WEBVTT - Cartoons 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:05.840 If you thought four hours a day, minutes a week 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:09.480 was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of the 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:13.680 old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats crackheads 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:16.200 in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich pill 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:20.720 poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, break 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:24.560 free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:33.320 starts right now, nine nine Sunday, Sunday Sunday. That's an 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:35.680 old commercial when I was a kid for a monster 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:39.839 truck racing. But it is the Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:45.280 Mallard because four hours a night are not enough. Eight 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:49.800 days a week, eight days a week, and we are 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:53.519 back at it again with these Sunday podcast We thank 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.640 you for downloading the podcasts, for subscribing to the podcast, 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.840 and for most importantly listening to the podcast. And don't 0:00:59.880 --> 0:01:04.560 for gay word of mouth advertising. Share the sugar to 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.760 the other people out there, the unwashed, who do not 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:12.959 know about this podcast, the small but growing podcast. Let 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:17.080 him know, Let him know, friends, enemies, relatives were not 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:23.360 against having Grandma Grandpa download automatically to their smartphone the podcast. 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:26.760 I'm fine with that, s him. Hey, I got this poticist. 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:28.039 Let me set it up for you and then it 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.199 gets the they download. That would help if they listen 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:32.000 to it. It would help if they listen to it. 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:35.920 But it is Sunday and the mail bag and the 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:39.160 man who online is known as Ryan McBain, but to 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:41.480 us he's Ryan Smith, and he is back for the 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.440 Sunday mail back, very exciting Ryand you want to rip 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.039 Boston again like you did yesterday? How dare you? Yes? 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:50.120 I would love to, because Boston is just a ship hole. Yes, 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:54.040 I said, guns blazing, baby, guns blazing. What if you 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.320 got offered a big time radio job in Boston and 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.240 they paid you like a ton of money, would you 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.040 move to Boston? I'd rather do a local radio show 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:08.040 in hell. Hell. Yes, you were all about burning those bridges, burning, 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:11.680 burn baby, burn out there you When you burn the bridges, 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:13.680 it's easier to see the path in front of you 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:17.840 from the top rope, Ryan McBain, Yeah, there you go. 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.320 All right. I don't like it, Okay, I don't like 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:22.040 all right, it's fine, you don't have to like it. 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.200 I don't care those things I don't like either. Tom 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:36.200 is a fraud. You have BDS. You were suffering from BDS. 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:42.200 Boston derangement syndrome. Stop stop, okay, anyway, listen, we we've 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.160 got a bunch of emails. I want to thank you guys. 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.000 You guys have done a great job. The email. It 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.040 was a little slow this week. I got concerned. I 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:52.560 post this on Wednesday and I looked and we only 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:54.760 had a few questions, and I was like, oh crap, 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:58.079 you know, I guess people don't like the mail bag. Um. 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.120 But then it turned around and I went to the 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.000 email and we had a bunch of questions on email, 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.520 which was great. So that picked up the slack. But 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:06.680 if you like it, we'll keep it going. Now, if 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:08.639 we ever get to a point we don't have very 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:11.160 many questions, we just won't do the Sunday podcast. We'll 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.400 just end the Sunday podcast. We don't have to do 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:16.160 the Sunday podcast. This is a bonus podcast. This is 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:17.720 the eighth day of the week because I have a 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:22.040 radio show tonight, uh you know, Sunday and the Monday 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.320 that we will do so and it's not necessary to 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:26.840 do the Sunday mail bag. I like doing it and 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:28.679 we usually get tons of questions. This week was a 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.520 little slow, So if you want to send a question. 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.360 You do not have to wait for me to prompt you. 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.600 You can send a question in any time if you're 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:38.640 listening right now and say, hey, I got a good 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.960 question for these these nim rods. Real fifth Hour at 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.680 gmail dot com. Real fifth hour, that's f I F 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:46.520 T H. That's how you spell fifth not with the 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.920 number five. Real fifth hour at gmail dot com and 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.560 ask ask us anyday. It's interesting. It's gotta be. It 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:54.440 can't be really time specific. It's got to be kind 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.200 of open ended, uh, interesting unique. If you want to 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:00.240 open up old old wounds like we did with with Ryan, 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.320 they're talking about Boston. He gets very upset by that. 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.280 You can do that. It's all fair game. And then again, 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.000 I will post usually on Wednesday, unless we record the 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.040 podcast earlier than I'll do it on I'll do it 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.360 on maybe Tuesday, but at some point during the week. 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.360 So that is it. So let's answer these questions. Pierre 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:20.840 in Springfield, Massachusetts, home of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame, 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:24.839 or Muffett McGraw isn't trying now? Do you hate Springfield, Massachusetts, 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:27.359 which is at the other end of Massachusetts, which is 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:34.560 far from Boston. Do you have Ryan a loathing for Springfield, Massachusetts. Okay, 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:36.600 let me explain to see the best way I can 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.120 if you were going to get the planet Earth and enema, 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:45.239 you'd stick the host right in Massachusetts. Wow. Wow, unbelievable. 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.760 You have had bad experiences with massholes. You have really 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:55.839 had oh man, alright triggered anyway? Uh my my grandfather 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:59.200 from Springfield, mass So you're you're you're urinating on my family. 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.960 How dare you anyway? Uh? Pierre says Ben. It's pretty 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:06.040 obvious that Coop treasures the elusive check mark on Twitter. 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.240 Would it be possible for me to broker a deal 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.400 between you and your future neighbor, Mr West of the 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:13.960 four oh five. I don't even know who that guy 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.560 is anymore. I propose that, in exchange for your services, 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:22.800 that I may help David obtain said check mark. Maybe 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.360 he could provide you with something that you covet say 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:32.000 the VPN who gets verified at FSR would enrage Coope 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:37.880 more gascon or ned Flanders. Yeah, well you know who 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:43.839 Ned Flanders is locally? Locally yes, uh so, I would 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:47.760 think based on the politics of gascon versus the politics 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.360 of Coop, I'm guessing that Coop would be more upset 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:56.400 of gascon got got verified. I wonder Pierre's like a 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.400 made man. He knows people at Twitter. But I would 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.240 love the VPN. I do cove at the VPN. I 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.520 need to get. Do you have a good VPN? H? No, 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:08.160 I don't. Unfortunately you don't. Do you have? Yeah? You do? 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:11.800 It opens up a whole new world. You can get 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:13.440 one on the dark web, So if you want to 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:17.520 go in the dark web you can. That's a great question. Unfortunately, 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:20.719 yet again Mr West of the four oh five not here, 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:22.440 so he he can't answer. But I'm all four it. 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:24.800 I fully support it. I think it's a great idea 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:28.320 and if you know people and you can make that happen, 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:32.039 that would be great. Glenn in Chicago writes in the 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.320 Windy City, a regularly listening to the podcast. He says, Hey, Ben, 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.120 do you know why nine of baseball players are hitting 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.080 a home run? When they're hitting After hitting home run, 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.960 look up and point up in the air as they 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:47.240 crossed the plate. Why has anybody not asked? Well, I 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.200 think that's kind of obvious. I think they're just they're 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:51.840 doing that because they believe that God help them hit 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:54.159 the home run like the higher power in the heavens 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:58.880 or they're sending a shout out to the heavens. Yeah, 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.560 how come we always think that heavens above us and 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:03.560 not below us? What if it's what if it's the opposite? 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:05.280 What if we've been wrong the whole time? Here? Ryan, 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.520 third rail, ma may and it's the third rail. But 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:14.520 always laughing when someone says, oh, thank thank God for 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:17.440 this womenss and that, Yeah, okay, because God really cares 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.960 about your victory when people are dying all over the world. 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:25.000 That makes total sense. Yes, yes, I completely agree with you, 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:28.040 and I've done many mailer monologues on that. But you know, now, Ryan, 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:29.400 I don't know if I can do that anymore because 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.560 you say anything that goes against group think and people 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:37.880 get so upset, Like I pointed out the Naomi Osaka hypocrisy, 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.000 and how you know she's anti media, but she's got 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:43.440 a Netflix documentary, magazine covers all. She's only anti media 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:45.640 when they ask questions she doesn't like, and so people 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:49.160 get so upset and oh, how dare you and any 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.640 dissenting opinions people do not like? But I'm right there 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.720 with you. I'm pretty sure if there is a higher power, 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.080 and we'll all find out, hopefully someday one day or another. 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:02.360 But if there is, then I'm I'd like to think 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:06.040 that they're not worried about, you know, Joe Blow winning 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:07.680 the Super Bowl or hitting a home run in a 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:12.480 baseball game, unless unless you're beating a Boston team, Okay come. 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:16.120 Glenn also says I remember Dion Sanders back in the 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:18.240 day doing this with the Reds, but it was after 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.240 his father passed away. He and it continued. So it 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:24.400 seems a bit annoying, and I feel it's it's done 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:27.040 only for style points. Well, style points are important. You've 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:30.200 got to have the razmutaslin. You gotta when when I 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:34.600 was a young punk, I impersonated every baseball player. You 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:37.679 know that, that batting stance guy who actually met him 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:39.720 a few times, the batting stance guy on Twitters, guy's 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:43.360 own little niche he impersonated, His impersonates random baseball players. 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.240 Basis I used to do that when I was a kid. 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:49.240 There's not that many unique batting stances these days in baseball, 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.600 at least I haven't noticed that many. But you gotta 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:53.640 stand out a little bit. You gotta stand out a 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.960 little bit. Uh, let's see here. Glenn also says, have 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.960 you thought about streaming your show or you know, podcast 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:06.240 asked live on Twitch more Militia interaction. Yeah, Glenn, that's 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:08.800 a great idea, but I don't own the show, and 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.720 uh if if it was a way to monetize it 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:13.920 for me, I would be all for it. I don't 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:15.840 necessarily need to help the company make more money. They 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.600 make plenty of money. Uh So if we did our 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:22.640 own standalone thing, this is a under the I Heart umbrella. 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.880 So I don't think you unless they wanted us to 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.000 do it, but on our own I don't think we'd 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:31.360 be allowed to do it. There's a lot of bureaucracy, 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.480 which I try to avoid the bureaucracy as much as 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.559 I can. I just try to stay in your lane. 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.400 Is my my mentor LaVar Ball taught me stay in 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.400 your life. That's what I do. That's what I did. 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.320 That's it. What else do we have? One more from 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.679 GLENNI says, since Gascon has been doing football games for Germany, 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:53.200 has he viewed any German porn? If so, what did 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:56.360 he type in the searche third rail? That's the third 0:09:56.440 --> 0:10:01.480 round my uh, Uh, yeah, what about you, Ryan, You 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:06.760 and any German in German porn. I don't watch porn. 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:10.800 I think it's very degrading. The men really not watch 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.959 the porn. Yeah, that's a lot. Your nose is girl. 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:18.400 Pinocchio knows this girl right there. I know you're you're 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:19.920 on the porn side. You're saying, all right, let me 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:21.280 change it up a little bit and you kick on 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.280 the little flag for the different one of some of 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.160 those sites of the different flags you can click on 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:28.199 for Uh, it is interesting what certain parts of the 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.160 world are into and you can you can get a 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:31.959 kind of a feel for that depending on which flag 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.000 you click. And not that I've done that. I've heard 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.440 from other people. I've not done that because I'm a professional. 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.600 I would not do that. Okay, dark web, There you go, 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:47.400 the dark web. Andy writes in from He says, near 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:51.719 Ben's Tommy's in Hoboville, Hollywood. Yeah, he's right there off 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:53.720 the one on one Freeway. I used to stop at 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:57.520 that Tommy's and get my my my triple cheeseburger and 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:01.560 fries with chili cheese fries. Years was Tommy's in Hollywood, 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.160 those late night food runs. Anyway, I says. Back in 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:06.720 the day, I was This is from again Andy, He says, 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:10.760 I was a big sports talk radio junkie. I moved 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:14.960 from Philadelphia to Denver, to San Francisco, and then finally 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:18.000 to l A, Go West, young man. I consume so 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:24.240 much Tony Bruno, Pete Franklin, Ralph Barbieri, and eventually Joe 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.680 and Duck, Joe McDonald and Doug Kricorian. Back in the 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:31.520 day that I I bleed jingles and drops when live 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:36.080 reads and the tyranny of ESPN radio spread like the 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:41.320 plague I treated, retreated two blogs, and later dived headfirst 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:45.719 into the early world of podcasting. Nowadays, Andy says he 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.600 does not listen to live radio anymore. That's a shame. 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.680 I wouldn't have believed this a decade ago, he says. 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:56.280 I do digest our content is Big Ben's content daily 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.800 via the podcast, but not any other local or not 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:03.000 radio shows. Again, I can't believe this fact, he and 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.640 then he says he gets to the crescendo. He says, 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:09.720 is local sports talk radio almost dead on terrestrial radio? 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:14.800 Is it even remotely relevant nationally? Is the loony axiom 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:20.600 of broadcasting not narrowcasting? Irrelevant today. Uh so I'll answer 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.719 that you have some other questions here. So the way 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:26.560 I'll say sports radio, it depends on the market. It 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.760 depends on the market. And I again I'm gonna annoy 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.840 Mr McBain over there. But I having worked in Boston, 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.800 typically the top two radio stations are the top in 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:41.280 the top five are both sports talkers. W e I 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:45.280 and the Sports Hub in Boston are in the top five. 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:50.199 Philadelphia also gets monster ratings in sports talk radio. Sports 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.559 talk radio in l A does not get huge numbers. 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:57.439 It just does not. It's never it's never gotten huge numbers. Ironically, 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:00.440 when I did it back in the nineties, he had 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.640 compared to the ratings that sports radio gets. Now, we 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.920 had huge ratings. But at the time they thought they 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:10.200 were terrible ratings. But you know, twentysomething years later, looking back, 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.720 that was a massive number that we got compared to 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.920 what the shows today get. Um. But there's still a 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:20.000 large audience. But it it really is. Uh in in 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.400 in l A. It's more of a niche thing. And 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.000 but there's so many sports fans in l A. I 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:30.480 know in in Minnesota it's k fan in Minnesota. My god, 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:34.560 that is a blowtorch. We have so much interaction and 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:36.839 so much feedback in Minnesota. So the point is it 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.800 really depends on the city. And there's some cities were 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:43.120 on we get no reaction. Nobody emails me, nobody posts 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.520 anything on Twitter, nobody calls in from the I mean, 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:47.120 I don't even know if we're on. Maybe they turned 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:51.679 the transmitter off. I have no idea, So you know, 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:54.160 it's like but but there's other places that it's just 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.000 like I feel like sometimes we're just doing the local 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.040 Minnesota show. I could just talk about the Vikings and 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:00.800 the Twins and the Timberwolves and that's it, and we'd 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.280 have great feedback. And there's a lot of creative people, 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:06.600 funny people in Minnesota love sports talk radio. We do 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.439 very well in Houston, which is odd because all I 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:13.319 do is rip the Stros and we get a lot 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:16.240 of feedback from I guess that's the Howard Stern thing, 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:21.880 you know, you know Howard Stern thing. Yes, yeah, Or 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.880 if if they hate you, they listen longer. They call 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.560 it the Howard Stern effect. They call it where people 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.320 that really hate you they listen longer than those who 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.640 love you, just to make sure they don't miss any 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.680 opportunity to be outraged and offended. Well, I think in 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:37.440 l A. Part of the problem is there's so much 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:39.920 more to dude. You know, if you go to like 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:43.640 to like Minnesota, Like, what's western do in Minnesota's ten 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:46.440 thousand lakes? What are you talking about in the summer, les, 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:52.040 Let's go to Lake Minnetonka. I mean, you are you 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:56.320 are attacking. The first rule is to not attack the 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.800 customer attack you. I'm just saying there's more to do 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.280 in l A than there is in Minnesota. That's all 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.720 I'm saying. I don't know. Listen, I'm I'm a pretty 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:05.440 simple guy, and you're you're like me. You don't leave 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:07.440 your house much, right other than go to work. Yeah, 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:11.160 we're I think we're similar in that regard. We're both introverts. 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:17.280 And so I would I could live in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.040 I'd be fine. I don't leave my house that much. 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:22.480 I'd get a better steak. You know, there's probably a 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.640 nice barbecue place. If I was in Kansas City. I'd 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.920 love Kansas City because of the food. So I'd be fine. 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.000 And uh, And there are more than ten thousand likes. 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:33.040 There are eleven thousand, eight hundred and forty two lakes 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.120 of ten acres or more in Minnesota. How about that. 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.680 For a fact, if you ask the average person where 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:41.720 would you rather live, Los Angeles or Minnesota, They're probably 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:47.400 gonna say l A. Yes, Minnesota, all right, I understand 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:49.400 because most people think will l A. You know, it's 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.520 seventy five degrees every day and all that. You also 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:56.880 have an infestation of homeless people overtaking southern California exactly 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:59.720 prove my point. It's so it's so good that even 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.280 though almost want to live. No, no, it's so good, 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:06.080 the politicians and allow the homeless to defecate all over 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:10.160 the streets and take it's a hostile takeover. And the 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:14.280 politicians are so spineless and gutless that they don't do anything, 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:18.520 which is I think the job of a politician is 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:21.440 to make sure the community is clean and people are 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:24.040 taking care of Listen. I feel bad you're homeless and 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.240 you're down on your luck, But I think there are 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.680 ways to handle it better than allowing them to drop 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:33.280 a ship on the sidewalk on Ventura Boulevard. How about that. 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.680 I mean, maybe it's a little bit of both. I mean, uh, 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:41.560 I'm not gonna say wrong, all right, listen, it's I 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.040 remember I haven't gone to the studio a while. Even 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:47.160 in Sherman Oaks, that Sherman Oaks neighborhood, there are so 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:49.680 many rich people up the hill there, you know, bell 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:51.840 Airs right around the corner, and so many of those 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.440 mansions up in the hills above Sherman Oaks, and they 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.400 come down to go shopping and whatnot. And it is 0:16:57.440 --> 0:16:59.800 insane how many and a lot of these homeless people. 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:01.920 Back in the old days were hidden and I'd see 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.320 him at night, but now they're not even They're like, oh, 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:08.360 they got their tents out there everywhere. It's craziness. It's unbelievable. Yes, 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:10.680 there's a bunch of them by my house. I'm like, wow. 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.199 Times are rough, and seriously, it's it's very sad, and 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:15.840 it is said, I feel terrible, but there's gotta be 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:17.720 a better way to handle it, right, There's gotta be 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.119 a better way to handle it. A think about the 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:24.240 money that is wasted on bullshit by politicians and things 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:27.119 that are not needed, and yet money could be reallocated 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:30.080 to help homeless people. But then the other problem is 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:32.200 that and you know, we've got homeless people that love 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:34.280 to be homeless. They don't want to have a house. Yeah, 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:36.720 and you ask the average homeless person, they rather be 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:41.280 homeless in l A. The Minnesota. Thank you, Well, there's 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:43.680 homeless in Minnesota. Yeah. But yeah, man, if you ask 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.040 someone who's in Minnesota, would they rather be living in 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:47.879 l A and their homeless, that's like, yeah, l A. 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:50.360 I'm telling you l is a place to be. There's 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:51.919 a lot of homeless in Hawaii. But you know what 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:53.120 they used to do. I don't know if they still 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:54.399 do this. When I was in Hawaii, there was a 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:57.560 big story on the local news because I love watching 0:17:57.600 --> 0:17:59.640 local TV news when I go to different cities because 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:01.520 it kind of it feels cool. You feel like you're 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:03.960 you're you're a local. And I remember that a big story. 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:06.080 There was like a big homeless problem in Honolulu. And 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:08.880 so what they were doing was offering one way tickets 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:10.760 to anywhere in the continent of the United States to 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:12.800 the homeless to get him out of Hawaii. You can 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:14.920 flight anywhere they want, just to leave the Hali because 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.080 they figured they coming back, they ain't coming back, you 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:21.480 know that gonna swim back to Hawaii, Cuba. Was this castro, 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:24.879 this the beginning of like starface people out with the 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:27.159 Hell yeah, I don't think they're allowed to do that 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:29.359 anymore because the Wokesters, you know, the Wokesers, weren't allowed 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:32.280 that to happen. Jason in Rocky Mount, Virginia rights in 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:34.320 on the mail bag. He says, big bat, I really 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:36.959 enjoyed listening to the Talent Show this week with so 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:40.720 many good Militia members involved. If you did not hear 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:42.199 the Talent Show, go back and listen to what we 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:47.199 did the review on yesterday's podcast and yesterday's podcast. Anyway, 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:50.080 Jason says, do you think maybe we should do it 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:55.080 twice a year, perhaps slip one in before Christmas? Yeah? 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.440 Yeah about that. I think once a year is the 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:01.920 right amount. We we do the awards, once a year 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:03.200 we do the Talent Show. These are some of the 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:09.280 big events. These are markers, right, These are things that 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.040 that we look forward to, and if you do it twice, 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:16.880 it waters it down. I am gonna push back on that. Jeez, 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:20.200 I'm gonna push back on you. I said we could, 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:21.760 we could do it in December and then do it 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:24.199 again in July. But I think once a year is 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:27.320 the right amount um. But if if unch of people 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:29.040 wanted twice a year, we can do it. Be sure 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:31.760 to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:34.960 at two am Eastern eleven p m Pacific on Fox 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:38.440 Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Okay, Who's Next? 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:42.720 Vall's fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee, is next, he says Ben. 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:45.520 Since Half Pint has run a foul of the law, 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:49.120 will she be giving be given the Reggie Bush treatment? 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:52.199 All records are raised and all Benny's returned? And is 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:55.800 there any chance cooking with Roberto will be replaced with 0:19:55.880 --> 0:20:00.239 cooking with Half Pint since she has become a master chef? Well, 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:04.159 great questions, vaws Fann Jimmy uh, And we have no 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:06.359 integrity on the Ben Mallor Show. In terms of the 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:08.960 Benny's we will not ask for Half Pint to return 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:13.480 the award she won with beer drinking Brian at all. 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:17.080 In fact, it seems to be a requirement to be 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:20.239 on the edge, to do like a tap dance on 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:23.639 the edge of civility, to be a celebrity caller to 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:25.880 the show. So now we love half Pint. She's obviously 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:31.200 had some interesting situations in her life. I have, thanks 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:33.960 to our lawyer friend Michael in New Jersey, I have 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:37.720 learned more about half Pint, and you could put her 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:43.040 in the desperado bandit category. Uh so she's she's had 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:47.960 a lot of activity with law enforcement and whatnot. What's happening. 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:50.440 But who am I. She's got a pretty big rap sheet, 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:53.840 you know, pretty rap sheet, so criminal history, I should say. 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:56.879 But we like her. She's nice to us, and we 0:20:56.920 --> 0:20:59.679 don't really know her as that person. So it's the 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:01.520 mad at a radio. That's a great thing. You We 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:04.959 don't know these people that call in and to be delinquents. 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:07.960 You could be running Fortune five hundred companies, or you 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:12.280 could be visiting the House of Corrections. Who knows. But 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:16.320 we will find out in another ten days or something 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:18.840 like that or less than that. Now, whether or not 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:21.040 she'll be spending a lot of time in the gulag, 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:24.359 we will, we will see. Carlos in Houston writes and says, 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:28.560 what is the origin story on that clown, the Boston hater? 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:31.760 You had another Boston reference? Uh well, I'll start Carlos 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:33.520