WEBVTT - Intermittent Escape 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:05.480 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.280 week was enough, 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 --> 0:00:20.240 pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of hot takes, 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:24.080 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:30.560 Maller starts right now, nine nine n with our nose 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:34.239 to the grindstone. I think back at it again. It 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:38.960 is yet another addition these Sunday Sunday Sunday edition of 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:45.560 the Fifth Hour with Ben Miller and our special guest 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.560 host who has now been here. I'm doing the math 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.080 on this. This is your third consecutive week I believe 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:52.839 I said the other day on the podcast, right, this 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:56.720 is your third consecutive weekend with me. So that means 0:00:56.760 --> 0:01:00.600 you have this is your ninth consecutive podcast that you 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:02.960 have been on the Fifth Hour by hook or by crook. 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.800 You have been here for nine consecutive podcasts, and so 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:09.560 you've become the new regular guy. Nine in a row. 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:17.280 That's that's insane, man, No days off, as you always say, 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:22.000 Holy Mother of God, Nine in a row for Ryan McMahon, Well, 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:25.360 this is the mail bag and people have asked when 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:27.720 where do you get the questions from? Actually, nobody ever 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.600 asked that it's on Facebook. We post Wednesday. I try 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.560 to do in the morning, but sometimes I forget. Sometimes 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.600 I forget, So it's it's on Facebook. Ben Mallers Show 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.319 is the Facebook page that you don't go to some 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:41.720 rip off Ben Mallor Show page because Ben Maller Ben 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:45.199 Mallor Show page on Facebook and we have a little 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.360 community and people are generally nicer, although there have been 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.120 some real douches on Facebook lately I've had to get 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:54.400 rid of because my my theory on social media is 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:58.520 there I'm there for work reasons and whatnot and to 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:00.520 hang out, but if you're an asshole, I don't need 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:02.440 to deal with you. I mean, I'm not paid to 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.600 deal with assholes on Facebook. I'm paid to deal with 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:08.640 assholes on on radio. I guess that's what I get 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.280 paid to do. So But anyway, Ben Maller Show on 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.320 Facebook if you want to post there, and you can 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:18.160 also email questions. We have a growing list of people 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.160 that send email. In fact, this week we got more 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.160 questions on email than we did on the Facebook page, 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.239 which I was disappointed about because usually the Facebook page 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:27.359 has been very very effective. But a real fifth hour, 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.480 Real fifth hour at gmail dot com, Real fifth hour 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:33.280 at gmail dot com. You can send your questions in 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:35.360 first question up on the mail bag. This week we 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:39.920 open the mailbox. It comes from Pierre from Springfield, Massachusetts. 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:45.400 Not on on listen, Springfield is not Boston. You you 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.320 you you, I know you hate all of the commonwealth there, 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:49.799 but there are you know you have not Have you 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:52.600 been to Springfield, Massachusetts? You have not? Right, No, I 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.400 haven't and you know what I never will be ever, 0:02:56.200 --> 0:03:00.519 that's North though, that's like North, It's Massachusetts. Oh my god. 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:03.400 Alright anyway, Pierre from Springfield, home of the Pro Basketball 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:07.160 Hall of Fame or Mufett McGraw is located, says is 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:11.000 McBaine the love child of Gagon and the Boston Hater. 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.800 I am asking for a friend that is very insulting 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:18.640 to even uh, you know, compare me to Gascon. I 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.440 take great offense to that. I agree, But you like 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:23.320 the Boston Hater, you'd be cool if he If you 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.600 were like the godson of the Boston Hater, he was 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:27.560 your godfather, you'd be cool with that. Right, you should 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.239 hate Boston because that's like hating evil. There's nothing wrong 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:33.639 with that. That's good. I'm doing the Lord's work, Yes 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.200 I am. When I not when I say Massachusetts is 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:41.760 a ship hole, I'm doing the God's work. Wow, unbelievable. Alright, Uh, 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:46.320 let's see Barry from Nashville right soon, says Yo yo mo, Benny. 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.520 Besides feeding the ducks and the squirrels, what are your hobbies? 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:53.320 That's a great question, and one of my hobbies. I 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.800 watched a lot of documentaries, a lot of that crap 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:59.240 on the weekends, scroll through YouTube, find random things. I 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:01.880 love word which is a very boring habby hobby, but 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.960 I love words and phrases and trying to polishing up 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:10.560 my lexicon, always trying to add some new terms to 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:15.320 my my you know, the monologues and whatnot, because that's 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:17.360 all I have. We don't have photos and all that. 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:19.400 I have his words. So if you can find different 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.160 ways to say the same thing, I love that. So 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:25.360 that's if that counts as a hobby. But no, I 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:28.320 do random things with the with the wife. I used 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.240 to like working out. I haven't been able to do 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:32.719 that since I moved to the halfway house because my 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:36.400 treadmills in thirteen thousand pieces in a storage shed somewhere, 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.720 so I don't have I don't have that. But those 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.360 are first world problems. John the Jailer writes in from Pennsylvania. 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.320 He says, Ben, being such a handsome guy and a 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:47.919 big time radio personnel, will thank you. John. Have you 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:51.400 ever had a stalker? And he says the same question 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.520 for Gascon and what was his name? Wow? All right, 0:04:55.279 --> 0:05:00.520 interesting John, little kid shame here. We don't. I don't 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:02.920 know that i'd ever say a stalker. I've had some 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.440 people that I deemed rather creepy that were way too 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:11.480 into my life for my taste, that really wanted to know, 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.800 like where I lived, and and there were some people 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.359 that have sent me email that found my address somehow, 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:20.640 and that that scared me a little bit. That's given 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.560 me a little bit as far as like a female stoker, 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:25.640 the only one that I would really say. When I 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.200 was a young guy working local radio in l A. 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.880 There was a woman that really was kind of into 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:36.040 me and I. We were like penn pals, and we 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:38.240 were right back, email back and forth, and she was 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:42.600 a big fan and I never met her, but she 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:47.000 really tried, and she had a job that gave me 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:50.960 the heebie geebs, and so I didn't. It was it 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:52.719 was kind of freaked me out a little bit, maybe 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:56.240 a little queasy. She was a corner at the l 0:05:56.279 --> 0:06:01.440 A County Corners office and and she was like, oh, yeah, 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:03.080 I have the show on while she was doing an 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:07.839 autopsy or something. Just kind of freaked me out. Yeah, yeah, 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:11.039 well you know that's uh that while so she never 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:13.719 called into the show and said Ben play Misty for me. 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:17.479 She did call a couple of times into the show. 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.760 She did occasionally called, but I don't I think she 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.120 ever requested that. But but it's ironic because we've had 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:25.760 a lot of people working in that business, in the 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.760 mortuary business or the corners business, that are fans of 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.520 the show because the hours were on. The hours were on. 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:37.640 We have Letty who works at a cemetery in Miami, 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.880 in Miami Air Fort Lauderdale, and Hayes, the crazy guy 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:45.000 from Minnesota. Get a few of them. Blind, Emmett, the 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:48.080 Seahawks fan in Olympia, Washington. Hey, by the way, Emmett, 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:52.440 some guy randomly emailed me. I think he's blind and 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:56.120 he wanted to reach out to you. So if you're 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.080 okay with that, you gotta give me the okay, send 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.279 me an email Emmett and all if you want to 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:01.919 help this guy out. He I think you need some 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.160 help because he's a fellow blind guy and he's impressed 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:06.480 by your work. That's that's at least what I took 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:09.840 away from the email that he said. Anyway, Blind Emmott. 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.080 When he's in high school, this guy what a study? 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:16.760 This kid is him? You know Blind Emmett every now 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:21.880 and then. Yes, he's very smart. Right, He's smarter than 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.800 the average sports talk radio caller by a lot. He's 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:27.200 good to converse with, he's sharp. I like the guy. 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.320 He's going place. Anyway, Emmett says, if you had to 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.840 live with one of these people for a year, who 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:38.560 would you choose? He says, Haze in Minnesota, Blind Scott 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:47.640 in Boston, beer drinking Brian or Brian Finley. Wow, that's 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.240 a you know, you know, you know what this is. 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.240 This is Sophie's choice. This is you're damned if you do, 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:55.840 if you're damned if you don't. This is being stuck 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:57.680 between the devil and the deep Blue Sea is what 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:01.560 this is. So I met I've met blind Scott, I've 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:06.120 met unfortunately Brian, he made the mistake of inviting him 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.640 to the Mallard Ugly Sweater Party, which will never happen again, 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.240 never happen again. So we right off the top. The 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:19.840 first one I'll eliminate is Brian Finley. Yes, he's he's 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:23.840 a Stage five clinger. He's a Stage five clinger and 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.880 so very annoying. And he's tried to hijack members of 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.920 the Mallard Militia and and horn swoggle some of our 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:33.520 fans away. He's piggy backing on the success of the 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.960 Mallard Militia brand all eight of us to try to 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:41.040 cipher away some of our fans. And that bothers me. 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:42.680 That rubs me the wrong way, So I would not 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:44.640 want to hang out with him. Now I've met blind 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:49.080 Scott and blind Scott in Boston most of the time. 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:52.400 Blind Scott's fine. And the cool thing about blind Scott 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:54.760 is you can hide from him because he can't see you. 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:58.160 So that would be something that would be that would 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:01.280 be something that is attractive to me with blind Scott 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.760 and the problem that blind has blind Scott has is 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:08.040 he has a lot of peaks and valleys, a lot 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.560 of peaks and valleys where he'll be fine for a while, 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:12.840 and then, as we know from his calls into the 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.760 Overnight Show, it's a can of worms all of a sudden, 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:21.959 and he just becomes enraged, enraged and goes scorched earth. 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:26.360 So that's problematic. I don't know if Hayes is real 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:28.840 or not. I don't know if he is real or not, 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:30.280 but if he is real, I want nothing to do 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.360 with him because I believe he will kill me and 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.040 I don't want any to do with that. If he's faking, 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.120 maybe I'd hang out with him because it's all in act, 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:40.840 but you don't know he's faking or not until he's 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:45.080 cut you up. So uh. And then beer drinking Brian, Brian, 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.840 I think would be okay to hang out with. He's 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.680 not in great health and all he does is sit 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:54.920 around and drink a lot and smoke a lot, So 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.840 I could just be in another room, like you know, 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.560 like everyone else is, Like Finley is a clinger, blind, 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:06.320 Scott goes flying off into a rage. Hayes is a lunatic, 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.920 So I would take beer drinking Brian that that's the 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:13.559 process of elimination right there. Play Brian's in such poor health. 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:15.080 Who knows what's gonna happen with him? You know, you 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:19.120 don't know anyway, Richard writes in from Ottawah. I think 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.440 that's how you say it, Tennessee. Can you have more 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:26.760 podcasts without garbage gag On? Yes, Richard, your dreams are 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:30.280 coming true right now. Say hello to McBain see. You're 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:34.320 making people happy. Ryan that this guy, Richard so happy 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.079 that Gaggon is not here. This is his dream comes true. 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:42.400 Be careful what you asked for. Yeah, be careful. Richard 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.640 also says will you ever have any of the overnight 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:47.840 guys on the show? Well, sure, I'd have all those 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.080 guys on, but we don't pay anybody to be on 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.120 the fifth hour, and it's you know, I don't know 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.000 that they would want to do it unless they got paid. 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:57.360 So but if yeah, Eddie wants to come on here 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.520 and we can go behind the scenes and talk about 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:03.480 some of the old stories or Cooper Loop, Roberto, I'd 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:05.880 have all those guys on absolutely. I mean, there's other 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:09.800 people I want to get on the podcast from Fox 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.200 Sports Radio. I've talked for a while. I promised the 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:16.880 vegan tysher I put him on. He's a talker, he's 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:20.840 into that animal stuff. I don't know. He's a weird dude. 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:22.880 I like him, but he's a very weird person. He's 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:26.760 a very social guys, good guy, and he's he's not 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:30.200 an introvert like us, but I get along with him. 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:32.320 A lot of extroverts I don't get along with because 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:35.720 they're too much for me. But we have like a 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.520 connection there, there's a connect. I get him, he gets me, 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:40.719 so I'd like to get him on the parts. And 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:44.200 there's other people as well. So let's see here. Discrunt 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:48.000 Old Dale. Discrunted Dale writes in from parts of that, 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:49.640 and he says, I love the fact that you bring 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:53.640 up the stros every night. I don't bring them up 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.880 every night. There, let's stop right there. I just bring 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:57.680 them up when there's something in the sporting news that 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:02.960 relates to baseball and it involves the strows, he says, 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:06.480 I give them. It gives me great pleasure knowing that 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.920 it's still eating at you after all of the time 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:13.880 that has passed. Well, yeah, because it's like a crime 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.320 was committed and no punishment was handed out. So of 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:20.240 course you would be upset if you were as a fan. Uh. 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.720 You know, in the context of being a fan, you 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:27.120 were the one that was had something stolen from you, 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:30.480 and then nobody was punished, even though you caught the 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.760 person that did it. What's the point of that, he says. 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:35.800 It's just wonderful that it will eat at you the 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:37.959 rest of your days. No, No, I live a fine life. 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:42.120 I'm not worried about the assholes from Houston that play baseball. 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:44.080 And I'm not worried about that at all, he says. 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:45.880 I bet it's the first thing you think about when 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:47.760 you wake up. No, it's the It's the last thing 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.400 I think about when I wake up. No, when I 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.560 wake up, I think about, all right, what do I 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:55.360 have to do today? That's when I think about, like 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:57.800 everyone else, like how do I get out of bed? 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.800 I think I made it another day. I get another 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:04.560 day alive. You know, I'm I'm above the grass. Uh 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.600 so I I've I've done something good here, So I can't. 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:12.080 I can't stand Astros fans like your team cheated okay 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.760 and they got away with it, Scott Free, Like Astro 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.520 fans are almost as bad as Boston fans. I think 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:20.640 they're worse. I think they're worse. They're terrible. Now, they're worse. 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:24.240 They're worse. Fame to one about Astros fans. At least 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.440 I'm not racist, so it's fine. Well, I'm sure they're 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:29.559 racist Astro fans if you wanted to look hard and 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:31.600 you know, you can find racist people everywhere if you want, 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:33.120 if you want to look hard enough, you can probably 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:38.000 find them everywhere. So anyway, uh, destructor Dale says he 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:41.600 wants to know why we don't whine about the Red 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.320 Sox cheating the Dodgers out of the World Series. You 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.480 should give equal time. These Socks brought back the same 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.760 cheating coach. Well, the stredul Dale, you're not that bright. 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.960 I have gone into this. I know the the i 0:13:54.160 --> 0:14:00.439 Q of the average Astro fan is not very high. 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.880 There's a lot of knuckle draggers among the Astro fan 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:06.480 base unfortunately. So let let me put this away for 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:11.800 you Neanderthals. The reason that we give the Astros a 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:15.200 hard time unlike the Red Sox. Another Red Sox did 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.040 do some shady stuff, there's no question, but that was 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:22.360 I think of it as a tree, right, and the 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:28.400 Red Sox was a branch on the Astros tree. Okay, 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:32.680 so the everything began with the Astros and Alex Cora 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.760 was the right hand man and he was the brains 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:41.080 behind the elicit espionage scandal, so he brought some of 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:45.280 that to Boston. But again it goes back you. You 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.920 if you wanna kill the fish, you cut off the head, 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.400 right you you want to make sure the fish cut 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.880 off the head. Yeah, I mean there's other ways to 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:55.920 kill the fish. But just go with it. Just go 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.320 with it. It makes no sense, it's to malarism. Just 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:02.480 go with so. So anyway, the point is that that 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:08.600 it all goes back six degrees of the Astros Bacon, 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.800 not Kevin Bacon, the Astros Bacon. You understand like that 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:16.000 the botchery that took place, it all began with the Astro. 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:19.400 So my anger is directed to them. If Baseball had 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.320 done their job and gotten this under control before it 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:25.960 even got to the playoffs in and figured this out, 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:29.080 which is their their gig, then the Red Sox thing 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:32.800 doesn't happen the way it happened because Alice Cora doesn't 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:36.520 end up getting that job in Boston, and so then 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.880 that would have never happened. It all goes back to 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:43.320 the point of conception, which is in Houston. So that's 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:47.480 why I disgruntled Dale. I'm obsessed with that. Be sure 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.240 to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:53.920 at two a m. Eastern eleven p Empacific. Chris in Marriccota, 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.920 Iowa says, I got offered a ticket scanner job at 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:00.640 field a Field of Dreams game. Oh yeah, that's coming 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:02.440 up right, the Field of Dreams game. They're still doing 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.240 that in Iowa, the Yankees and the White Sox. Is 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:08.440 that right? I think that's right anyway, Chris says it 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:10.800 only pays twelve dollars an hour, and he would he 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.400 would have to take two days off from his job. 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.000 He says, I'm not likely to see the game or 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:19.680 meet the players. He says would would be part of history, 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:23.200 should I take it? All? Right? So I'm gonna go 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:27.960 yes on this, Chris, And You're gonna lose money on 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:33.000 the deal. But one of my philosophies, and this is 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:36.440 something I told Gagon a while back, and he gets 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:40.520 annoyed because he complains about how little money he made 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:43.160 at a gig when he took a minor league broadcasting job. 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:48.000 But my belief is life is all about the stories, 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:52.920 and that would be a good one. That's that's a 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:57.760 very unique thing. And it's the it's like the Doctor Seuss, right, 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.440 it's the talk about some of the great Were you 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:02.600 a Dr Shus guy? I know he's been canceled, but 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:06.240 I was a big doctor One book was canceled. Calm down, No, no, 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.600 he's been The Wolkesher has got him. But but no, 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:13.560 that the question. What was the quote? Oh, the places 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:17.480 you'll go, the people you'll see, right like that, that 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.680 is is a big thing. So the story alone, you know, 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.199 you can make more money. You can get some more 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:25.280 money down the line. But to say, hey, I was 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:29.000 at this special event, the Field of Dreams game in Iowa, 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.119 and I was there and I was working, and you 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.040 can but wait, you're when you're an old dude, you 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.480 can like brag your friends or two. We all we 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.840 get older, we tell stories about things we did and 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.879 they're all these humdinger of stories. But you said I 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:43.840 was at that game. Yeah, I worked there. I was 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.200 behind the scenes. Yeah, but he just said he won't 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:49.040 even be able to watch the game. Just work there. Yeah, 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.480 but you're getting the vibe. You're out in the corn 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:56.160 fields and you know, I mean, if you really really 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.560 really love baseball that much, I say, do it, but 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:01.520 I mean make money and like not even be able 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.080 to watch the game. That's a note for me. Dog 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:08.399 Now I do it. Yeah, because you're Mr money bags 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:12.040 over here. Oh please, Mr money bags, I am in 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.080 debt up the key stir right there, absolutely anyway, So 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:19.440 I my advice is do it. Chris and McBain over there, 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:22.159 Ryan says, no, all right, I'm moving on on the 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:26.480 mail bag. Ohio al Right said he was in the 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:29.359 Talent Show. He's a little bit angry here, and he 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:32.280 gives a lengthy email regarding the Talent Show. He says, 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:34.800 thanks for all of the great reviews and the comments 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:38.800 you made on my song entring Talent Show. So he 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.920 starts out with a compliment, really appreciate the positive feedback. 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:45.800 Says he's not on Twitter, Ohio al and would love 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:49.880 to see the show judges of final scores and also 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:53.480 the listeners final scores from the final eight, if possible, 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:58.840 could you post those on Facebook? Uh? Not likely, I 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:00.960 can see if I can go back. It's been a 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:02.280 few days so I can see if I go back 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:04.000 and find them, but they are. You don't have to 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:07.199 be on Twitter to go us. Type in twitter dot 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:10.320 com slash Ben Maller and scroll down and you can 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:12.879 see the results of that. So you don't really need 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.680 me to send the screenshots. So then, he says, I 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.560 have some observations and some comments on the logistics of 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:20.680 the Town Show. This is the complaints department here, this 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:23.119 is where he's going to complain. Ohio, He says, I 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:26.679 thought the Talent Show was all about performances, burping, singing, 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.720 playing instruments, stand up comedy, etcetera. I assume you guys 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:33.920 realized that just Josh and Jay scoop. Their entries were 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.760 produced by downloading the karaoke version of songs, all of 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:42.400 the song music but without the vocals, talking about Alan, Town, 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:46.120 Major Tom, etcetera, and adding their own vocals and show 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:49.480 drops via the audio production software. Don't get me wrong, 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.479 the resulting songs are very well done and funny as hell. 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:55.920 I love them. But you knew that but was coming Ohio. 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:59.880 Al says, But for you guys to talk my song 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:03.359 judging points for being recorded and not live and not 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:08.080 doing the same for Just Josh and Jay Scoop seems 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:11.040 a little bit hypocritical, and he points out that his 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:15.840 song Mallard Militia was a totally original production. Uh. Everything, 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:19.600 the progression, the melody, the lyrics, etcetera written performed by 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:23.840 Ohio All. The recording that he sent was basically a 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:27.760 live performance of the song captured in his basement studio 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:32.359 with an ancient two track recorder using one microphone. No 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:38.640 overdubbing or production. So that's ohio Wells statement. Email continues. 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:40.680 He says he could have performed the song live on 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:44.560 the show, but the problem there were his twofold. He says, 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:46.960 he would have been singing and playing the guitar into 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:49.119 my phone and the sound quality would have been like 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:50.879 a tin can on a string, much like many of 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:54.199 these podcasts. Uh, there you go, and he says at 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:56.960 five am, my voice would probably sound worse than Dick 0:20:57.440 --> 0:21:01.000 in Dayton's did for his live performance. Sorry Dick, Yeah 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:03.840 that was a that was awkward anyway. So he says 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:05.159 he's not trying to call anybody out, but he did 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:09.399 call out j Scoop and Just Josh. Uh. The judging 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:12.000 is not perfect. Everyone has their own criteria with judging. 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:14.920 That's how that works. I'm a better judge than Eddie, 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:17.520 and Eddie's a better judge than Coop, and Coop's a 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:20.239 better judge than roberta or vice versa, depending on how 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:22.840 you look at He says he does like the idea 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:26.119 of several categories for the Town Show. We will change it. 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:29.040 We've only done one winner of the Talent Show because 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:31.920 for years it was just a gag. Nobody took it seriously. 0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:34.560 Who knew that we get to a point because Fox 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:38.680 Sports Radio is on enough affiliates Now we're actually getting 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:40.879 some traction and this is becoming a legitimate thing. I 0:21:40.960 --> 0:21:42.399 never thought we'd get to that point. It was just 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:45.399 like lame jokes. Lame jokes started out. It was like 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:48.359 two people sending jokes in and now we've got dozens 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:49.879 of people sending jokes in. The the same thing with 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:51.560 the Talent Show. We started out we had a couple 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:53.600 of dopey acts and that was it. So we gave 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:55.359