WEBVTT - Extra Sauce 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:05.440 If you thought four hours a day dred minutes a 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.200 week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.879 the old republic a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:15.760 crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:20.160 pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house 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 --> 0:00:30.960 Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. My favorite 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:33.560 podcast of the weekend because it's today's podcast. The that 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:36.040 would be the mailbag, that would be the mail bag. 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:39.280 We are back at it and looking forward to answering 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:43.479 your questions, a staple of the Fifth Hour podcast. And 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:45.559 we were going to get rid of the Sunday podcast 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.120 because we're like, well, you know, that doesn't do well whatever, 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:50.760 and then we settled it on this mailbag format and 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.280 it's been great. It's one of the Usually it's the 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:55.800 number one podcast every weekend, depending on how big the 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.360 guest is that we have on on Friday or friend 0:00:58.360 --> 0:00:59.920 to the show that hangs out with us on Friday, 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:03.640 it is the Fifth Hour. Yet again, even on a Sunday, 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:07.680 a day of rest, David gascon for the rest of 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:14.319 the four or five making his Way Day studio. There 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:18.399 got us the name Dropper the Snob. Say a special 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.240 Happy Mother's Day to all those women out there that 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:24.800 are doing God's work. Yes, moms are the greatest. I 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:28.000 love my moms are so wonderful. Yes, you're so lucky 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:30.280 to have a great mom. I hear there are bad moms, 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:32.679 but I've i've ever ever met one, and I had 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:34.760 the greatest mom in the world. For me, it was 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:37.600 perfect for me, So big respect to the mom. I 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:40.240 don't know how my mother did it. She had four 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:44.080 of us and she was was working. My dad was 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:47.640 working like nineteen hours a day. She is a fucking 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:51.640 rock star. So yeah, all the women out there, Happy 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:56.320 Mother's Day from us to you. Yeah, that's that's one 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.560 of the keys to a good life, having a good mom. Now, 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.640 what's and Dad? I think you'd agree with me on this, 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:06.520 but I think for Father's Day it's probably more important 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:11.560 to to isolate and do a dinner. But mothers they 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.400 need like breakfast or brunch, right, Like is that kind 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.520 of it depends on the mom. You know, not all 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:19.280 moms are the same. I know you like the stereotype, 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:20.880 guest gun, but all moms are different. I mean, you 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:23.200 gotta gotta kind of read the room. But yeah, usually 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.440 it's it's um more of a lunch type deal in it, yeah, 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:29.639 than a dinner. I would agree with you on that. 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:31.160 All right, we have the mailback, so these are all 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:34.679 questions in and I would like to say thank you 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:39.560 because somebody messed up. Who Goofed, I've got to know, 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:46.200 did not post the mail bag email a request on 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.880 Facebook when it was supposed to be put up early 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:52.760 in the day on Wednesday. And this person I will 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.400 not reveal their names. I will not reveal their names. 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:59.359 Here the streets are talking though Gascon and this particular 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:03.120 person who I am referring to, uh, it is possible 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.240 that they realized while they were on the air in 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.240 the middle of the night that they had failed to 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.720 do this, and then spent the next hour and a 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:15.760 half begging from people to send questions a little birdie. 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:17.680 I will not reveal the person's name, but their initials 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:22.280 are b M. That's what I will say. The dogs 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:25.560 are barking. The dogs are barking. But then Mallar Militia 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.360 answered the call a lot of email questions, which is cool, 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.600 and I like that the militias. Shifting over to the 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.280 email Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. We had 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:36.960 a good number of questions on on Facebook as well. 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:41.200 First one comes from Neil in Miami, Miami, Miami, Living 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.480 Large and in Charge in South Florida. Says, Big Beg. 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:49.400 Your Twitter avatar is straight pimp salad days, physique and 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:55.840 smile right on. But that guest guy, good looking cartoon avatar, myavy. 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:58.800 That's what sports Talk Barry calls at the Abbey. I'm 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:02.240 gonna be cool like sports Barry. Uh, he says. Another 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:05.800 home run miler monologue on Russell Westbrook this week, Whirling 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:09.560 Dervish Tasmanian devil. Wow. He said, how do you come 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.400 up with all those and who inspired you to take 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:17.400 the verbal ninja star assault in monologues and how did 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.760 that develop? Well, it just kind of happened over the years. 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:21.760 I didn't start out like that, and for a long time, 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.240 in the early days at Fox Sports Radio, Neil, I 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:29.520 did not do any of that. And you know, it's like, 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:31.440 I'm wanted to change it up a little bit. And 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:35.120 I love words. I've always loved words, and I didn't 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:37.320 pay that much attention in school. I was a terrible student. 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.960 So it's an opportunity and with the Internet you can 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:42.800 you should be a student forever till the day you die. 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:44.960 You should be learning something new every time and every day. 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.400 And so I've also had this weird quirky thing where 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.680 I like the origins of words and phrases. And so 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:55.279 I've trump in there at the the overnight and I'm 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.839 generally rehashing the same stuff that Jason Smith was talking 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:03.000 about on his show and Rob Parker and everyone else. 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.200 I mean, there's there's only a finite amount of sports 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:09.880 news in any twenty four hour window with there's a 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:11.680 few exceptions, so we're pretty much all talking about the 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:13.320 same stuff. So I was like, well, how can I 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:14.960 dress it up a little bit, make it sound a 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.599 little bit better? Even though I'm saying the same thing. 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:22.520 I am merely just changing up the way it's delivered 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.880 so it it's more pleasing to the ear. How can 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:27.479 I make it more place so it doesn't sound the 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.520 same as everyone else and blah blah blah blah blah. 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.080 And so that's kind of the origin of how that 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:37.760 that start. Now, have you included tilting at windmills yet? 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:41.600 I don't know that I have used that in the past. 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:43.880 I don't know that I've used that recently. You've used 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:47.480 it in the past, yeah, long ago, all right, long ago. 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:49.400 Well you you got upset when I would do the 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.279 tempest in the teapot. You got upset that one. I 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:56.520 remember you and get upset. Yeah. It sounds like man, Yeah, 0:05:56.760 --> 0:06:00.960 which is it's a good phrase. It's a solid for is. Uh. 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.560 You can mix it in there. Making a mountain out 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:06.720 of a mole hole mole hill is another one. That's 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.800 one you can can you use him pretty much just 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:13.000 saying the same thing. And you know, anyway, Uh, what 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.880 else from Neil? He says the interview with the Cobra 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:19.159 was entertaining and a nice change of pace. I really 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:23.360 liked you bringing on athletes. A good job by Gascon 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:27.800 for booking. He didn't by book I booked Dave Parker. 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.360 That was my guest. I didn't he didn't have any 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.640 to do it. I was dealing with Dave Parker's publicist. 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:38.360 No I was, and uh Dave Party was supposed to 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.400 come on the week before and it didn't work out 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:42.320 because you know, something came up and then so we 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.080 were able to finally get him on customers always right. 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:48.040 I appreciate the words nail, thank you very much for those. 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:49.960 But it's a good job, I guess for booking. And 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:54.120 he is actually good at asking questions. I'm fantastic at 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:58.800 asking questions. Must have been listening to it someone else anyway. 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.919 Dave Parker's you on modern baseball got me thinking of 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:06.719 where sports are going. Given the change in rules in NBA, 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:11.400 Major League Baseball, et cetera, allowing the inmates running the prisons. Uh, 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:14.240 and you being a distant relative of the great Nostra 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.920 Damas and friend of Nostradinas, where do you see the 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:23.360 major US sports intended twenty years giving, given introduction to 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:27.680 Mike grow betting and a new generation watching on mobile 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.480 device as well. It's always evolving, right, Sports is always evolving, 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:35.600 and we're heading into the great gold Rush with sports gambling, 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.800 and the sports leagues are going to reap the benefits 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:44.560 more than anybody. And it's really from around four onward 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:49.120 that's when that gambling market is gonna fully mature and 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:53.200 it's gonna be insane to the membrane, and in the 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:57.119 sports leagues are gonna cater their product to the gambling market. 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.480 Because that's that's who's gonna pay the bills on. Charles 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.840 Barkley had said this a while back, and actually buy 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:05.120 it to some degree when Barkley said, an NBA owner 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:10.360 told him that once sports gambling gets fully going that 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:14.080 they will make more money from that than television, where 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.320 it's all it's all related, it's all together, right. I mean, 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:18.240 you gotta have the games on TV so people can 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:19.920 bet on them to watch the games because a lot 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:21.240 of people like to watch the games when they put 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:24.680 a bet down. So everything's tied together. Everyone's in bed 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:28.920 with everyone else. But the gambling money, the licensing money 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.240 to use the logos of the teams is humongous. Now, 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:36.520 what's gonna happen? Who will be the first active player 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:39.679 to put their name as an endorsement? Will they be 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:44.040 allowed to endorse endorse a gambling website? Will we see 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:47.040 that like somebody like Lebron James or something like that, say, 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.800 you know Ron James and when I gamble, I bet 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.080 on you know FanDuel or whatever? Will that be allowed? 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:56.960 A good question? And if you're in business with these operations, 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.840 why wouldn't it be able? Yeah? Of course, uh, he says, 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.080 since you were so close to your mom. Curious on 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.760 the biggest lesson you learned from your mom and most 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:10.920 memorable sports moment with your mom. The same question for 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:15.280 your untrusty sidekick if he is working on the podcasts, 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.520 what a piece of ship? Guys? Good? Now this I 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:20.160 learned everything from my mom. I don't know with the 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:24.320 biggest lesson I learned? Uh? Is you know my mom 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.199 always told me when I early on my radio run 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:29.920 it was not going well. I was making just terrible 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:33.480 money and I was working every single day and I 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.880 wasn't going anywhere, and and my mom was like, listen, 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.079 you know, you know, just keep keep your head down 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:40.920 and see the good advice all moms if you just 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:42.480 keep your head down, don't worry about the noise and 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.360 all that. Uh you're you're talented, you're good, You're gonna 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.880 make it, and uh you'll you'll get the last laugh. 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.280 You know, those kind of things. And you know, as 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.480 a kid, you hear that stuff, You're like, wow, that's 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.120 you know, that's cool. And my mom believed to me. 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.560 And my mom listened to every every single show right 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.560 until she died that I was on, and and gave 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.320 me her advice, what she what she thought was working, 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:06.680 what wasn't working, things like that, you know, and so, uh, 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.560 that would be that. And as far as memorable sports moments, 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:11.640 and I didn't go to too many games with my mom, 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:13.679 used my dad was where I'd go to games, where 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:15.240 we'd watch a lot of games. My mom was a 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:19.240 big Dodger fan from the Sandy Kofax days and we'd 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.640 watched that, and I guess the most memorable moment was 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.640 we were all as a family watching the nine World 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:28.760 Series Game one Dodgers and A's when Kirk Gibson hit 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:32.240 that home run against eckers Lee and we were all 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.120 there and we're like, we couldn't were like study, we 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:35.720 were like, oh, the Dodgers are gonna lose. I suck, 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:37.760 you know, I couldn't do anything. And then all of 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:41.160 a suddenly I came back and Mike Davis I remember 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:44.040 running the bases there and then uh, Gibson with the 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:45.480 home run. So and that would be the one that 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.160 stands out. And also it's kind of an odd note 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.040 my mom. My mom was in the hospital, she was 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:55.120 battling the cancer, and I actually missed I was I'd 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.160 gone in those days I went to every Laker Clipper 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.400 game all that stuff. But I had to miss the 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:03.080 Kobe Ryant seventy point game or whatever it was because 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.760 or eighty one point game because I was at I 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:08.480 was at the hospital with my mom. We were watching 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.640 the eighty one point Kobe Bryant came there against the 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:15.800 Jalen Rose Raptors. What about you, a gas gun, I think, Well, 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.559 I guess a word of kindness for my mom was 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:22.160 always exercised patients. She was a teacher and she uh 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:25.200 she dealt a lot with the special needs kids too, 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:28.800 so she obviously had to have a bulleload of patients. 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.800 And then I think the best moment I've had with 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:36.199 her was probably in two thousand twelve, our entire family 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:40.240 was able to go and see the Kings when the 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:43.520 Stanley Cup. We were at Game six at Staples Center, 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.640 and we're all spread out, like I was the only 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:51.000 one that didn't have a seat with everybody else, well yeah, 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:55.000 pretty much with eighteen thousand uh fans that there in attendance. 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:56.840 But yeah, I get to meet up after when the 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.240 Kings won the Cup, and uh yeah, it was a 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.760 great moment because we've been die hard King I mean, 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:05.640 being from l A, we're huge Kings fans, Laker fans, 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:11.040 Dodger fans, um usc not really, they're not huge into 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.400 football like I am. And uh, but yeah, the Kings 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.000 were one of one of our first loves, like in 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:19.319 back in eighty nine when Gretzky got here and the 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.760 run of nineteen ninety three was awesome, but it came 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.520 up way too short and we were young obviously, but 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:26.520 my parents would have those date nights where they'd go 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.080 to Staples or not Staples, go to the Great Western 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.360 form back of the day to watch the Kings. And 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:33.559 then when we're all adults, we got to see them 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.680 finally win a cup and uh, and it was awesome 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.680 and they ran rough shot over the entire National Hockey 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.480 League that Stanley Cup playoff runs, so it was great. 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.400 And then would win another one a couple years later. 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:48.360 Yeaeen they beat the Blackhawks in Game seven at Chicago, 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.600 and then they took apart the New York Rangers and 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:52.400 uh and the cool one about the Rangers was that 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.320 was at Staples Center. Yeah, and that was that was 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:59.559 very cool. Alec Martinez won it. He scored Ben That 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:01.280 game was the first night I think I've told you 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:03.640 the story. But that night of Game five was my 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:07.760 first night ever at Fox Sports Radio, and my dumbass 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.760 had to be at the studio at ten o'clock. So 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:14.320 I left Staples five minutes before Martinez scored that goal. 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.480 At you listen, I've made that drive many times, had 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:21.720 to get to the studio by a certain time. I 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:23.800 I know, because if you got two ways to go 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:25.440 from Staples, and you can need to go down the 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:27.480 ten up to the four oh five, or you can 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.280 go around the one oh one to the little four 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:32.160 oh five. So you got two options, So you just 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.120 put on the traffic app You're good to go. Yeah, 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.280 but this is a championship game though, so I didn't 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:39.520 know how bad Staples would be. Well, see, you probably 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:41.640 part close, but my I I don't have that problem. 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:45.520 Before you I part. So, do you know the Taco standard, 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.679 the Taco truck, Like it's like three blocks east of 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:53.400 Figaroa where the railroad tracks are at the Metro. Yeah, yeah, 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:55.280 I know that. Yeah. Yeah. Like parking at that time 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:59.439 was like six dollars a spot side park over there. Yeah, 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:01.120 I part. I had a six dollar a lot, which 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.240 is not like a twelve dollar a lot up in 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.880 a little further north, and so yeah, it was great, 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:12.760 sous the gameans uh, you sprint fast walk up Figaroa 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.280 and then I'd cut over and you're you're so far ahead, 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.120 you're you're ahead of the traffic essentially because everyone's still, 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.360 you know, taking their time getting out of the arena, 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:21.960 and then you can you can make it on the 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:25.080 highway pretty quick. Let's see what do we have, Carlos 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:28.920 and Bang bang Houston, Texas, says Ben. How does one 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:30.960 become a p one? I worked too early to do 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.560 the Mallard oath, and I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. Also, 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.440 when you guys were kids, did y'all take the school 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.760 bus to school? Walk or mom and dad took you. 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:43.520 I'll answer that question first callers. I did take the 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.800 school bus when I was in elementary school, like first, 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:50.400 second grade, even like kindergarten. But then my mom would 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.040 it really depending on my mom's worst schedule, but she 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.120 some days I would take the bus and some days 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.080 I wouldn't. So back then you could do that. I 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:58.520 think now if you if you take the bus, you 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:00.720 have to take the bus every day. But back in 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.880 those days, you can you can do that, and uh, listen, Carlos, 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:05.640 you can be one of these silent members of the 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:08.480 Mallard Militia. You're not silent. You send emails to the 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:11.320 podcast every week. What you on Facebook? I guess you 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:13.000 got rid of your Facebook account, but you I know 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:16.640 you were on there, used to post on Facebook. But yeah, 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:17.800 you don't have to take the oath. I mean, the 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:20.280 oath is the next level. It's not for everyone. Only 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.200 a few people have actually called into the show and 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:26.360 taking the oath, and it's rare and we only try 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:28.720 to do it once a week, so we don't want 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:30.640 to do it too much to the bit plays out. 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.240 But yeah, you're you're part of the militia. Call you 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:34.760 support the show as long all you have to do 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.080 is barely support the show, tell people about the show, 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:42.640 download the podcast, and you're you're in the Mallar Militia. 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:44.560 That's it. You can be a p one in the 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:47.160 Mallar Militia. You don't have to necessarily take the oath. 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:52.160 Why did you run angry Bill off? He was one 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:56.640 of my favorite callers. Signed from your biggest fan, Kyrie 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:00.880 in Okay. See well, Kay, First of all, I remember 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:03.760 doing a a fine cameo for you and your lovely 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:08.080 family there several months back. But I had nothing to 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.360 do with Angry Bill leaving the show. Angry Bill's job 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:13.040 caused him to use to leave the show. He told 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:16.080 me he called up a little while ago and out 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:17.680 of the blue. He hadn't called him months, and he 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:19.720 said the reason he stopped calling is because he I 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:22.400 guess he has to go to the basements of hospitals 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:26.240 or something like that, and that only knows what he's doing. Um, 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.960 but he can't stay on hold because when he stays 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.920 on hold, the line drops and it's very frustrating for him. 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.320 And so that's that's why he stopped calling. But he 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:37.120 says he still listens. He's in and out of his car. 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:40.280 He's picking deliveries up and dropping things off and whatnot. 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:43.880 So I hope that answers your question, Kyrie. But no, 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.440 Angry But I love screaming and shouting at Angry Bill. 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:48.960 He's wrong about everything. I like pointing out when he's wrong, 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:50.840 and he's one of the few people that call up 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:52.200 and like want to get into it. I want to 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:55.680 get into a dust up, which I'm fine with. The 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:59.080 what was that smirk. What was why why did you smirk? 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:03.080 And dust ups? Doesn't sound great? No, that's good. You 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.520 get into a little rhue barb. Little Donnie Brook on 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.679 the radio is good? All right, uh Andy writes, and 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:12.880 he says, I'm near Ben's Tommy's in Hollywood. Great members there, Andy, 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:21.560 good spot chili cheese fries man double Tommy's Chili cheese. Man. 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:26.560 Oh man, it's wonderful. That's really good, uh, he says. 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:31.600 The beautiful harmony of hate serenade delivered to the Stros 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.399 in New York City along with the European Super League 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:38.600 Manchester protest, causing a match postponement. Is there any chance 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:42.399 that sports returns to a time more akin to the seventies, 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:47.800 when fan behavior turned more real, turning more real rebellious 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:54.159 in consequence. Uh well, everything, listen. This is the zeitgeist 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.639 that we're dealing with right now. But nothing lasts forever. 0:17:56.720 --> 0:18:00.040 Right there's ebbs and flows of life, and you know, 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:02.240 you don't want to get caught up in thinks the 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:04.199 way it is right now with the local Rotti and 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:05.760 all that's gonna be the way it is forever. You 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:07.879 don't want to be like that because things change and 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:10.879 there have been other incidents where things have come into 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:14.000 society and it's people have said it's terrible, and then 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:18.639 things evolve, and so you don't I don't know what's 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:22.640 gonna happen next, but I would I would say that 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:27.960 it will. There will be a coming that will take place. Now. 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:30.360 I don't know how you get rid of the wokeness 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:32.880 because corporate America is fully in bed with the wokeness. 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:34.320 So I don't know how you get rid of that crap. 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:38.280 But there is a way it will happen. I am 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:41.160 gonna be Benny Bright said on this one. He says, 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:43.280 I'm old, and I grew up a huge fan of 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:46.760 the Flyers, the broad Street bullying teams in the nineteen seventies, 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:50.399 a glorious ear indeed, can it ever get better again? 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:54.000 Or a sports tied to you almighty coin and it 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:58.320 will never change back. Well, listen, Andy, first thing, here, 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:02.000 you know my theory on this. Like you're old, I'm 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:05.120 probably not quite as old as you. But here's the deal, 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:10.000 all right, whenever you were in that goldie I called 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:13.600 the Goldilocks zone from like age eight or nine to 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:18.840 like twelve or thirteen, as a sports fan, everything the 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:20.840 rest of your life will not be able to live 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:23.600 up to that period of time, won't be able to 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:27.159 do it. And it's just just like the kids today 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:30.200 like that are watching the sports for them. When they're 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:33.320 old farts like us, they're gonna say the same thing, like, man, 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:35.280 do you remember watching Lebron James And I'm like, no, 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:39.840 I remember Michael Jordan's fuck you know like that? Uh? 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:43.879 And in the greats it's like Joe Montana, but no, no, 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:46.960 Joe Montana sucks, you know. So that's a big part 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:50.880 of it. It's really about when you became a sports fan, 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:53.520 what was great in your youth that will you'll never 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:56.120 be able to match that. Be sure to catch live 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:58.840 editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:02.399 Eastern eleven p m Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:05.040 the I Heart Radio app. Be sure to catch live 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:07.720 editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two a m. 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:12.560 Eastern eleven p m Pacific. Uh. Here's one, hey, lord, Ben, 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:15.640 this is Jose in the Bay. Do you think you'll 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:20.240 ever do what Kirk Minihan did and leave radio? A 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:24.320 lot of people followed him where he left, left too 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:28.080 and did you meet him? Was he an asshole? Or 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:31.840 you didn't mention him? You mentioned Mutt and Jerry Callahan. 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:35.040 You know, I never met Kirk minihand I was on 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:40.359 the w e I Morning Show with Jerry and Kirk 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:42.920 as a guest. I was on there. I actually went 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:45.520 back to audition to be the third wheel in the 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:49.320 morning show. And the day that I was supposed to work, 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:52.600 Kirk's parents were very sick and they both actually ended 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:57.080 up dying, very sad, horrible within a short period of time. 0:20:57.080 --> 0:21:01.399 It was terrible for Kirk Uh and I I was 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:03.359 supposed to host with him. It was gonna be me, 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:06.800 Jerry and Kirk, and then he couldn't make it because 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:09.439 it was something that had happened. And I ended up 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:12.560 doing the show with Mutt, uh and Jerry, but now 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:14.280