Speaker 1: Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of
Speaker 1: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere.
Speaker 1: You cannot avoid it. It is in your head, and
Speaker 1: you have become a loyal minion. And for that we
Speaker 1: are grateful of the Fifth Hour with I Ben Maller
Speaker 1: and from west of the four oh five, making his
Speaker 1: way into the studio complaining the entire time, David Guascon
Speaker 1: is here. No crowd noise? Did they know that? The crowd,
Speaker 1: the cann crowd noise? Not ready to go? They're tired.
Speaker 1: I was called football this morning, so they took some
Speaker 1: plenty of time off after being a raully and rockets
Speaker 1: this morning for me at six am. So that so
Speaker 1: what happens man, when you're working hard on the weekends.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't know about that. The we weekend Now I
Speaker 1: used to work weekends. I actually liked working weekends. I
Speaker 1: had fun. It's a it's a crazier crowd doing the
Speaker 1: overnight show on the weekends, even though we have a
Speaker 1: lot of drunks and drug addicts and all that listen
Speaker 1: to the show during the week but on the weekends
Speaker 1: it's like it's the non professional, like we I get
Speaker 1: the professional, you know what I mean, Like the professional um,
Speaker 1: I don't know how to describe. Um the people that
Speaker 1: do this full time that just drink. But on the
Speaker 1: weekends it's the weekend warriors, the weekend warrior, And so
Speaker 1: that's always fun. And I have some great memories Otto
Speaker 1: the drinking dog that used to call up and tremendous
Speaker 1: people back in the day. It was just great. Wow,
Speaker 1: it's great. Uh so this now, this podcast, the mail
Speaker 1: bag a lot of mail. You know. Some weeks we
Speaker 1: get a little mail, some weeks we get a lot.
Speaker 1: I posted earlier on our show facebook page, Ben Mallow
Speaker 1: Show Facebook page, and so it did help. It did
Speaker 1: appear to help. But we get more email. Are excited
Speaker 1: about that. I am you said, you said male, You
Speaker 1: didn't say emails, So I am, Oh you have have
Speaker 1: mail mail? You know, It's it's always nice when you
Speaker 1: get mail from a female listener of yours. It is
Speaker 1: just amazing. I just love siphoning off all your female listeners.
Speaker 1: All right, are you ready? Are you buckled up? Are
Speaker 1: you ready for the mail bag? Here the first one
Speaker 1: from the new studio. The we will officially christen the
Speaker 1: new studio. I'm excited about that. This is email now.
Speaker 1: If you want to be part of what we love.
Speaker 1: This is one of our more popular podcast that we do.
Speaker 1: People love to be part of it. It's great answering
Speaker 1: your questions. It's a rip off of Ask Band from
Speaker 1: the radio show, which I didn't get to do this
Speaker 1: week because I was I was moving, and so this
Speaker 1: is gonna make up for that. Maybe that's why we
Speaker 1: had more questions. But it's a very simple. If you
Speaker 1: want to send a question in via email, real fifth hour,
Speaker 1: that's real F I F T H hour. If you
Speaker 1: don't know how spell real, and you don't know how
Speaker 1: spell hour, that I don't want you to send an email.
Speaker 1: Hold on. That's that's dedicated towards Lee in Arizona. Right,
Speaker 1: all right, what you just said it? So we haven't
Speaker 1: even were like three minutes in, you've already ripped Lee.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm piggybacking off with you. Use a hard
Speaker 1: working guys. He's got a beautiful daughter. They're working his
Speaker 1: ass off anyway. All right, first email from I'm a Pilot. Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: he's back, another one of your favorites. Yeah, he's back.
Speaker 1: I'm a Pilot is back. Uh, he says, still here,
Speaker 1: still listening. So refreshing to have David back. The past
Speaker 1: couple of weeks was like listening to a Mozart concerto perfection.
Speaker 1: Well that's a lie. So he's already started with a lie.
Speaker 1: I'm a pilot. You started with a lie. That's a
Speaker 1: bad job by you said he had to get kids
Speaker 1: started in kindergarten. Oh that's great. I've been busy making
Speaker 1: my girls do to a day tennis practices with without
Speaker 1: water breaks, as that only weekends. The body and the
Speaker 1: mind already working on the D one scholarship. Got kicked
Speaker 1: out of the first PTO meeting. Yeah that's great, as
Speaker 1: I demanded we keep score and only give the winner
Speaker 1: a trophy. Everyone else gets a blank stare. Also, my
Speaker 1: girls will answer any reporters questions, unlike that cry baby
Speaker 1: loser Naomi osaka funk. I'm a good parent. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: don't let the Wolkesters know about that. I'm a pilot.
Speaker 1: They'll track you down, they they they. Naomi Osaka is
Speaker 1: a hero to the week. She has a hero to
Speaker 1: the week. They love her, They love her. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: she's so important. She's so important because she can't answer
Speaker 1: some mean questions. Oh god, no, so I'm a pot
Speaker 1: brought it up. What do you think the equivalent as
Speaker 1: in tennis or the Oklahoma drill? Since his daughters are
Speaker 1: doing two days, Like you need to have an Oklahoma drill, right,
Speaker 1: Like you're gonna go heads up? What do you do? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I am not. My knowledge of tennis is limited to
Speaker 1: watching the major stuff. I don't know much about tennis,
Speaker 1: Like I don't like the inner workings of like what
Speaker 1: it takes to play professional tennis and all that. I
Speaker 1: know the terms and I know the terminology from watching
Speaker 1: Wimbledon or you know, the French Open or something like that.
Speaker 1: I know all that. But yeah, by the way, can
Speaker 1: you hear guest on there's a lot of heavy construction
Speaker 1: going on. I hear it. Yeah it is, I said
Speaker 1: in a previous podcast there is construction going on, and
Speaker 1: now it is bleeding through the podcast studio for the
Speaker 1: first time. It sounds like there's a saw. Like there's
Speaker 1: some sawing going on. Now, that's what it sounds like
Speaker 1: to me. Well, this is perfect because we've actually probably
Speaker 1: gone like I don't know, six months to a year
Speaker 1: without a complaint on the audio level. Well, I think
Speaker 1: it's all right. I think it's just background. Is it?
Speaker 1: Is it really loud? It's it's like we had Bella,
Speaker 1: remember Bella a couple of weeks ago, Bella when I
Speaker 1: was telling the story about the dog, and now in
Speaker 1: the background we have the sound of the good news
Speaker 1: is I don't think they can have the saw going
Speaker 1: that long, otherwise they'll chop the whole house down, which
Speaker 1: I don't think would be there. See it stopped there,
Speaker 1: you go, Yeah, I'm sure it'll it'll be back. But
Speaker 1: as far as I'm a pilot, I can't help you
Speaker 1: with the tennis stuff. I mean I could throw out
Speaker 1: some some bull crap and all that, but uh, the
Speaker 1: kindergarten thing, let me tell you. And I told this
Speaker 1: Jake Warner's daughter, his youngest daughter, came over to the
Speaker 1: at the halfway house, and I told us she's just
Speaker 1: she was just starting kindergarten, and I said, let me
Speaker 1: tell you something. Everything you're gonna need in life kindergarten everything, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, everything else is gravy after that. And I
Speaker 1: believe that they teach your math. They teach you know,
Speaker 1: basic math a little bit, right, They teach you the
Speaker 1: you know, the alp a bet and all that. You
Speaker 1: learn how to read a little bit. Kindergarten is the
Speaker 1: most important. Everything else, you know, they add onto it.
Speaker 1: But kindergarten, that's the way to go. Anyway. Ah, The
Speaker 1: message continues from I'm a pilot, just been flying to
Speaker 1: Tel Aviv and Tokyo. Have Germany coming up, Munich specifically
Speaker 1: october Fest has been canceled there this year and no
Speaker 1: ELF team in Munich, So I guess I'll be watching Netflix.
Speaker 1: Speaking of have you binged on the F one Formula
Speaker 1: one documentary? It's really good, similar to Hard Knocks but
Speaker 1: for driving. I have not. Yeah, I have been down
Speaker 1: on Netflix. Like my wife loves Netflix. I've been more
Speaker 1: into YouTube, like I've found, which annoys my wife because
Speaker 1: we don't pay for YouTube. It just to have whatever
Speaker 1: we find. And I found some really good like cooking guys, pizza.
Speaker 1: There's documentaries on there I've watched, not that you asked
Speaker 1: I'm a pilot, but I it's on YouTube. The the
Speaker 1: Australian News channel did a documentary on Luke Longley because
Speaker 1: he was not included in the Last Dance and it
Speaker 1: was really good and well done, well produced, just about
Speaker 1: Luke Longley and being part of the Bulls teams and
Speaker 1: all that. Michael Jordan was interviewed, Phil Jackson was interviewed
Speaker 1: and it was great. So that's that's some of the
Speaker 1: stuff I've been watching. He says, you were talking travel
Speaker 1: last week. Might want to check passport expiration would be
Speaker 1: a great time to renew. Boys. Israel and more specifically
Speaker 1: Tel Aviv is awesome. The beaches are great and let's
Speaker 1: just say the views are astastic alrightbout that I need
Speaker 1: I need to go with My passport has expired, so
Speaker 1: I do need to update my passport. He also says,
Speaker 1: keep it up, boys, and remember what that great philosopher
Speaker 1: for a time J. J. Watts said, success isn't owned,
Speaker 1: it's least and rent is due every day. Now go
Speaker 1: run suicide until you puke. There you go, I'm a pilot.
Speaker 1: You one of your favorites. We love I'm a Pilot.
Speaker 1: I'm happy that he's a contributor on your show because
Speaker 1: everything else is just drek. No, it's not. There's so
Speaker 1: many talented people, some many wonderful people that right in
Speaker 1: He's the lighthouse and this abyss that we call the
Speaker 1: Mallary Militia. Well, you have some of your fan girls
Speaker 1: and fan boys reach out. I know, considered effort. I'm
Speaker 1: sure there were text messages exchange and emails exchange. It
Speaker 1: that reminds me. Email that reminds me. I tried his
Speaker 1: whiskey the other day and it was really good. Finally
Speaker 1: that I got around to it, I did. I did
Speaker 1: the hat that I'm a Pilot set, one of my
Speaker 1: favorite hats. It's an m hat with a gray back.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. It's a solid it's a solid
Speaker 1: looking hat. It's a solid looking at Uh. Next email
Speaker 1: from Tammy in Montana. There we go belly to belly.
Speaker 1: She says, uh, thank the Gods with David back, the
Speaker 1: fifth hour is amazing again according to Tammy, Well, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna let McBain know that you don't
Speaker 1: like McBain Tammy a nomination for the People's Choice Podcast Award.
Speaker 1: That's incorrect. We have not been nominated for any award.
Speaker 1: Sounds like Helen and Stu like to brag about themselves.
Speaker 1: Nothing impressive there. Maybe Stu needs to get his erectile
Speaker 1: dysfunction taken care of so Helen doesn't have time to
Speaker 1: stalk David online. Wow, shots fired by Tammy and Montana.
Speaker 1: What a pathetic life they have to waste all that
Speaker 1: time investigating, criticizing David and his family. I feel sorry
Speaker 1: for their grandson Bentley. Apparently they would rather spend time
Speaker 1: bragging and stalking someone than being Bentley's grandparents. Tammy in Montana, Tammy,
Speaker 1: it's a little harsh. People have a lot of free time,
Speaker 1: and when you're tired, I assume you have a lot
Speaker 1: of free time, and you can you have a passion
Speaker 1: for a podcast, you can do a little keyboard research
Speaker 1: and do some investigating and find a few things. Now,
Speaker 1: I think she hit the mark all right. Next email,
Speaker 1: uh says high been grocery shopping and I guess we
Speaker 1: should tell you this is from Helen and Stuart. Coincidence
Speaker 1: grocery shopping and heard over the store speaker, a commercial
Speaker 1: for a moving company that reminded stew and I that
Speaker 1: you relocated to the remodeled Mallard mansion two point oh
Speaker 1: this week, mozelto it was the perfect Malla maneuver. Time
Speaker 1: to throw out that over hyped, old, tough and now
Speaker 1: freezer burned Tomahawk steak that Gascon gave you. Don't feed
Speaker 1: the wolves too late. Screw that, Howell and uh, there
Speaker 1: you go. Uh let's see here and uh but enough
Speaker 1: about Gascon, enough about Gascon. There Uh this his overinflated ego,
Speaker 1: questionable work ethic, marginal at best on air talent, and
Speaker 1: also cal show and no go personal threats. Bore us
Speaker 1: about that. Bennett's all about you, the good, humble, hard working, entertaining,
Speaker 1: good mensh you. Well, thank you, Helen. That is a
Speaker 1: wonderful thing that you just said. That is one of
Speaker 1: the nicest things anyone has ever written about me. She says,
Speaker 1: your name is on the Fox Sports Marquee and Costco
Speaker 1: executive membership card for a reason. You're that good. You're
Speaker 1: that good. Uh, A suggestion and a question. Like millions
Speaker 1: of your loyal listeners, we love Big Ben's lame jokes
Speaker 1: of the week. Damn it. It's plural frustrating though when
Speaker 1: you and Coope seem to have some great jokes that
Speaker 1: you can read over the you can't read over the
Speaker 1: terrestrial airways, which is true. Stu and I have the solution.
Speaker 1: On either Saturday or Sunday's Fifth Hour podcast launch a
Speaker 1: new segment called Lame Jokes on Centered, a safe harbor
Speaker 1: where you can tell those raw, funny and socially woke
Speaker 1: jokes from the week before or from your vast email folder.
Speaker 1: But wait, there's more. See she did that because that's
Speaker 1: a great line from informercials. Uh, tease us, please us.
Speaker 1: Seems like you can tease the X rated jokes on
Speaker 1: the Irregular Show and drive shrafting to the Fifth Hour.
Speaker 1: Please us by telling those well crafted but inappropriate jokes.
Speaker 1: We love your welcome. There you go, and uh, of
Speaker 1: course there's another question. Did you throw the tomahawks steak
Speaker 1: to the wolves or did you give it to Bella
Speaker 1: as a housewarming gift? And Helen and Stu you'll be
Speaker 1: happy to know. And I think I screwed this up
Speaker 1: because I was supposed to read that at the beginning. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Helen and Stu I I have the Tomahawks steak has
Speaker 1: now been in it's in its third different freezer. It's
Speaker 1: in its third different freezer. Uh, and it is still
Speaker 1: doing well. It is still there. It hasn't got frost
Speaker 1: on it. And when the time is right, we will
Speaker 1: we will cook that up. We will cook the Tomahawks steak.
Speaker 1: You should give it to the coyotes. That bit Bella. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I saw the coyote. Yes, we were driving back.
Speaker 1: I was driving back late and there's a little at
Speaker 1: the halfway house. There was like a little kind of
Speaker 1: hill behind the house that the place of the townhouse.
Speaker 1: I was limited, and we were driving back and the
Speaker 1: coyote was sitting on top of the hill. We think
Speaker 1: that's you know, I don't know, it might be a
Speaker 1: different coyote, but I would think that would be the
Speaker 1: same one because there's a good eating there. And then
Speaker 1: kind of was like, hey, that's dinner time, So all right,
Speaker 1: Queen rocks. And right, since it's Ben and David, David
Speaker 1: mentioned something about the upcoming football season and hopefully Benny
Speaker 1: versus the Penny will be returning. Question Mark, as I
Speaker 1: always listen to your picks and really have to take
Speaker 1: into consideration your curse. Also tell the Silver Sneaker club
Speaker 1: couple in Florida stop being stockers. It's very odd sign
Speaker 1: Queen rox Well, we have nothing to announced about Beny
Speaker 1: versus the Penny Football season begins in less than a month,
Speaker 1: the NFL season begins, and we are efforting. Is that
Speaker 1: we're supposed to efforting? Yeah? We hope to have on
Speaker 1: the runway, how about that? Yeah, But keep in mind
Speaker 1: that being in talks with people having conversations does not
Speaker 1: correlate often to a deal. It's like dating these days.
Speaker 1: I have been close to so many amazing jobs in
Speaker 1: broadcasting where I have been deep in the weeds and
Speaker 1: negotiations and nothing has ended up happening. So I am
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna go into details on on where
Speaker 1: we are talking, who we are talking to, but we've
Speaker 1: had a few meetings over the last couple of months
Speaker 1: with some very powerful people that deal with lots of
Speaker 1: money and lots of uh, lots of what's the word,
Speaker 1: I'm a venture capital? I don't know, I don't want
Speaker 1: a word. They have a lot of expendable money to
Speaker 1: throw out and we're hoping to find something that you
Speaker 1: get the email I sent you from Ohio All. Did
Speaker 1: you get that? Oh my gosh it it I need
Speaker 1: to I need to cue that up. That reminds yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: get that ready to go because this is ohio Al's email,
Speaker 1: and we should have played this at the beginning. But
Speaker 1: we can put this in the system and then we
Speaker 1: can play this going forward, hopefully if we have the
Speaker 1: logistical ability to do that. But this is from Ohio
Speaker 1: how very talented musician. You heard him, one of the stars,
Speaker 1: one of the rock stars literally in the Talent show.
Speaker 1: It's blew it away. We love Ohio a very talented guy.
Speaker 1: So happy that he's a fan and a consumer of
Speaker 1: our audio content. Anyway, ohio Al says, I hope your
Speaker 1: move into the permanent Mallard mansion is going well. He says,
Speaker 1: I would have paid for movers to do the heavy lifting.
Speaker 1: But I'm older and lazier than you. I guess well,
Speaker 1: it's listen. I don't know how old you are, Al,
Speaker 1: and you're probably a little older than I am. I
Speaker 1: don't know that you're lazier than I am, but you're
Speaker 1: probably not as frugal as I am. And I think
Speaker 1: the financial component of this is a big gut of it.
Speaker 1: And uh that's I hear. I heard the music that
Speaker 1: this to this next part of the email. Ohio Al says,
Speaker 1: I I heard you, guys mention on the Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: podcast last week that you would consider having some kind
Speaker 1: of opening jingle for your mail bag segments. So I
Speaker 1: whipped up this little ditty for you. I hope you
Speaker 1: like good luck. I hate moving, Ohio All, and so
Speaker 1: do we have that ready to go? Here? All right,
Speaker 1: this is from Ohio All. And you ask your request
Speaker 1: and it will arrive. Build it and you know they
Speaker 1: will they will come or he will come. Uh. Here
Speaker 1: is Ohio All at his version of a mail bag
Speaker 1: jingle opening e God, the question things God, the son's
Speaker 1: mail bag. Yeah, I get short. It wasn't long. We
Speaker 1: don't need it long. We want to quick, you know,
Speaker 1: move on. The show keeps moving, train keeps moving down
Speaker 1: the tracks. We don't look back. Thank you, Ohio And
Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned, that's gonna become a regular
Speaker 1: assuming you can work that out logistically. Guess that's good.
Speaker 1: At the beginning of the mail bag that will be
Speaker 1: like the you know, we start out the mail bag.
Speaker 1: I'm bullshitting and then we go into the mail bag,
Speaker 1: and then the point we go into the mailbag, hit
Speaker 1: it and then it's Ohio Awa, it's perfect and and
Speaker 1: it'll be perfect and we'll play it every week. And
Speaker 1: you know who's who doesn't like that? That's that's perfect.
Speaker 1: It's it's wonderful. That will become a um, a continuous
Speaker 1: part of the show for as long as I I
Speaker 1: can imagine, you know, constant. The mailbag is not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: So thank you very good. Uh and I hopefully I
Speaker 1: didn't take it that long. But it's great to listen
Speaker 1: in on your work, to eaves drop in on Ohio
Speaker 1: All's work. All right? Next up? Next up, Ben, huge
Speaker 1: fan from Boston. My name is Mike and I've been
Speaker 1: listening to you since Mazeltope. Thank you. That's sixteen years. Wow.
Speaker 1: Any chance you could fill me in on the latest
Speaker 1: update about half point and Brian, thanks for many Uh. Well,
Speaker 1: it's really a whole lot of nothing. There's a whole
Speaker 1: lot of nothing so half Point, as you know, I
Speaker 1: assume you know, she was very active caller to the show,
Speaker 1: and the last call that she made was in the
Speaker 1: middle of the night in the burbs out in Missouri
Speaker 1: and she was playing the drums. She was getting ready
Speaker 1: for the talent show. She's gonna do a duet with
Speaker 1: beer drinking Bryan. And then she got a few hours later,
Speaker 1: she got picked up on a parole violation and she
Speaker 1: has been This is back in July and she has
Speaker 1: been in jail for over a month. She's had a
Speaker 1: couple of court dates. It has been pushed back, uh,
Speaker 1: and she will be in jail for I think another month.
Speaker 1: The next court date is in September. Oh, I believe
Speaker 1: it's after right around the start of the football season
Speaker 1: in the NFL regular season. So yeah, she's she's in
Speaker 1: jail and she's waiting word of whether or not they
Speaker 1: will send her to a rehab facility or they will
Speaker 1: send her to jail for five years. Now. We're hoping
Speaker 1: that they sent her to a rehab because she's already
Speaker 1: been in jail for a couple of months. And say, well,
Speaker 1: you went back to jail for a couple of months,
Speaker 1: now you're you're sober. Now go to rehab. And not
Speaker 1: that I think it's gonna work, But to me, half
Speaker 1: point is not a threat to society. But I don't
Speaker 1: know half pint. Maybe she is. I don't know. She
Speaker 1: seems pretty harmless. Not to herself. She's harm She's harmful
Speaker 1: to herself, but I don't know that she's harming other people.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm trying to say. That's the last. Jennifer
Speaker 1: from Richmond, Virginia rights in Our Friend Jennifer. She says, Higen,
Speaker 1: if you could travel back in time only once too,
Speaker 1: before you were thirty, what's one or two things you
Speaker 1: would tell yourself about your own life, either good or
Speaker 1: were bad, to look forward to, to prepare for. And
Speaker 1: do you think you would believe yourself? Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: I don't think I would believe myself. I'm very cynical,
Speaker 1: so I don't think I would believe myself. I think, well,
Speaker 1: this is bullshit, this is just some kind of dream,
Speaker 1: this is not real. But the main thing, I was
Speaker 1: very paranoid when I first got into radio that it
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna work, that it wouldn't I wouldn't get to
Speaker 1: the point I'm at now, and I really wanted to
Speaker 1: get there. And I I spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: doing weekends. I spent a lot of time as a reporter.
Speaker 1: I started out as a board op. I worked all
Speaker 1: kinds of jobs at the radio station, and it seemed
Speaker 1: like a It was like climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to think
Speaker 1: about getting to the top. Not that I'm at the top,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm an overnight guy, but to get even
Speaker 1: where I am. Um, I just thought I might not
Speaker 1: could make it. I didn't really have a backup plan
Speaker 1: other than like working at Costco, and not that that's
Speaker 1: a bad job, but I didn't. I just fully invested myself.
Speaker 1: So just just say it's gonna be okay, it'll work out,
Speaker 1: You'll be fine. Why don't you ever tell me this
Speaker 1: because it won't be fine for you know? Um? Yeah.
Speaker 1: And also, and I've told you this to enjoy the journey,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's about the stories you pick up
Speaker 1: along the way and embrace more of that. And I've
Speaker 1: tried to do that as I've gotten older. And also
Speaker 1: the obvious thing. You know, when you're young, you don't
Speaker 1: think anyone's gonna die, and you think everyone will live forever.
Speaker 1: And then you know, I've been to a lot of
Speaker 1: funerals as i've aged, and I lost both my parents
Speaker 1: and all that, and it's you know, it's just to
Speaker 1: value the people around you. They're in your circle, that
Speaker 1: are they're fighting for you, and because they're the ones
Speaker 1: that matter, matter the most, and did not overlook them.
Speaker 1: And you know, you get into fights with people and disagreements,
Speaker 1: but that's just part of being around people. But that
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, you know, that's just like the
Speaker 1: basic stuff. Is that too deep, guest for the Good
Speaker 1: mail Bag? Is that too poetic? No, not at all.
Speaker 1: To tell you, what would you tell yourself, Guest care, Well,
Speaker 1: you're you him to still be below thirty even though
Speaker 1: you're closer to sixty. You know, I just I think
Speaker 1: the one thing I might I mean to hear it
Speaker 1: all the time, but like, don't stop what you're doing,
Speaker 1: just keep going. Yeah, Like if you're going through hell,
Speaker 1: just keep going right, Like I've heard that a thousand times, um,
Speaker 1: if you're in the darkness, just trying to find light. So,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I think, more so now than ever,
Speaker 1: I would probably tell I'd probably tell myself if I
Speaker 1: was a younger version, I'd say, try to engage and
Speaker 1: talk to as many people as possible, because, yeah, you
Speaker 1: never know who you're gonna meet. And as you know,
Speaker 1: like being in certain cities and in certain towns. You
Speaker 1: live in this fucking bubble and you all think and
Speaker 1: do the same ship, and you know there's a little
Speaker 1: joy out of that. You gotta get outside and get
Speaker 1: yourself more comfortable. I have the biggest regret I've ever had,
Speaker 1: at least in terms of my twenties, with two of them,
Speaker 1: but one was I never traveled outside of like Vegas, Arizona,
Speaker 1: San Francisco, and San Diego. I wish I would have
Speaker 1: traveled more in the United States and internationally. I should
Speaker 1: have done that, and I tried to do that more
Speaker 1: now than ever. But yeah, like going you know, I'd
Speaker 1: love to go to Kentucky. I'd love to get some bourbon,
Speaker 1: like go to some of those distilleries I'd love to
Speaker 1: go to. I would love I would love to do
Speaker 1: is just dry this slowly drive across the country, like
Speaker 1: stop off the beaten path and just soak it all.
Speaker 1: And I've never been able to do that, But you
Speaker 1: guys did California this year during the summertime. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: driven all over California, but I'm talking about going from
Speaker 1: sea to Shining Sea, from the Pacific all the way across,
Speaker 1: whether it's retracing the old Root sixty six or just
Speaker 1: going all the way across the country and seeing see
Speaker 1: what's out. I've flown over to Bunch to get to
Speaker 1: different places, but it would be'd be cool to do that,
Speaker 1: especially because a lot of these cities are so closely
Speaker 1: connected down south and even in the Pacific, or not
Speaker 1: the Pacific Northwest, the Northeast. I mean you could take
Speaker 1: a train Boston obviously. Do you go all the way
Speaker 1: up to like Connecticut, New York, down to Philadelphia, d C.
Speaker 1: Like those are accessible? Well, yeah, but I'm talking like
Speaker 1: I've done the whole corridor, but talking about like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm talking about going you know, off in the sticks,
Speaker 1: you know, where the people live, the heart and soul
Speaker 1: of America. The bad lands. Yeah, not the big cities,
Speaker 1: the big concrete jungles and all that done. There's some fine.
Speaker 1: My brother drove from California to North to South Carolina
Speaker 1: then up to New York. Might took my dad's car
Speaker 1: when my after my father passed in he said, there's
Speaker 1: like amazing like barbecue places, like a little hole in
Speaker 1: the wall barbecue places that he found that now whenever
Speaker 1: he drives that. You know, he'll always stop there, and
Speaker 1: so that's good. How long did that take him, like
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks? Um? No, No, he did it
Speaker 1: in like maybe well, I guess it was close to
Speaker 1: it was like ten days. It wasn't full two weeks,
Speaker 1: but it was close to stopped him went to Utah
Speaker 1: and he went down and went through the south and
Speaker 1: trying to avoid the weather, so you had to keep
Speaker 1: an eye on when the storms are coming through. Pierre
Speaker 1: from Springfield, massachuse to of the Pro Basketball Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame where you can see Mufet McGraw says, I would
Speaker 1: like number one, I would like to commend your sidekick
Speaker 1: for his volunteer work, but I know he has issues
Speaker 1: with the phone. Does he only take calls from women
Speaker 1: there as well? That's good, that's actually pretty good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And and so Pierre guestcan you don't have to praise him.
Speaker 1: He's now quit his his job as volunteers, so you
Speaker 1: can retract that compliment. Question number two, when will you
Speaker 1: be appearing on the Mallard Town podcast? Seeing that Mr
Speaker 1: four oh five beat you to the punch? Is that right?
Speaker 1: Were you on the Mallardtown Podcast? Gast Hunt. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was on there last week when I've not been invited.
Speaker 1: I have not been invited to go on there. Now
Speaker 1: when do they record the Mallardtown podcast is I don't know.
Speaker 1: I went on last Saturday with them, so I don't
Speaker 1: know if they're schedules are different. When I thought like
Speaker 1: the Mallard Tom podcast is more behind the scenes, like
Speaker 1: I'm I don't know if they want to have me on.
Speaker 1: Maybe they want to have a coupon and Eddie and
Speaker 1: you and I kinda hope they don't put Brian Finley
Speaker 1: on there. That would be bad. But but like the
Speaker 1: random people like around the show, and then they'll put
Speaker 1: other callers on. I would imagine. I think that was
Speaker 1: the the plan. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's a collaboration between Ozzy Guy and Queen Rox and
Speaker 1: there putting putting it together. Let's see who is next.
Speaker 1: Pierre said, Also, don't ever retire the incident of ice line.
Speaker 1: I look forward to hearing the from Fuzzy Fudgy every week,
Speaker 1: and that guy needs a Twitter account, stat I'm surprised
Speaker 1: nobody started a parody account. Most of our listeners that
Speaker 1: aren't on Twitter. There's a Dick in Dayton Twitter account.
Speaker 1: There's a Tammy and Montana Twitter. Think they're not on Twitter,
Speaker 1: at least not under those names. Barry from Nashville, Yo, Yo,
Speaker 1: mob Benny, He writes in I know you're probably you
Speaker 1: probably missed my questions and we're wondering what the hell
Speaker 1: happened I did? I always said, well, where's Barry's question? Well,
Speaker 1: every week when I'm putting the thing together, where's Barry?
Speaker 1: No Barry nothing? What happened to Barry anyway? Barry says, well,
Speaker 1: I had to take a few weeks away, as coming
Speaker 1: up with these questions really took a toll on my
Speaker 1: mental health. I learned from Naomi Osaka that I am
Speaker 1: probably also creating mental health issues for you by asking
Speaker 1: these probing bullying questions. Apologies, Well, thank you, Barry. I
Speaker 1: needed a therapy dog. Email continues. But I have been
Speaker 1: listening all the time, and I did have to say
Speaker 1: that regarding toilet paper, your answer is wrong. The correct
Speaker 1: answer is definitely under I am sure Gascon will agree
Speaker 1: no question this episode, as I uh no question in
Speaker 1: this episode. I need to ease myself back into these questions,
Speaker 1: as I am feeling anxiently saiding in, well, okay, I
Speaker 1: completely understand Bury. Uh, well, no, you're right. The person
Speaker 1: that did the pattent Bury, the person that put the
Speaker 1: toilet paper roll patent on the record said the proper
Speaker 1: way on the patent to hang toilet paper is over
Speaker 1: the top. So if you're doing it underneath, you're going
Speaker 1: against the wishes and the wants and the desires of
Speaker 1: the person that created one of the great devices in
Speaker 1: human history, the toilet paper roll. So that's a bad
Speaker 1: job by you. It's a bad job by and it's
Speaker 1: just more disgusting when you go under because your hand,
Speaker 1: your dirty hand, when you wipe that second wipe, you
Speaker 1: might have some ship on it, and it touches like
Speaker 1: the wall, and it's disgusting. Did I describe that properly? Alright?
Speaker 1: Greg in Iowa? Greg and Iowa writes, and he says,
Speaker 1: was that David Gagon, Brian Finley or Ryan McBain behind
Speaker 1: the bushes over there watching you move into the new
Speaker 1: Mallard mansion. Yeah, I can see all three of you
Speaker 1: guys out there. Brian definitely. I don't know about McMain.
Speaker 1: Mcmain's a he's an introvert. I don't think he would
Speaker 1: do it. Gagon would be taking notes to make sure
Speaker 1: everything was high end Mallar mansion. Yeah, west of the
Speaker 1: four or five Carlos in Houston, Texas has men. You
Speaker 1: always say that the Internet never lies, but the Internet
Speaker 1: says that you're your net worth is between one in
Speaker 1: five million dollars. Yeah. Right, So if that's the case,
Speaker 1: will you be buying Tesla stock? Like Mr Gascon Also, David,
Speaker 1: it's great to hear your back, he says. Question for David,
Speaker 1: what are you getting out of doing these football games
Speaker 1: in Europe? What's your end of the game money? I
Speaker 1: would think, I don't know. Is that the financial I
Speaker 1: guess you're making a little bit of money. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: well money and an opportunity. I think that I had
Speaker 1: some good advice from from a colleague that said, if
Speaker 1: you're he works in he works in entertainments, as if
Speaker 1: you're not getting the work, then you've got to either
Speaker 1: make the work, which means like producer, right, or or
Speaker 1: find another another avenue. So yeah, I mean, I'd love
Speaker 1: to have more opportunities where I'm at now, but if
Speaker 1: I'm not getting it, I gotta go outside the normal domain,
Speaker 1: and it's caused me to go internationally. So a lot
Speaker 1: of places want to have good tape. They want to
Speaker 1: have you know, higher level of of of games that
Speaker 1: you're calling. And uh, this is an obviously Division one
Speaker 1: college football, but these guys have played college football, a
Speaker 1: lot of them are professionals. So I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: get as much as i can and hopefully, I mean,
Speaker 1: all it takes is one, So I'm hoping for that
Speaker 1: one to happen sooner rather than later. But uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I just gotta stay in the game for as long
Speaker 1: as I can hold on. Well. And there's the other thing.
Speaker 1: We all have the same neuroses in the media business
Speaker 1: that especially in radio, like you never want to turn
Speaker 1: down a gig, yeah, because you don't know when the
Speaker 1: phone's gonna stop ringing, and you turn down a gig.
Speaker 1: And plus a lot of this is it's just basic networking.
Speaker 1: Like the people you work with on these European football games,
Speaker 1: some of those people are going to end up running
Speaker 1: media companies. And you know, I've hell, I've I've just
Speaker 1: in my radio g I I know a number of
Speaker 1: people that become programm directors, management people, in radio interns, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: some of my old interns have become programed rictor so
Speaker 1: it's you never know who's gonna make it. And and
Speaker 1: and that's one of another one of the reasons that
Speaker 1: you should not treat people below you like an asshole schmuck.
Speaker 1: I try to treat everyone the same, I really do.
Speaker 1: I don't know whether you're you know, I've been fortunate
Speaker 1: enough to know millionaires and billionaires, but I maybe I
Speaker 1: treat them like assholes like I treat regular people. But
Speaker 1: I treat it pretty much everyone the same. I try to.
Speaker 1: I don't really get all worked up about you know,
Speaker 1: it's nice that you have a lot of money and stuff,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I don't really care about that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff anyway. It's not my money, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying exactly all right, Adrian? And the answer question,
Speaker 1: what was this question? You're gonna buy some stock? No,
Speaker 1: come on, man, no, no, My stock portfolio has done
Speaker 1: very well. All my money is going to the house
Speaker 1: right now and the renovation and all that. So I'm
Speaker 1: not investing anything else other Once this is done and
Speaker 1: we do the the book keeping on everything, and I'll
Speaker 1: see how much I have left, then I'll they'll play
Speaker 1: around with it. But no, not not doing that. But
Speaker 1: the stock has gone up. I was able to buy
Speaker 1: when Apples split about some Apple that's gone up a lot.
Speaker 1: So that's done, done very well. A few other a
Speaker 1: lot of I love these stocks to pay dividends. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of Apples one of them. But well yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm talking about like every month or every every
Speaker 1: couple of months, they'll pay some of these things. And
Speaker 1: that's pretty pretty cool. Like I have and a lot
Speaker 1: of relatively inexpensive like five ten bucks. You know, it's
Speaker 1: not a hundred dollar stock or something like that, and
Speaker 1: you get a little bit, you know, it adds up,
Speaker 1: every little bit, every cent adds them. Be sure to
Speaker 1: catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at
Speaker 1: two a m. Eastern eleven p m. Pacific on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio ap Uh he said, anyway,
Speaker 1: Uh here we go. Uh feel free to uh this
Speaker 1: is from Adrian in the Mile High said he feel
Speaker 1: free to share my story about ace rental car near
Speaker 1: l a X. As we get further away from our
Speaker 1: trip to l A I'm not sure if we'll ever
Speaker 1: see the bag. Again. Remember the ups store I needed
Speaker 1: to get the bag too is a four minute drive.
Speaker 1: So anyway, let me give the stories out of context.
Speaker 1: Let me give the backstory. This. So Adrian had sent
Speaker 1: an email, he took his family. He's a big fan
Speaker 1: of the show. He took his family out to Disneyland
Speaker 1: and they rented a car from Ace rental car. Again,
Speaker 1: this is his story. I don't have any way of
Speaker 1: verifying this is his story. I want to clarify that. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's true or not. But I
Speaker 1: like Adrian, and so we'll tell you his story and
Speaker 1: then we can react to it. Just that's for the lawyers. Eddie, Eddie,
Speaker 1: I called you, Eddie Gascon. That's for the lawyers. So
Speaker 1: but anyway, here's the here's the point. So Adrian had
Speaker 1: a very bad experience. He left by mistake a bag
Speaker 1: in the rental car when he was in the rush
Speaker 1: to get to the airport. Right, and we've all done that.
Speaker 1: You're turning around car, big pain in the end. Um.
Speaker 1: So anyway, he uh, he returned the round a car
Speaker 1: and he realized at some point I forget exactly the detail.
Speaker 1: But he realized I forgot the back. So they contacted
Speaker 1: the car rental place and said, hey, we left our
Speaker 1: back and said, well we have the bag. We have
Speaker 1: the bag, and Adrians is great, Um, can you please
Speaker 1: return it go to the UPS store. I'll and I'll
Speaker 1: pay for everything. Just just return it. It's a four
Speaker 1: minute drive from the rental car place to the UPS
Speaker 1: store and not a single person, according to Adrian, again
Speaker 1: this is his story, not a single person from Ace
Speaker 1: rental car was willing to drive the bag over there.
Speaker 1: And Adrian says, it pisces him off. You know that.
Speaker 1: You know, they could not do a small favor. They
Speaker 1: spent a ton of money, he and his family. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a hard working, blue collar family. They spent a
Speaker 1: lot of money renting the car for five days from them,
Speaker 1: and he was willing to pay for everything and he
Speaker 1: just needed the to get to the UPS store and
Speaker 1: they would not do it. They would not do it.
Speaker 1: And uh so yeah, so that's uh, that's the deal
Speaker 1: from from Adrian. And he actually asked if I could
Speaker 1: do it or you could do it? And are both
Speaker 1: Our schedules were not not able. I'm not near l
Speaker 1: a X at all and I've been dealing with the
Speaker 1: moving stuff, so I was unable to do it. He says,
Speaker 1: are you able to drop the weekend podcast earlier than
Speaker 1: six am Pacific? That would be cool if you could. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we could drop them whenever, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: with the ability to drop them whenever, why did we
Speaker 1: do I think on Friday we do the six am
Speaker 1: time because of you, because of the show. But yeah,
Speaker 1: on Saturday and Sunday we could do it earlier. How
Speaker 1: we're how early are you looking for? Six? Is seven
Speaker 1: am in Denver Mountain time? Six am? Well I don't wait, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, the math on that? Is it six am?
Speaker 1: It's six am Pacific time? We do it on the East. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we can drop it earlier. Yeah, so that make of
Speaker 1: a deal. Should we do the Saturday Sunday one? What
Speaker 1: do you think? Seven Eastern? It's fine. I can put whatever.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to think, Like, the whole point is
Speaker 1: that people wake up and see it on their phone.
Speaker 1: But they still wake up and see it on their
Speaker 1: phone if it's earlier. Right, Yeah, I Adrian, your wishes
Speaker 1: are commed. Mike in Champa Bay, Florida says, we need
Speaker 1: you back in the Tampa Bay market. The local station
Speaker 1: twelve fifty does not carry you anymore lonely and desperate
Speaker 1: in Tampa. That sucks. Yeah, Mike Uh, let me give
Speaker 1: you the boiler plate response here. First of all, we
Speaker 1: do a syndicated show. Stations pick up the show, drop
Speaker 1: the show. We've been on and off the radio in Tampa.
Speaker 1: If you've been listening over the years, we've been on
Speaker 1: several different radio stations, some big, some small. It's just
Speaker 1: the politics of radio. Big media companies and formats change.
Speaker 1: The good news is that you can hear the show
Speaker 1: several ways. Like in the old days when I first
Speaker 1: got into syndicated radio, like I was doing weekends and
Speaker 1: you could only hear the show via the syndication. But
Speaker 1: now there's satellite radio, the Serious if you're if you're
Speaker 1: into it, a lot of great broadcasters on Serious. Our
Speaker 1: show is on Serious. Occasionally we get covered up by soccer,
Speaker 1: European soccer or something like that, but we're on series.
Speaker 1: And then if you just want to stream, if you're
Speaker 1: able to listen to the stream and it doesn't kill
Speaker 1: your data plan, if you have unlimited data, I Heart
Speaker 1: Radio app is wonderful. The company wants us to promote that.
Speaker 1: So we do promote that. But there's other apps that
Speaker 1: also stream the show, but I shouldn't promote those. I
Speaker 1: don't even know the name of them. But there's many
Speaker 1: different ways you can hear the show. Um, and you're
Speaker 1: not just limited to radio. But I realized that people
Speaker 1: are creatures of habit. I'm a creature of habit, as
Speaker 1: I've said many times on the podcast. And you are
Speaker 1: used to listening to consuming radio audio content on the radio,
Speaker 1: and it's a pain in the asked to to do
Speaker 1: it differently. The cooling about these phones in most cars now,
Speaker 1: unless your car is a Jelapi and old car, you
Speaker 1: can hook Yeah, you can hook up be a Bluetooth.
Speaker 1: It's just like on the radio. It's amazing, my god.
Speaker 1: In fact, most of the radio I listened to. I'll
Speaker 1: listen to a lot of different stuff on the I
Speaker 1: Heart app. I use some of the other apps, even
Speaker 1: some of the competitors, because I like to listen, you know,
Speaker 1: two different different sounds of different things and whatnot. Not
Speaker 1: a lot of sports radio, but I'll listen to different
Speaker 1: formats of radio, talk radio, regular talk radio, things like that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, um, so that's the answer. Mike Rob from Lincoln, Nebraska. Again,
Speaker 1: this is a follow up to a question we got
Speaker 1: earlier from our guy Yo Yo mob Benny and Nashville.
Speaker 1: This follow up let me find it here, Robin Lincoln says,
Speaker 1: steadily lifelong debate. Once and for all, do you pull
Speaker 1: toilet paper from the top or roll it out under?
Speaker 1: And again, Rob, the proper way is over the top. Uh.
Speaker 1: And if you go to a house and you see
Speaker 1: toilet paper underneath, someone has messed up, whether it's the
Speaker 1: parents teaching the kids and the kids, it's just fing up. Now.
Speaker 1: The proper way, the way it's supposed to be done,
Speaker 1: the way it's supposed to be done, is to drop
Speaker 1: it down over the top. That's what again, you're laughing
Speaker 1: at me. No, it's very important. This is the kind
Speaker 1: of thing people talk about. Don't give a shit about
Speaker 1: my opinion about sports. These are the kind of things
Speaker 1: people care about. This is what resonates with the hearts,
Speaker 1: minds and souls of the listener to the Fifth Hour podcast.
Speaker 1: But don't say and we brought it up. I mean
Speaker 1: it's a great story. They they looked it up. Researchers
Speaker 1: looked up the original paperwork for the patent of the
Speaker 1: toilet paper roll, and the patent shows the proper way
Speaker 1: to hanging the toilet paper is over the top, and
Speaker 1: that's I follow the patent. And it's not like underneath
Speaker 1: is better. It's not. It's simply not. Chris and Marracca
Speaker 1: to Iowa says, how about a meet and greet around
Speaker 1: next Year's Feel their Dreams game. All the Ohio dudes
Speaker 1: are on board. Well, that sounds like a great idea.
Speaker 1: I'd love to come to Iowa. I think it's not
Speaker 1: there's a lot there, but I think it would be
Speaker 1: cool to experience. I've never been to Iowa. We have
Speaker 1: a lot of considering the population of Iowa, we do
Speaker 1: very well in the state of Iowa. We have a
Speaker 1: lot of very active contributors. And I don't know what
Speaker 1: everyone does in Iowa. I know from some of you
Speaker 1: what you've told me. You work on farms and whatnot,
Speaker 1: and so you're up early, and you're up and you
Speaker 1: listen to the podcast or whatever you're you're up late
Speaker 1: working on stuff in the barn. Uh. Either way, I
Speaker 1: think that would be fun. I just I'm worried about
Speaker 1: the access. Like Fielded Dreams, there's only eight thousand seeds
Speaker 1: or something like that, and it's mostly people that are
Speaker 1: connected with Major League Baseball. They get access to that.
Speaker 1: So I don't think that would work out. Where you
Speaker 1: go to Iowa. We can meet in a corn field somewhere,
Speaker 1: but actually going to the game, I don't think that
Speaker 1: would be realistic unless it's certain football season and then
Speaker 1: we go to a Hawk Eyes game. Yeah, now we
Speaker 1: can do that. I still need to go to I
Speaker 1: wear this Iowa Hawkeyes hat quite a bit. It's a
Speaker 1: good looking hat. I'd love to go to a Hawk
Speaker 1: Eyes game. Mike Karen Kay My my friend Karen Kay
Speaker 1: got sent to not to Iowa, was to an Iowa game,
Speaker 1: to an Iowa State game in Des Moines. For I
Speaker 1: think it was an Iowa State Iowa game, but it
Speaker 1: was in De Moine and this our affiliate in De Moine,
Speaker 1: the morning show sent her. They're all her and the
Speaker 1: producer not me. Uh, and I didn't have was bummed out.
Speaker 1: I didn't get to go off I It would have
Speaker 1: been a fun time, so I'd love to do it. Uh.
Speaker 1: Derek the chef Auckland, New Zealand, what ingredients would we
Speaker 1: find in the ultimate Mallard cookie. Now, Derek, could you
Speaker 1: make the Mallard cookie in Auckland, New Zealand. That would
Speaker 1: be awesome, That would be I don't know if if
Speaker 1: he's an amateur chef gascon or if he's a professional chef.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. You know who's really good
Speaker 1: at baking? What's that? Steve Hartman's wife or ex wife. Um,
Speaker 1: on the weekends during football season. This woman bakes cookies, brownies,
Speaker 1: she does pastries. Um, she does muffins like. She is
Speaker 1: phenomenal bet bait goods I've ever had in my entire life.
Speaker 1: And I mean going into stores and and whatnot. She
Speaker 1: is phenomenal. Yeah, phenomenal. That's great. I mean peanut butter cookies,
Speaker 1: mint chocolate chip, banana bread, the whole smash. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: I haven't really spent much time you're thinking about the
Speaker 1: perfect Mallard cookie. I love. I'm a traditionalist. As the
Speaker 1: construction continues here, a lot of pounding of nails. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the hell is going on. I'm a
Speaker 1: little afraid to walk out of the studio. Literally, it's
Speaker 1: a bubble. Guest, guys, where are you wearing shoes? I
Speaker 1: do have damn it. Which I hate wearing shoes. One
Speaker 1: of the reasons I got into radio is to never
Speaker 1: have to wear other than when I'm on the treadmill
Speaker 1: and it is. Yeah, I've had to wear shoes a lot.
Speaker 1: Keep keeping on. This is like a two story place
Speaker 1: I'm moving into and the there's no spindles, there's no rails. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because that's all been taken now, so you gotta worry
Speaker 1: about nails, screws, wood, dust and dust and and maybe
Speaker 1: chips of tile. Yes, oh my god, it is un believable. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I got distracted. But the Mallard cookie, I'm a traditionalist,
Speaker 1: like the cookie, the chocolate chip cookie. I like a
Speaker 1: white chocolate. My wife just not. I don't mind a
Speaker 1: white chocolate. Macadamian nut cookies pretty good. I've had some good,
Speaker 1: good cookies there. The snicker doodle. How about what would
Speaker 1: a Mallard doodle be? We should come up. Wouldn't that
Speaker 1: be a grow in the Mallard doodle, like a spinoff
Speaker 1: of the snicker doodle, a Mallard doodle? But what would
Speaker 1: be in the Mallard doodle? I don't know. Like when
Speaker 1: you said Macadamian nuts, like do you like a different
Speaker 1: type of nut or no, like almonds or yeah? I
Speaker 1: like almonds. I like cash shoes. I'm very nut friendly.
Speaker 1: Walnuts that sounded dirty. Uh, not as big and walnut fan.
Speaker 1: I like almonds, cash shoes. You would have peanuts, which
Speaker 1: are a lagoon, not a nut. Peanuts a lagoon. You
Speaker 1: wouldn't soil it with ray basins, would you know? No? Uh?
Speaker 1: In fact, my wife, he loves my bride loves cinnamon
Speaker 1: raisin cookies. Why I like the cinnamon part. I don't
Speaker 1: like the raisins. Yeah, even when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: like uh, you know, when my mom would make dinner
Speaker 1: on Friday night, you know, for Shabbat uh And you
Speaker 1: can get halla, the traditional Jewish Jewish bread, which I
Speaker 1: love because I grew up with it. But you can
Speaker 1: get it with raisins and without. But my mom loved
Speaker 1: the raisins. I hate the rais I occasionally buy a Holla,
Speaker 1: but I will get it without raisins because I don't
Speaker 1: like races and I'm just not a fan. Um and
Speaker 1: they're good for you. Should I should like raisins, but
Speaker 1: I just I'm not into the raisins. What about mint?
Speaker 1: I don't know, I like mint, I like Minto. I
Speaker 1: I enjoyed the mint. I'm a fan fan fan of
Speaker 1: the mint. Now, I guess this is a question because
Speaker 1: this goes back to our I think we're talking a
Speaker 1: few guys about Disneyland. Are you a small cookie guy
Speaker 1: or a fat one cookie guy? Uh? Yeah, so I've
Speaker 1: done it both ways. I've done it both ways. I
Speaker 1: prefer a hearty cookie. I like a big, big cookie.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite desserts, which I think is the
Speaker 1: perfect ice cream dessert, is a massive chocolate chip cookie,
Speaker 1: not burned, cooked properly, with a gigantic scoop of vanilla
Speaker 1: ice cream, like maybe even two scoops, and then another
Speaker 1: gigantic chocolate chip cookie on top. Basic, delicious, wonderful. But
Speaker 1: the Mallard doodle cookie we could add to that and
Speaker 1: that would be great, awesome, that would be awesome. I'm
Speaker 1: all forward, Well, we gotta come up with something there.
Speaker 1: And we have a lot with another one of these
Speaker 1: these professions that we have, you know, chefs and people
Speaker 1: working construction truck drivers that are fans of the podcast
Speaker 1: Pilot Stephen. This one's from Mark in New Hampshire. He says,
Speaker 1: what's your guests on how many NFL games will be
Speaker 1: forfeited because of the new COVID rule. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: think any are. The train will keep moving. The show
Speaker 1: must go on. It is amusing though, that certain players
Speaker 1: that have gone public about not getting the vaccine, they're
Speaker 1: they're going to be playing games and stadiums where everyone
Speaker 1: to attend has to have the vaccine. So how's that
Speaker 1: gonna work. I'm not sure how that's that's going to work.
Speaker 1: The next one from this is from Pino from Rome.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure which Rome. That could be Roman America,
Speaker 1: that could be Roman Rome. How's your gambling on games
Speaker 1: doing while COVID nineteen? Meaning I think Vegas has a
Speaker 1: better advantage because it's harder now to gamble with all
Speaker 1: the ship with COVID. Do you agree with me? Good
Speaker 1: luck on your new home. Thank you, Pino. Yes. In fact,
Speaker 1: I had one of my worst years. I've been doing
Speaker 1: many for the many versus the penny for years, and
Speaker 1: last year it was really difficult because the normal things
Speaker 1: that I used to handicap a game went out the window. Yeah,
Speaker 1: crowd noise was huge and it wasn't existent. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: is a it is a factor. And that that last
Speaker 1: year the road teams won more than ever the best
Speaker 1: winning presents there's no home field advantage. Um, so yeah,
Speaker 1: it is more difficult. I think it will be. It
Speaker 1: will be harder. I I wanna. I have a pretty
Speaker 1: good idea. I always have a good idea going into
Speaker 1: week one, and then by week three I'm like, ah, fuck,
Speaker 1: you know, first go, I feel pretty good the first
Speaker 1: couple of weeks usually like I have a pretty good
Speaker 1: grasp of everything's going on because of the job and
Speaker 1: keeping track of player movement, who I think can play
Speaker 1: and who can't play. And there's some new coaches that
Speaker 1: I don't know a lot about, which like the guy
Speaker 1: in Philly I have no idea if he can coach
Speaker 1: his way out of a paper bag. Things like that.
Speaker 1: David Kelly and Houston another one. Yeah, that's a that's
Speaker 1: another one. Cliff from Nashville says a Ben, congratulations on
Speaker 1: the new malor mentioned will you thaw the and burn
Speaker 1: the Tomahawks? Another Tomahawk. We had more email about the Tomahawks.
Speaker 1: They see. That's why I'm providing content, guest gun. By
Speaker 1: not cooking it, I am providing content. I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: the age of it on there. I'm gonna say the
Speaker 1: best of twenty. I don't know was it en? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think it was because oh maybe wown' think. I
Speaker 1: hope so be a better story for this. Uh Eric
Speaker 1: and Omaha says question for both of you, my best
Speaker 1: friend is moving to Arizona from Omaha. Have you guys
Speaker 1: ever had a best friend move away? And also should
Speaker 1: I kick him in the nuts before he moves? Well? Yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: kick him in the nuts. Don't tell him, I told
Speaker 1: you to do it. But yeah, had friends moved for jobs.
Speaker 1: I don't know about best best friend, but I've had
Speaker 1: secondary friends that have moved all over the country. And
Speaker 1: what I've experienced is you always say, well, we'll still
Speaker 1: be best friends and we'll still talk, and yeah, you
Speaker 1: know you known't. You're checking every once in a while,
Speaker 1: but it's not. It's not the same. Out of sight,
Speaker 1: out of mind. That's generally how that goes. Even with
Speaker 1: all the technology, you'll you'll end up like looking at
Speaker 1: their Instagram post to find out what they're doing and
Speaker 1: vice versa or one on Facebook. That's usually how that goes.
Speaker 1: That's typically how that goes. Soul life is now man
Speaker 1: I Uh, people that are close in town, like proximity wise,
Speaker 1: and even people they are near and far. It just
Speaker 1: depends on Well that's that is true nowadays because everyone's
Speaker 1: afraid to be around other people. I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: not should it be? Should I be afraid to be
Speaker 1: around people? I don't know? And I'm not like around
Speaker 1: a lot of people anyway, But I don't mind. It's
Speaker 1: kind of roll with the punches. Yeah, no choice. It
Speaker 1: is silver lining. If he's going into Tempe Scottsdale, then
Speaker 1: you have a great place to go visit your friend
Speaker 1: at because those are are great cities to visit. Tucson
Speaker 1: not so much. No, Phoenix, Tempe and Scottsdale. Well Phoenix, yeah,
Speaker 1: self is. But Scotts Stills the Beverly Hills. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: call that like the JV version of Newport Beach. It's
Speaker 1: Newport Beach without the beach. Yeah yeah, yeah, I got you. Uh,
Speaker 1: what else do we have here? Fred from Spring, Texas
Speaker 1: is what are your favorite kinds of music? Eras and performers.
Speaker 1: I have an eclectic taste, fred in music, I'm more
Speaker 1: about the rhythm than the lyrics. Drives my wife nuts.
Speaker 1: She's all about the lyrics. I could listen to music
Speaker 1: that sounds the lyrics when you actually read the lyrics like,
Speaker 1: holy crap, that's terrible. But I like to beat and
Speaker 1: I like the rhythm, so I'm all about the rhythm.
Speaker 1: But I do like Johnny Cash and his you know,
Speaker 1: his stuffs, pretty poetic there, the Man in Black, Johnny
Speaker 1: Cash of his old obviously been dead a while. Listen
Speaker 1: to a lot of that, But when I'm prepping for
Speaker 1: the show, I will listen to classical music or smooth jazz.
Speaker 1: I don't want anything with lyrics and I just want
Speaker 1: something in the background. I'll also listen. You know, it's
Speaker 1: pretty cool and it's classical. John Williams, the composer. John
Speaker 1: Williams did like Star Wars and Indiana Jones and pretty
Speaker 1: much anything Steven Spielberg put together he was part of.
Speaker 1: And a lot of that stuff is really cool to
Speaker 1: listen to. So soundtracks are great. Yeah, it's pretty neat.
Speaker 1: Craig in Cammell City formerly from St. Louis. How is
Speaker 1: Karen Ka doing? How about that? We mentioned Karen earlier?
Speaker 1: Could you add a few drops on the Ben Mallor show?
Speaker 1: And as always, I am the original endorser of the
Speaker 1: Ben Mallow Show. That is right Craig when he was
Speaker 1: in St. Louis, as I Craig from St. Louis endors
Speaker 1: to Ben Maller Show. Craig, Karen is doing well. I
Speaker 1: haven't talked to her in a little while. I've tried
Speaker 1: to book her on the podcast. Unfortunately, she's working a
Speaker 1: radio gig when we record the podcast, so we've not
Speaker 1: been able to work it out. And I've invited Karen
Speaker 1: every year I've had the Christmas party. I've always invited
Speaker 1: Karen to the party. Every year she's had something else
Speaker 1: going on. She hasn't been able to attend. And we'll
Speaker 1: bring the Christmas party back this year. I'm gonna invite
Speaker 1: her again. Hopefully she'll show up. We love Karen. She's
Speaker 1: great and she's she's doing pretty well. From from what
Speaker 1: I understand, she's doing like news traffic, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Last I heard, I think she's doing some djaying as well,
Speaker 1: So she's she's doing good. Uh. Cubs fan Mike from
Speaker 1: Fort Wayne, Indiana says glad gas Can is back. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I read this one. Ben is just jealous. He
Speaker 1: wishes he lived west of A four oh five for
Speaker 1: both of you. What is your dream car? Uh, I
Speaker 1: don't have a dream car. I'm not like I drive
Speaker 1: just a commuter car. I like comfort, though, I want
Speaker 1: a car one of my favorite cars. It sounds so stupid, Uh,
Speaker 1: Lincoln Continental. I had a rental car, a Lincoln Continental
Speaker 1: years ago, and I sat on that seat and I
Speaker 1: felt like I was on my sofa. It was like
Speaker 1: I was driving on my sofa. It was so comfortable
Speaker 1: for my ass. My god, was that comfortable and I
Speaker 1: loved it. And I have not found a car and
Speaker 1: I don't even know. That was an old model, gas
Speaker 1: guzzling Lincoln Continental, but it was so comfortable. And I
Speaker 1: want a lot of room and a lot of comfort.
Speaker 1: I'm a big, long leg guy, kind of lengthy s
Speaker 1: So yeah, what about you? Guess? Well, what about a
Speaker 1: car that you would love to drive at least, like
Speaker 1: there's gotta be a car out there. You're like, man,
Speaker 1: I would love to drive that. Well, yeah, and I
Speaker 1: don't want drive that fast, so I don't know, like
Speaker 1: the speed thing, I don't know, like I go over
Speaker 1: like ninety, I get little freaked out. What was your
Speaker 1: car of choice? Guests? Typical meathead guy with like a
Speaker 1: race car or something like that. No, I can't drive.
Speaker 1: I can't drive fast cars because I drive naturally fast.
Speaker 1: So it's just it's a bad it's a bad combination.
Speaker 1: Speed racer. Yeah, that's like speed racer. Yeah, that's like
Speaker 1: gasoline and in a match or a blowtorch. Um, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Uh, I would love to. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I would really drive it a whole lot, but
Speaker 1: I would love to have on those old school James
Speaker 1: Bond cars like the Ashton Martins. Yeah, but things are
Speaker 1: pretty freaking dope. I course you would pick an expensive car.
Speaker 1: Uh well, Lincoln town Car is expensive too. What about
Speaker 1: a Tesla? You don't want drive a Tesla? Those are
Speaker 1: moderately priced. I wouldn't mind driving one of those. Of course,
Speaker 1: we have to be careful because if you get a
Speaker 1: Tesla in California and you have a blackout, then how
Speaker 1: you gonna charge your car? Well, it would have to blackout,
Speaker 1: would have to last a long time. Yeah, well yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of things could happen. Scott says, I feel
Speaker 1: your pain, Bent. I moved several times in my life
Speaker 1: and it's absolutely miserable. Yes it is, Scott. Remember lift
Speaker 1: with your legs, not your back. That the hardaway. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I only had one incident where I didn't do that,
Speaker 1: and that my lower back was fucked up for a
Speaker 1: few hours. Kevin in Kansas says, Hey, Ben, I know
Speaker 1: you don't have to rush to the studio very often.
Speaker 1: But from your new mansion, have you already scoped out
Speaker 1: and practice new driving routs or routes for when Gremlin's
Speaker 1: might strike again? No, In fact, I will now be
Speaker 1: geographically undesirable to make this city. I have moved so
Speaker 1: far away that logistically, I don't think it would work. Unless,
Speaker 1: let's put it this way, if the line, the broadcast
Speaker 1: line went out Kevin an hour before the show, and
Speaker 1: I was told it was going to be out, I
Speaker 1: could make it within maybe the last couple of hours.
Speaker 1: It's a long haul. It's a long haul, so if
Speaker 1: it went out in our three by the time I
Speaker 1: got to the studio, the show would be over. So
Speaker 1: there's no point in me even bothering. So it really depends,
Speaker 1: but I'm hoping we'll have This is a new setup,
Speaker 1: it's a new studio, there's a new line. Obviously, these
Speaker 1: things happen occasionally. There's nothing you can do about it,
Speaker 1: but hopefully, uh, it will not happen. We'll get the
Speaker 1: Adi Garcia show and I'll be on the phone. I'll
Speaker 1: just do it on the phone. Well, how great will
Speaker 1: that be? Phone? I'll be the guests. There'll be plenty
Speaker 1: of shows here on the network that have had host
Speaker 1: call and do their show from their phone. Phoning it in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: literally and figuraly speaking, Uh, phoneing it in. Yes, a
Speaker 1: lot of people going through the motions. Uh. Yeah. Shortcuts
Speaker 1: lead to long delay, so I try to avoid to
Speaker 1: avoid cutting corners as much as possible, saying Louis John
Speaker 1: writes and says, reminds me of the line from the
Speaker 1: Joker movie. They all laughed at me when I said
Speaker 1: I wanted to be a comedian. Well, no one is
Speaker 1: laughing now, you got that right, pal. He's talking about
Speaker 1: Bryan Finley Mike in Vegas. Is which NFL team or
Speaker 1: teams do you think will surprise us this year? By that,
Speaker 1: I mean going from worst to first in their division,
Speaker 1: making an unexpected playoff push, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. So he
Speaker 1: wants this is like a hard oh sports question. We
Speaker 1: don't normally do that on this show. We don't normally
Speaker 1: go there. But if you were to say, going back
Speaker 1: to last year, team that can make a dramatic move Chargers,
Speaker 1: Well everyone's going to Chargers. That's cliche. It's a tough division.
Speaker 1: I'm not as convinced that they've found the second coming
Speaker 1: of Philip Rivers and Dan Fouts as everyone else. I
Speaker 1: want to see more. I want to see more, But
Speaker 1: the Charger went seven to night. I think another one,
Speaker 1: which is a similar argument would be the Patriots. The
Speaker 1: Patriots went seven and nine. That division to me is
Speaker 1: wide open. I don't think Miami is a great team.
Speaker 1: Buffalo was a great team last year, but now they
Speaker 1: have expectations. Would you can't and they went six and
Speaker 1: oh in the division? Are they gonna go six and
Speaker 1: oh in the division? Again? You figured maybe they lose
Speaker 1: one to Miami, one of the Patriots, so that becomes
Speaker 1: four and two. So then they have to do the
Speaker 1: same thing outside division. So just four and two in
Speaker 1: the division, assuming they have the same non division record,
Speaker 1: then that puts him at eleven. Oh. The math is
Speaker 1: messed up now because it's the extra game, right, the
Speaker 1: extra game fox it up. But anyway, the point is
Speaker 1: they will not have the same I don't gonna go
Speaker 1: a thirteen and four, and I just didn't see them
Speaker 1: losing in New England. Though pages better defensively, better skilled players,
Speaker 1: they were actually in the game. Remember that Cam Newton,
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly the game in Buffalo, I believe
Speaker 1: he funked up at the end. So he did against them,
Speaker 1: he did against Denver Seattle in Yeah, so the Patriots
Speaker 1: that that's a that's an easy we figured a beut
Speaker 1: chick knows what he's doing. What about San Francisco. San
Speaker 1: Francisco has decimated last year with injuries and they finished well.
Speaker 1: Um do that division? The Rams are going to be
Speaker 1: the team they were good last year. They'll be good
Speaker 1: this you're dude, I think I think the Saints are
Speaker 1: to fall off a cliff. Have they named their quartermall
Speaker 1: have a name? N that's a bad sign. I hope
Speaker 1: they fall off a cliff. I can't imagine Carolina being
Speaker 1: with Sam Donald like, even if he's a little better.
Speaker 1: I don't I just don't see that. I could see
Speaker 1: Tampa going down a couple of pegs. Remember they were
Speaker 1: pretty mediocre teams and then they took off the last
Speaker 1: part of the regular season. People forget that. And any time,
Speaker 1: any anytime Brady has a bad performance of like whoa,
Speaker 1: you know they overlooking. But he had some games where
Speaker 1: he was just kind of blah, people forget that. It's
Speaker 1: like if you block it out, you remember the good stuff. Um,
Speaker 1: so I guess I'm not giving you anything really good.
Speaker 1: I mean the teams, I like, I could see Minnesota
Speaker 1: rising up, but they were seven and nine. Also, like,
Speaker 1: I don't see there's I don't Philadelphia. No, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I don't buy Dallas. I'm sorry, I'm not there. Boy.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of pressure on the Giants too. With
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. I think Washington the division. Yeah, but they
Speaker 1: were seven and nine. Also, obviously I love the seven
Speaker 1: and nine. I'm a fan. To answer your question, I'm
Speaker 1: a fan of the seven and nine, but I'm I'm
Speaker 1: down on the i'mbarrassed on the Niners. Are you bullish
Speaker 1: on Denver? No, because I don't believe Drew Lock. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I would go with Teddy Bridge or maybe they will
Speaker 1: by the time Bridge. What was average? The problem with that?
Speaker 1: You gotta have a great defense. You can get to
Speaker 1: a super Bowl. It's very tough to win, because then
Speaker 1: you need to get to that point. You then need
Speaker 1: the auto out of body experience like the Ravens with
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco had eleven touchdowns yea or or Nick Foles.
Speaker 1: But if you don't get that, you have Rex Grossman
Speaker 1: and Jared Goff who got to the super Bowl, but
Speaker 1: then you needed them to perform and they weren't able
Speaker 1: to do it. They were not able to get it done.
Speaker 1: Couldn't get her done right, which is the the old
Speaker 1: problem there. But I have no idea how long the mill?
Speaker 1: But I've just kept going here. I have no idea.
Speaker 1: How about one more than we'll put the baby bit?
Speaker 1: How about that? All right? Joe from the r v
Speaker 1: A Richmond, Virginia, says Ben. We keep hearing dire warnings
Speaker 1: about the water supply out west. One prediction I heard
Speaker 1: recently is that water will run out in and forty
Speaker 1: million people will be migrating east for water. Are y'all
Speaker 1: that concerned out there? Are you making plans to move
Speaker 1: before the great migration? No? Uh, and I'm not, And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. And this is gonna be an
Speaker 1: unpopular opinion. All right, I'm what I'm about to do
Speaker 1: here Gascon is give an unpopular opinion. And one of
Speaker 1: the great scams of our time is the doomsday offices
Speaker 1: from certain scientists. And it's one of the great scams.
Speaker 1: And I am not anti science by any means. I
Speaker 1: am not. I love that science has made life much
Speaker 1: easier and much better for so many people. But I
Speaker 1: also don't appreciate bullshit. I don't. And the science is
Speaker 1: all about disagreement, right, and all that stuff, and you know,
Speaker 1: follow the science. They said, that's a big thing. Now.
Speaker 1: Science has been politicized recently. But one thing I learned
Speaker 1: years ago, and I've said it a few times on
Speaker 1: this podcast, is that the way scientists get a lot
Speaker 1: of media attention and thus money is by being pessimistic. Right,
Speaker 1: That gets attention because the way it works here, right,
Speaker 1: to get attention from the political cla us in the media.
Speaker 1: You know, they say, follow the you know, list of
Speaker 1: the experts and all that do what they tell you
Speaker 1: and all. But uh, there is science. But science consists
Speaker 1: of people disagreeing, as I said, and there's so many
Speaker 1: predictions that have been made that were repeatedly wrong. Didn't
Speaker 1: AOC say that within ten years? She said, it's a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, like we're all it's all, we're
Speaker 1: all doomed or something like that. It's not chick crazy.
Speaker 1: I'm just using that as an example. Yeah, she is,
Speaker 1: she's nuts, um, but what I've seen of her, I
Speaker 1: don't know. You can look at the stuff here in
Speaker 1: California when people talking, and I know that they do,
Speaker 1: but they they really latch onto global warming and climate change. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the point I was making is that they went
Speaker 1: back and looked at some of these experts predictions years ago.
Speaker 1: They're all fucking wrong. Um, And nobody goes back and looks.
Speaker 1: It's a perfect scamp. It's the perfect camp. If you
Speaker 1: say something really pessimistic about how many people are going
Speaker 1: to die, the media want to believe you. The politicians
Speaker 1: it is better not believe you, because then they will
Speaker 1: have blood on their hands. And so it's this revolving
Speaker 1: cycle and no one ever calls goes back to wait
Speaker 1: a minute, that was bullshit. You got wrong. And then
Speaker 1: if they get it wrong, they said, well, it's because
Speaker 1: because of the report we changed it. If it hadn't
Speaker 1: been for me, you know, it will all be dead
Speaker 1: right now. Like Neil Ferguson, in the UK with the
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen deaths. Yeah, yeah, it's the same same concept,
Speaker 1: like whatever you do. He's like, well, I see it
Speaker 1: wasn't for you know, my my decision saved all these
Speaker 1: lives with no way of actually verifying whether it did
Speaker 1: or not. Like Gavin Newson's campaign right now, he says,
Speaker 1: we are literally saving lives. Don't let Republicans push forward
Speaker 1: with One of my favorite things is that in California
Speaker 1: you bringing the mass back right, and there's there's scientific
Speaker 1: proof that the mask don't really work the way the
Speaker 1: way people use masks, like you know, a handkerchief or
Speaker 1: a bandana, they don't actually work. People don't like to
Speaker 1: hear that, but it's true. But people just keep wear
Speaker 1: a mask. You do this, you know, but they don't
Speaker 1: work the way people the way the rank and file,
Speaker 1: the HOI POLOI wear a mask is useless. It's pointless.
Speaker 1: And I remember I got I got some flak when
Speaker 1: the mask mandate started. And I remember I was wearing
Speaker 1: a mask and I was walking about outside and there
Speaker 1: was a guy smoking and I smelled the tobacco of
Speaker 1: the smoke. I'm like, if I'm smelling that, what other
Speaker 1: crap is getting you know, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: And but they have they've actually done the research here
Speaker 1: and again, Oh that's just that's politicians on the wrong side.
Speaker 1: They don't know what they're talking about. Well, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you know this, but if you if you
Speaker 1: test positive for COVID nineteen, then you actually have the virus.
Speaker 1: It's an accurate test. You can actually test positive up
Speaker 1: to ten weeks after your initial diagnosis. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know that. And the reason why is because
Speaker 1: when they do the nasal swabs, those microbes that you
Speaker 1: got will stay in your system for a minimum of
Speaker 1: two weeks, but they could stay in you for at
Speaker 1: least ten ten more weeks after that. So when I've
Speaker 1: I've talked to my doctor obviously about the testing, He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: don't be don't be scared or alarmed. But if you
Speaker 1: test out positive with COVID nineteen, it could be in
Speaker 1: your in your nasal, in your nasal cavity for up
Speaker 1: to ten weeks. So it's possible that that happens. Um
Speaker 1: I was like, so what happens? Like? Am I able
Speaker 1: to go back to work? Like it's gonna show it positively, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: after you know, after two weeks you're able to be
Speaker 1: free of it. But yeah, I mean, if you're aware,
Speaker 1: if you want to be actually like responsible and be
Speaker 1: sincere about protecting yourself with COVID nineteen, you should be
Speaker 1: wearing full ppe covering your eyes, your nose, your mouth,
Speaker 1: and even realistically your ears because the microbes can get
Speaker 1: into all those passages. So you know, I were a
Speaker 1: D ninety five, but you get people wearing class you know,
Speaker 1: these little you know, surgeon masks. It's just off, it's
Speaker 1: all crap. Yeah, all right, well outstand, Well we'll put
Speaker 1: the Baby to Be back on the radio from the
Speaker 1: new studio deep in the north Woods. We look forward
Speaker 1: to that tonight. Anything to promote guest gun anything at all. Um,
Speaker 1: has your episode dropped of you on the Mallard Town podcast.
Speaker 1: You did dropped last week, so listen to that. Um yeah, Twitter,
Speaker 1: handle that, David ja Gascon. Let me get it up
Speaker 1: to like respectable weight limit. I know it's not there,
Speaker 1: but whatever. Yeah, I've kind of been treading water. I
Speaker 1: lose a few, gain a few, mentioned politics, lose a
Speaker 1: few and a few. You know that kind of Uh,
Speaker 1: I have listened to you for years, but you said
Speaker 1: something I don't agree with. So no, I can't thank
Speaker 1: you don't need to send the email. I appreciate it,
Speaker 1: I got it. I get it. You only want to
Speaker 1: hear people that agree with everything you said. I understand. Okay,
Speaker 1: So if we do mention that you said it yesterday
Speaker 1: or the day before, if if there is a guest
Speaker 1: that's within range, send it to the to the email
Speaker 1: address and and we'll see if we could flag down
Speaker 1: that person. Yeah. No, absolutely, And we have some I've
Speaker 1: reached out to some big names. Uh and unfortunately I
Speaker 1: have not not gotten much back here. I'm still waiting
Speaker 1: to hear back on the latest, the latest one, the
Speaker 1: shot in the dark. Um. So yeah, we'll see. But
Speaker 1: usually it's a an interesting cycle getting the bigger names on.
Speaker 1: They say, who have you had on? But they want
Speaker 1: big names. But it's like we had with the late
Speaker 1: round Popeel he didn't want to come on because we
Speaker 1: didn't have a big enough names. But if he had
Speaker 1: come on, then we would have been to get other
Speaker 1: big names. And so it's a but I think we
Speaker 1: have fine people. We had a great celebrity chef on
Speaker 1: on Friday, Andrew, I was wonderful. Jorge a lot. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go to his pizza restaurant. Good. So anyway, have
Speaker 1: a great rest of your Sunday. Sunday Sunday, and hopefully,
Speaker 1: knock on wood, we will have a big Benny versus
Speaker 1: the Penny announcement. But we need to speak this into existence,
Speaker 1: guest gun, We need the Mallard Militia to promise that
Speaker 1: whatever Benny versus the Penny looks like or sounds like whatever,
Speaker 1: you will follow us to that position that point. More
Speaker 1: on that coming up, and we have a great rest
Speaker 1: your Sunday. We'll catch you then. Be sure to catch
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