Speaker 1: Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
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Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
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Speaker 1: give or take three hours, three bonus hours on the weekend.
Speaker 1: And we have yet to take a call from the
Speaker 1: most famous famous prank caller of all time. He has
Speaker 1: not called this show. But the phone is ringing. The
Speaker 1: phone is ringing, so you never know. At any moment
Speaker 1: we might actually take a call from the aforementioned And
Speaker 1: how exciting would that be? My God, that would be
Speaker 1: that would be great? Right the phone ring in there.
Speaker 1: We won't stop ringing. This is not a call in
Speaker 1: radio show. You might want to stop that, Howard. That's
Speaker 1: a that's a problem. Anyway, Listen, this is the fifth Hour.
Speaker 1: This is all about Yet, it is all about your
Speaker 1: questions and our answers on the Fifth Hour podcast. So
Speaker 1: without further Ado, let's strike up the band. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna waste any time here. He is the man, the myth,
Speaker 1: the legend, our guy. Ohio. It's well said, OHIOO well said.
Speaker 1: So the first email comes from Glen in Chicago and
Speaker 1: he says, Hey, Ben, what is with the forty seven
Speaker 1: minute obesity chubby kid commercial that you do that's on
Speaker 1: this podcast. It feels like it never ends. Glenn in
Speaker 1: Chicago complains, I don't know if it's the same commercial
Speaker 1: plate multiple times in a row or one long ass commercial. Alright,
Speaker 1: First of all, Glenn, thank you for your listenership. As
Speaker 1: you know, you've been with the show while now and
Speaker 1: we do appreciate that. And I'm sure the people that
Speaker 1: spend a lot of money on that commercial are happy
Speaker 1: that you called it a forty seven minute obesity chubby
Speaker 1: kid commercial. That is what's known as a mead role
Speaker 1: in the podcast game and the advertiser paid a good
Speaker 1: amount of money, and it's just pretty much me telling
Speaker 1: a story, me telling a story, and then I plugged
Speaker 1: their website and that's pretty much it, and I thank
Speaker 1: you for listening. I don't think it's a bad commercial.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good commercial. It's I will tell you this though, Glenn.
Speaker 1: I've done a lot of spots over the years for advertisers.
Speaker 1: That is the longest commercial that I have ever done.
Speaker 1: And I remember when I was contacted by management. They're like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know so and so I want you to do
Speaker 1: a spot. I was like, well, well that's great. You know,
Speaker 1: I almost never turned down advertisers because I, as I
Speaker 1: learned from John Sterling on this podcast, The Voice of
Speaker 1: the Yankees, the most important thing is selling the soap.
Speaker 1: You've got to sell this up. So I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: I would like to sell the soap. But they contacted
Speaker 1: me and said, well, they want you to tell a
Speaker 1: story about your life and losing weight, and they want
Speaker 1: to help other people lose weight, and they have a
Speaker 1: website that can give people advice and direct people. I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, yeah, that sounds good. You know,
Speaker 1: anything that can lead someone to lose weight. I'm all
Speaker 1: for right. Yeah. I also think if you're happy fat
Speaker 1: and you don't want to lose weight, I'm good with
Speaker 1: that as well. Uh. And I've told this story many times, Glenn.
Speaker 1: But when I was growing up, and I remember being
Speaker 1: at at social evance bar Mitzvah's weddings funerals, and my
Speaker 1: my cousins, my old cousins, aunts and uncles would all
Speaker 1: give me the lecture, you really would you need to
Speaker 1: lose weight, Ben, You'll feel so much better. And I
Speaker 1: remember thinking at the time, I did not feel bad
Speaker 1: at all. I felt fine. I thought things were going great,
Speaker 1: and and all this talk about oh no, no, you
Speaker 1: need to lose x amount of weight, and and I
Speaker 1: was like, come on, you know what's wrong with you?
Speaker 1: You people are so you're wrong, you really are. And uh, anyway,
Speaker 1: I may get to the point. When I was at
Speaker 1: my fattest, I was like, all right, let's uh, let's
Speaker 1: get it on, let's get it on right now. And uh.
Speaker 1: And then even even when I lost weight, even when
Speaker 1: the weight came off and I had that big accomplishment,
Speaker 1: I lost two hundred pounds, I was so fat. I
Speaker 1: was so overweight that I could able. I was able
Speaker 1: to lose two hundred pounds and I was still a
Speaker 1: big guy. That's how fat I was at the at
Speaker 1: my biggest and and then I remember the conversations turned
Speaker 1: from you need to lose the way to oh my god,
Speaker 1: you're probably feeling so much better right now. And then
Speaker 1: I remember telling people and how upset they were when
Speaker 1: I pointed out, you know, I didn't ever feel bad
Speaker 1: when I was fat, and I don't really feel that
Speaker 1: much better now. I feel about the same. Yeah. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I mean that's uh, that's the problem. And they were
Speaker 1: like what I mean, I don't I don't understand. Come on,
Speaker 1: I mean, what is that all about? You lost all
Speaker 1: this weight here? And I'm like I'm shutting them down,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm like sorry anyway, So, Glenn, that is
Speaker 1: one commercial. If if you're talking about the one I
Speaker 1: am talking about, it's one commercial, like three or four minutes.
Speaker 1: I don't maybe it's even longer than that. I have
Speaker 1: no idea. Next question from Neil in the real Miami,
Speaker 1: not the fake Miami. The real Miami. Uh, Neil says,
Speaker 1: So I'm on the road in Orlando. Boy, that's gotta
Speaker 1: suck you live. I've seen Neil's home there the view picturesque.
Speaker 1: He's got the showcase home high rise Miami we talked
Speaker 1: about in previous episode. And and Neil's living the life.
Speaker 1: He's in the penthouse overlooking all of Miami. That got
Speaker 1: the Heat Arena right next door to him. And as
Speaker 1: he pointed out, you live in a place like that,
Speaker 1: after a while, you don't even appreciate the views, the
Speaker 1: coast of the Atlantic Ocean right there and all that.
Speaker 1: You just forget about it because it's you know, it's home,
Speaker 1: and you just live your life. Anyway, back to the email,
Speaker 1: Neil in Orlando visiting for work says he was hanging
Speaker 1: out with his brother watching Goodfellas on a rainy day
Speaker 1: and there is a scene with Jimmy he wanted Spider
Speaker 1: to dance before he shot him, and the word Mama
Speaker 1: Luke was all over the place. So he says, I
Speaker 1: was wondering if you, uh, if you have a favorite
Speaker 1: old school gangster movie. He said, you and your partner
Speaker 1: to be named later have an old school gangster movie
Speaker 1: that you like. Well, you actually mentioned my favorite one
Speaker 1: of those women. Many people say Godfather Too is the
Speaker 1: greatest of all time. But for me, it is the
Speaker 1: aforementioned Goodfellas. I love that movie. I've watched that movie
Speaker 1: many times. It's held up for me. I enjoyed very much,
Speaker 1: and uh, I love it now. The term mama luke.
Speaker 1: I actually learned it from not that movie, but I
Speaker 1: watched a movie that I'm not even that big a
Speaker 1: fan of it, the Raging Bull boxing movie Martin Scorsese,
Speaker 1: famous name in Hollywood, and they used the term mama
Speaker 1: luke quite a bit in that that movie, and that's
Speaker 1: where I first learned mama luke. I stole it from
Speaker 1: the movie. That's a good word, which I guess if
Speaker 1: I'm an Italian, but if you're of Italian heritage, i'd
Speaker 1: say a word that you're familiar with. But I it's
Speaker 1: become it has over the years become mainstream in lexicon.
Speaker 1: And so that is the the back story on that, Neil.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Good Fellas, you can't go wrong with that.
Speaker 1: I love the Sopranos. That's obviously not a movie, but
Speaker 1: I enjoyed the hell out of The Sopranos back in
Speaker 1: the day, and I don't normally enjoy that kind of content,
Speaker 1: And I'm pretty much documentary guy, it's gonna be real
Speaker 1: or it's not for me. But when it comes to
Speaker 1: to a good mob show, I I'm all about it.
Speaker 1: I am all about it. Yes, very very nice. There
Speaker 1: cannot get enough of it? All right, moving on in
Speaker 1: the mailback, Next up, any meany mighty mo. Pick a
Speaker 1: caller by their name, and let's say hello to Pierre
Speaker 1: from Springfield. We're actually not gonna say to low to
Speaker 1: him because if he says all back, he's a phantom.
Speaker 1: And it goes. And as much as Pierre the keeper
Speaker 1: of Alfie Adiano Piner listens to the show, I mean
Speaker 1: this guy, this is a dedicated member of the Mala Mush.
Speaker 1: I wonder what Pierre does, like I wonder what he
Speaker 1: does for work, what he does in his free time.
Speaker 1: I've seen him at Red Sox games, driving down from
Speaker 1: Springfield Tow, Massachusetts to go to Red Side games. But
Speaker 1: man Pierre is able to listen to all of the content,
Speaker 1: whether it's the middle of the night when I do
Speaker 1: these other bits on on radio shows, Pierre is always there.
Speaker 1: He is. He's great. As far as a p one
Speaker 1: brigadier general in the mallem listen, I'm very lucky, like
Speaker 1: a lot of you have been very loyal. But Pierre
Speaker 1: Alfie and pineers right near the top of the list.
Speaker 1: No matter when we put content out, Pierre's like, I'm
Speaker 1: here and uh, and he's just he's all about it.
Speaker 1: It's like and even when I do stuff at the
Speaker 1: last minute and then Pierre pops up and it's like, motherfucker,
Speaker 1: here he is. Here's Pierre Alfieri, Li Piner ready to go.
Speaker 1: It's a Whodini. Yes, he is like Pudini. That's a
Speaker 1: good point, very much like Pudini, the way that he
Speaker 1: pops up like that. Anyway, all right, yes, let's get
Speaker 1: to it. So, Pierre from Springfields, this man. As I
Speaker 1: type this question, I think that I just heard you
Speaker 1: say that Benny versus the Penny maybe returning to the radio.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's just that I haven't had a coffee yet
Speaker 1: and I didn't hear it correctly. Would you care to
Speaker 1: elaborate on the state of the Juggernaut YouTube show? So, Pierre,
Speaker 1: here's where I am. I know for sure there is
Speaker 1: a date down the line where the Benny versus the
Speaker 1: Petty segment will return to terrestrial radio. So I know
Speaker 1: that is true. Uh, one date in late November around Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: The plan is all everything lines up in a row,
Speaker 1: we will have Benny Versus the Penny on terrestrial radio. Now,
Speaker 1: as you know, because I've been very open about this,
Speaker 1: the reason that we do Benny Versus the Penny on
Speaker 1: YouTube is to provide some tape so that we can
Speaker 1: get a TV show. We actually were in conversations with
Speaker 1: several big media companies to provide and don't laugh, all right,
Speaker 1: it's not it's not funny, but we were. We were
Speaker 1: in conversation to to put Benny Versus the Penny on
Speaker 1: a major media platform. Um. One was Old Media, a
Speaker 1: couple were New Media, but the deal fell apart at
Speaker 1: the very last minute. Has often happens, you know, something,
Speaker 1: something goes wrong. Uh So the goal is to eventually
Speaker 1: move that to a television or internet streaming platform with
Speaker 1: a lot of sponsors, a lot of bells and whistles,
Speaker 1: and then everyone will be like hey, congratulations, yeah, and
Speaker 1: we'll be thank you, thank you for that. But as
Speaker 1: of now that has not happened. Um and I have
Speaker 1: got a lot of complaints with people even know Benny
Speaker 1: Versus the Penny. The bulk of it has been off
Speaker 1: the year now off off radio. It's been on YouTube
Speaker 1: for a couple of years now, and we did on
Speaker 1: the podcast for a year, so really it's been off
Speaker 1: Terrestaural Radio for three years. It's just been in other platforms.
Speaker 1: And I still get people that call up and they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta bring it back, man, you know, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, well maybe we will from time to time.
Speaker 1: I still do the Thursday night game. I still do that.
Speaker 1: Uh and and and and that that goes well. I
Speaker 1: will keep you posted, Pierre when it moves, if it
Speaker 1: does move off YouTube back to terrestural radio, but I
Speaker 1: guarantee there is a date that it will happen. Alan
Speaker 1: in Akron writes in he says, do you get residuals
Speaker 1: for any of your TV work? Uh no? Uh no.
Speaker 1: And the reason I know, I've been on a few
Speaker 1: TV shows. I worked at NBC on Sports Talk Show
Speaker 1: at NBC out of Stanford, Connecticut, did that for about
Speaker 1: a year. Uh that is not an evergreen show. That
Speaker 1: was not a union a gig, so didn't get any
Speaker 1: kind of residuals. And then I was on the Sports
Speaker 1: List that's one with Summer Sanders on the Fox Sports Network.
Speaker 1: That's one I wish I got residuals for because that
Speaker 1: thing was an evergreen show. And five six, seven years
Speaker 1: after I did that show, I'd walk into a sports
Speaker 1: bar occasionally and they'd have that on one of the
Speaker 1: monitors after a game, and I was like, if I
Speaker 1: only got paid like a dollar every time that thing aired,
Speaker 1: or fifty cents, I would have made a killing. But
Speaker 1: they didn't work that way. Uh So that sucks. And
Speaker 1: then the other thing I just did for Vice also
Speaker 1: not anything that pays residual. So the answer is no,
Speaker 1: But I do. I do know that Coop gets money
Speaker 1: on the show, the shows that he did back in
Speaker 1: the day, he gets residual checks from that. Be sure
Speaker 1: to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays
Speaker 1: at two a m. Eastern eleven p m. Pacific on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio. Kevin in Kansas, Right,
Speaker 1: so he says, dear beat, besides playing the plastic recorder
Speaker 1: or the flute, oh phone in grade school? Were you
Speaker 1: involved in music or theater any time in school? Thank
Speaker 1: you for great the great podcast. Well, Kevin, thank you
Speaker 1: very much. I appreciate that first of all. Now secondly,
Speaker 1: I was in the band in elementary school. I was
Speaker 1: in the band, and as the largest kid in the
Speaker 1: elementary school, I had a very large instrument and I
Speaker 1: forget the name of it. It was like a violin,
Speaker 1: but it was massive, right, it was. It was massive,
Speaker 1: and I had it was it had a lugged this
Speaker 1: thing around and I don't think it was againness world
Speaker 1: where it wasn't actual violin. It was a different, different
Speaker 1: name for the instrument. But it's been so long that
Speaker 1: I forgot. And I was really bad. I barely knew
Speaker 1: English in elementary school, so learning music, I pretty much
Speaker 1: just did my own thing. And I was in the
Speaker 1: background in the band, and as long as the other
Speaker 1: kids did what they were supposed to do, I was okay.
Speaker 1: Like I was just kind of background noise in the band,
Speaker 1: you know, I was. It was elevator music, and I
Speaker 1: was kind of doing my thing. And plus, as you
Speaker 1: know from working in the educational system, Kevin, when you're
Speaker 1: a kid in school, it doesn't matter how terrible you are,
Speaker 1: it is irrelevant. You get applause. You cannot do a
Speaker 1: bad job. Right, no matter what you do, you are
Speaker 1: going to get support. You're you're gonna get people as like, hey,
Speaker 1: good job by you, you know, matter what, and they're
Speaker 1: not gonna laugh at you. And I gotta have point
Speaker 1: figures and gonna say the doing Yeah, then I gonna
Speaker 1: say what that dog doing back there? No, none of
Speaker 1: that's gonna up. Uh. So I didn't get any negative feedback.
Speaker 1: But I did play an instrument. That's one of those
Speaker 1: things I wish I had paid more attention to my mom.
Speaker 1: May she rest in peace. We had a piano that
Speaker 1: my grandparents have got had gotten, and I attempted to
Speaker 1: play the piano and I knew a few songs, just
Speaker 1: kind of by memory, not really reading music. But my
Speaker 1: my mom tried her darnist to get me to learn
Speaker 1: how to play the piano professionally, and it just never
Speaker 1: never really clicked. She was really good, I mean, she
Speaker 1: knew she picked it up, but she knew how to
Speaker 1: read music. And very talented woman on the piano. Who's next,
Speaker 1: it's the mail bag? Don't we have Matt in bow
Speaker 1: doin Maine? Yeah? I gotta looked at up bow doin Maine.
Speaker 1: You think that's a real You know, I only know
Speaker 1: a few cities in Maine and most of the cities
Speaker 1: I know in Maine are from doing the radio show,
Speaker 1: and that's not one that i've I've heard of. Let
Speaker 1: me let me check this out and do a little,
Speaker 1: a little reconnaissance on the town of bow doin Maine.
Speaker 1: What can I learn from the interweb? What do I
Speaker 1: know about bow doin Maine? Population three thousand, sixty one
Speaker 1: as of the census. It is part of the Portland's
Speaker 1: metropolitan Portland, Maine metropolitan area. So there is that not
Speaker 1: that far from the Atlantic Ocean. It was developed as
Speaker 1: an agricultural town, raising sheep, producing apple's, wheat, hey and potatoes.
Speaker 1: All right, look at that. That's kind of cool. But
Speaker 1: since the early nineties, oh, this is interesting here. Since
Speaker 1: the early nineties, alpacas normally an animal you see in
Speaker 1: South America. But according to the Internet, it can't be wrong.
Speaker 1: It's on the internet. Alpacas who look like weird looking
Speaker 1: goats with a long neck. That's what an alpaca, you know,
Speaker 1: those furry fury that. Yeah. So if I wanted in alpaca,
Speaker 1: I could call Matt up and Matt could get me
Speaker 1: a deal, and then he could he could have it
Speaker 1: shipped the alpaca out the Cali and I could have
Speaker 1: bella and a pet alpaca in my backyard. How great
Speaker 1: would that be? That'd be wonderful. Anybody famous come from
Speaker 1: Bodin Main, Boy, the odds of famous people come from there.
Speaker 1: Not great when you have so, you know, such a
Speaker 1: few assistant small population, such a small population. Uh, it
Speaker 1: says here according to the Internet, Mike mckugh the most
Speaker 1: famous person to come out of that town in Maine.
Speaker 1: And he who is that? You ask? A hockey player
Speaker 1: who was drafted by the Minnesota north Stars, a team
Speaker 1: that doesn't even exist anymore, is the first pick of
Speaker 1: the nineteen supplemental Draft. He played at the University of
Speaker 1: Maine and he played in the NHL for twenty games.
Speaker 1: He scored one goal and that was his only point
Speaker 1: in the NHL. Yeah, so this guy's like the Moonlight
Speaker 1: Graham of hockey. Mike McK things you did not expect
Speaker 1: to hear on the fifth al. Anyway, back to Matt's email,
Speaker 1: and Bo bow doined me and I hope I'm saying
Speaker 1: that right. I'm just guessing at that. Uh. And Matt says,
Speaker 1: does Marcel in Brooklyn dip his pizza in ranch dressing
Speaker 1: before consumption. It's a great question, Matt. I'll try to
Speaker 1: work that into the show this week. I will ask
Speaker 1: Marcel if I remember, Marcel, do you enjoy ranch dressing?
Speaker 1: And I'll ask him questions. I do enjoy quizzing Marcel
Speaker 1: about various things food related. He revealed had never eaten
Speaker 1: beef before, but he does enjoy hamburgers. This past week,
Speaker 1: Matt's Marcel is a great character on the show. He's
Speaker 1: a wonderful character on the show. He loves the show,
Speaker 1: he loves being on the show. Now I've got an
Speaker 1: email from people saying your mean to Marcella. I'm not mean. No,
Speaker 1: Marcel loves being a radio star. We allow him to
Speaker 1: be a radio star, and he loves being a character
Speaker 1: on our show. But I have to ask him about
Speaker 1: ranch dressing. I'll have to phrase it the right way.
Speaker 1: What country does ranch dressing come from? What is what
Speaker 1: is ranch dressing made out of? I could ask that, right,
Speaker 1: That's a good question. Then I'll answer some some nonsense
Speaker 1: most likely, most likely, and then I'll be good. Mike
Speaker 1: is next on the mailbag. Mike from Los Angeles writes
Speaker 1: in he says, Man, I know you are a tight wad.
Speaker 1: But everyone splurges on something or another. What is worth
Speaker 1: spending moron to get the best? So, Mike, I have
Speaker 1: I mentioned this in the past. I guess you're new
Speaker 1: to the podcast or maybe you missed it in a
Speaker 1: pre be a s mailbag. The one thing that I
Speaker 1: will spare no expense on I look out for, Mike
Speaker 1: took us, uh the toilet paper. I do not go
Speaker 1: cheap on toilet paper. We've all been to that truck stop,
Speaker 1: We've all been to that grocery store that has toilet
Speaker 1: paper that is thinner than you thought was humanly possible.
Speaker 1: And you have to use a whole role to get
Speaker 1: a decent amount of toilet paper to take care of
Speaker 1: your business with your number two. So I when I
Speaker 1: go to Costco, they have a cheaper version, and they
Speaker 1: have a more expensive version, and I go with the
Speaker 1: more expensive version of toilet paper. That is one area, Mike,
Speaker 1: I do not cut corners. Uh. As far as food,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that you can save money
Speaker 1: just on generic brand. Um. You know, gasoline is one
Speaker 1: of those things. You can go to any gas stations,
Speaker 1: all regulated by the government. All that, Uh. Rob Parker
Speaker 1: told the store about airlines, and that even the cheap airfit,
Speaker 1: even the cheap airlines that you think are just you know, terrible,
Speaker 1: are regulated by the government, so they have to they
Speaker 1: have to follow the rules and regulations to have a
Speaker 1: license to be allowed to fly. So but I usually
Speaker 1: just fly, I I when I fly. I don't fly
Speaker 1: very often anymore, but when I do, I will go
Speaker 1: on there, Mike, and I'll go to one of the
Speaker 1: travel websites, punch in why I'm going, and whatever pops
Speaker 1: up as the cheapest I'm in. Don't matter what airline
Speaker 1: it is, as long as it's you know, saving a
Speaker 1: couple of bucks. I'm good. Matt from Indie writes in
Speaker 1: on the mail back. He says, Ben, my wife is
Speaker 1: habitually late to appointments. It drives me crazy. Matt says,
Speaker 1: are you usually early or late? Well, Matt, I'm glad
Speaker 1: you're concerned about my punctuality. In live and I do
Speaker 1: have a job. I have one of the few jobs
Speaker 1: where you have to be there on time. And if
Speaker 1: you are not there on time, bone and their mother
Speaker 1: will know that you are late. You have not shown
Speaker 1: up right when I when I missed a few shows
Speaker 1: at the beginning, we had gremlins. We've been I mean,
Speaker 1: knock on wood here. Fortunately we've been in pretty good shape.
Speaker 1: But in the past I've had gremlins that have affected
Speaker 1: the beginning of the show. And there's no way to
Speaker 1: get around that. There is no way to pretend like
Speaker 1: you are there when you're not there, because you sound
Speaker 1: like bozo and it's just I mean, I could play
Speaker 1: a sound bite over and over of me, uh you know,
Speaker 1: doing that and pretend that I was me, but the
Speaker 1: listener knows. Listeners now, I have gotten away a little
Speaker 1: bit on the radio show, Matt. Sometimes if I have
Speaker 1: a few issues that we need to work out, we
Speaker 1: have to reset the equipment that I used to connect
Speaker 1: to the mothership from the home studio. Uh that I
Speaker 1: What I will do is I'll have Roberto play a
Speaker 1: song every once in a while, little cheap Code on
Speaker 1: the Ben Mallery Radio Show inspired by Matt from Indie.
Speaker 1: If you hear one of the Mallard themes songs at
Speaker 1: the very beginning of the show, and it's like a
Speaker 1: dedication and said, it's just something different. It's actually because
Speaker 1: the gremlins have attacked my equipment. Hand to God, that's
Speaker 1: why we do it. Like the gremlins have attacked and I,
Speaker 1: you know, I have to you have to kill time,
Speaker 1: kill a couple of minutes to have everything reset. And
Speaker 1: so that's that's how that goes. J from Cleveland, Cleveland
Speaker 1: one of my favorite cities. They love me in Cleveland.
Speaker 1: When the Cavaliers ended the Curse of Cleveland, the fan
Speaker 1: famous photo there held up a sign had all these
Speaker 1: people that were Calves haters. And I was on this
Speaker 1: right next to Skip Bayless, a man that makes seventy
Speaker 1: five times the amount of money that I make, actually
Speaker 1: more than that anyway, Jay from Cleveland, right, and he says,
Speaker 1: I recently learned how to speak somewhat fluent Italian. Congratulations,
Speaker 1: Uh riva. Drcha was wondering what skill would you like
Speaker 1: to master? So Jay, we did answer a version of
Speaker 1: this question earlier in the mail bag. I think it
Speaker 1: was was it Kevin who asked that I forget. I
Speaker 1: think Kevin in Kansas asked the question. But the the
Speaker 1: general question was about you know, instrument a thing like that,
Speaker 1: and then there was another question that was similar. Um.
Speaker 1: But the the way I will answer uh this question
Speaker 1: right is hey, I I wish I had learned another
Speaker 1: language and mastered it. When I being of the Jewish faith,
Speaker 1: I learned Hebrew, but just enough to get my bar mitzvah,
Speaker 1: and i've had had had all that pretty much got
Speaker 1: Now I know a few words and a few phrases,
Speaker 1: and and Yiddish I picked up That stuck with me
Speaker 1: a lot. My grandfather, may he rest in peace from Springfield,
Speaker 1: mass who when he was trying to talk dirty, when
Speaker 1: he was trying to say mean things, would talk in
Speaker 1: Yiddish at the house, and occasionally when he would say
Speaker 1: things the US kids as grandkids, he would use Yiddish terms,
Speaker 1: and so I picked up some of those phrases. My
Speaker 1: mom would also use some of those things, and her
Speaker 1: dad had was the one that had done that stuff.
Speaker 1: So it would have been cool to learn how to
Speaker 1: fluently speak that. I need a Rosetta stone, hell, I
Speaker 1: need a Rosetta stone for English. Barely speak English, you know.
Speaker 1: At one point, as I said, I knew Hebrew and
Speaker 1: all that, but I have want to be I know
Speaker 1: a few words in Spanish living in Los Angeles. Just biasmosis.
Speaker 1: You picked that up, right, You just picked that up
Speaker 1: a little bit, Uh, and it's it's really spanguish at
Speaker 1: this point, it spangs. I don't even know if I
Speaker 1: answered Matt and Indy's original question about being on time.
Speaker 1: I want to go back to that. Uh So, as
Speaker 1: you know, I am buy the clock for the clock,
Speaker 1: plausibly all about the clock on time, Mallory in my
Speaker 1: civilian life, Matt, I am not on Lombardi time. Vincimbardi
Speaker 1: legendary story. He believed that being on time was not
Speaker 1: good enough, and you always had to be fifteen minutes early.
Speaker 1: Tom Coughlin, the Old Coach and Jacksonville with the Giants,
Speaker 1: he ripped that off from Lombardi. I'm not like that.
Speaker 1: I like to be on time. I don't like to
Speaker 1: be late. My wife also generally tries to be on time.
Speaker 1: We have relatives. I have a cousin of mine who
Speaker 1: I love, who just moved into the area where I
Speaker 1: now live, and we catch up and she is habitually late.
Speaker 1: But it's good because it reminds me of her mom,
Speaker 1: because her mom was like that too. And I'm you know,
Speaker 1: if you follow your parents as much as you say
Speaker 1: when you're a kid, you know I'm not gonna be
Speaker 1: like my mom. And I'm not gonna be like my dad.
Speaker 1: There's one day you wake up and having epiphany and
Speaker 1: you're like, crap, I'm doing that. My dad used to
Speaker 1: do that. I'm doing that. My mom used to do that.
Speaker 1: But my mom was always on time, and her sister
Speaker 1: was always late, and I'm on time and her daughter,
Speaker 1: who's my cousin, is often be sure to catch live
Speaker 1: editions of The Ben Maller Show week days at two
Speaker 1: am Eastern Pacific. Moving on, dog handler Dale from Orlando, Right,
Speaker 1: so we had we had our guy from Miami's and
Speaker 1: I guess we're big in Orlando anyway, Dale writes, and
Speaker 1: he says, recently, I have fallen down the the rabbit
Speaker 1: hole here of binge watching conspiracy theory documentaries on YouTube. Lately,
Speaker 1: I've been watching documentaries about nine eleven, big Foot, and
Speaker 1: several other interesting topics. It got me wondering, Ben, what
Speaker 1: conspiracy do you wish that you knew the answer to?
Speaker 1: So this is a good question. Now be careful, Dale,
Speaker 1: because conspiracy theories have been weaponized. And if you tell
Speaker 1: too many people Dale that you enjoyed conspiracy theories, you
Speaker 1: will be called an extremist. You will be called all
Speaker 1: kinds of nasty names, uh and polite society political, it's
Speaker 1: been politicized. But I enjoyed conspiracy theories also, and I'm
Speaker 1: not watch a lot of those documentaries on YouTube. But
Speaker 1: to answer a question Dale, the one that there's two
Speaker 1: that are on on this number one would be Roswell
Speaker 1: New Mexico. Did aliens drop down and Roswell New Mexico
Speaker 1: many many years ago. I am of the belief that
Speaker 1: that happened, and I I do believe that that is
Speaker 1: not I don't I don't think that it didn't happen. No,
Speaker 1: I think it happened. Uh. And I don't think it's
Speaker 1: fair you are fake. No, I believe it is legit.
Speaker 1: And my hypothesis has been since that date. Look at
Speaker 1: the while and crazy things that have happened, and how
Speaker 1: rapidly in the Western world humanity has progressed with the
Speaker 1: technology we have available. Now, I look at this, this
Speaker 1: iPhone and the computer that you're probably listening to this
Speaker 1: on some kind of device, whatever your your smartphone is
Speaker 1: or however you're listening to this, maybe it's some other way.
Speaker 1: But I'm just amazed by and this technology and how
Speaker 1: quickly it has changed considering what it was like a
Speaker 1: hundred years before. Roswell. I just think that that that
Speaker 1: is legit, and they re engineered alien technology somehow to
Speaker 1: create what we have. I'd like to know if that's
Speaker 1: true or if I've just I've taken stupid pills and
Speaker 1: I'm a big dumb dumb uh and I should put
Speaker 1: on my bows of the clown nose and all that.
Speaker 1: So that's the first one. The second documentary dale that
Speaker 1: I would love to know if it's what happened, is
Speaker 1: dB Cooper D. B. Cooper. This is one of the
Speaker 1: great documentaries. I've read books on this, I've read many
Speaker 1: stories online, I've watched documentaries. It is fascinating that that incident,
Speaker 1: the hijacking of a plane from the Northwest, lead to
Speaker 1: the change of all airlines used to get on airlines
Speaker 1: in the back on the planes in the back, and
Speaker 1: they got rid of that because dB Cooper jumped out
Speaker 1: of the back of the plane. The famous story that
Speaker 1: he was flying. He demanded money, he demanded ransom. He
Speaker 1: held people hostage on the plane and they gave him
Speaker 1: the money, figuring they'd get the money back when eventually
Speaker 1: they catch the guy. He took off and then jumped
Speaker 1: out of the plane randomly in the Pacific Northwest and
Speaker 1: was never found again. They never found the money, and
Speaker 1: many people have died on their deathbed said they were
Speaker 1: dB Cooper. There have been some people that believe they
Speaker 1: cracked the case. I think one one was a police
Speaker 1: investigation by former law enforcement people. We talked about that
Speaker 1: on this podcast a while back, who claimed that it
Speaker 1: was a done deal. They had they had solved and
Speaker 1: cracked the case. And uh, I'd like to know what
Speaker 1: really happened, maybe even go back and be on the
Speaker 1: plane and like C. D. B. Cooper and and find
Speaker 1: out what what happens. It really was. It really as
Speaker 1: good an amazing tale as has been told by the
Speaker 1: storytellers over the years. Who else do you have? Fred
Speaker 1: in Spring Texas? Is to either one of you speak
Speaker 1: foreign languages? Was a solo act thread And I just
Speaker 1: said I don't. I do not. Dave in Toronto right
Speaker 1: so and he says, hey, hey, Bett, would you recommend
Speaker 1: towing an electric generator during vacations? If all we have
Speaker 1: all we have our electric vehicles. Yeah, that's what the
Speaker 1: political class right as telling us that we have to
Speaker 1: have electric vehicles that we're gonna we're gonna run out
Speaker 1: of fossil fuels. Uh yeah, alright, Uh, good luck on that.
Speaker 1: I've had an electric car in the past. I'm not
Speaker 1: against electric cars, but I'm also not against fossil fuels.
Speaker 1: I think everything in moderation, everything in moderation, and there's
Speaker 1: still a place for for those cars that use gasoline.
Speaker 1: And I I hope I live a long life. I
Speaker 1: hope I live to see the date. I know. I
Speaker 1: live in a place in America here California, where they've
Speaker 1: said by X year they're gonna get rid of gasoline.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna produce gasoline cars anymore. It's all gonna
Speaker 1: be electric, and we're all driving Tesla's or whatever the
Speaker 1: hot electric car the day is. And I will believe
Speaker 1: it when it happens. I believe what happens. All Right,
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