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Speaker 1: Here I am loud and proud, today, Yeah, with your
Speaker 1: own count can sound effects? And now you didn't. I'm
Speaker 1: proud of your baby steps. You didn't. You didn't suck
Speaker 1: up to Cowherd in yesterday's podcast. So can you make
Speaker 1: it to podcasts in a row that brought him up?
Speaker 1: You brought him up? Well you listen, you at the
Speaker 1: end a blatant violation with our with our Friday If
Speaker 1: you didn't hear the Friday podcast we hard old college
Speaker 1: football talk with Bruce Feldman, the sideline reporter for college
Speaker 1: football on Fox, and he writes for The Athletic. He's
Speaker 1: a well known figure in college football. And it was
Speaker 1: going great. We nailed it. Even the Russian judge gave
Speaker 1: us a ten. And then at the end you sullied
Speaker 1: it by promoting Cowherd's restaurant, or did I Yeah, you did,
Speaker 1: you did. It's the power of editing that I have
Speaker 1: control over, so you never know, and maybe it's in there,
Speaker 1: maybe it's not. Oh just a while, you tried taking
Speaker 1: torpedo shots at me under the water. I'm I'm up
Speaker 1: above the clouds. So you you who complain about government
Speaker 1: over you are you are then manipulating the podcast. I
Speaker 1: don't even know what's on the podcast. Yeah, I'm big brother.
Speaker 1: I am big brother. Now, the goal of this podcast,
Speaker 1: my goal is to do this with very few edits.
Speaker 1: My goal is to do it like a radio show,
Speaker 1: from start to finish, from start to finish, and if
Speaker 1: it's all chopped up and all that. Like, I had
Speaker 1: this battle with McBain because he you know, he added
Speaker 1: a few things out. Oh he did. Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: don't know, Well, I would just podcasting. We can leave
Speaker 1: stuff in. But did you say that there was some
Speaker 1: anti Semitic stuff that was fired in there that you
Speaker 1: wanted removed? Uh, well, it was a joke that was made.
Speaker 1: I'm Jewish. I was not overly offended by the joke.
Speaker 1: Wasn't like old trope? Right, Yeah, it was like an
Speaker 1: old trope that was made. But no, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't believe any malice was you know. But I guess
Speaker 1: I'm not as a delicate as some other people, and
Speaker 1: so I I don't. I don't really. I mean, there
Speaker 1: are racist people or anti Semitic people, but I don't
Speaker 1: get worked up or you know, I don't think the
Speaker 1: person and we won't even say the person that said it,
Speaker 1: but the person I do not believe had any any
Speaker 1: of that animosity in his heart where he like hated
Speaker 1: you know, Jewish people or whatever. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: the case. But if you were listening to that wall
Speaker 1: on w E E I, the station probably would have
Speaker 1: been closed down, right, Like there would have been someone
Speaker 1: that just was open arms. Well, if someone was monitoring it, yeah,
Speaker 1: people would have been very Uh. There's always the the
Speaker 1: triggered group of people. Well, the cool thing about the podcast,
Speaker 1: which is a it's a blessing and a curse. Like
Speaker 1: the radio show, there's people that listen that you're just
Speaker 1: looking for something to listen late at night, and they
Speaker 1: scan around they find the show, and that's fine. But
Speaker 1: then on the podcast, I feel like you really have
Speaker 1: to go out of your way to find it. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not it's not readily available. You have to like
Speaker 1: search my name, you have to search the fifth hour
Speaker 1: or whatever it might be to find it. So if
Speaker 1: you're listening to the podcast, I tend to think that
Speaker 1: you're a a P one or gonna be a P one.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're a P two or P three, but you're
Speaker 1: eventually going to turn into a P one anyway, all right,
Speaker 1: let's get right to the mail bag. We have a
Speaker 1: lot of questions, a lot of questions. I hope, I
Speaker 1: hope you have your body armor on because the malle militia. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see that your return was not met with tremendous reviews. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Rupo from Parts Unknown says, it's been nice listening to
Speaker 1: the fifth hour again, while he who makes Lebron James
Speaker 1: seemingly have self esteem issues in comparison to his unbelievable
Speaker 1: arrogance was away. Unfortunately I could tell he was back
Speaker 1: just by reading the description of the podcast, Bring Back Ryan,
Speaker 1: Bring Back McBain, says, Rupo your thoughts. That's interesting. I
Speaker 1: wonder what title he's referencing too, by the way, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, we had this conversation in a
Speaker 1: previous podcast about whether to put the guests the big
Speaker 1: name on the headline of the podcast. My position is yes.
Speaker 1: Your position is no. No. I mean that's my thought
Speaker 1: process was that you you give the you give the
Speaker 1: audience like a description, but it's just a taste. You
Speaker 1: don't tell him what's in the what's in the box.
Speaker 1: But you know you you have brought it to my
Speaker 1: attention about guests and name specific searches, And I agree,
Speaker 1: how about how about this if they have name recognition,
Speaker 1: Like if somebody we had Rob Parker on last week
Speaker 1: and a lot of Rob Parker fans. If somebody's a
Speaker 1: Rob Parker fan looking for a little Rob Parker podcast action,
Speaker 1: if they search his name, and they'd find his podcast,
Speaker 1: but they wouldn't find our interview. But if you put
Speaker 1: the name in the headline, then our show comes up
Speaker 1: when you search for Rob park Right. And I understand
Speaker 1: because last Sunday, the title of the of the description
Speaker 1: of the title and description of the podcast from last
Speaker 1: Sunday title was cry Babies and the description was more
Speaker 1: wanting and complaining from the Toothless, So I can understand
Speaker 1: why someone wants to know that I'm returning. So yeah,
Speaker 1: So then when somebody searches Toothless, they would find our podcast.
Speaker 1: And I did see. I went back and I looked
Speaker 1: through some of the old podcasts and you had Easter
Speaker 1: was on there? You had Easter on there, right or
Speaker 1: so Happy Easter. I think we did an Easter show.
Speaker 1: I think we did. So then I'm thinking like some
Speaker 1: religious folks, you know, god fearing people would search for
Speaker 1: an Easter related podcast and hear us reading email from people,
Speaker 1: and nine times out of ten it's just pure defecation. Yea,
Speaker 1: exactly exactly. Oh my goodness. Yeah, that's not gonna play
Speaker 1: well on the Bible belt. What's true? That's true? Alright,
Speaker 1: Mark Mark in Ottawa, right, so, and he says, this
Speaker 1: is for David. Have you ever slept with a woman?
Speaker 1: And if so, how much did she charge? From Mark
Speaker 1: in Ottawa? There and you never pay, well, you pay
Speaker 1: in some way. You always pay some way. Mark. I
Speaker 1: know you're not familiar with the the other female species,
Speaker 1: uh in those parts of town. But in the end,
Speaker 1: you always pay dinner, drinks, it's goods and services. I
Speaker 1: think it's yeah, it's all try action on the end. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's the ebb and flow. It's the yin and
Speaker 1: the yang of of life. Now, women would argue they
Speaker 1: also have to pay because they have to hang out
Speaker 1: with a bunch of ugly dudes. But they gotta put
Speaker 1: on makeup and do their hair and shave. They all
Speaker 1: get all dolled up in the process. All right. Pierre
Speaker 1: in Springfield says, Ben, I know that you get frustrated
Speaker 1: when corporate Garcia, Coop and Roberto take days off. You
Speaker 1: obviously get flummixed when Ned Flanders does his twenty eight
Speaker 1: minute trending segments at the bottom of the hour, and
Speaker 1: when Gascon only takes two calls from females over a
Speaker 1: four hour shift. That's right, I remember that. Are you
Speaker 1: thrown off when Chris perfect bombards your monologue with various drops? God,
Speaker 1: he says, Roberto has learned to pick his spots, but
Speaker 1: it seems like Chris has an itchy trigger finger. Well, Pierre,
Speaker 1: that's a great question. First of all, I try to
Speaker 1: just focus on what I'm trying to convey to you
Speaker 1: as the listener, and too much it's it's it's there's
Speaker 1: like a finite amount of podcasting or not, but monologue drops,
Speaker 1: which are good, but they should be rare and appropriate
Speaker 1: the monologue drops and oftentimes, uh, they they are not,
Speaker 1: and it becomes problematic. And Roberto has been pretty good.
Speaker 1: He'll ring the bell usually that means he agrees with me.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't ring the bell, he doesn't agree with
Speaker 1: my my position. Um, but but yeah, I've Actually it's
Speaker 1: it's weird thing like I don't mind it because I
Speaker 1: just keep going you know, I've got some bullet points
Speaker 1: and I just kind of, you know, throw everything together
Speaker 1: in my head and put it all together, connect the dots.
Speaker 1: But I have gotten people over the years that have complained,
Speaker 1: I loved your show, but the drops. I can't listen
Speaker 1: because of the drops. But then there's other people that
Speaker 1: love the drops and want they want drops, like bringing
Speaker 1: home Jerome from Kansas City, like he loved, you know,
Speaker 1: to make the Baba gaos. You know, he screamed that out.
Speaker 1: That's a drop. He's got a drop. Uh. And so
Speaker 1: to some of our our big p one fans here
Speaker 1: for you, it's like this is a big thing. I
Speaker 1: would think that would be awesome. Like when I growing up,
Speaker 1: when I listened to radio, I could have my voice
Speaker 1: as a drop on a syndicated radio show. That would
Speaker 1: have been amazing, even a local show, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: It would have been awesome. But it has a very
Speaker 1: polarizing subject that drops. It really is, at least on
Speaker 1: monologues because you're trying to talk and get a thought
Speaker 1: and idea out. But yeah, I just you know, you
Speaker 1: look at who's doing it, and it's like, all right,
Speaker 1: it makes sense. We got fats in Philly. Who's next?
Speaker 1: I love Fats. I gotta hang out with him sometime.
Speaker 1: I gotta do it. Fats as a parte, And I'm
Speaker 1: so glad he found our show, he says Mallard. What
Speaker 1: other Mala militia personality would be an absolute disaster if
Speaker 1: I were paired up with them on a weekend in
Speaker 1: Vegas over under on how many hours before? We would
Speaker 1: be detained in a holding cell? All right, so let's
Speaker 1: see here Fats in Philly. Well, I think you and
Speaker 1: Regina would be trouble Regina and spend Psycho Regina, because
Speaker 1: Regina told the story she somehow is out at a
Speaker 1: at like a bar, and she ended up at on
Speaker 1: a party bus for a bachelor party, which can only
Speaker 1: imagine what happened on the on the on the party bus.
Speaker 1: So that and then also Fats, like there's some of
Speaker 1: our guys, like I've met Blair in Maine, and Blair
Speaker 1: is a great guy. But you can lead Blair down
Speaker 1: the garden path. So whatever Fats does, Blair will do also,
Speaker 1: which could be dangerous. I'm trying to think who else
Speaker 1: would be Marcel in Brooklyn? Can you imagine Marcel? Oh?
Speaker 1: Doc Mike All. So Doc Mike right. You know you
Speaker 1: go out with Doc. Doc's eating a salad, drinking some
Speaker 1: piss and then Fats is eating a cheese steak in
Speaker 1: one hand. You know, he's got a plate of a
Speaker 1: deep fried calamari in the other and he's just going
Speaker 1: for and then lighting himself on fire. Yeah, lighting himself
Speaker 1: on fire, pulling his pains down, showing his free willie,
Speaker 1: his anaconda. Well, it's not really an anticon. It's more
Speaker 1: like a baby snake. But to everyone, to everyone name
Speaker 1: so anyway kid, because I care. Jason from Rocky Mount,
Speaker 1: Virginia writes it, Jason hooked me up with a Salem
Speaker 1: Red Sox hat, which he's in my rotation. In my rotation,
Speaker 1: he says, any more coyotes sightings at the Halfway House?
Speaker 1: And do you think you will see any in your
Speaker 1: new Mallard mansion in a few weeks. Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: I've not seen a coyote since the attack. Bella is
Speaker 1: doing great. She's getting her stitches out soon, she'll be
Speaker 1: She's completely back to over. It's one of the most
Speaker 1: amazing things. Bella was on My dog Bellow was on
Speaker 1: her deathbed. We thought we were gonna lose her. And
Speaker 1: even when we took her back after the operation, for
Speaker 1: a couple of days no movement. She was a lifeless creature.
Speaker 1: And within three or four days she was back hopping
Speaker 1: up and down and doing her things. So it's it's
Speaker 1: crazy how quick that turned around. And it's great. And
Speaker 1: as far as the other place, this county is everywhere.
Speaker 1: Now where I'm living at the halfway House is closer
Speaker 1: to them, to the mountains, so that's why there's more coyotes.
Speaker 1: I've also noticed a little life hack. The day you
Speaker 1: have to be most concerned about coyotes is trash Day.
Speaker 1: The trash the counties don't have a calendar app on
Speaker 1: their on their iPhone, but they know they are aware
Speaker 1: of when trash day is and they they come out
Speaker 1: looking for food when it's trash day because they oh,
Speaker 1: there's it's like the grocery store. They can get all
Speaker 1: kinds of food. Um. Anyway, So that's that's the coyote story.
Speaker 1: Carlos in Bang Bang Houston, Texas rights and he says, Ben,
Speaker 1: you're a smart guy. Well that's a great email. Carlos,
Speaker 1: thank you for writing that email. We appreciate it. Uh,
Speaker 1: and that's that you didn't need to add anymore. But
Speaker 1: there's always more. He says, maybe you can answer this
Speaker 1: one for me. Why do the owners cry to these
Speaker 1: politicians to pony up money for a new stadium? Aren't
Speaker 1: they rich enough to buy a new one? And so
Speaker 1: that's the first question. He has a second question, Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course these billionaires could own a stadium, and they
Speaker 1: could finance the stadium, and they could raise the ticket
Speaker 1: prices to get people to pay the stadium, pay for
Speaker 1: the stadium. But there's a term. It's corporate welfare. Is
Speaker 1: the is the term, right? And if you're rich enough
Speaker 1: and powerful enough, you can pay for lobbyists who will
Speaker 1: then buy off politicians and give you all kinds of
Speaker 1: tax breaks, legal loopholes, and it's it's one of the
Speaker 1: great con games because owning a sports team it is
Speaker 1: a public trust, right, That's what people Most people look
Speaker 1: at sports teams as part of the community. It's past
Speaker 1: that you you're a steward for the team, but you
Speaker 1: don't own the team. Forever you're gonna die, someone else
Speaker 1: is gonna own the team. You don't really own it, right,
Speaker 1: you're just looking after it for the next generation that follows,
Speaker 1: and it's a communal thing that you know, I my
Speaker 1: my parents are passed away. They went to Dodger games.
Speaker 1: I go to Dodger games. You know, the next generation
Speaker 1: after me we'll go to Dodger games. And so it's
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Um. But they know they do
Speaker 1: it because they can. They know they can get free money.
Speaker 1: Why would you turn down free money. The problem is
Speaker 1: with the politicians giving the free money away. That's the
Speaker 1: issue there. But to ask for it, it's the same
Speaker 1: boiler plate. It's it's paint by numbers, it's you gotta
Speaker 1: you go to the politicians, try to make a deal.
Speaker 1: They say no, right, they say no. So then you
Speaker 1: go public and threaten to relocate, saying you don't have
Speaker 1: enough money for the stadium. Uh, saying you can't do it,
Speaker 1: and you can't raise the ticket prices. Uh. And you
Speaker 1: you play the same game. And then the Oakland A's
Speaker 1: are doing it right now. Right, The A's want a
Speaker 1: new stadium. They've been trying for years and it's never
Speaker 1: good enough. Right the you know, the Bay Area politics
Speaker 1: is a mess. But they did put some things forward
Speaker 1: to give them some of what they wanted to build
Speaker 1: the taj Mahal Stadium. Wasn't good enough. Right, These owners
Speaker 1: want the Candelabra like Liberachi had right anyway, want everything
Speaker 1: and uh and so they have to threaten to move
Speaker 1: to Vegas or Portland, Oregon or wherever until they get
Speaker 1: what they want. And they know the other thing they
Speaker 1: know is that if they can't get the tax break,
Speaker 1: the sweetheart deal where they want, there's always some other
Speaker 1: local municipality that will be opening up their wallets and
Speaker 1: handing out money. So that's my my take on that, Carlos.
Speaker 1: And he also says, you you say you're a sucker
Speaker 1: for minor league hats, will you wear one of the
Speaker 1: Strows minor league affilly? Well, as long as there is
Speaker 1: no reference to the Astros, I see why I would
Speaker 1: have I wouldn't have a problem with that. My my
Speaker 1: problem is with the Astros. These minor league teams are
Speaker 1: I believe, independently owned most part. Yeah, so i I've
Speaker 1: got the minor league system here for the s s Rows.
Speaker 1: They have a team. One of their affiliates is called
Speaker 1: the Fayetteville Woodpeckers. I loved Woody Woodpecker when I was
Speaker 1: a kid. Are you gonna say, can you say pecker?
Speaker 1: Is that allowed? I don't know. I don't know, all right? Uh.
Speaker 1: And and they have a team called the sugar Land Skeeters.
Speaker 1: I'd love that because one of our callers from Montana
Speaker 1: is Skeeter in Montana. What's the team color? Uh? Let
Speaker 1: me see here. Let me click on the the logo,
Speaker 1: but let me see. I guess see what kind of
Speaker 1: hats there? And I normally try to wear hats that
Speaker 1: have an M or a B on them. The colors
Speaker 1: are yellow like it looks like I guess the Skeeter
Speaker 1: is a B and then it's blue. So let me
Speaker 1: go to the team. See here's Skeeters hat. We're doing
Speaker 1: this live. You listen to our live coverage. Yes, we're
Speaker 1: looking at a MLB show. You know what, I've noticed
Speaker 1: a lot of these minor league teams I can't get.
Speaker 1: I cannot get hats in my size because they don't
Speaker 1: there's a shortage of the production chain is not right. Um,
Speaker 1: like the size eight. A lot of these websites don't
Speaker 1: have size eight, which is my my size. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like they have a hat here with a B on it.
Speaker 1: I'd wear that. That's a good looking hat. I'd even
Speaker 1: wear the one with the Texas silhouette on it, but
Speaker 1: I wouldn't wear the one the s l I don't
Speaker 1: think I would wear. I think I would wear that
Speaker 1: the skeeter lend. I don't think I would do that one.
Speaker 1: Um anyway, that's thank you for the question. Carlos Vols
Speaker 1: fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee says, if you had a
Speaker 1: lifetime supply of the last thing you bought, what would
Speaker 1: it be for you? And Mr insubordination? All right, So
Speaker 1: the last thing I bought was a voice processor, which
Speaker 1: I have yet I've yet to install. My voice processor
Speaker 1: has been dying, and so I ponied up the money.
Speaker 1: Actually bought a voice processor before. It didn't work and
Speaker 1: so I had to return it. And this is a
Speaker 1: so voice proces So I'd be rich in voice processors,
Speaker 1: which only works if you have a radio show to do.
Speaker 1: Otherwise it is a rather completely useless piece of equipment. Uh, gascon,
Speaker 1: what's the last thing about? I'm happy to report the
Speaker 1: last thing I bought was gasoline. You'd be rich in gasoline,
Speaker 1: my man. Man, I'd be like one of those hoarders
Speaker 1: that bottle those and masks early on the pandemic and
Speaker 1: then just started, you know, snaking people for him and
Speaker 1: selling him for a massive profit. I've been doing that
Speaker 1: with gasoline, toilet paper, and you can do that also
Speaker 1: hand sanitizer. It did not take long. It did not
Speaker 1: take long for a mash shortage of toilet paper, hand
Speaker 1: sanitizer and all that stuff. Which imagine if something eventually, eventually,
Speaker 1: something else is going to happen, and the same it's
Speaker 1: that flight fight or flight reference that human beings have
Speaker 1: animalistic and you know it's gonna something will happen again, right, Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: it happened here in l A with ammunition like you
Speaker 1: couldn't buy. You still can't buy nine millimeter bullet Like
Speaker 1: as soon as these stores get them, they're sold out
Speaker 1: and they put a cap on how many rounds you
Speaker 1: can buy per day. And the prices have really doubled
Speaker 1: on ammunition. It's crazy how much I've never bought ammunition.
Speaker 1: I don't know how how much does uh? If I
Speaker 1: want to get a box, how much like a box
Speaker 1: of bullets? Yeah, so for nine millimeter you have to
Speaker 1: buy them in fifties. So I bought um like a
Speaker 1: week ago, I bought a hundred rounds for nine millimeter
Speaker 1: hollow point. It was eighty eight dollars. Probably two years
Speaker 1: ago or a year ago, it was like closer to
Speaker 1: sixty five sixty six, and you're capped at it, so
Speaker 1: you can only you're only allowed to buy two hundred
Speaker 1: rounds per day, alright, So you buy two hundred a
Speaker 1: day at the end of the week, you got a
Speaker 1: fair amount. If there's if they're still an inventory like
Speaker 1: they don't. They don't stock a lot of nine millimeter
Speaker 1: for that specific reason. So first blue as the state is,
Speaker 1: I think it's closer to purple than just great blue.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of people out of rock and firearms,
Speaker 1: and there there are pockets. One of the reasons people
Speaker 1: were talking about breaking up California, Like in Fresno, Baker's Field,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's like Republican country. Yeah, right, it's it.
Speaker 1: It's l a San Francisco proper and obviously San Diego
Speaker 1: where it's more. But even San Diego, like Orange Counties,
Speaker 1: it's shifted a little bit since I lived there. It's
Speaker 1: still more like Huntington's Beach. That area is more Republican.
Speaker 1: San Diego. I think there's a lot of When I
Speaker 1: lived and I worked in San Diego, I thought there
Speaker 1: was a lot of people more conservative in San Diego
Speaker 1: because the military town Camp Pendleton and all that. So
Speaker 1: did you see San Francisco is applying the same mandates
Speaker 1: that New York is now to to their indoor and
Speaker 1: outdoor facilities. I did not. Yeah, so they're they're making
Speaker 1: it a requirement to be COVID vaccinated and show proof,
Speaker 1: which is amazing because now it's harder to go into
Speaker 1: a restaurant in San Francisco than it is to go
Speaker 1: into a Rite Aid and just steal a hundred dollars
Speaker 1: worth of of supplies in medicine. It's amazing. Wow. There
Speaker 1: you go, Well, when are you moving to San Francisco
Speaker 1: but that place, and yeah, you're not. You're not moving there.
Speaker 1: So I'm not going to San Francisco, New York City
Speaker 1: or Chicago anytime soon. Yeah. Right. Should be sure to
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Speaker 1: two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Be sure to catch
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Speaker 1: the I Heart Radio ap again and the people making
Speaker 1: the decision that they often don't even follow their own rules,
Speaker 1: which is a whole different different things. So anyway, all right,
Speaker 1: what is next year? Page down? Page down? These are
Speaker 1: actual emails from Actually, did you get anything from Tammy
Speaker 1: or Rock Sane or no? No, no one, none, no no.
Speaker 1: We did get a message from just Josh's wife, Nicole,
Speaker 1: A lovely lady, she's she said, My question is about
Speaker 1: your fast thing. Oh, welcome in now, she says, I
Speaker 1: don't remember you ever talking about the eating part of it.
Speaker 1: How many hours do you eat before you start your
Speaker 1: next fast? If it's several hours, do you eat big
Speaker 1: meals or just get as much in as you can
Speaker 1: in the allotted hours? All right, so Nicole, thank you
Speaker 1: for the question. Now let me preface this with a disclaimer.
Speaker 1: You should never take dietary advice from a radio guy podcaster.
Speaker 1: What do I know, I'm an idiot. But with that said,
Speaker 1: here's here's what I do. So my move on this
Speaker 1: is I during the week, I only eat one meal
Speaker 1: and I try to eat in one hour within one hour,
Speaker 1: So like I will, I'll give you an example this
Speaker 1: past week. I ate Sunday, I had lunch. I finished
Speaker 1: eating at about two o'clock because we went to a
Speaker 1: flea market, which I should have talked about that on
Speaker 1: the other podcast, but I forgot, uh so we we
Speaker 1: ended up going eating. It ended at two o'clock and
Speaker 1: then I ate again on I think it was four
Speaker 1: o'clock on Tuesday, and then I ate a big meal
Speaker 1: and I had like, I had a snack within I
Speaker 1: ate a meal, waited about fifteen twenty minutes and then
Speaker 1: they like a little bit of a snack, and then
Speaker 1: I started at five o'clock I started fasting again. So
Speaker 1: but on the weekends, I will I will eat. I
Speaker 1: have a longer window to eat on the weekends because
Speaker 1: otherwise I think my wife would divorce me. So um. So,
Speaker 1: you know, it was eating was a big part of
Speaker 1: the socializing and all. That's a big part of eating.
Speaker 1: And so I'll normally eat lunch, and you know, I
Speaker 1: give myself about six hours or so I'll eat lunch
Speaker 1: and then later on I'll have have dinner. So four
Speaker 1: or five six hours something like that enough time where
Speaker 1: the food can settle in and then you can be
Speaker 1: ready to eat another meal. So that's the the deal
Speaker 1: on that. Uh Matt from La Mesa, California says, what's up, fellas?
Speaker 1: First off, f al Tube says, Ben, you probably won't
Speaker 1: read this on the air, but it's good to have
Speaker 1: gas Can back. It's a breath of fresh air. That'll
Speaker 1: be edited out of the podcast. He says, Ryan sounded
Speaker 1: like an a one wokester. His take on taxes had
Speaker 1: me screaming in my car. Ryan's not a Wokester's not woke. No.
Speaker 1: I I liked run. I had a good time working
Speaker 1: with it, right. I mean, Ryan's probably a little uh
Speaker 1: you know, separate from me politically, but Ryan's an introvert
Speaker 1: and I got along with him great. I can run
Speaker 1: a lot. He's a good guy, which is funny. What
Speaker 1: the funk? It's weird. He's like your size, he's like
Speaker 1: six five six six, and yeah, he's just he's a
Speaker 1: massive introverts pretty funny. Yeah, look good for him. It's
Speaker 1: a proper way to live life. He says. When you
Speaker 1: guys retire, what's the first thing you guys are going
Speaker 1: to do? I'm I'm not really planning on retiring. I
Speaker 1: don't know, And you know, it's one of those things
Speaker 1: the quote God laughs at you when you're making plans
Speaker 1: about retiring. It would be nice if I had enough
Speaker 1: money to not have to have the grind every day
Speaker 1: and maybe just do a once a week podcast or
Speaker 1: something like that, or do a weekend show or that
Speaker 1: would be kind of cool as I wind down. But
Speaker 1: as long as they'll have me. And I got plenty
Speaker 1: of bills to pay, and I got even more bills
Speaker 1: now after I'm moving to the new house. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I would. I think I would track down
Speaker 1: I'm a pilot and let him know I'm purchasing a
Speaker 1: first class ticket on his next flight out to Europe.
Speaker 1: I've not heard from I'm a pilot. I believe you
Speaker 1: chased him away. He has not emailed me, he has
Speaker 1: not contacted in any way. He would send these long
Speaker 1: emails giving us great travel logs. I was living my
Speaker 1: travel life through him. Yeah, but I'm not. He's got
Speaker 1: from family, he's got kids, maybe there's certain school, and
Speaker 1: he's got other priorities. Right now, listen, we are his
Speaker 1: audio family. We are I'm a Pilot's audio family. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he knows we're stable. We're here, We're not going
Speaker 1: anywhere the family, and you've got all kinds of things
Speaker 1: going on right now, I don't know. Nothing lasts forever,
Speaker 1: Alan from Ohio. Right then, he says, assuming that the
Speaker 1: cast of the Ben Mallor Show is fully vaccinated, why
Speaker 1: are you still broadcasting from home? He said, the question
Speaker 1: when you are not in question. Well, this is the
Speaker 1: part where he loses me. He says, when you are
Speaker 1: not in studio, it seems like the chemistry of the
Speaker 1: show is just a bit off. Love the show from Alan,
Speaker 1: business in the show sucked for two years. Yeah, for
Speaker 1: the last two years, I have been broadcasting from my
Speaker 1: home studio and uh, spoiler alert, Alan, guess what when
Speaker 1: I'm in the studio, I can't see Coop and I
Speaker 1: can't see Eddie. The only one I can see is Roberto.
Speaker 1: So it's not like this affects the chemistry of the
Speaker 1: show at all. That's one of the reasons, you know.
Speaker 1: I had a conversation with the management about this, and
Speaker 1: it's like, this show is perfect to do because from
Speaker 1: home for me a convenience. But but be it does
Speaker 1: not affect the quality in any way. Uh, it does
Speaker 1: not affect the quite other than the line occasionally going out,
Speaker 1: and that's obviously in a perfect world that would not happen.
Speaker 1: But the company and and radio companies decided to get
Speaker 1: rid of the hard I SDN line, which was a
Speaker 1: solid broadcast line which very rarely went down, and instead
Speaker 1: we use a different setup to connect and it's it's
Speaker 1: a less reliable set up, um, and it's been pretty reliable,
Speaker 1: but you know, we have usually once a month there'll
Speaker 1: be some kind of bump in the road and all that.
Speaker 1: Plus you have plus you you produce your own content.
Speaker 1: And on top of that, the same update is played
Speaker 1: every thirty minutes pretty much, uh, pretty pretty much. So yeah,
Speaker 1: which is frustrating because I when I did that, I
Speaker 1: would try to change it up and put new and
Speaker 1: always search for news story. But you know, yeah, what
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? I'm not, I'm not. It's not
Speaker 1: my decision. Uh, Dan from Stoughton is that it s
Speaker 1: t O U g H t O N. Where's that?
Speaker 1: I think it's in? Uh, I want to say, hold
Speaker 1: on the same. I think it's in Massachusetts. But I'm
Speaker 1: just pulling that out of my ass. Let me see here,
Speaker 1: Oh it's in Wisconsin. Bad job by me, at least
Speaker 1: according to the Internet, it's in there might be one.
Speaker 1: And see here's the thing, there's probably like much of
Speaker 1: city's name stut but Hollywood's in Florida, hollywoods in California.
Speaker 1: According to this, Stoughton is a city in Dane County, Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: It straddles the Yahara River about twenty miles southeast of
Speaker 1: the state capital of Madison. Population is uh thirteen thousand,
Speaker 1: sixty the population and so it's it's kind of the
Speaker 1: southern part Wisconsin, not too far from the the Illinois border.
Speaker 1: And see anybody famous come out of this town, anybody
Speaker 1: that would impress. A lot of Wisconsin state representatives have
Speaker 1: come out of there. Uh, Nobel Prize Laureate. That doesn't
Speaker 1: really do much for us. Any athletic people, entertainers. Gail Gillingham,
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers Hall of Famer. I don't know who
Speaker 1: that is. Graham Elwood, a comedian. I've never heard of that.
Speaker 1: Jerry Fry, head coach of the Oregon Ducks football team,
Speaker 1: NFL assistant coach. Uh yeah, a lot of political people,
Speaker 1: not a lot. Not a lot of people I've heard
Speaker 1: of here, unfortunately. Okay. Uh. My theory is that every
Speaker 1: town has at least one famous person that's come out
Speaker 1: of there that I would know. But this town would
Speaker 1: be the exception of the rule. Anyway, Dan says, when
Speaker 1: will blind Scott be suspended for conduct detrimental to the show? Um? Well, listen,
Speaker 1: blind Scott likes to stir it up. He's a rock.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, he he throws crap against the fan. Um.
Speaker 1: But I I would argue that blind Scott he hasn't
Speaker 1: risen quite to that level. He likes tacking shots at
Speaker 1: Eddie and Roberto. That's his new thing here. But he
Speaker 1: thinks he's he's He said he was doing a parody
Speaker 1: of Chris of Chris Cromo's brother, the former governor of
Speaker 1: New York there, Andrew Cuomo. So he was doing his
Speaker 1: his thing. Richard in Edawah, Tennessee, says, hey ben and
Speaker 1: deuced canoe Gagon. I was in the army for eight
Speaker 1: years to deployments. That's a long I was wondering if
Speaker 1: any one of you guys or in your families served
Speaker 1: in the military. Uh. Yes, I have one of my
Speaker 1: my uncle, uncle Harvey, who passed away a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago. He was in in the military. He was
Speaker 1: drafted during Vietnam and he served in the military, and
Speaker 1: I think on my my wife's side, there's there's some.
Speaker 1: And then when I was a kid, I had at
Speaker 1: a family reunion. We had a relative who lived in
Speaker 1: Israel and was like a general in the Israeli Air Force,
Speaker 1: and he he came, I remember as a child and spoke.
Speaker 1: But not not a big military family. I mean there's
Speaker 1: been a few, but not many. What about you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: both of my both of my grandfather's were drafted. In fact,
Speaker 1: my grandfather and my mom's side, he fought in the
Speaker 1: Korean War. He was he was an army pilot. So
Speaker 1: after that war was over, he migrated from Boston to
Speaker 1: uh to sunny southern California. And then I grew up
Speaker 1: in through college. I had a bunch of buddies like
Speaker 1: my buddy Greg and Kevin and Ryan there they were
Speaker 1: Navy brats, so they were in the Navy for quite
Speaker 1: a while and then they got out, but they were
Speaker 1: they called San Diego home for a bit. See. I
Speaker 1: got a lot of people at least close close to
Speaker 1: me that that's served to you military and some kind
Speaker 1: of capacity. In fact, I have a I have a
Speaker 1: nephew that might be going to the Air Force Academy
Speaker 1: in Rhode Island. But he's actually contemplating right now because
Speaker 1: he's a kid and really smart talented. But if they
Speaker 1: require service officers to get vaccinated, he doesn't know if
Speaker 1: he's gonna do it because he's been reading a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff about pilots being grounded after they got the
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen vaccination. So he doesn't know if he's gonna
Speaker 1: do it. So it's unfortunate, but yeah, thanks for your service.
Speaker 1: All right, now, let's see what else do we have
Speaker 1: your page down? Page down? Eric and Omaha, Nebraska. Right,
Speaker 1: So he says, bad job by you? Is that a
Speaker 1: malor original? Or did you pick that up from someone else?
Speaker 1: I have found myself using it very often in my
Speaker 1: everyday vocabulary, so much so that my girlfriend and kids
Speaker 1: say it. Now, Uh, that's your kids saying that to you,
Speaker 1: bad job by you? Yeah, that's funny. Uh No, that's
Speaker 1: not that's not a Mallard original. I I don't remember
Speaker 1: when I started saying that. I mean, there's a there's
Speaker 1: a number of people that that that have said that
Speaker 1: over the years. I uh, I don't remember who I
Speaker 1: you know who who had said that? Obviously I heard
Speaker 1: it somewhere and then I just kind of stuck with
Speaker 1: me and I started using it and repeating it and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Uh Yeah, I don't. I mean, I don't know where
Speaker 1: I found that from. I would give credit to the
Speaker 1: person if there was one in particular person. People said,
Speaker 1: some people say Chris Russo from Mike and the Mad Dog.
Speaker 1: But I didn't listen to Mike and the Mad Dog,
Speaker 1: So I don't. I don't. It wasn't him. It was
Speaker 1: somebody else that uh that that said along the way,
Speaker 1: and it was years ago. I've been saying that since
Speaker 1: for twenty years. I've probably been saying that. So m
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't remember specifically, Uh where where I
Speaker 1: got that from? Uh? This is uh let's see here.
Speaker 1: I'm glad your family says it. That's that's nice. Uh
Speaker 1: this is barbed from Massachusetts. She says, when is COVID
Speaker 1: going to be over? Laughing my ass off. Yeah, Uh,
Speaker 1: COVID will never be over bar because it's gonna be
Speaker 1: here forever and just people are gonna have to learn
Speaker 1: to deal with it. And until people learn to deal
Speaker 1: with it, and it's not. We've got to get to
Speaker 1: the point where it's not news when somebody gets COVID.
Speaker 1: It's only news when they get COVID and they have
Speaker 1: a bad illness, you know, because I've had I talked
Speaker 1: to one of old friends, Eric, who's an old Fox
Speaker 1: Sports radio guy, who's a radio programmer, and he said
Speaker 1: he had the COVID and he was telling me, you know,
Speaker 1: he was very mild and and all that, and but
Speaker 1: for that, I don't I don't think we need to
Speaker 1: stop the world for that. It's if you know people
Speaker 1: that have the bad reactions to it, then it's becomes
Speaker 1: Newsworth or like, yeah, any kind of adverse effects from
Speaker 1: from getting any kind of treatment to from it. Uh.
Speaker 1: Fred in Spring, Texas says, did you guys ever have
Speaker 1: a job offer you turned down and later regretted it? Now?
Speaker 1: I can't say that, Fred. I can't tell you that.
Speaker 1: I've had several jobs that I thought I was getting
Speaker 1: that at the last minute, at the eleventh hour, I
Speaker 1: didn't get And I often wonder what my life would
Speaker 1: be like if I had gotten one of those jobs
Speaker 1: I was. I was back in oh nine when the
Speaker 1: Tiger Wood scandal broke. I was in talks with TMZ
Speaker 1: to run when they were gonna launch t MZ Sports,
Speaker 1: and I had gotten a phone call that I was
Speaker 1: gonna be hired and that that they were gonna call
Speaker 1: me again the next day with the details. And uh,
Speaker 1: I'm still waiting for that phone call. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: uh I did. Also when I got let go from
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, I was brought into ESPN. Uh. They
Speaker 1: flew me into Bristol and I met with executives at
Speaker 1: ESPN for three days and they were gonna they were
Speaker 1: gonna hire me. And then they first time in that
Speaker 1: at that point, first time since ESPN launched they had
Speaker 1: ever had layoffs. And it happened to be the week
Speaker 1: that I was there in Bristol, Connecticut, and so they said,
Speaker 1: we can't hire you because we're you know, the company
Speaker 1: is now laying off people. So I've had bad time.
Speaker 1: What about you, guys? Yeah, you really That West Virginia
Speaker 1: gig would have been great. The China job would have
Speaker 1: been wonderful. You could have gone to China, you would
Speaker 1: have ran, you know, the Chinese government would have been great. Well,
Speaker 1: I haven't had anything like that that's been in the
Speaker 1: sports world. More so, like when I was in banking.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, nothing in the sports world that I
Speaker 1: can I can say. It's been a constant fucking hustle.
Speaker 1: So not there yet. Not there yet, my mayam, you
Speaker 1: gotta do the hustle. Mall Man, all right, let's keep
Speaker 1: going here. Who do we have leave from the Valley
Speaker 1: of the Sun. He says, Hello, Ben? Did he spell
Speaker 1: his name right? And I will say hello to gag
Speaker 1: On since he is always thinking about me. I can't
Speaker 1: spell cat. Hey, Hey, Lee, I got a question for you. Lee.
Speaker 1: I know you can't answer it, but you sent out
Speaker 1: a photo was your your daughter's birthday and beautiful young
Speaker 1: lady and you said my favorite daughter. Does that mean
Speaker 1: she's your only daughter? Because because who's is she also
Speaker 1: your least favorite daughter? I mean, how does that work?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I have no idea anyway, He says,
Speaker 1: I've heard you use a Mama Luke. Here's another question
Speaker 1: about the mallar lingo that I use Mama luke. Can
Speaker 1: you tell me how that started and what what that means? Well, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: the term Mama Luke is a homage. It is a
Speaker 1: tribute too. Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull and it is a
Speaker 1: slang term of I guess Italian origins, right. It means
Speaker 1: loser or a bum. You're a mama luke. And when
Speaker 1: I say that, it's another way of you know, insulting you.
Speaker 1: And I could say you're you're a big dummy or
Speaker 1: an idiot, or I can call yeah MoMA luke. Um.
Speaker 1: You know. So that that's that's all. That is just
Speaker 1: another way to call someone a loser. Another word, which
Speaker 1: I don't use enough is ragamuffin. That's a good word.
Speaker 1: It's a solid word. Um. There's a there's a bunch
Speaker 1: of those. I know. Tony Bruno uses strapper. You're a strapper,
Speaker 1: which is like a South Philly slang term which means loser.
Speaker 1: Toolbag is another one that's pretty good. I like shmendrick.
Speaker 1: I use that one a lot. Loggerhead um. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's an example there. So thank you Lee Mike
Speaker 1: from Venice. Right, so, and he says, Ben, if you
Speaker 1: can't travel anywhere in the world, where would it be
Speaker 1: And do you like going to the beach? I do
Speaker 1: like going to the beach, although I like having a
Speaker 1: tent so I'm not completely exposed to the sun. But
Speaker 1: I absolutely love going to the beach. I have not
Speaker 1: been able to go much this summer at all because
Speaker 1: of my my living situation, but I love it. And
Speaker 1: I don't do radio in New Zealand anymore. That gig ended.
Speaker 1: But I would love to go to New Zealand, uh
Speaker 1: and and check that out. And my wife is dying
Speaker 1: to take me to Europe and travel around Europe, so
Speaker 1: I have to get there at some point. And she's
Speaker 1: got her famili's in Italy, uh so I'd like to
Speaker 1: to go check out. It'll have a great things about Italy.
Speaker 1: Like to check that out. And I have family in Israel.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I want to go to the
Speaker 1: Middle East, but I don't know. Maybe some day down
Speaker 1: the line. Who knows. Man, it's gonna be tough for you.
Speaker 1: If if she does convince you to go to Italy
Speaker 1: and you guys do go during the summer, I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can handle it. The heat
Speaker 1: is just awful. It's it's like palm desert and Florida
Speaker 1: mixed into one, as hot and humid as shit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you'll be sweating balls. Yeah, I'm sure that, sure, I would.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been. I've been in the South, I've
Speaker 1: been in hell, New York in the summer and all man,
Speaker 1: how holy crap with all those trash cans and everything
Speaker 1: else in the streets just building up. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Every year the Dodgers would go to play the Mets.
Speaker 1: It's ironic because this weekend the Dodgers are playing the
Speaker 1: Mets in New York. It was always it was always
Speaker 1: the early August. Usually the US Open was going on
Speaker 1: at Arthur Ashe Stadium, the newly name, relatively newly named.
Speaker 1: It wasn't called that when I was going there, and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, the smells, stench, just disgusting. Yeah, my wife
Speaker 1: hated that about it. She's very sensitive to smells and
Speaker 1: just this disguss. But now everyone wears masks. I guess
Speaker 1: Jesus Chris and Marracoca to Iowa says, what is the
Speaker 1: secret to happiness? Yes's go not trying to look for happiness. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just live your just live your life. Just you know,
Speaker 1: just hang out with people that love you, people that
Speaker 1: like you. Have friends, uh, you know, have have something
Speaker 1: that keeps you busy and and feels you. It gives
Speaker 1: you a sense of accomplishment. I think human beings need
Speaker 1: to do something that gives them a sense of accomplishment,
Speaker 1: whatever that might be, whether it's a job or playing
Speaker 1: video games or whatever. And not putting pineapple on your pizza.
Speaker 1: That's it? Wow? All right? Uh next one, Ben and Gascon.
Speaker 1: Good to hear the west of the four or five
Speaker 1: guy back in the guest Gascon and Ben said it
Speaker 1: much better than Ryan and Ben. I believe Ben is
Speaker 1: coming up with his one year anniversary. I don't know
Speaker 1: who sent this. By the way, I didn't get a
Speaker 1: name on this. Uh one year anniversary since his crime
Speaker 1: scene incident at the park restroom. How does it feel, Ben,
Speaker 1: any thoughts on the memories? Uh? Well, I have actually relocated.
Speaker 1: I do not live near that bathroom, so I have
Speaker 1: moved away from the scene of the crime. So I
Speaker 1: am no longer I am no longer there. I'm glad
Speaker 1: that you remember though the the anniversary. I do not
Speaker 1: remember the niversity. Oh, I think this is our friend
Speaker 1: from from Denver. I believe this is Adrian from from Denver.
Speaker 1: I believe I think this is him. So anyway, he says,
Speaker 1: um and I asked about memories. I have no memories.
Speaker 1: He says. My family and I were at the Adams
Speaker 1: County Fair in Colorado on Friday, and I was repping
Speaker 1: the show again with the Mallard T shirt. You know
Speaker 1: it's my it's summertime when you have a lemonade in
Speaker 1: one hand and a turkey leg in the other. What
Speaker 1: are your guy's favorite fair foods? I love the fair
Speaker 1: is tremendous, and I love the corn dog, the size
Speaker 1: of the forearm, which is wonderful, and sampling some of
Speaker 1: the different deep fried foods that they have, but I
Speaker 1: usually get the same foods I get elsewhere, like the
Speaker 1: big Philly cheese steak, and everything's oversized and deep fried
Speaker 1: and and just wonderful. Yeah, like I get sometimes I've
Speaker 1: had the fried donut holes. Those are good. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: The giant pretzels are always my favorite, though beer yeah
Speaker 1: those are. You gotta get that cheese to dip it
Speaker 1: in though, that's oh yeah, that's right. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Adrian, and I'm glad you had a good time.
Speaker 1: Though there's a story I cannot tell. Adrian had a
Speaker 1: very bad experience with a car rental company in California
Speaker 1: that has terrible customer service. But I don't. He doesn't
Speaker 1: want me to talk about that, so I would. Man
Speaker 1: if he gives me the green light, I will, I
Speaker 1: will bring up his store. But I unfortunately he asked
Speaker 1: for my help and I don't. I don't. I was
Speaker 1: not able to help him, so I wish I could.
Speaker 1: And I didn't even bother asking you because you're west
Speaker 1: of the four oh five. Anyway. This is from Helen
Speaker 1: and Stu in Palmetto Bay, Florida. All the Diaper Wears
Speaker 1: says grocery shopping. I heard over the store speaker the
Speaker 1: theme song for cops playing. I immediately thought of David Gascon. Yeah, Helen,
Speaker 1: thinking about the family. What's up, Helen. A few clicks
Speaker 1: show that Chief Gascon was wait for it, Ben, chief
Speaker 1: of media relations. It's not a real cop, Helen says.
Speaker 1: Political appointee Helen his world class dipshit, A political appoint
Speaker 1: team from the current sheriff at the time. Could you
Speaker 1: imagine being that stupid like Andy giving Barney a gun
Speaker 1: and one bullet to keep in the uniform. Let me
Speaker 1: tell let me tell you something, Helen. He was more
Speaker 1: successful what he did professionally in thirty two years than
Speaker 1: you ever have been in your decrepit life. All right,
Speaker 1: come down, let me just tell you that, Helen, what
Speaker 1: a fucking idiot. All right, we liked your dad. Come down. Uh,
Speaker 1: the email continues, A long time, no right, spent July
Speaker 1: four in a few weeks, nan Tucket with our our daughter,
Speaker 1: her husband, and our perfect nine month old grandson, Bentley
Speaker 1: with Stu and I already secretly, uh we secretly called Ben.
Speaker 1: So oh yeah, Bentley, you can call. That's yeah, great, Jesus,
Speaker 1: that's a tremendous way. I love them more, uh, she says.
Speaker 1: Then back to New York and now back to Florida,
Speaker 1: where a as fully vaccinated people we hope not to
Speaker 1: die because of the worst governor in the US, Ron
Speaker 1: Ron de Santis. There, dotorry, Andrew Cuomo is perfectly pristine
Speaker 1: and clean. Don't worry about that, Ellen, there's quite a
Speaker 1: race for the worst governor title. The young lady in
Speaker 1: Michigan could chime in, and she could certainly join the
Speaker 1: conversation that now, don't worry. She could. She's lucky, though,
Speaker 1: I mean, the alternative to having the Santis was um gosh,
Speaker 1: I forget his name. The other candidate that was passed
Speaker 1: out after being hammered and with a male prostitute. I
Speaker 1: forget his name. Was that the CNN contributor? Is that
Speaker 1: the one that was on CNN? Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know more Helen speed, I guess it sounds
Speaker 1: like anyway, Helen says, fear not. The Ben Mallor Show
Speaker 1: and the Fifth Hour are in the air wherever stew
Speaker 1: and I go, Well, thank you Jesus, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: And hey, listen, those downloads count Gascon. You can rip
Speaker 1: Helen and stew All they want, but those downloads count.
Speaker 1: I know. Just the first sixties seconds is all I
Speaker 1: need from Helen before our two part questions some brief housekeeping,
Speaker 1: our best and dear to Bella. Our best and dear
Speaker 1: Bella assumed that Gascon was the most predatory wolf on
Speaker 1: the planet. Uh thought by the time, by this time,
Speaker 1: gas Con would have been permanently gas gone. She thought
Speaker 1: Gascon's alleged illness, we know it was not exhaustion. According
Speaker 1: to Helen, more about this next week, but just for
Speaker 1: the Gascon potty mouth record, I am sixty two, she says,
Speaker 1: and Stu is sixty one with a black belt in
Speaker 1: Brazilian jiu jitsu, and we're something. Gascon will never become
Speaker 1: self made wealthy. How about that, guest? You see that
Speaker 1: good for them? It's good for you guys, all right.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much you take of that to
Speaker 1: the grave, all right. The but these these guys, let
Speaker 1: me tell you, Helen and Stu, I wonder if they're
Speaker 1: like investigators because the wait till you hear the next
Speaker 1: part of the email here, Uh, this gets personal, Ben,
Speaker 1: Did you know that Gascon isn't even the best athlete
Speaker 1: or accomplished sibling in his own family. His sister, Sarah
Speaker 1: is a world class athlete, team captain of the U
Speaker 1: S national women's handball team and has played all over
Speaker 1: the world, including the Pan American Games and as a
Speaker 1: college volleyball and softball star. Elected into her college Sports
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. She also plays professionally with Team Rogue
Speaker 1: I guess and has real endorsement deals, and she has
Speaker 1: a PhD from Auburn, making her doctor. Sarah Gascon obviously
Speaker 1: the work harder Gene missed her underachieving brother David. Uh
Speaker 1: the felt right, Swatts, you know that's the luxture that
Speaker 1: I have is that people can can look us up
Speaker 1: since we're semi public figures some capacity. But you know what,
Speaker 1: you always have to be careful because when you start,
Speaker 1: you know, lifting up the hood of other cars, those
Speaker 1: owners don't always like it. There's always retaliation that comes
Speaker 1: along the way. Oh okay, so I'll just I'll just
Speaker 1: leave it at that. UM. I would always recommend people
Speaker 1: to tread lightly when you try to uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you try to look under those those hoods a little
Speaker 1: threatening here those Yeah, it could be alright. Two part questions.
Speaker 1: Don't worry Stu is a black belt in Brazilian jiu jitsu.
Speaker 1: I'm very worried about that. All right, Ben and Gascon?
Speaker 1: Uh he said? She says Ben Gascon has been burying
Speaker 1: the True Family lead. Will you interview Sarah? If she
Speaker 1: does well? Will you replace Gascon with her? It looks
Speaker 1: like she's done some major media commentary. How great would
Speaker 1: that be? There you go, and that is from Helen
Speaker 1: and Stu. And then she says, did she just play
Speaker 1: in the Tokyo Olympics? And I don't think they made
Speaker 1: the Olympics, right, they didn't qualified. But there you go.
Speaker 1: Your favorite couple from Palmetto Bay Florida gascon big fans.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about Stu. Well you just learned
Speaker 1: he's sixty two, our sixty one and uh and black
Speaker 1: belt in Brazilian jujitsus not enough? Not enough self made millionaires?
Speaker 1: Is that what she said? Her self made wealthy? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't know how they made their money, but good
Speaker 1: for them. I'm happy they made money. I want to
Speaker 1: I want to be a self made millionaire. That would
Speaker 1: be nice, would be I want to live their life.
Speaker 1: I when I'm in my sixties, I want to be
Speaker 1: Helen and Stu. They're living the life that I want
Speaker 1: to live. Right, You spend some time you live in Florida,
Speaker 1: nice place to get a nice place. They're probably a
Speaker 1: golf course, because everyone lives on a golf course in Florida. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, travel to New York, you know, hang out
Speaker 1: with the relatives, have a great time. It sounds like
Speaker 1: a wonderful life to me. It sounds like a wife
Speaker 1: will live. Yeah, you guys have to be in Tampa though,
Speaker 1: Like you don't? Yeah? You, you and the mists can't
Speaker 1: be anywhere near fucking Miami. What's wrong? I've been to Miami?
Speaker 1: What's wrong? With Miami, just saying your wife would be
Speaker 1: a firecracker in Miami. I think she'd have a really
Speaker 1: good time. Oh like the South Beach, Yes, I think
Speaker 1: your wife would have a really good time. I think
Speaker 1: you'd be Are you saying I'm more up to like
Speaker 1: the Panhandle? I can handle that more. I think it's
Speaker 1: just more your speed. I think it's just Jacksonville, like Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: now Tampa Bay. I think I Tampa Bay. Alright, alright,
Speaker 1: Jennifer from Richmond, Virginia writes in She says, Hi, Ben,
Speaker 1: I just arrived after a short two hour drive to
Speaker 1: see in concert uh Stain and the headlining group Corn.
Speaker 1: What are your favorite songs from both those groups? Well? Uh,
Speaker 1: stay right, that's the nineties man, right? Uh? I think
Speaker 1: that song that got played a ton back in the day.
Speaker 1: It's been a while, wasn't that? Was that their biggest song?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm bad with I don't have the
Speaker 1: music gene. I like music, but I don't have the
Speaker 1: music gene. Oh what about Corn? Any Corn song Freak
Speaker 1: on a Leash or something like that. I don't. I can't.
Speaker 1: I'm not good with names of songs either. I'm bad
Speaker 1: at this, Jennifer, Sorry, I wish I could I could
Speaker 1: help you out. I don't out. It's one of those things.
Speaker 1: It's like porn. I'll know what when I see it.
Speaker 1: I'll know it when I hear it. You know. The
Speaker 1: thing that annoys my wife is I just when I
Speaker 1: listen to music, I love the rhythm. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't really listen to the lyrics. My wife listens to
Speaker 1: the lyrics, and so if they have songs have dumb lyrics,
Speaker 1: she'll get you know, she'll get upset, like, well, why
Speaker 1: are you listening as a lyrics are stupid? I'm like, why,
Speaker 1: I like to the beat to it. It's gonna get
Speaker 1: a little beat to it. Yeah, all right, we'll do
Speaker 1: a couple more. A lot of email this week. The
Speaker 1: email bag filled up. Kevin in Kansas says all is
Speaker 1: right in the world, David is back in the sideshair,
Speaker 1: and your show crew is spot on. Football is right
Speaker 1: around the corner, and a baseball races are heating up.
Speaker 1: What would either of you like to add to the stew?
Speaker 1: That is a good life. I'd like to have like
Speaker 1: an extra day off a week, That's what I would
Speaker 1: the half a little more downtime would be good, just
Speaker 1: one day, not more than one day. I got like
Speaker 1: a day and a half right now of downtime. So
Speaker 1: that's about it. Anything gask On you want to add
Speaker 1: like a full schedule, that'd be that'd be good. Yeah, yea,
Speaker 1: some things you can do to get that here. Cliff
Speaker 1: from Nashville says Ben. I am not feeling the love
Speaker 1: for our Tennessee Titans. I have hope that you will
Speaker 1: be surprised this season. Oh Cliff, we do not spend
Speaker 1: a lot of time talking Titan football, that is true.
Speaker 1: But if there is a scandal, we will talk about.
Speaker 1: So don't don't mind that. And I am still not
Speaker 1: a believer. I am a skeptic oe of little faith
Speaker 1: that Ryan Tannehill will will be anything more than a
Speaker 1: decoy when the playoffs come around. It's very hard to
Speaker 1: win that way. It's very hard to win with a decoy.
Speaker 1: You can get to a certain point where there have
Speaker 1: been teams that have gone to the Super Bowl with
Speaker 1: a decoy type quarterback. Jared Goff with the Rams comes
Speaker 1: to mind, Rex Grossman. But the only one that one
Speaker 1: was manning, and that was the Broncos, who had a
Speaker 1: ridiculous defense Tennessee. I do expect their defense to be better. Um,
Speaker 1: but I'm just not got Julio Jones, you got Derrick Henry,
Speaker 1: got some guys. Yeah, And unfortunately for yeehaw in West Valley,
Speaker 1: a city of Utah, we do not have time for
Speaker 1: your email and all the other fine folks that send
Speaker 1: email in. Uh. You've got to put the put the
Speaker 1: baby to bed, as they say. And I will be
Speaker 1: back now. I've got an interesting schedule this week, and
Speaker 1: because you're a podcast listener, I'm gonna let you know first.
Speaker 1: So I will be back in the chair, the big chair,
Speaker 1: as Mark Patrick used to say our whole morning guy
Speaker 1: at Fox Sports Radio a million years ago. But I'll
Speaker 1: be back in the big chair, uh, tonight Sunday night
Speaker 1: into Monday, eleven pm in the West on the Pacific
Speaker 1: time zone, and where's that nine pm in Hawaii two
Speaker 1: am on Monday morning in the East. And I'll be
Speaker 1: in tonight. But then I'm moving. But I'll be back
Speaker 1: at the end of the week. So it's a weird.
Speaker 1: It's the worst possible time to take off. You're supposed
Speaker 1: to book end your time off with the weekend, so elongated,
Speaker 1: but my wife's working on the weekends and she couldn't
Speaker 1: get time off to move, so the only time we
Speaker 1: could move was during the week And but I will
Speaker 1: be back to to do the the podcasting and whatnot
Speaker 1: for next week, so we'll have new podcast, original podcast
Speaker 1: next weekend. But then this is the last podcast that
Speaker 1: will come out of the studio and in the next
Speaker 1: podcast will be a brand new studio and I'm excited
Speaker 1: about that, looking forward to it. Some little bitch about
Speaker 1: in your new studio for some the nine reasons, so
Speaker 1: looking to the of course they will complain, and uh
Speaker 1: always have. I've been working with the I Heart engineering
Speaker 1: department to try to get the line putty into the studio,
Speaker 1: so there's been a lot of emails back and forth
Speaker 1: to get all that done. So of course this assumes
Speaker 1: that that line will be put in and that set
Speaker 1: equipment will work in the new studio, so we'll see
Speaker 1: how that goes. But looking forward to that. Anyway, I
Speaker 1: have a great rest of your Sunday. Thank you for
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