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Speaker 1: So if you recommend this podcast to your neighbor, to
Speaker 1: your co worker, to your cousins, to your son's daughters, whatever,
Speaker 1: it's great. It helps us out a lot. Just Josh
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, he sent me a message this week. He said, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: my wife's now a big fan of The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: and Just Josh a prolicious member of prodigious member of
Speaker 1: the Mallard Militia. There a senior brigadier general in the
Speaker 1: Mallar Militia. And he says, wife now listens regularly. She's
Speaker 1: hooked on the show, and she cannot stand David gas Scan,
Speaker 1: which now brings me into David Gascons gag on a
Speaker 1: blow light over there. I think we both know that
Speaker 1: Just Josh's significant others either a lying or be in denial.
Speaker 1: But that's fine. She's listening to it, and I don't
Speaker 1: know about that. I mean, she randomly just said she's
Speaker 1: a fan, and but she's not a big fan of
Speaker 1: your work. You don't need to be a big fan
Speaker 1: and at least a little fan, and that's all that matters.
Speaker 1: You know, it just starts, It starts with a kiss,
Speaker 1: Ben Mallen, and you know, and it develops into something
Speaker 1: bigger and better. Yes, I mean it's like this. This
Speaker 1: podcast start off one day a week, then it turned
Speaker 1: into two and now it's three. So you know, it's that.
Speaker 1: It's something happened to you between September to where we're
Speaker 1: at right now, where it dawned on you. You just thought, well,
Speaker 1: I need to do more podcasts. I need to do
Speaker 1: some digital work, I need to do some camera work.
Speaker 1: Like all these things just magically happened, and you had
Speaker 1: this like great epiphany and you know, I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: here here to support you and here to be your
Speaker 1: your running mate through all this, through this discovery, this
Speaker 1: great discovery of the new Ben Mallor. You are an
Speaker 1: ego maniac. You're an ego maniac. We got all our ego.
Speaker 1: So what's that I said? We all got our egos.
Speaker 1: Speaking of that, Doug sent me an email I just
Speaker 1: gotta give this is a long email. I don't give
Speaker 1: you the whole thing. But he pretty much laid out
Speaker 1: a situation that you shouldn't bow down and kiss my
Speaker 1: boot is what you should do. I love this is
Speaker 1: a great I'm gonna give you a whole email. But
Speaker 1: Doug's a great guy. He says he worked as a
Speaker 1: technical writer for thirty years, sixteen of them at Microsoft
Speaker 1: and Redmond, Washington, and his wife was a program manager
Speaker 1: at Microsoft. So they both were in the microscopt Microsoft world.
Speaker 1: Hopefully they bought the stock option and all that, and uh,
Speaker 1: hopefully that's the case there and and anyway, so um,
Speaker 1: this guy said he's he's started listening to show. They
Speaker 1: retired about seven years old. They now live in southern Oregon.
Speaker 1: He lives kind of off the grid, and he's you
Speaker 1: know all that, but he's he became a big fan.
Speaker 1: Uh and when I did the show with Looney. But
Speaker 1: I love this line. And he's very he's a big
Speaker 1: fan of talk radio and I thank him for that.
Speaker 1: It's very very nice. He downloads the podcast and all that,
Speaker 1: and he's trying to listen as much as he can,
Speaker 1: but he's he's off the grid. And so he says,
Speaker 1: this is great. I had heard David Gascon on other
Speaker 1: shows doing the sports updates or whatever they are, and
Speaker 1: bantering with Steve Hartman, et cetera. And it was not
Speaker 1: compelling at all, pretty generic. But with you, David Gascon
Speaker 1: is an original and strange personality. There you go about
Speaker 1: that I crediting me and Hartman couldn't bring that out
Speaker 1: of you. These other blowhards can't bring that out of you.
Speaker 1: It's me. I have to bring it out of you.
Speaker 1: Kind of a backheaded compliment, but I'll take it. Let
Speaker 1: me first preface this all from that email. What I'm
Speaker 1: about to say is that my objective and my occupation
Speaker 1: while on the Arid Fox Sports Radio is not as
Speaker 1: a host. It is as an update anchor. So we're
Speaker 1: hard time to the top of every hour to give
Speaker 1: trending news for sixty seconds or less. Show some personality,
Speaker 1: Tom LOONYLD. I'm not teking four good buddy, but all
Speaker 1: those dopey lines Loony used to use in those ridiculous
Speaker 1: things that you guys have to do. Show a little life, yeah,
Speaker 1: but hold show a little life, gass guy, this guy
Speaker 1: dog who is a consumer of our businesses. I had
Speaker 1: heard Gascon on other shows doing sports updates bannering with
Speaker 1: Steve Hartman. It was not compelling at all, pretty generic
Speaker 1: about that generic brand gas guy. My job is not
Speaker 1: to be compelling and it's to be informative. There's two
Speaker 1: different things. So now again I feel free to go
Speaker 1: down and kiss the boot because, as he says, here
Speaker 1: with me, with me, Doug says that your original and
Speaker 1: a strange personality. I think we all are strange in
Speaker 1: somewhere or another, right, But I have a little bit
Speaker 1: more carte blanche here to do. Doug was great, Doug.
Speaker 1: I know I'm not gonna read the whole thing. I
Speaker 1: don't know that you want me to read the whole
Speaker 1: thing on the air, but it was tremendous for my ego, Doug,
Speaker 1: because not only did you did you destroyed Gascon, you
Speaker 1: destroyed Eddie uh, Tom Looney uh, but not really. Looty
Speaker 1: was mostly you know, I think it was. It was Garcia,
Speaker 1: Looney and Gascon. And he said there were some other
Speaker 1: ones there that that sounds much better here in my presence.
Speaker 1: What a tribute that is that you make other people,
Speaker 1: your co workers, sound better? How amazing is that? Well,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's that's great. That is awesome. Well, Doug,
Speaker 1: thank you, Doug. I appreciate that because you've annoyed Gascon.
Speaker 1: And I was when I saw and I at your
Speaker 1: email the other day, dog, and I know I didn't
Speaker 1: write back. I got it right back. But I when
Speaker 1: I saw that line about Gascon, I said, I gotta
Speaker 1: use that on the podcast. That is a podcast line.
Speaker 1: That is going to get on the podcast. That is
Speaker 1: one of the great lines of all time. And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna write that down. I'm gonna save that one. That's poetry?
Speaker 1: Is what that is? That Shakespeare? Uh? That is that
Speaker 1: is art. It's great that when people twitter your negative
Speaker 1: comments about me, you're quick on the trigger to send
Speaker 1: it to me. But no, not that email. You stand
Speaker 1: back that you son of a bit right heard guest
Speaker 1: on bannering with Steve Hartman, etcetera. It was not compelling
Speaker 1: at all, pretty generic. Oh my god, is that outstanding?
Speaker 1: Is that more of an indictment though? On Steve Hartman
Speaker 1: some of the other people that I work with, I
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. I love Hartman. Hartman's the guy.
Speaker 1: It's clearly you difference. You know, you just need to
Speaker 1: be pushed a little bit working with different people bring
Speaker 1: out different things to me, you know, and people are
Speaker 1: flatten here at sometimes there are a lot of people
Speaker 1: that read and I wish this. I ran a radio station,
Speaker 1: I would want to me the number one job of
Speaker 1: a broadcasters to be an entertainer. People turn on the
Speaker 1: rad I don't care what you're talking about. I've always
Speaker 1: believe you want to be entertained. Why what's the point
Speaker 1: of hearing somebody drone on and on? I mean, who
Speaker 1: wants to Who the funk wants to listen to somebody
Speaker 1: like that? So I'm pretty maniacal about this stuff. But
Speaker 1: I think that's the secret spice spice that that's required.
Speaker 1: But a lot of people disagree. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: boring people to do this, which sucks, but it's good
Speaker 1: for me because it makes me look better. So I'd
Speaker 1: like to make sure that boring people that are doing
Speaker 1: tedious radio continue on because those of us that don't
Speaker 1: do that, that have aspirations that are bigger than that. Uh,
Speaker 1: we're in a better situation. Yeah, I agree, that is
Speaker 1: why you have evolved so much, very very happy and
Speaker 1: we go tremendous again. Guess guy. I was asked by
Speaker 1: the company to mature in the video segment, to broaden
Speaker 1: my horizons there. And I think we were off to
Speaker 1: a good start with the video. People seem to like
Speaker 1: them and they're getting a lot of views on the
Speaker 1: different platforms, so it's it's good. Yeah, well, I agreed,
Speaker 1: and you're doing a great job. Upward and onward, as
Speaker 1: we say, be sure to catch live editions of The
Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm
Speaker 1: Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Alright,
Speaker 1: so we have we don't have a lot of time here,
Speaker 1: so we have we'll do a few. Don't stick to sports.
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of email mail bag questions, but
Speaker 1: don't stick to sports bizarro stories of the week, what
Speaker 1: is on the menu, but sort of go overseas for
Speaker 1: a few different stories. A Spanish news anchor was accused
Speaker 1: of cheating on his TV star girlfriend. But I know
Speaker 1: you've you've done zoom now a handful of times. And
Speaker 1: most people that are on television now, specially GONNA FF,
Speaker 1: SWAN or or ESPN, are doing their broadcasts from home.
Speaker 1: But there is a danger to do that stuff at home.
Speaker 1: And we saw during the NFL Draft, especially with Ceedee
Speaker 1: lamb Um. He was actually on he was doing a
Speaker 1: hit for his TV show. When he was doing the
Speaker 1: hit from his room, a semi naked woman was walking
Speaker 1: behind him while they were filming the live segment. Now
Speaker 1: this popped up to everybody because this guy's name is
Speaker 1: Alfonso Merlos. He was hosting the State of Alarm channel
Speaker 1: news report for some Spanish television station about the coronavirus lockdown,
Speaker 1: and this woman was walking behind him. Fans immediately pointed
Speaker 1: out that this woman was not his girlfriend, and they
Speaker 1: started to air him out on social media. He was
Speaker 1: quiet for a couple of days, and then he finally
Speaker 1: admitted what he was doing and apologized to said girlfriend.
Speaker 1: Wow about that man. He admitted to it. But I
Speaker 1: guess there's really no way to get around that. I mean,
Speaker 1: most women don't walk around naked unless they're sleeping with you. Generally,
Speaker 1: that's my experience with women. Maybe I'm wrong on that.
Speaker 1: I don't know of women that well, but my experience
Speaker 1: is the only time they really get naked around you
Speaker 1: is when they're planning to sleep with you or have
Speaker 1: slept with you. It's it's one of my favorite parts
Speaker 1: of Major League the original when Charlie Sheen sleeps with
Speaker 1: Roger Dorne's wife and he's like, I don't know who
Speaker 1: she was, I swear to God, but the reason why
Speaker 1: she slept with them was because she caught Roger Dorn
Speaker 1: at that celebration party leaving with some of the chick
Speaker 1: when they got into the elevator. It's pretty awesome. That's
Speaker 1: your favorite part of Major League? My favorite part is, Hey,
Speaker 1: you want to manage the Indians? I don't know. I'll
Speaker 1: get back to you. That was a joke. That was
Speaker 1: hilarious that that was a great was it? Tom Brenson
Speaker 1: when he got that call and he was in Mexico,
Speaker 1: I think, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was like, well
Speaker 1: if that's very funny, very funny, great movie. We go
Speaker 1: from Spain to Chicago. A Chicago brewery is being innovative
Speaker 1: despite the Wuhan coronavirus COVID nineteen Uh it's taken until
Speaker 1: on all of us. But they're doing a little thing different.
Speaker 1: They're mimicking and ice cream ice cream truck company. Can
Speaker 1: you guess what they're doing? Ben? Alright, so they're mimicking
Speaker 1: and ice cream? What are they the Mr Softie song.
Speaker 1: They have that thing going on. What do they got?
Speaker 1: Sort of the brewery right now, they're called Goose Island Beer.
Speaker 1: They're serving customers with deliveries and their orders are being
Speaker 1: processed while they're driving around town. So what they did
Speaker 1: was they purchased a black van and they're driving throughout traces.
Speaker 1: They're driving throughout Chicago right now with the brewery's telephone
Speaker 1: number display on the side of each of the vans
Speaker 1: they have, and anyone could call or an order in
Speaker 1: whatever brew that they want, So they'll deliver beers immediately
Speaker 1: whenever they place their order. And on top of that,
Speaker 1: they're playing obviously music, so it mimics the ice cream
Speaker 1: truck kind of procession when they go up and down
Speaker 1: these streets too. It's pretty neat. Oh yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1: All listen. I love the miss when every kid. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a adults. That's like the ice cream truck
Speaker 1: for adults, right, get the boot, that's the way to
Speaker 1: do it. That's a good job. By then you gotta
Speaker 1: be creative, right, you gotta be creative. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm blossoming right now and you got to adapt. It's
Speaker 1: Darwinners and you have to adapt or die as a business.
Speaker 1: Do you have to you know, live with the means.
Speaker 1: And all these businesses are selling these masks now because
Speaker 1: they know that there's a market for them, right so
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, you know, the Dodgers can slap the
Speaker 1: Dodger logo on and you can sell a bunch of
Speaker 1: masks and people will buy them. Or the Red Sox
Speaker 1: or the Twins or whatever, and people will buy the
Speaker 1: stuff you do. It takes off, not about about it.
Speaker 1: Girl Scouts of Alaska in a little bit of trouble
Speaker 1: for for one reason, and you can obviously guess it's
Speaker 1: the coronavirus. Ben. They're working on a federal relief a
Speaker 1: loan after getting stuck with a hundred and forty four
Speaker 1: thousand unsold boxes of Girl Scout cookies. Uh States trying
Speaker 1: to shut down those sales right now. I'll buy them,
Speaker 1: Send me some Girl Scout cookie. I mean, how do
Speaker 1: you those things? The expert the expiration date. I used
Speaker 1: to have some of my office. My wife grabbed them,
Speaker 1: move them to the other room. But but aren't they
Speaker 1: filled with chemicals and stuff? I mean, and the only
Speaker 1: things last for like you know, six seven eight months
Speaker 1: or something like that. The shelf life, right, it seems
Speaker 1: like it. Do you can you guess which two were
Speaker 1: sold the most? Which two brands of cookies in Alaska? No,
Speaker 1: the Girl Scout cookies? Yeah, the girls. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: thin Man's and uh, I like the lemon cookies. That's
Speaker 1: what I go. But I what, what's the ones with
Speaker 1: the chocolate in the those are real popular. What I
Speaker 1: forget what they're called. I've never had it is that
Speaker 1: the tag along those are sold just as much as
Speaker 1: the thin nets. I'm a thin man guy. I don't
Speaker 1: mind the tag alongs. I love the lemonades. I think
Speaker 1: they're called very good, great job. And now are the
Speaker 1: Girl Scouts gonna be forced to stop that? Because the
Speaker 1: n c A this week they're they've now opened up
Speaker 1: third party money. Uh, and so that means are the
Speaker 1: Girl Scouts the last endorsed kind of like slave used
Speaker 1: the little Girls sell our cookies organization? Man, I didn't
Speaker 1: think about, but yeah, that's great. Great industry was so
Speaker 1: five dollars a box and we'll have a bunch of
Speaker 1: twelve year old and thirteen year or whatever how they
Speaker 1: are on how you're on the Girl Scouts, but around
Speaker 1: that age, sell cookie. Can you on? Um? The Royal
Speaker 1: Navy's making some headlines. We go overseas again for this one,
Speaker 1: as a commander of a nuclear powered submarine got sacked
Speaker 1: after allowing his crew to hold a barbecue party. Uh.
Speaker 1: Commander Jonathan Lewis, the the captain of Her Majesty's ship,
Speaker 1: the Tretch, not allowed the party to lock down at
Speaker 1: the Devonport dockyard and began to throw a barbecue there
Speaker 1: for all of his entire crew. Now, naturally, Ben, as
Speaker 1: you know, through the power of social media, people were
Speaker 1: taking videos and they saw a bunch of Uh, they
Speaker 1: saw a bunch of sailors obviously parting it up, drinking,
Speaker 1: laugh and having a good time. Uh. He has been
Speaker 1: immediately relieved of his can And can't you let your
Speaker 1: hair down a little bit? Come on? What kind of
Speaker 1: world are we living in here? Guess? I mean, please, jeez,
Speaker 1: imagine what must have gone on like before modern times.
Speaker 1: Like you hear stories about like the Civil War and
Speaker 1: like old battles. What was going on? I don't know,
Speaker 1: It's just you know, the world we live in. I
Speaker 1: just just got something shoved up there, took a sign.
Speaker 1: Just how about this. Belgium's needing some help right now.
Speaker 1: Belgium's potato industry needs a little bit of a help
Speaker 1: from the government, from from the Big shoe. A fascinating
Speaker 1: total band. On average, nine of potatoes are exported. But
Speaker 1: they're not being export anymore, obviously because of the coronavirus.
Speaker 1: So now wait, wait, nine of the potatoes in Belgium
Speaker 1: are shipped out? Yes, yes, wow are they? Just are they?
Speaker 1: Is this an American thing? I don't even know. I
Speaker 1: think my potatoes I think come from California, from California
Speaker 1: in the north East. I can imagine. I can imagine.
Speaker 1: This is an euth thing. I think this goes all
Speaker 1: over potatoes. It must be all over the UK, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because we get our idolhood potatoes so or exported. Not
Speaker 1: the case now. So there's piles of potatoes that are
Speaker 1: now stuck on these farms and they have no facilities
Speaker 1: to keep them fresh anymore. So that's it. It's over.
Speaker 1: So they're asking people to eat more potatoes, more fresh fries. Baby, Yes,
Speaker 1: what's wrong with that? That's a wonderful thing. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is not a bad thing. No, you say potato, I
Speaker 1: say potato so a wonderful thing. Yeah, to be driven
Speaker 1: potatoes very popular. Yeah, so that's what we got for
Speaker 1: belting fries. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show week days at two am Eastern eleven
Speaker 1: pm Pacific. All Right, we'll get to the mail bag,
Speaker 1: is what we'll get to. I mean, just type this
Speaker 1: up real quick. Alright. I wrote down some emails, actual questions,
Speaker 1: matual listeners. But these were submitted usually on Wednesday, we
Speaker 1: host a thing on on Facebook saying hey, we're gonna
Speaker 1: do the podcast this weekend. Can you send some questions in?
Speaker 1: And then people usually do. It's an amazing thing. You
Speaker 1: asking people will respond at build it and asking build it,
Speaker 1: and they will come. I think is that the line?
Speaker 1: All right, this is from Ethan and Acary. Now Ethan
Speaker 1: has come out of nowhere. He has dropped in and
Speaker 1: become a huge fan of the show in the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. He is really talking about me blossoming.
Speaker 1: But he is flourishing in the Mallard militia. But he's
Speaker 1: new to the show. He's a young guy, and he says, hey, Ben,
Speaker 1: can you please recap the William Shatner thing for some
Speaker 1: of your newer listeners, like myself Ethan enacting well even
Speaker 1: I'll give you the condensed version of that um. But
Speaker 1: several years ago, I have a friend of mine named
Speaker 1: Fred Dryer who used to play in the NFL and
Speaker 1: and he's a listening to the show, which is kind
Speaker 1: of cool. I found out he was listening to the show,
Speaker 1: and then we we became penpals and whatnot. And Fred
Speaker 1: used to be on Twitter and I have I have
Speaker 1: Fred on the show like once a year. I always
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to get him in more than once, but
Speaker 1: I Fred was a star. When I was a kid,
Speaker 1: there was a show called Hunter and I loved the
Speaker 1: show and Fred Dryer was the star of the show.
Speaker 1: And so it's cool, like I feel like, Wow, I'm
Speaker 1: like living some kind of dreams. This is a guy
Speaker 1: I grew up watching on TV. And now we're we're
Speaker 1: you know, we text and you know it's kind of neat,
Speaker 1: and so it's anyway, the long story short, I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to give you the condensed thumbnail recap. Evan, so I
Speaker 1: was corresponding with Fred Dryer. Fred Dryer is friends with
Speaker 1: William Shatner, and so Fred would send me messages on Twitter.
Speaker 1: He's not on Twitter anymore, but Fred would send me
Speaker 1: messages on Twitter and he would tag me and William
Speaker 1: Shanner and I didn't realize it until one day I
Speaker 1: got a response in my mentions from William Shatner. I'm like,
Speaker 1: holy fuck. You know, Captain Kirk is uh and you
Speaker 1: know he is a fan. You know he's responding and
Speaker 1: he's sending messages to me, is tagging me in his responses.
Speaker 1: So then we made a bit out of it on
Speaker 1: the show, and we were going back and forth and
Speaker 1: it turned ugly because Shatner was, let's just say not
Speaker 1: someone that had a great sense of humor about the
Speaker 1: thing and didn't play along with the bit and got offended.
Speaker 1: And so we would go back and forth. And the
Speaker 1: question that sent him off ethan I asked him this
Speaker 1: was when the Lightning were playing the Blackhawks in the
Speaker 1: Stanley Cup Final. I remember because Shatner's Canadian says like, hey,
Speaker 1: what do you think you're gonna win the Cup? And
Speaker 1: he got all upset and said, you know, check your
Speaker 1: your blocked, checkmate or something like that, and he blocked.
Speaker 1: So then I I talked to Eddie, my advisor, and
Speaker 1: we released the hounds and we sicked the Mallard Militia
Speaker 1: on William Shatner. So we had three years ethan three
Speaker 1: different battles. It was spats with shots Mallard Militia versus
Speaker 1: the trek Ease, and we won. We stand victorious. Now
Speaker 1: there's a lot of foot soldiers they got blocked Shatner.
Speaker 1: That my one of my favorite things. When I write
Speaker 1: my books, someday I'll do a chapter on William Shatner,
Speaker 1: this humongous figure in American entertainment and pop culture who
Speaker 1: one night was so upset with me and my listeners
Speaker 1: that he started trying to block everyone that was mentioning
Speaker 1: my name that would send him a message, right, So
Speaker 1: he did, but he was so flustered, so flummocks Shatner,
Speaker 1: that he started accidentally, instead of clicking the block button,
Speaker 1: he clicked the follow button. So I'm getting screenshots from
Speaker 1: security guards, guys making donuts, guys cleaning toilets that are
Speaker 1: now being followed by William Shatner because he doesn't know
Speaker 1: how to fucking use Twitter, And uh, it was hilarious.
Speaker 1: It was. It was so and he tried to get
Speaker 1: me fired. He that was the funny. He sent a
Speaker 1: message to e sp In to get me fired because
Speaker 1: he heard that Disney had bought Fox or whatever. So
Speaker 1: and and he's, uh, it was hilarious. I mean, there
Speaker 1: were so many highlights that we don't have time to
Speaker 1: get into. But that's that's the small recap. Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation.
Speaker 1: Catch all of our shows at Fox Sports Radio dot
Speaker 1: com and within the I Heart Radio app search f
Speaker 1: s R to listen live. Ethan Chuck writes, and he says,
Speaker 1: is it true that Tammy and Montana is your program director? Guess?
Speaker 1: Is that true? No? If that was the case, I
Speaker 1: think I have a different time slot. Wow, what what
Speaker 1: time slot would you have? I'm gonna share with the
Speaker 1: class and get into that at longer and go deeper
Speaker 1: in that. No, but we could do that if I was,
Speaker 1: you know, if she was the program director. Is that right?
Speaker 1: Don't you think? I don't? I don't know. Have you
Speaker 1: ever been to Montana? No? Not yet? You have not No,
Speaker 1: not yet? Thinking about on your to do list things
Speaker 1: to do. I've been a twenty six states so far.
Speaker 1: Pat yourself on the back. There Montana is not one
Speaker 1: of them. No, not yet sure, but that positive okay. Uh.
Speaker 1: Fats from Philadelphia writes in and says, since we're both
Speaker 1: about the same age, Ben growing up, this is by
Speaker 1: the way, Fats is the guy that lit himself on fire.
Speaker 1: This guy's this guy is the walking, talking, living embodiment
Speaker 1: of Philadelphia sports fan. I'm sure Fats was one of
Speaker 1: those guys climbing the light post after the Eagles won
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and they put Chrisco and all that,
Speaker 1: and he's still climbed up anyway, Fats says, growing up,
Speaker 1: what was the metal lunchbox that you had for school?
Speaker 1: Mine was Charlie Brown and the peanuts. Well, Fats, that's
Speaker 1: a great question. You know, this is a sign for
Speaker 1: people around my age. The metal lunchbox was was huge.
Speaker 1: That was man, man, that was big. My mom, I
Speaker 1: either had the tuna fish sandwich or I had the
Speaker 1: peanut butter and jelly. I was more of a peanut
Speaker 1: butter and jelly guy, because by the time lunch came
Speaker 1: around that that let me tell you that tunefih sandwich
Speaker 1: did not smell so good by the time lunch came around.
Speaker 1: But but anyway, I had uh man, what was remember
Speaker 1: this before Guest Guns time the Saturday morning cartoons. They
Speaker 1: had all the superheroes, uh and I forget um it
Speaker 1: was like it was the Marvel Superheroes. It was like
Speaker 1: Captain America, the Hulk was in there, all of them were.
Speaker 1: I had that lunch box and then I destroyed that one.
Speaker 1: I think I had a Scooby Doo one for a while. Um,
Speaker 1: I went through multiple. I had a G I. Joe
Speaker 1: lunch box. I remember that one. Yeah, I was really bad.
Speaker 1: I would just throw the lunch box. I didn't care.
Speaker 1: When I was in elementary school, I would just chuck
Speaker 1: the lunch box and would get all the destroyed. And
Speaker 1: then every year my mom was like, all right, we'll
Speaker 1: get your new lunch box. You destroyed the last one.
Speaker 1: So I used to have one too, though mine was
Speaker 1: either Transformers or G I. Joe. Those are like the
Speaker 1: two you Yeah, yeah, I like the Superheroes one because
Speaker 1: it was really colorful with all the characters from Marvel
Speaker 1: and and all that. That was. That was neat and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, vaguely remember you can flashback and and see
Speaker 1: them all. Let's see what is next. You're Tommy from
Speaker 1: Bedford says, what's the very first thing you're gonna do
Speaker 1: when the orders in place are lifted? Um, Tommy, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get a haircut. That's gonna be the first thing
Speaker 1: I do. I need a haircut. Um, So that's number one.
Speaker 1: And then number two would be to go to my
Speaker 1: some of my favorite restaurants and actually eat at the restaurant.
Speaker 1: What about you guys, Yeah, I think haircut number one.
Speaker 1: Jim two and Jim that's right, the gym, sure, and
Speaker 1: then uh three would probably go in like too. A
Speaker 1: couple of finn establishments. Not work though, because I come
Speaker 1: and drive into work, you know, when I'm called upon.
Speaker 1: That's uh those things. But I also coming to work
Speaker 1: when i'm called upon. I also coming to work when
Speaker 1: I'm called rolled out of bed, It's fine, get out
Speaker 1: of bed. I had to put clothes on. I had
Speaker 1: to walk through the one door, and then I walked
Speaker 1: down the hallway, and then I had to turn left
Speaker 1: through another door, and then I had to turn the
Speaker 1: lights on in the studio. I had to sit down.
Speaker 1: I had turned the equipment on. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: steps to this. It's very complicated. Gascon you wouldn't understand.
Speaker 1: I would like to again pat myself on the back
Speaker 1: though that I did fix the technical week difficulties. Now
Speaker 1: we've had two weeks without any kind of situation where
Speaker 1: we went off the air, so they're proud of that.
Speaker 1: I worked with the I Heart engineering team and we
Speaker 1: were able to fix it. It's fine. You power yourself
Speaker 1: down for a listener driven power hour and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden the technical problems aren't there anymore. It's fun. Wow,
Speaker 1: it's a way to get around that. All right. If
Speaker 1: you had to pick one this is from Mark, If
Speaker 1: you had to pick one of the following three things
Speaker 1: to be very gifted at, which would it be? Uh?
Speaker 1: And also the two options not picked will be extremely ungifted.
Speaker 1: So you can either be gifted physically intellectually or gifted
Speaker 1: with the ladies or men for guest gun marches. All right, Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know where that came from. Uh So, all right,
Speaker 1: let's break this down. So physically you can get through
Speaker 1: life if you're physically gifted. There are plenty of athletes
Speaker 1: I've interviewed that are just dumb dumbs, right judge dingle Berries,
Speaker 1: But they're very good at what they do physically. They
Speaker 1: have the genetical they've won the genetic lottery and the
Speaker 1: d n A lottery or whatever, so so they can
Speaker 1: make a lot of money doing that. But you know,
Speaker 1: there's you know, I don't know. Intellectually is a little
Speaker 1: more different because you know, you kind of physically meek
Speaker 1: and weak and all that, and just because you're intellectually
Speaker 1: intelligent does not mean you can monetize that. So you
Speaker 1: could be the smartest guy in the room, but nobody
Speaker 1: wants to hang out with you. And then gifted with
Speaker 1: the ladies. Yeah, you know, I I've heard some stories
Speaker 1: about athletes that could sleep with any woman they ever
Speaker 1: wanted to, and at some point, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: you get tired of it. You know, if you do
Speaker 1: something too much, you're like, you know, I'm a you
Speaker 1: think there's no way you could possibly get tired of that.
Speaker 1: But I've heard stories. There was one guy that played
Speaker 1: back in the nineties that I was buddies with it,
Speaker 1: had that life and he just he's just tired of
Speaker 1: just thinking. He's like, he was getting any lady he wanted,
Speaker 1: but he was tired of it. So all right, I
Speaker 1: guess the answer would be all these three you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bet on myself. I would go intelligence is
Speaker 1: what I would go with, because intelligence there's always a
Speaker 1: market for smart people. And I would bet on myself
Speaker 1: that I would be able to invent something and come
Speaker 1: up with something that would would work out. So that's
Speaker 1: that would be the one that I would choose. And
Speaker 1: I'd go full like Elon Musk, you know, and I'd
Speaker 1: invent a bunch of weird shit. What about you guess yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd get the same way, especially because your intelligence you
Speaker 1: can carry well into your sixties, seventies, eighties and beyond that.
Speaker 1: But if you're physically gifted mother nature, your father time,
Speaker 1: the wear and tear in your body does eventually take
Speaker 1: its tall. And who cares about being socially inapt with women?
Speaker 1: I mean, if if you're loaded and you're smart, they're
Speaker 1: gonna come to you anyway. That's the thing. That's the
Speaker 1: great thing about women. The great equalizer for men is
Speaker 1: if you're very successful in business or athletically, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if you look like a horrible beast. Look at
Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos. I know Jeff Bezos is uh he's living it, man,
Speaker 1: He's living it. And and his wife used to you know,
Speaker 1: back in the day. He used to enjoy professional athletes,
Speaker 1: you know, and May was with Tony Gonzalez and the chiefs.
Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos wife who we I knew or did you
Speaker 1: know her when she were now now, Laurence Sanchez used
Speaker 1: to work in l She was the Lakers locker room reporter.
Speaker 1: And all the players would google and ogle Lawrence Sanchez
Speaker 1: when she remember because I'd see at the back of
Speaker 1: the day of the forum and uh, actually, my man
Speaker 1: a staple center early days, a staple center. But it
Speaker 1: was it was pretty wild, pretty pretty wild there. So
Speaker 1: all right, what is next year? Matt in Mansfield at Texas,
Speaker 1: says Ben. Hot tub or sauna, not including the hot
Speaker 1: tub time machine. Uh yeah, you know, I'm more of
Speaker 1: a hot tub guy than a sauna guy. But I
Speaker 1: don't like being in a hot tub with a bunch
Speaker 1: of weird people. Like if if i'm if it's a
Speaker 1: community hot tub, I'll go for the sauna. But if
Speaker 1: it's like a backyard hot tub, I'll go hot tub
Speaker 1: im sauna because I don't stand there for a long
Speaker 1: period of time, like five ten minutes max. And then
Speaker 1: I'm out. I like the steam room. I like to
Speaker 1: after I work out, I like to go on the
Speaker 1: steam right. I didn't sweat as much in the sauna,
Speaker 1: but the steam room I would just be dripping sweat down.
Speaker 1: Are those gonna be allowed back once they open up
Speaker 1: the gyms again? Are we still not gonna be allowed
Speaker 1: to go in the hot tub, the sauna and all
Speaker 1: that stuff? Is that's still gonna be banned? I don't know.
Speaker 1: You're if you're gonna state if you're gonna allow a
Speaker 1: gym to be open, then you gotta let everything be open, right,
Speaker 1: I don't know, do you have to? What are the
Speaker 1: rules here? Are they gonna have the locker rooms open
Speaker 1: because people and not be able to social distance? Are
Speaker 1: they going to let let like four people in the
Speaker 1: locker room at a time? And that's a good question.
Speaker 1: I don't know. William writes, and what what is the
Speaker 1: meaning of life? Guescan you want to handle this one?
Speaker 1: Don't stick the spot? Don't now? Well? I think the
Speaker 1: meaning of life is to to work hard, to have
Speaker 1: family and friends, and to be a good person and
Speaker 1: and try to give back a little bit to society
Speaker 1: in one way or another. And that could be just
Speaker 1: driving a truck and making sure people have shipped on
Speaker 1: the shelves and stores and or whatever you might be doing,
Speaker 1: but being a productive member of society, not killing anybody,
Speaker 1: not hurting people. And then you check out, and then
Speaker 1: somebody else doesn't. You know, It's like somebody else gets
Speaker 1: up on the stage and gets to do their turn,
Speaker 1: and then society gets better as it goes through. Max
Speaker 1: out on life. That's all it is, exactly. You only
Speaker 1: get a short amount of it, so you enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Uh Nayla writes in and it says what evidence exists
Speaker 1: that says humans went to the moon? Uh Nayla? Are
Speaker 1: you from the flat Earth or the hollow Earth society? Naila? Uh? No,
Speaker 1: I just I believe that human beings went to the Moon.
Speaker 1: I think the evidence is when you look at the
Speaker 1: satellites that are in space. You can see some of them,
Speaker 1: you know Twilight right, you can see the satellites going around,
Speaker 1: and I believe those to be mad made. But do
Speaker 1: I have any actual proof I've I actually been to
Speaker 1: the moon. No, I've not have actually seen this in person. No,
Speaker 1: I have not, So you're taking other people's word for it.
Speaker 1: But I generally, even though I'm a skeptic. I do
Speaker 1: believe we've gone to the Moon. I've said many years.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of the stuff we have, like
Speaker 1: is is alien technology. For example, the government and the
Speaker 1: Navy just released the they officially announced that there were
Speaker 1: the UFOs that they found a few years ago. The
Speaker 1: video is out there right now. I think UFOs have
Speaker 1: been around. To think that we're the only, you know,
Speaker 1: life form. I don't know whether the grays or some
Speaker 1: of the other supposed aliens that people have had little
Speaker 1: drawings of a for the years, but I'm sure there's
Speaker 1: plenty of other species, tons of them, endless amounts, mind
Speaker 1: blowing amounts that are out in in the cosmos, around
Speaker 1: the different galaxies and all. That's just amazing. I love.
Speaker 1: One of the things I love. I don't do very often,
Speaker 1: but you go out, you know, I'm I'm in a
Speaker 1: place where the city lights poison but the sky. But
Speaker 1: you go out in a place where you're away from
Speaker 1: the city and you look up and see all those lights. Man,
Speaker 1: that is just that is just you feel like a
Speaker 1: little piece of sand on a gigantic beach or in
Speaker 1: the middle of the Sahara desert. When you do that
Speaker 1: and you know you're not alone. Yeah, exactly, and then
Speaker 1: as okay, you know it's good. You know so far?
Speaker 1: Why not? Terry writes and says, what up Tiller nation?
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means? What was your favorite
Speaker 1: color of your air Assault sized twenties? He says, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say my favorite color. I ain't pretty much a
Speaker 1: black shoes most of the time. It's usually how that goes.
Speaker 1: I did have the back in the day, I had
Speaker 1: the purple and before Nike they had the purple and
Speaker 1: gold converse. My mom got me some of those and
Speaker 1: the green they that was it was magic was purple
Speaker 1: and gold, and then bird was the green. Those are
Speaker 1: some good looking shoes back in the day. Yeah, the converses,
Speaker 1: let's see, Dan writes in says what is more what
Speaker 1: what has the more disturbing fixation? Or who has the
Speaker 1: more disturbing fixation? Excuse me, angry Bill with Bella or
Speaker 1: guesscon with your wife about that? Well, clearly, guests gone,
Speaker 1: it's more much more disturbing than angry Bill. You're great, Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely fascinating. Yes, I have a big fan of dance. Question. Yes,
Speaker 1: I don't know where the funk they came from. But
Speaker 1: all right, just out of left field. I'm sure that'll
Speaker 1: be addressed during your show next week on a Sunday
Speaker 1: night into a Monday morning. All right. A new rights
Speaker 1: in from Kentucky says, do you feel you have reach
Speaker 1: that point of accomplishment at your age? Uh? Well, I
Speaker 1: know I have not stopped to smell the roses, but
Speaker 1: I feel pretty comfortable with where I am right now.
Speaker 1: Although I would obviously like to do more. I've always
Speaker 1: had multiple gigs. I only have one gig right now.
Speaker 1: I don't like to put all my eggs in one basket,
Speaker 1: so I'd like to do something else on the side
Speaker 1: to enhance my situation. So but generally, i'm i'm I'm
Speaker 1: pleased with where I am right now in my life.
Speaker 1: Jesse from Promota writes in he says, I'm back in
Speaker 1: the Jordan's voice. Let's get into it. Shout out, Marcel.
Speaker 1: Have you got so into a game? Jesse says that
Speaker 1: you could could have destroyed your television or radio if
Speaker 1: your team lost, or run down the street yelling if
Speaker 1: they want if you have which game was it? Well?
Speaker 1: This is easy, Jesse. It's a famous story, but It
Speaker 1: goes back to the Music City Miracle, and I had
Speaker 1: a rather large breath of large wager on the the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. It was. That was the Doug Flutie, Brad
Speaker 1: Johnson Buffalo Bills. John now Rob Johnson, Yeah, Rob Johnson.
Speaker 1: So the playoff game, Wade Phillips was coaching Buffalo, and uh,
Speaker 1: the game came down to the to the very end.
Speaker 1: I had the Buffalo on the money line and uh,
Speaker 1: Frank White check through an illegal forward pass to Kevin Dyson. Uh.
Speaker 1: And until my last breath in this mortal coil, I
Speaker 1: will believe. And that goes back twenty years. That's over
Speaker 1: twenty years now. I was in two thousand and I
Speaker 1: am still as upset and bitter and broken at that
Speaker 1: particular fucking game. Um. Then anything he said, well, what
Speaker 1: about the World Series? What about the Dodgers in Game
Speaker 1: seven and the youth darrish in the cheating A holes
Speaker 1: and all that. Okay, The problem is I was at
Speaker 1: that game, and so I was at the Red Sox
Speaker 1: the World Series and all that. So it's a different
Speaker 1: reaction than when you're watching it on TV. I listen
Speaker 1: to it on the radio, So I do remember walking
Speaker 1: out of Dodger Stadium after they lost the Astros and
Speaker 1: guys ripping trash cans down and throwing them around and
Speaker 1: all that. I do recall that. So that's awful. How
Speaker 1: how much money did you wager on that game? I
Speaker 1: don't want to get into a guest. Alright, it was
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a source suping, all right. Carlos and
Speaker 1: Houston says this is for a gag on. Since it's
Speaker 1: Ben's birthday week, can you sing Happy birthday to him
Speaker 1: in Greek or whatever language you said you had to
Speaker 1: learn from Petros's dad, So can you go ahead and
Speaker 1: do that for Carlos and Houghston. No, I will not
Speaker 1: do that for Carlos and Houston. Absolutely don't call me.
Speaker 1: You don't text me on the birthday. And you're not
Speaker 1: saying that's a little bit different. He did not talk
Speaker 1: to tex So weak man. Anyone could do that. Uh.
Speaker 1: Carlos also says, if you had to invite one guy
Speaker 1: to your birthday, who would it be that leech in Miami,
Speaker 1: Mark the full name guy or Angry Bill? Well, if
Speaker 1: Mark the full name guys on his meds, I'd take
Speaker 1: Mark the full name Guy Uh, the guy in Miami
Speaker 1: would stink and he'd ask me for money the whole time.
Speaker 1: An angry Bill would try to sleep with Bellas. So
Speaker 1: I don't think I need that. Uh. Pete in Pittsburgh says,
Speaker 1: please bring Pete and Pittsburgh back. Who cares what your
Speaker 1: producer thinks, America still loves him. Yeah, you're welcome back, Pete.
Speaker 1: I never banned you from the show. We love you. Pete.
Speaker 1: You're one of the great callers in the history of
Speaker 1: the show and talk radio in general. John last One.
Speaker 1: John says, if you had to pick one, would you
Speaker 1: rather live without music or sports? It's obvious? Yeah, bye
Speaker 1: bye music. Come on, please, who needs music? It's an
Speaker 1: obvious one. You all right, listen, have a great rest
Speaker 1: of your weekend, whatever the left of it. I'll be
Speaker 1: back in the Magic Radio Box Sunday into Monday. It's
Speaker 1: eleven pm in the West Sunday night, but two am
Speaker 1: in the East on a Monday, as we'll get back
Speaker 1: into it our first full week of shows here, first
Speaker 1: week of shows in the month of May. As we
Speaker 1: look forward to that, and you can follow us on
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Speaker 1: great day. We'll talk to you next time. Thanks for downloaded.