WEBVTT - Mailbag 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.720 If you thought four hours a day, minutes a week 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:09.280 was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.920 the old republic a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.800 crackheads in the ghetto Cutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.880 pill poppers in the penthouse. The clearing House of Hot 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.599 takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:32.000 Ben Maller starts right now Sunday. It is back the 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:37.360 Fifth Hour with Ben Maller, hanging out four hours clearly 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:39.559 not enough every night on the overnight. This is the 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:42.120 eighth day of the week. The Sunday podcast will come 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:46.800 right back Sunday night into Monday on the radio. On 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:49.599 the radio will have a new show talking about all 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:51.560 the playoff games today. But this is a mail bag 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:56.120 podcast and yet again not joined by David Gascon. Gagon 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:58.640 could not be bothered to do the podcast this week, 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:02.120 So please tell a friend, Tell a friend. We need 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:05.200 a lot of downloads here to annoy. Gascon could be 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:10.000 very upset if the person filling in for him, Kevin, 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:14.200 Who's who's running alongside me here, Kevin O'Connell. If we 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.640 have as many or more downloads as we normally have, 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.880 that will be a great blow to the ego of 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.120 guess Gon. But we do thank you for supporting the podcast. 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:28.800 This is a mailbag podcast, so you know what that means. 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.480 Let's get right to the questions. We actually have some 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.760 good questions, so we need to get into it, as 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:37.000 we say. And but before we get into it, though, 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:39.679 just I want to I want to thank Bruce Jacobs. 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:44.200 If you didn't hear the Friday podcast. If you're a historian, 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:46.360 if you open not a Laker historian, but if you're 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:50.680 a historian of Fox Sports Radio, Bruce Jacobs is one 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:53.320 of the greats. I love. This guy's one of my 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:57.560 favorite people in radio. I love his style, bombastic, opinionated, 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.520 passionate all that. He does a local show in Phoenix 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:04.520 these days, Morning Drive Guy in Phoenix and Bruce spent 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:07.360 a good chunk of time with us on the Friday podcast, 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.080 catching up telling some old stories about radio. There's an 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:13.000 any Garcia story in there, and so if you want 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.160 to hear what that's all about the changing of the 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.720 radio business, we talked about that, which we've both witnessed 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:22.240 in our lives. Uh So that's available. And then yesterday 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.720 just some some witty Q and a back and forth 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:29.440 with pop quiz, and we also had Kevin on the 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.480 hot seat learning about Kevin Who's in this week for 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:34.880 a guest con But time now for the mail bag. 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:39.880 These are actual questions sent in by actual listeners like yourself. 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.239 Most of them have been submitted to the Facebook page 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:48.919 Ben Mallard Show, or the Real Fifth Hour at gmail 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.519 dot com. That's Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:55.760 Spell fifth f I F T H Real fifth Hour 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.320 at gmail dot com. So the first question comes from 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:03.320 Bill and Charleston, South Carolina. He says, Ben, could you 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:06.880 please explain why West of the four oh five is important? 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:12.440 Is East of the four oh five also a a 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.440 phrase that you use? And how are the how are 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.520 they distinct and different? The militia must know? All right? 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:22.000 He says, he's listening in Charleston. Why I I wrote 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:23.480 back to you, Bill, I hope you got it. But 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:28.480 my my niece actually goes to college in Charleston, South Carolina, 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.760 and she loves it. She loves it. She's from New York, 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:36.480 she grew up in Manhattan, but she can't she loves Charleston, 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.960 South Carolina. So that's a a feather in your cap 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.720 as far as west of the four oh five. Alright, 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:44.600 So here's the deal. This is really more of a 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.800 local Southern California thing. But there's there's a point of 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:55.000 the marcation where this generally speaking, the snobbyist, elitist people 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.080 in the southern California area live in the west of 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.440 the four oh five corridor. Uh. And that's where the 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:05.880 beach cities are. That's that's where the a lot of 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:10.240 the like Malibu and that type crowd, that's where they 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.839 hang out. Uh, you know, west of the four h five. 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.600 And so that is why we use the term. The 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.640 people east of the four oh five generally more hard 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:21.440 working people, blue collar people. They don't take themselves as 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.160 seriously as the people west of the four oh five, 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.719 who are generally a Hole's not all, but generally speaking. 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:30.800 Uh So that's why we use the term west of 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.000 the four or five. And plus it's gascon in a nutshell, 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:35.720 he is west of the four or five. He's an 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:39.200 a hole. So there you go, all right, Travis writes 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.360 in from Parts Unknown. He says, if you're ever allowed 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:46.160 back in studio to do the radio show, will you 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:50.720 go or has the temporary set up become too comfortable. 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.880 It seemed to be a mess when with the chemistry 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:56.320 on the show and all that at first, but honestly, 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.160 you're all back in top fom with the current situation. Well, 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.400 thank you, Travis. Number one. Appreciate that I get my 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:05.240 five thank you's in, so I appreciate that. Number two. 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.720 I have a feeling that we will do a hybrid 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:11.800 where I will. I don't think it'll ever go back 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.360 to the way it was where I'm in the studio 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:16.599 five nights a week. I don't think we'll get to 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:20.320 that point. I envision a world where I do some 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:24.960 of it from my home studio where I I broadcast 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.720 from and then you know, maybe a couple of days 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:31.440 a week I'll do it from the studio, uh, depending 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.200 on what happens with some other stuff. So I think 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:34.720 that's gonna be the way that it goes. But it 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:38.680 will it be completely one way or completely the other. No, 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:42.120 I like going to the radio station. I remember when 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.040 this pandemic started and I got the call from from 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.080 Scotch Yapiro or Boss and he's like, hey, we need 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:48.920 you to do the show from home. Everyone's gonna be 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:52.400 working remotely, And part of me was excited, but part 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:54.080 of me was like I I remember telling him. I 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:55.880 was like, you know, I I'd rather go to the 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:58.400 radio station. I like going to the radio station and 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.520 being part of that and all that stuff. But I've 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.279 gotten used to not doing it. And like anything in life, 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:08.400 whether you you start a new diet, it takes on 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:13.080 average it is sixty six days. It takes a little 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:16.120 bit over two months, and then a new behavior, new 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:20.960 activity becomes normal, it becomes automatic. That's on average. I 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.640 mean sometimes it's last, sometimes it's more, but on average 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.160 it's about a little more than two months. And whatever 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:30.800 is like you moved to a new new area. Um, 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:33.560 you go to a new school, you go you start 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.640 a new job. It takes about two months and then 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:39.240 you're used to it and becomes just second nature and 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.760 all that stuff. So yeah, I get back to going 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:42.960 to the student get used to it. But I I, 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.400 like I said Travil, I think it's gonna be uh 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.479 some kind of split situation, all right, Chris writes in 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:52.839 from Parts Unknown. He says, been how many hours a 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:58.320 day of prep go into the show. He says, you're 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:00.159 able to talk for hours and it just sounds me 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:01.800 all right, Well, that's very kind of you to say, Chris, 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:03.279 it is a talk show. If I'm not able to 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.280 talk for hours, I probably should not be doing it. 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:08.760 But it's a lot. You don't want to know how 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.840 the hot dogs are made. I don't. I don't think 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.640 you need to know how the hot dogs are made 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:16.800 and all that, but there's a lot that goes into it. 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.880 And it's it's my job, it's my career. And so 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.520 if I, uh, you know, if I, if I want 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.280 to keep doing it, you gotta put the work in. 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:27.040 At least I have to put the work. And there 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:28.600 are plenty of people that just show up, you know, 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:32.560 two minutes before the show and just didn't prepare, and 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.280 generally those people are exposed and they don't last that long, 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:37.320 all right, But you're you're never supposed to see how 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.080 they make the hot dogs. But yeah, it's it's an 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:44.320 only thing. I'm always trying to find interesting things, uh 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:46.800 you know that that I care about. I don't want 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:48.480 to do stuff I don't really care about. And some 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:50.960 days I might find a couple of stories that I'm 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.400 really passionate about, but then I gotta do four hours 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.960 and I don't like to repeat stuff. This is all 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.840 inside baseball. But you know I'm looking, Aroun. I'm always 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:02.760 always searching for the next good story. Right, where's the 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:05.880 where's a good story that that's good radio? Like locker 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:13.200 room drama, palace intrigue, guys saying something crazy, all that stuff. 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.040 Chris also says, what are you going to put in 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:19.400 a good word for ostrich An? Now? Ostro Jan is 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:24.400 on twitters from the Washington, D C. Area. He says, 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:26.560 I would love to see his art in the l 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:31.560 A Times. Well, Chris ostro Jan is very talent. He's 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.840 very kind. He writes these little cartoon drawings usually once 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.240 a week about the show, and I enjoy them and 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:42.160 I use them on Facebook and uh and I but 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.000 I don't know anyone at the l A. Times. I 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:45.760 can I can get him a job. But yeah, he's 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.160 he's got a talent. He's very good. I can't draw 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.120 like that. I can't draw a little cartoons like that. 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:55.360 He's good. Kevin and Kansas writes in on the mail bag. 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.200 He says, Ben, I heard you tell the story this 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:01.440 summer of how you discovered on one of your long 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:05.000 walks a laundry card. Can you please give us a 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:09.760 status update on how that has worked out. Yeah, sure 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.319 I can do that came so, yeah, during the the summertime. 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:17.719 I just got a treadmill recently, but my the only 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.280 exercise I could get for a while, for pretty much 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.240 all of twenty I just got it, like right before 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.719 my dad passed. But I uh so in my dad 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:29.559 past earlier this year. So but I was walking, walking, walking, 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.000 walk and walk and walk and walk ward and I 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.520 was trying to like notice my be present right walking around. 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.840 I had some some audio I was listening to. My 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.040 headphones were in, but I was looking around observing. I 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.240 don't want to get hit by car. So I found 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:46.079 this deserted laundry cart and I kept you know, it's 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:48.600 early in my walk. I kept walking, and then I 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.000 made a deal with myself. I said, all right, when 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.080 I get home, i'm gonna get in the car, and 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.080 if that laundry cart is still there, I'm taking it 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.760 because it's just trash. It was in a pile of trash. 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.720 So I got home, I told the story on the podcast. 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:05.800 I then what value was there? So I put in 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:09.160 my car And to answer your question, Kevin, it's it's 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:12.640 worked out well. But now instead of the laundry being 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:14.960 on the floor, it's just in the laundry cart, you 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:16.360 know what I mean. Like the dirty laundry is just 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.240 in the laundry card. So it's it's made it look 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:23.840 a little more aesthetically pleasing at the Mallard mansion. But 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:26.679 it's just like the dirty laundry instead of being on 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.079 the floor, is just in the in the cards. There 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:37.079 is that. Alex writes in from Parts Unknown and asked 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:41.080 the question, he says, Hey, Ben, who would win in 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:47.160 an arm wrestling match between you and David Gascon? And 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:51.760 why all right now? Rather than me answer this question, 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.360 I think Kevin should answer this question. Kevin, you've met guests, gun, 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:56.800 you know who I am. Who do you think would 0:10:56.840 --> 0:11:02.120 win an arm wrestling match? And this is being recorded 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:07.040 for posterity's sake. Um, you know, I think Gascons all 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:08.800 looks he may look the part, but I think you 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.760 have that grown man strength. Ben. It's right, I have 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:15.160 the old man strength. Yes, I think when you were yeah, yeah, 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.839 Gascons all about the vanity, right you did you see him? 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:24.120 He's all he's groomed and all that stuff. And but 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:29.200 it's those guys usually the the what's the phrase the 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.800 dog that barks the loudest doesn't bite, The barking dog 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.120 doesn't bite. Something like that. Yeah, whoever barks a lot 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:37.280 of Yeah, I think it's something like that. I don't 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:43.240 know that we're close. Yeah, closet. Yeah, good answer. You 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.199 can stay on the podcast. Jason in Rocky Mountain, Virginia 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.480 rights and he says, Ben, you said in last week's 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.360 podcast that you remember going to a Tiger's Angels game 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.720 with your dad and a cigarette came flying down and 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.280 hit you in the leg. When I was a kid, 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:00.920 my dad took me to the two teams when they 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.400 were when we were on vacation in California. It was 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:08.280 a Saturday night, I believe in Jim Abbott pitched for 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:11.920 the Angels. Cecil Fielder hit over fifty dingers for the 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:16.240 Tigers that year in his return from Japan. Also, Chili 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:20.680 Davis hit to home runs in that game. Could it 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:24.040 be possible we were at the same game as kids? 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.760 All right? So, first of all, I don't think it 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.280 was that game. I might have been at that game. 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:33.559 I went to a lot of Angels games in those days, 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:34.840 so I might have been at that game. But that 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:37.480 was not the day that the cigarette came flying down 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.120 of the might have been a cigar that burned my 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.080 leg when I was a kid, because I still remember 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:47.679 the Tigers had several players who were on the eighty 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.920 four Tigers, the great Tiger team that played the Padres 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:55.120 in the World Series, and so I remember like chet 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:58.000 Lemon and a few other players, and that was like 0:12:58.000 --> 0:12:59.719 a big deal when you're a kid, you know, you 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:01.360 remember of the team winning a World Series, and then 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:03.480 they still got players that were part of the World Series, 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:07.320 like bigger than life. So I remember that. But Jason, 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:11.559 it would be serendipity if we were at I think 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:13.320 that's the right term, serendipity, right, if we were at 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:15.439 the same game at the same time. And I love that. 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.440 I love hearing the name Chili Davis because one of 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:22.400 my favorite moments when I was a radio reporter in 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.240 the mid nineties, I was a young guy just getting 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:28.160 to my feet settled in the radio business, and the Angels, 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:32.200 I think it so I'm still a young guy and 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:35.760 the Angels had this big lead. They had like an 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.240 eleven game lead in the American League West. It was 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.480 in August, getting late in the baseball season, and they 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:44.600 completely took a ride on the vomit commet. They sucked, 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:48.760 and they blew the lead to the Seattle Mariners, and 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.360 it was a stunning collapse. And I had to interview 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:54.920 those idiots as they were losing every game, and they 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:57.760 have a player by the name of Tony Phillips who 0:13:57.800 --> 0:13:59.880 was their best player and really the only guy that 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:03.760 was still hitting when everyone else stopped hitting. The entire 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.480 team could not hit. He couldn't punch their way out 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:10.319 of a paper bag. And as the great line Losorda 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.440 had the late Tommy Losorda, they couldn't hit water if 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:15.760 they fell out of a boat. The Angels were so 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:18.560 bad then anyway, So I had interviewed Tony Phillips, this 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:23.240 guy and Tony, uh, let's just say he was not 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:26.920 the most corrigible person. He did not have to get 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:28.680 along with the media very much and didn't like me, 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:30.080 and they were losing and he was in a bad 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.480 mood and one time he wanted to fight me, and I, 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:36.240 like Froze, I didn't know. I was much bigger than 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.160 Tony Phillips. I could have kicked his ass, but he 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.600 he was a obviously professional athlete and Uh, so, I 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:44.680 like froze. I I at stage frined, I don't know 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:48.120 what do And then Chili Davis came to my rescue, 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:53.040 got in between me and Tony Phillips and uh and 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:58.320 made sure that peace prevailed. So that that's a longer 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.680 story than you asked for, Jason, but that the interaction 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:05.080 with the great Chili Davis, who is a hitting coach 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:08.280 I think for the Mets. He's been a hitting coach 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.000 for a couple of different teams. Now I think he's 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.360 with the Mets. Be sure to catch live editions of 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.400 The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:18.960 pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:24.840 Radio app. Mark writes in from Concord, New Hampshire. He says, hey, Ben, 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:30.640 does Roberto serve the crew food during cooking with Roberto? 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.240 Well Mark, he has done that, all right, he has 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:40.600 done that, but not during the pandemic when we were 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:42.840 all together. Now Eddie and Cooper are still going in. 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:47.960 I'm obviously on remote from the remote studio. Um, but yeah, 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.240 he would make you know, he'd makes some of the food. 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.000 Usually like the next week, he'd make it. Sometimes he'd 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.760 make it before and bring it in, and yeah, had 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.720 some delicious food. Now, some of that stuff, like the Minuto, 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:00.800 I wouldn't need, and some of this suff Roberto makes 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.960 I want to want to barth, but a lot of 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:06.600 it's very good, and the stuff I've eaten has been delicious. 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:12.480 A berry from Nashville via email. Right, So, he says, 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:14.800 I know you do, Benny versus the pain. I haven't 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:19.440 done that. That's on hiatus because of my personal life situation. 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:25.680 But anyway, Barry says, on a typical NFL Sunday, how 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.880 many games and how much per game would you actually 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:33.200 bet if it were legal in your state? Of course, well, 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:36.920 very a couple of things. You will never reveal how 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:38.920 much you bet. It's not a lot, though I'm not. 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:42.480 I'm not a whale. You I was the size of 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:43.960 a whale for a while, But I'm not a whale 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:46.680 gambler that bets a ton of money. And the thing 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:48.600 about it, I can lose a hundred bucks and be 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.200 just as upset as if I lost a thousand bucks. 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.320 So that's the special skill that I have. But to 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:56.440 answer your question, how many games I would bet on 0:16:56.480 --> 0:17:00.760 a given Sunday, it really depends on how I like 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.000 the card like I do benny versus the penny. And 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.320 typically there's two or three games that I really like, 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:10.600 and everything else I don't have as strong an opinion about. 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.800 So they say that you're really only supposed to bet 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:15.200 on the games you got a good opinion on good 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:18.399 knowledge of. But usually the numbers three, you want to 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:20.719 bet an odd number. You don't want to bet an 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.480 even number because then if you win two and lose too, 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.400 obviously you've lost money on the juice. So you want 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:32.080 to bet one, three or five somewhere. Usually I'm in 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.400 the three category. There have been weeks where it's only 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.720 a one game. Sometimes I've gone weeks where there's no games, 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.639 so I don't like anything. Usually that's week seventeen of 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:43.560 the regular season where I just don't want to bet 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.920 because I don't know who's motivated, who's not motivated, who's 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:48.760 gonna play, who's not gonna play, that kind of stuff, 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:52.200 So I usually avoid those situations at all. Cant I'll 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:57.360 costs alright? Next up Matt from Mansfield, Texas. Right soon, 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:02.200 he says, Ben, you bring money line odds all the time. 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:09.480 How are the relative percentages you mentioned calculated? Asking for 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:16.080 a nerd Masses. Well, that's that's a decent question, Matt A. 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:20.520 I have a computer like mind and I use mallard 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:25.199 Mass skills to do it. Unless none of that is true. No, 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:28.920 I I have a I have an odds calculator I 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:33.159 use as a gambler that tells me the perceived odds 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.000 based on a bet like so, and this is something 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.159 that I I did years ago. Actually, I think it 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:40.600 was R. J. Bell that that tipped me off to this, 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:43.560 and so it's something when I make a bet, I'm like, 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:45.119 all right, what is the gambling I would like to 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:47.320 know what the gambling market says about something like what 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:49.879 does the gambling markets say the odds of this happening? 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.840 I think it's interesting. I think it's interesting to look 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.320 at a line and say, okay, so the Chiefs are 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:58.480 favored by this, and this is the money line. What 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:02.200 does that mean? Like what percentage chance to the Chiefs 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.439 have to win? Uh? So, I I asked, that's just 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:08.199 been some of my michigas, and so I have that. 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:13.360 Now I've done that enough. We're certain certain money line 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.120 numbers I know just because they come up a lot, 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.439 you know, like plus two thousand or minus two thousand. 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:23.640 I know I know what those are. But that's that's 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:27.160 generally speaking, how that works again, how how we make 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:32.359 the hot dogs. But that's the beauty of the Fifth 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:36.360 Hour podcast. You can ask those kind of questions and 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:38.640 you can you can figure it out and all that stuff, 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:41.760 and you can mock and criticize and all that stuff. 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:44.959 All right, Kentucky Tay in Kentucky. J Right, and this 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:49.880 is from Kentucky Tay. Our friends from Scottsville, Kentucky. They're 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:54.240 lovely daughter there as well, she says, I honestly, UH 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:58.840 don't have any interesting, witty questions for the show. Okay, However, 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:01.880 Kentucky ke Tay says, I wanted to ask you how 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:04.680 you're holding up. I'm hanging in there, Kentucky Tay, thank you, 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:08.760 she says. Sorry for your loss. Jay and I, she says, 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:13.400 both lost our fathers at a young age, and from experience, 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:17.119 it is not something you completely recover from. But looking 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:20.240 back at good memories, she says, she loves looking back 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:24.480 at good memories. My favorite times, Kentucky Taste says, with 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:27.840 my dad is us cooking breakfast together on Saturday mornings. 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:31.120 What is your favorite memory of you and your dad. Well, 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:33.880 I talked on some of that last week Kentucky Tabe. 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:35.959 But I have a lot of membories, and you know, 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:39.520 growing up, I was a mama's boy, and I really 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:43.480 got a lot closer with my dad as my my 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:46.320 mom got sick, and then you know, the last about 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:49.040 ten years or so, came really close with my dad. 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:50.879 But when were kids to go to baseball games or 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:55.520 football games and you know, it's just family dinners. You know, 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:58.240 lost both my mom and dad now, but I remember 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:03.719 very especially the times where now where my mom was 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:09.680 a Democrat liberal, my dad conservative Republican, and they would 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:13.280 duke it out at the dinner table and they'd go 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:15.440 back and forth about whatever the big stories of the 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:18.840 day were, and then when it was over, they hug 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:22.119 it out. And that's that's how I learned. I like that. 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:24.080 I think you should be able to fight about different stuff. 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:26.680 But then at the end it's just it's it's meaningless. 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:30.360 It's politics. Who cares, you know, it's like all this stuff, 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:34.080 what's the old? It's a I forget how you say, 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:38.080 but as an expression in in in French, where you know, 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:40.560 once you're gone, it all ends. So you know it's 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:43.040 you know, you know who cares. Uh, you know, don't 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:46.440 don't sweat the small stuff, but you know those kind 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:50.800 of things. Pierre from Springfield, Massachusetts, the home of the 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:55.920 Pro Basketball Hall of Fame rights and he says, Ben 0:21:57.320 --> 0:22:01.600 number one, do you think that theo epstein he's laying 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:08.240 the groundwork to eventually be Uncle Rob's replacement. Yeah. Well, 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:15.400 he's a a cunning individual. There's something going on. He's 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:20.240 scheming theo Epstein. There's a couple of different theories. A 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:23.680