Speaker 1: If you've thought more hours a day, minutes a week
Speaker 1: was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of the
Speaker 1: old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats track
Speaker 1: heads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich
Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes.
Speaker 1: Break Free for Something Special Hour with Ben Maller starts
Speaker 1: right now that it does. We are in the air
Speaker 1: everywhere bluviating your Sunday away another mail bag. We do
Speaker 1: this eight days a week because four hours a night
Speaker 1: are not enough, clearly, and we thank you for finding
Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed the Travelog podcast on Saturday, the
Speaker 1: Squirrel Whisper and some hot German football talk from Gas.
Speaker 1: We got so long winded on that we did not
Speaker 1: have time to get to pop Quiz or Scientifical. But
Speaker 1: West of the four five guests on is back again
Speaker 1: for the Sunday. No need for the crowd. Thank you.
Speaker 1: But you're with I'm a pilot putting us on blast
Speaker 1: last week. And since you love to you know, live
Speaker 1: in the kitchen and I'm doing German football, European football,
Speaker 1: what about this schnitzel? Yeah? What if you make your
Speaker 1: own schnitzel. The German food I love is the pretzel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know about the schnitzel. Man, that would be,
Speaker 1: although I do like that it's a thin slice of meat.
Speaker 1: As you know, I I cannot eat meat unless it's
Speaker 1: thinly sliced and it's crusted and it's pounded, which is good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I could, I could do schnitzel. I make
Speaker 1: my chicken like that, right. I don't want meat. I
Speaker 1: don't know about that, but schnitzel's wonderful because it's fried.
Speaker 1: It's thinly sliced, breaded and fried, and you can never
Speaker 1: have enough of it. Yeah. So I is there a
Speaker 1: certain kind of meat you're supposed to put in the
Speaker 1: schnitzel or it can be any kind of I don't
Speaker 1: know rules. Yeah, I don't know. It's a good question. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll get blasted for it. Now. I have
Speaker 1: some bad news with the mail bag. Bad news really well,
Speaker 1: it's bad for some and it's good for others. The
Speaker 1: fact that we're doing the mail bag earlier than we
Speaker 1: normally do the mail bag. No no, no, no, no no. Um.
Speaker 1: I'd like, are we doing this by the way early
Speaker 1: for next week. Also is that the is that the
Speaker 1: plan here is that No, we're not okay, but it
Speaker 1: has to do with you know, the following days and
Speaker 1: the following weeks. Um, I needed to point you to
Speaker 1: your your cell phone right now because there's there's this
Speaker 1: text message you're going to receive with some interesting notes. Um.
Speaker 1: What you'll see on that said text message, Ben will
Speaker 1: be podcast download numbers from last week's episodes where you
Speaker 1: purposely told your audience last Saturday to tank the Friday show. No,
Speaker 1: I didn't tell them, and I had the audio proof
Speaker 1: from that. Well, I have no way of verifying whether
Speaker 1: we're not going through a stage sanctioned audit. This thing
Speaker 1: is all upright, and if you look at that, it'll
Speaker 1: see and listen, four thousand more downloads Saturday. I think
Speaker 1: it's not it's less than four thousands. It's less than
Speaker 1: four thousand. And we open up the mail bag and
Speaker 1: all the people upset complaining where were you been? Why
Speaker 1: weren't you there? We had to listen to some you know,
Speaker 1: some guy from the Broncos and guesscon where were you?
Speaker 1: You want to go through those emails and we here's
Speaker 1: the problem. We have the Mailbag does does very well,
Speaker 1: although this this past week not as well. The audio
Speaker 1: was not great on the mail Bag. That's year fault
Speaker 1: on that. But but yeah, more here's the thing on
Speaker 1: audio content. More people listen on Friday, less people listen
Speaker 1: it on Saturday and Sunday. It's just the way it is.
Speaker 1: People are out doing things on Saturday and Sunday. On Friday,
Speaker 1: people are more willing to listen to the podcast. But
Speaker 1: if I was really if I was really motivating, that
Speaker 1: was a throwaway line at the end of the podcast. No. No,
Speaker 1: if I was trying to make a statement, I would
Speaker 1: have began the podcast by saying, you know, listen to me.
Speaker 1: Don't listen to it. But what's the point of doing
Speaker 1: on a Saturday. If people are already going to listen
Speaker 1: to the podcast on a Friday, and you know it
Speaker 1: would have been on Friday. You should have been the
Speaker 1: one saying, don't listen to bet on Saturday. Listen to
Speaker 1: me on Friday. That would have been more effective. It
Speaker 1: was just a joke. Guest, you are so sensitive, you
Speaker 1: are such a delicate little flower, because I mean, how
Speaker 1: dare you? I was it was a joke. I was,
Speaker 1: I was having fun at the end of a podcast.
Speaker 1: If my motivation was to get people to listen this
Speaker 1: podcast on Saturday, on this obviously Sunday podcast, but the
Speaker 1: Saturday podcast instead of the Friday podcast, it would have
Speaker 1: been ridiculous to do it at the very end of
Speaker 1: the Saturday podcast. And I'm happy you brought that up
Speaker 1: because I haven't seen a big man like you on
Speaker 1: roller skates in a long time, and now that you're
Speaker 1: on roller skates, I will let you. Since I am
Speaker 1: a caretaker of the said podcast, I carefully edited those
Speaker 1: carefully crafted jokes out of the podcast, right right to
Speaker 1: that head. And no idea that right? Is that right?
Speaker 1: Is that right? You asshole? You piece of shit? Is
Speaker 1: that correct? Fuck you? Wow? Snowed under yet again? Cast
Speaker 1: your eyes on Judas right over there. My god, the
Speaker 1: podcast is recorded live to air, live to air, and
Speaker 1: your phony but that is a traitorous act, all right?
Speaker 1: How dare you betrayal? You get By the way, there
Speaker 1: were people pissed, you know they were. They were more
Speaker 1: upset I missed the radio show, but then the podcast also,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, how could you miss the podcast? You're
Speaker 1: supposed to jump in with both feet on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Every podcast would like when you had your gallbladder removed
Speaker 1: and people are piste off the ear. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I was in the hospital having major surgery because I
Speaker 1: gall bladder was all messed up because I waited wait
Speaker 1: too long and they were busting my balls at work.
Speaker 1: You didn't exactly run over to see me. By the way,
Speaker 1: guests gun you know over. They want to point that out.
Speaker 1: You know you were not forbidden, you know, uh alright. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we have the mail bag. These are actual questions sent
Speaker 1: in by actual listeners like yourself, submitted via Facebook on
Speaker 1: the Facebook page Ben mall Or Show or Real Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com and oh wait we go. First mail bag
Speaker 1: question comes from I'm a pilot in parts of now
Speaker 1: and he says hello from sunny Tel Aviv. I guess
Speaker 1: we know where he is then It's probably mid eighties,
Speaker 1: perfect weather and a stark difference to my previous Sydney
Speaker 1: Prisons day. Because before I get into that, I just
Speaker 1: want to say congrats Bend on the home sale. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you for that. I'm a pilot it has been
Speaker 1: several months in the making on that. He says, I
Speaker 1: will try to keep this compact as possible. So he
Speaker 1: gives us the travel log, the I'm a pilot travel log,
Speaker 1: which is all he doesn't fly around, he says. So
Speaker 1: the flight to Sydney, he claims his fourteen to fifteen hours.
Speaker 1: It's the same to Tel Aviv. So he goes to
Speaker 1: Sydney first and globally, I'm a pilot still dealing with
Speaker 1: all the COVID protocols and all that. He says. The
Speaker 1: had a COVID test prior to departure. Flight goes south
Speaker 1: of Hawaii around the equator. He mentions the Christmas Island
Speaker 1: some other island I've never heard of, since there's this
Speaker 1: area called the I t z Z, the inner Tropical
Speaker 1: conversion Zone. Have you ever heard of that the tropical
Speaker 1: I haven't either, He says. It's where the north and
Speaker 1: south trade winds meet. Usually it's pretty gnarly storms up
Speaker 1: to fifty thousand plus feet, bumpy ride, et cetera. Gotta
Speaker 1: weave through all that and head up or head on
Speaker 1: down towards Pago Pago on the way to Sydney. Arrive
Speaker 1: early morning, sit for thirty minutes to deep plane because
Speaker 1: we are now in the New South Wales and they
Speaker 1: will only process what arrival at a time due to COVID.
Speaker 1: According to I'm a pilot, lot of red tape, a
Speaker 1: lot of bureaucracy us. So they deep plane, he says,
Speaker 1: has to wait in a hall for one hour, so
Speaker 1: the plane is landed, half an hour on the plane
Speaker 1: hour way eating for someone in full hasmat suit. They
Speaker 1: come get you, says security, then escorted you to process
Speaker 1: for arrival instructions. He says, there were nurses there and
Speaker 1: there were mean ones that would take your temperature, criticize
Speaker 1: the mask wearing procedures that they were doing. Uh and uh,
Speaker 1: he said, given instructions how to properly wear masks. Told
Speaker 1: we were not allowed to leave the hotel room, handed
Speaker 1: them papers one of five sheets of paper with passport, name,
Speaker 1: arrival and departure information. I'm a pilot, and say said,
Speaker 1: walked fifty feet, handed the papers a two sheet too
Speaker 1: with info, signed something. He's giving every detail. By the way,
Speaker 1: guests gun here. He's very detailed, orient saying I'm not
Speaker 1: going anywhere, so he had to sign off these not
Speaker 1: going anywhere. He was escorted to the passport an immigration
Speaker 1: area where there were you know, sheet number three clear customs.
Speaker 1: Then have to take another COVID test. Just took one
Speaker 1: sixteen hours ago, he says, so he's taking another one.
Speaker 1: I'm a pilot, says as he traveling around the globe.
Speaker 1: Here the globe trekker. Give the door hallway, where to
Speaker 1: we find out where we will be staying. There's two hotels.
Speaker 1: Government selects, no choice. You don't gonna choose which hotel
Speaker 1: you stay at. The door opens. Pilots get on one bus.
Speaker 1: Flight attendants. I guess they're segregated. They go on another
Speaker 1: bus going to the same location. Though that's odd, so
Speaker 1: it says, going to the same location. Uh. The email continues.
Speaker 1: He says, at a hotel, police escorted in two at
Speaker 1: a time. The same has met people with z papers, questions,
Speaker 1: temperature check shown, room number, escorted to another office. Shown paper.
Speaker 1: I have to show the paper with the number room
Speaker 1: we're on. It punches the elevator button as apparently if
Speaker 1: if I'm a pilot, says, if I touched it, the
Speaker 1: world would end. Yeah, it's a little a little too much.
Speaker 1: Email continues. He says, get off on the floor. And
Speaker 1: yet another police officer in a Hasma and a Hasmat person,
Speaker 1: show the paper with the room number and they let
Speaker 1: you in. Can only open the door to retrieve food
Speaker 1: that is brought at a scheduled time. This sounds like China. Ship,
Speaker 1: This doesn't sound Where is this done? He's in? Where
Speaker 1: was he here? Sydney right, sounds like it sounds like China.
Speaker 1: Uh so, he says, only able to retrieve the food
Speaker 1: that has brought in his schedule. Times, no selection. Once
Speaker 1: you hear a knock, wait thirty seconds, put on a
Speaker 1: mask and open get food. Immediately closed the door, he says.
Speaker 1: Fun times food was met. The worst part, I'm a pilot, says,
Speaker 1: was in the morning. I just wanted some eggs, Nope,
Speaker 1: corn flakes and something that resembled apple strudel. I don't
Speaker 1: have a problem with apple strudal. I'm a pilot. I
Speaker 1: kind of like the apple strutal. If it's hot, though
Speaker 1: it's really hot, that's the problem. Uh it's it's great.
Speaker 1: So I I have coffee and bite into the thinking
Speaker 1: Biden is thinking apple strudal. It was actually some curry
Speaker 1: meat pastry. Holy ship, that's disgusting. Can't wait to go
Speaker 1: home process all repeats on way back, says, Sydney sucks.
Speaker 1: Sydney Australia sucks. They just use our archaic British rules
Speaker 1: and make them more jacked up so they can call
Speaker 1: it their own. So then he goes to Tel Aviv
Speaker 1: gives us the story on that just takes off over Canada.
Speaker 1: So they fly over from tell Aviv. From Sydney, they
Speaker 1: fly to get to tell Aviv. They take off over Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Sweden, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey, Cypress, Israel.
Speaker 1: Only thing is you have have You have to call,
Speaker 1: he says, tel Aviv Airspace early to get permission to enter.
Speaker 1: Usually the handoff is from each center. But Turkey and
Speaker 1: Israel don't talk to each other, of course, not even
Speaker 1: though they're right near each other. So you have to
Speaker 1: do that. Land get off. Everything is a process. Automatic
Speaker 1: scan the passport head out easy, he said. And they
Speaker 1: just lifted the mask wearing mandates. In Israel, everything is open.
Speaker 1: Anything happening is towards Palestines border. Nothing happening in Tel
Speaker 1: Aviv except sun and fun. And he says, uh, He's
Speaker 1: I'm a pilot, two very different places, vastly different experiences.
Speaker 1: But can get the Ben Maller and Gascon show anywhere shalom,
Speaker 1: He says, I'm at. I feel like we need to
Speaker 1: do one dedicated episode for him, just something. He calmed down.
Speaker 1: I know you want to suck the toe. He's in
Speaker 1: transit to some of these foreign lands. Just draconian, just awful.
Speaker 1: I get it. I just listen. I I like I'm
Speaker 1: a pilot. He's been a hat benefactor. He's been very
Speaker 1: kind and supported the show for some reason. He claims
Speaker 1: to like you a little too much. But no one's perfect.
Speaker 1: Patricia writes in from Lost Wages, Nevada and says, what
Speaker 1: exactly is so important that Mr West of the four
Speaker 1: oh five cannot be there on the regular podcast. I'm
Speaker 1: asking for a friend. Oh my gosh, you want to
Speaker 1: answer Patricia's question? Vegas? You no, alright? Uh, Patricia, he
Speaker 1: is rejecting. Well, I think he's a legitimate question. Mess
Speaker 1: messes up my schedule, messes up the listeners schedule. What
Speaker 1: messes up my schedule too? Very rude? I agree by you.
Speaker 1: It's Rick from San Ramon who says that collapse on
Speaker 1: part of the jazz the other day. It's like last
Speaker 1: week now it was epic. I said, I'm not a
Speaker 1: Clipper fan, but that was a gutsy performance by your team,
Speaker 1: Rick says Sands Kauai. Good luck to your boys the
Speaker 1: rest of the way. PS Clay's back next year and
Speaker 1: the Dubs are gonna make a move on an impact
Speaker 1: veteran in free agency, court Rick, the West will belong
Speaker 1: to the Dubs one last time before the greatest shooter
Speaker 1: on the planet retires. There you go. So I did.
Speaker 1: I did win steak dinner backing your team when they
Speaker 1: were down O two. You're welcome, welcome. It's all right.
Speaker 1: Have you cashed that in yet? I'm gonna wait on that.
Speaker 1: But I did take my shots at George Rice stir
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, he will not spare any expanse on that.
Speaker 1: That's that's gonna be a nice steak dinner. Good. Yes,
Speaker 1: you got your shots? Huh? I did? I did down
Speaker 1: oh two and they came back, got on their horse
Speaker 1: and won it. It's last job, Fred from Spring Texas, right, since,
Speaker 1: says are you and gascon dog or cat people? I'm
Speaker 1: I'm a dog person. You're a squirrel person. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: a squirrel person. I'm I like to feed the ducks
Speaker 1: and the geese at the park. I'm like an old guy.
Speaker 1: I just I like to feed animals. Now, you watch documentaries,
Speaker 1: Do you ever watch like nature shows, andything like that? Yes,
Speaker 1: I do. I like those that use drone footage and show,
Speaker 1: you know, different parts of the world forests. They go
Speaker 1: into the forest, or they'll go to the really arctic
Speaker 1: parts of the world. Or there was a documentary was
Speaker 1: on Netflix a while ago about the oceans. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: like those. Well, the reason why I ask is because
Speaker 1: his question says, are you dog or cat? I've been
Speaker 1: watching a lot of Instagram videos now of these guys.
Speaker 1: Those are beautiful, bodacious women. Those aren't dogs and cats.
Speaker 1: Are there are these guys? Now? I'm not not now,
Speaker 1: but like there's guys out there that are are hanging
Speaker 1: around like huging, rolling around the dirt or the grass,
Speaker 1: the wildlife with lions and tigers sometimes wolves. I just
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's crazy to see, you know, two
Speaker 1: d plus pound animals and these guys that just have
Speaker 1: no regard for anything else. These are wild animals obviously
Speaker 1: that they're able to uh to bondle with. That's pretty fascinating. Well,
Speaker 1: never underestimate the power of cloud chasing, trying to get
Speaker 1: your fifteen minutes of fame, the unnecessary drama. No, these
Speaker 1: guys like take care of these these lions. And really,
Speaker 1: I thought you were telling me there were people on
Speaker 1: instant the way you made it seem like there were
Speaker 1: people trying to get people to like them on Instagram. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: these guys were like legit trainers and so they yeah,
Speaker 1: they well, they've always been that. I remember when I
Speaker 1: was a kid, I remember seeing videos, like actual VHS
Speaker 1: videos of I think it's in Malaysia. There have been
Speaker 1: families there that have had pet allega eaters or you
Speaker 1: know whatever. Yeah, and so that that's like the family pet.
Speaker 1: You have a dog I have, maybe you're a cat person,
Speaker 1: maybe you have a chicken or a pig, and they
Speaker 1: have a pet alligator. That's time to go to bed.
Speaker 1: Make sure you put the alligator in the bed. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, that's crazy, nuts, right, yeah, alligator. Eric and
Speaker 1: Olmaha says jeans khakis or sweatpants. Uh, sweatpants, sweatpants jeans,
Speaker 1: Lee writes in From the Valley of the Sun. He
Speaker 1: says hamburger or pizza and uh, fun gag on. He says,
Speaker 1: did you spell any of that right? A couple of
Speaker 1: he got that one. A couple of words messed up there.
Speaker 1: That's hamburger pizza. That's tough, A well made burger. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pizzas to me multidimensional. You get the toppings change on
Speaker 1: the topics on a burger change too. But I'll go
Speaker 1: pizza and you can have cold pizza. You can't have
Speaker 1: a cold burger, That's true. You gotta eat it fresh.
Speaker 1: Blind Emmett, the Seahawk fan and Olympia Washington says, have
Speaker 1: you guys thought about getting the great John Ramos? On
Speaker 1: the fifth hour podcast Our Our Mexican Philip rivers, Wow,
Speaker 1: I got a lot of kids. Man, What what's wrong
Speaker 1: with that? Man? Is your family? Man? Wrong with that?
Speaker 1: Ramos is an l a radio ledge, It's not an amateur. Now.
Speaker 1: I was bragging to John Ramos when I moved to
Speaker 1: the Halfway House, and I had to deal with John
Speaker 1: and the the engineering staff, Curious and the other guys
Speaker 1: on the engineering side. I had to get the studio
Speaker 1: set up, of course I had to do it myself, uh,
Speaker 1: and and move everything and make sure everything was still connected.
Speaker 1: The way it was supposed to be connected. As you know,
Speaker 1: I'm an expert my FCC. I had my FCC license
Speaker 1: when I worked at the college station back in the day. Anyway,
Speaker 1: so I'm talking to Ramos and I'm like, see, I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, an amateur engineer just like you, and I
Speaker 1: know I'm a professional engineer. Let you take that subtle
Speaker 1: shot at him. No, that was not my intention. That
Speaker 1: was not my intention to take a subtle shot at him.
Speaker 1: I was merely pointing out that I was proud of
Speaker 1: myself that we actually got this to work, even though
Speaker 1: I had to do a week back at the mother
Speaker 1: Ship and and all that. But I'd love this. It's
Speaker 1: up to me, blind Emmett. I would put many of
Speaker 1: the support staff the meat and potatoes of a Fox
Speaker 1: Sports radio. I would happily put these people on. In fact,
Speaker 1: we are going to have at some point ask a
Speaker 1: Vegan will be on the podcast. Alex Tisher will be
Speaker 1: on the podcast. I promised him a podcast experience. Now,
Speaker 1: he said, he promised major downloads because he has connected
Speaker 1: in the anime world and he's a very popular figure
Speaker 1: in that world. And he promised me if we put
Speaker 1: Alex tysher On, engineer for Jason and Mike Harmon and
Speaker 1: Rob Parker and Broussard Chris Broussard that he said major downloads,
Speaker 1: we'll go platinum if we put that. Bring up? Does
Speaker 1: that mean with to bring on like Gavin and Iowa,
Speaker 1: Sam and some of the other guys that, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: seen these are these are I know you're west of
Speaker 1: the four or five. These people are below you, but
Speaker 1: I'm fine these guys, I'll put them on you. You
Speaker 1: don't know who could be a rock star. And now
Speaker 1: some of them might be boring and horrible, but you
Speaker 1: have to leave room for that. And and these are
Speaker 1: people that they're not totally anonymous because like blind Emmett,
Speaker 1: he loves all the behind the scenes people of Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. He'll send messages to me and put so
Speaker 1: and so only don the board op or whatever put
Speaker 1: them on. Yeah. Interesting Valls. Fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee, says, Ben,
Speaker 1: I saw you feeding the squirrels, and they must like peanuts.
Speaker 1: What would you have done if they would have run
Speaker 1: up both your legs and went after your own nuts?
Speaker 1: I think you know what I would have done. I
Speaker 1: would have gotten to a defensive fight or flight pasture posture. Rather.
Speaker 1: Jimmy from Favorale that it was one of the cooler
Speaker 1: things that I'm feeding the squirrels. We mentioned it yesterday
Speaker 1: on the Saturday podcast. But it was pretty cool, guest scout.
Speaker 1: It reminded me of when I went to Catalina and
Speaker 1: they have a lover's cove on Catalian Island off the
Speaker 1: coast of l A. And you're not supposed to do this,
Speaker 1: and I should not say this in the radio, but
Speaker 1: I have heard rumors that if you feed the fish
Speaker 1: frozen corn or frozen peas, they will jump out of
Speaker 1: the water to get the frozen corn and the frozen piece.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. It's like you're the fish whisper. Pretty cool,
Speaker 1: Pretty cool. And I said that I had the same
Speaker 1: experience with the squirrels and it's it's pretty neat. Be
Speaker 1: sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Ben ned
Speaker 1: Flanders hosting your show, Roberto no show. What the f
Speaker 1: year drinking Brian half pint could have ran it? Bad
Speaker 1: decision on your part. The fund is that I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know who sent that, but that's a bad
Speaker 1: person right there. I didn't even I don't think they
Speaker 1: put their name here. I don't know what happened. WHOA, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's the email address? I know that was on Facebook.
Speaker 1: I think that was on the Facebook. Yeah, it's kind
Speaker 1: of helter skelter. At the last minute, I was like
Speaker 1: looking for questions. Vick says, are you guys unable to
Speaker 1: get your podcast on Alexa? Are we not on Alexa? Guess?
Speaker 1: Are you by the way that that last email that
Speaker 1: the justist jointed one that was all over the place,
Speaker 1: that came from Brandon. Yeah, we're like fifty six different platforms,
Speaker 1: not enough gascon whatever is convenient to that particular listener.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, and this this guy Vick wants ALEXA.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know the difference. I don't use
Speaker 1: a light. Do you use Alexa? I don't use I've
Speaker 1: never used Alexa. Have you ever dated a girl named Alexa? No? No,
Speaker 1: just a one nighter Pierre from Springfield, mass home of
Speaker 1: the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame where you can see
Speaker 1: Muffett McGraw in the Pro Basketball of Fame, says, any
Speaker 1: chance that your executive producer gets you a housewarming steak
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, chow down on some warm raising
Speaker 1: canes at the Ugly Sweater party. Now that you him
Speaker 1: and Mr Oakley Doakley are going to be neighbors on
Speaker 1: the elite side of the four or five. No, I will.
Speaker 1: I will not be living west of the four oh five.
Speaker 1: Want to be very clear on that. I will have
Speaker 1: a humble abode which will be worked on starting right now.
Speaker 1: Actually they're doing somebstructional structural work and my wife's very excited.
Speaker 1: We get to pick out all the flooring and it's
Speaker 1: like a brand new place. Are you doing wood or
Speaker 1: are you doing carpet? No, we're not, definitely not carpet.
Speaker 1: We're not doing would We're doing the would look tile,
Speaker 1: which is wonderful. It'll last. I'll be dead for a
Speaker 1: hundred years. This tile will still be good and it's
Speaker 1: easy to clean. I love it, and it looks like wood,
Speaker 1: but it's better. It'll last Because I had a flood
Speaker 1: as you know your father helped me out. Thank you
Speaker 1: for that. At the old Matherler mansion, point's hard to
Speaker 1: say it's the old Maler mansion, but we had we
Speaker 1: had a pipe burst and the floors got flooded and
Speaker 1: because of the wood we had lamb in it. Actually
Speaker 1: it all got destroyed and we had to get it replaced.
Speaker 1: But with tile, the tile part we didn't have to
Speaker 1: get replaced. Way to go. So with your flooring, what
Speaker 1: color you're gonna have it? Are you gonna have it
Speaker 1: as like an oak color or smoke gray? Like? What
Speaker 1: are you gonna kind of like a smoky wood kind
Speaker 1: of color? Although that is that subject to change that.
Speaker 1: The flooring is the last thing they do because they
Speaker 1: don't want to destroy it. So we still have some
Speaker 1: time to pick out different flooring, but we have settled
Speaker 1: on what we think will be the floor so we'll
Speaker 1: see it. I'm excited. I' be looking forward to seeing
Speaker 1: when it's all when it's all done, but it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a couple of months before before it's done. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see here, Ozzy momentum. Right, since the's any chance
Speaker 1: you get JT the Brick on your podcast, Guy's a legend.
Speaker 1: Reckon it make a great radio cheers. What are you doing?
Speaker 1: What are you? What are you doing? What do you
Speaker 1: that's that's interesting. I haven't heard of j TS name
Speaker 1: using a long time. No, I think he's working at
Speaker 1: mad Dog Radio. I think he's True and Nights and
Speaker 1: mad Dog Radio and he got a podcast with Looney. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't really know JT that well. We've worked at
Speaker 1: the same place a long time. Um, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean j I knew like, uh, you know, nothing against JT.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's fine, all that nice guy, but I
Speaker 1: really didn't know him that well. I knew Mike north
Speaker 1: Bore and some of the other guys that we've had
Speaker 1: on Tony Bruno, guys like that. I never really knew
Speaker 1: JT that well. But I wouldn't be opposed to put
Speaker 1: him on the podcast. And he's been in radio a
Speaker 1: long time and and shoot the ship. He's a radio guy,
Speaker 1: So if he wants to do it, we can book
Speaker 1: him one of these weeks. Chris and Marraccada, Iowa, did
Speaker 1: I say that right? He says. When Casey case Um
Speaker 1: did the countdown, did he have to sit through commercials
Speaker 1: or were they added later a voice tracked everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everything was recorded. The commercials were added in later, So yeah,
Speaker 1: he did not sit there, just like Ryan Seacrest, I
Speaker 1: think does the Countdown show now. I think he's still
Speaker 1: doing it. And Steve Harvey the same thing too, right
Speaker 1: with those morning shows, Harvey will do his show. I
Speaker 1: don't think we're allowed to say, but occasionally he will
Speaker 1: voice track. How about that? I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: want to give any secrets out how we make the
Speaker 1: hot dogs, but a lot of those. You'd be shocked
Speaker 1: how many big time radio shows are not actually live.
Speaker 1: Let's just put it that way. And it's really great
Speaker 1: because a lot of guys in radio can just record
Speaker 1: their show and they don't take calls, so it's not
Speaker 1: time sensitive. I can't get away with that guestcount. I've
Speaker 1: totally left up on my show. I take I don't
Speaker 1: take a lot of calls, A couple of calls an
Speaker 1: hour usually unless I go crazy and we should do
Speaker 1: a Newbie night at some point. But um, I don't
Speaker 1: normally take too many calls, but I take enough where
Speaker 1: if I don't take calls, you can tell something something
Speaker 1: some uh. Chris also says I'm in hearing ads on
Speaker 1: your radio show for the Fifth Hour podcast? Did you
Speaker 1: pay for them? If you were? You were you given
Speaker 1: an employee discount? No, and I didn't pay for any ads.
Speaker 1: Now I Heart Media, which is the parent company, and
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio is a partnership with Fox Sports and
Speaker 1: I Heart, but I Heart is the radio company, and
Speaker 1: so they have really made a big push on podcasting,
Speaker 1: thus the Fifth Hour podcast. And so they've been promoting
Speaker 1: not only our podcast, but a bunch of other podcasts
Speaker 1: on terrestrial radio to try to get people. I know,
Speaker 1: the Will Ferrell podcast has gotten a lot of the
Speaker 1: Anchorman podcast. I think it is. That's got a lot
Speaker 1: of promotion, a lot of promotion for that. Uh, this
Speaker 1: is a different Chris in Iowa. He says, are you
Speaker 1: better at withstanding extreme heat or extreme cold? I imagine
Speaker 1: you so cal Softi's handle heat better. Um, I'll go first.
Speaker 1: Yeah to me. The the the heat, I'm I'm more
Speaker 1: used to because I I've lived in recent years, I've
Speaker 1: lived in an area got pretty hot, and I don't
Speaker 1: mind going on vacation to spending a weekend in Palm
Speaker 1: Springs where it gets to a hundred and ten or
Speaker 1: Vegas where it's a hundred and twenty although you're inside
Speaker 1: most of the time. I've spent too much time in
Speaker 1: cold weather. When I have spent time in cold weather,
Speaker 1: it has been horrific. But you just bundle up. It's
Speaker 1: it's not it's not that bad. But the end result though,
Speaker 1: guess gun, regardless of whether you're in hot weather or
Speaker 1: cold weather, if you have a burn or a frost bite,
Speaker 1: it's the same effect on the body. How about that
Speaker 1: cold weather warm weather? Again, I'm I think I'm a
Speaker 1: hockey guy, so I think I'm more cold. My engine
Speaker 1: runs up anyway, and um yeah, I do well and cold. Now.
Speaker 1: The kicker, though, you know this is the wind. Cold
Speaker 1: is fine, but then you get the fucking wind, and
Speaker 1: it's a game over. Like the Chicago the Chicago wind.
Speaker 1: That wind in Philadelphia the wind is fine, but well
Speaker 1: they call it the windy city because of the politicians,
Speaker 1: not because the wind. That's true. Point that out. But man, yeah,
Speaker 1: I like the cold. I don't mind it at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he says a guy that's surrounded by a bunch of
Speaker 1: heaters and all that. When you live west of the
Speaker 1: four or five, how cold does it get out of
Speaker 1: fifty occasionally there possibly, Yeah, sometimes I was the blankets.
Speaker 1: It's gonna get the fifty not you know, last weekend
Speaker 1: I was actually at the beach. It was a little overcast,
Speaker 1: a little little foggy, but God, just great scenery. Alright,
Speaker 1: moving man, Matt, Right, just why do you just run
Speaker 1: around over that? And I feel like run out of
Speaker 1: things to say. I feel like a moving man, Matt
Speaker 1: writes in he says, who wins a tag team matchup
Speaker 1: Ben and moving Man versus Gascon and Roberto. Um, if
Speaker 1: I get Roberto some tequila, we wentn't buy a mile.
Speaker 1: You have no chance. You understand the places that moving
Speaker 1: Man Matt has been, the people he has seen, the
Speaker 1: things he has done, you would be pumpled. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: even have to do anything. I would just be observing.
Speaker 1: I could Moving Man Matt is such a tough guy. Okay,
Speaker 1: I've met this guy. I could get a lawn chair
Speaker 1: and and sit down and with a big bucket of popcorn,
Speaker 1: and he could take both Gascon and Roberto down. Like now,
Speaker 1: if this was young, Roberto would be a problem because
Speaker 1: Roberto was one of the scoundrels at the pavilion at
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium and typical Raider fan back in his younger
Speaker 1: he's mellowed out. He's a family man. He's a far other,
Speaker 1: so he's he's happy, Go lucky, Roberto, that's the guy
Speaker 1: that you're matched up with. But Moving Man, Matt Man,
Speaker 1: this guy's it. He's a monster. He's an inner monster
Speaker 1: when he wants to be supporting the Mallar Militia. Great. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and a minute, Kevin. By the way, Moving Man, Matt's upset.
Speaker 1: You didn't say something stupid because normally you say something stupid.
Speaker 1: He's upset by that. Um Kevin in Kansas is Ben
Speaker 1: and David. Thank you for the excellent podcast or Friday
Speaker 1: shows are particularly insightful, and some of that comes from
Speaker 1: the insightful questions you have for your guests. Both of
Speaker 1: you are sharp with questions. Have you always been that
Speaker 1: good or is it something you learned through practice and mentorship? Well,
Speaker 1: that's tremendous sucking up, Kevin, I appreciate that tremendous. Uh No, no,
Speaker 1: it's trial and error for me. I know I was
Speaker 1: terrible when I first started in radio. It was horrifically bad.
Speaker 1: But the good thing about working weekend overnights for all
Speaker 1: those years is no one was listening, and I had
Speaker 1: a blank canvas to try stuff and figure out what worked.
Speaker 1: And I'm also a believer in that ten thousand hour thing.
Speaker 1: I think there's some truth in that. The more you
Speaker 1: do something repetition and you get to a certain point,
Speaker 1: you master a skill. But you really can't master you
Speaker 1: gotta keep adding on too. What about you guess? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I finally I get in more trouble with longer questions
Speaker 1: shorter questions, the easier it is. And then that's the key.
Speaker 1: That's the key. You don't want the fifteen part question.
Speaker 1: You hear that a lot at the White House when
Speaker 1: they're interviewing the president, whoever the president is. The reporters
Speaker 1: are such intellectual assholes that they asked seven different questions
Speaker 1: and one question because they only get one chance to
Speaker 1: ask a question. And as a result of that, the
Speaker 1: person who's answering the question, ay, they have time to
Speaker 1: think about what they're gonna say and and be they will.
Speaker 1: They will answer the most benign of the questions. So
Speaker 1: if you give someone a quick question and they will
Speaker 1: not have time to think of an answer, that's the
Speaker 1: key to asking questions. It's not how long ago, it's
Speaker 1: it's asking a quick question, and why are you such
Speaker 1: an asshole? You need to ask open, open ended questions
Speaker 1: as opposed to close questions. Yeah, no, yes, no questions.
Speaker 1: You can't do that. It's very important basics. These are
Speaker 1: things you're supposed to learn in a journalism class. The
Speaker 1: open questions are what, how? Why? Yeah, not the You'll
Speaker 1: notice this a lot, especially in today's world. Can you
Speaker 1: talk about this? Can you talking about what happened here?
Speaker 1: That's not a question. No, but you could rephrase that
Speaker 1: and uh, why did this happen? Or how did this happen?
Speaker 1: All right? What happened? So president? But I see you
Speaker 1: fellow asleep the other day? What happened? Just like that? Right?
Speaker 1: Go down the list? All right? What do we have here?
Speaker 1: Mark in Ottawa? Right, said Marks? A big fan of hers?
Speaker 1: He says, Ben, speaking of Mr West of the four
Speaker 1: oh five? Would you take the over under on David
Speaker 1: being with four and five different blanks? Yeah, you're not
Speaker 1: on Facebook. You can't see the question. No, I cannot
Speaker 1: let me send this to you here. I am deathly
Speaker 1: afraid of the Montreal Canadians potentially getting back to the
Speaker 1: Staling Cup Final. You're afraid of that. They should be
Speaker 1: curst after what they did the Kings in n Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just sent you the question. Check that out there.
Speaker 1: I see what you want to answer that. M it's
Speaker 1: kind of interesting. Mark from Otta. Well, Mark's got a
Speaker 1: lot of time on his hands. You know, when you're
Speaker 1: when you're north of the border in Canada and you
Speaker 1: can't even go outside to pick up your trash or
Speaker 1: go get some groceries, and you're stuck in that ship
Speaker 1: hold of a country, you come up with questions like that.
Speaker 1: Guscon's getting more agitated. He's as mad as a hornet
Speaker 1: right now. Mark watching the bang Bush alright. Email from
Speaker 1: Danny This will be the last one. Danny from South Florida,
Speaker 1: He says, Hey, Ben, Danny from South Florida. Here, Avid listener.
Speaker 1: I was curious. We seem to be alike wearing the
Speaker 1: longer swim trunks and shorts to the beach. Do you
Speaker 1: have to go to the do do you have go
Speaker 1: to beach attire? Or does it very based on the
Speaker 1: outside weather. Also, does Ben Simmons know if he's allowed
Speaker 1: to use the basket in the fourth quarter? Three shots
Speaker 1: in seven games. Thank you, Danny. He asked the hard question. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he asked the sports question. Yeah. I've talked a lot
Speaker 1: about Ben Simmons the last week of the radio, so
Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to rehash any of
Speaker 1: that content. But it's good for radio. Ben Simmons is
Speaker 1: good for radio. I'll say that. But yeah, Danny, being
Speaker 1: a rather pasty vampire of the nights, I don't get
Speaker 1: a lot of sun. I'm an indoor creature. I'm up nocturnal,
Speaker 1: the nocturnal colonel. I'm up all night. So when I
Speaker 1: go to the beach, I do burn easily. I do
Speaker 1: burn easily. So there's a lot of suntan lotion. And
Speaker 1: I usually wear a swim shirt, and I like baggy
Speaker 1: swim trunks. I've often said, I'm not kidding, I would.
Speaker 1: I want to cover up as much as possible. I
Speaker 1: want to wear them if I could a burka on
Speaker 1: the beach. So that that's my thing. Long swim trunks.
Speaker 1: I wear the swim shirt and all that. So that's
Speaker 1: my I go to. But Danny, you're in South Florida.
Speaker 1: You're in paradise there in South Florida, so you're you're
Speaker 1: out and about it's eighty degrees every day. There absolutely
Speaker 1: correct gascon if you're curious. I didn't ask this, but
Speaker 1: he wears the banana hammock when he goes to the beach.
Speaker 1: That's is my board. Shirts are great, but I got
Speaker 1: great legs. I do not skip leg day. Um perfectly.
Speaker 1: H I guess I could say proportioned you want to
Speaker 1: take a bow? I could if you like me to,
Speaker 1: I can. I can do that. We learned from our
Speaker 1: favorite couple there in South Florida that you like to
Speaker 1: oh Grandma's. They're the ones the post tapers every day
Speaker 1: and every night and uh wow, retirees, what a what
Speaker 1: a losing? Sorry, I don't I don't burn Helen. You're
Speaker 1: you're talking about Helen and stew in Palmetto Bay and
Speaker 1: they didn't even send a question in let me suck
Speaker 1: this week the typewriter broke down. Yeah, just because they
Speaker 1: point out your shortcomings. They have the courage, the intentional fortitude,
Speaker 1: their keyboard, point out your mistakes. When you f up,
Speaker 1: they point that out. I like Helen and Stud. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna giving them a golden ticket. Tat I just did,
Speaker 1: I just did. I'll have that edited out of the podcast.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you think that when after or before
Speaker 1: they send the emails to you, that they're rolling eachron
Speaker 1: around each other and like in these wheelchairs up and
Speaker 1: down the streets of South Florida. I mean, don't you
Speaker 1: want to live like Stu and Helen and be able
Speaker 1: to live in a nice area of Florida and enjoy
Speaker 1: your life? No, they're they're young, hip and cool age
Speaker 1: is just a number numb school. You're such a mama, Luke.
Speaker 1: You know they don't live west of the four oh five.
Speaker 1: But I'd rather live in Palmetto Bay than west of
Speaker 1: the four oh five. How about that? Numbers four oh
Speaker 1: five douches. I'm happy to report our podcast is up
Speaker 1: a hundred and one percent over the last ninety days.
Speaker 1: Is that right? It's pretty phenomenal. Well, I have heard
Speaker 1: from people at the company that our podcast has done
Speaker 1: very well, this podcast in my radio show podcast. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's shockingly well. But I'm not supposed
Speaker 1: to know that, guest, because then I have, you know,
Speaker 1: I have to negotiate a new deal, and if I
Speaker 1: bring this up, then I'll be like, well, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's not true. You know, all that, listen. I'm happy
Speaker 1: that you brought that up, because when you are negotiating
Speaker 1: a brand new deal, I just I'm just gonna remember
Speaker 1: who's you know driving into the to the party, and
Speaker 1: just you let them know that, you know, I drive
Speaker 1: myself and just transported you know someone else's. How am
Speaker 1: I related to you? I mean systems are not related.
Speaker 1: Is that good or bad? Though? That both of your
Speaker 1: shows have not diminished in in return, downloads and listenership
Speaker 1: despite a pandemic. Yeah, well, I'm still blown away. It's
Speaker 1: one of the coolest things. And I've been doing this
Speaker 1: a long time, and there's been a lot of crazy
Speaker 1: things that have happened. But the fact that Fox Sports Radio,
Speaker 1: a place I have worked for over twenty years of
Speaker 1: my life, pretty much my entire adult life has been
Speaker 1: spent at Fox Sports Radio. We had more listeners with
Speaker 1: no sports than with sports. It's shocking, wild listen. I
Speaker 1: would like to thank the people running the other networks
Speaker 1: were doing such a terrible job programming that Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio's programming is so much better than the apparently, judging
Speaker 1: by the ratings, were the number one. It's shocking when
Speaker 1: I got into this, when Fox Sports radio started, ESPN
Speaker 1: Radio was the dominator. It was all about ESPN Radio.
Speaker 1: They were the number one network and they're not anymore.
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio is the pre eminent network for sports programming.
Speaker 1: It's a great testimonial to the people that work on
Speaker 1: on the radio, behind the scenes, people in management, everyone.
Speaker 1: It's crazy to think that this place is I don't
Speaker 1: think of it that way, but that it's the most
Speaker 1: listened to sports network. It's it's just nuts. Who knew? No,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's you know. Part of it's the The
Speaker 1: digital numbers have just accentuated the show. And then I
Speaker 1: you know, happy to report that you helping you get
Speaker 1: into the digital world. You're gonna make this all about you.
Speaker 1: It's been one of those things. It's my little baby,
Speaker 1: and sometimes they shed a tear when I see you
Speaker 1: blossom into this big media muggle. It's a great sight
Speaker 1: to see, you know. It's like you want to do
Speaker 1: a pirouete on the catwalk and turn back around, come
Speaker 1: back to the rest of us here. Oh my god. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's these are wild numbers. It's it's really cool to
Speaker 1: see the engagement with people out there. So no, it's
Speaker 1: great and I've always had a little bit of an
Speaker 1: advantage being the overnight guy, because most people only work
Speaker 1: overnights for a select amount of time and then go
Speaker 1: back to the day, the dreaded day shift. And the
Speaker 1: cool thing is I've been able to convince some of
Speaker 1: my my people that are are fans of the show
Speaker 1: that they can still listen during the day even if
Speaker 1: it's like the way I look at it, even though
Speaker 1: I'm doing the overnight show, we're pretty much just recording
Speaker 1: a podcast for the next day, and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people. You look at the downloads on the radio show,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of people that are listening to
Speaker 1: us in morning drive on the on the overnight show
Speaker 1: and just listening when they get in their cars in
Speaker 1: the morning on the way to work. It's pretty cool. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: it's need to see that to be accurate. Though your
Speaker 1: show is not crafted in such a black and white
Speaker 1: kind of format where you're just like, you're just hard
Speaker 1: oh sports all the time. You're allowed to go off
Speaker 1: the beaten path a bit. I don't know what you're
Speaker 1: talking about. You're a lot to be colorful, That's what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say. I got to use all the
Speaker 1: colors in the range. Yes, some guys don't do that.
Speaker 1: Some guys are just like black, red, whitey blue. I'm out,
Speaker 1: I hear you. Don't you have some German game to
Speaker 1: do or something like going messing up my schedule? Hut,
Speaker 1: there's there you anyway? All right? Listen? Thank you again.
Speaker 1: Tell a friend. We can double the podcast audience. I
Speaker 1: say this, I mean it. If everyone listening, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about you and the other person over there. If we
Speaker 1: can all get one person to listen, just one person
Speaker 1: to listen, to download the podcast. I don't care about
Speaker 1: your grandma, your grandpa. I don't care if it's your
Speaker 1: kid that doesn't care about sports. As long as they
Speaker 1: subscribe to the podcast, we get a little bit of
Speaker 1: credit automatically downloads. But we thank you, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you for supporting the podcast. Have a great rest
Speaker 1: of your Sunday. We'll be back inside the Magic Radio
Speaker 1: Box with a new week of fresh content on the
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