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Speaker 1: you knuckleheads kept downloading this podcast last week. We threw
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Speaker 1: Let's not waste any time. We welcome in right over
Speaker 1: there west of the four oh five, the narcissist himself,
Speaker 1: the man that will waste no time talking about how
Speaker 1: great he is. David Gascon. I'm like Netflix, Ben maller.
Speaker 1: I am on demand, loud and proud, nothing to be
Speaker 1: ashamed of football and gambling. That's what we're talking about
Speaker 1: on Benny Versus the Penny. Yes, and of course NFL
Speaker 1: Week number two it is here and we got people
Speaker 1: bitching Amon and of course into your mail bag. So yes, yes,
Speaker 1: let's get right to it. So these are actual questions.
Speaker 1: Most of them came from the Facebook page, which is
Speaker 1: Ben Mallard Show on Facebook. Now that's a Gascon free zone.
Speaker 1: That is a Gascon free zone. You don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about that at all Gascon. But on the Facebook page,
Speaker 1: benou and like us on there, people going on they're
Speaker 1: not liking the page. You gotta like the page? Can you?
Speaker 1: Can you pen Benny Versus? Depending on Facebook then so
Speaker 1: we can get uh yeah, yeah, I'll pin it on there.
Speaker 1: I'll put it on there. Yeah, I'll have to remember, well,
Speaker 1: I probably should have already done it before this. You know,
Speaker 1: I probably should have done it before this because this
Speaker 1: is our Sunday Show guest con. So it's I'm guessing
Speaker 1: it's already on there. You dummy. That's a bad job
Speaker 1: by you. I don't know what's wrong with you. Well,
Speaker 1: it's just a friend of minor in case because certain
Speaker 1: times with podcasts that go out at different times, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know your scheduled TETs don't always Well, we're also
Speaker 1: the Real Fifth Hour available on the Real Fifth Hour
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Speaker 1: You can send us an email there and send us
Speaker 1: all kinds of interesting questions and do we have some
Speaker 1: of those questions. Glen in Chicago, for example, wrote in
Speaker 1: and he says, have you were gags ever farted? And
Speaker 1: it smelled like either teen spirit purple rain or a
Speaker 1: fresh fruit compost compost. They had a good, good smelling No.
Speaker 1: But it's the art of crop testing when you're in
Speaker 1: a bar or club though, No, no, no, that's wrong. Elevator, No,
Speaker 1: you can't elevator. You can't do it in an elevator
Speaker 1: because you're stuck. You're confined there. No no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no no. But if you crop testing a bar
Speaker 1: or a club, then you've got a bunch of attractive
Speaker 1: people looking at each other and said, who the fund
Speaker 1: did that? Uh? And the key is to not You
Speaker 1: gotta stay in character and not make it seem like
Speaker 1: you're you farted, you know, you can't pull your leg
Speaker 1: up like a dog or anything like that. You can't.
Speaker 1: You gotta be very smooth. It would be a little awkward. Yeah, elevator,
Speaker 1: just like stretching a little bit. We we worked my
Speaker 1: handstrings while I just rip ass here. Glenn had a
Speaker 1: lot of questions this, does Regina have a Facebook or
Speaker 1: a Twitter account? Regina, Regina in minnesot to spend psychogenia.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you for listening to the radio show.
Speaker 1: Guest Guyn you schmuck wow. Regina. She she likes to
Speaker 1: sit on her you know, dryer and washing machine or whatever.
Speaker 1: And all right, And Glenn also says he wants us
Speaker 1: to interview less Grobstein, and I'd love to put less on.
Speaker 1: I don't have a I don't have a contact. I
Speaker 1: met Less years ago at the NBA Finals. But you
Speaker 1: know who less Robstein is? Yeah, how do you know him? Though? Well,
Speaker 1: I don't really know. I met him at an NBA
Speaker 1: Finals game I was at. He's a Chicago legend. I
Speaker 1: want to talk to him just about his famous Lee
Speaker 1: Ilia thing that he was the guy that recorded the
Speaker 1: greatest meltdown in sports history from Lee Elia, the cub
Speaker 1: manager who said eight five percent of the world's working.
Speaker 1: The other fifteen percent come out here. It's a playground
Speaker 1: for the blank blanks. They don't even work, get a job,
Speaker 1: you know. He went on that whole ran all right,
Speaker 1: I'm ran for um Vancouver writes in and uh he
Speaker 1: has a Mallew Militia Pledge of allegiance, and uh do
Speaker 1: you want to hear that? Um? I'm scared to ask
Speaker 1: for it, but since we're reading it, might as well.
Speaker 1: All Right, this is some I'm ran, very talented man
Speaker 1: in Vancouver. Mallew Militia Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance
Speaker 1: to the letters missing sign of Fox Sports Radio and
Speaker 1: the debauchery for which it stands. One militia under God,
Speaker 1: pretty divided with liberty and justice when the astros fall.
Speaker 1: That's good, that's solid, that's real, good am. I gonna
Speaker 1: have to add that to that. I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: add that to the everything we do here. You maybe
Speaker 1: you may have to start that off before every opening monologue.
Speaker 1: Do you think so? Do you think that's worth it?
Speaker 1: That's good man, guys, good man, these guys are talented
Speaker 1: guestcon So I have the Mallew Militia oath. I have
Speaker 1: the Mallew Militia motto and now we can add the
Speaker 1: Mallew Militia Pledge allegiance. Yeah, that's good man. That might
Speaker 1: you a call to start your show off in Wow.
Speaker 1: All right, that's a that's a good job by I'm Rand.
Speaker 1: That is uh. I'm gonna have to use that. And
Speaker 1: he's not a Homer, He's not a Dodger fans, so
Speaker 1: it makes it even better. He's north of the border
Speaker 1: in Vancouver, so ohka. My home and native home in
Speaker 1: native Land doesn't matter. I'm American. I can butcher the words.
Speaker 1: Didn't they change the words anyway and make them soft
Speaker 1: in the Canadian inst anthem? I thought they did, didn't they?
Speaker 1: I think they went soft. They're unfortunate. Fortunately. I'm Rand
Speaker 1: also says I've been listening to Benny Versus the Penny
Speaker 1: for years now, but still have no idea how it works.
Speaker 1: You please explain it to me. Well, yes, I'm Rand.
Speaker 1: I'll give you the tutorial on Benny Versus the Penny,
Speaker 1: but it's pretty simple. I handicapped the game. I picked
Speaker 1: the game and and then we go to the penny,
Speaker 1: and the penny is flipped. And the way we do
Speaker 1: this year is head now that gascon. You're the penny,
Speaker 1: so you you you know how this works? Right? Heads?
Speaker 1: Is which Homer Road road? Uh? No, home should be
Speaker 1: home guest gnat by, you know, because you sit on
Speaker 1: your ass on your tail to travel somewhere. Right. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's I've always I've done tales as on the road.
Speaker 1: Oh I do it the other way around like they
Speaker 1: My god, I do it like the reverse that explains
Speaker 1: a lot gascon. Wait what you're you're getting it wrong.
Speaker 1: I've been getting it wrong this whole time. I'm rand
Speaker 1: has just exposed you. Jesus, you can't even flip a
Speaker 1: goddamn penny without sucking it up. Unbelievable, unbelievable. Well, he
Speaker 1: should tune in and watch every week on YouTube. Adrian
Speaker 1: in the Mile High City rights and he says, Ben,
Speaker 1: as a brigadier general of the Mallam Militia here in Denver, Colorado,
Speaker 1: I am wondering when you will be flying into town
Speaker 1: for your man have played a rocky mountain Oysters, there
Speaker 1: you go. I tell that narcissist west of the four
Speaker 1: oh five guy to pound, saying well, thank you Adrian,
Speaker 1: thank you for your support. I think I wrote back
Speaker 1: to you, thank you for your support, dog, and I
Speaker 1: hope you I hope you heard me, Adrian, because on Friday,
Speaker 1: I was on the afternoon drive show on Altitude Sports
Speaker 1: Radio ninety two point five on the FM dial and
Speaker 1: I called in there and they busted my balls about
Speaker 1: having to eat bolt testicles. So that's true. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: you go. I like this guy because he hates you.
Speaker 1: Fucking boot out of his mouth. Uh let's see. Yeah
Speaker 1: all right, man, that's when do we want to do here?
Speaker 1: Any meny mighty mo. I'm sending an email right now, guest,
Speaker 1: because I guy, I got right back to these people
Speaker 1: as many as I can. I get a lot of email,
Speaker 1: I can't right back to there. I have to respond
Speaker 1: right now in real time. Penny, you don't how to
Speaker 1: live respond to everyone making a comment. This is don't
Speaker 1: play the fourth wall, my man, my man. Let the
Speaker 1: people into your world, man, let them into your world,
Speaker 1: all right. Johnny from Florida says, what it sounds like
Speaker 1: it came from you? Is this your burner account on Facebook?
Speaker 1: Johnny from Florida says, why does the mallem militsia have
Speaker 1: so many drunks and alcoholics in it? How can you
Speaker 1: possibly be proud of these underbellies of society. First of all, Johnny,
Speaker 1: you live in Florida, so I wouldn't talk about that. Uh.
Speaker 1: And aren't drunks and alcoholics the same thing? Isn't that
Speaker 1: a synonym? Like drunk, drunk and alcoholic? Like they're synonyms
Speaker 1: for each other. Right, So you use the same word twice.
Speaker 1: Bad job by you. Some people can be drunk and
Speaker 1: not an alcoholic. No, no, the way he said it, drunks,
Speaker 1: if you're you're drunk, you're an alcohol same damn thing.
Speaker 1: And unlike you, Johnny, I again improving that I don't
Speaker 1: judge people. And it's it's kind of like the mallard.
Speaker 1: I just athletes and people in sports, but it's it's
Speaker 1: the mallet militia matta. Right. We believe on this show
Speaker 1: that every man, woman, and child is welcome to take
Speaker 1: the malle militia oath that we have to join. I
Speaker 1: don't care if you're liberal or conservative, you're gay or straight,
Speaker 1: if you're an alcoholic, a drug addict, you're a criminal.
Speaker 1: You're a police officer. Any race, color, creed, or religion,
Speaker 1: but all you have to do is you have to
Speaker 1: be friendly to those of us on the show. You
Speaker 1: have to have thick skin, you you have to learn
Speaker 1: how to take yourself lightly, and most importantly of all,
Speaker 1: you have to be willing to bust balls with all
Speaker 1: the other people on the Mallew militia. That's it. And
Speaker 1: so what am I supposed to not welcome in beer
Speaker 1: drinking Brian and a half pint and all these these
Speaker 1: characters that are part of the show. Screw you, Johnny
Speaker 1: a fan of Johnny. It's got a great point. It's
Speaker 1: probably because you are Johnny. Five stars for Johnny. Screw you, Johnny,
Speaker 1: Travis and Roseberg, right Sin Roseberg Organ, I believe he
Speaker 1: says question for Gascon. With the recent flip air up
Speaker 1: of the Curse of the Bembino, do you or any
Speaker 1: other Fox members Fox Sports Radio members worry about your
Speaker 1: personal safety? Yeah, I worry about it, especially because of
Speaker 1: what's happened over the last year. I've had multiple windows
Speaker 1: blasted out, I've gotten into a car accident. I've had
Speaker 1: a severe ear infection. UM, I've had some damage done
Speaker 1: to me. I've blown out a hamstring, I've blown out
Speaker 1: a quad I've had some bad things happened to me
Speaker 1: since I joined this fucking operation with Ben Mallow. It's
Speaker 1: like this dark cloud that was over him is now
Speaker 1: transferred over to me. I'm just waiting for a piano
Speaker 1: to fall on my head. Wow, this is a real
Speaker 1: SOB story. Lets you feel bad for me, like I'm
Speaker 1: an up and comer, you know, West of the four
Speaker 1: oh five, full head of hair, big strong shoulders, good looking,
Speaker 1: great personality. Don't be don't be eating your grinder profile
Speaker 1: on the podcast, and again kiscounts bat jump by you.
Speaker 1: Let's save that for that website. That's it. Let me
Speaker 1: play the world's smallest violin for you. And while I'm
Speaker 1: doing that to help you out two for one, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna shed crocodile tears. That's what I'm gonna do, crocodile
Speaker 1: tears for you. You You have to at least feel bad
Speaker 1: for me the fact that I have to drive to
Speaker 1: work every day. You get to go to a radio station.
Speaker 1: My dream was to go to radio radio station. It
Speaker 1: was my dream when I was a kid growing up.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be the guy on the radio. You
Speaker 1: get to do that. You're living out childhood dreams. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I had childhood dreams of working at
Speaker 1: a radio station, of course, because you grew up west
Speaker 1: of the four Old. So those of us that are
Speaker 1: more relatable, like what's it like to be in the
Speaker 1: Magic radio box? What is that like for the Avery Tower? Alright, Matt?
Speaker 1: You know my run New York. That's a Tom Looney
Speaker 1: country on Modern New York. It's upstate New York, escount.
Speaker 1: You know, there's more to New York than just New
Speaker 1: York City. New work like plastid and yeah, I've been
Speaker 1: to a few. Here we go, Buffalo, Here we go, Rochester, Hello, Rochester.
Speaker 1: All right, Pennon Guescon. If you had to choose, would
Speaker 1: it be no candy on Halloween or no turkey on Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: Matt writes in to say no turkey on Thanksgiving? I agree, Uh.
Speaker 1: And the reason I would go no turkey is because
Speaker 1: my mom May she rest in peace. Her favorite meal
Speaker 1: was turkey, which is good for my mom. But I
Speaker 1: eat so much turkey any big event, any of us
Speaker 1: in the household had a birthday, I'm gonna make a
Speaker 1: turkey for you. Thanksgiving obviously turkey, you know New Year's turkey. Uh,
Speaker 1: anything literally fourth of July. Let's have a turkey. I
Speaker 1: ate so much goddamn turkey when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: I don't even I don't eat it Thanksgiving. Now we
Speaker 1: go to the the in laws, and I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't usually eat it. I'm like, yeah, I'm good all
Speaker 1: the stuffing and the sides and all that. Guy, anyway
Speaker 1: than turkey, are you well being Jewish? I have always
Speaker 1: eating the ham a lot guests. Guy clearly yes, no, lamb, guy,
Speaker 1: I don't like lamb. I I would eat turkey. I
Speaker 1: don't hate. I guess I don't hate. Hates a strong emotion.
Speaker 1: It's not my favorite. So but I love candy. Uh
Speaker 1: love candy. You can't, Yeah, you can't get rid of
Speaker 1: candy on Halloween. Like I know our governor treed canceling it.
Speaker 1: But you know, candy is a musk nestly crunch nickers,
Speaker 1: M and M's pieces. Yea, and candy has been socially
Speaker 1: distancing for you. Halloween has been socially distancing because everyone's
Speaker 1: wearing a man, all right. Kentucky J from Scottsville, Kentucky
Speaker 1: rights in says Kentucky Tay and I were out in
Speaker 1: and about and we noticed we have our first Raising
Speaker 1: Canes here. What what is the go to food? Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, some big warm something semi fucking warm. The
Speaker 1: amazing thing, Gascount is if you eat the food right
Speaker 1: when it's delivered, it's warm. It's shocking. It's a new
Speaker 1: concept to you. But if you show up late and
Speaker 1: ice cold, that's on you. So Kentucky j and Kentucky Tay,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. You are very lucky. The
Speaker 1: property values in your area are gonna go up having
Speaker 1: a Raising Canes and you can't go wrong. Literally, everything
Speaker 1: on the menu is a chicken finger. It really just
Speaker 1: depends on how hungry you are, and that's really what
Speaker 1: it depends. Now, my go to item, even the chicken
Speaker 1: sandwiches they have at Raising Canes are just chicken fingers
Speaker 1: with bread on top. That's it. But my go to
Speaker 1: is the Kenny at Combo, which is the biggest meal
Speaker 1: deal you can get, all right, Kenny at Combo. That's
Speaker 1: a six piece combo with the bread the Texas toast.
Speaker 1: Now the veteran move here. A lot of people don't
Speaker 1: know this. Raising Canes will only toast the bread on
Speaker 1: one side. You have to say toasted on both sides,
Speaker 1: and they'll toast the bed on both sides. Then the
Speaker 1: other thing is I'm not a cold slaw guy because
Speaker 1: it's in the vegetable family, So I say no Coaslaw
Speaker 1: extra fies, and then on top of that, for an
Speaker 1: extra twenty cents, I get the lemonade. So the candy
Speaker 1: at Combo six piece, no Coast Law extra fries, Texas
Speaker 1: toast cooked on both sides, lemonade, light ice, boom, nirvana, heaven, wonderful, great,
Speaker 1: as good as it gets, reason to be alive. It's
Speaker 1: a good idea. I think I'll send a couple of
Speaker 1: pictures of that to you on Monday through your Thursday shows. Uh. Secondly,
Speaker 1: Kentucky J Wrights and says you will have a new
Speaker 1: hat soon. What funk is that? And calm down, gas
Speaker 1: and Gascon will get his Kentucky Bourbon Day. I think
Speaker 1: you're coming out ahead. Yeah on that one. We'll we'll
Speaker 1: have to share that. That would be that would be
Speaker 1: very thoughtful if you did do that. You now suddenly
Speaker 1: you went from how great is that? The our friend
Speaker 1: Kentucky Tang, Kentucky Ja, the Power couple of Kentucky, the
Speaker 1: US to right, They're gonna be like, well, so this
Speaker 1: guy was gonna bash us, guest, and that's how how
Speaker 1: much of a schmucky is he was about to kill you?
Speaker 1: But then it proves everyone's got their price. And all
Speaker 1: you have to do for gag on is Kentucky bourbon.
Speaker 1: That's all you have to do is Kentucky bourbon. I
Speaker 1: I aired on the set of Caution. I was I
Speaker 1: was deliberate at my approach and and I thought otherwise. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're talking about this last week, right, because didn't you
Speaker 1: say you have some moonshine that was left over? And
Speaker 1: I do? I do? Uh our guy from Pennsylvania send
Speaker 1: me some moonshine and uh it's here having a big
Speaker 1: jug and uh so we can have bourbon and moonshine.
Speaker 1: Oh man, total Hillbillies from great from Kentucky. Yeah, that'd
Speaker 1: be nice. Wow. Alright, Sean from ocean Side sun North County,
Speaker 1: I want to talk sports with you. Sean and Oceanside, California, says,
Speaker 1: what's city or town in the United States have you
Speaker 1: not visited but wanted to for a long time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've not been to Nashville, and there's a lot of places.
Speaker 1: I I'm so jealous of my friends that have driven
Speaker 1: across the country. I'm jealous of the truck drivers. I'd
Speaker 1: love to be able to take a month and just
Speaker 1: do roots sixties six and drive through all these little
Speaker 1: small towns and I I want to go through the
Speaker 1: South and see that in the history of the Civil
Speaker 1: War and some of those museums before they all get
Speaker 1: torn down and all that stuff. And then you know,
Speaker 1: and and and I've been to the Northeast a lot.
Speaker 1: I've been through the Northeastern states, and I've been to
Speaker 1: the big cities when I was doing stuff with the Dodges.
Speaker 1: But I just like to go out and I'd like
Speaker 1: to go to Minnesota. I've been to the airport. Um
Speaker 1: I need to go to Cincinnati. Been to the airport
Speaker 1: there also. But we have a lot of listeners in
Speaker 1: those cities. I'd love to hang on with you what
Speaker 1: we did in Seattle and what we've done in a
Speaker 1: few other places. I I did have a mallar meet
Speaker 1: and greet in the early days. We had a mallar
Speaker 1: meeting great in Syracuse, and we also met listeners in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: And so we've done it in a few sporadic cities.
Speaker 1: But that'd be a lot of fun to go to
Speaker 1: like Minnesota and do it in the Twin Cities in
Speaker 1: Minneapolis and see, we really really should go like the
Speaker 1: wintertime in like late January February when there's a blizzard
Speaker 1: to get the full Minnesota experience. Well, the nice thing
Speaker 1: is is you've been out of the studio for the
Speaker 1: last eight months, and we have all these affiliates across
Speaker 1: the country. Why don't you just pack up and go
Speaker 1: and then do your show from an affiliate. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: the whole point of it is to like have get
Speaker 1: togethers and press the flesh and meet people and hang out.
Speaker 1: And I don't think we're allowed to do that, at
Speaker 1: least not in California. I don't know. Other states have
Speaker 1: real politicians that are are good and it would probably
Speaker 1: allow you to do that. Carlos, you can do you
Speaker 1: can do a virtual meeting. Great, like they play football
Speaker 1: here in California with the college programs tackling dummies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's just as effective. Uh, let's see, you don't
Speaker 1: mean Mark Carlos Bang Bang Houston, Texas says, how do
Speaker 1: you memorize all your nicknames and do you have them
Speaker 1: written down somewhere. While you're at it, give us all
Speaker 1: your forty plus nicknames. I guess Gon, the people want
Speaker 1: the nicknames. You've got to give the people what they want.
Speaker 1: Guest got no, no, Carlos. I mean, listen. If he's
Speaker 1: a satisfied listener, he'll tell his friends and then they'll
Speaker 1: download the podcast. I am known, Guess Gott as the
Speaker 1: spring Master or Mr. Relation of the bannering broadcasters, but
Speaker 1: they told the bs re commies you the commentary that
Speaker 1: has him. I'm sorry. Kasim Bizarre, Zana the Dark Night
Speaker 1: a weeknight sports radio, more Do of Mischief, Benny the Brazen,
Speaker 1: King of Zing, money Ball Mallard, Facetious Fox, Sultan of Insulting, Jumping,
Speaker 1: Jack of wise Crack, Insight of overnight Medicine, Man Mallard
Speaker 1: of Negativity, Sage vautrog so Pitiful of Senator Frice and Preposters,
Speaker 1: Professor of Capaganda, Haszarri and the mad Hatter of sports Chad.
Speaker 1: Now that's half my nicknames, Carlos. And since Gascon covered
Speaker 1: me up with those cheeseball sound effects like from a
Speaker 1: baseball or a football game during the bubble, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you the other half of my nicknames. I have
Speaker 1: been called the Baron of Balderdash, Big gall Bladder, Bennice,
Speaker 1: the Menace, Captain knee jerk. They've said, hey, you're Captain
Speaker 1: General of the Generals, Tycoon of tease, Master of Disaster,
Speaker 1: the Hustler of filibuster, night Light of night Life, Pummeler
Speaker 1: of producers, Benny bright Side, Manity of insanity, Marconi Mallard,
Speaker 1: Emissary of Embellishment, Weeknight win Back, Wizard of Wacky, slayer
Speaker 1: of naysayers, Grant, Goober of gab, Tower of babel On,
Speaker 1: Honest Adonna's Nocturnal Colonel, the Underdog of monologue, and the
Speaker 1: Holy Pope of the Slippery Slope. And that doesn't even
Speaker 1: include my newest nickname, which is we gave it out.
Speaker 1: You hear my nickname the other day after the Clippers lost,
Speaker 1: Massa Kist Mallard. Mass A Kist Mallard is my new nickname.
Speaker 1: That's the newest one. The shoe fits if the dunce
Speaker 1: cap fits. Wow? Really yeah? Can you do me like that?
Speaker 1: But you did yourself like that? Well, the Clippers and
Speaker 1: the Rams and the Dodgers didn't didn't like that. Well,
Speaker 1: you're a Dodger fan, you so you have that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna go down as hard as you do
Speaker 1: when it comes to these two, Like you've had some
Speaker 1: major crash and burns, like ram scoring three points in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl a couple of years ago, and then
Speaker 1: fucking the Clippers three one in a series on the
Speaker 1: verge of going the Western Conference Finals. They can't pull
Speaker 1: it off. I'm I'm aware of the things that happened
Speaker 1: through the whole list here those there's some heartbreaking events
Speaker 1: in your life as a sports fan. Yeah, but it's
Speaker 1: really on them. I didn't play in any of those
Speaker 1: gives Van played, they would have won. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know about that. Not that's true. That's absolutely true. Thank
Speaker 1: you for the question. Carlos. Here, how about this one?
Speaker 1: I posted this on Facebook? You know who posted a question?
Speaker 1: No who? Brian Finley, Brian Finley and San Diego. I'd
Speaker 1: like to talk about the Lakers tonight. May I call in?
Speaker 1: He didn't really do that? Did he? Hand to God?
Speaker 1: He did? No? Hand to God? Brian Finlay? What then
Speaker 1: are you doing? Brian? Brian, get a life of man.
Speaker 1: I love you and I like that you listen to
Speaker 1: the show. You're a p one, Brian. It means a
Speaker 1: lot you have to work on the show, which is cool,
Speaker 1: But don't admit it, Brian. You know you gotta at
Speaker 1: least pretend like you're not listening, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And stop with the stalking stuff too. I guess stock
Speaker 1: him and his little Finley fanatics, which are like people,
Speaker 1: he pays. I don't even know if they exist. To
Speaker 1: be honest with you, uh Ron from Minnesota says, why
Speaker 1: did you ch inge that legendary in show? Is the
Speaker 1: vast emanating live? Yeah? Well, Ron, thank you for your question.
Speaker 1: I try to change it up, you know, the vast
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio network, and I would say we're emanating
Speaker 1: live from the Geico Fox Sports Radio studios. But I've
Speaker 1: added in a Philip Buster and I've you know, those
Speaker 1: kind of those kind of terms to dress it up
Speaker 1: a little bit. This is a great thing guys got
Speaker 1: about radio? What's that? Let me tell you so, I
Speaker 1: had a guy who posted a message on social media
Speaker 1: the other day and was was busting my balls, giving
Speaker 1: me a hard time. I've been listening to your show
Speaker 1: for many many years, since the same show every single time.
Speaker 1: So then I got Ron in Minnesota who's upset that
Speaker 1: it's not the same show every time and wants me
Speaker 1: to do the same things I was doing before. So
Speaker 1: it's a no win situation. You cannot win, right, Instead
Speaker 1: of emanating live, I go Blue Oviate or Philipbuster or
Speaker 1: spreading the Gospel or sermonize or something like that. And
Speaker 1: so I'm getting shipped for that too. But if you want,
Speaker 1: you know what wrong, I'm gonna try to bring back
Speaker 1: emanating live. About that? I like radiating live, emanating what
Speaker 1: about what about pulsating? You know why I say the
Speaker 1: vast Fox Sports Radio network because we're just all over
Speaker 1: the place. Well that's part of it. But it is
Speaker 1: actually a tribute to a friend of mine who works
Speaker 1: for the Evil Lakers. Really yeah, Lawrence Tanter, the public
Speaker 1: address announcer for the Lakers. I've known Lawrence. He's an
Speaker 1: old radio guy and he was the program director at
Speaker 1: the Jazz radio station. Lawrence has some of the greatest
Speaker 1: pipes of anybody, and I had dinner with him many
Speaker 1: times over the years when I would cover the Lakers,
Speaker 1: and I just think he's the greatest public address announcer
Speaker 1: out there. These days. Um with with winking a nod
Speaker 1: to our friend Dave Joseph who does the l A Kings,
Speaker 1: who does a great job. Dave's an old radio guy too,
Speaker 1: and I've known him for a long time. But but yeah,
Speaker 1: so Lawrence Tanta, that's my way of giving him a tribute. Like, hey,
Speaker 1: he listens to the show when he's leaving the even
Speaker 1: though I bashed the Lakers long time, he listens. Not now,
Speaker 1: but when he would get the bubble you not because
Speaker 1: of the bubble, but at Staples Center on the way home,
Speaker 1: he'd listen and he'd come he bent, Man, you've got
Speaker 1: some crazy cats that call your show. I'm like, yeah, Lawrence,
Speaker 1: I do funny. Those are my people. Those are my people.
Speaker 1: So Emanating lives a tribute to him. So uh, there's that. Sorry, Rod,
Speaker 1: and I'll bring that back. John the jailer from Alan Town, pss,
Speaker 1: Ben and Gagon. What's the most useless talent you have? Now?
Speaker 1: Mark in Ottawa asked the same question. Asked the same question,
Speaker 1: gascan most useless talent that you have? Mine would be
Speaker 1: being able to move my ears. I can shake my
Speaker 1: ears right, you know what I mean? Like my wiggle
Speaker 1: my ears and you do that. Yeah, I can do that,
Speaker 1: and I can do right, left or both at the
Speaker 1: same time. Now that is a useless talent. What about
Speaker 1: doing the vulcan sign? Yeah, oh yeah, I can do that.
Speaker 1: That's not that hard. No, yeah, I'm doing it right now.
Speaker 1: Nobody can see it, but I'm doing right now. People
Speaker 1: have been saying guest Scott, people were saying that we
Speaker 1: should record this podcast on video and have people interact
Speaker 1: with his lives so they can. I think they just
Speaker 1: want to have their their comments read on the air.
Speaker 1: They do because you fucking gave I like that. You're
Speaker 1: so upset. This is gonna let me tell you something,
Speaker 1: guess and you are so you are so wrong on this.
Speaker 1: You are so you are so that you are wrong.
Speaker 1: Every time we record this podcast, you're always telling me
Speaker 1: to heard the funk up. And now we're gonna do
Speaker 1: a live feed and you're gonna elongate it. No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no no. I'm gonna be like the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 1: You know what the Arizona Cardinals do. They have covering machine. No, no,
Speaker 1: they have social media break you know, they'll have like
Speaker 1: your practice and all that and then Okay, guys, you
Speaker 1: got fifteen minutes to update the Graham check out the
Speaker 1: booty models and things like that. So we'll have a
Speaker 1: little little timeouts. All right, let's go to the social
Speaker 1: media page, you know, just like that. No, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: all right? Uh? Any meeting money mo Chris in the Cocota,
Speaker 1: I says, if they did a remake of Brewster's millions,
Speaker 1: what modern ways would you use to spend the money? Also,
Speaker 1: they should cast you in John Candy's role. Wow, John
Speaker 1: Canny was great man. Uncle bud Le big l a
Speaker 1: Kings fan. You used to have season tickets the l
Speaker 1: A Kings the Forum back in the day. Yea friend
Speaker 1: of Wayne Gretzky. Didn't they buy the Toronto Argonauts together?
Speaker 1: Right with Bruce Mcnalce McNally, Yeah, I went to federal prison.
Speaker 1: I heard some stories about Bruce McDonald man the Hollywood
Speaker 1: crowd that he hung with when he was owning the Kings.
Speaker 1: He went to jail and as someone told me, that
Speaker 1: jail was like right out of Lobster. Every night slicing garlic, thin,
Speaker 1: playing music, and they would play softball on the weekend.
Speaker 1: And the celebrity crowd that he hung out with love
Speaker 1: Bruce mcnal so much. They would drive up to Santa
Speaker 1: Barbara's outside Santa Barbara the prison and watched the softball games,
Speaker 1: and some of them even played in them. They let
Speaker 1: them play in the softball. Oh my gosh. These guys
Speaker 1: in jail for ripping off people, and he's playing softball
Speaker 1: with celebrities. It's pretty wild. Man oh Man, All right,
Speaker 1: Eric in Bingham to New York's his dear Ben, would
Speaker 1: you rather give an on air massage to the gascon's
Speaker 1: ego or answer more clever questions like those raising cane
Speaker 1: served nuggets? Ps? How bad? Does even wish he was
Speaker 1: a Denver Nugget fan? Well, yeah, he's gonna wish it
Speaker 1: a lot. After the Nuggets take out the Lakers in
Speaker 1: the Western Conference Final, it's my new team, the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 1: I do appreciate them more in their throwback uniforms. Listen
Speaker 1: the Nuggets. You prove it, I said, prove it. They
Speaker 1: proved it. Good for them, although it was more about
Speaker 1: the Clippers than it was the Nuggets, but they took
Speaker 1: advantage of it. Kind of wild will from Roanoke, Virginia
Speaker 1: rights in and he says, why did Fox Sports fire
Speaker 1: Tony Bruno? No, excuse me, guest guy, I just sneezed there.
Speaker 1: But I don't think they fired him. Uh. Years ago
Speaker 1: he said it was some comments he made and then
Speaker 1: they hired Coward. He's upset about that. Well, will as
Speaker 1: I remember. Maybe I'm wrong on this, but Tony wasn't fine.
Speaker 1: He had suspended for something he had said on the radio.
Speaker 1: Actually filled in for him, uh, and that day it
Speaker 1: said something about how to forget some picture for the
Speaker 1: giants or something like that. But I I I filled
Speaker 1: in for him that day, but he wasn't fired for that.
Speaker 1: I think that was a contract actual. I don't want
Speaker 1: to speak for Tony, but I think that was a
Speaker 1: a money situation. But I love Tony Bruno. We've had
Speaker 1: him on the podcast twice. I hope Tony comes back.
Speaker 1: I hasn't done anything yet. I hope at least comes
Speaker 1: back and does some internet stuff. He's great, He's got
Speaker 1: a lot of opinions. I like to hear. I like
Speaker 1: to hear Tony. I listen. I don't listen to all
Speaker 1: the time, but I listen to from time to time.
Speaker 1: I think Tony is wonderful. And I listened to him,
Speaker 1: and I have been friends with him for twenty years,
Speaker 1: so I hope he he gets back. Uh. Also Will says,
Speaker 1: can you find Troy the gambling Man from Nashville and
Speaker 1: get his picks? All we had to do was bet
Speaker 1: opposite of him and cash in. Yeah, material, do you
Speaker 1: know the history of Troy the gambling Who's that? So?
Speaker 1: Troy the gambling Man drove a sweeper truck around Nashville
Speaker 1: and he had like the authentic kind of Southern twang
Speaker 1: to his voice, you know, you'd you'd expect, and so
Speaker 1: so anyway, he would call up and he was an
Speaker 1: okay caller, but I thought to dress up the call,
Speaker 1: we'd do a bit. So we did picking game is
Speaker 1: with Troy the gambling Man, and he'd give out picks
Speaker 1: and he'd lose almost every one of them. Almost every
Speaker 1: one of them he would lose. It was fascinating. So
Speaker 1: that's Troy the gambly Man. And we used to also
Speaker 1: do a bit. I wish we'd get some sweeper truck
Speaker 1: guys to call him the show more of it. Craziest
Speaker 1: thing you found while driving a sweeper truck to clean
Speaker 1: up a parking lot. These guys have found wallets, loads
Speaker 1: of cash, like all kinds of wild things. Cleaning up
Speaker 1: parking lot. It's clean up my things that fall out
Speaker 1: of cars, things that are part of drug deals, that
Speaker 1: people forget, things like that, Pierre writes, and he says,
Speaker 1: possible guests suggestion former w e I nighttime host Mikey Adams.
Speaker 1: He once locked himself in the studio and he's a
Speaker 1: former TV guys. Well, yeah, I know Mikey Adams, right,
Speaker 1: I know I've met Mikey Adams. I have. In fact,
Speaker 1: me and me and Mike Key did a show together
Speaker 1: years ago to e I, and he pulled his pants
Speaker 1: down and showed me his bare ass. I can get
Speaker 1: him on, you know. I I I have a way
Speaker 1: to get Mikey Adams on, So I can get him on.
Speaker 1: All right, yeah, alright, what else do we have? Falls
Speaker 1: fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee, says, Ben, is this the
Speaker 1: year you quit sports? If the Dodgers don't win the
Speaker 1: World Series of the Rams don't win the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: and then go work for Fox News? Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: thank you for that, Jimmy, that you think that I
Speaker 1: am good enough to be on the number one cable
Speaker 1: news network in America, Fox News. But I am not
Speaker 1: going to Fox News. I'm not. I'm a sports guy.
Speaker 1: I like doing sports radio. It's fun. Sports have become political,
Speaker 1: so I've talked about politics because that's what the athletes
Speaker 1: are into. They make everything political, right, They put get
Speaker 1: out slogans of voting and all these things on their
Speaker 1: uniforms and different things, so they they've made it political.
Speaker 1: I didn't make it political. They made it political. For years,
Speaker 1: I never mentioned anything about politics until they made it
Speaker 1: an issue. We talked about what is going on in
Speaker 1: the sporting world. But in terms of the Dodgers, however,
Speaker 1: and if they don't win the World Series, Jimmy, I'm fine,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm fine. I've come to terms with this.
Speaker 1: And and while I get optimistic, and I'm sure I
Speaker 1: will continue to be optimistic when these things pop up.
Speaker 1: And the Dodgers have great teams and they rams look
Speaker 1: like they're gonna do wonderful and and all that, but
Speaker 1: I believe now in low expectations, I'm gonna try to
Speaker 1: temper my expectations, alright. Because there are many great quotes
Speaker 1: over the years that's say something to the effect of
Speaker 1: if you you set the bar low, right, and you
Speaker 1: shouldn't set the bar high. And a blessed life is
Speaker 1: someone who expects nothing, for they shall not never be disappointed. Right,
Speaker 1: If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I expect nothing, but I'll still picked him to win,
Speaker 1: and I'll still sound like a donkey. And that's how
Speaker 1: that goes, all right, A couple more here, let's see here.
Speaker 1: I can't read that one or the one because it
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense. It's like this guy Leon from
Speaker 1: New York and he's talking about Dak Prescott and Tony Romo,
Speaker 1: and I don't know, I don't get it. Pierre Springfield.
Speaker 1: Right soon, he says, have you ever been to the
Speaker 1: Basketball Hall of Fame with Grandpa Mallard. I've lived in
Speaker 1: its shadow for forty nine years and have yet to go. Pierre,
Speaker 1: this is a good question. Now I've told the story
Speaker 1: for my My late great grandfather was raised in Springfield, Massachusetts,
Speaker 1: where the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame is. I looked
Speaker 1: up the address. We found the address of where my
Speaker 1: grandfather lived. It's now an on ramp to the highway.
Speaker 1: The house they used to be houses, They tore them
Speaker 1: down to build the highway. And I've never been to
Speaker 1: the Pro Basket Hall of Fame. I would like to go.
Speaker 1: I hope it's good. VE only been to one sports
Speaker 1: hall of fame, the Hall of Champions I believe it
Speaker 1: was called in Indianapolis. It was terrible. The n c
Speaker 1: A A museum. I thought it was horribly done. I've
Speaker 1: not been to the Hall of Fame. Haven't been at
Speaker 1: Basketball Hall of Fame, Baseball Hall of Fame. Haven't been that.
Speaker 1: I drove through upstate New York, but it was so
Speaker 1: far off the path Cooperstown. Didn't go. And I have
Speaker 1: not been to Canton, Ohio for the Pro Football of
Speaker 1: some something down the line, something down the line to
Speaker 1: do Mike from Mountain House, California. Where is Mountain House, California.
Speaker 1: Guess guy, that's a that's a good question. I don't know.
Speaker 1: He's maybe he just made it up. No, No, not
Speaker 1: in House, California's possible he made it up San Joaquin County,
Speaker 1: of course. How many people live in Mountain House, California?
Speaker 1: Nine thousands, six d is a small town. Yes, How
Speaker 1: long do you think it's gonna take for Steve Balmer
Speaker 1: to give Doc Rivers his walking paper as well. Let
Speaker 1: me answer that by saying another year. At least it
Speaker 1: would appear if these reports are accurate. The only rational
Speaker 1: way to look at this is that Kawhi Leonards says,
Speaker 1: I want to play for Doc. I don't want to
Speaker 1: play for anybody else. We'll we'll do this right, We'll
Speaker 1: do Doc good. Otherwise it makes no sense. Also, Mike says,
Speaker 1: have you cook gaggons, tomahawks, steak asking for a friend?
Speaker 1: Screw you much? See listen to fucking Mike Man. Here's positivity, Mike.
Speaker 1: It's different, Mike right Since says I really enjoyed listening
Speaker 1: to your interview with Tony Bruno. He's alleged. Eric says,
Speaker 1: please don't ever put Chris in Houston back on the
Speaker 1: year again, did you it? Chris did this week? Now,
Speaker 1: Chris tried to walk it back and put the toothpaste
Speaker 1: back in the tube. But we were talking about the
Speaker 1: police shooting or the ambush or the two police officers
Speaker 1: sheriff officers in Compton, and how Lebron James hadn't said
Speaker 1: anything ab at it. But he's always outspoken about you
Speaker 1: anti police stuff, and when police are hunted down. He
Speaker 1: doesn't say anything about it, and Chris tried to defend
Speaker 1: the person that shot the cops an idiot. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: a fucking idiot. So well, we don't know. Maybe they
Speaker 1: were racially profile, there's something like that. It was really
Speaker 1: cringe worthy. It was really cringeworthy. Chris says, some cringe
Speaker 1: to realthy things, but this was like even by him,
Speaker 1: this was outrageous and he was taking a lot of
Speaker 1: crap for Try to try to put it back, try
Speaker 1: to unring the bell. I don't think it worked. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's bad job. Occasionally you do have to think before
Speaker 1: you speak. That's it, guess gun. I'm done with this nonsense.
Speaker 1: I gotta go watch some football because we're recording this
Speaker 1: live on Sunday, right, wink wink not not yes, yes,
Speaker 1: all right, have a great rest of your day. We're
Speaker 1: back on the radio, breaking down Week two of the
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