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Speaker 1: Who he is very very productive week and into the
Speaker 1: weekend we go for me. Um yeah, I finished that
Speaker 1: some baseball last week. I don't know you'll probably probably
Speaker 1: be repulsed by this story before we get into the mailbag.
Speaker 1: But college baseball ben has locked themselves into the Rob
Speaker 1: Manfred group, where if you're in a baseball game and
Speaker 1: you have a ten run advantage after seven innings, you
Speaker 1: can call it. They have a mercy rule right now
Speaker 1: in college baseball. It's yeah, Well, the other day we
Speaker 1: were talking about this story with Larus I did a
Speaker 1: monologue with the White Sox and you know, the Twins
Speaker 1: and this whole thing that the Etiquati Baseball is like, well,
Speaker 1: just put the damn mercy rule in. If you can't,
Speaker 1: you know, swing from your heels and try to hit
Speaker 1: a home run, what's the point of plan? What fun
Speaker 1: is baseball if you can't do that? And and I
Speaker 1: was keeaning around and like Aaron Boone, the manager of
Speaker 1: the Yankees, is like, yeah, that's a great you know,
Speaker 1: this great idea. We should have a mercy rule. Just
Speaker 1: put the mercy at least visit, you know, think about
Speaker 1: the mercy rule. Well yeah, I mean, if they condense
Speaker 1: games to seven innings for double the ghost run, the
Speaker 1: ghost runner kills me, like I'm watching a Dodger game.
Speaker 1: They get to the tent Tennic. All of a sudden, Tedda,
Speaker 1: there's a runner on second base. Presto, just like that,
Speaker 1: you know, Waila Like it's like so stupid my thought
Speaker 1: on this, and no one's brought this up. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you have it all. But if you're Mercedes,
Speaker 1: if you're in that spot like Mercedes is, and let's
Speaker 1: say you come to the dish three O count to you,
Speaker 1: but prior to that you were over six, would you
Speaker 1: swing away? Yeah? Yeah, yes, you try to hit at
Speaker 1: all times. What's the point of doing something half ash
Speaker 1: and then Russa and these these old guard oldergarchs of baseball.
Speaker 1: You gotta you know, you shouldn't try You shouldn't try
Speaker 1: to steal, you shouldn't swing on a three old pitch.
Speaker 1: But stut up, shut up, man, listen. I'm known as
Speaker 1: Benny the Bopper, and I know at all times you've
Speaker 1: got to try to hit that ball out of the
Speaker 1: yard way to go Mercedes. And but it's good for us.
Speaker 1: I you know, I went on with my guy Bob
Speaker 1: Fesco in Kansas City. We're talking about this is really
Speaker 1: the only crossover type story that we get from baseball
Speaker 1: on a regular occurrence like this is the kind of
Speaker 1: story that you can talk about on a sports radio
Speaker 1: show and debate. There's not a lot of that in baseball.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of that, you know, black and white.
Speaker 1: You know, there's where you actually have something that you
Speaker 1: can go back and forth and have conversation about. A
Speaker 1: lot of it's pretty black, it is, and in baseball
Speaker 1: that's one thing. If I was in charge of baseball,
Speaker 1: I would try to package the sport more like they
Speaker 1: do in football and basketball, where you you you can
Speaker 1: do this on social media, where you create, you know,
Speaker 1: not create per se. I don't want this totally contrived,
Speaker 1: but there are ways you can present it which make
Speaker 1: it more friendly for media conversation, which then in turn
Speaker 1: will lead to more people partaking your business. I was
Speaker 1: perplexed by the mad Dog the other day talking is
Speaker 1: His bullshit take was I can't live in a world
Speaker 1: where a guy swinging three oh, And I thought to myself,
Speaker 1: if a guy is over six or better yet, if
Speaker 1: he's six for six and he heads into that at bad,
Speaker 1: why the funk wouldn't he swing away? Whether you have
Speaker 1: no confidence or all the confidence in the world. If
Speaker 1: he was four for four with four homers and he
Speaker 1: walked twice. Would you have an issue with him swinging away? Fuck? No,
Speaker 1: like that's that's sport. If you don't fucking like it,
Speaker 1: you don't have a picture out there and then just
Speaker 1: dropped to a knees and don't play well. And as
Speaker 1: you know here here's the thing too, it's like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know the take sign. There's like, well the Russa
Speaker 1: said to take the pitch, to take the in that spot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Yeah? You know, bad job? All right, anyway,
Speaker 1: we have mail back. I didn't want to say thank
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Speaker 1: That's actually from Gascon, David Gascon West west of the
Speaker 1: four or five people have now polluted your podcast, your
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Speaker 1: be let's be honest here. You want me to dabble
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Speaker 1: on seven hundred, which is which is pretty pretty good.
Speaker 1: Uh uh, let's see here, no deal says best show
Speaker 1: on radio benmu Show. Give the show two weeks and
Speaker 1: you will be laughing your bag off about that. It's good. Uh.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, so The best part of people, do know
Speaker 1: is you're limited to just ten reviews on the iTunes page,
Speaker 1: so half of that is uh, as a little bit
Speaker 1: of me in there. I yeah, uh, I can feel
Speaker 1: you're just turning in your grave right now. Here's one.
Speaker 1: Stop shouting in the microphone. Okay, that was Andrew didn't
Speaker 1: like that. Ben pronounces milk as milk weed. Man, Hippy
Speaker 1: is a junkie. Screw that scrammer. Do you pronounce it
Speaker 1: like that? I did one time and these guys pst
Speaker 1: in my balls. Yeah, you know, you never let me
Speaker 1: forget it. Uh. Let's see here. Very entertaining in a
Speaker 1: first rate podcast. There you go, very nice. Let's see here.
Speaker 1: I can't read that. I don't want to read that. Uh.
Speaker 1: Here's one burger in Dallas? He said, is this guy drunk?
Speaker 1: What a terrible show? The segments are awful. What an
Speaker 1: embarrassment for Fox. I agree, sir, I agree. That's why
Speaker 1: I'm on in the middle of the night. Oh man, Oh,
Speaker 1: this is the one from last year that I love.
Speaker 1: I love this show for years. It's been too political lately. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a tense time in America, and I
Speaker 1: have counted on bend to lighten things up. These days,
Speaker 1: there's too much non sports point of view. Why not not?
Speaker 1: Why I'm here? Come back, Benny, I'm a Browns fan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: mind you. This was when sports was shut down stalls
Speaker 1: like the guy posted there's not enough sports when there's
Speaker 1: no fucking sports to talk about. I love it. I
Speaker 1: love it. Uh. That is how it's standing standing all
Speaker 1: the way around anyway. All right, let's get to the mailbag. Yes, uh,
Speaker 1: some of your fan girls and boys have overwhelmed the inbox.
Speaker 1: I'm sure these people are paid to write in. You've
Speaker 1: got a lot of money. Queen Roxanne in Colorado sent
Speaker 1: you a love note. Yes, Queen Rocks answers, Ben, you
Speaker 1: must not discount the Gagon Gang, unlike that creeper that
Speaker 1: gives awful updates and created and pushed his own fake
Speaker 1: fanatics group. I wonder who she's talking about. Interesting, Uh,
Speaker 1: the Gascon Gang was created by an actual fan who
Speaker 1: appreciates David Interesting and the work that he does on
Speaker 1: the fifth Hour. And now there might not be many
Speaker 1: in this gang that will change. Ben. You know I
Speaker 1: love you Queen Rock Sanzese, she loves me. But let's
Speaker 1: give David a little credit, because if it wasn't for him,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't get to hear you eight days a week.
Speaker 1: That's not true at all, Queen Robs. Al Right, First
Speaker 1: of all, I love that you, You and Gagon have
Speaker 1: a have a thing. I don't know what that's all about.
Speaker 1: Get to get a room. That's number one. Number two, okay, Uh,
Speaker 1: Gascon has missed more podcast than I've missed, and the
Speaker 1: show is still delivered. It's still delivered eight days a week. Now.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you can't hear it because Gascon has the person
Speaker 1: sabotage the podcast when he's when he's away. But I
Speaker 1: still do it. Yeah, there you go, She says, thank
Speaker 1: you both for all that you do to entertain us
Speaker 1: on the weekends. Well, you're welcome, kid, Roxanne, You're welcome.
Speaker 1: I like her. I've heard that Ben and Gagon. This
Speaker 1: is from Ohio. Ill. If you are second in line
Speaker 1: at a four way stop sign intersection, the person in
Speaker 1: front of you is timid and deferring to the other
Speaker 1: driver even though it is his or her turn, so
Speaker 1: traffic is still old. How long do you wait before
Speaker 1: you blow your horn and curse with it? I can
Speaker 1: only wait about four to five seconds before my horn
Speaker 1: kicks in. Am I a prick or a good driver?
Speaker 1: Good driver? Good driver? Yeah? I agree with that. Now
Speaker 1: I have a pretty feminine horn now, so I don't
Speaker 1: hit the horn quite as often. But the car that
Speaker 1: I had before had a very masculine horn, and I
Speaker 1: would hit the horn more often. Plus, um, my wife
Speaker 1: is not a big fan of me hitting the horn.
Speaker 1: Listen leads to road rage and all that stuff. So
Speaker 1: when I'm driving with her in the car, I generally
Speaker 1: don't do that, But when I'm driving alone, I am
Speaker 1: more apt to hit the horn. I also hate when
Speaker 1: people are at like a right turn on it. You
Speaker 1: can turn right on a red and they don't, you know,
Speaker 1: they wait for the green light. That annoys the hell
Speaker 1: out of me, especially when there's plenty of space for
Speaker 1: them to turn. Why do I hate that? Very annoying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not like passive. I don't like passive really in anything,
Speaker 1: you can put some effort into it, all right, John.
Speaker 1: The jailer system United States government has admitted they are
Speaker 1: regularly encountering UFOs and everything. Everyone rather seems to be
Speaker 1: fine with it. Ben and a co host, what is
Speaker 1: your plan for first contact. Get in the fetal position
Speaker 1: and suck your thumber. I don't know, uh, I think
Speaker 1: there's already been contact with alien civilization, so I think
Speaker 1: it's already happened. But the big moment would be if
Speaker 1: they actually announced it to the masks, because that changes
Speaker 1: people's perspective on everything from religion all the way down,
Speaker 1: and so then that becomes problematic and how do people
Speaker 1: handle that? And will people lose their minds? I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of confidence for human beings
Speaker 1: based on how everyone was holding toilet paper and whatnot.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, like getting gasoline and plastic bags. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like I am if you if you're doing that, I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's that fight or flight thing that would
Speaker 1: would be the case. I'm a little little concerned. We're
Speaker 1: a little I don't have a plan. Do you have
Speaker 1: a plan? A plan alien invasions? Shoot first, ask questions second.
Speaker 1: Edgar from Norwalk in Cali says, I have been listening
Speaker 1: to you since the old Bannon Dave shows Ben and
Speaker 1: Dave the original day. Well, this is the guy was
Speaker 1: in high school, by the way, how about that this guy,
Speaker 1: Edgar was in High School. This is the new and
Speaker 1: improved Ben Dave Right. He says, you still talk to
Speaker 1: Dave Smith? And who has been your favorite co host
Speaker 1: or person you work with throughout the years? Edgar says,
Speaker 1: I do not talk to Dave Smith on the regular. Occasionally,
Speaker 1: we had a reunion, a Benn and Dave reunion that
Speaker 1: was orchestrated by Tom Looney. We had a bit of
Speaker 1: a falling out after the Ben and Dave show had ended.
Speaker 1: Why well, there was some some disagreement on why the
Speaker 1: show ended, and this was responsible for the show ending?
Speaker 1: Tell me, I want to know, Well the show ended,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, there's different people had different positions.
Speaker 1: Some thought that Dave was responsible. Some thought that I
Speaker 1: was responsible for the demise of the show. But did
Speaker 1: you But I was the one that was actually let go.
Speaker 1: So Dave continued on, I got whacked. Did you have
Speaker 1: good chemistry? Uh? Yeah, I mean we were, we were
Speaker 1: we were pretty good. We we had pretty solid ratings.
Speaker 1: I mean we had higher ratings now. But then then
Speaker 1: the l a midday sports talk shows half Today that
Speaker 1: killed Okay, well fine, I won't name them then, but
Speaker 1: we we dominated compared to the shows that are on
Speaker 1: these days on local l A sports radio. So we
Speaker 1: had a lot of people listening, but it wasn't good
Speaker 1: enough for the bosses because they were they wanted like FM,
Speaker 1: you know, four top forty ratings, and that's never gonna
Speaker 1: be the case in l A. L A is not
Speaker 1: like they get those kind of ratings in Boston. You'll
Speaker 1: get that kind of rating in Philadelphia, in New York,
Speaker 1: you're not. You're not gonna get that in in l A.
Speaker 1: It's just not the way the city set up. So wow.
Speaker 1: So so you blamed him and he blamed you. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, there was just some some bad blood, but
Speaker 1: we patch things up and I have no animosity towards him,
Speaker 1: and as far as I know, he's got no animosity
Speaker 1: towards me, and I I know he's still doing some
Speaker 1: sports radio syndicated at at A network, and I would
Speaker 1: have him on the podcast like a benn In benn
Speaker 1: In Dave reunion show. You can tell you about some
Speaker 1: of the old crazy stuff that we did back in
Speaker 1: the day. And it's interesting because you were let go,
Speaker 1: but it's sling shot it all the way back around
Speaker 1: because then you came back and now you're like full
Speaker 1: frontal on a you know, natural platform five days a week. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: it's worked out well. But you know at the time,
Speaker 1: in the moment, you'll be your prisoner of the moment
Speaker 1: you think I'm never gonna work again. I remember calling
Speaker 1: my mom when I got like, oh, I said, that's it.
Speaker 1: I've worked in radio. I'm done. Uh you know, And
Speaker 1: then I gotta get a real job. And then I
Speaker 1: was able to get another dopey radio job. Anyway, Berry
Speaker 1: from you six City, says yo Yo Ma Benny. That's
Speaker 1: his nickname for me, Yo Yo Ma Benny. Yo Yo Ma.
Speaker 1: Does meeting callers in person ruin the mystery of the caller?
Speaker 1: Or is it good to put a face with the caller?
Speaker 1: And and he says, have you ever met Tammy from Montana?
Speaker 1: Uh no, I've not met Tammy from Montana. I I'm
Speaker 1: cool with meeting listeners, although it's sometimes it's awkward. You know,
Speaker 1: we have a weird relationship. Like if you're a person
Speaker 1: that calls the show, we talk, but we don't see
Speaker 1: each other, and it's like this weird relationship where you know,
Speaker 1: I can hang up on you and make you go away. Well,
Speaker 1: you meet somebody at a meet and greet. You can't
Speaker 1: do that, but I've had good experiences. I remember when
Speaker 1: I first started meeting listeners. I always got the sense,
Speaker 1: once you meet them, the magic is gone, you know,
Speaker 1: the magic of being the voice in the radio box.
Speaker 1: And and there were some people that I had met
Speaker 1: and then they didn't call the show anymore, and I thought, well,
Speaker 1: I'm a fan. And then somebody told me one time
Speaker 1: they felt once they met me they were like on
Speaker 1: on the same level, so they didn't want to call
Speaker 1: the show anymore. But uh, you know, I had a
Speaker 1: great time. We The last one we did was in
Speaker 1: Seattle at the end of twenty nineteen and it was great.
Speaker 1: J J from Wrennen, who ironically doesn't really call the
Speaker 1: show anymore, uh, and several joke writers were there, and
Speaker 1: guys that are contributors to the show. No Stradina's popped up,
Speaker 1: who's on Twitter. It was really nice to meet him.
Speaker 1: He's a regular guy, and um, yeah, everyone was nice.
Speaker 1: We had some some interesting cats in Boston. I've told
Speaker 1: the story about our our guy Wayne from Southey, who
Speaker 1: showed up their local guy. We had David from Winter Park, Florida.
Speaker 1: He drove all the way from Winter Park, Florida Boston
Speaker 1: for a one hour meet and greet which was crazy
Speaker 1: and had a stuffed animal parrot. But yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: mind you ruining the mystery and sometimes and I'm not
Speaker 1: really a people person, I'm a netrovert. But I've met
Speaker 1: some really interesting people. I've been shocked. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: some guys that are, you know, fans of the show.
Speaker 1: There's a professor I guess I could say where it's
Speaker 1: Syracuse who's been a big fan of the show and
Speaker 1: listened to me for years and I met him. We
Speaker 1: did a meet and greeting Syracuse years ago. So I
Speaker 1: met Blind Scott and he took me through an entire
Speaker 1: tour in history of Boston. Yes, while running his dog
Speaker 1: Cramer into the ground that he had to get a
Speaker 1: new dog man the new dog dealing. But he took
Speaker 1: me to Cheers, which is fucking awesome. Yeah. I've been
Speaker 1: to Boston much, never been to the Cheers man it was,
Speaker 1: and I went there with Blind Scott. It was. It
Speaker 1: was pretty fu wild. I remember the end of the
Speaker 1: Cheers TV show when they did like Jay Leno had
Speaker 1: the cast of Cheers on. They did it from Boston
Speaker 1: and everyone was completely just hammered. Yeah, I think you know?
Speaker 1: Do you do you know Ken Levine? Are you aware
Speaker 1: of Kenya? Yeah? Ken, we should get him on. He
Speaker 1: wrote episodes of Cheers, he was on, did some stuff
Speaker 1: with Ted Dance, and did a bunch of TVs great stories.
Speaker 1: I was referred to Ken, God, I think it was.
Speaker 1: I was either referred to Ken, either by you or
Speaker 1: Tom Looney. Oh yeah, well we all you know. Ken's great.
Speaker 1: Ken's wonderful. He did game. Yeah, he did Minor league,
Speaker 1: but he quit Hollywood to do minor league baseball, wrote
Speaker 1: a book about it, got hired for the Seattle Mariners,
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Orioles, the Seattle Mariners, the podres play by
Speaker 1: play like I got into booth and did play by
Speaker 1: play and very funny. I worked with him when I
Speaker 1: did Dodger I didn't postgame Dodger talk and he was
Speaker 1: doing the pregame show. So we were we were together
Speaker 1: around the same the same era, back back in the day.
Speaker 1: Let's see your sweet potato Bob from Sincecinnati, one of
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bros, says Ben and gas can Uh says,
Speaker 1: I am a I'm sicker than a poodle in a
Speaker 1: frog pond due to the lingo that has been adapted
Speaker 1: up over the last five years. He says, a sweet
Speaker 1: but pato Bob, Why in the hell does every professional
Speaker 1: sports personality use the word right when talking these days? Example,
Speaker 1: Tim Duncan was a lock to be put in the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame? Right? Uh? Wasn't he and David Robinson
Speaker 1: the ultimate twin Towers? Rights? Uh? And he and Pop
Speaker 1: are like father and son? Right? Yeah? Um mama, he says,
Speaker 1: should have warned me because I'm about to walk the plank.
Speaker 1: Help me understand me? Well, listen, sweet potato Bob, you're
Speaker 1: a smart guy. It's pretty simple. Right when I just
Speaker 1: didn't see I just did it. There's there's an example.
Speaker 1: You're confirming whatever statement you just made, Sweet Potato Bob,
Speaker 1: you are to the listener, you're saying what I said
Speaker 1: was correct, And just to make just in case you
Speaker 1: had a doubt, I'm gonna throw in the word right,
Speaker 1: just like the Fifth Hour podcast is the greatest podcast
Speaker 1: you're going to listen to at this moment. Right, See
Speaker 1: what I did there? Yeah, but that's that's an earworm
Speaker 1: for sweet Potato Bob. Let it go. Bob, It's gonna
Speaker 1: be okay, Neil, Neil right, since it's the Earl. The
Speaker 1: Earl interview was the bomb. Neils in Miami says more
Speaker 1: props to Gascon. Really on booking another another hood guests,
Speaker 1: you must be proud. Earls slip Earls slip on the
Speaker 1: banana peel. Uh he put himself with the Joe Rogan
Speaker 1: podcast has me wondering what awesome gigs are opportunities you
Speaker 1: and Gascon passed on in your career. Well, it's not
Speaker 1: really so much passing on, it's being close and not
Speaker 1: getting it. I've told the story before, but I was
Speaker 1: uh finalist. I was gonna be hired at TMZ to
Speaker 1: run TMZ Sports when Fox Sports Radio got rid of me,
Speaker 1: and I got a phone call saying that I was
Speaker 1: about to be hired and they were gonna call me
Speaker 1: back at at this time and prepare for the phone call.
Speaker 1: And I'm still waiting for that phone call from our
Speaker 1: friends over at TMZ. And you know what I could do, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can make a call into Harvey. Yeah you know Harvey,
Speaker 1: You're you're the chief knows them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I'm good now, but I uh yeah, he he was.
Speaker 1: They were launching TMZ Sports. This is like in oh nine,
Speaker 1: right around that time, and Tiger would scandal it right
Speaker 1: around there as well. Uh maybe a little after that,
Speaker 1: but it was in that period of time. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then I've had some other really good opportunities. You have
Speaker 1: to wait for my book though. To get those stories,
Speaker 1: you have to get my book. I I would I
Speaker 1: remember the one time I was up for a commercial
Speaker 1: and uh, I didn't get hired because I didn't I
Speaker 1: didn't look right. They didn't want to hire me because
Speaker 1: I have a right look. Like, what do you mean
Speaker 1: by right look? Well, I mean they were trying to
Speaker 1: hire I think. I think when they told me guest
Speaker 1: was they were trying to hire a more diverse group.
Speaker 1: And apparently because of my my origins, that's that that
Speaker 1: set me back. Interesting. I don't know why you would
Speaker 1: do it. I think that's when I grew up. That
Speaker 1: was called racism, hiring somebody based on the on that.
Speaker 1: But I guess you know there's some people modern era,
Speaker 1: they don't they don't share that. Judge someone you know
Speaker 1: that Martin Luther King quote character and you know the
Speaker 1: content of their character, UM, not something professional but something personal. UM,
Speaker 1: I did pass on I'm going out on a date.
Speaker 1: Not that I passed on it, but I slow played it.
Speaker 1: Um a president's daughter, I had the opportunity to go
Speaker 1: out with her and did not do it. Why not? UM?
Speaker 1: I guess the terminology would be, I didn't want to
Speaker 1: be a c B. I didn't want to be a
Speaker 1: cock blocker. I had a buddy of mine that was
Speaker 1: into her and she was and she was into me,
Speaker 1: and I didn't want to fuck him over make him
Speaker 1: look bad by swooping in. I was an idiot. I was.
Speaker 1: I was like nineteen years old, twenty years old. Bad
Speaker 1: mistake by me. Really remember that. The next time you
Speaker 1: complain about the money that you make, you could have
Speaker 1: been the president, the first son in law. I'm sure
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get an email, will name the president? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to do that? The train from naming who
Speaker 1: the person became eventually the president? Well, I'll just say
Speaker 1: it's a former president, not a president president. All right,
Speaker 1: leave it there. Be sure to catch live editions of
Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show week day said two am Eastern
Speaker 1: eleven pm Pacific. Be sure to catch live editions of
Speaker 1: the Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven
Speaker 1: pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart
Speaker 1: Radio app Let's See. Neil also's is speaking of jobs,
Speaker 1: What would it take for you to move to Florida?
Speaker 1: Not a lot? Well, I gotta convince my wife. But
Speaker 1: he also says I didn't know about this. I guess
Speaker 1: Howard Stern began broadcasting from Florida for the first time ever.
Speaker 1: At that he's now hosting his show from his Palm
Speaker 1: Beach home. He began, I guess it actually happened back
Speaker 1: in uh last month, mid April, but he never officially
Speaker 1: announced the move. It's the first time ever, story Neil
Speaker 1: sent me from the the new the next time next,
Speaker 1: Miami dot Com says it's the first time ever Stern
Speaker 1: was broadcast from Florida. Stern at a replica of his
Speaker 1: New York studio built in Palm Beach, only the floor
Speaker 1: is different, keeping the move hidden for weeks. About that,
Speaker 1: I think you would enjoy the Cuban food down there too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've been to Miami. I like Miami. Do you like
Speaker 1: Do you like the food? No? But I like my amy.
Speaker 1: I have a simple palette. I know but I thought
Speaker 1: you'd like the Cuban face. I'm really like Howard Stern.
Speaker 1: I'm broadcasting from home. Guess on you see that all
Speaker 1: the greats broadcasting, Art Bell, Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh, the Legends,
Speaker 1: and the radio business. Russia's dead, so it is right, Bell,
Speaker 1: but still they when you know everyone dies, the death rates,
Speaker 1: no one's getting out alive. We all have a fatal illness.
Speaker 1: It's called life, so deal with it. Howard Stern paid
Speaker 1: fifty two million dollars for his Palm Beach home, and uh,
Speaker 1: but he said that he remained in New York in
Speaker 1: order to be able to interview star guests who may
Speaker 1: not come to Florida. But he's been cut conducting interviews
Speaker 1: remotely since the pandemic began. So there you go. He's
Speaker 1: uh got lower taxes and all that in Florida. Good
Speaker 1: for him, the king of all media. I remember when
Speaker 1: Stern had his Fastball. Boy was he good? And I
Speaker 1: I love the hell out of Howard Stern show. And
Speaker 1: now he's the wokester. It's too bad, but it happened. Uh.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, says Neil says one more for Ben
Speaker 1: money Ball Mallard uh. He says. If you were in
Speaker 1: Vegas with gascon and he says, at some sports book
Speaker 1: and saw a prop bet on what would happen first,
Speaker 1: Ben winning his own Mallard Mountain of money or eating
Speaker 1: a gascon give steak from over a year ago? Which
Speaker 1: one would you put a grand on over over over
Speaker 1: a year. It's like wine, it's aged. Are you good
Speaker 1: in the sports books? Are you good in the casinos?
Speaker 1: What do you mean? Am I good in the casino?
Speaker 1: Do you win? Are you profitable? Or you are someone
Speaker 1: that I am selective but successful. I don't bet. It's
Speaker 1: not the quantity, it's the quality. And then my problem
Speaker 1: is I run through my mind different scenarios on how
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get fucked when I put a bet down,
Speaker 1: who's gonna rule me over? And then I think, I
Speaker 1: try to walk through it. What was the I'm playing
Speaker 1: the probability, praying the odds. You know what, what's gonna
Speaker 1: actually work? What's not gonna work? That kind of thing.
Speaker 1: I'm exceptional at the craps table. I'm really good. Yea, yeah,
Speaker 1: but we'll see about that. Like the buddy I had,
Speaker 1: you know, give me a couple of hundred bucks take
Speaker 1: me to the casino all way and playing a couple
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. That's the all. That's what Craig Carton did, right,
Speaker 1: He's like playing with other people's money and then you
Speaker 1: start losing, and then you got you got problems. Carlos
Speaker 1: from Bang Bang Houston says, what's the origin story on
Speaker 1: the Golden Tickets? Also, there's a weekly tradition on the podcast,
Speaker 1: so he said he was gonna ask about the frozen steak.
Speaker 1: We've already been asked Carlos about the frozen steak. Uh,
Speaker 1: he says, for the record, I had Facebook and Twitter,
Speaker 1: but I am completely off the grid for personal reasons.
Speaker 1: Oh what do what happened? Um? Think he's running from
Speaker 1: the law, is running from a couple of girls. I
Speaker 1: think some lady ladies rama. Yeah, or maybe he wants
Speaker 1: to lay off that because he's looking for a new
Speaker 1: job and he doesn't want HR to be spying on him.
Speaker 1: That's a good one too. The poison, the poison of
Speaker 1: social media. But there's not a big backstory. And the
Speaker 1: Golden Tickets, it kind of started organically. I think Danny
Speaker 1: g had the idea. We were trying to come up
Speaker 1: what I remember correctly was it. I think it might
Speaker 1: have been that guy that from New York that used
Speaker 1: to call the show who's banned uh And he wanted
Speaker 1: that he was the first one to use it, the
Speaker 1: Golden Ticket real something. I forget what his last name,
Speaker 1: his last part of his nickname was, but he hasn't.
Speaker 1: He's banned till the summertime. Rhymes with bunt uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But anyway, he Danny g came up with the name.
Speaker 1: And then I guess somebody said, Jim Rome does like
Speaker 1: the same thing or so. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: Jim Romes an overnight show for me. I sleep when
Speaker 1: he's on, So I don't know. But people like the
Speaker 1: Golden Ticket and we've kept it around for several years.
Speaker 1: Pierre from Springfield rights in just down the street from
Speaker 1: the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame Er Mufett McGraw is
Speaker 1: and Clipper Darryl will be in the Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: soon enough. Any chance that you guys have any plans
Speaker 1: of doing something else on the YouTube like you did
Speaker 1: with Benny Versus the Penny. It was a lot of
Speaker 1: fun interacting with the two of you and the rest
Speaker 1: of the militia interacting. Mostly it was just about how
Speaker 1: we looked the product. The production value increased with each
Speaker 1: passing weeks up, especially after Dave updated his computer and
Speaker 1: Ben figured out his green screen. Uh he says, ps,
Speaker 1: will that Tomahawks steak be moving with you and the
Speaker 1: misses or will you leave it for the new owners
Speaker 1: of the Mallard Match. I don't know if you're talking
Speaker 1: about Pierre. I have not disclosed any of that information,
Speaker 1: but uh, yeah, I mean we're always working on something,
Speaker 1: and the big the big part of the year. For
Speaker 1: most people, the year starts in January one, but in
Speaker 1: the sports world it starts the first Sunday in September
Speaker 1: when the NFL kicks off. That is the beginning of
Speaker 1: the year. And we love the Benny versus the Penny brand.
Speaker 1: We used to have it on radio. I did that
Speaker 1: on radio for a long time. We did it on
Speaker 1: this podcast. We moved it to YouTube, and uh, we've
Speaker 1: got some big plans. We'll see if those plans actually
Speaker 1: come to fruition or not. But even if the plans
Speaker 1: that are in the works don't happen, there's something else
Speaker 1: that we're gonna do. They have you always gotta have
Speaker 1: a backup plan. You gotta have a plan A and
Speaker 1: a plan being. We've at least I have in my head. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's gotta have a fall guy. Yeah, we need that too.
Speaker 1: Fred from Spring Texas says, what's your opinion of Philadelphia
Speaker 1: sports teams and fans? I love the passion number one?
Speaker 1: And I've always said as a fan, even though I
Speaker 1: grew up in California and it laid back California cool,
Speaker 1: as a sports fan, I'm I'm much more relate to
Speaker 1: the fans in Boston. Uh. One of the reason I
Speaker 1: think the show has done well in Boston, Philadelphia and
Speaker 1: New York. That's that's really my approach to being a
Speaker 1: sports fan. More more in line with that. Now, Listen,
Speaker 1: I've been to I've been to Philly these games. I've
Speaker 1: never been to an Eagles game. I've been in Philly
Speaker 1: over the years, and I you know, some real animals,
Speaker 1: let's be honest here, that are mixed amongst the fan
Speaker 1: base hoodlums, But I do like I mean, there was
Speaker 1: a video this week of a fan running out in
Speaker 1: the field and the police came over and pushed the guy.
Speaker 1: The guy was trying to he was running off the field.
Speaker 1: He was jumping back in the stands and the fan
Speaker 1: tackle the police officer tackle him, and the crowd's going
Speaker 1: wild and the fans the police officer he had such
Speaker 1: an adrenaline rush that he like patted the guy in
Speaker 1: the back, saying, good job, good job running out in
Speaker 1: the field. It was hilarious. That was really funny. Gaster,
Speaker 1: I think that's a said from Fresno says for all
Speaker 1: of you. He says, which would you prefer having a
Speaker 1: paradise landscape in your own backyard to enjoy with fran
Speaker 1: Is in family or spending a lot of money to
Speaker 1: go to a paradise getaway. Give me the backyard. Give
Speaker 1: me the backyard. You can enjoy it the rest of
Speaker 1: your life if you stay in that house. Give me
Speaker 1: the backyard. Are you okay? Yess? Guy? Did you fall asleep?
Speaker 1: Are you? Are you bored? Do you want to move on?
Speaker 1: I mean you not want to answer the question what
Speaker 1: the fun is going on? I agreed with you, but yeah, backyard?
Speaker 1: So you're not one word answer guy? No, I mean
Speaker 1: I can elaborate if you like. But we're in California.
Speaker 1: We're in southern California, so it's such a vacation from
Speaker 1: southern California, Like you know, vacationing here would be either
Speaker 1: San Diego, Hawaii. I don't know anyway, work man, you
Speaker 1: need to recover from Vegas anywhere in California, Northern California, Fox,
Speaker 1: San Francentral California, Central California, right around the Hurst Castle, Beautiful,
Speaker 1: sat us Obispo, Santa Barbara. Yeah, that area, San Louis Obispocious,
Speaker 1: much further northcu been San Francisco for anybody anymore. You
Speaker 1: don't like watching people ship on the street. What's wrong
Speaker 1: with you? It is a cesspool of just thuggery. Crim
Speaker 1: That Golden Gate Park, though, is beautiful. It is that nice.
Speaker 1: That Golden Gate Park, walking across the Golden Gate Bridge beautiful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: It's wonderful and I was so upset. I've talked about
Speaker 1: this in the past, but if you're new to the show,
Speaker 1: I I've been to San Francisco many times over the
Speaker 1: years and never visited the Golden Gate Park. And I
Speaker 1: went the last time I was there, Like, WHOA, what
Speaker 1: have I done if I haven't I've been to this place.
Speaker 1: This place is amazing. Everyone loves San Francisco. Alcatraz is
Speaker 1: pretty awesome too. Never been to Alcatraz, never never done Alcatraz.
Speaker 1: Valls fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee says, for both of you,
Speaker 1: have you ever gone to a restaurant and the food
Speaker 1: or service was so bad? How bad was it that
Speaker 1: you walked out? Never done that? M I remember as
Speaker 1: a kid, we had some really bad service, took a
Speaker 1: long time get food, food was wrong when the food
Speaker 1: came to the table. But the way that my mom
Speaker 1: handled that and adjudicated that was just to not leave
Speaker 1: a very good tip at all, like leave like a
Speaker 1: you know, like a ten percent tip instead of or whatever.
Speaker 1: That was her way of paying back and getting I
Speaker 1: remember going to UH. I was on a date in
Speaker 1: Vegas at at a restaurant, and I remember the food
Speaker 1: was so bad that after the date or after the
Speaker 1: dinner was over, my date went to the restroom and
Speaker 1: the waitress came by and she she asked how how
Speaker 1: dinner was, and I said, I gotta be honest with you,
Speaker 1: and she said what And I said, you know, this
Speaker 1: is my first date with this woman. She's awesome. She
Speaker 1: was like a longtime friend and dah da da da,
Speaker 1: like buttering her up and she's like, oh, that's a
Speaker 1: really good story. Da da da dada. But I'll be frank,
Speaker 1: this dinner was awful, and I don't know if I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get a second date. She just started apologizing profusely.
Speaker 1: She gave us, she credited us, like the entire dinner
Speaker 1: was all comped um. Yeah, like dessert we got out
Speaker 1: of it. And my date was like, wow, how did
Speaker 1: you hook up the dessert? And I was just like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just a kind waitress. I tipped
Speaker 1: her out like the full bill, so I gave the
Speaker 1: waitress a tip on that. But it was awful. It
Speaker 1: was so bad, I you know, but kill him with
Speaker 1: kindness a little bit. It was I forget the name
Speaker 1: of it. It was the French restaurant on top of them,
Speaker 1: on top of the Yeah, and it was awful. It
Speaker 1: was so bad. And not only a restaurant was horrible. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. I don't know, man, it's tough to uh,
Speaker 1: it's tough to fathom in a city like Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: because you have so many restaurants and so many good
Speaker 1: chefs and someone good cooks. It's tough to shipp the bed.
Speaker 1: It's like making a pizza right. It doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: it's Chicago or New York or here in Cali. Good
Speaker 1: pizza is good no matter what. Like you'd have to
Speaker 1: be so fucked up to destroy a pizza. Well, especially
Speaker 1: the Mallard pizza, Mallard brand pizza, the garl like the onion,
Speaker 1: the bell pepper. That is a wonderful pie. It's a
Speaker 1: wonderful pie. That's great. You've never enjoyed a pizza until
Speaker 1: you've had the Mallard garlic, onion, bell pepper pizza. And
Speaker 1: it's a wonderful experience. That's a good That's a good
Speaker 1: trick to use though, when you go to a new
Speaker 1: restaurants say, oh, this food was so bad, I don't
Speaker 1: know that I'm gonna get another day, And then you
Speaker 1: get free food you can you should give that to
Speaker 1: that vagrant in Miami that used to call the show,
Speaker 1: so you know, you get some some meals out of it.
Speaker 1: Let's see what is next year. Kyrie in Okay, see
Speaker 1: my guy, Kyrie says, Hey, big man, do you think
Speaker 1: Roberto could get with Danny g sometime and get some
Speaker 1: of the old drops back in rotation, like Genie and
Speaker 1: Medford and other show leggeds. I love my guy, Roberto
Speaker 1: and gascon and you going back and forth is awesome.
Speaker 1: He called you a piece of ship on your birthday.
Speaker 1: That is correct. Never forget David gascon On called me
Speaker 1: a piece of ship on my birthday. He says, are
Speaker 1: you fucking serious? He says, I love you guys listen
Speaker 1: eight days a week, seriously, asked my wife. She can't
Speaker 1: stand it, but who cares? Well, God love your wife.
Speaker 1: I did a cameo for Kyrie back into Dead young
Speaker 1: family guy and all that, and okay, see, yeah, the
Speaker 1: thing about Roberto and I don't know there's any way
Speaker 1: to correct, Like Roberto didn't live through the Genie and
Speaker 1: Medford years. He didn't experience Genie in Medford, so he's
Speaker 1: foreign to that. And to really get the magic of
Speaker 1: Genie and Medford, you have to know the context of
Speaker 1: those sound bites. So in a perfect world, yeah, you
Speaker 1: could say, all right, we'll put Danny g and Roberto
Speaker 1: together and they will play the sound bites. But you know,
Speaker 1: when you change engineers, and I've had many engineers over
Speaker 1: the years, usually what happens is that it's what they experienced,
Speaker 1: Like that's that those are the drops that they play,
Speaker 1: and everything else gets kind of lost, which in many
Speaker 1: respects is good. I think it's not a bad thing
Speaker 1: because you want to keep the show as fresh as
Speaker 1: you possibly can't, even though we don't. We're doing a
Speaker 1: lot of the same bits, you know that trying to
Speaker 1: keep them a little different make it sound a little different.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I have no no problem that, But I
Speaker 1: do miss the Genie meant for drops. She had so many,
Speaker 1: she was a drop machine. She said so many crazy
Speaker 1: wackys any things back in the day, and I missed her.
Speaker 1: She was so crazy. I didn't think she was a
Speaker 1: real human being. And then I and when she got
Speaker 1: sick and she ended up passing away, but I was
Speaker 1: able to talk to her on the phone and relay
Speaker 1: how much she meant to the people to listen to
Speaker 1: the show, and I really it's one of those things
Speaker 1: you always say this when somebody dies. But when she
Speaker 1: passed away and and there weren't you know, she had
Speaker 1: no family, She was a strange from her family, and
Speaker 1: we know, I hate doing this kind of stuff. But
Speaker 1: we asked the Mallar Militia to help pay for funeral costs,
Speaker 1: and we were overwhelmed. We didn't we didn't know what
Speaker 1: we were gonna get. We didn't think we'd get anything
Speaker 1: of any maybe a couple hundred bucks, and we've got
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars. So much so that we were able
Speaker 1: to put a plaque in the Swan park in Echo
Speaker 1: Park over there near Dodger Stadium, the swan boat thing,
Speaker 1: the duck the swan boats right there, duck boats of
Speaker 1: swan boats and there's a plaque there. If you can
Speaker 1: get around the homeless people, you can find the plaque
Speaker 1: right near the playground. It's dedicated to Genie and Medford.
Speaker 1: So that's pretty pretty cool, Kyrie, Uh Tombalin stomper in
Speaker 1: Mississippi right, since it's what are the chances of Marcel's
Speaker 1: food picks being a large ice cold mug of Doc's
Speaker 1: urine asking for a friend? Yeah, I'd like to have
Speaker 1: what the Tomblin Tomberlins having the stomper there in in Mississippi.
Speaker 1: Why that Doc is crazy, man, he is so out there.
Speaker 1: It's the people call. There's a call the other night
Speaker 1: this week and this last week, and you know it
Speaker 1: was I think it was again that Blair and Mains, like,
Speaker 1: you know, talking about you know, urine, animal urine, and
Speaker 1: doctor oh yeah, camebl urins. Great, you know he's like
Speaker 1: feeding your feeding your chickens urine, you know, human urine.
Speaker 1: You know. Oh the guy from New Hampshire called up
Speaker 1: and uh and and Doc was like, oh yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1: You know I have I have a client in Washington
Speaker 1: state that and she gives her chickens urine and they're
Speaker 1: they're very valuable chicken. I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: fuck Chris and Marracca to Iowa. Did I pronounced that right?
Speaker 1: Chris says if you could go back in time to
Speaker 1: any sporting event ever and watch in person only one play,
Speaker 1: what would it be? But asked this a version of
Speaker 1: this before Chris, I have stated I only want to
Speaker 1: go back to the era with the modern plumbing uh
Speaker 1: and air conditioning things like that. But it would be
Speaker 1: cool to go back to this like see Babe Ruth
Speaker 1: and that famous story that he called his shot at
Speaker 1: Wrigley Field, heard that a million times? Did he actually
Speaker 1: do that? Is that? Is that being embellished sitting out
Speaker 1: in the bleachers at Wrigley and seeing what happened? That
Speaker 1: would be kind of cool. Anything for you the Gibson
Speaker 1: home run and I saw that on TV. But to
Speaker 1: be there though, I mean I was only eight years old,
Speaker 1: But that would have been awesome that you would have
Speaker 1: been one of the guys with the rear view when
Speaker 1: when they when when they hit the home run, and
Speaker 1: then there were people leaving and they tapped their brakes
Speaker 1: the time because they were listening to the game on
Speaker 1: the radio. And could you imagine that, Oh it's unfortunate, Yeah,
Speaker 1: as as awful. Fuck, you know, it would have been
Speaker 1: cool to be at the Boston Garden when Magic hit
Speaker 1: his hook shot to beat the Celtics. Not if you're
Speaker 1: a Celtic thing. What if you went to the Bulls
Speaker 1: Cavaliers game when Jordan hit that shot over Elo or
Speaker 1: in Salt Lake City when he hit that shot over
Speaker 1: Byron Russell. Yeah, tremendous moments like that. I mean, Joe
Speaker 1: Carter hitting a walk off home run for the Blue
Speaker 1: I was actually at one of those. I was at
Speaker 1: the Edgar rent Aria bass it for the Marlins. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was that. Yeah, I was at that game. It
Speaker 1: was wild Man, extra innings, Craig Counsel, this was the
Speaker 1: generic and nobody was the pinch runner. And he scored
Speaker 1: the winning run. And yeah, Edgar rent Toria game winning
Speaker 1: hit right up the middle. Tony Fernez, I remember Jose
Speaker 1: Mesa to this day. Teammates of Jose Masa blame him.
Speaker 1: They were. I was there. I witnessed them putting the
Speaker 1: plastic wrap up in the Cleveland Indians locker room, and
Speaker 1: they had the champagne in a cart right in front
Speaker 1: of the locker room to handle the players when they
Speaker 1: came into the locker room to celebrate them winning the
Speaker 1: World Series. And then Mason blew it for Tony Fernandez,
Speaker 1: who was I guess he died a year ago whatever.
Speaker 1: A great, great ballplayer, Tony Fernandez, but he he made
Speaker 1: a mistake. I think he was playing second base, if
Speaker 1: I remember. That's the most dramatic ending to a game
Speaker 1: that and I was at some I hate say, like
Speaker 1: some Laker playoff games back in the Kobe years. They
Speaker 1: came back. They were down seventeen to the jail Blazers.
Speaker 1: Thrashid Wallace and Robert Ory hit some ridiculous circus shots.
Speaker 1: I remember that John from Omaha, Nebraska, right, so he says,
Speaker 1: let's say, hypothetically, you gotta check in the mail from
Speaker 1: a rebate slash insurance. Do you tell your wife so
Speaker 1: she can buy herself something nice or do you keep
Speaker 1: it a secret and get a rub and tug and
Speaker 1: you think I'm Bob Kraft or something like that. I don't.
Speaker 1: There are no secrets, And um, my wife does not
Speaker 1: need me to tell her to buy something. She pretty
Speaker 1: much does that on her own. So she's a grown
Speaker 1: ass woman. Shoesn't to me to tell her what to do.
Speaker 1: Blind Emmett, the Seahawk fan and Olympia Washington, says, if
Speaker 1: you were forced to leave the sports radio industry, what
Speaker 1: career would you want to be in? All right now?
Speaker 1: The answer costco receptionist at Costco. I would be the
Speaker 1: shopping cart guy at Costco. I'd restock the shelves at Costco.
Speaker 1: And if that didn't work out. Lately, I've been more
Speaker 1: into investing, like something in the investment segment of society. Uh.
Speaker 1: And also I've always had the fascination with law, but
Speaker 1: you've got to pass the bar to get that. So
Speaker 1: ship these days though, you don't even need the else
Speaker 1: set to get in the law school anymore. You can
Speaker 1: use the g R E to get in. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I think i'd be a decent lawyer. I know a
Speaker 1: lot of the tricks that lawyers use. I don't know
Speaker 1: that I could actually successfully use them in a court
Speaker 1: of law. But I like the idea of thinking I could,
Speaker 1: you know, thinking I could do that. And so that's
Speaker 1: the answer that what about you, I guess what would
Speaker 1: you be doing? I think finance would be one of
Speaker 1: them for sure. Um, mental health and therapy would be another.
Speaker 1: Pretty pretty easy for me. Probably anything sales driven. It's
Speaker 1: really the most money is out anyway. Well, we do
Speaker 1: do sales here on radio. Yeah, But I mean the
Speaker 1: most important part of sports radio programming is not the show,
Speaker 1: it's the commercials being played in between segments. Gotta sell
Speaker 1: the soul. Heard that from John Sterling. Gotta sell the soul.
Speaker 1: That's the most important thing. Did you hear his no
Speaker 1: hitter call the other day for Corey Kluber? No, I
Speaker 1: didn't hear it. What do you what? Him and Susan
Speaker 1: are just I don't know it just it was not good.
Speaker 1: Come on, that's my guy, that's my guy, John Sterling.
Speaker 1: You know Sterling was good. Just like when Susan got
Speaker 1: into it. It just fucking you know, just ruined. It's
Speaker 1: like putting a car cover on a Ferrari. You don't.
Speaker 1: You don't do that. It's like hanging a monet at
Speaker 1: a motel six. Is that what you're here? Yes? Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: I got you, Paul or no, Pat? Rather Pat in
Speaker 1: Winter Park, Florida right since this, do you think the
Speaker 1: that whoopee pie could have helped his problem if he
Speaker 1: would have driven on a on half points John Deer
Speaker 1: with beer drinking Brian Uh to the hospital. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Pat. I think that was an attempted humor.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure exactly what you were getting at. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure r J. And san Antonio says. Have y'all
Speaker 1: ever been interested in comics while growing up? Now? Growing
Speaker 1: up or now? If so, what were your favorites to read? Yeah?
Speaker 1: When I was a kid back in the Stone Age,
Speaker 1: when we didn't have all the high falutin video games.
Speaker 1: We had video games, the Colico Vision, Nintendo whatever, But yeah,
Speaker 1: we we always had comic books at the house and
Speaker 1: we would read you know, traditional I'm a purist, you know,
Speaker 1: Superman and Batman, and we had some Donald Duck comics.
Speaker 1: My parents loved Disney. So we'd go to you know,
Speaker 1: growing up in Orange County and Disneyland at that time
Speaker 1: was pretty cheap, and we'd go there a lot and
Speaker 1: we pick crap up and g I Joe comic books.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of those. I remember when I
Speaker 1: was a kid, what about you guest on you a
Speaker 1: comic book? X Men was probably my Yeah, we had
Speaker 1: some of those. Two Yeah, so the X Man, he
Speaker 1: Man and some of that going on. I remember those
Speaker 1: a lot of those. Sunday or the Saturday Morning cartoons.
Speaker 1: Part of the deal was you had they would create
Speaker 1: a cartoon around the show. If there was no cartoon
Speaker 1: for the show, they would create it as a marketing
Speaker 1: vehicle to get kids to watch the show. They'd be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we we need to come up with a cartoon for
Speaker 1: this because they're gonna get more people to to be part,
Speaker 1: all right. Last one from Paul on the mail bag.
Speaker 1: Paul says, I am beyond piste. Off the station I
Speaker 1: used to listen to the Ben Mallor show on UH
Speaker 1: and other sports people all of a sudden turned into
Speaker 1: a Spanish radio station. Bluetooth and apps are not an
Speaker 1: option all right now, Paul listen. I I appreciate you
Speaker 1: reaching out. I know that's frustrating. You have your routine,
Speaker 1: you like listening to the show a certain way. UM,
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure what your work set up is.
Speaker 1: I I didn't really go into a lot of detail here, Paul,
Speaker 1: I have heard from people in the past. My advice,
Speaker 1: first of all, to stay calm. It'll be okay. I've
Speaker 1: worked in network radio a long time. We have been
Speaker 1: on and off radio stations in different cities. UH. In Boston,
Speaker 1: I think I've been on four radio stations over the years.
Speaker 1: I've been on EI, the Sports Hub. We were on
Speaker 1: two shitty AM stations in Boston. UH. We've been on
Speaker 1: and off in Dallas on multiple stations, and Phoenix, a
Speaker 1: lot of other cities. So we we come and go.
Speaker 1: It is the nature of the beast. So that's the
Speaker 1: first thing. So we'll be back at some point on
Speaker 1: one of your local radio stations, I promise you. Because
Speaker 1: typically what happens is radio stations change ownership or they
Speaker 1: change bosses, and the new boss the only real leverage
Speaker 1: they have. They can't really change anything, so they change
Speaker 1: the network feed. So they go from Fox to CBS
Speaker 1: and then CBS to Fox or whatever. So there's that
Speaker 1: or in this case Spanish, I don't know the Spanish one.
Speaker 1: You might have to turn down the dial and find
Speaker 1: a different station that turns back to sports. Um. And
Speaker 1: then what I've what I've heard from from from Fansom
Speaker 1: of the advice I've given out is that you just
Speaker 1: download the podcast. If you say you can't use Bluetooth
Speaker 1: or apps, I guess that would ruin the Pope, but
Speaker 1: you can listen. If you have access to the internet,
Speaker 1: you could always download the podcast and then listen to
Speaker 1: it like a radio show, or just go on a browser,
Speaker 1: go on Google Chrome or Firefox and then go to
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio dot com. All right, uh and that
Speaker 1: with that, that concludes the mail bag. I need as
Speaker 1: many positive reviews for a guest on Friday, Dr godsid Um, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is brillant. This has been a it's been a
Speaker 1: goldmine of of excellent guests. I might say, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean in the way I would say it listen. I
Speaker 1: thought he was great. I loved it, and it's really
Speaker 1: you know, we really go pound stand but it it
Speaker 1: is listener, That's what I would say. But we do
Speaker 1: judge this on how many downloads we get and what
Speaker 1: people like and what they don't like, what we get
Speaker 1: positive feedback Earl example, there are a lot of people
Speaker 1: that loved Earl. So when I'm just trying to get
Speaker 1: him on again, get some more comedians on the podcast
Speaker 1: and have some fun with that. We all need to
Speaker 1: laugh a little bit. But it's hard to find the
Speaker 1: comedians that are not the woke comedians, and you gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta dig a little deep to find those guys.
Speaker 1: So we gotta get those guys on, and I would
Speaker 1: love to have more people on Like Dr Side, I
Speaker 1: am a dummy, as I said, you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: you know, I'm street smart, not book smart. And he's
Speaker 1: he's got a little bit of both because of his
Speaker 1: background growing up in in the Middle East and as
Speaker 1: a kid and then has his family having to move
Speaker 1: to Canada. So Doctor said a very interesting guy in
Speaker 1: his book, which I don't know if you think, is
Speaker 1: that too far out of my realm? The parasitic mind?
Speaker 1: How infectious ideas because he talked specifically about marketing and
Speaker 1: it plays right into your your weasel words, right like
Speaker 1: that is oh sure, you know? And I have studied
Speaker 1: like infomercials. I've read books on how they sell crap
Speaker 1: on infomercials and how casinos convince you to to amble
Speaker 1: more I am. I'm fascinated by that. It's the little
Speaker 1: place too, like people always are always curious on I mean,
Speaker 1: I even asked my dad this, what is the what
Speaker 1: is the most ticketed car that's out there? And some
Speaker 1: people will say it's a red car, a red car
Speaker 1: or a yellow car. That's why fast food chains are
Speaker 1: either red and yellow or just yellow or just red,
Speaker 1: like they attract the highest volume of traffic for people.
Speaker 1: I heard a story about that years ago, and I've
Speaker 1: repeated it. I don't even know if it's true. It
Speaker 1: might be fake, but I repeated it. That the reason
Speaker 1: the taxi cabs in New York we're are yellow and
Speaker 1: and across the country. You know now most people use Uber,
Speaker 1: but the taxi cabs are yellow is because there was
Speaker 1: a study done in the New York Times in this
Speaker 1: guy that was, you know, behind the taxi. One of
Speaker 1: the early taxi people is like they read that the
Speaker 1: human eye spots the color yellow from the furthest distance,
Speaker 1: like it stands out, and so that's why they you know,
Speaker 1: when you're on the street looking for a taxi, you
Speaker 1: can always spot the yellow taxi because it's it's the
Speaker 1: color shows up more than other colors. And I when
Speaker 1: I worked at the mighty six nine in San Diego,
Speaker 1: we had black and gold, yellow bright yellow as the
Speaker 1: color scheme because that really drew the eye. That's interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But I love the tricks at casinos. I know we're
Speaker 1: supposed to put the baby to bed here, but you know,
Speaker 1: no clocks, no windows, and casinos deliberately attempting to limit
Speaker 1: the senses and the ceiling. The ceiling colors are usually
Speaker 1: soft colors. Yeah. Uh, And they often make a casino amazed.
Speaker 1: Now why do they do that. They design it as
Speaker 1: a maze because once you're out gambling and you're on
Speaker 1: the gaming floor there, everything is put out in a
Speaker 1: way they want you to get lost in seemingly like
Speaker 1: you're in the in the Wizard of Oz and there's
Speaker 1: an endless row of machines. You've fallen down the rabbit hole. Uh.
Speaker 1: They're hoping that you'll see something and be like, well,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, I want to gamble on that machine,
Speaker 1: or I want to gamble at that table. Before you
Speaker 1: can find your way out. So it's, uh, it's great.
Speaker 1: What a great business casinos are You go in there,
Speaker 1: no one you're gonna lose, and you still go in
Speaker 1: with a smile on your face, and it's entertainment, it's
Speaker 1: recreational activity and you're you know. But then see, that's
Speaker 1: why the book would would be great because doctor saw
Speaker 1: it said that specifically during the interview, like how we
Speaker 1: would feel if we were put in a Ferrari versus
Speaker 1: how we'd see if another man that we were competitive
Speaker 1: with was in that said Ferrari. Yeah, like the testosterone levels,
Speaker 1: the endorphins, like the the feeling that would get from
Speaker 1: that sensation. No, no, absolutely, all right, well that's it.
Speaker 1: Have a great memory review. We need a lot of
Speaker 1: positive because I understand you know, the negative netlies will
Speaker 1: send some negative reviews in, but we need a positivity.
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