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Speaker 1: Maller starts right now in the a Everywhere a football Sunday.
Speaker 1: It's the Fifth Hour. We welcome in with myself, Ben
Speaker 1: Mallor and Mr West of the four oh five David Gascon.
Speaker 1: It's a full weekend here. This is the mail bag
Speaker 1: which I look forward to every week. I I love
Speaker 1: the unknown, the surprise questions that come in and the
Speaker 1: interesting question. So we're gonna open up the mail bag
Speaker 1: in a few minutes. We have some other business to
Speaker 1: get to though, Mr Gascon offecially known by your nickname Gagon,
Speaker 1: what other business do we have here? Well, Um, we
Speaker 1: had a request and typically we actually are you highlighted
Speaker 1: this last week? Um? Changes on your cameo account yes, yes,
Speaker 1: on Friday, I gave you a week warning that I
Speaker 1: was gonna raise my rate because of some changes with
Speaker 1: the politics of cameo and all that stuff. So just
Speaker 1: I was gonna bump it up. I bumped it up
Speaker 1: to ten bucks ten bucks higher. So it's like, I
Speaker 1: think it's forty bucks now it was thirty bucks, so
Speaker 1: it's up to forty and uh yeah. So I I
Speaker 1: had a few cameo requests that came in this week,
Speaker 1: so I thank you. Those took advantage for the price hike,
Speaker 1: so so I thank you for that. And that does
Speaker 1: make a great stocking stuffer. By the A Mallard Mallard cameo, listen,
Speaker 1: I put some I put some thought that I don't
Speaker 1: just I don't just bull crap. I put some thought
Speaker 1: on that. But if you want a cameo, type my
Speaker 1: name out, search my name on cameo and it's a
Speaker 1: nice little stocking stuff. Or if you know a big
Speaker 1: fan of the show, and we'll rant about anything. I've
Speaker 1: had guy one guy twice has had me do rants
Speaker 1: about the Lakers. He's a Laker historian, and this knucklehead
Speaker 1: has been busting my balls getting me to do rants.
Speaker 1: About the Lakers. So anything's fair game. You want to hanakah,
Speaker 1: shout out a Christmas, shout out, a happy New Year,
Speaker 1: anything on on cameo. It's very polite and because you've
Speaker 1: had that, I actually, uh I pought the cherry. I
Speaker 1: had to request a few days ago from a fan
Speaker 1: of your show and um and he actually requested a
Speaker 1: a cameo appearance for myself, and uh I was told
Speaker 1: part of the order was that I needed to play
Speaker 1: the audio for you right here and right now. So
Speaker 1: that is exactly what I'm gonna do. What's up man?
Speaker 1: The first of many, but it is the maiden voyage
Speaker 1: here in cameo, and how fitting that my first one
Speaker 1: has to go out to you. Big thanks to Neil
Speaker 1: for making this thing happen. And with Neil's instruction, I
Speaker 1: have to devise and arrange and order. Eight reasons why
Speaker 1: you are the best talent at Fox Sports Radio and
Speaker 1: why the Ben Mallas Show is the best show on
Speaker 1: the network. Eight reasons why. Number one durability. Now, we
Speaker 1: always hear the old saying availability is more important than ability.
Speaker 1: I disagree. I think durability is most important as well.
Speaker 1: You've taken on the Chin several years ago. Obviously have
Speaker 1: an abbreviated vacation, and Fox Sports Radio came back. Prior
Speaker 1: to that, you were working down in San Diego. He
Speaker 1: worked as an overnight update anchor and an overnight weekend host.
Speaker 1: He battled through all of it. You made your way
Speaker 1: back to Los Angeles, which is arguably the most important
Speaker 1: marked in the country, whether that's New York, l A, Chicago,
Speaker 1: you're right there, swinging for the fences amongst the big
Speaker 1: dogs across the United States, four affiliates, and of course
Speaker 1: the Armed Forces network worldwide. So durability. If you didn't
Speaker 1: have that, if you had no grid, there's no chance.
Speaker 1: And fucking hell you make it to where you're at today.
Speaker 1: Kudos to you. That's over two decades being in the industry.
Speaker 1: Entertaining four hours is not enough, but four hours every
Speaker 1: night overnight, it's tough. It's grueling. You get no fucking sleep,
Speaker 1: You hardly get any kind of appreciation, and the compliments
Speaker 1: you do get at no certain times. You just take
Speaker 1: it with what it is, and it may not be sincere,
Speaker 1: but you're running with it and you make the most
Speaker 1: of four hours. It's odd that you can do that.
Speaker 1: Especially given the fact that you work solo, but you
Speaker 1: make it happen. You take topical things, you make into
Speaker 1: something different, and then on top of that, you always
Speaker 1: spin in a couple of interesting stories that catch people
Speaker 1: off guard. And because of that, people don't know what
Speaker 1: they're gonna give for you, and for that super entertaining offensive.
Speaker 1: I think this kind of piggybacks off of that. You're
Speaker 1: not offensive in the sense that you are offensive to people,
Speaker 1: but I think you're always working on the attack as
Speaker 1: opposed to being defensive, protecting people, safeguarding individuals. You don't
Speaker 1: pull any punches, you don't sugarcoat much either, but you're
Speaker 1: always always in front of the crowd, and you're always
Speaker 1: on the attack as opposed to being reactionary to whatever
Speaker 1: bullshit that's out there, which is always important because you
Speaker 1: want people that don't fake the funk on a nasty dunk, Um, intelligent,
Speaker 1: saddleback college, whatever it may be. You grew up in
Speaker 1: the street of hard knocks. Well it's Orange County, Los Angeles. Um,
Speaker 1: you are the fitting example of why you can't put
Speaker 1: a college degree on on intelligence. You've been around the block,
Speaker 1: You've been through l A, You've been through San Diego,
Speaker 1: You've traveled across the United States. You're taught to people.
Speaker 1: You absorb a lot of information, UM, and you're you're good.
Speaker 1: You're good in terms of retaining information that most people
Speaker 1: either don't know or don't give a shit about, but
Speaker 1: you use it at any given time, or you borrow
Speaker 1: from other individuals. You make it in your own which
Speaker 1: is always important because you know how to make it
Speaker 1: into your own words and say it in your own way,
Speaker 1: which is fantastic. UM. Field awareness. It's great that when
Speaker 1: you have someone in your position always looking across the
Speaker 1: other side of the aisle, whether it's for television, radio, digital,
Speaker 1: you know who the bosses are, you know who the
Speaker 1: program directors are, you know who the executive producers are,
Speaker 1: the coordinating people. UM. You've got a great awareness in
Speaker 1: terms of having a wide, wide net of people that
Speaker 1: you can talk to, a good network of individuals that
Speaker 1: you could probably lean on if you wanted to. And
Speaker 1: of course you're friendly with all of them, so you
Speaker 1: keeping those good graces that people appreciate what do they do,
Speaker 1: or people appreciate what you do even if they can't
Speaker 1: be vocal about it. I'm sure that they send, use
Speaker 1: some emails or direct messages on Twitter, especially during the
Speaker 1: sensitive times. Relentless. I think this goes back to your
Speaker 1: durability and then also the fact that you're entertaining relentless,
Speaker 1: you're always looking for something else that's different. I mean,
Speaker 1: we have guys that kind of run through and recycle
Speaker 1: the same old, boring ship over and over again. But
Speaker 1: you look for something different in between the cracks, whether
Speaker 1: it's stats, whether it's news with its background information on
Speaker 1: the individuals. Um. You don't get cheated on what you do,
Speaker 1: whether it's an opening monologue for fifteen minutes, the back
Speaker 1: end of the show, or in the middle of an update.
Speaker 1: When there's a story that one of the update anchors
Speaker 1: decides to report on early in the day, like at
Speaker 1: five am, and it's the same redundant, boring bullshit, you
Speaker 1: know how to add a little spice to it, little pepper,
Speaker 1: a little hot sauce, and then make it into actually
Speaker 1: something that's worthwhile to talk about when you're coming back
Speaker 1: from break. Um immature. I don't have to say this,
Speaker 1: but when you work in the industry that we work in,
Speaker 1: immaturity might be frowned upon by some people. But it
Speaker 1: actually works in your favor because you don't want to
Speaker 1: be boring. You don't want to have the collar all
Speaker 1: the way up. You don't want to look straight down
Speaker 1: and just be black or be black white. Um, you
Speaker 1: had that immaturity that makes people laugh, that keeps people
Speaker 1: coming back for more information because you have the information.
Speaker 1: Now it's about translating into a way that's actually funny, relatable,
Speaker 1: and of course leads to the common man being like, Hey, Noah, that'ship.
Speaker 1: Could happen to me someday. Case in point last year
Speaker 1: with the gall ladder, or of course the the misapp
Speaker 1: in the park when said bathroom was absolutely destroyed. Um.
Speaker 1: Linguistically profound. One of my favorite movies with Robin Williams
Speaker 1: is Dead Poets Society, And part of that he said,
Speaker 1: you know, poetry is the language of love. The unique
Speaker 1: thing about what you do is that you spend a
Speaker 1: lot of your stuff, which is the same stuff that
Speaker 1: we hear morning afternoon, late at night. And you have
Speaker 1: your words, but you have your vocabulary, your vernacular. It's
Speaker 1: all drastically different than anybody else I've ever heard, not
Speaker 1: only on our network, put at CBS, at ESPN, at
Speaker 1: t NT wherever it may be. Um, So you have
Speaker 1: ways to incorporate new words, different words, the words that
Speaker 1: I've never even heard of, and I have to go
Speaker 1: on Google and look exactly what that is in the
Speaker 1: middle of the night to see the fund did you
Speaker 1: mean by that? But you use the language to keep
Speaker 1: people they're enticed and then curious about what the funk
Speaker 1: you're actually talking about, which is fantastic. So um eight
Speaker 1: reasons why you know top to bottom Ben Mallar Show
Speaker 1: and Ben Mallard is the best show and the best
Speaker 1: talent on the network. With that being said from what's
Speaker 1: the four oh five? With great audio after a great workout,
Speaker 1: take a look at that view, I'm out whoa wait
Speaker 1: a minute, did I'm gonna overdose on sugar? Oh? My god?
Speaker 1: Extolling the virtues of the Ben Maller Show. Unbelievable, My man,
Speaker 1: gesh God, You've you've seen the light. You've come enthusiastically
Speaker 1: to rhapsodize. Uh wow. Look and somebody somebody had to
Speaker 1: pay you to do that, right, somebody had to pay
Speaker 1: you a couple of bucks. Who do we need? Who
Speaker 1: do I need to thank for that tremendous praise? Wow,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start smelling myself after that. That was our
Speaker 1: buddy Neil that that passed along the cameo request. He
Speaker 1: he did a few days ago. So I was a
Speaker 1: big fan of the show. So that's great. I did
Speaker 1: a cameo for Neil as well. He just had a daughter.
Speaker 1: Neil has been listening to me for seventeen I think
Speaker 1: you said seventeen years. Going back, lad Mila, his daughter
Speaker 1: was just born like a couple of months ago. Congrats.
Speaker 1: I don't even think she's two months old. I don't
Speaker 1: believe so. I think she turns too on the six.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so how great is that? Yeah? That was cool.
Speaker 1: I was trying to figure out like where I should
Speaker 1: do it at and then had to prop recorded. Um,
Speaker 1: it sounds like you were at the beach and can
Speaker 1: see obviously you were bracking as you usually do about
Speaker 1: the view. You couldn't you couldn't help yourself. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you had to give a little, give a little, get
Speaker 1: a little. So I did that. I was down. Um yeah,
Speaker 1: I was down at her most of the beach a
Speaker 1: couple of days ago, and so I decided to pop
Speaker 1: that sucker off, and uh, well I do thank you
Speaker 1: for genuflecting to the show, and I will save that.
Speaker 1: This is one podcast I will be downloading my phone
Speaker 1: from my future audio content A ray of sunshine. Who
Speaker 1: knew David Gascon uh can bow down to the man.
Speaker 1: I I can't believe that. Wow, exactly when I when
Speaker 1: I lose my job, and I'm sure I will eventually here,
Speaker 1: I will use that. I will send that out to
Speaker 1: program directors and say, hey, you know, I just want
Speaker 1: to point this out. You know, I might be bombastic
Speaker 1: and braggados and all that, but listen to this. That
Speaker 1: was great. Thank you, Neil. That was I feel like
Speaker 1: that was my honaka gift from from from you and
Speaker 1: from Neil. That's what he said. Yeah, he said an
Speaker 1: honor of Hanakah. So it was one of many gifts. Right. Well,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. That was That was very cool and uh,
Speaker 1: that was very long too. You know, I don't know
Speaker 1: how long a cameo is supposed to be. I usually
Speaker 1: do about five minutes or so. Sometimes you go a
Speaker 1: little longer than that, but I tried to do about
Speaker 1: five minutes. I think that might be too long. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know what the norm is. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the standards and regulations are for cameo,
Speaker 1: but I want to give if you if you're going
Speaker 1: to really spend some money, I want to make it
Speaker 1: worth your time. I don't want to like a thirty
Speaker 1: second go pound sand, you know, I don't want do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I see, I saw, you know a bunch of your
Speaker 1: videos and I figured, yeah, like I didn't wanna cut
Speaker 1: Neal short or cut anything short on it, and I
Speaker 1: want to make the most of it. That was like
Speaker 1: six minutes and forty seven seconds. That's a lot of cameo.
Speaker 1: It was money's worth. Yeah, all right, that's good. Thank
Speaker 1: you for that. Thank you, Neil. I appreciate it was
Speaker 1: a little intimidating to do a kind of like a
Speaker 1: ejaculation of Ben Mallory in the middle of her most
Speaker 1: of beach when you got men and women walking by
Speaker 1: on the boardwalk. But well you always remember your face.
Speaker 1: Neil deflowered you. There you go. I took advantage of
Speaker 1: you in his wicked ways. I was able to persuade
Speaker 1: you with money, of course, to provide him and with
Speaker 1: what he wanted. So thank you very much, Neil. We
Speaker 1: have the mail bag. Are you excited about this. The
Speaker 1: mail bag. We have much activity this week. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you had gotten much of it out on
Speaker 1: Facebook at all, but yeah, we had a lot of
Speaker 1: Most of this is on Facebook. Yeah, the email was
Speaker 1: not that great this week. Some weeks the emails is good.
Speaker 1: The most of this came from the Facebook page. And
Speaker 1: there's two ways you can On Facebook. Every Wednesday, usually
Speaker 1: in the morning, I'll post hey, begging for questions, help
Speaker 1: us out. Begging for questions, help us out, And you
Speaker 1: have until Thursday, early in the day to send a question.
Speaker 1: Just go to the Ben Mallar Show page on Facebook.
Speaker 1: You gotta scroll down a littleit's paying the asked. You
Speaker 1: gotta scroll down because I put some videos up. And
Speaker 1: then if you don't want to do that, you can
Speaker 1: just email to the show Real fifth Hour at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com. Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. And
Speaker 1: so there's two ways to do it. First email comes
Speaker 1: from this is on Facebook. Caleb in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Alright,
Speaker 1: Sting says Ben, do you think a lot more of
Speaker 1: us will be allowed back into stadiums? In one I
Speaker 1: miss seeing my minor league Pittsburgh Pirates play at PNC Park. Man,
Speaker 1: it is beautiful. I've not seen the game there, but
Speaker 1: I've walked around it when I was in Pittsburgh. The
Speaker 1: Pirates were not playing when I was there. They were
Speaker 1: on the road, but they had the courtyard kind of
Speaker 1: behind it where they have you know, those bridges and
Speaker 1: the water right behind it. I was able to walk
Speaker 1: through a little part of of of the ballpark there
Speaker 1: and check it out. Is awesome that they just nailed that.
Speaker 1: They that and the one I hate to say it
Speaker 1: because you know the Giants, but the ballpark in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Those two are just works of art. Yeah, they are
Speaker 1: works of art. I think to echo that along with
Speaker 1: Petco Park, Petico is hard to beat because part of
Speaker 1: the reason for it is if you take the trolley
Speaker 1: from either Mission Valley or anywhere else. If you take
Speaker 1: the trolley down to gas Lap, then you can get
Speaker 1: off close by. But if you took the train, like
Speaker 1: let's say you're coming from l A, Orange County and
Speaker 1: you took Amtrak, Amtrak takes you on the back side
Speaker 1: of Petico where the convention center is, so you're able
Speaker 1: to walk in the area and then get to Petco
Speaker 1: Park that way too. So everything's down there gas Lap.
Speaker 1: You of the hotels, you get the bars, the clubs. Yea,
Speaker 1: Petco is cool. I don't not think it gets Pecco.
Speaker 1: I just like the ballpark in Pittsburgh. It's like it
Speaker 1: looks like a painting, like an oil painting, with all
Speaker 1: the bridge in the building, and much the same San
Speaker 1: Francisco with the the water McCovey Cove and all that.
Speaker 1: It's just just wonderful. They really did a wonderful job
Speaker 1: with both those ballparks. But to answer your question, Caleb,
Speaker 1: from what I have heard, it likely will not happen
Speaker 1: until sometime in July at the earliest, So we've still
Speaker 1: got another six months before people will be allowed. From
Speaker 1: what I've been told now, it depends. I don't know
Speaker 1: how the politics are in Pennsylvania. I've heard they're somewhat
Speaker 1: like California from my guy Tony Bruno, So uh, you know,
Speaker 1: good luck good luck on that. But I think realistically,
Speaker 1: if we can be back by July after the All
Speaker 1: Star Games saying baseball watching games and be back to normal,
Speaker 1: I think we'd take that right now, wouldn't we. But
Speaker 1: we have fans that are in attendance for NFL in
Speaker 1: college games. Correct, So how can we not get Dodger
Speaker 1: Stadium holds fifty five thousand people. I know it's drastically
Speaker 1: different at Fenwayne at Wrigley, but don't tell me you
Speaker 1: can't get anyone at Dodger Stadium. In no, of course
Speaker 1: you can. But it's politics, man, It's a it's a
Speaker 1: waste end, it really is. I mean, it's you know,
Speaker 1: and and then you The other thing is you also
Speaker 1: have a lot of people that have been now programmed
Speaker 1: to be a worry warts and fearmongering, and so there's
Speaker 1: a certain percentage of people that, oh, my god, if
Speaker 1: you want to when they eventually do open society up
Speaker 1: again and we're allowed to live our lives the way
Speaker 1: we have lived our lives, there's people freaking out. They're
Speaker 1: gonna bean the other people. I can't handle it. No,
Speaker 1: it's not safe. If it's never safe, it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's not safe enough, means it's never gonna be safe enough.
Speaker 1: I think the only area that I'd be worried about
Speaker 1: when things do open up personally is getting on a flight.
Speaker 1: Getting on a plane, But I've heard that that's actually
Speaker 1: the safe way to show I guess now because they
Speaker 1: don't have the middle seat right. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've heard that that's not really really where this this
Speaker 1: gets spread because they have air coming in from outside
Speaker 1: the plant. I don't know. I don't know how that works.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we've I've I've got friends that have traveled
Speaker 1: and they've they've said it's great. They one guy complain
Speaker 1: one of the airlines book completely booked to flight. But
Speaker 1: other than that, they've had a lot of empty seats
Speaker 1: and they were able to spread out and it's been
Speaker 1: more enjoyable flying now than it was before. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think the one flight I would take, or be more
Speaker 1: inclined to take nowadays, would be a red Eye. I
Speaker 1: think that's I love red Eyes, man. I used to
Speaker 1: take red Eyes. Although I go back to Connecticut to
Speaker 1: do that TV stuff. We took out every Sunday night.
Speaker 1: Took the Red Eye. Loved it. Ten pm or or
Speaker 1: eleven pm. You fly on it was on even like
Speaker 1: ten thirty, it was right around. It was ever in
Speaker 1: that window. If you get exactly win. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: get to l a X take off, boom, you land.
Speaker 1: You're in morning rush hour traffic at JFK. But it's fine,
Speaker 1: it's all good. Yeah, head on. Carlos in Houston writes
Speaker 1: in Bang Bang he says, have you guys had any
Speaker 1: allergies as a kid? Do you all have them? Now?
Speaker 1: That's his first question. He has another question. Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm allergic to penicillin. Uh. And I was a kid.
Speaker 1: I was allergic to cats. Oh yeah, so I was.
Speaker 1: I was allergic cats when I was a kid. So
Speaker 1: I think that's that's it. What about you know, not
Speaker 1: not for me at all, but meah, I had cats
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, but being around other people's
Speaker 1: cats sometimes they'll start getting sneezes and sniffles and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. But no, no allergies. Okay, so you're allergy free.
Speaker 1: Look at you you want. And now the other question
Speaker 1: from Carlos in Houston. He says, how do you have
Speaker 1: such a good rating in Houston if all you do
Speaker 1: is take shots at Houston teams? I just have to know,
Speaker 1: all right, I can. It's an easy one, Carlos. The
Speaker 1: term for that, it's known in the industry, it's known
Speaker 1: as the Stern effect. That doesn't really apply anymore because
Speaker 1: Howard Stern has gone soft. But when Howard Stern was
Speaker 1: in his prime and his salad days, he was just
Speaker 1: annihilating people. And they did research, market research, because Stern
Speaker 1: is the king of over the year radio a m
Speaker 1: FM radio, mostly FM UM. But they determined that the
Speaker 1: people who really hated Howard Stern the most and thought
Speaker 1: he was vile and wretched and disgusting actually listened longer
Speaker 1: than those who loved Howard Stern because the people that
Speaker 1: hated him wanted to make sure they didn't miss an
Speaker 1: opportunity to be offended. So, yeah, the worst thing you
Speaker 1: could be in radio is right down the middle. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: you do not want to be sitting on the fence.
Speaker 1: You do not want to be the person sitting on
Speaker 1: the fence there at all. Mr Luciano writes in he says,
Speaker 1: who would win an mm A fight or boxing fight
Speaker 1: between Ben Maller and David Gascon. This is Mr Luciano
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. I think we all know the answer.
Speaker 1: I would pummele you. You would have no chance. You'd
Speaker 1: have a really of time and an m m A
Speaker 1: scrap with me. I have perseverance, Yeah, but I would
Speaker 1: chop your legs down, literally chop your legs. Remember the
Speaker 1: good old school movie Kickboxer. I would annihilate your kneecaps.
Speaker 1: I would come flying down from the top rope for
Speaker 1: nuclear destruction is what I would do. I would wallop you.
Speaker 1: It's like that old line I ustill love the Jim
Speaker 1: Healy Show, and there was a drop that he played.
Speaker 1: Uh it was a Don Drysdale radio call. Knocked his
Speaker 1: eyeballs a little goofy a little bit. I would knock
Speaker 1: your eyeballs a little goofy a little bit. What's gonna happen?
Speaker 1: We should set up a celebrity boxing we I don't
Speaker 1: think we're big enough. It'd be cool, like a celebrity
Speaker 1: boxing thing. Yeah, I guess we can do with Mayweather? Right,
Speaker 1: Well Mayweather, that's a money yeah, maywere the money grab man.
Speaker 1: Get one of those Paul. All those Paul guys are
Speaker 1: the same generic white dudes on YouTube. Line them up, man,
Speaker 1: knock line them up, knock them down. You can do.
Speaker 1: That'd be great. You did something world's almost like Survivors series,
Speaker 1: you know, like Survivor's series or even the Royal Rumble
Speaker 1: of Survivor series. You get like a team of four
Speaker 1: versus four and then last man standing wins. You can
Speaker 1: do that or you have consecutive guys coming in at you.
Speaker 1: I would love to do a celebrity box. I could
Speaker 1: box Eddie Cooper. I think he's just he's you know that.
Speaker 1: That'd be no contest. Uh, Roberto, you you gotta be careful.
Speaker 1: Roberto gets some tequila and him he's a fight and
Speaker 1: he's got some street cred from Yeah, he's got a
Speaker 1: few guys he put in a body bag. Uh, not literally,
Speaker 1: of course, but that'd be a great idea for management
Speaker 1: at Fox. How about Fox Sports Radio celebrity boxing. No,
Speaker 1: there's too many guys here that are out of shape.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter, it's celebrity boxing. I could get in
Speaker 1: the ring with Cowherd and and Clay Travis and these
Speaker 1: guys and Rob Parker. I know I'd win. Wait, I'm tough.
Speaker 1: I mean I'm not West of the four or five
Speaker 1: on East of the four, Alaska. You'd want to get
Speaker 1: in the ring with its probably Jonas everyone shot with Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: Jonas would just kicking the nuts and uh he'd go
Speaker 1: below the belt. I like that idea though, Mr Luciano
Speaker 1: Celebrity celebrity boxing Eric in Binghamton, New York, Rights and
Speaker 1: He says, Ben and Dave, if you if I had
Speaker 1: an airplane that was guaranteed to explode with no survivors,
Speaker 1: who would you make sure it was a board that
Speaker 1: point politicians aside, he said, oh, you can't do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty much both of us would probably just say politicians.
Speaker 1: Right at this point, I think we're getting certain political
Speaker 1: leaders in different states that we could name that we
Speaker 1: would want to put on there. Yes, I would put
Speaker 1: the entire Chinese government, how about that? Okay, so you'd
Speaker 1: have them in the front of the plane, and then
Speaker 1: uh put some of these defund the police people and
Speaker 1: they're also how about that? Yeah, to the professors there,
Speaker 1: you go, alright, we kid because we care. Uh Vahid
Speaker 1: Habib but in New Orleans rights in you have his
Speaker 1: full name. He says, question, how many songs do you
Speaker 1: know the lyrics of and are able to sing from
Speaker 1: the beginning to the end of the song. Then for
Speaker 1: some reason, he said, by the way, Gascon show is
Speaker 1: great again, So this must be one of your burner
Speaker 1: emails or something like this is one of your buddies
Speaker 1: a friend in New Orleans. That's good. Now with answering
Speaker 1: his question, I wonder if he means reciting it from
Speaker 1: start to finish dry or if you need help from
Speaker 1: the music. Yeah, I'm really bad with that. Like I
Speaker 1: can sing Happy Birthday to you have that's it. I
Speaker 1: don't know. You can do the Star Spangled Banner, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can do that, but those you just repetition. You're
Speaker 1: you're over and over again. It's beaten into your you're
Speaker 1: indoctrinated in those those kind of things. But the other song.
Speaker 1: You might know a few bars, I might know a
Speaker 1: few ares had of different songs, but to actually do
Speaker 1: the whole song, no, you could do. I have the Tiger, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's parts of it I could I could do,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if I could do the whole thing.
Speaker 1: You you got any songs that you're doing karaoke with
Speaker 1: over there? I think what was the I forget the
Speaker 1: length of the song. Bruce Springsteen had one of the
Speaker 1: shortest songs ever. I think it was a minute and
Speaker 1: forty five. I think it was called I'm on Fire.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like that was that. When I was a
Speaker 1: DJ and I was a jazz DJ, I loved Brantford
Speaker 1: Marsalis had a song like jazz DJ well in college
Speaker 1: but when I was a DJ, they had like an
Speaker 1: eighteen minute jazz song and that was always all right,
Speaker 1: you gotta go take a dump. That's the song you
Speaker 1: put on. I go to the bathroom, you gotta unload
Speaker 1: the key, stir, you go right there and play that
Speaker 1: song at eighteen minutes. That's pretty good. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: pretty That was back when you had to play the
Speaker 1: songs manually off the CDs, you know, and all that
Speaker 1: back in the day, like in the Stone Age, Kevin.
Speaker 1: Now you could just put a whole block of songs
Speaker 1: together and said it and forget it. That's true, Kevin
Speaker 1: in Garden City, Kansas. Right. Since this been, I've been
Speaker 1: I really enjoy your monologue ticking of the three topics
Speaker 1: that seem unrelated and you managed to tie them together.
Speaker 1: How and when did you develop the process? Well, thank you, Kevin,
Speaker 1: first of all. Secondly, it just kind of organically happened.
Speaker 1: If you listen to me fifteen years ago, I didn't
Speaker 1: do that, probably not even I think I started about
Speaker 1: seven or eight years ago, maybe a little longer than that.
Speaker 1: I just just trial, trial and error, just trying different stuff,
Speaker 1: and that kind of worked. And so I've kept that
Speaker 1: it's kind of become a staple of the show, and
Speaker 1: I don't think it's going away anytime. So it's it's
Speaker 1: really an over it's really overhead for for those in
Speaker 1: the scholastic worlds of a five paragraph essay. Well, it's
Speaker 1: a way too tie. As you said, and your tremendous
Speaker 1: glowing testimonial to the show. Um, when I come on
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, sometimes I'm talking about
Speaker 1: stories that happened many hours as ago, that have been
Speaker 1: rehashed all day long, and I'm I'm late to the party, right,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gascon showing up two and a half hours
Speaker 1: after the party wanting to get fresh hot chicken uh
Speaker 1: and and getting upset. So the way around that to
Speaker 1: work around for me has been, Okay, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: the same thing, but when I get in the batter's box,
Speaker 1: i might be hitting ninth, but I'm gonna approach it
Speaker 1: differently than all the other hitters, and I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put my own, my own touch on it.
Speaker 1: And so that's just that just works for me. And
Speaker 1: and plus I love words. I've become addicted. I wish
Speaker 1: I was like this when I was in school. I
Speaker 1: really didn't care that much about words. When I was
Speaker 1: in school, I didn't pay attention to them. But now,
Speaker 1: as an adult and since ideal in the currency of
Speaker 1: communication and and words, I love finding ways to to say,
Speaker 1: as you pointed out, to say the same thing, but
Speaker 1: it sounds different, right, use different words and you're making
Speaker 1: the same point. But if you're doing it, it's it
Speaker 1: just is a different sound to it. So that is
Speaker 1: why we do what we do. Chris in uh Ma Cocata, Iowa. Right, so,
Speaker 1: and he says, can you say the town name? Right?
Speaker 1: I just did Ma Cocota, Iowa. This guy is so
Speaker 1: obsessed this, he must be the mayor, Chris, Chris must
Speaker 1: be the mayor of Cocta, Iowa. Seriously, all right? He says. Also,
Speaker 1: who would win an arm wrestling match between you and guest?
Speaker 1: We've already addressed that, Chris earlier. Bad job by you.
Speaker 1: I would win. I have a distinct advantageer for doing
Speaker 1: it left handed. Well that well, yeah, that would be.
Speaker 1: But I'm I'm a righty. I'm not a lefty. I
Speaker 1: knew you were a lefty. I knew your trouble. Uh
Speaker 1: Sarah from Minnesota Sarah sent a video on the fifth
Speaker 1: hour email, but unfortunately, she says, it's a lot of
Speaker 1: the third Rail but good stuff. But the video did
Speaker 1: not try to play the video. I clicked on it,
Speaker 1: it didn't load. So I don't know if you can
Speaker 1: send a link if it's on YouTube, which is probably
Speaker 1: isn't because it was. If it's third Rail, I probably
Speaker 1: took it off. Um. But if there's another way you
Speaker 1: can send it, maybe try again, Sarah and i'd I'd
Speaker 1: love to watch the video. I like interesting content and
Speaker 1: but I could not get it. So Kentucky J and
Speaker 1: Ta right in from Scottsville, Kentucky. Yeah, glad you like
Speaker 1: the hat and hope David Gescott enjoyed the beverage. If
Speaker 1: this COVID crap was said to the last five more
Speaker 1: years in California continued in lockdown, no sports, etcetera, would
Speaker 1: you pack up the mallarmobile and go to a state
Speaker 1: less controlled or write it out? Yeah? It was it
Speaker 1: was up to me, all things being equal, Uh, I
Speaker 1: would I would leave California. I mean, my whole life
Speaker 1: is in California, but my both my brothers left years ago.
Speaker 1: My my one brother lives in New York City. I
Speaker 1: got another brother lives in Wisconsin, so they move. Their
Speaker 1: lives are fine, They're enjoying life in different places. And
Speaker 1: ironically though both those places have similar problems that I
Speaker 1: have here in California. But I would, but there's there's
Speaker 1: other facts. It's not it's not even my life has
Speaker 1: a job. She's not gonna you know, she's not gonna
Speaker 1: lose that job anytime. So that's a good stable job.
Speaker 1: And so I don't think we'll be leaving for other reasons.
Speaker 1: But if if it was as simple as just pack
Speaker 1: up the station wagon and get the hell out of
Speaker 1: here and go to Texas or Florida or somewhere else, yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: Elon must did it. I saw that he went to
Speaker 1: was it Austin? Austin, which is a really blue city
Speaker 1: in the great state of Texas. Now, remember what I
Speaker 1: told you. Randomly last year, I was in line at
Speaker 1: Walmart to return something and an old guy was in
Speaker 1: front of me and started hitting me up with conversation,
Speaker 1: which I'm annoyed by. But he was a nice guy,
Speaker 1: and he said he was from Texas, and he then
Speaker 1: proceeded to complain about how all you people from California
Speaker 1: moved to Texas and bring the same laws in the
Speaker 1: same crap from California to Texas. And so prediction if
Speaker 1: if this influx, the contamination of Texas from Californians uh continues,
Speaker 1: eventually Texas will be just like California. The politics will
Speaker 1: be the same because these people are gonna be voted
Speaker 1: in uh. And and so you're gonna have the same
Speaker 1: situation you have in California, the same problems with the
Speaker 1: politics in Texas. If you got that plus the electoral
Speaker 1: votes that go with it, that's that's the game, set
Speaker 1: and match. It is a final. Yeah. Kentucky Tay rights
Speaker 1: in from Scottsville, Kentucky, not Kentucky j This is Kentucky Tay.
Speaker 1: She says, I thought I do my own question this week. First,
Speaker 1: I am glad, She says that you got the gifts
Speaker 1: and like that we did. Thank you very nice and
Speaker 1: I hope you told your daughter that we we got
Speaker 1: the birthday candles as well as very sweet uh and uh.
Speaker 1: She says, came very close to drinking the bourbon instead
Speaker 1: of sending it out a couple of times. That's my
Speaker 1: kind of woman right there. That's Kentucky. Tay, I'm going
Speaker 1: for it. I'm gonna have the bourbon. Screw this guest
Speaker 1: gon Uh she's anyways, what is your favorite old school
Speaker 1: video game? That's a good question. So now I'm of
Speaker 1: the age where I had archaic video games like duck
Speaker 1: Hunt and uh what else did I mean? You know,
Speaker 1: the Nintendo, the early Nintendo games, Mario Brothers. I loved
Speaker 1: Mario Kart, the original Mario Kart. That was like a
Speaker 1: game changer. But then Tech Mobowl, RBI Baseball, I think
Speaker 1: it was called Man. I'd play those games for hours.
Speaker 1: I would play those games, the baseball and the football,
Speaker 1: and I loved the early was an NBA jam when
Speaker 1: that came out of the two on two things, that
Speaker 1: was awesome. But then one of the first games I
Speaker 1: when I was a little kid, there was a game
Speaker 1: my my parents had the early Apple computers, and they
Speaker 1: had this game called Apple Galaxians, which was like Space Invaders,
Speaker 1: but it was like a rip off. And I love that.
Speaker 1: I was the master of that game, and all me
Speaker 1: and my brothers would play the game, and I dominated
Speaker 1: the How was I ruled the roost? And so I
Speaker 1: always fondly looked back at that game, which is just
Speaker 1: like a crappy computer game with bad graphics. But I
Speaker 1: nailed it. I mastered it. They you get to a
Speaker 1: certain level, they give you a little flag, and I
Speaker 1: had the most flags, So what about you. I was
Speaker 1: a huge fan of Blades of Steel Tech Mobile Blades
Speaker 1: of Steel. Yeah, I played that too. Basses Loaded was there? Um,
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson's Punch Out obviously, Arcade wise, I love Street
Speaker 1: Fighter two. That was one of my favorites. Another game
Speaker 1: called Rolling Thunder. I don't know if you remember that,
Speaker 1: and Final Fury where you turned from a man to
Speaker 1: like an or not Altar Bates excuse me on Final Fury.
Speaker 1: Uh to fighting games though, but that and Double Dragon
Speaker 1: when I remember that, old school games, and of course
Speaker 1: when we got into the nineties, it was all about
Speaker 1: Madden and NHL. Yeah. The early Madden was awesome. When
Speaker 1: they had the ambulance that would come out in the field,
Speaker 1: it was so wonderful. And then the overlords at the
Speaker 1: nfls no, no, no, we're politically correct. We cut out
Speaker 1: having a relance out on the field. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: So I love that. Oh my god, the ambulance they
Speaker 1: came out, man, they corpora tized the Madden Game franchise.
Speaker 1: They took those and then the opening montages the way
Speaker 1: like the opening montages were great because they just had
Speaker 1: llacious hits, one receivers, the crackbacks, the heads of the
Speaker 1: head shots. They took all that shot out. Yeah it sucks.
Speaker 1: Hey we're the old guys complaining. Yeah, we're the old
Speaker 1: guys complaining. So uh. The the NFL also, I loved
Speaker 1: when I was a kid and we were in high school,
Speaker 1: we get fired up by watching NFL films and they
Speaker 1: had like the hardest you know, hardest hitters, hardest knockdowns,
Speaker 1: and it was great. All those videos were amazing. And
Speaker 1: they put Ray Nitchkey and Dick butt Kiss on there
Speaker 1: and they Chuck ben Nerrick would be talking about ripping
Speaker 1: a guy's head off, and uh, Jack Lambert would be
Speaker 1: going on about something with the Steelers back in the day,
Speaker 1: and it was it was amazing. As a kid, I
Speaker 1: loved that. Well, what about North of the Border Don
Speaker 1: Cherry who was a hockey commentators more yeah, more that
Speaker 1: he used to have rock'em sock 'em. He'd have it
Speaker 1: on cassette, on cassette tape, and our VHS and basically
Speaker 1: was goals, great saves, and then just great fights. It
Speaker 1: would be like Stu Grimson versus Marty McSorley, just ship
Speaker 1: like that Bob prober Taye DOMI guys that were throwing
Speaker 1: you know, I gotta you just dropped the name here
Speaker 1: that I I actually relate to here, Uh, Stu Grimson.
Speaker 1: When I covered the Mighty Ducks, he was kind of
Speaker 1: near the tail end of his run as a hockey player,
Speaker 1: at least, you know, he had he had become a
Speaker 1: name him as a a goon prior to that, and
Speaker 1: I I would interview because people knew who he was.
Speaker 1: And there's not a lot of guys in the Ducks
Speaker 1: in those days, and peop knew who he was. They
Speaker 1: were and so he went. He wrote like a children's book,
Speaker 1: if I remember correct. He was like a pretty even
Speaker 1: cool regular dude. But on the ice, he throwed down, man,
Speaker 1: he throwed down. But Stu Grimson, I haven't heard that
Speaker 1: name in a long time. Oh yeah, great, And he's
Speaker 1: intelligent to like guys. I believe you what the law
Speaker 1: school about that. But yeah, he was nice. He was.
Speaker 1: I I put a lot of his audio on the
Speaker 1: mighty six ninety back in the day. John the jailer
Speaker 1: from Alan Town p a right, since says we're currently
Speaker 1: getting our first dusting of snow. Would you ever consider
Speaker 1: moving to a colder area of the country, John, Yes.
Speaker 1: In fact, I occasionally wonder if I had taken that
Speaker 1: an offer to work in Boston years ago. And I
Speaker 1: always wonder if I had taken that. You know, I
Speaker 1: I love the passion of Boston sports, but I also
Speaker 1: know the weather in Boston is really nasty about five
Speaker 1: six months out of the year. It's pretty horrible, and uh,
Speaker 1: I think I would have but I would have adjusted.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, he's spend enough time somewhere you adapt.
Speaker 1: It'd be kind of cool to have snow everyone, So
Speaker 1: I don't know if you'd be happy if he had
Speaker 1: snow for two months in a row or something like that.
Speaker 1: But I always here from people that live in places
Speaker 1: where it snows, and they seem to get really excited
Speaker 1: when it snows, So it can't be that bad, right, Yeah. See,
Speaker 1: And in the benefit of being in Boston is then
Speaker 1: you can go to Vermont, Rhode Island, New York. Like
Speaker 1: You've got everything up there that you can get into
Speaker 1: whether it's for sports or leisure. Make a trip up
Speaker 1: to Canada. You're not that far away from Toronto, Montreal.
Speaker 1: Oh con alright Stopper Stopper in Mississippi asked the very
Speaker 1: important question is it really safe to drink your own urine? Stopper?
Speaker 1: First of all, listen, you should never take advice from
Speaker 1: an overnight sports radio show. You should certainly not take
Speaker 1: advice from Doc Mike. But I hold in my hand
Speaker 1: here three different books that have been written about people
Speaker 1: drinking their own piss. So would I advise it? No,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to advise it. But there are people
Speaker 1: that apparently do it, and there are videos of people
Speaker 1: doing it. So yeah, it's not it's not my my thing.
Speaker 1: But this guy that we had on Martin Laura, the
Speaker 1: guy that wrote with what we had him on there
Speaker 1: on the show, that guy is all in. So but
Speaker 1: to east their own stopper, right, I would advise it.
Speaker 1: You know, there's other things like water to drink. Matt
Speaker 1: from Holden Beach, North Carolina says, as a lifelong Eagles
Speaker 1: fan suffering through this dumpster fire of a season, if
Speaker 1: you were running the Eagles this year, would you fire
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson before the end of the season. Well, you're
Speaker 1: asking the wrong person, Matt, because I I think I've
Speaker 1: fired every coach in the NFL at one point or another.
Speaker 1: I I am captain knee jerk when it comes to
Speaker 1: coaching fires. I have fired Mike Tomlin over in Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: several times. Now, Mike Tomlins on my good side now
Speaker 1: because he's given me some good audio content recently. Doug
Speaker 1: Peterson's gotta be on the clock right He's facing a
Speaker 1: standing eight count at this point. It has only been
Speaker 1: a couple of years since they won the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: But that team is going the wrong direction and they're
Speaker 1: not a well coached team. You can tell they're not
Speaker 1: a well coached team the way that they these games
Speaker 1: have have gone down. I if I owned the Eagles,
Speaker 1: I would consider it. Now you can say, hey, let's
Speaker 1: give him mulligan because Carson Wentz is the problem. If
Speaker 1: you believe Carson Wentz is the problem, it's not a
Speaker 1: coaching problem. You can trade Carson Wentz and then give
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson another opportunity with some other quarterback and see
Speaker 1: if it will work. But he's got to be on
Speaker 1: that list of coaches that could be whacked at the
Speaker 1: at the end of the and then I gotta fire
Speaker 1: him during the season, but after the year, I could
Speaker 1: see it. Who gets fired first though, Anthony Lynn or
Speaker 1: Anthony Lynn. Yeah, he's he gone out of there. See
Speaker 1: you later. Uh valls fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee. He says,
Speaker 1: if you were the president, who would be on your
Speaker 1: cabinet from the crew and add Brian Finley and Arnie Spaniard. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe you can make Arnie your press secretary. Could you
Speaker 1: imagine a report partners newspaper writers. Oh, Brian could be
Speaker 1: the court jester, right, Brian Finley because he's he's got jokes. Well,
Speaker 1: he could hire the interns, is that right? Yeah? Give
Speaker 1: him a little Hey, hey, what's going on? I really
Speaker 1: love those videos that Finley puts up, the hard old
Speaker 1: videos he puts on the Internet. There to look at me.
Speaker 1: I'm behind the microphone a little bit. You do the
Speaker 1: same thing. No, I do not. I do not do
Speaker 1: a video saying look at me as I'm working. That's
Speaker 1: exactly what you're doing. No, I don't, well, I don't
Speaker 1: before on Twitter, I don't send a let's go behind
Speaker 1: the curtain. Okay, I got you, I got you. I
Speaker 1: don't know those kind of things. I'm not. You know,
Speaker 1: Brian's he's mastered Goofy's Sky School. You know he's he's
Speaker 1: hanging out in Goofy's playhouse. We love him, though. If
Speaker 1: he's happy with it and he gets paid for it,
Speaker 1: then all the power to him. Yeah. Kyle from San
Speaker 1: Antonio says, what is the most boring sport? Chess, backgammon,
Speaker 1: par Cheesi, or the W N B A. I think
Speaker 1: we all know the answer, Kyle. I don't even know
Speaker 1: any further there. Tiddley winks answer was the way to go.
Speaker 1: Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts, home of the Pro Basketball Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame and friend of Alfie Alien Opiner says, as
Speaker 1: someone who has never been west of Pennsylvania, what is
Speaker 1: your holy trinity of West Coast specific chain restaurants? All right,
Speaker 1: I'll go first, Uh, in and out is obviously at
Speaker 1: the very top, in and out, in and out. That's
Speaker 1: what a Hamburger is all about. Some of the other
Speaker 1: chains that are West Coast specific. I don't think Weener
Speaker 1: Schnitzel isn't national chain. Is great, that's not a national
Speaker 1: chain though, right. I think that's only in the West.
Speaker 1: I think they have underrated French fries. And the corn
Speaker 1: dog is to die It's good. Corn dog is amazing.
Speaker 1: And they got every kind of chili fries and you
Speaker 1: name it. They got a lot there. I'd say, fat
Speaker 1: Burger a little expensive for me. Fat Burger, good burger.
Speaker 1: Would you consider Carl's Jr. Or West Coast thing even
Speaker 1: though they have hardies. Yeah, I don't consider them West Coast.
Speaker 1: They call it Carl's Junior in the West, but I
Speaker 1: don't consider that West West Coast. Uh, Tommy's Tommy Chili Cheeseburgers,
Speaker 1: Tommy's Guy am Tommy's seat there late at night after
Speaker 1: the show when I was getting really fat, when I
Speaker 1: was really at my fattest, I would go to in
Speaker 1: the one in Hollywood right off the one on one
Speaker 1: and I'd sit in there in my car in the
Speaker 1: parking lot because don't want to have people see me eat.
Speaker 1: And I'd watched like there were so many people coming
Speaker 1: out of those clubs in Hollywood that would go down
Speaker 1: to Tommy's at three in the morning to eat the
Speaker 1: chili cheeseburgers. Oh that was place. Was a great I
Speaker 1: don't don't. I don't know if you you remember seeing
Speaker 1: it or if you've ever been by. But in between
Speaker 1: all the monstrosities in Las Vegas, all the hotels on
Speaker 1: the Strip, there's actually a Tommy's in the middle of
Speaker 1: two hotels. Yeah, that was the instant spot to go
Speaker 1: to for hangover. They have a White Castle now in Vegas.
Speaker 1: Man not a fan of the White Castle. It's in
Speaker 1: one of the hotels. Yeah. Vegas has added to some
Speaker 1: of those changes that you don't normally see here in
Speaker 1: the West. They've added some one of the some of Roscoe's.
Speaker 1: That's that Roscoe's Chicken and waffle. Trying to think what
Speaker 1: else anything else come to mind? West Coast restaurants that
Speaker 1: are kind of small chains that our guy Pierre in
Speaker 1: Massachusetts had have no idea about. Do they have Taco
Speaker 1: bell in the East Coast Taco? Yeah, Talco Del Taco.
Speaker 1: I don't think the Taco bells in Nashka, Yeah, Talco
Speaker 1: Taco Bells. Night. Come on, I'll talk about all right now. No,
Speaker 1: I know, I get crazy here. Lee and Phoenix says,
Speaker 1: have the Arizona Cardinals become relevant on your radar because
Speaker 1: you have two or three monologues a week about oh,
Speaker 1: we took a shot at you. Well, I'd just like
Speaker 1: to point out the frailties of alligator arms Murray. I've
Speaker 1: noticed on this podcast that David Gascon no longer brings
Speaker 1: his name up to praise Kyler Murray? Could that be
Speaker 1: because he has faired the last four weeks? No longer underappreciated?
Speaker 1: Is he? Kyler Murray has been baffling the NF fails,
Speaker 1: almost like they've figured him out, and now he is
Speaker 1: bemused when he runs around on the field. You don't
Speaker 1: know what to do. It's the sixteen game regular season
Speaker 1: schedule and plus the playoffs. I think we have to
Speaker 1: look at it as a as a whole, as opposed
Speaker 1: to looking at a couple of weeks. You would admit
Speaker 1: that he is mystified right now by what opposing defenses
Speaker 1: are doing. You would agree with me on that. Yes,
Speaker 1: I would admit a little bit to that. But I
Speaker 1: think there's some coaching issues to go along with it
Speaker 1: as well. I see, Okay, so the usual playbook to
Speaker 1: defend a quarterback, it's the coaches, Paul. It's it's the
Speaker 1: head coaches, Faul. You just did a monologue two days
Speaker 1: ago about how Sean McVeigh needs to go into that
Speaker 1: mode of protecting his team against his fucking quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I ripped the quarterback. Yeah yeah, exactly ripped the quarterback.
Speaker 1: But the Kyler Murray that you love you you had.
Speaker 1: This guy's your m v P. Not having the last
Speaker 1: of the season. Where is Kyler Murray as far as
Speaker 1: quarterback rating is concerned, I don't know. Middle of the back.
Speaker 1: He's essentially tied with Cam Newton. He's twenty three in
Speaker 1: the NFL and he's behind Mitch Trobiskie has a higher
Speaker 1: pass reading uh Andy Dalton, Alex Smith of the Washington
Speaker 1: Football Team. Jared Goff has been the better player over
Speaker 1: the last of the NFL season. That's fine. Four weeks.
Speaker 1: That's imagine being bad at your job of the time.
Speaker 1: That's still good. I'll get you in the Hall of Fame. Wow,
Speaker 1: you are such a defender and apologist. Long with ago man.
Speaker 1: He plays in the toughest division in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have his full weapon ry around him. That
Speaker 1: means defensively and offensively, and the play calling has been shoddy. Alright,
Speaker 1: So you're admitting you're such a loyalist to Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: that you're admitting the only way he's good is if
Speaker 1: everyone stays healthy. And we know that's reasonable position that
Speaker 1: players don't get hurt in football, so it's reasonable think
Speaker 1: that if ever the Cardinals have a season where no
Speaker 1: one gets injured, none of their key players get injured,
Speaker 1: then Kyler will win the champions. You know, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that. That's pretty much what you're saying. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it's pretty much what you're saying. You're a mouse
Speaker 1: mouthpiece for Kyler Murray. He needs to improve his level
Speaker 1: of play, including accuracy. But I think you're you're looking
Speaker 1: at this like it's just uh, you're a prisoner of
Speaker 1: the moment. Everything is just happening right before your eyes.
Speaker 1: I didn't hear a peep from you for the first
Speaker 1: eight weeks of the regular season, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you went into attack mode, where that's a lie.
Speaker 1: You just lied. Wash your mouth out with salt and water.
Speaker 1: I was I was roasting this guy even earlier in
Speaker 1: the year, and you were you were like, you were, like,
Speaker 1: what are you while you're doing that? He's playing great?
Speaker 1: I was like, no, he's he's he's a fraud. I
Speaker 1: was saying that early in this Open your ears. Bad
Speaker 1: job by you. It's a bad job by you. All Right,
Speaker 1: I have one more, one more email question. All right,
Speaker 1: you want to hear the last question here? Sure? Drumroll please?
Speaker 1: All right, the last the final question that made the
Speaker 1: cut here. Uh. This is from mckvin in Rockford, Illinois.
Speaker 1: Beautiful Rockford, Illinois. Is Kevin the biggest fan of the show.
Speaker 1: Is that the same Kevin? He says? Mr Mallard and
Speaker 1: Mr gascon Old. Yeah, that's just west of Rockford. There
Speaker 1: is a small city called Freeport, Illinois. Their school mascot,
Speaker 1: I shoot you not is a pretzel. That's that's great,
Speaker 1: the Freeport Pretzels. What weird mascots do you guys know of?
Speaker 1: That is the the question. Well, I don't know what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get, like high school ones. I don't
Speaker 1: you do more high school stuff than me? But I
Speaker 1: know in colleges that most of us know. The the
Speaker 1: ant Eaters where I grew up in Irvines pretty good,
Speaker 1: diculous having a mask at the ant Eater at cal
Speaker 1: State Bakersfield. The road Runners, road Runner Banana slugs, right,
Speaker 1: Santa Cruz. How about for all those football fans out
Speaker 1: there Coastal Carolina. Oh yeah, what the s Schanta clears.
Speaker 1: There's a community college in Arizona that had there are
Speaker 1: their masks an art choke. That's pretty amusing. I guess
Speaker 1: that's one mascot that you don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: someone you know, a hundred years from now saying hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get rid of this. You never know, you
Speaker 1: never know, you believe the art oft choke will become
Speaker 1: offensive to certain people, will be triggered. I need a
Speaker 1: safe space from art. When I was a kid, I
Speaker 1: needed a save space from artichoke. I did. Uh well,
Speaker 1: now cal State Long Beaches the forty Niners, but their
Speaker 1: baseball team, now they got they got rid of the
Speaker 1: forty Niners. They're not because the world is triggered behind
Speaker 1: Long Beach State's happy confine. So now they're just the
Speaker 1: Beach What. Yeah, I didn to see that. I thought
Speaker 1: they got heard of the logo, but they kept the nickname.
Speaker 1: All of it's out like, yeah, their baseball team is
Speaker 1: considered the dirt bags. Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. The dirt bags. Yeah, dirt bags. That
Speaker 1: is good, that's great. Yeah. Any other mascots that I'm
Speaker 1: forgetting here? That what about up in Modesto the minor
Speaker 1: league baseball team, the Modesto Nuts. Oh yeah, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: there's Minor League baseball has done a really good job
Speaker 1: with crazy nicknames, you know, just the ridiculous over the
Speaker 1: top nicknames. Yeah. Yeah, Um, like I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: the Biscuits, remember the Montgomery Biscuits. Yeah, yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: pretty good. Is there at one? There's a team in
Speaker 1: Michigan called the lung Nuts or something like that, Right,
Speaker 1: that's that's cool. Yeah, So I think that's it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all all right, Thank you, kevinth that you everyone
Speaker 1: that email appreciate that if you did not hear the
Speaker 1: other podcast for some reason. Over the weekend, we had
Speaker 1: the chief on David's father, who ran the l a
Speaker 1: p D with the big shots of the l a
Speaker 1: p D for over thirty years and was central in
Speaker 1: the O. J. Simpson case, and we get to that
Speaker 1: in that Friday conversation. So you can hear that and
Speaker 1: uh and also if you want to hear a wellness
Speaker 1: update on Dick in Dayton that was on the Saturday podcast,
Speaker 1: as well as a hum dinger humdinger of a day
Speaker 1: that I had on Monday of this week, but have
Speaker 1: a great day. Will be back on the radio. I
Speaker 1: will be tonight into Monday. Another edition of The Ben
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