WEBVTT - Postal Service 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:05.400 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.080 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.400 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.400 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:19.560 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The clearing House of 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:23.360 Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:27.400 with Ben Mallarck starts right now. That it does, and 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:32.639 we are in the air everywhere the vast power of 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:36.360 the I Heart podcast Network the global region. As you know, 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:40.839 you found the podcast available wherever you get your podcasts. 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:44.400 Eight days a week. We're doing this thing. 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So if you really 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:03.880 want to get the message out and have us keep 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.960 doing these extra podcasts each weekend, it is up to you. 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:09.400 It is up to you to keep growing the audience. 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:12.319 The numbers continue to go up, up, up, up and away, 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.839 and so keep that going there and we will continue 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:20.280 to turn out from the Salt minds of podcasting multiple 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:27.520 multiple podcast every weekend, and joined again by David gascon 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:36.480 known in the none of the hallways as Dad. It's uh, 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:38.399 it's nice to know what I'm known by in the 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:42.120 hallway since you're not around anymore. That's kind of you. 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:43.920 You've gotten in a few times to pick up my mail. 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.039 You know, it's I don't know. I don't know about 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:48.720 all that. I'm I'm here a lot more than you are, 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:52.480 which is unfortunate. But you know, why is that unfortunate? Why? 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.440 I don't? I think that's fine. I'm fine with that. 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:56.360 I don't know. I mean, you're gonna think about other 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.280 people more than yourself. I mean, people like to talk 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.120 to you and communicate with you, and you know, it'd 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.200 be nice if you hung around every so often. But 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.600 it's fine, It's fine. Wow, you are such a diva. 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:10.360 I mean, you are out of control here. You know 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:12.720 that reminds me of being out of control. We've got 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:16.440 a note from sports ship Mark he said, funny and original, 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:20.120 Ben Gasconnor geniuses. That was a great review on on 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:23.079 on iTunes. That was great. H How about this one 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:27.640 from Steve giscon sucks fire his but I'm not hired, 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:31.400 so I can't be fired. Okay, I like to you 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.560 cherry pick the positive good to hear hack saw on 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.960 the on with the Nocturnal Colonel. That was a good one. Oh, 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.160 you're looking at the reviews? Is this what you're doing here? 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.240 I had to pull some of up because when we 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.440 acknowledge like we need to have the reviews does help 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:49.200 people started actually reviewing and adding some comments. That's always 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:53.400 pretty nice to get this. No, like we have because 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:55.160 you because you're gonna you know there's gonna be some 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:58.520 negative ones here. Well, there's there's definitely five stars, so 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:00.880 there's nothing negative about this. We have two hundred and 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:03.000 six ratings and a D ninety eight of them or 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:08.000 five stars, so nothing negative about that. So for some reason, 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.720 you're lucky, You're you're saved because I'm clicking on it 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.200 and it's not well here, let me help. But Trevor 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.600 Belmont said, Ben and Dave keep us entertained all the 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.080 time in the fifth hour, from random topics to what's 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:22.840 next with sports topics. These guys are just great and hilarious. 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.480 Thank you, gentlemen. How come I can't click on this 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:27.640 though I'm trying oh there it is all right, No, no, 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:31.040 I found it, you know I found it. Hold on 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:35.760 a second. Oh boy, let's see here, let me page. 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:37.680 And when most of them are very positively, what's the 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.400 what are the worst reviews? Do we have the Fifth 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.840 Hour slowly becoming a Fox News podcast? That's from Big Dog. 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:51.600 There you go. That's one star that triggered guy over there. Yeah, hey, listen, 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:54.760 I enjoyed the fifth keep watching, keep watching CNN over there, 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.240 big guy, you're okay, go ahead and knock yourself on. 0:03:57.600 --> 0:03:59.480 How about this one? I enjoyed the Fifth Hour show 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.720 much much more, especially with the banter with the egomaniac 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:07.880 David Gascon. It's pretty nice. It's kind right, No, no, 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:13.920 not not at all. Uh, very entertaining, but not for 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:17.839 young years. Pops rights in Big Ben is always fun, 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.880 and Gascon is uh yeah, I forget what the last 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.200 I can't read that last part. That last it's a 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:28.000 great sidekick. No, no, I don't think that anyway. All right, 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:30.640 you I like that you're just cherry picking the ones 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:34.120 that are being nice to them. How about Keith Talk? 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.480 Keith Talk said, only because I can't give Ben a 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:38.960 sixth star, So that's that's a p one. That's a 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:42.440 Mallem Militia man right there. That's a good foot soldier 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.279 and the Mallem Militia. What about Chiggens came for the 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.640 Mallards stayed for the gascon. How about that? That's good? Yeah, 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:56.760 that's really good. Your dad put that on there. Be 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.320 sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.640 weekday SA two a m Eastern eleven pm Pacific on 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:06.000 Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Anyway, 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:07.440 let's get to it. Here we go. We have the 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.919 mail bag. All this entire podcast is just the mail 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.839 bag guest on That is nothing but us answering the 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.320 questions of fans of the show as we give back. 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:22.200 It's our public service to the Mallar Militia, the people 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.680 that provide us with the ability to do this nonsense 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:29.039 like yourself listening right now, and so we'll just run 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:30.760 through this and again, if you want to send us 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:32.960 a message, there's plenty of ways to contact the show, 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:35.520 The Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. If you 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:39.479 don't have social media, Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, Twitter, 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:44.679 Ben Mallard, Instagram, Ben Mallar on Fox Facebook, Ben Mallers Show, 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:49.120 and of course on cameo as well for me and 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:54.000 you can reach out to gascon in in addition, so 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.760 we've we've got that. But first email from Fats in 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:01.960 Philadelphia the man slid himself on fire twice in the 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.560 last couple of months. While shouting my name, he says, Ben, 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.160 have you ever been to Cooper's Town? If so, how 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.279 many days would you recommend? By the way, I'm watching 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.680 the Ken Burns documentary Baseball again on PBS. Yeah, that 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.599 was a great documentary series. The early part of that, 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.240 in particular there when they were the old footage they 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:22.760 found that was awesome. I've not been to Cooperstown, Fats. 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:26.240 I had the opportunity once. I was driving from Buffalo 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:30.080 down to the New York City area and I was like, 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.800 I'll stop off on Cooperstown. You know, driving through the 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:34.760 middle of New York. There's not much going on there, 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:38.040 and it was so far off the highway that I 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.920 was on. It just was not worth it time wise. 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.760 So I did not end up going to Cooperstown, but 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:45.839 I've had friends that have gone there, and I believe 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.920 you've got to spend at least two or three days 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.159 to really get the gist of it. But but you know, 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:53.760 if you want to go quick, you can just run 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:55.440 really fast fats and then get through all of it. 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:57.520 Have you been to Cooperstown, guest gun No, I haven't 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.880 been to any of the Hall of Fame facility. I've 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.720 been to the worst Hall of Fame museum, the only 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:05.400 one I've been to. I have been to the Pro 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:06.960 Football Hall of Fame, have been there, have been to 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.160 the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, having to 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:10.640 the baseball Hall of Fame. I've been to the n 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:14.760 c a A Hall of Champions in Indianapolis, which is terrible. 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.440 And the reason is terrible is because they're they're trying 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.160 to be politically correct and there for every male athlete, 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:23.280 they had to have a female athlete, and uh, unfortunately 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.040 most people that go there don't really want to see 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.960 the softball player. You know what I'm saying? Is that 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:30.200 sexist to me? Or is that accurate of me? I mean, 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:32.760 which what is it? I think it's kind of accurate. 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:34.680 Have you been to the NHL Hall of Fame? I 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:38.960 have not. That's in Toronto. I have not been, all Right, 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.840 Richard from West Covina and so cal writes, and he says, 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:44.520 when all sports were shutting down due to the pandemic, 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:49.000 what were you think? Were you worried? Did you start 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:53.720 to rethink how the show would be presented? Richard asked 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:57.440 there and he says he's actually enjoyed the last few 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.640 months here have been some of the best shows that 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:04.120 he's heard, so he's a fan of that. Well, thank you. 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:08.320 Uh well, I remember that night because I had prepared 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.480 some of the my my monologues, my my bullet points 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.960 with the monologues. I had that ready to go, and 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.800 then I was flipping around watching NBA games like I 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:20.240 usually did back in the old days. And then like 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.760 all of a sudden, I see this thing in Oklahoma City. 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:27.280 The game was delayed between the jazz and the thunder, 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:31.520 and then like like all this crazy ship started happening. 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:35.160 It was a total ship storm, one after another, and 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:38.800 it felt like I was an extra in a some 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:43.120 kind of apocalyptic movie. It's like it was happening in 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:44.960 real time. There was a story came out Tom Hanks, 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:48.160 a test depositive for the coronavirus and his wife had 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:51.679 in Australia, and then uh, the games on the West 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.520 coast were being postponed, and then and then all of 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.520 a sudden announcement that Rudy Gobert had tested positive of 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.400 the Youthah jazz and they were telling people leave the 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.320 arena and all this stuff was happening. So I was 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:04.640 I was like, at that time, you didn't really know 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:06.440 what the hell was real, what was not. You didn't 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:08.320 know the science on it, so you were like freaking 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.720 out a little bit. And then I remember driving not 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:13.440 that night, but a couple of days later, when I 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.080 was still going into the radio station driving home. Richard 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:20.200 and I've mentioned it in previous episodes, but I felt 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.320 like I was like the last man on earth, Like 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.720 do you expect a certain amount of car, certain amount 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.679 of traffic going and coming home from work even when 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:30.680 I work, and there was nothing there was there was nothing. 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:32.880 I was like, I was like the somehow the sole 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.080 survivor of the plague and everyone else had gone away. 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:39.320 It was like a Twilight Zone type thing. So it 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:42.520 was a little surreal. I remember. I just remember like 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:46.880 reaching out to friends and family and then like picking 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:48.600 up cash, Like I went to the bank and I 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:52.079 got cash just in case something happened. We're you know, 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.400 because people are throwing out like martial law or like 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:56.679 these giant quarantines, and we weren't able to leave our 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.560 houses or do anything else. And so I was thinking 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:01.400 more along the lines of like the family and friends 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:02.959 and who would be impacted by it. So I was 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.199 kind of like racing up and down my phone and 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.320 check and see, like if anyone needed anything or wanted 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.600 anything before we're all stuck inside. Ye be sure to 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:13.400 catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:17.680 two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Jesse from Promoter Rights 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:19.720 and says, Hey, Ben, how close are you to the 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:23.720 eleventh hour? Is your job in jeopardy because of the 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:28.240 sports hiatus? Uh? Well, Jesse to answer that, that's a 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.160 legitimate question, because if this does continue long enough, my 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.440 job will be in jeopardy. I do not believe it 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.200 is at this particular moment, because things are gonna start 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.120 to open up in July and as long as we 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.760 get that content and the advertising market, it really is 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.720 depending on the advertising business. We're in the advertising game, 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:49.000 and so people are spending money on advertising, and you 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:50.560 hear a lot of commercials on the show. That's a 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.160 good thing, and that will help us out as long 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.360 as the ratings are good. If those There's two things here. 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:57.400 There's a lot of variables to this, but the main 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:59.719 parts are the audience. They are number one. That's the 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.600 most important things, the audience there. But in many respects 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.600 number two is also is important because you have to 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:09.120 have advertisers otherwise that we can't pay the bills. And 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.840 so those two things. But I think we're doing all right. 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:13.920 I think we're doing all right. Not as good as 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:15.960 we could be doing, but we're doing doing okay all 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:20.120 things consider, what do you think we could be doing better? Well? 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:23.720 The advertising market would if that when you stop hearing 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.040 as many p s A s and you hear more commercials, 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:27.800 that's a good sign. Is that a shot at me? Like? 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:32.520 Do anybody mean something different like on this show? Yeah? Well, 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.640 I mean yeah, I would like to do more live reads. 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:36.440 I don't think we do any live reads on this show. 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:39.280 Like that. We commercials would be good. Absolutely. Is that 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:44.000 an indictment on me? Yes? Everything is about you, Gasca. 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:47.320 Any reference I make is a shot at you, a 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:51.400 cheap shot your direction. Are you happy, sniper? No, I'm 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:52.800 just asking to you. I mean if you said we 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.280 can do better, like you know, I'm curious. I can 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.160 ask you, right, can I ask you like how we 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:00.400 can do better? We could have more advertage us. That's 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.920 the answer. Mike from Boston and't write and he says, 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:08.559 why do tug boats push their barges? It's a great question, gues. 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.840 You have an idea why tug boats push their barge. 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:15.200 They can't pull him, So that's your that's your answer. 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.040 I think he wanted like a tug joke. I think 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.640 he was looking for a tug joke. You know, I 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.000 don't have a tug joke for you. Are you too 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.400 highbrow for that? You can't make a tug joke? And 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:29.880 I'm just not funny, that is true. Yeah, Gascon needs 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.120 to have Tesla come up with a way to implant 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:37.000 the funny bone. Man. I did listen to Elon Musk 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.760 there a night. He's got some wild ship going on, 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.280 Yes he does. He's got he's got something. I know 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.199 it's been in the making for a long time. I 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:48.120 think it's talking about the brain thing. Yeah, the neuralink. Yes, 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:53.079 that is that is out of a horror film. Yes, 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:57.160 I was listening to him. Pub that thing there night, 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.320 and I was like, what I understood some of the 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:04.640 benefits because he mentioned people with dementia or Alzheimer's and 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.319 so some that stuff, people that are paralyzed that they 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.160 say they think they could turn on the things to 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:14.160 help them move their limbs again and all that. Yeah, 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:18.400 that's that's some intense ship that would you be for it? 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:23.920 You know, I wouldn't be against it because but it's see, 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:25.840 the problem is it would be it's it's kind of 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:30.480 like you look at like nuclear weapons in theory are good, 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:32.880 but then there can be misused, you know what I mean. 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:36.040 Like it's so it's like it's it's people started out 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:39.920 with the best of intentions and then things get hijacked. Like, yeah, 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.120 if you told me that this would only be used 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.920 for people that have horrific illnesses that you know, their 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:49.440 their life is, you know, somewhat fucked up compared to 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:51.320 a normal life, and this could give them a much 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.600 better life and could turn their lives. I mean, who 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.840 would say no to that? But then the problem is 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.680 you then would I could see that being used and 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:07.800 tore true situations to give people some of those conditions. Yeah, uh, 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:11.200 let's see mo par Nation in Middle Georgia says Ben, 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:17.000 how bald are you? Uh? Well, I'm not bald. It's 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.560 very thin. Heading towards the call to sac. I'm getting 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:22.680 towards the call to sack. But the the the issue 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:25.480 I've got is that since the hair on the sides 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:28.720 of my head and the back keep growing, the top 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:33.160 doesn't grow that much, so it looks really awkward. Like 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.760 if I get a haircut, it won't look that awkward. 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.680 It'll still look like I'm losing some some up top, 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.520 but it's not gonna look like it looks now, which 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:44.600 is brutal. So and plus the lighting, I've determined the 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.160 lighting is important. But they call me the mad Hatter 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:49.840 of sports chatter, so as since I am the mad 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.120 Hatter of sportschatter, just keep boarding hands. Hey, did that 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:55.600 reminds me? How's the because your wife got you a light? Kid? Right? 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.400 Did you set that up yet? Well, the last part 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:01.000 of it. Remember the previous episode we talked about the 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:05.920 home studio, the home studio and all that and uh, 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.080 and so that is part. I will be sitting up 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:13.600 the light. Okay, very nice, you will see the light. Well, 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:15.640 just it heads up. If you're worried about the coloring. 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:19.200 You can adjust it to three different tones. What do 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.800 you think my best color is? I think that with 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.720 that light, I think blue would probably be your best blue. 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:26.760 Really yeah, I think blue would be good for you. 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:30.320 Why why is that? Well, because because of your skin 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.760 pigment and then also because of the colors that you wear, 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:34.600 like you use your wearing a hat, so like if 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:37.600 it's Dodger blue, I think I think I said at 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:41.080 night with like an Iowa Hawkeyes, that's a good looking hat. 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:44.960 Yeah yeah, yeah see, And so I think the blue 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:46.960 would look I think, well, I guess it depends on 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.000 your background to whatever the studio set up is going 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.000 to be, but I think blue is best. Be sure 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.440 to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show week 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.880 days at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, not even 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.640 an acara rights inst Do you guys think if hockey 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:01.960 is the first game back into town it will gain 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:05.240 new fans or will people only care temporarily like the 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:11.920 World Cup? Also Gagon sucks eggs like this from uh yeah, 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:15.840 the hockey thing. If they are the first back, there 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:21.560 will definitely be a bump up in audience. In my perspective. 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:23.120 First of all, I think it'd be great for hockey 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:24.480 to be the first back, and it would be a 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:26.320 big f you to all the other sports if they're 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.000 the first ones to come back. That's great. That adds 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.760 to the legacy of hockey being a tough man sport. 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:33.680 You've gotta have great to play hockey and all that. 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.880 That adds to all that stuff, the mythology of hockey. 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:38.600 So that's the first part. The second part is, yeah, 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.720 I think the audience would go up. It would not 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:45.120 stay high, but you bring in new people to the store, 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:48.960 and some of the people are gonna buy stuff. You 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.160 know what I'm saying, Like you want foot traffic in 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:54.040 your store, because most people won't buy something. But the 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.880 more people you have, the more people that are possible 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.200 to buy the product and to fall in love with hockey. 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:04.879 So they're not gonna sustain ethan the ratings, but they 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.919 can certainly increase the ratings going forward, and some of 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:10.040 those people will say, actually, like this, I'm gonna keep 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:12.919 watching when things return back to normal. And then the 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:16.040 other thing too is you don't have any polarizing superstars 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:20.600 in the NHL that have made comments towards like labor negotiations, 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:24.919 or towards like competing, uh, contracts and salaries like you've 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.919 gotten with the NBA and Major League Baseball. So if 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.000 you get those elements that come into play with the 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:33.439 return to action and you don't have guys making it 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:36.040 about money, I think that does a lot for the sport. 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:40.359 All right, Carlos in Houston says, what are your updated 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:43.920 odds on baseball coming back? Also, can you answer the 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:47.840 question blind Scott asked Marcel is he a moron on 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:52.160 the radio or a moron in real life? Uh? Well, Carlos, listen, 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.320 let's start with the blind Scott thing. Blind blind Scott 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:56.879 very rude there to Morris. Marcel. I don't know a 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.080 lot about him. I just know from the phone calls, 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.240 and I know a little bit more than the average bear. 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:06.080 But yeah, Marcel's um a little challenge in certain areas. 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:07.760 But that's all right. I mean we're the great thing 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:10.800 about the Mallard militiap is we welcome everybody. We we 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.360 goof on everybody. You have to be able to take 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:17.240 it and and all that. And uh yeah, so Marcell's 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:19.320 got some stuff going on. I don't know the details 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:21.520 how bad it is or how good it's not good. 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:23.440 But I don't know a lot about that. But we've 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:25.600 got some a few things going on there. Uh And 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:27.720 as far as the updated odds on baseball, I'm gonna 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:32.840 say there's a sixty five percent chance that baseball is 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:36.760 played this year, and I just can't wrap my mind 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:39.640 around them going from well, we don't want to take 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:43.200 a pay cut at thirty percent. So anyway, the owner's goal, 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:45.720 as we're doing this in real time right now, my 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:48.240 belief is the owner's goal is, all right, we're trying 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:51.200 to get them to take a you know, sixty percent 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:54.720 pay cut or seventy percent pay cut, but we'll we'll 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:57.439 be willing to take a fifty percent pay cut, you know. 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:00.200 So there's a little wiggle room there and they can 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:03.560 hash it out. But the rhetoric has certainly been ratcheted 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:06.240 up in the last couple of days, and that we're 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:09.080 doing this as we're recording the podcast, so we'll keep 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:12.280 an eye it. But I'm still going I'm looking forward 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:14.280 to either way, we didn't get the fucking We need 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:16.639 to get the country back in motion, either ship or 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:21.040 get off the pot. Yeah. R J in sane and Tonio. 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:25.640 What's the fastest speed you've gone while driving an automobile. 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.480 I think I've been asked this before r J. And 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:31.720 I've never had cars that have really been able to 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.280 go all that fast, but in my younger days I 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:36.600 would crank it up. But maybe, like I think the 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:39.520 most everyone like a there's a certain speed you go 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:43.119 and then you're like if if anything goes wrong, I'm dead, 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:45.800 And I don't normally look forward to that. I try 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:50.360 to avoid that. Like for every five miles you increase 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:54.359 the speed, the chances of an accident being really bad 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:56.520 go up, up, up, up up up in that way, 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:00.680 what about you guess, and you've probably you're hood them. Yeah, 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:03.520 I mean I cheated once. I did drive a stock 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:06.879 car in Fontana, and I was able to get that 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:11.040 thing up to a hundred and sixty seven miles per hour. No, 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:13.200 thankfully I didn't crash it. I was scared shitless though, 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:16.200 because you've gotta sign a waiver. Yeah, you gotta send 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:19.080 a huge ass waiver, and there's a lot of fine 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:23.240 print but not fine and in bold red letters, is 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:25.840 like you crashed his vehicle, you owed this much money. 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:27.880 So I was scared. How much did you owe if 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:31.280 you had crashed? It was like, well over seventy tho dollars, 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:33.919 so wow. Yeah, I mean it was a beat up 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:36.320 stock card too, So I did that. But on the streets, 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:40.679 I think the fastest I've ever traveled was like one eleven. Okay, 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:45.320 so around what I've I've done? Yeah. Pete from Cedar Rapids, 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:49.640 Iowa says we have a dog who eats his own poop. 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:52.639 Has Doc Mike ever tried eating his own poop poop 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:55.440 since he drinks his own urine, I'm asking for a friend. 0:20:57.080 --> 0:21:01.840 Uh No, Doc has not done that so far, but 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:06.120