WEBVTT - 5 Star Delight 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:05.280 Ka boom. If you thought more hours a day, minutes 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:09.120 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.400 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.440 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:20.160 rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:24.040 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:31.240 Maller starts right now in the air everywhere as we 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:36.760 bloviate all weekend long. It's Sunday, Sundays Sunday, and we 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:42.360 thank you for supporting The Fifth Hour podcast, a spinoff 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:46.040 of the Ben Maller radio program. Tell a friend, Tell 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:50.240 a friend, word of mouth advertising, and give us a review. 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:55.560 As we are in the air everywhere, no restraints. We 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:57.880 can curse, we can scream, we can shout, we can 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:03.280 talk to academia legends like Dr Sad on the podcast 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:07.120 We Have the Freedom. The shackles are off on the 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:10.480 fifth are west of the four oh five David Gascard. 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:12.440 You can hear a cup of the microphone right there. 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:23.000 Who he is very very productive week and into the 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:27.200 weekend we go for me. Um yeah, I finished that 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:31.120 some baseball last week. I don't know you'll probably probably 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.760 be repulsed by this story before we get into the mailbag. 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:39.039 But college baseball ben has locked themselves into the Rob 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:43.200 Manfred group, where if you're in a baseball game and 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.880 you have a ten run advantage after seven innings, you 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:49.640 can call it. They have a mercy rule right now 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:53.440 in college baseball. It's yeah, Well, the other day we 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:55.280 were talking about this story with Larus I did a 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:59.320 monologue with the White Sox and you know, the Twins 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.200 and this whole thing that the Etiquati Baseball is like, well, 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:04.080 just put the damn mercy rule in. If you can't, 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:05.920 you know, swing from your heels and try to hit 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:08.280 a home run, what's the point of plan? What fun 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:10.560 is baseball if you can't do that? And and I 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.120 was keeaning around and like Aaron Boone, the manager of 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:14.760 the Yankees, is like, yeah, that's a great you know, 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:16.800 this great idea. We should have a mercy rule. Just 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:18.800 put the mercy at least visit, you know, think about 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:20.919 the mercy rule. Well yeah, I mean, if they condense 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.959 games to seven innings for double the ghost run, the 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.720 ghost runner kills me, like I'm watching a Dodger game. 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:28.920 They get to the tent Tennic. All of a sudden, Tedda, 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.359 there's a runner on second base. Presto, just like that, 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:37.160 you know, Waila Like it's like so stupid my thought 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:38.919 on this, and no one's brought this up. I don't 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.359 know if you have it all. But if you're Mercedes, 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:43.480 if you're in that spot like Mercedes is, and let's 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:46.280 say you come to the dish three O count to you, 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.680 but prior to that you were over six, would you 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:56.280 swing away? Yeah? Yeah, yes, you try to hit at 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.359 all times. What's the point of doing something half ash 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:03.800 and then Russa and these these old guard oldergarchs of baseball. 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:05.960 You gotta you know, you shouldn't try You shouldn't try 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:07.760 to steal, you shouldn't swing on a three old pitch. 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:12.440 But stut up, shut up, man, listen. I'm known as 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.320 Benny the Bopper, and I know at all times you've 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:16.840 got to try to hit that ball out of the 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.720 yard way to go Mercedes. And but it's good for us. 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.320 I you know, I went on with my guy Bob 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.919 Fesco in Kansas City. We're talking about this is really 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.280 the only crossover type story that we get from baseball 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.400 on a regular occurrence like this is the kind of 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.520 story that you can talk about on a sports radio 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:36.400 show and debate. There's not a lot of that in baseball. 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:39.440 There's not a lot of that, you know, black and white. 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.320 You know, there's where you actually have something that you 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:45.440 can go back and forth and have conversation about. A 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:49.160 lot of it's pretty black, it is, and in baseball 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.040 that's one thing. If I was in charge of baseball, 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:54.280 I would try to package the sport more like they 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:58.200 do in football and basketball, where you you you can 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:00.160 do this on social media, where you create, you know, 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:03.440 not create per se. I don't want this totally contrived, 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:05.840 but there are ways you can present it which make 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:08.960 it more friendly for media conversation, which then in turn 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.640 will lead to more people partaking your business. I was 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:16.039 perplexed by the mad Dog the other day talking is 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.400 His bullshit take was I can't live in a world 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.680 where a guy swinging three oh, And I thought to myself, 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.520 if a guy is over six or better yet, if 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:27.600 he's six for six and he heads into that at bad, 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:30.920 why the funk wouldn't he swing away? Whether you have 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.400 no confidence or all the confidence in the world. If 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.480 he was four for four with four homers and he 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:39.080 walked twice. Would you have an issue with him swinging away? Fuck? No, 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:42.920 like that's that's sport. If you don't fucking like it, 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:44.560 you don't have a picture out there and then just 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:48.160 dropped to a knees and don't play well. And as 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.080 you know here here's the thing too, it's like, uh, 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.679 you know the take sign. There's like, well the Russa 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:59.200 said to take the pitch, to take the in that spot. Yeah, 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:03.200 what are you doing? Yeah? You know, bad job? All right, anyway, 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.000 we have mail back. I didn't want to say thank 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.280 you to the reviews. Some some good reviews earn the 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:09.839 Apple podcast page, and we we do need this, we 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:13.200 need we love round numbers. Humans love round numbers. And 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:19.160 we're eleven away still from the three hundred threshold of 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.160 of reviews on and this is on the Apple podcast page. 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:23.240 And I know we've got a lot of guys that 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.320 have messages and say I'm not on Apple. I'm an 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.039 Android guy, and I get it. But if you do 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:29.880 have an Apple product and you're able to get on 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:33.120 the Apple podcast page, that does help us out of 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.479 the bosses, the powers that be, do check that out. 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.400 Some of the latest reviews here. Uh, this one came 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:41.880 in the other day. Good show, but Gagon needs to 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:43.880 pick it up. I thought that was solid five star 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:50.000 review said that I don't know. Jimster seventy six said that, 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:57.520 uh what okay. The Phoenix wrote in says great show. 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:01.400 Loved the program with Earl more or love it he 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:06.640 combined the combining of two worlds. Yes, absolutely it was. 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:11.200 That was fun. Uh no deals here wrote in says 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:15.359 great podcast. Uh these two chowder heads keep me entertained. 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.719 They are funny, have great chemistry you know, we don't 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:21.080 and interview great guest. This podcast is a must listen 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:25.400 to add to your favorite list. That's good. So those 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:30.200 are some of the latest podcast reviews and we would 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:33.080 love to have you joined that. It's very simple. You 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:37.919 can go to the podcast the dot Apple dot com 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:41.839 and searched The Fifth Hour The Fifth Hour f I 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:45.159 F T H The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller, and 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:49.760 you can reviews Now. People are so people. I don't 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:51.800 know if they know this too, Ben. When you rate 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:55.000 this podcast, you can also go to the Ben Mallar 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.640 Show and rate the Ben Meller Show on Apple iTunes 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.440 as well. Like your most sent review on the Ben 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.839 Mallar Show says Gascon is the man he makes the 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:09.320 fifth hour podcast It must listen. That's pretty awesome. That 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.080 is pretty cool that you were able to put that out. 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:15.880 There's that is solid. John in Brighton appreciate that, right. 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:21.600 That's actually from Gascon, David Gascon West west of the 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.720 four or five people have now polluted your podcast, your 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:29.760 show if the compliments of me, well again, you know 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:34.520 you are a lot a lie biomission would be the 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:39.520 Gascon way of doing this, all right, I mean, let's 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.680 be let's be honest here. You want me to dabble 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:44.560 in some of the reviews here, you want me to 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:46.160 go down that road, because I can go down that 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:48.600 road if you want. By the way, on the on 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.320 the Mallard page, on the Ben Mallard Show podcast page, 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:54.320 which has been around longer, we actually are closing in 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:58.080 on seven hundred, which is which is pretty pretty good. 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.880 Uh uh, let's see here, no deal says best show 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.120 on radio benmu Show. Give the show two weeks and 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:11.120 you will be laughing your bag off about that. It's good. Uh. 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:15.840 Let's see here, you're just skipping over everything. This is 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.760 I'm like, so The best part of people, do know 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:22.520 is you're limited to just ten reviews on the iTunes page, 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:25.720 so half of that is uh, as a little bit 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:32.360 of me in there. I yeah, uh, I can feel 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:36.199 you're just turning in your grave right now. Here's one. 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:40.040 Stop shouting in the microphone. Okay, that was Andrew didn't 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:45.080 like that. Ben pronounces milk as milk weed. Man, Hippy 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.680 is a junkie. Screw that scrammer. Do you pronounce it 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.880 like that? I did one time and these guys pst 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.680 in my balls. Yeah, you know, you never let me 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:59.640 forget it. Uh. Let's see here. Very entertaining in a 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:04.320 first rate podcast. There you go, very nice. Let's see here. 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:10.559 I can't read that. I don't want to read that. Uh. 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:15.520 Here's one burger in Dallas? He said, is this guy drunk? 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.680 What a terrible show? The segments are awful. What an 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:23.679 embarrassment for Fox. I agree, sir, I agree. That's why 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.000 I'm on in the middle of the night. Oh man, Oh, 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:27.840 this is the one from last year that I love. 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:34.440 I love this show for years. It's been too political lately. Uh, 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:36.880 it's a it's a tense time in America, and I 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.640 have counted on bend to lighten things up. These days, 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:43.480 there's too much non sports point of view. Why not not? 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.600 Why I'm here? Come back, Benny, I'm a Browns fan. Yeah, 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.439 mind you. This was when sports was shut down stalls 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:55.080 like the guy posted there's not enough sports when there's 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:59.440 no fucking sports to talk about. I love it. I 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:06.160 love it. Uh. That is how it's standing standing all 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:11.120 the way around anyway. All right, let's get to the mailbag. Yes, uh, 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:15.760 some of your fan girls and boys have overwhelmed the inbox. 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.360 I'm sure these people are paid to write in. You've 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.319 got a lot of money. Queen Roxanne in Colorado sent 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:26.079 you a love note. Yes, Queen Rocks answers, Ben, you 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:31.000 must not discount the Gagon Gang, unlike that creeper that 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.600 gives awful updates and created and pushed his own fake 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:38.520 fanatics group. I wonder who she's talking about. Interesting, Uh, 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:44.320 the Gascon Gang was created by an actual fan who 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:49.840 appreciates David Interesting and the work that he does on 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:53.320 the fifth Hour. And now there might not be many 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:56.640 in this gang that will change. Ben. You know I 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:00.000 love you Queen Rock Sanzese, she loves me. But let's 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.160 give David a little credit, because if it wasn't for him, 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.679 we wouldn't get to hear you eight days a week. 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.520 That's not true at all, Queen Robs. Al Right, First 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:11.840 of all, I love that you, You and Gagon have 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.840 a have a thing. I don't know what that's all about. 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:19.800 Get to get a room. That's number one. Number two, okay, Uh, 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:24.160 Gascon has missed more podcast than I've missed, and the 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.440 show is still delivered. It's still delivered eight days a week. Now. 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.920 Sometimes you can't hear it because Gascon has the person 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:34.920 sabotage the podcast when he's when he's away. But I 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:38.400 still do it. Yeah, there you go, She says, thank 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:40.440 you both for all that you do to entertain us 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.839 on the weekends. Well, you're welcome, kid, Roxanne, You're welcome. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:46.520 I like her. I've heard that Ben and Gagon. This 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.440 is from Ohio. Ill. If you are second in line 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.000 at a four way stop sign intersection, the person in 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:55.080 front of you is timid and deferring to the other 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:59.000 driver even though it is his or her turn, so 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:02.000 traffic is still old. How long do you wait before 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:05.280 you blow your horn and curse with it? I can 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:07.520 only wait about four to five seconds before my horn 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:10.240 kicks in. Am I a prick or a good driver? 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.000 Good driver? Good driver? Yeah? I agree with that. Now 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:17.480 I have a pretty feminine horn now, so I don't 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:19.640 hit the horn quite as often. But the car that 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.240 I had before had a very masculine horn, and I 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:26.120 would hit the horn more often. Plus, um, my wife 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.440 is not a big fan of me hitting the horn. 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:32.640 Listen leads to road rage and all that stuff. So 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.160 when I'm driving with her in the car, I generally 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:38.120 don't do that, But when I'm driving alone, I am 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.880 more apt to hit the horn. I also hate when 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:43.840 people are at like a right turn on it. You 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.400 can turn right on a red and they don't, you know, 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.400 they wait for the green light. That annoys the hell 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.480 out of me, especially when there's plenty of space for 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:54.680 them to turn. Why do I hate that? Very annoying. Yeah, 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:58.160 it's not like passive. I don't like passive really in anything, 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:00.960 you can put some effort into it, all right, John. 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.559 The jailer system United States government has admitted they are 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:08.600 regularly encountering UFOs and everything. Everyone rather seems to be 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.600 fine with it. Ben and a co host, what is 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:16.880 your plan for first contact. Get in the fetal position 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.680 and suck your thumber. I don't know, uh, I think 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:22.760 there's already been contact with alien civilization, so I think 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.080 it's already happened. But the big moment would be if 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:27.880 they actually announced it to the masks, because that changes 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.839 people's perspective on everything from religion all the way down, 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:34.760 and so then that becomes problematic and how do people 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:38.640 handle that? And will people lose their minds? I mean, 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.280 I don't have a lot of confidence for human beings 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:45.800 based on how everyone was holding toilet paper and whatnot. 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:51.840 You know what I'm saying, like getting gasoline and plastic bags. Yeah, 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:55.680 like I am if you if you're doing that, I 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:59.680 don't know. It's that fight or flight thing that would 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.320 would be the case. I'm a little little concerned. We're 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:03.960 a little I don't have a plan. Do you have 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:08.440 a plan? A plan alien invasions? Shoot first, ask questions second. 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:13.839 Edgar from Norwalk in Cali says, I have been listening 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:17.559 to you since the old Bannon Dave shows Ben and 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.560 Dave the original day. Well, this is the guy was 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:22.320 in high school, by the way, how about that this guy, 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.000 Edgar was in High School. This is the new and 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:27.160 improved Ben Dave Right. He says, you still talk to 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:31.080 Dave Smith? And who has been your favorite co host 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:36.160 or person you work with throughout the years? Edgar says, 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.320 I do not talk to Dave Smith on the regular. Occasionally, 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:43.560 we had a reunion, a Benn and Dave reunion that 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:47.080 was orchestrated by Tom Looney. We had a bit of 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:49.600 a falling out after the Ben and Dave show had ended. 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:54.840 Why well, there was some some disagreement on why the 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:57.800 show ended, and this was responsible for the show ending? 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:01.040 Tell me, I want to know, Well the show ended, 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:04.480 and uh, you know, there's different people had different positions. 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.600 Some thought that Dave was responsible. Some thought that I 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.360 was responsible for the demise of the show. But did 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:11.800 you But I was the one that was actually let go. 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.680 So Dave continued on, I got whacked. Did you have 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:18.360 good chemistry? Uh? Yeah, I mean we were, we were 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:22.360 we were pretty good. We we had pretty solid ratings. 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.720 I mean we had higher ratings now. But then then 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.520 the l a midday sports talk shows half Today that 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:33.720 killed Okay, well fine, I won't name them then, but 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.800 we we dominated compared to the shows that are on 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.640 these days on local l A sports radio. So we 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:42.320 had a lot of people listening, but it wasn't good 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.800 enough for the bosses because they were they wanted like FM, 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:49.120 you know, four top forty ratings, and that's never gonna 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:50.520 be the case in l A. L A is not 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:53.440 like they get those kind of ratings in Boston. You'll 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:57.240 get that kind of rating in Philadelphia, in New York, 0:15:57.520 --> 0:15:59.600 you're not. You're not gonna get that in in l A. 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:01.840 It's just not the way the city set up. So wow. 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.920 So so you blamed him and he blamed you. Well, 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:07.320 I mean, there was just some some bad blood, but 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.560 we patch things up and I have no animosity towards him, 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:12.640 and as far as I know, he's got no animosity 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.560 towards me, and I I know he's still doing some 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:19.560 sports radio syndicated at at A network, and I would 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.800 have him on the podcast like a benn In benn 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:24.880 In Dave reunion show. You can tell you about some 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:26.440 of the old crazy stuff that we did back in 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:29.160 the day. And it's interesting because you were let go, 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:31.400 but it's sling shot it all the way back around 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:33.360 because then you came back and now you're like full 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:38.840 frontal on a you know, natural platform five days a week. Yeah. No, 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.200 it's worked out well. But you know at the time, 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.080 in the moment, you'll be your prisoner of the moment 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.200 you think I'm never gonna work again. I remember calling 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.040 my mom when I got like, oh, I said, that's it. 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:50.680 I've worked in radio. I'm done. Uh you know, And 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:53.320 then I gotta get a real job. And then I 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:58.800 was able to get another dopey radio job. Anyway, Berry 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.080 from you six City, says yo Yo Ma Benny. That's 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:04.560 his nickname for me, Yo Yo Ma Benny. Yo Yo Ma. 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:09.199 Does meeting callers in person ruin the mystery of the caller? 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:12.679 Or is it good to put a face with the caller? 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.359 And and he says, have you ever met Tammy from Montana? 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:24.160 Uh no, I've not met Tammy from Montana. I I'm 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:27.199 cool with meeting listeners, although it's sometimes it's awkward. You know, 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:30.720 we have a weird relationship. Like if you're a person 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.600 that calls the show, we talk, but we don't see 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:38.679 each other, and it's like this weird relationship where you know, 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:40.840 I can hang up on you and make you go away. Well, 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:42.400 you meet somebody at a meet and greet. You can't 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.040 do that, but I've had good experiences. I remember when 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:48.359 I first started meeting listeners. I always got the sense, 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.159 once you meet them, the magic is gone, you know, 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:53.919 the magic of being the voice in the radio box. 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.080 And and there were some people that I had met 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:58.480 and then they didn't call the show anymore, and I thought, well, 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.000 I'm a fan. And then somebody told me one time 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:03.159 they felt once they met me they were like on 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:04.719 on the same level, so they didn't want to call 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.679 the show anymore. But uh, you know, I had a 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:09.199 great time. We The last one we did was in 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.680 Seattle at the end of twenty nineteen and it was great. 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:15.280 J J from Wrennen, who ironically doesn't really call the 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:19.399 show anymore, uh, and several joke writers were there, and 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:23.080 guys that are contributors to the show. No Stradina's popped up, 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.280 who's on Twitter. It was really nice to meet him. 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.359 He's a regular guy, and um, yeah, everyone was nice. 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:31.480 We had some some interesting cats in Boston. I've told 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:34.800 the story about our our guy Wayne from Southey, who 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:38.640 showed up their local guy. We had David from Winter Park, Florida. 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.840 He drove all the way from Winter Park, Florida Boston 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:44.480 for a one hour meet and greet which was crazy 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:48.080 and had a stuffed animal parrot. But yeah, I don't 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:52.000 mind you ruining the mystery and sometimes and I'm not 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:55.240 really a people person, I'm a netrovert. But I've met 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:59.200 some really interesting people. I've been shocked. I mean, there's 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:01.240 some guys that are, you know, fans of the show. 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:03.960 There's a professor I guess I could say where it's 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:06.600 Syracuse who's been a big fan of the show and 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:07.960 listened to me for years and I met him. We 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.919 did a meet and greeting Syracuse years ago. So I 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.000 met Blind Scott and he took me through an entire 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:17.880 tour in history of Boston. Yes, while running his dog 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:19.600 Cramer into the ground that he had to get a 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:22.760 new dog man the new dog dealing. But he took 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:26.840 me to Cheers, which is fucking awesome. Yeah. I've been 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:29.480 to Boston much, never been to the Cheers man it was, 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:31.840 and I went there with Blind Scott. It was. It 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:34.560 was pretty fu wild. I remember the end of the 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.840 Cheers TV show when they did like Jay Leno had 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:39.720 the cast of Cheers on. They did it from Boston 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:46.679 and everyone was completely just hammered. Yeah, I think you know? 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.560 Do you do you know Ken Levine? Are you aware 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:53.359 of Kenya? Yeah? Ken, we should get him on. He 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:56.560 wrote episodes of Cheers, he was on, did some stuff 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.600 with Ted Dance, and did a bunch of TVs great stories. 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:02.480 I was referred to Ken, God, I think it was. 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:04.840 I was either referred to Ken, either by you or 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:08.600 Tom Looney. Oh yeah, well we all you know. Ken's great. 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:12.080 Ken's wonderful. He did game. Yeah, he did Minor league, 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:14.280 but he quit Hollywood to do minor league baseball, wrote 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:17.280 a book about it, got hired for the Seattle Mariners, 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:20.640 the Baltimore Orioles, the Seattle Mariners, the podres play by 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:23.280 play like I got into booth and did play by 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:27.119 play and very funny. I worked with him when I 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:29.879 did Dodger I didn't postgame Dodger talk and he was 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:32.760 doing the pregame show. So we were we were together 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:37.720 around the same the same era, back back in the day. 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:42.199 Let's see your sweet potato Bob from Sincecinnati, one of 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:47.600 the Cincinnati Bros, says Ben and gas can Uh says, 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:50.760 I am a I'm sicker than a poodle in a 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:55.880 frog pond due to the lingo that has been adapted 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:59.800 up over the last five years. He says, a sweet 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:02.800 but pato Bob, Why in the hell does every professional 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:07.160 sports personality use the word right when talking these days? Example, 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:09.679 Tim Duncan was a lock to be put in the 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:14.600 Hall of Fame? Right? Uh? Wasn't he and David Robinson 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:18.000 the ultimate twin Towers? Rights? Uh? And he and Pop 0:21:18.040 --> 0:21:23.320 are like father and son? Right? Yeah? Um mama, he says, 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:27.160 should have warned me because I'm about to walk the plank. 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:30.359 Help me understand me? Well, listen, sweet potato Bob, you're 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:33.479 a smart guy. It's pretty simple. Right when I just 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:35.640 didn't see I just did it. There's there's an example. 0:21:35.960 --> 0:21:39.720 You're confirming whatever statement you just made, Sweet Potato Bob, 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:43.119 you are to the listener, you're saying what I said 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:45.439 was correct, And just to make just in case you 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:47.480 had a doubt, I'm gonna throw in the word right, 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:52.480 just like the Fifth Hour podcast is the greatest podcast 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:56.840 you're going to listen to at this moment. Right, See 0:21:56.880 --> 0:22:01.679 what I did there? Yeah, but that's that's an earworm 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:05.240 for sweet Potato Bob. Let it go. Bob, It's gonna 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:08.919 be okay, Neil, Neil right, since it's the Earl. The 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:13.360 Earl interview was the bomb. Neils in Miami says more 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:21.240 props to Gascon. Really on booking another another hood guests, 0:22:22.960 --> 0:22:26.560 you must be proud. Earls slip Earls slip on the 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:30.080 banana peel. Uh he put himself with the Joe Rogan 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:34.159 podcast has me wondering what awesome gigs are opportunities you 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:38.359 and Gascon passed on in your career. Well, it's not 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:40.919 really so much passing on, it's being close and not 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:43.560 getting it. I've told the story before, but I was 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:47.760