WEBVTT - Bag It 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:05.560 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:09.280 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.560 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.560 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:19.599 rich pill poppers in the penthouse to clearing house, some 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:24.200 hot takes, break free for something Special Tour with Ben 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:31.280 Maller starts right now in the air everywhere like football 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:36.760 professional football, the first Sunday Sunday Sunday of the NFL season. 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:40.519 The mail back continues and it never ends, joined by 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:42.600 the man from West of the fourth five. Now he 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.080 I think you have to step out. You only have 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:47.519 a few minutes here, Gascon. You have another assignment here 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:49.280 that you have to get to. So we'll have you 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:51.680 for the first part of this a mail bag and 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:55.960 then I will carry the baton after that. But West 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.440 of the four or five David Gascon making his way 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:01.680 into the podcast as studio. I'm here, I'm here, I'm here. 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:06.880 I got some bad news. What's that you know? Like 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.440 when you can go to Costco? Will you do usually 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:11.480 get your medicine at a Costco? Or do you go 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:15.319 to a local pharmacy where do you go, Uh, well, 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:19.440 we have through the insurance, I think my wife's insurance. 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:23.000 We are with one of the big man. I wish 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.360 we went to Costco, but no, we go to one 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:29.280 of the big medical conglomerates. I promote them. I just 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:32.440 got a bill that I might have to pay for 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:41.080 two small little prescription medications eight hundred and ten dollars 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:44.240 from Costco or what? No, just from my local pharmacy. 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:46.920 Like my did you contact your insurance and say, yeah, 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:48.640 my insurance and issues said that they're not going to 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:52.720 pick it up. Did you threaten to hire a lawyer? Deal? 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:54.520 Kidding right, It's like, can I get some lube with 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:57.639 this thing? Holy sh it? Eight hundred dollars plus? Well, 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.560 typically you do, they tell you like, have to threaten 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:02.160 a lawsuit, and then they'll be like, what, it's just 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.440 cheaper to just pay the money. That's what I've heard. 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:07.720 I don't know. I've never had to do it, man, 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.320 I might maybe be going the hippie route for for treatment. 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.959 You're gonna go, Doc Mike and just drink your own urine, 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:19.280 drink my own urine, bathing my own urine, uh, cook 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.799 my own urine, and a microwave. Whatever should he does. Hey, listen, 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:26.360 I am a little surprised, and speaking of the mail bag, 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.840 this is a this is a turbulent week for you. 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:31.760 I don't I don't know if I should do this 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.560 and not, but I'm going to. Since you're on the 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:38.400 mailbag session of this weekend podcast, I think it got 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:42.560 to publicly apologize, not only to Brian Fenley, but you 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.840 might have to apologize to moving man Matt, like you 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.640 took out a baton and a sledgehammer and a shovel 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.280 and he decided to club all of them and then 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:55.120 dig a ditch and put him into it. Uh no, 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.680 I don't. You're a little saucy this week. I was, well, 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.400 you know, it's retired. Well, I was a little tired. 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:03.320 I had to do some extra work, you know, and 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:05.800 I did not really have much of a weekend sleeping. 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:10.160 I've been I've moved, and they've been doing construction randomly 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:12.600 during the day. I don't have air conditioning. I have 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:14.760 a room airic conditioning, which doesn't really work as well 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.000 as I would I would like him. It's good, but 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:21.320 not really sleeping good. So I don't have blackout curtains up, 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:26.440 so all the comforts of life. That made me, uh, 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:27.920 you know, kind of deal with a lot of the 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:32.720 bull crap I don't currently have right now, but like 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.320 like Moving Man Matt. I think I'm on the email 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.880 that he said I didn't like your tone. I thought that. 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:39.480 I don't think I was wrong, and I might have 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.240 been wrong to call him a do She's a big fan, 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:45.560 and I appreciate the fandom of Moving Man Matt. As 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:47.760 far as Brian, I know, as a bunch of people 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.960 emailing me asking me about that Kurf fluffle that took 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:56.440 place that rhubarb um. But Brian wanted to get into 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:58.640 the ring, and when you get into the ring, and 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.080 you've gotta you gotta make sure you don't punch outside 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.360 your weight class, and and he made the mistake and 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:06.720 and then you know, and then I'm the bad guy 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:10.000 because he was the one pick in the fight, and uh, 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.920 and then I engaged in him, and then I'm I'm 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.360 the bully, which I don't. I don't think that's that's 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.640 the kid. I like Brian, I I don't. I think 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:24.080 he means well. And hopefully going forward we will we 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:27.440 will not have this issue again. But I've always had 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:31.479 the philosophy, and I I had Brian's job, you know, 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.120 years ago, I was a weekend anchor and I filled in. 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:36.760 And you know, it's just the way I was taught 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:40.719 that when you're in someone else's house, you don't piss 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:44.080 all over the carpet. And so that's always how I Now. 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:46.240 Some people leave, you should piss all over the carpet, 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.000 but I I I was raised for not to do that. 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:51.200 And so, uh it bothers me when people come into 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:53.919 to somebody else's house and uh, you know, try to 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.919 ship on the kitchen floor. Well, you haven't been to 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:58.960 San Francisco in a while, then I take it, Well, no, 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:00.680 I have not, but that happens in l A two. 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:06.560 So anywhere where the honorable governor overseas. Uh, I'll see 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.599 you've had You've had all these elements. No sleep, no 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:15.400 lighting or poor lighting, poor lighting, hungry, extra work, no weekends, 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:22.560 no kitchen, had a kitchen. Of course, I'll occasionally complain 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:24.279 to my wife and say, you know, this is not 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:26.880 She's how exciting everything is. He like, it's all excited 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:30.719 about everything, And I'm like, you know, I'm not on 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.400 that that picture. But I do have my ballot here. 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.120 I'm holding my ballot in my my hand, and it's 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:39.120 a very simple ballot, although it's very long living in 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.800 the state of California. There not question for you, and 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.880 it says very simply, a shall Galvin Gavin Newsom be 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:48.040 recalled removed from the office of governor and you can 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.640 either vote yes or no. And then it has candidates 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.880 to succeed Gavin Newsom as governor if he is recalled, 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:57.080 and there are. I didn't realize how many people were running. 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:00.480 I see Caitlin Jenner to some that we've heard of, 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:02.840 Larry Elder, who we support. I think both of the 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:08.800 support Uh Angeline, Uh, he's running. It's some of these 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.840 other people though, I don't know that Chauncey slim Killings, 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:17.840 retired correctional offer officer. Um. Looking, I'm trying to see 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.240 if any other names here. There's a lot of political 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:24.240 hacks that I don't software engineers running major singh I 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.360 think is the name. Yeah, I got a question for then, Yeah, 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:32.960 so who did your parents vote for? Uh? Oh, my pace, Well, 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:35.159 if if I don't we know, I don't know, I 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:38.080 mean my dad did he he vote? That would be 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:42.000 that was something are dead people voting. You know that. Uh, 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:46.200 I don't know. Man, Apparently that stuff does not happen. Well, 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:49.640 I'm sure some of that that happens. Well, it depends 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:53.040 on who wins. That's that will be Whoever whatever side 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.920 loses will claim that there was there was fraud. I mean, 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.440 doesn't matter anyway. Let's say like Larry Elder gets in, 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:03.799 he's only gonna be the governor. Governor for fourteen months. Yeah, 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:06.080 you can, you can do some stuff for four teen Yeah, 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.000 but the legislator is controlled by the Democrat. I think 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:11.080 it's like democrats. So I don't know if he's be 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.600 able to move a lot. At least you can try, yeah, 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.040 you know, and at that point if you try, and 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.320 and and one thing about Larry Elder, he's very he's 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:21.760 a very good communicator from his years in broadcasting. He's 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.320 very good at getting a message across. And so the 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.600 theory would be that he could let people know that listen, 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:30.880 this is I'm trying a B and C and X, 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.000 Y and Z is why this isn't happening. So if 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:36.680 you want things to change, you then have to vote 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:40.160 out these is of these country bumpkers, these other rubes 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:44.280 that are supporting the nonsense that's going on. So and 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:45.960 there are as you know, he's pointed. I don't know 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.520 if he's blowing smoker, I but Elder has said that 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:53.200 there are certain powers the governor has that you can 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.160 use and get some actual change to kind of overstep 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.440 the legislature if you choose to do it. So hey, 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.080 we'll see. We have a for a few emails with you, 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.760 and then you gotta step out. So uh, this is 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:08.040 Lord Goofa from Hooverville, USA, says for you and whatever 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:12.560 co host it is, would you rather wake up in 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.960 the in your underwear at work or wake up naked 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.920 in the woods twenty miles from home? All right, so 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.280 I'm gonna go first. Now, the answer for me is, uh, 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.800 in my underwear at work, because I have a studio 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:29.520 in the house I am in and I could be 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.520 in my underwear at work. I could be in my 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.680 underwear right now and nobody would know it's radio. But 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.160 if I had a job where I was around other 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.240 people in a in an office environment, and I would 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:44.840 rather be naked in the woods twenty miles from home, 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.840 I think I would that would be preferable because I 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:49.480 figured there's not many people out in the woods, and 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.320 I think I could handle it. Okay, I get I 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.280 get some some leaves or something. I'd be like Adam 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.160 and Eve and get some leaves to cover my my 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:59.240 private parts, my twig in berries. You know. Yeah, I'd 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:02.000 rather do that. Um. Part of the reason is if 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:05.120 I'm in here, there's just certain people that like to 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.600 talk a lot, and they feel like they can garner 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:11.640 attention by you know, bringing that to the people who 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:16.840 upstairs for what think so a little odd but yeah, 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:18.560 I mean you have people that you know, try to 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:22.080 take people's jobs and stuff like that. So might be 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:26.240 some some snakes in the grass a little lot, a 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:30.160 little odds. So yeah, I'd rather be in I'd rather 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:34.160 be in Death Valley naked than than be here in 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:40.240 my underwear. Yeah, all right. Next next email, Rich rights 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.280 in from Parts and Only says, will you ever switched 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:48.240 to everyday podcast instead of the dying radio industry? Well, 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:52.120 the radio industry is not dying, that's number one. It's 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:56.440 changed a lot. I will give you that. The problem 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:59.800 the flaw with the podcast thing, and I this podcast 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:04.360 does very well, but the percentage of the amount of 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:07.000 podcasts that are available, and the percentage of people that 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:11.000 listen to each podcast, it's I think we we got 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:16.120 we saw some numbers on on one of the data websites. 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:21.319 It's like there's only four or five of podcasts. I 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.240 don't even know if that numbers. Maybe I'm I'm that 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:24.760 number is wrong as I understand it, though, it's like 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.120 podcast people do no one listens, like we're lucky that 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.800 this podcast has a following, and but it's because of 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.720 the radio show rich Maybe people I I've been on 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:37.400 radio and and I make a lot more money from 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:41.040 radio than I do from the podcast. And there are 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:44.800 some podcasts that do very well. Joe Rogan clearly has 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:48.120 a lot of advertisers as very well. Dan Lebotard has 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.880 been able to monetize that. There's some former athletes that 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:54.840 have deals with Fortune five hungry companies. But by and large, 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.520 most of the people that do this content are not 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:02.360 making what you think they're making. There's and and they'd 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.240 love to do radio because radio and there's more people 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.880 that listen to radio. It's hard for people to grasp 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:11.680 that that even with all of the platforms, most people 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.960 go what's convenient, and for a lot of people when 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:16.840 you're driving around. Even though you can listen to a 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:19.360 podcast and cook hook it up to your your phone, 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:21.200 a lot of people, I mean just turn on the 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:22.760 radio and flip around the dial and see if I 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:24.800 can find something to listen to, because it's just easier. 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.360 It's just convenient and having to plug your phone in 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.640 or connect the bluetooth and and then click click on 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:32.920 the podcast page and then find the latest podcast that 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:34.160 you want to listen to. So there's a lot of 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.199 work that goes into a podcast. We're on the radio, 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:38.800 it's pretty simple. It's full proof. Whatever whoever whatever idiots 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:40.880 in the radio box is on at the time, you're 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:42.320 in the car, and you listen to him, and if 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:43.719 you like him and I you flip the button you 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:47.360 go to a different station. But uh, but no, I 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.480 mean the podcast. At some point I have a feeling, well, 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:52.120 I will just when when I'm done with radio and 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.440 I want to just work. I have the podcast studio 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.760 set up, so I'll just do that. But I love radio. 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.920 I love I love the the live reaction we get 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:06.720 in radio. So what else? Pierre from Springfield, mass home 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:12.160 of the Pro Basketball of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, says, uh, 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:16.680 we're Muffett McGraw's inshrine. Ben. Now that you dropped the 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:20.959 cartoon anvil down on the head of Ned Flanders, should 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:24.880 any other co workers be looking over their shoulder? It says, 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:30.400 maybe someone on the the podcast. So he says, no, no, no, Pierre, 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.959 I don't know that that is the case. Uh. The 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.760 most part, I'm mostly mellow, but every once in a 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:42.480 while and someone hits my button, then I will explode 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:49.680 into Mount Mallard a volcanic eruption co boom. But doesn't happen, 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.720 though doesn't A few times a year that will happen, 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.840 and usually it is directly related. There's a correlation between 0:12:56.040 --> 0:13:01.160 sleep schedule and uh you know have you know certain 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:04.840 things go wrong, hey wire that are out of out 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.679 of my control, that drive me to the edge. So 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.600 as long as those things don't happen, I'm pretty most 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.640 of the time. Yeah. I remember I had a producer 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:17.240 one time I had screamed at and I asked him, 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.760 I said, would you rather me be a small asshole 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.360 every day or pretty mellow and then every once in 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:28.400 a while be a total asshole? Yeah? Yeah, he picked that. Yeah, 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.920 So I try to no one's perv. I don't know 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:35.800 anyone that never gets angry or upset and overreacts and uh, 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:37.880 you know, acts like an idiot and all that. I mean, 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:41.040 I I I'm as guilty as anybody, but I try 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.240 to I try to limit that. But you know, some points, Pierre, 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:47.400 We're all fallible, right, We're all human, we all funk up. 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:51.160 So anyway. Uh. Pierre also says, did you ever imagine 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:54.199 a day where you would look forward to working with 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:58.240 wreck itt Ralph compared to the other guy He looks 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:03.080 like a regular George Michael and his sports machine. Yeah, 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.199 you know, it was very odd this week. And you know, 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.400 record Ralph has been a rival. And I've known Ralph 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:09.240 since I worked in San Diego back in the day 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:11.200 million years ago. I was a young pup intern in 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.960 San Diego and Ralph and I have been in the 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.720 business side by side all these years later, and we 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:18.840 always tell old stories about hacksaw and go back the 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:23.640 old days. But um, yeah, I know, I I loved 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:25.840 when I saw you know, Ralph on the schedule, and 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.360 it was it was it was a joy. Now this 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:30.200 and there's things about Ralph that annoy me too, But 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.080 overall compared to what we had earlier in the week, 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:38.160 the hostile takeover. I'm I'm all about record Roup. I'm 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:42.520 all about record row. Alright, the mail bag, back to 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:46.640 it we go, Who is next? Jason in Rocky Mount, Virginia. 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:50.360 Jason and Rocky Mount Virginia. He says, big Bat. I 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:54.080 thought you may have been a little tough on Brian, 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:56.560 but it seems like you put him in his place 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:00.760 as he sat there and sucked his thumb the rest 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.360 of the week. Do you feel like now whenever he 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:07.280 fills in the twenty seven minute updates are finally over 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:08.760 and I listen is a topic. We're gonna get a 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:12.640 lot of questions in the mail bag about what happened? Uh? 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.160 And do I think it's over? I think it's over 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:17.440 for a while. I think it's over for a while. 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.520 But what happened here, as we said, it was a 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:23.880 hostile takeover? And Brian thought that I would just sit 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:30.120 there and take incoming incoming weapons, uh torpedoes being directed 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:34.720 at me, and uh, I said, you know, I said, well, surprise, motherfucker. 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:36.400 I'm not in the mood to do that. And then 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:38.560 I had to go nuclear. I had to go down 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.720 the nuclear option. And you heard what happened during the 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:45.440 radio show at the beginning of of Eddie Garcia's a 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:49.080 vacation week, and so it ended up where Brian had 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:56.000 to make a hasty retreat to the corner. And hate 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:59.840 when that hate when that happens. So keep in mind though. 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:04.200 One of the issues that we have with the overnight 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.000 is we have a fair amount of anchors, but as 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:10.040 I understand it, what I've heard through the grapevine is 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:13.480 a number of them are not interested, are not interested 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:17.600 in working the overnight hours. And it is a tough schedule. 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.600 The shift is not for everyone. You've got to have 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:25.480 some hair on your chest. And two stopsterman. Anybody that 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.800 works the overnight any job, whether you're in radio or not, 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:32.480 it can be a grind and it's not for everybody. 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.000 And so we only have a few people that are 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.120 willing willing to do it. Uh and uh. And so 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.440 it's a short list. It's a shortlist. Whose who else 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:44.560 is on the email? Jennifer Enrichmond, Virginia says Hi, Ben 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:48.960 and other guy. If you were taking a stroll on 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:52.320 a path through the woods and came across a large 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:58.680 oak tree, swarming with bees? What would you do? Jennifer writes, 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:02.760 if more than one he started attacking and stinging as 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:06.080 you proceeded to run like the wind, how else would 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:07.760 you get them off of you? Would you roll on 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:12.480 the ground, jump in the nearby creek, cuss them off? 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:17.200 I really want to know, says Jennifer. That's a great question. 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.159 This is a unique question, Jennifer, and I want to 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.320 thank you for that, because I don't think we've ever 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:25.639 gotten this question. And you know, a lot of times 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.680 the questions all kind of sound the scene after a while, 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:33.560 but listen to good job by you. The crowd goes 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.320 wild for you, Jennifer. That, uh, this is the anque question. 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:40.320 So if I am strolling on a path through the 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.120 woods and I come across a large oak tree swarming 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:48.040 with bees, uh, of the options you laid out, I 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:51.560 would choose to jump in the creek. I think rolling 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:55.680 on the ground you would likely end up rolling on 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.440 some bees. You'd end up getting stung stung that way, 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:01.600 so I don't think that would be the way to go. Uh. 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:07.040 And I'm pretty confident that bees don't mind bad language, 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:11.879 that you can curse and bees won't really care so 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.240 all the options you laid out, I'm saying, what else 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:16.600 Off the top of my head, you you could do. 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:18.960 I guess you could take a if you could do 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:23.080 it quick enough. A branch or is Adrian Pearson said, 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:26.240 back into a switch, Uh, you know, and you could 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:29.399 take that switch and start whacking away like your you know, 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:33.119 whoever your favorite baseball player is, and just just go 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:35.640 for it an attempt to knock that you know what 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:38.240 out of out of the bees. I mean that that 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:41.359 would be the other option, but that you've gotta be 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:43.919 quick enough, and you've got to get a branch that 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:47.760 can be like a Louisville slugger. And if you fail, 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.199 if you fail to do that quick enough, well that 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:55.720 will not end. That will not end well. So the bees. 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:58.159 It will not be the bee's knees. It will be 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:00.840 the bees. Dinner will be with That is all right? 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:04.600 What is next here? Ronnie Date from Casey says, would 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:08.480 you ever consider doing a fifth hour podcast with some 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:11.119 of the lame jokes you're not allowed to read on 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:14.440 the Mallard Show. Well, Ronnie, we get this question a lot. 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:15.960 I think we've answered in the past, but let me 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:20.480 be very clear and to the point. I would love 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:25.240 to do that, but there are long term ramifications. The 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:29.360 Wokesters have no sense of humor. Life would be so 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:32.439 much better for all of us if people could just 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:34.720 laugh and and have fun and have a good time 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:37.239 and not everything has to be the most offensive thing 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:39.200 in the world. Not everything has to be the worst 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:41.760 thing in the world. Uh. And but the problem, Ronnie, 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:44.879 and I'll give you the Jeopardy answer to you and 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:47.080 to the other people, I'm sure we'll continue to answer 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:49.359 this question, or send the question and ask me to 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:53.360 answer the question. So the the guy that was going 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:56.840 to be the Jeopardy host. One of the things that 0:19:56.920 --> 0:19:58.879 took him down other than the fact that he was 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:01.159 asked to nate to I'm the next Jeopardy host and 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:03.320 just named himself, which takes a hell of a lot 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:06.840 of hutzpah, but the guy also had a bunch of 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:10.600 old podcasts that were comedy podcast where he was doing 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:14.080 comedy and it was, as I remember as racial stuff 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:16.680 I believe it was, and people were holding that against 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:19.560 him and saying that this guy can't host Jeopardy because 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:22.040 he did a podcast where he he did some comedy 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:28.199 and it was offensive comedy that's the problem. Like the jokes, 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:33.200 many of the jokes we don't read are tremendously racist 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:37.960 to the wokesters. Uh, they're they're sexist, right, you know, 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:41.600 the usual, the usual stuff that gets people in trouble, 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:44.280 and so we have to avoid that. And if I 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:46.160 read them on the podcast, they'd be great, you'd laugh 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:49.240 your ass off. We they're funny jokes, they're good jokes, 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:52.199 the kind of jokes I grew up on listening to 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:54.640 and some of my favorite comedians did that kind of comedy. 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:59.480 And but now if it's my name reading the jokes, 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:01.840 then all of a sudden, it's not gonna affect me 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:04.760 now per se. But you know, someday, if I have 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:06.560 to leave Fox Sports Radio and I want to go 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:09.680 work somewhere else, and and it's a it's a high 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:13.160 profile job, people will go back and start snooping around, 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:15.800 try to tear you down and see if they can 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:20.800 find any kind of mistake, right, any kind of mistake there. 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:25.320 And if they find it, they'll be like, yeah, they'll 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:27.679 be so excited, right, they'll be like, that is great, 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:31.679 we found something and we've we've gotten So you always 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:36.280 have to be on the defensive Yeah, Yeah, you gotta 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:41.280 play defense. You do even on a podcast. All right, 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:47.440 Lee in Phoenix, right, since says Ben. By the way, 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:49.720 guesscon had to step out. Lee, so you're you're not 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:55.240 going to get Guestscon here uh ripping you and taking 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:58.800 time out of his schedule to uh to assault you. 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:02.680 Uh he's busy anyway, Lie, says Ben. I just went 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:05.800 to a Guns and Roses concerts. So my question is 0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:09.080 are you a fan of rock, of a rock band 0:22:10.080 --> 0:22:13.679 or do you have any experience on going to a 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:19.320