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And this is 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:52.199 the Sunday mail Bag Extravaganza. And as a gift to you, 0:00:53.240 --> 0:01:00.600 the consumer of podcasting, we have another podcast free from 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:03.880 David West to the four oh five guests gone, Uh, 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:07.400 this is great. This is a pure podcast. Uh, it 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:17.080 is unfiltered, and in Gascon's place a man who is heartfelt, sincere, genuine, 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:24.400 someone who's the anti Gascon. Ryan Smith, the professional, well 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:28.360 former wrestler. Were you a professional or amateur wrestler? I mean, 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.280 I guess you could say professional, but it was Andy. 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:34.240 I really call it like professional when you say professional, 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.240 it's like, oh, it's your wrestlem w E. No, No, 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:41.320 I didn't say did you think that you were going 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:43.760 to wrestle? Did you have aspirations of wrestling in the 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:46.520 w W at one point when I was younger, Yes, 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:52.800 but Payne will usually change your mind about about most things. Yeah, 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.480 and I know you. We we had you on before 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:58.640 and you said you did wrestle with some guys that 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.200 didn't make it right. You were around some guys that 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:05.360 that went pretty high. Yeah, John Cena and Samilla Joe. 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:08.840 That's pretty good. Yeah, that's pretty good. Yeah, if I've 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.240 heard of him, Yeah, that's pretty good. All right, Well 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:14.000 we have the mail bag, and so let's get right 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:17.519 into it here. We like this. This is un unsullied 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.040 by West of the four or five. It's pesticide free, 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:25.359 chemical free, unconditioned, unbleached. 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Real spell it out, fifth F I 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:03.000 F T h Our at gmail dot com, and just 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.600 send your question and we may use it on a 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.320 future podcast. You can send it anytime. You can email 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:14.240 right now here on Sunday, and then we'll possibly use 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.200 it for next Sunday. If we use it on this podcast, 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:22.480 well something's gone terribly wrong, all right, So Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts, 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:26.760 the home of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame, where 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:32.079 Muffett McGraw isn't shrine, Pierre says, Benjamin, what is it 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:35.040 going to take for you to finally dump the pro 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:39.280 bouncy ball? Your clippers, while seemingly trending upward, continue to 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:43.640 disappoint you. Today's modern NBA player is a mere shell 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:48.600 of the past mentality, and they hide behind their agents 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:54.000 and keyboards. Reporters continue to lop softball questions in postgame interviews, 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:57.320 and yet it says if you kick their dogs or 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:01.360 assaulted their grandparents, Pierre says, I guess the same could 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:04.600 be said for most pro athletes in many major sports, 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:09.600 but there is still a safe haven. Bend. I know 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.320 you're a hockey guy at heart, dumped the basketball and 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:19.120 joined Eddie and Dave on the dark side. That's from Pierre. Well, 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.800 here's the problem here. First of all, I do, as 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.520 you know, Pierre, a radio show five nights a week. 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:32.040 I need content. We do broadcasting, not narrowcasting. So I 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.640 I like basketball list there are there things that annoy 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:37.919 me about the NBA. Do I roll my eyes at 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:42.800 Lebron James? Yes, But at the same time, I'm a 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.080 sports talk show host. It's a sport. It's it's sport. 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.520 It's a major US sports So no, and I do 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:53.760 watch hockey, but typically hockey it's become more of a 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.680 niche sport. So I'll do an occasional, rare and appropriate 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:02.800 hockey monologue. Are you a hockey fan? Right? Okay, okay? 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.560 What is this hockey that you speak of? Uh? This 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:07.880 reminds me of that sketch on Saturday Night Live when 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.120 we have the black guy down there talking about hockey 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.680 and he was like, you know what to say about hockey? Uh? 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.279 Let's get ready for for that hockey. Could I could 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.240 name you one hockey player I know nothing about hockey. Well, 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:21.400 you know, like the greatest hockey player of all time, right, 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.280 you could name that guy is when Gretzky. Uh yes, 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.359 now he's actually coming back on TV. He's gonna be 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:32.040 terrible as a hockey commentator, but he will be on television. 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:34.760 So there is that. You have that too to look 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:37.279 forward to. But you know, I had a great time. 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.279 I like going to the King's games back in the day, 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:43.320 and I was I actually covered hockey when I started radio. 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:45.559 How about that. I had never been to a hockey game. 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:48.560 And then I got hired at six ninety in San 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:50.800 Diego and they wanted me to cover the Kings and 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.760 the Mighty Ducks in addition to to basketball. So I 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:58.680 got a crash course on hockey from from doing that. 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:00.880 And the hockey players. Of all the athletes, the hockey 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:07.920 players like the most obliging to interviews. I mean they'll 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:11.080 sit there and just they love being interviewed because they're 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:17.640 not often interviews. Yeah. The worst are baseball players. Baseball 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.680 players are the biggest assholes. Oh my god, they are 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.240 such schmucks. The baseball players all right. Anyway, Moving Man 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:28.560 Matt all over the country based in Boston, but he 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:30.760 travels all over the country the highways and by ways. 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:35.560 The moving Billboard is back. He says, what's the best 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:40.360 Matherd tribute you have received from a militia member? Uh? 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:44.240 And he says, obviously the rolling billboard is. But you 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.480 don't have to say, well, no, no, let's listen. As 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.000 you know, Moving Man Matt. I'm an introvert, but I 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:51.560 went out of my way to hang out with you 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:56.880 privately at a truck stop in Ontario. Yeah, I drove out. 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.800 He was in town in southern California and he parked 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.600 his his moving truck over at a truck stop off 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:07.320 the ten in southern California in Ontario, and I drove. 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:11.200 I drove out there because he has the Mallard Militia 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:14.160 on the back of his his brig swait. So let 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:17.360 me get this straight. You met strange man late at 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.760 night and what it was during the day. But I 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:22.480 didn't meet him. I did meet him. It makes it 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:24.280 all the bay. Yeah, and I didn't. I didn't see 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:29.520 any lot lizards. Was in the bathroom somewhere or I 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:31.040 did not meet him in the bathroom. I did not, 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:34.960 but was he cap his foot? The funny the funny 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:39.200 calmed down, Calm down, cowboy. He's a happily married man, 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:41.720 So funny. The funny thing. The funny thing about this 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:45.240 was that so the truck stop is designed for these 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:49.280 massive you know, eighteen wheelers and all that. So he 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:51.760 tells me where to go to where the big rigs are. 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.680 And you know how those gates that go up and down, 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.440 you know, to get into a parking garage. Well, the 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:01.040 the gate bar was so high up that it was 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:04.200 designed for big rigs. I'm in a commuter, I'm in 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:09.120 a regular car, a midsized automobile, and I just drove 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.000 underneath it and without a problem. It was that high up. 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.520 My entire car fit under the thing. I didn't even 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:16.960 have to worry about it. So but but then I 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:18.880 went and you know, we we talked for a little 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.000 bit and he it was it was very cool. I 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:22.520 hadn't met him in the past, though, right, So it's 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:24.160 not like I've never met him. He had shown up 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.240 at the event we did in Boston. He came down, 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:31.400 and so I had met him before. But no, no, 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:33.640 I would have been happy. I would have been happy 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.240 at the I love truck stop food. I do. I 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.520 could live the truck driver at life. It's very unhealthy, 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.199 it's fattening, it's bad for you. I could eat that food, 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.959 absolutely could anyway. Greg and Iowa writes, but but yeah, 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.440 moving man, Matt. Just to answer your question, the billboards great, 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:52.320 the chicken fingers, the Mallard Fowler, the Mallard chicken sandwich, 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:55.840 all these food dishes, the the Mallard drink. I mean, 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.199 these are all great honors. These are all great tributes. 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:02.920 So you know you want to rank them. The food 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:07.040 dishes are are awesome in in Denver and in Kansas 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.959 City and Lawrence, Kansas, in all these places. So it's 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.679 pretty pretty cool. Uh. And we had other ones in Syracuse. 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:17.600 That's no longer around Michigan. So and I'm open, I'm open. 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.559 We don't have a Mallard Burger. There's not a Mallard burger. 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:22.880 I'm open to a Mallet burger. What would to him? 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.800 What would be in the Mallard burger? All right, So 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:30.199 the Mallard burger would be a combination of things you'd have. 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:34.640 It would be a cheeseburger double meat, double cheese. You'd 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:39.960 put grilled onions and onion straws on there. You'd have 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.360 like it would be like a barbecue based burger. You'd 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:47.280 have a nice, solid, sweet barbecue saw some more of 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.800 a sweet barbecue fan, uh than anything else. I just 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:55.319 pile on the young No lettuce, no vegetables other than garlic. 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.080 You can put some garlic on good with that, And 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.360 I think that keep it simple. I think just keep 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:02.840 it simple. Let's it. What about you and your burger? 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.000 If you had a Ryan McBain burger, Oh, oh yeah, 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:09.840 it would be okay, it would be a double bacon, 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.360 macaroni and cheese burger. Oh mac and cheese. I don't 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.400 think I've had mac and cheese in the burgen. It 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:19.520 was amazing. I was a um. I was shocked how 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.720 good it was. The best burger I ever had, Mac 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:26.320 and cheese. The secret to the great burger? Who knew? 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.640 Have you ever been to Pittsburgh PERMANI brothers in Pittsburgh? 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:33.319 Ever been there? No? S okay, so is this legendary 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.559 if you ever go to Pittsburgh, it's this legendary spot 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:39.160 in Pittsburgh. And there's one in the Steel District. That. 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:40.439 I don't know if it still is. It was open 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:42.199 twenty four hours, but I went in there like one 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:45.479 in the morning, and they just put everything. It's sandwiches, 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.559 but they put everything on the sandwich, like the fries, 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.839 like the whole thing. It's like the Pittsburgh way to 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:55.480 eat a sandwich, and that it's really it's pretty good. 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:56.840 I didn't think I was gonna like it because they 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:58.720 put a lot of lettuce and tomatoes and other crap 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.640 on there, but I I enjoy it pretty good. That's why. 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:04.079 I don't know. I don't know why that popped in 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:05.839 my head. But you said mac and cheese, and that's 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:07.640 like something they would do, or they just put everything 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:12.800 on top. Alright, Greg and iowas says Ben and Guestcott, 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:14.880 he's not here. You don't have to address Gasco, have 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.200 either of you? I guess this is for you Ryan. 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.840 Have either of you tried a smoker for cooking a 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:23.640 brisket ribs or pulled pork, or have the both of 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:27.720 you just had other people's barbecue. Well, I actually owned 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:32.959 a smoker, Greg, I. I moved and I gifted the 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.120 smoker to someone I work with who does a cooking 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:38.200 segment every week, but I really didn't use it. And 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:42.160 the reason I didn't use it is because I typically 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:46.319 don't spend that much time playing a meal. And to 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:51.559 properly use a cooker or a slow cooker a smoker, 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:55.319 you have to plan it out. You gotta leave it 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.920 in there for many, many hours to get the proper taste. 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.679 And I just I don't plan it out that far 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.320 an event, so I'm not a good smoker person. It 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:08.160 does taste much better, I agree with you, and I 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.559 wish I had that in me. But I I watched 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.480 some of these YouTube cooking shows because I wanna improve 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.160 my ability in the kitchen, and I try to learn 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:20.040 from these people, and some of these these cooking channels 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:23.120 I watch, like you want to make a pastrami sandwich. 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.040 A week before, you gotta do this, that and the 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.040 other thing, and then two days before you gotta do this, 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.679 Like no, no, If I want a pastrami sandwich, I 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:31.880 want to eat it within an hour. Yes, thank you. 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:36.640 Everybody thinks they're freaking uh some grade a chef, you know, 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:38.800 just just just give it to me. Now, You're not 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:42.600 Gordon Ramsey, That's what I'm saying. I I'm right there now. 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.600 I don't mind, you know, cooking a meal if it 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:50.040 takes about an hour, anything over that, I'm out. I 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:53.000 can make a pizza, it doesn't take that long. You 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:54.720 know that you do have to let the dough rise 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:56.320 a little bit if you make the dough from scratch. 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:59.920 But aside from that, like I am about an hour, 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.240 I can cook a chicken dish. I can cook a 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.480 Philly cheese steak that cooks pretty quick because the ribby, 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:09.000 the thin cut ribby, cooks really fast. Um. But I 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:11.400 don't need to spend eight hours in a smoker. So 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:15.200 they ask your question, Greg, I have I had a smoker. 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.480 I have attempted to use the smoker, but I'm not 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:22.280 cut out for the smoker. I'm not Valls fan. Jimmy 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:27.199 from Fayetteville, Tennessee, far from the Rocky Mountains, says Big Ben. 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.680 When you move into your new house, where you continue 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:35.040 with the ugly Christmas, ugly sweater Christmas party whatever? Uh? 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:38.360 And is the guest list going to grow shorter since 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.720 you have a brand new house. Well, it's a renovated house, 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.360 so it will be like a new house. But I yea, 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.680 I have not thought about the Ugly Sweater Party. We 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:51.640 have to assume that the renovation gets done when it's 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.280 supposed to get done. But we are bringing back the 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:59.680 Ugly Sweater Christmas Party. It is returning, so that is 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:03.200 going to happen. And I have not thought about the 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.000 list of invites and all that. I can tell you 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:09.640 that some people violated the bubble of trust and will 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:11.600 not be invited. There are a few people that were 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:17.520 invited in the past that violated my my, my really 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.720 my inner circle, and so they will not be brought back. 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.760 But other people will be. And so we'll see. It's 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.200 a little further away where I'm moving, even further than 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:29.120 where I live before. So we'll see if people want 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:33.160 to make the sojourn to the Ugly Sweater Party. Violated 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.360 your trust? How well? You know, if I let you 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.120 in my house, I don't need you tweeting out information 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:43.600 about my house. You know what, I understand that's messed up? Agree, Yeah, yeah, 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:45.960 I don't need that. I mean, it's it's a party. 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:47.640 You can talk about the party, but you don't need 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:51.480 to give out specific information because that's my personal business. 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.240 And I'm letting you into my space and I want 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:55.960 to I want to punch you if you do that. 0:14:56.400 --> 0:15:01.000 So you're kind of like Derek Jeter. Leave your phones there, ladies. Yeah, 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.600 I mean it's it's I totally get Derek Jeeter. I 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:06.520 I should have a little basket where you can put 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:10.560 your phone in. And uh yeah, I mean there's some 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.320 of the stuff that people send out about and it's like, listen, 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.080 you really have to give personal information out. You can't 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:19.960 post something on Instagram or Twitter without giving out personal information. 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:23.640 I mean, anyway, uh, let's see who else you have. 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:28.120 Jason and Rocky Mount Virginia's is guys from the All 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:30.760 Star Game coming up. I was wanting about your thoughts 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:33.560 about the political reason to move the game to Colorado 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:38.520 even though their election laws are stricter than Georgia, and 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.080 are you looking forward to watching the game. So, first 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:44.000 of all, yeah, in Baseball totally screwed the pooch on 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:49.040 this one. They went full woke and they it's one thing, 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.000 it's like, we're gonna move the game because we're upset 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:52.920 about the laws in Georgia, But then you move to 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:56.440 a state that has the same and what many people 0:15:56.440 --> 0:16:02.160 think are are you know, more draconian laws? I we 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.800 can debate that that's that's a third roll, the third rail. 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:10.880 But yeah, Rob Manford totally left up, and I am 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:12.960 I gonna watch the All Star Game. Yeah, I like baseball. 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:14.480 I'm gonna watch the All Star Game, so of course 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:16.240 I'm gonna watch the game. Plus I got to do 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:18.200 a show after the All Star Game, so I'll be 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.560 looking for content from the All Star Game. So of course, Jason, 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.000 I'm gonna watch the watch the All Star Game. Although 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:27.840 I'm already getting annoyed because when somebody gets too hyped up, 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:31.840 it bothers me and then I start hating them. And 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.320 there's been way too much hype about show. Hey, Otani, 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:40.040 I I am already annoyed. You know what I'm saying? Ryan, Like, 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.440 I get it. He's good, he's a picture, he's a hitter, 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:45.200 he's unique. No one else is doing that and no one, 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.800 no one else has even really tried it since Babe Ruth. 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:52.600 But hold off a little bit. This is not God's 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.200 gift to humanity. Okay. I'm sick and tired of people 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:58.280 telling me, oh, man, he might hit sixty home runs. No, 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:02.640 he's not going to do that. It's a long season people. Yeah, 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:06.600 there's this thing called the slump that typically right around 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:10.080 the All Star Right, I'll make a prediction with your run, okays, 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.480 As you know, I'm a distant relative of the great 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.600 uh Nostre Damas and friend of Nostrada's uh in See. 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:20.600 He lives in Seattle, So I expect the All Star 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:27.880 Game is this Tuesday. So by mid August, Otani will 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:31.280 have like a stretch of twenty games with like one 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:34.320 home run er no home run, some some ridiculous slump. 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:38.000 And someone will write a story, probably behind a paywall 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.159 on the Athletic, saying that it is because of the 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:41.879 home run derby, is because of the stress of the 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.359 All Star Game that Otani went to slump. How about 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:46.720 that call my shot? I'm shooting my shot right now, 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:50.520 all right, what do you think it makes sense? Yeah? 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:55.000 And that has been debunked. The myth that if you're 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:59.080 in the home run derby you will then struggle after that, 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:03.000 that has been debunked. But still it it continues. People 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:04.960 write the storts an easy story to right. Be sure 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.720 to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.439 at two a m. Eastern eleven p m. Pacific on 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:14.399 Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Fred 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:18.240 from Spring Texas writes, and he says, hey, Ben, why 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:21.960 does your audience applaud wildly when you introduced David but 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.280 nary a clap when you come to the show when 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:27.760 you come on here. Well there's a simple solution and 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:31.160 reason for that. Uh and again we can we can 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:36.640 be honest here, unvarnished truth, unmodified by anyone. But the 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:40.919 reason that is is because the guy west of the 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:46.400 four oh five he hits this button right and uh 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:50.840 and in in the crowd goes wild. It's all about him. 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:53.560 He's got this ego wall right where he say this 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:55.520 is button, it's a you know what. You know what 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:57.320 an ego wall is? By the way, Ryan, you ever 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:02.359 heard that term before? Yeah, it's people flaunt the people 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:05.840 they know, photos of you shaking hands or whatever with people. Well, 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:10.160 gascon on radio, we can't have a ego wall because 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.320 radio there's no we're podcasting, there's no photo. So in 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:17.000 his way of getting around that, his work around is 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:22.240 the canned sound effect. Can't can't. I got in trouble 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:24.199 when I was doing local radio because I used to 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:26.359 when I first did the radio with the Ben and 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:28.040 Dave Show, the original Benn and Dave Show with this 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:32.200 guy named Dave Smith and and we had this replay machine, 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:36.439 sound effects machine, and I every time I made a 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:39.320 joke that I thought was funny, even if it wasn't funny, 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:44.040 I would hit the laugh track and the program direct 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:47.159 This guy named Bo Bennett came into the studio in 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:51.160 the middle of the show and physically ripped the machine 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:53.879 out of the studio because I had played it so much. 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:57.840 He was he was so annoyed that he literally ripped 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:00.680 the thing he had unplugged and he put it over 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:03.760 his shoulder like it was a sack of potatoes and 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.639 h and walk. It was really funny. It's really funny 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.639 back in the back in the day. Um, what is 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:15.000 actually Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia? Beautiful Richard, Virginia says, She says, Ben, 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:18.639 how far in advance will you announce your meet and greet, 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:21.200 your Mallard meet and greet dates and locations? And will 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:25.240 you coordinate it to be on your non fasting days. 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:27.720 I hope to meet you this year. Well, very nice, Jennifer. 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:31.760 I have nothing planned at this time. My My first 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:36.720 objective is to move again. And so I'm kind of 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:39.040 in a holding pattern, like I'm circling the airport and 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:41.280 I'm waiting to land, so I'm waiting for that to happen. 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:45.879 So that's the main main event right now. But there 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:47.800 there have been some people that have reached out about 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:50.960 doing doing meetings. I would like to do one before 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:54.240 the end of the year, UH and certainly before the 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:57.639 weather turns nasty in places like Richmond, Virginia, UH and 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:01.080 other places, but nothing has been confirmed him. I do 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:03.560 need to go to the Upper Midwest to visit my 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:06.280 brother at some point, who's in Wisconsin, so I don't 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:07.879 know if we'll do it in Wisconsin. I got family 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:09.600 out of visit in Michigan, so maybe we'll do something 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:12.720 in Michigan. UH. And obviously we got a lot of 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:15.480 listeners in Minnesota, so I and I've talked for years 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:18.360 about going to Cincinnati. So those are some of the places. 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:21.719 And then if I just happen to travel somewhere and 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:24.480 it's not one of those places and I can sneak 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:26.920 away from the family and hang out with some listeners, 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:29.199 all I'll do that. But I will let you know, Jennifer, 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:32.479 I promise and we will promote as much as I'm 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:35.600 physically allowed to promote. Certainly on the podcast year on 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:38.200 the fifth hour, we have a little more wiggle room 0:21:38.400 --> 0:21:42.000 to promote that. Ryan, will you make making any appearances? Ryan, 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:44.640 any meet and greets with your fans? Will it be 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:47.439 in a truck stop? That's the question? How dare you 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:49.639 are so taken about? See I? Do you think Colin 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:51.840 Cowherd would go to a truck stop to meet a listener? 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:54.560 Do you think he would do that? I'm not touching 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:58.760 that one, all right? How about Dan Patrick? You think 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:01.919 Dan Patrick's can go down into a truck stop in Connecticut? No, 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:04.960 I am the man of the people run. That's what 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:08.760 I'm saying that I don't mind going down there and 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:13.879 hanging out with the people. Yeah, nobody tapped their toes. 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:17.040 Nothing wrong with that, man, Nothing wrong with that. You 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:20.280 live your life, living my best life, and then it'll 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:24.359 be over. No, don't remember anyway? All right? Kyrie in 0:22:24.440 --> 0:22:27.800 Okay See writes In says, my wife hates the show 0:22:27.880 --> 0:22:31.639 but loves that you read the email every weekend and 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:34.560 asked me to ask me to play it for her. Wow, 0:22:36.600 --> 0:22:39.200 it's a good move by your wife that she despises 0:22:39.240 --> 0:22:42.400