Speaker 1: Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of
Speaker 1: the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
Speaker 1: crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich
Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of hot takes,
Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller starts right now, nine nine n with our nose
Speaker 1: to the grindstone. I think back at it again. It
Speaker 1: is yet another addition these Sunday Sunday Sunday edition of
Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour with Ben Miller and our special guest
Speaker 1: host who has now been here. I'm doing the math
Speaker 1: on this. This is your third consecutive week I believe
Speaker 1: I said the other day on the podcast, right, this
Speaker 1: is your third consecutive weekend with me. So that means
Speaker 1: you have this is your ninth consecutive podcast that you
Speaker 1: have been on the Fifth Hour by hook or by crook.
Speaker 1: You have been here for nine consecutive podcasts, and so
Speaker 1: you've become the new regular guy. Nine in a row.
Speaker 1: That's that's insane, man, No days off, as you always say,
Speaker 1: Holy Mother of God, Nine in a row for Ryan McMahon, Well,
Speaker 1: this is the mail bag and people have asked when
Speaker 1: where do you get the questions from? Actually, nobody ever
Speaker 1: asked that it's on Facebook. We post Wednesday. I try
Speaker 1: to do in the morning, but sometimes I forget. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I forget, So it's it's on Facebook. Ben Mallers Show
Speaker 1: is the Facebook page that you don't go to some
Speaker 1: rip off Ben Mallor Show page because Ben Maller Ben
Speaker 1: Mallor Show page on Facebook and we have a little
Speaker 1: community and people are generally nicer, although there have been
Speaker 1: some real douches on Facebook lately I've had to get
Speaker 1: rid of because my my theory on social media is
Speaker 1: there I'm there for work reasons and whatnot and to
Speaker 1: hang out, but if you're an asshole, I don't need
Speaker 1: to deal with you. I mean, I'm not paid to
Speaker 1: deal with assholes on Facebook. I'm paid to deal with
Speaker 1: assholes on on radio. I guess that's what I get
Speaker 1: paid to do. So But anyway, Ben Maller Show on
Speaker 1: Facebook if you want to post there, and you can
Speaker 1: also email questions. We have a growing list of people
Speaker 1: that send email. In fact, this week we got more
Speaker 1: questions on email than we did on the Facebook page,
Speaker 1: which I was disappointed about because usually the Facebook page
Speaker 1: has been very very effective. But a real fifth hour,
Speaker 1: Real fifth hour at gmail dot com, Real fifth hour
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. You can send your questions in
Speaker 1: first question up on the mail bag. This week we
Speaker 1: open the mailbox. It comes from Pierre from Springfield, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: Not on on listen, Springfield is not Boston. You you
Speaker 1: you you, I know you hate all of the commonwealth there,
Speaker 1: but there are you know you have not Have you
Speaker 1: been to Springfield, Massachusetts? You have not? Right, No, I
Speaker 1: haven't and you know what I never will be ever,
Speaker 1: that's North though, that's like North, It's Massachusetts. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Alright anyway, Pierre from Springfield, home of the Pro Basketball
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame or Mufett McGraw is located, says is
Speaker 1: McBaine the love child of Gagon and the Boston Hater.
Speaker 1: I am asking for a friend that is very insulting
Speaker 1: to even uh, you know, compare me to Gascon. I
Speaker 1: take great offense to that. I agree, But you like
Speaker 1: the Boston Hater, you'd be cool if he If you
Speaker 1: were like the godson of the Boston Hater, he was
Speaker 1: your godfather, you'd be cool with that. Right, you should
Speaker 1: hate Boston because that's like hating evil. There's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with that. That's good. I'm doing the Lord's work, Yes
Speaker 1: I am. When I not when I say Massachusetts is
Speaker 1: a ship hole, I'm doing the God's work. Wow, unbelievable. Alright, Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see Barry from Nashville right soon, says Yo yo mo, Benny.
Speaker 1: Besides feeding the ducks and the squirrels, what are your hobbies?
Speaker 1: That's a great question, and one of my hobbies. I
Speaker 1: watched a lot of documentaries, a lot of that crap
Speaker 1: on the weekends, scroll through YouTube, find random things. I
Speaker 1: love word which is a very boring habby hobby, but
Speaker 1: I love words and phrases and trying to polishing up
Speaker 1: my lexicon, always trying to add some new terms to
Speaker 1: my my you know, the monologues and whatnot, because that's
Speaker 1: all I have. We don't have photos and all that.
Speaker 1: I have his words. So if you can find different
Speaker 1: ways to say the same thing, I love that. So
Speaker 1: that's if that counts as a hobby. But no, I
Speaker 1: do random things with the with the wife. I used
Speaker 1: to like working out. I haven't been able to do
Speaker 1: that since I moved to the halfway house because my
Speaker 1: treadmills in thirteen thousand pieces in a storage shed somewhere,
Speaker 1: so I don't have I don't have that. But those
Speaker 1: are first world problems. John the Jailer writes in from Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: He says, Ben, being such a handsome guy and a
Speaker 1: big time radio personnel, will thank you. John. Have you
Speaker 1: ever had a stalker? And he says the same question
Speaker 1: for Gascon and what was his name? Wow? All right,
Speaker 1: interesting John, little kid shame here. We don't. I don't
Speaker 1: know that i'd ever say a stalker. I've had some
Speaker 1: people that I deemed rather creepy that were way too
Speaker 1: into my life for my taste, that really wanted to know,
Speaker 1: like where I lived, and and there were some people
Speaker 1: that have sent me email that found my address somehow,
Speaker 1: and that that scared me a little bit. That's given
Speaker 1: me a little bit as far as like a female stoker,
Speaker 1: the only one that I would really say. When I
Speaker 1: was a young guy working local radio in l A.
Speaker 1: There was a woman that really was kind of into
Speaker 1: me and I. We were like penn pals, and we
Speaker 1: were right back, email back and forth, and she was
Speaker 1: a big fan and I never met her, but she
Speaker 1: really tried, and she had a job that gave me
Speaker 1: the heebie geebs, and so I didn't. It was it
Speaker 1: was kind of freaked me out a little bit, maybe
Speaker 1: a little queasy. She was a corner at the l
Speaker 1: A County Corners office and and she was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I have the show on while she was doing an
Speaker 1: autopsy or something. Just kind of freaked me out. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well you know that's uh that while so she never
Speaker 1: called into the show and said Ben play Misty for me.
Speaker 1: She did call a couple of times into the show.
Speaker 1: She did occasionally called, but I don't I think she
Speaker 1: ever requested that. But but it's ironic because we've had
Speaker 1: a lot of people working in that business, in the
Speaker 1: mortuary business or the corners business, that are fans of
Speaker 1: the show because the hours were on. The hours were on.
Speaker 1: We have Letty who works at a cemetery in Miami,
Speaker 1: in Miami Air Fort Lauderdale, and Hayes, the crazy guy
Speaker 1: from Minnesota. Get a few of them. Blind, Emmett, the
Speaker 1: Seahawks fan in Olympia, Washington. Hey, by the way, Emmett,
Speaker 1: some guy randomly emailed me. I think he's blind and
Speaker 1: he wanted to reach out to you. So if you're
Speaker 1: okay with that, you gotta give me the okay, send
Speaker 1: me an email Emmett and all if you want to
Speaker 1: help this guy out. He I think you need some
Speaker 1: help because he's a fellow blind guy and he's impressed
Speaker 1: by your work. That's that's at least what I took
Speaker 1: away from the email that he said. Anyway, Blind Emmott.
Speaker 1: When he's in high school, this guy what a study?
Speaker 1: This kid is him? You know Blind Emmett every now
Speaker 1: and then. Yes, he's very smart. Right, He's smarter than
Speaker 1: the average sports talk radio caller by a lot. He's
Speaker 1: good to converse with, he's sharp. I like the guy.
Speaker 1: He's going place. Anyway, Emmett says, if you had to
Speaker 1: live with one of these people for a year, who
Speaker 1: would you choose? He says, Haze in Minnesota, Blind Scott
Speaker 1: in Boston, beer drinking Brian or Brian Finley. Wow, that's
Speaker 1: a you know, you know, you know what this is.
Speaker 1: This is Sophie's choice. This is you're damned if you do,
Speaker 1: if you're damned if you don't. This is being stuck
Speaker 1: between the devil and the deep Blue Sea is what
Speaker 1: this is. So I met I've met blind Scott, I've
Speaker 1: met unfortunately Brian, he made the mistake of inviting him
Speaker 1: to the Mallard Ugly Sweater Party, which will never happen again,
Speaker 1: never happen again. So we right off the top. The
Speaker 1: first one I'll eliminate is Brian Finley. Yes, he's he's
Speaker 1: a Stage five clinger. He's a Stage five clinger and
Speaker 1: so very annoying. And he's tried to hijack members of
Speaker 1: the Mallard Militia and and horn swoggle some of our
Speaker 1: fans away. He's piggy backing on the success of the
Speaker 1: Mallard Militia brand all eight of us to try to
Speaker 1: cipher away some of our fans. And that bothers me.
Speaker 1: That rubs me the wrong way, So I would not
Speaker 1: want to hang out with him. Now I've met blind
Speaker 1: Scott and blind Scott in Boston most of the time.
Speaker 1: Blind Scott's fine. And the cool thing about blind Scott
Speaker 1: is you can hide from him because he can't see you.
Speaker 1: So that would be something that would be that would
Speaker 1: be something that is attractive to me with blind Scott
Speaker 1: and the problem that blind has blind Scott has is
Speaker 1: he has a lot of peaks and valleys, a lot
Speaker 1: of peaks and valleys where he'll be fine for a while,
Speaker 1: and then, as we know from his calls into the
Speaker 1: Overnight Show, it's a can of worms all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: and he just becomes enraged, enraged and goes scorched earth.
Speaker 1: So that's problematic. I don't know if Hayes is real
Speaker 1: or not. I don't know if he is real or not,
Speaker 1: but if he is real, I want nothing to do
Speaker 1: with him because I believe he will kill me and
Speaker 1: I don't want any to do with that. If he's faking,
Speaker 1: maybe I'd hang out with him because it's all in act,
Speaker 1: but you don't know he's faking or not until he's
Speaker 1: cut you up. So uh. And then beer drinking Brian, Brian,
Speaker 1: I think would be okay to hang out with. He's
Speaker 1: not in great health and all he does is sit
Speaker 1: around and drink a lot and smoke a lot, So
Speaker 1: I could just be in another room, like you know,
Speaker 1: like everyone else is, Like Finley is a clinger, blind,
Speaker 1: Scott goes flying off into a rage. Hayes is a lunatic,
Speaker 1: So I would take beer drinking Brian that that's the
Speaker 1: process of elimination right there. Play Brian's in such poor health.
Speaker 1: Who knows what's gonna happen with him? You know, you
Speaker 1: don't know anyway, Richard writes in from Ottawah. I think
Speaker 1: that's how you say it, Tennessee. Can you have more
Speaker 1: podcasts without garbage gag On? Yes, Richard, your dreams are
Speaker 1: coming true right now. Say hello to McBain see. You're
Speaker 1: making people happy. Ryan that this guy, Richard so happy
Speaker 1: that Gaggon is not here. This is his dream comes true.
Speaker 1: Be careful what you asked for. Yeah, be careful. Richard
Speaker 1: also says will you ever have any of the overnight
Speaker 1: guys on the show? Well, sure, I'd have all those
Speaker 1: guys on, but we don't pay anybody to be on
Speaker 1: the fifth hour, and it's you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: that they would want to do it unless they got paid.
Speaker 1: So but if yeah, Eddie wants to come on here
Speaker 1: and we can go behind the scenes and talk about
Speaker 1: some of the old stories or Cooper Loop, Roberto, I'd
Speaker 1: have all those guys on absolutely. I mean, there's other
Speaker 1: people I want to get on the podcast from Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. I've talked for a while. I promised the
Speaker 1: vegan tysher I put him on. He's a talker, he's
Speaker 1: into that animal stuff. I don't know. He's a weird dude.
Speaker 1: I like him, but he's a very weird person. He's
Speaker 1: a very social guys, good guy, and he's he's not
Speaker 1: an introvert like us, but I get along with him.
Speaker 1: A lot of extroverts I don't get along with because
Speaker 1: they're too much for me. But we have like a
Speaker 1: connection there, there's a connect. I get him, he gets me,
Speaker 1: so I'd like to get him on the parts. And
Speaker 1: there's other people as well. So let's see here. Discrunt
Speaker 1: Old Dale. Discrunted Dale writes in from parts of that,
Speaker 1: and he says, I love the fact that you bring
Speaker 1: up the stros every night. I don't bring them up
Speaker 1: every night. There, let's stop right there. I just bring
Speaker 1: them up when there's something in the sporting news that
Speaker 1: relates to baseball and it involves the strows, he says,
Speaker 1: I give them. It gives me great pleasure knowing that
Speaker 1: it's still eating at you after all of the time
Speaker 1: that has passed. Well, yeah, because it's like a crime
Speaker 1: was committed and no punishment was handed out. So of
Speaker 1: course you would be upset if you were as a fan. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, in the context of being a fan, you
Speaker 1: were the one that was had something stolen from you,
Speaker 1: and then nobody was punished, even though you caught the
Speaker 1: person that did it. What's the point of that, he says.
Speaker 1: It's just wonderful that it will eat at you the
Speaker 1: rest of your days. No, No, I live a fine life.
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about the assholes from Houston that play baseball.
Speaker 1: And I'm not worried about that at all, he says.
Speaker 1: I bet it's the first thing you think about when
Speaker 1: you wake up. No, it's the It's the last thing
Speaker 1: I think about when I wake up. No, when I
Speaker 1: wake up, I think about, all right, what do I
Speaker 1: have to do today? That's when I think about, like
Speaker 1: everyone else, like how do I get out of bed?
Speaker 1: I think I made it another day. I get another
Speaker 1: day alive. You know, I'm I'm above the grass. Uh
Speaker 1: so I I've I've done something good here, So I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't stand Astros fans like your team cheated okay
Speaker 1: and they got away with it, Scott Free, Like Astro
Speaker 1: fans are almost as bad as Boston fans. I think
Speaker 1: they're worse. I think they're worse. They're terrible. Now, they're worse.
Speaker 1: They're worse. Fame to one about Astros fans. At least
Speaker 1: I'm not racist, so it's fine. Well, I'm sure they're
Speaker 1: racist Astro fans if you wanted to look hard and
Speaker 1: you know, you can find racist people everywhere if you want,
Speaker 1: if you want to look hard enough, you can probably
Speaker 1: find them everywhere. So anyway, uh, destructor Dale says he
Speaker 1: wants to know why we don't whine about the Red
Speaker 1: Sox cheating the Dodgers out of the World Series. You
Speaker 1: should give equal time. These Socks brought back the same
Speaker 1: cheating coach. Well, the stredul Dale, you're not that bright.
Speaker 1: I have gone into this. I know the the i
Speaker 1: Q of the average Astro fan is not very high.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of knuckle draggers among the Astro fan
Speaker 1: base unfortunately. So let let me put this away for
Speaker 1: you Neanderthals. The reason that we give the Astros a
Speaker 1: hard time unlike the Red Sox. Another Red Sox did
Speaker 1: do some shady stuff, there's no question, but that was
Speaker 1: I think of it as a tree, right, and the
Speaker 1: Red Sox was a branch on the Astros tree. Okay,
Speaker 1: so the everything began with the Astros and Alex Cora
Speaker 1: was the right hand man and he was the brains
Speaker 1: behind the elicit espionage scandal, so he brought some of
Speaker 1: that to Boston. But again it goes back you. You
Speaker 1: if you wanna kill the fish, you cut off the head,
Speaker 1: right you you want to make sure the fish cut
Speaker 1: off the head. Yeah, I mean there's other ways to
Speaker 1: kill the fish. But just go with it. Just go
Speaker 1: with it. It makes no sense, it's to malarism. Just
Speaker 1: go with so. So anyway, the point is that that
Speaker 1: it all goes back six degrees of the Astros Bacon,
Speaker 1: not Kevin Bacon, the Astros Bacon. You understand like that
Speaker 1: the botchery that took place, it all began with the Astro.
Speaker 1: So my anger is directed to them. If Baseball had
Speaker 1: done their job and gotten this under control before it
Speaker 1: even got to the playoffs in and figured this out,
Speaker 1: which is their their gig, then the Red Sox thing
Speaker 1: doesn't happen the way it happened because Alice Cora doesn't
Speaker 1: end up getting that job in Boston, and so then
Speaker 1: that would have never happened. It all goes back to
Speaker 1: the point of conception, which is in Houston. So that's
Speaker 1: why I disgruntled Dale. I'm obsessed with that. Be sure
Speaker 1: to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays
Speaker 1: at two a m. Eastern eleven p Empacific. Chris in Marriccota,
Speaker 1: Iowa says, I got offered a ticket scanner job at
Speaker 1: field a Field of Dreams game. Oh yeah, that's coming
Speaker 1: up right, the Field of Dreams game. They're still doing
Speaker 1: that in Iowa, the Yankees and the White Sox. Is
Speaker 1: that right? I think that's right anyway, Chris says it
Speaker 1: only pays twelve dollars an hour, and he would he
Speaker 1: would have to take two days off from his job.
Speaker 1: He says, I'm not likely to see the game or
Speaker 1: meet the players. He says would would be part of history,
Speaker 1: should I take it? All? Right? So I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: yes on this, Chris, And You're gonna lose money on
Speaker 1: the deal. But one of my philosophies, and this is
Speaker 1: something I told Gagon a while back, and he gets
Speaker 1: annoyed because he complains about how little money he made
Speaker 1: at a gig when he took a minor league broadcasting job.
Speaker 1: But my belief is life is all about the stories,
Speaker 1: and that would be a good one. That's that's a
Speaker 1: very unique thing. And it's the it's like the Doctor Seuss, right,
Speaker 1: it's the talk about some of the great Were you
Speaker 1: a Dr Shus guy? I know he's been canceled, but
Speaker 1: I was a big doctor One book was canceled. Calm down, No, no,
Speaker 1: he's been The Wolkesher has got him. But but no,
Speaker 1: that the question. What was the quote? Oh, the places
Speaker 1: you'll go, the people you'll see, right like that, that
Speaker 1: is is a big thing. So the story alone, you know,
Speaker 1: you can make more money. You can get some more
Speaker 1: money down the line. But to say, hey, I was
Speaker 1: at this special event, the Field of Dreams game in Iowa,
Speaker 1: and I was there and I was working, and you
Speaker 1: can but wait, you're when you're an old dude, you
Speaker 1: can like brag your friends or two. We all we
Speaker 1: get older, we tell stories about things we did and
Speaker 1: they're all these humdinger of stories. But you said I
Speaker 1: was at that game. Yeah, I worked there. I was
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. Yeah, but he just said he won't
Speaker 1: even be able to watch the game. Just work there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you're getting the vibe. You're out in the corn
Speaker 1: fields and you know, I mean, if you really really
Speaker 1: really love baseball that much, I say, do it, but
Speaker 1: I mean make money and like not even be able
Speaker 1: to watch the game. That's a note for me. Dog
Speaker 1: Now I do it. Yeah, because you're Mr money bags
Speaker 1: over here. Oh please, Mr money bags, I am in
Speaker 1: debt up the key stir right there, absolutely anyway, So
Speaker 1: I my advice is do it. Chris and McBain over there,
Speaker 1: Ryan says, no, all right, I'm moving on on the
Speaker 1: mail bag. Ohio al Right said he was in the
Speaker 1: Talent Show. He's a little bit angry here, and he
Speaker 1: gives a lengthy email regarding the Talent Show. He says,
Speaker 1: thanks for all of the great reviews and the comments
Speaker 1: you made on my song entring Talent Show. So he
Speaker 1: starts out with a compliment, really appreciate the positive feedback.
Speaker 1: Says he's not on Twitter, Ohio al and would love
Speaker 1: to see the show judges of final scores and also
Speaker 1: the listeners final scores from the final eight, if possible,
Speaker 1: could you post those on Facebook? Uh? Not likely, I
Speaker 1: can see if I can go back. It's been a
Speaker 1: few days so I can see if I go back
Speaker 1: and find them, but they are. You don't have to
Speaker 1: be on Twitter to go us. Type in twitter dot
Speaker 1: com slash Ben Maller and scroll down and you can
Speaker 1: see the results of that. So you don't really need
Speaker 1: me to send the screenshots. So then, he says, I
Speaker 1: have some observations and some comments on the logistics of
Speaker 1: the Town Show. This is the complaints department here, this
Speaker 1: is where he's going to complain. Ohio, He says, I
Speaker 1: thought the Talent Show was all about performances, burping, singing,
Speaker 1: playing instruments, stand up comedy, etcetera. I assume you guys
Speaker 1: realized that just Josh and Jay scoop. Their entries were
Speaker 1: produced by downloading the karaoke version of songs, all of
Speaker 1: the song music but without the vocals, talking about Alan, Town,
Speaker 1: Major Tom, etcetera, and adding their own vocals and show
Speaker 1: drops via the audio production software. Don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: the resulting songs are very well done and funny as hell.
Speaker 1: I love them. But you knew that but was coming Ohio.
Speaker 1: Al says, But for you guys to talk my song
Speaker 1: judging points for being recorded and not live and not
Speaker 1: doing the same for Just Josh and Jay Scoop seems
Speaker 1: a little bit hypocritical, and he points out that his
Speaker 1: song Mallard Militia was a totally original production. Uh. Everything,
Speaker 1: the progression, the melody, the lyrics, etcetera written performed by
Speaker 1: Ohio All. The recording that he sent was basically a
Speaker 1: live performance of the song captured in his basement studio
Speaker 1: with an ancient two track recorder using one microphone. No
Speaker 1: overdubbing or production. So that's ohio Wells statement. Email continues.
Speaker 1: He says he could have performed the song live on
Speaker 1: the show, but the problem there were his twofold. He says,
Speaker 1: he would have been singing and playing the guitar into
Speaker 1: my phone and the sound quality would have been like
Speaker 1: a tin can on a string, much like many of
Speaker 1: these podcasts. Uh, there you go, and he says at
Speaker 1: five am, my voice would probably sound worse than Dick
Speaker 1: in Dayton's did for his live performance. Sorry Dick, Yeah
Speaker 1: that was a that was awkward anyway. So he says
Speaker 1: he's not trying to call anybody out, but he did
Speaker 1: call out j Scoop and Just Josh. Uh. The judging
Speaker 1: is not perfect. Everyone has their own criteria with judging.
Speaker 1: That's how that works. I'm a better judge than Eddie,
Speaker 1: and Eddie's a better judge than Coop, and Coop's a
Speaker 1: better judge than roberta or vice versa, depending on how
Speaker 1: you look at He says he does like the idea
Speaker 1: of several categories for the Town Show. We will change it.
Speaker 1: We've only done one winner of the Talent Show because
Speaker 1: for years it was just a gag. Nobody took it seriously.
Speaker 1: Who knew that we get to a point because Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio is on enough affiliates Now we're actually getting
Speaker 1: some traction and this is becoming a legitimate thing. I
Speaker 1: never thought we'd get to that point. It was just
Speaker 1: like lame jokes. Lame jokes started out. It was like
Speaker 1: two people sending jokes in and now we've got dozens
Speaker 1: of people sending jokes in. The the same thing with
Speaker 1: the Talent Show. We started out we had a couple
Speaker 1: of dopey acts and that was it. So we gave
Speaker 1: one winner out. But now we have so many acts
Speaker 1: we might have to make it a two night thing
Speaker 1: that not just one night. We might have to make
Speaker 1: is two nights to get it all in. It's insane. Uh,
Speaker 1: Neil from Miami, Miami, Miami, the real Neil, the real Miami,
Speaker 1: he says, not the fake Miami. Rather, no punk Gass,
Speaker 1: Palm Bay or Palm Beach, whatever, anyway, he says, last
Speaker 1: Saturday's episode, I think he's going back a couple of
Speaker 1: Saturdays now. He's was awesome. He sounded like you were
Speaker 1: having fun because you were doing something you were not
Speaker 1: supposed to do, like a tryst with Ryan. Do you
Speaker 1: feel like you are cheating on Gascon when wrestler Ryan
Speaker 1: McBain is in town or when meeting other men at
Speaker 1: a truck stops? He said, wow, uh no, No, I
Speaker 1: love Ryan when he's here. I have a good time
Speaker 1: with Ryan. He gets the podcast. He's other than his
Speaker 1: michigas with Boston. I'm I'm all about it. Oh we
Speaker 1: like that. And the the way you phrase that, Neil,
Speaker 1: it does sound awkward. I did meet a guy at
Speaker 1: a truck stop. I met Moving Man Matt at a
Speaker 1: truck stop. So there, yes, well not really, he did.
Speaker 1: Moving Matt Matts the guy that told me what a
Speaker 1: lot lizard is. I've never heard of what a lot
Speaker 1: lizard is before Moving Man Matt who educated me when
Speaker 1: I went to the truck stop. What exactly that is
Speaker 1: so bad? It does sound terrible, it does. It is
Speaker 1: And having seen some documentary online about lot lizards, they
Speaker 1: do kind of look like you'd rather hang out with
Speaker 1: the lizard, you know what I'm saying. There's a not
Speaker 1: not easy on the ice, not easy on the eyes,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Yes, I do. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: little a little tough there. Anyway, Neil continues. He says,
Speaker 1: the story about your cousins cracked me up. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: told the story. My cousins were in town from Michigan,
Speaker 1: and so we went over. We had a Mallard meet
Speaker 1: and reet with the family there. He says. It was
Speaker 1: like curb your enthusiasm and episode of that show a
Speaker 1: little bit, Yeah, a little bit. He says, you are
Speaker 1: obviously the master of presenting details to keep listeners engaged.
Speaker 1: The eighty three degrees is a party foul seventy five,
Speaker 1: especially if you have many more people in the house
Speaker 1: emanating heat. That's a great point. See, that's what it was,
Speaker 1: eighty three, But with all the people in the house
Speaker 1: sitting around telling stories, it it had to be closer
Speaker 1: to three that's that's great scientifical knowledge by Neil. It
Speaker 1: just ninety minutes is spot on. Yeah, that's the sweet
Speaker 1: spot ninety minutes. I'm glad you agree, Neil. He says
Speaker 1: he feels the same way. My family gets an F
Speaker 1: on the Mallard report card for being able to say
Speaker 1: goodbye and leave in a timely manner. It's my most
Speaker 1: annoying thing about guests that just don't get it and
Speaker 1: want to stay forever. What's yours? And arriving late? Gascon's
Speaker 1: pet people, Well he's not here yet again, uh, Neil?
Speaker 1: So bad pet peeves at parties. Yeah, that's a fair question. So,
Speaker 1: like I the whole goodbye thing annoys me. Uh, you
Speaker 1: shouldn't make Loony taught me this. You should make a
Speaker 1: big entrance and a quiet exit at parties. That's a
Speaker 1: proper way. That's good decorum, good etiquette. Make a big
Speaker 1: introduction tea here, I am right. But then when you leave,
Speaker 1: just kind of sneak out and people wonder what happened?
Speaker 1: Where is the act? Where did he go? He didn't
Speaker 1: say goodbye? Where what happened? Uh? Now one of my
Speaker 1: pet peeves at parties is when people show up ninety
Speaker 1: minutes late, two hours late, and then complain the food
Speaker 1: is cold, when the food was served fresh and hot,
Speaker 1: piping hot, when the party on time, when the party started,
Speaker 1: and then they complain about that and whine about that.
Speaker 1: I also complain when people complain about you know, the bar,
Speaker 1: there wasn't enough alcohol there, or the alcohol that they like,
Speaker 1: that's annoying. Any of those things is a pain in
Speaker 1: the ass. And what about you there any party? You
Speaker 1: don't go to parties, do you? Because you're well? I
Speaker 1: used to, But people that are not self aware. Uh.
Speaker 1: I always say to myself, you never want to be
Speaker 1: the last person to leave at a party. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't want to be that guy. I mean leave
Speaker 1: like somewhere in the middle. I can't. I can't stand
Speaker 1: super Bowl parties because people to go to those don't
Speaker 1: like football. They just want to talk. And I want
Speaker 1: to watch the damn game completely. That's great, that's a
Speaker 1: great take. You're right. I've been to Super Bowl parties.
Speaker 1: I want to watch in solitary the super Bowl because
Speaker 1: I want to I want to soak it all in.
Speaker 1: I don't want to have someone, you know, I want
Speaker 1: to want to talk about the stock market or the commercials.
Speaker 1: I don't need that, not at that time. I'm not
Speaker 1: into it. Great point. Uh, And Neil says, bonus question.
Speaker 1: He says, Neil from the real Miami. Uh. He says,
Speaker 1: like you, I am an introvert and struggle with these
Speaker 1: social obligations like eating shitty food somewhere else someone else
Speaker 1: made rather who made that a social contract? And he says,
Speaker 1: what's your prep on how to deal with these social
Speaker 1: obligations that make us miserable, especially given the fact that
Speaker 1: your wife may take you in deep water with your
Speaker 1: extrovert ways there need help from one introvert to another way.
Speaker 1: You have two introverts here. It's introvert helping introvert. So
Speaker 1: my move has always been my wife does take me
Speaker 1: to very for me, very awkward social engagement. So the
Speaker 1: way I handle this, Okay, my move here it's very simple.
Speaker 1: I don't take a lot of food. If you can
Speaker 1: serve yourself, this is easy. Just don't take a lot
Speaker 1: of food and move stuff around the plate to make
Speaker 1: it look like you ate. That's the key, right, because
Speaker 1: you give the impress shan that you ate, And a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't micro analyze the dish, So you're
Speaker 1: okay with that. So that's my move if you have
Speaker 1: any cheat code there McMahan on how to handle this, Uh,
Speaker 1: don't eat first, go see whatever everyone else is eating,
Speaker 1: and then just go with that. Yeah, okay, I mean
Speaker 1: that's the way to do it too. But I would
Speaker 1: say take very small uh now my trump card and this.
Speaker 1: You could try this one, Neil too. And I did
Speaker 1: this actually at the event that I you were referencing
Speaker 1: the meat and Great Wars eighty three degrees there at
Speaker 1: the my my relatives place. So the way this works here,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sorry, I started my fast and I'm
Speaker 1: on you know, I'm doing interminute fasting and I can't eat.
Speaker 1: I wish I could eat, but I can't eat. I'll
Speaker 1: take a doggie bag. You can give me some and
Speaker 1: maybe i'll eat it later. How about that. I'm sure
Speaker 1: you're cooking. Is great. It's not you, it's just my diet.
Speaker 1: That's the move. And you can even show them the app.
Speaker 1: Get the app on your phone, even if you don't
Speaker 1: intermitute fast. Get the app on your phone and then
Speaker 1: hold it up and before the party starts, like two
Speaker 1: hours before the party starts. That you're going to the dinner,
Speaker 1: start the app, the timer on the app, and then
Speaker 1: when you you go to the point, said, how are
Speaker 1: you been fasting for two or three hours? I can't.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I cannot. I cannot eat the food I
Speaker 1: wish I could. That works. You can also say I
Speaker 1: have a food allergy. Yeah, that's a good one too.
Speaker 1: And the food out you anything you cook I'm allergic to. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: cooking so bad that the homeless gave it back exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: Uh what else? Up? Pierre had another one. He said,
Speaker 1: I know that you fancy yourself a burgeoning chef, Ben,
Speaker 1: have you ever or your sidekick of the week over
Speaker 1: that is, ever witnessed the glory and splendor of an
Speaker 1: outdoor gas or wood fired pizza oven, As someone whose
Speaker 1: time is as valuable as yours, said, oven is a
Speaker 1: must have in the new Mallard mansion. Now, Pierre, that
Speaker 1: is a great point. My wife has actually brought up.
Speaker 1: We love making pizza. It's one of the staple meals
Speaker 1: the Mallard mansion. So she's like, well, we have a
Speaker 1: bigger backyard at this new place, so maybe we should
Speaker 1: have a wood fire, like a nice outdoor wood fired
Speaker 1: pizza oven. And I don't know the first thing about
Speaker 1: pizza ovens, but if you have a an idea, Pierre,
Speaker 1: like what you use it. You said a photo here,
Speaker 1: But if anybody has and I'm not gonna go. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna spend five thousand dollars on a pizza oven
Speaker 1: for you. If there's if there's something reasonably priced, I
Speaker 1: would consider buying it. And you know, and then anywhere,
Speaker 1: how long does that last? If you buy a gas
Speaker 1: powered outdoor of it isn't the whole point to do
Speaker 1: like a wood fired pizza oven, but gas is more convenient.
Speaker 1: You have me a pizza now, I want pizza right now,
Speaker 1: I'm starving. What's your favorite pizza? Anything with this like
Speaker 1: a pork on it? You know, I'm you're all about
Speaker 1: the pork, sausage, pepperoni, bacon, Canadian bacon. Just stow the
Speaker 1: whole damn pig on there. So you like putting that sausage. Yet, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know one thing I do not like on my
Speaker 1: pizza's pineapple. No, I think you've gone over this. Yes,
Speaker 1: you have described your distaste, and they had barbecue chicken
Speaker 1: pizza that's actually pretty good. Yeah, that's all right, it's
Speaker 1: all right, not bad, not bad. I had Pastrami pizza
Speaker 1: that was really good, surprisingly good Pastronomi pizza. Did not
Speaker 1: think I was gonna like it, but it was really good.
Speaker 1: Let's see what is next. Moving on, Johnny from Glasgow,
Speaker 1: Kentucky says, how did you meet your wife and where
Speaker 1: did you go on your first date? Well, that's personal information, Johnny.
Speaker 1: I met my wife online though online dating, believe it
Speaker 1: or not, a long time ago. And we went to
Speaker 1: a movie theater in Pasadena, right next to Colorado Boulevard
Speaker 1: where the Rose Parade goes down. And we were supposed
Speaker 1: to see a movie, and my wife did the old
Speaker 1: bait and switch. She's she's like, well, she decided she
Speaker 1: didn't want to see the movie. Once we got there,
Speaker 1: there was a scheduling issue. I showed up a little late,
Speaker 1: but she really just wanted to talk. So we went
Speaker 1: and went to a bar which was across from the
Speaker 1: movie theater and I hung out. And the rest is
Speaker 1: his story. What movie were you guys supposed to see? See? Now?
Speaker 1: I don't remember. I know she remember women remember all
Speaker 1: this stuff. I don't really, I don't even remember you
Speaker 1: don't remember that. That's bad. That's bad, dude, that's not bad.
Speaker 1: Just remember everything about the first date. It was funny
Speaker 1: though I took. I was living in Lincoln Heights, and
Speaker 1: I took the gold Line, the subway thing up to Pasadena.
Speaker 1: I didn't take my car, and so I took the
Speaker 1: gold Line up. And then I remember I was running late,
Speaker 1: so I was like running to get I didn't want
Speaker 1: to be late to the date, so I was like
Speaker 1: running to the date. And by the time I showed up,
Speaker 1: I was fucking covered in sweat. It was during the summer,
Speaker 1: and it was it was hot day, as I remember.
Speaker 1: And so you talk about making a shitty first impression,
Speaker 1: A you're late, be you're covered in sweat. But it
Speaker 1: worked out, all right, worked out all right. Of let's
Speaker 1: see balls fan Jimmy says, have you ever been on
Speaker 1: a date and broke wind hoping she couldn't smell it?
Speaker 1: Of course? Yeah, yeah, the worst for me. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if you agree with me on right right?
Speaker 1: If you go like, we're in l A, so we
Speaker 1: go to Vegas A lot you go to Vegas with
Speaker 1: a you're dating somebody and you go to Vegas with
Speaker 1: a woman and you're still in the early stages of
Speaker 1: the or a guy for them. I don't, but you're
Speaker 1: in the in the early stages of a relationship, okay.
Speaker 1: And the thing that bothers me about the hotel room
Speaker 1: is there's only one bathroom and it's a very small space.
Speaker 1: So I like to let it rip with the flatulence, okay.
Speaker 1: So and you you're not at the stage where it's
Speaker 1: okay to to to you know, farting all that. So
Speaker 1: the problem that I have with the hotels set up,
Speaker 1: and I've done this many times, and it's it's it's
Speaker 1: been a mistake. But my move here is I mean, like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, I I need to go down to the lobby.
Speaker 1: I want to check out, you know, because I'll be
Speaker 1: right back. I need to go down the lobby. And
Speaker 1: so then I'll go down to the lobby to use
Speaker 1: the bathroom down on the casino floor to cut the cheese,
Speaker 1: you know, to send out the airborne toxin, and then
Speaker 1: I'll get back. But I don't. So it's it's a
Speaker 1: it's a pain in the as it's a nuisance, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. There's ways around that, Like when
Speaker 1: you're you know, letting the air fly just you know,
Speaker 1: you know, or your cough or something. Yeah, And some
Speaker 1: of the hotels have I like this, the fan in
Speaker 1: the bathroom. That's a good move. I like that. But
Speaker 1: I've stayed at hotels that don't have that, and so
Speaker 1: then you end up you do the old rumbley tumbley,
Speaker 1: but you gotta go down. It's a pain of the air.
Speaker 1: That's Mike. That's my complaint. False Fiji. I have a
Speaker 1: very weird uh image in my head now, thank you. Yep.
Speaker 1: Fred from Spring, Texas, is what's your favorite dinner? That's uh.
Speaker 1: It depends on them ads on my move. Fred, I
Speaker 1: live in l A. There's great Mexican food here, so
Speaker 1: I like Mexican food, but I like Philly cheese steak.
Speaker 1: I like anything. It's unhealthy. I have the diet of
Speaker 1: like a nine year old. I like cruncheek, tacos, cheese steak.
Speaker 1: I love cheese steak, pastrami sandwiches. I'm a big fan
Speaker 1: of that. You go down the list, chicken fingers, cheeseburgers,
Speaker 1: that's it. I mean, I could eat all those foods
Speaker 1: and just be had. My wife always complains because my
Speaker 1: palette has like five things. I like chicken, palm, I
Speaker 1: like fetecchini alfredo. That's about it. Those are like pretty
Speaker 1: much the only foods I eat that some combination of
Speaker 1: those foods. I think your palate is pretty good. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I agree. I'm glad you approved of the Mallard Palette.
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
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Speaker 1: talk all basketball all the time, but it's more about
Speaker 1: the stories about what made these people love their sport
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Speaker 1: the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you
Speaker 1: get your podcast. Uh Seattle. Sammy writes in from the
Speaker 1: home of the Kracking and says, Ben, what are the
Speaker 1: odds of an American winning the hundred meter dish from
Speaker 1: men or women's event? Have we got the horses? You've
Speaker 1: come to the right place Seattle, Sammy, and you can
Speaker 1: back me up on this, McMahon. When you think Olympic insider,
Speaker 1: you think Ben Mallard, right, you think of me, my
Speaker 1: fat ass. I have no idea. I have no idea
Speaker 1: I was. I hope American athletes who well, as I
Speaker 1: said in the rant the other day, though, the people
Speaker 1: that protest, I am openly hoping they all lose. Any
Speaker 1: athletes that protests during the Olympics, I hope they just
Speaker 1: get destroyed, absolutely destroyed the Olympics. You talk about not
Speaker 1: knowing your audience in the Olympics, that is the whole
Speaker 1: selling points of the Olympics are a it's a political
Speaker 1: and be its love of country. It's wrap yourself in
Speaker 1: the flag. People watch the Olympics that don't even like
Speaker 1: these sports, a lot of these sports, but they watch
Speaker 1: it because it's a political and it's all about your
Speaker 1: country and how great your country is if you're from
Speaker 1: Italy or Poland or Russia or the United States or
Speaker 1: China or wherever. And these athletes are fucking it up,
Speaker 1: and I'm telling you it is going to be the
Speaker 1: death of the Olympics. And the io C knows this.
Speaker 1: They know this, and they're trying as much as they
Speaker 1: can to keep these images from getting out on social
Speaker 1: media and limiting the amount of damage that they will
Speaker 1: be done. Yeah, we'll be done by them. Yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 1: Tommy Smith and John Carlos I totally agree with you, Ben, Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I am absolutely right on this. Correct.
Speaker 1: You are out of touch Ryan with the consumers of
Speaker 1: the product. You have to know the audience. You have
Speaker 1: to know the audience. And even now with protests being
Speaker 1: cool and the wocarati people think that this is great.
Speaker 1: The ratings on sports have gone into the toilet in
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, and there is a direct
Speaker 1: correlation to this open wokeness that is going on, this disease.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of people that were raised to
Speaker 1: watch sports that were they don't want to have to
Speaker 1: shove down their throat and they have turned it out.
Speaker 1: And I hear it all the time. It's like, I
Speaker 1: like your show, but you know I can't. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm not into sports anymore because idiots like Lebron James
Speaker 1: and these people and so. And it's true, the ratings
Speaker 1: are terrible right now. Have you been paying attention every
Speaker 1: sport across the board. The ratings are god awful. And
Speaker 1: this is a direct reason for that. People in correlation.
Speaker 1: Everything lined up in a row, right, all the ducks
Speaker 1: lined up in a row. You had the pandemic. You
Speaker 1: had athletes protesting, people realizing, you know what, there's a pandemic.
Speaker 1: I don't need this bullshit. I'm not gonna watch. And
Speaker 1: they didn't watch, and they haven't come back. They know
Speaker 1: they don't. They have not come back. The audience has
Speaker 1: not come back to sporoch and and everyone said, well,
Speaker 1: the the the counter argument, the Devil's advocate argument was well,
Speaker 1: the people are watching, but they'll come back once society
Speaker 1: opens up. Well, society has opened up and they haven't
Speaker 1: come back. I I you're wrong. You're have tangible evidence.
Speaker 1: You're absolutely wrong. Also, people watch sports differently. They don't
Speaker 1: watch on TV. They watch on the internet or like that.
Speaker 1: But TV TV pays their bills based on live audience.
Speaker 1: That's how sports programming works. The reason sports programming is
Speaker 1: so valuable, it's because people consuming in real time. You
Speaker 1: don't watch old games, you consume it in real time.
Speaker 1: And the key part of that you watch the commercials
Speaker 1: television has gone down financially because people, I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: right there with you. I don't watch commercials. When I
Speaker 1: watched TV, I watch I watched streaming services. But sports.
Speaker 1: The selling point of sports for advertisers is your forced
Speaker 1: your captive audience. If you want to watch that ballgame,
Speaker 1: you've got to get those commercials. And if people aren't
Speaker 1: watching it, uh you know, live on on television the
Speaker 1: way you know it's done, then that is going to
Speaker 1: affect the trickle that the economics of sports. That's just
Speaker 1: the reality. Yeah, I'm sure the NFL and the NBA
Speaker 1: are really hurting for cash right now. Come on. The
Speaker 1: NBA took all those woke slogans down because they realized
Speaker 1: this was a problem for their business. Yeah, they're putting
Speaker 1: all the slogans on the court and the jersey's was
Speaker 1: not helping the product. And they took all those away.
Speaker 1: And if they if you think differently, you're wrong, because
Speaker 1: why else would they take those things away, Like they
Speaker 1: want to show how woke they are there woker than you.
Speaker 1: It's like a pissing contest. And so they took those
Speaker 1: things away. And and because they were trying to get
Speaker 1: the audience back, trying to get the market share back.
Speaker 1: You remember when, um, when Nike got quote on Woke
Speaker 1: and everyone was like, oh, I'll never buy Nike products again.
Speaker 1: Nike is making more money than ever. It's BS man,
Speaker 1: it's BS. Well, you're wrong, I'm wrong. You can be wrong.
Speaker 1: It's okay to be wrong. There's a lot of people wrong,
Speaker 1: and you're absolutely wrong about But again my hypothesis in
Speaker 1: the Olympics, and keep in mind, a lot of the
Speaker 1: rest of the world aren't like the morons in the
Speaker 1: United States who are all, you know, go out and
Speaker 1: burn down cities and you know, protests, everyone's protesting. They're
Speaker 1: not like that, and they are definitely not gonna be
Speaker 1: in on the Olympics. And so I hope that we
Speaker 1: do see a lot of protests because I've never really
Speaker 1: been Olympic guy. I mean, I watched it when I
Speaker 1: was a kid with my family or whatever, but I've
Speaker 1: never been a huge Olympic guys an adult. So I
Speaker 1: don't really care if it goes away and it becomes
Speaker 1: even less and less important on the zeitgeist of the world.
Speaker 1: But it trust me, it will be bad. It is
Speaker 1: gonna be bad. I really don't watch the Olympics. The
Speaker 1: last time I was really into the Olympics it was
Speaker 1: with Tanya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan that ship. That was
Speaker 1: a good love. That was good. That got me watching.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's the last time was only into the Olympics.
Speaker 1: That's a great scandal. Uh. And that's about the only
Speaker 1: Olympics stuff. Like I did a monologue the other night
Speaker 1: about my level of interest in the Olympics, which, by
Speaker 1: the ways, a two. If you missed that monologue on
Speaker 1: one to ten, it's a two. Uh. And that's about it. Uh.
Speaker 1: My my wife's into it. It's really an event that
Speaker 1: does not appeal to our Our fans are sports radio fans.
Speaker 1: Do you feel better now? By the way, are you okay?
Speaker 1: What are you? What are you talking about? You sounded
Speaker 1: very very angry a while ago. I'm passionate, passionate. Do
Speaker 1: you want me to sit here and you know, be monotone.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta you gotta sell it, man, that's
Speaker 1: the key. That's key to broadcasting. You know, that's gotta
Speaker 1: sell it. Nobody wants to hear boring anyway. I think
Speaker 1: that's it. I think we should put the baby to
Speaker 1: bed here me with other random questions. Matt from le
Speaker 1: Mesa can't get to your question. Ronnie d did not
Speaker 1: make the cut. Kevin in Kansas, rick uh he he writes,
Speaker 1: all the time he was walking his neighborhood there, he
Speaker 1: had some questions. We want not get to oriole Fan
Speaker 1: who had some weird question about the name of the
Speaker 1: Mallard Fans, which we already have a name for it.
Speaker 1: Adrian in Denver, the water meter technician there, he had
Speaker 1: some interesting things to say. I realized we didn't get
Speaker 1: to a lot of these questions. That's a bad job
Speaker 1: by us. You. I mean, we can get gone. I
Speaker 1: mean you're the one that wants to get out of here.
Speaker 1: I mean I'm here to help you. All right, We'll
Speaker 1: do a few more then. Adrian and denversis ben. I
Speaker 1: am a water meter technician in the city I live in.
Speaker 1: He says. That was the reason he needed to take
Speaker 1: the water distribution exam. I have a couple of city
Speaker 1: has well. Thank you, he says. Our kids loved hearing
Speaker 1: you talk about them during the last podcast. Thank you
Speaker 1: for that. How about that? If Aaron Rodgers doesn't end
Speaker 1: up in Denver this fall, what do you think, who
Speaker 1: do you think will win the quarterback battle between Drew
Speaker 1: Lock and Teddy Bridgewater? And where is the west of
Speaker 1: the four oh five guy? Uh? The podcast has not
Speaker 1: been the same without and we'll see. Look at that.
Speaker 1: Adrian took a shot at you. McBain, you can kiss.
Speaker 1: I don't know where gas Scott has been. Guest Scar
Speaker 1: will have to answer that question. When he wants to
Speaker 1: answer that question, you can ask him. I'm not here
Speaker 1: to speak for gas Scar and I'm not his mother,
Speaker 1: but if you want to speak for him, you can.
Speaker 1: But you know he's he's taking care of something I
Speaker 1: understand right now. But that's his that's his issue, McBain,
Speaker 1: not my issue to tell, yeah, but to answer a question,
Speaker 1: Adrian teddy Bridgewater, which is good for me as a gambler,
Speaker 1: because teddy Bridgewater is straight cash on me for people
Speaker 1: that bet. He is just good enough to cover the
Speaker 1: spread and just bad enough to actually lose the game,
Speaker 1: which is perfect, right, which is perfect what you want.
Speaker 1: You want to just be within the margin of error.
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater is within the margin of error. So Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewater is gonna be the guy. That's the that's the answer.
Speaker 1: Kevin write, since this you're Ben. This is more of
Speaker 1: a compliment than a question. I regularly look forward to
Speaker 1: your show and podcast. I get a regular laugh from
Speaker 1: David's introduction with the studio audience applauses, and that a
Speaker 1: douche move. You don't do that. Yeah, you're a man
Speaker 1: of the people, well most of them unless you're in boss. Yes.
Speaker 1: Uh and uh. He says uh. He likes to the
Speaker 1: introduction there as well as the Ben. We you'll think
Speaker 1: everybody like that, and that's a winner. He likes that,
Speaker 1: So I'll keep doing those I'll keep doing those things.
Speaker 1: Let's see here. Eric in Ohio says, if half Point
Speaker 1: would be let out but you had to vouch for her,
Speaker 1: what would you say to the judge. That's a good question.
Speaker 1: I would say. She's got a very distinctive voice. She's
Speaker 1: beloved by random people who have never seen photos of her,
Speaker 1: who know anything about her criminal history, and she I
Speaker 1: do think that she means well. She's made some poor
Speaker 1: decisions in life, and she's made some mistakes half Pint,
Speaker 1: but she means well deep down at her her soul,
Speaker 1: she's she's a good person. But I don't know. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'm completely wrong on that. But if I had to
Speaker 1: tell the judge something, that's what I would tell the judge,
Speaker 1: he says. Would you tell beer drinking Brian to plead
Speaker 1: to the court and take the heat. No half pints
Speaker 1: made her own bed. She's gonna have to deal with it.
Speaker 1: She's a grown up. She's gonna have to deal with
Speaker 1: the choices that she made and all that. Kevin in
Speaker 1: Kansas as says, dear Ben, I enjoy the talent show
Speaker 1: with the variety of acts. If you and the crew
Speaker 1: could participate, what acts would you all do? Or maybe
Speaker 1: you could be a quintent who would who would front? Yeah,
Speaker 1: like a like a boy band, like a Mallard boy band, Kevin,
Speaker 1: that's just what the people want, and you could be
Speaker 1: part of that. You could be like the fifth Beatle McBain.
Speaker 1: We could put you in there because we got the
Speaker 1: the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, me Eddie, Coop and Roberto,
Speaker 1: and then you could be you were Gagon, could be
Speaker 1: the fifth fifth Mallard Mallar writer or whatever we can
Speaker 1: all right, that's not a thing, please, man, that's not
Speaker 1: a thing. I don't know what with a lot of
Speaker 1: talented musicians, you know that I don't know. Toss that
Speaker 1: out of my took. It is what I did. Uh.
Speaker 1: Matt from me Mesa had we'll do that one. That
Speaker 1: would be the last one, and he says, here, which
Speaker 1: of each would you rather have? So toss up question?
Speaker 1: Toss up question from Matt in La Mesa, California says
Speaker 1: pretzels or chips. Okay, so soft pretzel over chips. If
Speaker 1: it's a hard pretzel chips, that's my answer. Uh. If
Speaker 1: I can have peanut butter pretzels, I'll go with the
Speaker 1: pretzels peanut, but yeah, those are okay, But it was
Speaker 1: a fantastic the soft pretzels the king of the pretzel,
Speaker 1: like a real thick, fat soft pretzel in salt. Have
Speaker 1: you had the authentic like Philadelphia a pretzel a New
Speaker 1: York Street petzel? Oh my god, those are great more Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Philadelphia has got better pretzels than New York. But I digress.
Speaker 1: A slurpye or a milkshake tough one summertime. I have
Speaker 1: fun memories as a kid getting the slurpy after being
Speaker 1: in the pool all day. But I'd go milkshake as
Speaker 1: an adult. Good milkshake. Uh, summertime, or if I'm got done,
Speaker 1: like running like four miles or something like that, I'm
Speaker 1: just hot and sweating with something something cool, I gotta
Speaker 1: go with the slurpee. Yeah again, that's what I said.
Speaker 1: I give his summer you know. But most of the
Speaker 1: time I choose the milk shreek, which is I believe,
Speaker 1: one of the worst dessert she can possibly consume the
Speaker 1: course of course. But yeah, if I'm at home or wherever,
Speaker 1: I mean, not doing anything like, yeah, you go with
Speaker 1: the milkshake. Yeah, alright. Last one on the toss up
Speaker 1: questions from Matt, he says, fried chicken or ribs. I'm
Speaker 1: going fried chicken, but boneless, like a boneless big chicken
Speaker 1: breast sandwich or chicken tenders, big thick chicken tenders. That's
Speaker 1: the way to go over ribs. Oh man, that's uh,
Speaker 1: I guess I gotta go chicken. You're going chicken. A
Speaker 1: good choice by you, A good job. That's the right answer.
Speaker 1: That's a good take. That's a good take. That's right.
Speaker 1: It's a good take. You agree with me. You're not
Speaker 1: in the septic tank of bad takes, all right. You're
Speaker 1: not hanging out down there, you know, doing nonsense. That's
Speaker 1: a good take. That's you know, that's the way to go. Uh.
Speaker 1: He also says, what did you guys do with the
Speaker 1: sixteen He says, sixteen cents you saved over the fourth
Speaker 1: of July weekend? Did you start a trust fund or invested? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. I bought some doge coin I think is
Speaker 1: what I got, which is about what one share of
Speaker 1: doge coin is worth. Sixteen cents. But it'll come back.
Speaker 1: It's gonna make a comeback. No, it's not. It's gonna
Speaker 1: make I sold my bitcoin, my doors coin, my all
Speaker 1: the crypto out of the crypto game because that like dropped,
Speaker 1: like what thirty uh in bitcoine. I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm out, I'm out. I'm out. Everyone's
Speaker 1: saying hold the line, hold the line. Now f that
Speaker 1: I'm out, I got my money. Well, that's the great
Speaker 1: scam of the stock market. And I give the people
Speaker 1: that Wall Street credit and every stock advisor I've ever
Speaker 1: talked to, and anybody who I've been around, it's in
Speaker 1: the stock game. They all say the same thing. When
Speaker 1: the stock market crashes, that's the time to buy. That's
Speaker 1: when you get the deals. They always tell you the
Speaker 1: same thing, like, this is the time you can really
Speaker 1: make a killing. It's like trading places that movie. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but but it's also it's it's the same. I love
Speaker 1: these these scams, these these shysters. It's like college football
Speaker 1: and basketball coaches that are like, well, no, I need
Speaker 1: a seven or eight year deal because the recruits have
Speaker 1: to know I'm gonna be here. No you don't. You
Speaker 1: don't have to have a seven or eight year contract. Okay, stop,
Speaker 1: it's all a scam to have tremendous job security and
Speaker 1: all that. That's what they get. But yeah, I still
Speaker 1: I'm holding hope that my doge coin that I bought
Speaker 1: will we'll go back up. But I am in the
Speaker 1: hole on that. I have the return, the total return
Speaker 1: on that is in the negative by a wide margin,
Speaker 1: by a wide margin, and it has gone down to
Speaker 1: today as we're doing this in real exactly. That's why
Speaker 1: I got out. Yeah not, but but all it takes
Speaker 1: is some big fat cats, some big rich investor or
Speaker 1: some some Reddit page to get all into the doge
Speaker 1: coin and everyone buy it up and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden we'll go back up. Waiting around for that
Speaker 1: be waiting a long time, but that's fine, and I'm
Speaker 1: in the long game alright. That is it. Have a
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