WEBVTT - Speed Racers 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:04.840 Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day dred 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:08.080 minutes a week was enough, I think again. He's the 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:12.240 last remnants of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:15.320 He treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:19.560 the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:23.360 Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:31.640 with Ben Maller starts right now. Out of the shoot 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:35.360 we go. It is that time yet again, The Fifth 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:41.080 Hour with Ben Mallard. We are in the air everywhere. 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:45.840 There are no borders in the podcast world. 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And since Gascon is too 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:34.280 lazy to come in here this weekend, we have both 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:37.120 the show Who's gonna be with us as well, so 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.440 the way this works both now, I solicited a bunch 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:43.800 of of questions from members of the Mallard militia, big 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:46.960 fans of the show, and we'll just go through as 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:48.520 many of these as we can. I want to answer them. 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:50.600 If you want to add on anything, Bow, you are 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:52.440 more than welcome to do that. You want to touch 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.440 up my work, you can do that if you like, 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:57.840 and we'll see where this takes us. It sounds like 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:02.440 sounds like a blast, all right, So here we go, 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:06.960 Here we go, all right. Question number one, number one 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:12.400 from Chris in any Town, Iowa, formerly known by a 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:15.839 different name. He says, during your Fox hiatus, you ran 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.680 the Rumor website. Why did you end it? And didn't 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:22.959 actually make any money? Chris says, well, Chris, I don't 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.160 actually own the domain name anymorey believe or even it's 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.639 my name, I don't own the domain name. It's Ben 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:32.000 Mallard dot com was the website. And yeah, I actually 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:35.639 made a very good living. I didn't make riduculous money. 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.120 Didn't make riduculous money, but I made a good living. 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:41.440 I ran the Gossip website on my own independent website 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:45.120 for many many years. I then partnered with Fox Sports 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:49.120 dot Com as the Rumor Guy, and my content I 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:54.480 aggregated was put out on on the Fox Sports dot 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:59.480 Com website. UM And at one point I think the 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:04.120 eek of that was when Drudge, the Drudge Report was 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:06.760 the the end all be all and there was a 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.919 story that I had put up about Tim Tebow when 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:13.000 Tebow came onto the scene with the Broncos in the 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:16.520 NFL and uh, and that popped up on the front 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:19.360 page of the Drudge Report, and that that was like 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.360 the coolest thing because that I was like, that was like, 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.600 oh man, you've arrived. You know, Matt Drudge has taken 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:26.360 a story that you put together and that's like a 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:30.400 big deal. And my parents, who were more more political 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.840 than sports people, that was like that was cool for 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.360 them to check out. But yeah, I made money on it, 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.600 and I actually did it way before I was doing 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.480 both gigs. I did the radio show for a long time. 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.160 I was the weekend filling guy in radio, so I 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:46.200 was like the six man I would do a weekend 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:49.720 show Friday, Saturday and occasionally Sunday, and then I would 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:53.200 fill in. And a lot of radio people very lazy. 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.880 They take a lot of time off, and so I 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.640 would get a lot of fill in time. But my 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.920 my main gig day through Friday was running and and 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:05.920 correlating the content on the gossip site, aggregating it. And 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:07.360 I did that for a long time and I made 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:09.080 very good money. And then the thing that really changed, 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.400 and there were two things that happened. It was the 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:16.400 double way, right A. I was offered full time work 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:19.880 in radio, and the amount of time I was a 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.200 one man band. I didn't have a staff, I didn't 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:24.640 have people. I was me. Anything you saw on that 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:28.039 website was me, and that's a bad job by me. 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:29.640 I should have hired other people and whatnot, but I 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:33.400 didn't do it. And so once I got the full 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.120 time radio gig, I was like, I can't. I just 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:39.400 cannot do both. It's just physically impossible to do both 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:41.520 because the timing and all that, and the amount of 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.200 hours that it took to to make the product that 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:47.440 I wanted on the website, I couldn't do it. That 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:51.440 was the first part Part B though, was around that time. 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:56.080 This is probably twelve thirteen years ago, give or take. 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.599 Maybe a little sooner than that, maybe remember a little less, 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.520 but around that time, and so social media was starting 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.200 to really take off. Because remember and before that it 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:10.600 was my Space, it was a O L Netscape navigator, 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.839 and I started doing the website. In the early days, 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.239 it was like the old West of the Internet, Chris. 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:21.760 And so, to make a long story longer, once social 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.880 media took over, people were not reading websites much. It 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:29.040 was all about social media. It was about Twitter. Twitter 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:33.400 was coming and becoming a bigger and bigger thing, and 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:38.560 and all of these worlds converging that the social media stuff, 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:40.760 along with the fact that I I had the radio gig, 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:45.160 I let it go. Um, but it's always something that 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.760 I've thought about bringing back, and if anything happens to 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.880 me in radio, it's certainly something I would consider if 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.440 I can monetize it and there's a market for it, 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.880 and I think there is now. What I've seen is 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:02.880 a lot of people now have shied away from spending 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.880 as much time on social media because of the the 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.640 down downside of social media. So I think they're the 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:10.640 people are starting to come back to just regular websites. 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.640 I know, in my life, I used to be on Twitter, 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:17.719 you know, fifteen hours a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.920 not on there much at all these days. Um, I'm 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:25.360 I'm over it. Um. I get my information from different 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:28.960 websites that I trust, uh, and in different other sources 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.640 outside of the social media world. So that's a long 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:35.480 answer to a short question for Chris Michael in Newton 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.960 Falls right. So he says, this question is for Benjamin. 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.200 How do you keep such a sharp wit when you 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:48.080 hardly sleep? Perhaps you are a sleep deprived, drunk and delirious. 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.240 Michael says, well, first of all, Michael, thank you for 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:57.640 the question. Uh. Secondly, you can blame my DNA. I 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:01.160 come from a family of bad sleep I come from 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:05.640 a family of terrible sleepers. That's just the reality. We're 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:09.039 all like that. And I used to bust my dad's balls. Yes, 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:10.680 I can't sleep, it's your fault, you know. And he 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:14.560 couldn't sleep. He was a bad sleeper. And um, yeah, 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.680 I'm a four or five hour a night sleep guy. 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:23.080 I wish that how long? How long do you sleep? Both? 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.440 I try to get like the seven or eight, but 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.040 it just doesn't do anything for me. So maybe I 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:31.440 should try the four or five hours. No, no, I 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.120 I would. I want to get seven or eight. I 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:36.240 my goal is to get seven or eight. But I'm 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:39.600 usually up and I just wake up randomly and can't 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.480 go back to sleep after about four or five hours. 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.760 See like that. That happens to me too. But yeah, 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:47.360 I don't know. It's just it feels like it's never 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.640 enough for me. So I don't know. Yeah, I'm not. 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:54.240 My wife's a very good sleeper, but I'm not a 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:56.480 a good sleeper. But but that's the cool thing. It's 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.760 actually sometimes when my wife's told me this and other 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.440 people said that, it's actually thing that I can get 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.120 more done because I don't have to sleep as much 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:09.160 and I'm and now there are times where for whatever reason, 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:10.800 I don't get like maybe I get like an hour 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.160 for an hour and a half. And then I will 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:15.920 come in here and you'll know when this is because 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:19.600 I will sound like I I have, you know, had 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.200 a case of booze right before I came. I will 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:25.280 be a stumble bump, just a complete drunk and I'll 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:28.520 slur my words. And so that does happen every once 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:30.600 in a while, but usually if i'm if I'm if 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.880 I get four or five hours, I'm fine, I'm I'm okay. 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.160 And and usually the end of the week, like today's 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:39.320 a podcast day that we're when we're recording this, and 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.880 this is a day and we record this during the 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:44.880 day I do the overnight show. I you know, go 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:48.240 to bed around the same time every every morning, which 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:51.520 is not convenient to do a daytime podcast, and so 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:53.120 I don't get a lot of sleep, and we when 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:56.080 we are recording these podcasts. But that's just part of 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:59.479 the part of the deal. See I've always wondered, Uh, 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:01.600 do you go to sleep right after the show is over? 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.920 Or do you stay up for a little bit? No? No, God, no, 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.280 I have to wind down, Like I have a whole routine, 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.400 like I, you know, doing doing the radio show, being 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:10.640 on the radio, you know, you you work yourself into 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:12.920 a different spot and there's a different level of energy, 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:17.720 and then I have to wind down. So I'll usually 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.360 jump on the treadmill and I'll go on there, which 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:21.839 is I don't think a good way to wind down. 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:23.560 Probably by the way, I don't think they recommend that, 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.920 but I'll just go on there and us walk. You know, 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:27.920 I don't jog or run. I just kind of walk 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:29.439 and get my body moving because you do it a 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.680 four hour show. You're sitting around for four hours. You 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.280 gotta get the blood going a little bit. Um. So 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:36.760 I'll kind of hang out there and I'll I have 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.680 some me time. We're all I'll look at some stuff 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.040 and and then I'm always My problem is I'm always 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:43.760 like looking for the next show. I'm like always looking 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:45.319 like what can I do for the next show, What 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:47.560 what's gonna be the big I'm trying to project what 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:49.599 the big stories are gonna be. So that's part of 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:52.079 the My mind's always racing. That's that's one of the issues. 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.520 I can't I can't seem to shut it down. It's 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:56.720 problem not see that. That happens to me too. If 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:58.560 I if I know I have to do an overnight 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:00.960 or something like that, like I try to sleep, but 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.600 it just the thought in my head is like while 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.680 I'm asleep, I'm gonna miss something happening. And then you know, 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.520 like I'm sure that Ben or Jonas or whoever I'm 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.440 working with will know. But I still want to be 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.320 on top of it. So that's a that's a struggle. 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.200 Oh it's terrible. And I used to have this argument 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.040 with my dad because my dad was like the same way. 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:20.480 But even though my dad didn't work in radio, but 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:22.440 he would. He loved keeping up on the news. He 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.560 was a news junkie and he'd always be on his 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:27.240 phone looking at the news, whatever the political news was 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:31.160 or politics, and I was listening, it'll be there when 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.079 you wake up, you can then you'll have even more 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.800 news to go through. But of course I didn't follow 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.000 my own advice either, because I'm the same way like. 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:42.000 And then sometimes right before I go to sleep, something 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.080 big will happen and then I'm like, oh crap, now 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:45.880 I don't want to go to bed. I remember the 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:47.680 last time that happened was I was about to go 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:51.080 to bed and the story came out that Rob Bob Kraft, 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.520 the owner of the Patriots, have been been arrested for 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:57.520 the tug and rub or the rub and tug, and 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.400 as I couldn't go to sleep, I might I'm like, oh, 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.319 my gods, amazing story. I wanted to see what was 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.240 gonna happen and let you know next and that that 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:07.280 goofy local hack police guy came on there and started, 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:09.760 you know, trashing Robert Kraft and made this whole big deal. 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.360 The story turned out to be nothing as as as 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.679 you will. But I remember that day. I didn't want 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.080 to go sleep and I just want to stay up 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:18.839 and hear everything. All Right, Who else do we have 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.480 about Kevin in Kansas? Right? Since it's been last week, 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:25.400 you and guest Gon discussed cartoons you watched as kids. 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.679 I know you watched sports. What are some of the 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:34.199 game shows and evening shows you watched? How about Johnny Carson? Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.240 we watched the Tonight Show. That was but everyone seemed 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:40.080 only when I was a kid, everyone watched the Tonight Show. Um, 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.360 and then I was a fan because it seemed cool 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:45.319 because he was like the weird late night guy David Letterman. 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.800 We used to watch. Saturday Night Live was a big thing. 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.240 That was a big deal to watch Saturday Night Live. 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:55.200 I watched Saturday Night Live in years. Um, maybe once 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:57.160 in the last couple of years, I watched Saturday Night Live. 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:01.560 Uh so, I Kevin. I would watch those shows a 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:05.000 lot of sports, Monday Night Baseball. Fact, I'm such a 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:08.880 loser that I stumbled on this old, but it's not old. 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.480 It's a YouTube channel that shows old games and and 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.160 I love it because they don't give the score and 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.640 they don't really tell you what happened. The other night 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:19.680 after the show, I'm on the treadmill trying to wind down, 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:23.040 and I put on I think it was a nineteen 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:29.199 eighty two Chicago White Sox versus Oakland Athletics game. Billy 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:34.720 Martin's managing the Athletics and the late great Billy Martin, 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:38.840 Tony Larusso's managing the White Sox. Carlton Fisk is playing 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:42.120 catcher for the White Sox. Ricky Henderson was a very 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.080 young player still at that point for the A's. Uh, 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:48.000 they had Cliff Johnson was on the A's. All these 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:51.000 like random players that I recall because I'm old. So 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.200 I'm I'm watching this and I loved it. And and 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:57.520 Howard Cosell, the legendary iconic sports caster, Howard Cosell and 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:01.600 Keith Jackson we're calling in the game, and Bob Yucker 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.600 was like the third man in the booth and uh, 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:06.360 and I just loved the hell out And I watched 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:07.640 this for like an hour and a half and I 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.160 still I still have like an hour and a half 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.920 to get through, and and I it was just a 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:13.600 random game. And you know, I don't even know if 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:16.800 I watched it when I was a kid, But it's 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.600 just nostalgia, I guess would be the way the way 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.320 to say it. So, uh, that's not really what you 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:24.680 were asking, Kevin. But I did watch the tonight show 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:28.200 to answer your question. Saturday Night Live, we watched sixty 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:32.520 minutes was a big thing every Sunday. Remember one time 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:34.840 my mom, as she rest in peace, she wrote a 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:39.080 letter that they read on on sixty minutes and that 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.240 was that was a big thing for the family that 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:43.480 she was famous because there because the letter was read 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:47.120 on sixty minutes. Um Valls Fan Jimmy the caller formerly 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.160 known as Walls Fan. Jimmy says, been and Mr West 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.800 of the four oh five? Have you ever gone out 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.040 on a date and the woman was all about you 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:58.600 and you completely blew it? Uh? Well, well, Jimmy, Uh, 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:00.959 we don't know Miss West of the four or five 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:02.880 is doing Mr West of the four so four or 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:04.600 five things with no work. I think he's not here 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.400 so Bo will help answer this. But but yeah, I 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:14.560 was terrible I was so awkward dating and just it 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.920 was it was a world I was not good at um, 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.080 which it is amazing. I ever end up getting married, 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.000 and I went on a lot of a lot of 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:26.880 first dates and not a lot of second dates. And 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:29.240 there were reasons for that. I mean, there were obviously 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:33.040 reasons for that, and it was uncomfortable. It was my hours, 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.600 my schedule. Plus I was fat, and uh, women don't 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:40.400 like dating fat guys. That's a problem. Uh. So you know, 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.360 there are a lot of a lot of variables that 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:45.840 led to that. But yeah, I mean there were there 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.240 were some women I would go out with them like, 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:52.080 oh my god, amazing, and I'm like okay, and then 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.920 I just I started talking and I I just keep 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:58.960 biting my tongue, and you know, it was terrible. So 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.560 I think it happens to every right, even even the 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:05.080 show right there's yeah. I I I was in a 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:08.120 relationship in high school and then that ended. So most 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.000 of my my twenties I was in a relationship. So 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.960 I had no idea how to date. And I finally, 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:15.800 you know, worked up the courage to ask someone and 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:18.520 we met at a Starbucks in North Hollywood and it 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:21.280 was nice. Talking, but it kind of just felt awkward, 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:25.640 and you know, like the goodbye hug was weird. Um, 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:27.360 But thankfully she didn't kick me to the curb. And 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:31.000 we're supposed to get married here in July, so you 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.240 got God willing. If everything goes to plan on, that'll 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.440 be fine. But wait, wait, so you got out of 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.200 a long term, relatively long term relationship that you started 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:40.080 in high school and then the next person you went 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:43.840 out with you ended up you're gonna get married to? Wow? Yeah, 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:47.000 look at that bow the show. You don't mess around, 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.600 But you're not a serial dat or No, I'm not. 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.040 I'm not much of a Yeah, I I went on 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.240 a couple of first dates with other people but it 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.840 just didn't click. But thankfully this one did. So that's 0:15:57.920 --> 0:15:59.680 that's nice. And also, you know, it's it's good that 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:01.600 I'm here to answer this question because I don't think 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:07.160 Gascon has been on a date, and in his head, 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.720 he's wouldn't be wouldn't be much for him to add 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:13.400 to this conversation. Yeah, well, being west of the four 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.680 oh five is guestcon is uh, you know, let's be 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.880 honest here. The thing about Gascon is the person he 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:23.600 loves the most is the person in the mirror, right right, 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.520 I mean when you're that, when you're that high brow 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:28.960 and pompous and the elitist and all that. I mean, 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.480 he just he doesn't need a data woman. He can 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.440 just look at himself in the mirror and just be 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:38.240 in love. In love. Oh my, my, my, my my, 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:42.720 all right, Clayton writes, in says, can you please tell 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:44.800 us the story again of you getting Russia limboss Pen 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.400 would be good? Well, go back in Clayton, hear the 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:51.320 podcast from Saturday. I did tell the story on the 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:57.000 Saturday podcast of Rush, and I told two stories. I 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:00.320 told the time I almost met Rush but pot that 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:02.120 would have been cool to meet him didn't happen. And 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:05.040 then I also told the story about when it was 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.200 Rush week and he had left and they left the 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:11.040 studio open and I gone in there. It was a 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:16.199 Rush limball Pen. It's in my collection. J Bone, J 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.560 Bone in May rights in or in Maine, not may 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.919 not May in Maine. He says. So if there was 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:26.639 a dating site for the Mallard Militia, who would hook up? 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:36.000 Can you imagine the characters that call the show? My god? Well, 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:37.440 I know who wouldn't be able to day. It would 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:39.960 be like angry Bill. That wouldn't really work too well. 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:44.679 Uh oh, well, we'd man. You mentioned dating, we man, 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:49.560 send me money, g Matte weed man, hippie and gmail 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:53.159 dot com send me money, I mean holler and James 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.760 he might fall asleep. Well then you got I'd feel 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:57.919 bad for the women because we have a few women 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:00.200 that love the show and they're big fans, and there's 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.159 a lot of creepy guys. You know. It's like, uh 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:06.600 if imagine if Regina spin Cycle, Regina in Minnesota was 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:10.280 on their Holy crap, these losers, you guys, Oh my god, 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:14.120 would be a nightmare. How about Flexus, America's favorite drag 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:17.679 queen caller. I think she was my first caller that 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:20.879 really weirded me out. And I was told about Flexus, 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:23.560 But yeah, not being told about Flexus is not the 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:25.879 same as actually talking to Flexus. Well, it really is 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:29.800 the Welcoming Committee to the Ben Maller Show and what 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:34.240 the show is all about. There is the what seven 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.480 and a half towed drag queen from Upstate New York, 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:40.359 the great and really America's most beloved drag queen and 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:43.600 only known drag queen caller to sports talk radio flexus. 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:46.400 Who else do we have that would be all Hollerwing James. 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:50.480 You imagine Halloween James. He would just scream and shout 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:55.960 and h and yell all about would be Halloween James. So, uh, 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.400 there's plenty, plenty characters that would be fun though. That'd 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:00.280 be like a good cartoon. Wouldn't that be a fun 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:03.480 cartoon that you have the characters draw them up. Cowboy 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:07.080 and windsor Cowboy and winsor would be another one. And uh, 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:09.640 you know Blair in Maine. You go down the list there. 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:16.040 So all right, Glenn from Carmichael Carmichael, California says, what's 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:20.679 the highest speed you have reached driving an automobile. Now 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:24.199 we've been asked this question a few times, Glenn, I 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:28.160 have gotten around a hundred. I do not believe I've 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:32.480 ever gone over a hundred, mainly for two reasons. I 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.920 am paranoid that if I go too fast, I'm gonna 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:39.479 lose control and that's it, lights out, game over. So 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:42.240 that's the first problem. The other problem is I generally 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:46.440 have not had vehicles that are designed to go all 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:50.440 that fast. I've had commuter vehicles mostly or I had 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.359 had an F one fifty for a while, I had 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:56.960 an Explorer for some time. I have the Malon wobile 0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:01.080 I have now is a hybrid. Hybrid are not designed 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:04.480 to go over a hundred miles, even though it says 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:08.640 you can. They're just not designed to do that. So yeah, 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:12.080 I might cut off is somewhere in the nineties, somewhere 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:13.840 in the nights. But I've told the story before, My 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:16.080 my my thing here and I got I got pulled 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:20.120 over from a highway patrol guy and he said that 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:22.840 he never gives tickets. He can't be said, he couldn't 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:24.760 speak for other officers, but he couldn't. He never gives 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:28.800 tickets to anybody driving seventy nine and under. He said 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:32.200 the threshold for him was eighty and above. So Ever, 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:35.120 since that conversation, that really resonated with me. So Ever, 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:39.439 since that conversation, I of course set the speed the 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:43.639 max speed to seventy nine, which is still speeding. But 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:47.520 I have I've not gotten a ticket. I've not been 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:51.720 pulled over for a speeding violation since I got that advice, 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:55.119 especially especially when you're in like a nondescript car. I 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:56.919 used to I used to drive a Mustang and I 0:20:56.920 --> 0:21:00.800 got pulled over going like nine on the freeway. But 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:04.960 I can get up to a five eight nine in 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:09.359 my current Corolla and nobody cares. It Really all depends, 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:12.840 I think, on what car you're driving. So the advice 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:16.040