radio to 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:25.079 enquire about personal things about me. Oh is that right? Yeah, 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:29.160 like you got fucking losers in Ohio or Cincinnati for 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:33.000 to be more specific, that call to inquire about personal 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:37.040 things about me. Oh, I see, I got not that 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.120 that bothers you, you're yeah, you know, Oh yeah, of 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.360 course it bothers me. It bothers you, Okay, yeah, I 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.120 mean you can write a book, then on it. You 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.600 should write a book about you think it would sell. 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:48.800 You're trying to write a book. I have tried to 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:50.720 write a book. I'm still actually in the process of that. 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:54.920 I'm currently a waiting word on a project that might 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.560 or might not happen. Right, I'm not optimistic about it, 0:03:57.600 --> 0:03:59.640 but you never know. It's out there, it's in the ethos, 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.240 so maybe it will happen. Your energy, right, you put 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.200 that out there into the into the world, and now 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.240 you're waiting for any books you think we could sell? Though, 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.119 if I wrote a book, how many books could we sell? 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.680 I don't think. Yeah, of course what you say it 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.760 doesn't matter. But you know, the people that are making 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:16.880 the book, it matters to them. It would be irresponsible 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.280 not write the book and two people by the damn book. 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:23.120 But yeah, I'm curious. I got some decent stories to tell. 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:27.200 You have what close to fifty five thousand Twitter followers. 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:29.479 I don't know. I don't even know if that's a 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:32.440 real measurement because there's a lot of Russian bots and 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:34.920 algorithms and all that crap. But yeah, there's a decent 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:36.880 number of people follow me on there. I think it's 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:38.760 you can sell enough, and especially if you've got some 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.160 friends in New York that are in the media, they 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.680 can pump you up. Yeah, yeah, I mean, why not 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.160 go for it? So this is a mail bag podcast. 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.400 No bag podcast. Before we get to the mail bag, 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:55.800 remember last chance, last chance, cameo, Cameo, cameo, cameo, cameo, cameo, cameo. 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.279 I'm taking some time off, but assuming I'm not out 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:04.919 in Sherwood Forest somewhere with Robin Hood right, you know, 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:08.600 Fried talking all that. So if if I am available 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.160 and I'm near the grid and I get a you know, 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.560 cameo request or whatever, I am more than pleased to 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.279 help you out on that. Do that for you, Cameo 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:20.719 dot com. Ben Maller, check my name out there. But 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.200 as far as the mailbag, these are actual questions by 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:26.600 actual listeners, and we'll get right into it. Yes see 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:30.159 these questions submitted via Facebook, the Facebook page which is 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:33.320 the Ben Mallor Show page on Facebook, and Real fifth 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:36.560 Hour at gmail dot com. If you want to send 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:38.560 an email and anything else to add to that. Yeah, 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:40.680 I mean, I know you're driving in the fast lane, 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:42.839 but if we go to the car pool lane real quick, 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.480 we must acknowledge you can slow down. We can slow 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.160 down if you want. We have to acknowledge our our 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.960 friends that decide to take the time to review us 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.880 on iTunes. Eight days a week is not enough I 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:56.440 want nine days a week. That's from what does that bring? 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:00.680 The heater seven loved him. He pitched for the Astros 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:02.520 back in the day. There you go. Uh m J 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:07.920 nineteen says, excellent show David's father was great. Uh Neil 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.800 responded last week and he said Mr West of the 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.320 four Old Five brings the modern to the old school. 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:18.240 Man of the people. Ben mallor They're ba is entertaining 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:20.120 and the bits on the show are unique. Keep it going, 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:24.520 It's good. Uh This other one from John says the 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.320 fifth hour without me is like taking a dump without 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.040 a butt wipe. I will not listen unless I'm back. 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:33.160 That's pretty good. It's so good. It's a good this 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.800 is This puts me in the lead right now. And 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:39.240 Ben for that prominent Benny as top producer for the 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:44.400 Ben Miller Show. Yeah, I noticed that you're think the 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.080 what's the term for that? Cherry picking? I think that's 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.600 the term here. You're you're kind of overlooking some some 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:52.000 things here, you know. I'm just there's a lot of 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:53.719 things to get to have. We have a short amount 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:55.039 of time, and I don't want to take up too 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.680 much air time since the legal term is suppressing evidence 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:05.200 I think is you know, a lie biomission is still 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.680 a lie. You know, a live biomission is still a lie. 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:12.679 I want to point that out there. Yeah, alright, Uh, Actually, 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:14.720 before we get to the mailbag, there's a couple of 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.480 stories we didn't get to yesterday that I wanted to 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.200 bring up here because I thought they were interesting. They're 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:23.160 kind of food related stories here science stories. Did you 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:25.680 see this week? This did not get a lot of attention, 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:33.280 but US regulators have okayed genetically modified pig for food 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:39.520 and drugs. Yeah, so you get a pig made in 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.600 the lab and you can have your your bake. I 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:44.920 wonder if that's kosher if it's made made in the lab. 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.720 So so here in the United States were modifying pigs, 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:53.960 and in China they're they're genetically modifying soldiers. Oh well, 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:55.840 to eat their own, you know, to each their own. 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:57.600 And how are they eating them in China? Like we're 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.760 eating the pigs now, they're still sticking the bats. All right, 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:04.200 All right, here's another odd food story that I saw 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:08.040 the other day and I'm like, whoa, wow, this is crazy. 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:12.040 So there's a guy in London, a researcher in London 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:17.400 whose life's goal here is to turn blank into food 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:25.280 ship well kind of Uh, he's a in London. He's 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:29.160 trying to get a million, millions and millions of chicken 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:35.400 feathers and turn that into food. Yeah, guys, the thirty 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.959 years old he's originally from Thailand, but he's in London 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.520 and he is seeking funding to continue as research into 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:46.960 how to best convert the nutrient components found in chicken 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:52.000 feathers into a powder that can be transformed into a lean, 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:57.640 protein rich source of edible food. Just chicken feathers, they say, 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:01.880 contain protein. And if you're able to serve this protein 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:06.400 to others in the world, the demand from everyone will 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.839 help reduced waste. That's great. Now, I hope what if 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:11.920 he does come up with this and he does serve it. 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:16.439 I hope he serves those chicken feathers warm and hot 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:19.559 and appropriate. Is that? Is that how you're supposed to 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.360 do well? I mean, I know some people don't serve 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:26.080 their chicken warm that they're gatherings, but it's fine. So 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.400 when the restaurant opens, the food is served. When the 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.439 restaurants closed, if you come get a meal, you get 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.400 what youever you get. That is going to change the 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:35.560 the phrase though, that one of the great slogans I 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.199 used this sometimes you can't you can't make chicken salad 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:42.360 out of chicken feathers. Well maybe you can, you, maybe 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:45.040 you can. We might have to revisit that, right, we 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.880 have to say, wait a minute, here, hold honest hold, honestly, 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:55.560 are you gonna incorporate something different into your diet in oh? Oh, 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:58.480 I see where you're going with that. No, I'm asking 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.520 you strategically speaking, since you mentioned your labs the other 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.880 day that were good, that were fantastic, you said, so, 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:09.720 are you gonna do anything else to up your game? Now? No, 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.360 I'm not planning on it. I mean if if you know, 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:14.640 I try to eat a little healthier from time to time, 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:16.160 and I don't eat much during the week anyway, So 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.040 I don't know, I mean, other than adding more meals 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:23.719 to my routine. Uh, yeah, I don't know what you get. 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:25.720 I'm just saying, like, if you went one day where 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:30.160 you went strictly green or you went strictly fruit. Yeah, well, 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.319 I love fruit. I could eat tons of fruit. Who 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.280 doesn't like that? No, of course, I've just seen the 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:38.000 world's oldest rice patties were discovered in China dating back 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:43.800 of six thousand three years. It's pretty good. That's old. 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.160 That's an old rice. Man, What do you think what 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.840 do you think can live longer that rice? Patty or 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:56.400 a cheeseburger from McDonald's. Um, french fries from McDonald's. Have 0:10:56.440 --> 0:11:01.120 french fries from from McDonald's. Good. Uh, that's uh, that 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.400 is the okay, Sorry, let's get to the mail bag. 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.800 People would like to ask questions. We have their questions. 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:09.120 Michael from Newton Falls Rights and he says, what will 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:12.080 you remember most about sports in the year. I think 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.200 I already know the answer, the Dodgers winning the World Series. 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.520 But if there's anything else I would be happy to hear. Well, yeah, 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:19.160 there's a lot. Listen, this is gonna be a very 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:21.480 memorable year. And this is something we're gonna reference from 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.200 years and you know, years and years down the line. Obviously, 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.480 for me personally in my little world, the Dodgers winning, 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.360 the Clippers getting Kauai and then slipping on the banana 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.800 appeal um in the playoffs against the Nuggets. Uh, the 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:36.520 night we had to wear the paper bag on my 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:41.080 head and how embarrassing that was. Uh, The bubble, the 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:44.320 NBA bubble, the virtual NFL shrapp and really just in general. 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:47.480 I guess I'm painting with a broad brush here, But 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:52.640 the hundred and thirty four days without sports sports radio Armageddon, 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:56.040 and we have lived through sports radio Armageddon, and we 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.559 kept cranking out new content in the podcast. And and 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.839 also remember this kind of patting ourselves on the back here, 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.520 but we had the highest listenership in the history of 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:10.840 Fox Sports Radio with no sports. Most people in the here, 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.320 I've been been here for twenty years at Fox Sports Radio, 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.840 and this was the most listened to year we've ever had. 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.480 And it makes no sense because there were no sports, 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:23.760 and people weren't driving n P exactly. Most people listen 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.360 to audio content in their car and and all that. 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.920 And then also remember sports being hijacked by politics. I 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.120 remember that. I mean, those are all things, you know, 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.800 they're general statements, but those are all part of what 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.679 I will remember from the year. Especially I think that 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:41.280 was sports related. The perfect one to three combination of 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:46.360 Rudy Gobert touching the microphones, not not really caring too 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:50.439 much about COVID, and then and then the entire arena 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:52.560 gets shut down in Salt Lake City. That that whole 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.280 night was like like you were living in a movie. 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.920 It was a horror movie because you had the report 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.839 came out that Tom Hanks America is but loved Tom 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:04.600 Hanks and his wife attested positive for the COVID and 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.360 they were canceling games and you didn't know what was 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:10.440 gonna come next, and it was like one thing after another. 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.400 It was piling up. It was wild, wild night, wild night. 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.720 All right. Matt from Dallas Fort Worth right, Sin says, 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:20.400 if you could do the broadcast for any Major League 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:24.640 Baseball team not named the Dodgers, which would you choose? 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:28.920 And would you do radio or television? Inquiring minds would 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.880 like to know, all right, well, thank you, mack. Well, 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.280 the the one that popped a boy, like the Red 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:38.800 Sox or the Yankees. You'd like to be in a 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:43.880 big market with a loyal, passionate fan base. And as 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:45.840 far as like the radio, TV think, it really depends 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:49.319 on my financial situation because TV people get paid more money. 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.920 They're better people than us because they have makeup on 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:55.120 So that's one thing. But radio, to me, that the 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.920 art of broadcasting baseball on the radio, when it's done 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:04.240 properly is awesome. So it's I would go with I 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.480 would go radio because it's more inclined to tell stories. 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:09.760 It's more about telling stories when you're doing a game 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.160 and you worked the pitches in and that kind of 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:15.560 But you did radio Gascon for a team that went 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:21.200 bankrupt there in Bakersfield, California, the Bakersfield Blaze. May they 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.600 rest in peace. And in fact, during this whole COVID, 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:28.840 I actually did the final three game road trip for Vanderbilt, 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.800 who was the defending two thousand nineteen World Series champs. 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.720 College baseball. You did, Yeah, they came out in here 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.200 and they did. They had a three game tournament series 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:40.640 with usc U c l A, and then TCU also 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:43.360 came to town. So I called their series that weekend 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:48.000 before everything is shut down. Look at you. It was 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:49.320 it weird because you didn't know who any of the 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:51.880 people were. No, I was doing my homework. I did 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:53.560 my research, and there was a bunch of guys that 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.320 did know. On the flip side, to answer your question 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.680 with that, I'm surprised you didn't say Wrigley, Like Wrigley 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:04.240 would be a great spot two to call a game, 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:09.640 especially for radio. Yeah, yeah, but I've I've done some 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:12.240 work on the Red Sox, like postgame stuff when I 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:13.840 was doing this stuff for w E I, and that 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:15.720 was a lot of fun. The people would. I just 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:17.640 love the fact that even no matter where you are, 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.600 I did Dodgers talk years ago, and when the Dodgers won, 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.760 nobody seemed that interested. When they lost, the sky was falling. 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.240 The same thing happened with the Red Sox, like when 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.400 they won La la la la la, nobody cared and 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:31.080 they lost. Fire this guy fire, that guy traded this guy. 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:35.480 It's the same same concept was in play, all right, 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:40.040 Stopper and all of Branch. I think that's in Mississippi, 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:42.120 but it might be in Texas right soon. And maybe 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.640 that's just a made uptown he says, is oodles and 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:49.120 of noodles as good as Marcel says it is not 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.920 too sure of his judgment. I'm just saying, well, Stopper, 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:57.280 keep in mind that Marcel, We'll eat whatever Uncle Dynamite 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:59.920 gives him. That's the beauty of food picks with mars 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.960 l and Uncle Dynamite comes over to the puce there 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:06.480 in Brooklyn and drops off a crate of oodles and 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.280 noodles which you can get for like seventy five cents, 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:13.480 and uh, that's your meals for the next week. So yeah, 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.200 and occasionally I'll get some Kennedy fried chicken. I'll get 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.840 some of that. Um. But yeah, a cup of noodles, right, 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:22.440 it's the same same Thing's fine. I don't know that 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.160 you want to have that for dinner every night. Kevin 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:27.440 in Kansas writes, and he says, I enjoyed your photos 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.600 of your recent bookstore trip. Yeah, I went to the 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:34.120 world's last bookstore, last great bookstore, whatever it's called. And uh, 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.320 I was wondering, he says, about your book reading habits. 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.360 What are your go to genres? And do you make 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:45.920 time daily for pleasure reading? Um, and so a bunch 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:47.520 of questions like that. But but Kevin, I guessed to 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:52.240 answer my wife's all about fiction. I'm nonfiction guy. Um. 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.040 And as far as like the genre, I like to 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:57.800 learn my Mischion gossays, I'm into words. I mean, I 0:16:57.880 --> 0:16:59.600 like learning the history of words. It's kind of a 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:01.840 weird thing I have. I've tried always trying to expand 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:04.560 my vocabulary. So I like those books that kind of 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:08.240 go into the linguistic parts of the history of language 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:13.480 and how certain phrases became mainstream and how know words misspelled, 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:19.040 like a salon in America became saloon because they misspelled 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:22.119 the word salon. People that came over from Europe wanted 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.280 it to be like salon, but they didn't know how 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.320 to spell it, so they called it with an extra oh, 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.320 and it became saloon. Like a little little crap like that, 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.800 which is uh, which I gotta kick out of. And 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.120 then I like learning about people that are successful, how 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:37.440 they became successful, and what they did and those kind 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.919 of things. So that's usually the kind of books that 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.080 I go for. And as far as do I have 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:47.119 pleasure reading, I don't during the week. On the weekends 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.320 sometimes I will be able to to let go, but 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:54.640 not during the week because pretty pretty tight schedule, believe 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:56.920 it or not, with this radunculous stuff that we've got 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.160 calling and getting the monologues ready and all that stuff, 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:01.479 so it takes a long time. Derek in Auckland, New 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:03.879 Zealand rights and he says, what is your best My 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.879 co workers are crazy story, Derek Beautiful, Auckland, New zeal 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.120 I think we've told this before. This is before you 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:13.480 David but we had an editor back in the days 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:15.720 when they only had one editor or two editors, and 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:20.400 this guy was worked so much he just walked off 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:22.800 the job in the middle of a shift. He just quit. 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:28.040 He quit. He left the company. And not only did 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.439 leave become he didn't tell anybody. They were worried that 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:34.360 he had a medical emergency or he had some kind 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:37.600 of issue here, and they tried calling him. He didn't 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:43.240 answer his phone. They contacted the police. I remember that 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:47.240 movie Falling Down. We just have like the breakdown Michael Douglas. Yeah, 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:49.800 Michael Douglass falling Down. Yeah. Yeah. So this guy just 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.040 kind of like lost it and he was like, yeah, 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:54.760 I can't handle this anymore. And the stress and everything, 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:58.600 and and then finally, after the police reached out to 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:00.160 try to get a hold of him, he called hold 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:02.560 up and said, stop trying to contact me. I'm done. 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:05.800 I'm not you know, I'm not working. But that's the 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:10.080 My co workers are crazy, craziest. I've seen some fights 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:13.680 that have happened at radio stations, things along those lines. 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:15.920 But who doesn't fight from time to time at work? 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:18.879 You know, we got a company mandate or not a company, 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:22.359 We got a network mandate that remember in two thousand 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:27.240 sixteen that we could not talk politics after the like, 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:30.760 we had a major meltdown here at the network after 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:35.159 Trump was was elected president. That was a major, a 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:39.480 major meddal with like half the building building here, oh 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:41.520 like everything else. Half the people were happy and half 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:44.320 the people were like, oh my god, this is the worst. No. 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:46.960 But the people that were happy, we were happy. But 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:49.879 the people that weren't happy actually went on air to 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:54.119 voice their displeasure and take up airtime to voice that displeasure. 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:57.200 They use the sports radio airwaves as the bully pulpit 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.800 for their political belief which is always what you want 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:02.480 to hear, always what you want to hear, unless it's not. 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:05.360 Who else we have? J In Maine says, how did 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:10.280 Big Bend meet Mrs Mallard? Well, thank you Jay for 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:13.280 that question. I was doing some online dating and uh, 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:19.639 we connected online long long ago, and I went on 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:22.960 a date at a was supposed to go see a 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:25.480 movie and we ended up going to a restaurant near 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:28.560 the movie theater and just kind of talked and hung out, 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:32.239 and uh, the one thing led to another and look 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:35.359 at me now here all these years later. Introvert sets 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:37.879 up a date to go to a movie theater to 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:42.760 not talk, and then ends up actually talking with I 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:44.800 guess my wife? She says he's not an extrovert, but 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:48.919 what's half either way? Your wife? He says he's not. 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:53.199 Carlos in Houston writes In says, what you would you 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:58.040 guys take on those Paul clowns in a tag team 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:01.040 match and win? Would you guys do it for free? 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:04.360 I would love to punch Jake Paul. That'd be That'd 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:06.960 be good. Unload on Jake Baul. I'd have to get 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:09.400 my my weight back up so I could really give 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:14.760 a Molly whopper to uh him. But yeah, what a 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:17.800 bunch of losers. Those two guys are, my god, think 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:20.040 about that's the reason to hate the Internet, That the 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:23.280 Internet made those two guys celebrities. I guess I guess 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.080 they're celebrities. I don't know, all right, I says, not 0:21:26.200 --> 0:21:29.120 that Stevo from Florida right soon says, I'm sure you've 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:33.080 said it before, but I'll officially ask, do you were 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:36.439 gag on like the dance with Mary Jane? If not, 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:39.840 why al right, guess gan you like the sticky icky 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:43.720 fan of that? No I'm not either, um. And as 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:46.760 to why, I don't know, I just never got into it. 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:50.399 I guess the fact that I I my my mom, 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:53.440 and you know, she would don't smoke anything. You know, 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:55.080 I'm back, and when I was in high school was 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:58.200 mostly that's how you consume. The weed was just smoked. Um. 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:00.119 But I don't have a problem with people that smoke you. 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:02.000 I don't care and do whatever you want. I don't care. 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:04.160 In fact, when I'll tell you a funny thing about 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:06.480 when that's funny. But when my mom was really sick 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:08.680 and she was kind of near the end of her life, 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:10.440 and she was in a lot of pain, a lot 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:13.520 of pain that the cancer had just taken out uh, 0:22:13.640 --> 0:22:16.720 the joy of life. And I was reading online about 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:21.280