WEBVTT - Sexual Flavors 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:05.680 If you thought four hours a day, minutes a week 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:09.200 was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.840 the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:15.760 crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:20.160 pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:24.040 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:28.520 Mallarck starts right now. Yes it does. I'll be doing well. 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:33.519 Welcome to the magic podcast machine, The Fifth Hour with 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:37.559 Ben maller Back. Eight days a week. 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And 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.920 yet again we are joined by not the man of 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.440 the people, the man of the West, of the four 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:52.040 oh five crab, the elitist, the one per centers academia, 0:01:52.680 --> 0:02:00.600 David gues I'm excited to be here and do a 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:04.280 lot of the heavy lifting for this podcast. And it's 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:07.560 always always a great day when you acknowledge who's in 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.360 the house with you, Ben Maller. A little bit different 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:13.000 from your show when it's up and down and usually 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:15.079 dropped off the air, but you know, I mean here, 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:19.320 it's no signs of a collapse on this podcast, and 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:23.280 you can thank me well so far and we've had 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.440 no signs of a collapse, so you should actually thank me, 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.240 as we talked about the previous episode of the Fifth Hour, 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.000 I saved the day. I should win an I Heart 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.320 Media Engineering Award because I was able to do it. 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:36.080 I was able to fix the equipment. Of course, they 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:39.040 walked me through it and held my hand. Um, but 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:42.160 but you yet again, and and this is another sign. 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.400 I want to make you relatable. I want you to 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.760 be relatable to the working class. How do I do that? Um? 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:51.440 Maybe not play applause sound effect and I say your name, 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:53.960 and it's the only sound effect. You play your soul. 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.840 There's no other sound effect that you play. Right. You 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.919 are like the ultimate Prima Donna. You're the ultimate draw 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.480 the queen. I mean stop. I know yourself absorbed. I 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.320 know you're an attention whore, but try to show a 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:09.480 little grace. How about that. I'll think about it. You'll 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:11.880 consider it. I'll consider it. I mean I don't have 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:14.160 as much airtime as you. I don't have a stop watch. 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.480 So whenever someone takes a little bit of time off 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:18.720 the microphone from me that I have to cut them off. 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.239 But you know, to teach their own And it's Ben 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.960 Maller and this is David Gascon. So nothing wrong with that. 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:28.680 Nothing wrong. We are in the industry about talking about 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.480 ourselves and being about herself like that part of it. 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.200 I don't like that. That's one part I don't like. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.800 Are you kidding me right now? I don't? Oh well, 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:41.360 I mean, how do I I'm nor I'm not like that. 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.200 I'm not you're compare me to some of these other blowhards. 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:46.400 But I mean, you can always rebrand your show. You 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:48.720 can rebrand it to a different name. It's the Ben 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:52.360 mallor show, right, you could call it something else. I mean, 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:56.880 you call your employees the Benny's. You call them the Benny's. Like, 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:01.400 what kind of hack job is that? The knees? What 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:05.280 the is that? Let me explain something. It is goofing 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:09.960 on award shows and goofing on me. Dummy, Emmy's Benny's. 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:14.480 You see how that works? Stupid Emmy's Benny's. It's the same. 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:19.080 It's flowers your moron out there. You. Let's tell you 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:20.640 something I got. I got a story that popped in 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:22.600 my head about the names of the show. I remember 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.080 when I got one of my first big breaks. I 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:28.039 was a radio stringer and I was getting a talk 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:30.159 show for the first time in Los Angeles. Man, this 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.880 was a big break in my career. And I had 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:36.160 a conversation with Biff Elliott, late great Biff Elliott from 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:40.880 CBS News Radio, a sports reporter whose brother was a 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:45.240 legendary sportscaster in New York, Win Elliott. And when Elliott 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.560 was a legend, and Biff had been an actor and 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:49.920 some movies and whatnot. It was a good friend of mine. 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.720 He was a very elderly gentleman at that time when 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:54.719 I knew him, and I was a young guy in 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:58.120 my my twenties, but I really loved the stories he 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.480 told about the business and all that. And remember one 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:04.520 day I showed up in the Dodger Stadium press box 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:06.040 and I had a conversation with him. I said, if 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.440 I'm getting I'm getting a new a new show, and he's, oh, 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:12.640 that's great, Ben, and and I told him, I said, 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:14.080 I don't know what to call it, though, I don't 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.080 know what the name of it, you know, And he 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.560 gave me this whole speech how he's like, it doesn't 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:21.240 matter what you call the show. If it sucks, no 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.119 one's gonna listen to it. And if it's good, people 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.120 are gonna listen to it. Who the who the funk 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.880 cares about the name of a show, It's irrelevant. He's 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:33.000 absolutely right. He's bit was so old and had been 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.800 there for so long covering the Dodgers. I think he 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.520 had covered the team since, like you know, like Jackie 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.280 Robinson in Brooklyn, you know that that he was a lot. 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:43.159 You know, there's no cheering in the press box. He 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.760 was allowed to cheer. He was allowed to cheer because 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:47.839 he had he had the exemption, and it was it 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:50.159 was pretty funny. He's a great guy. And I ran 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:53.880 into him after he retired, and I ran into him 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.440 at adults in this bar I used to hang out 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.119 at all the time in Burbank. It's just no longer 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:03.839 there on Riverside Drive, beautiful Burbank, right across from Warner Brothers, 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:07.200 and Bif comes up to me kind of, you know, 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.359 he kind of waddling a little bit. You know. He 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.320 was a pretty petite guy at this time, fragile. Uh. 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:15.599 And he comes up there, he says, hey, Ben, you 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:25.120 probably thought I was dead. Pretty morbid, right, What a character? 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:27.960 I was always told. I mean, whether it's for a 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:31.600 show or any kind of brand that you always want 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.599 to have your name or a name attached to it 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.920 because it keeps the audience, like it keeps that product 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.040 or that individual in the front of a person's mind 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:46.400 when they're subscribing to Well, everyone loves hearing their name, right, 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:50.000 that's the most what's the Remember the book? What was 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.240 the book? The famous book about being relatable? Would you 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:57.320 read how to Make Friends? Right? And remember that famous 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:58.920 book from back in the front book I read is 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:04.680 the Alchemist ben Man? Anyway, Yeah, the sweetest sound in 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:08.920 the language is your name. You people love hearing their name. 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.320 And a little cheat code for you guys. On dates 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:14.880 they say that the way to get into a woman's 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:18.320 heart if you're dude, is to say her name and 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.200 shut up and let her talk. People like to be 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:22.840 the star. They want to be the star. They don't 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:24.440 want to I never wanted to be the star. I 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.520 never like to talk. I was always more comfortable when 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:28.440 the other person was talking speaking of what you know. 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:30.800 You talked about this a few days ago on your show. 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:34.600 But if you ever needed a hype man, I would 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.440 definitely take Howard Finkel at the Parli Gate and he 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:39.040 passed away a couple of days ago. At the age 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:41.880 of sixty nine. But man, we were talking about this 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.200 a couple episodes ago about the w w F and 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:49.560 WWE and that dude I would take over Bruce Buffer 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.160 Michael Buff for anybody else, and you were talking about 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:56.120 life and death obviously with with a former pro in 0:07:56.160 --> 0:08:00.800 the game. But Howard Finkel Man, like Third Finkel, his 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:05.280 career is a great testament. This guy started in nineteen 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:10.040 seventy five with Vince McMahon's dad. He started working with 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:17.040 Vince McMahon's dad at Worldwide Wrestling Federation w WWF, and 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.560 then he just stayed with the company and he was 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:25.720 the ring announcer since in eighteen seventies seven. God, what 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.440 a run. And it reminds me of like, you know, 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.000 how like Chris Berman got in at es Man early 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.959 and just stayed there forever. And you know, Tom Bob 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.160 Lee and some of those early guys that got in 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:41.079 before ESPN blew up. And like Howard Finkel, you know, 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.520 he was good. He was a legend, uh and so 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:47.280 he deserved it. But he got in early and and 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.920 he was able to stay there. And what an amazing 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.920 run he had in wrestling. Yeah, iconic, that is a 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:57.840 great hot man I have I I I mean Bruce 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:01.520 Buffer obviously is iconic for what he does, you know, 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.320 at the UFC, and then of course his brother, and 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.960 I said, for boxing, and those guys are our beasts. 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.480 But no, wonder how many miles he put on, how 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:16.080 many flyer frequent flyer miles he compiled over his career 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:19.320 traveling around. For me, I was, you know, I love Finkel, 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:21.800 but I was mean Gene Oakerland guy. I was mean 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.760 Gene all the way because he was tied together was 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:29.319 that he was an old radio guy, right yeah, yeah, 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:31.840 But I just I know he would do the interviews 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:33.960 and I would watch the promos and he would do 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.840 the commercials for the w W E ice cream sandwiches 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:38.839 and all that, you know, or w W F ice 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.199 cream sandwiches, and so I I saw him a lot 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:45.280 as a kid, you know, with macho man Randy Savage 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:48.560 screaming and oh yeah, you know that kind of nonsense. So, 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.960 I mean, Jane was my guy, and he died last year, 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:56.280 and now a body you're you're a few months ago, 0:09:56.320 --> 0:10:00.640 and then now a year later we lose Howard Finkel, 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.160 who wasn't even seventy. It seems you know, it seems 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:06.440 a little young. I had my my memory refreshed when 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.160 Ossie guy hit him me up so politely a couple 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:12.640 of days ago about the Montreal screw job. But no, 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.199 it was it was fascinating to retrace those steps. I mean, 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.400 you remember this in the in the nineties. These guys 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.920 were traveling and they still do now. But the workload 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.320 that they had, like Brett the Hitman, Heart was getting paid, 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:27.600 but he was working like almost three hundred days a year, 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.120 and the Undertaker, I mean everybody that was They didn't 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:35.480 worry about concussions and they didn't worry about health. They 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.000 had the show must go on, right, Yeah, but it 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.320 was just amazing to watch the transition from guys like 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:45.000 Hogan and Nash that went to the w c W 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.320 formed nw OH and then the guys that stayed with 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:50.960 w w E, like you know, Brett the Hitman, Hard 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:54.640 obviously the Undertaker, and something like Seawan Michaels. So it's 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:59.640 pretty wild. But yeah, those guys mean Gene and and Finkel, 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.439 I don't forget them at all because they were just 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:08.680 as good like JR. Was was fantastic. Grilla mon Soon, Um, 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.199 you know, Jesse Ventura was great on the mic. There 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.440 was a lot of guys that were just great showmen 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.920 back in the day. Yeah, yeah, And you know, part 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.640 of it, as I've always said, is because you're of 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:23.080 a certain age. For me, it's it's that period between 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.400 like nine and twelve where everything's great and like the 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.360 rest of my life. I always judge wrestlers as to 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:31.640 how they you know, how I remember it when I 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:33.600 was nine and through the eyes of a child. But 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.319 now I'm a cynical, a schmuck of an adult. So 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:38.520 you know, it's a lot different now in the place 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:39.960 I'm out of my life than I was when I 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:43.160 was a kid. But everything like baseball players. Uh, you 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.440 know Mel Allen. I I talked in a previous episode 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.560 love Mel Allen because I was I was nine, ten, eleven, 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.600 twelve watching Mel Allen. I learned baseball from Mel Allen, 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:53.840 and uh, I have great memories of that. So that's 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.240 a very important part of your life. And and whoever 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.880 was in that window, you know. I love when kids listen. 0:11:59.920 --> 0:12:02.440 I have some guys listen to that are that are 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.040 in the Mallemlitia that they grew up listening late at 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:06.640 night to the radio. And now these guys are in 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.520 their twenties and thirties or whatever, and it's cool man 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.560 like for them in some way the show means that 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.160 much to them because they grew up as as kids 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:17.640 listening to it, which is really cool. Which is a 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.560 really special thing that that you know, you can you 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:22.760 can have that and carry that through because a lot 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.760 of stuff I remember with that age, everything's gone, everyone's dead, 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:27.360 you know what I mean? You know what I'm saying, 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.080 like it's all it's all over with. Speaking of which, 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:34.920 you're you got your birthday coming up in What are 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.280 we gonna do to celebrate that? Since I'm gonna I 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.240 think I told my wife, We're gonna go on a vacation. 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.679 We're gonna go sleep in a different room. We're gonna 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.520 can experience a different part of the house. Maybe we'll 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:50.480 camp out in the backyard, have a little outdoor birthday party. Yeah, man, 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.160 what are you gonna do? Isn't what? Is she gonna 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:53.880 get some candles and put them on top of some 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:59.520 raising canes. That was there? You happy birthday, Eat some 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.679 Friday chicken strips. There you go, and I'll be like, 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:03.280 I'm all for that. That would be. That would be 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:06.319 a wonderful meal. No, maybe I'll maybe I'll venture I 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.599 don't want to hope Mayor Garcetti is not listening. But 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.840 maybe I'll go to like, uh, you know, make a 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.280 food run, pick up a sandwich in our favorite deli, 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:18.160 their langu Langers, pick up pistromi sandwich or something like that, 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.040 or go to Fat Styles get a big sandwich something 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:22.280 like that. Of course I got to get it to go, 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.760 which sucks, and probably have to eat in my car, 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.720 but so be you know, why not? Nothing wrong with that? Alright, 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:29.439 So we have on this edition of the Fifth Hour, 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.400 which is already well underway. As you know, we have 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.040 the mail bag, and we also have don't Stick to Sports, 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.480 which I think we should do first. And before we 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.000 get to don't stick to Sports, have you I learned 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:41.679 a new term. I like to learn new things. One 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.800 of my food gazing things is in addition to covering sports, 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:46.839 which there's no sports to cover now, so I have 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:48.880 more free time. Uh, and I like to I like 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:51.559 to learn random odd things. And when I used to 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.600 work with Looney Tunes, we would go back and forth 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:55.720 trying to one up each other on random fun facts. 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:57.840 In fact, the Blitz on the weekends used to just 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:01.520 become us trying to impress each each other with amazing 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:05.720 factoids about you know, the um whiteout was invented in 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.880 Dallas and the Rangers, by the way, are leading the 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.520 the Astros, you know, seven to two in the fifth 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:13.600 inning or something like that. So were you guys better 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.040 at one upping each other or you guys better at 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:20.600 sports cliche interviews during the Blitz? Oh yeah, we gotta 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.160 get Luney on this podcast at some point. But those 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.360 are some of my favorite memories. We we would do 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.680 for seven years, we did this NFL show and we 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:30.480 had the guys from Fox would come on the pre 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.040 game and sometimes the post game who did the games, 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.000 and then we would interview athletes. The players, like the 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:37.800 players of the game would come on into the interview 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:42.400 and it was such bad radio was horrific. The players 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.760 half of them couldn't talk, the other half didn't want 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.280 to talk that could talk, and it was just a 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.280 total ship show every week and we dreaded it. We 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:52.680 were like, we didn't want to put these guys on, 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:54.920 and then at one point we're like, ah, fuck it. 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.760 We would always worry about asking these great questions, you know, 0:14:57.760 --> 0:14:59.440 because we wanted to really seem like we knew we 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:02.040 were talking about out And then at some point Looney 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:04.920 figured out, through the brilliance of Looney, then if you 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:09.880 ask the dumbest possible question, that the hackiest sports cliche 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.520 question you could possibly ask, you get the greatest answer. 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:17.360 It's unreal and it worked every time. Like Loony Looney 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:21.360 would ask a question of like Ben Jarvis green ellis 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:23.000 so what I'm just using him as an example. I'm 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.280 not saying that he's I just remember having him on 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:29.200 uh and something like that, and then all of a sudden, 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:33.120 you know, we get this amazing answer, you know, and 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.000 it would be like, what that, I can't believe it, 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.760 you know, And it got to the point where, you know, 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.080 Looney would be like, uh, you really brought your a 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.320 game today, dan'ya you know, something like that, and he 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.240 turned the mic up and started laughing, and then we 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.960 get this amazing long answer, you know, all right, people, 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:52.240 I'd be like, hey, you know, you were really on 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:54.400 your game today, weren't you. And then you know, we 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:59.280 get to, you know, a forty second answer. It was unbelievable. 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:02.720 Here we are you just gotta dumb it down. Sometimes 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:07.120 you gotta dumb it down. Yeah. Yeah, anyway, Um, but 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:09.640 one of the things I was gonna get through, uh terms. 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:11.600 One of the terms I learned this week. And I 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:13.160 guess this has been around for a while. I didn't 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:17.480 know it. It's benign masochism. You ever heard of the 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:21.440 term benign masochism. Well, I've heard of masochism and I've 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.760 heard of benign, but never on the same page. Now, 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:27.480 all right, So this was a term that was credited 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.440 to some professor at the University of Pennsylvania. It describes 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:37.800 how human beings enjoy negative sensations and emotions when they 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:41.600 are assured that no harm will come to them. For example, 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:46.400 these things considered safe threats, right, Like roller coasters, Right, 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.400 roller coasters. You go on a roller coaster, like off, 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.040 it's scary, but you know you're gonna be okay. Right, 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:56.000 Spicy food People eat spicy foods because they're like, yeah, 0:16:56.040 --> 0:17:00.400 it's okay. Scary movies, Uh, those kind of things, So 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:05.720 that they say that's benign masochism. Interesting, Yeah, I'd say 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:09.840 former football coaches would be under that category to uh that. Yeah, 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:11.880 you put some in there all right, we have don't 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:13.440 Stick to sports? What do we have on the menu 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:16.119 for Don't stick to be sure to catch live editions 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.760 of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:22.399 eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.000 Heart Radio app. Pretty excited about a few of these, 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:28.320 and I know you are too. Stimulus checks were submitted 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.920 and sent out to quite a few people earlier this week. 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.920 I think got in yours. I have not. My dad 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:37.600 got his? Oh did he? Now? Dad hasn't worked in years, 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:39.399 so this is like a botus for him. This is great. 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:44.959 So did he immediately cash the check to go buy cheese? Uh? Well, 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.040 I gotta be careful because my dad's occasionally listening to 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:48.679 the podcast now, so I have to be careful he 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:50.360 might be listening. But didn't you say he went out 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:53.240 for like one random chip. Yes, he went to the 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:57.520 store to buy parmesan cheese. Chest the cheese, just the cheese, 0:17:57.520 --> 0:17:59.359 because he needed cheese with his pizza. So here to 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:01.439 buy parmesan cheese. And I was like, you know, I 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:03.240 was like, Dad, you probably shouldn't be doing that, you know, 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:06.720 I tell him every day, And uh, for a while 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.280 he was just going out to get coffee, and then 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:11.479 then he bought a coffee machine, so I thought, well, 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:13.359 that would end it. But now he's still finding reasons 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:16.960 to go. Like he's got to pay a bill. Most 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:18.920 people just do it online or whatever. He's like, I 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:22.159 go to the bank, you know, because he learned a 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:25.000 few years ago that if you you go to the bank, 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:28.680 it'll show up right away. And so he's like, I'll 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:30.200 do that, you know, And it gives him a reason 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:33.160 to leave the house, which he likes. And uh yeah, 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.960 I mean he's he just loves fighting reasons to go play, 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.480 and he gets bothered. He got kicked out of a 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:43.120 drug store this week because he didn't have a mask. Yeah, 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:45.040 and I said, well, you know, I've told you every 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:46.800 day to wear a mask when you go out. You know, 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.560 he's well. A couple of these stories actually could be 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.399 dedicated to, uh to Papa Mallary. The first one is 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:55.359 this UM so I believe it was eighty million people 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:59.080 here in the United States were providing a stimulus check 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:03.240 so far UM. A volunteer firefighter by the name of 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:07.200 Charles Calvin in Indiana went to his a t M 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.680 a few days ago and he had a stimast check 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.440 that was deposited into his bank, but when he wanted 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.280 to take out some cash, he had a total account 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:21.879 balanced ban of eight point two million dollars. That's quite this, 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:24.760 that's pretty generous of the president. I mean that is 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:27.400 he must have gone above and beyond the call of duty. Yeah, 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.920 not stimast. That thing was irrect. That's exactly what has 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:34.560 been eight point two million dollars a couple of days later. 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:38.359 I've got the exactly right now. I guess the bigger 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:40.879 question was something like that would be what happens if 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:43.159 you tried pulling out an excess amount and you were 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:45.919 charged with overdraft fees? You go to jail. People have 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:47.960 done that. People that this happens every once in a while, 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:51.119 and if you spend the money you they eventually they 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:53.440 will find it the error and you will go to jail. 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:55.359 You will be charged with the crime. This actually happened. 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:56.960 Not only the guy in Indiana. There was a woman 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:00.160 in Florida that got eight and a half million lillion 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:04.560 dollars in her bank account while withdrawing the the stimulus check. 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:08.520 Ye now see he he got seventeen hundreds So obviously, 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:11.639 different states, different income brackets as well. But what's the 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:13.679 state that pays the eight million, because I'd like to 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:18.880 go to that states Indiana eight in Florida eight point 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:21.560 five millions. Alright, I got a great I got a 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:23.840 great idea for your dad. And I don't know if 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:25.600 he's on social media, but this could be a lot 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:29.639 of fun. There was on Facebook. Is this that's his playga? Alright? 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:33.119 So an older gentleman in Scotland was caught, not caught, 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:37.280