WEBVTT - Junk Mail 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:05.400 Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.120 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.400 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.440 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:20.160 rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:24.040 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:35.000 Maller starts right now. It's in the air everywhere here 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:39.720 we are on a Sunday Sunday. Additionally, Fifth Hour with 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:46.440 Ben Maller. Because listen, five nights a week not enough, 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:50.479 not enough, So we provide you with marginal audio content 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:55.960 eight days a week. And here we are so exciting 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.360 twenty hours a week on the radio and a flee 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:04.360 give or take three hours, three bonus hours on the weekend. 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.080 And we have yet to take a call from the 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:10.320 most famous famous prank caller of all time. He has 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:14.920 not called this show. But the phone is ringing. The 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:18.560 phone is ringing, so you never know. At any moment 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:22.000 we might actually take a call from the aforementioned And 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:25.559 how exciting would that be? My God, that would be 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.520 that would be great? Right the phone ring in there. 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.600 We won't stop ringing. This is not a call in 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:36.800 radio show. You might want to stop that, Howard. That's 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.839 a that's a problem. Anyway, Listen, this is the fifth Hour. 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:43.560 This is all about Yet, it is all about your 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:49.280 questions and our answers on the Fifth Hour podcast. So 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:53.520 without further Ado, let's strike up the band. I'm not 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.440 gonna waste any time here. He is the man, the myth, 0:01:56.440 --> 0:02:15.919 the legend, our guy. Ohio. It's well said, OHIOO well said. 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:21.480 So the first email comes from Glen in Chicago and 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.800 he says, Hey, Ben, what is with the forty seven 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:31.120 minute obesity chubby kid commercial that you do that's on 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:36.240 this podcast. It feels like it never ends. Glenn in 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:40.679 Chicago complains, I don't know if it's the same commercial 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:46.280 plate multiple times in a row or one long ass commercial. Alright, 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:50.959 First of all, Glenn, thank you for your listenership. As 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:52.720 you know, you've been with the show while now and 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.480 we do appreciate that. And I'm sure the people that 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:59.040 spend a lot of money on that commercial are happy 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:02.560 that you called it a forty seven minute obesity chubby 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:06.919 kid commercial. That is what's known as a mead role 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:11.480 in the podcast game and the advertiser paid a good 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:15.280 amount of money, and it's just pretty much me telling 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:20.040 a story, me telling a story, and then I plugged 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:23.640 their website and that's pretty much it, and I thank 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.000 you for listening. I don't think it's a bad commercial. 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:29.239 It's pretty good commercial. It's I will tell you this though, Glenn. 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:33.200 I've done a lot of spots over the years for advertisers. 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:36.240 That is the longest commercial that I have ever done. 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.680 And I remember when I was contacted by management. They're like, hey, 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:42.600 you know so and so I want you to do 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.400 a spot. I was like, well, well that's great. You know, 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.960 I almost never turned down advertisers because I, as I 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.560 learned from John Sterling on this podcast, The Voice of 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:55.360 the Yankees, the most important thing is selling the soap. 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:57.680 You've got to sell this up. So I'm like, all right, 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.760 I would like to sell the soap. But they contacted 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:02.200 me and said, well, they want you to tell a 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.200 story about your life and losing weight, and they want 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.160 to help other people lose weight, and they have a 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:10.520 website that can give people advice and direct people. I 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:12.720 was like, all right, yeah, that sounds good. You know, 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.839 anything that can lead someone to lose weight. I'm all 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:20.640 for right. Yeah. I also think if you're happy fat 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:22.400 and you don't want to lose weight, I'm good with 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.920 that as well. Uh. And I've told this story many times, Glenn. 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.040 But when I was growing up, and I remember being 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:33.680 at at social evance bar Mitzvah's weddings funerals, and my 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:37.000 my cousins, my old cousins, aunts and uncles would all 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:39.680 give me the lecture, you really would you need to 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.919 lose weight, Ben, You'll feel so much better. And I 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:44.960 remember thinking at the time, I did not feel bad 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:49.159 at all. I felt fine. I thought things were going great, 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:53.039 and and all this talk about oh no, no, you 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.400 need to lose x amount of weight, and and I 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.840 was like, come on, you know what's wrong with you? 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:05.520 You people are so you're wrong, you really are. And uh, anyway, 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:06.880 I may get to the point. When I was at 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.719 my fattest, I was like, all right, let's uh, let's 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:13.560 get it on, let's get it on right now. And uh. 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:17.680 And then even even when I lost weight, even when 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:21.840 the weight came off and I had that big accomplishment, 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:25.479 I lost two hundred pounds, I was so fat. I 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:27.800 was so overweight that I could able. I was able 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:29.200 to lose two hundred pounds and I was still a 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.160 big guy. That's how fat I was at the at 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:36.080 my biggest and and then I remember the conversations turned 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.599 from you need to lose the way to oh my god, 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:42.440 you're probably feeling so much better right now. And then 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.640 I remember telling people and how upset they were when 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:48.640 I pointed out, you know, I didn't ever feel bad 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:50.720 when I was fat, and I don't really feel that 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:56.120 much better now. I feel about the same. Yeah. Sorry, 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.800 I mean that's uh, that's the problem. And they were 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:02.960 like what I mean, I don't I don't understand. Come on, 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.440 I mean, what is that all about? You lost all 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:09.160 this weight here? And I'm like I'm shutting them down, 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:14.120 you know, I'm like sorry anyway, So, Glenn, that is 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.640 one commercial. If if you're talking about the one I 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.000 am talking about, it's one commercial, like three or four minutes. 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:21.760 I don't maybe it's even longer than that. I have 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:27.080 no idea. Next question from Neil in the real Miami, 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:31.640 not the fake Miami. The real Miami. Uh, Neil says, 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.920 So I'm on the road in Orlando. Boy, that's gotta 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:39.320 suck you live. I've seen Neil's home there the view picturesque. 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:44.080 He's got the showcase home high rise Miami we talked 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:47.760 about in previous episode. And and Neil's living the life. 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.280 He's in the penthouse overlooking all of Miami. That got 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.720 the Heat Arena right next door to him. And as 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:54.360 he pointed out, you live in a place like that, 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:56.560 after a while, you don't even appreciate the views, the 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.880 coast of the Atlantic Ocean right there and all that. 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.000 You just forget about it because it's you know, it's home, 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:04.200 and you just live your life. Anyway, back to the email, 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:10.400 Neil in Orlando visiting for work says he was hanging 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:14.800 out with his brother watching Goodfellas on a rainy day 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:18.120 and there is a scene with Jimmy he wanted Spider 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:21.920 to dance before he shot him, and the word Mama 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:25.840 Luke was all over the place. So he says, I 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:30.520 was wondering if you, uh, if you have a favorite 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.640 old school gangster movie. He said, you and your partner 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:37.680 to be named later have an old school gangster movie 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:42.640 that you like. Well, you actually mentioned my favorite one 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:46.280 of those women. Many people say Godfather Too is the 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:51.520 greatest of all time. But for me, it is the 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:56.400 aforementioned Goodfellas. I love that movie. I've watched that movie 0:07:56.400 --> 0:08:01.480 many times. It's held up for me. I enjoyed very much, 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.160 and uh, I love it now. The term mama luke. 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:11.720 I actually learned it from not that movie, but I 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.480 watched a movie that I'm not even that big a 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:18.840 fan of it, the Raging Bull boxing movie Martin Scorsese, 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:22.920 famous name in Hollywood, and they used the term mama 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:27.480 luke quite a bit in that that movie, and that's 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:31.000 where I first learned mama luke. I stole it from 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.959 the movie. That's a good word, which I guess if 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.280 I'm an Italian, but if you're of Italian heritage, i'd 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:39.720 say a word that you're familiar with. But I it's 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.840 become it has over the years become mainstream in lexicon. 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.400 And so that is the the back story on that, Neil. 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:50.760 But yeah, Good Fellas, you can't go wrong with that. 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:54.520 I love the Sopranos. That's obviously not a movie, but 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:58.000 I enjoyed the hell out of The Sopranos back in 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.960 the day, and I don't normally enjoy that kind of content, 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.400 And I'm pretty much documentary guy, it's gonna be real 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.959 or it's not for me. But when it comes to 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:12.920 to a good mob show, I I'm all about it. 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:21.360 I am all about it. Yes, very very nice. There 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.160 cannot get enough of it? All right, moving on in 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:29.640 the mailback, Next up, any meany mighty mo. Pick a 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:34.480 caller by their name, and let's say hello to Pierre 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.480 from Springfield. We're actually not gonna say to low to 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.360 him because if he says all back, he's a phantom. 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:45.200 And it goes. And as much as Pierre the keeper 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.920 of Alfie Adiano Piner listens to the show, I mean 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:52.040 this guy, this is a dedicated member of the Mala Mush. 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.079 I wonder what Pierre does, like I wonder what he 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.120 does for work, what he does in his free time. 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.160 I've seen him at Red Sox games, driving down from 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.280 Springfield Tow, Massachusetts to go to Red Side games. But 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:06.200 man Pierre is able to listen to all of the content, 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.880 whether it's the middle of the night when I do 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:13.400 these other bits on on radio shows, Pierre is always there. 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.320 He is. He's great. As far as a p one 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.720 brigadier general in the mallem listen, I'm very lucky, like 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:25.240 a lot of you have been very loyal. But Pierre 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.880 Alfie and pineers right near the top of the list. 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.800 No matter when we put content out, Pierre's like, I'm 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:34.360 here and uh, and he's just he's all about it. 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.199 It's like and even when I do stuff at the 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:40.480 last minute and then Pierre pops up and it's like, motherfucker, 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:46.160 here he is. Here's Pierre Alfieri, Li Piner ready to go. 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:49.840 It's a Whodini. Yes, he is like Pudini. That's a 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:53.560 good point, very much like Pudini, the way that he 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:58.319 pops up like that. Anyway, all right, yes, let's get 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:00.760 to it. So, Pierre from Springfields, this man. As I 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:03.679 type this question, I think that I just heard you 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:07.800 say that Benny versus the Penny maybe returning to the radio. 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.520 Maybe it's just that I haven't had a coffee yet 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:15.520 and I didn't hear it correctly. Would you care to 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:22.640 elaborate on the state of the Juggernaut YouTube show? So, Pierre, 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:26.240 here's where I am. I know for sure there is 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:31.480 a date down the line where the Benny versus the 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.960 Petty segment will return to terrestrial radio. So I know 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:39.680 that is true. Uh, one date in late November around Thanksgiving. 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:43.840 The plan is all everything lines up in a row, 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.439 we will have Benny Versus the Penny on terrestrial radio. Now, 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:48.840 as you know, because I've been very open about this, 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.240 the reason that we do Benny Versus the Penny on 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:59.280 YouTube is to provide some tape so that we can 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:03.680 get a TV show. We actually were in conversations with 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:08.160 several big media companies to provide and don't laugh, all right, 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.959 it's not it's not funny, but we were. We were 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:15.320 in conversation to to put Benny Versus the Penny on 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:21.400 a major media platform. Um. One was Old Media, a 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:26.720 couple were New Media, but the deal fell apart at 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.560 the very last minute. Has often happens, you know, something, 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.280 something goes wrong. Uh So the goal is to eventually 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:38.280 move that to a television or internet streaming platform with 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.559 a lot of sponsors, a lot of bells and whistles, 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.200 and then everyone will be like hey, congratulations, yeah, and 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.680 we'll be thank you, thank you for that. But as 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:50.240 of now that has not happened. Um and I have 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.760 got a lot of complaints with people even know Benny 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.120 Versus the Penny. The bulk of it has been off 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.160 the year now off off radio. It's been on YouTube 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.360 for a couple of years now, and we did on 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.600 the podcast for a year, so really it's been off 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:07.360 Terrestaural Radio for three years. It's just been in other platforms. 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:12.079 And I still get people that call up and they're like, yeah, 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:15.480 you gotta bring it back, man, you know, and I'm like, 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:17.880 all right, well maybe we will from time to time. 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.880 I still do the Thursday night game. I still do that. 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.480 Uh and and and and that that goes well. I 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:28.320 will keep you posted, Pierre when it moves, if it 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.880 does move off YouTube back to terrestural radio, but I 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:34.000 guarantee there is a date that it will happen. Alan 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:37.920 in Akron writes in he says, do you get residuals 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:44.439 for any of your TV work? Uh no? Uh no. 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:46.960 And the reason I know, I've been on a few 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:50.520 TV shows. I worked at NBC on Sports Talk Show 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:54.319 at NBC out of Stanford, Connecticut, did that for about 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:57.679 a year. Uh that is not an evergreen show. That 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:02.880 was not a union a gig, so didn't get any 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.559 kind of residuals. And then I was on the Sports 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:10.000 List that's one with Summer Sanders on the Fox Sports Network. 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:13.640 That's one I wish I got residuals for because that 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:18.080 thing was an evergreen show. And five six, seven years 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.600 after I did that show, I'd walk into a sports 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.480 bar occasionally and they'd have that on one of the 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:26.120 monitors after a game, and I was like, if I 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:29.600 only got paid like a dollar every time that thing aired, 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.040 or fifty cents, I would have made a killing. But 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:35.040 they didn't work that way. Uh So that sucks. And 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.520 then the other thing I just did for Vice also 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:41.800 not anything that pays residual. So the answer is no, 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:44.320 But I do. I do know that Coop gets money 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.600 on the show, the shows that he did back in 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:50.480 the day, he gets residual checks from that. Be sure 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.200 to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.000 at two a m. Eastern eleven p m. Pacific on 0:14:56.120 --> 0:15:01.600 Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio. Kevin in Kansas, Right, 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:05.920 so he says, dear beat, besides playing the plastic recorder 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:10.320 or the flute, oh phone in grade school? Were you 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:15.600 involved in music or theater any time in school? Thank 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.280 you for great the great podcast. Well, Kevin, thank you 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.600 very much. I appreciate that first of all. Now secondly, 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:27.280 I was in the band in elementary school. I was 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.840 in the band, and as the largest kid in the 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:36.560 elementary school, I had a very large instrument and I 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:40.680 forget the name of it. It was like a violin, 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:45.760 but it was massive, right, it was. It was massive, 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.840 and I had it was it had a lugged this 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:53.440 thing around and I don't think it was againness world 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.120 where it wasn't actual violin. It was a different, different 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.920 name for the instrument. But it's been so long that 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:02.920 I forgot. And I was really bad. I barely knew 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:06.720 English in elementary school, so learning music, I pretty much 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:08.760 just did my own thing. And I was in the 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:11.960 background in the band, and as long as the other 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.400 kids did what they were supposed to do, I was okay. 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.800 Like I was just kind of background noise in the band, 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.000 you know, I was. It was elevator music, and I 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:22.880 was kind of doing my thing. And plus, as you 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:26.840 know from working in the educational system, Kevin, when you're 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:31.320 a kid in school, it doesn't matter how terrible you are, 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:38.400 it is irrelevant. You get applause. You cannot do a 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:43.120 bad job. Right, no matter what you do, you are 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:47.920 going to get support. You're you're gonna get people as like, hey, 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.960 good job by you, you know, matter what, and they're 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.840 not gonna laugh at you. And I gotta have point 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.800 figures and gonna say the doing Yeah, then I gonna 0:16:57.800 --> 0:16:59.400 say what that dog doing back there? No, none of 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.760 that's gonna up. Uh. So I didn't get any negative feedback. 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:05.680 But I did play an instrument. That's one of those 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:10.720 things I wish I had paid more attention to my mom. 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:13.080 May she rest in peace. We had a piano that 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:18.639 my grandparents have got had gotten, and I attempted to 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.159 play the piano and I knew a few songs, just 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.920 kind of by memory, not really reading music. But my 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:27.440 my mom tried her darnist to get me to learn 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:31.040 how to play the piano professionally, and it just never 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:34.320 never really clicked. She was really good, I mean, she 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:36.240 knew she picked it up, but she knew how to 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:42.160 read music. And very talented woman on the piano. Who's next, 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:45.320 it's the mail bag? Don't we have Matt in bow 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:50.760 doin Maine? Yeah? I gotta looked at up bow doin Maine. 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.800 You think that's a real You know, I only know 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:58.240 a few cities in Maine and most of the cities 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.960 I know in Maine are from doing the radio show, 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:05.439 and that's not one that i've I've heard of. Let 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.160 me let me check this out and do a little, 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:13.560 a little reconnaissance on the town of bow doin Maine. 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.800 What can I learn from the interweb? What do I 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:23.280 know about bow doin Maine? Population three thousand, sixty one 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:29.680 as of the census. It is part of the Portland's 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:35.040 metropolitan Portland, Maine metropolitan area. So there is that not 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:40.679 that far from the Atlantic Ocean. It was developed as 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:47.240 an agricultural town, raising sheep, producing apple's, wheat, hey and potatoes. 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:51.040 All right, look at that. That's kind of cool. But 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:55.960 since the early nineties, oh, this is interesting here. Since 0:18:56.000 --> 0:19:00.240 the early nineties, alpacas normally an animal you see in 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.760 South America. But according to the Internet, it can't be wrong. 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:07.879 It's on the internet. Alpacas who look like weird looking 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:11.040 goats with a long neck. That's what an alpaca, you know, 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:17.000 those furry fury that. Yeah. So if I wanted in alpaca, 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:19.520 I could call Matt up and Matt could get me 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:21.600 a deal, and then he could he could have it 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:25.440 shipped the alpaca out the Cali and I could have 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:29.960 bella and a pet alpaca in my backyard. How great 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:35.880 would that be? That'd be wonderful. Anybody famous come from 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:38.480 Bodin Main, Boy, the odds of famous people come from there. 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:41.040 Not great when you have so, you know, such a 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:45.960 few assistant small population, such a small population. Uh, it 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:50.400 says here according to the Internet, Mike mckugh the most 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:53.080 famous person to come out of that town in Maine. 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:56.919 And he who is that? You ask? A hockey player 0:19:56.920 --> 0:20:00.680 who was drafted by the Minnesota north Stars, a team 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:03.840 that doesn't even exist anymore, is the first pick of 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:07.800 the nineteen supplemental Draft. He played at the University of 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:13.280 Maine and he played in the NHL for twenty games. 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:17.920 He scored one goal and that was his only point 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:22.639 in the NHL. Yeah, so this guy's like the Moonlight 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:28.640 Graham of hockey. Mike McK things you did not expect 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:31.040 to hear on the fifth al. Anyway, back to Matt's email, 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:33.280 and Bo bow doined me and I hope I'm saying 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:37.040 that right. I'm just guessing at that. Uh. And Matt says, 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:40.920 does Marcel in Brooklyn dip his pizza in ranch dressing 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:44.720 before consumption. It's a great question, Matt. I'll try to 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:48.439 work that into the show this week. I will ask 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:52.600 Marcel if I remember, Marcel, do you enjoy ranch dressing? 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:56.760 And I'll ask him questions. I do enjoy quizzing Marcel 0:20:56.840 --> 0:21:00.800 about various things food related. He revealed had never eaten 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:04.720 beef before, but he does enjoy hamburgers. This past week, 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:08.840 Matt's Marcel is a great character on the show. He's 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:11.400 a wonderful character on the show. He loves the show, 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:13.159 he loves being on the show. Now I've got an 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:15.640 email from people saying your mean to Marcella. I'm not mean. No, 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:18.720 Marcel loves being a radio star. We allow him to 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:21.399 be a radio star, and he loves being a character 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:23.520 on our show. But I have to ask him about 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:26.320 ranch dressing. I'll have to phrase it the right way. 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:29.720 What country does ranch dressing come from? What is what 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:32.720 is ranch dressing made out of? I could ask that, right, 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:35.399 That's a good question. Then I'll answer some some nonsense 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:39.000 most likely, most likely, and then I'll be good. Mike 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:43.159 is next on the mailbag. Mike from Los Angeles writes 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:46.639 in he says, Man, I know you are a tight wad. 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:51.399 But everyone splurges on something or another. What is worth 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:56.399 spending moron to get the best? So, Mike, I have 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:58.040 I mentioned this in the past. I guess you're new 0:21:58.080 --> 0:21:59.760 to the podcast or maybe you missed it in a 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:01.960 pre be a s mailbag. The one thing that I 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:06.440 will spare no expense on I look out for, Mike 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:11.280 took us, uh the toilet paper. I do not go 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:14.240 cheap on toilet paper. We've all been to that truck stop, 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:18.640 We've all been to that grocery store that has toilet 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:23.399 paper that is thinner than you thought was humanly possible. 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:27.440 And you have to use a whole role to get 0:22:27.480 --> 0:22:29.520 a decent amount of toilet paper to take care of 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:32.280 your business with your number two. So I when I 0:22:32.320 --> 0:22:35.760 go to Costco, they have a cheaper version, and they 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:38.760 have a more expensive version, and I go with the 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:41.760 more expensive version of toilet paper. That is one area, Mike, 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:45.560 I do not cut corners. Uh. As far as food, 0:22:46.080 --> 0:22:48.480 there's a lot of things that you can save money 0:22:49.040 --> 0:22:53.760 just on generic brand. Um. You know, gasoline is one 0:22:53.800 --> 0:22:55.600 of those things. You can go to any gas stations, 0:22:55.600 --> 0:23:01.200 all regulated by the government. All that, Uh. Rob Parker 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:05.480 told the store about airlines, and that even the cheap airfit, 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:08.800 even the cheap airlines that you think are just you know, terrible, 0:23:08.960 --> 0:23:11.440 are regulated by the government, so they have to they 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:14.040 have to follow the rules and regulations to have a 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:16.840 license to be allowed to fly. So but I usually 0:23:16.880 --> 0:23:18.920 just fly, I I when I fly. I don't fly 0:23:19.000 --> 0:23:22.159 very often anymore, but when I do, I will go 0:23:22.240 --> 0:23:25.720 on there, Mike, and I'll go to one of the 0:23:25.720 --> 0:23:28.160 travel websites, punch in why I'm going, and whatever pops 0:23:28.240 --> 0:23:30.680 up as the cheapest I'm in. Don't matter what airline 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:32.840 it is, as long as it's you know, saving a 0:23:32.840 --> 0:23:35.639 couple of bucks. I'm good. Matt from Indie writes in 0:23:35.840 --> 0:23:38.679 on the mail back. He says, Ben, my wife is 0:23:38.760 --> 0:23:43.879 habitually late to appointments. It drives me crazy. Matt says, 0:23:44.200 --> 0:23:48.359 are you usually early or late? Well, Matt, I'm glad 0:23:48.400 --> 0:23:53.480 you're concerned about my punctuality. In live and I do 0:23:53.600 --> 0:23:55.560 have a job. I have one of the few jobs 0:23:55.560 --> 0:23:57.800 where you have to be there on time. And if 0:23:57.840 --> 0:24:01.480 you are not there on time, bone and their mother 0:24:01.840 --> 0:24:05.919 will know that you are late. You have not shown 0:24:06.000 --> 0:24:08.399 up right when I when I missed a few shows 0:24:08.440 --> 0:24:11.400 at the beginning, we had gremlins. We've been I mean, 0:24:12.000 --> 0:24:14.280 knock on wood here. Fortunately we've been in pretty good shape. 0:24:14.400 --> 0:24:16.440 But in the past I've had gremlins that have affected 0:24:16.480 --> 0:24:21.040 the beginning of the show. And there's no way to 0:24:21.080 --> 0:24:26.920 get around that. There is no way to pretend like 0:24:27.400 --> 0:24:31.840 you are there when you're not there, because you sound 0:24:32.000 --> 0:24:37.440 like bozo and it's just I mean, I could play 0:24:37.520 --> 0:24:41.159 a sound bite over and over of me, uh you know, 0:24:41.280 --> 0:24:43.879 doing that and pretend that I was me, but the 0:24:43.920 --> 0:24:46.760 listener knows. Listeners now, I have gotten away a little 0:24:46.800 --> 0:24:50.240 bit on the radio show, Matt. Sometimes if I have 0:24:50.280 --> 0:24:51.760 a few issues that we need to work out, we 0:24:51.760 --> 0:24:54.760