WEBVTT - Loaded Bag 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.400 Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:05.600 Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific. 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:08.039 Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:11.280 Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:15.920 on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio appm. 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:20.360 If you thought more hours a day, minutes a week 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:24.000 was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of the 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:28.200 Old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats crackheads 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:30.720 in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich pill 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:35.240 poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, break 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:39.080 free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:46.600 starts right now in the air. Everywheares, we are back 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:50.800 at it again on the Fifth Hour Podcast, and we 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:53.120 are so happy to have you with it, says we 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:57.400 do this eight days a week. It's Sunday Sunday Sunday, 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:03.000 a Sunday Funday on the Fifth Hour Podcast with myself, 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:06.560 Ben Mallard and West of the four oh five for 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:22.000 the second consecutive weekend, David Gascon We rise and we 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:25.440 shine with the good Man West of the four oh five. 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:30.840 Here I am loud and proud, today, Yeah, with your 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.119 own count can sound effects? And now you didn't. I'm 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:36.400 proud of your baby steps. You didn't. You didn't suck 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.479 up to Cowherd in yesterday's podcast. So can you make 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.200 it to podcasts in a row that brought him up? 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:45.640 You brought him up? Well you listen, you at the 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:49.000 end a blatant violation with our with our Friday If 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:52.040 you didn't hear the Friday podcast we hard old college 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:56.080 football talk with Bruce Feldman, the sideline reporter for college 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.760 football on Fox, and he writes for The Athletic. He's 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:02.520 a well known figure in college football. And it was 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.840 going great. We nailed it. Even the Russian judge gave 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:08.840 us a ten. And then at the end you sullied 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:13.440 it by promoting Cowherd's restaurant, or did I Yeah, you did, 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.280 you did. It's the power of editing that I have 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:19.240 control over, so you never know, and maybe it's in there, 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:24.640 maybe it's not. Oh just a while, you tried taking 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.680 torpedo shots at me under the water. I'm I'm up 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:31.799 above the clouds. So you you who complain about government 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:37.200 over you are you are then manipulating the podcast. I 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.760 don't even know what's on the podcast. Yeah, I'm big brother. 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:44.440 I am big brother. Now, the goal of this podcast, 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:47.320 my goal is to do this with very few edits. 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:49.960 My goal is to do it like a radio show, 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.560 from start to finish, from start to finish, and if 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:55.960 it's all chopped up and all that. Like, I had 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:58.600 this battle with McBain because he you know, he added 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.639 a few things out. Oh he did. Yeah, And I 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:07.280 don't know, Well, I would just podcasting. We can leave 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.800 stuff in. But did you say that there was some 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:12.280 anti Semitic stuff that was fired in there that you 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:19.079 wanted removed? Uh, well, it was a joke that was made. 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.760 I'm Jewish. I was not overly offended by the joke. 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.520 Wasn't like old trope? Right, Yeah, it was like an 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.480 old trope that was made. But no, I don't. I 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:32.520 don't believe any malice was you know. But I guess 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:35.600 I'm not as a delicate as some other people, and 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:39.400 so I I don't. I don't really. I mean, there 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:42.680 are racist people or anti Semitic people, but I don't 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:44.440 get worked up or you know, I don't think the 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:46.760 person and we won't even say the person that said it, 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:51.720 but the person I do not believe had any any 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.360 of that animosity in his heart where he like hated 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.040 you know, Jewish people or whatever. I don't think that's 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.240 the case. But if you were listening to that wall 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:02.760 on w E E I, the station probably would have 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:04.680 been closed down, right, Like there would have been someone 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:09.120 that just was open arms. Well, if someone was monitoring it, yeah, 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.560 people would have been very Uh. There's always the the 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:16.560 triggered group of people. Well, the cool thing about the podcast, 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.200 which is a it's a blessing and a curse. Like 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.120 the radio show, there's people that listen that you're just 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:24.280 looking for something to listen late at night, and they 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.520 scan around they find the show, and that's fine. But 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:30.200 then on the podcast, I feel like you really have 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:32.400 to go out of your way to find it. You know, 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:34.840 it's not it's not readily available. You have to like 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.039 search my name, you have to search the fifth hour 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:41.039 or whatever it might be to find it. So if 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:44.599 you're listening to the podcast, I tend to think that 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:48.040 you're a a P one or gonna be a P one. 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:50.240 Maybe you're a P two or P three, but you're 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:54.320 eventually going to turn into a P one anyway, all right, 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:55.640 let's get right to the mail bag. We have a 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.960 lot of questions, a lot of questions. I hope, I 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:03.400 hope you have your body armor on because the malle militia. Uh, 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:09.279 let's see that your return was not met with tremendous reviews. Anyway, 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:13.200 Rupo from Parts Unknown says, it's been nice listening to 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.400 the fifth hour again, while he who makes Lebron James 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:21.920 seemingly have self esteem issues in comparison to his unbelievable 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:26.800 arrogance was away. Unfortunately I could tell he was back 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:32.599 just by reading the description of the podcast, Bring Back Ryan, 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:38.440 Bring Back McBain, says, Rupo your thoughts. That's interesting. I 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:43.640 wonder what title he's referencing too, by the way, Yeah, 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:45.680 I don't know. Well, we had this conversation in a 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.040 previous podcast about whether to put the guests the big 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.240 name on the headline of the podcast. My position is yes. 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.320 Your position is no. No. I mean that's my thought 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:57.800 process was that you you give the you give the 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.640 audience like a description, but it's just a taste. You 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:02.920 don't tell him what's in the what's in the box. 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:05.320 But you know you you have brought it to my 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:10.359 attention about guests and name specific searches, And I agree, 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:12.800 how about how about this if they have name recognition, 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.000 Like if somebody we had Rob Parker on last week 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:18.960 and a lot of Rob Parker fans. If somebody's a 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:21.800 Rob Parker fan looking for a little Rob Parker podcast action, 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.240 if they search his name, and they'd find his podcast, 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:28.080 but they wouldn't find our interview. But if you put 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.000 the name in the headline, then our show comes up 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:34.280 when you search for Rob park Right. And I understand 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.400 because last Sunday, the title of the of the description 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.560 of the title and description of the podcast from last 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:43.960 Sunday title was cry Babies and the description was more 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:47.760 wanting and complaining from the Toothless, So I can understand 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.720 why someone wants to know that I'm returning. So yeah, 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:55.560 So then when somebody searches Toothless, they would find our podcast. 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.159 And I did see. I went back and I looked 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:00.560 through some of the old podcasts and you had Easter 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:02.719 was on there? You had Easter on there, right or 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:04.800 so Happy Easter. I think we did an Easter show. 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.400 I think we did. So then I'm thinking like some 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.800 religious folks, you know, god fearing people would search for 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:15.800 an Easter related podcast and hear us reading email from people, 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:25.360 and nine times out of ten it's just pure defecation. Yea, 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:29.680 exactly exactly. Oh my goodness. Yeah, that's not gonna play 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:33.040 well on the Bible belt. What's true? That's true? Alright, 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:36.440 Mark Mark in Ottawa, right, so, and he says, this 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.400 is for David. Have you ever slept with a woman? 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:42.120 And if so, how much did she charge? From Mark 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.560 in Ottawa? There and you never pay, well, you pay 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:46.840 in some way. You always pay some way. Mark. I 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:50.640 know you're not familiar with the the other female species, 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.160 uh in those parts of town. But in the end, 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:57.760 you always pay dinner, drinks, it's goods and services. I 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:02.000 think it's yeah, it's all try action on the end. Yeah, 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.840 it's it's the ebb and flow. It's the yin and 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:08.720 the yang of of life. Now, women would argue they 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.040 also have to pay because they have to hang out 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:14.000 with a bunch of ugly dudes. But they gotta put 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:17.360 on makeup and do their hair and shave. They all 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:22.160 get all dolled up in the process. All right. Pierre 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:27.480 in Springfield says, Ben, I know that you get frustrated 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.800 when corporate Garcia, Coop and Roberto take days off. You 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:34.680 obviously get flummixed when Ned Flanders does his twenty eight 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.120 minute trending segments at the bottom of the hour, and 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:41.560 when Gascon only takes two calls from females over a 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:45.120 four hour shift. That's right, I remember that. Are you 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:52.679 thrown off when Chris perfect bombards your monologue with various drops? God, 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.679 he says, Roberto has learned to pick his spots, but 0:08:56.760 --> 0:09:00.760 it seems like Chris has an itchy trigger finger. Well, Pierre, 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.800 that's a great question. First of all, I try to 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:07.959 just focus on what I'm trying to convey to you 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:13.120 as the listener, and too much it's it's it's there's 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:17.880 like a finite amount of podcasting or not, but monologue drops, 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:21.359 which are good, but they should be rare and appropriate 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:26.280 the monologue drops and oftentimes, uh, they they are not, 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:30.439 and it becomes problematic. And Roberto has been pretty good. 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.199 He'll ring the bell usually that means he agrees with me. 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:35.880 If he doesn't ring the bell, he doesn't agree with 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:41.439 my my position. Um, but but yeah, I've Actually it's 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.360 it's weird thing like I don't mind it because I 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.600 just keep going you know, I've got some bullet points 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.200 and I just kind of, you know, throw everything together 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:51.240 in my head and put it all together, connect the dots. 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.040 But I have gotten people over the years that have complained, 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:59.520 I loved your show, but the drops. I can't listen 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.200 because of the drops. But then there's other people that 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:06.360 love the drops and want they want drops, like bringing 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.920 home Jerome from Kansas City, like he loved, you know, 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:13.280 to make the Baba gaos. You know, he screamed that out. 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:16.080 That's a drop. He's got a drop. Uh. And so 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.360 to some of our our big p one fans here 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:20.800 for you, it's like this is a big thing. I 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:24.400 would think that would be awesome. Like when I growing up, 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.040 when I listened to radio, I could have my voice 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.880 as a drop on a syndicated radio show. That would 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.840 have been amazing, even a local show, it doesn't matter. 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:36.040 It would have been awesome. But it has a very 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.360 polarizing subject that drops. It really is, at least on 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.160 monologues because you're trying to talk and get a thought 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:45.439 and idea out. But yeah, I just you know, you 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:47.200 look at who's doing it, and it's like, all right, 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:50.840 it makes sense. We got fats in Philly. Who's next? 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:52.760 I love Fats. I gotta hang out with him sometime. 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:56.080 I gotta do it. Fats as a parte, And I'm 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.360 so glad he found our show, he says Mallard. What 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:04.800 other Mala militia personality would be an absolute disaster if 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.560 I were paired up with them on a weekend in 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:11.400 Vegas over under on how many hours before? We would 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:18.200 be detained in a holding cell? All right, so let's 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:22.880 see here Fats in Philly. Well, I think you and 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:27.000 Regina would be trouble Regina and spend Psycho Regina, because 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.160 Regina told the story she somehow is out at a 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:32.880 at like a bar, and she ended up at on 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:37.120 a party bus for a bachelor party, which can only 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.520 imagine what happened on the on the on the party bus. 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.240 So that and then also Fats, like there's some of 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.439 our guys, like I've met Blair in Maine, and Blair 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:49.000 is a great guy. But you can lead Blair down 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.600 the garden path. So whatever Fats does, Blair will do also, 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:56.160 which could be dangerous. I'm trying to think who else 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.160 would be Marcel in Brooklyn? Can you imagine Marcel? Oh? 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.600 Doc Mike All. So Doc Mike right. You know you 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.480 go out with Doc. Doc's eating a salad, drinking some 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:08.880 piss and then Fats is eating a cheese steak in 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.480 one hand. You know, he's got a plate of a 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.000 deep fried calamari in the other and he's just going 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:18.840 for and then lighting himself on fire. Yeah, lighting himself 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.520 on fire, pulling his pains down, showing his free willie, 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.320 his anaconda. Well, it's not really an anticon. It's more 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.839 like a baby snake. But to everyone, to everyone name 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:32.000 so anyway kid, because I care. Jason from Rocky Mount, 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:36.400 Virginia writes it, Jason hooked me up with a Salem 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:40.160 Red Sox hat, which he's in my rotation. In my rotation, 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:45.240 he says, any more coyotes sightings at the Halfway House? 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.160 And do you think you will see any in your 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.320 new Mallard mansion in a few weeks. Well, first of all, 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:56.160 I've not seen a coyote since the attack. Bella is 0:12:56.200 --> 0:13:00.440 doing great. She's getting her stitches out soon, she'll be 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.520 She's completely back to over. It's one of the most 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:05.840 amazing things. Bella was on My dog Bellow was on 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.760 her deathbed. We thought we were gonna lose her. And 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:10.800 even when we took her back after the operation, for 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:14.000 a couple of days no movement. She was a lifeless creature. 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:19.720 And within three or four days she was back hopping 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:24.120 up and down and doing her things. So it's it's 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:28.080 crazy how quick that turned around. And it's great. And 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.480 as far as the other place, this county is everywhere. 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:35.040 Now where I'm living at the halfway House is closer 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.640 to them, to the mountains, so that's why there's more coyotes. 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:42.760 I've also noticed a little life hack. The day you 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:46.800 have to be most concerned about coyotes is trash Day. 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.960 The trash the counties don't have a calendar app on 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:54.319 their on their iPhone, but they know they are aware 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.520 of when trash day is and they they come out 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.160 looking for food when it's trash day because they oh, 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.240 there's it's like the grocery store. They can get all 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:06.480 kinds of food. Um. Anyway, So that's that's the coyote story. 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:10.080 Carlos in Bang Bang Houston, Texas rights and he says, Ben, 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.080 you're a smart guy. Well that's a great email. Carlos, 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:16.040 thank you for writing that email. We appreciate it. Uh, 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:17.800 and that's that you didn't need to add anymore. But 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.280 there's always more. He says, maybe you can answer this 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.040 one for me. Why do the owners cry to these 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:27.320 politicians to pony up money for a new stadium? Aren't 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:31.720 they rich enough to buy a new one? And so 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.800 that's the first question. He has a second question, Well, yeah, 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.840 of course these billionaires could own a stadium, and they 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.920 could finance the stadium, and they could raise the ticket 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:46.200 prices to get people to pay the stadium, pay for 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:52.520 the stadium. But there's a term. It's corporate welfare. Is 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.800 the is the term, right? And if you're rich enough 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:59.640 and powerful enough, you can pay for lobbyists who will 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:04.240 then buy off politicians and give you all kinds of 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:09.880 tax breaks, legal loopholes, and it's it's one of the 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:14.440 great con games because owning a sports team it is 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:17.720 a public trust, right, That's what people Most people look 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.120 at sports teams as part of the community. It's past 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.040 that you you're a steward for the team, but you 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.560 don't own the team. Forever you're gonna die, someone else 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.600 is gonna own the team. You don't really own it, right, 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:31.040 you're just looking after it for the next generation that follows, 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.720 and it's a communal thing that you know, I my 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.040 my parents are passed away. They went to Dodger games. 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.560 I go to Dodger games. You know, the next generation 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.320 after me we'll go to Dodger games. And so it's 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:45.480 that kind of thing. Um. But they know they do 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.880 it because they can. They know they can get free money. 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.240 Why would you turn down free money. The problem is 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:54.640 with the politicians giving the free money away. That's the 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:58.360 issue there. But to ask for it, it's the same 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:02.960 boiler plate. It's it's paint by numbers, it's you gotta 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:04.840 you go to the politicians, try to make a deal. 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.080 They say no, right, they say no. So then you 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:10.520 go public and threaten to relocate, saying you don't have 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.520 enough money for the stadium. Uh, saying you can't do it, 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.800 and you can't raise the ticket prices. Uh. And you 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.680 you play the same game. And then the Oakland A's 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:21.200 are doing it right now. Right, The A's want a 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.800 new stadium. They've been trying for years and it's never 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:27.600 good enough. Right the you know, the Bay Area politics 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:31.200 is a mess. But they did put some things forward 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:34.000 to give them some of what they wanted to build 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:38.200 the taj Mahal Stadium. Wasn't good enough. Right, These owners 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:42.480 want the Candelabra like Liberachi had right anyway, want everything 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:44.760 and uh and so they have to threaten to move 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:48.960 to Vegas or Portland, Oregon or wherever until they get 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.120 what they want. And they know the other thing they 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.160 know is that if they can't get the tax break, 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.280 the sweetheart deal where they want, there's always some other 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:02.240 local municipality that will be opening up their wallets and 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:08.600 handing out money. So that's my my take on that, Carlos. 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.199 And he also says, you you say you're a sucker 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:15.680 for minor league hats, will you wear one of the 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:21.960 Strows minor league affilly? Well, as long as there is 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:26.120 no reference to the Astros, I see why I would 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:28.720 have I wouldn't have a problem with that. My my 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:31.800 problem is with the Astros. These minor league teams are 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:36.560 I believe, independently owned most part. Yeah, so i I've 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:40.920 got the minor league system here for the s s Rows. 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.040 They have a team. One of their affiliates is called 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:50.159 the Fayetteville Woodpeckers. I loved Woody Woodpecker when I was 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.040 a kid. Are you gonna say, can you say pecker? 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:57.160 Is that allowed? I don't know. I don't know, all right? Uh. 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:59.680 And and they have a team called the sugar Land Skeeters. 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.760 I'd love that because one of our callers from Montana 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:08.800 is Skeeter in Montana. What's the team color? Uh? Let 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:12.919 me see here. Let me click on the the logo, 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:14.119 but let me see. I guess see what kind of 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.639 hats there? And I normally try to wear hats that 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:20.080 have an M or a B on them. The colors 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:23.520 are yellow like it looks like I guess the Skeeter 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:28.480 is a B and then it's blue. So let me 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:33.120 go to the team. See here's Skeeters hat. We're doing 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:37.359 this live. You listen to our live coverage. Yes, we're 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:39.600 looking at a MLB show. You know what, I've noticed 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:41.880 a lot of these minor league teams I can't get. 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:46.840 I cannot get hats in my size because they don't 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:52.640 there's a shortage of the production chain is not right. Um, 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:54.640 like the size eight. A lot of these websites don't 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:57.920 have size eight, which is my my size. Uh. Yeah, 0:18:57.960 --> 0:18:59.919 Like they have a hat here with a B on it. 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:02.080 I'd wear that. That's a good looking hat. I'd even 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:05.000 wear the one with the Texas silhouette on it, but 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:07.800 I wouldn't wear the one the s l I don't 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:09.399 think I would wear. I think I would wear that 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:12.800 the skeeter lend. I don't think I would do that one. 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:17.159 Um anyway, that's thank you for the question. Carlos Vols 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:20.000 fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee says, if you had a 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:25.120 lifetime supply of the last thing you bought, what would 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:30.439 it be for you? And Mr insubordination? All right, So 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:34.600 the last thing I bought was a voice processor, which 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:38.560 I have yet I've yet to install. My voice processor 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:42.920 has been dying, and so I ponied up the money. 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:47.600 Actually bought a voice processor before. It didn't work and 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:50.000 so I had to return it. And this is a 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:52.679 so voice proces So I'd be rich in voice processors, 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:56.000 which only works if you have a radio show to do. 0:19:56.280 --> 0:20:01.320 Otherwise it is a rather completely useless piece of equipment. Uh, gascon, 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:03.520 what's the last thing about? I'm happy to report the 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:10.200 last thing I bought was gasoline. You'd be rich in gasoline, 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:12.440 my man. Man, I'd be like one of those hoarders 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:16.480 that bottle those and masks early on the pandemic and 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:19.159 then just started, you know, snaking people for him and 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:21.879 selling him for a massive profit. I've been doing that 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:25.520 with gasoline, toilet paper, and you can do that also 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:31.240 hand sanitizer. It did not take long. It did not 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:34.400 take long for a mash shortage of toilet paper, hand 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:39.120 sanitizer and all that stuff. Which imagine if something eventually, eventually, 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:41.760 something else is going to happen, and the same it's 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:46.680 that flight fight or flight reference that human beings have 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:53.960 animalistic and you know it's gonna something will happen again, right, Yeah, man, 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:56.439 it happened here in l A with ammunition like you 0:20:56.480 --> 0:21:01.080 couldn't buy. You still can't buy nine millimeter bullet Like 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:04.800 as soon as these stores get them, they're sold out 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:07.080 and they put a cap on how many rounds you 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:11.600 can buy per day. And the prices have really doubled 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:16.480 on ammunition. It's crazy how much I've never bought ammunition. 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:18.320 I don't know how how much does uh? If I 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:20.600 want to get a box, how much like a box 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:23.399 of bullets? Yeah, so for nine millimeter you have to 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:26.919 buy them in fifties. So I bought um like a 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:29.240 week ago, I bought a hundred rounds for nine millimeter 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:33.840 hollow point. It was eighty eight dollars. Probably two years 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:36.639 ago or a year ago, it was like closer to 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:41.399 sixty five sixty six, and you're capped at it, so 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:43.960 you can only you're only allowed to buy two hundred 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:47.800 rounds per day, alright, So you buy two hundred a 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:49.240 day at the end of the week, you got a 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:51.520 fair amount. If there's if they're still an inventory like 0:21:51.560 --> 0:21:54.440 they don't. They don't stock a lot of nine millimeter 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.919 for that specific reason. So first blue as the state is, 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:00.600 I think it's closer to purple than just great blue. 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:03.080 We got a lot of people out of rock and firearms, 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:05.480 and there there are pockets. One of the reasons people 0:22:05.480 --> 0:22:10.359 were talking about breaking up California, Like in Fresno, Baker's Field, 0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:14.240 that's that's that's like Republican country. Yeah, right, it's it. 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:20.720 It's l a San Francisco proper and obviously San Diego 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:24.000 where it's more. But even San Diego, like Orange Counties, 0:22:24.760 --> 0:22:28.000 it's shifted a little bit since I lived there. It's 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:31.040 still more like Huntington's Beach. That area is more Republican. 0:22:32.800 --> 0:22:36.480 San Diego. I think there's a lot of When I 0:22:36.520 --> 0:22:38.439 lived and I worked in San Diego, I thought there 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:40.560 was a lot of people more conservative in San Diego 0:22:40.600 --> 0:22:44.679 because the military town Camp Pendleton and all that. So 0:22:45.520 --> 0:22:48.840 did you see San Francisco is applying the same mandates 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:52.000 that New York is now to to their indoor and 0:22:52.000 --> 0:22:56.440 outdoor facilities. I did not. Yeah, so they're they're making 0:22:56.480 --> 0:22:59.399 it a requirement to be COVID vaccinated and show proof, 0:23:00.240 --> 0:23:03.119 which is amazing because now it's harder to go into 0:23:03.160 --> 0:23:06.240 a restaurant in San Francisco than it is to go 0:23:06.280 --> 0:23:08.080 into a Rite Aid and just steal a hundred dollars 0:23:08.080 --> 0:23:14.560 worth of of supplies in medicine. It's amazing. Wow. There 0:23:14.600 --> 0:23:16.600 you go, Well, when are you moving to San Francisco 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:19.240 but that place, and yeah, you're not. You're not moving there. 0:23:19.480 --> 0:23:22.080 So I'm not going to San Francisco, New York City 0:23:22.160 --> 0:23:27.720 or Chicago anytime soon. Yeah. Right. Should be sure to 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:30.520 catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at 0:23:30.520 --> 0:23:33.680 two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Be sure to catch 0:23:33.720 --> 0:23:36.360 live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two 0:23:36.359 --> 0:23:40.240