Speaker 1: Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse the clearing House of
Speaker 1: Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller starts right now, back in the saddle again.
Speaker 1: It's the Fifth Hour with Ben Miller and David Gascon.
Speaker 1: Because four hours a night are not enough, Dad Giveaway,
Speaker 1: Dad Giveaway eight days a week, eight days a week
Speaker 1: from a Mallard podcast studio deep in the north Woods.
Speaker 1: The struggle is real. They struggle is reel, and we
Speaker 1: thank you for finding the podcast, supporting the podcast, being
Speaker 1: part of the podcast and joined by the person west
Speaker 1: of the four oh five over there, David Gascon, what's up,
Speaker 1: What's up? What's up? And there he is very exciting
Speaker 1: to have guest go on here again on a mail
Speaker 1: bag kind of a Sunday. Guest on a mail bag
Speaker 1: kind of Sunday, which is you have Do you have
Speaker 1: any friends or fans or listeners of the show that
Speaker 1: are physical therapists? Not that I know of what what happened?
Speaker 1: What what malady do you have now that you need
Speaker 1: help with? I popped to Grind Pop to Grind two
Speaker 1: days ago. We cannot, I cannot help you with that.
Speaker 1: And really, you know, self gratifications, great guest, but you
Speaker 1: can't go too hard on that. That's not true. You
Speaker 1: can you can never go hard enough. Oh is that right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no point. You're the only one in the room there,
Speaker 1: that's you know, you want to injure yourself. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: I think we're doing is worth doing, right, I mean
Speaker 1: slightly embarrassing. I popped it while I was working out.
Speaker 1: I was doing squats or doing leg presses, and I
Speaker 1: felt this massive pop and I got up and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh shoot, this is not good. And uh,
Speaker 1: climbing one step on a stair just was not sitting
Speaker 1: right with me. I was almost those down and out
Speaker 1: not good, not good, not good at all and so okay,
Speaker 1: and you need uh I think flexis can help you out. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, no no no. I was just looking. I mean,
Speaker 1: you have you have one dock. I just didn't know
Speaker 1: if you had another dock that was actually legit doc
Speaker 1: if you just piss on your good oh my good
Speaker 1: nothing nothing, yeah, all right, not good anyway, Let's say
Speaker 1: we have to play the official open or it's not
Speaker 1: the mel back, so let's hit the will strike up
Speaker 1: the band here and alright. Thanks to al our buddy
Speaker 1: Alan Ohio, the official jingle of the mail Bag as
Speaker 1: done from his home recording studio. We think al for that.
Speaker 1: And these are actual questions sending by actual listeners like yourself.
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Speaker 1: First question comes from Pierre from Springfield, Massachusetts, home of
Speaker 1: the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame. He says, as a
Speaker 1: follow up from Ask Band on the Radio, I'd like
Speaker 1: to ask your trustees sidekick, whether or not he's misjudged
Speaker 1: a fart only to pay the price. Yes, yes, you
Speaker 1: like to expand on that? No, why not? I expanded
Speaker 1: on it. I went to great details. Different what I
Speaker 1: was a radio. I was a terrestrial radio. This is
Speaker 1: a podcasts different. You're married because no, no, something like that.
Speaker 1: It's just you know you're married. You got your audience,
Speaker 1: you got your lovers. Um. No, the women, the women understand. Uh,
Speaker 1: most women I think are reasonable that they're not the
Speaker 1: man that they will eventually marry does fart and occasionally
Speaker 1: things go sideways. Any older you get, the longer you
Speaker 1: get in the game, the more that's gonna happen. It's
Speaker 1: just the aging process. Be ashamed of it. You probably
Speaker 1: have diapers, don't you wear diapers? Is that true? That's
Speaker 1: what that's what Eddie told diapers. Yeah, if there's anyone
Speaker 1: that knows anything about diapers, that's Eddie Garcia. Yes, wild Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's good, unbelievable, shocking. All right, So he's Springfield, our
Speaker 1: our friend Pierre again, he is not not going to
Speaker 1: answer the question. Uh, Pierres answered the question, I just
Speaker 1: did not expand on the answer. Well, listen, I think
Speaker 1: the listener can can tell that you're a little uncomfortable
Speaker 1: on that, and so we will move on. Sure, Pierre says,
Speaker 1: for you, Ben, you didn't hesitate to post an example
Speaker 1: of how not the park at the fs are compound
Speaker 1: and show us Gascon's car, but you're very vague about
Speaker 1: the current make of the Mallard will be a what
Speaker 1: gives Well, that is for security reasons, Pierre. As you know,
Speaker 1: we have a loyal group that follows the Mallard Militia.
Speaker 1: We also have a fringe, a fringe group of rogue
Speaker 1: actors that can get involved. All this is I keep
Speaker 1: the details of the malle Militia on the download, but
Speaker 1: I don't actually have the the Mallamobile, right I keep
Speaker 1: the Mallamobile secret, and I don't even have the Malletmobile
Speaker 1: right now. The wife got into a fender vendor in
Speaker 1: the Mallamobile. I had nothing to do with it, and
Speaker 1: it's been in the shop for the last several weeks.
Speaker 1: So I've been driving a rental, which is not all
Speaker 1: that great a car, but we've been doing and they
Speaker 1: claim because of COVID. Every everyone is blaming COVID on everything.
Speaker 1: There is a supply line issue, and it's going to
Speaker 1: take a full month at the very minimum to get
Speaker 1: the part I need for the or they need for
Speaker 1: the car to fix. There was some front end damage.
Speaker 1: There was a sign that had been on the road.
Speaker 1: My wife didn't see it hit it driving and so
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna take several more weeks to get that fixed.
Speaker 1: But I don't even have the mallamobile, so it's not important.
Speaker 1: I can tell you I'm driving a like a reddish
Speaker 1: brown rental. That's not that good. Derek, the chef from Auckland,
Speaker 1: New Zealand, rights and what if my friends in New Zealand,
Speaker 1: which I was longtime radio personality that gig ended came
Speaker 1: back entered again with Darcy. We had Darcy on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Derek in Auckland, New Zealand says, Hi, all, would you
Speaker 1: rather still be bathed by your mother or by your grandmother? Alright,
Speaker 1: guess I don't think that my grandmother's ever bathed me,
Speaker 1: so I don't know it was only the my MoMu.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you this happened to you when
Speaker 1: you were a kid, but my grandmother, she was clutch.
Speaker 1: When I got my tonsils removed. I remember for that
Speaker 1: entire week when I was a kid, she brought me
Speaker 1: over ice cream and smoothies and sherbird it was and
Speaker 1: she she was Mexican, So anytime I go to her place,
Speaker 1: it was always the tortillas with the butter on top,
Speaker 1: op over the flame, flip it over and put more
Speaker 1: on the other side. The Tamali's there, clutch and clutch, clutch.
Speaker 1: I can hear the smiling and your your voice, the
Speaker 1: pure joy as you go down memory lane reminiscing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my grandmother and my grandmother's though, were they were very
Speaker 1: They were nice, but they were kind of a cold,
Speaker 1: old country nice and my my both my grandparents, my grandmother,
Speaker 1: my dad's mom was from cheral Noble. She was porn
Speaker 1: in cher Noble and she moved around a lot because
Speaker 1: of the wars and whatnot, and had to move and
Speaker 1: eventually ended up in the United States. She kind of
Speaker 1: had an edge to her. My other grandmother was also
Speaker 1: from from Russia and the Motherland, which I guess is
Speaker 1: now the Ukraine where she was she was from, but
Speaker 1: she had a rough edge to her. She was like
Speaker 1: a traveling She had to travel around with gypsies, when
Speaker 1: she was a little girl, and awesome. One of her
Speaker 1: sisters was like Shot was an amazing family too. So
Speaker 1: they were they were you know, they were nice women,
Speaker 1: but they had an age to him, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. It wasn't like his overwhelming love and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. So but I do remember my grandmother from
Speaker 1: Chernobyl when we were little kids would go over to
Speaker 1: had a place in North Hollywood, and we go over
Speaker 1: there when we were kids, and they had a My
Speaker 1: grandfather liked the golf, so they had like a couple
Speaker 1: of golf holes in the backyard and golf club. So
Speaker 1: we'd go out and pretend we were on the PGA tour.
Speaker 1: And then she always had she said go up to
Speaker 1: the closet in the back. There was a little hidden
Speaker 1: door in the back of the closet, and she always
Speaker 1: had books that we could pick. We could take a book,
Speaker 1: which at the time I thought, well, you you're getting
Speaker 1: something good, but then you realize it's a book and
Speaker 1: you're not that excited about it. But but those are
Speaker 1: the things I remember about some of the things I
Speaker 1: remember my my grand grandparents, but our grandmother's grandmother's But anyway,
Speaker 1: so uh yeah, and they never never bade me. It's
Speaker 1: not when I was old enough to remember. So it's
Speaker 1: a weird question, isn't question from Derek? It is, But
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess that kind of goes back to
Speaker 1: your point of when we were born and when we died.
Speaker 1: We were born into We're born into uh diapers, and
Speaker 1: we we leave in diapers right from the womb to
Speaker 1: the tomb, right valls. Fan Jimmy right In from Fayetteville,
Speaker 1: Tennessee says for both, have you ever been on a
Speaker 1: date and your car breakdown? And I have to have it, Toad, No,
Speaker 1: that has never happened. The strangest thing that has happened
Speaker 1: to me on a date is I got pulled over
Speaker 1: because they thought I was drunk and I had to
Speaker 1: I just gone on the date and I had to
Speaker 1: do the walk the you know, the d U I
Speaker 1: walk on the side and one foot in front of
Speaker 1: the other and recite the alphabet and all that, and
Speaker 1: that was awkward. Yeah. I never had the car breakdown.
Speaker 1: You no, but uh in casey does listen, I know
Speaker 1: this will put a smile on my friend's face. Um,
Speaker 1: I lived with a couple of guys when I was
Speaker 1: in San Diego, and we got into this big, big,
Speaker 1: big ruckus at my ace and I drove one of
Speaker 1: my friends like into this wall and basically like broke
Speaker 1: the wall. The drywall was just decimated, looked like it
Speaker 1: looked like Schwarzenegger and Robert Patrick and terminator too. And
Speaker 1: so the landlord was actually coming by like in five days,
Speaker 1: so we had a double time it to patch everything up,
Speaker 1: make it all look nice and neat and brand new.
Speaker 1: So we got drywall plastered back together, painted the wall
Speaker 1: of the whole nine yards. Well, because the landlord was
Speaker 1: coming over, we wanted to hide the paint, and so
Speaker 1: my buddy Patrick and I were putting the gear back
Speaker 1: in the garage, but we put it in my car
Speaker 1: because we want to hide it somewhere. Well, Patrick did
Speaker 1: not put the lid on top of the paint and
Speaker 1: sealed it. He just put the lid on top. So
Speaker 1: that following night, I drove up to go meet a
Speaker 1: girl in Irvine for a date and I'm up the
Speaker 1: fire freeway at Carl's Bad I started smelling something. I
Speaker 1: thought like, what the funk is that? And sure shoult
Speaker 1: I pulled over. I was like, you know what, that's
Speaker 1: gotta be the paint pulled over in the back and
Speaker 1: my expedition, it was decorated in white paint all over
Speaker 1: the back, all over the fucking back. And I was
Speaker 1: so irate that I did nothing about it. I just
Speaker 1: let it sit and I was like, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: on this date. It'll be tragic, it'll be a bad
Speaker 1: date anyway, and then I'm gonna come home and like
Speaker 1: air somebody out. So, yeah, that was question in the
Speaker 1: back of the room. How much did it cost to
Speaker 1: fix five and you went to a detailer? Did you
Speaker 1: have to go somewhere special? Is there anything you had
Speaker 1: to do with to someone special to get done? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It was awful. So five bills five bucks because you
Speaker 1: didn't put the cap on the paint properly. Damn it.
Speaker 1: Terry and England rights and he says, have you listened
Speaker 1: to the Mallard Town podcast? If yes, what do you think?
Speaker 1: If no, why not? I have not had a chance
Speaker 1: to listen to the Mallard Town podcast, although I am curious.
Speaker 1: I heard Marcel was on there, and I can't imagine
Speaker 1: that was was not an amazing podcast. Guestcon does not
Speaker 1: want us to put any callers on the podcast. We
Speaker 1: have put a few on, much to the dismay of
Speaker 1: Guestcon who's had to cope with that. But no, Terry,
Speaker 1: send me a link of the Mallartown podcast. I've not
Speaker 1: been invited on. Am I not allowed on the Mallardtown podcast?
Speaker 1: A might not allowed to go on there? And wax poetic.
Speaker 1: I think it'd be a breach of contract, don't you think?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I don't think I'm allowed to. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm only allowed to be on this podcast and anybody
Speaker 1: that wants to hire me. I learned that lesson. It's
Speaker 1: in the contract, Guestcon. It's in the print of the contract.
Speaker 1: I'm only contract contractually obligated to be on this podcast. Now,
Speaker 1: I guess I am allowed to be a guest, but
Speaker 1: there are limits. There are limits on that. But I
Speaker 1: cannot be one of the name stars of another podcast
Speaker 1: not allowed to do it. So okay, um, I'm sure
Speaker 1: it's great and I've heard good things about it, and
Speaker 1: it's it's very popular the Mallard Town podcast. With the
Speaker 1: hardcore fans of the show, they're they're big supporters of it.
Speaker 1: They tell me, tell me stories that they heard on
Speaker 1: the podcast. The chef Scott from New Orleans right since says, guys,
Speaker 1: I am loving the content lately with so many cool hats.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you too wear them when you're out on
Speaker 1: a hot day. And the sweat salt ring starts around
Speaker 1: the rim and works its way up the sides for
Speaker 1: colored hats and no no racism. He says, how do
Speaker 1: you got like to wash your hats? And is there
Speaker 1: a way to keep them looking shiny new after washing
Speaker 1: out the sweat? Well, I mentioned this in the previous podcast, Scott,
Speaker 1: I hope you heard the Saturday podcast. But I have
Speaker 1: three tiers of hats. I have the everyday hat cover
Speaker 1: and sweat hat. Don't worry about it. I have that tier.
Speaker 1: I have the midlevel hat, which I like a lot hot,
Speaker 1: but I'm willing to get sweaty from time to time
Speaker 1: because I know I can wash it. And then I
Speaker 1: have the top tier, the one percent of hat that
Speaker 1: I only where when it's cool and I know I'm
Speaker 1: not going to be an environment where I'm going to
Speaker 1: sweat because these are the creme de la creme, the masterpiece,
Speaker 1: the theon of the hats. And so I have the
Speaker 1: three tiers. Now I have washed hats before I had.
Speaker 1: I bought this thing you can buy online. It's a
Speaker 1: it keeps the shape of the hat. You put it
Speaker 1: in the dishwasher. I usually put in the dishwasher, and yeah,
Speaker 1: it does do pretty well. Occasionally I've had some of
Speaker 1: the ink on the older hats bleed a little bit,
Speaker 1: but the newer hats, I've had no problem with it.
Speaker 1: And you just let it dry and you leave it
Speaker 1: in that thing for a day or so, and then
Speaker 1: the hat is as good as it can possibly be.
Speaker 1: There's also I've seen some guys get that lint roller.
Speaker 1: You can get a little lit roller and and use
Speaker 1: that because sometimes it will be little stuff even after
Speaker 1: you wash, it still on the hat, like a little
Speaker 1: leftover dribble, and you can get that off. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I have no problem washing yescan, you just announced on
Speaker 1: the previous podcast you do not believe in washing hats.
Speaker 1: I do not. I just don't. I I have kind
Speaker 1: of similar to you. I have a hat for working out.
Speaker 1: I have a hat for going out, and then I
Speaker 1: have one for just kind of mucking it up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so hat you can you can extend a glongate the
Speaker 1: life of the hat and these things are expensive. When
Speaker 1: I'm back in my day, hats I don't remember being
Speaker 1: all that expensive, but now it's it's insanity how how
Speaker 1: expensive these hats are. And I also, yeah, I just
Speaker 1: I don't want to keep having to replace hats I
Speaker 1: already have. That's the other thing I hate. Yeah, So alright,
Speaker 1: moving on, Joe and Darcy back in Florida. Joe and Darcy,
Speaker 1: how many of the states have you been to and
Speaker 1: other countries? Does connecting at an airport and staying on
Speaker 1: a terminal briefly count as being in a state in
Speaker 1: your opinion? Okay, I thought about this, So I think
Speaker 1: it counts if you eat something synonymous with that city
Speaker 1: or state. Now, I think it counts. And I'll tell
Speaker 1: you why. No matter what, because if that plane crashes
Speaker 1: at that airplane, they will say that you died at
Speaker 1: that airport. Right. If you go to go to walk
Speaker 1: through the terminal and have a heart attack, you've died
Speaker 1: in that state, in that city, right, So it does count.
Speaker 1: Not to be the grim Reaper here, it counts. And
Speaker 1: I don't know how many states I've been to a lot.
Speaker 1: I haven't been to every state, but I've been to
Speaker 1: quite a few, so you know, obviously the northeastern states.
Speaker 1: That's easy because you Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts sits
Speaker 1: in all those places, and New York, Pennsylvania, Jersey. You
Speaker 1: go down the list there, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Florida, Atlanta, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois.
Speaker 1: This is great. I feel like that Howard Dean, remember
Speaker 1: that Howard Dean rant political rant years ago. I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm doing this off the top of my I've been
Speaker 1: to not I get you. I bet you've been to
Speaker 1: more than me, guest, can I bet you've probably been
Speaker 1: more to me. I know you just said that I've
Speaker 1: been to probably twenty I'd say around twenty somewhere in
Speaker 1: that area. Anyway, Thank you, Thank you, Joe and Darcy.
Speaker 1: Glad you're back and forth. John in Northern Colorado says,
Speaker 1: have you ever cropped us to the grocery store aisle?
Speaker 1: Or do you suffer until the parting? I think this
Speaker 1: is the question we already asked, isn't I think last week?
Speaker 1: He John, we did it last week. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 1: John Barry in Music City says, Yo, Yo, Ma, Benny,
Speaker 1: you can only pick one for the rest of your life.
Speaker 1: Bagel or donut o man alto. I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: bagel because bagel you can do a variety of things
Speaker 1: with where a doughnut you can't. Bagel. You can add
Speaker 1: egg to it, you can add bacon to it, you
Speaker 1: can add cream cheese to it. You got buttered to it.
Speaker 1: You can toast it, and you can have it dry um.
Speaker 1: You can put maple syrup on it. You can put
Speaker 1: any toppings that you normally put on a donut on
Speaker 1: a bagel, but you can't do it the other way
Speaker 1: around to a donut. I would see. I'm supposed to
Speaker 1: say bagel because of my roots, but I love a
Speaker 1: good donut, and I love all shapes of donuts. The
Speaker 1: cinnamon twist donut is outstanding. Some call it cinnamon roll.
Speaker 1: But the long John you name it, those round donuts,
Speaker 1: the Homer Simpson donuts with the pink frosting. The donut
Speaker 1: holes are good donut hole. You can get apple donuts,
Speaker 1: fruit filled donuts with other fruit other than apples. So
Speaker 1: I'm going down. And the bagel thing, you gotta eat
Speaker 1: it like right away. If you eat a bagel fresh bagel,
Speaker 1: there's any there's nothing better than a fresh bagel, a doughnut.
Speaker 1: I feel like you can eat a doughnut whether it's
Speaker 1: fresh or it's been sitting around for a little bit,
Speaker 1: and it's still still pretty good. Uh, pretty good? Uh?
Speaker 1: Alex in Maine rights and he says, when you were
Speaker 1: first starting the Ben Maller Show, what other names for
Speaker 1: the show did you consider? Yeah, it's a great, great question. Actually,
Speaker 1: I guess I I was gonna go to the Ben
Speaker 1: Waller Show, the Bill Miller Show. But he means, like
Speaker 1: you know, I mean like, like, yeah, there's other shows,
Speaker 1: like you know, Robin Chris, the the Odd Couple, so
Speaker 1: you know, Jonas and LaVar and Brady or two two
Speaker 1: Pros and a Cup of Joe. So would you do
Speaker 1: anything different than having your name across the across the
Speaker 1: vanity title. No. And I'll tell you why. There's this
Speaker 1: guy named Biff Elliott who died many years ago. Biff
Speaker 1: was a buddy of mine. He worked at CBS Radio.
Speaker 1: His brother was Win Elliott, legendary New York City sportscaster,
Speaker 1: and they were both actors. And Biff pulled me aside
Speaker 1: when I was early in my radio career and I
Speaker 1: was doing the Benn and Dave Show with this guy,
Speaker 1: Dave Smith, and we were like, I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's a good name for the show. And he pulled
Speaker 1: me aside. I said, this guy's been a radio for years.
Speaker 1: We're back with radio. Was the glory days of radio,
Speaker 1: the heyday of radio. And he pulled me aside and
Speaker 1: he said, Ben, listen. He said, it doesn't matter what
Speaker 1: you name the show. If you do a good, professional show,
Speaker 1: and you do a show this entertaining, people are gonna listen.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter where you have a terrible name or
Speaker 1: a good name, and it works vice versa. He says,
Speaker 1: if you do a terrible show, but you have the
Speaker 1: greatest name for the show, it, with all due respect,
Speaker 1: no one's gonna listen. So who hears, don't worry about
Speaker 1: the name, just what you put your name on. A
Speaker 1: move on, And so I did, and I agree with
Speaker 1: I don't think the name matters at all. If you
Speaker 1: do a good show, people are gonna listen. If you
Speaker 1: do a shitty show, people aren't gonna listen. So just
Speaker 1: the Ben Mallisher, keep it simple. But I originally when
Speaker 1: I had the Overnight, we called it the Third Shift
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller. That was the old guard, the old management,
Speaker 1: that's what they called it. But since then we've had
Speaker 1: an epiphany. Put my name on it. Ozzy Momentum rights
Speaker 1: and says, Hey, mate, I want to know is a
Speaker 1: hot dog is sandwich? I reckon it is. So this
Speaker 1: is the the age old hot dog sandwich debate. Do
Speaker 1: we want to go engage in that again? I feel
Speaker 1: like we've done that before. We don't do that, sorry,
Speaker 1: Ozzy moment ba does he waste? How does he waste?
Speaker 1: An email like that? Wow? What the hell is wrong
Speaker 1: with you? Then he says, I think you should get
Speaker 1: JT the brick in on your Friday podcast making. I
Speaker 1: don't really know JT. I know, I know him casually,
Speaker 1: I really have no relationship. I mean, all the people
Speaker 1: that were here, he's at the very low end as
Speaker 1: far as people I had a relationship with. I had
Speaker 1: nothing against JT. But like the other guys we've had
Speaker 1: on Mike North, Andy Furman, guys like that, I just
Speaker 1: had more more of a connection with. So. I mean,
Speaker 1: JT does a podcast with Looney. I'm sure you can
Speaker 1: can hear that. But I don't really know him. I
Speaker 1: don't even I don't think I have JT's number, both
Speaker 1: of them. So I'm sorry Blake in Arkansas. Right, since
Speaker 1: this gentleman, another week of writing in and another hawk win. Dude,
Speaker 1: that guy is like it's been on fire as of late. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's been really good. He's hopefully by the time you
Speaker 1: read this, we beat Georgia this weekend. If we do
Speaker 1: talking about Arkansas. Uh, if we do, you guys very
Speaker 1: well may never get rid of me. Since I have
Speaker 1: been writing in the email, they have caught fire, caught fire,
Speaker 1: so I can't stop now, Blake says, which brings me
Speaker 1: to my question. Can you give an exam ample of
Speaker 1: a time that you did something dumb because you told
Speaker 1: yourself it was helping in one form or another. Even
Speaker 1: if you're not a superstitious person, everyone has an example
Speaker 1: of doing it here or there, all right, So it's
Speaker 1: kind of a vague generic question for Blake in Arkansas.
Speaker 1: So it's just an example of doing something dumb because
Speaker 1: you told yourself it was helping in one way, or
Speaker 1: it's like a superstitio. All right, So let me know
Speaker 1: if this counts. Back in my twenties, whenever I would
Speaker 1: go to Vegas, or I'd go to like Miami or
Speaker 1: New York to go party with a bunch of people.
Speaker 1: We were using, usually doing some bad things like whatever
Speaker 1: it was, it was bad. But before every time I
Speaker 1: left the hotel, I would take a shower and then
Speaker 1: say a prayer every time. Yeah, I'd say a prayer
Speaker 1: before I did anything stupid. So you were being proactive.
Speaker 1: You bought that by doing this, that there's nothing bad
Speaker 1: that could happen because you've covered yourself. It's like going
Speaker 1: to confessional before you actually yeah that, Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: that's a little odd. I'm trying to think off the
Speaker 1: top of my head here, Blake, and nothing's popping in
Speaker 1: my head. I'm sure I've done done things, but there's
Speaker 1: nothing that really is having I'm not having a Eureka moment.
Speaker 1: I have to think about that more. Blake, thanks for
Speaker 1: the hats, he says, what Pig Suey and Blake, did
Speaker 1: you hear the radio show we talked about Blake. I
Speaker 1: think I don't think it was on the podcast, but
Speaker 1: Blake called into the radio show and he he has
Speaker 1: a side hustle, which is his new business. He claims
Speaker 1: he has a license to print print money buys anytime
Speaker 1: you purchase stuff on Amazon and return it, Amazon is
Speaker 1: not allowed to resell that, so they sell it in
Speaker 1: a in like a box truck. You can buy a
Speaker 1: box truck of return to Amazon items. And what Blake does.
Speaker 1: He says, he's got a warehouse in Arkansas and he
Speaker 1: buys these trucks from Amazon that have all this stuff
Speaker 1: that people return that they didn't want anymore, and he
Speaker 1: sells it for like five dollars and three dollars per
Speaker 1: item and makes a killing. He says, it's like a
Speaker 1: license to print money. How crazy is that? What great gig?
Speaker 1: That is solid? How can we get in on that?
Speaker 1: It's easy, right because a lot of times people will
Speaker 1: return stuff to Amazon and it's perfectly fine. They just
Speaker 1: didn't need it. Sometimes they didn't even open it. And
Speaker 1: you can sell that stuff for five bucks, maybe ten bucks,
Speaker 1: something like that and cover your cost and make a killing.
Speaker 1: I gotta investigate that, Blake. Send me some more details, Blake.
Speaker 1: I want to get in on that. That could be
Speaker 1: my future once this radio thing doesn't work out. Carlos
Speaker 1: in Houston writes and says, due to my change in schedule,
Speaker 1: that's bang Bang, Houston. I'm officially a consumer of the
Speaker 1: fourth hour of your radio program, So I might have
Speaker 1: to build up courage to call in or maybe get
Speaker 1: back on Twitter to interact. And don't worry, he says,
Speaker 1: I'll still be downloading the podcast to listen to the
Speaker 1: first three hours. Well, thank you anyways. Is that? What
Speaker 1: is the origin? What is the origin story of the
Speaker 1: Instant Advice Line. It is one of my favorite segments
Speaker 1: of the week. Well, that is an iconic piece of
Speaker 1: radio real estate. That is a namage or tribute to
Speaker 1: other radio shows, and it's it's one of the older
Speaker 1: bits in calling radio. Well, you just take as many
Speaker 1: calls as you can and you have a question and
Speaker 1: you just go through it. People have had different names
Speaker 1: for it over the years. It's not my idea, it's
Speaker 1: not my invention. It's something that I enjoyed when I
Speaker 1: listened to talk radio, and I had said, if I
Speaker 1: ever get a show some day, I'd like to incorporate that.
Speaker 1: Great minds think alike. Many broadcasters have done it, and
Speaker 1: so that is what the Instant Advice Line is. And
Speaker 1: it's just a a bit to have fun and goof around.
Speaker 1: And the funny thing is. I spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time thinking like who should we give advice to this week?
Speaker 1: And then it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because it's
Speaker 1: the same ten people that call up screaming and shouting
Speaker 1: and just telling jokes. That's how that normally goes, all right,
Speaker 1: Next up, Next up, we have This is from Radar
Speaker 1: blind Rage. Writing in says, just got done listening to
Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour today and one of your callers, Eric
Speaker 1: and Omaha, was asking about a good source for documentaries.
Speaker 1: I have been subscribing to a service, he says, called
Speaker 1: Curiosity Stream. If you heard of that, Uh, it is
Speaker 1: loaded with documentaries and constantly getting new stuff. It's only
Speaker 1: twenty dollars a year. You can't beat that. You might
Speaker 1: want to check it out yourself. I'll investigate Radar blind Rage.
Speaker 1: He says. On another note, I find it amusing that
Speaker 1: blind people grab a take towards your podcast. I don't
Speaker 1: know why that is. What are you saying? Rader blind
Speaker 1: Rage says, I might be your ol G blind listen,
Speaker 1: your old gangster blind listener, long live the mighty six
Speaker 1: ninety you might you guys keep up the good work.
Speaker 1: Well well, Rader blind Rage, You're showing your age, pal,
Speaker 1: if you go back to the mighty six ninety days
Speaker 1: in sun diego back in the day, and I occasionally
Speaker 1: work in the term mighty in the beginning of the
Speaker 1: show the top of the hour open as in homage
Speaker 1: to Lee Hacksar Hamilton's in the mighty six ninety in
Speaker 1: Sunday Ago the Mighty Powerful Airwaves of Fox Sports Radio,
Speaker 1: Kevin in Rockford writes, and he says, as far as
Speaker 1: the blind thing, blind rage, I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I love the blind listen. I love. We've always had
Speaker 1: a lot of celebrity blind callers, whether it's blind Scott,
Speaker 1: Blind Scott, blind Sea Bass. We had Vision for a while. Well,
Speaker 1: we had blind Willie in in Florida that worked at
Speaker 1: the Outback Steak. Because we've always had a lot of
Speaker 1: blind list of blind Emmet of course, famous caller in
Speaker 1: the Pacific Northwest High School Kid. So we the blind.
Speaker 1: I credit the blind listeners that call in that encourage
Speaker 1: other blind people to listen to the show. It's really
Speaker 1: the blind leading the blind. It is in the fighting spirit.
Speaker 1: In the fighting spirit, Kevin and Rockford, Illinois says, I
Speaker 1: missed about a month of the show traveling the US,
Speaker 1: climbing mountains and living it up. But I've been back
Speaker 1: to the real life for a few weeks now, and
Speaker 1: apparently you kicked weed Man off the show. What happened there? Also?
Speaker 1: What happened to the drug dealing funeral director from Minnesota?
Speaker 1: That guy was was around the show, all right, So
Speaker 1: let me answer those questions and then I'll get to
Speaker 1: your final point here. So weed Man actually kicked himself
Speaker 1: off the show. He had been panhandling, begging listeners for money.
Speaker 1: We finally got fed up with it. We said, don't
Speaker 1: do that, and then he wanted us to pay him
Speaker 1: to be on the show. He demanded compensation, as I remember,
Speaker 1: and so we we said that's it, and we didn't
Speaker 1: officially banned him. He really banned himself from sticking up
Speaker 1: the airways. We told him to stop begging for money
Speaker 1: and that that was offensive to him, and he just
Speaker 1: didn't do it. And as far as Hayes in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: the guy you're referencing here, the alleged funeral director who
Speaker 1: also did drugs, we think that guy was a fraud.
Speaker 1: He just disappeared and vanished in the thin air. But
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened to him. These people call
Speaker 1: for a while. A lot of people call for a
Speaker 1: short amount of time and then that's it. Very few
Speaker 1: people have staying power and last year after year after
Speaker 1: year after year. Most call for a month or two
Speaker 1: months or three months, and maybe even a year and
Speaker 1: then move on to some other venture. But that's the
Speaker 1: answer to your question. He also says, one last thing,
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see my Cardinals put a spanking
Speaker 1: on your Dodgers in the wild card game. Well, be
Speaker 1: careful what you asked for, Kevin. You know what happens
Speaker 1: when you assume it doesn't go well, does not go well.
Speaker 1: R J Insane Antonio right in the Alamo. He's actually
Speaker 1: somewhere else, but he's from San Antonio. He says, who
Speaker 1: were your radio broadcasting heroes growing up that you never
Speaker 1: got to talk or interview with as you got into
Speaker 1: the business. Well, I never got to meet Jim Healy,
Speaker 1: who is the biggest one based influence, Jim Healey, the
Speaker 1: radio show he did in l A. I never had
Speaker 1: the opportunity to be in the same room with him.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think who else. Most of the other
Speaker 1: ones I had some kind of faint interaction with I
Speaker 1: met Art Bell at a Premier Networks holiday party, which
Speaker 1: was pretty cool. Hacks Aw I did some shows as
Speaker 1: an intern for Hacksaw. We've had him on the podcast.
Speaker 1: He became a friend. Joe McDonald, like great Joe McDonald,
Speaker 1: l a radio legend, passed away several years ago. I
Speaker 1: became friends with him. We worked at the same station together. Uh.
Speaker 1: And so Jim Healy is the big one. But like
Speaker 1: Howard Stern. I I was at a Howard Stern books
Speaker 1: signing when I was in high school, and I count
Speaker 1: that as a meeting. I mentioned Art Bell. Uh so, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've met most of the ones I wanted to meet.
Speaker 1: Have you met any Have you not met any of
Speaker 1: the people you wanted to meet in radio? Um? I
Speaker 1: didn't meet Jim. I did meet Jim Rome at a
Speaker 1: Big West Conference game because he went to U see
Speaker 1: Santa Barbara got a chance to meet with him. I
Speaker 1: remember back in the day when he actually called my
Speaker 1: house looking for my dad during the whole O J
Speaker 1: Simpson stuff. Oh that's cool, it kind of random. I
Speaker 1: met Jim at the Why. He was at six ninety
Speaker 1: when I was there, But I didn't really know him,
Speaker 1: and then I met him at a holiday party and
Speaker 1: I was flattered because Jim was a fan of my
Speaker 1: website and regaled me with stories about how he when
Speaker 1: he was preparing for the Going to the Jungle Ben
Speaker 1: math dot com, my website was something that he looked
Speaker 1: at every day to find content for. So that's great.
Speaker 1: I need him. I need him, and I know he's
Speaker 1: not a big radio guy, but I would love to
Speaker 1: meet Jim Lampley. Oh, I've met lamp I did a
Speaker 1: show with Lampley. We can get Lampley on the podcast.
Speaker 1: We should get him on the podcast. We tried to
Speaker 1: last year, but he was in the middle of signing
Speaker 1: a deal with the with the production company. I think
Speaker 1: it was boxing. I think that's what it was, but
Speaker 1: he just, uh, you should revisit that. Yeah, we should.
Speaker 1: He's teaching right now on the East Coast, I think too.
Speaker 1: Is he in North Carolina? Oh yeah, North Carolina's right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when we went to school. Is that what he's doing.
Speaker 1: I wonder what Lampley was up to. Yeah, good guy Lampley.
Speaker 1: I loved it. I did the show with him, and
Speaker 1: about ten minutes before the show, he's like, Ben just
Speaker 1: talk about whatever you want. I'll just I'll play it
Speaker 1: off you. Jim, you're you know you getting paid a
Speaker 1: little more than me here, Jim, I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on here, but anyway, a guy and we should
Speaker 1: we should definite get him on touch of mold school boxing.
Speaker 1: Some of the crazy things he saw on the boxing game.
Speaker 1: And he's his name names. He's not really doing much
Speaker 1: these days, right. I don't think he's at Real Sports anymore.
Speaker 1: He wasn't there for a long Yeah, yeah, I know, yeah, alright, uh,
Speaker 1: moving on, moving on, Mr Lucy, I know from La
Speaker 1: La Land says, how are you guys doing right now? Well,
Speaker 1: thank you Mr Luciana for asking. Is there anything you
Speaker 1: guys want to achieve before the year ends? Yeah, I'd
Speaker 1: like to get the house done. House i'm living in done.
Speaker 1: That would be a big thing. That's about it. Anything
Speaker 1: else has gone. We're getting towards you need to. I
Speaker 1: need to get my weight to a desired total. You're
Speaker 1: big fatty now, not not a big fatty. Just I'd
Speaker 1: like to get my way to two bills. I'd like
Speaker 1: to do that. Um. I'd like to get my treadmill
Speaker 1: back so I can actually use it. That would be nice.
Speaker 1: It's been in storage for several months. That would be good.
Speaker 1: How about you just go outside and work out? How
Speaker 1: about that up stairs? Let let me explain something dummy.
Speaker 1: The problem When I work out, I like to work
Speaker 1: out like three thirty in the morning. Yeah, okay, that's
Speaker 1: what I like to work out, wind down after show.
Speaker 1: Kind of contemplate my existence on the treadmill. I can't
Speaker 1: go for a walk at three thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1: I will be pulled over and detained for proudly if
Speaker 1: I go walking around where I live now at three
Speaker 1: in the morning. Can't not true. You know how any
Speaker 1: old people are walking at that time? None. They don't
Speaker 1: walk at three through in the the earliest thing. Get
Speaker 1: up at like five in the morning. I might be
Speaker 1: able to get away with four thirty in the morning,
Speaker 1: but not three or three thirty in the morning. Can't
Speaker 1: get away with it. I cannot do it. Can't. So
Speaker 1: I'd like to get the treadmill. You were in the
Speaker 1: middle of something though, You were talking about other things
Speaker 1: you want to accomplish other than your weight. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: still doing some international hockey. I'd like to, uh, parley
Speaker 1: that into something else that bigger here state side. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like a hockey NHL job. I played by played job
Speaker 1: and it would be nice. Yeah, trying to gear towards
Speaker 1: some some college basketball here in the next couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: so we'll see fingers crossed, fingers crossed. Okay, Fred in
Speaker 1: Spring Texas says, high guys, did college helped prepare you
Speaker 1: for your current position? Funck? Now? Yeah, Well, the only
Speaker 1: thing I will say is that I worked at the
Speaker 1: college radio stations. I learned the basics of radio, but
Speaker 1: I didn't really learn how to do radio until I
Speaker 1: did radio. Like I interned in San Diego and I
Speaker 1: worked at the college station. But it wasn't until I
Speaker 1: rolled up my sleeves and started doing this day after day,
Speaker 1: week after week, month after month, year after year, that
Speaker 1: I had a grasp of it. So and as far
Speaker 1: as the other stuff, it was, it was fun. I
Speaker 1: had a good experience. You know, I didn't go to
Speaker 1: school all that long. I want to saddle back at
Speaker 1: a job in radio. That's why I was. My goal
Speaker 1: was to get a job in radio. And before I
Speaker 1: had even gotten out of saddle back, they said, hey,
Speaker 1: we want to hire you as a guy at our station.
Speaker 1: So I took it and I never looked back. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say not much would be the way I
Speaker 1: would answer, other than the college radio experience was fun.
Speaker 1: But as far as the other stuff, I mean, to me,
Speaker 1: the main thing about college I always tell people this,
Speaker 1: like it's more about networking than anything, because I've seen
Speaker 1: so many people, like in our business, if you go
Speaker 1: to Syracuse, you're a made man or a woman in radio,
Speaker 1: in sports television, there's a whole network. It's funny. We
Speaker 1: had Dick Stockton on who was one of the originals.
Speaker 1: It was Dick Stockton Marv Albert, Right, weren't those two
Speaker 1: I believe that went to Syracuse. I think that right
Speaker 1: and kind of set the foundation. And now after that
Speaker 1: it's I think Bob Costas also, but it's it's it's
Speaker 1: all an eagle, i'n eagle, Mike to Rico. There's a
Speaker 1: whole network of Syracuse, and it's the alumni helping the
Speaker 1: alumni get great broadcasting gigs. A lot of the executives
Speaker 1: in sports media went to Syracuse. It's the Hardvard of
Speaker 1: sports broadcasting. So if you go to a school like that,
Speaker 1: then you can use those connections it's i'll scratch your back,
Speaker 1: you scratch my back, and that obviously does help. I
Speaker 1: think that's the biggest thing from college is network. And
Speaker 1: it's like if you go to Harvard. You know. It's
Speaker 1: one one of my theories on the IVY League. The
Speaker 1: hardest part of the IVY League is getting in the
Speaker 1: IVY League. But once you get in, they don't want
Speaker 1: to fail people because that makes them look bad as
Speaker 1: a school. But then you get the benefits of the network,
Speaker 1: the IVY League network at the and so you're you're
Speaker 1: really like a pig and slop once you get in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's same thing like going to USC or Northwestern Stanford. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you really have to screw up. Some of the biggest
Speaker 1: dropouts have gone on to create things like Facebook and
Speaker 1: and uh Amazon and places like that because you had
Speaker 1: dropped out of school anyway. Uh, we only have time
Speaker 1: for a few more. Uh let's see here, page down,
Speaker 1: page down. Can't read that on the air, Jason Rocky
Speaker 1: Mount Virginia, the guys. In the age of streaming, I
Speaker 1: realized DVDs aren't used much anymore, but I still have one.
Speaker 1: And he's talking about DVD players and I have around
Speaker 1: fifty DVDs that I still use occasionally. Do either of
Speaker 1: you still have one or more DVDs? I do have
Speaker 1: some DVDs. I can't remember the last time we watched them.
Speaker 1: We have a DVD player. Yeah, I can't remember the
Speaker 1: last time we we popped in a DVD. Everything is
Speaker 1: stream and everything is whether it's Netflix, Amazon, Prime, any Disney.
Speaker 1: My wife rotates. She watches a lot more TV than
Speaker 1: I watched, but she rotates all that stuff. What about you, guess? Guy?
Speaker 1: I do? I do. I'm in fact I want to
Speaker 1: convert a couple of them over to uh. I want
Speaker 1: to convert a couple of them over to like an
Speaker 1: MP four and UM and put them online. So I
Speaker 1: know there's a couple of places like in Torrance and
Speaker 1: else are gonna know that do it. But I don't
Speaker 1: know what the cost of it is. But I need
Speaker 1: to do that. Yeah, actually, yeah, I might do that
Speaker 1: for the holiday season. Well, it could be a nice
Speaker 1: thing for the holidays to give yourself a gift, all right,
Speaker 1: a little button. I do want to thank Kevin and
Speaker 1: Kansas are buddy. Who's the high school teacher? We didn't
Speaker 1: get a chance to get to your question Kevin Mike
Speaker 1: from south Here Overmont. That sounds like a cool town,
Speaker 1: south Here Overmont. Is that a real place, you think?
Speaker 1: Yesake that up and I've never heard of that before.
Speaker 1: That sounds pretty neat. Uh. Thank Big Mike, not the
Speaker 1: Big Mike that works at Fox Sports Radio. Johnny in
Speaker 1: San Antonio, who's a big Clipper fan. Thank you, Johnny.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. And Paul and Great Falls, Montana Lugo,
Speaker 1: our guy Lugo, and Lancaster. We thank you for sending
Speaker 1: your questions and we ran out of time and you
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Speaker 1: I have a great rest your Sunday, enjoy the NFL.
Speaker 1: Or if you're listening to this after the NFL, I
Speaker 1: hope you enjoyed the NFL and that amazing game on
Speaker 1: a Sunday night, Patriots and Bucks. It's such a cool game.
Speaker 1: I could have gone to the RAM game today, but
Speaker 1: I chose to stay home because I didn't want to
Speaker 1: miss a second of Belichick Brady the first time head
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