Speaker 1: Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse to clearing house, some
Speaker 1: hot takes, break free for something Special Tour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller starts right now in the air everywhere like football
Speaker 1: professional football, the first Sunday Sunday Sunday of the NFL season.
Speaker 1: The mail back continues and it never ends, joined by
Speaker 1: the man from West of the fourth five. Now he
Speaker 1: I think you have to step out. You only have
Speaker 1: a few minutes here, Gascon. You have another assignment here
Speaker 1: that you have to get to. So we'll have you
Speaker 1: for the first part of this a mail bag and
Speaker 1: then I will carry the baton after that. But West
Speaker 1: of the four or five David Gascon making his way
Speaker 1: into the podcast as studio. I'm here, I'm here, I'm here.
Speaker 1: I got some bad news. What's that you know? Like
Speaker 1: when you can go to Costco? Will you do usually
Speaker 1: get your medicine at a Costco? Or do you go
Speaker 1: to a local pharmacy where do you go, Uh, well,
Speaker 1: we have through the insurance, I think my wife's insurance.
Speaker 1: We are with one of the big man. I wish
Speaker 1: we went to Costco, but no, we go to one
Speaker 1: of the big medical conglomerates. I promote them. I just
Speaker 1: got a bill that I might have to pay for
Speaker 1: two small little prescription medications eight hundred and ten dollars
Speaker 1: from Costco or what? No, just from my local pharmacy.
Speaker 1: Like my did you contact your insurance and say, yeah,
Speaker 1: my insurance and issues said that they're not going to
Speaker 1: pick it up. Did you threaten to hire a lawyer? Deal?
Speaker 1: Kidding right, It's like, can I get some lube with
Speaker 1: this thing? Holy sh it? Eight hundred dollars plus? Well,
Speaker 1: typically you do, they tell you like, have to threaten
Speaker 1: a lawsuit, and then they'll be like, what, it's just
Speaker 1: cheaper to just pay the money. That's what I've heard.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I've never had to do it, man,
Speaker 1: I might maybe be going the hippie route for for treatment.
Speaker 1: You're gonna go, Doc Mike and just drink your own urine,
Speaker 1: drink my own urine, bathing my own urine, uh, cook
Speaker 1: my own urine, and a microwave. Whatever should he does. Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: I am a little surprised, and speaking of the mail bag,
Speaker 1: this is a this is a turbulent week for you.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if I should do this
Speaker 1: and not, but I'm going to. Since you're on the
Speaker 1: mailbag session of this weekend podcast, I think it got
Speaker 1: to publicly apologize, not only to Brian Fenley, but you
Speaker 1: might have to apologize to moving man Matt, like you
Speaker 1: took out a baton and a sledgehammer and a shovel
Speaker 1: and he decided to club all of them and then
Speaker 1: dig a ditch and put him into it. Uh no,
Speaker 1: I don't. You're a little saucy this week. I was, well,
Speaker 1: you know, it's retired. Well, I was a little tired.
Speaker 1: I had to do some extra work, you know, and
Speaker 1: I did not really have much of a weekend sleeping.
Speaker 1: I've been I've moved, and they've been doing construction randomly
Speaker 1: during the day. I don't have air conditioning. I have
Speaker 1: a room airic conditioning, which doesn't really work as well
Speaker 1: as I would I would like him. It's good, but
Speaker 1: not really sleeping good. So I don't have blackout curtains up,
Speaker 1: so all the comforts of life. That made me, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of deal with a lot of the
Speaker 1: bull crap I don't currently have right now, but like
Speaker 1: like Moving Man Matt. I think I'm on the email
Speaker 1: that he said I didn't like your tone. I thought that.
Speaker 1: I don't think I was wrong, and I might have
Speaker 1: been wrong to call him a do She's a big fan,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate the fandom of Moving Man Matt. As
Speaker 1: far as Brian, I know, as a bunch of people
Speaker 1: emailing me asking me about that Kurf fluffle that took
Speaker 1: place that rhubarb um. But Brian wanted to get into
Speaker 1: the ring, and when you get into the ring, and
Speaker 1: you've gotta you gotta make sure you don't punch outside
Speaker 1: your weight class, and and he made the mistake and
Speaker 1: and then you know, and then I'm the bad guy
Speaker 1: because he was the one pick in the fight, and uh,
Speaker 1: and then I engaged in him, and then I'm I'm
Speaker 1: the bully, which I don't. I don't think that's that's
Speaker 1: the kid. I like Brian, I I don't. I think
Speaker 1: he means well. And hopefully going forward we will we
Speaker 1: will not have this issue again. But I've always had
Speaker 1: the philosophy, and I I had Brian's job, you know,
Speaker 1: years ago, I was a weekend anchor and I filled in.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's just the way I was taught
Speaker 1: that when you're in someone else's house, you don't piss
Speaker 1: all over the carpet. And so that's always how I Now.
Speaker 1: Some people leave, you should piss all over the carpet,
Speaker 1: but I I I was raised for not to do that.
Speaker 1: And so, uh it bothers me when people come into
Speaker 1: to somebody else's house and uh, you know, try to
Speaker 1: ship on the kitchen floor. Well, you haven't been to
Speaker 1: San Francisco in a while, then I take it, Well, no,
Speaker 1: I have not, but that happens in l A two.
Speaker 1: So anywhere where the honorable governor overseas. Uh, I'll see
Speaker 1: you've had You've had all these elements. No sleep, no
Speaker 1: lighting or poor lighting, poor lighting, hungry, extra work, no weekends,
Speaker 1: no kitchen, had a kitchen. Of course, I'll occasionally complain
Speaker 1: to my wife and say, you know, this is not
Speaker 1: She's how exciting everything is. He like, it's all excited
Speaker 1: about everything, And I'm like, you know, I'm not on
Speaker 1: that that picture. But I do have my ballot here.
Speaker 1: I'm holding my ballot in my my hand, and it's
Speaker 1: a very simple ballot, although it's very long living in
Speaker 1: the state of California. There not question for you, and
Speaker 1: it says very simply, a shall Galvin Gavin Newsom be
Speaker 1: recalled removed from the office of governor and you can
Speaker 1: either vote yes or no. And then it has candidates
Speaker 1: to succeed Gavin Newsom as governor if he is recalled,
Speaker 1: and there are. I didn't realize how many people were running.
Speaker 1: I see Caitlin Jenner to some that we've heard of,
Speaker 1: Larry Elder, who we support. I think both of the
Speaker 1: support Uh Angeline, Uh, he's running. It's some of these
Speaker 1: other people though, I don't know that Chauncey slim Killings,
Speaker 1: retired correctional offer officer. Um. Looking, I'm trying to see
Speaker 1: if any other names here. There's a lot of political
Speaker 1: hacks that I don't software engineers running major singh I
Speaker 1: think is the name. Yeah, I got a question for then, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so who did your parents vote for? Uh? Oh, my pace, Well,
Speaker 1: if if I don't we know, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: mean my dad did he he vote? That would be
Speaker 1: that was something are dead people voting. You know that. Uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Man, Apparently that stuff does not happen. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm sure some of that that happens. Well, it depends
Speaker 1: on who wins. That's that will be Whoever whatever side
Speaker 1: loses will claim that there was there was fraud. I mean,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter anyway. Let's say like Larry Elder gets in,
Speaker 1: he's only gonna be the governor. Governor for fourteen months. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can, you can do some stuff for four teen Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the legislator is controlled by the Democrat. I think
Speaker 1: it's like democrats. So I don't know if he's be
Speaker 1: able to move a lot. At least you can try, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and at that point if you try, and
Speaker 1: and and one thing about Larry Elder, he's very he's
Speaker 1: a very good communicator from his years in broadcasting. He's
Speaker 1: very good at getting a message across. And so the
Speaker 1: theory would be that he could let people know that listen,
Speaker 1: this is I'm trying a B and C and X,
Speaker 1: Y and Z is why this isn't happening. So if
Speaker 1: you want things to change, you then have to vote
Speaker 1: out these is of these country bumpkers, these other rubes
Speaker 1: that are supporting the nonsense that's going on. So and
Speaker 1: there are as you know, he's pointed. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's blowing smoker, I but Elder has said that
Speaker 1: there are certain powers the governor has that you can
Speaker 1: use and get some actual change to kind of overstep
Speaker 1: the legislature if you choose to do it. So hey,
Speaker 1: we'll see. We have a for a few emails with you,
Speaker 1: and then you gotta step out. So uh, this is
Speaker 1: Lord Goofa from Hooverville, USA, says for you and whatever
Speaker 1: co host it is, would you rather wake up in
Speaker 1: the in your underwear at work or wake up naked
Speaker 1: in the woods twenty miles from home? All right, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go first. Now, the answer for me is, uh,
Speaker 1: in my underwear at work, because I have a studio
Speaker 1: in the house I am in and I could be
Speaker 1: in my underwear at work. I could be in my
Speaker 1: underwear right now and nobody would know it's radio. But
Speaker 1: if I had a job where I was around other
Speaker 1: people in a in an office environment, and I would
Speaker 1: rather be naked in the woods twenty miles from home,
Speaker 1: I think I would that would be preferable because I
Speaker 1: figured there's not many people out in the woods, and
Speaker 1: I think I could handle it. Okay, I get I
Speaker 1: get some some leaves or something. I'd be like Adam
Speaker 1: and Eve and get some leaves to cover my my
Speaker 1: private parts, my twig in berries. You know. Yeah, I'd
Speaker 1: rather do that. Um. Part of the reason is if
Speaker 1: I'm in here, there's just certain people that like to
Speaker 1: talk a lot, and they feel like they can garner
Speaker 1: attention by you know, bringing that to the people who
Speaker 1: upstairs for what think so a little odd but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you have people that you know, try to
Speaker 1: take people's jobs and stuff like that. So might be
Speaker 1: some some snakes in the grass a little lot, a
Speaker 1: little odds. So yeah, I'd rather be in I'd rather
Speaker 1: be in Death Valley naked than than be here in
Speaker 1: my underwear. Yeah, all right. Next next email, Rich rights
Speaker 1: in from Parts and Only says, will you ever switched
Speaker 1: to everyday podcast instead of the dying radio industry? Well,
Speaker 1: the radio industry is not dying, that's number one. It's
Speaker 1: changed a lot. I will give you that. The problem
Speaker 1: the flaw with the podcast thing, and I this podcast
Speaker 1: does very well, but the percentage of the amount of
Speaker 1: podcasts that are available, and the percentage of people that
Speaker 1: listen to each podcast, it's I think we we got
Speaker 1: we saw some numbers on on one of the data websites.
Speaker 1: It's like there's only four or five of podcasts. I
Speaker 1: don't even know if that numbers. Maybe I'm I'm that
Speaker 1: number is wrong as I understand it, though, it's like
Speaker 1: podcast people do no one listens, like we're lucky that
Speaker 1: this podcast has a following, and but it's because of
Speaker 1: the radio show rich Maybe people I I've been on
Speaker 1: radio and and I make a lot more money from
Speaker 1: radio than I do from the podcast. And there are
Speaker 1: some podcasts that do very well. Joe Rogan clearly has
Speaker 1: a lot of advertisers as very well. Dan Lebotard has
Speaker 1: been able to monetize that. There's some former athletes that
Speaker 1: have deals with Fortune five hungry companies. But by and large,
Speaker 1: most of the people that do this content are not
Speaker 1: making what you think they're making. There's and and they'd
Speaker 1: love to do radio because radio and there's more people
Speaker 1: that listen to radio. It's hard for people to grasp
Speaker 1: that that even with all of the platforms, most people
Speaker 1: go what's convenient, and for a lot of people when
Speaker 1: you're driving around. Even though you can listen to a
Speaker 1: podcast and cook hook it up to your your phone,
Speaker 1: a lot of people, I mean just turn on the
Speaker 1: radio and flip around the dial and see if I
Speaker 1: can find something to listen to, because it's just easier.
Speaker 1: It's just convenient and having to plug your phone in
Speaker 1: or connect the bluetooth and and then click click on
Speaker 1: the podcast page and then find the latest podcast that
Speaker 1: you want to listen to. So there's a lot of
Speaker 1: work that goes into a podcast. We're on the radio,
Speaker 1: it's pretty simple. It's full proof. Whatever whoever whatever idiots
Speaker 1: in the radio box is on at the time, you're
Speaker 1: in the car, and you listen to him, and if
Speaker 1: you like him and I you flip the button you
Speaker 1: go to a different station. But uh, but no, I
Speaker 1: mean the podcast. At some point I have a feeling, well,
Speaker 1: I will just when when I'm done with radio and
Speaker 1: I want to just work. I have the podcast studio
Speaker 1: set up, so I'll just do that. But I love radio.
Speaker 1: I love I love the the live reaction we get
Speaker 1: in radio. So what else? Pierre from Springfield, mass home
Speaker 1: of the Pro Basketball of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, says, uh,
Speaker 1: we're Muffett McGraw's inshrine. Ben. Now that you dropped the
Speaker 1: cartoon anvil down on the head of Ned Flanders, should
Speaker 1: any other co workers be looking over their shoulder? It says,
Speaker 1: maybe someone on the the podcast. So he says, no, no, no, Pierre,
Speaker 1: I don't know that that is the case. Uh. The
Speaker 1: most part, I'm mostly mellow, but every once in a
Speaker 1: while and someone hits my button, then I will explode
Speaker 1: into Mount Mallard a volcanic eruption co boom. But doesn't happen,
Speaker 1: though doesn't A few times a year that will happen,
Speaker 1: and usually it is directly related. There's a correlation between
Speaker 1: sleep schedule and uh you know have you know certain
Speaker 1: things go wrong, hey wire that are out of out
Speaker 1: of my control, that drive me to the edge. So
Speaker 1: as long as those things don't happen, I'm pretty most
Speaker 1: of the time. Yeah. I remember I had a producer
Speaker 1: one time I had screamed at and I asked him,
Speaker 1: I said, would you rather me be a small asshole
Speaker 1: every day or pretty mellow and then every once in
Speaker 1: a while be a total asshole? Yeah? Yeah, he picked that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I try to no one's perv. I don't know
Speaker 1: anyone that never gets angry or upset and overreacts and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, acts like an idiot and all that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I I I'm as guilty as anybody, but I try
Speaker 1: to I try to limit that. But you know, some points, Pierre,
Speaker 1: We're all fallible, right, We're all human, we all funk up.
Speaker 1: So anyway. Uh. Pierre also says, did you ever imagine
Speaker 1: a day where you would look forward to working with
Speaker 1: wreck itt Ralph compared to the other guy He looks
Speaker 1: like a regular George Michael and his sports machine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it was very odd this week. And you know,
Speaker 1: record Ralph has been a rival. And I've known Ralph
Speaker 1: since I worked in San Diego back in the day
Speaker 1: million years ago. I was a young pup intern in
Speaker 1: San Diego and Ralph and I have been in the
Speaker 1: business side by side all these years later, and we
Speaker 1: always tell old stories about hacksaw and go back the
Speaker 1: old days. But um, yeah, I know, I I loved
Speaker 1: when I saw you know, Ralph on the schedule, and
Speaker 1: it was it was it was a joy. Now this
Speaker 1: and there's things about Ralph that annoy me too, But
Speaker 1: overall compared to what we had earlier in the week,
Speaker 1: the hostile takeover. I'm I'm all about record Roup. I'm
Speaker 1: all about record row. Alright, the mail bag, back to
Speaker 1: it we go, Who is next? Jason in Rocky Mount, Virginia.
Speaker 1: Jason and Rocky Mount Virginia. He says, big Bat. I
Speaker 1: thought you may have been a little tough on Brian,
Speaker 1: but it seems like you put him in his place
Speaker 1: as he sat there and sucked his thumb the rest
Speaker 1: of the week. Do you feel like now whenever he
Speaker 1: fills in the twenty seven minute updates are finally over
Speaker 1: and I listen is a topic. We're gonna get a
Speaker 1: lot of questions in the mail bag about what happened? Uh?
Speaker 1: And do I think it's over? I think it's over
Speaker 1: for a while. I think it's over for a while.
Speaker 1: But what happened here, as we said, it was a
Speaker 1: hostile takeover? And Brian thought that I would just sit
Speaker 1: there and take incoming incoming weapons, uh torpedoes being directed
Speaker 1: at me, and uh, I said, you know, I said, well, surprise, motherfucker.
Speaker 1: I'm not in the mood to do that. And then
Speaker 1: I had to go nuclear. I had to go down
Speaker 1: the nuclear option. And you heard what happened during the
Speaker 1: radio show at the beginning of of Eddie Garcia's a
Speaker 1: vacation week, and so it ended up where Brian had
Speaker 1: to make a hasty retreat to the corner. And hate
Speaker 1: when that hate when that happens. So keep in mind though.
Speaker 1: One of the issues that we have with the overnight
Speaker 1: is we have a fair amount of anchors, but as
Speaker 1: I understand it, what I've heard through the grapevine is
Speaker 1: a number of them are not interested, are not interested
Speaker 1: in working the overnight hours. And it is a tough schedule.
Speaker 1: The shift is not for everyone. You've got to have
Speaker 1: some hair on your chest. And two stopsterman. Anybody that
Speaker 1: works the overnight any job, whether you're in radio or not,
Speaker 1: it can be a grind and it's not for everybody.
Speaker 1: And so we only have a few people that are
Speaker 1: willing willing to do it. Uh and uh. And so
Speaker 1: it's a short list. It's a shortlist. Whose who else
Speaker 1: is on the email? Jennifer Enrichmond, Virginia says Hi, Ben
Speaker 1: and other guy. If you were taking a stroll on
Speaker 1: a path through the woods and came across a large
Speaker 1: oak tree, swarming with bees? What would you do? Jennifer writes,
Speaker 1: if more than one he started attacking and stinging as
Speaker 1: you proceeded to run like the wind, how else would
Speaker 1: you get them off of you? Would you roll on
Speaker 1: the ground, jump in the nearby creek, cuss them off?
Speaker 1: I really want to know, says Jennifer. That's a great question.
Speaker 1: This is a unique question, Jennifer, and I want to
Speaker 1: thank you for that, because I don't think we've ever
Speaker 1: gotten this question. And you know, a lot of times
Speaker 1: the questions all kind of sound the scene after a while,
Speaker 1: but listen to good job by you. The crowd goes
Speaker 1: wild for you, Jennifer. That, uh, this is the anque question.
Speaker 1: So if I am strolling on a path through the
Speaker 1: woods and I come across a large oak tree swarming
Speaker 1: with bees, uh, of the options you laid out, I
Speaker 1: would choose to jump in the creek. I think rolling
Speaker 1: on the ground you would likely end up rolling on
Speaker 1: some bees. You'd end up getting stung stung that way,
Speaker 1: so I don't think that would be the way to go. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I'm pretty confident that bees don't mind bad language,
Speaker 1: that you can curse and bees won't really care so
Speaker 1: all the options you laid out, I'm saying, what else
Speaker 1: Off the top of my head, you you could do.
Speaker 1: I guess you could take a if you could do
Speaker 1: it quick enough. A branch or is Adrian Pearson said,
Speaker 1: back into a switch, Uh, you know, and you could
Speaker 1: take that switch and start whacking away like your you know,
Speaker 1: whoever your favorite baseball player is, and just just go
Speaker 1: for it an attempt to knock that you know what
Speaker 1: out of out of the bees. I mean that that
Speaker 1: would be the other option, but that you've gotta be
Speaker 1: quick enough, and you've got to get a branch that
Speaker 1: can be like a Louisville slugger. And if you fail,
Speaker 1: if you fail to do that quick enough, well that
Speaker 1: will not end. That will not end well. So the bees.
Speaker 1: It will not be the bee's knees. It will be
Speaker 1: the bees. Dinner will be with That is all right?
Speaker 1: What is next here? Ronnie Date from Casey says, would
Speaker 1: you ever consider doing a fifth hour podcast with some
Speaker 1: of the lame jokes you're not allowed to read on
Speaker 1: the Mallard Show. Well, Ronnie, we get this question a lot.
Speaker 1: I think we've answered in the past, but let me
Speaker 1: be very clear and to the point. I would love
Speaker 1: to do that, but there are long term ramifications. The
Speaker 1: Wokesters have no sense of humor. Life would be so
Speaker 1: much better for all of us if people could just
Speaker 1: laugh and and have fun and have a good time
Speaker 1: and not everything has to be the most offensive thing
Speaker 1: in the world. Not everything has to be the worst
Speaker 1: thing in the world. Uh. And but the problem, Ronnie,
Speaker 1: and I'll give you the Jeopardy answer to you and
Speaker 1: to the other people, I'm sure we'll continue to answer
Speaker 1: this question, or send the question and ask me to
Speaker 1: answer the question. So the the guy that was going
Speaker 1: to be the Jeopardy host. One of the things that
Speaker 1: took him down other than the fact that he was
Speaker 1: asked to nate to I'm the next Jeopardy host and
Speaker 1: just named himself, which takes a hell of a lot
Speaker 1: of hutzpah, but the guy also had a bunch of
Speaker 1: old podcasts that were comedy podcast where he was doing
Speaker 1: comedy and it was, as I remember as racial stuff
Speaker 1: I believe it was, and people were holding that against
Speaker 1: him and saying that this guy can't host Jeopardy because
Speaker 1: he did a podcast where he he did some comedy
Speaker 1: and it was offensive comedy that's the problem. Like the jokes,
Speaker 1: many of the jokes we don't read are tremendously racist
Speaker 1: to the wokesters. Uh, they're they're sexist, right, you know,
Speaker 1: the usual, the usual stuff that gets people in trouble,
Speaker 1: and so we have to avoid that. And if I
Speaker 1: read them on the podcast, they'd be great, you'd laugh
Speaker 1: your ass off. We they're funny jokes, they're good jokes,
Speaker 1: the kind of jokes I grew up on listening to
Speaker 1: and some of my favorite comedians did that kind of comedy.
Speaker 1: And but now if it's my name reading the jokes,
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, it's not gonna affect me
Speaker 1: now per se. But you know, someday, if I have
Speaker 1: to leave Fox Sports Radio and I want to go
Speaker 1: work somewhere else, and and it's a it's a high
Speaker 1: profile job, people will go back and start snooping around,
Speaker 1: try to tear you down and see if they can
Speaker 1: find any kind of mistake, right, any kind of mistake there.
Speaker 1: And if they find it, they'll be like, yeah, they'll
Speaker 1: be so excited, right, they'll be like, that is great,
Speaker 1: we found something and we've we've gotten So you always
Speaker 1: have to be on the defensive Yeah, Yeah, you gotta
Speaker 1: play defense. You do even on a podcast. All right,
Speaker 1: Lee in Phoenix, right, since says Ben. By the way,
Speaker 1: guesscon had to step out. Lee, so you're you're not
Speaker 1: going to get Guestscon here uh ripping you and taking
Speaker 1: time out of his schedule to uh to assault you.
Speaker 1: Uh he's busy anyway, Lie, says Ben. I just went
Speaker 1: to a Guns and Roses concerts. So my question is
Speaker 1: are you a fan of rock, of a rock band
Speaker 1: or do you have any experience on going to a
Speaker 1: rock concert? Lee, I've never been to a real rock concert,
Speaker 1: never lived that. Life has not done it. Um, And
Speaker 1: I do like rock. My I don't have the music
Speaker 1: gene per say. I like music. I'm a big Johnny
Speaker 1: Cash fan. That really resonates with me. Johnny Cash. I
Speaker 1: listen to him more than anybody some of you know,
Speaker 1: all this stuff's obviously been gone for a while, so
Speaker 1: it's old stuff. Johnny Cash. I like that. And I
Speaker 1: have a very eclectic taste. My my wife bust my
Speaker 1: balls all the time because I when I listen to music,
Speaker 1: I don't really listen to the actual lyrics. It's more
Speaker 1: the rhythm and if I like the rhythm. I can
Speaker 1: listen to some really dumb songs. When you actually listen
Speaker 1: to the lyrics and read the lyrics, it's like, holy crap,
Speaker 1: I can't believe I like that. But I'd like the rhythm.
Speaker 1: I enjoy the rhythm and and so that's that's what
Speaker 1: I went too. But I've never been to a rock
Speaker 1: a rock concert. I would like to do that. The
Speaker 1: schedule I have is not not generally a kind of
Speaker 1: going going to concerts. Queen Roxanne writes in and she
Speaker 1: had a question about Benny versus the penny, But this
Speaker 1: is the Sunday podcast and she's still asking bad job
Speaker 1: by you. She also wanted to know can we release
Speaker 1: the podcast a little earlier so she can listen and
Speaker 1: everyone else can listen before the NFL games begin. Yes,
Speaker 1: we started that. You can thank Adrian in Denver. I
Speaker 1: believe it was Adrian who said, hey, can you put
Speaker 1: the podcast up earlier? So we start the podcast? It
Speaker 1: is available to download. I forget. I think it's like,
Speaker 1: I want to say, four am Pacific, seven am in
Speaker 1: the East, so you're in the Mountain time zone, Queen
Speaker 1: Roxanne in Colorado. So that would be if Mallard math
Speaker 1: is correct. Uh, five am, that should be early enough.
Speaker 1: You've got like a five hour window before the five
Speaker 1: hour I think I have a five hour window before
Speaker 1: the game's kickoff. They said there would be no math.
Speaker 1: They said there would be no math, and she she
Speaker 1: also put in here there there was a heart heart
Speaker 1: emoji thing here for for Gagon, which is I was
Speaker 1: offended by that that you gave him the hard eyes
Speaker 1: and I didn't get the hard eyes you gave those
Speaker 1: two guests on Blind Emmett one of our favorites. This
Speaker 1: kid's studies in high school. Man, this guy's one of
Speaker 1: the great callers in the show and he's only in
Speaker 1: high school. Imagine how good he's gonna be when he
Speaker 1: reaches his calling prime. When is your talk radio calling prime?
Speaker 1: That might not be till your fifties or sixties. I mean,
Speaker 1: I got guys that are in their seventies that are
Speaker 1: calling the show. They've been calling the show since they
Speaker 1: were in their forties, So I actually guess not fourties, fifties,
Speaker 1: but crazy anyway. Blind Emmett the Seahawk fan and Olympia
Speaker 1: Washington going back to school now, he says, what's the
Speaker 1: craziest food combo, you guys have had so so at
Speaker 1: first of I don't do a lot of craziness on
Speaker 1: the food. I don't know when I was in high school. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and you'll experience this. I'm sure it's not
Speaker 1: different people. Society changes, but people are generally the same. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you go out with your friends and you have
Speaker 1: you have a good time. And if you're at a restaurant.
Speaker 1: I remember said to McDonald's and one of the guys
Speaker 1: at the table said, hey, um, there was some food
Speaker 1: that was left in the McDonald's rapper there. It was
Speaker 1: like a it was a quarter pounder. It wasn't a
Speaker 1: big mac, as I remember, And it was like a
Speaker 1: quarter of a big mac that was eaten by somebody
Speaker 1: on the table. And there were some some stuff. There
Speaker 1: was some sauce packets. Uh. There were some things that
Speaker 1: were like random fries and a few other things that
Speaker 1: had just been around the table. Uh. And then it
Speaker 1: was all like piled on top of each other, and
Speaker 1: they they added a bunch of other sauces. They mixed
Speaker 1: all these McDonald's sauces together. And it doesn't sound that bad,
Speaker 1: I guess, but at the time, as I remember it
Speaker 1: it was like pretty disgusting the pile of stuff, and
Speaker 1: I thought I was like in the circus, you know,
Speaker 1: and it was it was a clown of a clown
Speaker 1: or something going on. But I did it. I ate it,
Speaker 1: and I got a couple of bucks out of it.
Speaker 1: I love a good food challenge. We've done food challenges
Speaker 1: on the show. We've had Cooper Loop will eat anything.
Speaker 1: I had read one time that the person that invented
Speaker 1: uh petroleum jelly uh would eat that a spoonful of
Speaker 1: that every day. And thought that vasoline was the key
Speaker 1: to longevity, and we we looked it up online as
Speaker 1: I was safety to take vasoline, and so Cooper Loop,
Speaker 1: knowing that Coop is a garbage disposal, we had him.
Speaker 1: If you're new to the show, we had a listener
Speaker 1: actually came by with a little container of vasoline and
Speaker 1: we had a spoon we ou out of the kitchen
Speaker 1: and on the air, Coop ate a spoonful of a vasoline.
Speaker 1: Not a spoonful of sugar, a spoonful of vasoline, and
Speaker 1: we were all like, man, what are you doing? I mean,
Speaker 1: but he did it and he's still here, so you
Speaker 1: won't kill you. I don't know that it makes it
Speaker 1: live any longer. And then we also had a when
Speaker 1: Jay Moore was doing a show at fs ARE back
Speaker 1: in the day. He had some um food I forget,
Speaker 1: I forget the name. It was a hot dog place,
Speaker 1: might have been that big hot dog chain. Anyway, they
Speaker 1: brought some hot dogs over and there was there were
Speaker 1: a couple of dogs that were sitting in the room,
Speaker 1: had been sitting in room all day. And as I remember,
Speaker 1: we were like, why can't him you know that bleeping
Speaker 1: hot dog and uh and you say that, but yeah,
Speaker 1: hot dog and it somehow he ended up on the air.
Speaker 1: It was like, well, Coop, would you do it? And
Speaker 1: how much money would it taken. We came up with
Speaker 1: a I forget how much. It wasn't very much, and
Speaker 1: we all put some money in and Coop ate a
Speaker 1: hot dog that have been sitting around for um at
Speaker 1: least a day, maybe a couple of days. It might
Speaker 1: have been a couple of days. But he ate the
Speaker 1: hot dog. But that's not a combo Emmett. That's just
Speaker 1: one one food dish. Let's see Ozzy momentum. Ozzy momentum
Speaker 1: very popular on social media. He writes in he says,
Speaker 1: have either of you watched any Australian rules football, not
Speaker 1: that garbage game rugby, our national sport, Ozzy rules football,
Speaker 1: and what are your thoughts? It's our religion down here,
Speaker 1: interested on your thoughts. Well, I'll give you my thoughts, Ozzie,
Speaker 1: and the other guys is not here, so it's it's
Speaker 1: just me now. I have not watched an entire AZZI
Speaker 1: rules football game. I'm not, so I'm not gonna sit
Speaker 1: here and say I have, and I don't watch it.
Speaker 1: I watched paradically if it's on. I think Fox actually
Speaker 1: has the TV deal here in the States, and seen
Speaker 1: a bunch of clips on YouTube. And I know a
Speaker 1: few of the rules. I actually have. I have a
Speaker 1: list of rules here comparing it to American football, and
Speaker 1: it is much different. It's it's unique and the thing
Speaker 1: that I remember, I'm not a fan of it, so
Speaker 1: I don't don't confuse me as a fan. But if
Speaker 1: I was from Australia when in Australia, act like an
Speaker 1: Australian and I would. I would be into it if
Speaker 1: I grew up with it. But there's so many players
Speaker 1: on the field. You've got two teams of twenty two players.
Speaker 1: There's eight teen players on the field at each time
Speaker 1: in these Aussie rules football, so you got three backups,
Speaker 1: there's one injury replacement, and you're only allowed a certain
Speaker 1: amount of substitutes, like conceivably in the NFL and the NBA,
Speaker 1: you can make as many substitutions as you want as
Speaker 1: long as they're in in the NFL before the next play,
Speaker 1: and you have to change players during time outs in
Speaker 1: the NBA and all that. The field also this over over,
Speaker 1: you over over what I'm working Oval. That's the word, hello,
Speaker 1: dummy Oval. Yeah, I got that wrong. The Oval field,
Speaker 1: which is massive. It is two hundred in two yards
Speaker 1: by a hundred and sixty nine so it's two football
Speaker 1: fields by almost two football fields. So it's huge and
Speaker 1: it's it's oval shaped. The word I just screwed up.
Speaker 1: And it goes on Instead of sixty minutes, they go
Speaker 1: eighty minutes because everything's different in Australia. As you know,
Speaker 1: Ozzie momentum and it really is football like you have
Speaker 1: to kick the ball through these middle. They have a
Speaker 1: bunch of posts and I guess the ones in the
Speaker 1: middle that's worth six points. But if you hit one
Speaker 1: of the goal posts and the ball is deflected, it's
Speaker 1: worth one point. And you can also get one point
Speaker 1: if you kick it between a long goal post and
Speaker 1: a short goal posts. All this minutia, and like defensively,
Speaker 1: you you're allowed to block a kick, you can intercept it,
Speaker 1: you can push off, uh you know you can, you can.
Speaker 1: You know they can push you off the field. Players
Speaker 1: can push you around or tackle you by grabbing you
Speaker 1: below the shoulders a cord of the rules here that
Speaker 1: I've got pulling you to the field. But if they
Speaker 1: do tackle you, they are awarded a free kick from
Speaker 1: the spot of the tackle. So there there is that.
Speaker 1: And you can go any direction backwards forwards. All of
Speaker 1: that nobody cares. And the one thing though, it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of like football that you have to bounce the
Speaker 1: odd shaped football or I guess it's called the football
Speaker 1: every fifteen meters, which is sixteen a little over sixteen
Speaker 1: yards for Americans that don't understand meters like most of us.
Speaker 1: And so that's that's a big difference. And throwing the
Speaker 1: ball is not a lot you have to it's only
Speaker 1: the bounce pass. It's it's only the bounce pass. But
Speaker 1: they have this thing called the mark, which is a
Speaker 1: it's kind of the same same deal as a past,
Speaker 1: but you kick it and you can kick it like
Speaker 1: along like a punt in American football, and it has
Speaker 1: to go fifteen meters or more and if a teammate
Speaker 1: catches it without the ball bouncing on the ground, the
Speaker 1: player is then awarded a free kick from that spot.
Speaker 1: So that's like a big game changing play. Uh. And
Speaker 1: you have ten seconds the key thing, the mark. If
Speaker 1: you get that, you have ten seconds like a free kick,
Speaker 1: and then there's one version we get thirty seconds, but
Speaker 1: I don't know how that works. And they have this
Speaker 1: thing called the specy where you're allowed to push anyone
Speaker 1: in the back, but if there's a marking contest and
Speaker 1: an opponent is standing in your way, you are allowed
Speaker 1: to use their back for elever. So I guess you're
Speaker 1: not allowed to push anyone in the backs what I
Speaker 1: meant to say. And but if there's a marking con test,
Speaker 1: you are allowed to jump on them like a trampoline
Speaker 1: and catch the ball. And that's why we have some
Speaker 1: of those crazy highlights. Some of those wild and crazy
Speaker 1: highlights come from that. And there's a bunch of penalty.
Speaker 1: I mean, I ain't going into this and go on
Speaker 1: and on. It's like do a deep dive on Ausy
Speaker 1: rules football. But there's a a bunch of these penalties
Speaker 1: that it's uh fifty fifty meter penalties, fifty six yards
Speaker 1: or fifty four yards for arguing, disputing decisions pretty much
Speaker 1: anything talking to the official, which they call the umpire.
Speaker 1: You're screwed. But I would love I'll tell this Ausi woman,
Speaker 1: how about it someday. I'm I'm sure my my wife
Speaker 1: would take me to Australia. I'd love to do New
Speaker 1: Zealand and Australia. I used to be on the radio
Speaker 1: in New Zealand. I've got friends in New Zealand. I
Speaker 1: know you Ausy Momentum, Ausy guy. There's a few other
Speaker 1: p ones in the Mallard Militia. I think it would
Speaker 1: be awesome to come to Australia and to hang out
Speaker 1: and and I want to make that happen, so so
Speaker 1: hopefully at some point we'll do that. And if that happens,
Speaker 1: then I gotta go to an Ozzy rules game. I
Speaker 1: would like to experience that because the energy in the
Speaker 1: stadium is awesome. So I want to see if that
Speaker 1: that vibe is as as real as authentic uh in person?
Speaker 1: All right, thank you for that. I was much longer
Speaker 1: answer than I planned, Azzy momentum, But that's the way
Speaker 1: of the world. You'll have to wait because the the
Speaker 1: other guy is is not here. It is not here.
Speaker 1: But as you said, it's your religion's kind of like
Speaker 1: in in the in the States. Here, American football, the
Speaker 1: NFL is the religion. It's the zeitgeist of the times.
Speaker 1: And all uh ben this email from Adrian in the
Speaker 1: Mile High City. Uh. He says, have either of you
Speaker 1: ever caught a home run ball at a baseball game?
Speaker 1: How about a foul ball? Well? The the only He
Speaker 1: then tells the story, said, the only home run ball
Speaker 1: I ever got was a moonshot pulled down the right
Speaker 1: field line at corps Field by Larry Walker back in
Speaker 1: and Adrian says he remembers it well because it's the
Speaker 1: only home run ball that he ever got. His dad
Speaker 1: got Fourth of July fireworks tickets. That's good dad, right,
Speaker 1: you got the fireworks show after the game. Way to go.
Speaker 1: The whole family was their second deck at course Field
Speaker 1: out in right field and Larry crushed the ball, Adrian says,
Speaker 1: and it's speeding closer and closer right at us. The
Speaker 1: ball ended up bouncing off an empty seat a few
Speaker 1: rows behind where we were sitting. It bounced off the
Speaker 1: empty seat, hit my sister in the back, and right
Speaker 1: off my sister, and it rolled down the aisle, and
Speaker 1: that's where I began to chase. He said. At the
Speaker 1: time he had a broken left arm, and uh, he
Speaker 1: was using his cast and sort of shield. Let's get
Speaker 1: strategy to shield other people with the cast. That's like
Speaker 1: NFL lineman. We'll do that. We'll have like a broken
Speaker 1: hand or finger or something like that. I'll have a
Speaker 1: big cast and they'll use that as a mallet, as
Speaker 1: like a cartoon mallet. That's a that's a solid move.
Speaker 1: And he says he was able to grab it somehow,
Speaker 1: rolled right down under a flight of stairs towards the concourse,
Speaker 1: and he had the souvenir. Well, to answer your question,
Speaker 1: I as a fan, I got one baseball that I remember.
Speaker 1: There was a couple that I got a lot of
Speaker 1: batting practice I I learned as a fan. I don't
Speaker 1: know if this is still the case, but when I
Speaker 1: was a kid. Nobody went to batting practice, and I
Speaker 1: grew up in Orange Canics. I actually went to the
Speaker 1: Big A more than I went to Dodger Stadium, and
Speaker 1: I would go out early and they were really bad
Speaker 1: about cleaning up the baseballs that were hit over the
Speaker 1: right field fence in Anaheim, and back in those days,
Speaker 1: it was a football stadium, and so there was a
Speaker 1: gap between the fence, the actual outfield fence in the
Speaker 1: warning track, and then you had the actual stands. And
Speaker 1: I had Jerry rigged a watch m a hall it,
Speaker 1: which was a plastic cup and a string. I literally
Speaker 1: used a plastic cup and a string because you couldn't
Speaker 1: get down and reach where the balls were, and I
Speaker 1: would the suction and I had to put a weight
Speaker 1: on this plastic cup. It's one of the cooler things
Speaker 1: that I did as a I was like in high
Speaker 1: school at the time, but I remember taking this thing
Speaker 1: and I got a lot of baseballs that way. I
Speaker 1: don't know who hit him and all that, but it
Speaker 1: was a very effective tool. And then they caught onto
Speaker 1: that because they would recycle the baseballs and they had
Speaker 1: some old dude who would run through and try to
Speaker 1: grab the home run balls as quickly as they were
Speaker 1: hit because they were losing too many of the balls.
Speaker 1: Two punk kids like myself, And after I was doing it,
Speaker 1: some other people started joining it, and it was a
Speaker 1: it was on. It was on everyone's like, wait a minute, here,
Speaker 1: what the dog doing? Yeah, you know what you're doing.
Speaker 1: And it turned out we were we were taking away
Speaker 1: from the rain baseballs that were being hit. Uh anyway,
Speaker 1: but I also got one from Jeffrey Leonard during a game,
Speaker 1: The hack Man, Jeffrey Leonard, great star baseball. He was
Speaker 1: at the end of his career. But foul ball down
Speaker 1: the line, Big a fat kid Ben comes up to
Speaker 1: the foul poll and I remember yelling, hey hack Man,
Speaker 1: Hey hack Man, because I remember his nickname. I even
Speaker 1: though he played for the Giants, he was originally a Dodger,
Speaker 1: and he played for the Giants, and he had that
Speaker 1: home run trot where you're mad dog, he's mad dog
Speaker 1: the opponent, and he had the arm flap one flap down,
Speaker 1: and so I liked his style. I liked his bravado,
Speaker 1: and I yelled the Hackman and he tossed the ball
Speaker 1: to me, and that that moment when you think, like
Speaker 1: everyone in the stadiums looking at you, and and most
Speaker 1: people aren't. It's time you think everyone's looking at you.
Speaker 1: And then you have that do I catch it? Do
Speaker 1: I not catch it? I gonna drop it? And m
Speaker 1: I gonna drop it on the field? Is somebody gonna
Speaker 1: come over my back and get the ball? Like all
Speaker 1: these thoughts are going through your head at the same time,
Speaker 1: and uh, and then finally you get the ball and
Speaker 1: it's great. And I had several in the press box
Speaker 1: when I was in radio. I had a Chad Cruder,
Speaker 1: who was a backup catcher for the Dodgers, foul the
Speaker 1: ball off shattered my laptop in a million pieces. And uh,
Speaker 1: I'm still bitter about that, still bitter about that all
Speaker 1: these years later. And there are there were a few
Speaker 1: other incidents that took plays. Uh. Adrian says, can you
Speaker 1: share any prop action plays you would put down on
Speaker 1: the Denver New York Giants game today? I like the Broncos. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I gave the pick out. I gave the pick out
Speaker 1: on Benny versus the penny. But I I am on
Speaker 1: the on the side there. I generally like Denver in
Speaker 1: the game, although the line I don't like Road favorites.
Speaker 1: I try to avoid road favorites. But they're the better team,
Speaker 1: and I expect the defense to to do very well.
Speaker 1: Did that be very surprised if Daniel Jones and the
Speaker 1: Giants offense explodes? Uh? In Teddy Bridgewater. If I'm right
Speaker 1: about Teddy Bridgewater, he's been very good p pfittably over
Speaker 1: the years. That uh, Teddy is is the guy that
Speaker 1: you want to bet on. He's the guy that you
Speaker 1: want to you want to bet on because you're're gonna
Speaker 1: win money most of the time. Cliff from Nashville, right,
Speaker 1: So we'll do a few more here on the mail
Speaker 1: back Cliff and Nashville has been My wife has been
Speaker 1: sick out lately. She she has criticized, but lately she
Speaker 1: has criticized everything I do. Is that a sign she's
Speaker 1: a recovering Yes? Yes, that is a sign. Your wife
Speaker 1: is on the road to health, on the road to hell.
Speaker 1: So you're in good shape there. Who else do we have? Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see page down here page DWN vaults. Fan Jimmy says,
Speaker 1: did you buy your first car or did your parents
Speaker 1: buy it for you? None of you? Boff. My grandfather,
Speaker 1: my grandfather's old car, a Volari, a brown Valeri, which
Speaker 1: I love because you know, anybody who's a teenager and
Speaker 1: gets a car, you love it. But it had the
Speaker 1: most comfortable seats and it was very big and roomy
Speaker 1: on the inside, and I loved it. Was ugly and
Speaker 1: I would never buy a brown car. But at the
Speaker 1: time I thought this was it just reeked of the
Speaker 1: eighties and the seventies. I don't even remember what year
Speaker 1: it was. I think it was like in the seventies
Speaker 1: the car was made and I got it, uh much
Speaker 1: later than that. But I loved that car. I was great,
Speaker 1: loved it. I absolutely loved it. Who else do we
Speaker 1: have here? Ronnie D from Casey says, do you have
Speaker 1: the Mallard oath memorized or do you have it written
Speaker 1: down at your desk? I have it memorized, but occasionally
Speaker 1: I forget something, so I do have a copy of it. Ronnie,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. I'll be honest there. I do
Speaker 1: have a copy of it here because I don't want
Speaker 1: to make the mistake like some of the callers do,
Speaker 1: who are just repeating it a moment later. As far
Speaker 1: as some of the other guys burying in music, City
Speaker 1: of Balls fan Jimmy Ricardo from Fresno. We didn't have time,
Speaker 1: Chris and Marraccona, Iowa. Did not have time for your
Speaker 1: your emails unfortunately, but try again next week. We'll hopefully
Speaker 1: have more time on the mailbag and a wonderful rest
Speaker 1: of your NFL Sunday. Don't forget we'll be back on
Speaker 1: the radio. The Ben Mallard Show goes live eleven pm
Speaker 1: in the West on Sunday night, two am, two am
Speaker 1: in the East. On Monday morning, we'll have that post
Speaker 1: mortem on the Rams and the Chicago Bears and every
Speaker 1: other big story from the NFL Sunday will break it
Speaker 1: all down, all of it down, and we will have
Speaker 1: that for you coming up tonight. So we'll catch you
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