Speaker 1: Cut booms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a sol fastion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with me Ben
Speaker 1: Mahllor normally Danny g Radio, but we've got Alex the
Speaker 1: Vegan who's hanging out with us here on this Saturday,
Speaker 1: the sixteenth day of November. It is Guinness World Records
Speaker 1: Day today, among other things. A bunch of dope holidays
Speaker 1: and all that as we slide in to a Saturday
Speaker 1: and Alex the Vegan. Now, a couple of years back
Speaker 1: in my radio sojourn, I attempted to set a Guinness
Speaker 1: World Record that had all planned out in my head.
Speaker 1: I was going to set a record on the radio,
Speaker 1: and I contacted somebody at that company. This is a
Speaker 1: long time ago. The Guinness World Records people EWR. They
Speaker 1: have a book that comes out every year. They have
Speaker 1: a website and all that stuff. So I reached out.
Speaker 1: The books published in over one hundred countries, it's in
Speaker 1: twenty three languages. I was like, all right, I want
Speaker 1: to set the record, and they said great. It was
Speaker 1: something to do with the radio show. I forget exactly
Speaker 1: the specific record at the top of my head right now.
Speaker 1: So I contacted them. I'm like, all right, here's what
Speaker 1: I want to do, and they I said, that's great.
Speaker 1: Here's how much you have to send us and for
Speaker 1: us to count that as a record. So it's a
Speaker 1: I understand they're a for profit business and all that,
Speaker 1: but it is quite the hustle. It's not cheap alex
Speaker 1: like the perception is this is like nicely wagers with friends.
Speaker 1: It's then they're in it to make money. And yeah,
Speaker 1: kind of sullied the whole Guinness Book of Records for me,
Speaker 1: but it's one of the great great hustles of all time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, to be honest, here come pay and we'll make
Speaker 3: sure that you're the greatest in the world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll consider you the greatest all time. And it
Speaker 1: goes back to a bar Bet right, the legendary story,
Speaker 1: and then yeah, they've just been making money hand over
Speaker 1: fist ever since then the quiz man. You got to
Speaker 1: do something like that. That's the key, you know, that's
Speaker 1: the if you can find a way to convince people
Speaker 1: to send you money for something they don't need to
Speaker 1: send you on. Is there a better hustle in life
Speaker 1: than that.
Speaker 3: Ben, I could argue that's most things getting sent to
Speaker 3: people's house if you really think about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, the thing is, I was We've talked about
Speaker 1: this on the podcast before, but the the phone and
Speaker 1: you know, monthly payments, if you can get people to pay. Actually,
Speaker 1: the gym is the greatest hustle because most people don't
Speaker 1: use the gym, and they sign up for it with
Speaker 1: great intentions and then they're embarrassed to get rid of
Speaker 1: it because you know, if you get rid of it,
Speaker 1: you got rid of the gym and maybe you'll start
Speaker 1: tomorrow and all that. So it's like you, they shame
Speaker 1: you when really you can just go outside and work out.
Speaker 1: You know, that's true. Sarely needed.
Speaker 3: That's funny because I've been a gym head for almost
Speaker 3: a decade now, Ben, And the thing that's the funniest
Speaker 3: to me that you say that is like I call
Speaker 3: them donators, like they're donating to the glorious House of
Speaker 3: Gains so that the equipment is updated for myself and
Speaker 3: other individuals. But it's true though, like when you say canceling,
Speaker 3: there's so many like things you have to do, Like
Speaker 3: you have to be in person, talk to a manager
Speaker 3: at the gym. They don't let you do it over
Speaker 3: the phone. It's not why you scumbacks. Now I have
Speaker 3: to literally go to the gym, and I didn't want to,
Speaker 3: you know, like it's it's actually funny.
Speaker 1: And the other two I've noticed is like I've seen
Speaker 1: it and I do go to the gym, not as
Speaker 1: much during football season because I'm so this is a
Speaker 1: busy time of the year and it's not great but
Speaker 1: still paying even though I'm not using the gym as much.
Speaker 1: But I've seen people try to cancel. And it's not
Speaker 1: only do they you have to show up, but then
Speaker 1: when you show up, they give you the sales pitch. Well,
Speaker 1: let me let me see if I can cut your
Speaker 1: monthly feet Yes, yes, and we'll work out a deal.
Speaker 1: And I don't know about that. Uh hey, I did
Speaker 1: want to mention though. On this the Saturday Show, we
Speaker 1: had Eddie on yesterday, and it was great to catch
Speaker 1: up with my guy Eddie. And it's been a wild
Speaker 1: ride for the for everyone involved here over the last
Speaker 1: couple of days last week or so. You were not
Speaker 1: even in the building, Alex, Alex, you were. You were
Speaker 1: away when the madness happened. I was. I was technically
Speaker 1: away too, I was in in Kansas City. We will
Speaker 1: have the Mallard travelogue coming up, which is always a
Speaker 1: fan favorite, unless it's not. And don't forget. I didn't
Speaker 1: want to sully my conversation with Eddie on yesterday's pot
Speaker 1: so I did not over the top pour myself out
Speaker 1: to tell you to watch Benny Versus the Penny Man.
Speaker 1: So I'll do that today. I'll do that today. I
Speaker 1: didn't want to, you know, it was Eddie's time. It
Speaker 1: was his opportunities. I didn't want to sit here and say,
Speaker 1: but by the way, Eddie, watch my TV show. I
Speaker 1: didn't want to do that. But there is a TV
Speaker 1: show us on today. It's a bowl of cherries. Now,
Speaker 1: you eat a bowl of cherries, right, You eat a
Speaker 1: lot of fruits and vegetables.
Speaker 3: Oh, every rising bend, every rising.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anytime I see a vegetable product at FSR. I
Speaker 1: assume it's yours. I assume it's because nobody else really
Speaker 1: eats vegetables other than you. There is anybody, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's may be one other person that likes the veggies.
Speaker 1: But and I don't even know if you like them.
Speaker 1: I think you just eat them. I don't know that
Speaker 1: you enjoy it.
Speaker 3: I think I've learned to love them. Actually you sure
Speaker 3: about that? Yeah, no, I'm lying to myself.
Speaker 1: If you pour sauce on them or something like that,
Speaker 1: some people pull like barbecue sauce on them.
Speaker 3: You know what I've found, Ben is so good with
Speaker 3: vegetables because I'm really good. Me and my lady, we
Speaker 3: do a lot of these veggie stir fries and everything.
Speaker 3: The favorite we do is curry. For some reason, the
Speaker 3: curry taste with the secret ingredient I called vegeta, which
Speaker 3: you can get from like a world market. It's from Croatia.
Speaker 3: Those two together it's like ranch on pizza, hot sauce
Speaker 3: on a taco. It's just, oh, it's so good and
Speaker 3: just you can use anything. You can do. Cabbage, you
Speaker 3: can do, some eggplant, throw and some sauce, had onions,
Speaker 3: maybe even sprinkle some marugel in there. There's so many
Speaker 3: fun ideas you can do. I've just found it about
Speaker 3: spicing it up the way that your palette likes the most.
Speaker 3: That's been my biggest thing.
Speaker 1: All Right, Well, if you love curriy, shouldn't you go
Speaker 1: to like India?
Speaker 3: I do love Indian food. And if I went to India,
Speaker 3: I might not come back.
Speaker 1: You just moved there. You'd be like that hippie guy.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know. I actually met a couple of
Speaker 1: months ago a buddy of mine from radio who actually
Speaker 1: worked at Fox Sports Radio. His brother. It was it
Speaker 1: was a funeral, unfortunately, his brother flew out to be
Speaker 1: at the funeral obviously, and he was a He was
Speaker 1: a listener of mine when I was younger and we
Speaker 1: were all younger, and he was wearing the traditional Indian garb,
Speaker 1: I guess in certain part like a religious thing. And
Speaker 1: he had moved He's from the States, but he moved
Speaker 1: to India, uh, you know, years ago and was fully
Speaker 1: immersed in the culture in India. And it was pretty
Speaker 1: pretty crazy. I mean it was it was wild because he's,
Speaker 1: you know, just like a regular dude from so Cal
Speaker 1: or whatever. And yeah, he's like and he's a little
Speaker 1: older than I am, which means for you, he's probably
Speaker 1: really really old. Yeah, and uh, you know, it was
Speaker 1: just kind of hipster, kind of like my guy that
Speaker 1: calls my show weed Man hippie. Yes, if he moved
Speaker 1: to India, that's kind of the whole vibe, uh, that
Speaker 1: that I got. But but anyway, the TV show Benny
Speaker 1: Versus the Penny, It's on nationally on Peacock. It's on
Speaker 1: a regional cable TV all over the place, including the
Speaker 1: Hub NBC Sports Boston made its debut on Friday, also
Speaker 1: San Francisco, Philadelphia, all over the place. In fact, I
Speaker 1: spent last weeknd on a whirlwind trip to Cansau City.
Speaker 1: We opened up shop. We had a Mallard meet and
Speaker 1: greet of the Mallard travelog. But I learned the TV
Speaker 1: show is on cable TV in Kansas. I did not
Speaker 1: know that. They don't even tell me, Alex.
Speaker 3: Why you're on the show.
Speaker 1: I'm on my name. I think my name is on
Speaker 1: the show. I believe it is. And I don't even
Speaker 1: know where the show's on. I have no idea because
Speaker 1: the guys were coming up to me, He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's on you local cable TV here in Kansas City,
Speaker 1: and I had not heard that before. I thought, well,
Speaker 1: we're not on there, We're just on Peacock, But apparently
Speaker 1: we are on there, so that was kind of cool.
Speaker 1: So the Mallard travelogu, which is the travelogue of record Alex,
Speaker 1: not to be confused with some other travel log this
Speaker 1: is the one that matters more. Okay, so we'll go
Speaker 1: back to the hot tup time machine. We're gonna set
Speaker 1: it to the the week prior. This is hot Off
Speaker 1: the presses, Hot Off the Presses. So you know this
Speaker 1: a little bit because you know, I run into you
Speaker 1: in the hallways ships passing the night at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: But during the week, because of everything that the overnight
Speaker 1: hours and the TV thing, I don't get a lot
Speaker 1: of sleep at the end of the week. The beginning
Speaker 1: of the week, I get a decent, honest sleep, but at
Speaker 1: the end of the week not so much. But I
Speaker 1: don't let my enthusiasm wain I try not. Maybe it does.
Speaker 1: So I didn't get much sleep last week Wednesday into
Speaker 1: Thursday because that's TV day, so I don't get my
Speaker 1: sleep that day. And then Thursday and Friday we did
Speaker 1: the overnight show. I then chilled out for a bit.
Speaker 1: I then had to do the fifth hour podcast, which
Speaker 1: is fine, I'm not planning. And then it was off
Speaker 1: to the airport or plane strands and automobiles and headed
Speaker 1: over to first flight from Sokal to Salt Lake City. Now,
Speaker 1: I've never even been to the airport at Salt Lake
Speaker 1: City and stopped over there and nice airport, clean air
Speaker 1: remind me of the airport. And in Detroit, I'm a
Speaker 1: big airport guy, Alex. Really, yeah, I don't know, you
Speaker 1: fly a fair amount.
Speaker 3: I don't really fly a lot, But it's more so like,
Speaker 3: I don't know how you can get over this. How
Speaker 3: do you get over the fact you're sitting thirty five
Speaker 3: thousand feet in the air in a metal tube. It
Speaker 3: kind of just messes with my brain a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, was that at all for you?
Speaker 2: Or no?
Speaker 1: Nah?
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 1: Whatever?
Speaker 3: You know, I trips me out.
Speaker 1: The safest form of travel is.
Speaker 3: Air travel, right right. I have nothing against a safety,
Speaker 3: It's just I don't know. For some reason, I'm sitting
Speaker 3: there and I'm like, I'm sitting in a metal tube
Speaker 3: flying at however fast thousands of miles per hour. Just
Speaker 3: it's like a brain warp thing. You know, it's like
Speaker 3: flying without wings just kind of a it's a weird
Speaker 3: thing for me. I don't not explaining.
Speaker 1: Are you like John Madden the old broadcaster where you
Speaker 1: just don't want to fly at all?
Speaker 3: You're like, no, I don't mind flying, like it's I
Speaker 3: think it's like I can do it because you know,
Speaker 3: like the end goal is something that you want to
Speaker 3: experience or travel to. Yeah, but I think it's like
Speaker 3: I knowingly know if I jumped off a building, I
Speaker 3: can't fly, so like doing that trips me out. But
Speaker 3: I can walk right, I can run, so a car
Speaker 3: doesn't get me as much. Does that make any sense?
Speaker 1: Like would you like to wear a parachute when you're
Speaker 1: in the plane?
Speaker 3: That would be awesome. You would like to do a
Speaker 3: little bit more reassuring. I think, you know, like kind
Speaker 3: of a diaper in a day that you don't think
Speaker 3: you can make to the bathroom.
Speaker 1: It's akin to a boat, and you probably swim right soon.
Speaker 1: You know how to swim, But if you're out in
Speaker 1: the middle of the Atlantic and you fall off a boat,
Speaker 1: you're probably not gonna be able to swim to shore.
Speaker 3: Probably not, you know, what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know she bring up like a paddle boat, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyway, So I was at the airport in Salt Lake
Speaker 1: and good airport. Now, the way I judge airports, there's
Speaker 1: three things. Most important is clean bathrooms and a lot
Speaker 1: of them. Right, That's the most important cause you're changing
Speaker 1: planes and all that stuff. You want to have clean bathroom.
Speaker 1: So that's the most important obviously. Then lower down is cleanliness,
Speaker 1: right just in general. You know, some of these older
Speaker 1: airports are dirty and all that. And then because my
Speaker 1: wife likes to explore the different culinary options, it's food
Speaker 1: at the air really. Yeah. I never before I met her,
Speaker 1: I never would get food at the airport because I
Speaker 1: was let's get you know, wait till I get where
Speaker 1: I want to get and I'll eat or whatever. But
Speaker 1: she's always like trying different things at airports and things
Speaker 1: like that. So, uh, this the Salt Lake Airport reminded
Speaker 1: me of Detroit. Very long terminal clean bathrooms though very clean,
Speaker 1: very and the airport in general is very clean. And
Speaker 1: they had a lot of announcements on the PA system
Speaker 1: Alex like, hey, you know, if you if you lost
Speaker 1: your keys at Gate three, come see so and so
Speaker 1: very polite.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 1: That's nice, right, yeah, you know, and people leave all
Speaker 1: kinds of crap at the airport. The amount of things
Speaker 1: that are left at the airport will blow your mind
Speaker 1: because everyone's in a hurry. They're usually tired, disheveled, and
Speaker 1: and all that lay over a yeah, Leo, but changing
Speaker 1: planes and then but going through security of course, which
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know about you, but for me,
Speaker 1: having lived in a pre nine to eleven world, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: every time I go to the airport, I know, Wow,
Speaker 1: this is a little much.
Speaker 3: No, like a lot of this I think is just
Speaker 3: theater it has. It is for sure thousand percent.
Speaker 1: Not needed per se as much.
Speaker 3: Full body scan, shoes and socks off, take your belt off,
Speaker 3: go through this one, have this scanned padded down here.
Speaker 3: It's like, dude, why was it before pre like you said,
Speaker 3: nine to eleven, I could bring a knife and a
Speaker 3: steak on a plane and they just be like high
Speaker 3: five and you're like, hey, oh you're you're almost laying
Speaker 3: in that well.
Speaker 1: For years it was just have you always had your
Speaker 1: bags and your possession. That was always that you know,
Speaker 1: no one else has touched your bag. Yeah, they'd ask
Speaker 1: you a couple of questions and then that was that.
Speaker 1: And then obviously the world changed and we're still a
Speaker 1: generation later, still feeling the after effects of that. So anyway,
Speaker 1: got to Salt Lake, then changed planes, got to cant
Speaker 1: the city. Relatively smooth flight. Uh. They were from Kansas
Speaker 1: City to or from from Salt Lake to Kansas City.
Speaker 1: A little turbulence, a little bit of a bumpy ride.
Speaker 1: I had some snacks whatever, but was actually I didn't
Speaker 1: eat the snacks. I saved them because I was fasting.
Speaker 1: But I was able to use the plane Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: We didn't ask ben, which is where I basically just
Speaker 1: killed time answer questions. I did it on Facebook. People
Speaker 1: are much nicer on Facebook than they.
Speaker 3: Are on older crowd.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good, good crowd, very polite. Uh. Got
Speaker 1: to Kansas City and picked up the old rental and
Speaker 1: headed right over to the hotel. We had to drop
Speaker 1: our bags off. Didn't want to leave our bags in
Speaker 1: the car. You don't want to You don't want to
Speaker 1: get to a city and the first thing have happened,
Speaker 1: somebody smash it at the windows and take your bags.
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to avoid that so I did
Speaker 1: want to thank Tammy from the west In for the
Speaker 1: Welcome to Kansas City gift bag. Very very cool.
Speaker 3: Oh that's cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got to the hotel, got upgraded at the
Speaker 1: hotel and I didn't have to pay anybody off, just
Speaker 1: upgraded our hotel room at a view of the skyline.
Speaker 1: Oh beautiful of Kansas City in the hotel was awesome.
Speaker 1: And then immediately we just dropped our bags off and
Speaker 1: headed over to the Casey Joe's, which is my favorite
Speaker 1: barbecue plays. I love Casey Joe's awesome and of course,
Speaker 1: how can you go wrong with barbecue? And but you
Speaker 1: might you don't strike me as a barbecue guy.
Speaker 3: I'm really not to be honest with you.
Speaker 1: You're not. Wow. Is that because it's meat? And yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like a vegan and you.
Speaker 3: Know, I will say, sometimes Ben, my hair is let down,
Speaker 3: so there may or may not be some carneis sat
Speaker 3: over once in a blue moon. But I will say,
Speaker 3: the whole concept of a grill, it's just like the
Speaker 3: whole meat aspect to it, which you can get away
Speaker 3: with some fun stuff like have you ever tried grilling
Speaker 3: like slices of pineapple?
Speaker 1: Ben? Uh? No, not really.
Speaker 3: Oh my lady put me onto that ben that is delectable, delectable.
Speaker 3: Oh then you cut like kalapenos in half, put some
Speaker 3: cream cheese and some cheese inside of them, or maybe
Speaker 3: even like some beets you want to get like, you know,
Speaker 3: kind of crazy and moving the dolls. Yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 3: what I mean. It's just like the stigma behind it.
Speaker 3: Barbecue is a meat thing, right, it is, and probably
Speaker 3: and this is one thing.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if my wife wants me says,
Speaker 1: but she did not enjoy the Kansas City barbecue because
Speaker 1: he's well, she's used to barbecue sauce, and the thing
Speaker 1: about places like Kansas City and Texas and in Carolina.
Speaker 1: My experience with that barbecue is properly made barbecue. You
Speaker 1: don't need a lot of sauce, right, because it's the
Speaker 1: way you cook it and all that. But I've not
Speaker 1: done a lot of the veggies, like on a vegan
Speaker 1: So anyway, we went there. This it's called the z
Speaker 1: Man sandwich. It's a barbecue brisket sandwich with an onion
Speaker 1: ring on top. And thanks to the malor the thing
Speaker 1: we did on the plane, the ass bend thing, one
Speaker 1: of the guys said, hey, when you go there, you
Speaker 1: know the veteran move savvy, get the jumbo size. I
Speaker 1: didn't even know they had the jumbo side. Last time
Speaker 1: I was there. They didn't have it years ago. It
Speaker 1: was like we're ten years ago. So this place was
Speaker 1: so popular on Friday night, probably around by the time
Speaker 1: we got there. We got there around six thirty, had
Speaker 1: a forty five minute wait online outside of case Joe's
Speaker 1: Wow to get a brisket sandwich. And it was very
Speaker 1: chilly at night. Now it's not fully ridiculously cold in
Speaker 1: Kansas City yet because it's it's only November. That'll be
Speaker 1: coming in February, but it was cold for somebody that
Speaker 1: was used to the weather and socoal. So I froze
Speaker 1: my balls off waiting online. And so then we we
Speaker 1: stopped by this store called Harley Hustle. My wife looked
Speaker 1: it up and I needed a sweater, Okay, so I, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, because it's chili for me. So I went
Speaker 1: out and got the hoodie that I might have seen
Speaker 1: the photos some of your follow me on Facebook or
Speaker 1: whatever and Instagram. There were a bunch of photos and
Speaker 1: I was wearing this hoodie and that's where I got
Speaker 1: it from. And then on Saturday morning, as we continued
Speaker 1: the Mallard travel like very early wake up call, my
Speaker 1: friend Bob Fesco, he is the morning show Alex on
Speaker 1: ninety six point five, the fan in canz City City. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they just moved from AM to FM beautiful and he
Speaker 1: his lovely wife picked me up at the hotel. My
Speaker 1: wife was busy and we went on our merry way.
Speaker 1: I saw all the cool spots around Kansas City. They
Speaker 1: showed me the old train station where they still still
Speaker 1: an active train station where they have the chief Super
Speaker 1: Bowl rallies. Also every February, it's like tradition. The Chiefs
Speaker 1: win every I know you're not a sports guy, but
Speaker 1: they went every year.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: And there's a massive World War One memorial no kidding,
Speaker 1: that overlooks the city. And now I'm told by Bob
Speaker 1: that that is the official for the entire United States.
Speaker 1: That is the national World War One Memorial.
Speaker 3: Wow, no kidding.
Speaker 1: Now, I don't know why it's in Kansas City. Yeah, why,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it's it's right on top of
Speaker 1: a hill overlooking the city, the city center of Kansas City.
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool went over to state Line Road. Now
Speaker 1: state Line Road we can't really experience that where we
Speaker 1: are here in California because we're so far away from everything.
Speaker 1: But state Line Road is where you if you drive
Speaker 1: in the middle of the road, which we did not
Speaker 1: supposed to do. You were half of you is in
Speaker 1: Kansas and half of you is in Missouri. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: the same time. And so yeah, that's places like in
Speaker 1: New England. If you've been around, I know you went
Speaker 1: back to you were in Pennsylvania, right, yes, yes, what
Speaker 1: part of Pennsylvania were you?
Speaker 3: Leechburg, Pennsylvania?
Speaker 1: Is that south north?
Speaker 3: That's more I'd say east. And it's a very small town.
Speaker 3: Like if you think about our studio bend here from
Speaker 3: here to El Poile Loco, that's their downtown. Like that's
Speaker 3: it's just one street of like twenty shops. It was incredible.
Speaker 1: Is it near Pittsburgh? Yes?
Speaker 3: Yes, So now we're from Pittsburgh, I remember.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so you if you go a little
Speaker 1: south of there, you'll go down to like West Virginia
Speaker 1: or High Yes, okay, that kind of thing in that
Speaker 1: in that area. But you drove about out here nothing
Speaker 1: and so we drove. I was half half in Kansas
Speaker 1: and half in Kansas City. And this is one of
Speaker 1: the cool things for those that haven't been to Kansas City,
Speaker 1: is you're literally in and out of Kansas and Missouri.
Speaker 1: Because there's Kansas City, Kansas, and there's Kansas City, Missouri,
Speaker 1: and their sister cities. They're separated by train tracks and
Speaker 1: like driving around to be like one minute, welcome to
Speaker 1: Kansas and then you're right back in Missouri, and then
Speaker 1: you're back. And it's very oh wow, very odd the
Speaker 1: way they did that. Also, the fun I saw, Now
Speaker 1: you don't know who this is, George Brett. He's an
Speaker 1: old baseball player. When I was a kid, went by
Speaker 1: his house Len Dawson, who died a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: but he had a mansion. We drove by there, just
Speaker 1: random random things. Len Dawson's famous because he's an NFL legend.
Speaker 1: But one of the all time amazing photos was Len
Speaker 1: Dawson during halftime of Super Bowl One against the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers. Len Dawson found himself down fourteen to ten
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs, and so what did he do? He
Speaker 1: fired up a six a cigarette and had a bottle
Speaker 1: of Fresco. That's a that's a soft drink, not an
Speaker 1: alcoholic beverage. But it was actually discontinued during the pandemic.
Speaker 1: But you know this photo, he's in uniform smoking a
Speaker 1: cigarette at halftime of the.
Speaker 3: Super Bowl iconic.
Speaker 1: It is a great photo. And then we went over
Speaker 1: to the landing. We had the Mallard meat greet, which
Speaker 1: was wonderful. I was a little nervous because you never know,
Speaker 1: I've done a lot of these over the years, and
Speaker 1: I get no backing from from the company, so it's
Speaker 1: all me. You know, some of the shows go out,
Speaker 1: they were sponsored by you know, hotel chain and a
Speaker 1: lot of promotion. I get none. I get there's no
Speaker 1: there's no promotion. There's no billboards or anything like that,
Speaker 1: no commercials. So I never know who's gonna show up.
Speaker 1: It's just me begging people to show up, and it's
Speaker 1: always hit and miss.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: Now, usually we do pretty well, but there have been
Speaker 1: times where have been few people to show up. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it doesn't work out. And it was very important because
Speaker 1: it would have been the words I'll use is a
Speaker 1: masculating if I had traveled spent my weekend traveling to
Speaker 1: Kansas City and like nobody showed up. Gosh right, right,
Speaker 1: that would have been very, very tough. Now, fortunately that
Speaker 1: was not the case. We had a relatively I consider
Speaker 1: packed house. It was one of the bigger ones that
Speaker 1: we've done, these Mallard meet and greets, and I knew
Speaker 1: right away, Alex Levegan that it was going to be
Speaker 1: a good day when I walked in. Okay, the first
Speaker 1: thing I heard was a voice I didn't recognize saying,
Speaker 1: go to hell Bill Miller.
Speaker 3: Stop.
Speaker 1: Yeah, first thing I heard from the back of the room, right,
Speaker 1: and it was the the guy named Elk on the air.
Speaker 1: He's kind of known as Elk Greco. He's contributed on
Speaker 1: social media, and he yelled out, go to hell, Bill Miller.
Speaker 1: And so that was great. And met a bunch of
Speaker 1: people and I'm gonna try to remember as many as
Speaker 1: I can, and I'm gonna miss most. I admit that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna miss most. But among those that I did
Speaker 1: come across, we had Nick and was in in Nebraska.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: He came down with his son. Now. The cool thing
Speaker 1: about this, Alex, his kid was a kid caller, like no, yeah,
Speaker 1: and now he's in college.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's going to Nebraska. Wow, happens fast. He goes
Speaker 1: to the University of Nebraska. It's pretty crazy, right man.
Speaker 3: People are growing up on your show, Ben.
Speaker 1: It has happened. That's insane. Happened that Nick's a maleman
Speaker 1: in in Nebraska. No, kiddill me is his story and
Speaker 1: stuff and pretty cool. He likes when I say the
Speaker 1: great unwashed, he said. He told me he did not
Speaker 1: take a shower because he wanted to make sure that
Speaker 1: that I smelled him. When there's very very nice, good,
Speaker 1: good situation, there a loss in now. This guy he's
Speaker 1: from Trenton, Missouri, which is a small town in Missouri,
Speaker 1: probably ninety miles or so, he said, from from Kansas City.
Speaker 1: And he dragged his girlfriend and they both worked at
Speaker 1: a radiator factory in Missouri. They make radiators all night,
Speaker 1: no kidding, Yeah, And he came down to hang out
Speaker 1: Christopher in Kansas City. Was there the legendary JD In
Speaker 1: case we had JT. The wingman who drove in from Knoxville.
Speaker 1: That was his fourth Mallard meet and greet. He's been
Speaker 1: born in Minnesota, Minneapolis, Charleston, South Carolina, Vegas, and can City.
Speaker 3: Is he the most well traveled fan for these meet
Speaker 3: and greens.
Speaker 1: At this point, he is Wow. Now we've had Salsa,
Speaker 1: but Salsa is a flight attendant. So when Saul comes in,
Speaker 1: it's like it's a lot of travel, but he gets
Speaker 1: like discount right, right, But this guy's just driving around
Speaker 1: the country to come hang out with Wow. Would you
Speaker 1: ever do that for anyone? Oh?
Speaker 3: For you've been absolutely absolutely for you.
Speaker 1: You're lying, But was there anyone in media that you
Speaker 1: you know? I know you Over the years, You've you've evolved,
Speaker 1: You've done a lot of different things. Back in the day, yes,
Speaker 1: you're involved in that as today.
Speaker 3: No, No, it got too popular for me. Like whenever
Speaker 3: things get trendy, I move on to something better and
Speaker 3: found more kind of wholeness in this whole self help
Speaker 3: and helping people elevate their perspective on things like when
Speaker 3: you and I had that whole deep dive about the
Speaker 3: ocean and everything like that, like the coast to coast
Speaker 3: that's my forte now I love that.
Speaker 1: That's right. Yes, all right, So, but back when you
Speaker 1: were really big into anime, maybe you would have traveled
Speaker 1: far to a convention.
Speaker 3: Hmmm, that's a fun question. Yeah, So I've actually been
Speaker 3: hosting a lot of these. I get offered the position
Speaker 3: to be like the main MC and stuff. So I've
Speaker 3: always went to different places, whether it be Vegas or
Speaker 3: again Pittsburgh where we got invited to stay at a
Speaker 3: fans house to do the show live and stuff. So
Speaker 3: I've definitely traveled like that. But it's funny you mentioned
Speaker 3: that I've never went myself out of my way to
Speaker 3: something for my fandom though, Like I'm actually realizing that
Speaker 3: I've never done that just for the excitement, Like the
Speaker 3: most I've done, Ben, and it's just because you know,
Speaker 3: I'm the hippie that if I moved to India, I
Speaker 3: become the Dali Lama. I've done trips for like national things,
Speaker 3: right National Parks reserves or the Grand Canyon. When I
Speaker 3: went for my birthday over August, i drove out there.
Speaker 3: That kind of stuff I'll do, but never for like
Speaker 3: anybody in media or anything like that. I've never been
Speaker 3: that type.
Speaker 1: And I'm not. When I was growing up, the only
Speaker 1: thing I did that I recall was Howard Stern. I
Speaker 1: was in like high school and he had a book
Speaker 1: signing in Pasadena.
Speaker 3: Oh well, that's cool.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't. I didn't travel to New York or Boston.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, in.
Speaker 1: SoCal and imp out overnight.
Speaker 3: No you didn't.
Speaker 1: I did. But the thing about it was that the
Speaker 1: people that were there didn't really care. They just wanted
Speaker 1: a party.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: So there was a lot of debauchery that was going
Speaker 1: on and people didn't care about. They were in the
Speaker 1: line to get autographs from Stern, but they didn't really care.
Speaker 1: But it was an interesting night. It was that there
Speaker 1: was a Border's books on I don't even think it's
Speaker 1: still there on Colorado Boulevard in Passow and spent the
Speaker 1: night there. But JT's great. He's awesome, great guy from
Speaker 1: the Midwest. Lives in Knoxville, Tennessee now and I'm bonding
Speaker 1: with him because of that. Now, another great story of
Speaker 1: this guy, Jase Jace was not able to make it
Speaker 1: to the Malla meet greet. He was at a state
Speaker 1: cross country meet in Columbia, Missouri, the home of the
Speaker 1: University of Missouri. And he's such a big fan of
Speaker 1: the show that he sent his parents to represent him.
Speaker 3: You're kidding me? How awesome is that?
Speaker 1: That is? Epic? Is that great? Ah? Now, Jason. He
Speaker 1: couldn't make it. He had to be at the cross
Speaker 1: country meet and he was unfortunate scheduling staff. And he
Speaker 1: did tell me on social media that he was able
Speaker 1: to get his parents hooked on the show. So it's
Speaker 1: not like they didn't listen to the show. But still
Speaker 1: they did it for him.
Speaker 3: That's impressive.
Speaker 1: And they did. They didn't mention to me. They're like, well,
Speaker 1: our son could make it, and you know, we wanted
Speaker 1: to represent and all that stuff, and so his mom,
Speaker 1: mom had told me. So it was really it was
Speaker 1: really neat. It was really it made me feel very warm.
Speaker 3: You should, Ben, that's like an old distinguished honor. It's
Speaker 3: like the household of the family. You know, like I
Speaker 3: couldn't make it, but I sent my father and money
Speaker 3: to attend you, you know, to represent Shade. You know,
Speaker 3: like that's so cool.
Speaker 1: Actually it was. It was. It was really neat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was great. Ronnie was there. Ronnie works
Speaker 1: all night making bullets, that's his job making. But he
Speaker 1: tell he told me, he talked about he said that
Speaker 1: there there are so many bullets around they just dropped floor.
Speaker 1: They make no Yeah, I can only imagine what that
Speaker 1: would look like the bullet factory insane. But Ronnie was
Speaker 1: really cool. Had a big chief shirt on. I mentioned
Speaker 1: No Greco, who's, by the way, looks like kind of
Speaker 1: a hippie guy but a dentist about that. What, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he looks like, you know, kind of like he's a
Speaker 1: free spirit but he's ad No, does he have long hair? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Long hair?
Speaker 3: Wow. Maybe that's the secret code, Ben, because do you
Speaker 3: remember how they always say like dentists are one of
Speaker 3: the top positions that are the most depressing because nobody's
Speaker 3: happy to go to the dentist or anything like that.
Speaker 3: Maybe he found like the secret way of just being
Speaker 3: like free, easy and unconditional loving, like, oh, your cavity
Speaker 3: is here, but my hair is here to stay, you know,
Speaker 3: Like that's kind of a cool mantra.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, he hasn't. Really, he's the guy that yelled
Speaker 1: out you go to hell, Bill Millers. Yeah. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was so cool. Yeah, it was really neat, and so
Speaker 1: I mean there was just in general. We had Darryl
Speaker 1: who came down from the Ozarks with his pops and
Speaker 1: they brought me a as a gift, and you know,
Speaker 1: several guys brought me gifts at Ozarks high School Laker
Speaker 1: baseball jersey. Oh, talk about random And now Darryl did
Speaker 1: this because he knows I loathe the Lakers. I hate
Speaker 1: the Lakers. And he said, listen, all right, this is
Speaker 1: a way that you can be a Laker fan without
Speaker 1: being a fan of the Lakers. You can be a
Speaker 1: fan of the high school here in the Ozarks, which
Speaker 1: he said finished number one in the state of Missouri
Speaker 1: two years ago. And I want you to know, Alex,
Speaker 1: that's big news.
Speaker 3: That's huge.
Speaker 1: Number one baseball team entire state of Missouri two years ago.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: And I own a jersey. Stop it not you. I
Speaker 1: have the jersey in my possession. It's here at the
Speaker 1: Malor mansion. Also, a couple ups drivers stop by. They
Speaker 1: came down. I don't know if I mentioned JD in
Speaker 1: Kansas City Jeopardy Al who was at the last Mallor
Speaker 1: meet we did. He works the day shift. Now. Now,
Speaker 1: the craziest moment, by far, I would say, was Chris
Speaker 1: the Chef. Now, Chris the Chef called us up a
Speaker 1: couple of years back from the hospital and he was
Speaker 1: going into surgery. He thought he might die. He was scared,
Speaker 1: he was lonely and he called us up and we
Speaker 1: talked to him for a little bit on the radio,
Speaker 1: and then that was it. He went away and we
Speaker 1: didn't know really what had happened. So I saw Chris
Speaker 1: and he's had many medical problems. He's on disability now.
Speaker 1: But he called us up from what he thought was
Speaker 1: his deathbed and he's still up and kicking. And he
Speaker 1: told me the reason he believes he's still alive is
Speaker 1: because of what what do you think it is?
Speaker 3: Probably that radio call? Huh?
Speaker 1: Well, not necessarily that, No, but a malor meet and
Speaker 1: greet we did no last one. In Kansas City, he
Speaker 1: ran into a guy named Doc Mike. Okay, you got
Speaker 1: the doc. Doc Mike is one of my crazy callers,
Speaker 1: Okay from Chicago, and he's into alternative medicine.
Speaker 3: My type of guy.
Speaker 1: You're kind of guy. Yes, he loves to drink his
Speaker 1: own piss.
Speaker 3: I'd be lying if I said I haven't tried that.
Speaker 1: You've tried that I have. Yeah, did it change your
Speaker 1: life in amazing ways?
Speaker 3: I definitely made my stomach feel like it was going
Speaker 3: to turn over it the first time. It was a
Speaker 3: lot to process.
Speaker 1: What about the getting it into your stomach process, which
Speaker 1: I think would be the hardest.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's probably the mental thing that I've told
Speaker 3: you about knowing about for example, flying in a metal
Speaker 3: tube and air. For me, it was like the concept
Speaker 3: of Okay, I'm gonna drink this, but I need to
Speaker 3: drink this, So it was more so like I don't know. Again,
Speaker 3: back to full circle with all this the vegetable thing,
Speaker 3: it's just once I know the purpose behind it and
Speaker 3: I've decided I do it, and so I can muster
Speaker 3: the strength through it, and it's just that initial taste
Speaker 3: where your brain is like, oh this usually goes out
Speaker 3: and how it's coming in. So it does throw you off,
Speaker 3: but I think, like anything like drinking ginger shots or whatever,
Speaker 3: eventually it does get easier. But I'm telling you, Ben,
Speaker 3: for anybody who has ever tried it, and maybe he
Speaker 3: knows too, that first time it sits in your stomach,
Speaker 3: it's such a wild It's like an Aaron Rodgers darkness
Speaker 3: retreat cleansing thing. It's incredible how much it cleans you well.
Speaker 1: Now that you've told me I don't need to do it,
Speaker 1: because you've told me I know everything about it, you're
Speaker 1: very well go well for me, I a lot of
Speaker 1: foods I will not eat because just getting it into
Speaker 1: your stomach, Like, yeah, the one I ate the most
Speaker 1: disgusting thing the Rocky Mountain oysters a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: and that the oyster stuff that we had was just
Speaker 1: thinking about what it was. Yeah, it was very tough
Speaker 1: for me to get that into the body. Very different. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was mental. Uh who I mentioned some ups guys
Speaker 1: were there. I'm not sure who almost Andy Reid. Now
Speaker 1: this guy looks exactly like Andy Reid. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's it's insane.
Speaker 2: Really.
Speaker 1: The guy is actually an opera singer. He sings at
Speaker 1: the big opera house that Yeah, and he's a guy
Speaker 1: that he showed up. I wanted to make sure he
Speaker 1: was there. I told my friend Bob, I said, listen, Bob,
Speaker 1: we need to get almost Andy Reid there. And Andy
Speaker 1: is the almost Andy Reid guy is Actually he looks
Speaker 1: so much like Andy Reid that he's been in those
Speaker 1: you know, those state farm commercials. Yes, yes, he's been
Speaker 1: in them with Andy Reid.
Speaker 3: There's no way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's got a national commercial because of that.
Speaker 1: But my friend Bob Fesco, the Morning Guy, found him
Speaker 1: on a remote he showed up to a remote that
Speaker 1: they did and Bob said, you look just like Andy Reid.
Speaker 1: And the guy has embraced it. He dresses like him.
Speaker 1: You know, where's the outfit and all that stuff has
Speaker 1: has the same facial hair and yeah, it's like wow,
Speaker 1: it's like he's his twin.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: There is that that theory that everyone has an identical
Speaker 1: twin in the world, even if you weren't born with
Speaker 1: that person. That's somewhere in the world there's someone that
Speaker 1: is exactly like you. It might be on the other
Speaker 1: side of the world. That might be down the street
Speaker 1: right someone that has almost the same look as you have.
Speaker 1: This it's very odd that this happened, like some kind
Speaker 1: of time space continuum passing, passing by a time warp
Speaker 1: or something very bizarre. But that was That was pretty cool. Now.
Speaker 1: I have more to say, but I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: save it for the Sunday. I'll have the I'm gonna tease, Alex.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tease because tomorrow we'll have the mail bag
Speaker 1: and I'll talk about my trip to Arrowhead Stadium, which
Speaker 1: you can see some of that on Benny Versus the Penny.
Speaker 1: Today's episode on Peacock and all that. Now it is Saturday,
Speaker 1: the sixteen day of November. Anything you want to promote
Speaker 1: here before we close the shop for the rest of
Speaker 1: the day here, Alex, anything you want to promote.
Speaker 3: First, I have to say, Ben, congratulations again. I love
Speaker 3: the fact that you're growing into a plethora of different
Speaker 3: entertainment spaces. It's about time your glorious mug was on
Speaker 3: a camera because it's always on a microphone. So shout
Speaker 3: out to that.
Speaker 1: Ben.
Speaker 3: I never miss it, by the way, thank you, never
Speaker 3: miss it. So just knowing, lie, I never want.
Speaker 1: Yes, I know that where I will.
Speaker 3: Say we have put it on the studio multiple times
Speaker 3: for you. I will say that that is.
Speaker 1: True, all right, we have I will take that, behare definitely.
Speaker 1: I will embrace that. That's not bad. It's not too
Speaker 1: bad that you would do that.
Speaker 3: But if anybody wants to listen to anything Ben, just
Speaker 3: look Shallow Oceans podcast, TikTok anywhere you can listen to
Speaker 3: the glorious Ben Mallard stuff. You can listen to mine
Speaker 3: as well. So thank you, Ben.
Speaker 1: All right, and that is it. I will be consuming
Speaker 1: some college football later today and enjoying that and some
Speaker 1: good food and family and all that. But I have
Speaker 1: a wonderful rest of your Saturday. Don't forget what what's
Speaker 1: around with the mail bag, and also my trip to Arrowhead.
Speaker 1: Mallard travelog continues, and we'll do all that, and we'll
Speaker 1: talk to you next time, and as Danny would say, later, skater,
Speaker 1: have you, Ben Maller