WEBVTT - 11th Hour 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.960 We got boom. If you thought more hours a day 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:07.960 dred minutes a week was enough, I think again. He's 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:11.520 the last remnants of the old Republic, the sole fashion 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:14.800 of fairness. He treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:18.560 same as the rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:22.320 clearing house of hot takes, break free for something special. 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:27.600 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:32.879 the air everywhere. We are back in better than ever. 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:37.559 On the Sunday Sunday Sunday edition of the Fifth Hour podcast. 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:41.880 Day podcast that was in danger. The mail Bag podcast 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:44.760 was in danger of not being uploaded this week. We 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:47.680 were considering just doing two podcasts and not doing the 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:51.120 mail Bag. I'll explain why in a second, But if 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:54.120 you have not been listening to the other podcast this weekend, 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:57.920 d Halt Derek call CEO, the president of a major 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:01.040 League baseball team with billions of dollars, was on our 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:05.280 podcast on Friday and we told some old stories. Derek's 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:07.520 a guy I worked with in sports radio who went 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:11.640 on and now runs the Arizona Diamondbacks. And so that's 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:13.520 a that's a cool podcast. You want to check that 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.560 out from Friday, and then yesterday we told tales of 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:24.120 the last year with COVID and did an homage to 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:28.440 a famous NBA broadcaster who passed away and had pop 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.319 quiz and whatnot. But today all about the mail bag 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:37.039 and Sash his way in from West of the four 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:44.600 oh five, a social climber and unsavory, manipulative character, the 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:50.920 pompous one David guess God, social climber and if I am, 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.600 I'm not a very good one. But I we'll try it. 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.960 So I don't know harder if I needed to, I could. 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:01.120 I'm not like the Megan Marco of fox Pots Radio Bye. 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:06.080 And you're not oppressed like Megan Marcos of people. Yeah, 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:10.560 there's no one's hearing me. Yeah, I do a television interview. 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:12.680 Oh my god. It was a great There was a 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:16.160 great meme that was out there that said, um, it 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:20.960 had oppressed millionaires from a royalty family with an oppressed 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:26.040 billionaire in Oprah Winfrey. That's pretty good. Yeah, it's it's wonderful. 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.480 Did you know that we got absolutely decimated on Apple 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.760 iTunes over the last week week and a half. I 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:36.000 did not know what happened. Had some some vultures that 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:37.720 are out there. I don't know if you want to 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:41.200 hear any of it, but I can certainly shine some 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.800 light on it if you'd like. We've been attacked here, 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:51.480 we have been. Gretchen Willets said title was too much repetition, 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.480 and then she added too much repetition. One star, I 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:59.480 was not good one star? Who is that person? Gretchen? 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:01.720 Is that real? I don't know who that is? Wretchen 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.200 will it's I don't know another one. E V Dog 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:07.880 twelve said used to be way more fun before the 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:12.480 guys dove deep into their conservative political agendas. Maybe move 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.440 it back to one show week with guests. The episodes 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:17.720 with picking games against the spread and with guests are 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.880 usually great. If not, either of these guys would make 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:24.120 great talking heads or guests for Sean Hannity on Fox 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.200 News Channel. They complain about athletes not sticking to sports. 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:33.359 Maybe take your own advice. That's amazing. I mean, well, 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:35.440 I if Sean Hannity wants to add me on, I mean, 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.640 who are the most powerful people in media? They're all 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:43.880 They're all conservative, are they? Well? Anything about Well, nobody 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.080 watches seeing it and people complain about seeing it, but 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:49.920 nobody when we watches MSNBC in comparison to like Fox News, 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:54.080 the ratings that they get Tucker Carlson, Hannity, that whole, 0:03:54.840 --> 0:04:00.360 that whole lineup dominates as far as viewership is concerned. Um, 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:02.640 how do you feel about that your podcast just got 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.800 absolutely shipped on by a couple of people. Well, I 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.120 mean I did see Buddy Dog. I like that you 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.600 you focused on the negative Buddy Dogs as I absolutely 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:14.040 enjoy each episode, the different topics, the format makes this 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.600 show a joy to listen to each weekend. You could 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:19.400 have been positive and you could have been you know, 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:21.640 like me, Benny bright Side and looked for the positive. 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:23.760 But that is important. I seriously, we we would like 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.120 to get you know, we we early on pushed for 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.520 reviews of the podcast. We have more people listening now 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:31.280 to the fifth hour podcast then before. If you if 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.839 you have an Apple product, you're on Apple iTunes. I 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:36.680 know it's a pain in the ask to do a review, 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:40.480 but it does help us out. And uh, we'd like 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.680 to get I think we're like thirty away from three 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.359 hundred or something around that. If we could get to 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:51.120 that number relatively soon, and just you might think you're 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:52.960 you don't matter but you'd be one of those thirty 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.200 people if you have not written a review yet for 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.640 the fifth Hour podcast. That does matter. People do look 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:03.440 at that in management, and uh, you know that's that's 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:07.279 the case. I do like the people complaining. Now I'm guessing, 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:12.719 was it Eve Dog? Is that? Who was dog? A dog? Um? That? 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:16.279 If we talked about I assume he's a Team Blue. 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.760 That guy assumes that we were down the middle. No, 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.160 he's not done. If he's down the middle, he wouldn't care. 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.600 But if his Team Blue and we were on, you know, 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.280 doing the talking points with Team Blue, I don't think 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.520 he sends that message, right, I think he does. I 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:32.719 don't think he says, hey, why don't you go on, 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:42.240 you know with Rachel Yeah, Chris, Chris, Chris Cuomo, Yeah, 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.440 go with Chris Cuomo or something like. They wouldn't say that. 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:53.160 Shepherd Smith, Yeah, where's he at? He's at MSNBC. Yeah, 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:55.760 I remember he was at Fox for forever. It was 0:05:55.760 --> 0:06:00.320 the daytime host. Yeah. Is anyone watching Shepherd's Smith on? 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.840 Let's seeing it. I don't know who cares. He's getting paid, right? 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:09.040 What are my favorite reviews? Uh? Well, I was ripping you, 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.440 but I know you don't bring that one up. I 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.599 appreciate it if you just be positive. I mean, well, 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.280 you started out with negative reviews and that was up 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:19.880 with it? Well, because those are current. We haven't had 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:21.680 any reviews in a long period of time, so I 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:25.720 just thought, hey, well the most current you know, negative, 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.960 but in the late the last day of February Buddy Dog, Yeah, 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:33.440 Bloody Dog five stars the two negative comments for Saturday 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.240 last weekend and also marks the third So what are 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.920 we talking about on Saturday? What did you bring up? 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:43.279 The triggered these pussy willows? So what was it? Well, 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.680 it was whatever was canceled last week? Wasn't there something 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.480 that wasn't there a cartoon that was canceled? Us? Dr Seux? 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:52.280 We're talking about Dr SEUs or something like that. So 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:56.920 I guess Eve Dog approves of the cancel culture, and so, uh, 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:01.400 burn these books and take it. Gretchen, I that's the 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.599 real name. Can you change your name on the Apple review? 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.240 Or is that maybe? But I think I think it's 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.400 more important that she should change her name in real life, 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:11.480 Like gret I know, that's a tough name she probably got, 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:13.040 you know, in the playground. They were probably you know 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.160 her name, Gretchen, I'm thinking the kids are not nice 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.600 to you on the playground. Just carry that into a 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:19.560 into life here, I'm imagined. I don't know or I 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.560 don't know if that's even a real person. Uh, but 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:24.800 I would think with that kind of name you would 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:29.160 end up getting some some abuse, which is a little 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:33.240 because typically the female listeners really love what I bring 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.560 to the party. So a little disappointing the review. Gretchen, 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.240 I didn't know there are females. I thought there's one gender, 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.720 and you're assuming that person is a female. That's a 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:46.280 wrong assumption to make. Bad job by you. Shame on you. 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:49.360 That's wrong with you, guys. But anyway, let's get to 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:50.600 the mail bag. I want to get through as many 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.080 of these as we can. The mail bag was in danger. 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.040 The mail bag was in danger. Now why was the 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.560 mail bag in endanger? I'm glad you asked. I'll tell you. 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.640 Uh Now, I pos every Wednesday on the show Facebook page, 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:07.640 a plea for the Mallam militia to submit questions, and 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:11.480 so you know, usually we get a similar amount of 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:14.160 questions every week. We've been very consistent on that over 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:16.680 the years. We've been doing the podcast. But for some 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.840 reason this week we had like three or I think 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:24.480 it was three or four questions and that was it. 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.680 I was like, holy crap, what happened. So I I 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.720 of course immediately said, wow, we're not gonna do the 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:33.120 mail bag. So I posted something on the Facebook page 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:37.439 pointing out that we better get more questions or there's 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.400 gonna be no mailbag this weekend, which I figured, you know, 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:42.120 we don't have to do this pod. This is like 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:43.839 an extra podcast that we do here out of the 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.160 goodness of our hard guest gun. Right. We could do 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:51.000 one podcast a week, we could do two podcast a week, right, um, 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:54.320 but we we choose to do the mailbag. And I 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.960 like answering questions. It's fun. I enjoy it. But if 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.640 there's no questions, what's the point of doing the mailbag. 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:04.079 But anyway, the mal Emlitia answered the call and they 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:07.040 rose up and we got tons of questions on Ben 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.960 Maller's show on Facebook and also a lot of email questions, 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.200 a lot of email questions Real Fifth Hour at gmail 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.480 dot com if you want to keep your question private, 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.200 So the same rules apply here, guestc on, We're gonna 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:20.960 go into this we're gonna answer as many of these 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.839 questions as we possibly can on the mail bag and 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:29.520 rapid fire, rat a tat tat. Are you prepared? Let 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.400 us go, all right, Mike, and Phoenix says, so what 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:34.599 would you do Ben if there aren't enough questions for 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.240 the mail bag? But I just said Mike, we wouldn't 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.160 have the mail bag, which Guesscot would love because I 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.240 gotta drag him in here by his hair to get 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:44.880 him to do the podcast, so he would love if 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.920 there were guests got every week. Hopes there's not enough 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.520 questions from the mail bag, so we don't have the mailbag. 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:52.760 By the way, I forgot to tell you this. My 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:58.120 hair looks awesome right now. It's long, it's brown, it's full, 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:02.439 and so does my hair. My hair looks gascon wonderful, 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:09.080 beautiful hair, flowing locks, so nice. I've got a little 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.600 salt and pepper and my beard. Boy, do I look good? 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:18.840 It's everyone looks great on radio or podcasting. My god, 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.160 are we gonna have the Mrs bick your head? Yeah? 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:24.400 Well she she is the official barber now at the 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:29.880 Mallar Manage. Yeah. Yeah, we we during the pandemic and 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:33.959 when the barbershops were closed by King Newsom, the Dictator. 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:39.520 We went on bought a hair cutting kit, and uh, 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:43.240 my wife enjoys cutting what's left of my hair. So 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:47.640 Glen in Chicago writes in the Windy City says, did 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.600 you guys use any pickup lines in your day or 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:55.240 even now? If so, what are they? That's his first 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.439 question is a follow up, but let's start with that. 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:00.880 Uh No, I didn't have any game. I had no 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:07.600 skills I had. I was fat, repulsive, no confidence with women. 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:12.800 It was a nightmare. It was a horrible situation and 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.000 it took me years and years to get over that. 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:17.040 But I didn't have any I always had buddies that 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.320 were very slick, and you know, I was like the 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:22.840 guy that would hang out with the cool people that 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:24.760 would go out and they were the center of attention 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:26.280 or whatever, and they would get you know, they had 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.280 all the pickup lines and all that. But I I 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.480 did not. I did not, You GUESSCON seemed like the 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.839 kind of guy that had the shenanigans with the pickup lines, 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:35.719 the ludicrous and we were still single, so you could 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.559 still use pickup line. I ran to a good hot 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.559 streak back in the day when I was in San Diego, 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.920 where I would approach women that didn't look like they 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:47.040 were having a good time, and I would ask point 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:52.520 blank what's his name? And more often than not, turn 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:55.200 out they were with a guy or a guy fucked 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.560 up and it ruined their night and then immediately just 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.560 went to a completely different directions. So that was always 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:04.800 an easy line to to throw out there on the 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.680 unsuspecting that was your go to, that was your Yeah, 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:09.439 just because you gotta. I mean, they like the fact 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.679 that you're observing them as opposed to just looking them 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.160 up and down. You're observing their their body language a 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:15.880 little bit, or seeing how they're Oh, come on, I 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.640 guess you know you have elevator eyes. Come on, guess absolutely. 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:23.480 You know we've had we've had those training sessions over 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:27.760 the years. Uh, you know, the harassment training and no elevatories. 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.559 I'm like, it doesn't every you know, you know what 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:33.040 I mean, everyone kind of do that, just that natural 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:37.640 human instinct to check out the other person. Um but anyway, Uh, 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:41.920 does spin Cycle Regina have a cameo account? Glenn? I 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:43.679 guess Glenn is a big fan and that spin Cycle 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:47.440 Regina in um no, I don't even know what spin 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.480 cycle regina. I don't know anything about her. I don't 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.080 know what she looks like anything like that. I just 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:55.560 know she calls the show. So but no, I don't 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.400 think she has cameo. J Bone in main Rights and says, 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.960 while you have had your own show, has there been 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:06.560 anyone you worked with that you genuinely didn't like? I 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:13.200 need names? He said, Uh, well, we will protect the 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.720 guilty by not giving out names. But there was there 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.640 was one former NFL player that I worked with that 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:20.840 I just did not get along with. But my general 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:24.000 rule is if you're lazy, I don't like it. And 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.640 I've had the misfortune of working with a fair amount 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.439 of people that just don't have any work ethic and ambition. 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.520 And I don't know that I would say hate, but 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:36.719 I I spend a lot of effort. I have aspirations 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.400 and goals, and it's it's always bothered me to be 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.640 around people that don't have a fire in their belly 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.320 and just don't don't seem to have any purpose. And 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.800 it's like that that cliche that the trope of the 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:52.079 factory worker or the government worker. I guess it's the 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.160 better way to look at it. This kind of punches 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.680 the time clock and doesn't put any extra effort to 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:59.880 go the extra mile if you will, and all that. 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:04.520 And you know, it's like that old line from Paul Harvey, 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.440 the radio legend, like you can always tell when you 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:09.880 were on the road to success because it's uphill all 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:11.679 the way, right. But a lot of people would rather 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.079 I get it the path at least resistance you want 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:15.520 to go down to. But those are the type of 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.319 people that bothered me. But it was one NFL player 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:19.840 that just thought because he had played in the NFL, 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:21.840 he didn't have to do any prep or prepare and 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:23.640 just could come in here and tell stories. That was 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:25.640 a pain in the ass. And then I've had some 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:29.720 other people that you know, just didn't quite bring the 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:32.160 amount of effort that I would have liked, and so 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.600 that bothered me. I'm pretty maniacal about that, as you know, guess. Yeah. 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:40.000 I've had people call me out um on the television 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:44.120 side for that, so that I'm I'm hard to work 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:50.240 with because because you have ambition and aspirations and you 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:52.200 you know, because I want to have things souped up 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:56.560 on the production side or the the camera footage or 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.920 just the coverage overall. And and some guys take that 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.760 criticism and and run with that, and others kind of 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.080 turn the way to the other way around and feel 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:07.960 like you stabbed them in the back or you're attacking 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:09.840 them because you just want to have a good show. 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:14.320 It's pretty odd. Yeah, well, there is a problem we 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:16.320 have in our business. Every business has problems. One of 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:17.720 the problems with the media business is a lot of 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:20.640 people get into media so they don't have to work, right, 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:22.640 I mean, because you figure what these are easy jobs. 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.360 I mean, you're going and you talk for four hours 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:26.160 and you just show up, you turn the mic on, 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.360 or in television, you just you know, I just do 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:32.520 as little as possible and you cut corners. And yeah, 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.440 it is. It is a problem. Yeah, first world problem. 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.200 But you know, cutting corners in general is a bad idea. 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:40.600 Just mailing it in I just don't I just can't 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:44.320 stand that anyway. All right, thank you for the question. 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:49.040 J Bone in Maine. Barry from Nashville, Ah, He says, Ben, 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.560 this is via emails, has been when the gremlins strike 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:53.960 the equipment at the Mallard mansion, who breaks out into 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:59.880 a worse flop sweat, you're Eddie question. I'm gonna go 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:04.840 Eddie now. I in my situation, I feel like I've 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.360 done everything I can to get ready the equipment. If 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.240 the equipment fails because the line we use to connect 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:14.000 is down, there's nothing I can do. Like, you know, 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.280 as long as I'm not the one f and up, 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.320 then I I don't really I worry about it. I 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.000 get up. I get frustrated because I spend so much 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.160 time getting ready for the show and you know, trying 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:25.920 to plan out in my head what I want to 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.640 do and and put some bullet points down things like 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:30.560 that to get ready for the show. And so it 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:32.920 does frustrate me. I feel like I've wasted my time 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.000 when we get knocked off the air for whatever reason. 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.840 But I gotta think Eddie's feeling the feeling the heat 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:40.760 more because Eddie doesn't prepare to do a talk show. 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:42.840 He doesn't. He comes in and he just prepares to 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:45.600 do news updates and then he'll react to what we 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:48.520 talk about what I'll talk about. But yeah, it's a 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.880 much different dynamic when you're doing the act in the 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:56.120 in the as Mark Patrick said, back into the Big Chair, Uh, 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.400 it's it's a different experience, and so if you're not 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:00.360 prepared for that and you get tossed into it, it 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:04.880 it's pretty difficult. You can fake it, but it's hard 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:09.520 to really fake it till you make it. So the 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:13.959 real j D and cans uh City says my question. 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:17.760 Has Coope de Loupe ever persuaded any of you to 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:24.240 partake in the Devil's lettuce? Uh No, no, I have not. 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:29.200 I have not partake in the Devil's less. I beg 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.600 of my younger days. There's at some parties and so 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:33.600 I guess second hand, I guess I have, but I've 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:39.640 never and we're actually gone down that road. Margie, Right, 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:43.080 since it's outside of sports, what are your other interests 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:47.520 and hobbies? Uh? Well, I love documentary, like going out 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:51.639 in the nature, believe or not, you know, and the 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.359 weekends going out to the beach during the summertime is 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.000 always a lot of fun, checking out the the saying, 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:00.560 clearing my mind from the nonsense of sports radio, the 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.560 grind of sports talk radio, having to worry about Lebron 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:07.439 James and all these other nim rods. So I like 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.120 to get away, and you know, I'm just kind of 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:15.159 unplug for a little bit, enjoy traveling. Don't get to 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.960 do much of that these days, checking out new places, 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.000 and some things like that. I mean, these are pretty 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:24.160 standard standard hobbies I'm I'm also one of my other things, 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:28.600 I love the origins of words. I like to It's 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:30.719 one of my michigas things where I like to study, 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.960 like the history of phrases and words and things like that, 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.000 why we say the things that we say, where they 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:42.440 came from. And Uh, It's it's cool because I can 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:45.720 use that on on the show. Like I feel like 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:47.639 I can use that on the show, so like I 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:51.840 can work it in somehow, like for example, the there 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:57.720 was a marketing slogan in the nineteen nineties, uh, to 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:02.240 sell motorcycles and it was go Bigger, Go Home, and Uh, 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:06.000 that came from Harley Davidson. And I've actually I've used 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:09.440 that from I just I don't know why I popped 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.680 into my head, but I've used that randomly, uh as 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:16.000 a point of reference. So like dumb stuff like that. 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:20.800 Jess Scarren, on the other hand, um boy, his hobbies. Uh, 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:24.919 he likes to hang out with the Hollywood elite power brokers, 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:28.280 schmoozing and are the ones that write the checks, they 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:35.440 pay the bills? Yeah, the road Uh John the Jailer 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:38.320 and Alan town p A right, Since says Ben and Gascon, 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:41.159 if you gave up all the money and fame of 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:45.720 working in sports radio and became a doctor, what field 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:50.200 of medicine would you practice? Now? Does a plastic surgeon count? 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:54.159 That would, of course be for the one per centers? 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:57.560 Why so not only John the jailer. Would I have 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:02.400 to overcome the love of radio that's in my DNA 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:04.320 and my blood at this point, but I would then 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:07.520 have to overcome some of my fears of blood and 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:12.520 things like that. Um, but listen, I mean doctors, all 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:16.520 doctors are important, um in one way or another. I 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:21.320 mean even people like dentists that having good dental hygiene 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:25.879 obviously makes things easier for you. Um like trying to 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:28.880 think is there a safe way because you're you're thinking 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:33.320 about this general practitioner. Yeah, but if you go into 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:38.920 neurology or your nose and throat or an ophthalmologist or 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:45.520 an ophthalmologist, well, how and how about you know oncology? Uh? Right, 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:49.920 the study of cancer. I mean that's such a horrible disease, cancer, 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:52.199 and I lost my mom to cancer, my aunt, my 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:56.480 uncle the cancer. How about this, What if you're an anesthesiologist. 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:00.960 Oh yeah, you put them put them down for the count. Yeah, 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:04.439 but I mean mad. If you funk up in that job, 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:09.359 they die. That's that's fatal. Yeah, lights out. Yeah, there's 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:12.160 the x ray person, the x ray texts. Actually, doctor 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:17.680 always felt. I know we have doctors that listen to 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:21.320 the show. But my experiences, which is limited, think, you know, 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:23.159 for now, until I get older, if I make it, 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:24.720 look if you make it when I spend more time 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:27.760 with the doctors. But um, I feel like the nurses 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:30.320 do so much that I feel like the nurses to 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:33.160 actually do most of the work, you know what. It's 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:35.280 uh and they don't get paid as much, but they do. 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:37.080 I guess that's why you become a doctor because you 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:39.560 can kind of come in there and you know, you 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:42.240 spend five minutes the nurse spends thirty minutes. You're good. Actually, 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:44.719 you know what, I can't believe I I didn't say this. 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:49.080 I'd want to be an orthopedic surgeon. Why well, because 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:50.800 if if we're in this line of work and we 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:52.800 have to be removed for a minute, we could be 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:56.280 orthopedic surgeons, and then you can treat athletes that get 0:21:56.320 --> 0:22:02.280 injured and need to have Liam yours UTR Jackson. You'd 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:04.920 have to give up the sports radio life. That's okay, 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:08.240 It's like I have a sports radio life anyway. Yeah, Now, 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:10.240 John the Jailer, we actually have a surprise for you 0:22:10.920 --> 0:22:16.520 because someone, a little birdie in your world has informed 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:19.800 me that Gasco we have a hero. We have a 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:27.919 someone that has saved someone's life listening to our podcast. Yeah, 0:22:28.240 --> 0:22:30.720 that would be none other than the great John the Jailer. 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:37.160 And apparently recently at work he saved an inmate who 0:22:37.240 --> 0:22:42.400