WEBVTT - Drive Thru Orders 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:04.840 Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day dred 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:08.080 minutes a week was enough, I think again. He's the 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:12.160 last remnants of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:15.320 He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:19.360 the rich pill poppers in the penthouse the clearing House 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:23.120 of hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:28.280 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. Yes, desperate times 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:31.240 call for desperate measures or in this case, more podcast. 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:33.239 So we are back at it again. I hope your 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:37.519 weekend is going well and you are persevering, right, that's 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:40.560 the word of the weekend, persevere. Right. You gotta gotta 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:43.040 be tenacious in this world is what you have to do. 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:45.720 And so we are being tenacious in the podcast world. 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:47.640 You guys have been great. More downloads and all that. 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:51.400 So it's another edition of the Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard. 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:57.120 We are in the air everywhere, the vast power of 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:01.400 My Heart, the global reach of podcasting, and this podcast 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:04.800 heard weekly and and really three days a week now. 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:08.360 Used to be just weekly, but now it's every Friday, Saturday, 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:11.039 Sunday on the I Heart podcast network wherever you found 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.839 the podcast and to tell a friend, tell a friend. 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:17.240 Word of mouth advertising the most effective advertising. This drives 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:20.240 people crazing the advertising business because now that I work 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.200 in radio, we work in advertising. We need advertisers, which 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:26.319 is great, But the most effective advertising is a recommendation. 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:30.080 So if you recommend this podcast to your neighbor, to 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:35.080 your co worker, to your cousins, to your son's daughters, whatever, 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.399 it's great. It helps us out a lot. Just Josh 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:42.160 in Cincinnati, he sent me a message this week. He said, hey, listen, 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:45.520 my wife's now a big fan of The Fifth Hour 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:50.240 and Just Josh a prolicious member of prodigious member of 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.400 the Mallard Militia. There a senior brigadier general in the 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:57.240 Mallar Militia. And he says, wife now listens regularly. She's 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:00.280 hooked on the show, and she cannot stand David gas Scan, 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:05.480 which now brings me into David Gascons gag on a 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:12.079 blow light over there. I think we both know that 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:17.360 Just Josh's significant others either a lying or be in denial. 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.959 But that's fine. She's listening to it, and I don't 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.799 know about that. I mean, she randomly just said she's 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.840 a fan, and but she's not a big fan of 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:28.560 your work. You don't need to be a big fan 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:30.880 and at least a little fan, and that's all that matters. 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.800 You know, it just starts, It starts with a kiss, 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:38.079 Ben Mallen, and you know, and it develops into something 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.480 bigger and better. Yes, I mean it's like this. This 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.119 podcast start off one day a week, then it turned 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.760 into two and now it's three. So you know, it's that. 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:50.000 It's something happened to you between September to where we're 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.760 at right now, where it dawned on you. You just thought, well, 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.320 I need to do more podcasts. I need to do 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:58.839 some digital work, I need to do some camera work. 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:03.160 Like all these things just magically happened, and you had 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.560 this like great epiphany and you know, I'm just I'm 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:10.720 here here to support you and here to be your 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:14.120 your running mate through all this, through this discovery, this 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.760 great discovery of the new Ben Mallor. You are an 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:23.800 ego maniac. You're an ego maniac. We got all our ego. 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.560 So what's that I said? We all got our egos. 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.760 Speaking of that, Doug sent me an email I just 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:31.720 gotta give this is a long email. I don't give 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.600 you the whole thing. But he pretty much laid out 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:39.480 a situation that you shouldn't bow down and kiss my 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.600 boot is what you should do. I love this is 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:44.040 a great I'm gonna give you a whole email. But 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.280 Doug's a great guy. He says he worked as a 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:50.400 technical writer for thirty years, sixteen of them at Microsoft 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:54.880 and Redmond, Washington, and his wife was a program manager 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:58.040 at Microsoft. So they both were in the microscopt Microsoft world. 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:02.600 Hopefully they bought the stock option and all that, and uh, 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:07.360 hopefully that's the case there and and anyway, so um, 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:09.840 this guy said he's he's started listening to show. They 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:11.960 retired about seven years old. They now live in southern Oregon. 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.240 He lives kind of off the grid, and he's you 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.080 know all that, but he's he became a big fan. 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:18.840 Uh and when I did the show with Looney. But 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:21.000 I love this line. And he's very he's a big 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:22.880 fan of talk radio and I thank him for that. 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:26.400 It's very very nice. He downloads the podcast and all that, 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:28.000 and he's trying to listen as much as he can, 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:31.559 but he's he's off the grid. And so he says, 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.800 this is great. I had heard David Gascon on other 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:38.320 shows doing the sports updates or whatever they are, and 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:41.880 bantering with Steve Hartman, et cetera. And it was not 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:46.560 compelling at all, pretty generic. But with you, David Gascon 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:52.240 is an original and strange personality. There you go about 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:56.240 that I crediting me and Hartman couldn't bring that out 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.800 of you. These other blowhards can't bring that out of you. 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:01.560 It's me. I have to bring it out of you. 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.800 Kind of a backheaded compliment, but I'll take it. Let 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.920 me first preface this all from that email. What I'm 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:12.480 about to say is that my objective and my occupation 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.479 while on the Arid Fox Sports Radio is not as 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:19.200 a host. It is as an update anchor. So we're 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.960 hard time to the top of every hour to give 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:26.560 trending news for sixty seconds or less. Show some personality, 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:31.360 Tom LOONYLD. I'm not teking four good buddy, but all 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.599 those dopey lines Loony used to use in those ridiculous 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:36.920 things that you guys have to do. Show a little life, yeah, 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:39.479 but hold show a little life, gass guy, this guy 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:43.000 dog who is a consumer of our businesses. I had 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:47.200 heard Gascon on other shows doing sports updates bannering with 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:51.679 Steve Hartman. It was not compelling at all, pretty generic 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:56.880 about that generic brand gas guy. My job is not 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.280 to be compelling and it's to be informative. There's two 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.680 different things. So now again I feel free to go 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:05.920 down and kiss the boot because, as he says, here 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:11.160 with me, with me, Doug says that your original and 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.800 a strange personality. I think we all are strange in 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.160 somewhere or another, right, But I have a little bit 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.200 more carte blanche here to do. Doug was great, Doug. 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:22.160 I know I'm not gonna read the whole thing. I 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:23.440 don't know that you want me to read the whole 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:27.080 thing on the air, but it was tremendous for my ego, Doug, 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:30.960 because not only did you did you destroyed Gascon, you 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:35.479 destroyed Eddie uh, Tom Looney uh, but not really. Looty 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.159 was mostly you know, I think it was. It was Garcia, 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.360 Looney and Gascon. And he said there were some other 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:45.920 ones there that that sounds much better here in my presence. 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:48.360 What a tribute that is that you make other people, 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.720 your co workers, sound better? How amazing is that? Well, 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:55.560 that's that's that's that's great. That is awesome. Well, Doug, 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.240 thank you, Doug. I appreciate that because you've annoyed Gascon. 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:00.280 And I was when I saw and I at your 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:01.719 email the other day, dog, and I know I didn't 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:03.760 write back. I got it right back. But I when 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.400 I saw that line about Gascon, I said, I gotta 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:09.040 use that on the podcast. That is a podcast line. 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:10.640 That is going to get on the podcast. That is 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:12.920 one of the great lines of all time. And I'm 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.440 gonna write that down. I'm gonna save that one. That's poetry? 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.240 Is what that is? That Shakespeare? Uh? That is that 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:21.680 is art. It's great that when people twitter your negative 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.280 comments about me, you're quick on the trigger to send 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.120 it to me. But no, not that email. You stand 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:32.360 back that you son of a bit right heard guest 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:36.080 on bannering with Steve Hartman, etcetera. It was not compelling 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:39.080 at all, pretty generic. Oh my god, is that outstanding? 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:41.280 Is that more of an indictment though? On Steve Hartman 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.360 some of the other people that I work with, I 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.680 I don't I don't know. I love Hartman. Hartman's the guy. 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:50.600 It's clearly you difference. You know, you just need to 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.880 be pushed a little bit working with different people bring 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:55.880 out different things to me, you know, and people are 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.680 flatten here at sometimes there are a lot of people 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.280 that read and I wish this. I ran a radio station, 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.040 I would want to me the number one job of 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.920 a broadcasters to be an entertainer. People turn on the 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:09.280 rad I don't care what you're talking about. I've always 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.520 believe you want to be entertained. Why what's the point 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:16.400 of hearing somebody drone on and on? I mean, who 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:18.760 wants to Who the funk wants to listen to somebody 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:22.240 like that? So I'm pretty maniacal about this stuff. But 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.760 I think that's the secret spice spice that that's required. 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:27.360 But a lot of people disagree. There's a lot of 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:30.280 boring people to do this, which sucks, but it's good 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.200 for me because it makes me look better. So I'd 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.960 like to make sure that boring people that are doing 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:38.800 tedious radio continue on because those of us that don't 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.880 do that, that have aspirations that are bigger than that. Uh, 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.920 we're in a better situation. Yeah, I agree, that is 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.400 why you have evolved so much, very very happy and 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:55.880 we go tremendous again. Guess guy. I was asked by 0:08:55.960 --> 0:09:02.160 the company to mature in the video segment, to broaden 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.040 my horizons there. And I think we were off to 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:06.920 a good start with the video. People seem to like 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:08.800 them and they're getting a lot of views on the 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.880 different platforms, so it's it's good. Yeah, well, I agreed, 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:17.920 and you're doing a great job. Upward and onward, as 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:21.120 we say, be sure to catch live editions of The 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.320 Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:28.840 Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Alright, 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:31.199 so we have we don't have a lot of time here, 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.000 so we have we'll do a few. Don't stick to sports. 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:37.160 We've got a lot of email mail bag questions, but 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:39.520 don't stick to sports bizarro stories of the week, what 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.199 is on the menu, but sort of go overseas for 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.640 a few different stories. A Spanish news anchor was accused 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.839 of cheating on his TV star girlfriend. But I know 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.240 you've you've done zoom now a handful of times. And 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:53.880 most people that are on television now, specially GONNA FF, 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.400 SWAN or or ESPN, are doing their broadcasts from home. 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:01.360 But there is a danger to do that stuff at home. 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.520 And we saw during the NFL Draft, especially with Ceedee 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:08.240 lamb Um. He was actually on he was doing a 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.920 hit for his TV show. When he was doing the 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:15.480 hit from his room, a semi naked woman was walking 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.840 behind him while they were filming the live segment. Now 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:22.480 this popped up to everybody because this guy's name is 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.880 Alfonso Merlos. He was hosting the State of Alarm channel 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:30.440 news report for some Spanish television station about the coronavirus lockdown, 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.560 and this woman was walking behind him. Fans immediately pointed 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.240 out that this woman was not his girlfriend, and they 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:40.400 started to air him out on social media. He was 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:42.840 quiet for a couple of days, and then he finally 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.640 admitted what he was doing and apologized to said girlfriend. 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:51.679 Wow about that man. He admitted to it. But I 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:53.400 guess there's really no way to get around that. I mean, 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:57.240 most women don't walk around naked unless they're sleeping with you. Generally, 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.599 that's my experience with women. Maybe I'm wrong on that. 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:01.840 I don't know of women that well, but my experience 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:03.559 is the only time they really get naked around you 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:05.920 is when they're planning to sleep with you or have 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.880 slept with you. It's it's one of my favorite parts 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:13.480 of Major League the original when Charlie Sheen sleeps with 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:16.600 Roger Dorne's wife and he's like, I don't know who 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:18.719 she was, I swear to God, but the reason why 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.920 she slept with them was because she caught Roger Dorn 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.360 at that celebration party leaving with some of the chick 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.800 when they got into the elevator. It's pretty awesome. That's 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.880 your favorite part of Major League? My favorite part is, Hey, 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:33.480 you want to manage the Indians? I don't know. I'll 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.040 get back to you. That was a joke. That was 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:38.920 hilarious that that was a great was it? Tom Brenson 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:40.360 when he got that call and he was in Mexico, 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.880 I think, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was like, well 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:48.000 if that's very funny, very funny, great movie. We go 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:52.319 from Spain to Chicago. A Chicago brewery is being innovative 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:56.120 despite the Wuhan coronavirus COVID nineteen Uh it's taken until 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.720 on all of us. But they're doing a little thing different. 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:03.360 They're mimicking and ice cream ice cream truck company. Can 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:07.040 you guess what they're doing? Ben? Alright, so they're mimicking 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.560 and ice cream? What are they the Mr Softie song. 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:11.360 They have that thing going on. What do they got? 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:16.000 Sort of the brewery right now, they're called Goose Island Beer. 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:20.800 They're serving customers with deliveries and their orders are being 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.760 processed while they're driving around town. So what they did 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:27.959 was they purchased a black van and they're driving throughout traces. 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:32.160 They're driving throughout Chicago right now with the brewery's telephone 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.559 number display on the side of each of the vans 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:38.240 they have, and anyone could call or an order in 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:42.640 whatever brew that they want, So they'll deliver beers immediately 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.240 whenever they place their order. And on top of that, 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.160 they're playing obviously music, so it mimics the ice cream 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.160 truck kind of procession when they go up and down 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.960 these streets too. It's pretty neat. Oh yeah, that's good. 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.600 All listen. I love the miss when every kid. Yeah, 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.080 this is a adults. That's like the ice cream truck 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.640 for adults, right, get the boot, that's the way to 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:02.560 do it. That's a good job. By then you gotta 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.959 be creative, right, you gotta be creative. It's like, you know, 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:10.160 I'm blossoming right now and you got to adapt. It's 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.520 Darwinners and you have to adapt or die as a business. 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.800 Do you have to you know, live with the means. 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:18.199 And all these businesses are selling these masks now because 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.120 they know that there's a market for them, right so 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:22.880 they're like, hey, you know, the Dodgers can slap the 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:25.079 Dodger logo on and you can sell a bunch of 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:27.040 masks and people will buy them. Or the Red Sox 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:28.760 or the Twins or whatever, and people will buy the 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.240 stuff you do. It takes off, not about about it. 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:33.960 Girl Scouts of Alaska in a little bit of trouble 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:37.160 for for one reason, and you can obviously guess it's 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:40.599 the coronavirus. Ben. They're working on a federal relief a 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.080 loan after getting stuck with a hundred and forty four 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:47.520 thousand unsold boxes of Girl Scout cookies. Uh States trying 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.560 to shut down those sales right now. I'll buy them, 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:52.679 Send me some Girl Scout cookie. I mean, how do 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.760 you those things? The expert the expiration date. I used 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.040 to have some of my office. My wife grabbed them, 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:01.160 move them to the other room. But but aren't they 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:03.280 filled with chemicals and stuff? I mean, and the only 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:06.200 things last for like you know, six seven eight months 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.720 or something like that. The shelf life, right, it seems 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.320 like it. Do you can you guess which two were 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:15.079 sold the most? Which two brands of cookies in Alaska? No, 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.719 the Girl Scout cookies? Yeah, the girls. I'm gonna go 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:23.360 thin Man's and uh, I like the lemon cookies. That's 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:25.120 what I go. But I what, what's the ones with 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.920 the chocolate in the those are real popular. What I 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:29.720 forget what they're called. I've never had it is that 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:34.840 the tag along those are sold just as much as 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:38.040 the thin nets. I'm a thin man guy. I don't 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:41.240 mind the tag alongs. I love the lemonades. I think 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:44.800 they're called very good, great job. And now are the 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:46.960 Girl Scouts gonna be forced to stop that? Because the 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.240 n c A this week they're they've now opened up 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:54.400 third party money. Uh, and so that means are the 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:59.280 Girl Scouts the last endorsed kind of like slave used 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:05.000 the little Girls sell our cookies organization? Man, I didn't 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:08.840 think about, but yeah, that's great. Great industry was so 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.080 five dollars a box and we'll have a bunch of 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.480 twelve year old and thirteen year or whatever how they 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:15.680 are on how you're on the Girl Scouts, but around 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:20.720 that age, sell cookie. Can you on? Um? The Royal 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:24.440 Navy's making some headlines. We go overseas again for this one, 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:28.360 as a commander of a nuclear powered submarine got sacked 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:32.040 after allowing his crew to hold a barbecue party. Uh. 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:36.520 Commander Jonathan Lewis, the the captain of Her Majesty's ship, 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:40.560 the Tretch, not allowed the party to lock down at 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:44.440 the Devonport dockyard and began to throw a barbecue there 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:46.960 for all of his entire crew. Now, naturally, Ben, as 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.840 you know, through the power of social media, people were 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.360 taking videos and they saw a bunch of Uh, they 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.680 saw a bunch of sailors obviously parting it up, drinking, 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.320 laugh and having a good time. Uh. He has been 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:01.480 immediately relieved of his can And can't you let your 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:03.360 hair down a little bit? Come on? What kind of 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:07.440 world are we living in here? Guess? I mean, please, jeez, 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:12.880 imagine what must have gone on like before modern times. 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:16.800 Like you hear stories about like the Civil War and 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.320 like old battles. What was going on? I don't know, 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:23.720 It's just you know, the world we live in. I 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:27.320 just just got something shoved up there, took a sign. 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:30.680 Just how about this. Belgium's needing some help right now. 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:34.880 Belgium's potato industry needs a little bit of a help 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:39.360 from the government, from from the Big shoe. A fascinating 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:43.880 total band. On average, nine of potatoes are exported. But 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:46.760 they're not being export anymore, obviously because of the coronavirus. 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.760 So now wait, wait, nine of the potatoes in Belgium 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:54.160 are shipped out? Yes, yes, wow are they? Just are they? 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.240 Is this an American thing? I don't even know. I 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.480 think my potatoes I think come from California, from California 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:01.640 in the north East. I can imagine. I can imagine. 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:03.640 This is an euth thing. I think this goes all 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.440 over potatoes. It must be all over the UK, Yeah, 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:11.320 because we get our idolhood potatoes so or exported. Not 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:14.080 the case now. So there's piles of potatoes that are 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:17.399 now stuck on these farms and they have no facilities 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:20.640 to keep them fresh anymore. So that's it. It's over. 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:25.960 So they're asking people to eat more potatoes, more fresh fries. Baby, Yes, 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.800 what's wrong with that? That's a wonderful thing. Yeah, this 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:32.680 is not a bad thing. No, you say potato, I 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:36.320 say potato so a wonderful thing. Yeah, to be driven 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:39.320 potatoes very popular. Yeah, so that's what we got for 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.840 belting fries. Be sure to catch live editions of The 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.719 Ben Maller Show week days at two am Eastern eleven 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:49.520 pm Pacific. All Right, we'll get to the mail bag, 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:51.399 is what we'll get to. I mean, just type this 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.840 up real quick. Alright. I wrote down some emails, actual questions, 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:59.639 matual listeners. But these were submitted usually on Wednesday, we 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:03.640 host a thing on on Facebook saying hey, we're gonna 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:06.680 do the podcast this weekend. Can you send some questions in? 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:10.680 And then people usually do. It's an amazing thing. You 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:15.320 asking people will respond at build it and asking build it, 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:17.160 and they will come. I think is that the line? 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:20.960 All right, this is from Ethan and Acary. Now Ethan 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:24.200 has come out of nowhere. He has dropped in and 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:26.640 become a huge fan of the show in the last 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:29.760 couple of weeks. He is really talking about me blossoming. 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:32.719 But he is flourishing in the Mallard militia. But he's 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:36.560 new to the show. He's a young guy, and he says, hey, Ben, 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:39.879 can you please recap the William Shatner thing for some 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:44.760 of your newer listeners, like myself Ethan enacting well even 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:47.879 I'll give you the condensed version of that um. But 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.960 several years ago, I have a friend of mine named 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:53.520 Fred Dryer who used to play in the NFL and 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:55.760 and he's a listening to the show, which is kind 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:57.440 of cool. I found out he was listening to the show, 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:01.560 and then we we became penpals and whatnot. And Fred 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:03.560 used to be on Twitter and I have I have 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:05.359 Fred on the show like once a year. I always 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:06.800 I'm supposed to get him in more than once, but 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:08.760 I Fred was a star. When I was a kid, 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:12.800 there was a show called Hunter and I loved the 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:14.840 show and Fred Dryer was the star of the show. 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:18.440 And so it's cool, like I feel like, Wow, I'm 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:19.719 like living some kind of dreams. This is a guy 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.560 I grew up watching on TV. And now we're we're 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:24.640 you know, we text and you know it's kind of neat, 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:27.560 and so it's anyway, the long story short, I'm supposed 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.520 to give you the condensed thumbnail recap. Evan, so I 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:34.280 was corresponding with Fred Dryer. Fred Dryer is friends with 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:38.560 William Shatner, and so Fred would send me messages on Twitter. 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:40.520 He's not on Twitter anymore, but Fred would send me 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:43.399 messages on Twitter and he would tag me and William 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:46.760 Shanner and I didn't realize it until one day I 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:52.760 got a response in my mentions from William Shatner. I'm like, 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:56.840 holy fuck. You know, Captain Kirk is uh and you 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:59.560 know he is a fan. You know he's responding and 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.320 he's sending messages to me, is tagging me in his responses. 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:04.080 So then we made a bit out of it on 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:06.600 the show, and we were going back and forth and 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:10.720 it turned ugly because Shatner was, let's just say not 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:12.840 someone that had a great sense of humor about the 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:16.840 thing and didn't play along with the bit and got offended. 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:20.080 And so we would go back and forth. And the 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:23.280 question that sent him off ethan I asked him this 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:25.920 was when the Lightning were playing the Blackhawks in the 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:29.359 Stanley Cup Final. I remember because Shatner's Canadian says like, hey, 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:31.560 what do you think you're gonna win the Cup? And 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:34.400 he got all upset and said, you know, check your 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:38.520 your blocked, checkmate or something like that, and he blocked. 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:42.440 So then I I talked to Eddie, my advisor, and 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:46.440 we released the hounds and we sicked the Mallard Militia 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:53.840 on William Shatner. So we had three years ethan three 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:59.520 different battles. It was spats with shots Mallard Militia versus 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:04.320 the trek Ease, and we won. We stand victorious. Now 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:06.400 there's a lot of foot soldiers they got blocked Shatner. 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:08.280 That my one of my favorite things. When I write 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:10.960 my books, someday I'll do a chapter on William Shatner, 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:15.760 this humongous figure in American entertainment and pop culture who 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:20.040 one night was so upset with me and my listeners 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:24.119 that he started trying to block everyone that was mentioning 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:26.200 my name that would send him a message, right, So 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:31.720 he did, but he was so flustered, so flummocks Shatner, 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:35.399 that he started accidentally, instead of clicking the block button, 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:39.680 he clicked the follow button. So I'm getting screenshots from 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:45.520 security guards, guys making donuts, guys cleaning toilets that are 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:48.600 now being followed by William Shatner because he doesn't know 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:51.639 how to fucking use Twitter, And uh, it was hilarious. 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:54.560