WEBVTT - A Box of Fun 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:05.680 If you thought more hours a day, minutes a week 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:09.200 was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.880 the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:15.760 crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:20.160 pill poppers in the penthouse to clearing house of hot takes, 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:24.360 break free for something special. Fifth Hour with Ben Maller 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:32.800 starts right now in the air everywhere as we bloviate 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:38.000 and filipbuster. Your podcast needs your audio content needs now 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:42.160 eight days a week, a spinoff of the Overnight Show. 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:46.440 And here we are together again on a Sunday, the 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:50.440 Sunday Podcast, which has done very well, very well, despite 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:53.720 the fact we don't really promote it and I generally 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:56.760 forget to send out even tweets on on Sunday promoting 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:59.160 people to download or post it on the Facebook pitch 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:01.920 to download the pot Kiss, But the numbers have been 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:03.760 very good for this. We thank you for that. And 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:08.679 you put up with the nonsense, the David Gascon bullcrap 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:10.320 that you have to put up with every week, so 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.399 we do appreciate that. From West to the four oh five, 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.560 who's here? Uh? And we we have the mailbag. These 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.440 are actual questions by actual listeners, and we do this 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:23.480 rapid fire machine gun Mallar style where we're gonna go 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:25.399 through the questions as quickly as we can. If you 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.800 want to submit a question for a future edition of 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:33.680 the mail bag, Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday is the day hump Day. 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.600 Normally in the morning. Sometimes I forget, but normally in 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:39.360 the morning. On the Facebook page, which you should be 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:44.679 uh following, liking whatever Ben Maller show on Facebook, I'll 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:46.840 send a link out. I'll say, hey, listen, I'll send 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:51.000 a post post your question here, or you can send 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:55.240 your question via email Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:58.800 That's Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. So there's 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.480 a couple of way is a couple of ways that 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.480 you can interact to be part of the mail back 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:10.160 and that we do. We do appreciate it. So all right, uh, 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.280 let's get right into it here. These are again actual 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:17.120 questions by actual listeners. Tres in Texas Rights and he says, 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:21.280 have you considered a website for the show complete with 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:26.240 merchandise like T shirt stickers, downloads of the shows songs, 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:30.120 et cetera. It could have archives of the greatest hits 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:33.440 and misses. And you could dabble again in the gossip 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:37.800 stuff without full time pressure. Maybe a chat form for 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:42.119 militia to go at it from time to time. There 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.919 you go. Uh. He says, you are a big enough 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:49.080 commodity and the time waster wouldn't be appreciated by shift 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:53.239 workers truckers at truck stops when not with lot lizards 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:58.320 and insomniacs. Tres says Tress, this is not a terrible idea. 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:02.880 And I have played around with the concept of doing 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.120 something back on. It was starting a website. I don't 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:08.040 have Ben Mallard dot com anymore, but starting starting a 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:11.519 website and doing something with the show. But the merchandise 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.919 thing I have dabbled in that. I had a listener 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:18.079 that made some T shirts and wanted to sell them, 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:21.839 and I helped out. I know people always complain. In fact, 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.840 I still have some old T shirts. I was going 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:28.360 through some stuff with all that happened this year with 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.360 me personally, and I went through some old T shirts 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.639 and I might attempt to put those on the market 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:35.520 and sell some of those. But I would be willing 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.560 to make stuff if there was a an interest in it, 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:41.680 like if somebody wanted a Mallard militia had or a 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.880 T shirt would actually be into it. Yeah, but there's 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:49.000 like that sweet spot with pricing where if it's too 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.520 high people complain. If it's too low, it's like, well 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.160 it's not good quality. So I tried to make good 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.520 quality stuff and then people were very upset and they 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.640 were complaining and saying, I can't believe how expensive this is, 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:01.360 and I like, well, it's not that expensive. The shirt 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:07.080 will last forever anyway. All right. Brian in north Bridge, 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:11.080 Massachusetts rights and he says, how is Gascon still employed? 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:13.240 It's a great question. I don't know. I don't even 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.520 know if he's on this podcast. He's been very quiet 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:19.000 so far. I think you'd have to contact the management 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.279 at Fox Sports Radio to figure that out. I was 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.080 just waiting for a proper introduction. Has been well, I 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:26.560 said your name? What I mean? What more needs to 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.839 be said? I don't know, chump in. How about again, 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:33.440 this is another example why you're bad. Here's the reactive 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:38.360 and the proactive. Be proactive? How about that proactive? Waiting 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.880 me properly introduced? What do you need me to give 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.360 you a BackRub? Would be dice? What do you want 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.560 the Deshaun Watson treatment. I'm sorry it's haunting here with 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:51.800 this toe. Jeez, nothing wrong with that. Just so, how 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.279 are you employed guests? And explained to Brian because he 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.600 can't figure it out. Many of us can't figure it out. 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:02.559 How is someone like you imput you clearly lead management astray? Yes, yes, yes, 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:05.440 I was. I was actually brought in by your former boss, 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:10.200 Bruce Gilbert Um. Bruce did not every higher. It was 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.360 great by Bruce, and he made some mistakes. Everyone not 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:15.520 everyone was great, but not everyone was bad. Um came 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.480 from San Diego, worked my way up and obviously you're 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.080 at the national levels opposed to in little old San Diego. 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:25.320 So go from market seventeen to market number two. I 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.320 would consider that a considerable mark up. Well, it's actually 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:31.120 the number one radio market. There's a myth that New 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:33.920 York is number one, but it's actually Los Angeles. More 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.640 people listen to the radio in Los Angeles to New York, 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:38.920 and want to be precise, that would be the number 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:42.640 one audio publisher in the entire world. I heart media, 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:44.640 So if you want to try to one up me, 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:46.680 that is the one up. But I still I'm old, 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.440 so I still use the term radio. I know the 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.080 industry is trying to digital world. Have brought you into 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:53.880 the digital The industry is trying to get rid of 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:57.280 the word radio. You've heard, you know, audio instead of radio, 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.919 and I'm like radio the die just did that last 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.960 last week. The Los Angeles Dodgers Audio Network. Yeah, they 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:10.000 no longer have radio. It's audio. No longer radio audio. 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:13.640 That's uh, you know, teach their own. It's not my 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.240 my thing. I don't know, but somebody clearly thought that 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:22.800 was a good idea anyway. Pierre from Springfield, Massachusetts rights 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:24.920 in home of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame where 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:28.320 you can see Muffett McGraw in the Pro Basketball Hall 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:32.040 of Fame. So he writes in Ben, have you ever 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:35.320 had second thoughts about signing a contract? I've listened to 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.080 you for your entire ride at Fox Sports Radio, but 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:42.160 lately I fear for your health. In the past, Gagon 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:46.320 put the hex on your gallbladder, and more recently, I 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:50.159 feel like you're one shift away from throwing your back 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:54.520 out carrying the dead weight that is fill in producers 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.960 and update guys. I think that you may need to 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:01.839 start self medicating prior to the show to prevent a 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.680 heart attack while dealing with some of these buffoons. This 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:09.640 guy writes you every week with sausage in his mouth. 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:14.880 It's just like Ben Mallar Salami every day, all day tweeting, 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:17.800 telling you just the way I look at this. There 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:22.280 were no lies detect unbelievable. There were no lies detectable. 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.320 I mean, first of all, people move up and they 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:26.800 move on. You really outcast a lot of people. You 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.280 don't appreciate their work until they go on to uh 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:32.720 do it? Who have I not appreciated Bob Gara. I 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:37.960 appreciated Bob. He couldn't handle the overnight. It wasn't for him, 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:39.960 just like you. You couldn't handle the over. I don't 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:43.400 want to work eight nine hours overnight when h you 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.080 know there's nothing in the news world going again, you 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:51.000 do not You're not relatable. Understand you're not. Some people 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:53.520 have the the IT factor and other people don't. You 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:55.640 don't have the IT factor. You know, working you don't 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:59.360 understand in syndicated radio, you want to be the overnight guy. 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:03.280 I'm we're on more affiliates than the daytime. That's as 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.600 a host, not as an update anchor. Now, But if 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:07.160 you work on a show, you want to be on 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.720 a show that's actually hurt. We have more radio affiliates 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.280 than anyone because of the time that we're on. I 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.560 guess it's not because we're great, but it's the time 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:16.360 that we're on. So if you're doing syndicate, if you're 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.080 doing a daytime show, you want to be on the 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.240 morning or the afternoon. But if you're in syndicated radio, 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.320 you want to be on at night or overnight because 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:26.840 that's where the that's where the listenership, the potential listenership 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.160 is through the roof because you're on more radio station. Yeah, 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:32.280 but if I'm gonna be an anchor, why would I 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.840 want to be an overnight anchor when I could just 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:38.240 repeat and replay updates like some of the other guys 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.360 you work with. Well listen, I mean, there there is 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.800 that approach, man. I've never understood that. I've I've questioned 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.120 why certain people just repeat the same update over and 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.160 over again. It doesn't make sense to me. I I 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.320 think there's a craft. And when I started, there was 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:54.000 a guide book that was handed out in the early 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:57.160 days of Fox Sports Radio called rewriting your updates and 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:01.720 adding new material and it. It's fascinating because there's so 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.760 much stuff that goes on overnight that drops while we're 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.120 on the show, and uh, a lot of times that stuff, 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.880 you know, it's just repeating the same, the same scores 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.160 over and over. You're not really doing the legwork to 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:16.560 try to go out and find the stories that they're there. 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.319 But listen, a lot of a lot of the people 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.199 do that throughout the day too. There's just to give 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.240 the same scores and they don't put put any kind 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:27.280 of gumption into finding what's going on out. Thankfully, I'm 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.559 not one of those people. What I hear, you hear wrong? 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:36.839 Guilt by association, game, guilt by association. Pierre says, did 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:42.000 you mention something about feeding a content kitty? Yes, that's 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:45.720 what I put on Facebook Pier the content kitty, Dan 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.240 and Durham writes, and he says, I had someone steal 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:51.360 my don't tread on me flag and pull It's okay, 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:56.560 though I'm feeling unified. On another note, do you guys 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:04.120 know how much about low voltage elect trick devices? Well, 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:06.120 first of all, I wonder if you caught that person 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.840 on camera, that'd be a good question to ask. Well, 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.000 he's not here. I can't ask him the question, I know, 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.920 but he's gonna email you next week. So Dan, let 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:16.720 us know if you caught that person or if you 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:21.760 saw them on camera. Still your your material, alright? Next one, 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.559 Patricia's is the mail back. Patricia writes in from Vegas, 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.920 originally from Rhode Island. Yeah, she She's moved all the 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:30.320 way across the country, but still a Mallard Militia card 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:34.640 carrying Mallew Militia. Remember, Patricia says, why do I hear 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:39.559 some parts of this show is prerecorded? When I listened 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.200 to a couple of other shows, I can tell the 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:46.720 last hours just a repeat of an earlier hour. Well, Patricia, 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:48.400 that you don't want to know how they make the 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:52.439 hot dogs? Patricia, all right, I don't get that either, 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:56.040 but they don't ask me. Uh, stay in your lane. 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:57.960 But I believe radio should be live. A lot of 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.240 these shows are actually taped, you know, every where in 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:03.280 the industry. Now it's a I don't get it, but 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.880 we do a live show I have done in the past. 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:09.040 I used to do a five hour show on the weekend, 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:11.920 and they wanted a six hour show. So what they 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.520 did with they would take one of the hours and 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.520 replay it in the sixth hour. So I would do 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:21.800 five live, unique hours, and then the sixth hour would 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:23.840 be a repeat. But yeah, I mean there's some guys 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:25.439 that do three hour shows and the whole thing is 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.880 on tape. I don't I don't get it, but you know, 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:31.320 to each their own. I guess it's interesting you picked 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.560 it up at your six I bet most listeners don't 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:37.160 even figure. They can't figure that out. But usually the 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:39.240 tell is if you're a call in show and you 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.680 no longer take calls, it's because you've been recorded. That's 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:49.960 usually the one of the dead giveaway, Dad giveaway. Anyway, Well, 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:53.040 I remember Rick D's the radio legend. He used to 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.199 record the beginning of his morning show in l A 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.240 Kiss FM one h two point seven Kiss F s 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:04.240 f M. Yeah, and he approached me in the hallway 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:06.120 and he give me some sage advice. Now, I don't 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.439 do this because I don't record the show. It's all live. 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:11.480 I figured, you know what, that's the whole point of 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.040 doing a show overnight. You're you gotta be there and 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.920 talking to people that are working odd jobs and whatnot. Anyway, uh, 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:21.559 Jee's told me to listen, you're gonna tape something. Leave 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.520 the mistakes in, he said, because the people that listen, 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:27.880 don't they hear a mistake, they think, well, it can't 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:29.960 be on tape, because you know, why would you use 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.839 it was taped, It would clean up the mistake. Pretty 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.040 good advice. It's pretty good advice. He gave me my 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.400 largest tip. When I worked in the restaurant industry. I 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:43.240 worked for Petro's papadick as his dad at his Greek 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:48.720 restaurant in San Pedro papadickas Taverna and USC's football team, 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.400 the Marching Band, And that same night Rick D's came 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:53.600 in and I waited on him and gave me a 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.600 hundred dollar tip. I'll never forget it. I told you 0:12:56.679 --> 0:13:00.360 get out of radio. Don't I'm ever going yet out 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:05.360 of radio? Uh vahed in New Orleans. Right. So, he says, 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.200 if you were a famous athlete, this is for both 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:13.559 of you, what most likely would have brought you down? 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:18.920 Would it be drugs? Alcohol? Uh? He says, ladies, social 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:24.560 media or blank man. That's tough. Well, you would be alcohol, 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.200 drugs and ladies. It would be like all three. They'd 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:33.400 be like trifecta. There little Dennis Rodman action, the Worm. Yeah, 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.040 I don't. I don't know that any of those would 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.200 take me down. Per se. I don't really do the drugs, 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:44.000 the alcohol moderation. I'm married. If I was single, I 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.920 could be the ladies, but I'm not not a single 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:52.280 guy now, so yeah, I don't know. Maybe social media 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:56.080 take me down. Yeah, I think maybe alcohol for me, 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.760 just the parting, going out and then thinking you can 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:02.480 re cover. You know, the recovery from a hangover is 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:04.720 a lot easier in your twenties than in your thirties. 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.760 And uh, you go in Vegas and that's part of 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.040 being a professional ball player though. You gotta have the 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:16.640 ability to compartmentalize. You play your sport. But then after 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.560 you know, it's it's like having a mullet. It's uh, 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:23.320 you know, it's business in the front, party in the back. 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:29.840 Thank you, sage advice by me, Thank you, he also says. 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:33.240 But he says all bars in New Orleans were closed 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:42.200 from Thursday, uh to says February eleven to ash Wednesday, 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:47.640 So says no, Marty gras R. Sorry. Be sure to 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.480 catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.560 two am eastern eleven pm Pacific. Be sure to catch 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.200 live editions of the Ben Maller Show weekdays at two 0:14:56.240 --> 0:15:00.160 am eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:04.200 the I Heart Radio al Al Ohio. Al rights, and 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:07.360 he says, Ben, why do you always say any meani 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.960 mighty mo pick a caller by the name instead of 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:15.360 by the toe like the old saying actually goes well, 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:17.960 a couple of reasons for that, Al, he says, But 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:21.960 he said, you're afraid of offending flexus, the six toe 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:24.960 drag queen. No, I'm not afraid of offending Flexus the 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.600 six toe drag queen at all. I don't don't worry 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.400 about that at all. When I'm doing that. That is 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.640 actually I'll let you in on a little inside radio here, Ohio, 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.920 al and only for you. When I say any meany 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:41.680 miny mo pick a caller by the name. That is 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:45.720 a time fill because my callboard is not reset and 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.920 that is a cue to cooper loop to wake up 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.920 and actually send the calls over. So that's a time kill. 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.360 And I say any meanimnum will pick a caller by 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:59.640 their name, because I have a list of names in 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:04.080 front of me, not a list of toes anyway, Uh, 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.720 let's see here. And ohio All also says, what the 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:11.640 fund does Marcel mean when he says mixed match in 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:15.040 food picks? This makes no sense to me. The Marcel 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:18.600 calls are getting very stale. By the way, ohio All says, 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:20.560 I think he is hoping to get a job at 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:26.080 FSR or something with his announcing bits. Uh. Yeah, there's 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.640 likely some truth in that. And back in Marcel the 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.000 back of Marcel's head, he believes that he is actually 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:32.360 how is he has a job? I think he thinks 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.960 right now he has a job. He calls in every Monday, 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.800 Wednesday and Friday. It's part of his routine. He's got 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.760 a whole bunch of stations he calls into around the country. 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:45.200 But that's the beauty of Marcel. Mixed match is his way. 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.600 And a listener actually pointed this out to us. When 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:51.440 he had said mixed match, that was a sign of 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.800 you got it right, You had got whatever the food 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:58.040 pick was, you had gotten right. But then somebody I believe, 0:16:58.080 --> 0:16:59.840 pointed out to him that he was doing this and 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.400 he stopped doing it for a while. I think he's 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:07.760 back doing it though, so I I can't figure, uh 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.760 what is next here? Let's see any meaning money. I 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:12.479 did not write down the name. This person did not 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:14.320 say their names, so I don't know who said this, 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:17.800 but somebody wrote in said Ben, well to you, what 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.840 makes a good baseball hat? Please discuss the best type 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:26.879 of crown, high or low brim, shaped or flat, fit, 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:31.919 adjustable or fitted, label, price tag on and off? All right, 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.240 so I'm not I don't leave the label like the 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:39.280 price tag on. I don't do that. I enjoy a 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.880 good fitted hat that fits properly more than the adjustable. 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:46.120 The reason I that is most of the adjustable hats 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:49.119 I have a very large head, very large head, and 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:54.359 most of the adjustable hats it just doesn't work. It 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:58.640 just doesn't work the adjustable hat. And because my head 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:02.119 is too big, and so the fitted hat obviously would 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:07.439 fit would fit perfectly. So that that is the That 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:09.240 is the key. As far as the other stuff, I 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:13.320 I like the I don't like the flat bill. I 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.960 don't like that. I like I like it shaped a 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:18.240 little bit. I think it looks better that way. It's 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:23.040 more aesthetically pleasing. Um. So those are some of the 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:27.680 things I look for in a hat. Anything guess scaring 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:29.920 that you look for in a hat. I'm just I'm 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:33.960 a fan of it being fitted and and shaped. Of course, 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:37.359 the color is everything too. So that's why I'm a 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:39.280 fan more of minor league teams than I am of 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:42.679 the proteins in Major League Baseball. I don't think a 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:45.880 lot of them have a good look. Dodgers Yankees, yes, 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:49.159 but I'm not really a fan of I like that 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:53.240 Brooklyn Dodgers. The bet be for Benny, be for Brooklyn, 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:58.040 one of the same. Pretty good, right, come on all 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:01.120 about Benny alright, So listener, who I did not say 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:02.720 your name? You know who you are. I thank you, 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:04.800 but you gotta I tell you guys every week, name 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:07.280 in city, name in city before you send the message. 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.760 Mark from Waverley, Iowa. Right, since says how many hats 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:14.280 are you wearing in your current rotation? Great question, Mark, 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:17.760 I have. I try to rotate two weeks of hats 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.879 at a time, So in my rotation right now, I 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:23.720 have the Oregon State Beaver cap, the Fox Sports Radio 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:28.560 Cab Saddleback College cap. Uh. There's a couple of minor 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:31.880 league hats that are in here. The Iowa Hawkeyes hat 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:36.560 has gotten a lot of play in the rotation, and 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.920 I've been very lucky. I've got a good percentage of 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:41.840 hats that have come in recently. I love this m 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:44.600 hat that I'm a pilot sent in Smooth. It's a 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:48.000 minor league baseball hat, and that that's pretty good. The 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:52.000 Montgomery Biscuits hat, I think, I think that's the team. 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:54.200 So yeah, man, those are some of them. But I 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:56.639 usually I try to have a ten hats in a 0:19:56.640 --> 0:20:00.800 two week rotation and then I change you up, like 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:03.520 every month. I'll try to mix in some new hats, 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:07.320 and then I have seasonal hats. Usually during football season Sundays, 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:11.280 I always wear the NFL shield hat Sundays. In the Monday, 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:14.440 that's my go to hat. So there is a method 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:17.399 to the madness. Mark, Jason and Rocky Mount Virginia right, 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:20.919 since it's besides the wrestler formerly known as RUSSEV. Have 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:26.480 either of you met any wrestlers? Yes, Jason, I have. 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:28.600 I I've told the story a few times over the years. 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:31.040 But I was a celebrity manager at a w w 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:37.000 E event many many years ago, and we were promoting 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:39.960 the event through the radio station. They wanted some publicity, 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:41.600 so they said all right. I was doing the Ben 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:44.639 and Dave show with this guy damed Dave Smith, and 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:47.800 we went out there and we were celebrity managers. I 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:51.440 was the manager of the Headshrinkers, and I remember being 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:53.480 in the locker room was very exciting. I was a 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:56.040 huge wrestling fan growing up, and we were in the 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:58.960 locker room because we were the next to last event, 0:20:59.800 --> 0:21:02.400 the next to last event, so we had to wait 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:06.760 through the undercard, and I met George the Animal Steel 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:12.159 passed away, and Viscera, who also passed away. So the 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:16.000 two guys that I met, we were, you know, my 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:19.120 old legends, and George the Animal Steel, an all time great, 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:24.320 and russef uh you know not russef Viscera I believe 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:27.520 was the name there, but yeah, he he had. Actually 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:31.720 the funny thing was that Visra the wrestler he had, 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:35.439 he was on the match like before us, and he 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:39.960 broke he's He was a massively large human being and 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:43.439 he broke the ropes and so everything got delayed for 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:46.600 like forty five minutes as a crew came in to 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:51.919 try to fix the ring because he had just destroyed it. 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:55.639 And I mean this guy was like five pounds. He 0:21:55.720 --> 0:21:59.359 was like six nine pounds and he wore he wore 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:03.200 these contact lenses to make his eyes look like demon dies. 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:06.280 And I'll never forget I was. We were in the 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:08.800 locker room and everyone's complaining. All the other wrestlers were 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:10.680 complaining because they're like, oh, man, we want They wanted 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:12.480 to get their thing over with and go and enjoy 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:15.199 their night, and they had to wait for for Viscera, 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:18.159 who I think changed his name to something else later on. 0:22:18.200 --> 0:22:20.560 He passed away a number of years ago. But um 0:22:20.600 --> 0:22:24.119 so he comes waddling in to the locker room and 0:22:24.200 --> 0:22:27.040 all the other wrestlers are sitting around piste off and he's, 0:22:27.080 --> 0:22:30.119 you know, shaking his head. I'm sorry, guys, I didn't 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:33.679 mean to do it. I was hilarious. It was a 0:22:33.680 --> 0:22:37.120 fun Maybe have you met any wrestlers Gagu I met 0:22:37.600 --> 0:22:40.040 back in the day. I met Andre the Giant, And 0:22:40.200 --> 0:22:43.000