Speaker 1: If you thought more hours a day, minutes a week
Speaker 1: was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants of
Speaker 1: the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
Speaker 1: crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich
Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes,
Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller starts right now that it does. We are in
Speaker 1: the air everywhere bloviating eight days a week, eight days
Speaker 1: a week. This is obviously a spinoff of the radio show.
Speaker 1: It's been a wacky weekend though in the podcast world,
Speaker 1: because this is the only podcast this weekend where together united.
Speaker 1: The Sunday Mailbag podcast from West of the four oh five. David,
Speaker 1: I'm a cloud mores pin, w wild and crazy, and
Speaker 1: I think the crowd is excited that you are actually
Speaker 1: in the house for two consecutive days. You go from
Speaker 1: Saturday to Sunday. I'm really enthusiastic about this. Well, I
Speaker 1: would like to thank you, guess, as you know, I
Speaker 1: on the Saturday podcast, which I did alone, I explain
Speaker 1: what has been going on in my life here and
Speaker 1: I recently moved to the I call it the halfway
Speaker 1: house because it's halfway between my my last house and
Speaker 1: my next house, which is being renovated right now. And
Speaker 1: so I'm in a temporary situation. And everything has been
Speaker 1: walking wonky and crazy. But you know, it's not walking
Speaker 1: and crazy. The mail bell boy, the mail bag is
Speaker 1: not wonky crazy. And I hear from sources, gas Gun,
Speaker 1: that you you like the mail bag you even though
Speaker 1: people just kill you and destroy you. And I have
Speaker 1: noticed going through the mail that a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of hate mixed with a couple of a couple
Speaker 1: of plants, a couple of plants, team Gascon going in
Speaker 1: there and doing that thing. But for the most part
Speaker 1: it's been all negative, with a few exceptions. So I
Speaker 1: want to get right now. I don't want to waste
Speaker 1: any time. Yes, I don't want to waste any time.
Speaker 1: To me, this is my favorite podcast of the weekend, okay,
Speaker 1: because it's the last. All Right, I'm a pilot, writes
Speaker 1: in from Parts Unknown. He says, catching up on the
Speaker 1: Sunday mail Bag and listening to YouTube muppets food phobias,
Speaker 1: he's re frank to the last Sunday podcast that we
Speaker 1: did prior to this one. Obviously, had me shaking my head.
Speaker 1: That's my line. You can't shake your head. I'm allowed
Speaker 1: to shake my head. He says. I do most of
Speaker 1: the cooking at home, and my five year olds have
Speaker 1: a better food path than you do. Uh. He says,
Speaker 1: and rare or medium rare is the only choice when
Speaker 1: cooking steak. No, that's wrong, you're wrong. I'm a pilot.
Speaker 1: It's well done with ketchup or a one sauce. That
Speaker 1: is the way to eat a steak, I says. The
Speaker 1: last fourth of July cooking steaks, my girls said well done,
Speaker 1: and I made them go to do Oklahoma drills. That's well,
Speaker 1: that's good parenting, good parenting. I'm a pilot, I said,
Speaker 1: Seeing how you are a nonpracticing Jew, that is true. Uh.
Speaker 1: Not eating pork in itself is blasphemy. We'll blame my
Speaker 1: parents because I didn't need it when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: It's just one of those things I haven't done it
Speaker 1: as I never had a cup of coffee. That's just
Speaker 1: kind of how how that goes, he says, going through
Speaker 1: life with no bacon, it's God's candy. He says, this
Speaker 1: is true, guest, gun is bacon God's candy. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think you would enjoy it, and if you dip down
Speaker 1: into the depths of of meat, especially at breakfast Britto.
Speaker 1: We're in California. I think it's it's well accustomed for
Speaker 1: those that were early morning or late night like you
Speaker 1: do breakfast, brittle eggs. I think love the breakfast. You
Speaker 1: love the breakfast the biggest thing. You should open a
Speaker 1: restaurant and just serve breakfast. Burrito. You know what. I'm
Speaker 1: a fan of the larger tortillas, especially when you get
Speaker 1: to double wrap your burritos. We don't have many places,
Speaker 1: so you are when it comes to burritos. You're a
Speaker 1: size queen when it comes to brito. Yes, you know sizes.
Speaker 1: Size matters. Bellor, I thought it was the motion in
Speaker 1: the ocean. I thought that was there. It's that's all
Speaker 1: about size, Okay, is that right? I didn't know. I
Speaker 1: guess you're hanging out with an interesting crowd there, He says. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm a pilots as his kids his girls are routinely
Speaker 1: eat their weight and bacon and would gnaw your hand
Speaker 1: if you tried to take away there. Berkshire pork Job
Speaker 1: bowed in no less, because I'm raising winners. Not participants,
Speaker 1: says David Berkshire. Pork is the co be of pork
Speaker 1: added to your shopping list. I'll have to do that.
Speaker 1: I feel like that was a really emasculating email from
Speaker 1: I'm a pilot, very rare that he will take a
Speaker 1: shot at me. But I will respond, and I will.
Speaker 1: It's not done the email. This is a long email.
Speaker 1: Just no, no seafood, no sushi. I will eat cod beer,
Speaker 1: battered cod fish sticks. I'll eat that. He says. How
Speaker 1: can you how you can live on planet Earth where
Speaker 1: seventy percent of it is ocean? Got a good point.
Speaker 1: Then he says, that's God's supermarket with a lot of
Speaker 1: God references here. You love Boston, that's true. I do
Speaker 1: love Boston. I almost worked if I did work there,
Speaker 1: but I almost moved there. It was offered a job
Speaker 1: in Boston a couple of times, he says. But will
Speaker 1: will not taste the greatness of the lobster roll or
Speaker 1: fresh shucked oysters. No, I I well the idea of
Speaker 1: the oysters texture. I wouldn't want to eat oysters just
Speaker 1: on the texture alone. Looking at them, Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: want to eat them, he said, a big bowl of
Speaker 1: steam clams, grilled shrimp or props. No, that sounds disgusting.
Speaker 1: That texture of fish is the problem. The smell and
Speaker 1: the texture. Beer battered fish sticks are like eating chicken fingers,
Speaker 1: So it doesn't really bother me. It's like dipping in
Speaker 1: tartar sauce, put some whatever else on it, and you're
Speaker 1: good to go. Everything but ranch, right, No ranch, he says,
Speaker 1: Like I'm a pass Like I tell my kids, try
Speaker 1: everything three times, including vegetables. Trying taking asparagus from them.
Speaker 1: You would get shived, he said. That's what he said,
Speaker 1: s HIV eating. I'm I'm throwing down a fought law
Speaker 1: to you guys to change up your menu selections and
Speaker 1: venture out at least one new food a week and
Speaker 1: report back. Wow, that's what he says. That's a challenge.
Speaker 1: What's in it like for for me? I think I
Speaker 1: think bacon is the easiest one for you to do.
Speaker 1: What's the carrot on the end of the stick, though,
Speaker 1: what's the carrot on the end of the I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm a pilot, a craft you guy, he's probably your
Speaker 1: most prominent caller, listener, um interactor. Just having his respect.
Speaker 1: I think that's what stopped stopping. You're such a toe sucker,
Speaker 1: it's so embarrassing, he said. Also here, by the way,
Speaker 1: he took another shot at you. I'm a pilot. He's
Speaker 1: turning on you, He says. I showed my kids both
Speaker 1: your pictures and said, these guys don't like seafood. They
Speaker 1: asked if you always were picked last, and said tell
Speaker 1: them to get the sand out of their panties and
Speaker 1: that the kid's table is in the other room. Well,
Speaker 1: for the record, I'm a pilot, and for your your kids, Um,
Speaker 1: when I was young, when I was when I was
Speaker 1: young before fourteen, I was typically picked middle to last,
Speaker 1: and then hit the gross spurt when I was always
Speaker 1: picked first after that. So no, I was picked last
Speaker 1: because I was fat. So you know, you play soccer handball,
Speaker 1: you don't want the fat kids rustling Kansas right soon
Speaker 1: says I love the podcast for over a year now,
Speaker 1: but I just can't tolerate Gagon's extreme ego anymore. I
Speaker 1: don't care if he was actually the greatest person that
Speaker 1: ever was, which he clearly is not. Russell says, just
Speaker 1: don't act that arrogant. He complains constantly about your toe lickers,
Speaker 1: as he calls them. Thankfully he doesn't have many of
Speaker 1: his ego or his Egolas says, would wouldn't fit in
Speaker 1: the universe. So sad to say goodbye to the podcast.
Speaker 1: We have lost Russell in Kansas because of you guests.
Speaker 1: Now we have lost a podcast. That's a download that
Speaker 1: we have lost. But here's a good thing though. We
Speaker 1: have a new category because with Russell leaving, that means
Speaker 1: we go from boot liquors to a nut hugger. Russell
Speaker 1: as a full fledged nut hugger of Ben Mallary. No, no,
Speaker 1: if he was a nut hugger, he would continue to
Speaker 1: listen to the podcast, listen to you. He's not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: But he said, he just says he's called him a liar. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm calling him a liar, an egomania, calling a guy
Speaker 1: a lot. For the record, liar, Yeah, he is a
Speaker 1: he is a liar. But for the record, he should
Speaker 1: acknowledge the fact that it is about me, Like he
Speaker 1: is listening for us and I am on this stupid podcast,
Speaker 1: so it is about me. What else you did do? Wait?
Speaker 1: What else are you gonna do? In Kansas? Kansas is
Speaker 1: a great place on God's green Earth. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of God fearing people in Kansas, a lot of good,
Speaker 1: hard working people. That's the bread basket as part of
Speaker 1: the bread basket of America. Boy, Kansas, and you're you're
Speaker 1: shipping all over Kansas. That's a bad job by you.
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Speaker 1: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Be
Speaker 1: sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show
Speaker 1: weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio. A moving on,
Speaker 1: we gotta go quick, rabbit tat tat. I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: as many as we can. Kevin in Kansas, right so,
Speaker 1: and he says, Ben and day, once again, you're a podcast,
Speaker 1: continue to inform and entertain. So here's a guy in
Speaker 1: Kansas that likes the podcast. Is there a butt coming
Speaker 1: in here? I've noticed that both of you have vast
Speaker 1: experiences covering or calling a variety of sports. What kind
Speaker 1: of prep do you have to do to be competent
Speaker 1: or better at broadcasting or writing about lacrosse or other
Speaker 1: such sports? Yeah, well, that that's the equivalent of speaking
Speaker 1: Chinese or Russian. Uh. The sport of lacrosse. I just
Speaker 1: I don't know much about it. I've seen it a
Speaker 1: few times. I had friends that played lacrosse. But lacross
Speaker 1: is not big where I grew up. I know in
Speaker 1: the Northeast the crosses is very big. But like anything,
Speaker 1: if I were to be assigned a big television deal
Speaker 1: to broadcast lacrosse, then I would do my copious amounts
Speaker 1: of research and try to become a savant in lacrosse.
Speaker 1: What's the I did soft but I was in college.
Speaker 1: I did softball. That was odd, but it was just
Speaker 1: like baseball. It was a softball. When he's referencing what
Speaker 1: I mentioned last week, I had called a championship lacrosse
Speaker 1: match in Tustin in your neck of the woods, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. Well I'm from just across the way from
Speaker 1: Tustin and Irvine, North Part Yeah. I so, okay, I
Speaker 1: guess he's asking you then, Yes, what did you do?
Speaker 1: A lacrosse expert? I'm not an across expert, but I'm
Speaker 1: familiar with the game. Called it pretty pretty decently. I
Speaker 1: think the challenge will be um this tonight. I think
Speaker 1: the challenge will be tonight. I'm calling my first game
Speaker 1: for the European League of Football. And so the majority
Speaker 1: of the players on these rosters are from Germany, Poland
Speaker 1: and Spain. So not the game traveling to Germany. No,
Speaker 1: I'll be doing things uh in studio remotely, yeah, remotely,
Speaker 1: but the pronunciations of these guys will be a kick
Speaker 1: in the ass. Here's what you do. What's all right?
Speaker 1: Number twelve drops back, throws the number over the middle.
Speaker 1: That's the first the big german. Uh, you could have
Speaker 1: some fun to see if anyone is actually paying attention.
Speaker 1: You could like it's like I had a program director
Speaker 1: tell me that, you know, sometimes the phone is when
Speaker 1: I when I used to be desperate for call, not
Speaker 1: I don't really care. I mean I take calls, but
Speaker 1: I don't really need them. But I remember I first
Speaker 1: started your your dependent on phone calls, and I had
Speaker 1: a program director said this have been if no one's calling,
Speaker 1: if you want to see if they're listening, there's two
Speaker 1: things you can do. You can either you can either
Speaker 1: curse and then the people will get upset, or you
Speaker 1: can make a mistake intentionally and then have people call
Speaker 1: up to try to correct you. And hand to god,
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of like the the trope of the Internet.
Speaker 1: You know how they say about the internet. If you
Speaker 1: want to get an answer to something, give the wrong
Speaker 1: answer right. People love to correct you. And it's true
Speaker 1: with the radio, like if you make a mistake, they
Speaker 1: love to call up and correct the idiot on the radio.
Speaker 1: Can't get enough of it. Love it, love it, love it,
Speaker 1: love it, love it. Uh. Let's see here, who do
Speaker 1: we have august ones from? Should I say the name
Speaker 1: of this? Maybe I'll give the name at the end. Ben,
Speaker 1: I have listened to your Overnight show for years. I
Speaker 1: have been loyal, supportive, and appreciative of the content and
Speaker 1: effort of the crew to make the show better than
Speaker 1: the best. I have listened to the Fifth Hour podcast
Speaker 1: since its inception. I find David a worthy opponent to
Speaker 1: your argumentative ways. He has creative, loyal, and supportive building
Speaker 1: your brand. However, the Benn Maller Show in the Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour have gone off the third rail so many times
Speaker 1: with the content and the guest you have interviewed that
Speaker 1: I have come to realize, how dare you tease me
Speaker 1: with this greatness? Put time limits on your untouchable content?
Speaker 1: How dare you stir the pot and offer an honest,
Speaker 1: differing opinion on taboo subjects. The nerve you and David
Speaker 1: have to rock the boat with topics and guests who
Speaker 1: provide enlightening conversations so that I can question topics, educate myself,
Speaker 1: and emphasize with situations and individuals. How dare you if
Speaker 1: the fifth hour podcast at the Ben Mallow Show stopped
Speaker 1: this off? The high volters third real content, I may
Speaker 1: have to quit listening signed what do you think wrote that? Well?
Speaker 1: The fact that that thing was nice and eloquent, succinct
Speaker 1: and well thought out. I would say it's one of
Speaker 1: your more coherent your listeners and callers, someone that has
Speaker 1: teeth um some of that doesn't have needles in their arms.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to Tammy from Montown almost like almost
Speaker 1: like you've seen that email before, almost like you told
Speaker 1: her to send all the listeners that we have. You
Speaker 1: guess Tammy and Montana ding Ding Ding ding Ding just
Speaker 1: been exposed that you've just been Paint's just been paying
Speaker 1: basically a handful of people that actually right thoughtful into
Speaker 1: an email. I'm a pilots one of them. She's another,
Speaker 1: And I think what blind Scott maybe blank Scott. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have noticed that when blind Scott's been battling some
Speaker 1: some demons. But when he's back with the demons, he
Speaker 1: calls the show every day. When he's not on the demons,
Speaker 1: he kind of just forgets about us. He hangs out
Speaker 1: with his dog Dylan, and that's it. Kyrie in Okay
Speaker 1: See writes, and he says, Hey, Betty the Bopper, I
Speaker 1: love Jed who fled as a caller. There's the one
Speaker 1: guy that loves Jed who fled as a caller. He
Speaker 1: is one of my favorites. I listened to the game
Speaker 1: show the other night, and how mad you you get
Speaker 1: when you lose the game shows? He says. It's freaking
Speaker 1: hilarious to hear another sore loser like myself. I'm not
Speaker 1: a sore loser, Kyrie, he says. I. Kyrie says, though,
Speaker 1: I am one of the worst in the world. I
Speaker 1: once put my uncle out of my house over a
Speaker 1: video game. Video game, I don't know, he didn't say.
Speaker 1: He says he's serious, though, what sports moment or radio
Speaker 1: moment has angered you the most in your life? The
Speaker 1: same question for gag On two. I like the West
Speaker 1: of the Four Oh five responses, what's go ahead? I'm
Speaker 1: gonna guess that it was Game five of the seventeen
Speaker 1: World Series with Kershaw on the bump. Uh No, I
Speaker 1: was actually Game seven or it was just the most
Speaker 1: annoyed you know, because I come in people love to
Speaker 1: bust my balls, and I bust people's balls, and I
Speaker 1: get it. But the Clippers blowing the lead against the
Speaker 1: Rockets when they were going to the Western Conference they
Speaker 1: were gonna win the game, go to the Western Conference
Speaker 1: finals against Golden State, and they had a double digit lead.
Speaker 1: They're up like fifteen points like that late third quarter.
Speaker 1: I'm leaving Staples Center. People I've known for fifteen years plus,
Speaker 1: twenty years plus are like, they know I like the
Speaker 1: Clippers are like, give me high fives, congratulations. Great moment
Speaker 1: for the Clippers. By the time I get to the studio,
Speaker 1: the Clippers that lost the I I think I told
Speaker 1: you this. The worst moment I ever had. Was my
Speaker 1: first on air opportunity was San Diego State basketball the
Speaker 1: game day host, and the opening segment was also the
Speaker 1: first play out of the TV time out where Joe
Speaker 1: Flacco burn raheem more over the top to Jacobe Jones
Speaker 1: in that playoff game and through its seventy yards. Being
Speaker 1: a huge Bronco fan, I saw that on live TV
Speaker 1: in my studio while I'm on air. I wanted to
Speaker 1: I wanted to punch somebody. It's absolutely awf Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. I I just a lot of the radio stuff,
Speaker 1: like I get frustrated when the equipment doesn't work, I
Speaker 1: start throwing stuff. But a lot of that's out of
Speaker 1: my control. Yeah, so I I've come to grips with that. Um.
Speaker 1: But the sports stuff, I mean, when you think something's
Speaker 1: gonna go one way and then it just you know, shot,
Speaker 1: just brutal, even if you have money on the ann
Speaker 1: Wars now, Uh, Barry, that's true. Berry from Nashville, Yo Yo,
Speaker 1: mob Benny in a In the recent months, it seems
Speaker 1: like there has been a lot of songs, awesome songs
Speaker 1: written for your show. Why do you think that has
Speaker 1: happened all of a sudden. Uh, well, Bart, I'll answer that.
Speaker 1: I think there's a couple of things in play here.
Speaker 1: We've been playing the songs more now. We've had songs
Speaker 1: written off and on sporadically for years. We had Tammy
Speaker 1: and Montana and Rod the Ambassador of Bakersfield collaborated on
Speaker 1: a tune that was professionally done and we played that
Speaker 1: a lot. And we've had a few others, but I
Speaker 1: really give credit to Jay Scoop and Just Josh. Those
Speaker 1: two guys have collaborated on a number of songs and
Speaker 1: they've been so good and so professionally done that we've
Speaker 1: had Raz quit the band who's also a musician in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: and he's he started to put songs out really quick.
Speaker 1: Raditat hat you have like three songs in a row,
Speaker 1: and so there's like this rivalry of people putting songs out.
Speaker 1: And then we've the Talent Show. Every year we get
Speaker 1: a couple of songs that are that are out, that
Speaker 1: are that are pretty exciting. Uh. Berry also says, as
Speaker 1: a contributing member of the podcast since day one, I
Speaker 1: really appreciate you having my payments being switched from checks
Speaker 1: to direct deposit. It really is more convenient and hits
Speaker 1: my bank account much faster. Well, I'm glad to help
Speaker 1: you out, Barry of Christia. We we do not have
Speaker 1: anyone that is on the show or send an email
Speaker 1: who doesn't get paid wink wink not not so Yeah,
Speaker 1: we have a big budget here. This is like a
Speaker 1: high high budget Morning Zoo. Uh uh aiming in your
Speaker 1: Belinda in so Cap in North O. Have you ever
Speaker 1: been to your Belinda? Yeah? Out there? Yeah uh, It
Speaker 1: says big Ben, I love you in the show. I've
Speaker 1: been a listener since the old Benn and Dave days,
Speaker 1: while I'm back with a different Dave. Uh Benn in
Speaker 1: Dave of the old his radio show, he says, I
Speaker 1: used to love the way you guys would torture Lee
Speaker 1: Klein at the end of your show during the cross like,
Speaker 1: oh that was fun. Lee would get so frustrated and
Speaker 1: annoyed because Lee and we've had him on this podcast,
Speaker 1: but Lee would Lee thought like, you know, he did
Speaker 1: highbrow radio, and that myself and Dave Smith when we
Speaker 1: did the show, we appealed to the unwashed, you know,
Speaker 1: the losers. But he had an adult, mature audience and
Speaker 1: of course was all bullshit. Um, you know, he's he
Speaker 1: had the same people listening to him that we're listening
Speaker 1: to us. He just he in his head, he had
Speaker 1: this neurosis like, oh, I'm you know, I'm more mature
Speaker 1: than these idiots. These guys are doing nonsense radio and
Speaker 1: all that stuff shock jock radio. Uh, he says, what
Speaker 1: happened your old partner, David his league Klins still alive? Wow,
Speaker 1: Lee is still alive. I check in with Lee. We
Speaker 1: had him on the podcast, as I said, aim and
Speaker 1: and Lee is still He's retired, he's not working right now,
Speaker 1: living living a good life. And David Smith is working
Speaker 1: in radio. He's got a weekend radio show at A
Speaker 1: I would give the name, i'd plug it. I don't,
Speaker 1: off the top of my head remember the name of
Speaker 1: the network. It's A it's a smaller outfit. But he's
Speaker 1: got a radio show on the weekends. And uh so
Speaker 1: he's he's still working actively in the business, and uh,
Speaker 1: from what I understand, is doing pretty well. So well.
Speaker 1: I'm happy for him, and we should get him on
Speaker 1: the podcast at some point, but we haven't been able
Speaker 1: to work that out. Well, since you wanted to plug him,
Speaker 1: why don't you actually plug Friday's episode with me and
Speaker 1: Ryan Harris? I thought I did a great job Bronco
Speaker 1: Fani with a former Bronco player. You know, it was
Speaker 1: well rounded minutes, great content, hard hitting questions. We should
Speaker 1: have called that one the sixth hour. Why should call
Speaker 1: it because that's not the fifth the fifth Hour with
Speaker 1: Ben Maller. It's not the fifth Hour with Gascon and
Speaker 1: a Denver Bronco that used to play. Because you love
Speaker 1: the Broncos so much, you tracked out a Bronco. Was
Speaker 1: just gonna tell the audience during that episode that you
Speaker 1: were in the recovery room, you were getting your m
Speaker 1: R I had done on your knee with your torn
Speaker 1: a c l you and your boyfriend Hitle Leonard. I
Speaker 1: just yeah, listen, that's why they play the games. Well, man,
Speaker 1: that's why they play the games. And uh, guys get hurt. Kauai.
Speaker 1: You knew when you signed Kauai that he was injury prone.
Speaker 1: I'm not like devastated by it. I mean, this was
Speaker 1: a possibility. Its people are like, oh man, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be so up. I'm not upset. I'm upset. I'm not up.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is it. I mean it. Actually, the
Speaker 1: whole Kauai injury thing makes it better because from my perspective,
Speaker 1: it's like, well, now it's just you've just in your
Speaker 1: head lost and if the Clippers would like come back
Speaker 1: and and win or something like that, then that's amazing.
Speaker 1: And what an embarrassment would be for the Utah Jazz,
Speaker 1: which is probably just not gonna happen. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's fine. It's you know, you have no chance
Speaker 1: without Ka, I don't win a championship. So that's fine.
Speaker 1: That's what I can deal with that. And I've been
Speaker 1: very consistent on It's like, you know, injuries are part
Speaker 1: of it. They're not robots. And you got I need
Speaker 1: to rant about this the other night about Lebron. What
Speaker 1: a dummy Lebron is told to do because the short
Speaker 1: and season. Yeah, Kawhile Leonards stepping awkwardly on you know someone,
Speaker 1: or Kyrie Irving coming down on Janice A, Denta Coombo,
Speaker 1: U Joel and Bead who's always hurt getting hurt it's
Speaker 1: Alope because they came back too soon. Yeah, sure, Lebron,
Speaker 1: do your homework, Lebron. James Harden out of shape trying
Speaker 1: to play his way into shape is not the NBA's vault.
Speaker 1: But Lebron's got all the answers. She's so smart with
Speaker 1: his high school diploma that he knows everything that's going
Speaker 1: on in the world. My god. All right, moving on.
Speaker 1: This one's from Helen and Stu and Palmetto Bay, Florida.
Speaker 1: Where is that at in Florida? It's beautiful. You've never
Speaker 1: been to Palmetto Bay, No, I have not. I've only
Speaker 1: been to I've been to Miami. I've been to Tampa.
Speaker 1: I've been to St. Petersburg. You've just been to the
Speaker 1: Big seen you do Orlando? I bet I've been to Orlando?
Speaker 1: Have you? You've not been? Yeah, I've been. Well, I
Speaker 1: was there for spring training, so I drove. The Dodges
Speaker 1: were in Vero Beach. We flew into Orlando and drove
Speaker 1: all over the God's Green Earth in Florida. But Palmetto
Speaker 1: Bay is actually in the Miami Dad, It's it's in
Speaker 1: that area. It's uh, I'm looking at photos of It's
Speaker 1: pretty nice. It's pretty nice. Not far from Key Biscayne there.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, solid, I'd live there anyway. Helen and Steu says,
Speaker 1: why bother doing the Fifth Hour podcast when all that
Speaker 1: disloyal David Gascon does his sabotage your two tin cans
Speaker 1: and string audio? Good point. Yeah, Well, I've often said,
Speaker 1: Helen and Stu that the most important thing, there's two
Speaker 1: things that are important in broadcasting. The most important is
Speaker 1: to actually be able to hear the broadcast. I have
Speaker 1: learned over the years. If if you the listener has
Speaker 1: to work to hear what the broadcast is saying, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna listen. And the other thing we learned from
Speaker 1: John sterling sell the soap. You've got to sell the soap.
Speaker 1: So advertising is you could say it's number one, because
Speaker 1: other than that you're just doing free stuff. But if
Speaker 1: you can't hear the broadcast, what's the point of doing
Speaker 1: the broadcast? Uh? And Helen and Steu signed fire guests
Speaker 1: on and replace him with Roberto whoam? Do you think
Speaker 1: she wrote this after or before she put on her
Speaker 1: diapers and her husband's Wow, what are you doing in Florida?
Speaker 1: You know you weren't diapers for years. I don't know
Speaker 1: what you're playing about a little bit. Glenn in Chicago writes,
Speaker 1: and he says, what do you guys hate more junk
Speaker 1: email or junk mail? Yeah, j junk email is easy,
Speaker 1: just delete, delete. You know you gotta spam folder. Nobody deal.
Speaker 1: I just I don't like the fact that they, you know,
Speaker 1: with credit cards or with any kind of advertisers, the
Speaker 1: junk mail they become. They come in these large envelopes
Speaker 1: and letters, and you've spent a lot of money for
Speaker 1: business expenses to get these things out there. Well, my parents,
Speaker 1: my mom ran a mailing service and most of her
Speaker 1: business was drunk mail from realtors. That that was bulk
Speaker 1: mail service. Because that was you'd have title and estro companies.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we had. I can't say when I was
Speaker 1: in like junior high and high school how many stickers
Speaker 1: I put on, like some flyers that because I was
Speaker 1: before the internet was big, and that's the only way
Speaker 1: you could get the word out is you just mass
Speaker 1: mailed junk mail to people, hoping that people, you know,
Speaker 1: a few people would respond. Glenn in Chicago writes in
Speaker 1: Beautiful Deep Dish Chicago Pizza. I only had it for
Speaker 1: the first time a few years ago, Game Changers. Game Changer.
Speaker 1: I didn't think I would like it because the tomato
Speaker 1: sauce on top of amazing, it is amazing. They do
Speaker 1: it right, Glenn and Chicago says, what do you guys
Speaker 1: hate more? Actually, he continues the email. He says, when
Speaker 1: will gag On realize you are great and suck your toes?
Speaker 1: When will that happen? Guess you're laughing. I have good
Speaker 1: toes have big toes, big toes, crusted toes. I have
Speaker 1: a lot of callous on my feet from walking around barefoot.
Speaker 1: Now after your after your better half almost ditched you
Speaker 1: last week for condemning Ranch, do you think she would
Speaker 1: ever consider licking your toes? Well, I you know, I
Speaker 1: keep what happens in the bedroom in the bedroom guest,
Speaker 1: and I know you'd like to get out of there.
Speaker 1: But but no, she wasn't. On a serious note, Glenn says,
Speaker 1: I want to say thank you for your energy and
Speaker 1: the laughs on air and on the podcast. My father
Speaker 1: passed away back in March from brain cancer. He opted
Speaker 1: out of treatment. The most horrific last six months of
Speaker 1: my life and and his. But thank you for the
Speaker 1: great monologues and laughs. I extend the thank you to Coop, Roberto,
Speaker 1: Eddie and even Gascon. I'll even include Jonas Knox and
Speaker 1: Brady Quinn on that. Really the only times I smiled
Speaker 1: and laughed. Well, thank you, Glenn. You said you've been
Speaker 1: listening to me since five ish. I appreciate that. I
Speaker 1: my dad passed away suddenly this year, as you know,
Speaker 1: my mom had cancer though, so I went through that
Speaker 1: a little bit she had breast answer, she beat that,
Speaker 1: actually had she had cancer three times? She beat it
Speaker 1: three times. The fourth time kotor uh, but yeah, she
Speaker 1: it had spread to her liver the last time. So
Speaker 1: I dealt with that. And I know how how horrific
Speaker 1: it is to go to hospice. And you know, you
Speaker 1: don't know, I mean the cooling my mom did. And
Speaker 1: I think she did this intentionally when she When my
Speaker 1: mom went to hospice, they said, well, you know, she
Speaker 1: she might have you know, five months, maybe six, you know,
Speaker 1: who knows, he might be less than that. She lasted
Speaker 1: eleven days in hospice, and I think that's since she
Speaker 1: realized I'm not gonna get get out of here. Might
Speaker 1: as well, I don't want these kids to suffer, and
Speaker 1: she she checked out. But um my condolences to you gone,
Speaker 1: thank you for listening, and I do appreciate. I hope
Speaker 1: you'll continue to listen when things get better and things improved.
Speaker 1: Carlos in Houston, Texas writes and Bang Bang. He says,
Speaker 1: what is the origin story of Justin and Cincinnati? Also,
Speaker 1: did you guys have a crush on any teach hers
Speaker 1: back in the day? Now, I didn't have any hot teachers.
Speaker 1: I had one. I did not. I had a lot
Speaker 1: of older women and like I'm I'm saying older, I'm
Speaker 1: going real old. And I had dudes, So I went
Speaker 1: on the dudes. But you know, for you, for those
Speaker 1: of you that are fine, Uh yeah I didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did not have any. I can't recall. Maybe a
Speaker 1: substitute occasionally would be hot and that would be exciting,
Speaker 1: but that would only last a day or two. My
Speaker 1: fourth grade teacher was really hot. Her name was Mrs
Speaker 1: tun t o n. She was extremely hot, cravaceous or
Speaker 1: just a beautiful, smart, beautiful smile. Yeah, she looked like
Speaker 1: an actress and she was. She actually had a She
Speaker 1: was a bit, which probably made her hotter. Like she
Speaker 1: was that female dog. Yeah, no, she was. She had
Speaker 1: a serious attitude and I always got busted in her class.
Speaker 1: But see that's the con. I always hated women with attitude.
Speaker 1: I was like, you're not better than anybody, what are
Speaker 1: you doing? He did it. I think I'm attracted a
Speaker 1: woman with attitude and I can't stand it. I like
Speaker 1: the relatable human being, whether you're a guy or a girl.
Speaker 1: I don't need the I'm better than you know, it's
Speaker 1: fuck you. You're not better than me. As far as
Speaker 1: Justin and Cincinnati, Justin's been listening for a very long time.
Speaker 1: He has had some odd jobs in Cincinnati. And I
Speaker 1: don't know what you what. I can tell he listens
Speaker 1: to Fox Sports Radio more than our management listens to
Speaker 1: Fox Sports radier guy. He listens all day and all night.
Speaker 1: He knows everything that happens. I don't think he sleeps.
Speaker 1: I think he might be a lizard person Justin and
Speaker 1: he's awake all the time, and he doesn't I don't know.
Speaker 1: I do know that Justin has a ghoulish sense of humor.
Speaker 1: And he did work delivering picking up bodies, and famously
Speaker 1: he claims he picked up the wrong body. He was
Speaker 1: supposed to pick up a white guy's body from the hospital,
Speaker 1: picked up the black guy's body and it became a
Speaker 1: big didn't you didn't you tell me he tried having
Speaker 1: sex with that buddy? No, that's what you you said.
Speaker 1: I didn't necrophilia. Uh. This one was from Scott, formerly
Speaker 1: from Rancho Cucamonga, Quas now in northern Kentucky. He says, Ben,
Speaker 1: first of all, I want to thank for your awesome
Speaker 1: cameo you did for my wife's birthday. Well, you're welcome,
Speaker 1: you wan uh as she tolerates your show better than most.
Speaker 1: I make her listen to it. It was hilarious and
Speaker 1: put a smile on her face. And I'm glactually like that.
Speaker 1: If you were to get a cameo from anyone past
Speaker 1: or present, who would it be from? I suppose Gagon
Speaker 1: can answer that to ha ha ha uh. It would
Speaker 1: be somebody in radio that I you know. Jim Healy
Speaker 1: probably would be the guy, you know if he could
Speaker 1: bring him back from the dead, and I was a
Speaker 1: huge fan of his show. It's one of the influences
Speaker 1: why I got into radio. That would be that would
Speaker 1: be a big one. I ever got to meet him.
Speaker 1: I've been lucky enough to meet most everyone else in
Speaker 1: one way or another. That I him and Paul Harvey.
Speaker 1: I remember Paul Harvey. But Art Bell showed up at
Speaker 1: a Christmas party. I was a big fan of Art Bells.
Speaker 1: I got an autograph from Howard String the book signing,
Speaker 1: so I didn't really meet him, but I get an
Speaker 1: autograph right in front of him anyway. Uh. He says
Speaker 1: love to show on the podcast, and he says new nickname,
Speaker 1: perhaps Captain Cameo. Captain Cameo, Yeah, I'm forget a cameo
Speaker 1: would be from Scully Vince Kelly would be I've had
Speaker 1: dinner with not that I'm bragging. All right, Now, here's
Speaker 1: the deal. So it's kind of a wonky schedule right
Speaker 1: now because I'm in this halfway house situation. So we
Speaker 1: actually are going to record the podcast earlier next week.
Speaker 1: So if if you if I didn't use your email
Speaker 1: and I think it's good, I will use your posting
Speaker 1: in next week's mail bag. Okay, next week mail bag. Uh,
Speaker 1: So we'll do that. And then also in addition, if
Speaker 1: you you want to send in a new question, you
Speaker 1: do that, I'll put something up on Facebook. What probably Monday,
Speaker 1: I think Monday, or maybe I'll even do it today
Speaker 1: on Sunday. I don't know. So we'll get that going.
Speaker 1: And thank you for all your amazing contributions a lot
Speaker 1: of email and questions on Facebook for the mail bag.
Speaker 1: And again, if you missed any of the weekend podcast,
Speaker 1: go back. We had the this Saturday podcast with Me
Speaker 1: Just Me, It's all about Me Ben telling you the
Speaker 1: story of the big relocation situation, the temporary Mallard mansion
Speaker 1: and how that all went down. Give you the inside skinny.
Speaker 1: That's a that's an exclusive only on the podcast. I've
Speaker 1: not talked about that on the radio show. And then
Speaker 1: it was all Gascon on Friday with one of his
Speaker 1: bff from the Broncos, Ryan Harris, former Notre Dame Fighting
Speaker 1: Irish offense tackle and motivational speaker, author champion of the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl winning team back in Super Bowl fifty of
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos, gift by Cam Newton. Problem problem. But
Speaker 1: did net did Ryan in the podcast? I gotta go
Speaker 1: back and here did he mention how they pushed Peyton
Speaker 1: Manning's rotting carcass across the finish line that year? Did
Speaker 1: they talk about that? Didn't get into any of that,
Speaker 1: but it is an enjoyable one. It was hard, oh
Speaker 1: sports talk, So I do apologize for those that were
Speaker 1: hard x is and OH sports talk. Yeah, there's no
Speaker 1: third rail chatter, so I do apologize in advance. That's
Speaker 1: gonna upset Chris and Houston. All right, listen, we are
Speaker 1: out of here. Have a great rest of your Sunday,
Speaker 1: and we will catch you well tonight on the radio
Speaker 1: in the podcast next week. As well. See you then,
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