WEBVTT - The One & Only 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:05.680 If you've thought more hours a day, minutes a week 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:09.320 was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of the 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:13.160 old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats track 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:15.760 heads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:20.160 pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes. 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:24.959 Break Free for Something Special Hour with Ben Maller starts 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:30.000 right now that it does. We are in the air 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:38.400 everywhere bluviating your Sunday away another mail bag. We do 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:42.200 this eight days a week because four hours a night 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.320 are not enough, clearly, and we thank you for finding 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:50.120 I hope you enjoyed the Travelog podcast on Saturday, the 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:54.720 Squirrel Whisper and some hot German football talk from Gas. 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:56.520 We got so long winded on that we did not 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:59.200 have time to get to pop Quiz or Scientifical. But 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:01.440 West of the four five guests on is back again 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:05.280 for the Sunday. No need for the crowd. Thank you. 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.319 But you're with I'm a pilot putting us on blast 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:11.759 last week. And since you love to you know, live 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:15.920 in the kitchen and I'm doing German football, European football, 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:19.720 what about this schnitzel? Yeah? What if you make your 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:27.640 own schnitzel. The German food I love is the pretzel. Yeah, 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:29.920 I don't know about the schnitzel. Man, that would be, 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.920 although I do like that it's a thin slice of meat. 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:36.720 As you know, I I cannot eat meat unless it's 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:41.200 thinly sliced and it's crusted and it's pounded, which is good. Yeah, 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.560 I mean I could, I could do schnitzel. I make 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:47.080 my chicken like that, right. I don't want meat. I 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:51.160 don't know about that, but schnitzel's wonderful because it's fried. 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.680 It's thinly sliced, breaded and fried, and you can never 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:59.080 have enough of it. Yeah. So I is there a 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:00.840 certain kind of meat you're supposed to put in the 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:02.360 schnitzel or it can be any kind of I don't 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:07.680 know rules. Yeah, I don't know. It's a good question. Yeah, 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:09.600 I'm sure we'll get blasted for it. Now. I have 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:14.399 some bad news with the mail bag. Bad news really well, 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.920 it's bad for some and it's good for others. The 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:19.760 fact that we're doing the mail bag earlier than we 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:23.200 normally do the mail bag. No no, no, no, no no. Um. 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:24.840 I'd like, are we doing this by the way early 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.400 for next week. Also is that the is that the 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:31.200 plan here is that No, we're not okay, but it 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.000 has to do with you know, the following days and 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:37.440 the following weeks. Um, I needed to point you to 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:39.880 your your cell phone right now because there's there's this 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:45.200 text message you're going to receive with some interesting notes. Um. 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:48.519 What you'll see on that said text message, Ben will 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:54.160 be podcast download numbers from last week's episodes where you 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:59.840 purposely told your audience last Saturday to tank the Friday show. No, 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.960 I didn't tell them, and I had the audio proof 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.600 from that. Well, I have no way of verifying whether 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.280 we're not going through a stage sanctioned audit. This thing 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.280 is all upright, and if you look at that, it'll 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:19.720 see and listen, four thousand more downloads Saturday. I think 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:24.160 it's not it's less than four thousands. It's less than 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:29.639 four thousand. And we open up the mail bag and 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:33.880 all the people upset complaining where were you been? Why 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.120 weren't you there? We had to listen to some you know, 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.240 some guy from the Broncos and guesscon where were you? 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:43.720 You want to go through those emails and we here's 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.840 the problem. We have the Mailbag does does very well, 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:50.000 although this this past week not as well. The audio 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:51.840 was not great on the mail Bag. That's year fault 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:56.640 on that. But but yeah, more here's the thing on 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.960 audio content. More people listen on Friday, less people listen 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:03.280 it on Saturday and Sunday. It's just the way it is. 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.000 People are out doing things on Saturday and Sunday. On Friday, 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:09.360 people are more willing to listen to the podcast. But 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.480 if I was really if I was really motivating, that 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.920 was a throwaway line at the end of the podcast. No. No, 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:17.920 if I was trying to make a statement, I would 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.360 have began the podcast by saying, you know, listen to me. 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:23.880 Don't listen to it. But what's the point of doing 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:25.839 on a Saturday. If people are already going to listen 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.880 to the podcast on a Friday, and you know it 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:30.680 would have been on Friday. You should have been the 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.040 one saying, don't listen to bet on Saturday. Listen to 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.520 me on Friday. That would have been more effective. It 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:39.120 was just a joke. Guest, you are so sensitive, you 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.560 are such a delicate little flower, because I mean, how 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:44.920 dare you? I was it was a joke. I was, 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.120 I was having fun at the end of a podcast. 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.240 If my motivation was to get people to listen this 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:53.360 podcast on Saturday, on this obviously Sunday podcast, but the 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.440 Saturday podcast instead of the Friday podcast, it would have 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.320 been ridiculous to do it at the very end of 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:00.599 the Saturday podcast. And I'm happy you brought that up 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:02.280 because I haven't seen a big man like you on 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:04.680 roller skates in a long time, and now that you're 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:08.800 on roller skates, I will let you. Since I am 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:14.520 a caretaker of the said podcast, I carefully edited those 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:20.360 carefully crafted jokes out of the podcast, right right to 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:24.520 that head. And no idea that right? Is that right? 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:30.160 Is that right? You asshole? You piece of shit? Is 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:37.719 that correct? Fuck you? Wow? Snowed under yet again? Cast 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:43.160 your eyes on Judas right over there. My god, the 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:48.720 podcast is recorded live to air, live to air, and 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:52.520 your phony but that is a traitorous act, all right? 0:05:52.680 --> 0:06:05.880 How dare you betrayal? You get By the way, there 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:07.960 were people pissed, you know they were. They were more 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.880 upset I missed the radio show, but then the podcast also, 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.680 Oh my god, how could you miss the podcast? You're 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.240 supposed to jump in with both feet on the podcast. 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:20.800 Every podcast would like when you had your gallbladder removed 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:24.640 and people are piste off the ear. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:27.680 I was in the hospital having major surgery because I 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:29.720 gall bladder was all messed up because I waited wait 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:34.599 too long and they were busting my balls at work. 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:37.400 You didn't exactly run over to see me. By the way, 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.160 guests gun you know over. They want to point that out. 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:46.280 You know you were not forbidden, you know, uh alright. Anyway, 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.440 we have the mail bag. These are actual questions sent 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.520 in by actual listeners like yourself, submitted via Facebook on 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:55.279 the Facebook page Ben mall Or Show or Real Fifth 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.719 Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour at gmail 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:04.120 dot com and oh wait we go. First mail bag 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:08.320 question comes from I'm a pilot in parts of now 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:10.960 and he says hello from sunny Tel Aviv. I guess 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.000 we know where he is then It's probably mid eighties, 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:18.680 perfect weather and a stark difference to my previous Sydney 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:22.160 Prisons day. Because before I get into that, I just 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:26.240 want to say congrats Bend on the home sale. Well, 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:28.840 thank you for that. I'm a pilot it has been 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:32.480 several months in the making on that. He says, I 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.120 will try to keep this compact as possible. So he 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.080 gives us the travel log, the I'm a pilot travel log, 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.080 which is all he doesn't fly around, he says. So 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:44.200 the flight to Sydney, he claims his fourteen to fifteen hours. 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.920 It's the same to Tel Aviv. So he goes to 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:52.440 Sydney first and globally, I'm a pilot still dealing with 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.520 all the COVID protocols and all that. He says. The 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:59.160 had a COVID test prior to departure. Flight goes south 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:04.640 of Hawaii around the equator. He mentions the Christmas Island 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.680 some other island I've never heard of, since there's this 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:11.360 area called the I t z Z, the inner Tropical 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:15.440 conversion Zone. Have you ever heard of that the tropical 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.000 I haven't either, He says. It's where the north and 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:23.600 south trade winds meet. Usually it's pretty gnarly storms up 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:27.880 to fifty thousand plus feet, bumpy ride, et cetera. Gotta 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.760 weave through all that and head up or head on 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:36.199 down towards Pago Pago on the way to Sydney. Arrive 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:40.559 early morning, sit for thirty minutes to deep plane because 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.679 we are now in the New South Wales and they 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:47.800 will only process what arrival at a time due to COVID. 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:51.000 According to I'm a pilot, lot of red tape, a 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.560 lot of bureaucracy us. So they deep plane, he says, 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.079 has to wait in a hall for one hour, so 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.319 the plane is landed, half an hour on the plane 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:03.280 hour way eating for someone in full hasmat suit. They 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:08.760 come get you, says security, then escorted you to process 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:13.360 for arrival instructions. He says, there were nurses there and 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:18.480 there were mean ones that would take your temperature, criticize 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:24.760 the mask wearing procedures that they were doing. Uh and uh, 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:28.679 he said, given instructions how to properly wear masks. Told 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:32.520 we were not allowed to leave the hotel room, handed 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:37.439 them papers one of five sheets of paper with passport, name, 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:41.600 arrival and departure information. I'm a pilot, and say said, 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:45.600 walked fifty feet, handed the papers a two sheet too 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:50.200 with info, signed something. He's giving every detail. By the way, 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.480 guests gun here. He's very detailed, orient saying I'm not 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:56.640 going anywhere, so he had to sign off these not 0:09:56.679 --> 0:10:00.680 going anywhere. He was escorted to the passport an immigration 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:05.199 area where there were you know, sheet number three clear customs. 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:09.320 Then have to take another COVID test. Just took one 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.200 sixteen hours ago, he says, so he's taking another one. 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.920 I'm a pilot, says as he traveling around the globe. 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:20.559 Here the globe trekker. Give the door hallway, where to 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.760 we find out where we will be staying. There's two hotels. 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.720 Government selects, no choice. You don't gonna choose which hotel 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.520 you stay at. The door opens. Pilots get on one bus. 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:33.720 Flight attendants. I guess they're segregated. They go on another 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:38.400 bus going to the same location. Though that's odd, so 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.480 it says, going to the same location. Uh. The email continues. 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:45.440 He says, at a hotel, police escorted in two at 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:51.760 a time. The same has met people with z papers, questions, 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:57.760 temperature check shown, room number, escorted to another office. Shown paper. 0:10:57.960 --> 0:10:59.839 I have to show the paper with the number room 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.320 we're on. It punches the elevator button as apparently if 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.800 if I'm a pilot, says, if I touched it, the 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:09.280 world would end. Yeah, it's a little a little too much. 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.280 Email continues. He says, get off on the floor. And 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.600 yet another police officer in a Hasma and a Hasmat person, 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.400 show the paper with the room number and they let 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:21.559 you in. Can only open the door to retrieve food 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:25.960 that is brought at a scheduled time. This sounds like China. Ship, 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.960 This doesn't sound Where is this done? He's in? Where 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.800 was he here? Sydney right, sounds like it sounds like China. 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:36.920 Uh so, he says, only able to retrieve the food 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.760 that has brought in his schedule. Times, no selection. Once 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:43.040 you hear a knock, wait thirty seconds, put on a 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:47.600 mask and open get food. Immediately closed the door, he says. 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:51.440 Fun times food was met. The worst part, I'm a pilot, says, 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.840 was in the morning. I just wanted some eggs, Nope, 0:11:54.920 --> 0:12:00.480 corn flakes and something that resembled apple strudel. I don't 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:02.679 have a problem with apple strudal. I'm a pilot. I 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.959 kind of like the apple strutal. If it's hot, though 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.840 it's really hot, that's the problem. Uh it's it's great. 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:13.320 So I I have coffee and bite into the thinking 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:18.000 Biden is thinking apple strudal. It was actually some curry 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:22.679 meat pastry. Holy ship, that's disgusting. Can't wait to go 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:28.000 home process all repeats on way back, says, Sydney sucks. 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:35.000 Sydney Australia sucks. They just use our archaic British rules 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:38.000 and make them more jacked up so they can call 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:41.200 it their own. So then he goes to Tel Aviv 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.160 gives us the story on that just takes off over Canada. 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.800 So they fly over from tell Aviv. From Sydney, they 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:58.080 fly to get to tell Aviv. They take off over Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Sweden, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey, Cypress, Israel. 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.480 Only thing is you have have You have to call, 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:05.160 he says, tel Aviv Airspace early to get permission to enter. 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:09.280 Usually the handoff is from each center. But Turkey and 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:12.400 Israel don't talk to each other, of course, not even 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.400 though they're right near each other. So you have to 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:19.920 do that. Land get off. Everything is a process. Automatic 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:24.240 scan the passport head out easy, he said. And they 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:29.440 just lifted the mask wearing mandates. In Israel, everything is open. 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:34.800 Anything happening is towards Palestines border. Nothing happening in Tel 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:39.600 Aviv except sun and fun. And he says, uh, He's 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:43.559 I'm a pilot, two very different places, vastly different experiences. 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:49.079 But can get the Ben Maller and Gascon show anywhere shalom, 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:50.920 He says, I'm at. I feel like we need to 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:56.400 do one dedicated episode for him, just something. He calmed down. 0:13:56.480 --> 0:14:00.679 I know you want to suck the toe. He's in 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:06.120 transit to some of these foreign lands. Just draconian, just awful. 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:10.400 I get it. I just listen. I I like I'm 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.000 a pilot. He's been a hat benefactor. He's been very 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.920 kind and supported the show for some reason. He claims 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:19.200 to like you a little too much. But no one's perfect. 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.920 Patricia writes in from Lost Wages, Nevada and says, what 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.600 exactly is so important that Mr West of the four 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.800 oh five cannot be there on the regular podcast. I'm 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:33.240 asking for a friend. Oh my gosh, you want to 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:39.320 answer Patricia's question? Vegas? You no, alright? Uh, Patricia, he 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:44.160 is rejecting. Well, I think he's a legitimate question. Mess 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.560 messes up my schedule, messes up the listeners schedule. What 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:52.120 messes up my schedule too? Very rude? I agree by you. 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:57.160 It's Rick from San Ramon who says that collapse on 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.200 part of the jazz the other day. It's like last 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.800 week now it was epic. I said, I'm not a 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:06.240 Clipper fan, but that was a gutsy performance by your team, 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:09.960 Rick says Sands Kauai. Good luck to your boys the 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:13.800 rest of the way. PS Clay's back next year and 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:17.840 the Dubs are gonna make a move on an impact 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:21.920 veteran in free agency, court Rick, the West will belong 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:25.600 to the Dubs one last time before the greatest shooter 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:30.040 on the planet retires. There you go. So I did. 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.520 I did win steak dinner backing your team when they 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:38.160 were down O two. You're welcome, welcome. It's all right. 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.600 Have you cashed that in yet? I'm gonna wait on that. 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.360 But I did take my shots at George Rice stir 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:48.280 and uh yeah, he will not spare any expanse on that. 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:53.040 That's that's gonna be a nice steak dinner. Good. Yes, 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:55.840 you got your shots? Huh? I did? I did down 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:57.680 oh two and they came back, got on their horse 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:02.000 and won it. It's last job, Fred from Spring Texas, right, since, 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:07.120 says are you and gascon dog or cat people? I'm 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.360 I'm a dog person. You're a squirrel person. Well, I'm 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:11.840 a squirrel person. I'm I like to feed the ducks 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:15.000 and the geese at the park. I'm like an old guy. 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:18.120 I just I like to feed animals. Now, you watch documentaries, 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:23.280 Do you ever watch like nature shows, andything like that? Yes, 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:27.120 I do. I like those that use drone footage and show, 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.600 you know, different parts of the world forests. They go 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.400 into the forest, or they'll go to the really arctic 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.160 parts of the world. Or there was a documentary was 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.920 on Netflix a while ago about the oceans. Yeah, I 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.560 like those. Well, the reason why I ask is because 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:44.480 his question says, are you dog or cat? I've been 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.880 watching a lot of Instagram videos now of these guys. 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:51.920 Those are beautiful, bodacious women. Those aren't dogs and cats. 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:55.480 Are there are these guys? Now? I'm not not now, 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.880 but like there's guys out there that are are hanging 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:02.520 around like huging, rolling around the dirt or the grass, 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:08.960 the wildlife with lions and tigers sometimes wolves. I just 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:12.040 I mean, it's it's crazy to see, you know, two 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:16.440 d plus pound animals and these guys that just have 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.480 no regard for anything else. These are wild animals obviously 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:24.520 that they're able to uh to bondle with. That's pretty fascinating. Well, 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:29.640 never underestimate the power of cloud chasing, trying to get 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:33.600 your fifteen minutes of fame, the unnecessary drama. No, these 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.200 guys like take care of these these lions. And really, 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:38.040 I thought you were telling me there were people on 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:40.560 instant the way you made it seem like there were 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:44.200 people trying to get people to like them on Instagram. No, no, no, 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.960 these guys were like legit trainers and so they yeah, 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:49.440 they well, they've always been that. I remember when I 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:53.680 was a kid, I remember seeing videos, like actual VHS 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:57.840 videos of I think it's in Malaysia. There have been 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:01.760 families there that have had pet allega eaters or you 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.680 know whatever. Yeah, and so that that's like the family pet. 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:07.280 You have a dog I have, maybe you're a cat person, 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.040 maybe you have a chicken or a pig, and they 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:13.240 have a pet alligator. That's time to go to bed. 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.239 Make sure you put the alligator in the bed. I mean, 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:21.280 come on, that's crazy, nuts, right, yeah, alligator. Eric and 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:29.160 Olmaha says jeans khakis or sweatpants. Uh, sweatpants, sweatpants jeans, 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:33.480 Lee writes in From the Valley of the Sun. He 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:39.880 says hamburger or pizza and uh, fun gag on. He says, 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:44.280 did you spell any of that right? A couple of 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:46.760 he got that one. A couple of words messed up there. 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:52.440 That's hamburger pizza. That's tough, A well made burger. Yeah, 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:56.280 pizzas to me multidimensional. You get the toppings change on 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:58.480 the topics on a burger change too. But I'll go 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:00.520 pizza and you can have cold pizza. You can't have 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:02.840 a cold burger, That's true. You gotta eat it fresh. 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:06.600 Blind Emmett, the Seahawk fan and Olympia Washington says, have 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:10.000 you guys thought about getting the great John Ramos? On 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:15.600 the fifth hour podcast Our Our Mexican Philip rivers, Wow, 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:18.320 I got a lot of kids. Man, What what's wrong 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:21.080 with that? Man? Is your family? Man? Wrong with that? 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:25.600 Ramos is an l a radio ledge, It's not an amateur. Now. 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:28.040 I was bragging to John Ramos when I moved to 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:30.400 the Halfway House, and I had to deal with John 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:34.040 and the the engineering staff, Curious and the other guys 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:35.760 on the engineering side. I had to get the studio 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:38.560 set up, of course I had to do it myself, uh, 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:41.560 and and move everything and make sure everything was still connected. 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:43.840 The way it was supposed to be connected. As you know, 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:47.560 I'm an expert my FCC. I had my FCC license 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:49.840 when I worked at the college station back in the day. Anyway, 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:52.280 so I'm talking to Ramos and I'm like, see, I'm like, 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:54.520 you know, an amateur engineer just like you, and I 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:58.679 know I'm a professional engineer. Let you take that subtle 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:02.000 shot at him. No, that was not my intention. That 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:04.439 was not my intention to take a subtle shot at him. 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:06.240 I was merely pointing out that I was proud of 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:09.600 myself that we actually got this to work, even though 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:11.560 I had to do a week back at the mother 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:15.400 Ship and and all that. But I'd love this. It's 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:17.960 up to me, blind Emmett. I would put many of 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:22.200 the support staff the meat and potatoes of a Fox 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:24.760 Sports radio. I would happily put these people on. In fact, 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:27.920 we are going to have at some point ask a 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:31.960 Vegan will be on the podcast. Alex Tisher will be 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:34.960 on the podcast. I promised him a podcast experience. Now, 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:41.000 he said, he promised major downloads because he has connected 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:44.040 in the anime world and he's a very popular figure 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:46.960 in that world. And he promised me if we put 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:52.920 Alex tysher On, engineer for Jason and Mike Harmon and 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:59.840 Rob Parker and Broussard Chris Broussard that he said major downloads, 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:04.320 we'll go platinum if we put that. Bring up? Does 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:06.600 that mean with to bring on like Gavin and Iowa, 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:08.960 Sam and some of the other guys that, Yeah, I 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:11.760 seen these are these are I know you're west of 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:14.399 the four or five. These people are below you, but 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:17.560 I'm fine these guys, I'll put them on you. You 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:19.280 don't know who could be a rock star. And now 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:22.800 some of them might be boring and horrible, but you 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:25.040 have to leave room for that. And and these are 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:28.320 people that they're not totally anonymous because like blind Emmett, 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:30.480 he loves all the behind the scenes people of Fox 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:33.720 Sports Radio. He'll send messages to me and put so 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:37.080 and so only don the board op or whatever put 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:43.280 them on. Yeah. Interesting Valls. Fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee, says, Ben, 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:46.400 I saw you feeding the squirrels, and they must like peanuts. 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:49.640 What would you have done if they would have run 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:52.760 up both your legs and went after your own nuts? 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:54.680 I think you know what I would have done. I 0:21:54.720 --> 0:21:57.959 would have gotten to a defensive fight or flight pasture posture. Rather. 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:02.000 Jimmy from Favorale that it was one of the cooler 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:04.479 things that I'm feeding the squirrels. We mentioned it yesterday 0:22:04.560 --> 0:22:07.680 on the Saturday podcast. But it was pretty cool, guest scout. 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:10.440 It reminded me of when I went to Catalina and 0:22:10.600 --> 0:22:13.680 they have a lover's cove on Catalian Island off the 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:16.200 coast of l A. And you're not supposed to do this, 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:17.760 and I should not say this in the radio, but 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:20.639 I have heard rumors that if you feed the fish 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:25.480 frozen corn or frozen peas, they will jump out of 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:29.320 the water to get the frozen corn and the frozen piece. 0:22:29.359 --> 0:22:33.160 It's unbelievable. It's like you're the fish whisper. Pretty cool, 0:22:33.840 --> 0:22:35.320 Pretty cool. And I said that I had the same 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:39.080 experience with the squirrels and it's it's pretty neat. Be 0:22:39.240 --> 0:22:41.640 sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show 0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:45.040 weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Be sure 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:47.760 to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays 0:22:47.800 --> 0:22:50.960 at two am Eastern eleven p m Pacific on Fox 0:22:51.000 --> 0:22:55.840 Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Ben ned 0:22:56.000 --> 0:22:59.639 Flanders hosting your show, Roberto no show. What the f 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:04.359 year drinking Brian half pint could have ran it? Bad 0:23:04.560 --> 0:23:07.920 decision on your part. The fund is that I don't know, 0:23:08.080 --> 0:23:10.000 I don't know who sent that, but that's a bad 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:13.639 person right there. I didn't even I don't think they 0:23:13.720 --> 0:23:17.360 put their name here. I don't know what happened. WHOA, Yeah, 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:21.760 what's the email address? I know that was on Facebook. 0:23:21.800 --> 0:23:25.440 I think that was on the Facebook. Yeah, it's kind 0:23:25.440 --> 0:23:27.520 of helter skelter. At the last minute, I was like 0:23:27.600 --> 0:23:32.560 looking for questions. Vick says, are you guys unable to 0:23:32.640 --> 0:23:37.000 get your podcast on Alexa? Are we not on Alexa? Guess? 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:39.200 Are you by the way that that last email that 0:23:39.600 --> 0:23:41.840 the justist jointed one that was all over the place, 0:23:42.480 --> 0:23:48.040 that came from Brandon. Yeah, we're like fifty six different platforms, 0:23:49.200 --> 0:23:53.679 not enough gascon whatever is convenient to that particular listener. 0:23:55.000 --> 0:23:57.680 I'm just saying, and this this guy Vick wants ALEXA. 0:23:58.760 --> 0:24:00.399 I don't. I don't know the difference. I don't use 0:24:00.440 --> 0:24:02.120 a light. Do you use Alexa? I don't use I've 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:08.119 never used Alexa. Have you ever dated a girl named Alexa? No? No, 0:24:08.560 --> 0:24:14.200 just a one nighter Pierre from Springfield, mass home of 0:24:14.280 --> 0:24:16.800 the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame where you can see 0:24:16.880 --> 0:24:20.520 Muffett McGraw in the Pro Basketball of Fame, says, any 0:24:20.640 --> 0:24:26.879 chance that your executive producer gets you a housewarming steak 0:24:27.400 --> 0:24:30.359 and uh, you know, chow down on some warm raising 0:24:30.480 --> 0:24:33.480 canes at the Ugly Sweater party. Now that you him 0:24:33.560 --> 0:24:36.080